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it a The LAEGEST CIECULATICN of any Ballfaz County Newspaper Established 1832. mem. ADVERTISING MEDIUM m EASTERN CAEQIiINA L, MILLS KITCHJH, HcUtor d Proprietor. XC7EL0Im IS OUll IIOTTO 0UBSCXUPTIO27 PHIGIL, (LOO PEE YEAR. VOL. XXXI. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1 1, 1915. NUMBER 5. eoiiii ii lit i I It Might SEEM Im possible in a Store as Busy as Mine is Usually for Me to See Every Order that Comes BUT I DO E;ch order IS C li c fllilv fiilr.i, bill ' e.l fil.nl with 111 n line of cusio icr and clerk who fill ed it This is done whether brought or 'phoned in; and it is indeed gratifying to read the names of my friends who buy from me dur ing the day Yu sh ill h ive the iVst in Quality ami Service and as Reisnable Prices . . - - - made. . Your on. j cis art: apDr-'C; t;ul v how- I" v "7 a nliiSU Lui.U uiiiut B vmut ot luer veaied in m '.) i 4 1 - i' -a i -. , . ,.i ' u id, r . t d tn- ti: ' i. -f d'-Pi '"V '"X in- 255 ,e i - e (oie t e ian-l i o w-.ri:t-d, - ua ei I for .as' -rJ mj .iictin be own f S-vUii N ck, N. C, in ront of the Set ; an NcK Bank, on the 2nd day of reb-rusir- . 1915. -if 12 ' o k -. .o t- th rnn- st bi-ta-r. tne -j dftfcnbt-d trct of reI tsta'e, Iyifijr, b.'i-'ir ,nd situfe in -he "ounty t)i Halifax and St a-e of North Caroli na, to-wir: Bo inded hy the lands of Ben Parnn, 'he puh'ic road lad in from Hill's Cross Ro-ids to Daw son's Cr iss Road, the lands os Jim JacvrenfH a'd roe lands of ' Frank Moore, bein the same land former ly owned oy Emrnert B;shop, and which was conveyed t- the said Handy T-dd hyE-1. Shields and wife by hat o'eed of record in the office of tlie ririsrer of deeds for Halifax county in Book 178 at Pa?re 33, said land containing 117 acres, more or less. Al-i the following described per 'or.al property, to wit: Oneblack v,i..-. narnt-d D n. one red mule r'.v.'i rj-.i-'tie, 'ine black mule named lat'H. one op buipry. one douhle- r -e a agon, one dump cart, one i' "a t, on- cotton planter, and .r-n'-.i.- ittinlf-.'f.-n's ' 2 1915 AHBY Dunv Ts-nst'-e Wood's 3 : -J.-?- feaf? arc Sii clucks. choice, recieaned much superior to oats' as ordinarily sold. Oii.3 are one of the crops that pro:2iise profitable re tn "ns-f For best crop results, sow as early as practicable. Write for "WOOD'S CROP SPECIAL," giving prices and specia? information a bout the most profitable crops to plant at this season of the year. Mailed on re quest. T.W.WOOD $ SONS, SEEDSMEN, Richmond, Va. Wood's Descriptive Catalog for 1915, telling about all Farm and Garden Seeds, free on request. Write for it. i1 PITS HORRORS OF WAR'S WORK Nellie Bly Describes Awful Scenes Witnessed in Red Cross Hospital. SOUL SHRINKS FROM SIGHT Wounded, Frozen, Starved, Thou-1 sands Are Dying In Agonizing Torture and Other Thousands Are Being Rushed to the Same Fate. By NELLIE BLY. (International News Service.) ; Budapest. Ten languages are : spoken in the hospital, and nurses, ' German, . Austrian, Gulitzin, Hun garian and Servian, are employed, so : that patients will always have nurses who speak their language. . . They have also a series of chap els, Catholic, Protestant and He brew. Off each ward are small sound- , proof rooms called "death chambers." 1 Patients on the point of death , are ! removed to these rooms to spare the . feelings "" of their, fellow -comrades, j Smoking rooms,' glass partitioned, are ? also an adjunct , to each ward. This hospital accommodates 2,000 wounded. The kitchen is superb and needs a column to properly describe ; it. . They showed with pride a large j American refrigerator. The doctors I and nurses each have their sleeping, ! eating and rest departments. One j large hall, gayly decorated with the I national colors, is used for the amuse- j nient of the convalescent. Every kind ! of shows are given and concerts. Men were being reecived from a train. Sfi wo wpnt rfown tn-aoa them We talked to them, as detachments of 20 oere taken at a time to the bath. l cannot .praise 'too highly the won derful executive ability of those who conceived and established the astound ing perfection of these two hospitals. T'-tHis; is wanting to aid and assist o save and neal what man s inhumanly torturing and destroy . us- '-- , SVe bad scarcely reached the A8j . Hector MacDonald 1 . Cailed to Hospital. 1 v-rt you to get into a taxi and ,. Miss BIy,v he said. "I have Neilie Bly at the Front. received just now the worst cases I have ever seen in my entire life. They j may interest you." j I rushed to the American Red Cross Hospital. It is located in Mexico street in a large building, formerly used a3 a home for the blind. I flew . in the door and up ; the . stairs over i which floats a 5Q;foot American j Sag. j Doctor MacDonald, grave and sad, met me at the head of the stairs. "Come into the operating room," he said taking my hand "I have the , mostfrightful case I ever saw." I Mr7 Schriner, who had enough mls ! ery for one day, had tried o . induce ' me not to come. Failing he "had come j along. . Silently he kept at my side. The operating room was in confu-. i sioh. On the floor was blood. Fill ! ing pails-,and in piles .were bloody; bandages. I tried not to, see. . I be- i gan to wish I had not come. Four American Red Cross nurses stood gravely around an operating ta ble. Doctor MacDonald , pointed to two bandaged stuirps. 7 1 could see one foot. was gone at the ankle, the. oth er k apparently .half way to therknee.. "This is a Ruseian," said the doctor. i ..... i r--s "He was wounded by a shot through hi9 body. For eight, days he lay in the trench unattended. His feet froze. He was put on a freight train, and when we received hinv, an hour ago hia feet had dropped off, doubtless In the car, for we never saw them, and the last blood the paor fellow had was pouring from bis ofeen veins. We carried him' here and bandaged him up, but he cannot liye many minutes longer. He has.no .pulse now. . Come, look at him." A- Dreadful Sight. Come, look, reader, : with me! My whole soul 'shrank from the sight. The doctor took me by the hand. ' I kept my eyes away from the face I was afraid to look upon. "Look at this body," said the doc tor. I looked 1 shuddered. The clay-pallor of death The ribs cutting the skin. Bones, bones, no flesh any where. The head turned. Great, hollow black eyes looked into mine. Trans fixed, I stood, heartsick, soul-sad. Those great hollow eyes searched mine. They tried to question me. They . spoke soul language to soul. The lips parted, a moan, a groan of more than physical agony. He spoke. I could not understand. His words were a sound my ears shall never for get. The appeal, the longing, the knowledge! "What does he say?" I cried, unable to stand it. "Can no one understand? uan t you una someone to speak o him?" A nurse smoothed his forehead. An attendant held fast the pale, pale hands. - "The attendant understands, the doctor said; and to him, "What doea he say?" Asked for Children. "He is asking for his children, ' was the low reply. The hollow, black eyes turned again to search mine. I could not endure their question. 1 had no answer to give. ' ;. "Let me go!" I said to the doctor. The low moans seemed to .call me back, but I walked steadfastly toward the door and down the corridor "Could emperors and czars and kings look on this torturing slaugh ter and ever sleep again?" Tasked the doctor. "They do not look," ne said gently. "Only by witnessing such horrors can one- realize them." "Miss Bly," cried Von Leidenforst. running down the hall, 'that poor fel low just died!" This is only one "case. Travel: the roads from the scene of battle, search the trains; wounded, frozen, starved thousands are dying in agonizing tor ture not hundreds, but thousands. And as they die thousands are being rushed into their pest-filled crenches to be slaughtered in the same way. GETS TWO LICENSES TO WED Feared Business Might Interfere With Original Plans So He Prepared for Emergency. Woodland, Cal. To make certain that there would be no possible nitch in the arrangements. Charles F. John ston, local garage man, obtained , a marriage license in Woodland recently to wed Joan R. Erringer, a Williams girl, although the couple had originally planned to be married in San Fran cisco. Later Johnson contributed nis second 2 marriage certificate fee to the county clerk of Sah Francisco, and the wedding was solemnized ac cording to schedule. ' It is supposed that the two feared business affairs might possibly pre vent the ceremony being performed in San Francisco, and so obtained a license from the Yolo county clerk in case of an emergency. PLAN MONUMENT TO A CAT People of Welsh City Would Honor A French Tabby Which Saved Life. Newport, Wales.A subscription is circulated here to erect on the grounds of. the town's feudal, castle a monu ment to the-French cat which saved the life of Lieutenant Lloyd of the -Grenadier guards. - U The cat-did nothing purposely hero ic; but by curling around the neck of the officer during the three days he lay wounded and unattended near the French frontier,, the "cat acted as a fur boa and saved Jaim from death by cold. Lieutenant Lloyd is heir to Sir Mar teise Lloyd, the chief commoner, of Wales, ; and the last of the .Norman lords of .the marshes.- His residence Is Newport, castle, where it is pro posed to build the cat's memorial. Whipped Husband Wants Divorce. Pittsburgh. As a result of a thrash ing administered: when ;she Is alleged to have .found him staying at a New York hotel with a dashing widow, John J. Mamaux, a wealthy business man of Pittsburgh, has brought suit against Julia7V. Mamaux for a divorce on. the grounds of cruel and barbarous .treat ment. , According to the wife" she traced tier husband to New York and. M .... wm lying in wait' for him, attacked him with a vyhip. Bridal Cake of Ostrich Eggs. Bloomsburg, la. Miss Olivia P. Tes cott . Is believed to be the only bride In America who had her wedding cake i made : entirely t of ostrich eggs. H She was wedded to Fredrick1 -Blencowe at; be home here, and employees of the African Ostrich Farm and Feather company furnished the eggs and hired, s.haker. tke tfte Jausuud Redding sonfectibn. Inventor Says It- Will Fly, Run, - Swim and Dive. Denver Man Took Bumblebee ei ' Model for His Remarkable Con- j trivance Will Make Up to . . . . . 300 Mites, an Hour. . Denver. William : A... Sharpe, .a me chanic, -after 13. years of experiment ing, is completing ,a .machine which, he says, can .fly, run swim and dive. It is designed ,to. carry 'four ..passen gers.. It will deriyVita lifting and pro pelling power 'from the rotation of Wheels and revolving and oscillating propellers. 7 . 7 , 7 7 . Sharpe is 'fiftyttwOyears. .old .and a mechanical engineer, 7and, , has pat ented an automobile starter, an auto primer and a captive aeroplane. 7 He is constructing his new. combi nation . machine , at .. Sixteenth and Broadway. lie says it will travel pn j the ground' with the" smoothness-and swiftness of a racing automobile- or shoot into the. air with the, perfect equilibrium and ease of a swallow, ad be poised there; navigate the ocean - with the speed of a motor boat, or can be used as a submarine. It is designed to attain a speed of from 30 to 300 miles an hour, carrying 2,008 . pounda for each 1,000 pounds weight of the car. There are four wheels on the caraaud in each wheel, there are fdur propellers. The entire vehicle is built of pressed steel and aluminum. .. 7 "The device is designed on well recognized ' principles,", says Sharpe. "Nothing new is attempted in -the steering device, transmission .system, differential, "lighting; system, gear shift or motor. I have designed. propeller blades, rotating .within the circumfer ence of a wheel, which by an ingen ious system, of opposing or presenting the broad surface of the propeller blades during their downward stroke, and presenting the "edge of the - pro peller blades , during their upward stroke, exert a lifting power of. .the, combined surface of the blades in aa upward and forward motion. -vi- "I have planned to spend $10,000 on my first machine, although the cost cf the machines when pat on the market will be no more than a standard auto mobile The body o i my car will be 18-feet long and 30 laches wide. ;The wheels are 34 inches in diameter and weigh 100 pounds Rid will make 400 revolutions per minute. "For years I made a study of the humble buirblebee and came to the conclusion that if a machine could be constructed embodving the principles of flight employed bv the bee it would be a success in both air and water." CAT BATTLES WITH TURTLE Philadelphia Man Awakened by; Noise of Fierce Fight in Rear of Home. the Philadelphia. When B. F. Magnin of Ninth street anfl Ridge avenue, Darby, went to investigate a noise in the rear of his home, which awak ened him early in the morning he found the family cat battling a two pound snapping turtle. The cat,5 un able to understand his opponent's' tac tics, was furiously scratching the lat ter's hard shell back. 7 The snapper made prodigious ef forts to seize the cat's flesh with his beak, but was unsuccessful. Magnin separated the two, and captured; the snapper, who will next be seen in" the form of snapper soup. HEIR TO BELGIAN THRONE A hitherto unpublished photograph j , 1 .tlie throne of Belg of Prince Leopold, the youthful heir to ium. Leopold', with his brother and sister, Is living . with Telatives in England. 7 Italy Buys 20,000 Horses. Junction . City, Kan. -Twenty thou sand horses for. use in the Italian army have been purchased . in the United States in the . last three months, ac cording to Gordon Ilollis, a stockman of Denver, here, buying animals. Hollis said he recently delivered 5,000 horses to agents of the Italian government in the Bast." "'lf s Y i WM 77 K-m , 7V.J4. OmiS UP "HOTEL B GINK" Jeff Davis. King of Hobos, Is Charge of Novel Hostelry in - New York. in Nec .York. Jefferson Davis, known from one end. of the country to the Other as the "King of the Hobos" and president -'of the Itinerant Workers Union of America, opened the Hotel de : Gink and promised in a great measure to do away with New York's problem of the unemployed. The "hotel," an old, dilapidated building belonging to the city, was put in the care of 7'JeffTDavis, who believes he can get the ,hobos together and run the hostelry on a co-operative scheme. mm 'm m Jeff Davis. Every hobo will have to go out every day and do some work of some sort. i In return for his labors he will get a night s lodging .and plenty of "grub.". This plan is also expected to furnish the city at a moderate cost with any eacts. large amount b .laborers Itmt&t: nave .need of In any emergency. The food supply of the hotel will consist Of Voluntary contributions, but no hobo need expect to feed at the ex pense of the others. "Jeff" Davis has had considerable success with a sim- llar plan in Seattle and other western cities where he has been a great fac tor in relieving unemployment, and he hopes his " efforts in the metropolis will bear the same fruit. REMARRY AFTER 47 YEARS Kansas City Couple Divorced in 1867 Are Reunited and Happy. Once More Kansas City. Married in 185G, di vorced in 1867 and remarried in 1914, is the connubial record of Abraham J. Randall, eighty-one years old. After the ceremony the wife of his youth, now bent under the weight of eighty four years, took him to what has been her home for ten years. The bride's second husband, W. Scott, died several years ago. "One day I wa3 talking to my daughter we have four children, you know ".Randall said, "and she said, Dad, Christmas is coming. Then I thought of May Ann, got on a train, and here we are." Four eyes smiled and two hands snuggled closely. SHOOTS BIRD, KILLS DEER Bullet Passes Through Partridge and Slays Buck in Minnesota Woods. -Virginia, Minn. While hunting . In ...the woods near Camp No. 35 on the line, .of the Duluth, Winnipeg & Pa cific railroad, north of. this city, Charles' Dube and Alderman E. P. Murray saw a partridge. They were armed ,'. only 7with deer rifles. Dube t took - aim and fired. - The partridge fluttered to the ground. Du.be andoj Murray ran to the spot, and as they : picked up the bird they heard a com motion, in the underbrush a few yards distant.' ; Investigation showed that a buck had been struck by the bullet that , killed the partridge.. The deer was tagged and shipped to Virginia, j "JEALOUSY PROOF OF LOVE" Indiana Judge So Holds, Refusing New Trial in Divorce Suit. Evmnsville, Ind. Holding jealousy Is" lroof of love, Judge Logsdon re fttBed a new. trial in the divorce case of Andrew E. Sullivan, a prominent Sunday school , worker, against his girl wife,-Thelma. The husband was denied a divorce. v Sullivan alleged that his wife was insanely jealous of him and Insulted all her friends because she feared he paid, too much attention to them. . 8peclal Train to Move Rancher. . 'SfifUeld, Cal. It required alniost an eiitire special train to move thejfamily 7rand belongings of Manuel Nunes from Bayfield to Dixon, Cal. Besides a pas . sender : car for his wife and 17 chil dren, there were ten carloads of cat- tJe and two of personal property. " 7;--4 SV BJ. ADD Kb OFFICERS nu ) Secretary of War Asks for Larg er Number. Increase, of 1,000 Would Put High Command In Hands of Younger Men in the 'Near Futu Proposed Legislation. By EDWARD B. CLARK. (Staff Correspondent of the Western Newspaper Union.) Washington. Members of congress have taken heed of a misunderstand ing which seems to exist in some parts of the country over the proposition-, to increase the -enlisted force of the army by 10,000 men. There are today about j eighty-five thousand ' enlisted men in the service. The present law reads tnat the total enlisted strength of the army shall not exceed at any one time 100,000 men. It will be seen from this that the ad dition of 10,000 privates to the ranks wilt still keep it Under the limit cf the law, and that congressional action Is needed virtually only to furnish support for the addition in men which the secretary of war has recommended shall be added to the service. Secretary Garrison has asked also that 1,000 additional officers shall be commissioned. It is in this recommen dation of the secretary that the. chief interest here centers. If the commis sioned force Is increased by the num ber given It means that the higher rank in the United States army in the near future will be held by officers considerably younger than those now In command. The effect of the proposed legisla tion in' truth seemingly is not gener ally understood even by members of congress. The thought seems to be that it simply will add 1,000 officers to the service and that the only strengthening of the army will be in numbers and through the advantage which will accrue from having officers enough to fill the regimental places of those who are ordered on detached service. If 1,000 new commissions are pro vided promotion will . come to 1,000 oflicers, not necessarily in all cases promotion from one grade, to another, but promotion in file, which means simply that a captain who is say 100 files removed-from a major will be ad- TOKe&.e'kafc wUc!9, much earlier than would be the case under present conditions. As things are today officers in the prime of life and best fitted probably for high rank are graded as captains. i majors or perhaps at best as lieuten- ant colonels. By the time they get to be sixty years old it is possible for some of them to become brigadier generals, but the most active part of the officer's life today Is passed as a .iunior in command. The first effect of the law proposed by Mr. Garrison iWill be to advance all j the 3"unior officers of the army a score or so or steps. Then tnere will bo a good many colonels, lieutenant colo nels and majors still young In years and fit physically for the hardest kind of campaigning. This will mean that eventually our brigadier generals and major generals will be much younger men in the main when they get pro motion than are those who hold the rank today. It is understood that the administra tion will enter no objection to the pas sage by congress of the legislation pro posed by Secretary of War Garrison and introduced by Senator Chamber lain of Oregon. If It becomes a law the country will have fewer colonel-less regiments, fewer majorless battalion and squadrons, and fewer captainless companies in the field than it has to day. , LIGHTNING HITS SILVER RIB Artificial Bone 'Causes Brakeman Be Struck by Bolt Dur ing a Storm. to . Altocna, Pa. A silver plate taking the place of several ribs in the body of Charles Feathers, a Pennsylvania brakeman, attracted a bolt of light ning in a fierce storm here. " Feathers' throat is completely para lyzed and his jaws are firmly locked, although he Is perfectly conscious and Euffers no pain. The trainman was standing on hia porch and near him was his son. Tho bolt struck between the two, but tho boy was .uninjured, while Feathers was knocked down. The bolt loosened the silver plate in Feathers' side. Tho physicians believe he will recover. BLINDNESS CURED BY BUMP Blow on Head Enables Bostonian to See After 18 Years of Darkness. Boston. After being blind for IS years Frank H. Haynes, sixty-two years old, of Hyde Park, h3s regained his sight. Mr. Hayres said: "Yesterday morn lng on arising I struck my head against the bedpost and I seemed dazed for a few minutes. 1 went into the bathroom and thought I saw a shadow. That was about ten minutes after I had struck my head. I raised my hand and thought I could see it. ThenT saw my. reflection in a mirror and that my. hair was gray. . It was black the last time T saw it." Rothschilds Give Aid. Paris. The English and French houses of Rothschild have given $750,?. 000 in the last three months to aid war victims. You Like Your Home? ; The degree of' love you have for your home is shown in the care you take of it. Beautiful homes make a beau tiful community. Such a community in turn demand stores that give a service in keeping with that community. That's the kind of store we are operating. It is our aim to give you high quality drug store goods, courteous service and conduct our store in such a way that it will reflect credit on the community in which we live. : Whatever trade you give us, co-operates with us and it also helps yourself.. Deal at this the home store and we both profit. The North End Drug Store Clee Vaughan, DEALER IN Monuments AND Tombstones Italian, Vermont and Georgia Marble of highest gratis, and the best grades of graniU.. Will save you money and guarantee quality. J. E: Woolnrtl Scotland Neck, North Carolina Cars for hire. Cars ret-:i" red. po lite attention. Quick service. Tel ephones Residence 43. Office CG. Allen Allsbrook House Mover Scotland Neck, Norih Carolina If you are thinking of having a house of any kind moved see me at once. Prices reasonable Cluis. T. Stilton Attorney at Law Scotland Neck. North Carolina Practices wherever his services are required. Asli!y W. l?sim Attorney at Lav Scotland Neck, Norlh Carolina Money to loan on approved secu rity. Physician and Surgeon Scotland Nock, North Carolina Office in Postoffice Building over North End Drugstore. Telephones Office 10, Residence 34. Dr. A. D. Morgan Physician and Surgeon Scotland Neck, North Carolina Office in building fornerly used by Br. J. P. Wimberley. Dr. IX. Li. Savage Rocky Mount, North Carolina Will be in Scotland Neck on the third Wednesday of each month at the hotel to treat the disces of the Eye. Ear, Nose, Throat and fit glasses . lr. A. C. Xiivermon Dentist Scotland Neck, ' North Caralina Office up-stairs in the Whitehead Building. Office hours from 9 to 1 and 2 to 5 o'clock. Willie II. Allsbrook Life Insurance Scotland Neck, North Carolina Representing, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., of New York. Executor's No lice. Having qualified ss executor of the estate of W. K. Williams, late of Halifax county, N. C, under hia last will and testament, this 13 to no tify all persons having clai rns against his estate to present them to me duly verified on or before the i'rd day of December, 1915, or this no tice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons owing said estate Will please make immediate payment. This Dec. 2, 1914. E. P. Hyman, Ex'r.". A. Paul Kitchin. Atty. 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