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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-03-06
ANROUND THE TOWN
Gathered In the Round Up.

Mr.. Ed. Lyman visited jackson last
week.
Mr.. ]. B. Smith, of Percan, was in the
city Monday.
Mr.. Ed. Jones, of Schlater, was in the
city Monday.
MI. J. W. Mullen, of Avalon, was in
the city Tuesday.
DIR. S. L. Brister and children visited
jackson last week.
Mr.. H. H. Southwortb, of Sidon, was in
the city this week.
Mr.. +. M. %Southworth, of Sidon, was
ein the city Monday.
Miss Flora Reiman visited New Or
leans the past week.
Mr.. John Obergfell was over from
Lake Henry Monday.
Mr.. W. W. Ellis, Jr, of Berclair, was
in the city last Friday.
i. r +
Gen. s. r.. Keesler made a business
visit to Jackson Monday.
Mr.. +. L. Buchanan, of Carroll county,
was in the city Saturday.
Mr.. ] Il. Barnard was at Carrollton
on legal business Monday.
Mr.. Y. T. Eggleston made a business
visit to Jackson last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pat Malone spent the
past week in New Orleans.
Mr.. Jno. A. Stinson, of Columbus, Wis
tied relatives here Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. P. Allison visited
New Orleans the past week.
Mr.. Douglas Robinson was up from
Sidon on business Tuesday.
Hon. A. r. Gardner made a business
trip to Jackson Wednesday.
MI. T. W. Harrison was up from In
gleside on business Tuesday.
DR.. W. d. Wilson was down from
Schlater On business Saturday.
Note the change in the insurance
card Of W. M. Peteet this week.
Judge J. H. McMath was up from
Morgan on business last Friday.
Mr.. B. u. Williamson left Sunday for
few days visit to New Orleans.
Mrs. r. e. Williams visited relatives
sud friends at Schlater last week.
Messrs. II. II. Majors and Paul Krivis,
Of Swift, were in the city Monday.
aH# w. NJ Is ..ral le4
il. Ryan, a prominent Greenville bus
iness man, was in the city Monday.
Hsa. s. L. Hemphill and son. Of Valley
Hill, visited Jackson last Saturday.
Mr.. K. y. Kearney, Of near Money,
was In the city on business Monday.
Mrs.J. B. Ellis and little daughter
we're over from Berclair last Friday.
Mr.. Il. N. Kearney. Of ear Money,
wa Ia the city the first Of the week.
Mrs. T. A. Gleason visited relatives
and friends In Nav Orleans this week.
NJ. ]. q. McCarroli. d n. q. Dan q
- ns~phis, - u ~ eity ~ wesk.
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Fresh Country Butter sail time" at
the White Star Grocery Co.
Messrs. ]. L. Mcmillan, A. J. Scruggs.
8. L. Hemphill and A. P. Mcdonald, Of
Carroll county, were in the city on bus
mess Wednesday.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-03-06
For Sale.

Thirty head large, sound, acclimated
Mules, good ages. Suitable for Missis-
sippi Delta. Come and inspect.
SAUNDERS & HOGAN,
Starkville, Miss.
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We have purchased the
$4,000 bankrupt stocks of
Fink & Harris at a low rate
on the dollar are now selling
out everything at sIashed
prices, regardless of cost.
C.. N. FRANKLIN,
Manager of Big Bankrupt
Sale at SidOn, Miss.
Always ready to 10 rye you at the
White Star Grocery Co.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-03-06

Go to the Bankrupt Sale at
Sidon, Miss, see for yourself
and save money.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-03-06

1t is estimated that New York
City will have a population of nine
teen and a quarter million in 1850.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-03-06
Wanted.

Position az clerk and bookkeeper In a
country or plantation store. Address
this office, $50, M"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-03-06
For Sale.

5 shares First National Bank Of Green.
wood stock. Apply at this office.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-03-06
For Sale.

Delta Bank stock. Pays dividend
within go days. For price address "X.
Y. H. car The Commonwealth.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-03-06

We handle a choice line OF Staple and
Fancy Groceries, and our prices are
right. Your orders will be appreciated.
CITY GROCERY,
HERRING JOHNSON, prop'r.
Phone 1872.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-03-06
For Sale.

Plantation raised Barred Plymouth
Rock Eggs, $3.50 por Is.
ASHLAND PLANTATION,
Schlater, Miss.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-03-06
Wanted.

Position as b~ookkeeper and general
Office man. Apply at this Office.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-03-06

Ring Phone 355 for Feed StufTs.
G. NJ. MELTON.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-03-06

Five carloads Of Feed Stuff- received
This wvck. z. y. MELTON
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-03-06

Mr.. Oscar hernandez. n OF Moneys
a substantial planters, made this Office an
appreciated call while in the city Sat
urday.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-03-06

NJ. ]. q. McCarroll. Of r. q. Dan q
- Ais9phis, - u ~ eity - week.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-03-06

Mrs. T. A. Gleason vi.itd relatives
and friends In Nav Orleans this week.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1908-03-06

Supervisors Eli Ethridga ami r. A
joiner were in the city looking afteI
their official duties the first Of the
week.
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where the mariner on the sea Of booze
shall go ashore.
Store Conventions for Daylight.
Little do the passengers on the owl
care for the conventions which they, in
the light of day would studiously OBJ
serve. In the face of the complaints Of
the conductor they sometimes insist on
lighting and smoking their cigars, pipes
and cigarettes.
AS the passage of train through a tun-
mel acts upon the lover so does the In
term about , o'clock when the current is
being changed on one of the car lines APP
peal as an opportunity to couples on the
owl" For throe. perhaps five minutes
the midnight motor stands motionless and
dark on the track. and then, without
warning, the lights flash up and the car
plunges again into the murk of the night.
But when the lights resume their func
ton there is a hurried effort on the part
of couples TO redistribute the eighteen
inch allotment of space allowed per per-
son by the company, and which for the
nonce has been overlooked in the dark
ness consequent 10 the changing of the
circuit.
On the next trip or so there is an
other change in the personnel OF the pas
sengers. Then 1t is that the early morn
ing laborers wait for the owl" and in
terspersed freely among them are the
employees Of morning newspapers, letter
carriers who work during the night.
charwomen of the downtown department
stores and an occasional rounder," whom
the death of the night has caught I'M
awares: But still the freight holds its
cosmopolitan aspect.
why yes" said the veteran conductor,
Things out of the usual happen aboard
the owl things that the light of day
would never countenance. I've been on
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passengers OF the car begin to take
IA cosmopolitan appearance. Then 1t is
that the dregs OF the mercantile world
of Washington clerks who have spent
their seven-day stipend in 'riotous' living
turn their thoughts mattress ward They
usually board the car with bit Of liquor
aboard. easing up gently to vacant seat
between the lurches and. seating them
selves, gaze around for moment. taking
in the personnel of the motors passengers.
Curiosity satisfied doing follows.
Now that doze is usually fatal. If it
doesn't result i'm their being carried far
past their destination, it will surely lead
them into doing some ludicrous thing
such as allowing their morpheus-bOund
heads to drop confidngly into the lap
or travelling to the floor of the car by
unnOticed stages until the conductor
comes to their aid and re-establishes
them in the seats that they, unwilingly,
fOrsook.
The conductor is a man of many duties.
Besides running his car, formulating his
report and collecting his fares. he has to
give the individual attention required of
a Cooks courier to all of those who have
fallen from the aqua vehicle when they
have momentariy arisen to give lady
a seat This is absolutely necessary, be-
cause, should a conductor allow himself
to so far forget his duties as to give a
"sosh" occasion to fall and injure him.
SELF he is liable to find a suit for dam
ages upon his hands.
Tn fact, the knight Of the bellrope is
supposed to know the destination of every
one befuddled with the cobwebs of alco-
hol who rides with him. Nightly are the
controversies between the conductor and
the jags. The inebriated ones usually in
sist that they are going to the barn
when they insist at al-and ii is up TO
him of the blue uniform to determine
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owl schedules the greater part of my
life, here and there. and I've seen some
mighty peculiar instances.
One night. late crowd of meD-and
Torrance beat anything ] ever heard out
side of gang Of roust abouts on a Mis-
sissippi river landing-got on my car. They
had their musical instruments with them
and we hadn't got moran started from
the Georgetown barn when they struck
up. All the way downtown we had an
amateur minstrel show with banjoes
stunning and the best quartet WORK
you could find-not in the up-to-date rag
time stuff-but in the cid melodies like
Nellie Gray ard Old Black joe And
then there was one who was some light
on his feet and he didn't mind a bit if
the car did lurch, he just KEEP on his buck
dancin' in that narrow aisle like he was
on sanded floor
There was one experience that had tn
scent O. faded rose leaves. lavender and
orange blossoms all about it, he cohtin-
ued. growing sentimental
1T was about : o'clock one morning
when a man, old and griZZled. with
mighty shabby clothes. boarded my car
and stretched out in a corner seat. The
old fellow was tired: you could see that.
and he soon doZed off. He had been
asleep for about four blocks. with his
head hanging over on his narrow chest
when woman, faded and we'll along, got
on.
AN she'd been used TO hard work. too.
for her hands, slender and with traces of
having been shapely. were rough, and she
wore the black dress usually worn by
women who make their livelihood by get
ting up in the early hours when their ac-
quaintance won't be about and going
downtown to WELD a brush or mop in
some store or department.
The woman was little feeble, and
when she stepped aboard and started
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Nfghtworkers in Evidence.

spilled all over the roof of the grand
stand
well. anyway, l amt SO strong fer it. -
said the house detective It's nothin'
but toy"
Right again, as ever" said the hotel
clerk warmly. Its only a toy The de-
luded creature that built it pushes but
ton and it gets up in the air and sails
with the wind and against the wind. and
circles around as reliable as a circus
horse. and you stand there on terry
firmah which is an Irish pet name for the
earth, upon your two large self-reliant
feet and say it's toy. Out in Ohio d
years pottering around. putting together
a machine that looks something like an
insane linen shower and something like
a collection of intoxicated fruit crates
The sympathetic neighbOrs. on their way
TO the rolling mill or the notions store
come by and look over the alley fence
and see these two brothers in their shirt
sleeves tinkering away at their stupid
velocipedc works and their pifIiing clothes
poles. and they shake their heads and
say: Poor demented Wretches There's
nothing 10 it, To think of large grown
men, that might be getting their two dol
lars a day putting the insides into cash
registers frittering away their lives on
a back yard full of truck like that Well
praises be. 1t won't be long till they'll
be up at the state asylum, where they
belong, running around little tin wheel
and sitting up on their hind legs to beg
for hickory nuts
But about two days before the really
intelligent citizens on the block are going
TO call in the lunacy commission and
have 'em put in the offici squirrel cage
along with all the other chipmunks they
step aboard their crazy device some morn
ing and yank couple of levers back a
notch or two, and there is low whrring
noise. and by the time the safe and sane
shoe dealer who lives next door can get
out on his kitchen steps they are making
the second circuit around the spre of Il
neighboring church.
After bit they settle down gracefully
and step out. maybe expecting few Kind
plaudits from the populace. Do they get
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occupations which demand their services
from sunset until early morning. III this
category are the printers engaged on the
morning newspapers. newspapermen en-
ployes of the bureau of engraving and
printing and members of Uncle Sam S
great housecleanng force who go to the
government buildings in time to make
them immaculate in morning dress for
the reception of the workers.
And strange friendships grow up among
conductors on the owls There is sell
dom a moment while the car is scooting
toward its destination that there is not
some pleasantly afoot. and many times
other occupants of the car furnish the
subjects for Jest and quip.
Yet the owl car on each trip carries a
distinctive class of passengers SO that
one boarding an owl and riding all
night would have passing before him a
constant panorama of individuals, differ
entiated from their fellows by distinctive
traits, manners and modes of dress
Thus when the first owl car, which is
usually motor car only, from which the
trailer has been detached. makes it's ap-
pearSnce, It goes not many blocks before
1T accumulates representative gathering
of responsibility, both men and women,
late theatergoers who have dallied over a
midnight supper following the play until
the regular schedule of the car lines have
gone out. one with the midnight hour the
other with o'clock
Then for an hour nothing will be seen
of interest on the midnight cars save a
display of fair shoulders among the femi-
nine contingent in peek-a-boos and clean
looking Young fellows in the open-faced
formal dress Of the evening
Those Who Drink Not Wisely.
But with the 30 or o'clock trains
comes a change. Then it is that the
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ligence and culture OF the vicinity, who
spent a pleasant day making fun OF the
freak. / might state in passing that some
of the descendants of those same merry
makers are now straining their resources
so as to be able to buy 100000 grand
child of F'ulton's ark and float a yacht
club flag that shows saffron stripe
across an azure field. thus denoting some
blue blood and a broad yellow streak
There's not a doubt in my mind that the
distinguished English gentleman who got
killed on the first trip of the first locomo-
tive was standing on the track so he could
speak few loud, clear words regarding
the folly of expecting that a Eighty
steam-d driven. animated toy teapot could
ever hope to compete with the reliable
stage coach. And as for Calico and Har-
vey and other ancient dubs you remember
what happened to them. We do things
to a great inventor while he lives and for
him after he dies.
I'm the years to come. Larry, when a
gentleman who doesn't seem to care for
his wife will take her half a mile up in
the family aeroplane runabout and boost
her overheard above stone quarry; when
the younger society set are having kite
chases over the Orange mountains instead
of aniseed bag hunts through the truck
farms of Westchester county; when the
Jersey bred commuter. no longer depend
ing on the 1O:45 ferry will be able for the
first time in his whole sad life to see how
the last act ends; when the board of alder
men are taking steps to prevent the Big
Tim Sullivan ChOwder Club from littering
up the front stoops and premises of pri-
vate citizens with clam shells and beer
bottles and mussy outsiders while up on
their annual uppings. you and nell go up
to the Hall of Fame to see 'em unveil a
couple of, large tablets to the Messrs
Wright brothers. And there'll be nothing
said about toys in the dedication address
either
Tell me-" asked the house detective.
ARE these here Wrights any kin to the
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them? They do not. We're just out Of
plaudits. but we have few neat under
handed knocks in stock, and maybe they'll
do. We say: oh, yes. 1t flew, although
we have our doubts about it ever flying
again. But can you carry freight on it?
Is there any arrangement for handling
excursions and large picnic parties? Has
it got hot and cold water connections
and is there an all-night janitor service?
Ah-hah We thought So It's merely a toy
you have there, and we're too old to be
aging with toys at our age
so they the Ohio parties, have to go
TO France, where the government the
army and the clergy are constantly TAX
or without provocation, before they can
get popular consideration. Over on this
side none of us thought SO we'll of that Ger
man counts sausage-shaped airship while
it was merrily coursing like Il large winged
frankfurtor up and down the valley of the
Wacht am Rhein river. But the next day,
when It got hit by lightning and a cyclone
and was burned to the roots with loud
cultural sound. the American public came
out very strong for the idea. and we gave
it our hearty Endorsement.
Its like this. Larry. For two hundred
wears we have been waiting for this
glorious day. To circumnaVigate the blue
empyriam in the presence of loud cheer
ing multitudes has been the dread of base
ball pitchers, but the dream of every one
else There've been nany false alarms
from time to time. Often it would be
Walter Wellman, national president of
the Hearth and Home Society of Indoor
Polar Explorers. getting ready to start
for the arctic circle in an airship but
postponed on account of wet grounds or
cold feet or something. Or else Nick
Nesla, the Eva Tanguay of the electrical
world, would make his usual semi-weekly
announcement OF the exclusive discovery
of the true secret of aerial navigation.
But we never lost Our Astounding hope
in the ultimate solution of the problem
that has been hanging such a fatal opera
ton. We had feeling that we were
meant to fly. We had this feeling stronger,
perhaps, after champagne dinner, but
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Reuniting Two Hearts.

Reuniting Two Hearts.
HE woke with a start and scream or
Mandy and she didn't wait TO hear any
more. but took 'clinch hold on the old
fellow that you couldn't have broke with
crowbar.
Yes ii was shabby for me to listen. but
what's a sentimental conductor goin' TO
do? From their talk / gather that
they were man and wife, separated for
years, not knowing whether the other was
alive or not and when he helped her on
that car with all the grace his old form
could command, l made side bet with
myself that she wouldn't sweep out no
store that mcrnln.
lone mornin'.' he continued. "a couple
o'clock They bought tickets and rode
to the end of the line. When the car
turned around and started back they were
still on. They couldn't find their tickets
and so they bought another strip. This
performance went on for two hours, them
ridin' back and forth with me, and sup
posed that they intended to ride their
alcohol off but each time they failed TO find
their tickets. and | know / sold them
dollars worth while they were on my car.
Finally as we struck 74th on the last
trip they looked up and saw an electric
light sign Both made a dive off the car
gutter When / got the car stopped and
went back to see if l had TO call an am
bulance the blond was sayin' to the one
with the brunette optic:
I'VE shtarted t'go that Turkish bath
more'n two honrsh go. n i wasn't goin'
let that conductor take me past!'
That's the kind we get.
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Selling Quinine in Italy.

From the New York sun.
The sale of quinine in Italy is carried
on I'm peculiar fashion. The govern
ment sells the drug to the peasants In
malarious districts and uses the profit to
fgh. malaria. The first aim is to protect
the peasants from mosquitoes. But il Is
almost impossible to ge; them to take care
of the wire screens which are given them
for ia i, houses AS for their wearing
wells and gloves when they go abroad. as
they are urged by the authorities to do.
anybody who knows the Italian peasants
can guess how many OF them will do IL.
The government has therefore to depend
chiefly on draining and filling up the pools
where mosquitoes breed. and on what 10
called bonificamento. or the improvement
of the land i'm various ways. Last year
the government sold to the peasants about
$3G0O00 worth OF quinine, with O net
profit of about $4,000
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What happened?" asked the hotel
fclerk.
That wuz jist it,. said the morose
Rouse detective "Nothin' happened
Didn't she sail?" insisted the hotel
clerk
oh yes she sailed. If that's wot you
want to call it, admitted the house de-
tective. "A Frenchy lookin' guy with
,more'n nine dollars worth of real hair
whiskers on his face climbed a-stradde
Of somethin' that looked like tin cigar
up amongst lot of silly canvas wings
and started up a buzz fan that stuck out
behind the works, and the thing raised
right up off the ground and circled
around the same somebody ridin Il
bicycle. But there wuzn't nothin' ex-
citin' to tit wuz all So blamed simple
till it WIZ mighty near foolish. When d
Teller pays his good money fer d SHOW
like that he wants somethin' excitin."
ITO be sure he does said the hotel
else. That's what's helped 10 make bal
looming so popular an amusement
among the masses. The first time in his
life that a man goes to a balloon ascen-
sion he goes to the balloon ascension
After that he keeps on going in the hopes
of being on hand the time the fellow S
grip slips or the parachute refuses to
open. l remember once at the county fair
back home / went to ten balloon ascen-
sions hand-running. But on the last day
] los: interest and stayed away. and that
very afternoon the party With the red
tights on dropped six hundred feet into a
nest of live wires and pleasant time
was had by all. l spose you'd have come
back here today with that bright young
face of yours all wreathed In smiles if
you'd only been able to report that the
steering gear got out of fix at a height
of half a mile and the Inflated inventor
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''Then You'll Remember Me-"

= GORGE w. COLEMAN. the noted So
~ biologist, discussed during the recent
sociological conference at Sycamore
Beach tips and tipping
Il have d friend so Mr.. Coleman con-
cludeG. who belongs 10 an anti-tippinS
association. Ny friend, i'm obeying the
rules of his society. has many quaint ex-
perences.
He went travelling in the west In the
spring. He dined one night i'm fashion
a BILE western restaurant and after paying
his bill he gathered up the change that
had been brought upon a silver plate and
dropped ii into his waistcoat pocket
AS he rose to depart the waiter said
in a low. appealing voice:
Surely you won't forget me. sir?'
" No, no. said my friend. III write to
you
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old gent from down south that's been
made Secretary of War;
Il don't think it's possible" said the
hotel clerk. The Wrights from Ohio
come down sometimes. but the Wright
from Tennessee has been up in the air
ever since he got the job"