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YUMA SOUTHWEST VOLUME XLV. No. 35. Yuma, Arizona, Thursday, August 19, 1915. GALVESTO OF AWFUL HUIB10ANE GALVESTON, Aug. 17 (Telephone to Houston) At eight o'clock last night the barometer registered twenty-nine and was still falling. The ind was blowing G5 miles an hour. There were about three feet of water in the streets near the bay. No very, great damage of property occurred and no loss of life was reported. The Galveston sea wall withstood the fury of the storm with no signs of weakening. DALLAS, Aug. 17. The wires to Galveston went down at 6:30 last night. The storm threatened also to cut wire communication with Beau mont and several other Texas coast towns. Galveston's isolation after an .afternoon of anxiety on the part of the rest- of the state served only to intensify the suspense. M il I THE RURAL HOME LIFE SUGGESTIONS FOR THE RURAL .TEACHER .TO AID IN MAKING THE. PUPIL SEE THE RELATIONSHIP. IT ALL S BERLIN, Aug. 1.7. The measures against the presence of possible spies in' Germany are becoming sharper. An appeal was issued yesterday to travelers to help guard tunnels and bridges by giving careful attention to the actions of all their fellow-passengers. . 0 HOI WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 17. New Hampshire and Louisiana, now Secretary Daniels has ordered the in the Gulf of Mexico, to Vera Cruz. This is the first acknowledgement at the navy department that American ships had been ordered to Mexican waters. Miss Pearl Jennism, of Oakland, Cal., will be the Latin teacher of the high school next year. She is a grad uate of Ottawa College of Kansas, and is now attending summer school at Chicago. The county tax rate is fixed at $1,307? .Last-year- it-was-89 "cents. (Special to the Yuma Daily Examiner) WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 16. A number of sug gestions to help the rural public school teacher in lead ing his or her pupils to see the direct relation between home life and their school 'studies are contained in a jn$w publication of the De partment of Agriculture. This bulletin, No. 281, eng tit Jed "Correlating Agriculture With the Public School Sub jects in the Northern States" contains a plan of work ex tending from September through the fall, winter and spring to the end of June. Under this plan each pupil is encouraged to undertake some home project; that is to say, some work at home that, will extend through a whole season, .will be connected with the instruction in agri culture which the pupil re ceives at school, and a record of the results which will be faithfully kept and turned in to the teacher at the conclu sion of the project. At school the pupils' exercises in arith metic, spelling, English, geo graohy, etc., are so directed that the value of these sub jects in practical life is made clear. For example, in the language lessons, the pupil may be asked to write out the method which he used in testing milk with a Babcock tester, special emphasis be ing placed upon the need for making the meaning abso lutely clear. In the same way the records obtained from cow testing may be used as exercises in arithmetic and the pupil asked to compute the total yield of butter fat, its money value, and the esti mated profit from any given dairy herd. In the supplement of the bulletin is contained a num ber of sample score cards de signed to assist the teacher in rating agricultural exhi bits which the pupils should be encouraged to make. The new bulletin is designed es pecially for rural school teachers in the northern states. AMERICAN DOLLAR RULES THE WORLD NEW YORK, Aug. 17. The Ameri can dollar ruled the financial world today with an iron grip. Img, francs, hres. and virtually all foreign exchange went down to new depths in th etorrent of bills that poured into the exchange makrets from American manufacture- -seeking pay for big war contracts for mu nitions an dother supplies purchased here by the warring nations ot Europe. - Coincident with the startling de fine in exchange rates came the as sertion from an unimpeachable source that every contract made with Ameri can manufacturers for sunnlies snl. aboard called for payment in Ameri can dollars and not in English pound sterling, which heretofore has been the standard of finance the wjrld over. x GARRAHZA UK US "HANDS OFF OF MEXIQO" WASHINGTON, I). C, Aug. 17. Carranza's representatives in Wash ington expect him to send unyielding response to the Pan-American appeal addressed to the military and civil leaders in Mexico. They think he will adhere to the position he took at the time of the Niagara Falls mediation conference last summer, that Mexican intervention by other nations would be unwelcome to the Mexican people. The replies to the appeal will not be made public until the Latin-American diplomats have another conference with Secretary Lansing. According to some of his friends, Carranza in his reply will assert that peace has already been established throughout much of Mexico by his ar mies; that the government of which he is the head is constitutional and in full control of the territory, and upon transferring his capital- from Vera Cruz to Mexico City within a few weeks he will agree to confer with alb revolting factions. VILLA'S TBQOPa AI HOGALES DEFEATED NOGALES, Axis. 17. Governor Maytorena, the Villa defense com mander at Nogales, Sonora, narrowly, escaped capture by General Calles in a battle at Lomas Junction, four miles KnnfVi nf ham in .nrViinh v. it:ii ouna bter- j lroops were overwhelmingly defeated. The fighting is expected to be renew ed inthe morning. Calles reiterated, his intention of attacking Nogales. After .an attack lasting all day, Calles halted four miles south of No gales. The Carranza front extends, for five miles from the border south.. The losses to the Villa troops under Maytorena are reported to be more than one hundred killed, including. Col. Beltram, cavalry commander. Many were wounded, also, it is re ported. No announcement of the Car ranza casualties was made. the artists' ball Giles I, attended ine otner evening. Staples Kow were the costumes? Giles Out of sight. Segment Block. oiiuiuw wiiiic are you uomgr Tommie Washing the jelly off my " hands. Ma's a fingerprint expert, Some men like playing wifh'nitro you know. Woman's Home Compan- glycerine, and others prefer fooling ion. . around married women. -v