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4 i terpri VOL. II. RALEIGH, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1905. NO; 16 .Eh eig SCo' BILKINS IN WASHINGTON. The flajor Has Reached Washington and Gives Some Hints of How He is Impressed - No Crops at the Agri cultural Department Visited the White House and Finds the Presi dent Away from Home. Washington, D. C, Aug. 2nd.' Correspondence of the Enterprise. I got ter Washington, the Capitol ov these grate United States, day before yisterday. Hit iz the pur tiest town in the country not ter hev a dispensary. I hev done fell in love with the whole town, an' I aint sirprised that Billy Bryan wanted ter be Preserdent, also Tom Watson, an' several thousands ov other paterotick sitizens. Hit iz a grate place ter live in at $50,000 a year an' git a furnished house an' $75,000 extra fer gas bills, servants an' writ in' paper. If I hed nothin' ter do I wouldn't mind bein' Preser dent a year or two ter keep time frum h an gin' heavy on mv hands. They aint but one drawback fer sil ver men like me an Bryan, an' that iz the gold roof on the Congreshunal Library. But we wouldn't hev fain tin' spells over that long fer we would hev the gold nickel-plated. Washington was first started by George Washington, who, whin he " wanted enything would set hiz teeth ttber, an' ; hatchit. George got up a big reputashun when he wuz a kid by admittin' thet he 'cut a cher ry tree down. I expeck the cherry tree never had eny cherries on hit an' the old man Washington didn't care a copper nohow. Washington City iz located on the Potomick river five miles frum Aleckzander, Virginy, an' rite at Georgetown. The highest thing in the city iz the Washington monu ment. The next highest iz board an' rents. Hit iz rite at one side ov the country an' that makes hit expen sive ter cum frum the far West on business. Before the day ov rail rodes the patriot in the West wouldn't know which side had car ried the eleckshun fer six months af ter hit wuz over. By the time they would git thar lookin' fer a job the offises would awl be filled an' the administrashun half over. Even now a man lies ter live East ov Chicago if he gits a show at a perlitical job. I axed a feller ter pint out the way ter the Agricultural Depart mint. He tole me how ter go an' sed they had the whole thing turned wrong side out a investigatin' ov hit an' they wuzent much ter see. I tole him I hed seed awl that in the papers an' awl I wanted wuz ter take a look at the crops an' see if they wuz beatin' us plain farmers. I looked till mv eyes hurt an' I haint seed eny crops yit. Must be mostly book farmin' in the Agricultural De partmint. They hed better plant more com an' things an' less graft. While I am here I'm a-goin' ter reckomend that they increese the corn an' perta ter akerage ov the de partment an' reduse the skandal akerage. I've bin huntin' eround fer the members ov Kongress an' Sinators frum North Carolina, They may be ' lurkin' eround here, but I can't find 'em. I reckon they air down ter Atlantick City or sum ov them places whar the rich folks wurk in summur. If I wuz in Kongress Washington would furnish enuff fun fer me, an' I'd be here awl the time tryin' ter do sumthin' fer my down trodden constituents every day in the year. Not bein' up much on offysial etty ket an' never havin' tackled a Preser dent, I felt sorter skittish erbout goin' ter the White House an' hev bin puttin' hit off az long az I could. I went inter a clothin' store on Pen silvany avenoo, an' axed a feller how I orter rig up an' if hit wuz K. O. ter wear one ov them forked-tail ball-room coats when makin' a plain business call on the Preserdent. He sed hit wuz not the custom ter wear cvenin' suits in the mornin' nor churn hats. Sez he: "Just go like you air. Like az not you will find the Preserdent busy at wurk in hiz oftis without eny coat on an' he wont expeck you ter put on eny style. What you wanter do iz ter march rite ud ter him an' say howdy Mr. Preserdent in a perlite way, but leave the! impression on hiz mind that you air jist az gude az he iz or a little better. Bein' Preserdent don't make a man too gude ter be Spoken ter, an' grate riches visa versa. This thing ov bowin' the knee ter big offisials an' rich ducks iz awl foolishness." I thanked him fer the inferma shun an' advice an started up Pen silvahy avenoo tef "the "White House with my teeth sot tergether deter mined ter hev it over without delay in' ov the job. When I started inter the Whi.te House yard with awl the purty walks, grass an' flowers, I left purty brave. By the time I hed gone .twentv steps my knees felt like they were havin' a chill. I seed sum de tectives lookin' outin' ov the cor ners ov their eyes at me, but they put me down az a harmless sitizen, I reckon. When I got ter the front door ov the White House they wuz a feller standin' thar who looked like he mite be the minister frum Ingland or France. I stopped an' sez: "Gude mornin'. " He sed : "Gude mornin', whut kin I do fer you ?" "I I w wanter s s see the Perserdent," sez I. "I am sorry," sez he, "but the Preserdent iz at Oyster Bay to-day." Blamed if I didn't feel sorter re Ice ved when he sed that, fer awl I wanted ter see him. "When will he be home?" sez I. "I don't know," sez he, "important business may bring him here eny day. How long will you be in the city V sez he. "Till the Preserdent comes," sez I. "Want er leave your card?" sez he. "Haint got eny cards," sez I. "Do you mean playin' cards, or them little fellers with your name printed on them ?" sez I. "The ones with your name on them," sez he. So I tole him goodbye an' I put out down Pensilvany avenoo ergin lookin' fer a printin' offis. I'll watch the papers an' when the Preserdent cums home I'll be reddy ter shove my card at him an' talk business. While I'm waitin' I'm a-goin' ter see awl the crooks an' turns in this town, an' climb the Washington monument, an' I'll write ergin. Az Before, ZEKE BILKINS. FRANK MOORE ARRESTED. Nothing is more real than what is spiritual, as approaching nearest to the nature cf all reality, namely, God I Himself. Thomas Boston. Confessed That He Was Implicated in . the ilurder of Night Watchman Strickland; But Later Denies Every thing. Frank Moore, white, of this city, has been in Wake County jail for two weeks on the charge of being im plicated in the murder of Watchman Strickland, robbing the safe and burning the Standard Oil Plant in this city just after midnight on May 20th last. S ince the crime officers here and detectives have been making every effort to run down some clue which would lead to the arrest and convic tion of the criminals. Insurance Commissioner Young has been as sisting, and Detective Scott, of his department, has been busy. Frank Moore was arrested by De tective Waterberg, of New York, and Deputy Sheriff Walters two weeks ago, and the matter was kept a se cret, as the officers hoped to capture parties named by Moore as having taken part in the crime. During the recent term of Crim inal Court here, a gang of negroes who had been arrested by Detective Pittman, of the S. A. L. Railroad Company, were being tried. Frank Moore, who has a shady record, was present and suggested to Pittman that he ask, or cause the Solicitor to ask. Burke Burch, one of the ac cused negroes, "what he knew about the murder, robbery and burning" at the plant of the Standard Oil Com pany. This was Moore's1 undoing, and he has been watched and ques tioned by the detectives since. He finally told the detectives that he was near the scene of the crime and saw two or more persons board a Seaboard Air Line train bound north. Still later he is said to have made a full confession, naming Earle Jones, George Williams, white, and Burke Burch, colored, as associates. He claimed that he adn Burke Burch kept watch to prevent outside inter ference, while Earle Jones and George Williams went in, killed Watchman Strickland, burst open the safe and fired the building. Burch is on the chain gang in this county, Earle Jones is in jail at Norfolk and the alleged George Wil liams is said to be at some place unknown. Earle Jones was placed in jail at Norfolk, if the records are correct, the day before the crime was committed here, but the date may be wrong, and it may have been that he arrived in Norfolk via the Seaboard Air Line on the morning of the 20th instead of the 19th, as the police blotter there shows, and was arrested for "jumping" a train, his object being to put a good deal of distance between him and Ra leigh. Moore is said to have Riven the confession in the office of the State Insurance Commissioner in the presence of1 the officers. It was re duced to writing and sworn to by Moore. He was then quietly placed in jail. Since going to jail Moore declares that his "confession" was false in every particular, but, of course, that will not clear him unless he can be found innocent of the crime. Moore's father and brother, who live here, declare that Frank was at home all night, and went to Har- den's stables to begin work at 5 o'clock on the morning of the 20th, and, of course, they may be correct in believing what they state, yet it is in conflict with Moore's confes sion, and he may have left the house after bedtime. Other parties, both white and black, are suspected of complicity in the crime, and it is likely that the detectives have unearthed some of the parties who did the work, and it only remains to get the necessary proof, even though Moore's confes sion turns out to bo imaginary as to his part in it, for some of the par ties named have records black enough to make it easy to believe that they are capable of greater crimes. How Rockefeller Lives. ' For several years Mr. Rockefeller has spent practically all of the year at one or another of his three homes Forest Hill, a country place near Cleveland, Ohio, where he lives from May until October ; his New York town house on Fifty-fourth Street, or his great estate at Pocantico Hills, near Tarry town-on the-Hudson. It is fair to judge something of a man's character from his homes particu larly when the man is one who is freed from the necessity of consider ing cost in building. Mr. Rockefel ler's homes force several reflections on one. Certainly they show his cult of the unpretentious. No one of the three houses he occupies has any claims to rank among the notable homes of the country. Thev are all unpretending even to the uoint of be ing conspicuous. Not only that, they show him to have no pleasure in no ble architecture, to appreciate noth ing of the beauty of fine lines and decorations. Mr. Rockefeller's fa vorite home, the house at Forest Hill, is a monument of cheap ugliness a great modern structure built in the first place as a sanitarium, it is amazing that any one not compelled to do so should live in its shadow. His city house is without distinction, and there has never been an appro priate mansion at Pocantico Hills. . . . . . The daily life on his great estates is studiously simple. Mr. Rockefeller regulates his household as he does his business. Family and servants are trained to strict econo my. There is no more gas burned than is needed, no unnecessary heat ing, no wasteful providing. There is nothing for dismay, nothing squan dered in the senseless American way to prove you are rich, so rich you need not care. On every hand there is frugality and carefulness. And this frugality certainly is a welcome contrast to the wanton lavishness which on everv side of us corrupts taste and destroys the sense of values. One would be inclined to like Mr. Rockefeller the better for his plain living if somehow one did not feel that here was something more than frugality that here was parsimony not only that, that here was par simony made a virtue, and that one of the chief vanities of this "richest man in the world" is seeing how little he can spend on his household, as that of many another rich man is seeing how much he can spend. Mc Clure's Magazine. The Fisher cigars are rapidly be coming popular,
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