NEW GERMAN NOTE
WAS FORWARDED TO EERLIN ON
WEDNESDAY OF LAST WEEK
The text of the American rejoinder Boar.d of Healh' to be used ,n the pre
to the German Government's reply to 1 vent.on of tuberculosa The money
the note following the sinking of the Pbably be used in the equipment
Lusitania follows: iof a chemlcal and microscopical lab-
"The Secretary of State ad interim to
the American Ambassador at Ber
lin: "Department of State
"Washington, June 9, 1915.
"American Ambassador, Berlin:
"You are instructed to deliver text-1 wayne, ana sne appropriated ou.uu.
ually the following note to the Min- This makes nine counties lined up for
ister of Foreign Affairs: j the summer campaign.
"In compliance with Your Excel-1 San Francisco papers carry the fol
lency's request I did not fail to trans- lowing story of the baby village, a
mit to my Government immediately feature of the health exhibit of the
upon their receipt your note of May North Carolina State Board of Health,
28 in reply to my note of May 15, and which was loaned to the United States
your supplementary note of June 1, Children's Bureau, to use this year at
eetting forth the conclusions so far as the international Exposition at San
reached by the Imperial Government
concerning the attacks on the Ameri-
can steamers Cushing and Gulflight.
I am now instructed by my Govern- they flickered and died out. No, there
ment to communicate the following was nothing wrong with the current,
in reply: It was the Infant Mortality Model
"The Government of the United from North Carolina in the U. S.
States notes with gratification the full Children's Bureau in the Palace of Ed
recognition by the Imperial German ucation at the Exposition.
Government in discussing the cases of . "The exhibit centers around the baby
the Cushing and the Gulflight of the death model. One hundred lights in
principle of the freedom of all parts one hundred homes represent the birth
of the open sea to neutral ships and 0f as many babies. Then a flashing
the frank willingness of the Imperial sign proclaims, 'End of First Day,"
German Government to acknowledge and three lights flicker out 'End of
and meet its liability where the fact First Week' finds four more homes
of attack upon neutral ships which dark and sad; the. rest of the first
have not been guilty of any hostile month adds three more; by the end of
act' by German aircraft or vessels of the second year 29 babies have died
war is satisfactorily established and for every 100 born. 'Most of these
the Government of the United States deaths were preventable" is flashed by
will in due course lay before the Im- a final sign. - . ( ,
perial German Government, as it re-i ,irv . . ,
Quests, full information concerning I "JIJ h" ""
ttie atUck on the steamer Cushing. I North Carolina m.ft.
f ere its warning and its message of m-
"With regard to the sinking of the formation. Perhaps there are already
Bteamer Falaba, by which an Amen-; North Caroiina babies who owe their
can citizen lost his life, the Govern- Bw to itg twinkling and nickering
meni oi uie uniiea oiaies is Eurprieeu
to nna ine imperial uerman uovern
ment contending that an escort on
the part of a merchantman to escape
capture and secure assistance alters
the obligations of the officer seeking
to make the capture in respect of
the safety of the lives of those on
board the merchantman, although the
vessel had ceased her attempt to es
cape when torpedoed. These are not
new circumstances. They have been
in the minds of statesmen and of in
ternational jurists throughout the de
velopment of naval warfare, and the
Government of the United States does
not understand that they have ever
been held to alter the principles of
humanity upon which it has insisted.
Nothing but actual forcible resistance
or continued efforts to escape by
flight when ordered to stop for the
purpose of visit on the part of the
merchantman has ever been held to
forfeit the lives of her passengers or
crew. The Government of the United
States, however, does not undtrsti'iid
that the Imperial German Govern
ment itself seeking in this case to re
lieve itself of liability, but only in
tends to set forth the circumstances
which led the commander of the sub
marine to allow himself to be hurried
into the course which he took.
"Your Excellency's note in discuss
ing the loss of American lives result
ing from the sinking of the steamship
Lusitania, adverts at some lenght to
certain information which the Impe
rial German Government has re
ceived with regard to the character
and outfit of that vessel and Your Ex
cellency expresses the fsar that this
' information may not have been
brought to the attention of the Gov
ernment of the United States. It is
Btated in the note that the Lusitania
was undoubtedly equipped with
masked guns, supplied with trained
gunners and special ammunition,
transporting troops from Canada, car
rying a cargo not permitted under the
laws of the United States to a vessel
also carrying passengers and serving
in virtual effect as an auxiliary to the
naval forces of Great Britain. For
tunately these are matters concerning
which the Government of the United
States is in a position to give the Im
perial German Government official in
formation. Of the facts alleged in
Your Excellency's note, if true, the
Government of the United States
would have been bound to take of
ficial cognizance in performing its
recognized duty as a neutral Power
and in enforcing its National laws.
It was its duty to see that the Lusi
tania was not armed for effensive ac
tion, that she was not serving as a
transport, that she did not carry a
cargo prohibited by the statutes of
the United States and that, if in fact
she was a naval vessel of Great
Britain, she should not receive clear
ance as a merchantman ; and it per
formed that duty and enforced its
statutes with scrupulous vigilance
through its regularly constituted of
ficials. It is able, therefore, to assure
the Imperial German Government
that it has been misinfirmed. If the
Imperial German Government should
deem itself to be in possession of con
vincing evidence that the official of
HEALTH NOTES
A sum of money not exceeding $200
was left by the will of the late Dr. J.
C. Hoyt, of Fayetteville, to the State
. oratory
Four more counties, Halifax, Edge
combe, Wayne, and Wilson, have re
cently made appropriations for the
anti-typhoid campaign. Each of these
counties appropriated $400 except
rransico
"The lights in a hundred houses
came on suddenly. Then one by one
lights.
the Government of the United States
did not perform these duties with
thoroughness the Government of the
United States sincerely hopes that it
will submit that evidence for con
sideration. "Whatever may be the contentions
of the Imperial German Government
regarding the carriage of contraband
of war on board the Lusitania or
regarding the explosion of that ma
terial by the torpedo it need only be
said that in the view of this Govern
ment these contentions are irrelevant
to the questions of the legality of the
methods used by the German Naval
authorities in sinking the vessel.
"But the sinking of passenger ships
involves principles of humanity which
throw into the background any spe
cial circumstances of detail that may
be thought to effect the cases, prin
ciples which lift it, as the Imperial
German Government will no doubt
be quick to recognize and acknowl
edge, out of the class of ordinary
subjects of diplomatic discussion or
of international controversy. What
ever be the other facts regarding the
Lusitania, the principal fact is that a
great steamer, primarily and chiefly
a conveyance for passengers,' and
carrying more than a thousand souls
who had no part or lot in the con
duct of the war, was torpedoed and
sunk without so much as a challenge
or a warning, and that men, women,
and children were sent to their death
in circumstances unparalleled in mod
ern warfare. The fact that more than
one hundred American citizens were
among those who perished made it
the duty of the Government of the
United States to speak of these things
and once more, with solemn emphasis,
to call the attention of the Imperial
German Government to the grave re
sponsibility which the Government of
the United States conceives that it has
incurred in those tragic occurrence and
to tne indisputable principle upon
which that responsibility rests. The
Government of the United Star is
contending for something much great
er than mere rights of property or
privileges of commerce. It is con
tending for nothing less high and
sacred than the rights of humanity,
which every Government honors it
self in respecting and which no Gov
ernment is justified in resigning on
behalf of those under itg care and
authority.
"Only her actual resistance to cap
ture or refusal to stop when ordered
to do so for the purpose of visit could
have affored the commander of the
submarine any justification for
much as putting the lives of those on
board the ship in jeanordv. This
principle the Government of the Uni
ted States understands the explicit
instructions issued on August 3, 1914
by the Imperial German Admiralty
to its commanders at sea to have
recognized and embodied as do the
naval codes of all other Nations, and
upon It every traveler and seaman
had a right to depend. It is upon
this principle of humanity as well as
upon the law founded upon this
principle that the United States must
FAMOUS TARJEEL GIRLS
BIG NORTHERN PAPERS GIVE
WRITE-UPS OF OUR CHAMPION
DEBATERS AND CANNING
CLUB GIRL.
In the department of "Farmers of
Tomorrow," the Country Gentleman,
the well known agricultural journal,
recently gave the following story
concerning the achievements of the
girl who won the championship last
year of the Alamance County Club:
"When a fourteen year old girl in
vests $24.47 in the cultivation of one
tenth of an acre of tomatoes and real
izes from that single investment $148.
23 in profits there's a suggestion of
unusual intelligence and thrift. The
case in point is that of Mary Rice Mc
Culloch, of Alamance county, North
Carolina's champion for 1914. Her
yield was canned 1,711 pounds. Here
is her own story:
The Stone and Earliana tomato
seeds were ordered by the club early
in February. The season was wet and
my seed were not sown until March.
I put them into a tobacco plant bed
covered with canvass. I transplanted
my plants on May 4, and again on
May 14, I replanted them.
" 'My garden was an oblong plot 33
feet by 132 feet. The soil was of gray
ish loam. It had been sown to crimson
clover the preceding fall. The land
was broken with a two-horse plow on
May 8. Then it was harowed three
times with a section harrow.
"'I had one two-horse load of sta
ble manure scattered broadcast and
harrowed under before the plants were
put out. About the last of July I had
one-third of a sack of fertilizer put on
my garden,
" 'I watered and set my plants on
June 1. Many of tthem died. I wa
tered and replanted twice again. At
last plowing the ground was covered
with rich dirt
" 'I did not prune or stake my
plants. My plot was mulched with
straw. I killed the cutworms and to
bacco worms. .i
"'I gathered my tomatoes in tubs
and buckets and hauled them to the
house. In grading, all the large and
small ones were put in separate boxes.
I grew no other vegetables on my one
tenth acre. I did most of my canning
at home. All my preserving was done
at home.
" 'The meaning of the club emblem,
to make the best better', is working
toward perfection. I knew almost
nothing about canning when I joined
the club. Have learned many things
about fruits and vegetables. I used
the recips recommended by the club
for catchup, chow-chow, jellies, and
grape juice. This was my first year
in the club and I enjoyed the work
very much.' .
"Because of what Mary McCulloch
and the other canning club girls in
her county have done, Alamance
claims a record for goods produced in
1914 by girls. The county invested
$1,771.25 and from that expenditure
produced canned goods to the value of
$7,039.65. The number of containers
was 55,165."
Leslie's Weekly, of New York City,
the most widely read illustrated week
ly in the United States, carries a pho
tograph of Lalla Rookh Fleming and
Ethel Gardner, of the Wilson high
school, champion winners in the debat
ing Union of North Carolina. The
photograph appears in the department
of "People Talked About" in Leslie's
of May 27. The caption heading is
"Best Debaters in Carolina.' The pic
ture and brief item concerning the
achievements were submitted by S. R.
Winters, of the State University.
stand.,
"The Government of the United
States is happy to observe that Your
Excellency's note close.8 with the in
timation that the Imperial German
Government is willing, now as be
fore, to accept the good offices of
the United States in an attempt to
come to an understanding with the
Government of Great Britain by
which the character and conditions
of the war upon the sea may be
changed. The Government of the
United States would consider ib
privilege thus to serve its friends and
the world. It stands ready at any
time to convey to either Government
any intimations or suggestion the oth
er may be willing to have it convey
and cordially invites the Imperial
German Government to make use of
its services in this way at its con'
veniences. The whole world is con
cerned in anything that may bring
about even a partial accommodation
of interests or in any way mitigate
the terrors of the present distressing
conflict.
"In the meantime, whatever ar
rangement may happily be made h
tween the parties to the war and
whatever may in the opinion of the
Imperial German Government have
been the provocation or the circum
stantial justification for the past acts
of its commanders at sea, the Govern
ment of the United States confidently
looks to see the justice and human
ity of the Government of Germany
vindicated in all cases where Ameri
CONFEDERATE FLAG DESIGNER
Although it has long been known
in North Carolina that te a son of
this State belongs the honor of de
signing the "Stars and Bars," not till
the Reunion in Richmond recently was
fitting recognition of the fact given by
others. But now, the "court of the
highest appeal" has decided that to
Major Orren Randolph Smith, who has
already passed over the river and is
"resting in the shade of the trees,"
is due the honor of designing the flag
that was followed by the grey clad
army through so many battles.
Reports from committees from the
United Confederate Veterans, the
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and
the Confederate Southern Memorial
Association, were adopted by the Vet
erans in session, and it seems espe
cially fitting that this recognition was
given at Richmond, once the capital
of the Confederate States of America.
Major Smith was a veteran of both
the Mexican and Cival wars. Mrs.
W. B. Winbome, now living in Wilson,
was Miss Becky Murphey in 1861, and
she it was who sewed the model flag
under personal directions of Major
Smith. The "Stars and Bars" was
first thrown to the breeze when a flag
nine by twelve feet was hoisted in
Louisburg, March 18, 1861.
The flag itself Major Smith describ
ed in these words:
'The idea of the flag I took from
the Trinity, Three in One. The three
bars for the Church, State and Press.
Red represented State, legislative,
judiciary and executive; white for
freedom of conscience and liberty of
press all bound together by a field
of blue (the heavens over all), bearing
a star for each State in the Confeder
ation. The seven white stars, all the
same size, were placed in a circle,
showing that each State had equal
rights and privileges, irrespective of
size or population. The circle, having
neither head nor foot, stood for eter
nity and signified, 'You defend me and
I'll protect you.' " r'- f
GOOD COUNSEL
The first thing we want to bring
our attention to is the duty we owe
to our parents: "Honor thy father
and mother that thy days may be
long upon the land." Treat them with
kindness and respect. Show them
that you think something of them.
When you speak of them, never say
anything bad, but always speak well
of them.
Respect all old people. Never
laugh and make fun of old folks.
Train yourself to be kind and not to
be proud. Cut out all proud feelings.
Visit the sick and afflicted, and lend
a helping hand to them. That is one
thing that people in this country are
too neglectful about.
Avoid all useless habits, such as
profane language, drinking liquor,
smoking cigarettes and similar things.
Always be truthful and honest and
live a perfect life, or as nearly so as
possible. W. C. Richardson.
Rev. Sylvester Newlin, of Pasedena,
Cal., is to succeed Rev. L. W, McFar
land as pastor of the High Point
Friends church. The new minister,
who will arrive about the first of Au
gust, is a native of Indiana, but a de
scendant of a Nonth Carolina family.
cans have been wrongd or their rights
as neutrals invaded.
"The Government of the United
States therefore very earnestly and
very solemnly renews the representa
tions of its note transmitted to the
Imperial German Government on the
fifteenth of May and relies in these
representations upon the principles of
humanity, the universally recognized
understanding of international law
and the ancient friendship of the
German nation.
The Government of the Uinted
States cannot admit that the procla
mation of a war zone, from which
neutral ships have been . warned to
keep away, may be made to operate
as in any degree an abbreviation of
the rights either of American ship
masters or of American citizens bound
on lawful errands as passengers on
merchant ships of belligerant nation
ality. It does not understand the Im
perial German Government to ques
tion those rights. It understands it,
also, to accept as established beyond
question the principle that the lives of
non-combatants cannot lawfully or
rightfully be put in jeapordy by the
capture or destruction of an unresist
ing merchantman, and to recognize
the obligation to take sufficient pre
caution to ascertain whether a sus
pected merchantman is in fact of bel
ligerent nationality or is in fact car
rying contraband of war under a neu
tral flag. The Government of the
United States therefore deems it rea
sonable to expect that the Imperial
German Government will adopt the
measure necessary to put these prin
ciples into practice in respect of the
safeguarding of American ' lives and
American ships, and asks for .assur
ance that this will be done.
(Signed) ROBERT LANSING,
"Secretary of State, Ad Interim.''
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
ITEMS OF LIVE NEWS GATHER
ED FROM OUR EXCHANGES
AND CONDENSED IN BRIEF
FORM FOR BUSY READERS
Jones county will vote on the ques
tion of stock law August 3.
Gaston county is to have a farm life
school at the town of Dallas.
,, . . , - . . ! ful experience which I wish to relate.
The board of aldermen of Marion has . , . . f . . , . T.
, 7 j o v v Li. m , 1 1 had just fallen asleep, when I began
elected G. S. Kirby as health offi .er. I . . .. j i j t
to dream a most wonderful dream. I
The prices of food stuffs of many met and had a long conversation with
kinds have risen in Germany from' 100 ; the spirituaV images of Lord Cornwal-
to 200 per cent since the war began, j lis and David Fanning, the famous
. . . British general and the notorious Tory
The county commissioners of Lin-! leader of section of the
coin county have reduced the tax rate After taIkin? fop gome with
in that county 17 cents on the onehun- j thege gentemen on variou8 subjects,
dred dollars valuation of property. the gubject of the ..Qn&t Bragg Can
United States Commissioner Hugh non" came to my mind; and as this
L. Beckerdite, of Winston-Salem, died has been the one great and unexplain
suddenly in his office one day last ed problem in this community for sev
weel(. j eral generations, I decided to ask these
gentlemen all about it. They then led
Mr. J. Elwood Cox, of High Point, me to a Bpot about one-half mile north
is being boomed as a candidate for o Coltrane's Mill, on the farm of Mr.
governor on the Republican ticket , jame8 Richardson. Here by the road
next year. side was a very large hole in the
Mr. and Mrs. Raphael Harper, of round' which 1 had often seen in
Chatham county, are the parents of Pf?- They told me that this was
17 children, 12 of whom are living, tor th bur,al of the cannon?
says Siler City Grit. I but feann e aPPh of the ene-
I my, they decided to abandon that plan
Mt. Lassen, California, whose vio- and sink the cannon in the waters of
lent eruption of May 19, places it in Deep River until a more convenient
the first rank of volcanoes, is being time. However, at that season of the
studied by the geological survey and year, it was somewhat difficult to find
the forest service. j water sufficient to hide this great piece
t u i r j . am m . . ' of artillery, and this also had to be
Isabel Wade, aged 3", of Chicago, . z. . ..,...
j ! tio i-f 8T've up. Next, they decided to follow
was arrested in Milan, Italy, last , . , J , ' .
, . ... the ridge of the north bank of the nv-
week, on the charge of being an ac- . ... . , , .
,. . tj .r in er to sorae TO'd and lonely spot in the
complice of a Bavarian officer, who is , . ... . . ,
accused of espionage P foPert f th'8 8eCtl0n' 8ettlement
accused or espionage. j m thig country being very gcanty afc
A billion bushel wheat crop, the this time. After following the river
greatest ever grown in the history of for some four or five miles, they de
the world, is indicated by a recent cided to rest for the night, and Fan-
forecast of the Federal crop reporting
board.
-il 'lt.?i,,-V'3..i
Francisco Lagos Chazaro is
the!
newest president of Mexico, elected as
provisional president of the "conven
tion government" which has the sup
port of the Villa-Zapata factions.
Prof. Joe M. Matthews, for four
years principal of the State high
school at Matthews, will succeed Prof.
Wililam McCluskey as superintendent
of schools for Mecklenburg county.
Yeggmen secured nearly one hun
dred dollars when they blew open the
safes in both the Standard Oil Com
pany and Texas Oil Company's offices
in Greensboro, one night last week.
There is no clue as to the guilty par
ties. Joe M. Morgan, of Candler, N. C,
was sentenced last week in Federal
Court at Greensboro, by Judge Boyd,
to two years in the Federal Pnitenti
ary at Atlanta, after he had plead
guilty of defrauding through the
mails.
According to a recent opinion of
Judge Allen, a man cannot legally
serve as a member of the Legislature
and as a notary public at the same
time. If this opinion were put in ef
fect, it is said that a great many pa
pers and documents would be invalid
ated. Mrs. Margaret Fox, of Catawba
county, is suing Sheriff Isenhour and
Jailor Gilbert and the sheriff's official
bondsmen for alleged damages on ac
count of the death of her son, Eugene
Fox, who died in the county jail about
two months ago while serving a sen
tence of thirty days for an affray.
Editor J. M. Reece, of the Greens
boro Daily Record, is in Johns Hop
kins Hospital, Baltimore, for surgical
treatment which has become necessa
ry on account of a fractured bone at
the knee cap, suffered some years ago,
from which he has never fully recov
erd.
J. C. Faircloth, of Wake county,
convicted of illicit distilling last De
ecember, and sentence changed at his
request from six months in jail to a
year and a day in the Atlanta Federal
Penitentiary, by Judge Connor, was
pardoned by the Department of Jus
tice last week, after serving a little
more than half of his sentence. "
At a recent meeting of the city
council of Hillsboro, Orange county,
there was passed unanimously a res
olution, providing that every property
owner or householder in town should
be provided with a sanitary closet
The mill owners in Orange county, are
also planning to install sanitary sew
erage disposal plants at their mills.
Another party of Belgian farmers,
sailing from Liverpool, will arrive at
the colony near Wilmington, establish
ed a few months ago by the Carolina
Truck Development Company. The
fifty Belgians who arived in March
have proved in every way satisfactory.
They are rapidly a lipting themselves
to the new conditions and taking
deep interest in their farms. It is
proposed by these peop'.o to name thir
country "Little Belgium" in honor of
their own country from which the cre
el war has driven them.
A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE
Mr. Editor:
Please allow me space in your val
uable paper to tell your readers of a
wonderful experience which. I have re
cently passed through, and which re
minds me very much of the story:
"Alice in Wonderland."
On the night of May 30th, after eat
ing an unusually large supper, I lay
down to rest, when I had this wonder-
ning was sent out near Randleman to
rally the Tories of the region, but was
captured by the Patriot army, tried,
; and sentenced to be shot. Just as
they were getting ready for the exe
cution, Fanning, who was not hand
cuffed, and was standing some eight
or ten feet from the officer who had
him in charge, suddenly sprang upon
one of the captain's favorite horses,
"Boy Doe", and made a dash for lib-
erty. Several shots were fired at him
but did not take effect, as the captain
told them to aim high so as to not hit
the horse. However, some of the sol
diers pursued and chased him to the
bend of the river, to a steep rocky cliff
down which they thought it impossi
ble for any horse or man to go. But
Fanning, knowing it was a case of life
or death, plunged the horse oyer the
steep clih', swam the river, and maty '
his escape.
This stirred the Patriots of the
neighborhood, and they began at once
a diligent search 1 for this outlaw. '
Cornwallis, after learning this., saw
at once that something must be done
with the cannon, which contained the
enormous sum of $310,000.00 and
some valuable papers, a part of which
I. am permitted to show, and a part
I am forever to hold secret. After
talking the matter over with Fanning,
Cornwallis decided to bury the cannon
and contents and flee from the oncom
ing troops of General Green, who was
less than 25 miles away. So here on
the banks of Deep River, midway be
tween Walker's Mill and Island Ford,
this great gun lay hidden until I was
led to the spot by the images of these
men.
After leaving the -ot, Cornwallis
started his march back in a northerly
direction and was met the next day
by General Green and the great battle
of "Guilford Courthouse" was fought
All the men who participated in the
burial of the cannon were killed in
the battle, and hence the mystery to
this day.
The gold which this grand old piece
of artillery contained I am permitted
to call my own and to use as I see fit,
but the papers, or a part of them are
to be burned or otherwise destroyed.
One very interesting paper among the
rest is the agreement of Benedict Ar
nold to turn traitor for $5,000.00 of
British gold, which I am permitted to
show to the public. One marked fea
ture of this paper is the fact that it
has scarcely faded and bears all the
seals of the British government If I
so desire, I am permitted to donate
this cannon to the State Museum at
Raleigh, but have not fully decided a
to what I shall do yet .
Anyone wishing further informa
tion may call on me at any time or
easily find the hole from which the
cannon was removed, about half way
between Walker's Mill ' and Island
Ford. - -
R. L. WHITE, Jr.
Glenola, N. C, June 1, 1915.
SOPHIA ITEMS
There will be preaching at Brown's
Chapel the third Sunday in this month.
Mr. Charles Farlow has built a new
barn. i ' ,
We are glad to eee so many young
people at Sunday schooL '
Corn is looking fire In this section.