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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-02-09
Master Of Himself.
Christian Guardian

Christian Guardian.
In one of his charming lectures,
Rev. c.. o. johnson tells the following
story:
A merchant needed boy, and put
the following sign in the window :
"Boy wanted-Wages, 81 week Sc
for the right ono. The boy must be
master of himself"
Many parents who had sons were in
terested, but the latter part Of the no.
tice puzzled them. They had never
thought OF teaching their boys to be
masters of themselves. However, many
OF them sent their sons to the mer-
chant to apply for the situation. AS
each boy applied, the merchant asked
him:
"Can you read ?"
ayes, SIR" was the ready reply.
"Can you read thls?' asked the mer-
chant, pointing out certain passage
in a paper.
Eyes, sir"
"Wiil you read it to me steadily, and
without break?"
"Yes SIR"
The merchant then took the boy in
t. back room, where all was quiet,
aud ehut the door. Giving the boy the
paper, he reminded him of his promise
to read the passage through steadily,
and without a break, and commanded
him to read. The hoy took the paper
and braveIy started while he was read
ing the merchant opened a basket, In
which were number OF lively little
puppies, and tumbled them around the
boys feet. The temptation to turn
and see the puppies and note what
they were doing was too strong; the
boy looked away from his reading,
biundered, and was at once dismissed.
Boy alter boy underwent the same
treatment, till seventy-six were thus
tried and proven failures to master
themselves. At last one was found,
who, in spite of the puppies playing
around his teet, read the passage
through as he had promised. When
be had finished, the merchant was de-
lighted and asked him:
"Did you not see the puppies that
we're playing around your feet while
you were reading?
mo, sir"
"Did you not know that they were
there?"
eyes, SIR"
"Why did you not look to see what
they were doing?''
81 couldn't, sir, while I was reading
what said would"
"Do you always do whatever you say
you will?"
eyes, sir try to-"
"You are the boy l want" said the
merchant, enthusiastically. "Come to.
morrow. Your wages will start at six
dollars, with good prospect OF increase. u
How this incident points home to a
great neglect in the training OF our
boys and girls only one boy in seventy.
seven trained to be master Of himself
While everything else is looked after,
physical health and general education,
do not forget to teach each boy to be
master Of himself.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-02-09
For Over Fifty Years

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 Diarrhoea. It will
relieve the poor little sufferer immedi-
ately. Sold by Druggists in every part
of the world. twenty-five cents
bottle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs Win
slows Soothing Syrup" and take no
other kind. ALLY
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-02-09

To be too far-seeing, and to have a
mind so nicely adjusted that it can
weigh and balance all conditions for
and against, is often the greatest O:
mlsfortunes. To such a man there are
usually about as many reasons for not
doing certain thing as for doing it.
While it can scarcely be called indie
cision which results, 1t Is a form of in
difference, which Is really worse.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-02-09
An Honest Medicine for LaGrippe

George w. Watt of South Gardiner,
Ne, says: II have had the worst
cough, cold, chills ard grip and have
taken lots of trash of no account but
profit to the vendor. Chamberlain
Cough Remedy is the only thing that
has done any good whatever. l have
used one 5O-cent bottle and the chills,
cold and grip have all left me- l con-
graduate the manufacturers of an hon.
est medicine" For sale by E. Z.
Whitehead & Co.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-02-09
booksellers Wealth.
New York World d.

!
A week ago the Sunday World told
of the early life and poverty OF John
D. Rockefeller and of his youthful
dream of some day becoming worth
100000. On the preceding day the
World published, as matter of news,
the fact the boy whose widest dream
had been the acquiring 100000 had
made oyer $S,O0O,00O in one day by
the appreciation OF Standard Oil securi-
ties.
In this contrast is epitomized the
career of John D. Rockefeller.
Nobody knows the amount OF Rookie
feller's fortune. He himself probably
does not know exactly. A man who
makes millions in day cannot be ex-
pected to know down to the fraction oil
cent what he is worth. And if
Rockefeller sat down to figure up his
fortune it would mount up so fast
while he was making the computation
that the figures would be wrong at The
end. This statement sounds like exag-
geration until one reflects that Mr..
Rockeseller's income is something like
$4,000 per day, or more than $25 a
minute throughout the twenty-four
hours.
If Mr.. Rockefeller's income were
paid to him in SIS bills as fast as It ac-
cumulated be would have to take in
1000 Of these bills an hour for eight
hours a day, or an average of sixteen to
the minute. Assuming that he sleeps
the ordinary mans eight hours at
night, he rises every morning a matter
OF $4,000 richer than when he went
| to bed.
! 1t staggers ones imagination to at
tempt to conceive of such a fortune as
this, and it conveys very little notion
OF its true proportions to say that ac-
cording to the most exact estimates
Mr.. Rockefeller's wealth now amounts
| to between two hundred and fifty and
| three hundred millions. It is more to
the point to say simply that he is by
all odds the richest man in the world
and that at the present rate of increase
in his fortune, by the end of the next
decade he will present spectacle alb.
solutely unique in human history
that of the first Millionaire.
But John D. Rockefeller is not mere
ly the richest man in the world. Eye.
ry dollar OF his wealth spells power
There are other fortunes comparable
with his, even though they fall far
short OF it in the aggregate. But there
| is no other fortune that confeTs upon
| its owner such vast influence.
There is no other millionaire who sc
completely controls the welfare Of
thousands OF his fellows, who has such
power to block the wheels of traffic
who can at an instant's notice call such
mighty force of organized wealth tc
back any scheme he may have on
hand. In short, Rockefeller is the
money car OF the age.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-02-09

La Grippe is again epidemic. Every
precaution should be taken to AVOID it.
Its specific cure is One Minute Cough
Cure. A. J. Shepherd, Publisher
Agricultural Journal ana Advertiser,
Eden, Mo-, says: 'No one will be dis
appointed in using one Minute Cough
Cure for La Grippe" Pleasant to take,
quick to act.-E. T. Whitehead & Co.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-02-09
For La Grippe.

Thomas Whitfield & Co, 24O Wab-
ash-av.. corner Jackson-st., one Of Chic
ago's oldest and most prominent drug
gists, recommend Cham berlain 9 Cough
Remedy for Ia grippe, as 1t not only
gives prompt and complete relief, but
also counteracts any tendency of Ia
grippe to result in pneumonia For
sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-02-09

All of the good out of the moral man
would make an angel; all of the bad
out OF the best man would make a
deyil.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-02-09

Coughing Injuries and inflames sore
lungs. One Minute Cough Cure
loosens the cold, allays coughing and
heals quickly. The best cough cure
for children.-E. T. Whitehead & Co.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-02-09

It is the most nicely balanced scales
which become most easily unhalanced.
And is 1t not so with men?
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-02-09

In business, as in prize fighting, it is
usually the man who can stand the
most punishment who wins.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-02-09
MOTHERS FRIEND

sMy wife suffered more in ten min
utes with either of her other two chill
dren than she did altogether with her
last, having previously used four bot
ties of Mothers Friend 1t is q
blessing to any one expecting to be-
come a MOTHER }" says customer.
HENDERSON DALE, Carmi, Illinois.
OF Druggists at sl00. sent by express on foeoepe
OF price. Write for book containing testimonial
and valuable information for all Mothers. 1res.
The Bradfeld Regulator Co., Atlanta. O..
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-02-09
Mother S
FIR lend

dread, suffering or gloomy lore
bodings, to the hour when she
experiences the joy of Motherhood.
Its use insures safety to the lives
of both Mother and Child, and she
is found stronger after than before
CONFERENCE.-THE short, it "makes
Childbirth natural and easy" as
so many have said. Don't be
persuaded to use anything but
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-02-09
MOTHER: !: 81: $: :: !: 4: :;

and about Which such tenuef dHu
holy recollections cluster as that
of "MorHER she who watched
over our helpless infancy and guild
ed our first tottering step. Yet
the life of every Expcctant Moth
er is beset with danger and all eff
fort should be made to avoid it.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-02-09

Since Lincoln's time it Is reputed
true that no human slavery has existed
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-02-09

so assists nature
in the change TAX
ing place that
the Expectant
M other is ena-
bled to look for
ward without
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-01-05

"Now, Gladys, said u mother reported
by the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "if you
wake up early sunday, be a good girl and
lie still. Perhaps youll 20 to sleep again -
But early Sunday morning the child was
out Of bed as usual and came pattering
into her mother's room.
GLADYS" cried mamma reproachfully,
you're naughty girl. Now go right
back To bed again. Here, III tuck you
In" SO the mother arose and escorted
the wakeful child back To- her bed. Gladys
crawled under tho covers, and her mother
made her as comfortable as possible.
''Now," said the child, "give me some
thing to read, please"
Her mother turned to the bookshelves.
"What do you wants" she said
give mo 'Esop's Fables" said
Gladys. She took the book with happy
smile and held IL tightly in her arms.
Now" she said, with long drawn sigh,
"I'll read till you call me. And know
what I'll read. I'll read The Contented
ASS" And the little philosopher opened
the magic book
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-01-05
DEVIL WORSHIP.
It's Alleged Celebration and Punish-
ment Therefor In OIden Times.

It's Alleged Celebration and Punish-
ment Therefor In Olden Times.
In Spain, Germany, France and Italy, an
well rs In the northern countries which
had embraced the reformation, devil wor-
ship was believed TO be practicod, orgies
celebrated, malevolent tricks OF revenge
perpetrated by the votaries Of the evil one
on their peighbors. IL child was seized
with epileptic fits or II o COW or pig died
suddenly, III toad were found under tho
bed or a cat jumped i'm at the window, II
a crossgrained old woman cursed rude,
i'll hammered brat and the child afterward
suffered with any complaint, tho witch
craft which must undoubtedly be- at the
bottom of such occurrences called for in-
mediate investigation.
Nor was Ii long before victim was
forthcomipg Denial was Of no avail. The
longer such denial was persisted i'm the
longer were the tortures inflicted. The
accused was urged to confess to tho usual
charges and encouraged to accuse others,
in turn TO suffer the same fate. And so
the horrible business spread until, like u
prairie fire, IL burned itself out for time,
only to start again from some fresh sparks
of suspicion. The crime itself was held
by all TO he SO enormous that no punish
ment could he too great for it.
In 1918, when one Margaret Barclay, .
sailors wife of Irvine, was accused OF
causing the loss of ship because 1t had
foundered after quarrel she had had
with her brother-in-law, the owner
C'damnum mimatum ct nahum secutum"
was the usual iegIh maxim for such occur
rences), 'my lord of Eglintoune," four
Justices and four ministers obtained
confession Of the crime by n mode Of tor
ture "most safe and gentle"-viz, "by
putting of her two bare legs In a pair OF
stocks, and thereafter by onlaying of Ger.
tain iron gauds (bars) one by one" The
poor creature screamed out, TAX of, tax
of, and befoir God 1 will show you the
whole formi" At tho stake she earnestly
entreated that one Isobel Crawford, whom
she had falsely accused, might be let go.
But poor Isobel In her turn gave way un.
der the same torture. Magazine.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-01-05
TroubIesomc Jerusalem.

People often ask how Ii Is that the fu.
turo Of Palestine presents such difficulties.
The reason is simply that Jerusalem-you
cannot separate Jerusalem from Palestine
lis the sacred city of so many creeds and
warning faiths. Not only is 1t the holy
place Of all the Christian churches, and
two OF them quarrel bitterly over 1.-THE
Greeks and the batins-but it is also one
of the most sacred places in the Moham.
medan world. Mecca and Medina are hard
ly more sacred than the Mosque of Omar
That is fact which is often ignored by
Europeans, who forget that TO turn the
Mohammedans out OF the temple inclosure
would disturb the whole Moslem world
from the Straits Settlements to Albania
We must never forget that Mohammedan
pilgrims from India visit Jerusalem Just
as Christian pilgrims visit 1t from Europe
Lastly, Jerusalem is profoundly sacred to
the Jews, and the Jews are beginning to
bo locally numerous and Important
SPECTATOR
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-01-05
The Facts In the Case.

Thoro was trouble Of some kind reported
on Desplaines street the other night, and
tho editor told the new reporter to go over
and get the details. He got them, as may
be seen from his account of the affair.
which was as follows:
"A man killed a dog belonging 20 an
Other man. The son of the man whose
dog was killed proceeded Ia whip the man
who killed the dog of the man he was the
son OF The man who was the son of the
man whose dog was killed was arrested
on complaint OF the man who was assault
ed 10y the son of the man whose dog tho
man who was assaulted had killed. -
Chicago News
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-01-05
TROUT COOKED ON THE HOOK.
Conciusion of One story Told About
Il the Yellowstone Park

= "You needn't think that lust because
>haye been out there | am going TO give
you all the details OF surprise which
did not feel at the stock talos of tho Vel.
bwstone park" said tho critical tourist.
s'Anybody knows that boiling water will
acook fish. and 20 long as you know that
the Yellowstone Is full OF geysers and
,boiling springs don't SEQ what there is
wonderful about catching trout and
then turning around and dangling il I'm a
boiling spring until IL Is cooked. IL would
begin to be wonderful IL boiling water
didn't cook fish everywhere.
But i wish when they are telling this
old story they'd finish IL up--make 10
complete. The next time you hear any
body tell that story just you watch out for
the way il ends IL never ends. The man
tells how no caught the trout. Well and
good; anybody can catch hundreds Of
trout In those overstocked waters. Then
he tells how he swung around on his heel
and, without taking tho fish from sho
hook, lowered IL into a pool OF boiling
water and cooked IL. Well, what's the end
of the storyy There isn't any end. He
just chortles about how he was overcome
by the maryels OF nature and that sort of
thing. He doesn { say another word about
the fish. Now, If you will only let the
marvels Of nature alone and keep your eye
liked on the fish with which the story be-
gan, IL will look mighty different.
"There is the pool of boiling water
pretty handy, but not by any means to he
reached by pivoting on the flsherman's s
heel. Then just SOS TO have something
to talk about when he gets home the fish
erman souses his live trout into the boil
ing water. III it's cruelty to broil live
lobster, there ought TO be something done
TO man who will boil a trout alive. And
it spoils the fish. The man has to throw
IL away after he has showed IL through
natures marvels for tie sake of his miser-
able little story. Nobody can eat trout
that has been boiled with all its scales on
and all the machinery in place. It's got
TO be thrown away. There's another
thing, too, about this story. The next
time you hear IL ask the man If he took
the trout out OF the pool of boiling water.
If he says he did, then the fish didn Z begin
to be cooked, for anybody who has ever
seen boiled fish of any sort knows that
when it's done it won't hold together
tight enough TO be lifted unless it's wrap
ped in napkin before it's cooked
$50 there you have the plain facts about
cooking trout on the hook. know, be-
cause l thought it was such great mar
vel Of nature that had to go and try it.
Then / saw what happened, and haven't
yet got through feeling disgusted with
myself. New York Sun.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-01-05
A Safe Wager.

Tho Scottish Leader says that the for
mer Lord Elphinstone's parish minister
was very scatter Drained theologian and
in his sermons often knew not the end
from the beginning. One Sunday his
lordship, I'm his customary sleeping, gave
Won't to an unmistakable snore This was
too much for tho minister, who stopped
and cried, ''Waken, my Lord Elphin-
stone"
A grunt followed, and then his lord
ship answered, "I'm no sleepin, minis.
ter"
But ye are sleepin. wager ye dinna
ken what j said last" exclaimed tho
pastor.
lou, aye, returned the peer eye said
'Waken, my Lord Elphinstone
Aye, aye, said the minister. "But
wager ye dinna ken what said last afore
that"
"Tuts, replied. the noblomnn prompt
~. I'll wager ye dlnna ken yersel'."
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-01-05

oughbred unless you insist. and in thar
event must alter my figures Instead of
sl2o have not the heart to offer you more
than $1.o5.'
"'Fo' do Lawd's sake, bossl Whats do
mattah wild yos gasped Joseph, pop eyed
with astonishmenr. 'Didnt ho go round
dc track In two-shutyssix an er halfy'
He did for . fact. Joseph; no did,
said I. fifsT .rY'f
Don what's wrong ne demanded,
Nothing, Joseph, absolutely moth
Ing, I npsYered; only this. happens 70
be halt bile track.'iif tsst ftl
And both black gentlemen fell down
In the dust. New York Sun.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-01-05
THE COW DEATH.
A Cartons superxtition OF Pagan Ori.
gin Practiced In Russia.

gin Practiced In IL ussia.
Lowenstimm mentions q curious super
stition Of paghs origin still practioed in
portions Of Russia and known as "korovya
smertj'' (cow DEATH and "opachivaniye'
(plowing roundabout). II pestilence OF
murrain prevails In q village, an old wom-
an of repute as seeress or fortune teller en-.
ters the confines OF the village at mid.
night and beats a pan.
Thereupon all the women of the place
assemble In haste, armed with divers do
mestic utensils-frying pans, pokers,
tongs, shovels, scythes and cudgels. After
shutting the. cattle in their stalls and
warning the men not to leave their houses
procession rs formed. The seeress takes
of her dress and pronounces a curse upon
death. She is then hitched to plow, to-
gether with bevy of virgins and mis-
shapen woman, IL such one can be found
and continuous and closed furrow is
drawn round the village three times.
Whom the procession starts, the image
Of some saint suitable TO the occasion. that
OF st. Blasius, for example, in the case of
murrain, is borne In front OF 1t. This Is
followed by the seeress, clad only In q
SHIFT with disheveled hair and riding on
a broomstiok. After her come women and
maidens drawing the plow, and behind
thom the rest of the crowd, shrieking and
making fearful din.
They kill every animal they meet, and
IL man Is SO unfortunate as to fall i'm
with them he is mercilessly beaten and
usually put to death. In the eyes of these
raging women he Is not human being,
but death himself in the form of were
wolf, who seeks TO cross their path and
thus break tho charm and destroy the
healing virtue of the furrow. The cere-
Inony varies in different places and gen.
orally ends by burying alive a cat cock or
dog. Superstition and Crime" by Pro.
fessor X. p. Evans, in Popular Science
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-01-05
A BABEL IN AUSTRIA.
Resny Widely Different Tongues spo-
ken I'm the Various Provinces.

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In the Austrian Alps the local dialects
no vary as to be unlntell;gible from one
district ~ another and yet have been Gull
tivated In passion plays ana popular
poetry. Over and above these dialects arc
scattered chiefly i'm lower Austria, but
even round Vienna--slav colonies, Czechs,
elovaks, Croats. In Vienna itself the
Czechs claim TO be $50, 900. slover,ians
spread over thrco crown lands-Styris,
Carintbia and Carniola-and dominate in
the last, which contains also Uscoks, Ro.
man Catholic Serbs but the Slovenians
seem to be rctreatipg before the Germans.
or these remarkable group occurs in
the barren Gottschco country, southeast Of
Laybach, only Inhabited since the four
teenth century. Here again we find a
dialect unintolligible To other Germans,
yet rich in tales and poetry. Strange TO
say, the rcawakening OF the Slovenian
race in tho course Of the last hundred
years seems 20 have been determined by
the first Napoleon, who replaced German
In the normal schools of the 30 called
lllyrian provinces (zx In number) by
Sloyene and called forth the passionate
admiration OF the Slovenian poets. Tyrol
and Norarlbe.g, again, are divided be-
tWtru anu
(Latins), the so called Romansch OF Swift
xerland
In the Tyrol also each valley has it's own
pronunciation, its own accent, its express
sions uninteliigible few miles of. The
Ladins were predominant in the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries. Toward the
eighteenth century the Italians got the
upper hand, but seem now To be becoming
gradually outnumbered by the Germans.
The Ladins form "A curious little group Of
from 10000 to 20, 900 in Tyrol, with near
iy $1,000 in Friuli (besides the 1000 of
the Grisons). Their language is nearer TO
Proyepcal or Catelonian than TO Italian.
They chiefly inhabdt tho valleys, while the
German climbs the mountain sides, Just
as he has done in Bohemia, the Czechs
mainly occupying the plains. s.--Iondon
Spectator
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-01-05
SPRUNG TWO PUZZLES.
The First Was barred. but the Sec
Ond Won the Prize.

Ond Won the Prize.
At suburban church function not
long ago each person was required tC
wear conspicuously upon his or her cloth
ing some pictorial or other device tina,
should represent in rebus form the title
Of any well known book, and all the others
were to guess at the book intended A
prize was TO be given for most ingenious
Of these devices.
Paradise Lost" represented by card
upon which five dice had been pasted and
from which two had evidently dropped or
been removed, was easily guessed. Hard
Times" was no puzzle. Neither was 1t
hard TO recognize "a Pair of Blus Eyes"
"Innocents Abroad" VANITY Fair OF
uncle Toms Cabin" In spite of their
pictorial disguises,
One of the guests however, had a poser.
Attached to one of the buttons of his coat
was card bearing simply the inscrip-
ton Ter"
Every one at last gave it up and asked
for the solution.
"why, that's easy" he said. "It means
"A Tale of Two Cities
Explain"
Manchester and Leicester-last sylla.
bles of both. SeeY'
"That's not fair, said the other ats
the last syllable of Chester Lancaster,
Gloucester, Chichester and Exeter We
protest'
''well," he said, II won't insist Try
this one.'
He turned tho card over. 1t was in
scribed on the other side with these three
letters: "Ans."
After severe mental struggle every
body gave this up also.
That ought not to puzzle you," be
said. "It's the Last of the Mohicans.
He got the prize London Tit-BitS