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1 f Good Advertisers Use these columns for results. An advertisement in this paper ,Q will roach .1 good das - ci people. (.?ti Advertising MMONW v.-hut Steam is to . . ;t r::U:t propelling CI fivtS rOsllll . Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. -jY, Jitor ai'.d Proprietor. "Excelsior" is Our Motto. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1909. NUMBER 41. I HE CO , THE STATE FAIR. Everything Is Ready to Make The Fair The Bast la Its History. Eiasfer Troubla. vreys l'.j-cn the mind, i l-ct- jnsr.itibition; beauty, Mgor una ciiecrtui-1 We are very glad to notice that. j H-'j soon disappear i , . . , , i , when the kidneys are , everything points to a tremendously ouL of rder yr dis-1 successful State Fair this year. We kidney tror.Mahas I tru,y believe that this great annual "Sr T? become so prevalent institution will be more instructive ' - -.J tl;at it is not tjucom- arKj entertaining and more densely -.f iV.-ir "-non fcr a child to be ! , , , . nf nf i i r -born afflicted with i '-Pronged during the week of Octo- - ' v.cak kidneys. If the ! ber 18 to 23 at Raleigh than it ever .ilstoocricii,ifthe urine scalds ; ia in U historv and that, is i it hotthl'bc ahlc to control the i saying a good deal. , it i-i y t ictcd with bed-wet- : h '-. : ii, the cause of thediOi kiihiey t.ouble, and the tint snld bo to-;rds thz treatment cf '.portaiilorans. This unpleasant is due to ntliseascd condition of leva and The Time to Advertise. r.3 n;o:,t :- 'jn as v :. "1 : not to a made miser- .ladder and 2 SlIVPO: -.- u'.eii a r.n 1 HadJer trouble, : ,::;:c great remedy. i'-.:;iediate effect of ;.;:.ahcd. h;'.' by in- Itissclel f :,,i:a.i.wr.:;; t, Mlt-IU-.'i! inisrtko, Kilm-r's ' ilciiK' ot S(vaiiip-Hoot. Lousauds of testi- . . "ed from sufferers 1 y . . : -I'.' t to be just the " I,-!. j: v -'.ting Dr. Kilmer :.:t ". V., be sure and b.s p-ipor. Don't make any nit rVr-V.-.aber the name, Dr. V.nnp-P.oct, and the address, ni, Y., on every bottle. A. PAUL fflTCHIN, Attokxf.y at Law, Scotland Xock, N, 3'racticos Anywhere. C. Sjlv. J. P. WIMBERLEY, JPiiY.H'IA.: ANT) SURGEONj Scotland ck, N. C. f ')i!u n Do not ?trec-t. r LIVERP10N, DEXTIST. " i'ce up stairs in White head Building. irs from 0 to 1 o'clock .TT' J. 1 Axron: f.y a XT) Counselor at Law, Atlantic Trust Building lorfr-r, Va. Au:'!lc. Bell Phone 7Go and Counselor a1 Laay, Halifax, X. C. uonov Loaned on Farm Lands 11 - Gen rit al Insurance Agent, N. C. mtland In er PACKER'S ' ii l:2uriar.t grol . r.tf'.l Co: ar. p I ...OUR... ! From what we see in the newspa i pers and from what we are hearing ; from various Quarters, we base the belief above stated. Cotton is up and most of the farmers Ol the State are doing well. Official statistics ! show that North Carolina during I the first half of the year 1909 made greater industrial stride than any I other State in the union. The man agement of the State Fair has beer succesfully endeavoring for many years to approach nearer and near er to the original purposes of the Fair, the exhibition of the best pro ducts of the State along all lines, en livened by wholesome, legitimate amusements. We understand that never before has there been such z rush for space on the part of exhibi tioners, for instance, there was doubt at one time that there would be stalls enough for live stock, but it is learn ed that sufficient accomodations have been provided; that several counties will have elaborate separate exhibits; and that altogether the exhibits will be on a magnificient scale. As for the entertaining side of the Fair, Mr. George Harden, one of the State's foremost horsemen, vouches for the racing being the best ever seen in North Carolina, he having just returned from a visit to the fairc in Virginia, on the circuit of LCX M.AM. w - 5 7 which Raleigh Fair is a member He also sparks in the highest pos sible fprms of the attractions that are to be in Ralrigh. the latter are Kemp Sis ters' Wild West show, which will trive many free acts, including the overland stage coach; the Great Dav enports, who dash over a slender wire eighty feet above ground on a wheel of of fire, free; Frees and Harmv Hoolegan and Loucia Ann in the box car trick and as aerialists on trapeze and Roman rings, all free; the novel balloon race, two balloons ascending to diz- vxt bio-br and each dropping two pai-achutes at the same time; the d Monitor show that made the great hit at Jamestown; Ferari's trained wild animals; the trained fleas; the infant incubator exhibit with real live babies under rr' j.jc nnrl nth ers too numerous to j A J j wv- me:itiom. ThftTi tbp improvements at the erounds: the midway has been ma cadamised; twenty-five new horse stalls have been built since last year; lots of new bleacher seats have been built, there being seating capacity now for about twenty-five hundred outside of the Grand Stand; and everything put in shipshape. There will be more special trains than ever before, with the usual low rates, and extra cars on regulars. The street cars in Raleigh will charge only five cents to the grounds. THE DUTIES ON FOOD. There's nothing on earth so myste riously funny us aa advertisement. The prime, first and last and all-the-time object of an adver tisement is to draw custom. It is not and never will be, designed for any other purpose. So the merch ant waits till the busy season come3 and his store is so full, of customers that he can't get his hat off, and then he rushes to his printer and goes in for advertising. When the dull season gets along and there is no trade and he wants to sell goods so bad he can't pay his rent, he stops advertising. That is, some io, but occasionally a level-headed merchant does more of it, and scoops in all the business, while his neigh bors are struggling to make ends meet. There are times when you couldn't stop people from buying everything in the store if you plant ed a cannon behind the door, and that's the time when the advertise ment is sent out on its holy mission. It make3 light work for advertising, for a chalk sign on the side walk could do all that was needed, and a half-holiday six days in a week. Ad vertisements are built to do hard work, and should be sent out in dull days, when a customer has to be knocked down with hard facts, and kicked insensible with bankrupt re ductions, and dragged in with irre sistible slaughter of prices, before he will spend a cent. That's the end and aim of advertising and if ever you open a store, don't try to get them to come when they are al ready sticking out of the windows, but give them your advertisement right between the eyes in a dull sea son, and you will wax rich and own a fast horse and perhaps be able to smoke a cigar once or twice a year. Write this down where you'll fall all over it every day. The time to draw business is when you want business, and not when you have more business than you can tend to already. La Rue (O.) News. How The New Tariff Hill Atfer.t Wheat, Flour and fori!. Amending Tee Constitution. Galveston Protected. Moke All the World Seem Nine years ago a tidal wave swept over the place where Galveston stood, and thousands of lives were lost and millions in property were destroyed. At once Galveston began to build a wall for her protection. After care ful investigation of the whole prob lem a commitee of three engineers devised a plan for building a great sea wall at a cost of 3 1-2 millions of dollars. The. wall was made of solid concrete 16 feet high, 16 feet thick at the base, 5 feet at the top, with a breakwater 27 feet in width in front of it, the whole to skirt the gulf for 3 1-2 miles. On the 29th of July, 1904, the great sea wall stood com pleted, a monument to the indomita ble spirit of the people of Galveston, which is the spirit of the people of Texas, which is the spirit of the peo ple of America. The government o i . i , i t ii the United States extended this wan a mile, so as to include Fort Crockett The vail was tested Tuesday, July 20, by another herricane. 1 he waves came rolling higher than before, but they beat in vain upon the stone wall of Galveston. No lives were lost, and no more property destroyed than in an ordinary storm. We congratu late the people of Galveston. See what can be done to over come the forces of nature and to make wind and water and fire the servants of . . . . i j t i. u; n .forj Hnmp t n,cn a frienrl a snort time uacn. man lnsteauoj. ma mao. how many ancestors he had in the and Farm direct line twenty generations bade Affpr some reflection he sugges ted fifty. It may be a little surpris. ino- and" of interest to some of ourrea , r. that, thev have eacn have had more than a million anees tors There has been so little discussion of the subject of the imposts on agri cultural products, and these inordi nate duties have been maintained so long, that we doubt if many per sons know how high the tax really is. Under existing law no foreign wheat can enter this country without paying a tax of 25 cents a bushel. Just think of taxing such a necessary food article as wheat 25 cents a bush el! As it takes about four and ahalf bushels of wheat to make a barrel of flour.this is equal to a tax of $1.12 per barrel. Accordingly, all customers in America find that much added J to the cost of their supplies. Nay, the addition to cost is really greatly in excess of the amount of the wheat and flour duty; for by shutting out foreign supplies speculators are en able to carry on and to ccntinue cor nering operations. If it were known to-morrow that the high-grade wheat from Manitobo and the Northwest provinces could enter the United States free of duty, we may be sure the speculative bubble would quick ly burst and prices drop very much more than the amount of the tariff tax. Moreover, with the removal of all fears of a possible inadequacy of available supplies prices would continue to drop until they again reached the normal level say about $1 a bushel. Then the American consumer would once more come in to his own. At the figures named the farmer would still be making a good profit. At the present level of values he is making inordinate profits at the expense of the entire body of consumers. On corn the present j tax of 15 cents per bushel re-appears in both bills, and Mr. Aldrich had proposed an increase to 20 cents in his original draft of the measure. Barley now pays 30 cents per bush el; the House had reduced this to 24 cents, but the Senate again raised the figure to 30 cents. Potatoes are now subject to a tax of 2d cents, which the House bill left unchanged, but the Senate bill, we believe, pro posed an increase to 45 cents. New York Financial Chronicle. It is just forty years since the la?.t proposition to amend the Constitu tion of the United States was laid be fore the several states for ratifica tion. It is therefore not surprising that many persons are unfamiliar with the process of amendment. The Constitution itself does not prescribe any details. Congress may by a two thirds vote of both Houses propose amendments; or if the legislatures of two-thirds of the states demand it. Congress must caH a convention of all the states to propose amend ments. In either case, the amend ments proposed must be ratified by three-fourths of the states either by the legislatures or by separate state conventions, as Congress may direct. The first-named method is the only one that has ever been employed. All amendments made heretofore have been proposed by Congress and submitted tn the state legislatures for ratification. Congress has just submitted to the states an amend ment authorizing the imposition of a tax on incomes. It passed both branches of Congress by the neces sary two-thirds vote, and has been sent by the secretary of state to the governors of the several states, who will lay it before their representative legislatures at the beginning of th'i next session. There is no limitation of time within which ratification must take place. But the precedents seem to be that although a state which has once rejected an amendment may afterward ratify it, a state which has ratified it may not thereafter with draw the ratification. As there are now forty-six states, it will require the consent of thirty-five states to make the amendment effective. When the secretary of state has re ceived the certified ratification of the requisite number of states, a procla mation will be issued declaring that the amendment has become a part of the Constitution. Youths' Compan ion. only Baking Powderk pfppr made from Royal Grape TIGHT COLLARS DANGEROUS. Bland Hand Buslauss. They Help to Cause Prostractlon Hot Weather. In Mrs. Bart - My husband got a let ter today saying something dreadful would happen if he didn't send the tu .f nmmnn P.nigra of i writer a sum oi monej . hot weather discomforts,' and dan- Mrs Smart-My Imsl )and gets gertoo, for that matter, is the ! dunned for lr.s b,!l,. too. - Boston neckband. Passing up and:""' two Coiton Should be Higher. tight down the sides of the neck are very important arteries, the carotids, and two large vein-, the jugular veins. The carotid arteries carry blood up to the head, while the jug ular veins convey it back to the heart. As elsewhere in the body the ar teries are situated under the muscl Suns:iiaaaad SiialL. A sweet singer of optimism, who urged everybody to "keep in the sun shine" has been ctrried into the shade on a shutter, a victim of heat prostration. Cheerful optimism is all right, even in August, but it L 111V V t . , . es and so are partlv protected irora .u. ro,,,a Storage it'l a icvv iii'imiin. pressure, says a writer in Uuting. The jugular veins, however, are quite near the surface, and a slight pressure upon then i3 enough to im pede the flow of blood away from the head. This retention of blood in the head is a frequent cause of that I headache peculiar to hot weather where the headache is accompanied City Journal. "Do you think bee stings cure rheumatism?" "No," answered grandfather Stubbs, "but they're mighty likely to make you forget you've got it." Washington Star. She -How I wish I had been Loin VVV.inpn h:wj all the trou- Took Her at Her Word. A woman came into the general store with a jar of butter. She desir ed to exchange it for another jar of butter. In churning her butter she had discoverd a mouse in the churn. "It didn't injure the butter," she said to the storekeeper, "and to any one who did not know the circum stances, it would taste all rignt." Taking the woman at her word, the merchant carried her jar into the back room, transferred her butter to With the cotton crop about 15 per by a flushed face and iceiing oi iui- a mal,: Women have all t'ae cent.below the average and the short- ness, often with buzzing m the ears. Wes Jn this ,vorl(L v,Q mntrv has o-rown in This condition is always present in iiu)V -1 don't agree with manv many years, while the world's heat prostraction. ' my dear. demands are larger than ever before, it does seem that if the law of supply and demand had anything to do with the price of the staple it would go to 15 cents a pound, and we believe that a good portion of the present crop will sell for that price-after it is out of the hands of the farmers. Fay ville Index. How to Run Your Town. Either run a town with a vim or just sell out and loaf. One thing must be done run the town tor an another jar.and the gratified custom- that -t ig wortn. Get up steam and er took back her mouse butter wun a thousand thanks for the accomoda tion. There is a great deal of need less trouble in this world on account of squeamish sentiment. Milwau kee Journal. The Trick oi a Swapper. One Million Ancestors. The Duty to do Good. Knowledge of what is evil creates an oDiigation to avum n, a.' U 2-J Sff I-I E i fi i! Hade to Suit YOUR EYES. Tucker, Hall & Co., The Expert Opticians, ranby St., Norfolk, Va. Catalogue on Application. edge of what is good, creates an ob it.:- vovatiVflv recent hio-fitinn to nerform it. All win aa VSllIllIl tUUllaiBu'xv "6" - r j iu. .;Vir.nf tnltrnc into mit. thp former. Wh .r,f nnnlps and aunts, oiaruujs nity to uoevn jjicbciim. flLWuuv - . , Imorr. .., r,a .ri nprson US- nt anv COStsnunil. witn one s ijcii.cik.vj, : - , .. u fatw and a moth- ine that when an opportunity to do er. The father had his two parents good is offered, we are at liberty to onri mother had hers. Thus eacn do just as we person has four grandparents .i . a -..s-s i-iftirQ unrin virmi. i nirit-i w r: i . t a rase with- of the opportunities to do good rwiiv.. I -- , w0 n man had Otherwise, we sin and gum VVllViv I Davidson horse traders may find interest in a story told by the Chat ham Record, which is thusly: A well known farmer of Chatham attended the recent term of court, and during his stay swapped his mule for a horse and gave $20 to boot. The can ny trader took the mule aside and trimmed him up, furbishing rum up, and improved his appearance to such an extent that his late owner did not recognize him. Seeing the mule, he too'a fancy to him, and gave the trader $10 boot between the mule and the horse. Thus he paid out $30 in money and carried the same mule back home. Bath he and the mule were trimmed. Lexington Dis patch. Are Now Farm Necessities. Among the many things which a keep it up. Do you want traae: uiu for it. Do you want business to com to your town? Encourage what you have. Do you want a prosperous town? Then never premit the jeal ousies to rule your action, but work together for common prosperity and mutual benefit. Shelby Aurora Past Comprehension. yu, Thev don't have wives! Now the tight neckband and the T in(c.endont. tight collar make pressure just over ( : the jugular veins, and so by pre-j Miss Hunt- I didn't know that venting free escape of blood from Miss Flarsh wa:? a college graduate, the head often produce heat head- did you? aches and other discomforts as well Mi?s Blunt -To be sure I did; she as add to the risk of heat prostra- j3 one of the aluminum of V assar. -tion. The neckband of the summer Boston Courier. shirt then should be loose and the ; collar low and easy fitting. --New York Sun. Vnv skin itching i a tcniiw.-r-tester Tli" in ore ynii scnteh the worse it j itehe-. l)o:in?s Ointment euros piles, co.oii!:i iiny skin itching. At :dl . drug stores. "Does he umet "Oh yes. do anything on He quits work.', f 1.. AL 1:.. 1V..I.Iini! 1.!I7 ! OiayilgllL VIl, misn wuimiio, : I come to see you again? ! Miss Wobbina Well, 1 cannot see ! how you can very well, unless you go this time: L.ue. "Is Scribbler willing any fiction these days?" "Oh, yes; more than he can attend to. He has orders for six summer resort booklets." - Buck. Detroit Free Press. 'ihe plea-suit purgative ctl'ect exne need bv all who use Chamberlain'? . .. M 1 1 - . ...1 Ston-.ai-ii ana Liver lamer-, ami uthy condition of the body Why is it that some people sit back and always talk about what the town should do and what the town should have, and never offer to assist in get ting these things, is beyond our com- " l J nrehension. If these people wouia only go out and take a little interest ?n mihiifi affairs, they would readily se a big difference. Louisburg Times. grand parents in living memory T-t n So vis rrt frandnarants, all living. A simple calculation gives the as tnnishintr result that our lineal an cestors during twenty generations nnmher no fewer than 1,048,576, or .,r:;ont neonle. if all living to pop- -nma. The wise - - . T -J- LUV , v.- .... 1 i,fQ thp whole ol vvaies. i . - .i v with ms seea Uiatw luiiiici io iivu Strand. upon us. J. Ross Stevenson. An advertisement is to a merchant very much what sowing seed is to a farmer.' It may take a little time for ji .,lfc f -. liocnrnfi apparent, but U1C 1 l,v . 'I Frightful Fate Averts?. would have been a cripple, for life cap IW. tnrrUilo flit Oil mV KVif O Li" ill i-v. " writes Frank Disbcrry, Kelliher, Minn.. without JJUCKicn s vviin- Halve, which soon cured me." Infalli ble for wounds, cuts and bruises, it soon cures Burns, Scalds, O'.d Soics, r. :i. al-in Vnnstions. World's lit t. n;i,.c at E. T. Whitehead i i tuna win1 1 joyful, tnpany. the uid li they create, S,ld by K. T. inaKcs ore Whitehead "What's this extra session of Con gress for?" "I suppose thev want to add sonic ! thing to the sum total of the human (output of gass." -New York Press. Ere many days have vanished we Will hear the gay mosquito call, "I'm busier than the busiest bee, And yet I get no praise at all." -Judge. I "If 1 v. ere you I wouldn't be a j fool, Vises." "True," replied uiggs. ; lox-.nikr "The unfortunate! LUJiilJiv-w.j . . i . .1.. 4- 4,....!t!Uai- j . Jl,t oro lmnrsp I." '.lotwinv i UUUV 1 wiiiui -The Circle. Teacher What is an ocean? body ing battkvhips.- -New York Sun. ..rm-.fi ;3 lnvnries i lew years ayi- wci i-v.. j Companv s. hut are to-day put in the class of ev- TErr : Prv dav necessities, the telephone. The Bed-RCCk 01 Success holds a prominent part. This is par- li(.s in a kceri) cie:U- brain, backed by ticularly so as regards the phone j imiomitable will and resistless energy. orviVe in the urban and rural dis- c,u.i, power comes from the splendid tricts.- The rural free delivery of I lK,.lIth tI;;lt pr. King's New Life Tills mails, some years ago was considered . imarfc. They vitalize every organ and ..4- ;.y. iinnnrtflTlPP. "in its first t i , r. l.rnin find bodv. .1. A. Har- OX jtlcL annul ". - ' - I'liii't " j v... p I k Why Suffer ? fc'-ky rslcunlain Tea Nuggets k E'jy Medioine tar Busy People. 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