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3! Good Advertising Commonwea: Si Good Advertisers Li to Pusinf' what Steam is to Mu huiery. that groat propelling s -. Toe ;; gives results. Use these columns for results. An advertisement in this paper ,0 will reach a good class of people. "Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. VOL. XXV. New Series Vol. U.-6-1S SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1909. NUMBER 23. if : 'ao iltd Ciit. I' ili a pottle or common glass with j-our i. ttr and let it stand twenty-fonr hours; a lu-icii dust set! l- ilthv condi- qaent desire tc " - pass it or pain in f - ; back arc alro symptoms that tell von kidneys and bladder are out of order and need attention. IVia'c To Bo. 1 licre is comfort in th knowledge so ; !'ti.n expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's ;' y:nnp-Koot. the threat kidney rcmcdv, i -dulls almost every visit in correcting :: .tumatii-.iu, pain h the back, kidneys! 1 vcr, bladder and every part of the urinary -nsage. 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McBRYDE mm, Attorney axd Cotjxsel,oi at Law, 210-221 Atlantic Trust Building Norfolk, Va. Notary Public. Pell Phono 7f; rDWMD L. TRAVIS, ATTORNEY AXL CoUXSELOIl AT Law, Halifax, N. C. Money Loaned on Farm Lands WiLL H. J05EY, i 3 (iKXEPATi INSUKAXCE AiEXT. Scotland Neck, N. C. ?!A1R 'SALSAM ; i f. r!J--:--'10'i'-r.''s fci'.d hcautinca t!:.- ht:r. ) C'r,.tVu:u-:v laifuiniit Fr;. '-' -V7 - NfcTT Fails to Heirtcrc ttrayj ; : ;-vH$ Jfi-' to its ypulhf-.:l Co:or. J . .-; .- ':: liis-a. & iijiv'b- f . ' f-Mff.f.n.i . I ln:ry.v J v a e 3 w 5 " Undertakers' Supplies. Full and Complete Line. Coffins and Caskets Burial Robes, Etc. Hearse Service any Time N. B. Josey Company, S.-o;.il!(i Neck, North Carolina J d .. i i s 3- rt 'fe1 M I VW UT7 nu'-U' I.M. ii ill ' 1 "Tj 1 mMM$ rI Economy Against Stinginess. Everybody ought to be taught the value of a dollar. The bane of the present day is extravagance. Peo ple who owe their grocers for the food they have consumed sometimes ride in automobiles. Young men who ought to be placing their sur plus earnings in the bank, spend all ; they make for livery rigs and fancy ! clothes. A habit of careful economv is one of the best lessons a youth can nossibly learn. But while all this is true there is danger in the other ex treme. Economy is one thing, stin giness is another and a very differ ent thing. We doubt whether Ben. Franklin's philosophy has done the world more good than harm, and we are quite sure Mr. Rockefeller's i Sunday-school talks on saving are ! neither inspiring or very helpful. Nobody ought to hoard his money j for the fake pf getting rich. If he I does, he is sure to develop into a miser. He ought not to spend his money foolishly because it is wrong to do so, and he certainly ought not to create obligations that he cannot meet, for that is downright dishon esty. But we all know how worth less an old skinflint is to the commu nity who has spent his life hoarding his gold merely to gratify the greedy pleasure of having it. We all ad mire the man who is willing to put his money in public enterprises for the development of his town and sec tion. Nobody has a word of praise for the hard and selfish and saving miser who refuses to invest a dollar that v.iil bring a return to a soul outside himself. We have this class of characters in the church some times. The greatest attraction hea ven holds out for such men must be that everything is free up there. They allow brethren much less able than themselves to bear the burdens of the church while they enjoy its privileges and think they are getting only their just dues. As between the two the profligate spendthrift is the more admirable. This is a point in the training of a boy that greatly puzzles the average parent. Exactly where to draw the line between economy and stinginess is difficult to decide; but of the two evils to which we are exposed, ex travagance or stinginess, the former is the lesser. Charity and Children. TLe Beauty cf Old Age. There is an old age that is not beautiful. It is found in the man or woman who has spent life in no gocd purpose, and as they reach the sun set there is no halo to envelop it, and no brilliancy to mark its departure. On the contrary, it is penury, broken health, sour disposition, fault find ing, and complaint. An old age of this sort is deplorable, yet we find it now and then as we journey to and fro in the world. But bright, happy and cheerful oid age is a blessing to the world. It comes as the result of having spent life to a good purpose; and out of it there is a consciousness of having made the world better as you have passed through it. With it there is no useless murmuring, no repining, no complaints of neglect. Neither docs this sort of old age linger amid the scenes of other days merely to recount unpleasant experiences, or to magnify the times of early life as the better times as compared with the present. Happy and pleasing old age still looks to the future, feels a keen interest in what is now trans piring and contributes something to the weal of the passing day. Peo ple, young and middle-aged, love to fall into the company of such an aged man or woman, and they are made welcome to all circles of life. Their smiles brighten, and their snatches of conversation enliven the experiences of to-day. To look into their faces, to hear the sound of their voices, and to sit under the apeil of their presence is an inspira tion. They have grown old grace fully, and as they approach the end there are no clouds in their sky, and no shadows over their pathway, and no mists arc hanging round their evening horizon. And old age like this is a benediction to mankind, and it extracts from the vision of three ! score years and ten tbe forebodings that otherwise gather around them through decrepitude and infirmity. May heaven's sunlight fall with re newed luster upon the declining days of the aged I Selected. H You i anTa i Trifle Sensitive about the ize of your fhocs, it's some satisfaction to know that many people can wear shoes a size smaller by sprink ling Allen's Fcot-Easc into them. Just the thing for Patent Leather Shoes, and for breaking new shoes. Sold everywhere, 25 cents. MATTERS OF GENERAL INTEREST. What is Transpiring in North Carolina and Other States. The Florida House of Representa tives has passed a bank guaranty bill very much similar to the Okla homa bank law. The Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposi tion is on. President Taft in the White House last week touched the button that put in motion the expo sition wheels. The exposition cost $10,000,000, and was built in two years. It was financed by the Northwest. It is understood that the town of Littleton is soon to have a system of electric lights. It is also rumored that there will be an ice plant in connection with the lighting appa ratus. The Sterling Manufacturing Company, of Littleton will enlarge its present equipment, and furnish all the necessary power. The agricultural monthly, Modern Inarming, a paper that was published in Richmond, has been consolidated with the Progressive Farmer, a weekly paper published in Raleigh, and hereafter in conjunction with the Progressive Farmer will be pub lished weekly. The new paper will be known as the "Progressive Farm er and Modern Farming." The city of Asheville has planned for a splendid and excellent scheme of municipal advertising. From twenty-five hundred to ten thousand dollars is spent every year in order the atural ana other ad vantage .heville may be made known, ,nus attract people to its borders and cause the city to push rapidly forward. On the 17th of June the conven tion of the Cotton Manufacturers' Association of the State of North Carolina will be held in Charlotte. Thus far fourteen conventions of various kinds have met in Charlotte since the first of January. On the Fourth of July the annual conven tion of the Rural Letter Carriers of the State will meet there. The silver service which the peo ple of the State of Mississippi pur chased through popular subscrip tion, has been presented to the bat tleship Mississippi. The presenta tion was not made on board the bat tleship as was intended, but on ac count of the fast-running seas was made at Pascagoula, Miss. The image of Jefferson Davis was en graved on the service. Messrs. George W. Norwood, Jr., of Goldsboro, and George Gunter, of Raleigh, constitute a special com mittee from the board of directors of the State prison to install the electric chair in the prison for the electrocution of all prisoners here after sentenced to death in North Carolina under the act passed by the last legislature. In the event of a death sentence being imposed any where in the State, Superintendent Laughinghouse says, the committee is in a position to hurry up the in stallation of the chair. The one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Jefferson Davis was ap propriately observed last Thursday, June 3rd, throughout the Southern States generally. Jefferson Davis is rapidly coming into his own. Both North and South are coming to know him as he was honest and good, great and grand and pure.with cour age to stand by the right as he saw the right, whatever the costs. He never sacrificed principle for any thing; he sacrificed many things for principle. It will not be long before posterity will give him that place in history he so justly deserves. Governor Kitchin, in response to a request made to him, has furnished his picture to be placed in an excur sion steamer that runs out from Chicago, and has sent as a piece of wood to be used in a United States map to be placed on the ship a section of curly poplar. The steamship is the "United States." The pictures of the Governors of all the States will be framed and placed in the cabin. The United States map, made of wood, will also occupy the cabin. Governors of the several States are sending pieces of wood with which their States will be represented on the map. A picture of the map will be sent to the Governor. Cheapest accident insurance Dr. Thomas' Eclectic Oil. Stops the pain and heals the wound. All druggists sell it- In Meiaoriaai. Young as the youngest who donned the gray, True as the truest that wore it Brave as the bravest-die marched away, (Hot tears on the cheeks of his moth er lay) Triumphant waved our flag one day, He fell in the front before it. Firm as the firmest where duty led, He hurried without a falter; Bold as the boldest he fought and bled, And the day was won but the field was red, And the blood of his fresh young heart was shed On his country's hallowed altar. On the trambled breast of the battle plain Where the foremost ranks had wrestled, On his face not a mark of pain (His mother dreams they will meet again) Like a child asleep he nestled. In the solemn shades of the wood that sw-ept The field where his comrades found him, They buried him there, and the big tears crept Into strong men's eyes that had sel dom wept, (His mother God pity her - smiled and slept, Dreaming her arms were around him.) A grave in the woods with the grass o'ergrown, A grave in the heart of his mother His clay in the one lies lifeless and lone, There is not a name there is only a stone And only the voice of the wind maketh moan O'er the grave where never a flower is strewn, But his memory lives in the other. - Father Ryan. A Trusted Word. There were half a dozen drummers on the train, and they were talking about another drummer who travel ed in the same territory with them selves. One of them said: "He is straight. He's a Christian. Whatever he tells you about an article you may know is just so. He can go all over his territory without a single sample, and sell goods to every man he calls on. His word makes samples unnec essary." All the others said, "That's so," "I know it." And this was said of their successful competitor. They felt no jealousy, they admired him this Christian salesman, whose words made samples unnecessary. A man offered to lend another $500. "What security do you want?" asked the latter. "I do not want any. Your per sonal note is enough." The man back of the word, back of the name, stood for honesty and good faith. No additional backing was desired. A farmer met a man of another neighborhood and said to him: "I have an extra span of mules this season. They are five years old, are gentle, will work in single or double harness, and are without a blemish. I want $300 for them, and they are well worth it. Come over some day soon and look at them." "No, I don't care to see them. I have to buy a span and I'll take them. Bring them to town next Monday and I'll give you a check for them. Just consider them sold." That is an ideal way to do busi ness. And there is a good deal of it in the great business world. A trusted word is much easier to carry than a sample case. So do business that after awhile you can leave your sample case at home. Aim to become a sampleless salesman. Exchange. From ins Senate Archives. While Daniel Webster was once addressing the senate on the subject of internal improvements, and every Senator was listening with close at tention, the Senate clock commenced striking, but instead of striking twice at 2 P. M., continued to strike without cessation more than forty times. All eyes were turned to the clock, and Mr. Webster remained silent until the clock struck about twenty, when he thus appealed to the chair:!" Mr. President, the clock is out of order! I have the floor." Judge. Soothes itching skin. Heals cuts or burns without a scar. Cures piles, eczema, salt rheum, any itching Doan's Ointment. Your druggist sells it. and Trust Made Great. Many The one way in which you may best help a person is to show that you believe in him. The great Edi son says, "If it had not been for my mother's absolute, cheerful faith in me at a critical time in my exper ience,! should very likely never have become an inventor. I was always a careless boy and with a mother of different caliber I should probably have turned out badly. I never was able to get along at school. I don't know now what it was, but I was al ways at the foot of the class. I used to feel that the teachers never sym pathized with me and that my father thought that I was stupid, and at last I almost decided that I was a dunce. One day I overheard the teacher tell the inspector that I was stupid, and it would not be worth while keeping me in school any long er. I was so hurt by this last straw that I burst out crying and went home and told my mother about it. Then I found out what a good moth er was. She brought me back to school and angrily told the teacher that he didn't know what he was talking about, that I had more brains than he had and a lot more talk like that. In fact she was the most en thusiastic champion a boy ever had, and I determined then and there that I would be worthy of her and show her that her confidence was not misplaced." The testimony of great men from Pericles down, seems to be along this same line. "To save thee to me means to save me to my art," wrote the famous author of the Tristan to the lady of his heart, who always be lieved in him. Wordsworth's definition of faith as "passionate intuition, "well befits, too, the story of the wives and sweethearts who discern the great things their heroes are to do in the world, and by their loving faith hold them to it. "Thou art the only per son in the world necessary to me," wrote that reserved and solitary Hawthorne'to his wife, the while he declared us all shadows till the heart is touched, and the story of the wife who sent him forth to write the matchless romances that electrified the land when his government posi tion failed, confirms the truth of it. It is idle to look for special cares in so trite a claim as virtue in woman's faith where man's achieve ments are concerned, for the story is at every fireside where pure love resgns. The days of old when knights were bold for the fair lady of their allegiance may have passed away; but, to redeem the high faith reposed in'him by the woman of his heart is as much a part of the true man's na ture now as ever, even though he may not storm castles nor lead cru sades in the path of it. To believe all things and hope all things for that divine spark within the human breast, is a part of both love and religion, however, which more than the home should glorify. To trust the good and appeal to the divine in every man is the law of life and salvation laid down by every great sage or sacred teacher in hu man history. Fx. The President's Cost. According to figures given out in Washington, the cost of maintaining the President during the fiscal year amounts to $220,430, including his present salary. The various items included in the budget are as fol lows : President's salary $ 50,000 Clerk hire 69,920 Contingent fund 25,000 President's traveling expen ses 25,000 Maintenance White House, horses, vehicles, etc 35,000 White House grounds 4,000 Fuel 6,000 Care of green-houses 9,000 Repair of green-houses 3,000 Printing 2,000 Lighting the White House grounds 510 Total $229,430 The largest item mentioned, $69, 920 for clerk hire, includes not only the salaries of Secretary Loeb and two assistants, but those of about a score of clerks, stenographers, mes sengers, some of whom are telegraph operators, others of whom attend to telephones connecting the executive offices with the various government al departments. Selected. To relieve constipation, clean out the bowels, tone and strengthen the digestive organs, put them in a natur al condition with Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea, the most reliable tonic for thirty years. 35c, Tea or Tablet. E. T. Whitehead Company. Confidence 9 Won Womcia Women, worn and tired from overwork, need a tonic. That feeling of weakness or helplessness will not leave you of itself. You should take Wine of Cardui, that effectual remedy for the ailments and weaknesses of women. Thousands of women have tried Cardui and write enthusiastically of the great benefit it has been to them. Try it don't experiment use this reliable, oft-tried medicine. TAKE to The Woman's Tonic Mrs. Rcna LTare, of Pierce, Fla., tried Cardui and nftenrard wrote: "I was a sufferer from all sorts of female trouble, had pain in my side and legs, could not shrp, had shortness of breath. "I suffered for years, until my husband insisted on my trying Cardui. The first bottle cave me relief and now I am almost well." Try Cardui. 'Twill help you. KT3 AT ALL DRUG STORES Paragraphs of Wisdom. No one ever heard of the time when the best fruit would not sell at a fair price somewhere within a day's drive of the grower. The primary object of cultivating crops is to keep the soil in good con dition.but if it were not for the weeds a lot of farmers would neglect this important work. Sometimes our blessings come in disguise. The sunrise farmer will scarcely know hard times if they come, say, ten years hence; but the never-get-busy-till-afternoon chap wiii be ca lamity howling about every day. Keeping a cow because she is pret ty may be all right as far as it goes, but is not good business. Farmers are the only producers who allow the buyer to fix the price oj. Lheir property. But they are ra pidly changing this state of affairs by organization. An old mower run up and down ti e sides of the public road around th-3 farm will get away with the weeds. Not your business? Perhaps not, strictly; but the satisfaction of a clean highway will be yours. A dentist said recently that if teeth were cared for just as they ought to be he and every other dentist would h ive to go out of business. That is worth thinking about. It tries a man's eyes and his hon esty as well to see all the worm holes when packing his own apples. The Farmer and Mechanic, The ideal Woman. The ideal woman must discard all shoes the size of which makes walk ing well nigh impossible. She must not consider her hands when it comes to a question of work. She must take exercise and let paint and powder go if she desires red cheeks. She must not be the servant of the milli ner and dress maker. She must not change the styles at the dictation of men in Paris. Her home must be her palace, and she must be industri ous, sympathetic, enthusiastic.moth- erly and a true friend. Woman's idea of modern industry is playing bridge whist morning and night. Her idea of modern life is to be supported by some one else. The ideal woman does not consid er work unwomanly. She believes that whatever concerns her husband concerns her. If the ideal woman's family finds fault with her cooking she does not blame the cooking, she blames the food and changes it. Woman was meant to be man's companion, and if the idea were nroperly carried out there would be no affinities. Rev. Lyman Abbott, of New York. The Mad Coj Law. "If the owner of any dog shall know.or have good reason to believe, that his dog or any dog, belonging to any person under his control, has been bitten by a mad dog, and shall neglect or refuse immediately to kill the same, he shall forfeit the sum of $30 to him who will sue therefor;and the offender shall be liable to pay all damages which may be sustained by any one, in his property or person, by the bite of any such dog and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and fin ed not more than fifty dollars or im prisoned not more than thirty days." Feci languid, weak, run-down? Headache? Stomach "off"? Just a plain case of lazy liver. Burdock IJlood Bitters tones liver and stomach, pro motes digestion, purines the blood. HP J 33 Nn Isa Trying. An old darkey wanted to join a fashionable cily church, and the minister, knowing it was hardly the thing to do and not wanting to hurt his feelings, told him to go home and pray over it. In a few days the darky came back. "Well, what do you think of it by this time?" asked the preacher. "Well sah," replied the colored man, "Ah prayed an' prayed, an' de good Lord he says to me.'Rastus, Ah wouldn't bodder mah haid about dat no mo'. Ah've been tryin' to git into dat chu'eh mahse'f for do las' twenty yeahs, and Ah ain't done had no luck. "Christian Register. We do not know of any other pill that :- good an DeWitt's Little Jvir ly Kiscrs, the famous little liver pill.- small, gentle, pleasant and sure pills with a icputation. Sold by E. T. Whitehead Coinpnnv. Maud -Don't you think they are well matched? Mary Rather; he's a vegetarian and she's a grass widow. Pick-Mc-Up. Mothers, linvc ymi tried I lollister's. llocky .Mountain Tea? It's n gre.it Messing to the little ones, keeps away summer trnuMrs. Makes them idi--p md grow. .'I-V., Tea or Tablets. 11. T. Whitehead Company. "What does your husband like f-r his breakfast?" "Anything I haven't got in the house." Cleveland Lead er. "I sndi red habitually from consti pation. Doan's I.'egulet's relieved and strengthened the bowels, so that they have been regnlar ever since." A. II. Davis, grocer, Sulphur Springs, Tcxa-. Stella Will your graduation the sis be long? Bella -Long enough. but I can hardly walk in it. New York Sun. There are many imitations of De Witt's Caiholized Witch Hazel Salv. De Witt's is th" original. I5e sure you get DeWitt's Carbolizcd Witch Haze l Salve when you ask for it. It is good for cuts, burns and bruise-., and is especially good for Piles. Sold by E. P. Whitehead Company. "Put me off at Twenty-third street conductor." "I'd much rather you get quietly off yourself." Trouble Makers Ousted. When a sufferer from stomach trouble; takes Dr. Kings New Life Tills he's mighty glad to see his dysp-psia and indigestion lly, but more h'-'. tickled over hi- new. line apjtite, strong nerves, healthy vigor, all lo calise stomach, liver and kidneys nmv work right. 2oc. at K. T. Whiteln.nl Company'1. He How i. it you arc always out when I call you? She -Just luck. Life. Women who are Envied. Those attractive women who a r? lovely hi face, form and tenqx r aroll.o envy of many, who might I like them. A weak, sickly woman will 1' norvoes and irritable. Constipation or kidi y poison- show in pimples, blotch's, enq tioi.s and a wretched complexion. For all such, Electric Titters work wonders. They regulate stoma.-!-, liver and kidneys, purify the Mood; give strong nerves, bright eyes, pure breath, sm.th, velvety skin, lovely complexion. Many charming women owe their health ami beauty to them. oOc. at E. T. Wldttlaad Company'-. H ! J m 9 j VI 37 .r 1 4 1 i "1 V ' ; A 1l .J r if' I M i j 1 11-1 il "i i 4 i M f - 0- r.-i
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