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* Jr\ \ I M T? V/ MONEY IN THE HOT. BU8INES8. North Carolina Farmers Beginning to Realize the Importance of the Swine Industry. A Few Co-Opera tive Farmers In Edjjecomhe County Shipped 16 Carloads Last Season at I'rices Ranging From $2,000 to 3,000 I'er Car. (By John Paul Lucas.) With continued high prices assured for hops by an increasing export trade and a decreased number of brood sows in this country, it is in teresting to note that many North Carolina farmers are beginning to use his hogship as a money crop. This fact is strikingly illustrated in the experience of a group of farmers in Edgecombe County who during th<* past season have shipped 1*? carloads of hogs to packing houses, securing for them from $2,000 to $3,000 per car. The hog industry was started by this group of about a dozen Edge combe f. rmers only three yiars ngo and has developed at a rapid rate un til this year when the several hun dred hearty porkers included in the 1(5 carloads were sold at profits calcu lated to make the mouths of observing farmers water. The shipping and selling is done co-operatively, it happening often that each farmer has just a few head of hogs that are ripe for the market. The advantages of carload shipments of course are obvious. By this means farmers are enabled to send their products to the best markets and secure the top prices for the quality of hogs they offer. Fortunately however, the hog is a prolific creature and one sow pur chased now1 means several porkers next winter, while a breeder in a year can build up almost any size breed ing herd he desires with a compara tively small original outlay of cup ital. , North Carolina pork producers have been selling their hogs on the Balti more, Richmond and other markets. With a packing house in course of construction at Wilmington and one in prospect at Raleigh, with a third being agitated at Charlotte, the Tar Heel farmer will hereafter have a shorter distance to sh i p, with a con sequent longer profit. It is a striking fact that everywhere co-operative selling and shipping has 1 been initiated and in regions imme diately adjacent to packing plants 1 the hog industry has grown by leaps I and bounds. An instance of this is offered by the Moultrie, (la., pack ing plant which began business with a capacity of '?ri0 bogs a day and was compelled to increase its capicity 100 per cent within two years, and last year had more shipments of swine of fered than it could take care of. Agricultural experts are advising farmers to raise hogs, but they are careful to advise the growing of proptfr pastures and feedstuffs for them. "Don't try to raise hogs in pens on corn," is constant advice. However, there is such a variety of pasture crops which may be planted at various seasons and hog feed is so cheaply raised that no intelligent farmer now-a-days attempts to raise porkers except on forage crops. Russia's Truce With Germany. With all our natural sympathy with democracy many Americans be gin to wonder whether the Russian revolutionists did not do us an ill turn when they deposed the Czar and upset the old order of things. The Czar was a supeistitious weakening, and he might have made a seperate peace, although, in point of fact, he did not, and the Russian Army was still a menace to Germany while he remain ed on the throne. Hut the revolution has produced a condition that is, temporary at least, equivalent to the making of a separate peace; and the government that has been substituted for the Czar's is weaker internally and on the front than his. In time it may be consolidated, domestic divis ions reconciled, clashing Interests harmonized, discipline and efficiency restored to the army and Russia re made into a real ally. But time is all important, and the Kaiser is not wait ing for the revolutionists to get to gether. For the present he is making all the war hay he can while the rev olutionists squabble over the spoils and dispute about the rights of man and abstract points in the theology | of democracy. Mr. Root and his associates will ar rive on the scene none too soon. If our mission can succeed in stabilizing the new government, in awaking it to the dangers with which the new re gime is threatening itself and the world, and can arouse action, it will have performed a task of the most vital character. The industrial crisis, which the Russian Minister of France fears may paralyze the coun try economically, furnishes an addi tional element of apprehension; but while it is serious enough, it is one with which our mission may be able to deal more effectively than any oth er. In industrial reorganization and readjustment we can lend a powerful and scientific hand, because we not only know how to do that sort of work, hut we have the means with which to do it. We must for our own sake do all in our power to put Rus sia on her feet again and to keep the machinery of her industrial life in motion. That is one of the principal j purposes of the mission, and we have sent the right men over there to effect 1 it. But the question which noes deep er than* this, and the question which the next few weeks will answer, in all probability, is whether the new Hus- ; sia can be brought to end the virtual 1 truce which it has permitted with Germany. If this truce is prolonged I from month to month until winter' sets in, the war will be protracted and our part of the undertaking will be rendered that much more difficult and costly. Upon the Czar, it would have been easier to concentrate inter national influences that would have prevented his defection than it is to deal with half a dozen different schools of thought or to bring into ' camp a multitude of warring politi- ! cal philosophers. If Russia had not dropped out of the war game, the military situation at present probably would have been very different and far more hopeful than it is. The fact which we should not con- ' ceal from ourselves is that the Rus- ' sian bear has actually, if not theoret- ' ically, made a temporary peace with 1 the Prussian eagle, and that we can not count certainly ? on Russia for the present. Russia may resume war next month, or before the summer is over,', or she may not. Hut, in any event, 1 we cannot rely on her to do her full part for some time to come. We must order our own program without ref- ' erence to her. She needs first aid and we will help her afi we can. Hut we , must prepare to do our own job with j our own hands. We can do it whether the Russian soul awakes or whether it remain!; in rapt contemplation of impossible Utopias. Hut for us there', can be but one policy and but one motto. And that is to organize our whole strength for this world-re demption work untl to put all our might into our blows Kven if Russia had not been tied up in the house of revolution, the outcome of the war might have been doubtful without our assistance. At is is, we should ad- ' ilress ourselves to the struggle as if | the result depended upon us. And this, indeed, is not very far from the ' truth. ? Baltimore Sun. OAK FORK8T NOTKS. Rev. Exure Lee filled his regular j' appointment Sunday at Oak Forest , Primitive Baptist church. Miss Ni'ney Beaslcy, of near God win, was in our section last week. Miss Minnie Massengill, of near. Selma, was in our section visiting Mr. I J. R. Mrssengill recently. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Adams are in I ? Rocky Mount this week visiting Mr. Adams' sister. Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Hayes, of New Hope section, were in our section Sun day. I Mr. Walter Snead, of New Hope section, was a visitor at Mr. If. R. Hayes* Sunday. Mr. W. O. Hayes was in Smith field Tuesday on business. We are sorry to note that Miss Jane Hayes is on the sick list this week. We hope that she will soon he better. Mr. John Boasley, of near Godwin, spent last week with Mr. N. G. Bare foot aid others. o. u. kip. May .'Ust. THREE MIERK w SHIPS ARE SENT TO BOTTOM t ? London, June 1. ? The sinking of three American ships was announced today. The vessels were the Dirigo, the Frances M. and the Barbara All were shelled without warning and then sent to the bottom with bombs, | but the only loss of life reported was that of Third Mate John Ray, of the Dirigo, who was drowned while at tempting to enter a small boat. The Dirigo was sunk May 31, the Frances M. May 18, and the Barbara May 24. The Dirigo was stripped by the crew of the submarine. Her crew was landed at Plymouth. The crews of the Barbara and Frances M. were landed at Gibraltar and Cadiz, respectively. The Dirigo was a four-masted sail ing ship of .'1,005 tons. She was own ed by Mengel Brothers, of Louisville, Ky., and was insured for her full value. $225,000. The Frances M was an American schooner, owned by Charles V. Mi nott and registered 1,229 tons and was 201 feet long. Her crew num bered nine men. The Barbara also was a schooner. She was 185 feet long, of 838 tons gross, and was built at Chelsea, Mass., in 1909. Prior to the war, she was engaged in the Atlantic Coast trade. Her crsw numbered 11 men. BERLIN HAS FOUND NEW HOPE. V> hat a Separate Russian Peace World Mean. A New Rallying to the Central Powers and a Tempo rary SurrfKit of the German Dream of Middle Europe. The view of most Allied writers that a separate peace between Ger many and Austria on the one hand and Russia on the other is unlikely, I shure. But I do believe it is suffi ciently within the possibilities to re quire consideration. Suppose that Russia and her foes should reach a basis of settlement which restored to Russia all that she has lost save l'oland, and gave her Armenian ter- ' ritory in Asia and free passage in the Straits, what then? First of all Rumania would col- [ lapse at once and be compelled to 1 make a peace which would leave her u vassal of the Central Power*. Bul garia would become permanently ral lied to the Central Powers and Serbia would either make a separate peace which would place her in the samfe posture as Bulgaria and Rumania, or else would lose all semblance of separate existence. As for Greece, we know that her king is merely waiting to throw his country into the arms of a German invader. Russian retirement, then, would mean the temporary success of the German dream of Mitteleuropa, it would mean that the Germans had succeeded in constructing an empire in Central Europe greater than Na polean's and had also added to it Asia Minor and Syria. Such a situa tion would threaten the future of all the other nations of Europe. Italy, Great Britain, and France as Medi teranean nations and Mohammedan powers would find themselves facing a menace which could not be exag gerated. Hut could Italy continue in the war? Again the question rises as to radical and socialistic sentiment. Would a Russian retirement lead to ? similar explosion in Italy, and would the same Utopian ideas serve to dis arm the Italians as they had the Rus sians and thus make socialism the soldier of autocracy ? No man can :>e sure what the answer to this ques tion might be, if the Russian retire ment were followed by one more ter rific attack by the Central Powers jpon Northern Italy. It is essential to face the fact that Germany at the present moment stands to win the war, if at all, be cause she is deriving great and grow ng aid from the liberal and socialis ic elements in the countries that are ightmg her. Autocracy, fighting for ts life, Prussian military spirit at Say and threatened with extermina ion, is suddenly finding a possibili ty of survival because of the blind idealism of the liberals in the world jutsido. If it were true that the same spirit :>f liberalism were rampant in Ger many, il the German Socialists were able to urge peace without an nexation upon Germany as the Rus sians are imposing it upon their own nation, one might view the situation with greater calm, but this is not the case. Thus we have the assertion of Scheidemann in the Reichstag that even if the Allied nations should pro claim the doctrine of peace without annexation, there would not yet be any revolution in Germany, although he asserted that such a time would come. German socialism is divided, l>ut the larger faction still supports the gov ernment and the position of the gov ernment is weakened or strengthened as thv military prospects improve or worsen. German socialism has not yet raised its voice to protest against an nexation as a matter of morals, in any great volume. It has declared that as a matter of fact Germany could not win the war in such a fashion as to acquire territory or impose indemni ties. That is all. And this is a long way from thi; Russian spirit, which is one of pure if ill-balanced ideal ism. No man can say that the growth and spread of liberal and even Uto pian ideas in Russia will not affect Germany. As the war goes on, if Ger man prospects continue to worsen, we shall certainly have an ever-growing demand in Germany for peace without annexation or indemnity. But what it is essential to recognize now is that the completeness of the Russian col lapse has wakened new hope in Berlin and that this fact, added to the still unshaken faith in the submarine, has given Germany a new accession of confidence which is unmistakable and a new expectation of emerging from the war with increased territo ry and with some portion of the costs of the war imposed upon the enemy. The example of Frederick the Great in the Silesian War is now in all Ger man minds. Frederick fought all Eu rope for Silesia, and at the end de tained the stolen province. He was saved by a Russian change of rulers. Once more hope comes from the East. ? Frank H. Simonds, in the American Review of Reviews for June, 1917. A Birthday Dinner. It was the pleasure of several rel atives and friends to meet toother at the home of Mr. J. E. Hinton, in On.als township, near MiddlAcx, Monday, May the 28th. The occasion was the birthday of Mr. Hinton and his oldest daughter, Mrs. Etta Par ker, Mr. Hinton's birthday being the 28th of May, and Mrs. Parker's the 29th, both celebrate together. Mr. Hin'on has lived 66 useful years, and looks as if he might live to a ripe old age, being very active, and of reasonable health, he naturally has a jolly, hopeful disposition, and it is a pleasure indeed to visit at his home and be so nicely entertained by him, his good wife and daughter. He has raised family of noble looking chil dren, four sons and three daughters, all married except one daughter, Miss Bettie. All were blefesed to be there except the oldest son and youngest daughter? Mr. W. G. Hinton, of Rocky Mount, and Mrs. E. S. Deans, of Coat.;ville, Pa. Their absence, of' cours. , was keenly felt, by their pa rents especially, but it is difficult to have eveiy one present at such oc casions that we would like. Visit, rs began to arrive at 9 o'clock, and by dinner time there were 41 in number present. Old time friends and kindred of long separation gave the glad hand clasp of greeting, and the rooms echoed with the laughter and romp of children whose little hearts were throbbing with delight, so glad to be at "grandpa's or Uncle Joe's" again. Though there were two little granddaughters, Maud and Mary Kate, who were too weak from recent sickness to help them play, but their little faces showed that they were glad to be there. Mr. Hinton's children that were present were: Mr. M. C. Hinton and j family; Mrs. Etta Parker (widow of! Mr. Ru sell Parker) and her children; Mr. J. O. Hinton and family; Mr. A. D. Hinton and family, and Miss ' Bettie Hinton. The visitors were: Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Strickland, Mr. H. G. Wilder and two little girls, Miss Vannie Strickland, and Mr. F. M. Hinton, of the community; Mr. Char-' lie Barefoot, Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Hin- j ton, and Miss Mary Young, of Lower Johnston, and Mr. and Mrs. Jake Creech, their son and two daughters, of Bailey, Wilson County. A rain, which was very much need- 1 ed and appreciated, came just in time to prevent the dinner table from be- . ing spread under the trees in the yard, so at noon we were asked to the ! dining room, where we found a large I table laden with plenty of good , things, the blessing, in his humble I way, which all sounded as words fit ly spoken, then we ?11 proceeded to ' relieve the table of its load of nicely cooked food, juicy ham and chicken, tender spring vegetables, pickles, I pies and cakes galore. When all had , eaten to their fill, we went to the ' parlor and porch, and had some nice music, vocal and instrumental. ( So, in spite of the war cloud hov- ' ering near, we all had a good time; yet there were occasionally serious thoughts mingled with the gay. We { could not help but wonder would those forms of young manhood whose voices rang out with melodious chords of j music, be there twelve months hence, or would they be in the soldiers' ranks in the sunny fields of France, or, we dread to think of it farther ? not only of them did we think, hut also where would each of us, for no two such holidays are alike, but with brave smiles we all said good by, for the parting hour came, it seemed, too soon. Our best wishes go with this high ly esteemed gentleman. Mr. Hinton, and his entire family through the re mainder of the journey of life, and may they be a united family in the Land of Eternal Life, where partings never come. ONE PRESENT. NEW HOPE NEWS. Miss Maggie Wood, of Benson, spent lost week with Miss Clyde Hayes. Messrs. Zeb and Julian Richardson, of Kenly, spent Sunday in this burg. M iss Inez Sanders returned home last week from Louisburg College, where she spent the past winter in school. Mr. Rolr.nd Hayes and sister, Miss Clyde Hayes, and Miss Pauline George, Mr. Marvin Sanders and mother, and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Up church motored to Stantonsburg, Wil son County, Sunday. Mrs. Upchurch and childlren will spend several days there with relatives. Rev. T. M. Bizzell occupied the pulpit at Antioch Holiness church Sunday morning and night. BILLY. May 31st. It Wears a Smile. Oh, happy heart that can display Its gladness all the while, That every day's a sunny day Because it wears a smile. ? Baltimore Sun. "CHICAGO'S FIGHTING PARSON.** Headed Great Civic Parade of 5,000. Dr. E. L. Williams, to Speak Here Next Monday at Chautauqua, an Enemy of Crime and Lawlessness. Some idea of how Dr. E. L. Wil liams, third day lecturer at the forth coming Chautauqua, came to be known throughout the country as "Chicago's Fighting Parson," may be gained by the following statement which he wrote and which was pub lished in bold type on the front page of one of the leading newspapers in the Windy City. It was made at the time Dr. Williams was engaged in one of his fiercest fights against vice and when the entire city was stirred by some of his exposures of crime and lawlessness. He said: "I'm only one man, but I've a thou sand eyes. They are better than an arsenal of revolvers or 10,000 axes in the hands of as many desperadoes. Let the vicious and the ungodly take warning, for I can see through the walls of the devil's own citadel. If the eyes are not in my head I direct their gaze." He is a councilor of the national committee on prison labor, of which Thomas Mott Osborne is chairman. He holds many important offices in national reform leagues and receives invitations almost every day for ad dresses in all parts of the country, which he has not time to fill. He headed the parade of 5,000 civic welfare allies in Chicago, who march ed through a drenching rain as a pro test against vice conditions. This was one of the most notable vice cru sades ever known in the New World. He is a member of the Chicago po lice force and has made several im portant arrests. One lawbreaker whom he arrested was worth more than $4,000,000 in Chicago real es tate. He saw this man convicted and sent to prison. ? Press Agent. BKOGDEN SCHOOL CLUB NOTES. We temporarily met at the school house last Saturday afternoon to or ganize a School Club to help to keep the school rooms in decent order, and we feel it our duty to do so. Among those present were, Mrs. J. R. Creech, Misses Sallie Faircloth, Mary Royal, Chellie Toler, Catherine Grant, Cleo Creech, and Messrs. Robert Oliver, Alvin Mozingo, Prof. L. T. Royall, We are cxpected to meet next Satur day afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, and we will expect a large congregation. We are very sorry to note that Mr. London Creech is on the sick list. We are glad to say that our crops are improving some now. Mrs. Eula Gower returned to her home in Clayton, after spending a few days around Brogden. Mrs. W. F. Parrish is spending the week in Brogden section. Mr. A. H. Edgert^n was in our section Wednesday and called by to see Mr. London Creech. We would be pleased to have Prof. L. T. Royall with us next Saturday afternoon. REPORTER. School Attendance Increasing. Since 1913, the last school year before the Compulsory Attendance Law went into cffect in North Car olina, the increase in the three years ending June 30, 1916, in the average number of children in daily attend ance upon the public schools was 113,646, or more than thirty per cent. In other words, the number of chil dren attending school daily has been increased from 365,888 in 1913 to 479,534 in 1916. ? North Carolina Ed ucational News. Too much, rather than too little, care is better for the welfare of all kinds of poultry. Makes Hard Work Harder A bad back makes a day's work twice as hard. Backache usually comes from weak kidneys, and if headaches, dizziness or urinary disorders are added, don't wait ? pet help before the kidney disease takes a grip ? before dropsy, grav el or Bright's disease sets in. I)oans' Kidney Pills have brought new life and new strength to thou sands of working men and women. Used and recommended the world over. A Smithfield Case C. A. Bryant, carpenter, R. F. D. No. 1, Smith field, says: "I suffered from dull pains across my back. In the morning. I was so sore and stiff that I could hardly stoop to put on my shoes. I had dizzy spells, too. I read of Doan's Kidney Pills and pot a box at D. H. Creech's Drug Store. They relieved me of all symptoms of kidney trouble. Get Doan'i at Any Store, 50c a Box DOAN'S Fotter-Milbnrn Co., ? Buffalo, N. T. KIDNEY PILLS 25 Cent Books At Special Prices For the Next Few Days We Will Sell Any Book in the List Be low for 20 Cents; Any 3 Booki for 50 Cents; Any 7 Book? for $1.00. The Boy Scouts with the Motio? Picture Players. The Boy Scouts of the Flying Squad ron. A Fool for Love. Wallingford, by Chester. Trolley Folly, by Phillips. The Motormaniacs, by Osborne. Chimes from a Jester's Bell. The Princess Elopes. Four in Family. The Fifth String, by Sousa. Eccentric Mr. Clark. Four Years of Fighting. Flower Fables, by Alcott. Camping Out, by Stephens. Pretty Polly Pemberton. A Modern Cinderella, by Alcott. Bertha's Christmas Vision. Wood's Natural History. The Water Babies, by Kingslev. Greek Heroes, by Kingsley. Coming Back with the Spitball. Poor Boys' Chances, by John Hab berton. The Young Editor. Frank's Campaign, by Alger. The Boy Scouts with the Geological Survey. Folly in Fairyland, by Carolyn Wella. Hospital Sketches by Alcott. Adventures in Frozen Seas. Left on Labrador. Merle's Crusade by Carey. The Boy Geologists by Houston. Story of John G. Paton. Andy Grant's Pluck by Alger. Another Year With Dennis and Ned Toodles. Moods by Mrs. Alcot. Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill. Charlie Codman's Cruise. See Kings and Naval Heroes. Friends Though Divided Henty. In the Reign of Terror Henty. The Lion of St. Mark Henty. Through the Fray Henty. LIST NUMBER ONE OF 35-Cent Books. Any book in this list for 25c., or any four books for 90c. Campfires of the Wolf Patrol. Fast Nine; or a Challenge from Fair field. Great Hike; or The Pride of the Kha ki Troup. Endurance Test; or How Clear Grit Won the Day. Under Canvas; or The Hunt for th? Cartaret Ghost. With Trapper Jim in the North Woods. Elsie Dinsmore. (3 copies). The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle. Her Senator, by Gunter. Under Two Flags, by Onida. The Camp on the Big Sunflower. The Rivals of the Trail. The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island. Lost in the Great Dismal Swamp. Caught in a Forest Fire. Chums of the Campfire. The Chouans, by Balzac. Hans Brinker; or the Silver Skate*. Mr. Potter of Texas, by Gunter. Peck's Uncle Ike and the Red Headed Boy. The Schonberg-Cotta Family. Larry Dexter in Belgium. Larry Dexter and the Stolen Boy. Tales From Shakespeare. The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook. Dora Thome, by Braeme. The First Violin. LIST NUMBER TWO OF 35-Cent Hooks. Any book in this list for 30c.; any two for 55c.; any three for 80c.; any four for $1.00. The Pioneer by Cooper The Deer Slayer by Cooper The Last of the Mohicans, by Cooper. The Spy by Cooper. Treasure Island by Stevenson. Louise deValliere by Dumas. Memoirs of a Physician, by Dumas. Barrack Room Ballads, by Kipling. Toilers of the Sea by Hugo. Cast Up by the Sea by Baker. The Adventures of Daniel Boone. The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island. The Boy Scouts on the Trail. The Boy Scouts Through the Big Timber. The Boy Scoufs in the Maine Woods. The Boy Scouts First Camp Fire. The Boy Allies on the North Se? Patrol. The Boy Allies Under Two Flags. The Boy Allies with the Flying Squadron. The Boy Allies with the Terror of the Seas. The Boy Allies at Liege. The Boy Allies with the Cossacks. Our Young Aeroplane Scouts in Turkey. The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battle fields. The Boy Scouts with the Allies ii France. The Boy Scouts at the Panama Pacific Exposition. The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island. THE HERALD OFFICE, Smithfield, N. C.
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