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COMM TheTdracst.arculation OF ANY .if3x County Newspaper. The Largest Circulation OF ANY Halifax County Newspaper e 7yoY Uditor and Proprietor. i,C.:?A "Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1913. NUMBER 38. ONWEALT VOL. Doctors Said He Had Dropsy. -v'o I had an attack of S1-0 :'-,,nno!lv settled in my prir;1::;; bialder. I doctored kil-V, V'Vtors and they claimed I vith,"-'- l' ' tried other remedies l-I'lVelK ifi-om any of them. flnJ gl'l'V: such tnat I was Jiynnln v-or'-fov about two months L orrei-.t ue.i tilH visa 'svmptoms caused f pain. I was hard- teemg to a nkins: several bottles vf,eK" - over in bed. Seei fc''fVanacs.I decided ie 0 V K; v's Swamp-Root ......1 )1 . IVI - . -1 1- -4-i p -iv 'no muc'.i i IA-rtas th veiv truly wor V.rjrsvery - ' U ... yM-mc AT the results m nderful. - 4 ...-.l.. u s very n uiv , I:i)'-.krt Ballard, Mansfield, Pa. v-b-cribed before me, if May, 1912. l.OXr.BOTAUM, Notary Public. ?W(irn a:. ., rh rlr.v 1 Pay t L-.-t:er to i C ... . i I - i L T 1S1 ' V w - ) Kilmer oiupanv, ?l N. Y.. for a sample r t- wi!i convince a:i.y uc. J'''-"';.:!! -'o receive a booklet of VV:v in'-i-ion, telling- all 10 kun and , bladder. cv.o'han'iti1! ;vn wi'itin Conirr.or eat Wti tc'.tt a;! (!r sure and meniion railh. Pteg-ular fif ty iliar size bottles for stoves. N. An DUBOIS tical Textile and Office and 9th St., .-cton, N. C. particular uT.iist. Sanitary v Lnboratc Wil: i .niiv' 2 ,-f nnvthirff. ,ftian to 1-ertinzsrs, u-ouoa r'i"cVfon S-ed Oil Products, Weil Wr Snri.-.s? and Mineral Water, f,;n;a ho.! Products, Dairy Pro r.;V ant Earth, etc. sh.-uU have their Well WitferVvalned at least once a year, 1 . i A jrives b th-i infpr . lit ,t i m:ill'lr. SO It can uc a.uuc Lir lani to make it good arid pr(lkfor my prica of analysis, whicb. h'o, ana may save -uu is noi fl .in c... - MONSTER MIRRORED AIRSHIP. Baron Roanne Plans to Outdo Zeppe lin's Dirigibles. A monster airship, with a mirror sur fuco of polished metal that will make It a dazzling sight in the sky, was pro posed recently to the British Institute tt Naval Architects by Daron A, xloenne, who assured the engineers that ho intends to build It at his own expense. The mirror surface is Intend ed to prevent the heating of the gaa by the sun's rays, for the sunlight, re let ted from the metal, would be shot Vack into the air instead of being ab sorljod ns heat. He plans a ship 853 feet long and T2 feet wide, shnped much like a Zep pelin, thoigh considerably larger than any German dirigible so far planned. The gas envelope he intends to make of thin chrome aluminium plates weld ed ioj-ether, -braced by rings of chrome nluminium going completely round the envelope, a few feet apart. Further bracing could be supplied by aluminium wires inside the envelope from a central hub to the rings, so that on the inside each ring would look like a great bicycle wheel. The gas would not be free inside the big metal envelope, but confined lu twenty -eight balloonets, - after the ctaiidard Kj-stem of all big airships Tea gasoline engines, developing a to tal of 2,000 horsepower, would drive the propellers and give a speed in still air of from forty-five to fifty-six miles an hour. The inventor's calculations show that such a metal airship, com pletely outfitted, would weigh 104 Sons, but would have a lifting capacity of lo."5 tons, giving a margin of thirty one ton for passengers, fuel and sup plies. The naval architects, in the discus . rfon that followed the reading of Bar on Roenne's paper, expressed doubt aa to the strength of his metal gas en velope lengthwise, in spite of his con fidence that he had planned enough Etnys to prevent it from buckling m the riidd'e. Saturday Kvening Post IN 3ENI0US DIVING DEVICE. fSitV- to ita YonUOtaX Colo' d tx-aofines the hsrf.S fee Jia.L LIVE2M0N, uZ: no L . ' ,;-3 0:T:-c upstairs in White ' head Building. O'Sftp ho'J.rs from 0 to 1 o'clock o o'clock. and Dr. a. D, Morgan and Surgeon nd Neck, N. C. ' bui!din-? formerly . P. Wimberley. Scot: 0? in ' Or AS. J j. STATOX, Aftorasy-at-Law, Sc-.Uatd Neck, N. C. Toy.-r his r;uire 1. services are for r u Law N. C. services are ;o;ui."L'd. -n on approved security. L SAVAdS Or ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. .'J ana isecx. JN. L. J' I'u- I . . . !f Successful It May Eliminate Aocl- dents and Loss of Lifa. Hose for conducting air from the sur face t3 the diver under the water has heretofore been considered indispen sable. An elaborate outfit of pumps operated either on land or in boats wn3 necessary to force fresh nir con tinuous! v through a great length of hose to -the man below the surface. .ov the iuit'utivo. brain of a uerruan h?s conceived and put into successful operation an ingenious device which will nmbablv do away with the old - " - enparatus for diving. Bv this method the diver carries on his back two steel bottles containing htelilv coninressed oxygen. Another cylinder contains chemicals for ab Rorbing the carbonic acid gas exhaled from the lungs. A system of piping carries all the impure air breathed out In a chamber containing the absorbing chemical. In this compartment the ii.-vi.-llv carlonic acid gas is entirely felim'natod. A small amount of oxy gen, Just enough to renew the air, la idded to the changed ana regenerui mil pxhalatlons and passed on to a com faftment in the helmet, where it can le inhaled through the nose or mouth. By this system the vitiated air is con tinuallv being made over into new. It Is thought this device will do eway with the accidents and some times loss of life which have occasion ally happened through defects in the diving hose or pumping apparatus so long in use. But, while the diver may carry his atmosphere as one does his wardrobe along with him, he cannot vet q"ite disconnect himself from tno fr world, as the signal line is still fm- means of communica-- tion. Harper's Weekly His Ground. n,.wi,ir nr.. vou coing to marry that fossil? She-I iove the very ground - be walks on. He-I know, bat ism X t!-ere any other way of getting it? London Opinion. A Mystery of India By GROVER J. GRIFFIN This story was told nie by a retired colonel of the British army. I do not vouch for it but there are certain fea tures about it that assure me that It it not altogether improbable. Edgar Oldershaw, a lieutenant in an Irish regiment, went out to India Witt his command. He was a great favor ite with the Indian people and min gled with them as much as If not mort than with his own countrymen, be great was his influence upon them thai before he was twenty-five he was giv ea command of a native battalion. Oldershaw fell in love with a Eura sian girl, the daughter of an bnglisn- woman and an Indian nabob. She had been brought up under Indian influ ences; but. being of two races. It was easv for her to incline to either. Nev ertheless she was more Indian thai European. One thing was certain that she was a very handsome girl. a fascinating creature, combining Eu ropean manners with that peculiai mysticism pervading all India. Oldershaw married the girl, but within a few weeks after the marriage began to look pale and thin. The sur ... . . ,., i 1 .3 I geons or tue liniisn army couiu uui make out what was the matter with him. He was a man of excellent con stitution, temperate in his habits, and so. far as could be detected, each on of his organs was in a healthy condi tion. Nevertheless he seemed to be under the influence of some disease. Some of his European friends were inclined to believe that his wife was holding him under a spell. But there was no evidence of this. Indeed. Mrs. Oldershaw seemed to be very much attached to her hur.band and greatly troubled about his condition. The only reason that his friends had for consid-J ering her to be a possible cause f or i this condition was that her English1 mother had died a few months after! the daughter's birth, and her deatt j had never been satisfactorily explain-j ed. This was no reason at all. It merely indicated that Europeans bad no faith in Indians. I Oldershaw was a long while ailing.1 be! ALFALFA Alfalfa is rich in feeding value. WHETHER YOU USE CALOMEL OR NOT You Will Realize How Much Better for You Tbls Safe Vegetable Remedy Will Be. TO PROMOTE ALFALFA.- Burlington to Run Combination Trains Through Southern Iowa and Northern Missouri 600 Alfalfa Lectures to Be Given In Two Weeks' Campaign 700 Automo biles to Be Used In the Work. some one uoticea rnai . number of was ordered off on some service wuere businegs men The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad will run an alfalfa combina tion railway and automobile train for a two weeks' campaign, making about 60 stops in southern Iowa and north ern. Missouri, beginning July 28, 1913, from Des Moines. The plan, as worked out by the Bur lington in co-operation with the Agri cultural Extension Department of the International Harvester Company of New Jersey and the agricultural col leges, is far in advance of any agri cultural extension work ever carried on. Will Stop at Sixty Points. Local committees at each, of the 60 points on the railroad will arrange for five to ten automobiles to carry the speakers in all directions into the coun try to farm homes, school houses and inland towns within a radius of from four to ten. miles, where alfalfa lec tures will be given. During the campaign over 600 al falfa lectures will be delivered by the party to as many audiences, and from 500 to 700 automobiles will be brought into the service of this great educational movement. These campaigns are conducted on a strictly co-operative basis. The people will provide: 1st A guarantee of at least five to ten automobiles at each railroad stop to carry the speakers to the points in the country where meetings are to be held. 2nd. Halls suitable for the central meeting In towns where train stops. 3rd. Any community desiring a campaign must send in a request to the railroad, agricultural college co operating, or to the Agricultural Ex tension Department, signed by a rep- farmers and The liver is such a delicate organ that most people have learned from experience the danger of flogging-it into action with the dangerous drug calomel. E. T. Whitehead Com- -a v pany s drug store sells ana recom mends Dodson's Liver Tone, a pleap ant tasting, harmless vegetable liquid that encourages the liver, relieves constipation and biliousness without restriction of habit or diet. There are no bad after-effects from taking Dodson's Liver Tone. It does just whar it is intendejd to do and no more. Dodson s Liver Tone cannot harm either children or grown-ups and is an excellent preventive of j chronic liver troubles. E. T. Whitehead Company's drug store sells Dodson's Liver Tone for 50 cents per bottle and every bottle sold is guaranteed to give satisfac tion, and you get your money back without a question if it fails you. Some remedies are sold in imitation of Dodson't Liver Tone look out for them. Remember the guarantee. Mental Medicine. "Imagination." says a doctor, "mnst always be reckoaed with In medi cinesometimes as a friend, some times as a foe. 1 know a doctor who treated an old woman for typhoid, and on each visit he took her temperature by holding a thermometer under her tongue. One day when she had nearly recovered the doctor did not bother to take her temperature, and he had hardly got 100 yards from the house when her son called him back. "Mother is worse.' said the man. Come back at ouce.' The doctor returned. On his entry into the sickroom the oid woman look ed up at him with angry and reproach ful eyes. "'Doctor.' she said, 'why didn't you give mo the jigger under me tongue to day? That always done me more good than all the rest of your trash.' "New York Tribune. rasi Do Ten Fear Consumption. No matter how chronic your cough or how severe your throat or lung ailment is, Dr. King's New Discov ery will surely help you; it may save your life. Stillman Green, Maii chite, Col. writes: "Two doctors said I had consumption and could not live two years. I used Dr. King's New Discovery and am alive and well." Your money refunded if it fails to benefit you. The best home remedy for coughs, colds, throat and lung trouble. Price 50c. and $1.00. Guaranteed by E. T. Whitehead Co. Sharpening a Pencil. An expert manual training man talk ed with the writer about so simple a thing as sharpening a lead pencil. In the first place, he says, the knife should not be oversbarp. but should be a little dull, as if too sharp it will cut quickly through the wood and cut away the lead. Then, again, he says, it is best to hold the pencil in the left hand with the end to be sharpened pointing away from you aud to cut away with a pushing cut rather than toward you with a drawing cut. as then the point of the pencil Is rested against the side of the thumb and Is sharpened by a draw cut stroke of the knife blade. Scientific American. Don't use harsh physics. The re action weakens the bowels, leads to chronic constipation. Get Doan's Ttesrulets. Thev oDerate easily. 23c cr " at all stores To Prevent Blood Poisoning apply at once the wonderful old reliable DR PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HEALING OIL. a sur trical dressing that relieves pain and heals at the same time. Not a liniment. 25c. 50c. J1.C0. Good Pictures require skill in the making, and best quality materials handled by experts to merit your approval. Our photo finishing department is thor oughly equipped our men are skilled experts cur materials the finest procurable and your pictures have the HALL stamp of quality. Send for price list and give us a trial order. Kodaks all prices. I (ije&Mpticata 'AC' Successor to TUCKER, HALL & CO. Opticians ok The Best Sort 14G Granby Street, Norfolk. Richmond. Lynchburg. No. This it a prescription prepared especially for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER. Five or six doses will break any case, and if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not return. It acts on the liver better than Calomel end docs not gripe or sicken. 25c m ., J "gggaLmSa 2BBBBESSZ- r nr. i HIS IKf Mil! Lit: wife c.?--l ::ot go with him hei gradually recovered his health and that when he returned to her he re lapsed into his former condition. This was talked about among Oldershaw's army associates, or. rather, their wives, but no one had the courage to speak of it to the colonel. A friend suggest ed to the invalid's medical adviser to bring the matter before him. but the surgeon politely declined. The railroad will provide: Sleeping cars and dining service for the alfalfa campaign party, and bag gage and exhibit cars, literature, etc. The Agricultural Extension Dept. will provide: 1st. Speakers. 2nd. Assistance in organizing and adTertising campaign. 3rd. Educational charts and other equipment for lecture purposes, bulle- in Contest 1 Colonel Oldershaw lived a year after j literature. etc. 'c morHnirn tlion li!tll. naVlnST EI atl" ... 1 n.,n(Mo 4tn. iOUOW-up men, ueu iuM'ure to assist the farmers in getting a start h's maniasre. then dieti. navmg gian ually succumbed to some influence, weakness or mental trouble. No one rmrid c-ive anv definite cause for his rtenrti. An autopsy was ordered, and; . 1(. nhRnirf.iv necessary to " ' . . , . . JtVSAV tests were made for poison. Dut witn-i make tnes6 campaigns successful. out throwing any light as to me cause ( of his death. This exonerated his I wife, if indeed she needed exoneration,! on lay of each month reat the diseases ot l Throat, and fij F. smith vslti ia and Surgeon J'n,1i in The Crescent Pharmacy. Inc Scotland Neck. N. C. "Then sheep?" "Xo. raurn Wall street eld. Shorn and Dyed, von weren't always a black I started my career as a lamb." Washington He- with alfalfa. Hearty co-operation on the part or SAVE THE ALFALFA LEAVES. for every one who knew her intimately; pep cent, of the Feeding Value ti-.nr sh( sincerely mourneu her husband and was especially anx ious that the cause of his strange ill ness should bo determined. vpnrs after this the Widow Oldershaw married an -American. one Edmond . Baxter, a business man of : Calcutta. No one expected th'at she would long remain single, for she was only twentv-one at the time of Older-, shaw's death, aud besides being Ieau-j tiful she was rich. A month after his marriage wiuei went to America on Important busi ness. It was said, leaving his wife in niiouttn. He never returned. Of course after awhile tongues began to 1913. of Alfalfa In the Leaves Hay Should be Cut at Right Time and Cured so as to Preserve the Leaves. Of the entire alfalfa plant, accord ing to Kansas bulletin 155, the stali comprises 60 per cent, ana tne ieai 40 per cent., whereas the quantity of ; the protein in the stalk is only 40 per b cent., while the protein in the leaf is j g CO per cent. Moreover omy yet cent, of the fat is to be found m ma stalk, while 80 per cent, is in the leaf. t a throfori. very Important that j.w s w-- r aliaila DO UfLTVCD CCU " time, ana careiuny uaum , Aaim ilanA sTi stS WILL CLOSE ON NEXT Saturday Niohf, Sept. 2 As soon as we can pet the votes counted we will notify the winners in the con test and deliver them the prizes. Counting the votes will be quite a job, but we will set through with it as soon as possible. TlireereputHblepartieswillbe select ed to be judges of the contest. It is not too late now for you to come in and win one of these prizes. To make the contest more interesting from now until the close will give some EXTRA LARGE BONUS VOTES as iollmvH : 50,000 Bonus Votes for each Suit for men or ladies ; 10,000 Bonus otes for each pair of men or ladies Shoes; 5,000 Bonus Votes for each V"'" Shoes; 100,000 Bonus Votes for every 20.00 spent m our Lurniture Depart ment ; 25,000 Bonus Votes given for every 5.00 spent with us in other depart wents not included in the" above. wag. people wondering if he might not &u leayeB wm be gaved - . 4. n0 IS4 nro1. 1 have discovered tne serin i i death. Be this as u umj, wuue nis N-otic ice. Jiiiis to notify all persons having ;-CHjm or claims against the es ? J. II. Lewis, deceased, late ; Halifax omntv, North Carolina, Went them to the undersigned . JiUhe5ih day of July, 1913. . yAy" Mrs. Mattie J. Lewis. Willie H. ASlsbrook Ufe insurance. isentm- The Metropolitan Life durance Co., of New York. Ordinary ami Industrial Policies written. Scotland Neck, N. C. UB-MY-fiSM um cure your Rheumatism CZ !la' Headaches, Cramj It? A0l.d Sore3 Stings of Insects Ca,Vnt,sePJ c Anodyne, used in- PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. A Red Noso. A red nose is almost always due to a poor circulation or dis orders of tbs digestion. If your nose is red drink a glass of hot water an hour before every meal and keep the system open by eating figs, prunes and other lax dative fruits. .Avoid rich ana greasy foods and all alcoholic beverages. ,, Ti-ht clothing, especially tlgnt shoes, should not be worn. A good treatment is to dip the feet nightly into hot water, then into cold, after which they Jnould bo rubbed briskly with 1 coarse towel. This tones up the circulation and frequently S?k a red nose disappear without further treatment AWOMAN-S WORK depths of wee!7;ents sufficient household cares eouaaJld9 of rest and recn find Scotf s perfected that every r P y returns nr strength ang healthy, and tissues and m gi is devo I of ortiXssand cpssor s ho rpmnined in Americs wife lired in India. So one ever heard of any divorce between the two. but Mrs- Baxter did not take another husband till news came from America, nine years after her second marriage, that her husband had died of n or dinary disease. The widow was still a handsome woman, not much over thirty and rich. Time had somewhat erased the early reports of some malign influence upon the men she married. She took a third husband, this time an Indian. He lived six years, when he died a per fectly natural death-at least, so read the certificate. t m tlmt a voung assistant sur- reon of a British regiment, hearing of the case of Colonel Oldershaw. resolv ed to hunt up an explanation of the mvstery How he learned what he did would take too long to tell. When a little girl, her mother having died, the subject of this story fell to the care of a woman who made a poison girl of her-that is, she gave the chi d small doses of poison, increasing them till i.P.ir to take a large quan- tity and her breath was poisonous to another The outrage bad been dis covered' and stopped, but not before hn.i nnrtiallv become infected. Each of the cases pertaining to her husbands W3 then accounted for When she became the wife of Colonel Oldershaw the poison she had taken was effective. WTien she married a second time it had largely passed away. Quite likely, by the time she married the Indian it had died out al together. That there are persons in India who have become poison proof by taking small and increasing doses is a fact, but whether they can Infect others I do not Ur.ow. - " ... When possible to do bo it is best to . CUt aiiaiia iaie m i-u-o t.i.i.w. i a evening. Dew or rain en the freshly : cut alfalfa will not Injure it Where a j ffi tedder is used, it should be siarcea in i most of the m U1U iXUJX u&uft . dew is off and before there is any dan- j ger of knocking off the leaves. It is r,ftpn advisable to go over it more j m than once. Alfalfa hay Is harvested and cured in much the same way as ciover, ex it styles in ai.d Plain New and well Save the Alfalfa Leaves Stalk ' I j Stalk Leaf T Protein. Stalk, Leaf Fat Stalk Leaf 60 40 40 60 20 "H 80 Our New Fall Goods are coming in every day, and the following departments are complete and ready for your inspection. I ad e s SliisS: The late Bedford Cord, Rough Goods Serges in all colors. Men's end Boys Suits : .tr,-!t ch-W the kind that look and wear long, at the right price. Shoes for Everybody. Harris burg Shoes for ladies in all the different leathers, made up in style; they look good, feel good, wear good, ar.d the price is good for you. We sell Tilt and Steadfast Shoes for men; they will suit you in wear, style and price. Furniture: See our large stock of Th Commonweal is $1 a year cept that it should be cut as soon as the young sprouts or shoots start to grow at the base of the plant When alfalfa is left too long without cutting, the leaves fall off : and the stems become woody, and the yield of the next crop is greatly reduced. MONEY IN ALFALFA. J otis Humphrey, judge U. S. Dis triH court Springfield, Illinois: "You cS grow alfalfa anywhere in the corn ten and the crop is worth 50 an ph Wing of Ohio: "Alfalfa wlV pay any farmer 6 per cent, on fr an acre land." Read The Commonwealth. $1.00. dwmmi i fish Furniture and get our prices, cide for yourself. then de- 4CHLOSS BROS. COL Tmm CklfcM DUnra Big Values For Everybody. Get busy now and do your trading early and increase your chance of winning the Piano or Organ for yourself or friend. ttman-Wheeler Comp'y, (Main St.) Scotland Neck, N. C. 1 o ns:ri Durroiiff Everybody's Store. 7'v q externally. frc Z3C