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THE RALEIGH ENTERPRISE.
Thursday, February ?, 1907.
THE RALEIGH ENTERPRISE.
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Entered as pec nd-claes matter May 12,
1904, at the postoffice at Rale gh. N c, under
the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879.
"Evy little bit" helps that's in fa
vor of Thaw in his trial.
The Thaw trial in New York City
is the drawing card. It is per con
tra to the weather in that city.
The killing of New York's great
architect was a "White (d) sepul
chre" for Thaw.
Instead of the "black problem,"
we now have the "yellow peril," in
the school question.
In naval warfare, there are no
gunners on earth the equal of Uncle
Sam's. They hit the bull's eye every
time.
Those "brave, little brown men,"
who had our good wishes during the
Russo-Japan War, are now asking
us to "step on the tail of their coat."
They forget that Dewey and Schley
are "doing business at the same old
stand."
The Legislature will pass a two
cent passenger rate for big railroads,
like the Southern and Atlantic Coast
Line, the Seaboard two and one-half
cents and smaller roads at a higher
figure. When earnings are $1,550
per mile, the rate will be two cents
per mile, etc.
The United States should "call"
Japan's bluff. It is ridiculous for
President Roosevelt to cater to the
"little brown men" in trying to over
ride the school laws of San Francis
co. The next step would be that
Japan would be telling Congress how
to govern the United States. Give
us a Hobson navy and let Japan
"show her hand."
The examination of several mem
bers of a company (D.) of the ne
gro troops before a U. S. Senate com
mittee this week, shows, according
to a colored sergeant's evidence,
that his (D.) company is as innocent
of participation in the Brownsville
"shoot-up" as a two-months-old lamb,
And perhaps all other companies will
make as good a showing, if their side
of the question is taken. But some
of the citizens of Brownsville were
"shot down."
COMPULSORY SCHOOL LAW.
Supt. J. Y. Joyner has recommend
ed to the Legislature a plan for a
compulsory school law which is con
servative enough for any community.
Compulsory attendance is made sub
ject to the discretion of the County
Board of Education and to the will
of the majority of the people, as ex
pressed by petition or vote, except
where the enrollment and attendance
fall so low as to furnish evidence of
such ignorance and indifference to
education as to render compulsory
attendance without petition or vote
necessary without petition or vote
necessary for getting the children in
school. In this case it is still left to
the discretion of the County Board
of Education.
About 146,000 white children were
not in the public schools last year!
What a sad commentary upon the
law-makers of North Carolina, after
the grand educational campaign
brought by the Educational Gover
nor, Aycock, whose brilliant record
in that line exceeded all others; but
ex-Governor Aycock did not recom
mend compulsory education; he
thought the time was not ripe for
such an innovation. But that is where
he made a mistake: the time is al
ways ripe to enact a law to crush
out ignorance, as poverty begets
crime, and a generation of ignorant
people will generally beget a genera
tion of igroamuses, unless the State
stands between the illiterate chil
dren and their ignorant, sordid pa
rents, who live by the labor of their
children, who should be in a school
room instead of a cotton or other
factory. While we are in favor of a
State law, Prof. Joyner"'s proposi
tion is a good starter in that direc
tion. President Roosevelt says w would
not find a Spain in war with Japan.
Neither would Japan find a Russia
in a war with Uncle Sam. Who ever
heard of even a heathen nation who
did not even gain one victory during
a two-years' war? Russia is the only
exception of a civilized or uncivilized
nation that did not gain a single vic
tory on land or sea.
Very Much Legless.
Harry Blare, of Bayonne, N. J.,
both of whose legs were cut off sev
eral years ago by a railroad train,
and who gets around on wooden legs
he whittled himself, was painting the
side of a house near his home yes
terday when he slipped from the
ladder and fell to the ground. Both
his wooden legs were broken, but
otherwise Blare escaped. He was
carried home, where he screwed on
another pair of legs, and said he
would be out painting to-day. New
York American.
The Man Who Did.
Mrs. Susan Young Gates, the
daughter of Brigham Young, is a
trustee of the Salt Lake University
and a lecturer of note.
"Woman must work for her own
advancement," she said, in a recent
address in Salt Lake City, "but she
must not selfishly neglect her other
duties for this work.
" 'Is there a man present,' a fe
male lecturer once shrieked, 'who
has ever helped in the slightest de
gree to lighten his wife's burden?
Is there a man here who has ever
gotten up at 5 o'clock, leaving his
tired wife to sleep on undisturbed,
and, dressing quietly, gone down
stairs raked up the fire, cooked
breakfast, washed and dressed the
children, scoured the pots and pans,
swept the kitchen, scraped the dish
es, and done all this, if necessary,
day after day without complaint?"
The lecturer looked her audience
over with disdain. 'If there is such
a man here,' she said, 'let him rise
that all may see and praise him.'
"Then a mild little man in a back
seat rose timidly. He was the lec
turer's husband." - Kansas City
Journal.
Contract Awarded for New Bridge.
The Board of County Commission
ers have awarded a contract to the
Southern Engineering Company for
the erection of a steel bridge over
Neuse River to replace what is known
as the Powell bridge. The bridge
is to cost $2,825, and is to be similar
to the Lawrence Bridge.
On motion, it was ordered that the
convicts at Camp No. 2, now station
ed in the southern part of the coun
ty, be moved to Mark's Township.
The following jurors were drawn
for the term of court convening Feb
ruary 18th:
First AVeek. J. D. Lee, T. R.
Cooper, M. C. King, A. M. Powell,
James Weathers, E. H. King, C. H.
Perry, J. H. Allen, Chas. N. Evans,
J. A. Bailey, W. E. Stone, W. S. Bras
wel, J. L. Jones, R. A. Glenn, James
Sanders, r., J. C. Medlin, W. H.
Richardson, R. J. Lacy, J. H. King,
J. F. Mitchell, J. M. Herndon, D. G.
Mangum, J. C. Thompson and Chas.
Finch.
Second AVeek. L. W. Strickland,
Ben Scott, C. H. Emery, W. T. Dil
lard, O. P. Hay, W. B. Bowling, C.
E. Stephens, S. R. Lee, A. G. Denton,
D. S. O'Daniel, C. Hutchings, I. K.
Jones, J. S. Baker, James Holder, J.
E. Booker, J. F. Stanback, O. J.
King and W. S. Hockady.
More Courtship After Marriage.
Some men seem to consider their
marriage certificate as a sort of fully
paid-up policy of happiness. They
act as if the courtship days were
those of paying premiums of compli
ment, cheerfulness, courtesy, consid
eration and chivalry and that mar
riage cuts off all these premiums of
lover-like attention. The only vay
to get an absolutely guaranteed in
surance on matrimony is to keep
paying the premiums. Many first
class matrimonial policies lapse just
because of these suspended pay
ments.; There is a tendency to assume that
this love is known and recognized,
so why speak of it? This is a dan
gerous taking for granted of what
should be made real, pulsing and
vital in thought, word and deed.
There is little danger of over-telling
this story; it is often the wine of life
and inspiration to one hungering and
thirsting for the little tendernesses
of affection. There are more peo
ple on this great, big, rolling earth
hungering for sweetness, tenderness
and words of appreciation, genial
confidence and generous affection
than are starving for bread. With
husband and wife these delicate mes
sengers of affection cost so little
sometimes only a thought but it is
the thought that is all.
Continued courtship after marri
age preserves the lover in the hus
band and the sweetheart in the wife.
But courtship is not solitaire; like
a quarrel, it requires two to make
it a success. It is not the wife alone
who needs-the gracious sweetness of
concentrated comradeship, for hus
bands who are built on the right
lines have the same hunger for lov
ing kindness and kindly loving.
Courtship is a vessel of promise
that is often wrecked on the shoals
of matrimony. Courtship means two
mates without a captain; marriage
sometimes becomes two captains
without a mate. From the October
Delineator.
OPINIONS IN A NUTSHELL.
February is the worst month of
the year but spring follows it-
Philadelphia Inquirer.
.
Texas oil wells are said to be run
ning dry, but the stock in them holds
as much water as ever. Philadel
phia Ledger.
....
As to the Swettenham episode, Ad
miral Davis is mute; but his country-
men die syuig il tor mm. rnua
delphia Inquirer.
The trouble is that many of those
folks who feel that they must "think
for the President" only think they
think. New York Herald.
..."
Some people have an idea that it
would be a good thing to enforce the
Constitution we have before reaching
out for a new one. Philadelphia
Press.
':
It is expected that the Thaw trial
will begin in a week or two if it isn't
discovered that some of the jurors
wear blue socks. Philadelphia North
American.
, Senator Guggenheim, of Colorado,
it seems, boasts that he began life
barefooted, but, at that, he hasn't
anything on the rest of us. New
York Herald.
It seems that even when a man
gets on the Thaw jury he isn't sure
he has a steady job. Some days they
bounce out as many as they pull in. -Philadelphia
Press.
'
It is becoming clear that Mr. Bev
eridge intends to occupy all the time
of the Senate. Even then much of
his best thought will be lost for want
of sufficient canning facilities. New
York Sun.
Amicable relations with California
have been arranged at Washington,
and it is hoped that Japan will be
equally amenable to reason. Phila
delphia Inquirer.
:.. ... ;
It is not improbable that some of
our dignified statesmen will hereaf
ter be rather shy of the performances
on the Gridiron chef or more cautious
as to the potency of the wine. Phila
delphia Record.
The earnings in 1906 of the United
States Steel Corporation were $ 156,
619,111. Mr. Corey will probably be
able to support his next wife in the
style to which she had been accus
tomed. New York Mail.
'.
Remove from the numbers of men
accounted successful all such as have
succeeded only in seeming to succeed
and then all such as owe everything
to opportunity, and If any remain
they will be too lonesome to be en
vied by anybody. New York World.
..'.
The Delaware Legislature has de
cided unanimously to continue the
whipping-post for wife-beaters. There
has just been introduced also in the
House of that State a measure to tax
bachelors. It looks as though our
Delaware sisters might get the best
of their men folks "going and com
ing." New York Tribune.
-'. : '
Senator Isidor Rayner's speech in
the Senate on Executive expansion
merits the attention of the judicious.
not as a Democratic attack upon the
present Republican Chief Magistrate
of the United States, but as a some
what vividly illustrated exposition of
tendencies which patriotic Democrats
and Republicans alike should de
plore. It almost deserves to be print
ed as a campaign document by both
parties in the coming Presidential
election. New York Sun.