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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1908-01-02

Il. y. HAL, OF w olQOn, spent the
holidays here.
Miss Alice Ferell spent Christmas
at her home in Raleigh.
Master Joe Riddick is away on &
visit to relatives in Tillery.
Mrs. A. C. Peterson went to Colds.
boro last week to visit relatives.
Miss Bessie Gray went last week
to Salem to visit Mrs. H. A Giersch
r. S. Neal came last week on
visit to his father, Maj. J. B. Neal.
J. A. Weathersbee and w. T. Ras-
berry spent Christmas day in Nor
folk.
Mrs. G. w. Gay, of Richmond, was
here last week to visit Mrs. R. J.
Madry.
Miss Florence Terrell, Of Louis
burg, last week visited the Misses
Legget.
W. A. Brantley spent part of the
holidays on visit to friends in Ber-
tie County.
Mrs. Weldon 7. Smith spent Christ
mas here with her father-in-law, Mr..
R. H. Smith.
Miss Edith Browning, Of Littleton,
spent the holidays here visiting Mrs.
J. E. Hancock.
Clarence Riddick was here last
week from Fayetteville on a visit
to his mother.
Misses Annie Fenner and Bessie
Durham were here Monday night
visiting friends.
J. Frank Brinllley and daughter,
Miss Helen, spent a day in Scot
land Neck recently.
r. L. Joyner came up from Nor
folk to spend Christmas with his
father, NJ. D. Joyner.
Hon. Claude Kitchin came from
Washington and spent the Christmas
holidays with his family.
Miss Emma Hollowell, Of Colds
bore spent the holidays here with
her sister, Mrs. D. M. Prince.
Miss Jamsie Barr, Of Tarboro,
spent last week here with her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chauncy.
Misc Alma Murchison, Of Rocky
Mount, was q visitor here last week,
the guest Of Misses Futrell.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Joyner, Of Nor
folk came home Christmas to spend
the holidays with their parents.
Otis Bracey came over from
Rocky Mount to spend Christmas
with his father, G. W. Bracy.
Dir. and Mrs. J. D. Biggs, of Will
iamston, spent part Of the holidays
with Mrs. Kate Dunn, Mrs. Biggs'
Mrs. G. 7. Lumpkin, who has been
visiting relatives in Littleton,. re-
5urned to her home in Scotland Neck
Wednesday.
Mrs. Laura Applewhite came down
rom Raleigh last week and will re-
main some days in the community to
visit her friends.
Messrs. J. L. Bell, of Norfolk, and
!. L. Bell, Of Suffolk, spent Christ
mas here with their parents, Mr..
md Mrs. J. Whit Bell.
]. T. Shute, Mrs. F. T. Turner,
and Miss Freddie Shute, Of New
oern, spent part Of the holidays here
with Mrs. A. A. Shute.
Mrs. B. F. Weaver spent several
lays in Enfield last week on account
If the sickness and death of her
brother, Mr.. D. K. Smith.
Miss Carrie Mitchell, daughter Of
Senator c.. w. Mitchell, of Aulander,
spent some time here during the holi-
lays with Miss Bessie Hancock.
Rev. G. T. Lumpkins and Mrs.
Lumpkin went to Littleton Wednes-
lay on visit to Mrs. Lumpkin's pa
rents Prof. and Mrs. L. w. Ba2ley.
Edwin B. Josey came from Col
lmbia University, New York, where
ne is prosecuting a course Of law
to spend Christmas with his pa
rents.
Messrs. r. V. and o. C. Smith, Of
Primers Point, Va, were here Sun
lay visiting their sister, Mrs. B. F.
Weaver. They had been to Enfield
10 attend the burial of their broth
er, Mr.. D. K. Smith.
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Tuesday for Arkansas.
Miss Annie Evans, Of Tarboro, i.
visiting friends in town.
Miss Pattie Thorne went home tc
Airlie for the Christmas holidays.
Allen C. Perry spent Christmas
at Wake Forest with his parents.
Stacy and Nash Cox, of Hassell
were here during the h olidays.
Paul Fenner left Tuesday for his
home in Halifax after q few days
visit.
Miss Lynne Hall, Of Louisburg
spent Christmas with Miss AIMS
Kitchin.
Mrs. J. E. Bullock and little son,
Julian, are here on visit to Mrs. P.
J. Madry.
Miss M. A Savage, who Is teaching
at Roanoke Rapids, spent Christmas
at home here.
DR.. Thurman Kitchin came from
Philadelphia to spend Christmas with
his homo folks.
Mics Lou Hill, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
spent Christmas here with her sister,
Mrs. E. W. Hall.
Miss Mary Wood, of Roxbel, has
been here some days on a visit to
Miss Sallie Dunn.
Miss Minnie Lewis spent Christmas
at homo with her parents. She is
teaching At Gibson.
Edwin Gray, Of Littleton, spent
Christmas here with his grand moth
az, Mrs. M. E. Gray.
N. B. Allsbrook returned to his
home in Louisburg Tuesday after =
visit to rslstives here.
J. R. Allsbrook, of Sanford, S. c.,
spent the holidays here with his sis
ter, Mrs. A. n. Riddick.
Miss Birdie Dunn, of Raleigh,
spent the holiday. here with her
cousins, the Misses Futrell.
J. W. Madry and children came
over and spent the Christmas holi-
days with Mrs. Ri. Madry.
Sam Oppenhsimer, Of Rocky
visited his aunt, Mrs. G.
during the holidays.
Miss Mollie Cherry attended the
Primitive Baptist Union Meeting at
Tarboro, returning home Monday.
MIR. and Mrs. J. H. Davenport, Of
Rocky Mount, came down to spend
Christmas with their home people.
Miss Elizabeth Futrell, music
teacher in the Baptist University at
Raleigh, came home for the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. L. Salisbury of
spent Christmas here with
DR.. and Mrs. r. NJ. Johnson.
Enoch Cherry, Of Brooklyn, N.
T., spent Christmas here with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W. r. Cherry.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. T. Lawrence, Of
Washington, spent Christmas here
With the family Of Mrs. Annie Law
renee.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Gales, Of Ma
ion, S. c., spent part Of the holidays
1ere visiting the family Of Mr.. L.
Wilkerson.
Miss Maggie Lewis, who Is teach
ng at Graham. came home to spend
Christmas with her parents. Mr.. and
MRS. }. II. Lewis.
Miss Sallie Baker, of Palmyra,
,ame home Tuesday from the Bap-
list University, after some weeks
with measles.
Messrs. N. H. and Zeb Whitehurst,
II Dnnville, Va, spent part Of the
holidays here with their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. z. M. Whitehurst.
Mon. w. w. Kitchin, of Roxboro,
has been here on a visit to his moth
.r since Saturday. He went to
and returned Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie T. Allsbrook
spent Christmas here with relatives.
Mr.. Allsbreok returned home Satur-
lay, but Mrs. Allsbrook remains
some days longer.
Mrs. B. F. Gray went to Atlantic,
Va, to spend Christmas with her pa
.ents. She was accompanied home
by her sister, Miss Lena Taylor, who
had been here on visit.
Mrs. Sidney St. Clair, (nee Miss Mat
lie Allsbrook) returned to her home in
Trinidad, Colorado, some DAYS ago
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1908-01-02

bIllC AlluIcWS WcIC " w Iied-
kers Monday.
J. Val Perkins, Of Raleigh, was
in town last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Jenkins are
here visiting relatives.
J. w. Shute, of Kinston, spent
Christmas here with his mother.
Rev. C. A. Jones visited his moth
er at Graham during the holidays.
Dan Cherry, of Bethel, was here
last week on a visit to W. r. Cherry
Miss Stella Hoffman went to Nor
folk some days ago to visit relatives.
Miss Rebecca Knight went home
| to Mildred for the Christmas holi-
days.
Miss Sadie Stern came down from
Greensboro to spend Christmas at
home.
Miss Sue Hyman, of Hobgood, has
this week visited the family Of Mrs.
Leggett.
". L. Hall came up from Green
vile to spend Christmas with his
relatives.
Mrs. Furgerson, of Rocky Mount,
visited the family of J. P. Futrell
last week.
Miss Alice Butts, of Halifax, came
down Saturday to visit her uncle,
J. W. Butts.
Mrs. C. S. NorAeet, Of Lewiston,
visited her mother, Mrs. A. F. Han
cock, last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond C. Dunn,
Of Enfield, spent part Of the holidays
here with relatives.
Mrs. W. r. Cherry and daughter,
Miss Annie, returned Tuesday from
visit to Mt. Olive.
Miss Ella Mayo, of Washington, N.
G., spent Christmas here visiting
Mrs. c. F. Burroughs.
]. S. Keel and family left Wednes-
day for Spring Hope where he will
make his future home.
T. T. Cherry, of Conetoe, was
here during the holidays to visit his
brother, ". R. Cherry.
Messrs. McIver Rhodes, Ed Has
sell, and Kenneth Taylor, of Kins-
ton were here last week.
Rev. C. G. Christian will preach in
the Methodist church next Sunday
afternoon at 800 o'clock.
J. A. Perry came up from Green
vile Saturday on visit to his
daughter, Mrs. R. C. Josey.
Miss Lucy House went to Bristol,
Tenn, Christmas day to be present
at the marriage of a friend.
j. C. Cherry, of Cincinnati, spent
part OF the holidays here with his
brother, W. R. Cherry.
Misses Ruby and Mamie Hassell, |
of Kinston, spent part of the holt
days here visiting their friends.
J. E. Condrey and daugeter,
Miss Kate, of Enfield, spent a part of |
the holidays here with their friends.
Miss Eleanor Smith, teacher in
the Rocky Mount graded school, came
to spend Christmas with her mother.
Emerson Weeks came from Ports
mouth, Va, to spend Christmas
with his father, G. C. Weeks.
T. B. Wheeler spent Christmas
in Franlllinton with Mrs. Wheeler,
who has been there some time on a
visit.
R. G. Allsbrook, of Tarboro,
spent part of the halidays here with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. |. Ais
brock.
T. L. Worseley and family, Of |
Rocky Mount, spent Christmas here
with Mrs. P. J. Madry, Mrs. Worse
ley's mother.
Miss Lamison, who has been mil
liner for Morrisett Brothers the past |
returned to her home in Glen
Rock, Penn, Tuesday.
Miss Katherine Futrell has return
ed from several weeks in Raleigh |
where she had been nursing her Sis
ter, Miss Undine Futrell.
Sam and Mamie Hoffman went to
Norfolk Christmas to visit their
mother. Her friends here will be |
glad to learn that she is well.
Miss Mary Applewhite, Of the Bap-
fist University for Women in Raj
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1908-01-02
Puppy LOST.

McAnge's Nice Selected Suffolk
Oysters received every Tuesday and
Friday on the 1 ?. m. train.
J. D. RAY & Co.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1908-01-02
Posted!
AEGiFGnS TO? Sale.
Lamps for Sale.

Four Hanging Lamps at bar
gain.
MRS. T. E. HILLIARD.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1908-01-02

Supply Of F'irst- Class Groceries all
the time. S. G.. RAY.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1908-01-02

If ANYBODY's NAME has been left
out Of our personal columns this
week we did not mean to do it. Let
US know it and we will print it next
x1-ool-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-29
By J. E. JE N K S

PROPULSION WHICH VIII carry
it two miles, with every prospect that this dis
tance will be doubled. Battleships armed
with torpedo tubes which the means of firing
torpedoes will some day be able to keep foe at a
respectable distance, and battleshp having four
mile torpedo in its ordnance equipment will be a
veritable floating of the
The battleship which is to be designed along the
lines dictated by the triumph of the torpedo will be
a vessel which may easily scorn the ten and twelve
inch guns which carried in heavy turrets
and which shall offer Encouragement to vessel
which may fire torpedo four miles and blow up the
opposing vessel matter how it is reghted with
reted armament or laden with invulnerable arrnor
The saving which may be effected by taking off
the heavy guns and abandoning the turrets may be
used in giving greater weight to the machinery and
drive the ship through the water at faster
than is possible with batteships to-day. Some of
this saving in weight may also be used to give thicker
armor plates along the water line and below,-wher-
the torpedo is likely to strike.
Such a departure from the existing conditions
furnishes many problems with which the naval
designer must cope. They include such details
the storage of the torpedoes and their rapid handling
by special mechanical devices from the magazines
below deck to the breech mouth of the tubes
above. Those questions will not be settled without
the controversies which to be inseparabe from
naval design, construction, and equipment; but
for the present it will be sufficient merely to mention
this interesting possibility of a guness war vessel.
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such q nature that they are pictures, and pictures
can be remembered when they vivid much bet
ter than one can remember remarks and uncon-
creted facts. Although it has been many years
since have told that dream, can those pictures
now just as clearly defined if they were before
in this room. l have not told the entire dream
There was good deal more of it. / mean, have
not told all that happened in the dreams fulflment
After the incident in the death room may mention
one detail, and that is this:
When | arrived in ST Louis with the casket it
was about eight o'clock in the morning, and | ran
to my brotb"r in laws place of business, hoping to
find him there; but missed him, for while was
the way his office he his way from the house
to the boat When got back to the boat the casket
was gone. He had conveyed it out to his house.
fastened thither, and when arrived the
just removing the casket from the vehicle to carry it
up stairs. l stopped that procedure; for l did not
want my mother to the dead face, because one
side of it drawn and distorted by the effects of
the opium When / went up stairs. there stood the
chairs placed to receive the coffin, just as | had
seen them in my dream and if had arrived two
three minutes later, the casket would have been
resting upon them precisely in my dream.
To be continued April II
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here exactly reproduced, SO far these details
went-and think ! missed one detail but that
Immediately supplied, for just then ell
derby lady entered the place with large bouquet
consisting mainly Of white roses, and in the center
of it was red rose, and she laid it on his breast
7 TOLD the dream there in the club that night just
L as ! have told it here.
Rev. DR.. Burton swung his leonine head around,
focused me with his eye, and said, When it
that this happened:"
In June, So.
1T is good many years ago. Have you told it
several times since?
Yes, have, good many times
How many"
Why, | don't know how many"
Well strike average How many times
year do YOU think YOU have told it,
Well have told it many six times a year,
possibly oftener.
Very well, then you've told it. wei say, seventy
eighty times since it happened?'
Yes, | said, that's a conservative estimate
Now then, Mark, a very extraordinary thing
happened to a great many years ago. and |
used to tell it number of tirnes-a good many
times-every year for it wonderful
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was on LoCust-st.. little above 3th and walked
Il 18th and to the middle Of the block beyond be-
fore it suddenly flashed upon me that there was
nothing real about this; it only dream. l
can still feel something Of the grateful upheaval of
Joy OF that moment and also still feel the
;nt II doubt, the suspicion that maybe it real
after all. ! returned y the house almost a run
few up the stairs two three steps at Jump. and
rushed into that sitting roon1-and made glad
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have furnished species of warfare in themselves.
Hitherto the rivalry has been largely between the
gun and the On side has been the aim
will hurl its huge missile of steel through the wedge
of arrnor plate into the vitals of the ship of the
enemy. On the other side there has been almost
frantic effort thcken the shield the hull of the
ship compose it of elements that will lessen its
weight while repelling the shell.
No one knows just how the stands at present,
and will not know until there be of the
gun in its attack armor under those conditions
which resemble in degree the situation of actual
warfare. The tests carried on at either the
army navy proving grounds, with guns great
distance from the armor, and the presenting
a fixed and certain target which may be attacked
under the most favorable conditions.
All this is now changed by the increase in endur-
of the torpedo, the most deadly of all weapons
when it be fired with accuracy and when it lasts
long enough to reach the enemy. The torpedo used
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ship which shall be larger than anything of
the class afoat; of greater speed than
existing vessels, and capable of waging
battle at distance of four miles; and
this without the turreted, breech loading
rifles with their complicated mechanism
of training and loading. This is as yet
only a dream; but it is based on that
development in the facilities of attack
and the mechanism of destruction which,
with the means of defense and protection.
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that it always astOniShed the nearer.
and that astOnishment gave me
a distinct pleasure every time. |
never suspected that that tale was
acquiring any auxiliary advantages
through repetition until one day after |
had been telling it ten or fifteen years
it struck me that either | was getting
cid and slow in delivery, or that the
tale was longer than it was when it was
born. Mark. | diligently and PRAYER
fully examined that tale, with this
result that | found that its proper
make out, one part fact-straight fact,
fact pure and undiluted, golden fact
and twenty-four parts embroidery |
never told that tale afterward-l was
never able to tell it again; for l had
lost confidence in it, and SO the pleasure
of telling it was gone, and gone per-
manentlv How much of this tale of
yours is embroidery?
Well l said, Il don't know. |
don't think any of it is embroidery |
think it is all just as have stated it,
detail by detail
Very WELL" he said, then it is
all right; but / wouldn't tell it any
more; because if YOU keep on, it will
begin to collect embroidery sure The
safest thing is to stop now
THAT was a great many years ago.
L And to-day is the first time that
| have told that dream since DR..
Burton scared me into fatal doubts
about it. No, l don't believe | can
say that. l don't believe that l
ever really had any doubts what
ever concerning the salient points of
the dream; for those points are of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-29

WAL designers who
are looking into the
future are having
visions of a battle
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agsln. tor there was no
lasket there.
We made the usual
eventless trip to New
Orleans-no. it was not
eventless. for it was on
the way down that | had
the fight with Mr.. Brown
[See Old Times on the
Mississippi ] which re-
suited in his requiring
that / be left ashore at
New Orleans. In New
Orleans | always had a
job. 1t was my priv
lege to watch the freight
piles from seven in the
evening until seven n
tkc morning, and get
three dollars for it. Il was
q three-night job, and
occurred every thirty
five days. Henry always
joined my watch about
nine in the evening, when
his own duties were
ended. and we often
walked my rounds and
chatted together until
midnight. This time we
We're to part, and so the
night before the boat
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A WARSHIP WITHOUT GUNS

to be something of a toy, ex-
cept within limited range; but
lately to it has been given a
propulsion which will carry
, 1908-01-15
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Over-burdened Women

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, 1908-01-15
THEIR GRATITUDE.

There is an old saw to the effect that
you cannot make a friend of a man by
constantly doing him favors. After
awhile he comes to think that all the
kindness and favors heaped upon him
are simply his just due and if you fail
to neglect him in the slightest degres
at any time, he generally turns and re
vileS you.
The leaders of the Wyoming Wool
Growers association . have not quite
reached the point of reviling Senator
Warren, but they certainly have for
gotten his quarter of a century of hard
work in their interests. At their Lar
annie meeting the resolutions passed
studiously ignored him, while at the
same time the other members of our
delegation were specially praised. As
the Wyoming Tribune intimates, the
responsibility for this studied slight
was largely with a young man who
lacks the mental calibre to appreciate
true courtesy and gratitude is not in
his makeup. His first material aid in
the state was received from the very
men he is now doing every injury in
his power.
In commenting upon this basest
, 1908-01-15
EVANSTON MAY HAVE
A SOCIALIST PAPER

Evanston people visiting Cheyenne
say the most interesting news outside
of the completion of the new federal
building is in the rumor Of a socialist
newspaper to be started in that city,
says the Cheyenne Tribune. The las.
issue of the Evanston Press announced
that since the consolidation of the
Press with the News-Register, the
Press mad a quantity of type and other
equipment for sale, While the hacker
of the new enterprise seems to he I'M
known, it is quite reasonable that Ev.
anston, with only n paper, should De
regarded as a fruitful field for the new
enterprise, if the fate of the News
Register is disregarded.