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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-04-27
,4ha ~. K. Kellogg National
Germ Trophy


Thopy, donated in 1899 by ". K. j..
Kellogg, president Of the Kellogg
Toasted Corn Flake Co, of Battle
Geek, Mich.
Thousands Of ears Of corn from ali
parts o. he country and o. ell varie-
lies were entered IN the competition.
Inc selection Of the grand champion
GWeep8I axes and the award Of the
Eeilog@ trophy were made on gen
4ral points q superiority.
The ear cf cnrn grown by Mr..
.Ta.nas-s # Reii's Yellow Dent var
iety. It IS 70 inches long, = inches
ir circumference, and has 20 rows
o. &ar1e.s, 6 to the inch In the row,
average 3 OF an inch in depth, an d
5-15 Of al inch in width. 1t is in
deed i very correct type OF yellow
dent corn.
bLr. James, the winner, is vigor
Gus farmer about 40 years Of age
and Of pleasing personality, q man
who has given careful study to corn
culture, and who has achieved his
success asa grand champion winner
only by years Of hard work and
paiustahiag seed selection and care
full breeding from season to season.
Illinois growers are especially
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Il Il. { Ii zzN2.1()IS CORN GROWER
WINS w. <. KELLOGG
NATIONAL. TROPHY.
Z A. James, Of Charleston, Ill., is The 1910 Winner of The
$1,000 Cup. Grows Bsst Ear in The 3,2S,7!3,6OO
Bushels Of Last Years Bumper Crop.

in height. MIR. Kellogg's interest
in corn growing can be understood
when it is stated that the Kellogg
Toasted Corn Flake Co., of which
he is president, has an output re-
curing 10000 bushels of corn q day,
raw product, for it's manufacture.
A peculiar feature is that while the
Kellogg product is mad exclusively
from selected white com, the
Kellogg trophy has been won each
time by yellow corn exhibit. The
trophy is offered for annual COM
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-04-27

Z. 4. James, Of Charleston, Ill, ,
mas the xCcud distinction Of having
crown The best e.r OF corn in al
3,125, 713.699 tashe.s OF last years
Bumper crop. Al the National Corn
&how Just held at Columbia, Ohio,
this gentleman was awarded the
". K. Kellogg National Corn
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-04-27
Never Out of Work.

The busiest little things ever made
are DR.. Kings New Life Pills.
Every pill is a sugar-coated globule
of health, that changes weakness in
to strength, languor into energy,
brain-fag into mental power; curing
constipation, headache, chills. dys-
pepsia, malaria. Only 25c. at E. L.
Whitehead Company.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-04-27
Constipation brings many ailments

Constipation brings many ailments
in its train and is the primary cause
of much sickness. Keep your bowels
madam, and you will escape many
of the ailments to which women are
subject. Constipation is very sim
pie thing. but like many simple
things, it may lead to serious conse-
quences. Nature often needs lit
tie assistance and when Chamber
lain's Tablets are given at the first
indication, much distress and suffer-
ing may be avoided. Sold by all
dealers.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-04-27
Conditional PdrdOnS.

1t is admitted by all thoughtful
students Of the subject that we have
not as yet arrived at an ideal condi-
ton Of affairs with regard to the
punishment inflicted for violations of
the law. Although we have travel
ed far in the direction Of the golden
mean between justice and mercy
since the days Of our great-grand-
fathers, there remains no. inconsid-
cradle number Of problems awaiting
adjustment. We have come to put
within the discretion of the Gov
ernor Of the State the tremendously
important matter of granting par
dons, and this power, wisely admin
istered except in a few instances,
has done much to mitigate the mis-
takes which are inevitable in the
most enlightened court rooms. Par
ticularly beneficial is the device
known as the conditional pardon"
A man may have been justly senten-
ced and yet the best interests of So
ciety demand that he be given a
chance to reform and make a useful
citizen of himself. One criminal
turned from his ways and brought
back into harmony with society is
worth all the service a State can
possibly deserve from all its con-
victs-and immeasurably more than
this.
Care must be taken, however,
that the conditional pardon is not
abused by its recipients The mo-
tive for it's issue originates in be-
lief that the man freed will endeavor
to the best Of his ability to conform
to the laws thereafter. In number
of cases such action on his part may
be discounted in advance. Not in
frequently a sentence to the peni-
tertiary or the roads serves as a
kind of temporal purgatory in which
the sufferer gets more accurate
view Of himself and the world and
the mutual interrelations existing
between the two than he has ever
known before. Such men frequent
ly live down their errors and win
the respect of their communities
There are other benefciaries whose
pardon operates very differently
Not long ago Mecklenburg county
or rather section of twas
troubled by a conditionally pardon
ed man who showed no inclination
whatever to amend his ways. More
recently the town of Hendersonville
has been through very much the
same experience. The violations OF
law in neither instance were unusu
ally outrageous, but the fact thai
they occurred on the part Of a man
who was enjoying his liberty upor
probation constituted a grave ag
gravation. They should be dealt
with in such a way as to serve no
tice upon all other conditionally
pardoned prisoners that the States
clemency must be accepted in good
faith or become forfeit. 1t is q
travesty on the original intent t(
allow this executive power to be in
voked in favor of law breakers
whose every inclination upon re
gaining liberty is to break the law
whenever and however their con
venience suits. Charlotte Observer
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c]ated oser tue result for the reason
iilat this is the first time IN four
years that the honors have been
wre5ted from che State of Indiana.
Last years Champion ear, the first
winner Of the Kellogg trophy, was
grown by Mr.. fred G. Palm, Of
Newton, Ind. It was also Of Reid S
Yellow Dent varieto, crossed with
Alexander Gold Standard. Last
years prize winner is the most per-
fectly formed ear Of the two, though
it requires careful judge to dis
tiuguish thc points of superiority.
TIE trophy awarded to Mr., James
wa5 made by Tiffany. Of New York,
for Mr.. VIZ. Kellogg, at a cost Of
81 600. 1t is made Of sterling silver,
bronze and enamels, and is truly
artistic creation. 1t stands 80 inches
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-04-27

Constipation causes headache.
nausea, dizziness, languor, heart
palpitation. Drastic physics gripe,
sicken, weaken the bowels and don't
cure Doan's Regulets act gently
and cure constipation. % cents. Ask
yOur drupCiSt.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-04-27

"Our baby cries for Chamberlain 5
Cough Remedy" writes Mrs. T. B.
Kendrick, Rasaca. Ga. 1T is the
best cough remedy on the market
for coughs, colds and Group. For
sale by all dealers.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-04-27

Had dyspepsia or indigestion for
years No appetite, and what did
eat distressed me terribly. Burdock
Blood Bitters cured me. j. H.
Walker, Sunbury, Ohio.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-04-27
Drawbacks.

There is no rose
Without it's cruel thorn.
No pleasure grows
Without some grief to fill US.
In words of bliss
There still turks tones Of scOrn--
In every kiss
Hides some doggoned bacillus!
Milwaukee News.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-04-27

She-I would like that lovely pearl
necklace. Look what beauties they
are. He-It's better not to have
suck large pearls, my dear. People
always think they are e.-Jour-
ma IAmusant.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-04-27

Dentist (after examination)-And
you will have gas, madam?
Nervous Patient-You don't sup
pose I'm going to let you tinker with
my teeth in the dark, do you?-
London Tattler.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-04-27

Don't let the baby suffer from
eczema, sores or any itching Of the
skin. Doan's Ointment gives instant
relief, cures quickly. Perfectly safe
for children. All druggists sell il.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-04-27

Lame Shoulder is nearly always
due to rheumatism of the muscles,
and quickly yields to the free appli-
cation of Chamberlain Liniment.
For sale by all dealers.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-04-27

In cases of rheumatism relief from
pain makes sleep and rest possible.
This may be obtained by applying
Chamberlain's Liniment. For sale
by all dealers.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-04-27

petition until won twice by the
same grower.
The National Corn Show at which
the award was made, was al event
OF tremendous magnitude. At one
Of the sessions President Taft was
present and delivered an address.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-04-27

A woman can rule her husband
without being able to do it to the
children.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-04-27

v foolish woman and her money
are soon married,
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-04-27

Men who shake hands the hardest
are the hardest to shake.-Chichago
News.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-04-27

And many a man is his own hoo
doc.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-04-27

FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS
Send Ice, name of paper and this ad. for
our beautiful Savings Bank and Child's Sketch
Book. Each bank contains a Good Luck
Penny.
SCOTT G BOVINE. 4oe Pear! Street. N. Y.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-28
RECIPROCITY AND THE .FARMER-By Savoyard

you must scratch a little deeper than corn, rye, barley, oats, live stock and so forth, to find the real reason for the opposition. (Applause)
 Scratch little and you will find lum- Der reduction daughter and applause ) and a little deeper and you will find wood-pulp reduction, and the biggest wood-pulp plant south of the Potomac Is in North Carolina; scratch a little deeper and you will find mica reduction and there is some mica made in North Carolina Applause and laughter) Now when a republican president and many republicans here are willing to concede that they have been fooling the farmers for 30 years about the tariff on their products, some of our democrats come along and say, Do not admit that, for we want to fool the farmer as you have been doing, and get protection for lum- Der in our state, for wood-pulp and mica in our districts. '"
 When one of those professional farm CTS, a MT Gardner of Massachusetts,, was telling the awful things reciprocity would do for the farmers in general MT. Joseph W. Bailey interposed this profundity:
 But I am convinced that there Is a deliberate and systematic propaganda now being conducted In this country for that sort of tariff revision that takes the duty off of everything the farmer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-28

of Emersons work, written the same year. follows:
 These pages are perhaps too perfect, too concentrated. Glow good for in- stance, is good butter, good sugar. But to be eating nothing but sugar and butter all the timel Even if ever so good) And though Emerson has much to say of free dom and wildness and simplicity and spontaneity no performance was ever so based on artificial scholarships and de- corums at third or fourth removes (he calls it culture), and built up from them It is always a make, never an unconsci- ous growth It is the porcelain figure or statuette of lion, or stag, or Indian hunter Indeed, who wants the real anil nal or hunter? What would that do amid astral and bric-a-brac and tapestry and ladies and gentlemen talking in sub dued tones of Browning and Longfelow and art? The least suspicion of such ac- tual bull or Indian, or of Nature carrying out itself, would put all these good people to instant terror and flight
 With all of the differences that sep arated these men-differences of style, essay form. sense of fitness-the one pol ished, a product of schools-the other un- polished, a product of the print shop, of the editorial room, of the army hospitals
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-28

Ing of our neighbor's needs and our duties toward them, doubt if we will need to quarrel any more.
 The theologians, philosophers, meta physicians seem to have said their final word about matter and spirit. The new est word about matter Is that the uni- verse Is not only chemically formed, but the atoms cohere In a sort of while swirl fashion--the whirl movement of some being neutralized by the swirl of others every human sense is the result of motion; every perception. every thought Is but motion of mole cules of the brain translated by that incomprehensible thing we call mind. The processes of growth, of ex- istence, of decay, whether in worlds, or in the minutest organisms, are but mo- tion. C'The New Word" by Allen Up- ward.) The newest word about spirit is that all Is divine love. and there be- ing no life in matter, matter is error no more than a projection of mortal r-ind. ("Science and Health," by Mary B. Eddy) And that good James, stand ing near the war of words, states that 1t matters not whether we accept the tough, or the tender minded statements of creation, seeing that we are here up against life, so to speak-wha tever life is.
 Meanwhile, we have human love left us-"the base, and finale too"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-28

Emerson. then in his prime. keen, physically and morally magnetic, arm'd at every point, and when he chose, yielding the emotional just as well as the intellectual. During these two hours he was the talker and I was the listener. It was an argument state ment. reconnoitering. review, attack and pressing home, tlike an army corps In order. artillery, cavarly infantry), of all that could be said against that part (and a main parD in the con- struction of my poems, Children of Adam. More precious than gold to me that dissertion-it afforded me, ever after. this strange and paradoxical les son; each point of Els statement was unanswerable. no judges part ever more complete or convincing, I could never hear the points better put-and then I felt down in my soul the clear and unmistakable conviction to dis obey all, and pursue my own way. What have you to say to such things? said E., pausing in conclusion. Only that while I can't answer them at all, I feel more settled than ever to adhere to my own theory and exemplify it. was my candid answer. Whereupon we went and had a good dinner at the American house."
 And Whitman's characteristic criticism
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-28

morals implied in free print paper will be enormous. And that reminds me that the paper trust sought to deceive Minor- ity Leader Mann of the House of Repre- sentatives, and 1t takes a man as credu- lous as Joseph w. Bailey to believe what they tell the finance committees of the Senate.
 Some half century ago in the days of Nottingham, seurvy politicians told most excellent folk of Kentucky that the Pope of Rome designed their massacre, and sensible men double-locked their doors at night, double-loaded their guns, and retired to bed in fear and trembling lest the most benefoent and harmless old man then living murder them. And our farmers of 1911 are in about the same danger from the Cana- dian reciprocity as the Kentucky Bab- lists or Methodists of 1856 were from Pope Plus TX. Why, a man who has no more gumption than to think recipro- city would damage the farmer can be persuaded that you can protect the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky by levying tariff duty on the pauper caves of Europe to prevent some speculator from
 importing one and settling 1t down in Edmonson county in competitor with our homemade Mammoth Cave.
 Mo- no, no, scratch the real opposition to Canadian reciprocity and you will dig up a henchman of monopoly.
 Washington, May 1T.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-28

sells to the city folks and still leaves a duty on practically everything the city folks sell to the farmer.''
 Now if that is not a miserable piece of degrading and contemptible demagogy and quite likely that Is all it is--Mr Bailey sought to convey the idea that the tariff protects the farmer.
 If that be so the democratic party has been wrong on the tariff every moment of its existence. Of course your repub- lican believes the tariff protects the farmer, and as long as your protection baron can find democrats to preach as Bailey does in the foregoing he feels absolutely secure of his graft in the tariff for private purposes mainly. If MT. Bailey Is right In his suggestion that the tariff protects the farmer, then Allen G. Thurman, Daniel w. Voorhees,, Mich ael c. Kerr, William R. Morrison, E. W. Carmack, Zebulon N. Vance, Charles F. Crisp, James B. Beck, John G. Carlisle, J. Proctor Knott and hundreds of other great democrats, including Grover Cleve- land and William J. Bryan, preached heresy and inculcated error in this be- half.
 To borrow a thought from a debate In the British parliament long ago, MT. Bailey must first make me as assured of his infallibility as he himself Is be- fore I reject the teachings of the great democrats I have named to follow him into the camp of the enemy.
 No, the farmer is brought into the in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-28

Canadian reciprocity passed the House of Representatives by tremendous ma- jority though many voted for it would love to see 1t throttled in the Senate and they would put the knife to it's throat in the Senate If the president were not heartily for it. For example, Boss Pen rose cannot get along at all without federal patronage. If deprived of the postmasters and things his machine would go to pot and the plum tree be- come barren. He is the only one of many. If Jim Sherman were president reciprocity would not stand the slightest chance in the Senate.
 And it is not at all certain that reef procity will pass the Senate with Taft supporting it. That body is the last ditch in which monopoly makes its stand and the hearing given by the committee on finance indicate that the Senate is hot foot after an excuse to smash this slice of free trade. It was amusing to see that farmer squad that came here to expound the thing. They put up at the Willard. They looked sumptuous and seemed awful citihed for men who followed the blow. They brought their wives and daughters with them, and they, too, were arrrayed in gorgeous attire and dazzling jewels. The newspapers said this town never be- fore saw a lot of farmers like those Senator Stone sought to find out who footed the bill and caught red-handed sundry bankers and the butter trust
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-28

HHERE is no lobby here such as
 there would be if it were under
 ~ stood that the Senate intends tin kering with the "pop-gun' bills of the Clark Underwood regime, that has made a surrender, so far as relates to wool, which the mighty Ajax of protection, Nelson w. Aldrich, says is the crux of the tariff question" Those democrats who assent to or tolerate a tariff on wool are doing precisely what Cannon and Dalzell would have them do and thus they confess that their party can not make a tariff without duty on wool. The day Congress met in extra session last month the present attitude of Clark and Underwood would have been repudi- ated by nine of every 10 members on the democratic side.
 And if 1t were wool alone 1t would be brushed aside with no sort of ceremony. But every other interest is to the rescue lumber mica, wood-pulp, the meat trust the butter trust, rubber, and various other things throw themselves into the breach to save wool, and when wool is saved all Is saved. And thus the democratic party will have to gain another overwhelming victory at the polls before we get real tariff reform, and we will not get it then unless we set real tariff reformers to do the job. That is the situation in this town the middle of May. What it will be next week nobody knows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-28

on his massive shoulders. out in Iexas, that "Forevver would he ware it with honor to his beluved state. and keep his eskrunchion cleen.''
 Maybe he's living up to his contract, but 1t is boldly intimated by sum folks, that Jos eskrunchion needs trip to the laundry. and that if he is waring the Toga with honor to Texas, that Texas can struggle along with deviilsh Httle honor for a phase of it's size.
 Jo is a good deel like the ball player that gets thump In the slats, Nwhen the game Is close, and lays down on the ground and grones, and gets all the play CTS around to pull hs leg, and rub his ribs, and bring him water, and then gamely resumes his phase in the game amid the applaus of the specktaturs. He got peevish the uther day and offered his resignation to the Vice President but you can bet 800 big round bones against the hole in a dough-nut, that he had a string tied to sed resignasion, and it was grand stand play pure and sins ple-when Jo resigns for keeps of his own choise, Dock Cook will present a jenuine augur hole taken from the North Pole to Perry.
 The Supreem Court has order the standered oil to dissolve. What the devil air they going to do with Jo? How will they dissolve him? Jo Is too big to be left together In one bunch, he would be "an unreesunabul restraint of sumthing'' sure as beens. If the Standered Oil don't watch out Jo will prove a boomer-rang to them, and they'll get into contempt of court rite ovver him. being unable to divide him up.
 We air trusting to the peepul of Tex as waking up by next election, and get ting up and farely tromping on Jos figure They ought to fatten him out all ovver the state of Texas-they could get rid of the bool-weevil that way if the rest of the populasion could stand 1t.
 We beleeve that anuther term for Jo is simply mpossibul, if he gets 1t there Is little hope for Texas.
 Yours truly, BILL VINES
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-28

Let there be no doubt in any mind that
 in every modern land we are marching
 zealously towards higher ideal conditions.
 If is not only in America, but everywhere
 that the City of God can be seen on the
 horizon How attain to it? is the question
 What is natural and what exotic to our
 social life? What is the social analogue of flesh, air, sunshine. rest and food?
 Here is a report on the commercial out look in London, published by one of the great mercantile agencies, and complain ing that the "socialistic tendencies or Lloyd Georges legislative work had dam aged trade Setting aside the outstand- ing fact that British trade conditions are
 phenomenally splendid, so that the gov ernment's income in time of peace has just passed the two billion mark Tor the first time in history, is 1t not also labundantly clear that there Is very It. tie socialism, a merely medical lniu-
 sion of it. in the legislation referred to?
 For many centuries government in Eng land was administered as though the only interests were those of the moneyed classes Government of Ireland ikew1se was administered as though the only care of legislators must be for the landlords, generally resident in London or Paris. 1T l it is a ''socialistic tendency to do battle with the terrible inequalities resulting from those centuries of wrong, then or
 course, Gladstone, Morley even Sails
 bury and Balfour, were the egregious leaders in that fatal path.
 My plea for Lloyd George Is that he is precisely the greatest safeguard against
 the evil conditions generally identified with socialism. But his method Is plain ly the serum treatment" so to speak, fighting fire with fire, or, as the homeo-
 paths so brilliantly anticipated the very latest discoveries with the motto: Sim lila simlibus curantur," which again
 was anticipated by quite unscientific per sons with the adage "a hair of the dog that bit him." Thus the Indian, and,
 think, the negro, believe they can elim- mate the poison of a snake-oite with the liver of the snake. Or, to come back to my starting point, while the whole programme of the social heretic may be most questionable, it does not follow but