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THE ENTERPRISE Published Weekly. WILLIAMSYON, NORTH CAROLINA Only a worker can enjoy a vacation. No one ever accuses an aviator of Joy-riding. Clocks are to be taxed in Berlin. High timet Some band leaders act as If they were shadow boxing. Doughnuts being sinkers, pretsels are probably floaters. There can be no romance witheut a man in It—unless it's s girl. What is the silk skirt movement going to do to the bathing suits T When your vacation la over you can ■tart to save for the winter coal. Alrboat tourists only that the elements keep stiirand look pleasanL Careless people have no business taking their recreation on the water. There are the usual number of dis appointments In the 1913 watermelon amp. _ Bull fighting In Barcelona Is doom ed. They have started a baseball team there. Almost anybody can reform his own currency by making It go farther and less fast. There are several kinds of gamb ling, among them eating hash In a restaurant. It Is hoped that the garment work ers' trouble will not affect the output of bathing suits. Some men must stand criticism fdr being bachelors and others are pun ished for bigamy. The pedestrian who Is disgusted with dodging autos should buy an auto and get even. The man who has just bought a new automobile or yacht Is discovering a lot of new dear friends. it has come out at, last. A Denver professor admits that the study of mathematics has no value. The summer drownings are going on with their usual regularity and dlsra~ gnrd of persistent warning. It Is a poor railroad manager who cannot prove after a train wreck that nobody was responsible for It Edmonton, Alberta, has twice as many men as women. This fact should be noised around England. If cocking your feet on high In duces health, then the average trav eling man should be a well person. New sun spots have lately been dis covered besides those on the arms and shoulders of Incautious lake bathers. a Sparrows and aviators are not In the same class when it comes to fall ing "One by one the sparrows fall." Most of us are not worried over tho fact that the London syndicate con trols all the diamonds in the country. No one has explained In a satisfac tory manner why It takes threo grown people to take one small boy to the circus. Even Europeans who live In coun tries where morals are notably lax take a slam at American high speed divorce The misguided person who knows Just how to remove tan Is deservedly unpopular with bathing beach fre quenters. We have reasons to believe that the Boston man who said the singing of a fish kept the town awake told a good - flsh story. English may be making rapid strides is a world language, but It la our ob servation that the clrillsed world eats In French. An aviator In France scared a cow to death. Knowing what goes up generally comes down, the cow had cause for fear. Speaking of baseball reports In the rernacular, have you tried to under stand a report of a championship match of checkers! It never pays to criticise the weath er man. The criticism may be Just, It may be deserved, but he can always revenge himself by letting loosp his too-sbundant stock of humidity upon a suffering public. Quite innocently an eastern news paper says that efforts were made at once to quickly dispatch the nu merous rats which had chewed up sev eral thousand dollars worth of blanks in a telegrsph office. Recent solar dlaoveriea promise that experts will be enabled to make tccbrfete forecaata, extremely valu able to farmers, months In advance. Bat conditions will not be perfect nor the public aatiafled until aome wajr la discovered of controlling the weather. ENVOY UND ENTERS GEK. HUERTA'S LAIR SPECIAL. REPRESENTATIVE OF U. 6. HAS ARRIVED IN CAP ITAL OP MEXICO. WASHINGTON WAS UNEASY United States to Walt for Llnd'e Re port Before Taking Any Action Whatever. Washington.—John Lind, pergonal representative of President Wilson, to Investigate the Mexican situation, arrived safely in Mexico City accord ing to advices received at the state department from Charles O'Shaugh nessy of the United States embassy. Secretary Bryan remained at Ills desk until long after midnight to receive the news. News of the safe arrival of Mr. Lind with his wife and party in the Mex ican capital followed several hours of suspense. The complete absence of any Information of the progress of the party from the time it left Vera Cruz added to the uenasiness, which was heightened by vague rumors of at tacks on Mr. Lind and his family and associates. President Wilson had retired when word of Mr. Lind's safe arrival was received, and he was not awakened. Secretary Bryan remained at his desk until 1:30 p. m. anxious awaiting some report from the embassy «at Mexico City. When it Anally came it proved to be merely a terse announcement of the arrival of the special envoy, coupled with the announcement that he and his party were safely quarter ed at the Hotel lnscartaln. With the arrival In Mexico City of John Lind, personal representative of President Wilson, administration offi cials declared that no further steps would be taken in carrying out the policy of the United States toward Mexico until Mr. Lind had made a careful study of the general situation there. Mexico City.—Students and laborers estimated to number one thousand pa raded the streets of the capital carry ing banners as a token of their ap proval of President Huerta's stand against accepting mediation by the United States. $150,000,000 TO MOVE CROPS Treasury Department Stands Ready to Triple Original Amount. Washington.—Tho $50,000,000 of fed eral funds about to be deposited In the nntlonal banks of the West and South to assist in moving the crops will be increased to $160,000,000, if necessary. The desire of the govern ment to mobilize all the needed cash of the public treasury in the agricul tural belts of the country to avoid the money stringency characteristic of tho crop moving period, was com municated to bankers of the central West at a conference with Secretary McAdoo and Assistant Secretary John C. Kelton Williams, called by the treasury department to make arrange ments for the distribution of the big sum. While the representative financiers, fresh from the market centers of the Middle States, welcomed the prospect of the proposed deposits, the concen sus of opinion, it was stated, seemed to be that $60,000,000 would be| am ple to meet the situation. The dominant tone of the bankers' expressed convictions was, the treasu ry department has announced, that business conditions were good, but that the promised deposits would re lieve the usual strain. Death Summons Leading Democrats. Washington.—Committees to attend the funerals of two members of the Democratic national committee were named by Homer S. Cummlngs, vice chairman of the committee, Clark Howell, Georgia; William I). Jolks, Alabama, and William N. Kavanaugh, Arkansas, will represent the commit tee at the obsequies for R. E. L. Mount castle, committeman from Tennessee, who died at Knoxville. Those select ed to attend the funeral of Commit teeman Thomas J. McCue of Colorado, who died in Denver, are Martin J. Wade, Iowa; P. L. Hall, Nebraska, and William P. Sapp, Kansus. Isthmian Waterway Nears Completion. Washington.—Latest reports from the canal zone announce that as the reshlt of prospective substitution of dredges for steam shovels in the ex cavation of the famous Culebra cut, .the canal may be ready for shipping by next December. Even earlier than that, light draft vessels are likely to be passing through the waterway, for as the greater part of the canal prism already has been cut to Its final depth, small vessels probably can navi gate it safely within a few days after October 10 next. Police Club Suffragette*. . __ London. —The third attempt of suf fragettes under command of Sylvia Pankhurst to take Premier Asqutth'a house in Downing street by Btorm fail ed whon the militant leader was cor nered by police after a stiff fight, in which the officers used their cluba. The trouble began after a mass meet ing under the auspices of the Free Speech Defense committee, palled to demand the unconditional releaae of George Lansbury, former Socialist member of the bouse of commons, who was sentenced to imprisonment. .. * . ?.b SK - ... ■ ~ f" j\ * DR. ROBERT BRIDGES Dr. Bridge*, whom Premier Aaqulth hu appointed poet laureate, prao tloed medicine In the London ho* pita la. He la a maater of arts, a bachelor of medicine and a doctor of literature of Oxford unlveralty. BANDITS ROB MAIL TRAIN TWO MEN HOLD UP THE PAST LOUISVILLE AND NABHVILLK, NEAR CALERA, ALABAMA. Three Mail Clerka Handcuffed—Rob bera Eacapa aa the Tram Entera Birmingham. Birmingham, Ala. —The mall car on the fast Louisville and Nashville train No. 4 from New Orleans was robbed by two unknown white men. Atl of the registered mall was taken, but no estimate could be made of the amoubt secured. The train reached Birmingham on time at 8:37 p. m. and two of the mall clerks, George Hoover and T. G. York, were found handcuffed so that tl>e Irons had to be filed from their wrists, wliiie Chief Clerk Harry Ev erett had liis thumbs securely tied together with heavy twine. The robbers boarded the mail car at Calera, on the. dark Bide, after the train had begun to move. The clerks state that they wero Immediately cov ered with pistols and ordered to turn faces turned to the wall. Chief Clerk Everett says lie has no Idea how much of value there was in the registered mall, but that the men took it all. He says they were both short, slender men, but they did not get a good look at the robbers' faces, as they were forced to keep their own faces tprned to the wall. The clerks first saw the robbers jump to tho mall car on their hands and knees. One robber kept his pis tols on the men while the other ran sacked the mail. The distance from Calera to Birmingham is 33 miles so that they had plenty of time to make a thorough job. No one else on the train apparently knew that the rob bers were aboard. , When the engineer stopped for the Southern crossing at Fourteenth street In Birmingham, he happened to look back and saw the two men jump from the mall car door. This aroused his suspicion, and an investigation reveal ed the handcuffed clerks. NOTE TO BALKAN POWERS United Statesßeligious Liberty Clauso in Troaty. Bucharest. —At tho Balkan pence conference M. Majoresco, president of the conference, read a note from the United States government expressing a desire to see Jpserted in the treaty of Bucharest a stipulation securing rfvil and religious liberty (o the pop ulations inhabiting territory which may be ceded or annexed. M. Majoresco remarked that such liberty was the law In every country participating in the peace conference, Washington.—The intention of the American government to make repre sentations to the Balkan peace dele gates has been so carefully guarded that it was not generally known even in official circles that a note had been dispatched to Bucharest. Five Legislators Sentenced, Webßter Springs, W. Va. —Sentences were Imposed upon the five members of the West Virginia legislature by Judge W. 8. O'Brien, in the superior court. The legislators were convicted of bribery in connection with the elec tion ot a United States senator.' Dele gates S. C. O. Rhodes, Itath Duff and H. F. Asbury, to serve six years each in the penitentiary; State Senators B. A. Smith, five years and six months, aud Delegate Davis Hill five years. In addition, the Ave are disqualified for life from holdtag any public office. On* Dead, Two Wounded, In Feud. Valdosta, Ga. — In a deadly hand-to hand fight at Moniac, Qa., Q. M. Craw ford, citizen ot that place, was shot and 1 killed, his brother wounded and C. W. Cobb of Haslehurst, Ua„ sub bed and cut in more than a dozen places.' Cobb whs brought to this city, suffering from sixteen knife wounds, and is receiving medical at tention .here. According to the story told by Cobb, he was attacked at Mo niac by the tour Crawford brothers, and after kiiiirig one of them and shooting another, he was cut d-v ■ 1 ■ — . i M SENATOR JOHNSTON PASSES TO BEYOND #■ ' '. ' SERVED FOUR YEARS AS GOV ERNOR OF ALABAMA BEFORE ELECTION TO SENATE. HAD BRILLIANT WAR RECORD United State* Senator Victim of Pneu monia After Nine Daya* lllneee at Capital. A A A To Call Election A A To Namfc Another Benator. A A A A Montgomery, Ala. Governor A A O'Neal issued the following state A A ment: A A "I expect to order a special A A election at once to All the va- A A cancy In the United States sen- A A ate caused by the death of Ben- A A ator Joseph F. Johnston of Ala- A A bama. While this is my pres- X A ent Intention, conditions at Wash- A A ington might make it necessary A A to call an extra session of the A A legislature to fill the vacancy at. A A once, f am not inclined, how- A A ever, to think that an extra ses- A A sion would be more expeditious A A than a special election." A A - Because of Alabama's election A A laws, it is feared that this elec- A A tion may not result in naming a A A Huccessor before the final vote A Aon the tariff bill now pending. A A A Washington.—Senator Joseph F. Johnston of Alabama, died at his apartment in the Brighton. Senator Johnston had been ill for eight days suffering from pneumonia. As a mark of respect to the memory JOSEPH P. JOHNSTON. United Statee Senator from Alabama. of Senator Johnston, the senate ad journed almost Immediately after as sembling. Senator Overman offered a resolu tion for the appointment of a com mittee of senators to take part in the funeral ceremonies and to accom pany the body to Birmingham. The vice president appointed the following committee: Senators Bank head of Alabama; Bacon, Overman, Chamberlain, Hitchcock, Clarke of Arkansus, Vardaman, Johnson, Swan- BOD. Smith of South Carolina, Thorn ton, Warren, Brlstow, Gallinger, Ca tron, Bradley and Kenyon. Benator Joseph Forney Johnston of Birmingham was born in North Carolina in 1843. He served in the Confederate army from the begin ning of the war to its conclusion, and was wounded four times. He rose from a private to the rank of captain, and was frequently mentioned honor ably for gallant conduct. Senator Johnston served four years as governor of Alabama before his election to the senate in 1907. His first election to the senate was to the unexpired term of Senator E. W. Pettus, deceased. He was re-elected to 1909 to his present term. Whopper of a Grasshopper. Tusla, Okla. —A grasshopper four inches. In length and weighing 150 grains was captured by a Pawnee county farmer and is on exhibition in one of the newspaper offices of Pawnee. So far this hopper holds the state record for size and weight. Small Balkan War Aboard Ulnar. New York. —Officers of the Cunard liner Pannonla, arriving here from Trieste, report that a miniature Bal kan war occurred aboard almost con tinuously Muring the twenty-six days' voyage. Among the steerage passen gers were several hundred ex-volun teers, Greeks, Servians, Bulgarians, Turks, who were returning to this country. Frequent clashes between these hostile factions in the first few days resulted In several combatants going to the sick bed with severe stab wounds,. air I Sold at Auction. Detroit.—The marriage department of the county clerk's office has taken steps to nullify an auction sale of a girl who was knocked down to the highest bidder to be his wife. The girl 1b Marie Aman. a Syrian. Her father made the sale. There were halt a dosen bidders. The girl has been in the country only seven weeks. She was brougfit here by her father expressly to be-sold. A Turk. Mo hammed, HaJ Seleera, was the suc cessful bidder. The bargain was seal ed hr an Oriental marriage. MISS HANCY JOHNSON /^N'j Mlse Nancy Johnson, daughter of Congressman and Mrs. Ben Johnaon of Bardstown, Ky., la one of the hand eomeet young women la the ooagrefr elonal set. PEACE ENDS BALKAN WAR TREATY SIGNED BY DELEGATES OF SERVIA, GREECE, MONTE NEGRO AND ROUMANIA. Threat of Allies to Occupy Bulgar Cap ital Hastened the Peace Pact. % ' _ Bucharest.—Peace was concluded between the Balkan states and the preliminary treaty signed by the dele gates of Servia, Greece, Montenegro, Roumanla and Bulgaria The agree ment was arrived at only after an other exhibition of the utter helpless ness of Bulgaria to face her rtpg of enemies. The discussions in the peace confer ence threatened to become intermin able, but M. Majoresco, the Rouman ian premier, and president of the con ference, clinched mattera by threat ening that unless Bulgaria tfocepted the modified frontier proposed by the allies, Roumanla's army would occupy Sofia. This threat had the desired effect and an agreement was arrived at after numerous private consulta tions between the delegates and a four hours' sitting of the confer ence. The frontier, as agreed to, starts at a point on the old frontier west of the Struma river, follows the watershed to west of the town of Strumnitza, thence runs almost through the Stru qja valley to the Belesh mountains and thence easterly in almost a straight line to the Mester river, thus leaving the town of Strumnitza, the port of Lagos and Kanthi to Bulgaria and the port of Lagos and Kanthi to Bulgaria and the port of Kavala to Greece. The new frontier is a deep disappointment to the Bulgarians, who still nurse hopes for its eventual re vision by the powers. It is believed that an agreement for the demobilization t>f the various ar mies will be signed. The neWs that peace has been arranged caused great rejoicing. The trouble between the allies arose from the difficult? of dividing the ter ritory captured by them from Turkey. Severe fighting followed and many thousand men were killed or wSunded. Soon after the beginning of hostili ties numerous massacres and acts of pillage were reported to have been committed by the various armies. ROBERT C. OGDEN IS DEAD Widely Known Philanthropist Passes at Summer Home in Maine. Kennebunk Port, Maine.—Robert C. Ogden of New York, a philanthropist, widely known, died at his summer res idence here. Mr. Ogden had been 111 a long time. , I Robert C. Ogden was born In Phil adelphia In 1836 and amassed a for tune as a member of the firm of John Wannamaker. He retired frotn active business six years ago. The news of the death of Robert C. Ogden will be received with regret in the South, where he was well known. Mr. Ogden was greatly interested in educational work and was always a leading figure at the annual confer ences of the association to promote education In the South. Four Men Killed In Wrack. Atlanta, Oa.—Three white men and one negro were killed when a fast freight train oa the Louisville and Nashville railroad plunged Into a cul vert 45 feet deep, six miles north of 1 Marietta. The accident was caused by the giving way of *\ cement bridge before a torrent ot water from the rain which had raged for three hours previous to the wreck. The bridge waa completely washed away and the water so high that the cars standing on the track ware under a depth of three feet ot water. t . Knapp to Investigate Farming. Washington.—ln order that the farmers ot the United States may profit by the experience of farmers of Europe, Secretary Houston of the department of agriculture decided to send abroad Dr. Thomas H. Carver, head of the rural organisation serv icer and Bradford Knapp, who Is In ch&rge of the farmers' co-operative demonstration work in the Bouth. The study of successful co-operative schemes will be the principal object Of their trip. They will visit Ireland first,' then Denmark and Saxony. -• at PASSAGE OF BILL SEEMS KFAR OFF PROGRESS ON TARIFF" MEASURE •LOW AND DEMOCRATS AR* - ,4 ~ - WORRIED. WANT TO HASTEN HATTERS. Cone—low May Be Mad* to R*p«M cans and Currency QueetJon Ukaly to Go Over.—No Definite Tlom t» Vota on firtff. Washington. the Senate a te considerately pertaitai over the failure to make progiaaa tm the tariff bill and for several days oaa ferences have boon held with PRASRAA >Iye Republicans and regular El|»> lican leaden in the hope that eoaee means to hasten consideration of the measure might he round. It stated, however, that nothlag definite been accomplished. For the purpose of sounding Repnh-. Mean sentiihent, Democratic IsaJers have Inquired •what progress could he made on the tariff, should It he igml definitely that the Senate weald aat take up the currency hill at the psaa ent session. No assurances, tt was reported, were given at to a dednlto time for voting ea the tariff bet It was asserted by minority leaders that such an assurance undoubtedly wtsst lead to earlier act ton on the tariff. Certain suggestions alao have hesm made as to possible amendments af fecting wheat, barley and other agrlr cultural rates but minority n—bare were not disposed to bargain, hicaase they could receive no assurances ef conference action en amendments ef this character. The Informal negotiations s»v* rise to a rumor that currency leglsiatlssi would not be insisted upon at toe spe cial session but this was decfa~ed t» be entirely without foundation inso far as the views of th* President and a majority of the Democratic Senators were concerned. / . Bryan Optomistic, Wilson Pleased. Wahington.—Relief -wa apparent to official circle here over the course of events in Mexico. The statement off Frederlco Gambou, the new Mexican Minister of Foreign Relations that ho had "great faith in the reasonahlgnsns of the judgment of the United States,* holding the conviction that the dlß cultiea between the two countries "soon would bo adjusted** pradnced n very favorable impression in Admin istration circles. Secretary Bryan commented optimistically on It and White House officials also were pleas ed. Csnnot Appoint Alabama Senator. Washington.—Telegrams were sent to Democratic leaders In Alabamn by Senator Overman, acting chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, ad vising them that Governor O'Neal, In the opinion of the Democratic lawyern in the Senate, had no power now. to appoint a successor to the late Bsank tor Joseph F. Johnston. The mes sage added that a majority of the law yer Senators held that the Governor could call a special election at onen. Sulxer May Be Impeached. A Albany, N. Y.—The report of tto F raw ley Legislative Committee chars' Ing Governor Sulzer with having di verted campaign contributions to Ms own private uae was adopted by the Legislature and a resolution to im peach him for "wilful and corrupt con duct in office and for high crimes and misdemeanors" was offered la the As sembly by, Majority Leader Lory. Physical Valuation of Railroad* Washington.—ln making a physical valuation of railroads the Interstate commerce commission will divide tho United States in probably six terri tories. Bach will have Its own hid quarters, which will report to head quarters here. In addition to 1-— —«*- sion headquarters, the headqaartsra of the eastera_ territory will he to Washington. King Ferdinand Addresses Ssldlns Sofia.—King Ferdinand Issued a pa thetic address to the Army. la It ho thanked his ' Tor the bravery had devotion they had. displayed to the war against the "treacherous Al lies" and declared that their offtarw wohld have been crowed with —~ cess "bad not a series of unfloswnses political circumstances j-oralyxed oar strength. Pressed on all Mm.- the address continued, "we were nbtiged to sign the treaty of Bucharest, ear country not being In a coiM'lon to struggle against five neighbors. Nettled at Americsn Comment. London.—The BrltNq Government, nettled by the common" of eestato American newspapers toßcerelng Great Britain's recognition of Find dent Huerta. declares. the com ment Is based on a miscorospifaa of" facts. It also repudiates the In stnnn tlon that the influence of powerful financial interests was used in hrbf ing about recognition, to a ilsf— ni he Government says; "The reccg -ilUoa of President Hnerta was fl» recognition of a Provisional President pending an election. *
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