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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-09-09
ROBERT E. LEES STATUE.
Next to Washington, the Greatest Son
of Virginia.

flaclng the statue of Gen. ROber'
+. Lee in Statuary Hall will, Of
course, send cold shivers down the
backs Of a considerable number OF
patriots who have not yet got through
fighting the civil war. But each
State was envited to send the statues
of two of its distinguished sons to be
placed in that national temple of
fame, and whether one likes the lux
opposition or not, no one will deny
that the two most distinguished
sons of Virginia were George Wash
ington and Robert E. Lee. Mural
tablets to those two vestrymen of the
parish adorn the walls of Christ
Church, Alexandria. The two men
were connections, also, for Lee mar
ried descendant by adoption of
Washington, and there is a striking
coincidence in the fact that each of
them won his greatest military dis
tlnctlon by Waging war against the
government under which he was
born. Washington's statue does not
stand in Westminster Abbey, but it
might have been there before this if
our revolution had failed and we had
remained part Of the British En-
pire.
Whether we regard the purity and
dignity Of Lees character or his re-
markable capacity as commander,
we must recognize that he was not
only one of the greatest of Virgin
ians, but one of the greatest of Am
ericans; man whose moral qualities
and whose professional genius, whose
great successes with meager re-
sources and whose sublime patience
and self-possession in defeat COM
bine to reflect honor upon the Amer
ican name. He resigned his commits
sion iii the United States army af-
ter, it is believed, having had the
command Of the Federal army offer
ed to him and accepted a commits
sion to fight against the United
States.
But to him his nation was Virgin
ia; he believed that she was the
country to whom he owed his allegi-
ance; he held that the United States
were but federation of sovereign
nations which were as free to with
draw from the federation as they
were to enter it. This theory of
the Constitution had been cherished
by large part of the American
people, not wholly in the South,
from the very date of the adoption
If the Constitution. 1t is idle to
pretend that it involved anything of
lishonor And, finally, it is to be re-
that it is Virginia, and
not the nation, that pays this honor
% Lee. Philadelphia Record.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-09-09
NUMBER 36.
NATURES WARNING.
Scotland Neck People Must Rec
ognize and Heed 1t.

Kidney ills come quietly-mystcri-
ouSly
But nature always warns you.
Notice the kidney secretions.
See If the color is unhealthy
II there are settings and sediment.
Passages frequent, scanty, painful.
It's time then to use Doan's Kidney
Pills.
To ward oil Bright's disease or dia.
bctcs.
Doan's have done great work i'm Scot
land Neck.
Miss Lucy Hancock, Church street,
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Kidney Pills have proven of the great
est value To me and | have no hesita-
tion in recommending them. NV kid
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the sccrections, which were very scanty
and distressing. Dull, nagging back
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concluded to give them trial and at
once procured ii box. They relieved
the pains in my back, corrected the
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and acted as tonic to my system.'
For sale by all dealers. Price 81
cents. FoSterNIlburn Co.. Buffalo.
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the namc-Doan's-and
take no other.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-09-09
the officer.

Nervous Lady-Don't your expe-
riments frighten you terribly, Pro-
fessor? | hear that your assistant
met with a horrible death by falling
four thousand feet from a balloon.
Professor-Oh, that report was
greatly exaggerated. N. L. Exag-
gerated. How? Prof. 1t wasn't t
much more than two thousand five
hundred feet that he Puck.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-09-09
When She Would Marry.

The question Of when a girl should
marry is up for discussion as a result
of the stiffness Of the season. A girl
should marry when the net income
of the aspirant for the honor of foot
ing her bills is equal to the sum she
is accustomed to spending, plus the
amount she would have to spend to
make her acquaintance green with
vy.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-09-09

DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the
safe. sure, easy, gentle liver pills. The
original Carbolized Witch Hazel Salvc
is DeWitt's. The name is plainly
stamped on every box. 1t is good for
cuts, burns, bruises, boils, sores and
sunburn-but it is especially good for
Piles. Sold by E. 7. Whitehead Co.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-09-09

Impure blood runs you down
makes YOU an easy victim for organic
diseases. Burdock's Blood Btters
purifes the blood cures the cause
builds you up.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-09-09
THE NORTH CAROLINA
College of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts.

The States college for voca-
tional training. Courses in
Agriculture and Horticulture;
in Civil, Electrical and Mechan-
lcal Engineering; in Cotton
Milling and Dyeing; in Indus
trial Chemistry. Why not fit
yourself for life b taking one
Of these courses? Address, ID.
II. HILL, President, West Raj
eigh, N. c. 6-1O-12t
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-09-09

Baby won't suffer five minutes with
Group if you apply DR.. Thomas, Eclec-
+r;c nil at once. 1t acts like magic.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-09-09

Y GruEglSts, II MY
c.ut and one-dollar
size bottles. You may
rive a sample bottle
hr mail free, also a
r-4uphiet telling all
about Swarp-Roo oct,
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-04-22

The official document then tells us in the
words of Its contributor how France was saved
by the adoption of the idea of Bremontier, one
OF the sons of the seemingly doomed region
The seeds of the pine the pin maritime of
the French, were gathered and sprouted care
fully and the young trees were planted in
places where the moving sands did not over
whelm them until their tough roots had taken
firm hold, their wiry leaves, which loved the
briny spume. would offer no resistance to the
wind, and, falling about their roots would give
shelter and nutriment until forest grew which
would hold the sands in check and save the
threatened interior from desolaton."
IL was Napoleon who seized upon the idea
Of Bremontier. His vision penetrated the
centuries and he saw the march of the deadly
dunes arrested and the desert they had created
made to blossom like the rose"
The consul tells us that after century has
passed the statue of Bremontier looks down
one of the great burrows which lie between the
dunes he showed how to conquer To-
day, as we told. "the dark SQUAD
rons of the pin maritime are posted ON
thousands of sandy slopes, faithful guardians
in the shelter of which the vineyards and wheat
fields rest secure The gray dunes which were
sweeping over the land have become serried
fortresses which shelter civilization and pros.
perity.''
At least one real live item was contributed
not long ago by G. Bic Ravndal United States
consul ut Beirut Syria, to the pages of the
consular reports. When this was put into the
publication II is probable that the editor-in-
chief was a vacation. Otherwise the Beirut
consul's tale would have been put on the first
page instead of being sandwiched In between
Rubber Cultivation" and Commercial Fail
ure In Germany
According to the consular report Pasha Alb
dul Rahman at one time imported into Damas-
Gus hoosier steam threshing machine through
the agency of gentleman named Michel Ef-
fendi Nasser of Beirut. 1t is the belief of Con-
sui Ravndal that the Indiana thresher will rout
the Bedouins of the desert, and he leads up
to this climax with picturesque recital Of the
factA attending the arrival of the machine and
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-04-22

subjects was appreciated by thousands of their
American countrymen
Some OF the other consus abroad men who
made no pretense to literary ability have
turned in from time to time trade reports that
were picturesque in their nature and written
with extreme cleverness. Not long ago the gov
ernment decided to issue in form between a
pamphlet and a magazine the Daily Consular
Reports. AS the editor of the publication
veteran newspaper man, Maj John NJ Carson,
was appointed. With his training he saw to It
that the best of the material received from the
consuls given place of prominence, and
he succeeded in making of the consular reports
q publication of real interest.
In the records of the department there is
one report which from the first paragraph holds
the close attention of the reader. 1t was read
the other day by who did not know until
the last line was reached whose hand had been
at work in its writing The thought was. here
Is something worth while.
The title of the article was simply "Refor
estation In France and the first few lines
showed little of interest Then the eye reached
this zone after another great waves of sand,
moved by the restless winds that swept across
the Atlantic, continued their unceasng march
across the fair plains of southern France, bury
ing all before them-ields, meadows. vine
yards, houses, churches, even villages-leaving
behind them only gray pillows. to which clung
punches of bracken, few starved bushes of
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-04-22

OF the irresistible march of the gray sand
dunes from the shore of the Bay of Biscay to-
ward the heart of the most productive land
In Europe. The description was embodied in
a consuls report, and 1t was SO utterly different
from the descriptions written by most consuls
or by their clerks. is more often the case
that the readers eye and mind went on won
dering, with curiosity held In check until the
signature should come at the very end The
thought was that here a consul or clerk
who should be writing books instead of com.
mercial pamphlets intended for the eye of the
few The story-this official communication
is a story and nothing else-eads to the final
planting of the pines under the direction of
Napoeon-pines which saved the fields of
France.
wherever the foot of the sand dune rested.
there was hopeless blight. little wiry grass
grew In the shadow of the heather and gorse
on which the sheep browsed under the eyes of
solemnfaced shepherds perched on stills and
knitting as they watched. on and on crept the
phalanx of the terrible dunes. slowly but surely
blighting all in their path, not only creating a
desert but destroying hope. AS long as the
winds blew from the west the dunes marched
to the east; the desert fires ravaged the inter
yening spaces; focks grew fewer, the desola-
tion more extreme. In the heart of sunny
France desert was established, ever increas-
ing in extent aud threatening to stretch across
its fairest fields the aridness Of the Sahara"
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-04-22

it's subsequent career. His tale of the thresh.
er follows:
Its triumphal march through Damascus
stirred the White City of the East from center
to circumference. On its way into the country
it broke down bridges innumerable, but pulled
itself out Of the creek beds beautifully and 1t
had the honor of being started on its pioneer
career in the presence of the governor-general
of the province, the field marshal in command
of the Fifth army corps and many other gen.
tlemen OF high station In Ottoman civil and
military life. With its selffeeder. automatic
bagger, straw bruiser ETC.. 1t is a marvel of In
genuity, and its service to this country In blaz-
ing the way for labor-saving machinery, with
rs accompanying amelioration of industrial and
social conditions in a region east of Mount
Hermon, where people live and work did
their forefathers when Abraham crossed ths1r
pastures with his Chaldean focks is beyond
estimation. In the Hauran to-day Thousands
of acres are lying idle; they are likely now 10
be reclaimed and the predatory Bedouin tribes
who infest the country will have to retire be-
fore the new order of things"
Consular positions do not pay large sums Of
money but the life is In many respects an ~
tractive one and there are always many Ap-
plicants for any vacancies which may exist.
1t is virtually a necessity that the person who
desires place in the consular service shall be
able to speak at least two modern languages;
that is, one In addition to English. While the
examinations are not supposed to be hard some
men who have been through college with credit
In their studies have failed to answer properly
enough of the questions put to them to give
them hold on the service.
At times the United States consuls have
dangers to encounter It was exceedingly un-
pleasant in Spain for some of Uncle Sans
representatives during the months Just prior
to the beginning of actual hostilties at Manila
bay. In Chill and in Turkey within a compara-
lively short time the consuls have had occasion
TO put up brave front against the populace
and to show the stun that they were made OF.
Fresh In the memory Of everybody is the awful
time which the belsaguered legations had with
In the walls Of the forbidden city IN China
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-04-22
DENVER DIRECTORY

BROWN PALACE HOTEL 4H9.elpssis A9sslSssgst
EuroDenn Plan. st.5o and Upward.
BUN LOOK daSpdlssEsi II si' aa%mssh slnss 81 MEs ssis
'ok maiied frcs Cor. 10th and Blake. Denver.
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-04-22
Special Round Trip Homeseekers'
Rates to New Mexico and Texas.

On the first and third Tuesdays OF
each month. during the entire year,
the Colorado G. Southern Railway will
sell round trip Homeseekers tickets
to a great many points In New Mexico
and Texas at one fare plus $500 for
the round trip. Final limit twenty-five
days. allowing liberal stop-over privil-
eyes. For detailed information, rates,
ETC.. call on the Colorado G. Southern
agent. or address T. e. Fisher, General
Passenger Agent. Denver. Colorado.
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-04-22
coed hogs
Sheep,
Grnin.

wheat. choice milling. per 100 lbs.
3e.2e. Rye. Colorado. bulk. per 100 lbs.
31.4s. Oats. bulk. Idaho No. 2. white.
t1.s5: same in sacks. s2.o5: Nebraska.
eats. sacked. $3.50. Corn. in bulk. s1.2s:
In sacks. s1.S4; corn chop. sacked. s1.35.
Bran. Colorado. per 100 lbs. s1.35.
Rolled oats. cwt.. S1.7s Flaked barley.
owt., $1.Bs.
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-04-22
EIny.

Upland, Per ten. s15.som1s.so; SECOND
bottom. tizso @fs.so; timothy. $1,000
100: alfalfa, y12.50913.50: straw.
tsoe07.se; South Park wire grass.
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-04-22

hterary man to-day has to stand the
level in seeking an appointment as a consul as
mat occupied by the lawyer the merchant
Ihere are not as many writer's of books ard es-
says in the service to-day as there were in the
past, and in one way the United States govern
ment is the loser thereby.
II some one would go far back through the files
OF the state department and read the consular re-
ports contained therein, he doubtless would run
across some clever bits of writing put on paper
by men who knew the art and who gave interest
and color and life to some seemingly dry as dust
trade subject 1t is very likely that the reports
that Francis Bret Harte wrote when he was consul
at Glasgow, Scotland, would make delightful read
ing even though they treated the subject of
wool or. it may be, of Scotch whisky or Scotch
cattle. There have been other literary men in the
service. some of them better known than Bret
Harte. 1t is only necessary to give the names
of Washington Irving and Nathaniel Haw-
horne to prove the point. Not long ago in the
service abroad the government had Albion w.
Tourgee, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, James JEFF
frey Roach, and George Horton. Two of these
men died comparatively recently, but they lived
long enough to see some of their writings ap
pear in print public documents and to know
that the manner in which they treated their
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-05

been very dtfficnlt to gain accept
snoe for THE elementary truth; the
popular belief IN q change Of season
or climate for a long time prevail
ed over ali evidences.
In Belgium and other countries,
also. agriculture has been radically
transformed by the operation OF eco
nomical laws. improved methods OF
culture and q more intelligent choice
Of crops. In the middle Ages and un-
til the fifteenth century the vine was
cultivated in Bavaria and in other
parts Of Germany from which 1t has
now almost entirely disappeared
but its disappearance is not due to
climate changes. The wins produced i
these districts was generally Of in
ferior quality and. with the growing
refinement Of taste, II was gradually
supplanted by foreign wines and good
native beer.
The culture Of the vine has pract-
ically disappeared from Belgium for
similar reasons. Two Belgium abbeys
still possess vineyards and make wine
for sacramento use. In France. II
has proved that the vintage season
has not shifted appreciably since the
fourteenth century. II has likewise
been demonstrated that, contrary &c
the popular belief, the olive was
never cultivated in Switzerland ex-
cept to a very small extent in gardens
and that no change has occurred In
Swiss agriculture products in gener'
aL-Cosmos.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-05
THE INSUR-
GENT THREAT.
Contemplates the Ultimate Disso-
luton Of the Republi-
can Party.

Senator Bristow, Of Kansas, rein
forces Senator Cummins' demand that
wherever '-reactionaries' are nominal
ed for Congress by the Republicans
they are to be defeated at the polls
by the 'progressives" voting for the
aries" is meant Republican Congress
men who voted for the new Tariff
and who stand by the President and
the national Republican party. Senator
Bristow declares, as did Senator Cum
minis in his noted Chicago interview
that the political obligation rests upof
the people" to enforce the progressive
policies. The progressive" he says
do not care much about the politics
Of a Senator or Representative. What
they want is the support Of the man.
So long as they have enough men
they do not need parties"
This IS Senator Bristow's view. as
presented by the Kansas City Star, .
an independent journal in sympathy
with the insurgent idea. This confirm
the "Hawk-Eye's" repeated assertion
that the ultimate purpose of the in
surgents is the dissolution of the Re-
publican aprty unless they can cap
ture its organization and control it.
La Toilette, Cummins, Bristow and
their associates are now putting spec
ial emphasis upon 'individualism" in
politics, disregard Of party organiza-
ton administration and the par
ty caucus AS Bristow puts
1T is the duty of the people
over against the reactionar-
les now in Congress, no matter ~
which arty they belnog." Senator Gu
minis has publicly proclaimed the sam'
thought and enjoined it as a duty
The threat 10 defeat the election Of R
publican candidates to Congress who
stand with the party organization car
ries Joy to the Democratic camp. Our
political opponents are encouraged to
hope for control of tine House, the
electino Of the speaker, the appoint
ment Of committees, and thus defeat
Republican and administration poll.
cies.
The Hawk Eye" does not believe
the people Of the United States are
ready 10 bury the Republican party
Burlington "Hawk-Eye".
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-05

willing hearts and loving hands could
do was done. hut God knew best
His win be done.n not ours" Her re-
mains were laid to rest In the
Green River burying ground. in the
presence OF a host of friends and rel
atives. Death is awful at any time
undera NJ circumstances.but when the
Harvester cuts off one who is the
cherished object of love to all who
surround her, whose life has beer
full Of gentleness and goodness. free
from envy. hatred and malice. whose
loss falls as a death blow on loving
children, affectionate brothers and
sisters. and is most certainly loss
to her many friend. On arriving al
the grave scene was most impressive
and affecting.
Many eyes were dimmed with taers
and many heartsore as the caskei
with it's precious contents was slowly
lowered to its final resting place.
Soon the gaping pit was filled Soor
each one realized that never again
would that bright face glow with
friendship upon anyone. But that
mysterious instinct OF a life beyond
the skies gave rise to hope that in
some unknown brighter world, wher
sorrow. partings. sickness and death
are unknown, We shall meet aunt
Betty there.
Call not back the dear departed,
Anchored safe where Storms are ole
On the border land We left her,
Soon TO meet and part no more.
When We leave this world Of changes,
When we leave this world Of care,
We shall meet our missing loved one
In our Fathers mansion fair.
A precious one from US is gone;
A voice we loved is stilled;
A place is vacent in her home,
Which never can be filled.
God in his wisdom has recalled
The boon his love had given;
And though her body moulders here
Her soul is safe in Heaven.
Weep not. that her tolls are over.
Weep not that her race Is run,
God grant that we may rest as calmly
When our work; like hers is done.
Till then We yield with gladness,
Aunt Betty to him keep.
And rejoice in the sweet assurance,
He giyeth his beloved sleep.
l.. and !. Ranney.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-05
Has the Eurth's Climate Ceenged.

The explorations in Central Asia
have laid bare the ruins of once
flourishing cities. NJ. BOutquin. in the
French journl Gel e. Terre, proves.
by historical evidence and modern
scientific discoveries. that the aband-
onment Of these regions by the huma
race was brought about by causes en-
I tirely unrelated 10 such supposed me
rOlog cal changes as general cool
/ ing Of climates or a progressive de-
siccation of the globe. In Europe,
The temperature and decrease in the
/ precipitation of rain and snow would
have caused a well-marked and con-
tinuous recession Of glaciers, but no
such recession is shown by the rec
Ords more than two thousand years.
Helm has proven that, although the
latter half of the nineteenth CEN
fury, they are now far more extensive
than they were in the Middle Ages.
Polybius, in the second century B..
c., described the rich gold and silver
mines OF the Tyrol. These mines yield
ed abundantly until the middle of the
sixteenth century, after which date
their productiveness rapidly diminish
ed the mouths Of shafts became covere
with ice. A shaft sunk at this epoch
was covered in 1870 by a glacier Go
feet thick. Resistance 10 the in
vaslon of the ice soon became impos-
slble. In the eighteenth Gentry the
glacier was more than 300 feet high,
and in 1875 it had attained height
of 400 feet.
For many years II was asserted
that the east coast OF Greenland had
formerly enjoyed mild climate, which
favored the growth OF vegetation and
ave rise to the name Greenland. The
historical researches OF Rink and Won
Maurer, however. have proved that
! the decay of the posts established by
the Norwegians in olden times was
caused by the introduction OF a con-
tagious disease and by the adoption,
by the Norwegian government, of an
unwise economic policy, which pro-
voked hostile attacts by the Eskimos.
Equally ernooeus statements have
been made in regard TO Iceland.
In the British Isles. the cultivation
farther north than 1t does at present
simply because It was then. in the
absence OF foreign competition, more
profitable than II is now. Yet it has
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-05
Ladies Take Notice.

A nice line Of Picture Frames com,
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