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i ;he Cqmmqnwi Good Advertisers Use these columns for results. An advertisement in this paper DALTH ! at Steam is to vi'0:t propelling : . '. '. ', 1. t- it -.. i .-. , will reach a good class of people. :tWi, .idiier .!,,l Proprietor. "Excelsior" is Our Motfo. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1909. NUMBER 42. 3 ?irr n Dcatli; prcvailinir in th !:'.?'! vrous because so decep- 1 , b"i b :"i t,iye-1 Many sudden - ..V r ' '" ' 'lentils are cfi,tc' l - Vi by it heart OiS- incuriH nia. iili-.re or '.. heart - apoplexy ar . ten me result of kid ney disease. I; kidney trouble i- ! 1 Jowcutoadvauce it c ju me v-to; .tiri. cd blcou v.i'i ft cm;: ing cntanii of '- or :-.c:Iir!iei:': n. , back cclio, l-.tr.e lczsiwzr,, r-ervors-t!ie:n;-clvcs br-cl cell by cell. . ;'.Coi always rem" kmj:cvs arc: organ is obtained :eli::sui of t'aekid- :c.lll!v t iujassk; "-it i'lt !:. CC:7 ;f ' i 1 c.u-n thro ".:rj kldiiovtvn : the hhcs--; cakii resto.Iu: c. :t to tr.kc nd i; o;, ; i t:'l!s : . ;:'!. : i cycling tills r .'?r. Den t :v .oinber the c: Sv, am.p-Ro'. appointed. 7eck, I ' - i- - a ; ( t. . il c. :s in V,"hitr- '.ai ') 5 o"'. to 1 o'clock Counselor at a-. t BuiMin 11 Phone 7'. :; COUXSEkOR r . w AT XT c. Mr :.-'- L'ri.sxcs Agent, o4 d 4 t ; i i . VI. k h LV!l5. snby.Sf., Norfolk, Va. t. ! t2m Tea Nuggets '-.:' Jvlcdbma for Easy People. e Health and Renewed Vigor. 'i V''1'"- t-',p CoT.M.lnaMon. In'tipestlon, W' 7 ''-'i!e- i-iiiji! , Kczemt, Impure ..,. , ' , ! ' .k-iith. SIi!c:sh no-.vpls, HHlachP l'-f'f'-.'n '" '-" x-ify I-.I-imliiii Tea in tab- U, ., . !'.:, V '"'in a u'it. f;-iiuine mada by r ,i. 1 1:t Otu'asy, Hudison, Wis NOG&ETS f OR SALLOV PEOPLE ANTI-WQHAfJ PROVERBS. Tiie American Man Rejects and Re sents Them Instinctively. Some of the thiners which are 1 41 i . . -. ... i sa11 against women would stick, i nrehans. and oualifv the nre-pmi. i nence as a woman above a man, if I they happened to be true. Things said against an individual woman may stick and harm her infinitely, evn when they are "false as ;" b :X the untruths which are general-H-iHon; against a whole sex do not ount. because every man general-ix-.T. tl;e r.ex from what he knows of h's T'-v.vf-ber and sister, and his wife or ?'.v?etheart, or the woman whom he w?nt3 (but maybe cannot get) for h:.-', sweetheart. Wo fill the world with sayings a women, and believe not one ' rhom. "Women are deceivers . v f 'tys a proverb; and the man the street hears it, and maybe as aid straightway goes and ac- gospel what ever is told him :v ;v.y first woman he meets. "To a woman love you, beat her," ; other proverb; and ninty-nine ' ' : -carts out of a hundred will unspeakable indignation : woman is struck by a man, ;i ':-e law says the man has the to strike her. j. y woman who is not depraved vau-tus; chivairy is the answer -i" ti.fc xsaole race of men to the .!. which trip from one idle hi1 tie to another about women in It: t!vi4 age and country, although '.r.ieal proverbs about women are rill common enough, one hears them x.ih less. They must be fading- Let us hope that they are. et us leave them to the most ig- int and degraded of peoples, who really the only ones who have them. The Neapolitan peas ants, and the Chinaman, and rude Norman boor, and the coarse louts 'escribed in Zola's "La Terre," are rich iii but one thing and that is in ihc body of their proverbial litera ture uttered at the expense of women. They are the people who harness a woman to a wagon with an ox or a donkey, and drive the pair with a whip. Let us leave to them their proverbs, as we leave them to their means of locomotion. In enlightened lands, and especial ly in America, the cynical quip at women's expense is no more at home chan the Chinese foot, bound with tiaht bands to make the women un Mc lo walk away from her house, r the ugly eastern European wig to render the married woman, for rbr r ufety of her husband's property, i' ! . us in the eyes of all men. The :vr. ' where women are freest is also : laud where they are most respec ted. Instinctively we discredit all he anti-woman proverbs. Having '.iscrt oited them, let us bury them :A forget them forever. New Mail. 'A Ji. ;?mon io Cusiacss Men. - man who conducts his business ? ib er.ry that i t dosen' t pay to ad rets up his judgment in oppo . '.o hat of all the best business ir.e werif !d Says an experi- -.?rtismg authority: "With a -i experience in conducting ,.-infSs on a few thousands i, ho assumes to know more ; .i nds whese hourly trans irgregate more than his do , : r d who have made their y pursuing a course that he mI pay. a -tising doesn't pay, why is f. most successful merchants iiwn, large or small, are the adverisers? If advertising t pay, who does the most bu- sro-H.X If it dot-s not pay, business firm.-; in the world squander millions in that way. Js if because they wa si to donate those millions to the nt-v.a pap?r and magazine publishers, or hecause they don't know as much about business as the six-f or-a-dollar merchant who says money spent in advertising is thrown away or donat ed to the man to whom it is paid? Such talk is simply rediculous, and it requires more than the average patience- to discuss the proposition of whether advertising pays or not with that kind of a man. His com placent salf-conceitin assuming that he knows more than the whole world lnno-hnble. and reminds us of the man who proved that the world does not revolve by placing a pumpkin on a stump and watching it at night. Fort Mill (S. C.) Times. Any skin itching is a temper-tester. The more you scratch the worse it ;t.',i! mans iin.jiitj vv.v, t , eczema any skin itching, drug stores. At all THE TIDES. How The Attraction et The Mecn Ads Upon The Water. The tides have been studied with great care and labor during three centuries and are not yet complete ly understood by astronomers, says Edgar Lucien Larkin, of the Lowe observatory. Any point on earth moves from west to east around to the same location in space and in a period of twenty-four hours. The moon goes around the earth in a period of 27.32166 days. Let the moon and a star be on the straight line at exact noon. Then of course, they would cross the meridian togeth er. In twenty-four hours the star will cross it again, but you will have to wait fifty-two minutes longer for the moon to cross, it having moved eastward through a space requiring that length of time to traverse. The moon attracts by the law of gravitation and, being a dead planet, has no effect on attractive force, And this attraction heaps up wat er directly under it in the ocean. But there is another heap on the exact opposite side of the earth away from the moon. This is because the moon attracts the whole earth away from water, leaving it behind in a heap or pile of elevation. The tide day is therefore twenty-four hours and fifty-two min- utes long. High tides will be at both sides of the earth at the same time and of course, low tides at dis tances of 90 degrees each way, or at points one-fourth the circumfer ence of the earth from the high heaps. Tides are caused by difference in the intensity of the moon's attrac tion on water on the side of the earth nearest to it and farthest away and also between these attractions and the attraction exerted on the center of the earth. The sun also causes tides. These combine with the lunar and call into use the most intricate mathematics to compute heights and times of high and low tides. Exchange. Pistol-Toting. The Texas legislature at its latest session imposed a tax of 50 per cent on the gross receipts derived from sales of pistols in that State. This was done with a view to making pistol-toting more expensive. In oth er communities it has been sought to make the act of carrying deadly weapons concealed a felony punish able by confinement at hard labor in the penitentiary. Another reme dy considered is to make it felony to manufacture, offer for sale, or have in posc-ssion a pistol the barrel of which is less than eighteen inches in length. Give a fool who is a coward and an egotist, and then make this crea ture drunk, and put a pistol in his pocket, and the chances are seven of a possible ten that there will be a murder in that fellow's haunts be fore midnight. There are more homicides of that sort perpetrated in this land of the free every calen dar month of the year than all the casualties of battles on land or sea of the late war with Spain. The coun try is got to be too high-toned to le gally hang its murderers, and hence taere has grown up the demoralizing practice of lynching them. Trials in courts of criminal judicature are too frequently travesties on justice. Bribery and perjury are too com mon. Perverted sentimentality has too free swings. Criminal lawyers practice too i reely the infamies of shysters. The right of appeal adds enormous weight to the leaden feet of justice. We have interpreted the gospel. Better ten men be shot down in street fight than that one red-handed murderer pay the pen alty of his crime on a gallows erected by the law. Next to drunkness, the cowardly practice of pistol-toting is responsi for more illegal violence in this coun try than any other cause, and the two go together. Few sober men carry a pistol, and perhaps 90 per cent of the pistol toters are moved to the habit by their indulgence in too much fighting whiskey. The defect of thej American character is the lax admin istration of the criminal statues. It is5 the immunity from punish ment that emboldens our criminal classes. Stop pistol-toting and a great advance will be made in civil ization. Washington Post. The pleasant purgative effect expe rienced by all who use Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets, and the healthy condition of the body and mind which they create, makes one feel joyful. Sold by E. T. Whitehead Company. SEEING UNDER WATER The Reiracticn nf Light and the Limit- ting Angle cf Vision. One of the most peculiar things in connection with life under water is what is known as the limiting angle of vision. This applies to fishes, divers, submarine crews, and, in fact, any being possessing the power of sight and desiring to look through the water at objects in the air. The effect is not due to a defect in vis ion, but to the refraction or bend ing of V:ght, andmo telescope or oth er opt ( '-r instrument can get around it. The effect consist of the impossibil ity cf seeing anything on the out side unless the observer directs his line of sight within forty-eight de grees of the vertical. If a forty nine degree angle or over is taken, the surface, no matter how clear the water, it acts as a perfect mirror and reflects objects at the bottom of the water, thus not allowing any thing on the outside to be seen. The consequence of this property is the most startling cf all, for every thing on the outside can be seen in the cone described by the forty-eight degree angle from the eye. This shows all outside objects huddled to gether and appearing high in the air. Thus, if one dives into the middle of a wide river, on looking up the banks will appear close together but, at a great distance from the observer, high in the air. This angle is called the "critical" angle and of course varies with the two media in contact. If one desires to make the experi ment a square glass box or an aqua rium will answer very well. Sus pend this from the ceiling or sup port it on a wall bracket and look un der it at an angle. The phenome non will be observed as indicated. The clearer the water the more clearly will things appear. Chicago Record-Herald. Farm vs. Town Life. T Life on the farm is not now near so isolated or burdensome as it was in former times even up to a very few years ago, and day by day con veniences are being added- to it to make it pleasanter. With the good roads the rural telephone, the rural free delivery of mail the advance in the public school system, country life is now giving many cf the advantges of town life really it now has some that town residents did not enjoy just a few years ago. It is strange, with all these things, coupled with the independence and free mode of living the farmer enjoys, that there j should not be a rush from the town to A 1 .. ll. ...1' cue country, tne latter me seeming so much preferable to that in the towns, There are more inducements to-day than ever before to people to remain on the farms, yet there is probably more abandonment of farm life than ever before a condition which, we agree, is hard to understand. With the man who loves independence, freedom from the conventionalities of artificial life and who can luxuri ate in the thought that he lives at home there can be nothing better or more ideal than life on a well-managed farm. The man who lives on a farm has to work of course he does if lie expects to make anything out J hous,ig (if ConRrcSP for it is beauti of his farm. But that is no more i Pl,i ; eanin,ni-rA than the town man has to do. The farmer who moves to town with the expectation of living a life of ease ; be greatly Disappointed. i,et him ask the merchant, the banker or I he professional man of the town as to the town life and the answer will be, work, hard work every day in the year, with tne town man tnere is no season of rest after the laying by of crops no days with nothing to do after the year's crops have been gathered, no season of forced idle ness, because of weatner unsuitable to work in the fields; but it is one ; OV.C4.OW I A . .TV-..-. w----.-.-'-.-(- v, -. . -. from the first day of January until the last lay of December of each and . . j i . , m and by whom and wnen the hick vantages that many do not yet real- , J . , , . , . , , ize. Charlotte Observer. "How did you get the money to i prizes it highly and will hang it buy paints to finish your picture?" i upon the walls of his home in Scot asked the sympathetic intimate of I land Neck and preserve it among the struggling artist. his house-hold treasures. And "Pawned my coat." I long may John D. Christian, gallant "Oh! And how much did you get old Confederate soldier and elegant for your picture?" j gentleman, live to honor his South- "Nearly enough to get mv coat land and to preserve its traditions out." London Globe. Your cough annoys you. Keep on hacking and tearing the delicate mem branes of your throat if yon want to be annoyed. But if you want relief, want to be cured, take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. i-Vtd by E. T. White head Company. OVERWORKED GOVERNMENT. Inability to lope With Growias Labor ! Should Force States to Do Their Part. This gowing uneasiness about the ability of governments to cope with the labor thrown upon them is really world-vide. Parliament and Reich stage, Duma and Cortes and Depu ties, all confess that they are not equal to the demands for legislation ineesantly made upon them. In England, both parties are for "devolution" of imperial powers, in England itself as well as Ireland, so the county councils and municipali ties may do a part of the work which it thrust upon Parliament, and with which it more and more hopelessly attemps to grapple. Decentraliza tion is one of the crying needs of Russia. With all the official busi ness of a vast empire concentrated in St. Petersburg, so that a man de siring to build a house in Vladivos tok has to get the plans approved by some department in the capital, the result is that everything is halted and inspected, but nothing done. We are perilously approaching that condition in Washington. The President showers Congress with recommendations, but it, like the man in Anatole France's latest satire, who was buried under the val uable material which he had collected is simply overwhelmed and does nothing. It is close observation of this spectacle that leads Mr. Root to issue his summons to this state, and to others, to "exercise its pow ers." New York Evening Post. An Artist In Carving. This is not written to advertise the artistic carving of that splendid Southern genleman, Mr. J. D. Chris tian, of Rocky Mount, for his work in this line is a "labor of love" for his friends, but it is to give some little expression of their appreciation of his kindness to them, and this writer is proud to be numbered among the hosts. Mr. Christian was one of the j chivalric followers of the immortal ; t nfl ih. h.ffl. fl nf th. 4t, a t,i i. walls of Sumter till it was furled at Appomattox? He has been loyal to the righteou and holy cause since '61 and treasures his experiences in that mighty struggle as the choicest of the reminisences of his life. He has carved more names, monograms, designs, pictures, and verses on canes and umbrellas, we venture lo say, than any other man in the South and often his leve for his Southland and his patriotic impulses are found carv- efl on these umbrellas and canes, He 5s a admirer of the Hon. Claude Kitchin the ai,Ie and Lril. 7 hjant Congressman from the second district; admires him because he is one of the truly great sons of the Old North State, always loyal, faithful, true to his party and people in every struggle and crisis notably, of late, the great tariff fight in Congress and at the National Capital and ev erywhere he is constant and vigilant and one of the boldest and most elo quent champions of the South and his Carolina. As a small token of this admiration Mr. Christian has re cently made a walking cane for Mr. Kitchen that has attracted the admi- i ration of msnv members of both artistic finish. Carved on this cane near the top, is a large Confederate b ttl fl j,h th Eetting sun (of the Confederacy) sinking below the horizon its Iast, soft, lingering rays radiating from behind the flag, while below, in the foreground, in bold re lief, is a perfectly carved picture of Gen. Robert E. Lee, with his auto graph signature underneath. Then running down the cane this quota tion from Father Ryan: "The world shall yet decide In truth's clear, far-off light That the men who wore the grey With Lee were in the right." There are other inscriptions, all in raised letters, the name of Mr. Kitch- i ory was cut and carved into the beau tiful cane that it is. Mr. Kitchin and hallowed memories. So mote it be. Rocky Echo. Mount Dyspepsia is our national ailment. Burdock Blood Bitters is the national cun for it. It strengthens stomach membranes, promotes flow of digestive juices, purities the blood, builds you up. k((m MSmoissiety Puro A iff RSakes fiiicst, most dell- 1 3 feTST ( fr A clous btscmSI, cake and fep pastry; eojsvsys to fieod alifiW v-rk Siemosi!xs3ltlifaSo! JvSfx CLOUD PICTURES. Dar's pictures in de papers, Dar's pictures on de wall, But de set of illustrations Dat I likes de bes' of all Is dem dat comes at evenin' When de breezes sof'ly sigh An' de twilight colors gather Making pictures in de sky. De white folks say dem's nulfin' But the mist dat go an' come, But dar couldn't be no pictures VViiout things to take em frum And my toil's made light by hop'n' Dat I II visit by an by Dem places represented By ue pictures in oe sky. Washington Star. Dcn't Wait for Macadam. We believe heartily in stone roads; but the notion that no road except a stone road can be a good road, has done great harm. Believing that every community should have just the highest type of road it can afford we are very postive that the things for most communities to do is to be gin with the road. they have and make them belter. Whore a gravel roaf cost oro.third as much, or a i.,,r h- t tenth as much, will answer the needs of the neighborhood just as well as ; in many cases it will it is folly to try to build a macadam road. Let us begin at the beginning and develop gradually. Asphalt, bri. k, macadam, gravel, sand-clay, simple earth all these roads may be good roads, and there are localities where each of them will be the best road. Because we cannot cover our roads with stone is no reason we should giye them over to mudholes and ditches. Certainly if macadam is a long ways off, don't wait for it. Get something else. Progressive Far mer. New Railroad tiap. The railroad map of North Caroli na, prepared by Secretary H. C. Brown, cf the corporation commiss ion, and examined and authorized by the cornmision, has been published. This map shows all railroad lines and stations, the proposed lines, the county seat of each county and eve ry town with fifty inhabitants or ov er. It is invaluable to every person interested in the railroad and indus trial development of the state and will be a revelation to many who thought themselves familiar with the railroad improvements in North Carolina. Thii i3 one of many ex cellent works of Mr. Brown as sec retary of the corporation commis sion. Those who receive copies of the map will wonder how they have been able to get along without it. News and Observer. Frightful Fete Averted. "I would have been a cripple for life from a terrible cut on my knrc cap," .Minn. Halve, writes Frank Disberry, Kolliher, , "without Bucklen's Arnica which soon cured me." Infaili- bl'j for wounds, cuts and bruises, it soon cures Burn, Scalds, Old Sores, Boils, Skin Eruptions. World's best for riles. 2oc at E. T. Whitehead Company's. "See how's th' thermometer, Den ny." "It's stopped. Sure 'tis th' same as'twaz wan hour ago." Judge. The Bed-Reck &f Success lies in a keeu, clear brain, backed by indomitable will and resistless energy. Such power comes from the splendid health that Dr. King's s'ow Life 1'ills impart. They vitalize every organ and build up brain and body. J. A. Har mon, Lizcmorc, V. Va., writes, "They are the best pills I ever used." 'Joe at E. T. Whitehead Company's. My Lady's Kair. She walks beauty like the night, as some romatic singe said; her eyes give forth a stary light, her lips are of a cheery red; across the floor she I seems to float; she seems to me be !yond compare, a beinr perfect till I note the way that she's done up her ihair. She must have toiled a half a ! day to build that large, unweildy mass she must have used a bale of hay, and strips of tin, and wire of brass; her sisters must havr helped to braid, her mother wrought and tinkered there, and butler, cook and chamber maid, all helped to wrestle with her hair. After all the grinding toil, and all the braiding and the fuss, the one effect is just to r.poil her beauty, and make people cuss. She walks in beauty like the night where nights are most serenely fair; but J. H. Cae sar! She's a sight, wnen she's got on her Sunday hair! -Walt Mason A Cheerful Letter. The following was sent by a coun tryman to hi3 college son not many years ago: Mv Dear Son I write to send you two pair of old breeches, that you may have a new coat made of them; a'so some new socks, which your.mo thor made by cutting down some of mine. Your mother :;ends you $10 without my knowledge, and for fear you will not spend it wisely I have kept back half and only .send five. Your mother and I are well, except your Sister Annie has got the measles, which we think would spread among other girls if Tom had not had them before, and he is the only one left. I hope you are well and will do honor to my teach ings. If you do not vo-u are an ass, and your mother and myself are you r affectionate parents. Na ntuck et Inquirer and Mirror. (look says he did it. IVaiy says ho did it, but tli-chancos ar- neither one did it unless he took Holli-ter's Kocky .Mountain Tea. It i the most search ing ami finding remedy there is no doubt after taking .i sure aJ you take it you get results. 1 it tonight. K. T. Whitehead Company. Returned Explorer Yes, th cedd was so intense at the Pole we had to be very careful not to pet our dogs. Mi:.s Youngthing Indeed! Why wa3 that? R. E. You see, their tails were frozen stiff, and if they wagged them they would break off. Boston Tran script. You need not be troubled in any way with the stomach, if you will sim ply take Kodol at those times when you feel that you mod it. Kodol is guaranteed to relieve you. If it fails your money will be r funded to you by the druggist from whom you purchased it. Try it today on thN guarantee. Hold by E. T. Whitehead Company. "Have you a city directory?" ask ed the lady, entering the drugstore. "No, I have not," replied the pill man; "and I must say you've stump ed me." "How so?" "Why, 1 can't truthfully say I've got something just as good." Yon kers Statesman. It is in time of sudden iiii-h.-ip or accident that Chamberlain's Liniment can bo relied upon to t -ke the place of the family doctor, who cannot always be found at tl.o moment. Then it is thai Chamberlain's kiuiu.ent is never found wanting. In cases of sprains, cuts, -v.-oond-: and lauises Chrimbi r lain's I.in'ment takes out lie "fin-'; and drives away the pain, . old by E. T. Whitehead Company. - 5 0' III, "I V. 5i ., i 4
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