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THE ENTERPRISE ' Published, Weakly. WILLI AM BTON, N. C. i i ■ The loafer la not afraid of iprlof tew carina. It looka aa If the harem skirt wera to ba hobbled. The trouaer skirt la not popular \ even on the Parla stage. ' * The Bilk hat la threatened, but threatened hata live lons. In catching a street car a harem aklrt haa a hobble skirt skinned a ■Jtlock. There ought to be no trouble In get ting a' little light on the so-called match trust. New uses are continually being found for radium. All that 1s needed la some radium. Sometimes when you think that op portunity Is knocking at your door It turns out to be a collector. The meanest man has been found In Texas. He waa arrested for stealing milk from an orphan asylum. A hospital phyaiclan declares that everybody Is. crary now and then. So It lan't alwaya the other fellow. An unuaual happening la Reported from Connecticut A woman found 93,000 In her dead husband'a pocketa. To teach the young Idea how to ■wlm Chicago educators think is quite as Important as teaching it to shoot. The harem skirt has been causing riots In Rio Janlero, but Buenos Ayres appears to bo making an efTort to take It tranquilly. Now we are told that a woman's Bklrt is her crowning glory. All of which is our notion of no place to wear a skirt. In parts of Nova Bcotla automobll ing is allowed four days each week. The rest of the time the roads are perfectly safe. You can send a day letter by tele graph rfow, but old-fashioned people will cling to the "arrived safety" and "am well" formula. A New York physician promises to mako bad boys good by proper breath ing. It is a far cry from a strap in the woodshed to a breathing exercise. A foot race has been arranged for one-legged mon from Minneapolis to Bt LOUIH. And thus the great work of the twentieth ceutury goes on. A New York office boy made $50,- 000 speculating in Wall streot, but they got $20,000 of It away from him tho next day—and ho Is still fooling around in Wall street. In New York a woman Is trying to prove that she loved a man and she offers In evidence letters In which she called him her 'ugly monkey" and her "curly bear." It must bo splendid to be loved like that. Py an astronomer It is alleged that because comets are composed merely of lust collisions with them need not be feared. Just tho same they give the solar system the appearance of needing a vacuum cleaner. Wlnsted, Conn., has a fisherman who claims to have caught a pickerel because the latter mistook his nose for halt ntid Jumped at it. It strikes ua that said fisherman must have coif* aumed a vast amount of bait to ac quire a nose so brilliant that a pick erel would Jump at it. Under the new law It costs $lO to carry a pistol In New York Instead of only $2.50 llut those who expect to Bee the difference reflected In a de crease of shooting afTrays will proba bly be disappointed. If the fee was a million, and It was not enforced more atrlctly than the $2.60 one. it would be Just aa Ineffectual. Sir Hiram Maxim is still singing the praises of that gToat American dish— pork and beans. Some of these days the humble and much abused pie will find an authority abroad who will sud denly eleevate It to the heights, and make us ashamed that familiarity and tradition have made us belittle the hid den sweetness and light we have with ua A Jilted Brooklyn man Is suing the fickle fair one for the time lost in courting her. She pleads byway of defense a woman's Inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness by chang ing her mind. In face of this consti tutional right the unlucky swain has no case. All the courts appealed to on this issue have hitherto upheld this right, which, indeed antedates every thing but the creation King Sodultch 1 Choa Fa Mu>a Za- Jlravudh, of Slain, cables thanks for sending an American representative to his late father's cremation. That Is nothing. We are quite willing, on gen eral principles, to send representatives to more cremations of oriental poten tates, considering that the Orient has mch potentates to hum. But it is to be hoped that Siamese court etiquette will not require an American tongue to get twisted around His Majesty** given name. NORTH STATE NEWS Raleigh.—Governor Kltchln has or dered the convening of a special term of superior court tor Robeson county at Lumberton, May 16, to continue one week. Judge C. M. Cook to pre side. It will be for the trial of crim inal cases. Washington.—Secretary Wilson haa notified Representative Webb that he will send an expert to Mecklenburg county in May to investigate the drainage question. Fayetteville—While making a break for liberty from the chalngang work ing near Steadman, this county, John McDonald was shot and killed. Mc- Donald was serving 18 months for larceny, having been sentenced in January. High Point.—High Point manufac turers say that their sales have been larger for the first throe months of this year than during any similar period in proceeding years, board of aldermen are out. Raleigh.—Very handsome new col ors for the third regiment, North Carolina national guard, have been received at the office of the adjutant general of the North Carolina guard here from the United States war de~ partment. It Is regulation design and bears the Inscription "Third Regi ment N. C. N. 0." The colors are of finest silk material and cost $l6O each. Albany, N. Y.—Activity In road building all over the country for which great sums have been expended last year Is summed up in a conden sation of state highway reports given out here. Georgia spent $3,000,000 and North Carolina SBOO,OOO. Washington. Fuller Wlshart, a young man of Charlotte, whom Mr. Webb, of the ninth district appointed to a position as page during the last congress, has been promoted to chief page, a very responsible position for a boy of his age. Washington, N. C.—The court for this city, which started Feb ruary 20, has already made good. From February 20 to April 1 Record er W. D. Grimes has tried 69 cases, out of which there wore only six acquittals. '1 here luis been turned Into the county treasury during this time by wny of fines $226. High Point. —The twenty-second an nual session of the North Carolina Funeral Directors and Embalmers' as sociation wl-11 be held In this city Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, May 2, 3 and 4. The sessions will be open to the public. Washington.—The department of justice filed a motion in the Supreme Court of the United States asking for an early hearing In a case Involving a review of an unßUCcesssful Indict ment against Conrad A. I'lyler of North 'Carolina. In that case the point is whether or not it Is a fraud ll the government to forge a signa ture to an application for rural letter carriers. Iflgh Point. —Through their pnstor, Rev. M. Luther Camp, the Woman's Memorial Kvnngelical Lutheran church of this city has just been In formed by Mr. Andrew Carnegie's secretary that Mr. Carnegie will con tribute one half of the amount sl,- 400 which Is necesssary to pay for the handsome pipe organ which Is to be Installed In this church. The irgan will have a two manual attach ment and electricity will furnish the motive power, Laurlnburg.—The jrood roads spirit has visited other parts of Scotland county since the voting of bonds by \yilllamscn and SteVnrtavllle town ships two years ago. The last legls- re-enacted the same law for the other townships of the county and petitions are now being circulat ed to the board of county commis sloners for the calling of an election. It la reported that Spring Hill town ship will ask for $20,000 In bonds. Washington.— Mr. Vomer was told by the Southern railway olliclals that a representative of his paper would be cared for on the speclnl goo*' roads train which will start from Mobile, Ala., on May 23 and will make trips to every city In the &outh dur Ing the summer and fall. Shelby.—lt has been made public that Mr. Andrew Carnegie has con sented to give $1,260 to the First Paptlst church of Shelby If an equal amount will be raised by the congre gation. Several gentlemen have guaranteed that this amount will be subscribed -locally. Wilmington.—There Is every reason to believe that the berry crop will be as large as last season, when 1, 680 cars of berries were shipped and It may be that the crop this year will be some larger. Estimates by those connected with handling the crop place the number of cars at between 1,600 and 1,700. Atlanta. —One hundred and forty eight new bankß with aggregate cap ital of $110,040,000 were organised in the 10 Southern states between Jan uary 16 and April 15 of this year. Twelve were with $1,230,000 capital. Winston-Salem.—The Socialists will put out a municipal ticket In the Winston election. Candidates tor mayor and nine members of the Wlnaton-Salem.—At the approach ing coihmencement of Salem college, a diploma will be awarded to Mrs R. L. McWhorter of Georgia, who finished her course In the Institution •8 years ago. Mrs. McWhorter Is npw more than 80 years old. When Mrs. McWhorter was graduated, diplomas were not given She will tntvel tc Winston-Salem in a private car; pro Tided by her son, a prominent rail road lawyer. FIGHT IS PUNNED ON M LIST BILL REPUBLICAN MINORITY IN HOUSB| WILL TRY TO BLOCK DEM ;u OCRATIC PLANS. -* ' ' WOOL SCHEDULE OPPOSED It I* Said Senator Bailey Will Aid the Republicana in Their F'flhL _ Washington.—Following the consid eration of the Canadian reciprocity bill, the ways and means committee will report other tariff legislation. The next bill will provide for radi cal reduction-In the wool schedule, admitted to be the moat Indefensible schedule in the whole list. Even In hi* Winona speech praising the Payne-Aldrich tariff, President Taft admitted that some of Its schedules might be a trifle high, particularly in the wool schedule. Not only will the on woolep manufactures be greatly reduced, but it Is proposed to put raw wool on the free list. This latter step is a radl cal departure, and it is expected to stir up the farmers of the middle and far west, Texas and Wyoming. Free raw wool will be bitterly op posed by a faction in the Democratic party headed by Senator Bailey of Texas and by the Republican Insurg ent, led by Senator Warren of Wyo mlng, who Is himself the owner of hundreds of thousands of sheep. The annual wool clip from the. ranches of Senator equals that of any other wool grower In the Unit ed States. Free raw wool can only be secured after a bitter glit, If at all. A lively fight will be made on this provision, nominally in tfie name of the farmer. Democratic leaders refer with pride to the achievement of passing the bill for pt pujar election of United States senators and the campaign publicity bill In two legislative days, and to bringing before the house the ('ana- I dlan reciprocity agreement with assur ances of its ratification by an over whelming majority by the middle oi this week. To all those features of the legislative program, however, lit tle opposition has developed. The wonder of it to the experienced ob server waH the demonstration of the smoothly running Democratic ma chine. ENGLISHMEN MOB MORMONS John Bull Won't Stand for the "Lat ter Day Saints." Birkenhead, England.—The anti- Mormon campaign led to serious dls-" orders here. 4 An organized demon stration against Mornionlsm was car ried out and an ultimatum was issued requiring the Mormon missionaries to quit the town within eight days. La ter n great crowd attacked tho Mor mon meeting house nnd stoned and smashed windows. The police had grent difficulty In restoring order. Two persons were Injured and live were arrested, In January W. P. Monson, chief of the Mormon missionaries in England, addressed a letter to the home sec retary, Winston Spencer Churchill, fecondlng the request of certain Kng llhli clergy that tile home offlco In vestigate. Mornionlsm in England. Monson declared that the Mormons were being persecuted. An anti-Mor mon campaign was organized at l.lv trpool by the bishop of Liverpool and other prominent churchmen. The oh ic-t was the expulsion from England of tho Mormon missionaries, who were charged with sending many re cruits, chiefly girls, to the United States. The movt ment was taken up by the clergy of other cities. Life Sentence tor Uoctor Pearce. Annlston, Ala. —Dr. John E. Pearce, who has been on trial here for several days on the charge of killing Shell Kennedy In this county on January 14, | was convicted and sentenced to ln'o Imprisonment, l'earce's plea was one i of self-defense. Cross Pearce, who is alleged to have killed Sarge Kenne dy, a son of Shell Kennedy, and W'y liam and Ada Kennedy, father and sitter, respectively, of Shell Kennedy, I and also alleged participants in the i conspiracy, will bo tried In May. Forty Rebels Killed. Chihuahua. Mexico.—Forty or moro lnsurrectos were killed and over one hundred were wounded In a battle fought between Sauz and Santa Clara canyon, about fifty miles north of here. Couriers brought orders to lvnve hospital cots ready for the Federal wounded. The Federals report five killed, but later developments may change the figures. A number of wom en and children are believed to lie among the killed. Coming across from Casas Grandes, with prisoners, the Federals were atatcked. Diaz Wante Volunteers. Meixco City.—A general call for vol unteers to serve for a period of six months was posted in this capital. The call is made to all citizens be tween the ages of 18 and 45 years who desire to lend their services to the country. The pay offered is one peso (50 «ents) a day, besides clothing and equipment. The customary in ducement of advancement in rank and pay to those who prove worthy is in cluded, The activity in the war de partment overshadows the much talk ed of plana tor peace. JUST BUBBLES "j mu RECIPROCITY BILL ADOPTED MAJORITY MEMBERS OF HOUBE MEET IN CAUCUS AND DE CIDE ON MEASURES. • Measures Adopted by the House Dem ocrats May Fail in the Senate. Washington.—The Democrats of the house In caucus ugreed upon tho initial steps in tariff revision. By a voto of 12H to it was decided to pass tho Canadian reciprocity within the next week without amendment. The following articles aro to be put upon the free list us a sop to the farmers along the Canadian border who will be adversely affected by the reciprocity agreement, though the ef fect of the action will be widespread Agricultural Implements, including plows, harrows, reapers, binders, mowevers, boots and shoes, harness und saddlery, barbed-wire and other fencing, cotton bagging and ties, coarse Backs, burlaps, Hour, dressed meats und meat products, salt, sewing machines, seedard und hardwiftid. An other caucus will probably be held uithln next two weeks'to decide w hat shall be done to tho wooleu und cotton schedules. The biggest single item for the Southern farmer Is free bagging und ties, which. It Is estimated, will save him f 1.000.000 annually. , President W. B. Thompson of the New Orleans cotton exchange figured that at the present duty of .027 cents per bale for steel ties, tho totnl cost of a 12,000,000-bale crop would be $321,000. The present duty on Jute bagging amounts to .04 1-4 cents a bale, or $630,000 on the whole crop, making $954,000 annually the are required to pay. The revenue from Imported bagging and ties is now only SIOO,OOO. Thfcre Is no doubt that the.house tariff program makes the American farmer a separate class and legislates In his favor to an oxtent not known or practiced In years. Practically everything ho buys for his farm, hie house and his table Is put on the free list. The only schedules that affect him which were not touched are the woolen, cotton and the steel schedule under which Is listed cutlery. PROBE FOR WICKERSHAM. Department of Justice Will Be Investigated. Washington.—Trouble is brewing for George W. Wlckersham, attorney general In President Taft's cabinet All Washington Is agog over a reso lution Introduced in the house by Rep resentative Rainey of Illinois, whic:> Is aimed directly ut the attorney gen eral. Mr. Rainey s resolution calls for an lnvestiglPlion concerning the proceedings instituted under the Sher man anti-trust law and subsequently dropped and as to whether Attorney General Wlckersham has "outside employment," which would disqualify him for his position In President | Taft's cabinet. Florida Vvants Income Tax. Tallahassee, Fla. —The income tax amendment to the Federal Constitu tion was made tho special order for consideration in the house of repre sentatives. Favorable action upon the amendment was recommended by the Judlcllary committee. A bill call ing a state constitutional convention was favorably reported to the state senate. Among the bills introduced was a measure in the senate design ed to regulate the Are Insurance busi ness and the writing of insurance policies. ■ Rogers Kidnapers Arrested. Las Vegas, N M.—lmplicated by the confession of Joe Wiggins, a for mer life convict. Will and John Rog ers, uncles of little Waldo Rogers, were arrested for complicity In the lad's abduction. For his return $12,- 000 ransom was paid. Will Roger 3 acted a 8 agent for Mrs. Rogers. Dis closures have aroused the city to a degree of excitement that authorities fear may result In a demonstration against the prisoners. The accused are In the county jail, which it guard ad by a large force of deputies. j". • • -,-: A : SUGGESTION OF LIVERPOOL Bankers and Railroad Men Accept Plan of English Cotton Men. New York. —The establishment of a "central office" or clearing house in this city is the latest plan evolved as a means of settling the long-existiug differences over bills of lading be tween American shippers and Euro pean buyers of raw cotton. Representatives of the sub-commit tees of the bills of lading committee of the American Bankers' Association held a protracted meeting here with tiaffic agents of the southeastern and southwestern railroads and with pean interests, as represented by a member of the Liverpool bills of lad ing cotton conference. Tho plan adopted was proposed, ac cording to report, by the Liverpool cotton buyers. Local bankers aro of the opinion that Its acceptance will point out a definite way out of east ing difficulties and obviate the "bank guarantee 1 ' originally demanded by London and continental bankers after the Issuance of last year of a nurn ber of forged bills of lading by the Southern cotton brokers. Tho meeting was doemed expedl ent in "order to formulate plans which "would make It possible to han dle the coming cotton crop without friction," and a committee was ap pointed to outline a system under which the proposed "central office" may be established, giving all factions representation. Among the railroads represented were the Rock Island, Illinois Central, Loulsvillo and Nashville, Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line, the Southern railway and Missouri, Kan sas and Texas. TORNADO SWEEPS 3 STATES Cyclone Traveieu over Kansas, Okla homa and Missouri. Kansas City, Mo.— Twenty-throe persons are reported dead, at least a hundred injured, two towiip, practi cally swept away, scores of buildings demolished and thousands of dollars' worth of property damaged as the io suit of a tornado that raged in Kan sas, Oklahoma and Missouri. The tornado was accompanied by | rain, hail and lightning. Many build ings were struck by lightning and burned. Western Missouri was visited by a rain and hall storm, but this sec tion was not in the main path of the tornado. Telegraph and telephone wires wer» rendered useless In the worst stricken sections, and it is probable that the complete report of the death toll and the property damage will prove mucii greater than they now appear. The tornado levied its greatest toll of dead at Big Heart, Okla., where eight persons were killed, ten Injured and almost every building In the town wrecked. At Powhattan, Kansas, a woman tmd child were .killed. A high school build ing was wrecked at Eskridge, Kansas, a number of houses damaged and from fifteen to twenty persons injured. At Hiawatha, Kansas, a schoolhouso j was blown down, an 8-year-old boy I named Pelton was killed and several buildings were struck by lightning. Several persons are known to have been hurt at Netawka, Kansas. A boy was killed at Manvllle, Kansas. lowa Elects Senator. DesMolnes, lowa.—Judge William S. Kenyon (Rep.) was elected United States senator to succeed the late Senator Jonathan P. Dolllver, on the sixty-seventh ballot In the lowa leg islature. Ha received 78 votes, just enougL to elect, against 26 for Su prmee Court Justice Horace E. Dee mer, his Republican opponenL The deadlock has existed since January 17, when the first ballot was taken. Judge Kenyon was born in Etyrla, Ohio, on June 10, 1869, and received his education at Grinnell, lowa. Biood >25 a Quart. New York.—Two hundred men call ed at Mount Morlah hospital here in answer to an advertisement offer ing $25 for a quart of human blood. Most of them were penniless and all declared that the monetary reward was their sole consideration in ap plying. O. J. Allen, a sailor, was se lected. and for half an hour blood flowed from his arteries into the veins of Mrs. Rosie Reisler. Mrs. 3 sister, who had lost blood through d Internal hemorrhage, is on the road to recovery. v- . i : - . i> ■ -*' iirdn - :i\ ■' "ife-. . UNITED STATES TO CAIi v MEXICO TO ACCOUNT FOR DEATH AND INJURY OF AMERICANS CAUSBO BY STRAY BULLETS. " u REBELS SHOW SHREWDNESS Protracted , Conference Held at Washington By President and Members of the CabineL > j % Washington.—The Mexican ment, according to the view at the; state department, will be held ac countable for the loss of life and in jury to Americans of Douglas, Ariz., during the lighting between federals and insurrectos at Agua Prieta^ No matter whether the the federals or that of the insurrectos inflicted the injury it will be the fed eral government to which the United States will look for reparation. As soon as official reports upon the lighting and the casualties sustainned by Americans shall have been re ceived, representations will be made to the Mexican government, it is said, and in due course the claims of those injured will be presented It la pointed out, however, that in some cases Mexico will have a counter claim of contributory negligence on the part of injured Americans. As a renewal of fighting at Agua Prieta is looked for, it is expected that formal notice will be served upon both federals and insurrectos that ( American lives and American prop erty on this side of the border must not be endangered. Insurrecto shrewdness is recogniz ed in the fact that they attacked from the north of Agua Prieta, so as to force its defenders to Are toward Dou glas. The apparent ruse has aroused comment here. The rebels are be lieved to have scented the possibility that such a movement might result in complications and the entanglement of the Mexican government with that of the United States. Secretary of State Knox was at the White House consulting with the president about the situation arising out of the battle of Agua Prieta. The conference was a protracted one. At the meeaing of the cabinet the situation may be discussed by tho president with all of his advisors. PUBLICITY BILL PASSES. Fight Over Extent to Which Campaign Publicity Should Be Applied. Washington.—The passage of the campaign publicity bill by the houso today by the overwhelming vote of 303 to 0 makes the second important measure passed in two days. The party, however, met Its first se riouß trouble in the house. At the close of a session marked by insurg ency in the Democratic ranks, by rea son of which the Republicans narrow ly missed scoring a triumph, the house passed the Rucker bill. The fight arose over the extent to which publicity should be applied. But for the vigorous use of the Democratic party whip an important Republican amendment extending pub' licity to the individual receipts and expenses of candidates for congress would have been retained in the bill when it finally passed. As it was, the amendment was adopted over the protest of the Demo cratic leaders by the support of fifty two of the Democrats, who voted with the solid Republican strength. Re soit to a parliamentary move enabled the Democrats later to get rid of the amendment, but twenty-eight of their number refused to change their attl- # tude and stuck with the Republicans In epposinn the Democratic majority. Aero Club Wants "Joy Ride" Law. New York—Profiting by the experi ence of the public with automobile joy riders, the Aero club of America, • rv is considering the framing of a bill making it a misdemeanor for any per son to use an aeroplane not owned by himself without the consent of the owner. The matter is In the hand* of the law committee of the club, which will draft a bill similar to the automobile laws recently passed in several states covering similar condi tions with the automobile. Imprisoned For Conduct In Election. New Orleans, La.—Paul Felix, for mer mayor of Kenner, La., and W. W. Stiles, deputy sheriff, both from Jefferson parish, were sentenced to pay |I,OOO fines. Stiles to also serve eleven months and Felix six months in the parish Jail at Convent, La., when the United States circuit court of appeals refused a rehearing on the charges of interfering with a federal election. On election day in Novem ber, 1908, the defendants, according to testimony, assaulted Col. E. A. O'Sul livan, clipping the latter's beard. Flags Flying in Honor of Lincoln. New York.—Flags are flying from all buildings and from many office buildings and residences here in to ken of the 36th anniversary of Abra ham Lincoln's assassination, which occurred on Good Friday. Police and Strikers Clash. Marseilles, France. —Workmen en ' gaged In digging the Rhone canal, who went on a strike, clashed with ' the police. During the melee one J' ' policeman and seven workmen were wounded.
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