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THE ENTERPRISE Weekly. fIftLUAMfcVON, NOftTH CAROLINA 1 " . ■ 1 / The fellow who pities himself gets Ho sympathy from anybody else. The price of cauliflower is said tc be going up Let her soar! ——————— In the tflrf&ht lexicon of love there j Is no such wort) as eugenics. Let us hope that the fellow who 1 wears a velvet tie isn't us big a mutt u he looks. . ' It isn't a good plan to burn your bridges behind you unless you are a good swimmer. r 1 / A hunter has been shot In mistake , for a squjrrel This Is combining in sult and Injury. Suppose bogus foods were generally j. known by their real names; Kindly pass the synthetic ether. -It is Impossible to convince some | people that music and playing on a piano are two different things. The advantage about tak-rig advice v la that yon'have somebody to blame It on if things don't turn out right. Fashion says. "Wear a certain sort of thingumbob on your hat," aud every woman In tlie land wears It. . % Some family skeletons ha.e been getting a lot of exposure since the diaphanous gown came Into vogue The Paris decollete dress for men has triumphantly thrown the diaph anous and.slit skirts into the shade. From the example of dis'lngulsh;>d . wen, the recipe for Continual youth seems to be hard work and plenty of it * The reason- a woman wants money is because having-It enables her to get rid of It In exchange for other things. Scle-utkits jiave discovered that pig- j skin "Is a good substitute for human skin. Queer that tliey overlooked that so long. The farmer who used to-be a terror In a horse trade Is at the mercy of the automobile salesman, just like the rest of us. A Western man is suing a railroad president because the latter's road smashed his trunk. At last, the worm 1b turning. It Is said that the tango will be the favorite society dance this winter. So ciety never was much of a place for an old man The of snakes has ndvanced | $3 a foot We wouldn't care If the price of snakes was fl.OuO an inch for boa constrictors. A man may be able to make money with a common-school education, but his son must have a college education to know how to spend It. "Trows feet" may make Missouri marble unavailable for that state's capital, lire's a chance for the "beauty doctors" to make good. I'rglng Yuan Shlh-kal to employ drastic methods, as certain of his sup porters have done. Is equivalent to urging him to be Yuan Shlh-kai.» The Incident of spilling a dish of ice cream Into a young lady's lap— which resulted In a Wedding— might uot have had the same romantic con clusion with a bottle ,of ink substi tuted. v *j Many a June bride Who had never lifted anything heavier than an em broider)' needle 1B now swinging a shovel between the coal bin and the furnace.. It ie said that women will wear men's vests this fall. It may be the time will come when it will be pos sible to stop a woman and ask her for a matchf A German prince who said bad words over the wire about the service was fined $7 for beamtenbeleidlgung. One thing that is cheaper over he»-e is beaintenbeleldlgunging. Wooden shoes, which are attaining some popularity In this country, wculd be great for bedroom wear in old fashioned homes, where the carpet tack occasionally directs its point up ward through the night., • if men wore knickerbockers thejr wOtild not need to send those gar ments to the presserß every fed days, and the reform might therefore in , cur the opposition of all the United pantoriums and pantltoriums. I ' Popcorn as a breakfast food is recom mended by the agricultural depart ment as a Way to reduce the high cost of living. It would no doubt cut down the appetite If some manner of pop ping it after eating could be devised. a§ f 11-I 1 - Census figures show that a man of forty Is not past his prime and that he la still liable to "come back." Tbo ca pacity for work of good quality ID a man after all depends very much on the man. for youth, like other treas area, can be stored up or It can b« TRW TO CORNER THE POTftTD CROP V _ ALLEGED DEALERS IN LA TOE CITIES ARE BUYING UP THE SHORT BUPPLY. ' 1 WASHINGTON*" INVESTIGATES Country Endorse* Justice Depart ment's to Break High Food Prices. Washington.—A new phase of the cost of living problem was brought to the attention of the department of agriculture. X. P. Oill, secretary of the Irish board of agriculture, told Secretary Houston that specillato'S In tlie large cities Oplted Slates were actively buying up this year's short American potato crop and plan ning ttv holdoutfor high i»rieen, count ing tin tlie existing quarantine against j potatoes from many foreign countries to aid them in their undertaking. Mr. (Jill is here to urge the removal of the embargo on potatoes from Ire land and haH been getting private ad vices from various sources on the po-* tato situation. Secretary Houston and the Federal horticultural board held a'conference after Mr. (Jill's statement, but no ac tion was announced. T i Representative Mekellar of Tennes see, author of a pending bill to pro hibit the keeping of products In cold storage for more thujl ninety days, was in-conference with department of Justice officials over Hie department's Investigation of the storage of eggs, poultry and dairy products. It is said a preliminary inquiry has revealed that 55 per cent, of the present egg supply held in storage is In the hands of the gVoat meat packers of the coun try. Letters and telegrams poured In from.all p/irts of the country, from In (llvlduals. associations of various kinds and from business .men praising the depart men( V efforts to break high fowKpriCes by proceedlngs agalnst tin* alleged combination of cohl ■. storage dealers. -Interest in Attorney General Mcßeynolds' declaration that a sweep ing Investigation will lA made of the alleged combination and that if vio lations of the pure food act wero dis closed prosecutions could be looked for, apparently is greater than In any move the department has made In a long time. * WASHINGTON AS A SURVEYOR George Washington Perfect Surveyor, Say Government Experts. Washington.—George Washington's I surveying done In 1751 when, a« a lad of 19, he ran lines with chain and compass through the wilderness of the Virginia hills for Lor.l Fairfax, has been chocked up by government sur vejmrs who have Juftt machj their re ports and who found the work of the j Immortal patriot perfect. Washington, running his lines with | primitive Instrument* and bon tires on j hill tops, left monuments and boun daries to which technicaly educated I surveyors, using high power' transits j and all the refined and accurate nielli j ods of modern instruments, allow they have been able to mid no variation. | From the top of Middle mountain In j the Massanutten range the old Fair , fax line may be distinguished without the use of Instruments and can be fol lowed by boundary fenres'dating from the Earliest days and by blocks of timber which come up for the county lines and stand out like squares upon a checker board. Down aqifosß the valley, of the south fork of the Shenan doah as far as tlie eye can distinguish the line shows plainly. Washington's survey blazep cut Into the trunks of trees and long grown j over have been rediscovered and all j are several feet higher from the j ground than those the' woodsmen of today would make. Some authorities j contend Washington made them from the saddle with a long handled ax. The government has been retracing the old lines because It Is buying land I through the territory which they run | for thennetw t Appalachian forest re i serve. - . I Sultan Loses Suit in New York. New York.—The Sultan of Turkey ! was a losing litigant in the appellate division of the supreme court of New- York. His highness sued to recover SIO,OOO from the estate of H&vhannes Tavshanjian. a wealthy Armenian rug dealer, murdered in tlilß city In 1907. This sum was left to Tavshanjian's mother, who died before receiving it. Because she died intestate In Constan tinople the sultan claimed the money. The suit was decided against him by the supreme court and the appellate division affirmed the decision. t ' - 1 1 Mayor Shank Resigns. Indianapolis, Ind.—Samuel Lewis Shank resigned as mayor of Indian- J-*polls. The resignation is the result of labor troubles in Jhe city and a threat of impeachment proceedings by a comtnlttee of business men; un > less further disorders w/>re averted, i Harry R. Wallace, city cofltttiller, suc • ceeded to the mayor's chair. Shank i offered his resignation after hejhad i conferred with a number of union la • bor official 9 regarding an Impending t strike of teamsters who told him there was little hope of averting the strike. ■ • • '"S . • • SIDNEY MOULTHROP Sidney Moulthrop la tha former em ploye of Senator James Hamilton Lew ie who Is believed to have given out tha letter In the Plndell case- He was arrested on chargea preferred by Sen ator Lewie. TRYING 10 BREAK HUERTA GENERAL VILLA IS NOW MAKING READY FOR AN ATTACK ON CHIHUAHUA CITY. Spanish Residents Appeal to the American Consul for Protection for Lives and Property. El l'aso,' Toxas.—ltebel scouts re ported to General T'ranclsco Villa at Juurosi that they had nigh ted tin- Fed eral outposts at Villa Ahumada* 84 miles Bouth of Juarez. The presence of the Federal forces at Villa Ahumada has caused no little concern in Juarez,, as the rebel officers do not know dell nitely whether they are the -troops which retreated from Tierra Lllunca after their defeat or are reinforce ments from Chihuahua,'again moving north to "engugis ViUa. "1 will leave to jTttack Chihuahua Just as soon as 1 can get my trains loaded with provisions anjJ troops." said General Villa at Juaret. "" •General Villa will hold a review and parade of his troops in celebration of the victory over the Federals at Tierra lllunca. After the parade the troops Will muke Immediate preparations for leaving for the south. Thousands of dollars' worth of pro visions were transferred trom El l'aso to Juarez to be loaded on Villa's t ruins. Villa expects to have at least 12, ■ 000 men when he attacks Chihuahua, lie said he had sent word for Gen: Thomas Urbina to bring :i,OOO men north from Torreon district, and that Gen. Manuel Chotti is now In the vi cinity of Chihuahua with 2,000 rebel troops. Villa will take 7,000 soldiers from Juarez, leaving a garlrson of about one hundred nien to protect the city. NO BAIL ALLOWED ZELAYA Former Ruler of Nicaragua la Held on the Charge of Murder, s New York. —Jose Santos Zelaya, the former president of Nicaragua, arrest ed in bed at midnight on churgea of having committed murder In Nicara gua, was held without ball fcv exutn- Ination. Pending the arrlvaC of a re,- quest for extradition to Nicaragua, hq was remanded to prison. General Zelava was arrested as a fugitive from Justice on complaint of Roger B. Wood, an assistant United Htates attorney, Mr. Wood charged that a warrant for Zelaya's apprehen sion for murder had been issued in Nicaragua, but did not name the al leged victims. It was said, however, were two countrymen slain twelve years ago and that the death of Leroy Cannon and Leonard Groce. Americans slain in Nicaragua, In 1909, in an uprising against the Zelaya re gime, had nothing to do with General Zelaya's arrest. Zelaya was arrested at midnight tn the apart men tof Washington S. Val entine. He made no effovt to escape and went uncomplainingly xo the po lice station, asking tbem to give him what conveniences they tould. Picked Hla Wife From 400 Women. New York. —Ernest W. Harrow, a contracting mason of Pfttchogue, Long Island, celebrated Thanksgiving Day by taking his pick of over 400 wom en who had offered to be his life mate. Darrow had been advertising for a wife since last May and the several hundred applicants not only besieged htm by lrtter, by telegraph and by telephone, but many visited him in/person. Miss Julia Stagg, an English girl who landed in Canada from England, won and the couple were married. Two Boys Killed Hunting. Atlanta, Ga.—Clforles Bridwell, 10- year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Bridwell, residing on the Bjayson and Turner road, was Instantly killed at two o'clock Thanksgiving Day in a pasture not far from hi« home, when a shotgun in the hands of his brother,! Basil, aged 18, exploded, blowing off the entire base of his skull. "Shot ac cidentally while on a Thanksgiving hunting trip, Johnnie Garst, aged 14 years, son of James E. Garst, a recent i candidate for recorder, died in the Grady hospital later the same dar. DANIELS OUTLINES poucy FOR RA GOVERNMENT OIL AND GOVCRN- M:NT ARMOR PLATE' FAVORED. SECRETARY MAKES REPORT Wants Two More Dreadnauchta, Eight -esiroye®. and Three Sub marines During Coming Year. Washington. lmmediate acquire ment ana operation of oil w«!ls and refineries to furnish fuel for the navy, an International conference to secure a reduction of naval construction, the addition of two dveadnaughts, eight dnatroyeru and three submarines for the navy during the coining year, gov ernment manufacture of armor, more naval cliaplaThs'and fellglous lea. .ers, better ec-national facilities for en- Hated-me i and a--graduated i::ure tnent law are chief recommendiu.omt, in the first annual report of Becre.ary Daniels, made public. Tliu secretary depart* from the usual, cusrtom In addressing the pres ident In the first person singular, thereby adding to the directness and force of the report's statements., The report -reflgctt his enthusiasm over the tiavy, declaring that "the* sto:*y of the yeaf's work "by this pulHotic body of efflftant defenders of the re public is repftye *' example!* of courage, devotion, sacrifice and prog ress." ' * The secretary says the navy was never in such a high state of efi'elen ey as today, and that in considering Its future needs lie has given less thought to the guna than to the men behind the nuns. Relieving that the efficiency of the navy as a flulitlng force will be In the Highest sense pro moted by the adoption of a serimis and systematic course of 4n«tr»Kstl»n aboard ship and at shore stations, he ;>oints out that the department 1H try inn to make the lYavy a great universi ty. Not only ordinary seamen, "hut even petty officers have too little ac curate knowledge and this will be cor rected by a systematic course of In struction. Midshipmen of the gradual ing classes will be utilized as Instruc tors *wtfch~4nuturtl benefit to the men and themselves," and to fit them for this work a short normal course will be added to the naval academy curric ulum. As the war college Is the apex of the navy System of education the department will try to have all offi cers pas* through this training, mall courses where advisable. WOMEN CAMPAIGN FOB VOTES Tltey Will Urge Congress to Adopt Constitutional Amendment. Washington.—A week's campaign by the National American Woman Suf frage Association to secure the adop tion of a constitutional amendment to enfranchise women was launched at a mass meeting in Washington. It was the formal opening of the, forty fifth annual convention of the associ ation. An assemblage, which packed t'ht edifice from footlights U gallery, listened for nearly three hours to dls (Missions on various phases of the mil/ frage cause by conspicuous advocates of the woman movement. Suspended above the drop curtain was a huge yel- Jow banner bearing thel egend: "We Demand an Amendment to the United States- Constitution Enfranchis ing Women." The association adopted almost unanimously a set of resolutions in troduced by Mrs. Helen Ring Robin son. a member of the Colorado state senate, calling upon President Wilson, J "In his forthcoming message to con grt'ss to adopt .the >vonian suffrage I constitutional amendment as an admln istrallon measure and to urge con cress to take lmn*eliat« and favorable tftion upon it," Soldiers Patrolled Zabern. Zabern, Alsace. Germany.—Soldiers liatrolled the streets in to hold in check the townspeople, who are highly Incensed at the repressive measures of the German army officers and the arrest and detention for Al leged disorderly conduct of thirty cltl iteus who, however, were discharged by*^tfr£' 'civil' ctmrts So strict were the measures taken that thefe waa no signs of rioting. '• J American Battleships Cheered. VUle Pranche, Prance.—The United States battleships Wyoming, UJah and Delaware sailed from here. As they slowly drew out the Wyoming's band struck Marseillaise and thou sands of spectators who lined the shores fluttered handkerchiefs and cheered the departing Americans. The ships of .the American fleet, will join company off Gibraltar and proceed to gether to the Aaorw. Xhere the fourth division, comprising the Connecticut' Ohio and Kansas, will proceed for Guantanamo,- . 'Lead Pencils Cause Diphtheria. Suffield. Conn. —Lead pencils, dis tributed and collected each day In the lower grades of the 'Bridge street grammar school, are held to be respon sible for an epidemic of diphtheria among the pcplis by Dr. W. E. Cald- I well of the h'wlth board. He ordered the pencils burned and forbade con tinuance of the custom. Fifteen of tht forty pupils In two rooms .have the disease, some of the cases being serious. Doctor Caldwell found that nearly -%U the children pat the pencils to their m^tba. MARIA RUIS Among the persons rescued from the burning steamship Balmes by the Pannortra and brought to America, was Maria Ruls, wife of one of the officers of the Oalmes. It was her pet parrot which gave the first alarm sf fire on the vessel by crying "fuego, fuego." The bird was forgotten and perished. RAILWAY CHi-FS ME DEAD HEAD OF SOUTHERN RAILWAY IS OVERCOME IN WASHING. TON BY APOPLEXY. President of Atlantic Coast Line Die* in Wilmington. North Carolina. Washington—William Wilson Fin ley, president of the Southern rail way and a leading figure in move- 1 nients for the development of the South, died here, as a result of a stroke of apoplexy he suffered a few - hours before, lie did not regain con sciousness after he wis stricken. | Mr. Flnley was born on September 2, 1853, In Pass Christian, on the gull j coast of Mississippi. He was educated in the private school of Pass Chris- I (Inn and grew to early manhood in j the atmc«phere of this picturesque j section ol the South. At the age of 20 ; he entered the railroad service as a i stenograp'-ier and by 1889 he had filled : almost ever minor position In the clerical department of various rail- I roads. During the succeeding six year»„ Mr. Flnley served several railroad tems Irt Important executive capact- ! ties. Hr* became on October 1. 1895, I third vl'ie president of the Southern i railway. Later he was second vict j president of the Great Northern rail way, but on September 15, 1896, he re turned to the Southern railway, as sec ond vlcj president, "fen yearp later, ! In Dece nber, he was chosen president , of the Southern In succession to Sam- , uel Spencer, who was killed In a mar end collision on thfe morning |of Thanksgiving day, «ix years ago. , I Wilmington, N. C, 4 --Thomas Martin Emerson, president of the Coast Lino railroad company, died at his home in this city following an at tack of acute indigestion while on a trip of inspection over the system Mr. Emerson was elected president of the Atlantic Coast Line eight yearq ago. He rose to the presidency of one of the South's greatest railroad systems from the very ranks by successive steps, first as clerk, in the freight of fices. later as chief clerk in the passen ger office, then general freight agent and later, until July. 1902, general traffic manager, beiqg accounted at [ that time one of th* best traffic men In the entire country, Clements Found Guilty. Valdogta, Qa. —Warren Clement who has been on trial in the superior court here, charged with the mu-der of E. J. Griffin, a merchant of Cat Creek, was found guilty with a recom mendation that h,e be sent to the penl tentlary for life. The killing of Grif fin occured about two years ag\ dur ing a drinking bout. Clements" was tried in the superior court last year, and found guilty with, a recommends tion to mercy. His attorneys carried the case to the court of appeals and ©v tained a new trial. ' Over $200,000 Stolen* by Clerk. New York.—'The theft of more than s2of,o£o worth of Union Pacific Rail road company and Generai. Electric company securities from the Faroe • " Loan and Trust company of this city became known when James E. Foye. 3o yeara old, a former $76 a month clerk y the trust company, was ar rested as he stepped from a train from Philadelphia. Foye was charged with being a fugitive from Justice. At police station. w*«*s Poye was Search ed, the police alleged that a certified FM AMENDMENT . ' 1 MEMBERS OP CONFERENCE DE MAND DRASTIC LAWS CON- fX CERNINO LIQUOR TRAFFIC. j «, I > *. COMMITTEE MAKES REPORT W — 1 "* • J; Would Deny Use of Malle For Any Publication or Circular Lettnra . Advertising Whiskey or Solloltinf Orders in Dry Territory. j. Charlotte. —Expressing firrnwly Ha lplnlon of _ the liquor traffic, the Western North Carolina Conference adopted resolutions recently an amendment to the Federal Con stitution forbidding the transporta tion, Importation or exportation of In toxicating liquors as a beverage, and . also a law forbidding the use Of -the malls to any publication that carries advertisements of liquor, morphine, ~ cocaine or similar drug* The Con- , ference would also Inhibit the uas of the malls for circularizing dry terri tory and soliciting orders for liquor. The subject was broached by the committee on temperance which atib | milted its report at the special after noon pension through Rev. E. Myers. The resolution expressed Joy that the recent Nationwide prohibition meet ing at 'Columbus, 0., was such a auc cess and that the outlook for a Fed eral constitutional amendment pro hibiting the transportation, importa tion or exportation of intoxicating liquors was so bright. It stated that j inasmuch as the V>ebb !»w nmk« it illegal to bring liquor from outside r points into dry. portions of any atate except for personal , use, the next Leg ! iblature is petitioned to enact such laws as may be nepessary to secure the largest amount'of prohibition 'Un der the Webb law. !• • . The Senators and Representatives are asked to use their influence to prevent the issuing of Federal licenses In dry territory. Endorse Anti-Saloon League, j "We endorse the work of the North I Carolina Anti Saloon League," ton i.ttnued the report "The recent attack i on Rev. R. L. Davis show thaf'the | whiskey element fears the activity of this organization and therefore the churches all ought to give it bene ) lit of their barking and support. We f assure Brother Davis of our confi dence in him and in the cause he rep resents." I It was asked that Messrs. H. M. Blair and N. L. Eure be re-elected i members of the* executive committee of the North Carolina Anti-Saloon I League. Preachers were urged to ; emphasize the subject of temperance. Mr. E. A. Cble, in a vigorous speech in which he arraigned the use of liquor, offered the amendment asking for legislation that would deny the use of malls to publications advertis ing liquor or other harmful dhigs. He declared that one of the greatest ! evils of the day, was the carrying of invitations to drink intoxicate i lnto ' millions of Ifionies. !i 1 Davidson Lost in Debate. Charlotte.—University of South Car olina triumphed .qver Davidson Col lege in the third and decisive contest of a series of debatSs. The question | was "Resolved, That the Commission Form of MunlclpaL Government should be Oeneraly Adopted in the United States," South Carolina urholdlng the I affirmative. The best speech is ac credited to M. A. Wright of South Car- Molina, whose collegue was J. 8. Dud ley. Davidson was represented by H. M. Marvin and C. L. King. - Three prominent North Carolina attorneys served as Judges: These were Clyde ; R. Hoey, of Shelby; Frank ftaak, of HUlsboro, and W. L. Foushee, of Dur» ' ham. - - Pstents Granted Tar Heela. Washington.—Messrs. Davis A Da vis, Patent Attorneys, report ' the grant recently "to citizens of North | Carolina of the following patents: Ferrell Parrlsh, West Durham, Har i ness-hook; William C. Sw'fvhefcson, ; Rocky Mount, Locomotive-axle bear j lng. ' p ;.' New Paper For Durham. Burllnfrton.-VThe "Democrat" Jis a . I new paper to be.published at Duitiam. A stock company was recently oj-gan lzed in that city for the purpofe of publishing a weekly political paper. . Gen. J. S. Carr was elected president . of the company at a recent mating , of the directors, C. F. Crowson, efaitOr of the Burlington News, editor, a The first issue will appear in about! two I i'weeks. The Democrat will pay! spe . cial attention to politics in the Ltate and cJunty. *>" ' i Red Croas Stamps Selling Will. , Durham.—Committers of the]) Red . Cross Society of Durham be gap an ■ active campaign in Durham recently ' for the purpose of selling Red Cross i stamps in Durham, and the first day's . work was a very suocessful one. j One ; lady disposed of 5,000 of these stamps, and others reported to the cqntral i committee that they had betterfluck i than they anticipated la selling these I Christmas seals to Durham buapness • houses. The ladles of the local organ ' lzation are especially interested in the campaign this year. S
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