The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-10-04
XVI. New Series---Vol. 4.
TEE EDITORS LEISURE HouRS.
Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past and Future.

SCeSeUCa SaSL ana future.
The Kinston Free Press wells says:
eff Simmons is defeated 1t will be
Republican victory. The Republicans
hate Simmons worse than the devil
hates holy water. Simmons should be
loved for the enemies he has made.
He has accomplished great good for
the State. 1t would be ungrateful not
to recognize his services by electing
him to the U S. senate"
following in the western part OF the
State. is not strong. It is good all over
the State, the Winston journal says:
"The fact that the Republicans OF
this State would do anything they
could to effect Mr.. Simmons defeat,
is proof that they regard him as an
able and dangerous foe, and if for no
other reason (but there are many) this
should be sufficient to stimulate the
Democracy of this State to more de-
termined effort to make him Buffers
successor"
The Greensboro Revolution Cotton
Mills recently turned out the first man
uiacture of canton flannel ever turned
out south of New England. This is a
long stride for North Carolina. Moth
ing stands in the way of North Caroli-
mas great progress but the want Of
ample means amongst our people and
despite the fact that most of our people
have only small means, the State is
making as rapid strides in general in
dustrlal enterprises as any other State
In. the Union.
Henry Watterson in the Louisville
Courier Journal thus writes of Calves
ton as it begins to rise from the awful
heap of desolation:
"Man was made to conquer nature
and, though nature reused may take
man at disadvantage when she takes
him unprepared, yet man, when reused
when warned and ready, awake and a
Iert. is more than q match for nature,
1t is the sense of this that has already
taken hold of the heart OF Galveston
It ls this that nerves the hand and
drives the wheels which fill her streets
| with the echoes of life and hope. II
is this that calls the mourners back
| 1t is this that will make her live again.
Idle to reason with it nay who would
wish to reason with it, save one beref'
OF human sympathy, callous to the
admiration, deaf to the enthusiasm
which brave men feel for brave men
| which all the world must feel TOWARD
roen thus nobly, piously facing disas
ter. and death-in-life coming to thei
own again literally digging thei
homes from out the graves OF the1
dead and planting the signals OF glorl
Gus future over what was but char
mel house rife with despair?
"Go on Galveston! Angels watcf
over your loved and lost whilst yo'
labor for the living. God In his In
finit 9 mercy knows how to temper tn
wind to the shorn lamb. May tn
very seagulls bring you strength ant
hope!"
| Perhaps in all ages of the worl
there have been men here and there wh
deserved to be thought great, though
themselves great and wished to be a.
knowledged by others as great men
Such men are always as proportlonatel
small as they think themselves great
Full sixty years ago rugged-speeche'
Carlyle described such men in his LEI
+ure "The Hero as King" lie says
uc.oat man are not ambitious In ths
sense: he is small poor man that
embitious so. Examine the@an WIN
lives in misery because he does N
shine above other men; who goes
bout producing himself, prurlently an
iona about his gifts and claims !; strul