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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-09-10
Twa LiYes Saved.

Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction
City, ILL.,, was told by her doctors she
bad Consumption and that there was
no hore for her, but two bottles DR..
Kings New Discovery completely cured
her and she says it says 1t saved ber
life. Mr. Thos. Eggers, approach Con
sumption. tried without result every
thing else then bought one bottle OF
DR.. Kings New Discovery and in two
weeks was cured. He is naturally
thank tul. It is such results, of which
these are samples. that prove the won
derful efficacy of this medicine in
Coughs and Colds. Free trial bottles
at q. T. Whitehead & Co. 3 Drug Store.
Regular sire SOC. and $1.OO
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-09-10
NO. 80.
Lumber Used in Box MAKING.

Northwestern Lelnberman.
In discussion of the amount of
lumber used in the making of boxes,
Barrel and Box, paper recently start
ed at Louisville, Is authority for the
statement that certain Chicago SOAP
concern uses every year $1O5 900 worth
OF white pine soap boxes in Chicago
and $50, 900 worth OF cottonwood box-
es at St. Louis. The total number of
boxes used by this company last year
was 1,541 ,666. Another Chicago con-
Germ uses 100000 boxes every year.
The firm operates its own box factory
at Rhinelander, Wis. There are fifty
other soap manufacturers in this coun-
try, and Barrel and Box estimates that
altogether 150,OOO,OOO boxes are used
in packing soaps alone. Two of the
larger soap manufacturers expend each
year 100000 for boxes. If 100000
boxes cost 100000. 15O,OOO,OOO box
es would involve the expenditure of
$2O,OcO,OOO for soap packages alone.
Continuing the calculation through
the vast range of packing box demand,
which involves almost every industry
known to man, we can imagine how
enormous is the expenditure in its
grand total, and what an amount of
lumber is consumed in It's manufacture.
It is evident that the making of boxes
furnishes the largest percentage of the
demand for the coarser and common
grades of lumber, and that as the years
pass, there will be sure outlet for low
grade white pine, cottonwood, yellow
pine, and all other lumber that can be
worked into boxes.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-09-10
FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS

AN OLD AND WELL-TRIED REMEDY
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for over fifty years by mil
lions of mothers for their children
while teething, with perfect success. 1t
soothes the child, softens the gums,
allays all pain cures wind collie, and is
the best remedy for Diarrhea. Is
pleasant to the taste. Sold by Drug
gists in every part of the World.
Twenty five cents bottle. Its value
is incalculable. Be sure and ask for Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup, and take
no other kind. (R) 9 26 ly
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-09-10

English SPAWN Llnlment removes
all Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and
and Clemishes from horses. Blood
SPAWN Surbs. Splints. Sweeney, Ring
worm tifee, Spralns, ane Swollen
Through, Coughs, Etc. Save so by
use of one bottle. Warranted the
most wondrful Blemism Cure ever
known. Sold DO E. f. Whitehead 4
Co., Druggists, Scotland Neck, N. G.
10 / Nv.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-09-10
RELIEF IN SIX HOURS.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis
eases relieved IN six hours by the NEW
GREAT SOrrH AMERICAN kIrNET
CURE" This new ren.oy j. :, great
surprise on account of its exceeding
promptness in relieving pain in the
bladder, kidneys, back and every part
of the urinary passages in male or fe-
male. 1t relieves retention of water
and pain in passing il almost imnoti-
dtely. If you want quick relief and
cure thie is your remedy.
Sold by z r Whitehead and Co,
DrDUOiSfs Scotland ns.r
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-09-10
How the Cricket Saved the Ship.
Nineteenth Century,.

Nineteenth Century.
Just as Alvar Nunez's vessels were al
most on the rocks cricket commenced
to sing. which cricket a sick soldier
had put into the ship at Cadlz, being
anxious to hear its music and for the
two months which our navigation had
endured no one had heard it, whereat
the soldier was much enraged and as
that morning it felt the land (sintio la
tio--~> il oorA..e~oad TO .inn.- and it's
music wakened all the people OF the
ship, who saw the cliffs, which were
distant almost cross-bow shot from
where we were so we cast our anchors
and saved the ship; and it is certain
that if the cricket had not sung, all Of
us 400 soldiers and thirty horses had
been lost.
Some of the crew and soldiers accept
ed the occurrence as miracle from
God, but Nunez himself is silent on this
head, being a BETTER observer Of natu-
raj history than theologlan.
But, "from then and sailing more
than hundred leagues along the coast
always every evening the cricket gave
us his music, and thus with it we ar
rived at little port beyond Cape Frlo,
where the Adelando landed and un-
furled his flag, and took possession OF
the country for his majesty"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-09-10
Will You be Ready?
Talneoge.

Talmeage.
That day OF trial will come very sud-
denly. The farmer will be at the
plough, the merchant will be in the
counting-room, the woodman will be
ringing his axe on the hickones, the
weaver will have his foot on the tread
lie, the manufacturer will be walking
amid the buzz of looms and the clack
of flying machinery, the counsel may
be at the bar, pleading the law, the
minister may be in the pulpit pleading
the Gospel, and the drunkard may be
reeling amid his cups, and the bias
phemer with the oath caught between
his teeth.
Lo! The sun hides. Night comes
down at mld-ncon. The earth ehud-
ders and throbs. There an earthquake
opens and a city sinks as crocodile
would crunch a child. Mountains roll
In their sockets and send down their
granite cliffs in avalanche of rock.
Rivers pause in their chase for the sea
and ocean, uprearing cries to flying
Alps and Hlmalaya. Beasts below
and moan and snuff up the darkness.
Clouds fly like focks and swift eagles.
Great thunders beat and boom and
burst. Stars shoot aud fall. The AL
mighty, rising on His throne, declares
that time shall be no longer, and the
archangel's trump repeats it till all the
living hear, and the continents OF dead
spring to their feet, crying: "Time
shall be no longer !" Oh, on that day
will you be ready?"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-09-10
Fewer Saloons.

Atlanta Journal.
There has been desired decrease in
the number of liquor saloons ip this
country in the past few years. This is
due to various causes. In the South
the sale of intoxicating liquors has
been prohibited in great manyco
ties while nearly all the cities have
adopted system of high licenss and
have restricted more closely the limits
within which licenses are granted.
But the decrease in the number of
saloons is not restricted to the South ;
it extends to all sections.
Under the Ralnes law the number
of licenses is so limited that the num-
ber of saloons in New York has been
greatly reduced. Similar results are
seen however, in States and cities where
there is no law limiting the proportion
of the saloons to the population.l One
hundred of the 900 liquor dealers in
Louisville have failed to renewthe IL
censes this year. Chicago has 1000
fewer soloons this year than last.
The Pittsburg Leader says that the
sheriff has been kept busy in that city
recently levying executions on liquor
saloons. The Wine and Spirits Gazette
is authority for the statement that in
Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and 9th
er Western States, where the .Raines
law is unknown SALOONS are closing by
the Thousands Similar reports come
from many other States.
The Wine and Spirits Gazette is con-
vlnced "that the retail liquor trade of
the saloon business, which IS ss1e same
thing, Is much overdone. There are
more saloons in all our great commu-
mites than there is business for. OF
course they can not all live. The
weaker ones must go under, whether
subject to the Raines law, the Dow
law, the Nicholson law, or Neill Dow's
prohibition law"
The Journal recently published sta
tlstics showing that the consumption
of whiskey has decreased greatly in the
United States within the past five years,
but the consumption of malt liquors
has largely increased.
It has, however, the uniform testi-
mony of saloon keepers in all parts of
the country that there is not as much
money in their business now as there
was few years ago.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-09-10
PLUCKY WOMAN.
SHE FILLS VARIOUS POSITIONS,
Women Hold Their Own,
Weekly.

Les'eie's Weekly.
There is growing feeling that the
average woman may be relied upon to
make her way whenever she is given
an opportunity to fairly compete with
the average man, especially in those
employments which require acuteness
OF intellect, and do not demand any
great expenditure of physical strength.
We find women nowadays in practical
ly all spheres of activity, and they are
demonstrating more and more their ca
pacity for affairs. Secretary of Agri-
culture Morton has recently given
some very direct testimony in support
of the theory here stated. He states
In the clvil-service examinations which
have been had in connection with ap-
pointments to positions in the Agricul-
tural Department, the female candi-
dates in most cases pass better examl-
nation than the men and he adds that
they do their work equally we'll, if not
better than the men, when assigned to
duties of the same character. He in
stances the fact that at the last civil
service examination held TN his depart
ment for the purpose of securing two
male assistants in the library, eight
women, who were not invited to partic-
ipate, appeared, together with thirty
men, and being allowed to take their
chances with the latter, every one of
them passed, while every one of the
men failed. The secretary very prop
erly appointed two of the women, al
though the advertisement announcing
the examination had expressly stated
that only male candidates would be
considered eligible.
The facts stated by Secretary Morton
go to confirm the results which have
been attained in institutions of learning
where co-education exists The results
VI CuG dt DdudIu
the recent season attest in every res
pect the intellectual quality OF women
in certain of the more useful studies.
There are, OF course, people In the
world who do not like this aspect OF al
fairs, and who will very reluctantly sur
render the notion that woman should
not be given an equal chance in the
race of life but it goes without saying
that in view of the results OF experience
as they are accumulated year after year,
the most ultra-conservative will at last
be driven from his stronghold, and by
common consent the sexes VIII have
equal opportunity for the utilization OF
their powers in the service of mankind.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-09-10
SCOTLAND NECK, N. G., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER TO- 1896

city. Our ship during the ball locked
like flower garden. They sent the
flowers from the city in pots and placed
them in rows all over the ship which
was lighted up with electric lights.
There are few Cinnamon who reside
there and seem to be doing very we'll.
Our stay there was highly appreciated
by the natives.
We are on our way to Hong Kong,
China, and our ship is gliding through
the sea 30 nicely. Will write you
again on my arrival there.
G.. T. CURRfE.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-09-10
Old People.

Old people who re quire medicine to
regulate the bowels and kidneys will
find the true remedy in Electric bitters
This medicine does not stimulate and
contains no whiskey noN other intoxi-
can't, but acts as tonic and Alternative.
It acts mildly on the stomach and bw-
els, adding strength ana giving tone to
the organs: thereby aiding Nature in
the performance OF the functions. f.
lectric Bitters is an excellent appetizer
and aids digestion. Old people find it
Just exactly what they need. Price
fiftv cents and$1 90 per bottle at E. Z.
Whitehead & Cos Drug Store.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-09-10

A bad marriage is like an electric
machine 1t makes you dance but you
can't let go.
Rice paper is not made from rice,
but from the membranes of the bread
fruit tree.
Rain has never been known to fall
between the two lower falls of the Nile
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-09-10

WANTED-A gentleman OF stand
ing to represent Combined Contract
comprising two of the largest invest
ment and life insurance companies in
America. Address ThOs. A. p. Champ
lin, Sup't. First Floor (Rooms IL to 15)
McGill Building, Washington, d. C.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-09-10

Itch On human ana norses ana all
animals cured in 50 minutes py Wool
ford's Sanitary Lotion. This never
fails. Sold by +. T. Whitehead & Co.
Druggist, Scotland Neck NC,
IL 81 ly.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-09-10

FAT AS PFC.
J. J. Scruggs, of Sidon, Miss, says
"Cur little Girl 9 months old, was In a
very low state from summer complaint
and Gefmetuer made her las fat as a
pig"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-09-10
Saved the babies.

Mr.. j. T. McAlister. Atlanta, Ca,
says "Last June Germeteur saved our
baby, Paul, carried him safely through
an extremely bad case of dysentery and
teething, and from mere skeleton of
skin and bones, it has made him a
great big solid chunk of thirty or thirty
five pounds"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-09-10

There has been most wonderful i'm
provement in railroad travel during
the past few years. Formerly the fast
est travel and best equipped systems
were at the North, but of later years
the South is putting in about as good
work in this as can be found anywhere.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-09-10

A newspaper published in Madrid is
printed on linen, which may be wash
ed and and used afterwards as hand
kerchief.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-02

AN ENTIRELY new method of deal
ing with chronic drunkards has been
inaugurated by an Illinois justice of the
peace. Instead of sending them to
Jail, he exacts promise that they will
report at police headquarters three
times day in sober condition. 1t is
said that not single case has occurred
where the promise was broken. This
is common sense applied to law.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-02

The Monroe County wis., Democrat
says that more convicts are needed in
the binder Irvine factory at the Mime
sofa State prison." The Democrat is
very much mistaken. There are more
than enough convicts here, and the
prison officials and the public would
be very well pleased if the number of
convicts confined here was consider.
ably decreased.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-02

The diplomatic service has some
times been assailed in Congress as a
purely ornamental one; and while the
evident necessity of maintaining the
service is such as ought to save it from
the destructionists it is quite true that
our diplomatic relations with some of
the powers are more ceremonious than
practical. But we must be equipped
and prepared for emergencies, and ev-
cry now and then, even at the smallest
and most remote courts, there is a
critical need of an American repre-
sentative to protect American citizens
or American interests. -Ex-F PRESIDENT
Harrison in July Ladies' Home
Journal.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-02

WE ARE again indebted to the kind
ness of the author, M. G. Russell, ed
itor of the Riverside published at the
Industrial Training School at Red
Wing, Minn., for another charming lit
tie volume entitled Eoeaaing Thoughts;
it being the fifth number of the ''Ham.
mock Series The little book before
us contains many delightful passages
that will interest both the old and
young, but more especially are the
books of this series designed for the
young, containing, as they do, much
sound advice for youth, told in such a
manner that the reader cannot but feel
that the words come from the heart of
one who feels the deepest interest in
children.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-02

MANY agencies and theories for the
accomplishment of the moral reform
of the world have been advanced, but
it remained for doctor of the "Windy
City" to propose the queerest plan.
He claims that prunes act directly on
the nervous system, the source of the
evil passions, and hence would pre-
scribe diet of that fruit to all per-
sons inclined toward wickedness. Per.
haps the doctor experimental on
himself and consequently knows
whereof he speaks.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-02
Is JUSTICE BLIND


"A FEELING exists among the enormous
foreign population of this country, and
more or less among the clover" classes
of Americans themselves, that the law
is not impartially administered as be.
tween the rich and the poor.
1t the daughter of prominent pub
lie official in her hot-headed haste
shoots and kills poor boy, who, child
like, tries to steal few apples from
her orchard, she has only to submit to
a few hours Imprisonment in the pri-
vate apartments of the jailer by way
of punisl ment. When a "lady' is
caught sh pIift.ng, her social standing
is immediately taken as proof that
she is Eiep,,n tniac and not a COM
mon, ord mas ief. Thereupon pros
ecuting at1essys and judges, ashamed
almost O. ha9lng to inflict the indig-
nifty OF appearance in police court
upon the culprit, hasten to secure her
a speedy acquittal.
When a poor victim of the hard
times, unable to obtain the scantiest
employment by means of which he can
provide for his little ones, steals few
cents worth of food, he is promptly
sent to prison so that the family NAV
suffer still more unendurably on &C.
count of his absence.
But mark the change when a man is
accused of swindling his partners out
of millions of dollars, or of "wickedlv.
unjustly or maliciously conducting his
businessv' Does he go to prison? No.
Sycophantic lawyers and judges are
ready to find extenuating circumstan-
ces in his favor, and after thousands
of dollars of the public money have
been expended in his prosecution the
dishonest stock magnate is allowed to
60 free on some legal technicality.
Two young women, daughters of a
prominent business man in New York,
were recently charged with grand lar
ceny. They, or one of them, stole, it is
said, the clothes and trinkets of other
society people who were their neigh
bors. 1t is doubtful if any further pro-
ceedings will be taken against these
young ladies because they are "well
Connected 1t seems, therefore, that
the construction put upon such cases
is that a person to be an actual criminal
must be poor, and that if he or she be-
longs to the "better" classes their un-
lawful action must be due to tempo
rary alteration of the mind.
This may be the psychological expla-
nation of the matter, but it is not the
one at which common, ordinary, every
day justice would arrive. A more nat
ural construction to put upon such
cases would be that the greed of pos
session increases with the amount of
ones accumulations, particularly in
cases where the methods used are more
or less questionable, and that thieving
is developed, like all other vices, from
the cravings of an stimulated ap-
petite. In Republic like ours there
should be the most thorough attempt
made in every instance to secure an
administration of the law,
because the very basis of individual
liberty is involved in such DECISIONS
Golfers Weekly.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-02

EVERY policeman in Chicago is sup
posed to have passed civil service ex-
animation and to have been instructed
in the duties of his position. But it
does not seem to have improved their
intelligence or judgment. A man and
his wife were arrested and confined in
a police station for five hours the other
evening for kissing one another on the
street. Frequent robberies of stores in
broad daylight have lately occurred
but on such occasions these vigilant
officers are less alert or else conven-
iently absent from their posts. There
is less danger in arresting a peaceable
man than in experimenting robbers with
guns in their hands.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-02

The Mormons did not let up on po-
lygamy any too soon. Just imagine
eighteen or twenty wives futtering
around and demanding 500 bicycles
Utah is an ideal bicycle country
Chicago Inter Ocean.
An Eastern statesman has discovered
that crime decreases with the increase
of the sale of bicycles. That is easy
enough to explain. A whole lot of
young men who were formerly out
looking for trouble are now out taking
evening spins on their wheeIs.-St. Paul
Globe.
Franklin wished that he could live a
hundred years longer to see what ad-
vance the world would make in that
time. 1t has gone ahead considerably
in science and invention, but, as far as
men are concerned, Franklin would
find himself second to nobody on earth.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Salem Statesman" has sued the
city marshal for 30 cents, alleged to
be due on subscription, which indicates
that the most friendly relations do not
exist between the officer and the editor.
1t is not stated whether the knight of
the pencil has ever been immured,
justly or otherwise, in the city bastile
at the instance of the officer, but he
may be hereafter if he doesn't carry
himself straight. Welcome.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-02

One of the most amusing tales that
has appeared in recent years is "An
East End Enoch Arden" by Arthur
Morrison, which is printed in the San
Francisco Argom0ut of June goth. 1t
tells of an English husband who re.
turns to find his wife married to an.
other man, and offers to retire and say
nothing on receiving certain sum
from the new husband. But the wife
is termagant, and neither wants her.
From this situation very funny story
has been written.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-02

fortunate enough to secure the wit
nesses. 1t such had not been the case
the woman would undoubtedly have
been convicted and probably electro
cuted. The unreliability of expert
testimony has become such that it is
almost valueless in criminal trials.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-02

CONGRESS has passed bill adopting
the metric system as the standard
for weights and measures. This
means an entire change of our pres
ent cumbersome methods of meas
urements. Instead of buying articles
by the yard or quart they will be pur-
chased by the metre or litre. The next
thing in order is to brush up on our
old half-forgotten knowledge, for
very few of US can state these eouiva-
Tents in the denominations in use.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-07-02

THE MIRROR is weekly paper published
In the Minnesota State Prison. 1t was founded
In 1887 by the prisoners and is edited and man
aged by them. Its objects are to be home
newspaper; to encourage moral and intellectual
Improvement among the prisoners; to acquaint
the public with the true STATUS of the prisoner;
to disseminate pathological information and to aid
In dispelling that prejudice which has ever been
the bar sinister to fallen mans sef-redemption.
The paper is entirely dependent on the public for
Its financial support. If at any time there should
accrue surplus of funds, the money would be
expended in the interests of the prison library.