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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-12-10
SCOTLAND NECK N c.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER TO- 1896

you think? The other day she called
on sick boy though she did not know
him. We boys reverence her." That
is model old age.
To THE YOUNG: Remember, young
folks, as you grow with me into fuller
understanding of your actual existence
as living responsible thing, separate
as to identify from every other, that
the world is and must be run by the
people that are IN it. How absurdly
simple that sounds But the sound is
the only simple part OF it. Give the
fact deep thought and it will encour-
age you as 1t has me to put forth the
best effort possible. To realize that
the multitudinous activities of the
world are based upon living beings, not
dead ones, is to get the belief burned
into your soul that you-obscure, in
significant, weak perhaps-are part OF
the machinery.
Then too the active participants in
the great affairs of the world are just
ordlnar professionally very ordinary
human beings. They have the same
kind of flesh as you, the same tenden-
CIV to idIeness, the same pleasure in
ease, the same series to run through OF
birth, growth, death. True, all people
cannot be great, but that does not take
them out Of the machine or away from
the need of doing their little part we'll
It would be fine engine indeed made
only of piston-rods. Where then the
steam. the boiler to contain 1t, the
governor to control it, the heat to gen.
crate it? The things we have around
us, creature comforts, ETC., are the re-
suit OF an endless series of causes and
effects, so that our breakfast table even
is loaded down with the products OF
widely separated places. SO long, too,
as you and live, we are in living
chain of human beings, each one bear.
! ing some share OF the pull or RESPONSE
| bility that bears upon all.
| When you have reached this point
of deduction from my simple assertion
"the world is run by the people that
are IN it," you will find growing up in
your heart a sense of conservation. Il
YOU feel at all as I do you will say ESQ
help me God, as l am part OF this huge
human machine, as my talthfulnes'
even in the most obscure spot will hell
to make it better, will watch not t.
tall short of my duty" and, dear cage
sonls scattered over this country in thu
busy city, the silent farmhouse, tn
dreary hillside, the fertile valley let M
tell you that conservation to an Idea
hath satisfaction in it.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-12-10
FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS

An OLD AND WELI-TRIED REMEDY
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for over fifty years by mill
lions Of mothers for their children
while teething, with perfect success. It
soothes the child, softcns the gums,
allays all pain cures wind collie, and is
the hest remedy for Diarrh@a. Is
pleasant to the taste. Sold by Drug
gists in every part of the World.
Twenty FIVE cents bottle. It's value
is incalculable. BE sure and ask for Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup, and take
no other kind. (H) 20 ~
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-12-10

WANTED-A gentleman q stand
ing to represent Combined Contract
COMPRISING two Of the larges invest
ment and life insurance companies IN
America. Address Thns. A. p. Champ
lin. Snr't. F,r-' ~ rr Rooms II 70 lt>
McGiii Building. Washington, ID. q.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-12-10
ROCKY MOUNT, N. G.
.Buckner Davis.

English SPAWN L,nlment removes
all Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and
and Clemishes from horses. Blood
SPAWN Surbs, Splints. Sweeney, Ring
worm titles, Spralns, and Swollen
Through, Coughs. Etc. Save 80 by
Use of one bottle. Warracted the
most wonderful Blemism Cue ever
known. Sold DO f. T Whitehead e
Co., Druggists, Scotland Neck, n. G.
10 ".
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-12-10
The EDITORS LEISURE HOURS.
Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past and Future.

Thomas E. Watson, the late Popu-
list candidate for Vice President, has
declared that he is now out of politics
for good. He is disguised with things
as managed by Senators Butler and AL
len, and thinks the Populist party must
plav Glands Off with all other parties
if it would succeed. He Is giving bis
attention to his law practice.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-12-10
uu0soNS ENGLISH KITCHEN,
1o7 Maj, Ct NORFOLK. VA,

1877 Main ST., NORFOLK, VA.
Ia the Leading Dining Room in the
CITY for Ladies and Gentlemen. Strict
~ a Temperance Place. All meals Zoe
~Hrdson's> Surprising Coffee 8
Specially. l 16 ly~
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-12-10

Judge Cundriff of Enid, Oklahoma,
has been committed to the insane asy-
lum, having become insane over poll
fics. He was formerly Of Nebraska,
and made the speech that nominated
w. J. BRYAN for Congress the first time
During the recent campaign he stump
ed Kansas and Nebraska for Mr.. Bryan,
and the strain and excitement were 90
heavy 1t unbalanced his mind. 1t Is
worth while for every citizen to be in
terested IN whatever concerns the wei
fare Of the country, but when 1t comes
70 going crazy about a thing, men
ought to hold up little.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-12-10

One of the greatest business success
es of IT,. age is the Harvesting OF the
power of Niagara Falls to run the street
cars and electric light plants In Butfa-
10, some forty miles away. The "tumb-
ling waste of waters" thus utilized Is
almost startling in its realities and the
success of the venture is due principal
" to Mr.. William F. Rankine, young
LAWYER under forty years OF age. Alter
futile calculations and attempts by 9th
ers to devise plan for this work, 1t was
left for Mr.. Rankine to thus harness
the mighty power that has been lost II
its roaring thunder for ages, and turn
it to utility for the convenience ane
happiness of mankind.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-12-10

Women lawyers are truly product
Of the last quarter of century. Twen-
tv-6ve wears ago the idea OF women
nractic,ng law was "laughed to scorn'
Rut this is truly an age of developments
and in 1890 the census showed tna'
there we're 28O women lawyers In the
Tinted States. And while there has
hoo, M census taken since that time
it. is safely estimated that they nov
number at least 500. Other countrle
have women lawyers, but none half a
many as the United States.
A late as 1870 the Supreme court o
Illinois denied the right OF women L
practice law, and the United States 81
.o,ne court affirmed Its decision, Chic
1,st,ce Chase dissenting. Three year
,,.o~ tho LEGISLATURE of the same STAT
nassed an act that sex shou'o pr
Guide no person from any occupa'o
oxcent fbe military. From that t'n
uo,,e, have had law practicine PRIV
os !, Illinois, and from that otate
has s,read to many others. Chicaf
mas most of them Mics Blanche : %
ing is one of the most remarkable IA
vers Of the Windy City. She Is tota'
.,;,d vet has attained to conslderao
d;s+;nct,on both as a lawyer and Pc.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-12-10
&Z6 Cline Unlimited

Just think of gaming such an educa-
ton for SO small an amount. rms Oh
fer is good only until Jan. ~, ~.
Write for particulars to
COLUMBIA BUSINESS COLLEGE,
=, 9e an Norfolk, Va.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-12-10
Great Offer.

THE COLUMBIA BUSINESS COL
IEGE. OF NORFOLK, VA, offers =
full course in StenOgraphy or BOOK
keeping and Penmanship tor only
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-12-10

There are many attractions in the
large towns and cities, to be sure, which
often cause the jewellers in small towns
and rural districts to feel inclined to
change their habitat. But imposing
brick walls and ringing payements do
not tell all about life in the city. The
good people OF Norfolk are now in NOR
tai dread of water famine and are as
careful how they waste water as the
country people are with the Christmas
goodies they get from the city.
If all the plans that are now being
mentioned for asking various kinds OF
legislation at the hands of the next
General Assembly mature, that bod ;
| will certainly have full hands. Busi-
ness will be at flood-tide for the entire
sixty days. Many town charter Is to
lie amended, so say the bulletin boards
! and among the number is the good
| town of Washington. The best people
OF that town are perfectly we'll satisfied
with its present bounds and limits, We
Suppose but they are to have contest
| over the matter.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-05-29

Additional local trains leave stanton as
follows: Except Sunday, 347 p. m. Arrives
Clifton Forge 5.55 p. M
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-05-29
&roke Jail at Franklin:

On last Friday night, Israel Cole.
who was sentenced by the Pendlc'
ton circuit court to Imprisonment
in the West Virginia penitentiary
for FIVE years for house-breaklng'
and would haye been taken there
on Tie arst Of June. broke jail and,
it seems, has made good his escape.
The jail at Franklin is quite an
cient, being constructed similar to
the old one Highland was afflicted
with for many years, and the escape
was effected by twenty-penny
nail used in disconnecting one OF
the hirges on the iron door,
At Ell ght O'Clock when Mr.. Davis
the TAILOR, found his prisoner gone,
search was at once instituted, and
after sometime it was found that
he had gone toward Monterey.
States Attorney B. II. Hiner, Sher-
if J. II. Simmons, Mr.. Hugh Boggs
and the jai'or's son arrived at Mon
terey at noon Sunday, having trac-
ed their man to the Fork 5 OF Wa
ter. They thought they had locat-
ed the territory in which Mr.. Cole
would spend Sunday, and prepara-
tions were made for raid Sunday
night. Oar sheriff took the mat
ter in hand, and his assistants were
every person in town who could
borrow gun. Thorough search
was made, some remaining out the
whole night but the party returned
as it went, without tidings Of the
prisoner.
At five o'clock Sunday morning,
man, who was seen by several
parties, went through town. turn
ing On The road leading to Warm
Springs, He was seen a couple OF
miles south Of town, and the de-
scrlption given compares with that
Of the escaped prisoner, but nc
further information has been re-
ceived. 1t IS supposed his object
i've point was Hot Springs, on the
C, so. A reward of fifty dollars
has been offered by the sheriff OF
Pendleton county for Coles arrest
and delivery to the Highland oil
Pendleton Jail.
Cole, We understand, is native
Of OHIO, and has two brothers, who
are ministers, who attended the tri'
al when be was convicted Of the
felony of house-breaking.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-05-29
Franklin wv. Va.)
Wooden Mills.

These mills have just been refit-
ted with modern improvements, and
are now ready to do frst-class
work. Arrangements have been
made to deposit your wool at a
number Of convenient places in the
county, from which the Mills Co.
will receive it, and after carding
it will return it to the same place
for only &C.. just about what it is
W ,rth to card it. You can leave
your wool at the most convenient
Of the following places:
J. NJ. Jones & Co.'S Store.
John J. liners
0rndorff & Whitelaw's
Geo. w. Heyener's
Osborne Calhoun's
H. Il. Colaw's
Bud Fleisher's house.
You cannot afford to sell your
wool at the distressingly low price
that is being paid for wool this
year and pay about as much for
your wooden goods as you did when
YOU received double as much for
your wool; so it will pay you to
have it manufactured.
Leave your package at any OF
the above places, plainly mark II
with your name, and you Will have
no more trouble with it until you
have it returned to the same place
in a few days afterwards. We vii
make our first visit to the above
places about June LIST, and will
make a second trip about the last
of June.
Franklin Wooden fills Co,
May %, 1896. In
l.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-05-29

The clad" of beer drinking may LOOK
trivial 1t is followed by the " 1ad Oh
kidney disease, as direct consequence
And that is not trivial. That means the
grave and is solemn. The SITUATION
would be truly alarming and threaten
the extinction of the race were it nov
for two things.
1. There is always hope OF retorma'
ton in the hearts of the people. When
the dangerous increase of kidney aus.
ease is sufficiently sounded, there VIII
be reform. Thss will assure future
generations.
Q. AS to the afflicted of to-day, a
knowledge of DR.. Fenner's Kidney and
Backache Cure will restore all who are
adroit enough to resort to it's use before
it is too late. Also cures female weak,
ness. heart disease, rheumatism and all
blood diseases. 1t will neither decelye
nor disappoint. If IN need take bottle
home with you to-day. Delays are
dangerous. Money refunded II satis
faction not given.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-05-29

Mr.. J. II. Simmons, sheriff OF
Pendleton county, remained here
during this term Of the court.
P. C. Curran, lightnips-rod man
from Greenville, Tenn. is in High
land in the interest Of his business
Mr.. Andy Rexrode and wife and
daughter, Miss Abbie, of Dry Ran,
W. Va, were in Monterey a short
while today.
MIR. Arch Revercomb and mother
and Mr.. j. F. Wamsley, Of Bull
Pasture, spent last night in Mon
terey. They were here laying in
supplies Of merchandise at '. B.
Bishops.
l-iMr. Sam'l Lightner and wife,
who are said to be the happiest and
iolliest old couple on Back Greek
we're in town yesterday. Mr,
Lightner came on business and
Mrs. Lightner to pay her respects
to her county-seat and her many
friends who reside here. In sum-
ming up the years that have pass
ed since her last visit to Monterey,
she found that she had to look
backward nearly an average life
time. Her last visit here was in
June, 1867, nearly twenty-nine
years ago.
Messrs. Simon Loewy, George e.
Ervine and r. S. Beach, Baltimore
travelling men, spent Sunday at
the Commercial. Mr.. Beach say s
drummers are greatly imposed on
by hotel men. Among many illus
trations given by him was this one
"A drummer will sit alongside a
farmer and eat half as much as the
farmer. The drummer pays fifty
cents and the farmer quarter, and
we have to kick a quarters worth
to get even" Drummer5 may DC
imposed on. but they are the jolli-
est set on earth and get more fun
as they go along than any Other
class, and as general thing they
are able to take care OF themselves
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-05-29
TUFTS Pills
Cure All
Liver Ills.

The "fads" OF
society are on the
increase. They
seem to be trivs
ial, but they are
n IT. E v er J
movement has
IFS consequence.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-02-14
DRIFT OF OPINION.

UThe wise democratic statesman is
the one who keeps so still that his party
will not talk of nominating him for
president.-St. Louis GlObe-Democrat.
U0f Mr.. Cleveland we can all unite
in saying that he has been more sue
cessful in managing his own finances
than in managing those of the country.
Iowa State Register.
Ex-senator German has decided to
retire from politics at the expiration of
his present term in the senate. As the
voters in Maryland came to the same
decision November this seems to
make it unanimous.-Chica Press
and Journal.
ONow that Mr.. Cleveland has turned
the republicans all out he IS striving to
bring all government jobs under the
civil service provisions. That way of
perpetuating lot of democrats in Office
will not succeed. We have federal Office
holders influence enough as il is.-Iowa
State Register.
OThe democratic tariff law has come
short of supplying sufficient revenue by
an average of over $4,000, 900 per month.
1t is very easy, therefore, for the ordi
nary citizen to see how arti-protection
legislation has failed to prove advan-
tageous to the country. - st. Louis
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-02-14
A LIGHT HE HAS SEEN.
Cleveland's Change of Front on the Behl
ing Sea Claims.

Cleveland's Change of Front on the Behr-
ing Sea Claims.
Mr.. Cleveland laments that congress
did not sanction his proposal to pay
Great Britain an eXtortionate lumpsum
in settlement of largely fictitious
"Behring sea claims" But he has seen
enough of a light to lead him now to
submit that matter to arbitration, as
he should have done at the outset. His
commentator of Mr.. Terrell for his
conduct during the troubles in Turkey
almost exactly comedies with what the
Tribune has said on the same subject.
II would come from him with better
grace if it were accompanied with as
surances that Mr.. Terrell would have
the material support he needs. which
MIR. Cleveland indeed favors giving him,
but which Mr.. Cleveland's party has
stubbornly denied him and his fellow
diplomats. Various other foreign
topics are treated in the message in 4
f.erfunctOry and somewhat listless man
ner. Excepting in the case of Vene-
zuela. the note of authority is lacking.
Clerkship. not craftsmanship. per-
vades the document. If. however. it
does not greatly inspire, it will not
greatly humiliate. the nation. White
house diplomacy has improved a little
since the days of Paramount Blount.-
y. Y. Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-02-14
THE IRON FURNACES.
An Important Industry Helped by Demo-
cratic Defeat.


cratic DeTeat.
Statistics given by the Iron Age show
that there has been an almost steady
increase in the production OF iron dur
ing the last six months. The weekly
-outpot of the furnaces rose from 1885,
554 gross tons at the beginning of May,
1895. TIC 2l7,306 tons at the beginning of
this month. The latter total is 12 per
cent. greater than the 193,9O2 tons week
~ output at the beginning of March,
1882, during republican good times,
which was the largest product of any
week in the five years next preceding
the present one. The total output of
pig iron Tor last month is estimated at
915.3z6 tons, being at the rate of nearly
1l,00O.000 tons per annum, while the
largest output of any previous year was
the 9.2O2, 7O3 tons reported for 1890.
The price of the product seems to have
reached the highest point few weeks
ago 1t has declined some since then,
hut it is said there is large profit in it
TO the furnace men at present figures.
At this date there are yet no serious
signs Of overproduction, though the I'M
precedented activity may be accepted
as an indication that prices will not adj
vance from the level now ruling, but on
the contrary will decline.
The New York Times ULTRA free
trade) comments on this with the re-
mark that 1.-The attention of republican
demagogues who have recently been
complaining that the new tariff has
quenehed the furnace fires should be
directed TO these facts" Why the at
tention of republicans more than that
of democrats? The policy of the demo-
Gratis. as shown in the Cleveland-Wil-
son bill which passed the house, did
"quench the furnace fires" to lamenta-
BILE extent. The highest weekly pro-
duction reported for 1894 was IS per
cent less than that of 1892, the year be-
fore the free-trade wreckers assumed
the control of national affairs. But the
country would not stay ruined. After
a fearful curtailment of production,
lasting about two years, the voters
knocked the democratic party policy
into "a cooked hat" at the November
elections of 1854. And quickly there
after the times began to improve. The
railroad companies and other purchas-
ers Of iron and steel and their products
were encouraged to buy more freely to
replace metal that had worn out in the
hard times and prepare for the better
business which they believed would
come in spite of democratic free trade
schemes with the tariff-not in conse-
ouence of their foolish action, but be-
cause the smashing defeat it received
had the effect of restoring lost con-
fidence in the minds of all business men.
-Chicapo Tribune
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-02-14

Acquainted VIII Ifer WBakhtss'
There's no use in trying to bring
her to. doctor; she's dead"
How do you know?"
"If she were alive she would speak"
Town Topics.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-02-14
PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER.
The Democracy Are in a Bad Way for
Leader.

The Democracy Are in Bad Way for
Leader.
Apropos of the third-term gable
concerning Cleveland-where will the
democracy find an available presi-
dental candidate other than he?
Campbell is no longer possibility.
The Ohio election settled that. Nor is
German in the line of party promo
ton. No sane democrat would favor
n man who is the senatorial creature
of the trusts, and whose state has gone
republican by way of protest against
his political methods.
Carlisle is not an available quantity.
His state has gone republican. He is
in accord with Cleveland on the money
question. BE is therefore weaker than
his chief The same thing is true of
Whitney. While he shares Cleveland's
views on finance, his affiliations with
the standard oil trust and the rank
and file of the democracy would not
support q man identified with the big
gest trust in the world.
Nor is Stevenson, the vice president,
an available man. He is a nonentity.
The eastern democrats laugh at him,
and in the west he has no following
Horizontal Bill" Morrison is a figure
from the past, and the situation de-
mands strong, active man of affairs,
and not back number
No free silver man will get the nomi-
nation, and this cuts out Senator Nor
gan, of Alabama; Bland and Vest, of
Missouri; Crisp, of Georgia, and a
shoal of other demagogic hackers of
crankism.
Hill. of New York, cannot carry his
OWE state, and New York is necessity
10 the democrats in order to win next
wear. Brice, of New York, has presi-
Dental aspirations, but his late defeat
in Ohio has rendered him unavailable,
TO say nothing of his record in the
senate.
Secretary Olney is pretentious hum
Oug, and awakes no enthusiasm in the
party. Gov. Matthews, of Indiana, is
several sizes too small, Gov. Altgeld, of
Illinois, is too sympathetic with an
archy, socialism and similar dangerous
lads.
We do not take much stock in the
1hird-term boom; but when you come
10 look over the field. it is plain there
is not a democratic possibility who is
any stronger than is Cleveland. 1t is
this fact which alone gives the talk
CT renOminating Cleveland any i'm
portance whatever.-Toledo Blade.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-02-14
A More Fitting Comparison.

Chclly Chumpleigh-Do you consider
marriage lottery?
Miss Coldeal-No, do not. think
it is more like progressive euchre than
e lottery.
Cholly Chumpleigh-How extraordi-
nary! May ask you in what way?
Miss Coldeal-Because there are so
many BOBBY prizes in tn. Y. World.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-02-14
An Impulse of Reyeure.

Hobbs-Why didn't you holler to
that man when you saw that piece of
falling scantling was going to give him
a thump?
hobbs (grimly)-He's my dentist
had just finished working on me.-Chi-
capo Record
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-02-14

OThe president was relieved of one
OF the old democratic subjects which
caused sorrow and groaning upon an
earlier occasion. That was "the danger
of an enormous surplus in the treas
ury."-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-02-14
Acquainted with Her Weakness.

Senior Partner-Well, he collected a
debt from me the other daY.-Truth.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-02-14

Junior Partner-Why did you give
drummer the job of collecting debts
for our firm? Do you think he is any
good?
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-02-14
Her Feelings Find Vent.

'Mr. Editor" wrote the soulful
maiden, there are some verses / have
written to express my deep grief over
the loss of my pet canary. If you
think they are worthy of publication
please send me two dollars for them"
Chicago Tribune.