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THE Knterpir: VOL. II. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1905. NO. 4 ise LETTER FROM BILKINS. The Major Arrives at Home and Is Now a flagistrate Has a Poor Opin ion of the Prodigal Son-He Will Perform Marriages and Issue Di vorcesMrs. Biikins dot a New Dress After AH The Major Thinks Big Sleeves are Unconstitutional. At Home, N. C. Correspondence of the Enterprise. . Well, I'm at home ergin. You or ter a seed how glad Betsy wuz ter see me. She hadn't bin writin' much ter me lately, sorter makin' out like she hed f ergot me. The wimmin air up ter awl sorts or capers when hit cums ter managin' men. But I keep rite up with the perseshun an' kin cut a few capers myself. I wuz glad ter git home. Betsy treated me like the prodygal son an' killed the fatted calf an' fell on my neck an' wept. She awlso killed chickens and baked cakes. After travelin' eround az long az I hev bin erway f rum home I felt sorter like the prodygal son. I didn't eat corn an' shucks with the swine an' other cattel. But in travelin' eround a feller hez ter eat a gude meny things that hain't very palpatatin'. I hain't never thought that the prodygal son wux eny thing but a blockhead no how; he wuz a slow coach. If you let one ov the boys get erway f rum. home nowadays he wouldn't eat corn cobs with the swine very long. Most ov 'em would be slick enuff ter eat sum ov the swine, and when they'd git gude an' hungry they'd barbecue a pig before you could bat your eye. My lokermotive affixia iz gittin' er long fine az silk. I'm now a magis trate an' consterable, too, an' I'll pull 'em cumin' an' goin'. I've done got swore in az a magisterate an' am ready ter try cases an' marry awl the folks who don't know eny better than ter git hitched. I'm a-goin' ter spring sum new rinkles in marryin' folks. One thing iz, after I git through splicin' them, I'll bring the obseekies ter a close by addin': "An' may the Lord hev mersy on your poor souls." After I git started gude I'll charge the usual prices fer splicin'. But durin' the first month I'll marry awl gentlemen fer half price if they air accomranyed by a lady. I'll awlso keep divorse blanks fer sale fer the accomydashun ov my friends who air wantin' ter die happy. Betsy says I orter dress un an' look dignified an' prosperous now. I reckon hit . iz gude advise; but I'll bet she hez a skeem ov some sort on hand. She wants ter put in her ap plicashun ter dress up an' look digni fied, too. But I'll be sertin' ter dress up more or less. The 'next time you see me I'll look az fine an' as digni fied az the chaplain ov a dispensery. Betsy awlso wants me ter read up on the different laws an' be ready fer enything that cums erlong. She wuz talkin' yisterday an' sed: 'Zeke, if sumbody would cum here an' want you ter ishue a rit ov habyus corrpus, would you know awl the twists an' turns?" "Sertinly I would, my dear," sez I. "At eny rate I'd ishue sum sort ov a writ, an' if eny body found fault with hit I'd fine 'em fer contemnt ov court." Betsy hez bin tendin' ter the farm purty well an' hez redused the cotton ackerage accordin' ter Hoyle. 1 She awlso bought a new dress an' made hit up while I wuz erway. I knowed they wuz sum devilment goin' on or she wouldn't a consented fer me ter stay erway so long. She awlso bought a new hat ; one ov them that iz shaped like a cabbage leaf. Hit took ten yards ov cloth ter make her new dress an' twenty-five yards ter make the sleeves, they bein' sleeves ov the mammouth variety. Them new fash ioned sleeves look like two more skirts hed bin sowed into the shoul ders ov the dress. I'd like ter know what lunatick got up that style ov big sleeves. If I knowed him, an' could git him in my court, I'd give him sixty years on the rodes, with a purviso that if he iz livin' at the end ov sixty years he be then an' thar cloryformed ter death. I beleeve them sleeves air unconstertushional enyway, an' I'm goin' ter look into hit. If hit iz not, I kin isshue an injunckshun an' keep enybody f rum wearin' them in Martin Creek Town ship; an' I'll do hit. Yours truly, . ZEKE BILKINS. JAPANESE ACTIVITY. Pressing Line vitch's Advance Posts East and West of Railroad in Force. St. Petersburg, May 8. Interest is once more directed to Manchuria, the news from the front indicating that Field Marshal Oyama is press ing General Linevitch's posts east and west of the railroad with consid erable foTce, as if about to undertake a general offensive movement. The Russians are offering slight resist ance and are falling back upon their first line of defense. The Russian advance post covers from a front of about one hundred miles, extend ing from Singtmantsu on the Liao River in a southeasterly direction across the railroad above Changtu to the Mandarin road leading to Kirin to Kamal Pass about seventy miles due east of Tie Pass. London, May 8. A dispatch to The Telegram from Tokio says that Rus sia recently accepted the Japanese of fer to exchange prisoners that was made through the American Ambas sador at St. Petersburg last Decem ber. Paris, May 8. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Echo de Paris says that the members of the sect of Old Believers, who recently had their religious privileges restored to hom by the Czar, have decided to give $500,000,000 for the construction of a second track on the trans-Siberian Railway.;' The Proper Way. "So Wiseman is married at last. He used to say if he ever got married he'd manage his wife all right." "Well, he's pretty shrewd; he's go ing about it in the right way." "Is he? How?" "Letting her have her own way." Philadelphia Press. Thoroughness. Thoroughness is the twin brother of honesty. When an employee gets the reputation of doing a thing not pretty nearly but exactly right it has more influence with his employer than brilliancy of talent, Success Maga zine. '; A GROWING TOWN. Clayton, the Best Town in Johnson County, and What Is Going on There.' .;' "Is your paper growing?" asked Mr. Ashley Home at Clayton a few days ago. "It is," replied the Enter prise man; "hard worts is bringing success." "Yes, and that is the real secret of all success," said Mr. Horne. "I have found that hard work and close attention to business is the only lever with which I can move things," con tinued Mr. Horne. And he ought to know. Mr. Horne is a success in a half dozen ways, and he ought to know every detail of what is necessary to bring success. He is one of the largest farmers in the State, one of the largest merchants, interested in several coton mills, two or three fertilizer factories, two or more banks, one or more insurance companies, and President of the State Fair Association. Of course he has been busy, and he is busy now, and he says that is the secret of suc cess. Young men, stick a pin here, no matter what your occupation!. And Clayton is a busy town, and a pretty town. It is located fifteen miles east of Raleigh, in the edge of Johnston County, has a population of twelve hundred excellent people, is surrounded by a good country, has good streets, pure water, flowers, trees, and everything necessary in the making of a town. The people are united and progres sive. When anything is to be done they go and do it. If the Ilornes', Barbours, Pages', Barnes' and other good citizens there want a cotton mill or some other factory, they build it while some other towns are mere ly discussing the subject. The Clayton Cotton Mill is soon to be enlarged to twice its present ca pacity, which will place it in the class of large mills. A fertilizer factory has been started in conection with the cotton-seed oil mill there, and seven hundred tons were made this spring. The Clayton Buggy and Furniture Company was recently es tablished and is doing a good busi ness. Recently Northern capitalists established a large lumber business there, and they send out two car-load of lumber per day. The Clayton Bank is doing a good business, and so is the new High School, which is one of the best in the State. Clayton has many beautiful resi dences, and more are being built. I noticed nearly a dozen new residences in different parts of the town, either just finished or in course of erec tion. Clayton will be heard from of tener in the future, for it is a com ing town. Two Raleighites have cast their lot with Clayton, and are helping to build up the town. Mr. C. W. Carter is a member of the Clayton Hardware Company, and is doing well. Mr. Eugene Richardson is a member of the firm of R. B. Whit ley & Company, and is doing a suc cessful business. Both will be pleas antly remembered in Raleigh. If those States south of us keep af ter the lynchers they may finally have to hang some of them to prove that they are acting in good faith. Durham Herald, CREAM OF THE PRESS. Hereafter it will be "the defalca tion that made Milwaukee famous." Hackensack Record. Careful computations shows that the poor-house is not making any gains on Mr. Carnegie. Detroit Free Press. V '. When the peaches are ripe and on the table, with cream and sugar at hand, then we will consider the crop safe. Raleigh Post. The doctors are saying tuberculosis is not incurable. ; But people go on dying with it, like they do with every other disease. Greenville Reflector. Dr.Washington Gladden still hopes to make his command of language prevail over Mr. Rockefeller's com mand of money. Washington Star. It is now suggested that Mr. Frick be made Secretary of the Navy. He has had much experience in floating steel on water. -New York A meri can. : The latest bulletin has it that Mr. Bryan is now completely organized for 1908. George Fred Williams has also begun to organize himself. De troit Free Press. ' V : '':' Now that the $100,000 has been fin ally accepted, it would be just like Dr. Gladden to insist that all of it be spent in converting Mr. Rocke feller. Atlanta Journal. " - A former employe of Russell Sage has sued the multi-millionario for $800. Does he think a mere court could extract money from "Uncle Russell ?" Baltimore Sun. "Cossacks wounded many children, women and men in breaking up a fes tival in Caucassia," says a news item from Russia. Terrible fellows those Cossacks at home Portland Ar gus. .": "Yes," said the fat passenger, "my life once hung by a slender thread." "Why, didn't the mob use a rope ?" queried the hardware drummer, as he lighted a fresh coffin nail. Columbus Dispatch. New Jersey has authorized the in corporation of a hide concern with a capital of $80,000,000. New York has a Hdye concern with a surplus of $80,000,000 that is causing no end of trouble. Washington Post. Two prominent Paris officials en gaged in mortal combat on the field of honor last week. The duel, which was in the French style, was unsual ly ferocious, one of the contestants, so the report runs, being badly scratched on the finger. Richmond Times-Dispatch. ': ' Forty years ago, or even twenty years ago, who would have ventured to predict that Fitzhugh Lee would die a general officer on the retired list of the United States Army ? Surely "the war is ever," even though an occasional family jar may momen tarily ruffle the serenity of the sister hood of States. Chicago Chronicle.
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