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,i b gut con ON AREA III DEE ima Man Declares That Ala' This is The Wrong Method IdU"' a t t I and lells wny. By George H. Manning.) ....iton. D. C, May 5. To re- fluee c otton acreage lands m iooa crops wuum i"" unwise means oi uymg w ItlL . - r j. i a I lip a ,i, fnnH surmlv. it was as- increase 1 " . rn a f Ul nod lure by John T. Ashcraf t of Florence. Alabama, who is here a faw fUI i,,,oinoc Mr. Asncraft is' on ,u . , ... ,a ..,mvv Ul the legislative i B gp( 1 rnttnr, finishers' As- f ,hP inu'iMa soo iation fpw people seem to think of "Very hp cotton crop as a iooo ann ippq i MED W said Mr. Ashchait. lr tnetnesh for several days, and it was nbt lv c .rh raises less than 12,000,000 bales f,,n in 1917, this government will 0 I"' 1 ' --i that a calamity Vina hpfnllpn -Mnn T 1 il taiuui" " w it lint for clothing and muni- think about what a 12,- linns. Hit lil)lt,0l0 l IV'-- hale cotton crop means in iooa 1 fOMl. Twelve million bales of r,, produces, after reserving seed tor inn) nounds of oil, more than twice ,hP amount 01 creaiueiy uuuer i"uuul d in the whole United States. This I has a food value of 4,080 calories Jocund Vad a digestive ability of 97.3 , Cint whereas butter has a food !'h1p of 'only 3,490 calorLes. Yet re flnrd cotton oil sells at about one tlii'rd the price of butter. "Such a crop of cotton means in feed ::.S0o,n00,000 pounds of cotton meal, which pound for pound has wire the food value of corn, and yet cottonseed- m(al sells PQund for Pound ot ibout two-thirds the price of corn. Sui a crop means 2,400,000,000 pounds of hulls, which pound for pound have a feed value about equal to timothv hay, and yet hulls sell for about one-half the price of hay. The reduction of the cotton crop will have a serious direct effect in decreasing the food and feed supply and should not be attempted." NORTH CAROLINA, Raleigh, N. C. Scaled proposals will be received at the office of State Treasurer until noon Thursday. May 24th, 1917, for the pur chase of all or any part cf the follow ing bonds: $25,000.00 4 per cent ten year bonds for "The State Home and Training School for Girls and Women," dated July 1st. 1917, expiring July 1st, 1927. $75,000.00 4 per cent ten year bonds for "Caswell Training School," dated July 1st, 1017, expiring July 1st, 1927. $400,000.00 4 per cent forty-one year bonds for "Road Building," dated July 1st, 1917, expir ing July 1st, 1958. Blanks for bidding will be furnished upon application to me. B. R. LACY, " State Treasurer. 5-2-sun-tue-thu-tol6-23. Spark-Plugs vs. City Directory What the spark-plug is to the Automobile, the City Directory is to the City. The only ay you can make an automobile run with out a spark-plug is down hill. The only way you can run a city without a City Direc tory is DOWN HILL. The spark-plug connects the two great powers of the automobile, electricity and gasoline. The City Directory connects the two great powers of a city, buyer and seller. When th e spark-plug splutters sending sparks into the gas, business starts and the car moves forward. When the City Directory with its thousands of adver tisements sending forth their messages of advertising truths is published, there is only one way that city can go and that is "FORWARD." City Directory Published by HILL DIRECTORY CO.' Inc. Wilmington, N. C, and Richmond, Va. For Sale by C. W. Yates Co. ii7 Market Street. It is quite as important to transact the business of the household by means of Bank checks as it is to use checks jn your business pay roll. Every check is a receipt. THE CHECK STUBS ARE YOUR FINANCIAL RECORD. besides this, the checking habit will encourage you in accuracy and economy. CITIZENS BANK TRIP TO SEA Str. Wilmington will make one of her usual Sunday trips down the river and out to sea. Leave foot Princess 10:00 A. M. ROUND TRIP 50 GTS. Arrive Wilmington 5:30 P. M. FARE 1 DECLARES HORSE MEAT WILL BECOME POPULAR ( By George H. Manning.) ' ' Washington, D. C, May 5. "In my opinion the time is not far distant when horse meat: will be widely used in this country as an article of food," said W. H. Strong, of Meridian, Miss., who is paying Washington a visit mi : a . There is at present a deeply seated prejudice in the United States against eating horseflesh, .but all intelligent people know that the meat of horses is an article of daily consumption in all the large cities of continental Eu- ..j haye eaten horseflisn but at the t, - mo t Vr,, j , t. - i TJ. , . yvttS iime ueei. it was aurmg my gervice as a Confederate gpr. 0he day one of tne men came . . loia&mg expeamon witn wnat ne claimed was a fine hindquarter of beef. He called all the boys out to see it, and I and the other men in the com pany never suspected what it reallv was. We enjoyed that piece of equine until weeks afterward that any of us knew the difference. "1 will confess that the first recep tion of the pews made me squeamish, and in company with several comrades, I invoked heartily curses upon the fel lew who fooled us. "In truth, the meat of a horse is excellent of taste and unexcelled from a sanitary standpoint, as of all animals none exceeds the horse in the cleanli ness of its food. The European war, however, is likely to have the effect of limiting the supply of horseflesh throughout the world, and it is not possible, I presume, that in the very near future the American people will be called upon to eat horseflesh in stead of beef or mutton. "I should; - not be surprised if in some of the European countries dog meat and cat meat will become ar ticles of food. We know that in this ountry the Indians are fond of dog meat." Manager Clark Griffith of the-Senators says r his team, like the Browns, has notyet started. If the "Old Fox" has the right dope the Browns are go ing to be a troublesome lot in the American league this season. Miller's Antiseptic Oil, Known As Snake Oil Will Umber Ton Up A New Creation, Fain Killer and Antiseptic Combined. For rheumatism, neuralgia, lumbago, stiff and swollen joints, corns, bunions, or what ever, the pain may be, it is said to be with out an equal. For cuts, burns, bruises, sore throat, eroup. diphtheria and tonsiltis it has been fotmd most effective. Accept no substitute. This great oil is golden rea color only. There is nothing like it. Every bottle guaranteed 25 and 50 cents, or money refunded by Robert Bellamy wholesale and Retail. Advt. Wilmington, N. C. OUSEKEEPER- 1 1 onci ana nicess Streets - - - PICTURESQUE Slid. Oil TIGRIS, IS JOSLEWISii Sumptuous Mosque Contains Tomb of Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi Who is to Come Again. (By The Religious Rambler.) War in Mesopotamia cannot escape religious significance and associations. A few days ago a meagre dispatch reported that General Maude's forces had taken the railway station at Sa inarra, which meant nothing except, vaguely, progress, to readers in the Western Hemisphere. In India and Persia and the Caucasus, however, the news arouses profound interest, for it affects the deepest religious asso ciations of all Shiah Moslems. Samar ra is a shrine city containing the tomb of the Twelfth Imam, the- one who is to come again. Upon this fact de pends various serious political con siderations. That is not the only fact that makes Samarra which probably less than a score of Americans have ever seen one of the points of especial interest in the day's news. It is also the term inus of the Bagdad, end of the famous Bagdad railway; it contains the world's only ziggurat or Babylonian step-tower; and it is the one city on earth that is built wholly out of ma terial dug from the ruins of its own departed grandeur. Incidentally, Samarra was, Tor a few years preceding the war, a German outpost, two young military-archaeologists there maintaining a station for the excavation and study of ancient Islamic art and other things . World's Most Picturesque City. "Most" is a word that depends en tirely upon opinions; so when I say that Samarra is the most picturesque city in the world I am only expressing a personal view. However, 1 am able to compare it with the great cities of all the East, from Cario to Tokio, not omitting Diarbekir and Damascus and Bagdad. Samarra lies about seventy-five miles above Bagdad, on the left bank of the Tigris River. It is of gray burnt-clay bricks, its tur reted walls rising out of a gray waste, which marks the beginning of the great alluvial plain of Mesopotamia. Only two objects rise above the dead lovel of the low-lying city the dome and minarets of the great mosque, the most beautiful I have ever seen; and the brick ziggurat modeled on the tower of Babel pattern, which has been standing since about 850. Old Samarra was once the capital of the Moslem world. It was built by the son of Haroun Raschid, the hero of "The Arabian Nights," and was then a city of splendor, the ruins of antiquity and the riches of the Orient having been lavishly drawn upon to give it magnificance. The Raschid fpmily were of a type that would de light Broadway. From 836 to 892 Sa marra remained the seat of the Caliph, or supreme ruler of Islam, whom the Shiahs call Imam. All the power which in recent centuries Constanti nople has been supposed to wield over the Moslems of the world, as the seat of the Caliphat, was then exercised by Samarra. After the glory of the old city de parted, amift many wars, the present Samarra was rebuilt, and entirely out of the ruins of the old. Outside the city the ground is pitted as with small-pox, because the natives have been digging from the ancient ruins bricks and marbles for their present houses. Practically every bit of con struction in the entire city, from the story-book walls to the latest resi dence, is made of excavated material It is easier to dig than to create. The effect is a peculiarly soft and uniform grayness to the city. The Grave of the Coming One. Some travellers who have dared Arabia and Mesopotamia declare that it is death for a European Christian to essay to enter this fantical Shiah city, but 1 was there and am still liv ing. I even stood long at the gate and looked in upon the gorgeous green and gold facade of the great Mosque. Presuming upon the friend liness of the crowd that surrounded me, I rashly made signs asking per mission to1, enter; whereupon all friendliness Vanished. This mosque is one of the holy spots of the Moslem faith. For it con tains : the remains of the . tenth and twelfth Imams of the Shiah set of Moslems. The twelfth was Moham med el. Mahdi, the last of the line, of All Son-in-law of Mohammed, the last of the line, and the faithful expect him: to return again to conquer the world to the sniah faith. The Mahdi's reappearance for he is still alive, according to the faith will im mediately precede the return of that other prophet, recognized as such by the Moslems, Jesus Christ. All the Mahdis" who have arisen in Egypt and Turkey and Persia and India and the Carcasus, making sore trouble for various governments, have obtained to be this twelfth Imam, the expect ed one. Thirty thousand pilgrims a year have visited Samarra, the permanent population of which is only about twenty-five hundred. All of them come from Persia and India and the Caucasus, where Shiah Moslems cen ter. They differ from the Sunnis, or "orthodox," in that they accept Oli, who was husband of Fatima, Moham med's only child, and himself the cousin of the prohpet, as almost co ordinate with the latter Their daily M 3 J (mi i cry trom minargis is, iuere is no God, and Mohammed is his prophet, and Ali his vicegerent." The Turks are all Sunnis, and despise he Shiahs, who in turn, look upon the Turks as aliens and tyrants. Indian and Persian Moslems feel that Britain is serving their cause in driving out the Turk. For the sake of the pilgrimage, the Bagdad Railway was constructed out as far as Samarra. Formerly, the pil grims from Bagdad went up the river, - by boats, this being the limit of steam navigation. The fighting has been along this line, and when, the Samarra station was captured the accumulated equipment of the Turkish army be came British booty. Henceforth, for two hundred and fifty miles, the fight ing will be over the desert before the other railroad of the Bagdad lin is reached. Under these conditions, with the Shammar Arabs attacking the flee ing Turks on the flank, the retreat is likely to become a rout. Connects With Tower of Babel. Historical associations overlie every f66 of this region. Thus, the two armies fought their way through ruins of Opis. Memories of Abraham, the pioneer, of Darius and Alexander the Great, of Assyria's proud kings and of Hebrew exiles, are inescapable. This is the region of remotest historical antiquity. At Samarra stands one peerless relic, a huge pile of the Tower of Babel type. Ziggurat is the old name ior these step-ipyramiday The only structure at ajl resembling the Samarra ziggurat is the top of a re cent New York skyscraper, designed, presumably, to give a Babylonial touch to the city which has often been called the modern Babylon. Far off in old Samarra this tower, which appears to be surrounded by steps, although it really is a winding path, stands as the remote ancestor of the modern church steeple. This one was built as a monster minaret, for purposes of worship. Architects and archaeologists trace the gradual development of this Babylonian type into the presentday ecclesiastical spire . So the outstanding landmarks of romantic old Samarra are both re ligious. Ere long American tourists will be journeying by rail, in safety and comfort, to see this strange sight, and the other vestiges of past eras in the neighborhood of the Garden of Eden . Tommy Atkins has been in many queer places, but in none more filled with romances than the route he travelled from Kut el Amarra to Samarra. GRIP HARD, SWING HAND AND HOPE (By United Press.) New York, May 5. If you have an ambition to attain fame almost as great and as lasting as that of a Presi dent of the United States all that is necessary is to outguess the pitcher, grab your bat like it was your last dime, and swing with all your might. Then hope and hope hard. That's Ping Bodie's recipe for bust ing the fences in any league where he may happen to be playing. Inas much as it has brought him back to the American league and a chance , at more fame as a big league outfielder there must be some truth in it. Ping 'sayswISg Hard the '"fir's" t time, go into second speed on the second, and then if you've got to do it again, turn on all the gas, jam down the ac celerator and swing! "Ping cracked out twenty home runs while amassing a batting average of something over .300 last year on the Pacific coast. He already has start ed his terrible bat working on rivals of the Philadelphia Athletics, and his work has given the Mack pupils some respect this year. "It's all in the way you grab your bat and swing," said Ping. "The pitcher who can throw harder than I can swing ain't been found. If you miss the first two, whang again, and you've got to take Old Man Confi dence to the plate with you. "You gotta think you're going to make the fences rattle, or you're done for. Watch the pitcher, outguess him, and you've only gotta hang onto your bat like grim death and swing your head off to set a new ground record." That was the advice he passed out a year ago when he was telling Bob by Jones how to make good as a Tiger. "How do you bunt?" Bobby wanted to know. Experience Teaches Sedentary Habits are very apt to result inCon stipation, Biliousness or Torpidity of the Liver. Many who are confined indoors are now using DR.TUTFS LIVER PILLS ..bothj aa a preventative '' and a relief. Buy a box today. Learn for yourself. " HlSflHHWWMWFTH rrln - - - -7' . 1 S j- N E W YO R KDAY.BY.DAY. .. -: : (O. O. Mclntyre). (Special Correspondent of The Dis patch) New York, .May 5. As Samuel Pepys would record in his diary: Up betimes and for a canter in Central Park on a borrowed mount and as I passed a group of street urchins they chortled; "Up he goes, up he goes," and I went up each time and did not mind at all the going up, but it was the coming down that racked me. For breakfast at a tea room oppo site .the riding academy, where I had the serving, maid fetch me two pil lows, to sit upon and was in great pain, although t had two helpings of orange marmalade very sweet and tasty. To the Players, where I see W. Ir win, the gazeteer, and told him of my admiration for "The City That Was," written after the Frisco fire, and when he was a reporter on the Sun. . c Read F. O'Brien's "Story of the Sun" this day In Mr. Munsey's Maga zine, and deem it a fine history of a great newspaper, and was struck with the simplicity and the lack of rhetor ical flights. A masterful inkist is O'Brien, albeit when he and Mistress O'Brien call on me I am forced al ways to serve them ice water, which costs a shilling for the tip alone. For a walk, stiff legged, through the town and look longingly in an apothecary shop window at liniments and magic oils, although I have no faith whatever in nostrums. Vowed never again to be an equestrian and to confine my exercises to solitaire and draw. To a grill room for dinner, where I meet a gay crowd and W. Haasler, the medico, in high spirits and all un mindful of an approaching disaster at their very elbows. At midnight the sound of a crash, the tearing and rip ping of steel, a series of explosions and piercing screams on the pave ment. Fear-stricken, we rush to the Street and find four inert bodies in tne roaaway and sidewalk and a reeling man with a gashed face call ing for help. The old story. A drunken chauffeur, a slippery street, a skidding car and four innocent people mortally wounded and the driver who caused it all only slight ly hurt. A depressing spectacle. And so to bed but not to sleep. A pet collection of one carat stones owned by Herbert Sergison, a Harlem jeweler, disappeared with a swish of silk the other morning. A pretty woman came into his shop to look at engagement rings. She took one ring at a time to the door to examine it United States 3 1 -2 Liberty Loan in- the- HghL After T much inspection sne toot a dozen of the rings to the door to determine just which one j she would take.-" There was a swish! of silk and she had fled. Hardly, Jiad she gone when Mr. Sergison had j a moment of joy. He saw that she1 left her bulging pocketbook upon the., counter. In a twinkling he had opened it. He never knew before mat so much newspaper could be ' newspaper stuffed into a single leather purse. The millionaires the poor souls are going to be forced to subsist on "good plain food." Members of the Metropolitan, or "Millionaires," club on Fifth avenue will be powerless to wheedle English pheasant, Scotch grouse or French plover from the club kitchens. The menus of the club are now placed on "war rations." I saw O. M. Garrison, the Wall street broker, dining on the avenue the other day, and his meal consisted of Irish stew and cornbread and other simple dishes. "I never enjoyed a TYIftnl an mnnVi in tyi it Ufa V. a eoM rfv,oT- Mnh. nr. n - the Metropolitan and from now pate'rl8n handJed the situation. He didn t de fois gras and similar delicacies will once mention the prospects of work. , have no place in the larders. It was just a friendly visit, the pass- : A city editor of a New York paper ln of a few Jokes, some information placed the story of the Chicago Opera as to how to 866 8ome interesting. Company coming on the first page be-! thines in the cIty without any , ex. cause, he said, it was so seldom Chi- perience . , . cago gave anything to New York that When we left that young man . was the first page was where it belonged, buoyed up. One could almost see, him buckling on his armor the next morn New York, May 5. Some months ' ing and go forth to grapple with the ago a young girl who came to New complexities of the city. ; York from a small western town re mained here for six weeks in search of a position. She didn't find it. Dur ing that time she did not talk to any- one except those she met on business., At 11 o'clock one night, she walked' out of her boarding bouse on Tenth! avenue 10 a. river uier. xiiere wu a ' splash and the black waters of the North River claimed her. She prefer red death to loneliness,. Her last note read: "I am just lone ly. I have had no one to talk to. I don't want to go home. So this is.Ag a matter of fact New Yorkers tne end. it was melodramatic uutjcrave companionship as much as the it is typical of many young people stranKer , wuu uuuie ueie. iuey art? aweu uy the bigness of the city. They do not i know how to meet people and they are timid about meeting them if the way is opened rt," more to brighten the lives of lonely people in New York than any one else is C . M . Garrison, a wealthy Wall Street broker. He too has known the pangs of loneliness when he was try ing to make his way in the world. Most young men who come to New York at some time or other live on West Fifty Sfeventh street. There are many quiet boarding houses on this street and it is in the neighborhood of the large West Side Y. M. C. A. Mr. Garrison started by fining out The Secretary of the Treasury is asking for subscriptions to two billion dollars of 3 1-2 per cent bonds to be issued July, 1 at. Arrangement can be made through this Bank for subscrip tions to be paid for in monthly or quarterly in stallments or in cash. Bonds in small denominations will be issued in order that every one may participate. It is hardly necessary to mention the fact that every one who can, ought to participate in this Lib erty Loan to the Government. The bonds are the best security in the world and are free of all taxes except the inheritance, tax. This Bank will receive subscriptions until June 15th and will cheerfully give any further information desired. No charges whatsoever will be made to subscribers for our services. It is the wish of the Secretary of the Treas ury to know the probable amount of subscrip tions as early as possible. We, therefore, hope those desiring to share in this patriotic duty will act promptly. . , Anyone wishing to dispose of other invest ments in order to take part in this emergency loan, will have our co-operation and services without expense to them. The Murchison National Bank ; PAGE THIRTEEN from boarding house owners the nameV of young men who had just -arrived, He took a personal interest in the work and called ou themV " He had' ; them meet others and thus a circle".' was formed , and has grown by leaps' . and bounds. Many of the lonely young ' mem formed partnerships and hare prospered in business and they too aid in this work. r . tk , .,i . m. t is individual and depends upon 'the enthusiasm of the members. With Mr. Garrison the other day I went to call on some young men who had : just arrived during the past few weeks. When they learned that we had come just to make them welcome I do not believe that I ever saw such gratitude. There was one young maft frm the South. His father recently failed i business and the young man had become the breadwinner. He had been in New York eight days and had not yet found a position or a prospect of one and he was pretty much dis- couraged. 1 liked the way Mr. Gar It is true that there is a coldness about New York until stranger gets next to the trobbing heart of the metro- i nnl lo anH thon it in n n h ton! t A hi A A city j know New Yorkers are not friendiy because they cannot be. Tftey have been lmpo8ed upon so much iri..r(niii rHnnHohlno thnmt upon them that they are naturally suspi cious. But let them study the stranger for awhile and when they are convinc ed that he is all right I know of .-no 1 l M 1 .1 V. I 1 n A A . A . . n V. mm j . .v M I place wuere lneuusiup is nu a laiuiu. The story is told of a young man who lived next to a very rich man. Years later he met him and told him ! he lived next door. "For years" he 'said" I have noticed you had swell ' 8wi11 so 1 knew yu were a gentle man ' I King George's Anniversary. London, May 5. Tomorrow will be the seventh anniversary of the acces sion of King George of England to the throne. Following the policy adopted at the commencement of the' war there will be no public or official observance of the anniversary beyond the firing of the customary salutes at Windsor and in London. X' ; r ' 7. ' "V'. 1 xu I 14? (.!." X .i.i .v XX ' 3'M rm , v "."'Xlrt xxx' Xt-- tt- x;x fc' '!'! it'll I ;i i 'I Y.i 4 i :X.. 5 rfv-i- v.. ;
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