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j VOL. XXIX. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1913. NUMBER 14.
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Praeti? herever his services are
required.
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THt Man WHO NEVER GIVES IP. f GLD HICKORY CHIPS. r,
He Meets The Obstacles With a Full
Determination to Overcome Ttiem.
There are men and there are
men.
there are men who are possessed
of will power, plus endeavor who
enjoy climbing, who glory in achieve
ment, who prefer the paths of diffi
culties. Men of this caliber are supplied
with big stocks of courage. They
enjoy nothing more than the exer
cising of their brain powers, com
bined with the putting of their
physical prowess to the severest test.
To them the goal is ever ahead;
they climb, not in order to say, "Be
hold me, the wonderful man!" They
put forth their efforts as self-imposed
tests of their own powers, that
when they meet with success they
may thrill with the joy of achieve
ment. Ambition to do and to arrive
somewhere worth while fires them
to perform seemingly miraculous
feats. To such men nothing seems
impossible, except to "give up." .
The world awaits such men. It
matters not who they are, where
they come from the world wants
them because they are earnest, be
cause they make good.
Such men come up from the ranks
They are not bound by destinies.
They are not content to be among
the ordinaries.
Then, there are others we call
men, who lack all the stuff known
as "strength of character," who
have human aspirations, but are
totally minus the stability and defi
niteness of purpose, and who grad
ually become part of the machine.
No oil of activity, no grease of
exertion, no wheels of ambition to
make the whole mechanism of these
men buzz with the joyous thrill of
work !
Such are the down-in-the-mouth,
the kind that give up at the first
dnock of some unexpected fate.
They have contracted the habit of
fpjar f'lPV flfP afrpH r -Foo r?n
feat, or to fight against troubles by
utilizing the brain power and the
energy that nature has bestowed
upon them for just such emer
gencies. Such men allow themselves to be
burdened with the belief that they
are not capable that the division is
against them, and that luck is about
as dependable as work. They have
no inclination to do and become, no
desire to follow any but the easiest
course.
They cannot understand them
selves. They will not be masters of
themselves, but prefer rather to
watch the procession and complain.
Such men have tried, maybe, but
defeat to them has not been an inci
dent it has been the finish. De
feat has left them afraid to face the
dangers of life, afraid to go on, to
fight out their own destiny, and they
are lost in the circle.
Every man must decide for him
self whether or not he will pay the
price, whether he will lead, cr
whether he will be relegated to the
over-crowded procession of ordin
aries the men who give up at the
first obstacle that crosses their path.
D. A. Loeb.
A private knocker is a public
sance.
nu
Tom Marshall has just celebrated
his fifty-ninth birthday anniversary.
Soni3 vice-presidents will do any
thing to get a little publicity.
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;
builds 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.
Insist on having SCOTT'S.
Scolt & Bowne. Bloomfield, N. J. 12-68
THE LIFE AND SPEECHES
CHARLES B. AYCOCK
By R. D. W. CONNOR and CLARENCE POE.
Every man who followed and voted for Governor Aycock in
that wonderful campaign of 1900 ought to get this book before it
goes out of print. It is a biography of the greatest possible human
interest and the most popular North Carolina book ever printed.
This stirring life-story of a great spirit and great leader among our
people should be read and read ajain in every home in the State.
The 4th of April will bo a year eince Governor Aycock died
suddenlyin a distant State. Before that date we want every read
er of The Commonwealth to have this splendid biography, and in
order to help you get it we have arranged with Mrs. Aycock's sales
managers to supply it to our readers in the following
Remarkably Attractive Offer
The Commonwealth one year $1.00
The Life and Speeches of Charles B. Aycock 1.50
Total.. X $2 50
We Send BOTH for Only $2.00.
Send or bring the $2.00 today. We will have the book go to
you by next mail and send paper as promised. Address
THE COMMONWEALTH, Scotland Neck, N. C.
IMPORTANT ATBLE1IC GATHERING.
A State Championship IolErsctiQlaslic
Track and Field Meet.
Chapel Hill, N. C, March 31 En
gaging the attention of the high
school pupils of the State, and of
particular interest to budding young
athletes in aU of the schools, for the
next three weeks, is the first annual
State Championship Interscholastic
Track and Field Meet at Chapel Hi!l
on April 11th. Definite plans have
been outlined by the Greater Coun
cil of the University, the Athletic
Association and the Alumni of the
institution for the gathering togeth
er of the young athletes from all
sections of the State on the above
mentioned date.
Entry blanks and letters of infor
mation bearing on the meet have
been mailed the principals of the
principals of the high schools and
preparatory schools of ihe State in
viting their enlistment in this the
first athletic contest of State-wide
significance and scope to high school
! lads.
The purport of the meet is to add
stimulus to the training of young
athletes in North Carolina and give
additional stress to the importance
of the development of the physique
of the future citizens of the State.
Just the same degree as the De
bating Union of North Carolina,"
in its recent successful contest,
aimed at the training of the intel
lect in the tactics of debating, so
does this meet propose to strengthen
the body of the high school pupils,
thus rounding up th whole makeup
of the indivinual. This contest is
open to all the preparatory and sec
ondary schools of the State.
The events of the meet will be
ten in number 100 yard dash, 220
yard run, 880 yard run, mile, 120
yard low hurdle, high jump, broad
jump, pole vault, 12 pound shot-put,
12 pound hammer throw. Individ
ual as well as school prizes will be
awarded for the best exhibitions in
this meet. The State championship
will be decided in an open relay
race, and the team winning will be
awarded an engraved cup.
The young visiting athletes dur
ing their sojourn in Chapel Hill will
be entertained by the
versify Council.
Greater Uni-
Tne Earth's Journey.
Our world's journey in space is a
long one, if we are the accept the
conclusions of Dr. Turner, of the
University Observatory of Oxford
and Prof. H. C. Plrmmer, royal as
tronomerTof Ireland. Recent as
tronomical work suggests that the
sun and its planets form a single
unit m a vast system, the stars in
which, though separated by enor
mous distances, have a common
center of gravity, , and in response
to gravitation all move in unison
like a stupendous machine. The
paths of these stars, instead of be
ing nearly circular, like those of the
planets around the sun, are much
like the oscillations of a pendulum.
The calculations show that on this
elongated course our sun must travel
400,000,000 years before conpleting
a revolution, and that it passed near
the center less than a million per
haps not more than $300,000 years
ago, and is now on
stretch. Exchange.
the outward
Get After The Flies.
This warm winter kept many flies
alive and we will have to begin swat
ting earlier, and more persistently
this spring than last. Swatters are
of little value except where there
are a comparatively few flies. Swat
ters are just the things for those
flies that wintered over. Swat now
for it will be a hopeless case in six
weeks.
OF
KGRGM IS DEAD.
S3 Passed Away Sunday In Rome a!
Ihe Grand Hotel.
Rome, Italy, March 31 J. P.
Morgan, the American financier,
died at the Grand hotel here yester
day at 12:05. The announcement of
his death was withheld from the
newspaper men until cable informa
tion could be sent to the London and
New York offices of the Morgan
firm. The end came peaceful with
Mr. Morgan still unconscious. Her
bert L. Satterlee and Mrs. Satter
lee, Mr. Morgan's daughter. Doctor
Bastianelii and members of the Mor
gan party were at his bedside for
several hours before death. Mr.
Morgan gave no sign of conscious
ness. Death followed a week of se
rious illness. The last words were
uttered when Mr. Morgan was
aroused Wednesday and he asked
that his lung be massaged, the treat
ment that had revived him before,
when he suffered nervous disorders.
A Story Janes Tells.
An old darkey driving a balky
mule came to a full stop before a
doctor's office. Quite a crowd gath
ered, jeerrirjg and laughing at the
old man's futile attempts to start
the "critter." Hearing the noise
the doctor came to the door and,
seeing what was the matter, disap
peared into his office for a few mo
ments, then came oat bearing a
large hypodermic syringe in his
hand, with which he proceeded to
"jab" the mule several times. In a
very brief while the mule came to
his surprised senses and before the
darkey driver could mount the wa
gon started down the road at a ter
rific gait.
His master started after on a dead
run, but was speedily outdistanced.
Returning to the doctor's office,
breathless and prespiring, he ex
claimed: "Say, doc, jes' put some ob dat er
stuff inter me, fur I gotta ketch dat
mule." Jones' Magazine.
The Most Favored of AH.
We people of North Carolina do
not appreciate the unexcelled condi
tions under which we live. While
the Central West is cursed with its
tornadoes, the Southwest by its long
droughts, the Northwest and North
east by extreme cold we are free
from all extremes. No section of
the United States is so favored by
nature as is the State of North Caro
lina. Charlotte Chronicle.
FRAIL, SICKLY CHILD
Restored to Health by Vinol
Letter to Mothers.
' Anxious mothers often wonder why
their children are so pale, thin and
nervous and have so little appetite.
For the benefit of such mothers in
this vicinity we publish the following
letter.
J. Edmund Miller, New Haven,
Conn., says: "My little daughter, ever
since her birth, had been frail and
Eickly, and was a constant source of
v.orrimenL Several months ago wo
commenced to give her Vinol." I im
mediately noted an improvement in
her health and appearance. I gave
her three bottles of Vinol, and from
the good it has done her I can truly
say it will do all you claim."
This child's recovery was due to
the combined action of the medicinal
elements extracted from cods livers, t
combined with tho blood-making j
and strength-creating properties of
rmi. iron, which are contained in
Vinol. . .
Vinol will build up and strengthen
delicate children, old people and the
weak run-down and debilitated. "We
return the money in every case where
it fails.
P. S. For pimples and blotches try
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Saxo Salve, we gututuuew 4fcl
E. T. Whitehead Company
Scotland Neck, N. C.
Short and Pithy Sayings on Subjects
Past and Present.
Prosperity often depends on
the
things we don't do.
It's easier to make enemies then
it is to shake thern.
Some people manage to see their
duty in time to dodge it.
Some way should be found to put
a little human interest into the job
of being vice-president.
There are two editors in the new
cabinet, but President Wilson wiil Le
the custodian of the blue pencil.
Some are born obscure; some at
tain obscurity, and some are elected
to the vice-presidency!
Another reason that more splendid
minds are not heard from is that
some of us put enough gray matter
into a checker game to conduct a se
rious enterprise.
Speaking of the ship of state, one
William II. Taft look like a man who
was getting a great deal of enjoy
ment out of shore leave.
T. R.'s bull moosers will back
Whitman for mayor of New York,
but the chances are that notwith
standing this heavy handicap, New
York's capable prosecuting attorney
can win.
The last of John Brown's raiders
is dead, wonder if his soul still goes
marching on.
It is now painfully apparent that
the pie counter is not a quick lunch
establishment.
Colonel Bryan likes being Secre
tary of State and so does the country
Easter bonnetts show which way
the wind blows.
All the evidences so far gees to
show that dynamite is a lav unto
itself.
President Wilson cannot complain
that all these job hunters are rot
forward looking men.
Our idea of a physical marvel is a
human being who-does not have any
of the symptoms in most of the
patent medicine circulars.
It might be comparatively easy to
recognize the Mexican Government
if it would only stand still a minute.
The American syndicate that fi-j
nanced the Madero revolution will J
never pay more than 20 cents on
the dollar.
Historians of the next century '
may have something to say about j
Wilsonian simplicity.
France and Germany are on speak
ing terms, but there are one or two
topics of conversation that neither
ventures to bring up.
It may be possible to produce a
coinage so quaintly artistic that a
man can save his nickels by convin
cing himself that he is collecting
bric-a-brac.
With Secretary Bryan controlling
a big bunch of patronage, maybe he
will have a little something to say
about that tariff bill, after all.
The name of the latest play over
in New York is "Damaged Goods,"
which sounds like a generic title for
this season's entire output.
The popular election of senators is
now practically in sight, but how
about the election of popular sen
tors? They're going to give hickory
chips to the boy scouts, but not in
the good old way.
A New York miss has been voted
the prettiest girl at Vassar, all the
young ladies who cast the ballots
having their fingers cross at the
time.
San Shank, Indianapolis' potato
selling mayor, has signed a contract
to go into vaudeville, but the stage
would never have got him if P. T.
Barnum were alive.
The commoner a man talks at the
State department the better his
show for place.
Only the brave deserve the fair,
but lots of timid men are landed just
the same.
"It's no trouble at all," says a bill
coliecton "to find people out."
Though a man with money be a
bad egg, people seldom take offense
until he is broken.
No Cordelia, so far as we know
the hookworm has never been edu
cated to hook a woman's gown up
the back.
Illinois would be proud of its leg
islature if the latters' laws were as
effective as its deadlocks.
Brothers and sons-in-law don't
seem to be very strong with the Ad
ministration. The Senate is getting to look right
Democratic.
President Wilson will have a hard
time finding another man to refuse
the Ambassadorship to England.
For Weakness and Less of Appetite
The Old Standard general strengthening tonic,
GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TOXIC, drives out
Malaria and build3 up the system. A true ton,c
and sure Appetizer. For adults and children. 50c
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Comparative
Digestibility.
of Food
Made with different Baking Powders
From a Series of Elaborate Chemical Tests:
An equal quantity of bread (biscuit) was made
with each of three different kinds cf baking powder
cream of tartar, phosphate, and alum and submitted
separately to the action of the digestive fluid, each
for the same length of time.
The relative percentage of the food digested is
shown as follows:
Bread made with J
Royal Cream of Tartar
100 Per Cent.
Bread made with
phosphate powder:
esjjjTPer CeiZ"bigested"
Bread made vith
alum powder:
GJ& Per Cent.
These tests, which are absolutely reliable and
unprejudiced, make plain a fact of great importance
to everyone : Food raised with Royal, a cream of
tartar Baking Powder, is shown to be entirely diges
tible, while the alum and phosphate powders are found
to largely retard the digestion of the food made from
them.
Undigested food is not only wasted food, but it
is the source of very many bodily ailments.
Dsa'n t Rosemary.
Rosemary, N. C, March 31. The
angel of death entered the home of
Mr. J. C. Vaughan Saturday after
noon, March 22, about 4 o'clock and
laid h's chilly hand on Mr. Berry
Odam, the brother of Mrs. J. C.
Vaughan. Mr. Odam was about 55
years old and had been a member of
the Missionary Baptist church for
several years.
The funeral took place from the
home and was conducted by Rev.
William Towe, pastor of the Meth
odist church, on Sunday evening,
the 23rd. The remains were laid to
rest in the Roanoke Rapids cemetery
about 4 o'clock in the presence of a
very large gathering of relalivos
and friends. The services at the
grave were very solemn while that
beautiful old hymn, "There is a
land that i3 fairer than day." was
sung. "
Mr. Odam is survived by two
brothers and three sisters.
He had been t-icx only a few days
when his summons came. He was
taken with a severe cold like the
bronchitis, and Dr. Atkins was
called in to see him, but he refused
to take the medicine the physician
prescribed for him. He was then
taken with pneumonia, which was
the cause of his death. In his last
hours he said that h" wanted to dif
and said that he was going homo.
May the great Comforter whom
Jesus promised His sorrowing fol
lowers comfort and sustain these
bereaved ones.
"To our bountiful Father above,
We shall offer our tribute of praise;
For the glorious gift of His love,
And the blessings that hallow our
days.
Most disfiguring skin eruptions,
scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are
due to impure blood. Burdock Blood
Bitters as a cleansing blood tonic, is
well recommended. $1.00 at ail
stores.
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PURE PAINT Is made with WHITE LEAD, ZINC and
LINSEED OIL-that's the way the L.& M. SEMI-MIXED
REAL PAINT is made.
But ALL the OIL needful to make the L. & M. PAINT
ready for use is NOT put into the Paint when it's pre
pared for the Consumer who buys it.
The ADDITIONAL quantity of OIL is put into the Paint
by the CONSUMER, as by so doing he SAVES MONEY.
Therefore buy 3 gallons of LINSEED OIL with every
4 gallons ot cc M. fAiss i
and MIX the OIL with the PAINT. .
If the Paint thus made costs more than $1.40 per gallon. ;
If the Paint as you use it is not perfectly satisfactory
Then return whatever you have not used, and set back ALL you paid
- for the WHOLE of it and besides, tho money you paid to the Fainter.
Hardy Hardware Company, Scotland Neck, N. C.
Poivder:
Digested
PTgested
Some Sentences.
"Now," at-ked the young school
teacher, "can anyone give me a oc ri
te nee with the words 'boys,' 'bear'
and 'bees' in it?"
Johnny Smith raised his hand.
"Well, Johnny, you may try."
"When wo go swimmin' all the
boys Lees bare." said Johnny, bravely.-
N. C. Education.
Mcfh'r Grsy' fwect Powders (cr Children
Relieve Feverishness, Bad Stomach,
Teething Disorders, move and regu
late the B-jwels and are a pleasant
remedy for Worm-?. Used by moth
ers for 22 years. They never fail.
At all druggists. 25c. Sample free.
Address. Allen b. Olmsted, Le Roy,
1 li. Y.
"That's a valuable dog of yours."
"Yvs; but he doesn't know he's a
valuable dog. Look at him scratch
ing yonder in that cheap dirt when
he might as well be up cn the boule
vard scratching in ground worth
$500 a front foot." Washington
Herald.
DRUGGISTS ENDORSE DODSON'S LIVER
TONE.
It is a Gtiaranraed Harmless Vegetable
Remedy That Regulates the Lifer
Hit&otit Stopping Yoir
Work cr Play.
A dose of ciilme! may knock you
completely out for a day sometimes
two or thiec days--. Dodson's Liver
Tone relieves attacks of constipa
tion, biliousness and lazy liver head-
a;-hrs, aid you stay on your feet.
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rJ. i. vvhitesicaii Company sem
Dodson's Liver Tone and guarantees
it to give perfect fatisfaction. If
you buy a bottle of Dodson's Liver
Tone and do not frnd it the safest,
most pleasant and successful liver
remedy you ever took, this store will
give you br.ck the 50 cents you paid
for it wilhout a question.
This guarantee that a trustwhorty
druggist is glad to give on Dodson's
Liver Tone is as safe and reliable a3
the medicine, and that is saying a lot.
When Yoa Faint
Use PURE Paint and
Use Pare LINSEED OIL to add
to it at one-half the cost of Paint.
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