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JU4 T' id itiuiMinU B3Si-Tmne5 aJfwamm fi fiwMiitfi nr iri matrn amr-jnini TTTK CTTARLOTTF OBSEItVKR MONKAY NOVEMBER 33 1910 iS FIGHTING PINK POLL WORM FROM MEXICO ilan3 Eastern Football Season at Height Austin Texas Nov Fred Davis State Commissioner of Agriculture stated today that at the request of Secretary of Agiiculturo Houston he had Instructed Ills corps of assistants to Join forces with agents of the Department of Agriculture In tin effort to preint tho pink hull worm crossing the bonier from Mexico Mr Davis will undertake personally a rigid lnspect'on of cottonseed ollinllls which receive seed from Mexico vVhero the pest is reported to hnve made Its appearance Games of Saturday Generally Han True to Form Yale Alone Not Shotting Up to Advantage --Harvard and Princeton Result the Margin of Difference Betneen Tito Squads It ST A ov BEYOND "Now Is the Winter of our dlHCon-trilt So piped lie poet i sooner day tons a year Imported from tho Luxemburg Tho greater Intensity of exploitation of tho mines on tho German side of the frontier leads to the supposition that their ultimate exhaustion Is far nearer than that of tho French owned mines Tho two mineral basins of ancient Lori nine separated by the frontier established by the treaty of Frankfort aro Hulllclcnt to assure a country preeminence In the Iron Industry of Europe supposing that full advantage be taken of tlielr resources to develop Iron und steel manufactures France had not competed with Germany proportionately to her new resources the production of plg-lron did not keep puce with the development of thi initios of llrloy a great proportion or tho oie went across the border to feed Germany's great furnaces and find its way back to France In tho form of cannon and projectiles Tho exportation of ore In the place of manufactured steel was a mistake that Franco admits ami will probably never repeat Elio was led into It by tho supposition that tho prosperity of her frontier Industries was dependent In a measure upon tho prosperity of tho steel and Iron establishments that the fortunes of war had given to Germany There are still people Interested in mining who resist proposed economic measures that would keep all French ore from Germans but their resistance has only reinforced the action of the other and lar stronger element that proposes to keep French ore for the development of Flench industries and correct tho errors of the past It has also together with the open expressions of tho ambitions of Industrial Germany to absorb what mineral resources they didn't get In 1871 helped to reinforce the determination of the French to light until such a victory is won as will enable them to lechum tho iron they lost with Lorraine PIEDMONT The Home of Big Time Vaudeville TODAY Mutinoo for Ladies DIFS ADMITTED FOR lOe New York Nov i the result of weeks of coaching l-unlern football teanm with one or two exceptions played etrlct to form In thn contests of Harvard Prim eton Cornell Pennsylvania Pittsburg Urown and the Nivy aem-orist rated that they are rapidly approaching the apex of the eiiHon curnpiugn Dartmouth and the Army appear to have suffered a slump whie Yale ts yet to strike its stride The victory of Harvard over on Saturday by the margin single Held non I was an aecuarte indication of the respective (r the two teams although neither was able to show its entire offensive hand with the Yale battles one and tvo weeks awnv Hunard demonstrated that It had the pum to drive within easy goal lurking distance of Princeton's line ami that pnw rrsuteum victory The Tigers' attack was the around work than Iai (loin or Casey for ho has beaten two hardest i Hals almost without help TIH1 PRESIDENTIAL SCORE As we Hiiiarked some months before A nent the Presidential score While frenzied oratory was abroad throughout tho land Whoever stands elected now Whoever stands rejected imw We'll 11 be doing business nt the Mimo old stand DON TP Don't drive over 301) yards on a 200-yard hole Don't wuste all your lime looking at the hall The scenery Is frequently delightful Don't start cheering when you get an on a 4 hole Don't concede your opponent In tough match 15 nnd 20 foot putts Ho mny miss one on a sloping green MOTHER GOOSE IV THE RJVG The north wind doth blow And wo shall have snow And what will Jess Willard do then poor wight? When the circus is through And tho mcftt bills are due And thero 1 nobody mound he can fight? When ft deep yearning or an un-controllahlo desire seize somo Amor- Vast Ore Fields of Bricy Basin Adjacent to Annexed Lorraine Will He Haggled Over igoronsly Wlien Terms Are Discussed Paris Nov 12 Iron ore which was ono of the stumbling blocks encountered In tho negotiation of peace between France and Germany In 1871 Is likely to cause stout contention In tho eventual settlement of accounts between tho belligerents In this war If Germany Is not beaten into com-pleto submission It Is exoected In Uruneo that her delegates will stand out stubborlily fer the ambitions of those Industrial representatives who recently' demanded "the establishment military frontiers that will givo Germany the mining regions that aro Indispensable for the development of the The "mining regions" referred to In this quotation from the resolutions of German Industrial committee are tho 105000 acres of French Iron land of the Pricy basin adjoining the Iron lands of annexed Lorraine just across tho frontier They produce fifteen million tons of ore per year 80 per cent of total production they furnish a livelihood to 22000 miners and the steel and iron Indus- BELMONT SPLITS EVEN IITTH DIME 1HGUS Dixie's Girl Basketball Aggregation II ins By Score of ll to 6 Belmont Boys ll in Their Game Special to The Obsorwr Jielrnont Nov 12 In two good games of basketball on the local court Saturday afternoon the local High S'chool split even with Dlxio High School The girla' game is Won hy Dixie by the M-ore of to fi The Belmont hoys won I'm Ir game hy the one-sided 'em of 92 1 () pnme was fast and specacnlnr but llsrvatd's alnlt-1 interesting and was nip and tuck all w'i ll know Ju-t what that I mu il haul meant When he ivulveii that pessimistic luy With golf and tennis on a Pouth-hound tl 111 Wit li baseball done und football on the wav When wild galea howl against tho window pane Hell bath no fury like the hard at buy 1 look ahead now' to the final run And when that comes with all tho dope askew My plans are laid to wear a bonded gun For him who says "lley pretty soft for you" "Still" you may rejoin "haven't you I'm gotten tho Winter league meeting of baseball magnates and tho six-dav bicycle race?" In this morbid existence thero Is no such luck THU CONFERENCE UPSITT Minnesota Chicago Illinois and Wisconsin especially the former three have ruled the Weatern Conference so long that no ono took it for granted that a stranger would ever lie admitted to the top In this conference championship Ohio State and Nmthwestern have been the Cardinals and Hods of tho melee They have been rarely taken seriously Yet today these two are the only unbeaten conference teams Tn Chick Harley Ohio State has ono of the great halfbacks of the season His fame may not ho known In tho Fast but few In the East ever heard of Flmer Oliphant until he from Purdue to West Point Harley so far has done even finer all 5 Wonderful Big Keith Vaudeville Acts at Always a Good Show THE PIEDMONT more ty to solve even new piays qumkly tooa the edge off Its effei tiw ss Doth ttuiiis pbij-a haul fast football tackling cientilj and giving tho 'runner excellent interference the punting was high arid far and the ends got down the Held under kicks rapid-lire fashion The tricky wind i made amides ex- nlwavs been strong contestant for inside the stadium championship honors in view of tho fiet that only one of last year's team is In school The locals play Derlta next Friday and Dallas Pa'crdiy lean citizen to win a world series tries depending upon them give em-ehaniplonship he buys the Red Sox i plovment to 115000 Iron workers and waits until next October Without them France's industries would be paralyzed for years to come Any number of free untrammelled if not permanently disabled American voters will fall for the If the Allies are able to dictate bunk both parties rush to the front terms the French delegates will in and then come out next Spring and slHt upon the return to France of the call some ball player a bonehead for I of Lorraine that was taken from ACADEMY Tonight at 8 No Matinee Animal Engagement DEFEAT OF Tlie Old Adam (From Answers London) Ha was a stanch supporter of the kirk but he also had a dash of sporting blood In his veins One Sawbath morn as be was proceeding to lie kirk th liis Bible under his arm ho came upon a group of laddies playing football on a piece of waste giound He watched the game for some minutes then when there came a lull ho called the hoys over to him: "Eh laddies ye knaw verra wrang tae lay on the Saw- I bath Ye rnaOna do It YVhaur dae I yo think yo'll gang when ye dee if we play fitba' on the Laird's day? And you ma Indicating the captain why ye shoot oftener for goal? Y'e dribble far ower much! I Ye're puir players tho lot of ye" I being caught ofif first If there was as much bone In baseball as there Is in pnlit'cs the National pastime would he a solid smear of ivory erected upon a concrete foundation LYMAN HH0WE? rrXi travel FESTIVAL 1 i HAWAII-SPA1N- NORWAY PREPAREDNESS ny' WEST POIMTj MANY OTHERS All NEW WESTERN CONFERENCE HONORS NARROWING Chicago Nov 12 Playing true to form Ohio State and Northwestern are a notch rearer the "Pig Nine" football championship as a result of their victories Saturday These two undefeated elevens providing Northwestern disposes of Purdue next Saturday will meet at Columbus Ohio November "5 to decide the Western Conference honors Ohio State has disposed of Illinois Wisconsin ancV Indiana and will take on Case next Saturday In a game that will have no bearing on the conference honors Must followers of the game believe Northwestern will triumph over Purdue as Iowa which fell before Northwestern yesterday trounced Purdue 24 to 6 46 to 7 victory over Indiana and Northwestern's defeat of Iowa 20 to 13 were the only important gains In the West yesterday HIGH SCHOOL GOES TO GREENSBORO NEXT Coach Philly Bitch and His II arriors to Invade Gate City Saturday for Game There II i lit Eocals High undefeated eleven is scheduled to meet the strong Greens-lmro squad on tho Greensboro athletic field Saturday afternoon This gams is expected to be equally as good a game as wn the game last Saturday with the Wmstonians Tho Greensboro aggregation was twice defeated by the Winston eleven tho first ecore being 33 to 0 and the second being 2S to 7 According to tins the locals have a shade the better team they defeated the Winston eleven In game Since the games between Winston anil Greensboro and the Winston however many changes have been her in 1871 with the iron lands from which In 1913 Germany took 21 million tons of ore more than 75 per cent of her total production and uO per cent of her to'al consumption 45 Vcars Preparation Lorraine In the French pohi of view' no longer represents a mere sentiment exists but along with It Is the great object lesson of tho war 45 years of military preparation in which the mines of Lorraine played a leading role If France Is today obliged to cry for "more cannon more it is in the estimation of French specialists because Germany took from France with Lorraine mineral resources to which she owes 60 per cent or more of the development of her Iron and steel Industries slni a 1871 Besides tho ore-hearing lands that were finally ceded to Germany Bi-s marck demanded in exchange for an extension of the territory left around Belfort all of the iron-ore region of Aumetz Villerupt and Otange between Brtey and Longwy Put Bismarck had to do in these negotiations' with a cuever Norman Monsieur August Pouyer-Quertler Thiers' Minuter of Finance who fought desperately and cleverly to save something of France's future In the Iron industry Tho discussion finally came down to Villerupt I give you my word of honor that 1 never -would think of obliging you to becoeme a Frenchman yet you Insist upon my becoming German" Fouyer-Querticr remarked "How Is that?" replied Bismarck do not understand you Who talks of annexing Normandy?" "I am one of the principal owners of tho Villerupt rolling rejoined Minister "You see clearly are making a German of me upon Villerupt" very said Bismarck "I Villerupt but do not ask more of me or I will take cusable Viewed the list ot Satin contesls both Harvaid atul Princeton appear to have readied a more advanced stage of football perfection than i ale The llluo was a keen disappointment to the ad lien nts in the game against Drown The illis failed to Improve over the earlier contests or the fall A weak and Inconsistent attack eouped with a mediocre defense was the undoing of Yale notwithstanding the fact that material for ft strong th-ven appoas available Unable to score by rushing during the first half of the game clever goal kicking gave the DIuph a single point lead Tins quickly melted away when Drown cut loose with a sensational running attack In fore which the Ell defense was almost worthless Princeton is almost certain to enter the contest with Yale next Saturday a strong favorte Nothing short of a most sensational spurt will enable tho Blue to hold the Tigers In check Pennsylvania although held to a tie game by Dartmouth deserves the honors of the conflict Tho Kcd and Pdue showed a sustained and powerful attack which scored once and threatened at other times while the Hanover eleven was unable to advance the hall with steadiness The tjing touchdown came as the result of a fumble Cornell and Michigan had a thrilling battle at Ithaen nnd again the East triumphed over the Went although by the narrow' margin of a field goal The scoring was confined almost entirely to aerial plays or overhead plays that made a touchdown eary of accomplishment Both the Army and Navy teams won their games but the victory over the North Carolina Aggies was more Impressive than the soldiers' defeat of Maine Tho Cadets appeared to have had an off day nnd played a careless and listless rame against tho New England Collegians Maine did not have the power to cope with th Army hut wretched handing of the hall and loss of ground as the result of penalties kept the score down The Navy on the other hand while not faced hy ft pnrtleularlv strong opponent played with a vim and dash that has boon lacking In recent games Tn the other more Important games of Saturday Washington nnd Jefferson was unable to make any upon the remarkable foothill machine that represents the University i tfsbnrg white Colgate and enn ooi wain decisively from Rochester! Seats on Sale Today at Pharmacy PRICES 50c 35c 25c Fete in Academy of Music NOVEMBER 17th 100 PEOPLE IN CAST BEAUTIFUL SC ENTRY AND LIGHTING EI1TXTS Benefit Performance To sell your rent estate may urgently Important to you and yon advertisin' should measure tip to th urgency Victory (her Powerful Vanderbilt Team the Upset of Season Atlanta Ga Nov 12 Tennessee yesterday gav Southern football circles the greatest surprise of the season and complicated the Southern championship race by defeating Vanderbilt generally considered among the three strongest elevens In tho South The Volunteers were not believed to have nmie than an outside chance to defeat the Commodores but ther performance of yesterday indicates that tho Knoxville eleven- Is ono of the best In tills section Georgia Tech's victory over Alabama on a muddy ae'd kept them jn the running and put the Tuseiloosans out while Auburn had an easy time defeating Florida At present it appears that tho final derision of the Southern championship may again be a matter of comparative scores Tennessee does not day either Georgia Tooh or the only other remainin'- undefeated aggregations while Auburn and Tech day here Thanksgiving Day Tennessee next Saturday plays Sewnneo which was eliminated from trie championship race bv Alabama Because of Sewanoe 54 to 0 vi'tory over Chattanooga a team that tho Volunteers could bent only 12 to 7 thn Tennessee Sewn nee game has assumed utmost importance Georgia Tech next week meets Georgia which was defeated hy Aulmrn and Auburn tackles Vanderbilt Tho importance attached to the kicking game was emphasiz'd In the games which flout hern elevens participated Baird of Louisiana State with two field goals In tho Mbisisslp pl A ami battle led the kickers while will of A and Hatcher Tennessee Tandy North BEES WORK FOR WOMEN Thirty IIlvc8 Yield 900 Pin Money to Fair Keeper (From The Philadelphia North American) made In the latter's line up and on tho coming Saturday they will have a much stronger team than they had at the beginning of the season High School is Just ns confident of winning the State honors at present as thev were at tVie start of the season and according to Coach Philly Pitch the locals wdl win the game on Saturday The dope as it now stands Is that the locals must win the game this week nnd then iourm to and again whip that strong aggregation After that they will likply be called upon to meet Asheville who Is scheduled In the western part of the State The rules of the State championship are governed by the central committee at Chapel Hill and according to these rules the eastern game with the North Carolina Aggies 1 rhamp'ons of the State which will nnd Llilbrldgo of Mississippi (nntrlbuto(1 ono oarh Bu-tv of the Navv hooted thp bnli or the bars for three points in tho Lehigh recnof lively Rutgers 1 Far Standard Ice Fuel Co found West Virginia most I able opponent and the battled to scoreless tie PnONES 19 AND 73 Give women credit for putting the bees In the suburbs Scores of women In the outlying sections of tho city are becoming apiarists and tho bees are earning pin money for them Many of the women beekeepers are it back" wives of Philadelphia business men who live In the suburbs The apiary takes the place of the garden as a money making diversion Others aro wives of farmers for whom bee-keeping Is becoming more Important as a side line Women usually make a success of keeping bees expert say because they give more diligont attention to details You turn a swarm of bees loose on a farm or suburban estate and expect them to return profits without rare and attention All the suburbanite's wife has to to beeome an expert beekeeper is to conquer her fear of the "stingers" establish several hives In a corner of the back yard make sure there are buckwheat or clover fields or plenty of wild (lowers within and watch that the bees don't catch disease Reekeeporg in the Philadelphia district will share $100000 to bo obtained from tho business this year Tho average hive will produce about 30o pound of honey wTiich sells at about ten cent a pound wholesale This means an Income of from $30 to $40 a hive Thus tho woman who keep from ten to thirty hives of bees will have from $300 to $900 a year for "pin money" the tbat you by insisting "Oh leave you anything That saved of at steel and had clerk process which he who That the Iron the Brley considered that region there of 15 yea By production 30 million of at least At the production abandoned of 1 870 tons which than the present In of 750 was practically all tha France Its Iron Industry as It existed the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War production of Iron would still be insignificant not an obscure English named Thomas discovered a of dephosphorizing Iron ore sold for 50 pounds to a man realized three millions out of it dlsrovery made available for industry deposits of ore in basin that were previously uselcss Prospecting in began in 1882 and in 1913 were 46 different mining concessions in operation producing a total million tons of iron ore per doubling tho Intensity of these mines could produce tons per year for a period 80 years and probably 100 present rate of production fifteen millions a year added to the of the part of Lorraine to Germany after the war would producer 36 million is seven million tons more total output of German-owned mines at tho outbreak of the war Other Producing Districts addition to this district the region Longwy produces two million thousand tons Nancy two million tons thus surpassing all told by four million tons the actual consumption of Germany including seven million VooRESULIE HIGH MINS I' faille Nov 12 Th I' High ehool btiskf tbill team i 1 rl the Mount Vila Barn Fri- ening the final seore being 75 i During the last half the "scrub" i a was sent in and made an ox-' -rit showing nga m-t Mm nppnn- its This the fecund tear that he High S'hool has put op )as-netball team and the Indications are that they are ready to meet any and all comers be according to the present standing either Kinston or Goldsboro will be matched against the western champions the final game to be staged Chapel Hill on December 9 Coach Hitch and his warriors are confident of being one of the con-tendeis at tho final match at Chapel Hill and to tlmlr present landing they are practically assured of the western honors unless some material change takes place within the net two scheduled games The real stumbling block acrord ng to Conch Hitch does not lie with and Brown of Rice performed a similar feat against Tula tie The longest run of tin- day probably vifis the 70 yard sprint which scored Vanderbilt' om hdown in the Tninessee battle For the linemen the bmgfst sprint reported was that of Goodwin Auburn's con-tor who roomer a Florida fumble and raced 50 yards Other long runs wore fin yards each Folger North Carolina and White of Virginia and 45 nrds bv Woithatn of Sewnneo The Southern elevens were unfortunate yesterday In Intersectlonnl game Tulane going down to defeat before Rice at Hous'on Texas and Clothe EXTENDING FOKITGN WORK the North Carolina Ag'iies losing to Oteonsboro but with the heavy Wln- the Navv Washington ami Lee tontans which game be played however easily defeated Rutkness at on Saturday a week lexlngto" Aa t10 win' tun game played on the rn'm f'T T'hneee's i Winston field will prove a real foot- vt ii (1 to Iw vork of A 1 batcher and Captain 5 i Vow ell Hatcher's punts averaged 1 'ifthermore the harlotte High fully 13 yards longer than those f' of SrW' wlU havp rnn Zerfoss of Vanderbilt Captain Vow- aidernblv more football than they ell at pft end and Wolfe at right demontra1ed lat Friday In order to end smothered prai tically at- hi ft mb i li It backs tn get away ior long yams Vowell Wound up the day bv larrvlng the ball over win The fumbling In that contest was distressing and the failure of the line to play low and charge hard was widely commented on The At the regular meeting of the hoard of director of the Young Men's Christian Association held on Sunday afternoon at 5 It was oted that all old subscribers to the foreign missionary work should be communicated with In an effort to have them renew their subscriptions to tho cause is being carried op more extensively now than ever before Thai Have locals appeared to he overconfident nnd hut for a freak of the came thev would not hnve won Coneh Rltch has some work rut out foe him In the next two weeks Charlotte's Coziest Movie TODAY William A Brady Prwnts LEW HELDS And DORIS KENYON for winning touchdown Georgia Tech's wiM counted strongly In the Alabama battle the Tusmlofe-nn being unable to stop the rushes of their heavier opponents on the muddy (h id The punting of "Fy" pell of Tech wis the feature rf tho hiit'Ie particularly as he never before hod tleen used a a punter nee' rrn helming victory 'mcr Flint ti noog i mu xperted as he Fhn't inoog ins showed sign In the game with Tiniwesoe having rr-rovered from tlielr early season slump Nort had a hard fight with Tandy field goal gaining ilctorv for the Tar Heels while Virginia and Georgia had little trouble In disposing of South Carolina and Burn on respect Bely la WTTSON COUNTY GIVES WILSON 2051 VOTES SMN-lnl to Tin Oliserxer Wilson Nov 12 --The official esn-vn of the vote of Wilson FountV which was complcced Saturday gives: For Wilson 2051 Hughe 730 For Fongress Kitehln 2056 Dixon 63 8 For Governor Ph Veit 2050 TJn-nev 676 The constitutional amendments re-rc 'vi il the following votes For L-tta Agein-t 137 Fencressman K'tehin led In the above but Sheriff Rowe at hi opinnmt bv a larger majority than am rand date viz-Rowe 20 Robbins 5 8 Washington Nov 12 Forecast: North and South Carolina Probably local rain Monday anil Tuesday not much change in temeprature Virginia Overcast weather with probably rain Monday and probablv Tuesday not much change In temperature Georgia Probably local ralns Monday and Tuesday collier Tuesday Tennessee laical rains Monday Tuesday fair cold fstrsl Office Vnltcd State WaOter Ituceso rharlutte Nov Bee that a nice coating of paint Is 3 stributed ovet those surface that should bo painted for noxious germs and bugs hold high revel on dirty walls Clean fresh paint having qualty and tody sefLelently v'gorous and well developed to stand plenty of scrubbing and frequent down" has hygknlc as well as esthetic value We have tbat kind of paint I Man Who Stood ADDED ATTRACTION ALL THIS WEEK IIN WOOD DEFECTED The Linw 1 11 8i basketball team rru-t feat on Friday a' the hands of the Arnold ILghs of uni'ton on the iHtter's floor the ernii fir'ng 2 It to 8 The game as featured fiv the all round work of Ariudd team and the playing of Fox for iwnwl Boys of today are as particular as their fathers and brothers in matters of dress Our Shop eaters to boys of critical tastes who want smartly cut garments of individual character Our styles have the distinction they seek combined with exceptional quality and sensible prices ITC1 11 Sunr1n IC5 Runlet 20 Temperature (la degree) a I Noon tl I in Tho Man Who Civli7cd tho Aooordkm nayiny the Biggest und Huosl Ever limit Appearing at 3:110 4:30 6:00 8:30 and tloek BF SLO WS FERRY BRIDGE OPENED THIS WEEK to The Oliscrxcr Belmont Nov 12 Sloan promise that If good wenther continues by the end of this week the toll bridge at Ferry will he open to traffic Much Inconvenience Is now being causal hy low water at the ferry r4 Truthful StatenNUif (From The Ingham Ire-Herald) v'iv lm ronrnige to Mrs Oadaour hi ought a great deal into hi lire "Frankly epnken" "What do von Qther she has brought Into his life a town house a country house and a flock of motor car Highest tempertur 0 temperature 54 (Mean temperature 67 Krea tor the day Mean temperature thla date lent year 37 rreelpltatlon (In lnrhe Total for 14 hours ending I 01 Total for the month to date 04 pefirleney for month 94 Fxrnas for year 33 I'riUlng wind direction tl ATTU A oca I For wester Adults Afternoon 10c Nluhta 15o ChSltlrrii No Advance 5c rfctnlttbor Building and huppltcs Faint PIioimj 370 CTUHLom: Building Material Phone 82 Fourth and College.

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