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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22
NUMBER 2s.
WISDOM.

| heard, within my chamber bent.
The dawn's reveille blown;
/ rose and found the world intent
On business of its own.
The birds were singing as they
wrought,
The south wind was astir;
With springs light-hearted gossip
fraught
| heard the birds confer.
No hand had sown the lavish seed
That clothed the earth with green;
And who had taught the trees their
Of such a leafy screen?
Before man came with conquering
stride
This wondrous work began,
And happy these again shall hide
The proudest works of man.
The wisdom have sought is here
And with no seeking found;
1t journeys with the fruitful year
In an eternal round.
And while the changing seasons pass
I'll watch them ebb and flow,
And when God whispers to the grass,
l, too, shall learn to grow.
p. Macarthur.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22
In a Friendly Sort Of Way.

When a man amt got a cent, and
he's feeling kind o'blue,
An the clouds hang dark an heavy
an won't let the sunshine through,
It's great thing, oh, my brethren.
for feller just to lay
His hand upon your shoulder in a
friendly sort o'way.
1t makes a man feel curious; itmakes
the teardrops start,
An you sort o. feel fiutter in the
region Of the heart.
You can't look up and meet his eyes;
an you don't know what to say
When his hand is on your shoulder in
friendly sort O. way.
Oh, the worlds curious compound,
with its honey and it's gall,
With its cares and bitter crosses, but
a good world after all.
And a good God must have made it
-leastwise that is what say
When hand is on my shoulder in a
friendly sort o way.
james Whitcomb Riley.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22
A Crop Will Be Harvested In Spite OF
the Complaint.

We do not remember a year but
in the spring and early summer the
crop talk was not most dlscouraging.
1t was too wet, too dry, too some
thing or other until we felt like ly
ing down and weeping over the dire
full results sure to follow. Somehow
this feeling always prevails. There
is so much wrong. But in the end
everything seems to right itself and
the crop turns up certain percent
age of the average. whatever that
means. This season has been no ex-
ception, and almost daily there has
been poor crop talks, much Of which
has found its way into print. 1t
may be put down that in spite of too
much rain, too little rain, hail grass,
drought, boil weevi! and chinch bugs
there will be crop harvested this
fall, in all respects very much like
the rest of them that always start off
with the very poorest sort of pros
poets. In truth the good Lord gives
US bountiful harvest in spite of
our poor mouthing and complaints.
And the funniest thing about it all
is that the smallest pecentage OF
this talk comes from the men who
are working the crops and depend
ing directly upon them.-Concorc
| Tribune.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22
The Beautiful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was not far
wrong when he said, though we
travel the world over to find the
beautiful, we must carry it with US
or we find it not. There are those
who carry the beautiful with them.
And they find beauty everywhere.
Green fields look gay to them; clouds
are propitious, and sunshine is JOY
Gus to them. Each day brings some
new pleasure, and no night is with
out it's solance and comfort.
When the charity relief workers
go among the poor and needy of Bos-
ton and find somewhere taste and
care of the beautiful, they know
that all hope is not gone out Of the
life. Even a potted plant on the win
dow, a withered flower on the table,
has carried immediate help to many
a home in that city, because where
there is yet a sense for the beautiful
there is a soul worth saving, and
possible to be saved. The one object
of beauty yet held in esteem shows
what one would if one could.
Robert Brewing was rightly weigh
ing life when he said that it was not
what man does which exalts him, but
what man would do. What we strive
for, lifts US up, elevates, edifies, ex-
ats. Reaching out for the beauti-
full; striving to create it round about
us, see it, feel and realize It, that
brings us to find beauty everywhere,
and to have in our hearts the beau
tiful, and to shine, as beautiful souls
to those round about us.-Christian
Sun.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22
Indians Buying Automobiles.

The automobile fever has struck
the residents Of the Cheyenne River
Indian reservation and a number of
the mixed bloods are investing in gas
wagons with which to do their trav-
cling.
To emphasize further the changed
conditions number Of the younger
Indians are taking to the camera and
the typewriter and the Indian way"
of today stand out in contrast to
their ways Of even a quarter of a
century ago, when the white men
first came in numbers to this part
of the State Minneapolis Journal.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22
Sees Mother Grow Young.

TT would be hard to overstate the
wonderful change in my mother since
she began to use Electric Bitters, :"
writes Mrs. w. l.. Gilpatrick, of Dan
ford. Me. Although past 20 she
seems really to be growing young again.
She suffered untold misery from dys-
nensia for 20 years. At last she could
neither eat, drink nor sleep. Doctors
gave her up and all remedies failed till
Electric Bitters worked such wonders
FOR her health" They invigorate all
vital organs, cure liver and kidney
troubles. induce sleep, impart strength
and appetite. Only SOC at E. l.
Whitehead Company,
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22

If you have pains in the back. weak
back, or any other indication OF
weakened or disordered condition OF
the kidneys or bladder, you should get
DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills
right away when you experience the
least sign of kidney or bladder COM
plants, but be sure that you get De-
Wits Kidney and Bladder Pills. We
know what they will do for you, and II
YOU will send your name to +. Z. De-
Witt & Co., Chicago, you will receive
n free trial box of these kidney and
bladder pills. They are sold here by
2. r. Whitehead Company.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22
There Has Recently Been Placed

in all the drug stores an aromatic,
pleasant herb cure for woman's Ills,
called Mother Gray's Australian Leaf.
It is the only certain regulator. Quick
lv relieves female weaknesses and back
ache, Kidneys, bladder and urinary
troubles. At all druggists or by mail
50 cents. Sample free. Address, The
Mother Gray Co., Leroy, n. 7.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22
BELIEFS ABOUT BABIES.
FateS That Determine Future Binding
the Hand fer Wealth,

The peasantry of Greece firmly be-
lieve that the future of every child is
determined by the three Fates, known
by the name of the moral. In the
popular mind this trio of Fates are
supposed to be three old and wrinkled
women whose habitation is noun
tain cave. They come simultaneous
ly to a house where new baby has
made its appearance.
When they are expected all furni-
ture is set aside so that their aged
and tottering feet may moi be hinder
ed, and refreshments in tie shape of
honey cakes, bread and wine are
placed ready for these important,
though invisible guests. Money, too,
is placed for them, as bribe to get
their favor for the baby, so that his
future may be one long, sweet song
the superstition being that all
things good and bad are in the CIV
ing Of the F'ates.
On no account must the child's
beauty be alluded to when the Moral
are present, as this will certainly
make its good looks disappear
marks on a baby's skin are looked
upon as sent bv these harbingers of
veal or woe.
Ill luck is supposed to be the lot
Of the children who cut their upper
teeth first. There are one or two
African tribes who so firmly believe
this that they are said 70 kill all
babies but those whose lower teeth
appear first. Another race of people
in the Dark Continent see all the
signs Of bad fortune in twins, and
so thsy avoid it By slating all of
them.
Should a child grow up bad in
China the parents are said to have
forgotten to bind its wrists allud-
ing thereby to a native superstition
that if red cord is tied around an
infants wrists it cannot fail to grow
up quiet and obedient.
Coming back to Western civiliza-
ton, says the London Globe, i'll luck
is supposed to hover around baby
if its finger nails are cut during the
first six weeks of life, ard there are
many more omens connected with a
baby's hands. Should the desire be
that a babe should have riches in
abundance when it is grown up then
on no account should it be forgotten
that the binding of it's right hand for
a short period soon after birth will
insure its coming in for wealth be-
yond the dreams of avarice.
Good luck to the infant in the fu-
ture is also supposed to be assured
in other ways. The Spaniards sweep
their children's faces with pine tree
boughs for that reason, while to keep
the Irish baby from harm belt of
woman's hair is placed about it, and
to achieve similar object Rumanian
mothers tie red ribbons around the
ankles of their offspring.
A very old but very pleasing Gus
tom prevails in Iceland when the first
tooth makes it's appearance, for then
a lamb is presented to the child to be
it's "very own. In Holland garlic
salt, bread and steak are put in the
cradle of the new arrival, while to
protect their children the mothers Of
Wales place in the youngsters cozy
beds a pair of tongs or knife, and
the latter weapon is utilized for &
like purpose in some districts Of
England. .-Ex.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22
How to Keep Cool.

1t was Charles Lamb who indulged
the fancy of taking off ones flesh
and sitting in his bones when the
sun gets to an overgenial tempera-
ture. This suggestion was humor-
our, but impracticable. The modern
way is to find for the warm clothing
of winter fit substitute for sum-
mer. as matter of fact cloth
ing had its evolution from the in
creasing susceptibility of humankind
to the biting blasts of winter The
evolution of civilization was marked
with an increase of the susceptibility
and hence clothing is founded upcn
Geld weather basis.
Science seeks now to reverse the
proposition and to found dress upon
GOODNESS and comfort; at least for
the summer season. The Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor has
issued a bulletin dealing with the
kinds of cloth invented upon scienti-
fic principles tobe impervious to the
suns rays. If this kind of cloth
comes up to the claims made in its
behalf, it will be possible to pream-
bulate the streets with Sol 9laring in
copper malenolence from the skies
and feel as cool as though one were
in an ammonia bath which, by the
way, no one need resort to who val
ues a whole skin and a continuation
of terrestrial existence. Baltimore
American,
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22
Tortured on a Horse.

For ten years | couldn't ride a
horse without being in torture from
piles" writes L. S. Napier, OF Rugless,
Kv iwhen all doctors and other rcme-
dies failed, Bucklen's Arnica Salve
cured me-" Infallible for piles, burns,
scalds, cuts, boils, feyer-sores. eczema,
salt rheum, corns. 20c. Guaranteed
by f. T. Whitehead Company.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22

A Night Riders Raid.

The worst night riders are calomel,
croton oil or aloes pills. They raid
YOUR bed to rob you Of rest. Not so
with DIR. Kings New Life Pills. They
never distress or Inconvenience, hut
always cleanse the system, curing
colds, headache, constipation, malaria.
25c at Z. L. Whitehead Company's.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22

YES" said young Windig, boast
ingly, Il past most of my time be-
tween Chicago and New York.
That's what your cousin told
me-" responded Miss Cayenne.
envy cousin" replied Wlndig.
"W-what did she say?'
'.She said," replied Miss Cayenne
"that YOU lived in a little town ir
Ohio. Chicago News.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22

Hubbubs-I believe in calling
spade spade.
Subbubs-I you lived out my way
and had been trying to make gar
den you would be excused for call
ing spade any old thing you could
lay your tongue to. Look at the
blisters.- Philadelphia Record.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22

Generally debilitated for years.
Had sick headaches, lacked ambition,
was all worn-out and all rundown.
Burdock Blood Bitters made me well
woman. Mrs. Chas. Freitoy, Moos-
up, Conn.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22

The American Canning Company
will release some $4,000 in this sec
ton of the country during the next
few weeks. The demand for black
berries has grown and marketing the
fruit has become an important in
dustry. Winston Journal.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22

Your brain goes on Il strike when
ya-u overload your stomach both need
blood to do business. Nutrition Is
what you want, and it comes by tax
ing Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea.
80 cents. Tea or Tablets. f. +. White
hood %
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22

Get Dewitt Carbolized Witch Hazel
Salve when you ask for it. There are
a great many limitations, but there is
Just one original. This salve is good
for anything where salve is needed to
be used, but it is especially good for
Piles. Sold by f. T. Whitehead Com
pany.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22

Read about the new anesthetic?
It's a good thing"
whats it like?"
"Deprives you Of feeling, but not
of your senses. If you Sc the sur
geon trying to sew sponges or for
ceps up in you, you get chance to
call him down. ."-Philadelphia Led
crpr
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22

"Papa, what do they call a person
that reads heads?"
"a phrenologist, my boy"
Gee! Then ma must be one of
those things. She felt of my head
this afternoon and said right away:
You've been swimming. detroit
Free Press.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22

Much as love old Mother Earth,
| never wish
To find her served at meal times in
My spinach dish.
Detroit Free Press.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22

The best pills made are DcWitt's
Little Early Rscrs, the famous little
liver pills. They are small, gentle,
pleasant, easy to take and act prompt
ly. They arc sold by f. 4. Whitehead
COmpany
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22

Farmers, mechanics, railroaders, Ia
borers RELY on DR.. Thomas Eclcctric
Oil. Takes the sting out OF cuts, burns
or bruises at once. Pain cannot stay
where it is used.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22

Don't think that piles can't be cur
ed. Thousands of obstinate cases have
been cured by Doan's Ointment. soc.
at any drug store
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22

Bilious? Feel heavy after dinner?
Tongue coated? Bitter taste? Com
plexion -allow? Liver needs waking
up. Doan's Regulcts cure bilious at
tacks. % cents at any drug store.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22

q brick dust sedi-
lnc11t, Or settling,
strlngy or milky
appearance often
indicates an ull-
healthy condi-
ton of the kid
1levs; too fire.
qlleut desire to
>oSc Tt NJ ,,,.,,I
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22
Have Kidney
and Never Suspect It.
2 TO ind O.t.

common glass with your
Z stand tWCuty-fo,lr hours.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22


oack are also symptoms that tell YOU
E1lneys and bladder are out Of order
need attention.
What TO DC.
ere is comfort i'll the knowledge so
u expressed, that DR.. Kil1ner's
.lp-Root, the great kidney remedy,
Ills almost every wish III correcting
aluatisn, pain in the back. kidneys,
r, bladder and every part of the urinary
sage. Corrects inability to hold water
j scalding pain in passing it, Or bad
cts following use of liquor, Wine Or
r, and overconlcs that unpleasant ne
eslty Of being compelled to go often
.Jugh the day, and to get up many
IS during the night. The mild and
I>diate effect of Swarup=Root is
II realized. It stands the highest De-
l=coIlts remarkable
-ulth restoring prop Fss7lI51 af7Ssa
lies. II you need ::sssas & g & g.
-..cine you should sssss s.sassas 1 1 IN
&c The best. Sold by s ss =
4ggIsts IN ffty-cent ,lsa.a,ssss
IL. onc-dollar sizes. Home = sTan9'tsao
aou may have sample bottle sent free
mail. Address DR.. I<ilner & Co, Bing-
.mton, n. y. Mention this paper and
member thenalnc, DR.. Kil11ler's Swamp
cot, and the. address, Binghamtou,
Y, Oh every bottle.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22

: q . NIlId I n z iJIN
lth restoring prop
les. Il you need a
G.Iine you should
( The best. Sold by
--rl-1-tS IL, Gf4- -N-,t
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-01
Grinnell News Notes.

Special 10 Times epublican.
Grinnen, Oct. 1.-Mr. and Mrs. Aus
tin Haines are here for a day or .wo
on business and pleasure, from Their
home in Chicago. They report an i'm
proved condition of health for Mr..
Haines since ne left the Herald office
here.
Captain Cogswell. of Company X, Of
this city, went recently to Eldora, as
one Of the judges in competitive mil
itary drill by the boys at the industrial
school and speaks in high terms of The
efficiency of the boys in the manual CT
arms
Mr. and Mrs ]. H. Blatherwick. who
have been for some months with their
children on their farms in Minnesota and
Dakota, returned on Tuesday evening
Mr.. Blatherwick had bad fall tina,
sprained his ankle, which still troubles
him. They report the crops as excellent
in the parts where they were.
The banquet spread on wednesday
evening for the Windsor Club by FREQ
Laros in view Of his retirement from
the club by reason Of his coming mar
rage to Miss May Armstrong. is pro-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-01

nounced a decided success and ended
in the presentation to Mr.. Laros by the
club of fine leather upholstered rock
ing chair.
Sunday next will be an unusual one
in the Congregational church here in
both morning and evening services.
The morning will have a rally day.
service in which both old and young
will have an especial interest. The
evening will be given over entirely to
a musical service in which the senior
choir and both the male and female
junior choirs will take parts, bringing
out about 100 voices.
Miss Bertha Phillpott goes to Chi
cago this week to continue her studi IS
in art, and Miss Maud Humbert goes 20
Drake University to study music AS
farewell to them their Sunday school
class held a picnic at the residence of
L. G. c. PIERCE
The board of directors of the Grinnell
Savings Bank recently filed the vacan-
cies caused by the removal from the
city permanently of DR.. T. NJ. Hedge
and s. w. Belden. by the election OF
Grant Ramsey and F. L. Abel.
Rev. Elias Handy and family. who
have for some time lately been obliged
to make their home in the hasemesit
of the Methodist church while the par
sonage was nearing completion FoI
their habitation, have at last succeeded
in being able to occupy a part Of the
parsonage.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-01
REPORT SEEING SEA SERPENT.
Fishermen, Residents Of "DryS
Town, Declare They Saw Reptile
In the Pacific.

Guy Grifith. James Harvey ana
three other fishermen who were out in
the launch Reta, report that when 10
miles of the coast they sighted sea
serpent 40 feet long, with brown
head as big around as small barrel
and eyes as large as mans fist. Tho
serpent is said to have moved its head
from side to side as a snake does, and
had a big dorsal fin Is feet back Of
the head.
The fishermen say the same monster
has been reported within the last few
months near the Philippines and
along the northern coast of this coun.
try.
They furthermore aver that heavy
sinker, which one of the Ave threw at
the sea serpent as the boat was pull
ing away from the unsafe neighbor-
hood, was caught in the creatures
mouth and spit back with such force
as to make a deep dent in the fish box
on deck.
Never saw such a splitter" said
one of the men; "just like a young
cannon" Long Beach is dry" town.
Long Beach (Cal) Dispatch to the
New York World.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-01
STRENUOUS SYNOD SESSION.
Progressive Faction Wins After I
Iimultuous Contest.

Progressive Faction Wins After q
Timultuous Contest.
Burlington, Oct. with as strenu-
Gus a session as has ever marked any
proceeding of the Evangelical Synod
of North America, the quadrennial
conference of the church was adj
journed yesterday afternoon to meet
four years hence in Louisville, Ky. 1t
seemed as tho the greatest fight of the
W hole conference had been reserved for
the closing hours of the last day, when
the question of church federation was
made the vehicle for tumultuous
conflict between the progressive and
reactionary parties of the church. In
The end the progressives won by an
overwhelming majority, but at one
time, just before the close of the
morning session. it looked as tho their
fight had been lost, and that the Evan
gelical church would be only a passive
spectator at the work of the Fedora
ton Council of Churches of America.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-01
ElectrOpodes
Do Wonders
For Stomach
Remarkable Electric Device to Produce
Wireless Current That Quickly
Restores Diseased Stomach
and Other Organs.
A Real Treatment For Rheumatism.


We want to call the attention of
our readers to a remarkable electric
device which seems already to have
exploded many pet theories of ply
sicians and scientists, and to have
produced positive wonder to those
who have used it.
This new invention Is called Elec-
tropodes, which comes in pairs
both producing together, it is stated.
an unnoticeable yet effective current
thruought the entire body, permeatiag
the vital organs, purifying and COR
recting diseased conditions. regulatiyA
vital functions, and strengthening .
nerves almost beyond description.
Il proves at last that electricity is
not oniy life but health. and vigor
unsurpassed 1t has already pro-
duced astonishing results in Stomach
and Liver Troubles. Kidney Com
plants, Rack Pains Lumbago. In
somnia- Weak Heart, rheumatism.
Nervous Prostitution, Neuralgia and
Weak Nerves.
These results are not fanciful but
already proven. For those who have
relied on medicines for curing the
above diseases. these Electropodes
come as q distinct revelation.
Those who wear them report an
tnexpresSble new feeling of glow
and health to every organ. the
nerves, and entire body. Nothing
like 1t has ever been found.
Electropodes are peculiar metallic
insoles in appearance. insulated and
so placed in the heels OF the shoes
as TO be unnoticeable TO the wearer.
They are never uucoyr Portable. IN
deed, were Il not for the glow OF
energy and health YOU would never
know you had them on. They are
different from any other electric de-
vice in that they produce a current
only when in actual use.
Elecropodes have already been
distributed so that you can now get
them al any drug store at 81 a
pair. To prove 70 you that they DO
the wonderful things claimed f3r
them. the druggist signs legal
binding contract that i you are not
perfectly satisfied with the Electro
podes az the end 81 80 days your
money VIII be refunded.
Il your druggist should not have
Electropedes on hand send 81 :or
a pair 10 The Electropode Corpa ~,
Suite So. Holland Book. Lima, o,
and they Viii De sent - You on tae
same 80 days trial. with our contract
signed b. The arutac,urars binding
themselves n comp. eleiy satisfy you
or positively refund your money and
also the Interesting story OF now Elec-
tropooes heal 70 matter where the
trouble It located say whether 81
LADY or gentleman.