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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-09-26

~, II. "A. MOTIFS, u. u. b.
r. A.Norris, Doctor Of Dental Surgery,
126 State street, Chicago, III, writes ia
The Peruna Medicine Company AZ fol.
lows;
~Idesire to express for the beneflt OF the
public my sxperisnoe with tho famous
catarrh remedy, Peruns Twas afflicted
with catarrh Of the head and throat fol
twelve years. had tried many rene.
dies without avail. applied to several
doctors, but they were not able to cure
me. learned Of the remedy, Peruna,
through your pamphlets and took 1t fo1
four months. It entirely cured me, and
Is took the remedy three years ago, ]
consider the cure permanent"
Hon. Clement NJ. Hammond is one OF
the best known newspaper men in New
York City. Writing to The Peruns
Medicine Co., he says:
"For about six years I have had
trouble every fall and winter with my
voice. At times 1t has extended to my
bronchial tubes and lungs. think ali
this trouble came from whooping cough
which had when I was about twelve
years old, and which left me with ca,
tarrh. Since have taken Peruna, my
voice has been clearer than In over two
years, all Of which I am willing to tes
tify to-" Mr.. Hammond's address i.
sThe Arlington" "a Montague street
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Address DR.. Hartman, Columbus, O.
for free catarrh book.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-09-26
M. HOFFMAN & BRO.

MINING AND GUTTERING.--
George R. Dixon, Timer of Rocky
Mount, is in town, and those who wish
Timing and Gnttering will do we'll to
see him. Tent in rear of L. B. Lewis
Furniture Store. 9-96-2t
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-09-26
Wanted!

A Boiler and Engine from five to
eight-horse power. w. II. JosEY,
g.26-tt Scotland Neck, N. c..
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-09-26
HURRYGRAPHS.

HURRYGRAP1s.
Gathered From Highways, Railways,
Byways and Other ways.
Mr.. r. G. Allsbrook, of Tarboro, wae
here Monday.
Rev. J. w. Rose, of Bethel, was in
town last week.
Mrs. Douglass White went to Pitt
county Tuesday.
Mrs. w. M. Dixon went to Martin
county last week.
Mr.. w. L. Harrell, OF Hamilton
was here Monday.
Mr.. Walter Scott, of Richmond, was
in town last week.
Mr.. Orren Williams was over from
Tarboro last week.
Mrs. Robert Langston, OF Speed, was
In town last week.
Mr.. Ed Whitehead, of Halifax, was
In town last week.
Mr.. Eli Ray, of Williamson, is here
visiting his children.
Mr.. A. M. Prince came up from
Goldsboro Wednesday.
Mr.. Frank Goodwin spent Sunday at
his homo in Williamson.
Mrs. G. F. Burroughs went to Ayden
Friday to visit her parents.
Miss laura Harwell returned Satur.
day from a visit to Tarboro.
Miss Mary McMahon returned to her
home in Halifax Wednesday.
Miss Pattie stallings returned satur.
day from visit to Rocky Mount.
Mrs. Sallie Fountain returned to her
home in Rocky Mount Thursday.
Mrs. J. E. Hancock went TO Rocky
Mount thursday to visit her relatives.
Mrs. D. M. Prince and children re-
turned Monday from a visit to Colds.
boro.
Miss Annie Kitchin has returned
from visit to her brother in Rox-
boro.
Mr.. Kicks, of Tarboro, was in town
this week visiting his sister, Mrs. E. N
Nelson.
Mrs. G. S. White has recently visit
ed her relatives and fri ends In Ports
mouth.
Mrs. J. Frank Brinkley left Wednes-
day for Baltimore where she goes for
treatment.
Mrs. Daniel, OF Greenville, has re.
Gently visited her granddaughter, Mrs.
J. B. Edwards.
Miss Eleanor Smith has returned
from visit TO relatives in New York
and Brooklyn.
Mr.. G. A. Williams, of Georgetown,
s. c., came few days ago to visit re-
latiYes and friends.
Miss Mamie Dunn returned to Raj.
eigh Saturday to resume her studies
at st. Mary's College.
Mrs. j.. White returned to her
home in Richmond Saturday after Wis
iting relatives near town.
Mrs. W. T. Tyler went to Macon
Thursday to attend the funeral of her
brother, Mr.. ZiIlie Jenkins.
Miss Kathryn Brinkley returned
from visit to her friend, Miss Mary
TilIery in Tillery Thursday.
Miss Katherine Mercer returned to
her home In Wilson Thursday after q
visit to her sister, Mrs. Black.
Miss Sallie Baker, of Palmyra, passed
through Monday returning to the
Louisburg Female College at Louis
burg.
Misses Mary and Ethel Powell left
Monday for their home In Toyah
Texas, after a visit to their relatives
here.
Mr.. J. D. Shearin and Miss Fannie
Gray went to Rocky Mount Monday
to attend the funeral OF Mrs. A. T.
Smith.
Miss Mary Harrison, who has been
here sometime Visiting Mrs. Terrell,
left for her home in Greensboro Wed.
nesday.
Miss Onie Dunn returned Monday
to Greensboro where she will resume
her studies in the Normal and Indus.
trial College.
Misses Freda and Lizzie Hill return.
ed to their home in Halifax Wednes.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-09-26

500 BUSHELS Virginia Seed Oats
and 500 bushels Rust Proof Oats Just
received. Come aud see US before you
buy.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-09-26
Store House and Lot
FOR SALE.

Halt acre lot with a good 2-story
Hane building on it in Essex, Halifax
county. Will sell upon easy terms,
rent cheap or will furnish a stock oil
lf9vo) five hundred dollars worth OF
any kind OF goods upon satisfactory
security. Address or call on
G. w. SEXTON,
io-3m Nick, Nash Co., N. G.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-09-26

OUR GENTS FURNISHING
GOODS DEPARTMENT has never
been so full as now In Ties, Suspenders
Shirts. Trunks ard Gentlemen's Ho>i
ery. Just ask for our prices. Line OF
hest Hose worth 25 cents which we sell
at 10 cents q pair.
Also a nice Line formerly at 10 cents
now at cents.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-09-26
lOFFAAN'S SPECIALS,

WEINVlTE EVERY LADY to look
ct oar LINE OF DRESS GOODS be-
fore she buys, as we feel sure our line
Is more complete and Up-to-Date than
ans that has eyer been shown here be-
foTs an;! we have the Newest Trim
n;ngs to match every dress.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-09-26

A CAR of Stocks Fresh Patent
-Four, lower than ever. Also a car OF
Mill Feed.
M HOFEM RRO
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-09-26
Ideal Fashionable

tailoring Samples and Measure blank 8
S7h- On application. Write for samples.
w. A CRAWFORD,
o'i@3m Rocky Mount, N. C..
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-09-26
We are now Offering

One of the largest and most complete
stocks of goods ever brought to this
market, and at prices that will as
tonish you. Dry Goods in endless
variety all the newest styles.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-09-26

Big Line of Hats.
Any styles and price you want; 600
different styles to select from. We
also carry q nice line of Furniture.
Big line OF Tobaccos. Full line OF
Groceries.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10
CYCLONES,

We are asked why it is that the cy-
clOnic season is confined almost wholly
TO the early summer days and why tile
cyclone seldom is heard of after the list
Of July. The cause of theicyclOne is in
vOlved in a good deal of mystery even
to men who have made a close study
of this singular atmospheric phenom-
enOn. Some are inclined to cOncede it
an electrical origin, while others as
cribe it to the effort of nature to equal
ize extremes of temperature. While
very many of its manifestations indi-
cate the possession of an enormous sup
ply of electrical energy, these manifes-
tatiOns may easily be an effect and not
a provoking cause. During the spring
and early summer before a thermal
equilibrium has been brought about
between the earth cooled by the long
winter and the air quickly warmed by
the spring suns conditions exist which
without doubt promote the formation
of these terrors of the air. The force
exerted by them will always remain a
natural wonder and belongs to natures
outfit Of matchmaking machinery which
includes the volcano, the earthquake
and the geyser. We only know a few
things about them. They usually come
between . and s o'clock p. m. They
almost invariably come from the south
west and travel to the northeast. Their
destructive area is not often more than
30 rods in width, frequently less, and
the distance travelled by them seldom
more than 20 miles, though in this par
ticular there have been some notable
exceptions. No building erected by man
is proof against their destructive pow
er, and the only safe place when they
are on deck is hole in the ground.
The level countries are far more sub
Ject to them than the mountain re-
gions, for the reason that cyclonic
clouds are always very near to the
I earth, and in the hill countries the ac-
ton of the storm is broken up and in
terfered with by the hills. Given a sui
try May or June day, a marshaling of
ragged, ominOus looking clouds in the
southwest, some rain and thunder and
later dull roar like a heavy freight
crossing a big bridge, then is a good
time to get in the cave, if you have one,
or, if not, into the cellar close up in the
southwest corner. 1t may hit your
place, and it may not, and nobody
laughs at anybody else for respecting
these unWelcOme visitors.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10
The PnrsOn and the Tramps.

There are ten weary men today who are
Iteering clear of "Parson Tom" Uzzel.
The men came to the Tabernacle on
Blake street Sunday night and raised a
plea for help-they were eager to work,
they explained, but it was Sunday and
they could not get a chance.
can right" said Parson Uzzell, 81 have
sonic work that l want done, and if you
fellows will come and work tomorrow
morning as long and as hard as l do, then
III give you suppers tonight, a place to
sleep, breakfast and dinner tomorrow. "
ParsOn Uzzell shows many virtues in his
face, but capacity for persistent indus
try isn't among those displayed, and the
hoboes at once agreed to the terms, They
were fed at Alderman Brown Cannop's
10 cent restaurant, they had places to
sleep and breakfasted at the restaurant,
and then ParsOn Uzzell led them to the
excavation for his new church
Il won't ask you to work any harder
than do" he said. "All you have to do
is TO throw out shOvelful each every
time ! throw out one. And" he added
significantly, Il have got a policeman to
act as umpire, and any man who can't
keep up with me is likely to be consider
cd vagrant and be put to work on the
chain gang"
"Oh but my back did ache" said the
parson Yesterday afternoon, but knew
That Tor every shovelful that went un the
bank from my shovel there were ten
others, and that made it easier. The
other fellows didn't have the satisfaction
to cheer them up, and they began to look
pretty sour toward noon, but the police
man says we finished in a bunch, Den.
yer Republican.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10
A Tart Object Leaann

A man several inches more than six
feet in height, deep chested, smooth
shaven and well dressed walked through
the corridor Of the Fifth Avenue hotel
the other day, and every man who passed
MN turned around to look again. He
was Bishop William Nelson McVickar
OF Rhode Island. and after seeing him
one can appreciate the amazement of the
lecturer in an English town who was
COMPOUNDED by Bishop McVickar. Phil
ups Brooks and third American clergy
man who was also three or four inches
more than six feet in height.
The three Americans went to hear tbe
lecturer because his subject was "Amer.
lea: When the speaker began to de-
scribe Americans as puny, understood
men, DIR. Brooks arose slowly to his full
neight and announced that he was an
American. The lecturer looked at the
magnificent specimen of physical deveI-
9pment before him. and then Bishop Nc.
Nlekar arose to his full feet 4 inches
and remarked that he was an American
When the third man of the party straight.
eneu up to an equa, height and said that
ne considered himself to be lust an aver.
age American, the audience saw +ba
polnt.-New York Sun.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10
Look Over Your Elves.

Notice has been sent out from Wash.
hgton mat a new counterfeit So bank
note Is in circulation. The note annears
genuine to an ordinary observer. bnt to
experts 1t has many defects.
Inc note is made on the National Iron
0an pam OF Morristown, N. j., series of 1890.
4, Human register, and Morgan, treasurer
The Garfield portrait seems correct ~ at
casual observance, but close insnec.
ton reveals that it is too fat. This note
is printed apparently from ngraved
plates on two sheets Of paper, with the
silk fiber neatly arranged between. Ar
er the signature of the cashier of the
bank, where in the regular notes if is oh
breYiated ''cash'r," in this note it is sim.
ply cash" Currency" is spelled eur
recy" and treasury treasury" In the
penalty clause there are many misspelIed
words, as engraving" ''itas" for Htbis .
''pussession," ''aepr' for paper" "feI.
eny," tive" for Give" thousand" .im.
prisenment," ''exrceeding" for "exceed-
Ing" The figure a" in the date 1850
is reversed
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10

The telephone company has instructed
its operatives to say "naught" instead Of
fought" But who shall instruct the
multitude who say Ought instead Of
"naught" to the operatives? Do not evil
communications corrupt good mannersP
The popular substitution of Sought" for
"naught" is due to an unconscious sub.
mission to laws of euphony In physics
the law Is mature abhors vacuum" In
language the law is "omit repetitives. 8"
1t is apparent in spelling as well as in
pronunciation. So many English words
end with the m sound that the ear and
tongue instinctively decline to repeat the
consonant in succession at the beginning
Of the next word. This natural tendency
is a written law in highly euphonious Ian
guages. In the substitution of "ought'
for "naught' the eye has probably helped
in consequence of the symbol of "naught"
presenting so close a resemblance to the
letter 80" which in the typewriter is used
exclusively for it.
The telephone company is to be com.
mended for endeavoring to see that Eng.
fish is rightly used over the wires, and
people generally should cooperate in an
undertaking which is not going to be re-
warded with instant success.-Chicago
Chronicle
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10
Read Upward.

CONNECrIONS.-"a connects at Queen
Anne With the Delaware & Chesapeake Rwy.
"b" connects at Greenwood with Delaware
Division of the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore r. H. for Seaford, Delmar,
Salisbury and points south.
sc" connects at Glendale with the Della
ware, Maryland & Virginia r. r. for George
town and Lewes.
"e' connects at Greenwood W;.h the Della
ware Division OF the Philadelphia, Whining
ton & Baltimore r. r.
BALTIMORE AND QUEENSTOWN.-Be-
ginning SUNDAY, JUNE Is lSgS, steamers
OF the Queen Anne's Railroad Company will
leave QUEENSTOWN at 9:lO a. M, daily, ex-
cept Sunday, and S.55 a. m, daily, except
Sunday and Monday.
Sundays at $50 a. m.and $50 p. m.
RS-FOr further information apply to
1. W. TROXEL, WM. d. UHLER,
y Gen'l Manager Cent Frt & Pass. Act.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10

Not since the west was first settled
has there been such a general migra-
ton Of the people in search of new
homes as this spring. Illinois and
Wisconsin farmers have been selling
the old hOmesteads in those states and
moving to Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska
and have bought cheaper but equally
good farms. The Iowa, Kansas and
Nebraska man, after selling out, has
gone to the DakOtas, northern Mime
sofa or the southwest country, he also
doubling the number of his acres in
the newer country. Many farmers
well fixed have gone to the Pacific
coast, where they will seek homes in
the milder and more eQuable climate of
that territory. 1t has been with farm
lands just as it always is with any
other cOmmOdity-when the price be-
gan to advance then everybody want
ed to buy. The movement has been
entirely healthful and normal in its
type and free from any speculative fea-
ture.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10

Men will still keep on sowing clover
this spring on rich land with a crop of
oats when more than one-half the time
of such sowing of clover seed is foreor-
dained to be an utter failure, the heavy
oats insuring such delicate and fee
bic growth of the clover that it dies,
and at once, when the oat crop is re-
moved and it is exposed to the heat of
the August sun. The surest way to get
a stand Of clover is to SOW it alone and
pasture the field. The next surest is
to SOW it on winter rye. The poorest
Is to SOW it with oats.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10

Ihackeray, who lost his mother when
about . years of age, was taken cbarer
OF by his aunt, Mrs. Richie, who was
alarmed on finding that her husband's
nat fitted the boy. She accordingly fool,
him to Sir James Clark. After an exam.
nation the popular physician said;
Don't be afraid. He has largo
head, but there is a great deal in it."
Ihaekeray had not only a large head
but he was tall and large altogether. III
used to tell his own story of the travel
ing Snowman whom he found one day
sitting discOnsOlate by the roadside he
cause he had just lost his giant. Thack-
cray asked whether he might do for tho
place. Critically and seriously the show.
man examined him and said:
We'll, you're nigh tall enough, but I'm
afraid YOU are too hugly,n
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10

If the difficulty connected with secur-
ing competent hired help on the farm.
coupled with the high wages demand,
ed, results in reducing the size of the
farms, which it is likely to do, it will
result in good. Large farms aggregat-
ing from 300 to 1000 acres are a seri-
Gus barrier in the way Of the best de-
velOpment of any country community,
resulting in few settlers, fewer chill
dren, poor schools and u lack Of social
privileges. We regard it as fortunate
that but few men are able to make
large farms pay, and many who have
been able to do so when land was
cheap will find it impossible to do so
now that farm lands are worth $50 an
acre and over almost anywhere in the
country.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10

We have an inquiry as to when and
how to graft old plum trees which new
er bear fruit with some variety which
will. An old plum tree is not a good
subject for grating, and we would
rather take our chances with new and
young trees Of the variety desired.
Still, it may be done by grating or,
better yet, by budding, working only
part Of the tree each year until it is re-
built. This work can be done during
the month of May.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10
AUGUsT RArloNs FoR ME g

ia AAO-N5 LOAN he NON
1t is the time right now to hedge
against that common sight in August
of a bunch of dairy cows standing
fighting flies on some knoll in a bare
and brown pasture, shrinking in their
milk yield day by day. 1t is probably
true that cows are far better fed in
winter on the average dairy farm than
they are in summer save for a matter
Of six weeks or two months IN May
and June. Some sort of a soiling crop
must be had to tide the COWS over the
dry midsummer period, and probably
nothing is more easily provided or will
give better results than sweet corn so
planted that it may be cut and liberal
ly fed during such period. While not
a perfect milk making ration, 1t still
can be so easily furnished by the aver
age dairyman that there is no excuse
for not having 1t.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10

A man is never poor when he has
good health, the ability to eat three
square meals day and is the owner
OF a home never so humble and out of
debt. If in that home there be those
who love him and look for his coming
when the toll of the day is ended. then
is he rich, possessor of treasures which
the millionaire cannot purchase if he
be denied them.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10

Here is another inquiry-hOw to get
rid Of purslane in the garden. Purslane
is akin to original sin and never can be
entirely got rid of. 1t will somehow
crop up in the good mans garden, just
as some besetting sin will sometimes
crop out in his moral life. Purslane
likes only good soils, and this explains
why 1t is such q garden pest, gardens
being usually heavily fortified. 1t
does not often bother very much I'M
til the hot weather comes, and no tool
will lay it out so well as a fine rake
when 1t first shows its red head above
ground. Where the soil is thoroughly
filled with the seed we would try
smOthering it out for one season by
putting in some dense growing crop
sorghum, sowed corn or rape.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10

The contest between the spring and
the winter seasons is always marked
by more violence than that between
the winter and autumn seasons. Win
ter may be likened to an enemy secure
~ fortified, and each attack made be-
comes a hard fight between the ele-
ments, and so the season becomes pro-
life in storm, food and tempestuOus
winds. while the autumn change may
be likened to the lying down to die of
an old man whose work is ended and
whose end is peaceful and serene, the
passing of the aUtumnal days and the
merging of the season into winter be-
ing a quiet and peaceful change.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10

We are asked why, If it is the rule
that apples bear each alternate year,
nearly all trees, no matter when they
came into bearing, fruit the same year,
and why the regular order could not be
broken up in some manner We do
not feel competent to answer this ques
ton. 1t is probable that the climatic
conditions have much to do with this
matter Of fruiting.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10

The hereditary antipathies of ami
mails and birds are very marked These
antipathies are very noticeable be
tween dogs and cats. Dogs and all ami
mails with clOven hoOfs, birds and cats
hawks, eagles and owlssfTe feared by
nearly all ether Nashville birds and
animals alike, with few exceptions. are
sworn enemies of the snake. The king
bird fights the crow and hawk on sight
while the entire tribe of rodents are
instinctively afraid Of the dog and cat
family. Most Of these antipathies are
inbred as a result of the habit of one
type preying upon the other for food.
There is but little fraternity between
different species Of wild life, but little
of the "happy family business" the
community of interests between the
owl, prairie dog and rattlesnake being
the most prominent one.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10

much discussed in all the western
states. We think that a mistake is be-
ing made in clamoring for the adoption
of a general and forced move on this
line. The fact will ever remain that
there is no better school in America
than the one in the little country school
house where from 10 to % children can
be gathered to be taught by some
bright woman, and wherever schools
of this size and character can be main
tanned the consolidated school is not
needed. But in those districts where
the daily attendance runs from three
to ten children it is probable the sys-
TEN of consolidation could be used to
advantage Thus it will come that such
consolidation cannot be made compul-
sorry and arbitrary. but must be option
al and voluntary, the action taken be-
ing governed by purely local conditions.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10

Where the grain is needed for feed
on the farm more Oat hay (oats cut
just as the kernel gets into the dough
stage) should be put up. For feeding
ON the farm there is no way in which
to get so much good out of the Oat
crop as by this method.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10

The price Of hay nearly doubled in
the community where the writer lives
during three weeks of the worst spring
roads we have ever known. This need
not be if men would have forethought
enough to look ahead and provide
against such conditions.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10

THIS ISN'T POLITICS.

We don't in political when say that every
dealer needs protection We the protection afforded by
absolute guarantee of the maker of his goods
he buys goods guaranteed that the manufacturer back
of the quality and the strongest
satisfaction his and thus offer value Of definite
tain kind
But the guarantee be that of make dealer
to 'mean something by it.
1t probable that many been led trial goods
sold by W. H Murphy Pennington from the strength his
There equvocaon about it. Everything absolutely satisfactory
all the time will be That's strong promise
doubt of its being daily fulfilled this odstabshed
full ask correspondence those
can assuredly give Mountaineering satisfaction.
Milford chronicle., 1901-05-10
Qug89 Anne $ Railroad Gumpand

Time Table in effect Monday, Nov. 9Th
ISOO Leaves daily and sunday
Steamer connections between Pier 10 TIGHT
sSdeet wharf, Baltimore, and railroad divis-
ion at Queenstown, Nd. - 40