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ONLY 1799 GO TO CAMP SEPT. 5th. Latest Order Changes Proportion of (Juota From 30 Per Cent To Five. Others Will Follow. New Arrange ment Will Cause No Confusion; Provision Made For Segregation of Races On Cars. Pullmans Will Be Furnished Where Trip Is Over 24 Hours. (News and Observer, 26th.) Instead of furnishing' one-third of its 15,974 draft quota to the National Army encampment at Columbia, S. C., on September 5, as expected, orders from the War Department yesterday changed the proportion to five per cent. Consequently only 799 Tar Heels will board trains on that day for Camp Jack?on. According to the latest announced plans, forty per cent, or 6,390, will fol low on September 19; 6,390 more on October 3; and the remaining fifteen per cent, totalling 2,396, as practica UU . UIC* Transportation request! have been forwarded by the War Department di reet to the local boards, together with meal tickets, upon which railroad tickets and meals can be secured as prescribed in the draft regulations. It is presumed that since it had been contemplated that only one-fifth of the thirty per cent of the State's quota would move on the first day, the new arrangement will hardly cause any confusion. Instead of pro ceeding with the entire thirty per cent at the rate of six per cent per day, arrangements will be made for the transportation of only five per cent. "Upon consultation with the rail road representatives," reads instruc tions from the War Department to the Governor, "and examinations of these lists you will be able to call upon each local board for a speci fied number of selected men to be as sembled at a convenient point of en trainment. The point of entrainment, will, of course, be the railroad sta tion of the railroad upon which the journey of the quota of the particu lar local board is to be made. The various local board* will have to be informed of the railroad upon which their quotas are to travel in order that they can apply at the proper place for tickets and make other nec essary arrangements. Furnish I'ullman Cars. "Wher>> the journey is to take over twenty-four hours, Pullman accommo dations are to be furnished and the railroad representatives will be able to give you the details of this. Local boards should be given the notice prescribed in section four as early as practicable in order that the persons to be called may have the longest possible time in which to make their farewell and compose their af fairs. "Arrangements for feeding per sons on the train will be such that parties entraining after eight a. m., after 1 p. m. or after (5:30 p. m., will be expected to haVe had their break fast, lunch or dinner. Men Will He Tagged. "The difficulty of handling the mass of men that will pour into the mobil ization camps promptly will be great ly relieved if each local board is in structed to provide a tag for each man and a similar tag for each piece of hand baggage carried by the men of its contingent. On this tag should be written the name of the contingent, as 'Baltimore, No. 10,' the number re ferring to the number of the local board. These tags should be put on the hand baggage and issued to the man in charge with instructions that, be fore arriving at the camp, each man of the party should fasten the tag to a button on his coat or shirt. The man in charge of each local contin gent should also be instructed to hold his men in a single group after they arrive at the mobilization camp and !to keep this group stationary some where opposite the car on which they arrive, and in no account to allow the groups to separate or mix with other groups until an officer of the camp can take charge of the group and con duct it to barracks. "Where local boards are not on railroads, special transportation ar rangements will have to be made, and where such is the ease any expense you may deem necessary or proper is hereby authorized. Will Segregate Races. "The problem of segregating races during the mobilizations is one that will have to be handled locally with out interference with the essentials of the plan. It is thought that, ordina rily, if the second in command of ea<?h contingent, named in accordance with sections 11 and 14 is colored man, he can take charge of the colored contingent and that the colored and the white men can thus be kept in separate cars, but a special appeal should be made to all for exercise of great- forbearance in this regard in order to reduce to a minimum the dif ficulties of this necessarily intricate problem pnd the untoward incident of this most significant occasion. "It is realized that a heavy burden of duty and responsibility is placed upon the Governor by these instruc tions, but it is obvious that the tank is one that cannot be handled from a central source and that can only be accomplished through the executive of each State. This is the greatest sin gle movement of troops ever attempt ed in the history of this country and if it can be efficctively accomplished on the present plan it will be the greatest proof of efficiency of the States in co-operation with the Feder al government that we have ever had. Any clerical or expert assistance that the Governor may desire to engage in this regard may be employed in his discretion. It is hoped that any sug gestions or requests for assistance will be preferred promptly and that it will be realized that the Governor has behind him the fullest support of the Federal government in accom plishing this great work. AMERICA'S MISSION. Colonel Albert L. Cox in Four- Minute AddrcHH at Raleigh. I see a noble and powerful nation rousing herself like a strong nian af ter sleep and shaking her invincible lucks. 1 see her as the eagle, which is her emblem, renewing her mighty youth f.nd kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam. I see her in the fulness of her strength and in the power of her convictions has tening to the succor of her democra cy. I sec her bearing aloft in answer ing challenge to the blackened stand ards; of Old World autocracy that glorious banner of red, white and blue, that symbol of .r>,000 years of struggle upward, th&T full blown flower of human hope. And under the enfolding arms of that nation goes forth to endure, to conquer and to win, those priceless gems of a nation's treasury, her men and I er women. For 'tn not alone the young men of the country who are going to war but even the full number of her man hood and womanhood as well. To the young rm n is given th'1 opportunity of giving themselves, their all; to en ter the foremost lines of the battle fronts, l:> tight, and if need be, to fall that the world may be saved. Upon those who have not that opportuni ty, upon those who remain at home is given the burden of providing for their comrades who Invc gone abroad. And to woman ? that noblest work of God, that symbol upon earth of the pure, the beautiful, the good, is given that which Its been her heritage through nil the ages pa^t, the grief and the suffering, her portion because too heavy for man to bear, her portion because to her alone has been seift that divine r.ttribute of self abnegation. And how well in all times has she borne it and how well in future will she bear it, is evidenced on every side by the signs of her handiwork Through her have been kept alive the glorious deeds of our forefathers. She has kept gr(.en in the memory and throbbing in the hearts of each of us the memorable feats of those wonderful warriorV'of ?he Confederacy; that so many times triumphant and now fast thinning line of grey. She now throws herself with unmatched fortitude and un measured zeal into the task of mak ing easier the wounded and more comfortable the last moments of the dying. No greater gift to mankind could God have given than woman hood. No temporary conflict is this, no conflict that can be ended by aught than by an overthrow and destruction of Prussian philosophy and kaiseristic militarism. The end is not yet. Nor can the numbers of those who will carry on the desperate light on the battle fronts of Europe yet be esti mated. JYrhaps by the end of three or four years a vision of peace may be seen, and after the sending of five millions of our men to engage the en emy, a proper basis for p?ace nego tiations may be reached. Those who remain at home must do their part too to make the world safe for democracy and must so conduct the affairs of government, local, State a.id National, that the return ing soldiers will be able to say to their agents left behind: "Well done, good and faithful servants." And when they return, for return many of them ? let us hope most of them ? will, they will return secure in the knowledge that through their ef forts the world has been freed and that our men have shown for all time that the true spirit of America was ready and always will be ready to make good with the lives and fortunes of its people the great faith to which it was born. FREE OF CHARGE. Why suffer with indigestion, dys pepsia, torpid liver, constipation, sour stomach, cominfc-up-of-food-ftfter eating, etc., when you can j?ct a sam ple bottle of Green's August Flower free at Creech Drug Co. This medi cine has remarkable curative proper ties, and has demonstrated its effi ciency by fifty years of success Headaches are often caused by a dis ordered stomach. August Flower if put up in 25 and 75 cent bottles. Foi sale in all civilized countries. ? Adv L NEGRO TROOPS RAID HOl'STON. ^ Many Cilizenii Killed by Blarktt Be fore Ouiet Is Restored. Terror Rrifiwd for Many Hours. Itiota Re sult of C onflict lU-tween City and Militaiy Police. < ity Inder Martial Law. Hlack* Are Disarmed and Sent I Ha : k to Horder. /Huu.suin, Texas, Aug. 24. ? Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fourth infan try, who shot up the streets of Hous ton la3t night, were being entrained tonight to be removed to Columbus, N. M. Capt. L. S. Snow, commanding the battalion, said late tonight that the action of the negroes was "practical ly mutiny." A seen" probably unique in the an nuls of the United States army was enacted at Cf.mp Logan during the afternoon when the six hundred sol diers of the battalion of n"gro infan try were disarmed. ^ Flanked by a full battalion of the Nineteenth Infantry under Col. Mil lard F. Waltz and three companies of the coa.st artillery from Fort Crock ett, the negro soldiers were marched four abreast to the parade grounds where their arms were stacked. Army trucks then loaded the rifles and am munition and conveyed thorn to the camp storehouse, where they wore placed urder heavy guard. Surrounded by his own men with loaded rifles Colonel Waltz then ad dressed the negroes, tolling tliom they would bo protected from violcnc ? and that at the same time they would be prevented from committing further violences. An affidavit before military authori ties by Leroy I'inkett, private in I Company of the Twenty-fourth regi ment, which participated in the riot ing, giving what he said was a com plete story of the trouble was made this afternoon. It is as follows: <Ji\eH Story of Rioting. "Yesterday about 3 p. m. we heard that Corporal Baltimore of our com pany hail been shot by special police officers (white officers who ride horses). All the boys said 'let's go get the man that shot Baltimore.' It was getting late then and we stood retreat al six o'clock and then I heard Sergeant Ilcnry of our company say: 'Well, don't stand around like that. If you arc going to do anything go ahead and do it.' "After that 1 saw some of the boys slip over to Company K, and I heard them say they had stole the ammu nition. Then Captain Snow called the men out in line. He asked what we were doing and ordered a search made for the ammunition r.nd also ordered that our rifles be taken up. "Another sergeant, I forget his name, took up our rifles from our tents. In this same talk Captain Snow told us that Baltimore was not in the wrong; that the policeman was in the wrong. I heard him say that. A big fellow in our company named Frank Johnson then came running down the company street hollering 'get your rifles boys.' We all made a rush then for the supply camp and got our rifles and we went to a large ammuni tion box and got our ammunition. Sergeant Henry was the leader. Cor poral Wheatley, Corporal Brown, Cor poral Mcore, Corporal Snodgrass and Corporal Tillman and about 100 pri vates were in the crowd that had gone and started off toward town. Fifty Shots Into Auto. "I wan in the crowd. I had my gun and my ammunition. We did some shooting as we left the camp. I shot about five times. I did not know a girl got shot. I did not see an ambulance. We met an automo bile with a white man in it. They stopped him and Sergeant Henry told the man to get out of his car but he did not get out and all the soldiers that were in front shot the man. I judge that about fifty shots were fired at him. I was toward the back and did not fire any shots here. "Then we marched on up the road and as I passed the car I heard the white mj'n in the car groan but we did not stop. Then we met some officers in a car coming from fourth ward and the sergeant made them get out and told them to leave their car. We did not do any shooting here. Then we met two men in a buggy which looked like Mexicans, but we did not shoot them. "Then wo got to the dirt road and started to the graveyard on San Felipe street and right at the grave yard they started shooting. Sergeant Henry was in front and he hollered to everybody to lay down. They all laid down but myself and two more fellows and we ran down a side street. As we ran I heard shooting that sounded like all of them were shooting together. I tried to get back to the camp but was afraid and stayed in "the woods all night and was ar rested this morning after daylight when I tried to get back to camp." Three Virtues. Have a heart that never hardens, a | temper that never tires, and a touch . |that never hurts. ? Dickens. RAILROADS WILL GET THEIRS. Ncrf h Carolina Should I'rotest Against $5,000,000 Increase in Freight Rates. For a. me reason the people of North Carolina s nd the press of the State seem to have almost over oked one of the most serious ques tions affecting the financial welfare f North Carolina farmers and busi ness men. We refer to the demand of the railroads for a great increase in freight rates in this State the <i< mand tc be heard by the Corpora tion Comm.ssion in Raleigh, Au gust .'10. The officers of the North Carolina State Farmers' Union have already arranged to represent the interests of our farmers in this mat ter, but other leaders seem strange ly silent. In the face of the fact that the Inter-State Commerce Comnfission reports the railroads of the country in the latest month for which the figures are availr.le (June) as mak ing more money than in any previous June in American history, Southern railroads alone netting $1,000,000 more thnn in June last year ? in the face of these facts, the North Caro lina Corporation Commission is asked, chit fly by change of classifica tion, to increase the freight tax on the people of North Carolina by an amount estimated at $5,000,000 a year. If this estimate is correct, it means an added tax of $2 a year for every man, woman, and child, white and black, from Currituck to Chero kee. / The State owes a debt of grati tude to Mr. George L. Forester, Traffic Manager of the Western North Carolina Lumber and Timber Association, for his painstaking studies in this matter. Mr. Forester expresses thi' belief that the total increase asked would average 50 per cent. Four roads alone ? the South ern, S. A. L., A. C. L. and Norfolk Southern ? collect about $7,000,000 a year in intra-state freight rates, and it is estimated that such receipts of other road3 carry the total to $10, 000,000; so that an increase of 50 per cent would mean $5,000,000 more a year. In a letter to The Progres sive Farmer Mr. Forester Stiys: "The change in classification and so-called 'basic scale,' accounts for advances of above 50 per cent. On lumber (carloads) the increase is 51 per cent. Other specimen commod ities (less than carloads) show the following advances: Per Cent. Apples and onions 126 Potatoes, onions, turnips 55 Vuiiding material (int. trim) 123 Cotton hosiery 194 Cotton tales (any quantity) 13 Fertilizer 15 Cast iron pipe 46 Sugar 72 Sugar (carloads) 15 Scrap iron (darloads) 91 "And so on. As an indication that the carriers of the South do not need more revenue at this time, it should be stated that since the first of Jan uary their earnings over and above all expenses, which included taxes, are grcner in the aggregate than they were in a similar period in 1916. It is a further fact that in 1916 the rail roads earned more money during that period than they had ever earned in any previous similar period." All interested farmers who attend the Farmers' State Convention here August 28-30 should make it a point to attend the hearing before the Cor poration Commission. We must pro test against such a tax. ? Progressive Farmer. Depth to Seed Wheat. Considerable difference of opin ion exists among wheat growers as to the proper depth of drilling wheat. The Ohio Agricultural Ex periment Station has conducted tests for five years comparing va rious depths of drilling and broad casting. The yield of wheat in bush els per acre for wheat drilled one inch deep was 28.7 bushels; drilled two inches, 28.7 bushels per acre; drilled three inches deep, 28.5 bush els per acre; sowed broadcast, 24.9 bushels per acre. During the last few years cross drilling of wheat has been advocat ed, but experiments do not show ?this to be profitable, since it requires twice as much work and the yields have been but little higher. Recently, drills have been put on the market which sow the seed only four inches apart. The ordinary drill sows the wheat in rows from seven to eight inches apart. Experiment al tests from the two types of drills have not shown any advantage in having a four-inch drill. ? Progres sive Farmer. The U. S. Pharmacopoea endorses every ingredient of Dr. SETH AR NOLD'S BALSAM for Summer Sicknessts. Put up in handy bottle form for your convenience. War ranted by Hood Bros, Smithfield, N. C.? Adv. t Wheat Oats and Rye: Making Them 1 PmJ. With a world-wide food shortage and the practical certainty that the administration will be authorized to fix a minimum price for wheat of not leas than a bushel, we are assured of high grain prices for another year. But high prices mean little unless we make good yields, and we propose here briefly to discuss some of the essential points in getting these. 1. Wheat at $2 a bushel or better will pay handsomely in the upper half of the Cotton Belt, provided good varieties are used on good soils, well prepared and well fertilized. But don't forget fo: one moment that wheat on thin poor land will usually mean throwing the seed away. If such land cannot be given a dressing of stable manure, supplemented by 200 or 300 pounds per acre of acid phosphate, the sensible thing to do will be to plant it to some crop other than wheat. 2. T-1-? South's oat acreage should be large this fall, because, unlike wheat, the crop is suited to a wide range of soil and climatic conditions. While of course oats do best on pood land, soils too thin and sandy for wheat may make a paying oat crop. Especiallj is this so if 200 or 300 pounds of acid phosphate per acre is used at planting time and 75 to 100 pounds per acre of nitrate of soda or sulphate of ammonia as a top-dress ing in March. Perhaps the biggest single reason the oat crop in the South is sometimes unsatisfactory is because of sowing too late. Experi ment station authorities and the best oat growers are agreed that early fall planting ? September in the upper , South and October in the lower, re sults, on an average, in yields prac tically double those obtained from spring plantings. 3. Abruzzi rye is a crop that should be planted just as extensively as the seed supply wll permit. Un doubtedly as a fall, winter and spring grazing crop it has no superior and few equals. Planted between the cotton rows in September, it may, on a fair grade of land, be depended upon to furnish grazing from December till March, when it may be plowed under to increase the humus supply. It is such an excellent crop that we would like to sec every farmer in the Cotton Belt plant at least a one-acre seed patch of it this fall. ? Progressive Farmer. The Old Hen. All the country seems to have a grudge against the old hen, just now. Householders ar? abusing her because she has quit laying and has brought about a condition of a forty-cents-a dozen wholesale egg market, and deal ers do not want to buy her because public appetite is running to younger and tenderer meat. The fact is that this is what the farmers call the molt ing se&son for the old hen and she is taking her annual rest, regardless of the effect on the price of eggs. And the old hen is going to suffer the con sequences. In cases where the home merchants will not buy her, she is shipped to other markets, and the whole country is being depleted of its supply of hens. This conditions fore casts a continued shortage in the egg market, and the day may be near at hand when the public will be glad to get eggs at 50 cents a dozen. This is a situation which cannot be charged to the camp, because it prevails in all parts of the country and is a practi cal illustration of the workings of the favorite law of supply and demand. ? Charlotte Observer. Rev. Dr. J. B. Gambrell, Presi dent of the Southern Baptist Conven tion, was born 76 years ago at An derson, S. C. 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 ? get help before the kidney disease takes a grip ? before dropsy, grav el or Bright's disease sets in. Doans' Kidney Pills have brought new life and new strength to thou sands of working men and women. Used and recommended the world over. WHY SUFFER WITH PILES? Why allow ECZEMA TO torture you ? Have you lost faith in medicine? Make one more effort; Take our word for it and get a jar of Dr. MUNS' PILE and ECZEMA OINTMENT; it will relieve you in a very short time. For sale by your dealer. No. Six-Sixty-Six Th? ia a prescription prepared especially ior MALARIA or CHILLS A. FEVER. Five or six doies will break any case, and if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not return. It acta on the liver better than Calomel and doei not gripe or sicken. 25c GUARD AGAINST TYPHOID. FREE VACCINATION. Free vaccination at Mill Creek school house for typhoid fever. Dr. Wilson, of Newton Grove, will be at ? Mill Creek school house August 25th, September 1st, and 8th, from 10 to 12 A. M. All who would like to take this treatment should come and get it while i+ is Free. DR. THEL HOOKS, County Health Officer. Smithfitld, N. C. SPECIAL EXCURSION FARES FROM SELMA, N. C. VIA SOUTHERIN RAILWAY SYS TEM. $29.10 ? Cleveland, O., account I. B. P. 0. E., Colored on sale Aug. 25, 26 and 27th, final limit September 5th. $35.70 ? Vicksburg, Miss. National Reunion and Pcace Jubilee on sale October 14th and 15th, final limit re turning October 31st. For further information call on ticket agents or address, J. 0. JONES, ' Traveling Passenger Agent, Raleigh, N. C. For Sale by Creech Drug Co., Smithfield, N. C.; R. C. Lassiter & Co., Four Oaks, N. C., G. G. Edgerton & Son, Kenly, N. C., J. 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