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THE ENTERPRISE Publlahad Weekly. WILLIAMBTON, N. C. Billy mad dog acarea are a little backward this year. These be the days when the most uncertain thing In life la the sure tip The trouble with Luther Burbank'a strawberries la they do not taste like strawberries. $ New Yorw proposes to besutlfy Us skyscrapers. Might try some of the modern millinery. Hereafter teach the children that the year has three seasons—summer, autumn and winter. A woman paid S3O long distance tel ephone charges to talk to a parrot— no, one with feathera. Notwithstanding it Is 20 yards long, Queen Mary's coronation train will run in one section only. Queen Mary's determined stand against rouge Is a terrible blow to some lovely complexions. A baby, It Is reported, has actually been born on Fifth avenue. New York. It has $5,000,000 a coming. When you are right don't argue. Bomebody will be sure to get the Im pression that you are wrong. Taxlcab prices In New York are go ing up, but fortunately Joy riding is not one of the necessities of life. A common fly lays 900 eggs a eea eon. It Is suld. Probably a pure atraln leghorn fly could do even bet ter Among the year's divorces are to be foung some of last year's romances. The latter seldom last over that time. There Is also a shortage of farm la bor In Austria, though the cities urtt growing. The bright lights attract, regardless of nationality. tl . A census of tho hens in Ireland shown 24,000,000 present., Soon the old reliable potato will begin to be Jealous of the upstart egg. Some men seem to delight In start ing a bonfire In the back yard Just after the next-door neighbor has hung out her washing on the line. Queen Mary decides at the last tnln nte against hobbles, elbow sleeves and collarless afternoon gowns The Amer ican peeress division Is peevish. The Boston preacher who told his congregation that women have forgot ten how to blush Is wrong, but any how. the men ought not to maty; thorn blush. t Professor Arrhcnlus knows of othet suns 50,00 ft times larger than our sun. We could have used one of them a week ago. but our own sun Is doing better now The mocking bird Is held up for emulation In modesty This good point has been overlooked because of tho number of whistling soloists who have been Inspired A Harvard professor says Grny's "Elegy" would be rejected by the edi tor of any modern magazine. Some editor has probably returned on« of the Harvard professor's poems. America's corn crop would rebuild every railroad In the land In eight years, but there Is no ready constitu tional way in which the crops of eight years could lie applied In that man ner Sixty students working their wav through the Washburn Law srhool at Topekn, Kan., earned $25,000 Inst year, an average of more than $413 each. A good many lawyers would be glad to get a chance of that kind. One of the sculptors explains thnt It is Impossible to show the majesty of the human form In trousers and skirts" We might, without assuming any risk of being considered ultra-con servative, add. "especially harem skirts " A Providence Judge hag decided that a husband Is Justified in slapping his wife's face If he catches her going through lils pockets. Next some dls grunt led court will rule that « wom an has now lost her time-honored right to change her mind. Twenty thousand toothbrushes nnd as many packages of tooth powder have bet>n presented to the school chil dren of Philadelphia We hope-Mhe school children of Philadelphia are al so receiving Instructions concerning the inadvlsabllity of picking their \eeth in public > A landlady in New Jersey, finding rbe could not get objectionable ten ant* to ieave, set the house on flr«. She was arrested for arson, but she gained her point, and proved again that when a woman really sets her mind on any given object, mere maa culine opposition la bound to go as •trews before the wind. A Boston school-teacher itemises a yearly minimum expense account for a woman and puts in two umbrella*. This either Is extravagance or an ac knowledgement of absent-mindedness LAND OF THE LON6 LEAF PINE A Great Variety of Late Ctat* New# Boiled Down to Bare Facta Without Headlines. Durham.—The missionaries to be supported aa the representatives of St. Paul Methodist congregation in the foreign field are Rev. W. A. KB tea and wife, and their place of service is Huchoru, China. Charlotte.—The carriage manufac turers of the Southern states, will meet here on June 21at for the pur poae of organizing an association of all wholesale manufacturers. Raleigh.— Meaars. Charles M. Bus bee, of Raleigh; R. E. Lee, of Dunn, and Will Wilson of Greenville, are at West Point, to enter the United States Military academy. .New Orleans.—Rev. • Dr. Franklin Parker, for four years Presiding Elder of the Methodist churches in this city. Is to occupy the chair of Biblical Literature at Trinity college. Elizabeth Clty.--Those who have Inspected the building give it as their opinion that Elizabeth City will have one of the most up-to-date and attrac tive Y. M. C. A. buildings of any city in the couniry, certainly of thiß size. Maxton. —Since the long drought has broken, farmers as well as mer chants. are greatly encouraged at the prospects for a crop, which may be up to the average after all and pos sibly better. Raleigh.—The Raleigh school com mittee has decided to erect a hand eome brick grammar school building In Glenwood, one of Raleigh's most flourishing suburbs. The committee is also preparing to materially enlarge the Pilot. Mills Bchool buildings Wilmington.—Work is progressing very rapidly on the Wilmington, Brunswick & Southport railroad, which is to give Southport railroad connections with the outside world, and it Is planned to celebrate the com pletion of the road July 4. Duke.—The crops In this I mined lute community are unusually good and are not suffering for rain. There has been sufficient rain to keep the crops grow ing and not enough to hinder the farmers from keeping the grass out. Asheville —Railroad men Bay that the travel to the mountains is exceed ingly heavy on almoßt all lines and that It has started several weeks earlier than usual. Winston-Salem.—Rev. 0. H. C. Stoney, who has been pastor of the Christian church here for the last two years and a half, during which time the congregation has grown gratlfy- Ingly, has resigned and will return with his family to their old home in Ken lucky. probably. Morganton.' Superintendent Mc- Ci.tnpbeH's report showed that there were u total of 1,284 patients In the hospital May 31. During tho iiuurter 51 were discharged recovered, 28 were discharged Improved, and 3 dis ci,arged unimproved. Eleven deaths occurred during the quarter. Greensboro. —At a meeting of min isters and prominent laymen held hero it was decided to push the work of the Laymen's Missionary move ment until every church in the county should be organized with a mission ary committee to make the every member canvass and increase foreign mission contributions. Washington.—The first of the big organizations of the country Interest ed In the improvement of particular waterway projects to announce its an nual convention it the 'Atlantic Deep er Waterways association, which will meet in the historic city of Richmond, Va.. September 12, 13, 14, and 16 next. Asheville.—Senator Simmons de clared that he would vote for the Canadian reciprocity pact It the Farmers' Free list were added thereto. He denied the printed statement in a New York paper, which pclled the senate on reciprocity question, that he would vote for tho treaty as It passed tho house. *• Charlotte.—Official recognition by the United States government, ac companied by an order for machin ery to be shipped to Cape Clony, South Africa, came the other day to a manufacturing company here. This is a fact which Is not only a source of pardonable pride by the manufac turers, but to Charlotte in general, as it proves that this city has a rightful place on the map of the world. Charlotte. —A piece of glass an inch long and about 3-4 of an inch wide was cut out of the Inside of Mr. J. J. Hutchison's right cheek by Dr. R. L. Olbbon. The glass had been imbed ded in the fleshy part of the cheek for three years. He had a collision with a street car. Churlotte.—One of the aldermen through whose efforts in a large de gree the board of aldermen lately placed meats, eggs, fowls, etc., on the Ireo list or exempted all dealers from llceuse tax, stated that ho expected the citizens to be offered boCer and fresher meats In the future. Charlotte.—Farmers and cotton ex perts are beginning already to figure on the probable price of cotton dur ing the new season and the best ad vices are to the effect that 15 cents will be the pervalllng figure for the season on account of the prospective shortage throughout the he It. Asheville.— The surveyors of the 'Creat of the Blue Ridge," highway arrived In thia city preparatory to pitching their camp on Craggy moun tain. Tho survey for the proposed highway will be made from "Bull Gap," near the summit of Mount Mitchell, to Buck Creek Gap. POM VOTE FOR SENATORS UNITED STATES SENATE VOTES IN FAVOR OF ELECTION BY THE PEOPLE. GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION All Southern Democrata But One Voted Agalnat Adopting the Resolution. Washington.—The senate adopted the resolution proposing a change in the Federal Constitution to for direct election of senators, after a tit vote of 44 to 44 gfi the uriatow ieso lutlon had Leon broken by Vice Pres ident bherman, who voted in the ui nrmitive. Thin action came follow ing nine hours of debate. t'he vote on the nnal adoption ot the resolution, wnich the Bristow amenument tackeu on, wan 84 lo i-». THIS was five votes more than tti* two-thirds required for its adoption. All tne bouthern Democrats wun exception of Senator Clarke of Arkan sas, votad agalnat the Hristow amend ment, which was practically identical with the Sutherland amendment intro duced at the last session. U proposes to lodge in congress control over the "time, places and manner" ot elect ing senatots. Thla tne Southern mem tiers opposed, saying it would lead to Federal supervisors, registrars, Judges of election and even troops ui tne polls. The action by the senate was the first time in a quarter ot a century during which this subject h:iH been agitated that the upper house baa agreed to the direct election of sena tors. The resolution will have to go back to the house lor concurrence in the senate umendtnent, and must then be ratified by three-fourths of the states before It becomes eltective us a part of the Constitution. The resolution, as amended and pansed, follows: • That ln -41'iu of ihe first paragraph of Section 111 of Article 1 of the Con stitution of the Uuited States, and in Heu of so much of paragraph it of tin same sections as relates to the filling of vacancies, the following be propos ed as an amendment to the Constitu tion which shall be valid to all in tents and purposes as part of the Con stitution when ratified by the legisla tures of three-fourths of the states:. "The senate of the Untied States shall be cumposed of two senators from e;.ch state, elected by the people thereof for six years and each sena tor shall have one vote. The electors in each state shall have the qualifica tions requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legisla tures. » » "When vacancies happen in the rep resentation of any state In the senate, the executl**# authority of such state shall Issue writs of election to till such vacancies, provided, that the legisla ture of any state may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people till the vacancies by election as the legisla ture may direct. "This amendment shall not' be so construed as to atTect the election or term of any senator chosen before It becomes valid as part of the Constitu tion." THE FIRST BALE OF COTTON Bale of 1911 Cotton Sollo for $1,015 in Houston, Texas. Houston, Texas. —The first bale of the 1911 cotton crop was tak n Into the local cotton exchange for salo. It Is claimed that tins bale makes a new world s record by eleven days for the appearance at market of the sea son's tlrst bale. The bale came from the farm of fcrnest Mat*, In Cameron county. The bale was sold for $2.05.84 per pound, the total weight being 493 pounds, and the price $1,015. This waa the highest price ever paid on the Housion exchange for a bale of cot ton. 8. Jesse Jones, who is not in the cotton business, was the success- Ail bidder. He says he does not know yet" what he will do with the cotton. He had three competitors until the SI,OOO mark was reached, when the others dropped out. Storm's Path Death-Strewn. Newport News, Va.— Sweeping out of the southwest with cyclonic veloc ity, a wind, rain, hall and electrical storm struck the lower end of the Vifr glnla peninsula, and left a trail ot death and ruin in its wake. Conserv ative estimates place the dead at not more than fifteen. None of the bod ies have been recovered, and nothing is known here of the iaentity of the missing people, as most of thetu wero fishermen from distant counties. Rough estimates place the ptoperty loss and damage upward of slod,ooo. Norfolk, Va.—At least one life was lost, tele, bones were put out of com mission, the city was in total dark ness for a short time, trolley cart were tied up and a number or houses were struck by lightning in the worst electrical storm which Norfolk ana this section have experienced In yeara. More than an inch of rain fell, and It is said that this was worth over five hundred thousand dollars to farm era in Norfolk and Princess Anno counties. The potato crop in this sec tion was almost ruined for want ot rain, and the downpour saved the en tire crop. _ "SWAT THE FLY" ~T (Copyright, nil.) The National Slogan Thla tummir. CHINA DEMANDS APOLOGY CHINA SENDS WARSHIP TO COL LECT SIX MILLIONS IN GOLD FROM MEXICO. Indemnity for th« Death of 303 Chi nese at Torreon Is Wanted. Mexico City.—An indemnity of 12,- 000,000 pesos, (he equivalent of $6,- 000,000 in gold, will b« demanded oi Mexico Uy ino Chinese government for the slaughter ot t'uinese subjects in Torreon The demand will be back ed by a cruiser, which is already on the way to ihe Mexican west coast porta. Three investigators returned from Toreron and placed in the hands ot Shung Hal Sun, cnarge d'affaires ot the Chinese legation, a detailed re port of the carnage. The report shows that 303 Chinese were killed, many ot them in a most luhumau manner, and that besides a bank and club hou.-:e, eighty-nine places of business were sucked. CARRIE NATION IS DEAD Passing of Saloon Smasher Ends a Spectacular Career. Leavenworth, Kan. —Carrie Nation, the Kansas saloon smasher, died here. Paresis was the cause of deutb. Kor several months Mrs. Nation had been in poor health, and on January 22 tfhe entered the local sanitarium In which she died, hoping there to recover from u nervous breakdown. Mm. Carrie Nation was born In Kentucky In 184(1. Her maiden name was Carrie Moore, and us a girl, it Is said she was absolutely fearless. In her early life she married u man ad dicted to the use of intoxicants, which created in her an intense aversion to the saloon. When she died she de termined to devote her life to the sup pression of the liquor traffic. Later she moved to Kansas and married Lavld Nation, who sympathized with hf*r temperance principles. Erratic as her life has been, Mrs. Nation was responsible for the great est temperance awakening In Kansas TAFT TALKS TOJHE SOUTH President Points Out to Southerners Advantages of Reciprocity. Now York. — 'The bill, t.ie whole bill and nothing but the bill." Thus President Taft summed up an earnest plea for the unamended adoption by the senate of the Canadian reciproc ity agreement before a representative audience of Southern men. The occasion was a banquet given by thtf New York produce exchange to the Interstate Cotton Seed Crush ers' association. The banquet hall re- Founded to a roaring welcome for the president, as he entered the room. In his address. President Taft point ed out to the Southerners the advan tages which their section would de rive from the enactment of the agree ment with Canada, but did not neglect to recur to hrn main argument tor me pending bill on the broader lines oi general national interest. Mexican Rebels Still Fighting. El Paso, Texas.—Pascual , Oroszo, commander of the insurrector troops surrounding Chihuahua, declared that he will attack the state capital at once, regardless of peace or peace prospects, because two ot his men who were visiting In Chihuahua with out arms were thrown into Jail. His demand for their release was rejected. Governor Abram Gonzales, Maderist governor of Chihuahua, left Juarez tor Chihuahua, although advised that he had better not come until the Federal troops had lefL Taft Will Win Fight. ♦ Washington.—Canvas ot the senate Indicated that Urealdent Taft would win the Canadian reciprocity fight and that the Root amendment tacked on to the proposed pact by the finance committee would be killed in the sen ate. A poll of the situation, it was said, shows that a large majority of senators are with the president in his stand against an amendment and that the bill will ultimately be agreed to tn the form in which It passed the house. The Democrats, with but few exceptions, will, support It _.\ ~ ... . EARTHQUAKE KILLS MANY Majority of ths Dead Soldiers Who Were Crushed When Their Bar racks Were Wrecked. ' Mexico City.—Sixty-three killed; "o wounded; property loss, 5100,000. These are the net results of the eaithquake which visited the capital and injected a note of tragedy into what was expected to bo u day of pure rejoicing. When the work of search ing the ruins is completed, it is pos sible thai the list of (lead will be lengthened somewhat, as hiding here and there througiiout the city there doubtless are many wounded who, with traditional tear of tne authori ties and government hospitals, are anxious to evade discovery. Tne property loss is but an esti mate, and is based upon calculations made by owners and contractors. Lot tie of the loss is covered by insur ance. It was 4:25 o'clock when the first shock was ielt. According to the 'ob servatory, the greatest intensity was reached at the end of tne first min ute, but the instruments continued to tecoid the shocks for fourteen min utes more. It was of a vaeillatory, twisting character, but almost tree or trepidatery motion. More than half of the dead account ed for were soldiers. They were caught beneath the falling walls of the artillery barracks In San Cosme, a locality near the Mexican Centtal sta tion. Another place where tne earth quake took Its toll of death in con siderable numbers was at the city power plant of the street car com pany. Hero six were killed and six wounded. With these two exceptions the death list was made up oi single cases or, in some Instances of two and three caugnt beneath falling walls in the poorer buildings of the uistrict most seriously affected. N'o personal property of Americans was damaged, and with the exception of one Chinese, no foreigner was In jured. In the barracks wnere the sol diers were killed twelve women also lost their lives. They were the wives of the artillerymen. The fury ot the shock was spent In the northwestern and western part of the city. The most damage done was in that quarter of the city known as Santa Maria, although cracks In the pavement and walls toppled over serve to mark Its course as far to the south as Colonla Koma, u district in habited largely by Americans. In this district, however, little real damage was done and no deaths have been leported. A LIE SAYS COL ROOSEVELT Colonel Denies no r-romlsed to Sup port Taft in 1912. • Springfield, Mass.—Col. Theodore Rootevelt said with reference to a published story that he would support Taft in the next presidential cam paign; "There is no truth in the report that 1 have agreed to support any man for president ln 1912. I have neither aiadt any such statement nor even discussed the matter. The story Is made out ot whole cloth." Camorrists Trial Resumed. Vlterbo, Italy.—The trial of the 36 Camorrists, for the murder of Gen naro Cuocolo and his wife, which was adjourned because of the Illness of a juror, was resumed. A notorious thief named Santafede was called as a wit ness and smilingly recounted his crim inal adventures. These Included an attempt at burglary at the home of former Deputy Seaimi in 1891, when the witness was arrested, together with Ueniniaro Cuoccolo, who had or ganised the operation. The booty at stake was estimated at $15,000. \ Southern Women Entertained. New York.—la honor of the South ern women who came here with their husbands, fathers and brothers for the convention of the Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers' association, the big hall of the New York Produce ex change was used for a social function for the first time in 27 years. The closing event of the convention was a promenade concert on the floor ot the Produce exchange. The exchange has not witnessed such an event since its opennlg tn 1884. President Taft spoke at the banquet c-- i U . CRITIGM FOR QIHON CROP RAIN CADLY NEEDED IN ALMOST V EVERY PART OF THE COT. TON BELT. ACREAGE HAS INCREASED Reports Say That the Plant Is Oacl* ward and Hat Stopped Growing in Many Localities. New Orleans—The weather win itlll be the main factor in th'j cotton market this week. This week, unless rain falla quiti generally over the belt In the early part of It. will te a critical period for the crop. Advices from the belt art to the effect that tne plant ia back ward, and has stopped growing in w great many localities. More ory weather and high tampan ature on top of this will mean di.sas ter, and it will be impossible to Roiu prices down with sucii (.ouuitioiia pie vailing. If tains should fall, prices will break. The market is beginning tt get loaded up with ail extensive lUiiu interest in the new ciop months, auu this interest may reauily to put 01; the run. . Anything line goou rainj will result in general liquidation. It will lake development out 01 Hi* ordinary to scare up fresh interest lit the old crops. They have apparently railon into the nands of a tew pro .essicnai traucrs of great capital, una the gossip of the marset in connection with them will be chieny in relation to the amount ol' tenucrs thai the nulls will have to take. The marketing of the first bale ol the new crop last ween caused hope tt run iugh aiuotig the bears; some clr eular writers on tue wecK-eud mad« much of this feature, and predicted u free movement of new cotton by ini end of July. Anything tending to ver iiy tnls ciaim will weaken tne old crops. tOverything seems to point to noth ing but a v earner market in ttie ujhi •tuiuro, and in such a mar net ne wnc guesses tne weaiher guesses tm course of prices. Montgomery, Ala. —Reports to The Advertiser irom practically every county in the state »uuw tne present condition of the cotton crop to tit about S par cent, better than normal and from & to 100 per cent, beuei than it was thla time last year. A a general thing the crop had been worked out twice everywhere except in the extreme northern counties, aim hi the touthern portion of the state it has been wonted three and lout times. It is free lrom grass, the planl is strong and healthy, 10 only lew places being infected with lice or otli er bugs, and Is growing nicely. The weaiher has been dry and hoi generally over the state tor the past two weeks, which with cool nights has advanced the crop in its growth There are some complaints of iht drouth, but U. lus not yet affected cot ton. I Ulooms are fast coming ia up tt the middle of the state, and iu th« boll weevil belt little or no move ment of that pest lias been uoted. Oats have been harvested and tht crop Is better than was expected. Corn is "suffering for rain. Tht acieage is far larger than ever befort known. New Oi leans.—The Times-Democrat in the first of its reports on the cot ton crop of 1911, says; There has beeu a considerable in crease of acreage—probably about i per cent., after allowing for areas abandoned because of boll weevil ant for other areas over which the seec failed to germinate for want of mois ture. The supply of labor Is sufficient ant the cultivation has been exceedinglj thorough. 1010 Crop Worth $963,180,000. Washington.—The cotton crop ol 1910 was announced to be the niosi valuable ever produced In the Unitec States. Estimated in the cansus bu reau s annual bulletin, the crop las: year was valued at |963,180.000, com pared with $812,0»W,v»00 for HWH. Dreadnauflhts at Coronation. lx>ndon, England.—The great nava review by King George at Spithead June 24, two days after the corona tion, will see gathered together it full commission the largest number o vessels of the dreadnought class eve) assembled. Most of them naturally will be units of the British navy, bui the United States will be representee by the most powerful up-to-date battle ship participating in the review, tht Delaware, which is considered in na val circles construction. Ten warship* will be in line. Publicity for Campaign Funds. Washington—With a view of insun ing the widest publicity of aUI the ex pendturcs of canddatea for congress the senate commttee on prlviloges and elections will complete amendments tc the house bill on tnis subject will com plete amendments to the house bill oil this subject which will vastly broaden the proposed law. Much dif ficulty is being experienced in finding terms which will express the commit tea's uprpose. It ia proposed to make the law applicable to primary as well aa regular elections. • —-—•r— fifafrr r -i-iii^'ir 1 .
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