THEENTERPRISE
Published Weekly.
WILLI AM STON, NORTH CAROLINA
In summer swat the flies In win
ter, watch your overheated flues!
Anyway, explosive golf balls are In
juring very few golf players thess
days. '
Harvard's football coach gets >lO,-
M) 0 a year. A college education some
times pays.
A lawyer proposed to his ste
nographer In shorthand and was ac
cepted off hand.
The dialects of the world number
8,424. Hut this does not include those
used upon the stage. *
Delaware has a pig tha,t hunts rab
bits. Would be a fine porker to grease
on the Fourth of July.
A New York physician has evolved
a cure for red noses. Another blow
st the liquor traffic, no doubt.
Don, the talking dog. could not
"peak because of having a tack In his
foot, whereas with a man !!
The trackless trolley car Is now In
pperatlon. Another rampant danger
to dodge added to the automobile.
A Boston Judge ruled that every
body Is crazy; but his decision prob
ably will be reversed if it is appealed
"Sing and your Ills will vanish."
says Mme. Calve. Not if your neigh
hor happens !o be bigger than you
Georgia woman got a divorce from
her husband because he got drunk on
paregoric. What a childish thing to
do!
A Chicago Judge has decided that a
motorcycle Is a deadly weapon, espe
cially If the rider happenß to be load
A Cornell freshman has discovered
t way of living on N5 cents a week.
College students have some queer
fads
South African natives are said to
be adopting European clothing Per
haps the Paris styles made a hit with
them.
A big steamship Is being built In
New Jersey to be launched by fifty
red-headed girls. Wonder If It's a
white ship.
New York 1B crusading against
church bells. It is an awful thing to
be kept awake by them Just as you
go to bed.
A New Brunswick bear has beer
trained to mind a baby, according tc
an exchange Speaking of the story
It'i a bear.
A New York man killed himself
with a ticket to Newark in his pocket.
Probably he preferred the leaser of
the two evils.
A woman doctor says that women
wore corseta and hobble skirts B.OOC
years ago And they haven't lmprov
ed on 'em a bit.
Paris Is planning to tax foreigners
who reside there more than three
months Maybe Paris does not like
3ur exiles, either.
A poultry expert In Pennsylvania
predicts dollar eggs At this rate,
canvasbark duck will be cheaper eat
Ing than omelets.
A German scientist says the human
race Is losing Its memory. Hut that
doesn't apply to some politicians whr
want to forget and can't.
When Mr. Glass, a glazier, cuts hts
foot by treading on a bit of broken
bottle we must conclude that some
men learn very little from experi
ence.
An aviator Is getting ready to fly
across the Atlantic In 24 hours And
his preparations don't Include niakliif
arrangements with an undertaker
either.
Widows are barred from the Spin
sters' association of Massachusetts
organized to get eligible young men
to call on lonely spinsters. Suppose
they fear 'em.
Chicago police captured a thief bj
the scent of the perfume he used
Hard to say whether that Is a credit
to the deduction of the detectives 01
a warning to petty thieves not to em
ploy perfume.
One may safely predict that none o!
the A mapy. enterprising automobile
manufacturers Js going to claim credit
for the machine that a San Francis
can dumped Into the bay because il
had cost him f2,000 for repairs.
It Is now discovered that the hob
ble skirt was worn In Crete 5,00(!
years ago Which only goes to provt
that they are relics of barbarism.
The man who broke the bank at
Monte Carlo has been sent to Jail fot
fraudulent operations in Paris. H
should have stuck to Monte Carlo.
Germany has a four-story hotel fot
horses The horse probably has in
creased In value since tt has been
adopted as a food, according to cablt
dispatches. 1
MEXICO IS WARNED
Bf UNITED SMS
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SENATOR SMITH TALKB \VERY
PLAINLY TO MADERO'S FOR.
EIGN MINISTER.
PATIENCE ABOUT EXHAUSTED
Outrages on Americans Must Cease.
Mexic Minister Went to New
Orleans for Conference.
New Orleans.—A conference con
cerning the Mexican situation which
is believed to foreshadow far-reach
ing consequences was held here be
tween Senator William Alden Smith
of Michigan, chairman of the senate
committee investigating . Mexican af
fairs, and Lascurain, the
minister of foreign affairs of (Mexico.
It is understood that Senator Smith
talked plainly to the Mexican min
ister about the disturbed conditions in
Mexico and the ill treatment which
Americans and American property
have been subjected to in that coun
try within the past two years.
Lloyd Griscom, a New York law
yer, who is said to be now employed
in a special mission by the state de
partment, accompanied Minister las
curain here from Washington, and
was present at the conference. Senor
Lascurain and Mr. Griscom depart
ed for Mexico City.
The committee, of which Senator
Smith is chalrmas, has taken more
than a thousand pages of typewrit
ten testimony to date bearing on the
Mexican situation, the connection of
American firms with the promotion
of revolutionary activity since lite Ma
dero revolt began, and the action of
certain American officials in giving
support to certain political lactlons
of that country In the face of the
I'nited States' declaration of neutral
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The senator went over the situation
with the Mexican diplomat carefully,
especially with reference to the con
duct of Mexican consuls on the bor
der and the patience and forbearance
of Americans who are residents of
states along the Mexican border, lie
Is said not to have minced words In
describing to the Mexican jninlster the
suffering that has been endured by
Americans, the appalling loss of life
among foreign residents of Mexico
and the destruction of property to
talling many millions of dollars.
COTTON BOARDS TO ORGANIZE
I'lan for Confederation of All the
Exchange*.
Memphis. Tenn. — Flans for the con
federation of all cotton exchanges In
the United States were tentatively
endorsed, and the formation of the
National Association of Cotton Kx
changes of America authorized; (lie
organization of Htate associations ap
proved, and the appointment of dele
gates to confer as to the handling of
the cotton crop of this country was
provided for at a conference here of
representatives of forty-three ex
changes and chambers of commerce
with interests allied to the cotton In
dustry. The conference was in re
spouse to a call Issued by George W.
Neville, president of the New York
Cotton exchange.
C. W. Uawson of Waco, Texas, pres
ident of ihe Texas Association of
Cotton Exchanges, chairman of ihe
meeting, was authorized to perfect the
national organization, and to carry out
Ihe plans indorsed by the conference.
As outlined by Mr Lawson. the na
tional association will deal solely with
matters of national and International
Importance, principally Hie adjust
nient of differences between the cot
ton producers and shippers of the
United States and the spinners and
takers of cotton of Europe! The slute
associations will have similar scope
within the states.
Marines From Nicaragua
Philadelphia.—The transport Ptal
rle, with 28 officers and 528 marines
on board, arrived at the Philadelphia
navy yard from Nicaragua. The ma
rine* were sent to Nicaragua last Au
gust to protect American inteiests In
the rebellion, and saw active service.
During an action near Mnnagna. five
American marines were killed.
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Banker for Treasurer Not Wanted.
Trenton, N —Governor Wilson
wired to Democratic members of the
legislature to meet him to discuss the
election of n state treasurer. The
governor issued a statement opposing
the choice of Kdward I. Kdwards. a
banker. "I am sincerely sorry that
the matter should have been given
the air of a contest. I entertain noth
ing but the warmest personal feeling
toward Mr. Kdwards. I feel that it
is unwise and Inexpedient, however,
that a banker should be elected treas
urer of the state."
Buckshort Stop* Two Convicts.
Nashville. Tenn. — Protected by
steel breast plates, which they had
fashioned while behind prison walls,
Charles Hurch and Charles Swofford,
long-term and desperate convicts,
made an unsuccessful attempt to es
cape from the main prlßon here. A
charge of buckshot fired by Guard
T. W. Uong slightly wounded Burch
and put an end to the try for liberty.
The men were outside walls when
discovered, having cttt the live wire
on top of the wall with pincers held
la toads encased In rubber flove^.
MME. DE LABOULAYE
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One of the new and charmir/j ad
ditions to Washington's diplomatic
circle Is Mme. de Laboulaye, wife of
the new second secretary of th«
French embassy.
WOOD FAVORS CANIEEN
GENERAL ALSO RECOMMENDS
LAWS FOR ELIMINATING
UNFIT OFFICERS.
Advises Concentration at Strategic
Points and Transfer of Staff
Corps to the Line.
Washington.—Restoration of the
army canteen and enactment of leg
islatlon for the elimination from the
I'nltcd Stales army of unfit officers,
are among the principal, recommen
datlons of Maj. (Jen. Leonard Wood,
chief of staff. In his annual report.
General Wood likewise recommends
the concentration of the army on
strategic lines, and in areas when;
it can be more economically main
tained, and would transfer all the
personnel of the staff corps—except
Ing engineers, medical uflicers- and
chaplains—to the line, increasing ac
cordlngly the number of the general
officers and line of fleers in the dif
ferent grades.
The transfer of the personnel of
staff of corps to the line, in Genera!
Wood's opinion, "will- terminate the
constant struggle between line and
stafT, a struggle which. Is as old as
the army, and one which promises to
continue. There would be no Inter
ference with promotion, nor would
the members of the present staff corps
lose any of their present advantages,
There will be more cooperation• and
greater efficiency.
Discussing means for the elimina
tion of unfit officers, (he chief of
staff says:
"The full efficiency of an organiza
tion of men cannot be secured with
out a system by which the merits of
the individuals shall have some effect
upon their advancement;
SENATOR JEFF DAVIS DEAD
Death Claims Noted Arkansan at His
Home in Little Rock.
Little Hock, Ark—United States
Senator Jeffries died suddenly
of apoplexy at his h6ine here, aged
fifty-one.
lie was born in Little River county,
Arkausas, in 1862. and was admitted
to the bar when he was nineteen
years of age. lie was elected gov
ernor of Arkansas three limes, be
ing the only man who ever attained
that honor.
In 1907 he was elected to the Unit
ed Slates senate, and his term would
have expired March 4 next. Senator
Davis aroused the senate on numer
OUB occasions by his verbal attacks,
most of them being made against the
money trust.
Auto Bandit* Rob Store,
Chicago.—Four automobile bandits
smashed in a jewelery store window
here and escaped with q, tray of dla
inonds after a running revolver fight
with police. Their escape was aided
by a fashionably-dressed woman who
apparently fainted into the arms of
a policeman as he started to draw
his revolver.' As soon as the thieves
were out of sight the woman recov
ered herself and disappeared. The
men abandoned their automobile,
which had been stolen just before the
robbery, and disappeared.
Insane Man Leaps Into Sea,
Washington. Representative W.
W. Wedemever of Ann Arbor, Mich.,
who suddenly went insane at Colon,
Panama, at the time of President
Taft's visit to the Isthmus, jumped
overboard from a ship on which he
had been taken at Colon. His body
has not been recovered.
tive Wedemeyer went to the Isthmuß
of Panama with a congressional party
at the same time the president visit
ed there. On the voyage from New
York to Colon he collapsed.
STEAMSHIP SINKS;
IANY LIVES LOST
22 LIVES LOST WHEN BTEAMERS
COLLIDE IN CHESAPEAKE
BAY.
ONLY EIGHT PERSONS SAVED
Survivors Climbed to Rigging and
Were Lashed for Hours by a
Fierce Gai.a
Newport News, Va.—Eight surviv
ors of the steamer Julia Luckenbach,
rammed and sunk in Chesapeake bay
by the British tramp Indrakuala, ar
rived here and told how twenty-two
of their number had gone down with
out a chance for life. The fortunate
eight, after a six hour battle with a
terrific gale, were taken from the
rigging of their sunken ship by the
Danish steamer Pennsylvania and
brought here.
The Luckenbach, from Port Tam
pa to Ballimone, was about to an
chor off the Tangier gas buoy, at the
moil ill of the Potomac, when the In
drakuala caught her and cut her prac
tically in two. Hhe went clown im
mediately, and only the men on deck
had a chance for life! The lndrakua
la, badly damaged and In danger of
sinking, drew off, and beached to
save hersi*!f, Captain Gilbert, of the
Luckenbach, and his wife were among
the lost.
The survivors had scarcely reached
the topmost parts of the rigging of
the submerged hulk, when a gale
passed over the bay, and for six
hours they fought for life.
With a wind blowing at cyclonic
velocity and waves beating against
them, the hardiest ones held fast un
til their clothes were torn to shreds,
and they were on the verge of ex
haunt ion. Chief Engineer Chris
Knuilson was one of those 111 the rig
ging. He endured the gale until his
hands were bleeding from gripping
the ropes. He became exhausted, let
go and went down before assistance
came.
The Danish steamer Pennsylvania,
which came to their assistance, could
not reach them at first, because of
the heavy sea. After many unsuc
cessful attempts, life lines were rijn
to the struggling men, and in two
hours they were taken off.
According to the survivors. Captain
Gilbert and the first and second off!
cers were standing on the bridge
when the collision occurred. There
was no give alarm to
those below. Captain Gilbert made a
desperate effort to reach his wife, and
when last seen was swimming aft of
the sinking ship.
BRITISH PAPERS LAUD TAFT
For Determination to Submit Canal
Controversy to Arbitration.
London, England.—The lxindon pa
pers are heartily pleased with Pres
ident Taft's declaration of hi* inten
tion to submit the Panama canal con
troversy with Great Hrltaln to arbi
tration If diplomatic negotiations
should fall. The Daily Mall says:
"Any other than the honorable
course which President Taft has tak
en would have been almost unthinka
ble on the part of a statesman who
has devoted such efforts to {urtber
ing the cause of International peace
throughout ths world. If the senate
follows President Taft's lead, the
Panama question is as good as set
tled."
The Dally News describes the dec
laration as a most welcome New
Year's message to Great nritain and
the world, and expresses the highest
admiration for the president's faith
in offering to submit a doubtful cause
to arbitration.
The Telegraph regards Mr. Tftft's
speech as altogether worthy of a
statesman and a friend of peace
throughout the world, but fail! to see
how any special tribunal would be
established which would not be open!
to the same object as The Hague
court. It remarks. In common with
other paper* that there could be no
better preparation for the celebration
of the century of peace, and earnest
ly hopes for the speedy reference of
the question to an independent trlbu
nal.
Man Arretted at White Houae.
Washington.—Peculiar actions of
Anthony Hunt of Chicago, an attor
ney, while at the white house. In an
effort to see President Taft, caused
his arrest by the police. He is be
ing held for examination as to his
mental condition at the government
hospital for the insane. When he ap
peared at the white house offices,
Hunt told the officers persona were
persecuting him. and that, he wanted
the president's aid. He said he want
ed to ask President Taft to appoint
hira ambassador to France.
Women Ordered to Flee.
R1 Paso, Texas. —Representatives at
Washington of the'two Mexican min
ing companies have telegraphed the
mine managers to send out at once
all American women and children.
The. cause of) the apprehension Is not
known. All smelters but that at Chi
huahua face closing down shortly.
This would throw thousands of men
out of work an - create a condition
believed more critical than either a
strike or revolt. Already the Torre
on smelter, controlled by Mexican
capital, is reported shut down.
DON EDUARDO SUAREZ
Senor Don Eduardo Suarez is the
minister from Chila who arrived In
Washington not long ago.
TALF HOLDS A RECEPTION
HAND 3 OF SEVEN THOUSAND
PEOPLE SHAKEN BY THE
, * PRESIDENT.
Last New Year Reception of the
President Attracted a Great
Crowd.
Washington.—President Taft's last
.Yew Years reception at the white
house attracted one of the greatest
crowds that has ever gathered at the
executive mansion. Clear skies and
late fall weather brought out the gen
eral public in extraordinary numbers,
and a new record for attendance of
private citizens probably was estab
lished. Surrounded by hiß family,
members of his cabinet and a distin
guished company, the president re
ceived officials and citizens of high
and low degree, and when the last
caller had been greeted Mr. Taft had
shaken hands with more than seven
thousand persons.
The reception began shortly before
noon, members of the cabinet and the
diplomatic corps being received first
Next were the justices of the United
States Supreme court and other Fed
era! courts. United States ambassa
dors and ministers, senators and rep
resentatives. army and navy officers, a
long line of other officials and mem
bers of military societies and other
organizations. Then came the pub
lie.
Ambassador James Bryce. attending
his last New Year's reception at the
white house, as he soon leaves his
post, was one of the centers of atten
tion and shared more than usual no
tice with several other members of
the diplomatic corps attending their
first function of the kind.
Admfral Dewey drove to the white
house in his carriage and did not ar
rive with the other navy officers, who
marched to the mansion in a body
from the navy department.
, Once during the course of the re
ception President Taft himself was
momentarily retired as the center of
all international attention wh°n two
Klickitat Indians from the state of
Washington marched up to greet him.
One chief, wearing patent leather bed
room slippers and a modern suit, top
ped off by a blazing red bandanna,
and the other wrapped in a huge buf
falo robe, shook hands with the pres
ident and then in the east room had
an Impromptu reception of their
own.
Over 200,000 Men in Militia.
\Vashingto%—The strength of the
organized mllttia of the United States
at the time of the last annual inspec
tion was 9,142 officers and 112.710
enlisted men, an increase of 3,864,
says Brig. Gen. A. L. Mills, chief of
the division of mllltla affairs, in his
annual report made |ubllc. He finds
existing organisations better armed,
uniformed and equipped, better in
structed and better officered than
ever before. The Infantry of the or
ganiied militia consists of 6.216 offi
cers and 91.267 enlisted men.
Earthquake in Carolina*.
Spartanburg. S. C.—An earthquake
of sufficient.violence to cause a num
ber of chimneys to topple over was
felt throughout the Piedmont section
of South Carolina at 1:30 o'clock in
the afternoon. The trembling of the
earth continued for five or six seconds
and caused people to run out of their
houßeß x ln alarm. Tn the open coun
try a low rumbling noise was heard.
Reports of the earthquake have been
received here from many places with
in a radius of 100 miles In *ll di
rections.
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DEMOCRATS NOT 10
CHANGE SCHEDULE
CHEMICAL LIST EXPECTED TO BE
SAME AS ONE VETOED BY
PREBIDENT. ,
THE HEARING IS CLOSED
New York Lawyer Wanted To Put
Cod Liver Oil On Free List Because
of Medicinal Value.—May Not Make
Any Change*.
Washington.—The chemical sched
ule of the revised tariff legislation to
be enacted by the coming extra ses
sion of Congress was closed so far as
public hearings are concerned. The
indications are that the Democratic
majority of the House Committee on
Ways and Means will sustain almost
in the same terms its chemical sched
ule as embraced in the separate bill
that passed both houses, though
vetoed, at the last session of Congress.
It is possible that there may be no
modification of the rates on spices
which several members of the coin
mittee' favor, but this is uncertain.
Democratic and Republican members
emerge from committee in almost the
identical form iu which it wai put up
to the last session of Congress and
the President. The only indication
of a possible change in the schedule
during the last testimony was while
W. H. Gibson, a New York lawyer,
was arguing for a 50 per cent duty on
spices and all other luxuries.
"Wouldn't it tend to cut off impor
tations if we put a higher duty on
spices?" asked Chairman Cnderwood.
"No," replied the witness, who add
ed that Bpices, running from 5 to 18
cents a pound, were not expensive.
Mr. Gibson wanted to put cod liver
oil on the free list because of its med
ical value to children. He classed
spices as luxuries traceable to ancient
Sybaritic and voluptuous conditions in
the south of Italy.
"No mother," said he, "gives her
child spices, nor does any one take
them from real liking."
The chemical schedule covers prod
ucts all the way from acid to zinc, and
did not evoke as strong an oppositiou
as is expected by the committee to be
aimed at several of the other schedules
in the series of hearings that will
Uretch along to January 31.
Ruling At To Foreign Service.
Washington. Postmaster General
Hitchcock decided after conferences
with officials of the l'ostoffice Depart
ment, that the distinctive parcel post
stamps might be used fo rthe payment
of postage on packages sent to foreign
countries sent by the international par
cel post. That decision was telegraph
ed Immediately to the postmasters of
all important cities In the country.
It follows, therefore, that both tbe or
dinary postage stamp and the dibtinct
tive parcel post stamp may be used in
forwarding packages by parcel post to
foreign countries. .
Many Drowned When Bteamer Sink*.
Astoria, Ore. —The oil tank steam
ship Rosecrans, Capt. L. F. Johnson,
from Monterey, Cal., for Portland, Ore.,
ran aground on Peacock Spit whil«
crossing into the gale and later sank
with 31 members of her crdw of 35.
One survivor of the wreck was report
ed to have reached shore at Tioga,
Wash., six miles from tbe scene of the
disaster and the Point Adams life sav
ing crew. Which with the life crew
from Fort Canby, had been at work
many hours, rescued three other men.
Five Killed In Train Wreck.
Lafayette, Ind.—Big Four passenger
train No. 16 en route from Cincinnnati
to Chicago was wrecked nine miles
east of this city. It was reported five
persons were killed and forty serious
ly injured. The train left the rails on
a sharp curve. Four cars left the
rails completely turning over and
blocking the tracks. The train was
running at a high rate of speed. The
wreck is out in the country and it i»
difficult to get details.
Probe Crushed Stone Combination.
Chicago.—Federal authorities be
gan an investigation of a nqw crush
ed stone combination with headquar
ters in Chicago. Seven of the larger
crushed stone and lime concerns in
Chicago are said to make up the com
bination. Its aggregate capital is said
to be about $6,000,000. The investi
gation is to determine whether an ef
fort is being made to control prices.
The combination is said to have been
Affected January I. On that day the
pric* of crushed stone increased forty
cents a cubic yard.
Society Women To Be Foster Mothers.
Washington.—Plans have been al
most completed by the mothers' con
gress of the District of Columbia,
whereby leading women and the wives
of senators, representatives and gov
ernment officials will adopt theerole
of foster mothers to the delinquents
and youthful strays who come under
the Jurisdiction of the Juvenile court.
It is planned to have each woman un
dertake to watch over one child who
has been placed on probation until
the probationer is freed from Buper
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