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The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
NEME Ei4:i WOMEN.
The Nhirs1s OF fashion Field No Ter
rOTs For Them.

The Nf1r1s OF Fashion Held No Ter
rors For Them.
The women Of Venice are absolutely
free from the rule which Dame Fash
ion exercises over their sisters else
where. ,TheE care nothing for modes
With them the length Of the skirt re-
mains always the~sa neither short
nor long. and they always wear plainly
made dark dresses. black stockings and
the heelless slippers Of the east. Hats
are unknown.
The universal outdoor wrap for all
ages and all sizes is the black shawl,
WiEl n deep silken fringe l is folded
.ith Il short point above and long
one below. and sometimes it envelopes
the figure from head to foot. 1t IS ney-
er fastened at the throat, and when it
slips eff It is gathered up with one out
stretched arm, which makes the spec
tator think of big bird stretching rs
wing.
in their attire the women of Venice
are independent, only wearing local
clothing. but with feminine inconsist
ency they are thcrouGEiS. UP to date
in the matter OF ilaiidressing, the style
OF their coifTurcs changing from time
to time. according to the vogue Of the
moment ii London and Paris.
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
Identified.

William NJ. Chase. the artist. was
picturesque figure. dressing in clothes
that had Il certain originality, though
they conformed more or less to the
prevailing fashions. On one occasion
Chase on his way home stepped into
little wiAe shop and ordered jug
OF claret OF special brand sent to his
house. The lad who brought it cam"
to the front door an hour aftcrWard
when the artist had already arrived
some Wine" he said curtiy. The
maid. knowing there was yet plenty in
the cellar and believing the lad had
made a mistake. said she was sure il
was not for that house and did the
bow remember the name of the man
who ordered it, The boy didn't
Then" said the servant. You We
come to the wrong place; we never
ordered wine.' At this moment the
boy snfed Chase's famous hat Oh the
hall table Say he asked, does
that hat live here?" Yes said the
amused maid Then said the boy
triumpilantly. there's where the wine
belongs" s-"-Argonaut
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
The One to Paw.

When she was Lady Randolph
Churchill, Mrs. George Corvallis
West consented to electioneer for Mr..
Ashmead- Bartlett in his first parlia-
mentary campaign. Mr.. Ashmead-
Bartlett was married to the Baroness
Burdett- Coutts, very rich woman,
who was nearly forty years his senior.
Lady Randolph. with her beauty and
charms, did splendid work for the can
didate.
10 a group of farmers she said one
day:
Won't you promise me to vote for
Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett?"
MY lady," said a red faced farmer.
with a chuckle, "we'll all vote for him
if every vote III be paid for with a
kiss
THANK you very much," said Lady
Randolph. ''Your offer is accepted.
I'll send for the Baroness Burdett-
Coutts at once"
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
Protection From Liqhtninu.

Sir Oliver Lodge stated that the
problem of securing protection from
lightning consisted in finding the best
method of dissipating the enormous
energy of the flash. but that it was not
wise to get rid of the energy too
quickly. 4 thin iron wire is consid-
cred the best lightning conductor fro:l
the electrical point Of view, but it i;
almost impossible to protect a building
from lightning unless it is completely
enveloped in Il metal cage. 1t is by no
means true that q building is safe
when provided with a conductor reach
ing up to the highest part of the
building.
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
A MAGIC CLUB.
Village Soroerer Performs Rites Over
Curious. Dsooy Used by the Ma.
tive Fishermen Of Hawaii.

"Lau melomelo" is the name of do
coy used by the native fishermen Of
Hawaii 1t is made Of the hardest
wood to be found on the islands and Is
carved and rubbed till it assumes the
shape of a club with a little knob at
the smaller end, to which the line is
tied.
The club is from one to three feet
long. A village sorcerer performs GER
tain rites over it over a sacred fire.
After this is done the club is magic.
and the fisherman must be extremely
careful Of it. If a woman should step
over it or enter a canoe in which it lies
the club would lose all it's power and
would be useless ever afterward.
After the club has been charmed the
fisherman mixes candlenut and cocoa
nut meat, bakes it and ties the mix
ture in wrapper Of cocoanut fiber.
at the fishing grounds the club is
covered with the oily juice Of the stuff
and is then lowered carefully to the
bottom. The scent Of the baked nut
meat attracts certain kinds of fish,
which soon gather and begin to nibblc
at the club. AS soon as enough fish
are around the decoy small bag
shaped net is lowered very gently until
its mouth is just over the club. The
latter is then pulled up carefully and
cunningly till it is within the bag. The
fish are so eager for the stuff with
which the club is covered that they
follow it into the net without fear.
AS soon as all the fish are in it fish
erman dives and closes the mouth Of
the net, whereupon the rest haul it
I'M Ol;icLIy
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
FUN IN THE HOME.
Bring to It Bright Pictures and Pleas.
ant Thoughts and Bar Out
Business Worries.

Whatever your lot in life. keep Joy
with you, says Orison SWEET Marden
in Success Magazine. It is a great
healer. Sorrow, worry, jealousy, envy.
bad temper, create friction and grind
away the delicate human machinery
so that the brain loses it's cunning.
Half the misery in the world would
be avoided if the people would make
IL business of having plenty of fun at
home instead of running everywhere
else in search of it.
Now For Rest and Fun" "No
business Troubles Allowed Here"
These are good home building notices.
When you have had perpleXing
day, when things have gone wrong
with you and you go home at night
exhausted, discouraged. blue, instead
going over your troubles and trials
inst bury them. Instead of dragging
them home and making yourself and
Your family unhappy with them and
spelling the whole evening, just lock
everything that IS disa agreeable in your
office
Just resolve that your home shall be
n place for bright pictures and pleas
ant memories. kindly feelings toward
everybody and "a corking good time"
geperally. If you do this you will be
surprised to see how your vocation or
business wrinkles will be ironed out
in the morning and how the crooked
things will be Strengthened.
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
SCOTLAND NECK, N. c., THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1911.
PLATINlzED GLASS.
Does Not Lose Its Transparency, but
It Produces an Odd and Tricky
Kind Of Mirror.

Platinized glass consists Of piece Of
glass coated with an exceedingly thin
aver of liquid charged with plati-
lum and then raised to red heat.
The platinum becomes united to the
glass in sucl>a way as to form an odd
kind of mirror.
The glass has not really lost it's
transparency, and yet if one places it
against wall and looks at it he sees
ais image as in an ordinary looking
glass. But when light is allowed to
come through the glass from the other
side, as when 1t is. placed in a window,
It appears perfectly transparent. like
ordinary glass.
BY constructing a window of plati-
lized glass one could stand close behind
The panes in an unilluminated room
and behold clearly everything going
On outside, while passersby looking at
the window would behold only q fine
mirror or set of mirrors in which their
+own figures would be reflected while
the person inside remained invisible.
Ii France various tricks have been
contrived with the aid of this glass.
In one a person seeing what appears
to be an ordinary mirror approaches it
to gaze upon himself. A sudden
change in the mechanism sends light
| through the glass from the back, where
upon it instantly becomes transparent
md the startled spectator finds him
self confronted by some grotesque fig
ure that had been hidden behind the
glass.-Harper's Weekly.
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
Deserted Their Towns.

SO late as the end Of the seventeenth
century the inhabitants of Ceylon
were in the habit of deserting their
towns. Their customs are described
in the narrative of Captain Robert
Knox. who for nineteen years. from
1860 to 1879, was captive among
them- He speaks of several towns as
lying desolate owing to the fact that
their inhabitants had fOrsaken them.
This they did if many of them fell
sick, and two or three died soon after
one another thinking that it was a
visitation of the evfI one. Some of
them came back when they thought
the evil spirits had departed.
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
THE COTTON GIN.
Whitney Got the Idea From the Worl
of an Old Negro.

Whitney Got the Idea From the Work
of an Old Negro.
Eli Whitney, 1.-The inventor of the cot
ton gin, got the germ Of his great idea
from seeing through the interstices Of
a hut an old negro work a hand saw
among the freshly picked cotton stored
within
The teeth of the saw tore the lint
from the seed easily and quickly, and
young Whitney The was barely thir-
teen at the time) realized at once that
Il machine working a number of simi.
lar saws simultaneously would revOlu.
tioniZe the cotton growing industry.
He said nothing to anybody, but set
to work building models and expert
menting. His difficulties We're enOr-
nous, for he not only had to make his
own wheels, cOgs. etc, but he had also
first to forge his own tools and even
to manufacture the paint wherewith
to color his many plans and drawings.
But he succeeded in the end. and,
though the outbreak OF war and other
hindrances prevented the invention
from being actually placed upon the
market until many years afterward.
the first complete cotton gin ever con
structcd was built from those very
models and U,ans and with scarcely a
single alteration.
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
ORIGIN OF LLOYD'S.
Humble Beginning Of Europe's Great
Maritime Agency.

Humble Beginning of Europe's Great
Maritime Agency.
Two centuries ago man who had a
cargo to send to the Mediterranean
risk by inducing friend to take an
interest with him. It was necessary
Ito write out statement of contract
to which the guarantors subscribed.
This was the first underwriting
These two men happened to be fire.
Iuenters of Lloyd's coffee house in
London, which was a favorite place
Cor the merchants Of the town to
gather to- discuss business or to gossip.
Others Immediately saw the advan-
tage Of the scheme which their col
leagues had devised, and on the next
voyage the risk was parceled out
among 4 larger number of the patrons
of the coffee house.
Out of this small beginning, has
grown the great European marHime
agency, still bearing the name of the
humble coffee house proprietor, and
which not only writes risks on vessels.
but rates them and publishes their ar
rivals at every port the world over,
no matter how small or how remote
y situated.-"Annals of the American
Academy
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03

Eisnarck's Comment on Schopenhauer
and His Theory as 1t
Applied to Him

In an entertaining account of q din
ncr party at Prince Bismarck's Berlin
residence which is given in the recol-
iections of the Livonian journalist Eek
hardt the following, which was a part
OF the table talk, shows The host in a
new light: The conversation had turn
ed on Bismarck S early days at Frank
tort, and Ecihardt asked whether at
the table d'hote of the Hotel d'Angle-
terre his host ho7 -ar met Schopen-
hauer No" i&inarck: she hod
40 use for me nor | for him. More
over, | have never had time or desire
to occupy myself with philosophy.
While l was student Schopenhauer
was still unknown. l know absolute
II nothing about his system"
Another guest, an admirer Of Scho-
peIhuuer, then joined enthusiastically
III the conversation and explained that
the Philosophers great merit consisted
in the discovery of the fact that will
power was the inlestructible essence
of the mind of man and that intelli-
gence was only or secondary impor-
tance. THAT may very well be true"
said Prince Bismarck. "at least as far
Is | am concerned. for | have often
noticed that my will had already come
to Al decision While my mind had not
yet finished thinking about tie same
Subiect''
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
A Lifetime Trouble.

Ingram, Texas" Ever since b.
came 4 woman" writes MIS- f. N
Evans, Of this p'a:e. II suffered
from womanly trouble. Last fall it
got so bal | had to stay In bed fl r
nearly a week every month. Size
taking Cardni feel better than ]
have for years. You can rely on
Cardui. Prepared especially for
wonen, it relieves woman|y pain by
acting on TIE cause, AMI builds up
woalanIy strength where it is most
neeslel. Purely vegetable. Mild.
but certain il action. Try it. At
your druggist.
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
Not For Fashions Sake.

The criminal law OF England was
formerly marked by indiscrimiEating
severity. Theft Of an article valued
above 20 shillings was punished Wth
death. In writing about sweet
Hampstead and Its Associations Mrs.
White records q pleasant thing Of Lord
Mansfield. who. as rule, leaned to
the side of mercy. 1t was Loru Mans
field who directed Il jury to find a
stolen trinket less in value than 10
shillings in order that the thief might
escape capital punishment. 10 TINS
the iewcier who prosecuted denlirred'
asserting that the fashion OF the thihS
had cost him twice that money
"Gentlemen." replied the judge, with
crave solemnity, I'VE ourselves stahd
in need Of mercy. Let US not hah% d
man for the fashions sake.
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
THE MIDDLE AGED MAN.
Finding Happiness In a Life That to
Youth Is Irksome.


Youth Is Irksome.
younger people," said the middle
aged man, want variety. They want
to be always on the go. Routine gals
them. They hate to have to do the
same thing over and over and over
again day after day.
'They want to go somewhere or do
something different all the time. Older
people are happiest in life of routine,
most disturbed when variety is thrust
upon them.
'For myself l welcome my daily
task, endlessly repeated and always
the same. l should be lost without il:
of habit suits me best. l like the old
scenes-familiar friendly surroundings.
don't want to change.
'NOr do l want much outside pleas
ure. In fact, think I should be best
suited with none. l like my groove.
1t fits me, and l fit it. l don't want
change. l just want to be left alone
to work in my accustomed ways. 1t is
in my groove that 1 am most COM
Portable. 1 like a life of labor and
routine.
"And could there come to one a
greater blessing? Nature and the GUS
toms of men enforce routine upon us
whether we like it or not In youth
this irks us, but in our maturer years
in life of routine, in the undisturbed
enjoyment of familiar labor, we may
find our greatest happiness. New
York Sim
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
THE WHITE WASH.
The Reason For Its Presence on the
Hudson Bay Companys Boat
Explained by the Captain.

1t is or was q rule of the Hudson
Bay company that no woman be al
lowed passage on it's boats One day
some years ago as a steamer of the
company neared one of the northern
most ports string Of white garments
was seen stretched across the deck
The watchers were amazed. for to
them the wash line scggested only the
presence of woman aboard the boat.
Comment was freely made of the
scandal that would ensue and the
shakeup that would follow. When the
boat dOcked the line of washing had
disappeared-s another proof of the
scandal.
Later one of the landsmen said to
the captain:
"Why, how dld-it happen that you
carried woman passenger this trip?"
There was never a woman along
the whole voyage" was the indignant
answer. ''What do you mean?'
'1f there was no woman aboard
from?" was the triumphant reply.
The captain looked puzzled for {;
moment, and then he laughed.
oh he said, 'and didn't we have
Lord Strathcona, the governor himself.
along with US on this trip? And every
day doesn't he insist ON having his
clean white shirt, no matter how far
north we are? That's the white wash
you saw strung along deck. And,
what's more, doesn't his lordship in
sist upon having his London paper
laid beside his plate every morning, no
matter if it is year old?"-Pearson' S.
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
Thirty Years TO1efher.

Thirty years of association-fLink
Of it. How the merit of good thing
stands out in that ,ime-or the
worthlessness of a bad one. So there
is no guess work in this evidence Of
Thos. Ariss, Concord, Mich. who
writes: 81 have used DR.. Kings
New Discovery for 80 years, and it's
the best cough and cold cure / ever
used" Once it finds entrance in a
home you can't pry it out. Many
families have used it forty years.
It's the most infallible throat and
lung medicine on earth. Unequaled
for lagrippe, asthma, hay-feyer,
Group, quinsy or sore lungs. Price
SOC and $1.O0. Trial bottle free.
Guaranteed by E. T. Whitehead Co.
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
Where Abraham Eished

Mrs. Victoria de Bunsen in "The
Soul of a Turk relates a legend con-
cerning Abraham which will be new
to many readers. She learned of it
while at Edessa, the traditional Ur Of
the Chaldees. She was shown there
a large oblong tank of water so filed
with fishes resting just below the sur
face of the water that their fins and
backs seemed almost wedged together
so as to form IAN almost solid layer
of silvery life"
"The guardian of the mosque throws
some meal into the water. and the fish
jump high to catch it, a great living
pyramid of which those which jump
the highest form the pinnacle. The
tradition is that Abraham as a child
fshed in the tank; hence the fish were
considered sacred. No single one has
been caught or killed to this day. In
deed, death would Overtake the man
who transgressed this law
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
When to Eat Fruit

To obtain the most benefit from tile
succulent fruits they should be eaten
at the end of the chief meal Bananas
are an exception and may be eaten
with any meal. They are very -ac
ceptable cut in thin slices and eaten
with bread and butter. Stewed fruits
often have their virtues wasted
through being eaten at the wrong time
Six or eight stewed prunes half an
hour before breakfast are beneficial;
so are stewed figs or stewed apples
eaten before breakfast Peeled or
anges cut into thin slices so that the
juice is set free. with sugar strewn
over the slices, are not unlike pine
apple and form Il highly efHcacio1ls aid
to digestion. Grapes should never be
eaten except after the chief meal of
the day. Taken when the stomach is
comparatively empty, they are Il spe-
cially harmful fruit.-Family Doctor.
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
A MASTER OF METAPHOR.
1t Must Have Relieved Him to Get This


Out OF His System.
A water consumer in a certain city,
whose supply had been turned off be-
cause he wouldn't pay, wrote to the
department as follows:
"In the matter OF shutting off the
water on unpaid bills your company
is fast becoming 4 regular crystalIiZed
Russian Bureaucracy. running in q
groove and deaf to the appeals OF re-
form. There is 30 use of your trying
to impugn the verify of this indict
ment by shaking your official heads in
the teeth of YOUR own deeds.
IF you viii persist in this kind of
thing widespread confiagration of
the populace will be so imminent that
it Viii require only-a spark to eteioose
the dogs of war in our midst VIII
you persist in hurting the cornerstone
of our personal liberty to your wolfish
hounds Of collectors thirstilfg for its
blood? If you persist the first thin.
you know you will have the chariot
Of Il justly indignant revolution roll
ing along in our midst and gnashing
it's teeth as it rolls.
''1f your rascally collectors are per-
mitted to continue coming to our doors
with unbiuShing footsteps, with cloaks
of hypocritical compunction in their
mouths, and compel payment from
your patrons this policy will result in
cutting the wool off the sheep that
lays the golden egg until you have
pumped it dry, and then farewell. a
long farewell, to our vaunted pros
perity. y."-Everybody's
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
Ruler of Russia's Title,

The general allu- ion to the ruler of
Russia as the czar is, strictly speaking.
incorrect His official title is emperor
and autocrat" Gar is the old Rus
sian word for lord or prince and was
triumphal return from POltaya. his
crowning victory over Charles MI. of
Sweden. Since then the Russian mon
arch has been officially entitled en-
reror, and at the congress of Vienna
in 1915 his right to the imperial term
was admitted by tie powers, with the
proviso that. though he was emperor,
he had no precedence over the kings
of western Europe.-St. James Ga
Zctte
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
The Criain of Grocer.

Grocer appears III IIolinshed's Chron-
icle, 1880. as "grosser," and in other
mcdiaevaI records it is sometimes writ
ten "engrosser" and was applied to
the spicers and pepperers who were
Wholesale dealers in various spices
that is, who dealt en- gros--in large
quantities, az distinguished from re
orators" who were retail dealers. The
Grocers' company first adopted the
word grocer in 1373~ when the spicers
and pepperers allied themselves into a
single corpora ation..LOndon Express.
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
4 Queer Creature,

Queer that while the male seal is a
bull and the female cow their young
ster is not called calf. but pup.
Why "seal fisheries" too, when the
seal is not fish?
And why should the seals breeding
place be styled rookery?
1t looks as if this strange creature is
only a fish in common parlance while
at sea. On land (or ice) he is classed
popularity with animals or birds.-Ex-
change.
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
NUMBER 81.
Cardui Worked WOntle; =.

McMinnviiIe. Tenn Mrs. Ocie
Jett. Of this pace says: Il don't be
lieve | would re living today if it
hadn b en- for Cerdui. After treat.
ing me for tVsnty-seven days, nv
doctor advised an oper atinn, but
would not consent. Instead | took
Cardui and now ! an doing my
Wora even the washing. Cardui
worked wonders in nv case. | AN
in bitter health than fer five years.
Cardui is strenGr hening tonic for
women. 1t re.icves pain, tones Up
the nerves. builds strength. Yol
need Cardui. Try if.
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
ManMahon's Epiaran1.

When Marshal MacMahon Ia 'he
Crin,ean campaign took the Ma!akoT
by storm ana wrote MS ceieOraieo "E'-
patch, "J'y suis; j'y reste C'Here
am; here stay"), these words maoe
him famous ALI over the world. et
h;s friends said that the worthy s1i-
dier had written them in the most
matter of fact manner. with no
thought of phrase making Inc mos.
s,1rrr;scd person over the success o.
+t,is onioram was NiacMahon himself
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
The Msdern Idea.

Roman Guide Gmpressively) . The
ruins of the Coliseum! Seattle Man
(astonished)- Dwell, what do you think
of that! Why, l saw photographs of
that heap twenty years ago. Roman
Guide. Ooftily)-Quite likely, sir. Seat
tle Man-But why in thunder aren't
those ruins cleared away and mod
ern Coliseum erected? r. New Orleans
PicaYune.
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
TEE NORTH CAROLINA
College of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts

The States Irdl,.ri.l College.
Four-year courses in Agriculture:
in Civil, Electrical. ard Mechanical
Engineering; in Industrial Chemis-
try; in Cotton Manufacturing and
Dyeing. Two-year courses in Me-
chanic arts and in Textile Art.
These courses are both practical and
scientific. Examinations for admis-
sion are held at all county seats on
July 13. For catalog address,.
The REGISTRAR,
West Raleigh, N. G.
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
Seemed TO Give I!ini a New S!Cmct,

Il suffered intensely after eating
and no medicine or treatment tried
seemed 10 do any good" writes H.
M. Youngpeters, editor of The Sun,
Lake View. Ohio. The first few
doses Of Chamberlain Stomach and
Liver Tablets gave me surprising re-
lief and the sec cJnd bottle seemed to
give me new stomach and perfect
ly good heath" For sale by all
dealers.
The commonwealth., 1911-08-03
Accused Of Stealing.

E E. Chamberlain, of Clinton. Me-,
boldly accuses Buck'en's Arnica
Sa!ve Of stealing the stiag FROM
burns or scaIds S the pain from sores
Of all kinds-the distress from boils
or piles. 1T robs cuts, corns, bruis-
es, spreins and injuries OF thei: ter
ror," he says, ''as a healing remedy
its equal don't exist" Only 25c at
Z. T. Whitehead Ccmpany's.