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The Commonwealth. Urges! Circulation Or ANY Coanfy Newspaper. The Largest Circulation OF ANY Halifax County Newspaper. :;Y, Zdllor eaii Proprietor. 'Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. ,v ..:-:;iV?i. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1911. NUMBER 46. '; 1 KMtioys Af3 V--s t KiJ noys Maie Impure Blood. i xnihealtliy kidneys are re for much sickness and suffering, therefore, if kidney ',: -' trouble is permitted to i !! continue, serious re suits are most likelv to follow. Your other organs may need at tention, but your kid neys most, because they do most and . i " should have attention f-i -t. Therefore, when . .. r.rc weak or out of order, land how quickly your en aiV.'cted and how every organ ' t io its dutv. . :.L-k or " feel badly," begin : : ;;r t kidney remedy, Dr. . -.. ..inp-Root. A trial will con . r its jcreat merit. ' 1 r.vA immediate effect of - ot, the great kidney and .iy. is soon realized. 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P. WiMBERLEY, i .SICIAX AND SURGEON, -land Neck,N. C. ' ;:;:-'- on Depot Street. -K V i. . , 0;::- ()6 F. Smith sician and Surgeon ; Planters & Commercial I-ank Building tland Neck, N. C. II L SAVAGE Will , the th'r at tho h the Fvc ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. in Scotland JN'eclc, in. on I Wednesday of each month el to treat the diseases 01 ,ar, Nose, Throat, and fit p. a. C. L! VERNON. DENTIST. W Oflio up stairs in Whitc head Building. O.'iico IrnjM from 9 to 1 o'clock d 2 to 0 O'clock. A Hi. Oi'TlCIAN tland Neck, N. C. -tf. -lined fuee."s Broken :hed and frame3 repaired, sirictly cash. W. t MARKS-& BRO. Scoliand Neck, N. C 'l-J :-.!! kinds of lathe and ma- epan.i r.jn a general repair shop. :n.r a specialty. " I. J ! PARK.fc.Ro HAIR BALSAM "J-mx . ;s and tvoautiiiU taa ' i'rr.iu' !a a luzuinnt grewtn. ;;.'i,vt Foils to Eestore Gray J :i.nt. to iL3 Youthful Color. ., C:ur x-alp (i:ca-3 & hair failing. if i a' - - ; ,s r it " . i S0i! Twr.t-f dtTiTV " t How One Man Committed Suicide Back ia Hie Days of Henry VI. Suicides often adopt ingenious methods. The modern case of a heavily insured broker who on a feigned hunting trip stood bareleg ged in a quagmire for hours and willfully contracted a fatal pneu monia is matched in cleverness by one many years old. The following facts are well vouch ed for and indeed were never ques tioned, says the Green Bag, Sir William Hankf ord, a judge of the king's bench in the reigns of Edward III, Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI, and at the time of his death chief justice of England, was a man of melancholy temperament. He seems to have contemplated suicide the greater part of his long life and during his later years the idea became a fixed purpose. This act was of peculiarly serious conse quence in those days for the reason that the law treated it as a capital crime. The offender was buried at the cross roads, with a stake driven through his body, and all his goods and property were forfeited to the crown, to the utter ruin of his family. Hankford made good use of his wits and succeeded in accomplishing his purpose without incurring either unpleasant penalty. He gave open instructions to his gamekeeper, who had been troubled with poachers in the deer preserve, to challenge all trespassers in the future and to shoot to kill if' they would not stand and give an account. One dark night he purposely cross ed the keeper's path and upon chal lenge made motions of resistance I and escape. The faithful servant, failing to recognize his master, fol lowed instructions to the letter, as was expected of him, and Sir William fell dead in his tracks. The whole truth of "the affair was common knowledge, but it was impossible to establish a case of suicide by legal proof. The servant was protected by his instructions. Hankford had hon orable burial and his estate passed to those whose interests as heirs he had so wisely considered. Selected. Soc Loved Him More. Senator Luke Lea, who recently saved his wife's life by surrendering himself to the formidable operation for tranfusion of blood, was con gratulated in Washington about his marital devotion. "Yes," he said smiling, "we still marry in the old-fashioned way down in Tennessee" The marriage of convenience hasn't reached us yet. We're not at all. we Tennes seans, like the Gobsa Goldes. "Gobsa Golde at the age of 54 married a beautiful chorus . girl of 17. That was ten years ago, and the other day a caller said to Mrs. Golde: "I really believe you're fonder of your husband than you were when you married him!" "Why, of course, I am," Mrs. Golde replied. 'My husband is richer now than he was then." From Kansas City Star. The Owner In my new house I want a simple breakfast room in ad dition to the more elaborate dining room. The Architect I see. What you want is an oatmeal mush room and a grilled mushroom room. Chi cago News. E4 are the Two Great Creators or Energy Energy means power power to work, to think, to throw off and keep off disease. Get all the sunshine you can, and take cott's Emulsion regularly. It will give you strength flesh and vitality. Be tare to get SCOTTS it't the Standard and alway the best. AI.lv DRUGGISTS 11-19 Pnlitzer of The World. The death of Joseph Pulitzer on his yacht at Charleston ends a career which may be truly described as epochhal in the history of journalism. When Pulitzer acquired The New York World twenty-eight years ago newspaper readers were still a rather limited class. It was his idea, doubt less inspired in large part by person al contact with the immigrant mass es, to produce a newspaper which would tap new fields. He did not design, however, as Hearst's Even ing Journal did later on, to produce a newspaper for the crude reader alone. He designed a srenuinelv popular publication, though he con sidered much sensation, huge type and horn-blowing necessary as means to this end. Likewise he saw that the newspaper might usefully and profitably constitute itself a champ ion of the city masses against exploi tation of various kinds. So the World soon appeared to conservative observers as a screamer every day and a self-seeking crusader whenever the opportunity occured. It also in troduced that manner of Sunday supplement which for pictorial pur poses is always discovering buried cities, missing links, new inventions spelling an end to war, and much other pseudosciece, as well as inter views with' celebrities along freakish lines, love and beauty discourses by women writers, etc. Much of the new matter was sheer trash, of course, but it was mainly harmless. The popularity of Mr. Pulitzer's methods soon became so apparent that nearly all American newspaper dom borrowed from them more or less, and some features which ap peared freakish then are found in conservative journals now. Most of the odium incurred really arose from the fact that Pulitzer had largejy ignored the traditions of a hitherto dignified profession and had fared in his professional brethen's estimation as undignified innovators in any profession usually do; By present standards, at least, The World could not be fairly called 1 "yellow" until after the advent of Hearst journalism seventeen years ago. The Hearst papers "hired all , The World's best liars" and intro- duced yellow journalism to the American people. Not liking to be ousted from its special field, The World accepted the challenge and for some years waged with Hearst a rivalry which if it did not follow him to the most maudlin depths, was in all conscience quite bad enough. But it may have been a mere coincidence about the time Mr. Pulitzer's total blindness began The World started a return to sanity again. Mr. Pulitzer concluded that he could afford to leave Mr. Hearst in possession at the lowest levels. He preferred a better average clientelage than that which supplies The Evening Journal with an enor mous circulation but which' is said to change almost completely every six months Evening Journal read ers choosing something less crude after they have become accustomed to reading any newspaper at all. Besides, yellow journalism spent it self to som? extent, and the Hearst journals themselves are not now half as sensational as they were. Mr. Pulitzer's death leaves The World standing as a great monument to his memory. It is perhaps the best of the broadly popular news papers in our large cities, and per haps also the most influential. The final verdict upon his career will be that he did a vast deal to popularize journalism and nothing of conse quence to degrade it. Personally he was a man of kindly instincts and enlightened mind who used the large fortune which his newspaper success,. brought him to do much good. Jew ish race and German education con ferred a distinct benefaction upon America when Joseph Pulitzer came among us during the civil war. Charlotte Observer. WASHINGTON CITY LETTER. Interesting News Items Reported From Toe Nation's Capital. Half a Loaf. Lawyer John Vann and Dr. Watt Ashcraft, believing that life is not worth living unless you can sit on the front porch and put your feet on the rail, have rented the Hargett cSttage on the corner of Washing ton and Windsor streets and flocked off all by themselves. They are still taking their meals at the Caldwell House. From the Monroe Journal. Do Hogs Pay? A subscriber asks: "Do hogs pay?" A good many do not; they take the paper several years and then finally have the postmaster send it back marked "refused" or "gone west." Yellow Jacket. ' Washington, D. C, Nov. 6. The first report of a deer stealer getting "buck ague" and mistaking three fellow huntsmen, banged away, re sulting in the death of two of the men and the serious wounding of the third, comes from Mays Land ing, N. J. Usually sucli deplorable mistakes occur in the piriey woods of Wisconsin and Minnesota and it has been computed that during the deer hunting season more lives are de stroyed thnwih' or -lessness in handling guns in the two states men tioned than deer are slain. However, the killing of two hunt ers and the wounding of a third in Jersey seems utterly inexcusable oc curring according to report, in a practically open road, t Soon after daybreak, the report states, the three sportsmen seperated from their party, and were walking down a by-road to take stands, when sud denly another hunter walked out in the road, and, thinking the trio to be deer, blazed away. Result, three men fell their full length in the road, buckshot entering the backs of two, while the third received severe wounds in the legs. i There is a dog abroad in the vicin ity of Newport, R. I., which has been making wholesale slaughter in the henneries of the residents of that summer city of the American fashionables. A few mornings ago the caretaker of William Watts Sherman's hennery found the ground about strewn with eighty-seven feathered bodies. This is the big gest nocturnal slaughter of hens bv a deg ever" reported. These hens were intended for the table of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman in New York for salads, croquetts and other chicken delicacies in their entertainments which will precede the wedding of Lord Camoys and Miss Sherman. Secretary J. F. Ellison, of the National Rivers and Harbors Con gress, who was in Washington last week making the preliminary ar rangements for the eighth annual convention of the Congress, which meets in the New Williard Decem ber 6th, 7th and 8th, regards the forthcoming sessions as the most important in the history of the movement for improved waterways. "Not in twenty years has there been so many new faces in the lower House of the National Legislature as are in this the sixty-second Con gress," said Captain Ellison. "These legislators will be called upon to pass a waterway bugget and it is therefore hignly necessary that they have an intelligent grasp of this very important subject. My understand ing is that the edict has gone forth from the leaders of the majority to cut everything to the bone, which, if it is followed literally, might seri ously jeopardize the passage of a rivers and harbors bill. It there fore behooves the friends of water ways throughout the country to at tend the coming convention of the National Rivers and Harbors Con gress and to show our lawmakers that the old piece-meal policy of making appropriations for the im provement of our rivers and harbors and canals is a thing of the past. That in its stead has come a better and wiser policy of making annual appropriations which is -in the inter est of economy and efficioncy. In my judgment the coming convention will be the largest and most enthusi astic we have ever held." "The old order changeth giving place to new," and aptly enough these lines were uttered from a barge. The flavor that has long clung to them, "who go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters," has almost vanished away, as witness that greatest ar mada of our country has ever seen parading before the commander-in-chief of the navy a day or so ago in the waters of the Hudson and New York Bay. The odor of tar and oakum is van quished by the smell of oil fuel and coal gass; shrouds of -rigging have given place to steam derricks and wireless installations, the reorgani zation of the navy under Secretary Meyer being based upon this as sumption. At the heart of the new and increasing efficiency of the ser vice is the express recognition of the fact that the sailor is no longer a sailor but as the Secretary has called him, "a fighting machinist"; his officers are mechanical engineers "I do not believe there is any oth er medicine so good for whooping cough as Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy " writes Mrs. Frances Turpin, Junction City, Ore. -This remedy is also unsurpassed for colds and croup. and the navy itself is a great mili tary machine shop. On board the modern battleship one-third of the crew are firemen and coal passers and the remaining two-thirds are not sailors, though listed as vseamen". Their duties are in various special branches of applied mechanics. As electricians, chemists, engine-room men and as the operators of modern ordnance, they have lost a sailor's intimate as sociation with the sea, though their business is still upon the face of the great waters. A GREAT DISCOVERY. 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Absolutely Pure Where the finest biscuit, cake, hot-breads, crusts or puddings are required Royal is indispensable. Royal is equally valuable in the preparation of plain, substantial, every-day foods, for all occasions. The ciily baking powder made from Royal Grspc Cream ol Tartar No Alum No Lime Phosphates Judge Teaches Jurors a Lesslon. It was only a few days ago that Judge Peebles taught jurors a lesson in the trial of a blind tiger case in Goldsboro. It seems that the evi dence of guilt was conclusive at least, satisfactory to the mind of the judge yet nine of the jurors stood out for acquittal in the face of the facts and of the law. Judge Peebles discharged the jurors with a sharp reprimand. And the incident will have a good effect. There should be more determination of that sort displayed on the bench. The lawyers have it in their power to aid mater ially in putting up the price of hu man life. Instead of playing politics to put a bold and courageous and just judge off the bench, they should keep him there and uphold his hands in dealing out stern justice. Therein lies the safety of our country.. From Greensboro News. HcwFido Icrt On t. i "My girl used t think alrt of In r pug dog, but I've managed to gel. the edge on him since wt married." "How did you work it?" "Fido wouldn't eat her cook in aid I did "Ex. Starts Much Trouble. If all people knew that neglect of constipation would result in severe indigestion, yellow jaundice or viru lent liver trouble they would soon take Dr. King's New Life Pills, and end it. Its the only safe way. Best for biliousness, headache, dyspepsia, chills and debility. 25c. at E. T.l Whitehead. There's nothing so good for a sore threat as Dr. Thomas' Electic Oil. Cures it in a few hours. Relieves any pain in any part. "Did you see them big skyscrap ers while ye was in New York, Silas?" 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Opticians of The Best Sort 53 Granby Street, NORFOLK. RICHMOND. ROANOKE. 'J3S21 A Store That Will Never be too Large to Appreciate Small Purchases! Our Mtorc has been remodeled and made considerably Im'ffw. and our stork i-on- timies to grow from dn y to day. $ New Goods Keep Coming I The email purchaser will be looked after with the same courtesy as the Jare, and the large ones will receive our most careful attention. Even if you don't i make a purchase give our stock a look some time. " We have just ; eceived a big 1uh of the latest style liats una uips, sum s- ome. thing new in Dress Goods arriving every day. . Good Shoes, made with snap and style, solid comfort, will make your feet VT laugh. Of course, the prices are very reasonable. Ni-e liiu- of Coat Swe iters ready to show for men, women and children.. V - We are selling nice Calico for 5c Yard wide White Homespun for ov. Don't 0 forget to look us up when in need ot Furniture. We have something in most everything, and the prices will plense you. No matter how small the purchase might be come to see us. Look For The New Store. R. C. Josey & Gompamy, SCOTLAND NECK. NORTH CAROLINA.
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