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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1898-03-25

What in one sense is the most impor
tant strike ever made on the North
Fork has just been made on the Jack
son, claim six miles above Murray,
Idaho. owned by Charles Manley and
Charles Tilden. The lead is II feet
wide and carries ore from wall to wall.
Five feet of this is almost pure Gal
ena, the balance being good concen-
trating ore. 1t has long been known
that there is silver-lead belt crossing
the country towards the head of Prich-
ard creek, but nothing near equal to
this has ever been found there before,
and probably nothing has been uncov-
errd in the Ceur d'Alenes to exceed it.
No assays have been reported from it,
but old miners attending court at A,ur-
ray are unit in pronouncing it similar
to the ore from the Standard on Can
yon creek. All the way from the
neighborhood of Raver over to the
Mountain house there have been dis
coveries of galena, and there are not
wanting men who predict that the day
is coming when the North hiork will
not only be great gold producer, but
will Iun the South Fork close race
for supremacy as u silver-lead pro-
Queer. What has held development
work back in this district has been the
lack of transportation, it being evident
that claim must be abnormally rich
in order to pay for working under the
present conditions, while nothing but
development work or the
discovery of something great would
oring improved transportation.
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TTLLA REBEKAH LODGE, NO 81, meets
" the Second and fourth Wednesday, in
each month at odd Fellnw's Hall.
Visiting members in good standing cor
daily invited.
MRS. ELLA EVANSTON, n. G.
Miss MoLLIE THOMAS, Secretary.
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KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS, SILVER CITY
~ Lodge No. 25. Regular meetings every
Tuesday evening at 1880, Masonic Hail. All
brethren in good strnding cordially invited.
o. D. PitMBArGB, c. G.
FRED ALLEN, X. OF X. and S.
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rae Lamnr Lodge No. Il. l. q. O. F. Meets
- every Thursday evening. Visiting broth
erS always welcome.
PRINCE ATHERS, Secretary.
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Looks Squally.
Wilmim0tOn Star.

Wilmington Star.
A Wilkes county sign reader has
settled the war question. We are go
ing to have 1t sure enough, and a
three years war, too. The corn blades
IN Wilkes have for some time been
split at the end into three sharp sword
shaped prongs. We are to have a
years racket tor each prong. The
same thing happened before theRevolu-
tionary war. when the corn blades had
seven prongs, as attested by this sign
interperter's grandmother. And the
roosters which used to behave them
selves and do their Growing about day
light now crow throughout the night
And seal has just been captured In
the Cape Fear river, and Consul Gen
eral Lee has had his chin whiskers
shaved off, and the Government Is buy
ing and distributing lots of shooting
stuff. When all these things are hitch
ed to the split corn blades it does lool
squally.
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"a Nice Place to 90 TO-"
Presbyterian Bulletin.

Presbyterian Bulletin.
This is little boys definition OF
home. and we'll may all parents think
about it.
Blessings attend the builders and
keepers OF homes, that are nice places
to 60 to!
Christianity does not irown upon
harmless mirth. Let the children
have it. With honest Intentions we
may do what we regard our duty, and
by stern deheaner and nnmbciless
restrictions and prohibitions make our
homes dreary for our children. Let US
be careful or we will pluck up all the
flowers that spontaneously grow in
the pathway OF children and hedge 1t
with thorns, till they will not relish an
evening at home.
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AMERICAS SUMMONS.

Copyrighted by Dave & Tabor.
Stand fast America
Troubles are falling;
Clouds cover Cuba's star,
Sad hearts are calling.
Strong sons of Liberty!
Mindful of others,
Not vain your natal cry
"All men are brothers"
Soft have your slumbers been
Since your hard testing,
Shaded by laurels green,
Rightfully resting.
Now, when expressions sting
Calls you to waken,
Rise, like the eagle king,
Night dews off-shaken.
Go not in anger forth,
Furied bv faction
"Noblesse oblige"-not wrath
Calls you to action.
Soon may wars cruel din
Holly enfold you;
Yet when dark days begin
Truth shall uphold you.
Stand fast, America!
In the worlds story,
All men shall praise war
Waged not for glory.
FRANCIS H. TABO
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Shall ! Keep a Bad Promise.

Edauard NJ. Poteat in Our Young
People.
l. Better not make one. That is the
way to escape the difficulty. Be sure
you know what you are promising, and
that it is worthy and wise promise
you are making. Then you will nev-
er be troubled about keeping bad
promise.
2. Be careful about associates and
habits. Do not run the risk of max
ing bad promise by associating with
people whose character and habits take
the edge off your conscience. Herod
had "a good time" with some friends"
got drunk, made foolish VOW, and be-
ing coward to start with, he hadn't
courage to renounce the folly he had
committed.
3. II you have made a bad promise
break it. Two wrongs do not make
right. One wicked thing ls not re-
deemed by having another added to it.
It is never right to do wrong. 1t ls
virtue to renounce vice. Conscience
RECEIVERS her throne by resembling the
bad promise. God desires truth IN
the inward parts" And doing wrong
for the sake OF being consistent is not
truth in the inward parts.
4. Better endure the conseq uences
of breaking a bad promise than those
OF keeping 1t. Herod was far more dis
turbed in conscience by the sight OF
John the Baptist's head On the charg-
er than he could have been by the
gibes of his companions.
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How TO GET THE SYSTEM READY FOR
THE SPRING.
ri always dread the Spring" he said !;
",t makes me feel so bad. l wake up
with bad taste In my mouth and a
sense of goneness, and some days can
hardly pull one foot after another"
OF course any man who does not
look after his system and starts into
the Spring without getting his blood
cleansed from the impnraties that have
accumulated through the long winter
will have the same experience. The
thing to do ls to begin early with q
bottle OF Davld's Sarsaparilla and use II
faithfully until the entire system If
cleansed.
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desire to attest to the merits OF
Cbamberlain's Cough Remedy as one
of the most valuable and efficient pre-
parations on the market. 1t broke an
exceedingly dangerous cough tor me IN
"a hours, and in gratitude therefor, l
desire to inform you that I will never
be without 1t, and you should feel proud
of the nigh esteem in which your
Remedies are held by people in general.
1t is the one remedy among ten thous-
and. Success to Ito. r. DoWNEY,
Editor Democrat, Albion, Ind. For
! sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co.
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P1MPLEs ON Your FACE?
"Not very pretty are they?"

"Not very pretty are they?'
"Source of modification sometimes,
eh?"
"Always trying something or other
to get rid of them?"
"And they are as bad as ever?"
Well now suppose you 60 to the bot
tom of the matter. There are pimples
on your face because there are Impure
ties In your bloc i--that's all there Is
of it. Let your ,imples alone and look
after your blood and if you will go
about 1t properly your pimples will
disappear before you know 1t. OF
course there is nothing like sarsaparllla
for the blood and there is no sarsaparllla
like David's.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-03-24

It is, or should be, the highest aim
of every merchant to please his custom
.ers and that the wide awake drug firm
OF Meyers & Eshleman, Sterling, ILL.,, is
doing so, is proven by the following,
from Mr.. Eshleman: "In my sixteen
years experience in the drug business
T have never seen or sold or tried a
medicine that gave as good satisfaction
"a Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Dlarrhoea Remedy. Sold by +. i
Whitehead & Co.
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- SCOTLAND NECK, NC THURSDAY, MARCH "a. 1898

unworthy our contemplation. 1t
would be an absolute reversion to the
barbarlc Feasibility of olden times.
We have grown away from such
things.
The selfish motives of tobacco factors
and sugar gamblers in pointing out to
a great, fair minded country chance
to flch from Spain, because she is weak,
that which is hels as truly as New
England is ours, has moved us only to
condemn and not to approve. We re-
fuse to add to our racial problems at
the nod of self-seeking men. The
heart of the nation is unresponslve to
such temptation, and furthermore even
the terrible Maine disaster, With Its sor-
row and its loss has grandly shown tc
the world that we are slow to anger and
plenteous in conservatism. Despite all
guesses to the contrary, our people
have refused to believe that the Span
lsh government could be suicidal
enough to have direct connection with
the disaster We believe chat she
would foresee more damage to herself
than to us in this sudden and horrible
event. If this we're all that had hap
pened IAN indemnity would be sufficient,
and war be quite contrary to inter-
national presidents.
~
But while this nation, set in might
to lead the Western hemisphere, can
stand insults to its vast self it cannot
permit inbumanity to its weak neigh
bors. 1t will enter into conflict with
Spain not because certain OF victory,
but because Spain slaughters the lnno-
cent. This nation believes In the
glories OF peace, but it must be "peace
with honor" and not with dlshonor
that assuredIy comes from silence IN
the presence OF brutal abuses. BY its
own past, it knows full we'll the horrid
cast OF war, yet its great, true, heroic
heart beats high to declare that it is
better to die in protecting the defence
less than to live in falsehood to it's own
grand past. Its conscience Is aroused
It's arm is barred to smite and that
swiftly, lest there be none Of the starv'
ing left to save.
With such a pure motive, its actions
will have the cordial goodwill OF
European nations. Short, decisive
work will be made of the solemn task
and when the smoke has cleared justice
will have been done to the unjust, and
Scuba Libre" may then develop in
quiet its own individuality.
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nounced, coming this day from the
throne of God, lightning couriers leap
ing from the palace gate? The news
the glorious news-that there is
pardon for all guilt and comfort for all
trouble Set it up in double columns
and direct it to the whole race.
ACKNOWLEDGES TO THE SECULAR PRESS
And now before close this sermon,
thankfully commemorative OF the "Two
Thousandth" publication, I wish more
fully to acknowledge the services
rendered by the secular press in the
matter OF evangelization. All the
secular newspapers of the day--for
am not speaking this morning OF the
religious newspapers-all the secular
newspapers Of the day discuss all the
questions of God, eternity and the
dead, and all the questions OF the past,
present and future. There is not a sin
gle doctrine of theology but has been
discussed in the last ten years by the
secular newspapers of the country.
They gather UP all the news OF all the
earth bearing on religious subjects,
then they scatter the news abroad
again. The Christian newspaper Will
be the right wing of the Apocalyptlc
angel. The cylinder of the Christian
lied printing press will he the front
wheel of tue Lords chariot. l take
the music of this day, and / do not
mark it diminuendo-I mark it cres-
cendo. A pastor on Sabbath breaches
to few hundred or few thousand
people, and on Monday or during the
week the printing press will take the
same sermon and preach it to millions
of people. God speed the printing
press! God save the printing press
God Christlanize the printing press
When I see the printing press stand
ling with the electric telegraph on tb'
one side gathering up material and th'
lightning express train on the othel
side waiting for the tons of foldet
sheets of newspapers, I pronounce
the might,est force in our civilization
So commend you to pray tor all tbos
who manage the newspapers OF tn
land, for all type-setters, tor all editors
for all publishers, that, sittln. or stand
ing N positions of such great influence
thew may give all that influence to
God and the betterment OF the huma
race. An aged woman making ne
living bv knitting unwound the var
+ from the ball until she found IN tn
, center of the ball there was an Of
piece of newspaper. She opened
> and read an advertisement which al
!: nounced that she had become heire'
to large property, and that fragmer
of newspaper lifted her up from pat
:. ner1srn to affiuence. And l do M
. know but as the thread of time unrol
and unwiiids little farther, throug
the silent yet speaking newspaper ma
he found the vast Inheritance OF tE
worlds redemption.
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
D Does his successive journeys run,
a His gdom stretch from shore to sho
n Till suns shall rise and set no more.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-03-24

The base of Ayers Hair Vlgor 10
refined and delicate fluid, which does
not soil or become rancid by exposure
to the air, and which is as perfect
substitute for the oil supplied by ma
ture in youth and health, as modern
chemistry can produce. For sale by
E. T. Whitehead & Co.
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Let us be careful that our motives are
pure and our minds uncontused' The
wild talk of blundering official like
De LONE is nothing to our great con-
seryeatlve millions. War or even the
thought of war over such a matter is
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-03-24

A terrible confagratlon in Chicago
last week in which dozen lives were
lost and more than two dozen persons
we're injured, makes one In the coun-
try feel safer than in the crowded city.
There were hundreds of persons in the
building as high as seven stories, and
when the alarm of fire was given there
was such a panic that number we're
hurt and killed. And indeed the es-
cape was soon cut off by the flames
below.
Here in the country we seldom hear
of life lost by fire and after all there
are many advantages in country life
which country people are slow to recog-
nlze. We ought to be more satisfied
with our rural surroundings when we
remember that "God made the country
and men made the town."
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-03-24

Despite clear and explicit statute
in North Carolina against cruelty to
animals, there is blindness and deaf
ness to that crime that is almost start.
ling. Thousands of foolish and "smart
Aleck" fellows have almost beloved
for the past few weeks for an opportu-
nifty to fight Spain but have not had the
manhood and courage to raise single
protest against the inhuman-like prac-
tice of cruelty to animals that comes
daily before their observation. We
believe that men are more afraid OF
each other in this one thing than
almost any other.
The merchant is afraid to protest before
the law against any one overlooking
his team, lest he lose the sale of pen
ny's worth of goods. The professional
man is afraid to protest against any
practice of cruelty to dumb animals
lest he lose little patronage.
| And so it goes. But the unblushlne
practice of such cruelties almost every
dav before our eyes is shame upon th'
weak-kneedism of a so-called christian
| community,
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-03-24

OLD NEWSPAPERS FOR SALE.
Accents per hundred.
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"In Germany and Prussia, where the
population is very thick, .and forests
scarce. and where they realize the
value of trees, they have very strict
forest laws, and we think 1t Is time
for us to begin caring for our own, for
it is only a question of time when the
limited timber resource will have
reached an end if the present cut Is
continued together with the constant
waste and destruction"
The foregoing is sensible para
graph from the Southport Standard.
In North Carolina the land ownera
have lost largely this year by reason
Of forest fires. In every part OF the
State almost there have been destruc'
tive fires. Here in Halifax county
the people have sustained great loss
1T is a matter that ought to claim th'
attention of all for at the present ratt
of timber consumption it will not b.
l,ono before lumber for ordinary build
ing purposes will have to be importe'
into communities which thirty year
ago paid no attenti IN to the value
timber Let our forests be better pr
served, and let all feel interest In 1t
tho poonle in towns and cities as vel
az those in the rural districts.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-03-24

s,,hscr;i,a to THE COMMONWEALTH.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-03-24
VOL. XIV. New SeTieS---Vol. z.
THE EDITORS LEISURE HoURS.
Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past and Future.

The Greenville Reflector says that
s.the PHYSICIANS Black List for Pitt
county Is undergoing revision, and this
is to give notice to all dellnquents that
il their accounts are not settled by the
18th of April their names will appear
on the black list"
THE COMMONWEALTH thinks this is
good idea. If any class of persons in
the land ought to be paid, 1t is the
faithful physicians.
1t will be long time before the
people of this country forget Charlie
Ross, There comes news of another
such abduction from Burlington, Yer
mont. This time it is Earl Sheldon,
the son of wealthy Mr.. F. NJ. Sheldon.
The missing boy Is 8 years old and
disappeared from the front OF his home
February 18th and has not been heard
from since.
His father has offered large reward
to ne purpose. Perhaps the kidnap-
pers are waiting for larger reward.
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powerful mad they sent down such a
feller, and jawed awful. But the lit
tie feller just talked back religious
and kept his eyes peeled. And l
reckon the big fcller couldn't been
a-lookin':; for the little feller got out
his sling and drew away and SHE'D a
little rock at him, and he popped him
and down he tumbled. Then the lit
tie feller rushed up and mounted, jest
as an old hunter loves to get on b ar
after he'd shot him; and he out with
the big feller's long sword and off with
his head. Then it was them Philis-
tine sinners turn to be skeered, and
they broke for the brush, aud all of
them chilen of Israel fellers jest
shouted, aud chased EN- clean over
the mountain into valley, and then
com back and got all their camp
plumber.
My brethren, that's the best story
of fight I ever read after, and you
can't buy no better story book nor
this very Bible.
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outdoins Wagner Himself.

More than Il dozen years ago an
eminent English critic, commenting
on the signs of that imitation, that
plagiarism of tho Wagner manner
already then evident among COM
poscrs, pointed out the danger that
would exist if Wasner's most en-
thusiastic supporters should attempt
as they certainly have done-to
carry his views and theories even
farther than he carried them him
self. He says: This warns us OF
serious danger-dunScr that the free
course of art may be paralyZed by Il
soulless 1nannerism worthy only of
the meanest copyist; danger, on the
other hand, of I, reaction which will
he all the more violent and unre;-
soniny ID proportion to the amount
of provocation needed to excite it. >
He remarks further, and with truth:
''It would take Us /, long day to tire
OF Wagner, but we cannot take him
at second hand 'Wasnerisnn, nor
gods nor men can tolerate. '-Regi
nald dc Koven in Scribner's.
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: - nm n,an nnoo4 Q: 2; ANDERSON g. BRO.

The big battleship Maine has been
ordered to Cuba and some Of our peo-
pie who are :'spilin'' for fight with
Spain and will be content with moth
ing short of immediate interference
by this government for the freedom of
Cuba, are very much excited but
Secretary of the Navy Long has is
sued a statement declaring that no
disturbing news from Cuba causes
this order and there is no occasion
for alarm, and Minister DeLomc, of
the Spanish legation at Washington,
expresses himself as not at all uneasy.
All nations have exercised the right
to maintain small naval force at
ports inhabited by their citizens
when signs Of trouble threatened their
safety or their property, and in send
ing the Maine to Cuba this govern
ment is only exercising right which
was suspended during the administra-
tion of President Cleveland.
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a travesty of one of the most serious

travesty of one of the most serious
compacts in life.
Four years engagement? Four
weeks is better. -Four months is long
enough. If man really is euamored
Of woman every minute of delay
after winning her before he makes her
his bride is irksome to him. Why
does a man ask woman to betroth
herself to him? Is it not that he
wants and intends 10 marry her?
Why, then, should she consent unless
he is ready to prove his faith by his
works?
Beware, girls, of the selfish or era
ven-hearted fellows, who wants to en-
tangle you in long engagements simply
to keep from you truer and braver and
better swains.
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The Lord. Prayer and Druidi.m.

A curious proof of low tena-
ciously paganism held its ground
for somo generations after the ma-
jority OF the people had become
Christians is found in II Gaelic YER
sion Of the Lord Prayer, which up
to Il very recent period existed i'll
parts Of Cork and Kerry Instead
of Lead us not into temptation,
Ma Leig Sim !; ndraoidhcach' was
said, meaning Allow us not into
Druidism. Freeman : Journal.