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guess, cried Chandos. Surely they are the three
ships with my own men on their way to Brittany"
You have hit it, John" said the King; but
look pray you What in the name of the Virgin
is that?
-Four brilliant stars of flashing light had shone
out from different points of the cloud-bank The
next instant as many tall ships had swooped forth
into the sunshine. A fierce shout rang from the
Kings ship and was taken up all down the line,
until the whole coast from Dungeness to Winchelsea
echoed the warlike greeting.
The King sprang up with joyous face The
game is afoot, my frends" said he. Dress, John!
Dress, Winter Quick, all of you'll Squires bring
the harness.! Let each tend to himself for the
time is short"
A strange sight it was to see these forty mobiles
tearing off their clothes and ttering the deck with
velvets and satins, whilst the Squire of each, as
busy as hostler before a race, stopped and pulled
and strained and rveted, fastening the bass1nets,
the leg pieces the front and the back plates until
the siken courier had become the man OF steel When
their work was finished, there stood stern
group of warriors where the light dandies
had sung and jested round Sir Johns -
guitar. Below in orderly silence the archers
were mastering under their officers and
taking their allotted stations. A dozen L.
had swarmed up to their hazardous post
in the little tower in the tops
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-25

Nay, sire, " the sea-
man answered, " the
Spaniards are greater
ships and are painted
red. | know not what
these may be. -
But | could hazard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-25

beaver hat with a white plume at the side. II
cloak of fur turned up with miniver dropped frc
his shoulders. Behind him we're a score of
knights, brilliant in silks and sarsenets, some seat
on an upturned boat and some swinging their le
from the buwark.
In front stood John Chandos in party-color
upon, one foot raised @uPen the anchor-stot
picking at the strings of his guitar and singing SO
which he had learned at Marienburg when last
helped the Teutonic knights against the heatht
The King, his knights, and even the archers
the waist below them laughed at the merry
and joined Justify in the chorus while the men
the neighboring ships leaned the side
hearken to the deep chant rolling over the
waters
But there came a sudden interruption to the
song A sharp, harsh shout came down from the
lookout stationed in the circular top at the end
of the mast. as spy a sail-two sailsl" he cried.
John Bunce the Kings shipman shaded his
eyes and stared at the long fog bank
which shrouded the northern Channel.
Chandos, with his fingers over the -
strings of his guitar, the King, the fE~
knights, all gazed in the same direction 70
Two small dark shapes had burst FORTH III Y
and then after IN MG
some minutes a I'll E en-
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feet had to take long slant down Channel
to meet their enemies; but as the Spaniards
coming before the wind were equally anxious
to engage there was the less delay. With
stately pomp and dignity, the two great
fleets approached.
1t CHANGED that one fine carrack had out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-25

good half-rnile before the fleet. Edward looked at
her with kinding eye, for indeed she was noble
sight with the blue water Dreaming under her gilded
prov.
This is a most worthy and debonair vessel,
Master Bunce," said he to the shipman beside him.
q would fain have tilt with her. l pray you to
hold straight that may bear her down"
If | hold her straight, then other must
sink and it may be BOTH the seaman answered.
Il doubt not that with the help of Lady
we shall do our part" said the King. Hold her
straight, master-shipman, as | have told you
Now the two vessels were within fight,
and the bolts from the crossbownen battered upon
the English ship These short thick devils darts
were everywhere humming like great wasps through
the air crashing against the bulwarks, beating
upon the deck, ringing loudly on the armor of the
knights with a soft muf1led thud sinking to the
socket in a victim
The bowmen along either side of the Philippa
had stood motonless waiting for their orders, but
now there was a sharp shout from their leader, and
every string twanged together. The air was full of
their harping together with the swish of the
the long keenng of the bowmen and the
short deep bark of the under officers. Steady,
steady! Loose steady! Shoot wholly together!
Twelve score pacesl Ten score! Now eight!
Shoot wholly together!" Their gruff shouts broke
through the high shrill cry like the deep roar of
wave through the howl of the wind.
AS the two great ships hurted together the
Spaniard turned away a few points that the blow
would be a glancing one None the less it
terrific. A dozen men in the tops of the carrack
balancing a huge stone with the intention of
dropping it the English deck. With
scream of horror they the mast cracking
beneath them. Over it went, slowly at first, then
faster, until with crash it came down on its side,
sending them flying like stones from sling far out
into the sea- swathe of crushed bodies lay
across the deck where the mast had fallen.
But the English ship had not escaped unscathed.
Her mast held, it is true but the mighty shock not
only stretched every fiat upon the deck, but had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-04

of the said advertising that Bernhardt was getting,
with the consequent box-office results, she was
Modified if not resigned And thereby hangs many
a good story.
Her manager strongly advised her against bring
ing with her her little pet dog. I" 1t would make
SO much trouble in getting into hotels" he said.
Not so her press agent. He in that small dog
a jewel as those of Ormus of Ind. He
spoke to her privately of the comfort and so1ace
of loved companion during the loneliness of travel
in far and uncongenial lands, and she almost wept
she agreed with him. She also brought the dog
The dogs Gyp.
When the steamer reached New-Yorl Harbor
and the representatives of the press swooped down,
the press agent rechrstened the dog and introduced
him to the great American public as Pinky Panky
Poo. How much the agent did for Pinky Panky
Poo the whole world knows. The agent was his
lyrist, his laureate, his Boswell Pinky Panky Poo
gem that shone perpetualy in the press
The recent death of Madam Bernhardts beautiful
coal-black collie under the vanda wheels of
Portland troley-car, when compared with what
was done with Pnky Panky Poo was, professionally
speaking, as the insignificant two-spot when con-
trasted with the noble ace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-04
The Hotel Cat

~ HERE was in certain Chicago hotel, highly
organized tom-cat by the of " Mike the
Democrat" He was personally known from his
invarable habit of attending the Democratic conven-
tions, to all the eminent Democrats of the country
He had rug the floor near the main elevator
which rug was his permanent residence, his self
elected duty being to keep all dogs out of that
hotel. Was it not whispered to Mike that not
only dog but English dog at that had been
struggled into another part of the hotel? Did not
Mike go there and watch? Was there not fearful
battle royal when Pinl1y Panky Poo appeared?
Were there not banks, yells, shrieks, Mysteries
and all the other concomtants of battle royal
and intrepid rescue? Did not the papers deal
with it justly and omit no detail? And was
not the press agent proud and content there
with? Such treasures as Pnky Panky Poo
rarely.
Sarah Bernhardt has always been what is known
in the theatrical profession as good advertiser.
In this direction she has been of great assistance
to her publicity promoters, if, indeed, she has not
surpassed them. Years ago her pet lion, her
balloon, her elegant coffin, her triumphs a scup-
tor, her emacaton, her marriage, her son, kept
the exchange editors of the whole world busy with
their scissors. 1t is stroke of genius along this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-04
Chartering a Hotel

TINALLY the negotiations came to deadlock in
consequence of demands on the part of her agent
to which the management could not possibly
accede. She always, it appeared, carried with her
her own chef Her meals were always cooked by
him and he must have room set apart as kitchen
in which to cook. The idea of a stove and
saucepans in of the elegant suites of rooms
referred to was grotesque, SO also was the fact
that she insisted great deal of garlic in all her
dishes. What walls should be pierced to obtain
outlet for the stove-pipe how scuttles of coal
were to be carried in without damaging the rich
plush carpets and all the similar questions which
made succuent subjects for the reportoral pen
At last her agent, after several weeks of contro-
versy, engaged an ordinary suite of in which
Madam Rejane was to be housed and fed like any
other patron. In the meantime a free advertise
ment had been obtained from the daily press whose
value could not have been measured in many
thousands of dollars. The whole controversy
was a baseless pretense or fake which had been
conceived and executed by her press agent He had
set all Chicago to talking about Madam Rejane.
and her engagement was tremendous success.
In such directions works the genius of one
of the most extraordinary beings that our social
evolution has produced Be he Advance Agent"
" Press Agent or Publicity Promoter, his work
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A VIGILANT reporter once discovered that
n Madam R@jane, when she played her en-

"A F1GILhN1 reporter ONCE discovered CnaC
n Madam Rejane, when she played her en-
gagement in Chicago, would stop, under
unusual and rather remarkable conditions at
certain leading hotel. Her agent was, in fact en-
deavoring to engage the entire parlor floor of the
place. This being exclusive item and con-
tanning many unusual facts, his paper gave it full
space with the usual headlines. 1t appeared on
the following day that her occupancy of the entire
parlor floor destined to create great confusion,
many desirable rooms that floor had been
engaged in advance by other prominent persons
and they and all other regular patrons of the hotel
who desired to be lodged that floor would be
compelled to dwell at higher attitudes
Her agent declined to recede from his position,
claiming that he obeying instructions, and the
controversy became interesting. Other papers
to greater or less extent gave space to the ques
ton. Before it was finally adjusted every man,
woman and child in Chicago and vicinity who
in the habit of reading the newspapers had become
fully that Madam Rejane coming to
Chicago, with many other coordinate facts con-
corning her eminence, her tastes and her daily
habits of life.
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is always the same to concoct stories so good or
apparently plausible that newspaper will be
induced to print them not because the editor has
not shrewd idea that they the work of the
press agents cunning hand as that less conserva-
tive journals to them and his own
paper cannot be behind its rivals in getting the
news"
The press agent is entirely constituencies. He
will send out anything whatever that will attract
the publc's attention, oblivious of the truth,
Indifferent to the feelings of his star. He has
ready pen, and that pen will write anything that
will go. He is the natural evolutionary descendant
of the press agent of circus days who announced
the grand entry the Colossal Convocation of
Equestrian Elegance and Equine Erudition."
Unlike his forerunner of the sawdust ring however,
he no longer deals in ALTERATION and capital letters;
but his field has broadened into imaginative and
romantic stories He is the most fertile romancer
of modern literature.
Pinky Panky Poo
Z Do hope we shall have no more of that vulgar
\ advertising, said Mrs. Patrick Campbell prior to
her last starring tour in this country. But when
her attention called to the immense amount
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1906-09-13
WANT MIRRORS IN CHURCH
Innovation Demanded by the Ladies
May Come to Be Ne
eessity.

"I won't name the church." said the
architects young man. "It is one
that stood in need Of repairs a short
while ago. My boss got the job OF
putting it in order. I attended to
most of the preliminary details, and
l give you my word that in the list
Of improvements recommended by the
committee was lot Of small mirrors
to be put into the backs Of all the
seats so the ladies could see how
their hats looked when they knelt
down to pray.
Before the work was really COM
menced the rest of the congregation
got wind of the contemplated inno-
walton. and raised no end of row.
The question:: Looking glasses or no
looking glasses?' was voted on by the
won out by a small majority. They
insisted that people kneel for devo-
tional purposes, not to study the set
of their hats, and that to put tempta-
ton, in the shape OF mirror, into the
back of every seat would be positive
ly criminal.
But it is a question that will bob
up again with the building Of other
churches Most Of the women of the
CONGREGATIONS are demanding looking
glasses in the churches, either in
the pews or set as panels in the walls
and the time will soon come when
they will be considered a necessary
feature of ecclesiastical architecture.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1906-09-13
UNCLAIMED INSURANCE FIND
illustrative Instance of the Careless
ness of English Com
panies.

Anyone VINO can rake UP insurance
company scandals is sure of an
American audience nowadays, and this
state of mind seems to be spreading
to England A. British law firm tells
tbs following story in support of it's
contention that insurance companies
and other fiduciary institutions should
be required by law To make an annual
statement as to all unclaimed property
in their possession.
A testator died in the year 1866
holding 80 shares OF a well-known fire
and life assurance Company. Twenty
Gf these shares were sold by the ex-
ecutors. The remaining ten shares
were entirely forgotten. The ex-
ecutors' names and addresses were
registered in the company's books and
the dividends accruins upon the
shares were, in the words of the secre-
tary, "held in suspense since Mr.. IS
death, in accordance with the COM
panys articles" No intimatton was
sent to the executors that the dtvt-
dends were accruing and were un-
claimed.
In the year 1904 the executors re-
ceived a letter from the solicitors OF
a company whose business it is to
trace dormant funds stating that II
the executors will agree to pay the
company so per cent. Of any sum
which might be recovered informa-
ton would be given which would prob
ably lead to the recovery Of unclaimed
funds belonging to the testator's es-
tate. The communication was put into
the hands OF the firm which tells the
story. and they, after an examination
of the testator's and executors papers,
succeeded in locating the missing
shares.
The assurance company made them
over In due course with the dividends,
but absolutely refused to pay the 80
YEARS interest which was claimed on
the latter.
The lawyer suggested to the com
pany the desirability of making in
ouiries as to how information not
available to representatives of their
own shareholders had been obtained
by a company trading in unclaimed
property.
The only reply the company vouch-
safed was that they didn't know any
thing about 1t.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1906-09-13
GooDLY PROPORTIONS.
a Suueezed-In Waist Ridiculous-H
Waist Is Over-Large How
enc Should Dress.

1 have known about three women
with naturally small waists-teally
small, bien entendu. Then nothing
ever looked prettier. But the woman
whose tiny waist is produced by any
degree of pressure whatever ts posi-
tive misery to me, unless she stands
or sits still. When she moves l want
to cry! When a woman with tight
ened waist runs l want to laugh, and
do! One really cannot help it, if one
has any bump Of admiration for the
poetry Of motion. Think of racer
a greyhound, in a very tight girth.
Can you imagine anything more de-
plorable than the result would be?
For all practical purposes, for every
day life and its clothes-its good
clothes, it's smart clothes, its clothes
III any vogue that may. reign para.
mount--the moderate waist does very
we'll. II you are a woman OF the
usual height 1--WE run tall nowadays,
and I mean anything between five feet
six inches and six feet in your shoes
anything in the way of a waist that
means corsets between 20 and 70
inches will do quite nicely. And, after
all, it is not the actual inches that
really signify. 1t is the roundness OF
the waist, and the curves OF the hlps.
the way the figure is held III below II
and carried upright above 1t, that tells
And where the waist comes, not too
long nor too short, that, again, Is OF
so much Importance. And the way In
which the figure "goes in at the back
of the waist, too. 4 great deal mat
tiers where waist is concerned.
If it is too large, be very careful
not to draw attention to 1t. Never let
your belts or sashes attract notice by
reason Of their cut, shape or color;
never make Them in fact, "the fea-
ture" Of your gowns. Do not go in
for too clear waist outline, and
above all, be very careful how your
stays are made If you have "a fig
ure that wants keeping down" like
the clergyman's wife in RED Pottage'
well, be very careful that you dc
keep it down and how you do it. Lei
your belts and bands form deeplsf
point, and pin that point in place
(first of all pulling down your sk1r1
before you put in the pin, mind. DC
not have a high eeinture, and avoit
folded belts-those mean horizontal
lines, which are not for your waist
Avoid buckles, avoid anything glitter
ing in that region, eschew chatelaines
and such like tribes, punches O.
charms, Eyeglasses, purses suspended
whereabouts. Let your waist-weal
match the rest of your attire in colo
as much as possible, have nothins
dark or light when your frock is me
dunn. Have extra attention paid tt
the fit of anything, but, above all else
have nothing tight. 1t is COLDER
rule that so few people know, I hav'
found QUITO tighten your corsets i
| you must tighten something, bu
never, never to put on anything abov
those corsets that Is anything but ;
moderately close fit. AS for skirts
| they should be almost loose, only b.
sure they are arranged so that the.
| do not sag at the back. That spell
| Disaster with the biggest I'D" you cal
| write.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1906-09-13
FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for sixty years by millions OF
mothers for their children while teeth
ing, with perfect success. 1t sootbes
the child, softens the gums. allays all
pain, cures wind collie, and is the best
remedy for Diarrhoea. 1t will relieve
the poor little sufferer Immediately
Sold by druggists in every part OF the
world. twenty-five cents bottle. Be
sure and ask for MIS-. Winslow's Sooth-
ing Syrup.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1906-09-13
Lots of Chorus Singers.

81 started in as a chorus singer at
SIS a week, ten years ago. Now l
know some 60 operas and can sing in
five languages, and I am still getting
SIS a week. So it is with all of us. "
That is the pathetic plant of one OF
Herr Conried's striking chorus singers.
The most obvious moral of this COM
plant is that the thousands of young
people who join the choruses for a
livelihood had better stay at home
help their mothers and get married
There doesn't seem to be much hope
Tor nine-tenths of them in the oper.
attic business Boston Herald.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1906-09-13
THE BREATH OF LIFE

It's significant fact that the strong
est animal Of its size, the gorilla, also
has the largest lungs. Powerful lungs
mears powerful creatures. How to keep
the breathing organs right should be
man's chlefest study. Like thousands
Of others, Mrs., Ora A. Stephens, OF
Port Williams. o.. has learned how to
do this. She writes "Three bottles
of DR.. King New Discovery stopped
nv cough OF two years and cured me
OF what my friends thought consump-
tions O, It's grand for throat and
lung troubles. y" Guaranteed by E. T.
Whitehead & Co., druggists. Price
SOC and $l.O0. Trial bottle free.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1906-09-13
German Steamers.

The fastest and most sumptuously
equipped ocean steamships in the
world are now built in Germany.
There will shortly be placed in the
transatlantic service two vessels which
will surpass in every respect the Great
Eastern, which was one of the world S
marvels, and only failed to meet ex-
pectations because technical science in
1859 was not what 1T is to-day. The
one being built at Belfast has 22,25O
gross tons, is $50 feet long, IA feet
wide and SO feet deep, with Is, 800
horsepower The one being built near
Stettin has $4,000 gross tons, is zoe
feet long, II feet wide and 81 feet
deep. with 7,200-horsepower.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1906-09-13

! bath cleanse5 the skin and rlds
the pores 4 refuse. 4 bath makes for
tc..sr fellowship ara citizenship. Not
OIL should the outside Of the body be
ci7aus2d, but occasional use OF laxa-
i've or cat4a1t:o pens the bowels and
cieara he system If efete matter. Best
Tor this are DeWitt's Little Early
R.sers. Pleasant little pills that do
not aripa q sicken. Sold by E. T.
Nbf'Eha4d & CO,
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1906-09-13

A cold taken at this time of the year
is generally hard to get rid OF but 1t
will not be able to Withstand Bees
Laxative Honey and Tar. That will
cure all colds, coughs, Group, whoop
'ng cough, etc by driving them out
through the bowels If you have cold
try it and ii not cured get your money
back. No opiates.
Z. T. Whitehead & Co Scotland N eek
Laggetts drug store, Hobgood.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1906-09-13

IN these days Of rush and hurry
courtesy IS often forgotten. In the
mad, pe!l NEIL rush of our lille little
things are done to offend that we
rather remained undone. A hastily
eaten meal and It's resultant headache
may cause Us social or financial loss.
The wise man Or woman is the one
who relieves little Ills of this sort by
little dose OF KodOl for Dyspepsia. 1t
dlgosts what yOu eat and puts your
stomach back iaco shape. Sold by E.
=. N'tjtahcad & Co.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1906-09-13
"TO CURE 4 FELON"

se~s Sam Kendall, Of lipsburg,
Kan, inst cover it over with Buck
lens Atr'ca Sa!ve and the Salve will
do the rest" Quickest cure for Burns,
Boi!s, Sores, ScaIds, Wounds, Piles. Ec-
zena, Salt Rhaum, Chapped Hands,
5or9 Feet and Sore Eyes, Oaly 25c at
q I, Whitehead & Co.'S drug store.
Guaranteed.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1906-09-13

1t arouses energy, develops and SLIM
ula ties nervous life, srouses the courage
OF youth. 1t makes you young again.
That's what HOLSTERS Rocky Noun
tain Tea will do. 80 cents, Tea or
Tablets. E. T. Whitehead & co.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1906-09-13

When you have cold it is we'll to
be very careful about using anything
shat viii cause constipation. Be par
tieul3rly careful about preparations
containing opiates, Use Kennedy s
Laxative Honey and Tar, which stops
by Z. T. Whitehead e Co.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1906-09-13

ManZan relieves instantly the pain
caused by those blind, bleeding, itch
ing and protruding piles. 1t Is put up
n collapsible tubes IN such way that
1t can be applied where the trouble Or
iginates, thus stopping the pain imme-
dately. Try one bottle and if you are
not relieyed, your money Will be re-
iuaded. Try our free offer.
E. T. Whitehead q Co Scotland Neck
Leggett's drug store, Hobgood.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1906-09-13

Ask any JAP" that you may see,
why the Gar, with Bear behind,
had to climb tree.
The Yanks, God bless the Yanks, says
be,
They gave us Rocky Mountain Tea.
Z. T. Whitehead & Co.