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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-02
ENGLISH BUSINESS WAGES.
FIGHT ON GERMANY ALONE
Edgar Tiff Says Tools Of Great Battle Industries Of Teuons
European Conflict RACES Because Of Competition and
Jealousy Arising From 1t.

And now we have come to the mod
ern war, which takes on the creed of
this age, industrialism. The whole
and sole cause of the present Euro
pean war is competition and the jeal
ousies growing from it. The modern
creed OF success" means make all
the money you can, and keep all you
can, and crush out the other fellow"
Success of this kind is the greatest
virtue OF the age and overshadows all
questions of morals and religion. 1t is
war, war silent and terrible, without
guns, swords or bayonets. Take any
town and study it. See how merchants
and traders, manufacturers and pro-
motors, eagerly seek to break down
all competition even to, driving others
to ruin, poverty and suicide. Mer-
chants of high personal character, pro-
fessors of religion, Bible teachers,
promoters Of uplifting crusades, will
scheme and connive how to ruin the
other fellow by tricks and deception
that would disgrace an old time free
booter. A merchant of publicly-as-
serted piety will boldly seize upon
some article another dealer is trying
to make an honest living on and re-
duce the price to cost in order to run
him out of business and fraudulently
advertise his own schemes. That is
economic war on small scale and ma
tons are but the aggregate of these
modern bells called business" and
Success"
BEAT Him Down."
The old wisdom of the father to his
son, BE diligent, be honest and you
will succeed" Now the advice is BE
alert, watch the other fellow, beat him
down. Watch your chance with your
town and the government and milk
them before the other fellow does.
Cities and towns and government are
as easily MIXED as an old cow. Double
your money, crowd out the other fell
low Never mind old-woman talk
Succeed"
Under such a creed, we must trans
pose our poetry and say:
Lives of rich men oft remind us
We can make our lives like swine.'
Not many years ago England crush
ed the life out of Germany's prosper
ity by flooding the country with cheap
and shoddy goods England ruined
all the home industries of Germany,
and England with pious face schemed,
connived and threatened war in order
to keep this profitable market for her
own. When Germany awakened to
her povery and her economic suffer
ings, she put up protective tariff and
entered the worlds industrial war.
Only fifteen years ago Germany rank
ed fourth among the commercial pow
ers England, France and the United
States held the supremacy, England
first place. Germany's commercial
growth drove France from second to
fourth place. Germany outstripped
both France and the United States and
stands today as second arriving at
last on the very doorstep of England's
supremacy. The gross value of Ger
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-02
GERMAN AEROPLANE
BROUGHT TO GROUND
rsvLEAsEp wlRE.l

THE HAGUE, Sept IA German
aeroplane that new over Cambria and
dropped bombs that destroyed the
railroad bridge. was brought down to-
day by shots, according to report re-
ceived here. e Both occupants OF the
airship were wounded ana taken prs
Oners.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-02
TERRIF|ES
ANTWERP RESIDENTS
TBY Leased WlRE.1

ANTWERP, Sept. "A Zeppelin
airshlp flew over Antwerp at $3.50
O'Clock this morning. 1t was revealed
by flashes from the searchlights that
swept the skies continually at night.
and was Immediately subjected to a
heavy rifle fire. 1t passed rapidly
over the city to escape the bullets
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-02
DELAY CAMPAIGN
FOR GUEST HOUSE

The renewal Of the campaign for the
Guest House will not be taken up by
the promoters until after Mrs. William
Dudley Foulke, who is now in England,
returns to straighten out some legal
matters which have arisen over her
gift, which was to be given condition
ally. There is also some legal entan-
clements relative to the charter condi-
tons in the Foulke gift, which local
attorneys disagree on. Consequently
efforts for continuing the campaign
for $4,000 to construct the Guest
House for women and girls. will be
suspended until Mrs. Foulke's arrival
in the city. according to the statement
Of Miss Eleanora Robinson today.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-02

A rich deposit Of gold has ben dis
covered on the Binabai river in the
province of Mindoro, Philippine is
lands. The deposit is said to to be ex-
tensive and the nuggets of annually
Gina quality.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-02
POLICE SET MARK
FOR AUGUST WORK

The police worked a little harder
during the month of August than dur
ing any previous month of this year
and the haul for thirty-one days was
1O3 The per cent of DRINKS was not
unusual, although fifty-six of those ar
rested were slated on that charge. Ten
men were arrested in the month on
suspicion. There were SO arrests in
July.
The arrest record shows the follow
ing:
Intoxication, Sc; assault and battery,
z; beating board bill, I; carrying con-
cealed weapons, 2; drawing danger.
GUS weapons, 1; forgery, L; fornica-
ton, q grand larceny, 2; insane, l;
petit larceny, 4; profanity, 1; public
indecency, 2; provoke, 2; runaway
boys, 2; safe keeping, I; suspicion, 10;
vagrancy, 1; violating motor speed or
dinance, 3; wife desertion, 1; fast
driving, 1; held for witness, 1.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-02

Making the school grounds minia-
ture colny, with the pupils busily en-
gagged in all kinds of productive occu-
pations, is the device of the Birley
House School, an open air school in
England.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-01-29
AS DIES THE YEAR.

The old year knocks at the farmhouse door.
From the fruit you are storing for Win
ter days,
And prop him up on the granary floor.
corn stands heaped.
Let him eat of the bread he reared.
He is feeble and faint and can work no
more.
Weaker he waneth and weaker yet.
November, shower your harvest down,
Chestnut and mast and acorn brown.
For you he labored, so pay the debt.
Make him pallet-he cannot speak
And a pillow Of moss for his pale. pnchei
cheek,
He is numb to touch: he is deaf to call.
December. hitler with muftied tread
And gaze on the year, for the year is
dead
And over him lay q wan white pail
Take down the mattock and ply the
spade,
And deep in the clay let his clay be laid
And snowfiakes fall at his funeral
thus may I die. since it must be.
My wage We'll earned and my workdays
done,
And the seasons following one by one,
70 the slow, sweet end that the wise fore
see,
Fed from the store of my ripened
sheaves,
Laid to rest on my fallen leaves
And with snow White souls to weep for
me. Alfred Austin.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-01-29
MAKING a Present.

Lady Jersey was in her time one OF
the leaders of fashion, and her house
was the resort of politicians and 9th
ers. With her lived her daughter,
Lady Clelnentine Viliiers, handsome
and clever girl. The custom had been
established that all friends should give
the latter i present OH her birthday,
and these presents were set out in an
antechamber. Among these friends
was Lord Brougham, then an old man.
He called on birthday, but had for
gotten what the occasion was, and had
brought no present. Seeing mass of
presents laid out, he seized one OF
them and took it in as his present,
rightly counting that the young lady
would not remember that it was one
that already had been given to her
And very proud he was Of his pres
ence of mind. Bot, then, he was an
ex-lord chancellor.-London Truth.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-01-29
SAVE YOUR APPENDIX.

This Mysterious Organ May Prove to
Be Valuable Gland.
The appendix is not useless organ
undergoing degeneration, as has been
hitherto supposed, but is valuable
gland, and persons should think twice
before having it removed. This is a
part Of a report presented to the
French Academy of Sciences by DR..
Perrier.
Another we'll known French scien-
fist, the late DR.. s-Championnere,
warned the medical world some years
ago that the appendix probably was
undeserving Of present day contempt
yet he was unable to establish the
possible function of this small and
mysterious organ.
DIR. Perrier's report is based upon
studies made by DR.. Robinson. The
latter collected the mucous secretions
from large number of appendices re-
moved at the hospitals and prepared
a serum which, on being injected into
animals, was found to stimulate the
contractile movements Of the intes-
tines. DR.. Robinson, therefore, was
convinced that the appendix cannot be
cut out without seriously Interfering
with intestinal action, although he
recognizes the necessity of operating
when the gland is gangrenous Or 9th
wise diseased.-Paris Cor New York
Sun
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-01-29
WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
They Held Office and Could More Than
Hold Their Own In Trade.

They Held Office and Could More Than
Hold Their Own In Trade.
Women in England have always
shared in the industrial life OF the ma
ton. Curiously enough, writes Mr. A.
Abram in English Life and Manners
In the Later Middle Ages" a statute
of 1868 that ordered men to keep to
one trade left women free to practice
as many as she chose.
In a few instances, at least, women
in the later middle ages discharged du-
ties and held Offices that do not fall to
their lot nowadays. There are allu-
sions to women burgesses In the rec
ords Of London and other towns, ana
If women married aliens they could
naturalize them.
Women did not shrink from engag-
ing in foreign commerce. They ex-
ported goods to France, Spain and 9TH
er countries A widow. Margery Rus
sell of Coventry, Is mentioned In no
less than three different existing docu-
ments. Her business must have been
on fairly large scale, for she was
robbed Of merchandise worth fSOO by
some men Of Santander, in Spain. In
order to recoup herself for her losses
she obtained letters of marque that
empowered her to seize the goods be-
longing to countrymen Of the offend
erS
Margery apparently took more than
was due her, for two Spanish mer-
chants lodged complaints against her.
She was ordered to restore both ships,
but one of the Spaniards declared that
she had refused to do so, although he
had a commission directed to the ex-
chequer. If Dame Margery Russell
was a type. women traders Of the mid
die ages were we'll able to look after
themselves.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-01-29
Notice..

BY virtue of power vested in me
by that Deed Of Trust executed to
me on the 23rd day of December,
1912, by Henry Lockart and his wife
Josephine. will. on Saturday, the
7th day of February, 1914. sell to
the highest bidder for cash, at pub
lit auction. in the town of Scotland
Neck. n. c., the following lots or
parcels of land lying. being and stu
ated in the county Of Halifax ard
State Of North Carolina, and more
fully described as follows:
1t being lots Nos. 6 and 7 in the di-
vision of the lands Of Isaac J.Sm;th.
deceass d, according to the plat and
survey by Prof. L. R. Mills, which
may be seen by reference to the
Gem nissinners' report Of record in
the Clerks Office in Halifax in rec
ord OF Special Proceedings, Vol.
8. Page BIG, and in the Register of
Deeds office, Book 236 at Page 1888,
and contsi1ing 10 acres.
Time Of sale IL o'clock. Piac. Of
sale: In front Of Burroughs-Pitt-
man heller Co.'S store.
This the 9Th dfy Of January. 1914.
:; 4 DUNN, Trustee.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-01-29
FOR STOMACH TROUBLE
John w. Ski1len of Sidney, Ohio,
Has Found a Remedy.

Experts declare that the reason
stomach disorders are so common in
this country is due to hasty and care
less habits Of eating. Stomach
troubles ard rundown conditions
usually so together.
John ". Skillen of Sidney, Ohio.
says: II had a. bad stomach trouble
for years, aud became so weak that
I could hardly walk or do any work.
My appetite was poor, and it seemed
impossible to get any relief. Since
taking tVinol' I find remarkable i'm
proven ent in my health, my digestion
is much stronger, and have gained
in weight. I would not be without
Ninol"
Vinol makes weak stomachs strong
because it strengthens and tones up
the weakened, tired and overtaxed
nerves Of the digestive organs. Vinol
is easily assimilated by the weakest
storachs, and is delicious to the taste.
Try bottle of Vinol with the I'M
derstanding that your money will be
returned il 1t does not help you.
p. Stop scratching, our Saxo
Ealve stops itching. We guarantee it.
F T Whitehead Company
Scotland Neck, n. c.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-01-29
ORIGIN OF PERFUMES.
Used at First to Kill the Odors OF
Burnino Flesh.


In the good old times the use Of per-
fumes was originated to cOunteract
the offensive odors arising from burn
ing flesh which was being offered as
sacrifice. For this reason incense was
always burned in the temples, and
from that burning comes the literal
significance Of the word incense, which
means Through the smoke"
Arabia has always been the land of
perfume, the scents of Araby" being
classic. Lady Macbeth refers to "all
the perfumes of Arabia in her sleep
walking agony when she fancies she
cannot wash the smell of Duncan's
blood from her hand
While Arabia has most Of the fame,
it is undoubtedly a fact that to Egypt
belongs most Of the credit, for the art
of pertaining was practiced there to
its fullest extent. Even the embalmed
dead were saturated with spices and
scents which have retained their de-
lightful aroma after thousands Of
years. It was from old Egypt that the
Greeks and Romans learned the use
of the still for extracting perfumes
from plants and flowers. To this Ro-
man love for perfumes no doubt as
much as to her own habits was due
the fact that Cleopatra's barge was so
overwhelmingly scented. Shakespeare
describes it with:
Purple the sails and so perfumed that
The winds were lovesick with them.
Philadelphia Record.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-01-29
HE POSES IN THE ALPS.
The "Dear Old Shepherd" Who Does
1t For a Consideration.

The "Dear Old Shepherd" Who Does
1t For a Consideration.
Nearly every adventurer upon the
Alps nowadays carries camera. 1t
is a sign of the times. People have
become obsessed with the Importance
of realities, and the camera is the only
possible agent to enable you to show
realities to your friends. 1t is not OF
much use to tell them about some
strange sight or of some curious con-
formation Of nature you may have
met in your climb. You must show
it to them.
\ feature of the Alps today is the
number of worthless who earn their
bread by means Of the camera. There
is an old man at Grindelwald, for in
stance, who makes quite a cOmfOrta-
BILE competency by standing in front
Of his chalet when visitors laden with
cameras are coming up the side of the
mountain and blowing upon a ire
mendous horn.
How very quainty' exclaims the
unsuspecting tourist. "The dear old
shepherd is calling home the cows"
The dear old shepherd, however, is a
man of sound business principles. He
doesn't drag his Anticipated instru-
ment about his house for the fun of
the thing. Neither does he perform
upon it for the benefit of his flocks
and herds, for he owns none. But he
will tell you frankly, when you ask
him to stand "quite STILL" that he will
very willingly pose in whatever man
ner you like, but you must first pay
him a couple of francs for his trouble
That old man is probably the best
known character in the Grisons and
the hero OF many local tales.-Wide
World MAGAZINE
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-01-29
BUTT AND HIS BAMkNOTES.
Isaac Was a Great Orator, but Was
Careless With Money.

Careless With Money.
Some amusing anecdotes are told Of
Isaac Butt, the famous Irish orator,
In THE Life Of Old Dublin" by Mr..
James Collins. The author recalls the
fact that Butt was very careless in re-
gard to money and repeats reminis-
cence which he heard from the late
Judge Adams:
''Poor Isaac Butt was a man of
splendid genius. but, as all the world
knew, careless to the last degree in
money matters. l was In Youghal
when the election petition was tried
there, and Butt was counsel for Mr.
Weguelin. At the close Of the trial
Mr.. Butt was handed his check, run
ming to several hundred pounds. The
moment he got it he went over to one
Of the banks and cashed it.
Butt was staying at the house Of a
Youghal gentleman, and in the morn
ing he put his hand in his pocket and
found the money was gone. | shall
never forget the hullabaloo that fol
lowed. CONSERVATION, suspicion, bed
lam swept through the house. And in
the middle OF it all, just as the police
were being summoned. the young son
Of the house turned up with the miss
ing banknotes.
ut had been windy night. the win.
dow shook in the loose frame, and
Butt. annoyed by the noise, got up
stuffed the first wad of paper he could
find between the frame and the case.
ment, went to bed again and forgot all
about it."
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-01-29
RIGHT UNDER OLD SOL.
They Were In Blazing Sunlight, Yet
Cast No Shadows.


Cast No Shadows.
Every one knows that when per
son stands in the full sunshine his
body casts shadow which Will be
either short or long, according as the
sun is high in the heavens or near
the horizon at sunrise or sunset. A
little thought will bring it home to the
reader that, obviously, If the sun is
exactly vertical over persons head,
there can be no shadow.
But the problem is to determine when
and where this shall be the state OF
things AS regards the ''where. that
must evidently be at some place on
the earth in the tropics, and the
when must be the hour Of midday.
To GET these two things to concur by
Encouragement is matter of no
small difficulty.
But as a matter of fact they did
concur on Il day in February, 1873
namely, the 18th, when a scientist w.
B. Gibbs, was in midocean in latitude
Is degrees south, the SUMS decllnatlon
being also about - degrees south.
A photo, reproduced in the London
Strand, represents Gibbs and another
man standing bolt upright on the
deck facing one another, and clearly
shows the absence Of any sign of a
lateral sliadow-in other words, 1t
proves that the ship was in such a
latitude that the sun was vertically
overhead and that the time was noon
when the sun was at its highest alti
tude as between east and west.-Ex'
change.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-01-29

believe would have died if | hadn't
taken it.
After l began taking Cardui, l was
greatly helped, and all three bottles re-
lieved me entirely.
l fattened up, and grew so much
stronger in three months, felt like an
other person altogether"
Cardui is purely vegetable and gentle
acting. Its ingredients have mild, tonic
effect, on the womanly constitution.
Cardui makes for increased strength,
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Cardui has helped more than a million
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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-01-29
THE WEARY WAY
Daily Becoming Less Weari-
some to Many in Scot
land Neck.

With back that aches all day,
With rest disturbed at night,
Annoying urinary disorders.
IT'S a weary way, indeed.
Dosn Kidney Pills are especially
for kidney trouble.
Are endorsed by Scotland Neck
citizens.
L. Wilkinson, Scotland Neck, N.
C., says: Il have used Doan's Kid
ney Pills, obtained from E. T. White
head Co.'S Drug Store, and have
had GOOD results This remedy re-
liev ed ne Of lame and aching back
and also regulated the passages Of
the kidney secretions. l recon-
nerd Doan's Kidney Pills whenever
I can"
Price soc a..s'.ai dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same
that Mr. Wilkinson had. Foster
Milburn Co., Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-01-29
Occult" Information.

a. Henry Savage Lander may deny
on geological grounds the existence Of
any ''lost Atlantis,' but there are
among the thcosophical and other oc-
cult fraternities people who will cheer
fully draw you map of the vanished
land and give you description of it's
people, their manners and customs.
The information is obtained by va
rious mystical methodist evelations,' -
clairvoyance, etc. Some years ago it
was discovered by similar occult
means that at the north pole itself the
temperature was SO mild that a green
island existed there-a kind of arctic
arcady. 1t was all very interesting
until Peary, the explorer, came on the
scene and-but cold fact is always so
unromantic!-London Chronicle.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-01-29
Consolation.

A victim to hysterical grief over the
death Of her husband after forty years
Of an exceptionally happy welded life
grandma sat in her rocking chair
moaning and weeping.
Little Robert Escaping from the
usual watchful care of his nurse,
Aunt Mandy Sanderson," negress Of
300 pounds or more, black as anything
human could be, and a complete an
tithesis to the refined, gracious and
delicate grandma Of sixty, whose grief
her grandson would try to assuage)-
''Please don't cry SO, grandma" he
pleaded, as he passed his little hand
over her gray locks and with bound
less sympathy in his tones. I'm sure
you can get another husband very
soon. Why, even Aunt Mandy Sander
son had seven of them!'-New York
Sun
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-01-29
inspired Famous Hymn,

Jesus, Lover Ct by Soul" is q
hymn around which many traditions
and sacred associations cling. The
story connected with its origin may
be legendary, but it is no less beautl
fu!. Its author. Charles Wesley, was
sitting at his desk by All open win.
dow when a bird pursued by a hawk
new In. The bird was saved, fur thu
hawk feared to follow 1t. The Incl
dent inspired Wesley to write his
famous lines.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-01-29
Took 1t Like a PHILOSOPHER.

One day Mrs. Jones rushed into the
library to her husband with hasty
steps and wild look of excitement.
'Oh. John, oh, Johnr' she exclaimed,
with lot Of emotional thrills ''Norah
made q mistake and tried to light the
kitchen fire with gasolinev'
"Gasoline. eh?" calmly responded
John. Did she get it started?"
Did she get it started?' cried the
amazed Mrs. Jones. cit blew her out
the kitchen Window
'That's all right, my DEAR" returned
the philosophical Jones. 1T was her
afternoon out, anyway."-Philadelph
Telegraph.