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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-10-16
FOR ovLR SIXTY YEARS.

Mrs. Wnslow'A Soothing Syrup ha.
been used for eixty years By millions Of
mothers tor their children while teeth.
ing, with perfect success. It nsoothes
the child, soisens the gums, alias all
pain, cures wind coiic, and i the best
trelnedy Tor Diarrhoea. II Will relieve
tho poor little sufferer immodiAsely.
Sold III Druggtsts - sssx 1rt oi IL
world. ~ sspta : bottls. =
- d : s !. S 7
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-10-16
Administrat or'sNotlce

Having qualified as administrator
cum ters.meDto. Of tie estate
|of n. 7. Savage, deccaeed, Be.
fore the clerk OF the Superior court fol
Halifax county, all pefeone having
ciaims against his estate are merely
notified to present them 70 ma at Scot
land Neck, n. G., IN or betoro the 1st
Day u Octobar, 1908. Or this notice
will b plead In bar Of recovery. Ali
indebted % tie estate are requested 10
mako immediate settlemsnt.
4 be 26th DAP y ssptsmber, 1901. I
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-10-16

Rheumacide is positive cure for
rheumatism IN every form. Does not
injure the digestive organs. The best
laxative and blood purifier. Ask your
druggist for it.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-10-16
BE SURE TO REGISTER

E. S. Mcclellan, who had d eclaIcd
himself candidate for congress from
the Sixth district, has Withdrawn in
the interest OF Mr.. Patterson who has
b,sn nominated by the Democrats.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-10-16

There are now only three negro
post masters in North Carolina. One
ia at Wilson and the other two are said
to be at negro villages where there are
no white people. The term of the
Wilson post master expired last July,
but by some hitch or other he holds on.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-10-16
Mr. TRAYIS INTERVIEWED.

The editor Of The COMMONWEALTH
asked Mr.. Travis, Chairman Of the
DE- mocratic Executive Committee Of
Halifax County, lev days ago, if be
had sesn the last paper or clrculsr Is
sued BY the Independents, entitled
sFacsss' He replied, Yes. / have
thoroughly investigated every charge
and assertion in 1t and find only two
correct statements in tho who'e Of it,
towit, that they submitted to me the
letter dated Sept. 9th, 1902, therein
copied, and that DR.. Fargerson neither
requested nor desired tho reply l made
to IT. All the balance of tho circular
or paper is made up from beginning to
tho end OF incorrect statements and
false charges. It can deceive no one.
Tho Independents have shown their
political hand too plainly for any Dem
ocrat to be longer fooled and the rank
and Gle of their party are leaving
them"
Mr.. Travis has thossughly canyassed
Aha conntv and feata. a,,ra that nth y
full registration Halifax will still be
the banner county OF the state; that
the Democrats will carry the county
by 1000 majority.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-10-16
A WORD TO FARMERS.

1t has been given out from some
quaftens that some OF the cotton mill
men object to the side strips on cotton
bales.
Perhaps farmers would do we'll to
make Z note OF this. The better salts
sactioa thing gisea the better price
Il generally brings.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-10-16
Three
Reasons

Why you Sh Q u / d
PatroniZe your home
Optician:
/. You do nothave O>pay
his expenses from one town
to another, high price hotel
bills, etc.
2. If you find that your
glasses do not suit you
after wearing them awhile
or that the frames need a
little adjusting, you do not
have far to go to find him
and pay another price to
get what you want.
3. The foregoing is proof
enough that | can sell you
the same lenses for lie s S
money, or better frames for
less money than the travel
ling optician can. | use
nothing but the Best Lens.
III. w, N / X O N.
Scientific DptiCian.
Scotland Neck, N. G.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-10-16
J. w. PerryCo.,
COTTON FACTORS.

Norfolk, Va, Oct. IA, 1902.
Cotton-steady.
Strict Middling . 7-!6
Middling 8 SIG
Strict Low Middling 3-l6
Low Middling 1910
Tinges
Stains
Blues
Peanuts-Nominal.
Fancy -
Strictly Prime 81
Prime
Low Grades q
Machine Picked % to 5
Spanish Soc per bushel
B. E. Peas $40 per bag
Peanut Bags, in bales-68 in-7ac.
Bagging, Ties and Peanut Bags fol
Sale.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-10-16

The people OF Washington, IS usu-
al, are blessed with fine corps of mil
listers Of the Gospel and every churt b
and congregation seems we'll statistic d
with Its preacher.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-10-16

caught live spirit OF real progress.
We have not seen so many evidences
OF solid progress in any town in this
part Of the State for some time. The
burnt district has been rebuilt and all
the houses are of b.ick. On Main
street there are several handsome new
buildings and numbe! In course o!
erection, among them fine hotel.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-06

tide, almost at the brink of a precptous ledge
of upheaved rocks There is small stretch of
lawn in front. and back of the house TO the
opposite shore the ground is nicely graded and
covered with sward- A fine macadamized drive
crosses a bridge to the island and traverses it
from south to north.
At the south end of the island is the house
of William L. Grove built of stone, and situated
eminence commanding a view of the
Sound and the distant shore of Long Island.
The building is of stone and has broad piazza
the water side.
The knickerbocker Cottage, on the harbor side
of the neck, is and has been for several years
the home in summer of Mrs William III. Catlin.
1t is an attractive modern building. situated low
on the slope and almost concealed from the road
in summer by the foliage of the fine oaks in
front
J. Howard Wainwrights cottage. next to that
of Mrs. Catlin on the south, is not very pre-
tentiOus, but is said to be a model of CONVEX
ience and comfort. 1t is being slightly
modelled for the use of the owner next summer.
The Marshall and Lawrence houses, near Mr.
Wanwright's big and comfortable looking
StUyvesant Wainwright and Miss Wainwright
also have attractive homes on the neck. The
Marshall house is being extensively remodelled
and somew hat enlarged.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-06

for dreaming giving the lmaSihatlon f
where guides show one just when to thrii'
1t is for its entire absence of trappius' O."
stage setting that the field of BannocK DuiN
worth more than all the labelled marVelS "
seen on Q foreign tour. Bannockourh - w.
innate in having no facilities of transpof 49,
1t is not too easy of approach "A trdIic<i4
Stirling takes one the first two miles, 10
Minians but after that there remains d TO-
mile walk to the battlefield No elaborate W
scription in large type tells that the scene :.
finally been reached. The only means Oh LueN~-
fcation is n flagstaff to mark the spot "N'-
Rruce planted his standard But Tor 'ne IT,
there are Just rolling hills. covered over WI"
barley and oats. 1t is all as productive o.
uupreteutious as some useful tract "A'n'
memories. .5
A traveller not long ago. who had eNpeO'-N'
10 find barrenness remarked to a laborer n-
yesting on the flank of the hill that faIis ave.
to the English position, that the murue,' :,
work of six centuries ago had not curseu
blighted the region -.
ION the contrary" returned the SCOT o."
looked over the fertile fields. which hau o
been the graveyard for an army. Ihe f-N7
ers, they make good crops"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-06
MILTON POINT COTTAGES
Continued from Pngc two.

The inlet known Milton Harbor, forming the
western boundary of the neck, is deep enough
Tor yachts and pretty enough for anything. Its
eastern shore is sloping carpet of lawn grasses,
and the oaks and other forest trees by which ii
is shaded lend a rustic aspect TO the view which
completes the picture. This garden spot is
dotted with the houses of New Workers. to which
the term cottage is hardly applicable on account
of their size and the durability of the materials
of which the walls of many of them are con
structed. In some cases mansion would be
more appropriate term.
Perhaps the largest and most conspicuous
building the Sound shore of the neck is the
large double house of Simeon Ford. When he
having the excavations made for the
foundations the good people of the village of
Rye gaped and wondered. They inclined to
view the assertion of Mr.. Ford that he
building merely summer home for himself
one Of his best jokes They wnked at each
other whenever the project was mentioned, and
guessed in genuine New England fashion,
their proximity to the Connecticut line justified
them in doing, that Mr.. Ford was merely pulling
the wool the eyes of the summer colony
already in possession of the neck. They fully
expected, until the house almost finished, to
it take the form of big seaside hotel
and it is asserted that the liverymen and some
or the tradeSmen were so sure or their ground
that they made heavy investments in prepara-
ton for the grand opening. They were grievously
disappointed, of course, when they learned that
the hotel" was to accommodate only one family
and have horses and carriages of it's own. StiI
Mr.. Ford stands as high at Rye any man who
ever lived there, and his house is the pride of
the villagers. 1t is situated on knoll near the
water and the grounds of about ten have
been transformed into a garden.
Adjoining the Ford estate the southwest
is the summer home of George S. Dearborn.
The house is too big to be called a cottage,
on the neck 1t is situated on a knoll in the
midst of a pretty grove of native oaks, and is
just across from the north end of Pine Island,
the bold east bluff of which is of the pict-
uresque features of the shore.
On Pine Island are two fine stone houses
That at the north end is known as the Read Cot
tage and is under five-year lease to John r.
Downey one of the builders OF Emperor Will
JAMS yacht, recently launched at Shooters ISL
and. 1t stands fully twenty feet above high
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-06
COOL.

From The Boston Transcript ss
Briggs-It isn't the man who cuts OH 'ii'
coupons who cuts the most ice -, thou
Griggs-He doesn't have to. his eo
sands answer well enough for him
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-06

FIELD OF BANNOCKBURN

GOOD CROPS GROWING WHERE ENG.
LISHERS'' FELL.
Most of the historic spots in Great Britain and
on the Continent are carefully prepared fer the
tourist Tablets tell the facts in the case, and
the ruins are all tagged There Is small chaRcs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-06
SAME OLD PRICE.

From The Philadelphia Record.
There is huctuation in the price Of wild
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-03-26
IN A VEIN.

He-Do you know, dearest, that L
think you are the sweetest girl in all
the world Z?
She-Whyn ot9 All the other gen.
tiemen who have had the opportunity
have told me so.-(Boston Transcript.
"The service at this hotel" said the
boarder who was generally behind in
his payments, els abominable, and
Pm not going to put up with it much
longer"
You're right" said the landlord,
overwhelming him. elf you don't put
up something pretty soon you'll put up
somewhere else."
Towne-Do you think your caustic
remarks to Bragg were altogether war.
ranted?
Browne-Yes, he deserves to be sat
upon occasionally, he's so frightfully
concerted.
Towne-Truel L suppose conccit
like any other seat, should be sat upon
Philadelphia Press.
"Miss Bluff seems to be at the dress
makers a good deal of the time"
Yes. She's getting ready to go tc
the mothers congress. She reads {
paper there, you know. It's on sThe
Elevating Influence of an Infant or
Its Maternal PARENT They say 1T.
just beautiful. She's put some of hel
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-03-26
BILL ARP ON
THE MILLENNIUM.

He Does Not Think the Happy
Time is Near at Hand Con-
Work.
Atlanta Constitution.
l believe the millennium craze has
subsidized for awhile. Within my re-
collection it bobbed up three or four
times and excited good people all over
the country, for good people wish it to
come and live in hope and expectation.
[ remember when William Miller, of
Massachusetts, had all New England
excited, for he was a very learned man
and a sincere Christian and believed
all that he professed. For ten years
he exhorted the people to be ready for
the coming of Christ in 1S43, and even
fixed the day when they would see
Him descending from heaven in mag
nificent glory and escorted by Moses
and Elijah and a retinuc of angels.
He had owe $4,000 devoted converts
and the night before the promised day
they arrayed themselves in white
ralment and sang and shouted and
prayed until morning, and then climbed
the high hills and the tree tops and the
spires of the churches to meet Him as
He neared the earth. But He dident
come and 1T nearly broke their hearts
and they liked to have persisted TO
death, for they had given away all
their earthly possessions.
MnOt ornn n, Inl,~ (I.,-. -
very learned minister of London, who
wrote a book on 1t and fixed tn, mil.
lennial year at 1868. We were fight
ing over here about that tune and the
millennium he'd to be postponed. The
millennium means the reign of Christ
upon the earth for a thousand years,
when every body will be good and there
shall be no more death nor pain nor
sorrow, and there has not been a CEN
fury since His crucifizion that the re-
ligious people have not been looking
for His coming. The Christians got
their belief from the prophecies of
Daniel and from st. John and st. Peter
and later on from Irenaeus and Justin
Martyr and they delighted themselves
with dreams of glory that was near at
hand. Some Of them declared there
would be no more winters, no more
nights and everlasting wells would run
with honey and milk and wine. Jeru-
salem would be rebuilt and the fruits
OF the earth would be colossal and
never dying. One notable writer said
that every grape vine would have 1O,-
OoO branches and every branch 10000
boots and every shoot 10000 punches
and every bunch 10000 grapes and
every grape would make % gallons of
wine. Good graciousl how thirsty that
fellow must have been. But the mil
dident come and by and by
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-03-26

his attention than any of the stuffed
creatures which were among his other
gifts.
On the day after Chritmas little
Willie's fond m went into the
nursery, and there found her young
son sitting on the floor with the white
rabbit perchcd on the edge of his little
table before him.
Now, bunny" Willie was saying,
as he brandished his chubby f~oreinger
in the rabbits face, "now, bunny, re-
member, two times one is two, two
times two is four, two times three is
siX.n
mHis mother looked and listened for a
moment in silent establishment. Then
she spoke.
"Willie," she said, "what in the
world are you trying to do 2"
Why, mammal" said the child, "I
heard Uncle Fred say yesterday that
rabbits multiplied rapidly"
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-03-26


To DESTROY MoLEs. Mix a small
quantity of arsenic with corn dough.
make a hole into their roads here and
there, deposit a lump abop. the size of
a marble and cover the holes properly
to exclude the light. With two applf-
cations L virtually exterminated the
moles from a badly. infested piece of
ground.
Some recommend soaking corn in
strychnine. 1t may do equally well,
but J. never tried 1T. Oilers allepe
that moles will not receive the poison.
If the poison be distributed in early
spring, soon after the moles leave their
winter quarters, there will be no diff.
hculty on that point. They are then
hungry. Again, others say that mc.eg
are an advantage. Well, there are
many farmers who would like to GET
rid OF the moles and the above plan
will surely clean them up.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-03-26
FROM A BACHELORS VIEW.

Fools seek pleasure; wise men happi-
ness.
Solomon's wives were contented be-
cause they did not have to go out in
bad weather to gossip.
Some women are 80 unlucky about
raising children that if they kept them
locked In q safe they would be the first
ones in the block to catch the measles.
Because a woman smiles sYeetly
when the dinner guest says he will
have more Of her delicious pie and
there isn't any more, is no sign that
when she gets into another room she
doesn't kick the door in a rage.
The man who commands the largest
respect from his wife is the n who
can make her believe the reason he
doesn't make more money is because
It is 80 easy for him it isn't worth his
while to give much attention to it.
Talk is cheap, but silence is a better
bargain.
Possession of your house is nine
| points of the mother-in.law.
Long tongues in men are a sign of
what long ears are in quadrupeds-
donkeys.
Romeo was glad to climb up Juliet's
balcony to see her, but after the honey
moon he would have made a rumpus
because there was no elevator.
Men may pretend that they like to
have their wives dress for sense and
comfort, but the times when they give
them an extra allowance are when
they come home and see them in some.
thing mighty foolish, but mighty pretty,
There is no past perfect tense in
achievement for the man who has tC
make promises.
A mans thoughts run furthest back
to his mother and further forward tc
himself.
The girl who never has been kissed
in the dark has never been in the darl
very much with a man.
There was always a time when 6
girls hair was so long that she could
sit on it, and when a mans was trained
down to nothing but hard muscle.
There is a time in every girls life
when she hesitates to take any man ir
the world, and there Is a time, if she
has passed the other time without beins
married, when che would take any mar
who asked her.
The women who denounce the tor
ture of binding the feet of Chinese
girls haven't a word to say about tigh'
lacing.
In any we'll regulated household tht
chief parsonage IL their order of i'm
portance are the cook, the baby ant
the baby's puppy dog.
a girl who likes to walk five miles
day may not be admired for the heigh
of her instep, but she is likely to hav'
strapping fine children.
Arrange to have a woman catch yo,
admirlng her photograph as if you die
not know she was around and 20,
have arranged to catch her admirin,
you.
The real value of a family physician
is that when a woman thinks notbin,
Is the matter with one of the childre,
he a make her believe what sh
knows already.
If a man is determined to get int
trouble it is not absolutely necessar
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-03-26
Cheap Rations for Horses anG
Mules.

Mules.
To the Editor of The Advertiser:
Farmers from various sections of the
State have been writing asking about
the ACCESSIBILITY Of feeding horses and
mules on cotton seed meal and bulls and
also asking for a cheaper ration thar
corn.
The following prices are given in a
letter from Scranton, s. O.: Corn, $40
J per ton; oats, $40 per ton: wheat bran,
$25 per ton; cotton seed meal, $25 per
ton; rice meal, $22 per ton. OF course
corn and oats are Out of the question as
a food for horses and mules at the above
prices. 80 something cheaper must be
looked for.
The analysis shows that rice meal has
about the same composition as corn meal
and we have found that it is just as good
for feeding pigs. We have fed it to
horses with good results. 1 think VIC
arc safe in saying that it may DO used in
place of corn pound for POUND.
II no hay fodder is used in the
ration and hulls are resorted to as rough.
ness some heterogeneous food such as bran
or cotton seed meal must be used to
supply protein. Hulls may be fed with
out any further fear Of injury to the ami
NAL. Should they refuse to eat the bulls
a illIlC COIH mcdl VI DIau SpTllKlcu over
the surface will tempt them.
A good cheap ration may be made up
as follows:
Six pounds Of rice costing Go cents;
four pounds Of wheat bran costing so
cents; two pounds Of cotton seed meal,
costing Q 8 cents ten pounds Of cotton
seed hulls, costing 80 cents total cost
Of ration per day Ill.
The above is for a horse or mule Of
1000 pounds in live weight.
1t Is evident that a ration made up of
corn and fodder and containing the same
amount Of digestiblo matter as the above
ration would cost much more than the
above.
The North Carolina experiment station
has fed cotton seed meal and hulls to
horses with good results, but the expert
ments along this line have not been OK.
tensive enough to say that cotton seed
meal can be fed in unlimited quantities
for any length of time without injury to
the animal.
Numbers Of farmers, however, have
reported that they have fed cotton seed
meal to mules and horses with good
results.
O. M. CONNER,
Asst. Agrist. s. G. Experimental Sta
ton
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-03-26

-Four and q half hours later the. camp
trail being fair, and the highway lead
ing to it hard packed and in good con-
dition, the men at the McIpness camp
heard a sound of wild shouting. They
turned out of their hunks, out into the
night and the frozen darkness, to find
the young minister dropping over his
horse outside.
cliff me down carefully, please,
men," he said-and there was a new
ring TO his voice which stirred their
blood strangely. "The horse fell with
me, a while back, and Pm afraid my
right legs broken. | had q lot of
trouble getting back to the saddle
again"
Then he tainted, and the broken leg
was set and spliuted in rough but eff
fective camp fashion before he came
to. A circle OF admiring faces sur
rounded his improvised couch when
his eyes opened, and Big Elder, the
camp talker, was performing a sort of
e~cstatic war dance in the corner.
Broke his leg and got on again!
Rid with the broken leg h~angingl JIM
mikins, but he's grill"
SO chanted Big Elder, over and over,
until the young minister sobered him
| with the announcement he had come
to make. And then Big Elders great,
tender arms around him, young Arch
CIR was borne to the rude sled which
McInness himself had made ready, and
driven, in fur-encircled luxury, back
to the Hardness farm.
"HeIl go home with u.s." the
Hardness boys had decided, summary
when somebody limited that his own
lodgings at Bracken were nearer; "the
extra eight miles won't hurt him, see
ing how far he's got to 60 anyway, an
we can look after him better'n the no
tel people,"
"He-he rid up here with n broker
leg to tell us bout Ben," finished Bill
Hardness, who had always despised the
young minister. 81 reckon we owe
him something for that"
And they paid him, paid him in full
and with splendid interest, long before
Bon was about again, or before The
new logging camp hero had recovered
from the fever and weakness which
followed that awful ride in the bite
cold, and with but a cup of hot coffee
to stay the days hunger and eXhaus
ton. For they, with every man in thu
whole countryside, gave him thei
fullest respect and admiration from
that moment. and the Hardness boy
and their father, to heap up the goot
measure of their bargaru, consented tt
give him-Nell.