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r Starr Hale Quartette Company, the Best Show of the season, next Wednesday night, February 25th. Kr ( TEL The Largest Circulation OF ANY Halifax County Newspaper. The Largest Urciffatioii fcS t OF ANY 5s Hafa County Newspaper. SCOTLAND KECK, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1912. NUMBER 8. mm&mmmamveammmmiaimm - - " COMMONWEAL 1 r I1' r o ITof.t Get Up 55 taney Tver-We Hakes You Miserable. jAit-."'-i everyone kucv.r of Dr. Kilmer's knx-i-xi-, the '.'rrd Living-.-, liver and Xi; x.i . S.-iU. lUX (XiUoC C nblc h-..:,tJi 1 et-torin,- '. .rc;:tTt;c:".. Ix.vxr.ll.- ial.IIIs alined r:icutiialu-.:n. "l ,j'Vf, liver, blacl.lcr ; i PC.'' v' :::1. twry i ari. rf ine ,; ; vi: inr.ry J'.ussj.,xc. It ' ;:-i""" corrects iuability to . 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Attouxey at Laav, J Scurland Xck, N. C, a'i :-"' Any where. Al.IHION Duxx Lewycr '.-hsa er hv services i .'-'--.' R. C. PTINN. T!. -J 'V;X. T-T. C. EnSeM, N. C. . t.- t;. x - r , i.y j.'S 4 Attormeys .t Law ' -rl Nv'C.1 Nt;r;'n Carolina. , . t-,o;. i- in a!l matters m - p-?r ?.i Tin r to railroad f 'k-i h ri3y loaned on anprov- lo -n -if. ff ' I Aw 73 5 Y IUN? jr.ns' - Counselor at Law i: ) ! l .?d Necx, N. C I -a- y ' V ..vhc-fv.jv services are renui: od. Thu-ir-1 I). Kitchin, M.D. No. 131. I ! t ;x jn .-trick Hottfl !:.- P o:v- No. 21. A. XT' "ST' OPTICIAN' - Nck, N. C. ?:-:-l!-itrl FItEB. Broken X-' . ; ! x 1 1 fni'rie repaired. ; rh'ly cash. .. a. L. SAVAGE O? TiOCKY MOUNT, !. C. lit -,- . t.Uni Ne"k. N. U, on tl, "lofx-l to treat the diseases of b Sar, Nose, Throat, and fit hH--es. -..Wm.--vI Neck, N. C. ; 'ii(-; !?i !).-j)ot Street. 11. O. F. SMITII ih73id.m and Surgeon :-j i.'t I'ia iters & Commercial Dunk Building S- .t!.md Neck. N. C. i) h:nttist. Office upstairs in White-r'-. head RuiMing. Hce hours from 9 to i o'clock and 2 to 5 o'clock. t.4 V'ASh -BALSAM . wa ucc.iTH Tn MflTHFR AN3 CHILD. i.i rwiu iiknLi u f as.Wi.NSLoWs Soothing SYRCJ to beed ! I ' .rover btXTY YEARS by MILLIO oj ,t:x- .-s for their CHILDREN W UILE X.r.TUIXO. with PERFECT SUCCEfeS.; tArr::;:s the child, softes ine ..tm LT.AV S a'.l l'AIN ; CURE.S WIND COLIC, and , ........ !.. niiBHiKi A. It is al- !v harmless. .Be sure and ask. lor Mrs. '".-x S -othins Syrup," and ake no other X .v'ijtv-tive cents a doilic. t.V.--.x ltg 'f?-:?.'3 x-' . --i vH . . v :' ; "; '. ii :i hJtJ C -J ' X '' : 1 ' - - . . -.- . : .. r -X.Xiv V. x - x- j j. FENNEL. Or Fennocchi, as the Italians Call It, Is to Them Somewhat as Cel ery Is to the American. "Tisn't often that an Italian table d'hote furnishes anything that takes me back to my grandmother's time," said a New York man, "but that was my experience last night. The first nibble of something I'd supposed was celery sent my mind wandering back fifty years to an old New England vil lage. " 'Fennel?' I asked the Italian waiter, lie nstlded and smiled and gave me the Italian form of the word, which I carefully wrote down on a scrap of paper, 'Fennocchi.' I suppose it showed my ignorance, but never before did I know that fennel is to the Italians what celery is to us. Evidently the large bases of the leafstalks are bleached in similar fashion, and from the way it was served I could see it was intended to be dipped in salt, as we cat celery. My obliging waiter told me that it was delicious as a salad and when boiled and served with civam sauce it made a popular Italian dish. "1'ut after all what did those culi-n-.ry details matter? What really counted was that strange, penetrating flavor which took me back to my child hood. As I thoughtfully nibbled my fennel stalks the last fifty years seemed a blank. I was a child again, picking big clusters of yellow, aromatic fennel seeds in my grandmather's gar don." New York Sun. The Poster. The poster may be said to date from 18:!C. when a design by Lelance wa used in France to advertise a book. "f'ommcDd Meurent les Femmes." Ills example was very quickly fol lowed, mot of the early designs being printed in black on white or tinted pr.por. The color poster began about lflO and attained to the dignity of a high art v.iih Jules Cheret, "the fa ther of the pictured placard." The first English theatrical placard to at tract widespread attention was one of Fred Walker's advertising a dramatic version of "The Woman In White." London Chronicle. A Hurry Call. The political boss of a small city drove his buckboard at top speed down the main street on the morning of an election. ' ITey, Johnnie," he yelled to his son, "git down in the Fourth ward quick! There's people down there votin' as they blame, incase:" Success Maga zine. Thos Dear Girls. Young Bride I didn't accept Harry thi? first time he proposed. Miss Ry val No, dear; you weren't there. Beaton Transcript. Ancient Bridge Superstition. A primitive notion existed among the Romans and other races that a bridge was an offense and injury to the river god, as it saved people from being drowned while fording or swimming across and robbed the deity of a cer tain number of victims which were his due. For many centuries in Rome propitiatory offerings of 1 human vic tims were made every year to the Ti ber. Men and women were drowned by being bound and flung from the wooden Sublician bridge, which, till nearly the end of the republican pe riod, was the one and only bridge across the Tiber in Rome. Strategy. The turkey was not a very large one, and Mrs. Pedagog's boarders began to be a little anxious on the subject of its going around. Finally the last bit was distributed, and the idiot, glancing at his portion, observed that he had drawn the neck and the pope's nose. 'fAh, Mrs. Pedagog," said he, with a genial smile, "you are a wonder at making both ends meat." Lippincott's. Share Life of Apes. A3 a modern example of an abso lutely primitive race of people, Prof. W. Volz of Breslau university has brought to notice the Kubuswho are completely isolated in the forest in terior of Sumatra. They share the life and habits of the apes m the same forest. 4i"Si'.-r. -A--V Scott's mulsion keeps children healthful and happy. Give them a few drops of this strengthening food medicine every day and watch them grow.' IT PREVENTS Croup Whooping - Cough Bronchitis Loss of Flesh and many other troubles ALL DRUGGISTS 11-15 THE TARIFF TO BE TKE ISSUE. Presidential OnllooK Gross Interesting. Other Matters. Washington, Feb. 17. With the dates for the assembling of the national " conventions of the two ereat political parties only about ninety days distant, interest of an ticipation in their develpments fn'ows apace along with livelier activities of the advocates who got into the field early. So far the president making" industry has mainly been confined to disseminating literature in which the aspiran's loom heroic a!l, but air that will be forgotten when thinss begin to happen in pri mary elections an! conventions vvhich choose delegates to the nation al event." Unbiased, sensible peo ple, are only amused by straw votes . s ,nd vociferations as proceeding from vwie other impulse than interest in a uise conclusion. The next few weeks will Fee something of this sort vvhich will afford the one reliable evidence of preferences. If now looks ;-;s though the coming campai!) be fought out for tht nost part of the tanfr, or questions closely related to methods of hand ling moneys derived from the peo ple by a vast system of taxation. The Democrats have tackled tariff reformation with an energy that will be productive of interesting re sults, conterding for revision End reduction solely with regard to low ering the cost of living and at the same time producing sufficient rcve-! nue. Pres-ident Taft and his follow ing have accepted the issue of con tention against the recognition of tne protective system ar d will not shrink from waging Ihe. campaign to a finish with that as a paramount question. Congressman Joseph E. Ransdell, president of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, has returned to Washington and his legislative duties j from a most strenuous senatorial campaign in his home State, Louisi-j ana, in which Mr. Ransdell won a splendid victory, n peat in the upper : branch of the national legislature, after March 4, 1913. Mr. Ransdeil bears his new honors with becoming modesty, but never theless he ii entitled to a word of congratulations for he had as his antagonist in the senatorial prima ries a past master in politics, Sena tor Murphy J. Foster, who came to the Senate in 1901. Congressman Ransdell, who is a member of the Rivers and Harbors Committee of the House, said that a rivers and harbors bill would be re oorted shortly but as to the amount it would carry he could not say, as there were a number of matters still to be discussed which would necessarily change the totals, what ever the decision. Ke thought the bill would exceed twenty millions somewhat, but said that it was the general desire of the committee to report a conservative measure to the end that the policy of an annual rivers and harbors bill be still fur ther emphasized. "Although 1 shall go to the upper branch of Corjorress next. year, said Mr. Ransdell, "my interest in tht cause of waterways will be increas ed just that much more, if that be possible. It is one of the great problems which confronts us as a people, this transportation question, and it needs wisdom in its solution the end that the whole country may be benefitted. We have entered upon a sound policy of vaterway develooment and I hope to see Ihe n-il-Vv made nermanent. Without f J r permanency the improvement of our rivers and harbors might become chaotic, and surely we do not want to go back to the old order of ma ing bi-ennial or even ti i-ennial ap propriations for our internal water? Piece-meal appropriations for va terways have very rightfully been relegated to the rear and the sens- hie course adopted of making yearly appropriations for the continued im provements of projects that have re ceived the endorsement of the board of engineers and have the stamp of Congressional approval." Artificial Turquoise. -From Ivory, which shows no grain, pieces of the size of the torquoise de sired are shaped and lelt lor n aays in a saturated solution of ammoni acal copper oxide in water, then rinse and dry them. If the color of the tor quoise is not deep enough, the opera tion may be repeated. Where Cork Sinks. Cork, in spite of its buoyancy, will not rise to the surface again from a depth of 200 feet below the ocean's surface, owing to the great pressure of water. At any depth short of that it will gradually work Its way back. to the surface. - " " - THE MW ECKN CL13. Partial List is! Prizes to to Awarded Successful Ceatestaifts. State prize of a free trip to Wash ington, D. C, to be awarded to the boy making the largest y-eld at the least cost per bushel. District cash prize, offered by the State Department of Agriculture. Five prizes in each district for best yield at least cost per bushel: First, $15.00; second, ?12.50; third, $10.00; fourth, $5.00; fifth, $2.50. Fit st district Counties of Cam den, Currituck, PasquoUnk, Per quimans, Chowan, Washington, Tyr rell, Dire, Hyde, Beaufort, Pamlico. Second district Counties of Gates, Hertford, Be-tie, Mai-tin, North- amnion. Edgeeonibe, Wil- n, Warren. Third district- -Countieo of Pitt, Lenoir, Craven, Onslow. Duplin, Gret i e. Wayne, Jor.es, Cc.ri.eret, Pender. Fourth district Countu-3 of Dur ham, "Vance-, Granville, Franklin, N'a.-h, Johnston, Wake, Chatham, Leo. Fifth district Counties of Person, Orange, Caswell, Alatna: ce, Rock ingham, Guilford, Randolph, Stokes, Davidson. Sixth district Counties of New rlanover, Brunswick, Columbus, Bladen, Sampson, Robeson, Cumber land, Harnett, Hoke. Seventh district Counties of An son, Scotland, Moore, Richmond, Montgomery, Stanley, Union, Ca har r u s , M eck lenburg. Eighth district Counties of -Alle- ghanev. t-urry Surry, wihxe?, v!c- Ashe, Watauga, Caldwell. Burke, McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey, Avery. Ninth d strict Coi:ntiss of Yad kin, Davie, Rowan, Rede!!, Catawba, Lincoln, Gaston, Cleveland, Ruther ford, Polk. Tenth district Counties of Madi son, Buncombe, Henderson, Transyl vania, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain, Graham, Clay, Cherokee. RUL3S. 1. All members must be under 18 years of ace August 1, 1912. 2. Each boy must plant one acre of corn ,(4.840 square yards) doing ill th3 work himself, except that smalL-boys may hire their land broken. 3. No member must use more than $10.00 worth of commercial fertilizer. 4. Each member must keep a record of his work, amount of ma nure and fertilizer used and make out a reyort on the special blank which will be furnished him. 5. Each member must read the instructions sent him by the Depart ment of Agriculture. For further information or en rollment address, L. O, bchaub, West Raleigh, N. C. FREE IF IT FAILS. Your Money Back if You are not Satisfied with the Medicine We Recommend. We are so positive that our remedy will permanently relieve constipa tion, no matter how chronic it may be, that we offer to furnish the med icine at our expense should it fail to produce satisfactory results. It is worse than useless to attempt to cure constipation with cathartic drugs. Laxatives or cathartics do much harm. They ca'-se a reaction, irritate, and weaken the bowels and tend to make constipation more chronic. Besides, their use.becomes a habit that is dangerous. Constipation is caused by a weak ness of the nerves and muscles of the large intestine or descending colon. To expect permanent relief you must therefore' tone up and strengthen these organs and restore them to healthier activity. - We want you to fry Rexall Order lie on our recommendation. They are exceedingly pleasant to take, be ing eaten like candy, and are ideal for children, delicate persons, and old falks, as well as for the robust. Thev act directly on the nerves and muscles of the bowels. They appar- entiy nave a neuuai6U"" associate organs or g'fends. They do not purge, cause excessive looseness, nor create any inconvenience what ever. They may be taken at any time day or night. They will posi tively relieve chronic cr habitual constipation, if not of surgical vari ety, and the myraids of associate or dependent chronic ailments, if taken with regularity for a reasonable length of time. 12 tablets 10 cents; 36 tablets, 25 cents; 80 tablets, 50 cents. Sold in Scotland Neck only at our store The Rexall Store. - E. T. Whitehead Co. FOUR FAMOUS MAY-POLES. With Ths Greensboro Normal Students In May-Day Fete. "The tall young oak is cut down for a May-pole and the fro'ick fry of the town prevent the rising sun, and with joy in their faces and boughs in their hands, they march before it to the place of erection." This custom is as old as the Druids to whom the oak was sacred. Later, however, the pole was made of what ever tree the people might obtain. An alumna of the State Normal Col lege recently saw in Sweden a May pole made of a magnificent fir such as is used for the mast of a large ship. It is erected on a hill and stands the whole year round. A London church was called "Saint Andrew Undershaft" because of the pole which, planted in the ground every May-day, towered above the church steeple. Chaucer, speaking of an empty braggart, refers to this pole: "Right well aloft and high "ye beare your head, As ye would beare the great shaft of Cornhill." From May-day to May-day it hung upon iron hooks above the doors of the neighboring houses. In the reign of Edward VI, after a bitter sermon against May sports, the inhabitants of these houses, in an acute attack of Puritanism, sawed the noble shaft in pieces. The pole annually erected near Saint Paul's cathedral was kept in the hostelry called Gerard's hall and "reached to the roof thereof, a pole forty feet long ard fifteen inches about, fabled to be the jousting staff of Gerard the Giant." Until 1852, when the historic building was demolished for civic(?) improve ments, there stood over its gate a carved wooden figure of the giant, pole in hand. Probably Shakespeare often saw in the village of Welford, the tali, red, white, and blue May-pole plant ed in the centre of a mound cn which the dancers performed. The Parliament of 1644 ordered that "all the singular May-poles that are or shall be erected shall be taken down," but in 1661, on the very hrst May-day alter me r.saor- ation, tne most iamous Hinglisn History, a cenar io ieei. high, was erected in the Strand by seamen sent by the Duke of York. In 1717, old and beginning to decay, it had to be taken down. Sir Isaac Newton (blessings on his saintly head and poetic soul!) arranged for its purchase and conveyance to Wanstead, Essex, where it became the support of the great telescope presented to the Royal Society by Hugon, the French astronomer. This pole is often mentioned in literature. A nineteenth century humorist asks: "What's not destroyed by Time's re lent less hand? Where's Troy? andwhere's the May pole in the Strand?" COUntiCS tO HaVQ H08kW8fIB Dispsn- sarles. The counties of Martin, Greene, Lenoir and Duplin have made pro- vision during February to have the State and County Dispensaries for the free examination and treatment for hookworm disease. These ad ditions bring the total number of counties making such provision to thirty-one. The work has been completed in twenty counties. The work is carried on simultaneously in five counties. Up to this time the records show that about 00,000 peo ple have been treated. Many of the results of cures may be seen in each ! county and are truly remar kable. FOR DYSPEPSIA. You Risk no Money if You Try This Remedy. We want every one troubled with indigestion and dyspepsia to come to our store and obtain a box of Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets. They contain Bis-muth-Subnitrate and Pepsin careful ly combined so as to develop their greatest power to overcome diges tive disturbance. Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets are very 0c3.t. to take. They tend to soothe the irritable, weak stomach, strengthen and invigorate the diges tive organ s, to relieve nausea and in digestion, thus promoting nutrition and bring about a feeling of. com fort. - . If you give Rexall Dyspepsia Tab lets a reasonable trial we will return your money if you are not satisfied with the result. Three sizes, 25 ! cents, 50 cents, and $1.00. Remem ber, you can obtain 'Rexall Reme dies only at our store The Rexall Store. The E. T. Whitehead Co. AbaoIutoBy Psiro B j Economizes Batter FZoisrfv If W Eggs; makes the food more r appetizing and wholesome ty ifg The only Baking Pcnvder made ff jgtf from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar r Old North State Pays Nearly 7 1-2 Mil lions Yearly. Washington, Feb. 15. In response to a request from Senator Overman for information as to the'amount of revenue paid by the state of North Carolina to the Federal government and the amount of revenue received by the state of North Carolina, from the Federal government for the fis cal year 1911, the treasury depart ment furnished the senator with the following figures: Receipts from custom?, internal revenue and corporation lax (paid by North Carolina) and misceilaneaus receipts, (not clarified) amounted to $7,316,977.18: Disbursements made by the Fede ral government for North Carolina, public buildings, customs service, in ternal revenue service, axe saving service, revenue cutter service, pub lichealt hand ma: i:.c hospital service, assay office (Charlotte) rivers and harbors amounted to $1,354,100.58. Amount paid by North Carolina to the Federal government for the fis cal year of 1911 exceeded the amount of revenue received by North Caro lina from the Federal government $5,926, 877.60. BILIOUS SPELLS NO LONGER DANGEROUS. Dodson's Liver-Tone is a Safe Medi cine to Take the Place of too Powerful Calomel. In the days when calomel was the only liver remedy, a torpid liver, or a spell of biliousners was a serious thing. Calomel is a powerful min eral substance that compels the liver no matter how we-ik it is to do its work, but dot's nothing to strcngth- r time3 the usual dofo-may cw salivation. Dodson's Liver-Tone is a builder that strengthens the liver while makincr it do its work. It is j entirely vegetable, pleasant to take. has no bad after-ehect and is per fectly suited for children as well as grown people. You don't hive to be careful whrit you e:it. E. T. Whitehead Company wil! .sell you a bottle and guarantee it to give you perfect satisfaction. If it doesn't you can get your money back simply by asking for it. Steffi! mmii0pm FCR YEARS Peruvian has been the wot Id's richest fertilizer for tobacco. No other fertilizer compared with it. Because Peru vian Guano i3 the excrement of the pelicans that throng the rainless coast of Peru and adjacent islands. It contains elements utterly lacking in man made fertilizer. Never could chemists imitate it f Alter tireless efforts we have at last found that Peruvian Guano when balanced with high grade Ammoniates and Potash make the ideal fertilizer, that we can suit it to all soils and crops. .That it costs practically no more than good commercial fertilizer of like analysis. Peruvian CHARLESTON, Boy tied Girl Champhns la V3sh!n;t!p. Washington, Feb. 17. Thechamp i in boy trn raisers and champion bread maker, 12-year old Lois Ed monds, of Iowa, have been in W.x. !. inglon, been pre ntcd to 1'ier.idi r.t Taft, to Secretary Wils-a and to otht-r lions hereabouts and id! have ;one back to their lov.i homes hav ing had the Urn ; of their live. Miss Edmonds while hi ing shown bbout the Agri"!ilun:l Department, was besought on many slides for a recipe for htr famous bread, but s;ho had no copies of a bread recipe. She said she "just guessed at it." That seen. s a habit terrifj Ing to scientists that most good cooks have. They just know by intuition when a thing looks right and feels right, and they go ahead unmindful of any tet rules. 1 .ois said f-he used home-made flour and she set the doujih to i twice, once before and once after she had made it into a 1-jaf. Then she baked it in a "medium oviii" not too hot nor tt.o coo!. She won the championship of the State for bre id-making but neither she nor any one else will e ver know just how she did it. UNIQUE NAME. Many People Cannot Pronounce The Name of World's Most Famous Catarrh Remedy. High-o-me that's the proper way topronour.ee HYOMEI, the old ic liable remedy, that has rid tens of thousand.- of people of that vile raid disgusting disease. HYOMEI is made of purest Aus tralian eucalyptus combined with thymol and other effective antisep tics and la guaranteed to be free from cocaine or other harmful drug-x HYOMEI is guaranteed to end th O'- catarrh, an.una. cioup, catarrhal eeame.. coufc....- .... orouc-i.u,, ....,., Breathe it, that'd all, no dosing the stomach. Complete outfit, in cluding inch struetible inhaler, $1.00. Extra l.ott'es of HYOMEI, if need ed, 50 cents at E. T. Whitehead Com pany's and druggists every where. A healthy man is a king in his own right; an unhealthy man is in un happy slave. Burdock Blood Bi ters builds up sound he? 1th keeps pu well. We have joined nature's skill in making to man's skill in mixing. We want to send you our book about Peruvian Guano and Peruvian Mixtures. It will be mailed free upon request. Write for it to-day. Guano Corporation, - - SOUTH CAROLINA. J
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