The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-10-27
THE EDITORS LEISURE HOURS,
Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past and Future.

AuO uOW COmcS tu0 SIdt0ueuV, well
vouched for, that corn stalks are valua.
bic for making paper. The outside
shell Of the stalk, which has formerly
been regarded as worthless for manu-.
featuring purposes, is 80 valuable as a
material for making good grades oi
newspaper that the United States will
| yet lead in tie manufacture OF paper.
It will reduce the cost of paper to the
newspaper world nearly half the present
cost, it Is said.
This is at last a gleam of light that
gives hope to many a forlorn country
publisher, and perhaps some city pub
fishers as we'll.
It is all nonsense for any one to
claim that there is no race prejudice in
the North. At Vlrden, ILL.,, some days
ago mining company attempted to
dlsplace their regular mining laborers
with negroes from Alabama. The
Virden miners resisted it, and con-
ffict ensued. The result was several
miners were killed and others wounded.
The negroes did not leave the cars.
The train was compelled to move on.
Governor Tanner is indignant with
the mining company. He had warned
them not to bring the negroes there
for he knew the temper of the miners.
Such is the feeling in illinois.
The COMMONWEALTH all the while
has been favorable to curfew law.
And after all it Is not such new idea.
The Norfolk Virginian and Pilot re-
Gently printed the following:
Before the war North Carolina had a
curfew law for slaYes and children,
which worked we'll, and was particular
ly blessing for children in towns and
cities, where judiciously enforced.
There is no question that it can be in
judiciously enforced, as happened at
times in North Carolina but that was
an abuse of good regulation.
If parents will not keep their chill
dren at home at night, the law should
make them do SO, for the public good
and for the sake of the future of the
children. Unquestionably the presence
of children at night on the streets of
Norfolk requires some check or limit.
At Midwife, Neb., a few days ago,
Miss Genevieye Ransom was standing
at the altar ready to take the marriage
VOW with Harry Keldar, when the
bridegroom suddenly walked out of
the house, leaving the bride-about.to-
be fain.ing. She had been accustomed
to smoke cigarettes but had promised
her Henry to quit. As the clergyman
commenced the ceremony Harry smelt
her breath. He leaned nearer and
said, "You'ye been smoking again =
She made no reply and he suddenly
walked out and could not be induced
to return.
"Plucky fellow ~ we say but why
can't young women have the same
pluck with reference to men who drink,
and otherwise unfit themselves to make
good and true husbands?
All business is practically at stand
still in North Carolina and will be so
at least for fifteen days. The high ten
sion over the election that prevails all
over the State is such that people just
can't give attention to business as they
would under dl fferent conditions. And
it might as we'll be said and understood
now, that if the State should go Re
publican in this election, of which
there is scarcely probability. however,
North Carolina would suffer shock to
business and progress the like Of which
has not been felt here in quarter o1
a century. And this would be especi'
aliy true of Eastern Carolina. Such