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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-10-22

AID wild in their attire, that look
not like inhabitants of the earth,
and yet are on IT,
/ think the entrance Of the witches
at the beginning of the play was to
prepare the reader for the horrors
Of the tragedy which were to follow
for as it is the shifting of the scenes
are very sudden.
AS Shakespeare thought there
were such things as witches. will
try to agree with him in writing
this discussion, The witches were
as instrumental in the downfall of
Macbeth as was Lady Macbeth, as
they led him on by prophesying in
riddles and for the fun they receiv-
ed by it. To my mind they stand in
real life as evil ambition which car
ries one to the highest SUBMITS only
to fall over a deep abyss.
z
''Tne heavens breath smells WOO
ingly here"
The only reason can think that
Shakespeare made the character OF
Duncan so beautiful is to establish
a contrast between Macbeth and
Duncan. If he was wicked char
acter we would not care if he was
killed. but if otherwise we would
mourn his death.
To show my ignorance, will say
that the play interested me. Here
tofore my opinion Of Shakespeare
was not very complimentary, but
this play makes up for all the rest
l enjoyed the plot, the victory Of
the good over the bad, and wherever
I found description / enjoyed i
thoroughly and feel that / appreci
ated it.
Another very good reason why
enjoyed Macbeth was because it wa!
explained SO thoroughly and or.
coul not help catching the value o:
the play after such explanation.
| close with a Spanish proverl
which expresses my feeling after al
eight page essay: En- vosca cerra
do no entra mosca." "A fly canno
enter closed MOUTH
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-10-22
Just the Thino.

"Oh, my friends. there are some
spectacles that one never forgets!" said
a lecturer, after giving a graphic de-
scription Of terrible accident he had
Witnessed
I'D like to know where they sells
'em, remarked an old lady In the
audience. who is always mislaying her
3lasses.-Lond0n Tit-Bits.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-10-22
DON'T Knock

Keep your foot On the soft petal.
Don't knock. Tha.'s what makes a
blue town and the other fellow hold
to his coin still tighter. Cheer up
and the other fellow will cheer up.
too. Then maby he will turn loose
some Of that oin.-Benson Spokes-
man.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-10-22
DR.. R. L. Savage

Rocky Mount, North Carolina
Will be in Scotland Neck on the
third Wednesday of each month at
the hotel to treat the diseases of the
Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat and fit glasses
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-10-22
DR.. T. ID. Kitchin

Physician and Surgeon
Scotland Neck, North Carolina
Office in Postoffice Building over
North End Drug Store. Telephones
Office 10, Residence "a.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-10-22
DR.. q. f. Smith

Physician and Surgeon
Scotland Neck, North Carolina
Office in the rear of the Crescent
Pharmacy.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-10-22
Clee Vaughan,
DEALER IN
Monuments
AND
Tombstones

Italian, Vermont and Georgia
Marble of highest grade, and the
best grades Of granite. Will save
you money and guarantee quality.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-10-22
Allen AllsbrOOk
House Mover

Scotland Neck, North Carolina
If you are thinking of having a
.honse OF any kind moved see me at
once. Prices reasonable.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-10-22
DR.. A. C. LivermOn
Dentist

Dentist
Scotland Neck, North Carallna
Office upstairs in the Whitehead
Building. Office hours from 9 to /
and 2 to o'clock.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-10-22
DIR. A. ID. Morgan

Physician and Surgeon
Scotland Neck, North Carolina
Office in building formerly used
by Br. J. P. Wimberley.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-10-22
Willie III. AllsbrOOk
life Insurance

Life Insurance
Scotland Neck, North Caroilna
Representing the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Co., Of New York.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-10-22
Ashby w. Dunn

Attorney at Law
Scotland Neck, North Carolina
Money to loan on approved secu-
rity.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-10-22

G. Speed & w. III. JOsey
Fire Insurance Agents
Scotland Neck, North Carolina
Will look after your interest, rep
resenting the strongest and most
liberal companies. All business ap-
preciated.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-10-22

j. e. WoOlard
Transfer
Scotland Neck, North Carolina
Cars for hire. Cars repaired. Po-
lite attention. Quick service. Tel
ephones-Residence As. Office 66.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-10-22

j. j. Pittman
Livery
Scotland Neck, North Carolina
Automobiles and livery team for
hire. Quick service at reasonable
prices. Telephone 73.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-10-22

What are these SO withered
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-10-22
M. T. WalstOn

Scotland Neck, North Carolina
Teams for hire, prompt attention.
quick service. Bowers & Jones
stables.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07
Does a German Retreat Impend?

THERE is new note of confidence and
optimism in the reports of operations in
Belgium and Northern France sent out from
the capitals of the allies and in the accounts
of correspondents in the field that the rigid
censorship permits to filter through to the
outside world.
The German attempt to sweep down the
coast to the channel ports has failed utterly,
and the Kaiser has been forced to change
his point of attack Fresh army corps have
reinforced the weakened armies north of
Arras and from this point final blow Is
being launched If it should prove unsuc-
cessful, 1t must be followed, in the opinion
of military observers. by general retirement
into Eastern and Southern Belgium.
From this distance, no basis Is apparent
on which to predicate the strong probability
Of success. In all the later weeks Of the
great struggle the allies have shown capacity
to meet retnforcements with reinforcements
and to oppose the Germans with equal or
superior numbers at every point to which
the scene of battle transferred. The
German onslaught wears all the appearance
either Of final desperation or of an attempt
to cover the retreat Of the German armies to
point closer to their base of supplies.
The latter alternative-that of an impend-
Ing retreats strengthened by German dis
asters in the eastern theatre of war, where
the Russians have won a series of notable
oASSSSSoo.
trograd are grossly exaggerated, the Germans
soon must withdraw army corps from France
and Belgium to Withstand Russian advance
into East Prussia. To do this successfully
means the shortening of their battle line in
the west, and this, In turn, involves with
drawal toward the German frontier.
There are optimists who expect the con-
clusion Of operations and the end of the war
In three months. Unless some tremendous
| change in the situation of affairs shall occur,
this seems highly improbable. 1t is far more
likely that, with the advent of winter, the
opposing armies will be compelled in large
measure to suspend major operations, and
that for more than three months policy of
watchful waiting will be pursued by both
sides.
Such situation is highly favorable to the
allied cause. 1t has been made almost in
evitable by the mastery strategy of General
Joffre, who while baked in his efforts to
outflank the German right, has yet forced the
acceptance Of battle on his own terms and
on ground he had selected. He deserves
highly the praise lavished on him by Presi-
dent Poincare and the French people.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07
Charity Wholesale

THOSE who sent a toy to the Christmas
! ship are glad. 1t will help cheer the
heart of some suffering child of wars neces-
stiles.
There is another Christmas ship, being
outfitted by the American relief committee,
for the women and children who are starving.
Starving? Well. rather-dropping dead in
their tracks for lack of something to eat
Upon these who wish it least and who have
no part in 1t and nothing whatever to gain
from any issue. heavily falls the hand of war
1t Is staggering to the senses to, think of
100000 refugees being fed 10y charity In
Brussels, Charleroi. Liege. Namur; Mons and
Dinant. 1t is the sort of news that numbs
one, coming from Holland. where the national
relief committee agents declare that unless
food reaches the helpless noncombatants and
refugees Immediately, there will be riot and
attack upon the authorities. These people
will not starve in huge body, say those on
the ground in position to form opinion,
without some desperate demonstration
The crime OF civilization cries out to
heaven, and the stencil OF wars infamy smells
to the very Throne. And in all this messing
OF things, there is only one single bright spot
only one hope of common humanity-and
that lies in the spontaneous aching with
sympathy that afiicts those who are doing
their best to help.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07
Rockefeller. to Aid Belgium

THE announcement that the Rockefeller
Foundation will carry out comprehen-
sive plan for the relief Of the afflicted Belgian
noncombatants will do something to ease the
American mind in its contemplation Of the
utter wretchedness and restitution now
spread thick over the little kingdom, and
which has followed It's people to the other
countries in which they have sought refuge.
Nor can any thinking opponent of the con-
centration of wealth deny that in this par
ticular manifestation great wealth sheds
glory on the entire American people.
Innumerable agencies IRE seekin. to succor
the Belgians. None Of them has either the
means nor the brains which the Rockefeller
Foundation commands, but, with the aid of
the latter's resources of money and trained
men, all the efforts can be combined 80 as
to assure maximum of good to the bene-
fciaries. Something like sigh of relief
that the needs of nation made destitute are
to be adequately answered.
In the end the Rockefeller Foundation
beneficent work may be extended to the help
less in other countries engaged in the war.
For the present it Is enough to know that
what Is probably the most splendid private
philanthropy of all time will tighten the woes
Of one innocent and cruelty afflicted people.
Voices are not lacking to declare that there
is misery in this country without going
abroad to look for it. Among the many
sufficient answers that might be found, it Is
perhaps sufficient to say that the most
wretched poverty in this country is fatted
ease to what hundreds of thousands Of Bel
gians are now undergoing.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07
Germany Might Helm

n LTHOUGH the American people have rea-
"a son to be proud of the promptness and
generosity with which the Belgian appeal for
succor has been answered by this country,
that does not prevent their asking why other
nations should not help. The fact ia that
some other nations are doing what they can.
For instance, both Holland and England are
housing and feeding thousands of those that
have been forced to fee from Belgium. The
only nation that might, but will not, extend
helping hand Is the very nation that has
caused the ruin OF Belgium and has brought
Belgium under its rule-Germany.
AS military necessity, Germany entered
Belgium, absorbed much of its food supply
and ruined more, killed large number of
It's soldiers and those of its citizens that did
not comport themselves after the fashion pre-
Bcribed by Germany for those whose territory
1t occupies as a military necessity.
But the Belgians who remain In Belgiurn
are presumably good people, at least, thew
have not yet been shot for being bad. from
the German viewpoint. They may only read
papers printed in the German language. Ger
man money must be considered equal to
their own, and they must obey the commands
OF German military and civil authorities. In
short, they have been Germanized as much
az they can be in the short time that has
elapsed since the blessings OF German culture
were brought to them
4 Being Germanized, 1t would seem that tho
noncombaants are entitled to help out of the
resources of which Germany is SO very proud.
~ is surely not military necessity that nom
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07
War News Fifty Years Ago
tFrom the Richmond Dispatch. Nov. 7. 1ss4.9

The war news for this morning may be shortly
disposed OF. There was none The War Depart
ment did not receive single official dispatch
yesterday and the news that came through other
channels was mostly bogus
sunday night quietude prevailed on the lines
both below Richmond and in front Of Peters.
burg There but exception, and that
was the shelling at Dutch Gap. an operation not
to be discontinued even for prayer and fast
service.
Many deserters from the Federal army have
been coming in from the north side of the James
within the past two days They report that the
Federal officers doing all things they can
think of 10 make the men fight Martial music
Is kept up all the time, and big rations OF
whiskey are being issued Deserters are pro-
verbally unreliable. but the fact that these
came within the lines with canteens well ilied
with whiskey goes TO prove the truth of at
least one of their assertions.
Secretary of tho Confederate States Treasury
u. A. trenholm, announces that loans on the
security of the $500, 600 6 per cent nontax-
able bonds Of the Confederacy. issued under the
seventh section of the currency law, deposits
are now call In this city, and by the assistant
treasurers at Charleston and Mobile and at the
depositaries at Wilmington Raleigh, Columbia.
Savannah, Augusta and Montgomery, and certlh-
Gates Will be issued for the same. bearing
Interest at the rate Of per cent per annum, by
bonds equal to the sum OF these loans The
bonds arc to be set apart by the Treasurer, and
the proceeds, when sold, applied exclusively to
tho payment of said certificates.
The enemy has unusually largo fleet in
Hampton Roads, among 1t several monitors and
other peculiar looking specimens OF naval
architecture
Two Federal gunboats assembled the Nanse-
mond River last week, and landed party Of
about sixty men, who made dash Chucka-
tuck and arrested all tho male citizens Of the
village except three very old men. Learning,
Confederate CONSUMPTION. they released the
prisoners with an admonition to keep out Of
the Confederate service.
Federal gunboats threatening the town
of Smithfeld, in Isle OF Wight County and they
may try to burn the town at any time.
Memphis papers. just received, emphatically
deny the reports of tho defeat of General
Sterling Price In Missouri. and set forth the idea
that these reports were especially gotten up to
help the election of Lincoln to the presid ency.
To the starving public, Tardy & Williams
grocers and commission merchants. offer at
private SALE In small quantities. potatoes,
apples, tallow, soap and chestnuts; also good
old whiskey in any quantities.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER Z. 1914.
THE TIMEs-DIsPATCH and Breakfast
arc served together with unfniling reEu-
lnrity I'm the Best Homes of Richmond
IsN your morning program complctef
The Decay of Rooseveltism

"A MEXICAN political history offers few
~ parallels to the disintegration which has
at last overtaken Colonel Roosevelts follow
ing. In 1912 he polled an amazing vote for
President. In 1914 utter and disgraceful de-
feat has been his lot, for in New York his
gubernatoral candidate was overwhelmed,
not only by the Republican and Democratic
candidates, but even by rather fshy and
impeached Ex-Governor, and in Pennsylvania
one OF the CoIonel's chief lieutenants has
made ridiculous showing in his race for the
United States senatorship.
&, The great Roosevelt myth has faded, be-
cause he has no platform except such as may
be found in his belief that he should be per-
petual President of the United States. OF
late, there have been indications that the edge
was being taken off this belief. Certainly the
voters have done all they can to dull it.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07
For the Good of the City and tho Annex

& "a PPROvAL by the Common Council OF a
IL $534,000 bond issue to effect improve
ments in the city's newly-acquired territory
passes this movement we'll on its way to final
incorporation in the citys fiscal policy. It is
a wise policy, demanded by the situation, and
there seems no reason to question that 1t will
receive the Endorsement of the Board Of AL
dermen and Of the Mayor.
The emergency appropriations that have
been made will answer immediate needs and
assure proper school facilities and police, fire
and health protection for the new territory,
until they are provided for regularly in the
municipal budget.
It would have been highly absurd for the
city to accept the alternative permitted by
the law, and walt five years before it could
avail itself in full measure Of its powers of
taxation in the annex. 1t would have been
equally absurd to defer for that period public
improvements needed to place the annex In
position OF equality with other sections of
Richmond.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07
The Voice of the People
Christianity md Nature at War.

To the Editor of The Times Dlspatch
Slr,--A benighted sufragist asks The Times
Dispatch for an explanation OF the phrase, Sex
Millennium" the title of an article that appeared
In this mornings paper by Virginia Woman %
Also she would like to ask the virginia
Woman" how IAN anomaly crack shelr7
Perhaps this communication should be addressed
to the Query Column. Virginia woman" finds
great fault with disrupted homes" In the
suffrage States. I suppose she has never known
any homes disrupted" by voting men in Yir-
ginla
The lady seems to imagine that Christianity
and nature and the same She says:
When cut loose from natures moorngs,
we drift we know not where" Hasn't 1t always
been the task of the Christian to war with
nature? SUFFRAGIST.
Richmond, November s, 1914.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07
DISPATCH RICHMOND VA SATURDAY NovEMBE7 1914
lcombatant Belgians should starye or freeze

combatant Belgians should starye or freeze
to death. -
The United States will do all 1t can to
alleviate the greatest collective misery the
world has probably ever known. But Ger
many would do moro for herself than many
press agents could do in the way of infiu-
encng American opinion II she would show
even an inclination to tighten Affections
caused by her own soldiers, acting, of course
under the stern stress OF military necessity.
II Is said that in Berlin food is plentiful
ana prices low. In Belgium there would soon
be no food at all at any price, were it not for
what Is being done by others than the
Germans
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07
What Hnppened to Nf.ryf

MARY" said her little brother Robert at the
breakfast table did Mr.. Evans take any Of the
umbrellas or hats from the rack when he was
Bobbie," replied Mary with laugh .'why
should he?" That's just what I'd like to know
said Bobbie, with puzzled air; because when
he went out heard him say, I'm going to steal
just one and--why, what's the matter. Mary ?"-
Weekly Telegraph.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07

Flippantly remarks the Norfolk virginian-pi
lot: "A Berlin d spatch says Turkey has for
mally annexed Egypt but Great Britain Mt tbis
writing still retains control of the government
and the country" Is the v-P so far hahIna
the advance of psychology that It cannot rive
Difference to the virtue OF absent treatment
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07
Puraued by. the Enemx.
Restaurant Proprietor-Whet was tt

with that customer who
jumped up from his seat,
threw a plate Mt you and
then rushed out OF the door
Waiter-Why, when ]
served his salad handed
him some French dressing.
Restaurant Proprietor
Well?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07
Kcenanr Eyerybody Du.y

Feeding the lighting men Is keeping Chicago
busy" says dispatch. And we might add that
lighting the feeding men is furnishing occupa-
ton for the balance OF us-Philadelphla Ledger.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07

The Petersburg Index-Appeal opines: Turkey
seems hunting for the hash" Which reminds
us that those ultra patriotic hotel and restau-
rant Keepers In London and Paris who have ex-
cluded German dishes from their menus nre
now hard crowded by the opportunity to scratch
another favorite from their cards.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07
The PessImist snx.,

It must be particularly hard on the Colonel
when he considers that the familys oflceholding
representative, after the next Congress takes
possession of the Capitol, Will be his stand pat
son-in-aw, Nick Longworth.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07
The Result I'm New York

THERE were many causes contributing to
l tho Democratic reverse in the State of
New York, some Of them similar to those in
other States, and others peculiar to New
York. Chief among the latter is probably the
fact that the Democratic party in the Empire
State is without effective leadership. Tam
many Hall Is the organization, and Tammany
Hall Is very much on the defensive in it's own
party, national, State and municipal
Governor Glynn, who sought reelection, is
admitted to have done well, and to have
given promise Of doing better. But he did
not develop any striking qualities Of LEADER
ship, either in conducting Tammany towards
the light or In leading an attack against
Mr.. Murphy's organization. Nor has any of
the anti-Tammany cohorts shown any but the
palest sort of generalship, or, one might even
say, of conviction.
The policy OF starving out" Tammany Hall
promises to be as slow method Of extinguish-
ing 1t as calling 1t hard names and prophecy
ing its impending dissolution 1t will be
swept away when the people, under the
leadership of the strong political general who
WILL in due course, be produced by the De-
mocracy of tho Empire State, resolve that it
must go.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07
To the Poini

Miss Ethel" he began. "or Ethel. I mean
I've known you long enough to drop the miss,
haven't IT' She fixed her lovely eyes upon him
with meaning gaze Yes. think you have"
she said. What prefix do you wish to substi-
tute?"-Catholc Citizen.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07
The sIeaninx of tho Censor.

Father" said the small boy, what do the
papers mean when they say that army
effected tactical withdrawals" \
That my son." said the fond parent us the
Same thing as military Marathon"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07

And fiery rhymester's burning stanza,
Nor will more material jab
Suffice to move this pest, Carranza.
Why won't he heed our fervent plea
And our, happiness enhance
BY dashing madly off to sea
And giving Mexico ohance7
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07
A Hard Date to Pass,

Did you send Helen Plum a birthday present2'
Yes, always do"
(which birthday Is it2"
II don't know, I'm inclined to think, however
that I've sent her three presents for the twenty
econd."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07

1t teaches us the plain lesson that the Dome
cratic party must nominate good men aud
In wise measures AZ it wishes to win. II
lose. Good citizens. even though they be the
most PARTISAN OF Democrats, would not have this
situation Observation-Disclosures Sun.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07
The Bright Side of Life

Atmosphere.
Going to the theatre again? Why, you saw
that piece only the other night"
Yes; but not in my new frock."-Fliegende
Blaetter.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-07

ut Is the same old defeated BILL is the way
the Newport News Press appraises the ruins
Quite 80. The mill refused to grind for Bill
with the water that had passed.