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The Robesonian., 1917-07-16
LOST IN A SWAMP

Party From Greensboro Spent Night
In DownpOur of Rain-Finally
Abandoned Autos and Went Home
by Rail E.
The Greensboro News of the 18th
carried a story of thrilling expert
ence of party of Greensboro people
who left Whightsville Beach last
Monday in three autos. Thirty miles
out, pulling through the first creek,
the autos were submerged to the top
of their hoods and one went out Of
commission. After working for sew
eral hours they had to abandon that
machine and the party moved on in
search of shelter, for a stormy night
was approaching. They forded two
more creeks, plowed through several
miles of mud and water in dense
swamp which was dark and lighted
only by continuous flashes Of light
ming. Losing their way, following
first one road and then another,
blindly, they finally reached a river
and stopped by it's edge, at 10 at
night. A storm was raging-lightn-
ing and downpour of rain. The men
sought for shelter but found none.
Through the night the party huddled
in the cars. DaybreaK Tuesday found
the party surrounded by creeks in a
land they knew not; and they had
had nothing to eat since Monday
morning. Here a second car became
disabled and had to be abandoned.
Some of them travelling on foot, they
sought to escape, but soon found the
creeks swollen ond further nrnuros G
impossible with a car. So the entire
party, in which were women and
men, had to stumble along on foot.
By noon they got out Of the swamp
and finally reached very fine coun-
try home, where they were Hospitality
cared for. The next morning they
went to the nearest railroad station
and boarded a train for home.
The Robesonian., 1917-07-16
LUMBERTON ASTONISHED
BY MERCHANTS STORY

A merchant relates the following:
For years l could not sleep without
turning every hour. Whatever I ate
caused gas and sourness. Also had
stomach catarrh. ONE SPOONFUL
buskthon bark, glycerine, etc., as
mixed in Adler-i-ka relieved me IN
STANTLY." Because Adler-i-ka
flushes the ENTIRE alimentarv
track it relieves ANY CASE consti-
patton, sour stomach or gas and pre-
vents appendicitis. 1t has QUICK
Est action of anything we ever sold.
Grantham Bros, druggists.
The Robesonian., 1917-07-16
COMMENT ONvARIOUS MATTERS
Correspondence of The Robesonian.

Correspondence OF The RoDesonlan.
Red Springs, July 11-Mr.
Brooks speech before the bar
association at Asheville last week
was one of the best Of the kind that
we've ever read. He strikes at the
very foundations of the evils of the
present system of our courts. 1t is
not so much the evidence and law.
ais it is the technicaiities that sur
round the old hoary humbug, that
makes lawyers rich and the litigants
poor.
We congratulate Mr.. Mclean on his
promotion and our congratulations
would be more cordial if he hadn't
taken such an active interest in the
"rape of Blue Springs township"
when it was cut off from Robeson
thus depriving US from being the
largest county in the State. We
would like to say more along this
line, but the weather is too hot for
further discussion. (Robeson is still
the largest county in the State, if we
mistake not, in spite of the "rape of
Blue Springs. ."-Editor.)
Killing flies is the "order of the
day.. They seem to be worse than
usual this season, but maybe it's be-
cause we've forgotten how bad they
were last summer.
Mr.. Kaiser of Germany and Mr..
Burbanks of California are two men
foremost in the eyes Of the world to.
day by their deeds. One is destruc-
tive and the other construction. Their
rewards hereafter will be according
to their works here on earth.
We as nation are not taking very
much interest in the worlds war
and will not until some of our boys
are killed in the trenches, and ther
we will begin to take a deeper in
terest in European affairs.
\
Did you ever think what a fight
there is in the world for the privil.
ege of existence? Not only man, but
the lower creation, is continually or
the move in order to get living. Al
creation is on the move from morn
ing till night in order to exist. Thi:
is Gods law.
Opinions differ even among grea
men. Sherman thought war was hell
but the Kairer seems to look upon i
as pleasant pastime. He may change
his opinion before the end, but h
seems very steadfast Just now.
y X X
We hope our present educators arr
drilling their scholars better than wa.
done generation back. Whv VIZ
speak our language so imperfect,
is due to poor teaching in the past
We hope the three-teacher system
will better things.
SNYDER
The Robesonian., 1917-07-16

have an eight pound baby girl. know
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound saved me from an operation
which every woman breads. - Mrs.
NELLIE FIsHBACK, 1921 Christy Ave-,
Louisville, KY.
Everyone naturally breads the sur
geon's knife. Sometimes nothing else
will do, but many times Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has saved
the patient and made an operation un-
necessary.
Ifyou have any symptom about which
you would like to know, write to the
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn.
Mass, for helpful advice given free.
The Robesonian., 1917-07-16

You're Bilious! Your liver is slug
gish! You feel lazy, dizzy and all
Knocked out. Your head is dull, your
tongue is coated; breath bad; stomach
sour and bowels constipated. But
don't take salivating calomel. 1t
makes you sick, you may lose a days
work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver
which causes necrosis of the bones
Calomel crashes into sour bile like
dynamite, breaking it up. That's when
Won feel that awful nausea and cramp'
ing.
If you want to enjoy the
incest, gentlest liver and bow
ell cleansing you ever experienced just
take a spoonful of harmless Dodson's
Liver Tone tonight. Your druggist OF
dealer sells you so cent bottle Of
Dodson's Liver Tore under my per-
The Robesonian., 1917-07-16

est in farming has been increasino
in this neighborhood. Quite a mum.
Der of the farmers are raising regis.
tered cattle. Prof. T. E. Whitaker j.
making speciality of Holstein AMI
Prof. E. P. Holt of Jerseys.
Profs. E. P. Holt and D. l.. Man,.
have returned from a ten-dav tr;n
to New York. They were accomnan
led by Mrs. E. P. Holt and Miss Pear1
Benbow.
The Robesonian., 1917-07-16
Military instruction at Oak Ridge
Incfifnfn q

Pembroke, N. C.
The Robesonian., 1917-07-16

j. E. Efird Of Monroe, who assault
ed Prof. R. W. Allen, superintendent
of the graded school of that town
some days ago and cut him up badly,
submitted in the Monroe recorders
court Thursday to a charge of as
sault and battery with a deadly in
strument, was fined $3.50 and costs,
and agreed to make reparation by
paying Prof. Allen $500.
The Robesonian., 1917-07-16
hat, shirt, leggins, pants.

hat, shirt, leggins, pants.
This departure is in response to the
request of many parents for military
training for their sons. There will
be no extra charge for it.
The crops in this immediate sec
ton have never looked better. The
wheat and oat crops were harvested
without mishap. Vegetables are
growing in greatest abundance, and
the corn crop is the most promising
in years. For some years now inter
The Robesonian., 1917-07-16

paredness. Today as the war drums
throbs throughout the world the cry
is "Prepare". Then let US as par
ents, boys and girls, put forth every
possible effort in preparing for life,
and while the National army is be-
ing mobilized, may it be Christian
army as we'll.
The Robesonian., 1917-07-16

finished. The doc
tors said I would
have to be opera
ted on and / simply
brok e down. A
friend advised me
to try Lydia E.
Pinkham's V ege-
table Compound,
and the result is ]
feel like a new wom-
an. l am well and
strong, do all my
0wn h0,1co wNrk ond
The Robesonian., 1917-07-16

Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Oak Ridge, July 12-During the
coming year military instruction will
be offered at Oak Ridge Institute to
all students desiring it. To this end
a teacher who has had army train
ing has been employed. Military in
struction, however, will not be COM
pulsory. The only uniform required
will be the regulation khaki outfit,
The Robesonian., 1917-07-16
A FRIENDS
advice
Woman Saved From a Seri-
Gus Surgical Operation.

Louisville, Ky.-"For four years !
suffered from female troubles, head
aches, and nervousness. I could not
sleep, had no appetite and it hurt me to
walk. If I tried to do any work, /
would have to lie down before it was
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-07-13
SUGAR IS
WANTED IN HONGKONG

An increased demand for Philippine
raws in 1917 by the Hongkong refners
is predicted by United States Consul
General George f.. Anderson in a re-
cent report to the Department of Com
merce. The prediction is based on
the belief held by prominent Hong
kong sugar importers that the very lin
tied freight service now existing be
tween the Philippines and the United
States and Europe, as compared with
the fairly liberal supply of tonnage
available between the Islands and
China, will place Honglxong in the posi-
ton of being a neutral outlet for the
Philippine crop this year. S.
European Exports Large
For the first time in many years, the
report states, Hongkong's 1916 output
of refined sugar went principally to
Europe. This was due to two causes:
the urgent demand for sugar in Europe
and q light demand for refined in the
Chinese market. Exports by the
Hongk0ng refneries amounted 10 about
$4,000 tons of refined sugar, of which
50 per cent was Jayan sugar and the
rest Philippine Europe took about
$4,000 tons of the refined exports, the
United States 525 tons, and Chinese
ports and various small countries the
remainder. OF the raw sugar inn
ported and later exported from Hong
kong during 1916, about 30 per cent
went to Japanese factories, while the
rest went. to Chinese and European
ports direct, ri . .N# E +.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-07-13
CUBAN PROSPERITY TO !.
BRING NEW CENTRALS

Cuba's prosperity has resulted in ex-
tensive plans for new sugar mills, new
railways, and many other phases of en-
cheering activity, all Of which will
mean new orders for American con-
struction material and machinery, ac-.
cording to an official survey of the
situation recently completed by Special
Agent w. W. Ewing, of the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce, De-
partment of Commerce. -|s
A number of new sugar mills are pro-
jected for this season, and railway
construction and extension is being
planned on a large scale. The heavy
traffic movement of both sugar and
general merchandise win make neces-
sary O great development of the wharf
facilities, and the need for greater
warehouse space and other port i'm
.provements is apparent. ...n
Modern hotel buildings are already
being planned and sites acquired in or
der to meet the demands of the tourist
traffic. Many other indications of en-
cheering activity are to be seen in all
parts of the i1land. The United States
is in the best position to supply the ma.
terials needed for all such improve
ments. .... -. D..
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-07-13
BEET SUGAR CROP
| in EUROPE SHORT
BY MILLION TONS
WHlett & Gray Estimate That
YieTu VIII Barely Reach
3,724o00 Tons
.GERMANY'S BEET SoWINGS
FALL OFF CONSIDERABLY
Scarcity Of Labor and Supplies
and High Prices May Cut
Figures Further ...s

Europe's beet sugar crop this season
win be more than a million long tons
short Of last years small crop, accord
ing to carefully compiled estimates.
While the beet sugar crop in the I'm
tied States Is expected to increase by
100000 tons in the .next campaign to
a yield Of 100000 tons according to
conservative experts, war.torn Europe
win be able to produce little more than
3,724,00 long tons Of sugar from her
best beet acreage as against produc-
tion Of 4,764, 449 long tons in the 1916
IL season. The German beet sowings
show considerable falling of.
Data Is Meager *. "... ..
Information regarding the extent of
the sowings in Europe is meager, but
Willett & Gray, ON the data obtainable,
make the following estimate of the
1917.1S European beet sugar crop, com.
pared with the latest figures on the last
crOD: @. 49, A.t.,. =. .,r .-F. hf p. O..
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-07-13
ADULTERATED SUGAR
FIFTY CENTS POUND
fBy The Associated Press)

ROME, June 19-Sugar mixed with
saccharine is now sold here at so cents
pound. The government previously
fixed the price for ordinary graduated
sugar at 25 cents pound, but, owing
TO the small stock in Italy, saccharine
has been added and the price raised.
It is stated that the new grade of
sugar il three times as sweet as the
old one. Even at the new price, sugar
is very difficult TO obtain in more than
5-ccnt package lots the grocery stores
selling 1t only TO regular customers or
TO persons buying pound packages of
coffee. The government issued a de-
cree providing for food cards, allotting
so much food Per day to each person,
hut it is doubtful If the food card sys'
TEN win be ready before the end of
the war. -.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-07-13
CORN GROWN ON MAUI (
-. BREAKS LOCAL PRICE

The shipment of Maui grown nroluce
promised by J. j. Walsh of Kahului,
who is acting for the food commission,
arrived here Yesterday. IL consisted of
forty bags of shelled hull corn. weigh
ing about two tons, and thirty bags of
Irish potatoes, weighing about ton
and q half. The corn was sold before
II arrived, the Union Feed Company
taking the entire shipment. ..N4
The potatoes have been placed on
sac at the Territorial Marketing Divi,
sion, and at present are retailing at
four cents a pound, for small lots, or
$50 a bag Of hundred pounds. These
are the famous MakaO vaFiety, the best
that has ever come from the Valley
Isle, On the same market is a quantity
Of Irish potatoes from Hamakua, Hn,
waii, selling for slightly more than the
Maui spuds. They are said to be, no
better in eating quality, but a shade
larger in size.
incidentally, it IL developing that
there are plenty OC island potatoes on
the Honolulu market now, and that
spud prices are rerCting from the high
water mark Of 81 80 Wholesale which
they reached two weeks ago. 1t is re-.
ported that one big Wholesale firm has
announced its intention to import no
more tnbers from the Coast, because
Indications are that it can get all the
island grown potatoes 1t will need, and
that these will be equal in quality to
the imported article
The drop in price il asoribed 20 the
new crop, which ~ coming on the mar
ket throughout the States. The Gov
ernment' : recent estimate of bumper
potato crop seems 10 be Undertaking.
Nov with an absolutely clear con
science Honolulu people can insist up
on island Irown potatoes and feel sure
they are gU.ng to got them.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-07-13
HARVEST OF CUBAN
CROP PROGRESSES
AT RAPID PACE

Much more favorable conditions of
grinding, shipping and probable total
production are reported from Cuba by
Willett q Gray under date of June 2S.
Statistics OF the crop are given as fol-
lows by this Journal: rts o.. ..
Figures for the entire island for the
week are; Receipts "a ,Sg5 tons, exports
54,974 tons total, Of which 1896 tons
are destined TO United States Atlantic
ports, 1870 tons to New Orleans and
2s,26s tons to Europe; stock 723,942
tons. & " +.
During the week fifteen eentrals fin.
ished the crop, Of which ten were In
the western portion Of the island and
five in the eastern part. These fac
tories made . crop Of 1.2l4,156 bags,
against Guma- Meiar 3 December IL,
1916, estimate Of l,2O4, 900 bags, which
estimate was for about q 1900, 000tons
crop. 49,. T. .
"The weekly production continues to
exceed that Of corresponding weeks of
the two preceding years, this year grad
ually catching up on last year. ~,
"Total estimated visible production
to date is 2,714, $50 tons, against 2,S29,-
700 tons TO corresponding date last year,
and 2,316,713 tons in 1915. .. g.. v.
''The estimated balance of supply
from Cuba is 1,0O9, 4O6 tons and exceeds
that Of the two previous years at this
time. ~ 80 SO
General rains have fallen during the
week. We estimate that twenty -four
centrals are grinding, compared with
seventeen last year and twenty in
1915" ,;.E i
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-07-13
BINGHAM STILL
climbs UPWARD
Copper Stock Scores Another
Eight Cent Advance;
Sugars Neglected

Montana bingham, which has now
stepped into the war baby class on Ho-
nolulu's "wall Street." lived up TO
its recently established reputation
again yesterday and advanced eight
cents more to 60 cents. II held the
center of interest on the local stock OK!
change TO the exclusion Of other mining
stocks and even sugar securities,
though the latter continued quiet and
inclined 70 shade off in the face of fur
ther advances Of the price for raws in
the New York market. The quotation
is Gao cents. - .F,@
Transactions in Bingham reached an
even higher total yesterday than or
previous days Of heavy trading. More
than $4,000 shares changed hands up.
until noon and the sales after noon
reached high figure as the price adj
vnnced to 6S and then to 60 cents how
ering between these two figures Mt the
close Of the LAY. ......sa
Few fluctuations marked the course
of Bingham s price since Wednesdays
session closed, the quotation advancing
steadily at 81, go, g.. 50 and "a cents
TO the close of yesterdays session and
continuing the pace in the afternoon
10 90 and 60 cents. ...s.j. @
MADEIRA also continued in active de-
mand maintaining its position at 33
during the morning and selling strong
at "a cents in the afternoon on Il bGy-
ing movement. .fG.
Mineral Products regained TO 30
cents; Mountain King slipped back to
80 cents; Engels Copper showed fur
ther strength on an advance of quar-
ter to 6.25 and Honolulu Oil droppad
of FIVE cents to 4.20. The unliste
market was active throughout and
sales 90 the close OF the session totalled
more than 10000 shares. .. -.
Sales Of sugar securities tOtalled 6l2
shares of which 1876 were at the session.
Ewa declined an eighth to SO Is after
selling at 1914. Olaa was without
change at 1874; McBryde at 10 3-S and
Waialua at 81 Pahang Rubber AL
vanced an eighth on n small sale at
10 5-S. ., s-. ''. '..''.
In San Francisco, the quotation OIL
Honokaa continued weak, dropping
from So to s according to Associated
Press advices. Hawaiian Commercial
declined fve-eighths to AN and Ha-
waiian sugar dropped n quarter to
36Ja. Other quotations were I'M
changed. tH.... wv. 49,.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-07-13
DRAWBACK REPEAL IS
SCHEDULED IOPASS

An effort was made in the senate
committee on finance on June 81 to
reopen the question of repeating the
sugar drawback provision Of the pres.
ent tariff law but it did not succeed,
according 20 advices to Willett & Gray
from Washington of that date on the
war revenue bill. II is thought that
another spch effort will not be made.
This was the only instance in which
tho committees proceeding touched on
sugar, either directly or indirectly dur
ing the week
As the revenue bill now stands it
will carry q flat excise tax of half
a cent pound on sugar and tax on
molasses above forty degrees and will
provide for the repeal Of the general
drawback tariff provisions of the ex-
listing tariff but will not contain the
general tariff change contemplated by
the house bill. ....7r
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-07-13
Total Europe 3,724,0O0

IOtal EuTope D. Gf,UVu fJiOfJ4fo
Despite the fact that in many in
stances higher prices are being fixed
for beets in an effort to increase pro-
duction, says this journal, the estimates
in several cases may be too high owing
to the increasing effect on the indus
try of the scarcity Of labor, cattle,
farming implements and fertilizer, the
high cost Of fuel and other factory re-
quiTements, together with the difficulty
of transportation.
Germany Far Short
Germany's sugar beet sOwings in
1917 are estimated to be $4,000 hec-
tares below the average of the five
years previous to the war and $4,000
hectares below the l9l4 sowings.
The average sOwings of Germany
in the FIVE years before the war were
504 900 hectares. In 1914 the sowings
were $4,000 hectares; in 1915 they
were 1874, 900 hectares and in 1916 they
were 100000 hectares. The prelimin-
airy estimate of the 1917 sOwings Is
33l 900 hectares.
France and Italy
Favorable conditions prevailed in
France during June for the beet crop,
the sowings of which are not yet I'm
ished. No information is available as
to the extent of these sowings.
The yield Of sugar beets in Italy for
1916 was l52, s52 short tons less than
1915 and 376,553 tons less than the
seven year average Of l,SG2,3S tons
according to the Statistiea Agraria.
The small crop was due in measure to
the shortage of seed. All the seed
used before the war came from the
Central Empires. The Italian govern
ment has arranged with the Russian
government for the importation of con
siderable seed from Russia for this
years crop, The 1916 beet yield was
l,4S5, 1927 tons against l,638,679 in 1915.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-07-13
MAuRITIUS CROP EXPECTED
TO 0UTTURN 100000 TONS

An increase ia the outturn of the
new 19l7-l0ls crop of Mauritius of
nearly 10000 tons is reported to Viii,
lett u Gray. The crop is estimated at
100000 tons while the last two crops
were 2os,ooO and 215,52S tons respee.
lively, both considerably damaged by
cyelLAGs
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-07-13
SUGAR MARKET IS
FIRM AND Strong
Cuban Holders Are Not Free Sell
crs and Price Makes
Steady Advance

The New York sugar market cor
tinued firm for the week ending June
% according to the report of WilIett
4 Gray and closed strong. The report
follows:
THE market clored last weei steady
at 5.96 cents, but there were quite large
offerings from Cuba at COZ cents for
practically any position. This tad a
tendency to cause n ouieter mark Il,
and II looked at one time as if the lis
position Of Cuban holders to sell free
~ at COG cents would tend to check
any advance above that figure. -
However, the market retained firm.
ness and Cuba, instead of being free
sellers, as was expected, at 6.O2 se7,ts,
when reflners were willing 20 Iay this
price, withdrew a large part Of the
offerings, and refiners were abe - Sc
cure only 10000 bags at 6J2. Z.
There was a difference of o2,nion
regarding the quantity sold and some
Of the trade estimated the sales at
100000 bags. &...
Tuesday, encouraged by the adj
vance in options, operators wer5 rble
to advance their limits to COS cents,
and n moderate business was done ut
this price. As sugars at this figure
were soon exhausted, furtheU advance
was paid and operators and refiners
bought Cuba sugar for prompt and July
shipment at 6.145 cents. A.,
e Wednesday further strength de-!
yeloped owing to larger increased re,
fined demand, and sales were made to
refners and operators Mt 6.27 cents.
1.-THE market closed the week strong
and sales were reported TO refners at
6.33 cents and later Mt $40 cents. II
"Porto Rico sugars sold to a fair
extent at better prices, last sales being
at COZ cents with sellers asking 6.27
cents.n T.. -. i
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-07-13
JAVA CROP IS REPORTED h.. T.:
: IN EXCELLENT CONDITION

AdVices on the Java crop are excel.
lent reports Willett & Gray and due 10
these encouraging reports some parties
are inclined to look for crop of J.,
800 600 tons. Many more factories are
working than at this time last year and
the yield is high Figures from Bata-
via show that Java shipped out 1887.
40 tons of sugar in the twelve months
ending March 81 of which more than
$4,000 tons went to Europe. g..