THE ENTERPRISE
Published Weekly. • v
WILLI AM STON, NORTH CAROLINA
This Mens an age of big (una and
Mgahlpa.
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Philadelphia may be a sleepy town,
toit its ball teams play between naps.
Thank goodness. Women ordinarily
art not as reckless ss the clothes they
wear.
Sleeping on the floor may he cool,
hot very few floors are provided with
springs.
i. Perhaps the wooden nutmeg chap
moved west and invented the hollow
strawberry.
Most of the bathtubs, unfortunate
ly, are too short to bo used as sleep
ing quarters.
When a man sleeps on the floor In a
hot night he flnds It easier to get up
In the morning.
A German dentist has been sent to
prison In England for flve years as a
■py. Evidently, he lost his accustom
ed pull. 4
' A Milwaukee man had a close shave.
An automobile dashed Into the bar
ber shop and knocked him out of the
chair _
A Chicago statistician says married
people really live longer than single
people—that It doesn't merely seem
longer.
Some people expend so much effort
getting ready for their vacations that
when they are ready they are too tired
to leave home.
Mr Asqulth Is said to have made a
London physician poet laureate. He
will have the advantage of being able
to treat sore feet
In addition to the other troubles of
Great Britain, the divided equestrian
aklrt has now come to engage the
thought of the empire.
It Is claimed that the people of the
United States spend $600,000,000 a
year for rfiuslc. And It might be add
ed that they get stung.
Parisian hosiery displayed by new
ly devised gowns presents embroider
ed mottoes. Appropriate sentiments
do not occur automatically.
A Kansas City Judge has decided
that a girl need not confine her at
tentions to the man she Is engaged to.
But she'd better be careful.
"Life In this country is valueless,"
Mid Mrs. Oelrlchs an a porter nearly
wheeled a truck over her toeß. Value
less, perhaps, but not unexciting.
If noise shortens life, as a Chicago
doctor Hays It does, one wonders how
children who grow up In the Windy
city ever attain their majority.
A tango devotee tried a few steps In
the water and nearly drowned. A
consideration of the anatomy of the
mermaid would have been prudent.
Bogus S2O bills are In circulation.
Watch your change carefully after
breaking currency of large denomina
tion In the purchase of watermelons.
Singularly enough, several persona
who observed a man burning the oth
er day while held under burning de
bris In a southern Are yelled to him
to keep cool.
The national bureau of chemistry
advises tho use of the nose and eyes
In detecting bad food. Ears came
into restaurant service somo time
aco. *
Nobody would care for dandelion
Creens If they tasted like food.
Bt. Louis is strong for that congres
•tonal baseball investigation. It
wants to find out why It can't break
Into the first division.
A college for women orators Is to
be started In Chicago. Next thing
you know some college will have a
professor to teach young ducks to
■wlm.
Andrew Carnegie says he once tried
to get a job on a Pittsburgh paper,
but that the editor wouldn't have him.
Moral: The editor probably still has
the paper.
In spite of the scientific definition
of love as a lunacy, nobody appears
to be taking steps toward curing
those so afflicted or preventing gen
eral progress of the disease.
Russia must foresee a real Euro
pean scrap coming. Its army Is
to be supplanted with aerial dread
noughts with machine guns, bomb
throwers and wireless telegraphy.
Vllhjaimar Stefansson has sailed on
another arctic expedition. Some peo
ple have all the luck!
An Illinois court holds that a man
enn be beautiful. Not, however,
while he Is replacing a tire on his au
tomobile.
Many a poor horse that has been
•vercome by the heat and has lain
down to lie has been made infinitely
more miserable In its last moments by
• crowd of self-appointed horse doe
ton.
U.S.ORDERSIEXIGO
10 IKE REDRESS
DEMAND MOST DRASTIC THAT
HAB BEEN MADE BY WILSON
ADMINISTRATION.
WANT SOLDIERS PUNISHED
Relssse Is Also Demsnded of Bissell
and McDonald, Held by Huerts's
Soldier a
Washington. Strong representa
tions, the most drastic In phraseology
that have been made since the pres
ent American administration came in
to power, were made to the Huerta
government In Mexico.
The United States government de
manded not only the prompt arrest,
courtmurtial and punishment of the
Mexican federal soldiers who shot
Charles B. Dixon, an American im
migration official at Juarez, Mexico,
but the immediate release of Charles
Bissell and Bernard McDonald, min
ing managers, imprisoned by federal
soldiers at Chihuahua City, and said
to be threatened with execution.
So serious-were incidents re- -
garded in officials circles that they
overshadowed largely the theoretical
considerations of policy which the
visit of Ambassador Henry Lane Wil
son lias brought to a climax.
The ambassador himself was so
exercised over the developments in
Mexico that he dictated two strong
telegrams, one to the embassy at
Mexico City and the other to the
American consul at Juarez, and while
Secretary Bryan slightly modified
their tone, they were approved and
promptly dispatched.
El l'aso, Texas. —Charles B. Dixon,
Jr., the United States immigration in
spector, who was shot in Juarez by
Mexican soldiers, was released from
the Juarez hospital and brought to El
l'aso after American Consul T. D.
Edwards had made a demand for his
release and for the arrest of the men
who shot him.
Mexican Consul Miranda and Gull
lermo Torars, former secretary of the
state of Chihuahua, also interceded
for the release of Dixon, after confer
ence with the United States officials,
who represented to the Mexicans the
grave impressions that had been pro
duced In Washington by the news of
the shooting of the inspector.
HEAVY FIGHTING IN BALKANS
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On Eve of Peace Conference Greeks
" Continue to Press Bulgars.
London. —Tho Balkan pence confer
ence Is expected to open nt Bucharest,
but meuntluie serious fighting contin-
The Oreekß refused Bulgaria's re
quest for even a thre edays' truce and
after heavy fighting have gotten
through Kreflna pass, defeating the
Bulgarians at l-llmekle, capturing three
siege guns and driving the 'Bulgarians
back on DJuma.
The Greeks claim they annihilated
the whole left of the Bulgarian army
und that they have forced the Bul
garians back along the Struma valley,
to DJuma on the Bulgarian frontier.
Unless peace speedily is negotiated
another great battle Is likely to oc
cur at Struma.
No news was received of fighting on
the Servian frontier, but the large
numbers of wounded men arriving In
Bulgaria Indicate severe engagements.
The concert of the powers seems as
powerless as before to adopt any united
action against Turky. The porte, how
ever, has disavowed the action of Its
troops In penetrating old Bulgaria,
and no further advance of Turkish
troops Has been reported. The Turks
claim their spoils at Adrianople con
sisted of 150 guns, 50,000 rilles and
1,000,000 sucks of corn.
Farm Commission Back From Europe.
Washington.—After six weeks spent
In Investigating agricultural conditions
in Kurope, with particular reference to
farm credits and fapii co-operation,
the commission appointed by President
Taft, with another from the Southern
Commercial congress, returned to the
city of Washington.
Unknown Fire Victims Interred.
Blnghanipton, N. Y.—Attended by
thousands of mourners, many of them
relatives or close friends of the vic
tims, the funeral of the twenty-one
unidentified dead, who lost their lives
in the ninghampton Clothing compa
ny flrti, was held. Services were held
in the opera house, clergymen of all
religious .dnomienations taking part
in the exercises. A special troHey
funeral car bore the twenty-one cas
kets to Spring Forest cemetery. Fire
men and policemen bore. the coffins
to the graves.
Currency Reform Will Be Enacted.
Washington.—President Wilson has
received further assurances from lead
ers in congress that his program of
currency reform will receive favorable
action at this session of congress.
These assurances have been made in
the fact of the sharp spilt amongst the
Democrats of the house banking and
currency committee, and In spite, also,
of the desire of many Democrats In
the senate to delay currency action
until the December session. Rapid
progress has been made on the tariff
bill in the senate.
DR. PABLO GALDOS
Dr. Pablo Deavarlno y Galdoa, the
newly arrlvad mlnlater from Cuba, la
a lawyer and a cloaa paraonal frland
of Praaldant Manocal. Ha la praaldant
•f tha National unlvaralty of Cuba
REBELLION GAINING IN CHINA
MARTIAL LAW IS DECLARED
THROUGHOUT THE CHINESE
REPUBLIC.
Great Explosion Is Indicated—Sun
Yat Sen Heads the Southern
Revolt.
London.—The Pekin correspondent
of The Dally Telegraph sends the fol
lowing dispatch:
"The declaration of martial law
here shows that the northern govern
ment admits its desperate position.
This synchronizes with the creation of
a complete confederate government
at Nanking. Parliament has not' yet
been dissolved, but it is unlikely that
it will survive.
"The war news is baffling, but for
eign military experts now believe the
southerners are In far greater strength
than has been supposed.
"A private dispatch says the south
erners have not been repulsed from
the Pukow railway.. Reinforcements
are coming dally and Kwangtung pro
mises 60,000 troops, half of which
are due this week.
"All Indications point to a great
explosion In Hu-Peh province. There
Is a general reluctance among the
merchantlle classes to hazard their
lives and fortunes nnd the iron will
of the southern leaders must shortly
bring all Into light.
"Dr. Sun Yat Sen, former provision
al president. Issued a manifesto Ir
revocably backing the rebellion. He
makes three appeals, the first to
Yuan Shi Kal, recounting the south
ern grievance and declaring that just
resistance to Intolerable tyranny is
no rebellion. He concludes: '1 am
determined to oppose you as firmly as
1 did the Manchus. Retirement Is ab
solutely your only course.'
GUARDS DEFY THE VATICAN
The Residence of Pope Piua in a
Veritable State of Biege.
Rome. —The Vatican Is In a vertable
state of siege. This was the outcome
of the mutiny of Swiss guards, whose
demands, In form of a memorial relat
ing their grievances and setting forth
the conditions on which they would
remain in the service, were rejected.
Three leaders in the movement
were expelled from the \atlcan. Four
others left and twelve have request
ed leave to depart for their homes
In October.
TUoso who left were accompanied
to the gates of the Vatican by their
comrades. At the separation they
cried: "Viva Gariibald!-"
Serious trouble was expected when
the guards were notified that all their
claims had been rejected and it had
been arranged that any of the guards
attempting a demonstration should be
arrested by the papal gendarmae and
turned over to the Italian police for
transportation to the Swiss frontier.
When the reply to their memorial w as
read the commander and other offi
cers, armed with revolvers, stood
ready to suuupress any show of force.
Weekly Information for Farmers.
Washington. Secretary Houston
announced that hereafter the depart
ment of agriculture would send a
weekly letter to Its 35,000 townships
and 2,800 cqunty correspondents of
the department, giving the latest ag
ricultural information of value to the
farmer. The letters will treat of
crop conditions and prices, the dis
covery of new plant or animal pests,
pure food decisions and those which
affect users of irrigated lands and
the national forests and any other
work which can benefit the farmer.
Used Bible to Make Cigarettes.
Dallas, Texas. —How some of his
Mexican captors used his Bible for
cigarette papers was told by L. L.
Davis of Dallas, who reached home
after being a prisoner of constitution
alists In Mexico from May 13 until
July 19. Davis said there were only
a few chapters left in the book when
he was released. He said his captors
at times had little to eat fhemselves,
but always shared equally with him.
He waß held for ransom, but was re?
leased without paying a cent, ©a de
mands by American authorities.
CHANGES UK
111 PARCEL POST
PARCEL POST CHANGES WILL
TAKE EFFECT AUGUST
FIFTEENTH.
RATES ARE TO BE LOWER
Poatmaatar Burlaaona' Propoaition la
Sanctioned by tha Commerce
Commlaalon.
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A Parcel Poet Regulationa aa A
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A Maximum weight of mailable A
A packages increased to 20 pounds. A
A Coat of delivery of 20-pound A
A package in cities and on rural A
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A Maximum cost, 20-pound pack- A
A age carried 150 miles, 24 cents. A
A Express charges for same eerv- A
A Ice, 40 cents. A
A Cost to department of hand- A
A ling 20-pound package transport- A
Aed 75 miles, 14 cents. Postofflce A
A profit, 10 cents. Fifty-four per A
A cent, of parcel popt packages A
A weigh under four ounces. Thir- A
A ty-four per cent, are transported A
A less than 150 miles. > A
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Washington. Postmaster General
Burleson appeared before the senate
committee on postofflce and post roafis
to explain new regulations in the par
cel post service to become effective
August 15. He indicated that the serv
ice will ultimately be extended to
handle 100-pound packages as demand
ed by various parcel post experts in
congress.
The promised development of the
parcel post service will mean the
practically complete absorption of the
express companies.
Senator Hoke Smith, a member of
the committee, heartily approved the
changes, and, said Mr. Burleson, was
Hntirely within the law in making
them. Because of the great increase
In worß put upon the rural letter car
rier by the parcel post service. Sena
tor Smith has introduced a bill in
creasing their compensation to f1,200
ai year.
Senator Hoke Smith, a member of
the postofflce committee, has from the
first sided with the postmaster gen
eral In his parcel post reform. After
the hearing the senator .said:
"I think the order is entirely with
in the authority given liim by the act
adopted by the last congress, and
that It will greatly facilitate the
of the parcel post and lessen the cost
on the people from one-third to one
half."
REAFFIRM MONROEDOCTRINE
Reaolution Aimed at Thoae With
Whom Caucaeian Will Not Assimilate.
Washington.—Representative Clark
of Florida Introduced a concurrent res
olution reaffirming the Monroe doc
trine. it was directed particularly
against "people with whom the Cau
casian cannot and will not assimi
late." "We hereby reaffirm what is
known as the Monroe doctrine in each
and every essential," the resolution
read, "and declare cwP' unfaltering al
legiance thereto." *
"In reaffirming the Monroe doc
trine," concludes the resolution, "we
do so with the earnest desire to main
tain peace and friendly relations with
every natton upon earth, but we can
not permit the further extension of
any colonization systems of Europe
an nations upon any territory of this
hemisphere, and particularly shall we
object to such colonization by peoples
with whom the Caucasian cannot and
will not assimilate."
60 Barrala of Liquor in Jail
Decatur, Ala. —Sixty barrels of whis
key, shiped from Chattanooga, Tenn.,
to various persons here, were attach
ed by Sheriff R. N. McCullough and
locked In thee ounty jail here. The
sheriff met the steamer carrying the
shipment before It had reached the
boundaries of Morgan county. As
soon as the line was crossed the sher
iff made the attachment.
Move Convicts Because of Riots.
Ossining, N. Y.—Sixty convicts—
the dregs of the New York criminal
class —were taken one by one from
their cells in Sing Sing prison and
placed aboard a train for the state
prison at Auburn. * Recent roits in
Sing Sing caused the warden to take
no chances. Each convict was heav
ily handcuffed and shackled and then
chained to his place in the railroad
car which had been brought inside
the prison enclosure. A hundred pris
on guards did this work while In the
state armory them ilitla waited.
Mine Strike Settles Into Siege.
Calumet, Mich. —With six mllltla
companles on duty and other state
troops en route, the strike of copper
miners settled measurably towards a
state of dull routine. Some of the
more enthusiastic union members
marched through several locations, but
there was practically no disorder. The
union leaders held fast to their atti
tude demanding recognition of the
Western Federation of Miners, but
tliis was not even considerde by the
company management
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ROBERT H. GITTIWS
W\.
Mr. Qlttlne, who now repreeenta the
Fortieth Ntw York district In corv
grtMi ■ Democrat and live* In
Niagara Falls.
50 GIRLS ARE CREMAIED
THE FIRE BPREAD SO RAPIDLY
THAT IT W\S IMPOSSIBLE
FOR GIRLS TO ESCAPE
At First It Was Thought the Alarm
Waa for Fire Drill and the Girla
Continued at Werk.
Binghampton, N. Y. —Fifty persons
were killed, and as many injured, a
dozen or more fatally, in a fire which
swept the four-story factory building
of the Binghampton Clothing company.
The victims were chiefly women and
girls. Twenty-two bodies have been
recovered. In the city hospital and in
private institutions are thirty Injured.
Some two score persons are known to
have escaped, as if by a miracle, from
the building, which burst into flame
like a tinderbox and became a roaring
furnace almost in no time after the
first alarm was sounded.
Around the scene of the catastro
phe, the greatest this city has ever
known, thousands watched the res
cuers work in the glare of three big
searchlights, many in the great throng
being restrained only by the closely
drawn police lines from rushing Into
the ruins to seek the bodies of rela
stive or friends.
As the ruins were cooled slightly,
from time to time in a spot upon which
the streams were centered, men went
forward to dig as long as human
endurance would allow them to work.
Occasionally a body was found
MAY INVOLVE THE POWERS
Action of Turkey In Reoceupying Ter
ritory Threatens War.
London. —The European concert is
faced by a most delicate and difficult
suitation, requiring the exercise of
the utmost diplomatic tact, If Europe
is not to be plunged Into a general
war by the Turkish reoccupatioQ of
Adrlanople and Kirk Killsseh.
Burgarla, helpless, sees the fruit#
of her dearly won victories snatched
from her hand, and, while negotia
tions for an armistice are proceeding
in a leisurely manner at Nlsh, the
Greeks and Servians continue to push
their advantage.
The official announcement made at
Constantinople that the Turkish
troops had reoccupled Adrianople
created the worst possible Impression
in diplomatic circles, and the powers
Immediately began an exchange of
views to And the best means of check
mating Turkey's action.
South Carolina Detached.
Washington.—President Wilson has
Issued an executive order that the
state of South Carolina, now a part of
the fourth Internal revenue district of
North Carolina, be detached and here
after constitute one collection district
to be know n as thfc district of Soutb
Carolina. , * .
Carnegie's Bomb Just Juicy Chess*.
Nek York.—The mystery of the
bomb sent to Andrew Carnegie in
care of the seecretary of the Carnegie
corporation was solved. It was a juicy
cheese Inclosed an » smell-proof case
of zinc, a Scotch cheese, according to
an expert called into conference after
the bureau had definitely determined
that the bomb contained neither nitro
glycerin, dynamite or other dead If ex
plosives. On a vacant lot officials of
the bureau of combustibles fired four
bullets from a safe distance through
the box before they opened it
Wilson's Candidate Wlna.
Sussex. N. J.—Arch I bold C. Hart
"Democrat, was elected to the house
from the sixth congressional dla
trict of New Jersey to succeed the
late James Martin. Hart had the sup
port of President Wilson. The Re
publican candidate, S. Woods McClave,
who was mentioned in the Mulhall
testimony before the senate lobby in
vestigators, ran second, and Herbert
M. Bailey, progterslve, third, the re
turns are incomplete but indications
were that Hart ran ahead of McClave
by more than S.OOO votes.
h » 1 si ihi VO&it
ADVISES WILSON
TO TAKE A REST
POLITE WAY TELLING MEXICAN
AMBASSADOR BERVICES NO
LONGER NEEDED.
IS TOO CLOSE TO HUERTA
President and Ambassador Differ on
ths Mexican Situation.—Holds Con*
ference With J3eeret»ry Bryan.—May
. Spare Necessity of Mediation.
Washingtn. Ambassador Henry
Lane Wilson, summoned from Mex
ico City to inform the Washington ad
ministration of conditions in the re
bellion-torn republic, talk for an
hour with President Wilson and Secre
tary Bryan, submitting chiefly a rec
ommendation that the United States
asa its influence to stabilise the Huer
ta regime.
No policy was evolved, at least
none was announced, but it became
known that the President's ideas and
those of Ambassador Wilson's as to
the course to be pursued are so rad
ically different that Administration
officials interpreted the day's devel
opments as forecasting the accep
tance of Ambassador Wilson's resig
nation.
President Wilson and the Ambas
sador regard the future of the Mexi
can situation, it was learned from op
posite viewpoints. The President is
concerned over the morality of any
policy adopted by the United States
and its effect on other Latin-Ameri
can countries and is disciplined to
strengthen a Government that came
into power through the questionable
events Incident to Madero's assassina
tion.
Ambassador Wilson, on the other
hand, is disposed to look at the sit
uation, not from past events, but
with thrf practical Idea of the future.
He believes it is the business of the
Government to look to the future and
his suggestions have been in the di
rection of extending things to con
serve American Interests. The inad
visability from a diplomatic stand
point of maintaining in Mexico City
a representative who would not be
sympathetic wiyi the purpose of the
Wilson Administration In Washington
Is said to have practically convinced
the President that the Embassy In
Mexico City had better be conducted
for the present by Nelson O'Shaugh
nessy, its first secretary, reputed her»
as efficient and experienced.
Popular Election of Senator.
Washington.—The senate received
its first notification or the election ot
a senator by vote of tne people since
the adoption of the 17th amendment
to the constitution. Governor Slaton
of Georgia certified to the election of
Augustus Octavlus Bacon, now a
member of the senate. Later Senator
Hoke Smith of Georgia escorted Sena
tor Bacon to the rostrum where he
took the oath as the first United
States senator elected by direct votft
of the people .
Potato Tuber Moth A Menace.
Washington.—Warnings again|?t *
peat that threatens every dinner table
In the land was Issued by the depart
ment of agriculture against the pota
to tuber moth which is working havoc
with the potato crop in numerous
parts of the country and whose rav
ages threaten to prevent the planting
of the vegetable in many places for
the, winter supply. The pest is espe
cially prevalant in California and Tex
as, the d/partment reports.
Rata* Funds For Chinese Revolution..
New York.—Nine Chinese business
men of New York are on their way
to Boston, Chicago and other cities to
raise money for the support of the
revolutionary party in China. It was
•aid thaat simitar action had been
taken among the Chinese in San'
Francisco, who were sending out men
to raise money among the Chinese
residents of Western cities.
Off For Arctic Region.
Teller, Port Clarence, Alaska.—
Vllhjalmar Stefanson's Canadian Po
lar exploration expedition which will
spend three years in sclentifc re
search work in the Arctic, set out for
its destination when the old whaler
Karluk sailed from Port Clarence -
Bay. The Karluk was accompanied
by the gasoline schooner Mary Sacha.
The powerboat Alaska, which will be.
used by Dr. R. *M. Anderson's south
ern party, remained at Port Clarence
to complete repairs and probably will •
not leave for several days.
Hope to Bettle Trouble With Japan..
Washington. Administration offi
cials are disposed to take an optimis
tic view of the negotiations with Ja
pan arising from her protest against
the California anti-alien land law and*
believe that a complete understanding
almost is in sight. While there may
be an Interchange of notes, adminis
tration officials feel that the diplo
matic correspondence has established
the friendliness of the United States
government) for Japan and the ab
sence of intent upon it d s
crtmirate against ther^Japanest