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a THE RALEIGH ENTERPRISE. Thursday, April 12, 1906. THE RALEIGH ENTERPRISE. An Independent Newspaper Published Every Thursday - by , ; J. L. RAMSEY, Editor and Prop., Raleigh, N. C. Office of publication, Law Build ing, 331 Fayetteville Street. Subscription Price: One Year, in advance, $1.00. Single copy, 5 cents. A blue X mark on your paper shows that your subscription has ex pired, and is an invitation to renew. Remit by registered letter, money order or check. If renewal is not received with a week, paper will stop. Entered as second-class matter May 12, 1901, at the postofflce at Rale'gh, N. 0., under the Aot of Congress of March 8, 1879. g ADE5 K!j COUNCIL At first it was 3,000,000 starving people in Japan. Now it is 300,000. Did 2,700,000 starve? A man may have made a failure. But if he is willing to try again the failure is not a failure. The man who kills his mother-in-law ought to, at least, be required to make some sort of excuse. ' Andy Carnegie was Hobsonized in Atlanta the other day. He believes that poverty and obscurity go hand : in hand.; The Secretary of State chartered a whiskey factory and an organ factory on Monday. Yet there be people who claim that the people are ber coming better morally. - i We do not expect to shed any tears for people who do hot know any better than to build a city at the base of a volcanic mountain. A Baltimore girl started out to buy her Easter hat with $14,365 in her purse, and lost it. Down this way girls seldom carry more than three or four thousand plunks when they go shopping. Pay your poll tax before May 1st or else you will not have the privilege of putting a little scrap of paper, with a list of names printed on it, in a little box this fall. But you can't be hurt much if you miss the little box. A Durham man killed his wife re cently. When arrested he admitted that he did it and said that he was glad he killed her. Now he has changed his mind, and will make a fight for his life. We are curious to know whether the plea will be self defense, an alibi, or simply blame it on the railroads. Edwin C. Swift, the pork packer, who died a few day ago, was worth $22,000,000, but had never been able to get in "society," much to his regret. If we had $22,000,000 and cared to get into society, and couldn't we'd spend at least $2,000,000 pay ing fines for kicking society folks whenever we felt like it. And that would be a whole lot funnier than getting into ' society. - FOR THE RAILROAD OFFICES. Messrs. Joseph G. Brown, Presi dent of the Chamber of Commerce, and R. M. Phillips, the Secretary, have shown that they are the right men in the right place. They are willing to do all in their power to bring the Seaboard Air Line offices to Raleigh,, and we feel sure that most of the business and professional men will second any efforts they may make. Possibly we are mistaken, but it seems that a delegation of business men, headed by Messrs. Brown and Phillips, ought to visit or get closely in touch with the new President of the company and other officials at the proper time. A mass-meeting might be held also. The removal of the offices to Ra leigh would increase our population nearly or quite one thousand. Bring the offices here and the shops burned a few years ago would almost cer tainly be rebuilt and that would mean much. Now of all times is the time to show appreciation and enthusiasm. If the company needs more land here or anything else, then we ought to try to give it to them. Remember that it is now or never. If the offices go elsewhere at this time, there is no probability that Ra leigh will ever have even a fighting chance for them in the future. Raleigh is the logical place for the offices. Nothing would be gained by the removal of the offices to either Richmond or Atlanta. Hamlet is the only competitor Raleigh has in the way of location, and we do not believe that the officers or employes would be willing to go into exile in that community. r Let's get the offices here. We be lieve that prompt, well-directed and persistent work will get them. MOUNT VESUVIUS. For some days Mount Vesuvius, one of the best known volcanos in the world, has been in active oper ation. V- This mountain is situated near Na ples, Italy. In time, it has destroyed many thousands of lives, probably a larger total than ever fell in any great war. Strange to say the people rebuild cities and towns near the base of the mountain only to be damaged or de stroyed again, and many lives are destroyed. The Baltimore Sun gives the fol lowing additional, interesting facts about Vesuvius: "Mount Vesuvius has been in erup tion since August 30, 1905, but the present activity really began on Sep tember 1, 1904. On the 23rd of that month the crust around the crater gave way and a spectacular eruption followed. Enormous streams of lava were discharged. There were several smaller eruptions from that time un til June, 1905, when an alarming in crease in the discharges from the crater caused the Prefect to order persons living near the mountain to prepare to move. "Vesuvius, which is on the east shore of the Bay of Naples, in south ern Italy, has been known as an ac : tive and destructive volcano for 1,800 years. There is no record of any eruption of Vesuvius previous to that of A. D. 79, by which Pompeii and Herculaneum were destroyed. In this eruption only scoriae and ashes were ejected, and there is no well-, authenticated record of a flow of lava from the mountain before 1036, al though eruptions had taken place in -203, 472, 512, 685, and 993. Other eruptions occurred in 1049, 1138 or 1139, and 1306. During the last of these terrific earthquakes shook the surrounding country and destroyed Isernea and Brindisi and many thousands of lives. The eruption of 1631 began in De cember of that year, and lasted until February, 16B2. It was accompanied with many streams of lava and tor rents of boiling water, which over flowed the town at the base and de stroyed thousands of lives. ' The activity of Vesuvius has been concurrent with that of other volca nos in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. During the eruptions in the West Indies in 1902, when thousands of lives were destroyed by fire and gases from Mounts Pelee and Souffriere, Vesuvius showed marked activity.,' : Your Uncle Mark Twain struck Vassar College the other day. One of the girls asked for his autograph for a kiss. The latest news is that he is still writing autographs and kissing girls. Mark passed 'seventy years some time ago, but he always carries a few extra pen points when he goes to a female college. Out in Kansas an accommodating evangelist, knowing that many peo ple can't sing, told them they might whistle during the meeting, when singing was going on. It is said that more than a thousand persons were converted during the meeting. But we have never been able to tell the difference between the converted and the unconverted in Kansas. Give the Lawyers a Rest They Are Overworked. It will soon be time to elect anoth er crowd to go down to Raleigh, meet in the capital and call themselves the Legislature. Right in the beginning of this campaign Our Home wants to make one simple suggestion, and that is to raise its voice in behalf of the over-worked lawyers of this country. This thing of dragging them away from their legal practice and forcing them to go to Raleigh every two years to make laws ought to stop. It's worse than cruelty to ani mals to require them to make so many sacrifices to run our Legisla tures all by themselves, and it's time for some other class to come and re lieve them. The next time you see a crowd of heartless voters pulling at a first-class lawyer to run for the Legislature it will be a humane act for you to pick up a few rocks and chunk 'em away and make 'em let these apostles of the law alone. Be ing a very conscientious class of peo ple the temptation to pass such laws as will give lawyers more business ought not to be thrown around them. We ougth to elect a lot of plain, old-fashion, common-sense folks to go to the Legislature and with one "omnibus bill" repeal about ninety per cent of the laws, and make the other ten per cent so plain and sim ple that any magistrate , can under stand them, then give the magistrates more jurisdiction and then adjourn with prayer. What we need now is legislators that know how to repeal laws instead of make laws men who know how simplify instead of com plicate laws. If we can get a Legis lature of this kind It would deserve a monument to its memory. Marsh ville Home. OPINIONS IN A NUTSHELL. If the Sugar Trust were easily dis solved, the water would have accom plished the taslc long ago. Detroit Free Press. Odell is giving the New York State Republicans to understand that, he is still their boss. Buffalo Evening Times. Germany is to have six more big warships. This will cause the Brit ish tax-payers to groan again. Chi cago Record-Herald. ' Uncle Joe Cannon is still stand ing pat, but he seems a little dubious as to what he will catch on the next deal. Philadelphia North Ameri can. - In the spring a young girl's fancy lightly turns to Easter togs and a Paris dress-maker announces a divi dent of 1 5 per cent. New York Herald. . '.-." Senator Depew says he wishes the public would forget him. His resig nation would help mightily to that end. Atlanta Constitution. ' ' There is no conference or talk of arbitration when the coal operators contemplate revising the scale of prices to the 'public- Washington Star. Congress, now in session, should take the duty off soft coal at once, without waiting to see how serious the trouble is next winter. Boston Globe. Mark Twain hopes there may be no czars or grand dukes in heaven. Evidently Mark expects to go there himself some day. Chicago Record Herald. :.:':. If the coal strike continues, the family coal bin will be giving itself airs next winter as the home of the haut ton. New Orleans Times Democrat.: . Will ex-Governor Johnson, of Ala bama, kindly acquit himself of the crime of being a young man before proceeding further? Charleston News and Courier. ' ;-; That Moroccan war cloud may im press them mightily in England, but to us it looks too much like our old friend that used to hang over the Balkans. Chicago News. ' With Tillman and Vardaman and Governor Jeff Davis, of Arkansas, all in the United States Senate, our old friend, Billy Mason, won't be so seriously missed. Boston Globe. .. Professor Garner announces that he has now completely mastered the monkey language. He expects here after to be able to move freely in fashionable society. New York Mail. The Wilmington man who killed his mother-in-law claimed to be in sane, and as he submitted to murder in the second degree, there is per haps no doubt of it. Durham Her ald. We have wrestled with the dog tax up this way and the result has usu ally been a "dog-fall." A revenue can be collected as a license, but not as a direct tax. . The State does not consider a dog property, and a town or city cannot. That Is our experi ence. Winston Republican. ' The fact that Senator Spooner and Senator La Follette have agreed on something Is deemed of sufficient In terest and importance to be tele graphed from Washington. It serves to emphasize the popular impression that the relations of the two Wis consin Senators are still somewhat strained. Boston Herald.
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