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Good Advertising Commonw: Good Advertisers 1H ra to Busings what !Heam is to Machinery, that great propelling power. This paper gives results. Use these columns for results. An advertisement in this paper will reach a good class of people. IHLUAHD, editor and Proprietor. 'Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. VOL. XXV. New Series Vol. 11.-6-18 SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1909. NUMBER 26. EDAL. " 1 -i A T "TO -4 ! I Mi': 6". flic Cause of Many Sudden Deaths. nicvz is a cbsca: prevailing in this T'lry T'.ifv.t dangerous because so decen- I - 1 me reran of kid ney disease. If kidney trouble is - m a allowed to advance ' tnckidnev-noiscn- "xvo:oto-"?"- cd blood will at- -'i th vital organs, causing catarrh of M i 'der, brick-dust or .sediment in V urine, head ache, back ache, lame ':, dizziness, tleeplersness, nervous- . ; i- the kidneys themselves break .: waste away cell by cell. , ider trottblc altuort always result :i a derangement of the LIcIkcts and ,:ur health in that organ is obtained u:ckestb v a proper treatment of the kid i vs. 5wamp:GOt corrects inability to i.:duriuear.d scalding pain in passing it, "d overcomes that unpleasant necessity f Ik -nig compelled to'jo often through I'.- day. .i-id to gc t up many times during night. The mild and immediate effect i Swamp-Uoot, the great kidnev remedy realized. It stands the highest be-:u-sv.- -f its remrrkable health restoring '-v-t ties. A trial will convince anyone. :-w.:r, p-Root is pleasant to take and is M by all druggists in fifty-cent and ;, ! Il ir yi.e bottles. Yen mav have a - l"'ttle and a book that 'tells all ;t ' t, both sent free by mail. Address, Kilmer & Co., lUngliamtou, N. Y. writing mention reading this gen is offer iu this paper. Don't make mistake, but remember the name, ..mp-Root, and don't let a dealer sell .i something in place of Swamp-Root oa do you will be disappointed. )R. J. P. WiM3ERLEY, Physician and Surgeon, Scotland Neck, X. C. Ofliee on Depot Street. A. C. LIVERHGN, DENTIST. t-S. 'Tl ' opstiiirs in Whitc-'-XfYtt' hoal Building. Office hours from 0 to 1 o'clock and 2 to 5 o'clock. tfc&RYDE WEB5, tj A.TTOKNKY AND COUNSELOR AT Law, 21 "-22 1 Atlantic Trust Building Norfolk, Va. Notary Public. Bell Phone 700 f-DWARD L. TRAVIS, Attoknky and Coussklob at Law, Halifax, N. 0. Monev Loaned on Farm Lands ill. H. JOSEY, General Insurance Agent, Scotland Neck, N. 0. KCLLiSYEr 3 Kocky fountain Tea Nuggets A Bu3y Sledioiaa for Ba?y People. Ere?? Golden H?a!tL arid Eenwed Vigo. .a sn- ific f r Constipation, Inflipe-.tion. 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The nobility of character of Joan of Arc, her patri otism and loftiness of purpose, lone io ceased to be questions of contro versy. She was spiritually minded, -onscientious to the last degree in i.he discharge of her household luties, although engrossed with thoughts reaching far beyond the irele of her daily life. There was a tradition that France would be de livered from the calamities which had fallen upon the nation, because of the depravity of a woman, through the instrumentality of a chaste vir gin. Joan of Arc believed she was the divinely appointed instrument cor the deliverance of France. She spuplied to the French cause tre nendous energy and confidence. She iispired the French soldiers with en thusiasm ennobled by religion. Ab solutely fearless in battle, ever re fusing to acknowledge defeat, con vinced that success in any endeavor In life can be achieved by unflinch ing perseverence, under divine guid ance, Joan of Arc was a woman whom the world now recognizes as worthy of all honor, admiration and reverence. .It has been the usage almost from time immemorial to characterize wo men as members of the gentle sex. Joan of Arc had the quality of gentle ness to a notable degree. Her voice, it is said, was of great sweetness. She had the fine grace and dignity of manner and that simple sincerity of faith which shrinks from no or deal, however severe, to execute a lofty purpose. In everyday life women of the present generation display a fortitude, a consecration to noble service, a spirit of unselfish ness and self-sacrifice, equal in every way to the high and noble character istics of Joan of Arc. They endure suffering with an equanimity which puts most men to blush. They sub mit to disappointments with a resig nation that few men emulate, iho genue bt'A ib in many respects the braver sex, the more persever ing, the more resolute, the more helpful sex. It has been said, as the final estimate of Joan of Arc, that the greatness of her career did not consist so much in her military ach ievements as in her pure, true, un selfish character, her nobility of pur pose, her unswerving fidelity. Baltimore Sun. Beware ci the Croaker. May the saints have pity on a town or a city with a croaker in it! If it has two, three or a half a dozen croakers living in it, it is to be com miserated that much more. The croaker comes in two forms dead or alive. He has moss on the North sideofhim.no matter whether the winter be mild or severe. The moss indicates nothing especially, except that it should be removed from the community at once. The croaker always views his own town from a pessimistic point of view. He has no word of praise for any one or anything that tends to assist in the progress of the community. You tell a croaker that much is going to be done toward booming the town and exploiting its superior advant ages and he will say: "Well, you go a head advertise it; boom it. I'd like to see you do it," with a shrug of the shoulders. "You will never boom this town." The croaker is generally too lazy to.Jabor under an impression. He may have made some money in his life, but he does not live he only exists. If he is in business and is asked to advertise, he says his goods do not need adver tising, and besides he is located on a prominent corner and everybody sees his goods as they pass," for they rarely go in. The croaker never gives his neighbor or fellowman credit for anything he accomplishes. If you go to a local merchat and show him a plan or suggest to him anenterprize which if carried out would be of great benefit to all con cerned and ask his co-operation and he says, "Well, who is this? Go and see the other business men, and if they go into it I may do so, too." Look out for him. He may not be a croaker, but he has dangerous symptoms. He is vaccinated and t he pobabihties are that it will take unless something is done for him. He needs a hypedermic injection of "enterprise" "follow your leader" habit. He is the first to expect benefits that accrue from the united efforts, energy and enterprises of others, but is the last to lend a hand. The croaker is a pusillanimous insig nificant, inconsistent incumbrance Exchange. MATTERS OF GENERAL INTEREST. What Is Transpiring in North Carolina and Other States. Dr. Frank Brown, of the Univer sity of Chicago, will succeed Dr. Ed win Mims, in the Department of English, at Trinity College. A project is on foot to build a new cotton mill at Winston-Salem headed by J. W. Cannon, of Concord, $125, 000 to be the paid in capitol stock. Only 127 young doctors filled ap plication for examination for license to practice at a meeting of the State Board of Examiners the past week. The applicants ranged in age from 21-15, with two ladies among the number and 15 negro men and one negro woman. The big steam dredge for cleaning out and widening the canal of the Roanoke Navigation and Water Pow er Company has been launched. When ready for work it will require the services of five or six men to oper ate it. At the meeting of the North. Caro lina Teachers' Assembly at More head City the State's educators pledged themselves to build a cot tage at the Jackson Training School. This is a noble work they have un dertaken, and is only another mani festation of the interest our people take in those less fortunate than they, and the desire they have to help them. The next annual meeting of the International Association of Labor Bureaus will be held in Henderson ville. Hon. M. L. Shipman, Com missioner of labor and printing, who was one of the speakers at the meet ing of the Association in Rochester, N. Y. last week, extended the invi tation on behalf of the mayor and board of trade of Hendersonville.and Governor Kitchin for the State. The A. and M. College at Raleigh a pitjjatiiig to clecL a professor of Farm Extension work. This is a new office and much of the time of the professor who fills it will be devoted to visiting the farmers, arranging for farm schools of short periods in various sections of the State and as sisting the schools that have farms attached. The prof essors entire time, in short.will be given to aiding in all possible ways the cause of agricul tural education in the State. At the annual meeting of the North Carolina Press Association in Hen dersonville last week the following officers were elected: President Rev. J. O. Atkinson, Editor Chris tian Sun; First Vice-President M. L. Shipman, Editor Hendersonville Hustler; Second Vice-President J. R. Swan, Editor Madison Record; Third Vice-President W. K. Jacob son, Editor Washington Progress; Secretary and Treasurer J. B. Sher rill, Editor Concord Times; Historian Archibald Johnson, Editor Charity and Children; Oraror W. C. Ham mer, Editor Asheboro Courier; Poet D. L. St. Clair, Editor Sanford Express; Executive Committee H. A. London, W. C. Dowd, H. B. Varner, Josephus Daniels, D. T. Ed wards. The World Good Enough for a Woman? The discontented woman, or the one with a grievance against man, might incline her ear and listen pro fitably to Miss Nora Davis, a young woman of Alabama, who wrote the novel, "Wallace Rhodes," published recently by the Harpers. Miss Davis evidently believes that the women who have had actual experience single-handed with the world are the women who have not found it so un fair. "The days when a woman has to, as I had to," writes Miss Davis, "knock about, a frail soldier of for tune, living by her wits.are the days when she is achieving.without know ing it, all the rights that my eman cipated sex is striving for so elo quently. One's life is one's own; what more is there? The world is a good place if a woman knows how to take it. It treats her well enough, News-Leader. If you have pains in the back, weak back, or any other indication of weakened or disordered condition of the kidneys or bladder, you should get DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Tills right away when you experience the least sign of kidney or bladder com plaints, but be sore that you get De Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pills. We know what they will do for you, and if you will send your name to E. C. De Witt & Co., Chicago, you will receive a free trial box of these kidney and bladder pills. They are sold here by E. T. Whitehead Company. Make Best of Life. It is said that ambition has ruined many souls, but it is only the most indolent beings who can sit down and be content, when they have every opportunity of improving their condition. There is a chance for all if only they will see it and take it at the right time. All have heard of the crippled newsboy, who, from his mis fortune had every right to expect to be supported, and who, instead, supported his mother, gave his broth ers the best education obtainable, fitting them for responsible positions in life, and besides ail this befriend ed and helped other newsboys,trans forming them from worthless raga muffins into useful and self-respecting creatures. No one can be truly happy with out some occupation, and since the days of Adam and Eve in the Gar den of Eden, work has been the best panacea for all evils. The mind stag nates under a continual round of idleness, and it is a very weak mind even if the one possesses great wealth, that would be willing to spend the days in idleness. Work has proved the salvation of many a sorrow burdened soul. When we meet with the great sor rows of life our first impulse is to give up and brood, and then the weak mind goes under while the stronger one seeks strength and oc cupation. The true road to happiness in any walk of life lies in keeping the mind busy and in getting completely away from self. At first it seems almost unbearable after spending many years of study in any branch to be forced from any cause to give this up, and begin over again at something else, determined to make the best of life in spite of the crippled condition. Only those who have suffered a similar misfortune know how hard it is to have the sounds we loved lock ed away from us, and hardest of all the human voice; still the great mind j does not give up as dark as it seems, but seeks some way out into the light and sunshine. No matter how well one may play his part in the world he never gets over the loss of a sense, even in dreams, and only faith in the heaven ly Father and the knowledge that He knows will help one to bear such a misfortune. To make the most of life one must learn not to fret or worry; here is a rare bit of prose that has helped when restless and impatient to know the end of things: "You can make the clock strike by putting your hands upon it, but it will strike wrong; you can tear the rose bud open before its time, but you mar the beauty of the rose. So we may spoil many a gift of bless ing which God is preparing for us by our own eager haste. He is weaving our lives into patterns of beauty and strength. He has a perfect plan for each. Don't pull at threads of life; God's love is the motive of all delay, to give us unexpected and surprising blessings. ' ' Exchange. Guaranty of Bank Deposits. The cause is growing. Oklahoma, Nebraska and Texas now have com pulsory systems for the protection of depositors in State banks. In Texas the State bank can choose be tween joining the compulsory sys tem and giving individual security, but so far every bank that has acted has decided upon the guaranty sys tem. In Kansas and South Dakota voluntary systems have been adopt ed, while in Colorado, Arkansas and Indiana the guaranty bill passed one branch of the legislature. Attorney General Wickersham has delivered an opinion to the effect that national banks are at liberty to insure-their depositors, and insur ance companies are already being organized for that purpose. The fight made: last year has had its in fluence, and in spite of Republican opposition to the plan, the protec tion of depositors is coming. The Republican leaders have taken the side of the big financiers, but even the big financiers will in the end be compelled to yield to the just de mand of the depositors for security. And so another Democratic doctrine is being vindicated. The Democrat ic party has something to be proud of when it can, even in defeat, con trol public sentiment and force its ideas upon a reluctant opposition. The Commoner. "Generally debilitated for years. Had sick headaches, lacked ambition, was all worn-out and all run-down. Burdock Blood Bitters made me well woman." Mrs. Chas. Freitoy, Moos up, Conn. "Once Upon a Time." Close under the shadows of a deep swamp, where the ratan and bram boo twineth on the rear, and hard by a lonely country road on the front, nestled the little hut of an old color ed woman commonly recognized among the neighbors, as "Old Aunt Ginny." There in the solitude of her souls tranquility, she lived for many years with nothing to cheer the long weary hours, save the pattering footsteps and pleasant smiles of her little grandchild. The sublimest instict of her nature was a feeble effort to sing, and her chief employment was gathering tooth brushes for "de white folks." Go by there whenever you might, if the old lady was not out on her mis sion of devotional service of distribu ting her ware among the women,you might hear that tremulous voice within, a doleful knell, something without either words or music, to say nothing of harmony. All about the time that this story had its origin, there came a man through our section from Scotland Neck in pursuit of some mill proper ty. Now there had never been a bicycle through this country and on ly those who had been beyond the limits of their own narrow confines had ever seen one and could give but a faint idea how that a man with nothing but the power of locomotion could sit with one wheel in front of him and one behind, go flying through space like chaff before a gale of wind. At this particular time the old lady happened to be about the house and the little grandchild was at play on the roadside in the dust, where she usually sought refuge when granny was pounding away on her tooth brushes, for she rarely deliver ed them until thev were in fine con dition for immediate use. The little girl catching the glimpse of something up the road as it sud denly rounded the curve coming swooping down upon her like a huge eagle upon its prey, she gazed for a hasty second until she could catch some faint idea of its construction when she went flying to the house yelling at the top of her voice, "gran, gran', gran', yonder comes a man on two rollers, aint no ox, no horse, nor nothin' pullin' it." The old woman assured of the fact that something wonderfully unusual had startled her little girl in such a frenzied fit, hastened to the door and getting but a glance at the myster ious apparition for the bicycle was now nearing the door, she grabbed the little child by the arm and with superhuman strength she landed her in the middle of the floor, and slam ing the door too with all her might and placing one foot behind her, and putting her great shoulder against the door as though she would bar the very satanic powers themselves, waited for the crisis. After long weary waiting amid the death like stillness that pervaded the little dark room, the child ventured up, and taking the old woman by the hem of her garment in undertones asked, "Gran', gran', gran', what was it?." The old woman still entertaining doubts of their safety, said, "hush, hush, be quiet child, dats de devil on two wheels. G. F. C, Belhaven, N. C, in Washington Progress. Cost of the Big Ditch. A quarter of a billion of dollars will have been appropriated by Con gress for the purchase and construc tion of the Isthmian Canal, if the es timates for the expenditures in canal construction for the fiscal year be ginning July 1, 1910, are agreed to by Congress next winter. These estimates, amounting to about $35,000,000 have just been re ceived in Washington from the Canal Zone, and are being reviewed by Secretary of War Dickinson. Already there has been appropri ated for the purchase of canal rights from France and Panama and for constuction a total of $210,000,000. Secretary Dickinson finds it very difficult to reduce the estimates, and Congress itself has learned that a re duction of the estimates merely in vites a deficiency appropriation later. Exchange. There Has Recently Been Placed in all the drug stores an aromatic, pleasant herb cure for woman's ills, called Mother Gray's Australian Loaf. It is the only certain regulator. Quick ly relieves female weaknesses and back ache, Kidneys, bladder and urinary troubles. At all druggists or by mail 50 cents. Sample free. Address, The Mother Gray Co., LeRoy, N. Y. TEN "DEMANDMENTS.' A Set of Rules Issued By a Chicago Manufacturer. RULE I. Don't lie it wastes my time and yours. I'm sure to calch you in the end and that's the wrong end. RULE II. Watch your work and not the clock. A long day's work makes a long day short and a day's short work makes my face long. . RULE III. Give me more than I expect and I'll pay you more than you expect. I can afford to increase your pay if you increase my profits. IV. You owe so much to yourself that you can't afford to owe anybody else. Keep out of debt or keep out of my shop. RULE V. Dishonesty is never an accident. Good men, like good women, can't see temptation when they meet it. RULE VI. Mind your own business and in time you'll have a business of your own to mind. RULE VII. Don't do anything here which hurts your self-respect. The em ployee who is willing to steal for me is capable of stealing from me. RULE VIII. It's none of my business what you do at night. But if dissipation af fects what you do next day, and you do half as much as I demand, you'll last half as long. RULE IX. Don't tell me what I'd like to hear, but what I ought to hear. I don't want a valet to my vanity, but I need one for my dollars. RULE X. Don't kick if I kick if you're worth while correcting you're worth while keeping. I don't waste time cutting specks out of rotten apples. From Our Friends. Our ostensible friends are often our actual enemies. Not always, but often. "We're too apt to think a friend is a "good fellow." And by the same token an enemy is one who isn't a a good fellow. The world would be better off without "good fellows." Enemies, after all, are usually those who don't happen to see things as we do. As though we had a right to ques tion the other man's right to think! And had a right to claim all wis dom for ourselves! A great inventor sent for one of his assistants. "Harry," he said, "I'm going to let you go. "You're too popular," continued the great man."You'll never amount to anything." And then, as the young man stood before him dumfounded, he added: "But if you'll go out and make yourself a half doxen first-class en emies there may be some hope for you." Friends as the term is generally applied Are a positive hindrance to ad vancement and development. It's our friends who agree that the boss isn't fair to us When we're really being better treated than we deserve. It's our friends who tell us we ought to be getting more salary When we're already getting more than we're worth. It's our friends who think we ought to be living better When we're now spending every cent we earn. It's our friends, generally speak ing, who cause most of our dissatis faction. What are we to do about it? Usually it costs a man a lot to find out who's who A lot of money and a lot of self-respect. You can save both, if you will. First of all, you want to get anew definition for "friend." The great inventor thought a half dozen first-class enemies desirable. Because the thought of dislike is mighty likely to spur us on. We really do our best quite fre quently as a matter of half spite. Harman Brown, in Baltimore Sun. - The best pills made are DeWitt's Little Earlv Risers, the famous little ; liver pills. They are small, gentle, i pleasant, easy to take and act prompt- ly. They are sold by E. T. Whitehead Company. The Helpful Life. When the President of Vassar Col lege told the graduating class that they should "try to be helpers of men, not destroyers," he sounded the keynote of the one worthy ca reer. We have heard much of the simple life, the strenerous life, the balanced life and the tranquil life, but the helpful life is more to be de sired than any of them.says the New York World. The public necessity for it could not be expressed in stronger words than in those used by President Woodrow Wilson in his baccalaure ate address at Princeton in describ ing an era "in which men kept their legal obligations as well as usual and yet came near ruining the country, piled up wealth and forgot how to use it honorably, built up business and came near to debauching a nation. Men and women who enjoy the ad vantages of college training arc themselves at fault if from such be ginnings they do not find easy access to the only true aristocracy of the day. The beneficiaries of a culture denied to most people, they are un der the highest obligations to con sider the welfare and rights of oth ers. In no other way can the higher education be anything but the selfish possesion of a class. Noblesse oblige should appeal as strongly to those holding rank in the world of learning as it once did to a nobilty of birth. The helpful life cannot be self-centered. It must take into account the needs and the aspirations of man kind, the world-old wrongs, the cry ing injustices, the unavailing, even the despairing struggles of the weak, the brutalities of the strong and the follies of the ignorant. To be inter ested in humanity, to sympathize with those who toil, to assist when ever assistance is needed or deserv ed, to be kindly, appreciative and of service in the thousand ways in which trained minds and true hearts may promote justice, encourage merit and support progress these are the sum of the helpful life, and it is the only life that is worth while. 1 Exchange. A Town's Trade Territory. The trade territory of a town in not all dependent upon the distance to neighboring trading points. The trade territory depends upon the en terprise of the merchants and the residents of the town. If a town does not reach after the trade it will come only as fast as it has to, and it will grow as it is forced to. But if the merchants go after business in the surrounding country, advertising in every possible way, and make good every word of their advertising.trade will come from an ever-increasing radius, the town will gain a reputa tion for being awake and it will forge to the front. It is the men in the town and not altogether the men living within a certain number of miles from it that makes the town good for nothing. Fort Mill, S. C. Times. (let IVWitt'sOarboli.rd Witch Haze! Salve when you ask for it. There are a great many imitations, but there is just one original. Thin salv" is god for anything where a j-alve is needrd to Ire used, but it is espeeially gow! for Piles. Sold by E. T. Whitehead Com pany. When we do meet a man whose head hasn't been turned by success we conclude that he must have a stiff neck. This is an Easy Test. Sprinkle Allen's Foot-Ease in no shoe and not in the other, nnd liotieo the difference. .lust the thing to use when rubbers or overshoe s beeonio noc-essary, and your shoes se'in to pinch. Sold everywhere, 2'nt. D-m't accept any substitute. You can tell the different kinds of trees by thier bark, but not the dif ferent kinds of dogs. Life 100,000 Years Ago. Scienti.-ts have found in a cave in Switzerland bones of nu n, who lived Kio.ooo years ago, when life was in constant danger froin wild bcats. To day th danger, as shown by A. W. Brown, of Alexander, Me., is largely from deadly disease. "If it had not been for Dr. King's New Discovery, which cured m', I could not have lived," he writes, "sud'ering as I did from a severe lung trouble and stub born cough." To cure .sore lung-', colds, obstinate coughs, and prevent pneumonia, its the best medicine on earth. -VX; ami .fl.oi. Guaranti-ed by E. T. Whitehead Company. Trial bottle fret. i t f t t t ' ; ji ; ' .' V, 4 I t IV'
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