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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-02-21

"Pineules'' mon -alcoholic)
made from resin from our Pine
Forests, used for hundreds of
years for Bladder and Kidney
diseases. Medicine for thirty
days, S1.O0. Guaranteed to
give satisfaction or money re-
funded. Get our guarantee
coupon from f. T. Whitehead
& Co., Scotland Neck, Leggett
Drug Co., HobgOod.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-02-21
The Source OF Chaiybedie Water.

The chalybeate waters of Tun-
bridge Wells are said to owe their
rudy tint and queer taste to the
fact that St. Dunstan flung his pinch
ers into them after that memorable
encounter recorded in the old
rhyme
St. Dunstan, as the story goes,
Once pulled the devil by the nose
With red hot tongs, which made him
That he was heard three miles or
or that the glowing proboscis and a
long snout is one Of the most marked
features of the fend in the medieval
art-was itself plunged into the heal
ing well when its owner had taken a
flying leap out Of the saints cell at
Mayfeld, some nine or ten miles
away London Queen.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-02-21

+. 7. Whitehead K Co.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-11
Lake Charles Has Touch Of OIL Fever.

Judging from the amount OF printers
ink used by the parish seat papers,
Lake Charles must have an acute at
tack of oil fever.
Driller wainwright said: II can get
up steam in my boiler, start my rig
and bring in the Watkins oil we'll as
a good producer of high grade crude
oil within six honrs after my rotary
starts" He also says: "1f | owned
what is within this fence, would not
take 100000 spot cash for it."
Within that fence there is less than
one acre of ground.
II the people Of Lake Charles have
the confidence in driller Wainrights
assertion, why don't they hustle
around, form company, get up some
capital and put down we'll on ada
cent territory? J. B. Watkins don
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-11
Notice Of Stockholders Meeting.

The annual meeting OF the Stock.
Holders OF the Welsh Oil and Land
Development Company, is hereby
called to meet at the Office OF L. E.
Robinson, on Tuesdry evening, Janu.
airy Is, 1907, at 1880 p. m, for the trans'
action of the business as provided In
the charter of said company, and for
whatever business that may be brought
before the meeting. 1t is especially
provided that the Stockholders shall
elect a board OF seven directors 70
serve for the ensuing year.
Lee E. Robinson President.
X. S. Hubener Secretary
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-11
OIL Sale ut Welsh.

The Central Oil Company Of Jack'
son, Mich, has sold all its oil In
storage, some 1900 barrels, to the
Rio Bravo Oil company the oil de-
partment of the Southern Pacific Rail.
road company, and delivery OF the oil
Is now under way through the pipe
line of the Rio Bravo company. This
Michigan company has just erected a
derrick to drill its third oil we'll on
proven land in the Welsh oil field
Jennings Times.Record.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-11
To the Public.

You are hereby warned not to pur'
chase a certain promissory note
signed by me, dated Welsh, La.
March /, 1904, to the order OF A. E.
Bell. for the sum of s355.00, with In
terest at the rate Of per cent. per an
mum from date until paid. Due Dec
r. 1905. Endorsed on same Dec. 4th,
1905. $4,000
r. s. Greer.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-11

Rust proof seed oats at Jones Bros.
Cents and boy 'shats, new line at r.
Y, Daniels.
Robert Todd went to Lake Charles
90 business Tuesday.
W 7. Hut heson spent Monday and
Tuesday, in EdgsrlY.
DsY books, journals. and ledgers
= he Journal book store.
Mr. and MRS. Philip Miller were
callers IN jennings Wednesday.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-11

own the earth. Show your nerve gen.
tlemen, put down a few wells and
show what you haye-iust as the citi-
zens of Welsh did and are doing.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-11

T95ltOr to crowley TUESDAY.
Typewriter ribbon at the Journal :
book store.
Mrs. F.. C. Hart was shopping in
Lake Charles Wednesday.
Fountain pens from one dollar to
six at the Journal book store.
VIM. B. Gabbert was a business
visitor to Jennings Monday.
A few fine barred Plymouth Rock
cockrels for sale. Geo. Welch.
Mrs. Paul Daniels came over from
Jennings Saturday morning,
Ed. Clark was transacting business
in Lake Charles Wednesday,
F. D. Calkins was transacting bust
ness in Lake Charles Monday.
Rust proof seed oats at Jones Bros.
w. T. McAffry was business WIS.,
itOr at Lake Charles Saturday.
Geo. Welch was morning passen-
ger TO the parish seat Saturday.
E. H. Boiling was one of the bust
ness visitors to Crowley Tuesday.
G. w. Patterson was business Wis
itor to Lake Charles Wednesday.
Comforts and blankets at all prices
to suit customers. P. W. Daniels.
Eli Lyons, Iowa's liveryman, was a
business visitor in our city Saturday.
Comforts and blankets at all prices
to suit customers. p. W. Daniels.
L. E. Robinson was business
passenger to Lake Charles Tuesday
Comforts and blankets at all prices
to suit customers. P. w. Daniels.
Mr.. Scott, a prominent rice plante
of Iowa, was transaeting business il
Welsh Monday.
FOR SALE:-A few fine china I'm
brella trees. Enquire of Mrs. Josep
Ladd.
]. W. Baker of the Hawkeye Ranc
was a business passenger to LAX
Charles Saturday morning.
go New line of gents shirts, also heav
fleece lined underwear for men an
boys, at Daniels.
NC. Davis and family togeth'
= with visiting relatives drove to Il
Jennings oil field Saturday.
New line gents shirts, also heaN
fleece lined underwear for men al
bows, at Daniels.
Misses Belle Bushnell and Ess
Stewart attended the district teache
\. association held in Jennings Satu
1883 day.
n A few choice Barred Plymouth Ro
III cockrels for sale. Inquire OF Geo.
- Welch.
Misses Tessie Davis and Geore
err Knott visited friends in Jennings a
attended EAST Lynn" Friday e
ming.
New line heavy gents shirts, a
ltV fleece lined underwear for men
boys, at Daniels.
John Armstrong went to Crow
Tuesday to attend the meeting OF
Southern Implement Dealers Assoc
ton.
FOR SALE: 1000 bags seed rice
wear from imported. Indian Ba,
Canal Company, Welsh or Bell City
Capt. Walsh, who has been look
after his interests here for the
m few days left Tuesday for New
1 leans.
- MFR. and Mrs. Vincent OF l.
Charles were the guests OF Mrs.
Az cents mother, Mrs. Buckingham,
Sunday.
..o,. Paul Brunette, rough rice gr'
for Viterbo Bros. Of Lake Char
came over to grade out some
Wednesday.
''h' Ask to sec our sofa pillows, =,
scarfs and doilies, stamped and
+ stamped; silks for same;
Jim Wilson of Evangeline, so
law of N. C. Davis, was in "
Tuesday visiting friends and at
ing lodge.
B. M L. E. Robinson returned Su
: ~ from Ell Campo, Texas, where he
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-11

Full line of ladies' and children
rubbers mems rubber boots, knee and
hip lengths, also fleece lined gossi'
mere rubbers at P. w. Daniels.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-11
Southern Pacific Time Card.

Nos. 7 and 8 night trains.
ph0ne 81 for further information
j. F. TUBBs, Agent.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-11


wears ago. He now says Louisiana
is good enough for him.
That's the mouse the Doctor built,
The biggest house you see;
Thank goodness he don't get our
money,
For We take HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea, Cooper Drug 90.
The bridge which was provided for
by the city council, to be put across
the BAYOU east OF town, Is practically
completed, and opens up direct
road from Welsh to Jennings. This
bridge is also a great convenience TO
8 number of the citizens who live In
the Saxby neighborhood.
Builds up waste tissue, promotes
appetite, improves digestion, induces
refreshing sleep, gives renewed
strength and health. That's wha'
lHollister's Rocky Mountain Tea does
IS cents, Tea or Tablets. Cooper
Drug 90.
Prot. Philips, Miss Shaw and Mis-
Allen were in attendance at the teach
er's association at Jennings Satur
day. Miss Shaw read q paper OF
"How to Interest Beginners" whicl
was greatly appreciated by her audi
J ance. They report an interesting
meeting.
SrRAYED OR SToLEN:-From tn
farm of e. Raca, one brown, 4 yea
y old horse mule, weight about on
q thousand to eleven hundred pounds
I no marks, name and tail clippe
' about two months ago. Liberal n
q ward given for information leading 7
y recovery Of same. E. RAcA.
Jan At Inornwe'i' ns'
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-10-25
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tered Village Improvement Associa-
tion in the country, it was probably
at that time the most enthusiastic,
and had perhaps the largest attend
ance. New Haven, Connecticut, can
rightly claim the first effort in viii
lage improvement, while Stockbridge,
Massachusetts,, should be remembered
as offering the second.
More than a hundred years ago
James Hillhouse, of New Haven, or
ganized what he called the "Public
Green Association" He raised $500
for grading the green and for plant
ing elms. One man is said to have
donated five gallons of rum for this
purpose. James Hillhouse was also
United States Senator for twenty
years. Almost every one had for
gotten what he did at Washington,
but no one is likely to forget his SER
vices in making the city of New
Haven classic by the beauty of ma
ture's Gothic architecture. The whole
country owes him debt of gratitude
that can only be paid by planting elms
in his memory.-H. D. Ward. in
Woman's Home Companion.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-10-25
Take Your Choice.

Who shall say which is the proper
way for a woman to ride horse,
cross-saddle or side-saddle? There
are advocates of both methods, but
the Eastern eye twinkles with humor
at some of the incongruities of the
Western methods. A young man of
Boston took up life in a Colorado
town next door to a dear old lady of
seventy. She was of the patient, do
mestic type, with smoothed. parted
hair, knitting or darEing always in
her hands as she peacefully rocked
the hours away on her front porch.
The young Bostonian watched her
thus and made sentimental con-
lectures about the sad inertia of her
declining days and the helplessness
of old age. But when the morning
work was done, knitting laid aside
and dinner eaten, this gay girl put
on divided skirt and sombrero, called
pony, lightly threw leg over the
Mexican saddle and loped off to see
her friends.-Woman's World.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-10-25
The Woman of To-Day.

Writing on the subject, as There
an American Type of Feminine Beau
ty?" in Everybody's, James Huneker
says:
twenty-five years ago blonde
women (real blondes) were far from
rare; careless observer can see at
the present that American women in
pigmentation are becoming darker.
Up in New England, out in certain
parts of the West, the thin, nervous,
plain-featured, earnest, underfed and
overworked female was in the ma
jority. Her voice reached us across
picket fences, her hand was in every
pie. Above all, she sang in church
on Sundays! When Mr.. James and
Mr.. Howells began to write of her she
was already vanishing. Where has
she gone? You encounter isolated
specimens to-day; and her feminine
contemporaries make mock of her
queer bonnet and her Puritan con-
science.
Every decade is adding it's quota
of arrangement of the normal ma
tional woman-as we once saw her.
What has become of this average
American woman? Where is the
waist of yester-year? Women's
hands and feet are larger; the skel-
etal formation is said to be bigger.
They are not afraid of the winds that
tan, the sun that freckles. They
motor and golf; they swim, row,
wrestle. They play Chopin, despite
all these things-mirabile dictu!
They stand the strain of college
study, and there seems to be no
marked dimunition in the birth-rate.
They are taller, broader of chest, and
their eye is as soft as their mother S
(for the happy chap, of course). Is
there an American type? 1t would
seem so, after these statements. Un-
luckily for the statistician, the same
girl may be seen to-day in Germany.
in England, Ireland. Scotland, France.
Italy, Austria. Northern women are
of splendid physique. The truth is
that the feminine movement Is world
wide"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-10-25
The Queen of Chess.

Mrs. Baird, who has been called
AThe Queen of Chess" has published
1900 chess problems, and no woman
has eclipsed the position which she
holds in the chess world. She pos
sesses about fifty prizes recured in
open competitions, and of them she
has said: "These are the product of
combination of labor and recrea-
ton. 1 say labor because 1 am not
such chess enthusiast as to believe
that problems to stand the public test
can be produced without persistent
application, partaking of the nature
of work, and recreation because the
work has been pleasure-how great
pleasure only a problem composer
can fully realize. Mrs. Baird s
father, mother and two brothers
share her enthusiasm for chess. She
has other recreations, including arch
cry, tennis and cycling. City
Journal.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-10-25
Not Mans Work.

Moonlit and springtime moods all
to the contrary, the fact remains
that marriage is not mans work, but
Gne of his dearest delusions, from
which he parts begrudgingly. More
over, it is not even necessary to him
in the accomplishment of those things
which are his work. 1t is generally
no more than his dream of prolonging
through years a humanity improbable
condition. Happiness as a husband
and father has always been his scarce
ly whispered prayer, his dearest se-
cret hope, toward which all his ideal
ism yearns. That numerous other
and very potent motives enter into
mems hearts is not in the least over
looked; it is only claimed that to the
average man his future marriage is
little more than a very beautiful
dream.-Anna A. Roberts, in the At
lantic.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-10-25
The Raking of the Green.

Many years ago there was observed
q unique custom in the little town of
Guilford, Connecticut. On one day in
the sall of the year the women of the
town assembled on the village green.
Each carried wooden rake, decorat-
ed with her favorite color, and each
was dressed in white, decked out with
colored ribbons. 1t was day of fete,
and it was called "The Raking of the
Green"
Then with song and laughter AMI
with many jest this band of women
cleaned the village green of all the
leaves and refuse and dirt of a years
accumulation. When the job was
done, they adjourned to the Town
Hall, where they were joined by their
husbands and brothers and the vii
iage fathers. A public ban 1uct cele-
brated the occasion.
While this was not the first char
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-10-25
WANTED: A WORRIER.
By Annie Hamilton DonneH

Mrs. Heath's anxious voice drifted
down the hall, down the stairs.
Did Caroline take an umbrella?'
A cheerful, sixteen-year-old voice
drifted back up the stairs, up the hall.
Il don't know. I'll count 'em."
81 know she didn't" grOaned the
anxious voice in the period of waiting.
land she had all her best clothes on,
as she always has when it's cloudy"
'.She never! Here's four in the UNI
brella stand. But don't you go to
worrying, marmie; it only looks like
rain
Mrs. Heath resumed her dar1ing and
her worrying. She was tiny woman
who should have been pink and white
and smooth, unworried. Faint care
lines, as it was, crisscrossed her gen
tie face. Umbrellas was but one item
of her daily program of anxietles. Sne
was the family worrier-all the pos
sible and impossible calamltleS tnat
might or might not happen to seven
lusty Heaths happened to them in her
Imagination.
THAT lovely hat! Caroline is so
care Mercy, I'm sure smell smoke! y
She hurried to the head of the stairs
Mig! Mig!"
"Yes'm," against the cheerful young
voice.
You there?" Mrs. Heath was mild
ly addicted to needless questions. L
smell fire. Is the baby anywhere near
the matches?"
The baby was five and utterly un-
reconciled to his mortifying title.
He's in the same room, but he's on
the floor, and the match"
Then it's Thyrsa. She's probably
lighting the fire with kerosene. Run,
Mig, quick!"
81 will. I'll put her out-never you
mind, marmie!"
There was scurry of light feet fol-
lowed by dumping little ones. 1t was
the baby who reported, a moment lat
er.
"Nothin's burnin' 'cept the fire." he
shouted at the top of good lungs.
'Well, it's a mercy! Something
else will burn one of these days, with
everybody so reckless. We shall wake
up some morning and find ourselves
burned to a crisp. wonder where l
dropped that needle? Now some one
will step on it and have lockjaw! l
shan't take a minutes peace until |
find it.
She took very few minutes peace,
day or night Did Griffith ii. read MS
Latin over the second time before he
went to school? Had Griffith |. re-
membered to order coal? Was Thyrsa
coming down with another earacne
What if the new neighbors turned
out to be the wrong kind? What II
the dressmaker got Mig's dress TOO
short-or too long-or the sleeves
skimpy? What if hundred otner
dreadful things happened?
The seven other Heaths enjoyed life
in a healthful, untroubled fashion that
to the little family worrier appeared
incomprehensible The weight of the
cares they ought to feel and the wor-
ries they ought to worry added to her
own full CULVER until the burden grew
almost too heavy for her slender
shoulders. It happened that this par
ticular afternoon was destined to be
the fateful one. Quite suddenly and
unpremeditatedly the half-mended
stocking dropped from Mrs. Heath's
fingers.
I'm too tired to worry about an
other thing!" she said with a curious
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-10-25

air of finality. Somebody else must
do it now-I've done my part" Her
tired eyes had a strained look. She
was conscious of a sudden desire to
change places with the baby, so that
she might cry. She put her hand to
her head. If anything should snap
she had never been afraid before that
anything would snap.
1--we got to stop worrying" she said
aloud. Henrietta Heath, you listen
to me. When l say three you STOP"
She had left her little STRAIGHTFORWARD
sewing chair and sunk into Griffith l. s
soft rocker. "One-two-" she counted
slowly, three! Have you stopped,
Henrietta Heath?"
Il have stopped" nodded Henrietta
Heath from the depths of the great
chair. She closed her eyes in relaxed
abandonment of earthly cares But
unconsciously she worried on because
she was not worrying. Some one must
worry-a helpless family could not be
left in the lurch like this. She must
find some one to take her place
'I'll advertise she thought, and got
paper and pencil.
The wording of the notice gave her
little trouble; it was odd how her pen
ell flew from line to line. Things one
might suppose to be difficult and un-
usual appeared simple enough now to
her. She read the advertisement aloud.
it sounded well.
Wanted: A working worrier for a
family of seven. Only competent per-
son need apply. Permanent situation
for the right one. References. Ad-
dress HENRIETTA Heath, Crescent Ter
race
The Pineboro Evening Call went to
press at noon. 1t was too late for
today, but none too early for tomor-
row. Mrs. Heath, in the calm convic-
ton of doing the right thing in the
right way, put on her things and de-
parted leisurely for the printing es-
tablishment of the Evening Call
Il wish this advertisement inserted
in tomorrow's paper" she said to the
polite person who came forward to
meet her. 81 am sorry it could not
have been 1t is too late for today,
l suppose?"
'M-m-yes, certainly, madam" The
polite person was reading the little
slip of paper. He looked up unsmil-
ingly When he spoke his tone was
solicitous
THE paper has gone to press. We
could only get out an extra. If there
| is great hurry" He waited.
Mrs. Heath shook her head slowly.
Tomorrow will do she said, "but
| not day later. And | shall be obliged
if you will give it prominent place .
"On the first page, madam. Give your
self no worriment"
| Of course she would not do that.
Worriments were behind her now.
But it worried her. The helpless FAM
| ily-the helpless family! "Only till to-
morrow" she comforted herself.
The next day, just before tea time,
Mrs. Heath was summoned by Thyrsa
to the parlor. A stranger in black
dress rose at her entrance. There was
only time to note the extreme gravity
bordering upon sourness, of the strang-
er's face before nervous voice spoke.
II came in answer to your adver-
tisement In today's Call"
"Oh! Oh, yes, you are a-a-" Mrs.
Heath faltered in palpable embarrass-
ment.
@Worrier-yes. Professional. Forty
years experience. Thirteen years and
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-10-25

always done put
Meanwhile the people
prosperity Dougnt
which
would be better TO nave All
license were gwen
matter now enencal
that while bad motives
motives
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-10-25
Slightly Mixed.

This is told as an actual happening
to Kansas man. He and his family
had gathered around the supper
table, and all heads were bowed for
him to ask a blessing, when the tele-
phone bell rang. The man answered
it; and, coming back to the table.
again bowed his head, but again the
telephone rang. He answered that
call; then for the third time seated
himself and, bowing his head. said,
Hello! !"-Lippincott's.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-10-25

The Philippine coal mined at Batan
is superior to the Japanese and Aus
tralian coal. which in turn Is better
than the Pacific and Alaskane II
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-10-25


the wnlcn one can
handns These rubbed rapidly against
goosequ the grassnop-
persia cheerful chirup
of confined in closet Dey
gahoppers who proved quite pniopnca On b
hddng all the rap at
door imitation of their hrupn which the
make
chorus by the whole group one OF .ne aes was
by mandolin wheea Madam Grynus new
Certainly mere was
form OF
around sexual parental loves-From Harpers
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-10-25
The Music Language
By III @ McCoolx.

sriduaton The insect music
with familiar is thus caused The organs
which produce built the principle the
violin mandolin In other words they are the result OF resu
lated friction
the shorthorned grasshopper or true
of
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-10-25

United states AttOrneY~Ge11erdI n drIIAOlh
authority resides in the people, who have soienn
1ished their Will is 10 Do
with the utmost care and dehDera'o
decided with certain powers ana
respective with other powers All pow
until pest
grant more the Constitution chango