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THE RALEIGH ENTERPRISE.
Thursday, September 21, 1905.
THE RALEIGH ENTERPRISE.
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1904, at the postofflce at Rale'prh. N. c, under
the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879.
Korea seems to wear the Japanese
ruli modestly and quietly.
Nick ouaht to have held another
peace conference before he got into
that scrap with Japan.
Durham is enlarging her jail and
will add all modern improvements.
That town is always on the grow.
Governor Glenn narrowly escaped
an automobile accident in New Eng
land. But others do that every day.
It may not be news, but we wish to
make the broad assertion once again,
that all the cranks do not live in
Kansas.
At Advance a few days ago, bees
stung a horse to death. Better call
the late Legislature together and
pass some more bee laws.
The Czar of Russia is about to call
for another peace conference! at the
Hague. All right, Nick, the other
countries are not afraid of you in
peace or war.
The Standard Oil Company has
raised the price of oil three times
inside of two weeks. Yet this State
and other States have plenty of anti-trust
laws. Nobody is enforcing
them.
If Mr. Roosevelt has done any
thing "they" said he would do, or
has failed to do anything "they"
said he would not do, we do not re
member what it is. About time to
pack away a few campaign lies in
moth balls.
There is a movement on foot, or on
hand, in this State, to abolish hand
shaking. With kissing and hand
shaking on the retired list, we don't
see much left except sawing wood,
ploughing, and a few other old-fash-'
inoed games.
Remember how Ex-Judge Alton B.
Parker inveighed against the trusts
and corporations last fall? Well, he
has been made attorney for the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company,
one of the biggest in the lot. And
they do say that he gets $100,000 per
annum, which sounds fishy.
ANENT riR. SULLY.
Mr. Daniel Sully is advertising and
offering farmers or others a chance
to put up money to support his ef
forts in boosting the cotton market.
He offers to give all the profits except
20 per cent.
Mr. Sully is a hustler. We do not
wish to discourage his efforts. But
the farmers who belong to the South
ern Cotton Association want to steer
clear of such speculation. Sully may
win, he may not. His intentions are
hazardous, no matter how good they
may be, and we presume that he is as
honest as any of his class.
Every farmers' organization has
been side-tracked by benevolent out
siders, or persons who should have
been outsiders. As long as they
worked for the "good of the order,"
it was all right. But some of them
began to work for number one long
before their efforts were exhausted
in behalf of the farmers.
In other words, the farmers should
only hitch up with farmers and tried
and true friends.
We have never been able to see
any advantage in the dispensary
method of selling Whiskey. At the
same time wo grant others the right
to think otherwise. But since so
many flies are found in the whiskey
dealt out by the Raleigh division of
the G. M. L, according to the testi
mony given before the investigating
committee, it dawns upon us that the
mixing of flies with whiskey may be
the plan to discourage drinking. If
so, score one for the G. M. I.
OWN A FARfl.
With the uresent high prices of
farm products, from eggs to cotton,
or from pigs to horses, and a pros
pect of a continuance of the good
prices for years, comes the oppor
tunity to own your own farm, an op
portunity never before equalled.
How sweet the word "home." To
own your own farm means that you
own your home. To own your home
under the blue canopy in North Caro
lina is something to look forward to.
The farm may not be vast in extent,
nor as fertile as some others. But it
is your own, your home.
In some portions of the great West
there is still cheap land. But there
are disadvantages. The young man
may go there and grow up with the
country. But the man with a fam
ily and but little money is taking
upon himself a herculean task when
he goes there and risks getting a
foothold.
After all, North Carolina is de
veloping as fast as any other State,
and the manufacturing towns and
communities are becoming good mar
kets. Hard work and good manage
ment will yield good returns here
Land is high in some portions of
the State. But in many sections
good land can be purchased at fair
prices. In Wake County, one of the
most por.ulous and most favored
counties, farms of any size can be
purchased at very reasonable prices,
in some instances on long time, or,
any man who means business can
borrow money on the farm to pay
for it. At present prices any indus
trious family can live and pay for a
one, two or three hundred acre farm
in ten years or less.
Of course you cannot purchase a
highly improved farm for a song. A
highly improved farm is Hot neces
sary. No man can jump into a good
business without giving something in
return; neither can he build up a
business without hardship and the
practice of rigid economy.
In the ninety-seven counties of
this'State there are millions of acres
of cheap lands cheap to-day but
prices will not stay down. In five
or ten vears, if the present rate of
development continues, there will be
an average increase of anywhere
from twenty-five to one hundred per
cent in the cost of farm lands. Then
they will be almost out of reach of
the pocket of the poor man. Buy
lands now if you would own your
own home.
We respectfully call the attention
of the city health authorities to the
new foci on Fayetteville Street, be
tween the court-house and Pullen
Building.
What Farm Women Can Do.
A young girl who had visited in
the city, and knew what city people
liked, made up dainty cakes", picked
fresh fruits, gathered fresh flowers
and sent her brother at daybreak to
a hotel on the lake's edge eight miles
away. He carried his wares - in a
basket on horseback. When the
boarders came out on the porch each
morning they found him waiting, and
his basket always was emptied
quickly.
In a small mountain village of
Pennsylvania last summer tourists
who went to the general store for
notions and other trifles forgotten
in the rush of packing, were amazed
to find a display of handsomely em
broidered turnovers, shirtwaist sets,
yokes and sleeves for underwear, etc.
The city women bought up every
pieces on sale and inquired eagerly
for the address of the worker. Her
prices were so absurdly low that the
bargain hunter fever seized upon the
fair tourists. They found her to be
a farmer's daughter, whose home was
eight miles from the village. Being
a clever girls, she soon found that
her prices were too low, but raising
them did not disconcert her cus
tomers. They not only gave her or
ders to fill and deliver by mail, but
they acquainted her with the meth
ods of reaching exchanges for wo
men's work, and now she has an es
tablished trade.
A girl who has a gift for drying
and pressing flowers has paid her
way through normal school each year
by selling little booklets of pressed
wild flowers to guests at a nearby
mer resort, and her pressed autumn
leaves go to the city florists for fu
neral wreathes.
The country woman who finds that
the fruit is going to waste, ripening
faster than it can be marketed, or
that the market price is absurdly low,
will de well to dry or preserve it.
Preserves, jellies, home-canned fruits
and relishes of all sorts, notably
sweet pickles and tomato catsup, can
be sold at a good profit through wo
men's exchanges. If a woman makes
them in quantities she will do just
as well and have less trouble if she
deals with first-class grocery firms
in the nearest city. 'Exchange.
There will be a special meeting of
the Merchants' Association to-night
at 8.30 o'clock in the association
rooms. At this meeting the constitu
tion and by-laws will be presented to
its members.
Henry Adams, a negro, was lodared
in jail from New Light Township
yesterday on a commitment by Mag
istrate W. D. Sanderlin charged with
"drawing a pistol and punching with
knucks."
OPINIONS IN A NUTSHELL
The peace terms are so unpopular
in Tokio that there are indications
that a Democratic party may be
formed in Japan. Kansas City Star.
If anyone has a right to riot in the
East, it is the Koreans. But evi
dently they know when they have got
enough. New York Evening Mail.
Senator Bailey denies having lik
ened Senator Cullom to a "nice old
woman." Then what kind of an old
woman is Senator Cullom ? Houston
Chronicle.
War now is only a question of
cash; that is, a nation buys from the
other nations, through their bankers,
the privilege of sacrificing her own
citizens. Life.
Did you ever notice how man's in
clinations differ ? One will hurt
himself working, while another will
hurt himself to keep from working.
Staunton (Va.) Leader.
The American hen has a right to
cluck and cackle. The past year with
her eggs, her chickens, she added
$280,000,000 to the wealth of the
country. Baltimore Sun.
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There are still several small places
in Russia at which awful things can
happen. Zanilianskofikaia and Bo
berijtzoslav are not yet heard from.
New York Evening Mail.
The Russian soldiers who cut off
their trigger fingers to keep from
facing the. Japanese, extend a cordial
invitation to one and all to come and
kick 'em. Memphis News-Scimitar.
Mr. Butler has the right to join the
Republican party and to run it if
they will allow him, but outsiders
also have a ripht to their opinion as
to why ho is doing it Durham
Herald.
Like all diseases, graft develops
various phases, but it is the same ail
ment after all. The diagnosis is
never difficult, as the symptoms are
almost invariably the same. Dal
las News. .
A London clergyman is trying the
efficacy of prayer on King Edward in
the effort, to have him separate sport
from gamblimr. In the meantime
the King continues to play bridge.
Mobile Register.
...
Dr. W. J. Bryan says the Demo
cratic party is not dead yet. Dr.
Sam Jones said here last week that
it was dead and in a suicide's grave.
Who has lied on the old fellow?
People's Paper, Charlotte.
We noticed a young gentleman and
a young lady emerge from a parlor
the other day and one side of his
nose was powdered and one side of
her s was not. What . was that a
sign of? Siler City Grit.
The present eruption of Vesuvius
is premature. Colonel Bryan hasn't
even started on his travels yet, and
it may be months before he reaches
the vicinity of his esteemed fiery
contemporary.- Kansas City Jour
nal. ' The theory that the scarcity of
servant girls is due to their all hav
ing become novel writers probably
originated with someone who was
trying to account for the quality of
current fiction. Kansas City Jour
nal. ' '
A Baltimore man paid $976 for a
special train in order thi' T,e might
go to Atlantic Citv for a midnight
wash. Looks as if it woul.1 ay. some
men to keep a cake of soap in the
house. Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.