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THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS.
Points and Paragraphs of Things
Present, Past and Fntnre.
The selling of railroads Is getting to
be raber a common occurrence. A
special from Charleston, S. C, last
Wednesday said :
"In the United States Circuit court
hore to-day Judge Simonton issued a
decree ordering the - sale of the Wil
mington, Xewbern and Xorfolk Rail
way. No date was filed, but it is un
derstood that the property will be plac
ed on the block about the first of
August."
The college graduate has many ad
visers just now. He or she can not
hope to follow all the adyice given ; for
even an attempt at such a thing would
but bewilder them all the more.
One thing will we observe for their
benefit : With the increasing numbers
every year from the various institu
tions the educated can.no longer hope
for easy places altogether. That is the
lowest idea of education anyway. The
true idea of education is the better
preparation for serving humanity and
God.
There are two seasons of recreation :
Winter and Summer. Certain classes
of persons seek recreation and amuse
ment in the one season and certain
other classes in the other.
Some one quite forcefully observes,
however, that no one has a right to
amusement who has not earned it by
hard work. Amusement belongs only
to those who have been closely engag
ed. And there seems to be good reas
oning in it. But sad to observe not
all get tne amusement who earn it.
In many cases the conditions are re
versed and those who have earned it
have to keep on earning it without get
ting it.
Dr. L. G. Broughton got a good step
ahead of most people in his able ad
dress before the alumni association at
Wake Forest College last week when
he said : "I believe the time will
come when it will be regarded as a sin
or a Christian man to get rich." While
we grant there is much crookedness in
much of the money-making of the
present day, we do not belieye it is a
sin yet awhile ior a man to make hon
est accumulations. And inasmuch as
being rich is a comparative matter ac
cording to one's environments and the
condition of one's neighbors, Dr.
Broughton's idea will bear pruning, we
think.
How often does bondage masquerade
as liberty ! A young man breaks away
rrom home influence, and seeks enjoy
ment in doubtful places, because he
wants his liberty and his i ndependence.
But his first step toward a loose or vi
cious life is his first step toward a new
bondage. A recent writer notes that
among some African races a man set
free from a master goes and sells himself
to another for he cannot be troubled
with managing for himself. But he has
the excuse that he does not want the
responsibility of be ing his own manag
er. Poor African that he is, he is not
deluding himself as is the fairer youth
who imagines that he can remain his
own manager while he sells himself in
to the bondage of a vicious me. roiK
sneech fiavs "It's-harder work getting
to hell than to heaven." Better serve
in the bondage to habits of righteous
ness than of folly and vice.
At Wake Forest last week the editor
of The Commonwealth had the oppor
tunity of shaking hands with Congress
man W. W. Kitchin, and spend a short
while nith him. He was just from Sa
lem where he had delivered a great ad
dress at the commencement of Salem
School. Mr. Kitchin is a Scotland
Xeck boy and has many admirers here,
and we gladly give the following com
plimentary paragraph from a special to
the News and Obseryer from Winston
'Hon. W. W. Kitchin, the brilliant
Congressman from the Fifth North Car
olina district, delivered the annual ad
dres3. His subject was "The Glory of
Woman." The reputation of Mr. Kitch
in as an oralor had preceded him, and
this reputation was well . sustained by
his effort to-day. His handsome phys
ique, his clear voice,bis self-possession,
nis ready now of language, bis famil
iarity with events of historical interest
and his tender regard and sublime ad
miration for the subject under consid
eration all combined to produce an ora
tion that was at once eloquent, pleasing
ABOUT BATTLES.
GOOD WORDS TO SMALL BOYS.
LARGE BOYS AND MEN MAY
READ.
Some Rambling Thoughts.
(Copyrighted.)
To the Boys About Battles : I
know just how you feel when you
hear the boom boom boom boom
boom of a drum on the streets.
Your lively feet, almost without your
knowing it, move backward or forward
in time with the sound and you are
very glad indeed if you can run out of
the house to join with the marchers.
I know too how excited you feel
when a good brass band strikes up a
stirring tune. It makes a creepy feeling
come over the top of your head, then a
sudden little shiver goes down your
backbone clear to your toes, a sort of a
lump comes in your throat so that for
a moment you feel as though you could
scarcely breathe ; and then off you go,
feet hardly touching the ground, ready
to march mile after mile if you may
but stay near the music.
Another thing I know you like, and
that is to get some old soldier to tell
you war stories. If his eyes grow
bright in telling about brave little
drummer boys, about bands playing as
the men march into battle, about
shrieking shells and ping-ing bullets,
fierce charges and bursting minies, you
are sorry when he stops. I know you ;
it is the battles you like the best of all
to hear about in history ; and when you
have heard them you sometimes get
off by yourself to dream, with your
eyes open, of what you would do with
a repeating rifle and a trusty revolver
against twenty loes creeping towards
you to kill you.
I reckon it is quite easy to under
stand why you should feel this way ;
for wise men do say that children show
forth in their little lives all the differ
ent stages of past human history. Let
me tell you in part what I mean :
When you were much smaller you
used to love fairy stories, telling of the
gentle deeds of the funny little crea
tures that were supposed to be inside
flowers and under toad-stools. Just
ike you, ages ago, grown up people
believed in fairies too; so that it is
air to. say that the world has had a
airy-tale age.
Now that your strong little body
holds a very fierce little heart within
it that takes pleasure in struggles and
revels in stories of great, generals, you
brget the harmless little fairies. So
has it been with men. Not many ages
ago great and good men spent all their
time thinking about battles and train
ing themselves to kill as many as pos
sible of their fellow creatures.
But gentler times have come among
men. When large numbers came to
think it over they saw that war, like
your new jacket, has two sides ; one
very nice to look at and the other full
of seams. The seamy side of war was
or the mothers who could never see
their killed boys again, and whose
hearts felt robbed of the precious, dear
one who lost his lite because perhaps
of a silly quarrel among big people like
kings and generals. These thoughtful
men gradually saw that a human life
was a wonderful thing and that to cut
it short was very serious. They saw
too how seamy a side life always must
bear to those who were wounded and
ived tor years in pain or maimed. So,
though great armies still exist, you will
find people growing more and more
anxious to avoid war because of the ter
rible side of it.
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So if you want to have the history of
the race completely sketched out in
your little life, you will have to press
back your fierce temper and your desire
to be in a big army in a fight. Yet I
am going to tell you there were fights
in fairy times and there are fights now.
People fight now with their heads in
stead of their arms, and you, if you ex
pect to win the full power of manli
ness, must prepare to fight too. Wise
men say that all the struggles of the
past have helped to make men deter
mined, and that it some form of fight
ing were not continued on the earth,
we should drop back and become lazy,
eood-for-nothing people.
What is the fighting I am talking
about? It can be easily told to you.
"Look around your school. There are
twenty-five, fifty, perhaps a hundred
bovs there. They all will need to earn
a living in some way or another. Your
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fight is to train youi tiain so that not
one ot them can get ahead of you, or
cheat you, or laugh you for being
foolish. Surely you do, not want to be
without a good head and a good store
m it. There are sucrj ; they are the
sort that always have time to watch
the train come in but never find time
to work ; the sort that rather than plow
or chop wait around post-offices to look
for letters when they know no one ever
thinks of writing to them.
Brains tell, dear boys ; and the more
boys there are in the wprld, the sharp
er becomes the fighting for any posi
tions that open. In the country the
fight is on just as it is in the city.
There the farmer with good brains beats
the slouchy one, whether the weather
be fine or not ; there the storekeeper
with brains makes an honest profit and
lives, while the foolish one is sold out
by the sheriff.
Times are now so peaceful that you
do not need to think of how to save
your own life by taking some one else's
away. You have, therefore, much more
time than the boys of long ago to pre
pare for the battles without blood. The
schools, too, for training you to the
struggle of brains are so much better
than they used to be, that you have no
excuse for being anything but a good
soldier.
I hope I have not used any words
too hard for you. Difficult words may
sound well, but they sometimes tail to
reach the brain. For two weeks more
I shall write to you about "battles'
and in such away, I hope, that the
men in your family will not lose any
thing by reading the articles too.
Deformed.
Selected.
The old doctor's widowed sister, who
had lived abroad for several j7ears. came
to the village to visit him as soon as
she returned home. She was inclined
to think Americans superior to all
other races, and was constantly point
ing out defects in the manners and
habits of foreigners. One evening she
described to the doctor the faulty meth
ods of handling infants in different
countries. .
"In the East and even in southern
Europe they are swaddled so tightly
from head to foot that their limbs are
distorted and their bodies deformed.
In Borne and Naples you meet dwarfs
and hunch-backs at every turn, and
you understand the reason when you
see how the poor bambinos are bound
so that no muscle can grow or develop.
I am thankful that such cruelty is not
known in America."
The doctor was thoughtful but made
no answer. Jfresently tne guest began
to inquire for some of her old acquaint
ances in the vilage.
"I am surprised that none of the
Clark sisters married," she said. They
were such pretty, sensible, warm-hearted
girls. I expected to find them hap
py wives and matrons."
"They had offers of marriage," said
the doctor, "from young farmers and
tradesmen, quite worthy of them ; but
il they had married them they would
have had to live plainly and work hard
and the Clark girls were taught that a
carriage, fine clotnes, and luxuries were
necessaries of life. So they have re
mained unmarried, as no rich suitors
came."
"What a pity !" said his sister ; and
their cousin, Jane Watson ?"
"She was an energetic, affectionate,
pretty girl, who if she had married a
poor man that she loved would, no
doubt, have made a good, happy wife
and mother, and have served her God
faithfully f but her mother taught her
the-same creed as that of her cousins.
At eighteen she married an old man
whose only virtue was that he was very
wealthy."
"And then?"
"In three years she was sent home
divorced a disgraced woman.". The
doctor was silent a moment, and then
said gravely :
"We do not bandage or. cripple
our children's bodies in America ;" but
sometimes we swathe their souIp in
false conceptions of life. No wonder
they are deformed !"
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A Hard Struggle Ahead.
By Geo. R. Scott.
The young men who read my arti
cles have a hard struggle ahead of
them in order to be successful as tar as
this life is concerned. And a moder
ate share of outward success is almost
essential to a useful and happy religious
life.
The young men of today have not
only to compete with cheap foreign la
bor, but also with the labor of women,
which is not only cheap but generally
good.
In "Manhood's Morning" I read that
of 425,000 teachers ia this country two
thirds are women. Of about 36,000
typewriters and stenographers in New
York City the great majority are wom
en. From 1880 to 1890 women "mu
sicians and music-teachers increased
from 5,753 to 34,519 ; ariists and teach
ers of art from 412 to 10,810 ; book
keepers, clerks and copyists, from 8,
011 to 82,825 ; journalists from 35 to
888; physicians, from 527 to 4,555;
lawyers, rrom 5 to 208, and clergywom-
en, from 67 to 1,235."
I find no fault with women for try
ing to earn an honest living in the va
rious walks of professions and trades ;
but, on the contrary, congratulate them
on the increased facilities they now
have, to be something besides mere
drudges.
But the young man who has any
ambition to be something must take
into consideration the fact that there
are now thousands of women ready to
compete with him as to who shall be
successful.
Tnere is one element of character
that women have to greater degree than
men, and that is honesty. Seldom does
one hear of a lemale clerk being dis
charged for stealing. Women seem to
have more of what we call conscience
than men.
Notwithstanding the fact that wo
men are not physically as able to endure
toil as men are, it is of every day oc
currence that they do endure more than
men, and stand the strain without a
grumble.
The coming young man has to com
pete with a good deal, and to be suc
cessful he must haye a good bead and
a good heart. Both are absolutely nec
essary to success.
There is one point in a woman's
makeup that young men can afford to
copy, and that is willingness to study
and willingness to endure in order to
accomplish the desired object.
It will pay a young man to think
carefully over the conditions that he
must face and overcome. A young
man slow to learn and dull of compre
hension might as well first as last, ad
mit his defects and then make a des
perate struggle to overcome them.
"Know thyself" before trying to under
stand others.
How often have I seen a young man
with no brilliancy in his maee-up out
strip in the race ot life another young
man who was smart from his infancy.
It is the tireless plodder the young
man who looks carefully after his weak
spots that generally comes out all right
in the end.
I once asked a wealthy and honored
man bow it was that he had overcome
the difficulties of life and had proved
himself to be a business success. His
reply was, "I have always tried to keep
a clean heart and a small head." And
this course had resulted in his possess
ing a large heart and a wise head.
Young men, never sing "Oh, to be
nothins, notning ;" but do all you can
to be something in your day and gener
ation. Almost any young man can be
nothing without half trying ; but to be
something worth talking about requires
the grace of God and the practical ap
plication of all our powers to accom
plish what we desire.
Study, think, and work. Bring to
bear upon what you want to accom
plish honest prayer, backed up by faith
that will not take no for an answer.
Let all your motives be pure, and so
live that you will have the smile of
God and the confidence of those with
whom you come in contact.
This world is not a bad world. It
has good things in it for those who
strive in an honorable way to get them.
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BE SIMPLY TRUE.
Be firm. One constant element in luck
Is genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck.
See you tall shaft? It felt the earth
quake's thrill,
Clung to its base, and greets the sun
light still.
Stick to your aim ; the mongrel's hold
will slip,
But only crowbars loose the bull-dog's
grip;
Small as he looks, the jaw that never
yields.
Drags down the bellowing monarch of
the fields.
Yet, in opinions look not always back,
Your wake is nothing, mind the com
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Don't be "consistent," but be simply
true.
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Sufficient Cause.
Youth's Companion.
Household Words tells how an insur
ance board turned the laugh on the
company's medical examiner :
Mr. Zea, the Columbian minister
in England, died very suddenly. He
was insured in various offices, and ru
mor said he had shot himself. A meet
ing of one of the insurance boards was
held, and the directors were talking the
matter oyer, when Doctor M. appeared,
who was the company's medical referee,
as well as Mr. Zea's own physician.
"Ah ! now you can tell us the true
cause of Zea's death."
"Certainly I can," said the doctor,
solemnly, "because I attended him."
Here he paused, and was surprised
to find that his merely preliminary re
mark was hilariously received as a so
lution of the whole question.
Little Pitchers.
Harper's Bazar.
Children have the faculty ot hearing
and seeing much more than their elders
would believe possible. They are too
guileless to be hypocritical, but it
seems natural to them to listen to and
observe all that passes in their presence
while they appear outwardly demure
and inattentive.
The average parents are not careful
enough as to what they say to one an
other and about other people in the
presence of the little ones. , One grown
woman confesses to haying all her life
distrusted a friend of the family be
cause of something she heard her moth
er say years ago. She remarked to her
husband, "Bob said he would be here
to dinner to-night, but, as usual, he did
not let his promise keep him from
staying away.
It was said carelessly of a man who
was so intimate in the family as to
come and go at his pleasure. The
child, listening, decided in her heart
that "Bob" had broken his promise.
"As usual," mamma had said. That
must mean that he often lied that he
was, in fact, a liar. And this belief she
was never wholly able to shake off.
Another child was present when the
morning's mail was brought in. Her
father tore open a business envelope,
and glanced over a bill enclosed in it.
Then he tossed it across the table to
his wife, with an exclamation of im
patience :
"There is J 's bill. It is even
larger than I expected it to be. I can
not pay it this month. I simply hayen't
the money in bank."
Terror-struck, the child left the room.
Matters had come to a fearful pass. Her
father could not pay his debts ; he
would be sent to prison as soon as it
was found out.
All day long the little one watched
from her nursery windows for the
sheriff she thought would come to "tell
them out."
So uncommunicative are children
that she said nothing to her mother of
her fears, until bedtime, when she was
tucked into her cot she caught her
mother around the neck and sobbed
out:
"Oh, mamma, do you suppose this is
our last night at home ? Shall we have
to go to the poorhouse to-morrow?"
Then it was all told, and mamma ex
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he could meet all his obligations, that
the bill he had received that morning
would be paid in good time, etc., until
the little girl, feeling as if she had been
snatched back from the very doors of
the poorhouse, sank to sleep. But
though she has now children of her
own, she has never forgotten that dread
ful day, and cannot say too much in
condemnation of the practice of speak
ing thoughtlessly where there is even
one very little pitcher with big ears.
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