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TUESDAY, AUGrST 21, 1015. r PAGE TOO THi: LEXINGTON HERALD. ' --.-. r : '. i - 1 i 1 DEATII TOLL OP HURRICANE , V - V BEING REVEALED NOW Reports' Come From.Remote Parts of Galveston Bay Pathetic Scenes in Flooded City People, Thronged Public Buildings and Band Plays : While ' Hurricane Raged Negroes .Sing "Old Time Religion" as the Water, Gets Deeper and Deeper. -Houston; Tex., Aug. 19. verinea reports tonight place the number , of known dead outside of - Galveston orooer at 1 0 1 , with 260 missing. In Galveston it : is estimated that not more than twenty are dead. The - property damage is vaguely estimated 1 in the' millions ' There are no defin ite figures. . BEYOND ARGUCENT Houston. Tex., Aug. 19, The. re mote points on Galvestonay, which penetrate the mainland for fifty miles from the coast line, Degan'io report today.; At. Anahuac, on this bay, five lives were lost. W. T. Miller, an en gineer . .aboard the a ; United States dredgebqat No. 12, confirmed its loss. All xf the crew were saved. ' - Miller, after three ribs were broken, floated down the;Trinity River on a log, then rode a horse twenty-six miles until he reached rail communication ,witb Houston and reached here this af ter noon. He found three dead at Wallis ville and five reported missing at Moss Point. . . '- ' " 's Edwin Carter; of Houston, was in water near LaPorte from . Monday night until early Wednesday morning, He was delirious when found. Refugees from Galveston "today said that when the storm broke Mon day thousands crowded into the Fed eral building, big office buildings and hotels. Tuesday morning a free bread line was formed in. the Hotel Galvez. The band played Tuesday night to keep the" people's spirits up. Thousands crowded in the Terminal railway station. . The negroes on the lower floors sang "Old Time Relig ion." Refugees watched, the fires which reddened the spray and , rain over the city, i No person was al lowed to bring liquor into the build ing. One man was turned away, be cause he refused to relinquish it. Fires which have been raging in Galveston are reported under control This item of: damage alone has been . estimated in excess, of , $500,000. There is no train service out of - or into the city and telegraph and tele graph and telephone facilities were destroyed early Monday night and still were out of commission. ' The Galveston seawall evidently withstood the storm's fury and is in tact, but the causeway connecting Galveston with the v mainland was washed out at each end where the concrete and earthworks connected. Man for man, ; the country., people of Ipwa are.worth more han ten times as much as the - country dwell ers in North Carolina; on an average $3,386 apiece against $322 apiece. -. s In: the . main, they are. livestock farmers,' while - we are erpp farmers, for the most part that's why ! ' 'v ' And yet our crop producing, power per acre is greater than that of Iowa. In "1 9 i4,.,our average . crop yield was $20,18 per . acre; : . theirs, ' '" $17.9 2 ; maiply because our 'leading crops, cotton and tobacco, are more valua ble .-than their grains, hay and for age. .-.7.'. ' ,v , . "... Our farm wealth is accumulated for the most part out of. profits on crops; theirs, out of crops turned into animal, products hams, bacon shoul- TJtE CONFEDERATE STJB3IARINE. Pittsboro- Record. dersV. milk and cream, butter and The Record - recently mentioned htat the first use of a submarine In war. was. made by the Confederates, and this item was so generally cop led by the newspapers' of the State that it may be of further interest to read" more about this strange craft. Of course, it was -a very crude sort of aboat and cannot be compared to the latest improved submarines now being used so effectively by Germany. This Confederate submarine was named the H. L. Hunley and was con structed at Mobile and was brought from there on flat cars to Charleston for the purpose of trying to break up the blockade' of that port by the Federal vessels off the harbor. It was about forty feet In length and cheese,' poultry r and eggs livestock sales and the like. ' v r Hoiy They Turned the Trick. v; They; are; food .? farmers ; mainly. They live at home and' have food sur pluses to market at. steadily increas ing prices. tl J. Y; 1:j - - i No farm . community can accumulate-any greatiwealth buying farm supplies with cottoq ... and tobacco money. But middle western prat ers get rich in taking our cotton and tobacco money for r food and feed products. . . ; ' These are the hard f acts,argue about them as we may. Thirty-three hundred and eighty-six -dollars per person in Iowa speaks ten times louder than $ 3 2 2 in North Carolina - in 1910,. Iewa produced $127 worth of animal products, 57 pounds of butter and 44 dozen eggs per per son i we produced only $18. worth of animal products, 12. pounds of but ter and 10 dozen eggs per person. The difference between crop farm ing and livestock farming Is the dif ference between thin and thick pock etbooks. 1 , . ABANDONS ONE-CROP SYSTEU Southern Farmer Are' Balng.Tavjht Success Adopt "Hay, Most and : Hominy Slogan. - With assurance thtt the South has at last heeded the "hay, ' hogs and hominy slogan, abandoned the one 'crop system, and set abcut earnestly to direrslfy her crops, southern boards of trade and commercial and industrial organizations of all kinds are busy advising the farmers bow to adjust themselves to these new con dltions. says an Atlanta dispatch. ' Editors, vlucators and lecturers have .dinned into the ears of the farmers' the idea that the South can grow as fine a quality of hay as the West. With this idea la view an In vestigation was recently made.. The farmers asserted there was no mar ket .for the peavine hay. The commission grain merchants six in diameter and ' shaped ' like a J. were then moved on. They acknowl- edged that they. did not care to buy peavine hay, and gave their reasons. It was not cured, properly, and. In : addition, possessed a fattening qual ity which made it unsuitable for work animals. As a. result the. South n most striking contrast with- the has now ' a propaganda of education speed or me moaern suDmarines. one on how to cure and bale hay. cigar. .Its motive power came from seven men turning cranks attached to the propeller shaft, and when working their best the boat would make only about four' miles an hour. This is SLEEPING PORCHES AM) OPEN-AIR SCHOOLS of vhich recently made a voyage of 3,000 miles to the Dardanelles. Several experiments or attempts to use the Hunley were unsuccessful, each time sinking' and its crew of about eight men drowned, until its final trip, thirty-three men having lost their lives. These experiments being made' in the harbor at Charles ton, where the water was not very deep, the boat was raised each time it had sunk and its dead 'crew taken out. v It thus seemed to be a veritable death trap or coffin, and yet a new crew was always found ready to risk their lives in it, in nowise, daunted by the deaths of all who had been in it. . " THE , DARDANELLES. A rather unlaue Dlan for lmnrov ;ng the grade of southern cattle is being urged, and to this idea the farm ers have takn readily. The county commissioners of every county In every southern state are urged to purchase a thoroughbred sire of cne'of the best breeds of cat tle for the free use of the farneis of the country, . Alcng this same line, of diversifi cation it is also proposed that every Southern town have r market day. While a complete revolution cannot be expected in one year, the' de crease of nearly 50 per cent In the sale of fertilizer tags this year and the unquestionably large cut In cot ton acreage show tha King Cotton is tottering on his throne. The great- The last experiment with this ill- est fear is that a high price of cotton Raleigh News and Observer. "Have you noticed how many sleeping porches are being construct ed in the City of Raleigh?" asked an - "observing visitor in the city recently. "It's the-same way all over the coun try and I'm glad to see it," he said. "Jt is wonderful to note how the atti tude 'regarding sleeping porches, fresh air sleeping, and I might add, open-air schools. "Why, no longer than two years ago i the sight of a sleeping porch in connection with any "home was , re garded as an open sign of tubercolo sis in that home, but today it means ' a different thing It means that fam ily's ideas of health and efficiency are not the old kind. ' They believe that thebest conservation' of health is' the the prevention of disease and it's my . opinion that dollar fbr dollar, the sleeping, porch is the best ihealth in - vestment that a home can have.. If it is second to any it is the bath room, but even then it has the advantage of being built and maintained cheaper : . thana"t)a-room."7C;;l-' "It's;a fact," said he, "that ip a few years a house will be cbnside'red more complete -without s a bathroom than without its fresh air arrange mentsv ( And the , same v reformation . that is rapidly taking i place in the "homes as to fresh aif apartments will soon be seen in all the schools'. - All anaemic; and abnormal children will soon 3 be taught in -open ' air schools, hut I don't see why in this country and ivntb this climate, every school might! not be- made an open-air XIKE CURES LIKE. - Ladiesf Home Jouriial:- ' : i VNofv.v Willy," said the mother, "you told me a falsehood. Do you know what happens to little boys who f tell falsehoods?" ' . - I "No, ma'am," replied Willy, sheep- ; "Why,7 .'continued the mother, "a ;'hig,x black man with only one eye in the center ,of his: forehead comes . along and flies with Vhim up ' to I the .. ' moon and makes 'him pick sticks for . , th,e balance of . his4if e. ; Now, you r j-will never tell a falsehood again will . your-j. it w ,awiuiiy . wicked; . t . Exchange. : . Ancient history is vidid with the re cital of valorous f , deeds that the Greeks and Romans performed on the Hellespont This is a strait .which is the gateway into the Marmora, or Black Sea, and to Constantinople. To day the ancient Hellespont of history is known as the Dardanelles. The Al lies are making heroic efforts to si lence the monster forts that guard it, so as to gain an entrance to Con stantinople and Russia. This strait is about forty miles long and. varies in width "from 1,400 yards to five miles. On its right shore is Gallip bli, called hy the ancient Thracians, Chersonese and on its left the plains of Troy and Mount Ida, all conspiqu uous in ancient history. The. strait is named - after Darnanus, son of . Zeus and Electra in mythology, who was the ancestor of the Trojan and Ro man kings. The battle of Algospota mi occurred in the Dardanelles. The people of Chrysopolls levied tolls upon ships, here. ". In 334 B. C., Al exander sailed the - Dardanelles and whipped the Persians in the battle of Granicus. Xerxes crossed it in 4 8 0 B. C. with his ships of war." In 1833 Turkey cloged the Dardanelles to foreign ships under treaties," but the world, did not respect them until 1S41. .. " ' ' ;. The treaty of Paris closed the Black Sea to war ships of all Nations. Dur ing the Franco-Prussian war Russia repudiated this treaty in the hope ofrgetting a free pass to the ocean, and would have done so had England not stepped in and prevented her an cient hopes . succeeding. .And the treaty of Berlin fixed At so that Rus sia was barred from the straits. The Turks allow no war ship to pass the straints, and 'often they close the Dar danelles to all kinds of navigation. ; France and England ' are firing away! at the i forts endeavoring to open a way through to aid "their ally, Russia,- and capture ' Constantinople. For centuries they have fought to close these .straits . to Russia. The Dardanelles shuts - Russia .out from i the open' sea, and if : England man-1 ages to open it and give Russia en tranced to the world, she will make a new competitor to her own 'com merce, for which reason she has al ways insisted on blowing up Russia. It seems evident that the Allies can never get through the Dardanelles unless they put an immense army on land; whip the Turks and then de stroy the forts. - TheyTare trying to do. this : now.V r :,.S: - - fated boat was on .the night of Febru ary 17, 1864,. when it attacked and sank the United States steamer Housatonic, but, while successful in blowing up and sinking that ship, it self was sunk and its crew of seven were drowned. The commander of this expedition was Lieutenant George E. Dixon, of Alabama, who with his crew, well knew the danger of the boat sinking and their being drowned, and yet they were willing to next year, due to the crop shortage. will plunge the southern farmer back to where he came from, to the unend ing field of white. COTTON BEING BLOWN AWAY Use of Staole In Modern Warfare la Something Enormous -Experts Give Interesting Figures. Cotton Is being blown up now at a faster rate than at any prerlous time risk their lives, In the ill-fated boat.l In the hlstor. of the world.' The use The Federal ship to be attacked was guncotton in up-to-dat3 warfare la the Housatonic. which was inside th enormous, being used largely in the harbor and about five miles from explosives; ror instance, the Eng- coraiie is a per cent guncoi- Hsh ten. United States ordnance experts es timate that every time one of the big 15-inch guns of Uncle Sam's navy goes off there Is one less bale of cot ton, or 500, pounds. One discharge of a plank or log floating in the water the 12-Inch gun consumes 300 pounds which came close alongside to tha of cotton. Fort Sumpter. Although It was a moonlight night and a calm sea, and although there was a ivgilant watch oh the Housatonic, yet the aproach of the Hunley was not discovered until quite near, and then it seemed to be doomed ship and then shot a torpedo which struck the Housatonic on the starboard side between the main and mizzen masts and sank her almost immediately in twenty-seven feet of water.. Only five of the sunken ship were drowned, the remainder (about 1E0 men and officers) found reffige in the rigging (which was above the water) and were soon rescued by another fo the blockading ships. " Although thus successful in sing ink the enemy's ship the Hunley and its brave crew sank and met a watery grave. It Is supposed, that the suc tion caused by the sinking pf the Housatonic drew the Hunley Into the vortex from which it could not arise. Tho destruction of the Federal war ship greatly alarmed the naval of ficers in charge of the blockading Those 6ame experts figure that It requires one pound of cotton to make one pound of guncotton, the loss in weight being accounted for In the treating of cotton In a mixture of strong nitric and sulphuric acid. One of the estimates that 4,000,000 men on the firing line use up 40,000 bales cf cotton in a week in fairly active! fighting, although guesses on that score are necessarily vague. Powder companies have been very large buyers of cotton. Wall Street Journal. HONESTY IN FARM PRODUCTS Consumer Doesnt Know Individual Producers and Blames Community for the Work of One. One of the unfortunate things about marketing is that one dishonest pro- fleet off Charleston, and Admiral Dal- ducer in any community will give prod- gren urged his government to pro-; vide means to destroy "these mische- vious devices," as he termed the Hun ley in his official report. And the Confederates were correspondingly elated and thought they had dis covered the means of breaking up the blockade of their ports. But the fears of the former and the hopes of thq latter were not realized, for no other ship was attacked by . another submaine"5 r, ' It should: here be mentioned that I the- Confederates never attempted to destroy a merchant-ship and its crew, cut our submarine, always attacked a warship .whereon were armed men rt.ady for battle. When the Confed erate prjvateers and warships captur ed a merchant ship of the enemy they always saved the crew and passen gers, if any were aboard. . As General Lee stated in his orders against plundering when marching into Pennsylvania, "We make war only on armed men, and not on-non- combatants." .; uce emanating from that district a black eye . from which it will take years to recover. The purchaser doesn't know the In dividual he knows only that the prod uct with which he was "stung" came from a certain district, and as a result all commodities originating from there come under the same suspicion. ' ENCOURAGE THE FARM BOYS To Be' Remembered. Salisbury .Post, 1 - If you' spend money -with your neighbor he ; will, spend money with you. . . .-- . Money sent' away . from home, to just the extent it is sent out, curtails the expenditure at home. Remember that the home merchant can sell you what you want; also that the home paper will direct you to the partcular. merchant who has the ar- ticle?;;'";;; -C- ; ; -. The men who Iead are the men i Many Do Not Get. Correct Idea, of Value of Properly Bred Farm Animals Start Him Right. There are many boys on our farms who are not having a fair opportunity to get a correct idea of the value of properly bred farm animals. Dorn and raised, in the surroundings of the scrub animal he is not apt to develop any great enthusiasm or respect for the purebred animal. Encourage him to secure some pure bred chickens, pigs, a calf or a colt He will learn their value and as he grows up will learn to love' the farm and make a succsi of it. Advertising has changed the face of the mapy .Advertising has. revolutionized . the meth : ods of doing business. Adva -' Using has magnified the possi bilities of business far beyond anything, our most optimistic forefathers ever dreamed of. Get our rates and place your ad with us and watch the x e suit, Rates 'reasonable.'- . The men who -k lead are -4 the men 0 4 1 i Convenient Chick Yard. Ton can make a convenient yard for chicks from old burlap sacks, if you1 happen to have a supply. ' Rp them open, sew together lengthwise and nail to strips at the top and bot .torn of posts sets in the ground. The fence can' be made in sections that are easily taken . down - and packed away to use next year. Study Elevator Mthodi . There are manj farmers' eleva tors that are owned co-operatively and successfully conducted. Farmers -new - to this . method ct marketing grain would do will by studying how ! . o . & 'Graven , 1 - are building two fine ' cottages in Park Place 7 for rent or sale. 94 We still have-a few it. BUILDING ' LOTS 8 t for sale. . i j- edtnBinesaoiup who-.read ,v "r.A 5v"-''-v :. vesaelevtorreperated. ..v
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