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Q/T'or-Ga)ESAi?y * Peoplu-u' r*— p —' mi Jin ——■ —i in a NO AIRS TO LOUIS HILL " ' when he was married, und while his father gave the ground on which ids sou built a home Louis declares lie didn’t get a larger salury or a bigger job. At thirty years of age Hill was president of the Great Northern railroad, a position which he had earned as a result of hard labor. Louis admits that opportunities were made for him, but he had to take them and make good as an individual before he could be advanced. As a railroad manager Mr. Hill spends from 12 to 14 hours a day at his office, but during spare moments he finds great pleasure In painting landscapes and studies of members of his family. lie owns a comfortable home in which there are ten servants, in addition to a butler und several other persons who attend to the wants of Mr. Hill, his wife and five children. The walls are filled with pictures, a number being of his father and others of the family of Louis Hill, for whenever he finds an artist he sets him to work painting his children’s portraits. ARCHITECT OF NEW “TECH” The architect of the new $7,000,- 000 home of the Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology in Boston is Wil liam Welles Bosworth of New York, a graduate from that college with the class of 1889. After leaving Technol ogy he spent some time in the offices of Richardson & Olmstead, doing land scape work for Leland Stanford uni versity. Then for two years he was on the staff of the American Architect and made special studies in Rome. In 1890 he began a second study in the best architectural schools of Europe, working under Alma Tadema and in the atelier of Godefroy Ereynet in Paris. lie finished under such mus ters as Gaston Redon and Chausse miclie, and passed considerable time in Holland and Rome. lie was resident architect of the Pan-American exposition, desigued a number of buildings for the St. Louis exposition, and then opened an office in New York for himself. The last six years his time lias been devoted to architectural work for Rockefeller Vauderlip, for whom he desigued the “Leteliworth Village.” Mr. Bosworth is associated with the Society of Beaux Arts, the American Institute of Architects, and the Loyal legion. WILLIAM KARL DICK Inheritance has been greatly increased. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Hankers’, Piping Rock, Meadow Brook, Racquet and Riding clubs. He is also chnirman of the Crosstown Transit committee of Brooklyn and is active in the affairs of that borough. Mr. Dick is extremely enthusiastic about sailing and is one of the experts on the Great South bay. LEADS WILSON CAMPAIGN Vance Criswell McCormick, who, at the request of President Wilson, was elected chairman of the Demo cratic national committee, when asked whether he would devote most of his time to the campaign, replied: “No. I will devote all of it.” The statement is characteristic of the man, who it has been said, plays politics In much the same manner as he played football when he was cap tain of the Yale team. What he does, say his admirers, he does with all his heart and soul and strength. Mr. McCormick, who is president and publisher of the Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot, was born in Harrisburg, and is a son of the late Henry McCormick, a wealthy iron manufacturer. He was elected mayor of Harrisburg at the age of thirty in 1902, and served one term, devoting much attention to pub lic improvements and the beauty of the city. He was the Democratic and Progressive candidate for governor of Pennsylvania in 1914, but was defeated by Martin G. Brumbaugh, Republican. Mr. McCormick has long been one ot the priucipai financial backers of tli* Democratic party in Pennsyl -ania. The deatli of James .1. Hill, em pire builder of the Northwest, made his son, Louis \V. Hill, of St. Paul, Minn., the most conspicuous captain of industry west of Cleveland, 0., and one of the greatest railroad men irf the world. But Louis Hill isn’t self-con scious about it. He does not propose to go to New York city to become a familiar figure on Wall street nor even on La Salle street in Chicago. Instead lie intends to remain in St. Paul and operate the railroad lines controlled by the Hill interests. In St. Paul every one knows Hill as Louis and he is glad of it. His father, for that matter, was more often addressed as “Jim” Hill than “Mr.” Hill. Among railroad men In the West, Louis Hill is regarded as a self-inude man. Five years after he was gradu ated from Harvard university he start ed to work as a billing clerk at $75 a month. He was receiving that salary When Mrs. Madeline Force Astor, widow of Col. John Jacob Astor, an nounced that she was about to become the wife of William Karl Dick of Brooklyn, even her intimate friends were surprised, for since her first hus band's death in the Titanic disaster she had seemed to be giving up her life to the training and care of her little son. Mr. Dick, who is twenty-nine years old, is the scion of an old Brooklyn family and his business Interests are principally in that borough. His most active work is as vice president of the Manufacturers' Trust company, but he is also a director in many other finan cial and commercial concerns. Friends of Mr. Dick’s family say that Mr. Dick inherited a fortune of from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 from liis grandfather, William Dick, one of the pioneer sugar refiners of this country. Through judicious investments this T■ - sadP®*' HH THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA. NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD Dispatches of Important Events Gath ered From All Parts of The World. FOR THE BUSY READER The Happenings of Seven Days Are Given in Epitomized Form for Quick Reading. Mexican News A Mexico City dispatch states that the preliminary arrangements for a conference of representatives of the United States and Mexico to be held in some city in the United States, have been completed. The Mexican government’s supply of ground corn for distribution is re ported to have been exhausted. Starving Mexican women shouting “Viva rGingoes,” have stormed the governor’s palace at San Luis Potosi. The de facto government declares that the United States has no moral or legal right to maintain an armed force on Mexican soil. It is reported that food riots are oc curring in all the larger Mexican cit ies. The bodies of Capt. Charles T. Boyd, Lieut. Henry T. Adair and seven troop ers of the Tenth cavalry, who fell in the fight at Qarrizal, were delivered to the United States authorities at FI Paso. The Mexican government denies that it has offered asylum to bandits who committed depredations against Unit ed States citizens and property. European War The Italians say the Austrians have evacuated Tolmino, on the Isonzo front. The English port of Seahatn Harbor was atatcked at night by a German submarine. One woman was killed and one house struck. It is stated in Canada that Canadian prisoners have been sentenced to jail for refusing to work in munition plants. British gains in the battle of the Somme after ten days continuous fighting, cover a front of nearly eight miles, and include the entire German first system of defense. The French army under General Foch has moved up in the southern section of the Somme until now he holds the dominating hills around Pe ronne, a town which has been strong ly fortified by the Germans and the possession of which they are likely to contest with the utmost determina tion. The British have retaken Contal maison and are again in control of nearly the entire extent of Trones wood and Mametz wood. A Petrograd dispatch states that the approximate total of prisoners tak en by the Russians during General Brusiloff’s operations up to July 10 amounts to 5,620 officers and 266,000 men. Guns to the number of 312 and 566 machine guns have been captured. A London dispatch announces that Russian torpedo boats have captured the German steamers Lisabon and Worms. The steamers were taken to Finland. The pressure exerted by the Italian forces in the Trentino has resulted in the recall of several divisions of Aus trian troops which were about to be sent to the eastern front. The Italian offensive continues. On the Pasublo front the Italians captured the positions north of Monte Corno, but the enemy succeeded in ob taining partial repossession of them by a violent counter attack. Arabs have captured the town of Kunfuda, Arabia. They have also taken the fort. A dispatcii from London announces that a serious uprising against the Turks has occurred in Arabia. The rebels, under command of the grand sheriff of Mecca, are reported to have captured Mecca, Jiddali, the chief sea port of Arabia, and Taif. The rebels have proclaimed the independence of the Arabs. The Russian forces advancing in Volhynia have crossed the River Stok hod at various points, closely press ing the Teutonic forces opposing them. The total number of prisoners taken by the Russian General Kaledines from July 4 to 8 is given out as 348 offi cers and 9,145 unwounded soldiers. News emanating from Paris an nounces that the French have return ed to the offensive south of the Somme and have captured German trenches over a distance of about two and a half miles east of Flaucourt and to a depth of ranging from about two-thirds of a mile to a mile and a third. They also captured by storm the village of Biaches. The Russians on the eastern front are going from success to success, and for the time that theater of war is overshadowing the western front from the spectacular viewpoint. A London telegram announces that the entire German front on the east is threatened by the Russian advance. The Russian hospital ship Vperiode, the sink of which in the Black Sea has been officially announced, was pro ceeding without escort from Batoum to embark wounded soldiers. Seven lives were lost. The British steamship Pendennis, with a cargo of timber from Gothen burg for Hull, has been captured by a German warship off the Norwegian coast and taken to a German port. The British have resumed their sledge-hammer blows against the Ger man lines in the Somme sector, and hav carried the German trenches at several points along the front. Domestic Lester Stillwell, 12 years old, was killed by a shark while bathing in an army of Raritan bay, near Matawan, N. J. Stanley Fisher, who went to his aid, was so badly injured in a struggle with the huge fish that he died while being taken to a hospital. Joseph Dunn, 12 years old, bathing some distance away in the same in let, was attacked by a shark and one ct his legs was so lacerated it prob ably will have to be amputated. The shark was finally driven off. James House, Jr., first mate of the British steamer Rosalie, in port at Savannah, Ga., received a cablegram from Cardiff, Wales, advising him that his uncle, James House, a ship owner there, had died and left him an es tate valued at $250,000. The river and harbor bill, which passed both houses of congress and which is the first general river and harbor bill in four years, has come to the president for his signature. An explosion, said to have been caused from lightning, wrecked the major portion of the Dupont Powder plant four miles east of Aguilar, Col., at a little village named Augusta, shattered the windows of houses In the vicinity for two or three miles and cut off telephone communication of the plant and nearby stations. The engagement is announced of Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, widow of the British statesman, to Rev. William Hartley Carnegie, rector of St. Mar garet and canon of Westminster, Lon don, England. Mrs. Chamberlain was formerly Miss Mary Endicott of Mas sachusetts, daughter of William C. En dicott, secretary of war in Cleveland’s cabinet. Rail and wire communications in several Southern states are crippled, business demoralized and thousands are homeless as a result of the tropi cal storm that lias swept the South with a “remorseless drown” for more than a week. The federal government has taken official notice of the serious flood con ditions that have followed the tropi cal hurricane in the Southern states. The war department has ordered an engineer to investigate conditions in the Cahaba and Alabama river val leys. The floods have extended into east ern North Carolina, and rivers, creeks and branches in six Southern states are out of their banks and flooding thousands of acres of farm lands as a result of the unprecedented rainfall. The Southern tropical storm’s toll is reported to be 78 dead and missing. The damage following in the wake of the Southern tropical storm will total millions of dollars. In Alabama conditions have assumed the most se rious aspect. At Selma, Ala., citizens organized re lief parties for work among the flood victims along the Cahaba and Ala bama river valleys, where two thou sand families have been driven from their homes. Prattville, Ala., 3,000 inhabitants, wast mostly covered by the waters of a small creek,, a dozen feet wide nom inally, but which had grown to a min iature Mississippi. Ernest Schiller, a federal prisoner who last March captured, single-hand ed, the British freighter Matoppo, 24 hours after it sailed from Hoboken, escaped from the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., but was apprehended by a teamster after several shots had been fired at him. Washington The country’s foreign trade during the fiscal year ending with June reached a total of $6,525,000,000, ex ceeding by many millions all previous records. Exports for the fiscal year ending June, 1916, were valued at $4,345,000,- 000 and imports at $2,180,000,000. Robert H. Barrett, formerly of At lanta, Ga., and now of Alexandria, Va., and president of the Virginia Press association, has been selected by the department of commerce to study the problem of increasing American for eign trade in paper, paper products and printing supplies in South Amer ica. A Paris dispatch received in Wash ington announces that Duy-Tan, the 16-year-old king of the French protec torate of Annam, on the China sea, has been dethroned as a result of a revolt of Annamites at Quang-Nagi, which he is accused of having fo mented. He is succeeded by Prince Bun-Dao, who has been crowned. Official dispatches received in Latin- American diplomatic quarters say a se cret agreement has been made be tween Peru and Venezuela with the object of taking vast tracts of lands, rightful possession of which they dis pute with Colombia and Ecuador. Grave fears for the peace of the na tions are expressed in Washington. The administration’s omnibus reve nue bill, creating a tariff commission, imposing a protective tariff on dye stuffs, repealing present stamp taxes and providing for new taxes on in comes, inheritances and war muni tions profits, passed the house by a vote of 240 to 140 over the opposition of the Democratic leaders. The four legations in Washington profess to know little of the action of Peru and Venezuela ill entering into a secret pact regarding the boun dary dispute. President Wilson has signed the good roads bill authorizing the expen diture of $55,000,000 in five years by the federal government on condition that the states expend similar amounts to those apportioned to them. With full military honors, the body of Capt. O. T. Boyd, Tenth cavalry, who was killed at the head of his com mand at Carrizal, was buried in Ar lington national cemetery. A MIXED DISPOSITION By LOUISE OLIVER. James Porterfield Morgan, known to the world as Jim Morgan, looked at his sister quizzically. “Madge, do you mean to say that Polly Love is your ideal of a wom an?” “Yes, Jim, dear, bright, wholesome little Polly, with her silly giggle as you call it is my ideal of a woman and I wish you’d marry her.” “Well, I like Polly, of course, hut —” he flecked the ash off his cigarette and failed to finish. “I know what you mean, Jim. Your type is the dashing kind with a dis position like all the months of the year combined. June one instant, April the next and a regular January freeze to follow. Jim, you men make me tired with your queer ideas of women. Take it from me, they aren’t the celestial beings you think, any of them —except Polly. She’s an angel.” “If she were here she would laugh at your wonderful wit,” answered Jim sardonically. “No doubt that’s what she’s doing now anyway, wherever she is. She’s always laughing. And per petual good humor bores me as much as incessant sunshine.” Had Jim known It, he was right when he said that Polly Was laugh ing. And this was the occasion. That morning a letter had come from Cor nelia Graham announcing that she would visit them for a week on her way to Boston. Cornelia was pretty rich and spoiled and the entire relationship held her in reverential awe. “Oh, we can’t have her with the plasterers and paperhangers here,” protested Mrs. Love in a panic. “And the rugs are all up and away at the cleaners, and we’ve no girl. Of all times for her to come! Why couldn’t she wait a week 1” And then Polly giggled. “Isn’t it the limit? Well—she isn’t waiting, and if I’m not mistaken she’s here now, for there’s a taxi just stopping at the curb and —behold, milady.” Polly rushed out to the porch. “Hel lo, Cornelia! You dear! I’m so glad to see you. Come right in, but don’t you dare to sit down or you’ll ruin that exquisite suit you have on. We look like an accident ward in a hos pital—all plastered up.” Cornelia was led through shrouded furniture and buckets of calcimine and glue up to the second floor to Tolly's room, the only room in the house that hadn’t been dismantled. Then Polly flew to the kitchen to see what she could scare up to eat. “There Isn’t much,” she declared, searching the cupboard. “Here’s a can of corn and some salmon, but I believe there’s another thing. If I had more eggs I could mix up a custard — two aren’t enough. I’ll slip over to Laura’s the back way and get some eggs. I hate to borrow, but I must.” Polly, got the eggs and went home unseen by Jim in the library. “That poor child,” said Laura, “is in an awful fix. Cornelia Graham, that rich cousin of theirs, has just come and their house is a mess. Can’t you do something to help them out, jim?” "Do you mean that girl that was here last summer?” “Yes.” “By Jove, you don’t say! You bet I'll help them out. I’ll telephone right away and ask her to lunch and the theater this afternoon.” When Jim called at the Loves’ a workman had put a ladder across the front door, so he went around back. Polly was at the stove getting their own lunch the best she could. She was lifting a saucepan from the fire when she heard Jim’s voice. She turned quickly, the pan bumped against the high oven and the whole thing turned upside down on the floor at her feet. She was tired, hot and excited, company had come on top of con fusion, and here was a man at the kitchen door whose good opinion she valued very much and who, she knew, was very fastidious. Yet Polly gig gled ! “You two get out of here!” she laughed, “and I’ll clean up this mess. No, of course you can’t help. I’ve got corn all over my shoes.” When they had gone, Polly called: “Mother, can you come here? Moth er !” There were tears of pain in her eyes now. “I—l spilled the corn and it was hot. Some of it went on my foot and it—hurts.” Jim came in at six. “Say, Laura, I take hack what I said about a mixed disposition this morning.” “What! So soon?” “Yes. I’ve had a taste of them all this afternoon, everything from Janu ary to December. I’ve been scorched and frozen in turn until I am numb.” “Then you don’t think incessant sun so bad? Speaking of which, I have some news. Polly’s in the hospital! She spilled something hot on her feet and scalded herself dreadfully.” Then something happened to James Porterfield Morgan. He thought of Polly standing at the stove and laugh ing through her agony. “Dear little Polly,” he muttered. “What a fool I’ve been!” “Where are you going. Jim?” called Laura. “To the hospital to hunt some sun shine,” he answered. “I’m thinking it would be a good thing to have it handy for the rest of my life.” (Copyright, 1916, by the McClure Newspa per Syndicate.) KIT FLASHES, DIZZI, NERVOUS Mrs. Wynn Telia How Lydia E. 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Such warning symptoms are a sense of suffocation, hot flashes, headaches, backaches, dread of impending evil, timidity, sounds in the ears, palpitation of the heart, sparks before the eyes, irregularities, constipation, variable ap petite, weakness and inquietude, and dizziness. For these abnormal conditions do not fail to take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege table Compound. Home Practice. “Did you raise your boy to be a soldier?” “Not exactly, but I always let him see when there was a question of who was going to get the best of any argument in the house that I gave ills pa a fighting chance.” Druggists Know a Good Kidney Medicine We are pleased to handle Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root for our customers are al ways satisfied with the results obtained from its use. Our present manager who is an old time drug man has used it with good results in Kidney trouble and does not lose an opportunity to recommend so fine a medicine. Very truly vours, PORTER’S DRUG STORE. North Main St. Salisbury, N. C. 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