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1OR sALE.-One new room frame house OF
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The progressive farmer., 1901-05-28
NORTH CAROLINA AND IMMIGRATION

Of all the States of the American
Union, North Carolina has the small
est per cent. of foreign born inhabi-
tants, the per centage being .OO7. In
In New York 54.8 per cent of the
population is of foreign birth, in
Massachusetts, sos, while in North
Dakota 80 out of each 100 inhabitants
are foreign born. The average for
the United States Is 14.77.
Or to put it in different form: Go
to New York and more than half of
those you will meet we're born in
foreign countries. In Massachusetts,,
call upon 100 people and you will
find only 40 of them native Ameri-
cans. Or take 100 average Ameri-
cans and you will find that IA of
them are of foreign birth. In North
Carolina, however, if you pick out
1000 people and range them in rows
of 100 each, you will find seven of
the rows with but a single foreign
born person and the 800 in the re-
naming rows all native Americans.
In no other State in the Union must
you pass 100 people before finding a
single person of foreign birth.
These thoughts are suggested by
the statement that North Carolina 8
Commissioner of immigration, Hon.
Jno. w. Thompson, finding his work
bringing forth no fruit, has resigned
and will engage in other business
hereafter.
North Carolina is, and seems
destined to remain, the most thor
oughly American of all the States.
The progressive farmer., 1901-05-28
THE PITY AND THE FOLLY OF 1T.

On February % the editor had the
pleasure Of addressing the people of
the Alamance community at the
close Of their public school, speaking
in the church belonging to thePresby-
terian congregation served by David
Caldwell for sixty years and by Eli
Caruthers for forty years. This is
one of the best rural communities in
the State. Largely of Scotch extrac-
tiOn, the people have ever been
sturdy, industrious, God-fearing
people. One seldom sees SO many
strong, intelligent faces in any as
semblage of the same size IS might
be seen among children and older
people in this. With proper educa-
tiOnal advantages such a people
become a great power for good in the
State. But this occasion was the
closing Of an elementary school of
fourteen weeks, all the opportunity
for education the bOys and girls OF
the community will have until next
December.
The school district is what is known
as "corner DISTRICT" made up of
small portions from the corners of
two or more townships. From the
school house to the district line on
the south is only half mile, on the
north mile, on the west three
fourths of a mile, on the east a mile
The progressive farmer., 1901-05-28
PROGRESSIVE FARMING.

After telling of rural free delivery,
electric railroads and 800 telephones
among the farmers of his county, a
writer in the Ohio Farmer we'll says ::
"Now what does this all mean to
us of Geauga county? This and
more: We are in closer touch with
the whole world. We can do bust
ness right at home, anywhere in the
county, with any business firm in
Cleveland by wire. Can in two
hours time go ourselves, or have the
product of our dairies placed before
the consumers of the largest city OF
the State, and seventh in the United
States. It means better price for
our land and all we sell, and while
we rest and sleep in our quiet homes
the events of the world are flashed
over mountains and under sea, the
printing presses are put in motion
and the morning carrier brings to our
door the morning edition still damp
with the city printers ink and we
know it all. Above all, it means
more intelligence, a higher apprecia-
tion of independent life on the farm,
better citizenship and a greater love
for our country"
Not in it's fullest extent just yet
is this for us, but very long step
in this direction might be made
throughout the South within the
next few months. With rural free de
livery, longer public schools, public
school libraries, farm telephones,
ETC., farming would become indeed
one of the most delightful and prof
table of all occupations. In this con-
nection we invite attention to the
article, "Actual Rural Indepen-
dence," published elsewhere in this
issue. This, it seems to US, is car
rying fancy farming" trif1e too
far, perhaps, but much the larger
part of it is thoroughly practicable
and will become common within a
very few years.
Quite rapidly is agriculture COM
ing abreast of the most progressive
and scientific vocatiOns.
The progressive farmer., 1901-05-28
A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE.

In our opinion, no higher tribute
has been paid President Mckinley
than that contained in the paragraph
which we print below. Laying aside
our political feelings, and viewing
the man, not as par tisan, but as the
President Of all the people, all good
citizens should be glad that our
counTry's chief executive is person
ally such a man as Mrs. Mckinney
described in conversation at New
Orleans Il few days ago:
DO you know Major McKinley?"
she asked. "Ah, no one can know
him, because to appreciate him one
must know MIN al do. And | am
not speaking now VI Major McKln-
ley as the President. am speaking
Of him as my husband. If any one
could know what it is to have a wife
sick, complaining, always an invalid
for twenty five years, seldom a day
well-yet never word of unkind-
ness has ever passed his lips he is
just the same tender, thoughtful,
kind gentleman knew when first he
came and sought my hand"
The progressive farmer., 1901-05-28

and a fourth. There are sob,o7
houses on every side within 7ass
than three miles. The district has
1O4 children of school age and "a.
ceives $3.50 from the school fUnd
The total enrolment in the school
was 80, the average attendance he.
tween rs and 80. Two teachers wera
employed at a salary of $45 month
for the two. Within easy reach If
this school are at least $50 children
Of school age, among them about 100
intelligent boys and girls between
sixteen and twenty-one. If these
had been placed all in one district
and good school of five months pro.
vided, not less than 275 would have
attended daily for the entire time.
The folly is in the use of vulgar
fractions of high degree in making
school districts; the pity and the
crime in robbing children, young
men and young women of their most
sacred rights, and to nobody sproft.
North Carolina Journal of Educa-
fiOn
The progressive farmer., 1901-05-28
WHAT Is THE REMEDY ?

While we are urging the import
ance of longer terms, it should not
be forgotten that a large number of
North Carolina children of school
age do not attend even the short
terms we now have. We are re-
minded of this just now by an inter
esting address delivered last week by
Mr.. John Wilber Jenkins, editor of
the Raleigh Times, in the course of
which he asked: why should not
there be an association in every com
1nunity to induce attendance on the
schools, pubIv and private?' This
idea the Smithfeld Herald heartily
approves, saying:
"If only u few people in every
community would band them
selves together for the purpose Of
looking after those children who do
not attend regularly they would do
their community, their children and
the cause of education a vast amount
OF gOOu.
This problem is indeed of no less
importance than that of securing
adequate legislative appropriations.
A nine months term will benefit the
non attending child no more than
will the three months term. Let
those who have ideas bring them
forward
The progressive farmer., 1901-05-28
WORK FOR GOOD ROADS.

"The way to build good roads is
to build them, " remarks the Chicago
Inter-Ocean. Let's apply the re-
mark to Forsyth's roads. Much
work has been done on our roads
and many of them have been greatly
improved and much cf this improve
ment, we take it, will be done away
with by the rains and SHOWS of the
winter and will have to be done
again, making much of the work of
a temporary nature, costing more in
the end than if done with a view to
permanency at once. Permanent
good roads is what is needed and we
hope this idea will be developed as
rapidly as possible in this county
and in the State.-Winston Sentinel.
The progressive farmer., 1901-05-28
LITERARY NOTES.

In the June Scribner' s Senator
HOar, from his long experience in
public life, writes paper on "Ora-
tory" giving his ideas on what con-
stitutes a great orator. In an arti-
Gle by Walter A Wyckoff we have
Il happy episode in his career as a
workingman, telling of the lie of a
section hand on the Union Pacific
Railroad. He gives a vivid account
of the many qualities of the men he
labored with. All of Mr.. Wyckoff 8
experiences lead him to be an opti-
mist in regard to the American la
bOrer.
Mrs. Sara Beaumont Kennedy's 8
novel, "Joscelyn Cheshire" which
has been running in Everybody s
Magazine, has now appeared in book
form. The story is one of absor bing
interest, and should be specially at
tractive to Tar Heels, as the scene is
laid in North Carolina, historic old
HillsbOro being the town most often
mentioned. Mrs. Kennedy is herself
u native of North Carolina Some
months ago she wrote two or three
excellent stories of EdentOn colonial
life. And, by the way, the Edenton
Of century and half ago could
furnish much material for the enter
prising novelist
''SOme Remarkable Instances of
Double Personality" is the title of
an article in the May Ladies Home
Journal. The incidents are doubt
less reported correctly, but in this
day of hypnotic, spiritualistic and
mind reading superst1tions, why
should a high-class journal seek out
and herald abroad curious incidents
calculated to foster this already too
prevalent spirit? Nothing better
could be expected of trashy journals,
but we have II right to expect better
things of the Ladies' Home Journal.
The Farmer Co, Philadelphia, has
just published new book on gar
dening, entitled, ''The Garden Book
for Practical Farmers" written by
Mr.. t. Greiner, who for nearly
thirty years been preaching and prac-
tioing the gospel of good gardening
with marked success. Thirty years
OF actual soil contact by man who
loves his work and follows it in all
detail with interchangeable patience,
means much when it comes to teach
ing others In the 'EGarden Book"
the author epitomizes that thirty
years work in most entertaining
and instructive manner. The man
who has u garden, large or small,
and the man who intends to have one,
will be equally interested and
profted by study of it's pages.
The progressive farmer., 1901-05-28
KANSAS PROSPERITY.

That homely and hOary maxim,
Every dog must have his day, .
seems to be as true of communities
as of individuals. Take the case of
Kansas, for example. A few years
ago the inhabitants of the Sunfiower
State were a poverty stricken, mort
gage bearing people, of whose dis
tress the whole country heard. Now
no State is more prosperous. The
grain crops for years have been
phenOmenally large, and the only
calamity bowling now heard comes
in the shape of cry for more hands
to harvest their great wheat crop.
This is to them an important prob
lem, as it is said that Sat least 20, 900
additional men are needed to help
save the one hundred million bushels
of wheat now maturing in the
State"
The progressive farmer., 1901-05-28
.THE INDUsTRIAL AID EDUOATION

1.-THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATION
All, INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARA
MOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
OF STATE POLICY, is the motto of The
Progressive Farmer, and upon this
platform it shall rise or fall. Serving
no master, ruled by no faction, cir
oumscribed by no selfish or narrow
policy, it's aim will be to foster and
promote the best interests of the
whole people of the State. 1t will be
true to the instincts, traditions and
history of the Anglo-SaxOn race. On
all matters relating specially to the
great interests it represents, it will
speak with no uncertain voice, but
will fearlessly the right defend and
impartially the wrong condemn. =
From Col. POlk's SalutatOry, Feb.
10. 1886
The progressive farmer., 1901-05-28
VOLUNTEER TEACHERS"

The call for volunteer teachers for
our public schools seems to have
been misunderstood by some people
We do not think that the Originators
of the plan expected responses from
many of those who teach the regular
terms of country schools for few
months each year and at the low
rates usually paid. Most of these
teachers ere poor, and the people
have no right to expect them to
teach one or two months longer free
of charge. The volunteer teachers,
we think, should come from the
ranks of those educated men and
women who are not forced to teach
country schools for a livelihood
"well-to-do" college students and
teachers or public-spirited towns
people, to whom a few weeks of
country life would be helpful and
who ought in return to help those
with whom they come in contact.
Is it too much to expect that five
hundred such people will respond to
the call for volunteer teachers?
The progressive farmer., 1901-05-28
DOGS TAXED TO EXEMPT RAILROADS

Governor La Toilette, of Wisc0n.
sin, is having the same kind of an
experience with his Legislature that
Governor Pingree had with that of
Michigan when trying to secure the
fulfllment of platform pledges to
eQualize taxation. The platforms of
both parties in Wisconsin at the last
election demanded that the property
of corporations should be taxed at
the same rate as the property of in
dividuals. The State Tax Commits
sion, appointed by the Legislature of
1899 upon the demand Of the friends
of the railroads, reported that the
railroads we're not taxed much more
than half as heavily as were farms
and homes and business places
throughout the State. In spite of
platform pledges and the Commits
siOn's 8 report, however, every effort
to secure a higher tax upon railroad
property has failed. Even the
bill raising the tax upon gross re-
ceipts from four to five per cent,
which would still leave the railroads
more lightly taxed than the general
public, was defeated in the Senate
after it had passed the Assembly
In order to supply needed revenues,
the Legislature passed instead an act
taxing all the dogs in the State from
one to three dollars each. Governor
La Follettee has vetoed this bill in
a message which must commend it.
self to the people of the State. "The
tax imposed, " he says, "may not be
estimated by the Legislature a serious
burden in itself, but it would add to
burdens borne by the great majority
of the people, which are already out
of all proportions to those borne by
others whose influence would seem
to be more potent in shaping legis-
latiOn." After re Tiewing the Legis-
lature's rejection Ot the bills to pre-.
vent this unjust taxation Of small
property owners by the just taxation
of corporations, he concludes as fol
lows: Il am unwilling to presenttO
the people of this State, in lieu Of
legislation to equalize taxation,
scheme which may be described as
an act to relieve the farmer or city
home owner Of a small measure Of
increased tax upon his realty by i'm
posing a license fee upon his dog, y
It is worthy of note that the same
forces in the Wisconsin Legislature
secured the defeat of the bill to
equaliz0 taxation which secured the
defeat of the bill to establish direct
primaries. The machines and the
monOpOlies which wish to purchase
legislative favor work hand in hand,
so that the struggle against machine
rule and that against monopoly rule
are really but two parts of the same
great cOnfict.-New York Outlook.
The progressive farmer., 1901-05-28
Editorial.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

In another column we have given
an account of the great flood of last
week. If the damage to Western
North Carolina railroads exceeds
$500, 900, as is stated upon good au-
thority, then the damage TO farming 9
interests must be millions. Nor did
North Carolina escape without loss
of life, "a was first reported. In
Mitchell county four lives we're lost
by drowning.
Words of wisdom, we firmly believe,
are these from the Morganton Her
arid, and we commend them to our
Western Carolina readers: 1.-THE
wholesale destruction of our timber
is only a tub to the whale, and will
leave US poorer in the end. There is
nothing-wOrse than nothing in tan
bark. Some time ago d farmer in
the county, cut magnificent shade
tree worth 500 to his place, and got
Sc for the bark"
Recently the public has been re-
minded of the fact that of the eight
mem bers of the Presidents cabinet,
only one was born in the South, and
the parents of that one, having just
emigrated from New England, took
him with them to the West while he
was still Il mere youth. To Us the
fact seems significant and worthy of
some thought. Without following
the idea further, we commend it to
the consideration of our readers.
VIM. E. Curtis, the distinguished
Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Record, is a man of no mean
ability, but what he doesn't know
about cotton growing would fill
several libraries. For instance, he
has recently reported: Fifteen
years ago planters we're satisfied if
they got thirty or thirty five bales
an acre. Last year the average for
the whole United States was forty
four bales and the big crop Of 1898
yielded forty eight bales to the
acre.
The sensation of the hour as we go
to press is over the joint resigna
tion of B. R. Tillman and JnO. R.
McLaurln as Senators from South
Carolina. Their resignation will 60
into effect Sept. 18th, and until that
time they will canvas the State,
Tillman representing the Bryan
Den. OCraCy, and McLaurin represent
ing the gold standard, expansion ele
men6 of the party. A Democratic
primary will then be held to choose
their successors. McLaurin and
Tillman are, of course, among the
candidates to succeed themselves.
This action Of theirs means that the
Palmetto State will have this sum-
mer one of the hottest political cam
paigns in its history, one that will
arouse interest in all sections OF the
country.
Does ii college education pay?'
is question that seems to be at
tracing unusual attention just at
this tune, its increased prominence
being due probably TO the fact that
the commencement season is at
hand Two weeks ago we published
the statement made by President
Charles II. Sch Sab, Of the steel
trust, and last week we gave the
comment by the New York Sun.
On the same subject, Prof
Noble, of our State Univer-
sity, speaks a. follows: Out of
every 10, 600 men who do not go to
college one rises or aUtains reputa-
tion, while out of every 40 college
men one man achieves success. This
indicates that the college man is $50
times better off than the man who
has not received a college eduoa-
ton"
The progressive farmer., 1901-05-28

Mr.. Harnsworth, editor and pro
prietOr Of the London Daily Mail,
seeing the svndic ting tendency OF
the times, has an article in the Janu-
ary No: tn American Review, on the
syndicated newspaper. He argues
that the Goth century will witness
great newspaper combinations ike
tho Standard Oil Company, and that
these combinati tions will control the
news, and issue simultaneous edl-
tions all over the country. Thus we
would have a newspaper trust. Ih0
methods of bringing about this COM
bination, would be, he says, the same
as those employed by the ordinary
trust. What these methods are Is
every day history, which needs ~
recOunting here. It would be
struggle Of the Independent paper
against the syndicated machines
struggle of free speech against tn0
smOthering and crushing influence
of an overpowering cOmbinatlQ%I'
May we not live to see the day ~
G. Baptist.
The progressive farmer., 1901-05-28

The spirit of the world enoloSfGs 5fs
four kinds of spirits diametrlcaILJ .o
opposed to charity-the spirit OF TO 70,
sentiment, the spirit of aversion, SnF of
spirit of jealousy, and the splrl' %
Indifference.
The progressive farmer., 1901-05-28

Unrevised census returns Of
England and Wales show the pop
ulation to be 80, 526, ,716, an increase
of 3, 533, 191. All the purely agricul-
tural counties show d decrease in
population.
The progressive farmer., 1901-05-28

"What place has it (oratory) in an
agricultural college?" Oratory is the
art of effective speaking in public.
One of the things specially lacking
among farmers is the power to speak
effectively in public. If more farm
ers had that power more farmers
would be good, effective members of
our legislatures and of congress.
More honest farmers with their high
moral ideas, and less political trick
sters would ''adorn our politics" and
our public Offices.
To put it tersely it seems to me
that in every agricultural college the
student should be required to take
agricultural studies" and permitted
to take any Of the other studies that
are usually considered as elevating
to mankind. And to that end the
agricultural college should afford a
broad and varied course of study.
It should be broadening, not narrow
ing.-B. M. Vaughan, Grand Rapids,
Wis.
The progressive farmer., 1901-05-28
The Thinkers.
gHORT-sIGHTED NEWSPAPER POLICY.

sETalk up YOUR town. "Work for
vour town :" ''Our chief aim is the
upbuilding of the town OF -;
owe are for our town first, last and
all the time" These are quotations
from four different Texas papers,
quoted with approval by a great
Texas daily. We could fill column
with similar sentiments from SINH
lar sources. These papers seem to
have forgotten that anything exists
bevond the limits of the towns
that it is the country that makes
the towns; that but for the country
and the country people the towns
would be depopulated by poverty
and starvation; that the towns and
town people can only grow in wealth
and influence as the country and peo-
nile Then would it not be well tor
these "moulders of public opinion
to look a little to their base OF sup
plies? By way of contrast with the
ABOVE QuOUGu SUI W.
from the Paris News: "The people
of Paris and Lamar county should
get to gether and devise some plan
that will give this county better
roads" Here is an editor who IS also
''for the best interests Of his town,
but he knows that these interests
come over the public roads from
,omewhere beyond, and he wants
better facilities for communication
with the people who live there, and
who are as necessary to the Upbuild-
ing of Paris and her own people. 1t
is a short-sighted policy that limits
the range of vision to town bounda-
ries and fails to recognize the fact
that if the surrounding country pros
pers the towns will take care of
themselves.-Tex Farm and Ranch.
The progressive farmer., 1901-05-28

A strike of machinists in all parts
of the country is now on, and will
probably prove successful.