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Advertising ;;..i.i-.ie.:s what Stera is to .,.;..-v, that r'T. ;it propelling . w,ives results. Good Advertisers Use these columns for results. An advertisement in this paper will reach a good class of people. Editor aid I'foprieror. 'Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1909. NUMBER 31. nr . . . . . . 1 HE UQMMQN W&AJLTM. r h h 5 ) NEWS NOTES. Items Picked Up Here and There and Gatbered From Cur Exchanges. . -rr-y-A- ease, , s b :.?3o of Many dden Deaths. .1 -- ".so vailing in this i ; : . i ! v; -rous 1 it-can se so decep- . ' ) tivc- Many sudden -, ' ..''- deaths are canned Ti by it heart dis- pneumonia, failure or r apoplexy are often the result of kid rcy disease. If kidney trouble is allowed to advance the kidncy-poison-cd blood will at- vital organs, causing catarrh of ' U r, 1 rick-dust or sediment in . lurid i:cke, back .ache, lame i-mness, sleeplessness, nervous-i- iite kidnejs themselves break 1 waste away cell by cell, v r troubles almost always result !-althiu that organ is obtained ! s' at Macon, Ga., ; ! y a proper treatment of the kid . vvamp-ool corrects inability to . j and scalding pain in passing it, rromes that unpleasant necessity ; (. rcr'.pclled to go often through . "d to get r.p many times during ;nu immediate effect i he mn -'.not, the threat kidnev remedv '.';:od. It stands the highest be ? remarkable health restoring . A trial will convince anyone. Rof.-t is pleasant to take and is ii druggists in fifty-cent and si.c .:ouics. on may nave a ,r , , tie and a book that tells all ! iork lhursday. i-Ii sent free by mail. Address, Co., Einghamton, N. Y. rir mention reading this gen in this paper. Don't make ';e, but remember the name, "t, a:.d don't let a dealer sell liii'L- :a vlaee of Swamo-Root President Taf t will visit Norfolk November 17-20. Rev. W. R. Huntington, rector of Grace Episcopal Church, New York, is dead. Rev. John T. Jenkins has resigned the pastorate of the First Baptist Church at Wilson. Work has begun upon a section of inland waterway between Norfolk, Va. and Beaufort, N. C. Lottie Fail-child, a young white drowned herself because Len Levar would not marry her. Emmett R. Rigsbee, a lineman for the Durham Traction Company, met instant death by touching a live wire. Henry C. Pullman, president of the National Baseball League, com mitted suicide at his room in New ycii will be disappointed. I c. 'tU ftlTCHIN, Attokne v at Law, Scotland Xcck, X. C. An vw hero. I J. P. WiJIBERLfcY, I'jIVSTi'Iiy AND SuKGEONj Scotland Neck, N. C. Oilieo on Depot Street. A. C. LIVERMON. NTTIST. D1 iiii'l : 1 a.: fro--) to 6 o t.- lis in Whitc-"lildinsr. to 1 ' ClOCK. 'clock Col. W. G. Lamb, of Williamston, has been re-elected chairman of the State election board, and J. C. Clif ford, of Dunn, secretary. The North Carolina Veterans will meet at Charlotte on August 25th and 26th. Gov. Thos. J. Jarvis will attend and deliver an address. A cotton mill to cost a half mil lion dollars and contain forty thous and spindles is to be built at Rock ingham. This will make the tenth mill for that town Georgia farmers made a profit of half a million dollars on their peach crop this season. That looks like there is money in raising fruit for market. Greenville Reflector People have lost a large number of hoes in this community. Cholera is very prevalent, and in a violent form Dr. J. S. Rhodes has lost titty very fine ;shoats, many of which were blooded stork. Williamston Enter prise. cotton Tiie Galloping Cost ol Canal. tbe Panama AUTOS KEEP FARMERS AWAKE. So Indiana land growers McBRYDE WESB, .I TOiiNKY AND L'OUNSELiOK L.VYv', AT Atlantic Trust Building Isorfolk, Va. ;invv Tublic. Bell Phone 7G0 W. Webb, of Hahira, Ga., president, and O. L. Mizell, secretary, decided to make Savannah a point for sea island cotton and to hold a general sea island cotton grow ers congress at Valdosta, Ga., Sept. 17th. Ex. It is reported from Washington that a modest bond issue of $397,- 000,000 may be authorized by Con gress for Panama Canal expenditur es, instead of the original sum of 130,000,000 fixed in the Spooner act of 1902. Excluding the $50,000,000 paid for the French canal rights and for the canal strip, practically all the money which was provided by the Spooner act, and which was guaran teed to be ample, has already been expended and the work today is about one-third done. Presumably in limiting the propos d bond issue to $397,000,000 it is hoped that the ultimate cost of the canal will be kept within that sum. Still, Colonel Goethals last spring re fused to say that it might not reach $500,000,000. In 1906 the consulting engineers,whose minority report Mr. Roosevelt adopted, gave solemn as surances that, aside from the expen ses of sanitation and government, the canal would be built for $139,- 705,200. They had figured it out to the dollar. In January, 1908, before the Senate Committee on Interocean- ic Canals, the chairman of the Isth mian Canal Commission stated that the cost would not be less than $250, 000,000, and might be $300,000,000. On February 9, 1909, Senator Kit- tridge, chairman of the Interoceanic Canals Committee, informed the Senate that the "latest estimated cost of the lock type of canal.includ ing the purchas price of the canal rights and of the Canal Zone rights $50,000,000 will bring the present estimated cost to $400,000,000, more than $200,000,000 in excess of the sum originally estimated and more than $100,000,000 in excess of the conceded minimum cost of the sea level canal." Would the country have so light heartedly approved the Panama Ca nal project if it had known at the start what it was in for? Does it really know yet? As part of the $397,000,000 bond scheme it is intended by the sale of bonds to relieve the deficit by re . turning to tho Treasury the $50,000- : out) paid tor the canai rights and the .(?annl 7nnp ricrhts. At. the time It was I ROOSpVeitjsm had not trot into its full Storage j f -J- QT,I tViia anm woa nnid nut nf akllUV' UUU HlHJ UMtll ' ' 1' the current receipts of the govern ment. It was matter for legitimate pride that the revenues permitted such a thing. But we have profited by the study of high finance. - Like Mr. Harriman, who on taking over the Chicago and Alton found Rural Roads With Traps. Are Beset Lee in Statuary Hall. more than once forty m con- At the superior court of Lee counnty, last week, quite a large number of "blind tigers" were con victed and sentenced to the roads for that extensive improvements and ex terms varying from four to twelve tensions had been paid for out of net and UOUNSEL.OR ai months.- Thev were convicted bv earnings and made the discovery a Law, i fVi pvidpnro nf a detective eirmloved nrpfpxt for a bier bond issue, the Ad by the Anti-Saloon League. They ministration hopes to profit by a bond I were all colored men and were from sale by means of which it will create Sanford. Chatham Record. a new debt out of money paid out by the Treasury seven years ago. Har- gDWARD L. TRAVIS jTTOIiNEY Law, Halifax, N. C. mcv Loaned on Farm Lands J0SEY, nekaIj Insurance Agent, i'lLL if. oil and Neck, N. C. HUB 'SALSAPil Ifi!fi ai.'i bcaut;!i- the ,hftfr. ti-rtf-. a Insurwiit (rrowtn. ;f to its Youthful Color. CuWi Vip oi.-cbsm hair ia.iiug. osey Undertakers' Supp rimanizing the national finances is a decided novelty. New York World. A Mammoth Clock. i Because she ran a "blind tiger" and had the habit, in addition, of whipping her husband at fre quent intervals, Judge Allen, in the Superior Court, sent Alice Grady to the workhouse for six months TTor Whand is known to hundreds The tower of the Metropolitan Life of RalpiVh visitors as the old Confed- Insurance building, New York city, prate voteran who noddies pencils will be ready soon to have the clock and various other wares about the installed in it. The clock will be the lnro-pst in the world. The hands of o W hssk-pt. His name is Geonre this clock are being Full and Complete Line. rs -6b -T-Tf; "of tins and Caskets Burial Robes, Etc. Hearse Service anyTime N. B. Josey Company, Mid Neck. North Carolina Washington Grady. Solicitor Jones told the Judge of the woman's hab it of whipping her husband just as he was about to pass sentence. Ral eigh Correspondence. The renort made on cotton condi tion up to July 25th, by the Nation al Ginners' Association, this after nnnn rivos the ceneral average as 71.7. The average by States follows: Alabama, 70; Arkansas 76; Florida 85; Georgia 79; Louisiana 62; Mississ ippi 64; Missouri 81; North" Carolina 73; South Carolina 77; Oklahoma 79; Tennessee 77; Texas 66, The reDort says: "This is the low- tested on the building of a clock company at Grand and Willoughby avenues, Brooklyn. They are so large that in making a revolution they pass three stories of the building, and when one of them is passing a window the light is com pletely shut off, making the room within so dark that the employes are forced to quit work. The hands are made of manganese and bronze, and are of bridge truss construction. They weigh close to 1,800 pounds. The minute hand from the center pm to the tip is 14 feet.and this combin ed with the counterpoise of six feet maVps thfi hand 20 feet long. The hour hand, of course, is much small or hpinc 11 feet long. When the Automobiling in Inniana is becom ing increasingly dangerous, pleasure riding is on the decrease, and dealers are beginning to complain of the ef fect on the trade. When autos were new on the coun try roads and farmers' horses were easily frightened by them it wrs sup posed that the prejudice of the farm ers against the machines would disap pear when their horse3 became accus tomed to the sight. But the reverse of this appears to be true, "nd driv ers of machines are having trouble in the rural districts previously. Many automobile parties drove out to towns and cities or fifty miles away, got dinner and returned by moonlight, but such ex cursions have been almost entirely abandoned through fear of accidents caused by bridges proposely weaken ed, deep ruts in the roads made to give the drivers trouble and other means of annoyance, which the farm ers have invented to prevent the use of the roads both by night and by day. In many cases machines have been wrecked, and hundnds of minor accidents have occurred through what the autoists call the unreason able prejudice of the farming com munities. In one case for more than a mile on one of the highways pieces of barbed wire two or three feet long were laid at a distance of a few feet apart and for more than a week au tos going over the road were stopped by punctured tires. One auto picked up four pieces of wire in a few hun dred yards and each made a puncture in a different wheel. The most dangerous devices, which .the auto owners have had to contend with are large poles laid across the roads, usualy at a sharp turn, and planks removed from small bridges or culverts,which bring the machines to a sudden halt with a jar- that some times throws the occupants out on the road. Men have driven ever a road in the afternoon returning af ter nightfall have run in deep ruts that were not in the road when they passed over it a few hours before. They think that the person who thus tried to wreck their machines saw them pass, and soon after nigh fall purposely made the ruts to wreck their machines. In many cases farmers living near the scene of mishaps have ref usee to lend as sistance to people in disabled autos, even declining to let out their horses to pull to machines, though asked to name their own price. The farmers say that there are two sides to the question. They com plain that many of the automobile parties visit road houses and are in a hilarious mood when they return, making the night hideous with their mirth and the honk honk of their machines. They say that they work hard dur mg the day, getting up at 4 a. m., and retiring at 8 p. m., that they have earned a night of quiet and rest. Instead of getting this they are kept awake, if they live near a public road, by the ceaseless passing of machines whose occupants seem to have no consideration for anything excent their own pleasure. Indiana polis Dispatch. - INCREASES THE COST. It is a significent sign of the times when the Boston Transcript, one of the foremost exponents of public opinion in New England, declares that "Massachusetts people, as a rule, believed that the statue of Lee should be courteously accepted" by Congress. The statue of the confed erate chieftain has been cast and is upon its way to Washington, where 4t is proposed to place it in statuary hall as the gift of the state of Vir ginia. There is no doubt that in making this selection of a companion statute for George Washington, Vir ginia honored its most beloved hero, the personification of all that is high est, noblest and most chivalric in the generation that in vain for the"Lost i Cause. Virginia wrought her gift to the nation in sad sincerity, but there was also in this offer an undertone of proud defiance that could not be con cealed. In a way it was a challenge to the memories of the past. And it is this which gives significance to the attitute of New England, once the hotbed of Abolition. Were any pro tests to be lodged one could under stand and excuse it, coming from the J State which once thrilled to the pas sionate pleas of Garrison and Phil lips. But the broadminded men of the old Commonwealth of Massachu setts harbor no hate. More than the flowing periods of campaign orations this episode tells the story of a coun try thoroughly reunited and nation alized. Accurately reflecting current opin ion in the North, the Transcript says: "The argument that treason should be made odious has in this instance long ago lost its force. The people of the country hold Robert E. Lee in high regard. This has been well expressed by Charles Francis Adams in his various addresses. Lee was soldierly in his attitude during the war and highminded and honorable in his course thereafter, and his ad mirers are by no means limited to his own section of the country. The nation really owes him a great debt of gratitude for stopping when the contest was over, instead of allowing it to degenerate into a guerrilla welfare. "Lee fought his battles with valor, conducted his campaigns as befitted a great military leader, and when vanquished in the field laid down his arms. After that he applied himself to healing the wounds of the strug gleWashington Post. New Tarilt Adds Many Millions to The Price of Clothing. Unless the congressional confer ence committee, to which the tariff bill has been referred, shall change the wool schedule, the cost to the people of woolen wear of all kinds in the next year will be increased $200, 000,000. General advances of from 20 to 25 per cent, on all popular grades have already been announced by the mills. In men's suit3 alone buyers must pay $120,000,000 more than former prices. This prospect can be averted, if at all, by inducing the conference com mittee to rewrite the wool schedule. Clothiers have already begun work in this direction by sending yester day through a committee, to which several cities are represented, an ap peal to members of the conference, and they will to-morrow address each member of the Senate finance and the House ways and means commit tee. The Cincinnati clothiers are urging reductions upon every mem ber of the Ohio delegation. The appeal is non-partisan, it is hoped that dealers in other lines of woolen wear will join in it. The con ference committee will not change the schedule unless convinced that public sentiment backs the demand. There will be a chance of relief if such sentiment finds prompt expres sion. Prices of woolen wear are regu lated by the National Association of Wool Manufacturers and the Ameri can Woolen Company, both of which have headquarters in Boston. They control the majority of the mills. On the pleading that increase of popu lation has out-paced wool production prices have been increased. In Eng land the increase on the same plead ing has been 12 per cent. The Bos ton trust thereupon put up Ameri can prices from 20 to 35 per cent. Get Into the Boosting Business! Do you know there's lots of people Sittm' round most every town. Growing like a broody chicken. Knocking every good thing down. Don't be that kind of cattle, 'Cause they ain't no use on earth. But just be a booster rooster, Crow and boost for all your worth. If your town needs boostin' boost her, Don't hold back and wait to sec If some other fellow's willin'. Sail right in, this country's free. No one's got a mortgage on it. It's just yours as much as his; If your town is shy of boosters, You get in the boostin' biz. If things don't seem to suit you An the world seems kinder wrong. What's the matter with a boostin' Just to help the thing along? 'Cause if things should stop again. - We'd be in a sorry plight. You just keep the horn a-blowin', Boost her up with all your might. If you see some fellow tryin' For to make some project go. An' you can boost it up a trifle, That's your cue to let him know That you're not going to knock it. Just because it ain't your shout, But that you're going to boost a little 'Cause he is got the best thing out. - From "Crowley Signal." CHEAP COAL RISES IN VALUE. Means By Which it Does Twice Work of High Grade Coal. the According to expert government reports on fuel the gas engine is cap able of generating from two and a half to tljree times as much power from a given amount of coal as the steam engine. It economizes also in another way. Fuel with so high a percentage of The independents have adopted trust impurity that it could not hitherto figures. be used in factories can now be made The clothing industry is the third to generate sufficient power by largest in the country. Its output is means of a gas engine to do the same valued at $600,000,000 annually. As work that otherwise would requrc fully 95 per cent, of the people wear double the quantitiy of high grade ! American clothing, the clothiers coal. Contempt in Court. . . ii.. i 1 Claim to voice uie prepunueiauug sentiment in favor of the change they propose. Quality has already been reduced and weight diminished in the cloths from which popular nn'fpd clothincr is made, and still t " worse conditions are threatened un- dpr trust dominance. New York World. Tourist Bromldioms. est condition ever known at tnis sea- . &re aced in the tower of the son of the year and indicates a crop rnnftlitan Life building they will hdvo a wire class covering that will - - 1 rK-ngvs'.artw 3 i il fcV7 FdtE trotyl f TSirSiTAriO LuriG TKUUD1X3 qvarau7eed SArSFACrORV i 1 of around . 11,000,000, and unless good rains fall in the next week, tVivoncrhont almost the entire belt, but more especially in Texas, South ern and Western Oklahoma and Miss . .', :n 1 V,o4- issippi, tne crop win ue unu l" c llguic. . The best remedy we know of in all cases of Kidney and Bladder trouble and the one we always can recommend is DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills. They are antiseptic and at once assist the kidneys to perform their important work. But when you ask for these pills be positive that you get De Witt's Kidney and Bladder Bills. There are imitations, placed upon sale to deceive Cot DcVVitt's admit illumination. In each hand are placed 24-inch electrical tubes, in pairs. The clock will be 400 feet from the level of the grond, and when the hands are illuminated by electricity it is said that they can be seen 30 miles away on a clear night Other features of the Metropolitan clock will be a 1,000 pound bell with a hammer weighing over 100 pounds There will be four other small bells to strike the Westminister chimes The clock will be operated by elec tnVitv. The hands have taken four months to make. New York Press Insist upon Impure blood runs ycu down makes them and if your dealer cannot supply you an easy victim for organic diseases ' ' ',.far. onvt.Viintr else in place of them . Bold by E. T. Whitehead Company. refuse anything else in piace vi , , Blood Bitters purines the I blood cures the cause builds you up Appealed to the Clerk for Relief. Clerk of the Court Erwin, of Bun combe county, according to the Asheville Citizen, received a few days ago the following letter from a distressed citizen of South Carolina: "Dear Sir: I seet myself to drop i t x. von a tew lines as i uui my. nwno il 1 mi y-!tt i-nn v Hnv mere uiu niancu ncanj j. uui ing that time my wife had left me 3 times, she will quarl all night at me and on las Sunday was a week ago she quareled nearly at day at me for not going to preaching with her so on las Sunday we started and she comenced quareling at melf or going. Some of her own people says she is diseased, that the blood runs to her head so I want you to write and tell me what terms I will have to do to get.a divorce from her." This man should have his divorce. Mark Twain was waiting for a street car when a young girl ap proached him, smiling. She was a lovely girl, fresh, blooming, ingeni ous, bubbling with enthusiasm, and evidently on her way home from school. "Pardon, me," she said. "I know it's very unconventional, but 1 may npvpr have another chance. Would you mind giving me your auto graph?" "Glad to do it, my dear child, said Mr. Clemens, drawing out his fountain pen. "Oh, it's so good of you, "gurgled the girl. "You know, I've never seen you but once, Chief Justice Fuller, and that was at a distance; but I've seen your portrait so often that 1 recognized you the moment I saw you here." "Um-m-mm!" said Mr. Clemens, non-committally. Then he took from her eager hands her nice little auto graph album, and wrote in bold script these words: "It is delicious to be full, But it is heavenly to be Fuller. I am cordially yours, Melville W. Fuller." Mr. Clemens has not heard from Chief Justice Fuller yet. Harper's Weekly. The lignite coal, vl iTorth Dakoto, has thus been made to give out as much gas engine force as the best West Virginia and bituminous coal used under steam boilers. Some sort of coal is indigenous to almost all part of America, but the fact that in the average steam en gine only 5 per cent of the coal ener gy is transformed into actual work ing power made low grade coal a lit tle commercial value until the per fection of the gas engine, which in creases the efficiency of fuel by al most 12 per cent. Time was when the big mills had A statistician who recently return ed from a trip to British Columbia is willing to affirm that he heard peo ple ask: "How cold does it get here in the to be placed beside some swift run- winter?" 2,133 times. ning stream to secure water power. "What is the height of that moun- Later on factories sought the vincin- tain?" 796 times. "How far away do .you suppose that glacier is?" 921 times. Is this the Medicine Hat where the weather comes from?" 1.142 times "How far do you suppose it is over to where thatman isplowing?" 1,231 times. "Arp. there anv trout in that ity of the great coal fields, but to day, with the generating power of the gas engine, it is a matter of lit tle importance - so far as power is concerned where a plant is built. National Magazine. Identification by Veins. stream?" 4,621 times. "Do the bears ever come the railroad?" 944 times. Where do we change time again?" 6.989 time. "Why is it that it doesn't get dark here until nearly 10 o'clock?" 3,180 times. TTns anvbodv ever climbed to the top of that mountain?" 2,246 times "Are these the Rockies or the Sel- kirks?" 9,246 times. A new method of identification of i . down to prisioners has been uevisea oy means of photographs taken of the veins on the back of the hand. Professor Tomassia, an Italian professor, the inventor, bases hi3 methods on the observation that no two persons have the veins on the back of the hand so much alike as to allow room for con fusionless, indeed, than with finger prints. The prisoners' hand is held down- All Old-Timer Found In Montgomery. It flows like electricity through your veins; it does the work. If you are wasting away, tke Hollbter's Rocky Mountain Tea. 3o cents, Tea or Tab lets. E. T. Whitehead Cojnpany. Farmer Hayrick The city is mighty wicked. Farmer Corncrib Yes, even the trees are behind bars. New York Sun. The Ashboro Courier says that at the recent term of Montgomery county court Mr. Reuben Hancock was a member of the grand jury. Mr. Hancock is 65 years old, in good health and lives within 10 or 15 miles of Troy, the county seat, but until his service on the grand jury be had vJci'tpd the countv town but once in ;. his life. He has never rode on a j pbia Record train and never bought any commer cial fertilizers. Last spring, says the - Courier, Mr. Hancock's son bought a bag of fertilizer, but when he took it home the old gentleman used some talk not intended to be hpard hv the preacher and sent the time Chicago Record-Herald. Take Kodol at tho times when you feel what you have eaten i. not digest ing. Kodol digests what you cat so you can eat sufficiently of any good, wholesome food, if you will just let Kodol digest it. Sold by K. T. White head Company. Baby won't suffer live minutes with croup if you use Dr. Thomas' Eclectic Oil at once. It acts like magic. stuff" would take out of his land. - . - ... A I 1 ww'f it Kp o-rpat. f we cou d ward lor several minuu-,oi u.-.-pu have one of these mountains set down at the wrist is restrained, and the on the prairie back of Chicago?" 562 veins are then photographed. This phOtOgrapn.lTOiessor iumaaaia sayo, will always be available for explicit proof, whereas criminals now under stand that with an ordinary razor they can operate on their own hands without much pain or inconvenience, and many change the pattern of the finger print beyond chance of identi fication. To burn the finger tips is more painful, but perhaps even more ef fective. On the other hand, as Pro fessor Tomassia points out, only a serious and dangerous operation can modify the veinal system. London Standard. Seared With a Hot Iron, or scalded by overt-.iin d kettle -fit with a knife. Ionised l.y .-lainincd d.r injured ly gun 'r in any other way the thing need.l at once is I5iu klens Arnica Salve to subdue inflammation and kiil the pain. It'-' earth's supreme healer, infallible for boils, ulc ers, fever sores, eczema and piles. l'V. at K. I. Whit head Company'. Tommy Pop, what is the differ ence between vision and sight? Tom my's Pop Well, my son, you can flatter a girl by calling her a vision, but don't call her a sight Philadel- Here Is Relief for Women. If you have pains in the back, urin ary, bladder or kidney trouble, ami want a certain herb cure for women's ills, try Mother Gray's Australian Leaf. It is a safe and never-failing young man forthwith back with, the regulator. At iruggww tr . " guano, declaring that" this "bought j 5 cents. Sample package free. Ad- all the strengtn resst '.v. I LeKoy, X. Y.
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