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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03
THE RAINS AND THE COTTON.

Up to ten days ago the cotton crop
in this section of the State was far
ing we'll. There had been sufficient
sunshine after the rains to bring it
out and a good crop was promised.
Since then, however, it has been
subjected TO a rain that has been al
most continuous. At least there has
not been sufficient sunshine after
one shower to dry it out before an
other rain would come, and the
effect has been decidedly damaging.
There has been quite q change in the
outlook and the situation will be
serious if the rains continue q few
days longer. The condition of cot
ton is such just now that each day
of rain adds to the damage, while a
few days of sunshine would materi-
ally change the prospect for the bet
ter.
Some of the farmers about Pine
vile are fearful that among their
other troubles the boil worm has ap-
peared in their midst.-Charlo to
Observer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03
General News.
s'AL1 THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT"
The Facts Boiled Down and Presented in
Convenient Form for Busy
Readers.

Gen. Fabius J. Mead, a veteran of
Civil War and the friend of Grant,
Logan and Mcclellan, is dead in
Chicago of consumption. Gen. Mead
was born in Raleigh, N. c., in 1889.
General Kitchener's proclamation,
to the effect that all Beers remain
ing in the field against the British
September Is, would be visited with
the penalty of permanent Danish
ment when captured, has had ap-
parently little effect, for, in addi-
ton to Delarey's counter proclama-
ton, Steyn, DeWet and Botha have
declared that the war is to be con-
tinued.
The list of appropriations for the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, re-
vised up to date, is as follows: By
the United States government, $5,-
600, 900 city of st. Louis, SIS, OOO, 900 E;
corporations, companies and individ-
uals, S., ZOO, 900 Missouri, 81, 600. 900;
Illinois, $3.50, 900; Congress for gov
eminent building, $3.50, 900 Kansas,
SIS, 900; Colorado, $4,000; Arkan-
sas, $40, 900; Wisconsin, $25, 900;
Pennsylvania, $35, 900 Arizona Coon.
ditionaD, $50, 200; New Mexico, $780,
900; Hawaii, $4,000; total, $16,-
200, 900.
A Washington dispatch announces
that it is now apparent that the
Schley inquiry will consume a much
longer period of time than was at first
supposed. "The list of witnesses in
dioates, and naval officers predicted
to-day, that the court would not
conclude the taking of tesmony in
less than two months, which will
mean probably that the findings will
not be agreed on until about Thanks
giving. The list of witnesses al
ready contains about one hundred
names and is not complete. Fully
half of these will be called at the
request of Admiral Schley. He has
asked that every officer who was on
his flagship, the Brooklyn, in the
West Indian naval campaign be
summoned"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03
STRANGE STORY FROM BURKE.

Morganton Cor. Charlotte Obser-
YER: A woman, giving her name as
Lydie Masser, came to town to-day
with a queer story. She says that
fourteen years ago a man named
Lane, who lives on the top of the
South Mountains in Burke county
neal the Rutherford line, came to
her fathers house and threatening
her life induced her to go to his
home, where she has lived in a con-
dition of slavery ever since. She
says she has been forced to do, a
mans work on Lanes farm, and that
she was afraid to leave or make com-
plant, fearing that she would be
killed. Lane is preparing to leave
the country, she says, and she came
to town to bring suit against him for
her services and for the possession
of some personal chattels. The truth
of her story may be developed on
the trial.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03
THE LATEST AS TO HOw1sON AND sCH1EY

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.-The Navy
Department has just received letter
from Admiral Howison. He does
not deny that he has talked upon
the subject of the Santiago victory,
but he says he is sure he could not
have said that Schley was
and hot.headed. AS a generalpropo-
sition he declares, ''that where all
do their duty first honors for success
go to the officer in chief command"
He says that he is willing to with
draw from the court of inquiry If
the department feels that the course
of Justice could be better served by
his SO doing, but that he is ready to
perform his duty as a member of the
court, and that he can act without
p~artiality.
1t was learned that the statement
of Admiral Howison had not changed
in any way the feeling of Admiral
Schley and his counsel that his eligi-
bility for service on the court has
been brought in question by the
newspaper interview, and his right
to serve will be challenged when the
court meets.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03
THE YELLOW FEVER EXPERIMENT.
The Infected Mosquito Claims Three Vic
t1ms-More Volunteers Wanted.
summoned"

The Infected Mosquito Claims Three Vic
t1ms-MOre Volunteers Wanted.
HAVANA, Aug. 28.-Of the eight
persons bitten by infected mosqui-
toes in connection with the expert
ments conducted by the yellow fever
board during the last three weeks,
three have died. Three others who
took the fever are expected to re-
cover. One has not developed the
disease. The eighth person as yet
has not developed yellow fever, al
though it is too early to say what
will happen in that case.
Surgeon Major Reed intends to
continue the Investigations. Major
George, chief sanitary officer, says
the idea of the yellow fever board
was to subject to mosquito infection
as many as would volunteer. Six
teen persons had been bitten and all
had recovered; and the theory of
the board was that if some hundred
or more persons could have been bit
ten with similar results, a report
could have been published showing
how apparently safe and easy it was
to become immune. After this had
been published, the entire popula-
ton might have been immunized.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03
FOR LIFE.

Alabama Moves to Put an End to Lynching
One Lyncher Convicted and Sentenced
and Six Men on ~Trial-Other Members of
the Mob Fly.
WATUMPKA, ALA, Aug 29.U-George
Howard, a member of the mob that
lynched Robert White, a negro, in
this county some months ago, was
yesterdy convicted of murder in the
first degree and was sentenced to
life imprisonment.
The case was called in the Circuit
Court. After the States evidence
was submitted, the attorney for the
defence announced that Howard de-
sired to make a statement to the
court. Upon being sworn Howard
admitted his participation in the
lynching and gave the names of the
members of the mob, which num-
bered thirteen. After being out al
most two hours the jury returned a
verdict of guilty of murder in the
first degree and fixed the penalty at
life imprisonment.
Howard is one of the most promi-
nent farmers in his section Of the
country. White was accused of
shooting a white man.
The case against six others ac-
cused of being members of this mob
are now being tried.
All others who are alleged to have
been members of the mob have left
the country.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03

Mr.. Macon, like some other eminent
citizens, and Generals Pettigrew and
Fender, should have monument in
Capitol square, Raleigh. Go TO Rich
mond and Q how the Virginians
honor the memories of their distin-
guished dead.-Wilmington Messen-
ger.
Col. Olds Governor Aycock says
that few of the people of State ap-
pear to realize the extreme shortness
of this years crops, which means so
much to the whole people. Not
many farmers are provident, but
most of them live from year to year.
This applies with peculiar force to
tenant farmers. A landowner says
that on his lands tenants whose
crops of cotton last year were thir-
teen bales will this year get only
three bales. He says he advised
some of them to go to work as car
penters, as the latter are in great de-
mand. Agriculture is yet the basis
of the prosperity, here, and it gets a
hard blow this year. It is odd that
while government reports say the
cotton crop is poor private reports
say the contrary. The fact is the
bigness of weed where there is weed
deoeives the superficial observer
The movement to have cotton farm
ers hold county meetings September
Dist and send delegates to a State
meeting here September 25th in order
to take steps to secure a higher price
for their cotton seed is important.
1t is beyond question that the de-
mand for cotton seed meal and oil
will be very great. 1t is equally
certain that the mills will try to
keep prices of seed down.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03
EXCHANGE OF SCHOOL BOOKS.

Attorney General Gilmer has rem
dered an opinion at the request of
Gen. T. F. Toon, Superintendent of
Public instruction relative to the
exchange of school books under the
provisions of the act to establish the
Text Book Commission. And it will
have an important bearing upon the
operation of the law when the deposi-
tories come to be established in the
various counties of the State.
The opinion was asked because of
the fact that a number of the pub
fishers who e awarded contracts
for furnishing various text books for
the public schools are sending out to
all the teachers in the State blanks
which indicate that they may at
tempt to circumscribe the exchange
of old books for new ones in such a
way as to impose upon the public
school patrons.
State Superintendent Toon con
tends that the publishers are obliged
to take any book that was used dur
ing the period from February 8th to
July 1st, 1901, no matter how much
it is damaged. In fact, his conten-
ton is that a useable book is an eX-
changeable book, whether q few
pages are missing or the covers gone
or both.-Raleigh Post.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03
A FOR Farm LABOR.

Highest in the Country at Large in 1856 and
Lowest in 1S79-Highest in North Caro-.
lima in 1888.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.-The De-
partment of Agriculture is preparz
ing to issue at an early day a bulle-
tin concerning the wages of farm
labor in the United States from 1866
to 1899. The statement shows that
in the country at large wages per
month by the year or season, both
with board and without board, had
their maximum in 1866 and their
minimum in 1879. For wages Der
month without board, MARYLAND.
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Arkansas, Iowa and California had
the highest wages in 1869, South
Carolina and Oregon in 1875, Texas
in 1882, Virginia in 1888. In Virginia
the rate Of 1856 was reached in 1883
and the elimination was in 1894 for
South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas, Michigan, Col
orado, Oregon and California in 1895.
Wages per month by the year or
season, with board, surpassed those
of 1886 in Maine in 1890. The cul-
mination in Vermont, New Jersey,
Alabama, Arkansas and Georgia
was in 1859; South Carolina and
Oregon, 1875, Louisiana and Texas
1882, North Carolina 1883, Florida
1890, Iowa 1898.
Wages per day for ordinary farm
labor, with board, were at a maxi
mum in South Carolina in 1875. They
we're at a minimum in Arkansas, Ten
nessee (same in 1880 in 1884; in Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas,
Kentucky (same as 1879, in 1895.
Both without board and with board,
in the country, as a whole, the year
1898 shows higher rates that any
preceding year reported since 1875.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03
THE STATE TREASURER REMOVED.
Governor LOnginO Appoints a Provisional
Officer to Handle Mississippi Funds.

Governor LOngino Appoints q Provisional
officer to Handle Mississippi Funds.
JACKSON, Miss, Aug. ,28.-Gov-
ernor Longino to-day ordered the
suspension of State Treasurer j. r..
Showers and appointed q. ". Carl
isle temporary Treasurer. Showers,
in n statement given, out last Friday,
said the $1,000 0 missing and unac-
counted for when the Governor
counted his cash August Is, was de-
posted in banks under his direction,
which is forbidden by law. All the
banks of Jackson having denied
that they had any of his money
on deposit, the Governor last
night wrote Showers for a complete
statement as to where the deposits
were were made and all things N
nected with the transaction.
Treasurer Showers answer TO
Governor Longinois letter as TO the
whereabouts of the cash missing on
August 18th is a very long docu-
ment, but tells nothing. He de-
clines to name the banks wherein
the cash was deposited. The Gov
ernor, the Auditor, a revenue agent,
Bank Cashiers Jones and Anderson
and the old and new Treasurers re-
counted the cash tonight. An ex-
pert will be employed 1t once to
overhaul the books and on his report
custer proceedings will be instituted
against the Treasurer for violation
of the law in failing to keep the
money in the treasury. Mr.. Stow
ers has retained counsel and will en-
deavor to show that he is guilty of
no crime.
Mr.. Carlisle, the new treasurer, is
is an alderman of this city. He made
the required personal bond of $1l5,-
900, and entered on the discharge of
his duties.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03
NEARLY FREE HOMEsrEADs IN TEXAS.

Almost the last act of the last
Legislature in Texas, we learn from
a correspondent in that State, was to
throw open for settlement a tract of
land larger than the State of Con-
necticut, upon terms almost as lib
.eral rs those offered by the General
Government under the homestead
law. The lands in question are dis
tributed among ffty-odd counties in
western Texas, and heretofore have
been rented to a relatively few great
cattle companies at the extremely
low rent of three cents an acre. The
cattlemen, of course, insisted that
the land was worthless for agricul-
ture, but the pressure of public opin-
ion in the parts of the State which
they did not control led the last
Legislature to order that agricultural
settlers should be given a chance to
enter and cultivate this great public
domain. The terms offered these
settlers are extremely liberal. Any
bona-fde home-seeker who will settle
upon a section for three years, and
meanwhile erect thereon improve
ments worth at least three hundred
dollars, will be allowed to obtain
title by the payment of one dollar an
acre, and this sum may be paid in
forty annual installmants with in
fterest at the rate Of three per cent.
on deferred payments. The settler
who takes a quarter-section, there
fore, need only pay four dollars
a year on his principal, and a
maximum of less than five dollars as
interest, to acquire his one hundred
and sixty acre farm. In other words,
he virtually leases at a rental of five
and a half per cent, and acquires
ownership without any other pay
ment in the forty years. The new
Texas law allows the settler to take
as much as four sections-the mo
tive being doubtless the anticipated
desire of some of the homesteaders
to go into the cattle business in a
small way in connection with their
farms. Inasmuch as homesteaders
pay at least as high a rental as the
cattle companies have done, and
soon begin to pay taxes on the homes
they build and improvements they
make, the State is of course enriched,
in spite of it's generosity. Under the
new law the land not taken by home
steaders may be released by cattle
companies, but onlyfor short periods,
or under a provision that unim
proved sections may be sold at any
time to homesteaders. The great
amount of public land still in the
possession of the State of Texas is
the result of a provision in the State
Constitution setting apart one-half
of the public domain TO the eduea
ton of the young and the care of the
unfortunate. The "school lands"
still unsold aggregate more than
four million acres.-New York Out
look.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03
THE sAMsoN-sCHLEY CONTROVERSY.

The latest phase of this famous
quarrel is the tentative objection by
Admiral Schley to Admiral Howison
as a member of tho Court of Inquiry.
Admiral Howison is reported
in a Boston newspaper to have
given out an interview some
time ago upon the merits of
this question, and while the Adj
mi1al has not been heard from the
interviewer has given an affidavit
setting forth the correctness of the
facts stated. Before this interview
was published Admiral Schley had
accepted Admiral Howison as a sat-
isfactory member of the Court of
Inquiry. The navy department. has
raised a technical question whether
it has a right now to substitute
another name for that of Admiral
Howison, but promises that the
whole matter will come up as a pre-
liminary challenge when the court
convenes. The Navy department. is
very wise to avoid even the appear
ance of injustice. The people IRE
very evenly divided on the merits
of the question at issue, and any
official leaning TO one side or the
other will be promptly resented
through a reversal of public opinion
of any apparently unjust decision of
the court.-Exchange.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03

The sweetest pleasure is in impart
ing tic. N. Bouve.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03

Split Among Advocates and New Bill to be
Introduced.

NEW YORK, Aug. 30.-According
to The Commercial Advertiser, "a
gentleman who is very close TO the
subsidy leaders and is thoroughly
posted on the situation" declared
to day that there is already a split
in the ranks of the advocates for a
national ship subsidy, and that in
all probability a new bill, carrying
an annual appropriation of Sc, 600, 900
and excluding all foreign built YES
sells from any benefit under the pro.
posed act, as we'll as making cargo
carriers the greatest beneficiaries,
would be introduced in the Fifty
seventh Congress. The Frye ros-
bill, with possibly some new
amendments, and appropriating
SO, 0OO, 900, will also be pushed for
passage.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-06-06
FROM FLAG POND.

Sosis'I'o''ienes - ne Big stone O.. rosr
FtAc PoSp. May 3o--Farmcrs Of sri.
place "ete damaged a great deal DIV the
heavy rain Of last week.
J. x. Burchctt. Of this place. l. nti.ns-
ing the examinations at Gate City this
week
r. G. daynor Is visiting friends At PAT
louisville this week
Mrs Heba Barker. Of Gate Cur. ia Wis
iiing homefoiks near this place.
swiunie Rhoiou and Mis-. N.rr Ia.
wards we're united in marriage Ma, i9t6
a. the home Of the brides parents.
"m. Robinett. Of this place. e.. en- route
Tor stouega
Miss Nernic Robinott, Of this pisse rbo
mas been very 800 for some time. is in-
proving fast. We viii De glad of her re-.
covory.
.. C. Taylor, uf Purchase. uss in the
alley on business saturday.
G. A. Jennings. OF Fsiryieu. cav, hi.
friends 90 this place a pleasant can SUM
hrs. q. 4. Rohincit. of Kiosk. s.er, .
pleasant day with old friends az This niaco
Sunday.
D r.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-06-06

- trHn ts>1s ~ D<Dssk Dr,<k><, L..
Der csnfee< ts he 4noset u e7soo 90.
snda ssod deal Tor other parties
"sere having p'enty ~ r>ia nov. and
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"m Farmer, of near here. viii have
log reiiins on ths2sih.
L. J. johnson had = bssa raising ss,ar-
There giii be two candidate. baptized
~ Dafy View nekt Sundsy.
+ 2 sntAsrland. Of car place, To-,
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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-06-06
SEVEN YEARS IN BED.

VIII wonders ever ceaserr inouirc the
irends of Mrs. l.. pessc. 90 Iau-er.,
Kan They knew she had been unable fs
leave her bed iu seven years on accom-,
Of kidney apd liver trouble. nervous rra.
tfaiion and general debility hut. ..ihr.e
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ielt iite new person Women .nH,--
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ness, siceplessness, Melancholy. Painting
aul Dizzy Speiis wiu fnd ID a rr.r.i..s
hiessine. Try &c. Satisfacfio, $780,
suioed by j. " Kelly, p-uerlst Oniv
50 cents. 81
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-06-06
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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-06-06
FROM BUCU.

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htcr, Va. May ~ -TAsr.da,. Ma, W
va ias Day fos ihe election 81 district "a.
scers
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