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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-02-06
HURRYGRAPHS.
Gathered From Highways, Railways,
Bywsys and Other ways.


Mr.. J. D. Weeks wellt to Greenville,
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. G.. Josey spent Mon
day in Halifax.
Mr.. F. P. Stallngs came Monday
from business trip.
Mr.. Ernest Morrisett, of Tarboro,
was in town Monday.
MIR. B. G. Medford, OF Rocky Mount,
was in town last week.
Mrs. A. M. Neal went to Washing
ton Monday to visit relatives.
Miss Cottie Pittman went to Crow
ellis Tuesday to visit relatives.
Miss Mittie Ayers returned Satur-
day from visit to Plymouth.
Miss Eunice Brown, of Weldon, is
here visiting Miss Mary Pope.
Mrs. T. w. Fenper, of Halifsx, is
here visiting Mrs. w. r. Bond.
Miss Sallie Neal left Monday for
Baltimore where she goes TO teach.
Mr.. Peyton Keel and wife went to
Elm City Tuesday TO visit relatives.
DIR. R. NJ. johnson was among those
who went to Halifax on business Mon
day.
Mrs. w. D. Praden, of Eden ton, came
Monday on account of the death OF
Miss Emily Hall.
Mr.. R. S. Hall, of Weldon, was here
Sunday attending the funeral of his
niece, Miss Emily Hall.
Miss Katie Hicks, of Lawrence, was
in town Saturday having just returned
from visit to Franklin, Va.
Mr.. G.. Hoffman lett Sunday for
Roanoke, Va, where he has gone on
visit to Mrs. Hoffman's people.
Miss Annie Kitchin returned from
Greenville Monday where she has been
visiting Miss Rosalind Eountree.
Mrs. Pugh returned few days ago
from Richmond where she had been
ON visit to her sister, Mrs. E. ]. Clay
ton.
Mrs. J. B. Brewer, Of Grahams Forge,
Va, is hero visiting Mrs. R. G. Josey
and other relatives. Her friends are
glad to see her.
Mr.. A. Mcdowell returned Saturday
from an extended trip through the
West in the interest of the Scotland
Neck Cotton Mills.
Mr.. J. E. Crutchfield, of the Rocky
Mount Spokesman, spent Sunday in
Scotland Neck, the guest of the editor
of The COMMONWEALTH.
Miss Mary Lawrence, who has been
at home some months With her father,
left for Philadelphia last week, where
she has gone to renew her work as
trained nurse.
Mrs. T. II. Hollingsworth and child
rem left Tuesday for Newport News,
where they go to make their future
home. Mr.. Holl!ngsworth having
preceded them some weeks.
Mrs. J. NJ. Morrlsett returned Friday
from Johns Hopkins Hospital at BaItl-
more where she has been for some
weeks for treatment. Her many friends
will be pleased to learn that she Is
much improved and bids iair for ulti-
mate recovery.
Misses Lizzie Butterworth and Pearl
| Edmonds returned to their home in
Petersburg, Va, Friday after an ex-
tended visit to Mr.. and Mrs. w. F.
Buttorworth. They are two OF the
Cockade City's most beautiful, accom-
plished and fascinating young ladies
and their friends made during theil
stay here are limited to the number oil
their acqualntacces.
| Marks-Shaw.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-02-06
New Baskets.

We have new lot OF Caskets, broad
cloth covered and metallic.
Cnlltiren's white broadcloth covered.
white enamel and white embossed
velvet.
All nice and at low prices.
Nj. HOFFMAN & Bro.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-02-06
.ICk A DOG

Kick a dog and he bites you.
He bites you and you kick him.
The more you kick the more
he bites and the more he bites
the more you kick. Each
makes the other worse.
A thin body makes thin
blood. Thin blood makes a
thin body. Each makes the
other worse. If there is going
to be a change the help must
come from outside.
SCOTS Emulsion is the right
help. 1t breaks up such a
combination. First it sets the
stomach right. Then it en-
riches the blood. That
strengthens tie body and it
begins to grow new flesh.
A strong body makes rich
blood and rich blood makes a
strong body. Each makes the
other better. This is the way
SCOTS Emulsion puts the thin
body on its feet. Now it can
get along by itself. No need
l
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-02-06
Blackman-W Williams.
orresnondence to The Commonwealth.


TILLERY, n. c., Feb. 3, 1902.
On Jan. %, 1901, at Tlllery, Mr..
George B. Blackman was married to
Miss Maggie L. Williams, OF Dawson.
The nuptiaI knot was tied by Esquire
J. A. Norfeet in quiet but impress
i've manner in the parlor of the Will
llams house, where many OF the resi-
dents of the town assembled to witness
the ceremony and extend their con-
CALCULATIONS to the happy couple.
Mr.. BlacKman is the efficient man.
ager of the Fenner farm near Halifax
where the couple will reside.
How Are Your Klaneyss
f)r Hobbs Suaras q Orre oil Kidney Ills eDW.
- fro0. 70 Chicago q NY
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-02-06
Good Beef and Pork.

have some good beef and nice pork
this week. aud shall be glad to serve
nv friends and customers at my stall
near the postotflce.
". NJ. DELoATCH.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-02-06
MarkS-Shaw.

Communicated to The Commonwealth.
On Jan. 29ih, 1902 at $50 o'clock
a M, in the Baptist church in Spring
Hill, Miss Bette Marks was married to
Mr.. E. w. Shaw.
The church was beautifully decora-
ted with arches, wreaths and pyramids
of evergreens
To the strains of Mendelshon's we'd
ding march played by Mrs. G. H. John
son, sister of the bride, the couples
came down the aisle as follows: Mess.
Branton jenkins and Bush Howell,
James Applewhiie and Lynn Branch,
who acted as ushers, Miss Bessie Rid
dick with Mr.. John Anthony, Miss
Matte Brinkley With Mr.. Henry Marks
then came the bride and groom stop.
ping under an arch at the altar where
Rev. NJ. L. Kesler impressively per.
formed the ceremony which made
them husband and wife.
The bride was attlred in q gOing-a.
way gown OF mode cloth, and carried 8
lovely bouquet of Gala lilies, orange
blossoms and smilax.
The bride is much loved for bel
sweetness OF disposition, and has many
friends and admirers,
The groom is an energetic business
man and has also a number of friends
Mr.. and Mrs Shaw amid showers o
ylce lett on the morning train to yisi
friends and relatives around Llttleton.
We wish for than both long, hap
nv and prosperous lite.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-02-06
Land Posted.

All persons are hereby forbidden, un-
der penalty OF law, to hunt with dog Or
gun OF my land, known as "the Wat
son tract" on which my mills are To-
Gated near Scotland Neck. Also ali
trapping of any kind is forbidden.
This Jan. 50, 1902.
JNO COUGHENOUR.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-02-06

of medicine.
This picture represents
the Trade Mark of SCOTS
Emulsion and is on the
wrapper Of every bottle.
send for free sample
SCOTT & BOVINE,
100 Pearl ST.. New York.
sec. and 81. all druggists.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-02-06

Educate Your Bowels With CascArets.
Qlndy Cethartic, cure constipation forever.
a0c, 25c IfC- O. q xail. drurcis is refund moneY,
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-02-06

p Hobbs esze e1l tdI s4sss.n ,l1: ~
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
APPEALS TO UNITED STATES.
china Ask. Help i'm Getting Rid Of
Foreign Troops still Occupy
Ing Tientsln. 1

Washington, July 1.-THE Chinese
government appealed to the govern
ment of the United States to use it's
good Offices to cause the allied powers
who still retain their soldiers in TEN
tsfn,s TO evacnate that place in con.
formity with the spirit of the agree
ment Of Picking, which settled the Box
er troubles. The appeal was made Sat.
urday by Minister WI directly to Sec
rotary Hay, in the shape of a cable
gram from Viceroy Yuan Shih-Kai, Of
Chilli, which the minister supplements
ed with a long verbal explanation.
> Secretary Hay will address himself
to the various governments, probably
through Mr.. Conger at Picking, and the
foreign minister's there located. The
situation at Tientsin is peculiar, and,
in the view of the state department,
the attitude of the foreign military of-
ficials there is perfectly unreasonable.
The state department has satisfied it.
self that the foreign ministers at Pc.
king, whose governments are repre-
sented by those military leaders, are
thoroughly anxious to have the treaty
of Picking executed in fair spirit, and
to that end to have Tientsin evacuated
at the earliest possible moment by the
foreign officers SO it will carry the
Chinese appeal 20 governments con-
cerned.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
KILLED THIRTY-ONE
Many Startling Crimes Committed
by Jane Toppan.
AAministerea Morphine and Atro-
pine to Her Victims-Passion to
Stay and Burn Developed
In Childhood.

Not since the days of Lucretia Bor-
gia and the other subtle prisoners
of the middle ages has there been
known equal to Miss Jane Toppan,
who has been locked up in the Taun-
ton, Mass, insane asylum for! poison
ing Mrs. Mary d. Gibbs at Cataumet,
Mass, last August. BY her own con-
fession the nurse has killed 81 sick peo-
pie who were under her care during the
past ten years. Some she murdered
by giving morphine and atrophine, and
others with poisons she cannot re-
member, and when not gratifying her
passion by killing people she set fire
in the houses where she was a guest,
or was employed in professional
capacity. . I'D. . 3
When Judge Bixpy, Miss Toppan's
senior counsel, first visited her she
told him her dreadful story without
eliminating the revolving details, and
named 81 people whom she had killed
by administering poison. She seemed
to gloat over her success in hiding
from the physicians the true causes
of death in these instances, and then
she wanted to know Of the lawyer how
she could be insane when she knew
she was doing wrong every time she
killed any one. tf''''s'
Miss Toppan began her revelation to
Judge Bixby by admitting at once that
she had poisoned Mrs. Gibbs, Mrs. Cor.
don and Alden p. Davis, just as the
three indictments against her charged
Doses of morphine and atropine were
used, she said.
Then she told how Mrs. Davis had
called upon her at Cambridge last
June to collect note. She said that
she was seized with paroxysm tc
kill, a. recurrence of the oft-repeated
influence. In this state she gave NOR
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
FRESH AND INTERESTING.

Secretary Root plans to enlarge the MILL.
tary posts to accommodate troops returu.
Ing from the Philippines.
Ambassador White in Fourth Of July
celebration In Leipsic tndulged In much
praise OF President Roosevelt.
1t is reported that Wilkesbarre collieries
will start with nonunion men on July n.
the opening day Of the miners convention
at indianapolis.
Hannis Taylor. former minister to Spain,
has been elected to the chair of English
constitutional and common law at Column
bian university.
Keel of new battleship Nebraska was
laid Friday at Seattle. Gov. Savage. OF
Nebraska. and Gov Mcbride. of Washing
ton. drove the first rivet.
Negotiations with Colombia for treaty
giving the United States the right to COM
plete the Panama canal will begin upon the
return Of Secretary Hay to the capital next
week.
The Rock Island railroad Is planning to
break its alliance with Hartman The
Union Pacific track lease into Denver will
be surrendered and cutoff built to the
Colorado & Southern.
Carl +. Bussche. son of, Baron Bussche,
OF Berlin. by winning commission az Sec
ond lieutenant In the American army. be-
comes entitled to a legacy Of $1,000 left 200
years ago by q military Glowing ancestor.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
SIGNIFICANT INDICATIONS.
Coal Companies Evidently Prepar-
Ing to start Collieries-Miners
on the Alert.

W!kesbarre. Pa. July THE
movement ofaempty coal cars along
the railroads and the unusual activi-
ty about several of the collieries in
the region indicate to the strikers
that an effort is to be made in q few
days to start work at some of the
collieries. The operators assert that
they have sufficient men under en-
sgagement, both returned strikers and
imported men, to man several of the
collieries. While they will not admit
that work may be resumed next
week, there is q general belief that
the effort will be made. In the Hazle-
ton region the Pardees are expected
to mass men at the Harwood colliery
which, being on the outskirts of the
region, is in less danger of attack
than q mine in the heart Of the dis
trict, and the coal can be shipped
from it without being sent past any
mining village. A number of min
ers are said to have applied for work
in response to the notice of the com.
pany that it was ready to receive APP
plications. /,
The officials of the union, cognizant
of what is being done, are busy.
Pickets are watching the mines, and
all moves are reported to headquar-
tiers, and if any effort is made to
gather men the strikers will endeavor
by large picket committees to see
them before they go to work and dis
suade them. In the Hazleton region
they turned many back Saturday
morning; an especially strong picket
line being established about the
Drifton colliery of the Coke Bros. &
Co., where the building of a strong
barbed wire ,stockade, backed with
barricades, Friday lends color to the
belief that an effort is to be made
there to resume work.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
MARKING PLAYING CARDS.
Cut Illustrates Method Used by New York
Cranberry

(Cut Illustrates Method Used by New York
.Gamblers.)
i p nd IT.
the cards. The dealer must have eyes
like hawk to read them. All the ten
spots have two specks on the vertical
margin close tothe corner. EH
The mines have wo:specks an eighth
of an inch from the corner, the eight
spots two specks quarter Of an inch
from the corner; the seven spots have
three specks; the six spots have one
speck a quarter of an inch from the
corner; the fiyes one speck an eighth
Of an inch from the corner; the tours
one speck in the corner. '',
The kings have two specks in the CEN
ter of the vertical margin, the queens
two specks an eighth of an inch from
the center. The aces have one speck
in the center, the deuces one speck an
eighth of an inch from the center, and
the trays one speck a quarter of an inch
from the center.
In dealing the cards the crooked
operator could work out the tiniest
edge of the cards under the top one and
read them by the specks on the mar
gin. s'- ii'a
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
EXAMPLE FOR BOYS.
tits Found in the Career Of Prof.
S. P. Brooks
Resc from Section Hand ON Railroad
to College President by His Own
Endeay0rs and Commend
able Ambition.

From the position Of section hand
on railroad, where he worked with
spade, earning 65 cents day, to the
head of an educational institution of
unquestioned standing, is the novel
rise made by S. P. Brooks, who has
just been elected to the presidency of
Baylor university at Waco, Tex.
Early in his life, while he was toll
ing early and late on the roadbed of the
Santa Fe railroad, Brooks made up his
mind that he. was not cut out for. q
section hand and set out to fit him
self for something better. 1t never
occurred to him that his efforts would
result any other way than successfully.
and with this confidence and determin-
alton he set out to make the most of his
limited opportunities. He is now As
years old, and the predominating
ambition Of his life was rallied when
he was selected to preside over BE- =
lor university. It was there that he
first attended college, and It was large
ly through the infuenceEof the faculty
that lie was enabled to9continue the
course and complete his education.
Less than 20 years ago Brooks was
a member of section gang and, as
might be expected when his subsequent
career is taken into account, hezwas
one of the best 'hands" on the road
Whatever he undertook he did well,
With his foreman he was popular.
: He was upright, Industrious, honest
and conscientious in his work, yet he
was not liked by the other hands be.
cause he saved his small rnings5and
engaged in no pastimess Of question.
able propriety. During the noon hour
when his fellow-workmen were swap
ping yarns or playing cards, young
Brooks usually sought "a shady spot
under some friendly tree, and here
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10

columbia Undergraduate, Richest Bach.
elor in America.) -,--4---
paid, about $54,0OO,00O. Marcellus
Dodge received upward of $50, DOC, 900
under his grandfather's will a few
months. ago. ! zssa&E k.h7sl
His riches have not changed his man.
ner of life. He still lives in one room
at the lower part of Madison avenue,
just as he has done since he first began
to prepare for college. 1t is too far for
him to walk to Columbia, but wherever
he has to go within two or three miles
of his home he walks, simply to save
car fare.
He is economical almost to the point
Of perjury. He dresses we'll, as BELTS
an Undergraduate, but never showily.
About the only extravagances that he
has are clothes and books.
Not long ago somebody asked young
Dodge what he would do when he left
Columbia. 'That will not be until
19O3," he said, when have attained
my majority. intend, then, to get
right down to the serious problems OF
life. While not so rich as Mr.. Carnegie,
l do not intend to let worthy demands
on my charity go unheeded. I shall go
into business-precisely what it will be
have not determined-butI shall keep
out of Wall street"
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
CONDITION IN VENEZUELA.
n,.n.tch from Commander Mclean
of the Cincinnati, Says There Are
Ten Thousand Revolutionists.

Washington, July z. = Secretary
Moody has received the following
cablegram from Commander Mclean
of the Cincinnati dated La Guira, via
Haiti, July 4:
Topeka reports 10 revolutionists a..
tackled custom house Gualta yesterday; se-
cured four Mausers, some ammunition.
Fled hills appearance troops. Capt. visited
Barcelona. Information. Matos 5000 men
at Urica. well armed. but inactive. Three
thousand more in state Bermudez. ESTE
mated entire force revolutionists in coun.
try 10000 Small bands revolutionists this
vicinity; some firing nights. Foreigners
not molested either side yesterday. Two
hundred and thirty more troops who came
here from Caracas recalled to-day In haste.
Steamer Ossum goes Puerto Cabello 800
troons"
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
ORIGIN OF HIS TITLE.
How rir.t A..i.ta mt Postmaster Gen.
ernl Wynne Become u Full.
PLEDGED Colonel.

The first assistant postmaster gen.
eral is commonly addressed as "Col."
Robert Wynne. He is not military
man. but, as he claims judicially
Endorsed right to the title. the use
made of the same by himself and by
others is possibly legitimate. On
one occasion he was called as wit
ness in a damage suit. The subpoena
referred to him as "Col. Robert j.
Wynne." The lawyer to whose cause
Mr.. Wynne's testimony was adverse
was disposed to be sarcastic at the
expense of the witness. 33s1s /.
+ "You have been summoned as
Col Robert J. Wynne," said the law,
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10

phine to Mrs. Davis. The old woman
partially recovered, but before she was
we'll enough to leave for her home at
Cataumet Miss Toppan was melted to
try again, and this time death followed
the injection of diluted morphine and
atropine.
First she spoke Of recent cases, those
Of whose deaths Judge Bixby had READ
in the newspapers. These were the
deaths Of Mrs. 40. Brigham, daughter
of Mrs. Toppan, the woman who had
taken her from an insane asylum; Miss
Florence N. Calkins, the housekeeper;
Mrs: Edna H. Bannister, sister of Mrs.
Brigham; Miss Myra Connors, of the
Episcopal theological school at Cam.
bridge, the woman who had given her
employment at the institution hospi-
tai and who. had .giver her summers
outing at the marine biological station
at Woods Hole, and Mrs. McNear. of
Watertown, who had befrfended Miss
Toppan in many ways. '
She went back over the preceding
years and mentioned the names of
the others whose lives had been put
in her professional keeping by doctors,
but which trust she had violated.
The lawyer said: miss Toppan,
you must be insane"
''Insane?" she repeated. "How can
be insane? When killed those peo-
pie knew that was doing wrong. ]
was perfectly conscious that what
was doing was not right. Inever, at
any time, failed to realize what l was
doing.
~'Now, how can person be insane
who realizes what she is doing. and
who is conscious of the fact that she
is not doing right? Insanity is com.
plete lack of any feeling of responsible.
ity. isn't it?"
YES" said the lawyer, shat is so.
But you have no remorse, have you?''
NO." declared the nurse. II have
absolutely no remorse. I have never
felt sorry for what have done. Even
when l poisoned my dearest friends,
as the Davises were. l did not feel any
regret afterward. I do not feel any
remorse now. I have thought it all
over, and I cannot detect the slightest
bit of sorrow over what have done
Upon successive visits of her counsel
Miss. Toppan added details to the mar.
rative of crime. She supplied no adj
ditional names.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
MARKED PLAYING CARDS.
Pack which Il Censiaerea = Marvel
OF Its kind Captured In New
York City.

The paraphernalia captured in the
room in the New York fiat where Bat
Masterson and other gamblers were ar.
rested included deck of marked cards,
which are a marvel of their kind. The
faro box, as far as the detectives at
headquarters could discover, was
straight" though the springs seemed
to be trifle weak. The marked cards
gave the dealer, providing he was a
clever manipulation, an bsolute advan-
tage over the player.
On the margin Of each card was a
tiny speck, or two specks, or three
specks. No ordinary inspection would
reveal the presence of these specks on
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
News In Brief.

- /: Il
/ John O'Connor, a farm laborer, was
drugged and robbed by one armed
man and couple of pals on the way
from Casselton to Fargo. An inven-
tory Of his assets revealed a shortage
of $50 cash.
! The 500 is stringing a wire between
Minneapolis and Harvey. & The new
wire when completed, to, the, latter
point will be duplexed and thereafter
will be used exclusively for CONNER
cial purposes. The poor wire. service
on the 500 has been due to the lack
of wires. After July 20 first-class
service may be expected.
Two years ago Geo. w. Hoster
bought half section of land near
Darcy, Stutsman county, for $12 an
acre. The other day he sold it for $40
an acre. - $500
The building boom is on at Minot,
and it will take a big force of mechan-
les to complete the work already be-
gun before the first of January.
The First National bank of Wash
burn, the new financial institution in
Mclean county, opened for business.
The bank has capital stock of $685.
900. George L., Robinson of Coal Har-
Dor is president and F. f. Funk is
cashier. @ +.
Specimens of Stutsman county grass
were sent to Washington recently.
The botanist's report showed the spec
linens were quack and feather bunch
grass, smooth bronze grass, fowl
meadow grass, squirrel grass and Ken
lucky blue grass. The fact that Ken
lucky blue grass can be grown here
is of more than passing interest.
For the first time in many years,
conductors are being hired on this di-
vision of the Northern Pacific from
other roads. The reason for this is
that all who have served three years
as brakemen have been promoted to
conductors. ta
North Dakota has in the reclama-
ton fund available for the purposes
of irrigation the vast sum of $5O0,OOO
rand will profit more than any other
state as result of the passage of the
irrigation bill.
The Northern Pacific extension
from Mckenzie to Linton is now grad
ed about a mile from Mckenzie. A
large force of men is at work on the
grade. The Northern Pacific has two
work trains on the grade across Nc.
Kenzie slough, raising it so that no
further trouble may be expected.
A young man named Hoffman was
probably fatally injured in runaway
in Courtenay. He was attempting to
stop a team and the wagon pole
struck him in the back, which, it is
feared, is broken.
Casselman is the name of new 500
station between Harvey and Ana
moose.