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SCOTLAND NECK, N.C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1911.
NUMBER 43.
Cause of Many
Sudden Deaths.
x narc is a disense prevailing in this
j" Lry most dangerous because so decep
" 5! f II ggOOA tivc. Many sudden
KJkll i "1S aro caused
pneumonia,
failure or
lexr are often
the result of kid-
ney disease. Ii
kidney trouble is
; allowed to advance
" the kidney -poisoned
lilonrl ivill o
vital organs, causing catarrh of
'.:e i;riue, 1
in
.ui acne, back ache, lame
or tiio kidneys themselves break
;i mu waste r.vray cell by cell.
Lkuluer troubles almost ahvavs result
,--u a derangement of the kidneys aud
auI AicaiLii in mat organ is obtained
aicitest by a proper treatment of tlic-l-iH.
'at3p-.cot corrects inability to
iraie and scalding pain in passing it,
;.-.-ldu
:;M ove
M iujiics i ua l unpleasant neressitv
f bi
being compelled to go often through
e '..ay, and to jet up many times during
t I:
tli
I
e iiigiic. i iie lmicl and immediate effect
Swamp-Iicct, the great kidney remedv
soon realized. It stands the luVhest be-
. :;u?e ot its remarkable health restoring
- rpertics. A trial will convince aii3-one.
i- wamp-Root is pleasant to take and is
- :Id by all druggists in fifty-cent and
i Mio-dolLir size bottles. You ma- have a
sample lottle and a book that 'tells all
;. bout it, both sent free by mail. Address,
I)r. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
V. he:i writing mention reading this gen
c'ous offer in this paper. Don't make
:::iv mi?take, but remember the name,
oV ;in;p-PvOot, aud don't let a dealer sell
: -u something in place of Swamp-Root
.ovi do you will be disappointed.
A PAUL KITCHIN,
Attokney at Laav,
Scotland Neck, N. C.
1 'i act ices Anywhere.
Ai.iiiox Dunn
Lawyer
YaHces here whenever his services
shall be required.
A. PI'N'N.
Scotland Neck,
R. C. DUNN.
Enfield. N.
N. C.
C.
S. A. 6s R. C. DUNN,
iAttcrneys t Law
VMland Neck, North Carolina.
Practice together in all matters
.crept those pertaining to railroad
r rctice. Money loaned on approv
al security.
Asiiry Dunn
Attorney and Counselor at Law
Scotland Neck, N. C.
Practices wherever his services are
required.
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e No. 1.
Thui-rpsTi D. Kitchin,
Phone No. 131.
M.D.
CLAKK-& K.ITCIIIX
Phvsieinns and Surgeons
Offices in Brick Hotel
Office Phone No. 21.
l P. WfMBERLEY,
Physician and Surgeon,
Scotland Neck, N. C.
Office on Depot Street.
O. F. Smith
Physician and Surgeon
in Planters & Commercial
Bank Building
Scotland Neck, N. C.
L SAVAGE
OF ROCKY MOUNT, N. C.
in Scotland Neck, N. C.
.'ill b
on
v.i third Wednesday of each month
;. the hotel to treat the diseases of
10 Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat, and fit
JR. A. C. 'UVERMON,
DENTIST.
Office upstairs in Wliite
' ' '.V v':f head Building.
nee hours from 9 to 1 o'clock
and 2 to 5 o'clock.
A, MIFF,
OPTICIAN
Scotland Neck, N. C.
v.-e-s examined free. Broken
:';os matched and frames repaired,
glasses strictly cash.
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Scolland Neck, N. C. -
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do all kinds of lathe and ma-
rn-.nv v;crl. repair engines ana non-!"-:
ond run a g'Cneral repair shop.
Horse-shoeing a specialty.
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A 540-POl'ND FALL SUIT.
Light as Ordinary Wearing Apparel
When Under 230 Feet of Water.
Only one man in the world knows
from personal experience how it
feels to be at the bottom of 230 feet,
of water. That man is O. E. Gandy,
chief machinist of the submarine
boat Shark. He made the plung
in Long Island Sound. He wore a
suit of armor weighing 540 pounds.
At the greatest depth he was in
communication with persons on the
surface by means of a telephone.
1 he descent was mande from a
scow, six miles from shore. The suit
lay on deck like two halves of an
oyster shell. Gandy lay down in one
half and the other half was securely
bolted on. Then the arms and the
talon-fingered hands were secured
in the same manner, and, last, came
the 100-pound shoes.
With a rope and a windlass, the
diver was raised to an upright posi
tion, swung over the edge of the
scow and dropped slowly into the
water. At a depth of 50 feet he
telephoned to his comrades above
that daylight had almost disappear
ed. Above, there was only a glim
mering glow, while before his eyes
floated what were apparently phos
phorescent objects, the exact nature
of which he could not determine.
At the bottom of Long Island
Sound 230 feet absolute darkness
reigned. Even with a strong electric
search light, he could not see ob
jects more than 10 feet away. Yet,
at this depth, so great was the den
sity of the water, his 540-pound suit
vith its 100-pound shoes, seemed as
light as ordinary wearing apparel.
This is the strongest diving suit
ever made. The boiler of a locomo
tive could not withstand a greater
pressure. At the depth of 230 feet,
the weight of water is 110 pounds
to the. square inch, but the builders
of the suit in which Gandy made his
descent say it could easily stand the
pressure of a hundred feet more
water.
Tali iiyiiiy io txiJiiiiii.
President Taft on his journey
across the continent has met with j personnei a fine body of substantial
chilly receptions. The purpose of j American citizens, concerning pro
his trip is to explain why he vetoed .ujku; nr.d kimlrpd motions. ThP
the Wool Bill and the Farmers' Free
List Bill. These measures were in
tended to give renei to tne people
of the country from the extortions
of the trusts. Mr. Taft's excuse
tor tne veto wnicn he is making on
his trip is that his tariff commission
has not reported their investigation
of the tariff law. The people know
they are being robbed by the high
tarnr and they do not want red tape
business about reducing it. It is
very much feared that when Presi
dent Taft returns from his visit to
the Pacific coast, after he has seen
the atitude of the people he will de
cline to run for the presidency next
year. The Democrats are very anx
ious for Taft to make the run be
cause he would be a very easyman
to defeat.
Wife (complaingly) You never
praise me up to any one.
Hub I don't eh! You should hear
me describe you at the intelligence
office when I'm trying to hire a cook.
Boston Transcript.
When pa and ma fall out 'tis time
For little tads to run.
And stay at some kind neighbor's
house
Until the fight is done.
Washington Herald.
is the highest "type of
womanhood.
Scott's
Emulsion
is the highest type of
curative food.
The nourishing and
curative elements in
Scott's Emulsion are so
perfectly combined that
all (babies, children and
adults) are equally bene
fitted and built
up.
Be ure to get SCOTT'S R
it's the Standard and always
the best.
ALL
DRUGGISTS
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WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER.
Items of Inierest Reported From The
Nation's Capitol.
Washington, D. C., Oct. 14. Cap
tain J. F. Ellison, of Cincinnati, O.,
secretary and treasurer of the Na
tional Rivers and Harbors Congress,
will open his office shortly in this
city, preparatory to the coming con
vention which is to be held in Wash
ington early in December. This
convention will in all probability be
the last with which Captain Ellison
will be connected in an official ca
pacity, as he plans to tender his
resignation to become head of the
navigation department of the Port
of Para Company which has head
quarters in Paris and New York.
Captain Ellison will be in command
of the company's fleet of forty new
steel steamers which will open up
the Amazon river as it has never
been, develop the greatest rubber
producing fields and put the State
of Bolivia on the map commercially.
There is every reason to believe that
the forthcoming convention of the
National Rivers and Harbors Con
gress will be the most important
ever held by this great organization
of waterway enthusiasts and will
very materially impress upon the
nation's legislators the importance
of enacting annual river and harbor
bills to the end that some of the
projects now under construction
may be pushed to completion within
designated spaces of time.
Something like thirty thousand
miners are expected to be in Pitts
burg on the last day of this month,
the greatest gathering of diggers
and delvers in the earth that ever
met in one place in this country,
when President Taft visits that city
on his way back to the national cap
itol from his western trip. A nota
ble feature of the occasion will be a
demonstration under the auspices of
the United States Bureau ot Mines,
the American Red Cross and the
Pittsburg Coal Operators' Associa
tion. Considerable discussion was in
dulged in by delegates to the German-American
Alliance meeting here
the past week, and showing in its
organization adopted a resolution to
the effect that prohibition is an in
terference with personal liberty, and
discussing the evil of intemperance,
declared that the most efficacious
means of combatting it was the cul
tivation of the anti-treating habit.
Members pledged themselves to
wear buttons so declaring them
selves. St. Louis gets the next con
vention. Dr. Harvey Wiley, chief of the
chemistry bureau, department of
agriculture, is back on his job in
Washington, apparently with highly
agreeable remembrances of . his re
cent vacation and vindication. His
next appearance in public will be at
Louisville, Ky., where he is to make
an address in which he will devote
attention to the important part
American women may play in the
enforcement of pure food lawrs. His
charming and sympathetic wife has
already pronounced herself publicly
and forcefully for a women's move
ment against unclean grocery and
meat shops.
The death of Cornelius N. Bliss,
of New York, removes one of the
veterans of service with the Nation
al Republican Committee. Mr. Bliss
served as treasurer of the committee
in the campaigns of 1888 and 1892.
The oldest member in length of ser
vice and in years is General Powell
Clayton, of Arkansas, the next in
length of service being former Sen
ator Nathan Bay Scott, of West Vir
ginia. With the beginning oi the UctoDer
. i
term of the Supreme L,ourt ana a
few of the department chiefs re
turning from their summer resorts,
the national capital is resuming its
wonted animation and the hotels are
registering guests from all parts of
the country. .
A farmer can haul no heavier load
to market than he can get over the
worst piece of road on his route,
and this is one of the reasons why
we think the township plan of voting
bonds for road building will not
bring about the desired result. For
instance, Clayton township, in John
ston county, has as good roads as
you will find anywhere and the
roadsln and around Smithfield are
in fairly good condition, but midway
between the two towns is a town
ship that has done nothing in the
way of road building and as a con
sequence there are a few miles of
poor dirt road between the two
towns. Durham Herald. .
BEVERLY Of URAUSTARK.
Will be Presented at The Opera House
Tuesday Night, 24th.
Mr. W. E. Jones, agent for Bever
ly of Graustark, i was in town last
Thursday making contracts and ar
rangements for this production.
Mr. Jones inspected the opera house
and has assured our local manager,
Mr. Madry, that the same produc
tion as was given, at the Studebaker
theatre, Chicago,' for one hundred
consecutive nights, can and will be
staged at our theatre on Tuesday i
night, October 24th.
Those who have read Mr. George
Barr McCutcheon's best book, Bev
erly of Graustark, and also those
who have not read it, shall have the
pleasure of witnessing Mr. McCutch
eon's creation in real life. By special
arrangements with several booking
agencies through the South. Prices
have been fixed at a rase suitable to
all residents of this town. Read
what Amy Leslie, the famous Dra
rnati critic of the Chicago News,
has to say regarding Beverly:
"George Barr McCutcheons' spark
ling romance "Beverly" has been
exquisitely transformed by the
schorarly Robert M. Baker into a
delightful play which was introduc
ed to an attentive and enthusiastic
audience at the Studebaker last
night. The beautiful stage pictures
followed one after the other and the
costumes are unique and costly. The
scenes are piquant, exciting and full
of romance. In the third act there
is a fine "Anthony Hope" sort of
battle scene with three against one
which is quite as pulsing and gen
uinely thrilling as anything Sothern
or Hackett used to do. Every min
ute detail of the production is exact
elegant and gratifying, and for
those who urge tfte preservation of
clean sentiment and rugged adven
ture "Beverly" is bound to delight."
The Exactions 01 the Sugar Trust.
An advance of 1 cent a pound in
the price of sugar costs the people
of the United States $70,000,000 a
year. Recently the Sugar Trust has
advanced the price about 2 cents a
pound, putting it higher than it hasJ
been for some twenty years
The
advance costs the people at the rate
of about $140,000,000 a year. In the
market quotation of the American
Grocer for September 20, 1911, it
is said that "the recent rise in raw
sugar holds with unusually high
supply here; the refined list has
again been advanced, with two " re
finers out of the market." The
price is now about 7 cents a pound.
The Grocer gives the visible supply
of America and Europe in warehour
ses and afloat as 1,177,562 tons, as
against 1,247,539 tons last year at
the same time. In view of the fact
that the Louisiana crop is enormous
ly large this year, the shortage giv
en does not justify an advance of
nearly 90 per cent, in the price of
sugar. The price in this country at
this time is higher than in Europe.
And yet the Sugar Trust declares
that it is the shortage in Europe
mainly that caused the rise in price.
The prevailing opinion seems to
be that the Sugar Trust is taking
this occasion to make the people re
turn to its i'll the money that it had
to make good to the Government on
account of its cheating with false
scales. Possibly also it i3 raising a
campaign fund for use next year.
Every pound of raw sugar that
comes into the United States must
pay a tax of about 1 cent a pound.
Refined sugar U taxed 2 cents a
pound, so as to keep the American
market in possession of the Sugar
Trust. When one of the prime nec
essaries of life is selling at famine
prices it is no time for the Govern
ment to increase the cost by taxing
it. Congress should promptly, upon
reassembling, decrease the differen
tial on refined sugar. It would be
best to make all sugar free, but, if
the Government cannot- get along
without its revenues from tugar, it
might as well cheapen refined sugar '
by reducing the extra duty from
which it derives no revenue. It is
not right to keep the price of sugar
high for the benefit of a trust that
has been convicted of defrauding
, the Government. Baltimore Sun.
"Judge, I sfmply have an irresis
table impulse to steal." "I have
those irresittable impulses sometim
es," said the judge. "I have one
right now to send you to jail. Sixty
davs." Washington Herald.
Don't use harsh physics. The re-
. ,
action weakens the bowels, leads to
chronic constipation. Get Doan's
Regulets. They operate easily, tone
the stomach, cure constipation.
WORK OF HOOKWORM DISPENSARIES.
Selma Ellis, a lohmbus County Boy,
Takes New Lease on Life.
Selma Ellis, a Columbus county
boy sixteen years old, who lives near
Fair Bluff, was brought in to the
State and county Dispensary July
25th on a stretcher. He was unable
to sit up or walk. He had been in
declining health for six years, un
able to work or to go to school. He
weighed only sixty pounds and had
an enormous ulcer on his left leg.
A microscopic examination veri
fied the belief that he was a victim
of the severest type of hookworm
infection. Treatment was begun
by Dr. Pridgen, but as he
move his hospital, Dr. C. W
Scientific Secretary of the
had to
Stiles,
Hook-
worm Commission, was prevailed to
complete the treatment at the Mar
ine Hospital in Wilmington.
Selma made a splendid recovery,
can walk or run, and is now at his
home in good health. He gained 19
pounds, now weighing 79 pounds,
and the quality of his blood has in
creased 14 per cent to 60 per cent of
normal. He is an enthusiastic work
er in the hookworm crusade, but he
is only one of the thousands who are
finding restored health and pleasure
as a result of the campaign.
Seventeen of the eastern counties
of the State have provided for these
dispensaries.
GOQO ROADS IN THE SOUIif.
Atlantic Const Line to Opsrate a Gocd
Roads Train Oyer Entire System.
The Atlantic Coast Line will handle
the National Good Roads Train over
its entire system, starting out from
Richmond, Va.. November 23rd.
This train will consist of two
coaches, one of which will contain
models, operated by electricity, of
road working machinery of various
characters, and forms of various
kinds of good roads. These will be
displayed in an attractive way, and
open to the public. The other coach
will be equipped for lectures and
stereopticon views. A private car
will accompany the train for the ac
commodation of the lecturers.
Two government road engineers
ancJ a representative of the Ameri-
can Association oi mgnway im
provement will accompany the train
as will also a representative of the
Atlantic Coast Line.
The train will make from one to
two stops in each county in the
States of Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida
and Alabama, through which the
Atlantic Coast Line runs. Free
demonstrations and stereopticon lec
tures will be given at each stop.
The object of this train is to stim
ulate highway improvement?, and
give practical instructions in the
building and maintenance ot im
proved roads, with a view of reduc
ing the cost of farmers in the mov
ing of their crops to the railways.
The public is invited to co-operate
in every way, and to attend these
conferences.
Notice of the itinery cf this train
will be published in this paper later.
Tha flsrves! Keen Explained.
In accordance with our annual
custom, we will say that the harvest
moon is that moon that is full near
the autumnal equinox.
The peculiar phenomenon about
the harvest moon is that it rises im
mediately after sunset for several
consecutive days. This phenomenon
is owing to the smalt angle made by
the ecliptic and the moon's orbit
with the horizon at this season cf
the year. It wa first called tho
"Harvest Moon" bv the farmers of
of the north of England, whose har
vests were gathered about this sea
son of the year and the bright light
of the full moon for several conse
cutive days enabled them to work
longer in gathering their harvests.
Chatam Record.
New Physician Entis.
Dr. T. E. Hughes,
of Ma:olia,
N. C.has given up
tice to accept an appointment cs
district director of the campaign
4- U ,kI ,Vti7 r-.vnn r! ! CO 'i ' 'O 1 7 n io a
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Viririniari bv birth, a graduate of
Richmond College, a medical gradu-
a;
of the University cf Virginia
He took his hospital training at
Johns Hopkins and in the City Hos-j
pital at Wi'mington, N. C. During
his short stay at Magnolia he won
j the hearts of the people. Six physi
cians, eieht laboratory men and a
clerk now- constitute the State forces
engaged m the North Carolina cam-
, They are nov push5nir the
dispensary work because in this way
ihe most gratifying returns are ob-
.tdinable.
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The only Baltics Powder made
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The Girls As They here.
Backward, turn backward, O
Time in your flight, and give us r.
maiden dressed proper and right. ;
We are so weary of switches and j
rats, Billie Burke clusters and peach-i
basket hats. Wads of jute hair in a
horrible pile, stacked on their heads
to the height of a mile. Something
is wrong with the maidens, we fear.
Give us the girls as they used to ap
pear. Give us the girlies we once
knew of yore, whose curls didn't
come from the hair-dressing store.
Maidens who dressed with a sensi
ble view. And just as Dame Nature
intended them to. Give us a girl
with a figure her own and fashioned
divinely by Nature alone. Feminine
style's getting fiercer each year oh
give us the girls as they used to ap
pear. From the Sterling (Kan)
Journal.
CONFIDENCE.
We Back up Our Statement with Our
Personal Reputation and Money.
We are so positive that we can re
lieve constipation, no matter how
chronic it may be, that we offer to
furnish the medicine free of ell cost
if we fail
We tKnk that it is worse than
nseless to attempt I cure constipa
tion with catharti -. drugs. Cathar
tics may do much harm. They may
cause a reaction, irritate and weak
en the bowels, and make constipa
tion more chronic.
Constipation is often accompanied
and may be caused by weakness of
the nerves and muscles of the large
intestine or colon. To txpect a cure
you must therefore tone up snd
strengthen thoie partd and restore
thsm to healthier activity.
The discovery of the active prin
ciple of our remedy involved the
labor of skillful research chemist?".
This remedp produces results such
as are expected from the best of the
best-known intestinal tonics, and it
is particuclarly prompt in its results.
We want you to try Rexall Order
lies on cur guarantee. They are
exceedingly pleasant to take and are
ideal for children. They apparently
act directly on the nerves and mus
cles of the bowels, having, it would
seem, a neutral action on other or
gans or glands. They do not purge
or cause inconvenience. If they do
not positively cure chronic or hab
itual constipation and thus relieve
the myriads of associate or depend
ent chronic ailments, your money
will be lv.' nded. Try Rexall Or
derlies at our risk. Three sizes of
ntickasres. 10c. 2-jc. and l,(K Re-
l
I member, you can obtain Rexall
Remedies in this community only at
our store The Rexall Stori. E. T.
Whitehead Company.
The Republicans are becoming
quite active in Indiana, judging by
the report of an Indianapolis man
being held up and robbed of his false
teeth. Houston Post
The best plaster. A piece of flan
nel dampen? d with Chamberlain's
Liniment and bound on over the ef
fected parts is superior to a plaster
and costs only one tenth as much.
For sale by all dealers.
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jawnueto mitrimny.
Telegraph.
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BliONCHITlS CON QUKKED
Seventy Years Old and
i Wonderful Hyornei
Praises
"I had a r.evcre at lark of La
Grippe. 11 left me wit'i bronchitis
and catarrh of my throat. I became
quite deaf in one car fo I couldn't
hear a watch tick. I conunenctd
using your HYOMEI and inhaler
and soon got relief, and believe that
it saved my life. 1 have recommen
ded it many. I um vt seventy
years old. I have tcM several
prominent doctors wh.it it did for
me." W'm. II. Movvder, Washing
ton, N. J.. 11. F. D., March 10, 1911.
For catarrh, asthma, bronchitis,
j coughs, cold:? and catarrhal dcufiir-.sH
nxuivii is guarantueu iy J'i. j.
Whitehead Company.' Compkte
outfit including inhaler !ind bottle
HYOMEI $1.00, separate bottle
HYOMEI if afterwards needed 50
cents
In European diplomacy life i.s just
one ultimatum nfter smother. Bir
mingham Age-Ilerald.
Time to Pay Your
The taxes for Srotlf.nd Neck and
and Conoce.n;ira township for 1911
are due and the tax books are 'n my
hands for collection. 1 ornestly
request a'! tax p.".ye rj to come for
ward and pay the ir Uxes at once
and avoid the trouble and expense
of levying and advertising thereby.
I shall proceed to collect by law km
soon as limit h-is expired.
J. F. Sl!M--i,!r5, Thjc C'.ll 'cfor
Scot. Neck and Conoconara T'ships.
STOP
and think how important it is
to have your glasses fit correct
ly. Investigate the reputation
of your optician, for much de
pends upon your cys.
Ye Iavitc Investigation.
We have complete grinding
plants at all our stores, and
duph'rr
promptly
lenses.
jj .rately find
th.; rr.o"t difficult
Ren saber,
all our men are experts snd we
absolutely guarantee you' en
tire satisfaction.
g irtaice Us Xcur Opucians
I Snccettorc to TUCKER, HALL & CO.
Opticians of The Bcst Sort
53 Granby Street,
NORFOLK. RICHMOND. ROANOKE.
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