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Ai-bion" Dunn Lawyer Practice? here whenever his services shall be required. c; ( n-v;, R. C.DUNN. "' ; ''..r.'. Neck. N. C. Enfield. N. C. 8. A, II. C. DUNN, Attorneys t Law Sctknd Nock, North Carolina. Pracice together in all matter? exvpL 'hos perainin? to railroad p . M mey loaned cn approv ed se -y;ty. A si m v rTJNX Attorney and Counselor at Law Scotland Neck, N. C. Practice wherever his services are required. H. I. C'aiv. M. D. Thunnun D. Kitohin, M.D. Phone No. 131. Cl.AIiK &KITCIIIX p." . ans and Sureeons Offices in rrick Hotel 0;!ice Phone No. 21. F. A. RIFF, OI'TK IAN Stlaod Neck, N. C. Eye-, examined FREE. Broken lenses '!Mt -ho I and frames repaired. All g-li--,.'-; sirictlv cash. QR. R. L. SAVAGE OF ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. Wil! b v in Scotland Neck. N. C, or t'.i-? thi-.l Wcdne-day of each montr at the h ) el to treat the diseases of the Eve. Ear, Nose, Throat, and fit S)2. J. P. WITIBERLEY, "" Physician and Surgeon, Scotland Neck, N. C. 'Jilice on Depot Street. Br. o. f. Smith PiiVsiti'in and Surgeon Office in Planters & Commercial Bank Buildinsr Scotland Neck. N. C. D&- C LiVERMON, DENTIST. - Office upstairs in White " i? head Building. 'Sce liours from 9 to 1 o'clock and 2 to 5 o'clock. W. E. MARKS & BRO. Scotland Neck, N. C. , We (h a l kinds of lathe and ma cn ai work, repair engines and boil and run a general repair shop, nrse-.sho ing a specialty. gW IN THE SOUTH id see tKe South grow, keep your rnon y at homo where it will benefit you and our city. eBusiness Magazine te SoutK8 fading Business Journal telll !n Y , h- lt bosts Southern mad 00 and those who handle same. J It also contains articles of interestte ..r7 Southern Mr-k9r, .rt;-U. wktrli 1"d uD or,., L: j i ; C. ue Iate8, te8t News in the Busl 88 World, condensed for the busy man I Send ShOO for year's subscription. Kumm Magazine Co, Ijl;' J :i Ji uoxviue, Tenn. The Poultry Yard. Winter eggs and exercise go to gether. Do not neglect the laying hens' exercise. Judge not a hen by her beauty but by the way she does her duty. Noon is a good time to supp!y ihe stock with some green stuff, such as CMbbage or roots of any kind. The latter can be cut in half, and the hens will then pick them to pieces. Have the floors of the houses well bedded with some light litter, so that the biddies will be induced to sciatch, and thus warm up their bodies thesetxold, frosty mornings. Drafts in the chickens' home are more dangerous when the fowls are quiet on the roost than when they are stirring around during the day; but a cold air sweeping through the house is a bad thing at any time. ... As the cold winds come in the fall, it is noticed that the flocks do not take so wide a range as they did in milder weather, but, instead, con gregate in the corn-fields and along the stone fences in the pastures, where they can get the benefit of the warm sun, and at the same time be shielded from the raw winds. The old-fashioned way of prepar ing and mixing a wet mash is done away with, on account of its tedious and needless expense of time and labor. The hopper is filled with a variety of ground grain, and placed where it is accessible to the fowls at all times. With this arrangement the hens need never go to roost without suflicent food. December Farm Journal. Bow Long, Ob, How Long ? How long must the people con tinue to pay express companies a profit of 40 per cent a year on money that is not invested in the express business, and that exists in blue air mlv? This is a question that the people desire answered, and one that they are beginning to become impatient ibout, judging from the ever-in creasing number of communications n this subject that are being receiv d by members of Congress. "Express companies ought to be o rmitied to make a good, liberal iaie of interest on mjiey actually nvested," writes an Iowa man to h's Congressman. "The thing that -.rouses our disgust is that the gov- jrnment permits the express com panies to extort a proJfjF;.fcfrom 25 50 per cent on a vOtt''28011 ; at is two-thirds water. I would ke to see a parcels post. If w annot have a complete system, why can't we at least have a limited par eels post to start with, effective only between towns and cities and the surrounding country? Such a limit ed system would help rather than in jure the business of the retailers. Think it over." The Interstate Commerce Com mission's report shows that the net ncome from the express companies' peration is $11,000,000, and on their own valuation of $27,000,000, their orofit is shown to be approximately 40 per cent. It is known that the dctual value of the express compa nies' equipment is less than one-half of what they allege, so that their profits on money actually invested run up to nearly 100 per cent. C. H. Tavenner. "How's your wife?" "She's hav ing constant trouble with her head ' 'Can't the doctor help her?" "No. nobody but the milliner." Tit-Bits. you know that you are getting the one prepa ration that has stood the test for over thirty five years nnrl still re- mins the Standard tonic-food-medicine, used and recommended by the medical profes sion the world over. SGOtt'G EmuSoion is the , embodiment of elements that make for good health and strength. AM. DRUGGISTS 11-23 iyTliis Sip SHE WORE PANTS FOR LOVE. Bride Clad as Man Beats Way Across Continent With Husband. "Beating" her way in men's cloth ing across the contii ent for love of the man she married four months ago, and barred fr m any friend ship with her - own sex, Mrs. Chris tine McWiiliams, 20 years old, rode into Buffalo on the "blind baggage" of a Lake Shore express from Cleve land with her husband. Then she was hauled from the bumper of the first car, where she had been sleeping in the arms of "Cass" McWiiliams, who tried to keep his girl wife and himself ouT of sight when the railroad detectives came on them. Coated with ice and exhausted, they were taken from their precar ious position by the trainmen and carried to a flag shanty. After the pair had been thawed out the train men began to ask questions. Then it was that the identity of the small er of the two tramps was revealed to the amazed railroaders. The husband, anxious as to the condition of his wife, asked that they be put in charge of the police to get proper care. McWiiliams and his girl wife were well cared for and then taken be fore Judge Judge and charged with vagrancy. Married four months ago in Los Angeles to Christine Jamison, a pret ty school teacher, McWiiliams had a good job as structural steel work er. Then came the laying off of workmen, among them McWiiliams. He decided to strike for New York. But the small amount of money which stood between Mr. and Mrs McWiiliams and starvation was out of the question for transDortation. It was the girl who suggest d a method of travel of which she had read, and she finally persuaded the reluctant husband to fit her out in some of his clothes and together they started on the journey across the continent. From Los Angeles they went to Kansas City; from Kan sas City to St. Louis; then, striking north for Chicago, where they stay ed for several days. Starting again they reached Cleveland. They left the Ohio cify and jumped on the "blind baggage" of an express train from Cleveland to Buffalo, on the Lake Shore. They endured more on the last jump than on all the rest. The cold was biting, the snow, through which the train was tearing at a 60-mil gait, cut their faces, and their hands vre frozu to the iron rods to ihich they flung for life. The suf fering man and woman wee soaked to the skin by water from theten der, and their clothes froze. Judge Judge turned the girl over to the Salvation Army, and suspend ed sentence on McWiiliams, who took the advice of the court and started out to look for employment. New York Tribune. Kcw About This? We have been sent the followirg nii7.7.1f Tw a subscriber which we I SVJUB-W rr J herewith give to our readers; and in sending it he requested an answer: "A man on this side of the river has a fox and a goose and a peck of corn. He wishes to carry them across the river, but can carry but one at a time. If he takes the fox and leaves the goose and the corn togeth. er, the goose will eat the corn; if he takes the corn and leaves the fox and the goose together, the fox will eat the goose; and if he takes the goose across and then comes back for the corn, the goose will eat it and if he comes back for the fox, the fox will eat the goose. Now, how is he to get all three across and yet carry only one at a time? Siler City Grit. That is easy enough to solve, as even the school boys down this way can do. He first carries the goose across. Then he goes for the corn, putting that on the other side and takes the goose back with him to the starting point. Putting the goose out he takes the fox over to where he left the corn, and then goes back after the goose. In this way neith er the goose and the corn nor the fox and the goose are leit onue same side of the river. together Greenville Reflector. "Be Sure Your Sin Will Find Ycu Out." Henry Beattie wrote to a compan ion in vice that he had found that the statement "be sure your sin will ka von out" was literally true. Every other man learns thersame thing in the long run. From Ral eigh News and Observer. TREE CISTERNS Of SUDAN. The Natives' Metbod o? Obtaining Wa ter in the Dry Seascn. In view of the many suggestions made for the bringing down of rain it is interesting to not-b that in the Gezira district to therouth of Khar turn w henever a drouth is threaten ing all the children are sent into the fie ds and are made, to clap their hands and s-hout vigorously. The idea is t hat rain will be brought down and the little boys and girls are kpt out in cheopi-n atthisgame until the wished for result has been obtained. This year there have been rainstorms in superabundance in the district, so the children's in tercession h ;s not been required, or perhaps fie abnormal i ainfall is due to their vigorous action in the past. The latest Sudan Times gives a most interesting account of one of the means of which the inhabitants of Kordofan provide themselves with a copious water supply in that arid springless region. It is nothing more or less than the adansonia digitata, called by the natives homr, but commonly known as tebeldi. These tebeldi trees are from 10 to 25 feet in diameter, they grow to a considerable height, with trunks about 20 to 30 feet and fine branches giving a vast amount of shade. Strange to say, the trunks are nat urally hollow and are thus used as cisterns for the storage of water. Should the cavities not be large enough the natives scoop them out further. An opening is made either in the side of the trunk near the top or right at the top where the branch es start. In tae former case the tree is filled with buckets from pools which are dug at the foot of the tree to collect the rainwater during the rainy season. In the latter case the tree is filled by nature when the rain falls, the branches acting as sort of gutters. At times the trees crack, but this occurs very rarely, and the trunks are no longer of any jse as reser voirs. However, lateiy the resource ful native has adopted cement as a means of stopping up the cracks and a large number of tebeldis has been repaired in this manner. Curiously enough the presence of such a large quantityjot water in the trunk in nowise impedes its growth and it is certainly one of the most ingenious devices of nature for circumventing a natural dfficulty. Every cultivator has his tebeldi tree, which is indispensable to his work. These trees are looked upon as personal property and on the dath of a land owner his tebeldis pa?s as heirlooms to his sons. Cairo eorrespondant Pall Mall Gazette. Fried Chicken. Gracious! The Petersburg Index Appeal is trying to defend fried chicken as they know it in Virginia, where the veterans of the barnyard are slain with a fence rail and cook ed with the full purpose of keeping visitors from eating the last piece on the plate. The Baltimore Sun, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Birmingham Age-Herald, and other interlopers have also put in their oar and attempt to dilate on fried chicken. They know nothing what ever about the delicious North Car olina fried chicken, which is dipped in butter, simmered in butter, and then dashed with rich Jersey cream to make plenty of gravy for rice, with buttermilk biscuits on the side. Wilmington Star. DIED SUDDENLY. 'Acute Indigestion the Cause." How Often do we Read this Heading in Our Daily Paper. Dear reader, if your food does not digest properly, but stays in your stomach, causing much misery, shortness of breath, and fermenta- ;n von are the one that should constantly have with you a box of MI-O-NA stomach tablets. Two little MI-O-NA tablets taken at the first sign of distress would have kept many a death notice cut of the papers. If you have stomach trouble of any kind, start to get rid of it to day One 50 cent box of MI-O-NA stomach tablets will make you feel like a new man. Two week's treat ment will make any abused out of order stomach strong and vigorous. Guaranteed, mind you, for indi gestion, dizziness, biliousness, bad j Thpv clear the skin and 'brighten the eyes. A box for only ! 50 centsat E. T. Whitehead Company j and druggists everywhere. Winter Mornings. When the frost is on the fodder, And a tingle in the air; When the punking have been gath ered And the corn is shucked with care; When the grease is in the griddle, And the syrup's in the jug; When the coffee has been settled, And the fire is warm and snug; When the buckwheats reach the table, Mountain high and pim'ng hot. When with syrup and with butter They glide to the proper spot; When you've eaten all you're able, Full of "bucks" your wife has sent You can hike off to the office Full of grub and sweet content. Talk to me of pate de fol gras! Talk of sauces, puddings, pies! Talk of table d'hote and cuisine Not from me they'll get a prize. Give to me the smoking buckwheats, And the batter s in the crock, Life's worth living winter mornings When you rise at 6 o'clock. When the cakes are on the griddle, Stacked up high and piping hot; Maple svrup, golden butter Ah, that hits the proper spot! When you smell the breakfast ready And you hear the "get up" knock. There's a lot of joy in living, Though you rise at 6 o'clock. Will M. Maupin. Speaker Clark Urges Harmony. "Get together and stay together." This is the advice Speaker Champ Clark said he would give the Deno- crats of every community in the land if he had the opportunity. He add ed that it was the only instructions that it would be necessary for tne rank and file of the Democracy to follow to insure a great national victory in 1912. "Of course," ssid Mr. Clark, "I am taking it for granted that the tariff is to be the chief issue. No doub; the enemy would like to side track that issue, but we must uot permit it for an instant." Mr. Clark had just arrived at the capital city preparatory to opening the firsjt regular session of the sixty- second Congress, and discussed the political situation optimistally and at considerable length. "Looking back at the recent elec tion," said Mr. Clark, "they demon strated two things; one, that the people endorse our tariff record, without dcubt; two, that wherever we are united we can win." "After the Democrats in Congress have gotten together and made such a splendid record for solidarity it would be a shame and a calamity to lose in 1912 by reason of petty fact ional fights of a local nature. I be lieve firmly that we can win in 1912, but to do so there must be no fact ional fighting among Democrats. Consequently, I hope that Demo crats will forget their local differen ces and present a united front. Now is the time for them to get together and stay together." C. H. Taven ner. Prepress in the HooKwem Campaign Accelerated. Reports from theyhysiciansof the State and from the physicians con ducting the State and county free dispensaries for hookworm disease, show that since the work began twenty-one months ago upwards of forty-five thousand people have been treated. Nearly half of this num ber has been treated in the free dis pensaries of thirteen counties since July first. In the State there are 1800 physicians, and 1500 of them are active practitioners. 1200 of them have sent in written accounts of their experience with the disease, and 800 of them, rerre-rcnting all sections of the State, ha. e been ac tively engaged in treating the dis ease. Twenty-five com. ties have al ready made provision for the dis pensaries, bssides those appropriat ing for the dispensa'K-s the first Monday in December. 36,000 people have been microsco pically examined for hookworm dis ease. A large number of those heat ed had such heavy infection that the microscopic examination was not necessary. There is four.d now lit tle difficulty in securing cjopwatlon on the part of the people and county commissioners, where good results of the work can be seen or heard of. Lightning Kills few. In 1906 lightning killed only 169 people in this whole country. Ona's chances of death by lightning are less than two in a million. The chance of death from liver, kidney or stom ach trouble is vastly greater, but not if Electric Bitters be used, as Robert Madsen, of WestBurlington, la., proved. Four doctors gave him up after eight months of suffering from virulent liver trouble and yel low jaundice. He was then complete ly cured by Electric Bitters. They're the best stomach, liver, nerve and kidney remedy and blood purifier on nn earth. Only 50c at E. T. White head Company. 08 AflOOT 4f ABSOLUTELY PURE Makes delicious home baked foods of maximum quality at minimum cost Makes 5iome baking a pleasure The only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar No Alum No Unto Phosphates Conor tha Old Miids. Honor the old maids, for they are worth more in push and ability, and character than the mollycoddle they are replacing right and left every day. Such was the announcement made a few days ago by an organizer of the movement to aid spinisters. Since that time more than 500 let ters of appreciat ion have reached him. One of the latest letters, from Chicago, reads: "I read the announcement that a man is championing the cause of the 'old maid.' I am glad to see that a business man is taking this stand and telling whoever can and will read that the woman who is forced to earn her living, or is doing it ' through choice, has the push, ability ; and character necessary to insure her an independent and happy life, without waiting for some impossi bility to marry her." The man who wrote that letter is a gentleman in two places, and we doff our hat to him in reverence and respect. (From the New Orleans Picayune.) Tne Poor Man Still Has a Chance. I know a man who years ago went in debt, without a penny, for an old piece of land that grew nothing on its deep sand but r?.ssafras sprouts, land that would come as near failing to sprout peas as any land in the world, To-day, after 20 years of hard work, he can draw his check for thousands, has a beautiful home, great barns, and has refused $250 per acre for his land, and has bought more, and now works nearly 700 acres, employing at times as many as 75 hand3, and makes a moderate fortune every year. It takes brains and energy, and the man that has these will make a succes.1? at farm ing, while the man who is content to scratch along on a chattel mort gage every year, with as little thought tibout the study of his busi ness as the mule he works, will al ways have poor land, poor mules, and no implement but a tooth pick plow, and will do more actual hard labor than the man who studies and aims for higher thing.?. W. F. Mas-, sey in The Progressive Farmer. CATARRH DOCTOR. 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It va9 only after several specimens had been captured by Euro pean naturalists and brought west for careful exuir.k::U!on that lt was dis covered thai a curious projection ou the front of the insect's head, a kind of nose wirli n crcpp in it, was tlio leaping own. When bent bark undfr the abdomen ar.d suddenly rtlcased It sends ihs llulo creature fl vin 3. Ilur nr' Wreklv THINK THIS OVER. This Offer Should Gain the Confi dence of the Most Skeptical. Wepayforall the medicine used during the trial, if our remedy fails to completely relieve you of consti pation. We take all the risk. You are not obligated to us in any wcy whatever, if you accept our offer. That's a mighty broad statfmnr, hut we mean every word of it. Could anything be more fair for you? A most scientific, common-sen; o treatment is Rexall Orderlies, which are cnten like candy. Their r.ctive principle is a recent scientific discov ery that is odorless, colorless &nd tasteless; very pronounced, gcntlr, and pleasant in a.ctin, and particu larly agreeable in every wiy. Tir- ingredient does not cause dian hot.::, nausea, flatulence, griping, or other inconvenience. Rexall Orderlies are patiicularly good for children, aged and delicate persons. If you suffer from chronic or hab itual constipation, or the associate or dependent chronic ailments, we urge you to try Rexall Orderlies at our risk. Remember, you can get them in Scotland Neck only at our store. 12 tablets, 10 cents: SO tab lets, 2T cents; 80 tablets 50 cents. Sold only at our store The Rexall Store. E. T. Whitehead Company. I V Our Glasses X r are the vtry best that skilled labor and best material can make. The quality i3 unsur i. passed, and no detail is sr aed to make them the best that, money cm buy. Our facilities are unequalled for thio work and we ir:vite your inspection at ti time. Every Style - of g'a:?-: made is furnished bv us and we can satisfy j our eve ry want. It is no trouble to show you anything r-nd we are always glad to be of service. We SatisfyYou is Snccessore to TUCKER, KALL & CO. Opticians of The Best Sort 53 Granbv Street. NORFOLK. RICHMOND. ROANOKE. Fj TTf" mmi1- -'iHV'UgJll 1 al 1
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