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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-02-11
New Ordinance.

February 2, 1904.
At regular meeting OF town com
missioners, the following Ordinances
we're ratified -
That it shall be unlawful for any ga.
loon keeper to enter or allow anyone
else to enter his place of business be.
tween the hours OF ten p. m. Saturday
and five a. m. Monday.
Anyone violating this Ordina nee
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction shall be fined S25 90
tor first offense. For second offense.
license shall be revoked.
This Ordinance shall be and remain
In effect from date.
That Ordinance 81 be amended 80
as to read 10 p. m. lnetead OF IL p. m.
and 5 a. m. instead of a. m.
The foregoing amendment to be and
remain in effect from date.
That 1t shall he unlawful for anv az
loon keeper to have any screens, paint
ed windows, curtains, or any obstruct-
ions whatever before doors or windows
OF his saloon.
Any person violating this Ordinance
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction shall be fined $500
for each and every day said obstruction
shall remain.
This Ordinance shall be and remain
In effect from February Is, 1904.
J. E. SHIELDS, Mayor.
A. l.. BURLINGTON, Clerk.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-02-11
Trustees Land Sale.

By virtue of power conferred upon
me by that deed of trust which was
executed to me on the 26sh day OF
June. 1902, by Haliard King ana his
wife Mary, which Is recorded in the
registers Office in Halifax county, in
book lS9, page 285. ehaIl sell tor cash
at auction in the town of Scotland
Neck, on the 18th day of February
1904, the following described land, to
wit: That land formerly belonging to
John Atkins and conveyed to him by
James Pope and Johu Lewter and
bounded by the lands of W. III. RAN
dolph, N. Fltz Patrick, John Fenner,
q. N. Parks and the North Corolfna
Lumber Company, and containing two
hundred and ninety six acres, more or
less.
This January 16th, 1904.
1-2l-4t. w. A. Dunn, Trustee.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-02-11
SOME GREAT FIRES.
Richmond Times-Dispateh,

Richmond Times Dispatch,
Baltimore is a city of something
m ore than half a million Inhabitants
and it's property is assessed for taxation
at 1886 ,348 ,528. So far ae the value OF
property destroyed is concerned, the
Baltimore fire will be recorded as one
OF the "great confagrations of history.
The "great fire" of London in 1866
d stroyed 1920 houses and the loss
was estimated ut $50, 652. 500.
During the communist devastations
in Paris in 1871, property to the value
OF $l6O,O0O,O0O was destroyed.
There was fire in Ham burg In lS42,
which resulted in loss of $35 900 600.
The first great fire in America was
In Boston, in 1879, which destroyed a
milllo. dollars worth of property.
5oston's other historic fire was In 1872,
when the richest quarter of the city
was destroyed, the loss being about
SIS 100000.
New York's great fire was in 1885,
when 500 buildings in the business
section we're burned, causing loss of
SIS 100000 and closing out LOCO mer-
chants. The area of the burned dis
trict was fifty-two acres. But our
greatest fire was in Chicago, in 1871.
1t began on tho night of October 9Th,
and ragged until the 10th. The area
burned over was three and half square
miles in the heart ct the city; $50
lives were lost, $4,000 persons were
rendered homeless and II 430.buildlngs
Warn cOrsI1nnp6 tho iOaa in money he.
ing estimated at 1896, 100000.
The fire in Jacksonville In 1902
swept a great part of the city away
and eusallsd loss of something like
$35, 100000.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-02-11
PARRY DEBTS 10 NEWSPAPERS

Fayetteville Observer.
Alter The last election the Charlotte
Observer had veil considered article
on the subject OF the unpaid and I'M
payable debts which parties and politi-
CLAUS o"e to the newspapers, especially
lie county newspapers, which print
the full county ticket at their mast
head, and do besides all manner of
gratuitous booming OF candidates for
Office directly Or through the medium
OF correspondence contributed by their
friends. 1t WAS pointed out that hard
~ one OF these organs printed less than
thousand dollars worth OF such party
literature gratuitously and the Char
lotte paper thought 1t was a foolish
practice, but yet kind OF folly which
would long be continued, though
probably Id lessening degree.
VI course, the successful candidates.
do their best to make some return for
this gratuitous service by giving to
the county paper that kept the sue
cessul county ticket standing all
through the campaign, as much public
printing as the law authorizes, but
that necessarily falls far short of value
received. The unsfeakab'e ingratitude
and meanness OF giving any portion of
the pubic printing to papers that do
not support the ticket was not adverted
to by the Charlotte paper, no doubt be-
cause it could not lmag,ne that such q
base thing could occur.
The subject is one to which the
newspaper fraternity Is giving more
and more attention, as the money
value OF advertising is more and more
realized. The Baltimore Sun makes
the ccntending politicians in its BALI
wick pay for their communications :;
cad it Is probable that it receives
hundred thousand dollars per annum
from that source alone, aud hence is
an!e to make better paper for the
general pnoiic
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-02-11
A Buggy Free
A Chance to My Customers

10 all cash customers who
pay me $500 at one time
Tor any kind of work from
my shop, l will give a num-
bered ticket. For everv $40
cash at one time after the
hrst ticket is taken bv the
same customer l will give
another ticket. 'Vo
Numbers corresponding IN
every ticket will be fled awav
g a nd at the end of the veal
l9O4, some disinterested her. YER.
son 2; will select a number rom
all the numbers filed, and tho
person holding the t;cL It
corresponding with the Nun.
N 8er selected will get a Brand
FREE. ""n lnake
W; A. BRANTLEY
Scotland Neck. Nc
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-02-11
Notice.

HAVING qualified as administr a trix
upon the estate OF my late bus.
band "A. S.Dunn, deceased. I hereby noti-
fy all creditors. present their claims to
me or to my agent, S. F. Dunn, proper
ly proven. at Scotland Neck, N. c., on
or before February, 1905, or this will
be plead in bar OF their recovery. All
persons indebted to said estate are M.
tilted to come forward and settle their
accounts at once and save cost of suit
This 10Th day Of January, 1904.
MARTHA J. DUNN, Administratv;r
s. F. Dunn, Agent.
1-2l-6t u.s.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-02-11
": A. BRANTLEY
scotland Neck, Nc
Executr1x's Notice

Ga. having qualified as executrix IN -.
f fs.1' ., cI NJ. B. Ballard, hereby no oe
=. .eo al persons indebted to said ... H.,.
cI.,. maAe payment. Those han;ns
nraaan. against the estate will nlaa.s
R 8 them for payment to ma nc s
II. smith, attorney. - "e OF 4.
By B: II. SMITH. A Lard,
l-286t Atto,r.- Executrix.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-02-11
Notice.
North Carolina In the
HALIFAX County. Superior Court.
Sallie 4. Jones
Notice.

Llndsy Jones.
NOTICE BY PUBLICATION.
The defendant above named will
take notice that an action entitled ss
above has been commenced In the
Superior Court of Halifax county to
dissolve the bonds Of matrImony now
existing between the plaintiff and de-
PENDANT; and said defendant will fur
ther take notice that he is required to
appear at March term of Superior
Court to be held for the county OF
Halifax at the court house In Halifax
on the 7th day Of March, 1904, and
answer or demur to the complaint in
said action or the plaintiff will apply
to the court for the relief demanded
In said complaint.
S. NJ. GARY.
Clerk of the Superior Court.
s. G.. DANIEL, Attorney,
1856 Littleton. N. G.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-02-11

The COSMOPOLITAN FOR FEBRUARY
Is up to its usual standard OF excel
lence. Among the most Interesting
contributions are: "The Conquest Of
Asia by Russia, ""The Breadth of Her
bert Spencer's Teachings" Recent Ad-
vances in Astronomy" methods OF
Inducing Sleep" and others. 1t is
we'll worth its subscription price.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-02-11
Notice..

william " Brantlsy North Carolina,
Bette Brantley. Ha'''axcoun'y.
Action for divorce in the Super;or
Court.
Bette Brantley, the defendant above
named. will take notice that an action
entitled as above named has been com.
menced in the Superior Court for Ha-
lax county to dissolve the bonds Of
matrimony now existing between the
plaintiff and the defendant; and s4ii
defendant Will further take notice that
she Is required to appear nj the March
term OF the Superior Court to tie bed
ior the county OF Halifax at the conrt
house IL Halifax on the first Mon6a
In March, 1904, and answer or dem
20 .he complaint in said action, or tbe
piai atift will apply to The court for tie
relief demanded in said com plant
8. Nj. GARY.
CLERK Superior Court.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-02-11
Office.

~ 1 ang qualified as adm inistratr,x
c,. ;oan y: Adams, all persons havinr
nrs.a... against his estate are notified to
h' .sent them to me or to Mr.. w A
M nm on, on or before the 2lst dav Of Jan.
Al ~ 10y tooo; or this notice will be plead.
an,s January, 18th, 1904.
xS-. MARY ADAMS,
Adminislratrtx of JOHN x. adams
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-02-11
Notice.
State of North Carolina.
County of Halifax.
,,-. Superior Court.
William Baker
vs..
Alice Baker.
Notice..

Alice Baker.
- I'D sne defendant, Alice Baker:
The defendant, Alice Baker will
take notice that an action ent;tlad 49,
above, William Baker W.. Alice Rster
nus been commenced in this conr,
against her. WIS 'o'i
Ane purpose of the action il n o,,.
IAN an absolute divorce from her on
account OF abandonment prior to jan.
asry l, 1903. And the deie,dant
Alce Baker, is hereby notified to be-
ana appear before the Judge of orr sn.
per'or court, at court to be held ior
sns county of Halifax, at the com
se". In the town of Halifax. on ,be
nrss Monday In March, 1904. and ans.
h xef or demur to the complaint which
mas been filed in this action within the
t t.me required by law, and let the do.
. .uant take notice that if che fa,Is r.
;H II ,s and answer tie complaint with.
T.; ;a me me time required by law. the nys;rt.
-. wiz ask for the relief dem landed in
''o complaint: This January ID 100,
8. NJ. GARY,
o.. Clerk Superior Court
OF Halifax County.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-02-11
BANK Statement.

Report to the Corporation Commits
sion of the cundlt!on of THE SCOT
LAND NECK BANK at the close of
business January %, 1904:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-07
Lap Full of NlckeIs.

q was very much amused yesterday afternoon at the sad troubles of an Ems ley woman who wanted to ride free on the street car," said a passenger. When she got off in Birmingham every pocket she had was filled with five-cent pieces, her hands were full of them and every few steps she would drop one or two. It was the result of getting a $1O bill changed by one of the conductors whom she had been worrying with large bills for some time.
 q heard the conductor say that for a long time this woman has been boarding the car with $1O and SEQ bills. and he would be unable to change them. He hated to put her off, so let her ride free. Sev- eral times he had to go down in his pocke and pay her fare, as an inspector would get on the car.
 Finally he said he determined to stop her forever, so he got S995 in five-cent pieces and kept them in a bag waiting for her. According to custom she got on the car yesterday afternoon with her SIG bill and presented 1t to him. He took if. asked her to wait a minute and he would give her the change. He secured his ba g of nickels, cut the top and dumped the entire 19s pieces of money in her lar.
 ''She was in the saddest plight of any one I ever saw, and I felt sorry for her but could render her no assistance. The conductor was justified, but 1t was an aw. full revenge"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-07
She Was From Missouri.

'I witnessed an amusing incident on one of the suburban cars the other day." said a man about town. "A handsome woman who seemed to be a stranger to this district occupied a seat and as she drew near to her station she began to ask questions of three or four people who happened to be the only passengers on board at the time. One question followed another in quick succession, and as an excuse for her inquisitiveness the woman said archly, I am from Missouri and you will have to show me
 "A wise individual was seated in the rear, and when she made this remark he rricked up his ears. The car stopped, the handsome woman smiled her thanks in a most bewitching way and ripped out the door. As soon as she was out of hear ing the wise individual remarked:
 "Of course she is from Missouri. have just come from that state myself, and know that the finest looking woman in the world grow there
 "The slang was new to him and he thought the woman was only telling the crowd what was her native state."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-07
NATIONAL POLITICS.
campalun Funds.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 The national committees of both the great parties are already complaining of the present lack and the discouraging prospect of general contributions tt their respective campaign funds It is obvious that contest e for the control for four years of the federal government, a contest which must be fought out to a conclusion in every part of the union, requires the sinews of war; money, and a great deal of 1t. It is stat ed that to the Mckinley fund of 1900 upward of $4O0O,0O0 was contributed by loyal republicans and others who desired republican success for merely selfish req sons How, by whom, for what pur- poses this enormous sum was expended is one of the unrevealed secrets of the campaign, but there is reasonable cause for the belief that 1t was not all spent to serve the best interests of the country or in harmony with the highest ideals of patriotism. The fact is notorious that campaign funds are too often used in part as political corruption funds, for the buying of voters 'in blocks of i've or otherwise, the bribery of election off, cers and other devices for the pollution of the ballot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-07
Reform Saloons in New York.

A subway saloon has been opened in Mulberry street, at the corner of Bleecker, in the very heart of the populous and bibulous east side In New York, and It is to be conducted by a stock company on reform prin- ciples. Good drinks and good food are to be sold at low prices under the best moral conditions. Treating is prohibited The capital stock of the Cutting saloon is $10,0OO, and the saloon is expected to earn five per cent and no more on it's capital The capital is to be increased as occasion presents itself, the idea being to have in the long run a reform saloon trust. Bishop Potter opened the saloon with a speech, and the attempt at solving the saloon problem by building up a system of good saloons has been fully inaugurated.
 The reform saloon retains the club house idea-the poor mans club house. In the front room is soda
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-07

the same great clan name as Camp bell or Mcdonald; but this is not the case with those who have the same Saxon surnames. There may have been hundreds or even thousands of Parkers, keepers of parks, in no way related by blood, who transmitted that surname to their descendants. It would be by no means safe to infer that our possible president has in his veins drop of the blood of Matthew Parker, the great archbishop of Can terbury, to whom Elizabeth confded as her agent the reorganization of the English church, or that he has even collateral kinship with Theodore Parker, the New England emancipa- tion orator and pamphleteer.
 As a matter of fact the stress which we now place upon family names be- longs to comparatively recent times. The use of saxon surnames, as com mon to all the children of a family, came in with tue Norman conquest, and they were not in general vogue before the fourteenth century. Among the lower classes they were more or less shifting and uneertain-not per manent inheritanees-down to the reigns of the earlier Tudor soveretgns. The former lack of importance of the surname or family name, as compared with the inulvidual or Christian or "given" name. is shown by the facts that the given names of the con tracting parnes are still retained in the marriage ceremony of the Angli- can church. that the bishops of that church still sign their Christian names with the titles of their bishoprics to all episcopal documents; and that kings and queens are always known by their baptismal names Few people know-and perhaps fewer care to know-that if the present sovereign of the British empire, Edward VII, was shorn of royalty and it's titles and estates, he would be plain MT. Victim the German family name which he inherited from his father, Prince Al bert-a name which sounds hardly more majestic to English ears than plain MT. Parker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-07
"Thlnus and the Man. !"

The wits who claim to find perplexi- ty in MT. Kl2lings poem on Joseph of Dothan and Joseph of Birmingham, simply do not desire to read 1t un- derstandingly. There is not diff cult line. or confused thought, or an outlaw sentence in 1t. 1t Is direct and strenuous English, with no iddle-fad- dle or artificial elegancies about it.
 In the first stanza MT. Kipling tells those perverse people who know not unwritten things and who 1out MT. Chamberlains programme, that he brings them tidings that Joseph of Dothaa. man, once lived. MT. Kip ling is himself tue "baby" story teller.
 In the second stanza he tells us that Joseph of Dothan overthrow his op- ponents, although he stood a lonely man in a multitude, as lonely in fact as a bird in mid-air. But lonely as he was. he fought for the right even In the grinning teeth of things. As a rule things do noo have masculine teeth, but this may be Rooseveltian metaphor, or it may simply be per misslble poetic license.
 The third stanza relates to the triumphs over obstacles of Joseph of Dothan.
 In the fourth stanza the story Of Joseph of Dothan is summed up, in cluding a hit at underlings. The his torian sees but the surface of things. He cannot see the heart of historic things that Clio sings. Mobs and priests resent the heart of things, the simple central truth, namely, that things never created things. The things mentioned were done by a man, Joseph of Dothan, and the infer ence is that a man Is needed now to uO lHluSS.
 This brings us to the majestic clos ing stanza in which Joseph of Bir- mingham is first brought upon the scene. He appears like bolt out of the blue. An empire rises to greet the new dreamer who dreams of vast but rejected harvestings. An empire grips his plans. Once on a time there was a man, while once-in our time there is a man. The poem is, in short, story of Joseph ot Dothan, with an introduction at the end of Joseph of Birmingham. The two Joes stand high in MT. Kipling's mind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-07
The tears live In an onion that should water this sorrow.
 Antony and Cleopatra.
Private Citizen Parker.

Friday last was Judge Parker $ busy day. He handed down all the decisions he had engaged to write, and on that day New York's chief court decided sixty-six cases, and adjourned until October. Immediate ly after adjournment Judge Parker slipped back into the ranks, after service of thirty years on the bench and in office. His colleagues, irrespec- tive of party, expressed regret at his departure from the court.
 That departure Is final, for New York will now proceed to elect chief justice to serve fourteen years, where as if the resignation had been delayed a week the governor would have ap- pointed a chief justice who could have held office but a year, and Judge Parker might have been elected next year to his old place. But he ex- pressed his confidence in a democratic victory when he burned all the bridges behind him. He has left the judicial office, because he expects to become president.
 The straightforward course of Judge Parke' Is manifest anew in the resig- nation of the chief justiceship. Unlike MT. Fairbanks, he decided that run ming for one office while holding an other is improper, and he accepts without fear or distrust the nomina- tion of the denocratic party. MT. rairbanks. on the other hand will re- turn to the senate when defeat over takes him in November, and MT. Roosevelt will serve out his term and retire on his laurels, imaginary or D.Aerwise.
 As Judge Parker said in Albany on Friday his resignation speaks for itself" It makes plain his determine tion to stand or fall with his party without hedging, and without the adoption of the Fairbanks policy, which never lets an opening go unim- proved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
Americans and Chinese.

Miss Fling Soon. a young young Chi nese woman, has just arrived from China to enter Wesleyan college at Macon.n said a Georgian. She has been made to un- derstand that if the caucasion girls in the school do not care to associate with her in a social way she must not be offended. The Wesleyan is a great Methodist educa- tional institution and this appears to be doing missionary work at home, and may prove more economical and effectual than the sending of missionaries and millions of money to the great benighted em- pire
 "The attitude of goodly American people toward the Chinese is rather peculiar. We pass strenuous laws excluding them from entering our gateways and partici- pating with us in the enjoyment of Amer ican life and freedom, and spend millions of money in an effort to have them join us In the eternity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-07
New Jersey.

From the Nashville Banner.
 New Jersey Is included among the doubtful states by the republican elec- tion calculators, and is with some show of confidence placed in the democrat col- umn In estimates of the probable elec- toral vote made by democrats. The state has a rather remarkable political record. In 1872 1t gave Grant a majority of 14,S60 for President, but afterwards gave small democratic pluralities successively for democratic candidates until 1S96 when it made the exceptional record of S7,692 plurality for Mckinley against Bryan. Tn 1900 the republican plurality for Mc- Kinley was 56,S99 in total vote of 401,- 050 In 1901 the plurality for Murphy, the republican candidate for governor, was 17,133 in total vote of 361, 267. These fig ures indicate that the larger republican pluralities were significant mainly of the protest against the free silver and other political vagaries of Bryan, and that the state under normal conditions Is one of the close states. With the money issue out of the way and with MT. Cleve- lands influence in the state considered, the democrats have good reason to believe that New Jerseys electoral vote will be cast for Judge Parker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-07
Some Old Veterans.

At reunion of Confederate veterans held at oneonta Friday was astonished at the number of hoary old fellows who were present." said one of them. Every age from 55 to 76, except 69. was repre- sented. Just out of curiosity have com piled some brief statistics which show that there was at the reunion one man 55 years old, one man 56, one 57, three 5S, three 59, five 60, three 61, five e2, six 63, eight 64, seven 65. four 66, six 67, four 6S, none 60. two 70. five Il. four 72. one 7S one "A, five 75. two 76.
 "The oldest veteran was 76 and the youngest 55 years old.'