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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21
Revenue Collections For April

TIE monthly revenue collections in
the Statesville distict continue to ex-
coed the half-millOn mark. The
records in Collector Watts office show
collectlo for last month as follows:
Snecial tax s4S75, cigars S2449.92.
cigarettes $4,000, tobacco and snuff
1924. O74.66, lists $8,61294, a total of
$3.50 1S627 Collections on spirits
are probably thing of the past for
ever, all liquor in the district having
been tax paid and removed from the
warehouse, the N. Glenn Williams
liquor being the last to go.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21
Governor Grants Communication

Weldon Horton, Franklin County
was granted a Communication Of SEN
tence recently by Governor Craig. He
has served since last October on a
two-year sentence for criminal assault
on Mamie Williams. The Governor
gives as his reason that the guilt of
the prisoner is doubted.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21
To Exclude Egyptian Pink Worm.

A special from Washington says
North Carolina cotton manufacturers
were represented at a hearing by the
question of excluding the Egyptian
pink worm by J. o. White and J. H.
Separk of Gastonia recently. 1t is
the purpose of the department Of agri-
culture to exclude Egyptian cotton
and cotton-seed so far as the South
ern tSates are concerned. The seed
may be excluded enurely and the lint
be admitted only to Northern States.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21
She Knew What She Meant.

Miss Ethel he began, ''or Ethel, l
mean-Ive known you long enough to
drop the Miss, haven't I?''
She fixed her lovely eyes upon him
with a meaning gaze Yes, l think
you have,' she said What prefix
do you wish to substitute ?''-Catholic
Citizen.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21
He Exn!ainS-

What do you mean by kissing the
housemaid?'
1T was an excusable mistake, my
dear. The hall was dark, and she had
On your face powder and your beauti-
full golden hair
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21
So They Do,

Mr.. Bacon-I see San Francisco has
a dshwashers' union Of 700 members,
Of whom 100 are college graduates.
Mrs. Bacon-And yet their are per-
sons who claim that our colleges don't
teach young men to be useful.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21
RUB-MY-TISM

Will cure your Rheumatism and all
kinds of aches and pains-Neuralgia
Cramps, Collie, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts,
Old Sores, Burns, etc. Antseptic
AnoGyne. Price 25c-Adv
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21
No. SlX-SIXTY-SIX

This is a prescription prepared es
pecially for Malaria or ChiIs and
Fever. Five or six doses will break
any case, and if taken then as a tonic
the fever will not return. 25c.-Adv.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21
Committee is Named.

committee consisting OF Commits
sioner of Agriculture w. A. Graham,
President D. H. Hill of the A. & M
College and c. G. Wright of the board,
has been appointed by the joint COM
mittee of the A. & M. College and
the tSate Department of Agriculture,
to urge upon the Federal Government
that there be no discontinuance of the
farmers demonstration work now car
ried on through the state and the Fed
eral authorities, nor any interference
with it's work as now carried on.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21
OVerexertion.

''You frown like a pessimist.'
well" replied the patient man;
that's what | get for worrying my
self half to death trying to think of
something to be optimistic about"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21
Appropriate.

Mrs Winks-When is Miss Hard
cash to marry the count?
Mrs. Binks-On Monday.
Mrs. Winks-Oh, of course. l might
have known Monday is bargain
day.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21
New Charters.
The American Fire Appliance Com.

The American Fire Appliance Com
pany, Gastonia, was chartered with
$4,000 capital authorized and $4,000
subscribed by J. S. Gray, J. H. Sea
PARK and NJ. F. Henderson. The com
pany will promote and sell chemical
and other fre-fghting appliances.
Certificates of dissolution were filed
with the Secretary Of State for the
Swannanoa Drug Company, Asheville,
and the M. B. Nicholson Company
Osborne, Richmond County.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21

Constipation causes many serious dis
eases 1t is thoroughly cured by Doctor
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. One laxative.
three for cathartic Adv.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21
1iteraIIx.

4 tell you, this is a black outlook"
What is?"
About this coal business
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21

Be sure that you ask for Wright's Indian
Vegetable Pills, and look for the sigma
ture of VIM. Wright on wrapper and box.
For Constipation, Biliousness and Indiges-
ton. ADV.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21

Dr. Peery's Vermifuge Dead Shot" kills
and expels Worms in very few hours.
Adv.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21

West Virginia was the greatest pro-
Queer of natural gas in 1912, and
PENNSYLVANIA the largest consumer
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21

Sore Eyes, Granulated Eyelds and Sites
promptly healed with Roman Eye Bal.
sam. Adv.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21
EvaSive.

Anybody can dye successfully with
Putnam Fadeless Dyes. Adv.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21

States minister to Great Britain. In
Spain, where hn arranged the treaty
by which the United States secured
the free navigation of the Mississippi
river. In 1896 t&eneral Pinckney was
honored with the Federalist party
nomination for PRESIDENT of the United
States.
aplained.
Father, what is the Prussian diet?"
Rye bread and beer. Be quiet now,
will yOu?'-Buf alo Express.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21
The Remed,

The Remedy.
WAS he in very much pain?"
yes, indeed. The doctor had to
give him an epidemic interjection"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21

They say that girl can lead any
body by the nose"
"The story is misleading"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21

And thissone from Mrs. HaddOCK:

OKIA"I weak and not able to work
and scarcely had backache papi
trouble bowels inflammation.
taking Lydia E. Pnkhams Vegetable Compound better
for twenty think it is wonderful medi
cine recommended it to others"Ms MARY ANN HAD
DOCK, Utica, Oklahoma.
Now answer this question if you Why should
woman continue suffer without first giving Lydia E.
Pnkhams Vegetable Compound trial? You know that
has saved many others-why should it fail your case?
Lydia e. PinShams Vegetable
male sick with ailments M So SSs&A\M
if does ~ a., W
herbs, it n ~ @ VI II
suffering tohealth. ~ II
MEDICINECO. ~
opened read answered CISA1 NNHl
by held in strict confidence.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21
The Patriotic PIav.

THAT Mexican comedy of yours Is a
scream
Yes; an Eagles scream"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1914-05-21
Sick %nze1z
2yz1de %M
Reliable evidence is abundant that women
are constantly being restored to health by
LYDIA e. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound


The many testimonial letters that continually pub
fishing in the of the-ae all genu-
inc true and unsolicited expressions of heartfelt gratitude
for the freedom from suffering that has to these
women solely through the of Lydia e. Pnkham's
Vegetable Compound
Money could not buy any kind of influence obtain
such commentators you may depend upon that any
testimonial publish is honest and truef you have any
doubt of this write the whose true and
addresses always given and learn for yourself.
Read this one from Mrs. Waters:
CAMDEN Nil sick years with spells and
I
vanc battery, nothing did Twas able
sleeping chair and
became skeleton Finally doctor away for his
husband heard of Lydia Pinkhams Vegetable
Compound and got In two months got relief and now
anil ike a and usual weight 1 recommend
cr every and does my husband"Mr T1n
WATERS Knight ST., Camden, NJ.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-06-25
Discovering the Real Mexico.


Some of the correspondents with the
army at Vera Cruz are acquiring a
knowledge of Mexico which they are
imparting to their readers to the bene-
fit of the public. They are learning
that cities founded by the conquering
Spaniards before jamestown or Ply
mouth began are not mere adobe vii
lagos, but are INTELLECTUALLY reminis-
cent Of Spain in it's heroic age. One
correspondent admits that all the pub
lie buildings in Vera Cruz are good
"and compare favorably with what we
have at home"
If the scribes to whom real Mexico
is revelation keep on with their jour
neyings they may come to Puebla and
see the great professional library of
one hundred thousand volumes at
tached to the medical school. In the
City Of Mexico there are many struc-
lures that delight travelling architects
Mexico is not all "militaristas" and
poems" though it's trouble has always
been too many of the former. There
are cultured people in Mexico who find
In culture refuge from the turmoil
Of their disturbed republic.-Boston
Transcript.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-06-25
Kaiser's sumptuary Decree.

1t is i'll to stand between hungev
man and his dinner, but the kaiser
Is to do his best to moderate that
appetite for good, square, and
increasingly expensive meal in the
evening which his subjects have been
developing of late in the recognized
English fashion. He has ordained that
in no circumstance should the time
occupied in the repast exceed three
quarters of an hour, and ban is put
on the custom of the male diners sit
ting over wine and cigars after des-
sert. There is, indeed, to be no sepa-
ration of the sexes. Coffee is to be
taken together, and the gentlemen are
to be allowed to smoke a cigarette
that is all-before the company as A
whole repair to the drawing-room
Berlin society, which has of late
been priding itself on its Gargantuan
feasts, has been taken rather aback
at this sumptuary decree, but the
kaiser is determined to do all he can
to have 1t carried out. 1t will prove
harder, we fear, than banishing the
tango or the toothbrush" mOustache
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-06-25
SCALY PSORIASIS ON LIMBS

Troop H, 9Th u. s. Cavalry, Camp
Mccoy, Sparta, Wis.-"I was troubled
with psoriasis for nearly two years
Portions Of my arms and limbs were
affected mostly with it. 1t appeared
in scaly form, breaking out in very
small dots and gradually grew larger
and white scales formed when about
the size of an ordinary match-head.
The looks of 1t was horrible, which
made it very unpleasant for me. 1t
itched little at times.
Il tried several treatments which
cured me for a month, but it always
broke out again. One day friend
saw the advertisement of Cuticura
Soap and Ointment in the paper and
| sent for sample. They helped me,
so l purchased two more boxes of
Cuticura Ointment and some Cuticura
Soap and they completely cured me.
1t took three months for Cuticura
Soap and Ointment to complete my
cure" (Signed) Walter Mahony, Oct.
%, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free,with S2-p Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. l., Boston. ADV.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-06-25
SINGS PRAISE OF "BIGNESS"
Writer In Lesie's Weekly Sees Good
In Everything That Has Quail
fication of Size.

Big! 1t is said that the soil that
produces big crops is found where big
men abound. After all bigness is
something of which every one is proud.
California boasts Of its big trees,
Oregon and Washington of their big
apples, Texas of its big territory,
Oklahoma Of its big oil wells, Colorado
of it's big mines. New England of it's
big mills, Alabama Of It's big iron de-
posits, Pennsylvania of it's big steel
industry and New York of it's big
banks. Everywhere bigness is the boast
Of civilization. Nations vie with each
other to command the biggest part of
the worlds trade. In this great strug-
gle for commercial supremacy the
United States, during the past decade,
has been among the foremost because
of it's big men in the Industrial, the
railway and professional fields. The
product Of this bigness Of men has
been a big country with big wages.
Let us stop caviling and finding
fault. Let us put an end to busting
and smashing, and give the widest op-
portunity for individual effort. En-
courage bigness Of the factory and the
pay envelope alike. Give big brains a
chance, whether in bank, counting
room or workshop. Bigness pays
Leslie's Weekly.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-06-25
BY HAROLD CARTER.
Hogan had "suuealed."

Hogan had "squealed."
There could not be any greater
crime in the policeman's decalogue.
And nobody had thought it possible of
Hogan. Only six months on the police
force. he had already begun to attract
attention as clean, sprucely dressed,
smart patrolman. He was just the
kind of man who would occupy SER
geant's desk some day. And now he
had "squealed."
1t was at the inquiry about Pat
Grady, who had been given the third
degree" in the station house. The 9TH
er policemen had denied all knowledge
of 1t, but Hogan had corroborated
Grady's testimony word for word,
though the man was miserable sneak
thief, without a friend in the world.
What did you do it for, Hogan"
they asked him afterward. And Hogan
answered that he had never told a lie
and was not going to begin.
That was the beginning of the boy
colt. But there were worse things
than that. Hogan could never be
sure, when he went to his cot in the
station house, that he would not wake
to find himself on the floor, with the
bed legs sawed through. Or that his
locker would not have been broken
into. Or that his uniform would not
be mass of tattered rags. Or his
white helmet painted green. Or his
gloves fngerless. Or something worse
He meant to stick it out for Nora's
sake. Nora was to arrive from Ireland
the following month, and they were to
be married at once If he gave up
he did not know what sort of job he
would be able to get. It would mean,
not Only the postponement of their
marriage, but a career spoiled.
Hogan was thinking all that over as
he went on duty. James, who pa
trolled to his corner on the avenue,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-06-25
HYPN0TISM FOR THE AILING
Famous French Physician Claims to
Be Able So to Cure Many of the
Ills of Mankind.

DR.. Bertillon of Paris asserts that
psychotherapia, or soul-culture, is the
medicine Of the~future.
He does not put his patients into
hypnotic frances, but places them in
an environment which creates an ap-
petite for sleep. He invites them to
repose on their beds and think of
nothing. Then he leaves them. and
they gradually succumb to the tick
tack" of a metronome.
When patient is in a hypnotic
slumber, If it is desired that he shall
be cured of tendency to excessive
Indulgence in alcohol, the psychother-
apist suggests to him that he cannot
raise a glass of absinthe to his lips,
and repeats the suggestion until the
prohibition is so engraved upon the
brain that if the patient would he
could not do SO.
DR.. Bertillon is frequently consulted
by those who have had unhappy love
affairs, and it is said that through
hypnotism they obtain release from
their unrequited passion.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-06-25
a Century Auo

One hundred years ago the British
feet on Lake Ontario, having L-..tially
succeeded in the expedition against
Oswego, set sail for Sackett's Harbor,
in command of Sir James Lucas Yeo.
The purpose of the British was to
establish a strict blockade CT Sack
ett's Harbor, where Commodore
Chauncey was fitting out new Amer
lean squadron. The appearance of
the British annoyed the Americans,
for their new vessels were just ready
for their guns and cables, which could
not be brought overland, and the ar
rival of which by water was now
seemingly blockaded. In this emer-
gency the Americans conceived and
successfully carried out plan for
transporting the great cable for the
flagship Niagara overland, on the
backs of men. A few weeks later the
British. ships raised the blockade, and
disappeared down the lake.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-06-25
Preserving a Famous Flag.

Work on the restoration of the orig
inal Star Spangled Banner, which
foated from the flagstaff at Fort Nc
Henry when Key wrote the national
anthem, was started recently at the
Smithsonian institution. The work
will be in charge of Mrs. Fowler OF
Boston, who is the most widely known
expert in this line, having had charge
of the restoration of the Is trophy
flags of the War of 1872, now at the
Naval academy, for which work con
gress appropriated 100000.
The matter of souvenir program
for the national Star Spangled Banner
centennial celebration in September
was finally decided upon at a meeting
of the managing directors. 1t was
agreed to issue an artistic publication
entirely free from advertising.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-06-25
SEEK TO Guido YESTERDAY
Competing with Yourself Is Declared
the Real Secret of
Success.

We've often heard that competition
| is the life of trade, and now we hear
| lot about it's harmfulness and that
! cooperation is the real thing. But the
other day l heard woman who is
| manager of huge apartment house,
and who draws a large salary for it,
talking over the factors that she
thought made success. She made this
! statement, which struck me as effec-
tive and true:
i've always competed with myself,
| and l think that's what helped me get
ahead. There's an element of selfish
ness in competing with friends or
business associates, but you can COM
pete with yourself and get only solid
good
1t makes one think of game of
solitaire, doesn't it? Never mind, soil
taire is mighty good game, and
teaches a heap of quick observation,
patience and other things worth devel-
oping. Competing with yourself in the
Job you are on will also develop things
worth having. 1t will keep you right
up to the mark, for one thing. You'll
have a constant eye on yourself, see
where you fall down and how you
can do better.
i You'll never be content to do only
as well one day as you did the day
preceding. Yesterdays self is the self
against whom you compete today, and
you'll be determined to go it one bet
| ter.
You want to think of yourself as a
growing plant, not as a brick or a
stone that is to remain just what it is
till it disintegrates. Don't stunt your
self. Don't be content with your.
SELF
81 would rather win my own appro
baton than that of my kings" said an
old French philosopher a good many
years ago. But you need to make thai
appreciation mighty difficult to win!
Compete with yourself. = Kansas
City Star.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-06-25
Kind TO the Butcher.

The proprietor of the local paper
at Eberswalde, a small Prussian town
not far from Berlin, does his best
to make that organ useful as well as
instructive. Two days week he has
the General Anzeiger printed on only
one side of the paper, so that it can
be used for wrapping UP provisions
without any danger of contamination
from printers ink. On these days the
paper is twice as large as on ordi-
nary days, SO that the public loses
nothing in the way of reading mat
ter.-LonS.c Chronicle.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-06-25

The sight Of him seemed to give
Hogan new vigor. He got on his
feet and began ascending the stairs
As he went UP he found that he had
unconsciously picked up his night
stick.
He never knew how he reached the
upper floor. But when he got there
the mailman was too busy to notice
him, for he was standing over WON
ans body and chuckling as he watched
the spreading flames. With his last
reserve of strength Hogan leaped at
the man and brought the night stick
down upon his head. He fell like a
stricken OK
Hogan picked up the body of the
woman and staggered down the stairs
with her. He saw that she was still
living. The bullet had only pierced
her arm, but she was as unconscious
as though the blow which Hogan dealt
had fallen on her own head.
A roar of cheering greeted him as
he carried the woman out into the
street. Men focked around him and
tried to grasp his hand. But Hogan
turned and made his way slowly back
into the burning building. They tried
to stop him. He pushed them away.
Up, up he went, through drifting
clouds of smoke and scorching fire.
Now he was on the upper floor again
and had picked up the body of the
drug-crazed man. He swung him in
his arms, but the weight was too
heavy and Hogan pulled him down
the stairs after him, wrapped in his
own tunic.
The smoke filled his nostrils and
Hogan dared not breathe, because
as all fire-fghters know, an inhalation
of flames consumes the body within
and kills more swiftly than a bullet
in the brain. He held his breath and
he pulled the mailman through that
Gehenna of fire.
from his lungs, and Hogan drew In
one gasp of fresh, life-giving air. He
laid the body on the sidewalk just as
an ambulance came hurrying up. A
surgeon leaped from the vehicle.
"Will he liver" asked Hogan.
He's dead" the surgeon answered,
giving the body a cursory survey.
Hogan almost swore-only he re-
membered that he was a policeman.
Not him." he said, and pointed to
fbo h1Jx, @F hsc f,.inrd
ooh, I beg pardon" said the sur
geon. Eyes, it's only flesh wound.
He's coming to now. Why, what's this
on your coat?"
Never mind me- gasped Hogan
and fell into the surgeons arms.
And it was odd, but the first
thought that came into his mind after
that was the fear that somebody had
sawed through the legs of his bed.
The man at his bedside must have
understood, for he stretched out his
hand and took Hogan's in his.
GLORY be, my lad, you're coming
to- he said. mo, there won't be
any more bed-sawing, Hogan. Say,
lad, you've got to get well as quick
as you can, because the boys are wait
ing to give you another sort of re-
ception at the station house."
Copyright. 1914, by w. G. Chapman)
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-06-25
Commas and the Law.

The comma in the British act of
parliament which has caused dispute
between Monmouthshire miners and
their employers recalls the fact that
such marks of punctuation were in
troduced into law only half a century
ago. Down to 1850 all acts of parlia-
ment consisted, in theory at all events,
of one sentence. In that year a spe-
cial statute was passed to allow the
text of legislative enactment to be
punctuated and pointed by full-stops,
etc. They are SO easily interpolated
and altered that lawyers know their
danger and avoid them in legal docu-
ments..