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THE "RALEIGH ENTERPRISE. Thursday, April 11, 1907. THE RALEIGH ENTERPRISE. An Independent Newspaper Published Every Thursday by ' J. L. RAMSEY, Editor and Prop., Raleigh, N. O. 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 within a week, paper will stop. If it happens you will see it in the Enterprise. Entered as second-class matter May 12, 1904, at tbe postoffloe at Rale gh. N. C, under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879. Winter is now in the lap of Spring. Now that Thaw is declared sane, it is Jerome's time to be examined. Harriman and Roosevelt are run ning for President of the Annanias Club. The majority of George Washing ton's body servants belonged to the Annanias Club. It is up to Roosevelt to prove whether Harriman or himself is a George Washington. The last of George Washington's body servants is dead. This is not like the pension list. It seems that the Federal Courts will say whether the railroads will reduce rates when ordered by a Leg islature. What has become of the hatchet that George Washington used on that cherry tree? They don't need it at the White House. FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES FOR THE POOR. . At a recent meeting of the execu tive committee of the Associated Charities, twenty-eight ladies being present, Superintendent R. S. Steph enson suggested the idea of planting the vacant plots of city ground in vegetables to give to the poor; also that flower seed be distributed to all poor people who will plant them, in order to beautify their homes, which makes for the beauti fication of the whole city. The sug gestion was acted upon and work has begun. It is a splendid idea, and Super intendent Stephenson is to be con gratulated upon the success of his most acceptable idea. The log cabin though ever so humble can be made to look like a fairy palace. What looks prettier than a "little log cabin in the lane," embowered with sweet honeysuckle and woodbine, the flowered, red blossoms of the wood bine intertwined with the blooming yellow flowers of the honeysuckle; the front yard in full-bloom hya cinths, cape jessamine and roses, all exhaling their sweet perfume the Garden of Eden to the humming bird and bees! Nothing can excel nature, with the first buds of spring, with the warm south winds, wooing vegetable life to reclothe herself in the various colors; and the lawns in a garb of emerald. It is then that the notes of the wren, the harbinger of spring, heralds the resurrection of the vege table kingdom. It is now the mating season of the birds, the insects and the wooing season of man and wo mankind. Oh, how glorious is spring! Mayor Johnson, Police Commis sioner Badger, John S. Jones and William Wilson, none of whom had opposition, received a large vote in the recent primary. If Cortelyou were to show the subscription list that elected Roose velt it would make interesting read ing, and Harriman and Judge Par ker, perhaps, would be turned out of the Annanias Club. OPINIONS IN A NUTSHELL. Dear Maria remains the daughter of the regiment.- New York Mail. The Republican elephant needs a large dose of soothing syrup. Washington Herald. : Even Senator Penrose begins to suspect himself of talking too much. Philadelphia Ledger. It takes a very thorough education to deprive some people of their nat ural sense. New York Press. The man who died after a visit to the theatre must ha ve been a vastly better critic than most of the patrons of our theatres. New York Sun. '' ' ' ' .' If they ever get Senator Penrose into the Annanias Club, they will have to take him unawares. -Washington Post. . The Simplified Spelling Board has decided to have an annual banquet, but it does not intend to eat its sim plified words. Philadelphia Press. Mr. Burton has now been at large for some two weeks, and yet there are no signs of anti-Roosevelt insur rection in Kansas. Philadelphia In quirer, ..' . However, it should be remembered that those twenty-eight honest are in Pittsburg, where certain kinds of scandal only add to the distinction. Philadelphia Press. ' ;.;'. : Why not give that Peace Congress Dinner in the Madison Square Gar den, and let the public into the gal leries to see the domes of thought ? New York Sun. When James J. Hill former presi dent of the Great Northern, express ed the desire that the time should come when less would be heard of Washington he must have had a fore boding as to coming events.- New York World. X. ;: ;'"..' Taft says he's too busy in Panama to bother about politics. Don't blame him, Panama doesn't send many delegates to the Convention; anyway. Philadelphia North Ameri . "Thank You." Several years ago, a woman was coming out from some public build ing when the heavy door swung back and made egress somewhat difficult. A little street urchin sprang to the rescue; and as he held open the door, she said, "Thank you," and passed on: "Crack, 'd'ye hear that?" said the boy to a companion standing near by him. "No, what?" "Why, that lady in sealskin said, 'Thank ye' to the likes o' me." Amused at the conversation, which she could not help overhearing, the lady' turned round and said to the boy: "It always pay to be polite, my boy; remember that." Years passed away; and last De cember, when doing her Christmas shopping, this same lady received an exceptional courtesy from a clerk in Boston, which caused her to re-mark to a friend who was with her. "What a great comfort to be civ ily treated once in a while though I don't know that I blame the store clerks for being rude during the holiday trade." The young man's quick ear caught the words, and he said: "Pardon me, madam, but you gave me my first lesson of politeness a few years ago." The lady looked at him in amaze ment, while he related the little for-? gotten incident, and told her that simple "Thank you" awakened his first ambition to be something in the world. He went the next morn ing and applied for a situation as office boy in the establishment where he was now an honored and trusted clerk. -..V Only two words dropped Into the treasury of street' conversation, but they yielded returns of a certain kind more satisfactory than investments, stocks and bonds. The Congregationalism Choosing a New Minister. The faithful old parson had died after thirty years' preaching, and perhaps the newer methods had be gun to creep in, for it seemed im possible to suit the two communities most interested in the choice. The Rev. Mr. Davis, for example, was a spirited preacher, but persisted in keeping two horses in the parsonage stable, and in exchanging them when ever he could get faster ones. As a parochial visitor, he was incompara ble, dashing from house to house with such speed that he could cover the parish in a single afternoon. This sporting tendency, which would never have been remarked in a British par- , son, was frowned upon in a New England village, and Deacon Millikin told Mr. Davis, when giving him what he alluded to as his "walking papers," that they didn't want the Edgewood church run by hoss power! The next candidate pleased Edge wood, where morning preaching was held, but the other parish, which had afternoon service, declined to accept him because he wore a wig an ill matched, crookedly applied wig. Number three was eloquent but given to gesticulation, and Mrs. Jere Burbank, the president of the Dorcas Society, who sat in a front pew, said she couldn't bear to see a preacher scramble round the pulpit on hot Sundays. Number four a genial, handsome man, gifted in prayer, Was found to be a Democrat. The congregation was overwhelmingly Republican in its politics and perceived something ludicrous, if not positively blasphe mous, in a Democrat preaching the gospel. Number five had a feeble-minded child, which the hiring committee prophesied would always be standing in the parsonage front yard, making talk for the other denominations. Number six was the Rev. Judson Baxter, the present incumbent, and he was voted to be as near perfec tion as a minister can be in this finite world. His young wife had a small income of her own, so the sub scription committee hoped they might not be eternally driving over the country to get somebody's fifty cents that had been overdue for eight months, but might take their onerous duties a little more easily. Kate Douglas Wiggin in Scribner's Maga zine. . : The best thing in this world is a good man. The first thing that a human being should recognize about himself is that his character is his distinguishable feature. It is not the amount of money, the amount of power, the amount of brains that a man has, but his character. What ever fellow-men may say or do to the contrary, this is a fact, that what separates him from others and gives him his individuality, is his goodness or lack of goodness, according to its degree. Money, power, and brains have their place and exert an influ ence in deciding a man's position and recognition; but by the standard of ages, by which every one is tried in character and in God's sight, which is the final and determined sight, men are what they are in wishes and pur poses. It is not, then, too much to say that the supreme ambition of a person's life should be to secure a worthy character. Your daily duties are part of your religious life just as much as your devotions. Henry Ward Beecheri Those disappointed candidates in the recent municipal election will have the satisfaction of knowing that they are not setting a precedent. That $100,000 bond issue to build an auditorium is creating talk among the tax-payers. The men who pay no taxes are mgn m ub praise, as are also a good many tax-payers. A man in Omaha, Nebraska, has broken a bone in his wrist counting money. Hereafter we will have to wear wrist protectors. Raleigh Times. : X.'-'x r v; -:: : We know men who have broken banks by taking all the money with out counting it. It is to be hoped that Japan will not let any American cotton mill operatives work in that country, as they have to work fourteen hours per day, 'seven days per week, at about fifteen cents per day. No won der California has no use for the Jap. The Jamestown Exposition will soon open its gates to the world. It is to be hoped that hotels and boarding houses will not practice ex tortion on the visitors. If they do it will lessen the gate receipts of the Exposition. Mr. Sanford L. Rotter, the new editor who succeeded Mr. R. W. Simpson as editor of the Raleigh Evening Times, has made good in his new position. Mr. Rotter Is a graduate of Columbia College, and was one of the, city editors of the Times at the time of his promotion. He is the author of the "Tree Top" letters, which formerly appeared once a week in our evening contem porary. Mr. Simpson, the erstwhile editor, is on the staff of the Rich mond Times-Dispatch and will fill his new position acceptably. France is trying to Introduce to bacco free from nicotine, but needn't ask us to put it in our pipe and smoke it. Philadelphia Ledger,
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