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THE RALEIGH ENTERPRISE.
Thursday, April 13, 1905.
THE RALEIGH ENTERPRISE.
An Independent Newspaper Pub
lished Every Thursday
BY .
J. L. RAMSEY, Editor and Prop.,
Raleigh, N. C.
Office of publication, Law Build
ing, 331 Fayetteville Street.
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Entered aB fecund-class matter May 12
1004, at the postofflce at Rale gh. N. C, under
the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879.
The Thomasville Times has changed
from a semi-weekly to a weekly, and
has enlarged. It is a good, clean
paper.
Mr. Rockfellcr's money isn't worth
a cent. He has been trying to give
$100,000 away for two weeks without
finding a taker.
An exchange says "any man can
take a paper." True ; and most men
do. Only the imitations manage to
get along paperless.
Safe-crackers take their lives in
their own hands when they go to
Wadesboro. Two or three were bag
ged near that town last week.
Baltimore is vigorously discuss
ing the need of a sewerage system
for the city. Raleigh discussed that
some fifteen years ago, and completed
the job pretty soon thereafter.
The newspaper correspondents with
President Roosevelt in the West an
nounce that the President killed a
snake Tuesday. The papers ought to
send their sober men on such trips.
William Jennings Bryan declares
that he would rather talk religion
than anything else. As he has tried
everything else in recent campaigns,
we presume that Billy is throwing
out a feeler.
In addition to the railroad build
ing going on in the vicinity of Ra
leigh, the Durham and Southern may
be mentioned. And an electric line
has been chartered to connect the
towns of Haw River, Graham and
Burlington.
They have not yet proven that
Marshal Oyama is from North
Carolina. But they are about to con
vict Admiral Togo. The Herald and
Presbyter says that Togo is a Presby
terian. That almost makes him a
North Carolinian.
No matter how careful we are,
our foresight will get wabbly now and
then. Only a few days ago we con
gratulated the State officials on hav
ing sold the oyster patrol boat
"Lilly." Now Chatham County is in
trouble with England, and if her fleet
cornea into North Carolina waters we
have nothing with which to defend
ourselves or repel the fleet.
HOLD YOUR COTTON.
In December the price of cotton
reached the lowest figure recorded
in several years 6. It has risen
about one dollar per hundred. For
some weeks the price has remained
stationary. At present the tendency
is downward. This should not cause
any alarm. Hold balance of crop
and reduce acreage. The only way
to fight is to fight to a finish.
No one can foretell the outcome.
The warehouse plan may solve the
problem. The company has been
formed. But that cannot do much to
stimulate the price of the crop on
hand. Only a reduction of acreage
will affect that.
Plant anything except a large cot
ton crop. The time will hardly ever
come when grain, meat, potatoes or
produce of any kind will be low in the
South, hence if you raise a little sur
plus you can readily dispose of it.
Produce your own supplies and you
have done much to solve the cotton
problem. In fact if you raise your
supplies there will be no cotton prob
lem in the future. No matter what
your neighbor does, no matter what
is done in other States, "sweep before
your own door."
DOINGS OF A CYCLONE.
Mr. J. A. Black, a reliable citizen
living near Mt. Mourne, Iredell
County, states that the cyclone which
did so much damage around Moores
ville a few days ago started in the
form of a small whilrwind on his
farm, where it unroofed a corn crib.
His farm is some four or five miles
southwest from Mooresville. As the
cyclone sped on it must have gather
ed force and speed.
Near Mooresville the house of
Frank Beaty was wrecked. His wife
and two children were in the house.
One child escaped unhurt. The
mother and another child were found
on the roof of the house, which had
blown a considerable distance, end
both were injured. A small house
occupied by John Knox was unroofed
and everything blown away. A small
child was blown three hundred yards
and was unhurt. Many other houses
were completely or partially wrecked.
At the home of Mr. Lee Kistler a
small negro boy and a cow were taken
up by the wind and carried four
hundred yards and neither were hurt.
In one instance a farmer and his
wife were on a wagon going home
from Mooresville. The woman was
blown off the wagon, badly hurt, and
sustained the loss of her teeth, pre
sumably false ones.
The cyclone swept a path about
four hundred yards in width. Prop
erty loss about $30,000.
This cyclone passed through the
suburbs of Mooresville. Had it
struck the main portion of the town
the damage and loss of life would
probably have been great.
Mooresville has been fortunate in
that respect. A number of years ago
on a hot afternoon the writer wit
nessed the passing of a cyclone in
that country. It started near the
Catawba River some ten or twelve
miles west from that town and passed
about one mile south from where
the writer lived. At first it was only
a small black cloud, but it was trav
eling at a fearful rate, and soon
presented a funnel-like shape. It was
a huge balloon of jet black seething,
whirling destruction, and the roaring
seemed to be like that of a thousand
passing trains. It was all over in a
few minutes. The cyclone proper
was not more than fifty yards in
width. But in that narrow path near
ly all large timber was blown down
and small trees were torn up by the
roots or twisted off. Though it
travelled for more than ten miles
through a fairly thickly settled coun
try, the main path zig-zagged enough
to miss every dwelling, and well it
did, for no ordinary building could
have withstood that mighty rush of
wind. A few small out-buildings
only were blown down. The wind
was strong enough to blow down
some timber a mile on each side ".f
the main storm. The town of
Mooresville was directly in the path
of the cyclone. Strange to say, it
dipped upward just at the outskirts
of the town, leaped over and con
tinued its course, but with less sever
ity east of the town than on the west
side. The people of the town did
not know until hours afterwards that
they had so narrowly escaped a fear
ful disaster. Even a distant view of
a cyclone is enough for a life-time.
IN WAR CIRCLES.
. Several small skirmishes constitute
all that has been reported from Man
churia during the past week. The
J apanese have kept their movements
concealed from the public and the
Russians. No .doubt something is
going on, and the Russians are just
as anxious as we are to find out just
what it is. Doubtless they will soon
learn.
To the surprise of everybody the
Russian Baltic fleet has at last been
ordered to the Far East, presuma
bly Vladivostock. There have been
rumors of naval engagements, but
they are hardly true. But, unless the
fleet gets new orders a fight will take
place before long.
In the Baltic fleet Rojestvensky
has seven battleships and two ar
mored cruisers, also a number of
small cruisers and torpedo boats.
Some of the battleships are second
class. Japan has five very fine bat
tlesh ips, eight fine armored cruisers,
several smaller cruisers and numer
ous torpedo boats. With equally cap
able crews there would not be much
difference in -the fighting capacity.
But the Russians are far behind in
naval efficiency. That has been
proven. The most helpless thing in
the world is a battleship with a green
crew and poor gunners. Naval ex
perts do not expect that the Russians
can do more than accidental injury,
if any, to the Japs. At first thought
it would seem folly for Russia to risk
the balance of her navy in an en
gagement with' Japan. On the other
hand it is her last desperate chance.
If by some strange fortune the Rus
sian fleet should succeed in destroy
ing the J apanese fleet it would
change the tide of war, as the Rus
sians could command the sea between
Japan and the Manchurian coast,
prevent further shipment of troops
and provisions, thus snatching vic
tory from defeat.
And Grover merely, spits on his
bait and says nothing. Memphis
News-Scimitar. '
Mr. Rockefeller has found that
the way of the transgressor is hard
when it comes to giving away money.
He ought to offer the next batch to
some Christians down this way and
see how quickly they will snap it up.
The cruiser Raleigh, which was
named after our city, and several
torpedo boats, have been dispatched
to, the island of Palawan to enforce
neutrality if the Russian and Jap
anese fleets begin to scrap in that
vicinity.
An exchange says that there seems
to be an idea abroad in the land that
newspapers are run merely for fun
and tor amusement of the public.
Apply business rules in the conduct
of your paper and you will notice a
difference.
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
J)on't jump out of your flannel too
quick. You may have to jump back
in it again. Durham Sun.
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Any objection to resuming the dis
cussion of a noiseless Fourth of
J uly Burlington Hawkeye.
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The pilory has been abolished in
Delaware. There's progress for you!
Who knows but Addicks may some
day be abolished. Puck.
There are perhaps some who have
given up hope and are willing to let
Mr. Bryan take it and do with it as
he pleases Durham Herald,
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The fact that the Japs are ap
proximately vegetarians and addicted
to cigarettes staggers one's faith in
some things. Milwaukee Sentinel.
After all, China's determination to
defy Russia does not mark it; as par
ticularly daring just at this stage of
the game. Detroit Free Press.
A Pennsylvania court has decided
that "a man is master in his own
home." He is legally entitled to feel
that way. Milwaukee Sentinel.
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President Castro knows that the
feather-weights really talk just as
loud about the preliminaries as the
big fellows. Detroit Free Press.
Senator Elkins' committee has ar
ranged to secure a vast deal of infor
mation on how not to frame a bill
regulating railroad rates. Baltimore
Sun.
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Russia, after all this trouble, has
not learned enough to know that the
vanquished cannot procure peace on
his own terms. Memphis News
Scimitar. '
The indictment of even one Beef
Trust president will be cheerfully ac
cepted by most of us as an earnest
of better things to come. Indian
apolis News.
Thank the Lord the dispensary
in Asheville was defeated by 406 ma
jority. If a hell must run, let the
world do it, and not the church.
Hickory Mercury.
Cerebro-spinal meningitis is said
to have appeared in malignant form
in Germany. We wonder what cerebro-spinal
meningitis is in German.
Rochester Herald.
At Pulaski, Va.. Friday a negro
was indicted for murder, tried, con
victed and sentenced to death in less
than an hour. The swiftness of the
proceedings reminds one of records
made in divorce cases. Charlotte
Observer.