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J. WIMBERLEY, Physician and Surgeon., Scotland Neck, N. C. Office on Depot Street. I)r, O. F. Smith Physician and Surgeon (Vice in Planters & Commercial Bank Building Scotland Neck, N. C. m. R. L. SAVAGE OF ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. bo in Scotland Neck, N, C, on ! Wednesday of each month v. hotel to treat the Ureases of :, Ear, Nose, Throat, and fit r v.. DENTIST. Office up stairs in White head Building. ;o hours from 9 to 1 o'clock and 2 to 5 o'clock. OPTICIAN Scotland Neck, N. v.vs examined free. Broken -;o ; matched and frames rer aired, glasses strictly cash. :. marks & BRO. Scotland Neck, N. C. We do all kinds of lathe and ma ch f;? work, repair engines and boil er:; :-.nd run a eeneral renair-shon. II. loeiriff a specialty. PARKER'S ! HAIR BALSAM I Clcacsea tnd beautifies the haxr. I VT3tici:3 a luxuriant growth. f ; r..v:r jFaila to Bestore Gray? r-: .!. to lo Youftsfful Co?r. I a 1 think how important it is to have your glasses fit correct ly. 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Some of the automobile folks com plain that in traveling the public highways, decently and in order, in tne peace of God and the State, they are not infrequently held up by teamsters who hold the middle of the road and refuse to permit them to pass, and the automobile man is thus delayed and iuconvenienced where the road is not wide enough for him to get around the team. In view of these circumstances and con ditions the automobile folks ask The Landmark to print Section 14 of the State automobile law, which is as follows: "Section 14. If a vehicle drawn by a horse or horses or other draft animals or a motor vehicle bv over taken by any motor vehicle, and the person in charge of such motor ve hicle expresses a desire to pass, it shall be the duty of the driver of any such vehicle or motor vehicles so overtaken as aforesaid to turn either to the right or to the left of the center of the wrought or trav eled portion of the highway and give the person so making the re quest an opportunity to pass; but, in passing, the person in charge of such motor vehicle and the other male occupants thereof over the age of fifteen years shall give such as sistance as they are able to the oc cupant or occupants of the vehicle they are passing if assistance is ask ed, and in thus passing the chauf feurs, drivers or operators shall use all due care to avoid accidents." Having never failed aforetime to say what it thought or automobile drivers who disregard the rights o: others, The Landmark is willing to print the law to show that these people have some rights 'in the premises. Of course the teamsters who refuse to give the road have more than likely been irritated by the smart automobile drivers who them to get out of the way in a form and manner which intimates that the teamster ha3 rib business there and is a trepasser on the track. It just naturally riles a man for somebody to run up behind him and peremtorily order him to get out of the way. There is a proper way to do these things and all automobile owners should not be made to suffer because a few play smart. Teamsters should remember, too, that automobiles have the same right to toe road as any other vehi cle and they are not excusable for acting ugly or violating the law be cause a few automobile drivers show an utter lack of good sense and good manners. Statesville Landmark. Parcels Post. "Parcels tries." So postolFice. Post to Foreign Coun says a big sign in our You can- indeed get a cheap parcels rate on anything you wish to ship outside of the United States, and why should you not have the same privilege if you wish to ship inside the country? The farm ers of the United States are getting tired of being denied privileges that the Japanese and the Hindus, not to mention the people of European countries, have long exercised as a matter of course. Use one of that quarter's worth of postals to tell your Congressmen and Senators to vote for the parcels post. The Pro gressive Farmer. Winter Cover Crops Pay. "Will it pay to sow rye in cotton at last cultivation, the same land to go in cotton the next season?" It will always pay to have a green crop of some sort on the land in winter. You might sow rye at last cultiva tion and later sow crimson clover among it, and the rye will shade the clover and you will have a far better winter cover than rye alone. But the land should go into another crop the next season and a good rotation established. Keeping the same land in cotton year after year is not the way to improve the productiveness of the soil. Professor xviassey, The Progressive Farmer. in b the only emulsion imi tated. The reason is plain it's the best. Insist upon having Scott's it s the world's standard flesh and strength builder. ALL DRUGGISTS Children and Divorce. If you will study the origins of marriage you will find that it was instituted in alt probability at the instance and pressure of women to protect the rights and secure the maintenance of children. The Ro man law term "matrimonium," or matrimony, which is the Latin for marriage, bears out this contention. Yet the Roman word for marriage has distance reference to mother hood. In fact, it means no more and no less than legalized mother hood. Thus at the base of marriage lies the idea of motherhood. The Sinclair crew, in their riot of selfish ness, have chosen to neglect this fact. It will arise in its might to destroy them. This inclines one to ask about the child of this marriage. In all this lunatic jabber about soul mates, poems, freedom, aspirations, lyrics, Kansas railroad engines, Aegean seas and temperamental adjust ments they soon get disgusted neither parent not even the poet Kemp has the slightest regard for the interest of the future of that in nocent and helpless atom of humani ty. In nine cases out of ten divorce means ttje rum of the lives of chil dren, the tainting of their future, the blasting of thflir careers. The children of the divorced are the un happiestin the world. The cruelties of life oppress them when they have not the moral maturity, to be able J to bear them. They make their en trance into life crippled, lonely and bewildered. The furies of their parents' wrongdoing pursue them to the end of their lives. The ghost of the ugly and sordid past haunt? them to the last syllable of their re corded time. A tear trembles on their eyelids forever. New York Telegraph. Haw to Get Sid of Nut-Grass. A friend wants to know if I have conquered the nut-grass in my gar den. Yes, I have nearly finished it, and this summer it is the rarest weed in my garden. Last year was the first year the garden was culti vated, as it had been lying out as a vacant lot. One end of the lot was well set in nut-grass, and I determ ined that it should go. 1 did not dig it out except what turned up in the plowing of the land and was raked out. Then every day I chop ped off that nut-grass. Cut off to day it was up to-morrow, but I knew that no plant can long survive if not allowed to make green leaves above ground. So I chopped it off daily. It got thinner and thinner by frost, and as none was allowed to seed, I find few plants this summer and have simply been pulling them out as fast as seen, and have not even had to use the hoe on them. This is equally applicable to any persistent weed. Keep them chopped off and they must die. The same is true of sassafras sprouts. These will simply increase if dug and the roots cat, but chopped off or mown off regu larly with the mowing machine they soon give up. The mower is the best implement to rid land of sprouts and briers. The Progressive Far mer. How to Make Fig Preserves. Select figs that are not over ripe, soak in cold water for 12 hours, then stand them on a dish to drain thoroughly. When well drained, weigh, and to one pound of figs put pound sugar; put sugar in kettle with just enough water to melt it, then put in figs and let come to a simmer; take out figs, but let syrup boil for a few minutes. When figs are coo! put back into syrup and let come to a simmer; take out again and let syrup boil until it thickens; put in figs and boil until figs are well cooked. One tablespoonful of apple vinegar to each quart of fruit prevents them from sugaring and should be put in before - preserves are done. Raleigh (N. C.) Pro gressive Farmer. In traveling through the South one is more and more impressed with the fact that the very best land n nearly .every State is not yet in cultivation. It has not been dram ed. Into these wet bottoms the fertility of the hills has leached down, and yet our pepple have too often balked at the little extra work of canaling and ditching that would make these lowlands out yield the prairies of the West. Very likely on your own farm, Mr. Subscriber, there are branch bottoms or creek bottoms which if cleared and ditch ed would give you $3 for your labor for every $1 the poorer hillside will pay you? And in that case isn't it folly to keep hiring yourself to the unappreciative field. The Progres sive Farmer. 1 WASHINGTON LETTER. Mention Made ct Many Important News Items About tiie Capital City. Washington, D. C, Sept. 11. Rep resentative John H. Small, of North Carolina, one of the Atlantic coast members of the Rvers and Harbors Committee, made an interesting speech in the House the day of the adjournment of the extra session in which he spoke instructively on the intracoastal waterAyay problems. He took occasion to lay stress upon the importance of disseminating knowl edge of waterway improvement sub jects among the,4 people, saying: "We shall not havlr'an ideal national policy until the American people shall be appropriately educated and a wise public opinion shall enforce its mandate upon Congress. .Much has been done in this line of educa tion. For about a decade a propa ganda has been waged the effect of which is easily discernable. The National Rivers and Harbors Con gress has made a large contribution in the way of inculcating a wise pol icy. Various associations through out the country have been organ ized to promote ppecific projects, and at the same time they have di rected the attention of the public to the necessity and the wisdom of im proved waterways. The people are gradually learning Lhat the problem h not sectional but national, and that the people of the interior, even when distant from waterways, re ceive an indirect f.dvantage, afford ing ample compensation. There will be tried in the Wash ington public school system at the beginning of the fall session of the Business High School the unique ex periment of a savings bank with all its officers composed of pupils of tli3 school, except the chairman of the board of directors, "who will be the head of the school, all the other di rectors being pupils. The project is not only to teach and inculcate thrift and economy, but fnr convenience, this bank being' ioc&ied hi the school building. There are no restrictions as to deposits and withdrawals. Up to August 15th judgments ! were rendered in the courts on re-J ports by the Agricultural Depart-' ment in conformity with the foodi and drugs act of Congress in 1,000 cases. An alphabetical list of these cases is published arranged under four heads food, beverages, medi cated soft drinks and drugs. Under the food head it appears there have been most violations with respect to misbranding and adulteration in citrus fruit extracts, notably lemons, while eggs, milk and butter also figure largely. Many frauds are shown in tomato ketchups and in alleged olive oil. In beverages the judgments fall most upon coffee, waters, beer, wine and whiskey. Offenders in drugs are very largely quick headache cures. The Hobo national . convention, held this week in Washington, came to a close without a quorum, there by giving a near imitation of the Congress of .the United States on the eve of adjournment, sine die. The Sons of Rest consistently succeeded in accomplishing nothing. A Washington postoffice employe handling aletter addressed to "Hon. Charles E. Hughes, Washington, D. C, endorsed it 'deceased" and sent it back to the sender. The letter was intended for Justice Hughes of the United States Supreme Court, about whom nothing is deceased except his thick black whisker?, which he recently had removed. President Taft s itinerary for his western swing, beginning Septem ber 16 and ending November 1 at the national capital, will traverse 13,000 miles, take him into twenty states and 115 cities, and will likely involve more than - 200 speeches hardly less than four or five a day. The tabular summary of general agricultural data for the United States, just completed by the Census Bureau, shows remarkable progress in values put upon farm land and property of all kinds. In striking contrast with the slow growth in the number and acreage of farms nnrJ thfi area of improved land dur- mg the ten yearn, from 1900 to 1910, is the enormous rise in the rm land. value of farm property. Fe exclusive of buildings, which were valued at $13,058,008,000 in 1900, had more than doubled before 1910, being then returned as having a value of $28,386,770,000. an increase nf 117.4 rer cent in the value of all form lands. i-arms nave grown slightly smaller, averaging in 1910 138 acres against 146 in 1900. The average value per acre has grown from $19 81 to $39.60, an increase of 100 4 per cent- Tne New South. It is not two years since this paper began to try to call public attention in a conspicuous way to the fact that the South is the coming West; that there is new going on in the Fouth the equivalent of that impres sive expansion which took place in the West ii ?ra five to thirty years ago. The difference is only in man ner; the booms in various parts of the West were always spectacular and sometimes unhealthily feverish; the South's development in every material aspect is steady, substan tial and permanent. This chancre in the Southern States is, in its pres ent and future, so much the most important economic phenomenon now occurring on the continent of North America that it justifies the occasion for reiteration furnished by some recent census figures deal ing with agriculture. The Southern States, which ever since the civil war, have been producing the least per capita in farm values, are now beginning to produce the most. The Central Western States, long the synonym for the abundance of the soil, in the last decade show a 55 per cent increase in crop values; the South Atlantic States show an increase of 138 per cent. South Carolina, only 2Gth among the states in population, has become 13th in crop values. One ether interesting fact shown by the recent census is that the rural South is becoming white; in the last decade the whites in the rural parts of the South in creased 15.4 per cent, the negroes only 6.8 per cent. This tendency will grow more marked with the coming in of farmers from the Cen tral West, who are just learning that they can sell their present farms for a hundred dollars an acre and buy Southern land just as good for twenty. Collier's Weekly. The Most Wonderful Thing. "I have been down in a subma rine boat; I have sailed in an aero plane, and I have while hundreds of miles from land received wireless messages, "Have yu?" the fa5r 2irI sweetly replied. "Now" . he continued, "there's Just one more wonderful thing that I'd like to do It seems to me that you have done all the wonderful things there are to do. "No, there's one more wondeful than any of the rest, that I'd like to do. I wish I might tell you what it is." "Oh, is it something that you may not tell me?" "It is something that I may do if you will give me your permission." "How strange. I can't imagine what it could be." "Can't you are you sure?' "I'm afraid not." "Think. Would you despise me if I asked your permission to do this most wonderful thing of all?" "How can I tell before I know what it is." "It istok:3i you." "Oh!" "May I?" "Did you ask the submarine's per mission before you went under wa ter in it, or secure a permit from the aeroplane before you went up sailing in the air?" From the Chi cago Record-Herald. Mrs. Doty (reprovingly) Mrs. Enpeck told me today that her hus band always keeps her photograph on his office desk. Mr. Doty I guess that explains why he's always late getting home to dinner. Puck. CATASRH SUFFERERS. If You Dan't Know about Hyoraei Try it at E. T. Whitehead Company's Risk. Nearly every reader of The Com monwealth has read about HYOMEI but many of them continue to suffer from catarrh just because they do not exactly understand just what HYOMEI is. To these sufferers E. T. White head Company says you don't have to know anything about HYOMEI except that you breathe it and that it does not contain cocaine or opium or any harmful drug. You can find out all about HYO MEI without taking any chances whatever. Just get an outfit today, read the simple instructions, give it a fair trial and then if you are not whuuk IKnrr tn oav that It IS thf hest ! remedy for catarrh you have ever used E. T. Whitehead Company will gladly return your money, ( A complete HYOMEI outfit costs but $1.00. Extra bottles 50 cents. WINTER COYER CROPS. Mr. Parker Urges the Sowing of Clover, Vetch and Small Grain. The unprecedented drouth which prevails in some sections of the State is an object lesson as to the value of organic matter or humus in the soil, as it is a well known fact that in ad dition to other desirable qualities decaying organic matter or humus increases the water holding capacity of all soils. For the protection of the soil and to provide against the disastrous effects of a possible drougth next summer farmers should put in winter-cover crops. The best crops for this purpose are the clovers, vetches and small grain crops. On land where the clovers and vetches will grow successfully they are better than rye or other small grain crops, but where they will not grow it will be advisable to sow rye. For the best results the3e crops should be put in as quickly as possi ble, especially in the western part of the State. Prepare the land by disking and harrowing and sow 15 pounds clean crimson clover seed per acre, and if convenient, sow also 300 pounds Acid Phosphate per acre, as that will help to insure a stand of clover. Some sow in addition to this one pound of turnip seed per acre, preferadly the Cowhorn variety, claiming that the turnip leaves pro tect the young clover plants in their early stages. It can do no harm to sow the turnip seed as thesa crops are intended to plow under next spring to improve the soil. The seed should be covered with a cultivator or with a harrow about one inch deep. In the western part of the State these should be put in at once so as to make sufficient growth to withstand the winter. In the central part of the State they should be put in not later than the last of September, while in the east ern and warmer sections of the State they can be put in as late as the middle of October. In the Coastal Plain section Bur clover is also fine for a winter-cover crop. The seed of this is usually purchased in the rough Jor bur and should be planted at the rate from three to four bushels of the burs per acre, and covered about one inch deep. These should Acid phosphate can go in at once, be used with these to advantage. Hairy vetch also makes a fine winter-cover crop, and will succeed in almost any part of the State on well drained land, especially where Part ridge or Mountain peas grow. If sown alone sow at the rate of SO pounds of seed per acre, and if with rye or other small grain, one bushel of small grain and 20 pounds of vetch per acre. They should be sown at about the same time as crimson clover and covered from one to two inches deep. Where none of these crops will grow successfully s w rye at the rate of one and a half bushels per acre. You want a heavy growth to protect the land and to add a groat quantity of vegtable matter when turned under next spring. Turn under two or three weeks before you wish to plant the crop which is to follow. Rye, eapecially, should not be permitted to get woody before turning under. Better turn it under as soon as the head.s begin to appear than to wait unt il it is grown. If it gets fu'l grown and dry weather follows it would leave the land so open and loose that the crop following it would suffer more than if no rye was put on the land. All these crops should be disked well and thoroughly cut up before plowing under next spring. (Jood results may be expected only when they are well mixed with the soil before the crop is planted. If any one doubts the benefits to be had from these winter-cover crops let him prepare one acre of average land and treat it as described above. Next spring plant another acre by the side of it that has had no winter-cover crop and cultivate both ah'ke. One demonstration like this will usually convince a person of the value of winter-cover crops. Seed for any of the above men tioned crops can be had from almost any reputable seedman, but buy only the best and freest from im purities. The best are none too good. T. B. Parker. Director Co-operative Experiments N. C. Department Agriculture. For bowel complaints in children always give Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and castor oil. It i.s certain to effect a cure and when reduced with water and sweetened is pleasant to take. No physician can prescribe a better remedy. For sale by all dealers. The Cause of Mans'- Sudden Deaths. There is a hrease prevailing in this country most dangerous because so deccn- 9 9 1 II t k t i j . r- cpcpl tl.e res ult cf Lid rey direare. If kidnev tror.t.li? is nllowcdlo&dvni'.ce tr.ekidney-pciscn- tack the vital organs, causing calarth rf me uiauuer, uncwinst or sediment ia tbe urine, hea.l ackc, Iccli ache, las: e back, dizziness, sleeplessness, Ecrvcvs. nscs, or the kidticya themselves Lrc.k down and waste away cell by cell. Bladder troubles olmostalwaysrcsr.lt from a derangement of the kidneys Oiitl better health in that organ is obtained quickest by a proper treatment of tbe kid neys. Swarap-cot corrects inability (a hold urine and scalding pain in passing ;i , an.l overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go often throut li the day, and to get np many times dm u:r the night. The mild and immediate effect of Swamp-Root, the great kidnev rcme,' is soon realized. It stands the highest 1 e cause of its remarkable health ret tori;..; properties. A trial will convince anyon?. Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and i j sold by nil druggists in fiftv-ccut aivl one-dollar size boitlpi. Will Y?r 1ior sample bottle and a 1ko1c that tells til about it, both sent free by mail. Addrcf---, Dr. Kilmer & Co., Liughamton, N. V. When writing mention reading this gen erous offer in this paper. Don't miika anv mistake, but remember the name. amp-Iioot, and don't let a dealer seil you something in place of Swamp-Root ,011 do you will be disappointed. Noiice of Sale of Dunn LasvJ October 2, 191 1. Under and by virtue of an onUr of the Superior Court of Halifitx county, made in the t-pecial proceed ing entitled, W. P.. Dunn, Robert C. Dunn, Mary W. Dunn and Rosa P. Dunn Vs. Annie V. Dunn, th panic being No upon tiiv special pro ceeding docket f;f suid oerrt, the. undersigned commissioner will en Monday, the second day of October, 1911, at twelve o'clock, noon, Jife- the courthouse door in Halifax, North Carolina, offer for sale to the high est bidder certain tracts of land lving arid being in Enfield township, Halifax county. North Carolina, and described as follows, to-wit: First Tract Adjoining the lands of S. C. RfcHamy and others, begin ning r.t th. :r :-'. zrr.Lv of .-.r. M dam and ditch, S. Rellamy's corner; thence north Sis W 120 poles along said ditch, said to be Relhsmy's line; thence continuing Bellamy' line along a hedgerow N 8-)S W CS poles to a hirjre pine slump at t ho head of a ditch, said to be Josey'sline; thence N 5 E 101 poles to a canal and dam, paid to he the line; thence along the dam and canal to its junction with a larger canal and dam; thence along s:-id canal to u large cypress tree; standing at a crossing of a planta tion path; thence south 12 W 41 poles and 10 links to the beginning, and W) poles along said dam from the south side of the public road to Knfield. containing l('h acres; the last distance, 80 poles, is given so as to locate the corner, known as the Short Swamp place. Second Tmct Beginning at the public road to Enfield at the head of a dam, the corner of the Dunn and Tillery tracts in Bellamy's line; thence along paid dam S 12 W 8 pedes, S fi W 14 pole?, S 11 10 18 poL'3 and 10 links, S 15 V 21 poles to the end of the dam; thence S 1 M 02 poles to Dead Crek; thence along Dead ('reek to Fishing Creek to a very large drawf and knarled oak stand ing on the bur.k cf Fishing Creek at a point where it makes a. sharp turn; thence N :! E :U poles to the puhlii? road to EnhVU; thence along said road to the beginning, containing 192 acres, known as Washington Whitehead Place. Third Tract Adjoining the lands of Dr. O. C. Stalling??, J. L. Fleming, Mrs. I). M. Dunn snd others, end being known a.: the B. ('. Dunn home place, and said to contain 910 acres, more or les.-; the sr. id home place being the property of Wells Draugh on and willed by said Draughon to B. C. Dunn snd wife, BosaB. Dunn, for life and at their death o their children, and being the place at which B. (3. Dunn ami wife lived, and being known in Enfield town ship, Halifax county, as .the B. C. Dunn home place, and being .situat ed on the old road leading from En field to Scotland Neck, known as Enfield road. The above property being the property and all of same devised by Wells Draughon to Mrs. Rosa P. Dunn for her life and then to her children by will probated September 24. 1872, and recorded in the office of the clerk of the Superi or Court of Edgecombe county in Will Book Volume 7, page 502, to which reference is made Terms of sale One third cash, one third in fcix months and one third in twelve months, deferred payments to bear interest from date of sale, and sale made subject to confirmation by court. Ii. O. Everett, Commissioner. This 29th day of August, 1911. Are You Going to Build ? You will need Sash, Doors and Blinds, Porch Columns, Hardware, Paint, otc. Hark Sash & Door Corporation Frank T. Clark, Pres., NORFOLK. -- VIRGINIA. J ItiArrV fr apoplexy crocfu-ii mm -"V i iri-ir in mm i Scotland Neck, N. C.
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