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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-09

the boys and girls are safely past this
transition period. If you can tide the
boy well into the twenties without q
formation of the tobacco habit, rest as.
sured he will then be too wise to thus
enslave himself.
Music is a most potent factor in rem.
dering home attractive; yet, view the
farmers I'VE the land, see their broad
acres, agricultural implements, ETC.,
and not a piano, organ or even a jews
harp upon the premises. Then what
wonder the children seek amusement
away from home9 What wonder that
the willy sa~loonkeeper draws in the
boys with his gratuitous music Of some
kind.
3D. you think my boy or girl could
learn to play the organ3" A query
often put to music teachers. These ps,
rents would deem it an insult to init.
mate that their children couldn't learn
arithmetic, even though they are not
mathematical geniuses.
Procure them a good organ, We pa.
rents; give a few terms of instruction
and see e. yourselves that home il
made more attractive thereby. When
the home roof tree no longer shelters
the sons and daughters; when they are
seeking some life.work, their musica
training (Which, perchance, you denied
yourself many comforts to obtain fol
them) will prove an ''open sesame" Il
the society of the cultured and the re
hned.-Fanny L Fancher.
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Eggs for Matching.

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Brown LeghOrns, Barred Plymouth ROCKS;
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New finely barred Plymouth Rocks, better
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for same breeds except where great improve
and by vigorous application of the score card IN
selecting breeding stock for this year.
KINGS COTTON SEED PURE.
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Bulletin No. l46 pages 256-20S. Plant no otheF
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BUG DEATH.

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THE COTTON
GINNBRS' JOURNAL

is the PIONEER paper published
in the interest Of The Great Indus
try Of Cotton Ginning
1t is devoted to the interests OF
Cotton in all its phases from the
field to the mill.
1t constitutes an effective bureau
of information for all COTTON
interests
1t carries a greater proportion Of
interesting and valuable r2ading
matter than any other trade jour
nal.
It is published monthly, at a sub.
scriptlon price of 81 per year.
We will esteem it a favor, II every
one writing US will send the name
and address Of every ginner he
knows.
Sample copies OF the Journal, and
descriptive circular of PheDome.
non FIIer Gree to senders Of clubs
OF ten will be sent free to every ap
plicants.
Parties in Texas address Cotton
Journal Co., Waco, Tex All out.
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The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06
ALL FOR JONES.

Snmuel.M. Jones WAS reelected
mayor OF Toledo, Ohio. upon III"
issue Of municipal ownership Of
public utilities, such M wn'.r
works, light plants. street railroads,
etc. !ir. Jones snys:
Nearly 1900 of the $4,000
citizens who votc.l there ut The
lnst election cast their votes for
tho independent ticket, on which
! ran. though both the political
machines, all the newspapers and
corporations in the city aud few
Of the cmincn,ly respectable pco'
pie were against the.
Municipal ownership Of public
utilities il the first step In reform
This public ownership will cxteM
N the state and nation. aud 1 i~
lisve that IN 1860 Il viii bs hardly
possible 10 iiul railroad IL IN,
oouutry In private hands. Th'
The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06
no FUSION,

The policy of the populist party
in this county aud in this state
should be no fusion with either
old party. A fusion with the Tel
Ter republican can do no hurt.
Selfish and unwise leaders have
already about traded off the prin.
clples of the party for Office, aud
after succeeding in electing q
democratic governor, are splitting
what there is left of the party in
quarrel'ng over the appointive
offices.
As a rule the larger party ab-
serbs or disinteprates the lesser,
Were there no national democratic
party ihe populis,s could absorb
that party in this state, but with
Its national backing this is impos-
sible. 1t is, therefore, safe to fuse
with the silver republicans, which
party is destined to go TO pieces
next year, aud give them show
for a part OF the Offices, and by 30
doing secure a share Of the rem.
nants, M for the old parties to tAke
the whole. The populist party 10
sure to survive democratic ma
tional victory next year, and will
sooner or later become power.
provided the spoilsmen can be
kept in the rear.
The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06
:. Iwould recommend
women suffering as I

oi irancnlses is mercy maxesuli.
compromise.
Development of trusts is the
most remarkable feature, in my
opinion, of the closing years of
the century. l don't regard them
bad insofar rs they do away with
labor, which they make useless, 30
that all can benefit; but they benfit
only few. Their organization
and the Introduction of labor.sav-
ing machinery have not made the
hours of labor any shorter, nor
have they increased wages, aud
they have made it harder for men
to find work.
These are bound to figure
sooner or later III national politics.
There is process of evolution
going on which is inevitable,
There is no moral issue between
the two great pnrties. They must
have something more serious to
contend for than who shall have
the offices.
THAT good can be done with
private fortunes does not obscure
the fact that these fortunes were
obtained through dishonest sys-
TEN, no matter how honest the
individuals who own them may be.
They were gathered at the cost of
millions of wrecked and ruined
lives"
The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06

THERE is one nice thing about
the Philippine war that weekly
paper editors ENJOY. They read
the daily papers all week and when
they write up their own paper they
say: "The war will be ended in
about two weeks" We have been
saying this now for 10 these many
months. Between the lines wc
read the fact that Uncle Sam has
the bear by the tail aud is holler-
ing for someone to help him let
go. In other words, We have .
struggle on our hands that will re-
quire sacrifice OF a half u million
souls and " hundred.year war
Georges Weekly.
The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06

The Del Norte Enquirer, Frank
Goad's paper, in speaking OF the
appointment Of G. c. Kerr an Su.
pcrin'endent OF Irrigation, says:
"rh,s paper has nothing against
Mr.. Kerr. believing he will make
good man for the place"
Tn" pspcr. however, true to its
record. goes on. Of its way 10 mis-.
rcpr.srn. Senator Roe by saying:
"Scnn,or Roe asked for the voice
of the popnlis's o. this subject
md tho result was mn almost uni
versal response in favor Of Mr..
Gonl."
This IL not true. A coarse job
WAS put up to deceive Mr.. Roe; he
WAS invited 10 Del Norc where
Mr.. Goals bnckcrs-nitlcl by n
sheriTs "open vcnir."-- had
packed n meeting 1G TO 2 in hi.
favor. mud tried to palm this on on
the senator ~ the sentiment OF his
party. Senator Roe, however, WAS
not imposed on by this onc.sidetl
gathering; hc went outside and
found much different sentiment.
and in his recommendations 10 the
governor WAS guided by the high.
sst aud l,est NJ motives; he did
what no conceived 70 be for Tho
best interests of his constituent
aud lie party.
The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06

ALxo.r daily VI. have been told
,hn, the war in the Philippines V
nbou, ended. and the volunteers
nrc TO come home right away o."
but You will notice that the war
correspondents manage TO yet let
,crs through the lines saying. The
war has only Just begun. Recruit
ing is going on rapidly. aud Gen.
crnl irving iinls has s.eulistesl.-
Pueblo pr~sa.
The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06

Fusion for spoils and fusion 70
secure the election OF competent
officials is altogether two different
propositions. The Herald is for
the latter kind OF fusion but op.
po~ed to any more Colorado
Springs schemes where three days
were spent wire pullin. for spoila.
The Silver Republicans aud Popu-
lists now realize tho trap they were
led into.-Durmnvo Herald,
The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06

The newspapers assert that uni.
verssl prosperity abounds every.
where in the states and that immi.
grafton has begun to increase.
Under our present system of pro-
duction and distribution periods
OF prosperity and dull times must
inevitably succeed each other. In
eighteen months all OF our ware
houses will be filled and tho work
ers and tho machines will have To
take a rest. Then the voters will
clsmor for a change in the admin.
istration-but not n change in the
system.
The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06

" VIZ had sts.ut ons.lourth the
money and lives 70 build up ~
arid wcst that We hare airsady
spent aud are speudiax 70 vhip
the Philiprines, what . gioeleas
country thla wess wosM * Wey
not aMwex tlse arid vesl cod ee01a
The 6Hhsf-l1eutssss 0aAeqU ~
The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06

One Of the largest trusts in the
world is the steel and wire trust
about to be organized. 1t will
have n capitalization of between
S700.000,000 and SSG0,000,0OO. 1t
will take in the Carnegie. the Ma
tional Steel Company, the Ameri.
can Steel and Wire Company and
others.
The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06

FoR twenty ycnrs we have lis
tened to the cry of an,i-monopoly
by demngogues. And now the
leaders of the democratic party
propose to make opposition to
trusts the issue IN 1900. Their
remedy is to go back to individual
competition where ninety per cent
of business men were failures.
The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06

THE Methodist clergy, of Chi
cago, are trying to stem the tide
OF anti-expansion, claiming such
demonstrations cast slur on the
president and lower America in
the eyes Of the world. 1t will not
be long before free speech will be
denied III this country.
The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06
IMPORTANT GATHERING.


nized leaders of nearly all branches
of advance political and social re-
form have been debating as to
what step should next be taken
looking toward better consolida-
ton of efforts for social and
national betterment. This activity
in mind and the general drifting
trend of thought in all political
parties has had the effect to at last
arrive mt an ngreed conference and
program of methods and means
toward a common desired end.
Circular notices are out express
ing the purposes and brief out
line OF a program, together with a
very extensive list of known lead
ers who are listed as promoters.
The great conference will be held
in the city of Buffalo, New York.
from June IS to July 4 inclusive.
Two days will be devoted to dis
cussion of measures. Methods,
plans, and movements will be gwen
three days as it is considered. that
these are the most important look
ing to a consummation of efforts
and political force.
The circular says the purpose is
"to bring about better UNDER
standing and acquaintance, to study
methods, TO gain the sympathy
and respect Of outsiders and to
keep all reformers-even those
who consider other methods than
their own as wise-in touch
with one another, Is the work of
the hour" In brief, the program
comprehends the following scope:
Wednesday, June 2S-Economic
Reforms, The People VS.. The
Monopolies-shall We leave them
alone, abolish, control or own them ?
Industrial Monopolies, Transportn-
ton and Currency. What shall
the city own?
Thursday, June Political
Reforms; Non.partisan Efforts;
Expansion and Militnrism: Per
manent Internal Tribunal; Proper
tional Representation; Recnll or
Imperative Mandate; Single Tax;
Non-partisan Temperance; Organ
lied Labor; Value of Direct Legis-
latlon; Failure of Other Systems,
Present Status, Outlook.
Friday, June 30.-Reform Thro'
Party Action, What can parties do,
Republican, Democratic. Populist,
Prohibitionist. Social Labor, Union
Reform, Social Democracy. with
the evening session given over to
the discussion of the question, "Is
n New Party Needcd?"
During these sessions the advo.
Gates of any plans will respectively
NEE. and select their speakers.
These separate meetings will also
act and report to the Saturday
meeting rs to possible methods of
harmonious action, and the day is
set aside for the hearing of the
speakers or committeeman.
Sunday, July 2.-The visitors
will cooperate with the various
church services over the city, and
in the afternoon n conference ses.
sion will be held under the subject
Of The New Conscience.
Monday, July 3.-What to do
Next: Report OF Committee; Gen.
eral Discussion; Possible Discus
sion OF Some Matter.
Rev. Lyman Abbott, Senator
Butler, Governor Pingree, Mayor
Jones, Senator Allen. Eugene V.
Debs, A. {. Townc, Fred Williams,
Jerry Simpson, Samuel Gompcrs,
aud other advance thinkers and
political reformcrs have signed
their names to the call for this
The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06

THIS paper has always insisted
that fusion with All older and
larger party was equal to n COM
promise of Its principles and the
result must be disintegrntion.
The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06

The democratic central commit
tee Of Cook county, Illinois, has
taken steps to fire ex-Gov. Altgeld
out of that party. The so-called
reformed democracy is indebted to
Altgeld and a few more like him
for the bold stand the party took
in 1896.
The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06

The three-fourth jury bill is
now law. 1t provides that in
civil cases it will require but three
fourths of the jury to give a ver-
dict. No more hung juries in
civil cases.
The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06

The Creede Daily Miner went
into the hands of n new manage
ment last Monday and shows a
marked improvement as a news
paper. Its locals are spicy and it
AIMS to fill the demand for local
horDonsr-a
The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06

HE money power is debating
this question: Winch is the easier,
to spend Sl6,000,000 to elect a
president or si,00O,OOO to nomi-
nDtp Onao
The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06

The courts have decided that
mortgaged land cannot be sold for
the personal taxes of the mort
gngor.
The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06

If there is to be fusion in
Rio Grande county next fall, let
1t be to secure honest aud compe-
tent officials.
The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06

o sed 10 scss tracts fos sals W q q.
ksss, Moats VISA.
The Monte Vista journal., 1899-05-06

happenings
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-28
THEORY OF THE KIDNAPPING.
Woman Said to Have Taken the
Child to Satisfy a Craving.

woman Said to Have Taken the
Child to Satisfy a Craving.
New York, May 1.-THE police are
searching for a Carrie Wilkinson, who
was discharged from the Mothers and
Babies Hospital with newborn babe on
Aug. 10, 1897.
1t is believed that she is the nurse girl
who stole the child Marion Clark. 1t is
known that she took the name of Carrie
Jones after leaving the hospital.
Her baby died Sept. 10, following About
three months ago the mother went to
the Vanderbilt Clinic for treatment, where
her record was known. She had
been brooding over the death of the child
and her sanity was then doubted. Her
description answers closely to that of the
Carrie Jones whom the police are search
ing for.
The theory is that the loss of her own
child upset her reason and that she took
the Clark baby, who was as old as her
own would have been had it lived, to sat
isfy a craving. The police are strongly
inclined to accept this theory.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-28
FLORIDA.

The final exercises Of the commencement
Of 1893 at Rollins College, Winter Park.
occurred wednesday, and now the happy
Graduates and their friends are vending
their way homeward.
Jacksonville Metropolis: on the docket
Of the Criminal Court of Atlanta are the
names of twenty-seven uncaught muir
derers The same rule must be in force
sbere that prevails here in Jacksonville
moi TO pursue criminals II they leave the
county. as It costs too much.
r. w. Pooser. who has an irrigatlne
nlant at his place on Hancock lake, a few
miles from Arcadia, while running his
sieam pump last week, pumped up from
Inc bottom Of the lake, sixteen feet deep.
an old-fashioned gold ring. says the Ar
cadia Arcadian. Inside the ring was en-
graved amelia Phillips" and the mi
eials ~. G. f." and dated 1851" HOW
long the ring has been in the bottom OF
M lake no one knows. The name ana
Initials are unknown in that neighborhood.
ana whether the discovery brings to lignt
a crime. tragedy or whether it was iust
lost by the owner while bathing in the
lake, no one knows. Mr.. Poser would
gladly give the ring up 20 the rlghtful
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-28
THE FLORIDA GOPHER.
IL Is Turtle aud Lives in the
Ground With RattIesnaISes ana
Lizards
From the New York Sun.


From the New York Sun.
The most interesting creature / ever
saw IN Florida" said a New York man
who spent the winter there was the bur
rowing turtle This turtle is peculiar to
Florida and it is an important factor In
the domestic economy of the cracker pop
ulation, for the Florida cracker dotes on
the Gopher-thats what they cal this bur
rowing turte-and thinks il is the finest
thing IN the edible line that ever existed.
l cOuldnt agree with him on that though
for | didn't approve of the company the
gopher is in the habit of keeping, and |
can't see how anything can be real good
and keep bad company. The gopher digs
a deep hole and large one in the ground
and remains in IL all the time except when
QUE grazing, for this reptile is a grazer
and pastures just like COW, except that
il won't eat anything but wild grass This
turtle doesn't like the vicinity of wafer,
and selects the high dry, sandy ridges for
It's home. Its cracker neighbors say that
il never drinks water--which would also
be habitual characteristic of the cracker
il he could always get something strong
er than water.
Another thing that induces the gopher
~ us It's bbIl wv Oul Oh me IGdtn OF wafer
is that in those dry and sandy places the
rattlesnake and various kinds of hideous-
looking lizards are most plentiful. and
the gopher is never happy unless its bur
row is shared by a colony of either one or
the other of these If not of both. Find a
gopher hole and uncover It, and YOU win
be sure to find from half dozen 10 a doz-
en- or more rattlesnakes, and maybe nf-
teen or twenty lizards of various sizes and
colors and degrees of ug1iness occupying
II with its proprietor. The gopher plainly
loves the companionship of these deadly
things, although il is Itself as meek and
harmless as a dove.
NO dweller in those parts of Florida
ever goes anywhere about without a bag
slung over his or her shoulder This is to
put gophers in, as some are pretty sure to
be found pasturing IN the wild grass
patches The moment gopher is sur
prised by person with a bag It shuts it.
self securely in LIS shell. and the cracker
picks It up and tumbles it into the bag
The gopher is likewise trapped by digging
a hole close 10 tho entrance Of It's burrow
and sinking a barrel or box into il and
covering the trap with loose twigs. When
the gopher comes out and Starts on a for
aging trip II tumbies into the trap aud
can't get out. What teTrapin are to The
high-living epicure, the gopher is to the
Florida cracker. The gopher deposits from
nifty to hundred green eggs In a hole in
the sand, and If the cracker does not I'M
earth them and add them to his bill of
fare, which IS his habit, the eggs viii
hatch, and IN three weeks the sand will
be covered with young gophers, about the
size of quarter Of a dollar scrambling in
all directions to hide away from hawks
and other birds of pray which are partic-
ulariy fond of the little reptiles, and keep
the future colony Of gophers within
bounds"