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CURIOUS FACTS.

Japan has one leather shoe factory.
In Russia you must marry before
eighty or not at all, and you marry
only five times.
In ono house in Nashua, n. H.,
every one of the eight families who
have lived in the house during tho
eight years have had scarlet fever.
Detected in a clothing store at
Frankfort, Ky, burglar wound
coat about his head, and jumping
through plate glass window, es.
capped.
There are twenty.six men living
aud honored in Bridgeton, Me-, who
were voters half century ago. Few
towns in Maine are able to boast of
such grand old patrisrchs.
At Blue Rapids, Kan, is exhibited
the head OF r rabbit, which has eight
horns, varying in length from II TO
y inches. There is one on the nose
and the others are around the Jaw.
Instead Of his usual Sunday evening
sermons, a clergyman of Chapman,
Kan, is reading to his congr egation
continued story, entitled, Jake, the
Merchant, which he wrote himself.
For stealing from deaf mute car.
penter some of the tools of his trade,
another deaf mute, against whom
three others of the.silent people testi-
fed, has been sent to Jail ut Kansas
City, Mo.
The most learned of musical com.
posers was Wagner. He was equally
great as a musician, poet, manager
and conductor. His literary, theoret-
ical and controversial works display
immense erudition.
After a long and luxurious yawn
one morning Westwood Mich. man
couldn't close his mouth. His Jaw had
been dislocated. He was so frightened
that since it was set he doesn't dare
even TO smile broadly.
A conscience stricken man in Ore
gon on his denthbed recently handed
over TO Louis Davenport the sum of
1927, 900, which represented the accu.
mutations of $4,000 worth Of gold dust
stolen from Davenport thirty years
ago.
The Lagong Bridge, built over an
arm Of the China Sea, is five miles
long, with 800 arches OF stone, sew
enty feet high and seventy feet broad.
each pillar supporting marble lion
twenty one feet in length. The cost
of the bridge is unknown.
Six persons within six mile radius
OF West Paris, Me-, are ninety years
old or more. One of them is 1O4 and
one ninety Within the same
territory are fourteen persons above
eighty-iive yefrs of age. Benjamin
Bacon, aged ninety two, walked two
and one-half miles, carrying his axe,
and cut several cords Of wood re-.
Gently.
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w. II. Vanderbilt and HIS Father.

The recent death of Mrs. William II.
Vanderbilt in New York has been the
occasion for the printing in the New
York papers of great deal about her
and her distinguished husband 1t
was the reading of one of these arti-
Giles that led = prominent gentleman
IN this city 10 cite an experience he
had with the late William II. He had
concluded negotiations with the rail.
road magnate ia very large deal, and
was his guest at his country home for
th" night. Mr.. Vanderbilt grew very
talkGtIvc after the dinner, and recited
Il number OF very interesting incident
in his early life. He especially dwelt
upon the troubles that he had with his
father, and told how the old Commo-
dore had ostraciaed him, both for the
reason that he did not think him
possessed of any business tact and
that he had married against his wishes.
Mr.. Vanderbilt said that the Commo
dore told him he could live on farm
that he owned on Staten Island, and
that that was oil he would do toward
his support. Some time after that, when
their circumstances we're unusually
poor and they we're having decided
struggle for living, the son went
into his fathers Office. During the
conversation that ensued the old gen
tleman enquired of his son how his
farm was doing. The latter replied
thst the crop was not good, and the
farm seemed TO need fertilizing.
We'll" said the Commodore.
"there is lot OF horse refuse at my
stable"
well, can't get it, because have
no money" said the son.
''Well, J will give you load-cnly
one, and he wrote out an order upon
his stableman for the one load.
The next day the Commodore went
to his place and was surprised 70 see
the entire collection had disappeared.
Where has that gone?" he asked his
stable hand
"Why, William r. took it.
''But he only hsd sn order for one
load"
That's all he took.
why, what did he have ?"
"a fiatboat."
10 appears that William H., upon
getting the order. had secured the as
sistance Of one Of the hatboats used q
great deal by Staten Islanders, aud
had had it taken up back Of the old
mans place and all Of the refuse was
loaded onto it. This seemed 10 open
the old mans eyes, for a day or two
after that he paid the first visit he had
In months TO his sons residence and
soon after that his son was ordered 60
the city, where he ever sfterward
lived. Cincinnati Enquirer.
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A E1oefer in rnnri

3 peculiar lawsuit was in progress
III Esquire Eiler's court YESTERDAY,
and LASTED all day, Isays q Munice lind.
dispatch TO the Chicago Chronicle.
IT was a suit that cost over 300, and
all that was involved was an old roos-
ter, and by sight person would Judge
that his life would end within week.
The rooster has for some time been in
possession OF r. Kirby Heinsohn, OF
the Hotel Kirby, but was owned BY
Delbert Galliher 4 few DAYS ago
George Alvy laid claim TO it, but a.
Heinsohn or Galliher would not give
it TO him Inc entered a suit Of repleviu.
Each employed a couple Of lawyers
and yesterday over ssventy.fye wit
nesses were examined, and the trial
resulted in the rooster remaining 10
the possession Of Galliher, and Alvy
had all Of the costs to pay, amounting
TO over 800. During the trial the
rooster was perchei upon the judges
desk and crowed almost continually
from the beginning TO the end Of the
trial. Since the trial 1t has been
learned that the rooster IL one of
breed that has held the reputation as
being the best fighters ia tue United
States. The chicken was brought
from Co7iBgtou by the Homingrayf.
and has won many fight during his
time. He is kept now for breeding
purposes only
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The women of Siam iDtrust their
children TO the care of elephant nurses
aud it If said the trust in never be
trayed. The elephant not being sus.
ceptiblc TO the charms Of the saun-
tering policeman nor the social claims
of its friends and relations, is conse-
quently able TO devote it's entire at.
tention TO its charge. The babies
play about the huge feet 'ot the ole
plants, who are very careful never to
hurt the little creatures. And il dan
ger threatens the saeaciOus animal
curls the child gently mp in its
trunk and swings it up out Of harm
way upon it's own back.
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Salaries Of Consnls.

The highest salary paid in the
United States consular service is
received by the Consul. General at
Havana, Cuba, and is $4,000 a year.
The Consuls at London, Paris, Rio de
Janeiro, Liverpool, Shanghai, Cal
cutta, and Hong Kong receive $4,000
at Melbourne, $500; at Berlin, Mon
treal, Yokohama, Panama and Mexico
City, $1,000 at Halifax, Vienna, Annoy,
Canton, Tieutsin, Havre and Callao,
$500; mt the Samoan Islands, Con-
stantinople, Dresden, Guayaquil,
Frankfort, Ottawa, Rome, st. Peters
burg, Singapore, Cape Town, st. Gall,
Switzerland; Prague, Antwerp. Val.
paraiso, Colon, Chinkiang, Fuchau,
HonkOw, Chunking, Bordeaux, Bar
men. Nuremberg, Belfast, Demarara,
Glasgow, Kingston, Manchester, Nag
asaki, Osaki, Kobe, Vera Cruz, Man
tanzas, Basic aud Montevide0, $1,000.
Thirty.one cOusulates in different parts
of the world pay $500, and sixty-two
pay $4,000 each. The remainder pay
$500 and $1,000. Chicago Record,
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The vicar Of q rural parish, who had
waxod eloquent ON the subject Of for
cign missions one Sunday, was sur.
prised ON entering the village shop
during tho week to be greeted with
marked GOODNESS by tho worthy dame
who kept it. On seeking to know the
cause tho good woman produced n coin
from q drawer, and, throwing it down
before tho vicar, exclaimed 81
marked that holy crown ond put it i'm
Tho plate last Sunday, and here it is
back again i'm my shop. I knowod
we'll them heathens never got tho
money!
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The making Of phrases has frequent
ly been the sole distinction Of many p
prince Perhaps Che most remarkable
phrase uttered by n modern sovereign
was spoken by King Humbert, Of
fisly, q few years, when cholera was
ng 10 Naples. He had been invit-
3dto n banquet By tho municipality
" Genoa, and declined ina tho follow
Eng words 'Mon are feastiug at
Genoa. Men are dying iu Naples ]
60 TO Naples"
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SLEIGH BELLS.

With Jingle aud tangle,
All the sounds a seeming jangle.
And a swinging backward, forward. 20 and
fio,
On the frosty morning breaking.
Clear their silvery notes outshaking.
The sleigh bells are ringing Ter the snow,
-
How they set the nerves a-thrilHny.
through the heart JOY distilling.
mingling music with the beauty OF tho day.
As With slipping and with sliding,
swiftly. softly. smoothly gliding
with song Ger tho snow we drift away
Eliza \. Fletcher, ia OUTING.
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EVANSVILLE, w. VA, TUESDAY, MARCH w

And last Christmas Eve he kept his
promise. He came to me, carrying
small parcel under his arm. It was IA
book-the book of the year. He had
written it under a nom de plume. His
name is known throughout the Eng
glish-speaking world, and the book
which made his name is dedicated:
TO my angel wife and to Mabel. -
lit Bits.
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a fourteeu-montbsold child Of Read.
ing, Pcuur reioiccs in The rather
unique distinction OF having four
Breat-graudnoihcrs living. Only one
OF tbcec srcatersndmothers wears
spectacle, rod abb Eve within n short
distance oil he hor. OF this presum
nbly vel g, 90 ei mics. f. Philadelphia
Press,
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FInciric Tnuhnnta

Ii is stated that electric towboats
arc about TO be placed on the river
Spree, near Berlin, where for dis
lance of eight miles the ordinary
bsrges cannot use sails, owing 60
large number Of low bridges. The
trolley systom will be used,
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ADVERTISING RArKs.

Advertisements Will be inserted q enc sslisA
per square for the Ara lnssrtioa snA afay
Ssnss Tor each subsequent inseytion.
oenAs Lac. and no notice inserted isr lev
than enc dollar.
Legal sdysrtissrsnt win Be inserted .,
TIE rates allowed By law and Will, In all eases
De enagsd 70 the attorney, ana payment will
CKAnan RoR ANNouNCKMnNTs.-Fo
comfy efhcsrs, IS: State and Congress, so.
Terms for Standing advertisements made
Srcvn on application 70 the publisher.
JOE fRsfrINe executed With neatness ana
dtspstsh. &1Orders by mail viii recsiy.
pse9D4 ss1sntiea-
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Mn.hrOoms arow m Ererr CIIme.

Mushrooms grow wild in all parts Of
tho oorth, and are as plenty in Siberia
rs IN tho tropics, -Pittsburg Dis
patch,
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For the twelfth timo in succession
the Prince Of Wales has been nomin.
ated for che Office Of Grand Master Of
English Merk Mseona
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Shakespeare mentions the cat twice,
end each time with no evidence oflik.
ing for that animal He makes Hot
spur scorufully say, in reply 10 the
vaporing Of Glendowor 80 it would
have done if your mothers cat had
but kittened, and in "Lucreece" he
calls puss foul, night-wslling" cat.
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RAMBLING ROBIN.

)ST people called him
Rambling Robin. "
You could hive seen
him almost any dav
walking along with
his head hanging
down, and his eyes
fixed on the ground.
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liar face 81 intf. her heart De- true.
spJ.less us ehs' bonnie. ID,
IIU opening govau. wet wi dew,
Ne8 purer De- than Ntnulr. az
''5hc was Singing Der sunbounct iu
l.r baud, oud the sun wac PLAYING
viii her golden hail, Her neck vas
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-01-21
THE NEW HOOK SPOON FREE
TO ALL.

/ read in the Christian Standard that
Miss A. ". Fritz, Station A., st. Louis,
Mo-, would give an elegant plated hook
spoon to anyone sending her ten 2
cent stamps. send for one and found
it Is useful that ! showed 1t to my
friends, and made $500 in two hours
taking orders Tor the spoon. The hook
spoon is household necessity. 1t cam
not slip into the dish or cooking vessel
being held in the place by hook on
the back. The spoon Is something
housekeepers have needed ever since
spoons were first invented. Anyone
can get sample spoon by sending ten
2-cent stamps to Miss Fritz. This is a
splendid way to make money around
home, Very truly,
Ipanatip s.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-01-21
FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS

AN OLD AND WELL-TRlED 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. 1t
soothes the child, softens the gums,
allays all pain cures wind collie, and is
the best remedy for Diarrhoa. 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
10 other kind. (R) 8 26 ly
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A-.Ll IEF IN SIX HOU RS.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis
eases relieved IN six hours by the ''NEw
GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN KIDNEY
CURE" This new remedy Is Il 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. It relieves retention of water
and pain in passing it almost immeul-
ately. If you want quick relief ana
cure this is your remedy.
Sold by E. L. Whitehead and Co.,
Drnopists- Scotland Neck. N. G
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QuDSoN'S ENGLISH KITCHEN,

1S7 Main ST., NORFOLK, VA.
Is the Leading Dining Room in the
CITY for Ladies and Gentlemen. Strict
ly Temperance Place. All meals 25c.
CO. Hrdson's Surprising Coffee a
Speciality. 1161y
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If YOU ARE HUSTLER
you WILL
ADVERTISE
YOUR
Business.


English Spawn Llnlment removes
all Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and
and Clemishes from horses. Blood
SPAWN Surbs, Splints. Sweeney, Ring
worm titles, Spralns, an1 Swollen
Through, Coughs, Etc. Save 50 by
use of one bottle. Warranted the
most worirful Blemism Culs ever
known. Sold DO F. L. Whitehead 4
Co., Druggists, Scotland Neck, N. G.
10 l ".
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Caught on Quick.

"What is your name ?" asked teach
er of a boy. "My name is Jule," was
the reply; wherenpon the teacher I'M
pressively said: "You should have
said julius, sir" 'And now, my lad, :"
turning to another boy, "what is your
name?" "Billious, SIR"
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G,

| anu AeI'cs, anu Iof your maintenance
In health, it discharges those poisons in
the breath you exhale, or the secretions
that leave the body.-then dear man,
dear woman, disappointed often, per-
haps neither eye nor brain of this great
country may you not possibly be a
globule of its most essential blocd, or a
minute lung cell, working to save it
from wasting consumption, weakness
OF character, loss Of liberty. Further
more, If within you is working the high
motive of goodwill to your race because
OF some fragmentary understanding of
the goodwill of the All-Father to YOU.
then, in truth, need not your heart be
troubled because OF the little things
you do. When sturdy legs come hur-
r,ing in the door, and little puggy
fist grasps tight wlthered dandelion.
or tattered daisy that has been carried
long way as a posey for you, never
Judge the value of the love by the size
of the gift. This way of regarding the
deed is, l reckon, nothing but a faint
reflection OF Gods way of looking al you
and the good works, but small, that YOU
do.
Have 1 grown altogether too serious
1t is we'll to be serious sor1e times.
Full of laughter, though 1 am, l can
plainly see that the man who is never
in earnest Is never of infuence.-Then
If not too s>rious, l will finish this
little chat by addressing the younger
ones In the family tor they often meet
with real burdens, and unless there is
an ideal of life within, these burdens
make the heart sick. You girls read a
book full of delusive thought regarding
love and marriage, and you rise from
its rosy and delightful pages to be met
with the necessity of washing one more
OF the never ending series of dishes
that fall to your lot. Thep you pout
and sulk, and am sorry for you since
dish-washing does seem terribly monot-
onous. But suppose you think of dish
washing as a means of making your
mothers burdens lighter, and as train
ing for yourself in patience and perfec-
ton. Then its burdens will be almost
entirely lifted. The ideal before you
has changed it. Again, you bonny
boys, eager with the spirit of adventure,
entering heart and soul into Indian
adventures Gin books) or the hair
breadth escapes of some rolIicking sailor
lad, l sympathize with you when you
feel angry at being called back to duties,
that look dull-gray to you all the time.
But laddie, if you think OF your work
in the fields, as the means of making
you strong for the battle of life, or if
your shop work is thought of as a
means of making you dexterous in all
you do. then the way will not seem so
hard.
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A DANDY THING To SELL.

/ have been doing 50 well this sum-
mer selling combination dippers that
think it is my duty to tell others about
it. ] have not made as much money
as some | read about, but I never
make less than So. and So a day; the
dipper can be used as n fruit Jar filler;
Il plain diprer; fine strainer; a fun
mel; a strainer funnel sick room
warming pan, and Il pint measure.
These eight different uses makes the
dipper such a necessary article that it
sells at nearly every house, as it is so
cheap. You can get {: sample by send
ing, as I did, Is two-cent stamps To
pay postage, ETC., to ". II. Baird &
Co, Station A, Plttsburg, Pa, and they
will mail you dipper, and you can 60
right to work. Anyone can make S3
or 81 day anywhere. A READER.
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A correspondent from Hertford to the
Norfolk Virginian Saturday said that a
gentleman who is making trip around
the world ON a wheel, stopped there and
said nice things for North Carolinians.
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VOL. XIII. New SeIieS---Vol. |.
THE EDITORS LEISURE HOURS.
Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past and Future.

Bread is used as daily article OF food
by only about one-thlrd the population
of the earth.
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WANTED--A gentleman OF stand
ing to represent Combined Contract
two of the largest invest
ment and lie insnrSnce companies IN
America. Address NhOs. a. L. Champ
lin, Sup't. FIRST Floor (Rooms II to l5)
McGill Building, Washington. ID. c.
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(coNT1NUED ON SECOND PAGEl
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-01-21

The COMMONWEALTH would not lay
any severe structures upon any United
States Senator or Representative in
Congress for leaving Washington day
or so to run down to Raleigh and look
in upon the Legislature and offer some
suggestions to their party friends. That
would be natural. OF course they were
interested in the senatorial fight but
for Senators Butler and Pritchard, and
all the Populist and Republican Repre-
sentatives in Congress to come down to
Raleigh and remain ten days out of
their seats in Congress-, is more than
can be excused. They have no right
to leave their duties in Washington so
long for purely partisan purposes. This
paper said two or three years ago that
whenever a member absepts himself
from Congress for his own personal in
terest his salary ought to stop while
he is away, and we stick toit.
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E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Propr
VOL. XIII. New SerieS---Vol.
THE EDITORS LEISURE HOURS
Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past and Future.
Bread is used as daily article OF food
by only about one-thlrd the population
of the earth.
A correspondent from Hertford to the
Norfolk Virginian Saturday said that q
gentleman who is making a trip around
the world on wheel, stopped there and
said nice things for North Carolinians
1t has been asserted that fair-haired
people are becoming less numerous than
formerly. The ancient Jews we're a
fair-haired race but now, with some
exceptions, their hair is mostly dark.
The same thing is observed of the Irish.
As late as $50 years ago dark-haired
person was almost unknown among the
Irish, but many of them are dark-haired
now.
1t Is stated that there are fifty-two
penltentiaries in the United States and
one thousand seven hundred jails. 1t
cost five hundred million dollars to
build them, and nearly a million per-
sons have been imprisoned in one year.
All this sounds like it is good while
before the millennium, and there is no
account given of the great army of evil
doers who deserve to share the fate of
those who have been punished by i'm
Between trying to keep up with the
Legislature now in session in Raleigh
and the Congress In session at Wash
ngton, the people of North Carolina
who are inclined to study public affairs
will be kept busy along that line for
he next few weeks. And judging
rom the activity that has generally
oeen manifested in political affairs for
he past few years, one woud suppose
hat most free voters in the State have
heir attention turned either towards
Raleigh or Washington, or both.
There 1s great depression in the
and many failures in banking
md other businesses have been reported
Turing the last two months. A trav-
cling man OF considerable observation
aid in Scotland Neck a few days ago,
hat if Bryan had been elected Presi-
lent and as many business failures had
,een reported as have been it would all
rave been "laid to Bryan" Said he
Some one would have killed him
,efore now."
We do not know about that, but we
10 know that the promised prosperity
las not come with the election of
There are many ways of getting
,rofit out of fun, but the latest is given
n the following:
"W. J. Green, a Pittsburg grocer,
,aving had his supply OF city water
hut off as the result Of a dispute with
he rate assessor bethought himself OF
we'll in his yard and tank on his
oof. To fill the one from the other
eemed to necessltate a lot of work,
lone either by Mr.. Green or by his coal
reap, but, after prolonged study of the
Ituation he rigged up a swing over
he we'll, connected 1t in some subtle
with the pump handle and
hen invited the children of the neigh
,orhood to come and have lots of fun.
They came and had it, and the tank
leeps full all the time"
The COMMONWEALTH would not lay
my severe structures upon any United
States Senator or Representative in
Congress for leaving Washington a day
,r so to run down to Raleigh and look