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THE RALEIGH ENTERPRISE. .
Thursday, February 22, 1906.
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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pired, and is an invitation to renew.
Remit by registered letter, money
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If renewal is not received within a
week, paper will stop.
Kntered as pecnd-class matter May 12,
1904, at the postoffiee at Rale'gh. n. c, under
the Act of Congress of March 8. 1879.
Premier Witte is said to have re
signed three times in one week. We
have remarked before that he was
more Witte than wise.
For the man who beats his wife
we have nothing but contempt. But
we admire the woman who whips her
husband, provided he needs it.
Charlotte has been a dry town for
about one year. Now they are talk
ing about a dispensary. Evidently
they are getting down to real earnest
temperance work there.
If they would raise the bid perhaps
officers with supeonas to serve on
John D. Rockefeller might be able
to find him. We suspect that John
D. helps them to overlook him.
It has just leaked out that the last
Legislature changed the bird law
from March 15th to March 1st. Bet
ter not hunt birds after that date.
We have not dared to. look at the
Charlotte papers since the President's
son-in-law and bride passed through;
but we feel sure that they are slop
ping over. By the way , the bridal
party passed through China Grove,
also.
The Associated Press word artist
who described the marriage of Miss
Roosevelt and Mr. Longworth de
clared in one of his explosions that
"the sunshine embraced the bride."
That was enough to make the bride
groom jealous.
In Durham a woman thrashed her
husband and it cost her $5.70. TJn
less the mayor can reduce the fines
and costs to $5.69 on certain days,
we fear that women, generally, will
not keep up the good work.
Some time ago we announced that
it had just been discovered that the
inventor of the circular saw was a
native of North Carolina. We can
how gladly state that the inventor
of the Colt revolver, which is a direct
descendant of the horse pistol, was
also ' a "North Carolinian. We be
lieve that the inventor of the grind-
stone was a North Carolinian, but
l.there is one or two missing links in
the chain of evidence.
SAVE THE RURAL ROUTES.
Owing to the fact that many of the
rural mail routes in North Carolina
are not well patronized, there is dan
ger that they may be discontinued.
Many of them exceed the require
ment of 2,000 pieces of mail per
month, but others fall considerably
short.
As one among the first to advo
cate the adoption of rural routes, we
are anxious to see all of the present
ones continued and others estab
lished. Our North Carolina people are
slow, but they are "stickers," and
we believe they will yet rise to the
occasion. For a paltry few cents
more from each family they will take
a pride in showing the world that
nothing is too good for us, and will
not give up a good thing.
The average number of pieces of
mail handled on rural routes in this
State is 1,900. Just a little more
business on the routes will guaran
tee that they will not be cut off.
Many people have not put up boxes
on the newer routes; many get but
few papers and seldom write letters.
Write to your friends of tener, write
business letters, order goods from
Raleigh by mail, renew and subscribe
for your papers by mail. It will all
help.
We can suggest a plan to help hold
the forty rural routes in Wake Coun
ty ,and the same will apply in other
counties.
For $1.60 we will send the Ra
leigh Enterprise and the New York
World three times a week. That will
give you four papers per week, six
teen papers per month. In that way
one man or family can increase the
mail on that, route sixteen pieces
per month at a small cost and get
two good papers. Suppose forty or
fifty persons on each route should do
that: the. shortage of mail handled
would be more than made up and the
routes would then be safe from dis
continuance. Talk to your neighbors
and act, act quickly, and increase
the mail handled to such an extent
that we will then hear nothing more
of discontinuance. ' Act now.
FINANCIAL ADVERTISING.
A little more than a year ago Mr.
Joseph G. Brown, president of the
Citizens' National Bank, of Raleigh,
decided to try the merits of adver
tising. The bank was successful, had
shown a healthy growth ever since
it was established, but the experi
ment was to see if advertising would
increase the growth faster. A mod
erate amount of space was taken in
several Raleigh newspapers good
advertising was done. Result : The
deposits of the bank increased sev
eral times faster than ever before
in its history.
Mr. Brown is a thoroughly posted
banker and a good business man.
But he did not claim to be an adver
tising expert. He did not coin
"catch phrases" nor indulge in poet
ry ;he simply gave the public facts,
figures, and. they caused people who
had riot been depositors to believe
in that bank and that is the only kind
of advertising that will prove profita
ble, v -"s ::
. . With a few exceptions financial ad
vertising is a new thing. When
banks were few and deposits lively,
most bankers thought "money" would
do all the "talking." The banks; are
to-day more prosperous than ever
before, and, yet, the bank that reach-
es a high stage of success in the
future must advertise, must talk to
possible depositors and borrower's in
a practical way, and it will be worth
more than the cost.
' GOOD SENTIHENT.
A lady is said to have scolded an
other lady for allowing her husband
and little child to litter up the house.
The lady replied:
"The mark of the little muddy feet
upon the floor can be easier removed
than the stain when those little feet
go down into the highways of evil.
The prints of the little fingers on
the window pane cannot shut out the
sunshine half so much as the shadow
that darkens the mother's heart over
the one who is but a name through
the coming years. And if my John
finds his home a refuge from care
and trouble and his greatest happi
ness within its four walls, he can put
his boots in the rocking chair, and
hang his coat up on the floor every
day in the week. And if I can stand
it, and he enjoys it, I cannot see
that it is anybody else's business."
Some people are disposed to criti
cise Governor Glenn for spending so
much time out of his office speechify
ing, and much of the time out of the
State. That is all right, the State
affairs go on just the same when the
Governor is outside, and, then, it is
so restful like.
Origin of Cotton Thread.
The origin of sewing cotton was
told at a cotton manufacturers' meet
ing by. the head. of the great thread
house of Paisley, Scotland. It was
discovered in 1803 by his grandfath
er, who had a little business in Pais
ley, making silk twine for heddles,
which were used by every weaver.
The silk came from Hamburg, and
in 1803 Napoleon caused the stock
held there to be burned in order to
hamper British trade. The weavers
were distressed, but James Clark
conceived the idea that cotton yarns
could be twisted together to form
the twines.
The experiment succeeded, and
from this grew the idea that cotton
could be substituted for flax in the
manufacture of sewing thread and
would not be so coarse and harsh.
He began the manufacture of the
thread in a very small way. It was
at first put up in skeins, and had to
be wound into little balls by the pur
chaser, and then Mr. Clark invented
the modern spools. He had them
made by a wood turner, half a gross
at a time. They cost him six-pence
a dozen, and he charged the pur
chaser half a penny for the spool,
which, however, was refunded when
the spool was returned. The ladies
of Paisley used to come to his shop
with their spools, and wait while he
wound the thread on them. From
this small beginning grew a great
industry.
Senators Aldrich and Dolliver an
nounce that, in discussing the freight
rate bill, each intends to sav to the
other exactly what he means in plain,
North American language that can
not be misunderstood or misinter-
nreted. Go it. Nelson : so it. Jona
than. The country will enjoy the
spectacle of vour smashmer the tradi
tio" s of your aucrust and honorable
body. Portland Oregonian.
They should not make so much
fus over their efforts to find Mr
Rockefeller. Thev mierht accidental
ly come up with him and then it
would be un to them to do some
thing. Durham Herald.
OPINIONS IN A NUTSHELL
The German Emperor wants no
crisis over Morocco; he' only wants
his own way. Mobile Register.
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Castro says he proposes to test the
Monroe doctrine. As it has been his
shield for many years, it is strange
that he has not tested it before.
Jacksonville Times-Union.
The Castellane titlfi nnnpnrs .n
-w ,,rv.U
have cost rather more than any oth-
er. but there was no evidence that it
TiTOo X7MV Tvriu TVi 1 1 a rl r i r "Pvooa
, Eventually the day comes , when a
man quits killing time owing to a
realization of the fact that a reverse
of the process is taking place.
Puck.
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The cabbage worm has lifted its
terrifying head in Washington. It
is sometimes so large as to be plain-
lv visible to the naked eye. Balti
more Sun.
What a falling off is here ! Gen
eral Miles is to be succeeded as mili
tary adviser of the Governor of Mas
sachusetts by a plain major. New
York Evening Sun.
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The Chinese boycott has been keep
ing out American goods, but it will
not be able to keep out the Ameri
can soldiers who are being prepared
to go there. Houston Chronicle.
It appears that the senior class at
Annapolis has voluntarily abandoned
hazing. The interesting thing now
is, what will take the place of that
practice? New York Evening Sun.
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China may boycott American
gooas, but she has to have southern
cotton, whether she buys it from us
or England or Germany, That .cot
ton monopoly is a great thing, and
it: is. eternal. Birmingham Ledger..
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If Boni de Castellane cannot live
on $40,000 a year the deficiency must
"l n , r -r .
oe made up at any sacritice. it is
of the utmost importance that Boni
should keep on living. Chicago
Tribune.
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That Nebraska girl who wrote to
John D. Rockefeller begging for a
lock of his hair for her hirsute al
bum will be disappointed. John will
not disfigure his new wig to gratify
a girlish whim. -Denver News.
.
The editor of London Punch has?
resigned on account of old age, but
it would be cruel to say that he has
set a worthy example for some of
Punch's jokes. Philadelphia Even
ing Telegraph.
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ine manager who arranges i or a
joint debate right soon between Sen
ator Tillman and President Baer,
of the coal trust, may charge his own
price of admission and be certain of
crowded house. Washington Post.
President Ripley, of the Santa Fe,
says: "I hope to see the Senate
modify the provisions of the Hep
burn bill." Modify is too mud a
term to describe what the Senate will
probably do to the bill. Washington
Post.
' No Senator is opposed to pure
food legislation, it would seem. Ev
erybody is for it in principle. That's
why so much wonderful progress has
been made in seventeen short years:
,Now, if some Senators had been un
friendly to such legislation. Chi
'cago Record-Herald.
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.J Senator Tillriian . is. a busy man
.these days.' He has hp'd 'to take care
Of the G. M; I. at home, keep te rail
way octopus "stood" in the Senate,
an.d haul West Virginia out of the
tentacles of the same octopus Ashe
ville Gazette-News.