The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-08-26
VOL. XIII. New Series---Vol. 2,
THE EDITORS LEISURE HOURS,
Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past and Future.

When we read of suicides of youn
men who commit the rash act becaus
of unrequited love, we feel sorry tha
they did not hear at the Red Spring
Sunday-schooI Chautauqua Rev. Nj
Browns lecture on "Courtship." Thes
unfortunates ought to have heard hi
declaration that there are "fifty thou
sand others as good as she is drying VI
on the bush now"
And now railroad rails are made O
paper in Russia and Germany. Th'
seemingly impossible is coming to pasl
all the time. Inventive genius ani
skill keeps step with the age, or rather
calls time Tor the age. The century
ahead of us must be full of wonders that
would stagger us. It would be a daz
zling kaleidoscope to us if we could
pull back the curtain and get one
glimpse into the beautiful and inviting
future.
And now the prediction that was
made years ago seems to be coming
true-that eggs will be manufactured
very like the hen egg. The Phlla-
delphia Inquirer said recently:
"Some time ago it was announced
that a Chicago man had inyented arti-
fetal eggs, and now comes the state
ment that company for their manu-
facture has been incorporated, and that
its headquarters will be in the neigh
borhood Of Beaver Falls, in this state.
1t is said that the cost of production
will be 4 cents per dozen, and that the
product will be largely shipped to the
English market, where the prices are
from 35 to 40 cents per Dozen"
A remarkable preacher is reported in
a Kentucky paper. His name is Tice
Spear. He is eighty-seven years old
and has been preaching sixty years.
He walks to all his appointments, car
ries his effects, Tor the most part, in
valise, breaches simply for the good OF
the cause, has never solicited dona-
tion and as consequence has never
received more than $3.50 for his preach
ing. His career must be more striking
than that of the beloved Elias Dodson
of considerable fame in this State.
After all, what a world of good man
must have done who has worshiped at
no other shine than that of the desire
for holiness for sixty years
One of the wonders of the age, es-
pecially to the people Of the South, is
the mysterious growth of the pension
list. Thirty-two years from the end of
the war it is given out that the pension
list has nearly two hundred and fifty
thousand more names than there were
soldiers actually engaged in all the
armies of the government at any time
Of the civil war.
The Norfolk Virginian gives the
figures of the New York Sun that tho
army of pensioners is now between
30 and 40 per cent. larger than the
fighting army at any time during the
war, and that we have paid So, ,0OO, 600,
600 in pensions since the war, two
tQlTOS as muCu dS IL COSC W CcAAy OA
the war. All this is monstrous i'm
position upon the tax payers OF the
tits worth while for young men to
have regard to their opportunities. So
many fail to see the opportunity in
time For instance, If a young man is
hired as salesman or to do any other
kind OF. work in good mercantile or 9th
er establishment, it is his opportunity.
The fact that young man gets en-
ployment under a good, and safe, and
reliable man, means that his opportu-
nifty is as much superior to other men
as is his employer superior to theirs.
sAll young man has to do to make
grand success under such circum-
stances is to stand by his duty to his
employer in everything. This done,
and his future is bright and will grow
brighter but these things disregarded !,