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1 LARGEST CIRCTJLATI01I of any Halifax County Newspaper Established 1882. EALTH 1 ADVERTISING ZOSDIUZX m EASTERN OASOLQIA L. MILLS KITCHEN, Editor "HXCELSIOll," IS OUH IIOTTO DUBScnrpnon pules, $1.00 pee year. VJL.XXX. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1914. NUMBER 45. TT1HI1F COMMOMW I cad Propria ler. The Great Rush I Had Last Week Caused Me To Increase My Capacity For Filling and Delivering Orders I am now prepared, better than ever, to FILL and DE LIVER your orders on Very short nolice. J A good many things have been reduced in Price and all who trade with me shall have the FULL benefit of the reduction. You can't imagine how much I appreciate each tele phone or personal call. Phone 174 Goods Delivered Promptly E. W. Staton's old stand next old piSt'ffiC9. Clee Vaughan GIi-is, L. Staton Attorney at Law Scotland Neek. North Carolina Prac'iees wherever his service av req iirel. Asliby W. Dunn Attorney at Law Scotland Neck, North Carotins Money to loan on approved secu rity. Dr. T. D. Kitchin Physician and Surgeon Scotland Neck, North Carolina Office ia PostofHe Building1 over North End Drugstore. Telephones Orfi:e 10, Residence 34. Dr. A. D. Morgan Physician and Surgeon Scotland Neck, North Carolina Offize in building formerly used by Br. J. P. Wimberley. Dr. R. L. Savage Rocky Mount, North Carolina Will be in Siotland Neck on the third Wednesday of each month at the hotel to treat the diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat and fit glasses Dr. O. F. Smith Physician and Surgeon Scotland Neck, North Carolina Office in the rear of the Crescent Pharmacy. Dr. A. C. Livermon Dentist Scotland Neck. North Caralina Office up-stairs in the Whitehead Building. Office hours from 9 to 1 and 2 to 5 o'clock. G. Speed & W. II. Josey Fire Insurance Agents Scotland Neck, North Carolina Will look after your interest, rep resenting the strongest and most liberal companies. All business ap preciated. Willie II. Allsbrook Life Insurance Scotland Neck, North Carolina Representing the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., of New York. M. T. Walston Livery Scotland Neck, North Carolina Teams for hire, prompt attention, quick service. Bowers & Jones stables. SAW HIS OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION OF WILLIAM A. CLARK'S IMMENSE FORTUNE. Multimillionaire Has Never Forgotten the Incident That Gave Him His First Boost Toward His Won derful Success. The power to foresee and predict the future, to take advantage of that foresight, and the ability to pile up millions out of an event that other men blindly pass by is a factor in the lives of many important men. Sen ator William A. Clark, the Montana copper king, can trace the foundation of his vast fortune to a single incident away back in the sixties. Like all big men, he does not disdain to re call the lucky moment when the win ning card was played that placed him on the road to a gigantic fortune and prodigious success. He was keeping a trading store in Salt Lake with flour at $1.50 for a 50-pound barrel, and ham at $1 a pound, when his lucky moment ar rived. He had been teamster, trader, miner anything and everything that seemed to hold a chance of success and to all these different callings he had devoted arduous and incessant labor. He had toiled for nine months with his back bent double over promising streams, often up to his knees in ice cold water, to find himself with $1,500, all told, as the result of this heart breaking labor. He had driven ox teams and mule teams in all sorts of weather across a wild country, with Indians a constant menace, and the chance of death by the roadside lurk ing in every clump of stunted fir. To open his trading store in Salt Lake he had driven-au ox team 300 miles through a rough wilderness, bought goods and started in to bf 1 ;s own freighter. In one year the vJ,500 had risen to $7,500. Then the incident occurred which brought him luck. The citizens of Last Chance Gulch (now Helena) were threatened with a tobacco famine, since the steamer bearing the consign ment had been sunk on the Missouri river, and no man but Clark had the foresight or courage to realize what it meant. Tobacco was the most pre cious freight that Last Chance Gulch could conceive. The news of the loss j cS tlio steamer cent -them into -a ftiryj of rage, but no man thought of a plan for retrieving the situation. Lamen- ; tations and curses were the order of the day. Clark saw all this, and he saw, too, that it was his time to act. He har nessed his hcrse, and in the middle of winter, with the thermometer 28 degrees below zero, started to ride the 250 miles that lay between Last Chance Gulch and Boise City. Hardly anyone who saw him start expected to see him return alive, but Clark knew his own vitality, gained through early years of rlowboy labor, and he was letermined to see the thing through. On January 1 he drove into Helena with 2,000 pounds of tobacco on his wagon. It had ccst him ?3,003, but Lie sold it for $10,000, and found him self the most popular man in camp. Hss Made Valuable Discovery. "By means of that invaluable little creature, the guinea pig, Prof. Rut ledge Rutherford, a physiologist of Chicago, has finally unearthed and identified a remarkable substance Tvhich he has named "trophegen" or 'bitrophen," which means "to produce jcurishmeat and life." His experi ments began with guinea pigs; were confirmed afterward upon mice, chick ens, kittens and other animals, and there Is not the slightest doubt that bis great discovery will lead at once to the rewriting cf all our knowledge upon foods and nutrition. Trophogen is an all-sustaining nutri ment that is absolutely essential to life. It is widely distributed in every known food, and without it that is, by trying to nourish yourself on sup posed foods that do not contain it death quickly occurs. It occurs in al buminous so-called protein foods, and is the basi3 of all animal tissue. Long-DrawnOut Battles. Whereas it used bo "the day" that was lost and won, it is now anywhere from the week to the fortnight, and one wonders what must be the "state of soul" of officers and men during these all but never-ending battles. Marked by a great dullness, we should say, if not by a clearly defined fatalism. Retreat means only another fight, as bad if not worse. Death means relief. Getting wounded means a sojourn In hospital, but the chance of being shot even there. At a guess, we think we should become fairly indifferent as to what befell us there in the trenches, and, if any perceptible interest re lieved the boredom it would be curi osity a vague, tired, dismal inquisl tiveness as to how the infernal set-to was destined to end. - Tiger Hunting and War. In the last year for which statistics are available, 767 human beings in India were killed by tigers. Along one line of Himalayan railway, the depre dations of these ferocious brutes have been so great that the company is building tiger-proof stations for its signalmen, many of whom have been carried off and devoured. Evidently there will be opportunities after the war to use those "virile vir tues" which militarism claims to de velop. To hunt man-eating-tigers on foot takes at least as much valor as is required to perform any ordinary feat in battle. -ft By A. HERSCHIN. As he walked across Burnside street bridge, his hands plunged deeply into his pockets and his head sunk far into the turtle neck of his soiled sweater, he re flected grimly on the prosaic term ination of his wandering career. On this particu lar day he had de cided to end his alliance with the panhandling citi zenry. He was definitely and sat isfactorily "done." He had had his fling and fill; he was going home. What had his fourteen years of exile brought him? he mused. What was there to show for his long dissocia tion from the conventional world and its endeavors? He was going home, going in the way he most always went anywhere by beating it. He stepped away from the station lights and crawled into the narrow space between a long, high pile of ties and a steep embankment, some dis tance from the tracks. Here, he concluded, he would rest a couple of hours. He was dog-tired, all right. He awoke suddenly in a cold shiver, amid a confusion of noises, to see the broad patches of color reflected from the Pullman windows moving swiftly away from him. The greater bulk of the train stretched far in front. Faster and faster it -took its way, leaving the tramp with a choice of only two cars to negotiate. He saw the uselessness of trying for the handles of the vestibules, and. Impelled by the fascination of motion and the anxiety to succeed, he stooped half over. Running close to the smok er with all the power of his litha limbs, and with a fierce burst of strength and speed, he darted forth to the single, outside rod under the last coach. His outstretched hands struck the steel brace,' an I instinctively doubled about it. His body was yanked hori zontally into the air like a feather in a gale. With quick, experienced grop ing he managed to throw one leg into the space between the rod and the car-floor, and with one leg twined safe, he quickly pulled the other away from danger and onto the rod. There he sprawled like a frog aleap, hugging his hold, rocking from side to side with the wide oscillations of the speeding car. This was a new one on him, he said this hanging on to a single piece of flying steel. If there was only some way to maintain a little better bal ance, he could surely stay with it-until Woodburn was reached. That was only 20 miles farther, and they were hitting a pretty clip, with no stops in between. Say! It was cold! He drew one arm in and crooked it across the rod to serve as a balancer, a face-protector, and a rest; the other he held in a rigid grip straight ahead. What was that strange lassitude coming over him? He yawned and gently released the tension on his numbed hands and legs. Again he yawned, and his drowsy head sagged. It wasn't cold now, and something was saying: "Go to sleep; It's all the same." He jerked himself in horror back to his right position when he realized what tricks his imagination was play ing. He must stay awake! he almost screamed. "What's the use? May 's well quit now," he rambled to himself. His clutch of the rods relaxed and slipped away somewhere. He didn't care. He could feel his legs break their cramped hold and glide away. It seemed as if his body was just kind of anxious to drop off easy into the foot-path by the tracks. A scream of agony merged with the shriek of the air-brakes as he jerked back a crippled knee from the ties. He seemed to curl around his nar row purchase like a caterpillar wind ing itself around one's thumb. With another cry of agony, he tightened his grip on the rod and knew no more. The conductor and brakeman car ried the half-conscious tramp into the station and settled him comfortably in a reclining position, placing his in jured leg on a low box. "Get his name and address when he comes to, Joe," said the trainman, "and send it in." Then he passed out into the night. The agent tucked back the torn trousers and underwear of his patient, and picking up a small, sharp pen knife, he stepped to the stove, where he held the blade for a moment in a pot of boiling water. While the now conscious man at tentively watched the operation, he quickly thrust the sterilized steel into a great, colorless protuberance on the knee. He stared t Iiis rsurgeon with a ; grin of pain distorting his face. 1 "It's pretty tough, :t that!" he gasped, as .he perspiration formed in thick, tiny crystals on his forehead. ! Ta -fito Ulrr - o-riir cr'rrv fiafo nrltri . wad of coin through a tough alley, only to be rapped cn the head end robbed on his onn door-step." Oil A SINGLE ROD I - - i : . ORGAN GRINDER'S DAY HARVEST REAPED BY WASHING TON STREET 'MUSICIAN. Story From the Capital Concerning French and German Ambassadors U a Good One, Though It Is Not Official. It was before the war came in grim earnest, of course, but here is the form in which a perfectly respectable old story used to be told over the cig arettes in Washington, When the gov ernments of France" and Germany were merely barking at each other ;across the conference table, It hap pened one day that .an Italian organ grinder, strolling along the streets of Washington, planted, his Instrument of torture on the curb in front of the German legation and began grinding out the Marseillaise.;: The strains of France's great na tional air fell upon the ears of the German ambassador, Count Bernstorff, as he sat within, deep in the diplo matic puzzles of his office, and a frown overspread his brow; for the Germans, though a music-loving people, love not the tune of the Marseillaise. How ever, he passed the incident, as a momentary annoyance, and buried himself deeper in his work. When the musician, having reached the end of the Marseillaise, proceeded to adjust his machine and play it over again, the ambassador grew rest less. And when the third round be gan, Count Bernstorff s patience broke under the strain. Hammering upon his call-bell, he summoned an attendant." "Go out and drive that fellow from the block!" he commanded, and was turning again to his work when a bright idea flashed upon him. "Here, wait a moment," he called, and, draw ing a coin from his pocket, save the valet some instructions along with the money. The valet, swiftly making his way to the street, addressed the organ grinder. "Can you play 'Die Wacht am Rhein?'" he asked. J "Yes, sure, Mike, I ; play him," re plied the son of Italy, in the lingo cf the country. "Do you know where M'sieur Jus serand, the French ambassador, lives ?" now queried the servant. "Yes, yes, sure, ;MlkVt 'tnow,'' re sponded the dago. "Well, here's a half-dollar," said the servant, handing him the coin. "I want you to go up to Ambassador Jus serand's house and play 'Die Wacht am Rhein' for 15 minutes without stop ping. Understand ?" "Yes, yes, sure, Mike," exclaimed the dago eagerly, and, slinging his or gan across his back, as he prepared to move on, added proudly: "Today, beeg day; today I make de beeg mon'. Ambass' Jusserand, just now he giva me one dollar to come here and play de Marseillaise for 15 minutes." New York Evening Post The Dam Bill. It was a legislative field day in the house, and a call for a quorum had been sent forth. Wearily the mem bers dragged themselves forth from the cool house offices into the heat of a summer day. And as one congress man greeted another, the question, "Is the dam bill up?" was overheard by a rather prim and earnest visitor, who went on, horrified at such profanity, only to hear another group inquire: "Is the dam bill up?" Hurrying on to ward the office building, still a third time her ears were assailed with the undignified query "Is the dam bill up?" "Well, I never," said the good lady, shaking her hussar plumes viciously, "I never heard such profane congress men. The changeable weather has worked on their tempers sure enough, for every congressman I meet has been inquiring about that dam bill, and the thought of it so impressed it self on my mind that I almost feel like saying that dreadful word myself for the sake of relief." "Affairs at Wash ington," by Joe Mitchell Chappel, in National Magazine. Deposits of Phosphate Rock. While the states of Florida, Tennes see and South Carolina have for many years been the principal sources of phosphate rock in the United States, it is believed that the main produc tion in the future will probably come from the great deposits of phosphate rock on public lands in Idaho, Utah, Wyoming and Montana. While George town is the only village strictly with in the area discussed, Montpelier and Soda Springs are closely adjacent. An estimate of the high-grade phosphate rock available in the area northeast of Georgetown has been made 2,663, 290,000 long tons. Although this es timate is approximate, it is derived from the moBt complete data availa ble at the present time and has been confined to the content of the main bed, which lies in the greater part of this area near the base of the phos phate shales, and no attempt is made to estimate the vast tonnage of the intermediate or low-grade rock. Cat Had the Advantage. Cherry Kearton, the famous photog rapher of wild animals, says that dur ing the bombardment of Antwerp a dog and a cat followed him down the street. "As the shells burst the dog went dodging from one side of the road to the other, but the cat never turned a hair." A cat is naturally used to being bombarded, and, be sides, has eight lives advantage on a dog.' - I LEAP OF OLD 637 I it By EMMET F. HARTE. J Half an hour before train time, I passed through the gate and sat on a bagga ge-truck near the iron fence In the Ninth and Broadway streets station Louisville. The train nearest me eight electric lighted palaces, besides mail and bagg a g e - c a r s , drawn by a 100 ton racer w a s the one by which I should depart. I became aware of a small, gray man sauntering along by the big engine a grizzled, stocky figure of a man with a slight roll In his stride, seemingly engrossed in his own thoughts. He passed along, stopped, examined her outlines with an admiring eye, patted her ponderous cylinder as one might pet a child, and stood listening to the purr of her steam. Presently he noticed me, and strolled over to the truck. "Ain't she a beauty?" he queried, jerking his thumb in the direction of the engine. I remarked that he must have leaned from a cab in his time, and he nodded with some pride. "Yes," he said. "I wrestled the reverse-lever and eased the steam into the cylinders on one of them for 16 years. Not a big girl like that one, though; there wasn't any like her in my day I quit in '86." He relapsed into silence, and I waited. "Excuse me," I said finally, "but I am waiting for you to tell me about it." "About what?" he asked. "Well, about your most thrilling experience ! " I said. ! "Never had any thrills," he said "Used to have lots of hard work and plenty of wrecks and very little pay; but thrills, as you call them, we didn't pay much attention to. "We rarely ever got from one end of the division to another without go ing in the ditch. "One time we got Into West Point about midnight, and the river was out In the bottoms. There used to be an old wooden drawbridge across the Salt there that was built like a culvert nothing above the stringers but ties and rails, not even a hand-rail. "The Ohio was backed up in the Salt, chock-full, and there wasn't any bridge in sight just black, lapping water. Old man Morrison and me went down and set sticks to see how fast she was rising, and she was crawling pretty fast. " 'What'll we do?' said the old man. " 'Cross her, if the bridge is there,' I said; and we all climbed on, and I let 637 walk out on that bridge mighty slow and careful, with the crew ready to pile off if she dropped. The bridge was there, all right, four inches under water, and we got across. "Old 637! There was a good old engine! She knew just as well a3 a horse or dog knows their masters, and she never went back on me." "How did I happen to quit? See these gray hairs? I reckon I got most of them one night on old Muldraugh's hill. "You know how the old line winds in and around that old knob and all those old wooden trestles. There used to be nine of them trestles some away up in the air, too built on short curves; one had a reverse curve in the trestle itself. "I was pulling a local freight that year, and we had quite a bi. of busi ness hauling dried apples, tobacco, Borehum. and such like, and we never had any schedule except to start out on we got back when we could. "It was about seven o'clock of a summer evening, quiet and peaceful, the fireman standing in the gangway enjoying the breeze; everybody feeling comfortable. "Down around the hill we bowled, over the trestles, and around the rocky points. I was thinking about supper and a smoke on my back porch at home when we came out of a short curve in a shallow cut and out onto one of those hundred-foot high bridges, and my breath stopped. About the middle, the bridge was burned in two. "It took me a second to pull a screech for brakes. The fireman jumped before we had hardly left the embankment, and wasn't hurt. The rest of the crew got off. "As for me and 637, we were out in the air; behind us, a loaded train shoving too hard to be stopped; be fore us, a gap in the trestle, where for three or four feet everything was gone but the rails. When I saw how it stood, I got up and threw her into the forward like a maniac I guess I was crazy. "Then I gave her steam, and we jerked away from the train like a horse when you cut it with the whip. Then, when we reached the gap, I pulled her wide open, and she took it like a hunted deer. She shivered one instant, settled, and sunk then she rose and leaped, sir, she leaped across, and we went out on the firm track beyond. "The rest of the train went through, the box cars dropping and crashing, end over end, to the valley below, and the farmers used them for kin dling wood afterward. "I took my engine in and resigned. I haven't bfcen In a cab since " OLD LONDON JOURNAL GAZETTE IS MOST VENERABLE BRITISH NEWSPAPER. Publication Has for Two Hundred and Fifty Years Officially Chronicled the History of the Island Empire. Modern newspaper enterprise has somewhat dwarfed the importance of the London Gazette, Britain's oldest newspaper, which for 250 years has officially chronicled the history of the country. Today it Is practically only used for such announcements as the king's birthday honors list and legal notices. Time was, however, when the Gazette was the only medium through which the public could learn any for eign news or any public announcement which royalty and statesmen had to make. Nowadays sueh announcements, while being sent to the London Ga zette, are simultaneously communi cated to the more important newspa pers. But even today the London Ga zette is controlled by the government, and a particularly watchful eye is kept on the advertisements " in its pages, which are regulated by law. These advertisements are mostly of an official or legal character, of which it is nec essary to keep a record, ahd earn for the nation about $60,000 a year. No great manufacturer could obtain a puff in its pages, even though he were will ing to pay $50,000 a line for it. Alto gether, the Gazette yields the country a profit of about $100,000 a year, al though practically the only people who buy it are government officials and lawyers. One of the most curious facts regard ing the London Gazette is that while it is Britain's oldest neWsnaDer. it is also one of the youngest, in the sense that j it was not until 1908 that It was regis tered at the general post office for transmission by Inland post as a newspaper. Previously it had been re garded as a government publication only, and was dispatched "O. H. M. S." in this way escaping postal charges altogether. But apparently the government saw a way to reap a few extra halfpence by having it regis tered. The Gazette varies in size very con siderably. Sometimes It consists mere ly of one page, and sometimes of be tween four and five hundred, but the price always remains the same, viz, one shilling. There was one memor able week in 1847, which was known as the "Railway Year," when so many parliamentary notices had to be pub-; lished that the Gazette for the week ! totaled about three thousand pages. One of the most interesting numbers of the Gazette ever published was the Diamond Jubilee number, the whole paper being devoted to an official rec ord of that historic celebration. As an illustration of the Importance of the Gazette in the old days, it might be mentioned that as recently as the Crimean war the Gazette was the first to publish that important item of news, the victory of Alma. At one time the London newspapers had to wait for the publication of the Gazette in order to secure such news of public importance as the list of casualties, which the war office in those days sent direct to Fleet street. It Is the proud boast of Messrs. Harrison, who for more than one hun dred and thirty years published the London Gazette, that although kings and cabinet ministers contributed to its pages during the time they pub lished the paper, and although thou sands of employees were engaged on the work of producing the Gazette, no official secrets sent to them for publi cation have ever leaked out. The Gazette is probably the only pa per which returns the original copy to its authors along with the proof. This is done in the case of communications from sovereigns and cabinet ministers. Activities of Women. It is claimed that women medical students complete their course much quicker than men. The average earnings of women em ployed in the clothing trade in Eng land is $2.12 per week. Women among the lower classes in New York have started a crusade against high rents. Women constitute only four per cent of the persons engaged in transporta tion in this country. Women are now prohibited from working between certain hours at night in 14 European countries. In Persia women are forbidden to go unveiled in the presence of any man but her husband. A Pennsylvania woman paid $25,000 to a beauty doctor to make her a physical ornament to her home. Teachers in the Newtown, Mass., kindergarten schools receive only $300 a year salary. Waterproof Cement. It is said that the United States army engineers have long used the fol lowing mixture for water-proofing ce ment: One part of cement, two parts of sand, three-quarters of a pound of dry powdered alum to each cubic foot of sand. These are mixed and dried, and to them is added water in which has been dissolved three-quarters of a pound of soap to each gallon. This, it is eaid, is nearly as strong as ordinary cement, and is quite impervious to wa ter, and does not effloresce. For a wash, a mixture of one pound of lye and two pounds of alum in two gallons Of water is often used. Scientific American, 1 TO OLD & NEW CUSTOMERS I wish to thank each and every for your liberal patro nage, and will show my ap preciation by handling noth ing But THE BEST. Tenderloin and Round Steaks Beef Roasts, Liver,Pork, Sausage, And everything kept in a First-Class Market Your orders will receive our prompt attention, and be delivered on time. OLD TIME BARBECUE EVERY SATURDAY... Norfolk Oysters Every Day T. E. BUTLER Telephone 18 Next to J. W. Allsbrook's St ore. Fresh Fish Daily Good prices paid for coun try produce, Chickens, eggs. tflGood prices paid for nice ripe Scuppernong Grapes. Good prices paid for old brass and rubber of all kinds. JA11 kinds of hydes and skin bought at the highest prices. E. A. ALLSBROOK The Fish Man 6 Per Cent Loans Obtainable on Farm, Ranch or City Property. To improve, purchase or remove incumbrance; liberal op tions; 5 years before making pay ment on principal, etc. For the proposition address: Assets Dept., at 1410 Busch Bldg.. Dallas, Texas, or 422-423 First National Bank Building, Denver, Colorado. Administratrix Notice Having qualified as administra trix of the late J. H. Hopkins, this is to notity the persons having claims against hie estate to file same with me on or before the 10th day of August, 1915, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons owing said estate will please make immediate payment. This 10th day of August, 1914. Martha Hopkins, Administratrix . Paul Kitchin, Atty. 8-13-6t Clee Vaughan, DEALER IN Monuments AND Tombstones Italian, Vermont and Georgia Marble of highest grade, and the best grades of granitt. Will save you money and guarantee quality. J. E. Woolard Transfer Scotland Neck, North Carolina Cars for hire. Cars repaired. Po lite attention. Quick service. Tel ephones Residence 45. Office 66. J. J. Pittman Livery Scotland Neck, North Carolina Automobiles and livery team for hire. Quick service at reasonable prices. Telephone 73. Allen Allsbrook House Mover Scotland Neck, North Carolina " If you are thinking of having a house of any kind moved see me at once. Prices reasonable.