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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-01-11
What He Needed.

Cholly Nowitt-D'ye know, Miss
Smart, though I've only met you,
there seems to be a sort Of intellectual
sympathy between us? You know
just how to appeal to my tastes, you
sec Are you a literary woman?
Dolly Smart-No; I'm a kindergar-
ten teacher.-Tit.Bits.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-01-11
Makinu His WAY,

Education helps a man to make his
way in the world"
YES" answered the man who al.
ways sneers; there is no doubt that
a little football experience helps Out
on q crowded street car"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-01-11
Preeautlon.

What have You to be thankful for?"
asked the discouraging person.
Il don't know yet answered the
optimist And when I find out I'm
going to keep 1t a secret for fear
somebody nike you will try to argue
me out Of It"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-01-11
The Elevator Pump.

To make the elevator pump run
smoothly dissolve a package or two
Of good washing powder In the water
contained In the open tank Of the
elevator system.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-01-11
Depends on the Man.

Biffs-They say q mans brain csIls
are limited. Do you believe II?
B~angs--Yours are,I think.-petroit
Free Press.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-01-11

to the smoke fue, and lowers on the
gauge side. This causes the float to
drop, thus pulling down on the
ratchet, and turns the hand upward.
OIL is a good liquid to use, as 1t
neither freezes nor eyaporates.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-01-11
Spanker the Latest.

an ~unlabored soothing rocking of the
crib, which continues unit. the young
ster is asleep.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1907-01-11

Uncle Sam viii now proceed to
build the biggest warship svsr hnatsa.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-11-06
Insanity and Drunkenness.

There is no question of the fact
hat insane asylums all over the world
are to a great extent recruited from
the class of hard drinkers, and from
their offspring and descendants.
Twenty-one per cent. of the lunatics
now under restraint in the United
States have an alcoholic history"
liquor being either the sole Of a con-
tributing cause Of their misfortune.
Paresis, which of late years has be-
come so much more common, is a typ
ical alcoholic brain disease, though
not always attributable to drink. 1t
is n~oticeably frequent among brokers
and actors, who as a class are much
addicted to constant "nipping."
1t is said that, to a skilled patholo-
gist, the effects produced by alcohol
upon the brain Of a moderate"
drinker are plainly visible under the
microscope. The drug acts directly
as a stimulant upon the nerve cen
tres, chief among which is the brain,
and after awhile, when taken in ex-
cessive quantities, Injuries the deli
cate structures of the mind organ, i'm
pairing it's efficiency and eventually
breaking it down. But the most
unfortunate feature Of the case is
that the mischief is liable to be trans
mitted in one form or another to
children, who become drunkards,
show signs of mental weakness, or
have a tendency to be epileptic or
otherwise afflicted with nervous dis
ease.-Pearson's Magazine.
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Temperance Notes.

Don't let money go down in drink.
Americans drank 100000 gal
Ions of whisky last year.
The u of prohibition continues
to make progress in the South.
The biggest fool l know is a woman
who marries a man, knowing all the
time that he is dissipated.-Sam
Jones.
The man who drinks beer is reason
ably sure to have something to say
of the unhealthful effect of ice cream.
-Atchison Globe.
Morristown, Ohio, has declared
herself = temperance town. The vote
took place on May %. The whole
western part of Belmont County is
now under local option.
The wave of temperance reform
now sweeping owe the South seems
to be losing none of its strength, and
its progress will be watched with I'M
usual interest on account of it's prob
able effect upon labor conditions.
After about six weeks of consid-
Grafton, the Los Angeles City Coun-
Gil, on May 20, passed an ordinance
compelling all wholesale liquor houses
to go out Of business or get into the
saloon zone" before April l, 1908.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

Most books worth reading once are
worth reading twice.. Morley.
Be pitiful, for every mai is fight
ing a hard b~attle.-Woman's Life.
He who makes constant complaints
gets little compassion.-Home Notes.
The golden rule of Christ will bring
the golden age to man.-Frances Will
lard.
The best woman is the woman WIN
is the least talked about.-Old Pro
verb.
1t is love that makes time pass, and
it is time that makes love pass.-Old
Proverb.
The unjust, however, get some
thing for being rained upon.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Not education, but character, is
mans greatest need and mans great
est safeguard.-Woman's Life.
There is always the sunshine, only
we must do our part, we must move
into it.-Clara Louise Burnham.
There is nothing that subdues an
enemy and converts him into a friend
like treating him kindly.-Home
Notes.
Our life is but the childhood Of our
eternity, the school days preparatory
for the immortal years beyond.-Can.
on Farrar.
To believe, not because we are
learned and car prove, but because
there is a something in US, wen Gods
own spirit, which makes US feel light
as light and truth as truth-this is
the blessed faith.-F. w. Robertson.
Some earnest enthusiasm of life is
the effectual cure of all disquiet.
There will always be minor cares and
troubles for those who are at leisure
10 attend to them; nor can we be res.
eued from these except by interests
and pursuits that take us out of their
REGION. H. Thorn.
You must love in order to under.
stand love. One act of charity will
teach us more Of the love of God
Than a thousand sermons. One act
of un~selfshness, CT real self-denial.
will tell us more Of the meaning of
the Epiphany than whole volumes on
theology.-F. w. Robertson.
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A Missing. Auto-Part.
nv W. j. HAMPTON.

The New York man, who likes tc
run his auto into the remote parts
of the world. had got away over into
one of the zeal counties of Jersey.
On a road which showed no signs
of we having been plowed by a
scorcher, he anne to a small Wayslde
Joint devoted to the entertainment
of man and beast. He went In to get
a little, and when he came out an eX-
| cellent specimen of the rural jersey
man was inspecting the car with the
greatest interest.
What in hominy is the blame
thing?" inquired the curious Jersey
man as the New Yorker approached.
Don't you know?" laughed the
New Yorker pleasantly.
We'll, l thought it might be a new-
tangled thrashin'-machine, but it's got
too much furniture-polish an brass
works on it fer that"
Didn't you V e see n before?"
mo. They don't use 'em round
here"
Haven't you ever been to New
York;"
Gee, no! What do I want to go
there fer? Plenty doin' round here
to keep me busy"
The man kept nosing around the
car during his talk, and was becom-
ing more curious. The New Yorker
was letting him have his head. He
thought there might be some inter-
esting developments.
Cant you guess what is it," he
inquired after a minute.
Il never was much on guessil'.
What in hominy is it,"
Its an automobile"
"Oh, is that SO? I never seen one,
but I've heered of 'em. What kind of
a one is it?"
The Jerseyman began to show
signs of knowledge. He was one of
the kind who make a little go a long
way.
WELL" replied the New Yorker,
bound to give it to him good and
hard and in quantities to suit, 1T
is a six-cylindered compound, double
opposed motor, multiple disk-clutch,
planetary transmission, removable
tonneau, water-cooled car Of the lat
est design"
"Is that so?" said the ~Jerseyman,
walking around it carefully and in
specting it like an old connoisSeur.
How much does one of 'em cost?"
"Oh, FIVE or six thousand dollars"
"Jim-whitaker! that much mone-
down."
"Yes; and more, sometimes"
The Jerseyman walked all around
it very slowly, making a close
scrutiny.
There's only one thing I don't
egzackly ketch," he said, shaking his
head.
What's that?" inquired the New
Yorker, always ready to inform.
well, l don't see where the dick
ems you hitch the bosses o'the blame
thing"
Then it became. up to the New
Yorker.-From Judge.
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TO be Continued.
Comforts on the Farm.

In the past few years the formers
Of Brown County have fitted up theiI
country homes with nearly ever!
convenience, such as bath and toilet
rooms, telephones and furnaces. With
mail delivered every day and gooc
roads they are even more comfortably
situated than their city brethren
Johr Leidy, a farmer living near
Robinson, has gone them all one bet.
ter by installing a complete electric
light plant on his place, which lights
his house, barns, COW sheds, corn
cribs and granaries. A gasoline en-
CINE runs the dynamo for the plant.
Kansas City Journal.
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Lambert's abode, and once in tn

Lambert's abode, and once in the
| Boulevards.
In the first instance he greeted
| Glynn with the frankest expression
of sorrow and sympathy for the great
misfortune which had befallen Lam
bert, mentioning his own deep grief,
and his compassionate forgiveness OF
Lambert's injurious accusations
against himself.
Glynn found Lambert in a state OF
furious excitement after this visit,
and ~uttering violent half-unintell1-
gible threats against Vincent.
On their second meeting Glynn
tried to pass him, but in vain, and
was obliged to listen to a string OF
suggestions and conjectures respect
ing the supposed fugitive which near
ly drove him to throttle his interlo-
cutor and fling him into the street
under the hoofs of the passing horses,
especially as he felt that Vincent's
small, penetrating, watchful eyes
were intently, searchingly fixed on
his face while he spoke.
At length letters from his partners
obliged him to quit the scene of SO
much suffering and disaster.
1t was with the deepest reluctance
that Glynn bid Lambert goodbye,
The unhappy father still wore the
same aspect Of helplesness, Of sullen
| submission to the Irresistible. He
scarcely needed Glynn's announce
ment of his immediate departure, and
merely answered his ardent request
for the earliest information respect
ing any crumbs of intelligence in the
affirmative. He put Glynn's card in
his pocketbook mechanically. Yet he
wrung his hand hard at parting, and
bid God bless him, brokenly-yet
heartily.
Glynn, not satisfied with Lambert's
promise, obtained an interview with
M. Claude, who was even more curt
and immovable than ever He, how
ever, condescended to promise that he
would not fail to let him know should
any trace Of the missing girl be
found.
The second day after he had re-
| sumed his attendance at the office he
| found himself too faint and dizzy to
| continue the writing on which he was
engaged. His head ached intensely,
his pulses throbbed. He rang, and
began to explain to the clerk who
answered his sumomns that he felt so
i'll he must return home; but before
he could finish his sentence he fell
heavily at the feet of his startled
nearer. He was conveyed carefully
to his own residence, which he did
not leave for many weeks-not Till
he had been brought to the verge of
the grave by a fierce brain fever.
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The CRUSADE AGAINST DRINK
PROGRESS MADE BY CHAMPIONS
FIGHTING THE RUM DEMON.

Drinking Among Women-Horrifying
Narrative Of an Entertainment
Participated in by a Score of
4ighly Respected Women.
Upon her return to New York from
a European trip, q wealthy American
woman gave a dinner at e fashionable
hotel to a party of women friends.
twenty-five sat down to an elaborate
ly garnished board in a private apart
ment. The hostess, whose husband
is a well known merchant, sat at the
head of the table.
Waiter" she said, II want you to
open wine and keep these glasses
full"
Il should think you'd start it with
a cocktail" commented an Eastern
woman, mother of two children.
Il don't know why I should" re-
piled the hostess. II have been
drinking highballs and cocktails ever
since / got out of bed at 2 o'clock
this afternoon"
The party laughed.
Some had their way, however, and
cocktails were served first to them.
Others started with wine. Two wom-
en- sat at the table who. did not drink.
Twenty quarts of champagne were
opened and consumed by twenty
women between s o'clock in the even
ing and 1 o'clock the next morning.
We will not mention the highballs
and cocktails.
The hostess of this delightful en-
tertainment was too drunk at mid
night to hold her head up. Three
women were overcome to such an ex-
tent that they could not leave the
apartment until the following day.
This occurred among highly re-
spected women in a highly respectable
hotel.
1t is doubtless true that the use Of
int~oxicants by women is on the in
crease. Women now drink in public
places with men, and the same heavy
liquors. .
The fends of He'll never contrivcd
a worse plot against humanity. True
motherhood and even polite" drunk
mess cannot be confused. Once in
/ while a man finds 1t possible to keep
q fortune intact and be known as a
successful man and still drink. More
often he fails in such an attempt.
But no woman can accomplish the
greatest function of her sex, replen-
ishing the earth and rearing her chill
iren in an atmosphere Of sweet
purity, with tainted breath, a body
weakened by the ravages of alcohol
or a mind made torpid in drink.
The devil of to-day is striking at
the heart of humanity as well IS the
soul of idealism when he successfully
tempts women with liquor.-Rural
Weekly.
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How the Judge Viewed 1t.

Even a Judge on the bench likes
his joke.
A nan whose name is Waters was
arraigned in a Billville court on a
charge of assault and battery.
What did you do to him." asked
the judge, Ito make him assault
you?"
I'VE wuz at dinner" was the re-
ply, AN we got into a dispute, an
all l did wuz to hit him side the head
with a corndodger. an a week after
ward he come back an beat me up
shameful"
Well" said the judge, you know
what the Scripture says: Bread cast
upon the waters will return to you
after many days. ATLANTA Consti-
tuition.
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CHAPTER VII.
Will-o-'-the-Wisp

A new year was opening on the
just and unjust-the fortunate and
the unfortunate. Lady Gethin had
arrived in town after a prolonged
Christmas visit to some attentive rela-
tives in one of the midland countries.
1t was the day after her return.
She was thinking, with an unusually
softened expression on her strong
face, of her favorite, Hugh Glynn.
She had been intensely anxious about
him during his severe illness. She
had constantly visited his sickroom,
and satisfied herself that nurses and
servants were doing their duty.
When his life was despaired Of, she
was grimly still, silent, and enduring,
but she knew that all the woman in
her somewhat masculine nature had
gone out, in maternal affection, to her
husbands nephew.
When he was slowly struggling
back to life and strength she accom-
panied him to a south coast bathing
place, and gave him the great benefit
of her companionship, for she knew
how to be alphabetically silent, as
we'll as c%ongenially talkative. In
this prolonged tete-a-tete Glynn grew
| sincerely and gratefully attached to
the outspoken, free-thinking old
woman.
Attachment brought confidence,
and before they parted Hugh Glynn
had told her the strange history of
his sudden love for Elsie Lambert, of
the hold it had taken of him in spite
of reason, prudence, worldly wisdom
every motive that ought to guide
a man Of his maturity and experience.
He even confessed to the weakness
of regretting he had rejected Lam
bert's proposal of marriage with his
daughter.
In the story of Elsie's disappear
ance Lad" Gethin was profoundly in
terested, though to Glynn's disap-
pointment and indignation. she did
not hesitate to declare her belief that
the young lady eloped voluntarily and
had probably since informed her
father of her whereabouts-a fact he
might think it wiser not to divulge.
Reviewing these conversations,
Lady Gethin sat forgetful of her
book, when the object of her thoughts
was announced.
Why didn't you come to dinner?"
she exclaimed, holding out her hand.
Because ] have been dining ear
lier than usual at the house of a
| cousin of mine in the suburbs, where
1 have been officiating as godfather to
his first-born son."
"A very p~atriaTchal proceeding.
Who is this cousin-do know him."
Il think not; he is a cousin on my
mothers side, and has a cure of souls
at Clapham.'
"Well, Hugh, and how are you?
You look better and stronger"
Il am! / have turned the corner
and am beginning to pull mechani-
cally against the collar once more"
Lady Gethin looked earnestly at
him. He seemed taller than ever
| gaunt and bony. His dark face was
very colorless, his eyes sunken; yet
his attitude and air had less of lassi-
tude than. when they had parted last.
You have been across the Chan
nel?"
Yes: I ran over to Paris for a lit
tie change, just before Christmas.
Paris draws me like a magnet"
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4 Death.

In the London hospital ward was E
little girl whose brother had died
recently enough to make his sister
still a subject of reflected interest
1T was all along of eatin' too much
ice cream and ginger cookies" she
said to the doctor who was attend.
ing her. Then she smiled beatif.
cal1y and piously. ut was a beauti-
fHl death, DOCTOR"
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New Canadian Coal Enterprise.

Consul J. E. Jones, of Winnipeg,
in reporting the formation of the
Great West Coal Company, at Port
Arthur, Ontario. says: "A large tract
of coal land in the Province of AL
berta has been purchased as the re-
suit of recent Investigations, and
claims have been filed for $4,000
acres of what is said to be the best
coal land in the Northwest. In con
nection with the development Of the
coal lands the, company has acquired
the charter of the Great Western
Railway, which extends from Calgai.'
through the coal fields to the inter-
National boundary"
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SUNDAY Thoughts
X ofNoted
D Dizziness.
ENDURING WEALTH.

/ envy not
The wicked man when be succeeds
Nor want his gold by evil got \
And cruel deeds.
Alas, upon
His wealth his only hope relies
Then, like a shadow, it is gone
And then he dies.
The righteous man,
Whose deeds are kind, and motives pure
Has less, perhaps, but past hfe's span
Shall it endure.
What work I can -
| do 20 get me honest gain;
But will not rob my fellow-man,
Nor honor stain.
| tuard and hold
For God and man my goods in store,
And thus shall use and still have gold
Forevermore.
w. C. Martin, in the Christian Herald.
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Canadian Archbishop Against Rum.


One of the finest deliverances
favorable to temperance and against
drunkenness, moderate drinking and
use of alcohol in any form has just
been sent forth to Canadian Roman
Catholics by Archbishop B%ruchesis.
1t re%-enforces the argument from re-
ligion with the facts Of science; he
calls on the clergy to give over the
habit of setting forth liquor on pas
toral visits and gatherings for re-
treats and MISSIONS; he requests farl-
lilies to have ideals Of hospitality
which do not make the use of liquors
necessary; he implores youth to abb
sent themselves from saloons and
from the foolish habit Of treating; he
calls on priests and teachers in edu-
cational institutions to refer to in
temperance in class rooms, and he Or
ders all parishes to establish temper
ance leagues and the same order ap-
piled to colleges and laval University.
The Congregationalist.
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The Only Reason.
dear old Mrs.

And dear old Mrs. -, your
aunt? She must be rather feeble
low. Tell me, how is she?"
Buried her yesterday said the
Major.
Buried her? Dear me. dear mel
Is the good old lady dead?"
Yes that's why we buried her.
said the Acknowledgements.
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Why the Devil Laughs.

-. A writer in one of the Chicago
dailies said: This annual drink bill
of the United States, if stacked up
in silver dollars, would reach two
thousand three hundred and seventy
miles toward heaven, and this blood
money must be a great stencil in the
nostrils of a just God. This terrible
traffic connects earth with hell, and
devils laugh as one hundred thousand
of our citizens are annually sacrificed
by the suffrage of a civilized Chris
tian nation"
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Meaning of Christianity.

l entirely mistake the meaning Of
Christianity, if, so far from discoun-
tenancing, it does not demand per-
feet freedom of thought, and enjoin
it as a sacred duty that, holding fast
to that which is good, we prove all
things.-W. H. Furness.
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Girl Digs Tn $4,000 in Coins.

On the premises of the late John
Rourke, a miser. at Turkey Creek,
Ky, Martha Rourke, sixteen years
old, unearthed a pot containing $4,000
in gold and silver coin, much Of it
rare specie.
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Science in the Bible.

The Bible contains the mathemat-
les of morality, the trigonometry Of
truth, the biology of the blessed life,
the science of the soul.
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Uncle Sam Wants Farriers.

Short, broadbacked men are want
ed to do ho~rseshoeing, so the War
Department announces. The new
mounted service school is at Fort
Riley, Kan.
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We Must Know God.

In order to do great things for God
we must be conversant with what
great things He has done FIR u.s.
Watson. ~
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Courage.

The highest courage is to trust in
the power of the spiritual qualities
over the material.-Rev. Frank
Crane, Congregationalist, Worcester,
Mass.
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City Children Fewer.

1t would appear from recent stats.
tics that the English are dying out in
the cities. In the year 1900 the num-
Der of children was thirty-three per
cent. of the population. In the year
1900 they were only twenty-three
per cent. Fewer children are born in
the towns and more die there. The
physicians say that this is due in a
great degree to the many demands on
the time of the mothers, which make
them neglect their children.
Lead Pencils Produced.
America produced 308,S50,O16
wood-incased lead pencils in 1905, J