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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-12-04
Editorial.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Still they come. The Western
North Carolina Methodist Confer
enoe joined the procession and heart
ily endorsed the reformatory. Next.
Governor elect Aycock is known
as a Jealous friend Of popular educa-
ton. We hope he will make better
schools and better feeling" the key
note of his inaugural address.
Here's an encouraging item from
the Winston Sentinel: The next
Legislature may make itself famous
by taxing dogs for the benefit of the
children. Heretofore the argument
has been to tax the dogs for the bene-
fit OF the sheep and the dogs always
got the better of the argument. We
shall see if the children fare better
than the sheep"
The Gast0nia News warns its read
ers against the fakirs that are hum
plugging farmers with unscientitic
fertilizer formulas. The State press
ought to work unanimously against
such cattle. The best way to strike
them aud others of their ilk is to
increase the circulation of expert
ment station bulletins and frst-class
farm newspapers.
The National Farmers Congress
has some good men, men at heart
deeply interested in the welfare of the
farmers, but they appear to be badly
in a minority just at this time. The
Observation-Disclosures seems to be using
it quite extensively. We notice that
the infamous ship subsidy bill was
endorsed at the recent session of the
Congress at Colorado Springs.
The great Gattis-Kilgo trial, ten
days after the beginning of this, n
of the greatest legal BATTLES in the
history Of North Carolina, came to
a close Saturday evening. The jury
found Gattis correct in each of his
charges against Messrs. Kilgo, Duke
and Odeil, and fixed the damages at
$50, coo. Appeal was taken; the de-
PENDANTS Will ask the Supreme Court
to grant a new trial.
There was never a better time to
renew your subscription. Every de-
inQuent is expected to pay up before
January 1, 1901. Regarding each
subscriber rs Il friend, we shall be as
lenient and obliging as possible, but
we shall be compelled to change our
tactics in regard to those who neither
make a payment nor do US the COM
mon courtesy of reporting an excuse
before the end of this month. A
hint to the wise is sufficient.
A bill to regulate child labor in
cotton factories was at last accounts
being ~favorably regarded by the
Georgia Legislature. It prohibits
the employment of children under
twelve years of age, and of those
unable to read between the ages Of
twelve and fourteen, exempting chill
dren of INDECENT Widows from the
provisions Of the law. Such d law
ought to be passed by u State
Legislature. The Charlotte Observer,
which keeps well in touch with fac
tory interests, says: Public senti-
ment calls for legislation in this
direction and it is our understand
ing that the majority of cotton mill
owners are not opposed to it."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-12-04

What a travesty on law and order
that a negro is taken up and put Oh
the chain gang for stealing chickens
when so many of the very men H.
strumental in his punishment 81
about fat enough on the laborS u
others that they r not making al
honest effort to pay for. It's an ouv
rage, pure and simple. The man
who steals is as good as the man "no
enjoys your labors and bellies w"
into trusting him to that for Wnl0n
he does not try to pay you.-Con0oiu
Standard.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-12-04
The Thinkers.
INGALLs-IsMs.

Ofice-holding is like serving on
the jury, or in the army and navy in,
time of war. Tt is a duty, an Obliga-
ton which the State demands Of its
citizens, since it can be performed
by no n else. It should be honor
able and desirable, as without it the
State would perish. In no other way
can it's functions be carried on, and
it is therefore to be deplored that,
instead of being serious and defined
in their province, political careers
are so random, he1ter-skelter and IN
certain that they appear in common
thought to combine the tinsel bonn
bast of the stage, the fever Of the
gaming-table and the desperate haz-
ard Of battle.
Grave, calm and Tranquil natures
that love method and the orderly
sequences of life, ~preferring the
steady profits of trade to the glitter
ing chances of faro and roulette,
place politics in the same category
with poker and pugilism. So that
to describe a man as a politician IS to
many a disparagement implying
faint, disrepute and stain. This is
lamentable and unjust. Instead Of
being u stigma it should be a decOra-
ton and ornament. The degrade
ton of politics is impossible without
the degradation of the people.
The press and the platform resound
with denunciation of bad govern
ment in the United States. There is
much defamation against corruption
in Congress, municipal boodleism,
ring rule, legislation for monopolies,
BOSSES, ~plutocrats, trusts and cor
pOratiOns.
Much of this clamor is manufac-
tured by ignorant and dishonest
demagogues, and is both sinister and
insincere.
But were it true in terms, the ap-
prOpriate answer would be that the
people are supreme and have just as
good government as they desire or
deserve. If taxes are excessive,
revenues s~quandered, and fools and
knaves occupy high places, the PEG
pie are to blame.
If a legislator sells his vote, the
consistency that elected him is pri-
marily at fault. If a mute and
stolid millionaire sits dumbly in the
Senate, speechIess save at the roll
call, and almost inaudible then, find
ing in the public service only the
occasion for brutal indulgence or
vulgar ostentation, the State that
sends him is responsible for the
degradation. He represents the
choice and preference of the majority
of its citizens or he would not be
there. His credentials are a waiver
of complaint, reproof or reproach of
his defects.-Ex-S Senator John j.
Ingalls, in Saturday Evening Post.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-12-04
FREEDOM IN THE EDUCATIONAL WORLD

The forced resignation of DR.. Ed
ward Ross, head professor of Eco
nomics and Sociology at Stanford
University, because he expressed
some opinions of his own without
waiting TO have them examined and
approved by the millionaire ''philan-
UrOpist" who supports Stanford has
created a sensation in the educa-
tiOnuI world. DR.. Ross was in no
sense an agitator or an extremist.
He simply did some thinking for
himself and claimed the right of free
speech, with the result just men
toned.
What is to be the end of this ten
dency: What shall the harvest be?
1t is a difficult problem. Liberality
is a cOmmendable virtue, but human
nature is so constructed that a gift
from an unworthy source often does
harm rather than good. Twice, and
in almost identically the same words,
did God remind Israel of this fact.
In Exodus % q: And thou shalt
take no gift for the gift blindeth
the wise, and ~perverteth the words
of the righteous" And in Deut.
1919 to Israel's judges: Thou
shalt not respect persons, neither
take a gift for a git doth blind the
eyes of the wise and pervert the
words of the righteous" PrOfane,
as we'll as sacred history has spoken
on this matter. Beware of Greeks
bearing gifts" has been a proverb
ever since the days of the tabled
Trojan horse. Most of our States
have found it necessary to prohibit
the gift of free passes by railroads to
judges and other public officials.
Four hundred years ago Charles VIII
of France made it unlawful for a
Judge to accept any place or pension
from any noble under heavy penalty.
Of course our laws ought to be so
constructed as to make legality a
synonym for honesty. But while it
is possible for heartless monopolists
to amass millions by methods of
robbery not yet under the ban of the
law, it is undoubtedly best to accept
the conclusion of a leader in educa-
tional circles as given in the Novem-
Der Atlantic Monthly:
There is no duty before the acad-
emic and religious world in America
more pressing than the duty OF
strengthening the demand that
methods of acquiring wealth come
wholly under the dominion of the
moral sense. There is no opportun-
ity more significant, more in danger
of closing forever, than the oppor-
tunity of convincing the public at
large, by definite sacrifice of worldly
advantage, if need be, that the intel
lectual life of the country, as repre-
Sented by it's organized centers. is
disinterested, honest, and free"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-12-04

RENEWALS-The date opposite your name
on your paper, or wrapper, shows to what tune
your subscription is paid. Thus | Jan. 20,
shows that payment has been received up to
Jan. T. 1901: l Jan. 'Ol, to Jan. !, 1901, and So on.
Two weeks are required after money Is re
seived before date. which answers Tor a receipt,
san be changed II not properly changed within
two weeks after none is sent notify US
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-12-04

It is gratifying to see the great
religious denominations OF the State
taking high ground in favor OF the
establishment of an institution for
the reformation of youthful Grim.
mails. The. Presbyterian Synod last
week, expressed to it's view of the
matter in no uncertain terms. The
Baptist Convention and the Meth.
Odist Conferences will 10 doubt fol-
low in terms equally as clean cut
when they meet. Much painful
work will be spared to our judges,
no little expense will be lifted from
the State, many young men, not yet
hardened in crime, will be schooled
in virtuous principle and useful citi-
zenship and, best Of all, souls saved.
We know no way the State can bet
ter invest several Thousand dollars
annually than to sustain this refor.
matOry. An ounce of prevention is
worth u pound Of cure. 1t is d great
deal cheaper to shut up the saloons
as of crime, than to pay court
expenses to try, and jails and peni-
tentiaries to imprisOn crimeS.-Rev,
p. r. Law in Lumberton RObesonian,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-12-04

Three-fourths of the tobacco grow
ers of Harrison county, KY, have
signed an agreement not to raise any
tooacco IN 1901, the idea being to en-
nance h value of the product now
in store and shed.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-12-04

or any kindred attraction
right. He pays his money 'Sa all
what he sees. Sees
But this way the fairs bavo
mitting gambling schemes al
profess to be nothing else and ~ %"icR
only on the ignorance Of y ''e
class of people who attend the IAN
should be stopped. Wheels. %
tune and greasy pigs have no ~ ,1F,
place in fairs promoted and s"'
lied by honest, decent peonio ~
any of these games may be seen a.
combined Vaccinations Of b.7e D'
dozen confederates for the Dprno.'
of robbing some poor, ignoran+ o~,
often drunken, fellow of the ~
hard earned dollars which his
wife is begging him to spend for l.;
children's winter shoes. And a.
worst part of it is that this rohbon
is licensed permitted and enconr,o
by the fair management, not d men,
Der of which would himself do !.
wrong thing. Why is it? Il is ~
answer or excuse to say that thu
loser goes into it voluntarily, and At
tempts to get the best Of the game
because the game is always So ar.
ranged that the sum total Of tbo
gamblers earnings are d large in.
crease over his losings, all Of which
he has cheated the crowd out of. And
he was licensed to do this very thing
He knew he would play d winnine
game, and paid for the priyilege.-
Greensboro Telegram.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-12-04

Address all business correspondence TO and
make money orders payable tO"IHE PROGRESS
5IvE FARMER. RALEIGH, NC" and not tOany
Individual connected with the paper.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-01-11
AN EVIDENCE OF PROSPERITY.
Railway Receiverships Were Fewer
During 1899 than for Many Years

fasG.
Chicago, Jan. 5.-The Railway Age
says: The best evidence that the year
1899 was one of general prosperity is
found in the fact that it was year a!7
most without any railway bankrupt
cies. In only two years since 1875 have
the roads for which receivers were APP
pointed been so few-and in only three
of those years we're the mileage and
capital involved so small. Only one
road of Importance is found in the list,
the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf,
which defaulted in its obligations be-
fore it had time to demonstrate it's
earning capacity, and was placed in
the charge of receivers early in the
year.
OF the nine others in the list two are
short logging roads, belonging to pri-
vate companies, one is an old narrow
gauge road that has never been profit
able, and is owned by great railway
company which now proposes to
straighten out its title by foreclosure,
and the others are short local lines,
mostly in the experimental stage. The
totals, covering all these conditions,
represent ten companies, with 1,Ol9
miles of road and a capitalization of "a
little over S52 600, 900.
The long, dark era of railway bank
ruptcies which eliminated in 1898,
when "A companies, with nearly 80, 600
miles of lines were handed over to re-
ceivers. has ended and the new year
starts with the railways of the United
States, with very few exceptions in a
solvent condition.
The record of foreclosure sales also
shows large decrease in number of
roads and mileage over Immediately
preceding years. indicating that the
supply of bankrupt companies is being
steadily reduced. Nevertheless the
foreclosures for the year included 30
roads, with 4,294 miles of line and
S2G7, 000, 900 of capital, of which Sl55,-
was represented by bonds.
While most of these roads are small,
there are several very important prop
critics in the list, including Central
Vermont, Baltimore & Ohio South
western, Wisconsin Central, Wheeling
& Lake Erie, Cleveland, Canton IL
Southern, Columbus, Hooking Valley
~ Toledo and Jacksonville, Tampa Il
Key West. These seven roads have
$3.50 miles of line and represented an
apparent investment of over $780,
900, 600.
An appalling proportion of our rail
ways have now gone through the cost
ly experience of foreclosure sale. For
the past "a years the foreclosure sales
have averaged more than "a year the
largest number in one year being IS
and the smallest Is. In the last six
years 273 roads have been sold, not
counting IA number of insolvent com
panies that have been reorganized
without sale.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-01-11
Pennsy aSuys G.. & o. Stock.

Philadelphia, Jan. 6.-The Press
says: 1T was reported in railroad and
financial circles yesterday that the
Pennsylvania railroad has completed
negotiations for large block of
Chesapeake ~ Ohio railroad stock. 1t
was stated further that other railroad
companies have also secured interests
in the Chesapeake & Ohio. few
weeks ago it was announced that the
Pennsylvania had investsd several
millions of dollars in the stock of the
b. II o. and the purchasing of stock of
the Chesapeake Il Ohio is in line with
a plan mapped out by the leading
trunk lines to prevent cutting of
freight rates"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-01-11
PRISON DOORS OPENED,
Gen. wood 0Ydcrs the Release of 4e
Prisoners in Santa Clara Province.

Havana, Jan. 4.-Gen. Wood issued
an important order yesterday giving
freedom to 40 men in the province of
Santa Clara. Some of them had been
detained without trial and others were
suffering excessive punishment. All
had been released ten months before
by an order issued by Gen. Bates, but
they were Immediately rearrested by
orders from division headquarters, on
the ground that department com
mander did not have the power to par
don. After looking carefully into the
cases, Gen. Wood decided that the
judgment of Gen. Bates regarding
their release was wise and conse-
quently an order setting them at lib
erty was promulgated.
Reports from other departments are
daily expected, and it is believed that
before the end of the month IA large
number wall be released, especially in
the province of Havana. The cases of
those who have been held for long
time in detention without trial will be
the first to be Investigated.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-01-11

quired Il good common school educa-
ton. His memory was SO remarkable
that in the course of Il single evening
he could memorize three or four chap
ters of the Bible. He was licensed to
preach when he was 90 years of age,
and soon afterwards studied Latin,
Hebrew and Greek, becoming prof.
cient in all. In 1862 he became pastor
of the largest colored church in Wash
ington, ID. G., and in 1868 was appoint
ed chaplain in the army by Presi-
dent Lincoln. being the first colored
man appointed to such position. In
1880 he was elected bishop of the
Methodist church. Bishop Turner,
who had been given the titles of IL
d. and d. ID. by universities of the
highest standing, is one of the prin-
cipal agitators for the return of his
race to Africa. He thinks their pros
poets in this country are poor.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-01-11
ALASKAN TRAGEDIES.
Four 'acn Freeze 10 Death During a
RliZzard that Swept Over the WHITE

Seattle, Wash, Jan. 5.-The steamer
City of Topeka, from Alaskan ports,
brings information of five recent tragic
deaths in the north, four of which
were due TO freezing. The bodies of
two men were found frozen on the day
the Topeka sailed. They died on the
summit of White Pass, apparently
overcome by blizzard. In a belt
tied around the body of one man was
found check on the Alaska CONNER
cial Co. for $1,000, dated November Z.
The check was issued in favor of X. c..
Jennings. His residence was not given.
The bodies were discovered by party
of snow shovelers. The men are be-
lieved to have been returning Klon-
dikers.
Another man, d. r. Ritchter, of San
Francisco, was reported frozen in his
cabin near White Pass.
William Somerville. a well-known
Dawsonite, was picked up by squad
of the northwest mounted police just
below White Horse. He had been
frozen during the night. Somcrville
was superintendent of the British
American corporations extensive cop
per mines back of White Horse
Rapids. lie left White Horse about
December 20. Andrew Andochwitz, a
ladorer on the White Pass and Yukon
extension to White Horse, was killed
by Il stone from blast last week.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-01-11
WAS FILLED WITH GAS,
CorOner's Inquiry Into the Braznei
Mine Horror Brings Ont Sensational


Uniontown, Pa, Jan. 4.-The first
days inquiry by the coroner's jury
into the Braznel mine horror in which
10 lives were lost, developed some sur
prising testimony and revealed the
fact that there had been gas in explo-
sive quantities in the mine at various
times before the explosion. The most
important witness yesterday was
James Radcliffe, the fire boss, whose
duty it was to examine the mine every
morning before the men went to work.
His explanation of how he measured
the amount of gas was revelation to
mine inspectors present, and they
quickly wanted to know how he could
report only four inches of gas when
the flame of his safety lamp was 12
inches from the roof and they called
that II inches of gas instead of four,
making three times the amount he re-
ported finding.
1t was also shown that at various
times he had found several feet of gas
covering a large area in rooms close to
the main passageway, and the in
spectors declared that this was suffi-
cient to cause as disastrous an explo-
sion as the one now being investi-
gated. 1t was also shown that men
were allowed to work with the mine
in this condition, and the fire boss told
how he had posted the danger signal
in gaseous portions of the mine while
safety lamps were being used, which
sign was changed to a notice prohibit
ing any one from entering that section
of the mine on the day open lamps
were allowed to be used.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-01-11
BISHOP HENRY TURNER.
CoIOred Divine Who
Was Refused 81 Berth In n GeOr-
gia Sleeping Car.

Bishop Henry NJ. Turner, who was
refused a berth in a sleeping car on
the Georgia Central railroad because
of his color, is one of the most famous
negroes in the United States. He was
born in South Carolina in 1884, and
from his earliest childhood showed I'M
usual talent. Before he was II years
old he had, entirely by his own eff.
forts, learned to read, and at Is Sc
cured employment in a law office at
Abbeville. His employers quickly rec.
ognized that the young negro had un'
usual powers of intellect and assisted
him in his studies, so that he ac.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-01-11

Washington, made the first hit of the
season by n new member. Cushman
is only 32 years old, yet he has lived
in four states. Born and educated in
Iowa, he was a cowboy at 16 in Wyo-
ming, lawyer in Nebraska at 21, re-
moving to Tacoma, in Washington, at
"a. At 81 he beat James Hamilton
Lewis, the democratic shooting star
of the last congress, on a gold stand
ard platform. Hence he is a repub-
lican of purest ray serene. He came
to Washington heralded as the Abra-
nam Lincoln of the Pacific slope. And
ie looks the part. That is, he looks
as Lincoln probably did at Cushman's 8
age. He is tall, lank and as homely
as q rail fence. He is fluent and forci-
BILE of speech and humorous withal.
Without this latter quality he would
be a dismal failure as Lincoln re-
sembler. But he has the saving grace
of humOr
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-01-11
BUBONIC PLAGUE.
The Disease Appears AT Honolulu and
Manila - Five Deaths in the Ha-
waIian City.

Manila, Jan. 4.-The health officers
have found a native with all the symp-
toms of bubonic plague in house in
the walled city, where two suspicious
deaths have occurred. The patient
has been isolated and every precaution
has been taken to prevent a spread of
the disease.
Washington, Jan. 4.-Surgeon Gen
eral Wyman has no confirmation of
the report that three suspected cases
of bubonic plague have been discov-
cred within the walled city of Manila,
but no attempt is made to conceal the
gravity of the situation should the re-
port prove true. Still it is said that a
few sporadic cases need not necessarily
result in an epidemic n the islands.
The methods of fighting it are isola-
tion, disinfection and sanitation. The
greatest danger is due to its possible
introduction into new localities
through walking cases which defy the
surveillance of the authorities. One
feature of the disease which is gratify-
ing in view of the possible outbreak of
an epidemic in the Philippines, is the
fact that it does not attack Europeans
as readily as natives.
Surgeon General Wyman has re-
ceived a long report from Surgeon
Carmichael, at Honolulu, bearing on
the condition of affairs there regard
ing the bubonic plague. Under date
of December Is, the report says that
five cases and five deaths from what is
pronounced to be bubonic plague have
occurred in Honolulu. DR.. Carmichael
says the presence of the disease was
not suspected until the 18th, when a
Chinese patient died.
The duration of illness in two of the
cases was three days and from three to
four in the other cases. Strained prep
arations from juice expressed from the
enlarged glands showed the presence
in large numbers of short bacillus
rounded at both ends and closely re-
sembling that of bubonic plague. Gull
lures from the first case showed the
bacillus of bubonic plague.
The bodies of the deceased have
been cremated. All the places where
the deaths occurred have been quaran-
tined and disinfected. The Hawaiian
board of health surrounded Chinatown
by sanitary Gordon, the district was
divided into sections and house to
house inspection at once begun. The
state council appropriated S25, 900 to
begin the necessary sanitary work,
Communication with the other islands
except under quarantine restrictions
have been prohibited and all vessels
plying between island ports must
undergo a detention period of at least
seven days before proceeding to their
destination.