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The Largest Circulars EALTH. The Largest Circulation OF ANY Halifax County Newspaper. OF ANY 1d ifax County Newspaper. i c. H ASDY, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXIX. Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Yeir SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1913. NUMBER 1. - ,,, ..mi -nMf . 1 HK bOMMQNW Paris, Texas Man Who Is Grateful. I feel I I' 'o you to let yoi i,,,w v.v.at Dr. Kilmer's Swamp i tias'!oneforme. I was both ;,re.) for about twelve months wit iy,ache and kidney trouble, at nnovir-"- symptoms and was badl? 1,," "down." After using Swamp V0( was restored to health I ar he x :'di-trib'itor of Paris and car say' to much for Swamp-Root. In row in go" health. Very truly yours, J. M. Dodd, 509 So. ISth St.. Paris Texas. Sworn and subscribed to befor. -$r-:?is"; 18ir&Kfyot February, A " ' 1 Chas. A. Neothery. ,1ut 'f ne Pace nd Ex-OfnciV Notary Public in and for Lamai ' (:.)U'itv. Texas. r t .- Dr. Kilicr & Co., BiBgHtrnton. N. Y. "rove What Swimp-Root Will Do For You. Send to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bing 1 amton. N. Y., for a sample bottle t viil convince anyone. You wi' ;.i"so receive a booklet of valuab' In form-it i'-'n. telling all about th I-.idnevs and bladder. When v:rv hit be sure and mention The Com -n'.mver.Uh. Regular fifty-cent, an' dollar size bottles for sale at aU (!;-u$r stors. )R. ft. L LIVERMON, DENTIST. 0:5 ce up stairs in Whit? head Building. Offioo h-rirs from 0 to 1 o'clock an i 2 to 5 o'clock. Morgan Physician and Surgeon Scotland Neck, N. C. Office in the building formerly used by Dr. J. P. Wimberley. Aijsion Dunn Lawyer Practices here whenever his services shall be required. Ciias. 1. Staton, Attorney-at-Law, Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices wherever his services are required. Asiiby Dunn Attorney and Counselor at Law Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices wherever his services are require. Money to loan on approved security. 03. R. L. SAVAOE 0F ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. V'ill be in Scotland Neck, N. C, on thatSiril Wrlnfurlnv nf nrh month at the hotfi to treat the diseases of ! tha Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat, and fit glasses. Dr. o. F. Smith Physician and Surgeon Office in Planters & Commercial Bank Building Scotland Neck. N. C. Madam, Read McCall's The Fashion Authority KcCALL'S is a lar. artutic, kiind- imeij illustrated ltO-pajo tncnthlr f.-gazin. that it adding to the happi net on i efficiency cf l.lCO.tOO women each mon h. V.:i( h .sup i brimful cf fi-liion'. faiioy-in'.t-rpstiiiu aluirt Morion, anil -nn ". Ir.x.r-s.ivin nnd iiiiicy-s.ivii:K idn 'T v. r.mfii. TIhto a,f morn than ifi of "I' i: wo.-t elrsijjns of the cMibialed J. JATTX;n."S in each l.?iie. MAI.T, PATTERNS ar.-. famous fi.r . .-liiipli:-!' v and economy. Uniy The pitbltxlim ff MoCAtrS will spsrict ' !-i';ml.- or dnliiirs cxtaa in tiic roniiuc !:. i;:iS in ordort'i MrCAU.'Khoad 'nu !if.u!!rr aliovo all otlir wompn'a isiiiwiiiM :it any pri.n. liowpvor. - iI-l.'S 1; oniy 0:.,c a year; io.iiivly v.- i-.li $1.(1 f 1 yoiir nrst ropy of McCAIX'S, If you r:- r-.au. cohpakt, r4 3?ts ji. ya T- A wlipyol!rf ALfSwondrr. i- n . .'mm cai:o-.ic. f ,ni; !e toi.y aii.i pat 1 ' i .-:i.osue alio Ircr ki rrqm s'.. PARKER'S CntBMi and VaatiAea th Kw Were Paila to Beater Orn Prevents hair falling-. wp. anl 1.00 at JriiUf jBULBSIl Now is the time to set out Flowering Bulbs to bloom next S5n?: als2 t0 Pot or box some , ot them for forcing in the I ?se;. I have received a large t collection of Imported Hv cinths, Daffodills, Narcissus v ...UJ UUH;r varietie nf reasonable prices. Place also t your order for Roses Carna i H. STEIN METZ t FLORIST aroima. was the CHRIST CilitD.K?: IT is not generally known thst " ere is a grave question as to we actual date of Christ's birth , For many centuries we have celebrated Christmas on tcc. 2o au.j have not troubled ourselves vitl chronological inquiries. That course la no doubt reasonable and proper, for the churches have sanctioned it. As a matter of fact, few modem theologians and chronologists agree as to the date of the birth of the Saviour. What most cf them ngrei-. ht, Lovtre;. is that It did not occur on Iec. 25. A point on which there is sfill more unanimity is that Christ was not torn in the year whish we call 1 A. IX lie was born at least four years earlier. The present method of counting the years was Introduced by the Roman abbot Dionyslus Exiguus in the sixth century and came into general use two centuries later, during the reign of Charlemagne. lie placed the Na tivity on Dee. 2r, 754, A. U. C.-i. e.. after the founding of Home. Xo&rly all chronologists agree that lie was wrong by about four years. Christ, according to them, was lorn 750 A. U. C, or 4 B. C, if not earlier. Much evidence is offered in support of this. According to Matthew ii. 1. Christ was born in the days of King Herod I. or the Great, who died, ac cording to Josephns, at Jericho A. U. C. 750, just before the Passover. This date has been verified by the astro comical calculations of the eclipse of the moon, which took place on March 13 in the year 750 A. l C, a few days before Herod's death. Allowing two mouths or more foi the events between the birth of Chris: and the murder of the innocents b Herod, the nativity must be put bu-1; at least to February or Jintiarv, 73 A. U. C. or 4 B. C. The star which guided the wise men has been brought Into service in the attempt to fix the birth of Christ witb scientific accuracy. Between 1(503 am" 1604 the great astronomer Kepler ob served a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, which was made more lumi nous by the addition of Mars in the month of March, 1604. In the autumn of the same year he observed near the planets Saturn, Jupiter and Mars s new fixed star of uncommon brilliancy. It was blazing' and glittering "like the most beautiful and clorious torch ever seen when driven by a strong wind" and seemed to Kepler an "ex ceedingly wonderful work of God." He thought that this phenomenon might lead to the determination of the date of Christ's birth. By careful cal- THE CHRIST CHILD. dilation he ascertained that a similar conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, with the later addition of Mars and probably some extraordinary star, took place repeatedly between the years 747 and 74S A. U. C. The discovery of Kepler was almost forgotten until the nineteenth century, when it was independently confirmed by several eminent astronomers, among them Schubert of St. Peters burg, Ideler and Bencke of Berlin and Prltchard of London. The majority of theologiaus agree that the date of Christ's birth cannot be fixed accurately from the New Tes tament or from any other source. are under double strain strength to live and learn and strength to grow they must have nourishment not over loaded stomachs, but con centrated nutriment to aid nature during the growing period. The wonderful record of Scott's Emulsion as a body builder has been proved for three generations. It strengthens the bones, muscles and sinews; btxitdM the body, creates energy and vigor; prevents and relieves colds and fortifies the lungs. Millions of delicate and un developed children have been made strong, sturdy and hearty with Scott's Emulsion. Insiet on having SCOTT S. Scott & Bowne. Bloomfifld, N. J. 12-68 llil Jr &'S't I Christmas THE PARCELS POST. Heculaile.ns Covering the Svstni Are Mate Pubiic. Washington, Dec. 12. Regula tions to cover workings of the new parcels post system, which is to go into operation January 1, next, were made public by Postmaster General Hitchcock today. The new system will be effective throughout the en tire postal service at the same time and will affect every postofnee, city, rural and railway mail transporta tion route in the country. Every precaution will be taken by the post office to have the mails moved with the usual despatch and all postmast ers, superintendents and inspectors have been directed to thoroughly familiarize themselves and their sub ordinates with every phase of the new system. The regulations provide that par cels of merchandise, including farm and factory products (but not books ;md printed matter) of almost every description up to 11 pounds in weight and measuring as much as six feet in length and girth combined except those calculated to do injury to the mails in transit, may be mail ed at any postoffice for delivery to any address in the country. De livery will be made to the homes of people living on rural and star routes as well as those living in cities and towns where there is de livery by carrier. Where there is at present no delivery by carrier the parcels will go to the postoffice as is the case with ordinary mail. The postage rate for the zone that is, within distances not exceed ing 50 miles, will be five cents for the first pound and three cents for each additional pound. Rates in crease for each successive one of the eight zones into which the country is divided. The maximum rate be ing 12 cents a pound, which will carry a parcel across the continent, or even to Alaska and the Phillip pines. For a fee of 10 cents a parcel may be insured and if the parcel is lost in the mails an indemnity to the amount of its value not to exceed 50 dollars will te paid to the sender. The law provides for the use of distinctive postage stamps and there is now being distributed to post masters for use in the parcels post system a set of stamps of 12 denom inations. Parcel post maps with ac companying guides, are to be sold to the public at their cost, 75 cents, through the chief clerk of the post office department. Narrow Escape. A domestic servant at Market Dray ton had a narrow escape during a re cent thunderstorm. The girl had re tired to bed leaving the window open and an alarm clock on a chair near the bedside. She was awakened by the sir ell of burning clothing, and found that the lightning had pierced a hole through the clock and ignited the chair-seating. The clothes of the bed in which she was sleeping were also smouldering. Morning P?.rab!es of 1912. ; if you toot your little tooter And lay aside your horn, There's not a soul in ten short dayB Will know that you were born. j The man who advertises With a short and sudden jerk, Is the cno who blnmor thr.f Because it doesn't work. I But the man who gets tha bd3;ness. And who the other fellow beat-, Is the advertiser with the adlet That you read from week to week. We can help you toot your trumpet, We can bring the people in, We can help you build your business, Are you ready to begin? Moral He who toots his little trumpet Can withstand a sudden shock, For like the man in Scripture He builds his business on a rock. Fourth Estate. Dust ta Cast. B. J. Norcom passed from time on November 8th, near seven in the morning, at the age of about fifty two. In early life he was greatly blessed with all the needful things of this life. I have known him over fifty years. In 1861, as a true sol dier for Southern rights, he volun teered and left Plymouth with some of his fellow comrades. When the war wa3 over he returned tc his storm riddled home near Plymouth. His home between Sandy Creek and Plymouth was more shattered than many by the effects of a hard fight when Plymouth fell in the hands of Coke, and was one of thos i everlast ing memories to all the survivors present on this occasion. About the date 1867 my friend, Ben Nor com, was united in marriage to Emie Ausbon. After living togeth er about thirty years she was called home. He then went to Greenville and stayed some time. He then cime to Halifax county and was married to Mrs. Delia Watson. She preceded him some years ago. T. E. Ausbon. lidw to Keep Sick. Keep the windows closed all the time, especially when you sleep fresh air would keey you healthy. Eat any kind of food regardless of its nutritive value suwdust and ex celsior are good "fillers." Swallow your food without chew ing it your stomach has no teeth. Keep the sunshine out of your home germs don't like sunshine. Eat irregularlo by all means keep your stomach disordered. Never take a bath Soap and water are enemies of disease. Don't disturb the flies you'll miss a lot of filth if you do. What's the use of being health any how? Harsh physics react, weaken the bowels, will lead to chronic consti pation. Doan's Regulets operate easily. 25c a box at all drug stores. FROZE A SOAP BUBBLE. Then Broke It In Pieces and Floated Them on Liquid Air. A frozen soap bubble broken in two and floating like an iridescent, trans parent eggsbell on the surface of a vessel of liquid air was one of the marvels exhibited by Professor Dewar in a lecture before the Royal Institute of Great Britain. The lecture was upon (he subject of atmosphere and the curious effects of intense cold, the liquid air and soap bubble being adjuncts Introduced to fa cilitate some explanations. A few spoonfuls of liquid air were poured into a vessel, and the intense cold caused by evaporation immediate ly brought on a minature snowstorm in the atmosphere directly above the vessel. A soap bubble was Ihen placed in the freezing stratum. Almost in stantly there was a change in the color of the transparent glole. the bubble becoming much darker; the move ments of the rainbows film grew slow er; it contracted somewhat in size, and a little later It froze. A slight but dexterous movement of the red upon which the bubble was suspended broke the latter Into two pieces, which fell upon the liquid air and there floated for an hour, gradual ly accumulating a tiny snowdrift from the almost Imperceptible precipitatlou constantly going on In the freezing atmosphere above. STEVENSON'S GRAVE. Its Romantic Site, In Samoa, Atop the Forest Clad Vaila. No English novelist rests In a more eccentric spot than that chosen by Robert Louis Stevenson, who is buried on the summit of the forest clad Vaila. in the island of Samoa, that genial spot in the south Pacific that the gift ed writer loved so well. The day after his death at Vaillm.i. in 1S04, his remains were carried to the top of this precipitous and pic turesque peak by sixty sturdy Sa moans, who had loved and now mourn ed their dead chief, Tusltula. A party of forty had previously cut a pathway through the thick, tangled wood with knives and axes, while an other party had prepared the grave. With infinite care and trouble they bore him shoulder high over the rough ground to his last long home, and there, under the starry sky. they left him to sleep forever, with the Pacific at his feet. On either side of his tombstone is a bronze plate. One Ivnr tb wrd 3 "The Tomb of Tusltula." while the other is inscribed with his own re- quiem, beginning: Under the Hide and starry sky Dig the crave and let mo He. The Parrot Fieh. There are water parrots as well as land parrots. The parrot fish come from the tropics, are brilliantly colored and have beaks something like those of the parrot, for use iu breaking off the coral shell in order to get at the living polyp. Not all of them, how ever, live on animal food, some spech's being herbivorous. One species Is found in the Mediterranean sea, where it has been known for thousands of years. The Greeks and Romans re garded it for a time as the first of fishes, and Pliny tells us how it was introduced into the Italian sea In the course of the reign of Claudius, it was known as llie "seams" by the an cients, who told some wonderful sto ries about Its love, its wisdom and Its rumination. SomeJiavIng a length of sixteen inches have been captured alive." Doncaster Races. Doncaster Is one of the four places the other three being Chester, Epsom and Lincoln that claim to be the cra dle of the British turf. In May, 1G00, the minutes of the corporation record that "Hugh Wyrrall hath caused a stoope," or post, "to be sett on Don caster More at the west end of the horse-race," which was ordered to be "cutt down." A few years later "for the preventinge of sutes, quarrells. murders and bloodsheds" it was agreed "that the race on Doncaster More be discontinued." Eventually the corporation, with the true l'orkshire combined love of "t brass" and sport, took the horse racing under its iwr triarchal care and turned the meeting into a source of protit London Stand ard. The French. The French were first mentioned as the Franks, a tribe of warlike iTer mans in the northwestern part of the region now known as Prussia. They came into notice about '240 A. I), and with other German tribes invaded the Roman empire iu the fifth century and settled Iu the country now known r.s France. The word Frank, or Fwank man, means freeman. After their conquest of Caul they named the coun try Franfcenrick. or Frank's kingdom. Getting Him Inured. "What makes Wiggins compel his toy to practice standing bareheaded hi Inclement weather?" "He has an idea the boy will lo president of the United States some day and wants to have him well re hearsed for Inauguration." Washing ton Star. She Agreed. Mr. Gnaggs I want you to under stand. Mrs.'Gnaggs. that I am no fool. Mrs. Clnaggs For once I agree with you. A fool and his mouey are soon parted, and I have never been able to get a dollar out of yon. Philadelphia Record. He censures God who quarrels with ve imperfections of men. Rurke. I Do you take The Commonealth. m (( llf? WSi Pov;der uidTsin Below i3 the law in regard to n ews- j A series of the most alluring trips papers: j that have been brought to our at First Subscribers who do nct'tn'ion ars those announced in a give express nctice to the con?i a? y ' special advertisement in this paper are considered as wis' inj to con- by the Atlantic Coast Line to Para tinue their suburiipt'on. j ma, Jamaica and Cuba, with one Second If the subscriber orders ' personally conducted tour, from Key discontinuance of periodical tin-pub-1 West, on January 7th, as a special lisher may continue to send the same : attraction. Those-who wish to see until arears are paid. I the beauties of those countries and Third If a subscriber neglects or refuscs to take the periodicals from the postoffice to which they have been directed he is held responsible until he has settled his bill and ordered the paper discontinued. Fourth If the subscriber moves to other places without informing the publisher, and 1he paper is br-nt to the former direction, they are held responsible. Fifth The courts have decided that refusing or removing or leav ing them uncalled for is a prima facia evidence of intentional fraud. Sixth Any person who receives a newspaper and makes use of it, whether he has ordered it or not, i, held in the law lo be a subscriber. Two Features of Modem Education Compulsory sthool attendance and medical inspection of all school chil dren arctwo features of the modern educational plan which will no doubt in the near future be adopted by all progressive communities. The city schools of Raleigh have put these features into effect and the results are very satisfactory and beneficial. A competent physician is employed to give adequate time lo the work of medical inspection of all the chil dren and there is compulsory attend ance from 8 to 14 years of age. And we learn from The Progressive Far mer that "the enrollment at the present session has consequently climbed to 3,200 as compared with 2,500 on the same date last year about 700 children brought into the schools who might otherwise have grown up in igoorar.ee. Indue' rV. and commercial subjects hv rlso! beenir.tr ds:ced intotbecurricjlnm, ' and th - s parintendent tells u tint i the cooking classes, wmch wert t first po itivcly unpopular, hiVti now become the most popu'ar feature of the schools. "Lenoir Topic. Live Australian Freaks. A calf, somewhat of a freak of na ture, was born on T. G. "Ware's farm at Little Akaroa, Australia, recently. It has five legs, the extra one work ing in a socket in the breastbone. The calf Is thriving, and 13 strong and healthy. Another freak, a lamb, la re ported to have been born at Tlat Point Station. It hag three ears and eight legs. It did not live. Why Ha " Mxes ? This is the reason why Tonian have " nerves." When thoughts begin to low cloudy and uncertain, impulse lag and tb? warnings oC pein and uintresa are eeot like flying messages throuKHit iuubs and frame, stmt.htway, nine times ia ten, wotnanwiil lay the cause of the trouble to tune defect st the point where she Srst felt it. Is it a headache, a backache, a sensation ot irritabdity or twitching and uncontrollable nervousness, something must be wrong with tbo bead or back, women naturally save, but all the tiiu the real trouble very often centers ia the womanly organs. In nine cases out of ten the seat c-f the difficulty is here, and woman should take rational treatment for i cure. The lecal disorder and inflam mation of the delicate epecisl cr&r.? cf the sex should be treated steadily and systematically. Dr. Pierce, during a Ion.4 period of practice, founa tiiat a prescription mada from medicinal extracts of native roots, without the uwr of alcohol, relieved over 90 per cent, of such cases. After using this rcrotdy for rr.nny years in his private prac tice be put it up in form of Dr. Pierce's i-svorite Prescription, that would make it easily procurable, end it can be had at jay siors where mcdicme; are handled. Mrs. Lir.A. R. Hawkix. e.r Zons. Vr., wrU: " I had bon failing In health. T'.r two years inorit of ths timo v.t.js not able to attotul to my household dutley. Female weakness was mv trrml,! r.r.d I win i; ttin' vory bad but, thank to Doctor Pierce's medicines, I am wH am? stmwr hsmI.i. I took only thn-e bottles of ' Favot Prescription, and usod th 'Lotion Tablets. I have nothing but pralo for Doctor Pierce's wonderful mir-int;-." TAKE DR. PIERCE'S PLEASANT PELLETS FOR LIVER ILLS. Aifrcctive to Panama, Jamaica, Cuba. 1 rr.fiUe a trip through Florida, includ- ling a trip over the famous "Over- Sea Railroad," should call on or ad drees F. M. Jolly, Traffic Agent, At lantic Coast Line, Wilmington, wh will personally conduct the party on the large new steamship. "Evarge- j line," which, it is said, will accm- modatc 700 passengers. CALOMF'. lo DANfiLROUS. Is a Powerful Chemical Made from Mercury- People Should be Careful. The only sure way to avoid the danger of calomel ii to take r.o calomel. Dodson's Liver-Tone, a vegetable liquid of pleasant taste, more than tikes its place. Where calomel fchakes you up and Fhocks your liver. Dodson's Liver-Tone, mild but ef fective, builds up and strengthens. It "livens up the liver." It may be taken without any re striction of diet or habits. You can give it to your children with fine results. Get a bottle at E. T. Whitehead Co's., and if it doesn't do all that you think it ought- if it doesn.t Piake bilious spells mere trifles if it doesn't "liven up your liv-r," your money will be waiting for you. Accid'Mits will happen, but the best regulated families keep Dr. Thomas' Eclectic Oil for such emer gencies. Two sizes 25 and 50c at all storts. Dig Metal Slilngls Business. Thi- Cortright Melal Roofing Cem rrry, of Philadelphia, Pa., whose adver isements of Corlright Metal Shir g'cs have been tunning in The Commonwealth for nearly a year past, advise us that 1012 will showr an immense volume of business in their line. It is gratifying to cany the advertising of so prosj)erous tr.d successful a concern and to feel that The Commonwealth has had some part in creating such success. Any. of our readers in t rested in roofing shculd write for literature End fur ther particulars.