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Good Advertising ts p fsmlae what ffteani ia to M.ichiniy, that great propelling j-.ow er. This paper gives results. Tl COMtt Good Adversers EALTH Use these oolunana for ra An advertisement in this ppw will reach a good class of people. t. E. HILLIA8D, Editor and Proprietor. "Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. rJ. XXIV. F Scri Vol. 11...C-H SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1908. NUMBER 41. :Vomen as Well as Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble. Sidney trouble preys upon the mind, d'.s . .iirjea and lessens ambition; beauty, vigor i-i "nd cheerHilness soon - ' N-,Jp7 disappear when the kid T.Ii' neys are out ' order Kid"ey trouble ha )'' rH beepms so prevalen . V- .H if V that tt 13 not uncommtT. Alc-s-Oac1111 to bft borr - 1 Wt1 W-t afflicted with weak kid 1 -Oi VKl- neys. If the child urin l.. V-" ' ates too often, if th ; .;:.c ?cr.!ds the flesh or if, when the chiV .-;ies an age when it should be able tr -:.!.! the passage, it is yet afflicted wirl jd-we'.t'.ng:. depend upon it. the cause o: di.'ticiliy ia kidney trouble, and the firs; - should be towards the treatment of - .ise important organs. Thia unpleasant . cub:3 Si due to a diseased condition of the r idr.eys and bladder and not to a habit as :ncs; people suppose. Wo.r.en aa weil as men are made ml3 .va'r'.y v.ii'n kidney and bladder trouble ...id tc-'.h r.ced tho same great remedy ' hi mild and the immediate effect o i wapRoot is soon realized. It i3 sold J.r..,U In llfiu and one dollar S"rgst p.iCs. You may have a BiS.'wiHwt sw.ile bottle bv mail idllj 'e. ilso ramDhlet tell- n... o. i. ir.g -il about it, including many of thr thousands of testimonial letters received from sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer K. Co., Binghamton, N. Y., be sure anc nsr.iior. this paper. Don't make any mistake, but re viieniUr tlie name, Swamp Root. Dr KiltiHT's Swamp Koot, and the addret,. iliii-iiamt')!!, X. Y. , on every bottle. JOHN M. COX, EVEEYTHINU IN PHOTOGRAPHY, Work Guaranteed. Main Street. Scotland Neck. R. MILLS Laxd Surveyor Scotland Neck, 1ST. C. 5-14-tf J. P. WIMSfiRlEY, Physician and Surgeon, Scotland Neck, N. C. 0;T:ce on Depot Street. i. fl. C. LIVERMON, DENTIST. Ollico up stairs in White head Building. Office hours from 9 to 1 o'clock and 2 to 5 o'clock. H. w. TiTxon, KE PR ACTING OPTICIA7, Watch ilaker, 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 700 gBWARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Halifax, N. C. Money Loaned on Farm Lands WILL H. JOSEY, General Insurance Agent, Scotland Neck, N. C. ?MW " PARKER'S m&Z-MlM HAIR CALSAM ff'i2fEf.?ff33l,r..,(K-u 1 Iniujinnt RrciwUi. (' I'Z. : Je?3 Kg vt-r FaiiH to Hertore C-OJ-y !-' "T?? Hof to i's Youthful CCiOr. arket. I am prepared to serve WJi 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. IIIIL, Main St., next to Prince's Stables. l-2-9m KBLLthe cough CURE the LUNGS King's liscovory WITH 2iSW PBICB ou VOLDS Trial Bottle tree MP ALL THROAT AND LUNG TROUBLES. riT m. -i-v & - - . - m MnnnTr R'JR. MONEY REFUNDED. OcgttORiaaaHHHi New M ELECTRIC FLASHES. Things That are Done by Electricity Id Many Parts o! the World. TRULY THE WONDER OF THE AGE. (Electric News.) No cities of any size in the Japan ese Empire are withou electric street cars. There are 545 miles of trolley tracks. An electric blower for hot air fur naces has been devised which greatly facilitates the heating of buildings. Whenever the reigning sovereigns of Great Britian travel by rail through their English domain, a special train de luxe is at the exclu sive disposal. It is ventilated, heat ed and lighted by electricity, and in the King's own private car an elec tric reading lamp is fixed over the head of the bed. In the Queen's boudoir car the furnishings are mar vels of beauty, while the equipment of the dinning car and those for the accommodation of the royal suite is all that convenience and comfort could suggest. All expenses con nected with this train are borne by the owners, the London & North western Railroad Company. The trees of Central Europe are protected from the ravages of the Russain moth by new moth traps. Two large and powerful reflectors are placed over a deep receptacle and a powerful exhaust fan. The beams of light are thrown on the distant mountain sides and it is said that three tons of moths were caught the first night. Germany possesses a large number of small water power developments. In Prussia alone in the year of 1898 no less than 20,000 plants were re ported. The number of telegraph messages sunt in the United States in the year 190G was 94,000,000. The number of messages sent in this country for the same year by the Western Union alone exceeded 71,000,000 not count ing those sent over leased vires or under railroad contracts. j The Long Island Railroad has set aside $2,000,000 for the electrifica tion of its tracks from Long Island City to Port Washington, and from Flushing to Malba. The General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y., has produced a mercury arc rectifier enabling the op erator to obtain direct current from an alternating-current circuit. This outfit forms a simple and compact piece of apparatus, requiring practi cally no more attention or adjust ment than the ordinary rheostat, and will operate satisfactorily on any alternation-current voltage from 200 to 240, and any frequency from 40 to 140 cycles. Preliminary surveys for the pro posed dam at Copper Falls are being made, and it is possible that power from these falls will be furnished to Ashland, Wis., by next December. The Unaka (Tenn.) Tanning Com pany will erect a large electric plant for industral power A dam will be put in and the fall of Pigeon river utilized to run the dynamos. Power from the new plant of the Spokane and Inland at Nine Mile Dam is now being used by the rail road for its Inland division, running from Spokane, Wash., to Pal ouse and Colfax. There are 2394 miles of street rail ways in England, an increase of 1330 miles in ten years. It is understood that a company, to be capitalized at $3,500,000, is be ing formed to generate electricity at gas fields in West Virginia, to be transmitted to Cincinnati, Ohio. Centrifugal air blowers driven by tlectric motors are said to be far better for pipe organs in churches than the old form of blowers. The construction of the power plant of the Great Northern railroad, which will supply power to the three phase Cascade tunnel section of the line,is now under way .The dam is 600 feet long. The pipe line consists of 10,954 feet of wooden conduit and 700 feet of steel conduit with a head of over 200 feet. A disnatch from Berlin states that wireless communications between war balloons and land stations have been highly successful. Fifty years ago, August 5, the At lantir- fable was completed. The beautiful mountian peak of .Tnn. Fuii Yama, so frequently pic f nrrl nn fans and screens, is to be i- v,,r aiofnVirv at nicrht. Re- freshment houses will be built along r.a;i to the top and equip ped with telephone and telegraph stations. Capitalists are talking of an elec .:i;nofmm Buffalo to Pittsburg. states that ivir. ti. x. . , three lines of the Harnman system are to be electrified; the mountain division of the Union Pacific, which runs over the Rockies; the mountain division of the Southern Pacific, which runs over the Sierras; and the mountain division of the Shasta route, which runs ever the Siskiyou mountains. It is estimated that this will cost $40,000,000. Three French naval officers have reported wonderful progress with their invention of the wereless tele phone. The remarkable developed of plant life in the Arctic reigions where the sun is weak is thought to be due to atmospheric electricity. The Criminal Neglect o! Parents. (Selected.) Four feeders of the foul stream are drink, the dance, immodest dress, and diet; but that which per mits the rapid spread of inmuritv. is the criminal neglect or refusal of fathers and mothers to teach their children God's truth concerning the origin of life and the profound sa credness of creative powers. As one wise and eged lawyer said, "It does seem to me that the children of to day are left to make the acquaint ance of the wickedness of the world and the mysteries of their own na tures with very little instruction on the part of those who were given to be their guardians." Too many children are left in the plight of the little boy depicted in the poem by Mary Wood-Allen. Mamma, why is it when it rains; So cloudy in the sky There's lots o' things I'd like to know The really reason why. And there's some other sorts o' things I'd like to know about, Only you always say, 'Hush! hush!' And so I can't find out. The boys at school, they tell me tales, That don't seem nice and clean; I wish you'd tell me so I'd know What these things really mean. Because you see I know, mamma You never, never lie; So if you 'splained, it why 'twould be The really reason why." Oh the lies that have been told to nuatmjj iittie wiiiuieii auuut wxiat -,,4-: i:in , :i ,1 i 1 uj- God meant to be the most sacred re - btinnQ nT Iitoi Thnco xt-hr ho -marl child-life a special study tell us that very many children begin to ask questions concerning the origin of life as early as the age of three years; while to all little ones these queries come while very young. They are natural and therefore right and proper; and it is the solemn duty of every parent or child-protector to meet those questionings with God's own truth told in the bpirit; and l believe there are few yes, none who would not receive that truth in the same reverent manner with which it was imparted. Praise the Boy. (Sunday-School Times.) If often costs one quite a struggle to do his simple duty; and when one does his simple duty in spite of his temptation to do differently, he de serves credit for his doing. One has no need to live long in this world be fore finding out this truth. A bright little boy about two and a half years old recently showed that he appre hended it. He was on the eve of do ing something that was very temp ting to him. "No, my son; you mustn t do that," said his father. The little fellow looked as if he would like-to do it in spite of his father's prohibition; but he triumph ed over his inclination. "All right, papa, I won't do it." There was no issue there, and the father turned to something else. The boy waited a minute, and then said, in a tone of surprised inquiry: "Papa, why don't you tell me, 'That's a good boy'?" The father accepted the sugges tion, and commended his son accord ingly. A just recognition of a child's well-doing is a parent's duty; even though a child's well-doing ought not to hinge on such a recognition. And as with little folks, so with larger ones. Just commendation is every one's due. Even or Lord him self has promised to say, "Well done" to every loved one of his who does well. Henry E. Jones, of Tampa, Fla., writes: "I can thank God for my hfmHli. due to Foley's Kidney Clurc. I tried doctors .and all kinds of kidney cures, but nothing done me much good till I took Foley's Kidney Cure Four bottles cured me, and I have' no more pain in my back and shoulders. I am 62 years old and Huffcred long, but thanks to Foley s Kidney Cure I am well and can walk and enjoy myself. It is a pleasure to recommend it to those needing a kid ney medicine." E. T. Whitehead Company. WAITING TENNESSEE'S ACTION. Trustees of Peabody Education Fund Delay Final Distribution of the Fund-State of Tennessee Had Not Lived Up to lHe Ccnditlon. New York. Surprise was occas ioned to-day when the trustees of the Peabody education fund met in this city and decided not to make a final distribution of the fund of $2, 500,000 left by George Peabody, of Massachusetts, in 1867. for educating the children in the Southern States. In establishing the fund the donor provided that the income of the $2, 500,000 was to be used each year for educational purposes and that at the end of 30 years the trustees could distribute the money among such educational institutions as they should select. At a previous meeting of the trus tees, among whom is President Roosevelt, it was practically decided to make the distribution. In 1875 the trustees believing that the South ern btate were providing: proper common school education for chil dren of that section, established the Peabody Normal College for teach ers in Nashville, Tenn. In the dis tribution of the fund it was intended to give $1,000,000 outright to this college and to apportion the balance of the fund among such other edu cational institutions as the trustees should name. The reason given for not making the distribution to-day, it was stated, was that the Peabody Normal Col lege for teachers had not complied with conditions stipulated bv the trustees when the college was found ed. The agreement was that to en title the Peabody College to $1,000,- 000 when the distribution was made, appropriations aggregating $750,000 must first be made for the benefit of the college by the City of Nashville, Davidson county, and the State of Tennessee. Joseph II. Choate and Richard Onley, of the board of trus tees, were appointed a committee to investigate whether this condition has been lived up to and their report tnAav 5uftwPH fW tbpfSrvr.f Nnsb- ' ville and Davidson county have made ' . appropriations amounting to $300, 000, but the State has yet made no appropriations. The committee was given to understand, however, that the Legislature of the State, which will meet next January, will probab ly make the appropriation. There fore the trustees decided not to dis tribute the fund until some time af ter next January. If the State of Tennessee makes the necessary ap propriation the trustees may call a meeting in February in Washington and then make the distribution. Justice Fuller was re-elected presi dent of the board; Mr. Choate was chosen first vice-president; Daniel C. Gilman, of Maryland, second vice- president; J. Pierpont Margan treas urer, and Dr. Green, secretary. Greenville Winthrop, of New York, was elected trustee to succeed the late Morris K. Jessup. No successor was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William A. Courtenay, of South Carolina. The other trustees are George Peabody Wetmore, of Rhode Island; Richard Onley, of Massachusetts; Daniel C. Gilman, of Maryland; President Theodore Roosevelt and Governor Hoke Smith, of Georgia. Justice of Tks Peace Fines His Son. (Nowb and Observer.) N. W. Poole, the well known and highly respected justice of the peace for St. Mathews township, who re sides near NeuBe, came to the city yesterday to pay a fine he had im posed on his son, 3. T. Poole, for shooting a wild turkey out of season. Poole junior went out to hunt squirrels a few days ago when sud denly a big turkey gobbler popped up. his head. Poole laid him low and brought him in triumph to the house. "Where did you get that fowl," asked the old gentleman. "1 shot him at seventy-five yards, pa," said the boy. "Son, you are my prisoner," re sponded the 'squire, "and may I ask if you are ready for trial." "Pa, I wasn't thinking about the game law," said the boy, "and I went out to hunt squirrels anyway." "One dollar and costs," the old man said, "and permit me to add, my son, that if I believed you went out after that bird with malice afore thought I would give you the limit of the statute." "Yes," said 'Squire Poole yester day in Raleigh, "if I believed he had gone out deliberately to kill a tur- Jkey I would have soaked him ten." A Boy's Chances of Becoming Presi dent of the United States. (By Felix Barton.) It is true enough that every Amer ican born boy has a chance of becom ing President of the United States, and it might be rather interesting for the boy who is an adept at figures to sit down and "figger out" just what his chances are with our pres ent population. He would discover that the last United States census gave us, in round numbers, thirty nine millions of male inhabitants. Of this large number fully six mil lions are of foreign birth and are, therefore, not in it when it comes to a race for the Presidency. This re duces the number to thirty-three millions. Counting out the number of males who would never be consid ered a3 candidates for the Presidency because of the weight of years would reduce the number considerably. If we deduct three millions on this ac count there would still be left thirty millions of "Presidential possibili ties," but the mere possibility of several millions of them having any chance of receiving a nomination is so remote that one could hardly dis cover it with the great Lick tele scope. They have not the ability re quired for the position. Deducting all of the ineligibles who are ineli gible because they have not the qualifications for the position, and there are not many millions of eligible candidates left. Somehow or other the two leading political parties in our country have found it a little difficult to find even one candidate among all the millions of their ad herents. Political parties are so ex acting that fault is found with many of the apparently eligible candidates, and, everything considered, the average American boy will do well not to count too much cn ever be coming President of the United States. The next best thing is to make himself intelligent enough to be able to cast his voto wisely when it comes to voting for a President of the United States. We need more intelligence among our voters, parti cularly among our young voters. There was held in Boston one day last March a "New Voters' Festival" to which were bidden all of the young men who would cast their votes for the first time this year. They received a good "talking to" that must have increased their intel ligence not a little The chance3 of a boy becoming President of the United States are but one in several millions, but his chance of becoming a good Ameri can citizen belongs to him exclusive lp, and the boy who is in the finest and best sense of the word a good American citizen fills a position equal in honor with that of the President of the United States. The Fleet in Austrialian Waters. (Youth's Companion. The great cruise of the American battle-ship fleet is likely to be pro- j ductive of many good results, and not least among them may be a deeper interest and better under standinding between the people of this country and those of Australia. To the average American, in the : eastern part of the United States, at ! least, the lone continent in the south seas is not only an unknown land, but one in which he takes little inter est, yet no other body of English speaking people outside of the Unit ed States are as much like Ameri cans in habits of thought and in gen eral attitude toward life as are the Australians. American books are widely read there some of them more widely than in England and American theatrical and operatic companies are nearly always successful there. In many respects the people of the two countries haye a similar history. Both have had a vast territory in which to expand, a temperate and varied climate to develop their latent energies, and a new country to settle and upbuild. These are things which breed resourcefulness and indepen dence of thought and character qualities which both peoples possess to a high degree. Americans and Australians seem to understand each other better than either people un derstands Englishmen. This country already sells to Aus tralia about twenty-six million dol lars' worth of goods a year, and in the growing importance of the Paci fic and the countries whose shores it washes, the great southern federa tion is bound to occupy a place of still greater power and dignity. Its trade will be well worth seeking and its career worth watching. If the visit of the American fleet does nothing but emphasize this, it will be amply justified. NOAH WEBSTER CELEBRATION. Tale to Mark the One Hundred and Fif tieth Anniversary of the Diction ary Maker's Birth. (New Haven Dispatch.) Yale University and New Haven will celebrate this month the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Noah Webster, author of the spelling book and the diction ary. The Webster homestead, is still standing at New Haven, and the win dow where Noah Webster sat for up ward of forty years while he compil ed and rewrote his dictionary over looks part of the Yale College. Diagonally across the street from the window is the old Grove street cemetery, where he was buried. He was born October 16, 1758. In his youth he had money troubles like many another author. He brought up a family of eight on the proceeds of his spelling book. In later years he never tired of telling how his father started him out in the world to make his fortune with $3 of Continental money in his pock et, amounting in reality to barely $4 in currency. During his career at Yale, vhich lie was graduated in Webster failed to distinguish self from his other classmates. from 1778, ter graduating he taught school and studied law. In 1783 he met in Wash ington the Rev. Dr. S. S. Smith, after ward president of Princeton College and mentioned to him his plan of bringing out a spelling book, which he had already partly prepared for publication. Dr. Smith encouraged him in his plan and the following winter was spent by Mr. Webster in revising the book. Then he went to Hartford to publish "The First Part of a Grammatical Institute of the English Language." It was the first book of the kind ever published in this country and the sales from it at one time were 1,000,000 copies a year. From this book he received one cent a copy. Up to 1847 over 2 1,000,000 copies had been sold. In 1807 he began his life work, the compiling of the dictionary. In the first part of the century Mr. Web ster for economical reasons, removed to Amherst, where, it is said, it was largely through his influence that the college was finally founded. He re turned to New Haven to receive the degree of LL.D from Yale in 1823. The following year he went to Eu rope to study for the final prepara tion of his dictionary. On his return from abroad he settled permanently in New Haven. The first edition of his dictionary appeared in 1828. In 1813 he nn ished the appendix and settled down to enjoy a long contemplated rest. That same year he died. He held various offices in the town government of New Haven, served as councilman, alderman, legislator and judge. Personally he was dig nified and quiet, possessing a fund of humor, appreciated best by those who were closest to him. He was unusually sensitive in disposition and particularly abhorred the contraction of debt. It was said of him that dur ing his lifetime he never owed a man a dollar. Be Ready When the Chance Comes. (Young People's Weekly.) The story is told of a young man whose success in life was due to the fact that on one occasion when it be came necessary for someone who was posted in the business with which he was connected to make an important journey, his grip was packed and ready. It had been packed for months in anticipation of just such an emergency, so that he needed on ly two minutes for his preparations. The case is not an unusual one, the only difference being in the applica tion. It is the ready who rise. Op portunity never comes to the unpre pared, for to them it is not an op portunity. It does not matter what capabilities are dormant in your na ture. Talente wrapped in a napkin are of little advantage to anyone. You must be ready when the chance comes, if you are to seize it and com pel it to lift you toward the goal of your aspirations. Didn't Shov Good Taste. A Delaware man who married acrain four weeks after the death of his first wife went out on the porch and told the "shivaree" crowd that he didn't think it showed very good taste for them to come banging around a man's house like that so soon after a funeral. Jewel (Kans.) Republican. A Unique Epitaph. (Exchange.) Some six or seven miles from the center of Savannah, Ga., on the right hand side of the White BhilT Road, one can find three old tombstones in the midst of brush and bramble. A sjhool house near by has been re cently repaired and painted, but be yond which all is wild and neglected. These tombstones are about 200 feet from the read.-lie, and on one of them can be found the following unique and suggestive inscription cut deep and sharp in the Vermont mar ble slab: David R. Densler died September 26, 1822, aged 30 years, 6 months and 2 days. Reader, reflector as you pass by. As you are now so once was I, As I am now so you will be. Then be prepared to follow me." De Witt's Little Early Ki.xprn, tho famoim little liver pills. They aro small, sure, wde pills. Sold by E. T. Whitehead Company. "Does your wife send Christmas presents to all her relatives?" "No. She has a second cousin with whom she quarreled when they were children, and they have never made it up." Chicago Record-Herald. Foley's Kidney Cure will euro any case of kidney trouble that is not be yond medical aid. E. T. Whitehead Company. "Is that John, givin' the college yell inside?" "That ain't the college yell. The old man's frailin' him cut with a hickory, an' he's givin' the home yell!" Atlanta Constitution. A Healthy Family. :'0;;r whole f.unily has enjoyed Koixl health since we began using Dr. King's New Life I'iils, three years ago," sayrf L. A. Hart let, of Kural ltouto 1, (Jnil ford, Maine. They cleanse and tone the system in a gentle way that doen you good. '250. at E. T. Whitehead Company's drug store. When a man has worked desper ately for fifteen hours a day for fif teen or twenty years and got a littlo ahead it is amusing to hear his neighbor tell how lucky he has al ways been Norfolk (Neb.) News. Do not Jet anyone tell you that something else is just as goiwl as Ie W'itt's Kidney ami Hladder Fills tr eatise there isn't anything j11 "H good for wenk l.aek, backache, rheumatic, jiains. inflammation of the bladder, or any Kidney and lia Idi r disorder. A v ( 1;V. ttial will convince you. Bold l.y E. T. Whitehead Company. "See me next week about it." "But be who gives quickly gives twice." "That's just the point. I don't care to be held up later for a second subscription." Pittsburg Post. Don't use harsh physics. Tin? re iction weakens the bowels, leads Ut chronic constipation. (Set Doan's Ke- j;nlcts. They operate easily, torm the stomach, cure constipation. Mr. Meane I have nothing but praise for the new minister. Mr. Goode So I noticed when the plate came around. Philadelphia Inquir er. bolized Witch Hazel Salve. The best salvo for piles. He sure you get De Witt's. Sold by E. T. Whitehead Dr. Charles Parker, president of an Ohio county anti-saloon league, was arrested for stabbing a saloon keeper, who may die, Tuesday. A Card. This is to rcrtifv that all druggists are authorized to refund your money if Foley's Honey and Jar fails to euro your cough or cold. It stops tho cough, heals the lungs nnd prevents Rerious results from a cold. Cures hi- grippe cough and prevents pneumonia and consumption, rontams no opi ates. The genuine is in a yellow pack age. Refuse substitutes. E. T. White head Company. Have you made any good resolu tions yei?" "Yes; one." What is it?" "Not to make any." Balti more American. Hives, eczema, itch or salt rheum sets you crazy. Can't bear the touch of your clothing. Doan's Ointment cures the most obstinate cases. Why suffer. All druggists sell it. The big stick is kept busy these days, and it is no longer a knotty problem. In most cases consumption results from a neglected or improperly treated cold. Foley's Honey and Tar cures the most obstinate coughs and pre vents serious results. It costs yon no more than the unknown preparations and you should insist upon having the genuine in the yellow packages. E. T. Whiteheud Company.