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Evening star., 1901-05-04

David Don, who divided honors with sam.
Bernard in THE Belle OF Bohemia" may
go into the London music halls
Evening star., 1901-05-04

Daniel Frohman is renorted TO have
bought n play In London with the tttia
Bow Bells" for production in this ccuu-
try.
Evening star., 1901-05-04

Rehearsals have started on the Goodwin.
Elliott all-star cast for the presentation oi
The Merchant of Venice"
Evening star., 1901-05-04

Miss Cora B. Shreve's dancing academy
will give its annual May carnival at Acad-
envy of Music on Tuesday. May 81. The
little people comprising Miss Shreve's class
have been thoroughly drilled and show sur
prising ability. The dancers will be pre-
scented in an interesting manner and stage
pictures and light effects will be especially
enjoyable. A. A. Sousa will have charge
of the stage management.
Evening star., 1901-05-04

THE KNEIsEL QUARTET.-No more
Evening star., 1901-05-04


RINGLING BROTHERS CIRCUS The
Dig white tents Of the Ringing Brothers'
circus with all their living features, will
become a part of Washington early SIM
day morning. The show grounds hefara
the average citizen is awake. will he a
white-winged city, with futterine Fa.s
around which the small boys will gather
ana gaze ana chatter. with an Interest
nothing else can inspire II is fiouhtfn, ~
the first yellow wagon will reach the Iot
sunday morning before the boy enthusia Of
he is bound to be there IL he is Obliged to
see the cook tents go up and the prenara-
tlon started Tor an early breakfast Ha
Will find strange pleasure in watching tba
neavy Norman Percheron horses drawing
across the lot. and not one of the hipbI,.
decorated dens and cages will escs ne b;s
vigflant eye The ponderous tread of tba
1nirty 1 elephants will fill hirn with wonder.
Inc horse tents with their 500 head of fine
stock, will engage his admirine aftentinn
and. when within two hours after the firSt
wagon arrives, the great tents are IN and
everything is ready for the circus day. he
VIII look around and Join. possibly. his
wondering elders and say: How ON eartb
do they do it2" Even the man who has
been faithful witness to the erection Of
every circus within his memory is puzzled
70 explain the clever trick by which 1t is
done. The Ringlings' shows are now quot
cd as the biggest aggregation in America,
The number Of animal dens that compose
their menagerie the number of high priced
performers employed In their circus pro-
gram, the extraordinary herd Of elephants.
the sixty-one-horse act by John O'Brien
the thousand or more people they carry on
their pay roll, the great hippodrome fea-
lures they present, the huge arena neces
sary for three circus rings two big stages
and a racing oval one-quarter of a mile in
length. seating capacity for Is, 600 peonle
ALI OF these items are of important ac-
count In showing the evolution of the cir.
Gus, the highest development of which has
been reached by the Ringing Brothers
The street parade Monday morning, start
ing from the show ground at 10 O'clock
will afford an appetizing picture OF the re-
sources of the show, and will be over two
miles in length and subdivided into thirty
sections. 1t will leave the circus grounds
at 10 o'clock and 60 over the usual route
The show viii play here Monday and
Tuesday, on the show grounds at 18th and
G streets northeast. Two performances
day will be given. one at o'clock and one
at o'clock. Admission tickets and re-
served seat tickets may be bought at the
down town office Of the circus at exactly
the same price as charged at the ticket
wagon on the circus grounds.
TILE KNEIsEL QUARTET.-No more
Evening star., 1901-05-04

Franklin Fyles has concluded an original
American play, entitled Kit Carson" and
it will be presented In New York the lat
ter part Of this month by the American
Theater stock company. Ralph Stuart will
have the title role, and, should 1t be sue
cessful the play will be taken on the road
next season. Mr. Fyles is the author OF
THE Girl Left Behind Me-
Evening star., 1901-05-04

|, Now, l guess nobodyll deny the old
ladys daffy yonaadtas SAID the york hand who had
| a daffy elephant d bite another's tail OF"
The reasoning was clear enough to suit
Mr.. souders, H. K, o. E., and Mr. Alexan-
der, C.. ", but while court of managers
| were debating Babylon's case in Chicago
| q skeptic turned up in the person of John
Barrett. onelof the clowns.
that elephant?' he remarked, sauntering
UP with his hands in his pockets "Why,
she's got the toothache. One Of her teeth
is on strike, sure-that's alL''
was discovered to be. So they set abou.,
half the circus crew, to devise ways and
means Of pulling Babylon's TOOTH It was
new job to all OF them, and it WASN'T in
the books. First they got a pair Of tongs
and fastene1 them to the erring molar.
They tied them together firmly with rope
and attached long rope to be used as a
drag. post was sunk, and in the post a
rope attached to the tongs on BabyIon's q
tooth was passed through the pulley on the
block and ten men got hold of the free end.
"Sit down. Babylon" ordered Mr.. Sou
ders. Babylon sat down.
Pull" ordered the head keeper.
The men pulled.
Other men caught hold of the rome near
Babylon and pulled toward the pulley while
the main crew hauled away from it.
Something had to give.
The post was stanch. the pulley warrant
ed.
It looked bad for the tooth.
And presently out the tooth came by the
roots.
For day or so she was restless. but
soon more hopeful light sprang into her
little eyes and she began to spruce up and
take some interest in life. The wound was
healing, the pain was gone. the source of
her discomfort for the past week had been
removed. In three days she was as bright
as ever and ready to resume her station ss
chaperon Of the flock. With Fanny it was
different.
She kept feeling worse and worse Baby.
lon hadn't made . clean bite OF II, and
there was still tail enough left to pain her
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-14
THE WALL STREET N

Wall streets unprecedented activ-
ity for some weeks past eliminated
in a genuine panic last Thursday.
Northern Pacific stock alone went
up while all other stock suffered
heavy declines, Standard Oil, for in
stance, in twenty-four hours drop
ping from 1921 to $3.50 per share.
Pandemonium reigned on the stock
exchange. The interest rate went
as high as 60 per cent. Millions of
shares changed hands, sales of stocks
during one hour reaching 741, 300.
Men who had been borne along by
the rising tide of the past few
weeks, and had staked all upon their
movements saw the accumulations
of a life time almost swept away by
the changes of half an hour.
A feature of the recent boom has
been the activity of many ladies
who, most of all, should have kept
clear of this intricate and nerve
DuSlu6SS. OO Gh0 press us
patches record that snow and then
a white-faced woman would peer
from a cab outside a brokers' office
and would be driven off in a fainting
condition after receiving a message
from the interior"
A corner in the stock of the North
ern Pacific Railway caused the panic.
At one time during the day North
ern Pacific sold at 81, @ per share,
but before night sold for $500, and
could be bought the following day
for $3.50.
The feverish activity of the stock
gamblers will doubtless result in
other and similar panics within the
next few weeks; about which, how
ever, we lesser mOrtals, who keep
the even tenor of our way, star from
the madding crowds ignoble strife"
need not worry.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-14
OUR G COUNTIES.

Speaking of the land surface of
North Carolina counties, it is a note
worthy fact that the five whose
names lead all the rest-Robeson
first with 1,O43 square miles next
Bladen with lob then Cumberland
with 1,OO8, Columbus with 937, and
Sampson with 921-are adjoining
counties forming a compact body in
the southeastern part of the State.
And Richmond which ranked
sixth in land area until the forma-
ton of Scotland, until that time
Joined Cumberland and Robson.
Wake has since taken RobesOn's posi-
ton as sixth in line.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-14
IN THIS NUMBER.

Among our agricultural articles
this week, perhaps the most valuable
is Prof. Johnson's article on the
much talked of cattle disease, "hOl,
low horn" Prof. johnson is a young
man, but his work at the North Caro-
lima Experiment Station and A. and
NJ. College has given entire sa~tisfac-
ton to the agricultural interests of
our State, and the articles which he
has written for The Progressive
Farmer have been without exception
useful and timely.
The Importance of the canning
factory in fruit and truck growing
sections can hardly be over-esti-
mated. As the Wilmington Mes
senger we'll says: Canning factor
les are profitable investments in the
North and should be in the South,
Let North Carolina raise all the food
it consumes, put up in cans all the
vegetables it would buy otherwise
from Northern producers. Our eli
mate and soil is particularly well
adapted to the growing of vegetables
and fruit: in the greatest abundance.
They should be canned to a consid-
cradle extent. 1t will pay. 1t is a
fact that in Wilmington and all
about the State thousands of dollars
are spent for preserves and jams put
up in Great Britain or in the North.
Utilize the fruits and vegetables in
all possible ways North Carolina
should grow twenty times more
fruits than are now grown. Do you
hear that? It is true" In cur next
issue we expect to have n or two
articles upon this important subject.
We regret that they did not reach
Us earlier in the season.
An inspiring article from an in
spring magazine is that on Glow
Eight Poor Boys Became Members
of McKinley's Cabinet" which we
republish on page 1 of this issue.
Every farmer BOY should read it.
We regret that "Our Social Chat
does not appear in this issue. With
the large number of really enter
tanning writer's among its members.
we should have three columns Of
their letters each week.
On page 4 we give the speech of
Mr.. w. A. Parker (son Of Mr.. 7. B.
Parker, Secretary of the State Ali
ance,) which won himthe medalin she
debate at the A. and NJ. College, 4th
inst. IL is a really strong argument.
Our news columns, we think, are
of even more than ordinary interest,
as our review of trust, educational,
and farming news is unusually com
plete.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-14
NORTH CAROLINA TRUCKING.

One of our exchanges gives the
following summary of trucking
figures, these being taken from the
April Bulletin: The development of
the trucking interest in eastern
North Carolina is Of marked impor-
tance. Last years shipments from
the Wilmington section aggregated
IS, 495 packages, a total Of 4,5S4,OOO
pounds in weight. Lettuce led, fol
lowed by beans as to number OF
packages. The shipments of canta-
loupes for that section we're IL, 5O4
crates, and of dew berries 4,153
crates were shipped from Fayette-
Vile. Goldsboro led in shipments of
beans, the amount being II, 847 crates,
while the total for the eastern truck
ing region was 22,84O crates. The
strawberry shipments we're enor-
nous, the railways hauling $40, 989
crates requiring 1,129 car for their
transport, there being 1~1,O44,O64
quarts. The growth of the straw
berry business can be readily seen
from these figures: In 1897, 1884,
O16 quarts; 1898, 8,449, $50; 1899,
O'233, 664 1900, 11,O44,O64. Newbern
alone shipped 1872, 900 barrels of Irish
potatoes, 100000 bushels of peas,
100, 900 barrels of cabbage, 10000
bushels of beans and lie, 900 packages
of other kinds Of truck.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-14
SUBSCRIPTION
1.-THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATION

1.-THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATION
Al INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARA
MOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
IF STATE POLICY, is the motto of The
Progressive Farmer, and upon this
clatfOrm it shall rise or fall. Serving
no master, ruled by no faction, cir
oumscribed by no selfish or narrow
poGcy, its 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
an matters relating specially to the
great interests it represents, it will
speak with no uncertain voice, but
Will fearlessly the right defend and
Empartially the wrong condemn. y
from Col. Folks S~alutatOry, Feb.
10. 1885
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-14

advertisers in trashy New England
periodicals that many people just as
foolishly refuse to patronize adver-
tisers in perfectly reliable papers.
For their mutual protection the peo-
pie and the better class of newspapers
must unite to destroy the disreputa
BILE and dishonest sample-copy publ
cations. This may have no direct
connection with the title of this
article, but it is a statement that
should be made and we offer 10
apology for making it here.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-14
CUBA AND THE PLATT AMENDMENT.

It is reported that that the Cuban
delegates who went to Washington
about three weeks ago to interview
the President in regard to the Platt
amendment were f~avorably impress
ed, and will recommend the adop-
ton of this measure by the Cuban
convention. The provisions Of the
Platt amendment, briefly stated, are
as follows:
That the Cuban government must
allow no foreign power to obtain
control over any portion of the
island.
That Cuba must not go hopelessly
into debt.
That the United States be allowed
to intervene at at any time in behalf
of Cuban independence or in behalf
of stable government in the island.
That Cuba sell to the United States
lands necessary for one or more coal
ing stations.
"That all acts of the United States
in Cuba during it's military occu-
pancy thereof" be ratified by the
Cuban government, and that the
sanitary reforms begun by u au-
thorities be maintained.
We confess that we cannot see
that this is in spirit contrary to the
famous Teller resolution of April,
1898, whereby we disclaimed any in
tention to annex or control the
island.
Senator o. Fl. Platt, of Connecti-
cut, author of the Platt amendment,
has an explanatory article in thelMay
Worlds Work, from which we take
the following paragraph, giving, we
believe, the correct point of view:
"It is unfortunate, to say the least,
that any n should suppose that in
requiring the relations between the
two countries to be thus defined, we
are in some sense interfering with
the independence of Cuba. Assent
to the propositions set forth can IN
no sense detract from or impair
Cuban independence. An independ-
emit government is none the less in
dependent because it enters into
agreements by way of treaty, or by
way of an ordinance attached to it's
constitution, with another govern
ment. We make treaties with many
nations in which we assume obliga-
tions and concede rights, but we are
none the less independent, and Cuba
will not be less, but o surely in
dependent than it could otherwise
be, when it shall assent to terms by
which its independence will be firmly
secured"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-14
The Thinkers.
THE LYNCH LAW HABIT.

Lynch law may now be said to
have become almost a habit of the
American people. Lynch law is a
blot, a terrible blot, on our national
life. It used to be said that it was
one of the worst evidences of the
~lawlessness that prevailed in our
frontier life. / have seen it operate
IN such communities, a society where
the machinery of the law was not yet
in full operation. But now, alas,
young men, scarcely a day passes
that we do not learn that the people
have taken the law into their own
hands, as the remark is, somewhere
in this country.
1t would be difficult for me to say
in this day that there are not some
times palliating circumstances that
attend the administration of lynch
law. It has seemed to me at times
that legislation was conceived in the
spirit of obstruction to the punish
ACAC VI C41h14Ao1Ss IL uCU ULO
administration of justice the writ of
habeas corpus, writs of error and
pleas for stays of proceedings have
been resOrted to by many lawyers,
and, last of all, often and often stand
tender-hearted executives to inter
pose clemenoy. 1t is not to be won
dered at that some communities have
arisen in their wrath and have in
ficted the summary punishment that
machinery of the law has delayed,
and which they feared it might delay
among them, too. But, young men,
lynch law is the one thing that will
postpone long the day when we shall
all live beheath the shadow of ma
jostio law, in peace and protected
against crime.-Justice David j.
Brewer, of the United States Su-
preme Court, before the Yale Law
Class.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-14
DIVINE HEALERs" GET JUSTICE.


The Progressive Farmer has more
than once warned its readers against
the now fourishing army of medical
frauds, among which are "divine
heaIers" who know nothing of divin
ity or healing, Christian scientists
who are neither Christlike nor scien-
titic, magnetic healers," mental
therapeutics, and a host of lesser
lights who confuse the unwary with
high-sOunding jargOn about science
and entrap the foolish with glitter
ing promises. But "peOple love to
be humbugged." When one of these
Boston headers was arrested u few
months g it transpired that he
had grown enormously rich by his
tricks. Another case in point is that
of 5. a. Weltmer and j. III. Kelly
who pleaded guilty last Tuesday Oh
nine counts charging violation of the
postal laws. Weltmer and Kelly ran
a magnetic institute" at Nevada,
Mo and advertised to cure all ills
by absent treatment" They were
taking in between So, 900 and $40, 900
a week when the ~postoflce depart
ment, made suspicious by the enor-
nous increase in the postoffce bust
ness at Nevada, shut them off with
a fraud order. In three weeks mail
containing $50, 600 accumulated.
Not only should our people be ware
Of such frauds, but they should place
no confidence in newspapers carry
ing their ads. In this connection we
give this paragraph from d letter in
one of our State exchanges:
The country seems TO be flooded
with cheap literature in the form of
magazines and free sample copies by
the core are sent out every month.
SO-.e of these claim a circulation OF
oar and u half millions some one
5 a.t3 a half million and some less.
IT, = advertising rates are from sc
cents 20 81 per agate line, and yet as
~as.general thing two thirds of the
papers T. filed with ads. A young
man who mad tried them said TO she
writer recently that nearly all were
humbuggery."
1t is q very safe rule to answer nc
ads. in a newspaper of whose relia.
bility you know nothing. So many
] callow youths have been cheated by
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-14
Editorial.
EDITORIAL 7

The Henderson Gold Leaf, Kinston
Free Press, and Lexington Dispatch
have been laboring zealously for i'm
prOvement along educational lines in
their respective towns. We now
have in this State a large number of
newspapers which work as earnestly
in an educational campaign as in Il
political one. This is encouraging.
Another reminder of pioneer days
is given in the press dispatch an
nouncing that thousands of people
are pouring into Southwestern Okla
homa and camping in about the Iowa,
Comanche and Apache and Wichita
Indian reservations waiting for the
opening to which reference vas
made IN The Progressive Farmer a
few weeks ago. It is a rich agricul-
tural country. Oklahoma, opened
ten years ago, seems TO have a soil
as fertile as that Of Kansas, which
borders it on the north, without the
cyclones and drouths which aftiict
the Sunhower State.
Last week we gave the concluding
section of an article on French agri-
cultural organizations by Consul
John C. Covert. The consular re-
ports of May 10th, give this para
graph from Il report Of Consul
Hughes as to similar organizations
in Germany; The farmers of the
Bavarian and Wurttsmberg Allgau
districts have combined for the pur-
pose or buying all their fertilizers,
both chemical and natural, at the best
wholesale prices and on the most
favorable conditions. 1t is also
rumOred that they intend to buy
all their agricultural and other ma
chimes the same way. 1t would be
well for American sellers of artificial
fertilizers and for makers Of Ameri-
can agricultural machinery TO look
up the persons having charge of this
enterprise
Efforts are being made, and we
hope they will prove successful, to
have d truck fair in Raleigh next
week Secretary T. K. Drummer,
who has the matter IN charge, has
sent the folio wing letter to a large
number of truckers. at is proposed
to make a show of North Carolina
grown fruits and vegetables at Char
lotte for Two days and at Raleigh for
two days, ali shipments to be made
Monday, May 20, the object being
to educate our people to some extent
as to what Is really being done in the
trucking fields Of Eastern North
Carolina, and to stimulate u market
in the mICaIe and western PORTIONS
of the State FIR the products
Of the early eastern fields. This
will be POSSIBLE only when the
markets TO the nOrthward are over
crowded or Improbable. In this
way it may be possible to benefit the
growers OF the east. Only one crate
or full package will be expected from
each grower, therefore he should
send the best. Each exhibit will 6e
Carefully labeled with the name and
address of the grower"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-14

There is a Wisconsin farmer who
does what a great majority of the
people will do in a few years. When
he has anything to sell he places a
small "ad." in the local newspaper
and soon hears from the dealers.
When he wants to buy a horse, COW
or anything else he spends half a dol
lar for newspaper space, and every
body in the neighborhood who wants
to sell calls on him or writes to him.
The newspaper advertisement saves
time and labor.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-14

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When sending your renewal, be sure to give
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which the copy OF pape you receive is sent.
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Harry Farmer thinks that the
greatest stumbling block in the way
of agricultural progress is the ten
dency to work just Gas daddy did"
In this we believe he is right.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-14
secured.

Ahailstorm, Friday, 10th, damaged
drops slightly in many sections of
the State.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-05-14

1t is expensive to haul low-priced
farm products four to eight miles
over sometimes bad roads, to a some
times overcrowded market, and the
best farmers have about ceased TODD
80. It is a difficult matter to grind
prosperity out of that sort of mill.
1t is far better to use up such crops
on the farm and sell the high priced
manufactured products. We are
sure this is better, because we have
never known a farmer to do so and
fail to prosper.-Selected.