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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-17
Our Question Box.
TOPPING COTTON.

Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Does it pay to top cotton? If SO,
when is the best time for doing the
work? E. A. D.
Lincoln Co., N. G.
answered by Corresponding Editor
Irby.)
do not think that it pays to top
cotton. Many hold the idea and
claim that the dark nights in August
is the time to do the topping. Just
what effect the light or the dark of
the moon has on it, I am not pre-
pared to say.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-17

" OOAO4 al w L. ~
Whiting, who commanded Fort
Fisher in 1866, during the two mem
orable attacks upon that stronghold,
was quietly disinterred from it's rest
ing place in Greenwood cemetery
New York, last week, and buried in
the Confederate cemetery at Viii
m1ngton. Gen. Whiting was cap
tured when Fort Fisher fell, and was
taken wounded to New York, where
he died 500 after, and was given
hOnOred burial.
Winston dispatch, 18th: The
Commissioner Immediately upon con-
clusion of Judge Bynum's argument
for the prosecution, bound Register
Thompson ARRESTED on charge of
refusing to register negroes) over to
the Federal COURT in a bond of 50, 900.
Late this afternoon upon the afiida-
Wit of Registrars Thompson and
Wall, the four negroes who swore
out warrants against them were ar
rested and are now in the custody of
the sheriff of the county. Justified
bond has been fixed at $500 each.
Greensboro Telegram: The wind
storm which visited this section yes
terday afternoon was quite severe
being followed in some places by a
heavy rain. The wind did consider
able damage to growing crops,
especially corn. Nc damage to prop
erty is reported in this immediate
vicinity. Around Winston Salem
trees and buildings we're blown
down. A part of the Southside Cot
ton Mills, owned by the Messrs.
Fries, was blown away, the property
being damaged to the extent of
several thousand dollars. A man
and a boy were struck by falling
timbers and killed.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer 4:
DIR. Richard H. Lewis, Secretary to
the State Board of Health, has pre-
pared his annual report, for the r.
months ended May 1. It shows an
immense spread of smallpox, for
there were no fewer than 2,8O6 cases
during that period, while for Is
months beginning January -, 1898,
when the disease first made it's ap-
pearance in the State, and ending
May 1, 1899, there were only GIG
cases. The death rate for smallpox
was 5 per cent. for whites and N
per cent. for negroes, and this is al
most identical with the proportion
of the two races. The smallpox
trouble is due to two causes--mis-
takes in diagnosis and insistence by
not a few physicians (whO know bet
ter of ~cOurse), that the G.sease is
chickenpox. The result of this care
lessness, which is almost criminal in
it's character, is illustrated in Gull
ford and Rockingham counties. In
the former there we're during the
twelve months 500 cases and 9 deaths
and in Rockingham $50 cases and 20
deaths. There will be a great small
pox development when the cold
weather comes again. Vaccination
is the only safety. Yet only 10 per
cent. of the population of the State
is vaccinated. That is a startling
statement, but the evidence of the
reports to the board of health proves
its accuracy. There ought to be
plain talk about this smallpox bust
ness and the ''chickenpox" idea
ought to be heartily condemned.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-17
USING BIsULPHIDE OF CARBON.

Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Please inform me through your
Inquiry Department
l have a meat house and wheat
house on the same floor, separated
by a thin board partition, I wish to
use bisulphide of carbon Il think
that is it) to prevent weavils in
wheat. Is there any danger of the
fumes injuring or poisoning the
meat? An early reply will oblige.
Scotland Co., N. G. E. F. M.
answered by Corresponding Editor
Irby.)
The bisulphide Of carbon will have
no dangerous effect on the meat as
very little would get through and it
will 0 pass off But there is great
danger from an explosion as the
fumes easily ignite. Be very careful
not to smoke your meat at that time
or allow any lamp OF pipe to be car
ried in the building until the fumes
disappear.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-17
answered by Corresponding Editor
Irby.)
THE MARKETS.
RALEIGH COTTON.

Raleigh, n. c., July "A.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-17
State News.
IT1T TAR HEELS ARE DOING.

- the state Press-Drops of Turpentine
"C-oins of Rice From the East-Clusters
- cranes and Tobacco Stems From the
North-StaIks of Corn and Grains
of. Wheat From the West
Peanuts and Cotton
Seed From the
Goufb
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-14

and will hardly be likely TO get through
the seasons work before election. The
crop is turning out to be a good one,
although not up to expectations.
The supreme court has rendered a
decision in an important case submit
ted at the last term. 1t holds that the
counties of the state are not obliged to
pay the state their proportion of de-
linquent taxes until the same shall
have been collected.
]. e. Ostrander, who died at Gray's
Lake the other day, was one of the best
known citizens of that section of the
country. He had lived on the lake for
IA years past and was engaged in
ranching and stock-raising. Mr.. Os-
trander was 80 years old.
The first trip of the new steamer
Pend DOreille, owned by the Sand
Point Lumber company, was made last
week to Lakeview and return, stopping
at Hope and Black Tail. The steam
er is handsomely furnithed and is mod
ern in all respects. About 200 passen-
gers were on board, among them being
Superintendent Gilbert, wife and
daughter.
A perfect chapter of mishaps and ac-
cidents occurred in Harrison last week.
LIE Roy Presnell had all the fingers OF
his right hand taken off by a small
circular saw; H. c. York got his hand
mixed up with the planer at Grants
mill and came out with three fingers
badly mashed; A. L. Kingsbury was
kicked in the jaw, knocking out all
the teeth on that side of the face; and a
man named Caps had his hand bro
ken.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-14
IDAHO.

Harrisons assessment, without the
railroad, is $4,000.
H. S. Simmons, B. A., of Hardins-
burg, Ind, has been selected as prin-
cipal of the school at DeLamar.
President Joseph P. Blanton has FL
ed notice of an appeal to the supreme
court from the decision of Judge Steele.
A sunflower of wonderful size and
SURPRISING beauty is on display in Mos
COW. Its diameter is IS inches and its
weight seven and one-half pounds.
United States Marshal Frank Ram
sey recently has obtained possession of
a number of additional counterfeit So
gold pieces.
The pear crop in Latah county is
being harvested and shipped to east
ern markets, and the product is better
than for many years past,
James A. Ballentine of iBoise killed
a 7OO-pound cinnamon bear on Cotton
wood creek recently while on a camp
ing-out trip. He saw IL bears during
his absence.
One of the most exciting shooting
affairs ever witnessed in Boise occur
red last week in front of the city hall
and his intended victim, H. B. East
man, the well-known capitalist. NJ
one was hurt.
Harvesting operations will continue
f! for some time yet around Grangeville
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-14
Deafness Cannot BE Cured

BY local applications, as they can not
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an infiamed condi-
ton of the mucous lining of the eustach-
ian tube. When this tube gets infiamed
you have a rumbling sound or imperfect
hearing, and when If is entirely closed
deafness is the result, and unless the in
fiammation can be taken out and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hearing
will be destroyed forever; nine cases out
of ten are caused by catarrh, which is
nothing but an inflamed condition of the
mucous surfaces.
We will give one hundred dollars for
any case of deafness (caused by catarrhl
that can not be cured by Halls Catarr1
Cure. Send for circulars, free.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, 75c
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-14
Do Your Feet Aoh. and BurnY

Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot Ease,
q powder for the feet. 1t makes tight OF
new shoes feel easy; gives instant relief to
Germs and bunions. It's the greatest COM
fort discovery of the age. Cures swollen
fsst, blisters and callous spots. Aliens
Foot Ease is certain cure for ingrowins
nails, sweating, smarting, hot, aching feet.
We have over $4,000 testimonials. 1t cures
while YOU walk. All druggists and she's
stores sell it. 25c. Trial package FREE
By mail. Address, Allen s. 0lmsted, Lie
Roy. N. Y.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-14
relieves painful periods
and regulates ssfensfrU-
atom II cures backachey
kidney troubles and all
uterine diSOr-derS-
Read the letters from
women appearing regu-
Early in this paper.
PIucky Girl.

New York-Five persons were saved
from injury or death recently by Miss
Ada Mayo Railey, daughter of Col
Charles l.. Railey, well-known horse
man of Lexington, Ky. A. H. Calef of
New York, secretary and treasurer Of
the Missouri Pacific Railroad company,
with Mrs. Calef and their guests, Miss
Alice Neale and Mrs. Winston Barrett of
Chicago, and Miss Railey, had driven in an
open bus from Mr.. Calefs cottage at
Sea Bright to Pleasure bay, and were re-
turning when, after having gone some
distance, they discovered that the coach
man was not on the box and that the
horses, a pair of powerful animals, were
running away.
Mr.. Calef jumped in an effort to gain
the horses heads, but was thrown on the
ground and the team dashed on, every
moment gaining speed. Miss Railey, who
is known throughout Kentucky as a
horsewoman of remarkable skill, climbed
through window scarcely large enough
to admit her slender body sidewise, man
aged to get hold of one line, and threw
one of the horses, bringing the vehicle to
a sudden stop ON the edge of ditch near
the approach to the bridge across the bay
The frightened occupants climbed out, and
with the assistance of passerby untan-
gled the animals from the broken har-
ness. No one was injured except Mr.
Calef, who was severely bruised by his
fall.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-14
Wheat.

Portland.-Wheat-T bulk of the
wheat needed for nearby tonnage has
been secured and exporters have re-
duced their limits to Sc cents for Walla
Walla and SOC for bluestem. There is
a good milling demand for valley at
$4,000.
-Wheat-Market steady and
unchanged. Bluestem, 5Sc; club, SOC,
both for export.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-14

The various national organizations
as well as the A. F. of L., continue to
report a steady and sure growth both
in membership and financial strength
and many big strikes in different Sec
lions of the country.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-14

The textile workers of the South are
being organized and the employers are
making every effort to oppose the move.
AS a result a large number of strikes
are being waged.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-14
Russia Is Firm.

st. Petersburg, Sept. 9.-The support of
Germany and Great Britain is not de-
SPARED of. But if they do not agree to
do so. Russia, it is again asserted, will
nevertheless firmly maintain her decision
to withdraw her troops from Pekin.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-14
Arthur SevvaII Dead.

Bath, Me-, Sept. 6.-Hon. Arthur Sewall
died of apoplexy at $3.50 a. m. yesterday
at his summer home, Small Point, about
l27 miles from this city. He was GA
years of age.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-14

The government of Norway has de-
cided to introduce the eight-hour day
in all public institutions. 1t was hop
ed to influence the general elections,
which are now taking place.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-14

Chicago carpenters, by an overwhelm-
ing majority, voted to stand by the
Building Trades Council to the bitter
end. and the Chicago dailies are groan-
ing again as result.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-14
Mrs..
PK1khan1'S
Advice

and Lydia e. Pxnkksan,'s
Vegetable C0s,,p0undhave
restored health and
happiness to scores of
women. This IS not a
mere advertising claim,
but a positive fact.
The reason Mrs. Pink
han, is SO qualified to adj
wise women is because
for 20 years she has been
treating and studying
WOs71an's ills. Her ad-
dress Is Lynn, Mass
IF you are i'll, write TO
her for help, as thousands
of women are doing.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-14

Pisos Cure for Consumption is an infal-
lible medicine for coughs and colds.-N.
w. Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. IL,
1900
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-14
Look Tired Today.

Perhaps you can't sleep or uneasy slumber
don't rest YOU. A Cascaret Candy Cathartic at
bedtime guarantees refreshing sleep Druggists,
loo. 25e, 50c.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-14

Municipal elections in Lipnik, Aus
tria, Socialists won complete victory,
though all the old parties united
against them.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-14

Many imitation baking powder made ALUM upon
market Alum corrosive poison used only because cheap
The of alum baking powders is condemned by all ply
scans and many sections their sale is prohibited by law
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-14

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-09-14

is the only purely veg
etable blood purifier
known contains no
poisonous minerals to
ruin the digestion and
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-06-07
Peabody Institute.

America was the beneficiary in sew
eral ways of the philanthropy OF
George Peabody, the London banker.
The Peabody institute, fine marble
building in Baltimore, Md, was found
ed by him. 1t contains fine large lee
ture hall, gallery of art, conservatory
of music and library, and the object or
its patron was to promote education
and to diffuse knowledge among the
masses. Mr.. Peabody also endowed
the Peabody museum, which is an i'm
portant adjunct of Yale college, New
Haven. Conn, and contains large col
lections in mineralogy, natural history,
etc. The town Of Peabody, Mass
which was named for the English phil
anthropist, was also remembered gen.
erously by him, in a large building
there being provided with we'll
stocked library and lecture room.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-06-07
I,chtning's Deadly Work.

Lightning struck the steambarge
Albert Mitchell, building at Langel AZ
Sons shipyard, at ST. Clair on the
morning of the 3lst, killed three men
and injured five others. The men had
Just commenced their days work at
the shipyards when the storm broke.
The vessel was on the stocks all ready
for launching on June End. The bolt
struck the mast. Campbell and Nor
rison were in the cabin and Medlar was
under the boat. The bolt struck the
top of the mast, broke it off IL feet and
then went down through and split the
mast. 1t jumped to the texas roof,
about two feet, went to the starboard
side along the roof about 10 feet, tear
ing the roof and cabin, at which point
il came in contact with and followed
an iron rod running from the roof to
the deck below, directly under which
stood Morrison looking out of the win
dow. 1t jumped from the rod and hit
him in the back of the head, tearing a
hole in his hat and fracturing the skull.
Campbell stood about three feet from
him, farther out. Part of the bolt
struck him in the breast, tearing the
skin off as large as mans hand. II
proceeded down inside his clothes and
set them on fire.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-06-07
HoMEsEEKERs' EXCURSIONS
Via Chicago Eastern Illinois Railroad

Via Chicago a. Eastern Illinois Railroad
On the first and third Tuesdays Of
June. July and August the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois Railroad will place on
sale Homeseekers Excursion tickets
to various points in Alabama, Arkan-
sas. Florida, Georgia, Indian Terri
tory, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missis-
sippi, Missouri. North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas.
One fare plus $500 for the round
trip.
Tickets are limited on going trip
fifteen days from date of sale with
stop over privileges in Homeseekers
territory. Returning tickets are linn
tied twenty-one days from date OF sale.
Remember that we now have in serv-
ice a new wide vestibuled train be-
tween Chicago & Waco & Ft Worth,
Texas, leaving Chicago daily at l.oo
D. m. Through Pullman sleeping cars
and free reclining chair cars. For
further particulars call on or address
any agent Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Railroad or C. l.. Stone, G. p. & t. A.,
Chicago.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-06-07
Freak of Lightning.

During an electrical storm on the
3lst Geo. Dunn's house at Sly, seven
miles south of Midland, was wrecked
by lightning. The bolt entering the
bedroom of two boys, knocking the
bed from under them, leaving the mat
tress and boys on the floor unframed
but setting fire to the quilts. 1t then
entered the sitting room and broke the
picture frames and glass. Then it went
into Dunn's bedroom, setting fire to a
partition, going into the kitchen where
it splintered the rafters and set fire
and threw dishes around. Finally ii
burst out of the house on all sides,
carrying away sash and glass and
breaking holes through the siding.
Although there were six persons in the
house, no one was injured. The house
looks as if a dynamite explosion had
occurred. Lightning struck several
places in the city, but did no serious
damage.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-06-07
$45,OOO,OOO THE AMOUNT
Of Our Trade With the New Pos
sessions for the Current Year.
CUBA'S EXPORTS TO THE u. S.
VIII Amount to s3I 100000 Against
sI5,oO0.OOO In 1898 = Despite the
War Conditions Her Exports VIII
Exceed That of any Year Since 1894
Trade with Our New Possessions.

Facts that are figures for CONNER
cialists appear in the latest output of
statistics form the treasury bureau de-
voted to that art. In the collation. OF
figures relating to exports from the U.
s. TO Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Ha-
waiian and Philippine islands, it de-
velopes that the sum total for the fiscal
year ending with the present month
will reach S45,000,0 900. This will be
more than three times as great as in
1896 and more than twice as much as
in any year of American commerce
with those islands, except 1s92-3-4,
when reciprocity greatly increased ex-
ports TO Cuba and Puerto Rico.
To Cuba the total for the fiscal year
seems likely to be fully S25, 900, 900,
against S7,53O,O0O in the fiscal year
1896 and SEA ,157, 900 in the great reci-
procity year 1893, when exports to that
island were more than double those of
five years earlier. To Puerto Rico, the
exports of the year will be in round
terms 81, 900, 900, against an average
of $4,000 in the reciprocity years
1892, 1893 and 1894, when exports to
that island were double those of earl
Ter years. To the Hawaiian islands
the total for the year will be about
SIS, 900, 900, or five times as much as in
1898, nearly four times as much as in
| 1896. and more than double the total
for 1898. To the Philippines the total
for 1900 will be about 81, 800, 900, Oh
-, L.. Et,a since
| 1885, the date of which the first record
of our exports to the Philippines was
made by the treasury bureau of sta
! tistics. To the Samoan islands, the
exports of the year will be about Sl25,
000 or nearly as much as in all the
years since 1896, at which date the Off
cial records of our exports to those isl
ands began.
On the import side, Cuba begins t.
show something of her old-tim'
strength as an exporting island, as thu
total imports into the U. S. from Cub;
for the full year will show total o
S31 900, 900, against $15, 900, 900 in ls9
and SIS, 500, 900 in 1897, though the.
still are less than half the average TO
the reciprocity years lo9Z, 1898 ah'
1894, when our imports from that isl
and averaged over SIS, 900, 600 per an
num- From Puerto Rico the import
of the year will be 81, $4,000, which i
less than the total for any preceding
year since 1880, and is presumably du
to the destruction by last years tor
nado of the crops which supply Puert
Rico's chief articles of export. Fror
the Hawaiian islands the imports 70
the full fiscal year will be S21, 900, 0oC
or double the average annual importa
ton for the period prior to 1896, an
20 per cent higher than in any preced
ing year, while from the Philippines
despite the war conditions which RI
duce producing and exporting power
the imports will be larger than in an
year since 1894.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-06-07

The Pan American Medical congress
will hold its next triennial meeting in
Havana, Cuba, on Dee. &c, 81, % and
%, 1900
President Diaz. of Mexico has desig-
mated 100 picked rurals to attend the
pan American exposition at Buffalo as
complimentary bodyguard to the
President of the u. 5.
A special from Montreal says that
the Dominion government secret SER
vice has discovered that Carl pullman.
j. Nolin and John Walsh, convicted OF
trying to destroy the Welland canal,
came to Canada for the express purpose
of wrcalsing vengeance on the colony
for having sent troops to South Africa
that they threw up positions in Dublin
TO do SO. and that at least two of them
were provided with funds by the Clan.
na-Gael, which obtained the money
through Maud Come.
The ex-commander in the Philip
pines, Maj Gen. s. Otis, arrived at San
Francisco on the evening of the 30th.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-06-07

A Michigan man, whose identity is
otherwise concealed by the school au-
thoritios, has given Principal Waldo a
check for 81, 900 to be expended in buy
ing reproductions of celebrated art
works for the northern normal school
at Marquette.
Gysbert Van Krei<en. of Kalamazoo,
received word on the 4th that he had
fallen heir TO fortune of nearly $780,
GOO by the death of rich relative in
the Netherlands. Mr.. Van Kreiken is
celery raiser and a comparatively
poor man He will leave at once to
claim the windfall.
The Congress gold mine, 60 miles
north of Phoenix, Ariz., has been sold
for 81 500, 600 to New York syndicate
reported to include Warren Miller and
John Mackay The mine has been re-
garded as the principal gold producer
OF Arizona.
A $4,000 900 zinc and lead company,
backed by English capital, is being
formed TO operate in the Missouri Kan
sas district, TO do deep mining where
the largest bodies Of zinc ore lay. OPP
tions on nearly 100000 worth of min
ing properties have been secured.
Albion high school will have a grad
uating class of so.