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VOL XXXII Late Gossip of Raleigh Town (Special Correspondence.) Raleigh, X. C, April 11. The inves tigation into the management and con duct of the Central Hospital for the In sane located in the southwestern out skirts of Raleigh and familiarly yclept "Dix Hill," which Gov. Craig has or dered to begin May 11th, may bring some interesting disclosures -that may not exactly shock the people of North Carolina, but is right likely to arouse the indignation of those among us who are provincial enough to hold-on to the belief that it is cruel, not to say in human, to abuse the deranged inmates of such institutions (even if done by attendants without the knowledge and consent of the management) or to over work them by hard labor under the guise of "exercise," et cetera. That is to say, of course, if Mr. Latta, a former patient, who has made the charges can prove them "some thing he will find it exceedingly diffi cult to do if he has to rely on em ployes of the institution," declares a gentleman formerly connected with an asylum for the insane. "AND A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM." Never had there been previously Been so many of the little ones in line of march in North Carolina as the young army of some ten .thousand school children which captured the state capital without firing a shot last Friday. The occasion was the annual commencment day of the county schools and the 4,000 city school children join ed their country cousins in pulling off the most inspiring spectacle of its kind ever witnessed in this city or state. Thousands of parents lined the side walks and reviewed the procession of clean and healthful young Tarheels as they walked the streets of Raleigh from the capitol to the city auditorium which was soon filled, with thous ands of the city youngsters left out. And how the hearts of those parents swelled with gladness as they realized that it is to such as these that the fu ture of our great state is left and that its future is safe. POLITICAL THERMOMETER SHOOTS UP. The entrance of Judge J. S. Man ning into the attorney-generalship con tent and the mix-up between the friends of Secretary of State Grimes and his principal opponent, is sending the mer cury up to the b'ilin' point in the po litical thermometer with "continued rising temperature" predictions. The withdrawal of Judge Carter from the contest has made the nomi nation of Judge Manning so probable that the field of remaining candidates appear to be very much bewildered with an apparent tendency on the part of their "many friends" to direct their fire on the stronger aspirant as the most available mondus vivendi. Secretary of State Grimes is finding himself a right busy man denying un true allegations the latest false ac cusation being that he gets a whole dollar for every automobile licensed. As the number of these "gasoline fiends" so far licensed passed the skiddoo mark of 23,000 several days ago, it would be a plain case of addi tion for our Secretary of State to soon become a real plutocrat if the "ru more" were orsXy true. But, as a met ter of fact he can 't pocket a red cent of this alleged income and so must content himself with only his legal sal ary and al.so the boys in the trenches of the enemy and what is enmity be tween friends anyway pooh, pooh! So Colonel Grimes' friends come back anil point to Colonel Hartness' contin uous 17-years of office-holding, and has nothing on Col. Grimes, except a small matter of two years longer in office. The political stock market was be coming so unsteady that I querried Grimes' headquarters here for quota tions, and this is what I got: "The Iredell man is spending too many Mondays away from his office (without leave of absenc as required by law) in convassing over the state. ' Stock quoted at 60 per cent, with few takers. Grimes hasn't got off his job' but appears to be running some. Quo tations from all along the line place his stock at 140, with bullish tenden cies." Now, what d'ye think of that! ! Truth is, the turmoil along that wing i has had the gubernatorial scrappers beat to a frazzle (by George!) the i last few suns as though these $3,500 jobs were veritable pies of fat goose livers pate de foies gras, and then some. ; ; Kickett buttons bedeck ' the lapels of the wearing apparel of many adher ents of the present attorney-general, ! while the boosters of Lieutenant-Governor Daughtridge declare that the Rocky Maunt farmer and business man is coming down the pike in great shape. Some of them say that the first esti- mate of ninety per cent of the vote made by the buttonaires is gradually dwindling and is expected to be shrunk Hike Zeb Vance's cat-fish) by primary ; dy yjatil it 'will look more Hko ttirty- j thirty (count 'em) per cent. But, of course the Bickett people are not very firm believers in that Hne of talk. Still, one can never telL y'know! Messrs. Bickett and Daughtridge 's names and those of Col. Jones and Judge Manning have been formerly en tered for the primary. Among the candidates who have so far qualified, by filing the necessary papers, for the first legalized state pri mary, to be held June 3rd, ia the only newspaper man in the bunch of state officials Commissioner of Labor and Printing M. L. Shipman, who is this year completing his second term in that position, during which those familiar with the facts know he has been a valuable man to the State and to its "exchequer" for no rake-off or over charge artist has yet succeeded in put ting it over him and his efficient as sistant, Mr. Geo. B. Justice which is additional proof that efficiency and ex perience in office constitute a decided asset and not a liability to the people of North Carolina. Mr. Shipman has announced that he is entrusting his candidacy to the care of friends over the state and to the people of North Carolina and will rely upon their en dorsement of his record in the approach ing primary, adding that he is encour aged by the assurances from every sec tion that there is no appreciable dis position to displace him at this time. INCREASE PROVISION FOR ORPHANS. According to the president of the North Carolina Orphan Association in his address at the meeting of the Asso ciation here, there are 5,000- orphan children in this state without homes and the next legislature will be urged to increase the provision for the care of these legitimate wards of the state. THE GORILLA NEGRO AN OUTLAW. The lynching of another negro for the one crime that Tarheels will not stand for it is to be deplored, but when one hears the wave of approval from the sea of humanity that gets the news it is to say the least not surprising. If the son who committed the crime, now in the penitentiary here, could have been gotten hold of, he would al so have been executed by the lynchers. It's the truth, why disguise it? There are good negroes and bad negroes, just as there are good and bad white peo ple, and the better class of - negroes condemn the gorilla rapist as loudly as the white people. But neither will stand for the black criminal nor for those who endorse his act and defend him, as the father of William Blaek did in this case and was shot to death by the Lenoir and Greene county lynch-ers- Llewxam. SPRING HILL ITEMS. (Miss Bertha Parrish, Correspondent.) Misses Mary Stuart Riddick and Madeline Riddick went to Scotland Neck Friday afternoon. Mr. Macon Haggard and Misses Ruby Darden and Bonnielyn Whitley were in Spring Hill Sunday night. Miss Bertha Parrish spent the week end with her parents in Middleburg. Mr. R. A. Lewis of Enfield was in town Sunday. Mr. Henry Pope was a visitor here Sunday. Mr. O. C. Vande was here Sunday night. He left Monday for Richmond where he will make his future home. Mr. Jim Pope spent Saturday night in Tillery. Mr. Jesse Grimes of Tillery spent Sunday evening at the home of Mr. A. E. Pope. Miss Mary Lilley of Hobgood, return ed to her home Sunday. Mr. Edwin Martin of Tillery was here the last of the week. Mr. J. H. Darden went to Tillery Saturday. Mr. Joe L. Riddick left Sunday for Richmond. Miss Selma Twisdale has returned home from a visit to Enfield. Miss Bertha Parrish attended the teachers' meeting at Hobgood Munday. SCOTLAND NECK MARKET Peanuts, per bu. $1 Cotton (steady) 11 Cotton seed 65c to 70c Fat Cattle, hoof 4c to 5c; dressed 10c Eggs 20c Granulated Sugar 8c Corn, bu. - $1 Clear rib sides 14c to 15c Feed Oats 65c to 70c Fresh pork 9c to 10c Hams (country) 24c Lard 12c to 15c Timothy hay $1.25 Cheese, per lb. 25c Butter 35c to 45c Meal (per sack) $2 Flour (121b sacks) 50c Coffee 15c to 35c Cotton seed meal, ton $35 Cotton seed hulls, ton $13 Hides, green 12 c to 13c Hides, dry 10c to 12c Beeswax . 24c to 25c Potatoes, sweet, per bu. $1.20 Potatoes, Irish, per bu. $1.80 Gasoline 1 26c Potatoes, Irijib.eeed, per Vu- $20 A Family Newspaper: For the Promotion guiumuiinmMHtmitinm Pmm.m PtMlllllllllllMHM'M"ffiilllltliiiiiiii miunm ',, . 1 gggggg!P''M''WM",""M,M-111'----- I XX I MMt't I BEGINNING NEXT SATURDAY, April 15, and Continuing for 15 days The Commonwealth is going to inaugurate "DOLLAR DAY." The term "Dolkr Day" doesn't mean that you can buy anything you wish for One Dol lar, but it means in this instance that for One Dollar you can get receipts for subscriptions to this paper for a year. After May 1st, the price of the Commonwealth will be $1.50 per annum, payable strictly in advance. Of course your credit is good for the paper, but the money is need ed. The material used in producing the paper costs CASH and it is coming now at a higher rate than ever before. Paper has advanced about 50 per cent. within the past two months. Material is going up. The request is made of each subscriber of the Com monwealth send in a cash remittance! and if convenient, your latest receipt. The mailing lists are being revised and soon your date of expiration wil be printed on the label after your name. If you are not sure you are paid in advance, better send enough to carry your subscrip tion past the above dat May 1st. positively, after that date, everyone in arrears will be dropped from the list. The amount is trifling, but means muih to the paper. The Commonwealth is trying tow be a better paper, and if you think the effort is meritorfous, signal by send ing a dollar. Double signals accepted cheerfully. Remember, May 1st calls for a paid up list. This is fair notice for all and self defense for the paper. The New York City and its Greatness New York has other things to boast about than the subway and the tall buildings. The Merchants' Association has just issued a bulletin directing some of these things to attention of the townsfolk, so that when their rela ti es conic to tovn they may be prop erly impressed. Here are some of the Merchants' Association's figures: Every four years New York takes unto itself a city the size of Boston or St. Louis. New York is the largest Jewish city in the world. It is the largest Irish city, there being 674,721 of Irish blood here. There are 723,333 Germans, 306, 422 Austrians and 735,477 Russians. New York spent last year $424,662, 455.06 which was $4,000 more than its income. Its debt is $1,361,483,821.28,. greater by $250,000,000 than the debt of the United States and six times the combin ed debts of Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago. There are 3,087 miles of water pipes under the city; the capacity of the res ervoirs is 170,000,000,000 gallons, and the conclusion of the Schoharie will add 80,000,000,000 to this. The police department costs $16,241, 323. There are 10,674 policemen. The fire department costs $9,719,945.10. Every day 290,000 persons arrive or depart from the city through the rail road stations. The railroad systems terminating in New York have a mileage of 45,323, or 18 per cent of the tital mileage of the country. Every thirty minutes a new business corporation is formed in New York and every 45 minutes one is dissolved. Every four minutes a new being is born to have the proud distinction of being a native New Yorker. Babies to the number of 150,000 were born here last year. f New York has 38,000 factories. They employ capital amounting to $1,800,- 000,000 and turn out $2,900,000,000 worth of goods a year. More than 21 per cent of the nations banking resourcs are here. The banks have a capital of $216,157,000 and de posits of $5,377,461,797. Every day the traction facilities carry 4,967,680 persons. The city has 198 parks, with an ac reage of 8,615. It has 1,500 hotels. More than 500 conventions are held here a year. There are 1,525 churches, with 1,709, 241 communicants. The cshools have 802,573 pupils and 20,063 teachers. There are 102 hospitals, with 21,858 beds. There are 31 postoffices. The Manhat tan postoffice received last year $30, 127,062 and spent $10,915,212.99. It handled 109,480 tons of second-class mail..- - of , Political, Social. Agricultural SCOTLAND NECK, If . C, TUESDAY, - Commonwealth 'One of the Two Semi-Weekly Papers in the 2nd nniiUHi!iiii JLET'S JZAYX 3CHB JA-PLTJB. .r The Commonwealth is publishing again the list of contributors to the proposed ball club. If youT name is not enrolled, won't you send in your name and amount? Other nearby towns are organizing and expect to have some good baseball this summer. What's the matter with Scotland Neck. Bead the list: J. Arlington Kitchin $10.00 J. E. Perry lo.OO A. Paul Kitchin 10.00 L. R. Mills, Jr. 10.00 J. E. Lewis : 10.00 II. M. Milliard 5.00 W. O. McDowell 5.00 E. L. Brown 5.00 J. D. Smith 5.00 Model Barber Shop 5.00 A. Bryant , 5.00 T. W. Russell 5.00 Stephen Bland - 5.00 Danford V.. Josey 5.00 Guthrie Madry 5.00 Leland K tchin 5.00 Allsbrook Boyette 5.00 Scotland Lock Furniture Co. 5.00 ! A. C. Yandle 2.50 ! Edward S. Lewis 2.50 Sherwood Allsbrook 2.50 ' John Tillery 2.50 Franklin Whitley 2.50 I John B. Edwards 2.50 B. W. Martin 2.50 ; Henry H. Moore 2.50 Dr. A. D. Morgan 2.50 Hubert Riddick 2.50 iC. B. Parks 2.50 Chas. Lamb 2.50 Joseph House 2.50 ' J. Allison McDowell 2.50 W. H. Allsbrook 2.50 N. O. McDowell 2.50 Hinton Dunn 2.50 Total to date $157.50 COUNTY AGENT CALLS A MEETING OF CLUB BOYS I have visited most of the schools in East Halifax County and have enrolled a fine crowd of club boys. Every com munity has from one to five boys in club work. It has been impossible for me to see all the boys who wish to do club work, but no boy is going to be left out. On Saturday, April 15, I will call a meeting at my office in the Scotland Neck Bank building of all -the boys who have joined any of the clubs or wish to join. The purpose of this meeting is to give all the boys uniform instructions about growing their acres of corn, cot ton or peanuts, and to enroll boys who wish to join any of the clubs. It is felt that this is a very impor tant meeting and I hope that every club boy will be present at eleven o'clock. Arrangements are being made to make it a fine day for the boys. Very truly, W. A. MekuRRAY, and Commercial Interest, of the APRIL II, 1916. District." timiHiiimnmminiimims Shooting Affair in Martin County (From Williamston Enterprise, 7th.) Tuesday night about 9:30 o'clock, Cecil Moore, who works at the A. C. L. station at Everetts, went to bis room at the home of Mrs. Barnhill, in com pany with a friend, Mr. Carraway. About five minutes after reaching the room, and while lying on a couch, Moore was shot at through a window and se verely wounded in the face and neck. The would-be murderer used a shotgu:i loadtd with No. 6 shot, many of them lodging in the body. Dr. Williams' has hastily summoned and Dr. Saun ders was called from WiHiamston to assist in giving Moore relief. In the meantime, Sheriff Crawford 's services were secured, and dogs were brought from Washington. A trail was struck and for an hour the dogs followed faith fully until a log was reached, then the officers decided to search the house of Charles-Spruill, a colored man, and sec if his son, George, was at home. They entered, and found that George had just come in with muddy shoes and socks. ' Taking him into custody, they carried him to Everetts and found that the tracks at the windowT through which Moore was shot, exactly fitted the negro's shoes. A preliminary trial was held Wednes day morning, and the negro was bound over to court and carried to William ston and placed in jail. It was brought out in the trial that Spruill had been offensive to Moore on Saturday night, and later Moore caught him on the railroad and gave the negro a sound thrashing. Spruill was armed with a pistol, which Moore unloaded and gave back to him. The negro is said to have threatened to get even with Moore, and the shooting seems to have been his way of evening up. Spruill is only 16 years old, it is said. Bible Lecture. "The Three Ways" will be the sub ject of a free Bible lecture to be given at Madry's opera house at 8:00 P. M., April 23rd. The lecture will be given by Dr. R. L. Robie of Chicago, who has lectured extensively throughout the United States. Week of Prayer. The ladies of the Baptist Church of Scotland Neck are this week observing their semi-annual week of prayer. Special services are held each after noon in the church, where interesting papers relative to missions are read. A TWO BOW CORN PLANTER AT A bargain. We have traded for a John Deere Two Row Corn Planter, with all attachments, for drilling or plant ing corn and other grain in checks. It has a row marker, and fertilizer sower also. Will sell at a Bargain. Call and let us show it to you.. JO SY EASUWARi; Oj. " A-7-Ct. People The Sewing Club. Saturday afternoon the Sewing Club entertained at the home of Miss Lil lian Harrell in honor of Miss Kath erine Kitchin, whose marriage to Mr. Lewis B. Suiter of Weldon is to take place Wednesday. The occasion was a miscellaneous shower hi honor of the bride-elect and a full number of the members of the club attended. The guests who were met at the front door by the hostess, were invited into the west parlor, where for some time general conversation was in order. Af ter some time was spent in this man ner, Miss Harrell passed around cards which those present were requested to write a good wish for the bride-to-be. Finishing this, Miss Kitchin was re quested to read them and many were quite unique. The guests were then invited into the hall, where suspended bv white tulle there hung a large wedding bell. iviiss Katherine Kitchin was asked to pull the string which was attached, and upon so doing presents of all descrip tions fell upon her. Miss Kitchin then thanked those present in a most charm ing way. Delicious refreshments were served by the hostess, Miss Harrell. Those present, besides the guest of honor, Miss Katherine Kitchin: and the hostess, Miss Lillian Harrell, were: Mesdames K. C. Josey, Jr.; A. W. Dunn. J. Hinton Dunn, Misses Gertrude Kitch in, Lucille Kitchin, Sue Kitchin of Raleigh, Mary Cleaves Daniels of Goldsboro, Jennie Dunn, Ellen Tucker of Hot Springs, Va., Mattie Josey, Mil dred Edwards, Mildred Futrelle. Hilda Hancock, Dorothy Dunn and Hattie Leggette. Owing to this week being: observed by the ladies of the Baptist Church as a week of prayer the meeting of the Civic League will be postponed until Friday, April 21st at 4 o'clock. MRS. G. W. BRYAN, Pres. There Was No Agreement. Commenting upon the candidacy of Judge Manning for the office of attor ney-general, and the withdrawal or re moval, from the race of Judge Frank Carter, our Mr. Bost concludes, after discussing the subject with a number of Raleigh people: "In fact, the vast majority of those who commented to day expressed the opinion, that it was all done so handsomely that the two judges must have come to an agreement long before Tuesday." The vast majority of the people have erred. The two judges had arrived at no agreement either Tuesday, or long before Tuesday. No opportunity for an agreement was ever offered, nor was a serious attempt to reach an agreement ever made. Judge Carter never at any time had the slightest idea that Judge Manning would enter the lists against him, and his friends found much amuse ment in the suggestion. There had been many candidates for this office, and ru mors of candidates. When the name of Judge Manning received mention the friends of Judge Carter instantly con cluded that the opponents of the Ashe ville man were still at it. The formal announcement of the Manning candi dacy alone sufficed to TJring the reali zation to Judge Carter. But there was no understanding or agreement. The one thing Judge Man ning understood was that, he had it in his power to turn to political account the admittedly great obligation he had placed upon a friend, upon a previous occasion. This power he used. He held the whip-hand, and we think it had just as well be called the whip-hand as any thing else. He held this whip-hand, and this power, when Mr. Bost first asked him if he knew what course Judge Carter would pursue. It may be that Judge Manning has acted handsomely, but the conclusion that he has should not be predicated upon the assumption that he had arriv ed at some agreement with Judge Car ter prior to the announcement of his candidacy. Greensboro News. "You were pretty well pickled when I brought you in last night," said the copper to the man who had been ar raigned in city court. "Was I?" replied the man, whose thumping head was -also telling him that he had been drunk, not wisely, but too well. "You sure were. You gave the desk sargeant your name and address, but you couldn't for the life of you tell him your occupation. Ye tried, but you couldn 't say it. ' ' "Well, no wonder! I'm a statisti cian." Everybody's Magazine. "All over Scotland," observed a well-known golfer, "the Sabbath is respected in a most remarkable waj-. Golfing one day on the St. Andrew's links, I said to my caddie: " 'Angus, man, the leaves are fall ing. The green is turning red and brown. Winter will soon be upon us. And do you get much caddying to do in the winter, Angus?' "Angus frowned gloomily. " 'Na, na," said he. 'There's nae muckle caddyin' in winter. If its na snaw it 's frost, if it 's na frost it 's snaw, if it's neither frost nor snaw ' it's riiu, an' if it's fine It's a,ux to b'. NUMBER 17, Cotton Seed Meal As a Fertilizer Washington, L C April 11. At tl, present time when potasli in the fym, of salts is practically unobtainable pud when both nitrogen end acid phos phates have advanced in pjko toiaus of the use of nitrates and Sulphuric" acid for munition purposes, cottonseed meal, which carries all three of the fertilizing elements, becomes of great importance. In recent years immenso quantities of this material have gone into fertilizers, approximately 1,000, 000 tons having been so used in 1913. Cottonseed meal, the residue after the oil has been extracted from cottonseed, is a dry, yellowish powder, having ex cellent mechanical properties for ferti lizer mixtures and contains about 6.5 per cent of nitrogen, 2 per cent of phos phoric acid and 2 per cent of potash. It is, therefore, according to special ists of the U. S. Department of Agri culture, primarily a nitrogenous ferti lizer, but under present conditions its potash content is highly important and is a dwided factor in determining the . priee at which the material is sold. In practice cottonseed meal should be mixed with other ingredients. Most of the formulas heretofore published, have advocated various proportions of acid phosphate and muriate of potash in combination with cottonseed meal. Muriate of potash is to all intents and purposes unobtainable this year and must be omitted from present consider ation. If 1,000 pounds of cottonseed meal and 1,000 pounds of acid phos phate arc mixed, however, a ton of material results which contains about 180 pounds of phosphoric acid, 65 lbs. of nitrogen and 20 pounds of potash. ihis is about 9 per cent phosphoric acid, 3.25 per cent nitrogen and 1 per cent potash, and makes a very satis factory mixture for many soils where field crops are not to be grown. For trucking and gardening present prac tice demands a highr content of pot ash, and the mixture may be supple mented by the application of unliehed wood ashes if obtainable. Nitrogen in cottonseed meal is not so quickly available as when applied in the form of nitrate, but on the other hand is not so likely to be leached out in times of heavy rainfall. In light sandy soils where the leaching is rap id the use of organic matei iafc"rocft-aaj cottonseed meal is to be preferred in supplying the necessary nitrogen. De cay of the organic material liberates the nitrogen gradually and there is much less danger of loss then is the case when soluble salts, like Chilean nitrate, are used. Most of the mineral ingredients in cottonseed meal, are recovered in the manure if the material is used as a cattl feed. Th most economical use of cottonseed meal, is, therefore, to feed it and apply the manure to the land. In this way the material is made to serve a double purpose. European dairymen have for some years bought large quantities of American cotton seed meal for feeding purposes. Ay the live stock industry develops in our Sou th ern States doubtless an increasing amount of this material will be divert ed from the fertilizer trade for use as stock feed, and at present wherever possible the practice of feeding the meal and using the manure for fertili zer should be followed, rather than the direct application of the cottonseed meal o the land. (564) Horse Breaks Shoulder. While Mr. W. T. Hancock and son, Ben, were driving on the Mary's-Chapel road (Sunday afternoon, his horse suddenly halted and beyan quivting like a leaf. The animal was soon freed of the harness and was thought to be suffering from a hard chill. When she w:is unhitched she made a dash for the woods and ran into a pine tree, and either broke or sprained her s! oulder. This did not stop her, however. It wasn 't until a big tree was struck head on that the high-spirited animal stopped. A veterinarian was summon ed immediately. Now Traveling Salesman. Mr. Josh Robertson, who has been connected with the Bee Hive Depart ment Store here for some time, has ac cepted a position as traveling salesman for the Gold Bond Hat Co., of New York. Mr. Robertson is well known in Scotland Neck, and his many friends are wishing him much luck. In Cleveland they tell a story of a boy who left school to work for a small manufacturer. The boy was dull and his stupidity annoyed his employer greatly. So, after a week 's trial, he was discharged. "Get your pay," said the manufac turer to hint on Saturday, "and let that be the last of you. You're dis charged. ' ' It was therefore, with great surprise that the manufacturer saw the boy at work in his former place on Monday morning. ".What are you doing in this shop?" demanded the manufacturer angrily. "I discharged you Saturday!" "Yes," said the boy, "and don't do it again. When T toM my mot1""" she n
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