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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-09-02
POLITICS IN THE PALMETTO STATE.

The South Carolina Democratic
primary election was held Tuesday.
As it is necessary to secure a major
ity in these primaries to win a nomi-
nation-which is virtually an election
only a few of the contests were de-
cided. Congressman in FIVE districts
were nominated and there will be a
second race in two. The second race
for Governor will be between Hey
ward, Ansel and Talbert. There will
also be a second race for Senator, In
which Congressman Latimer and ex-
Governor Evans are the leaders. One
Gunter was nominated for Attorney
General V e Hon. W. F. Stevenson,
a native Iredell man and Speaker of
the South Carolina Legislature. The
contest in the primaries was warm, as
it always is in South Carolina, and
about all the men who we're candidates
ought to be in the ~penitentiary if the
things they told on each other are
true.-Statesville Landmark.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-09-02
PROGRESS OF DEMOCRATIC "REORGAN.
IZATION.

The Eastern reorganizers of the
Democratic Party have stirred up a
hornets nest; at any rate, they have
excited one hornet to a most uncom-.
Portable degree of activity. Far from
contentedly permitting himself to be
"efaced," Mr.. Bryan has started out
with the determination of effacing the
Eastern Gold Democrats who refused
to support him in 1895 and 1900.
Neither Mr.. Cleveland nor Mr.. Hill
will be the Democratic candidate in
1904 if Mr.. Bryan can prevent it, and
it is quite plain that, although Mr..
Bryan himself probably will not be
nominated and hat he may not be able
to name the candidate, he will say who
and what candidate shall rot be. The
attempt to make him ego way back
and sit down." as a horse-racing
friend of conservatism in the New
York Senate put it, has had the unex-
pected effect of calling out express
sions of real affection for the leader
from all parts of the West and South.
Mr.. Bryan, who, with all his appear
ance of rash enthusiasm, is as crafty
a politician as n other man we
know, has taken advantage of the sit
uation, and instead of receiving him
with indifference the larger part of
his party is hearkening after some IN
timation from his lips as to the right
man to nominate against Theodore
Roosevelt. A mere mention of the
name of Edward N. Shepard in a
speech at Nantasket was enough to
start a study of Mr.. Shepard's posi-
biIities as a candidate. He is the en-
inent lawyer who ran for Mayor of
New York last year and was beaten
disastrously. His canvass was weak,
but he was in a difficult position, try
ing to run with the hares of Tammany
and hunt with the hounds of reform.
He might do better in the larger arena
and fighting for broader principles.
He is at least regular" for although
he didn't believe in the free coinage
of silver and by training and associa-
ton was hostile to a great part of the
Chicago and Kansas City platforms,
he supported the party candidate on
both occasions, when Mr.. Cleveland
was discharging his heaviest guns at
Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Hill was lending
aid and comfort to the enemy.-NeW
York Golfers Weekly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-09-02
REPORT THAT JONES WILL BIZ ON THE
CANAL COMMISSION REVIVED.

The report hat Senator James Z.
Jones, of Arkansas, is to be a member
of the Isthmian Canal Commission,
chronicled last June, when the canal
bill passed, is now revived and seems
to be accepted as true by those who
then doubted its authenticity.
Until last June Jones was an ardent
advocate of the Nicaraguan route, but
three days before the roll was called
he Joined the Panama forces. He
voted for the bill and thereby won
the gratitude of Senator Hanna.
The Office pays from $500 to $40.
900 a year and will last ten years.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-09-02
THE IMPORTANT FACT ABOUT THE
COAL STRIKE.

But the fact of Importance that
stands out larger than all the miners
formulated grievances, than all the
statements in the mine-owners' expla-
nation, than the easy-going attitude
of the public which cared too little
about it till acts of violence we're COM
mitted-the large fact is that a sum
mer-long campaign has been carried
on by this large labor union, in a time
of prosperity, for the general tactical
purpose of gaining a position of
greater union-power. It is a more de-
liberate and therefore more significant
part of the general war between or
ganized labor and organized owner
ship than a hundred sharply provoked
strikes would be. It has a bigger So
cial meaning than many strikes might
have that provoked greater violence
and aroused public indignation. It
is the union against the combination,
in a deliberate, well-planned, long con-
test, and, as always, the easy and busy
public pays the cost of the war. The
general result is to strengthen the
feeling, which is stronger than the
careless public may think, that there
is something so radically wrong with
the management of this great fuel
| supply that Government regulation or
even Government ownership is justi-
fed. These mine troubles feed So
cialism as coal feeds a furnace
From The Worlds Work for Septem-
Der.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-09-02
:, General News.
WHAT rHE DISPATCHES TELL.
The News Boiled Down aud Presented in Con-
venient PORN for Busy Readers.


Senator Frye, of Maine, president
pro tenn. of the Senate, and Miss FL
len May, of Portland, Me-, are to be
married. The Senator is a widower,
about II years old, and Miss May is
80 years his Junior.
A dispatch from Loretto, Pa, reit-
crates the report that G. M. Schwab
will retire from the United States
Steel Trust and all active business,
to recruit his health. He denies the
report, but has gone abroad.
"a little tighter every day." sum-
marizes the anthracite coal situation
in Chicago. A few local dealers are
parting with a few ions at SO and $40,
one dealer being reported yesterday
as demanding $11 and not wanting to
sell at that. Many persons who have
been using hard coal in furnaces are
now putting in natural gas.
Old Bull, an Omaha Indian chief
who was a survivor of the vars waged
against the Indians by General Gus
ter, is dead at the Arapahoe Indian
Agency, at Cody, Oklahoma. Old Bull
was in the Custer battle at the Little
Big Horn, in 1878, and afterward en-
tered the regular army. serving until
retired on account of age.
It is reported hat an extra session
of Congress will be called immediate
ly after the elections in November.
The President feels that there is much
general work for Congress to do, but
the principal purpose in calling the
extra session is to induce Congress to
take action on the Cuban question.
The situation in the island is said to
be just about as bad as it could be.
A friend of the President declares
that Mr.. Roosevelt is ready to sacri-
fee his nomination for the Presidency
rather than let the Cubans go into
bankruptcy or revolution" But he
won't have to do that.-Collier's
Weekly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-09-02
JUDGE sCHENCK AND HIS WORK.

The State loses one of her great
men in the death yesterday of Judge
David Schenck, of Greensboro. Leon
inc in cast of countenance and mas
terful in purpose, he was a born lead
er. In his long and successful legal
career, he was a power before the
jury. As a judge, he was able and
just. His greatest, and really inesti-
mable service to North Carolina, and
through her to the nation, is (for his
work will live after him), his magni-
fcent defence and ~vindication of
North Carolina troops at the battle
of Guilford Court House, in his his
torical work, North Carolina, 1880
49," and his rescue from times OBJ
literating hand the battle ground of
Guilford, and, after restoring it to
the condition it was in on the day of
the great Revolutionary conflict be-
tween Greene and CORVALLIS, making
of it a State park where patriotism IS
forever exalted. With meagre aid
from Indifferent Legislatures and with
too little encouragement and support
from the people, Judge Schenck sue
ceeded, nevertheless, in sweeping away
all obstacles, and in permanently es-
tablishing this beautiful rallying
ground for those who love the old
State and Der heroes. Few of the
original States which fought the Red
Coats out of the newly-formed Union,
can boast of such an institution as
Guilford Battle Ground Park, and
North Carolina could not had it not
been fer David Schenck. His book
and his battle ground are his monu-
mentg. He is a son who truly served
his mother State, and whose name
will be carved high in her temple of
fame.-Charlotte Observer, 28th.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-09-02

Stanly Enterprise: We rejoice at
seeing such an educational spirit on
the part of parents and children that
is being manifested in our midst. The
graduates of our graded school, almost
without exception, either have entered
or are making arrangements to enter
some of the colleges and seminaries of
the State. There is nothing that
speaks more for our community than
this fact.
The Governor has received a tele-
gram from Governor Crane, of Mas
sachusetts, saying, "I have honored
your requisition for Monroe Rogers"
The latter is the negro wanted at
Durham for house-burning. A requi-
sition for him was not Immediately
honored because of the clamor by
some citizens of Massachusetts that if
brought back to North Carolina he
would surely be lynched. The fact is,
there was not the slightest purpose to
lynch HIM. He is not indicted for a
capital offence, the purpose being to
give hirl life imprisonment.-Ex-
change.
Laurinburg Exchange: Cotton is
beginning to open very rapidly, and
it now looks as if the whole crop will
be gathered in less than a month. We
are told hat the crop has failed very
much during the past two weeks and
in some sections the bolls are decay
ing on the stalk.-We are informed
that Mrs. Annie Mckay, of Spring
Hill Township, has had the second
crop of corn planted on the same land
this season. The first crop was fully
matured, and with a little drying was
ready for grinding, when gathered.
They say the second crop is fine corr
and will be ready for harvesting about
the same time as other corn.
Raleigh News and Observer: Small
pox is epidemic among the white peo-
pie of Leaksville, Rockingham Coun-
ty. Heretofore it has been almost ex-
clusively confined to the colored peo-
pie. The disease is said to be of a
very malignant type.-The Federal
Office holders will have to pay tax on
their incomes, if they exceed $1,000.
Chairman Mcneil, of the Corpora
ton Commission, said yesterday that
there was nothing in the law to ex-
empt those holding positions under
the government. The only incomes
not taxed are those derived from
property already taxed"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-09-02
NO OPPOSITION TO PAGE TOR COIeRzss

In the Republican Congressional
Convention for the Seventh District
held in Lexington Wednesday, the fol-
lowing resolution was adopted:
"Resolved, That we, the Republi-
cans of the Seventh Congressional
District in convention assembled de-
clare, that in view of the high char
acter as well as the great interest
which Hon. Robert n. Page, Demo
cratic nominee, has heretofore mani
tested with respect to the industrial
welfare of the people of this district
we decline to nominate a candidate in
opposition to him."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-09-02

We regret to hear of the death of
Prof. Alexander McIver, an old friend
of Col. Polk and of The Progressive
Farmer. The Chatham Record says:
"Prof. Alexander McIver died on
last Wednesday night at Sanford,
whittier he had removed from this
county about a year ago. He had a
fall a short time ago which it is
thought caused his death. Many
years ago he was professor of mathe-
matics at Davidson College, after
wards for a short time at the Univer-
sity, and about thirty years ago was
State Superintendent of Public In
struction."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-09-02

The Berlin correspondent of the
Figaro sends an interview with Pro-
fessor Koch In regard to DR.. Gar
nault's experiments with incubation
with bovine tuberculosis bacilli. Pro-
fessor Koch said DR.. Garnault was
playing to the gallery. His expert
ments were neither serious nor scien-
tifc and were absolutely i~nofensive,
Professor Koch maintains his theory
that bovine tuberculosis bacilli have
no serious consequences on human be-
ings and that consumption cannot be
communicated through milk from di-
seased COWS.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-09-02
FUTURE OF THE MOTOR.
Edison Says That Thirty Years Will Finish
the Locomotive and the Horse.

Copenhagen, Aug. 31.-The official
organ Of the press exhibition which
was opened here on June IA, prints a
letter from Thomas A. Edison in reply
to queries as to his opinions concern
ing motor, traction and aerial nayiga-
ton. MI. Edison's letter reads as fol-
lows:
II believe hat within thirty years
nearly all tramways will discard steam
locomotives and adopt electric motors,
and that the electric automobile will
displace the horse almost entirely. In
the present state of science there are
no known facts by which one could
predict any commercial future for
aerial navigation"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-09-02
A FOR COTTON.
Condition Of the Crop Shows Material De-
cline.

Washington, Aug. 26.-Following
is the Agricultural Departments
weekly summary of the condition of
cotton:
ga decided deterioration in the con-
dition of cotton is reported generally
throughout the central and western
portions of the cotton belt, as well as
over a large part of the eastern dis
tricts. The most favorable reports
are from the Carolinas. In North
Carolina the condition of the crop
continues very promising, although
the prevalence of rust is widespread.
On stiff soils in South Carolina new
growth is blooming and fruiting, but
on sandy soils rust, shedding and pre-
mature opening are prevalent.
Throughout the central and western
districts, with the exception of north
ern Mississippi and portions of Ok
lahoma and Indian Territory, where
the crop is doing well, the reports in
dictate a decided decline in its condi-
ton, rust, shedding and premature
opening being general. In Texas the
deterioration has been pronounced,
and under the most favorable future
weather conditions a yield in excess
of the average is improbable"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-09-02
A eREATER TOBACCO TRUST.

Il This What Projected Conference Between
American and Imperial Companies Means4
London, Aug. 28.-An important
conference of the tobacco interests
has been called to take place in Lon
don September II, in an effort to curb
the fierce rate war which followed the
formation of the rival combines. The
meeting will include representatives
of the American combine, the Impe-
rial Tobacco Company, m~anufactur-
ers, importers, and it is hoped by those
interested that it will result in a COM
munity of interests whereby the
trade will be placed on a more salts
factory footing.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-09-02
TO DO WITHOUT OUR COTTON.
England Thinks She Can Raise Her Supply
t. in Upper Egypt.

London, Aug. 26.-The British Cot
ton Growing Association, which, with
the hearty cooperation of the Colo
NAL Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain,
is striving to render the British en-
pire independent of the United States
so far as raw cotton is concerned, is
now paying special attention to upper
Egypt, where it is asserted, the asso-
citation can develop a cotton belt
dwarfng that of the Southern States
of America. Major Count Gleichen,
secretary of the Sirdar of the Egyp-
tian forces, Major General Wingate,
addressing the association at Man
chester recently, said the experiments
now concluded on the banks of the
Nile show the quality of the cotton
grown there to be the equal of any in
the world. There are available 49,
100000 acres of irrigated land and the
only difficulty is the labor supply, the
Dervishes having depopulated the
Soudan, but the completion of the
Suakim-Berber Railroad is expected
to solve the problem, besides furnish
ing an outlet for the crop.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-19
South African Gold Mines.

John Hays Hammond, in the Engi-
neering Magazine, gives an extensive
description and review of the great
South African mining districts, from
which the following is an extract:
The Transvaal comprises about 12O,-
600 square miles, and includes three
gold mining districts of Importance
the famous Witwatersrand and the
quartz mining districts of Lydenburg
and De Kaap. The entire mineral de
velopment of the country has taken
place within thirty years, for mining
in the Transvaal was prohibited up to
1868, at which time the government,
being in dire financial straits, threw
open the gold fields to exploration and
exploitation. even going so far as to
offer a bonus for the discovery of
profitable mines. The resultant pros
pecting in the early '70s led to the
discovery of quartz veins and the in
auguration of mining in several parts
of the northern Transvaal. The Ly-
denburg district first attracted atten-
ton in 1876, when explorations of the
alluvial deposits began, followed later
by vein mining. The De Kaap gold
fields were discovered in 1884, and the
conglomerate or "banket'' beds of the
Witswatersrand- destined to supersede
all others in importance-in 1885. In
that year a small stamp battery was
erected to crush quartz from vein a
few miles west of johannesburg, and
in this a crushing of conglomerate
was made, but it was not until April,
1887, that a battery of three stamps
was erected to treat the ore of the
Witwatersrand banket. This was
followed by the erection of other bat
teries, and the output of gold for 1887
was $4,000 ounces. For 1898, the last
complete year before the war, it was
A, ,295,6 ounces, valued at f15, 141, ,376,
and for nine months of 1899 it was
4,0oS,326 ounces. There were at the
end of 1898 seventy-nine mines, which
in 1898 produced 1881 ,446 tons of ore,
crushed by 4,765 stamps. They en-
ployed 9,476 whites with an average
monthly wage of f26, and SS,624 ma
tive workmen, receiving on an average
E2 9s Cd each per month. During the
same year in the Lydenburg district
five companies, running 1877 stamps,
produced 154, $50 tons of ore, yielding
10S,SS4 ounces of crude gold, valued at
1892. 1878, and in the De Kaap gold
fields seven companies, runnig 200
stamps, produced S9760 ounces of
crude gold, valued at f314, 1872.
The companies ceased working in Oc
tober, 1899, by reason of the declara-
ton of war, but the late Transvaal
government continued operations upon
its own account in some of the richest
mines up to May, 1900.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-19
Large Mine Earnings.

During the past six months, accord
ing to the revised table in the New
York Engineering and Mining journal,
stockholders in 132 mining corporations
divided $94, ,506, ,595 in profits, and this,
too, with a decline of S10,000,O00 in the
rich dividends of the Butte copper dis
trict. The Standard Oil Company and
the United States Steel corporation,
each worldwide in its scope, figure in
this total.
The disbursements by fifty-six gold
silver and lead mining and smelling
companies aggregated $7,462. 2.512, CON-
ing chiefly from Colorado, Utah and
South Dakota properties The largest
individual payer was the American
Smelling and Refining Company, with
$1,750,000, being two. quarterly pay
ments ON its seven per cent. preferred
stock of S50,000,O00. The mill trust,
operating in the Cripple Creek district,
has paid so far this year 1924, ,249 on
q capital of $10000,O00, part of which
is still held in reserve. This indicates
profitable field for the Portland and
other plants of the independent class,
with skilled mill men in charge.
The copper companies have suffered
from the low market prices for the
metal which have necessitated a gen.
eral reduction in dividend payments to
stockholders. In all ten properties in
Michigan, Montana, California and Ari-
zona paid S6,337, ,431. The foremost
payer was Amalgamated, which de-
clares dividends according TO the earn
ings on stock which it holds in other
concerns. The amount paid by this
company was $2,30S,31S, which re-
duced the annual rate from eight per
cent. paid on capital of $75.0O0,000
to two per cent. on S155, 100000, of
which $153. .SS7, 800 is outstanding. The
Calumet and Hecla Company of Mich
igan, with a capital stock of only ST.
100000, has paid $1,500,000. This
amount, however. is only one-half what
was paid in the corresponding period
last year.
In addition to the American divl-
dends foreign companies, in which
Americans are interested, paid 81 $780,
437, of which $1,000, 1873 comes from
Mexico, $735, ,544 from Canada, 100000
from Central America and $40, ,760 from
South America. Numerous other prl-
vate and close corporations paid large
dividends to their owners. 1t is, how
ever, almost impossible to estimate the
amount of such payments. However,
the large dividends paid by public con-
Germs at least indicate the profits re
sulting from legitimate investments in
the mineral industry. Some of the
heaviest dividend payers in Colorado,
like the Little Jonny'' at Leadville,
belong in the private class.-Denyer
News.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-19

suffer before, and it was for love of
her. Whatever she might have said
or done in anger, whatever she might
have said and done in perversity,
though plainly perceiving his mistake
and his sincerity, was profoundly
modified by this.
Sir Ike and the rest are my negro
slaves, mine all except the one at
Cousin Georges, whom haven't COM
pletely paid for yet. Boys, we call
them, and l see you have never heard
them called so. What have you to say
in regard to the terrible insult you
have offered me as a man, to the re-
proof you were starting out to give
me as clergyman" and again there
was a ring of merriment mixed with
the anger in her voice and the eyes
she tried to make stern twinkled.
81 have offered you most grievous
insult and l cannot think of proper
amends. I have heard it said that to
offer love is the greatest honor a man
can do a woman. To atone for my
outrageous offense, may l in deepest
humility offer you my hand in mar
riage? But what right have / to call
that an atonement, to ask the un-
speakable happiness of union with
you and call it balm for my affront?
Oh such is the agony of my self-re-
proach that I could throw myself un-
der the feet of yonder approaching
horses if it would be an atonement.
Would you do it?" asked Miss
Manigault, clasping her hands.
"Yes, gladly-except for the fact
that such an act by one of my cloth
might create scandal and be used
by the enemies of sound religion. Oh,
I could throw myself down from the
roof of the hotel to atone-if my cloth
only permitted
But, tell me, how could you believe
it of me?"
Because you yourself said it. All
this time 1 have so builded love and
admiration and trust in you that even
when | thought l heard you declaring
yourself utterly abandoned, believed,
l believed you. Had anyone else, my
dearest friend, my brother, whispered
aught against you, l would not have
believed"
"You would have fought him, you
would have called him out?"
81 would gladly have fought him,
leaving the arbitrament to whatever
deadly weapons he might choose, how
ever unskilled l might be in their use
If my cloth had only permitted"
"You are true South Carolinian, If
you are a Vermonter." after the ut
terance of which paradox Miss Mani