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THE ENTERPRISE. Official Organ of Franklin County. Eiiftjwl fttkXbo C'm Past Omot> an Mail Mattel' of tnfc* l riAo frtW’Cntrt; of Bultf three FrSptlou: month Oiwryear, 25 cunt’; $1; hi sW nhih month*, <1 to , o** itiott, 7o cent per annum. Ca-sh in atlvam-o. Term* of AdvcrtiiMng furnished on application. in soticsitftd, but no atts&tlon will bepveii to fiouimiuucations uidertt ata Onvp.i- nieil by the real name of the writer. J.ONL J. McOlNNlXI. ash OKO. S. 1*1111.1.1 CS, l-IMTOH* ANI> l-llol-im:rolls. CAHM.HV H.r.i:, HA., MOMMY, .IAN. Ii, I mu. SALUTATORY. In this, the first, issue of Tin: E\- Ti-iU’KisK, we ask the good will and co-operation of the people of Frank¬ lin and adjoining counties, and if by giving them a live, honest and con¬ servative paper we shall merit their support. We feel that our success is assured. WHAT WE EXPECT. We will send out a large number of sample copies of Tub K.vtkii- I’lUHli this week, and we shall expect many subscribers to our paper as the result. Wo hope every one that we send a eopj* to will at once become a sub¬ scriber, and help us to work for Tiik Entkki-im a;. We want correspondents from ev¬ ery di. tret in the county. OUH GREATEST LOSS. The death of Henry W. Grady has carried sadness and grief to every reading household in the South. lie was our ideal Southerner. The peer- hiss exponent of Southern resources and Southern thoughts. The leader without a poor in her development. He was proiul of Georgia's title as the Empire State of the South, and to further her prestage he fashioned our journalism. He built our great¬ est city. lie-planned our matchless expositions. Ho invited to our South land and entertained the wisest men of our Fnioft. lie built the Confed crate Veterans Home with the ser¬ vices of a day’s mail. More than this he moulded Southern eliaraeter- wliich is our e.liiefest heritage. ♦ ♦ The Negro Exodus. From the present outlook North Carolina will soon he free of colored people. A telegram of December MO from Charlotte to the Constitution says: “The negro exodus from this State is now assuming a larger pro¬ portion than ever before, and prom¬ ise,; to be very lively for tlie next two or three months. This evening a special train, carrying more t han thir¬ teen hundred negroes from the East¬ ern portion of the State passed thro’ here, hound for the land of milk and honey. A large crowd of Charlotte negroes swarmed about the train standing at the depot, and it was plainly manifested that the exodus Will sooou strike this section.” Franklin County’s Resources. Franklin comity is rich in resour- ees. ller timber supply is abun¬ dant. Slu* is t rav ersed by admirable Mivains of water, powerful enough lo run the machinery of a State. Her H>il is well adapted to grasses, espe¬ cially burmuda, \v hi.h puts us in a eonditiuu. to do as profitable business in the way of stock-raising as can be •lone anywhere. Her soil is wonder¬ fully adapted to cotton, the chief pro¬ duct of the South. She grows the breadstuff!) with remarkable yield. It is the natural home of the gardener and truck farmer. Her forest is bowed each season with acorns, nuts and benies, growing spontaneously and profusely. Not only these and ten times many more, lmt we have convincing proof that there is a belt extending alongside of Middle River that is exhuberunt w ith manganese. There has been several examinations made of the ore by men acquainted with its chief characters, and they declare that it is the very richest do posit, worth lrviin vl-.UO to .vtio.uu per toil. it is time our citizens were becom¬ ing interested in the development of Franklin’s varied resources. 11 Harlow county’s citizens had done as Franklin's are doing, their county would have been no farther advanced than ours and (.iu tersville would have s( il! been a little insignif icant town. Rut they have built rail roads. They have developed their mines. They have attracted capita! ists and tilled their towns with plants and manufactories, and to-day they Jtare the admiration of every county m the Mate. Let us emulate their grand example, and in years to come we wfif bn h-..d mcly paid for our •^LUy ■Jsrr . J**- THE CARNEGIE RAILROAD. The Necessity of Its Completion—The Prospects Bright. There has never been a lime in the hi,-mry of Franklin Unit her outlook for iiVdlrond was ho encouraging. Il now appears to be almost a certainty i? the.citizens of Franklin will con¬ tinue for a short time their friendly co-operation. W'e are certainly most fortunate in seeming this great need at itch a small outlay as it now ap¬ pears will be necessary for its com¬ pletion. But will our citizens do t his joint work? W'e believe limy will. They cannot intelligently do other¬ wise. Every citizen of Franklin county would be materially be no fitted if ihc road should he completed. Surely our people still not let this chief among every need lag another day until it lias been pushed to a nie¬ ces *fnl termination. Our people- need a central commer¬ cial point. ('arm- sille is their county site, and every citizen has more or loss busi¬ ness to look after that necessarily brings him here, and every citizen has more or less, merchandise to buy, and there is no place in the county or ad¬ joining counties that so many of her citizens can reach so easily and so profitably as carnesville. Franklin county has long suffered for the lack of this central trading point, and she never can be what she ought to be until it has been estab¬ lished. We ought to make right here in Cai m-svillc i very pound ol fertilizers the county uses. We ought to make here in Carnes- viHo every plow-slock that is used in the c-niuiy. We ought to make here in Carnos- ville every wagon, buggy and v ehicle of every description that we use. And above every and all tilings else we should build here a school to educate our sons and daughters in the channel.; of usefulness. Hum! this road and the needful things will follow. OUR NECESSITIES. Things that Carnesville Should and Must Have. Carnesville must have more board¬ ing houses. The accommodations in this line ari* very unsati -factory. Carnesville can and will support a livery stable if it. is run on the rigid line. Those who have been engaged in the business heretofore say it pays handsomely if they could collect. It has been their fault if they failed to colled. As it is well known that livery men in the larger towns and cities require all charges in advance, this is t he only and the certain way to succeed. Carnesvillc’s side-walks and public square should In* pul in good condi¬ tion and kept that way. More paint is badly needed in our town. There is no other one tiling that will pay so well, considering the rmouut invested, as a reasonable and sufficient amount of paint. A dingy, smoky lot of residences and business houses are a drawback to any town. Carnesville needs organization and enthusiasm for progress such as she lias never had. The larger and bet¬ ter commercial, educational and social places have all been built by organi¬ zation, energy and enterprise. A Word to Carnesville Merchants. Our merchants need a Hoard of Trade. Then* is a cut-throat competition among them that breeds nothing but damage to themselves and distrust to their customers. If the merchant sells any commod¬ ity for less than a legitimate profit he has to make il up on another. ’The customer is pleased when he finds that he has procured a bargain in the purchase of the first, but he feels more like an enemy than a friend w hen he learns t hat ho was charged too much for the second. can be seen at once that the merchant has made nothing by his “catcher.” The customer in all probability will trade the next ffme with the met - chant whom lie thought too high tlie first time. It is not right for 011 c man to pay as much profit on one barrel oi ilour as another man would have to pay on ten barrels w hich is ooeadomd'y true, As a rule merchant can sell as lov a; If he can’t he should quit business, And ex ervlxuly, with common «*nso, knows that one man’s money is sa good as another's. Admitting this there should be no turns. Y Ye believe that a Hoard of Trade well and thoroughly organized will do incalculable good to the bu iuc s iutcicot OI oilt town* RAMIL IN TUB LOUTH. An Invention that May Do Much to Encourage Its Culture. Athnf.i i* f.id W«mi :?< famous as l/n‘thj»l;ico of wondorfu) inven¬ I ii the last year or t wo a largo num¬ of valuable labor ami lime saving hawe originated in the minds Atlantians. One of the latest inventions or dis¬ is that of Mr. Walter (I. Forbes, for the cheap and rapid elim¬ ination of I Jamie fibre from the rilxjn of the plant. The process is entirely new and different from any hereto¬ fore in use, cither in this or any other country, ft is simply a process of dissolving the ribon under pressure by the use of chemicals. Mr. Forbes has fully tested this method and the specimens of ramie fibre produce ! have been examined by experts and pronounced of a high qunlity. In the dissolving of the bark from the fibre, by means of what Mr. Forbes calls bis digester, the fibre is not only freed entirely of all gummv and resinous substances, but tin time required for the process is so com¬ paratively short as to la: in the nature of a revolution. Under the influence of the liquid, the hark is dissolved in about three hours, leaving the fibre in its natural length and of a whiteness and soft¬ ness exceeding the old and tedious hand process. Four thousand pounds can be treated at a single process by one ma¬ chine. For all manner of textile purposes the ramie fibre is one of the most val¬ uable known. It has been used for dojno.st.ic purposes in India and other Eastern countries where it grows in abundance for centuries, but on ac¬ count of the slow ami tedious process of stripping the hark from the fibre, its general use has been greatly ham¬ pered. Up to the present, its culture has been almost unknown in this country, but within the past year its value and adaptability have attracted I he attention of manufacture™ and agriculturists generally, and the agri¬ cultural department at Washington has taken Sudd of and is actively in¬ vestigating the propagation of tlie pi mt. Mr. Forbes has received letters rel¬ ative to his process from parties it; both Europe, and this country, in¬ cluding one from the agricultural de¬ partment, ami the American Ramie Company, of Philadelphia. The edi¬ torial in the Constitution a few days ago attracted wide-spread attention to the new process, and in response to it many inquiries have been made of Mr. Forbes for a further descrip¬ tion of his process. Patents are now pending in this and foreign countries, anil as soon as they are grunted, actual steps v, ill be taken to put the process in actual op¬ eration. Of course it. cannot be utilized in this country until the farmers are made aware of the wabie and mar¬ ketable qualities of the plant. When they arc assured cf the golden re¬ turns tlie plant wifi , Fid them,it n il! doubtless he i iihi v.ited in quantities that, with a cheap and rapid process, will revolutionize thousands of varie¬ ties of cloths and textures. It is the purpose of Mf;. Forbes and his asso¬ ciates in the control of the process to dispose of the foreign rights to an English eoucem, with which they are now in correspondence. They will form a company, and as soon as a sufficient supply of the plant can be j provided for in the home market erect a plant and proceed to the turn¬ ing out of the fibre. In tl)e IJaltimore Manufacturers Record of a recent date, the history and culture of tin* ramie plant w as fully discussed. Of its culture it says: “The chief requisite for success¬ fully raising ramie in a tropical or semi-tropical climate, light, rich, per¬ meable soil, without hard-pan or swampy sub-soil and sufficient water supply for regular irrigation.” After giving directions for tin* planting and of the crop, it continues: “If ra- seeds are treated in this manner, in our Southern States early in March the young plants will make their pcai.-iiice towards the eighth or tenth day after sowing. “In tfiis country Ramie will yield four crops of stalks of from six to seven feet in length, between the tilth Did degrees of latitude; three crops of the same dimensions tween the tij-l and 87 th degrees, and two fair crops of from four to six feet between the 87th and 4titjt degrees, if frost does not kill the roots. ther North the plant eannot xvith- the severity of the weather, Ramie, being a perennial which re- quires almost no care or work after the first, year, can, be grown and its fibre pquiu-il ,.o per ecu! lea.- than carton, leaving to tin* fanner from one single acre more 'dear ben¬ efit, ihan liis whole cotton cro)> brings.” -K Mr. Felix 1 Yeinery, of Yorktmvn, Texas, who prepared the art icle in the Record, from actual experience, fig¬ ures out the average returns per acre for a year, of four crops, £<>00, ami the expenses for raising and market¬ ing the crop £*JO0, leaving a profit of ■?1o0 t > the aero. By the dissolving process of Mr. Forbes, the plant can be reduced to fiber at an estimated cost of a cent a pound, which is very much cheaper than it has ever yet been prepared. By the process now in use in India and Europe the stalks are allowed to lay in vats for from two to three weeks, until the bark lias been rotted away. It is then washed and pre¬ pared with olive oil, the whole pro- cess being tedious and unsati;factory : ‘ s well as expensive. The newchem- >cal process requires only t hree hours and costs comparatively little. The value is at once seen, and the dcvcl- opment of the process will not only be of great benefit to the consumer of all sorts of fabrics, but will open up a new field of agriculture in the South.—Atlanta (’onslitution. What They Excel In. Alabama ranks fourth in cotton. Arizona ranks second in ilvor. California ranks first in barley, grape culture, sheep, gold and quick¬ silver. Colorado ranks first in silver. Connecticut ranks first in clocks. Delaware is way up in peaches. Dakota is the finest, wheat Stale. Florida ranks third in sugar molasses. Georgia ranks second in rice sweet potatoes. Indiana ranks sceont in wheat. Illinois ranks first in corn, oats, meat packing lumber traffic, malt and distilled liquors anil miles railway. Iowa ranks first in hogs. Idaho ranks sixth in gold and ver. Kansas rank:; fifth in cattle, corn and rye. Kentucky ranks first in and lias a world-wide reputation thoroughbred horses and cattle. ly iso beautiful women. Louisiana ranks first in sugar molasses. Maine ranks first in ship slate and granite quarries, and fishing. Maryland ranks fourth in coal. Massachusetts ranks first in woolen and worst ed goods and in and mackerel fisheries. Michigan ranks first in copper, b( r and salt. Minnesota ranks fourth in j and barley. Mississippi ranks second in Missouri ranks first in mules. Montana ranks fifth in silver .pi. New Mexico’s grazing c ni t he beat. Nebraska has abundant crops rye, buckwheat, barley, flax hemp. Nevada ranks second in gold. New Hampshire ranks third in manufacture of cotton goods. New Jersey ranks first in fertiliz¬ ing mail, sine and silk goods. New York ranks first in value | manufactures, soap, printing ami j I fishing, and hops, milch hay, potatoes, wheat cows. North Carolina ranks first in tar and turpentine, Ohio ranks first in agricultural im¬ plements and wool. Oregon takes the palm in cattle I raising, Pennsylvania ranks first in rye, icon and steel, netroleum and coal. Rhode* Island, in proportion to its size, outranks all other States in value of manufactures. South Carolina ranks first in ;>hos- phut os. Tlie baby has a rattling time. A , swell ,, all .... air—a . bull-frog , ,, , chorus, , Never in the soup % cry many oysters. A bill sticker—a determined col- lector. 1 - ■ 1 - u ■ --t ■ oai .urii.ij >< ta mi '* ^ “’lY*• An II. and St. Jo railroad conduc- tor is named Judy. A sort of punch- as it were, Some people don’t hesitate to call t.. t spa-le a spade ” Others ire not a ,j t .„ ca ]j a 1;l P(. a nvmlcman “The child shall be father to the man.” Likewise an old goat shall be¬ come a button kid. lias a finger iu the pie the butch- or w ho loses a digit in a mincing liin- chine. Deiroil Free Fix JSeS. A Little Talk With Girls. Some girls are never ready. At the laid, moment the veil is caught, or gloves are snatched, and awi*v they hurry down the street to the • • • railroad station, or elsewhere, button¬ ing, tying, fixing. Very few times in one’s life this may be necessary, hut almost always one may be ready before the street door is opened, if glove.- have but one button, or are laced in simplest fashion, draw on both neatly, and do the little fin¬ ishing before leaving the house; like¬ wise fasten the veil securely, button saque or fold shawl. One is thus better equipped for that which lies before, than starting off to catch time. It would be amusing if I should re¬ late some instances under my obser¬ vation where girls have made a par¬ tial toilet an the highway. I actu¬ ally know of one who combed her hair in a carriage on the way to a concert. I always feel like asking such a one some questions concerning her home life, and the kind of books end pa¬ pers she reads; if she has never seen an article on the subject of being ready that impressed her sufficiently to follow. The maidenly lady who is ready, who has attended to her small be¬ longings and appointments, has no further need to think of herself on entering a railway car, or setting out for a walk or drive, therefore has eyes and thoughts for what may be around her. She sees more, hears more, exercises her-powers of obser¬ vation more than the one who must complete her readiness after starting. Grace of manner is thereby acquired, and an ease in appearance quite in contrast to the iigety movements of the chronic fixer. Again it is very annoying to accompany such a per¬ son. “Tie my veil, please,” is perhaps the first request. Presently, “Oh, do button my glove,” and you act as glove buttoner. “Is my hat on even?” You may be studying a line bit of landscape, but you turn yohr eyes. “Not quite,” and a gentle push is given. A little further on, “Are my bangs blown about? I ought to have comb¬ ed them. Can’t you smooth them a little with your hand?” Your hand is gloved, but you oblige your friend. Other requests are in order. Will you put a pin where the draping of her overskirt is down, or arrange her dolman, or lend a'hairpin to stay her falling locks, and by tlie time she is ready your interest in the walk is abating, or the journey nearly through, or—let us hope this last— your good nature has endured to the end. A girl who is never ready will probably develop into a woman of the same mould. She will try her life long to catch up with herself and never seem to get there. A good soldier is trained to habits of precision. Method marks his movements. Military drill is some¬ times considered severe, but such drill is doubtless needed to form habits that will build, good soldiers doing service for their country. Now girls need to be good soldiers —doing service for themselves and each other. How can this be accom¬ plished without habits that will form strong character—for back of the foundations lies character, and neat¬ ness and promptness are elements dcsirale than i'y-awny qualities. Every girl can mend her ways in the little matter of being ready at the start, and habits so strong that they become sfieond nature, arc worth building on the right basis.-—Mary L. Palmer, in Christian at Work. A good story is being told about the wife of a prominent gentleman of Scranton, Pa., who has long been a confirmed invalid. A few weeks ago site took to her bed and bid fair to lie there helple.-s the rest: of her life, and there seemed to be little the matter with her. Her husband prepared 11 a novel test for . her. lie tooK their pi-miy colored servant into his confi- del ice and by a pre-arranged plan the two met in the invalid’s bed chamber. As they passed the man reached out and embracing the girl planted a fer- vent kiss on her black skin. The wife’s lost powers returned to her at once, and site jumped out of her bed and drove the girl from the house. She now does all the housework her¬ self with ease. Pnnnsby says turkeys certainly ought to be plenty for the holidays, we’ve had so much foul weather. A dollar in your hand is worth two pairs of dollar gloves “markt d down from $r.50.” Subscribe for Tua Extkui'KUE. ALL OF FRANKLIN’S ENTERPRISING CITIZENS SHOULD ^ PATRONIZE * AN # ENTERPRISE, *€~ AN I t THE « ENTERPRISE --IS A -A . 3 * HOME * ENTERPRISE! <C~ 1 - We venture to say there is not a citizen in the county who does not want a good County Paper, and we further venture to say that “TII1C ENTERPRISE” is, and will continue to be, the best paper ever pub¬ lished in Franklin County. ROME WAS NOT BUILT IN A DAY j Neither will “THE ENTERPRISE” attain its height of success in so short a time, but if the citizens of Franklin County will give us their patronage we will build up a circulation to almost equal Rome’s population, and give thorn a paper that every one will be proud of. We don’t propose to pander to any sect, society, or organization, but will publish a straight-forward, Democratic, conservative news¬ paper that will tend to build up and further the progress of Franklin County. Carnesville will have her railroad completed in a short time, and already she is awaking from her Rip Van Winkle slumber, and w ill be ranked among the thriving, live towns of North-East Georgia, and with the beginning of her second growth THE ENTERPRISE first sees the light of day. To getting out a newsy, live, enterprising and progressive paper we will devote all of our energy and time, and build up a newspaper that will be lowked for with eager anticipation. The sections of the whole country which arc the most prosperous art* the sections that have advantage of progressive newspapers. The i newspapers are not only* expected to give the news, but it is a part of their mission to develop the territory into which they go. It shall be our highest ambition to do service for our section, and hope we will have the friendship of the people for our efforts. THE ENTERPRISE Carnesville. Ga.