The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 07, 1915, Image 6

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I AMERICAN NOTE OVERI SHADOWS OTHER NEWS When Received in London Last Week and Read by People OFFICIALS NOT* SURPRISED ( _____ United States Will Stand by Her Demands in Matter? Had Been Looking for This to Happen The American note protesting against the British treatment of Amor ican commerce and insisting upon an early improvement, seemed to over I shadow hi the mind ct the British pub- i lie today the news from the European battlefields. While the note caused no surprise in official circles, it was I wholly unexpected by the British public, as there had been virtually no intimation that any friction had arisen between the two governments. Placards posted by the evening papers were given over exclusively to the American note and the papers gave it th hirgest hen -lines the y have given any news dr."in v the past month. Consequently, the Briti. h pen pie regard t! s as o: e ' th - most important occurrences 0" tlv- whole war. The United States protest to Great k Britain against detention of American cargoes by British warshi; - ca.sfd little surprise in official circles. For several months iu got-at in as on the subject have ber-n in nr i< ' ' e'v.*cen Ambassador Page and For ign Secretary Grey, < 11 the American not ? synopsis of which was published, is regarded as a summary of the gricVB BPr. f\*' i ! \ r ? ' ? m ' 1 - < * ?* ? " i (.in 1 k. U.ik Ill tin ?> l'l U nection. The note itself had not ?*cache 1 tr.o ; foreign office, and imtil it docs no Official comm. nl L- expected. The foreign office, hower, li e con f stantly reiterated its regret at the de i lay to American ships end high officials have expressed a desire to oxneditc examinations of American eargoes as much as possible umk r the ex isting trying conditions. Statements that the delaying of car goes by the British authorities is held: responsible for a certain depression in American trade have created some sur1 prise. Officials expressed the opinion that Americans holding such views must fail to take into consideration the sweeping effect upon American commerce of the disappearance of German merchant ships from the sea, as well as other effects of the war beyond the control of Great Britain and her allies. It is believed in London that the foreign office will make a dc- j tailed statement as to the activity cf tlic navy in rV fr.ir;nc sr.rpcctr I cargoes which will put these contrabar 1 troubles in a dill" :"-nt light. The foreign office v pcate lly has expressed its regret that merchants in no way violating the neutrality should suffer delay because copper and other articles declared contraband frequently have been found id d irrhr coal or other heavy carg c:-. But at the same time it take-, the posith n that trans-' shipments at sea and other sharp prac tices have mad-; careful inspection ivn perative. frequently cargoes are so loaded that an inspection makes neccessary a complete shifting of virtually everything in the vessel. The statement that the American protest i.-> thoroughly approved by President Wilson has created much comment and has added weight to its effect. There is some disposition in London, however, to regard it to a certain extent as a measure to satisfy insistent demands in Congress. Particular surprise has been expressed by officials at the disposition of certain Americans to hold Cheat Britain partly responsible for the depression in cotton. Officials believe that to be due to over-production, and not to any action on the part of the government. In Washington President Wilson to American shippers of non-contraband not to permit contraband articles to be mixed with their cargoes. * He said the United States could deal confidently with the problems of the British detention of American ships only if supported by honest manifests The President's statement followed a discussion with his cabinet of the general shipping situation and of the protest sent to Great Britain against prolonged detention of American cargoes and other interferences with ' American trade. Publication of a synopsis of the note aroused much interest in official circles. Many foreign diplomats made formal inquiry at the State Department and were promised a memorandum on the subject. In some quar tors it was said steps probably would be taken by other leading nations of the hemisphere as well as European neutrals, in support of the American viewpoint. The President's comment on the situation convinced callers that the jjjjBu \^ashim:.lon government has spoken firmly of its desire for improvement in the conditions of neutral commerce and was prepared to further insist on its rights. The President declared that the point of view adopted by the United States in its note was hardly debatable as England had adhered to it in previous wars. During the cabinet meeting it was suggested that shippers should be warned against shipment of double articles in non-contraband cargoes. The White House then issued its suggestion regarding manifests. The President said the great embarrassment to the government in dealing with the whole matter was that some shippers had concealed contraband un der a cargo of cotton or other non contraband. So long as there were instances of that kind, the President added, suspicion was cast on every shipment. State Department officials said lator that there were two cases in which this had occurred and that Great Britain had used them as a basis for general search. HOV'G THIS? We offer One Hundred Dollars Re- j ward for anv case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.. E. J. CHENEY & CO.. TOLEDO, O Wo, the undersigned, have known ! '. ,1. Cheney for tlm last 1 5 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all] business transactions and financially1 abio * o carry out any obligations made! bv his firm. y AT I ON AL BANK OF COMMERCE j Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter-j Pally. acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Fills for constipation.?adv. LARGEST COTTON CROP ON RECORD. The Department of Agriculture estimates the 1014 cotton crop at 1 o,909.000 bales. This is the largest pro! auction in the history of the cotton in ilustry. The 191 i crop held the record! to the present year, with a production of 1 ">,(190,701 bales. It is estimated that there is at least two million bales in the field, much of it deserted by (lis couraged farmers and which will prob ably never be gathered. The 1914 crop also ranks among the largest, production per area, averaging 208 pounds per acre and reaches the low water mark in price. The price officially estimated for the 1914 crop is G cents per pound against an average price of 12 cents per pound in 1913 and a production of 128 pound per acre. TROUBLE. The man who buys an auto ear, But first the price mucst borrow, Will never travel very far Before he meets with sorrow, ?ijii'in:iignam Age-HeraId. His punishment begins indeed When it is his desire To show his friends a bit of speed And "Blooey" goes a tiro. ?Voungstown Telegram. And when he's got some friends 'way out To some far sylvan scone Mis gladness is all put to route By lack of gasoline. ?Houston Post. You may be right >r. what you wrote. Of thoublos there's a horde; But, boys, they'll never get My goat, I'm gonna get a Ford! " 1 r 1 Try This for Neuralgia. Thousands of people keep on suffering with Neuralgia because they do not know what to do for it. Neuralgia is a pain in the nerves. What you want to do is to soothe the nerve itsolf. Apply Sloan's Liniment to the surface over the painful part?do not rub ii in SIIaoh'c r ;i^* - <? * .... WHKIIIII IIIIIIIIII'III JK' I K' tl'ii I " ' os very quickly to the sore, irritated nerve and allays the inflammation, Get a bottle of Sloan's Liniment foi 25c of any druggist and have it in the house?against Colds, Sore and Swollen .Joints, Lumbago, Sciatica and like ailments. Your money back if not sal isfiod, but it docs give almost instant relief.?adv. - , BREVITY. Brevity may or may not be th< "soul of wit," but there's no questior in regard to brevity being the sou of conversation nowdays. The aim o the up-to-tho-second conversational is | is to cut all corners and get there ii j the shortest possible time. In Mays of yore a man was polite , under all circumstances, no mattei how much time it consumed. Ther he would say "My dear sir, I desire ' that you understand thoroughly thai I comprehend fully anel in all eletai the information you are endeavoring to impart to me." Now ho says, "Gotcha!" The Best Hot Weather Tonic j GROVR'r- TASTPJ.RSSchiil TONIC enriches the blood, builds i* the whole sys'em and will won ierfully Rtrenjjt*'en and fortify you to withstnm .he ;'epres&inK effect o( the hot summer. 50c. VAST RICHES YET TO BE DEVELOPED Large Resources of United States Emphasized by the War. ALASKA TREASURE STORE Immense Tracts of Desert and Swamp Line Yet Unused. Washington, Jan 4?With the great nations of Europe wasting their wealth and their resurces with freehanded disregard and this country being forced to depend more and more upon its own capital, agricultural and mineral resources, the question of our undeveloped stores take on an interest such as it never before has had. | In this connection the National Geographic Society has prepared a statement which says: ''In addition to the wonderful agricultural and mineral development which already has taken place in the united Mates, and which makes this country outrank any other in the world ?n the value of her crops and the product of her mines, we have vast undeveloped resources. We have more coal, more petroleum, more*phosphate and more copper than any other country. Our coal reserves reach such an ovt rwhclming total as to make the | combined coal reserves of the next six ;r atest producing nations?all of whom are at war?dwindle into insignificance. Zinc, lead silver, timber, salt, iron ore and other staples of commerce are hero in undeveloped . bundancc. Alaska is the greatest of otir unexploited treasure troves. The Wealth of Alaska. "The largest body of unused and nog lcctcd land in the United States is Alaska. It is now nearly a century since we purchased Lkis territory, and it contains today less than 40,000 white inhabitants, less than 1,000 for each year it has been in our possession. The purchase was made as a means of protection against possible aggression 01 a lorcign nation and without hope that it would bo even self supporting-. In the intervening* 40 years we have given it little more i than the most casual concern; yet its mines,-fisheries and fur alone have ad ded to our wealth the grand sum of $500,000,000. Individual fortunes have been made in that country larger than the price paid to Russia for the whole territory. "Its waters are teeming rich with sVinn and fish. How rich we know, because they have been proved. But how rich its lands are in gold and! copper, coal and oil, iron and zinc, no1 one knows. The prospector has gone! far enough, however, to tell us that no other section of our land today | makes so rich a mineral promise. And in agriculture the government itself has demonstrated that Alaska will pro duco in abundance all that can be raised in the Scandinavian countries, (Sitka has cooler . ummers and warmer winters than Washington, D. C.) the hardy cereals and vegetables, the meats and the berries off which nine million people live in Norway, Sweden' and Finland. It has been estimated that there are 50,000,000 acres of this land thai will nv - ? uuiiK o iui u peo| j)!o as sturdy as those of New If.<gland. Alaska can be made sclf-su taining ag ricultura 11 y. ''It is a territory one-fifth the size of the United States containing less than 1,000 miles of anything that can he called a wagon road. It has a few inconsiderable stretches of railroad which terminate either in the wilderi ncss or at a private industry. Vast Acres Idle. "Alaska does not by ar.y means com prise all of our undeveloped resources. Vast stretches of the Great American Desert still remain to be reclaimed j for fruit, grain, vegetables and graz, ing land. Millions of acres of coal lands are in store ready to be open' ed as the need for their riches arises. Southwestern oil fields arc storing ^ vast quantities of petroleum for fut tnre use. Innumerable water powers throughout the Middle West and West are waiting to be harnesses. Our vast ' deposits of phosphate rock, embracing millions of acres and containing * billions of tons of phosphate, undoubt1 edly form the world's greatest sup' ply. These deposits run for hundreds ^ of miles through Wyoming, Utah, ^ Montana and Idaho. In 1010 the 1 United States produced 52 per cent of the world's - -j ... ? {/iiua^liakC output. "A discovery of a deposit of potash within the United States was ^ made some time ago, though little has j been (Ionic in the way of its development. The Department of the Interr " ior has expressed the hope that this supply would for some time at least make the farmers of this country independent of foreign sources. It lies, however, still undeveloped. Germany up to now, has had a world monopoly of potash." MORE PRISONERS PARDONED. Governor Blease grants Clemency to Fifty Five Prisoners in the State Penitentiary and on State Farms. Governor Blease last Wednesday granted clemency to 55 state prisoners. Twenty-eight were serving terms for homicide, seventeen having sentenced originally to life imprisonment Sixteen full pardons 24 paroles and 15 commutations are included in the list. The release of the forty men pardoned or paroled reduces the number of prisoners in the State penitentiary at state farms and in the county convict camp t(? 149. Governor Blease now lias exercised clemency in 1,544 cases during his term of office, which will have been four years in January. Two hundred and eight prisoners had received clemency since Thanksgiving eve. The Governor acted unon 101 cases at that .time and on eight others Christmas eve. Clemency was exercised in 444 cases Monday. One murderer was pardoned last week and seven paroled. Nine others serving life terms received commutatations, making their sentence either five or ten years. Of eleven men convicted of manslaughter, one was pardoned, six were paroled and four received rommutationss. Governor Blease signed the clemcnce grants so that the prisoners released might reach their homes by Now Year's day. Of interest were the full pardons granted Robert Wilson, Horace Finch and W. R. Belcher, sentenced last November to three years each for the attack on the Spartanburg jail, in which a negro suspected of criminal assault was confined, 'flic negro subsequently was acquitted. Peace Impossible Till World is Organized. ' The way of universal peace, according to Hamilton Holt, editor and peace advocate, who was the principal speak or at a dinner of the Intercollegiate Socialist society last night, is impossible until the world is politically organized. Mr. Holt advocated an immemdiate world campaign with a view of drawing up a code of international rules. He proposed that the United States and England be the first to band together in the organization and form a league of peace, having disarmament as its purpose. Morgan and John D. Witnesses. Tlie federal cr mission on industrial relations resumed its hearing in New York last Tuesday and more than dO witnesses, including John D. Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan, were subpoenaed and promised to apear. The hearings arc expected to continue for two weeks. Children's Coughs;?Children's Colds, Both Are Serious. When one of your little ones shows symptoms of an approaching Cold, give it Br. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey at once. U acts quickly, and prevents l:i.? uoicl growing worse. Very healing?soothes the Lungs, loosens the mucous, strengthens the system. It's guaranteed. Only 23c, at your druggist. Buy a bottle today. * Eucklen's Arnica Salve for Sores.? adv. SEND LETTERS DIRECTLY. Farmers Writing to Clcmson Asked to Fsc Definite Address. | Clemson College, Jan. 4.?In seeking information or help from Clemson College, farmers should address the expert or officer in whose line the point is> whenever possible, Clemson i allege advises. This would avoid delays which are sometimes costly. This I is especially true of such matters as insect pests, plant diseases and animal diseases, which ran spread rapidly. In outbreaks of hog cholera, farm crs should either communicate immediately with the county demonstration agent, or yvith the veterinary division of Clemson College. Merely addressing the college will eventually get the letter to its goal, but sometimes delays come about which are dan t Ktwuc. ii is a goon man tor farmer; to kc? \j one of the college's bulletin; always at hand, as in the front of ev ! cry bulletin will be found the cxperi ment station staff, which will serve as a directory to any one desiring t< write to the college for information 01 a specific nature. Sugar Yield is Higher. Preliminary reports from leading sugar factories in Louisiana announ ced last week by the department ol agriculture, show average yields pei ton of cane to be considerably highei I in 1914 than in any recent year. Foi the first two weeks this season, the reports indicated increases over the same period in 191.1, ranging from six ot 10 per cent, the average being approximately eight per cent. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXAT1VK HROMO Quinine. It stops the Couyh and Headache and works off the Cold. Dri'Ktfists refund money if it failt to cuie. i K. V C.ROVK'S miniature on ach box, 26c. UGH! CALOMEL Mi DONT STAY BIU "Dodson's Liver Tone" Will Clean Your Sluggish Liver Better Than Calomel and Can Hoi Salivate. Calomel maker* you sick: \ou lose a day's work. Calomel is quicksilver and it salivates: calomel injures your liver. If you arc bilious; feel lax.v. sluggish ami all knocked out, if your bowels are constipated and your head aches or stomach is sour, just take a spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver 'lone instead of using sickening, salivating calomel. Dodson's Liver Tone is real liver modi cine. You'll know it next morning because you will wake up feeling fine, your liver will be working, your heedache and dizziness gone, your stomach will he sweet and bowels rcrulnr. You will feel like work in" ' f.il. * " Iff. Twelve Reasons Why You Should Buy Your Groceries of lis JVv. 6. BECAUSE we not only have bargains at all times, but because we have Special sales at certain times. These sales are big, bona fulo money savers. Watch for tlicm. Then stock up. CONWAY, S. C. I The FARMERS' ST with a view to assist th ?rowinjr section of Horry its worth from the start, I .s any. | If you want to deposit > ing brinjj it to us. If we ig will do so in every wav co I II AYNOR WHERE WILL YOU TRADE It is good policy to carry ; i to an old established store whe r ing many years must and will b During the year that has passe vors to give each and every cus 5 est deal. This is the reputation ' many years. Where will you carry your > now begun? If you are an old f us and we have tried to please ue to give us your patronage. * tomer, we gladly extend the in you the best value we possibly n . Q t All V Ci 4- Avn cv v uuJi ObVl C. DUSENBURY & C0,L Subscribe to IKES YOU SICK. 1US, CONSTIPATED Your druggist or dealer sells you a 50 cent bottle of Dodaon's Liver Tono under my personal guarantee that it will clean your sluggish liver better than nasty calomel; it won't make you sick and \ou van eat unything you want without I'vuig salivated. Your druggist guarantees that <uch spoonful will start your liver. eleun your bowels anil straighten you up by morning or you get your money back. Children, gludly take Dodson's Liver Tone because it U pleasant tasting and doesn't gripe cramp or make tbem sick. I em selling millions of bottles >.i Hudson's 1 ivor Tone to people wbo have fo'Mid tin* <'<is pleasant, vegetable, liver PM'die;iM? lakes tbe plaee of dangerous "itv (tnc bottle on mv sound. '' 'i ' -iiay I1 special! Si ii <;ai f P ' MULUNS, S. C l as Any. | ATE BANK was started jj e people of a busy and | County. It has proved I and is now just as strong H our money for safe keep- 1 can accommodate you w? | insistent with sound bank- | 'isfro Ronlr II iiumj uaiin, j ? ?I DURING THE NEW YEAS? your trade during- the new year re the reputation built up dure kept up to highwater mark, d we have used our best endeatomcr a fair chance and an hon we have tried to maintain for trade during the year that has customer, you already know you, we believe you will continIf you would become a new cus vit.fl.tinn n.nrl wo ?*? . MUM ?? W 1 V/IUIOC L U giv C * can for every dollar you spend TODDVILLE, S. G. i the Herald v