The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-08-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Let each delegate to the State ALI
ance carry up q big club Of subscrip
lions for The Progressive Farmer, and
a big batch Of orders for the Bubiness
Agency.
We congratulate our efficient State
Chemist, B. w. Kilgore upon his cleo
ton as President of the Association Of
Official Agricultural Chemists at its
meeting at San Francisco last month.
The editor regrets his inability to at
tend the meeting of the State Alliance
due to the fact that our Business
Manager must attend and both editor
and Business Manager cannot leave the
Office at once.
Some advocate of mans rights"
wishes to know why men should not
be admitted to the State Normal and
Industrial College now that girls are
to attend the University and Agricul
tural and Mechanical College. To Us
the inquiry seems pertinent.
The people of North Carolina learn
with joy that Judge simonton can
soon retire on full pay and will prob
ably do so. We will gladly let him
have full pay if he will only retire In
favor of some one who will let North
Carolina attend to her own affairs.
We want an energetic reliable man
to distribute copies of The Progressive
Farmer and solicit subscriptions for
Us at each gathering Of farmers, and
will give a liberal commission to any
one who will go represent US. If inter
ested, write us for further intorma
tion.
A correspondent asks what the last
legislature did for the Confederate sol
der. We have examined the laws OF
1899 and think it did neither more DOR
less than the average legislature does.
It appropriated S.. 600 for replacing
and erecting buildings at the Soldiers
Home; voted $40, 900 as an annual sp
preparation to that institution allowed
certain soldiers to leave the Home on
reduced pensions, and placed the usual
number Of old soldiers and soldier
widows on the pension roll.
North Carolina's failure to appreciate
her great men is proverbial. A month
ago Augustin Daily died. Though
known throughout two continents as
one Of the greatest Of all theatrical
managers, perhaps not one per cent.
of the citizens Of this State yet know
that he was q native of this State, hav
ing bsen born in Plymouth, Washing
ton county. The great dailies and
magazines have devoted many columns
of space to sketch of his life, but
few North Carolina papers have noticed
his death. We notice that the AugUs
Cosmopolitan contains a 14-page, finely
illustrated account Of his career.
The following from Mt. Olive Adver.
tiser is 1.-The unkindest cut Of all":
'"The North Carolina Press Aesocia-
tion at its annual meeting last week,
passed resolutions condemning trusts.
What will those people do that are
publishing ready made, paid for in ad-
vance editorials that advocate the es
adjustment of the Round lap system of
cotton baling. Some papers belonging
to the Association condemn trusts in
meeting and at the same time publish
editorials advocating one Of the most
Ubiquitous mon )polies ever devised for
robbing Southern farmers" A rather
pointed question. Who can II wer9
Has it ever occurred to our Raleigh
readers, or to those who, if not citizens of
Raleigh, occasionally visit the capital
city, that Raleigh is rapidly losing it's
right to the appellation, "City of
OaksH" Walk along our streets and
find if you can a dczan oaks that
have been planted within the past ten
years Naples are plentiful; 30 with a
number Of other kinds Of trees. But
our beautiful oaks Of which we have
so long boosted are growing scarcer
and scarcsr, and there are no young
trees to take the places Of the old for
est monarchs which have fallen. Even
if oaks are are Of slow growth, Why
can they not be planted between the
NAPLES, and the naples removed when
the oaks become large encugh7
One of the many evils of mob fury
Es we'll illustrated in the lynching case
near New Ocleans last Thursday. A
negro was seen, who was suspected of
being Val Bates, who is charged with
outrage. He was chased by armed
men and took refuge in a tree. While
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