The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-02-18
VOL. XIII. New Series Vol. |.
THE EDITORS LEISURE HOURS.
Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past and Future.

Mr.. Grant Brambel of Sleepy Eye
M1nn., has not been very sleepy-eyet
himself. While working as telegraph
Operator, surveyor and man of-all-worl
generally, he kept working on an ides
of rotary engine. He finally succeed
ed after years of patient toll, and hi
has sold his patent for $6,7OO,OOO
Chauncey Depew once said that man
with a million dollars could have every
thing he wanted that this world fur.
nishes so this once poor inventor can
have seven times as much. He can
do great good with his money and have
a good time as well.
The greatest social event that New
York has ever chronicled was the great
Bradley Martin ball In the Waldorf
hotel few nights ago. 1t was the
.swellest" thing on record In America.
There were 700 guests, and the news
paper accounts of the occasion almost
make ones head swim. A "rope of
diamonds" for instance, is the way Mrs.
Bradley Martins jewelry was described.
And all this perhaps within voice-call
OF keenest suffering of the worthy poor.
1t would take an X-ray a thousand
times intensified to discover any good
that ball did for humanity.
The announcing of the Presidential
vote is quite formal affair. The peo-
pie of the United States voted for Pres
ident and vice-President on 3rd of last
November but the official count was
not finally finished up until Wednesday,
Feb. 10th.
The Washington correspondent to
the Richmond Dispatch says the pro-
ceedings occupied Sc minutes. Vice
President Stevenson announced the
result OF the count which was had in
the House, the Senate being present In
a body. It was that Mr.. Mckinley had
received 271 votes for President, and
Mr.. Bryan 176; that Mr.. Hobart had
received 271 votes for Vice-President
Mr.. Sewall 149, and Mr.. Watson 27. It
was stated that this was sufficient
declaration In law of the election of
Messrs. Mckinley and Hobart for the
term stated as President and vice-Pres-
ident, respectively.
1t is so seldom that public men now
a-days subordinate their own personal
interest to that of their constituency
that case OF the kind calls forth COM
ment. Senator PETER Of Kansas seems
to have made record that entities him
to be considered an exception to the
rule. The Biblical Recorder makes the
following complimentary comments on
his course
"Wilnam A. PETER, of Kansas, has
served his term in the United States
Senate, and has been humiiiatingly de-
feated by his own party for reelection.
His career and his defeat carry lesson.
In the Senate no man has been held so
constantly before the public gaze. We
have followed him closely. It is not
our purpose to approve any of his acts,
or disapprove any but we desire to say
that PETER as Senator approached more
nearly the ideal representative of his
party than any other man. No man
has ever more faithfully or more per-
sistently served party than he; no
man has eyer, in cur knowledge, shown
such an insight into, and sympathy
with, the principles of party as he.
In hopeless minority he has courage
ousIy introduced hundreds of bills, and
hopefully delivered hundreds of speech
es, every line of which were in perfect
accord with the principles and the
genius of the principles upon which he
was sent to the Senate. He failed, but
1t was no fault of his. His public life
is blameless. No taint has touched
him, no suspicion attaches to him. In
his seat constantly, ever watchful. ever
Jealous, patient under abuse, dignifed
under ridicule, unselfsh to the end he
was nevertheless defeated by the same
party that elected him. Even when