THE ENTERPRISE
Published Weekly.
WILLI AMSTON, N. C.
Notwithstanding the death records
ariators continue to cut 16oie on a
spiral glide.
A Chicago man went to Jail rather
than eat hash. Some things are worse
thaq prison.
A specialist Says that modern' dress
la killing women. Well, they're
dressed to kllL
The compositor who set H np "the
high cost of loving." Is, of course, a
skinflint bachelor.
Wisconsin hunters found a thirty
pound mushroom, or in other words
enough to kill a regiment.
A Corean bride is obliged to remain
absolutely silent on her wedding day.
That's because it's her last opportu
nity.
A cent a day is all it costs a man
to live in China. But do not rejoice.
A half-cent a day Is all a man can
earn.
A Texas womAn left fIOO,OOO to aid
in the old maids. But will
any woman step forward to claim a
shareT
Army aviators have Invented a
noiseless aeroplane. But what Is
needed more Is one that will stay
right side up.
The twenty-five most beautiful
words have been collected by a prize
competition. Oddly enough, money is
not one of them.
If It Ib true that there are 4,000
poets In the United States, why don't
we nee iome real poetry occasionally
In the magazine*?
A New York multimillionaire re
cently bought a SSQO.Qga library. Now
he'll probably hire a pmato secretary
to read It for him.
An lowa court has decided that tips
belong to the person who receives
them. Or the t patron who hangs on
to them, of course.
A St. Louis woman ended a quarrel
with a neighbor over their chickens
by firing a charge of shot into him.
Bird-shot, of course.
A Boston litterateur says that poe
try Is born In the stomach. Which
may account for Borne of the Indi
gestible magwztne verse.
The man who was ordered by a
Judge to remain Idle to please his
wife probably will not be concerned
about the eight-hour day.
The Eskimos of Alaska seem to be
acquiring all the diseases of civiliza
tion except the hookworm. The lat
ter objects to the climate.
Artificial rubber Is made In Holland
of freshly caught sea fish Must have
been suggested to some one who ate
some freshly caught sea flsh.
A recent decision relieves a soldier
of the United States army from the
payment of alimony and some antici
pate n large increase In enlistments.
A New York woman obtained a di
vorce because her husband used to
tipple cologne. It couldn't have been
the smell of his breath she objected
to.
Philadelphia high school boys went
on strike because they disliked the
colors selected for the school. There
are times when the wisdom of abol
ishing spanking must be gravely
doubted.
England Is planning a memorial to
Izaak Walton. Sounds like a lish
story.
A Cincinnati man, suing for di
vorce. charges his wife with swiping
his false teeth and using them her
self A toothsome statement, indeed!
The crop of white potatoes is said
to be 410,000,000 bushels. A little math
ematics will enable you to determine
your allotment for the year 1912-IS.
Did anybody ever undertake to (lg
ure up the postage stamps and print
ed matter absolutely wasted on unre
sponsive voters In a national political
campaign?
Dr. Brooks of Geneva discovered a
comet at i o'clock the other morning.
But most men who stay out until 4
o'clock in the morning never think ol
that excuse.
Loa Angeles has a school where
tfrla ire (aught dressing as a fine art.
ft ought Vo have an annex where fu
ture husbands can be taught how to
hook 'eml up.
"Lying/ becomes a habit with men
who are not willing their wirea
should know of their movementa,"
says a Baltimore preacher; speaka as
ons who knows.
Thirty volcanoes are reported in
eruption in one of the lalanda of the
Tonga group, still it would be a com
paratlvely quiet place compared with
on* of our election nighja
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M A Chicago Judge holds that load
snoring la not a crime. But aa aa a»
AUSTRIA MAKES
WARLIKE MOVE
ALL HER BEBT SOLDIERS ARE
CALLED TO HEAD OF
THE ARMY.
THE POWERS ARE UNEASY
Loan of $50,000,000 Arranged—Aus
tria's Attitude Is Causing
Alarm in Europe.
Vienna. —Important changes have
taken place In the Austro-Hungarian
war department. General Auffenberg"
minister of war, has resigned. Gen
I eral Krobaten. under secretary In the
war office, has been appointed as
his successor.
General Schemua, chief of the gen
eral staff, who recently paid a visit
to Berlin and conferred with Count
Von Moltke, chief of the general staff
of the German army, also has resign
ed. He has been succeeded by Gen
! eral Von Hoetzendorf, who held the
same post, several years ago.
The Austrian government has nego
tlated with a syndicate headed by the
Austrian Postal Savings bank, and In
eluding Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and the'
National City bank of New York, for
an Issue of 4 1-2 treasury bonds to
the amount of $25,000,000, which will
be taken at 97, redeemable at pal
London.—No explanation is yet
forthcoming of the sudden resignation
of the Austro-Hungarlan minister of
war, General Auffenberg, And the
chief of general staff, General Sche
HIM a.
It is supposed that Austria wishes
to exert a strong Influence over the
coming conference proceedings at
London and especially to prevent the
entry of Turkey Into the ilalkan fed
eratlon.
The Austrian war party Is Inflamed
against Russia in the belief that the
defiant Russian atfltude Is due to tlw
Franco-Russian alliance, and some of
the Austrian newspapers representing
the war party, are urging tlint tin
less Russia ceases mobilizing the pow
ers comprising the triple alliance
should fall upon France and crush
her before Russia is able lo Inter
vena.
It was reported at Paris that the
entire Austrian fleet had concentrat
ed at Pola. the -chief naval stat ion >
Austria-Hungary.
DECISION IN TILLMAN CASE
Mother and Father Divide Custody of
Children.
Columbia, S. ('. —ily the unanimous
opinion of the supreme court of South
Carolina, the custody of the two lit
tie children of Mrs. Lucy Dugas and
her former husband. B. R. Tillman,
Jr.. son of Senator 11. R. Tillman, Is
divided between the two.
Under theaterms of the decision,
the children, Uotischka Pickens Till
man and Surah Stark Tillman, are
to remain In custody of the moth
er for (he greater part of the tlnio\
The father, B. R. Tillman, Jr., Is to
have them during two months of the
summer vacation season, during half
the Christmas holidays and during
ono wsek in the spring, each year.
Each of the parties is required to
put up a bond of $5,000 not to remove
the children from jurisdiction of
the court, which thus will exercise a
general supervision over their bring
ing up
In 1900 B R. Tillman, Jr., deedd
the l\vo children to his father and
mother, Senator and Mrs. 11, R. Till
man. .Mrs. Ougas. who has since se
cured a divorce from R. It. Tillman
Jr., brought suit, and the custody of
•he children was awarded to her.
Great Britain Enters Protest..
Washington.—(ireat Britain's for
mal note of protest against that sec
tion of the Panama canal act, which
exempts American coastwlße shipping
froip payment of tolls for passing
through the Panama canal, has been
presented to Secretary of State Knox
by the British ambassador. James
Bryce read the note word for word
to the secretary at the latter's home.
It is an elaboration of the points of
objection In the note presented to
'he state department last July.
Urges Fortifying Canal,
Washington.—The immediate fortlfl
ration and mobl II station of troops in
Panama and ifawali for the protection
of American property at those points,
the passage of a national volunteers
hill allowing the draughting of an ef
flcient fighting force in time of need
and the extension of pay to the Na
tional Guard under the condition that
that body be made available for gen
eral. army use were among the major
suggestions made by Secretary uf
War Henry L. Stlmson in his annual
report to the president.
Train Robbers Make $20,000 Haul,
nakersfleld, Cal.—Twenty thousand
dollars In gold waa the haul of two
robbers who held up the express car
of the Sunset Western train, bound
from Bakersfleld for Taft, Cal. The
money was conaigned to the First
National bank of Taft by the Ftrat
National bank of Bakersfield. It waa
not placed In the ezpreaa safe. Wben
the train arrived at Taft, railroad
men were forced to break down the
door of the express car. In a corner
waa M. W. Hamby. messenger, re
gaining consciousness.
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SENATOR J* L. BRISTOW
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Senator Brlstow of Kansaa Intro
duced In the senate two proposed
amendment* to the constitution for
the application of the principles of
the Initiative and the recall of judicial
decisions.
THE GOVERORS ORGANIZE
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION IS
FORMED OF THE GOVERNORB
OF THE STATEB.
ISSUE PUBLIC STATEMENT
Yearly Meetings Are to Be Held by
Executives for Exchange
of Viewa.
Richmond. Va. —Permanent organi
zation of the governors of the vari
ous states of the United States In an
association to be known aB "The
Governors' Conference," was effect
ed here at the annual conference of
the state executives.
—Annual meeting of the organiza
tion will be held. Its active members
will embrace the governors and gov
ernors-elect of the various staUs, Kx
governors will be admitted to the
conference as honorary members,
with all privileges of the organization
except the right to vote,
Colorado Springs, Col., Was selected
as the place of meeting for the con
ference next year. "The date of the
meeting, which probably will he ear
lier than December, will be decided
upon later.
In announcing the formation of a
permanent the governors
attending the meeting here made pub
lic the following statement concern
ing the purpose of the conference:
PANICS CHARGED TO U. S.
By Secretary MacVeagh In Annual
Report to Congress.
Washington.—Strongly urging radi
cal reform of the "unreasoned and
unscientific" banking and currency
system of the United States, Frank
lin MacVeagh, secretary of the treas
ury. freely warns congress In hie an
nual report submitted that the Fed
oral government, as long as the pres
ent scheme exists, will be exclusively
responsible for the commercial, indus
trial and social disasters which flow
from panics and attack, directly or
indirectly, every home In the nation.
The present system promotes and
develops panics ami legislation la urg
ent, declared Mr. MacVeagh, in out
lining his idea of the necessary gen
eral provisions of an adequate relief
measure. Aside from affording flexi
ble and elastic currency and reserves
such a revision, he says, should bring
the banks into organized cooperation
and provide for a central agency
through which they could work to
gether, free of political or trust con
trol.
U«e of the Torch by N. Y. Firebugs.
Mew York.—"Of forty flres a day
In this city one-fourth are set with
fraud as a purpose,declared Fire
Commissioner Johnson In defending
his Are prevention bureau from at
tacks made upon it by the factory In
vestlgatlng commission. The commis
sioner Insisted that Incendiary fires
were a growing menace and that
measures to cut down their number
were needed. "There are flrebug
blocks in this city," he added. "There
is one in which eighty-three incendia
ry flres have been set.
Burned the Jail land Themselves.
Crawley, La.-Mtfllllam Collier of
Los Angeles and an unknown com
panion were burned to death In the
local Jail after they had started the
flames In the hope of making their
escape. Collin Lebeu. also a prison
er, waa seriously burned. Collier and
the unknown prisoner wfere being
held on a minor charge. \Accordlng
to Lebeu the two men started the con
flagration. despite his efforts to dis
suade them. They both were over
come by smoke la their cell, where
their charred bodies later were foand.
NAMEARBITMIOiIS
TO SETTLE CLAIMS
TO REPRESENT UNITED BTATEB
AND GREAT BRITAIN IN ARBI
TRATION OF MONEY CLAIMS.
WILL MEET IN WASHINGTON
Schedule of Claims for Submission to
Arbitration Has Besn Agreed
Upon.
Washington.—Great Briuin and the
United States have agreed upon the
composition of the tribunal for the
arbitration of pecuniary claims, ag
provided in the special agreement re
cently ratified by the two govern
ments. • N
81r Charles Fltzpatrick, chief Jus
tice of Canada and the British mem
ber of the north Atantic coast fisher
ies arbitration tribunal at The Hague
in 1910, will represent Great Britain.
Cander P. Anderson, counsellor of the
department of state, will represent
the United States. These will select
a third member, who will act as um
pire and wll be a subject of neither
Oreat Britain nor the United States.
The third member's name will be an
nounced later.
Cecil J. B. Hurst of the British for-
Ign office will be chief counsel for
Great Britain. Edmund L. Newcombe,
Canadian deputy minister of justice,
will be associated with him. Severo
Mailett-Prevost of New York will be
chief counsel for the United S'ates. He
was one of counsel In thei Venezula
boundary arbitration. Robert Lansing,
one of counsel for the United States In
the fisheries arbitration, and tfie Alas
ka boundary arbitration, wll be asso
elated with h{m.
A schedule of claims for submission
to arbitration has been agreed upon.
The amount claimed on both sides Is
altogether about $4,000,000. It Is un
derstood that a suppemental schedule
of claims Is likely to be agreed upon
before the tribunal meets.
ALSBERG IS FOOD EXPERT
Will Succed Doctor Wiley as Chief of
the Bureau of Chemistry.
Washington.—President Taft and
Secretary of Agriculture James "Wil
son, after months of consideration,
have decided upon the appointment of
Dr. Carl Alsberg, a chemist in the bu
reftu drugs and plants, as chief of
the bureau of chemistry of the depart
ment of agriculture, a position that
has been vacant since the resignation
last spring of Dr. Harvey Wiley, the
famous defender of the pure food law.
Doctor- Alßbcrg has been In the de
partment of agriculture four years
He was educated In Columbia univer
sity and Strassburg university In Ger
many. He engaged In research work
In Germany for several years. Before
coming to Washington he was In
charge of the department of blologl
cal chemistry department at Harvard
university.
The president decided upon this ap
pointment only after careful consider
ation of the claims made for other
chemists. Several times reports arose
that he had decided upon a chief
chemist to fill Mr. Wiley's place,
Man Convicted of Killing Partner.
Raldwln, Mich. —A jury in the clr
cult court declared O. M. Arebach
guilty of first degree murder for the
shooting: of his partner, Harry Fisher,
a Chicago business man. Fisher was
killed In the woods near here last
September, while the two men were
on a hutnlng trip. Fisher, his wife
and children and Arebach came
late last summer, taking up their resi
dence on a fruit farm, which Fisher
recently had purchased. On tho morn
ing of September 19 the two men
went Into the woods to hunt partridg
es. A short time afterwards Arebach
rushed into a neighboring farmhouse
a*nd reported that Fisher had been
accidentally shot. Fisher's body was
carried to an undertaker's establish
ment In this place, and, according to
evidence given at the trial, both Mrs.
Fisher and Arebach endeavored to
have It shipped tp lowa without the
formality of a coroner's Inquest, The
inquest took place, however, and *Ar«-
bach was held responsible for the
shooting.
Federal Control Ovsr Wireless.
Washington.—An extensive system
of government supervision over wire
less telegraphy will become effective
four months from the date of the
enactment of the law. Plans have
been made to carry out the new sys
tem, both as to the shore stations
and steamships operated by commer
cial companies and the army and
navy stations. Government licenses
hereafter will be required for all shore
stations and for steamers leaving any
American port? These licenies are
bfclng prepared by experts.
McCombs Preparing for Inauguration.
Washington.—Chairman William F.
McCombs of the Democratic national
committee Is In Washington confer
ring with local Democratic leaders
concerning the appointment of a chair
man for the Inauguration committee.
It was aald no decision waa reached,
but that an announcement mlfcht be
made soon. Vice Chairman William
McAdoo spent some time with Chair
man McCombs as did Senator Gore
and other Democratic leaden* In con
grass. Chairman McComba will con
fer with Speaker Clark.
COL GEORGE HARVEY
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The name of Colonel Harvey, edi
tor of Harper's Weekly, has been
added to the list of those mentioned
ae likely to be appointed ambassador
to Oreat Britain.
FARMERS MAKE ADVANCES
ANNUAL FARM PRODUCTION IS
DOUBLED DURING SECRE
TARY WILSON'S TERM.
During Past 10 Years Farmers Have
Added $155,000,000,000 to
Wealth of Nation
Washington.—After sixteen yearb.
af record of service in the cabinet,
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has
submitted to President Taft the last
annual report he will make as head
of the United States department of
agriculture. The report Is more than
a review of the past year's work; it
contains summary of the agricultural
advance of the country during the
venerable secretary's term of public
service.
"The record of sixteen years has
been written," he says. "It begins
with a yearly farm production of $4,-
000,000,000, and ends with »9,532,000,-
000. Sixteen years ago the farmer
was a joke of the caricaturist; now
he !b like the stone that was rejected
by the builder and has become the
headstone of the corner.'' The till
ers of the soil were burdened with
debts, he adds, "but prosperity follow
ed and grew with unexampled speed.
Beginnings have been made In a pro
duction per acre, Increasing faster
than the natural increase of popula
tion, There has been an uplift of
agriculture and of country life.
"During the past sixteen years the
farmer has steadily Increased the
wealth production year by year, with
the exception of 1911. During the six
teen years the farmers' wealth produc
tlon increased 141 per cent.
"Most productive of all agricultural
years In the country has been 1912.
The earth has produced its greatest
annual dividend. The sun and the rain
and the fertility of the soil heeded
not the human controversies, but kept
on working In co-operation with the
farmers' efforts to utilize them. The
prices at the farm are generally profit
able, and will continue the prosperity
that farmers have enjoyed in recent
years. The total production of farm
wealth Is the highest yet reached by
half a billion dollars. The grand to
tal for 1912 Is estimated to be $9,532,-
000,000. This is more than twice the
value of the farm wealth in 1896."
EXPERTS SHOULD RUN CITIES
Is Recommendation of Civil Servic*
Reform League.
Milwaukee, Wis,—That the operat
ing departments of a city government
should be manned by a force selected
and retained Solely because of com
petence, was a suggestion contained
In the joint committee report of the
National Municipal League and the
National Civil Service Reform League,
presented at the, annual meeting
At the head of each such depart
ment, the report said,' should be an
expert who holds his position without
reference to exigencies of partisan
politics.
Mob Storms Jail.
Mobile, Ala.—Dangling from tha
limb of a tree the body of Axarlah Cur
tis, a young negro, wac found at But
ler, Ala., as mute evidence that the.
murder of B. B. Ilush. a planter who
was shot to death, had been avenged.
Curtis confessed that he and two oth
er negroes killed Mr. Bush while they
were lying in wait for two men whom
they Intended robbing. According to
the negro's confession the highway
men were waiting for Tax Collector
T. B. Bennett and J, F. Howlngton,
who bad large sums' of money.
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American Women Becoming Buddhists
Chicago.—Alarm at the growth of
Buddhiam on the Pacific coast la ex
pressed In the report of the home
missions committee at the federal
council of the Churches pf Christ sub
mitted. "One of the most startling
facta, confirmed by Investigation, is
that Buddhism In Seattle, San FTan
.clsco and Los Angles la aggressively
propagating Itself from these centers,"
says the report. Buddhist temples
have been erected In which cultured
priests administer the rites and cere
monies of their religion.
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PROBING DEEP INTO -
SECRETOF FIANCES
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NEW YORK BANKER GIVEN GRIL
LING EXAMINATION BY SAM
UEL UNTERMEYER.
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THE TRUST AGREEMENTS
Frew Admits on the Btand That Five
Men Control Two of the Greatest /
Money Institutions In the Country—
Other Points Brought Out.
Washington—The first teaUmoey
as to a "contraction of and
credit" was heard by the House Bank
ing and Currency Committee in it*
investigation of the so-called money
trust. W. E. Frew, resident of the
Corn Exchange Bank of New York,
and chairman of the New York Clear
ing House committee, occupied the
stand throughout a day and was put
through a grilling examination by
Samuel Untermyer, counsel for the
committee.
Through Mr. Frew, Mr. Untermyer
I put Into the record evidence of trust
j agreements by which five men control
' two of New York's greatest financial
j Institutions, the Bankers' Trust Com
, pany and the Guaranty Trust Com-
I pany and the' Guaranty Trust Com
pany with aggregate deposits of near
jly M' 0,000,000. The Bankers' Trust,
Mr. Frew said, was controlled by H.
P. Davidson, George B. Case, and
Daniel G. Reid; the Guaranty Com
pany by H. P. Davidson. George F.
Baker and William P. Porter. These
meh hold and vote all of the stock
of the companies except enough to
allow a board of directors to qualify,
and under the trust agreements have
absolute authority over the interests
of the companies even to the acquisi
tion of merger of other
' Mr. Untermyer also received from
Mr. Frew a description of the method
by which money was attracted to New
I York when small country merchants
and farmers demand funds for mov
ing crops or the accommodation of
their business affairs. Mr. Frew said
the money was needed on the New
York Stock Exchange for speculative
purposes; that country banks, to gate
i the big interest charges, put their
' money out in call loans on the New
1 York Stock Exchange. All of these
loans are bHaod on stock exchange.
I All of these loans are based on stock
! exchange collateral. Mr. Untermyer
elicited. Mr. Untermyer and the wlt-
I ness did not get along well together.
Steamer Run Dow* By Battleship.
Deveport, Eng.—'The British dread
nought, Centurion, while speeding at
a rate of 20 knots off Portland Bill,
ran down and sank a small unidenti
fied steamer. The battleship returned
to port leaking badly and with batter
ed bow. The steamer tried to crosß
the bow of the warship, which struck
her well forward with such force that
the steamer's port light was still burn
ing after the collision on the Centur
ion's forecastle.
Noted Baf« Blower Slain In Raid.
' Memphis, Tenn. —In a raid on a
house in the southeastern outskirts
of the city "Kinney" Bergen, believed
to be a widely known safe blower
and all round crook, was killed by
detectives. Frank Holloway, known to
the police authorities of the Middle
Weat and Southwest as a robber and
swindler, with two other men and a
woman, was placed under arrest at
the same time.
• Are Watching Parcels Post
New York. —The executive officers
of the big express companies are
watching the preparations for the par
cels post system with gregt interest.
They frankly confess that they do
not know what effect it will have on
their business. In October laat the in
terstate commerce commission gave a
hearing to the representatives of the
companies so that they might show
reasons, If they conld, why the ex
press rates should not be reduced.
V. 8. Torpedoes Good as Any.
Washinstin. —"There U still much
Improvement to be hoped for in the
handling of torpedoes on board ship,"
said Rear Admiral N. C. Twining,
chief of ordinance of the navy depart
ment, in his annual report. In so *
far as the quality of material is con
cerned Admiral Twining said the tor
pedo situation had greatly improved.
It was declared that comparison of
American missies with the best of
those In use abroad Indicated that the
United States was at least abreast of
all foreign countries in this respect.
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Young on Stand in Dynamite Case.
Indianapolis.—Accused as an active
promoter of explosion in eastern cit
ies Micheal J. Young, Boston, testi
fied in his own behalf at the "dyna
mite conspiracy" trial that he never
participated in the AfcNamara plots.
Young, a member of the Iron Work
ers' Union executive board, is charg
ed with approving (he appropriation
of a month to John J. McNam
ara for dynamiting purposes. He also
was directly named by Ortie E. Mc
Manigal as personally having pointed
oat non-union Jobs to be blown an. .