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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1905-12-07
CONGRESS IN SESSION.

Congress convened Monday. It has
been suggested that the most impor-
tant thing before that body this ses-
sion will be the railroad rate bill.
There will be little work of cOnse-
uuence done before the holidays. Be-
fore much can be done the body will
adjourn for Chris. mas. The new
members may become acquainted with
their new surroundings and begin to
learn how to be congressman.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1905-12-07
Saddle WOULDN'T STAND IT.

The editor of The COMMONWEALTH
fseling In a laxative mood the other
night, recounted bit of newspaper
rams experience, not in general way
bat as it Is, has been, and is likely to
continue in Scotland Neck.
For instance, a lady who was reading
The COMMONWEALTH knew that her
naighbor, who was not then a reader
{, the paper. had gone from town and
r turned, and not seeing her neigh
hrs name in the personal column of
tie paper she dropped everything and
I'm oyer to tell her that the paper had
r,t mentioned her departure and re-
turn.
Another said he might go away and
Say month and come back and the
raper would not mention him; and
therefore 1t is no good.
A good lady had been ailing little,
bit not seeing her name mentioned in
the paper in connection with her little
illness, she grumbled about it consid-
E, .bly.
Alter hearing us relate number of
snch things one said that he knew the
public generally is foolish, but he did
no: think it was quite so bad.
Another said he just wouldn't stand
it. But he failed to tell US how he
would help himself.
Running newspaper country
weekly we mean-has fun and other
things in it, and the editor gets part
OF all that's belonging to the running
OF the paper. 1t is about this way:
If we publish jokes people say we
are rattle. Drained. If we don't we are
fossils. II we publish original matter
they say we don't give them enough
se.ections if We give them selections.
they say we are too lazy to write. If
We don't go to church we are heather.
II re go We are hypocrites. If we re.
main in the Office, we ought to 70 out
ami hustle. Ii we go out then we are not
attending to business. If we wear old
clothes they laugh at us. five wear
good clothes they say we don't need
an money and that there is danger
of cur living too high if they pay up
the.r dues and give us decent patron.
age.
Now, what are we to do? Just a
likely as not some one will say We stole
this from an exchange. SO We did,
the most of it.
A9To7EA
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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1905-12-07
For Thin
Babies

Fat is of great account
to a baby ; that is why
babies are fat. If your
baby is scrawny, SCOTS
E m Ii ion is what he
wants. The healthy baby
stores as fat what it does
not need Immediately for
bone and mus Gle. Fat
babies are happy they do
not cry; they are rich !;
their fat is Ia id up for
time Of need. They are
happy because t h ey are
comfortable. The fat SUR
rounds their little nerves
and cushions them. When
they are scrawny til os c
nerves are hart at every
ungentle NC b. They
delight in SCOTS E1nul-
sion. It is as sweet as
wholesome to them.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1905-12-07
TOWNSHIP MEETINGS OF S. G. A

Scotland Neck township meeting Of
the Southern Cotton Association was
held in temperance hall Saturday.
Officers for the year were elected as
follows: President, w. F. Butter
worth vice president, w. E. Smith :;
secretary, B. F. Tlllery; treasurer, g.
W. Bryan. Delegates elected to attend
the county meetings for the ensuing
year, G. K. Moore and F. P. Shields.
A number of new mem bers enrolled.
By motion it was the sense of the
meeting to ratify the action of the
county meeting at Halifax November
9th in levying ten cents per bale on
this years cotton crop as a means of
collecting revenue for sustaining the
Southern Cotton Association.
Almost every member present paid
in his ten cents per bale, and the
amount collected amounted to $1,000.
A canvass of the pledges under
President HarYie Jordan's call to hold
three million bales 80 days for L.
cents, showed that over l 200 bales had
been pledged at Scotland Neck.
w. F. Butterworth, G. K. Moore and
John B. Gray were appointed to COL
lect the 10 cents per bale in Scotland
Neck township.
BUTTERWOoD ELECTS OFFICERS.
Aurelian Springs, Dec. 2, 'O5.
The Southern Cotton Association of
Butterwood township met at the store
of W. T. jenkins on Dec. ID at 3 o'ctock
p. ~, W. T. Jenkins in the chair and
G. N. Hamill secretary pro tenn.
On motion the following officers
were elected for the ensuing year ::
President, w. II. Thorne, Airlle, N. C. !;
vice-president. A. E. Carter, Littleton,
N. c.. R. F. D. No. 2 secretary. Gid
Aston, Airlie, N. c.; treasurer, L. T.
Thorne, Airlie, N. C. w. II. Thorne
aud A. E. Carter wera elected delegates
to the county meeting. w. P. Harris,
Nick Warren and Gid Williams, col
lectors.
w. T. JENKINS, Chm'n.
G. N. HAMILL, Sec'y.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1905-12-07

CA9ToRHA
Bears the 11n kind yos Han Musys euQtt
A's s:''' zezzs
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1905-12-07
Talking
Machines and
|Graphophones!

We have made contracts with several
Talking Machine and .Graphophone
Companies to both Retail and Whole
sale their Machines. We have on
hand over twenty-five styles Of the
latest Improvements, from Four to
Ninety Dollars each. Several thousand
both Disc and Roller Records, all New
and Up-to-Date Music. Songs, etc.
We take old WORKOUT Records In part
pay for new ones.
We made trip to headquarters OF
several companies and spent time and
money to learn all that is to be learned
in connection with this business, and
think we are we'll prepared to furnish
all needed information TO our cusio-
, mers.
We will take all old style Graphic
phones in part pay for new ores. We
handle the Victor, Columbia and other
patterns. Come OR write to us for
catalogues and information. We have
,, in stock large line of Musical Instru-
ments Of many kinds.
Our stock of Mattings, Carpetlngs,
Rugs, Art Squares, Druggets and
House Furnishings of all styles is
larger than eyer before.
SPIERS BROS,
Oct. s. 1905. WELDON, N. G..
1O.5-3m
The independent., 1905-08-10

Recently an imprint of a finger tip in place
of a seal, to establish indisputaby the identity
Of the maker OF will was taken as evidence ay
Mr.. Fast, a New York lawyer in an important
will contest He will present bill in the next
session of congress and the state legislature to
legaze finger imprints and give them the weight
a seal now possesses Discussing his plan to give
a legal status to finger tips, Mr.. Fast said the
seal, which formerly an indubtable attesta-
ti0n of a document, fast passing into disuse
II suggest" he said, that guarantee of gen.
nineness every person choose one of his ten fng-
ers-which shall call my ego finger-and place
impression of its tip after his signature, espe-
cally on documents requiring seal by law In
that case the impression should be made after the
seal, and in addition to it. Not alone are the
lines of each of every persons ten fingers differ
ent, but the 10000 finger tips of thousand per-
sons all vary, Thus, the impression of mans
finger tip would be incontrovertible evidence mat
he was present when a document signed.
AS we have ten hume ais and also ten fingers,
the impression of each different finger may be
The independent., 1905-08-10

At Cheboygan Mich. Is the largest sawdust
pile In the world. 1t Is hill, 1880 feet long, S75
feet wide, 1926 feet in circumference, ranges from
20 to SO feet in height and IL acres. It is
the accumulation Of lumber company since
1877.
The independent., 1905-08-10

Veterinary surgeons know BIT the general
public probably does not, that some animals are
as liable to meningitis as are human being Goats
and horses are the principle sufferers in the dumb
creation, and from them the infection may be
transmitted to man. In horses the disease is
known as "hydrocephalus acutus." Of horses af-
fected with the disease, 7S per cent die, and the
remainder have chronic tendency to relapse
The independent., 1905-08-10

Health Commissioner Darlington of New
York has made report to Mayor Mcclellan in
which he recommends the expenditure of SIT OOO-
600 for filtration plant to purify the citys water
supply. DR. Darlington declares that the only way
to put an end to the growth of typhoid in New
York is the creation of such plant, and states
In this connection that the deaths from typhoid
fever in New York during the last five wears
have reached the total of 1880 The alternative
plan of New Yorks buying the watersheds around
its various sources of water supply is estimated
BY the health commissioner to cost 5000 900,
and even this would not in his opinion, eliminate
all chance of pollution. He further argues in
favor of the filtration plant on the ground that
In time New York will be compelled to take water
from the upper Hudson the demand grows, and
that such water, with it's sewage contamination,
could only be used if filtered.
The independent., 1905-08-10

The immigration figures for the past fiscal
year. just published, show an inpour of 1,O7, ,421
for that period-this being the first time that i'm.
migration into the United States has reached or
passed the million mark. The nearest approach
TO this previously was made in the fiscal year
1903, when 857 ,O46 immigrants arrived The nros
ent figure further compares with 812,S7O in 1904.
64S,7OO in 1902, 229,299 in 1898, when the low
record OF recent years was made, and with 1885,
9s2 in 1882, when the high record of all time
previous to the present was established. During
the decade of the SOS the average yearly immigra-
tion into the United States was 52O00O during
the next decade, which included a long period Of
hard times industrially, the average was only
about $4,000 Since 1899 with the recurranco ~
boom times, the average has been 1890
year. Since 1920 the number of immigrants ad-
mitted to the country reaches the remarkable
total OF 22,932,9O5 and about one-fth of this total
have come here within the past six years This
vast exodus has been contributed to by countries
as follows.
The independent., 1905-08-10

The state railroads of Belgium have institut-
ed system of railroad hospitals. Each car in
the service contains eight movable couches, dis
pensary and an operating room. The cars are
being distributed at convenient points of the
system
The independent., 1905-08-10

Chicago automobilists are facing the real
thing when they wish to pass through the govern
ment reservation at Fort Sheridan Orders have
been issued that no machine can go through the
post faster than five miles an hour and the
sentries have been ordered to stop all who try
fQ, II any chauffeur refuses to STOP the soldiers
}e further ordered to shoot holes in the tires
fd stop them, whether or not
The independent., 1905-08-10

According to figures compiled by the state
board OF charities at Albany the poor dependent
on public charity in New York City are steadily
on the increase. In 1876 the percentage of this
class OF the city's whole population was 322; in
1904 it was S69 The figures were prepared for
c. A. Locke, charities expert of Great Britain,
who is collecting statistics for all are large cities
OF the world. Secretary Hebbard of the state
charities board said: ut is due largely to the in
crease in population, which has gone up from
1,O418S6 in 1876 to 4,437,202 in 1900 It is due
also to what is evidently an increase in depend
ency which has resulted from the great influx
OF immigrants to New York. and finally the in
crease is in part due to the moro adequate meth
ods OF supplying relief to the poor In early years
vagrants were cared for at police stations now
they are cared for at municipal lodging houses
The public medical relief is better organized
today At the percentage given the total poor of
New York would be in round numbers 385,O0O
The independent., 1905-08-10

A sngle-phase electric locomotive has been
designed for the Swedish government railroads,
and experiments are to be carried out Herewith,
on the application of the electric power to the
trunk railroads. Externally, there is no departure
from the design of the conventional electric loco
motive. Current is drawn from overhead con-
ductor, and is designed to work at a line pres
sure of $4,000 volts as maximum, though ar
rangements are made to use several lower pres
sures, the lowest being 3,000 The locomotive
carries an oil-cooled autotransformer to redu,e
the pressure for the motors, and an oil circuit
breaker. The eectro-pneumatic control system
is used compressor driven by single-phase
motor supplying air for all auxiliary power pur-
poses, such as switching, braking, sanding etc.
The locomotive and equipment weigh twenty-five
tC :; and are carried on four 11inch wheels. Each
pair of these is driven by 150-brakehorsepower
single-phase motor at twenty-five periods, with
gear reduction of Is to 70. The locomotive will
handle a train at 40 miles hour, and has been
built by the British Westinghouse Co., limited
The independent., 1905-08-10

police canvass of the voting lists of Phila-
delphia developed nearly $4,000 bogus names on
the registry subsequent canvass by unofficial
people produced total of 10000 spook voters.
The impression is quite general that Phadal-
phias vote will suffer severe shrinkage next
fall.
The independent., 1905-08-10

In announcing that he had solved the prob.
lem OF the electric propulsion of auto vehicles,
Thomas A. Edison took occasion to discredit re-
cent extravagant assertions attributed to him con-
cerning an elecrict stor ge battery which he says
ne has perfected. Tho report said the battery
might run pleasure vehicle at rate of twenty
miles an hour for distance of $50 miles The
best he would guarantee on a singl charge was
100 miles. "The troubles with the battery have
been trying for two years to remedy have been
purely mechanical, said Mr. Edison. "They ha e
been due chiefly to the swelling of the nickel ele
ment | have succeeded in reducing the weight
OF the battery to about forty pounds per horse
power With proper motor and wagon equip
ment we can take the cells and operate an ordi-
nary delivery wagon at So per cent of the cost of
maintaining horse" The inventor said he has
worked with the particular object of applying the
power to auto trucks for commercial purposes
and that he can drive two ton truck at the rate
OF thirty-three miles an hour
The independent., 1905-08-10

adopted for different figure. If want to certify
by finger tip evidence that document was exc
cuted by me, say on June Ia, 4y05, / make the
following Impressions: First after signing my
name, imprint my ego finger, my left thumb;
this means, myself; then / imprint my right
thumb (the sixth fnger) for the sixth month;
then the little finger of my left hand for 1; then
the index finger Of my left hand (tne fourth fng-
err, for 4; then the little finger of my right hand
(the tenth tinger) for o. and finally the thumb of
my left hand (the fifth inger), for 5, reading: F.
r. Fast, his ego 6-15'O5.' The adoption of fng-
er imprints would save great amount of litiga-
tion. | specially recommend that impressions of
one or more finger tips be placed on documents
which are signed by illiterate persons with a
cross, also on checks on letters of credit, and
On Identification cards"
The independent., 1905-08-10

The business of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance society shows a loss OF $15,000O0O as COM
pared with last year, but the income for the ~rst
six months Of 1905 was $3S. .79913S an increase
of $,3S6810 over the corresponding six months
or last year, according to statement which was
submitted to the board of directors yesterday.
The independent., 1905-08-10

Ireland, of course, has been the heaviest
contributor from Great Britain with England
next, and those countries led in the great move.
ment of population westward. Then came Ger
many, whose emigration to- the United States
was heaviest in the early SOS. Now it is the
countries of southern and southwestern Europe
which lead the procession.
The independent., 1905-08-10
AUGUST 10, 1895
IN THE WORLD OF PROGRESS

paid for it. The road is also negotiating for
thirty acres adjoining the above tract which now
belong to E. e. Carroll, which will make tract
OF 40 acres, and forms one of the nest reservoir
beds in the state. Work the reservoir will be
commenced in about thirty days. The road is
spending about $4,000 on land adjoining its yards
here and additional thousands to build large
reservoir and waterworks of it's own. While it
is not known what the intention of the officials
is with regard to the action taken, it is conjec-
tured that Charlton may some day be an import
ant point on the Burlington, as it is favorably
located for either passenger or freight division.
The independent., 1905-08-10

The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
company has bought ID acres of land west of
Charlton, Ia, and will build reservoir on it
this summer that will hold between forty and ifty
million gallons of water to supply the needs of
tie railroad at this point for one year, even
though there should be no rainfall in that time
The land was bought from Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Sigler, of Indianola and the sum Of 500 per acre
The independent., 1905-08-10

Intense excitement was created at the Illinois
Chautauqua at Springfield when resolutions were
introduced disapprovng of the bitter attack made
by Senator La Toilette on John D. Rockefeller
The resolutions were laid the table by almost
unanimous vote amid stirring scene. The
majority took the position that the subject was
delicate matter and that the assembly should
keep its hands Off This incident, coupled with
the departure of Rev. r. S. Macarthur the noted
New York divine, without defending the charac-
ter OF tie oil king he publicly announced he
would, caused a sensation. The Chautauqua man
ayers declared that the action on the resolution
doeS not mean that the assembly believes Rookie
Teller is the greatest criminal of the age as he is
stamped by La Toilette. They say the Chautau
qua should keep silent and that the introduction
OF the resolutions was grave mistake.
The independent., 1905-08-10

Attention has been called by technical writ
ers to the fact that the wheels of vehicles in
tended for driving roads have not kept pace in
development with the other parts of carriage
mechanism. Experiments with heavy vehicles in
dicate that wheels should be made both higher
and broader In England it has been recommends
ed that with maximum axle load of eight tons
the width of tire should be about 1O11 inches
Increase in the diameter of the wheel is said
to be more effective in preventing damage to road
beds than width of tire
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1905-09-06
Subscribers Sent to Jail.

An exchange says: "a newspa.
per published in Ohio recently
brought suit against forty five men
who would not pay their subscrip-
ton and obtained judgment in each
case fer tho amount Of each ,olain;
Ut these twenty eight made afli
dnvit that they owed no moro than
the law allowed, thus preventing
attachment. Then undor decision
Of tho supreme court they were ar
rested for petit larceny and hound
over in tho sum of $4,000 eac b
All but six gave bond, whir, IN,
six went to Jail. The NO., posta
law makes it larceny T.. take n M
per and refuse to ps'y for it,
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1905-09-06
BrCn king 1t Gently.

The greatest error that father can
make is to omit to note the year that
Is at the top OF the current almanac
and to forget that his sons grow older
each year. The father who thinks his
nlnctccn-ycnr-Old son Is still a child Is
liable to get a shock
beg pardon, father" says the lad
who wishes to break the news gently,
"but do you mind If bring Il friend In
to supper this EVENING""
"Ill think 1t over, my boy"
For little music"
docs your friend sing?"
Has beautiful voice." says the lad
enthusiastically; like nightingale"
"Oh!' with incrcdulity. What agc?"
about my own age, father"
.Wcll, YOU can bring your friend; !;
but, mind, It's not to be made q prccc-
don't. I don't want the house Ovcrrun
with them. And no staying late"
''Shell go back to her mothers at TO-"
"She"
"It's a young lady I've been fond Of
for some time, father" blurts out tho
lad, "and we are going to get married
Star.
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1905-09-06
CA 6" ORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
sisnasass sSsss 'pe Of lS<z9zzz1zx
GENERAL NEWS.

Twenty cases Of cholera have
been discovered in West Prussia
and number of deaths have oc.
cured.
Morocco has released the mer-
chant Boumzine, and thereby
avertcd trouble with France.
Europe IS ringing with praise
for President Roosevelt in recog.
milton Of his successful efforts in
behalf of peace.
Governor Pattison, of Pennsyl-
vania, left an estate of 81, 545.11.
Secretary Wilson's report vindi
Gates DR.. ID. e. Salmon, head of the
bureau Of animal industry, who
was under investigation.
Japan's imports of foreign goods
more than doubled during the last
fiscal year.
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1905-09-06
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RULE OF THD WHITE MAN.

Wo noted lately that " music teacher
Of considerable prominence had gone
to Devils Lake, In North Dakota, to
open school Of music. This brought
to mind bit Of the past-an army
tramp over pnrched plains in the sum-
mcr of 1868. Il chase after Little Grow,
famous Sioux chief; Il trip to the lake
in pursuit Of him, the daily mirage, the
alkali water, the glimpse of this inland
sea, the evening fires Of buffalo chips,
the coyotes midnight howl, the bray Of
the mule teams, the worminess Of the
hard tack and the rancidity Of the. salt
pork, not white settler within hunc
dreds Of miles, then regarded as the
heart Of the great American desert.
Now, forty years after, a smiling and
prosperous state, wonderful crops. fine
homes, culture. refinement, wealth.
Chautauquas. and music teachers,
splendid tribute to American enter
prise. Little Crow and his tribe, the
buffalo and the coyote are gone; the
white man rules.
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1905-09-06
Three Jurors Cured.

Mr.. G.. w. Fowler, of Hightower,
Ala, relates an experience he had while
serving on petit jn1y in murder case
at Edwardsville, county seat of Gle
bourne county, Alabama. He says:
"While there ate some fresh meat and
some souse meat aud it gave me cholera
morbus in very severe form. I was
never more sick in my life and sent to
the drug store for a certain oholern mix
ture, but the druggist sent me bottle
of Chamberlan's Colo Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy instead, snying that
he had what sent for, but that this
medicine was so much better he would
rather send it to me in the fix was in.
l took one dose of it and was better in
five minutes. The sroond dose cured
mo entirely, Two fellow jurors were af
hected in the same munner and one
small bottle cured che three of u.s." For
salo by Pickens Drug Co.
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1905-09-06
"Who ia the home merchant.

"Who ia the home merchant. !"
asks an exchange. He is a mau
who helps pay for the streets on
which you walk; he helps to keep
up the church in which you aud
yours worship; ev cry subscription
paper th't ls passed has his name
upon it; ha ls the only one who
cannot afford t. swindle you, self
int rest if nothing else would pre-.
vent this; he bears his share Of the
burden Of good government and
stays with you IN sunshine al d
darkness. Paste these factsln,ol
hat, and then stop and consider
whenever you are tempted to send
oway for anything kept in your
own town.