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THE Eot erpFis VOL. II. RALEIGH, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1905. NO. 7 c y LETTER FROM BILKINS. The Major Writes on Sundry Ques tionsMrs. Bilkins Organized a Burglar Scare and Caused Lots of Trouble-fir. Bilkins Tries the Vir tues of a Famous Home Remedy Prefers the Disease Rather Than the Cure. Correspondence of the EnterDrise. Wimin air a lot ov trubel, an' still I reckon they air a lot ov comfort, too. Betsy cum purty nigh runnin' me distrackted one nite last week, an' awl erbout nothin', too. She hed bin readin' erbout burglers an' high way robbers till she begun ter think that we couldn't git through another nite without havin' the house robbed an' awl ov us killed. Betsy waked me up punchin' me in the ribs an' whis pered that they wuz a burgler in the house a-stealin evervthin' down stairs. "You air dreamm'." sed I. She 'lowed: "No I ain't: I herd him walkin' plain az day." "Well I'd ruther let 'em carry off a few things than ter go down thar an' git as sassinated, sed I. "My lands," sed Betsy, "didn't I allers hear you talkin' erbout whut you'd do if burglers ever cum foolin' eround? Now here you air a-tryin' ter crawfish You air a nurtv con- sterable and justis ov the peece ter lie m bed an' let 'em take everv thing in the house. I'll git the poker an go down an clean 'em up mv- Betsy hed touched a tinder snot when she menshuned mv bein' an' of- bee-hives an' ax the bees ter cum an' fiser ov the law. In the curmoshun I sting you, or do you hev ter punch I hed clean fergot that. "Awl rite." 'em with a stick an' take whut they . . -a . sez 1, sorter cam-like, "you .list go ter give you till you git tired r sleep an keep frum gittin' scared: "Land sakes I don't know how hit I'll git my pistle an' if they iz env iz wurked." sez Betsv: "but wa kin if burglers downstairs they'll soon look others kin. Take off your shirt so an' armed with Gatlin' guns. By this time my knees wuz bumpin' tergeth- er an 1 lelt a chokin' sensashun like a man dyin' frum SDontanyus cumbustshun. After listemn' an' hearin' nothin', I sed nurty loud: "If thar iz enyone m my house I com mand you in the name ov Guvernor Glenn an' the ballance ov the State ov North Carolina ter disperse forth with or you or they will git the full penalty az made an' nurvided." Awl at once a cat begun ter howl. "Th-a-t i-z th-e bur-g-lar," sed Betsy; an' I knowed hit wuz, too. Hit wuz a stray cat, an' I reckon we hed shut hit up before we went ter bed an' hit couldn't git out an' hed made the noise Betsy sed she herd. But that hain't the worst trubel Betsv hez got me into sinse I writ you last. I got up the other mornin' .1 wiui one ov tne worst cases ov rheumatiz you ever red ov. I could- n t sit up nor lie down. I did'nt think hit would last long fer hit cum on so bad rite at once I knowed the rheumatiz couldn't keep up that lick long. "Why don't you try the bee- stmg cure F sed Betsy ; "hit will cure you, the patters sa-T, an' you will never hev hit ergin." "I've red that, too," sed I, "an' I'll bet sum polly- tishun got that up ter beat the other candydate." "No hit iz true," sed Betsy ; "I've red hit lots ov times. Hit will be sorter paineful fer a lit tle while, but thet beats sufferin' fer years." '.; '.; . ' "How, do you wurk hit?" sez I. "Do you go an' stand in front ov the 0.11 an' several more cum out an' looked at me in a solium manner. Betsy wuz huntin' fer a stick ter stir 'em up. Sez I: "Do the bees take vour temoeratur, look at your tongue or feel your pulse ter whut the truble iz?" "You keep quiet an' don't spring eny ioohshness, sed Betsy; "bees don't purtend ter cure enything but rheumatizum, an' thev guess that folks know whut iz the matter when thev call fer physick." "Now cum- pose yourself," continued Betsy, vou will soon be a well man." She begun ter beat on the side ov the hive with the stick an' the bees beo-un ter boil out lookin' az mad az wet hens. I reckon one ov them pinted out my bare shoulder, fer er bout a hatful ov 'em lit on hit an' I soon thought that sumbody wuz shootin' red-hot needles into mv shoulder with a Mouser riffel. I lumped up an' run fer the house. yell in' : "Take 'em off, take 'em off. they air killin' me." Betsy run an' knocked 'em off of me with her apron an' tuk me in the house. You never seed sich a shoulder az I had in an hour. Hit swelled ter kill, an' hit iz sore yit. But the rheumatiz took a hike an' left fer narts un known. I'm still debatin' whether the medisin ain't wurse than the diseese Truly, ZEKE BILKINS. QUESTIONS ABOUT TOTERS." PASS like a pepper-box lid." I got my pants on in a jiffy an' started ter put on my shoes an' dropned one ov em on the floor. Hit made a noize loud enuff ter wake the nabors. Betsy 'lowed: "YouH scare 'em awl erway." Ter awl intints an' purposes I wuz tryin' ter keep auiet theoret J. 1 11 1 . .1 -r i.i4. ncKaiiy, dui secretly x didn't care how much racket that shoe made. At last I go mv shoes on an' started fer the door leadin' etr the stairs. Bets" sed she wuz goin' with me an' die with me. "Go back," sez I. "one ov us iz enuff ter be sackerfised on the alter ov duty." I could tell bv hlQ flTYIQ mn rrltl-n scared rite. Cold chills were sorter chasm' up an' down my SD.vnall col lum. But I couldn't erfford ter back out. We went slippin' erlong ter the hed ov the stairs an' stopped ter listen. Everything wuz quiet. I tried ter git Betsy ter go back. Sez I. out loud : "If they iz enybody in this house thev will soon think that Togo hez made a midnite attack with hiz warshins an' torpedo boats, fer my pistle will shoot six miles." I thought thet would make the enemy retreat if he wuz up ter hiz busi ness. But I couldn't hear enybody gittin' out;. By this time my teeth wuz rattlin' tergether an' my back bone felt like sixteen feet ov the North Pole. I felt sorter sea-sick an' wished I hed a lemon ter suck. If Betoy hadn't bin rite with me I would hev gone back an' reported nothin' doin'. By this time we wuz half way down-stairs. Them burg lers, if they wuz eny thar, eeemed they kin git at your shoulder an' we will try the remedy." The Tribute of Suffering. It is those whom we love most upon whom we lay the heaviest bur dens. We do not turn to strangers or nutried acquaintances when we would lean hard on some one in a crisis of life. We tax most those whom we trust most. And what is true of our relations with each other is true of the Father's relations with His children. He does not send stress and burdens to weaklings. "God I agreed, fer I wuz sufferin' turri- I must love you very much to trust you ble. Betsy put on her bonnet an' I" with such suffering," said one to a tied a hankercheef eround part ov I friend whose burden seemed unbear- her face an' nut on sum thick gloves. I able. But God does for us what we We marched out ter whar the bees I cannot do for each other; with the air. I felt wurse than I ever did I suffering He sends the strength to when I wuz goin' ter hev a tooth I bear it. Every fresh burden is proof pulled or when I wuz reddy ter git I f His love, of His confidence in us, married. I hed put a sheet over my I oi Ills plans ior our rehnmg. Ji.very rite shoulder and kept the left one I new test brings with it more than bare so the bees wouldn't treat one I enough of His strength to meet it shoulder fer rheumatiz an' the other fer newmony or sumthin' else like sum ov the other docktors. The bees were goin' out ov the boxes an' cum in' back ergin like they never got tired. "Bees may know how ter dock tor hives," sed I, "but I'll be blamed if they kin cure a stubborn diseese like rheumatiz." "Try 'em anyhow," sed Betsy. "Hit won't cost enything if hit don't cure you. triumphantly. And as we look back at our past experiences, we see now the reason for rejoicing in every such experience. Could we order our lives better ? Sunday-school Times. King Oscar has had a good chance to see how capable Crown Prince Gustaf is of governing the kingdom, but he doesn t show any inclination to stand aside permanently and let Git down on your knees the young man have the job. Boston an turn your lelt shoulder ter the hive like a smart boy." "Awl rite," sed I, "but remember that my blood will be upon your hed if they kill me." "Nonsence," sed Betsy, "a few bee stmgs never killed enybody." I fol- lered the direckshuns an' got down on my knees. A few old lazy bees were sittin' eround the little doors ter the hive an' they sorter bowed up their backs an' Jooked ajt me az if surprized at the way I wuz acktin.' "I'm the first pashunt these bees ever hed," sez I, "an' Fiji bet tihey give me Globe. The Beef Trust officials who are on the way to Europe must have taken steerage passage. Men who have been losing money at the rate Mr. Garfield says the Beef Trust has could hardly afford to travel first class. Kansas City Journal. per m -tw be about ten feet hifbl lnt& wWr m F? Chronicle, A Chicago woman shot and killed her husband to keep him at home. And yet, unless she took the precau tion to provide herself with a cold storage plant, her plans mav slightly interfere with the rules of the Chica- p-o Health Department. Augusta Some Nuts That Are Up to the News and Observer to Crack. To the Editor of the Morning Post: I just want space enough to ask a few questions about passes and "pass toters." The News and Observer has been indulging in a lot of wild and reckless talk about the use of passes by railroad directors, and has been particularly exercised over the "tot ing" of a pass by J. Elwood Cox, of High Point. That paper has alleged that Mr. Cox was influenced to give testimony in favor of the railroads before the Senate committee on rate regulation, by his railroad pass. It has not, however, been charged that Mr. Cox was in possesssion of a pass in violation of law. All this reminds me of a story I have heard concerning the way the business manager of the News and Observer, Mr. W. II. Bagley, who is a brother-in-law of the editor, attach ed himself to passes that are good over the Atlantic Coast Line, the Seaboard Air Line and the Southern Railway, which said nasses hf nspa freely for the benefit of the News and Ubserver. Mr. Bagley, so the story goes, secured those passes by virtue of a directorship which he holds with the Atlantic and lorth Carolina Railroad, an appointment he received at the hands of Governor Aycock. while that road was under the control of the State. Now. did Mr. Daniels, the editor of the News and Observer, ask for that appointment for Mr. Bacrlev in - - - i order that his paper might get the beneht oi the passes ? And after he had been usincr 'the passes about a year was it not found, upon investigation, that Mr. Bagley was not a stockholder fas reouired by law) in the road of which he was a director ( When this discovery was madp. did not some person borrow a few shares oi stock for Mr. Bagley and cause them to be transferred to him on the booLs of the company in order to cure the defect and thus qualify him as a director? And is not Mr. Baelev still a di rector in the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad on the strenerth of borrowed stock, and still using the passes obtained from that source for the service of the News and Obser ver and for the benefit of Mr. Jose- phus Daniels? Was Mr. Bacrlev made a direntnr in that road in order that tho influence of passes might close the mouth of the News and Observer while the investigation of chareres acrainst thfi management of that road was going on? ' ' If not, then why was it done? Were there not enoucrh bona fide stockholders to occupy all the direc torships? If the editor of the News and Ob server was not influenced in favor of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad management by the passes obtained for his business manager, why should he charere Mr. Cox with being influenced by the pass he holds? Is the integrity of the News and Ob server, or its editor, of a higher de gree than that of other mortals? And lastly, what do people who live in glass houses want to be throw ing stones for? J, M, (treensborp, Jf, Q M&y 30,
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