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The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-01-01
'CANlL RATES ARE
~, SIX bits n TON
This Is What II Works Out At
On Freight - Waterway
Business Growing

The cost Of the passage Of each ton
Of cargo through the Panama Canal is
practically working out at seyenty. i've
cents. This il the calculation made
from the returns Gof the FIRST three
months Of commercial operation from
August Is TO November !, during which
period the cargo transported through
the canal amounted to l,07g,52 tons.
The toll charge of SR20 is levied on
each net ton, canal measurement, on
loaded vessels, this register bei,fg con.
slant; The quality OF cargo that may
be- slowed on a ship Is variable and as
on the average the dead weight cargo
capacity OF the ships passing through
the canal has been largely in excess
Of the net register the burden 81 the
toll has been eorrespohdingly reduced
on the ships operation. Steamship
owners, say that the toll has Leen read.
Dy absorbed aud that no Complaints
have been raised on that score. the re.
duetiQp in the rates Effected BY the wa
Ter route being mantle tly 80 advan.
tageops as compared with the previous
rates. = .% ~ Is
The Panama Railroad carried across
the lsthmus, says the Canal Record,p,
turing the fiscal year ending June 30,
'9l4, Bf3,l7s tons of through freight
t2tweeh, the two seabOatdI and in the
seeding fiscal year 594, 400 tons. From
tHia II Is seen that between. six and
seven times as much cargo IS passing
over the lsthmns now as passed over
this route when goods were transship-
ped by rail The trafie through the
canal In the first quarter year OF its
operation has been equal to about IS
Ter cent Of the through traffic over the
Islhmrs during the preceding two years.
A Zig Saving 8 ~
contrasted With the average cost of
seyeHty.fye cents a ton under the pres
ent toll Il may be mentioned thar the
revenue Of the Panoma Railroad from
each ton Of through ffeight during the
fiscal Years 1913 and 1914 was 5000.
Each through freight train carried an
average OF 353.2l tons Of cargo m the
lscal year 1918, and an average Of
1927 tons in the following year. The
average amount of cargo carried on
the laden vessels asfing through the
canal Gin which the twenty.seve YES
sells which have made the transit in
ballast, or are, by nature. not cargo
carriers, are not eonnted) has been $685.
tons. ~ N -
Y The traffic ,eastbound through the
canal, or from the Pacific to the At.
lantie, and that west r6pnd, or from the
Atlantis, to the Pacific, lard summarized
below: TX ~ ~.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-01-01
.QlINlEusluIGt
BETTER THAN EVER

James campsie, manager Of the Olo.
waii Company, which commenced
grinding December "a, has reported to
the agents, 9. Blower & Company. that
the juices are better than they were At
this time 4 year ago Sugar Yields per
acre will be very satisfactory this wear
according 70 present indications,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-01-01
ITALY MISUNDERSTANDING
IRlFFG IN CQNIRl8lhD

ASSOCIATED Press BY Federal wireisssl
ROME, December so.-The police
have located agents CT tie German
governments who have been buying up
certain classes Of goods Of which the
expectation Is forbidden by the govern
ment. The German agents have been
warned against any further attempts
to eyade the italian laws,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-01-01
Helping the Homo prodncer

. Taking into account only the direct
saving, however. the growth Of our
sugar pfpplv from our own soil would
mean t$100O0Q000 a year less sent
abroad to be expended for the benefit
Of foreign labor and foreign enterprise.
I 1t would mean $ln0000.000 wear
more spent at home distributed to farm
and factory labor, TO farmers, to trans,
PCrtatipn lines. to the purveyors Of all
sorts Of supplies, implements and ma,
ehinery used ip growing and working
mp the sugar crop, and so. penetrating
in a thohsand different diyectiops
throueh the various channels o. Ameri.
can industry, giving employment TO
American citizens and adding to IA
tional prosperity. AZ 81 PR
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-01-01
Total 400 sci $50 llo 457 ,gal

Z C lHVIHI. sTuA OlI1VoU IIV FDI1DHT
Over pinety,fvc per cent Of the traf
DC may be grouped under these four
routes: The United States eoastwise
trade, the traffic between. the Pacific
Coast Of the United States and Europe,
the, trade Of the west coast Of South
America with the Atlantic seab0ard OF
the United States aud Europe, and traf-
&c from, the "A tlantie Coast OF the Uni
ted States with the Far East.
Z The tra1ic over the several routes
may be summarized as follows:
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-01-01

The bearing of this phase Of the sub.
teet u shown graphically by the accom-.
panying illustration, The shaded part
of the circle represents the portion OF
the annual sngpr supply of the Ameri,
can people that Is purchased from for,
eiRn countries; the white part reprss
sents the pOrtionsgrown at home.
Iaig Rifl fpaid r,olaiovara q ~ "a
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-01-01

If the domestic sugar industry were
wiped out BY inimieai Legislation the
only serious danger that threatens it,
the amount sent to foreign countries to
paw for sugar would rise nearly to
5000 100000 q year, Increasing our in,
favorable trade balance in foodstuifs to
almost $2S0,0Q0.0o0.
If, on the other hand, tho industry
Iof sugar production IN the United States
were to be encouraged and allowed to
develop to the point where all the sugar
required by the American peonle was
grown from American soil. this I'M;
favorable tr.fs balance would be re,
,ireed 70 sNoe 1000. II would, in fact,
probably be wiped out altbeether. be-
cause sugar beet cultivation, from
which q laree part Of this ipcgessed SUI
gar production would come, woufd have
the effect Of greatly inereasing the
yield of other crops grown in rotation
with sugar beets, aud. undoubtedly
would add more than $4,000 900 a wear
10 the value Of orr agricultural produe-
ton. II = q a &
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-01-01
Big BillfPaid Fofeigners

Az itstaads tb.lay, little less than
'pne-balf, Of all ogB sugar Is home grown
$3.50 per cent was the exact figure in
1913, according to. the statistical alb
stract bf the United States. For the
amount which ~ imported we pay ia
the people Of other countries ovei
$100,O00,00Q q year
z For the year 1914 the amount viii be
much greater than this. owing to the
temporary period Of high prices caused
by the European war. The sum Of
100000, 900 may be taken, however, az
an easily remembered round figure Of
the amount Of money sent out Of the
United States Annually, in normal times
70 pay for foreign grown sugar.
At the present time the balance OF
trade against the United States in food
stuffs alone Is ropndly $I50,000, 900,
Practically two-thirds Of this represents
onr purchases sof the single commodity
of sugar. Il \.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-01-01
SUGAR Prodactie 4 in Formosa
Cane Planted
FIN Long Tons.
. Sugar Trade In Japan (E tcept Korea and Formosal

Formosa for 1914 10 is 10000 long tons, those in
at $4,000 tons; thus total crop in Japan
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26

tend to create-a spirit OF rivalry in the -.-
OF progressive things among the people ~ :.
counties in which there are fairs held
But the State Fair should be tho A
house for all the agricultural and manDf
enterprises Of the State. The value OF II,
Using in a county fair is increased W.,
ten fold when there are exhibits at -
Fair which show wha, is going on in the
counties. A greater circle OF people Is 4 II
in State fair at which assemble people fro
sections and from beyond the State ar5 .Ao.
counties which send high class exhibits , r.
State Fair going to get returns.
We hope to see the day at a State ia
there will be exhibits from each Of the o-
dred counties Of the State. In each ,.
there things which should be broueht +. Ia
attention Of people and the .
world. For the next State Fair the 1a.r
ment should increase the efforts mad,
hibts from the counties. The develup..... ;
this program will help the counues rr, ~..
Fair, and the State.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26
THAT WE GO FORWARD.

There were many things for the thoushttul
consideration Of the people of North Carolina IN
the address Of Governor Locke Craig in the
opening of the State Fair. He has been for
years student Of affairs Of the State and IN his
address he urged upon the people number Oh
matters which If adopted would tend to mate
rial growth and the increase Of wealth.
Notable among these things what he had
to say about grasses and cattle. There Is IN
North Carolina a vast opportunity offered in
the way of raising cattle and in those parts
of the State where there has been given atten-
tion to this industry the returns have been such
as to show that it is profitable field Of enter
prise.
There is always a market for cattle, and with
attention it will be found that the prices are
such as to make cattle raising a business which
will pay. The conditions of soil and climate in
North Carolina such that there can be raised
with ease grasses for the feeding of cattle. and
with this matter which be we'll handled
there is why this State should not be-
come one noted for its output Of cattle.
AS matters now stand we are not raising in
North Carolina enough meat for our own use.
Our smoke houses in the far West this
making condition which is not healthy for the
progress along material lines. We send money
great sums of it-outside the State, and in many
years raise cotton and tobacco which
sold for low prices while pay big money
for the shipment Of meats to We should
raise cattle for home and for export.
The agricultural organizations of the State
are in the best position to urge upon the farmers
the value Of raising beef cattle. They will be
doing a good part by the people Of the State if
they adopt program which will increase the
raising of cattle in this State. And in doing
this they should make it plain to the farmers
that the best stock is the kind in which to invest.
There is a movement in the State to put within
easy terms for the farmers the raising of high
grade cattle and have the hope that the
value Of the program for this will be recognized
and that North Carolina will become of the
leading cattle raising States
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26
HERE'S \ SUGGESTION

The rain during the past week is not H. ,,r
season Of rain against which the State Fat- j.,
the years has had to go up against. Aad vhe7
there is not rain the people who walk Tho f.,s
grounds have found that they had TO bat,l, vf-h
an immense amount of dust.
It would be impractcable to provide >hfl.er
ways for all parts Of the fair grounds ana even
if this were done there would still remain tha
dust with which to contend. Our suggestion is
that there be constructed in all parts o The
fair grounds where the people are to wall r.+3
ways Of bitulithc.
Granolithic walks would not be necessary lor
the State Fair grounds, and our experience Is
that walking on bitulithic roadway* is far more
agreeable than on the granolithic Besides This
it will be found necessary to the valbUays
at the fair for vehicles and bitulithic + 3c,ter
for these.
We believe that with Walkways which wI! tl3
the fair grounds Of mud and dust that the people
will come in greater numbers in times of rain
and in times Of drouth. The expense VIII nor be
great and we submit for the careful considera
ton Of the executive committee Of the State
Fair the necessity for a system Of walkw4ys On
the approaches to the fair grounds and On thc
grounds Such system would pay handsomely.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26
PELLAGRA AND RATTONS.

1t used to be said that old remedies are the
best and also the cheapest. But that does not
seem certain What prompts this re-
mark is the fact that the Public Health Service
he's repeated it's announcement made some
months ago that the way to stave Off pellagra is
to eat eggs and meat, milk and butter instead
OF so much corn bread. grits and molasses.
Eggs and meat, milk and butter. Think Of
it! Remedies. preventives at any rate, are GER
tainly not cheaper matter how much more
eticacious they
Nevertheless have profound faith in the
conclusions Of the Public Health Service in this
matter and We believe that the information
should be spread widely possible for the
good Of those who have pellasra or who are in
danger Of contracting developing it,
IT is the most natural thing in the world for
what person eats to have much to do with
bis health and, if with his health with his dis
eases Repeated errors Of diet necessarily will
have q harmful effect and if persisted in long
enough will bring on death itself The average
person seems to proceed the principle that SO
long food is ''ilng," there is no need to
look any further for something more suitable or
nourishng. But the fact is that what a
person ought to eat is really of some
compeXity, depending often on personal pecu-
liarities. ones calling and other conditions
Time and thought foresight and self sacrifice
in connection with ones diet, we'll worth
while. They a more comfortable existence
and the Warding off OF disease. And the fact
that the new idea about fighting pelagra calls
for a costlier diet that men can we'll
afford to cut down other expenses and pro-
vide their families with wholesome nourishins,
food, giving actual thought and study TO the
problem OF arriving at the balanced ration
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26
ALL FOR $1.7O

There lAas never been offered In North Caro-
lima SO much good reading for little money as
Wc are Offering under the following proposition:
Tor $40 will send the following for one
ysAr:
The Weekly News and Observer, an eight
rnsc weekly newspaper.
The COmmOnCr, able monthly journal,
Published by William Jennings Bryan.
The Farmer and Mechanic, sixteen page
Nerth Carolina home and farm weekly journal.
Thus for One Dollar and Seventy Cents you
can get all these papers one year.
v. c. MOORE, Manager.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26
COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT

In the State Fair which featured the past week
the great exhibit from Durham impressed itself
upon all visitors, and the advertising which was
received by the city and county Of Durham was
such as 10 indicate that there will be valuable
returns.
We believe thoroughly in county fairs We
feel that 1t would be splendid thing for North
Carolina if there fair in every county
every year, for county fairs are things which
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26

a peach is the way that the State Fair
Marshals Bah was designated by an observant
onlooker lie might well have said peaches"
AS he saZed upon the array Of beauteous Young
North Carolina women.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26

The man who put the par in Parrish will now
have TO admit that it should be above par by
reason of the administration Of the State Fair
of 1915 by Captain E. j. Parrish, of Durham.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26

The Durham Sun editorializes OF tAe .'''
OF why is Water Tasteess?" ?" The ,n7Ee =
the question should be given by the MAJ r -
tastes it.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26

The California Board Of Education is going to
start 'em in young for preparedness. 1t is going
To provide military training as q part Of the
regular high school course.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26
NJ Morning I onic
(PSalms Xci: l5.)

(PSalmS Xci: 15.)
1E SHALL call upon me, and will answer
- u him will be with him in trouble; will
deliver him, and honor him.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26

The Kinston Daily News has just pes.
first birthday anniversary and send '
congratulations it's growth. 1t IS a h-''5
youngster and seems in the finest sort o1 i .--"t
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26

Mexico is to have another holiday on Ut
endar. October 19-Ihe day Of the recos tio
Of the CarFanza government by the t
States-has been designated by Genera ~.
rama as Mexican Inde pendence Day.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26

Speaking OF holidays North Carolipa has a
Eew one, presented by the last General Assem-
bly,. 1t is Arbor Day and it comes on the fifth
of November.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26

Speaking of Thanksgiving, feel certain
that Americans will give it to turkey in the
neck.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26

The Republicans are now trying to settle upon
batter up for the Presidential nomination
And in 1916 their choice will be all battered up
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26

New Jersey Has Spoken--Eeadline. But
New Jersey must remember that the women
always have the last word
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26

TO lead the procession We make the assertion
boldly that it is not the brides who put the
No in November.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26

We might S we'll be resigned to fat.
mer Ambassador Dumba says he will ~
statement. Perhaps he proposes 70 ta
dumb
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26
JOHN SPRUNT HILL DECLINES.

It will be with deep regret that the members
Of the North Carolina Agricultural Society. and
all who interested in the State Fair learn
that Mr.. John Sprunt Hill, Of Durham, iahes
the position that he cannot become the pl4si-
dent Of the society," to which place he was oleo''i
Thursday night.
Mr.. Hills declnation is based upon ne mali
ter Of time which he finds at his disposal ~
statement being that his purpose is 20 u..o'@
himself to the question of rural credits, -l1-
ject in which he is greatly interested. Ite Va'
a member of the American commission Hcn
toured Europe making personal investigation
OF the working of the rural credits s}stei" ~
that country.
Mr. Hill would have made able pte-.e'-t
for the State Fair organization, and tI4eIe -eas
hope that he would accept. Because Of ms '.@o'
lination of the position there Will OF necessity
come the selection of anothre man, and " f'e'
assured that there will be man chosen N-'
will measure up to the duties and becofHt Z
force in the developing Of the State throoE0 'he
North Carolina Agricultural Society.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26

Mr. North Carolina Farmer: BE ce11ai 't-"'
you have hog and hominy'' part "l '0'
next year program and you are certain A.' 80
miss it, no matter what the price q ''' 'i
may be.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26

The State Fair has gone, but Raleigh is to
have circus this week.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26

Count en1. It's just sixty-two days to Christ
mas So do your Christmas shopping early.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26
Nmcl@ Xait'4 Na4
BY W. frank Booker. Of Apex, N. G. T.

XXY HO GAVE you the right to srumble about
Wv the things that go "dead wrong: Who
gave you the sour look if the road seems bit
weary and long? Who gave you consent
forever knock what others inclined to
praise: Have You stopped to think that you
gave yourself these un-
GRUMBIANG HABIT. admiring ways? That
it's all a habit fostered
BY your grOuci,y disposition while to sweeten the
bitter of life is really your true mission: Then
look for the good in things and leave the flaws
alone, for the imperfcctions you see in others,
doubtless all your own! If all folk saw our
errlng ways, nor ever praised good, what
discord here below would reign in the worlds
vast brotherhood:
But Villa declines to recognize CarranZa.
-
Hope Next year and another State Fair.
Il can't Serbia even for Cyprus is the answer
of Greece TO Englands call for help
Count 'en1. It's just sixty-two days to Christ
mas. So do your Christmas shopping early.
The State Fair has gone, but Raleigh is to
have circus this week.
The Republicans are trying to settle upon
batter up for the Presidential nomination.
And in 1916 their choice will be all battered up.
New Jersey Has Spoken--Eeadline But
New Jersey must remember that the women
always have the last word.
=----------
Speaking Of Thanksgiving we feel certain
that Americans will give it to turkey in the
neck.
TO lead the procession make the assertion
boldly that it is not the brides who put the
NO" in November
Speaking OF holidays North Carolina has q
Gew one, presented by the last General Assem-
bly,. 1t is Arbor Day and it comes on the fifth
of November
have TO admit that it should be above par by
reason of the administration Of the State Fair
or 1915 by Captain E. j. Parrish, of Durham
Ihe California Board Of Education is going TO
start EN- in young for preparedness 1t is going
To provide military training as q part Of the
regular high school course
"A peach is the way that the State Fair
Marshals' Bali designated by an observant
onloOker. lie might well have said peaches -
as he gazed upon the array Of beauteous young
North Carolina women.
The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26

Il can't Serbia even for Cyprus" is the answe,
of Greece TO Englands call for help.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-02-20
SOLD RELICS OF WASHINGTON
Two Authenticated Pistols and a Med
icine Chest of His Auctioned
In New York.

Two pistols which George Washing
ton carried through the Revolution, q
medicine chest which belonged to him
and Light Horse Harry" Lees FLAG
were sold at auction at New York dur.
ing the past year. There are no
Washington pistols in Mount Vernon
or in the National museum at Wash
ington,
The genuineness Oh the offerings
was attested by a documentary rec
ord of their sale in 1904, in Alexandria,
Va, at the disposal of the effects of
Washington's secretary, Bartholomew
cambridge, to whom the general pre-
scented the weapons. Their presence
in 1898 at the partition of the Marstel-
Ter estate is attested Col Philip G..
Marsteller, one of Washingtons pail
bearers, bought them at the cambridge
sale for G6:3s.
The pistols are of the fiintlock type.
They were made by Hawkins of Lon
don and bear the gunmsker's guild
proof mark &C. p" Silver hands across
the butts are engraved General
George Washington
The medicine chest is of mahogany
and walnut, about one foot square,
with brass handles Lees flag is about
two feet square, 1t had fallen apart
from age, but the pieces were saved
and are held in place by thin netting.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-02-20

in fact almost annihilating, the militia
under the brothers James and George
Clinton.
George Clinton, gathering the rem
nant of his defeated troops, estab
lished his quarters at this old Falls
house. TO this house, on October TO-
was brought British prisoner upon
whose person was found a message
from the British Clinton to Burgoyne
which, If it had been safely delivered,
might and doubtless would have had
the effect to have delayed Burgoyne's
surrender at Saratoga, giving time for
a conjunction of the two British
armies. In fact, similar message was
delivered about a week later Bur-
goyne, with suddenly revived hope,
hesitated, delayed, endeavored to pro-
crastinate negotiations.
"But happily it was then too late;
Burgoyne was compelled to surrender;
Saratoga saw the high tide of British
dominion.
THE suffering of the troops that
winter was most deplorable. 1t prob
ably was somewhat worse at Valley
Forge (for those very words have be-
come synonymous with patriotic
wretchedness), but then the army,
elated by the victory of Saratoga,
was buoyed up by hope of action.
"Of the mutinous spirit there Mai.
John Armstrong, aide-de-camp on the
staff of General Gates, was the mouth
piece. In letter-calmly considered
now, after the lapse of more than
century not unworthy of the occasion
and very masterpiece of influencing
literature-he portrays the condition
OF the army, their hopelessness and
the supineness of the continental con-
gress. His stirring words must, |
think, be recalled by many
You remember (having reviewed
the wrongs and the just complaints of
the army with what burst of right
eous indignation Armstrong ends his
forceful address:
Can you consent to wade through
the vile mire OF dependency and owe
the miserable remnant of that life to
charity which has hitherto been spent
In honor? If you can, go and carry
with you the jest of Tories and the
scorn OF Wings; the ridicule and, what
is worse, the pity of the world! Go
starve and be forgotten!
THE mutiny was quelled, harmony
restored, equity established in the tenn
pie; the letter OF Armstrong was
penned at the Falls house RACED to
make way for the march of progress"