THE ENTERPRISE.
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C. • • EDITOR.
S3PtaMf«4 at Ike Foat Oflka at WUUaautoa,
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FRIDAY. JCNI 1, 1906. .
SNAPSHOTS.
Maybe Bill Chandler doesn't en
joy frisking in the limelight once
more.
J. Pierpout Morgan is about to
invest in another great work of
art —the Chicago street railway.
While the debate on the rate-bill
is ended, trust the Senate to find
plenty of things to keep on talking
about.
The trouble would be over in a
hurry if the Senate could pass the
railway rate hill as easily as it does
the lie.
Even if peace were to come to
Zion City at this juncture, the in
habitants might not know what to
do with it.
The drug trust denies the charg
es; and there is no doubt but that
it is as innocent as the Standard
Oil Company.
Perhaps it is beginning to dawn
on the Standard Oil that what is
known as public opinion, cuts a
good deal of ice,
Senator LaFollette voted for the
rate bill, but only on the principle
that a small slice off the heel of the
loaf, is better than no bread.
After Bob Taylor has tried play
ing on his bazoo in the United
States Senate, he may discover that
his colleagues prefer his fiddling.
There appears to be no reason
for complaining at the use of the
muck rake in the case of (he Penn
sylvania railway and coal compan-
After reading Senator Bailey's
remarks on liars and slanderers one
cannot help woudering what he
would do to the dictionary if he
lost his temper.
Russia must not expect too much
from her first parliament. The Czar
has no intention of surrendering
any of his prerogatives, and popular
reforms are always slow.
Senator Burton, ot Kansas, has
been so slow on the matter of send
ing in his resignation, that the Sen
ate is about to take the job of! his
hands and do his resigning for him.
A man who had been married
four times walked in his sleep and
fell out of a window. We sup|>ose
he had been broken of talking in
his sleep and had to do something.
Crime has reached such a state
of perfection in Chicago, that it
runs on a regular time table. At
a certain minute each day, it is
known that a certain offense is due.
Apostle Smith announces thai
the Utah Mormons are about to givt
up their ordinary buisncss iuteresU
in Salt Lake. This will enable tin
church to demote its whole time t
politics.
During the past week there ha
been several explosions in powdei
magazines. And the one ii
McClure's Magazine seems to hav
been fatal, also blowing out four
of its editorial force.
A Milwaukee paper is boostiti|
Senator LaFollette as a presiden
tial candidate on the Democrats
ticket. This is a little surprising
as Wisconsin has been counted ts
divided between Roosevelt and Bn -
an for that nomination.
A Tennessee paper announces
that Senator Cannack is in no sen-t
• candidate for nomination for
Governor. It might have be n
guessed that the Senator has had
trouble enough lately without
jumping into the briar patch.
PREPARE FOR YOUR WORK.
We publish elsewhere a letter
from a Martin county teacher urg
ing the teachers of the county to
attend the Teachers' Assembly,
which convenes at Raleigh, and
the Raleigh Summer School, which
meets immediately thereafter.
It is your duty, teachers of Mar
tin county, to make yourselves as
thorough in the work you offer
to your county as possible; and,
like the article suggests, if Martin
county cannot hire you then you
you should teach somewhere else.
But Martin county will hire you if
you show that you are ambitious
to institute, follow and originate
new ideas gotten by association
with the best of teachers.
We trust every teacher in the
county will attend these meetings
and come back home able to offer
the very best ideas that the State
teachers have and work with these
and make the average Martin
county school as good or better
than any rural school in the State.
If you do not go to these meet
ings, then you must be either a
"mossback" or unable financially.
If you are the former the sooner
you are shelved the better; if the
latter you ought to borrow the
money, go to the meetings and get
a more paying school, as the au
thor of the article suggests.
It is your duty to give the very
best ideas the State has to the
youth of Martin county. We ex
pect it of you. We demand it as a
progressive people. It is to your
own interest to go to these meet
ings.
Some Noted Bachelors.
(Contributed.)
"HM travels the fastest who
travels alone," sings Kipling. In
other words the bachelor lias the
advantage in the race for fame and
fortune. Notwithstanding we
have been taught that marriage
makes a inan. still in the records
of wonderful achievement we haVe
a long list of names which have
been made famous by men who
have remained in the state of celib
acy.
It is stoutly maintained that the
artist, 110 matter what the medium
of his expression, should remain
single, on the ground that the |»et
ty eares of domestic life tend to
wear on delicately adjusted nerves
and exhaust the mental fibre of
genius, whether its possessor be a
painter of pictures, a modler of
houses or statues, a composer of
music, or a singer or one who en
tertains the people from the stage
In our American life we have an
example in Sam'l J* Tildeti, the
richest American who evet entered
public life and remained single to
the last of his days. Another, in
the political world, is James Bu
chanan, President, whose admin
istration is worthy of note, and
who made the White House the
Mecca of eulttfre and fashion, and
not a mere bachelor's den.
In the world qf letters we have
a number of noted bachelors: in
America, John Greenleaf Whittier,
who was a great admirer of the
married state, never married, per
haps because he recognized the
truth cited above. In England we
have Lamb and Swinburu who
were not married. The latter has
»n idea that a woman of little cul
ture would be dull beyond des
cription for a life partner, and, that
i clever woman i« the least attrac
tive of her sex. Keats, whom we
all love, preferred the single hap
piness. Others are Gibbon whose
history of the "Decline and Fall
>f the Roman Umpire," has never
'>een equaled, Sir Isaac Newton
md Horace Walpole, Karl of Ox
ford. And in France we have
Voltaire who was a favorite ih so
ciety and the fair sex petted him to
(lis heart's content, and yet he nev
er married. In the musical world
we have Beethoven whe wrote pas
sionate love music for others but
won no woman's love for himself.
Among the explorers may lie men
tioned Sir Francis Drake.
All men should not marry; the
man af easy going temperament is
the one who finds happiness in do
mestic life. Shakespeare could
not have been happy with Anne
Hathaway for he said, "A young
man married is a young man mar
red.*:' Even in our town we have
bachelors who have risen higher in
the banking and business world
than any benedict.
A last example to which I n-ap
point is the Christ who has left Un
church the idea of celibacy, and in
the religious world we have no
more beautiful examples of the
higher life than among the clergy.
The man who first gave the gos
pel to the Britons, thus starting it
westward, St. Augustine, repre
sents truly a noble life. Cardinal
Richelieu, a great cardinal and a
great statesman, who served hi*
king, as well as he served his church
is another example in the religous
life.
Every man should marry who
has this desire, but, because he is
not married, is no sign that he is
a brute and should, be ostracized
We should remember that every
man has his own idea of life; and
if one prefers a married state, and
the other not, he is a man of feel
ing and must be recognized. A
bachelor's life may be lonely, so,
let us cheer him.
Bonds for Public Roads
Many of the counties throng!'
out the state have issued bonds
for the construction of rnacadem
and other good roads. The result
has l>een that these counties have
been more thoroughly develoj>ed
aijd t>econie more prosperous than
those counties which have Inrcn
content with poor roads. The is
suing of bonds by a countv will
mean but a very small increase in
taxes, which as the years go on,
will lie more than counterbalanced
by the large increase in the value
of laud and of other taxable projv
erty. It is a Jair and equitable
arrangement that future genera
tions should pay for a portion of
the improvements of our public
roads, as they derive as great a
benefit as the present generation
Too many have the idea that t>
l>ontl their county will mean avf>rv
large increase in their taxes with
out their deriving any material
benefit from the expenditure, not
realizing that the increase in the,
value of property; and the decrease
in the co.«t of maintenance of th
reads and wear and tear on horses,«
wagons and harness is so much
money saved. Are you interested
in good roads ? If so, call meet
ings in various sections of yom
county to discuss this import am
question and also the advisability
of bonding your county for the
purpose of raising sufficient mone>
to macadamize the principal roads
of your county.
The members of the North Car
olina Geological Survey will, as fat
as possible, meet your committees
and deliver -addresses in yout
counties regarding the value of
public roads; the l»est methods of
constructing the same and the is
suingof bonds. The Geological
survey will also assist in the con
struction of the first mile of macad
am by furnishing an engineer to
j;ive instructions and superintend
the work.
fir. Daniels for Solicitor
To the Editor: -1 have noticed
with some regret thef.tilurc of Wil
son county primaries to give Hon
C C Daniels its full support as a
candidate for Solicitor, This is
due to bitterness created by the
prosecution of a gambling den in
the town of Wilson. Mr. Oaniels
did his simple duty in breaking
this thing up, and is getting the
full support >jf the moral and law
abiding citizens of his county It
is entirely to his credit that the
lines are drawn as ttjey are. No
Solicitor can do his duly Without
making enemies. The fact that he
has made enemies in the position
that he holds proves that he has
done his duty—duty regardless of
consequences. He is the man that
all people who want the laws en
forced should keep in such an im
portant position
1 believe the sentiment of oui
county is that after we have repaid
Edgecombe for her support four
year# ago, provided Senator Stubbs
is not a candidate, t» give the vote
of this county to Mr. Daniels. Mr.
Stubbs is the choice of Martin
county for any honor or position to
which he may aspire, but if he is
not in the I feel that our
county should give its full support
to Mr Daniels.
We can often see who we want
by first learning the by whom
he is disliked. I think this com
muni atinn voices the sentiment of
the Martin county voters.
A VOTER.
BLUE FRONT
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do! And you get Fresh Goods, guar
anteed to be High Grade, but not High
Grade Prices. Sunbeam Tomatoes, Corn,
Peas, Clam Chowder, Sunbeam Shrimp,
Clams, Alpha and Royal Flour, and a Nice
Line of ROYSTfeR'S CANDY. We are re
ceiving daily everything you want in GRO
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Leading Grocers,
WiUiamston, ■ North Carolina.
To Martin County Teachers.
There will be two events in the
State this summer that should
claim the interest of every teacher
in county. The first is the
North Carolina Teachers' Assem
bly, which convenes in - Raleigh
June 12 and continues in session
three days. The second is the
Kalcigh Summer School fo- Teach
ers which begins June 16, at the
close of the Assembly, and con
tinue!' three weeks.
The first reason for attending
these meetings in the exchange of
ideas. To meet with a thousand
teachers from evei y section of the
State and hear the l»est lectures by
-4>me of the most noted educators,
both in and out of the State, will
be invaluable to any teachet inter
ested in the work.
Besides the intellectual uplift,
there is something more subtle and
very often more powerful for good,
and that is the professional spiri'
•irising from attending such meet
ings. You will feel inspired for
the work if you are a true teacher;
and if you are not a true teacher
IK-rhiips it will help you to the very
nii|)ortaiit decision to get out of
llie work.
There is also a more practical
view to take of this subject. If
vou desire a better jwsition it is a
vei y good place to meet people who
have letter positions to offer.
Most of the progressive county su
)ieriutendcitts will lie there looking
either for superintendents for their
graded schools or for wide-a-wakt
teachers tor their best positions.
It is u fine opportunity for the em
ployer to meet the employe and fit
'he right teacher in the right place
Officers and teachers cannot afford
to stay away from these meetings
both for their own sake and for
the sake of those they serve. By
attending these meetings teachers
will be prepared to earn better sal
aries and will have the opportuni
ty sooner or later of securing Ixrt
ter salaries.
All the progressive counties of
the State will have a large repre
sentation at these meeting 4. Lei
Martin lie among the foremost.
Let us rise to the occasion and use
this opportunity for advancing our
own interest and the interest of the
county. The cost will be very
small and the returns should IK
very large.
All those" who contemplate at
tending these meetings should write
Chas. J. Parker, Raleigh, N. C.,
for programmes.
Yours in the work,
A MARTIN COUNTY TKACIIKR.
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When our soldiers went to Cuba
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most important consideration
Williss T. Morgan retired Commis
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Route i. Concord, N. H., says: "I
was two years in Cuba and two
vests in the Philipines, and being
sudject to colds, I took Dr. King's
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And now. in New Hampshire, we
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Office over Hank of Martin County,
WILLIAMSTON, N. C.
Phone Charges
Mr«M|{ri limited to 5 mlnult », ritia ch«r|f
will ptwillvdv be ma r lot loniccf time.
To Washington ij Cent*
" Greenville 25 "
"" Plymouth r *3 — 11 —
" * Tarhoro 15 "
" Rocky Motiut jj •;
" Scotland Neck JJ
" Jamesville 15
" Kader Lilley'a 15
" J. G. Staton 15
• J. L. Woolard 15
' O. K. Cowing Si.t'o. 15 "
' I'urim-le 15 "
" Robersonvillr 15 *•
" Kveretta 15 "
Gold Point IS "
Geo. P. McNnughtoii 15 "
--- Hamilton 20 "
For other points in Kastern Carolina
see "Central " where a 'phone will he
iuuil for use of noi- 4Ub*erilM>ri>.
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Sale of Land for Taxes.
IHAVK THIS DAY Icvii-d on the following tracts or parcels of land
lying and Ining n tin- county of Mariin, and will sell the same for
cash before the court house door in Williamston, N. C\, on Mon
'day. tln* 4th day of June, for the taxes and cost due and unpaid
for 1 he year 1905. I. C. CRAWFORD,
This 3rd day of May, 1906. Sheriff Martin County.
WILLIAMS TOWNSHIP
Names. No. Acres ami Description of Land. Taxes. Coat. Total
Simon Hnrdison, ten acres adj. B Bozemati..... 18 1 30 1 48
lames Wiggius, 25 acres adj J C Jordan
" " 10 " " H. Moore 78 »50 a2B
WILI.IAMSTON TOWNSHIP.
Mrs Sarah F Atkinson, 250 acres Brown land... 940 130 10 40
Henry Jolley, one town lot 3 15 1 30 4 45
Thomas Bagley, one town lot 3 15 1 30 4 45
Henry Gurganns, one town lot 1 49 1 30 2 79
Anthony Sklyes, six acres adj Jane Hassell.... 442 1 30 5 72
CROSS ROADS TOWNSHIP
Nelson Clark, four acres land.. 46 1 30 1 76
Sylvania Leary, six acres adj. H Cnllifer 36 1 30 1 66
ROBKKSONYILLK TOWNSHIP
Henry Morgau, five acres land F Pollard 2 06 1 30 3 36
POPLAR POINT TOWNSHIP
P G Riddick, 73 acres Allshiook land 2 40 1 30 3 70
• HAMILTON TOWNSHIP
Cena Purvis, oue town lot 1 43 1 30 2 73
GOOSK NEST TOWNSHIP
James Currey, 33 acres H Kite ..... 102 130 232
Emily Hyman estate, 20 acres Cross land 36 1 30 1 66
Geo N Howard, Guardiau, 115 acres Dick Jones
• .. .« « G 3 •« •• •' 114 150 264
W F Cross, 20 acres adj. Moore tract 54 ' 130 184