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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10
WEEKLY COTTON LETTER.
{By the Associated Press.)

New Orleans, La, Nov. S.-Liqui-
dation Of cotton contracts last week
was on a constantly advancing basis,
the highest prices being toward the
close when January sold at 1865. On
the closing session a bid of 100 was
made for 5000 bales, but sellers were
not much in evidence.
Spot cotton tic better, opening at
7 1-16 for middling n closing at
7 5-16. A week 6 middling closed
at 6 IS.
The most encouraging features OF
the week were the resumption Of bust
ness in futures in the Liverpool mar
ket, under restrictions and the better
feeling in interior spot markets.
The last day Of the week saw the
new style of cotton contracts go into
effect. Officials Of the exchange have
| been busy for weeks preparing new
| rules to govern future trading in ac-
cordance with the new Federal laws
The posting of the rules was, in some
measure, regarded as q step toward
the resumption of business on a nor
NAL basis.
The trade is prepared to listen to g
bearish report on ginning from the
Census Bureau Monday morning.
The Federal Court decision in New
York yesterday making possible tht
liquidation of holdings Of the sus.
nended firm of S. H. p. Pell & Co.
was believed here to presage Settins
a date for the r%e-opening Of the New
York Exchange. Officials of the loca
exchange doubtless will follow tn
lead Of New York as regards re
opening.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10
Canadian Poles May Go.

Ottawa. Nov. s.-Organization in
Canada Of an army division Of Rus
sian Poles was recommended today by
Robert Rogers, Dominion Minister or
Public Works, on his return from an
official visit to the West Provinces 10
inquire into military resources
An army division Of Russian Poles
could be enlisted in Canada in three
days time" he declared.
Mr.. Rogers said Germany and Aus
trian-born residents Of Western
Canada show no inclination to make
trouble. The Russian Poles. Of whom
there are large numbers want 10 be
enlisted.
AS soon as Premier Borden returns
from the United States Mr.. Rogers
proposal will be considered by tie
government.
In addition to an army division
Of Russians, Western Canada could
furnish Canadian and British-born
men in sufficient numbers 70 make an
army division" said the Minister.
~Ther is no lack OF men for foreign
service. We can get all We can equip
and transport"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10
German Shoes and Marching.

At Berlin there is a
museum devoted entirely to hygiene.
and among the exhibits are different
KINDS Of shoes and boots, with labels
indicating their relative merit for
marching purposes.
There are twO things which a Ger
man officer cannot pardon; one is nom
efficiency Of the soldiers rifle, the
other an ill-fitted foot. In either case
the soldier is Immediately punished.
being permitted to offer no excuses.
The secret Of the uniform excel
lence of the Germans as regards their
marching power lies in the training
they receive. When they enter their
company as recruits the first thing
impressed on their minds is the i'm
portance of the shoe and rifle. No
pains are spared in giving the men
comfortable footgear at the start, and
they are expected to look after it with
unflaggering interest.
In the spring, when the snow is off
the ground, marches are undertaken,
and these are regulated as carefully
as the strokes and courses of the col
lege crew under the hands of the
trainer. Each day the men march
a mile or so farther than the day be-
fore, each day they carry on their
backs an ounce or two more, and the
speed they are able to maintain is
carefully noted. In fact, the record
of a company'S marching from day
to day, until late in the summer when
they move into the open country, is
kept as infinitely as if it were a sin
gle picked company, trained for &
march or a competitive drill.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10
The Height Question.

Gen. Arthur Murray said at a din
ner in San Francisco, apropos OF the
height Of soldiers:
..The British army has raised the
height limit for volunteers to five feet
FIVE. Short Britishers object to this
and with reason.
"For consider the Japanese. They
are uncomfortable soldiers. Yet the
five-foot limit would bar most OF
them out. 80.
Consider the Gurkhas. the hill
tribe soldiers of India. They are as
valiant as the Japs, yet their height
runs from four feet eleven to five feet
four
at one of the London recruiting
stations. Just after the establishment
of the new rule, a short and chunky
Fast Ender who had been rejected by
| the examining surgeons pointed with
a scoWl toward a taller East Ender
who had been accepted and said:
law. look at him. An / knocked
is cad off lawst Saturday night
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10

na,.Inoreans. returned to the city
Yesterday afternoon from a f,vine
trip to London. hsihs
botn declared themselves erati6ad
WIN their success in placing Their
pans before the English, for ALREADY
80. Inm is testing the inyen-
tlon. Both men were silent concarn
ing their exact negotiations w;th tn
br!tonS, but did not conceal fheir
trip. ''eii
MI. Miller and Mr.. Brown had
planned to lay the invention directly
Deiore Lord Kitchener, chief of the
British land forces. but did not sue
Geo In this Kitchener is too en-
erUss.u IN oattie maneuvers to afford
any time to other matters. but he
baltimoreans reached the inn
MEDIATE under officer of the great
commander and other Of the
heads of the war staff and
were rewarded by having the inven-
tlon tentatively accepted.
All now depends on the outcome of
me tests; These will be very rigid,
IL is understood, but Messrs. Bowen
and Miller expressed full confidence
mat the results would bear out every
one or their claims. Within five or
SIX weeks, they said, they expect ia
neal from the British war office.
incidentally, the men revealed
n a they have not submitted a
busy Bertha" type of gun to the
Brltons, but something which they
say is UNNECESSARILY more valuable
ihelr invention, instead of being a
bulky gun, necessitating the expendi-
lure or perhaps $4,000 or $50, OO(
Tor Its manufacture, is an
tnat eliminates the necessity OF
rifling.
Neither gentleman would revea
any of the details of it's construction
put admitted it is q more or les.
mandy attachment that may readily
and with comparatively little ex
pense, be affixed to the breech of tn,
guns and do it's work.
This work is generating and de
veloping a high power of rotation +,
the ~projectile to be fired-a featur,
that accounts for the elaborate ant
expensive rifling in the modern guns
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10
Rapid Advance on CracOw.

Paris, Nov. S.-11:12 p. m.-Ad-
vices from Vienna say that the Rus
slams are rapidly advancing on Cra-
COW, n hat Austrian military au-
thorities there are b~etraying great
anxiety and calling every available
man to the cOlOrS.
It is a that in the last Lansturm
levy all strangers are warned that nom
residents are liable to service.
According TO these adyices cholera
continues to spread. 1t is said twenty
four new cases were discovered in
Vienna November 6. Owing to the
spread of DOT and mouth disease
among cattle Vienna is threatened
with a milk famine.
The financial situation of the veal
thy manufacturing provinces of Boz
hemia and Moravia has resulted it
is said, in the minister of finance
opening several war loan institutions.
The Vienna war oar bank is declar-
ed to nave made advances of nearly
$1,250,000 to needy industrial firms
within the first ten days Of its OPEN
Ing.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10
HOW ENGLAND HOAXED ITSELF,
RumOr About Presence of Russian
Soldiers Grew to a Belief That They
We're There.

Rumor About Presence of Russian
Soldiers Grew to a Belief That They
Were There.
(Shan F. Bullock's London Letter in
Chicago Evening Post.)
Were I a philosopher-not Of the
Bergson type, but rather of the Ana
tole France sort-and had the neceS-
sary time and energy. I would write
a book on the humOrS OF rumorS.
Practically, we have been living
that is, so far as mental and moral
sustenance are cOncerned-fOr weeks
now on many inventions. From time
| to time, of course, we nave had doied
| out to us the crumbs that fell from
! the press bureau table, and. to give
| our authorities justice, they have
never been slow to douche us with
| black. naked truth; but in the awful
| stress Of events what we poor hui
| mans needed was food for our hum
erv lamentations. The old war COR
respondents used to supply that In
liberal doses; now they are gone with
the fine old times when armies, IN
stead Of fighting in absurd Z5e-inlle
line formations hat retired thus way
for a hundred miles and then advanc-
g a the same way SO miles: when in
stead OF such athletic exercises they
met on a decent-sized field in solid
bodies and gloriousIy hammered each
other for as long as they nad enour-
ance. But our needs being sui the
same-nay, more, in those days OF
,;ah+ and sviftnesS-we have had
lately to keep ourselves alive by sup
plying our own inventions.
Now that 1T is all over. some or oul
c~,it;cs are talking about the great
Russian movement by way OF Arch-
angel. Leith, the English North Sea
and coast of Ostend, as the most stu
nandous newspapers spool in ournal-
;stic history. Nothing of the sort. L
was a spool invented by h natioI
itself. played off by the nation itself
mon itself, official contradiction not
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10
200 IRISHMEN SHCN WAR
Came TO the United States to Avoid
Military Service.

New York. Nov. S.-Two hundred
strong, healthy-looking young Irish
men arrived here yesterday on the
Lapland from Queenstown. having
emisrated to avoid going TO the front
and fighting against their conscience.
When the ship was being made last
at her pier a dozen OF the IriShmen
sat on the rail forward singing the
chorus, IT'S a Long Way to Upper
ary." and one Of them added land
the longer away you get the better it
is for your health"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10
Kitchener COngratulatcs.

P~etrograd, via London. Nov. s.
1880 D.. m.-Grand Duke Nicholas
has received from Earl Kitchener. the
British War Secretary, a telegram
conveying congratulations on the
brilliant termination OF the second
stage of the Russian operations.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10

baltimore Invention To Be Tested
BY British War Office.
baltimore Sun.
itavlng practically succeeded in
'spturlng the British War Staff with
,nelr plan for a nonrifnng gum, G.
Wilbur Miller and Jesse N. Bowen,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10

The cattle of Argentina outnumbe1
the natives by five to one.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-12-19
c. +. Grimmer Gets Permit

The application of c. F. Grim
tor permit to operate saloon at
the corner of Lafayette and State
streets, Ill the building of Mrs.
Leblanc, now occupied bv
NJ. A. Nugier as a saloon. was
acted favorably upon by the coun-
Gil Monday night, which means
that after Jan. Ist. the above
mentioned building will be oc-
cupied by Mr.. Grimmer instead of
Mr.. Nugier. Mr.. Grinmer intends
putting i'll first class meat market
and cold storage where his saloon
now is.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-12-19
$l.00 a Year.
Ordinance Fixing
Collection of Tax

The council last Monday night,
adopted an ordinance fixing the
time for payment of all taxes each
year, and providing for a penalty
tor failure to pay such taxes with
in the specified time.
\ lltaxes are now due as soon
as roll is completed and arc made
payable before Dec. 31st of each
year, after which date an interest
charge of 10 per cent per annum
will be charged. The ordinance
provides that force collections can
be made as early rs as Oct. 1st of
each year if necessary. Forced
on real estate to be
made not sooner than May 1st of
each year.
1t is hoped that this ordinance.
which will be strictly enforced
'alne as the State and Parish laws,
will greatly facilitate the collection
Of taxes. The records show that
some taxes were not paid until
July and Aug. of the succeeding
,ear
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-12-19
Issue No
Half License

AT a meeting of the town coun-
ell Monday night an ordinance.
fixing the liquor license at 81 900
per year, was adopted, effective
Immediately. The license for the
sale of beer and wine was fixed at
$500. per year. The ordinance
also provides that no half year
license will be issued.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-12-19
Discussion Over
the New Engine

:. The question of acceptance anl
(, payment of the Few crude oil
! engine recently installed in Water
Z u Light plant, came up at the
J council meeting Monday night.
+. Mr.. Hudson secretary ard treasurer
OF the y NJ Locket & Co. of New
. Orleans, the agents for the manu-
tacturerS of the engine, and Mr..
ElbertsOn of the same firm were
here to complete final arrange
mentS.
After discussion which lasted
about three hours, the council
went on record as demanding
payment for full 90 days demurrage
of $40 per day before payment
for the engine was made.
Mr.. Hudson claimed that no
demurragc was due the town, and
thought the council should waive
all claims for demurrage.
The meeting adjourned without
any final action being taken.
Every member present voted 10
get the full denurrage, and it is
now up to LCcket & Co., to either
pay it or take other steps towards
the collection of payment for the
engine, which is S7.71I.4O
No attempt was made to collect
for the electric driven pump sold
by the same people, for the reason
that the motor OH same is not I'D
to specifications, and a new motor
Will have to be installed. The
pump Is being used every day with
the consent of Locket & Co.. and
saves quite a good deal of money
Tor the town, but it will not be ac-
2epted and paid for until such a
lme IS 1t comes NJ to specifca-
ions i'll every respect.
Demurrage claimed by council is
or delay in getting the engine l
installed and in operation. The ,
contract called for installation and !
peration of the engine or CT before |
he l2Oth day after the receipt of ?
he contract. The CONTRACT was ?
xecuted by Mayor Adolph Bras )
euX OH March 27, 1914, and the !,
Egine should have been in opera 8
on not later than July 9th. 1914. ?,
was not i'll operation until sixty 5,
avs after July 9th.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-12-19

Best For Kidneys---Says Doctor.
DIR. J. 7. r. Neal, greenville So. Car.
says that i'll his so years of experience
he has found no preparation for the
kidneys equal to Foley Kidney Pills.
In Soc and Sl.00 sizes. Best you can buy
tor backache, rheumatism, kidney and
bladder ailnerts. Sold by CITY Pharmacy.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-12-19
ThiS---And Five Cents.

DON'T MISS THIS. cut out this sIip.
enclose five cents to Foley & Co..
Chicago, ILL. writing your name and
address clearly. You will received in re-
turn a free trial package containing
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, for
coughs, colds and Group, Foley Kidney
Pills. and Foley Cathartic Tablets. For
sale Ill your town by City Pharmacy. adj
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-12-19

The store clerk who gets seven
dollars a week and spends twenty
dollars for Christmas present for
his girl should be classed among
the Christmas green's"
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-12-19

Il owe my good health to Chamber
lain s Tablet, writes Mrs. r. G.. Neff.
Crookston, Ohio. Two years ago I was
an Invalid due to stomach trouble. took
three bottles of these Tablets and have
since been in the best of health. ." Sold
by all dealer. adv
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-12-19

Time is money" This ought
to be cheering news to the man of
leisure who has Christmas presents
to buy and no ready cash.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-12-19
Standing of Contestants

The following is the standing of
the contestants i'll the Grimmer
Trade Extension Campaign, for
week ending Dec. 9th:
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-12-19

1t really requires a marvellous
amount of fact to appear thankful
at Christmas for something YOU
don't want.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-12-19

Owes Her Good Health to Cham
berlain's Tablets.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-02
WHY GIANTS DIDN'T WIN
 FOURTH CONSECUTIVE PENNANT
Facts Which Show Difficulties of Hold
 x ing Leadership In Big Leagues

The psychology of baseball mani fests itself in many angles of the game It explains why a pitcher with less stuff than others is a star; why the pitcher with everything necessary to a successful career is ofte4times mediocre It explains why a batter can hit the best pitchers and be help less before the lesser ones It explains why a pitcher is great against some teams and unable to hold his own against others
 This year the Giants had a chance to create a worlds record by winning their fourth consecutive pennant. They had probably the best chance of any team in the history of the American and National Leagues. They failed. Why What is the phychoIogy of it? e Only two teams in leagues of top notch rank have ever won four suc- cessive pennapts and these accom- plished the feat more than a, quarter century ago. They were Boston of the Professional Association which won in 1872-3-4z5, and St. Louis of the American Association, Which won in 18S5-6-7-8. Neither of the leagues represented yAthese four-tine win ners was the equal of the American and National leagues today. For this reason, had McGraw won this year he would have set a worlds record.
 And McGraw had his heart set upon winning the pennant this year. They call him the Little Napoleon, and like the real Napoleon, he aspires to be not only among the foremost, but the foremost man in his line. After win ming three pennants in a. row, he fail. ed in his attempt to snatch the fourth, as six other great managers had done before him His team started out well enough, but when Boston challenged them they cracked, and cracked badly In less than a month he saw his fond est hopes, his most beautiful dreams. crum ble and finally dash themselves to pieces on the rocks of failure
 The downfall of the Giants was one of the most unexpected in years. It was also one Of the most pathetic chapters written in the career of Nc Graw Only, one other can compare with it in this respect, the inability of the team to win any of it's three last worlds series. Surely a fairer measure of success is due such a man ager as McGraw-
 Some have attributed the triumph of the Braves over New York to over confidence on the part of the players of the latter team. Others have laid it to the general lapse of form of the pitching staff, of which Mathewson has been the only consistent perform CT. Some point to the failure of the other six teams to win their fourth that the feat cannot be accomplished in these latter days The winning or the fourth game, they declare, is inn possible.
 Is it9 Is that the explanation of the Giants failure to win this. year? Is it that winning team remains as such no more than three years e+
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-02
JEANETTE
 WINNER OVER
 SAM LANCFORD

New York. Oct. 2@CIad in a robe de chambre of shfmmering green silk decorated with gaudy hand-painted heur-de-lis, Sam Langford, fat and smiling. entered the ring for his ten round go with Joe Jeannette at the St. Nicholas rink last night. He was a1-
 most as fat but not smiling when he left it.
 Jeanette handed esThan'' about the niftiest trimming the Boston Tar Baby has had to take in a blue moon. At the end of the melee-it was the elev- ,enth time the pair had swapped punches-Langford sported badly bruised right optic a swollen nose, cut and bleeding lips and a whole lot of injured feelings
 The first six rounds of the bout fur nished some clever though perhaps to the hardened ringsiders ,trif1e 1istless boxing. Most of the fight fans like to see the claret split and during the ear 1y rounds there was little damage done outside of Jeannette cutting Sam's lips with his snappy left jabs.
 In the seventh -Jeannette cut open Langford's eye with a. vicious right hook, and from then on to the finish there was enough fireworks to suit the most fastidious. Jeanette kept pep pering away at Langferd's starboard optic, while Sam blazed away at the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-02
ANNIVERSARIES
 OF RING BATTLES

1835-Jern Mace defeated SIasher Slack in nine rounds at AfildenhaIl, Eng This was the first of NGace's long series of victories which made him the champion of the world and the greatest boxer of his time. About four years before Mace had met Lick CT Pratt in the ring, but Platt was an experienced fighter and much heavier than Jern, and the latter got a good trouncing. Before that time Mace had traveled over England, playing the vio- lin and giving sparring exhibitions at country fairs, and bis experience with Pratt did not encourage him to keep
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-02

stretch and then gives out?
 This would appear to be the case The reasons that could be advanced as to why g, team. retaining virtually all the stars of it's heyday, should fall suddenly, give way at once to a. gen. eTal decline in form, are many. Over confidence might be one and injuries and physical lack of condition are others. Then there is the mental state of the players.
 Continued success, unless taken with a grain of salt, as an old maxim has it, is liable to produce most damaging results. The players on a team that has won with the utmost ease, three years in succession, are prone to be- come careless in their way. Especially if they obtain 8 lead early in the sea- son is this condition likely to exist. Remembering their easy victories of the past, they do not worry particu- larIy about the tbusiness in hand. They become an easy-going lot, although apparently they are fighting with all their old dash and vigor.
 But when reverses begin to come their way and the lead that at one time was deemed a safe one dwindles day after day until it becomes a. mo- nentity, the old order changes. The players realize that they have a con- tender worthy of their mettIe and that they will have to extend themselves. Then is when the. psychological end shows itself.
 As is, the case of the Giants this year, when the team extends itself to the limit to ward off the impending danger only to find that it will not be warded off. but that it is in the fight to stay, the players struggle hard for a+Gfiile and then-usua1ly-giVe LID, admitting defeat! They have found the going so easy for such a long time that they are unable to respond when they encounter the supreme test. It is the sudden awakening to the fact that they are not the nonpareils, that they are not invinctb1e, that causes them to worry and lose themselves.
 McGraw himself views the situation from this angle. He says that it is exceedingly hard to manage a team that has won several pennants in suc- cession. Unlike young team, you cannot drive the players to do their best. The novelty of winning is lack ing and they have not the necessary ambition. @
 The other big league teams that have won three pennants in succession only to fail in their fourth are:
 Chicago Nationals. won 1880 to 1882. Lost to Boston in 1883. Adrian Anson. manager.
 Bosto1f Nationals, won 1891 to- oi1893, Finished third in 1894. Frank Seles, manager.
 Baltimore Nationals. won 1894 to 1898. Lost to Boston in 1897. Ned Han1on, manager.
 Pittsburgh Nationals, won 1901 to 1903. Finished in fourth in 1904. Fred Clark. manager.
 Detroit Americans 1907 to 1909 Finished third in 1910. Hugh Jen- nings, manager.