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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-24

period Of our reign. and, while we are
still in mourning for our lamented
father.
Hopes for Early Peace
1T is our earnest wish that by the
loyalty and valor Of our faithful sub
iects. peace may soon be restored and
the glory Of the empire be enhanced"
Saburo Shimada. a member OF the
opposition in parliament, in an address
here today. before the summer colony.
which includes many Americans, said
that he believed japan mad no desire
TO keep Kiao Chow. He asserted that
T. was Japan's policy to prevent
stir up in China.
Would Mean Danger.
The retaining of E<sg Chow" he
said. would mean the danger of a rev.
olution in China nd mourning the i'll
will Of America Japan is appreclaUVe
Of Germany's contribution to japanese
civilization, but is resentful because
the kaiser first raised the cry Of yell
low peril and Germany declared
combination to GUST Japan from Port
Arthur in 1895"
The proclamation Of the emperor
sent a ~thriu through the country
Japan's entrance upon the fulfillment
of her obligations to her ally, Great
Britain, responds to the popular Will
from one end OF the land TO the other.
Count Won Rex. the German ambas-
ssdor in Toxic, has been handed his
passports. He probably viii leave here
sailing August p. or on the Man
churia. which departs on the 29th.
George ". Guthrie. the American am
bassador. will represent Germany The
diet has been convoked in special ses-
sion for September ..
Trying to Transfer Railroad.
It is reported here that Germany has
been trying TO transfer the German
railroad in ShantunE. China. to Ameri-
cans. Toxic believes. however. that the
United States. pursuing the policy Of
neutrality outlined by president vii
son. viii not accept the offer.
President Wilson's announcements of
American neutrality has greatly
pleased the Japanese
German Soldiers Arrested.
A dispatch from Hardin Manchuria. !
says that railway passenger cOmmu- I
nication is open between Siberia and I
European Russia It is reported that I
number of German reserVists were I
lrresued and imprisoned at Irkutsk. I
Siberia. and that others fled into Chi 4
lese territory disguised as Cinnamon. 4
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-24
AUSTRIAN-JAPANESE
WAR DANGER AYERTED

Washington. d C.. Aug. 24-DanEer
Of war between Japan and Austria was
today removed through the agreement
Of Austria to dismantle her cuiser, the
kaiserin Elizabeth, now at Tsing-Tau.
The Austrian amba SsadOr had been
preparing TO leave Toxic when the
Japanese government indicated its ap-
provsl Of a suggestion for dismantling
the cruiser. Austria accepted the pro-
posal and instructed the officers to in
terne at Shanghai The Austrian an
hassador then let it be known that he
saw no occasion 10 leave Japan.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-24
FIFTEEN THOUSAND CANADIAN
TROOPS are NOW Modified

arrival today Of about 5000 troops from
all parts of Canada. the mobilization
camp here has reached a strength OF
approximately 5000 officers and men.
more than one-half' of Canada's over
seas eXpeditonary force.
Many in the ranks are militiamen. re-
siding in the United States. Some came
from IS far as New Orleans, Denver
and san Francisco
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-24
RUssEANs GIVE JEwELRY

HI RED NhUAS ENND
London. Eng. Aug. ga ST. Peters
burg dispatch to Reuters Telegraph
agency says that i'm response to an
appeal by the dowager empress, jewelry
Of all kinds is being sent 10 the Red
Cross society. Wedding and other rings.
watches, bracelets, gold and silver
purses orders Of all kinds and silver
utensils are arriving by every post.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-24
TO HOLD REQUIEM MASS

Solemn requiem mass will be held for
the soul Of Pope Plus Y at the church
Of the Imaculate Conception on Friday
morning at S o'clock. Throughout the
city all the Roman Catholic churches
will CELEBRATE requiem mass on this day
in memory Of the late pope
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-24
- MORE CARS OF COTTON
ARE IMPORTED FROM ME

Monday 25 cars of cotton. five cars
Of Mexican corn and carload Of cattle
were imported from Mexico, through
the E Paso custom house. The i'm
portation OF corn is unusual The cat
Tie were consigned to Nations &
Booker.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-24
WIRELESS STATION WARNED
AGAINST WAR VIOLATION

Washington. D. c.. Aug. 24-After a
conference with secretary Daniels to-
day. secretary Redfield notified the
German owned wireless station a
Tuckerton, y. j. that il is operating in
violation of law.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-24
RussIans occupy Insterburs.

A dispatch to the HAYES agency from
wilma, Russia, says an announcement
from a Unauthorized source sets forth
that the Russians after their victory
at Gumbinnen. successfully pursued the
Germany. 30 miles from the Russian
frontier in the direction OF Koenigs
berg.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-24
GERMANS CAPTURE
8 FRENCH TOWNS
Continued From Page Onel

the German buglers sounded martial
airs and the troops still alive united
in cheering
Near one fort two columns Of Ger
mans, blinded by the glare Of the Bel
sian searchlights, attacked each other.
This incident was seen from the fort
When one side seemed to have the bet
ter Of the struggle, the Belgian officer
went on 10 say, Belgian artillery fired
into both sides alike. thus making the
struggle more even.
Rueafaua Oceuuv Tnsferbrs-a
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-24
ALLIES AID JAPAN
BLOCKADING PORT

Pekin, China, Aug 24.-The blockade
o. Using Tau. the fortified port OF
kiao Chow has begun The British
French and Russian vessels of war
are taking part in the movement.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-24

Have you visited the most beautiful
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-24

Have you visited the NEST beautiful
ice cream parlor in FL Paso? End floor
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-24

Visit the neatest. cleanest-the spot
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end noor.)-Advertisem
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-24
GERMANS lombard LIEGE
FORTS TO CLEAR PASSAGE

Rotterdam. Holland. Aug. "a
sounds Of the vigorous bombardment Of
Tjege. reached the frontier near Mae
stricht on Sunday
They indicated that the Germans are
this long standing danger from their
line of supply. Fugitives report that
me Iiege forts have caused great in
convenience to the Germans by destroy
ing their pOntoOn bridges over the
Meuse-
Have you visited the most beautiful
ice cream parlOr in FL PasO2 2nd floor
Alhambra Advertisement.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-24

dIspafch to q Russian embassy
here from the Russian general staff
says that during the fighting in one
point in east Prussia, the Russians
captured eight cannon, twelve shell
carriers two machine guns and a large
number Of prisoners. On the Galfcian
frontier during the battles at Gorodko
and krasnik. the advancing Austrfans
suttered great loss. The Russians cap
tured six officers and $50 men.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-24
JAPAN ISMAKING
WAR ON GERMANY
TOPAY GRUDGE
People Of Japan Pleased at
Declaration of War
by Mikado.
tContinued FROM Pare nae.l
Hopes for Early Peace.

period Of our reign. and, while we are
still in mourning for our lamented
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-24
Many Germans Cnptnred.

London, Eng, Aug 24--The Russian
embassy here has made public the
following report sent by grand duke
Nicholas to St Petersburg:
AFTER a two days battle the Russian
forces are victorious. We were on
posed by three German army corps We
nave captured many guns. The Ger
mans lost heavily and were compelled
to retreat Our troops are in pursuit
Of the enemy.
This success has been achieved by
general Rennekamp's army It is
victory OF great strategiv value"
Ru..lnn. Cnna-r-. r.-----
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-24
RUSSIANS CLAIM VIC
TORY OVER KAISER
Grand Duke Commanding the Russian
Troops Issues Statement Claim
tnE German Defeats.


St Petersburg, Russia, Aug. "a
Grand Duke Nicholas. commander in
chief Of the Russian army, has is
sued the following statement:
Battles in east Prussia on the Nth
18th, 18th and Goth Of August were
fought with the utmost desperation.
me spirit OF the troops IS excellent
Our battle front extends for a distance
OF over 80 verts (about IS miles,.
Inc Russian troops occupied Col
dSpp and Arys. The retreat on the
goth Of the German army CORDS near
Lyck resembled a rout The money
cOnflScated in the treasury amounted
70 $4,000 marks 100000. The enennv's
troops are evacuating the frontier in
the vicinity Of Wittenberg The Ger
man population is abandoning the vii
lages and l-eeinE northward
On the Austrian frontier IN 10
august 20. no serious collision oc-
CURED The Russians forced an Aus
TRAN battalion to evacuate Burgade
and Ravarasse.
On August 20, the Germans near
Gumbinnen engaged three army CORDS
and tried to envelope the Russian right
wing where the fighting was Intense
y flerce. The Russians took the Of
1ensive IN the center and captured
many guns The enemy demanded an
armistice in order TO bury their dead
but this demand was refused on
august q, victory crowned the efforts
OF the Russian army. The Germans,
having suffered enormous losses. are
falling back, pursued by the Russians"
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1914-05-09

cane yields 24O tons Of sugar.
This gives them 1920 ton the
/ best of us at the start.
"Twenty per cent Of our cane
! is a total loss when we get 1t
pure waste product that extracts
fertility from the soil. So you
see how we stand on competl-
tive basis to meet the importa-
ton of free sugar from the
tropics. This is just a rough
outline, but the facts and figures
cut like the teeth Of a bandsaw'
There is some talk of wriggling
out Of the squeeze by producing
high-grade molasses and thereby
preserving the use Of our sugar
millsHanother case of going it
blind and waiting to see IT the
wheel of fortune stops at the
lucky number.
GA sovereign remedy offered is
four-legged corn for cattle; but
remove our sugar mills and fore
close our mortgages and how
much Of a balance have we left
to work out experiments with
cattle? Very few Of us are real
farmers or anything that re-
sembles farmers. We are chem
lists and manufacturers and IT,
nanciers for the most part.
Rice and Hay as Ways Out.
"We have learned to make SUI
gar to sell at three and a half
cents a pound at bigger profit
than our fathers got when it was
selling for eight cents a pound.
We have let down on our farm
ing and tuned up in our milling,
and that is the chief reason we
find ourselves clutching at clouds
and shadows when We are con-
fronted with the problem Of re-
adjustment Of our agricultural
methods. We didn't have any
worth mentioning-just grew
cane and some corn for our stock.
It is to be hoped that some Moses
will arrive to lead us out Of the
wilderness"
Ex-Governor Warmoth was
next on my list, as planter who
had foreseen the inevitable and
had begun the readjustment of
his agricultural scheme two
years before the Underwood
Tariff Bill was drawn. / found
Mr.. Warmoth in his Office in a
white-marble New Orleans sky
scraper. You are much more
likely to find a, Louisiana sugar
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1914-05-09
Mother StaniSlauS
Tells of Recovery

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use of Eckman's Alternative. This is
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years. Read this case:-
Convent Of St. Anne, Sanford, Fla.
"Gentlemen: In February, 1911, four
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Having heard at Peekskill, N. Y, Moth
erhouse Of the Sisters Of st. Francis,
where was visiting, Of Eckman's Altera-
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It After taking four or five bottles large
pieces Of diseased tissue came away.
continued the Alternative, to my grateful
and daily relief. In ten months l was
restored to perfect health. / would be
glad to write or talk to any person who
may have a doubt about it. I would like
them to see and hear from my own lips.
II they 50 desire, all I would say Of it."
(Signed) MOTHER NJ. STANISLAUS.
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Bronchitis. Bronchial Asthma. Stubborn
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New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1914-05-09

er and siphoned his. water from
the Mississippi. The land was
all tile-drained, as is most Of the
sugar land back of the levees in
the lower delta. His crop rar
about twenty-six barres to the
acre-a total of nearly 25, 900 bar
rels on 957 acres; money return
$4,000, gross. The cost Of plant.
ing and harvesting ran up to
$4,000 and he paid me rent OF
$1,000, leaving very comfortable
margin of profit for himself.
"My other two rice planters
made very narrow margins of
profit above their rent. They got
a beautiful stand of rice, but they
did not know how to put on the
water and just when to take it
off. The water grasses got away
from them and choked the crop.
NV sugar crop came along well
on the other two places but did
not begin to compare with the
rice as a money crop.
"It is my fat belief that we
must all readjust and get out of
sugar as fast as possible. Ne
ccssity will force it upon us.
There are immense possibilities in
hay if we only fnd a safe and
economical method of curing it.
One planter made lot Of paper
cones to cover his stacks and
saved his entire crop.
"That was years ago, and the
government people took it up in
the usual governmental way
They sent some young squirt
down with a pair of spectables
and notebook who stood round
and looked wise and then went
off and wrote a bulletin. There
is vast improvement in the type
of government investigators you
meet today and they are getting
out of politics.
"We have worked out all our
problems for ourselves in the past
and have come up a long way
from the beginning. When l
began as a sugar planter thirty
years ago we were getting eight
cents a pound for choice white
sugar. This was before the re-
fineries. started in with a SUI
gar house that made 200 tons a
Gay. Later I acquired more land
and buildings until / had a So
000-ton crop and mill with the
capacity Of q thousand tons a
DAY.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1914-05-09

"Sugar went down from eight
to three and a half cents, but we
kept ourselves going by improved
milling and improved agriculture.
We made more money on four
cent sugar two years ago than
we made on eight-cent sugar
thirty years ago. But we have
reached our limit. We cant
make sugar for less than three
and a half cents pound. The
tariff Will wipe out at least three
quarters Of our sugar plantations
and abeut the same percentage of
the beet-sugar industry.
"Most Of the sugar-beet pro-
perties that will be wiped out are
owned by the big fellows in the
Sugar Trust. They have also
got hold Of practically all the
foreign sugar. You talk of our
big plantations, but where are
thew beside one property Of $780,
eco acres in Cuba?
"We have advanced wonder
fully in our development since
1890, when Braddish and John
son, two Nova Scotia sea captains,
began making sugar down below
Woodland in the lower delta. Be-
fore they built their sugar mill
they put up a fort to protect
themselves from the Indians.
The Small Sugar Farmer Has the
Advantage.
"That was in the days of the
pirate Laftte, who supplied the
market with slapes. The story
goes that our pioneer planters
were in partnership with him
and used their plantations as
clearing houses for his black car
goes. Lafitte fought with Gene
raj Jackson at the battle Of New
Orleans and was pardoned for
his crimes. Just a few genera
tions have spanned the gap from
those dark ages of piracy and
slave trading to our present high
pressured industrialism.
"The small farmer in our SUI
gar districts may cultivate cane
hereafter as money crop, but
he must diversity in all direc-
tions. He can do well on 100
acres if he will cultivate corn
and carry sheep, pigs and feeder
cattle.
"The small farmer who does
lis own work can raise cane n
great deal more cheaply than the
man in the big game, and once he
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1914-05-09

planter in New Orleans sky
scraper than out in the cane
fields; or else he will be in the
offices of the bank that holds his
mortgages. He is generally a
man of positive opinions who
crosses lots and cuts corners to
reach a given point.
Mr.. Warmoth was emphatical-
w one Of this type-a tall, angu-
lar, robust man well past the
meridian Of life, who mentioned
g $92, 900 rice crop from less than
thousand acres as casually as
if it had ben hotbed of onions.
81 had been growing cane ex-
clusively for thirty years until
two wears aro,' he said, "and my
100000 sugar mill is now in the
market to 60 to Cuba or South
America. | have 1000 acres in
five farms down at Magnolia, and
when | decided that exclusive su-
gar production had reached the
final stages of it's evolution So far
as Louisiana was concerned |
rented out three Of the five pla-
ces to rice planters
Gone Of my renters planted
rice on 957 acres that had been
in sugar off and on for a hundred
years. He was an expert and
spent three months in careful
preparation. He used no fertilz-
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1914-05-09

OF sugar.
Many planters are in tight
hole as things stand today. We
came through two disastrous
years of killing frosts and over
flows before the Tariff Bill was
passed. Not many operators are
in a position to take up acreage
in the tropics, plant cane and
then dismantle their Mills and
ship down the machinery. Some
Of the big people are contemplate
ing this.
Last year Cuba produced g.
100000 tons Of raw sugar. The
production of cane and beet su-
gar in the United States during
the same period was 1000, 600
tons. If the new tariff schedule
cuts out this production for the
United States it must be pro-
duced elsewhere, and as every
body kiows the tropics are the
ideal fields Of production.
"In some Of the virgin soils OF
tho tropics you plant cane once
and get it for seven years. In
Louisiana you must plant at least
every other year. Then the
Cuban cane is almost twice as
rich in sugar content. Whereas
1000 tons Of Louis:an can pro-
duca from 140 to 100 tons Of SUI
car. the same amount Of Cuban
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1914-05-09

learns how to handle his 'by-pro-
ducts and take care of his stock
he has the throttle of prosperity
right in his grip and can open t
as wide as he pleases.
"lt is the most fertile land n
the world and the big planters
lave simply got to sell it off.
Their present farming methods
are fairly riddled with waste,
WIN you consider the cost Of
gang labor and the wages of
superintendent and foreman,
the ruinous prices paid for hay
and stock feed, the incident of
depreciation and the wholesale
risks Of food and frost. /.
"My figures tell me that the
little farmer can raise and harvest
cane at cost Of two and a half
dollars ton and sell it for three
and half dollars a ton, making
one dollar ton profit in cash and
using the cane waste for stock
feed. Careful handling should
produce thirty tons to the acre.
We are hard hit, but when we
have worked out our readjust-
ment and have come down to a
bedrock basis of wiedly farm
units the cane lands of Louisiana
will show vastly more material
wealth than they do today"
The day I spent at Myrtle
Grove plantation, fifty miles be-
low New Orleans, gave me sweep
ing glimpses and sharp percep-
tions of the evolution of the Lou
isiana sugar industry. There 1
met one of the old school of
planters who =. had prespered
nightly during the golden years
of plenty before sugar-beet pro-
duction piled up in enormous
tonnage and the refiners sent
their efficiency engineers into the
tropics and frightened their mas.
ter grip on the sugar market.
I had met refners and rival
planters who were agreed that
Theodore S. Wilkinson had one
Of the finest, if not the finest,
sugar property in the state-19,-
600 acres lying back of fifteen
miles Of river levee, 5000 acres Of
the total carrying improvements
that had cost more than $3.50, 900.
These improvements do not in
clude the $4,000 central sugar
factory, traction engines. loading
machinery, wagons, harness,
farming implements, 25O mules
and horses, cattle and hogs, three
steam dredges, three motor boats,
house boats, and So on. that might
be classified as floating equip
ment tightly interlaced with SUI
gar production.
The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
worth of direct improvement Of
the cultivable area would have
a separate book value in any sort
Of farming scheme, for it con-
sists Of a complete drainage sys-
tenn of the most modern and ef-
icient character: twenty-five
miles of inside drainage canals
two miles long, sixty feet wide
and eight feet deep, and twenty
miles long, thirty feet wide and
eight feet dep; lateral bitches
over the entire cultivated area at
a distance Of about one hundred
feet apart; seventeen miles Of out
side canals receiving discharge
from pumps, three great pump
ing plants valued at $50, 900, a
saw mill Of 10000 -feet-a-day ca
(COntinned on tags 5.