The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-09-07

voted On next year. Prominent Re
publlcans are expressing themselves /,
It's favor, and the enthusiasm witt
which speakers for the amendmen
have been received and applauded, be
speaks wide Interest in the questio,
already. Before the voting day mex
August, every voter in the State vii
have had an opportunity to hear it.
merits.
That Was mCst interesting account
which the News and Observer gave las,
frlday CT the big day at Angler, in
Harnatt county, August 3lst. The
new railroad just built from Apex tc
Aagiar opens up quite an important
territory. Harrett county has never
nad n1any railroad advantages. The
railroad from Wilson to FAYETTEVILLE
Just crosses one corner of the county !;
md the read from Fayetteville to san,
| iorG just crosses a corner On the other side
O tie county 4: and the road from Raj
eigi to Sanford does not touch the
county at all.
The road from Apex to Angler runs
somewhat near the middle of the coun-
| ty and it touches part OF the State
| that Will soon show important develop.
ments. We know the people of Har-
1ett and we know there are no better
oeopls IN the State. While that par
ticular part ct the county which this
new railroad touches has never shown
any marked spirit of enterprise, it is ex-
plained by the fact that the people
there have had no opportunity. It
will be only few years when they will
he IN the front rank with the most en-
terprising people of the State. Thee
are fine possibilities in Harnett and
We expect to see great DEVELOPMENTS
there and that right soon.
1t is our birthplace, the home of our
childhood, and we feel much interest
in the good people there.
The "Capital City" paragraphs in
The Saturday Evening Post gives many
interesting hints at what goes on in |
Washington. The following concern
ing member of the Cabinet ought to
interest newspaper men and farmers
E'The most picturesque figure in the
Cabinet to-day is James Wilson, of
Iowa-a typical American, though.
paradoxicallv enough, he was born in
Scotland. OF all the Secretaries who
hold portfolios under President Nc
Kinley, he is the most approachable
No dragon guards his outer door, but
any visitor is welcome to walk right in
and chat with him. He likes the news
paper correspondents, and is fond OF
elling them that he has been for many
years working newspaper man him
'elf. Indeed, this Is true enough, in-
lsn1uch rs he was quite famous in the
West as g writer on agricultural sub
ects long before he he entered the
Cabinet.
"Sit down my SON = the Secretary
will say to the newspaper man who
soay chance to ok IN On him in the
,ope Of getting bit OF news. Then
.a Will wheel around in his leather
overed armchair and, twlrling his eye
lasses by the string, will talk of in
an minutes the material for column
t matter perhaps, full of striking sug-
estlons, and put In Il quaint and vivid
ray that keeps the correspondents
encil flying lest he miss something.
Mr.. Wilson likes to have 1t under
TODD that he owes all that he is to the
,il-tl1at he himself is a product =
t Intelligent farming. One OF his
'osjes describes how, when he came to
his country, in 1852, from Ayrshire, {
co;land. the eldest OF a family OF four 8
zen children, his father set him TO i
ork to help improve few acres OF b
,,l,er barren land in Connecticut. n
he elder Wilson thought he knew F
hat the land wanted to make 1t fru't ii
II. and as no bone mills existed IN n
,ose days, he went around IN wag- Il
n and gathered up all the butchers n
ones and such other animal remains as i,
ould be secured. Then he Obliged e
ounp Jim and brothers to go to WORK
y them with hammers and beat the"
, nowder. which was employed as p
,,tilizer with most favorable results e
'ha Secretary says that this BONE c
reaking was the hardest toll ne ever I
IA IN hia life