lilt ENTERPRISE.
WILLIAHSTON, *.«.
Tfce race for wealth ends at the
cemetery. *"* "
A clean flue may save the hoase
from burning down.
The earth remains eafer than either
the lea or the sk*»
The consumer hopee the Ice crop,
too, will be a bumper.
Nearly every iclft that la made haa
some aort of a string tied to It
Developing the aeroplane la one
thing and reckless tomfoolery la an
other.
Jutt think! Angela' food cake la
made In New York of "rota" and
"spots."
The aeroplane Is becoming a danger
ous rival of the automobile In the toll
of deaths.
Things go by contraries. When a
man Is on bis "uppers" he Is really
down In the depths.
When sold merely by weight, dia
monds are still a little more valuable
than breakfast bacon.
An that will break down
without falling Is one of the crying
necessities of the age.
The New York milliner who built an
aeroplane doubtless utilized some of
the models In the shop.
The hobble skirt has gone out of
fashion even in Paris, and It will soon
bo marked oft the list everywhere.
Mlladl says a man's clothes always
seem to fit him real loose after his
wife's relatives have looked him over.
An lowa man paid $lO5 the other
Jay for ten ears of corn. Yet there
are people who risk their lives hunt
ing for gold.
The least that can be said of that
rotten egg Industry declared to exist
In New York Is that It will be In bad
odor; with the public. ,
They are building liners so big the
globe trotters will expect to flnd on
them golf courses, porte cflcheres and
outdoor sleeping porches.
A prominent New York college has
been Invaded by Infunt paralysis. The
doings of the average student make
this Invasion entirely credible.
Fifty six Indiana counties have lost
in population since the 1900 census. As
Boon as people make a fortune In lit
erature, they move out of Indiana.
Hereupon the enthusiastic lover of
horses climbs Into his automobile, or
ders the chauffeur to "hit 'er up." and
is whisked away to the horse show.
A New York wotnan Is enraged be
cause her son wants to marry an
actress. She might as well cheer up.
He'll be back home again in a little
while.
Marriage may be a lottery, but the
proposal of a woman in the west to
raffle herself off for a dollar, a chance
Is emphasizing the fact a little too
strongly.
A woman In Washington washes all
the paper money that she receives in
order thnt it may he clean. All of us
are not so particular A little dirty
money looks good to a hungry man.
Statistics show that April and Sep
tember are the favorite months in
which.to go crazy. That may account
» for the hunches that induce some men
w to become candidates for public office..
Ten orphan baby seals have been
brought down frptn Bering sea to pass
the winter In this country as an ex
periment. If they do well we may yet
rake our own sealskin coats In inland
waters. ,
American brides entering Germany
are to be compelled to pay duty on
their wedding outfits. The counts and
barons they take over should not cost
much If the duty on them is levied ad
valorem.
Also It is reported that the slse of
women's hatfc is being deduced. But
the masculine payers of the bills hare
not yet made the happy discovery
that the price has been reduced In
proportion.
"We are assured that men are
drinking less nowadays," observes the
Philadelphia Inquirer, "but how it It
that the internal revenue increases so
fast?" The census figures of 1910
may help you. brother.
That returning tourist who disobey
ed father and was fined BOO for fail*
log to declare dutiable articles now
realizes that her Uncle Samuel la one"
relative that will not stand any non
-1 sense. „
"Han*ar," the French word which Is
used In connection with flying ma
chines, means merely shed —a place
In which an aeroplane may be kept
when It is not in uae s> Shed to short
but It will not be SB bard to leant to
*a7 hangar as It was to get chauffeur
to roU correctly from the tongue
EXPLOSION KILLS 10
AND INJURES 125
OAS EXPLOSION IN GRAND CEN
TRAL BTATION, NEW YORK
CITY, BPREADB RUIN.
LOSS WAS OVER $3,000,000
Motor Car Struck Illuminating Qaa
Pipe Line and Cauaed
Explosion.
New York.—A terrific explosion of
Illuminating gaa In the auxiliary pow
er house at the Grand Central station
which tore at the heart and aent a
tremor along; the entire rock back
bone of Manhattan cauaed the death
of ten persona, two of them women,
the Injury of 125 othera, some of the
latter fatally, and property damage
estimated at from >2,000,000 to ss,•
040,000.
Pour persona are missing and are
believed to be dead.
Fire broke out In the shattered rulna
of the power house, but with a great
corps of police, searchers and firemen
on the scene, the blar,e made little
headway before being checked
A canvass of the neighborhood
ahowed that few structures es
caped. Windows were smashed liter
ally by the thousands. Handsome res
idence fronts were decorated with
blankets, sheets, newspaper*, burlap
or old rugs as the quickest substitute*
for window glass. Several institutions
In the neighborhood have appealed for
aid to affect repairs, and order will
not be restored for weeks.
The .Tiffany studios at Forty-fourth
street and Madison avenue, fully half
a mile from the scene of the
trophe, HufTered. Valuable stained
glass windows, valued at flo,oou, were
smashed.
For some hours It was believed that
dynamite alone could have wrought
such instantaneous and pulverizing
havoc, but PI re Chief Croker vald he
was convinced that the whole explo
sion wag due to a mixture of air and
Illuminating gas, used in lighting rail
road cars, toucked off by an electric
spark. The gas had accumulated -in
the auxiliary power house from a
broken pipe snapped off by a runaway
passenger car.
The force of the explosion ran north
and south for two miles along the
rock ridge that is the backbous of the
lßland, and east and west laterally for
a mile. Foundations were Jarreu, walls
were shaken out of plumb, windows
were blown In by the thousand, cell
ings camo crashing down on the heads
of those underneath, and the pave
ments were littered with a mass of
pulverised glass.
As nearly as can be determined this
Is how the accident occurred: A train
load of empty passenger care, hauled
by an electric motor, in charge of
Albert Seagroatt, got out of control
of the brakes, crashed Into a steel and
concrete buffer post, snapped the post
off aud rammed a pile of lumber be
hind the post into a 2 1-2-Inch gas
connecting with the taps frt>m
which the tanks of the passenger Cftrs
are charged at 250 pounds to the
square Inch.
When workmen set to clearing away
the strewed lumber, it is assumed that
one of them dropped a steel tool
across the third rail, there was a flash
of electricity and the great reservoir
of accumulated gas exploded. What
happened then will never be adequate
ly told. The roof of fire house N'o. 2,
directly across the street from the
power house, lifted, like a magic car
pet. A shower of glass, bricks, mortar
and splintered timbers began to rain
down on the pavements. In an instant
the streets were filled with prostrate
men and women, blown fiat by the
shock of the detonation and the rush
of air.
Waiter'! Sweetheart Gets Foitune,
Philadelphia.—Hy the terms of the
will of fhe late Robert BuUt. the
wealthy seedsman of this city, Rob
ert H do Janon, his grandchild, who
disappeared from tiiis city with a ho
tel waiter last December, aud was
found In Chicago, Is glvon In trust the
bulk of his estate, which is valued at
about $500,000. The will was execut
ed on December ti. this year, afler he
had been strickeu with his fatal ill
ness.
Justice White Takes Oath.
Washington. Edward Douglass
White, for sixteen years an associate
Justice of the Supreme court of the
United States, became the ninth chief
Justice of the natton. The oath of
allegiance was administered by Asso
ciate Justice Harlan. For the first
time In history, as associate Justice
has been elevated to the chl«?t' justice
ship, and for the first tluio a presi
dent and senate of one political party
has honored a member of a rival par
ty by placing him at the head of the
highest court in the land.
17,000,000 Income From Canal.
Washington.—President Taft is hav
ing a bill prepared designed to carry
out his ideas as to collection of tolls
on the Panam* canal. T»>e president
believes that the tolls ought uot to
exceed >1 per net ton, with n view
to obtaining a gross Income of $7,000,-
000. The maintenance and operation
cost is estimated at $3,000,000, and
the income will approximate the in
terest upon ihe $400,000,000 invest
ment, which the United States haa
mad* is the construction of the canal.
HOW THE NATION'S POPULATION INCREASED
KG
OFFICIAL MAP PREPARED BY CENBUS BUREAU
The Shading Shows the Increase Mads by the Various States According to
1910 Figures Which Have Now Been Completed.
CHAMPION COM GROWERS
The Boy* Have Shown Old Farmer#
of the South How to Grow
Corn.
Washington. Eleven Southern
boy*, the champion corn growers out
of 46,225 contestants, none of them
over 16 years of age, were presented
diplomas of merit by the secretary
of agriculture, and shook hands with
the president of the United States.
They nave demonstrated that from
83 to 228 bushels of corn can ue
grown per acre In the South, whereas
the average Is now 14 to 20 bushels.
These eleven state prlxe winners
posed for their photographs, each
with an ear of corn In his hands.
In the group was Joseph Stone of
Cejptre, Jackson county, Georgia, who
raised 102 5-8 bustiels on his measur
ed acre at an expense of 29 cents a
bushel. The champion of the group
was a South Carolina boy, Jerry H.
Moore of Winona, who raised 228 8-4
bushels at a cost of 43 cents per
bushel. But the real first prize win
ner was Ira Smith of Silver, Ark., who
raised 119 bußhels at an outiuy of 8
cents a bushel,
The lesson of seed selection, proper
cultivation of the soil und proof that
the present average per acre corn pro
duction In the SoSth Is unreasonably
low was the object sought in the corn
contest. The present trip of the state
winners to Wasnlngton is the crimina
tion of their year s work. They are In
charge of Prof. O. H. Martin, assistant
to Or. Seaman A. Knapp of th« divis
ion of farm demonstration work.
Besides the trip to Washington for
the state winners this year, prizes
totalling $40,000 were given. This wa*,
not government money. Merchants,
bankers and other.public-spirited men
In the South offered all sorts of things
-cash, farm Implements, trips, ponies,
pigs, bioycles, watches aud many oth
er things such as hoys would work
hardest for.
Tile boys studied seed selection in
the winter, soil composition, fertil
izers and the circulars on the prepara
tion of the seedbed and subsequent
cultivation which were mailed from
the department. They piowed their
ground from 8 to 16 Inches d«vp, and
cleaned stables and chicken houses for
manure, and cleaned up the farm for
wood ash and humus.
ROOSEVELT A RADICAL 
Ex-President Makes First Speecn
Since Recent Elections.
iNew Haven, Conn. —Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, as the guest of the cham
ber of commerce at its annual ban
quet, made his first public address
since the recent elections*
"it seeuis to nie thrft nothing could
be a better augury of the future of
this couutry," he sniu, "than that a
Republican president should appoint
uiu ex-Confederate of the opposite po
litical faith chief justice of the Unit
ed States Supreme court and lecelve
the unanimous applause of his coun
trymen.
"1 am a radical, but 1 am a radical
whi) most earnestly desires to see a
radical program carried out by con
servatives. 1 wish to see great indus
trial reforms carried out, not by the
m?n who will profit by them, but by
the men who lose by them; by Just
such men as you around me. I believe
most emphatically in the progress
which shall be sane."
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Bristol, Tenn.-Va., Has 13,395 People
Washington.—Population of Bristol,
Tenn., Is 7,148, compared with 5,271
in 1900. Combined with Bristol, Va.,
wliickjias a population of 6,247, the
population of Bristol, Tenn.-Va.. is 13,-
395, compared with 9,850 in 1900.
Congress Spends SIO,OOO a Minute.
Washington.—Congress passed the
urgent deficiency appropriation bill in
one hour and forty, minutes. As the
measure carried $1,060,615, this was
appropriating public funds at tae rate
of lO nou a nilnut*
* President Depreciates War Scare.
Washington.—President Taft, ad
dressing the closing banquet of the
American Society for Judicial Settle
ment of International Dispute*, al
layed the "so-called wax scare." He
declared "there Is not the slightest
reason for such a sensation because
we are at peace with all the nations
of the world," and are quite likely to
remain so." The president jun.marii
ed the condition of the national de
and urged that a policy of "wise
military preparation" be pursued. *
TEN MILLIONS FOR PEACE
FUND 18 TO BE USED TO ESTAB
LISH WORLD PEACE BY AB
OLITION OF WAR.
Twenty-Beven Trustees Named by
Andrew Carnegie to Care
¥
for the Fund.
Washington.—Surrounded by 27
trustees of his choosing, comprising
former cabinet members, ex-ambassa
dors, ccilege professors, lawyers and
educators, Andrew Carnegie transfer
red $10,000,000 in 6 per cent, fir*
mortgage bonds, valued at $11,500,000,
to be devoted primarily to tae es
tablishment of universal peace by the
abolition of war between nations and
such friction as may impair "the prog
ress and happiness of man."
When wars between nations shall
have ceased, the fund is to be applied
to such altruistic purposes as Mil
"best help man In his glorious ascent
onward and upward," by the banish
ment of the "most degrading evil or
evils" then harassing mankind *
DIRECT Voi^ToK"SENATORS
Constitutional nmtnainent Is Favored
by Senate Committee.
Washington.—By a vote of 2 to 1,
a subcommittee of the senate commit
tee on judiciary' authorized a favora
ble report on a resolution for a con
stitutional amendment to provide for
the election of United States senators
by direct vote of the people
Southern senators in their discus
sion and votes will seek to guai d the
states in their right to restrict the
suffrage as they choose within the
limitations of the fifteenth amend-1
ment. A citizen's, right to vot? comes
from the state, but if congress pro
vides for the election of United States
senators, it may say who is entitled
to vtjte In such elections.
COTTON GINNERS REPORT.
Reports Indicate 96 Per Cent, of the
Cotton Crop Ginned.
Memphis, Tenn. —According to the
/eport of the National Ginners aseo
elation, about 477,000 bales of cotton j
were ginned during the perioti from
Deoember 1 to'Uecember 13, cumpar
ed with 481,000 bales in 1909 Tne re
port states that the crop is 99 per
cent, picked and 96 per cent, ginned,
The reports from gittnera show that
the ginuing will be completed by Jan
uary 5. The report by states was:
Alabama 1,114,000, Arkansas 672,-
000, Florida 60.000, Oklahoma 861,000,
South Carolina 1,089,000, Tennessee
265,000, Texas 2,862,000, various 64,-
000. Total 10,617,000.
801 l Weevil Heads for Georgia.
Montgomery, Ala.—Thorough In
spection of territory In southeast Ala
bama by bool weevil experts and dem
onstration agents has shown tae pest
to have gained a much firmer foothold
than at first supposed. Reports re
ceived by B- L. Moss, state agent of
the government's demonstration farm
work, led by Mr. Moss to predict that
the weevil may reach the Georgia line
by next year.
Confederate Monuments Diecussed.
Washington.—To meet the objec
tions raised by many cemetery asso
ciations In the North against the
erecting of small Individual headstones
to mark the graves of Confederate
soldiers who died in Northern prisons,
the senate committee on military af
fairs has indorsed a bill giving author
ity tor the construction of large ma
srnry monuments, bearing bronze tab
lets with the names of the soldiers
upon them. The committee recom
mends that the time allowed for mark
in* th» craves ha evtended two vears
Southern Promoter Arrested.
Washington.—E. C. Drew, president
, of the Alabama Electric Service com
pany, was arrested at Fort Payne,
Ala., on charges of üßing the malls
for the conduct of alleged fraudulent
1 enterprises. It is alleged that he sent
■ attractive circulars through the mails
i to induce the recipients to purchase
> stock iti his companies. He repre
• sented, it U charged, that he propos
• ed, through the Alabama Electric Ser
- vice company to supply electric power
i to Birmingham, Chattanooga, Tenn.,
POSTAL BANKS Wll
OPEN JANUARY THIRD
ONE EXPERIMENTAL OFFICE
WILL BE LOCATED IN EACH
* STATE AND TERRITORY.
POSTMASTERS ARE NOTIFIED
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If Systsm Is Successful In Experimen
tal Offices Banks Will Be Estab
lishsd In All Offices.
Washington,—Postmaster General
Hitchcock stated that everything will
be in readiness for the postal savings
banks in the varioui states and tor
rltorles to receive deposits on Jan
uary 3, the first working day of the
new year. The task of drawing up
regulations, forms and instructions to
postmasters and the general public,
hrf announced, has progressed to such,
an extent as to assure the beginning
of operations at the experimental of
fices.
One experimental office will be
opened in each state and territory
with a view to make the first tests
of the service us thorough as possible
under the limited appropriation. The
offices designated are all of the sec
ond class and in localities whire the
conditions are exceptionally favorable
for the development of postal savings
business. Several of the offices se
lected are in the communities Inhab
ited by foreign-born American?, who
are remitting annually considerable
sums of money to their native coun
tries by postal money orders.
During the past tew post
masters at the twelve offices in the
Hocky Mountain and Pacific coast
states have been in Washington at the
request of the postmaster general for
a conference.
Within the next few days postmas
ters from the remaining thirty-six
offices will convene in Washington
for a similar drilling. Among those
offices are; Reesemer, Ala.; Stuggartt,
Ark.; Key West, Fla.; Brunswick,
Qa ; Middlcsboro, Ky.; New Iberia,
La.; Gulfport, Miss ; Salisbury. N. C.;
Uymon, Okla.; Newberry, 8. C., John
son City, Tenn.; Clifton Forge, Va..
and Grafton, W. Va,
senator LORjMER Cleared.
Illinois Senator Did Not Obtain His
Seat by Bribery.
Washington.—Senator Loriiuer of
Illinois was given a clean bill of
health by the subcommittee of the
senate committee on privileges and
elections, which investigated charges
of bribery mad*? in connection with
his electici to r ucceed Senator Hop
kins. The report of the investigation
— " "" *""
WILLIAM E. LORIMER.
Unitt-u oi«ics Senator from Illinois.
was made t& the full committee on
privileges and elections, whicb then
adjourned to give the members oppor
tunity to study the evidence end the
subcommittee report.
Evidence tljat there was money
passed between certain members of
; the Illinois legislature was not ignor
. ed by the subcommittee, but it was
' declared that if the votes of mem
t bers charged eithor with receiving or
paying money had been eliminated,
i Mr. Lorimer still would have had a
majority of three votes.
Negro Saved From Lynchers.
Luverne, Ala.—The sheriff, with
. about twenty deputies, went to the
i Salter home to arrest Ben Salter and
i his boys, negroes, who were charged
, with shooting Jack Shirley and then
wounding Jim Bhirley, Dave Shirley,
[ Jesse Pate end-I. F. Williamson. The
. sheriff found a citizens' posse at the
. Salter home, and was just in time to
. save the life of the old negro. Ben,
, who had been knocked on the head
. with a pistol. The old negro was
. rescued by the sheriff and taken to
jail under a heavy guard.
A Jonah Experience.
t Young Harrla, Ga.—Bart Brown, •
young man of Gum Log, Ga, had an
experience he 1B not liable to forget
| soon. While with a party of friends,
L he was overcome by the "Mountain
t Dew" he was said to have been 1m
3 blblng. His friends placed the un
} conscious man In the ureas* of a
. dead mule and sewed % the skin.
Brown came to after being In the
I mule about four hours. He was much
r frightened, and. when released by
passersby, immediately went am the
"water wagon."
WORK OF A DEMON
- m ,
Three People Murdered and
Burned at Durham, N. C
THE DEAD MAN'S WIFE ESCAPED
Negro Charged With Three Capital
Offense*—Bloody Butcher Knife and
• *
Charred Bones Till Shocking Btory
—Taken to Penitentiary.
Durham, N. C.—The charred bodies
of three persons, known to be those of
Miss Mattie Sanders, her father, J. L.
Sanders, and his grand-daughter, Irene
Overton, are the gruesome evidence of
a triple tragedy with complete proof
of three capital elements In it.
Nathan Montague, a negro, la charg
ed with the crime.
The verdict of the coroner's Jury
was that Miss Mattie Bandera was as
saulted and murdered, that her father
was killed and the child of 4 years
murdered, all three being with
the house. The alleged murderer baa
yet to do his first intelligent thing. He
dropped near the, well, where four
sides are guijimed with blood and hair,
his knife with which he is believed' to
have cut the girl's throat. The mo
ment it was found It was recognized
as the weapon that the brute had the,
same day when the Overtons wepe
killing hogs. Both the white girl and
the negro were there.
Mr. Sanders had asked him to come
Thursday and help him to kill hogs.
The bodies were burned beyond recog
nition and the pcor girl has only whit
ened "bones to .publish the story of her
last fight for her life.
In the yarci about twenty-five feet
from the house stands a rlAety well
house, open and easy to see, on all
sides are hair and blood and on the
ground nearby are the footprints of
a struggle.
Sheriff Wheeler rushed Montague to
Raleligh, where he is now in the pen
itentiary. .
Robbery was perhaps added to a
crime of three distinctly capital feat-':
ures. Sanders was moderately com
fortable in circumstances, owned his
lands and cultivated tobacco.
Mrs. Sanders accidental absence
saved her life and her grand daughter
of 4 years coming to their home caus
ed the loss of hers.
There was some quarreling with Sher
iff Wheeler for his protection of the
prisoner, his indication of direction In
traveling having had the et/ect of dii
ooncerting the mob. Granville oourt
meets in January, when Montague will
be tried.
TO FURTHER PROTECT FOOD.
Representative Mann's Substitute Bill
to be Uniform With States.
Washington—As a result of a con
ference with a delegation of New
York and Chicago business men, Rep
resentative Mann, of Illinois, chair
man of the house committee on In
terstate commerce, has introduced a
substitute for his bill amending the
pure food law, relating to the brand
ing of packages of food, drugs, medi
cines and liquors. I, The substitute,
which is designed to serve as a model
for uniformity of legislation by the
States on the subject, provides that
if the net quantity of the contents of
the package are not plainly and con
spicuously marked on the outside fn
terms of weight, measure or numeri
cal count, the article will be deemed
misbra n?ed,
The bill Is intended to take effect
Immediately on papsnge, but no pen
alty will be enforced for any violation
as to products prepared prior to 18
months after Its passage.
Wanted to Eat SI,OOO Chicken.
New Orleans.—Unable to resist the
temptation to have a high class
chicken dinner, a negro who wander
ed in where the prize chickens were
exhibited in the poultry show just
closed here, stole "Queen Flsheldote,"
the SI,OOO fowl belonging to Julius
Flshel.
"Ah Jlst couldn't git away from dat
longing to hab dat hen for Christmas
dinnah," was the explanation made
by the negro for his act. The fancy
fowl was delivered to its owner.
Bur ley Tobacco of 1911 Pooled.
Lexington, Ky.—Burley tobacco
growers of Kentucky, West Virginia,
Ohio, Indiana and Missouri, adopted
sa agreement to pool their 1911 crops.
Conventions will be called in each of
the States for the purpose of electing
delegates to a general meeting here on
January 5. More than 100,000 growers,
producing in excess of 300,000,000
pounds of tobacco annually, are af
fected. The agreement adopted pro
vides that no tobacco shall be raised
In 1113.
Rockfeller Gives College $10,000,000.
Chicago.—John D, Rockefeller has
completed the task he set for himself
In the founding of the University of
Chicago. Public announcement has
been made of a "single end final gtft"
of $10,000,000, which includes all the
contributions that Mr. Rockefeller had
planned to make to the university.
The sum, which is to be paid in ten
ann? 1 instalments beginning January
1, will malie a total of approximately
$36,000,00*1 that Mr. Rockefeller has
donated to the university. : ■