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ft 1 1 yyJ- 1 THE) i ' )' ; Eetei 5 M " VOL. I. RALEIGH, N. O, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1904. NO. 37 TP rise .WASHINGTON NEWS. No Objection if Gen. ililes Cares to Take Charge of Massachusetts Mil- Itar'y President will not Appoint . Kansas Man Japanese Minister Re covering British Officer will Oet a '' Present Other Notes. Correspondence of the Enterprise. - Washington, Dec. 27. ', Governor-elect Douglas, of Mas sachusetts, wants General Miles to serve him as Adjutant-General of the Bay State militia. It is said at the War Department that there is : no legal objection to General Miles serving as an Adjutant-General of the Massachusetts militia by the Governor's appointment if he chooses, to do so, regardless of his detail . by the President under the Dick law. In that case, however, he would receive no additional compen sation from the government beyond his regular retired pay of $8,250. It will look a little funny for a former Lieutenant-General of the United States Army to act iii the ca pacity of Adjutant-General of. a State, but, of course, General Miles is his own boss, so long as he per forms his semi-military service in the United States. ' .' '.-v Kansas is out:oneI2lef$Qpni-: missioner-ror will be aitet'fiialSLrf 1st; Y; Kansas members, of . Cpngtlssi dent with a view of having some oth er Kansas man appointed in the place of Colonel Eugene Ware, who will gladly lay down the cares of u thankless official position very soon. The President said decidedly that he would not appoint a Kansas man. The President probably did not care to go through again his 'experience of a few years ago, when he offered the Pension Commissionorship to Kansas, and then went through about six weeks of in fact, he is said to have remarked that what he went through with Kansas politicians was something that rhymes with "well." All of a sudden Kansas went right up into the air, and about 40 men were presented to the President by as many different factions. The President knew a trick worth half a dozen of that, and so he appointed Colonel Ware. Colonel Ware was a personal friend, and he was not look ing for office. In fact, he objected to being appointed to office. But the President wouldn't have it that way, as he wanted to get out . of the Kansas troubles gracefully. Colonel Ware accepted and the President says in his annual message to Con gress that there has never been a better Commissioner of Pensions. But, just the same, the President isn't going to go through with that factional fight again. lie went over into Missouri, and offered the office to Ma j. William Warner, Post Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic' Major War ner declined with thanks. The Pres ident is in a dilema. Those that he wants won't have it, and those who . are crying for it he won't have and there you is, honey. The Japanese Minister, Kogoro Takahira, who was recently operated on for appendicitis, is still in New York, and very weak, but is reported to be slowly recovering. . The public schools of the District of Columbia celebrated their cen tennial anniversary, Monday, De cember 5. The School Board did not hold a meeting till six months after the establishment of the schools, which meeting occurred August 5, 1805. Thomas Jefferson, then Pres ident of the United States, was elect ed one of the trustees, and contrib uted $200 to the support of the schools. ' Commander Nugent, commanding the British gunboat Algerine, will receive from the American govern ment a handsome gold watch as an evidence of this government's ap preciation for his services in rescu ing 33 seamen of the crew of the American steamer Mineola wrecked off Kamchatku. - j K By the death of Senator Hoar, Senator Piatt, of Connecticut, falls heir to the handsomest committee room in the United States, Senate. Senator Hoar was Chairman of the Committee on J udiciary, and Sena tor Piatt suceeds him as Chairman, thus getting the committee room. That the 'President has always strongly favored the Navy is very well known, but he has shaken up Army circles by referring to the Navy first in his annual message, letting the stronger, older, and more popular branch of the service, the Army, follows. His references to. the Navy are much longer than those on the Army, too. For Inland Waterway. The Baltimore American says : Secretary Clarence II. Forrest, of the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association, will represent (hat body at an interstate conference to be held at Columbia, S. C, December 28, to discuss a project for a 16-foot inland waterway between Norfolk, Va., and Beaufort, N. C, by way of Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds. The idea is to advance the interests of commerce from the South and save vessels laden with lumber and other bulky cargoes from the dangers of Cape Ilatteras. The plan as out lined has already been reported to Congress, and the object of the con ference is to push the matter. The government is also interested in the plan, because of the value this water way would be in time of war against this nation. The government prac tically has an inside route for its torpedo boats from Maine to the Chesapeake capes, and there it strong belief that it will take up the matter of a system of waterways continuing -from Norfolk to the east coast of Florida. The plan is to barge all the bulky cargoes, which could be done at a much cheaper rate than is charged by the sailing vessels and steamers. . It is figured that such a 'plan would mean much to the lumber trade of Baltimore, should it go into effect. Bank Notice. The Wake County. Sayings Bank will open for business at its banking room No. 16 East Martin Street, on Tuesday, January 3, 1905, at nine o'clock a. m. All deposits received on or before the 10th dav of January will begin to bear interest from the first day of the new year. I :;::. W. W. VASS, i Cashier. LETTER FROM BILK1NS. The Jlajor Had a Pleasant Christmas Relatives and Friends Visited Him Irs. Bilkins Objects to Games Troubles of Those Who Would not Take Advice. Correspondence of the En terprise. Well, Christmas hez cum an' gone; that iz the 25th hez, fer most peeple count hit Christmas up ter the first ov January. Sum peeple take Christmas awl the year. I don't. Enuff iz .enuff ov enything. I reckin' Betsy hed a purty nice time Christmas, but she don't seem ter be in much ov a gude humer yit. The prisent that she didn't git seems ter be a wuryin' her sum. But I am goin' ter make up fer that after while, next summer, maybe. I'm go in' ter take Betsy ter the seashore or ter Fuquay Springs or Chalybeate Springs; she kin take her choice. It iz a long time off, but hit iz a gude idea ter be layin' plans. She wont need eny furs then an' kin hev a big time prancin' eround the sum mer reports. I fooled her last sum mer an she wont let me git outin' ov her site next summer. So I'll take her ter the same place I go an' try ter lose her so I kin hev a big time. Hit iz a gude plan ter ti&e your wifejrite erlong when she gits sorter cross ways an' looses con fercdence in you. Then awl you hev ter do iz ter stick rite by her side till she gits erquainted with sum ov the other ladies an' they git her talk in' erbout their clothes. Then she will want you ter make your self scarce. That iz the sikologickal mo ment when I will take on new life an' hev awl the fun that kin be squeezed out ov a summer resort. They iz more than one way ter kill a dog. . ;-.y-'.;:''--.'vvv-- Well, sum ov our kin folks cum Christmas an' sum ov the nabors happened in. We had sumthin' gude ter eat an' tole yarns and played games. Betsy iz down on games, so we hed ter play 'em under protest. She thinks hit iz a criminal offense ter play flinch, panick an' awl them thiugs. If she hed got inter society she would hev bin playin' pergres sive uker before now. I see that there hez bin the usual ennount ov drinkin' an' rowdyizum durin' thet holidays, notwithstandin' my request that peeple quit playin' the fool. Murders, fites, fires, axi- dents, peeple shot, peeple cut, skulls cracked. Sum ov them will hev ter go ter court. They hev paid too much fer their whistles, az my ole f rend Ben Franklin uster say. Bet ter take my advise hereafter an' you will feel better. Oneasy lies the head that wears a crown. I wouldn't swap my job az consterable with the czar ov Russia. I'll bet he haint slept sound in ten years. Iliz peeple air raisin' cane awl the time an' the Japs are on top ov him an' awl over him. One day he iz reported dead, the next he iz alive, but unpopular. But he mite hev it easier if he would let the peeple run things. lie orter do like the wiiriin' pertend that hiz subjects air run in' ov the country, but be a runnin ov it himself awl the time. At any rate he will never hev eny fun in bein' a great ruler az long az he hez the people a thinkin' that they air bein' imposed on. The Czar wants ter reform. Yours, ZEKE BILKINS. Life in the Old Land Yet. "There is life in the old land yet." That is especially "true of North Car- V olina, the "good old North State." Uhariotte.Ajreensboro, JUurham, Ita leigh and Goldsboro are growing rapidly, and Greenville, the county seat of Pitt County, on Tar River, in the center of the best cotton and tobacco lands in the South, has caught the spirit of enterprise, and is putting in a complete public wa ter plant, and electric lighting plant. What Greenville needs, and will soon have, are tobacco manu facturing plants in competition with Durham and Lynchburg, and cotton spinning mills, to spin the cotton and manufacture the tobacco so abundantly grown in Eastern North Carolina. Freeport, Ills.; Journal, The Winter Fashions. The definite changes in fashion to be noted affect the bodice and sleeves, the bust being raised, the lines of the waist fitted and the shoulders wide and high. The grace ful full skirt has had a long reign, and now we have as a possibility panelled skirts with,, short overskirts in panier style. ' These are, in fact, promised for spring. The dart is back again the old fashioned seam that runs in pairs at each side of the bodice front and fits it to the figure like a glove as is also the designs showing straight er sleeves, which bring the curves at the waist-line into greater promi nence. v-.V This season the separate wrap forms more than ever an import ant part of a complete outfit, and it is essential that the wran should harmonize perfectly with the gen eral color scheme if it does not match exactly the shade of the dress. The dolman, which found its way into favor last spring, has been given a definite place. Indeed, the big sleeve vogue, the end of which is not yet, finds use for cane and flowing sleeve effects. Even in dressy bodices is the leg-o'-muttom sleeve intro duced, and the softly drawn-down ef fects have displaced the exaggerated blouse modes formerly in vogue. From The Delineator for January. Armor-Plated Boys. One of the chief means of protec tion to our great battleships are huge armor plates. It is important in these days that there hould be armor-plated boys. A boy needs to be iron-clad on: His lips against the first taste of liquor. His ears against impure words. His hands against wrong-doing. His feet against going with bad company. His eyes against dangerous books, and pictures. His pocket against dishonest money. His tongue against evil speak ing. The Christian armor on her citi zen gives more security to the nation than all the armor plates that are on her ships. Exchange.
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