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i . Tim Innl .L&SSKST CIRCULATION i of &ny ADVERTISING MEDITJH f Halifax Coimty Hetfspap&ff Established 1S32. j IN EASTSBN CAROLINA J L. HILLS KiTCHU?, Editor asd Propiiatca-. HSGEL3IGE," 13 ODE MOTTO BXJBSGEIPTIOH PBIGS, $L00 FEE YEAS. VOL. XXXI. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1915. NUMBER 25. rg88 W w 'pisi Cai! 1-7-4 It Pays You If You Want To be Assured Of Getting Your Groceries It Will Pay You To ii Mv Store Where They Are Bought And Sold Very R; is "a ry napiaiy CI Evervthing in the CE REAL line. q CORBY'S BREAD received and sold out every day. q A full line of CANNED MEATS of all kinds. Also a complete stock of Jellies, Jam?, Preserves, ckc. f Everything in "Fancy Groceries of Highest Quali ty. Your orders are appre ciated. q Fresh Henry Clay Flour None Better. Boih Telephones 1-7-4 Clee Vaushan The locttlaoiiuH Virginia Beach, Va. Three-story Cottage, very wide verandas, directly ocean, fine table and good service. Near 17th St. Station. For terms address Mrs. A. B. 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Savage RockylMount, 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 I3r. A. G. 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. Willie II. Allsbrook Life Insurance Scotland Neck, North Carolina Pvr re-aentibiT the Metropolitan 'if'' Insur&xic? s CLASS PROPHECY Eight Famous Posms-A Volume In Verse By Emily Daniel Edwards Lovingly dedicated to the memory of that illustrious body of which I had the happiness to be a member, the class of 1915.1 PREFACE In order to preserve to posterily the daring deeds and brilliant car eers of the class of 1915, I herein set down in solemn rhyme as best befits the dignity and standing of such an organization, a true chronicle of the lives up to the present day of all members of the clsss of 1915. May 25, 1940. Signed E. D. E. THE ANCIENT SPINISTER It is an ancient spinister, And she stoppeth one of three. With her .wrinkled face and bonny eye, Leona, why stoppeth thou me ? She holds him with her skinny hand; "There was a lass," said she. Hold off unhand me, gray haired loon, And soon he leaves her be. The captive man stood on one foot Then shifted to the other, While in his ear the spinister poured A tale of love and lover. "I was a bonny lass," said she Leona was my name, With chestnut hair and rosy cheeks I thought to be a dame. "Prince charming came in glad ar ray Asked me to be his bride, But he once loved another girl I swallowed not my pride." "And then another laddie came He was an ideal beau, But even for my love he'd not His pipe forego." "For several years no suitor came, A weary time, a weary time; When looking Eastward I beheld, " A mart from a foreign clime." "At once to him my love did go And he to me was true, Too poor was he to suit my taste. . Although his blood was blue." "And since that time no man has come, To seek me for a wife ; A wrinkled spinister I became, And shall be all my life." She marries best who sees the least, Of all the faults of man ; For I have seen them all too plain. Arid now I never can. THE LITTLE HOUSEKEEPER The once fair Annie is faded now, Her hair has all turned gray ; The little girl's form is jaded now, With care that lasts all day. Time was wThen the litil i girl's eyes were blight, And the men did think her fair; And that was when the choiced man, Kissed her and settled her there. Now came the terrors of married life, The burden of a house to keep; Is enough for any busy wife, Along with the doors to sweep. Tnere's the apple jelly and jam to make, Willi not a soul to aid, And the bread, pies and cakes to b:-ikf, Ail this without a maid. Oh, the years are many, the years are long, But Annie to dutjr is true ; For the love of a husband that is so strong, Is enough for a whole life through. THE PSALM OF THE SUFFRAGETTE Ted me not in election seasons, Votes are naught but empty dreams, For the women spoke with reason, Suffrage is quite all it seems. Votes are real, votes are potent, And the elections not the end; Displeased voters and both bent, Against the officer they send. Long did Mildred's banner wave, Long she stumped both near and far ; In the end our triumph gave, Politics its rising star. Equal rights for equal creatures, Was her motto in the strife; Union, peace, the choicest feature, . Of the new domestic life. THE DEFENCE OF MEN, THE CEASARS OF CREATION. Friends, Romans and Countrymen, lend me your ears, I come to bury sulrage. not to praise it; The cyils of women's votes liye af ter The good, but ah, there's none in the last,' And never will be in suffrage. The noble Mildred hath told you women were ambitious, If this is so it is a grievous fault, And grievously will women answ er it. Here before all this 'sembled com pany Come, I, Dupree to speak against th suffragetts Women are men.s friends, faithful and just to them They mend their socks, they cook their meals, But Mildred says women are ambi tious; And Mildred is an experienced woman, You all do know that on the streets of London The women use their hatchets in a ferocious manner For claimed rights to them refused Is this in women true ambition, Yes, Mildred says women are ambi tious, And Mildred is a knowing woman I speak not to disprove what Mil dred says, But here I am to speak what I do know. Suffrage hath taken many women from their homes Whose presence do their inmates . need, Is this true ambition? When the poor need food women cried, "vote on it," Charity should not be of so stern stuff. Upon the one long street of Scot land Neck, On a bleak and snowy, wintry day, I met a little boy of six years old, He had no coat oja, no shoes upon his feet; To shield his little body from the . cold, His feet were purple, his hands stiff, I picked him up and carried him "to my home ; He told me his story passing sad, He hacWiad no mothers loving care Since the day that women first be gan to vote. She came home late and left at early noon For politics and speeches took all day, Is this in women true ambition? If you have tears, prepare to shed them now : Here stand I speaking for men, Coat on without a button, elbows out, This is what suffrage hath done for men, No loving wife at home No one to darn the socks nor sweep the floors; No one to kisa, praise you for your labor, When man's conceit doth need a boasting up, Oh piteous spectacle ' We'll meeting We'll put an end to women's voting, We'll not endure suffrage any ionger, We'll die with them first. THE LITTLE SONG OF RUBY I came from childhood, schooldays dear, I was a steady riser ; I learned some new things every year, I ever grew the wiser. Through seven grades I hurried past. I went through ail a singing; My class mates joined in to the lat, Gay melody a flinging. I carolled gaily as I went, To the graded school each day; With boys and girls to music bent, We sang as if forever. When I reached the higu school years, I sang in sharp or' flat ; I sang the songs right in their ears, They cared not straw for that. My class mates smiled with one big smile, When I sang such a solo; But I kept on all the while, And then I won a halo. Above the rest my voice rang, I saved the class day chorus; The others weakly, slowly sang, But I sang on forever. I went abroad to study voice, And there I fouud great fame; For I became the teachers choice, He made me take his name. I sang the parts of opera queens In European cities, A spellbound audience forward leans When I sing simple ditties. And now a star upon the stage, And I shall leave it never; ' For women may sing and jnn may sing, :n.r f-:.-. -r. ESTELLE HANCOCK'S CAREER. Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the adventures of cur Estelle, dear; - ' On the nineteenth of August in the year sixteen She chose the greatest career she had seen. A nurse's part with trembling fear She took her training and did it well As she did her work in former days Within the sound of the high school bell. And made the others admire her ways. Then she resolved a Red Cross to be And soon she set sail across the sea. Her first care was a Canadian lad, And our 5 S telle grew very sad, For she saw that his wounds were fearfully bad. However, the soldier's life she saved And soon he was numbered among the brave, When by her side restored to life, No wish had he but to make her his wife; But Estelle said, "You are not of my native land, You belong to a foreign strand, And I cannot marry any man." But soon she learned he was a mil lionaire, And then she decided they would make a good pair; In Canada they spent their honey moon With never a care or fret; Then home came they to the Old North State Where the pair lives happy yet. WHEN BERTHA DANCED AND SANG THAT NIGHT. New York's sun is slowly setting Across the hill so far away Filling all the land with beauty At the close of this glad day. And its last rays rest on Bertha As she before the mirror turns Clad in garments light and airy In her eyes a cleajr.Hsrlit burns, For she is going to the theatre And in robes of purest white Will our Bertha sing in chorus She will dance and sing tonight. All her friends and classmates gather Gather thick from near and far To be present at her first night To behold her be a star. They have bought for seats to sit in All the first row balcony, Even now they are treading Broad way, Every heart is beating high, For our Bertha sweet and airy Clad in garments of sparkling white Will be at the cool Casino where She'll dance and sing tonight. In a taxi now she is seated Confident of triumph she Now she is arriving at the theatre Where the many taxies he; It is time to raise the curtain, Footlights are on and music plays, In skips Bertha fleet and agile As at ball in former days; She trills, she dwells, she sings so sweetly. Then she whirls in purest white. For at the cool Casino our dear Bertha stars tonight. She has made a splendid triumph, She's a star without a doubt, All the audience on its feet, Give a long and -mighty shout, And cur Bertha, smilirg sweetly, Waves her white and gracious hand; There's no more modest maid than Bertha In our whole united land; Long may Bertha ever flourish Ciaa in garments sparkling white, Sing and dance on dear old Broad way As the danced ana sang that night. EMILY'S SOLILOQUY. iu prcj.'itet j or not to prophecy, That is the question, whether it is safer to the mind to sutler' The accidents and winds of fickle Or take arms against a sea of chance A ,i v -)v prouicuns aaoe 2rn, to float or prophecy. To prophecy, perchance, to take parts As othe memo ss nave done. To be a suffragette, aye, theirs the rub, As our oble Mildred long has been, Be independent ar.d assertive for her rights, But have to bear the jests and scorns of men, Or be against the women as Dupree Be held ia high esteem by men But stdi be cast out irom women s society. To be a married woman and to share The joys of a loving husband's care, !iOU iO As our little Annie was. Or be a spinster as Leona was, And live alone with black cats and dogs, But be able to do as you please, Be a trained nurse and win a man As our Estelle Hancock strangely did, But have to bear the suffering of men, Be a famous singer as our Ruby was But one must have a heaven-sent voice for that. Be a chorus girl as Bertha chose And give joy to many people, But live a hard life matinees and night performances. None would drift on through a weary life, But that the dread of something af ter choice Makes us rather bear those ills we have, Then fly to others which we see too well, Choosing a vacation makes cowards of us all, And thus the act of resolution is hindered By the good and evil in the careers of friends. Ticky Game Bring Low Prices. Washington D. C. July 5. After an eight months' fight, the foot-and-month disease has been practi cally stamped out and the danger of another great destructive animal plague averted. For this the conn try has reason to be thankful, for American live stock already suffers from a disease to an extent o f which few persons are fully aware. Hog cholera, tuberculosis, and the cattle tick cause an animal loss to the country which reaches so high into the millions of dollars that it is almost impossible even for train ed statisticians to estimate it. The direct loss in deaths can be comput ed with resor:ab!e accuracy but the indirect losses which agriculture in all of its branches suffer whenever and wherever there is a scarcity of stock cannot be reckoned at all. Hog cholera and tuberculosis pre vail throughout the country; cattle ticks are confined to the section the South. Hog cholera and tuberue losls present problems which science has not yet thoroughly solved; cattle ticks a' ready have been eliminated in an area or more man SuO, 288 square miles and can be elimi nated in the rest of the infested ter ritory whenever the people really determine to rid themselves of the pest. It is no secret that the amount of live stock in the country by no means has kept pace w i t h the growth of population. FYr many years it actually decreased, and al though the official figures for Jan uary 1, 1915, show a slight increase over the corresponding ones for 1914, this increase is far from pro portionate to that in population. The price of meat has risen steadily and the future of the country's sup ply has become a matter of grave concern. Greater production of live stock upon the farms undoubtedly would go far toward solving the problem. This is especially true of the South. Ia an estimate quoted recently by the Secretary of Agriculture, it was stated that the average farm home in Georgia produced less than one twelfth of a beef in the course of a year for each person on it. Instead of producing beef to sell to the rest of the country, the South imports much of what it consumes. For this condition of affairs speci als hold two things responsible cotton and ticks. The danger in one-crop system of agriculture has now been made apparent and there are many farmers who would gladly abandon it if some substitute were available. But in any aound sys tem of agriculture live stock is in dispensable, and while tne cattle tick flourishes the production of cattle is not an inviting prospect. The srrower in a tick-iafested coun try labors under a crushing hand- dieap. 1115 cat II e v cum ;ess M:d !i:3 V r nd than those of lick-free sections, d Mississippi, for erage price for ; his co j 1 Alabama j example, the beef on tf;e oof was, on January 1, 1915, only 4c-a pouiK In Connec Li- cut, it vvas 8.4 and in no tick-free Kt.o was it as as low as 5c. The average price of beef cattle over two years old was $20 in Alabama and $22 iu Mississippi. It was $64 in Wyoming and $60 in Montana. Vermont, with an average of $39, was the only tick-free State in which the price was below S40. In North Carolina, South Carolina, Arkansas, all more or less tick-infestedthe average price was be low $30. Such differences are too striking to be ignored. They represent an animal loss to the farmers of the South of milligps of dollars. The Georgia farmer may expect to re ceive $IS for his beef animal, the Ohio farmer $56. Kentucky, Kansas, and Indiana men, $56. For ten tick-infested States, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisana, Ar kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, the . l aox OA. -?. fcjCiieicii avtriagc ia ju.v, iui lug remainder of the country it is $48.47. In considering these figures it must be borne in mind that many of the States in the tick country have succeeded in freeing large area from the pest. Otherwise, the dif ference in value undoubtedly would be much greater. A great deal of North and South Carolina, for in stance, is as free from ticks as Ohio or Indiana. Oklahoma also has grappled so vigerously with the pest and has cleaned so much of its ter ritory that the average value for cattle has risen to $42 a head. In Florida, on the other hand, where no systematic work has yet been done, the average is $18. One reason for the low value of Southern cattle is unquestionably the disasterous effect of the tick upon all attempts to improve the bresd. Pure-bred stock imported for breeding purposes are exposed to such dagger of death from tick fever that it is not sound business to incur the risk. Producers are, therefore, compel to do the best they can with the native cattle, which have acquired a certain de gree of immunity. That there is no profit in scrubs is an old cattle raiser's maxim and in this connec t i o n a comparison of average weights of beef cattle may be inter esting. In Fioriea, on January 1, 1915, it was 340 pounds; in Wyoming, 985; m Idaho, 966; in Montana, 938. In Mississippi it was 550; in Alabama, 500; in Louisiana,, 471; in Georgia, 419. Out side of the tick country, Connecticut W3S the one State to fall below 600 pounds. There are, of course, other factors than the tick in the raising of beef in the South, hut in view o f these figures, it is hard t o escape from the conclusion that wherever the tick is, there the value of cattle is low. It follows, also, that the farmer makes little effort to develop this source of profit or what would be a source of profit under other cir cumstances. Not only does he him self suffer financially in consequence Girecuy iroin ius iucjhic, au indirectly through loss of soil fer tilitybut the whole country suffers from an inadequate meat supply. For this reason, the Federal gov ernment is as vitally interested in the work of tick eradication, as it is in the suspicion of hog cholera and the prevention of tuberculosis. Throughout tick-infested territory, wherever the people have voted to free themselves from the tax the pest levies upon them, Federal in spectors are coorporating with the local authorities and organizations in the erection of vats and the super vision cf regular systematic dipp ing. As fast as territory is cleaned, the quarantine is removed from it and slock owners in the community thus enabled to market the cattle on an equal footing with stock from other sections o the country. As has already been said, 253,288 s ouaie miles have been freed in this way since the beginning of the work vw, srsd in addition mucn use Pj-ii 1 L. 1 slid under qua ,W nnarantine . Vvitnin iu- t'en year..-, n tin; itaic ir.tc w Ol piu- 3 iV,uf.nHrPcr..iir - v.-j.i. t-y should be tree ana ticKy catue a foigotcon evil. But there is every reason to believe that as the evi dence against the tick piles up, pro wJ5 v.-iU become more and more ranicl. it can not be too rapid for the go:d of the entire country. In mraer of 1833 I had a ittack of cholera mor- very sever Kn3 Two rrsvsic;an: workeU over me from 4 a. m. to 6 p. m. without giving me any relief and then told me thev did not expect me to live; that I had best telegraph my family. Instead of doing so, I gave the hotel norter fifty cents and told him to hnv re a bottle of Chamberlain's J , - T-v 1 "O Colic. Cholera ana uiarrnoe: imc dy, and take no substitute. I took a double dose according to the direc tions and went to sleep alter ine second dose. At five o'clock the next morning I was (Jailed by my order and took a train for my next stopping point, a well man but feel ing rather shaky from the severity of thP attack." writes H. W. Ireland, . f orp.vifl. Kv. Obtainable every- CO in CO s 3 tLJ o WO fO Hi o w S CO CO in 1S1 a u o X cn CO CO New Ice House AT Womack's Grist Mill We have emiipped a storage for ICJS and have received our first ship ment. Ice will be delivered from wagon any hour and anywhere in town. Prompt attention giv en to every order for Ice and your patronage will be highlv appreciated. j Full supply of lee will ! be kept through the en- ! tire year summer and winter. ! Call 1-5-4. 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