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SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1913.
NUMBER 48.
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VAJrjy Troubles
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vi:h severe pains
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Notary Public.
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m Hi- Kilmer & Company,
'anitoru N. Y., for a sample
-V- ir will convince any one.
, a's.) receive a booklet of
c" n-mation, telling a.u
t)v k'-ineys ana Diaauer.
vr 'iriT, !e sure and mention
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P-n iib.err-. Cotton Seed
i'rtv.n Soe.l 0.1 Products, Well
.":V?-.'.-i":x and Mineral Water,
.n'.v'l F I Products, Dairy Fro
a Urir.e aivl Earth, etc.
Vmr.s h:-al'i have their Weli
;.v-r.iine.l at least once, a year,
; -i ": !:::;t p-irt of their land that
n;..-r cr-'ps, analyzed to find
:ni?:in?, so it can be added
their i.itid to make it good and
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Scotland Neck, N. C.
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required.
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A orn.cy an1 Counselor ai Law
Scotland Neck, N. C.
etices '.vherever his service.? are
required.
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By STACV E. BAKER
NCUi is i jc i::tr cjij a:iu fct a
So sti ong thai they heed not the call
Of the little brown house and the plea
Of the saya that summons them all
To the board festal board! They may
roam
To the en23 of the world, but the nay,
Ee It ever so far, must lead home
On this day!
Thoush tha fingers that beckon are old,
Yet the one who Is Jousting afield
Must come hurrying back to the fold
And lay by his lance and his shield
fcor think of thr tnsirnfy and frav,
- - ForgH ti.?a isii- sni-harit to rcdcn,
And offer up thanks for a day
In his home.
Shun the incu'3itive person, for
i Hp is ever a leaky vessel," is a say
j in ? of Horace. The exquisitive per-
son probably wants to know your
j private affairs or something which
you wir.h kept, secret, only for the
purpose of relatinp; it to romeone
eh c and posing as a person of im
portance because of knowing- some
thing not generally known,
Inquisitive persons eeldcm have
scruples about divulging -secrets
they are able to get hold of. The
Sranish have a saying: "Tell your
friend a lie and if he keep it a se
cret, tell him the truth." It is bet
ter to keep your own secre ts or dis
close them only to long known and
tried friends cn whom you are sure
ycu may rely.
Sidney has said, "What is mine,
even to my life, is hers I love, but
the secret of my friend is not mine."
When anyone confides his secrets to
vou keen them sacredly. Reserve,
although it may be carried to ex-j quired to give the trees a rest period
cess is a good quality to cultivate. ', in topping them for gum. The size.
O.eWldom prospers in business who ; number, and location of the incisions
al'ows everyone to know all about : are regulated by law. In the Uni
, ted Seates similar regulations are in
nisattaiio. , . a
Trouble is often made by telling , force in the tapping of pines for
what you know or think you know j turpentine on the Florida national
about a neighbor's affairs. It is ; forest.
wiser to keep a firm control of your j
sr-pech The fact that someone Hands It Back to Oliver,
wlnts earnestly to know should set Waghington "o.-The long
AppointnieDis Agreed On.
. Mr. Simmons announced that he had
Ssnators Simmons and Overman (jgcided to refuse to allow John T.
have recommended the men who are Oliver to be named for the job. Sen
to be district attorneys and mar- ator gjmmons said he had read all
sbals in North Carolina as soon as the editorials in the Reidsville Rri
vacancies are declared. Francis D. view whjch is edited by Oliver, and
Winston, of Windsor, and W. C. ha(1 concluded that he could not al
Hammer, of Asheboro, will be dis- ow a man to be confirmed by the
trict attorneys, and W. T. Dortcb, Senate who had published articles
of Goldsboro, and Charles A. Webb, reflecting upon his democracy, if not
of Ashevil'e will be mamials.-Hen- his integrity, such as those written
ism
demands the
It is doubly important and nothing in the world is
so needful as Scott's Emuls.on, good cheer and
! WmZr-X rz? sunshine.
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YOUR
SiliUui in
feast.
e bards to the bird at tb
o they tell of the pilgrim come eastT
Do they tell of the pilgrim come weatt
With the wanderlust in him to roam.
But who hears and who hears to obey
The call of his heart cryins, "Horn
On this day!"
Though for gormands and gluttons thy
sing,
Ail the troubadours best In our land.
1 shall strive in my verses to bring
A rouse to the wandering band
Who ease in their dash for the bay
And rime from the lands they would
roam '. . -
To thrill to the lure ot the day
And hornet
Forest Notes.
There is a flourishing forest school
in the Philippines, and 28 men were
graduated with the class of 1913.
The so-called Scotch pine is the
principal tree in the Prussian for
ests. Its wood is much like that of
the United States.
In general it may be stated that
the most dangerous forest fire pe
riods in the west are in middle and
late summer; in the east they are in
the spring and fall.
Because of the importance of for
estry at the annual congress in
Washington November 18 to 20, an
extra day is added to the sessions,
Monday the 17th.
It has been suggested that guaya
can, a very hard wood of Central
America, may furnish shuttle blocks
to supplement dogwood and persim
mon, now most used, and in danger
of becoming exhausted.
Under forest regulations in Co
lombia, rubber gatherers are re
I drawn out fight over the Reidsville
; postmastership was ended, so far as
Senator Simmons is concerned, when
utmost precaution in maintain-
Scott's Emulsion mates wc umuu
rich and pure." It contains the vital flesh
building and bone-building properties
insures abundant nounsn-
ment. It strengthens the nerves
and creates energy and vitality
during this period.
Expectant and nursing mother
always need Scott Emulsion.
pRUffGIST HAS IT i-ei
OLD HICKORY CHIPS
Siicrt and Pilhy Saylegsfln Subjects
Past and Preseo.
Su'zer"seen his dutyand done"
Kind of weather that put3 a tune
in the heart.
Come on old Senate and get this
currency question settled before
we all run out of currency.
It must be observed that Colonel
Roosevelt has been in South America
a remarkably long time without
shooting anything.
The assassination of Bill Sulzer
has been indefinitely postponed.
At last account the big moose was
running strong in Brazil.
Porto Rico wants a legislature.
Several states would be willing to
donate theirs.
Blessed is the man who doesn't
expect too much from his friends.
There are fears that Mrs. Parkhurst
has been misled by stories of the
ease with which large profits may
be derived from American lecture
engagements.
It may be suggested that Europe
should attend to its Turkey before
worrying about America dove of
peace.
It seems like wasting the time of
a busy man to ask Charles Murphy
to keep track of a bit of small
change like a $25,000 campaign do
nation. A safe and sane halloween cele
bration may be regarded as another
mark of advance in cultivation.
The closely calculating citizen is
likely to feel that the labor involved
in solving income tax problem is
entitled to some consideration.
Like the comet whose approach
invites forebodings, Mrs. Parkhurst
prove picturesque and harmless.
The way Murphy is going down it
would seem that when Sulzer fell so
fell all of them.
One way to settle the Mexican
question," probably would be to let
those greasers get a glimpse of the
new dreadnaught Texas.
Filipinos who left home to travel
with a show are stranded in Bel-,
gium. The Filipino is not nearly so
successful a showman as the Ameri
can Indian.
There is not much use of trying to
horrify a Tammany leader with pic
tures of a tiger in the theoes of dis
grace and dissolution.
Efforts to keep alive the discus
sion as to who discovered the North
Pole are now largely in the hands
of the advertising experts.
Col. Roosevelt approves of results
in New York without definitely men
tioning them as indorsements of his
policies.
China is no doubt already begin-
ning to reel tnat it Knows more
about running a republic than Mex
ico.
The problem is to get an income
large enough to be taxed and then
find a way of exempting it.
It is impossible for Gen. Felix
Diaz to feel sure whether a days de
velopments will call on him to as
sume a tone of ringing defiance or
an air of patient resignation.
Let us hope that the next time
New York is staged that there will
be no reason what it should be sup
pressed. At the present rate of progress
Yuab Shi Kai will be forced to raise
wages of the Chinese Lord high ex
ecutioner. '
Imagine the strain required of the
New York assembly to enable it to
say, "Why hello Bill," in a tone of
glad surprise.
The Nobel prize of the year has
been awarded to a Frenchmon for
his work in Anaphylaxis who's the
man that will say olf-hand he doesn't
deserve it.
"Cork or Bottle," says the Chi
cago Record Herald, "is the consti
tutional convention issue in Illinois."
Just what that means is not clear
but naturally the both go together.
No doubt of Col Goethals accept
ed the police commissionship of New
YorJf, he would favor the lock sys
tem at the City Hall.
' Speaking of benevolent earth
quukes as a California pper does
it would require one of that sort
to make Huerta take a hint.
An investigative highbrow aiises
to state that America is none o '.her
than King Solomon's lost land of
ophir; we only wish he had kept Ijiis
women's suffrage and left the rW.
The worst thing you can $o foi
sdme man is to praise (hSta.
THE HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD
There are hermit souls that live
withdrawn
In the peace of their self-content;
There are souls like stars, that shine
' apart
In a fellowless firmament.
There' are pioneer souls that blaze
their paths
Where the highway never ran,
But let me live by the side of the
road,
And be a friend to man!
Let me live in a house by the side of
the road
Where the race of men go by,
The men that are good, and the men
that are bad
As good and as bad as I.
Why should I sit in a scorner's seat.
Or hurl a cynic's ban?
Let me live in a house by the side of
the road,
And be a friend to man!
I see my house by the side of the
road.
By the side of the highway of life,
The men that press on with the
ardor of hope
And the men that are faint with
strife,
But I turn not away from their
smiles nor their tears
Both parts of an infinite plan.
Let me live in the house by the side
of the road.
And be a friend to man!
I know there are brook-gladdened
meadows ahead,
And mountains of wearisome
height,
And the road passes on through the
long afternoon,
And stretches away to the night;
But still I rejoice when the travellers
rejoice,
And weep with the strangers that
moan
Nor live in my house by the side of
the road
Like a man that dwells alone.
Let me live in a house by the side of
the road,
Where the race of men go by;
They are good, they are bad, they
are weak, they are strong,
Wise, foolish, and so am I.
Then why should I sit in a scorner's
seat,
Or hurl a cynic's ban?
Let me live in a house by the side
of the road,
And be a friend to man!
Sam W. Foss.
Loses In Cotton Marketing.
We may summarize our conclu
sions by saying:
(1). No cotton should be allowed
to lie out in the weather. You will
be sacrificing $10 in grade to every
$1 you imagine you will gain in
weight.
(2). The present system of indi
vidual selling of cotton must go
"everybody for himself and the
devil take the hindmost." There
are too many of the hindmost."
who catch the gentleman aforemen
tioned; and there are too many un
necessary middlemen to support
Cotton farmers must organize to
sell co-operatively on special days
and in large quantities.
(3). They should have their cot
ton graded by an expert and impar
tial grader.
(4). They should see to it that
they get the benefit of higher prices
for erades above middling as well as
the losses for grades below middling.
(5) . Especially in long-staple cot
ton is careful grading of the high
est importance.
(6). Farmers should get reports
of what all available market towns
are paying and find out whether in
any of them prices are being held
down by a buyers' '-trust," acting
without competition. In such cases
they should appeal to the business
men and commercial bodies of the
town for help. They will real
ize that such methods will cause
farmers to boycott the town ana
hurt trade.
(7). Farmers and tenants should
be encouraged to have their bills
fall due in two or three payments
instead of having to settle every
thing around November first.
(&l . These and other plans should
be discussed in your Farmers' Union
or other farmers' organizations; and
!i the farmers are not organized in
your community, this will be a good
subject to organize them on. r arm
ors firhtine sinelehanded can never
bring about the reforms needed for
their relief The Progressive far
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TJT Headache n& works off the Cold.
?TaOT'S signftture on each box. Sc.
AbsoIutelyPMr
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of all the baking? powders Sn
Hie world celebrated for Its
great leavening sSreng&h -and
purity. It snalces got cakes,
biscuit, iire&d, etc, Iiealtlifiil, it
insures yon against alssM and
all forms of adulteration aliatt
go with the low priced brands.
FOOD SUPERSTITIONS.
Dyak
Warriors Won't Eat Deer
Far
Fear of Becoming Timid.
In rural Germany one still meets
with a superstition that lie who eata
during a thunderstorm will bo struck
by lightning. Abstaining from food
during nn eclipse is common among
savages; also a belief that in eating the
flesh of any animal one absorbs that
animal's characteristics. Thus an In
dian tribe highly prizes tigers' flesh as
food for men, but forbids women to
eut it lest it make them too aggressive.
In the Kongo women are forbidden
to eat birds of prey on the same princi
ple, but are encouraged to eat frogs,
which the men on lio account ever
touch. In the Caroline Islands black
birds are a favorite dish with women,
but men must not eat them, because
If one did and afterwaid climbed a co
coa tree he would surely fall to the
ground and be killed.
Among the Dyaks warriors must not
ent venison because It would make
them as timid as the deer. Fowls and
eggs are forbidden to women of a Ban
tu tribe because on eating either a
woman would certainly fly into the
brush and never again be seen. Again,
the flesh of many animals is forbidden
because the animals themselves for
example, swine are disagreeable to
the eye or have untidy habits. Ex
change. BAD FOR PRONUNCIATION.
8ilent Reading and Neglect of Con
versation Are Harmful.
Perhaps the most potent of Influ
ences toward diverse pronunciation,
especially difference in accent, Is the
fact that we seldom or never hear in
conversation a vast number of words
which nevertheless constitute an im
portant and Indispensable part of our
vocabulary.
"By silent reading and neglect of
conversation language itself," declares
Richard Grant White, "Is coming into
disuse." The result of this practice
Is not only that we are always men
tally registering pronunciations pecul
iar to ourselves, which we have no
means of ascertaining to be uncommon
or ridiculous, but also that the natural
tendencies of our language, unrestrain
ed by the conservative force which oc
casional use in conversation might ex
ert, rapidly foster new pronunciations
and produce a diversity of pronuncia
tion even among the most careful
speakers.
All these influences obviously sup
plement each other in resisting any
trend toward uniform pronunciation
and facilitate the progress of the tend
encies of speech peculiar to our Eng
lish tongue. Robert J. Mcnner in At
lantic Monthly.
A Fleet Street Story.
Henry Arthur Broome, in "The Log
of a Rolling Stone," says that In 1S71
he was engaged in wood engraving for
Punch when one day, at the end of the
week, short of money, he stood gazing
longingly at the cherries on a coster
monger's barrow which stood abreast
of the offices of the London Telegraph.
His gaze arrested the attention of a
gentleman whom he had often seeu
there before, though not at midday.
Then a kindly deed was done. The
gentleman, averting his gaze from me
a moment, purchased two paper bags
of this fruit Then, placing one of
them in the pocket of his capacious
rtnst coat, he turned to me with the
sweetest smile imaginable and without
a word offered the other one to me,
which I gratefully accepted. He then
passed on and went upstairs to the of
fices of the newspaper. That was my
first introduction to the prince of jour
nalists, George Augustus Sala.
The Other Vexan.
"I don't see how that woman can
gad about the way she does and neg
lect her little children."
"How do you know that she gads
about?"
We get the same girl to tase care
of our babies wbtn we're away from
home, and she's kept busy over there
fully half of the time. It provokes me
so to have to be pr.t off so often when
I" want t get nway.-Chl.-ago Uecord
II era Id.
KEN'S WANTS.
"Man wants but little here below,"
That was an ancient song;
We do not hear it now, you know.
The sentiment is wrong,
Man wants just now all he can get.
In way of sordid tin;
The way that some go after it
Seems like a very sin.
Man wants a fancy touring car,
He wants a private yacht;
He wants to get a lot of junk
His neighbors haven't got.
He wants a lot of suits of clothes
And rare gems for hi3 wife?
II wants a chate-iu by the sea.
To make complete his life.
He want3 a lot of stocks and bonds.
And Standard Oil preferred;
He also wants a lot of thing3
Of which he never heard.
He doesn't really want them,
In true sense of the term;
But thinks he does and that's the
same.
And he'll work and squirm
To garner everything in sight
And keep it stored away.
He saves a lot of useless junk
To meet the rainy day;
And when he dies and passes on
He leaves it all behind,
Because he cannot take along
A thing of any kind.
'Twould suit a lot of men first rate
If they were but endowed
With brains sufficient to invent
A pocket for the shrowd.
Chicago Post.
Nasb County Creates Healtb Degart
icent. A joint meeting of the County
Board of Commissioners, Board of
Health and Board of Education was
recently held in Nashville to d'scusa
the advisability of employing a com
petent physician to devote his en
tire time to the prevention of sick-
. i
ness. It was overwneimmgiy de
cided by the boards that this bo
done, so provision was made for the
employment of such an officer.
At the mxt meeting of the Nash
County Board of Health, it is ex
pected that a competent man will be
decided upon from among a num
ber of applicants from both within
and without the county.
With Rowan, which at a recent
meeting decided to take this pro
gressive step and is now upon the
lookout for a competent man, and
Nash, there are now twelve coun
ties in the State having whole time
health officers. The other ten are
Cojumbus, Sampson, Johnston, Robe
son, New Hanover, Durham. Guil
f rd, Forsyth, Rockingham, and
Buncombe.
TDe Finest Mao.
The attacks on Dr. Hardy of the
School for the Feeble-Minded were
wholly unfair and unworthy. Dr.
Hardy has given the State fine ser
vice in arousing public sentiment on
the matter of ptoviding the children
of i he twil;ght a chance to grow,
and he is the fittest man in the State
to have charge of the institution at
Kinston. Charity and Children.
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