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THE ENTERPRISE Published Weakly. WILLI AMtTON, N. C. 1 ' Ho matter bow Bot It ii. you cau gc eel mining. Another way to forget your trouble* la to co swimming. What a drought needs more than anything else la breaking. Little doga that care to continue to be bappy abould wear their muzzlea. At thle aeaaon It la eaay for a steam er trunk advertisement to catch tbe eye. Savannah, Oa.. has a dentist of the name of Pullet. Draw your own con cluelon. Olive Schreiner says one baby In tb family la enough. No olive branchea lor her. None of our perfectly reasonable monopolies has a corner on tbe good weather. Even when the weather la hottest ~the proprietor of the garden 1s not downhearted. It Is the ambition of many a small boy to develop into a league pitcher before school calls him back. That Wyoming man who caught n grizzly bear with a fish hook will prob ably try gunning for 4rout next. Yet a frog cannot pose as an attrac tive mantel ornament, even If It does consume vast quantities of fllea. Will some one step forward with a definite Instance of love letters being torn up on receipt—by the woman? American telephone service Is as far superior to the British system as "Hel lo:" is to "Are yoj there?" as a vocal signal A Nebraska man has Invented « safety airships, and yet like razors, no doubt there wfll be men who pre fer the old-fashioned kind. An English physician says thn» twenty four hours of sleep Is us good ss a week's vacation. Not for 'he souvenir postal business It has been discovered that frogs and toads are the greatest fly eaters In the sorld And in addition to their dally work the frogs do not object to giving nightly concerts. Professor Watson finds that chick ens have to learn to peck and sees un analogy In the case of children. There Is always some kind of a teach er around In every family. A New York banker says the only sentiment on his wife's part In court ship was the message "J love you" written on his shirt. But there is HO little ecntlment in laundries.^. Throwing rice and old shoes at the bride may be a harmless pleasantry If The Aim Is poor, but chasing the bridal |slr through crowded streets in auto mobiles Is going some miles too far. American vatfdevllle managers have offered Paul a fabulous sum for twenty weeks, but she hesitates about "doing two a day." She might do a hoop rolling act in the afternoon and sing ut night. A Chicago policeman has reulgned Slid gone to practicing law. lie has doubtless had opportunities for seeing that it In possible sometimes to be a successful lawyer without knowing much about the laws A man who has made a fortune In feather bones proposes to establish a character factory The scheme 1B speculative and the -jrftnTS may be (hanged to those comprehending a rolling mill or a,foundry. If your t'kull is fractured, says a St. 1-ouls doctor, the tickling of jour an kle will cause the big toe to turn up ano tbe other toes to spread Could this test be useil by alienists to de termine whether a man Is "cracked?" A Chicago woman who was trying to escape from detectives by donning male a'tire WJJS betrayed by her small le*t .'eople who have been fond of n.akit K Jokes concerning the size of Chicago womtus feet should note this for future reference. Revoking' automobile licenses wh*n the privileges enjoyed under them are Killed will prove t tr le among the mc s' effectual means of breaking up a .dally growing danger Life and limb should not be allowed at the mercy of pen on* who give practical proof that the/ can control neither themselves nor (heir machines Persons who rock the boat should bo given a Journey In a hurry wagon if t '.ey reach ahore alive. «ae of tbe preachers announces (hat gray haira are tent r.s a punish ment for «ln. .Perhaps tley arc, but It frequently happens thut It Ja tb» tinner's victim who get'. '.h»-i. •To the plea of the Gotbam woman asking divorce, that her husland dragged her around by h>r hair, tbe majority of sophisticated husbands will respond unfeelingly, "Rata!" * LAND OF THE LONG LEAF PiNE Some Vary Interacting News That Hap Bean Carefully Gotten Ttogether by the Editor For the People. Raleigh.—Leander 8. Roaewell waa convicted in the county court of liquor selling and operating a "blind tiger." Sentence haa not yet been Impoaed. Louisburg.—Former residents, re turning after tbe lapae of aome month* cannot fall to be Impreaaed with thr improvements that have been made in the buslneaa portion of tbe town. Wllaon—Governor KHchln apoka to a crowd of about two hundred and fifty people at tbe annual Rock Ridge picnic, this county. The Governor did not refer to the a«natorlal situa tion In his address nor did he reply to his recent crltlclama. Durham.!— John Alexander Vickers, who lives three mtleo in the country, committed suicide by almost severing his head from bis body with a raior. Barring the fact that Vlckera had not been able to eflt and was subject to melancholy seasons, there had been nothing to Indicate unusual unhappl nesa. Gaatonia. —"One thousand mem bers" Is the slogan of the Gastonin public library. To the accomplish ment of this end a number of the leading spirits In the organisation are now bending their united efforts and they do not expect to ceaae-wvklng until the desired end haa beeffVac compllshed. Raleigh. -Company M of this city, 68 men, will go to Morehend City Into encampment August 2. A spec iul train has been chartered and will leave here on the eve of the above date. Captain B. P. Carpenter will be In command. The armory of this company on North Main street is one of the best-kept and arranged In North Carolina and quite commodious. Raleigh.—Dr. R. H. Lewie of the state board of health la out In a state ment to the effect that Raleigh's present water supply—Walnut creek, a mile from the city—ls not suffl i clent for the city's needs and that the Neuse rive" - must be utilized. This i/ts six miles away. He expects water famines, or threatened ones, will be freguent If thff change is not made. Lenoir.—The county commissioners have very generously ordered I)r. ('. B. McNairy, the health officer, to keep on bund a supply of antitoxin for those who ore unable tp pay the , retail' price and those who are not able to pay nt all. It is therefore not necessary for any child to suffer or die from diphtheria or mem branous croup for wat of this ex pensive preventive. Raleigh.—l)r. Thomas M. Owen, In spector in charge of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, at Raleigh, announces that he will make Ills headquarters at Norfolk, Va., at an eurly date. The c hange Is made owing to the fact that Dt. Owen has been placed In charge of United States llureau of Animal Industry of fice in Norfolk, Va.. in connection witli his present duties. Asheville.—Charlotte was selected as next year's meeting place of the North Carolina Optical Society before the adjournment of the fourth an nual convention. Officers were elected for the ensuing year as follows: J. I). Hathaway, Kllsaoeth City, presi dent; C. II lioness, Asheville, first vice president; O'Dell Sullivan, Char lotte, second vice president; W. 8. ('.ranger, (Joldsboro, secretary; Jolly, Raleigh, treasurer. Raleigh.-—Mr. 1». I). Oold, Jr., of Raleigh, the newly elected secretary of the Audubon Society, gave out a letter which had been sent to the former secretary, Mr. T. Gilbert Pear son. who is now secretary of the National Association of Audubon Societies, with headquarters in New York. Considering Mr. Pearson's great services to the cause of bird pro lection in the state, this letter is a matter of public Interest. Mooresville. —Although the South ern Railway's good roads train was not scheduled In the original itinerary to make a visit to Mooresville, those in charge of the train and detnpn ftration outfit heard so much about Mooresville. while at Statesvllle and Tuylorsvllle that It was concluded at the last moment to come here and give a lecture. The train arrived from Taylorsville and the live spirits of the town got busy at once. Oxford.—A county meeting of the fanners' union was held in Oxford to dismiss the question of marketing this fall's tobacco crop. The two prin cipal speakers were Joel B. Fort of Tcnnesso and P. M. Comer of Dan ville, Oa. Both speakers expressed the conviction that the farthers are not getting their sh&N of the profits on tobacco and that the only way to remedy tbis is by co-operation In sell ing. An effort will be made to or ganize a corporation to facilitate the marketing of tobacco and to eliminate seme of the cost occurring between the producer and the manufacturer. Charlotte. —A meeting of all boards of trade and commercial organisations in North Carolina will be invited by the Greater Charlotte Club to meet In this city Sept. 12 for the purpose of specially urging the "Back Home" movement to all former residents of North Carolina. KB lelgh.—Assistant Horticulturist 8. B. Shaw, of the State Department of Agriculture, tald that he expected there wluld be an apple crop of not over 33 per cent, and peach crop of not mora than IK per ©eat. The small fruits, he laid, would run 30 per cent or more DEMOCRATIC AID PASSED THE BILL PRESIDENT TAFT THANKFUL TO DEMOCRATS FOR NECESSARY HELP TO RECIPROCITY. A HIGH STAND WAS TAKEN Admits That But for the High Stand Taken by the Democrats, Bill Would Have Palled. Beverly, Mass. —In tho first state ment he has made since the pasa&ge -of the reciprocity bill by the senate ' President Taft at the Bummer white house freely acknowledged that his long, hard campaign In behalf of that measure would have proved unavail ing If the Democrats had not helped him. Without such aid. the president declared, reciprocity would have been "impossible." "The Democrats did not 'play poll tics' in the colloquial sense in which these words are used," said the presi dent, "but they followed the dictates of a higher policy." For Secretary Knox and his assistants in the atate department, who conducted he nego tiations and framed the act, the pres Idenl said more than a word of praise : "Those Republicans," he said, "who fought for reciprocity, and some of those votes wete necessary to the passage of the bill, may properly en joy mutual felicitations on a work well done." In his own Judgment, the president | declared, the agreement wobid mark j an epoch In the relations between the i United States and Canada, and those who opposed the bill in congress would I find their prophecies disproved and j their fears allayed by Its actual oper- j at ion. Its passage by the Canadian parlia ment. th»> last step before it becomes a bond between the two countries, he hopes and believes, would be forth coming. "The satisfaotlon that actusl expert ence In Its working will give," he said, "we confidently hope will secure Its permanence. In a decade Its benefits will contribute much to a greater United States atid a greater Canada.' "That I am very much picasetf with the passage of the Canadian reciproci ty bill through both houses of con gress goes without saying. I believe and hope It will be followed by simi lar action by (he Dominion parliament. In my judgment the going Into effect of the agreement will mark a new epoch In the relations betwi>en the United States and Canada, and It will tend to a marked Increase In the trade between the two countries which will be In every way beneficial to both. TEXAS IS FOR PROHIBITION Lone Btar State Enters the Dry Colufn. Dallas, Texas.—All returns from the state-wide prohibition election In Texas received by the (lalveston-Dal las News thus far, after being subject ed to the most careful revision, give: For prohibition. 225.83H; against prohibition 228.93.1. Ant I majority. 3.400. No returns have been received" from five counties, but these perhaps have cast no more than 1,000 votes. Forty feven counties have made only par tial returns, but in most of these only a few small boxes are missing. The total unreyorted vote probably will not exceed 22.000, It being indi cated that the total vote polled was about 475,000, which is the largest Tote rver polled In Texas, except in lEOB, when 554,000 votes were cast. A survey of the territory not yet reported, which Is well scattered over the state, that .{he returns yet to come hold about ns much prom ise for one side as the other,>«and the result m®y be put down as doubtful, but slightly more In favor of the antis than the jiros. At anil prohibition headquarters n_ majority of 8:000 Is claimed. The pro" hlbltlon leaders are quite a semphatlc In asserting that they have gained a victory in the election, and moreover they assert that frauds have been com mitted. Increase for Postal Clerks. Washington. Poßtmaster General Hitchcock ordered promotions for post office clerks and city letter carriers, which carry increase In salaries ap proximating $2,000,000 a year. Orders also were Issued for promotions in the rallrond mall service, which will to tal *113,000 a Krtr. These increases are In addition to the Increase for ru ral mail carriers, totaling $4.00>,000 a year, which became effective .luly 1. "Total Increases of $600,000 for fiscal year. i . i_-j. - Thomas H. Clark* Dead. N'ashvlllo, Tenn.—Thomas Ilopk'.ns Clarke, assistant managing editor of the Nashville Banner, and for many years the Associated Press day repre sentative In Nashville, died here, aged 52." Heart disease, which had been acute for many weeks. caused his death. He was the son of Beverly L. Clarke, former congressman from the Third Kentucky district, and was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala, while his father was serving as United States minister to that country. "THE VILLAIN STILL PURSUES HER" $ HEYBDRN ATTACKS SOUTH IDAHO SENATOR IS SCORED DY HIS COLLEAGUES IN THE BENATE. Meyburn Objects to Memorial to Con federate Heroes In Vicksburg. Wushlngton.—The civil v.ar is re ceiving almost as much attention inj the senate these days as though It was a present live political Issue. The senate again turned its attention to that historic struggle and afforded Mr. lleyburn another opportunity to vent his spleen on the South, its he roes and Its memories. The latter varied his usual speech by roundly abusing flie newspapers of the coun try. The discussion was precipitated by ( a bill of Senator Wllliamß of Missis-, ;iippl, to appropriate $50,000 from the federal tieasury toward the of a monument costing $125,000 to the men constituting the naval forces of ( the Confedeiacy, who fought on the Mississippi river. v The Vicksburg Park commission and tho senate committee on military affairs having approved the measure, Mr. Williams said it was desired to hjn'e the monument completed for, the semi-centennial "Blue and Gray" reunion at Vicksburg in 1913. Senator Cummins of lowa and Sen ator Works of California urged Its, passage as proper recognition of men who exhibited great bravery In a cause they believed right. FIGHTING THE PINE BEETLE Southern Railway la Showing Timber Owner Neceaslty of Action. Spartanburg, 8. C.—-To fight the threatened outbreak of the Southern pine beetle, a bark boring insect which caused enormous damage to healthy living timber in the Virginias In the early nineties, and which has recently been reported In different sections of the South, a forest insect field station has been established here by the bureau of eentomology of the United States department of agriculture. It Is feared that unless measures are taken for the control of this In sect it will cause the loss of millions of dollats' worth of pine, and the has been established hore for the purpose of securing first hand In formation und for giving direct free Instructions to timber owners on the most economical and effectual meth ods of controlling the beetle. The bureau's experts have discovered the methods by which the beetel can be controlled In some cases by the prof itable utilizationJof the infected tim ber and lir til cases at a moderate di rect expense. Timber owners should communicate either with the Btatlon here or the bureau at Washington. Recognizing the importance of con certed action and that the danger Is •• consmon uvsrtl timber owners, the Southern railway Is endeavoring to call the attention of timber owners throughout tho South to the activity of the bureau In this matter, in the belief that its Interests are identical with theirs. Bullet Balks Train Rubber. Belleplalne. lowa.—A lone bandit who attempted to hold up the occu pants of a Pullman on eastbound Northwestern passenger train No. » lies in a local hospital with a bul let wound In his side. He gave his name to the police as William Morris of Ph'rtfleld, N. J. While the sur prised passengers were hurrying to cdlhply with the train robber's or ders to surrender their valuables, Ar thur Morris, the brakeman, slipped into the car and got the drop on him. Oppose Cotton Tariff Revision. Charlotte, N. C. —The tariff commit tee of the American Cohon Manufac turers' Association. representing a dozen Southern states, held an all day executive session here, framing the position of the Southern textile manufacturers on the proposed revis ion of the cotton goods tariff. Brlefy stated, the Southern manufacturers oppose any revision of the cotton joods tariff at thla time, wad their reasons are set forth In a lengthy let ter to congress. , 10 CENT COTTON PREDICTED Bulls Are Hoping Weevil or Drought Will Cause Partial Failure of Cotton Crop. New York.—A renewal of the heavy selling movement in the cotton mar ket seemed calculated to remove what ever doubt may have existed follow ing the big decline that at last lead ing bull interests, Including Eugene Scales, Colonel Thompson, the New Orleans operators, and others who have figured so prominently In the market reporfs of the last two years as having taken fortjnes out of cot ton, had largely thrown over their holdings Various estimates were ven tured us to the probable losses of the bill is and their friends, The impression appears to be that the bulls, emboldened by the suc cesses of the last two years, have maintained their position in the mar ket, owing to the strong statistical position of the old crop, and an ex pectation that drouth in the South west or the toll weevil In the central belt wo.ild cause another partial fail ure of the crop. With trade reports unfavorable, the drouth In Texas re lieved, new crop cotton already be ginning to move fnd promising an unusually heavy adldtlon to old crop supplies during the summer, It is sup posed the bulls found themselves practically the only support of the market In spite of a feeling that rallies were to be expected after such drastic liquidation as that of several days past, local sentiment still seemed of a very bearish ifterage after the close of business here, and there was talk In some quarters of 11 and even 10 cents cotton, , WEATHER REPORTSBYPHONE U. S. Weather Bureau and Southern Bell Telephone Co. Co-Operate. Atlanta. —Through an arrangement perfected between thto United States weather bureau and the Southern Bell Telephone company, more than 26,000 Southern farmers began receiving the daily weather reports by telephone on July 1. The daily reports are furnished the telephone company by the weather bu reau, and the report is read to the farmers by telephone operators. At a given hour each day a general alarm is sounded, calling every farmer to the telephone. When they are all as sembled the report will be read Any farmer who is not able to answer the signal and Jiear the report has the privilege of calling the operator and securing the information. This is the first comprehensive and systematic effort to furnish this in formation without cost to the farmers of the South. The spread of the tele phone In the rural districts in the past few years has made It possible to reach such a large number of farm ers through the Bell system, and the dissemination of weather news by the I telephone Is one of the many practi cal uses for the telephone on the farm. The territory of the Southern Bell company covers the states of North and South Carolina. Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Virginia and the southern half of West Virginia. Fighting Watermelon Rates, j Washington. Complaints against existing freight rates on watermelons and cantaloupes shipped from South ern points to Northern and Eastern destinations were made to the Inter state commerce commission hy more than one hundred commission mer chants cf New York. Recently the railroads made slight reductions in the rates on melons, but refused to deliver them In New York City, the deliveries, according to the tariffs, being made In Jersey City. Big Georgia Watermelon. Washington.—Watermelons grow so large in Georgia nowadays that they are christened. One weighing 62 % pounds arrived at the house office building from Gray county, Georgia, consigned to Representative Rodden berry of that state. It was placed on exhibition at the entrance to the build ing- -Carved in the rind was "Hoke Smith." The melon, too large for shipment in an ordinary barrel, came carefully packed in a specially con structed crate. '£ , > v.« BLUE AND GRAY VETERANS MEET HEROES Or SOUTH AND NORTH CLASP HANDS ON HISTORIC BULL RUN BATTLEFIELD. i TAFT PREDICTS WORLD PEACE • i ✓ . In Addresc to Veterans President Taft Talked of New Arbitration Treaty. Manat-sar, Vs.—Mud bespattered af ter a strenuous trip from Washington by automobile over flooded roads and swollen creeks. President Taft faced an audience made up/in part of vet erans who wore the blue and the gray within a few miles of the scene of the first great conflict of the Civil war. and was applauded and cheered when he made a plea for international peace. , * The president declared a general arbitration treaty both with Great Britain and with France probably would be signed within the next ten days. He added that he hoped within the next few days to announce that the three other great powers would enter into similar agreements with the United States. He did not go so far as to indicate the nations he had' in mind, but it is generally believed that he referred to Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. Japan ultimately may come Into the far-reaching pact, but the negotiations with that empire as yet are said to be merely tentative President Taft reached Manassas after a tempestuous trip. It was *» strenuous that the presidential party abandoned their motors here and re turned to the capital by train. Mr. Taft laughingly likened his troubles In get ting to Bull Run to those that some folks fifty years ago had in getting away. "I brought jome senators and rep resentatives down with me from Washington." he said, "and because of the exigencies of the road and the storm and strife of the elements, we came far more slowly than some sen ators and representatives who came down here half a century ago w«'nt back." Thin lines of veterans of the blue and the gray, with halting steps, slow ly advanced toward each other and. meeting, clasped hands In fraternal greeting on the historic battlefield, where, fifty years ago, they wero en gaged In the battle of Hull Run, the first great conflict of the Civil war This, one of the crowning events of the Manassas peace jubilee, was witnessed by 6,000 people, Including many prominent persons. It was on July 21, 1861, Just fifty years ago, that Bull Run, or the first battle of Manassas, was fought. The Confederates, under Johnston, were accredited with a decisive victory over the Union forces, under McDowell, the retreat of Ahe Federals leaving practi cally a clear road to Washington for the Confederates, it Is said, had they chosen to continue their advance on the capital. This was the first real battle of the war, and its result awak ened the North, for the first time, to a realization of what the secession of the Southern states meant. It w-a* here that "Stonewall" Jackson gained the name which will be associated with his memory for all time. In August, 1862, Manassas was again the scene of a bloody battle. Lee and Longstreet and Sykes, Reno and Rey nolds fought to a draw, the battle lines being exactly the reverse of what they were the year before. The jubilee reunion was planned by committees of tlie Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans. De La Barra May Resign. Mexico City.—Reports were persist ciHly in circulation in official circles that iHesldent De 1a Barra Is prepay in* to tender his resignation to the goymment and retire. He is said to have been moved to this determina tion by the lawlessness prevailing throughout the republic and by the failure of Francisco I. Madero to quell the disorders It is hinted the Im peachment charges filed against De La Barra by Senor Garabour have been a factor -in causing the executive u> de- Eire to qquit. , Smith Attacks vCrop Report:, .. Washington.—Charging an Illegal action against the crop reporting bu reau of the department of agriculture. In that they had made a prediction on, July 3. as to what would be the size of the cotton crop for the sea son of 1911-1912, Senator Smith of South Carolina warmly protested against such action in a speech in the senate, and said the effect had been to Injuriously affect the cotton mar ket. Senator Smith claimed the es timate was a mere guesa. Haitian Revolution late Successful Washington.—President Simon at Haiti apcars doomed to follow Presi dent IDas of MexicV.and to give way to another Revolutionary governm?nt, according to advices reaching Wash ington. In the opinion of Captain TMs muke of the gunboat Petrel, which is at Port-au-Prince watching .the opera tions of the Revolutionists at Qon alves, the Revolutionists already prac tically are victorious and all of the towns of Importance except the capi tal are In their possession.
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