The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-08-27
General News.
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4O4m y o0Sy
Readers.
Quiet does not yet prevail in the
South American republics. Elk
change at Barran Quilla is rising by
leaps and bounds. An American
dollar is now equivalent to $41 in
Colombian paper money.
The Manitoba wheat harvest is by
far the best on record. The farmers
of the prairie province expect to
harvest at least 1900, 900 bushels of
wheat. They r~equirethe assistance
of 10000 extra men in the work.
DR.. B. NJ. Duggan, Psychologist in
vegetable pathology Investigations
of the Department. of Agriculture,
has been ordered to proceed to points
in North and South Carolina, Texas,
Mississippi and other States to inves-
tigate diseases of cotton and other
plants.
DIR. Louis Knapp, aged 40, a prac-
ticing physician of St. Louis, has
separated himself from his wife and
four children and will become isola-
ted from the world to nurse Dong
Gong, a Chinese, leper, and to study
the the nature of leprosy in the hope
of suggesting remedies. He is a veri-
table martyr to science.
An exchange reports that the
strike of the steel and iron workers
is already beginning to affect the
farmers especially cotton planters.
The shutting down of the steel hoop
oompany's mills has caused the price
of cotton ties to advance from $1.05
a bundle to $1.1O and 1926, and some
are holding for even higher prices.
Press dispatches say the marriage
of Henry M. Flagler and Miss Kenan,
elsewhere mentioned, was to have
taken place the past spring, but
public sentiment in Florida was so
strong that Flagler was unable so
obtain the necessary divorce in time
and the function was postponed.
Flagler is ssid to be worth $50, 600, 600.
While the Louisiana papers are re
joicing over the fact that the whites
now outnumber the blacks in that
State something that has happened
but once before in d hundred years.,
the neighboring States of Alabama,
Arkansas, and Mississippi find from
the census returns that their negroes
are increasing much more rapidly
than the white people, the Literary
Digest reports.
Elk Senator Charles A. Towne, of
Minnesota, is quoted as saying: Gin
my opinion ex-senator Hill, of New
York, will be the next candidate for
President of the United States of
the regular Democratic party, and
the platform adopted will, I believe,
b9 a very reactionary one. In fact,
I believe the party will split in 1904
and Mr.. Bryan will lead d third par
ty faction in support of the issues to
which. he is still loyal. There is a
strong feeling in that section (the
Vest in favor of the nomination Of
Mr.. Hill or some other Eastern man,
and the adoption of a platform that
will Re q total Reputation Of the
chief issues Of 1896 and 1900"
The New York Outlook says The
exact Significance OF the ~cablegram 3
few weeks ago announcing the pas
sage Of ID law giving the suffrage to
tine wonen OF Norway is clearly set
forth by Mr. William q. Curtis in d
letter from Chrisiiania to the Chi
cagO Times Herald. The law in ques
ton does give most of the women of
Norway the right to vote, but this
right is limited to municipal cleo
tions. 1t is furthermore restricted
to women who pay taxes on incomes
of not less than three hundred kroner
eighty one dollars) in the country,
or four hundred kroner Zone hun
bdred and eight dollars) in the cities,
or live with husbands who are taxed
for such amounts. Until three years
ago municipal suffrage for men was
restricted in like fashion"
The pension list grows. An ex
exchange gives these facts regard
ing 1t The report of Commissioners
OF Pensions Henry Clay Evans
shows that on June 3Oth last there
were on the pension rolls 997, 735
pensioners, a gain of 4,2O6 over the
previous year, although the total
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