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RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22. 1907.
NO. 17
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OFF TO WASHINGTON.
Bilkins Will Soon Call Upon the
President Mrs. Bilkins Has Re
turned to Bilkinsville The Trust
Question Again Something About
Mark Twain.
Jamestown, Va., August 21st.
Correspondence of the Enterprise.
I am now ready ter gc ter Wash
ington. Betsy hez gone home an' 1
hope the railrode commisshun won't
throw the train off the track an' hurt
her, fer she iz one ov the finest ladies
in the land. Jist az soon az she found
that I wuz goin' ter buy tier a new
dress in Washington sure enuff sh,
agreed ter go home. I'll try ter git
Mrs. Roosefelt ter go out shoppin'
with me an' pick out sumpthin' nice
that won't cost a fortune. Awl the
ladies that live erlong Terrible Creek
will be cumin' ter see us an' inspeckt
Betsy's new dress, I reckon. Not
every North Carolina lady kin own a
dress that wuz picked out by the
"first lady" in the land. When I git
back ter Bilkinsville an' ride Bob up
ter our gate I'll bet that Betsy will
meet me with one pv them gude old
time kisses an' she'll boo-hoo a little,
too.
I think I will hurry back ter North
Carolina an' run fer sum offis, fer I
know that if that new dress pleezet
Betsy she will brag on me till every
lady in Wake County will think that
I -.- am ona -ov the . nicest men in th
county, an' they will awl make their
husbands an' brothers vote fer me. I
know they will be a big crowd at our
church every Sunday fer the next fey
weeks ter see Betsy's new dress.
I hev writ ter Mr. John D. Rocke
feller ter meet me at Washington so
we kin talk over this trust business
with the President. If Mr. Rocke
feller will tell me that he iz willin'
ter reduce the price ov lamp oil an
will give me hiz hand on hit, I'll
sign a request that the next Congress
let up on him fer awhile. But I am
still ov the opinion that we hev h
heap o other things ter contend with
that cum higher than the lamp oil
that we use, an' they air things we
can't do without very handy. But
the pollytishuns hev sot out ter git
inv oflis by Ugh tin' the oil trust, an'
the railrodes an' the die iz cast, az
the skollars say. ', ' .',
The fight betwixt the horse an' tht
mule, and the ortermorebill lz gittin
red hot. The fellers that think that
the horse ain't in it with the orter
morebill will wake up sum time an
they will be surprized. I wouldn't
swap Bob fer a train load ov orter
morebills a mile long. I hev bin
studyin ortermorebills slnse I cum
here, an I hev concluded that awl
they air fit fer iz ter scare horses an'
burn gasoleen.
I see that my old friend, Mark
Twain, lz havin' a big time over in
London. I hev read sum ov Mark
Twain's writin, but I never seed
him. If he' keeps on writin' fer the
papers he will git laffed at.
- Mark uster live on the Mississippi
River an had sum sort ov a job on
one ov the steamboats that run up
an' down the river. They wuzzenc
very big steamboats in them days,
an' Mark would be so funny an git
awl the passengers ter laffln so' thai
the boats would hev ter stop. After
awhile they discharged Mark an he
concluded ter take up writin fer u
livin', He hez writ a gude deal fer
the newspapers an' printed sum books
an awl the world hez laffed at hiz
funny sayin's an' stories. He hez
made an' lost a fortune or two an'
still peeple air willin' ter pay him ter
make them laff an' fergit their trub
bles. Funny peeple air gude things. But
hit iz jist like other things in life
they run ter extremes. Sum peeple
air so funny that they keep awl the
world laffin', an' sum air so solemn
an' sour that they give you the blues
when you see them comin' half a mile
off. The sour ones orter be shot an'
the funny ones orter hev the elixer ov
life poured down their throats so they
would live ter be a thousand years
old, or else the funny ones orter be
releeved frum payin' poll-tax an' the
sour, crabbit ones be double taxed.
Tours az ever,
' ZEKE BILKINS.
Farmers' Rally.
On Saturday, August 31st, a grand
rally will be held at Cary. It will be
a school and basket picnic. Prof. J.
B. Carlyle, of Wake Forest ; Mr. C. C
Moore, of Charlotte, and Prof. E. L.
Middleton, will be among the speak
ers. A great time is expected and th
public is invited.
Affairs in Wake County.
The writer had the pleasure of
sixanding-Aort-tjjne with Mr. H. A,
Patterson on Rural Route No. 2 from
Apex this week and visited the vicin
ity. Mr. Patterson is one of the com
paratively young farmers in the coun
ty, and is making a success of it. His
cotton and corn this season, unfavor
able as it has been, is splendid, ana
he has a comfortable home and
boards in the same place. The neigh
borhood is a good one, and the peo
ple are industrious and well-to-do.
Between McCullers and Holly
Springs the crops are magnificent, for
this season. The people have evident
ly worked hard, and they will reap a
nice reward this fall. There is no
better section of country in the State.
Judge Llndsey, of Colorado, says
the vote of a woman can be bought
for $15. In the old days, when Wol
cott ran politics In that State, th
regular price was $2 for a vote.
Everything seems to have gone up.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Georgia will be as dry as a bone---legally
after January 1st. This
means that the thirsty ones down
there will appeal to a well-know a
variety of the "unwritten law" in or
der ; to obtain their usual supply of
liquid rations. Washington Herald.
Oklahoma Republicans denounced
the new Constitution and pledged
themselves to,.: remedy . its -defects;
Here is betting that they: will not be
given a chance this year. Oklahoma
is Democratic, unless the prohibition
issue founders the donkey Dallas
Herald.
If our courts are anxious to extend
the New York epidemic of attacks on
women and children to Philadelphia,
they are going the right way about
it whenever they fall to inflict the
maximum penalty upon the perpetra
. tor of the most hateful of crimes.
Philadelphia North American.
Miss Harriet's Corners.
Round the restaurant table sat an
agreeable little company, composed of
some gentlemen, a lady and a girl
with charming face and vivacious
ways. Meal and conversation were
proceeding pleasantly, until the
waiter upset a cup of chocolate in the
girl's lap!
After an interval, during which
chairs were thrust back, napkins
flourished and exclamation launched,
the frightened waiter doing his best
to repair damages, the flurry subsided
somewhat and the party re-seated
itself.
"My dear Harriet," cried the lady
ruefully, "your pretty suit is ruined!"
"Oh, there are more in the shops,"
was the gay rejoinder.
The waiter, having got a smile
from the heroine of the accident,
went off in a dazed condition. The
gentlemen were staring silently.
"Now, look here, Miss Harriet,"
began the man with white hair, re
covering first, "tell us how you did
'it!"
"Did what?" mischievously.
"Kept your equinimity, when most
women would have well, no matter!
I was looking right at you when it
happened, and the corners of your
mouth went back instantly In a smile,
and"
"Oh, did you notice that?" asked
the girl, suddenly interested. Then
she checked herself, coloring. But
the others scented a story and in
sisted, until Miss Harriet yielded,
laughing.
"Well, since Mr. Pierce is so dis
cerning but, really, there's nothing
to tell, you know. I had a new hat
sent home once, the night before
Easter. I was to sing in church, and
that hat was the prettiest thing! Oh,
don't be frightened" she laughed
merrily "I won't describe it. In
fact, I never got very familiar with it
anyhow; for, when I left my room a
moment, my puppy found it and had
a personal intervielw with it.
"No, I didn't shake the pup"py he
was a dear. I just dropped into a
chair and contemplated the ruins.
"But presently I caught sight of
my face in the dressing table mirror,
and I forgot even the ruins! I was
so shocked that I said right out, 'Is
that you, Harriet Corey?' Why, it
was the most woe-begone, forbidding
countenance my mouth made a per
fect capital U, turned upside down.
: "It came to me that that was how
I probably looked whenever things
went wrong.
"Well, I experimented immediate
ly. I made the corners of my mouth
move back up, and I decided that a
presentable face was better than an
Easter hat. And I concluded right
there that when things went wrong
I'd at least see that the corners of
my mouth stayed up.
"Really, you've no idea," she fin
ished, ingenuously, "how it helps
when horrid things happen. You just
can't feel cross and blue if you keep
your corners right."
Miss Harriet, absorbed in her nar
rative, had been unaware of admiring
eyes. Now her cheeks began to red
den.
"It's better than controlling cor
ners in wheat!" murmured Mr.
Pierce. The Youth's Companion.
Our Unconscious Ministrations.
Some years ago, at the time of the
sudden death of a beloved minister,
among the messages which reached
the family was one mailed from u
railway train, unsigned, undated, and
bearing but four words: "My friend,
my friend!"
Whether the cry came from' one
who had been personally ministered
to, or whether the service had been
rendered through some sermon or
printed word, no one ever knew. It
was enough that in some way the
servant of God had delivered his
message to the needy soul.
The incident is typical of one of
the most beautiful phases of life
the unconscious ministry of human
souls to each other. A little while
ago a farmer's wife, burdened and
discontented, chanced to visit, with
a friend, a home for incurables in
a nearby city. Among the patients
there was a youth of twenty, totally
paralyzed, so that he could move
nothing but his eyes. They were
wonderful eyes, clear, blue and hap
py, with an eager light of recogni
tion for old friends and greeting for
new ones. ..
The farmer's wife had no son of
her own, but she carried home with
her the memory of that prisoned
youth with his clear, happy eyes.
This is hot a story. She never
$aw him again she never even
wrote to him, for writing did not
come easily to her unwonted fingers.
But she did not complain over , her
life as she had before. Her tasks
were heavy, and she had little pleas
ure, and, It seemed to her, little ap
preciation. But after that time,
when bitter words sprang to her lips,
they often died unspoken, and her
eyes softened with pity; between her
and her hard, gray days a vision
lingered the vision of a crippled
boy with heaven's peace in his eyes.
There are few lives that do not
know such ministry. Men in tempta
tion have been strengthened by the
memory of some woman who had
stood faithfully in a hard place
through heroic years. Women press
ed by worldly duties hide in their
hearts a shrine hallowed by some
humble, unsuspecting saint an old
servant's room, perhaps, or a simple
country farm-house, known in the
far-off years, where one walked who'
carried the fragrance of prayer in
her garments. ..
Is there not comfort hero for hum
ble souls who feel themselves doing '
little for ' the world's great : need?
Their lives are God's messages. In
ways they cannot know their comfort
and their healing will go forth to
those who need them. God's mes
sages cannot be lost nor go astray.
Youth's Companion.
A Missouri "Chautauqua" is' close
ing up and going out of business be
cause it has proved unprofitable. If
this is significant of a tendency it will
soon cease to pay to be a defeated
candidate for the Presidency. New
York Tribune.
Be "generous to a fault," if you
will, but don't be unduly lenient with
grave faults.
The Hungarian Government hap.
undertaken the task of making the
country's hordes of gypsies settW
down to work. If it succeeds, will 1.L
send over a delegation and take our;
hoboes in hand? -Boston Transcript.
God's covenant is simply His 'W
tegrity.