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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
IiOuefyiHg Extracted Honey.

Whos. heat is app ed to extracted
honey to liGuefy it. it will be found
that the centre of the mass viii re-
main solid long after the outer part
has become melted. and the danger
Is that the outer part will become
oyer-heated While the center is me t
ing. This danger is the greater, the
lower the temperature of the whole
mass when the heat is applied IL
the entire lot be ::t the freezing poi1t,
the center may cas!;y remain sold
VIII io the outer part has been sToil-
ed By boiling. The plain suggestion
is that we should have the r1o5S
warm before beg nning to melt it.
Let it remain in & room whose teG1-
rcrature has been raised to 100 de-
orees, or as near IS convenient to
that point, until the whole mass has
been warmed through to the center.
and then very little heat viii p.elt
the center. Indeed, it Is POS BIO
thar by leaving it in such hot aiT a
sufficiently long tine it may bee. ne
!iguid through JUt without addit IL
heat.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
Picnic Hints.

The lunch for a picnic should be
abundant in variety and da .nty.
Sandwiches should be wrapped
separately in waxed paper, and pack
ed in pasteDoard boxes, each variety
in a box by itself.
The cake should be baked in shee S,
cut In squares, iced with var Gus iiay-
ored icings, wrapped in wax paper
and packed in a pasteboard box.
Chicken and all cold meats should
be kept whole, and not carved and
sliced before packing.
All fruits should be firm, never
overripe, and we'll cleaned before
putting into the basket.
The lemon-juice should be squeez-
ed at home, and bott.ed; and don't
forget a supply OF powdered sugar.
Cold coffe, tea, milk and grape
juice can be bottled, put into pals,
and surrounded by ice, wrapped in
clean, heavy bags.
II hot coffee is desired, small al
cohol lamp can be slipped into the
basket
Don't forget to put in plenty of
relishes, such as pickles, olives, rad
dishes and spiced fruits, as they are
specially enjoyed at picnic.
And don't forget the salt.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
HERE s THE LOG Of
4 LOVE PIRATE"
Being the Diary Of Girl Involved
in Chicago Divorce, with
Shadow Kiss"
GIVES new POINTS ON LOVE
Writes "It's Awful to Have to Talk
to a Kid That is Silly About You
When You Really Need Rest
Called sammy Mary

Chicago, Ill-Miss Mary McLain,
who was named in the successful
suit for divorce brought by Mrs. AL
| legretti, wife of a candy manufac-
turer, has, in justification of herself,
made public part of diary which
+ she kept while she was employed as
! Mr. Alegretti's secretary. She de-
termined on this after her employ
er's wife had called her a love
pirate" At the trial Miss McLain be-
! came known as the "Shadow Kiss
er," witnesses testifyiEg that they
recognized her shadow en- the Office
curtains when 2Ir. Aliegretti en-
braced her.
Here are some CT the extracts
from the young secretarys diary
Its awful to have 30 talk to a
KID that's silly about yoa when you
really need rest. It takes young
men an awful while to get wise to
dilemma
''Those sad eyed men make me
weepy. Ginger. All the fellows
that think I'm cute are married or
bald headed, or both.
Its hard to ZEE goood when the first
principle Of life in the sweet, pure
air of the farm is to sell cold stor-
age eggs for new laid.
"Id rather chase home a COW with
cookie burrs II her tail through a
wet pasture than go three blocks for
a patent bottle of milk with all the
cream in one end.
I'm thinking OF opening q mani
cure parlor for exclusive patronage
that means nothing less than SIS.
Ma says the only people I'd get
would be lunatics. That's all right,
too. All the manicures would be
dead if i uo~e not e., the 1nnatic-
''If kisses were ten dollar bills
what merry world this would be!
Now this diary is TO tell just only
the absolute truth. and it's only for
me to read, because one doesn't Dare
to tell the truth to one's friends, and
ones enemies aren't worth talking
to.
I've found out what love is. 1t
was in a book written by a man who
said he'd ben loved by more women
than he had fingers and toes. He
says love is z distenper. Gee! That's
what McClintock' pup had when his
hair fell out ana they drowned him
because he couldn't die from chloro-
form. | think [ see my finish.
"Ob, l believe | have found the
man. He's at least thirty-five, bat
he is the darlingest darling in Chica-
go, and lie isn't married. When l
told Pa he said to wait, month or
two, because the worst spawned
horse looks all right in the twilight.
Pas getting to be a pessimist.
"Oh. little Mary, why is it that
all the women wait until they are
fifty and wear double lens glasses to
talk women's rights? l guess 1t is
because they don't find the sleddin'
quite so easy as they used to.
Now, just think Of me morbid.
Why they called me Sunny Mary
from the time I was four, and the
first time l ever can remember being
real angry was when they fed my
milk toast to the Bishop because he
had bum teeth and I'd been crying
for it for over an hour. l was only
six then, but it shows you how they
rub it into the suffering little ones"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
Worlds biggest Pile of Sawdust.

Probably the largest sawdust pile
in the world IS the one at Cheboygan,
Mich This is the product Of one
mill. The mill, being run by wa
ter power, had no way of disposing
OF its sawdust. The company was
not permitted to dump it into the
river, and for few years an attempt
was made TO burn it.
There was so much smoke that the
village passed an ordinance prohibit
Ing that form CT destruction. AS
consequence it was simply hauled
out into a vacant field and during the
thirty years of it's growth has Scqufr-
ed monstrous properties. 1t is
hill 1880 feet long, SIS feet wide
and ranges from 20 to so feet high.
The hill covers some twelve acres.
It is almost entirely white and Nor
way pine sawdust, because the mill
did not cut hemlock, except for the
last two or three years before 1T was
closed down.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
SCOTLAND NECK, N. c., THURSDAY, JANUARY "A, 1909
AS TO A WOx1AE'S AGE.
She Never Grows Cid Isut Improves
as Years Pass

She Never Grows Cid ISUt Improves
as Years Pass.
Out In Missouri there is a happy
man who has been married for sixty
years and he ascribes all the Joy that
has come to him because he has nev-
er asked his wife her age. He has
a suspicion that she must be some
thing like as old as he is, and he ad-
m1ts to more than four score, but the
subject has never been mentioned be-
tween them, and he advises all hus-
bands to go and do likewise
This philosophy may have merit.
1t at least would have that of econo-
my, for if woman were never to tell
her age she would never admit
having birthday and the thrifty
| husband would be saved and expen-
d1tures on this account Unfortu-
nately such is the nature of woman
kind that 1t is not likely there would
| be any great gain at the end Of the
year, for she would be able to get
rake-off on some other count that
would make up the alleged profit.
the world SO chary Of admitting the
years to which tehy have attained?
1t is not so in China, where added
honors come with each birthday, and
to be wrinkied and gray-haired is to
De popular. In this country women
think they may secure eternal youth
either by not admitting their age or
hxr 1x-5rr oh a.
en- will admit to being over forty. It
used TO be SO that they like thirty
pretty we'll, but in the last score Of
years the woman OF forty has come
into her own and is quite the social
queen. But they don't get beyond
that SO long as the hairdresser, the
drug store and the massage artist
can keep at work on complexion,
while corset makers and milliners
and dress makers work on the figure
1t is the feminine theory that won-
an is as young as she looks and she
often is willing to feel mighty bad
to keep up the appearance of youth.
What is the harm in admitting
age? One ought to be wiser and
better as one gets older and more at
tractive. The ordinary man has no
delusions on this subject. He isn't
even deluded by the wiles and airs
Of women. He smiles at their sub
terfuge and says nothing. He is will
ing to dress according to the weather
and he is not ashamed of wrinkles
or white hair SO long as he can have
peace in the world He may find
that his wife or daughters spend an
extraordinary amount in preserving
what the fashionable whims of the
hour called youth. but he is wise
enough to keep his mouth shut.
Women do not grow old. They
change and the right sort of women
is improving all the time. If it is
any satisfaction to them to deceive
themselves they are not TO be denied
the privilege. 1t takes very little to
make some people happy and let
them have their way. But Father
Time works relentlessly and "gets
there" at last.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
Bees ard Wild Flowers.

Every farm has on it fruit trees.
gerry patches. clover, or buckwheat
fields ell Of which, in the absence of
bees, Is evaporated by the sun and
practically wasted. The forests also
contain many linden and white wood
trees which are good honey yielders.
Then there are the autumn wild flow
ers, such as boneset, goidenrod, harts-
ease and wild asters, which bloom
for a succession of two months, from
which the bees DO not only store a
quantity of surplus honev, but also
fill the broad nests of the hives for
winter stores. in MY locality bee
keepers get the most and finest honey
from autumn wild flowers which
grow at random everywhere.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
Bees Drive Cat Birds.

A large yellowfe MINER Doked q
hole in a poplar pest on the front
porch OF t,e old DGF'nres fc"l =,
three mi'es west of BccnTiile, lEi..
and built its nest. Son le"ge
swarm OF bees settled on the roo CT
the perch, and, finding the opening
made by the bird, they entered ana
began to make it their home. The
bii DIS saw them intruding on their
young one and began to fight des-
perately to save them. They flew
around with great effort, catching the
bees in their bills and curshing them.
The bees fought back by singing the
birds. In the end the bees triumph
ed They drove the birds away from
their young ones and are storing
ing honey in the old post.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
FARNxs%n1|
UNHEALTHY FRUIT TREES.
ConGit on of Soil Has Much to Do
With Orchards Success.

With Orchards Success.
The physical condition Of the soil
has much to do with the unit hriltiness
of many fruit trees, writes l.. c. B..
To make fruit growing success
there are two great essentials in get
Ing the ground ready for setting out
the young trees. The ground must De
properly drained and 1t .ust be in
good physical condition. Some hardy
trees may live for time on undrain-
ed ground, but it is only a question Of
time when they will die cut l be-
l:eve that undertaking will pay
with all kinds of fruits. 1t warns
the soil and frees the subsoil OF ell
excess water, and in this way liber-
ates much plant food that otherwise
would not be available to the feeding
roots. On thoroughly drained soil
the root system of the trees is health
Ter and they are ready for work ear
lier in the spring. AS trees become
larger and come into bearing they
need larger feeding grounds; SO it is
essential that the ground be thor
ouehlv cultivated. ,bo h before tie
trees ere planted anE afterwards. II
trees are properly pGt out and care
liy cultivated the first two or three
years, tie roots VIII 7enotrate deeply
ana seal, larger feeding grounds. On
tie d er hand. # no cultivation is
given the groun7 the rOct grow near
tla snrfaca where ther fee1iag
rra,;;f i soon !iic-:.ad and where
The. a-e4 81. .a"Ss .-a1.2-- affected by
;-t weather L IS obvious th.n n,
trat 81 piau. -'iaeraba failures of
crtGarf.s II G4e 70 til 'aclI OF tn e
ty.7 fa@to. o.,-dsa Mirage and o3er
phys cal aoniit OF Of tt soil. I ssw
t. orchard faT lay ago which had
haor set out o0'y nre years. In
n:any p ~as there g-era great cTaahs
III IL: z3.i about tn 1ress ard %
tween the r3ws l worl& rot give
twenty-five cents bushel for tho
arplss gathered from that orchard
this year. You Simply cannot
grow fine specimen apples under such
SOL conditions, and it is waste OF
time to attempt It.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
Senators Faithful Wife.

Mrs. Thomas P. Gore, wife of the
blind Senator from Oklahoma, accom-
panies her husband to each session
OF the Senate, and watches every ges-
ture of the man in whose election she
The senator himself calls her Ibis
eyes and right hand" and says she
knows more about parliamentary Jaw
ard politics jhar any other woman in
the country.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14

1t requires a proper combination OF
certain acids with natural digestive
juices to perfect dyspepsia cure. And
that is what Kodol is-a perfect diges-
ter that digests all the food you eat.
If you will take Kodol for "A little while
YOU will no longer have indigestion.
You then couldn't have indigestion.
How could you have indigestion il your
food were to digest? Kodol digests all
you eat. 1t is pleasant to take, acts
promptly. Sold. by f. T. Whitehead
Company.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
CURE FOR .LOVESICKNESS.

Doctor Says 1t Can 8e Treated-One
Remedy, Get q New Love.
Chica go.-In a lecture before the
Chicago College CT Medicine DR.. A
r. Hagle explained a cure for love-
sickness.
"a doctor can prepare himself to
treat lovesickncss through mental in
fluence just as more serious ills are
treated by it, he said. "One sug-
ges!ion is to find new love. This
plaint."
He commended the theory OF
Bishop Fallows of mind and medi-
cine working in harmony.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14

The work In orchard renovation at
the Maine experiment station is
claimed to have shown that an old,
Improbable apple orchard may be
brought into profitable bearing con-
dition and the trees induced to an
nual bearing by proper use of fer
tilizers in connection with culture
pruning and spraying. The station
recommends fertilizer containing
about three Fer cent nitrogen, six per
cent phosphoric ac.d, and eight to
ten per cent potash, also using COW
er crops in the orchard as a source
of vegetable matter.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
For and Against Suffrage Cause,

Marie CCrelli continues to write
and speak against votes for wom-
en-" in England, while Beatrice Har-
raden is busy travelling from place to
place giving readings from "Ships
that Pass in the Night" and her other
books to raise money to help the
suffrage cause. 1t is said that Miss
Corelli has refused to meet Miss
Harraden in debate, saying she
didn't care to make a spectacle Of
herself.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
UncOycrS MaStOGOn'S Tooth.

Morocco, Ind.-WhiIe digging a
ditch In Colfax township, Lewis
Guthrie unearthed part of the
skeleton of a mastodon, among which
was tooth that measured nine
inches in length-and five inches in
width and weighed almost ten
pounds. The tooth is we'll preserved.
Many other bones of mastodons have
ben unearthed near here In the last
three or four years
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
LOST! TIE DIGNITY OF TVS REE
THROUGH TIE D!SPESFECT
OF THE TCWNSPECpLE!

This i'll treatment of old trees Is
generally the result of thoughtless-
ness, and not of deliberate intention,
and it is possible that such placard
might lead people to think. There
certainly should be a convenient
place in every village for such an
nouncements as those described
but that place is not the most grace
ful and venera bic tree In the town
nor, indeed, any tree ct all.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
Life of the RailWaymaH.

Trainmen are the class of workers
most subject to long, irregular hours
OF duty, and there is nothing so like
ly to make a man unnerved and un-
fit for dangerous work as this. The
strain OF long hours and the rest
lessness of irregular.ty soon find cut
the strongest and most robust CT
men. Little wonder. then, that We
find them with rrelnaturely gray
heads-Raiiway Review.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
Use Cane for Laths.

Washington, D. Consul Rich
!. ard M. Bartleman, Of Madrid, re-
ports that the use of canes for laths
for plastering purposes Is general
throughout Spain, and that they are
durable and give most satisfactory
results. In Valencia bamboo cut
into strips is also used, is very strong
and holds the plaster well
Start the New Year right by pay.
ing what you owe.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
CUTS WAY OUT OF ICEBCX.
Butcher NaarIy Frozen Icy Two Hours
Of Imprisonment.

Oakland, Cal.-Fred. Lewis, a
local butcher, entered his iceboX at
the close of business to adjust his
stock and took along an axe.
A spring lock on the outside
slipped into place as the door slipped
from his hand, and he Immediately
began pounding and shouting for as
sistance. The intense cold rendered
him numb, and he finally, after two
hours Imprisonment, attacked the
walls with the axe.
Neighbors who heard the muffied
blows believed that burglars were
operating, and as Lewis crawled
through the hole he had made he
was confronted by a policeman, to
whom he explained the situation.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
CURES HORSES OF KICKING.
Apparatus Having a Whip Which
Strikes E!Grse Automatically.


Horses and other animals pos
sessed of the bad habit of kicking
can be easily cured by the employ
ment Of an apparatus recently pat
ented by an Ohio man. The appar-
atus was designed with the object Of
automatically chastising the animal i
Immediately subsequent to the act
OF kicking. The chastisement is ad-
m1nistered by means of @ whip sus-
pended above the animal when he
shows tendency to exercise his legs
too freely.
The necessary parts of the appar-
atus are kicking board, an adjust
able holder and a whip. Assuming
that the parts are in operative posi-
ton the horse kicks against the kick
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14

Stranger-My friend why are you
swearing so? Cussity-Why? Be-
cause of blank fool of doctor. |
got some pills for a pain in my back,
and the directions read Take one
half hour before you feel the pain
comming on"-Judge.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
Gun Throws TyyO.TOu Pro iectilo.

ST. Petersburg, Russia.-A pro-
jectile Weighing two tons is threat
ened for Russia's S next hostilities. A
new and terrible "engine of war" has
been invented by the engineer Beso-
brasoff; and it has been tested with
successful results. The range of this
formidable weapon is four miles.
Don't break your New Year reso-
lutions,
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
Water Power for Mountain Trains

Winnipeg, Man. - Sir Thomas
dian Pacific Railway, said that the
company is preparing to operate
trains over the mountains by cleo
tricity generated by water power for
700 miles probably the biggest rail-
way undertaking in the history OF
the continent.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
Omit Teaching After AZ Years

Miss Eliza E. Brown of Taunton,
Mass, resigned as public school
teacher after forty-eight years Of
service The school committee pen
stoned her at the rate OF $4OO a year.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14

One CT iiIe most Giee Greecble srec-
tacies along village streets and coun-
try roads is the sight Of noble trees
disfgured by Earring q ivertisements
and notices of various sorts. A
splendid oak, which commanded the
landscape long before the Revolu-
ton, and arouses the sentiment of
veneratIon in the mind Of anyone
who has a love for the beautiful
relics of the past receives no respect
from the village people.
To this tree q local tradesrian at
tacl1es a hiIeous advertisement OF q
clothing store. Below that the ad-
yertisement Of some fertilizer, rudely
printed Oh cotton cloth, flaps in the
wind. offending the eyes CT human
beings and frightening passing
horses.
Upon the great elm in a village
nouncements-o local concerts and
meetings, of lost breast-pins and
iack-knives. and Of auction sales.
It's gray and venerable sides are fur
rowed and defaced by the nails driv-
en- there by several generations.
Seeing a tree served in this man
ner, the correspondent of contenl-
porary has proposed that a placard
to read IS follows be added to the
rest:
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14

s
-, O.. and cheerfulness soon
80 ga disappear when the kid
IN So ne neys are olt of order
{fAtySn E.H-f- or diseased.
81 Il III ~ S.ssss-SG Kidney trouble has
Ms <>..ss-l become SO prevalen!
tts<M n thatitls notunconnrnoE
n ,<I\N&%h> NJ - I for a child to be born
fI.;s\\ \% ~ afflicted with weak kid
r. s~ :. \EH ~ neys. If the child uriJ.-
--<s1-S71 -1,:7.--~-''sA ates too often, if tbs
brine scaids the flesh or if, when the chio
fcachcS an age when it should be able tc
Eontrol the passage, it is yet afflicted witt
gb5d-Wetting, depend upon it. the cause o.:
&,le difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first
$tep should be towards the treatment o.
ese important organs. This unpleasant
#roubls IS due to a diseased condition OF the
kioneys and bladder and not to a habit az
host people suppose.
b Women as wei as men ere made mis-
&iable with kidney and bladder trouble,
Rnd both need the same great remedy.
Ihe mild and the immediate effect OF
Swafnp=Root is soon realized. 1t is solo
BY druggists, in fifty f,Hr
|cent and ore dollar
Azes You may have s.-se.
S&le bottle BY mail Il Il q T.
'4s-e. also pamphlet tell Home oi saartr, Root.
lng ali about it, including many of the
&housands Of testimonial letters received
rom sufferers cured. In writing DR.. Kline
E Co., Binghamion, II. y. be sure an;
#nention this paper.
Don't make any mistake, but re-
member the name, Swamp Root, DR.
kilmer's swamp Root and the addres
Binghaluton, n. Y. on every bottle.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
Value Of Ammonia.

TO not use soap in cleaning marble
steps and mantels 1t yel!ows them.
Better results are had from washing
with water softened with ammonia.
Subscribe to The Commonwealth
during 1909.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
Women as Wei as Nlen
Are Made Miserable by
Kidney Trouble.

Kidney trouble preys upon she mind, dis.
'ourages and lessons ambition; beauty, vlgog
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
Salt Liked by Fowls

A little salt given in the soft food
of fow:s is very acceptable to them.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
ExneESiye Nrappers.

Many housekeepers are paying
from Is to 80 cents a pound for "a
per, twine, past eb oard, tin an cloth
which they take from goods t e5
buy and throw away, but it Is all to
the advantage of the man who soia
them the goods and counted the
wrapper In the weight which the pu:
chasers paid for.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14

The Australian gum trees grows
to height Of AIS feet.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-01-14
Good Advertising

Is to Business what Steam rs to
Machinery, that great propelling
power. This paper gives results.