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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14
IN DARKEST AFRICA.

The French government intends e
make experiments in its Congo col
ony In the cultivation of a wild cof
fee tree discovered by the explorer, M
Cheyalier.
Miss Jane Nathan, who is the first
South Afrlcan-bo girl licensed to
practice as a dental surgeon, has re-
turned from her successful studies In
Europe to begin her profession at Han
over, Cape Colony. She is also be-
lieved to be the first South African
girl to take any medical degree.
DR.. Robert Koch had a caravan,
consisting of 70 men, when he visited
Morogoro, in German East Africa, last
month. The natives called him the
great medicine man" and were aston
ished at the size Of his expedition,
which had for its object the study OF
the plague and Of a kind OF fever
which Is communicated by the papasi,
or bedbugs, and which has made one
road almost impossible. 1t is not
deadly, but makes invalids OF the VIC
Tins for weeks.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14
WINDOW GARDENING.
Even a Humble Place May Be Beau.
tined with Vines and Flow
ers by a Little Effort.

Not all flower lovers can boast Of
owning a garden-eyen the joys of a
back yard r denied most of us-but
wherever there is a window there is
hope for the woman with a few pen
MES in her pocket and a love of grow
ings and poisoning things In her
heart. Curiously enough, 1t is on the
window-sills either of the very rich or
the very poor that we see the hand
soonest display of fiowers-as was
shown in a contest held last year
for the prettiest window garden. The
first prize went to the inhabitants of
a garnet who had eurtained the entire
sioping roof, the caves and windows
of their humble dwelling with masses
OF growing Towering vines. The Sec
ond prize was won by the owner of
one of the most magnificent houses in
the town, who had spent more none
on his window gardens, but could not
rival the garret-dwellers in their floral
display.
Every window that boasts a sill is
fitted for a garden. Besides the win
dow box, hanging baskets of growing
flowers may be swung from the CELL
ing, and If brackets for pots are fas-
tened to the walls near the window
frame, the effect when completed will
be almost as satisfactory as a real con-
seryatory fitted up for the purpose, be-
side which anyone who really loves
flowers will get more pleasure out of
a single flower that is coaxed into
~blossoming and unfurls Its leaves for
the person who is growing it than
from the most expensive kind of for
ist-grown plant.
A window box should be lined with
zinc, to keep the wood from rotting.
The bottom layer should be perfor-
ated, to allow of drainage. The box
itself should be about eight inches
deep, and equally as wide. The soil
with which it is filled differs, of
course, according to the plants mi
wishes to raise. Good fibrous loan
mixed with clean silyersand and leaf
mould would suit most plants. If is
Is not too much trouble. the loan can
be obtained by digging up the soil of
some rich pasture, otherwise the for
list sells the earth at a small COST
New York World.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14
SUGGESTIONS FOR HOUSEWIFE.

A good polish for floors is made by
%shredding finely two ounces of bees
wax and one n of yellow soap into a
jar. Pour over enough tur'pentine to
cover and slowly dissolve on the stove,
stirring occasionally with a stock.
When cool the compound will be fit for
use.
When blankets are to be washed for
the first time they should be soaked
over night in cold water and then rinsed.
This is to remove the sulphur used in
the bleaching, After this they should
be soused until clear in a lukewarm
lather made with boiled soap and
water, and then rinsed well in clear
water.
Every kitchen sheuld have at least
n simmerer-that is, a saucepan with
a double bottom. the lower one perfor-
ated to admit air. There is a space of
half an inch between this and the p
bottom. Food cooked in a saucepan
of this kind cannot burn and it may
be kept at a gentle heat for hours.
To clean white marble take. one ounce
of powdered pumice stone, two ounces
OF washing soda and one ounce OF pow
dered chalk. Pound these together and
pass through a sieve. Take a little of
the powder and make into a paste with
cold water, rub it over the marble and
when stains are gone wash we'll with
soap and water.
1t is literally true that a new broom
sweeps clean. If a new broom is ex-
amined the ends of the straws will be
found to be straight and the brush
square. After it has been used awhile,
the ends split and become sharp and the
shape of the brush becomes irregular.
To renew the youth of the broom dip 1t in
hot Spapsuds and trim the softened
straws to the proper shape.
Black, gray or ~variegated marble may
be cleaned by rubbing with a paste COM
posed of one gill Of ox-gall, one gill Of
soapsuds and half a gill of turpentine,
mixed and thickened with powdered pipe
clay. Apply this paste with a brush,
let 1t remain for two days, then wipe off,
and If you do not find the marble bright
and clean repeat a second or even a third
time, and it will certainly succeed BY
repetition.-Chicago Daily News.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14
Owe R H OCEAN.

Four-ffths of Zululand has been de-
clared unfit for Europenan habitation
by the British delimitation commission.
ITO calm public excitement the Hun
garian Jockey club has paid the debts
of a Buda-Pesth bookmaker, who lost
e41,500 over the Austrian derby.
A British board Of trade return'shows
that during 1904 453,S77 emigrants left
the United Kingdom, nearly half of
whom went to the British colonies.
Twenty-six per cent. ct the number went
to Canada.
Three rare specimens of male tree
Tern, Osmunda RECALLS, of more than
LOCO years growth, have been procured
Tor the imeprla al botanic gardens OF st.
petersburg from the virgin forests on
the Black sea coast, neal Adler.
Mrs, Frederick Krupp, widow of the
famous quinn ker, has given 200, 900
marks for a convalescent laborers'
home, to celebrate the fifth anniversary
OF the opening of the great Gruson
works, near M~adgeburg, Germany.
The Egyptian government has decided
upon rostponin g-and this may mean
aballdoning-the scheme for raising the
Assuan dam. and thereby increasing the
supply for the irrigation of the country
In the surnmer ard has taken this de-
clslon mainly because two mathemati-
cians In London have developed a new
theory regarding the stresses upon ma
sorry dams.
Smoking RACES are the latest deyel-
opment OF student life in Germany.
Ihey are usually held at drinking bouts
n form a nove FL feature Of these occa-
sions. Hugs r pes are made specially
Ior TINS purposR ?, having a capacity Of
from one tothree ounces of tobacco. All
pipes must be identical in shape and
construction and are filed with the same
quantity OF toba eco to a grain.
Unique was the wedding which took
place at a villase near Dover, EnglaLI,
the other day, the bridegroom being 4
gentleman engaged In China, who had
inserted a matrimonial advertisement
IN a London Journal, resulting in a cor
r~espondence and exchange Of photos
Win tle daughter Of a professional sen-
tieman IN the Kentish village. The
bridegroom has trayersed the thousands
OF niies separating China from Kent to
claim the bride.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14
WESTERN POLITICIAN WON.
Made the Secretary a Proposition
Which Was Too Much
for Him.

When Richard Olney was secretary o.
state he frequently gave expression to the
opinion that appointees to the consular
service should speak the languages of the
countries to which they were respectively
accredited, relates the Philadelphia Rec
ord.
1t is said that when a certain breezy and
enterprising western politician whb was
DESTROYS of serving the Cleveland admins
t~ration in the capacity of consul at one Of
the Chinese ports presented his papers to
Mr.. Olney, the secretary remarked:
Are you aware, Mr.. Blank, that ! neve,
recommend to the president the appoint.
mcnt of a consul unless he speaks the Ian
guage Of the country to which he desires
to 60? Now, | suppose, you do not speak
Chinese?"
Whereupon the westerner grinned broad.
ly: IF, Mr.. Secretary" said he, you will
ask me a question in Chinese | shall be
happy to answer it."
he got the appointment.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14
Arriving at a Verdict.

Kushequa, Pa, July l0.-(Special)-Ir
this section Of Pennsylvania there is !
growing belief that for such Kidney Dis.
eases as Rheumatism and Lame Back
there is only one sure cure and that II
Dodd's Kidney Pills. This belief grows
from such cases as that Of Mrs. M. L.
Dawson of this place. She tells the story
herself as follows:-
have suffered from Rheumatism for
thirty. years and find that Dodd's Kidney
Pills have done me more good than any
medicine | have ever taken. / was also
bothered with Lame Back and / can only
say that my back hasn't bothered me
SINCE ! took Dodd's Kidney Pills"
Considering that Mrs. Dawson only
took two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills,
the result would be considered wonderful
il it were not that others are reporting
similar results daily. Kushequa is fast
arriving at a verdict that "Dodd's Kid
ney Pills are the n sure cure for Rheu-
matism."
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14
TOLD OF THOSE WHO WRITE

Ernest Treeton, a writer OF serial
stories, has lately told OF the young
woman amateur who CHANGED to get
an unfinished story accepted by a
weekly paper for immediate publica-
ton. Months passed and the thing
went on. A desperate editor wrote let
ter after letter imploring her to wind
up. The unhappy girl wrote despair.
ingly that she couldn't stop Il; the
elongating thing had wound round her
as the sea serpent wound about Lao
coon. Finally the editor himself
ended IL.
Miss Betham Edwards in her Home
Life in France" writes: "The best
contemporary French writer's often use
English words % as yet naturalized,
without italics or quotation marks,
Thus C%herbuliez wrote of the hall In
stead Of lie vestibule' in one of his
novels; Brizeux makes a lady coDju-
gate the verb 'luncher' in one Of his
plays. Flirt, croquet, garden party,
five O'Clock, and a variety Of similar
expressions are employed as If be-
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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14
MARI ETINc POTATO CROPS.
How the Railroads Made It Possible
fo r the Growers to Get Fair
Prices.

In line with the classic case OF the
oyster shippers, cited by President
Hadley. Of Yale University, in his book
on Railroad Transportation, is the case
of the Aroostook potato growers
brought by President futile, Of the
Boston and Maine Railroad before the
Senate Committee on Interstate Com
merce. Nothing could better show how
a railrda d works for the interest OF
the loca Titles which 1t serves,
A main dependence of the farmers
Of the Aroostook region is the potato
crop, aEgregating annually eight to
ten million bushels which find a mar
ket largt ely in Boston and the adjacent
thiekly settled regions Of New Eng
land. The competition of cheap water
transportation from Maine to all points
along the New England coast keeps
railroad freight rates on these potatoes
always alt a very low level.
Potatoes are also a considerable out.
put Of the truck farms of Michigan,
their nor NAL market being obtained in
and thro ugh Detroit and Chicago and
other cor munities Of that region.
Not m any years ago faycring sun
and rains brought a tremendous yield
of potatoes from the Michigan fields.
At normal rates and prices there would
have been a glut of the customary
markets and the potatoes would have
rotted on the farms. To help the pc.
tato growers, the railroads from
Michigan made unprecedentedly low
rates on potatoes to every readable
market, even carrying them in large
quantities to a place SO remote as Bos.
ton. The Aroostook growers had to
reduce the price on their potatoes, and
even then could not dispose of them
unless the Boston and Maine railroad
reduced its already low rate, which it
did. By means Of these low rates,
making possible low prices, the pota-
to crops OF both Michigan and Maine
were finally marketed. Everybody eats
potatoes, and that year everybody had
all the potatoes he wanted.
While the Michigan railroads made
rates that would have been ruinous to
the railroads, had they been applied to
the movement of all potatoes at alltimes,
to all places, they helped their patrons to
find markets then. The Boston and Maine
Railroad suffered a decrease in its rev.
enue from potatoes. but it enabled the
Aroostook farmers to market their crop
and thereby to obtain money which
they spent for the varied supplies
which the railroads brought to them.
If the max ng of rates were subject to
Governmental adjustment, such rad
ical and prompt action could never
have been taken, because 1t Is well es-
tablished that IL a rate be once re-
duced by a railroad company, it can
not be restored through the red tape
of Governmental procedure. If the
Michigan railroads and the Boston and
Maine Railroad had been subjected to
Governmental limitation they would
have felt Obliged to keep up their rates,
as do the railroads of France and Eng
land and Germany under Governmental
limitation, and let the potatoes rot
Exchange.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14
EDUCATIONAL MATTERS.

The income Of Oxford university il
slightly under 270,000 a year.
Swedish school children under the
guidance Of their teachers annually
plant about SOC. 1000 trees.
Prof. Molisch, of Prague, says that
photographs can be taken by the light
emitted by raw potatoes and hard
boiled eggs. ,
DR.. William Royal Stokes and DR..
John s. Fulton, Of the Maryland
board of health, insist that they have
discovered a curative serum for ty-
phoid fever, after a four-years' search.
Prof. Giuseppe Levi, Of Milan, will
soon visit Paris to demonstrate before
the Academy OF Medicine his new cure
for tuberculosis by means OF iodine in
jections, the composition Of which is a
secret. He claims that 40 to SO injec-
tons will bring about q complete cure.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14
Ice Cream with Chocolate sa,,es

Beat the whites of six eggs and add
three cupfuls of sugar and one quart OF
boiling milk; turn into a double boiler
and coko for three minutes; then stir
in the beaten whites of the six eggs
and a te~aspoonful Of extract Of vanilla.
When cold stir in a quart Of thick
cream. The chocolate auc Is made as
follows: Mix three ounces of grated
chocolate with two and ~one-quarter
cupfuls of graduated sugar, two-thirds
of a cupful of hot water and four table.
spoonfuls OF melted butter, and cook
until 1t strings; then add a little Va
nilla and serve with the cream.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14
.ATAX|A FOUR YEARS
FOLLOWS MALARIA CONTRACTED IN
sPANISH-AMERIOAN WAR.
Victim Had Become Helpless When He
Tried DIR. Williams Pink Pills. but
Was Cured in -Four Months.

Victim Had Become Helpless When He
Tried DIR. Williams Pink Pills, but
Was Cured in Four Months.
Because he did not know that there is
a remedy for ataxia, Mr.. Ariel endured
four years of weakness, pain and the
misery of thinking his case incurable.
"At the outbreak of the Spanish
American war;" he says, 81 went with
Company B, Eighth Regiment, M.v.M.,
into camp at Chickamauga, and while
there my system became thoroughly
poisoned with malaria. When / was
mustered out, l carried that disease
home with me. After a while locomotor
ataxia appeared"
"How did the ataxia begin?"
II first noticed a pain in my ankles
and knee joints. This was followed by
a numb feeling in my legs. At times I
had to drag myself around; my legs
would shake or become perfectly dead.
I had constant trouble in getting about
in the dark. I kept a light burning in
my room at night as l could not balance
myself in the darkness. Even with the
aid of a light I wobbled, and would
reach out and catch hold Of chairs to
prevent myself from falling?'
"How long were you q sufferer"
"Four years in all. During the last
three years I was confined to bed, some.
times for a week, again for three or four
weeks at q time. When ! was lying
down the pain in my back was FIRE.
quently SO severe that / had to be helped
up and put in a chair to get a little re-
lief. I-had considerable pain in my
bowels and no control over my kidneys.
The worst Of all was that the doctor
could give me no hope Of recovery"
How were you cured?"
81 read that DR.. Williams Pink
Pills had cured locomotor ataxia and
one or two friends spoke to me about
them. In the fall Of 1908 I began to take
them for myself and I had not used
more than one box before / found that
the pains in my knees and ankles were
greatly relieved. -Four months after
ward Ibecamea perfectly well man, and
I am today enjoying the best Of health"
Mr.. Edward H, Ariel lives at No. 4a
Powow street, Amesbury, Mass. Every
suffererfrom locomotor ataxia should try
DR.. Williams Pink Pills without delay.
Any druggist a supply them.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14
Too Human.

There is a provcrb: IF you're fond ~
hero worship, never make u pilgrimage 10
see the hero
A Sweet girl graduate who called on
her fayoute author said Of him, after.
wards.
He was on the front porch in his
shirt sleeves. Oh. he seemed SO terribly
human!"-Atianta Constitution.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14
Well-Fastened

The best fitting garments, whether
visible or invisible, are those that are
fastened with plenty Of buttons which
Keep them in place and perfectly
smooth and do not allow the garment
to gap. The buttons should be of a sort
that will not break readily in the laun.
dry.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14
ToRTURlNG, DISFlCURING
Humors, Eczemas, Itchings, Inflanl.
nations, Burnings, scalings and
Chafngs Cured by Cuticura.

The agonizing itching and burning Of
the SKIM as IN eczema the irlghttui seal,
crusti ing VI the scalp. as in SCALED head.
the facial dishguremcntS. as II pimplcs
and ringworm; the awful suffering of in.
tants, and anxiety of WORKOUT parents,
as in milk crust, letter and salt rheum-
all demand a remedy Of almost supcrhu.
man virtues TO successfully cone with
them. That Cuticura Soap. Ointment and
Pills are such stands proven beyond all
doubt by the testimony Of the civilized
world.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14

trouble, II seemed to settle in my Md.
neys. noan's Kidney Pills rooted il,
out, ltis several months since | used
them, and up to date there has been no
recurrence Of the trouble"
Doan's Kidney Pills are for sale by
all dealers, price 80 cents per box.
Foster Milburn Co, HuAalo. N Y.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14

Kidney Pills relieve
and cure it,
IL. II. McCarver,
of POI Cherry St,
Port land, Ore, in
spector OF freight
for the TRANSIT ON
~tineutal Co., says :
used Doan's Kid
ney Pills for back.
ache and other
symptoms of kid
ney trouble which
had annoyed me for
months. | think Il
cold was RESPONSE
bic for the whole
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14

When making wash waists no hooks
and eyes is the motto. Buttons wher-
ever possible. for under many circum-
stances they are far preferable to
hooks. In the dressy waists buttons
and buttonholes can be hid under 4
fcld
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot.
Ease. A certain cure Tor swollen, sweating,
hot, aching feet. At all Druggists, 25c. Ac-
eept no substitute. Trial package FREE.
Address A. 8. Olmsted. lie Roy, N. Y.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14
Unusual.

Why did she refuse him."
"She thought che could do better.
How strange! Girls seldom think
that until after the CEREMONY Town
Topics.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14

There never was a gasoline can stand
ing around with its lid off, but that some
where in the universe was some one with
a lighted match looking for it.--St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14

1t is highly Improbable that the world
will ever again see q time when II viii
not consider itself on the threshold of a
new L a.-Puck.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14

One of the professors says lying is un.
natural and has to be learned. This may
be true, but it seldom is necessary to
serve a long apprenticeship.-Chicag Rec
ord Herald.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14
CONSTANT ACHING.

Back aches all the time. Spells youP
appetite, wcaries the body, worries tho
mind. Kidneys cause II all and Doans
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-14
One Ra v Of Cheer.

kodrnan The materialists have
robbed everything Of its romance.
Dyer Except u hing.-Judge.
The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1905-02-16
The INSTINCT OF ANIMALS
u IL Claimed Thsy Can NnAiiy RuFs-
east the osality 81 an Ap-
preaching Wtasrr

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ihp weather il 70 hs cold Or mild durins
tAs winssr and proportion thslF houasa
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10 pns 81 the leadihg New Nort papem
ssss she nsltimore Amer.can The lat
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folklore. bat These who bel.eye IN ~
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fall preceding eeSeft Minitf skan lusl
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necessarily implf ang ttostsaEs - ~
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