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THEENTEK-PRIsE Published Weekly. WILLI AMBTON, NORTH CAROLINA Ll','! -i-i » AM an autumn a port the tango ti throttling football. The one most rare thing of the age la a movie film with a klssless plot t Some oystera lay 60,000,000 eggs u year and yet-they never cackle ovef the feat. To call the sleeping porch a "sola rtum" makes It more habltablo In cold weather. A scientist declares the oyster di gests itself. It should prove a boon to the lazy, man. Smoke Is said to cost Pittsburgh $10,000,1)00 annually. It certainly Rlvea color to the city. A new use for giants has been found. They are fine as fruit pickers and are 111 great demand out west. You always are advised to look be fore you leap,, but what's the differ ence BO long as you leap? Those new English overcoats for men give the wearer the graceful contour of a shock of fodder The way most theatrical men de velop a sense of discrimination is by hooking their chariots to stars The meteorological preparations for next year's wheat crop, so far as they have gone, are pretty Batlßfactory, too. II is not Infrequently the CUSP (hat when a man brags that lie doesn't Htay out late at night he in simply hen pecked When real Havana cigars may lie known by the label there will be Jus tification for looking a gift cigar in the band. The Pittsburgh man who was fined $26 for winking at a girl will leave the country If ho ever has the St Vitus dance. Any mlllllinalre who objects to the Income tax can readily find plenty will ing to take &vvr his burden of wealth, tax and all. Ar. explorer claims.to have discov ered an island where the women have two voices. Why can't he let bad enough alone? * Doctors nay that the tango Is respon sible for a new disease. Most persons won't hesitate In * calling the dance Itself a disease. Three women have organized a law Arm with the likelihood that not one of the three wants to be known as tho Senior member. Mesothorium being far less expen sive than radium, cancer comes that much nearer being placed within the means of the poor. When It gets down to brass tacks. It will be generally agreed that," after all, mother does thu best Job as a teacher of sewing. Now that the Gatun locks have net tled down to the Job It looks as If It would take something more than an earthquake to disturb them, Over in Germany they have found a new way of beating the income lax. **lrst thing we know there will he an exodus to Germany to learn the secret. Five husbands up for sentence for non-support tf)L RbUadelphta pleaded that they could not find work They should be compelled to take in wash ing. Among the other big jokes of the season might be mentioned the rumor that hoopsklrts are coming back. Can you imagine it? An eastern preacher saye society Is on the way to purgatory. Any one watching some of the present fashions may have little difficulty In agreeing with him. The suit for alienating $1,000,000 worth of a man's affections raises the Interesting speculation whether affee that are worth that much CBJI be alienated. Why trouble ourselves with spec ulating as to what might happen if the earth moved siiteen times as fast as it do*B now, when we have such A momentous question as the move ments of our office boys on our hands One hundred and twenty-five miles an hour at the International aeroplane races Is plenty of speed At that rate It will take less than 24 hours to cross the Atlantic when a fuel Is invented so light that a supply for that length of time can be carried. Among a lot of funny things the federal government does, here is a plan to haul several carloads of prunes fropi coast to coa«t for the purpose of seeing Just how mnch a prune Bhrlnks hi transit. Gloom and worry cauee appendici tis, while smiles and cheer are Its deadly foes. Which recalls the dras tic command of the western photogra pher while pointing a pistol at his patron to smile or take the cons* MEN PLAY ram IN MEXICAN MR » / MANY OF THEM ARE ACTING A 8 FORAGERS FOR THEIR MEN. ACT AS SCOUTS FOR ARMY Many of the Women of Mexico Joined Ranka Rather Than Stay at Home Alone. I)cl Rio, Texas.- Women of Mexico are playing a prominent part In the warfare of the southern republic, eith er iiH "soldaderas," foraging success fully for their men, or occaalanally as actual lighters. This is true probably because the present revolution lias touched indi viduals and the homes more intimate ly than any other conflict of recent times. Nearly every woman in north em Mexico has seen warfare, shorn of its theatricality, because it entered the home and left death and want. Many of these women have left their homes rather than to remain alone, and a few of them have gone under lire to get revenge. In the Hiege in progress at Monte rey, a valued member of Gen. Pablo Gonzales' Constitutional command is Senorita Maria Sanchez, said to be u wealthy Castillan whoso brothor was shot by Federal Irregulars. She gave up the comforts of a luxurious home and begged for permission to replace her brother. A few months ago at Monclova a Hon of Senora Pimental of that city had been sentenced to he shot. The mother got Into the federal Jail by stealth and stabbed two of the guards and rescued her mm, escaping to the Constitutionalist headquarters, then at Hermanas, 20 miles away. In the Federal ranks there is told the story of the wife of an officer who led the Constitutionalists into an am buscade at l'uerta Carmen, and, though Ilred upon by the maddened troops, galloped through the lines to her husband's side. When less than a month ago the Federal army of General Maas occu pied the Constitutionalists' provisional capital *at IVedrns Negras, on the American border across from Fugle Pass, the "soldaderas" played an Im portant role in the bloodless capture. A small group of them pitched their tents on the overlooking hills two days before their njen arrived, acting as iookoutH. When the army arrived, fully five hundred of these soldier women accompanied It. most of them guarding the wagon trains, which their skill as foragers had stulTeil to burst ing. A few hours after the Qlty vfas occupied the women spread supper for the entire army in the open plasta. SENDS MESSAGE TO WILSON Gineral Carranza Tells President How to Deal With Mexico. Nogales,^Sonora.—Through Dr. 11. A. Tupper of the International peace fo rum, Ueneral Veivustlauo Carranza, head of the Constitutionalists of Mex ico, transmitted to the United States government ail oflteial statement that suggests that President Wilson can solve the Mexican problem by merely according to the Constitutionalists the right to Import arms freely from the t'nited States. The struggle in Mexico will continue until one side or the other is beaten Into helplessness, the statement as serts. it further declares that the Con stitutionalists are confident of wiping out lluerta and his partisans In a short time if Cie embargo on arms Is lifted. Carranza came here from Hermosll lo, the jebel capital/ with Doctor Tup per. who had baen with him there for several days. General Carrmza's statement, which was submitted In a formal letter to Tupper will lv* communicated by the ■atter to Secretary IJryan. Tupper telegraphed to Secretary Bryan asking him If he desired the statement. The secretary replied In the affirmative, adding, however, that it would rece've only unofficial at tention. Tupper'H recommendations and impressions also were requested. Prank With Gun Causes Death Tuskegee, Ala. -Sterling Floyd, 23 years old, so%«of a large turpentine operator. Is in Jail, charged with mur dering O. T. Holes, aged 30, at MU stead, Floyd is said.to have playfully put his shotgun in the face of each of five young men standing In front of a store, when he returned from hunting. Boles warned him that he might accidentally shoot some one, wheu Floyd, it is claimed, raised gun. knocking Howies' hat off. This, Holes resented, atid Floyd pulled his pistol and shot Holes. Shoots Four Men for Fall. Kvanston, 111.-An unknown man shot four young men who threw him from his bicycle, and two of them are expected to die. According to August Stelnkle, the only member of the party who was*not wounded, one of his friends shoved the rear wheel of the bicycle and the rider had a bad fall. Getting to his feet the cyclist drew a revolver and began firing. Two were shot in the abdomen and may not recover. The others were shot ln Uw lvfg 1 GEN. THOMAS J. STEWART i General Stewart la president of the National Guard association, having been re-elected at the meeting of the association recently held In Chicago. POWERS WILL NOT OPPOSE UNITED STATEB WILL ASK CO OPERATION OF EUROPE TO ELIMINATE HUERTA. Great Britain, France and Germany * Have Agreed to Wait for the American Proposals. Washington.—Three Kuropean na lions, Great Britain, Germany and France have agreed to adopt no new policy toward Mexico until the gov ernment of the United States can sub mit for their consideration A definite plan for the future treatment of the revolution-torn republic in Central America. That a request of the powers to await a proposal regarding Mexico from this government had been made and that the thrt*e great Kuropean nations had yielded to the request was announced by Secretary Hryan. Mexico City.—ln the event that the Huertu Hlanquet ticket la shown to have polled a majority sufficient to be declared elected, as now aeems probable, congress will declare the Muerta votes void and ltlanquet will take the oath us vice president and assume office as president pending the calling of further elections. A DEADLOCK THREATENED Advocates of Central Bank and Friends of Regipnal Bank May Not Agree Washington.—A threatened deadlock in tlu> senate banking and currency committee over the proposal to sub stitute a government-owned bank for the regional reserve bank plau in the administration currency bill became apparent when the committee began executive consideration of the meas ure. Discussion wan confined to the central reserve bank scheme, and while no vote was taken the debate disclosed six senators for the govern ment controlled bank and six for the administration regional system. The tlve Republicans 'on the com mittee, Weeks, McLean, Nel son, Crawford and Ilrlstow, argued for the central bank scheme. They were joined by Senator Hitchcock, one of the Democrats, who has opposed the administration bill in many of its pro visions. Senators Reed and O'Gorman, who had expressed themselves in fa vor of the central bank plan, swung Into line with the other Democrats The vote was delayed, and Chairman Owen ,at the close of the session said that ho believed that the administra tion plan would be Anally adopted. Hester's Monthly Cotton Figures. New Orleans. Secretary Hester's New Orlfcans cotton exchange state ment Issued covers the monthly move ment to October 31, Compared with last year It shows a decrease for the month in round figures of 16,000, an In crease compared with year before last of 129,000 and with 1910-11 an increase of 456,000. The total for October was 2,917,422, against 2,933,813 last year, 2,788,324 year before last and 2,461,- 016 for the same time in 1910. Troops Ordered to Strike Region. Denver, Col. —Mobilised in approxi mately six hours, the commands of the Colorado National Guard began mov ing toward the south Colorado coal fields, where martial law has been es tablished In compliance with the gov ernor's proclamation, wfiile the or dering of troops to the coal fol lowed the failure of Gpvernor Am mori's efforts to arrange a settlement, an addition reason for the action was found in the list of casualties and property damage that have marked the thirty-five days of the strike, • Mrs. King Comes Clear, Gray, Ga.—The hand of the law that held her in prison since last Christ inas. charged with killing her hus band, was lifted from Mrs. Kate King,' when Foreman W. W. Barron, .brother to one of the lawyers who convicted Nick Wllburn, read a verdict of '"not guilty", after the jury had been out four hours. Only a deep sigh be tokened what the woman had heard. From beneath her black veil not a trace of emotion could be seen. She «ND(d to realiie the import of the THE COTTON CROP SHOWS A DEGLIKE DROP OF FIVE POINTS IN COTTON CONDITION—KILLING FROST THE CAUSE. MANY ESTIMATE j ARE MACE Georgia Crop Declined 4.3 Points Average Estimate of the Out put 13,747,000 Balsa. New York.—Accord ng to 1,64* re ports of the special 'correspondents o. the Journal of Commerce Bearing a. average date of October 23, cotto shows a deterioration of 5 points I; condition was 67.1. Killing frosts atu excessive rain were the chief cause of damage. A year ago at this timt condition lost 1.5 po nts. In 1911 1 lost 1.5 points, in 1910 It lost nothlnp In 1909 it lost 3.9 points, and in 1908 It lost 3.6 points. Declines occurre. in all states except Tennessee and Florida, which Improved 2 po nts ant 3 points, respectively. Important de clines were: Louisla mi, 15 points; Mississippi, 8.6 points; Texas. 0.3 points; North Carolina, 6.8 points; (Jeorgia 4.3 points, Arkansas 4.-. points, and South Carolina, 4 points. Condition changes for the past four years together with percentage con (litlon last month, are glveil in the ac companying table: Condition Condit on States. Oct. Nov, 'l2 'll N. Carolina. . . .7.43 5.8 .7 .6 S. Carolina . . .74.0 4.0 3.3 2.( Georgia 75.8 4.3 5.3 2.C Florida 77.9"- 3.0 8.4 3.C Alabama 68.2 1.0 4.0 .6 Mississippi . . . .68.0 8.6 2.0 3.4 Loulsina. . '. . .62.4 15.0 1.5 6.0 Texas 64.6 6.3 .2 1.3 Arkansas . . . .67.0 4.4 .6 1.2 Tennessee . . . .68.0 2.0 1.8 4.2 Missouri . . . .52.0 1.0 5.0 6.5 Oklahoma 50.5 2.0 3.0 .2 Totalß . ... .67 500 1.5 1.6 From the Above table it will Ik seen that condit on on October 23 was 61.1, against 68.* a year ago, 69.3 In 1911. The Journal of Commerce has no opinion of its pwn to offer regarding the yield of this season's crop; but li order to gather the concensus of Southern opinion Its correspondent* were specially requested to give thei: lnd'vldual estimates of the crop, with these results. Thirty-two replies ranged twelve million to thirteen mil lion five hundred thousand; 97 replies ranged thirteen million to thirteen mil lion tlve hundred thousand; 226 repl ranged thirteen million to fourteen mil lion; 121 replies ranged fourteen mil lion to fourteen million and five hun dred; 71 replies ranged fifteen million to sixteen million. The average of all repl'es received Is thirteen million seven hundred and forty-seven thousand bales, which closely approximates the estimate? made by several good authorities out side of the growing districts, where the tendency Is usually to underesti mate the crop. Out of the 647 estimates received 347 ranged between tli rteen nillllor tlve hundred thousand and fifteen mil liou five hundred thousand bahw. U. S. WANTS FAIR ELECTION Believed the United State* Is Planning to Take Active Part . Washington. -Reticence which ha; enveloped the plans of the Washing ton on the Mexican problejn continues In whatever is attempted, due con slderntion of the Constitutional sts a; an important factor In the situation will probably be given. It was In ferred in many quarters that the car dinal features of the administration's plan will be a eontprehens ve scheme to bring about a fair and free elec lion, efforts to be made by the Amer lean government to use Its good office to secure the participation of the Con stitutionalists. In some quarters the suggestion was advanced that the Washington gov eminent contemplate^assisting mate rially in the conduct of the proposed elections to Insure certain safeguards It is admitted that no action will be taken until an announcement of an official character Is made In Mexico as to the result of the 1 elections. Woman Found Guilty of Murder. New Haven, Cimn. Mrs. Bess e J Wakefield of Bristol, mother of the three little children, was found guilty of murder in the tirst degree for h'ei pari in the killing or tier husband. Kvi dence in the trial showed ,that Mrs. Wakefield conspired to get rid of Wakefield. While Mrs. Wakedold took her children out for a walk, James JPlew partly drugged her husband and then shot him to death Akn fe was driven in the body and a rope placed around the neck to give, the appear ance of suicide. Two Men Are Killed. Atlanta. —Two men were killed out right and two seriously injured and a hundred passengers severely shaken up when Southern-railway psssonger train No. 29, en route from Columbus to Atlanta, was derailed along a'curve over a steep embankment near Grif fin, Ga. The dead men ar« Engineer Thomas H. Gay and Ftreman B. C. Pearson of Atlanta. They were bur led beneath the heavy engine. Cop- ANTHONY COMSTOCX I x%' : ?4sMKpV . Mr. Cometock It the ever active toe of vice and Indecency in New York. rIEICHtR EUCftD AGAIN FLORIDA SENATOR RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT AT MOBILE CONVENTION. Seventh Convention of Southern Com- mercial Congress Comes to a Close at Mobile. .Mobile, Ala.—The seventh conv#n .lon of the Southern Commercial cdn' ;ress was brought to a close after a llrectorate composed of many new jiembers was elected and resolutions jpon Important subjects discussed had /een paused. Soon after the election hose directors present met and heard irKuments of representatives of Ok la na City and Houston in favor of their ■itfes for the next convention, and jleeted officers. The directors will lelect the next meeting place at some uture diitys. Only the two cites men ioued put In a formal Invitation for he 1914 convention. These officers .vere elected: President, Senator Duncan U. Fletch >r; first vice president, T. 8. Soulh ;ate; second vice president, Albert Hush; managing director, Dr. Ciar mce J. Owens; treasurer and resident lirectot% W. H. Sanders. Chief among resolutions adopted vas one instructing the directors of he congress to at once, begin a ays ematized propaganda aiming at di -erting trade made possible by open ng the Panama canal to southern lort*. Officials of the congress are ordered to do this as quickly as po ilble. Another important resolution trges. upon the. United Stages con tress to put into effect as soon as iracticable a system of rural cretl ts. This resolution was adopted unan noualy after it had been pointed out n several speeches how the Southern 'armer Is handicapped by lack of a ioun'l system of credit and how much s lost to the South each because if the absence of system in growing ind handling crops. The Federal government is called on n another resolution furnished early n each year the cotton splndlo ca»i'i'i ity of the country so that the pro- Incer may have an equal advantage vltli the consumer in this respect. The also urged that cotton be Traded at the gin under Federal su pervision In order to save the otal loss caused by taking samples from bales and that bonded warehous es receipts be given certifying the «.'or -eet weight and grade of the prod uct. ' BUSCH LEAVES MILLIONS Only $210,000 of the Brewer's Es- tate for Charitable Purposes St. Louis.—The will of Adolphus Bit sell, filed for probate, makes char itable bequests aggregating $170,101) to a number of St. Louis institutions, and places the bulk of the estate in irust. Mnr. Llllle Busch, Charges Na *el and August A- liusch are named trustees. In addition to the charitable be quests In the will, Mr. Busch left a . jrivate memorandum requesting mem bers of his family to make certain other donations, most of which are pri vate in their nature. The attorneys, however, made public the names of > eight St. Louis institutions, which are i to receive, under the memorandum, a i total of $40,000, making the total be quests for charitable purposes $21,000. Big Rail Bond Issue Fought. Boston. -Former Governor Morgan . G. Bulkley of Hartford, Conn., and r Charles S. Ensign, of Newton, brought a hill In equity in the supreme court . asking the New York, New Ha- . ven and Hartford railroad company [ be enjoined from issuing bonds to i the amount of $67,552,000 and 675,- 3 '>2o additional shares of stock author- I lied at the meeting of stockholders > August 22. The complainants, who 1 stockholders, say it is contemplated . that the additional shares of stock shall be distributed Killed 80-Vear-Oid Wife. Pelhanj. N. H. —The 80-year-old wife of Ernest McCoy, a farmer, was found 1 murdered In the parlor of their home 1 with two revolver bullets in her body, r McCoy made an attempt at suicide by a shooting himself in the head just as ft his three daughters arrived hurriedly In response to letters he had written r them, saying ho was about to commit I. suicide. While McCoy was receiving '- medical attention, an inquest be i- Ing held in the parlor of the house' HUfRTA MUST 61 UP PfiESIDENGY FORCED TO GIVE ONE OF TWO ANBWERB; BUT HAB NOT ANSWERED YET. DIPLOMATIC CORPS MEET Southern Republic No Longer Doubte That Washington Government Fa- vor® t Rebel Cauae. —Wilson and Bryan Plan to Aaaiat Carranza. 'Mexico City.—President Huerta has been told he must resign the preei dency of Mexico without loss of time and that he mil*: not leave as his successor Ton. Auraliano Balnqnet, fets Minister of War, or any other mem ber of bis official family or o4 tHe unofficial coterie whom "be rrrHstrt tie expected to control. This ultimatum from Washington was conveyed to President Huerta through his private seoretaty, Senor liebago by Nelson O'Shauffhnessy, the American Oharge d'Affairs, acting under instructions from the state department. Senor Habago presented the memo randum to Ms chief recently , but President 'Huerta has returned no answer and. as far«s could 'be learn ed, had guarded its contents from al most aH of his official and intimate counsellors. Those who learned of the Washing ton note regard General Huerta's por tion as one in which he will he forced to gl*e one of two answers—refusal point blank, to comply with the de mand, possibly going no far an to hand the diplomatic representative his passport, or the eHinination of himself officially. Those most inti mate wfth the I'fbsldent Insist that the latter course will not be taken for many reasons, chief among which Is that such action would be tant amount to submission to the rebels. Official Mexico Is no longer in doubt that the Washington Administration favor* the rebel cause and Is eon vi&ced that this Is the means adopted by President Wilson and Secretary Bryan to assist Carransa to win. , General Huerta summoned to the National Palace the Dlpolmatic Corpe. but for what purpose was not reveal ed. Three of the Ministers, those of Germany, Norway and Russia, were absent. They have been In Vera Ortiz, where they were 1n conference with President Wilson's representative. John Lind, who Is understood to fee fully conversant with the latest rep resentations from Washington. Fire Cause* $5,000,000 Loaa. Bucharest A loss estimated ar $5,000,00t has been caused by Area which spread from one oil well to an other In the petr6leum district of Morent. The fires started with the explosion or a large well and s-pread through the -whole valley and alon# the hillsides which were a mass of flames. Over 25 wells were alight, all burning furiously. Two Killed by Falling Building Hartford, Conn. —Two persons wsre killed, three fatally injured and an other seriously hurt here when the ' entire side of a four-story brick stern* 1 house in North Front street collapsed and crushed through the adjoining ; frame dwelling house of John Hughes. The dead are: John Hughes, K» years old, and TOva Dooty, 6 years old, his granddaughter. High Tidea Cauae Damage Windsor, Nova Scotia.—lmmense damage has been caused by the re i cent hig"h tides along the coast be tween Windsor and Grand Pre. Sev j eral miles of dikes have been swept ! nway and large areas of valuable land are under several feet of water. Spaniah Officer Executed. Madrid, Spain.—A \ll ring squad of Spanish troops at dawn executed Cap tain Manuel Sanchez, a Spanish army officer tound guilty ©y a court mar tial of the murder of Don Garcia Ja lon, a wealthy land owner last May. Train Strikes Boulder. • lacrosse. Wis. Passenger train No. 66 on the Chicago. Burlington & Quinry Hail road was wrecked n«ar Genoa, Wis., when the locomotive struck a boulder half the box _ car, weighing 100 tons which had bees dislodged by recent rains and rolled upon the blufT ontq the track. Engi neer James M. Pratt, of Lacrosse, was possibly fatally injured. -His jaw was broken and the nlde at his face crushed in. Four Italian track labor ers and a negro porter also were in jured, but not fatally. Edward Morris, Packer, Dead. Chicago.—Edward Morris, president | of Morris 4 Co., packers, died at tols home recently after an Illness, of | more than a year. Mr. Morris was born in Chicago 47 years ago and was the eldest son of tne late Nelson Morris, pioneer packer. He suffered a nervous breakdown about a year ago and was obliged to give up acttve business. He spent last winter In traveling in search or iMailh but
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