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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-07-13
The Limits Of Friendship.

Friendship, at Its very best and pur.
est, has limits. At it's beginning, it
seems to have no conditions, and to be
capable OF endless deyelopmeut. In
the first flush of newborn Ioye it seems
almost an insult to questson its abso
lutte power to meet every demand made
upon it. The exquisite joy of under
standing, and being understood, is toe
keen to let US believe that there may
be a terminal line beyond which we
may not pass.
Friendship comes as a mystery, form
less, underlined, without set bounds
and it is often a sore experience to dis
cover that it is circumscribed and lim-
tied like everything human. At first
to speak of it as having qualities tions
was a PROCLAMATION, and to find them
out came as disillusionment.
Yet the discovery is not all loss
The limitless is also the vague, and it
Is we'll to know the exact terms I'M
piled in relationship. Of course, we
learn through experience the restric
tions on all intimacy, and if we are
wise we learn to keep we'll within the
margin but many a disappointment
might have been saved, If we had un-
derstood the inherent limitations of the
subject.
Human friendship has limits because
of the real greatness of man. We are
too big to be quite comprehended by
another. There is always something
in rs left unexplained and unexplored.
We DO not even know ourselves, much
less can another hope to probe into the
recesses of our being.
Friendship has limit, because o1
the infinite element in the soul. 1t is
hard to be brought up by q limit along
any line OF life, but it is designed to
send us deeper and richer develop
nlent of our life. Mans Limitation is
Gods occasion. Only God can fully
satisfy the hungry heart of man.
Hugh Black.
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TRAINS GOING NORTH.

tE>ally except Monday. iDaily ex-
cept Sunday.
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad,
Yadkln Division Main Line--Train
leaves Wilmington, 8 60 a. M, arrives
Fayetteville II 15 p. ~, leaves Fayette-
vile II % p. IN, arrives Sanford / 43
2. III. Returning leaves Sanford 30
p. M, arrives Fayetteville 3 45 p. M,
leaves Fayetteville ) so p. m, arrives
Wilmington so p. m.
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad,
Bennett. vile Branch-Train leaves
Bennettsyille s 15 Il. M, Maxton 8 20
a. M, Red Springs 9 53 a. m., Hope
Mills 10 - a. m, arrives Fayetteville
10 53 a. IN. Returning leaves Fayette-
vile 1 40 .. m, Hope Mills 4 IS p. m,
Red Springs b 80 p. rn., Maxton 10
o. L, g., arrives Bennettsv|!e - p. m.
Connections at Fayetteville with
train No. 7S, at Maxton With the Caro-
una Central Railroad, at Rcd Springs
with the Red Springs and Bowmore
| Railroad, at Sanford vith the Seaboard
All Line and Southern Railway, at
Calf with the Durham and Charlotte
| Railroad.
Train ON the Sc :land Neck Branch
Road leaves Weldon 3 :35 D M, Halifax
l:i5 p. M, arrives Scotland Neck at
OS p. m., GreenvllIe 6 81 p. M, Kins-
ton :55 p. N. Returning leaves
Klnston 7 so a. m., Greenyille s :52 a.
N arriving Halifax at ii :18 a. m,
Weldon IL :33 a. m, daily except Sum
day.
Trains on Washington Branch leave
| Washington s 10 a. N. and 2 30 p. M,
arrive Parmele 3 10 a. NJ. and 4 go p.
M, returning leave Parmele 8 :35 a. m.
>nd 6 80 p. m., arrive Washington
/: 90 a. m. and Z 80 p. M, daily ex-
.:e;t Sunday.
Train leaves Tarboro, N. c., daily
except Sunday 80 p. M, Sunday,
| :15 p. M, arrives Plymouth Z 40 p.
M, 6 10 p. m., Returning, leaves Ply
mouth daily except Sunday, Z 80 a. ~,
and Sunday 9 100 a. M, arrives Tarboro
10 :05 a. in., II 40 a. m.
| Train on Midland n. c.. Branch
leaves Goldsboro daily, except Sunday.
z :05 a. m, arriving Sinithfeld s 10 a.
m. Returning leaves Smithiield 9:CO
a. m. arrives at Goldsboro 10 :25 a. Ii (,
Trains on Nashville Branch leave
Rocky Mount at 80 a. m., ) 40 p. m {.
arrive Nashville 10 10 m., 4 :O3 pm
Spring Hope 1910 a. ~, 4 :25 pm.
Returning leave Spring Hope II 100 a.
M. :55 p. ln., Nashville ii :22a Il. M,
5 :25 p. M, arrive at Rocky Mount
IL :45 q. NJ, 6 100 p. M, daily except
Sunday.
Train on Clinton Branch leaves War
saw for Clinton daily, except Sunday,
1910 a. m. and 4 :15 p. m. Return
Ing leaves Clinton at 100 a. m. and
10 % a. m.
Train No. IS makes close connection
at Weldon for all points North daily,
all rail via Richmond.
! II. nj. EMERSON,
Genl Pass. Agent.
J. r. KENLY, GenI Manager.
T. NJ. En-; EPSON, Traffic Manager.
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Tbs Successful Farmer.
Phil. Record.

Phil. Record.
Knowledge has always been a con
dltlon Of success in whatever form OF
effort men employ themselves bat the
condition becomes more imperative as
cs,.n i,.titicn IS increased, the means OF
production improved and the scale Of
operations enlarged. That business
which Is lntelligently conducted is the
business which brings the ss,rest re-
e'sl's. Even the farmer, who plows
his ax.ound and sew his seed and trusts
III Providence for his harvest, CAN 10
longer safely depend upon the lore i'm
rarted from father to son since Adam
digged. He farms best who knows bis
farm, and how to feed his fields 50 that
they shall iced him. The progressive
and successful farmer must be a man
Of liberal information.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-07-13
NO RIGHT TO UGLINEss.

The woman who Is lovely in lace,
form and temper will always have
friends, but one who would be attrac-
tive must keep her health. Ii she Is
weak, sickly and all run down, she Will
he nervous and irritable. Ii she has
constipation or kidney trouble, her
impure blood will cause plmpies,
blotches, skin eruptions and wretched
complexion, Electric Bitters Is the
best medicine in the world to regulate
stomach, liver and kidneys and TO
purify the blood. 1t gives s.lons =
nerves, bright eyes, smooth. veive.y
skin, rich complexion. It VIII mage
q gnol-looking, charming woman 81 = =
rundown snvalid. Only 50 cents a. =.
T. whitehead & Co. Drug Store
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-07-13
BIsafARK'S IRON NERVE.

Was The result OF his splendid health.
Indomitable will and tremendous ener-
gy are not found where Stomach, Liver,
Kidneys and Bowels are out OF order.
If you want these qualities and the
success they bring, use DR.. Kings New
Lie Pills. They deye.op every power
of brain aud body. Only 25c. at E. T..
Whitehead & Co.'S Drug Store.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-07-13
TIVE Views of Contemporary Celeb
rites.
Saturday Evening Post.

SaturGaF Evening POST.
The past few months have bee.
marked by great successes, great fail-
ures. When Cervera's ships slippe'i
from Santiago harbor, freighted Wit.
the hopes OF nation, the Spanish Ad-
nlral was in the zenith Of his posi-
bllties. A short time before, the
world watched him with every nerve
stretched American ships secured tie
seas III search Of his elusive fleet
Then they did not know where his
fleet was now they do. AS his YES
sells steamed out boldly, Cervera was
basking-in the bright light OF prospect
i've success. But the shot-riddlel.
blackened hulis which now line the
shore tell sadly different tale. Shat
tered are dreams of brilliant success,
and the Admiral on whom the Span
ISL peopie would have heaped honors.
lives III tie shadow Of the scorn of his
countryman, the reprimand of his SUI
periors.
Joseph Letter was a great financler
until his recent failure now he is on
ly speculator. Before, men boasted
that IseTe was man who could make
thousands OF dollars an hour; now,
when his glory is memory and s
failure reality, they barely give tbs
unfortunate man passing notice.
The world has 10 time for failure 1t
deals only with success. 1t worships mon
ey power. lame mot for themselves, but
because they are tangible tokens, Wis.,
be signs OF SUGGEST How it was attain
ed the world ASKS not; it is too busy to
deal with details, 1t cannot stop to
count the fa!!ures-braver, more
heroic and noble than any success.
Men dread 70 consider their indiyi!-
ual failures except when they can lc
viewed through the rosy haze of dis
tance, when they throw an addition
al halo round later success. The man
who iit.erIy fails obliterates himself,
and the world hurries on with merely
a passing glance. Only one monu-
mental failure has the world refused
to forget. The battle OF Waterloo was
great failure for Napoleon, but it
was aIs, q srcat success for his oppo.
poneiit, whom Napoleon never saw.
Welllngto1l'5 3 achievement IL overlook
ed, ard Waterloo has come to be a
synonym for failure. Forgotten ago
jena, Marengo, 4 uste5litz. The brill
liant marches, the hard campaigns, the
masterfu1 stratesy-a!l rest under the
cloud Of that disastrous failure.
The world Is harsh critic, an un-
sparing judge. It cares nothing for
struggles J; it looks only for results
No matter how brave the fight against
oyerw helming circumstances, no mat
ter how nearly success has been achlev-
ed. no matter If the man did the very
best he could, 1t will have nothing TO
do with failure. 1t behooyes man,
then, should he desire to win public
attention, not to belittle his own
achleyaments, not to expect sympathy
in his failures, but TO surround him
self with the legitimate appearances
OF SUCCESS, to live in the at'cosrharo
OF success, to exhaIe the aroma oi sii:
cess.
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some fancied superiority, but a manly
soul who knows he is as good as any
body else and yet hesltates to declare
himself any better. He mixes with
rich and poor alike, and we'll he can
for wealth is frequently mere acci.
dent and not at all demonstration OF
the merit that glorifies lite. He re-
joices at his existence and is free from
tine gloom that too often settles down
upon the spirits of the young when
held close to that which is distasteiul
to their instincts. He is here and so
decidedly is he here that he begins to
color school room ethics, making the
clean, pure minded boy seem good
companion even though he be not bi;.-
tant, boisterous and vicious. He is
here and proving that the good do not
all die young-mawkish Sunday-school
books to the contrary. He is here and
good he is, none too good for this
naughty old world but just good
enough to make the world a better,
safer, wholesome place for both women
and men to live in. The new man as
a youth is here-good-hearted, gener-
Gus, respectfu! deferential-yet every
inch OF him man.
-.
Above all, the new man as youth,
is here TO prove there is sanity enough
yet in the human race to make US hope
and believe that knowledge is not to
be the only thing cumulative In our
history but experience also. Hitherto
we have passed on scarcely anything
but knowledge and each poor soul has
been plunged out into the world to ex-
perience for himself that vinegar is
sour and mud dirty. The new man,
as cleanly youth is changing that !;
and in his seed shall the earth be
blessed.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-07-13
THE EDITORS LEISURE HOURS,
Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past and Future.

Perhaps no more good sense has been
expressed in jocular way than in the
following, which we clip from the
Union Central Advocate:
"Adam Bede (not George Eliot's
Adam, but the editor OF Bede's Month
ly) is of the opinion that most writers
write too much, most takers talk too
much, most fools fool too much, most
governors govern too much, most part
nacs part too much, and, in fact, it is
the muchiness of things earthly that
makes us long for the balm in Gilead
aud the sweet fields beyond life's tur-
bid tide"
There is question of doubt in the
minds of some whether or not persons
are often buried alive. AS safe paper
as the Philadelphia Record, however,
recently published the statement that a
supposed corpse suddenly exclaimed, Il
amt dead, thank the Lord I heard
every word you said, but couldn't
move" The Record says that "such
tragedies may be supposed to happen
among the very ignorant and where
there is no intelligent supervision, but
the danger is an ever-imminent one" I"
Our Dumb Animals thinks that the
danger is still greater since the growth
of hypnotism and the increase in the
number of those who profess to teach it,
Sometimes We hear the speculation
about what will be the condition of the
human race when the coal-supply now
telng rapidly taken from the earth,
shall be exhausted. The human brain
will be equal to the occasion when it
comes. A writer in The Inventive
Age concludes thus about it:
"There is endless heat power in the
action Of the tides, in the rush of Mag
ara, in the Winds, and in endless chem.
ical com binations. Heat is motion,
and the universe is motion. Men w1l
soon cease lighting tiny bon-fres to OBJ
tain crude heat in crude way. Elec
tricity, Or the suns own rays concen-
trated for heating purposes, will do the
work without any digging in mines by
men or delving in ashes and clinkers
by women. The story OF antiquity,
more Or less fictitious, of the burning
of a fleet with the aid of a glass and
the sunbeams, will be matter-of fact
reality long before the caaI shall have
been exhausted"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-07-13

He is pleasant fellow to get along
with, full Of good red blood and yet
holding himself we'll IN hand. He is
not whining little prig who processes
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-07-13

The "blue back" again Welcome,
dear old friend of our childhood days
The tears almost start at the pleasant
recollection of thy familiar pages and
long columns of euphonlous words ar
ranged so beautifully that they have
been picture in our memory for all
these years. Happy the sturdy man
hood and womanhood a score of years
hence in the now century when they
shall remember with joy, as we do now,
the beauty and rythm of the "blue
back" which they are now to study.
Pity, too, upon the thousands of lads
and lasses now nearing the threshold OF
manhood and womanhood, who have
never had acquaintance with the "blue
back" and who must forever be ignor-
ant of the pleasures OF peruslng Its
pages and learning its "hardest words. y
VIII they ever again stand the boys
and girls up in long row during the
last half hour In the afternoon and
give out the "heart lesson" from the
dear old "blue back? Welcome the
prospect and blessed be the day when
this shall be seen again IN the cold
field" echool-house
THE COMMONWEALTH is led into this
suppressed expression OF pent-up feel
ings by the announcement In the
Charlotte Observer that the schoo
commissioners of that city haye, at the
request of the teachers committee, re
1nstated the "blue back" speller which
Is to be one of the regular Textbooks
now. Progressive Charlotte MAY
the whole State do likewise
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MY LITTLE LADY.

my little lady" 1 used to call her,
and the diminutive incensed her great
ly. 1T is such an absurd name," she
would say, land besides, you know how
much dislike any remarks about my
personal appearance. 1t is quite mis-
fortune enough to be SO ridiculously
small without being reminded of it con-
stantly."
"Ah, but one of these days you will
be great" l would say, and she would
laugh happily at the prophecy-how
that happy child laugh of hers rings in
my ears even now-and would accuse
me of blind Partially, which s." she
would remind me, quoting a favorite
saying of mine, which was prone to
recur often in our many literary dis
cussions, "only another form of partial
blindness"
How shall / describe her, I wonder,
To- put upon paper all the %incongru-
GUS charm which made her what she
was.
To tell you of her appearance is to
belle her character, for the outward
being and the inner self had no sister
hood, save when now and again, at
some chance word that inspired a no.
Die thought in her, the woman's glo-
r1ous soul peeped shoy out through her
blue eyes till they grew dark and deep,
and the warm glow of her divine in
tel1gence permeated and shone
through her clear baby skin.
She loved poetry-true poetry-and
remembered all she loved in it. All!
If you could have heard her recite
poetry as 1 have!
At such moments she was beautiful
more than that, worshipful.
I have seen young men and cantank-
erous old women rise %spellbound to
that bright angel face and listen
b~reathlessly for the words as they fell
from those baby lips.
At such times the beautiful story of
the Christ child in the temple has
seemed to me to gain strength and
l have pondered wonderingly over the
power some mortals have to hold and
enthral others, binding them fast tt
good or evil.
l must speak of her as a child, I sup
pose, in order that you may see her
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as she appeared to the physical eye;
one had to know and to love her the
terms are synonymous to see her with
the eyes of the mind. Those who knew
her-they were not many-saw her as
a child, but they loved her as a woman
A woman to be loved iercely, holly;
a woman to dare for, to work for, to
achieve for-if need be, to die for-but
to die for honorably on life's battle
field, fighting to the last.
A woman at whose feet a mans sue
cesses might be laid, and whose one
word of praise would be all-suficient
guerdon.
All, ye women! Will you never IN
derstand your %wondrous powers to
make men or to mar them!
You laugh at this "high-fown nom
sense about a child" do you not? I
forgive you, for you v knew my
little lady.
Until my little lady came into my
life l was alone. Do you know what
that means? Have you realized It?
Can you realize it? To go out into
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I do, dear, and 1 ask you to come to
me-"
was in Syria when I got that letter,
and l have Travelled night and day
since then.
How the horse crawls. Oh, my little
lady, my little la
Why are the blinds down?
Dead! oh, no, no! It's a lie. No,
It's true, and my white rosebud, old
and faded now like my life, lies upon
her breast.
Pll-no, l promised her, years ago,
never to do that, whatever happened.
She would not have me break my
word. Would that I could believe that
we shall meet again.
hope. Oh! how l hope.
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the world, to eat and to drink like
other people do, to shake your fellow
creatures by the hand while mentally
you spurn them under foot and void
your rheum upon them, to greet all
men and women with a lie upon your
lips-a lie that processes interest in
their health and in them for whom you
care no more than for the starving
mongrel which you drive from your
doorstep with a savage kick and IN
oath muttered through set teeth. To
be without any love for any living
thing; nay, to hate the whole huge
human race because one man and one
woman have proved unworthy-to
hate and loathe yourself eve more
than you detest the vilest thing that
crawls the earth-this it is to be alone.
And SO was I until my little lady came
into my life.
How we'll I remember the first time
l met her!
A silly who thought I might
perchance become the purchaser of
one of her silly daughters, had asked
me to come and help amuse some
children" thinking, no doubt, that the
juvenile setting would enhance in my
ayes the value of the jewel she in
tended fRr me.
1t did just the reverse. I have al
ways loved children, and the sight Of
their sweet innocence made me hate
the men and women there still more.
| sat in a corner and watched the chill
dren play, wishing / could be one Of
them again. My little lady was fore
most in the games, but presently she
left the others, and came to sit near
me.
"IIave you a headache?" she asked,
in a voice that struck me almost I'M
consciously as too deep and full for so
young a girl.
"No-a h~eartache,' I answered, with
out thinking of what l said, and then.
angry with myself for self-betrayal, I
tried to joke away my answer and to
talk nonsense to the child.
What happened after that 1 hardly
know. I only know that soon we were
in deep conversation, and gradually I
talked to her as 1 had never talked to
living being since those two devils
but no matter: AS I left the house I
noticed two stains-tear stains-upon
my glove. I, the misanthrope! I, who
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almost boosted that nothing had
touched my heart for fifteen years.
Oh' my little lady, my little lady!
X II y
1t was her birthday and I had bought
her a white rosebud to put in her hair,
winch she put up that day for the first
time.
1t lay unnoticed on the ground at her
1eet, now half picked to pieces by her
nervous fingers,
Fool to have told her then. and so
suddenly!
How could a child of her g love a
man of mine?
How could she understand? How
could she-I went away and cursed
myself. y y q
IL is four years since I left my little
lady with the panied look in her blue
eyes n my rosebud at her feet, and
IN half an hour 1 shall see her again.
She is 20 today-and l hold her letter
in my hand.
Come to me-" she writes. ct did
n o know myself four years ago. Now
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Miss ~LOCkheart's
LETTER TO MRS. PINKHAM.
LETTER TO MRS. NO. e., 1o4l

kAGAAGA ~ imam " S/b1O1I
ST cannot express my gratitude to
you for the good that Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has done
for me. 1 have taken five bottles of
the Compound and two boxes of Liver
Pills and feel better in every respect.
l had suffered for years with dropsy;
the veins in my limbs burst, caused
from the pressure of the water. l had
the worst kind of kidney trouble, faint
ing spells, and I could not stand long
at a time. / also had female weakness
and the doctor said there was a tumor
in my left side. The pains I had to
stand were something dreadful. A
friend handed me a little book of yours,
so I got your medicine and it has saved
my life. I felt better from the first
bottle. The bloating and the tumors
have all gone and 1 do not suffer any
pain. I am still using the Vegetable
Compound and hope others may find
relief as / have done from its use."-
MISS N. J. LoCKHEART, Box 16, ELIZA
BETH, PA.
J Only the women who have suffered
with female troubles can fully appre-
ciate the gratitude of those who have
been restored to health.
Mrs. Pinkham responds quickly and
wi~thoutcharge to all letters from suffer-
ing women. Her address is Lynn, MasR,
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The Great Bears Movements.

Prof. s. is a heavily built mar
of slow movements, whose personal ap.
pearance is suggestive of a bear. He is
also in charge of the astronomical de.
partment. Meeting a friend, the pro.
fessor said, Thomas do you take any
interest in the movements of the heav.
emily bodies?" Eyes. 1 like to look al
the stars once in a while" "Well, i,
you want to observe the movements
of the Great Bear, come to my room
tonight. I'll be in"
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Remember that cholera morbus,

Remember that cholera morbus,
cholera infantum, summer com
plant, bilious collie, diarrhoea and
dysentery are each and all catarrh
of the bowels. Catarrh is the only
correct name for these affections.
Pe-ru-na is an absolute specific for
these ailments, which are so COM
mon in summer. DR.. Hartman. in
a practice of over forty years, never
lost a single east of cholera infan-
tum, dysentary, diarrhoea, or chol-
era morbus, and his only remedy
was Pe-ru-na. Those desiring fur
Their particulars should send for a
free copy of Summer Catarrh."
Address DR.. Hartman, Columbus, o.