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THE ENTERPRISE. ' WILLIAMSTOKi ». C. I- .. -= =ss Rain's scarce and eatables high. This Is falling weather for the avi ators. I ' Minister Wu apparently can "come back" Indefinitely In China. Man will soon be In a position to give the birds lessons in llylng. They are going to give "As You Like It" in Esperanto. Is this as you like It? Flying across the Rngllsh channel will soon be as fashionable as appen dicitis. A New Yorker has been robbed'ln Prance. And he wasn't buying any thing, either! Even though the man beat the bird flying, the latter did not get discour aged and quit. Japan Is about to annex Korea offi cially, having already annexed It very thoroughly in other ways. It would be Interesting to watch a struggle between the two new langu ages, Esperanto and baseball. A New York man recently ate sixty one ears of corn at one sitting. Train ing for Wall street, evidently. Women should receive early Instruc tions In the art of alighting from air ships without stepping backward. As between the hobble skirt and the long hatpin we *vote tor the hobble skirt. The wearer hurts only herself. Because of the use of lead pipes cer tain drinks are said to be poisonous. This is a case where death has a lead pipe cinch. Proceedings in the Esperanto coa gress are scarcely more understand able than the proceedings iu the reg ular congress. Sir- John Murray has found fish three miles*under water. Most of the tlah you go after seem to be farther down than that. Evidently the silly season has begun operations in Europe, judging from the , excitement over America's offer to be a big brother to Liberia. The Chicago blind lu iiiutr who spent seven dollars a day Regularly -on his women friends apparently had quite an eye for feminine beauty. Speaking of women an earnest per son says, "There ought to be less shine on the outside." A little dab with the powder rag usually helps. r When he became the father of trip lets the other day a Chicago man made so much noise that the police had to called. Some men get excited so easily. An Albany man wants the state of New York to pay him for cherries thut the robins took from his trees. When tee was tv bitliy he probably- tried for the moon. Maine wants lO.OiH) housemaids and promise's to pay them from three to six dollars a week aple-cxs, We suspect that Maine is destined to have a long felt want. Some fault-finders complain that the paper on which the new JI,OOO bills " in not as good as they could wish. How do you like the new 11,000 bills? Those South American republics may agree to arbitrate ail right, but what will their sport loving citizens really do when a real lively little revo lution conies their way? Assertions that hitherto disregarded rodents and reptiles are good to eat arouse but little apprehension In the minds of those who have their money Invested In the beef business. Experts say that all the Zeppelin airship needs is a series of lofty struc tures that will permit It to tie up now and then. This is simpler than pro viding it with a concrete foundation and an elevator: A lunacy commission is trying to de termine whether ail insane man Is n resident of New York or New Jersey. Why not ask him which state he be longs to? ills answer may determine the extent of his delusions. Aviators are to bo prevented by law from flying over German country towns. We have not heard what pen alty has been provided for aviators who fly so high above German coun try towns as to be indistinguishable. The aeronauts are going to drop bombs on mimic warships at the New Jersey meet. They will discover how difficult it Is to hit a mark from above, as evidenced by the falling of the rain upon the Just and the unjust alike. „ •*' *'n America Is not only producing big ger and better guns than any othei nation, but she also produces more and louder advocates of peace than all the rest of the world put together "We're bound to win, Armaggeddon oi millennium. * * COUNTRY ALL if ■ X ' j t A STRIKINGLY STRONG ARTICLE BY COL. HARVEY. THE WRITER SEES !!0 CLOUD "A Plea for the Conservation ol Common Sense" That Is Meeting With Cordial Approval. A strikingly strong article by Colo nel George Harvey In the North American Review, for September, Is written In a view of such hopeful ness for the American future that it has attracted wide attention. Th« article Is entitled, "A Plea for the Conservation of Common Sense" and it is meeting with the cordial ap proval of business men of all shades of political opinion throughout the en tire country. In part Colonel Harvey says: "Vnquestlonably a spirit of unrest dominates the land. But, if It be true that fundamentally the condition of the country is sound, must we necessarily succumb to despondency, abandon efTort looking to retrieval and cringe like cravens before clouds that only threaten? Rather ought we not to analyze conditions, search for causes, find the root of the dis tress, which even now exists only In men's minds, and then, after the American fashion, apply such rem edies as seems most likely to produce beneficent results? Capital and Labor Not Antagonistic. "The Link that connects labor with capital is not broken but we may not deny that It is less cohesive than It should be or than conditions war rant. Financially, the country Is stronger than ever beforo In Its his tory. Recovery from a panic so severe as that of three years ago was nevor before so prompt and compara tively complete. Tho masses are practically free from debt. Money Is held by the banks In abundance and rates are low. "Why, then, does capital pauße upon the threshold of Investment? Tho answer, wo believe, to bo plain. It awaits adjustment of tho relations of government to business. * • • Tho sole problem consists of determining how government can maintain an even balance between aggregations of Interests, on the ono hand, and th« whole peopla, on the other, protect ing the latter against extortion and saving the former from mad assaults. "The solution Is not easy to find for the simple renson that the situ ation is without precedent. Hut Is ""not progress being" njisue along sane'" uud cautious lines? • • • Conserve Common Sense. "Is not the present, as we have seen, exceptionally secure? What, then, of preparations for the future? Patriotism is the basis of our Insti tutions. And patriotism In the minds of our youth is no longer linked solely with fireworks and deeds of daring. It Is taught "in our schools. A new course has been added—a course In loyalty. Methodically, our children learn how to vote, how to conduct primaries, conventions and elections, how to discriminate between qualifica tions of candidates and, finally, how to govern as well as serve. They are taught to despise bribery and all forms of corruption and fraud ns treason. Their creed, which I hey are marje to know by heart, is not com plex. It is simple, but comprehen sive, no less beautiful In diction than lofty in aspiration. These are the pledges which are graven upon their memories: "As it is cownrdly for n soldier to run away from battle, so It Is coward ly for any citizen not to contribute his share to tho well-being of his country. America Is my own dear land; she nourishes me, and I will love her and do my duty to her, whose child, servant and civil soldier 1 am. the health rind happiness of my body depend upon each muscle and nerve and drop of blood doing its work In its place, so the health and happiness of my country depend upi ■ each citizen doing his work In his place. "These young citizens are our hostages to fortune. Can we not safely assume that the principles ani mating their lives augur well for tho permanency of the Republic? When before have the foundation stones of continuance been laid with such care nnd promise of durability? "The future, then, Is bright. And the present? Cut one thing is need ful. No present movement is more laudable than that which looks to conservation of natural resources. But let UH never forget that the great est Inherent resource of the Amer ican people Is Common Sense. Let A that be conserved and applied with out cessation, nnd soon It will be found that all the Ills of which w® complain but know not of are only such as attend upon the growing pains of a great and blessed cbuntry. Splrltuallzatlon. Religion bnould be native. It should be concrete and applicable. Religion Is the natural expression of . living, not a set of actions or of hab its, or a posture of the mind added to tho dally life. The type of religion, therefore. Is conditioned on the kind of living, and the kind of living Is conditioned, in its turn, very large ly on tho physical and economic ef fectiveness of llge. The religion of tne open country thould ruu deep Into the indigenous aCaira of the open country. NORTH CAROLINA EVENTS Life in the Land of the Long Leaf Pine Business Conference on Drainage. Governor Kitchin, the members of the State Board of Education, Assis tant Engineer Boyd of the Mattamus keet lake drainage scheme together with President Mann of the Matta muskeet Railroad and others interest ed in tTie drainage there abouts, hel) a conference at Raleiifii relative to the situation, announcing after the conference that the survey -for the drainage district, which cm braces 120,000 acres including the lake bed, is about completed, the re port of the survey and agreement„pf the State and private landowners to he submitted to the clerk of the court, in compliance with the drainage law within a shorit time. Then will fol low the appointment of the commis sion to assess the various interests in raising the fund for the drainage. The intention is to get right down to tihe actual work with the' least |w>s s«bde delay now. Booker T. Washington Coming. Booker T. Washington is to tour North Carolina under t he auspices of the Colored Business Men's League of North Carolina. Boolu-r Washington lias never been heard in Charlotte. White and color ed alike will turn out to hear him. The date of the speaking is Octo ber* 28th. Vote in Sixth District. The official returns tfhogv the vote in the Sixth District Congress in rial primary as follows: Harnett, Oodwifi 1,00(1; Clark 101; Bladen, Godwin Clark 595; New Hanover, God win 840; Clark .'lT.'i; Brunswiuk, !»d win 455; Clark 82; ('olutirbns, God win 1,267; Clark 455; Cumberland, (ilodiwin 953; Clark 541; Rol >e.«m, I Godwin 2,1157' Clark 508. Congressional Convention Names Cooley. R. A. I'. Cooley of Nashville, inde pendent Democratic candidate for Congress in tlie fourth congressional district, against Congressman E. \V. I'ou, received the endorsement of the Republican Congresional conven tion at Uah'igh, this action being tak en instead of |>utling a Htraight Iff publiean in I'iie field. Battle of Gettysburg. October 13-14. Governor Kitchin cominissinns as conmiissiuner from North Car olina to the eonferenee at Hnrris burg, I'a., Cctober t3-14, for pre paring plans for the celebration of the battle of (letlyisburg* John C. Scarborough, former State Superin tendent of Public Instruction and Commissioner of Labor and an en thusiastic ex-Con federate soldier. Investigating Political Activity. John T. Doyle and L. 11. Fisher, agents of I lie Civil Service Commis sion nt Washington, are investigating 'a case of alleged activity in |K>liti v s at Asheville. The investigation is on "t!ie quiet." but some hearings may ' jJrnlviiTiTv"«VnTo~tnTi>r7 IrTT matf with them, whoso name is net known, is probably I. 11. Moser, of Washing ton. Colored Republicans Organizing. A rational conference of negro Re publicans was held in Washington to discuss plans for co-operating with the Republican congressional and State committees in the work Vf or ganizing the np'rro voters in close State and congressional districts in the campaign this fall. State Auditor Dixon Well. Afa.i. B. F. Dixon, state auditor, who sri narrowly escaped death through an attack of angina pectoris has recovered Nashville Policeman Fatally Shot. Chief of Police J. M. Stalling*, of Nashville, was fatally shot and has been sent-to a hospital in Richmond, Va., for an operation. Norman Lewis, a negro, charged with retailing liquor, and who shot the officer when he with another officer went to arrest the negro Sunday night, escaped. Fake Alarm on Ccol Weather. September has not be?n unusually ciiol, but it has been warmer than the average. The earliest killing fivist for the past 32 years occurred on October 3, 1008, only two years ago, and the average date cf the first killing frost is about the first of No vember. So. unless all records are to be broken, we ara sure to have a cou ple of weeks before hoary headed Jack brings blight to the cotton crop, and the chances are good for a con siderably longer time than that. Editors' Day at Exposition. September 30 will be observed as "Tennessee Press Day" at the Appa lachian exposition in Knoxville. In ' addition to ■editors and publishers of Tenness, all newspaper men and women of the entire Appalachian region, including North atio South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, West Virginia ami Kentucky are in vited to be the guests of the expo sition company on that data. A for mal program is now being arranged b,v G. F. Milton, president of the Tennesec Press Association, ' J i THE CHEROKEE INDIANS ARE ON A RAMPAGE Bloody Work on Reservation in South Carolina. WHISKEY CAUSED THE TROUBLE One Indian Was Killed, Another Mortally Wounded; and Some Were Forced to Flee. Bpartanburg, S. C.'—Bearing tije news that the Indians of the Chero kee reservation In Jackson county, N. C., are on a rampage, In which at least one man has been killed and another mortally wounded, and de claring that he was forced Jo flee to save his life, Charles Long, a full blooded Cherokee", arrived in Spartan burg with his wife and six little pap pooses. They had practically noth ing with them save the clothes on their backs and are being taken care of at the Salvation army barracks. Long said that a large quautity of yhiskey was received at the reserva tion and the Indians began a carous al. Inflamed by the whiskey the In dians dropped their thin veneer of civilization, he said, and relapsed into savagery, induifcfhg in wild orgies. Quarrels arose and one of the In dians, Tom Woodpecker,, was shot and afterward disemboweled, while another, George Slowly, was shot. There are fourteen hundred In dians on the reservation. NO CHEAPER COTTON. Cotton Manufacturer* Hold Semi-An nual Meeting at Portsmouth, N. H. Portsmouth, N. H.—Concerted ac tion to remedy, if possible, the exist ing inactivity in the cotton industry was taken by the National Associa tion of Cotton Manufacturers which held its semi-annual meeting here. President llobbs addressed the del egates on the general conditions of the cotton Industry. He said, in part: "The cotton manufacturing indus try has been in troublous times since wo met in April last. High prices for raw material and high rates of wages have been the situation on the one hand, and low prices for our man ufactured products on the other. Cur tailment and shut-dotvu have result ed and the condition of the whole trade has been very unsatisfactory and disturbing. It is very evident " Unit UitT prices JOT OUT' products 'imref' advance, and the buyers will have to pay more for them. While the cot ton crop is still uncertain, and any one would, be rash to predict, yet ma terially cheaper cotton seems unlike ly." Mr. Hobbs favored the proposition to establish bonded warehouses in cotton-raising districts and, perhaps, also, at cotton manufacturing centers, lor the storage of the cotton crop. OUTLOOK ENCOURAGING. Southeastern States Will Have Larg est Corn Crop on R§cor3. Washington.—President Finley of the Southo'Tft'TtlrtTway company who has been looking into business con ditions in tiie southeastern states, said: "On the whole the conditions are encouraging. In agriculture the pres ent outlook is particularly good. The cotton crop is later than usual and is, therefore, more subject to future weather conditions than is usual at this time of the year. However, ttie condition report of the United States agricultural department, issued on the 2d instant, showed a better average condition of the growing cotton crop in the states south of the I'ototnac and Ohio rivers and east of the Mis sissippi than on the corresponding date last year, and the area planted was reported in June as 140,000 acres greater than last year. "With ordinarily favorable weather conditions until the crop is harvested the southeastern states will have the largest corn crop on record for that section. "Coal Is moving in larger volume than last year and lumber is in more active demand. Population of Cleveland. Washington.—The population of Cleveland, Ohio, is 560,603, an in crease of 178,893, or 46.9 per cent., as compared with 381,768 in 1900. The returns for Cleveland estab es that city as one of the large cen ters of population of the country. The city will take rank among the first ten cities of the country. Red Men Name Cleveland. Toledo, Orio.—Cleveland was chos en by the improved Order of Red Men for the 1911 convention. ■» Princeton's President for Governor. Trenton, N. J. —The New Jersey 1 Democratic convention nominated Dr. ' Woodward Wilson, president of 1 Princeton university, for the office of governor or the state. Dr. Wilson's 1 nomination was brought about large -1 )y through the influence of former i United States Senator James Smith, i Jr., who is the undisputed Democrat ■ ic leader of the state, who seconded - his nomination, and Robert Davis, leader of the Hudson Democracy.. > who acted in harmony with Senator ' Smith. - TENNESSEE POLITICS. Tennessee Insurgents Nominate Hooper. Patterson Resigns. Nashville, Tenn. —The Independent Democrats of Tennessee endorsed the candidacy of Capt. Ben W. Hooper, Republican nominee for governor, and further cut loose from the regular wing by referring the latter's harmo ny resolution to the new Independent state executive committe without dis cussion. B. A. Enlo was nominated unanl mously for railroad commissioner by a rising vote. . The platform of the convention hall was filled with Confederate veterans, who, 300 strong, marched through the downtown streets to the hall, cheer ing for the Republican candidate for governor, Captain Hooper. The veter ans' demonstration for a Republican gubernatorial candidate was said to be unprecedented in Tennessee poll tics. Thus was organized a formidable looking triumvirate to campaign for a Republican governor, the triumvi rate consisting of Republicans, Inde pendent Democrats and. State-wide Prohibitionists. The Independents and Prohibitionists are so closely al lied as to largely overlap in their membership. The possible break In the aolid South, outlined in the convention, ex tends only to one oftlce, the governor* ship.. There is a "gentlemen's agree ment" between the Independents and the Republicans that neither party will invade the others' "safe" legis lative territory, and this the Independ ents say assures a Democratic legisla ture. The last Republican governor in Tennessee was Alviu Raw kins, in 1881-82. CALEB POWERS ELECTED. Man Who Spent Eight Yeari In Jail Elected to Congress. London, Ky.—-By a decisive major ity of over 7,000 votes, Caleb Pow ers defeated Congressman Don C. Edwards for the Republican nomina tion for representative from the Elev enth Congressional district of Kea. tuckjr in a primary election. Congressman Edwards is serving his third term. Powers, who defeat ed him for nomination, made his race upon an appeal to the voters of the district to give him the nomination as a "vindication" of his alleged complicity in the assassination of Democratic Governor William Goebel 111 1900, Powers, who was secretary of state at the time of the assassination, was confined in jail during eight years, his' first three trials resulting in con victions and the fourth in a disagree nitnt. • Last year Governor Wilson swept the court records clear of all of the eases remaining untried in connection with the Goebel murder by granting pardons to Powers and several oth ers. The district has a normal Republi can majority of upward "Of* 20,000. Aged Woman Enters University. Columbus, Ohio.—Mrs. A. D. Win ship, aged eighty years, and a former resident of ltaeine, Wis,, but now of Columbus, registered as a student in Ohio State university. Mrs. Winship will take an optional course and says t.iat she is going to college simply because she likes to acquire all the knowledge that she can. She has re cently returned from Michigan, where she been attending a summer school. Alaurftna Cotton -Crop, Montgomery,.. Aln. —Commissioner of Agriculture J. A. Wilkinson is not cheerful about the Alabama cotton crop. In fact, he states it in hardly 70 per cent of normal. On the uplands it has stopped making, having turned yellow and lost vitality. Lowlands, where the fertilization was kept up, growth is still going on, but even here it is backward and un-enthusias tic in development. Many fields are open entirely. Ballingtr Independent. Spokane, Wash.—"l don t care what anybody says about me so long as I am conscious of doing my duty, not only as a private citizen, but as a public officer. The man who pursues the course that seems to him to meet the obligation of his place in life has, it seems to me, no need to fear about the future." No Revoui.ioit, s>«ys Koosevelt. Oyster Bay, N. Y.—Theodore Roose velt said tiiat he is not talking revo lution in declaring his new political creed. In a staunch defense of his doctrine of the "new nationalism" he declared he was merely urging the application of old moralities to mod ern conditions. At the same time he replied with spirit to those who have been opposing him and hotly de nounced newspapers which he said attacked honest public men. Colonel Roosevelt's address was delivered at ltiverhead, L. I. Over wnoiera Victims. St. Petersburg.—The cholera epi demic, which originated in southern Russia, has claimed already upward of 100,000 victims, 13 stretching Its ; way across Asiatic Russia and was ■ officially declared to be In the prov ' ince of Amur, In southeast Siberia. The reports now in possession of the sanitary bureau show a total for I the season of 182,327 cases with 83.- , 613 deaths. These include the early , returns for the week ending Septem ber 10 and the revised figures for the preceding week. - *'' ' » BLUE AND CRAY VETERANS ; MEET LIKE BROTHERS ' a ' Remarkable Scene at the G. A. R. r Annual Encampment ! VAN SUNT LAUDS SOOTH'S SOLDIERS 1 ' 1 • General Sickels, Commander Van Sant and 1 General Hilary JL Herbert Want Jelnt 3 Reunion ol the Bine and Gray. Atlantic City, N. J. —The hotels, th» piers and board walks were crowded J with old soldiers and their families who caine to attend the G. A. R. en campment. Commander Van Sant and Hilary A. Herbert of Alabama, former Secretary of the Navy and a general in the Con- federate army, were the principal speakers at a large gathering of vet erans on the steeplechase pier. After a short address by the commander-in- ( calef, General Herbert eulogized the *'•' members of the grand army and their 1 commander. He told how the wearers . of the blue and the wearer* of the . gray were being welded together fi% - the cause of the Union, and he urged 1 a join reunion of the Blue and Gray i veterans. Commander-in-Chief Van Sant and - Gen. Daniel E. Sickels both declared • ->iey would work for the proposition, ** and the former will bring it up before l the G. A. K. members later, it is be i lieved by many soldiers that tills dem onstration of friendly feeling wjll kill the agitation against the place of the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee in Stat uary Hall at Washington. I A remarkable scene occurred with the entrance of General Slskela inu> *the auditorium. As he swung down the aisle with a pinned-up trouser leg, giving mute evidence of his heroism, the veterans arose as one man, and four of his command lifted him, chair and all, and placed him on. the plat- i torm, wiiile the commander-in-chiefs band played "Dixie" and the crowd cheered. As General Sickels grasped the folda of a huge silk flag with Comman der, Van Sant, General Herbert step- I ped up and, laying one hand upon the f Shoulder of the grizled veteran, the . , otivr on the flag, said: ••If I had been told when I was in , Antletam that in the years to come 1 yP would stand side by side with Federal WA soldiers and grasp the Stars and « Stripes with taem, 1 would have been insulted. But 1 love that old liag now.'* - ccmmnnaer" van yarn-paid a tißmte*— — to the Southern veterans, saying that he was glad to meet them on friendly terms, and that he had no desire to meet them again in war. He declared he was proud of the fact that no American army ever surrendered to ( - unyttiing but-snot her American army, and repeated that there was no longer ( a North and Souta, but that we were . all one great American people. Perhaps the largest host from a * r distance to attend the encampment is ' t the St. Cloud, Fla., veterans, who i came with their own band. The com- 1 i tuander is G. D. Degraw. ABBEVILLE TRAGEDY. Drink-Crazed Man Kills One Woman, and Shoots Another. Abbeville, Ga Mrs. F. H. Williams ( is dead; her sister, Mrs. Eugene Roy al, is seriously wounded, the victims I of R E. Mairess, who firedupOTTße women and, after shooting' them -1 down, turned the weapon upon him -1 self, Inflicting a wound from which ' he now lies dying. ' Mane3s, it is said, was madly in ! fatuated with Mrs. Royal, who did not fa • return his love. Wiiile drinking ho ' »went to her home. * She was sick in 1 bed. He began to abuse her for not i " accepting his attentions. Mrs. WH • liams, who lives next to Mrs. Royal, heard him, and went to the assistance V of her sister. When Maness saw Mrs. Williams come in, he fired three J 1 shots at her, one taking effect in the S ' head, killing her instantly. He then ' turned and shot Mrs. Royal, inflicting 1 a serious, though not fatal wound. J Maness evidently thought he had 1 killed Mrs. Royal, as he then marched ' out into the hall and shot himself In H ' the head. Yeilow Fever Signs. Beaumont, Texas—That a sailor re ' moved from aboard the steamer By -1 land, which arrived at Sabine, Texas, V 3 from Tampico, Mexico, has shown the 3 symptoms of yellow fever, Is declared 9 by State Health Officer Brumby, who - returned to Beaumont after conduct -9 ins an investigation at Sabine. Five 9 days must elapse. Doctor Brumby ex ► plained, . before a definite diagnosis 1 would be possible, and in the mean -1 time the vessel Is being held In quar t antlne. No other Ulnesß Is aboard the Byland. - To Probe Milk Coat. '■ Washington.—lt is believed that the 1 investigation in progress by the De- \ ® partment of Justice and United States s attorney of the District of Columbia s into conditions under which the price r " of milk is regulated In Washington, marks the opening of a national probe ' of a simultaneous increase in the cost r of that staple In nearly every large ■* city in the East The Department of y Justice, besides having a special 4 '* agent at work in the District of Co- V e lumbla, is gathering information re . gprding conditions in other cities. W
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