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IklSTEEY Sl'RBONDS NiTCRE ! OF DEUTSCHIASD'S 1CAR6O fsrew Iondon, Conn., Nov. 2.?SeverI large boxes, tlie contents of which re ambiguouely invoiced as "effects" j urnish the mystery of the German (rwler-sea merchantman, the ueutsca- i audi, at this particular time. j These -boxes are supposed to con-1 ain articles that make up the greater; art of the valuation of $10,000,000 ' laced upon the cargo of the 6Ubmar-1 ifc by Captain Koenig. What the articles are is unknown, ome say precious stones. Some say w?nHHp.a They are making a great I Jecret of tiie matter here today. : Collector of Customes James L. Mc- j I K?rern is *n Hartford to confer with I l^^etary of the Treasury McAdoo, I Band will not bo back uiitil tomorrow. I IH is said that the contents of the mysI^Bterlous boxes were responsible for HHthe conference. Inspection. Commander Yates Sterling U. S. N. [ f Bin charge of the American submarine j ^^baae here and Joseph C. Comstock, j f deputy collector of customs, made an J L inspection of the Deut&chland this af-. P temoon. This inspection, it was stat- f +A was by way of additional precau- j I lioei toward the observance or uie j ^ meutrality laws. ^ It was expected Captain Koenig; "would file his manifest today with the I ' customs officials. Tliis was not done, j Certain invoices have heen recorded, however, but if ten million dollars' valuation on the cargo is cori reot, these invoices give no line on tie more valuable contents of the little boat. Seventy-five 'black stevedores wer? j I brought here from Baltimore iou?j > ' to handle the cargo. With few ex-1 captions they are the same men "who! an-loaded and reloaded the Deutschland off Locust Point. They were brought to iNew London iv one bunch, and immediately herded into the stockade at the state pier | xr the Thames river, where the Deutschland lies hidden. There is only oae entrance to the stockade on the land side and this is a small gate I ^hich one can enter or leave the ?tackade without a pass and all the j I stevedores' passes were taKen up mi I soen as they entered the gate. I , Stockade. I They will not be permitted to leave | V t&e enclosure until their work is finifihed. / The sailors from the submarine are ' k$ing given plenty of shore leave. At almost any hour some leathercoated member of the cre^ can b* k teen wandering about the streets. H^Some of the sailors speak good English and they are all apparently vastB iy pleased over the attention they are W receiving. JF The people of New London are pre* v:~ to the comman paring a ~ui& uauH?v. ? der and men of the Deutachland^ It irill 'be held on November 8. Mayor | Ernest E. Rogers, of New London, and k numerous officials and citizens, were permitted aboard the -boat today, but newspaper men are still barred. ft The rules against visitors, as laid B down by Captain Koenig, and the offiB ?ers of the Eastern Forwarding Company* are aparently very rigid, but nose the less quite a crowd saw the boat today. This -morning a diver went under V ^ater and inspected the bulkhead of the Deutschland. i nere tu t? ium i BP aoiall holes In that section of the boat, [ H according to the river's report, Probst aily caused by the anchor swinging W against the shell of the little craft. I Visitors. | The hole caused some leakage on K the trip from Bremen and will be reft paired before the start homeward. Captain Koenig has said that he does H not expect to be here this time over B a fortnight. Dr. George Ahrens, an attache of the German embassy, was among the visitors today. He went aboard the - . TT n MilVpn. K Deutscmana wim ncu^ * , ?resident of the Sastern Forwarding Comapny, who comes from Baltimore. The New Lpndon visitors were received by Mr. Hilken, Captain Koenig and Captain Hin-ch, and after general ih^trpductiona, were permitted to pass T t&tough the boat in relays of five. JThe whole crowd then passed beL fore a battery of cameras, a popular i peee being Mayor Rogers and Captain t Koenig in the act of shaking hands. Big crowds of peotfTfe gathered at tfce state pier this morning and this afternoon, trying to get a peek at the j -* under-eea! ?U>mariue, wu?. ? I boat is effectively screened ironi view. I flCSTER SHIP OF V-53 WAITS B OUTSIDE TO CON TOT GERMAS B MERCHANT SUB SAFELY HOME [ g (By Damon Runyon.) m - 'New London, Conn., Nov. 3.?"I cer-1 fcfcinly would not be surprised if a! r U-boat made its appearance in these' I "waters. In fact, I expect one." fe- This wae the comment made by' B ODt. Paul Koenig, master of the Ger flfe man underwater packet, the Deutsch- j H land today on the report that a subWr marine war boat has been seen off 1 Nantucket. I Ij*y "these waters" the little captain L at the merchantmen meant the genii eral vicinity of lAimerican shores. K *'I was told not to look for a conTQy when we left Bremerhaven," he: J] aaid, "but you know the sole purpose ejf the visit of the U-53 to American iraters not long ago was to act as a I ?onvoy for the Bremen, so I would not if another U-boat ar (t*C suiynobu ?? ? rived now." "Is there any truth in the report ihat <he U-57 left Kiel three days after you departed from Bremerhaven?" he was asked. "I do not know," lie said. "I am enable to verify that report." He said the U-57, which is supposed to be the-nnderwater ftghter now cruising off Nantucket, is a sister ship of Lthe U-53, which visited Newport ana afterwards worked havoc to shipping ( of! Nantucket and was built at the same time. Convoy. "Do you expect to start back without a convoy?" Koenig was asked. "I do not know," he said. "I may and I may not." "Did the Eastern Forwarding comDanv makn anv arrangement with the German government for a convoy for j the Deutschland?" "I do not know of that either," Bald ; the captain. "Any arrangement of the j sort that the government might make j would be government business and i they would not tell me." i It is generally believed here that the lJ-57 is somewhere outside. Capt.; ~~ ~ ' " " * * ^ ? A. i Koenig'e atutaae ana me xavi tutu, j none of the people conecttd with j the submarine seem a-t all astonished I by the report is taken to mean that: they have positive information on the ! subject. It -was reported that Capt. Koenigj has asked for permission for the Deutachland to pass through the Cape Cod canal, and that he intended to leav? here for Boston next Wednesday to discharge certain portions of his cargo consigned to Boston people, but} Koenig today absolutely denied this! report Unloaded. The cargo of the Deutschland has nraotlcallv all b?n unloaded and is i * ? stored in the warehouses of the East-1 ern Forwarding company on the state, pier, alongside which the submarine is I berthed. The seventy-five negro steve- j dores imported form Baltimore worked : fast and are now ready to reload the Deutschland with the stuff which it is i to take back to Germany. Three swinging electric cranes hoisted the cargo from the three hatchets of the undersea vessel last night, until today, and the stevedores hustled it into the corrugated iron warehouses. The mystery 6urrounding the exact nature of the cargo continues. No manifest has y<-t been filed at the cus tom3 hrjse, according to Joseph C. j IComstock, deputy collector of the port. Crude rubber and nickel will be taken back to Germany by the submarine It is already in the ware- j houses at the pier. The same sort of i cargo was taken from Baltimore on j the first trip. Capt. Paul Koenig is to be awarded! honorary membership to the Order of the Sons of Herrmann next week. SAX FELICE CIGARS Fi?e Cents Straight And Worth It! Owing to the greatly increased cost of quality tobaccos, In fact every thing pertaining to high grade cigars, the makers of the San Felice cigar, The Deisel-Wemmer Company, have advanced the selling price to the Jobbers and Dealers, and henceforth this cigar will positively be sold to the consumer at 5 cents straight instead of six for a quarter as previously. TheSAJf FELICE is national in its geope and eharaeter, having justly attained this eminence through its unexcelled excellence. To maintain this I unequaled standard of quality, the! advance in question is absolutely un., I avoidable. The generous-.support of all men using quality cigars is earnestly desired. SEWBERRY WON FROM WOFFORD TTno ITn<thlo fn QrArA AftPr ^ t ff UCl i (? I f C-lt.7 I UU''iV W K/vv* V . The First Half, bnt Managed to | Hold the Yisitors Scoreless. Spartanburg, Nov. 2 Newberry to-! day defeated 'Wbfford in the annual county fair football classic, 21 to 0. After the first half Newberry was unable to score, being held twice for downs within easy striking distance of goal. Wofford was weak in the first period, when the principal damage to the Methodists was done. The wonderful end running of Taylor for the Indians was a strong factor in th* winners' offense. The game was very rough, the Lutherans being frequently penalized. A man on each side was put out for fighting, while several on either team were knocked out. in tn? i second half, Newberry seemed to lose I interest, and Fullback Carmichael, of j Wofford alone, plunged through the ' Scarlet line several consecutive plays > for a total of fifty yards. Newberry upsetting Wofford's hopes of a touchdown by intercepting a forward pasa.i The Wofford line held in the pinches 1 in the last half and with the help of, penalties, the Methodists were able to j hold the score where it was. The line-1 up: Wofford Position. Newberry. 1 Glenn L. E Renken j Kinard L. T Motsch ; Deshields L. G Nichols | Felder Center Brooks j Pearson R. G Wessinger j Smith R. T Stiles Burnet R. E Williams Osborne Q. B Delmm Boyle L. H Taylor Moore, Capt. .. .R. H Kennedy Vaughn 'F. B. ..Capt. Gotchali. DEUTSCHLAND WILL CARET T'. S. HAIL | W&shington, Nov. 2.?The United States will not be assisting Germany in evading the British "blackade" of that country if American mails are delivered to the Deutschland on her homeward voyage. Secretary of State Lansing said today that Great Britain had never declared a legal blockade of Germany. England sought to close the North Sea by an arbitrary order in council, the legality of which tne United St*+es bas never admitted. At the German embassy it was said today that the Deutschland will carry United States mails to Germany if they are given to the vessel bv the postoffice department. All arrancements have been made for this service. SHOKT WHEAT A>D COTTOX I BIG ME>ACE TO AMERICANS ! " * a | New York Paper quoted as to unusn i Activity In Buying1 Tp Wheat on j the Chicago Market Senator McLaurin returned Wed- ! inesday from New- York, where he j went last week, and said he found j the cotton situation still had very strong support at these advanced I prices, and that the last ginners' report absolutely confirms the idea of j a very short crop. The high price j with the smallnesi of t'.io crop. mcan3 ; -4-1?A ;~ >- oinn nrl f hftn Uiai II IS 1JUU1 C UCOl i; ^iuutu ever before in its history. The hign- j est amount that it has ever shown befort ginned on thi? ait* \v::s Go por cent of the crop. This would make this crop under 11,000,000 bales. "I saw t.:e .'ollowing editorial in the Xew \or)i 'Cvenr.i^ Mail while I was gone,'" sa.d ??!.*. McLaurin. "It may be of some in:erest in connection with the cotton crop: "'Tht British gov?- ment, me; Dutch goveru. .out an. -.nor governments, but p incipally tiio British government, 41a*e oilers on the floor of the Chicago gitu.i market to buy wheat for them, and to keep the hatter secret. To iivaige the identity! of the principal means no more business from the source for the broker. I " 'One who knows tlie Chicago J wheat pits as few men know it, *ent about the floor the other day and got a line on what this foreign Duymg amounts to. In one day it was 2,000,000 bushels. Another day it was 1,500,000. It averages perhaps fACut.',000 bushels a mouth. Clio So.w Y';rk Times says exports from the United i. States and Canada for the last thre? j Vv i"r\ K rurx n of f Vi o rqfci C XUUilLiiS uaic u&tu a,c I.UV i ? . 400.000,000 bushels a year. " 'The wheat crop of America this i year is equal to only 5S5,000,000 bush-,! els. The normal requirements of this j country for fee Ing itself are 625,000,000 bushels. rio meet our own needs regardless of- >n.y svp jris we wcuM have to (I.ua upon such supply of grain ns v^u.5 left over from last season. " 'The Canadian crop is a failure. If 400 :;o0 000 bushels of wheat, or anyth.ng like that amount, should be ; sent out of this country, it would precipitate a food crisis such as this country never has known and, it is to be hoped never will know. " ' A'jicat is selling above $1.70 a bushel. The price is so sensationally high th?t farmers are rushing their grain to market, dumping their stuff as fast a3 they can, raUiag and scraping their bins to get as much harvest of gold as possible. The foreign buyers, masked as they are by American brokers, are gathering tne grain, hurrying it to th*-1 seaborn, shipping it across the seas. 44 'America can not spare a bushel of its wheat. Every day that foreign buying draws 1,000,000 or 2,000,000 bushels out of this country's stock increases the danger of such a shortage as will mean bread riots, hunger, widespread suffering later on. 44 'What a shocking thing, what a horror it would be if we, in our folly, our blindness and our disregard of national safety, permited the loreigners to deplete our stock so that we, the greatest grain producers of the' ~* ?J Vv/\ I tiitr Lli, QUUU1U UC 1V1 ucu wv uujr uaun grain from them that our people should not hunger. 44 'It is idle, worse than idle, to think . this situation is not .possible. Not only is it possible, but probable. Those who know wheat in all its relations declare we may have to 'buy back from Europe for $2.50 to $3.00 a bushel the grain we are now selling so freely, so blithely and so thoughtless at $1.50, $16. J, $1.70/ " Mr. McLaurin said further: " There are strong indications that British interests are following the same jplan with regard to the cotton crop as set forth in this article about wheat. Last . Saturday cotton cloEed at 18.48 in New York, and 10.48 in Liverpool. To meet this advance Liverpool was due to open at IO.57. it opened at 10.60 and went at orce to 10.75, with spot sales at about onehalf cent above Friday's spot markets. I have been watching the market closely and every weak it opens at new high levels, and somebody takes all the cotton o9rol for sale so as to steady the market at a constant advance. From what I could gather on the street, Weld & iCo. and Gwathmey & Co. are the recognized representatives of the British inter-! est, and have been the leading buy>ers on this advance. England is financing this war, and she has got to make the money out of the United States and other parts of the world. In 1914 she made money 'because of a panic about cotton and now, with a full knowledge of the short crop, it looks to me as if she was not only buying all the available wheat, but also the bulk of the spot cotton, and this with the money furnished by the United States, because the large i loans made to England are in the! way of credits here for the purchase of supplies. The exports are heavy but I heard from a reliable source, in New York that much, cotton is 'being stored here by England, and if the same interests are ouymg iuiures ; that own the spots they can advance' the market wherever they please. Our j spinners were caught in 1914 because they let foreign spinners get iii and buy the six-cent cotton, and I am) afraid they are going to be caught this year by waiting too long to lay in j their stocks. "I tM\k this cotton is being taken i ca^e of largely in the United States ba^ry^e ^ year ag0 English stock; " p- > -^nble what they are now with f-~1 "ory poor. It is not a specula-, I j Slip a few F 1 smokes into i J You've h )atented pr loke your fi *oves out e :e Albert I Lit coupons ( ? rriT?o g/m pivibl IV give ^jua There's sport smc fit your own, but you m to have the right t fa Prince Albert will ? open for you to con fv firing up every little tive matter in the sense of gambling, because it is based upon careful calculation and a thorough knowledge oy the British spinners of economic conditions. The Englishman has made up his mind that the war shall not deprive him of his world trade and he has caught the American spinner j asleep again. The manufacturer here who is short of his,requirements will have to pay a big price to the owners of spot cotton or shut his mill down, because at present prices there is not going to 'be enough cotton to go around. England does not mind sendindvgold here now because she knows how to get it back again when the war it: over and will make money selling such cotton as she does not wish to spin to their business competitors at ? V 9 fli, a Dig pronu "Last year they made use of the Lever tall to mijk about two cents a pound out of the market here because the Englishmen could trade in the exchange here, while the Americans could not trade in the Liverpool exchange. This meant that the Englishman could at all times buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest, while the American was denied the same privilege. That section of the law has now been repealed, and with the short crop, the Englishman has made up his mind that he could wioVo Tnarfl mAnmr hnvincr nn thft CTOU UUVi V o -?? M. and selling the surplus than he could by aiding in holding it down." Alt OTHER LETTER FROM NORTH CAROLINA In the eaption of my former letter, Mr. Editor, you called me a "Tar Heel" but" I don't mind that a bit. But, really, there is no tar, -jjid not any tnrpentine about here that I have seem It is like South Carolinians being called "Sand Lappers," when one third of South Carolina children don't have any sand to play in. Two fine old North Carolina Confederate veterans up here like to laugh an* say: "South Carolinians are 'GooberGrabblers/ " I don't know how it is, as 'between North Carolina and South Carolina,' but it is certain that gold is gold?whether its in a man's blood or in his pocket. "A man's a man for a' that." I was in South Carolina recently ? > tiiii-riail +T?irv aa ir tt/vmo At 7T!\ UJUL a uuilivu tl Xjgf uuu o? r v* ?*? old friends; but to my regret I could not see them all. One or two hare "pass ed over the river." Mr. Melvin Dickert is one that -*e are never to see again in his place at church, or elsewhere?'till the end of time comes, and the great reunion takes place. The cotton between Charlotte and Columbia seems to 'be very poor; but in the Dutch Fork and ahout Pomaria *+ <a rrr\r\A Hnn m o r? TlQOr Pn . 11 iO pi. tlLJ ^UUU, VllC JU1UU AAVUi V ? iraria told me he? would gather almost a full crop of cotton. I am glad; for cotton at eighteen cents means something. v The dry weather of South CarolinaIs ours too! we have had no rain much since some time in August?and not much since July. The result is that 'rince Albert vour system! leard manv an Aorfni oU,* 4.1.- r j vmaavu auvui U1C X ocess that cuts out bite and par< 11 without a comeback I Stake yo svery hour of the day. * las always been sold Wl i or premiums. We LB j iity! ^1 >king a pipe or rolling f Know tnat you've got obacco! We tell you / bang the doors wide A le in-on a good time fa so often, without a regret! You'll feel li has been wasted and \ ^ back up for a fresh start You swing on this say-s gi thousand-collar bill! It' * ness and contentment t< who kn Pils# pJi^S the farmers want to plow for wheat and the ground is too hard. They pre- 1 pare for wheat here with disk or 1 sulky or big two-horse plows. Stub- 1 ble lands are often put into wheat, ' but the land is usually plowed twice I' and harrowed wrell. Lots of crimson clover seed has been sowed on stub I Die lanas eariy m tne suiwu wituj most of it coming up and dying?and some not coming up -at all. We have only a few turnips?about tliree dozen plants to the patch. There will be but few turnips in this part of the j v;orld and I don't know how to do i without turnips and greens. As the railroad runs near my study j window I cannot help noticing the rail-1 road activity. I have not always been i out of sight of railroad property. In Georgia I lived beside the Seaboard main line, and in Virginia I lived in sight of the great Cnesapeake and I Ohio and the Norfolk and Western; j but the activity there was nothing to be compared with this here. Times have changed and business has increased everywhere, I suppose; but / I cannot help thinking that prosperous times are due to some extent to i Wilonn a/^miniRtratinn. T met a ! young man on a train sometime ago. He was from Montana, but a native 01 Asheville, N. C., where he (had just been to see his people. He had been 1 in the great West only a limited num- ? ber of years. He said Wilson will ; carry his state, because everything I is so prosperous out there. One thing DID YOU ( 1 "Enlarged FRI /ll/l P VI U1U UlUt A "Get You Maybe you ju there is a ph. your own hon O. & T. 1 i East End Main Si PRICES RE^ I " 3rince Alber^?V :h and lets you ' or bank roll that j R1NEE\ AlbertI i national joy smoke ke your smoke past O vill be sorry you cannot || o like it was a tip to a y? s worth that in happi- fj 3 you, to every man tj ows what can be tj Dut of a chummy ffl pipe or a makin's ig r e 11 e with /jf Albert for fif eking"! /if ? q^HE Prlnc? x Albert tidr DS TOBACCO CO. red tin, and i? Salem, N. C. Sjjjr $act" every Prine? Albert package, hm? reverse a rea' mesrage-to-yo* Hdy on its reverse side. YonU read:?"Process Patented July 30th, 1907." That mean* that the United States Govemment has granted a patent on the process by which Prince Albert i* made. And by which tongue bite anf ^ throat parch are cut out! Everyf where toharrn ic cnM r Prince Albert awaiting yotc in toPP.y red bags, 5cr tidy re(* t'ns> 1?c* bandsona*\ pound and half-pounA w tin humidors and fafc ^ that clever crystalv 1 glass humidor, with ! "^j|V\ \ sponge - moistener 4 Ik \ top' l^at keePs ^\?VW \ tobacco in suck. l^wVX mV/ \ ^ne con<*'t'oa"~ * I noticed about this young man w*s that he no longer talks li&e us, ae talked as I suppose the Westerners, io. He never said "Yes" at all; he always said "Yah." He never safo % "No," but "Nab." In South Carolina vhen I was pastor there, I often went to see Aunt Yinie Kibler who is getting up ia years. As she was once married* I dont suppose sh.e would mind if L should tell her age; she was born in 1827. That is getting back and she * * ? T^1? OUaa is not as Old aa JIT. oane uucaij Little Mountain. I managed to -call < on her during my recent visit to tli? home country and found her lively and smiling as usual. I told fcer* about one of my church "girls" being, ninety-five years old. iWte have a number of old people about here. Thcother day vre had a grreat reunion !\Ir. Jolm Wagner's. He is eightyNext week we are to 'have anotlier gathering of the same kind, where m. man is eight-Jseven and goes to churclt. every Sunday wTien his church hastservice. I don't know whether North Carolina tar and turpentine hav* "" " - anything to do wun isorxn varum**, longevity any more than South Carolina Little Mountain rocks and Pomaria red clay. If your readers read what I h*r? written and I find it out, I may writ* again?just to let them know I hav?, not forgotten. Most respectfully, v Y. Von A. Riser. iET THAT n'.i ? riciure TO lE? 'icture Agent r Goat?" r st forgot that Dtographer in le town. | EC- 1* 1 !0 E ^ t. i'h') c 3. <8 ^SONABLE