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a TERMS OF SUB9CRIPTIOV: One Year, SI.OO Six Months, JO cento Payable in Advance VOL. V. - NO. 17. WASHINGTON LETTER. 1 BY CU& A. BotttH. Jauuery >5. 1904. The democrats of the "House of KHiiwwlJhr.t, order the able leadership of the Hon. John Sharp Williioa, an liaiig op ia aolid ar sad all it stands far. The demo crack, party la (his Houee is going to riimt for something besides ne ■traction of repubKcaa talks Hitherto, this has been die height of the aarttfun of the democratic ' floor Mar. If he could tine op 1 the democrats to oppose anythiog that the republicans suggested he seamed satisfied, and lat matters go st that Not so with John Sharp WiWarns He wants the democratic party to stsnd for something posi tive and to place the republican party on the defensive, and he in tends to do so if the democrats who are the leaders of the [arty on the floor of the Home will back him ap in his intentions. We will hare a conference once nweek with the leading democratic member on every committee in the Houae, and ascertain exactly what is coming oat of the comittee and what ia before it in the sfcap: of legislation. If any of the legisla tion is worthy of consideration from a party standpoint, a meeting of all the democratic members of the committee will be called and a fight opened np 00 the republican measure and a substitute offered and (ought for with might and asain. He will thus organize a standing •'elbow-to-elbow' move ment, and quit tbe old endless, snd endlessly unsuccessful game of merely opposing things without ha vim anvthinr to pot in the place of the thing opposed. He intend* to organize, if he can, an affirma tive democracy in the House at mr rate, and through the House in the entire country. His wait hword trom now 00 will be "face front, forward march," and charge the enemy at every point of the line, keeping off the defensive ourselves end put him on it. The republican party ia right now the party of ne gation in the country. It is in fa- Tor of' standing pat" and "letting watt enough alone." as if things ever warn well enough in this poor world of a rts He is going to orga nise an attack all along the line 10 that ana of two things will happen: wo will either break their line or slae they will cease to 'Wend pat.'' We will pot fhem whore they dare not stand pet on Canadian re* ciprocity, where they dare not atand pet in still further ignoring Kpcomrnendaiioas of the Interstate Commerce Commission ti adopt MMfin to put an end to injustices payitnlri by common carriers. His policy alee will place them in the position where they dare not atand pat np the methods of ad mimsiiefino whicb have obtained in fee Poet Office Department, snd fn other branchea of tksgoeera manf His policy is eleag the Usee at an «gressive democracy, ail it wttl do more to unite flbe petty and pat it ipfigbtingUrim for MM great campaign this year flhnn anything that can come to the Moietsnrr of the party at thia time. I said in this correspondence months' ago that the democracy of ffcg country was to be congratulat ed aw the leadership of the Hon. £ahn Sharp Williams, becftuse, knowing the sun es I did, I knew he would do when he aS r~nnf the reine of this quasi offi cial position. He has tbe brains, the eeJf-pois the tact, the unfail fng good aetata, tbe high moral principle, the aggressiveness and fw Iwe J true democracy that ad aairabiy fit him for an ideal legis lator ia the jntawfr of the people at* agaiast the eiasem end combi |H|li wtiT sastaic him they wiD /* ' » pg M last mm republican member §§ has a good ides of the eternal fit •es, of all things, snd what is due ... . WILLIAMSTON, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 29.1904. to the tasyuyer* at the country in one respect, WD M IM taken • pot-shot at a very lively übuse that has been flowing ■I a rapid rate under the last two republican ad ministrations. Ha la the Hon. Charles B. I aodis, of Indiana, and he has aimed a rsaolution at the heads of the | tiflt hew who are in Ih* lonmaest ■■piny and who ride about to carriages at the ex pense of the pacpla of the country If afl the unilages and other ve hicles owned and maiatained by the (OTMSMst fsr the private uae of the employes of the different depart aaeata wore strung oat in one line, t> ey weald stretch from the Capital to the White House along Pennsylvania a venae. Mr. Landis has seen this abase, aad ha has had the maqhood aad patriotism to hit at it. aad it is to be hoped he will smash it. My hat is off to Mr. Landis. More power to his elbow. • * • The political gossip that st II is agitating the tongues of the poli ticians at the national capital con cern) the late meeting of the Demo cratic National Committee in this city, and the things that happened thereat. Itoid last week how some of the New Yorker* quit aaking for the convention when they found that the Parker bom was about as flat as a costard pie that had fallen from the top of Washington mouu ment, but the letter was written before the adjournment of the meet ing of the committee, md could not havefore told the interesting development anent the place of holding the next convention At the time I wrote the last letter everything looked as if Chicago would have a walk over for the convention, but something hap pened to scare the convention down to St Lojis. That something was the powerful Hearst movement and sentiment, not only among the members of the committee, but among the hnndreda of prominent democrats who came to attend the meeting of the committee. What some of the reorganiz ng element of the democratic party took to be a cloud no larger than a man's hand turned oat to be a cyclone, and it scared them from the balmy breezes of Lake Michigan into the cyclone cellars of St Lruis. They were running from the Hearst boom,and they were a sadly scared lot of people. There was a hurry call sent around to the faithful late on Monday evening befbre the meeting of the committee, and a flew of them met at the home of Joba R. McLean aad agreed then and there that it would never do to allow the convention to g j to a city where Mr. Hearst had two power ful papers sod 1 gnat personal following. They conjectured up visions of thousands of working men parading the streets of the city carrying banners asking the con vention to nominste Mr. Hearst, aad thousands in the convention hall to stampede the convention to HearsL The vote on the following day showed that all but seven members of the committe either were not scared by fhg Hearst boom or else were favorable to it, as they voted for Chicago. This move on the port of the people who do not favor the caadidacy of Mr.- Hearst prws4 a boomerang. They thought they were getting away from the Hearst movement, and away from the Hearst papers. They got away from udikcr. The chances arc that Mr. Hearst will ■tart a paper in the city of St. Louis that will be a democratic pap rto the core, and not a wishy-washy, milk and water, good-lord-good devil sort of a sheet, aad the dele gation from Miaasori in Cong ess are rejoicing thereat; also the fact that they conceded the liability of a Hearst ibapede in Chicago concedes the strength of Mr. Hearst in the republican state of Illinois and one that we Best carry in or der to win at the polls next No vember, aad thnsQtfgnes that he is the strongest man ia the state whom we CM nopiinate. If that be the caaa, Mr. Heamt's friends now are argwing. then ia he [not the strongest aad best man we st ■ • 2 . * •-*' co nomiaa'i, tad A* aa vidi whom it is en tieet to via. They all any that victory is the great desideratum la the next cam paign. and many of them are wil ling to sacrifice principle in order I to get it. Why not, then, say the Hearst men, conserve piadph and at the same time via • victory that will mean lomething, by nominat ing Hearst. The opportnmsta who, like a drowning man, are grabbing at a straw, have overshot the mark, aad have given the Hearst move ment an impetus here assoag the leaders of the party that refuses to down at the bidding of trnst tools aad Wall street sharks. Those of the recalcitrant gang who came here to laugh at the Hearst boom have i gone away with a had case of the i dry gtins. i ■ADB *2MM A Big PJck-apbrTertngite Tang laMla - -» rcvpic "Money saved is money made," i and on this basis the splendid sum . of (25,000 was oiade last year by . the 558 boys and girls from all . over the Sonth who attended the 1 Ga.-Ala. Business College, at Mac I on, Ga. t Their total expenses were just r that much km than if they had at- I tended aoy other college and in ad -1 diton to this they saved at least one 1 third the time required elsewhere. All who completed were placed 1 in good positions at about doable . the salaries they were getting be [ fore, and fnlly a thousand more r could have been placed if they had r been qualified. I We are requested to invite all r who wish to achieve success in life, , no matter how limited their means . or education, to write at once for for full particulars to President E. , L. Martin, Macon. Ga. «y Par est Hidden Bene Bv B. S. COWING The nioon ihinea bright in my forest hid- den hone; The bright stars are hiddea through the The gentle winds are sighiag aaoag the tall trees; ———— The brown leaves are apriakled with the daw. Tha mora shines bright la my forest hid dea home; The tall pises encircle it with gieea; The jaaaiiae viae ia clinging to the hraachea by the way. Bat nc bright olden flowers can be aeea. The moon thine* bright in my forest hid- den home; The dew drops sparkle in the light Like a field strewn with diamonds, each drop will do Ha part, Ia hetpiag to beantify the night. TheaMoa shines bright in my forest hid- den home; No hidden foea are lurking ia the way. Although there amy be shadows where the moon will fail to shine. Because there is toae object ia tip way. The awsa afcissa bright in aiy foreat hid- dea basest No ruiuni encompsa* aw to-night. Bat the soft mellow light that illuminates the world, Ever thrills me with pleasure aad delight The mooa thinaa bright ia aay forest hid dea home; No tear-drop'gliateaa on the cfeoeki My amiuws have departed for a aaasoa I de hope, . And the pleasure I enjoy sow is sweet. The mooa ahiaei bright ia aty forest hid- dea home; The world ia s beauty to-aight; No atona cloud is casting its shadows below Te shot out the God-given sight TM n»x>t» (ft In as bright ia aty fosaat hid den horns, But there's aa dowers to bcaatify the place; The rold winds ef winter have swept them all away. Bat the spot where tfcey gvv is 4* erased. JThe moon ahinea bright in my forest kid den home; Sooa the bright saawaai snn will shine agaia, U Then the svsr fragrant rosfs will he blooming in the yard. Aad the arild flowers growing ia the laae It is exceptional to find a family where there are no domestic rup tures occasionally, bat these can be lessened by having Dr. King's New Life P3la around. Modi trouble they save by their great work in Stomach and Liver troubles. They not onlf relive you but core. ijc. ntaO druggists. A LITTLE NONSENSE. Sovndi Hurt Mart 111 Par Him. She nestled close to him and foi one brief moment her head vat pil lowed on his breast. Then ahc started un affrighted. "Why, George," the exclaimed "you startle me!" "What's the mstter with mj be ing s bit startled myself?" lie re turned. Then more gently: "Whst'i the matter, dearest? Did you beai ittoor "Hear it!" she Aid. "No, it stopped." Yes, that's so. Bat lam swan that 1 heard H a minute ago." "Of course you did. Bnt, George, it stopped. Mr George, there mnsi he something wrong." The girl wat worried and encited. "Maybe yoa're right," he said looking a little worried himself. "But, George, it ought not tr stop. It ought to be regular." George looked pnxalea. "What are you talking about, Ma heir he asked. "Why, your heart, George—ii ttonpeif l n * . . - "Jtopned beating!" he exclaimed "Stopped beating! Why, what is the world do you expect it to do— climb ap into my mouth the way il docs in novela when the hero hean the old man'a step in the hall?" "Why, George, father is out o* the city." George heaved an eight ton sigt of relief "Try it again, Mabel," he said "I guess you II find it going now." She found it attending to its reg alar business.—lndianapolis Scnti nel. Mrs. Karefull—John always for to blow out the candle when lit comes home late, but if I just put bellows under his pillow— —the candle will be extinguished as soon as he lies— * —down. looking Ffr fperf. fjhe was city bred and had the psusi fear of cows. "Why," she aaked when the dan ger was past, "did you take me across this lot?" Thu small country lad obuckled. "I thought it would be fun," he said, "to see you try to climb a tree." Then, after another cbuckle, "And it was." —Chicago Post. Mora Active. Hk'lu —Ob, I never even notice him any more. Wicks—ls that so? Hicks—Yes. Nothing disgust* me more than a dead beat. Wicks —Oh, they don't bother mc. It's the live onaa that make m* tired.—Philadelphia Ledger. Age Limit. . Bacon—l understand thirty year* Is the average age of an ostrich. Egbert—-They can't bury their frsad* and imagine they are alive after that time, I suppose.—Yoa ken Statesman, ~ t DIVIDED IN TASTE. Ms CeaM Sm Ne Orut Dlllaranes ■» tween the Women. One morning as Judge C. of N. county, Va., was etsrting for the town he waa approached bv one of hi* negroes, who with more or lew confusion asked: "Msasa, when yo* goes to the eothouse will yo' git me a license? I'se gwine to be mar'ed." "Married, are jrou, Bam? All right," called the Judge as he hasti ly drove off. Arrived at the court hove, he spent a very busy day, and it waa not until he was prepar ing to leave that he remembered Sam's license and realised that he had not been told the name of the bride elect. "The old idiot, he never told me who he wants to marry; but, of course, it's Luanda. He's always msking eyes st her." So saying he returned to the courthouse and had the license msde out in the nsmes of Sam and Lucinda. Sam waa the first to greet him upon his return with the inquiry: "Git my license, massa ?" "Yes, Sam, vou old fool. You didn't tell me who you want to mar ry, but 1 remembered how you're al ways hanging around courting Lu cinda and got the license in her name." "Lawd, massa," exclaimed Sam, "'tain't Luciudy; it's Kyarline. What's 1 gwine ter do, massa Y" "Well," said the judge, "the only thing will be for me to get another license tomorrow." "Massa," said Sam, "did yo' pay anvt'ing fur dem license?" "Yes, Sam; a dollar and seventy five cents." "" "Will anuther license cos' any t'ing?" asked Sam. "Yes, Sam; a dollar and seventy five cents more," replied tlio judge. After scratching liis woolly pate for a few jpinutes Sam replied: "Well, inassa, I done axed Kyar line, an' she scd 'Yase,' but dere ain't no dollar an'seventy-five cents' dilTunce in dem two niggers, so I'll jua' take Lucindy."—Lippincott's. Grammar In the Grocery. The peril of employing liighly educated young men as clerks in some businesses waa aptly illustrat ed one day this week when a wom an stopped at a Sixth avenue green grocer a and arkod: "Is them lettuce fresh ?" "You mean that lettuce," sug gested the clerk, "and it is fresh." "Then you'd better eat it," she saspiwd as she walked on. The grocer rushed out and asked the clerk what he had said to the woman to anger her, and the young clerk replied: "Why, nothing, only I corrected her grammar." "You have turned away one of my best customers. Only yesterday she came in and asked me how 1 sold 'these white and I got an or der for a whole barrel, llang you, sir! But if them customers want grammar they don't expect to find it in a grocery. No, sir! And if you see ner again you want to apol ogize in the most respect fulest manner."—New York Mail and Ex press. Tha Life of a Dog. A German addressing his dee Wjjd: "YQU vos only s dog, but I viah I vas you. Ven you go mit de bed in you shust durn round dree times und lav down. Ven Igo mit dc bed in I haf to lock up de blace und rind dc clock und put de cat oud und undress myself, und my vife vakes up und scolcs me. Den de baby cries, und I haf to Tplk him up und dowp. Den maype ven 1 shust go to sleep it's time to get up again. Ven you get up you shust scratch yourself a couple of times und stretch, und vou vas up. I haf to quick light de Are und put fit kittle on, scrap mit my vife al ready und maype get some brcak faat. You play all tay und haf plenty of fun. I haf to vork all day und haf plenty of droublc." Needed No Text. A story in the Scottish-American runs that some Paisley weavers were speaking about their ministers when one said that it was wonderful how much his minister could bring out of Scripture, lie had known him to preach several sermons from one text. Another said his minister sur passed tbst, for he had preached six sermons from the shortest text in the Bible, "But that's naethin* to my wife," ssid the third. "She's been preach in' to mc for sixteen years frsc nae text at a'." Memories, "Look, Harriet! There goes the famous Mr. Smith." "How stout he has grown f" "You have known him V "Slightly. 1 once wrecked his life by refusing him." trange he never spoke of know ing vou." "Oh, he would hardly remember He."—Puck. A Blue X Mark M the Square Bcfcg □ means that your Siisripl'mTEili with thiiTntf "7" " PUMPKIN PIE. ' 7~™ fha True Mary «f tfM Origin af TM> Pa lata Tickler. Once upon a time—a long while I go, children —there lived a viae old man who was always trying to fee what he could discover. Having made several perpetual motion machines and one or two air shipe, he was walking through the fields to avoid his creditors when he came upon a pumpkin. "This," he said to himself, bend ing down and feeling of the yellow orb, "is a vegetable growth, but 1 firmly believe that it acquires its hue from small particles of gold which it extracts from the tarth." So he put the pumpkin on hia shoulder and took it home, telling all anxious inquirers that he was going to discover how to extract tho gold from it. At home, in spite of all his wife said, he cut the pumpkin up and put it in a pot and boiled it, only be er gued that he was melting it. When at last it was a pulpy ma«s he poured it out of the pot and right on top of a pan of dough his wife had rolled out for the pur pose of making a dried apple pic. Now, you know the kind of a wife he had, do you not ? A woman who will feed her husband on dried apple fiic descries to be married to two or hrcc inventors, doesn't she? And so he put the pumpkin and the dough into the oven, asserting that he would harden it with the heat and produce a solid sho-t of gold and be w rich tlui he could run for oflice ou a reform ticket. But, bless yon, when liic pumpkin and the dough tai.ie out of the oven it was not a solid sheet of go!d at all, but a rieli, golden, tantu! *.i:ig section of goxln«M. And the |>oor inventor was hun gry, BO he bit into it. A few lAomtnH later scrercl of his creditor* broke into the bwtf and came U|ion him, crying: "Look here! Where is all that go!d you were going to get for us?" And he never even looked up at them, but kept right on eating, say ing: "Who cares for gold? [Bite, bite. O-0-0-0I1!] Who cares for gold? Men, 1 have discovered pumpkin pie!" And the creditors sat down also ami ate, and they, too, were liappv ever after. So, now, nln n yon eat pumpkin pie you should be glad that the poor inventor did not succeed in making gold of the pumpkin, for if lie had the pumpkin might ncier have pone further than to fill your teeth.— Judge. • Luck In the Clover. Any one who carries ahout a four leaved clover will be lucky and will have the power of discovering ghosts or evil spirits. Willi it under the pillow the lover may insure dreams of the beloved one. A fragwent in the shoe of n traveler insures a safe journey. Of the five leaved clover it is declared that if it lie worn on the left side of a maiden's dress or fastened behind the hall door the Christian name of the fir-t man who enters will Le the same as that of the future husband. The power of th§ four leaved shamrock tof good U familiar to all, (roil) Lever's once popular and pret ty song, the speaker in which pic tures what she would do should she find the magic plant: I would pUr llw rn* hantrr'a pari and •rattar bllaa around. And not a tear or trbtng heart aboul«l In tha world be found. —lx>ndou Globe. Just a Little Hint. They were sitting in the moon light, and for a long time nothing had been said. She was wishing his next remark would he good night when he broke out with: "lio you know I wish I were the moon '■r "No," she replied coldly. "Whj?" "Because you allow the moon beams to kiss your cheek," raid he, with on outburst of |>octic fancy. *ll'm I" she replied. "I would rather you were a comet." "You would?" said he, smiling and wondering what new trick liar fancy was now about to plav. "And why, Gladys, wliv?** "Jiecauec," said the girl as she snapped her watch case—"becaust in that event you would only come round every seventeen years."—Ex change. Hew Ho Wooed Sfctp. A story going the rounds of the police force was told by the wife o! the patrolman whom it concerns and consequently bears the stamp of truth. The policeman in question is on duty, and one morning last week he went home after work to take his full eight hours' sleep. For two hours be tossed about and could not more than get his eyes shut. Finally in desperation be iw% don ned his uniform and, sitting in s chair tilted againat the wall, fell sound asleep. "And I could hardly get him awake for supper," explained his jriffc— Kansas City Journal, WHOLE NO. 225 Professional Cards. @R. JOHN D. BIGGS, DENTIST OFFICE: MAIN STKEEf. GEO. W. NEWELL k BRO. LAWYERS a» Office up ataira in New Bank MIA> in*. left hind akle. top of nepa. 'K ILLIAMSTON, N C. It-PncUcr wherever service* are deaiie4. Special attention given to examining and nik '■« lUk for purchasers of timber and timber —a.' ■ ' DR. WM. E. WARREN Physician and Surgeon OFFICE: Rear of Roanoke Hotel Smith wick Street Residence, the " Rhodes Place Simmons' Ave. •phoxp ! officc 2 5 1 HONfc | Res id ence *> SKEWARKEE Jk LODGE No. 90, F. k A. M. I)IRI:CTOBY FOR 1904. S. 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