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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
COUPLE MARRY THREE TIMES
Same Woman Bride of Joshua Ste
phens, Now 70 Years Old.

phens, Now 70 Years Old.
Joplin, Mo.-After being twice mar.
ried and twice divorced, Joshua Steph-
ems, 10 years old, of Memphis, and his
wife, Mrs. Hattie Stephens, "a years
old, of Lyons, Kan, were married for
the third time in Joplin today.
The couple were first married in Ten
nessee on June 8, 1855, the wedding be-
ing the elimination of a romance which
began when they were residing on farms
in the same neighborhood. When the
war broke out between the States, Ste
phens entered the Confederate ranks.
After serving two years he returned.
Thirteen years afterward they quarreled
and obtained a divorce. Five years later
they were married again. After their
second marriage they moved to Iowa,
n later to Kansas. In 1902 they again
quarreled and separated. Mrs. Stephens
secured a divorce. By agreement, she
remained on the farm in Kansas with
one of their married sons, and he re-
turned to Tennessee to live with a son
there.
Through the efforts of the Kansas son
a third marriage was planned, and they
arranged to meet Mrs. Stephens sister
from Canada here when the ceremony
was performed.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
SAVED BY HIS CORK LEGS
Remarkable Story of Cripple Caught
in Galveston Storm.

in Galveston Storm.
Galveston, Tex.-William Davies, of
Groveton, Texas, a legless man, 80 years
of age, furnished the most thrilling
experience of any Of the storm victims
SO far recorded. He was a guest at the
Tarpon finishing pier, located on the
north jetty, six miles from Galveston,
in the gulf, and with others was thrown
into the sea when the big building was
demolished by the hurricane.
Before the building collapsed, Davies
discarded his two cork legs and, catch
ing some of the debris, was carried sea-
ward on the storm tide about fifteen
miles, washed time and again from the
raft. 1t finally broke up, and he was
sent adrift in the gulf. Searching about
for debris to catch on to he was as
founded to see his cork legs floating with
the current, and grabbed them. With
these supports under his arms he swan
back into the bay and was carried by
the tides into Galveston upper bay, thir-
ty miles from where the pier collapsed,
and was picked up by a boat. He was
in the water thirty hours, twelve of
which he was battling with the storm
waves.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
CALLING DOWN THE BoAsTER
Good Little Story Told by william
Dean Howells y 4 Rebuke to
Spread-EaQieism.

"It was William Dean Howells.s
said a Chicago editor. who first re.
buked us Americans for our spread.
eagleism, for our foolish boasting.
e hat Mr.. Howells has just joined
a mems society for the promotion OF
woman suffrage. Trust him to be In
the forefront always.
Il once heard Mr.. Howells deliver q
Fourth of July Grafton in Maine. The
orator preceding him had boosted q
good deal. Mr.. Howells showed that
some of the mans boasts were even
impious.
He said that these spreadeagle
boosters deserved the rebuke that the
little child administered to the cack.
ling hen hat had just laid an &
The child, angered by the hens con
tinuous cawk-cawk-cawk, cawk-cawk-
cawk-cawk, shook his little finger at
her and said:
"'You fink you're smart. But bod
made dat egg. You touldn't help but
lay it,"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30

IF you made a slave dress and live
as you do he would run away"
sneered a rich A%thenian. And the
man he addressed was one of the first
and greatest of Progress-Makers- Soc
rates.
This sage who revolutionizec re-
ligion, thought and education, locked
more like a comic-paper hobo than a
genius.
Socrates vas The son of a statue
seller and learned his fathers
trade. The Greeks of his time
471-399 b. c. worshiped a colony of
gods who were supposed to inhabit
Mount Olympus, who led scandalous
lives and who blessed or cursed man
kind according to the within of the
moment. To these gods the Athen-
ians erected affairs, made sacrifices
and supported a body of priests.
The actions attributed 20 our GODS
said Socrates, would disgrace the
vilest of human beings. 1t is impos-
sible that the world can be governed
by such dieties."
Yet he saw that some ruling force
controlled human destiny, and he be-
gan to preach the existence of a SUI
preme Being. an allwise and benef-
Substituted Truth tho u.st nnino.,o
for Superstition. To t,,is he .ddod
the belief that mans spirit is i'm
mortal n not the mere sport of
some man-made dweller of Olympus,
and that a guardian angel TOR con-
c1pnPGi dictates oil mortal iynn,,1coo
He argued that men should labor and
pray to become better and wiser in
stead of making sacrifices of sheep
and cattle on h affairs of the Olym-
plan gods in hopes of being favored
with luck in war and business.
This doctrine of higher ideals and
the discovery of conscience's existence
raised a howl from the hosts of priests.
But Socrates did not stop there. He
attacked the narrow, stupid system of
education in vogue in Athens and
sought to rebuild it on broader, more
modern lines, adapting the vague, alb
stract facts to practical value and
teaching youths to think for them
selves. He was, in a way, the founder
of modern education. He also assailed
municipal graft and incompetence
and tried to show his. fellow Athen-
ians their duty toward the state. 1t was
largely due to his opposition that the
t~yrannical council of thirty, who ruled
with the iron hand Of injustice, was
deposed and a democracy formed. AS
an example in patriotism hi served
for three years as a private soldier,
winning fame for his courage and en-
durance.
But he refused to accept promotion
in rank or public office of any kind.
He furthermore lived in abject pow
erty hat he might teach others to
think more of the mind and soul than
of the body. Rousing peoples dor
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
Exact Copy of Wrapper.
The Thrifty Scot.

A Scotsman and his wife we're com
ing from Leith to London by boat.
Then off the Yorkshire coast a great
storm arose, and the vessel had sew
eral narrow escapes from laundering.
"Oh, Sandy" moaned his wife, I'm
ma afeard o deem, but l dinna care
to dee at sea-"
damn think O. deein' yet" an
swered Sandy; but when We do, ye'd
better be drooned at sea than any
where else"
An why, Sandy?" asked his wife.
"Why?' exclaimed Sandy. Because
We wouldn't cost sac muckle to bury"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30

the w%orld-old yoke Of superstition
But the Father of Medicine pei
formed other services to humanity
even greater than these. He discov
cred, after many experiments, just
h foods were beneficial or hurtful
to the system, and laid down the first
rules of diet v formulated. It is, in
the main, the same theory of diet thai
is in use to-day. The fact hat regu.
lating their daily fare could keen
them in health more effectively than
could any priest-blest charm, amulets
or lamentations came as a shock OF
surprise to the ancients.
Next Hippocrates took up the sub.
ject of public health. Sanitation, as
we understand it, was unknown. There
was no board of health, nor did civic
hygiene exist. In consequence cpl.
denies of the most fatal and fast.
Organized First n.nu
Health Depart -
ment. -
rates framed the first actual code OF
sanitary laws and measures for check.
ing epidemics, and was influential
enough to have them put into effect.
To him we W the first movement
that led to the modern health depart.
ment.
Nor are diet, sanitation and the dis.
cover of medicine all for which we
are in the old Greeks debt. He de.
vised "ausculation" (the science
whereby the condition of heart, lungs,
ETC., is determined by sound), and is
credited with being the first to prac.
tice trephining.
In Greece all of mankind who did
garded as barbarians. It was not
thought necessary to treat them as
human. Persia was Greece's heredi.
tary foe. When a terrible epidemic
ravaged Persia, the emperor, Artaxer.
yes. sent presents to Hippocrates,
begging him to come and put down
the scourge. The doctor is said to
ave sent back an insulting refusal,
declaring his art vas too precious to
waste on his conntry's barbaric en-
And the Greek world applauded
his decision.
This is, perhaps, the one blot on
the character of a man to whom
progress and civilization owe more.
from a physical standpoint, than to
all the rest of mankind. Every doc.
tor to-day acknowledges that debt.s
and. on entering on the practice Of
medicine, he takes what is still known
as the "Hippocratic Oath"
(Copyrighted.)
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
MPOCRATES--- The Man Who
Made Health

In olden times when a man was ill,
instead of dieting or taking medicine,
he sacrificed a sheep or an OK to his
favorite god. If this treatment did
no improve the condition of his liver
or digestion, he took it as a sign that
the deity was angry. and resigned
himself to his fate. When lowing to
the horribly insanitary conditions of
the age) a city or community was
smitten by plague or epidemic, votive
offerings were made to all the gods on
the list and an army of priests was
kept busy sacrificing and praying. In
fact, there was a special class of con-
secrated officials known as priest
physicians. They dealt in charms,
omens and amulets. In other words,
they had the same functions as have
the North American Indian medicine
men, of to-day.
But in $50 B. C. was born a man
(son of a priest-physician) who in a
single generation changed all this bar
barous custom, to whom we owe our
present knowledge of physic, diet and
sanitary Jaw. He a Hippocrates,
h father of medicine. He made
health a science INT paved the way
for every doctor who has since lived.
Like most progress-makers, Hippoc-
rates owed his greatness to the fact
that he was disconnected with the
customs of his day, and sought a log
ical reason for things which others
were satisfied to take for granted. He
could not see how the Offering of sac
rifices and the belief tina the gods
held all health or illness at their dis
would have made a very poor sort of
Christian Scientist.
By a series OF careful experiments
Hippocrates discovered that certain
herbs and foods had direct effect on
the human body. Instead of exhorting
Tries Effects of sick people to
make burnt offer
m~eo'e'ne on ings to the gods,
he dosed them
with powerful physics. Luckily the
human system in those days was ro-
bust, and the medicines, strong as
they were, proved of vast benefit.
Moreover, there were always slaves
on whom to practice in order to find
out how much of any certain kind of
medicine or drug the system could
comfortably stand.
These marked reforms SEN his
fame broadcast all over the civilized
world. He was hailed as a miracle
worker. Yet in reality he had merely
applied logic and common sense to
the treatment of disease, and had
freed the practice of medicine from ]
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
Regulations.

THE Autocrat," remarked the Re-
condite Person, made a remark the
import of which escaped nj until the
other day. He said: Many a mar
has a reputation because of the repu.
tnaito he expects to have some
day"
That's not a half bad remark" sug.
gested the Practical Person, but my
son-just out from college, you know,
and in the habit of thinking hump.
backed thoughts, as it were-said
something only this morning that ap,
pealed to me: Some men, he said,
get a reputation and keep it; other
men get a reputation and make 1t
keep them.'"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
His Preference,

Commander Maxwell of the navy
enjoys telling of an unique complaint
preferred by a recruit.
On every man-of-war the bar of
justice is aft in front of the stick
or mast. The recruit had gone to the
stick to Estate" his grievance. well
what do you want?" asked the
executive officer.
Please, sir, l want to complain of
h breakfast this morning."
What did you have?"
"Burgoo, crack-hash, hard tack and
coffee, sir"
What did you expect?"
please, sir, | always like to start
my breakfast with a nice steak m a
pair of eggs.'-Illustrated Sunday
Magazine.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
Law of Attraction.

The attractions of men to women
and women to men are full of the most
perplexing inconsistencies and contra
dictions imaginable. 1t is, for instance,
a physical law that magnetism is not
simple attraction of one thing for an
other, but the difference of two oppos-
ing forces of attraction and repulsion,
of which the former is the greater.
The same Law holds in relation to the
attraction of men and women for each
other, in which, as a rule, the mascu-
line is the superior force.-T. P.'s
Weekly, London.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
tuberculosis Conference.

Under the auspices of<the Swedish
National League Against Tuberculo-
sis, the International tuberculosis
conference held it's annual meeting in
Stockholm July 8 to 10. Among the
American speakers on the program
were DIR. Hermann M. Biggs of New
York and DR.. John c. Wise, medical
director of the United States navy,
who was the official representative of
this country. Two subjects of special
interest discussed were: Care OF
T~uberculous Families, Especially of
Healthy Children" and Tuberculosis
and the Schools
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
Pathos in a Fire Report,

In the annual report of the fire
marshal of Kentucky the following ex
tract is not without a suggestion of
Little Boy Blue"
Among the odds and ends of the
attic, usually are vanished furniture,
rags smeared with grease to take fire
themselves, painting oils liable to
take fire when the sun beats on the
roof, and broken toys Of children who
are grown and gone away, or who
vent to sleep long ago."
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
THE OBJECT HE HAD IN VIEW.
Farmer Had Not Much Expectation
of Turkeys, But He Was Not
Losing Anything. F.

A Rhode Island farmer set a ban.
tan hen on IA turkey eggs, and great
was the scandal thereof throughout
h neighborhood. Friends from far
and near dropped in for to see and
for to admire the freakish feat.
"Sa-ay, Silas," asked envious Hiram
Haggers, "haow many turkeys d. yew
callate ter git outer them aigs?"
ooh, shucks!!" Silas answered. Fl
amt cal'latin' t. git many turkeys. |
jest admire t see hat pesky little
critter a-spreadin' herself!"-Harper's
Weekly.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
RESCUED CHILDREN--DlED
Galloway County Woman Horribly
Burned in Explosion.

Paducah, Ky.-After saving her two
children from burning to death and her
home from destruction by fire, Mrs.
Noah Parks, a resident of Galloway
county, blistered from head to foot, mott
fed her husband over the telephone of
what had happened, and died as he en-
tered the house.
Mrs. Parks had been ironing with a
patent gasoline iron. Leaving it for a
few minutes, her two small children over
turned it, and an explosion followed, set
ting the room on fire. She rescued the
children, who were painfully burned, and
in quenching the flames her clothing ig
nited, fearfully burning her about the
body, limbs and head.
Staggering to the telephone, she in
formed her husband of what had taken
place and her condition, and fell to the
floor. Mrs. Parks died on her husbands
arrival.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
"a Cheap Skate"

Joel Chandler Harris" said an At
lantan, used to write comic newspa-
per editorials. Sometimes, he made
fun of other editors in them, too.
Simon Simpson, a rival editor in
Mobile. having been made fun of,
wrote angrily in his rage:
Joe Harris has been getting off
some cheap wit at our expense
Joel, on reading this, grabbed his
pen and dashed off, quick as a flash,
for next days issue:
ct must have been cheap, Simon,
to be at your expense"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30

Rough o n Rats, unbeatable exterminator
Rough on Hen Lice, Nest Powder, Csc.
Rough on Bedbugs, Powder orLiq'd. Csc.
Rough on Fleas, Powder or Liquid, Is.
Rough on Reaches, Pow'd, 15c. ,Liq'd, Csc.
Rough on Moth and Ants, Powder, Csc.
Rough on Shelters, agreeable touse,2 Csc.
e. s.. Wells. Chemist. Jersey City. N. J.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
Neatly Put.

Two Quakers were having an ar
gument, and one considered the 9TH
er was speaking falsely. This is how
he reproved him:
Friend Thomas, 1 will not call thee
by any bad name, but if the mayor
were to ask me who was the greatest
liar in the town l would hasten to thee
and Thomas, 1 think the mayor
greatly desireth to speak with thee"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
Best Clubs for = Youth

They tell a story in Wall street
that MI. Morgan once replied to a
young friend, who had asked him
what were the best clubs to belong to
in New York. Young man, the very
best clubs to devote your time to are
Indian Clubs"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
Its Punctuation.

Fol sheer simplicity of phrase and
conception few have surpassed that
delightful old lady who, with a shrewd
twinkle in her eye. inquired whether
"'soda water should be written as
two separate words, or II there should
be a syphon between them?"-A
gonaut.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
ROOSEVELT FOR Y

Former President Will Be Back for New
York Campaign.
Paris.-John S. Wise, Jr., of New
York, says that former President Roose-
welt, just prior to his departure from
New York on his African hunting ex-
petition, promised him and other Re-
in New York that he would
4sturn in time for the mayoraity cam
spaign. Mr.. Wise says he has not given
up the hope that Mr.. Roosevelt will head
the mayoralty ticket in New York Thu
autumn.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
Why He Led.

The angel was making up the list
Il never asked my fellow man if ii
was hot enough for him." remarked
Abou Ben Adhem.
And, 10! his name came in under
the wire first.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
Good KNOWLEDGE for Divers,

AS part of the education of the Eng
iish naval divers, the beginners are
taught how to save themselves, should
they become exhausted, by allowing
their suits to fill with air and shooting
rapidly upward to the surface, where
they are dragged into the boat by the
attendants.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
The oblioina Dealer,

Shopper-Give me a nalfdollar,u
worth of sugar.
Grocer-Yes'm. What address?
Shopper-IH take it with me. il it's
not too heavy to carry.
Grccer-Im try to make it as light
Is / can for you, ma'am.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
Well, Not Very Often,

The little daughter of a Republican
candidate for a local office down in
Philadelphia, when told that her ia
Their had received the nomination,
looked serious for a moment, then her
wee voice trembled a bit as she ex-
claimed:
"Oh, mamma. do they often die of
it,"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30

In the Editorial Sanctum.
Editor like the last verse of your
poem the best"
Poet-Ah! And why?
Editor-Well, principally because 1t
is the last.-Judge.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
c%uticura's Efficacy Clearly Proven.

When about two and a half years
old my daughter broke out on her hips
and the upper parts Of her legs with a
very irritating and painful eruption. It
began in October; the first | noticed
was a little red surface and a constant
desire on her part to scratch her limbs.
she could not sleep and the eruptions
sore, and yellow water came out
OF them. I had two doctors treat her.
h grew worse under their treat
ment. Then I bought the Cuticura
Remedies and only used them two
weeks hen she was entirely well.
This was in February. She has never
mad another rough place on her skin.
and she is now fourteen a old.
Mrs. R. r. Whitaker, Winchester.
Tenn, Sept. %, 1908"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole Props. Bo.4on-
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
Identification,

Mistress lat door)-Well, my dear,
What is it?
Little Girl-Please, m, our kitty is
losted. Did you e a kitty go past
here by the name of Nuddles? 2"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30

1t is a mothers duty to keep constantly
on hand some reliable remedy for use IN
case OF sudden accident or mishap to the
children. Hamlins Wizard Oil can he
depended upon for just such emergencies
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30

Some men never think of earning
an honest living until they accident
ally get a good, hard jolt in the right
spot.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
He Bit.


The city man was jogging on to-
ward the summer boarding house in
a rickety old wagon. The driver was
glum and far from entertaining, and
the city man felt rather lonely.
Fine field over there?" he ven
tured, after a long silence.
Fine" grunted the driver.
"Who owns it?"
"Old man Bit"
"Old man Bit, Ell? Who are those
children stacking up hay?"
"Old man Bits boys"
And what is his idea in having
them out there in the field such a hot
day."
oval, l reckon he thinks every lit
tie Bit helps, stranger. Anything
else you want to know? Get up here,
hosses."
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30

How much better it is that he
should speak i'll of me to all the world
than that all the world should speak
i'll of me to him.-Torquatto Tasso.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30

Some are vocal under a good infiu-
ence, are pleasing whenever they are
pleased, and hand on their happiness
to others.-R. L. Stevenson.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
His Benefactions.

Have o done anything to make
the world your debtor?"
NO" answered Mr.. Dustin Stax. Il
don't believe in encouraging bad hab-
its. My ledger assures me that l have
managed to make the world pay as
it goes.'
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
A Baseball Preacher.

1t was just at the beginning of the
baseball season when an Episcopal
clergyman, who is an ardent and EN-
thusiastlc lover of the great American
game, inadvertently remarked at the
end of the portion of Scriptures which
he read:
Here endeth the first innings"
Then he woke up.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
How an Angry Woman Looked.

How an Angry Woman Looked.
The other day we saw an angry
woman in a street car, and her face
was anything but a pleasant picture.
She was angry at the conductor, en-
tirely without cause, and that made
her look more terrible than If she had
had a real Observation-Disclosures Jour.
nal.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
COMFORTING,
MF7MA %

Man in the Water-Help! Help!
I'm drowning!
Dron Gent-What! you don't need
help to drown, man.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30

When a fellow begins to feel that
be couldn't live without a certain girl,
he ought to marry her and see.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
VERY ABRUPT.

Spring Poet-Yes, sir; / can write
about anything, sir.
Irate Editor-Well, then, suppose
you just right-about face and head for
the door.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30

Take Or. eiggers HuckIeberry Cordial
For all Bowel troubles, Collie, Dysenterv
Choleramorbus, Cholera, Infantum. Chi,
dren Teething, etc. At Druggists 5c and 5Oc.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30
For Headaone TRY Hicks, canud;n.

Whether from Colds, Heat, m or
Nervous troubles. the aches are speedily
ant to take-Effects Immediately, 10. Is
and Soc at Drug Stores.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30

Gifts to God can make up for
thefts from men.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30

For Colds and Gripp-capudine.
The best remedy for Gripp and Colds n
Hicks Capudine. Relieves the aching and
feverishness- Cures the cold-Headaches
also. It's L~quid-Enects immediateIy-1O.
. and Soc at Drug Stores.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-07-30

PERRY DAVIS PAINKILIER
for all sorts of cuts. bruises, burns and strains
Taken internally it cures diarrhea and dysenterv
Avoid substitutes. Csc, S5c and SOC