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VOL. X.-.NO 52
LINCOLNTON. N. C. MONDAY 4FTERN00N. AUGUST 7 1916
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
LINCOLN COUNAY FARMERS
INSTITUTES THIS WEEK.
At Asbiiry schoolhouse Monday, i
At Bess Chapel, Tuesday, August 8.
At Gainesville schoolhouse, Wed
. r.esday, August 9.
Institutes will open at 10 o'clock.
Discussions on farm operations,
soils, crops, Boys' Corn Clubs; Live
Stock, health, etc., by T. B. Parker,
Director of Farmer' Institutes ,Dan
T. Gray, Chief of Division of Ani
mal Husbandry, J. R. Rives, Farmer,
of Lee county and others.
Special emphasis will be given to
the diversification of crops, soil im
provement, live stock, marketing, etc.
There will be held at the same time
and place A Woman's Institute
conducted by Mrs. W. R. Hollowell,
representing the State Insurance De
partment, and the Home Demonstra
tion Agent, to which 'women are in
vited to come and join in the discus
sion of subjects pertaining to House
hold Economics, Home Conveniences,
Health in the Homo, the Education of
our Children, Fire Prevention, 'and
other topics of interest to mothers
and home-makers.
Every one invited to bring lunch
and come prepared to spend the day,
and help to make this the best Far
mers' Institute ever held in the
county.
MAN TELLS OF FINDING BODIES
OF WIFE AND LITTLE TOTS,
DOWN THE RIVER.
Hendei'sonville, special to the Ob
server,. Aug. 4.- B. E. Huntley, the
nutn who los-t his wife and two adop
ted children, his home and all his be
longings in a landslide at Bat Cave
on the morning of July 16, wag in
the city yesterday for the first time
since the catastrophe. He states that
the family were preparing to leave
the home on that night. He had step
ped to the door and opened it just as
the slide struck the house, carrying
everything with it into the valley be
low.He bufroly escaped and didn't have
time to even shout a warning to those
in the house. He spent the rest of
the night alone on the top of the
mountain. The body of his wife was
found on Sunday afternoon about half
mile below where the house stood,
but the bodies of the children were
not recovered until a week later, one
and a half miles down the river and
but a few steps upart.
NEGRO ELECTROCUTED AT RAL
EIGH FOR MURDER.
John Savage, colored died in the
electric chair Friday for his part in
the murder of an aged white man in
Washington county, this SLate.he hav
ing bcmi aided in the foul deed by
his wife and son who r.re both uerv-
ing terms, the wife 30 years and the
sou twenty years. It was partly on
the confessions of the wife and son
, that Savage w:s .'..convicted and sen
tenced to die.
CLOUDBURST IN TENN.; MANY
LIVES LOST.
Middlosboro, Ky., Aug. 3. Twenty
five persons are known to have lost
their lives as a result of the cloud
burst which caused Blair's Creek to
over run its bank near Tazewell,
Tcnn., late Wednesday night. Three
. men, four women and 18 children are
included in the revised list of dead.
Rescue parties returning from the
stricken district late Thursday
said the little valley of Blairs Creek
is still flooded ar.d that apparently
every., home, .along the creek for a
distance of six miles has been washed
away. Some estimate that the com
plete death list will total 60.
SENATE BEGINS WORK ON
CHILD LABOR BILL.
Washington, Aug, 3 The- Senate
late today began consideration of the
bill to prevent interstate commerce
-in the products of child labor." The
measure was restored to a place on
the legislative program for this ses
sion at the request of President Wil
ori after the Democratic caucus once
had decided to let it go over until
December. Southern Democrats are
"the only opponents of the measure
which will be kept before the Senate
until it is passed. ' .: ".v;
THE BOYS ON THE BORDER.
Mnior Gen. O'Ryaii'g statement at
McAllen, Texas, that the New York
state troops on the Mexican border
probably would stay thero well into
i!)(7, is not borne out by government
jfl'idali) at Washington, says the cor
respondent of the New York Tunes at
the national capital. It is too early,
in tho opinion of these officials, to say
how long the state Uoopa will be kept
on border service, and they are inclin-
(td to view that unless there is a re
I'livrcnce of the critical aspect of the
jVlexKiifl situation tho National Guard
organisations will not remain in the
Federal service for jwore than, three
months longer.
EVERYBODY HELPING TP RE
BUILD U, K,
The floods did great damage to the
railways in tho mountain section be
" yond Marion. The Southern Railway
eyptem is hard hit by landslides,
bridges washed away, track torn up
and covered by mud near the river,
cars overturned and other property
damages Everybody is working in
tho Bcction about Marion. Southern
railway officials arc giving work to
thousands of men and paying fine
prices. They have establiched camps
at Bridgewator, Marion and Old Fort.
jMarjon is the present terminus of the
'OU ' . -'':
The ivy washout two miles west
of Marion a.ij a treBtle over the riv
er near ureemee we tne cnici impe
diment to gettins a vwk train to Old
Fort, They are hopeful of ' getting
the two points fixed in a short tin.
The road rtwove Old Fort to AshevWle
Will require several months of hard
Vtom W get li) snap? again.
WORK BEGINS ON S. A. L. PRP0T
AT L'HAKLUriE.
A contractor began work Fr'.dav re
' modeling the passenger depot of the
Seaboard Air Line Kairoao in Cner
lftte. Th Dlans call for the expend!
turo of between $25,000 and $30,000
on the building. The present strut
ture two story brick affair, will be
supplemented on the east side with a
wing 18 feet long, and on tho west
with a 35-foot wing. Each wing will
be one story. . ,
EUROPEAN CONFLICT.
For the past "several days the al"
lies having been making gains on
Germany; heavy artillery playing an
important part in tho fighting. A
dispatch to Monday daily papers
from London says.
Under the merciless concentra
tion of shellfiro, the Austra
lians are holding on to their
f rains today after their advance
ast night on a front of two miles.
The Germans already have delivered
three powerful counter attacks to re
take the lost ground and all have
failed. -
In one of the counter attacks the
Germans came forward holding uo
their hands. Behind them the British
guns had placed curtains of shellfire
through which it was impossible for
them to retreat while the Austral
ians machine guns and rifles, mowing
them down, made it hopeless to con
tinue the charge. It was death
whichever way they moved death
if they stood or lay down in the bullet-swept
space and they surrender
ed rather than continue their vain ef
fort. ", .''. ". .
DEMOCRATIC SENATORS BOUND
BY CAUCUS.
Democratic Senators.' in a caucus
Monday night, voted to postpone ac
tion on the immigration bill until the
next session of Congress and adopt
ed 38 to 0, a resolution binding all
Democratic Senators to that decision.
A resolution then was adopted, 32 to
7, pledging the majority to vote down
any attempt to attach the immigra
tion measure to tho child labor bill as
a rider.
The binding resolution, the first of
that nature imposed by a Democratic
caucus for several years, was put
through by party leaders to whip in
to line a group of Southern Senators
who had announced they would sup
port an effort to saddle tne' child la
bor bill, which they oppose with an
immigration rider, including the lit
eracy test section, in the hope that
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ri-esiuuni wuson men wouio veio li.
The seven Senators who voted
against the resolution pledging de
feat of the immigration rider were
senators Bankhcad and' Underwood,
Alabama: Martin and Swanaon. Vir
ginia, Simmons and Overman, North
Carolina, and Beckham, Kentucky. It
stipulates that any amendment in
troducing a subject not germane to
child labor legislation shall be tabled.
COTTON PRICES THE HIGHEST
SINCE WAR.
Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 3. The
highest price for cotton here since
the outbreak of the EuroDean war
was reached today when 3,296 bales
were sold tor 13 1-4 cents a pound,
the transaction involving over $200,
000. GEN.CARR GOES TO MOUNTAINS
a TO SEE AND HELP THOSE
IN DISTRESS.
Gen. Julian S. Curr is in the moun
tain sections inspecting the damage
done by the flood. The Charlotte Ob
server interviewed him in Charlotte,
and says:
"In order that he may glean first
hand information as to what means
should be employed to relieve the
distress conditions in western North
Carolina, Gen. Julian S. Carr of
Durham, spent Thursday in . Char
lotte en route to Marion today. Aft
er going over the situation in the
upper' Catawba valley it is General
Carr's purpose to prosecute a sim
ilar investigation in the upper Yad
kin valley, with Wilkesboro his base.
He will leave this morning for Mar
ion, making the trip by way of
Statesville and the western Toad.
' "The question uppermost in my
mind just now," declared -" General
Carr, is not that of the fact of dis
tress but the best moans to be re
quisition - to Tclieve the " distress.
My heart goes out to the poor peo
ple in these mountain counties who
have lost everything and are now
without the means of recouping their
losses. They are the best people in
the Old North State and I believe
that it is the duty of those who did
not suffer to give them every aid
imaginable. What I am after now
is to get at the best method to be
employed. And as quickly as I dis
cover how to proceed there will be
no facilities omitted to supply the
means." .
General Carr referred especially to
the pastors of the mountain charges
who are 'wholly dependent upon their
Churches for support and who have
been left in pitiful pljght by reason
of the demoralization of their flocks.
"I had a letter from ' a ' presiding
elder who spoke of 20 charges in a
district, 2 of which would be un
able to support their pastors this
year.'" This '"is true of Baptist as
welF as the Methodist and of Presby
terians likewise; ' Jt will be my task
on this trip to get in "touch with this
situation r order that may be the
means of aiding in' the solution of
this problem." ' ' "."
A citizen of a flood-swept district
writes tho relief con'innttee in Ral
eigh that people in his neighborhood
are recognizing the disaster as a vis
itation of the Almighty that thy oro
now praying and going to church, du
ties previously neglected and the
writer says he is perfoctly willing to
stand his share of the loss if it will
result in turning people to God. In
the hour of distress it is natural to
turn to a higher power, - but the
trouble is too many of us don't stay
turned. We call on the Lord might
ily when in trouble, but as soon as
we get to the point where we think
we don't need His. help, we forget all
about what we owe Him and our duty
to Him. Statesville Landmark
The public 'should keep its eyeg op
en for all kinds of rumors and can
ards" antagonistic to the ' Democratic
Administration at Washington. Wher
ever tue RepublicaYs can put one ov
er they do not hesitate. We are see
ing some of this right now in pub
lications in North Carolina. Pin down
to the truths the authors of these in
ventions of the mind.-"News and Ob
server. ' ' .;. .,V
' "Hughes Roundly Condomns Demo
cratic Administration." And allow us
to remark that "roundly" is good as
there was nothing square about his
harangue. Wilmington Dispatch.
LOCAL FUND FLOOD.
A local citizen started Lincolnton
fund for flood sufferers recently,
leaving a contribution to the fund at
this office, and suggesting that an op
portunity be given others to contrib
ute. If there are others in this sec
tion who wish to contribute they are
given an . opportunity. The State
fund is now near the $40,000 mark.
Local Fund. ,
Cash........ ........ $10.00
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.
State democratic headquarters have
been opened in Raleigh and chair
man Warren says he will wage a cam
paign just as if the republicans had
a chance.
" That there were 125 bridge spans
of fifty feet or more each swept out
by the Western Carolina floods, rep
resenting a loss of about $1,000,000
and that the damage to highways was
around $5,000,000 is the estimate on
the flood damage by State Highwav
Engineer W. S. Fallis and State Geo
logist Joseph Hyde Pratt after more
than a week spent in personal inspec
tion of actual damage in the flood
sections. .'.'
Catawba and Caldwell counties
have borrowed $50,000 each to be us
ed in rebuilding bridges and roads. :
Asheville wants the portion of mon
ey coming to that section from the
U. S. treasury for flood sufferers
spent in rebuilding the roads destroy
ed. In this way it is hoped to give
employment to heads of families made
destitute by the floods. .
: One thing the flood did was to helo
the revenue officers clean out the
blockade stills along the branches in
the mountains according to reports.
It is said that freight traffic will
have to be restored before blockading
thrives again.
President Wilson has not changed
his position that the woman suffrage
question should be dealt with by the
States, it was announced at the White
House. The statement was brought
forth by the announcement of Charles
E. Hughes, the Republican nominee
that he favored an amendment to the
Federal constitution giving tho vote
to women.
With one town completely wiped
out, another almost in ruins and a
score of small settlements obliterated,
184 persons lost their lives in the for
est fires in northern Ontario, Cana
da. Only a heavy rainfall probably
saved a great part of tho province
from destruction. Hundreds are
homeless and the Dominion govern
ment has taken extraordinary meas
ures to provide for the refugees.
Ambassador Gerard has sent to the
State Department a report from Dr.
Alonzo E. Taylor, an attache of the
American embassy at Berlin, saying
no German babies are suffering for
lack of milk; that there is an ample
supply of milk and milk powder for
infants, only adults feeling the short
age. It has been reported that Ger
man babies were dying for lack of
milk as a result of Great Britain's
refusal to allow food shipped to Ger
many. .
The government is to help the
flood sufferers, but by the time the
half million dollars is divided among
the seven States to which it is ap
portioned North Carolina's sahre will
not be so large, says the statesville
Landmark. While whatever we got
will help, there is still need for pri
vate donations and if all contributed
is properly dispensed none of the suf
ferers will get more than they should
have.
Owners of automobiles and dealers
in gasoline will doubtless be glad to
learn that the Standard Oil company
has reduced the price of gasoline one
cent per gallon and that other' oil com
panies are expected to follow suit.
While the reduced price may not be
noted in this section for several davs,
due to the fact that dealers will likely
sell the supply they have on hand at
the old price because the cost to them
is in proportion, it will not be long
before the fluid will be cheaper.
Advices from Mexico are to the ef
fect that General Carranza, first chief
of the de facto government is soon to
retire and will be succeeded by Gen
eral Pablo Gonzales. General Carran
za will enter the field as a candidate
for the presidency in the general
election. - - -
Democratic State headquarters
were opened in Raleigh Tuesday and
a meeting of the State committee has
been called for the 8th. ;
The Wilkes county farmers' Union
has gone on record in favor of a bond
issue of $250,000 to build roads and
bridges in Wilkes county.
In Union county a shotgun in the
hands of a 9-year old colored boy was
accidentally discharged - and a 14
year old companion was killed.
Forty Carranza soldiers were killed
and 60 wounded by the explosion of a
carload of dynamite Tuesday near
Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico.
Negrq citizens of Springfield,. Til.,
decided last' week to file injunction
proceedings to compel the park board
to grant them permission to use pub
lic bathing places. A swimming pool
in one of the Springfield parks was,
closed Tuesday when three negroes
attempted to svhn in it. A mass meet
ing followed, at which the negroes
voted to be;in proceedings at once. :
After chaatng Villa into tho moun
tains of Durango, tho Carranza sol
diers lost him again last week but
killed 80 of his men.
During Juno 1916, Southern Rail
way Company disbursed for labor, ma
terial, supplies and other purposes
$5,328,320, of which $4,589,493 or 86.
13 per cent was paid to individuals
and industries located in the South.
Due to the progress made by the
Company in its improvements, large
amounts wen expended during the
month for constructicn purposes: the
total amount disbursed by the Com
pany during tho month in the South
was' $614,806 in excess of the total
moneys contributed by the South for
transportation purposes, according to
figures announced Wednesday by
Comptroller A, H. Plant, showing the
results of oporatlon of the Company
for the month of June 1916, ana for
tho period of twelve months ended
Juno 30, 1910,comoared with the same
month anj period in 1915 and 1914
exclucive of interest, rentals nnfl oth
er income ccarges. .
SHORT NEWS ITEMS
During the 24 hours ended Thurs
day morning at 10 o'clock 217 new
cases of infantile oaralyais developed
in New York and during the same
period thore were 43 deaths, the epi
demic reaching the Ugh jnark.
E. E. Fortune, who jumped from
the court house window at Lexington
while on trial for wife-twating and
was thought to be badly crippled, was
not seriously injured. He was con
victed and sentenced to four months
on the roads. ''
All over the country publishers are
either cutting down i!;o eio of their
publications or advancing the price,
or botii and introducing, otiier econo
mies becauso of the continued ad
vance in the price of paper. In many
cases paper is costing about double
what it cost a year or two ago.
The United States Seu&& has ap
proved an appropriation of $1,500
asked for Mrs. Elijah Moffit, widow
of ex-Sheriff Moffltt of . Randolph
county, who was killed about 20 yo.rs
ago during the second Cleveland ad
ministration, while on revenue duty.
S. A.. Bradford, cashier cf the Bank
of Guntersvillo, Ala., committed sui
cide when State Bank Examiner Grif
fin announced the discovery cf an al
leged shortage in his books, '
Holding coffee to be a foodstuff,
Sir Samuel Thomas Evans, president
of the British prize court, hag con
demned in that court 3,000 bngs of
coffee shipped from America to Goth
enburg by .Swedish staatnera. The
court held that the cargoes were in
reality intended for Gamany.
. ' " j
Thomas B. Fieldor, an Atlanta at
torney who attained wide prominence
during the South Carolina dispen
sary cases, was seriously stabbed in
Atlanta Thursday night and G. K.
Vesson of East Point, Ga., doorkeep
er of the lower house of the State
Assembly has been arrested charged
with the assault. The affray occur
red in the lobby of the Kimball House
in the presence of many Assemblvnien
and is believed to have followed a dis
agreement over a bill to amend the
charter of the city of Savannah. Fild
er is at a hospital and is expected to
recover.
At a special meeting of the com
missioners of Catawba county nt New
ton Wednesday, it was e'ecided to bor
row $50,000 or moro if necesaarv to
join Caldwell, Alexander r.nd Iredell'
counties in building bridges across the
Catawba river one bridge between
Catawba and Caldwe'l.to connect with
Lenoir; one between Catawba and Al
exander and three between Catawba
and Iredell. . All the bridges would
take the phco of bridges washed
away" except one between Catr.wba
and Iredell, wh'Ch would bo a new
bridgc--in the vicinity of the South
ern Power Co's oeveKpr.ief.t at Look
out. The other Catawba-Iredell bridg
es would tako the place of tho States-ville-Buffalo
Shoals and Mocresviile
toll bridges.
I Charged With abduct':ig a well-
known married woman of East spen
cer, Frank Brady, aged 45, is in Row
an jail awaiting trial. Brai'.y left East
Spencer July 1 with the woman it is
alleged. Both were arrested in New
port, Ky.
After suffering terribly for sever
al weeks, David Blow of Washington,
(N. C.l a negro scalded by his wife
while no slept is dead there. The
woman took revenge upon Blow for
his clandestine attentions to another
woman. She is in jail. "
"The Enterprise tells of a Newton
man eating pumpkin custard in July
from this, year's crop of - pumpkins,
having a variety that matures early.
Arthur Smith, a negro who narrow
ly escaped violence at the hands of
members of his own race at Fayette
ville several months age, after ho had
killed his wife, .wag electrocuted - in
the State prison Tuesday for his
crime. A brother of Smith, who kill
ed his wife last year, has never been
captured.
- The body of a negro supposed to
be one of thoso who perished when
the Southern railway bridge over tho
Catawba river at Belmont went down
in the flood of July 16, was found a
few days ago six miles below. Bel
mont. The bodies of six negroes and
a white man who met death in that
disaster were not recovered. If the
body found is one of the victims six
remain undiscovered.
American cotton is worth $213 a
bale in the Russian city of Moscow.
Should the war close suddenly cotton
would go up like a rocket; and when
it doeg come to an end gradually or
all at once, the price wih soar.
A flood story from Chimney Rock
says that tho flood covered a pig pen
with mud and the next day tle pigs
rooted their way- to freedom-" ? tne
same section a rock and concrete
lined well is standing like a granite
column in a field whore the dirt was
cut away from it, so that instead of
being on a level the mouth of the
well is high above the ground. 1
In a fight with Mexican bandits in
the Fort Hancock country, Texas,
two American soldiers were killed and
one wounded. Several bandits bit the
dust. Carranza troopers joined in the
attack on the bandits and acted very
friendly with the Americans. .
There are now 8,195 men, compris
ing North Carolina National Guard.at
Camp Glenn. There are ' three regi-monts-including
181 officers. There
have Seen a total of 1,614 new re
cruits drilled into shape since the sol
diers encamped at Camp Glenn.
New York daily , newspapers ' have
agreed to reduce the number of pages
of their various editions on account
of the increased cost of paper and
other printing materials. Atlanta, Ga.
dailies have raised prices one cent a
copy, ;';':-'-:;;:
Cases of infantile paralysis the
disease that has been epidemic in
New York citv for several weeks
have been reported at various places
in the State. Two cases are reported
at toncora and one at Kannapous.
TRAMP WRITES
MORE POLITICS
He Is Wise To Deception Practiced By
Republican Politicians Thinks
The People Have Democratic Laws
To Be Thankful For Those Who
Think See Through Republican
Trickery.
Editor of The News: In. my
tramps over the country I happened
on a copy of the Lincoln County'
Times of July 11 in which one Erebus
undertakes to reply to my article In
The News of June the 29. Now I
don't know who Erebus is but judg
ing from his communication ho must
be another imported Republican to
the county of Lincoln or he would not
have charged the good people of Lin
coln county of making a oublic ser
vant of such an ignoramus as he
takes Tramp to be. And to set Ere
bus straight, will say that Tramp
never held a public office in his life
and now to use Erebus's illustration I
will ask him, "What are you going
to do about that." Then he takes
up what I s?.id t'.bout the Democratic
tariff law that was passed in 1894
being the cause of the panic in 1893
under a republican high protective
tariff law. Then he undertakes to
try to explain the above paradoxical;
in so doing he admits that the panic
of 1893 came off under a Republi
can tariff law but he failed to tell all
the truth in his explanation; if he
had wanted to tell all tho truth he
would have said that people who had
grown rich under the Republican pro
tective tariff laws, which allowed a
few manufacturers and bankers to
rob the farmer and laborers of this
land of their products and to central
ize all the money in the lnnd in Wall
Street, and fearing tho laws would
be repealed that allowed them to rob
the people, in their soulless greed they
hoarded their money and closed their
bank vaults and would not let the
farmers have money to mow their
crops and the result wr.s that wheat
sold at 50 cents a bufihol, corn 20
cents, cotton 5 cents and bacon 6 cents.
Now these things were dona and up
held by the Republican lawn on the
statute-books, at thf.t time. Then
these soulless lieing robbers, to cov
er up their nefarious deeds put the
word out -tliat Grover Cleveland and
the Democratic party did it; now
that same crowd of robbers brought
on the panic in 1873 under Renubli
can laws. Then in in 1907 there was
.mother bankers panic under Repub
lican laws which would have been as
disastrous as 73 and 93 panics if the
farmers and producers had not been
organized to fight that soulless corpor
ation, aided and abetted by Republi
can laws. I ask in my communication
of June the 29 in the past 16 years
of Republican rule did the farmers
receive as much, for his products or
the mills been as busy as now. Then
Erebus ask this question: "Is this
condition in any way accounted for
by the present administration's con
duct of affairs; is any law passed by
the present congress entitled to any
credit for this condition?" Well no
body is so blind as those who won't
see. Now Erebus knows that many
Republicans believed and prayed f0r
a panic in 1912 and fully believed
that condition of 1893 would be re
peated in 1912. But alas they did not
know that there is a God that looks
down on these United States and that
He has some sei'vuntt that do not
bow then' knee to the money gods,
and this writer believes that it was
God's will and works that put Wood
row Wilson in the President's chair.
And Erebus . certainly, knows that
the Reserve banking law enacted ' by
the present administration certainly
has wiped out the old Republican fi
nancial laws that allowed a few banks
to hoard up the money of the land
in one place and bring on a panic
when they pleased as they did in 1873
and in 1907. And in 1914 when the
world was demoralized with the great
European war the Republican party
rejoiced when cotton went down to
6 cents a pound, but when the finan
cial laws went into effect that had
been passed by a Democratic congress
at the suggestion of the present dem
ocratic administration and when the
secretary of the Treasury came forth
with money enough to handle all the
farmers' crops and cotton went back
up to 11 cents, wheat to $1.50 and
corn to $1.00, the Republicans were
dumb founded; they saw at once
that laws passed by ' tho present ad
ministration had saved this country
from one of the worst panics in its
history. If the European war had
come on under the old Republican
laws, under, which all panics of the
past came, this country would have
seen the worst panic in its history.
Today none of the great import
ed Republican speakers nor any of
the little 2x4 fellows can say a word
against any of theJ Democratic laws
passed, but the Underwood tariff law
and everybody with any sense knows
that there has been no time to test
that law, not even the great Joe Can
non or other big Republicans dare
say a word against the laws enacted
by thfi preseit Democratic adminis
tration and their fight for a higher
protective tariff law is (n.v imaginary
under : present conditions: they
know that a high or low
tariff is of very - little im
portance to this : country as a rev
enue raiser at present, so tne od
iect of the Republican Dart v for a
high protective tariff law is to fool
the ignorant voter; for if they were
honest with : themselves ' and would
tell the truth they Would tell the
people that if the tariff tax on for
eign made goods were four times high
er than it ever has been it would
play a very little part in raising rev
enue to run this government at the
present time because they know that
no ioreign made goods are coming
to the Ur S. to collect a tariff tax
on.
Republican politicians have always
been great in forecasting future
events; they told the people in 1912
when the Democrats came in that
wheat would go down to 50 cents
a bushel and cotton 5 cents a pound.
i Now let us seo if thev foretold the
1 truth: Everybody knows that dur
GERMAN CAPTAIN TELLS HOW
GERMAN MERCHANT SUB
MARINE GOT AWAY.
Norfolk. Va.. Aug. 3. So far as is
known here tonight the Deutschland
is safely at sea on her way to Bre
men after , successfully running
through the patrol of Allied cruisers
off the Virginia capes. The war ves
sels still were in sight ot observers
on shore today, apparently unaware
ot the departure of the big sub-sea-liner.
:
It is not believed the Deutschland
experienced the slightest difficulty in
evading the cruisers. Captain Hinsch,
ot the war-bound Uerman liner JNec
kar, who directed the departure of
tho submarine said today that the
underwater freighter passed unob
served within one hundred yards of
a United Statee destroyer on neu
trality duty about a mile oil the
capes.
' When we came to a stop at a
point in the bay, I shall not disclose
because we probably shall have to
use the place again," said Captain
Hinsch, "the pilot aboard the sub
marine was taken off to the Thomas
F. Timmins, our tug. It was then
about 5 o'clock in the morning. The
submarine was submerged, so that
her machinery and pumps could be
tested and the cargo be trimmed
should it be necessary. She went
down in a deep hole in the bay to
a depth of 135 feet remaining there
lor some time.
"When she came to the surface
again, Captain Koenig came up
through tne conning tower and said
that everything was working per
fectly. Tnat pleased us, I can tell
you. We had thought we might have
to rearrange some things after it
was seen how the Deutschland work
ed in salt water. The tests in the
dock at Baltimore were made in
fresh water as you know.
The trial completed we started off
down the bay and when no traffic was
in sight the Deutschland took anoth
er dive while running. She went down
until only a lew inches ot her peri
scope was showing above the water.
Then I dropped bshind to sv at
what distance tne wake ot the
Deutschland or the foam crest of the
periscope could be seen. About 400
yards with glasses I could not sec a
thing.
Ihe tests having proved that the
Deutschland was in perfect condition
Ave went into a place to hide for a
while. Any one would have had
great difficulty in finding us.
"In the afternoon we started for
the capes and you know how the bet
ter part or the trip was made. The
destroyer was passed in the dark. As
soon as the men on the bridge sight
ed the lights of the Timmins they
watched us closely and looked all
around for . the submarine which
passed them at a distance of only a
hundred yards. At the time the sub
marine was submerged until her
decks were awash.
' "Later when I reported to the de
stroyer that the Deutschland was on
her way to sea officers of the de
stroyer seemed surprised. They had
not observed her at all. So vou nee
that the British and French crui
sers off shore hadn't the slightest
chance of finding the Deutschland."
A SHORTER COTTON CROP.
Heavy damage to the growing cot
ton crop between June 25 and July 25
has caused a reduction of 1,350.000
bales in the prospective production.
The August cotton report of the De
partment of Agriculture, announced
Tuesday, indicated a production of
lli.yio.OUO, equivalent to 500-pound
bales, compared with 14,266,000 bales
forecast from the condition of the
crop June 25. The condition during
the month dropped 8.8 per cent, to
72.3 of a normal. ,
- That - compares - wi 14,266,000
bales forecast last month by the bu
reau of crop estimatesjbaaing its cal
culations on the conditions of the crop
on June 25, and with 11,191,820
bales last year's final production, 16,
134,930 in 1914, 14,156,486 bales in
1913 and 12.703,421 bales in 1912.
The final output, however, will be
larger or smaller than above fore
cast, according as conditions hereaf
ter are better or worse than average
conditions.
The condition in North Carolina is
reported at 70 per cent against 76
in June. The condition in July, 1915,
was 78 and in 1914 86. The 10-year
average was
Rhodhiss cotton mill, put out of
commission by the flood, resumed op
eration last Monday.
Caldwell county will borrow $50,000
at once to repair i(id rebuild bridges
and roads.
ing the first 22 months of the pres
ent Democratic administration wheat
sold at $1.00 a bushel end over, and
cotton stood right around 13 dollars
a hundred all of that time. But in
August 1914 the great war in Eu
rope broke out and paralyzed busi
ness ' all over the world for about
4 months. Then the Republican
false prophets came forth again and
told the people that the war in Europe-had
nothing to with-conditions
of things in tho fall of 1914. But
that the Democratic administration
was the cause of it all; some of these
sainted prophets told the people that
the Democratic party would put
down the price of cotton to 20 dollars
a bale and many of their deluded fol
lowers believed them and sold their
cotton at $30 a bale. Then think of
their chagrin, when in cne month the
price of cotton went back to $50 and
and $60 a bale and has stood there,
and higher up to this time, and now
those sainted prophets have reversed
their argument, turned right around
and are now telling tho people that
tho Democratic administration and its
new enacted laws had nothing to do
with the present condition of things,
but the war in Europe is the cause
of the good times at present. Now
I want to tell Erebus thr.t the con'
structive legislation the Democrats
have passed, is here to stay and that
he will live to learn that present con
ditions are due to Democratic legisla
tion and the management of national
affairs by the present administration.
Now Tramp ha great refract for
j Christianity but not the kind that has
falsehood, sknder and misrepresenta
tion in it. TKAMr,
THREE BIG v
DAYS' PLEASURE
At Lincolnton Season Tickets May
Be Obtained From Any Member of
The Chautauqua Committee
Something of Those Who Come to
Our Town.
The Chautauqua dates for Lincoln
ton this year are August 14, 15 and
16th. The Chautauqua is an ideal
form of entertainment. It comes
but once a year and lasts
only three days, but they are
three days that will never be for
gotten. Some of America's most
noted lecturers, entertainers and mus
ical attractions will be presented in
our town. There will be something
fine and good for everybody. The
wonderful programs will be changing
like a kaleidoscope each afternoon and
night.
First Day, Monday, August 14.
AGRICULTURAL DAY.
AFTERNOON AND NIGHT.
Marietta La Dell. One of the few
really great readers of this country.
Strongly dramatic, clever in comedy,
a wide range of satisfactory selections
Rubie Stanford. Playing with fire
and feeling. Giving the violin a
voice for every emotion ar.d almost a
language.
Ruth Thorn. A rare soprano voice,
cultivated and trained to give ex
pression to the most difficult compos
itions. Dr. D. W. Daniel. Head of English
Department, Clemson College of S.
C, is one of the really great lectur-
ers of the present day. His lec
tures are gems and abound in elo
quence, humor and practical inspira
tion. Second Day, Tuesday, August 15.
EDUCATIONAL DAY.
AFTERNOON AND NIGHT.
Durno, the Mysterious.Delightful
ly entertaining and most amusingly
mystifying. One of the great magic
ians of today. He is a comedian, con
jurer, ventriloquist and philosopher.
He makes the impossible and the un
natural real.
Eugene Lockhart. A resourceful
personality that radiates sunshine.
He portrays dramatic poems with a
power and intensity that grips the
imagination. His humor is refined
and delicious. An artist in every
way.
Third Day, Wednesday, August 16.
HEALTH DAY.
AFTERNOON AND NIGHT.
The Tyrolean Alpine Yodlers. In
picturesque costumes. A thoroughly
unique and altogether delightful en
tertainment. They create an atmos
phere that is like breath from their .
native mountains.. The Yodels are
the perfection of the clearest and
most sweetly penetrating qualities of
the human voice. The melodies are
like the purest and sweetest dream
tones floating out across the valleys
of their cloud land homes caught
up and tossed from mountain top to
mountain top each snow clad peak ad
ding its echo to the chorus.
Lectures by our Chautauqua Director.
Three noted lectures, one of whom
will be our Chautauqua Director. On
each circuit of the Radcliffe Chautau
qua, three towns are holding theso
gatherings at the sametime. The
attractions described above stay just
one day in each town and then pass
on to the next. - One Chautauqua Di
rector is assigned to each and remains
there for all the sessions, assisting
the committee, managing the program
and delivering two fine addresses on
one of the days. These Directors are
either ordained christian ministers or
men who have achieved a marked
success in the service of humanity in
some special line.
Albert Marion Hyde. A great nat
ural orator, winning honors in that
field as a boy. A church leader in
the Middle West with so great a call
upon his time that he made more td
dresses outside of his pulpit thnn in
it. He is a speaker who brings a
virile, vital message close to the big
things in life, with a sparkle of hu
mor and a sunshine of good cheer
which makos it a joy to he?r him.
William Rader Broad knowledge
an analytical mind and a powerful pen
have made him one of the lending
editorial writers of tod.iy. A rich
imagination, magnetic . personality
and an impressive delivory made his
church for twenty years one of the
attractions ot San t rancisco. He
has been closely identified with the
great reform movements in that city.
Frank Sampson Tincher. A pecu
liarly persuasive speaker, gifted with
a glowing enthusiasm of passionate,
purpose. He sees hope written larct
across the skies and is filled with an
intense desire to cneer his hearers on .
to live the life that is filled with
beauties and blessings. His sense of
humor is keen, he is a master of an
ecdote and a believer in wholesome
laugher as a tonic. .
If every good citizen of this town
will respond promptly and buy a pair
of Chautauqua Season Tickets, suc
cess will be assured.
A season ticket is good for all
events including the three afternoons
and the evenings.
Adult's season ticket, $1.50.
Child's season ticket, 75 cents.
Tickets For Single Performances
Any afternoon. adult3. 35 cents.
children, 15 cents.
Any night, adults, 60 cents, chil
dren, 25 cents. ,
The bureau of war risk insurance
established two years ago, when the
war sent marine insurance rates to a
high point, has made a profit for the
government oi over two million dol
lars. It has issued 1,539 policies cov
ering $138,392,389 on American car
goes and ships carrying non-contraband
cargoes.
Fishermen navigating the hitherto
shark infested waters at the mouth of
Havana harbor and around the rocks
of Morro castle report that recently
sharks have not been seen there. The
theory is that the Cuban man-eaters
have migrated to the Atlantic coast