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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-07-02
Not Genial Labor.
Monroe Journal.

Monroe Journal.
We have noticed great deal lately
about boys working their way through
college by doing menial work. So
many "young men at such and such a
place working their own way, some by
sweeping the halls, some by blacking
boots, some by chopping wood" some
by one thing and some by another.
All of that will do to tell, but there is
not much truth In it. It may have
done for years gone by, but it is out of
date now.
There are, of course, many young
men at the various colleges who are
paying their own way, some by saving
money before they go, some by working
at intervals, and many by borrowing to
pay back when their courses are COM
pleted, but we venture to say that there
were not two men in all the State last
year who were paying their way by do
ing menial work on the college campus.
Iu the first place it would be impossible
for them to thus make more than
enough to pay for their salt. In the
next place they will not do 1t. There
are too many paths open to them to
make money without going to college,
the inducements Of an education are
not great enough to make them bear
the humiliation which the above course
brings. A college boy could not stand
it he would rather quit and try some
thing else.
By this we do not mean to discredit
manual labor. It Is honorable, as
much so as any other kind of course.
But this thing of waiting upon fell
low students is thing that won't pass.
It does not, of course, amount to any
thing, except that there is considerable
talk about it every year. And another
feature of it is that there are too many
ways for young man who shows him.
self worthy to obtain money. He can
get it some way. There is always a
friend somewhere, and he gets the
money, devotes himself to study instead
OF boot bIacking, and is soon able to re-
turn it.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-07-02
Words Of Wisdom.
Selected.

Selected.
Cleverness is eort of genius for in
strumentality. It is the brain of the
hand.
People seldom improve when they
have no model but themselves to copy
after.
An old truth stated In new way
will hit and stick where it has often
missed.
The injuries we do and those we sui
fer are seldom weighed in the same bal
ance.
If idlepese does not produce vice or
malevolence, it commonly produces
melancholy.
Nurture your mind with greet
thoughts ; to believe in the heroic makes
heroes.
When we stop looking toward the
wrong place we will not find it 80 hard
to stay in the right place.
You never know how dear things are
until you buy them, nor how cheap
they are until you sell them.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-07-02
Marvellous Resuts.

From letter written by Rev. J.
Gunderman, of Dlmondale, Mich we
are permitted to make this extract II
have no hesitation in recommending
DIR. Kings New Discovery, AS the re-
suits we're almost marvellous in the case
of nv wife. While was pastor of the
Baptlst Church at Rives Janction she
was brought down with Pneumonia
succeeding la grippe. Terrible parox-
yisms of coughing would last hours
with little interruption and it seemed
as if she could not survive them. A
frsend recommended DR.. Kings New
Discovery it was quick IN its work and
highly satisfactory in Results" Trial
bottles free at E. T. Whitehead & Co.'S
Drug store. Regular size 500 and 81.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-07-02
Selling Girls in Japan.

Sentinel. - ~
News comes from Japan that the fam
inc in Kwang 81 province has become
so severe that rice is selling for SO or
SIP plcul. At such a price only
wealthy persons can afford to use this
staple article of diet.
It is stated that In view of the fmpos-
sibility of supporting life in the poorer
families, permission has been given to
sell children, and that girls from IL to
IA are offered in the open market from
So to $50.
The British Consul at Canton has
taken steps to form an estimate of the
ravages of the Bubonic plague in that
city. BY counting the coffins as they
passed out of the gates of the city he
concluded that about 24O people are
dying daily. The population OF Canton
is something like 100000.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-07-02
BEAUTIFUL. LOVE.
ATTACHMENT STRONG IN
DEATH
Passed Away With a Picture Of The
Vice-Presldent In his Hand.

Washington Post.
Vice President Stevenson received a
touching proof of affection yesterday
from an old negro servant. James
Thomas was negro OF the old school,
courteous, faithful, and tender in his
attachment for those whom he regard
ed as his betters, and wac we're good to
him. He was messenger in the Post
Office Department when Mr.. Stevenson
was First Assistant Postmaster General.
During the time he held that Office,
Mr.. Stevenson had severe attack of
sickness. Old Thomas nursed him
through It. The klndliness which mark
ed his services in that crisis and the
value of them, were appreciated thor
oughly by MIR. Stevenson, and ever al
terward he had a warm place in his
heart for his faithful attendant. He
saw that the old man wanted for moth
ing, and withal displayed such kindly
regard for him that old Thomas affec-
ton grew to a positive veneratlon.
While the Vice President was in Al
ALBANIA, he received letter from one of
old Thomas relatives, notifying him
that the old man was dangerously sick.
As soon as Mr.. Stevenson returned yes
terday morning he sent his son Louis
to the old negroes home, 1885 Pierce
place, to notify him that he would be
out to see him, and find out if there
was anything that could be done for
the sufferers comfort. When Louis
arrived at the house, the faithful old
Thomas was dead, and his mourning
relatives told him this pathetic story:
An hour before the old man died,
they said, he arose from his bed, went
into another room, secured portrait Of
the Vice-President which Mr.. Steven
son had given him, went back to his
bed, and held it in his hands with his
eyes fixed upon it. Thus he died.
When Louis Stevenson was taken into
the room where the old man lay, the
photograph of his father was still held
firmly In the old mans hands.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-07-02
Electric Bitters.

Electric Bitters is a medine suited for
any season, but perhaps more generlly
needed, when the languid exhausted
feeling prevails, when the liver Ia tor
pid and sluggish and the need OF tom
ic and alternative is felt. A prompt
use of this medicine has often averted
long and perhaps fatal bilious levers
No medicine will act more surely In
counteractlng and freeing the system
from the malarial poison. Headache,
Indigestion, constipation, Dizziness.
Weld TO Electric Bitters. 5Oc. and 81
per bottle at e. T. Whitehead & Cos.
Drug Store.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-07-02
RELIEF IN SIX HOURS.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis
eases relieved in six hours by the "NEw
GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN KIDNEY
CURE" This new remedy is a great
surprise on account of it's 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 it almost immedi-
ately. If you want quick relief and
cure this is your remedy.
Sold by E. T. Whitehead and Co.,
Drn9oists. Scotland Neck, n. G.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-07-02

Boston Post.
"Say, think my landlord is one of
the meanest men I eyer met IN my
life"
"Well, what's the trouble now. How
do you make that out?"
"How do I make it out? Why, he
raised my rent when he took the paper
oil the wall because he said it made the
rooms larger.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-07-02

English Spawn llnlment removes
all Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and
and Clemishes from horses. Blood
SPAWN Surbs, Splints, Sweeney, Ring
worm tifies, Spralns, and Swollen
Through, Coughs, Etc. Save 30 by
use of one bottle. Warranted the
most wondrful Blemism Cure ever
known. Sold DO E. T. Whitehead 4
Co., Druggists, Scotland Neck, N. G.
10 lY.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-07-02
FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS

AN OLD AND WELL~TR1ED 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, softens the gums,
allays all pain cures wind collie, and is
the best remedy for Diarrhna. IL
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. (R) 9 26 1v
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-07-02
BRIGHT GIRLS.
FROM SIXTEEN 70 TWENTY
Girls Look Only On the Bright and
Shining Sides Of Life.

A young man addresses to Edward
w. Box the query: "Why is 1t that
in SO many cases, might almost say
in the majority Of cases, a quiet, we'll
behaved, earnest minded, religious
young mans seriousness is ignored by
so many girls between sixteen and
twenty, and the company OF gfddy, idle,
senseless youths preferred ?" and in the
July Ladies Home Journal editorial re-
ply is made. Mr.. Box contends that
girls at that age take few things serious
ly, and are not given to looking upon
the serious side of life; that only the
bright, pleasant side attracts them.
"It is only natural that to girl of such
an age the young man of bright con-
versation, f1ippant and meaningless
though that talk may be, has an indefi-
nable attraction. She would far rather
have 1t that he can dance we'll than
that he can reclte Emerson to her. 1t
is the dancing time of her life, and not
the Emersonian period. She is apt to
notice a mans clothes more than his
character. She likes the man berter
who pays her pretty compliment than
the one who says som mething serious.
The young man who pays her
graceful attentions is pleasing to her !;
she does not seek to penetrate beyond
the mere compliment. And why
should she? Young men are simply
one form of her amusement: she does
not take them any more seriously than
she does anything else. The young
man of presentable appearance, who
dresses we'll and has a command of the
small TALK of society, is her girllsh
Jack-in-the-box. The more attention
he pays her, the more he ffatters her,
the better she is apt to like him. The
earnest young man who has ambition.
who studies and learns, whose talk is
sensible rather than light is bit tire
some to her. She may admire his high
purposes 80 far as she can grasp them.
She may respect him. But If she is
going to a party she does not want his
company. She passes him by for the
other fellow who is graceful in the
dance. And is she blamed or to be
censured for this? Not a bit of IT..
While she is girl she does as a natur-
al, healthy girl should: she lives her
years of enjoyment and gets as much
pleasure out of them as she can. For
this she is girl. But if he will watch
her after she counts her years with the
figure two he will observe that slowly
but surely process of gradual devel-
opment takes place in the girl whom
he belieyed to be without thought or
reason. And equally sure will be his
discovery that the companion of her
dances is not so eagerly welcomed by
her as once he was. He will then
gradually discover that the girl is not
the light-minded butterfly that he
thought her to be.
She becomes interested in other things
conversations which bored her a year
or two earlier now begin to have some
meaning for her. She begins to regard
<Lo ;r+~,x, ~ x,oI,,< of s,;~~c N1,o 1~o1>o
at young men from a different stand.
point. The young man who can sim
ply dance well does not represent the
same thing to her. She begins to look
tor something else in the young men
who come to her. The woman has
simply begun to develop; the girl is
ceaslng to be-"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-07-02
THAT CLASS OF READERS
THAT You
Wish your Advertisement
TO REACH
is the class who read this paper.

Itch on human and horses ana all
animals cured in 80 minutes by Wool
ford's Sanitary Lotion. This never
fails. Sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co.
Druggist, Scotland Neck N. G..
IL 80 1y.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-07-02

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 II to 15)
McGill Building, Washington, D. c.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-07-02
Figs and Thistles.

RAMS Horn.
The father who prays too little will
sometimes use the rod too much.
Before you praise nut, make sure
whether it has kernel or a worm at
its heart.
When some men are baptized they
first put their pocket books where they
won't get wet.
The man who expects to outrun a
lie will have to travel on something
faster than the limited express.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-07-02

Among the occasions when newspa-
per reporters haye become so enraptured
with speech that they forget to re-
port it, was the Republican meeting at
Bloomington, Ill, May 20, 1856. Abra-
ham Lincoln, though not on the pro-
gramme of the day for speech, was
called for at late hour, and spoke with
such enhancing power and pathos that
every newspaper reporter present forgot
his work and went home with no notes
of the speech. All the report that was
made of 1t was editorial comment IN
the various papers. The speech was
talked of so much and also the fact that
the reporters forgot to make notes, that
It came to be known as Lincoln's s'lost
speech. Lincoln's 1aw-partner. H..
C. Whitney, was in the audience, and
knowing the speakers convictions on
the subject he was discussing, kept his
head and made notes which gave the
arguments in the speech, though not
literally The sketch of the speech
will soon be given to the reading
world.
II ia said that Tom Dixon resembles
Lincoln, and strangely enough slml-
lar thing happened under Dixons great
sneech at Wake Forest College few
years ago. A newspaper reporter rub
bed his red eyes at the end OF the
speech and, half sobbing, said he had
forgotten to take notes.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-07-02
THE EDITORS LEISURE HOURS
Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past and Future.

The wheel of chance turns up many
wonders. Who in this country two
years ago ever heard of Mark Hanna ?
And what Republican in all the land
that has at all kept up with the trend
of political interests for the past thirty
days, has not heard and read his name
thousand times over?
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-07-02

At Yale College commencement last
week Rev. DR.. Twichel1 of Hartford
created quite sensation for which he
deserves the censure of every true pa
triot in the United States. The senior
class had voted heartily to accept as its
class ivy sprig of that vine from the
grave of Gen. Robert E. Lee. They
did it purely in the spirit of the con-
cillation of the North towards the
South.
DR.. Twichell delivered the Woolsey-
Memorial statue dedicatory address.
In the course of his address DR.. Twich-
ell declared that president W oolsey was
a strong Union man. which was all
right but when the speaker added that
at would make this bronze statue avert
its head were he to know that the
graduating class of Yale we're to plant
on the walls of building on the cam
pus ivy from the grave of Gen. Rob
ert E. Lee," his audience was thunder
struck at his temerity of expression.
The war has been over more than a
quarter of century, and whoever
seeks to stir the almost dead embers oi
that great strife at this day of national
progress, Is unworthy the approval OF
good people.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-07-02


Ellsee Reclus, the French geographer,
says the Herald, is planning to con-
struct globe of exactly one hundred
thousandeth part the size of the earth,
and Will show the natural shape and
relative elevations on the earth. The
globe will be 418 feet in diameter and
will be an object lesson in geography
to be called the wonder of the country.
Nostalgia" is the rather curlously
sounding name that the doctors give
to home sickness. Perhaps it is curl
Gus from the fact that we hear so little
of it and yet it is said to be real dis
ease. Accounts have recently gone out
from Henrietta, Rutherford county,
that Cal. Abraham, young Assyrian
III years old, has died of the rather
uncommon disease. It is said he would
sometimes sit for hours thinking OF
home, and when he was taken sick he
seemed to haye no desire to live.
We presume he was an operative in
the great cotton mills at Henrietta.
To one who has seen the beautiful
and picturesque town of Henrietta 1t
seems strange that even an Assyrian
should get tired of living there.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-07-02

With a thorough knowledge of the
business and a complete outfit OF tools
and material, am better prepared than
ever to do anything that is expected OF
d first class matchmaker and jeweler.
A f,1ll line of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-02

Goebel in any fair measure looking to the
interests of the people.
Senator George S. Fulton. who is on the
Judiciary Committee, is also chairman OF
the Committee on Railroads.
Senator C. G.. McChoid Of Spencer
County, on the same committee, was a
member of the last State Railroad Com
mission with Wrev Woodson of the
Owensboro' Messenger and Senator Paynty
of Mason County. Three Republicans
take their placs.
NJ. J. Burlington, chairman of the House
Committee on Constitutional Amend
men:s, is Populist, and can be depended
upon to do what is right.
1t will be noticed that the membership
of the two Senate Committees on Judiciary
and Rules is almost the same as that of
the Democratic Steering Committee. Will
they all act with Senator Goebel in the
matter of the repeal bill2
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-02

on the free silver substitute were an
nounced as follows: Blackburn CD of
Kentucky and Cullom fR.) of Illinois,
Dubois (R) of Idaho and Smith Cd of
New Jersey, Hansbrough (R.) of North
Dakota and Aldrich (R.) of Rhode Island.
Gordon CD of Georgia and Sewell r. of
New Jersey, WoIcott (R.) of Colorado and
Brice CD of Ohio, Morgan CD of Ala
bama and Quay (R.) of Pennsylvania.
The text of the substitute is as follows,
the title being amended SO as to read:
.To restore the coinage of silver dollars
and for other purposes:
That from and after the passage of this act
the minis of the United States shall be open to
the coinage of silver, and there shall be coined
dollars Of the weight of four hundred and
twelve and one-half grains troy OF standard
silver, nine-tenths fine, as provided by the act
of January I8, 1897, and upon the same terms
and subject to the limitations andSprovisions
of law regulating the coinage and legal tender
quality of gold, and whenever the said coins
herein provided for shall be received in the
treasury certificates may be issued therefor
in the manner now provided by law.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury
shall coin into standard silver dollars as soon
as practicable, according to the provisions OF
section one of this act, from the silver bullion
purchased under authority of the act of July
Id 1890, entitled. can ect directing the pur-
chase of silver bullion and the issue Of treasury
notes thereon and for other purposes" that
portion of said silver bullion which represents
the seigniorage or profit to the Government,
to-Wit: The difference between the cost of the
silver purchased under said act and its coinage
value, and said dollars so coined shall be used
in the payment of the current expenses OF the
Government and for the purpose of making
the seigniorage Immediately available for use
as money and the Secretary of the Treasury is
hereby authorized and directed to issue silver
certificates against it as if it was already
coined in the treasury. ~
Sec. 5. That no National bank note shall be
hereafter issued of denomination less than
SO, and all notes of such banks now optstand-
ing of denominations less than that sum shall
be, as rapidly as practicable, taken up, re-
deemed and Cancelled, and notes of $40 and
larger denominations shall be issued in their
stead, under the direction of the Comptroller
OF the Currency.
Sec. 4. That the Secretary OF the Treasury
shall redeem the United States notes CONF
monty called '.greenbacks." and also the
treasury notes issued under the provisions OF
the act of. July ID, 1890, when presented for
redemption, in standard silver dollars or in
gold coin, using for redemption OF said notes
either gold or silver coin, or both, not at the
option. of the holder, but exclusively at the
option of the Treasury Department, and said
notes, commonly called ''greenbacks, when so
redeemed, shall be reissued, as provided by the
act OF May 81, 1878.
The long struggle was over at P. NJ,
when there was an executive session,
and the Senate, at 5 :l5 P. NJ, adjourned
until Tuesday neyt.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-02-02
ACCESSION OF FORMOSh
Japan Declares the Island to Be
Open to Home and Foreign
Commerce.
The United States to Establish Consular
Agencies at the New
Ports.

WASHINGTON, D. G., Feb. 1.-The
Japanese Minister to-day communicated
to the Secretary of State the following
cablegram which bad just been received
from the Imperial Government at Toxic,
and which is intended as the formal de-
claration on the part of Japan 20 the
treaty powers of the accession of Formosa
and the opening of the island to foreign
commerce:
'sOrder and tranquility having been es-
tabIished in Formosa, the Japanese Gov
eminent grants the following privileges
and facilities to the subjects. citizens and
vessels of treaty pfwers being in or resort
ing to Formosa:
81. The subjects and citizens OF powers
having commercial treaties with Japan
may reside and trade in Formosa at
Tamsui. Keeling, Anping, Taiwanfu and
Takaio and the vessels of such powers
may visit and carry cargoes TO and from
the ports and harbors of Tamsui, Keeling,
Anping, Taiwanfu and Takaio..
~. Notwithstanding the exceptional
condition of affairs in Formosa, the treat
les of commerce and navigation and the
tariffs and arrangements existing and now
in force between Japan and other powers
are, so far as they are applicable, extended
to the subjects, citizens and vessels OF
such powers being in or resorting to For.
mosa. it being at the same time under
stood that all persons awaiting themselves
of the above enumerated facilities shall
obey all DEGREES and regulations which
may at any time be in force in Formosa.' y
This notice, which is practically ar
imperial proclamation, makes the ne WHY
acquired island as free to foreign trade a:
any portion of Japan. AS now issued, the
| final provision is similar to the saving
clause usually inserted in such DEGREES
and is chiefly significant in that under il
no extra-territorial jurisdiction is contem.
| plated.
The United States will probably estab
lish consular agencies at the new open
ports. Provision has already been made
| for an agent at Takaio.