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Good Advertising la to Business what Steam is to Machinery, that great propelling power. This paper gives results. Good Advertisers rr nil MM H H Use these columns for results. An advertisement in this paper will reach a good class of people. Co ONWEAK E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. "Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Pr.:ce $1.00 Per Year. VOL. XXIV. nw serie. v.i. 11.-6 I8 SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1908. NUMBER 22. Women as Well as Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble. Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, dis courages and lessens ambition; beauty, vigoi ana cneertuiness soon disappear when the kid neys are out of ordei or diseased. Kidney trouble has Decfsme so Drevalent common born weak kid- ? V'Utz- ne's- If the child urin- --2;. ores Inn nfton If V-. trine scalds the flesh or if, when the child roaches sn age when it should be able to control the passage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wetting, depend upon it. the cause cf ihe difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first step i'nould be towards the treatment of these important organs. Thii unpleasan' trouble is due to a diseased condition of tht kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as most people suppose. Women, as well &s men are made mis cable with kidney and bladder trouble end both need the same great remedy The mild and the immediate- effect o Swamp-Root is soon realized. It is sole by druggists, in fifty- i.wtit ctnu viic uuiiai sires. You may have a sample bottle by mail 'e. also camDhlet teil- ing all about it. including many of th( thousands of testimonial letters received from sutterers cured. In writing Dr. Kilme i Co., Binghamton, N. Y., be sure ant T.ention this paper. Don't make any mistake, but re member the name, Swamp Root. Dr. Kil;- er's Swamp Root, ami the address Binglumton, 1., on every bottle, I R. MILLS Laxd Surveyor Scotland Neck, N. C. R-14-tf - pR. J. P. WIMBERLEY, Physician and Surgeon, Scotland Neck, N. C. Office on Depot Street. . A. C. L1VERM0N, DENTIST. Office up stairs in White head Building. Office hours from 9 to 1 o'clock and 2 to 5 o'clock. 9 W. MXON, Refracting Optician, Watch Maker, Jeweler, En graver, Scotland Neck, N. C. J McBRYDE WEBB, Attorney and Counselor at Law, 219-221 Atlantic Trust Building Norfolk, Va. Notary Public. Bell Phone 760 JWAP.D L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Halifax, N. C. Money Loaned on Farm Lands XiLL It. JOSEY, General Insurance Agent. Scotland Neck, N. C. PARKER'S Cleanse and teautifit tle halt. Cures clo t ! falling. New Market. I am prepared to serve my old customers and the public generally with the very best of fresh Beef, Pork, Sausage, &c. All orders filled promptly, and every customer's wants regarded. J. 13. HILL, Main St., next to Prince's Stables. l-2-2m 8tomach trouble is but ymptom of. and tn lteelt a true disease. We think of Dyspepsia, Hoartburn, and Indigestion at real disewei, ye they are symptoms only of ft certain spedno Kcrre sickness nothing else. . . It waa this fact that first correctly led Dr. Shoop In tl8 creation of that now rery popular Btomacn Beraedy Dr. Snoop's Restorative. Going direct to the stomach nerves, alone brought tht succeM nd favor to Dr. 6hoop aad his Restorative. With out that oriirinal and highly vital principle, no uch lasting accomplishments were ever to be had. breath and sallow complexion, try Dr. Shoop Restorative Tablets or Liquid nd see for roar. lf what it can and will Oa. We Mil ftDd CMW tor stomach distress, bloating, oinousnes. uou limy recommend - vva 'n n .i . V mam is not un a child to t V -'H afflicted with Indigestion Dr. Shoop' s Restorative A. C. PETERSON. THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS. Observations of Passing Events. The prohibition election is to come this summer that will prospects Other Things Ahead. bition and above politics altogether, before us are to be intensely political. The North Carolina State Democratic Convention will be the centre of interest for our people until June 24th, and then their minds will turn to the National Democratic Convention at Denver. The forces for Johnson and Bryan will be well battle along national interests nians will wage for State interests in the State Convention at Charlotte. Elsewhere we print an editorial by the Washington Gazette, headed "The Moral Obligation Remains." It well points out that it All-round Obligation. favored law is observed and that if this make prohibition effective in North Carolina. While the obli gation rests upon those who favored prohibition to see to it that the law against the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in North Carolina is enforced when it shall have gone into ef fect, a like obligation will rest upon all other true citizens of the State as well. When the -State formulates a law it is the duty of every true citizen to obey that law, whether it is to his liking or not; and so the obligation to aid enforcement of the law will be an all-round one, applying to those who did not support prohibition as well as to those who did support it. There have been many campaigns in North Carolina which called forth bitterness of one sort or another, and when the con-: Let It Pass tests were over the bitterness was soon forgotten. We remember that in a cer tain campaign in the State some years ago a man with whose opinion we differed, was reported to have said very unpleasant things about this paper. We let it pass, he forgot it and we disregarded it and that same man is one of this paper's strongest friends to-day. So if there has sprung up any bitterness amongst the good citizens of the State during the prohibition campaign which closed a week ago, it is the part of true pa triotism to let it pass. North Carolina's interests are too great and important to be hampered by foolish prejudice or bitterness by reason of differing opinions on the prohibition question. Those wlio believed that prohibition is the best thing for the State still believe it and will be true to the course they have pursued; thostf who doubted that prohibition is best for the State may still doubt it, but as true citizens they will give it a fair trial. Prohibitionist or anti-prohibitionist, we are all North Carolinians and American citizens and must stand together for law and order and the State's best interest. To this end let all bitterness and disagreement cease. Yes, let it all pass. Seldom do the people of the about the many advantages of Sources of Information. ally ought to be more intelligent than the people of any former time, for we have to our advantage the constantly imroving conditions of things in every phase of. life. But it is especially interesting to note the various convenient sources of informa tion. There are more newspapers and magazines than ever be fore, and they contain information of a far different character than did the magazines and newspapers of former times. For merly among the most important per told was the market report; in the rural districts do not depend on the weekly paper so much for the market. The rural delivery makes it possible for them to get the daily papers, and in many places they have tele phones which give quicker and later market reports than the daily papers. The sources of information may be mentioned in the multiplicity of , newspapers things that formerly had to be learned from history-such as trav el in foreign lands; the telephone, the rural free delivery, and the better service through the telegraph, and the wireless tele graphy. And they say that we over the wireless telephone, About three weeks ago the snent a dav in Norfolk. While j. conscious Great IS NorlOIK. iQ the are hopeful and energetic for even much better things than they have ever known. They are worthily ambitious for great er achievements along all lines than they have ever yet attmed unto. The enterprise immediately before the people of the city three weeks ago was the proposition to raise by May 25th $150, 000 with which to purchase a site and erect a building for the Young Men's Christian Association. They went to the work with an energy and a zeal that bespoke success from the first hour. Two hundred men, including young men and boys, middle aged and old men, joined hands and energies for the accomplishment of the task, and at the end of the time they had raised not $150,000 only, but $i67,i7y.'J7. mis was maeea a most masterful troke of energy, and it shows that the people rf -NTnrfnllr are not onlv hopeful for greater things, but are act ually bringing them to pass. from Norfolk. Repining over past mistakes or misiortunes win never help any one. To be sure, it is not culpable in any per son or people to regret such things, and in most cases common . mm. dm . t J !. V IV sympathy will excuse just a bit ot time spent in catcning Dream fnr q npw run: but when the pulse is up again it is sensible to do as Norfolk has done go good with a purpose that can Great is Norfolk, and greater of her good people. uror.'Z.in Pilo T?pm - Une appuu''''"-'11 1 -- edy, for all forms of piles, relieves pain, sooths, reduces inflammation, soreness and itching. Price 50c. Guaranteed to eive nauiEiauvivu' ' -r ;.fof inn KOia DV Xi. A. over, but there are other things keepthe people interested in the of results. While the prohi campaign has been non-partisan the public interests immediately organized and as strenuous a will be waged as North Caroli is now the duty of those who prohibition to see to it that the is done, it will not be hard to in county, hamlet, town or city which may have sprung up present take time to think much the present time over all former times. Reasoning from a logical stand point the people of this time just natur things that a weekly newspa but now the farmers even out and magizmes, which give may yet expect good service v editor of The Commonwealth the people in that fine city are - of certain features of failure at exposition 0f ia8t year, they All the land might learn a lesson straight at something great and riot be tiiwartea or nmaerea. still are to be the achievements 1 Sirrlc Headache and Biliousness J lieved at once with Rings Little Liver ; Pills. A rosy complexion and clear ' eyes resnlt irom their use. Do not r - Knpc VI sic.cn. uuuu ikji an. cue iiuu- I ily. Sold bv E. T. Whitehead Co. The Deadly House-Fly. (New York Tribune.) A committee in JNew xork and a committee in Liverpool have publish el reports of investigations showing that the common house fly is respon sible for an enormous human death roll. This familiar occupant of our homes, feebly combated with screens and sticky paper, is one of the chief causes of 650 deaths from typhoid fever and 7.000 deaths from other intestinal diseases in New York every year. He is not the originator of disease, but the carrier of it, and all his habits make him an ideal agent to spread the germs of sickness and death. One New York fly, captured while "on the way to the nearest milk pitcher," and put under a mi croscope, was found to be carrying 100,000 fecal bacteria on his mouth and legs. Another specimen was allowed to walk on the surf ace of a sterile culture solution and in a few days the invisible zigzag tracks blos somed into sight with a myriad bac teria of disease. The dangers of the mosquito have been pretty well advertised. No doubt, the mosquito is a bad citizen in the yellow fever belt. In this latitude he merely conveys malaria, which was responsible for only 459 reported cases and 52 deaths in the metropolitan district three years ago. The fly is man's greatest in sect enemy in the United States. He is just getting his deserts of rec ognition as the leading villain in the pathological drama. He begins to loom up as a problem, the solution of which will require not only local but national efforts. He does not seem small and insignificant when we measure the stature of his deeds and the means that will be necessary to exterminate him. To destroy all the wolves and grizzly bear in North America would be easier. Plenty of flies are killed by the present meth ods of traps, clubs and sticky paper, yet allowing a slaughter of two hundred in a season for evsry man, woman and child in the United States, the total fly mortality does not more than equal the progeny of half a dozen insects. Linnaeu3 ob served long ago that three carniver ous flies and their multiplying off spring would eat the carcass of an ox as fast as a lion. He meant it literally, that the king of beasts would not have the bones of the ox licked clean perhaps a matter of three days sooner than the swift- hatching swarms of larvae would consume the flesh and get down to skeleton. One able-bodied house fly, laying her first batch of 120 eggs in the beginning of May, will have more descendants by the end of Sep tember than Adam has been blessed with since the shutting of the gar den gate. Her progeny will reach into the sextillions. It certainly seems futile to attack such an insect by individual slaps, or even capture a few hundred thous and on sticky paper. The only hope ful plan, as in the war against mos quitoes, is to get after the breeding place and to remove the sources where the fly loads himself with bac teria of disease for - disemination among mankind. Toe Instinct of Design. (Youth's Companion.) ' When a Japanese cannot mold the shape of an object, when he cannot redeem it by a design, when, in fact, he has no control over its creation at all, but it is placed in his hands as it is, finished, says the author of "Kake mono," he will still contrive to add beauty to it merely by arrangement. "I first noticed this on board the steamer going out," says Mr. to wards, "where the Japanese boy ar ranged the extra blanket on the berth in a new design each day. ' He fold ed it into lotus leaves and chrysan themums, into half opened fans and half shut buds. He had one wonder ful arrangement which, being patri otic, was more often repeated than the rest. The blankets of the steam ship company had at top and bottom two wavy red lines on a white ground. By some wonderful twist of his fingers the boy would fold that blanket into the rising sun.with the four red lines coming out of it like blood red rays. He did it so perfectly that I recognized the flag of Japan the moment I saw it." Stomach troubles are very common fv, iinimir time and vou should it. i, -t-'--- not only be very careful about what you eat just now, but more than this, you should be careful not to allow your stomach to become disordered, and when the stomach goes wrong take Kodol. This is the best known preparation that is offered to the peo ple to-day for dyspepsia-or indigestion or any stomach trouble. Kodol di gests all foods. It is pleasant to take. It is sold here by E. T. Whitehead Co. SOLVING SERVANT PROBLEM. Commissioner Watson, ol South Caroli na, Believes Be Has Found a Solu tion of It In toe Importation of English-Speaking Girls. (Charlotte Observer.) Columbia, S. C. In the experiment which Commis sioner Watson has started of substi tuting a high type of English-speaking household servant girl for the ne gro servant girl he is convinced both from employers and the girls them selves that he has firmly laid the foundation for a successful, practical solution of the vexed negro servant problem in this State, and if the ex periment proves a success here it will "be a go" throughout the South. Af ter repeated failures through four years' hard work the commission is now satisfied that success is at hand. The first experiments along this line were with foreiga-speaking peo ple, and in every case this proved a failure. These are the kind of for eign servants that are being placed to a large extent in the North. Com missioner Watson then concluded this ssection would have to have a higher type than is used in the North in order to supplant the negro, who is daily growing more useless and exacting, and that the new servants must speak English. He was furth er persuaded that the newcomers in order to be satisfied themselves and render satisfactory service would have to be in touch with the other members of their families, so as to give them the restraining influence of the home touch and alleviate the social alienation which had made other experiments with English speaking girls failures. According ly persistent, energetic- work was carried on in the desirable farm sec tion of England with literature, lectures and personally conducts tours with big vans. The thirty-three English people brought here le3s than a month ago and located, in and around Columbia, Edgefield, Abbeville, Greenville, and elsewhere in the State have written letters to the department expressing satisfaction, and every girl so located has written letters through the de partment to friends and relatives abroad urging them to come on to South Carolina and live. A Columbia case that has proved a striking success is that in which a former Charleston lady of means employed two English sisters, who have written numerous letters back home urging their friends and rela tives to come here, and whose mis-, tress is bragging on them through out the town. It will not do to mix white and colored servants in the same household. This has proved a disastrous failure in Columbia before. This housewife therefore discharged her three negro servants on taking in the newcomers and the result has been perfect satisfaction on both sides. - The parents of the girls have been placed on a dairy farm near Columbia, and by telephone and fre quent visits they are in constant touch with each other. An older sister, who stayed at home with her grand mother, is now on her way to Colum bia. Six other English farmers located here at the same have writ ten for their families to come on to Columbia. The department has suspended all efforts to get immigrants to com? to the State for the present. In the fall a vigorous campaign will be re newed among the English farming people, but even then only share crop pers and small purchasing farmers will be asked to come. Of course what people may want to come in as a result of the experiment mention ed will be taken care of. Early in the fall Commissioner Watson hopes to see the new steam ship line from Great Grimsby, Eng land, direct to Charleston, in opera tion, which will be a further induce ment for these people to come to thi3 section, and locate not only here but throughout the South, as it is the intention to have the ships stop in Galveston and Vera Cruz as well as in Charleston. The principal reas on for failure of the former experi ment of a direct line to Charleston was the fact that a full return cargo was not provided. With the new scheme, however, Mr. Watson says full cargoes both ways are assured entirely independent of either Charleston or this State as a whole. The incoming ships will bring people from England and Norway and Sweden and articles of commerce from South America and the out going will carry raw cotton to the English mills and cotton goods to South America. DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the famous little liver pills, are sold be E. T- Whitehead Co. Toe Dogwatch. Youth's Companion. The simplest facts, quite unchal lenged and taken for granted, are often the hardest subjects for inves tigation. "Did you ever ask a sailor or a know-it-all why the dog-watch is so called?" queries a writer in the New York Sun, who has himself made the experiment. The chances are that the answer will be, "Why, the dog-watch is two short spells from four to six, and from six to eight o'clock in the even ing, to break the regular four-hour watches, so that the same men will not have to stand watch during the same hour3 every day." Simple and lucid. But why "dog?" In a hunt after an explanation, the first question was put to the officers' mess of a big battle-ship. Not one, from the executive officer of a quar ter of a century's service to the en sign with hid first stripe, could an swer. A boat's crew from the same ship failed to Ihrow any light on the sub ject, although a gunner's mate al lowed that "it might be they once had dogs on ship3, and they was let loose when the watch was on." An officer of an Atlantic liner said he never had heard so silly a ques tion. "Why, the dog-watch is the dog watch," he exclaimed. "There's no why nor wherefore about it. It's always been the dog-watch, and it alway3 will be." Slaving had the matter so airily disposed of by this officer, inquiry was pushed to East River, where may be found men who have been going down to the sea in reality for many years. The pursuit of the "dog" was useless. "Say," said a Harlem boatman, "what's the matter with trying Fighting Bob? If he can't tell you, the grsat American navy will lose ca3te." So up to Rear-Admiral Evans went the query. And from Fortress Mon roe came the answer: "U. S. S. Connecticut, Sept. 2. "Dear Sir. I am unable to give you the information you ask about the dog-watch. Of course we all know why the watch is made two hours, but no one seems to know why the name dog was applied. "Yours very truly, "R. D. Evans." At last a public library was resort ed to. The dictionaries were merely provoking. "Five Thousand Facts and Fancies" was the only bojk found that threw light on the mat ter. Its explanation reads: "Dog-watch a corruption of dodge-watch. The dog-watches were introduced to prevent the same men from always keeping watch the same hours of the day: hence on these occasions the sailors are said to dodge the routine, or to be doing dodge-watch." It may be added that Murray's great English Dictionary gives a quotation introducing the term dog watch from a book published in 170'J, but gives no theory of the origin of the term. Best Place Trie Country. (Snow Hill Standard-LaeonicA. Country life has its drawbacks, but it has its great advantages which overcome them. True, those who live in the country are "Rubes" and "Farmers" and "hayseeds" to the cigarette smokers in town, but the boast of business men in the world today is that they were born on a farm. Take away the surrounding evils that beset the young men or women on the threshold of life's journey in the city, and substitute the helpful influence of nature, and you fortify them for the sterner walks'ih life. The few things which they do not know about table eti quette and when it is proper to leave two visiting cards and when but one, they will catch onto much quicker than city boys and will learn to prop erly stroke the furnace or make good bread. No boy or girl need be ashamed of living on the farm, for if tViov Via vp taken advantage of what it has offered they are we'.l fortified for after life. Nature has provided the stomach with certain natural fluids known a the digestive juices, and it U through these juices that the food we cat is act ed upon in such a way as to produce the rich, red Wool that flows through the veins of our body and thereby makes iis strong, hcallhy and robust, and it is the weakening of thc?e diges tive juices that destroy health. It is our own fault if we destroy our own hnil Mi mul vot it is so easy for any J one to put the stomach out of ordrr. wnen yuu nan iwn;rjiin,iiiiii0iv it promptly, but take pomclhi.ng you know is reliable something like Kodol For Dyfpepeia and Indigestion. Ko dol is pleasant to take, it is reliable and is guaranteed to give relief. It is gold by E. T. Whitehead Co. Electric Flashes. (Electric New.) A Chicago inventor has patented an electric device for rocking a cradle. From statistics recently prepared it appears that the great city of Lon don uses anually 213,174,279 kilo watts of electricity at an average cost of about 10 cents a kilowatt. Heavy electric traction of the fu ture, such as involves the equipment of large trunk line railroads, will use the new alternating current electric motors. The motors are capable of complete and efficient control and are able in descending grades to re turn to the trolley line the energy stored in the train instead of wast ing it in heat and wearing out the brake shoes. In other words the motors will be turned into genera tors when going down hill and the current made in this way will be re turned to the line. The speed of submarine telegraphy is illustrated by the fact that five minutes are usually sufficient to cover a complete buying and selling operation between the London Stock Exchange and Wall Street. The dis tance between these two points is about 4,000 miles and it takes the message less than a minute for the journey. Chili is thinking of substituting electricity for steam on a number of important railrords. An American engineer is figuring on the project. There are 815 miles of electric rail way in Canada, with a capitalization of $73,19:,47G. The province of On tario has 402 miles of track; Quebec has 193 miles; the maritime provinces 71 miles and the far west 104 miles. In 1907 the gross earnings were $12, 635,906 and the operating expenses $7,737,252. Portland, Maine, is to be supplied with electricity obtained from the tides. Land has been secured on eithex-side of Black Bay and it is es timated that 25,000 electrical horse pDwer will be generated, enough to light the entire city, furnish power J for the street railways and supply a number of manufacturing plants. die of the :c;:I.:.-3 erplosd by the General Electric" Company has invented a device which will put an end to the" nefarious work of the in candescent light bulb thief. It is the custom, in larger citic, to steal the new light bulbs from the hotels and public places and resell or exchange them for drinks in the cheap saloons. The new device consists of a socket and a key. After the new lamp has been screwed in the socket it cannot be unscrewed wiihout the key. The bulb will turn around but will not come out. An English electrician gets the credit for devising a way to ripen bananas by electricity. The fruit 13 hung in an airtight glass case in which there are a number of electric lights. The artificial light and heat hasten the ripening process in pro portion to the number of lights turn ed on. In the up-to-date butcher shop the old hand meat saw is never seen. In its stead a small band saw driven by an electric motor sever3 the bones in the leg of mutton, the rib roast or even the old-fashioned soup-bones. "I suffered habitually from consti pation. Do.in's Rogulets j-lieved and strengthened the bowels, po that they have been regular ever fince." A. E. D:i is, grocer, Sulphur Springs, Tex. Your love," he cried, "would give me strength to lift the mountains!" "Dearest," she murmured, "It wiil only be necessary for you to raise the 'duif "Town Topics. Operation for piles will not bo nec esary if you use Man Zan Pile Remedy. Put up readv to ue. (iuuranteed. Price Qf.. Try it. Sold by E. T. Whitehead Co. Just when a man notes that it is raining and he won't have to mow the lawn his wife decides that it's too cold to get along without a fire in the furnace. Ohio Journal. If you will make inquiry it will be a revelation to you how mnny succumb to kidney or bladder troubles in one form or another. If the patient is not beyond medical aid, Foley's Kidney due will cure. It never disappoints. Sold bv E. T. Whitehead Co. When a man ceases to be interest ed in his work, says the philospher, he no longer lives. Which may ac count, for so many dead ones encum bering fairly good jobs. Puck. A man who is in perfect health, so he can do an honest day's work when necessary, has much for which he should be thankful. Air. L. C. Rodger of Bian. hton, Ia., writes that be was not only unable, to work, but he couldn't stoop over to tie hh own slinks. Six bottles of Foley's Kidney Ciiro made a new man of him. He says, Succe?3 to ioiey b Kumey Cure." E. T. Whitehead Co. Whitehead Co.