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Ent 6 erpfise RALEIGH, N. 0., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1907. VOL. III. NO. 42 LETTER FROM BILKINS. Rockefeller and the $32,000,000 He Gave to Education Last Week Retsy After Zeke to Make a Truck Garden Zeke in the Legislative Lobby Trying to Save the State Rob Not Looking Well. - Correspondence Raleigh Enterprise. Bilkinsville, N. C, Feb. 14th. My Deer Editur: I hav bin study in' the reason Rockefellow giv $32, 000,000 to edication last week. Hits a mighty large sum fer one man ter give, especially when the guvern mint' hez bin puttin' $1,000 fine on him every twenty-fore hours fer run nin' so many oil refinerys under so many different names. Hit wuz only a few weeks ergo he give $11,000, 0C0 fer edicashun. But since he gave ' the large amount he hez run oil up 15 cents on the barrul, an' will make the peepul pay fer hit an' make an other millun besides. Betsy iz prepairing ter run a truk garden in connexshun with her groc ery store and boarding house. She wants me to make her crap fer her, but L told her vegitables won't sell well in the country. Betsy gits arter me at 5 o'clock in the mornin' an' keeps up the racket till bed-time an' then wakes me up at midnite ter tell me how she wants the crap made. Betsy thinks thars millyuns in hit, but I will give her no encourage- ment. I got so stirred up over Betsy's impurnitey that I harnessed Bob an' rode into town ter be reddy ter meet with the Legislature the next morn in'. I think if I can catch the ear ov the committy on "Good ov the State" I kin save the commonwealth from the "menace" which sum ov them radicul members air tryin' ter ingect into sum ov the anti-trust resolushions. I hope ter stem the tide ov "down grade" members who air tryin' ter run awl the capital out ov the State; the demmygogs who air awlways howlin' at every corpera shun that stick hits head above the surface. The conservative members must keep the radicul ones under controle in order not ter ruin the reputashun ov the gude name ov the members of the North Caroliny Leg islature. The member frum Bilkins ville iz opposed to anti-trust legis lashun an' will vote ter give awl rail rodes a fare show, which will double track an' put up a fine hotel at awl the cross roads in the State. Bob is not looking well. Yours az ever, ' ZEKE BILKINS. THE LEGISLATURE. The Spinach Crop. Spinach will demand the attention of the market gardener as one of the first vegetables to be planted in the spring, and where the soil is well enriched it is of easy cultivation. Very frequently at the end of the season, the gardener finds his spin ach crop to have been the most profitable one of the year. Sow in drills one foot apart, using seed free ly, twelve or fifteen pounds to the acre; keep the ground free from weeds by the use of the hand plough. The round-seed varieties are used for fall sowing, the prickly seed for spring. Victoria is a valuable ac quisition to the list of spinach, and is now grown very extensively by the truckers of our markets. Rural New Yorker. Bills and Resolutions Passed in Both Houses. The following Senate roll-call bills passed final reading in the Senate and were sent to the House for con currence: S. B. 635 Authorizing town of Jacksonville to issue bonds to pro vide fire protection. S. B. 634 To incorporate the town of Goldston, Chatham County. S. 13. To incorporate the town of Crouse, Lincoln County. The following House bills passed final reading in the Senate and were ordered enrolled for ratification: H. B. 316, S. B. 608 Providing for the working of the roads of Ma con County. II. B. 367, S. B. 565 Authorizing Caswell County to levy a special tax. H. B. 673, S. B. 623 Amending the charter of the town of Newton, Catawaba County. Amended and re turned to the House for concurrence in amendment. II. B. 622, S. B. 520 Amending section 2 7 0 7 of the Revisal, relating to tolls on ferries. Amended so as not to apply to certain counties and returned to House for concurrence in amendments. H. B. 5 5 3 , S. B. 5 2 8 To amend section 1012 of the revisal. Amend ed and returned to House. .0 " S. B. 621 Relating to sale of liquor within one mile of Maple Creek Church, in Nash County. Sent to the House. II. B. 409, S. B. 624 To establish a criminal court for the County of Pasquotank. S. B. 158 To amend section 1097 of the Revisal, authorizing copora tion Commission to compel opera tion of additional trains and require them to make connection under cer tain conditions. Sent to the House. S. B. 471 Authorizing the Gov ernor to expend not exceeding $4,000 annnually in the employment of counsel to appear before the Inter State Commerce Commission at Washington in cases involving delay by railway companies in transporting and delivering freight. Mr. Aycock opposed and said the Merchants' Association had an attor ney who might look after this mat ter, and that they could employ ad ditional counsel if necessary. Messrs. Graham, Pharr, McLean, supported the bill and thought the provisions of this measure very im portant and necessary to the enforce ment of the laws which have been passed and which this session of the Legislature may enact on this im portant matter of bettering freight transportation conditions . in North Carolina. Mr. Reid moved that the bill be re-committed to be considered in con nection with other bills of like char acter, and this course was pursued. Tha committee will later report a substitute bill. S. B. 468 "To amend section 3 8 4 4 in regard to railroad carrying freight." Sent to House. Senate bill amending section 3135 of the Revisal relative to time when caveat to will may be filed. Passed second reading and returned to cal endar.' ; H. B. 656; S. B. 585 For the re lief of certain citizens of Hertford County concerning subscriptions to a railroad in that territory, etc. En rolled for ratification. S. B. 632 Authorizing Orange County Board of Education to pay certain claims. Sent to House. H. B. 559, S. B. 582 Amending chapter 297, Acts 1899, relating to Wake County Commissioners. En rolled for ratification. II. B. 129, S. B. 480 To repay to A. and M. College a loan of $7,500 used in construction of a sewerage at the college. Several Senators objected and oth ers thought the money to reimburse the college should be- paid out of Agricultural Department funds. Mr. Drewry explained that the funds used (on the authority of ap proval of the Council of State) were taken from the maintenance appro priation funds of the college and was now needed to pay ordinary running expenses of the institution. Mesrs. McLean, Hicks, Aycock, Howard, Breese and others criticised the management of the Agricultral Department, which they thought al ways had plenty of money, and re ferred to the friction existing be tween the officials of the A. and M. College and the Department of Agri culture. ; The bill finally passed final reading and was ordered to be enrolled for ratification. II. B. 220, S. B, 9 8 To prevent delay in settling cases on appeal from the Superior to the Supreme Court. Enrolled for ratification. S. B. 265 To prevent destruction of timber by fire, etc., in Wilkes, Caldwell and Catawba Counties. Sent to House after being amended so as to include several additional Coun tiesCherokee, Burke, McDowell, Mitchell and Yadkin. H. B. 220, S. B. 652 Authorizing the trial judge the benefit of the time spent by defendants while awaiting decision appeals to the Su preme Court. Mr. Mason explained the bill and in reply to questions from Mr. Hicks, stated that even if the time thus involved took the entire original sentence, it were better than keeping the defendants in jail at the expense of the county if the prisoner elects to go to the roads and spend the time working for the county it be ing optional with the prisoner wheth er he goes to work pending appeal or not. Mr. Graham and Mr. Daniel thought it a humane bill and the committee reported it favorably be cause it appealed to them as a mer ciful provision. The bill passed sec ond reading, but on objection "was returned to the calendar for final reading. Bill for Care of Insane. The Bickett-Webb bill for the bet ter care of the insane, including epileptics and dangerous idiots, re ported back from the joint commit tee on appropriations and passed-by the House to-day was received in the House near the close of the session and on motion of Mr. Webb was im mediately placed on its second read ing and passed without opposition. The bill as amended by the Com mittee on appropriations, appropri ates $500,000, not more than $125, 000 for each of the next four years, ' beginning with the present year of 1907, to be available and to be ex pended under the direction of the Hospital Commission which it au thorizes. The bond feature is eliminated from the original bill, but provides that if the $125,000 is not available in any year from the fund3 in the State Treasury, then the State Treas urer is empowered and authorized and directed to borrow such amount as shall be needed to make up a part or the whole of said sum, etc. The expenditures of the Hospital Commission are to be approved by the Council of State, when such ex penditures exceeds the sum of $5,000. These are the only essential changes in the bill, which has al ready been printed in full in the Evening Times. Compromises in Married Life. "If marriage meant the wedding of a saint and an angel there would be no problems to solve, no perfection to attain, no progress to make. This may be why there are no marriages in heaven. On earth, it is different; husband and wife are strongly hu man. No matter how lovingly united or how sweet their accord, they never have the same temperaments, ten dencies or tastes. Their needs are different, their manner of looking at things is not identical, and in vary ing ways their individualities assert themselves. At any critical moment if both express at the same time a desire to differ to the other's taste, the result is foreordained for happi ness. This makes matrimony not merely union, but unison and unity. The spirit of compromise does not mean a continuous performance in the way of self-surrender and self sacrifice; it does not mean ceasing to be a voice and become an echo; it does not imply or justify the loss of individuality; it means simply the instinctive recognition of the best way out of a difficulty, the quickest tacking to avoid a collision, the kindly view of tolerance in the pres ence of weakness and errors of an other, the courage to meet an ex planation half-way, the generosity to be first to apologize for a discord, the largeness of mind that does not fear a sacrifice of diginty in sur rendering in the interests of the high est harmony of the two rather than the personal vanity of one. From September Delineator. A well-known artist was walking with a friend one day, when his com panion suddenly discovered he had a tooth in bad condition. As the pair was passing a drug store the man with the throbbing molar asked the other: "What would you advise for the toothache?" "Why," innocently replied the ar tist, "the last time I had toothache I went home and my wife kissed it away." The friend paused a moment and then asked, "Is your wife at home now?" Exchange. There is nothing like prayer for producing calm self-possession.. When the dust of business so fills your room that it threatens to choke you, sprinkle it with the water of prayer, and then you can cleanse it out with comfort and expedition. Rev. James Stalker.
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