The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-08-22
THE EDlToRs's LEISURE HOURS.
Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past and Future.

The question frequently comes VI
!, as to whether or not people generally
are as willing to work as formerly. From
Il .dications In many directions and the
con c!usions drawa by speakers and
writers, one is pretty safe In saying
that the general tendency in all class
es OF people is to avoid hard labor q:
much as possible. 1t seems not to be
a common thing for people to labor
hard nowadays just because they de-
light In toll.
The COMMONWEALTH is glad to note
the opening of the Pittman Sanitar-
ium at Tarboro. 1t was formally
opened Monday of last. week, says the
Southerner, and what the visitors saw
made e most favorable impression on
them. Already eight or ten rooms
had BEEN occ1pie1, and the patients
who could be seen by the visitors
spoke in high praise of the manage
msut.
Mrs Mamie r. Pender is the mat.
ron and Miss Gray is nurse with some
assistants. It is an enterprise that
Tarboro, Elgacombe and adjacent
counties ought to feel great interest in.
1t Will be quite a convenience to all
this region and great blessing in
more ways than one. We hope to see
it fully sustained.
In the last issue of The Outlook OK.
| tended reference is made to the Brick
Agricultural School near Enfield, in
! this county. It states that the school
was founded six years ago by Mrs.
Julia e. Brick, and named in 1namory
of her late husband Joseph Keasey
Brick, O! New York. It is school
for the education OF the colored child
ren, and partial description Of the
school is given as follows: ''The
school farm of eleven hundred acres,
almost wilderness at first, has been
made one OF the best In the State, and
in doing it an 1mmanse amount
o! labor has been laid out in clearing,
fencing, ditching, diking, roads, bfid-
ges, grading, tree planting, and build
ing" The enrolment is said to have
grown from a handful to over 200 and
some have walked hundred miles to
enter the school.
Free rural delivery is gaining favor
with the public very rapidly. Con-
gresham Pcu of the Fourth district
has interested himself for such mail
facilities in his district, and the result
is the Government has sent a special
agent to Raleigh to investigate the
proposei routes in Wake county.
The people doubtless will be greatly
benefited by the systf m wherever it is
carefully and successfully operated.
Few things have claimed the attention
OF the Government that tend moro
towards raising the standard of intelli-
gance in the country concerning cur
rent events.
By the aid Z! the |rea delivery sys-
tenn the people in the rural districts
will have mails brought to their doors,
and this Will be an inducement to
many to read much more than when
mail facilities are poor.
Good manners and due considera-
ton for the feelings and tastes OF
other people are highly cormendable
in any one.
One OF the most marked instances ct
good manners that has claimed our
attention for quite time was the in
qniry OF colored man who came to our
office OH business few days ago. He
had common pipe in his hand (per-
haps corn cob one) and when be
appeared at the door his first words
we're: "Boss, any harm to smoke
here?"
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