davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-09-19
THE PRESIDENTS FUNERAL.

The body Of President Nc
Kinley was carried from Buff
falo to Washington Monday.
The funeral train arrived at
Washington at 1888 p. m. The
body of the dead President was
carried to the White House
where it lay in State Tuesday.
It was carried away to his
home in Canton, Ohio, We'd
nesday, and today THURSDAY }
the final interment will take
place. The body of the great
and good President will be
laid to it's final resting place,
and strong men under cloud
of deep and crushing sorrow,
will turn away to pluck up
courage for new endeavor.
We have not space to print
the details of the funeral; but
it may be said truthfully that
no more sorrowful ceremony
was ever held at the nations
capital. All forget for the
time the political differences
of party and party interest,
and the sob a nations sorrow
goes up before God as the vail
of woe from one man.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-09-19
A WORTHY SUCCESSOR.
"sOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN"

All Doctors have tried to cure CA
TARRH by the use of powders, acid
gases, inhalers and drugs in paste torn.
Their powders dry up the mucuous
membranes causing them to crack
open and bleed. The powerful acids
used in the inhalers have entirely
eaten away the same membranes that
their makers have aimed to cure, while
pastes and ointments cannot reach the
disease. An old and experienced prac-
titioner who has for many years made
close study and speciality OF the treat
ment OF CATARRH, has at last per.
fected Treatment which when faith
fully used, not only relieves at once,
but permanently cures CATARRH,
by removing the cause, stopping the
discharges, and curing all inf1amma-
ton. It is the only remedy known to
science that actually reaches the afflict-
ed parts. This wonderful remedy is
known as "SNUFFLES the GUARAN.
TEED CATARRH CURE" and is
sold at the extremely low price of One
Dollar, each package containing inter-
nal and external medicine sufficient
for full months treatment and every
thing necessary to its perfect use.
"SNUFFLES" is the only perfect
CATARRH CURE ever made and is
now recognized as the only safe and
positive cure for that ANNOYING and
disgusting disease. It cures all In.
flamation quickly and permanently
and is also wonderfully quick to relieve
HAY FEVER or COLD In the HEAD.
CATARRH when neglected often
leads to OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
LES" will save you if you use it at
once. It is no ordinary remedy, but
complete treatment which is posi-
lively guaranteed to cure CATARRH
in any form or stage if used according
to the directions which accompany
each package. Don't delay but send
for it at once, and write full particu.
lars as to your condition, and you will
receive special advice from the discov.
erer of this wonderful remedy regard.
ing your case without cost to you be
yond the regular price of ttSNUFF
LES" the "GUARANTEED CA
TARRH CURE"
Sent prepaid to any address in the
United States or Canada on receipt oil
One Dollar. Address Dept. C45(
EDWIN B. GILES & COMPANY
1880 and 1882 Market Street, Phila
delphia.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-09-19
A. & NJ. COLLEGE IS FULL.

There are now 315 students In the
A. & M. College at Raleigh. This il
all the college can accommodate. A few
vacancies will be made by students
leaving from poverty or other causes
and in this way there will be room 10,
tsw more students from time to time
but for only few. President Wins
ton says that new students should not
come to the college without having
previously written to ascertain If there
is room tor them. He says there i.
great demand for industrial education
throughout the State, and that the A
M. College would have a thousand
students II It had room for them. IT
greatest need now IL tor mQre dormi
tot1ss and shop-room for wood workin,
AMI Iron working.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-09-19
Ri1,ez=SAOf
For , Tiger,

No use to hunt tigers with
bird-shot. It doesn't hurt the
tiger any and it's awfully risky
for you.
Consumption is a tiger
among diseases. 1t is stealthy
but once started it rapidly
eats up the flesh and destroys
the life. No use to go hunting
it with ordinary food and med
icine. That's only bird-shot.
It still advances. Good heavy
charges of SCOTS Emulsion
will stop the advance. The
disease feels that.
SCOTS Emulsion makes the
body strong to resist Il
|soothes and toughens the lungs
and ,sustains the strength until
The disease wears itself out.
Send foF. free, sample ],
SCOTT = Eou.sE se,se,1s:s;; e ne.aa S. \. q
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-09-19
SOMETHING TO REMEMBER

0OML1 n1N III NE N = MOEhs
When a cough or cold is long neglect
ed consumption almost invariably fol-
lows. Remember Mexican Syrup only
costs 25 cents bottle, and has proven
in many thousand cases an absolute
safe cure for coughs, colds and con-
sumption. Taken In time it cures
quickly. Children like 1t because it
tastes good. Insist on your druggist
keeping it for sale. Read the SEEM
ingly miraculous cures it has effected
printed on the wrapper around the
bottle.
A PITABLE SIGHT.
What Is more pitable than to see a
puny, delicate little child absolutely
dying from neglect. There are many
little ones, whose cheeks would grow
rosy, whose eyes would grow bright,
whose flesh would be plump and pretty
If only the worms that are knawing at
their vitais were removed, which ls
easily effected with Mothers Worm
Syrup, so nice to take that children
ask for it. Also cure for tape worm
in grown people. Try Is cent bot
tie.
THE SECRET OF GOOD HEALTH.
The secret of beauty and good heath
is cleanliness. Uncleanliness breeds
disease. Internal cleanliness iseven Of
greater importance than external,
Keep your liver active and your bowels
thoroughly clean by taking a Mexican
Root Pill occasionally. Their use does
the nerves, kidneys, ETC., good also
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-09-19
FIELD WARE D USE
ENFIELD, N. C.
The good old times have come again. All
grades of tobacco selling well.
our Patrons all Pleased
come to see us with a trial load and we as.
sure you it will be our pleasure to please
you. Your friends,
w. 7. CLEMENT & co.
Notice.!
Land Sale For Taxes.

Twill on Monday, the 18th Day Of
October, 1901, at the court house dooi
Halifax, sell the following property i@
taxes for 1900:
B F Tillery, Merritt tract lo9 acres
taxes and COST s3I
Virginia T Wilkins, Slashes 1872 acres
tara. and cost 1851
William. Wilkins. Slsshes Al: ac1es'
taxes and cost, Sl~
Geo Marshall, near Halifax, ! sore,
taxes and cost, Slw
Mrs Leila Saunders, acres, taxes
and cost, DIV
John T Scott, slashes 81 acres taxes
and oo.t s4W
Dr. J r Pole, piny woods, 272 acres,
taxes and cost, So"
Julia Hudson estate, near HALIFAX
acre, taxes and cost, 81"
-Davy Elbeck, near Pierce's church.
25 acres. taxes and cost, q"
X. w. Cart near Pierce's church,
1872 acres. stnxes and cost, -"
Maggie Crowell, Halifax, ! acre.
taxes and cost, "a"
Samuel Boone, Adam Cochrans rla's
125 acres, taxes cost, f0''
Abram Banks, Halifax, ! acre, taxes
and costs, a."
Sarah BARLEY, Halifax, acres
taxes and costs, :"
Charles Eppes, Turkey Bridge / y,
acre, taxes and cost, F'"
Anthony Ivey, estate, ? acres, taxes
and cost, o''
Joseph Galumbeck, near poor house, .,
2O4 acres, taxes and costs, "
IRA G. SHAW,
Tax Collector Halifax Township
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-09-19
School Books.

School Books.
We have on hand a full
supply CT State-adopted text
books for the public schools,
and other books. We sell
them as cheap as they can be
bought anywhere.
M. HOFFMAN & BRO.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1901-08-31
A Summer Trip.

The trip.to Salt Lake City or the
Pacific Coast via Salt Lake City by
way of the Rio Grand Western
Railway in connection with the Denver
& Rio Grand or Colorado Midland
roads is the grandest in America. No
European trip of equal length can
compare with it in grandeur Of scene
ry or wealte of novel interest. Then
Salt Lake City itself is a picturesque
place and well worth the journey to
see. Its Mormon Temple, Taber-
nacle, Tithing Office and church In
situations its hot and warm sulphur
springs within the city mats its de-
'lightful temperate sunny climate and
its Great Salt Lake-deader and
denser than the Dead Sea in Palestine
are but a few features of Salt
City'S countless attractions. There
are parks, drives, canyons and beau
tiful outlying mountain and lake re-
sorts. Imagine, if you can, a bath in
salt water, annie above sea level and
in water in which the human body
cannot sink. Inquire of your near
est ticket agent for low tourist rates
to Salt Lake City or write for infor-
nation and copy of Salt Lake City
the City of the saints, to E. COPELAND,
General Agent, 215 Dearborn St.,
Chicago, or Geo. w. Heintz, Gen
eraI Passenger Agent, Salt Lake
City.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1901-08-31
Nearly Petered Out.

The day of the buckskin-clad vas
auero and dauntless broncho-busting
ranchers has waned into twilight and
soon his vociferous yell viii re-
echo no longer and obscurity will
close her mantle about him. Basil
ssthe mightiest man Of the village of
Grand-Pre," in primitive Acadia ex-
lied to- this heaven-born region, with
Mexican trappings and broad SOM
brero, he waxed from habit and
semblance into the typical Mexican
vasquero. 1t is not impossible that
his lineage still lives and has inheri-
ted the intrepid, cow-punching quail
ties Of old Basil. We kinder think
so, and believe his progeny is right
here at Haw Point. One OF our
much regarded citizens who we all
call Gus for short, was endeavoring,
a few days ago, to tame a wild pony
in the Syeritable Basil, the ranchero,
style, with fowels on his feet that
weighed a pound a piece. The Grim
son tide of ancestry must have near
ly petered out, for our mar was
piled on the green grass. He has
been a fit subsection ~yulnerary plas-
tiers ever since.-HaW Point News by
Rubin in Crowley Signal.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1901-08-31
Died at the Age Of 1873.

Breaux Bridge, La, Aug. "a
Breaux Bridge niourns the death Of
the oldest citizen Of the parish, prob
ably of the South. Napoleon Pierre
Gucheveau, born in France in 1778,
moved to New York when about SIS
years of age, and after a short resi-
dence there moved to Breaux Bridge,
where he married and has lived an
upright, honorable man, passing
away peacefully and painlessly at 10
O'Clock Sunday night at the home of
his only son, August Gucheveau. He
never had worn spectacles or used
artificial assistance to peruse the
daily papers, Of which he was very
fond.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1901-08-31
Cloudcrofa lodge is Finished

The great Cloudcroft Lodge has
been completed, formally opened,
and is now in full sway. II is q
splendid hostelry, splendidly furnish
ed and offering an incompatible
cuisine, under the management of
Mr.. j. j. W.. Fisher, proprietor OF
the famous Hotel Sheldon of FL Paso,
Texas.
You want an enjoyable summer.
You want to get away from the OPP
p~ressiyeness of the City and the low
attitudes. Go to Cloudcroft, N. M.
5000 feet elevations? On the sum-
nit of the loftiest peak of the Sacra-
mento Mountains, 10 miles North
east of FL Paso. Wonderful scenery.
Tennis courts and Golf links, Dane
ing Pavilion In feet everything
desired or expected in an up-to-date,
healthful summer resort.
CIoudcroft is known as the
breathing spot Of the Southwest.
There is but one way to go COM
fortably and quickly. But one way
to avoid more than one change Of
cars but one way to enjoy reclin-
ing chair-cars, (seats free) and
sleeping cars all the way through
through daily to Ell Paso. That way
is via the Texas & Pacific Railway.
More information by letter or dis
criptive literature may be had of any
ticket agent or Z. z. Turner,
General Passenger & Ticket Agent
Dallas, Texas.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1901-08-31
Deafness Cannot be Cured.

by local applications as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only oneWay tozeure deafness
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an lhaamed con
dition Of the moucous lining of the
Enstachian Tube. When this tube is
infamed you have a rumblihg sound or
imperfect hearing; and when it is en-.
tirely closed, deafness is the result, and
unless the Inflammation, can be taken
out and this tube restored to its nor
nal condition, hearing will be destroy
ed forever; nine cases out of ten are
caused by catarrh. which is nothing
but an lntiamed condition of the mu-
cous surfaces.
We viii give one hundred dollars for
any case Of deafness (caused by
eatarrh) that can not be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. J.<HENEY & Co.. Toledo. @.
5sold BY Druggist. 70.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1901-08-31

Its reported that as soon as the
Midland branch is completed to Alb
beville from Gueydan, we will have
two trains a day, which will be good
news for shippers. How about the
extension to Alexandria from Eunice,
which was surveyed some time ago?
This would give us communication
with St. Louis and Kansas City and
would reduce the rates on freight and
passage.-Eanice correspondence to
Crowley Signal.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1901-08-31

Quite an electrical display prevailed
during the rain storm on Thursday
week, which came near being serious
to Scott Underwood, who is employed
as book-keeper on BelIeview planta-
ton. While engaged at his work, the
current trailed along the telephone
wire leading into the office, and
assaulted osr excellent young friend
in such a violent manner that he was
knocked down and considerably
bruised, but, we are glad to say, not
seriously injured, though consider
ably stunned for q While.-Franklin
Waterman.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1901-08-31

Telephone communication with
Anse-La-Butte being INSTRUCTED, we
cannot give news of to-day's opera
tions at the two wells. Yesterday
evening at $3.50. p. m. the Pioneer
Oil Co. had reached a depth of 1895
feet, and were drilling in blue shale,
which gives every indication of a
gusher soon. The LeDanois Co.
struck bed rock salt at $50 feet and
are now at 465 feet still boring in
salt.-Breaux Bridge Valley of the
Teche.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1901-08-31
Low RATE.
A Chance to 60 to San Francisco
on a Special Train.

A feature of the Episcopal Church
Convention to be held at San Fran
cisco. Gail, October End will be the
Sunset Route Convention Special"
leaving New Orleans, Wednesday,
September 25th, arriving at Houston
same date; San Antonio 26th and FL
Paso on September 9th. This train
win run through to Los Angeles, with
stop over ct San Antonio and Ell
Paso.
So completely have arrangements
been perfected to cater to the com
fort of passengers on the "Conven-
ton Special that the trip to Cali
fornia on this train promises to leave
ones memory fragrant with pleasant
re~collections of the superb service,
and the manifold beauties Of the
'sGolden State
Choice of routes returning via
Ogden and direct lines.
Rate from New Orleans $3.50,
Houston $4,000, Galveston s46.45
and San Antonio $500. Dates Of
.
sale Sept. 10Th to 9th with limit to
return Nov. 18th. Write for de-
scriptive literature to I. J. Parks,
P. & I. A., Houston, Texas; or,
S. T. B. Morse, z. 7. NJ, Houston,
Texas.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1901-08-31
what Il Tale is Tells.

Ii that mirror Of yours shows a
wretched, salIow complexion, a jaun-
dice look, moth patches and blotches
on the skin, It's liver trou' lie, but DR..
Kings New Life Pills regulate the liver,
purify the blood, give clear skin. rosy
cheeks, rich complexion. Only 25c at
A. j. Godards drug store.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1901-08-31

Abbeville is to have a $4,000
school building, the police jury of
that parish having recently appro-
priated s., 1000, which IS to be added
to a like amount raised by means of
a special tax in the corporation of
that town. This will be welcome
news to those who have had the OPP
portunity of seeing the disgraceful
shanties used for school in that pro-
gressive town.-Opelousas Clarion.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1901-08-31
Agents Wanted.

Live, active men and women can
earn from $500 to $1,000 a day by can
vassing for Frank G. Carpenters book
South American: Social Induutrial an
Political" This book is jast out and is
having an enormous sale. Every body
y wants it. As it is being sold by sub
scrlptlon only, we desire representa-
tives who are hustlers at once to intro
duce the work in your territory Most
liberal terms. Write to-day for terri
tory and full particulars TO The Saal-
field Publishing Company, Akron
Ohio.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1901-08-31
Notice TO Tres passers

hereby forbid any one to tresspass on
my lands IN Vermilion parish. Louisiana.
IN my way, shape. form or manner what
soeyer. Any person or persons caught
trespassing on said premises will he pres
ecdted to the full extent of the law.
DAvIDEJ MEAUx,
Abbsgllle, La, December2a2 1000.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1901-08-31

W. want 500 new subscribers.
'WalAyoa be oae. Why not?
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-04-06

1t is doubtless true as writer in the
Atlantic Monthly points out, that the
reading world is getting rather fastidi.
Gus in the matter of the villains ii finds
in fiction. The rascal frequently fig
ured as the hero in the fiction of an
earlier day, and the Robin Hoods and
other pleasantly impudent knights of
the road had long popularity. Thanks
to IAN improved ethical standard, the
writer of the Atlantic article AYERS, the
modern author, however, Is expected
to make his heroic figures good as well
as great. If he makes a rascal heroic
and fascinatingly accomplished he must
take pains to stamp him plainly as a
villain and then kill him off with be-
fitting pathos and ignomlny in the last
chapter. 1t would be pleasant to sup
pose that the disappearance of the he
roic rascal is due TO finer ethical stand
ards" but unfortunately the elevated
standards have not availed to rid the
literary world of much less desirable
characters. The old time self-confessed
rascal was pretty bad, no doubt, and
should not have been left around the
library where boys of venturesome
spirit could learn to admire him. But
1t is exceedingly doubtful If he has not
made way for a much more dlsreputa-
BILE and shabby parsonage. The SNUG,
self-sutficient, distressingly punctilious
men and women who have appeared in
some of the recent problem novels"
and in the so-called historical romances
are much the worst rascalS In all tic-
ton. Compared with them, Iago is an
honest man and a gentleman of Sensi-
tive honor These are the men and
women who strain at a gnat on queS-
lions of abstract principle and swallow
a whole camel in the matter of bad
conduct; who pose as persons of deli
cate Scruples and find their scruples
getting in the way of common honesty;
who indulge in strange sOphiStries and
by Hall Caine-like inversion of logic
arrive at the conclusion that in many
cases it would be wrong to be right
and right to be wrong, and therefore
quite sanity to be piously wicked all
the time. The punctilious rascal in the
cheap problem novel, the mock humble
person who narrates the story of his
past life in the historical romance and
the unreal hero of the ordinary trashy
yarn are certainly not SO entertaining
as the debonair highwayman of earlier
days, and in vast majority of cases
they are much worse morally. AS a
general thing the smugger and nicer
they are the more depraving is their
example.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-04-06

The draft was protested. Minnie cried
and said that there must be some mis-
take; that her brother was in Denver
closing mining deal. Weaver, being
unable to go, sent Clerk Crawford with
the girl to Denver to find Arthur Swift
and rectify the error. Weaver paid the
expenses Of the trip. Crawford pro-
posed on the train and Minnie promised
him an answer next morning In the
morning Crawford found the note
given above. He went to the room adj
joining his, which was occupied by the
girl. On the floor was corset, a wig
of yellow hair, powder, rouge and curl
ing irons. Crawford notified the police
and went home.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-04-06

carefully investigated the regular crops
by the farmers Of the country, and have
purchased seeds and plants of such
species as they thought might be in
troduced into the United States with
advantage. Altogether $50 different
purchases have been sent in to the
Agricultural Department, and expert
ments are already well advanced with
some of them. Among those from
which great results are expected are
the Alexandrian clover from Egypt,
which is intended as a late fodder crop
for irrigated lands in California and
Arizona; the seedless grape from
Padua, Italy, intended for the seedless
raisin industry of the Colorado desert
region; Egyptian cotton, which is now
being tested by over 100 eXperimenters
in the South; and series of East In
dian yams, one of which is said to be
far superior to the potato in flavor.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-04-06

the Plumason household, and now
seems to enjoy its work. 1t wears lit
tie harness and is guided by reins
which it carries in its bill. 1t is the
master of several gaiJs, and at the word
of command given by the small child
who is driving it will walk, run, trot, or
come to standstill. At home in the
country the big rooster often pulls the
cart and its occupant for half a mile or
more without stopping. The queer out
fit is now giving exhibitions at poultry
shows in the West.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-04-06

Much interest has been taken in Val
ley Forge by Pennsylvanians for many
years. Recently the State was induced
TO buy some PIT acres of the historic
revolutionary camp ground for a PARK
and the Daughters of the American
Revolution presented to Congress the
subject of m@lIing the place a national
park and military rendezvous. A num-
Der of prominent Philadelphians APP
peared before both the House and the
Senate committee to present reasons
for making the most noted camp of the
revolution a natural pleasure ground.
The land can now be purchased at from
$500 to $135 per acre, the largest tract
owned by any one person being PA
acres. The State of Pennsylvania is
ready to turn over to Congress its hold
fngs at the purchase price and an APP
preparation of 100000. 1t is estimated.
will be ample for the purchase and the
initial expenditures for the park.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-04-06

they are half boys education. Weak
hearts are made by fear, not by effort.
Hear the old fellows cheer the young
ones in the arena and believe It, That
is why the croakers who deprecate ath-
letics will never have respectful audi
ence. That is why the strenuous games
Of the track and gridiron will flourish.
That is why Beauty, sympathetic and
a-hutter, will ever pay tribute of sigh
and alteration to the noble bruises of
Drawn. The wisdom Of athletics lies in
the athletes knowledge of his own limit
of endurance. Most have the knowl'
edge and few abuse il.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-04-06

An American economist recently Wis
tied a flower mandatory in Brussels.
and found thirty girls at work with no
oyerseer in sight. Their employer was
teaching them to do every bit of work
perfectly for honor's sake. The early
history of the factory throws light on
his success. Before engaging his EN-
ployes, the proprietor ascertained that
other factories paid girls twenty cents
a day, and that a woman could not live
decently on less than fifty. Very well;
in his establishment no lower wage
than fifty cents should be paid. Such
principles are not the beginning of wis
dom alone, but of financial success as
well. The proprietor atlirms that the
loyal devotion and faithful work of his
employees more than compensate for
the increased expenditure in wages.