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EALTH LARGE? ADVERTISING MEDIUHj m EASTERN CABOLUfA j Established 1882. L. HELLS KITCHIN, Editor esd Proprietcr. COS, 13 OTO HOTTO ouBSompnon fbioe, n.00 per year. VOL. XXXI. SCOTIJUJD HECK, H. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1915. NUMBER 6. THE A Few Reasonable Reasons. The reason I sell so much Groceries is be cause I carry the Very Best in Quality sell at a a reasonable price and give the Best Service The reason I get the. Best Grade and Brands of goods is because I in struct the wholesalers to ship the Best or noth ing. The reason they know I mean the Best is because I return them if they are inferior. The reason 1 can sell the Best goods at a rea sonable price is because I sell so much. The reason certain Brands, such as Sun bam, White ap, Relia ble, &c, are the Best is because the manufacture era have great reputa tions at staka tor which they would not take thousands of dollars. . The reason they are kept Fresh in my store is because they don't have time to become stale. The reason everybody doesn't trade at my store is what I don't understand. I appreciate your or ders, large or small. Call 1-7-4 It Pays You Goods Delivered Promptly Clee Vaughan Notice-Public Land Sale. By virtue of power vested in m by that deed of trust executed to nif on the 24th day of January, 1914, bv Handy Todd and wife, Martha Todd, and duly recorded in the office of the register of deeds for Halifax county, in Book 255 at Page 333, and given to secure the land belo v described, I shall sell for cash at pub lie auction in the town of Scotland Neck, N. C, in front of the Scotland Neck Bank, on the 2nd day of Feb ruary, 1915, at 12 o'clock noon, to the highest bidder, the following described tract of real estate, lying being and situate in the county o Halifax and State of North Caroli na, to-wit: Bounded by the land? of Ben Par tin, the public road lead ing from Hill s Cross Roads to Daw son's Cross Roads, the lands os Jim Lawrence and the lands of Frank Moore, being the same land former ly owned by Emmett Bishop, and which was conveyed to the said Handy Todd by Ed. Shields and wife by that deed of record in the office of the-register of deeds for Halifax county in Book 178 at Page 33, said land containing 117 acres, more or less. Also the following described per sonal property, to-wit: One black horse named D-m, one red mule named Hattie, one black mule named Mattie. one top buggy, one double nor?e wagon, one dumn cart, one mil eat. one cotton planter, and farming implements This Januirv 2. 1915. Ash by Dun v. Trustee. WOOD'S Seed Potatoes are specially grown for seed pur poses, in the best potato-producing sections in this country, and are much superior to stocks ordinarily sold. All the best and most pro ductive varieties: Irish Cobbler, Eureka Extra Early, Improved Early Ohio. Extra Early Sunlight, Bliss Triumph, and all othes standard kinds. "WOOD'S CROP SPECIAL," giv ing prices and cultural information about the best methods of planting i potatoes for profitable results, J mailed free on request. 1 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. SAYS HE IS HIS BROTHER Also Tells Wife She Is His Sister-ln-Law and Treats Her as If She Were. Tacoma, Wash. Discharged Monday from the Pierce County hospital, where for months he had been unable to remember his own name, Edward C. Cooper went to Seattle with his wife, who had just discovered his presence in Tacoma. The next day he disappeared again. When he next came to official notice he was at the Tacoma city jail, repre senting himself as the Rev. Ernest A. Cooper, who had come from Africa to help find his missing brother, Edward. Instead of the dingy brown suit he had worn as the "man of mystery," he had donned a long frock coat with silk lapels, black rimmed spectacles, fancy vest and broad clerical hat. He had the police bring out the pic ture taken of the strange wanderer arrested on Tacoma avenue last March. He declared this unkempt, be whiskered person was his brother Ed ward. He seemed much disappointed when informed the unknown had left the county hospital, but declared ha would keep up the search. The unknown was in a daze when found by the police last March wan dering aimlessly on Tacoma streets. He was sent to the county hospital. It was Cooper's wife in Seattle who re vealed his plural identity or insanity. She said he is now obsessed with the idea that he is his own brother, treats his wife as a sister-in-law and talks religion to her as if he were actually a preacher. FERDINAND PINNEY EARLE The man who drew "affinity" from the pages of the dictionary is now liv ing at the home of his brother at Al lenhurst, N. J. His latest soulmate is Miss Charlotte Herman. BERLIN HAS MANY MAIMED Soldiers Swathed in Bandages Are Seen Everywhere in the Ger man Capital. Berlin. No fair picture could be drawn of the Berlin of war time that did not include mention of the thou sands of wounded in the streets. In motor cai-s, in wheel chairs and in the crowds on the streets, they are every where, limping, maimed and swathed i'i 1 uages. At one dinner table in the liotel Adlon were four officers, every one of whom had his arm in a sling, and two of whom had their heads in bandages. One, a captain, had lost his right hand, but he had the iron cross of the first glass and he seemed the happiest of the party. In deed, the cheerfulness of the wounded contrasted strikingly with the sad eyes of the many women in mourning. FRANCE HAS NEW AIR BOMB Liquid Missile Can Be Used Three Hours After Filling Guarded With Secrecy. Paris. A liquid air bomb has been perfected which can be used in three hours after it has been filled. Consid erable secrecy has been observed in regard to the bomb, which M. Painley, the academician, made practical from the inventor's design. Shot Carried Gold Coins. Paris. Three gold pieces have been extracted from the skin of Private Boissey in Paris. A piece of shrapnel pierced the pocket of another soldier, who had coins, and who was marching ahead of Boissey. The shrapnel and the coir.3 lodged in the leg of Boissey, who didn't have a cent before he was wounded. SEtll GUSTER STORY Telegrapher Who Flashed News of Massacre Just Retired. After Fifty Years off Active Service 1 John M. Carnahan Receives a Pension Tickt off 80,000 Words In Two Shifts. Missoula, Mont. The news of the Custer massacre was first told to the world In 1876 by John M. Carnahan, then manager and operator In the Western Union office in Bismarck, North Dakota. - After an active service of more than fifty years Mr. Carnahan has just been retired on a pension. Mr. Carnahan began his career as a telegrapher in 1861. In the fall of 1872 the Northern Pa cific railway line had been completed as far west as Bismarck, N. D. Mr. Carnahan was asked to go to Bismarck and manage that office, and in the spring of 1873 he went there and the big chapter in the story of his event ful life began. For it was while he ,was at Bismarck that he sent to the ! world the account of the Custer mas sacre on the Little Big Horn in July, 1876. ! Fort Abraham Lincoln, the post of the Seventh cavalry ..and the headquar ters of Brigadier General Custer, was at Bismarck. Mr. Carnahan won Brigadier General Custer's friendship and he became the personal friend of the officers at Lincoln. And so it was that he and the post surgeon" rode out from the old garrison with the Custer expedition when it started in June, 1876, to punish the Sftoux. The surgeon and the operator made the first twelve miles with the Seventh cavalry. Then they turned back with the last dis patches which Brigadier General Cus ter sent i No word came back to Bismarck from the Seventh cavalry and Its com mander. But that occasioned no sur prise. Expeditions of that sort were a common occurrence In those days. It "was on the night of July 5 when the steamboat Far West came down the river to Bismarck. The Far West brought the wounded of Reno's com mand and the official dispatches which told of the complete annihilation of the Custer command. On the morning of July 6 Mr. Carna han found on his desk in the telegraph office a carpet bag filled with official dispatches. There was an immense lot of them. He "flashed" the news to the East, and then settled down to the transmission of the official story to the department of war in Washington. It was eight o'clock on the morning of July 6 when he began his tremendous task. Not until five o'clock the fol lowing morning 21 hours did he leave his instruments. Then for three hours he slept the sleep of utter ex haustion. He returned to his work, and for 20 hours he sat at his key. It was four o'clock the next morning when he checked off the signature of the last dispatch in that old carpet bag. He had sent 80,000 words in the two shifts. For two days the eastern newspa pers had been clamoring for news, and there was no one to send it. Mr. Car nahan could not leave his official work and there was no other telegraph op erator within two hundred miles. To the New York Herald, the Chica go Inter Ocean and the St. Paul Pio neer Press he sent as much of the news as he had strength to prepare. And that was the way the news of the Custer battle was sent out. That was the big news article in the career of John Carnahan. But In the professional secrets of 53 years at a telegraph key there must be -many incidents stored tip which would star tle the world if they were told. PADDY MAKES BLUFF GOOD Irishman, Slnglehanded, Captures Six German Soldiers and Marches Them Into English Trenches. Private George, at Brighton, wound ed, tells this story: "Paddy Keenan, an Irishman serv ing with our regiment, was surprised one day by a German scouting party of six while he was taking it easy a little in advance of our lines. lie saw there was no choice between bluffing it or a little trip to Berlin or the grave, so he chose the former. Jumping to his feet he called on the Germans to throw down their arms, as they were coveAd by the rifles of his friends. Paddy ordered them to march in single file toward our trenches. He followed behind with his rifle ready. When the Germans found that the trenches were so far away they were waxy, but as they had previously thrown away their arms they could do nothing against Paddy and his rifle, so they made the best of a bad job and were brought into camp as prisoners." Makes $16,000 on Seed Vheat. Atchison, Kan. Henry Merwick, an Atchison traveling man, whose terri tory includes several western Kansas counties, says many merchants in that section made money this year by staking farmers to seed wheat last fall, to be repaid on a basis of one fourth the crop. The expense of seed ing is about two hundred dollars a quarter section. One merchant in his territory made 116,000 this year. Testing War Fabric. London. To test war fabrics, 40,000 recruits in English camps are wear ing suits of khaki of different texture over their ordinary clothing. . 'i'mV'i V'iit z' T.ii- Blow to horse breeders European War Seems to Make Pros pect of American Thoroughbred Gloomy. "It will take years for the thor oughbred of America to get back to the high state of perfection it occu pied ten years ago, now that the only hope of improving the strain has been cut off by the war in Europe," re marked J. P. Mayberry, a well known horseman of Sheepshead Bay, at the Raleigh, the Washington Post states. "The inimical laws enacted In the various states, particularly in New York, in the last ten years checked the Improvement ' of the breed, and the American thoroughbred has been steadily going backward ever since. Any one who knowB anything about the thoroughbred type knows that the American thoroughbred of today does not compare - with the racer of five years; ago. When the antiracing laws of New York, drove -the. sport out, of the Empire state in 1910 many of the breeders of thoroughbreds those who had helped largely to build up the horse In Americabegan to dis pose cf their horses, . Many were shipped . abroad, , and in four years more than fifty per cent of the best thoroughbred stock: has gone back to Europe. "Reports from tho warring nations are to the effect that the countries that have been foremost in improving the thoroughbred, ' England, France, Germany and Austria the seat of the war in all probability will command eer most of the racers of the European turf. If this be so it will remove al most the last hope the turf has to l rebuild the rapidly diminishing' qual ity of the American thoroughbred, i The horses that are parading around the race tracks of. this country are mere ghosts of what we had five years ago. There Is not a real good horse on the American turf at this, time, whereas a dozen years ago there were scores." NOTHING NEW IN JOKE LINE Foolish Is the Humorist Who Wouia Insist That This "Has Never Been Sprung Before." A reader of the Docket in New York city cut out the item relating to the disolution of partnership, in which one partner makes the statement that j "those who owe the firm will settle jwith him, and those that the firm owes will settle with Mose," and sends it back to us with tfc notation: "This was an old chestnut when I lived in , which was in 1855." To this charge we enter a plea of iconfession and avoidance. We con- itend that the courts will take Judicial j notice of the fact that there i3 nothing new under the sun, and in our Judg rment the jokesmith is well within his rights it resurrecting a Joke 'which was old in 1855. The incident brings to mind the fol lowing story "The editor of a Minne sota newspaper back In the '803 con cocted the following: 'Yon Yonson put four sticks of dynamite in the stove last Sunday to thaw them out. The handles were nickel plated and only cost 110." A professor of English literature In an eastern university wrote a very interesting article on this joke, claiming that it represented a distinctly American brand of humor, and that it could not have happened in any other country or at any other time. But alas for the professor of Eng lish literature for there is , nothing new under the sun. Reference to II Chronicles, Chapter 16, Verses 12 and 13, produces the .following: 12. And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was ex ceedingly great; yet In his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians. . 13. And Asa slept with his fathers. 'West's Docket. Would Handle Wheat in Bulk. Australian wheat, at the present time, is transported in bags, a system which involves not only a considerable cost, but is also uneconomical in the .use of labor. In consequence, the gov ernments of New South Wales and Vic toria are considering proposals , for handling It in bulk, based upon the re ports of engineers, who made inquiries as to this method in Canada, the Uni ted States and South Africa. The ex perts also say that the change would result in large extension of the growing areas. It is understood, how ever, that the steamship lines, which have been approached on the subject, are not agreed that under existing cir cumstances the shipment of grain in bulk is practicable, though it is be lieved that if adequate supplies were guaranteed the necessary space would he readily forthcoming. Rum Barrel Proves Bomb. Warren Rhoads, farmer of Jackson wald. Pa., says hereafter he will care fully examine would-be empty whisky barrels before he tries to alter the bungholes. He hastily came to ' this conclusion after v one exploded when he attempted to enlarge the bunghole with a red-hot poker. As a result of the explosion most of his hair " was burned off and many cuts and bruises were inflicted by the barrel staves as they flew - skyward. Investigation Trovftd that the barrel had been re cently emptied, was still wet, and the red-hot iron formed so much ga3 in the inside that it buret open with a crasn Tt took several vards of court nlaster to remodel Rhoads arms and dace his face in good shape. ill STER FLEET BLED Unted States Warships in for Month of Hardest Kind of Drilling. COMMANDED BY FLETCHER Largest and Most Powerful Fleet Ever Assembled Under the Start and Stripe May Solve Efficiency of Our Navy. tv A all f n trtrwi MTha 1 a fcraa f arA mrtc powerful fleet ever assembled under the Stars and Stripes is now gathered off Guantanamo, on the North coast' of Cuba, for a month of the hardest kind of drilling. It will be a great spectacle for the few civilians who will see it, but for the more than one thousand officers and 25.000 enlisted men it means work, unceasing labor, to fit the American navy for battle. Yet every Jack Tar is glad he is there. Great fascination surrounds the maneuvers, the orderly marching and counter-marching over the parade ground of the ocean, dreadnaughts and cruisers taking the place of Individual soldiers, but obeying the orders sent by wireless and wigwag Just as Im plicitly and readily as a squadron of well-drilled cavalry. The firing of the great guns is fun for officer and man, too. Target prac tice is a great game. Every nerve is strained to make the enormous rifles do their best, and hot rivalry is exhib ited by the gun crews. Business is pleasure when the heart is in it. The eyes of the whole United States are directed to Rear Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher and his ships today. A great wave of criticism has swept over the country, l'he European war has created interest in the army and navy: and every patriot feels that if not the greatest we should have the best navy in the world. Is the navy up to scratch? This is the question the maneuvers may solve and at the same time do a great deal toward making it possible to answer In the affirmative. The navy needs maneuvers, just as an army needs drills. A fleet will be awkward in forming in battle line in time of war if the superior officers have not performed all the evolutions often in time of peace. Much Practicing Necessary. Partly due to the use of the big ships off the coast of Mexico, the maneuvers have been neglected. This is the first time in three years that the entire fleet will be assembled for bat tle practice. Three years means a long while when one considers how fast the art of naval warfare is de veloping. Just to mention one item: Naval guns of 14-inch caliber were car ried on no ship in tbe world three years ago. Now the Texas and the New York carry these mammoth rifles, and it is currently reported that Great Britain's new Queen Eliza beth class, now building, will have 15- lnch guns. .When one considers that the fleets of Great Britain, Germany, .France, Austria, Russia and Japan are now engaged in actual war work every day in the year, It Is easy to see that the United States must do a lot of practicing even to approximate the de gree o efficiency to which the fighting navies of the Wjorld are arriving. The Guantanamo maneuvers will be the most extensive target and fleet practice the American navy has ever gone through. They will last through the greater part of the month, and will be followed by the Panama canal opening exercises, which may involve some maneuvers of value, too. The armored fleet (the biggest ships) will be in four divisions of 21 vessels. Ten will be of the so-called "dreadnaught" class and 11 of the pre dreadnaught type. Besides these, two of the four armored cruisers of the fleet and all of the torpedo flotillas, except those in reserve, will be pres ent. Never before did the fleet contain practically two complete divisions of the dreadnaught class. The first divi sion consists of dreadnaughts of the most powerful type and the second division is made up of these powerful vessels except one battleship. In addition to "the battleships, five of the eeven divisions of torpedo boat destroyers will have a part in the exercises. This means 21 more craft. There will be ten auxiliaries and the scout cruiser Birmingham, which is the flagship of the torpedo flotilla. , Directs 103 Vessels. This does not mean that all the vessels under Admiral Fletcher's com mand will be at Guantanamo. There will be missing all the submarines, as well as all the smaller cruisers and gunboats and two divisions of the destroyer flotilla. Admiral Fletcher directs 103 vessels, of which 55 will be at Guantanamo. It was figured by a naval officer ; h?re that the 12-inch guns of the fleet ;vcan Are a broadside of 105,400 poxmds j Rnd the 14-inch guns bring this up to j 133,400 pounds. There are 12 1 12- incn m tno reorganized nect, aU o wfc5cu are Placed so that they can be fired in a single broadside. The New York and the Texas each NOW ASSEM have ten 14-inch guns. The proieo- tiles fired from these guns weigh 1,400 pounds each, and it costs the Ameri can people $777 every time one is fired, not counting the deterioration in the sun. Fletcher has five rear admirals un der him, one to command each divi sion of the fleet. There are 25 cap tains, more than 1,000 officers of lees er rank, and about 25,000 enlisted men. The total money value of the fleet is $300,000,000. The New York, with its sister ship the Texas the most powerful ship in the American navy is ordinarily the flagship of Rear Admiral Fletcher., but his flag has been transferred to the Wyoming. The New York has been fitted up with luxurious quarters to receive President Wilson :and his party at New York after the maneu vers, and carry them to the canal. It has been informally christened "The Boudoir Ship." HOLDS OFFICE FOR 44 YEARS Civil War Veteran Has Continuous Terms as School Board -Clerk. Marshall, Minn. For 44 years Ja cob Rouse has been clerk of the school board of District No. 1 in Lyon county. He was first elected in 1870 and has held the office ever since. He has seen the district grow from a small one-room log schoolhouse with but a few scattering pupils to a four room consolidated school with four teachers in charge of 135 pupils who have the advantages of domestic sci ence and manual arts. Mr. Rouse lives In the Camden valley of Lynd township, where in 1870 he took a claim in section22. He was for one term treasurer of Lyon county and is a veteran of the Civil war. CONSOLING THE HOMELESS A French general sympathizing with peasants in northern France who have lost their homes. MEN BECOME MERE MACHINES Soldiers in the Trenches Get Abso lutely Dehumanized Under Con tinuous Fire. Paris. A motorcyclist who has been in front of the army and continu ally under fire writes as follows: "When they are In the trenches with shells bursting all around, men become mere machines. They get ab solutely dehumanized under continu ous fire. It is the only alternative to going mad! One has no conscious ness of danger, but obeys orders with out realizing what they mean. One forgets what death is. "When first I had to carry a dis- latch under fire 1 used to dismount when I saw a shell burst on the road ahead and wait to see if more were coming. Now I don't notice thorn. My comrade riding twenty yards be hind me was killed by a shell, but the incident had no effect on my mind. We are no better than brutes on the firing line." JUDGE HAS NARROW ESCAPE Dumb-Bell txerci6es Arouse Suspicion That He Is Communicating With Enemy. London. An English judge liad a narrow escape from arrest on thu ground of signaling to the enemy. lie was taking a short holiday on the East coast, and, as is customary with him, was indulging In a little dumb bell exercise before retiring to rest. The movements of his nrms behind the red blind of his bedroom attracted the attention of the sentries on the cliffs. They thought someone was sig naling and hastened to the hotel to capture the culprit. For some time they refused to believe the judge's explanations, and it was only on being shown the visitors' bock that they withdrew. COW'S SKELETON SAVED HIM Arkansas Youth Had Been Convicted in Court of Stealing Animal. Little Rock, Ark. The finding ol the skeleton of a cow in a woods in Howard county saved William Ken nedy, twenty-four, from entering the penitentiary. Kennedy had been con victed of stealing the cow, and sen tenced to one year. He was allowed to come to Little Rock alone, aud was about to go to tbe penit?n!ary to surrender, when a dele gation of friends brought nini the good SCW8- 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 Phones j St 96 ( Room ik Clee Vaughan, DEALER IN Monuments AND Tombstones Italian, Vermont ard Georgia Marble of highest grade, and the best grades of granitt. Will save you money and guarantee quality. J. E. Woolard Transfer i Scotland Neck, North Carolina Cars for hire. Cars repaired. Po- Mte attention. Quick service. Tel ephones Residence 45. Office CG. Allen Allsbrook House Mover Scotland Neck, North Carolina If jrou are thinking of having a house of any kind moved see me at mce. Prices reasonable. Clias. L. Stnton Attorney at Law Scotland Neck. North Carolina Practices wherever his services are required. Asliby W. Dim n Attorney at Law Scotland Neck, North Carolina Money to loan on approved secu rity. Dr. T. D. Kitchin Physician and Surgeon Scotland Neck, North Carolina Office in Postoffice Building over North End Drug Store. Telephones Office 10, Residence 34. Dr. A. I). Morgan Physician and Surgeon Scotland Neck, North Carolina Office in buildinor formerly used by Br. J. P. Wimberley. Dr. Ii. L.. Savage Rocky Mount, North Carolina Will be in Scotland 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. A. G. Livcrmon Dentist Scotland Ntck, North Caralina Office up-stsirs in the Whitehead BuiMinjr. 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 Notice. Having qualified as executor of the estate of W. K. Williams, late of Halifax county, N. C, under hia last will and testament, this is to no tify all persons having claims against his estate to present them to me duly verified on or before the 3rd day of December, 1915, or this no tice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons owing said estate will pleaee make immediate payment. This Dec. 2. 1914. E. P. Hyman, Ex'r. A. Paul Kitchin. Atty. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM CltMM sad txurtifiM flu Balk Hmr to It. Youthful Colo. vw-. .n-l tl.QO.t UnigyWu.
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