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FRIDAY. The crest of Monte San Gabriele, commanding the plain of Goriria, to the South and Southeast and the Frigido Valley to the East, has been captured by the Italians after three weeks of the most bitter fighting, the Italian embassy at Washington an nounces. This news of the victory, probably the greatest feat of the Italian arms thus far in the war, precedes the lat est official report from Rome. Friday's statement from the Italian war office fays that on Thursday the fighting on the entire Austro-Italinn front was impeded by heavy rains. The Italian effort to capture San Gabriele began after the taking of Monte Santo directly north, by Gen eral Cadorna's troops on August 25. Several times the Italians had reached the summit of the great mountain, so important to their further progress east of Gorizia as well as on the Car so, only to be beaten back again. On the slopes of the rugged rock in the last few weeks has occurred some of the heaviest and most sanguinary fighting of the war. San Gabriele's top was occupied by the Italians, the embassy reported after the fortified hill or saddle of Dol and the Gargaro basin, the main bulk of San Gabriele had been taken. The Austrians, how ever, still cling to some positions on the mountains. In the forest of Tar novo, east of Monte San Gabriele, the Italians captured positions from the Austrians, after suffering heavy losses. Except along the Casemates pla teau on the Aisne front, there has been no marked activity on the other fighting fronts. A German attack against the French positions on the Casemates plateau, Paris reports, was repulsed with heavy losses. Berlin says German troops penetrated to the second French line and inflicted se vere casualties. Th** British artillery fire In Flanders, Berlin reports has increased to drum fire. The political situation in Russia still is somewhat beclouded. The re volt of General Korniloff apparently has failed dismally but the former commander General Krymoff, com mander of the Korniloff forces sent against Petrograd, committed sui cide by shooting when informed by Premier Kerensky of the probable fate that awaited him. Premier Kerensky has begun to re construct the government, some of his former ministers apparently opposing the taking of drastic, measures against General Korniloff and his aides. 0 SATURDAY. Russia's internal situation was con siderably clarified by Saturday's news dispatches which announced the arrest of General KornilofT, marking the definite end of bis revolt, and the formation of r. n?w cabinet at Petro grad. Publication of the names of the new cabinet members was deferred for a day. With General KornilofT was arrest ed General Lokomsky, who was in command on the Russian northern front when the revolt started and who cast his lot with his chief. What the fate of the two men will be is problematical. Opinion in Russia seems widely divergent as to the treatment that should be meted out to them. Sweden is minded to do everything possible to se tmatters right so far as she was concerned with the German dispatches transmitted through her foreign office, as brought in the re cent Washington disclosures, Foreign Minister Lindman informed the Asso ciated Press correspondent in Stock holm. She has stopped the practice and will not renew it, he stated, and has asked Germany for an explana tion of its abuse of privileges. Germany and Austria have pro claimed the creation of a regency to govern Poland, the two nations re taining joint control of foreign affairs during the period of occupation and of certain other powers of government, not yet made clear. Military activities on most of the fronts seem at a minimum for this season, when active operations are still possible virtually everywhere in the field of hostilities. Rome'3 official statement, while re porting a rectification of the Italian "lines on the Bainsizza plateau, does not mention particularly the fight for Monte San Gabriele, which height on Friday was reported in diplomatic dis patches to Washington to have been captured. On the Franco-Belgian front the only actions were minor affairs, except at Verdun, where Paris reports the French successful in regaining most of the trenches which Germans pen etrated north of Cauriers wood on Friday. On the Riga front the Russians are ?till on the aggressive and their war office reports advance# which resulted in the occupation of eeveral towns. SUNDAY. A Russian republic ha# been pro claimed. The provisional government under date of Septembir 14 issued a proclamation declaring that to strengthen the organization of the state a change to a republican form of government was necessary. ^ Danger stil threatens Russia, the proclamation says, although the rebel lion of General Korniloff has failed. The plan of a Russian republic has been one of the chief aims of the radicals and the councils of soldiers and workmen's delegates and was given approval by the recent Russian congress at Moscow. A cabinet of five members includ ing Premier Kerensky has been nam ed to take care of all matters of State. The only party men are Premier Kerensky and M. Nikitine, minister of posts i.nd telegraphs, both of whom are Bociil revolutionists. The others, including the ministers of war and marine, are members of no party. m Although the position of the Ker ensky government appears to be im proving, the action of the grand coun cil of th. Don Cossacks in refusing to surrender General Kaledines, their lletman, is omnious. The leader of the Cossackj is accused of complicity in the Korniloff revolt. The Cossacks protest their loyalty to the govern ment, while ignoring the govern ment's request for the giving up of General Kaledines. Increased activity is noticeable on the various fighting fronts, especially near Riga and on the Isonzo. A stubborn battle is in progress near the Zegevold farm, on the Riga-Pskoff road, 30 miles north east of Riga. Whether the action is a German attempt in force or only a feint is uncertain. Petrogrrd, howev er, reports that the Russians are val iently repelling attacks. It was in this region that the Russians on Thursday made a considerable advance only to be driven back again Friday -to their former position. On the Hainsizza plateau, northeast of Gorizi?;, and in the region of Mote San Gabriele the Italians on Saturday advanced their lines on the southeast ern edge. In the operation General Cadorna's men captured more than 400 prisoners and some machine guns. In Champagne and in the Verdun region the German Crown Prince has made ineffectual attacks against the French lines. Northwest of Rheims the French repulsed a strong German attack in the region of I,oi\re. North east of Verdun, on the right bank of the Meusc, the French fire drove back the Germans who essayed an attack north of the Cauricres wood. British troops in a successful raid into the German lines near Cherisy, southeast of Arras, wrecked dugouts and defenses. Berlin officially sees in this effort an attack in force and an nounces its repulse with heavy losses. In Flanders Berlin admits the success of a local British attack on the Ypres Menin road. A German attack against Inverness Copse in the same region was repelled by the British, who also checked an attempt to advance north of Langemarck. A Predicament. "Am 1 to seed fifty acres to wheat, breed ten sows for spring litters and then be drafted into the Army, leav ing no one to harvest the grain or care for the stock? That's my pre dicament." Thus writes a Virginia farmer, who wants a solution of his problem. He is in a predicament ? along with a hundred million more of us. If the Government says he is more valuable for thrashing Germans than he is for threshing wheat, he will, as a good citizen, leave the grain and the pigs to be cared for by some one else. It may not be the best pol icy, but the individual cannot decide his own case. It's tough, but it's war! Probably the farmer is hit harder than most people by the laws that temporarily do away with some of our democracy, for farmers have been accustomed to the maximum of eco nomic freedom. They have been rath er poor business co-operators be cause co-operation means surrender ing some of this liberty and submit ting to the rules and regulations of an asscciation that occasionally tramps on the toes of an individual. I They haven't yet, in very many cases, come to the stage where they can't get alonvr by themselves. But when we come to think of it, our Government is the big example of co-operation, and war is its su preme test. We must recognize- a I boss, whether we are farmers or i something else. Someone will be (found to harvest the wheat and feed the pigs. It has been done before. Ask a Frenchman or a Britisher. ? Country Gentleman. THAT MUCH TALKED OF BOOK, "A Student in Arms," now on sale at The Herald Office, Smithfield, N. C. Price fl.50. COARSE GRAINS STILL HIGHER. Both < urn and Oat* Again Advance, 1 hough Gain* Are Not Fully Held. Still farther price advancea have been witnessed in the coarse grains, though net all of the advantage has been held. Yet the covering move ment which has been "under way in corn for some time lifted the Decem ber delivery in Chicago to fl.20 on Tuesday and May to $1.17 or 4?fcc. and 5\c. up from last Saturday's closing figures, and this week ended with net gains of 3*?c. and 4%c., re spectively. For the early strength, the explanation rested mainly in re ports of frost in the belt, and at first some people were apprehensive that serious damage might result. As it turned out, the damage did not appear to be serious, and when the stock market begin to give wuy again the corn options were affected ad versely, though they once more mov ed upward to about the highest levels in Thursday's trading. This was at tributed largely to limited offerings and a stronger technical speculative position in consequence of the pre vious selling. The not infrequent pe riods of firmness in oats were as cribed, imong other things, to cover ing of shorts, due to uneasiness about the omovment andf urther export en gagements. Yet underlying sentiment seems to Kan to the bear cide, owing to the liberal supplies in sight. Arrivals of wheat are called disap pointing, in view of the large require ments, and the total at leading west ern points this wck of 4,905,000 bush els compares with more than 10,000, 000 a year ago. Farmers appear to be in no haste about selling and cash wheat is said to be very scarce, both for export and milling purposes. Yet the predicted increase is seen in flour output, which reached 387,000 barrels at Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Du luth during the latest week, against 334,000 in the previous week and 392,000 barrels last year, according to the Northwestern Miller. ? Dun's Review. The Sheep and the Bee. ? 1 * Charlotte Observer. The farmers of the South had never anticipated such prices for wool 'ind mutton as have been prevailing in recent times. If they only could have known! But they didn't know, ?ind they are now going sorrowfully about the task of making up for this lo?jt opportunity l>y starting a few sheep farms here and there. But they are 30 far going about the re vival of the sheep industry in the South in a half-hearted way, at best. It has been the same with the bee as with the sheep, and when the far mer, in his idle moments, goes over the honey market quotations he feels like there is another industry he has been neglecting to his loss, if not to his eternal shame. The call is com ing from the big markets of the country for more honey. The crop from the South, never as large as it should be, is exhausted, and it seems to be short all over the country. This shortage is accounted for in an old way. The people, going into in tensive gardening and trucking, have plowed under the clover and other ma terials from which the bees have been accustomed to draw their stores. In short, the gardeners have been starv ing out the bees. But in the South, where it is impossible to deprive the bees of floral pasturage by reason of its native and inexhaustible abun dance, no such excuse could prevail. That there is not a greater crop of honey in the South is due solely to the indifference of the Southern people to the possibilities to bee cul ture. To show that they are losing by this indifference it might be cit ed that while Southern honey was sold in New York in 1914 at (10 cents; in 1915 at 50 cents and in 1910 at 55 cents, it is now bringing $1.15, and very little to be marketed at that price. The South seems to be pay ing severely for its neglect of the busy little bee. The trial, conviction and sentence to the extreme penalty of the law of two negroes found guilty of entering a Dover heme within three weeks of their crirre is a splendid example of the adequacy of the law to deal with such casts and further evidence of the pood fortune fer the community that the culprits were not dealt with by a mob. The law has been upheld, ex treme penalty will be meted out, and the dignity of the community pre served. The officials of Craven are to be congratulated for the good example that they have given. ? Kinston Free Press. The United States sent- $39,565, 985 worth of raw cotton to Japan in 1916. NEW BOOKS RECEIVED AT THE Herald Office. The leading new novels together with a large lot of the popular sellers of the past years now in stock. Come in and sec them. THE CALL AND THE ANSWKK. Ihe Call is For Food and the Answer Come^ From Fertilizer ? An Arti cle by Charles A. Whittle, Edito rial Manager, Southern Fertilizer Association. More Wheat! More Oats! More Rye! This is the call of the nation to the South. How can the South an swer? How can it increase its pro duction of small grains to the best ad vantage ? Facing the problem, the first obsta cle that will arise in the minds of the farmer is the shortage of labor. Here in the South the farm labor problem has become very acute. High wages are beckoning more and more negroes away from the farm. To increase the grain crop by in creasing the acreage alone is to con front a very difficult, if not an im possible task. Whatever of increase t f whert, oats and rye, that is in voked of the South, should be in voked not so much from a greater acreage, but from a greater yield per acre. The greatest mission of the South ern farmer in meeting world needs, is to grow cotton. True, the South is not being asked to grew much small grain. If each farmer would grow his share it would be only a small acreage for each. But this can not be hoped for. To sow small grain in the South is to take time away from cotton picking. There fore, labor is a very important fac tor. ? It must be apparent that every ef fort possible must be made to in crease the yield per acre if the de mands of the Government ire to be nut. This can easily be do re. It can be done so easily that to fail to do it, would seem nothing less than "slacking.'' How? By the farmer taking care to get the best seed, by taking time to prepare a good seed bed, and by a liberal application of fertilizer. Fertilizer will conserve labor more than anything else. Fertilizer will bring greater increase of yields than anything else that can be done to grow greater crops per acre. Guaranteed Profitable Price. With the price of small grains fixed, and guaranteed by the United States Government, and with the price such as will provide an attrac tive profit, the farmer has the as surance and the insurance such as he never before had in growing any crop. It is a proposition to bank on. It is up to the fertilizer manufac turer to do his p?:rt. It is up to him to urge the farmer, to grow a rea sonable amount of wheat, oats and rye; not to encourage over-doing it, for the chief business of the South is to grow cotton, and the world will be in very little less stress over get ting its needs for cotton supplied as its bread. Piedmont and limestone soils of the South are the safest areas for wheat production. Oats will grow throughout the region. Rye will grow anywhere wheat and oats will grow and will grow profitably on land too poor to grow wheat and oats profit ably. Wheat at $2.00 per bushel means that for every $1 of a good fertilizer the farmer will get $2.00 in return. A profit of 100 per cent affords a strong argument. What is true of wheat is also true of oats and rye. If the farmer is inclined to become wildly enthusiastic over it, and un dertakes to put his whole farm into cereals the growing of which he knows little about, it would be well to call attention to the fact that cot ton, at present prices is not only bringing 100 per cent profit, but ev en more. The Southern farmer was never in better frame of mind nor condition of pocket-book to buy fertilizers than he is now and will be next year. FINDS $700,000 IN TREE TRUNK. 1 Cowboy. Hunting Stray Cattle, Gets Iron Box Filled With Gold. in an oy^-of-the-way place in the hills of Graham County, this State, is re ported by II. R. Whitman, of Solo monville, who is now in Chandlier, near here. The discovery was made by Joe Walsey, a cowboy. While hunting stray cattle he came upon an iron box hidden in a tree trunk. Its con tents consisted of old Spanish gold coins and gold vessels. The gold has been taken to Safford, the seat of Gra ham County, and placed in security, according to WThitman. It is believed that Walsey discovered a hiding place of priests who left the section about seventy-five years ago. ? Phoenix, Ariz., Dispatch. IF YOU WANT TO ENJOY A GOOD novel read "Sunny Slopes," by Ethel Hueston, author of "Pru dence of The Parsonage." Price $1.40. On sale at The Herald Office.
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