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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-09-21
THE "RADIAPHONE. !"
rier of SOund-InterestingH TX.
pertinent at New York.

Over the heads Of the crowd that
surged through Madison Square Gar
den. New York city, at the electrical ex-
hibition, searchlight threw a broad
ribbon of light. It acted as a carrier
for any sound committed to it from one
end of the garden to the other. In
the balcony corner of the Fourth ave-
nue. and Twenty-sixth street end a
conventional telephone booth had been
erected and another at the boundary of
Madison avenue and Twenty-seventh
street. No connection between the two
existed save a big ray of light that
spanned the ampitheater. The ''radia-
phone" proceeded successfully to send
sounds from one booth to the other.
From the northwest balcony a
searchlight of five horsepower sent a
ray of light to the southwest corner.
Connected with the first station was a
telephone booth containing three spe-
cially constructed receivers. A cornet
player inside the booth evolved cyan
kee Doodle" and supplemented that air
with army bugle calls, and both were
heard in the opposite balcony, where
nothing but the scarchlight ray and the
receiver, which is commonly attached
to the ear of anyone taking a long
distance telephone message, was visi-
BILE.
Using mirror as a transmitter, the
vibration of the looking glass accurate
ly sent and allowed the reception of
distinguishable sounds over a space of
hundreds of feet
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-09-21
GOETHE'S LAST LOVE.
baroness Won His Heart In 1929
and Still Cherishes His
Memory.

AS 81 years have elapsed since
Goethe's death. very few persons now
living can have seen him in the flesh
Baroness Ulrike Won Levetzow, how
ever, who has just kept her ninety-fifth
birthday at. Triblitz, in Bohemia, not
merely knew the poet, but was even
privileged to stir tho last embers of the
tender passion in his susceptible
though aged breast.
In 1823sthen lovely girl of 10, she
accompanied her mother to Marienbad.
where the author of Faust" was max
ing his annual cure.
Dazzled by her beauty, he succeeded
without difficulty in getting an intro
ductfon, and there ensued ON his part
serious attachment, cordially recip-
rocated, it is said, by the lady herself.
Fear of ridicule prevented Goethe
contracting marriage of the Nav and
December type. He tore himself away.
writing the well-known "Marienbad
Elegy" in the post chaise that took him
back to Weimar.
Ulrike, having thus won the title of
"Goethe's last love- remained salts
lied with this distinction for the rest
OF her life, and is still ssFreifraulein"
von Levetzow, although her wealth and
beauty attracted many suitors. She
enjoys perfect health, and devotes her
self to the welfare of the poor on her
large estates.-LondonC Chronicle.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-09-21
RELIC CANNON WAS LOADED.
Gun Sent from Cavite by Dewey
Causes a Papic In WASH
inEtOn.

The National museum, Washington,
has received from Admiral Dewey two
cannon captured from the Spaniards
when Cavite fell. In one of them two
shells and a grape shot were found,
and the museum officials are wonder
ing whether the weapon had been load
ed by the Spaniards during the fight
and ineautiously sent home by the gal
liant admiral.
There was an incipient panic In the
museum when the discovery was made
that the cannon was loaded. A gunner.
summoned from the navy yard, extract
ed the shells. They were of the per-
cussion variety, but the caps were miss
Ing. The powder was moldy, but it
would have exploded if ignited.
The transport Buffalo, which reached
New York several days ago, has six cam
non from naval officers at Manila, con-
signed to the museum. The cannon
will be added to the historic collection
of the museum.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-09-21
BEEKEEp1NG DoN,rs.

Don't tinker at your bees every day
Don't allow any colonies to run short
of feed.
Don't raise herd of careless drones
to eat up the profit.
Don't expect the supply dealer to fiil
all orders in one day.
Don't tear open the brood nest unless
there is real necessity.
Don't put off making or buying hives
until the swarms hang out.
Don't encourage swarming unless
you can sell bees at profit.
Don't expect anything from weak
colonies with poor old queens.
Don't expect each colony you have
to give you 200 per cent. profit.
Don't spread the brood nest in the
spring by inserting combs or frames
of foundation.
Don't invest big money in new fam
gled traps to catch moths or keep them
out Of the hive.
Don't think bees will do just as well
in an old key or box behind the garden
in weeds ten feet high as your neigh
boris kept spick and span.-American
Gardening.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-09-21
WANTED TO MARRY HER.
A nschnrEed Hospital Patient
Writes His Nurse an Unusual
Love Letter.

Perhaps more good-looking, we'll
bred. intelligent and earnest young
women are going into trained nursing
nowadays than into any other business
to which the sex has turned its atten-
tion. 1t would be mean and also untrue
to even intimate that they were taking
up nursing in the hope of getting hus-
band. AS matter of fact, many of
them take up the work for the very rea-
SON that they wish to walk softly" all
the rest Of their lives. And yet, curious
ly enough, no class of women receive so
many proposals of marriage. There are
several reasons for this. In the first
place. many of these nurses are attrac-
tive enough to please any man, no mat
ter how fastidious in the matter of re-
dnement, education and physical beau
ty. Then, too, the nurses costume is
the perfection of neatness and cleanli-
ness, and much more becoming to many
women than their ordinary dress. But
the secret probably lies in the circum-
stances. We all know that propinquity
has much to answer for, and it is espe-
cially powerful at time when man in
stinctively yearns for sympathy and
tenderness.
!. To many sick man his kindly, light
footed. good-looking nurse, in her spot
less costume, is no doubt a revelation.
To others, for a thousand and one rea-
sons, she may appear a veritable angel.
Here is case in point. A young Wild
over from the country was in Chicago
hospital. He was rough, uneducated
and uncouth, but he was genuine after
his kind. He fell violently in love with
his nurse, and, though he said nothing
to her except with his eyes and prob
ably resolved never to break his silence,
a week after he was discharged he wrote
her this letter:
dear miss sot down to tell you that i've
arove hum an wish was somewhere els |
I've got bully boys an they are helpfu |
about gittin the garden sass in the ground |
but they haint got no mother an i've rot |
. horse an kau an thout you'd be kinder |
handy to take care Of EN- II you'd stupe SO |
much I've thout Of you ever since cum |
from the horse pittle an how Jimmy you |
ust to walk up an down them wards you |
had the best gate ever seen an my first |
w1fe STEPPED jfs SO an she paid her way |
tell you like to work an the boys like to |
YORK and kno you do an 50 ide like to |
line II you haint got no obteoshuns an now |
I've made so bolde to rite SIGH but wa 3 kind
Or pushed on by my feelins an 80 hope youl
excuse 1t an rite soon shant be mad II
you say no but its no harm to ask an a.
say cant help ritin an the boys names are
peter Zebulon an John an they want to
zee you as does your respected friend
which owes his present health to you.
JOSEPH c."
OF course, one,s>frst impulse is to
augh. But, after all, the poor fellows
etter is rather a matter for tears than
aughter. 1t is genuine, and any genu-
ne confession of love is too sacred for
aughter. Will she accept? Probably
rot. The very truth of the missiye
paints too graphically the unloveliness
II the suitor's surroundings and the
of his horizon, even when
expanded by the broadening influence
Il love.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-09-21

Gnlesburg Man Shows How They
Can BE Discharged by Or
binary Means.

Gilbert Jared, private in battery B.
1. N. G.. of Galesburg, ILL.,, has invented
dynamite shell for the use of artil-
lery which will not be exploded by the
discharge. This has been the effort OF
experts for years and has been ac-
complished in a measure by the in
ventor Louis Gathmann, whose gun
cotton shells have been recently tested
by the government.
Jared has experimental for some
time and has finally discovered proc
ess by which dynamite can be loaded
SO that it will not be exploded until
it strikes an object or by fuse. The
explosion of the powder in the dis
charge does not affect it.
The invention was given practical
test the other day under the direction
of Capt. C. c. Craig, Of battery B, with
other military men and mechanical ex-
perts. Three steel shells loaded with
four pounds of dynamite each were dis
charged from an ordinary six-pound
field piece. Heavy charges of powder
were placed in the piece and discharged
by a slow fuse. The first shell trav-
eled intact and was buried in hillside.
another pierced heavy timber, struck
an old brick wall and exploded. doing
terrible destruction. The test proved
conclusively that the dynamite shells
can be discharged with success by or
binary processes. Mr.. Jared has his
process patented and has already
opened communications with the rep
resentatives of foreign governments
for its sale. 1t is also under considera-
ton by Maj. Blount, commandant of
the Rock Island arsenal.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-09-21
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Plant plenty of sweet potatoes, beans,
cabbage, sorghum and sweet corn to
furnish supply the year round.
To increase the size of the farm is
not the only way to increase it's yield.
Cultivate carefully the small farm.
In measure, at least, thorough cult
walton in good season can be made to
take the place of fertilization by maxi
ing plant food in the soil available.
If little care is taken to destroy the
first insects that appear, it will be
much easier to prevent them from dam
aging the crops later on.
Experiments have shown that a tile
drained soil is, on the average. about
ten degrees warmer at seven inches be-
low the surface than an undrained sur
face at the same depth. This illustrates
tho value OF drainage. It lengthens the
season at both ends for plant growth.-
Western Plowman.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-09-21
MOVE AND SAVE RENT.
Benefit to Tenants and
Truckmen.

i Before the era of apartment houses
the ordinary tenancy in New York was
yearly one, dating from May /. Now
in many cases owners of apartment
houses have adopted the practice of
renting by the month. An objectiona-
BILE tenant who had years lease and
continued to pay his rent promptly
could not easily be dispossessed, and for
this, and other reasons nearly as good,
the plan of renting by the month be-
came general. One effect of it has been
to work considerable benefit to two inn
portant classes of persons in New York
tenants and truckmen. It is this
wise: A tenant vacates an apartment
on or soon after the first of the month.
1t is vacant tor some days-perhaps
week. Inquiries are made of the owner,
agent or janitor. Prospective tenants
are, all Of them, undecided. Then the
suggestion is made that the balance Of
the month will be free to desirable
tenant. The desirable tenant pays a
months rent, which includes not only
the ensuing month but also the re-
naming portion of the month preced-
ing, and is, thereby, one, two or three
weeks rent free, a consideration which
is of considerable Importance to those
who move two or three times year and
are, perhaps, believers in the philoso-
ply of the well-known adage: cit is
cheaper to move than pay rent" This
practice has led to very material re-
duction in the revenues of landlords
and to corresponding benefit to ten
ants collectively.
Tenants, however, are not the only
gamers by this new system. Formerly
the truckman enjoyed his chief harvest
on or about May 1, and to a minor de-
gree he had a harvest on or about the
first of each month. At other times
there might be little demand for his
services. He found business slack.
With the establishment of the present
however, all this is changed.
Removals take place at any time in the
month. The services of the truclxnen
are in pretty uniform demand.-N. Y.
Sun
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-09-21
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CHICKEN LANGUAGE.
The Cries of the Feathered Folk Are
Said to BE C0mpreh ensible to
Human Beings.

| Chickens speak in a language that
human ears learn readily to compre-
bend. For the most part it is instinc-
| tive. A fuzzy fodder six hours out
| of the shell has FIVE distinct Calls. The
first and loudest of them is the lost
note, uttered when it loses sight Of
it's mother or finds itself out in the
cold. It is loud and very shrill: pee
ee-op! Pee-ee-ee-op! Pee-eee-op!"
The second. the hunger note, is as
shrill, but more plaintive, running
somewhat thus: "Yeap! Yeeap! Yee-
eeap!" AS soon as eating begins it
ing: 'ssWit-wit!. Wit-wit! Wit-wit-
weet!" After eating the chicks grow
sleepy, and cry to be covered. The
note is somewhat like that of hunger,
with a peculiar tremolo, breaking it in
the middle: "Yee-pl-leepl! Yee-pl-lee-
pl!" does not fully represent it, but
comes as near as the limitations of
vowels and consonants admit. The
fifth note, the chir-r-r of fright or as
tonishment, is the quaintest of all.
This chir-r develops at last in the graf
from their mother even the youngest
scatter and scutter to cover. Any
thing, bird, a kite, even very small
passing cloud, sailing in the sky over
head, will evoke this warning cry. Let
one hen sound it, every other will take
it up. Often the alarm is false one,
but centuries of hawks have impressed
upon each feathered mind that danger
cometh out of the air" and they govern
themselves accordingly.
Everybody knows how hens cluck to
their broods, but it may be news to
many that though hundred hens may
be clucking in the same inclosure, the
voice Of each will be individual and un-
mistakable to her immediate family.
A chick just out of the nest may not be
able to discriminate, but let it follow
for a day and it is past making MS
takes. Even more wonderful is the
hens ability to differentiate her brood
from all the rest.
Upon finding food hen calls her
chicks somewhat thus: ''Co-cu-co-cu-
cu-cu-ee!" The rooster calls his wives
about him to share in some dainty with
hearty the same nOteS, out deeper and
more resonant in the beginning and
running at the end into high treble
There is something clownish in his
caclzle. He cackles only to express |
panied astonishment, or else by way
of chorusing the hens, with whom,
cackling is a favorite diversion, quite |
independent of the matter of egg-lay-
ing. A rooster, especially gamecock
or one of Spanish breed, has wonder
full variety of crows. By means of |
them, indeed, he runs the whole gamut |
of expression-hope, fear, defiance, tri- |
umph, love, hate, rage, vanity and a |
line, ineffable $onceit.
1t is the hens without families. |
though, that are the true barnyard I
gossips. Any fine day, outside mott
ing time, you may see them standing
IN groups, their heads close together.
:huckling and chattering like so many
or else wallowing in light /
'arth, pecking lightly as they scratch
md wallow, and evidently finding it
good sport to throw dust well over each
other.--N. Y. Sun.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-09-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Cincinnati has the largest tannery.
A 11O-acre burial ground for animals
and birds has been established at Cox
sackie, N. Y.
A new rife, just introduced in the
German army, fires from Is to 80 shots
in q minute.
Three robins got in the pipes of a
Bournemouth church organ and caused
discordant music.
A large hailstOne cracked as it struck
the sidewalk in Louisville, KY, during
hajlstorm, and out stepped a two
inch lizard.
A new system of advertising is in
voguein San Francisco. A poultry deal
er has an intelligent rooster which pa
rades up and down the street, before
the market, with his owners business
card displayed in his bill, and COM
mands attention by frequent growing.
Near Grobogana, Java, there is lake
of boiling mud about two miles in cir
conference. Immense columns of
steaming mud are constantly ascend
ing and descending, and on the west
ern edge gigantic bubbles are con-
tinually forming and exploding at
the rate of three minute.
''We Tell the Truth was the motto
displayed by a western. paper The
editor one day published unpleasant
truths regarding two gentlemen, who
soon afterward called upon him and
wiped the floor with him. The next day
the motto disappeared from the paper,
and the following notice was con-
spicuously displayed: until we re-
cover from the injuries recently re-
ceived this paper will lie just like the
rest Of them"
A novel idea in insurance is about to
De put to practical test in San Fran
cisco. 1t is against unavoidable loss of
the policy holder to be
paid three-quarters of the amount of
his salary for month, should that time
be required in which to find new po-
sition. In case he should be offered one
IN trial at less amount than his for
ner salary, the difference will be made
up by the company. The company has
he authorization of the state insur-
lnce commissioner to do business in
California.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-09-21
HOW TO RAISE ROOTS
Concerning the Planting OF
Mangel Wurgels.

| At the Oceola (Mich.) county insti-
tute this winter E. A. Croman told his
method of planting and cultivating
mangel wurzels. It is his object, notes
writer in National Stockman, to grow
them as cheaply as possible. He adj
| vised fall blowing. selecting land OF a
deep loamy nature. Then in the sprin g
plow deeply again and harrow thor
oughly at intervals before seeding TO
kill the weeds as they spring up. The
variety selected is the Golden Tankard.
The seed is put in with a hand drill
about corn planting time, in rows %
inches apart. Cultivating is done with
horse. When the plants are nicely up
man goes through the patch with a
sharp hoe, striking across the rows a
little diagonally, cutting out the plants
to eight inches apart. A boy follows
to pull out any remaining plants other
than those it is wished to retain and
also to remove any weeds that may be
in the rows. Unless it is very weedy
soil it will not be necessary to go over
the roots more than two or three times
with cultivators, as when once started
the plants grow very rapidly. In the
fall the roots are topped by means OF
sharp hoes. A wagon is driven into the
field and the tops thrown thereon with
common four-tined forks and carried
to the barn to be fed to cattle. The
rows of roots are SO spaced that an or
binary wagon can be driven over two
rows, the wheels passing outside of
them, the horses walking in the same
rows where the wheels are. After the
tops are all removed from the field the
pulling of the roots begins, and here
comes the part that will be new to
many. An ordinary 40 or 6O-tooth drag
is employed for this purpose, and does
the work well. The Golden Tankards
grow largely above the surface of the
ground, and the teeth of the drag pull
them out nicely, breaking off but
small percentage. The roots are then
tossed into wagons by means of the
four-tined forks and carried to the root
cellar. Mr.. Croman feeds mangels to
all his farm animals, even the chickens
being very fond of them. He never cuts
these roots in feeding stock and says
cattle. sheep, horses and hogs bite
them into pieces to suit themselves. |
He can grow mangels very cheaply in |
this way The amount grown on an
acre is simply immense and they form
a valuable adjunct in keeping stock |
through the winter in good condition.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-09-21
PASTURE GATE.

held apart by two four by four upright
pieces ID b. placed four inches apart
in the middle and bolted or spiked. The
center post should be rounded where
the gate swings, and of a size to fit snug
~ between the two upright pieces in
the middle. In the upper end of the
center post are two eyebolts, one on
either side, to which two pieces Of chain
&c q are fastened. The chains (ropes
can also be used) should be long enough
to reach the braces and fastened Sc
curely. The center posts and the two
posts e, against which the ends of the
gate swing, should be tall enough to
allow beam to be placed on top, the
ends Of the posts mortised into it and
leave room underneath for ordinary
riding or driving.-American Agricul-
turist.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-09-21
TO HAVE SEARCH-LIGHrs.
BE Placed About the Har.
Dor Of New York.

The army engineers in charge of the
Notifications in New York harbor have
secured the consent Of the war depart
ment to place at New York IS first
power search-ights. Sixteen are to
cover the southern approaches and
eight the eastern. The principal sta
irons will be Sandy Hook, Norton's
Point, Quarantine, Fort Wordsworth.
Fort Hamilton, Romer Shoals. Fort
Schuyler and Willets Point. Two hun
dred trained signal men win be re-
qulred to handle these liRhts. which
win be placed in groups of two.
Guns OF 16-inch caiber, which were
recommended by the fertilization board
IN the original defense scheme, are to be
replaced with Pinch high-power weap-
ons: Probably not more than one is
inch gun viii be installed there.
It also has been decided to construct
ESQ submarine mines for use in the
channels leading into New York harbor.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-09-21
The Farmer's Rest Friends,

TE4S000.
An editor who was Brought up on .
farm and keeps up lively interest in
matters pertaining to agriculture says:
Hawks and owls are about the best
friends farmers have. They live chiefly
on field mice and rats and keep these
destructive pests within reasonable
limits. Their depredations on poultry
are nothing in comparison with the
good they do in saving crops. For
similar reasons the non-venomous
snakes. the toads, frogs-and birds are
among the best friends the farmer can
possibly have. They are all insect and
pest destroyers, and If it were not for
them It would not be possible to raise
crops Of any kind. No farmer can at
ford to kill these friends Of agricul-
fure.s
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-09-21
GATE FOR PASTURES
description Of One That VIII Not
sag and Which Any Farmer Can
Easily Construct.

The accompanying illustration shows
a nonsagging, Substituting pasture
gate. which any farmer can easily con-
struct. The gate can be made any
width. For the horizontal pieces "a
Al one by four or one by six lumber can
be used, and the same for the ends. The
upper and lower horizontals are double,
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-09-21
COVERED NESTS.

nests, making no place for the fowls
to harbor at night. AS they are fed in
the morning the lid is lowered. In the
evening it is simply raised and latehed.
It needs little explanation and is made
OF material easily procured on any
farm.-Morgan S. Joslin, in Farm and
Home
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-09-21
KEEP THE NESTS CLEAN.
Material That Is Easily Pro-
cured on Any Farm,

In the accompanying illustration it
is readily seen that the cover for the
nests Is SO constructed that the lid is
on an incline and entirely covers the