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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-05-03

NIGHT SwEATs, loss of appetite, and
Impoverished blood, colds, la grippe
and general weakness are frequent res
nlts Of malaria. ROBERTS TAsTELsss
CHILL Tonic eliminates the malaria,
purifiss your blood, restores your appe-
tile and tones up your liver. 2oc per
bottle. Insist on having ROBERTS.
No other '';,s good"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-05-03


wonderfully successful in promptly curing
lame back, kidney, bladder, uric acid trou-
bies and Bright's Disease, which is the worst
form of kidney trouble.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is not rec
commended for everything but if you have kid
ney, liver or bladder trouble it will be found
just the remedy you need. lthas been tested
In SO many ways, in hospital work, in private
practice, among the helpless too poor to pur-
chase relief and has proved so successful in
every case that a special arrangement has
been made by which all readers Of this paper
who have not already tried it, may have
sample bottle sent free by mail, also book
telling more about Swamp-Root and how to
find out if you have kidney or addertrouble.
When writing mention reading this generous
offer in this paper and EoEn
send your address to kgsl;ssss1kH3NFS$sSa
DR.. Kilmer & Co., ,Bing- Hes
hamton, N. Y. The s=s:aasls Es g sitz9E0
regular fifty cent and Home of swamp-Root,
dollar sizes are sold by all good druggists.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-05-03
M Cause To Be Discouraged.

Philadelphia Record.
Mr.. Youngpop--My little girl is
nearly years cid and hasn't learned
to talk yet.
Mr.. HenpeckKed-Don' let that
worry you. My wife says she didn't
begin to talk until she was near'y 3,
and now
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-05-03

cures made by DR..
kilmer's Swamp-Root,
the great kidney, liver
and bladder remedy.
1t is the great rnedi-
cal triumph of the nine
teenth century; dis
covered after years of
scientific research by
DR.. kilmer, the emf
nent kidney and blad-
der specialist. and ie
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-05-03

Almost everybody who reads the news
papers Is sure to know of the wonderful
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-05-03

One Of the greatest failures OF the
Southern people is the matter OF saw
ing small things. The New Englander
who boas,eu thai when ns killed pig
his family ate all of the pig but the
soueaI, threw out hint of great value
to ali who will heed it. The South
truly is a land of plenty, and for the
most part people here waste enough to
go a good way towards making their
living. And now that spring time has
come again THE CoMMoNwEALTH re-
news it's annual suggestions about
utilizing every foot of available ground
about the premises. Many a small
farmer has bare and uninviting table
because he fails to make note OF
small things at the proper time. The
fence corners in many places might
be made to produce early rad'sh,
SQUASH, cucumbers and the like, which
would go long way towards supply
ing the table through the spring and
summer.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-05-03
Mood ood Ysrd ARD

have opened a wood
y ard nd shall keep
on hand wood form
mediate delivey at
lany time.
w. M. GRAY.
Scotland Neck.
P3-tf Phones 40 or s116
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-05-03
DO YOU GET UP
WITH A LAME BACK ,

Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-05-03

Secretary T. X. Bruner, OF our State
Board of Agriculture, is N Par:s look
ing after North Cardinals interest at
the great Exposition just opened there.
He is efficient in the highest degree
and Will fully protect North Csrolina's
interest. News has come that while
walking in the "Palace OF Agriculture"
he discovered some workmen putting
IN the first picture in the building, a
co'ored photograph 4x5 feet. 1t wss
being labeled "a California Mountain
View "out he discovered that it was a
valley river view from Western North
Carolina. Mr.. Bruner, of course, at once
protested against California being
credited with tie beauty OF North
Carolina scenery, and being corrobe-
rated by some one else who also knew,
the photograph was properly labeled.
So much for having a man in charge
of an interest who knows his business.
North Carolina stands second In quail
ity and quantity and diversity oi
natural display. California is first.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-05-03
HERE is 4 QUESTION.
SUCCESS AND MARRIAGE.
Marry, Happily if You Can, But
Anyway, Marry.

Winfred Black in The New York Journal.
Is marriage a bar to professional |
success for an ambitious man or VIC
man?
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-14
AN ART TREASURE
Found In tae House of Man Forced
 to Sell His Effects.


 New York Correspondence of the Chicago Ti5aes-Herald: Through the financial mfsfoftunes of an old New Yorker famous art treasure, Ge- rome.s sConsummatum Est, depicting 5he erueifXion of Christ on Mount Calvary has been discovered in this eitx. Art cnnnoisseurs say it is worth from 325,0o9 to $30,000. At any rate it means that it's owner, whose name is not diyalged, instead of spending the coming Christmas in penury, as he lad anticipated, is at least sure Of enough to satisfy his present wants. It WAS when this old New Workers affairs had reached such a stage that something lad to be done, and that light quickly. that he sent for GIar- ehee M Darling of PA West Twenty sixth street. Mr. Darling found him 3iseoas0late in his home. He related his troubles and said that all he saw store was to sell his furniture, tapes tries and =bronzes, the remnant of once magnificent collection. Mf. Dar- ling glanced around the rooms and saw a5 ohee that not much could be real lzed. but as he was about to take his leave his eye suddenly caught glimpse Of what appeared to be dust covered painting carelessly resting on the top of wardrobe in a corner of the room. Whats that up there?s be asked, climbing on q chair and taking She painting down. The painting. while dust covered and dim. upon in- speetion proved to be in good condition pnd none the worse for its hard usage. Mf. Darling had not examined the can. vas long when he uttered an exelama- ton ot astonishment, and declared that if its genuineness could be au- thentieally# established it was easily to be valued at not less than $25,000 to s30,000. Mir. Darling recognized in one corner of the canvas the name of J. |. Gerome, and subject as no other than the masters "Consummatum Est, ; Shadow of the Cross or cruci- hxion of Christ on Mount Calvary. AS Ho the genuineness of the painting. it's owner recalled the fact that in his DOS session was an autograph letter from Gerome, describing the painting and the circumstances under which 1t was painted.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-14
Seven Sons In tIe nrItl.h Army.

Mrs. O'Keefe. the widow of a serg- cant in the Munster FHsiliers. has re- ceived the following communication from the queen: The con.mander-in- chief having brought to the notice of the queen the fact Of Mrs. O'Keefe's having at present seven sons serving in the army, her majesty s private sec retary is commanded to forward the enclosed present Of S from the queen, and at the same time express to Mrs. O'Keefe the qualification with which her majesty has learned of this remarkable and praiseWorthy instance of voluntary service to their queen and country in one home Her majes- ty the queen thinks Mrs. 0Keefa has every eason to be proud of her sons."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-14
THE LIFE INSURANCE CURE.
4 Dying Baehelor Who Became Inter- ested Tn Plan for Novel Funeral.


 q Dying Baeheior Who Became Inter-
 ested In a Plan for Novel Funeral
 T don't know that life insurance is a cure for disease, said the retired life insurance solicitor, but know of an instance which makes it look that way. In the town where I first began busi- ness was a bachelor of about 50 years, who was quite alone in the world, and had some years before taken out five thousand-dollar policy on himself for the benefit of maiden sister, who had died year before the events of this story. He kept his policy going, how ever, because it was a good way to save money. and one day he was taken down with some kind of fever. He grew worse day after day. until one day the doctor told him that he would in all likelihood be dead within the next twenty-four hours. This suggested his life insar- ance money al he had to leave, and he immediately began to talk with the doctor on tie subject of q proper dis posal of 1t. He concluded after some thought that the best thing to do with it was to blow it #in on a tremendous big funeral for himself, including banquet for all the peopse he knew. This was an entirely new idea for funeral, and when the doctor left him that night 10 the care of his nurse his mind was entirely occupied with his funeral. He talked to the nurse about it and when the nurse made him stop he lay and thought about it. In fact. he became so much interested in the details Of his funeral that he quite for got about having to die to make it pos sible. In the morning when the doctor came he found his patient in wild precipitation and his pulse beating in much better fashion than it had been doing for some days. He also found the general condition of the patient much improved. He was greatly estcnished, and at once began to ask questions. The patient told him with eager inter- est of lot of new things he had thought of for the funeral and some that bothered him a good deal and said he had been thinking of it all night. 1 Then the doctor laughed and told him he guessed the funeral would have to be postponed for he wasn't going to die, just then anyhow. Nor did he and he isn't dead vet. but he is married and has his policy paid up for his wife's benefit.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-14
the Chinese visiting Card.

The Chinese visiting card consists of large sheet of blight scarlet paper bearing the name of the owner in very large letters, the larger the better. The paper is folded ten times, and the name is written on the right-hand lower corner, prefxed thus: Your unworthy friend. who bows his head and pays his respects" Your very stupid brother, or something to that effect. Ill place of Yours truly"
 Your stupid" is written on the Chin csc card. The return of these cards to the visitor is considered etiquette. They are too costly for general dis trlbution. So it is necessary that each card should do duty several times.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-14
HGUsEToP SCULPTURE.
Rusbin said some Severe Things About
 It-His Denunoia ton.


 The extensive alterations which are proceeding at the Atheneum club, and which include the addition of a story to it's height. have been thought in more than one quarter to be likely to spoil the effect of the beautiful frieze, modelled after the Greek. that runs around the tep of the building as orig finally designed says One London News. There is, however. some misapprehen- sion as to whether this is the club dec oration which has won the singular game of being denounced by Mr Rus kin, for, in point of fact, it was not the Atheneum at the corner of Pal Mall and Waterloo place that the great art critic had in mind, but q service" club further along Pal Mall. The de- nunciation was made in the second of Mir. Ruskin's lectures on architecture, delivered in Edinburgh as long as the November of 1858 He was condemn ing as a grieyous waste of money the constant habit of putting careful sculp- ture at the tops of the houses, and he went on to say: "A temple of luxury has just been built in London for the Army and Navy elub.It cost < 40 000 exclusive of purchase of ground. It has upon it an enormous quantity of sculpture, representing the gentlemen of the navy as little boys riding upon dolphins, and the gentlemen of the army-I couldn't see as what, nor can anybody, for all this sculpture is put up at the top of the house, where the gutter @aould be, under the eorniee. know that this was a Greek way of doing things l can't help it; that does not make it wise one. Greeks might be willing to pay for what they couldn't see, but seotehmen and Fnglishmen shouldn t. :"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-14
Al Interesting Operatlon.

A fery interesting operation was performed in New York upon Kate Farley by Dr. Brewster, a dentist of Leifefts place. Mrs. Farley has been at the Memorial hospital for several weeks with two compound fractures Of the lower jaw. The operation con- sisted Of eemenung the upper and low CT jaws together, so that the broken bones of the lower jaw may be held firmly in place until the fractures are healed.. Until the healing has taken place the woman will not be able to open her mouth. so that nourishment will be given her through tubes lead ing through small apertures where several of her teeth are broken out. The primary part of the operation was similar 10 the process used by dentists in making new sets of teeth for persons who have none. pr. Brewster first made an impression of the upper and lower teeth. From these impressions he made a rubber spiint which fitted the impressions of the teeth. He then eemented this splint to the teeth, clos ing the jaws firmly together,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-14
Sues for seasiekness.

Chicago Inter Ocean Mrs. Sarah L. Ungerman. who has filed a suit against the Hamburg-American Steam ship company for damages for sea- sickness, is from Missouri. She says she paid for a comfortable trip on the steamship across the ocean, but she didn't get it. She estimates the dam age to her health, comfort and dignity at 5000 Mrs. Ungerman is specific in her charges. She says she was guaranteed four good meals a day aboard the steamer going to Europe, but on account of the peculiar antics of the ship in trying to find the bot tom with her nose and stand on her stern, she was unable to eat, and the display of fare was tantahzing. Insult was added to injury, she says, when, in the midst of her suffering, the cap tain prescribed salt pork as a remedy. Steamship managers are said to be worrying over the suit, as an adverse decision would establish very dan gerous precedent and would probably result in driving them out of business
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-14
 DESTRUCTIVE FUN.
An omcers Sport That Caused Kansas'
 Greatest Prairie Fire.

The greatest prairie fire known in Kansas was in the year 1869, and 1t was set out by an officer of the United States government, says Kansas City paper. This officer is now in Wash lngton, and, during the Spanish war, his name was more frequently in the papers than any other. One day in 1869 he and a party of officers from Fort Hays were returning from a wild turkey hunt in the canons of the Sa- line. The wind was blowing hurri cane, and when stop was made on the high prairie some ten miles north of Hays this officer deliberately touched a match b the dry, crisp grass in order to make a spectacle. When the other officers saw what he was about to do they made a desperate effort to stop him. but the deed had been done and the red flames were reeling across the prairie like a fright ened antelope That fire swept from where it had been started clear across Kansas into what is now Oklahoma. The streams and roads offered no ob- stacles to 1t whatever. While going south 1t had also turned to the east, and left trail of ruin across Rice, Reno, Kingman, Harper and other counties. Thousands of settlers were burned out. losing their houses and their feed, their horses and cattle. If the man who set that fire had been known to the settlers all the troops on the plains would not have been enough to stay their vengeance. As it was, he suffered femorse beyond description. When the officers at Hays would bring him papers telling of the damage done he would groan and curse himself roundly. He left Hays for some other post in the following year, and, 50 far as We know, his name was never connected with tht gigantic prairie fire of 1869.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-14
Ner Menu Cards.

New menu cards come ia the form of fruit and vegetables. such as apples, pears, potatoes, exaggerated cherries, eueumbers, lemons and peaches. They are colored like the natural fruits and the menu is written on the under side in italics, says the Baltimore Herald The cards are fastened to piece of satin ribbon, on which is painted the name of the guest.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-14
Fafm Raised Its Own Mortgage.

A queer story is told by a Lincoln lNeh.l paper of how misfortune of it& own accord turned into good luck for q Nebraska farmer. He was a man from Missouri, who had invested his all in big wheat field ill Buffalo county, and then by means of a mortgage on his iand he raised $700 with which to raise wheat, It happened to be a poor year for wheat, and the stand was not very good Concluding that it wasn't worth harvesting. he pulled up his stakes and went back to Missouri, leaving the farm to fight the mortgage all by itself. The farm was equal to the occasion. The wheat ripened. fell down and deposited the seed in the soil again. Next spring the wheat began to grow Justify. Some of the neighbors were honest enough to write about it down to the fugitive in Missouri. and he got interested enough to come back and take look Then he stopped and harvested his voluntary crop He sold it for enough to pay off the mortgage and the rest of his debts and had a tidy little sur. plus over, with which he moved his family back and now declares there IS no state like Nebraska
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-14
Jowett's Cxtinguisher.

Tie late master of Balliol was so well known as a resourcefuI antagonist fhat t is T matter of wonder that any woman, however youthful and sure of nersslf, should have had the temerity 70 take liberties with him. The Hon. Lionel Tollemache tells iii the Specta- tor of a. young woman who had the efflontery to say to him: q want to know, master, what you think of God. T am more concerned to know what God thinks of me" was Jowett's felic- itous reply.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-14
0aptnrea D nrnalI nnala-

Three fishermen captured a small whale of Ocean City. \. !. on Novem- Der 3, after a lively struggle The whale was chasing a school Of small fish. and continued the pursuit until 1t became stranded on the beach. The fishermen had difficulty in getting the whale well up on shore. as it weighed about 800 .poands. It was shipped alive to Phil a delphia as gift to the University of Pepnsvlyania
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-14
HE Libraries tn Chlna.

The great libraries of Peltin contain volumes of books numbered by the hundreds of thousands. In the archives of the government are still to be found the ancient predictions of eclipses made with great accuracy, together with works on astronomy which show a fair knowledge of that science.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1900-04-11
Railway Engineer stops HIS L0cOmO
tive After 1t Had Pinned
Down Two Men.

A thrilling incident occurred recent
ly at the b. & o. S. w. railroad bridge
over Hogan creek, Lawrenceburg, Ind.
Two men, reports the Cincinnati En-
quirer, named Hatch and Powell were
walking across the bridge when train
No. 4, known as the Newspaper Train, !"
from ST. Louis, came rolling down upon
them. 1t was too great distance from
end to end of the bridge for the men
to escape in that way, and to leap from
it meant fall of 60 feet and almost cer-
tain death. TO lie down on each side of
the track was almost sure death, as
there was not room enough. In terror
the two men laid down by the side of
the rails. Frank Evans, the engineer,
saw the men and reversed his engine
with such promptness and applied the
brakes with such energy that the fly
ing train was brought to sudden
standstill. 1t was none too soon, for
when the engine stopped the two men
lay pinioned, bruised and bleeding, be-
meath the ponderous engine that held
them fast in the very jaws of an inn
pending death. Evans called out to the
helpless men: Keep quiet, / will save
YOU" then slowly backed the train off
the imprisoned men and off the bridge,
so that they could crawl out of the reach
of further danger. Their clothes were
in rags, but their limbs were unbroken.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1900-04-11
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The insurance upon st. PauPs cathe-
dral is about 6 $4,000.
Laplanders think nothing of covering
$50 miles day on their skates.
The clay pipes of England, france
and Holland are mostly made by the Ia
Dor of children.
Four hundredweight of sealing wax
per month is used by the great seal, OF
which the lord chancellor is the official
custodian.
There are more wrecks in the Baltic
sea than in any other place in the world.
The average is one wreck day through
out the year.
There are more medical men in Lon
don than in all Scotland and Ireland
together, and in those two countries the
number has actually decreased during
the past year.
The total value of fish landed on the
English and Welsh coasts during 1898
amounted to f6.123.744. an increase Of
nearly quarter Of million over the
total for the preceding year.
There are some 10000 costermongers
who carry on business in the streets
of London. Their capital is supposed to
be 100000, whilst they are said to do
a trade during the year of three mill
lions. The profits of this turnover are
about million.
To detect oleomargarine from genuine
butter a small portion of each is melted
in proper receptacles, in which common
cotton wicks are inserted and lighted.
These will burn freely. The odor of the
smoke arising from the oleomargarine
is repulsive and nauseating, while that
from the butter is faint and molten
sive.
There was sensational performance
at Fills circus in Cape Town not long
ago. The infant daughter Of Capt. Tay-
Tor was christened in the lions den.
After Taylor had gone through the
usual performance the party entered
the cage, and the christening was duly
proceeded with, the name bestowed on
the infant being Africa Fills Taylor.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1900-04-11

New Orleans. ...........tn oZm.
Mobile I'll. 33m.
Montgomery. ...........I h. 3im.
Milledgeville. .........7 III. 4Om.
But, while the eclipse can be
seen over the whole country, it is
only within path of about fifty
five miles width that it appears
as a total eclipse; this runs from
New Orleans in a north easterly
direction across the south eastern
States, and passes out to sea at
Norfolk. In the Old World it
touches at Portugal, passes down
into Spain and Algiers, and ends
at the Red Sea. Outside of that
path the sun is only partially OBJ
scured, yet throughout large
part of this country the suns face
will be nearly covered.
Scientific men are making great
preparations to station themselves
within the path of totality, and,
with the use Of their instruments,
to make the most of the bare nine
ty seconds within which they can
observe and take impressions of
the corona diffused millions of
miles into space, and of the red
flames towering thousands of miles
from the suns surface. The ignO-
rant blacks of the South are likely
to be very much perturbed at the
pail Of darkness suddenly falling
upon the face of all nature, in the
midst of which stars will glow.
planets emerge from Obscurity, a
chill strike through the atmOs-
phere, dew fall, and animals pre-
pare to resume their nights re-
pose. But the average intelligent
person will occupy himself with
viewing through his smoked glass
the progress and elimination of
the eclipse, and noting the rush of
the on-coming shadow. 1t will be
the experience of a lifetime. And
he who can pass through it with
out new conception Of the males
ty of the Creator Of the worlds
must conclude that he has Onl
half viewed the great phenomenon.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1900-04-11
TYPEWRII'ERS
ROIJGHT AND SOLD: :

feet working order at prices ranging from 25 to 0% h.
low factory prices We will sell you First Glass ach
your choice of manufacture, on the lnsalIment plan or
WY CIT, AND SEE SAMPLES OF WORK.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1900-04-11
ST. A YEAR,

Office Millard's Building, Main Stree
Next above the Alma House.