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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09
10000, o BALES.

This is the Agricultural DEPARTMENT. Fs-
innate of the Cotton Crop-North Car
DINA Lint Production Above the Aver
age.
The statistician of the Depart
ment of Agriculture estimates the
actual growth of cotton in the
United States in the year 19O2-'O3
as 1O,417,OOO bales of an average net
weight of 1907 pounds.
The area picked or to be picked is
estimated at 97,114,1O3 acres, a re-
duction of 764,227 acres, or 2.74 per
cent, from the acreage planted. The
total production of lint cotton is
estimated at 5,111,87O,O28 pounds, an
average of 1885 pounds per acre.
The estimated production by
States, in pounds of lint cotton per
acre, is as follows:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09
Future Commanders of Our Army.

General Corbin thinks he is "be-
traying no confidence" in announce
ing that General S.. B. M. Young
will succeed General Miles as Lieu
tenant General of the Army when
the latter retires next August. Gen,
eral Chaffee has been Slated" for
this position, but General Corbin is
the fountain-head of military infor-
nation, and the general opinion is
that his announcement has official
inspiration and approval. General
Young entered the army as a pri-
vate in 1851, rose to the rank of
brevet Brigadier General in 1866,
and re-entered the regular army in
1865 as a Second Lieutenant. When
the Spanish War broke out he be-
came a Major General of volunteers,
fought the battle of Las Guasimas,
and later went to the Philippines.
Last winter he was chosen to be
president of the new War College
at Washington. General Young will
hold the post only a few months,
when he will be retired; the next in
line is General Chafee, whose term
of service will also be short. Gen
eral Chafee will probably be sue
ceeded by General Corbin himself
after whom comes General MacAr-
thur. None of these Generals will
have a long lease of office, but Gen
eral Leonard Wood, who is next in
rank to General Macarthur, will
have several years of active ser
vice.-Public Opinion.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09

The phenomenally favorable wea-
Their hat has prevailed almost con-
tinuously for some weeks past
throughout a large portion of the
cotton belt has made a substantial
addition to the cotton crop as indi-
Gated on October Sd. All the eight
States which at that date report a
condition higher than at the CORE
spending date last year have still
further improved their positions,
while two Louisiana and MISSISSIPPI
pip of the five States that compared
unfavorably with the year 1901 now
report slightly higher average yields
per acre than a year ago, leaving
only Texas, Georgia and Alabama
with an unfavorable showing.
The commercial crop will consist
of the above mentioned 1O,417, 900
bales, together with 1852 bales
brought forward from last year,
about 100000 bales of linters and
sample cotton, as much of the crop
of 1903 as may be marketed before
September /, 1903, less 198,19O bales
of the present crop marketed before
September 1, 1902, and so much of
this same crop as may be carried
forward to the year 100000.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09
Our Washington Letter.
Editor of The Progressive Farmer:

Congress is again in session, the
Presidents message has been sent
in, and all indications point to 6
lively, if brief, session. The message
was well and even enthusiastically
received by members of both parties,
The Republicans were enthusiastic
over the high plane on which Mr.
Roosevelt puts the consideration of
the essentially material subjects with
which he deals, and the conservatism
with which he handles the tariff and
the trusts. As was .foretold in these
letters, there is nothing radical in
the Presidents recommendations.
but a certain portion of his own par
ty, unable to realize that their leader
is not the cratic Individual which
they have always pictured him, ex-
pressed qualification and relief when
they learned the moderation of his
expressions.
ANTI TRUST LEGISLATION.
The force with which Mr.. Roose-
Welt presents the trust problem is ap-
preciated, and his clear-cut delinea-
ton of the end to be attained in an
thrust legislation is bound to result
in the submission of numerous bills.
aimed to accomplish those ends. Sen
ator Cullom has already presented a
measure which prohibits Interstate
commerce in articles produced by
trusts and requires the officials of
corporations, against whom charges
of monopoly are brought, to submit
such facts and figures to the Attor-
ney General as he may call for, not
for general publication but for his
own guidance. All trust legislation
in the Senate, however, is likely to
meet with a serious obstacle in Sena-
tor Hoar, Chairman of the Commit
tee on Judiciary, who does not be-
lieve that justice can be done the
subject during a short session.
In the House a more vigorous eff
fort seems likely to be made. Repre-
sentative Littlefeld tells your cor
respondent that he hopes to see a
bill, presumably modelled on the
measure he offered last session, re-
ported from the Judiciary Commit
tee before the holiday recess. Rep
resentative Jenkins, who is the unan>
imous choice of the Committee for
chairman, to succeed Representative
Ray, resigned, also favors prompt
action. Representative Hepburn has
offered a bill in. accordance with the
Presidents recommendation that
more funds be furnished the Attor-
ney General for the purpose of en-
forcing the existing law. The, bill
appropriates 100000 for the pur-
pose of fighting the trusts and is re-
garded with approval by many in
fuential members of the House.
IsTHMIAN CANAL PREPARATIONS.
Considerable disappointment was
expressed in regard to the Presi-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09
NEWS
WHAT THE DISPATCHES TELL

The English House of Commons
has passed the Education Bill so Wig
orously opposed by opponents of
further union of Church and State.
The House of Congress Wednes-
day passed the bill to appropriate
$4,000 to defray the expenses of
the Anthracite Coal Strike Commits
sion.
Tt is now asserted that Represen-
tative Joseph G.. Cannon of the Six
teenth District of Illinois will be
unanimously nominated for Speaker
of the House in the Fifty-eighth
Congress.
The general strike of the French
coal miners collapsed November
18th, after six weeks struggle. Tt
was impossible to hold the men to-
gether after the decision of the ar
bitraSors against their claims.
The Secretary of the Treasury
Monday transmitted to Congress the
estimates of the appropriations re-
CURED for the government service
for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1904, as furnished by the heads of
the several Executive Departments.
The total appropriations asked for
are $3.50, Clip, which is $21, 638,576
less than the estimates for 1908, and
$33,050.014 less than the appropria-
tions for that year.
Says an exchange: A dispatch in
yesterdays paper told that Mexican
dollars were quoted in New York
Wednesday at 81 cents. Yet the
Mexican dollar has more silver in
it than the American silver dollar,
and it is easily within the ~recollec-
ton of men who do not consider
themselves so very old when one
could not be had in equal exchange
for a greenback dollar. Indeed, that
was less than twenty-five years ago.
The facts at present before the
county do not justify the admission
of either New Mexico or Arizona.
An immense majority of the popu-
lation of New Mexico are Spanish
speaking Mexicans; the laws are still
published in both Spanish and Eng
fish; nearly all cases must be tried
by the aid of an interpreter; in very
many cases jurors cannot under
stand one another in the courtroom,
or reach a verdict without the aid
of an interpreter; and it is only
within the last few years that Eng
lish has been adopted in the schools
of the Territory. This is not the
kind Of population which should be
invited in to help elect our Presi-
dents and our Congress.-Outlook.
Charlotte Observer: As The OBJ
server has before noted, the Supreme
Court of the United States is soon
to pass upon the constitutionality
of the grandfather clause" of the
revised constitutions of some of the
Southern States. The status of the
0oro 80 ill.,. AT
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09

The Ministerial Alliance of Salt
Lake City has adopted resolutions
strongly opposing the proposed cleo
ton to the United States Senate of
Apostle Reed Smoot, of the Mormon
Church. The resolutions declare
that if elected Smoot would repre-
sent the will Of the Mormon Church.
The majority of the APOSTLES of that
church, the resolutions assert, are
still living polygamous lives,
New-York tribune., 1902-10-26

taking one Of the bright tin cups he dlpPeu up
s. ne or the stuff and pretended to drink ol IT.
smaeking his lips with apparent satisfactioh'
and then began capering about the Aes, sup
ping every now and then to dip up ana taste
more OF its contents. After few minutes 'hus
spent the Carib Joined Willie in the bushes' ana
together they watched
The monkey is a very curious amman anu
wonderfully initiative. Scarcely had the Carp
reached his hiding place before half huhdreo
chatterlng monkeys gathered around the Keg
and peered inquiringIy into it. Then they be-
gan handling the bright cups. Finally an olo
fellow, who seemed to be the leader. Ventured 10
dip up some of the mixture and taste IL. lie
smacked his lips so precisely like the Carib that
Willie laughed aloud. The old fellow then
turned and chattered excitedlY to the other
monkeys and seemed to be telling them that II
was a good thing and all right. and then there
was scrambling for the cups and the contents
of the keg were rapidly lowered. In less than
half an hour the keg emptied and the mon
keys were in a sad state of intoxication- Then
the Carib remarked:
All right! Now. boy. see what come or drink
in dis rum" and stepping into the midst OF the
reeling, grimacing throng he took the leader
by the hand and led him unresistinSly toward
the boat. The other monkeys. seeing their lead
er being thus led away, made haste to fall into
line. taking each other by the hand or tail. they
formed chain and marched meekly along to
the shore. up the plank on to the steamer. and
thence down into the hold. whore they were left
New-York tribune., 1902-10-26

near large public school in suburban town
were suddenly made to feel the necessity Of
making their own living. Their father died
and their mother was taken very i'll. so that
she had to go to a hospital The girls were
to know that they must help to keep the little
home over their heads. They talked it over
bravely. We can MAKE homemade candy best
of anything" said one.
Yes" said the other. "and We are way up
here on the hill where there are no stores, and
the children have TO go way down town with
their pennies, and store candy isn't nearly 50
good for them either"
That was the beginning. They made candy
simple and wholesome. and displayed it in their
front bay window on little shelf Of their own
construction. They arranged the window at an
hour when the children were hanging around
ready 10 watch any new thing that was going
on. and soon they had their customers. The
children told their parents who became inter-
ested. and ran into the store with susses-
tiOns.
Il often get out Of thread" said one; Why
don't YOU keep that"
1t would De handy 20 have place near by
where could run m and get shueIa,eS said
another.
Il so often run out Of cereals and haven't
time % order from the city" said still another.
When the mother returned she found full
fedged candy and eSSity store in her front
parlor. and two ovrrWOrked young clerks eager
To welcome her back TO her home and their
loving enterprise.
They do nothing on a large scale but the
store nils a lonSfeIt want with no debts on
either side OF the books, and that is one secret
OF its success.
New-York tribune., 1902-10-26
4 PLANT THAT HAD INDIGESTION

Have you ever heard OF a plant that had In
digestion? Darwin, the famous English nat
uraIist discovered that the dew plant. or sun
dew. is very human II deed. and not only human
but bloodthirsty II some one were TO tell you
that an animal ate a plant YOU would think
nothing Of IT, for II is the natural order OF life
that the higher forms should make use OF the
lower ones TO help them exist. as do we human
beings who feed upon animals But il some one
were to tell you that a plant eats the animal
YOU would probably say: Pooh. don't believe
IT,
The sundew Towering plant growing from
four to ten inches high. which is found pract-
calIv all over the United States. viii prove to
YOU that it is a cannibaI il you watch ii care
fully.
To find the plant which flowers in July and
August search among the bogs, in sandy and
sunny marshes. for an open rosette Of round or
broad leaves. clothed with reddish bristly hairs
tipped with purple glands; the young leaves viii
be Curled like baby fern leaves; the flowers are
small and white, growing similarly 10 the lily
OF the-vaIley. and usually have five petals.
Probably only one little blossom will be open 10
the sunshine. its leaves shining with something
that resembles dew. These shining jewels at
tract some little gnat or fly. who finds them not
water. but sticky glue. They bind his
feet fast, and the pretty reddish hairs reach in
New-York tribune., 1902-10-26

Yesterday I called at their home and found
stranger there The old dog trotted across the
room but stopped when he heard the stranger S
voice. He looked at me. and 1 spoke to him.
The stranger spoke again and the dog turned
and faced him. The man had not paid the
slightest attention to the dog but the animals
actions were so unusual that 1 could not take
my eyes from him. The old fellow tilted his
head to one side took few steps forward. and
then sat in front of the man and gaZed into his
face. Next he put his front feet on the mans
knees and listened intently. while the man. heed
less Of the dogs familiarity, talked to me. He
climbed into the mans lap and looked up at his
face Then he stood on his hind feet put paw
on each of the mans shoulders, and gazed into
his eyes.
1t may have been only my imagination, but it
seemed TO me that had never before seen such
troubled. puzzled look in an animals eyes as
that dog wore as he stared into the mans face
and tried to reason it out.
What was the cause of his behavior"
asked
The stranger was the dead mans brother.
whom the dog till that day had never seen.
New-York tribune., 1902-10-26

ward and hold him In a close embrace
insect struggles the hairs cling tba me
tightly. and more Of the sticky huid pour, -O's
him. over his body, through which he bra..S'a spOa
sunocatins him. Slowly the leaf rolls ,nn,-1'
making temporary stomach Then the 1-N
begins its operation; the plant is moi ''a1
with fresh fluid. and proceeds to sigas. -
food. 1t has been found that the sunda-,' 10
cretes digestive fluid very similar to the sc Se
tric juice in the stomach OF an animal
Professor Darwin fed these leaves with
riety Of articles. and found that they digo,,o,
POiten % len seeds Sc and grass They refused. however
them with acids. and gave them fatal sttsOnsa stsua
OF indigestion, caused by Overfeeding on bitS a
raw meat Oi'S o.
New-York tribune., 1902-10-26
THE MONKEYS GOT DRUNK
SAD CONSEQUENCES OF NOT KNOWING
BETTER THAN SOME MEN.


An old fashioned. clumsy, stern wheel steamer
was Iazily combating the current of the Dulce
River, in Guatemala. one hot summer afternoon.
while a little group Of passengers sitting under
an awning at The PROV of the boat indOlently
watched the changing scenes along the shore.
saws Arthur j. Burdick in The American Boy"
They had left behind the picturesque seaport
town Of Livingston. the Caribbean Sea. and
had passed beyond the cotton and coffee plan
tations. the fields Of tobacco and cane. and were
now in the midst of dense tropical forest. from
the trunks and branches of whose trees hung
massive curtains of tangled vines and fibrous
mOsses.
The air Mas resonant with the chatter of in
Vulnerable monkeys and parrots and many
bright plumaged birds fitted among the tree
tops Little bayous held myriads of beautiful
water lilies and a multitude of gay blossoms
lined the shores making il. indeed an enchant-
ing scene.
At the Prov Of the steamer little apart
from the group of passengers. stood tall. ath
Ietic looking Carib whose eyes were fastened
intentIy upon the shore at the right of the
steamer. Finally he gave a little grunt of salts
faction and made signal to the heImsman.
The Prov OF the boat turned toward the shore
the speed slackened and soon the steamer came
To a stop in quiet little bay overhung with
branches Of gigantic trees. a plank run
out the native disappeared down the hatch
way Of the vessel soon 10 reappear with large
keg and several bright tin cups. Turning to the
group at the PROV ne said to the one boy in the
company.
Come. Willie. see something new. Make
some fun wid dem monks"
Casting an inquirins glance at the man at his
side. ana receiving asserting nod. Willie
followed the black man down the plank and
then htt" Nay into the forest. where the keg
Was placed upright upon the ground. one head
VAS knocked out and the tin cups We're scat
tered about the krs Then the black man
turned to the boy and said:
Now hide in bush and see De monk MAKE. big
fool of h"s-lf
Willie drew back into the thick bushes and
p""p~d out To SEC what was going To happen
In $" doing h" Was not alone. for from scores
Of places bright wondering eyes Of MONKEYS
N"re also noting what was taking place
preS keg hah got rum an molasses' called
The Carib. Now you So" what happen" Then
New-York tribune., 1902-10-26
WHEN YOU ARE A MAN.
HARD WORK THE ONLY WAY TO Sue
CESS IN ANY CALLING.

Halloween IS the night when We all plan for
on. night in the year to have regular romping
good time And yet, when you come to think of
il ,ne part Of the fascination of the Halloween
tricks is the way in which they deal in the fu-
ture Il is the time for fortune telling. We are
all .ager to know what shall do and be
when We are men and women. of course the
tea leaves cannot tell nor the gypsies, nor any
OF he tricks signs; they are only playing at
it. but # you boys will only press your hands
hard 10 your temples" and think you will
realize that there is little gypsy fortune teller
inside Of you telling you what you want to be
when you're man.
she IS a very tickle gypsy sometimes. Maybe
when you were a very small boy she told you
You wanted to be a candy man, you could
have al the candy You wanted to eat. or
maybe she told you you wanted to be a police
man 50 that you could a coat with big
brass buttons and carry club. and hold up
pranciug steeds with motion of one finger. Or
maybe she told you you wanted to be a fireman,
t. drly- the hook and ladder from the engine
house with a mad rush. and so smashing your
way through the streets TO save people and
property from being burned. She may tell you
you want to be a circus clown one day and
preacher the next. and you will hardly know
which 10 believe. And there may be times
when she will remind you of SO many things you
want - be when you're man that you would
have 10 live to be as old as Methuselah 10
complish everything.
Honestly boys. it's 4 puzzling problem TO
know what 10 become l know how il is myself.
There many things man can do in these
days. When you're boy is just the time to find
out what you like to do best. then you won't
have - waste any time deciding when you're
man.
All kinds Of honest work are honorable. of
work he does finds work enough to do. If you
like 70 whittle and build. be carpenter And if
You say. Why. carpenter isn't much; anybody
can be carpenter" you're just making the mis-
take Of your life. \ man may climb fIom car
pentry to house building, and from house build
ing 10 architecture il he will. or from house
building to contracting and contracting for
large buildings. too. \ with a bent for
mechanics need not always forge ploughs. he
may go from step TO step till he is ! bridge
builder. OF course. it takes education and perse-
verance and grit and hard work II you
think you're going to be anything when you're
a man without any hard work you're very
much mistaken DO you think Dickens wrote
his books and Won his fame without hard work .
DO you think Rockefeller and Morgan and Car
negie and Russell Sage never work Ii your
gypsy tells you that you'd better inform her she
Is mistaken
New-York tribune., 1902-10-26

prisoners to sober up and nurse the headaches
which would follow their dissipation.
New-York tribune., 1902-10-26
THE EDUCATED CAT

Prepare colOrless ink by dissolving su,nb,..
Of iron in water and write something OF intaras.
to the audience on sheet of white paper -
troduce cat or little dog to the audience =.
marking that the animal is we'll educated ana
able to write as well anybody in the room,
To prove it. take the sheet OF paper that vo-
have prepared before the performance and sorOa
tincture of gallnUts, which you declare Is inL
DIP the animaPs paw into the fluid and %
quickly over the paper to make the prenars5
writing appear. and to the delight Of the ana
ence the animal will be found To be so usr
trained that IL has acquired your own hand.
writing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
Barber shop Patrons.

Speaking about hair" said a man yes terday while waiting his turn in a barber shop for a haircut. "I can always tell the class of patrons of a barber shop by the length of the hairs seen on the floor. I mean by this the social status of the customers. l am not a Sherlock Holmes and can't tell their Inward thoughts or criminal dispositions by hair clippings. As straws show which way the wind blows so the hairs in a barber shop show whether a mans bank account is large or small. The longer the hair the smaller the bank account People who have money to burn always wear their hair short. To do this requires frequent visits to a barber shop and of course, the amount of hair trimmed at each visit is comparatively short. On the other hand when a man has to stop and consider spending the sum of twenty-five cents he does not visit the barber so frequent ly and allows his hair to grow to such a length that it creates comment among his friends and neighhors. When they begin to remark on his appearance he goes to the barber and has a hair cut. Ills appearance is completely changed and he emerges from the shop a different looking man than when he entered it. A well groomed man should look almost the same after seance with his barber as be- fore"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-06
Furniture Factories.

'"rhe furniture industry in the south is being developed steadily and 1t is note- worthy fact that High Point N. C., fur niture is now sold in Grand Rapids and other strong holds of chair and table IT aking," said the travelling representa- tive of a southern furniture plant.
 Birmingham should have large fur. niture industry. Capital invested in fac tories for turning out plain lines would pay good divide nds from the start. When the south began to manufacture furni- ture the northern and western manufac- turers laughed at the i1ea of serious com retition from this section. just as the New England cotton spinners pooh-hooed the south's early efforts to manufacture cotton.
 'Furniture-nakirg is already one of the most important and profitable branch es of business in some southern states and I predict that the southern output will increase 100 ger cent in the next five years"