WAGE WAR ON NEUTRALS.
Eigwt United States Ships Attacked
by Germany and 21 Americans
Killed Since War Began.
Washington Post.
Since the war began eight Ameri
can vessels have been attacked. Three
were sunk by mines, one sunk by a
German cruiser, one was attacked by
a German aeroplane, two were torpe
doed and sunk and one was torpedoed
but not sunk. In addition, two Brit
ish steamers carrying Americans
were torpedoed and sunk.
In all, 121 American citizens have
lost thier lives through Germany’s
naval activity. The list follows:
January 28—William P. Frye, sunk
by cruiser. No dead.
February 20—Evelyn, mine. One
dead. **
February 22—Carib, mine. Two
dead.
March 28—Falaba, British, torpe
doed. One dead.
April 3—Greenbrier, mine. No dead.
April 30—Gulflight, torpedoed, not
sunk. Three dead.
May 1—Cushing, bombarded by
aeroplane. No dead.
May 7—Lusitania, British, torpe
doed. One hundred and fourteen
dead.
May 25—Nebraskan, torpedoed, not
sunk. No dead.
July 25—-Leelanaw, torpedoed. No
dead.
Total, 121 dead.
Decreased Production of Phosphate.
Dun’s Review.
The production of phosphate rock in
the United States in 1914, as shown by
figures compiled by W. C. Phelen of
the United State Geological Survey,
was 2,734,043 long tons, valued at
$9,608,041, a decrease of 377,178 long
tons in quantity and of $2,188,190 in
value from the output of 1913. The
output came, as usual, principally
from Florida, Tennessee and South
Carolina in the order named.
The total quantity of phosphate
rock—hard rock, land pebble and river
pebble—marketed in Florida in 1914
was 2,138,891 long tons, valued at
$7,354,744. Compared with 1913 this
was a decrease of 406,385 tons in
quantity and of $2,208,340 in value.
The prduction of phosphate rock in
Tennessee in 1914 was 483,203 long
tons, valued at $1,822,770. Compared
with 1913 this was an increase of 31,
644 long tons and of $48,378. During
1914 the production of phosphate rock
in South Carolina amounted to 106,
919 long tons, valued at $415,039. The
production of the Western States—
Idaho and Wyoming—in 1914 amount
ed to 5,030 long tons, valued at $15,
488, compared with a production of
5,053 tons, valued at $18,167, in 1913.
Soon after the outbreak of the Eu
ropean war the phosphate mining com
panies of Florida—not only the com
panies that produce the higher grade
rock for export but also those that
supply the domestic trade—either cur
tailed production very materially or
suspended mining. The companies do
ing an export business were more se
riously affected than those engaged in
a combined export and domestic trade
or in domestic trade alone. Of 51
plants operating in Florida in 1914 on
ly 19 were in operation at the close
of 1914.
Shipments of phosphate rock to Ger
many, which hitherto has been a large
consumer, have almost entirely ceased,
and those to the other European coun
tries have been seriously interrupted.
Though foreign shipments were still
being made at the end of 1914, busi
ness had been greatly retarded by
lack of steamers and by increased
freight rates, and there seems to be
little likelihood of improvement until
after peace has been declared.
NIAGARA NOTES.
Mr. and Mrs. Gaston Flowers visit
ed their daughter, Mrs. C. H. Radford,
Sunday.
Among those who attended the
melon fair Saturday were Mr. H. A.
Crocker and son, Harvey, Mrs. B. E.
Perkins and daughter, Rachel, Mr.
L. C. Pulley and sisters’ Stella and
Verlie. They report much amusement
and a large crowd.
Messrs. J. T. McDonald and B. F.
Bogue, of Fremont, spent Sunday at
Mrs. Ellen Pulley’s.
Mrs. Ira Baker’s mother, of Mt.
Olive, has been visiting her recently.
Mrs. Clenon Pulley is spending a
few days with her mother near Kenly,
Mrs. W. H. Flowers.
Mr. Gurney Edgerton visited at the
home of Mr. Gaston Flowers Sunday.
Mrs. Clenon Pulley has just return
ed home after spending a few days
with relatives in Fremont.
We are sorry to note that Mrs. Har
vey Edgerton is yet on the sick list.
We wish her a speedy recovery. i
The people of this section are very <
busy cropping tobacco.
Mr. L. C. Pulley is seriously sick j
with fever.
BLUE BELL. <
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Few' things are impossible to dili- j
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ST. JOHN ITEMS.
Mr. Leslie Blackman, and Miss Eu
nice Coor, of Goldsboro, visited Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Flowers last Wednes
day and Thursday.
Miss Sallie Capps is spending sev
eral days with Misses Stella Stevens
and Julia Williams.
Mr. L. G. Flowers and Miss Irva
Winslow spent Sunday with Mr. and
j Mrs. Claud Beasley, of Bentonville.
Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Williams spent
the day in Goldsboro last Friday.
Miss Julia Williams visited Miss
Roxie Porter, Sunday.
The revival meeting began at Jor
dan’s Chapel Baptist church Monday
night.
Mr. Allen Smith, of Smithfield, and
Miss Floy Johnson, of Four Oaks,
spent the latter part of last week with
Mr. and Mrs. Kirby Rose, .returning
' home Sunday afternoon.
Misses Bronnie and Bessie Williams
spent Tuesday with Mrs. Guy Sanders.
Miss Bertha Johnson, of Benson, is
visiting Misses Eula and Maude
Westbrook.
Mr. Claud Langston and Miss Cora
Westbrook were married last Wednes
day evening. Mr. Langston is a
progressive young farmer of this sec
tion, while the bride is the charming
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steve West
brook. Their many friends wish them
a long, happy and prosperous life.
Mr. Zeb Porter and Misses Bronnie
Williams and Elsie Flowers passed
through Mill Creek section Sunday
afternoon. CLIPPER.
MONDAY WAR NEWS SUMMARY.
The Teutons, having failed to break
through the Russian line at Lublin
Chelm Railway, are now centering
their main offensive north of the War
saw salient, and it is believed in Lon
don that the Polish capital will fall in
to German hands within a fortnight.
The Teutonic troops, according to
official Berlin reports, have crossed
the Narew River and are advancing
toward the River Bug and are 25 miles
from the Polish capital.
South of Warsaw the Germans are
directing their efforts against the Rus
sian lines of defense near Piaseczno,
12 miles from the capital, and they
already have taken two positions by
storm.
The British steamship Grangewood
and the Norwegian steamship Fin
reite were sunk by German subma
rines.
The British reply to the American
protest against stoppage of American
ships under orders-in-council justified
.he procedure and quoted a Civil Wai
ncident showing that the United
■ cates blockaded Bermuda to prevent
upplies reaching the Confederate
States.
On Sunday, two days after the last
American note was received in Berlin,
he American steamer Leelanaw, load
•’l... flax, which has been declared
K'tralarui by Germany, was torpe
oed ay a submarine. The crew was
a en off and landed at Kirwall. The
ncident is expected to lead to another
outroversy between Germany and
le United States.
A French torpedo-boat destroyer is
reported to have destroyed the Aus
trian submarine and aeroplane depot
on Lagosta Island, in the Adriatic
Sea.
Two Italian aeroplanes dropped 18
bombs on the railroad station at Riva,
an Austrian town, “with excellent re
sults,” according to the Italian official
announcement.—Baltimore American,
27th.
Chlorine.
Chlorine, which in its liquid form
the Germans are said to be using in
their poison bombs, owes its discov
ery as an element as well as its
name, to a British scientist, Hum
phrey Davy. It was in 1810 that he
found the mysterious gas to be unde
composable into other elements.
Should we decide to flatter the Ger
mans by imitating them there would
be no difficulty in finding the chlorine.
The earth and the sea are full of it,
in the form of salt. It would indeed
be difficult not to find chlorine—in one I
or other of its combinations—wher
ever one tried, in earth, air or water;
but it would be impossible to find it
anywhere except in alliance with an
other element. Workmen who split up
common salt—chlorine of sodium—in j
order to get the chlorine grow fat in |
the process, but as a set-off their
teeth decay.—London Chronicle.
“What were you doing so long at
the photographer’s?” “Merely await-1
ing developments.”—Boston Tran-1
script.
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SUBMARINE VS. SUBMARINE.
French and German Undersea Craft
Engage in Dardanelles.
Berlin, July 27 (by Wireless to
Sayville).—The French submarine
Mariotte was destroyed by a German
submarine on July 26th in the Nar
rows of the Dardanelles, according to
a dispatch from Constatntinople to
the Mittag Zeitung. Thirty-one mem
bers of the French submarine’s crew
were captured.
Why Raphael Was a Bachelor.
(By Madison C. Peters.)
Raphael, the greatest of the group
of early Italian artists—and they
have never been surpassed—came by
his talent naturally, for his father
was an artist, as >well as a poet.
Raphael was born in 1483, at Col
bordolo, a small town in the duchy of
Urbino, whose ruler, Federigo of
Montefelto, was an enthusiastic pa
tron of all arts.
Raphael’s parents were both of
good family, his father being Gio
vani Santi, and his mother, w'ho died
when he was but 8 years old, being
the daughter of Battiste Ciarlo, a mer
chant of Urbino. At the age of 11 he
was left an orphan, and was placed
with a painter, Pietro Perugine, an
adherent of Savanarola, where he had
an opportunity of developing his
great talent during the nine years
that this remained his home.
He died at 37, and yet what a won
derful collection of paintings he left
behind him! He was not the creator
of one masterpiece, but of many; his
“Transfiguration” was unfinished at
the time of his death, but was car
ried in his funeral procession.
His “Sistine Madonna,” painted for
the Benedictine Monastery of San
Sisto, at Piacenza, is perhaps his best
known work, having been so exten
sively copied, both as a whole and in
part, and people who may not know
the artists, know the painting by
name. It now has an honored place
in the Dresden Gallery, in a room set
apart for it, with a setting of rich
red velvet. Then there is his “Ma
donna of the Bullfinch,” the “St. Ce
cilia,” “The Marriage of the Virgin,”
his portrait of himself, and many
others. One of his early works, the
“Connestabile Madonna,” though on
ly 6% inches square, sold in 1871 for
$150,000.
In 1508 the Pope, commissioned
him to fresco the judicial assembly
hall of the Vatican. His first fresco
was called “La Disputa,” the dispute
of the Holy Sacrament. It was while
he was engaged in this work that he
met the one woman he ever loved.
One day, while walking in the
street of Santa Dorotea, Raphael es
pied the beautiful girl bathing her
feet in a fountain of the gardens. He
was so fascinated by her beauty that
he left nothing undone to bring about
a meeting. Unlike so many of those
impulsive attractions, which often
prove so disappointing, Raphael’s ad
miration ripened into the deepest
love, which lasted until his death. On
his first rough studies of “La Dispu
ta” have been found some love son
nets to the fair Margherita, showing
that he inherited some of his father’s
poetic genius.
So many hours were consumed in
dreaming of his beloved that his work
suffered in consequence, and his pa
tron at this time, a rich banker,
Agostino Chigi, in whose palace he
was installed, despaired of ever hav
ing his work finished, and he finally
prevailed upon Margherita to take up
her abode in the palace also.
In 1509 Raphael painted Margher
ita’s portrait. She is described as be
ing the pure Italian type—an oval
face, with dark eyes and black hair
smoothly parted over her brow.
Margherita was an inmate of Ra
phael’s home at the time of his death,
and he left her in comfortable cir
cumstances. Whether he did not
want the confining ties of marriage,
or whether he considered Margheri
ms social interior, it is hard to I
tell—or perhaps had Margherita
been more unattainable, he might
have married her, but of his lasting
passion there can be no doubt. It is
thought that she was the original of
the Sistine Madonna when she was
more mature than at the time he
painted her portrait. In one of his
sonnets to her he writes:
“Love, thou hast bound me with
the a face like snow and roses, with
sweet words and tender manners. So
i
great is my ardor that no river or
sea could extinguish my fire.”
Brown—“It was too bad about Dr.
Smithson’s death. He was only 35.”
Jones—“But in a way his work was :
finished. He had just completed his 1
jook, ‘How to Live To Be a Hun- 1
ired.’ ’’—Kansas City Star. 11
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NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND
AND CORPORATE STOCK.
Under and by virtue of & judgment
rendered m the Superior Court of
Johnston County, North Carolina, at
February Term, 1915, of said Court,
in the case entitled, “The Bank of
Wayne and the Wayne National Bank
against D. P. Crocker and Jessie Rean
Crocker,” the undersigned, who was
by said judgment appointed commis
sioner for that purpose, will, on Mon
day, the 2nd day of August, 1915, at
12 o clock M., at the Court House door
•n Smithfield, Johnston County,
North Carolina, sell by public auction’
for cash, the tract of land in said
judgment described as follows:
“That certain tract or parcel of
land, situated in Ingrams township,
Johnston County, North Carolina, be
ing lot No. 13 in the division of the
lands of T. T. Oliver, deceased, allot
ted to the said Jessie Rean Crocker
and therein described as follows:
“Known as the Four Oaks land in
Ingrams township, bounded as fol
laws: Beginning at a lightwood stump
in the big path near the ford of the
Archer branch, John Strickland’s cor
ner, and runs with his line W. 157
poles to a pine stump, Stanley’s cor
ner; thence with his line N. 172 poles
to a stake his corner; thence N. 26 E.
169 poles to a stake in Tarkliee poco
son; thence S. 7414, E. 328 poles to a
stake on a ditch bank at the lower
end of the Tarlanding field; thence S.
27, E. 8414 poles to a white oak;
thence S. 84, W. 133 poles to a stake,
A. G. Powell’s corner; thence with
the Powell line S. 1»4, W. 115 poles to
a black gum on the run of Beal’s
creek; thence up the meanders of said
creek to the mouth of Archer branch;
thence up the meanders of said branch
to the beginning, containing within
said bounds 547 acres. To be deduct
ed from said quantity is 2414 acres
sold by T. T. Oliver to C. F. Lawhom
and wife, Sophronia Lawhorn, by deed
dated April 30th, 1903, and registered
in the Registry of Johnston County in
Book “A” No. 9, page 443, leaving in
said tract 52214 acres.”
Also the corporate stock in said
judgment described as follows: “Ten
shares of the capital stock of Pine
Level Hardware Company, of the par
value of $100.00 per share, represent
ed by Certificate No. 10 for five
shares; Certificate No. 11 for three
shares; Certificate No. 12 for two
shares, and two shares of the capital
stock of M. E. Godwin & Company,
Incorporated, of the par value of
$500.0O per share, represented by Cer
tificate No. 3 for one share and Cer
tificate No. 4 for one share.
This 2nd day of July, ±915.
M. T. DICKINSON,
Commissioner.
RESALE OF VALUABLE HOUSE
AND LOT IN SMITHFIELD.
By virtue of the power con
tained in a certain mortgage deed
executed by L. D. Ennis and wife to
Simon B. Jones, the same having been
transferred to me as Trustee, and the
conditions of said mortgage deed not
having been complied with, I shall of
fer the following property for sale to
the highest bidder for cash, at the
Court House door in Smithfield, on
Saturday, August 14. 1915, at 12 M.
A certain lot being situated in the
southern part of the town of Smith
field, and beginning at the intersec
tion of Third Street and the Street
North of Julius Lee s tract of land,
and runs thence eastwardly with said
street or alley to a stake in a line
with the western edge of Fourth
Street, corner of lot No. 14;thence
with line of lot No. 14 and No. 13 to
a stake in line with Eastern edge of
Third street; thence with line of said
Third Street to the beginning, con
taining 7-9 of an acre, more or less.
The same being the J. P. Canaday
house and lot. conveyed to Simon B.
Jones by Wm. H. and Emily Cana
day, Exrs. of J. P. Canaday deceased,
as will appear by reference to deed
dated December 25th, 1910. and re
corded in Book W. No. 10, page 595,
Registry of Johnston County. The
said lot was conveyed by Simon B.
Jones to L. D. Ennis and part of the
purchase price secured by the mort
gage deed herein mentioned as will
appear by reference to Book “R” No.
12, page 139, Registry Johnston Coun
ty
The terms of sale of the above
mentioned property made December
24, 1914, not having been complied
with, resale is hereby advertised.
This July 15, 1915.
W. W. COLE.
Trustee.
NOTICE.
North Carolina, Johnston County.
In the Superior Court.
Hassie Markham
vs.
J. W. Markham.
The defendant above-named will
take notice that an action entitled as
above has been commenced in the
Superior Court of Johnston County
for the purpose of annulling and de
claring void an attempted marriage
between the plaintiff and the defend
ant; and the said defendant will
further take notice that he is requir
ed to appear at the term of the Su
perior Court of said County to be
held on the 16th day of August, 1915,
at the Court House of said County, in
Smithfield, N. C., and answer or de
mur to the complaint in said action,
or the plaintiff will apnly to the Court
for the relief demanded in said com
plaint.
This 15th dav of Julv. 1915.
W. S. STEVENS.
Clerk of the Superior Court.
A. & W., Attorneys.
NOTICE.
The undersigned having qualified
is Administratrix on the estate of
Winifred Barefoot deceased, hereby :
lotifies all persons having claims
igainst said estate to present the
same to me du1’- verified on or before
;he 1st day of July, 1916 or this no
ice will be pleaded in bar of their
•ecovery; and all persons indebted to
said estate will make immediate pay
nent.
This 1st day of July, 1915.
ARRELL B. JERNIGAN, ,
Administratrix. I
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