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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-12-08

ME STILL LIKE 1000 BALES
w Cotton. Highest prices paid every
day. N. B. JOSH.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-12-08
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
H9FFMAl's BARGAINS.

ITHE season is advancing and our large
stock must 60. Special bargains in
our entire line. NJ. Hoffman & Bro.
nLOTHING, Overcoats, and every
U thing in this line lower than ever.
Call and see for yourself.
M. Hoffman & Bro.
DRESS Goods, Silks, trimmings of all
u descrlption---ali going at very low
figures. NJ, Hoffman & Bro.
FURNITURE, Stoves, &c. We have
L a full line and will sell at astonlsh-
ing low prices. M. Hoffman & Bro.
lat Department is complete. Full
Ii line of Dewey Caps.
M. Hoffman & Bro.
no you want a special bargain in
u carpet and rugs? If SO go to M.
Hoffman & Bros.
TAPES and Jackets. Full line and |
U they must go. See the assortment
before purchasing and save money.
NJ. Hoffman & Bro |
pULL line of heavy groceries, bagging
| and ties and peanut SACKS.
NJ. Hoffman d Bro.
GAVE money by buying your peanut
y sacks from NJ. Hoffman & Bro.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-12-08

A BIG DROP IN PRICES oYaCH1L-
Il dren's and Mems Suits asd Over
coats at N. B. JosEY's.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-12-08

DUY SHOES FOR YOURSELF,
u wife and children flom n. B. Josey.
He beats them all.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-12-08

There is no necessity for having the
soil in the orchard rich until the tree
commences bearing fruit.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-12-08

For Rent.
A good two-horse farm, one mile
from Scotland Neck. Good buildings.
10 u If. Apply to this office.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-12-08

DECEIVED TO-DAY A COMPLETE
IL line of Ladies' and Mems Rub
bers. Prices low. N. B. JOsEY.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-12-08

QPANISH PEANUTS WANTED.
y Will pay the highest cash prices.
n. B. JOsEY.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-12-08

Lime! Lime!
A car load OF Lime just received.
r. G.. JOsEY.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-12-08

FRESH BUCKWHEAT Sc. POUND.
/ Grlts and Hominy &c. pound.
n. B. JOsEY.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-12-08

rHE season is advancing and our large
stock must 60. Special bargains in
our entire line. NJ. Hoffman & Bro.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-12-09
Good for the Blues.

The Boston Herald has been very shy
of our expansion policy ever since the
treaty of peace has been under discussion
and has not hesitated to recognize and en-
phasize the dangers which lie in the way.
but when it comes to toleration of the
everlasting carping of un-American Amer
leans there is no question about the Her
AIDS choice:
we believe il is ridiculous to assume that this
great republic cannot govern colonies with popu.
latlons OF any stage of development or that we
cannot do II without damage to our institutions
at home: The pessimists always point to the eye
ample OF Rome, whicn they assume to have been
destroyed because OF its expansion policy This
10 STUN and nonsense. Whv do they refuse TO
look g the example of England which has been
time progressing from the rule Of an absolute
King 20 institutions as free as our oWnS Not only
that, but while planting her flag all round the
world she has purified her politics and her ad.
ministration beyond the experience Of any other
True conservatism is good, very good: but
pesslmism is neither good for nations nor for in
dlvlduals And pessmistc American is of all
living organisms, most unreasonable We prefer
keep 1t stainless"
This is healthy doctrine, and a good
tonic, just like that of the lusty old hymn
which admonishes half-hearted and de-
spalring souls to 'put a cheerful courage
onn
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-12-09
"OId World Memor,..,

Two rarely attractive specimens of the.
book-maker's art have come to us this
week from the press of L. G. Page & Com
pany, Boston. This for their outer SEEM
ing and the perfection of their mechanical
work. In their contents they are two vol
umes of "Old World Memories from the
pen of Edward L. Temple of Rutland. a
man OF Brattleboro connection, who, with
his wife, has often been a visitor here
leaving, and keeping 1--WE hope, the good
gift OF delightful personal acquaintance.
The volumes tell the story of long-antici-
pated summer vacation in Europe. That
its anticipations were so fully realized was
due, in large measure, there can be no
doubt, to the preparation which a life
time OF sympathetic reading and study had
unconsciously made for the journey, 1t
was evidently not undertaken in pedant's
attitude of mind, and 1t is more than prob
able that the story of it is a charming one
because the writing of it was not had in
mind or prepared for with malice afore-
thought.
The itinerary included Belgium, the
Rhine, some of the German cities, the Ty
rol, Venice, Italy, Switzerland, Paris, Lon
don, Edinburg, and the English cathedral
and college towns. While the endowment
of careful reading must be left to the leis-
ure of winter evenings, turning over of
the pages leaves the pleasant impression
that an oft-told story has been told anew
in way to produce new pictures and new
mental impressions-to give the writer's
untraveled readers a comfortable feeling of
having "been there themselves. If we
mistake not, too, man whose everyday
work at home is in the practical affairs of
life has made real contribution to Yer
mont letters in the manner of the telling.
There are many half-tO illustrations of
unusual excellence, and, as said in the be-
ginning, the volumes are very attractive in
letter-press and binding We make this
hasty note of them because Christmas is
close at hand, and in size the books would
be just about fit for a stocking of nor
NAL proportions on Christmas morning.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-12-09
New York sky scrapers.

The big fire on Broadway, New York,
Sunday night puts the modern "sky-scrap-
err buildings to a test which they have not
had before in that city. The Rogers &
Peet building, in which the fire originated,
was tive-story building of the old style
of construction. Next it was the building
of the Home Life Insurance company, 15
stories high, one of the most beautiful ex-
ternally in the city. The strength of the
building was in its steel frame work. as it
is in all the modern buildings of that class.
Its front of carved white marble was
simply a shell or covering for the steel
frame, and had nothing to do with the
strength of the building. This front was
cracked and ruined by the heat and will
have TO be rebuilt, but the steel frame is
intact. The building was gutted the fire
catching on each floor, separately, from
the windows, against which the flames
from the Rogers & Peet building swept.
The real test of this manner of construc-
tion will come when the debris is cleared
away and it is found how the floors, which
"NAS VI obSNi bCdlho Ill WIFI cement
or masonry, have come through the fire.
The question is whether the floor beams
are in shape, or whether they have been
so warped and twisted as to be worthless
The upper stories of this building were
above the reach of water or of any appar-
atus Of the fire department. The fire brings
from the chief engineer and the other fire
officials of the city declaration that the
height of buildings ought to be limited by
law. The extreme limit of height, these
officers say, ought to be $50 feet The
Home Life building was 200 feet high, but
1t was only good healthy STRIPPING among
its tall neighbors. The building of the
American Tract society is % stories high.
the st. Paul building is IS stories, and the
giant of all the Gotham sky-scrapers to
date, the Wins Syndicate building, is 80
stories high, including the two stories in
each of its two lofty corner towers. The
spire of Trinity church, formerly the land
mark in all that section of the city, is now
completely lost in the wilderness of tall
buildings all around it,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-12-09
The Rate OF savings Bank interest.

The announcement of the trustees of
the Brattleboro Savings bank of reduc-
tion Of the interest rate from four per cent
to three and one-half per cent is undoubt-
edly the forerunner of a similar course to
be adopted by all the Vermont banks in the
near future, and not only by the banks of
Vermont but by those of New England and
the country generally. All the indications
point to such a result because of the steady
decrease in the earning power of money,
and the lack of channels for the profitable
investment of money in large sums. The
high premium which government bonds
and all bighclas municipal bonds com
mand cuts down the income from that
class of investments to very low figure,
and the banks are closely and wisely re-
stricted by law in the sources of income
which they may seek. The New York
savings banks are reducing their interest
rate from four to three and one-half and
three per cent Within week announce
ment has been made that money is so
plenty and so slow of investment in Mil
waukee that the banks are paying only two
and one-half per cent. Ohio banks are
making similar reduction. Connecticut
and Massachusetts banks see the same
necessity before them as do those of Yer
mont. Only general and widespread re-
vival of business can avert this result by
calling the great mass of accumulated capi-
ital into active business use. Perhaps our
new colonial policy will do this for us.
For their own comfort and protection
savings bank depositors ought to keep in
mind the fact that notice of reduction in
the interest rate does not mean weakness
on the part of our banks, but a determine
tion to conserve their strength and to pre-
serve their rasnnrces intact
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-12-09
The Presidents Message.

The second annual message of President
Mckinley is disappointment to those,
and they are not few, who expected to
find in it some positive or radical discussion
OF the problems of national moment which
have arisen during the past seven months.
The message is of great length, and it is
confined almost wholly to a statement
! about the events of the summer and the
| general affairs of the country. Its most
interesting portion is that in which the
President gives a chronological history of
the war with Spain and awards generous
need of praise to the men of the army and
navy which won its brilliant victories
Contrary to general expectation there is
no discussion whatever of the so.caled
expansion policy as related to the control
or disposition of the Philippine Islands
Upon this point the only reference is con-
tained in the following paragraph:
IL do not discuss at this time the government
FOR the future OF th- new possessions which will
come to us as the result of the war with Spain
Such discussion will be appropriate after the
treaty of peace shall be ratified I'm the mean.
time and until the Congress has legislated other.
wise 1t Will be my duty to continue the military
governments which have existed since our occn
patton and give TO the people security in life and
property and encouragement under Just and
benehcent rule"
The most important expression in the
message is that in which the President de
elares in the plainest possible terms that
our business in Cuba is to help the inhabi-
tants to set up a stable government and
then leave them to manage their own af-
fairs. Ii this means that the same plan is
to be followed in the Philippines the stock
in trade of the anti-imperialists has been
ruthlessly destroyed and the bugabeo of
foreign enmity or foreign interference fades
into air.
The new responsibilities of the country
are recognized in the endorsement of the
recommendations for an increase of the
regular army to 100000 men and for cor
responding enlargement of the navy. The
most positive recommendations in the
message are those which relate to the re-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-12-09

San Francisco friend of Admiral Dewey who
sent him an account of Hobson's osculatory ex.
perience and dire prophecies for Dewey's f,te
upon returning, received this answer from the
Admiral; Tine clippings you send do not seem
possible. The threats you make persuade me to
remain forever in Manila - Burlington News.
This story may or may not be true, but
we know it to be fact that when person
al friend wrote the Admiral about the feel
ing which the people have in this country
for him and the ovation which awaits him
on his return, he answered that he couldn't
understand it, and he thought that instead
of coming home he would remain in Ma
nila.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-12-09

In October, the last month for which
complete returns are forthcoming, 12,9O7
applicants for enlistment in the regular
army presented themselves for enlistment,
of whom $500 were accepted. A prefer
ence was given in enlistments to men who
had served in the volunteers. These facts
disprove the theory that there will be any
difficulty in securing recruits for the regu-
lar army, should its strength be increased.
The Madri } "Imparcial," commenting on
the statement that the United States in
tends fully to rGestablsh relations with
Spain, asks if the United States proposes
to send new ultimatum imposing friend
ship" Not bad hit, all things consid-
cred
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-12-09
Prison Reform Legislation,

John Harris notes two wise legislative
acts in Montpelier aftermath" letter to
the Morrisville News and Citizen:
Next have in mind what are known as the
prison reform acts These provide for a maxi.
mum and minimum sentence to Rutland or Wind.
sor, depen able on the prisoners conduct. Un-
DER THIS law man may be sentenced 70 r not less
man hve years nor more than ten. By good con.
duct he may get out in five years. otherwise he
remains ten. Another bill in the same line pro.
yldes that the prison comm ssioners may parole
or conditionally pardon a prisoner during good
behavior. This Is very important legislation and
will have large results"
These enactments are in line with the
best modern ideas in prison reform legis-
lation, notably as exemplifed in Massa-
chusetts and New York.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-12-09

According to Washington despatch the
Senate has been canvassed by the friends
of annexation to see what the prospect is
for securing the two-thirds vote necessary
to ratification of the peace treaty. This
canvass, it is claimed, shows so of the 80
Senators in favor of the treaty and the ac-
QUESTION of the Philippines. Morrill, and
Hale are the only Republicans set down as
surely against the treaty. The doubtful
Republicans are Hoar, Spooner and Well
ington. Why Senator Hoar is put in this
list, after what he has said publicly about
expansion and the new American policy, is
not easy to see. Senator Hoar has been
''talking," while Senator Morrill, has not.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-12-09

Gbe Drrmumt 19b@rrin.
T E N PAG e s
BRATTLEBORO:
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1898.

All the essential articles of the peace
treaty have been agreed upon and it is
confidently predicted that the present week
will see the work of the commissioners at
Paris ended. In that case they can cele-
brate Christmas at home.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-12-09

Speaker Haskins is undoubtedly right
in saying that the worst trouble with the
members of the house this year was their
lack of legislative experience. The North
field News says the same thing This un.
fortunate state of things will be corrected
only when some way is devised so that not
more than one-third, or one-half at the
outside, of the members shall be new at
any one session.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-12-09

of the Nicaragua canal, the last named an
enterprise which has become little short
of a national necessity in the present drift
of events
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-12-04
100000 100000 GO 9 9 6 coo
DIGGING WILL BE
STARTED TOMORROW
BALDWIN WALLS ARE NO
LONGER DANGEROUS.
Wreckers and Other Laborers Paid
Off for the Week Last
Night.

All the dangerous chimneys and loos-
ened cornices on the Baldwin Hotel walls
which have menaced street-car passengers
for several days have been pulled down.
Those portions of the walls standing are
secure and not liable to fall, in fact the
wreckers say they cannot be pulled down.
Tomorrow a gang of men will begin re-
moving the debris, and in a day or two
the buried bodies will be recovered, If
they were not completely incinerated. In
side the walls the wreckage is piled as
high as the third and fourth stories. and
this heap will be removed before any
more of the walls are pulled down. On
the Market-street side the wall is down
to the first story in the center OF the
building, and on the other two sides the
fifth and fourth stories have Seen re-
moved All the chirneys are down.
Last night E. ]. Baldwin paid off sixty
men who have been employed for several
days recovering furniture, marble man
tells and bath room fixtures, and also the
Wrecking gang. Two men who were en-
gagged in removing mantels on the Powell
Street side yesterday narrowly escaped
death. While they were in one OF the
rooms the wreckers pulled down large
section of the top wall directly above them.
The timber crashed down through the
broken ceiling and the men IN the room
wore almost buried. When the cracking
timbers warned them they ran to the end
of the room near the outer wall and es-
caped serious injury, though they were
temporarily blinded by the dust
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-12-04
ADVERTISEMENTS.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
TOBACCO CURE.
HOW 4 MOTHER BANISHED CIGARETTES
? AND T0BACC0-A HARMLESS REM
EDY THAT CAN BE GIVEN
IN TEA, COFFEE OR
FOOD.
ANY One Can Have Free Trial Package
by Sending Name and Address.

Some time ago a well known business
man whose stomach and nerves were
ruined by the tobacco habit was secretly
given remedy by his wife and he never
knew what cured him of the habit He
suddenly evinced such dislike for to-
bacco that he concluded the weed had
finally floored him and that his own deter
Inination made him quit. She then treated
her son, young man just u. He was a
cigarette fiend, inhahng the deadly fumes
-almest constantly, and he, too, was made
sick of the weed" His mother enjoys a
quiet laugh to herself at the manner in
which the young man tells of how he
came to the conclusion that cigarettes
were 'drugged and poisoned nowadays
and not fit to smoke
The remedy is odorless and tasteless,
can be mixed with coffee or food, and
when taken into the system man cannot
use tobacco in any form. The remedy
contains nothing that could possibly do
injury. It is simply an antidote or the
2oisons of tobacco and takes nicotine out
Of the system. 1t will cure even the con-
A<med cigarette fiend and is a God-send to
mothers who have growing Doys addicted
TO the smoking of cigarettes. The rem
edy is called Tobacco Specific and a free
trial package of the remedy will be mailed
prepaid upon arnlication to Rogers Drug
and Chemical Company, IA Glenn build
ing, Cincinnati, Ohio This will helm any
woman to solve the problem of curing her
husband, son or brother of habit that
undermines the health, leaving the BODY
susceptible to numerous lingering and
dangerous diseases.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-12-04
Uncle Sam Drives a
Good Bargain.
RAILROADS SLAUGHTER RATES
TWENTY-FoUR HUNDRED MILES
FOR SO 90.
Low Transportation Prices That the
General Public Are Not to
Be Given the
Benefit Of.

The contract for the transportation OF
the 1900 men of the New York Regiment
of Volunteers from San Francisco to New
York has been agitating the railroad
agents in this city for some time. These
troops are to arrive from Honolulu dur
ing the next two weeks, and after a few
days rest will be forwarded East.
The particular feature of interest in this
contest for the business of the Govern.
ment is the remarkably low figures quoted
for carrying these men across the CONT
nent 1t goes without saying that the
Southern Pacific Company, with the short
haul, gets the lions share, and the con-
trast between what this company is will
ing to do and the voluntary propositions
of the Eastern trunk lines is very strik-
ing.
For instance, the Southern Pacific
charges 81 80 per man from San Fran
cisco to Sacramento, and SIG 80 from that
city to Ogden. This is haul of 800 miles
for SIS go. The Eastern lines take the
soldiers at Ogden and carry them to New
York City for 50 80. This Is over three
times the distance covered by the South
ern Pacific and about half the. price
charged by the latter corporation for the
short service.
The competing railroad men take some
satisfaction from the fact that theil
grasping competitor does not derive g
great deal of pleasure from the contract
by reason of the fact that it receives
only 81 SO cash out of the SIS 20. The bal
ance goes on Uncle Sans books to the
credit of the Central Pacific Company or
the big debt due the Government.
The troops will go in tourist ears an6
the officers in Pullman CompanY's sleep
ers. This latter corporation did not
bother about bidding for the traffic. II
simply quoted a regular rate of $2G 90 fol
each man who rides in their cars. Sol
diers who are too ill to stand the rough
accommodations of the tourist sleepers
will be transported in the Pullmans. The
Burlington line will have the honor and
pleasure of conveying the Empire State
boys to their homes. They will go over
the Southern Pacific, Central Pacific, Rio
Grande Western, Denver and Rio Grande
Burlington and Missouri River Chicago
Burlington and Quincy, Lake Shore an6
Michigan Southern and New York Cen
trail. In addition to the troops there will
be 100000 pounds of freight transported.
In connection with this battle of the
railroads for Government business, what
will most interest the people of Califor-
MIA is the fact that while the general pub
lie of the East who desire to emigrate to
California are required to pay the highest
possible rate that the railroad people
can agree upon, when it comes to carry
ing passengers eastward for Uncle Sam
they quote a figure which If applied to
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-12-04
DOLLS GO UP IN e..
A BLAZE OF GLORY
BIG RETURNS MARK THE LAST
OF THE SHOW.
Arthur Spear Proves. an Efficient
Auctioneer and Gets Good Prices
for Some Bisque Ladies.

The doll show closed last evening In d
blaze of glory. Large and gratifying as
was the attendance during the other days
of the entertainment. yesterday far sur
passed them in point of numbers Sey-
eral hundred dollars was taken in at the
door, besides some 500 tickets, which rep
resented a cash value of $3.50. During the
afternoon the sales were so brisk that
only seventeen of the dolls remained to be
auctioned off by Arthur Spear
Spear proved himself model auctioneer
and handled the crowd so well that the
dolls went quickly-and at good prices.
Among the purchasers were Charles Neal.
who gave $50 for a doll; Al Dodge, whose
purchase represented SIT 80; Mrs. Fair,
who paid $35 for the doll she admired:
Riley Grammar, whose bid an amo Eur ed to
bisGue beauty Among the small pur..
chasers were Mrs, Eddy, Mrs; Van Orde
dolls was also a feature of the .closin
evening. No. 147, held by Miss Nellie My
Ter of Oakland, won the mechanical doll.
Louis Sloss captured the Hearst doll with
No SO, and Mrs. W. V. Bryan, who did
such excellent work at the door, won the
Schoenwasser doll with ticket No. A.