The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1901-04-25
THE ED1ToRs's LEISURE HOURS.
Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past and Future.

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Present, Past and Future.
"Less work for more pay is the tend
ency of the times of late," said close
observer of "passing events" In The
COMMONWEALTH office day or two
ago. And sometimes one really feels
like it is a correct conclusion to reach.
One is inclined to ask the question, Is
there as much genuine, hard down
labor and study these latter days for an
equal remuneration and consideration
as there was generation or two ago?
It Is to be feared that too many per-
sons are looking for easy places and
TIT jobs.
What is the difference between
pair of young horses and young pair
of horses?
We stood near an admirer of fine
horse flesh recently who seeing pair
OF horses pass remarked, "Thers
goes a young pair Of horses" We
noticed carefully how he worded thu
sentence, and then the question which
we have propounded came up: What
is the difference between a young pair
OF horses and pair of young horses?
Will some OF our conundrum ans
werlng contemporaries tell us the diff
ference? Perhaps also some of our
readers who handle horses rauch could
enlighten us.
The latest project for rural delivery
is scheme suggested by a western
inventor. The plan is to string wire
to poles along the postal routes through
the country. Charge the wire with
electricity, and hang a basket to the
wire and have them to run on grooved
~ ae]4 propelled by a motor. More
fticularly it is described thus:
with light baskets hung to the
wire by grooved wheels propelled by
small motor set to run at SIX or eight
miles an hour, with suitable trips from
each apartment OF the basket to engage
with like trips where the mail is to be
left and other mail taken on, different
sized baskets tor each kind of mail
started out at different times. Should
one basket get disabled the one follow
Ing would bring it around"
The COMMONWEALTH has all the
while belieyed that hazing of any
serious nature is brutal and ungentle-
manly. The developments by hazing
investigations for the past few months
have made many cheek flush with
pent-up indignation. About the best So
luton we haye seen at all is the following
concerning Bishop Cheshire's method
OF dealing with the brutes who thought
they would "llft" him:
Baltimore Sun, 18th Major William
M. Pegram, OF Baltimore, tells good
story illustrating how the nerve deyel-
oped> in the Civil War enabled a young
Southerner to defy hazers In North
.ern college.
The young soldier was Joseph B.
Cheshire now Protestant Episcopal
Bishop of North Carolina. At the
close of the war, in which he served
with distinguished gallantry, he was
seventeen years old. Deciding to enter
the ministry, he went to Trinity Col
fCEG, 0Ol0s, tuAldo Will la Ill
his well worn gray overcoat and his
army revolver.
While alone in his room at the col
lege one evening not long after his
arrival Mr.. Cheshire received an un-
usual number OF visitors. One by one
students dropped in till nearly score
were in his room. He diviped their
purpose, but received them courteously.
Finally one remarked "I suppose
you know what we have come fory"
At the same time he locked the door
and put the key In his pocket. While
this was going on Mr.. Cheshire had
backed quietly to his desk. Raising
his revolver, he gave the command
with military terseness unlock the
door, file out one by one !" The young
men, seeing the STRIPPING student sud-
denly transformed into the trained