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ood Advertising i ... y Good Advertwers Is to Bjsines what Steam is to Machinery, that great propelling !,o er. This paper gives results. Use those columns for reeoJto. An advertisement m th'w l1,r ,g will reach a good i-la.-s of people. V. C. MOORE, Editor and Manager. 'Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. VOL, XXIV. New Series Vol. 11 6-X8 SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1908. NUMBER 45. Common we a lt omen as Well as Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble. -Ciciney trouble preys upon the mind. dis. .ri'.ges and lessens ambition; beauty, vigor i v and cneerfulnes3 soon . '. p-rf oisappear when the kid tTtTvr;t2?neys are out of orde- : . ,- ; !,;fir or diseased, Kidney trouble hsr Op I uccpme so prevalen ' t.;.;, V )I thatitlsnotuncommor VjV'.'AIT- neys. If the child urin .J.Z.:. Vs- ates too often, if tha - i-;aias me nesn or if, when the chil r.n age when it should be able t -rl tne passage, it is yet afflicted wit! i-w.-.ing, depend upon it. the causa o difficulty is kidney trouble, and the firs ? should be towards the treatment o -ft i mportant ore-ans. This unnkiun -:e is due to a diseased condition of the : s and bladder and not to a habit as ..-:t pecp.e suppose. . iv.c.n as well as men are made mis ' with kidney and bladder trouble d Loth need the same great remedy .n ouu iu iiuuicuiaio eriect o' .vsrrpivOot is soon realized. It is sold in fifty :.d doi: 1 ou may have a taSfy'H i-SMrv- f.c bott't-s by mail ... o pmpniei tell- nome oi-SwaimvRoot. a ! about it, including many of the s.ir.-is oi testimonial letters receivec suffcreis cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer 2.. Singhamton, N. Y., be sure anc ::cn this paper. make any mistake, hut re ivr the name, Swamp Root, Dr- . i' - w;inii Koot, and the add res N. Y., on every bottle. It-UN ri. cox, ':. i"Ki: YTIIINCi IX PHOTOGRAPHY, Work Guaranteed. Street, Scotland Neck. L. !. MILLS Land Surveyor Scotland Neck, X. C. 5-1-1-tf . s;. J. P. WHIDERLEY, PnvsieiAN and Surgeon, Scotland Neck, N. C. Office on Depot Street. IV- I. C. LIVERMON, DENTIST. t ()i'K'c I stairs in White :'':l2rC head Building. (uVco hours from 9 to 1 o'clock and 2 to 5 o'clock. y W. MSXON, Refracting Optician, W-uch Maker, Jeweler, En graver, Scotland Neck, N. C. J McBRYDE WEBB, Attorney and Counselor at Law, 2.'f-221 Atlantic Trust Building Norfolk, Va. N-nry iuhiic Bell Phone 7G0 EDWARD L TRAVIS, Attoiixey and Counselor at Law, Halifax, N. C. M' tK-y Loaned on Farm Lands WILL If. JOSEY, 0; y)-T7AL Insurance Agent, Gotland Neck, N. C. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM rlA4tTca and tit i ": thl hat. i '- -'.-. "lVJc 4l'roiiK-tta ft luxuriant fcrowth. ' vlfH Nft?? r Tails to Besto'r Oray; a .' fcclp tliiiifcca & hair falling ' am PrePare to serve I my old customers and the public generally with the very Lest of fresh Beef, Pork, Sausage, &c. All orders filled promptly, and every customer's wants regarded. J. B. HILL, am St., next to Prince's Stables. l--2ra suLLthe cough and CURE the LUNGS facing's m Discovorv foe cLJg8 , liAT AND LUNG TROUBLES. fiew Market. with y Hi mHI5ed SATISFACTOBYl THE EDITOR'S OBSESVATIONS Of5 WOOOOOOOOXK There is much to be commended in the present enthusiasm lul CUULdUunai development in Declamations-The RIiir Rark the South' but some who revert to thinss time fear that in some respects the schools of our time are neg lecting certain training which was held necessary by our prede cessors in school work as highly important in the proper devel opment of every school boy. time declamation and the study former times patrons of the "old ed to the ardent declamation by therefrom received a faith in the pressed to him lifted a horizon view from no other source. This faith conceived for the boy's future, and expressed for him, to high and noble attainments men who rose from obscurity by linked with the hope that grew effort at simple declamation. goes, the primary and higher schools of the present have dis ua,uu Lionum ui udvmg stored and let every book bag be ster's Blue Back Speller, and and the "Blue Back" well learned will again be a stimulous to the development of great powers which otherwise might re main latent. Another great battle of ballots has been fought by the Amer ican people. The result of this jority of Mr. Taft What New? pointments are as far-reaching party was intense, those disappointments should not lie in the way of the progress and material prosperity of the country. The great Southern section of this Union voted solidly for Mr. Bryan, and now that the election is over the people in the South doubtless will wisely forget any and all difference which would hinder the rightful development of the wonderful resources of this great section of country. The "Wilmington Star in a timely and sensible editorial discusses the situation, saying that the South should do two things: Lay aside all political differences and unite all energies in the one purpose to make the South even a greatefsection than it already is. Discussing this fea ture of the duty of the Southern people the Star says: "The other thing for the people of the South to do is, now that the several months' excitement of a political campaign has come to an end, for all to turn their attention to what our section so much needs united action and activity in industrial and com mercial development of our section. They should turn from politics to business, and in this, political lines should be wiped out. They are all Southerners Democrats and Republicans and they all want to see the South prosper and progress. This can be brought about only by united action. Then let our peo ple put aside politics and turn to the development of our section. They can do this and yet not yield one iota in their allegiance to their party when the time comes to divide on political ques tions, but don't let them divide on matters which concern the material interests of all just because they are divided on politi cal questions." Election day is always a stopping time for intemperate po litical enthusiasm. Whether wisely or unwisely, with reason or without reason, men get into a sort of Will The Farmers Do It ? . double.quick in the political race in which they are personally interested or indirectly interested for others; and they lose sight of many things upon which depend the highest and best interests. It is sometimes said that law yers run politics and that others follow their lead, but as a mat ter of fact many farmers become as much interested and devote as much time to the political issues at hand as any other class of people. Perhaps the campaign which has just closed, elicit ed the interest of the farmers as much as any campaign since the Civil War. Because of this fact the farmers have to a great degree lost sight of the vast importance of maintaining and holding in tact their great and useful organization, the South ern Cotton Association. Except in agricultural journals, for thp past few weeks, the press of the country has had little to say about tbe importance of united purposes amongst the farm ers to maintain good prices for cotton and to raise the price if possible, to a figure which will justify them in making cotton the chief money product of their farms. ow that the election is over, excitement somewhat forgotten, will the farmers come to themselves, turn to their own, and once more unite their efforts and energies for perfecting such organization as wil secure for them the returns for their cotton crop to which the, ireTustly entitled? From its organization in 1905 -The Com nwealth has believed in the Southern Cotton Association In these columns time and again we have endeavored to set In these com organization and the profits to the bou the believe have been realized in oo V effect and influence of 8 "nce oseIhe Advantage which wfflnotnoir,brlonebut will make strenu- !" ettectiye- wm they do it ? LEISURE HOURS. PASSING EVENTS. HHXXH0O00XO0OOO)K 0000000000000-00 North Carolina and throughout and customs and systems of a former We refer particularly to the old of the "blue back" speller. In field school" frequently listen the awkward country boy and boy's future which, when ex which could have come into his has often been the guiding star for our country's distinguished dint of their own perseverance out of a faith inspired by their So far as our own observation uuvb 10 ueciaim. jjet it De re supplied with a copy of Web the declamations well practiced contest is expressed in the ma the votes which were cast for for President; and while disap as the zeal of the Democratic TOO MANY OPPORTUNITIES? Tlie Country Boy Is Greatly Favored In Surroundings. RIGHT THINKING BRINGS SUCCESS. (Success Magazine.) It takes a strong purpose and a great deal of determination to resist the thousand-and-one distractions in city life and concentrate one's mind upon self-improvement. There is such a thing as having too many opportunities, too many facil ities. As a rule, boys who are born and brought up in th midst of li braries, books, and schools, become indifferent to the value of these op portunities; while in the country, where books are rare and opportun ities for education limited, the am bitious boy is more anxious to make the most of his time, to seize every opportunity for self-culture with avidity, to redeem himself from mediocrity. One of the greatest dangers of city life is that of becomir.g surperficial. Where there are so many editions of the daily papers every day, we get in the habit of "skimming," which is very dangerous; we just glance at a paper for a few minutes and throw it aside just look at the headings and a few lines of the most impor tant paragraphs, then lay the paper away, lhis desultory habit is suicid al to all deep and lasting culture. After we acquire this habit, it is al most impossible to get rid of it. No great and lasting success can be attained until one has formed a habit of continuous, persistent think- ng alont; fundamental lines. A lit tle dipping into this and that, a few minutes reading with very little thinking, or contemplation, or re viewing of what we read, will result in a most shallow life. Easy access to many books has been i a stumbling-block in many fk career. t is natural for us to depreciate what is common, and easy to obtain. erhaps, if Lincoln had been reared in a large city, in the midst of great libraries and schools, he might not have been so well educated as he was. He did not mind walking through the forest many miles to borrow a coveted book, and he considered it the greatest luxury imaginable to have an opportunity of devouringits precious pages, lying on the floor of the log cabin before the old fireplace, for candles and lamps were luxuries in which the Lincolns could not in dulge. He would sit up nearly all night poring over the precious con tents of a book as if he never expect ed to see another. Half a dozen books constituted his whole library, but these he knew thoroughly. He did not skim them over, he devoured them; he read them over and over again until he could almost repeat them by heart. Many of the great gaints in American history never had access to libraries in their youth, but what few books they could get hold of, they almost learned by heart. In cities, books, pictures, schools, and works of art are so plentiful, a youth is likely to become so familiar with them that he does-Jiot half ap preciate their value. A few good books read and digested and re-read would do more toward forming a solid foundation for a successful life than thousands of books skimmed over. Many young people of to-day can not recite the name3 even of the books which they read six months ago, any more than they can recite the articles which they merely scan ned in the daily paper. This habit of skimming over books and papers is not only fatal to all genuine culture, but it helps to form superficial habits generally. The mind become demoralized when you do things in a passive way; for there is nothing which will tend to keep it from grasping and seizing hold of ideas, more than the habit of crowd ing upon it pictures, half -pictures, in such quick succession that no last ing impression is possible. We read the dailies without the slightest ef fort to remember or to retain what we read. The mind is not active, it is not held accountable for every thing which comes to it, but it is al lowed just to glace at scores of items within a few minutes, without feel ing held persistently to any one thought. Great readers and great thinkers try to keep out of the city as much as possible. They long for the quiet hours of the country, where they can think and read without distrac tion or interruption. Of course there are hundreds and thousands of people with a persistent and determined purpose sufficient to enable them to read and study sys tematically in the midst of the most distracting and demoralizing sur roundings of city life; but, on the other hand, we shall find that a large part of the great thinking of the world is done in the country, or at least in the suburbs of cities. Baying a Paper. (Arthur T. Hadley. LL. D. in Youth's Companion.) It is, unfortunately, the case that the newspapers are chiefly run for the benefit of the latter class. A man of this sort buys a newspaper that tells him things that he likes; he refuses to buy a nevrepaper which tells him things that he does not ike, even though they may be true. But it is not possible for a country to be well-governed unless the peo ple who do the reading are in the habit of weighing evidence. If they shut their eyes to all facts except those that they like, the government will be at the mercy of passion and prejudice. If every boy can understand that it is a political duty to give to the public business of the country the same kind of treatment that a suc cessful man cives his nrivat" busi ness, and to adapt his conduct iu the facts instead of trying to adapt the facts to his conduct, our public busi ness will quickly be brought up to the same level as our best private business. And there is no way in which this can be done so surely as by beginning at the bottom and read ing newspapers in that spirit. We may apply this spirit not only to the news columns, but to the edi torial. The boy who wants to have the country well governed should' demand of the editor that he give him more logic and less rhetoric than he does at present. What passes as a well-written editorial to-day is us ually one which is so constructed as to excite the feelings of the reader. This is rhetoric. The result of rhe toric is that a man gets into such a mental state that he is ready to act without knowing fully what he is do ing. There is another type of editorial which does not arouse the reader's feelings so much or give such pleas ure and assurance of what he ought to do, but which enables him to find out what the facts really mean. This is logic. The man who is gov erned by logic will not hit nearly so many blows as the man who is gov erned by rhetoric; but those which he does hit will tell. Rhetoric produces a vast exercise of power with very little result. Logic is what really gets things done in the way the people intend. The boy or man who is governed by rhe toric becomes the tool of somebody else. The boy or man who is gov erned by logic is a force to be reck oned with on his account, A nation composed of such men is irresistible. Which of these things are the boys of to-day getting ready to demand from the newspapers of to-morrow? Upon the answer to this question the future of America very largely de pends. vIf we answer it wrongly, we shall be at the mercy of circum stances. If we answer it righly, we shall be able to control them. DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Tills are unequaled in cases of weak back, backache, inflammation of the bladder, rheumatic pains, and all urinary dis orders. Thev are antiseptic and act promptly. Don't delay, for delays are dangerous. Get DeAVitt's Kidney and Bld derTills. Sold by E. T. White hS4d & Co. VENTRILOQUISM AMONG BIRDS. Some Observations of the Accomplish ments of Animals. THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS INHERENT. (November St Nicholas.) There are many accomplishments which the lower animals seem to pos sess inherently, but which man can only gain through great application. It would take a long time for a boy to learn to make the sort of snare that a spider spins instinctive ly, and a colony of beavers can build a better dam than can a crowd of untrained men. One of the human accomplishments hard to learn is ventriloquism. It seems to be a gift which conies to' but few of the human species; yet among birds there are species every individual of which possess the pow er of making the voice seem to come from another -pot than that in which the owner is located. There seems to be little reason for this in most cases, but still there must be some, for nature is very economical in bestowing her gifts, and one may be sure that the pos session of the power argues its use fulness. The first example of ven triloquism which will occur to most people is the voice of the mourning dove. I suppose that every boy has been fooled by this bird. I know that I was, and was delighted when I discovered, after walking around a tree in the orchard, that the voice did not come from far away but close at hand. When the mourning dove utters his call he swells up air-sacs in his breast and neck, and these act a sort of sounding chamber, which lends to hold and repress the sound, as a sound is made in a barrell. The emu '-. ihe san-e .j;ality in vke. It is as though these birds swallow their voices. The crow has some notes which are very ventriloquial in quality. One note in particular is much like the bark of a distant dog, so much so, in fact, that I had trouble in con vincing my friend thnt it was the voice of a crow about three hundred feet away and not that of a distant dog. The chickadee has a call-note of such quality that its source is al ways uncertain until the bird is lo cated. The oven bird's "teacher! teach er" always seems to come from sev eral feet higher than where the bird is actually standing. The thrushes, at least the wood thrush and the robin, have a pecul iar habit of singing to themselves, as it were. Often, as I have ben sitting in the woods, a wood thrush has been singing, say, thirty feet away, which I supposed was at least 200 yards away until I discovered the bird. The whispered song is perfect so far as phrasine and notes are concerned, but in a very low key. I have heard a European thrush sing in the cage of the zoo when the notes could not be heard farther than fifteen feet. With my ear within three feet the song was as perfect and beautiful as in the ordinary way. Why these birds sing so, I have no idea. The peculiar wattles on the neck of a guinea fowl had no significance to me until one day when I was mak ing a careful drawing of a wild guinea fowl. The wild guinea cock has wattles as the domestic one, only exaggerated. I noticed that when the cock's beak wa3 toward me his harsh call was louder. Then I notic ed that when his beak was open the lower mandible, being lowered, al most filled the space between the two side wattles, thus making a cup, and that the notes were thrown by a sort of megaphone, or just as a boy throws hi3 voice by making a cup of his hands. Torturing eczema spreads its burn ing area every day. Doan's Ointment quickly stops it3 sreading, instantly re lieves the itching, cures it permanently. At any drug store. The Leaves. (Py Marion Couthouy Smith.) In the smoky, sultry haze, In the mild mid-autumn weather. The leaves are gathering, circling, dancing, dropping down together. They fall with a subtle sound, With a dry, soft, fairy clamor; They flash like (lake.1 of yellow light in the veiled sun's dreamy glamour. They drop around my feet, They run and whirl and ilutter; Everywhere is their ghostly flight, and the sighing song they utter. Their song is as old as Time, Old as the dream of dying; It bears the moan of death-struck Life, and the call of Hope replying. And the flame of their golden hue Is lit with the old-time fire That shines on the somber brows of Death, drawing the soul's desire. This is the fall, the sigh Sad as the grave, yet tender, Telling of life that is whirled along in helpless, strange surrender. This is the flight, the song, This is the autumn's story, The frost, and the fiame, and the flickering hope, that points to an unknown glory. Her Onn Way. I5y Anna Burnhnrn Bryant.) When Tolly goes into the parlor to play, She never minds what the little notes say, Nor peeps at a music-book. "I play by ear," says the little dear (When some of us think the music's queer), So why should I need to look?" When Tolly goes into the kitchen to cook, She nver looks at a cookerv-book Svr ix sign of a rec -ipe; It's a dot of this and a dab of that. And a twirl of the wrist and a pinch and a pat I cook by hand," says she. Hold Your Tobacco. IWil-on Timc.l We approached a prominent to bacconist this morning who is in a position to know and informed him that we had heard that the large to bacco buyers had found it difficult to handle this crop of tobacco be cause of the rapidity with which it had been marketed. He replied that this was true and that instead of selling what the buyers had expected would most likely be sold by January 1, had already come on the market. To use the words of the gentle man, "We have handled in ninety days four million pounds of tobacco, and I don't hardly see how we done it. It has taxed our capacity to the utmost." We believe it would be a good idea for the farmers, in view of the above to sell less freely, in order to give the buyers a chance to get straight. The heavy weight of receipts is sufficient to bring about a bearish feeling, and this feeling should not be accentuated by the pressure of tobacco to sell on the part of the farmers, who have learned thi3 les son by the way in which they slowly marketed their cotton a few years ago, thus enabling the trade to slow ly assimilate it. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup not only heals irritation and allays in flammation, thereby stopping the foiu'li, but it moves the bowels gently and in that way drives the fold from the system. Contains no opiates. It is pleasant to take, and children esjx ci ally like tbe taste, so nearly like maplo sugar. Sold by K. T. Whitehead & Co. "As long as the South remains sol id the Democrats can never win," is . all rot. As long as money talks there is no chance. Greensboro Record. 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