If You Want to Advertise Why Not Try THE ENTERPRISE Bates Furnished on Application y »L. XV, No. 10. 1 ' '\ HYjj Hfjit Yoj; Ho nTCaupelele Introduce Our Newsy Sheet Fifty-two Weeks for $1.00 $ 1,00 per year. Schedule of Trains * Leaving Mooresville No. 16 for Statesville.. 9:00 a. in. No. 20 for W-Salem_9 05 a.- ni. No. 2)1 for Charlotte_11:86 a. m. No. 28 for W-Salem_12:06 p.m. No. 27 for Charlotte_4:42 p. m. No. 25 from W-Salem ..7:20 p. m No. 15 for Charlotte_7:25 p. ni. N». 24 for Statesville_7:47 p. m PROFESSIONAL CARDS. ALBERT L. STARR, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Colleotlons and Loan*. Off lea In Bank Building• MOORESVILLE. N. C. DR. S. FRONTIS, Dentist. Offie* over Millar's Drug Store. MOORESVILLE, N. C ZEB. V. TURLING I ON, Attorney and Counselor At-Law. MOORESVILLE, N. C. Dr. Paul W. Troutman ^.DENTISTS; Office over Bank or Mooresville. Mtooroavlllo. - - Kortb Carolina. DR. C. U. VOILS, DENTIST Merchants and Pinners’ Bin! Building, Phone 2U6. Mioorosvlllo. North Carolina. “COOK & BRAWLEY Successors to DEATON & COOK LIVERYMEN. Horses and Mules ' Bought and Sold. Good Teams - - Phone No. 12. J. C. McLEAN, Notary Public. T ansfer of Reul Estute a Specialty. Office op-stairs at R. W. Freeze & Co ^i/yiovpp^ I desire to trot+fythe pub lic that I lmvO moved my Tin Shop in the up-stairs of Mr. J. H. Walters’ build ing on Main street, adjoiuing the Merchants and Farmers, Bank, and am ready to do Tin and Slate Rooting and Repair work of all kinds. Guttering and Spout and Roof Painting a specialty. All work done on short notice and positively guar anteed. L. G. Beaver, Moorasvllla, N. C. Farm for Sale! The Field Home Place, six miles south of Mooresvllle, one mile from Coddle Creek Church, one-fourth mile from Smith Bros. Store; adjoining the lands of W. F. Smith, R L. Smith, C. H. Hamiltou, J. B. Wallace and others; well timbered and wa tered, some Rocky river bottom land. An ideal location as a home; on main road, rural free delivery, telepeone connection with surrounding towns and entire neighborhood; one mile from Coddle Creek endowed School; i thickly settled community. No better ^neighborhood in county. Address, JNO. E. FIELD, DeLand, Florida. G. 0. Cornelius Dealer .in FRESH MEATS. ’ A full line always on hand. See me before selling your Cat tle, Pork Hogs and Veal Calves. Can grind your sausage ou short notice. . G. 0. Cornelius > ■ > Phone 19. i ---: , ■ IZeCAZL PATTERS ! C?ltbnt«J li»r ttyir, perfect Ct, r :trp**c!te rr reliability nrar'y trt\, fnvaiuuhV. |.. ctyici patl.ru*, i nstmolin**, sil’mr H ftcwlnjr* fawy r re-tile wo’J ul'urv* In', : .Iqucttc, ctffxl itorks • tlay, or staU l^r tu&u;.w «. * irvt, & s;-. 1 A^nt*. Po'fal till!**?: l««wca*h|riMof c i, Amirv;* * CALL CX C3UC3V.£T77 t:~ Th« Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been In use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of "* and has been made under his per sonal supervision since its Infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. 'All Counterfeits, Imitations and “Jnst-as-good” are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castorla is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Oplunrf Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its ago is its guarantee. It destroys Worms , and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children’s Panacea—'The Mother’s Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA always The Kind You Haye Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. the ccntaur company, rr HURMY BTMCCT, tyoNR cm. fl CHRISTMAS GIFT; • 1 to bo the real- joy yo intend it to be, should be useful as well as ornamental. From now on until Christmast we will sell our large stock of Reed, oak, Leather and Upholstered ROCKERS til reduced prices. We have some upholstered in leather that ape beauties. NESBIT, PRESSLY 4 A different selection cn each side They fit any machine That tells the whole ctory cncept that at 65 cents for the Columbia Donble-Dicc you get a g better record, cn each side, than you ever I bought before at any price—and we can prove it I /.Better in volume, tone and durability. \/c guiyrantee it, too! Hearing b believing. Take me hint! Call in! Columbia Phonograph Co. - Nesbit. Presslv & Company CASTOR IA 7«r Infanta and la KM Yn Han Always Bought Bun tha Ugnatara of ..'■if HOLLISTER'S nwbkio ■ sn o Rocky Mountain Too Nuggofo 1 But) Medicine lor Bmy Peeele. Mm Go Men Health and Renewed Vltor. F«xeuvevi wubiiuomuU) *UU l)|«WIUa, LITPT • —ldney troubles, Pimples, Xciema, Ini purs Blood, Bad Breath, Sluggish Bowels, Headache MMl Backache. Its Rocky Mountain Tesln tab let form, SS• cents a box. Genuine muds hr VoieUSTSB Dsts OoxFAVT, Madison, Wls. *UNE* HUMCTS FOR SALLOW FCOFU The Price. It’s another cent on the price of milk And a cent on a pound of tea, And a cent on this and a cent on that, To be paid by you and by me— To be paid by you and by me, my man, But it oughn’t to make us rage Or make us mad if they’d only add A cent as well to our wage. It’s only a cent on a pound of meat. On a loaf from the flour of the wheat And a c.ent on the clothes we've got to wear And a cent on all that we eat. Oh, they haven’t forgot a thing, my From your shoes to your coat and jour hat. Excepting the pay you earn each day They’ve added no cent to that! But every cent they add, my man, Isacent they’ve got to pay When a halt we call to their greed and all And that time will come some day. And the cent that you pay today, my Today when you’re sore oppressed, Will be yours when due—and it's up To collect with interest! —New York World. What is Whiskey? Perhaps no more coTnptlcnted 'rind difficult problem hits arisen under the Pure Food Law than that involved in the question ask ed in the title of this paragraph. It is not by any means merely a chemical problem or one of the right use of a word. Commercial interests of vast magnitude have been at &take On their side, the “straight whiskey” manufactur ers insist that there is a recognized method of distilling, aging, and handling whiskey which results in a product to which alone the name whisky applies, and that any product which is made out of so-called neutral spirits or any product which is a blend of the real whiskey and neutral spirits is a totally different thing, and should not be called by the same name. The Pure Food authorities have taken the same view, while an opinion and report rendered some time ago by .Solicitor-Gen eral Bowers supports the opposite view. There- is no question at issue here us to whether all whis key is poisonous or deleterious in the sense used in the Pure Food Law. That law has two chief ob jects—to forbid the sale, in arti cles of food and drink, of that which is poisonous or directly in jurious to health; and, second, to prevent deceit in palming off on buyeis articles of food or drink which are not what they pretend to be. President Taft, in his final decision, rendered last week, takes the ground, that the defini tion of the word whiskey is of minor importance if some course cau be adopted to prevent fraud in the sale of the different kinds of whiskey. He accepts the gen eral use of the word in vogue, he Says, for a hundred years, to in clude all potable liquor distilled from grain, although he thinks that Mr. Bowers carries this doc trine in some point i little too far. But the President declares that the real object to be accomplished is to let the public know exactly what kind of whiskey they buy and drink. This he accomplishes by directing that everything sold under the name of whiskey shall be* so labeled as to indicute its character—that is, “straight whis key” shall be so labeled, and other products shall be branded ‘‘whis key made from rectified spirits,” or “whiskey made from redistilled spirits,” or “whiskey made from neutral spirits,” as the case may be, while, if the product is aged in the wood, that fact may also lie stated. In this wav Mr. Taft bolds that no man’s lawful busi ness will be injured and that no misunderstanding cun exist. The method of cutting the Gordian mot has in it elements of common tense aud fairness, although it will not satisfy either party to the iommercial controversy nor deuse the advanced Pure Food idvocntes. The latter urge that f blended whiskey and spirits may le sold under the name whiskeyk Bonded sugar syrup and glucose nay be sold under the name lyrirp and possibly blended butter tud oleomargarine under the name iutter. To this it may be ans wered that each case must be con udered on its own merits, that the [>resideut is not here dealing with ;tuiversa! principles hut deciding i particular problem, rind that it s misleading and futile to give mch a decisiou too wide (|au ap plication.—The Outlook. Be careful when you notice pains in he back, swelling of the ankles and eet, backache or urinary disorders, n such cases try Pineules. They will >e found an excellent remedy in all inses of Kidney trouble. Pineules ire anti-septic; they assist the kld tejrs. Sold by Oeo. C. Goodman & ». I The Past Year In Review. Tlie year 1909, just passed inti) history, will be memorable in various respects. Perhaps the two things for which it will be most notable in history are the completion of the flying machine and the discovery of the North Pole, both of which are the cul mination of lulndreds of years of of >rt. One of these is a purely American achievement, theother an achievement of several nations simultaneously, inducing oui own. In American legislation the year will be remembered for the Payne Tariff Hill, whether it remain a long or short period on our statute books. In Europe the great political events of the year were the overthrow of the Sultan of Turkey and his abso lute government, replacing them with a new Sultan and a consti tutional government, and the set ting up of a new nation, Bul giriu, independent of Turkey, to which it had been subject be fore. . Among the deaths of noted persons in 1909 three were due tothehand of the assassin—Duke Vladimir of Russia, Joseph Pet rosian, the Italian detective, and I’rince Ito, the greatest states man of Japan. The literary world has suffered greatly in the death of F. Marion Crawford, the noted novelist; Algernon C. Swine bume, the greatest of the Brit ish poets; Dr. Edward Everett Hile, Clyde Pitch, the American playwright, and Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the Century. Prom the world of business ^wo conspicuous men passed away. in. ii. nai 11nit:u-iiu nt'ury n Rogers, while from the world of politics Governor Johnson of Minnesota, was by far the most prominent figure among the de ceased. Other noted persons to pay the debt of Nature within the year were Simon Newcomb, the famous astronomer; A. K. Met'lure, the editor, and Caesar Lombroso, the noted alienist of Italy. You ill feel better after taking De VVitt’s Little Early Risers, the safe, sure, pleasant, gentle little liver pills. If you would be sure of good results insist on DeWittV t’arboli/.ed Witch Hazel Solve, the original. It is good for big cuts or little ones, small scratches or bruises or big ones, but it is especially good for piles. Sold by Geo C. Goodman & Co. The Gladstone Centenary. The English-speaking world celebrated last week the hun dredth anniversary of the birth of the great English statesman, William E. Gladstone, whose pub lie career was the longest in Eng land or America since the estab lishing of free institutions. Glad stone’s was a career of -paradoxes and contradictions. At various times his actions were such ns would have ended the political life of a weaker man ; but he rose front every discouragement and every defeat, gaining strength continu ally to the end. Toward our country Mr. Glad stone showed a varying attitude. At times he praised us lavishly, und again lie severely criticised us and our institutions, as at the opening of the Civil War, when he clearly showed that his sym pathies were with the South. But the American people are broad enough to ignore all this and to pay tribute to this great man, whose life was a blessing not to England alone, hut to all of the world. In New York city a great meeting, which tne present writer had the honor to attend, was held to celebrate this centenary, and was addressed by James Bryce, a ir British Ambassador, and a close and intimate friend of Glad stone. The unrestrained applause indicated the high esteem in which Ihe memory of the British states man is held in America* History in future will rank the name of Gladstone in the same class with Burke and Pitt and Fox and Wal pole.—The Messenger, From Pittsburg comes the re port that the H. C. Frick Coke Company is the first big indus trial plant to restore the wages! that were cut as a result of the business depression of 1907. On Monday morning a notice was posted in all the coke plants an nouncing that the higher ecn’e of wages will go into effect January 16. This step is in line with the promise of President Thomas Lynch to restore the cnt when the bnsiness would warrant. Teach the Children to Save. It jg often and truthfully said that a penny saved is a penny made. The foundation of many of the greatest fortunes was be gun by saving a penny. The habit of saving is one of the best that can be formed. Every child should be taught to save some thing every week. The satisfac tion of counting these pennies when the bank is emptied is one of the pleasure that we never for get; perhaps every of us can re member the thrill of joy we had when we emptied the contents of the bank on the table and counted and recounted this mountain of wealth; how eager we were to tell our little friends the amount of our great fortune, and raced with them in refilling! the bank. To bring this pleasure within the reach of every child and help the forming of the penny-saving 'habit, Messrs. Scott & Bowne, 400 Pearl Street, New’ York, the manufacturers of Scott's Emul sion, are offering to send to any address, for 10 cents, a beautiful little Savings Bank; each bank contains a new Good Luck Penny. Send 10 cents and get one. Pon'Ltrifle with Kidney and Blad der trouble. Take DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills as directed arid yon will at once notice sat is factory're sults. DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills are antiseptic, healing and soo thing. Be sure to get DeWitt's Kid ney and Bladder Piils when you ask for them, ltefrise substitutes and imitations. Look for the name on the package. Sold by Geo. C. Good man &Oo. Food to Continue High. ^ Washington, Doc. 2S-—“The present high prices for farm pro ducts have come to stay; the rural population is playing out; the present census, if it classes the un incorporated villages as towns will show between GO and G5 per cent, of population, living m towns,” declared- Representative Champ Clark, of Missouri, today, the minority leader of the House. “At the present rate in 20 years the United States will cease to be an exporting nation for agrictltural products, except as to cotton. “One of the principal causes of the high prices of farm products is the world movnient of people toward the towns and cities, while a few persons in towns and cities have gardens and raise chickens and occasionally pigs, practically the entire town and city popula tion are nonproducers of any thing to eat, but are consumers only. Last year for the first time Argentina beat us in exporting corn, and Argentina and Rra/il are now fixing to take the frozen meat trade from us. Until we adopt the intensive system of agri culture we have nearly reached our limit of agricultural output." There is nothing so annoying or so disagreeable as piles. VVe know of nothing so effective :n case of blind; bleeding, itching piles as Man/.an. You apply Man/.an Very convenen iently by menus of the nozzle attach ed to the tube in which Man/.an is put up. Sold by Geo. G. Goodman & Co. What is a Demagogue. Whenever a corporation editor or a tni9t representative can no longer ignore an argument in favor, of remedial legislation hi de nounces it as the utterance ol a demagogue. The U9e of tlio word ‘•demagogue’’ in such a connec tion has come to be an infallible sign that the one who uses it is consciously or unconsciou7ly a sympathizer with the abuse that needs correction. Privilege and favoritism can not be defended hence the resort to epithet. Ac cording to the dictionary- used by the beneficiaries of privilege he only is a statesman whose- ear is t ino'd’to catch the slightest pul a tions of a pocket book, while he is a demagogue who dares to listen to the heartbeat of humanity.— The Commoner. 2,000 Cherry Trees Coming:. Word has been received at Wash iugton that the 2,00") Japanese cherry trees, the present from the city of Tokio to the city of Wash ington, designed for the decorat ing of the Potomac driveway, have left Seattle, the port of entry, and are on their way to the capi tal. The trees are expected to bloom next April. They will be planted in two rows 20 feet apart, cover ing a distance of more thau three miles. I CURRENT NEWS ITEMS. j The healt h of Count Leo Tolstoi is again causing anxiety. Physi eiaus have been summoned from ■ Moscow and Tula to attend him. i T'he University College of Medi-1 cine of the University of Virginia, was destroyed last Thursday morning. The estimated loss is £ lot),(IIH). Mojor B. M. Harmd, who was a Confederate soldier of New Or-1 leans, lias accepted an invitation' to deliver the next memorial ad dress at Harvard University. ] Statistics announced l>y the! State Board of Health of Missis-! iPl’ii Show that 1SS cases of pel- ! lagra were under t re at ment in that I State during the year 19vl). Gifts amounting to a half nii' lion dollars were distribut d among the 40,000 employees oj tile International Harvester Com-j I’any as a profit-sharing pla'n. ! ■ A peace memorial, a bronze! Column 5SO feet in height, sur-i mounted by the colossal figure of an Indian, is to be erected on Staten Island, at a cost of ifltjo . OUU. The business men of Marion arc endeavoring to raise ifi’o.OOO for a pants factory which Mr. Ji. F. I Baker of Mount Mourn proposes to erect there if the capital is se cured. The Now York Wor'd presents Jndson Harmon of Ohio, Womb I row Wilson, president of Prince ton College, and William J. Cay nor of New York as its preferred candidates tor the democratic nomination for ihe presidency in 11)12. Announcement ltaa been made that' Major J. C. Hemphill, for the past twenty years .editor of trim Charleston, ri. 0 , News ana C'• >nr ier, has accepted the editorship of The Times-Dispateh of Rmlmioiid, Vu. llis new duties there to boom about February 15. Hickory is bavins; a smallpox scare. The diseases tin dee out in the negro settlement but, has spread to the section inhabited by tlie white .people. The health authorities have directed that the vaccination law he stietlv en forced. Mrs. Josephine Dudley, sister of the wife of Dr. Frederu k A. Cook, the discredited north pole discoverer, declared t hat her sis ter was wit li her husband and at his bedside. She said t hat Dr Cook was a Complete mental and physical wreck and that lie was a victim of ephasia. The regular monthly report 'of the National dinners' Associa tion, shows that up to January 1, there have been 0.t'>:M,(lJ0 bales of j cotton ginned this season, marly 55,000,000 bales less than ginned last year at the same time. The as sociation, in its report, estimates that then'are still l.V.i.QoO bales to be ginned this season. Attorney General Hell, of the State of Washington, has rendered an opinion that the. opening of I public schools with prayers or i readings from the li.iblo, may not he permitted, as under tin- con stitution public money mav not be appropriated or expended for religious.exercises, and lie holds that such prayer or reading is clearly religious exercise. During the past twelve years tim University' of North Carolina par ticipated in twenty seven Inter Collegiate debates, with eiirht dif ferent, Colleges and Universities, among which were the University of Georgia, University of Virgin-: ia, Vanderbilt University. Univer sity of Pennsylvania, Johns Hop kins* Washington and Lee and George Washington.-. Carolina won 10 of these debates which is a record of which our State may wall be proud. A new $8,000 poultry exhibition ; building is nearing completion on I the State Fair Grounds at Salt Luke City. The building is be ing constructed entirely of con crete, steel and glass, and will be one of the finest buildings of the kind in ■ bis country. Up-to-date Cooping will require an additional outlay of about $1,500. The peo ple of this progrsssive state have for some time been aware of the importance and growing possibil ities of the poultry industry, and are determined to do their share and meet them half way.—South ern Rur&list. is the original—has been the standard for thirty-five years. There are thousands of so-called “just as good” Iimulsions, but they arc not—they arc simply imi tations which are never as good as the original. 1 hey arc like thill milk— SCOTT’S is thick like a hcavy cream.: If you want it thin, do it 3'Ourself with water— but dont buy it thin. I'oit sai.i: : y ,u,i. uiaYiuisTS V V \ \ \-\ \ S- ■ V. .V . / / / / LIVERY C| r g II IYU:.S ,,j, n.i'.-i :iTyS|Vy; business wij. \v:;i iii' a d jr«*i)i>ra! Livery ;>:*.(» of Fresh and So,dinars and otli .things -Moo'd .;> oat.' Ali ui'ur! i 1 >i. r 11 ‘ v - V . - ■-r~ Wo ha vo in A ;>! t d ;; is koy J)'i idivai i n_f '.v-toni.' . Koop your dslips -Tor coin C. G. SMITH. 'S'ZL-^aZ. PIANO and VOCAL. - — Mr. W. il. Ovore.trsh (‘ i i. i r— lotto. X. C., tin1 to.ioli' !’ of i’lairo and Voico v.'i11 loach a (Miss, lions' every Tiiiii r-sl.;iy, li'iptming .Jan uary ti, ,1‘flu. Mr. Ovorcarsh huivfS Hulled with . tin- host toaoin i s of this country and Eumpo. and unidos a spo. cialty 4 of toaoldi.o 1 ,, :lill| V itied. A uuuibo.r of his piipua' arc now touchers in eoHn.fos, Add coss, W. Harvey Overcarsh, Si ndio at M ids. S: (f K iuains, South Main Street. ■ . THE SWANNANOA> For Quick Meals and Good Service. K very thing in s-m.-oh always . on imiitl. - JOHN O’CONNER & CO Take ONE of the little Tablets and the Pain is Gone HEADACH BACKACM “Refore 1 benan to use Dr Miles’ Anti Fain Fills 1 suffered for days and weeks with neuralgia. Now I rarely ever have the headache. I w ill never be without them.” Miss Eleanor Wade 825 N.eth Street, St. Joseph, Missouri AND THE PAINS OF RHEUMATISM and SCIATICA 25 Doses 25 Cents Vom Drawn wUt Df. Mile*' Antl-Peln PUU ii and be I* authorised it return (be price of the first peciafe (only) It It falls » benefit r°a.