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»HE ENTERPRISE Published Weekly WILLIAMtTON, N. CJ We all cdxtre a ir.rn vho won't ipoath and an egg that will. —^——————— A "busbandette" is apt to be found washing the dishes In a "kitchenette." With eozr.e assistance from gasoline this has become a pretty fast country The truth may be the worst op- In suits, but that does not necessarily ic~ke it a libel. '' Fashion doesn't give fine feathers a chance to make fine birds; It needs them all for hats. When it comes to having bulldogs stolen by burglars, one must Indeed feel the biting irony of fate. It's Just about time for a new dis ease to be discovered. Pelagra and bookworm are becoming ordinary. # To save our life, we can't get deeply interested in the tomb of Ananias There are too many live liars in this world, . The proposed trouser reform has raised a great bowl In.the ranks of the knock-kneed, pigeon-toed and thin shanked A polios. i. A man in Posion wants a divorce becauses bis wife throws knives at him. It takes so little to make some husbands peevish. Scientists have discovered a new ele ment, celtlum. Will It also be used as a cancer cure until another new ele ment Is discovered? A Hoston woman advances the theory that overeating is likely to cause race suicide. It Is likely also to cause bankruptcy. The light of a new star recently dis covered In the Milky-Way was 150 years In reaching the earth. Pretty alow, as things go now. New York subway crowds fatally trampled upon a young woman. And yet that city Is hoping for a popula tion of 35,000,000 eventually. We are assured that a of bald headed women Is threatened. Maybe, but many n man will not discover any evidences of this until after the nup tial knot is tied. ■ * % A western man tried to commit sui cide because he had too much house work to do. He had reached a point where breaking dishes no longer re lieved his fee lings. A Chicago professor has w-on an automobile In a guessing contest. We believe this is the first time a Chicago college professor has ever admitted that he was guessing. # In Ohio there Is a Judge who holds that a woman may take money from her huslund without his knowledge or consent and be guiltless of steal ing. Tills is likely to cause more bachelors to struggle along without wives. At a hearing In New York on a pro posed ordinance to limit the length and powers for mischief of the feml nine hatpin a number of women pres ent approved of the measure and not a single voted was raised against it The fair sex may always bo relied on ! to do the unexpected thing In a contest In New York to decide i what are the 25 most beautiful words j !n the English language the Judges | threw out "truth*," ' because they - thought it "had a metallic sound An other surprising thing about the eon j teat was that* 1 the man who won, did j not have "money" In his list of beau | tlful words. Now that the aeroplane hasdemon strated Its ability both to rise from the deck of a warship and land there j on, Its practical possibilities for war fare will be largely Increased. In fact, -the next big war will be unique in the world's annals, unless so many wonders in the way qf invention act to keep It from occurring " Sanitary reform Is marching on The New Hampshire legislature has adopted a law empowering the State Board of Health to restrict the use of common drinking cups tn public places. Combined with the move ment by railroad companies to ellmln at* the common drinking cup In pas aenger cars this means much in the way of safeguarding health. Uncle Bam certainly has grown to ba a big boy The census of last year shows that the three Pacific coast States, California, Oregon and Wash ington, now have a larger population than tbat of the entire thirteen colonies when they started the Revo Intion and set up In business for f themselves. And the fathers never •Ten dreamed that there would be Pacific coast states. The bobble skirt may* figure in an of flclal Inquiry. It appeitrs that a num bar of Syracuse ladles filed with the public service commission a com plaint against the traction company op - arating lines In tbat ' city, alleging tbat the steps of the caiV are too high, thas pseventlng women \ from getting ready access thereto. And the defense nay 0e that If the ladles did not wear constricted garments tbay would have lass difficulty entering the cars. ''' •' V- 384,088 PERSONS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE 27TH ANNUAL REPORT MADfc BY GOVERNMENT CIVIL SERVICE ' COMMISSION. , r" 1 EFFECTIVENESS INCREASING * y - » •' Over 40,000 Persons Were Appointed Through Examinations During the Year. Washington.—President Taft fcas made public the twonty-sevenlii an nual report of the civil service com mission. The report states that the increasing effectiveness of the merit system has strengthened the public conviction that it is indispensable to e-ccnomy end efficiency in governmen till ofTalr3. it Is uhown that t/ie ex amination system tenda to lessen the nufnher of employees required un | tier similar ctnditions by raising the standard of efficiency and at the VETae limo facilitates the extension of gov eriimcntul activities to new fields bv furnishing tho lost pr-eticable cc:;-s of tenting qualifications fcr efticntlCc, technical and professional work. Tho report shows 384,088 persons *n »!:c cJcrJtivo civil Bcrvico, 222,27* of whc:i arc in the competitive CIC,;:GI - service. Including); transfers, promotions and reinstatements, there were, according to tho report, 43,585 persons appointed throuch cxaininrtion in the Federal service during the year, while fers and reinstatements without ex amination to tho Federal service an'i appointments through eXJvfHination to llio-'l'iilllppine service and to unskilled labor positions brings the number up to 40,202. it is cliown that tho iarno number of clerks '*i Washington required lor the recent cotisus were readily sup plied through tho examination syt torn. CHILD LABOR CONFERENCE Planned to Prohibit Children Appear ing on Stage. Birmingham, Ala. —Tno seventh an nual session of the_ National Child Labor Conference was ended with a meeting at which tho principal speak ers wore Dr. Felix Adlor of New York and Miss Jane Addaras of Chicago. Tl.is session of tho conference was voted the greatest in tho history ol tho movement. The work of tho conference, i:i which Col. Theodoro llooscvolt and ether men anil women of national prominence assisted, was directed mainly tovardo securing uniform child labcr laws. A vigorous plan was pro posed also for prohibiting child lalor en tho stage. Tito t;eos;oa9 of tho eonforenco have attracted vast numbers of the people A Alabr.ma, among whom tho nation al child labor movement originated, aud a widespread interest has been rovived. * MRS. HAYES ACQUITTED. North Carolina Woman Freed After a Dramatic Trial, Wilmington, .'i C.—As the finale to a scnsaj'onal trial in the superior court at Whlfevillo, N. C., tho jury re turned a verdict of not guilty both a:v to Mrs Kosa Hayoß, charped with tw ins tiic principal in the killing of Koli ert M. Floyd, a medical student ol Charleston, 3. C., on the night of Fed ruary 4, and as to her husband Neill M. Hayes, charged with being an ac cessory before the fact. Lloyd Hayes, a younger brother cf Neill Hayes, also charged with beir.rs an accessory-, was dhunmrgvd earlier in the week on a nolle Mrs. 1 lays admitted the killing of Floyd,, but pleaded that i?ho shot in delete of her honor. Working fcr Cuirency Reform. Washington.—Plans for the reform of the currency laws will be prose cuted with'a groat deal of vigor by the members of tho national monetary commission during the summer and fall. A campaign of education will be started within a few weeks, In the Lope of creating sentiment in favor cf a bill which probably will be in troduced in both branches of congress when the regular session is convened iier.t December. Avalanche Buries Thirty Men. Virginia, Mian.—Five hundred Ihou sand tons cf lrcn cio, rock, earth, ice and cnov. i.lld down upon and buried thirty track layers woiking .in the Norman Open Pit mine. Only four escaped the avalanche, and three of these are in a hospital suffering of Injuries that may pvcive fatal The place that was an open pit iu now ul most a plain of rock, oro and earth, v. Ith here and thore pants of a body in sight. Auaimy of men with shov els worked desperately to recover the bodies. Race Riot in Galveston, Texas— A race riot was prccipitatod by tho stabbing of Win - flcld Joel, a soldier, by an unknown negro iu the red light district. One Mexican and four nocroos were se verely beaten the house in front of which the'stabbing cecurrcd was tot on lire and burned to the ground. An InUilous remark mado by one of Jool'3 companions about the color ct tho occupants of tho house where tho Jro«W© cccurred, is supposed to have caused the attack. The police were unable to stop the rlot'cg. NOW THE 17-YEAR LOCUST NIGHTMARE 1 ' . .. - Ay.* j I (Copyright. ltlL) STATISTICS ON DISEASE Censua Bureau's bulletin on Mortal ity Statistics for 1909 Issued. Washington. There were 669 deaths from acute anterior poliomye litis, or Infantile paralysis, 116 froir. pellagra, 55 trom tables or hydropho bia, and nine from leprosy In 1909 In the death registration area of con tinental United States, which com prises over 55 per cent, of the total populaticn, according to the census bureau's bulletin on mortality elatis tics for IPO9. Of tho 569 deaths from Infantile pa ralysis, 562 were whlto and only 17 colored There wus a somewhat great er number of cases among male.) ani an Increased mortality in Auguit, Sep tember and October. The bulletin states that no statisti cal segregation of Infantile prfra'yais as a cause of death has been made heretofore, but the Increasing Import ance of the disease and Its wide piev alence throughout the country in the form of local epidemics render a state ment of the mortality important. U chiefly afTects children In the first flvc years of life, and while not infrequent ly fatal. Is of even more serious con sequence as the cause of more or lest permanent paralysis und atrophy ot muscles. Tho deaths from Infantile paraly cla in the registration states number ed aa follows: California 12 (1 In San Frcnciseo); Colorado 6 ll In Denver); Connecticut 6 (1 in New Haven)-i District of Columbia (city of Washing ton),!; Indiana 14; Maine 0; Mary land 4 (Lin Baltimore); Massachu setts €2 (21 in Boston and 1 in Wor cester); Michigan Hi (2 In Dotrolt); Now Hampshire 11; Now Jersey 24 (2 in Jersey City, C In Newark); New York 115 (2 in Buffalo, 64 In Great er Now York, 2 in Rochester, 1 in Syracuse); Ohio 16 ((1 in Cincinnati, 2 in Cleveland); Pennsylvania 76 (S in Philadelphia, 8 in Pittsburg, 1 in Scrunton); Rhode Island 4 (3 in ProV Idence); South Dakota 0; Vermont 2; Washington 5, and Wisconsin 51 (1 in Milwaukee). The, disease does not seem oartic ularly to altect the large cities of> 100,000 population and over. For tho nonc-registratlon states there were, in the registration cities only, deaths u.s follows; Alabama 2; Ullnlots 19 (17 In Chi capo): Kentucky 2 (1 in Louisville); Louisiana 1 (New Orleans); Miuue :-ota 82 (21 in Mlnnepaolis, 53 ill St. Paul); Missouri 5 (1 in Kansas Cty, 4 in St. Louis); Nebraska 8 (Omaha), North Carolina 1; Oregon 2 (Port- South Carolina 1 (Charleston); Tennessee 1, Texas 2, Utah 3 and Vir i giuia 3. wPellagra >U a new disease in the mortality statistics. 6nly 23 aeatUs| were returned iroui tins cause for 1908 and no deaths for any previous yetir except one for 1904. Cotiwi Reduced. Atlanta.— "Fifty pel* cent, conies off' the sea island cotton acreage for the coming season, according to the pledg es of the growers," said President C. S, Barrett of the Farmers' union, upon his return from Waycross, where he attended u conference of the sea Isl and cotton growers for the states of Georgia, Scuth Carolina acd Florida. Race P.ot in Pennsylvania. Pittsburg, Pa.—ln a riot between white men and negroes on a street cur at Braddock, a suburb, cleveu men, five women and a baby, sustain ed injuries, a number of them seri ous. Several shots were fired, but none of them took effect. The trou ble started wheu two negroes were asked to step into the ear from a reur platform in order that a woman carrying a baby might board the car. An insulting remark from one of the negroes angered the whites and a tree for-all fight started. . ■ i Canaoa i-avors Reciprocity. Ottawa, Ont.—That the reciprocitj agreement with the United States will be confirmed by parliament as. *oo« as it is possible to reach a vote war the decision reached by the libera' supporters of the government in u caucus benind closed doors. Sir Wi! Fred Laurier and the other member of the government were present, ant were commended for the agreement The Liberal reciprocity bolters state that while they were against t'.i. agreement, they were loyal on all otb er Issues TELLS SOUTH HOW TO EARN BECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE GIVES SOUND ADVICE TO COMMERCIAL CONGRESS. Boys cf South Are Showing Their Elders That Corn Can Ee Profitably Grown. Atlanta.— The jiiethods an( * prog ress of the work of cattle tick eradi cation consumed much of the difccu* sion by Secretary Wilson, when ne de livered his address at the Southern Commercial Congress on "The Agri eulturul OtUgatlon of the South.'* He said: "The government has recognized the Importance of thla wqrk, and this year the department of agriculture w as giv en f250,000 tn the )*ork and counties and states have given f 175,000, which will go a long way and do muca good "Your lands are becoming more val uable year," he contiaued, "»nrt if you keep up your courage you r lands will bring SIOO per acre. 1 sav If ,you keep up your courage; to tel the truth, I never knew the time when you wero not courageous." In speaking of the dairy industry. Secretary Wilson said that less than two per cent, of the cheese consumed ill tae South was manufactured bere. He said that much of the butter and other dairy products was shipped Into tho South. The subject of peaches and the dis eases which cost the crop large amounts occupied its share of the sec retary'B time. He told of the depart ment's efforts to give instruction to the peach growers so that they would know how to check the ravages of a fruit dlseaso and save many dollar*. When the subject of cotton was reached Secretary Wilson lingered for some time, going Into the subject of the boll weevil, black root and otner setbacks to the crop. ( Mr. Wilson told of how money had been made from peanuts where the boll weevil held sway and prevented the plnnters from making much on the cotton crop. He said that the pea nut oil could be made a profitable product. Pasturage was u theme which he gave a most Interesting discourse on He told of the various ccops of grass for pasturage and for hay, and cited the benefits to be derived from sucn cropti, and the enormous profits to the grower. V Cereals wero given his attention for s-a while, after which he took up the discussion of Florida fruits and told of the new varieties being mode and how experiments were panning out. A compliment ot worth was paid to the boys' corn clubs of the South as the secretary reached the subject of corn raising. He said that It took the boys of the South to show their elders that corn could be grown to a great profit in the South. He told of one lad whose father wouldn't allow him' to have a horse or mule to culti vate his acre of corn to enter a ccn test, so the little fellow took his goat and htf-ncssed It to a plow and actu ally cultivated an acre of corn. "Locky" Baldwin'® Will Unbroken. Los Angcels, Cal.—The Jury in the case of Beatrice Anita Baldwin Turn bull, the 17-year-old Boston girl seek ing a one-sixth share of the $11,000,- 000 estate of "Lucky" Baldwin under instructions from the court, reached a verdict adverse to the claimant. The attorneys for the contestant noted an exception to the instructed verdict and answered that they would take an ap peal direct to the supreme court. The Baldwin estate was appraised at sll.- 000,000, but is said to be worth twice that sum. Steaming Company tn Trial. Savannah, Ga. —The Merchants and Miners' Transportation company was placed on trial in the United 4 States circuit "court, in a case alleging vio lation of the interstate commerce laws regulating rates on traffic between Mates In which the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Air Line rail ways and % Harvey C. and Morris F. Miller of Philadelphia are involved The transportation companies are charged with allowing rebates on ship menta of grain to the south by the Philadelphia flr«. 20,000 0. S. SOLDIERS ■ SOU TO MEXICAN BORDER FOURTH OF THE U. 8. ARMY HA3 BEEN MOBILIZED IN TEXAS. '*' ' " I A WAR Of EXTERMINATION Dias Will Put Down Insurrections by 1 Showing No Quarter to Rebels. Washington.—The most extensive movement of troop* and war vessels ever executed in this country in time of peace U now under way by oruer of the president as commander-ID chief of the army and navy, the ob jective being the country noil.i ol the Mexican boundary and the water* of the two oceans at either end ot it. Twenty thousand soldiers more than oue-fuorth of the army ot tut United States —of all arms of the ser vice are moving toward the Mexlcac boundary; four armored cruisers com prising the fifth division of the At lantic fleet, have been ordered fron northern waters to the naval statioc at Guantanamo, Cuba, and most of the Pacific fleet is or shortly will be OL its way to assemble at San Pedro and San Diego, California. El Paso, Texas. —Conditions bor dering on panic reign almost throie.U out northern Mexico. Btirred by the belief that the revc lutionary movement has reached a critical ftage, the insurrectos in the states of Chihuahua and Sonora un reported to aave resumed activity tu tearing up railroads and telegiaph wires. Numerous town, according to re ports, fcre under siege by tho insurree tos, and thousands of women and children cut off from food supplier arc rendered helpless. News reached here of a fight at Agua Prleta on the border across the river from Douglas, Ariz. Five hun dred Insurrectos attacked 300 Federal trocps, but weie repulsed with a total of thirty-five dead and wounded on both sides. The fighting was short and the in surrectos, armed only with rifles, soon scattered under the tire of a machine Lun. " • What is believed to be a reliable report of the casualties at Casas Gran ges say that fifteen Americans were killed and seventeon Americans ewre taken prisoners., Thomasvillo, Ga.—A letter has just been received by Mr. R. \V. Whiddon cf this city from his daughter,' Mrs. Ma* Wrigdt, who, with her husband, a Georgian, is new in Mexico City. Mrs. Wright statoß that her brother, Mr. Henry Whiddon. had been trying to return to the Unitod States, ho be ing also a resident of Mexico, but he was stopped before reaching the bor der and ordered to return to Mexico, Mrs. Wright would, of course, be glad to leave, but can find no way of get ting across/4he border. Mexico City.—Thoroughly aroused by the spread of brigandage and van dalism incident to the revolution led byby Francisco 1. Madero, and deter mined to protect property!! the Diaz government will begin to wage against the lawless element a pitiless war of extermination. Resurrecting a provision of the Mexican not used for 15 years, and acting under Its authority the government will set aside for six months certain personal guarantees. Tuen those detected in the act of highway robbery, of raiding and any form of train wrecking, of cutting tel egraph or telephone wires or even of removing a spike from the railroad track or throwing a stone at a train, will bo summarily shot by tboso mak ing the arrest. Washington.—Gen. Robert K. Ev ans, in charge of the militia division of the war department, received a number of telegrams from the state adjutants general indicating that ev ery state and territory will want to be adequately represented at the op erations of the army in Texas. It is positively denied at the war depart ment that the question of Inviting or requesting the enlisted men of tae militia to participate in the campaign, or to hold themselves In readiness for such participation, is under con sidcration. No L«« d * r *b*P 'or Bailey. Columbia, S. C. —Senator Tillman says the Democratic leadership in the senate ougnt to be conferred on Bai ley, for whose ability he baa consid erable admiration, but there is a co terie In the upper house which is jeal ous of the Texan, and it la, not like ly that the honor will go to him. It may be that Culberson will again be the Democratic leader. Senator Till man says there is nothing new in a tarifl fight, and as his health requires attention, be may not return to Wash ington for the extra session. International War Suggested. Mexico City, Mexico.—El Tiempc. suggests that International war might follow the intervention of the United States in Mexico, and sarcastically ventures the opinion that the Amerl cans would find this bad for "busi ness," the English word being used. The paper thinks annexation is almost sure. The paper sums up the prog ress being made in the suppression of the revolution, finds it satisfactory and conclude* with the statement that the fate of the country now rests with the government. J. t. Xpttler ■ We OMTJ FT MK H«O of Wall - ruffe. MIHMMTOFI, N. &: If. I. .Worn* jr. 8. Bimim Drs. Warren & Rhodes VBTKGZAHS AMP SUIOMMI in ■loo*B nCOO BTWI TyMK»m jes.H.Saueders, M .1. Physician and Surgeon Day Phone 58. Nighi Phone CT WtHlamoton.N. G. Hufh B. York, M. B. Microocopy ) Electrotherapy > Bpecialtieo. X-Raj Diagnosis > Office Over Merchants u.d F«nwt , Natisaal __ •ma Iwmi. > i» » A.M.! t» t> «. rvnMikg inkinMiiki IR. Dunning, J. 0. Bmitk Dunning & Smith Attornsys-at-Law. r*m WELLIAIIBTON, - - IV. Q HOBERBONVILLE, N. 0. DR. J. A. WHITE, sm dentist Office Main St Phone W " B mm* A.Crltcher. Wheeler Mirtb. MARTIN I CRITCHER, Attorneys at Law, WILLIAMBTON, - - N. 0 Phone 28 rra* MtrnK* to oUaia pMM trad* mark%l | N COUNTRIES. 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The Department 8 tor fa are a very good example—they are continually adyertialng—and they are continually doing a good business. II h pays to ran a few ada'round about Christfnaa time, it cer tainly will pay you to ran ad vertisements about all the time. JL It's )wt badness, that's ad, to LCKL ADVERTISE in RTJKT H IS PAPER If. & .Warned
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