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THE ENTERPRISE. (raUHODITUTniIUI | n runm CO. C ... Bditok. —nates 1 = aammtttmaoaoM wuitoauto*. U. C M SMMd Claw Man Matter. FBUUT Maboh *, 1906. SNAPSHOTS. ________ Bnttning for Governor has come to be a habit with Mr. Cummins, of lowa. He is up for a third 1 tons. Possibly the Senate cannot see when it is any worse to defeat the rate bill, than it was to pass the •hip subsidy bill. The editor of London Punch has retired on account of old age. Moat of the Punch jokes should be , retired for the same reason. In the aromatic atmosphere that hovers over Washington, no one { has been prosaic enough to wonder if Nick is going to like Alice's 1 cooking. Announcement is made that the Standard Oil Company will need fifteen million dollars to meet the next dividend. Consumers please take notice. The threatened tariff war be tween Germany and America has been averted, but this is no reason why the tariff should not be re vised. Young Mr. Longworth is being boomed for Governor of Ohio and for United States Senator, but no one has marred the happy occasion by suggesting him for Vice-Presi dent. When it was thirty degrees be low zero in Wisconsin the other day, the natives must have been reminded of the time, Senator La- Follette met Spooner on the public street. Senator Cullom has wired his endorsement of the Hepburn-Doli ver railway bill. He could have scut it by freight and been in am ple time for the effect upon the result. A New York millionaire has married the "original Gibson girl" who is almost as numerous as the original "Florodora" sextet, but then some things are better than original. * "* W New York is to have a theatre which will be '"a refining influ ence" and "an educational agen cy." It ought to succeed for a time, simply on the strength of its noveliy. Colonel Henrv Watterson pre dicts that Hearst will control the next Democratic national conven tion. But the Colonel's prophecies are like dreams—they go by oopo aites or go to pieces. The Nebraska girl who wrote to John D. Rockefeller begging for h lock of his hair for her hirsute album will be disappointed. John will not disfigure his new wig to gratify a girlish whim. It would be worth something to have a Supreme Court Justice ex plain without unnecessary verbiage, how it happens that if the Consti tution can't follow the flag, the tariff law can. Is the Constitution blind or lame, or both ? Senators Aldrich and Dolivar announce that in discussing th freight rate bill each intends to My to the other exactly what Ik swans in plain North American language, that cannot be misuu derstood or misinterpreted. Go it, Nelson I Go it, Jonathan! The coon try will enjoy the spectacle of yoor smashing the traditions of yoor august and honorable body Three little rules we all should keep To make life tfcippy and bright, Smile in the morning, smile at night Take Rocky Mountain Tea at fe SitfS! night. —J. M. Whiters & Co., Roberson ville, N. C. ■si'H. vVini/. - uiai . v.- . ->m " UNCUS SAM'S ROHANCE WITH 1 SCIENCE AND THE SOIL. 1 "More advance has been made ; in agriculture since the Centennial Exhibition than has been made be fore since men ploughed their maize with a stag horn and hoed it with a clam shell and invoked the rain with the incantations of a dervish.'' , It has been pretty nigh seventy 1 years ago since Uncle Sam began 1 to "interfere" with the farmer's af fairs. Before that time farming was one of the meanest of occupa tions, now it is a "dignified and : scientific profession " It is so be cause the government has made it so. The government has realized the importance of agriculture and it has been untiring in its efforts to embetter the farm. Today there are 2,000 scientific experts, each busy at work along his special line "roaming the world, solving the problems of soils, seeds, weather, fertilizers, forests, plants, insects and farm animals, their foods, dis eases and fitnesses in all their countless number of possible chan ges, in other words, the problems of plant and animal surroundings, with direct reference to the inter cut of the working farmer, agricul ture in the United States has been revolutionized knd placed 011 new and scientific bases." The federal government has caused this revolution in farm life. More than a quarter of the wealth of the whole country comes from the farmer, or twenty seven billion. The value of the crops last year amounted to five times as much as the output of the mines of the United States; gold,coal and iron, in other words the farmer is simply coining money. During the last twelve months the American farm er has invested in farm machinery about six times as much as Jeffer son paid for the Louisiana Terri tory, the biggest real estate deal known to history, Abraham's un exepted. The American farmer has laid away, as net revenue, several hun dred million dollars more than the gold reserve in the national vaults. From 60 to 84 per cent of all the exports of the United States since 1800 have come from the American tarm. The coru crop when Secre tary Wilson went into office was vortli half a billion, 1,902,967,933 bushels, selliug at 25 to 27>4 cents. The corn crop of 1905 estimated at j,716,900,000 bushels, selling near 00 cents at the time of this writing value at over a billion and a half. The value of the farmers' horses from 478 millions to 1200 i.iillions; mules 92 to 251 millions during the Wilson administrations. The increase in values in farm rops has been ill six years from , 2,526,345,478 to 11 1904, and quite five billion in '9°s - 100 per cent increase in six years or from 1899 to 1905, the 1 icrease in values of crops of the American farmer aggregate about t ie same as the sum total increase from 1492 to 1899. In 1904, there *;ere 6 million farms, 170 acres average 850 million acres, value over 20 billions. The total valuation of farm pro ducts in 1840 was 500 millions. Plant products alone in 1905 were 5,000 millions. The total cost of the Department of Agriculture for 66 years, has bien 61 millions or cents per c ipita, i cents per acre farm land. The investigations of the 200 ex perts are distributed all over this ciuntry.. These books say to the firmer, "put this seed or this fer tilizer in this soil, plaut and reap at such times; do thus and so with thus and so," and all this know- It dge that is given to the farmer is first hand and precise. Dr. Wylie, Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, is working out au idea in which he is laying founda tions for future agricultural prog ress. His investigations cover the make-up of plant-life as affected by ;ts sui rouudings. Not only the , soil, but temperature, rainfall, alti tude, clouds and sunshine, ways and times of planting, cultivation and the ait of fertilizing and all this with reference to two things: First. —The feeding of the plant ' to produce the greatest crop 011 r strictly scientific principles. Sec t oud. —Such distribution of crops after numberless experiments, as to take advantage of all the nat lr -1 al conditions, namely all the ele ments of the surroundings. The 1 soil can be made or unmade any where for instance, they grow cer . tain oranges in pure sand in Flor ida and feed the trees artificially; are bringing them up on i bottle 1 SO to apeak. By a scientific utili- i zation of these principles, Dr. Wy- i lie thinks the American farm can j produce three times as much as i they are now producing. I The Bureau of Soils deals pri- i manly with the iuudamental ele ment of plaut surroundings and since 1899 has surveyed a hundred square miles of land over forty four states and territories, finding four hundred difiereut kinds of Mil, all 1 being chemically examined. Dr. Whitney, au expert on soils says, "The soil's failure to produce depends upon unhealthy condition of the soil-make-up. Fertilizer, therefore, correct conditions rather than add plant-food, like a medi cine, which, instead of nourishing, corrects the stomach. The Bureau of Plant Industry four years old is doing well. It has been studying the diseases and remedies of plants, establishing new plant industries, searching the world for plants that will thrive in our desert-like fields, and mak ing thereby the farmer's bur den light and his profits heavy. It spends nearly a million dol lars yearly through the experi mental work of 500 men, creating new plants, importing alien ones and healing the sick and worn out ones. Every farmer, at a cost of about one cent per acre can aild from 15 to 35 per cent, to all his leguminous crops, or those crops that have shells, as peanuts and black-eyed peas, as a result of the discovery of nitrogen fixing bac teria by Dr. Moore. This bureau has made our alka li deserts blossom like the rose, with the date of Arabia and Sahara. This bureau discovered that mac aroni wheat would thrive in our semi-arid West, this adds millions to our yearly wealth. Macaroni wheat grows where" nothing else will. The Government "Bug" Indus try. A lough estimate of the loss of the American ui mo b> his "bugs" is: cereals 200 millions of dollars worth; hay, 53; cotton, 60; tobacco, 5; very few use tobacco, truck -crops, 53; sugar, 5; farm forests. 11; miscellaneous crops, 6; animal products, 175 millions ol dollars, to which a loss of 100 millions each for natural forests and forest products and as much for products in storage. C. L. Marlatt, Assistant Govern ment Entomologist, or expert on bugs, says the farmer loses $795.- 100,000 annually in feeding his bugs. In 1884 the Federal Bureau of Aniuial ludustry was established, the object of which was to study animal diseases and thereby con troll them. For years Southern cattle car ried death with them when the) went North and Northern cattle came South to their death, ninety in a hundred. This disease, the Texas fever, threatened the very life of the cat tle industry. Dr. Salmon began to study this disease in 1879. He discovered that it was carried by ticks, that contagion was carried in the blood of immune Texas cattle and re mained m blood once inoculated. This discovery led to the control of the disease and millions are sav > ed yearly as a result. We need a national bureau of health to wipe out the house fly carrying typhoid, scarlet fever and 1 smallpox, the rats with fleas that ■ carry "black death." We are now being iuvaded by a 1 great army of bed-bugs with wings, 1 bugs an inch long "black body, pointed head and strong beak" 1 They are native to Texas and are as far as the Mississippi river 011 the 1 way. 1 In four years the bureau has in spected 227,000,000 of animals be fore slaughter and 148,000,000 af ' ter slaughter. Line 227 million up in Indian fashion, and you will ' have 430,000 miles of cattle reach ing over seventeen times around the > world, woudeiful but true. 1 In the report of the Bureau of Animal Industry of 19.14, there is a table of the causes of condemua [ tiou of carcasses, in which, roughly 1 speaking, 1 goo cattle, 1200 sheep, • 4000 calves and 91,000 hogs, be i sides as many more parts of each. i were coudemned and thrown away . on account of the presence of for . ty-five difierent diseases such as > tuberculois, cholera, Texas fever, - cancer, tumor, abcess, gangrene, . tapeworm and others. Secretary Wilson, replying to ; one of his chiefs of bureau, gave the keynote to the doctrine, he has adopted and carried out, "don't tell me now about your laborator ies. Tell me what you are doing for the man at the plow, out in the field with his coat off." —Condens- ed from the Arena. "INDIGENT INS*NE." (Communicated.) During the last few months we have been through two flurries of unnecessary excitement in regard to the State hospitals. It has been only a few weeks since the Null case was disposed of and the pub lic satisfied that the Rakish hos pital was properly officered and managed, yet it seems that ceitain people, or journal.", ever on the alert for the sensational, had not turned their last -trick. It is to be hoped that the last trick was turn ed in the recent "indigent insane" flurry, which must have grown out of the disappointment in the Nail case, and the people of North Carolina can see the sensational in it all. We believe that honest men are honest, and we presume that all itien die'honest, esjtecially those in positions of lioncr, until proven otherwise. There lias Ijeen afi auk, honest report by Governor Glenn in regard to the condition of the State hospitals, which, if believed, puts at re*t the question of the in digent insane filling log pens and county jails while those who are able to pay the expense of a private hospital receive treatment at the expense of the State. The News and 01>server attempts to tuake something of the differ- • ence in the Governor's definition ol "indigent" in November and in February. It holds to the Novem ber definition while the Governor , has enlarged his definition by niak- 1 ing "indigent" cover a larger class. , This change the News and Observ er contends is due to political and other influence brought to bear on the Governor. The term is defined by the Su- . premc Court and the Governor had to l»e controlled by it. The court, of course, consulted still higher authorities and attempted as near as jKissible to construe its term from its intaning, the context and spirit of the Constitution and tie policy of our government—to do the great est justice. Did the News ami Ob server think it could give a better construction or definition? Hut this is not the fitst time it has been up against the Supreme Court. We cannot see where conditions would be improved or wheie there would In- any justice in depriving of treatment at th St ite hospital those who can pay only a part of the expense for those who can pay nothing. lu either case the pa tient is dependent on the State. Can the ueed of treatment for the patient who has IIQ part of the price IK- greater than the patient who has a small part of it ? The little money the one has dres not • relieve the condition when it i> not sufticietit to support him in a pri vate hospital. The State should and will pro vide care and treatment for all dependent on it. The people of the State have faith in their Gov vernor. He is an honest man and is allowing no interest or demand to sutler. The directors of the hospitals deserve the gratitude of i the people rather than unnecessary criticisms. It is all uncalled for and we wonder what the matur is. The Omaha jury notifies Pat Crow tJiat he was mistaken when he confessed to kidnapping the Cudahy boy. Pat must have fits of absent-niin ledness. Is It Your Own Hair? Do you pin your hat to your own hair? Can't do it? Haven't enough hair? It must be you do not know Ayer's Hair Vigor! Here's an intro duction! May the acquaint ance result In a heavy growth ofrich,thick,(lossyhairl And we know you'll never be gray. •• 1 think (hit tnrt Hair Vl«w H tfc« mt wonderful lialrnrowar thai wa» «rar marie I Inn aawl 11 lot end I ran tratle I felly eat that I Me greatly planned with H.I eheerfnlly recommend l« a» « ration."-MialT. BROCK, Wajland. MFEH. , J MedebrJ.O. ayar Co.. Lowall. RUaa Jl AU» wutubolunn of AL ) MIIHWU 1 For Twenty-one Years Bonanza, Orinoco sa Farmer's TRADP MAPK Bone rir. Xi ?V Iff"' have been the standard Cotton and * • Tobacco guanos in the South — KOitTCMD , because great care is used in the selection of materials. Ask your dealer for ~Royßttf*B F. S. ROYSTER goods and don't take substitutet- GUANO CO., Said to be just as good. See that Norfolk, Va.' ** tnuie " ,ark is on every b ** BKPORT OK rilH CONDITION OK J. c Robertson, Hanker AT ROBF.RSONVIU.K. N. C. ( at Ihe close of buiiocM Jan. jyth. 1906. KKftOt'RCKH l/«u« and Discounts $J4,314.06 Overdrafts 4 i.N»7.oj | Furniture and Fixture* 3,4V4*M other Keal K»Ute Owned I.VH.OJ L>ik front Bank* aud Bankers 1,131 33 Check* and othei ( tali H?m* 5.99°- H 7 TOTAI* f 37.179** UAUfUTIKH Cs Stock S, 000.00 Undivided Profits 1. 347*95 Time Ceitiftcates of DrptMit l>epi>*tt* Subject to CbccW *7.77^-7* Cashier sCkecks Outstanding fa>s.»s TOTAI. | 37.'79>* Ht*U» of North Carolina J Coon I y of Martin J I, J.C. Kahrrtaun, Cashier of the above-uanted i«uk, 4-> iolrmot? avrar that the above state .neat is true to the liest of my knowledge and «Hf J. C. RoBUKrsoN.C shier S«*orn ind «üb*cril>ed to before nie his 5 av of Jsu , i««u6 S L Kt Notary Public Notice. By virtue of an order of the Superior Court ol MitrUll countV it) a s|>ecial pro Cee.ting entitled John Dtinel Biggs guar dian, et als expartj, 1 will Hell tor cash »t lite court house in Williaiuston, N. C., on Monday, Match ry, 1906, at public auction, the follimttig land, to-wlt: A tract 01 laitil adjoining Ilvniaii Bowcn on the north, llavul Harrison on tlu*fast. Keuttea K igersoii oa the south anil Nonh Rolierson on the west, containing twen ty-five acres mote ttr less, unit kuo*n as lot No. in the drviaiou ot the Heuja iittn lk>weu la 1 among his heirs at law. This February l.i, 1900. W lIKKI.UK MARTIN, 2-16 4t Coaimisaioner. Notice. By virtue of authority contained in a certain deed of trust executed to me by Bryant Chance ami wife. iVuuie Chance, beating date July 11, 1903, and, recorded in the office of the Register of I'eeds for Martin countv in Book lit ill, at page 481 and the stipulation* ill said tleed of trust not having been complied with, I will on Saturday, the_i?th day of March, 191)6, at 12 o'clock noon, at Koberson vtlle, N. C , oiler at public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash, the follow ing described premises. to-wit: begin uiug at an oak stump in Ash worth Branch, Jauiei Manning aud Wallace Andrews corner, thence northward a straight line along a line of chup|ied i:«cs 10 a pine slump, thenc ; southeast watdlt along a line ol chop|>ed trees a straight line to a gum in Ashworth Branch, thence up said branch to the be ginning, containing 5] acres more or less. This Feb. 5, I9«>. J. H. KOBKRSON. JR., 1 9 4t Trustee. Notice. By ortler of the Superior Court of Mar tin county entered tn the special pro ceeding there pending, entitled Richatd V. Nortleet knd others, ex parte to the court, I will sell for cash to the highest bidder at the court house door in Wil liantston, N. C., al 12 M., on Monday, Match 19th, 1906, the following tract of land in Martiu county, N. C.: That part of the Joseph J Williams "Home Place 1 ' which was allotted to Henry P. Pagh in the land division had among the heirs al-law of Mrs. Charity Pagh. which is tx.t No. 7 of said land division which see for better dew-ription and which land contains 92X actes more or less. This February l6ih, 1916. FRANCIS D. WINSTON, Commissioner. Winston & Kverett, Attys. «-3J-4t / To Cure a Cold in One Day : « i. L SLPSIA CURE tim f* '» * II I DIGESTS WHAT YOU EAT fej IHhts s i Li rk "' | W U &.C. DtWITT * COMPANY. CHTCifIQ Wb > BIG REDUCTION In Clothing Wright's Underwear $1.72 1-2 a Suit Don't forget our com plete and up-to-date line of Millinery and Ladle's Fancy Dress Goods. We guarantee to please all, so come and give us a trial. Very Respectfully, G. D. Garetarphen dc Go. BEST HALfTO. HAMS 15C. Fresh meals that are n pleasure to eat because fresh and tender. The stringy kind is an übomination, no matter bow little the price. No danger of getting th.it kind here CHOICE RIH ROAST BEST RIB ROAST IOC. UHST SIRLOIN STAKE t2%c. : 12# BUYER OK ALL KINDS OF POULTRY. J. R. WALKER, City Market. Notice. North Carolina- Martin County. Supenor Court —March Term. Fannie Biggs va. Willie 3igga. The dt fendaut above named will take notice that an action entitled as above has lieen commenced in the Superior Court of Martiu county to obtain a di vorce from sale' defendant, an I the said defendnnt will further take notice that he is required to appear at the next term of the Superior court of said courty.to be held on the second Monday alter the nrsi Monday in March, 1906, at the court liouae of said county in Williams-, ton, N. C., and answer or demur t > the complaint in aaid action or plaintiff will apply to th* court tor the relief demand ed in said complaint. This February 3, 1906. J. A HOBBS. i-9-4t Clerk Superior Court. Notice. 1 Having qualified as executor to the Will of Elisha Everett, deceased, no tice ia hereby given to all peraona holding claims against aaid estate to pre sent them either to uie ot mv attorneys for payment or this notice will be plead ed in bar of their recovery. All persona indebted to aaid estate are requested to make immediate payment. This January 31, 1906. JAMBS A EVERETT, Executor. Winste.n & Everett, Attys. 2-9^ Notice. North Carolina, \ Superior Court, Martin County. J March Term, 1906. Annie William* • v» Ham William*. The defendant above named will take notice that an action entitled aa above has beeu commenced in the Superior Couit of Martin county to obtain a di vorce, and the (aid defendant will fur ther take notice that he U required to appear at the neat term of the Superior | Court of Mid County of Martia to be held lon the and Monday after the lat Mon ! day in March 1906 at the court houae of i Mid county in Williamston N. C. and answer or demur to the complaint in Mid action or the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in Mid complaint. This 13 day of February, 1906 J. A. Hobba. a-i6-4t Clerk Superiar Court. Notice. Having qualified aa adminiatrator upon the eatate of Jatnea E. Moore, deceaaed, notice it hereby given to all persona hold ing claim* against Mid eatate to preaent them to the undersigned for payment on or before thj first day of February, 19*7, or thia noti e will be pleaded in bar at recovery. All peraona indebted to Mid estate are requested to make immediate payment. TTiia Feb. 13, 1906, WHKKLKa MAMTIN, j-16~6t Adminiatrator.
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