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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-27

Opportunity doesn't have to knock more
than once at any mans door. No matter
how many she finds out, she is sure to find
somebody in.-Brooklyn Life.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-27

learned.-Atchison Globe
There is no trick in dyeing. You can
do it just as well as anyone if you use
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Boiling
the goods for half an hour is all there Is
to it. Sold by druggists, Zoe. package.
The one prudence of life is concentration.
Emerson.
I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton has an equal for coughs and colds
John F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb.
Many a mans head is full of emptiness
Chicago Daily News.
The Grip~of Pneumonia may be warded off
with Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-27

It is easy to quit habit you never
learned.-Atchison Globe
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-27

Stops the Cough and Works
on the Cold
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25t
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-27
"WHAR Dew | CUM IN?"

Being soloquy of ouestion
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-27

The one prudence of life is concentration
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-11-27

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees
it.-Bovee.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-10
BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION.

The seventy first annual session of
the Baptist State Convention was
held last week in Winston's hand
some new Baptist church. The in
trOductOry sermon was preached by
Rev. DR.. W. G. Tyree, of Durham.
The convention was formally Or
gained by the election of officers &:
President Marsh, of Oxford; Score
tary, N. B. Broughton; Auditor, J..
B. Martin, of Raleigh; Correspond
ing Secretary, Livingston Johnson !;
Treasurer, Walters Durham.
contributions to various funds are
20 per cent. greater than ever before.
For State missions they are $28, 900,
an increase of $4,000: for American
missions, $4,000; foreign missions,
81, 900; education, $4,000; orphan
age, 100000; schools in western
North Carolina, $11,OOO; total,
$50, OOO."
AS TO the Twentieth Century move
ment, the plan being to raise $780,
900 for Wake Forest College, the
Baptist Female University and five
UNCONVENTIONAL schools, it was de-
cided that the time should be ex-
tended one year in order to give the
committee an opportunity to raise
$42, 900 for the Female University,
81, 500 for Chowan Institute, and
$4,000 for academies which need
assistance. But this :postponement
was not needed, for the next night
the $4,000 needed for the Female
University was subscribed on the
spot.
The Convention will meet next
year in Durham.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-10
GROWTH OF THE PENSION LIST.

According to the report of the
Pension Commissioner, Mr. Evans,
the whole number of pensioners on
the rolls at the close of the last fcal
year was 997, 7s5, a net increase of
4,2O6 during the year. There are
still nine pensioners of the RevOlu-
tionary War, four widows and five
daughters. The commissioner di-
rects attention to the fact that seven
years after the close of the Civil
War only 6 per cent. of the soldiers
in the Union Army had fled claims
for pensions, but that at the present
time, three years after the war with
Spain, about 20 per cent. of the men
who enlisted in that war have
claimed pensions. The commission
er does not believe that the veterans
Of the recent war are less patriotic
than their ancestors, but he thinks
the fault lies in the system OF pen
sioning, with it's active army of so
Observation-Disclosures,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-10
BOERs CAN TOUGH IT OUT.

PARIS, Dec. 7.-News received here
from a Boer agent who has just re
turned from Pretoria is to the effect
that Commander in Chief Louis
Botha declares he will be able to
continue the war five years and ulti-
mately to drive the British out of
the Cape. On September 28th Gen
eral Botha reckoned the Boer dead
since the war at 1850. The agent
says that the quietude which is reign
ing in Pretoria was obtained only by
the aid of 700 detectives and that
the Beers sooner or later will rebel
there,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-10
SMALLPOX IN THE STATE.

With winter weather at hand
smallpox is getting a firm hold in the
State. The Health Bulletin, which
was issued yesterday shows that the
disease prevails in nine counties.
Smallpox made it's appearance in
this State in January, 1898. A large
per cent of the population has been
vaooinated since then, but as DR.. r.
81. Lewis, the Secretary of the State
Board of Health, said TO a represen-
tative of the News and Observer
yesterday there iS plenty of material
in the State for the disease to
work on.
While it is not always necessary
to be vaccinated every two years, it
would be best to do so. 1t is safest
TO be vaocinated before the disease
appears in a community.
The Health Bulletin shows the
existence of smallpox in the follow
ing counties: Cabarrus, "a cases +;
Duplin, 5; Greene, 1; Guilford, 1;
Henderson, z; M~eoklenburg, IL ;
Rockingham, 10; Stokes, l; Wayne,
15.-News and Observer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-10
TOBACCO GROWERS COMBINE.

LONDON, Dec. 5.-The Finrnce TO-
day says:
GA combine is being formed among
the tobacco growers of the Philip
pine Islands with a capital of be-
tween $1,000, 900 and 97, 600, 900. The
scheme is being carried on in Lon
don under the auspices of the Roths
ohilds, who, through their Spanish
investments, have large interests in
the Philippines. The contracts and
concessions were obtained through
some of the American peace dele
gates who, in typioally Yankee fash
ion, have managed to combine pri-
vate and official business"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-10
5000 RAINBOW TROUT.
An AI-Night Drive Through the Mountains
to Place Them in Upper Creek.

An Albright Drive Through the Mountains
to Place Them in Upper Creek.
Morganton dispatch: The mem
bers of the Upper Creek Fishing
Club yesterday placed 5000 young
rainbow trout in Upper creek near
the falls. The fish were sent here
by the United States Fish Comm1s-
sion in a special car, and DIR. 1. P.
Jeter and R. T. Claywell, Esq we're
the representatives of the fishing
club who took the fish in charge and
drove all night to get them into the
mountains alive, succeeding in saving
about rs per cent. of the oonsign-
ment. Senator Pritohard, who takes
a great interest in seeing the streams
of western North Carolina well
stocked with the best varieties O.
fish, secured these trout from the
Fish Commission, and has been very
courteous to the members of the
club.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-10

Scarcely a week passes but some con-
Vlot is pardoned. Governor Aycock
has a right heart, we know; and we
have confidence in him. But the
conclusion that our Courts are un.
just or that he is being imposed
upon is unavoidable. There was
talk of his predecessors "pardon
mill. It seems that the grinding
did not cease when he did, though
as a matter of course the talk did
for the talk was wholly for political
effect. If the sentences of the Courts
are frustrated the bottom will drop
out of the law.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-10
ROOSEVELT AND NEGRO OFF1cE-sEEKERs

A recent Washington special to
the Charlotte Observer says:
The President has said within the
past week that the negroes of the
South have received more recogni-
ton in appointments to Office than
they are entitled to. In saying this
the President has given out the init
nation that he will not appoint ne
groes in the South to important 20
sitions. Neither will he appoint
negroes from the South to positions
in the Federal service at Washing
ton or in the District of Columbia.
will appoint negroes from the
North and Middle West to these
places. HI so stated to Senators
Mason and Cullom, and they, taking
their cue from what he said, have
presented the name Of a Chicago
negro for the position of Recorder
of Deeds for the District of Colum-
bia, the place held now by Cheat
ham and again promised him by
the President through Senator
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-10
MESSAGE TO VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.
Gov. Tyler Reiterates That the Railroad
Companies Are Not Bearing Their Proper
Share of Taxation.

Gov. Tyler Reiterates That the Railroad
Companies Are Not Bearing Their Proper
Share of Taxation.
RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 1.-The Gen
eral Assembly of Virginia met this
morning but transacted no business
of general interest, except to receive
Governor Tyler's message and con-
firm the nomination for officers of
the two branches made by the Dem
ocratic caucus last night.
Governor Tyler, in his message,
reports the finances of the State in
good condition, refers to ~"inv1sible
property as a fruitful source of
inequality in the collection of taxes
and suggests as a remedy for une-
quail land assessments that the Legis-
lature should arrange for sufficient
revenue, to be derived from other
sources than real estate to meet the
expenses of the government, and
then cease to tax real estate for State
purposes, shut leave that clsss of
property to be taxed by counties and
cities"
The Governor ~reiterates what he
said before the Board of Public
Works a year or two ago-that the
railroad companies Of this State are
not bearing their proper share of
taxation.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-10
AN IMPORTANT CASE.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-The Su-
preme Court today rendered it's
long expected decision in the Philip
pines tariff case, holding that the
Philippine Islands are a part of the
United States and therefore no du-
ties Gar be collected on goods pass
ing between those island and the
United States. Mr.. Justice Brown,
with Chief Justice Fuller, Justices
Peokham, Harlan and Brewer,
formed the majority, and Justices
White, Shiras, MoKenna and Gray
dissented.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-10
THE NORTH CAROLINA METHODIST EPIs-
COPAL CONFERENCE.

The annual session of the North
Carolina Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church was held in Fay
etteville last week. The attendance
was good, and both financially and
numerically the church seems 80 be
In good condition. No decrease in
collections as a result of short crops
was reported. The Methodist Or
phanage report shows cash gifts to
date $19, 900; a half interest in the
Academy of Music, and other
subscriptions to an aggregate of
SO, 900, and what is practically a
$50, 900 endowment-that is 80 Sun
day schools and individuals are
pledged to maintain each an orphan
at the Orphanage, at a cost of $50 a
year.
The Raleigh Christian Advocate
says: "Our Conference is now tax
ing care of the orphans, and in this
fact there is not only a happy sig
nifcance, but a sure prophecy of
worthy exploits. Our schools, from
Trinity College down, are fourishing.
A larger number than ever before
are attending these Christian schools.
That the church must educate, and
that the church must learn, in her
own Spirit baptized institutions, is a
widely recognized truth which grows
palmer with the passing years. Quite
a number of new churches and par
sonages have been built during the
year, and many preachers report
that plans are being laid for a gen.
eral advance in the acquisition and
Improvement of church property.
For all these and other things, let Us
thank God and take courage
The Conference meets next year
In Wilmington. |
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-10
PRICES OF ALL GRAINS 60 BOUNDING UP.

Nay Wheat Touched 80 So. May Corn es 1-2
and May Oats 46 ~1-4-Rumored Corner in
Oats
CHICAGO, Dec. 5.-"King" Farmer
has come to Chicago, taken the board
OF trade by storm and sent prices of
all grains climbing above records.
Business to-day on Change was
larger and more spectacular than it
has been for a long time and has
r1valled the speculative enthusiasm
that marked the days of Hutchinson
and the other giants of the pits.
Natural conditions are back of the
upshoot in prices, but bull specula-
ton has been the main incentive.
The whole countryside seems to be
waking up to the ruinous shortage
in the corn crop and feeding of
wheat to stock as a consequence has
brought big buying in that cereal.
There have been general advan-
ces in all options of wheat, corn and
bats during the past several weeks.
but the arrival of thousands of far
g and stOckmen to visit the live
stock exhibition touched eff the fuse
under all the markets and sem prices
booming. To day the floor of the
borad was a spectacular show. Hun
dreds OF the big countrymen in fur
overcoats and oowhide boots had
the oourtesies of the exchange and
we're all eagerly "getting into the
game" When professional speoula-
tors saw the farmer grasping oppor-
tunltles they immediately began to
plunge. Added to this influence
was a flood of general buying orders
from the country until the outside
interests practically control the
markets.
May wheat touched it's record price
for the crop shortly before noon, sell.
ing at 500. Both December n
May corn broke records of years
standing, December selling at 65
cents and May at 68% cents. It is
there is a corner in oats.
but trade is so large on both sides
OF the market that the rumor is not
substantiated. May pats b1 oke
another record to day at 46L cents.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-10
FEDERATION OF LABOR MEETS.

GOmpers' Annual Report Shows Gain Of
S64,41O Members-Eforts to Secure LsR1g.
1SlatiOn Against Child Labor.
SCRANTON, Pa, Dec. 5.-Two humid
dred and eighty-fve delegates, rep.
resenting more than a million and q
half workingmen responded to the
roll call at the opening session of the
21st annual convention of the Amer.
lean Federation of Labor, which was
called to order by President Samuel
Gompers in st. Thomas College Hall
to-day.
The convention is said to be the
largest congress of workmen ever
held in this country.
President Gompers' report showed
a net increase of 313 local unions for
the year and a gain of 1854, 41O mem
bers. From national and interna-
tional unions and the Federation di-
rect there we're issued 4,O56 charters
for newly formed unions, and char
ters surrendered or unions disbanded
number $50. On October 31st last
there were affiliated with the Fed
Grafton, national and international
unions 81; city central labor unions
1927; State F~ederations OF labor 20:
local trade unions 800.
President Gompers describes eff
forts to secure the passage of child
labor laws in Southern States.
Efforts to this end were successful
only in Tennessee and have been re-
newed with vigor in other States.
In Alabama it is hoped that the
child labor bill will be enacted into
law. "In South Carolina" saws
President Gompers ''the mill own
ers induced the legislature to defeat
the bill by a promise to inaugurate
the IS hour a week rule, providing
no law on the subject was passed.
When, by i~ndirection, it is thus made
manifest that children are required
to work more than IL hours a dav.
and the employers, fearing the en-
actment of a 10 hour day law pre-
vent the enactment Of a 10 hour limit.
it is not difficult to determine how
necessary it is that our work shah
be prosecuted with e~arnestness and
until we shall have secured
the passage of just and humane laws.
and that the present we'll being and
safety of children shall not
be subject to the whims or the ten-
der mercies of those who have no
conception of their duties TO the
human family and whose only divin-
.ty is the almighty dollar, or a per
cent. in dividends.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-10
General. News.
9,674,OOO BALES, SAYS THE DEPART
MENT OF AGRICULTURE.

The Government Estimate OF This Years
Cotton Crop-In Addition to Regular
Correspondents, Is, 900 Ginners and 5000
Banker Made Reports.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-The stats
tioian of the Department of Agri
culture reports 1874, 900 bales as
the probable cotton production of
the United States in 1912.
The area picked or to be picked is
estimated at 26, 1902, 239 acres, a re
duotion of 73O,216 acres, or 2.6 per
cent. from the acreage planted.
The total production of lint cot
ton is estimated at 1923, 954, 900
pounds, an average of 1853 pounds
per acre picked or to be picked.
The estimates production by States
in pounds of lint cotton per acre, is
as follows:
Virginia, 176; North Carolina,
142 South Carolina, 141 Georgia,
1877; Florida, III; Alabama, 1856;
Mississippi, 2O5; Louisiana, $50;
Texas, 159 Arkansas, 1913 Tennes-
see, 1876 Missouri, 1876; Oklahoma,
1876 Indian Territory, PA.
In addition to the Departments
ordinary crop reporting ~agencises
Is, 1000 ginners and 5000 bankers and
merchants have furnished valuable
information concerning acreage and
production. The ginners have also
reported the amount of cotton
ginned between August Is and No
vember 20, this year and last year,
with the average gross weight per
bale and the average weight of bag
ging and ties. This has enabled the
statistician to ascertain the aver.
age net weight of the bales for each
separate State and for entire cotton
belt, and these weights have been
used in determining the total num-
Der of bales produced. The average
net weight for the entire cotton belt
is 1853. 2 pounds, which is believed to
be the lowest average in at least ten
years.
The large number of light bales
being marketed and also some reduo
ton in the proportion of lint to seed
cotton are objects of frequent com-
ment by correspondents of all
classes.
PRICE JUMPS 81 A BALE IN TWO
MINUTES.
NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-Trading on
the local cotton exchange yesterday
was oonvulsed by the publication at
noon of the governments estimate
of a short cotton crop for the year.
The figures we're 1874, 900 bales or
nearly two million bales less than
the trade generally expected. Cot
ton jumped two dollars a bale in as
many minutes, amid scenes of ex-
element rarely seen. Brokers fought
each other to cover short con-
tracts and the pit became a pande-
monium for several minutes after the
was received. For three
thereafter the volume of busl-
hess that was transacted was enor-
nous. Everyone talked 8 cent cot
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-10
JAMEsTowN's TR1-CENTENN1AL.

Virginia Moving for a Big Exposition in
19O7-Wiu Ask the Government for $5,-
900, 900.
NORFOLK, Va, Dec. 5.-At a meet
ing of committees from Norfolk,
Portsmouth ,Berkley, Newport News,
Hampton, Phoebus, Old Point and
Norfolk county, in the Monticello
Hotel to-day for the purpose of per
fecting permanent organization of
the jamestown Tri- Centennial Expo
sition to be held somewhere in Vir
ginia in 1902, a charter of an expo
sition company, whose purpose is to
hold the affair near Norfolk, il
preference to Richmond, was read.
The charter provides for the neo-
essary land on which to hold the ex-
position; exempts the enterprise
from taxation, authorizes the issue
of stock and the inoorporators to
hold an exposition.
The General Assembly will not
be asked for an appropriation, that
matter to be left to the Judgment of
that body. The Federal government
will be asked for IS, OOO, 900 to make
the exposition a national affair.
Sewel1's Point, Pigs Point, Cape
and Newport News are COM
petitors for the site of the exposi-
ton
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-10

Interest in the results of the new
Canadian census was almost as great
in England and the United States as
in Canada itself. The total popula-
ton Of the country, as reported on
August Is, is 5,33s, 8S3. Ten years
ago, it was 1888, 1886, a rather small
increase.
The Washington times., 1901-07-14
Women M College Deans.

The appointments recently of four wo-
men to posts of responsibility as deans
in leading women's colleges are a pleasant
reminder of the advance that women are
constantly making IN higher educational
service
Just as the number of women students
in colleges has increased annually. keep
ing pace with the decrease of popular
disapproval, so the proportion in numbers
and in power of women educators in high
er institutions has been steadily NOV
ing forward. In foreign countries, as in
the United States, teaching was the first
profession to admit women. The univer-
stiles of Sweden, Italy, and Switzerland
have employed women positions of
authority as instructors. Many profess
sorships in colleges and universities Of
the United States, representing every
phase of scholarship, from ancient Ian
guageS to modern science and from Htera-
ture to engineering, are held by women.
From these positions as vantage points
there is steady advance toward a higher
investment of administrative power and
responsibility for women. This is large
ly the outcome, undoubtedly, OF the grow
ing conviction that positions OF authority
and influence in colleges for women must
be held by college-bred women of high
standing as scholars and of noble char
acter.
Apropos of this prevailing idea have
come the recent appointments of Miss
alice Luce, Phi. D., to the deanship at
Oberlin; Miss Ellen Pendleton, Nj A. to
that at Wellesley; Miss Laura Gill PHI.
D.. to Barnard, and Miss Annie Crosby
Emery, Phi. D., to the Women's depart
ment of Brown University.
1t is a fact which may have some in
terest and significance TO New England
readers that these able women educators
are all of New England birth. and with
one exception have had their academic
training in this section of the country.
Each one is distinguished for something
more than erudition-the essential quail
ties of heart and soul which constitute
the instructor, the guide, philosopher, and
friend of her pupils and the powers of
administration which enable her to plan
and supervise broad and responsible en-
terprises. My one had previously oc-
cupied the post Of dean.-Boston Tran
script.
The Washington times., 1901-07-14

Yes, but ask me something easier dear.
/ I'm forgetting my cues
! oh, Strawberries I'll see you home,
/ Harry. I've hanson. 1t Is the last time.
| How did you Gomez"
Automobile of course. To avoid sus-
! picion and get here quickly. don't think
/ ia better go home in your hanson, dear"
IN drop you round the corner from
/ your club if you like"
May / smoker
Why, yes; what kind of cigarettes
( have you got?"
The sort you
"H-h-mi S-h-h"
! The man signs the check. She gathers
| a fluffy boa about her throat and pulls
! little wIsp of veil over her nose. The
waiter executes a serpentine twist in rec
( ognition of a tip. They go to the door
astonishment Of persons dining at other
! tables.
/ They enter the hanson. She leans back
/ laughing luxuriously.
| other. tell you 1t is magnificent ideal
We're just like a couple Of
Like couple of damn fools, If you
ask met
He strikes a match and lowers his hat
brim to light a cigarette, his voice a
trife irritable, but his eyes smiling.
Not at all. It's a clever and scientific
idea. If all married people would cele-
brate their wedding anniversaries in that
way, they wouldn't get tired of each other
so. soon. Then it's such joke on the
waiter. Did you notice his eyes?"
"Ha, ha, har'
we Just drift off and forget we're mar
ried and play things have all gone wrong
and that we are
up against it!''
"And don't have things come true till we
are through dinner It's lovely ideal
And it was a lovely dinner. You're not
half bad Harry, do you know it,"
"Oh, l don't count on this scheme. The
idea is your-and the dinner was Phil
ippe's."
IT'S ours, now, Harry. Ha! ha! ha! It
was more fun than "A mothers meeting.
You'd nave been a splendid actor
I'D never get any higher than support
ing the leading lady. Here?"
"Ha! ha! ha! Give me light, Harry,
and tell him
Through the top of the cab-'Home!"-
New York Sun.