The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-03-31
THE EDITORS LEISURE HOURS.
Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past and Future.

Inc tlm0 1OT 1lSGluS toA0S 40 o0O"
coming on and men will be called upon
to swear to the value of their property.
There is much injustice practlced
against the State and to the prejudice
and disadvantage OF really honest men.
The Plymouth Beacon has recently
charged that taxes are not properly
listed in Washington county. and closes
with the following pointed paragraph
which may apply anywhere:
"It may be business, or it may be
smart for men to have hundred dollars
| in their trunk or safe, yet make oath
that they haye no money, but it is
risky business, and mean smartness,
that will actuate a man to perjure him.
self Just to save few cents, or even
few dollars, at the expense OF bis less
prosperous neighbor."
| William E. Gladstone, "the Grand
Old Man." and the towering figure. OF
the century perhaps, is declining. A
dispatch from London few days ago
said:
"Gladstone started from Bourne
month for Hawarden this morning, on
what Is supposed to be his last journey
A large crowd assembled to see him off
AS the train was leaving he said God
bless YOU all, this place, and the land
YOU love- Members of the family re-
fused to discuss the report of cancer
on his nose. The report is universally
believed, however"
When Gladstone dies the world will
mourn in common grief at the loss o1
such a great man. Men will every
where bless his memory and Tor genera
tions to come his life Will be held uI
to all as a model fit to be emulated.
The Confederate Soldiers Home in
Atlanta which Henry w. Grady is said
to have been largely instrumental in
building, is now advertised for sale be
cause there is no money forth coming
to support it. 1t seems pity to lei
such a project by such man fail
when 1t is worthy of hearty support.
While in North Carolina we have
had little rain, out West the floods art
destructive. The Philadelphia Record
remarking on the rains and swolle1
streams in Ohio, says that the timbe
growth which formerly held back th'
waters has been swept away and th'
streams more readily overflow. [
concludes the paragraph with thi
pretty sentence:
"Dame Natures prerogatives ant
, possessions, in short, have been undul..
trenched upon in that quarter, AM
those who have changed her handlwor]
must annually pay the penalty"
Along with the uneasiness and wal
dread that some of the newspaper
have spread broadcast tor the past fe'
weeks, they have given the people som
glimpses at the exterior of warship
More pictures of warships and othe
sea-going vessels have been in tn
newspapers during the past six weel
than perhaps ever have been seen IL
the same time before.
Il Ever and anon the assertion is mac
in circles of authority that the mani
facture of cotton must eventually mo,
to the South. Were this not prospe
;. tiyely true the continued repetition
: it would give it semblance OF trut
after awhile but lnasmuch as 1t
true, and all conditions are such as
prove it right soon, 1t will be mo
readily accepted. It is true and Il
south can rest assured that with prop
- energy it will soon be realized.
Much is being said by the press NJ
about farmers raising ad-and-me
y. crops this year. This, say some OF T.
G. papers, is especially desirable uno
= the prospects of war but it is no nj
idea with THE COMMONWEALTH.
, ton wears we have counseled and
l most begged the farmers OF North Y