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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-08-08
tDally except Monday. tDaily ex.


cept Sunday.
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad,
Yadkln Diyision Main Line--Train
leaves " ilmlngton, 9 90 a. M, arrives
Fayetteville IL O5 p. m leaves Fayette-
vile IL 25 p. M, arrives Sanford / 43
p. m. Returning leaves Sanford O5
p. M, arriyes Fayetteville 90 p. m,
leaves Fayetteville 4 20 p. m., arrives
Wilmington 8 25 p. III.
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad,
Bennettsville BrancL-Train leaves
Bennettsville O5 a. M, Maxton 9O5
a. M, Red Springs Q so a. ,n., Hope
Mills 10 IS a, M, arrives Fayetteville
II 10 a. m. Returning leaves FayeLte-
vile As p. m, Hope Mills 5 IS r. M,
Red Springs 35 p. M, Naxton 6 Is
p. m, arrives Bennettsville 15 p. m.
Connections at Fayetteville with
train No. 78, at Maxton with the Caro-
lima Central Railroad, at Red Springs
with the Red Springs and Bowmore
Railroad, at Sanford with the Seaboard
Air Line and Southern Railway, at
Gulf with the Durham and Charlotte
Railroad.
Train on the Sc, Gland Neck Branch
Road leaves Weldon 3 :55 p ln., Hali,sx
IT d. H., arrives Scotland Neck at
5 :OS p. m. Greenville 6 81 p. N Kins-
ton SO .. m. Returning leaves
Klnston 7 so a. M, Greenyille 8 ~ a.
M, arriving Halifax at IL liz a. M,
Weldon II :33 a. m, D.; j except Sum
day.
Trains on WASH .on Branch leave
Washington s &c n. and 2 30 p. M,
arrive Parmele !, 20 q. n. and & % p.
M, returning leave Parmele 3 :35 -. ii.
and 6 80 p. m, arrive Washington
IL 90 a. m. and Z 80 p. m, daily ex-
cept Sunday.
Train leaves Tarboro, N. c., daily
except Sunday 5 80 p. m, Sunday,
4 Is D. m., arrives Plymouth Z 40 p.
m, 6 10 p. M, Returning, leaves Ply
mouth daily except Sunday 80 a. In.
and Sunday 8 900 .. m, arrives Tarboro
10 10 a. M, II 100 a. m.
Train on Midland n. c. Branch
leaves Goldsboro daily, except Sunday.
5 90 a. M, arriving Sinithfieid 6 10 a..
m. Returning leaves Smithfcid 80
a. m. arrives at Goldsboro s 20 a. n {.
Trains on Nashville Branch lea,s
Rocky Mount at 8 80 a. nv. 40 2. N =,
arrive Nashville 10 20 a. MA :O3 pm j,
Spring Hope ii :00 a. NJ, 4 :25 p. m .
Returning leave Spring Hope IL 20 a.
m, :55 p. M, Nashville IL :i5 a. m {,
5 % p. m, arrive at Rocky Mount
II 10 a. H., 6 100 p. m.,- daily except
Sunday.
Train on Clinton Branch leaves War
saw for Clinton daily, except Sunday,
IL 40 a. IN. and 4 :25 p. IN. Return
Ting leaves Clinton at b :s5 a. II. and
2 go a. m.
Train No. IS makes close connection
at Weldon for all points North daily,
all rail via Richmond.
III. NJ. EMERSON,
Genl Pass. Agent
]. r. KENLY, Genl Manager.
1T. n. EMERSON. afiia Manag
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-08-08
Spirit Of True Contentnent.

Does It rain to-day? Is It dark an0
gloomy? That is all right; there must
be some stormy days. Tomorrow the
clouds will have a silver lining, or dis
appear entirely. Does the sun shine ?
Enjoy the sunshine. Tomorrow may
be bright, also. Are you well? En-
ioy your health and use it to the est
advantage. Are you i'll? Then it is
day in which to be patient and en-
dure cheerfully. Are you free from
trouble? Then it is a Thanksgiving
day. Are you carrying heavy burdens
for yourself or others? Then it is a
day for the rolling off your burdens at
the foot of the Cross.-Louise Hey
wood.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-08-08
FIRST UNION FLAG CAPTURED,
Tho Soldier Who Was Captured with
1t Still Has the Treasured
Relic

The first union flag to be captured
and the first union officer to be taken
prisoner in fight during the civil war
are in New York city. The officer is
r. NJ. Shurtleff, who was a volunteer.
He has the flag, says the st. Louis Re-
public.
It is blood stained and torn. He,car-
ried it while ON picket duty near Hamp-
ton, Va, on the morning of July 10,
1861, when a small confederate party
lying in ambush, Wounded d. him and an
other officer, and took them prisoners.
Mr.. Shurtleff was the first prisoner;
his brother officer, who was taken cap
tive few minutes later, died about a
year afterward; Maj Rowlins, third
member of the union party and war
correspondent, was killed.
The flag returned to the possession
of Mr.. Shurtleff in September, 1885. It
was handed over to him by Col. J. NJ.
Sandidge, leader of the confederates
who had made the attack from am
bush.
Mr.. Shurtleff was a lieutenant and
adjutant of the Ninety-ninth New York
volunteers, who were encamped in
Hampton, Va. Gen. Max Weber had
sent Capt Jenkins, Lieut.. Shurueff
and three other members Of the Nine
ty-ninth volunteers to reconnoiter for
confederate pickets on the night of
July 1s, 1861. The scouting party was
accompanied by Maj. Rowins.
Owing to several union scouting par
ties having fired upon union soldiers,
orders had issued from headquarters
that some member or members of ev-
cry scouting party should carry one or
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-08-08

The sudden decrease of the tenn
perature of the sea-caused by an
iceberg-would be shown by a ther-
mopile placed on the ships bottom.
Edison says an apparatus on the
keel sensitive to sounds transmitted
noise made by a steamer miles away.
A wooden funnel, or hood, on deck
collects and reveals sound inaudible
to the unaided ear. An Englishman
has invented a modified Marconi ap-
paratus to warn vessels from rocky
coasts seven miles away.-N. Y. Sun.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-08-08

Inas.nuch as the Louisiana suffrage
law and the constitutional amendment
of North Carolina are very much alike
:, test case that has been made up in
New Orleans will interest the people OF
North Carolina. A colored resident of
New Orleans, named David J. Raynes,
on July 10Th made application to be
registered as voter and Was refused
because he could not comply with the
qualifications of the Louisina Constitu-
ton Of 1898. Through his attorney
he filed suit in the courts praying for
writ of mandauitls to compel the
registrar to enroll him.
Raynes is described as slave and
the son OF slave, has resided in New
Orleans since 1860, at which time he
was carried there from Tennessee. He
is in good standing in his community,
it is said, is an officer in the Method
ist church, but cannot read and does
not pay taxes on $500 worth of property.
He claims that he is debarred from
registering as voter by reason of his
color and that a white man under the
same circumstances would be allowed
to vote. The Outlook of New York
thinks that Raynes' case will deter
mine the validity OF the North Carroll
ma constitutional amendment, because
the constitutions of the two States are
so much alike.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-08-08
A YOUNG LADY'5 LIFE SAVED.
AT Panama, Colombia, by Chamber.
lain's Collie, Cholera and Dlar-
rhoea Remedy.

DR.. Chas. Utter, prominent physi
clan of Panama. Colombia, in recent
letter states: "Last March / had as a
patient young lady of sixteen years
Of age, who bad a very bad attact OF
dysentery. Everything I prescribed
Tor her proved Intellectual and she Was
growing worse every hour. Her par
ents were sure she would die. She had
become SO weak that she could not
turn over in bed. Waat to do at this
critical moment was study Tor me,
but thought of Chamberlaln's Colo;
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and as
a last resort prescribed it. The most
wonderful result was effected. Within
eight hours sle was feeling much bet
tor inside of three days she was upon
her feet and at the end OF one week
was entirely we'll" For SAKE by =. :.
Wkitehead 4 Co.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-08-08

words 1 heard, in passing, aroused my
| curiosity to know something concern
| ing their past
1T seems waste of time to even
| talk of such creatures" said my com
| panion, with a shudder of disgust, "'but
I will tell you as mucl, of them as you
| will care to know.
'They were always chums," con.
tinued she; 'even when they were lit
| the fellows, it was common saying:
Find Ned, and you will be sure to see
Fred This friendship, which still ex-
lists, is the only redeeming feature
about either of them. They are only
35 years old, but they are fearfully
old in sin.
''They belong to two of the first fam
lilies in the city, both as to culture and
wealth. But in spite of everything
done to lead them upward and Cod
ward, by patient and loving friends,
they seemed bent on going to the bad.
Yet they are both well educated. One
chose the profession of law, the other
that of medicine; but I doubt il pa
tient or client has come to either.
They are care-free, however, seeming
ly, and content to live life of sinful
pleasure.
Erred, as I once called him, married
one of the sweetest girls in the world
AS such creatures so often do-she
was one of the loving, clinging sort of
women, made to be love-shielded, but
lacking in will power, and after two
years of untold misery, she died of a
broken heart. If Fred mourned her
early death, it failed to influence him.
He continued to drink and gamble as
before.
"Ned never married, thank fortune,
but he has well-nigh ruined his old
father; while his mother, whose idol
he was, rested from her tears and
vigils long years ago.
''But they care nothing for broken
hearts and untimely graves, for they
have not one spark of feeling left"
She misjudged them, however, in one
respect, for I, who, in passing, had
that they suffered keenly, as all must,
the sowing of wild oats. Mrs.
Helena H. Thomas, in N. Y. Observer.
Beer Prevents a WeddinE.
81 can never marry man who buys
beer for his ia sher-in-faw." declared
pretty Rosa Shoemaker, of Allentown,
Pa, who had Tilted her lover, Charles
T. Clewell, an hour before their in
tended wedding, because the young
man had ssset 'em up" to her father.
CIewen and the girl had been sweet
hearts for nearly year, and several
| months ago their engagement was an
nounced. The young man went to the
| courthouse to get marriage license,
accompanied by the father OF the girl
| On the way home the young man
; bought two glasses Of beer for his
prospective father-in-law. The girl
saw them come out of the saloon, and
when Clewen called at the house in
the eveningto escort his bride to the
| clergyman's house she Tilted him, in
spite of the fact that she had bought
her wedding trousseau. She would
give no other reason for her action
than that she would not marry man
who treated his fatheg-in-laW.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-08-08

Farmer G. W. SAiansr who wen1
from Halifax to Harnett to raise pea
nuts, is succeeding very well. Inoe.c
be has given out that his peanuts there
are three weeks earlier than other pea
nuts. Whereupon the Raleigh Post
says that Harnett Will yet develop in.
TO one OF the most prosperous counties
in the State. The Post concludes
"And somehow we believe oil can be
found below the surface there wher
bored for the proper depth"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-08-08

One who has made much cbserva-
tlon OF passing events" no doubt,
writes the following which we think
suitable for this column of TIE CON-
MONWEALTH
''The newspapers Of a town are its
looking glasses. It Is here you see
yourselves as others ses you. You
smile on them, and they smile back a t
You you frown On them, and you are
repaid IN kind. They are the reflex OF
town. If the town Is doing business
the newspaper will show 1t in its ad-
ver;'s'rW. Fennsns. If the merchants
are epis 5hiftless fellows, whose
stores / ta' 'ss9b!es of junk and jam,
the newspapers will show it by the
lack of space they take. If you want
the world TO know that you have a
i've town, you can only let it be
known through Its newspaper"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-08-08
THE EDIToRs's LEISURE HOURS
Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past an6 Future.

THE COMMONWEALTH has pleaded
macy times for the poor, speechIess
horse and OK that is oittimes worked
too hard on too scant Ieed and t..en
lett 10 stand sometimes Tor hours ir
TIE hot, bllstering sun. At this season
of the year the heat ;,i the sun IS pc
cuiiarly exhausting both to man and
beast II is inexcusa hle cruelty to
leave stock standing In tho sun any
length of time. One who 10 careful
for the comfort of his beasts can al
most always find a shade or stall for
them.
There is good law on the statu te
books against cruelty to animals and
IL ought 10 be enforced.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-08-08

Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets.
CANDY Cathartic, euro constipation forever.
~, nc. II q g @. fail, druggists refund money.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-08-08

The wise yonng man begins early IN
ife 10 lag up mart of his earnings.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-08-08

Pyny-Balsam Relicves Right Away
md snako oaspeedy end nf coughs and cold.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-18
THE VALUE OF SAWDUST.
Millions of Tons Formerly Wasted
Now Turned to Profitable Ac-
count in Many Ways.

To the average mind that is not
looking for sermons in stones" or
golden eagles in coal tar, a pile of
sawdust appears to be about the
most worthless of the many by-prod-
ucts of manufacture. 1t is true that
it has some value in the arts. being
used for stuffing dolls and other ar
ticles of commerce. 1t is also used
for fuel in the big sawmills and plan
ing mills because it is near at hand
and is by-product of those indus
tries, says the Chicago Times-Herald.
But very few persons would sus-
pect that heap of sawdust contains
valuable acids, tar and Illuminating
gas. There are some 20 establish
ments in Europe engaged in making
oXalic acid out of sawdust. Six of
these are in Germany and 10 in Eng
land. In Scotland it is used in max
ing floor cloth, linoleum, wall paper
and coarse wrapping paper.
With our limitless area of timber
land and wealth of pine forest we
have been scattering sawdust to the
four winds orconverting il into pillars
Of smoke. But sawdust, like coal tar
and the hair on Armour's beeves and
other by-products of industry. must
yield in time to the necessities of
scientific economy in production.
Every waste product under the touch
of chemistry and mechanical genius
must soon contribute to mans COM
forts and needs.
Up at Montreal, Canada. there has
recently been invented and manufac-
tured a machine which extracts more
products from sawdust than has vet
been possible by means of the devices
that are in use in Europe. The ma
chine is built for the distillation of
sawdust, the material being subject
ed at certain stages of the process
to intense heat. In addition to good
Illuminating gas the following prod
ucts are obtained per 1000 pounds of
sawdust: Char, 100 pounds; acids,
$50 pounds: water, 24S pounds: tar,
1862 pounds. The gas, it is claimed,
is superior to coal gas for illuminat-
ing purposes.
A few years ago every gas factory
was built near a running stream in
order to facilitate the disposal of
waste product" On the surface Of
the water there foated away vast
wealth of material which modern
chemistry now saves for the most
beautiful dyes and for therapeutic
agents that have been a blessing to
humanity. Almost every prepare
| ton now made for the cure of head
ache and for the alienation of other
pain contains a coal tar product.
1t may be that we have been cast
ing away millions of dollars of
wealth in the millions of tons of saw
dust that we have discarded in the
last 100 years.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-18
AMONG THE RAILWAYS.
Rock Island VIII Run Cheap Excur-
siOns to Colorado.

The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
railway, which made phenomenal success
OF cheap excursion rates to Colorado last
season, has again asked its competitors in
the Western and Southwestern Passenger
associations to agree upon series OF cheap
excursions to and from Denver, Colorado
Springs and Pueblo for the approaching sea-
son on the following basis: Tickets to be
sold from Chicago and all territory up to
Missouri river June IS, 25, July l6, %, and
80. Aug. 6, l3, 20 and q, at the rate of one
fare plus 81, or $31 so for the round trip.
On July and and Sept. 3 and 10 rate
of $25 is to be made from Chicago, and SIS
from Missouri river points for the round
trip. Intermediate territory will have pro-
portionate rates. Tickets are to be sold
from Missouri river points one day later
than the dates given above in each case.
Proportionate rates will be made to and
from Glenwood Springs, Salt Lake City and
Ogden.
A series of East bound excursions is also
proposed, tickets to be sold from Colorado
common points every Thursday, commenc-
ing with June 20 up to and including Sept.
u, at a rate of one fare plus 50 for the
round trip. All tickets will be limited for
return passage to October 81. These rates
will be rendered connecting lines for bas-
ing purposes, which will probably insure a
very low basis of rates throughout the Unit
ed States for these excursions.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific will
unquestionably make these rates and ar
rangements effective, regardless of the ac-
ton of its competitors, and will run special
trains, only one night out to and from Col
orado, on the dates named.-Chicago Inter
Ocean
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-18
HIGH ELECTRICAL PRESSURES.
New California Plant Which VIII
Employ 10000 Volts in Power
TPansmission

Until very recently it was not
deemed safe to transmit power in the
form of electricity at a greater pres
sure than 10000 or $4,000 volts. Be
tween Niagara and Buffalo a voltage
of 1000 is now employed, but this
will be doubled before many weeks.
The pressure on the Folsom-Sacra-
mento line in California is H. 900 volts.
A line in Colorado which operates ma
chinery in mines near Canyon City
transmits its current at 10000 volts.
The two most remarkable transmits
sion plants in this country, and prob
ably in the world, in point of voltages,
are those at Telluride, Col, and the
line from San Bernardino to Los An
geles, Cal. The former is short, but
carries the current at 100000 volts.
This pressure was adopted as a regu-
lar thing after series of tests as
regular thing after a series of tests
in which a voltage of $4,000 was sue
cessfully sustained for 81 consecutive
days. The San Bernardino line.
though, while worked at only $4,000
volts, is SO miles long and carries no
less than 10000 horsepower. On the
whole, electricians regard it the bold
est achievement in electrical trans
mission yet recorded, says the New
York Tribune.
Within the next few months an even
more notable success will probably be
announced from California. A cor
poration which now controls several
power houses and is supplying current
to towns and mining districts in Yrba
and Nevada counties has nearly com
pleted a line to Oakland and San Fran-
cisco that will be 140 miles in length.
On some of its existing lines the com
pany is transmitting at 10000 to "a, 900
volts. But the transformers will be
capable of giving 10000, $4,000 and co.
900 on the Oakland route. Operations
will begin at 10000 volts, and the high
er pressure will be resorted to as soon
as the losses which result from an in
creasing load" exceed ten per cent.
The line is being constructed with
view to standing 10000 volts regularly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-18

and snorted. Mrs. Blevin looked
ahead. Across the road lay the body
of a man; his head was hid in the
grass. She stopped. Perhaps he had
fallen from his horse and was serious
ly hurt. She would see. Spreading the
lap-robe on the grass for the baby, she
walked nearer and peered over into
his face. She stepped back, her heart
beating violently. 1t was her hus-
bands slayer. For some moments she
stood motionless, gazing down at him.
She was undergoing a struggle. The
road was merely settlement by-path,
and it might be days, weeks, before
any one would pass. If she left him
he would likely die of his wounds, of
starvation, or be torn to pieces by the
coyotes-her husband would be re-
venged. Could she help the man back
to life who had murdered her husband
perhaps to make a widow of some
other wife? Had he not boosted of
killing two men? She glanced around;
No one would ever know. How
easy to drag him farther in the grass,
where his groans would not reach the
road, and leave him. She could do
that. Could she? Could she? A voice
seemed 10 thunder in her ear: Chou
shalt not murder" and it would be
murder. 80 God, help mel" she cried.
He killed my husband-the father of
my child" She looked to where the
baby cooed and waved its hands in the
sunshine. The picture seemed to soft
en- her, made the struggle easier.
She walked to the colonel and, bend
ing over, called his name softly. The
answer was a groan. She now saw
that his clothes were stained with
blood. She moved his head gently.
He was unconscious, and it was plain,
even to her inexperienced eye, that he
was dangerously hurt. Every feeling
of revenge left her, and there took it's
place fear that he might die before
she could get help. She slipped her arm
underneath him; his limp body felt
like lead, but her strength surprised
her. She lifted him toward the cart.
She grew faint, her arms failed, he
slipped to the ground with a moan.
iiCN dNIhIJ
her hands in desperation. Again
she clasped her arms about him,
strained under the weight until every
muscle in her body seemed on the
point of snappins-he tumbled into
the cart. Thank heaven!" she cried
in relief, drawing a deep breath as
she looked down at her stained dress.
His head had rolled against her face,
and she felt the blood trickling down
her cheek.
Slowly they crept across tAe
prairie. The weight of the baby
grew heavier every step; she changed
it from arm to arm.
But, thank God, it was over now.
The colonel lay on some quilts in the
COOL breathing easier. She sprang
in the cart and started to his ranch,
seven miles distance. At last she
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-18

IT WAS HER HUSBANDS SLAYER.
reached it, delivered her message, and
sank exhausted to the ground. But
how glad she was, an hour later, as
she lay with her baby at her breast,
the cool breeze from the prairie en-
wrapping her. A great calm stole
into her bosom, and she felt that
know.
That evening the ranch BOSS
drove her home.
They found the colonel sleeping
soundly, propped up in her husbands
bed. The doctor told her that he had
regained consciousness, but that
there was no hope. He knew every
thing, and had sent for his lawyer.
The next morning Mrs. Blevin sat
watching at the bedside.
"You must be an angel, Mrs. Blevin,
to have been so kind to me-" he said,
finally.
I'm glad helped you," she said.
1--WE been very wicked man"
"The doctor might not want you
to talk" she interrupted.
"But l want you to know" he in
sisted. "My life might have been diff
ferent-but for a woman. The only
one | ever loved-the one who prom
Used to be my wife-married home
guard when I was away in the war.
Then I became reckless. Your hus-
bands name was Blevin. That was
the name of the man she married. I
questioned your husband-he was the
son of the woman I loved. Her hus-
band died and left her IN poverty. I
was glad. That ought to have con-
ciliated me-but the sight of your
husband angered me-and I was
drinking. If had met you, and the
baby, it might not have happened.
II am very sorry. And have done
what 1 could. All the property goes
to the baby-and you. II have for
given her-for the sake of the grand
child"
Mrs. Blevin was crying softly.
He reached out his hand for the in
FAINT. He held it a moment, gazing
into the limpid blue eyes. 1t
clutched his beard and cooed. He
kissed it's velvety cheeks and let it
sink to his breast. Then a strange
calm light came into his eyes.