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j VOL. XXV. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1909.
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comfort in the knowledge so
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st every wish in correcting
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niu nuiiu s DenBr. hniinaie inn Farmpp invs nr. human siiumfr .lust Mar a Man. -.
Oh, the earth is full of sinning
And of trouble and woe,
Bat the devil makes an inning
Every time you say it's so;
And the way to set him scowling,
And to put him back a pace,
Is to stop this stupid grovling
And to look things in the face.
If you glance at history's pages,
In all land and eras known,
You will find the vanished ages
Far more wicked than our own.
As you scan each word and letter
You will realize it more,
That the world today is better
Than ever it was before.
There is much that needs amending
In the present time, no doubt.
There is right that needs defending,
There is wrong needs crushing out,
And we hear the groans and curses
Of the poor who starve and die.
When the men with swollen purses
In the place of hearts, go by.
But in spite of all the trouble
That obscures the sun today,
Just remember it was double
In the ages passed away.
And these wrongs shall be righted
Good shall dominate the land;
For the darkness now is lighted
By the torch in Science's hand.
Forth from little motes in chaos.
We have come to what we are,
And no evil force can stay us,
We shall mount from star to star;
We shall break away each fetter
That has bound us heretofore,
And the world today is better
Than it ever was before.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The First Thing is to Make Permanent.
The old-time poverty of the South
ern farmer seems to be now broken.
The first concenTof these in their
new prosperity should be to educate
their sons and daughters and train
them in a way to make the improved
conditions permanent and even bet
ter for the succeeding generation.
In these modern time3 farming re
quires as scientific and technical
knowledge and skill as industrial
work does. Two bales of cotton per
acre is as easy as a half a bale if the
farmer knows how. The present
crop of cotton is made up of about
thirty-two million acres. There
should be no increase in acreage in
the near future. According to mo
dern standards thirty-two million
acres in cotton should yield thirty
two million bales. This is upon the
basis of one bale per acre. The
highest type of modern cotton farms
prod uces two bales per acre. A crop
of eleven or twelve million bales on
trirty-two million acres shows a very
inferior sort of treatment and culti
vation of the land.
With the price now being received
for cotton the first move for improve
ment should be a better education of
the farmers' sons and daughters.
Charlotte Chronicle.
Ladies First.
"What is the reason," began the
irritated traveler from the north,
"that the trains in this part of the
country are always behind time? I
have never seen one yet that ran ac
cording to its schedule."
"That, suh," replied the dignified
Georgian, "is a mattah that is easily
3xplained. It is due to southern
chivalry, suh."
"Southern chivalry! Where does
chat come in?"
"You see, suh, the trains, are al-
ways late in uns wuhuj v..
hey wait for the ladies, (jod Diess
hem !" Chicago Record-Herald.
A 50-cent bottle of
Scott's Emulsion
given in half-teaspoon
doses four times a day,
mixed in its bottle, will
last a old baby near-
month and four bot
over three months,
will make the baby
ly a
ties
and
strong and well and will
lay the foundation for a
healthy, robust boy
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Communicated.
Every farmer should be well edu
cated. It has already been strikingly
demonstrated that the more educa
tion a farmer posesses. especially
along scientific lines, the greater will
be his success in his agricultural pur
suits. An education is needed on
the farm as well as other professions
in life. The need of scientific edu
cation is very urgent, as it means
tremendous and constant success to
the farmer. Every farmer should
provide a liberal education for his
sons, if they expect to adopt farm
ing as a business in life. The farm
er has more complications to contend
with than any other clsss or profes
sion. He has all the different kind
of soils, some soils will produce one
crop and fail on others. He has the
rain, the dry weather, the different
kinds and grades of stock, and es
pecially the kind that is best adapted
to his farm.
The agricultural implements play
a very important part in farming
and when and where to use them.
The farmer can occasionally make
two crops with one set of tools for
one season will be wet, and the next
dry and it will take a different kind
of implement for each season.
In some of our eastern Govern
ments, and Europe especially, pro
vide primary schools of agricultural
and domestic science and cause these
subjects to occupy a prominent place
in the public schools.
Sweden sends a number of her
most progressive farmers, one from
each locality, on a visit to the better
farmers and experiment station of
other countries, retaining each of
these men as a centre of information
for his community.
Prof. E. B. Hart says the farmer
needs to be cautioned against the
use of wood ashes and lime with
manure, the ashes and lime produce
an Alkaline condition, resulting in
the loss of ammonia.
I think the people of Halifax Co,
can stand shoulder to shoulder with
most of the counties, but why not
c'nnr? "pre1-
In emphasizing the value of agri-
cultural education we are accustom-
ed to show the benefits that are de-
vised by the people of the rural dis- J
trict, forgetting the fact that the
farm is the source of our entire
wealth and therefore the barometer
of progress.
Chas. L. Staton.
Wake Forest College.
How Production Encourages Labor
Whatever comes, we must get rid
of the idea that cheap, ignorant, un
trained labor helps a community, or
that because one man does a certain
work. Therefore there is less for
other men to do. It has its limita
tions, of course, and yet the doctrine
set forth by Edgar Gardner Murphey
cannot be too seriously considered:
"One man's work does not reduce
the volume of the work open to oth
er men. Every man's work produ
ces work for all. Every laborer
who is really a producer, represents
a force which is enlarging the mar
ket for labor. The man who makes
a table, broadens the opportunities
of industry behind him and before
him. He helps to make work for
the man who fells the trees, for the
man who hauls the trees to the saw
mill, for those in the mills who dress
the timber for his use, for those who
die and shape the iron which goes
into the nails he drives; he makes
work for the man who provides the
c-lue. the stains and the varnish, for
the man who owns the table at the
shoD. for the drummer who tells a
bout it. for the men who sell looa
and aDDarel to those who handle 1
and who profit by its repeated sales
from factory to wholesaler, and
from the wholesaler to the retailer,
and from the retailer to the hna
purchaser. The man who makes a
table makes business. The man
who makes shoes or harness or tools
or crops, makes business. The work
of the skilled producer does not re
strict the market of labor. It en
laro-Ps that market Progressive
Farmer.
The Heartless Girl.
A few days ago a young man at
Des Moines, la., made one long ling-
ering lovelorn piea as uie v
to his lady love to change her mind
and sav "Yes." He told her that i
she didn't marry him he'd get a rope
and hang himseli ngnt m iroia u
Vior home
"Oh please don't do that, Joe
rfpar " she said with much feeling
"vou know father doesn't want you
hanging arouna nerc
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So ne aian i.
any more-Denver News.
Attain to Considerable Dimension in I
u ij t mnni I
mm jfidiiu, 11 ia Aiicycu.
Enter Indian summer, with its
skies of deep blue, its woodlands of
russet and gold, its bracing breezes
of a morning, and its mingled per
fumes of camphor, cough medicine,
pumpkin pie and sauerkraut. In
"Henry Esmond" you will find a
chapter on the charms of Indian
summer, penned by William Make
peace Thackery. The great English
man fairly bowed down and wor
shiped it. Not Greece, nor Switzer
land, nor Arcady, said he, could show
such a season of unmixed delight.
It was the dream of his life to die
in Virginia or Maryland in the
midst of Indian summer. But fate
planned otherwise, and so he passed
away amid the raw fogs of London
town on the day before Christmas.
The charm of Indian summer in
these blessed latitudes is not only
meteorological, but also gastronom
ical. lt'is a season of hearty appe
tite and rare good eating. The oys
ters from the Chesapeake, with the
first touch of frost upon them, be
gin to get that indescribable tang in
them. This tang is not to be mistak
en for mere saltiness. You may roll
a northern oyster in salt until it looks
like a snowball and it will still lack
entirely the heavenly flavor of a
bivalve from Tangier Sound. No
doubt the difference is one of atmos
phere and environment, rather than
of chemical content.
The northern oyster inhabits bleak
coasts and is ensnared by solemn
abolitionists in long whiskers, but
the Chesapeake oyster, nesting in the
cove along the glorious eastern shore
enjoys the elevating society of eas
tern shoremen and drinks in the
sweet waters that roll down to the
sea from the shore itself. The lower
animals like man himself, are model
ed and transmogrif ted by their vit
uals. Feed a hog upon acorns and
mushrooms and he yields Smithfield
hams, but feed him upon slops and
his flesh is fit only for railway sta
tion sandwiches and crab bait.
The oyster js but one of Indian
sumrner's incomparable delicatessen,
others come to mind in countless
numbers saurkraut, canvasback
ducks, pumpkin pies, hot doughnuts
ried scrapple, country sausage,
buckwheat cakes, Bismarck herring.
Saurkraut of course, demands a
whole article to itself. It is alto
gether too magnificent a viand to be
dismissed hastily in list of epicurian
also-rans. It appeals not only to the
palate, but also to the imagination,
and even, in a sense, to the spirit.
No other single victual has been
praised more lavishly by statesmen,
philosophers, prophets and poets. It
is a whole meal, from soup to nuts.
Woven into fabrics, it makes warm
and comfortable clothing. Dried it
may be smoked in a pipe. Melted
down, it is the long-sought perfect
street pavement. Baltimore Sun.
County Editor vs Millionaire.
I'd rather be a country editor and
chase around for news, before I'd be
a millionaire with wealth I could not
use. I'd father be a printer with
patches on my breeches, than be a
masler of finance, with all my thots
on riches. I'd rather eat my modest
meal, digest the same with ease, than
to sit down to a royal feast with
ctomneh ache like John D's. To
rorr.p and frolic with my kids around
nnr cheerful hearth, with their
mother for audience to help enjoy
the mirth, is better than to move
about in high society, where dress
and jewels make life a mockery.
in:- i.... iUn nvintor'c: fjjsh trpts !
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i 1. ,1 nnma in a hurrv hilt.
uic uapw Lronch t s sore throat, cold in the 1
lets the drummer worry. Heal j
has a conscience clear, a disposition1'" , ,
sunny; he knows that life has always
joy beside the chase for money. For
the molder of opinion is a happier
man by far, than the man who owns
a place, a yacht and a private car.
And when he goes to his reward he
knows that all is well, while the man
who makes his wealth his god may
seme day go to h 1. Selected.
Rich Men's Gitts are Poor
beside this. "I want to go on record
as saying that I regard Electric Bit
ters as one of the greatest gifts that
Clod has made to woman, writes Mrs.
O. Rhinevault, of Vestal Centre, N. Y.,
T ion rtPVPr fvret what it has done
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forme." inis glorious meuiume
a woman buoyant spirits, vigor of body
a inlnt health. It ouicklv cures
Nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy,
headache, backache, fainting and dizy
spells ; soon build up the weak ailing
and sieklv. Trv them. oOc. at L. 1.
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Whitehead Go's.
The winter winds began to blow,
And chilled him till he knew
He must don warmer clothes, and so
He to the closet flew.
He grouped around and went it blind,
He hunted far and near;
Then he gave a roar! He could not
find
That coat he wore last year!
So forth he leaped and raised a row
There was the deuce co piy!
His wife said mildly, "Maybe, now,
I gave that thing away."
At that he stormed and raved around,
And acted rude I fear!
She made a search and then she found
That coat he wore lastyeir!
And then they had a little talk
Respecting finds like these,
And he went out and took a walk
To give his feelings ease.
Although the day was passing fair,
He gained but little cheer,
Because he knew he had to wear
The coat he wore last year!
Chicago News.
The Wife
We go out to God's acre, and we
read upon the tombstones of the
poor wives who sleep quietly be
neath the daisies, with their hands
folded upon their breasts, of their
virtues, and we think that some of
the inscriptions should read, "Died
of overwork." If life is a battle to
man, it is more to a woman. Wom
an does not draw her inspi
ration from the same source
as man. Three things she
needs and must have: First, your so
ciety and companionship; second
your confidence, and third, your love.
She doesn't want to wait until she is
dead to read her virtues on her
tombstone. She wants her husband
to tell her how much he loves her.
There are couples, happy in the eyes
of society, who in the home are
nothing to each other. There are
couples who blossom over with cour
tesies to each other, but who in
their own homes are as stolid as oy
sters. In society the husband will
almost break his neck to pick up her
handkerchief if it falls, and at home
will allow her to carry the coal hod.
We sometimes marvel at the coolness
with which a man asks a tenderly
reared maiden to leave her luxurious
home to cast her lot with him upon
the untried sea of matrimony, and
we marvel at the faith of the mai
den who accepts his offer, saying:
"Whither thou goest I will go, and
where thou lodgest 1 will lodge; thy
people shall be my people and thy
God my God." Grave obligations
grow out of this love and sacrifice
and man's duty next to glorifying
his Creator is certainly to live lor
woman s happmess. -Northneld
News.
Common.
"We tried keeping an account of
our expenditures, but after all it
didn't give us a very clear idea of
where the money went."
"Why not?"'
"Both my wife and myself had too
many items that we wanted listed as
sundries." Kansas City Journal.
A teacher at an evening school had ;
before her a class in which were j
many very rough lads. j
"Suppose," said the teacher, "I I
should say, 'Look out, boys; here J
comes the police!' Would that be j
correct?" 1
There was a silence. Finally a lit- j
tie fellow said, No'm; that wouldn't j
be right." !
"Well," inquired the teacher, j
"how should it be said?" j
" 'Cheese it, cullies; here comes a I
cop?' " was the reply. Tit-Bits. j
Foley's Honey and Tar is the Lest and I
saftest cough remedy for children.
A. j
as I
the first symptoms of a cold,
1,11 i-j"M'
Kive
enmfort ami ease to the little ones.
Contains no opiates or other harmful j
drugs. Keep always on hand, and re
fuse substitutes. Sold Ly all Drujifdstst
Heard at the retail men's big din- j
ner: Two commercial travelers went i
on a pleasure trip in an open boat i
and both being poor seamen lost!
their oars. After drifting out of
sight of land and 'becoming exhaus- j
ted, one went to sleep and the other
remained on watch. Suddenly the '
lookout cried: "Wake up, I see a sail 1
"Never mind," said his sleepy com
panion, "I left my samples on shore,
Boston Record.
Mi-e si Jdvpp. Clareiiiont. X. II
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writes : "About a year ago I bought
two bottles of Foley's Kidney Remedy.
t . 1 . -iM-ni--. mtco 1.' I 1 n r
It cureu me oi u, noviv- i-iiov
trouble of several years standing. It
certainly is a grand, good niedecine,
and I hearitly recommend it." Sold
by all Druggie.
?TKe only baking powderi
I "Sj r from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar rv
. 4jL. made from Grapes j
gljjjj Makes Finest, Purest Fgjk1
Talk Happiness.
Talk happiness every chance
You get - and
Talk it good and strong!
Look for it in
The by-ways as you grimly
Pass along;
Perhaps it is a stranger now
Whose visit never
Comes;
But talk it! Soon you'll find
That you and happiness
Are chums.
Journal of Education.
Roebottom was a roofer. He was
engaged on a Mockle street house.
One day as he was lunching, he was
heard to give a yell of pain.
"What's the matter, Roebottom?"
a carpenter asked.
"I got a nail in my foot," the roo
fer answered.
"Well, why den't you pull it out?"
asked the carpenter.
"What? in my dinner hour?" yell
ed Roebottom, reproachfully. Phil -
adelphia Record.
Mr. Peck -This talking machine
record is filled with a few remarks
by Mrs. Peck. ;
Oldbateh It's wonderful to think
that you can hear the voice of one
who is not present.
Mr. Peck And more wonderful
to think that l ean stop it so easily.
Judge.
, m.iiuik .I ankl
will usually disahle
for three or four
1 11 jnjim,(i ,K.1S(,
weeks. This is due to lack of proper
treatment. When ( 'hamhei Iain's Lin
iment is applied a en re may he ell'eeted
in three or four days This liniment i
one of the hest and mt remarkahle
preparations in use. Sold Ly L. T.
Whitehead Co.
IS RAPIDLY
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And now is th' opport iinr tinn for.ynurClirist-
nms shopping. is the lim-s iiic more onipl't; Jind Vf
selection can easily he made. V
ate display in every department.
Watches, Clocks, Sterling Silver,
Silver Handle Umbrellas, Silver
Novelties, Cut (ilass, Hand Painted
China-ware, Beautiful Gold Jewelry
and many staple designs to seleet. your tfifts from.
Ye have also just reeeived our stoek of
Waterman's Ideal fountain Pens,
whieli is one of thehest iiiftsof the season. I
not put off until the last moment to select what
you want, but enll early and have us to lay away
what you buy, so that we can iive you better sat
isfaction. If you delay the very arti e you want
may be sold to some one else.
Engraving is like Shopping, better be
done early. We can Engrave any
thing that you purchase at our store.
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A Muchly Interested Farmer.
A Greenville man who was motor
man in the country went into a ditch.
A farmer who wa passing, saw the
wild plunge and remarked: "Hey
young fellow, what kind of whi.skey
have you been lrinking, anyway?"
The Greenville man, willing to take
a lecture, answered, naming the
brand he had been using. The far
mer put on an eager look and said,
"Have you got any left? ' Spartan
burg Journal.
Tin1 m uliar i' rli of 'limnlx r
lniu's uii-li l.Vini .iy luive lxcn t h r
oNj;lilv trMril (luring i-itiilrniH's of in
llni'iia. win 11 it w.i- liikcii in liiiK"
we 1i;i' 1h ;U1 nf :l s'muli- ;iSi- of
!n ni.ii.nia. SuI. I l.y I". T. Whitehead
CoinpMiiy.
"It was Satan," said a mother to
one of her children, "who put it into
j yoUr head to pull Hlie's hair."
j "Perhaps it was." replied the hope-
i ill, lut kicking her shins was my
; own idea." M. A. I
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j inside a well a ont-il-. I t Hollis-
tei's i:ky .Mountain Tea lie your in-
ternal e!eai!er, tin 11 yoin
he pure ;ini elean, your
your system rk'ht . Start
T. Whitehead r,,.
organs will
health goitd,
toni.-ht. K.
Might as well do your New Year
swearing oil early, also. Louisville
Herald.
If yon are sullerini; from Lilioiisness,
constipation, indi'e.-l ion, chronic head
ache, invest one cent in a Mstal card
send to ' hamherlain Medicine '. , lcs
Moines, owa. with "iir name and ad
dress plainly on the Lack, and they
will forward a free si mplc of ( 'ha mLer
lain's Stomach and Liver Talilets. Sold
i.V I!. T. Whitehead o.
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APPROACHING
li.-i ve ;in elahor
Otir stock of
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and Jewelers.
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