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Brussels, Oct. 30.--It is asserted here
that Mr. Kruger has abandoned his ir-
reconcilalble attitude and intends to
seek permission to return to South AZ
Eica,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17
NEWSPAPERS AND CRIMINAL NEWS.

Here is an article from the June
number of the National Printer-Jour-
n%alist, aimed especially at newspaper
pub!;Gl ers, it is true, but not less in
teresting and suggestive to newspaper
readers. It speaks so exactly and so
thoroughly our own views that we are
glad to present it as a defense of The
Progressive Farmers policy of giving
only the barest details of crimes and
scandals. Such a policy might not
prove profitable in daily journalism,
for very many readers of the dailies
seem to have had their tastes corrupt
ed-seem to have acquired an appe-
tite for dirt. But this is not true of
the country people as yet, and we hope
it will never be true of them. Those
that are so fortunately situated as to
be able to get dailies should support
Only clean and well-edited ones. But
We set out to give Editor Herbert's
opinion of this question; here is what
he says:
ct is not a fact that the largest
part of our American are
taken up with gossip and accounts of
crimes, yet it is said to have been as
certained by careful analysis that, on
an average, 14.3 per cent of newspaper
space is given to criminal news, SEN
satiOns and trivial or unworthy mat
tiers. 1t is a question as to whether
or not it would not be wise to reduce
this percentage and to give more space
to the record of noble and inspiring
deeds, to records of improvements and
new ideas, facts and experiments in
the fields of science, education, indus
try and political and social economics.
1t is very certain that the great ma
jority of profitable newspaper readers
and patrons, those who advertise and
those who read and have the means to
purchase things that are advertised. do
not associate with criminals nor in
wife them to their homes, and it is
hardly to be presumed that those pee
PIE who strive to be moral, decent or
respectable, are particularly anxious
to have all the filth, immortality and
vice of the vile forced into their homes
ard families through the columns of
the newspapers. There is ce 'tairIY
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17
THE C H ASSEMBLY.

The editor has not found time since
his return from Morehead City Satur-
day to prepare an extended account of
the meeting of the Teachers Assembly
at that place last week. A few notes,
however, may prove of interest.
The meeting began Tuesday night
with DR.. Winston's striking review
of the educational history of the State
for the past quarter century, and end
ed, so far as actual work was concern
ed, Friday night. The attendance was
large; the speeches we're well prepared
and on live topics, and the enthusiasm
manifested must have been an inspira-
ton to all present.
Among the speeches that attracted
most attention were Prof. Linscotts
plea for pure scholarship; DR.. II. l..
Smiths paper on "The Personality of
the Teacher" the addresses of Gov.
Aycock and DR.. McIver on Wednesday
night; DIR. Kilgo's striking and elo-
quent speech Friday morning, and
Hon. r. W. Winston's North Carroll
ma Philanthropy" The absence of DR..
Walter II. Page was greatly regretted.
Governor Aycock's speech was remark
able for force and plainness. A mere
politician would not have made it.
He threw down the gage of battle to
the opponents of negro education, and
declared himself in the fight to the fin
ish for the education of all the people.
He declared himself opposed, however,
to compulsory education; he does not
think that the State is ready for it yet.
Much interest was manifested in the
Audubon Society for the protection of
the birds of the State.
The Assembly will make an effort to
erect a monument to the memory of
Calvin H. Wiley, the pioneer educa-
tional leader of the State.
Resolutions were adopted asking for
a State appropriation of $4,000 an
nually for rural school libraries; en-
dorsing heartily the work and plans of
the Southern Education Board; thank
ing Governor Aycock and the State
press for work in behalf of education;
urging hat the salary of the Super
intendent of Public Instruction be in
creased to $4,000 per year, and asking
for a change from district to township
school committees.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17
IT WORKS VERY WELL.

Wise consolidation of public school
districts has begun, Durham and Can
barrus taking the lead. Durham
merged three districts into one in
Mangum Township. This ~consolida-'
ton will give a graded school with
longer terms, and if properly conduct
ed the parties who are now opposed
to the merger will come to be its warm
est supporters. "
The Concord Standard says that at
the meeting of the Board of Educa-
ton, two school districts in number
ten township were consolidated. The
Board will reduce the number Of dis
tricts from So to 40. Last July two
districts consolidated, and were there
by enabled to build a splendid two.
school house.
Seeing the good results of the coy
solidation, other school districts WI
do likewise" says the Concord StalldN
ard. In one township where the
schools we're consolidated "the people
were so delighted with their house,
they purchased a good bell by popular
subscription" and the Standard prints
this sensible comment: "This shows
how easily a good neighborhood, at
first dissatisfied, can rise up from
selfish views and respond cheerfully
to all efforts looking to the greatest
good to the greatest numbers."-News
and Observer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17

A very timely Farmers Bulletin,
HHow Insects Affect Health in Rural
Districts" by Entomologist L. O..
Howard, has just been issued by the
National Department of Agriculture.
1t is a small bulletin of 10 pages, well
Illustrated. Its most practical and
important part is a discussion of
methods of protection from typhoid
fever and malaria" and because of the
Importance of this feature we advise
our readers to send for it. Just drop
a postal to your Representative or
Senator, or to the Secretary of Agri-
culture, Washington, D.. c., asking for
a copy of Farmers Bulletin No. 155,
and it will be sent you at once, free of
charge.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17

nothing eleyating or educational to
the best sentiments of the heart nor.
to the useful, productive or pleasure
giving powers of the mind in the read
ing of the details of crime, but there is
much therein that is degrading and
weakening. It does seem that healthy
minds would naturally crave a mer'al
food that gives life and strength rsth-
er than the opposite. The healthy
man may be content to eat anything
that fills the stomach even to decayed
vegetables, tainted meats, crawling
reptiles or t~asteless roots, if nothing
else can be obtained, but one would be
considered insane who would turn to
such diet from wholesome food, fresh,
tender steaks or delicious fruits and
nourishing bread and butter. It may
be that an appetite can be acquired
for that which is hurtful and 1oath-
some, but we opine that newspaper ed
itors and publishers are very much
mistaken when they imagine that their
readers do not prefer that which in
forms, nourishes, inspires, gives
strength and power, to those things
that are filthy, criminal and crime-pro-
J,,oinnO
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AT THE A.
M. COLLEGE.

The members of the State Board of
Agriculture, acting in their dual ca
pacity as members of the Agricultural
Board of Trustees of the A. and M.
College, arranged at their recent meet
ing in this city for still further in
creasing the efficiency of the agricul-
tural department of the College. Two
additional instructors were provided
for-an instructor in dairying and an
instructor in soil physics, farm equip
ment and farm crops. The Board also
arranged for establishing and equip
ping a soil physics laboratory, and for
purchasing the needed apparatus for
stock Judging and the study of live
stock. Two thousand dollars was APP
p~ropriated to pay agricultural stu
dents for work on the farm; this will
greatly help Industrious students who
wish to "work their way through"
Furthermore, the Board provided
for 12O (not sixty, as incorrectly print
ed in our State News department last
week. agricultural scholarships. This
means simply hat if 12O of the wide
awake farm boys who read The Pro
gressive Farmer will write DR.. Burkett
at once, they may get tuition in agri-
culture free ;also room rem free, if ap-
~plication is made in time. It seems
to us That there should be 100 of Il
boys ready to take advantage of this
splendid opportunity. Those inter
ested should write at once to DR..
Charles w. Burkett, Raleigh, N. @. 1t
can do you no harm to get full infor-
nation as to this matter and it will
cost you nothing; write for it.
In this connection we are glad to
republish this article from AgTjcultu-
raj Education:
"The following table gives the num-
Der of students registered in the agri-
cultural courses in the A. and M. Col
lege during the past two years:
10000
19O1-'02 rs
"This is the largest number OF agr;-
cultural students that has yet been
It gistered in the College, ard is an in
dicati,r of the GROWING ;ntecest OF
agricuItcre in the State of North Car
Gina.
comparing the two years, we find
there has been an increase of over 300
per cent in attendance.
eff every person interested in agri-
cultural education would speak to a
single young man on the farm about
Ia1icultur.l training aud the oppo.-
tunities here, it would be but a short
time until the number of agricultural
students would be in the hundreds.
Reader, if you are in earnest about
agricultural education, why not do
this ?"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON SECTIONAL
PRFJUDICES.

Some n has very wisely said that
"it would be a good thing if more
Southern people would go up North
and freeze out their hot-headedness
and more Northern people would come
down South and thaw out their pref
udice." We are reminded of this just
now by the confession of DR.. Felix Ad-
Ter of New York, (printed in last
weeks Progressive Farmer), as to
what he learned regarding the negro
On his recent trip to the South. The
first conclusion reached by DR.. Adler
is that " the Aryan and Semitic aces,
after thousands of years of hard think
ing and dealing with emergencies, are
historic races; the Negroes are a child
race" This is a very important fact
for students of the race problem, and
we remember seeing it explained and
commented on in a very striking man
ner in DR.. Josiah Strong's book on
Expansion"
The advanced and belated races,
says DIR. Strong, are not travelling the
same path. The negro rae for in
stance, at a given point in the path
of progress, is not surrounded by the
same conditions and beset by the same
difficulties that the Anglo-Saxon en-
countered at that stage of develop
ment. Nor is it certain that the be-
lated race will ever reach the same de-
velOpment that we have; different
roads and different conditions proba-
bly, mean different results. The white
man invented his tools, and wrought
out for himself his system of civiliza-
ton, and the labor strengthened and
developed him. The belated race to-
day have no such task to perform, nor
will they get the benefit from being
born into civilization, that the white
man got from making it.
Bust most important of all the i'm
pressions made on DR.. Adler was a
"sense of the damage we THE North
had done by imjudicious interference
and = < = the policy of recon
struction." There is nothing o en-
c~ouraging than the gradual recogni-
ton of this truth by the thinking men
of the North. Let US remember, how
ever, that while the North is thawing
out its prejudice, we need to freeze out
some of our hot-headedness. Some of
Il people, for instance, think it all
right for Roosevelt to say that Lee was
a greater general than Grant or any
other NOrtherner, but get very mad
because he hasn't the same high opin-
ion of jeff Davis.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17
THE SHIP SUBSIDY BILL.

That the ship subsidy bill passed the
Senate is discreditable to the country,
to the administration that permitted
it, and especially to the Republican
members of the Senate, all but six of
whom went under Senator Hanna's
flag in the final vote and supported the
measure. It is the most vicious piece
of legislation that has passed either
House of Congress this session. The
Worlds Work says that Mr.. Morgan's
steamship merger has killed the
scheme, but we incline to the opinion
of Farm and Ranch that it's friends
will yet push it through the House, if
public opinion will permit. Our Tex
as contemporary says:
"The ship subsidy bill seemed likely
to pass when j. P. Morgan gave it a
back set by buying up for a $30O,OOO,-
900 trust, of which he was the head, a
controlling interest in the great car
rying trade between this country and
Europe, thus showing to the world that
our greatest fnanciers consider the
s~hip-owning business already enor-
mously profitable. This raised a loud
protest from the people against what
is appropriately named the "ship-sub-
sidy steal" and since that time the
ship subsidy ~stealers have been unus-
ually quiet-waiting for the storm to
abate before going for the loot. As
the amount demanded by the advo-
Gates of this disreputable measure is
about $2O,OOO,OOO and would go into
the vaults of men already rich and in
fuential, the attempt will not be aban-
doned-they are just watching and
waiting for a favorable breeze whren
they expect to make the landing.'"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17

"The Industrial and Educational
Interests of our People Paramount to
all other considerations of State Pol
ICY is the motto of The Progressive
Farmer, and upon this platform it
Ehal rise or fall. Serving no master,
ruled by no faction, circumscribed by
NO selfish or narrow policy, its aim
win be to foster and promote the best
interests of the whole people of the
State. It will be rue to the instincts,
traditions and history of the Anglo
Saxon race. On all matters relating
specially to the great interests it rep
rsents, it will speak with no uncer-
tain voice, but will fearlessly the right
defend and ~impartially the wrong con-
Gemn."-From Col. Folks S~alutatory,
February 10, 1885.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17

Providing for a four months school
IN every district in the State was the
greatest achievement of the General
Assembly of 1901. Not all the 100000
appropriated for the purpose of bring
ing the weaker schools to this length
of term was used. Twenty-one coun-
ties needed no aid, and one has not
been officially heard from. The other
seYenty-fve counties called for $780,
5000, which amount has been sent
them.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17
THE OGDEN EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENT.

The Henderson Gold Leaf takes is
sue with us as to the Ogden movement
in Southern education. It's editor
thinks that somehow or other the
Northern men that are interested are
going to interfere with the rae prob
lem in the South. We think that to
attend a meeting of the Southern Ed
vocational Conference or read the lit
erature of the Southern Education
Board would relieve Bro. Manning's
fears. Nothing is made clearer than
that these Northern philanthropists
realize that the Southern white men
must work out without interference
the South's peculiar problems and that
the Southern white people are to be
trusted in this work. This sentiment
finds its best expression in the fact
that the actual management of the
movement in the South is in the hands
of such men as DR.. Charles D.. Nc
liver, DR.. Edwin A. Alderman, DIR.
Charles W. Dabney, and DR.. Fl. B.
Frissell. They can be trusted.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17

No better farming advice could be
given just at this time than that found
IN Mr.. P. II. Mangum's letter on page
1-plant COW peas on the stubble land.
No land from which wheat or oats has
just been cut should be allowed to ma
ture a crop of weeds and weed seed;
SOW COW peas instead, avoid so many
weeds, improve the land, and get feed
for your stock. In this way your stub
bic land sowed to peas will pay you a
bigger profit, labor and expense con-
sidered, han any other bit of farming
you will do this year.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17

Whatever n thinks of the contro-
versy it must be admitted that no
brighter or better written newspape
articles have appeared in North Caro-
lima lately than Henry A. Pages anti
Clark letters. Page is a born humorist.
And he tells one or two brand-new
jokes. (By the way, if you find any
poet who wishes to know "what is so
rare as a day in June" tell him, please,
that a good brand-new joke is that
thing.) Here is Mr.. Pages new story,
which he tells at the expense of the
Aberdeen and Asheboro Railway, own
ed by himself and his brothers:
"Mr. J. M. Turner says that he over
heard a conversation between an old
gray-headed passenger and my conduc-
tor up towards Asheboro one day about
as follows:
Conductor: What in the world are
you doing with a half-fare ticket? You
know you are more than twelve years
oldY
"Graybeard: yes, I am now, but I
wasn't when we left Aberdeen"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17
The Thinkers.
FACTORIES AFD CHILD 1Gsoo

So the South Carolina Iepi5.t.
has also turned down a child LAIN, !,
Perhaps the mill owners of that q,
have also voluntarily agreed to ,E,r.
child slavery-like they have abors,
it in Georgia.-Atlanta journal
Yes, like they abolished child h
in this State by a voluntary agrasr.
at the last meeting of the Genera
sembly. Those voluntary a.,
ments" are great .-Roxboro Conn.,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17

SO. A short conversation ~,
hind CHARTERS. (ChathamI
81. A chieftain at a fa..
(Brunswick.) OQ
%. big talk" (Bunoonb.,
50. Where Joseph's bretb..l
him. (Pitt.)
81. A boatman said to his VII.
(Row-an.) "0s
So. One countryman asked
at a shallow river, evil Won t =
"No, I'd 80. (Ruther-fo,I
Sc. Change a letter and bon.
sting! (Harnett.)
81. A Scot would enjoy dtDs
from it. (Cald-well.)
So. An ancient warrior Kin,
ciitd. tAlexander.)
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17

Here is a good hint from the editor
of the Philistine-good for US and
good for you: "No, I do not feel sor-
ry to lose a subscriber, but I do feeN
sorry for the man who, liking ten arti- '
cles, cancels because he dislikes one.
This man who will tolerate no ideas
but his own is not in the line of
growth, and for such there is little
hope. Of course you are not expected
to accept all that I write-I may think
differently myself tomorrow; and
want the privilege of c~ontradicting my
words as often as I choose" The Jew
ell consistency is often a paste jewel.
We need to be consistent with truth.
not to be consistent with our imper-
feet understanding of truth. We need
to learn to think for ourselves and to
be thankful to the man who touches us
in tender places and makes us think
American Grange Bulletin.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17

The great trans-cOntinental railway
lines, realizing that an Isthmian Canal
would diminish the quantity of traffic
they now carry across the continent,
have long maintained a lobby at Wash
ington to fight all promising canal leg
islation. This lobby has doubtless fos-'
tered the disagreement as to routes,
which dispute between the Panama adj
yocates and the Nicaraguan advocates
seems likely to postpone action till
yet another session. 1t is interesting
TO note that Senator Hanna, who is
said to be in close touch with the rail
way magnates, is now fighting against
the Nicaraguan route and for the Pan
m route. Taking advantage of the
hysterical frame of the public mind
As to volcanoes, he feigns great alarm
at the volcanic nature of some of the
country in the Nicaragua section. 1t
Is not hard to see the hand of the lobby
IN this latest effort to promote divi-
sion and dissension among canal ad-
TOcates.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17
WEAK OFFICIALS AND CORRUPT a
GALS.

The man to bear rule should be
able man, able to achieve, able n
sist, able to endure. There neve, y
a time in the history of Our coDDt
when strong men were more urgent
needed. There was never a time VIII
the pressure brought to bear upon d
representatives of the people, to betr
their interests, was so great. Ths
was never put, before men of abl
such opportunity for service of t8
fellows as is now before them in
political sphere, with the probla
surcharged with veal or woe, ID
waiting for solution.
And yet how often it is that 4
merest weaklings are chosen, .good1
tured jelly-fsh, with neither int8Ia
tual force nor moral stamina; a
when meaning well themselves, li&
to be led into all sorts of nefari6
schemes for the plundering of the pc
pie and the enriching of speeiiaiI ms
ests. There is hardly any choice b
tween a weak man and a bad man +
official positions, because the we
man will soon find the bad man, "
will influence him for evil. Prov
able ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Standard.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17

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Two weeks are required after money is re-
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can be changed If not properly changed within
40 weeks after money is sent notify US.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

Never bear more than one kind of
trouble at a time. Some people bear
three kinds-au they have had, all they
have now, and all they expect to have.
Edward Everett Hale.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-17

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