The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-01-28
THE EDITORS LEISURE HOURS.
Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past and Future.

Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past and Future.
Women are taking rank with men in
business more rapidly than many sup
pose. They are commanding large
salaries in business. The largest sala-
~, it is said, paid to any woman in bus
mess is ten thousand dollars year by
California insurance company. She
is the lady manager of the concern.
The question is being discussed in
Chicago as to whether or not physicians
should wear beard. 1t IS claimed by
some that the physicians long beard is
means of spreading contagion. If
this be true and is so demonstrated it
Will only be a matter of time when the
public will demand that all physicians
go clean shaven.
The annual cost of pensions is about
$40, ,OGO, 600, which ought to gradually
reduce every year, until within quar-
ter of century it will be almost nothing.
The St, Louis Globe Democrat calls
attention to the fire losses in the United
States as another serious drain upon
the peoples resources. It says:
"The fire losses in the United States
in 1894 aggregated $l29,839, 700; in
1895, $12S, ,246, 400, and in 1896, $115,-
295, 500. In a decade over a billion
dollars goes up in flame and smoke
attended with many deplorable casual.
ties. The remedy is better building
and inspection, the value of which has
long been established in Europe"
The New York Dispatch gives an
item about the gypsy moth that ii
interesting. 1t says:
"Tbe infinite value of little things in
their bearings upon life in this world
has a most striking illustration ir
the history of the gypsy moth, which
pest the commonwealth OF Msssachu
setts is now imploring Congress to hell
it get rid of. A Harvard professor wht
entertained a vain hope OF advanta
geouslv crossing the European motl
with the American sil<work allowed
his one solitary imported caterpillar t.
escape. The result is that to-day al
insect destroys the trees within thre
hundred and fifty square miles Of terri
tory and threatens the whole country
and thousands of dollars are expende'
all to no use"
The House of Representatives i
Congress devoted the session of 10th t
eulogies on the late Speaker Crisp {
Georgia. Among those who spoke wa
Representative Woodard of this cor
gressional district. Judge D. Armont
of Missouri. closed his remarks in th
), following beautiful strain relating th
o future OF the great man:
"His spirit-where? Has Its exi
tence terminated with the existence
= the body? Whatever philosophy RS ms
saw. man rebels at the thought. tt
hope, sometimes clung to in desper
ton, sometimes clung to In the brigh
u est anticipation. that there is heres
ter. and that men live in that bereaftt
il one that none of us will give u
The philosophy of ages, of calm reaso
ing can not Danish it. 1t springs OF
inheritance of humanity, as a part
the soul of every being that breath
1--WE believe--our hopes, our aft
tions, all that we hold near and dear
life, admonish US to believe, and ct
strain us to believe-tbat our friend
not perished, but that, in higher a
nobler sphere, this great intellect. t
i. great, loving spirit, will flourish a
= expand and achieve new heights, a
C perform new acts Of glory and OF grac