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THE ENTERPRISE. ffifcVV PCBUSHED EVJtRY FRIDAY" •V MAKWINO & HAkhELt.. I'ROI'R I KTOaS WtUiamaton, N. C. ' Y . WILLIAM C. MANNING. EDITOR JOHN W. HASSELL, MANAGKR SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ... - fi.oo Six Months ... . .50 Three Mouths 25 Strictly Cash in Advance Advertising Rates on Application Rntcract at the Post Office at WilHamaton. N. C. «• "»cotidClaa» Mail Matter. Friday, September 2, tqio The primary in the Sixth Di trict should settle the Clark-God win fight to the satisfaction of every body. The eagerness for office hurts any man and any party. The office should seek the man always. There should he no strife among friends I>t all the dissensions be in the camp of our enemies. The Tuird Annual Convention of the Atlantic Deeper Waterway Association is in session in Provi dence, R. I Hon. John H. Small is one of the most prominent* pro moters of deeper waterways. The that such improvements would be to the Atlantic* States is not to be measured. The pt-ople are beginning to see what it will mean to the country's„couimt;rce. The Sunday edition of the News &c Observer contains an interesting article about the reclaiming of 1 swauip land at Belhaven by John S. Wilkinson. Ten thousand acres of this land are for sale and there is no more fertile in the country. Mr. Wilkinson, employing the im proved methods of drainage, Las worked a miracle in the saving of! soil for the cultivation of lich crops of corn and other products. Kast ern Carolina properly developed cannot be surpassed in the produc-1 tion of crops. The trouble has been that the people have been sleeping _-JA^iW44K-kmd-wt! , n I' TTTwaste with ; water. Mr. Wilkinson believed in his abilitv to convert a waste into the most fertile soil and the result i can be seen by those visiting Bel liaven and other points in that sec tion. The Nation's Strength We speak of the oil, railroad, j copper and steal magnates, but the real plutocrat is the American farmer. He, it is that holds the balance of power and the farms are the strongest forts of the Nation. From the Journal of Agriculture, we learn that in the last eleven years he has almost doubled the value of his products, the develop ment within this time representing a grand total of $4,343,000,000, or an annual average increase of $395- 454.000. The wealth of the coin crop alone equals $1,720,000,000, which could be used to adorn 76,000,000 people. The aggregate value of the gold and silver coin and bullion oi ,the United States is equaled by the corn production. It is estimated that the crop this year is almost $3,000,000,000 above the five-year average, This marvelous production of a staple grain tells the tale of improv ed farms, latest machinery and careful thought 011 the part of the tiller of the soil. Old-time methods of farming shorten production and the quality of the grain. The Western farmer who is the chief factor in the great corn production, is up-to-date in the slightest detail of-cultivation, ani therefore splen did results must follow. Southern farmers are getting awake to their opportunities and to the wonderful treasures stored in the soil beneath tbem. The utilization of those elements which make for a bounti ful harvest has heen revealed to them and the result is a long stride up the road toward that goal to which the South is approaching. To the People of Martin County ; v. I beg to make a suggestion as the time for our county convention 'isnearathand.it would seem to be in place to begin to cast about for men to hold our offices. I am glad that no one has asked for the " office of Representative in the Gen eral Assembly. I say glad, because I regard public office as a 'public : trust, which we have to place in the hands of men upon whom I 3 looks as public servants. 3 I see it not as a gift or "fat job," 5 as some term it, that we have to bestow upon-men, but as a sacred trust that we must place in their ■ hands. As I have intimated, we want seivants not masters to occu -py the positions of confidence I believi strongly in the principle of - letting the office seek the man. and not the mau the office. Let the , p.'ople call out the man of their choice. It has been saie thai when , ever there is a position to fill there . is some one prepared to fill it. This I telieve tq be true, especi illy in . the pot-it ion of Representative. As I have said. I ask to suggest, something, and that is to ur.tne a man whom I believe to be a fitting one to represent us in the next jGeiieial Assembly of North C tro -11 ina. A man who no doubt would j be a faithful Servant, executing the will of the people. Just this one priviledge do I ask 'of offering to the people of M irtiu !County for their consideration, the ' name of Asa J. Manning of Giiffins : Township, as a competent man in whose hands to place Such a trust, and hope that we may meet in the ! convention and nominate hiiu for that office. I fee! that in doing so, we sh:fll have made no mistake, or can have any cause to regret our : action S. K. HARRISON. Your blood is your life. If it's impure, it acts as a receiving agent for diseases. Protect your health, Iby keeping your blood pure and rich., Hollister's Rocky Mountain 'Tea, the most effective blood tonic | for thirty years, frothing so bene- I ficial 35 cents," Tea or Tablets. I Saunders & Fowden. Tliev Violate The Law In view of the decission rendered by Chief Justice Clark, public of ficials—county commissioners/road and others who have been dealing with themselves had better have a care. It is a violation of the law and indictments have been made [ against such officials, as boards or | individuals, in some couuties. Not only is it against the law for a member of any board of commis sioners* county, road school, etc , to sell to the county and any ma terial, lumber, rock, merchandise, and the like upon which they have to pass in allowing the account, but 110 member can receive pay for committee work done. When the services of such persons are requir ee an outsider, one who is not con nected with said board in any way, must be employed. This of course applies where such services are to be paid for. Of course any body can delegate one of its members, or any number of them as a committee to attend and look after certain matters, but without compensating j other than that provided for their regular duties. This being the case if there has been any one receiving pay ti r special committe work or other wise in violation of the law, through ignorance on their part of any wrong doing, the thing to do is to cover the amount so received back into the treasury an J let that be an end to the matter.—Henderson Gold Leaf. The Lash ot a Frhnd would have been about as welcome to A. Cooper of Oswego, N. Y., as a mefttless lung-racking cough ! that defied all lemedies for years. "It was most trouble at night," he 1 writes, "uothiug helped me uutil I ■ King's New Discovery • whjch cured me completely. I > never cough at night now." Mil- lions know its matchless merits for stubborn colds, obstinate couths, 3 sore lungs, la grippe, asthma, hemorrhage, cioup, whooping cough, or hay fever. It relieves quickly and never fails to satisfv. A trial convinces. , 50c and $1 00. I Trial bottle free. It's positively s J by Saunders & Fowden. •' - •' k, ' ill Home I b 4 ' _ 4 -ii ' j !A Woman Passes Two Existences s|J in One House J , ;; , ;; B> EDITH V. ROSS / ; r *' > L > i • • Copyright 1910, by American Press £ •' Association. i ) My love for Kd ward Lane began I when we were Iwtb so jjopug that nel , ther of us could remember a time when it did uot exist. tits father'* : place was but n short distance from ours. Indeed, the rear line marked the limits of both places. On oue aide of this line witfe the playground of the several chlldreti, boys and girls, In [ eluding Edward aud myself, who lived , in the- neighborhood. I cap remember as far back an when I was seven years old and Edward nine that In play I lift keep house he and 1 always ployed the part of husband and wife. There was a swing on this playground, and Ed ' ward's father put up articles for a boys' g.Vnmasium. A little bous-* four or five feet high was built for u ; girls, and furnished with toy furniture. At times we would leave our dolls there all night, first putting them, to bed. When I grew taller I could not un derstand how 1 could have stood up right in that little house. And what seemed more remarkable to me was that Edward could have done so. for he was always a large child. Aud I remember that when he had been away to school for a long while and came back he was taller than tbe house. By this time we were growing out of childhood Into that Intermediate period ■ when, though boys and girls may feel love, they are not likely to express it. It Is a period of transition from child love to real love. The boy mind Is taken up with athletic sports, while the girl hides her secret almost from herself. Indeed, so nebulous Is tills period that in my own case It Is dlllicult for me to recall my exact feel ings. I remember theui faintly and as existing ut intervals. They were rath er a small portion of' my girl's ex Istence than tbe whole of It. ' When I was sixteen I was awakened to the true condition by the marked preference displayed by another girl for uiy Edward. From that time my love became the principal Instead of a minor part In my life. I failed to con coal my Jealousy from him. and this brought out his own consciousness of what was between us.' There was no formal declaration, no conventional giving of the hand, not eveu the lov ers' kiss. lie.merely said something about the other girl. I know not what. .-but-.lt.antiiircd me tlicru.vyaa. uo change In our position since the days when we played hits band and wife at keep ing bouse—no change In the position, but a great change In the condition It had then been like a winter bud. but It was now swollen under a spring sun. ready to put forth leaves. 1 sometimes wished that 1 could have experienced the proposal that other girls seemed to regard the next most Important• moment In their lives to thelftnurriage. Edward aud I had no occasion for a proposal. Our love was rather, as I have said, an uufold ing of a bud than the birth of a butter fly. The only abrupt part of It was when he gave me the first kiss. 1 have always treasured that in lieu of a proposal. we were married great changes had occurred. I was left aloue in the world. So It was arranged that we should occupy my house. Our living room was ou the second floor, over looking the playground where we had pretended to be husband and wife. The faint dream of childhood had been developed to a realization of almost perfect happiness. If there could be a perfection ou earth, these five years of my life, from twenty to twenty-live, were such a condition. Two children were born to us, a boy and a girl. What seemed strange to me was that, though I gave them a boundless love, that which 1 bore their father, instead of being diminished, was lucreased. Truly love must be. like space. Infinite. Up to this point there had been an expansion of happiness. Suddenly there came a check, our youngest child sickened aud died. 1 have do scribed with some minuteness what 1 have likened to the gradual unfolding of .a flower. * 1 have no heart to give more than a brief mention of Its blight - lug. Wlthiu a few months after the first death a secoud occurred, and within another year I lost my d. For a time 1 was In a sort of col lapse. In which I did not take enough interest In my surroundings to be af fected by them. After one has met with a serious accident or has been operated upon by a surgeon the senses are deadened; theu pomes the begin ning of pain. It was so with me. When I became myself my surround ■ Ings were, painful to me. Some per sons similarly situated uurse their grief ! by living in such surroundings. 1 long ed to get nway from (hem. Friends lulvised me to seek recovery iu the many uew scenos and interesting ob • Jects that are to be found abroad. 1 ' took their advice. 1 sailed for Euroi>e. leaving the place where I had been so ■ happy in'tbe hands of an agent for sale. One thing 1 was resolved upon— never to return to It. It may be considered that my sto ) ry Is one of coincidence. It is more ' than that. It is an Illustration of the very different conditions that may 05- cur In the life of a single persou. Mas • ters of romance have maintained that there should not be In song or story but one love. Playwrights never bring > ■ second on to tbe stage. They por \ tray rather romance tban real life and > do not give all that real life needs. | They are of tbe same order as tbe peo. • pie of IndlA wbo believe that tbe wife | should die on tbe funeral pyre of her > husband. ! I may be weaker than some women ' or I may be stronger. Possibly I may I have less depth of feeling, though that laJrf not admit. I saw only In uurslng ! xriiy grief a dreadful life beforV me. I f! rec.">gnlzcd tbe priucipie that no two . | absorbing ideas can occupy tbe brain II at one time. I did all that 1 could to , interest myself In »bat was about me. True, 1 did not a' first succeed, and ' when I did only partially so. I dread ed tbe word forget, and yet I realized ' j that to avoid suffering 1 must ternpo ' I rarlly forget. I forced myself to C«el 1 I that after a time I would be reunited. ' i with my loved ones and that mean j while I must, exctuit occasionally, put ' 1 them out of my utCnd. I made my b.>me abroad. Three . ( years after my bereavement 1 married ' again. 1 did so partly because 1 was p | lonely, partly because I wished for a [ | man to rely upon, as Is natural to any j woman, partly because tbe man I mar -1 | rled assured me that I could give bim | an interest In life and lastly because I became attached to him. He was an i American. like myself, and. being ,"j wealthy, gave himself up to study. He lived abroad that- he might write books which required h's presence among the subjects of whlcb'be wrote. For five years after our marriage we continued our residence abroad. I)ur j ing t his period children were born to us. There was a tacit mutual agree ment between us that I should not talk j about the world In which I had live*" I I saw tlint be Would rnther lertve tha to me, considering himself as having no j part In it, and I bad no desire to make | him a part of It. He was absorbed. In his literary work, and If I ever told' Mm eveji where I had ''ved he soon forgot it. - Jj Then lie was called to America on the matter of some property that need ed his attention. It was agreed be tween us that he should leave me and 1 our children in Lucerne, where we I were then living. lie expected to l»e j absent not more than two months, but soon after bis arrival in America he I was induced to write for a publisher a work necessitating his presence In I America. He suggested my coming i home with tbe children, but left me | to cotisult my own feelings In tbe : mutter. I had never Intended to return to tbe | United Slates, dreading lest It would I reawaken me to my lost world. Hut j with a husband and children that world had receded further aud further from me till the consciousness of it j had grown very dim. I wrote my hus band that I would go back to the I western hemisphere and remain there _ I was tired of moving about from one I place to another and the children were coming fo tliat age when they should I have steady instruction nt school. Our boys I preferred to bring lea. I therefore suggested to my hus band that he buy « place In which Jve might settle. He replied that he agreed with me ami would carry out my sug gestions. T.ater he wrote me that he had bought a place In the suburbs of the city wherein It would 1* necessary for him to do bis work. We arrived after dark. 1 was de lighted at our reunion, as were the father and the children. I did not ask where our home was to be. 1 Intend ed to be satisfied with It, pleased with It, wherever It was. We took a train and in less thnn an hour alighted nt a station, where a carriage was waiting for us. It 1 was very dark when we reached our home and I saw nothing of It till 1 stood In the ball. Then I caught at a banister to prevent my falling. I was in the house I had left more than ten years before with a blighted heart. "My dear!" exclaimed my husband, starting toward me. But in n twinkling 1 had recovered myself. And what had enabled me to do so? The suddeu appearance of an object. Ah. those objects that come to us! How much more vnluable often times than realization! I must at least for the present spare my good man the Inexpressible palu of knowing what he fiad brought upon me. "Nothing." 1 replied. "A little giddi ness nt having been so long rolling at sea." * „ * "Nothing you don't like. Is there?" he asked auxiously. "On The contrary. I am very well pleased. Let us see the rest of It." He took me Into every room In the house, a house that had been sold twice since I bad parted with It and both times with the furniture luclnd'-" ed. Not for the world would I have betrayed that these rooms, closets, cor ners. with every bed, tnble, bureau, hgd been familiar to me from child hood. But when it was over I passed the night alone in a reom opening Into one occupied by the children. No tongue or pen can describe'what that night was to me. When morning came I found that if I could endure the tlrst shock I -could endure more. 1 deferred from day to day telling what had happened. My husband was delighted with his pur chase, and before I had gained heart to tell him my secret he had become a 1 fixture iu it. Months passed, then , years. My husband Is now an old 1 man and my children are grown, r None of them know that their mother has been living in her second earthly world. x And yet, after all. this coincidence ? has not brought me unhapplness. I t have been living two existences, both - of which are dear to me. the one near by. the other in the far past and fu t ture; the one of flesh and blood, the r other of spiritual form. In time It I will be a spiritual mingling of tbe two '. • • • 'Vs.. Report of the Condition of the Bank of Martin County at tbe close of business Jnne 30, iqio , A RESOURCES: Loans and Discounts (123 399.04 ! Overdrafts secured 5,306.88 All other stocks bonds, rntgs 1,375.00 Banking house fur. and tixt'rs 1,850.00 All other real estate owned 218.10 1 Demand loans 1,900,00 Due from banks and hankers 11,956.03 ' Silver coin, including all iniuor coin currency * 5.572.47 Total *151,57752 LIABILITIES . Capital Stock £ 16,000.00 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 Time certificates of deposit 31,513 78 ■ Deposits subject to check v 64,212.26 Due to banks and bankers 307 02' Tol*l $151.577 52 State of North Carolina", County of Martin, »»: I, J. G, Godard, Cashiefc of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above state *ient i» true to the beat of my knowledge aud belief. J. G GODARD, Cashier , j Correct—Attest J. G. Staton. Warren H Bi(M» | S, A. Newell, plfifctora I Subscribed aud sworn to before me,'this 5 day I of July. >9lO. C. H. GODWIN, Notary Public THE GREAT • American Shorthand & Business y College \ . ' Durham, N. C. f f • | A Business Training School, indorsed by leading busl- I nsss men, that qualifies men and women,for KXPKRT work in the Commercial World. DEPARTMENTS: * Bookkeeping, Banking, Expert Accounting, Auditing, Shorthand, Typewriting, Telegraphy, Pen Art. SPECIAL PREPARATORY Depat Uuent. EXPERT FACULTY RAILROAD FAKE PAID POSITIONS SECURED We also teach by MAIL 4 > • i s » V no vnn ♦' . , r Appreciate t H * YOUR HOME PAPER? ,*' ' ' i —— ir so —- \ PATRONIZE IT. —V •>/,. / » * " • \ "■' 1 r - v. ... v v ■ • • x TOBACCO FLUES have Woolard to make your FLUES and You will have the BEST »' 4 ; ' * ' CARTS AND WAGONS MADE TO ORDER •'' " * » Wollards Combined Harrow and Cultivator J. L. WOLOARD WILLIAMSTON, N. C. The Farmer and *•* v. „ * His Banker Our Bank never fails to give as good service to the farmer as it gives to any business* man. As a matter of fact few bank# exist in this and age of the work without the co-operation of the farmers. Often a farmer can make money by borrowing, and we are glad to ad vance money at any time. Do not hesi tate to call on us when you want money. We welcome a responsible borrower quite as heartily as a substantial deposi tor. It will pay every farmer to carry a checking account with us. Our burglar proof safe, together with conservative management makes our Bank au obsolute safe place for your money. Deposit your saving and grow with a growing hank in a growing com munity. Why not come talk it over with us today? An account at our Bank would tend to restrict your spending. Try an .account with us and pev your bill with checks. We will gladly give you a check book. . If you try this for one year you will be surprised at the money you will save, una \ou may then smile at all your trou bles. Make your Bank account *row, it is recording yortr history and telling a truthful story of your success. Opened an account with us today. Drop a little into the Bank every week , and its rapid growth will surprise you. We are yours to serve, Bank of Robersonville J. C. ROBERTSON, Cashier.
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