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SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER II, 1913.
NUMBER 50.
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Vi'"7.-, -'f to Every
Her Christmas Stocking
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Fm specting sucli a lot of stuff,
My stocking won't be big enough,
And so before I go to bed
I'll just hang mamma's up instead.
Another time-honored custom has
boen regulated at the limbo of
things that were, by President Wil
son when he announced this week
that the New Year's reception at
the Whiff. Hrmsp would be aband
oned. He proposes to take a well-: to the policy pursued by a large
earned rest during- the holidays and, ' number of our people. If we start
as another long session is in front of j about correcting our present melh
him, he proposes getting ready j ods we can change our great State's
for the winter activities by gomg
little while.
The New Year's reception was in- investment money to come our way.
augurated by President Washing- It rests largely with us as individu
ton and has been followed by every jals, to bring about better times.
Prescient since the custom was es- j Our farmers are beginning to real
tablished with only one or two ex-jize that they have more to do with
ception?. Even when civil war was j bringing about better times than
etalkinir over the land and the days the law makers have by producing
were dark and ominous, President
Lincoln followed the old custom of
meeting the people on New Year
with punctilious care. However
disappointing it may be to thousands
who are planning to grip the Pres
ident by the hand on New Year day,
th-'s much must be said, the New
Year reception at the White House
had grown to be almost a rout in
stead of a friendly call to wish tie
President and his wife good luck for
the year. President Taft at his last
New Yf-ar reception shook hands
with upwards of 8,000 people and
his hand was so puffed up and bruis
ed th-t he was compelled to have it
bandaged for a week or more
While the New Year's reception at
the White House has many delight
ful things to commend it, it also has
its very serious drawbacks.
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Live a! Home.
Our State of North Carolina is
one of the oldest in the Union, and
we are proud of it. But it is also
one of the poorest financially and
we are not proud of this. Why wre
are one of the poorest is largely due
financial rank bringing it up among
. . t i !! 1 1
tne leaders wnicn win cause more
more of what he and his family
needs on the farm and not sending
to the North and West for it. Take
the average farmer, go to his table
and see how many things on it that
came from the North and West that
might have been made or grown in
this State. We have a splendid cli
mate, the soil is rich and fertile.
This State can produce almost all
kinds of grain, fruits and vegeta
bles If the farmer will plant a
variety of crops he can have fruit
and vegetables for his table all tne
year, hay and corn to feed his stock.
p,v huildiner better roads, encour
aging home industry and not de-
pending so mucn on uuici t,o.L
hat wp ran have at home
iui Linus0 " ... ,
the Old North State will become
more prosperous, have more money
and her people be happy Duplir
Enterprise.
Jack "Your friend Alice has the
prettiest teeth I ever saw in a worn
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Ethel "Yes, the dentist guaran
teed that there should not ye a u
set in town." coston iiaubww
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Actors on
Christmas
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There's lots of work.
And there ain't no play,
So what's the use
Of a Christmas day?
THAT little verse, paraphrased
from one familiar to soldiers,
just about sums up the real
uimstnias sentiment existing
among people connected with the the
atrical business. No. that doesn't
mean that the actor, the manager and
the advance agent do not appreciate
the giving and receiving of presents
from their friends. But it does mean
that people connected with the stage
have come to look upon the Christmas
time as a season of short pay and hard
work.
It isn't generally known, but it is
none the less trae,x that most actors
have a clause In their contracts which
calls for half pay the week before
Christmas. This clause was inserted
in the days when the week before
Christmas really was a "tough" one in
the theatrical business. But nowadays
there are many productions which
pack the theaters to the doors the week
before Christmas as well as any other
week in the year. Nevertheless some
of the managers live up to that con
tract and deduct the half week's pay.
That is one reason why actors aren't
particularly merry at Christmas.
' There are other managers who
make a practice of laying off their
companies the week before Christmas
and some of them ten days or two
weeks before. In that case there is
no salary at all forthcoming. That,
probably, is another reason why the
average actor cannot understand why
Christmas is an occasion to be unduly
joyful.
It was only last year that some of
the managers came to the conclusion
that stage people, like other human be
ings, might like to spend some part of
the Christmas holiday with their
friends and relatives. Up to that year
it had been the custom of all man
agers to give a special matinee on
Christmas day. That meant, of course,
that about all the actor had to do on
this festive occasion was to rush to
the theater almost as soon as he had
acquired his regular amount of sleep,
give an afternoon performance and
then, if fortunate cnouli tJ have
friends or relatives living in the city,
to hurry through his Christmas dinner
with them or leave before it was half
over to go back to the theater to play
the evening performance.
But a few of the managers changed
that last year by omitting the Christ
mas matinee and giving it on the day
following. There were other managers,
however, who not only gave the Christ
mas matinee, but acted on the sugges
tion of their more charitable competi
tors and gave the matinee the day aft
er too. However, this omission of the
DINNEB ON STAGE BETWEEN PEBFOBM
ANCES. Christmas matinee was confined almost
exclusively to a few of the first class
theaters in New York city.
On the road it is different. The ac
tors have to work just as hard as they
ever did. and opposition from local
managers will probably prevent the
elimination of the Christmas matinee
outside of New York.
With some companies Christmas is
not the disagreeable occasion that it
is with others. One or two owners
make it a practice to instruct the man
ager with the company to have a
Christmas dinner prepared at the ex
pense of the show. Sometimes a cater
er is called in. and the dinner is served
on the stage between the matinee and
the evening performance. In that event
the dinner usually proves prolific of
material for the house press agent, and
the affair is duly recorded in the daily
papers. Sometimes it is served on the
Stage after the evening performance.
Other times arrangements are made at
some hotel.
It was one of these after the per
formance affairs that came pretty near
putting a traveling stock company out
of business In a town out in Iowa last
Christmas. This theater, by the way.
boasts of the only dog critic in exist
The Commonwealth a year for $1.00
ence. This comes from the fact that
if the dog doesn't like a show he will
start to howl, and he has to be re
moved from the theater before the per
formance can be continued.
Only a month before a well known
concert singer was appearing at the
theater. She had about finished one
of her best selections when the dog
poked his nose over the railing of an
upper box and began to howl his dis
approval. That led to the temporary
banishment of the dog critic from the
theater. But when the stock company
came along the manager beard about
the dog, and, willing to take a chance
that the dog's judgment of his show
would be favorable, lie suggested that
the dog be allowed to sit by a big well,
which was a part of the scenic effect
in one of the acts, just for the sake of
realism.
Now, this same manager had con
cluded to give his company a dinner
on the stage after the performance.
In the course of the play the dog was
brought out and tied to the well.
Everything went all right until the
dog sniffed the turkey and the other
good things at the side of the stage,
and without waiting for the finish of
the act he made for the food, dragging
the "heavy rock walled -well" behind
him.
This action on the part of the dog
critic-actor disturbed things generally.
CHRISTMAS TREE FOR STAGE CHILDREN.
for the villain .had just been arranging
with one of his confederates to rid
himself of the hero of the play by toss
ing him down the aforesaid well. The
villain, after the laughter subsided, ar
ranged his part of the plot by cancel
ing the order to have the hero tossed
down the well and instead to have
him tied to a railroad track. However,
the audience refused to take the play
seriously after the well disappeared.
There is probably more- real Christ
mas sentiment in plays that have tc
carry children as a part of the produc
tion than in any of the others. With
these shows there is usually, a Christ
mas tree between the matinee and the
evening performance in which every
one joins in and makes merry.
A hard lot is that of the actor who
happens to be playing what is known
as "the small time" around the holi
days. "Small time" contracts call foi
three shows a day, and on Christmas
day an extra one is usually added. A
vaudeville actor on "big time" prob
ably has more time to appreciate
Christmas if Christmas really can be
appreciated away from home than
any other because he is usually in the
theater but an hour in the afternoon
and an hour in the evening, and the
rest of the time is his own unless the
house manager has promised to "ask"
him to go over to some club and en
tertain the guests at their Christmas
reception. Of course the actor doesn't
have to do this, but if the manager is
of any standing at all in the vaudeville
world the actor usually finds it expe
dient to grant the request.
But the man probably who spends
the lonesomest Christmas of them ail
is the poor advance agent recognized
on the program as business manager,
advance representative or manager in
advance. Unless the advance agent is
close enough to his home town to
"Jump" for Christmas he usually gets
a genuine attack of the simon pare
blues. True, the advance man who has
been on the road for any length of
time can usually be depended upon to
meet people he knows, but they are
people who live in the town, and he
usually finds himself dining alone
when the time comes for him to eat
his "Christmas dinner."
A Rsal Santa Claus.
ANTA CLAUS, I hang for you.
By the mantel, stocking two,
One for me and one to go
To another boy I know.
There's u chimney in the town
You have never traveled down.
Should you chance to enter there
You would find a room all bare.
Not a stocking could you spy.
Matters not how you might try.
And the shoes you'd find are such
As no boy would care for much.
In a broken bed you'd see
Some one just about like me.
Dreaming of the pretty toys
s
Which you bring to other boys.
And to him a Christmas seems
Merry onlyn his dreams.
All he dreams, then. Santa Claus.
Stuff the stocking with, because
When it's filled up to the brim
I'll be Santa Claus to him!
Frank Dempster Sherman.
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FreiQlit Rate Association.
Charlotte, N. C. Dec. 3, 1013.
At a meeting of the officers and
advisory board of the Just Freight
Rate Association of North Carolina,
held December 2, at the offices of
the chamber of commerce of Greens
boro, the following resolution by J.
C. Forrester, was unanimously
aJ opted:
"Whereas, Richmond, Norfolk, Pe
tersburg and Roanoke, Va., through
their respective chambers cf com
merce have appeared before the in
terstate Commerce Commission in
ah attempt to prevent the establish
ment of reduced freight ra'.es from
Cincinnati and other western points
of origin to North Carolina points
of destination, as agreed upon be
tween the railroads and the North
Carolina legislature, and
"Whereas, the petition of these
Virginia cities prays that these car
riers be denied the right to estab
lish the proposed ratesbacause pro
posed rates are in a few instances
lower to North Carolina destina-
tions than to destinations in Tennes
; see between Cincinnati and points in
North Carolina via same routes and
because proposed rates are higher
to some points in western North
Carolina than to some other points
in eastern North Carolina, while
they make no mention of the fact
that all rates to all points in North
Carolina are much higher than to
Richmond, Norfolk, Petersburg and
Roanoke, and that hundreds of these
North Carolina points are between of snow had fallen in twenty-nine
points of origin in the West and the hon'!?$ns.?A fSfJjj?
fl. .... . , same duration m the west. There
Virginia cities named, and hag been no cessatf0n since the snow
"Whereas, if these Virginia cities began to fall at midnight Wednes
believe as they charge that prestnt day.
rates discriminate in favor of North!, Despite the damage done here.
. . . . t. .however, the farmers of the btatt;
Carolina points against these Vir-j jub,',ant a3 they esUmate that
ginia cities, their remedy lies in a , the snow brought ten million gallons
straight forward, dignified com-1 of water to fill the irrigation ditches
nlnintrnvprinir that noint and not in thus assuring a bountiful crop.
an ignoble attempt to prevent this
readjustment by hiding behind the
alleged injustice which might be
done some unimportant points in
Tennessee, and
"Whereas the petition of these Vir
ginia cities is not made in good faith,
but is cleverly devised to mislead the
commission in the hope that pres
ent rates which are outrageously
discriminators in favor of Richmond,
Norfolk, Petersburg and Roanoke,
Va., and against the entire state of
North Carolina, may be continued
in effect to the end that the com
merce of North Carolina shall con
tinue to pay unjust tribute to these
Virginia cities.
"Resolved, That we heartily con
demn the chamber of commerce of
Richmond, Norfolk, Petersburg and
Roanoke, Va., for their quibbling
petition in an attempt to defeat an
adjustment that grants North Caro
lina only partial relief from unjust
conditions, we commend the manlj
position so far taken by Lynchburg
and other Virginia cities who have
not become parties to this insincere
petition, and we call on every loyal
citizen of North Carolina to show
their righteous indignation against
Richmond, Norfolk, Petersburg and
Roanoke for their attf mpt, through!
the statement of half truths to re
tard the development of the entire
state of North Caro'ir.i in' the in
est of a few jobber- Richmond,
Norfolk, Petersburg : -t d Roanoke."
Fred N. Tate,
President.
Leake Carraway,
Executive Secretary.
"Join our girl scouts for grown
up girls."
"What is the object?"
"To teach girls the basie things of
life; all the leads in auction bridge,
fnv inctanfA " T.nnisville Courier-
for instance
Journal.
Texas Eeatb List is Growing.
Bryan, Tex., Dec. G. A death list
of more than 50, with scores of flood
refugees spending last night in im
minent peril, and possibly a thous
and others marconed and suffering
from hunger and cold, was indicated
by reports from the flooded Brazos
river bottom in this section of South
Central Texas. Fi r over fifty miles
the Brazos was three to five miles
wide and running with mill race
sp eed.
The known dead in Texas floods
numbered 33 before reports from
the inundated territory in this dis
trict began coming in, brought by
men on horseback, which is about
the only reliable means of commu
nication. These couriers' reports
ir.clicated at least 20 more lives lost.
About two-thirds of the drowned
were negroes.
The riders' reports indicated that
the property loss would total $4,
000,000 or $5,000,000 when the dam
age along the Brazos is added to
that in other portions of the State.
Colorado ia Embrace of Snow.
Denver, Col , Dec. G. The most
terrific snow storm in the history of
the State of Colorado was raging
yesterday, although now showing
some signs of abatement. Traffic of
all kinds is at a standstill and the
street car tracks are buried under
from two to four feet of snow.
At a o'clock vesterdav mornine
twenty-five and eight tenths inches'
HAD CATARRH
FIVE YEARS.
T,Ir. John
son cf St.
Elmo, Illi
nois, w a
trovhled five
year3 w i t li
catarrh.
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arm was . w ,
severe in-SWMm
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foot in
grave."
Of courso
he tried to
eret relief.
Many prac
titioners were con
sulted and a
catarrh
fepscialist in
MR. S. S. JOHNSON
St. Efeio, Illinois.
t. Louis was
tried. lie eot so weak
and thoroughly run down that he de
clares he could not walk more than
a hundred yards without resting.
Few people un('ier.'itan'l that catarrh
is a constant drain on the system.
The discharr of mucus which Is
going on in such cras s ia largely com
posed of blood serum, and H a great
waste. Sooner or Utr it wlli weaken
the strongest men.
Accordic? to reports received from
Mr. Johnson, h : i in a desperate
condition, i i; - rund relief from
h'.s troy :!--. V.' 5 will let him say how
he fivuuti U. o.-.n word say:
"ATy frii'i!-1:T told me to take Pe
runa. end I di.J rn. I now feel that
Peruna has r,av-;.i my lif. It is th
best medicine on earth, ar.d I would
not be without it."
This eecm3 alniost too good to be
true. No doubt there are some read
ers that will thir.lc so. The above
statements, however, can be verified
by writing Jir. Johnson.
Every horns cliould he provided with
the last edition cf ' The Illi of Life,"
sent free by the Pcruna Co., Colum
bus. Ohio.
Ask your druggist for a Free Pe
runa Lucky Day Almanac for 1914.
presses it
himself, ho lipllld
had "one FAvX f
IjW, ti,e wonderful, old reliable Ir.
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