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NORTH CAROLINA TiT 1 1 iNormai ana e. :.. ! i'Y tne Mate ior me e. -f North Carolina. Foui Cav Courses leading to Degrees, fiai CiV.jr.--.es for Teachers. Fall jon Uv;ins September 14, 1910. e desiring to enter should apply rly as po- :ible. For catalogue iother information address JS I. FOUST, Presider.t, Greensboro, N. C. i - !e of Land for Taxes. jill ? :11 at the court house door ie town of Halifax, N. C. on the av r-f Ju'y. ll'fl's the foiiowinp r.r parcels of land to satisfy y- costs due fer the year 1909: , u-at, bo acres, listed by J. fvooj, :?t.22. ibert Bur jess. I! , - 1. so.: 5. G. L. K acres, Louis- t;ht. Tax Collector : i n k 1 ey v i I !e To wnshi p. t of !.ots fur Town Taxes. ie i--i. owing icts or parcels oi V.'i i :-;u in front of the brick n S-.turday, July 17. 1910. tc py tho taxes and cost due the i f Scotland Neck, N. C, for II. Harrington, 2 lots on 13tb fet. ol:j..",. H. Josoy, 1 store lot on Main et. s4-.:.(2. rs. F. X. Lil'ey, one vacant lot, D. . :'!. Prince, 2 lots and home on n .street. $24.76. rs. 1). Prince, stables and lot Hun street. S7.70. G. H. Johnson, s W. Tax Collector. r-. -i --ied for LAND CO', SPEAKINGS, N;C3. 'c.,by-.no too HRASS '.nds ia :: :l!in VI 10 LIN A. Vvri-o r terms. Kosernary Concert 15and ( ' ROSEMARY, ?. C. 6-9-4 t House Painting! of Furniture, etc. Will where. Satisfaction guaran Write or call on Rev. J. H. rni. Jr.. Hox No. 172. Scotland Iloaisiae fcr Easy Feople. "-: Cld3n Health aal Eoawod Vigor. r f.,r Constipation, In'lifrastion. Live Troubles. Pinjt.-'es. Etven'.n, Impure ' I!roah, Rl.ijrzr.h Bo-.vels, Hotrdachr- . - " Jl O iVMUA V .11" l IlJlftf 11 irrt 111 . .J. un , 1.1.1, liruuJH J lll.4l.tj MJ rip:-0 CoaPAsy, Ma'liiion, Wis Ki'csrfs roa sallow pfopis BRAND ll.ADIF.3 t m0-r lltrM for CHI-CHES-TER'S A tn V ,l,1RAND TILLS lu Red andA t ' mr4.aihc bfxes, sealed with Blue I:;"- Ta,ke NO other, Bay oF your W t,'i i RiiANi puis, for twenty-fiTQ F3 rer'araed a3 Best, Safest, Always Reliable. HO BY ALL DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE X2SS M r Tiae Cause of Many Sudden Deaths. There is a disease prevailing in this country most dangerous because so deceo- "vc. iuany sudden deaths are caused by it heart dis ease, pneumonia; heart failure or apoplexy are often riniYninii' . i v i i i7im r the result of kid ney disease. If kidney trouble is alio wed to advance the kidney-poisoned Klnnrl will tack the vital organs, causing catarrh of the bladder, brick-dust Or SfrliT11fTlt in the urine, head ache, back ache, lame back, dizziness, sleeplessness, nervous ness, or the kidneys themselves break down and waste a-way cell by cell. Bladder troubles almost always result from a derangement of the kidneys and better health in that organ is obtained quickest by a proper treatment of the kid neys. Swamp-oot corrects inability tc hold urine and scalding pain in passing it, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go often through the day, and to get up many times during the night. The mild and immediate effect of Swamp-Root, the great kidneyremedy is soon realized. It stands the highest be cause of its remarkable health restoring properties. A trial will convince anyone. Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and is iold by all druggists in fifty-cent and one-dollar size bottles. You may have a sample bottle and a book that tells all about it, both sent free by mail. Address, Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, K. y! When writing mention reading this gen erous offer in this paper. Don't make any mistake, but remember the name, Swamp-Root, and don't let a dealer sell you sometiiing m place of Swamp-Root if yon do you will be disappointed. PAUL K!TCH!N, Attorney at Law, Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices Anywhere. QRS. SMITH & WIMBERLCY, Physicians and Surgeons,, Scotland Neck, N. C. Office on Depot Street. j)R. A. C. LIVERM0N, DENTIST. Office up stairs in "White- rjt? neau mulcting. Dffice hours from 9 to 1 o'clock nnd 2 to 5 o'clock. gDWARD L. TRAVIS, a.ttorney and counselor at Law, Halifax, N. C. Ioney Loaned on Farm Lands ILL H. JOSEY, General. Insurance Agent, Scotland Neck, N. C. POSTEDr All the lands formerly owned by The North Carolina Lumber Com pany, against hunting, fishing, or trespassing of any kind. S. F. DUNN, Agent 11-18-tf for Dr. H. H. Fries. Let Us Have Your Work McD. Rowe & Colden. Fine Tailoring, Pressing and Re pairing. Guarantee prices and workmanship. All our work done in the building on Main Street, Scot land Neck, N. C. Our Specialty ! The correct adjust ment of spectacles and eyeglasses. All work is done on the premises and completed same day U order is received. Oculists' prescriptions filled accurately. Tucker, Hall & Co., The Expert Opticians, 53 Granby St., Norfolk, Va. Catalogue on Application. Mske our store your head quarters while in Norfolk. HAIR BALSAM I L15lajftVii,ilr,m. icm m luxuriant growth. f'V-.- fTNov-'r Fail" to Bestore Orayl fJ&fcSfa iiXi to i YontUful Color, i UpSfcfe?-flr32S Cure VoIP diwnwsft n air failing. I CURBING A RIVER. What it Has Cost to Build the Levee System of the Mississippi. The United States has a dyke sys tem of far greater magnitude and protecting a larger area of land than Holland. On the banks of the Mis sissippi river from Cairo to the gulf stretch two practically continuous walls of earth, the 1,286 miles of levee that keeps within bounds one of the most turbulent streams of water in the world, says The World's Work. In the 1,286 miles of levee there are 230,000,000 cubic yards of earth and there are needed to com plete the system of miles of new. levee containing 55,000,000 cubic yards. The cost of the levee system as it stands to-day, reckoned on a basis of 25 cents per cubic ward, has been $57,500,000 of which the United States government has expended $23,000,000. The $23,000,000 expended by the government is a matter of exact record, and shows the total amount expended by the national govern ment to June 30, 1909. The cost above, $57,500,000, is arrived at by considering only such parts of the levees as are in service to-day. The apparent amount spent by the States, $34,500,000, does not fairly represent the proportion of the expense which the States have born. As this rest less sleeper tosses from side to side in its bed and takes its toll of earth from whichever bank it strikes, miles and miles of levee have thus gone into the river with the banks that bore them, and new levees had to be constructed farther back. All this lost construction is, in the figures given above, thrown upon the States, and it vastly increased the amount that should appear to their credit. Records are hard to get at and exact figures cannot be obtained except for the national expenditure, but it is safe to assume that States and in. dividuals have turned two dollars for every dollar put up by the United States. On account of this great loss by caving, somewhat more than the $12,750,000 required to put ii LL v.Jdit;on of-55,000,000 yards now needed will eventually be re quired for completion. The country has many problems to solve, but none of more importance than the control of its great river. The land contingent to this great stream is particularly fertile and produces cotton of excellent quality, while its yield is very abundant. Man's fight with the river began many years ago, and yet the fight is far from ended. Exchange. Correct Pronunciation of Automobile. During my frequent and somewhat protracted visits to Fayetteville I have found (vvnat I long since discov in Wilmington) that the word auto mobile is almost universally pro nounced "auto-mo-beel." Soon after these machines were in troduced in Wilmington I made sev eral attempts, through the editorial columns of the Star, to impress en its readers the fact that there was no authority for this mutilation of the "King's English." The word is composed of the Greek "auto" and the good old English word "mobile," and the correct pronunciation is auto-mo-bile, with the accent, cn and long sound of o in "mo" and with the short sound of i in "bil." To express it a trifle more plainly, the word is pronounced just as if it were spelled "auto-mow-bill." The error is confined to no par ticular class. It prevails in the lit erary clubs as well as in the humble r circles of the uneducated, and new that the word is in such common use it is time to call a halt on "au-tomo-beel," for which there is no more justification than there is for "Fayette-veel.". It is amazing that so many of those whose wealth enables them to buy and to pay cash for the most expen sive models of the automobile do not know how to pronounce the woro correctly. Major W. II. Bernard, of Wilmington, in Fayetteville Ob server. (A good old citizen of Iredell used to call them au-tom-ni-buls, with the accent on the torn. The Landmark.) SHERIFF AND PRO'diBiliON. Some Inside Information as to the Part Governor KifcMn Played. The report was published in the newspapers last week that Governor Kitchin was going to proceed on a number of sheriffs, mainly Republi cans in the western part of the State, with a view to removing them from office for failure to enforce the pro hibition law. The Governor says tho stcry is news to him and that if he has any such authority he doesn't know it. The report doubtless grew out of a recent letter from the Governor to Collector Brown, of this internal revenue district, with reference to conditions in Wilkes county. A citi zen of Wilkes wrote the Governor calling attention to the flagrant vio lations of the prohibition law in his neighborhood, and asking that some thing be done. Governor Kitchin referred the latter to Collector Brown at Statesville. The collector took action as he would have done if the notice had been sent to him in the first instance instead of to Gov ernor Kitchin and as a result of this action four citizens of Wilkes were last week sentenced to the pen itentiary from the Federal Court at Greensboro. At the same time Col lector Brown wrote Governor Kitch in intimating that the Governor should urge the sheriffs and State officers to do their duty and co-oner-ate with the revenue officers. Fed eral officers of course cannot be ex pected to bear the burden of en forcing State laws, since the Federal government is concerned only in col lecting revenue. To this letter of the collector Gov ernor Kitchin replied that he had written the sheriffs, and the solicit ors as well, urging them to do their duty in this matter. So it seems that the Governor has ben after the sheriffs in away, even it he hasn't threatened to remove them from office. The sheriffs of the State, with few exceptions, are doing mighty little most of them nothing -to enforce the prohibition law.-arri :t is not creditable to the State and county officers that the Governor has to ap peal to Federal officers to enforce State laws. Now if anybody is dis posed to give this incident a political turn, it is well to remember that the sheriff of Wilkes and all his deputies are Republicans, and the solicitor of that district is a Republican. States ville Landmark Sons Conducted the Moi'ncr's Funcrrl Service. Conservation cf Nature's Resources. ADDlies as well to our physicial state as to material things. C. J3 Budlong, Washington, R. I. realized bis conditions, and took warning be fore it was too late. He says: "I suffered severely from kidney trouble, the discease being hered itary in our family. I have taken four bottles of Foley's Kidney Remedy, and now consider myself thoroughly cured. This should be a warning to all not to neglect taking Foley's Kidney Remedy until it is too late. For sale by all Druggists. FACTS A30UT THE UNITED STATES NAVY. Possibly One-third ot Our Larger Craft K'orlhl&ss far Flghtloy Ti:day. The widely printed assertion tiat Uncle Sams is now the second np v d power in the world may please patri otic pride, but the difficulty as it is not strickley true. Any real com parison of naval strength must prim arily rest, not on the total number of vessels built or building, nor on the entire tonnage of such craft, but on the ships which are effective, judged by exacting modern stan dards. Thus within the next three years England will have 17 armor clads of the dreadnought of "sup&r dreadno'Jght" type Germany will have 13. This country will have 10. The bulk of the German navy is composed of ships constructed at a later date than our own. The Kai ser's fleet has comparatively few vessels that will need to be sent to the scraphead in the near future Not fewer than one-fourth possibly one-third of the larger naval craft under the American flag are regard ed by competent observers as pract icaly worthless for fighting purpose today. Most of them were excellent when they were built. But marine architecture moves with gigantic strides in the 20th century. It isjbe lived that one floating fortress like the lately launched Florida could whip three or four of our older battleship. It is the very big and very power ful ship that counts. This republic gradually creatining a respectable array of these. Its proportionate rank is far higher than it was even half a dozen years ago. But there is small use or sense in boastful pro clamations which do not accord with the facts. Ex. Running a Newspaper. The funeral of the late Mrs. Julia Annis Poteat took place at Yancey ville Sunday. Mrs. Poteat was best known to the people of ihe State as the mother of two sons who are col lege president and a daughter who is at the head of the art department at another college, ine services over her body were conducted by her own sons in a beautiful and im pressive way. Dr. E. M. Poteat, president of Furman University, talked from the Scriptures of death, and Dr. W. L. Poteat, president of Wake Forest College, delivered the tribute to his mother. There was a simplicity about it all which was most touching. There was an absen ce of the uncontrolled wailing and flow cf tears which usually attend uch sad ceremonies, Hope -was there and no murmer at the f ulfiling of God's will. The sons looked upon death merely es a parting for a time; the only sting of death is sin, and that since sin had been removed from their mother's life, death itself was a mere trifle to be scorned; that there is a complete recognition in heaven and that even then their mother was looking down upon the scene around her bier. There was only the sadness of a personal loss "P"i vo timp hn;nc. The control of the speaker's voices was beautiful. Their faith brushed tears aside from own their eyes, but brought them to the eyes of the congre gation. The music of the services and the singing was performed by two of the grandchildren of the diseased, Hnhprt and Gorden Poteat. The body was tenderly laid to rest in the spot which, in life, she loved so well, the family square in the Baptist cemetery. Truly Mrs. Poteat was a wonderful woman. Her life has been a blessing to humanity, and the training she gave her children n i t,-,i frr manv vears to Will VCHL 11 - come. Webster's Weekly. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets will brace up the nerves, banish sick heakache, prevent des pondency and invigorate the whole system. Sold by E. T. Whitehead Co. Did you ever publish a newspaper? If not you should be as happy as the man who has just escaped a bill col lector. But still there is some con solation for the editor. He gets more good advice about how to run his business than all other....business men combined. He is often told to "write up" Mr. So-and-so, to expose some grafter, to venture where fin gels fear to tread reveal the mys teries of "high society" and perform various other hazardous feats. These are not the duties of a news paper. A newspaper is a business institution, as much so as a dry goods store, a grocery store or drug store. It cannot afford any more than can its neighbor merchant to indulge in personalities. Suppose Mr. Gotrocks' son imbibes too freely in "joy water" and proceeds to take in the town; upon whom does the duty fall to bring this unruly son to justice? Not the newspaper. Who must say that Bill Gotrocks ought to be kicked to death by a mule? Who must call him a hell hound, a pol troon, a liar, a drunkard, a jackal, a a marplot, a hyena, a viper? Why, the newspaper of course. It would not do for the merchant, or politician to do this, they might lose the sup port of Bill's father, who is a wealthy and influential man. the newspaper must perform perilous duty. The newspaper man has nothing to lose and if he gets killed he has a pass port to heaven, any way, so what's the difference? But we are inclined to think other wise. The life of the newspaper man, 1 hough it m?y not be epent in affluence, is sweet to him, and he prefers to dwell peacably with his neighbors. If the sins of your neighbor keep you awake o' rights, go to a higher power with your troubles, or look through a different pair of glasses and perhaps you will see no sins. In a speech before the New York Press Club Henry Watterson gives the quill pushers this timely bit of advice: "The city editor should never consider himself a brevert chief of police, the reporter, a semi professional detective. The news paper, with the law, should assume the accused innocent until proven guilty, should be the friend, not the enemy, of the general public" Waynesville Courier. verv Yes, this Marvelous Discoveries mark the wonderful progress of the age. Air flights on heavy machines, telegrams without wires, terrible war inventions to kill men, and that wonder of wonders Dr. King's New Discovery to save life when threat ened by coughs, colds, lagrippe, as thma, croup, bronchitis, hemor rhages, hay fever and whooping cough or lung trouble. For all Ki.rnrViiai nflWtinns it has no eaual. UlUllVll'ut - It relieves instantly, its tne surest cure. James M. Black, of Asheville, N. C, R. R. No. 4, writes it cured him of an obstinate cough after all other remedies failed. 50c and $1.00. A trial bottle free. Guaranteed by E. T. Whitehead Co. Fads for Weak Women Nine-tenths of all the sickness of women is due to some derangement or dis ease of the organs distinctly feminine. Such sickness can be cured is cured every day by Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription It Makes Weak Women Strong, Sick Women Well. It acts directly on the organs affected and is at the same time a general restora tive tonic for the whole system. It cures female complaint right in the privacy of home. It makes unnecessary the disagreeable questioning, examinations and local treatment so universally insisted upon by doctors, and so abhorrent to every mouesi woman. We shall not particularize here as to the symptoms of those peculiar affections incident to women, but those wanting full information as to their symptoms and means of positive cure are referred to the People's Com mon Sense Medical Adviser 1008 pages, newly revised and up-to-date Edition, sent free on receipt of 21 one cent stamps to cover cost of mailing only; or, in cloth binding for 31 stamps. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. AN APPLICATION OF ite Top Dresser WOULD ABOUT Double Your Yield of Cotton and Corn K. ELITE gives the Htalk a healthy and vigorous growth. K. ELITE will prevent the shedding of Cotton S( pi ares and Holls. K. ELITE will mature your Cotton Bolls. K. ELITE will assist nature in the opening of Cotton. K. ELITE will restore yellow and drowned Cotton to its natural color. Each ton of K. ELITE lias in it 2,000 pounds of quick acting materials. Analysis 9 per cent. Ammonia, 3.50 Potash, 3.00 Avail. Phos. Acid. Ask your merchant for K. ELITE. If he will not supply you write us and we will see that you get "the goods." Scotland Neck Guano Co. , Scotland Neck, X. C. Always Available ! If you wish to set aside a certa in portion of your means, where it will be available for immediate use, open an account with this bank. You will find no other arrangement more convenient. 4 per cent, interest paid in our Savings Department. BANK OF ENFIELD ENFIELD, N. C. The Best Engine In The World, THE STICKNEY Gasolinu Engine. 3 to 16 II. P. Mounted or stationary. No trouble to start. No trouble to keep up. Uses less gasoline than other engines. Has better cooling system. Sold on better term3 at lower prices, and fully guaranteed. Send for Catalogue. H. J. CORDLE, Agent, Littleton, N. C. 0 t 0 0 0 0 WHO IS YOUR DOCTOR? Your doctor don't seek money and docs study to preserve your health. , , . . , . We are paint doctors and study to make paints that pre serve your homes and beautify them. Our L. & M. Paint has done it for thirty-five years on more than two million American homes. Besides it costs only about $1.40 per gallon, because 3 gal lons of pure Linseed Oil needs to he mixed with 4 gallons of L. & M. Paint, thereby making 7 gallons of the best paint in the world. Anybody can mix it in two-minutes. Longman & Martinez, Paint Manufacturers, New York. Sold by Hardy Hardware Company. Well kept advertising in this paper pays large divi dends. Try it for the sake of your business. i i
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