North Carolina Newspapers

X -C r Good Advertising I? to Business what Steam is to Machinery, that great prdpelling power. This paper gives results. Cgmmonw: Good Adver titan Um thesa o1uibm for An advertisement in thU paper will reach a good class of people. . C. HJLLJARD, Editor and Proprietor. 'Excelsior" is Our Motfo. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. VOL. XXIV. New Serie.Vo!. 11.--6 13 SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1908. NUMBER 31. THE EALTH. woiiicii 5 wen as Kiev Ave Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble. Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, di. t .a-rr.s and lessens ambition; beauty, v igo . --. ijr:i j. and cheerfulness soo: :''.';11C-1vJP disappear when the kid V'lifs-' v't7 neys are oat of crdc 'i': '. A.l' Sidney trouble ha- ' i1 ' n Decfirn3 so prevalen v'Lvs "N Ii that it 13 riot i:rnoi-nmn: 7 v , H:-- afflicted with weak kid '- t-f ftV- ' U-V"" nVs- If the child urin vi.'ir.s scalds the flesh or if, when the chile i .r.ch--', an age when it should be able t control the passage, it is yet afflicted wit) '.ei-v-etiingr. depend uror. ii. the cause o dif.'icui-y b kidney ireu'ele, and the firs -"h-v'.l be to was ds the treatment c imrona;-t organs. Thi? ur-pleacan ouc'--i ;j cue to a diseased condition of th a"d b;-dder and not- to a habit a . p;rp:e suppose. vo-r.r-n as well as men are made mis f -ab:vs v.-iih kidney and bladder troubh bj'.h need the t;ne r?at remedy : :ie mild s:-.d the immediate effect o Svvamp'Rcot is soon realized. It is sol: vv cr-jfgi.-ti, in fifty- f-Y't. cent n.vi ore dollar e-CfctPn fiss. You rr.av have afe' TSSS'rf ;;:nr.!? i.c:J3 by r.'-au -.-t-JjtSatfa ''-J. also pamphlet id!"- none smP.nc.x all about it. including many of t! thousands of testimonial letters receive r?m sufi'eiers cured. In writing Dr. Kilme K.C, Bi-ighamtcn. N. Y., be sure an. r.sr.tion this pa.sr. Don't make any mistake, but re mos.!or tho name, Swamp Root, Dr K'lnuT's Swamp Root, and tho a (hires iiuiir.mtnn, . 1., on every bottle 6 r mm i c t- Laxd Surveyor Scotland Neck, X. C. " o-M-tf !. J. P. WEMBERLEY, Physician and Surgeon. Scotland Neck, N. C. OlHee on Depot Street. A. C UVEUMON, DENTIST. Ol:irn 1111 in Whirr- bead Building. Office hours from 0 to 1 o'clock and 2 to 5 o'clock. ;i v. rnxoN, II kitti acting Optician, Watch Maker, Jeweler, En graver, Scotland Nock, X. C. jt Fic&SYDE WE&3, ' Attorney and Counselor at Law, 2ir-221 Atlantic Trust Building Norfolk, Va. Notary Public. Bell Phone 700 pDWARD L. TRJWiS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Halifax, N. C. Mony Loaned on Farm Lands uTh. josey, General Insurance Agent, Scotland Neck, N. C. I,-,-' . . -" tarr't Faile to iteotofe OrjyJ l-&-i.- tii? n.-ii. to jta Youthln! Color. I ? - ' : ?:ifc?CureJ x,:p ;-. U hair fsilass. New Market r&'ZPf I am preDared to serve my old customers ana the public generally with the very best of fresh Beef, Pork, sausage, occ. All orders filled promptly, and every customer's wants regarded. I. 13. Main St.. next to Prince's Stables. l-2-2m if) Ci r.i m.. it. oi.!:. Mil i l.-v ti... tfiiliv t,,..T : !- --V.cn rt y ro'?3 or Orippfl -with "Preventirs" ; i-t for Pni.-umonia. To stop a cold i'i": ri ins is sntf-r ti tit it to let it run ana uo it aft'.Tivnrds To 1)3 snro. JTo v.it, ryr?n p. ducply stated cold, bvt -i t t 'if; s'icf.e Ftuge they brenk. or c '.: !y co'ils. Tliut' purely better. i.:-v r.m Prevnntfi-9. littl- ''fiiidy (,'ol(! Cures. No Qnin ', notlili. sickeninj;. J'io for the '! thoroimlily s!if too. Ii you feel t sr:.e:'.c. il j-ou ache all over, think of L'i oiiiptiit :-3 nay aloo savo half yonr Anrl lin't foiyet yonr child, II 'i. 'iiK w, iilghtor tfcv. nercin pro1 ii '. fi-:. i' yi.-.i u It -H-K;;r i I-'."- -S I'r. "" f r tin pM'ki t. also in 2iic boxes of 43 IujiaL cu your drusgists givinv you 1 ZfsMm HAS a SALS AM I lAf rimii art teswuVi the bate: Thdt COid YU 1113 THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS. Observations of Passing Events. The late Judge Dossey Battle, while he was editor of a Tar boro jri' r. set on foot the influence that gave' us our statute Humans io Your Horse. should be enforced. The Wilmington Star recently said: "Be cause your horse when left standing in the broiling sunshine for several hours these hot days makes no complaint, as would a man under similar conditions, is no reason why you should think that your horse does not suffer from the heat under such circumstances. ''Love me, love my dog' in such weather as this is to 'Love yourself, love your horse.' We have seen instances during this hot spell where owners or drivers of horses have seemed to take it for granted that those animals are not sensi tive to heat, that they do not suffer when required to stand in the heat of the sun for such a time that were the man who forced them to do so were required to do the same by some one who had the power to do so he would complain bitterly of the inhu man cruelty, were he left vocal power enough to do so after the fearful experience. In this awful weather have regard for the comfort of those dumb beasts, you who have control of them. Remember that they, as well as human beings, suffer from the heat and try to make life for them as comfortable as you do for yourself. The humane man will in this fearful weather look out for the comfort of his horse; the human brute will seek the shade for himself while lie will leave his faithful brute com panion to sutler in the sun without one thought of his fort." The Commonwealth feels a keen interest in whatever per tains to the welfare of the farmers; for we realize that the suc All In a Grsst Work. and in a State like North Carolina, means.the success of all classes. Many people in the country will doubtless remember one of the'declarations of Tom Dixon in his address at the Wel don fair several years ago on "The Moral Significance of the Farmers' Alliance." Mr. Dixon said: "North Carolina is a great big farm." We have thought much of the declaration, and Ave are more and more convinced that Mr. Dixon was right. The chief interest in North Carolina today is agriculture, and the chief interest in North Carolina for a long time to come, if not always, will b'p the came thing. Every earnest farmer in North Carolina Cin lay to himself the happy congratulation that he is one of the great company of men in the State who are the very pillars of our prosperity and independence. This being true the small farmer who encompasses his own affairs alone and does his own labor on a imnm-tnnt in bis nl.nr-P a t many laborers and manipulates small farmer who does a good has the advantage of the large his own hands he can bo sure is done well, while the large farmer has to depend on the faithfulness or unfaithfulness of hired men. Let us not disparage the small farm. The one or two horse farm bears as important a relation to the great sys tem of agriculture as the ten or twenty horse farm. The main thing is for each farmer to realize that he is an important per sonage in the work that he is doing. He is filling a good and true destiny in a good and laudable vocation, and the more fully he realizes it the better for him and the great system of endeavor in which he bears an important part. Occasionally one sees an estimate of the cost of a great po litical campaign, like unto the one before the American people from now until next November. Of COSt Of Campaigns. course all such calculations are purely estimates, for it is practically impossible for any one to get a true and correct account of the expenses of such a campaign. It is all right to spend money in a legitimate way for such campaign purposes, and it is but natural that many should in terest themselves about the amount of money thus spent; but we think that wrong conclusions are sometimes reached con concerning such expenditures of money. Many speak and write of the expenditure of such campaign funds as if they were alto gether useless and the money entirely lost. Such is not the case. While there is no doubt that much of the money spent in cam paigns is put to improper uses, it is not all spent in that way. The money spent in campaigns does good in at least two par ticulars: In enlightening the people through the literature that is sent out and in putting into circulation that which otherwise might lie idle. In both the -great political parties in this country indeed in all the parties there are certain good principles which are worthy to be impressed upon the minds of the people No party has all the good; and so in the distnbut tion of the literature which sets forth the best- principles of a party the people receive proper information that perhaps other wise thev mi-ht not. This is done through the expenditure of fnnrls Then, every dollar that is put into active .-,;o-fl tiinris. men, e . ewoii iho, volume of money which may o 1 veuiaiioii ju-ii-'o o v v - - -r--i utilized by the people in supplying the necessities of life Rich men oU contribute liberally to the campaign fund for the " nkiP: and thus they are helping in a two-fold caoacity-thev are helping spread needed information and are capacity U1C , . tm afl volume of circulation. Lcl1 . V . . i to swoll the volume of also beipiuff S ;; - So, alter an, uig wi-'ft have no i thing. Of course we t npnd money for impure ana lnipiupci i- - robpendW r to' spend money improperly m cal campaign is 3us as bad a P objection to the dis- f'SrJatSTatcs facts of information, and tnbution o 1;tfiJh about his 0,vn political party and op many a " such literature. We do well to bear fended in political campaigns is , not altogether lost. Stic Lines Gcod Things. j Mr?. Chas. E Smith, of West ran-. "I like good tlnnS3 lin, Me., says dhavoi.dopUMnr. King.. ?e L.. an il.mr nrp COOU ttl d do work without making - v T , against cruelty to animals. This paper has many times insisted that the law com- cess of agriculture in a county like Hal ifax, in a region like Eastern Carolina, his own farm and held, is inst tho l.or.w fnrmorwhn rvWo r- employs large interests. Truth is, the part of his own work perhaps farmer, for what he does with be not be al ether a bad reference to corruption funds. - mifnAcai: in n Trlltl- - Kay F8?er and Su.urasr Colds. Victims of hay fevcT w ill experience .it. lit-nefit .by taking Foley's Honey rre 1 Tar, as it fctops (liflicult breathm. ,ia'td and ,,,, the initame l to cure vou it win . Tiie genuine io j .. r - - enuim Blaming tbe Newspapers. (Raleigh News and Observer.) The newspaper editor and the newspaper reporter come into a deal of blame that is not their due, this not alone from people whom they write about or whom they fail to write about, but also from people who write articles for . the paper or talk articles over the telephone. Take the telephone talker who at a late hour of the night insists on giving you the full details of a lawn party for the benefit of something or other to take place the next night, and insist that you get in a raft load of names of patronnesses and wait resses. The voice over the telephone is wavery and weak and the beset reporter gets some of the names mixed, so that next morning there is a jumble pf identities. "How stupid those newspaper folks are!" says the lady who gave the news, never realizing that she is the one at fault. There had been possibly twenty-four hours in which she might have prepared the item and sent it to the office. Unconsiciouslv she gave a large amount of trouble. Another trouble in the newspaper office is the style in which communi cations are sent in for publication. These come on many shaped scraps of paper, pieces of envelopes, backs of weather maps, some articles on tiny pieces of paper, others on huge sheets too large to be handled satis factory by the type setting machines and many written on both sides of the paper, a matter always giving trouble to newspaper men, while many writers are so sparing of paper that they never leave room at the top of the article for the caption to le written. And on tpp of thishit-or-missstvle of sending in news or communica tions if there is an error the news paper man is hauled over the coals about his delinquencies, when the truth is hedeserve3 a medal for do ing as well as he has. He has at times taken an article in chaoiic form and beat it into shape in pure desperation, and even then has had errors thrown back at him, while the outside public, never thinking of what has really taken place, thinks tat tue newspaper man is a blank idot, judging from the shape in which certain articles appear. Every paper is anxious to get the news, and strives to get it first in any shape, but when people furnish communications on general matters or want boosts of something or other in which they are interested, it is the feeling in the newspaper office that these could at least take the trouble to put this in preser.table shape for publication. It is certain that if this were done there would be less complaint about errors in papers and the newspaper man's life would be made the happier thereby. Motber or Wife Welch? Richmon'i News-Leader. - Persisting in its enthusiastic, if somewhat misguided purpose to at tribute all Virginia's greatness to North Carolina, the Charlotte Ob server Charlotte is in North Caro linarecently asserted that the mother of James Madison was a North Carolina woman. Thereupon the Charlottsville Progress expressed scfme natural surprise at the unusual circumstance of a man having two or more mothers and with gentle sarcasm suggested that the Obser ver prosecute its historical and bio graphical endeavors further with the possibility of discovering that Mr. Madison was born in North Car olina without the knowledge of any of his friends or relatives and contrary to the general belief of his parents and family. It pointed out that the history acpted in Virginia is that Mr. Madison's mother was Nellie Conway, of Lancaster county, this State. That good lady lived and died in the belief that she was Mr. Madison's mother but the Observer seems to have a theory that she was mistaken. Now, however, we see that the North Carolina claim on Mr. Madi son is revised.. The Observer of Tuesday editorially says it was his wife who was born in North Caroli na. Considering that she came to Virginia and married a Virginian, she did the best she could under ad verse conditions and we are inclined to overlook her early misfortune. And it is now in order for the Char lotte Observer and the Charlottes ville Progress to organize a profound discussion as to whether a man's mother or his wife is entitled to the larger share of credit for any great ness he may develop. Baby won't suffer five minutes with croup if you apply Dr. Thomas' Eclec tic Oil at once. It acts like magic. Jbe Joy of Home. (Mary T. Butts.) We have roamed in the fields, fragrant We have lived with the murmur ing trees; W e have heard the love talk of the birds, And the whisper of the breeze. We have rocked on the laughing wave, Where the breaker tossed it3 foam; Now we turn again, as the bright days waye, To the happy hours of home. For not on the mountain top, Nor yet in the soafest vale, Not where the cavas fills and strains To the boisterous summer gale, Not in the secret woods, Though the restless heart may roam The world around, can joy be found Like the joy of love and home. Some Old-Time Zoology. (Youth'e Companion.) In the Raleigh State library is an interesting old volume presented by President Madison in 1831. This quaint book is the first history of North Carolina, written in 1741 by John Lawson. Gent," a surveyor- general of the Lords Proprietors. The history is well worth reading, but perhaps the most intertaining por tion of its many pages ist that in which Mr. Lawson describes the flora and fauna of the new country. lie is evidently the ancestor of the rail way conductor who decided that ac cording to the rules of the road, Dogs is dogs and cats is dogs, but turtles is insects!" We will next read of beasts, said he historian. The chief are the buffalo, or wild beef; the tiger; the beaver, and the bearmouse. The buffalo is wild beast of Amercia which has a bunch on his back. These monsters are found to weigh (a3 I am informed by a traveler of credit) from 1100 to 2400 weight. . The bat or bearmouse is the same as in England. I have put them among the beasts as partakers of both the nature of the bird and the mouse. Now I shall proceed to the known insects of the place. Insects of North Carolina. Alliga tors, rattlesmakes, frogs, vipers, tortois, terepin, rottenwood worms, etc. The alligator is the same as the crocodile. After the tail of the alli gator n removed from the body it will move freely for several days. I have named those among the insects because they lay ej'gs, and I did not know well where else to put them. Suggestion to Boys. (Georgia Cor. to Rich Square Time.) Some years ago while some school boys in the Southern part of this state were returning home from school late in the af ternoon.by chance they met with an old gentleman that had every appearance of a plain, country farmer. The old man while dressed neat yet not stylish or fash ionable had much of a rural appear ance, so much that the boys decided he was nothing more than an ordi nary tiller of the soil, and one, too, that was in feeble health. These boys feeling that a little fun was the thing itself most needed, yelled out at the traveler in such language as this, "Hello old hay seed, what's the price of fod der?" Come out from under that old claw hammer coat.I know you're there." "When are you going to have a corn shucking, and haul your cotton seed?" Such were the greet ings lavished upon the old man. But one of the boys, the only son of a poor but pious widow, treated the old man with all the politeness that the little fellow knew how. That boy that tried to reflect credit on his mother by appearing civil now has the honor to occupy a seat in the United States Senate. The old gen tleman to whom the boys were so rude was no one less than the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, a man whose name has adorned the Nation's hif tory. The Doctor's Expectations. "I am glad to find you so much better, old man. Does the doctor expect you to be out soon?" "I think he expects me to be out the-amount of his bill. He sent it in to-day." The Catholic Standard and Times. WARNING. If you have kidney and bladder trouble and do not use Foley's Kidney Cure, you will have only yourself to blame for results, as it positively cures all form3 of. kidney and bladder dis eases. Ti Whitehead Company. Strange Case Indeed. ' The following is taken from the Wadesboro Messenger and Intelli gencer: High Point, N. C, July 25. One of the most peculiar cases on record developed here this week and which caused the death of the two-year-old girl of Mr. Jones Griffith. For some time the child has suffered with com plications of diseases and recently its stomach began to swell until it as sumed enormous proportions, and strangest of all, three large cracks appeared in the child's head, through which the pulsating of the brain could be seen. The attending physi cian had never had or seen a case like it, and the physicians that saw the child were baffled. The parents, after the child's death were asked to let the physicians perform an autopsy but they would not consent to it. The remains of the little one were carried to Pinnacle, this State, for interment. This peculiar case calls to mind the aged lady with horns growing out from her head and who has visited High Point on several occasions. Her name is Hightower and she is seventy or more years of age. Two large horns, very much resembling those of a ram, protrude from the head and cause Mrs. Hightower, so she says, extreme pain at times. She says that when the horns ' began to appear her head almost split open with pain. Mrs. Cleveland's Romance. Selected. The romance of President Cleve land's marriage was one of the most interesting in our Presidential his tory, relates the Kansas City Timc3. It was the first marriage of a Presi dent of the United States while in office. Mrs. Cleveland's father had been a law partner of the President, and when he died his daughter, then a young girl, became Mr. Cleveland's ward. At the time of the marriage the President was forty-nine and his bride only twenty-two. Such a dis parity in years is ordinarily frowned upon, but the circumstances of this match were extraordinary. Mrs. Cleveland became one of the most charming mistresses the White House has ever had. She bore herself with great dignity, reserve, and distinc tion, yet quite as democratic as her station would justify her in being. Her attitude toward her husband was at all times wholly exemplary. She exalted him, but without osten tation and without in the least be littling herself. In private life she maintained the reserve, even the se clusion, that her distinguished hus band sought. Throughtout Mr. Cleveland's illness, in their common joys and sorrows, in her husband's long period of suffering and now in her own bereavement she has set an admirable example of wifely devo tion, patience, and dignity. Things of To-Uay. (Chtstiatt Kvangellat.) "The habit of being younor," on which a well-wisher congratulated Mr. Rockefeller on the occasion of his sixty-ninth birthday, is one which all persons, whatever their years, should conscientiously cultivate. Dr. Osier was right in his contention, that the world has no room for old people, but age is not a matter of years. Those are the benefactors of their race who graft the fruits of long experience into the stem of a perennially youthful mind. A con temporary recently repeated the long bead-roll of men who, keeping the courage, hope, enthusiasm, love of industry, which are the character istics of youth (the last too often lost, even before adolescence is over, but invariably an attribute of child hood), have done great things in ad vanced years; not at the relatively youthful age of sixty-nine, but after eighty. It must suffice here to quote from the list Cato, who studied Greek, Plutarch Latin, and Socrates music, after eighty; Ranke, who be gan hi3 many volumed "History of the World," Goethe who completed Faust, and Bancroft who published his History after that age, and Ihe well-knowa examples of Palmerston becoming Premier and Gladstone overthrowing the conservative gov ernment of England after the same advanced period of life. TEN YEARS IN BED. "For ten years I was confined to my bed with disease of my kidneys," writes R. A. Gray. J.-P., of Oakvillc, Ind. "It was so severe that I could net move part of the time. I consulted the very best medical skill available, but could'get no relief until Foley's Kidney Cure was recommended to me. It has been a God-send to me." E. fT. Whitehead 'Company. , - V ACT QUICKLY. Delay Has Been Dangerous in Scotland Neck. Do the right thing at the right time. Act quickly in times of danger. Ba ck ache is kidney danger. Doan's Kidney Tills act quickly. Cures all distrosBinj;, dangerous kid ney ill. Plenty of evidence to prove this. Mrs. Robert Williams, 317 South Washington street. Rocky Mount, N. C, pays: "I willingly recommend Doan's Kidney Fills, as they benefitted me" greatly. I suffered for a long tim trom a dull, nagging backache and rheumatic twinges in the region of my kidneys. I was restless at night and and arose in the morning unfit to com mence tho day's duties. I obtained no relief from the various remedies I used, and h".d about despaired of ever being cured when Doan's Kidney Pills were recommended to me. I obtained a box, used them according to direc tions and. could soon see that they were helping me. A further use com pletely banished the backache and im proved my condition in every way." For sale by all dealers. Frice 50c. Foeter-Milburn Co.,Buffalo,New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name DOAN'S and take no other. Because Tou Don't Know Him. (Selected.) Two on the street were talking earnestly. "No, he may be all right, but he doesn't appeal to me," one was say ing, of some person under discus sion. "That's because you don't Jcnow him!" responded the other prompt ly. "Let me tell you of some of the things he has done." How often we carelessly pass judgment on a person, with the ver dict that he "doesn't appeal" to us, when, but for our ignorance, we might love him for his works' sake! Then let us take more pains to find out the good things that may be known of people. FOR SORE FEET. "I have found liucklen'a Arnica Salve to be the proper thing to use for sore feet, as well as for healing burns, sores, cuts, and all manner of abra sions," writes Mr. W. Stone, of E.nst. Poland, Maine. It N the proper thing for piles. Try it! Sold under guar antee at E. T. Whitehead Company's drug store. 25c. The more Judge Landis studies the opinion of the Oil Trust case handed down by judges of the Federal Court of Appeals the more will he be dis posed to ponder Kemble's famous lines: "Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs?" Hartford Times. MEN PAST SIXTY IN DANGER. More than half of mankind over sixty years of apt uffer from kidney and bladder disorder., usually enlarge ment of prostate glands. This is both painful and dangerous, and Foley's Kidney Cure should be taken at the first sign of danger, as it corrects irreg ularities and has cured many old men of this disease. Mr. Rodney Burnett, Rockport, Mo., writes: ' I -ruf fried with enlarged prostate gl;:nd and kid ney trouble for years and after taking two bottles of Foley's Kidney Cure I feel better than I have for twenty years, although I am now 01 years old." E. T. Whitehead Company. The redoubtable Frank H. Hitch cock he of the steam roller Proxy Frank, let us call him for short is to be chairman. To be. sure. They need him in their business. They could not get along without him. Louisville Courier-Journal. Excellent Health Advice. Mrs. M. H. Davison, of No. 397 Gif ford Ave., San Jose, Cal., says: "The worth of Electric Bitters as a general family remedy, for headache, bilious ness and torpor of the liver and bowels is so pronounced that I am prompted to say a word in its favor for the bene fit of those seeking relief from such aillictk-us. There is more heifth for the digestive organs in a bottle of Electric Bitters than in any other rem edy I know of." Sold" under guaran tee at E. T. Whitehead Company' a drug store. 50c A family of robins have built a nest and hatched a family in the pocket of an old waistcoat which had been left hanging on the wall of an unoccupied cottage at Lodsworth, England. When the Stomach, Ilc-rt. or Kid ney nerves get weak, then these or gans always fail. l"on't drug th Stomach, nor stimulate the Heart or Kidneys. That is timply a make-shift. Get a prescription known to Druggists everywhere as Dr Shoop's Restorative. The Restorative it prepared cxprcsrly for these weak inside nerves. Strength en thes nerves, build thern with Dr. SIiood's Restorative tablets or liquid and see how quickly help will come. i EpU by A. C. Peteraon. These painless P- E. T. Whitehead ompajtjf. A. C. PETERSON. " . . j mff store. A- Whiteneaa w "c