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V LTH, The Largest Circulation OF ANY Halifax County Newspaper. jg The Largest urculafaon i OF ANY if irfjjfsx County Newspaper. S El "Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. C. i i i )'I , iiiior dud Proprietor. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1912. NUMBER 7. QL. XXV1H. ( !OM MONW'EA r - v.. f r .n 3 Well ss Men ois MaQ F?Iiserabl9 Kltlasy end BiaGifor Tnni&is. r i ' 1 a : .v.. I - B v.. . - I e preys f.-pon. the mind, I ttsaun.-s.UtDiuon; beauty, vigor t::id cheerful- ne.-s liwppec.r ' when tin.-kidneys ars j out oi oiclcr or uis- ! ea::e-l. j Kiii!;cyiroulleliS3 I , ........ - V, J... I Hint it u lot uaconi- ! - mot: for a child to be ' hotn :.1ILctcd with j v.u.k !;l-.!ueys. If the f; vii , ii: I he urine scalds j vi th-M !i:!d reaches an i .' ' U- t. control tht it-tctl wil'i 1cl-wt- ; t,.;:-cn':;:..ofil:odtm. t.;-.', nv.-.l the fsrst ; -w:-. I: trcrir.u-'iit oi" ! a. 'J !i;.iinnlfca?atit ARTISTS' EMBLEMS. Many of Them Signed Their Paintings With Symbols Which Were Usu ally Suggested by Their Names. The mystic emblem or device of a sort of Whistlerized butterfly was ad opt wl in the sixties by the eccentric genius James Abbott Whistler, who changed his name later to James Mc Neill Whistler. Close study will reveal that this pe culiar scroll is really a monogram of 3. W. The earliest of the etchings to bear the butterfly is "Chelsea Wharf" USr.3), but many paintings and etch ings after that date are signed "Whis tler." Artists have sometimes signed their pictures iu some distinct form instead of their names. It generally was done FiSST SCOTLAND" KECK RACE TRAIL CO condition of ! when the name might suggest some aot to a ..U UT t'l I" i -- , av.-i arc made miser .lid Madder trouble, s.iv.iz prreat jeaiedy. ii:i;'v.'n:rt- clt'eet cf e.Jtd. It is sold ri ji.r;v- oniblem or symbol. Thus Ilierouymus Cock demarked two fighting cocks on his panels; Mari otto Albertinelli signed a cross with two interlaced rings, referring to the sacerdotal duMes to which at one time of his life he devoted himself; Martin ,i. a wneei; neier ae it.vug, u nus Dossi, a hammer; wiin a diamond; Giovanni l one: I 'el Mazo Martinez, a Bsiat:' !' ' iv, ; - - ' v.--:. thsi tuv';.ails of testi r . ivcl :rrs-: r-u'Tror1 I t ' I"? just th'i a -v ; . J . r Dr. Kilmer t -'. A.. !.' sv:c and r. I.-n't make any ;i.;ii;lv-r the name, Dr i -T'voot. aud t!ie address, v.. on every bottle. i Ho Spada. a sword. A KU. KJTCHSN, . -1 ' ;-r ATT') it x i: Y a t La v , Scotland Xcck, N. C ,rHl.'ti."fs Any wiu'i'P. Dunn 'n -A' h required. iz. c PTT'N. Knfiel.l, N. C AT EiV'J7 X -r h fVrolin: matte Sometimes caprice dictated the selec tion, as when Jacopo de Barberi used ihe cndiiceus, or Mercurj' rod; Ilendrik de Hies an owl, Lucas Cranach a crowned serpent, Cornelius Engel brechtsen a peculiar device resembling a weather vane and Kiins Holbein a skull. HIS GREAT IDEA. lia to railrvsf i ,t-1 Vi .-oti,.nd Nrcx, N. C. Ptc 'iVuPrPVPr Viis services ar - fcwU "SLfer'--'- V O Th jrn'-n T. Kifchin, M.T . : Ph':. T... !. Plir.n- No. 1C.1. T :c K itch in : in r:;-k Hotel r No. 21. --r I oi'TICIAX I 1 v i N',-k, N. C. I :t.- I ui.I mas repaired r. savaus: 1 ' ; 1 .-V I - LI; IF.i. CI AN j '. 1: 1' , ' . ! The Tin Plated Tomato and the Mora! That Goes With It. A good theory that won't work isn't half as good as a poor one that will. Twenty years ago a young man just ut of college had a great idea. He was going to tin plate tomatoes. There was to bo no more troublesome paring and cooking and canning to preserve tomatoes throughout winters. It would be necessary only to drop a n'ce ripe tomato into his tinning solution and it would come out coated with tin and would keep for twenty years. In fact, there wasn't any reason why it should not keep forever! The young inventor figured it would cost him r0 cents a gallon to make this tinning solution. It surely would sell for $2 a gallon. Every one eats tomatoes that is, near ly every one. Everjbody would eat them if they could always have a nce tin olated tomato lying around. He cugnc 10 seii a mniion gaiions" a year. That would be a profit of a million and a half dol Well, no tin plated toma toes are on the market jet, and the man who invented them is still making only $10 a week. The moral of this is that whenever you hear of a great idea that is going to reform or uplift the world make sure that it is not of the tin plated tomato brand. Chicago Tribune. nance Blank was -ftay-Rtf Fete at The SteSa Normal. OCKY MOUNT, N. C. .nlnni Ne.-k. N. C, .m :. v.-d ie-d iy of each mont Mo..! to tr-iat the diseases of Ear, N,se, Throat, and fit ;3k, N. O. pot, Street. . I". SMITH ;n ena surgeon tors & Commercial k Building- Neck. J. C. JJVERMON, !;;::tist. up stairs in White- A Lottery Romance. A few years ago, as the date for the drawing of the annual Christmas lot tery at Madrid was approaching, a poor mechanic of Corunna was awakened three consecutive nights by the num ber 125,809, apparently spoken in his ear. . So impressed was he by the repe tition of the incident that he wrote down the number and jocularly said to his wife. "That number will win the first prize in the great lottery." "Then why don't you buy the ticket V" his wife answered jokingly as she looked at the figures. "Why, see, if you add them together they just come to my age. I shall be thirty-one on Christmas day." The ticket, after much trouble, was found (it had been reject ed a few minutes earlier by a wealthy eiMzdi of Corunna) and bought, and before many days had passed the me chanic and his wife were made jubi lant by the news that the ticket had won the first prize of 200,000. Lon don Globe. VJL? ( :ra-e head Building. e. nrirs irom v to t o tuou and 2 to 5 o'clock. HASH GALS AMI . Unusual Death. To fall to death in a seething whirl pool was the fate of two Swiss lovers a few days ago. The couple were vis ling the famous Handegg Falls near Meiringen when a small bridge over the River Aare collapsed and they -oil 240 feet into the whirlpool below B By This Sip " :JjWi3 Prevents hair f! T AH'j HEALTH TO MOTHER AND CHILD.' ' . --.m.v.-s R(xitiiing SYRt P has been , .r o. , i -ZXTY YEARS l-y MI WON Sot 1 ' : --i i,.r t!ic:r ClIILURUN WHILB. T--ING. vint PHR1-UCT SUCCESS. It ; -; i - c 111,1), SOFTENS the CCM& .ir.'UKi: CURES WIND COUC and . v. . ...c.,y f , r diaRRIICA. It is ab - u-.-i Bs sure and avk for "Mrs. - ; i -mn," and ake no other v-;:ve Icnts a botUe. you know tKat you are getting the one prepa- i ration that S has stood h the test for over thirty five years arid still re mains the Standard tonic-food-medicine, used and 3inmended by the m3cal profes sion the world over. 1 1 1 mm w 7 3 Lojalfid Ke?r HaiifM Over a Hundred Years Ace A Noted Hcrse. There is tc-day a race track at Ssotland Neck; and I thought it mijrht interest some of the readers of The Commonwealth, as it inter ested me, to know that there was a 'rack over a century ago, named the Scotland Nock Track, located near Halifax; also, of a famous race which was run over it between one - . t i 1 1 . i L or trie most renoweu nuisw mm ever feced a starter in this country, trwl . another who was thought l.y many to be his equal. Herewith I quote a description of them and a hiief account of the race: "Sir Archy was bred by Colon; 1 Archibald Randolph and CoL ne' J hn Tayloe, as thtir joint property He wa; foaled on James River in 1805, was by imported Diomed out imported Casti-jnira by Rock:n,? ham. Sir Archy was a rich ay in color, having no white about him except on hisriaht hind pastern. He was a horpe of fuse size, being full s xteen hands high, an inch tall er than his English sire, with great power and t-ubst ance. Ilk- shoulders were very deep, mounting up to the top of his withers and obliquely in clined. His girth was full and deep, back short and strong, thighs and urms long and muscular with good bone. His front appearance was strikingly fine, bis head and neck beautifully formed, the neck rising gracefully but powerfully out ot his withers." Of his opponent in the rsce it wa said that he (Blank) "was the only nftrsn then livincr in America v as thought to have any with Sir Archy at ail regarded as a horse of great bot tom. He was owned and trained 'or this race by General Stephen W. Carney, who imported his sire, Citi- Of the race, which occurred in the fall of 1809: "Sir Archy met Blank for the Jocky Club Purse, four mile heats, at the Scotland Neck Track, Halifax, North Carolina. They went off slowly the first two miles, when Blank set out to make it a race from thence home. Sir Archy was in the lead some few feet, and main tained his place, winning the heat by more than a length in 7:52. The -second heat vas run in the same manner and wa--? won by Sir Archy with apparent ease in R:00. . "The next morning S''r Archy was nurchased by Allen J. Davie. f.r 55,000 ami relit ed. (A modest sum in comparison to present day figures Flvinrr Fox. the great ii.ng.tsn thoroughbred, was valued by his owners at $225,000.) The retire ment of Sir Archy" would not have occurred so early in his career had it not been that there wss no horse of the time which had speed and -trength enough to compete with h'm at a distance of four miles, or four mile heats. After this race, io which he disposed of the claims of the Carolina horse Blank. Co!on 1 Johnson, his own-r, a true sports man, offered to run him against any bors- in America, four mile hea's, for $5,000 a side. None were found to take up the gap thrown down to them, and it was tor tms rea on tiat Colonel Johnson parted with him. Blnk suffered much ill effect from his attempt to make Sir Archy run the second heat of their famous race, for soon after trial of ppee.1 Blank died." Colonel William R. Johnson was a Virginian, his home being nar Petersburg. He was the best judge of a thoroughbred horse of any man of his time; and he was known as "The Napoleon of the Turf." By marriage he w;ts related to the fam ily or Faulkner of Warren c.nmty. rnr nf his iockevs. a nesrro named Greensboro, N. C, Feb. 12. part of the Commencement -A3 a exer cises, the students in the College and the children in the Training School are to celebrate My-dsiy. To the ancestors of every North Carolinian Teuton, Kelt, or An-lo-Saxon -the very word May -day was elo quent with meaning. Because this was right, these youthful citizens are going to do their best toward reviving the May-day customs by re producing the Day itself. From the dim and shadowy period of paganism, through ntany centu ries, all European people;' performed certai-i stmi-ndilous, semiparJc rites in "day. Romans instinctively wore garlands and carried newly budded branches in honor -of Flora and Zephyr, who were supposed to s'rew ihe earth with flowers. Goths and Swedes fought a mock battle between Winter and Summer, Sum mer always winning. Irish, Sotch Hkhlmdcr3, and Scandinavians stind'ed "bon-firc-s" cn their hilltops, a.-.d dariced, swng and feasted in PF.L1ESTI0N OF CGXSUMPTJOK. Preveolion Easy If Each Individual Does Kis Part. honor of th sun. In th-3 Christian era the old customs were continued as wholesome recreation 'lor the peo ple. Not only the masses, the lords and ladies, kings and queens reveled in the woods an 1 "brougbt the sum mer home." In "The Death of iving Ardv we read: ihen it it befell in lusty May that Queen Guenever called unto her her knyghtes of the round table and srave them warning that :ar!y in the morning she should ride on Maying iroo the fields beside Westminster." In the earliest English lyric poetry May day is spoken of as the time living recovers nd the "when everything virtue, beauty enc fovef hearts of all people riseu den themselves." Hear and heed wise Chaucer: "Forth gotrth -A the coirie, both rooste and teste, To fetch t '.e flour es fresh and branche .i:d hiome; And thon rejoysen in the-: grete de light. Eek eche -at other throw the f.oures bryuhte." - "Hard is his hrt that loveth naught In May when al iu this mirth is wrought. Next week vr sha'l tell four famous May-Poles. ice noltP.fi Pemton Roll. Where is the Congressman brave enough to draw up and champion a bill to purge the Federal pension rolls? There has been talk and talk of thi., but instead, additional fakirs are being added to the rolls and more money vo'ed at every Con gress. r!r. Clnrles Francis Adams is bringing some unpleasant facts to the attention cf Congressmen through The Wor'd's Work. He give-i some cases of pension frauds that are on record. A reeponsible m-tn, himself a veteran of the war, wrote from a town in Ohio that he "could r.ame at k t.st twenty men in t'e same company to which he be longed who are receiving under a snecial pension act S24 a month ai d who never s o-'d in the line of bat t'e." S.id another cose was speci fied on the floor of th.e Isst IIou:-e of a man "who eniisted in 1864, got a big b 'unty; stayed in the hospital unil discharged; never fired a gun or did a day's duty at the front; come home; wr.s examined, was pen sioned at $12 per mor.th for the last stages of consumption, end is living yet." A system under which such abuses exist, and are practically connived at, is one not improperly characterized as a "system which offers every possible inducement to mendicancy and conceals every pos sible indued ment to fraud." Char lotte Chronicle. CROUP ENDS LIFE. Consumption is a preventable dis-i ease. Then why not prevent it? Ev: ery case is contracted by means of germs from some other consumptive. If you get consumption, you may consider it a monument to some other consumptive's ignorance, care lessness, cr negligence. If you give, or make others liable to consump tion, you are guilty of criminal neg ligence and deserve to be punished. Consumption would be extinct iti less than five years if all consump tives would exercise the proper pre caution. This may mean you. Thousands of people in our State have consumption and do not know it. Many of them go about spitting, coughing, and sneezing in a careless manner, making their friends and associates most liable to the disease. Many others who may not have the disease are equally guilty of such filthy habits. Does this mean you? Don't spit! Oh, you say, that is an old saw. So it is, but it is the ounce of prevention which any one can easily supply. Ninety-five per cent of the spitting is unnecessary. This is an in sanitary practice corfr fined largely to the men. To be sure it is filthy and dangerous to swallow mucus and phlegm coughed up. It is far better to rid the sys tem of this secretion than to allow any part of it to enter the stomich. But, if spit you must, even this can be done in such a manner as to re duce the danger to a minimum. At home, ?pit only in the fire or in a spittoon. Keep water in the spit toon. Empty it daily and scald it out with boiling water. An excel lent precaution is to add a half tab let of mercuric bichloride to the water in the spittoon when it is re turned for use. Carbolic acid or calcium hypochlorite are also good, but they emit slight otbrs. Disin fectants injure bras3 spittoons. In public, never spit on the side walk or where it may come in eon tact with th? skirts or .clothes of others, or become dried and stirred up as dust. Spit in the water in the erutters or in sewer inlets. Spit in ou of t5ie sunlight, as bright sunlight will kill the germs of consumption be fore they can become dry and float off as dust. Sneeze, cough, or spit in a handkerchief, or, better still, use a paper napkin and burn after using. Consumptives should use sp't-cups. Whenever you see a careless spit ter, consider him as a man danger ous to society and an enemy to man kind. Avoid him, and beware that others cinnot so regard you. ana glaa- Absolutely Makes delicious home linked foods ol maximum CiiaIiEy at mistnram cost. Makes Uomz taking a Measure The only BaJang Powder mat3 from Ro3ral Grape Cream of Tartar No Almzt Mo Lime Phosphates law of Fa:!ftli3!cs. The ages of men who are new spoken of as availab-e presidential timber range from 67 to 44. Next March Governor Judson Harman will be 67; Speaker Clark will be 63; Governor Wilson, 57; Mr. Under wood, 51; and ex-Governor Folk, 44. Mr. Taft will be 56; Senator LaFol- lette, 58; Senator Cummins, 63; and Mr. Roosevelt, 54. The oldest suc cessful candidates for President have been William llcnryllarrison, who was 68 vear3 of aire at hi3 inaugura- i Ef-e Smith, B. F t,Vn. Tm-'nr fit fil- nnd JpI.t) 1 Pcsffani, E. B. Barbae Adams and Andrew Jackson, each at 61. The ywunr oian to become President was Roosevelt when he succeeded to thi office in 1901, at the age of 42. Grant was the next youngest, at 46, und Cleveland the next, at 47. Nashville Democrat. KiisNa i;!r rnrfnc i. Mini:;yu THIS STORE WON'T GUARANTEE CALOMEL But We Have a Liver Medicine That We Do Guarantee With Money Back Offer. Will Alifind Macoo P.8-Un!an. Charles Stuart, afterwards a noted -7-' : . ''-, rCi if,-: is the embodiment of elements that make for good health and strength. AI.E DRUGGISTS 11-23 H Many Children Die of Croup Every Year Before a Doctor Can Be Summoned. horse trainer, was leaned to Mr. Peter Davis, of Warren, and for him S uart rode races over the famous race track near Warren ton. Let us ad wish for the present "Scotland Neck Track" every sue- CeSS. VV ltn ellOUJl VUli!Uiu:.iuca interested in racing the sport migi.t again be made as it once was in this country, and still is in England, the sport of gentlemen and kings. An attempt to restore the old time four mile races was begun last year in Kentucky when the racing organiza tion of the Churchil Downs track, at Louisville, together with the State Racing Commission, voted $10,000 and a solid gold cup to the winner of the four mile race which was run on September 7th. ... J. D. Hufham, Jr. .Macon, Ga.. Feb. 12. A letter re ceived Saturday morning from Cap tain George Hager, of Nashville, commanding Troop A Forrest Caval ry, states that this organization wiil atten the Re-Union in Mucon, May 7th, in full force, bringing down an even roster of 100 men for the event. This troop is one of the best known organizations in the South. The letter also states tin t this troop will bring its own equipage, . M 1 " commissary department, coo King utensils, table-ware linen, blankets and the like, as well ss its ewn chefs. This troop was one of the most pop ular attending the Re-Urnon at Little Rock last year. WHY HESITATE? An Offer That Involves no Mcr. Risk if You Accept It. Raleigh, N. C, Feb. !. Tlie liret if a chtin of Kitchin clubs expected '0 be organized m c-vtry section cf the StP.t in connection with tho candidacy of Governor William Wal ton Kitchin for th'j United States Senate, was organised here to-night with C. J. Iluntw m president; C. B. Biirboe, viec-pretddent; W. C. Harris, secretary; B. II. Little, treasurer, ".nd with rn executive committee composed of Dr. Chas. L. B. ar,d T. P. Sales. There were about one hun dred prent ril ill" ,-i-ct itrv re ports tn enrollmnit of 10h Tho club ftdopted n resolution asking Governor Kitchin. to addre.-s il.i? club some night next week at n pub lic meeting. It is understood that the Governor will certainly accept, and that his .- peech i., to set th-' cam paign going nt a lively gait. FIVE MINUTES. Soun.es?, Gas, Heartburn and Stf n ach Distress Will Disappear. The next time you think you need a dose of calomel, don't take it. Even if you have taken it often be fore, this might be the very dose would salivate you. It3 use is some times followed by dangerous af ter--eflVcts. If you are constipated or billions or if your 1 i ver has gotten la; y and inactive two or three doses of Dodson'sLiver-Tono, pleasant tasted vegetable liquid, will "make you feel like new." We would not recomaienJ Dod son's Liver-Tone in place of calomel ii we were not willing: to fully guar antee it. So anybody who buys a bottle of Dodson's Liver-Tone at E. T. Whitehead Go's., drug store and does not find it a perfect substitute for calomel may come into the store . any day and get hl-5 or her money j i i. I aa-"' ! tierlif i rin until alu.v man is un m. It has absolutely no bad Rfter-j jppy siave. Burdock Blood Bit effects and i3 harmless for children ! tris builds up sound health keeps as well 83 grown-ups j poa wed. Distress aft'-r ':ting, to:irn-: ga and heartburn cj.n bo qui ddy relieved by taking one or two Mi-'i-NA stomf ch tabled,. They arc guaranteed to bani h r.r y ea!'.e cf indigestion, rente uv chrome stomach ailment no my tier what it is called, or money back. MI-O-NA slorr.r.ch ttb'iets an small and ejsily swallowed. Thry are sold by E. T. Whitch;.d Com pany und dru:rsisti t very . h 'V2 f r 50 cents a box. They are put up i; a uoat metal box that can convc nieiitly hi cartied in the vcit pocket. They are c-pecuily recoinmende I for nervotisne 7. tde'plcssno., bt.d dreams, const ip:;.fon, dizzitic-s and biiiousr.es?. A hrul hy ir.n i. Bht; J 4py l.Uvs in hi ; )V ti iii.- Parents of children should be pre n .vpi at all times for a spasm of croup. Keep in the house a remedy that will give instant relief and keep the child from choking until the arrival of the physician. Get a 50 cent bottle of HYOMEI to-day and in case of an attack of croup pour 20 drops into a kitchen bowl of boiling water. Hold the child's hrad over the bowl so that it can breath tha soothing, penetrating vapor that arises. In the meantime send for a physician. This treatment has saveu me lives of many children and and is a pre caution' that all parents should promptly lake. - HYOMEI is sold by E. T. White head Company and druggists every where and is guaranteed for croup, catarrh, asthma and bronchitis. We are so positive our remedy will completely relieve constipation, no matrer how chronic it may be, that e offer to furnish it fixe of all cost if it fails. Constipation is commoidy caused by weakness of the nerves and mus; eies of the large intestir.c. i o expect a cure you must therefore tone up and strengthen those organs and re store them to healthier activity. We want you to try :exall urcier iies on ov.r guarantee. They are eaten like candy, and are particular ly go( d for children. They seem to j act direct ly cn the nerves and mus cles of the bowels. They apparently have a neutral action on the other organs. They do not purge or cause other inconvenience. We will refund your money if they do not overcome chronic or habitual constipation and thus aid to relieve the myraids of as sociate or dependent chronic ail ments. Try Rexall Orderiies at our Three sizes, 10c, 25c, and 50c. Sold only at our store The Rexall Store. The E. T. Whitehead Co. WW ERUVIAN GUANO the world's richest fertilizer is the base of Peruvian Mixtures. To thi3 we have edded hih grade Ammo niaies and Potah to make a more perfectly balanced fertilizer. Guano from far Peru Ammoniates from United State Potash from Cermany's mines. That's the story of Peruvian Mixtures. We have several mixtures oi diflercnt analy siseach exactly suited to certain soils and crops Last year Peruvian Mixtures were tested out on cotton, corn, tobacco and oilier crops. The results were astounding. They showed Peruvian Mixtures to be the ideal fertili2er. They are proving a boon to the South eivine the utmost in plant foods, to meet the needs of growing plants at tbe riht time. But the supply of Peruvian is limited. Those who "put off" ordering are apt to be too late. Write now for our handsome free booklet. Peruvian Guano Corp., Charleston, - S. C