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THE ENTERPRISE. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BV MANN'ISG & HAS',KM.. PROPRIETORS WiUiamnton, N. C. WIULIAM C. MANNING, EDITOR JOHN W. HASSELL, MAWAGhR. SUBSCRIPTION RATES • One Yea* .... - fi.oo * Six Months - • • *.s° Three Months .... .25 Strictly Cash in Advance '■*, Advertising Rates on Application Entered *t the PoM Office at Willlamaton. N. C. »» Second Clu« Mall Matter. Friday, July 2q, tqio "Pearson flays Taft." For what? Are thf-y not in the same bag? The political pot in Martin Cou nty boileth not. Only two candi dates have been beard from so far. * * Apparently there is discord in the radical camp But extr.i slices of bacon will he passed around and then the love feast will be in order. *- Teddy shou'd not be allowed to go np in an airships-toe might lose him and there are no more of his kind, for which we are grateful. Robersonsouville is leading the County in industries. The build ing for the manufacture of hosieiy has just been erected, a l uge cot ton gin is rapidlv nearing comple tion and a fertilizer factory maybe established in the liear future. The enterprise of the people is commend able. There is no good reason why Martin County cannot forge ahead. The work of Congressman Small among the farmers of his di-triet has been of incalcuble benefit. He has sought by the help of the De partment of Agriculture to intro duce all modern methods so that the tiller of the s >il may reach that itidependance which is heritage The meeting for this County will be held here on August 2nd, and (ivery farmer who can, should be present with the earnest de-ire to profit thereby. Farmers Institute Come to Williamston Tuesday, August 2nd, to the farmers meet- ing which will be conducted by Congressman John 11. Small, who will have with him Curtis 11. Kyle, J. P. Campbell, 11. Matthewson and K. Lester Boykin, who will speak 011 the live subjects of corn cotton, tobacco, good roads and soil renovation. These are men of practical ex perience and extensive knowledge and information on their several subjects. Come to hear them. Bank Statistics The Corporation Commission h is just issued the annual bank stats tics. 111 the general prosperous condition of the banks of the State, those of Martin countv are sharing. The banking facilities ot our town and countv are not to be surpassed in the State. The Commission gives out the following: The 335 State, private and sav ings banks doing business Carolina have resources aggregat ing $57,851,130 and deposits amounting to $39,317,099 accord ing to a summary of reports of con ditions just gathered and compiled by the Corporation Commission. The summary shows further that the aggreate capital is $8,591,505; the surplus $1,879,625, and the undivided profits $1,900,515. This summary shows a steady and con servative gaiu over the reports in the past, and the commissioners say the banking interests of the State are maintaining very healthy growth. Hints to Parents Every good stock raiser is care ful to get every calf, pjg- and lain! . properly enclosed in good comforta i f. ' ; ••• • - • - h.; ISfe?'V 0 • . y ble quarters at night. Of course .. the reasou for this is to protect them from the cold and rain and from the danger of destruction from prying animals and ravenous beasts - But one of the greatest reasons is to prevent them from straying and wartdeiirg away. : | How much more valuable are our sons and daughters, than are 0 the p ; gs, calves and lambs, Still 0 how many mothers and fathers too, 5 - who say I love my child, and then pay so little attention to the pro itectionof their children. Tbeyare - permitted to run at from morn until night, and in the night in - many instances, their parents hav ing no knowledge of where they are or what they are doing. And experience lias shown that in most ' cases that they are growing wo'se I in character aird sometimes in body. Just think of the cursing, smokii g, • fighting, card playing being, steal ■ ing and many other things that • surround your b> y when he crawls out of your paternal care. 11 If we would build up our chil ■, dren in mind body "and character, l v we mu-t give them as much atten . tion as our pigs and chicks. We hope tile ] eople of our town 5 will look to the care of their cliil > ren, and if they fail we hope to see 4 town the authorities looking more ! closely into this matter of children running at large at night It makes no difference how tnau> . medicines have failed to cure you, if \ou are troubled with headache. " | constipation, kidney of liver trou ' | bles, Hollister's Rocky Mountain ; Tea will make you well. Saunders - i\i Fovvden. ——. ♦- m • ■ ——- —— The greatest system renovator Restores vitality, regulates the kid- Ineys, liver and stomach. If 'Hol- I lister's Rocky Mountain Tea fails 'j to cure get your money back. ; That's fair. 35 cents, Tea or Tab . lets. S Hinders & FOA den. j. The Land and the Man Sunshine and rain are the nat-i lur-.il of vegetable growth. I These b'essings vb,ij everybody in ! ! about the suite proportion for "it j rains upon the just and unjust*" | Still with an equal share of bless jings, one can see, a vast /difference | in farms lying side by side In most cases a s careful investigation! ! will show that it is Minplv another ; instance where there is "more in the man than in the land." The man yvitli poor crops did not 'prepare his laud, did 110: plant se lected seed, did not fertilize prop jtrly and was a little late in getting 1 to the young crop to begin cultiva tion. Then the nra*-s was allowed 1 j to spring up before the second cul- I tivation, and he stays behind in the 'yvork. When Dog Days come, tlrt" crop is yellow and small and in his 1 discouragement prays for frost to j come and kill the urass. Of course, |he will be scarcely able to pay the fertilizer bill. j The man with good crops was found in the field the previous year, ■ gathering seed from the best stalks • —those which would produce more ' per plant than the "lulter skelter" ■ selection produces. Kaily he was found preparing the land and plant -1 ing in good seed bed 011 well mixed ' fertilizers. When the hot days of 1 August come, he can enjoy a sea son of rest, and harve-t in the tall " twice as much as his neighbor. 1 Surely there is "more in the land " than in the man." It is estimated that same land. • fertilizer and labor now used in Martin Countv, yvottld produce one 1 quarter of a million dollars more • each year if the best methods were 1 used by every farmer. "> | To leary something about tlie e best methods, every farmer should s 1 attend the meeting to be held here ' 1 next Tuesday, August 2nd, at 10 "o'clock. v s.j , . e \Y hen the stomach fails to per- V , form its functions, the boyvels he j come derauged, the liver and the 1 kidneys congested causing numcr- I ousdi-ease The stomach and livei must be restored to a healthy con> dition and Chamberlain's Stomach |and Liver Tablets can be depended *" j upon to do it. Easy to take an3 b j most effective. Sold by Saunders i- ( & Fowden and All Desrters. ■ 1? Substitute j 9 A Man Playi the Part of r i O Another Who Cannot O [A. ' • App e*r ' VI E i T By GEORGE L. BYINGTON Y* ]i Y Copyright, 1910. by American Press | y _ w . Association. O I One morntoK after guard mounting | the commandant's orderly came to my ; - quarters and said that Mrs. Comman- j l dam I a lias Mrs. Coloneli Seymour | j woiild like to see me. J obeyed what I considered au order and betook myself i to the most pretentious house In the 1 garrison, where the lady lived. • "Mr. Boynton." she said, "uiy neph | t; e«, Alf Holers. Is in a lot of trouble J At the supper table after the bop tlu* \ other night he drank too much wine- j Ue's just out of West Point, you know, j • and has no practice af winoblbblng ■ insulted Major Whipple and Is now | M under arrest. I have Invited Luci.i I . I Edgerton. a girl In whom I ntn iuu-h j I Interested, to visit uie especiall) to j meet Alf. To confess. | wish to make I a match between the two. This stupid | I business of Alf'* getting tipsy on two ' or three glasses of wine has spoiled ! ' | everything. "To tell a girl that the man 1 ha\c , I been praising to her and have Jin)i . I rated I warned hej>-to marry Is under. ' arrest for drunkenness would be an ; j Irreparable blow to my matrimonial ] plan. I have thought out a scheme fur ; M-stibstltute. Would you mind person- j- I j ating Alf for a short time?" to please jv\t, Mrs. Sey ] monr." •■'U —' "I could tell Lucia that Alf had been ordered away on special duty, but I've ! j thought It over and have concluded | that such a subterfuge wouldn't I"- ; wise. I would rather/post the officers \ i and their families that you are to act j as Alf. and as soon as he is restored t" ! duty we can turn It "ff as a Joke." Our litjje post was so dull that m>t only I. but the officers and their fami- ' lies, were quite pleased with Mrs. Sev mour's plan. We all enjoyed the pros- : j pect i• f fooling her protegee, svatchltr- I I her while we were -dolujj so and ob i serving her actions while receiving the attentions of the wrong mnii. Miss Edgerton arrived. was welcom- I ed by her hostess, and I was invited t> dinner. It seemed que*»r to; l»e address 1 -«> d as .Mr. Rogers, but If Was very nice to.be expected to make myself agree able to one >f the most winsome young irirls 1 ever, met. She was barely eight , eeu. Innocent, unsophisticated and up narently a very easy person to perpe trate any fraud upon* It did not seem , possible.to me that the deception could be carried on very long, but I had uo , sooner made Miss Edgcrtbn's acquaint* a nee than I hoped It might be Inter minable. While 1 found myself in one respect In clover. In another I was troubled. It was line to be dancing attendance on a girl Intended for Rogers while lie was languishing In his quarters, but . the fact was.ever present that the day I would come when 1 must resign her to her rightful owner. I attended her at Sunday morning Inspection, guard j mounting and siirji ceremonials as were possible at a small post. I gal loped by her side over hill and dale; 1 danced with her. sang duets with her —in shorn, did everything except make love to her. which under the eireuni . stances would have been dishonorable. Every one who came in contact with Miss Kdgerton enjoyed immensely the] innocent ruse that was being perpe " trated upon her. They were all very punctilious in addressing me in ifPr presence jis Mr. Rogers, lie was very 1 popular, ami there was not one person at the post who would for the world , have balked the plan to hide the fact that he was under arrest for Intoxica tion. I had expected Mrs Seymour to i find some way out of the neuter with in a few days, but she did not. and it ' went on. An order for the convening ( ' of a court martial to try the real Uog- ; ; ers for conduct unbecoming an officer j ■ and a gentleman was daily expected. | but did not arrive. However, thee Were few of us at the post, and every f • one became so used to palming me off j [ as I.ieutcuant Rogers that It seemed I the substitution might go on indefl-> ' nitely. one evening Miss Edgerton. who had j been very shy. surprised me by Inti mating in a delicate though" unmlstak-! • able way that she was cognizant of i Mrs Seymour's matchmaking scheme and showed disappointment at my not having evinced a tender Interest In her. It was hard enough before for me to l get on without making love, but after e tliis it was I don't mean that I had fallen in love with Miss Ed e gertou. We soldiers, prone to extremes, e are given as much to iovemaUing as to tlghtiur It Is. however, rather lovctnuking than - love, for we have a e | faculty for choosing sweethearts as d, often as we are transferred between e ' stations. My lovemnk-inlu—*eirb--M4«s I Kdgerton was Wore like that we jyere °1 used to practicing while at West Point during the summer encampment, when we met swarms of girl visitors, each one of whom would have considered the corps ungallant if she were perfftit i- ted to go back home without baring e received at least one proposal. But before being carried away I of ,r fered to Mrs. Seymour my resignation J us Rogers' substitute, relllnir her that J 1 refused further to act unless she and *| Rogers would exonerate me from any criminality should their matrimonial d plans be Interfered with. Mrs. Sey "S mour look time to cousider; then she agreed that under the circumstances I - ■ ' v., ' V . ■a ( ■», " . , ■,* • ~ could not be blamed I think she con ferred with Rogers. By this time the whole garrison had become absorbed In the game. This to one who knows anything about army ; life at a frontier p st will not be n«- tonlshltig. Day after day goes by with little to do and still less to talk about I'and often no amusement. Here was n case well calculated for both. It seemed to fue that the especial pains every one took to perpetrate the fraud ' would defeat it. Too many people were going out of their way to call 1 me Rogers, making all sorts of very thin excuses Co do so, then often stuffing ! their handkerchiefs Into their mouths ; to avoid exploding with laughter. Miss Edgerton seemed oblivious to |lt all. But she was such a childlike- I little thing that no one had fear of her suspecting any deception, and It she did suspect It there wiis no way | continuing it Was not Rogers shut j up In his quarters, not daring to show | his face outside, hot h on account of j military discipline and because he did not wish to s|>oil Mrs. Seymour's mat rimonial plans for blm? Notwithstanding Miss Edgerton's In ' nocence it struck me that she was n I bit of a flirt At any rate. It seemed to i me at times that she was flirting \Villl ! me. I suppose In such affairs there 1* ' i more or less of a game going on tween the parties Interested. I men tion this as some excuse for myself for j entering upon a process calculated to w in the heart of an innocent girl, es pecially when 1 was not sure that jt Was doing It for pastime. One morning the mail brought an order from Washington to dismiss the charges against Lieutenant Rogers and release him from arrest. A bombshell thrown Into'the garrison could not have produced as much consternation. Mrs. Seymour was In a terrible quan dary, having laid no plan for such a juncture. All the officers and officers' families, who had been calling me Rogers, begun to think of the position they would occupy toward the girl they bad conspired to fool. As soon as Rogers appeared for duty he solved the problem. He was to be Lieutenant Boynton. and I was to re main Lieutenant Rogers This satistied Mrs. Seymour, who Invited us both to dinner, and so great was the Interest of the others In ibis complicated affair that before the dinner came off she in vited all the officers and their wives. I was still supposed to be in especial attendance upon Miss Kdgerton and i took her In to dinner. The lirst words spoken by Rogers caused cousterna- Hon. "I say. Rogers." he said to me. "1 j congratudnte you on your release from arrest. What did you want to make a beast of yourself for?" As, soon as I could regain my equa nimity I turned upon him with feigned severity and said: "What do you mean, sir. by thus ac cusing a brother officer?" "I mean that Lieutenant Alfred ltog ers at the last hop got tipsy on three glasses of champagne and a pony of brandy, culled the major mimes and was arrested and confined to his quarters. Charges were preferred, and Lieutenant Rogers' father, being a senator, succeeded In having them dropped. Now, who Is Lieutenant Rog ers if lie is not you? Are you in the •army under an assumed name to hide sorie former disgrace?" I'p spoke Miss Kdgerton. During this harangue she had drawn away from rue as far as possible, regarding me with a singular expression. Then she turned to Mrs, Seymour. "What does this mean?" she de manded. Mrs. Seymour was so agonjzed that she couldn't find either voice or words for reply. Miss Edgerton left her seal. Went to her friend and put her urius about her. Then, standing by her. she said: "The farce is ended. Let those laugh best who laugh last. Soou after my arrival here i saw at a window an offi cer whom 1 had met last West and whose name I kneXwto be Alfred Rogers. We chatted, and he confessed that he was confined to his room under arrest for getting tipsy and being disrespectful to the major I had uo difficulty In getting out of i him ibis scheme to substitute Lleutcn 1 ant Boynton In his place. Since that j time the real Lieutenant Rogers and I have been carrying ou a clandestine correspondence." During this revelation to those who had supposed themselves to have been deriving amusement at Miss Edger ton's expense, of how she and Hogers I had outwitted the whole of us, there was an attentive audience. When she cease 1 speaking some smiled, others \. l)_lu>>l.u'*l-. while a few looked Irritated. "Jlv fr'rnds." said Rogers,i"accept uiy heai i* t thanks for your kindness in shieldr. •: me from the consequences of my weak head for wine. Aud to you. Boynton. 1 am under especial obligation^ "for'personating a wine- I arose, placed my hand on my heart and bowed. Then Oaylord of my company spoke up: "in every well constructed comedy there Is a heart Interest, the denoue ment of which is reserved for the third • act.-- 1 trust we are not going to be left without this important part. Two Rogcrses have been In the field—two leading gentlemen aud but one leading lady. Which Is the Rogers to carry, off the prize?" . x Remembering my position In thls«re spect. I felt uneasy. Miss Edgerton blushed. Rogers appeared triumphant He looked at Miss Edgerton. her eyes brimming with uierrinieut. and asked: "May I?" I "Silence gives consent." he added. ,recelvlng no reply. "Ladles and gen- I tlemeu. I hav? to announce my engage ■ ment to Miss Edgerton." i , Hearty congratulation followed. I be !' lng first cocgra tula tor. ; ! ' •*- f' " ' Report of the Condition of the Bank of Martin County at the close of business June 30, 1910 resources: Loans and Discounts $123 399.04 Overdrafts secured 5,306,88 All other stocks bonds, mtgs 1,370.00 Banking house fur. and Jixt'rs 1,850.00 All other real estate owned 218.10: Demand loans 1,900.00 Due from hanks and bankers 11,956.03 ' Silver coin, including all S, minor coin currency 5.572 47 . Total » ?'5t.577 52 f,I ABILITIES . Capital Stock $' i 5,000.00 Surplus Fund 17,000.00 Undivided profits less current expenses and taxes paid 2 544.46 Notes and bills rediscounted 5,000.00 Bills payable 16,000.00 1 Time certificates of deposit 31,513 78 Deposits subject to check 64,212.26 Due to banks and bankers 307 02 T °kd 5151.57752) State pf North Carolina, County of Martin, as. j I, J. G. Gortard, Cashier of the above-named ! 1 bank, do solemnly swear that the abore state -1 ment is true to the beat of my Icnowledae aud : I belief. J. G. GOfjARD. Cashier I Corr-ct—Attest: J. 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