The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1897-03-04
VOL. XIII. New SerieS---Vol. 1
THE EDITORS LEISURE HOURS.
Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past and Future.

The State Railroad Commission {
Georgia has suggested that all manager
of railways in that State would do we
to establish lunch rooms for colore
passengers at points where they hav
leating houses for the whites. Th
commission has not issued any rul
about the matter, but has suggested i
and expects the railways to act upo1
the suggestion.
| Hon. William Jennings Bryan was
to visit Hartford, Conn.,, few days age
and the House of the General Assembly
passed resolution by vote of IS te
| 81 to invite the popular Nebraskan te
visit the Capitol during his stay in the
CITY but when the resolution was pre-
sented in the Senate it was rejected
But such decision by the upper house
of the Connecticut Legislature is not
likely to give Mr.. Bryan any sleepless
hours.
No one who reads the papers and
watches the news from Raleigh can fail
to be impressed with the fact that the
present Legislature is little less and
little more than an all-round game of
chance on the part OF many of the
members. So many of them want an
appointment under somebody else that
they are all the time trading and work.
ing their positions for all they are worth
in trying to get some better place. If
the news that goes out from Raleigh is
true, there is not enough patriotism in
the entire Legislature to declare that
the United States is free country, if
from making the declaration
would get anybody a position that
would pay little money or give some
political "pull'' for the future.
Mr.. Matthew G. D. Borden, of New
YORK and Fall River, recently bought
seven hundred thousand pieces of cot
ton cloth. He must see a great inn
provement in business in the future
the near future, too. In thus using
his money for his own interest Mr..
Borden did much to help others, tor he
relieved the mills at Fall River of all
their accumulated stock and made it
possible for the mills to run on.
If all that is printed about the pres
ent Legislature is true, they are far
from the "Solomons" which we heard
a man call them the other day. The
Greensboro Record is responsible for
the following paragraph
"a member of the Legislature who,
like all the others is hungry for pie, !
said the other day that he had found a
place he wanted, but was laying low
until the time for action then he pro-
poses to strike. Being importuned to
know what it was, he finally said it was
Bishop Cheshlre's place, which he
understood paid $4,000.
"He still believes he will get it, for
be does not know but what it is posi-
ton under the State"
A bill has been introduced in the
New York Legislature to prohibit the
Of cartoons or the portrait
of any person without such persons
consent. If this should become law
the portrait prints Of dead celebrities
would be less often seen in the big
papers for permission would have to
be obtained from the man while living,
and that would be quite a delicate
subject to approach person with.
The following description of Presl-
dent McKinley's car from Canton to
" ashington was sent out a few days
ago:
ssThe car will be known as the "Penn-
sylvanla Railroad Venetian Red" all
the cars composing the special being
finished in that tint within and with
out. The train will consist of one
baggage Car, one diner, two Pullman
sleepers-the Ardin and Delphi-for
the accommodation OF the inaugural
committee and representatives of the
press, and the special Pennsylvania
Railroad cars, Nos. sos and 38, which