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Arizona republican., 1902-11-12

Maximum temperature, 7O minimum temperature, 5S. Average relative humidity, 70 per cent. Total precipitation, II. Character of the day-Partly cloudy
 Nj. F.. BLYSTONE,
 Observer.
Arizona republican., 1902-11-12

The A. j. GOsart Plumbing Company has just put in a 2G0 gallon steel hot water boiler, the largest in the city, in Shirley's Fashion barber shop in the basement, corner Center and Washing ton streets. Ladies and children can get all the hot water they want. La dies get their shoes polished in the Fashion
 FRANK TURNER. Foreman.
 FRANK SHIRLEY. Proprietor
Arizona republican., 1902-11-12

FOR SALE FINE ALFALFA RANCH, 16O acres, fenced and cross fenced, water in Maricopa canal, 9 miles of city.
Arizona republican., 1902-11-12

FRANK SHIRLEY. Proprietor
Arizona republican., 1902-11-12

ID. pkg. seeded raisins QagIe

l ID. pkg. seeded ruisins Q1agle
 Brand). ........ ........ .......... 15c 1 ID. pkg entrants. .15c lb. Thompson's seedlcss raisins e. 15c 1 l5. citron 25c lbs. English walnuts. .SJc 1 ID. almonds. .15c lbs. new prunes. s....................2 .25c lbs. new codfish. 25c 1 Gt California olives. 35c 1 ct. nice pickles. s.....................20 .20c
Arizona republican., 1902-11-12
Strangers in the city will find listed in U Renting Department every de- sirable furnished and unfuInished house for rent in Phoenix.

FOR SALE.-FINEST IMPROVED 5- ACRE RANCH in the valley. Six room house, barn and outbuild- ings. All kinds of fruit trees in full bearing.
Arizona republican., 1902-11-12

FOR SALE.-2O-ACRE WELL M PROVED RANCH; new barn, good house and outbuildings, water iE MaricCpa canal.
Arizona republican., 1902-11-12
Now IS the time

To make your Xmas fruit cake. We have just received a fresh lot of nuts and fruit.
Arizona republican., 1902-11-12

A man finds it necessary to blow in his money when he has blowout.
Arizona republican., 1902-11-12
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-08
EDITORIAL NOTES.

We confess that we had YER
looked that inspiring bit of verse
quoted by Harry Farmer as having
been composed and published by
Editor johnson, of Charity and Chill
dren. But the writer is not a special
list IN North Carolina poetry, and our
oversight may be psrdoned. But
there is no excuse for the failure of
the Charlotte Observer to add Bro.
Johnson to it's list of immortals. The
two lines quoted by Harry Farmer
only whet our appetite for more,
and we anxiously await Bro. John
sons excuse for the brevity of his
production.
Article V of the Constitution of
the United States says that the Con-
stitution in any other respect may
be amended by vote of three-fourths
of the States, ETC., but that "no
State, without it's consent, shall be
deprived of it's equal suffrage in the
Senate" And the spectacle of Sena-
tor Penrose, representing a great
State as a legislator sworn to protect
the Constitution, proposing in bliss
ful ignorance an amendment provid
ing for proportional representation
in the Senate, is enough to make the
angels weep-or a dog laugh.
Governor Montague, of Virginia,
continues to give evidence of his
courage and efficiency. His veto of
the bill providing for a re,apportion
ing of the Congressional districts of
the State raj very creditab BILE to him,
If we are correctly informed. The
Legislature, it seems, gerrymandered
so as to force Congressman Otey,
who has won the dislike of his party
machine" into a Republican dis
trict. There seems TO have been no
other reason for the proposed reap
portionment and Governor Monta-
que, who has not an oversupply Of
admiration for machines anyhow,
promptly vetoed the bill.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-08
WHY AMERICA IN INVADING EUROPE

It is true we have a territory of
boundless resources and an sdvan-
tageous geographical position but
it is not these that r giving US the
lead, for these are but the materials
of success. Success itself is an indi-
vidual quality. If men of the same
race and of the same capacity live
generation after generation, some
under the social and political
conditions of the Old World,
and some under the conditions
of the New, the freedom Of
initiative and the freedom of op-
portunity in a democracy will make
the men who live under it more eff
cient than the men who live under
an ~aristocraoy. That the English
race in a democracy should outstrip
the English race in an aristocratic
society vas to us a ~foregone oonclu-
sion a hundred years ago. If it had
been possible for England to rid
itself of what Burke meant by his
fine phrase, Crank and title and all
the solemn plausibilities of the
world" 1t would never have been
possible for the Americans in any
way to outstrip the English.
It is the simple fact that a poor
boy born in Connecticut may become
an organizer Of great industries in
Minnesota, u an inventive lad born
in North Carolina may revolutionize
the warfare of the world-that any
man anywhere in our democracy, If
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-08
AHTFT TO

l The Farmers Call gives this vs,.
unique way of increasing membs.
ship and maintaining interest in i,
grange:
"Where a grange meets with rao,
larity and works with interest ~,
success it. attracts favorable mott,
among the outside farmers, and %,
easily win new members. Som,
oranges expand their rolls in III.
way: A list is made of all desirabL
and eligible persons in the vicin,b
who are not yet members, but wb.a
ought to be. Then two grange con
mittees are appointed, one of broth.
ers and one of sisters, the list NJ
names Is divided to the commits,
and they go from house to house h
a social way to explain about Il,
grange and to enroll new memben
It is q competitive canvass, and I'm
side bringing in the largest enroll.
ment takes the prize and wears ii,
1Gurels. This plan arouses a lot d
interest both in and out of th
grange, and seldom fails of grstfE
ing success. Try it." aN '
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-08
WHICH WAY ARE WI EDUCATING,

To the careful observer and earn.
est enthusiast for higher and better
life on the farm, there comes 3
thought true and forcible,-as No
educating toward the farm OF away
from it? We look at our primary
schools, our high schools, our sCads.
mics and our colleges, and do we not
see the tendency almost wholly
against the farm? There is a re.
markable development and interest
in agricultural education in Europe,
where it is common for agriculture
to be taught in every grade, from
the primary school through the col.
lege. What is the tendency in this
agricultural nation of Gurs2 Too
often, we fear, away from Che farm,
The common school recruits the
academy, the college, the university
but does it recruit the agricultural
and mechanical college, or do what
it ought to recruit the ranks of good
farmersP May we not hope the time
is near at hand when agriculture
will be taught not only in the com.
mon schools, but the high schools
as we'll?
Governor Hoard says: "Is there
any good reason why this farmers
school, the country school, should
not teach the farm boy the elements
of agriculture give him some knoWL
edge of the technical terms he must
meet in farm journals and farm
books, and start him on the road 70
larger study and stronger lo7eM
farm Life, and thus save him from
deserving the farm? All over Europe
there is a great revival of agrlC0l'
tural education in the primary
schools +; when that is done here, you
will have larger use and destiny FOL
the experiment station and the agrl'
cultural college ."-Dr. G. W. bur
kett, in Agricultural Education.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-08

We have published in our State
News department. several articles
directing attention TO the fact that
ACKNOWLEDGMENT is the penalty pre-
scribed for the failure of any citizen
TO pay his 1901 poll tax by May LIST,
and as the fatal date is now rapidly
approaching, we think the matter
worthy of mention editorfally.
A simple statement of the facts in
the case should suffice, and these
facts are as follows: The tax must
be paid, before or after this month.
If paid before May LIST, the receipt
will enable you, if otherwise qualified,
to vote in the election next Novem-
Der. If not paid by May LIST, you
will lose the right TO vote in this
election, but the tax will have
to be paid just the same.
This is the situation, according to
the law and the prophets, and 1t
should not be necessary TO say more
TO any man who values the priv.
of citizenship.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-08
THE EAST TENNESSEE FARMERS CON-
VENTION.

The East Tennessee Farmers Con-
vention is one of the most successful
institutions of the kind in the ooun.
try. Every year for twenty:six
a the farmers of the section in
dicated have been meeting together,
discussing farm problems, listening
to addresses by agricultural authori-
ties from other sections, and 90.
operating in the aid of worthy move.
ments. We should like for a num-
Der of North Carolina farmers to at
tend this convention, but most of all
we should like to see suoh meetings
here in North Carolina. Why can
we not have them? Are we less pro-
gressive than the farmers of our
sister State Cor daughter State rather,
since Tennessee is the child of our
commonwealth?
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-08
STATUS OF THE RURAL SCHOOL LIBRARY
MOVEMENT.

Is should be unnecessary 20 re-
mind PROGRESSIVE FARMER readers
again of the fact that under the pro
visions of the rural school library
act of the General Assembly of 1901,
only 500 libraries can receive the
State and county aid provided for.
And while notmore than six libraries
in any county can receive this aid,
&c will be seen that the fund Is not
large enough to aid this number in
every county. It now seems prob
able, therefore, that some counties
will soon find themselves without a
single library and the State appro-
priation exhausted by the calls from
the more progressive sections. The
following table shows by counties
the number of libraries that have
received State aid. The names in
italics are those of counties in which
six libraries have received aid from
the State appropriation no more
libraries can be established In them,
except by private subscription en-
tirely. The names preceded by a
star are those of counties in which
no libraries have yet been estab-
lished. In the other counties some
have been established, but the State
Is ready TO help enough others to
bring the number up TO six for each
county, if asked in time. Let the
reader see TO which of these GLASSES
his county belongs. Remember that
since last September 316 libraries
have received State aid. When the
500 limit is reached, no more can be
aided. We urge our readers living
in counties having less than six
libraries, TO begin at onoe the work
of raising the SO needed TO seour
the $50 from State and county funds.
Every school should have a library.
The list by counties follows:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-08
FARMING INTERESTS THE MOST IN
PORTANT.

My opinion today is that James a.
Hill is the strongest personality d
America, and withal is possessed ="
a common sense that is most uncon'
mon. append the following, jUS'
as a taste of his quality:
1.-THE railroad interests in tnH
country are not the greatest, after
ALI The agricultural interests sFo
most important. They represent
one half the population of the Uniteu
States, one,half the capital, anu
about all the patriotism, religion anu
feeling there is. ,
"The country rules the cities !
should be sorry to see the time JONI .
when the city interests controllou
the country. At present they W
not. Whenever a situation con0'
up where the integrity of the c0uD
try lie at stake, the agricultural -
terests rise up in a body and s"0OE
the obstacle aside. It is the mo
who owns the land, the area uPV4
which we live, who is the strons0'
factor in affairs. Gilbert HuOOS'"'
in the March Cosmopolitan.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-08
WORK FOB NEWSPAPERS.

The newspapers of the State can
do no better work for themselves
and their people thsnby encouraging
Che establishments of rural school
libraries. We should like for the
editor of every North Carolina
county paper TO look over the table
published in the next column and
see whether or not his county has
done all that Il can do in this matter.
If not, let him bring it to the stten-
zion of his readers and urge immedi-
ate action.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-08

1t is doubly humiliating TO the
South, coming as it does so soon after
the ITillman MoLaurin fight, to find
the officers of the Charleston Expo
sition seeking the services of two
famous prize-fghters in order to at
tract a crowd. We believe that no
other exposition has ever resorted to
such methods. The South should be
able to get up a sufficiently attractive
exhibit without importing Northern
sluggers. We hope that the prize
fight will not be allowed in Charles
ton.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-08
A GOOD EXAMPLE.

The Danbury Reporter, in a recent
issue, said editorially:
"As soon as the spring weather
opens up politics will begin to be
talked and manipulated by our folks.
The Reporter expects to be in the
fight for Democracy, but the struggle
on our part will be a clean one No
personalities or abuse will be per.
mitted in these columns, and no un-
fair communications will be published
in the interest of any man or party"
We should like to see papers of all
parties join the Reporter in it's fight
against base methods of campaign
ing. A united press could accomplish
a great deal in this respect
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-08

he have the mettle of the al,
likely. to win one Of the capital MI
of his generation and still moro .
fact that the, man of only comm
place qualities who may. win onlS
'smalLmeaaure of success for him..
may still keep open for his obild.a
the road to distinotion-these ar
simple and fundamental facts ts y
determine the future domination :.
the world.-The Worlds Work, Y
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-08
THIS WEEKS PAPER-sOME RANDOM
COMMENT.

Mr.. j. G.. Beavers, an A. and M.
College student, furnishes a5paper
explaining the PROCESS Of seed-mak.
ing. Our readers will find it not
only interesting, but well-wrftten.
one Of the most striking, as we'll as
gratifying features of the work of the
College at this time lie the remark
able interest in all forms of nature
study. Tz''
We should like to have a gen.
eral discussion of plans and ex-
periments for improving unproduc-
tive soils. Read Mr.. Meaeham's'
article on page 1; then write us a
description of the methods that you
have tried, and the results attained.
There is no subject which should be
of greater interest to farmers.
Biologist Mccarthy, of the State
Department. of Agriculture, is work
ing earnestly to awaken interest in
silk culture, and is meeting with
some success Years ago the indus
try fourished for a time in some SEQ
tions Of the State, chiefly in the
vicinity of Fayetteville, we believe.
In the Smithsonian Institution at
Washington City we recently noticed
an excellent collection of silk cocoons
grown by Mr.. Oscar G. Thompson, of
Wayne County, in the sos. We are
glad that the Agricultural Depart
ment is TO test the adaptability Of
our State TO the industry and hope
that it's efforts will be successful. Of
course, no5one should go into 1t on a
large scale as yet, and the Depart.
ment is acting wisely in limiting the
quantity of silk worm eggs to be sold
to any individual.
A large acreage in tobacco and
home supplies, a smaller acreage in
ootton-this is the conclusion
reached by State Alliance Lecturer
Balm as to what the farmers of
Eastern North. Carolina will plant
this year, and the reports that we
have received confirm his opinion
We should greatly like to receive
a ! large number of letters on life in
the South of other days, and hope
that our older readers will respond
promptly to tho request for articles
on this topic. For further particu-
lars, see Aunt Jennie's letter on
page 4.
The article on birds in our Chill
dren's Column reminds Us that an
Audubon Society to develop interest
in birds and bird life was recently
organized in Greensboro. One of its
promoters is Prof. T. Gilbert Pear
son, author of the popular new book,
"Stories of Bird Life" who is au-
thority for the statement that there
are in North Carolina 312 recorded
of birds, of which only eight
are protected by law. A summary
of an address by Mr.. Pearson, treat
ing of this subject, will appear in an
early issue of The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-08
STORY WITH WHICH ALL NORTH CARO-
LINIANs SHOULD BIZ FAMILIAR.

So. @=F = - F. sfEr-EE 49, - -
In his speech before the Good
Roads Convention, which met in
Raleigh a few weeks ago, Dr.. Charles
D. Mower, to illustrate his statement
that the people always find the
moneyfor thesthings that they earn.
estly believe they need, told the
story of the building of the. first
North Carolina insane asylum. It is
a bit of history that should interest
all North Carolinians, and points an
obvious moral. .Dobbin, it will BE-
remembered, was one Of the four
Secretaries of the Navy whom our
State has furnished the Union. The
stofy as told by Dr.. McIver follows:
"When Dorothes Dix came to Raj
eigh in the '40's TO ask the General
Assembly to appropriate 800, 600 to
establish the insane asylum now
standing on Dix Hill in this city,
there was no railroad from the Cap
ital to Greensboro and points west.
It is said that there was not 800, 900
in the treasury for State appropria-
tions to institutions of all kinds.
Naturally, therefore, after the
members of. the Legislature had
listened to her story with that re.
spect all North Carolinians show TO
a good, intelligent woman, and after
they had agreed to print the infor.
nation this woman had collected by
her trip through the State, visiting
Its jails and aims houses, ~journeying
over bad roads across the hills and
through the swollen streams Of our
Piedmont and western country, they
voted mo- on the bill which called
for 800, 900.
"But in the providence of God the
wife of James G. Dobbin, the leader
of the Democratic party in the
Legislature, was taken sick and died.
Miss Dix, always doing In merciful
ministration what her hands found
TO do, nursed Mr.. Dobbin in her last
illness.
".'What can I do asked Mrs.
Dobbin on her death bed, so repay
you, a stranger, for all that you have.
done for me?'
"'Ask your husband to re-intro-
duce my bill to establish an insane
asylum came back as by inspira-
ton.
"Always eloquent, the orator re-
turned from the grave of his wife,
and in an irresistible speech, full of
and power, secured a recon
of the bill, and the ap.
preparation of 100000.
"Thus a woman, who herself had
been herself an invalid from girl
hood, through goodness to a sister
on her death bed, was enabled
through the latter's husband to
speak new life into the men of a
great State. And thus began North
Car olina's most benevolent work, the
care of it's afflicted"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-08
FOR BETTER COUNTRY SCHOOLS.

The first of a series of educational
rallies planned by Superintendent
Joyner and Governor Ayoook, was
held in Greensboro last week. The
meeting was q pronounced success,
more than meeting expectations both
as TO attendance and interest shown.
But that which made this confer.
ence memorable was the joint work
of the Southern Education Board
and the people of Greensboro at
the meeting Friday night. Strong
speeches were made by Gov. Ayoock,
superintendent Joyner, and Mr.. F.
g. Abbott, the burden of these adj
dresses being that it is the duty of
the townspeople TO cooperate with
the people of the country districts in
improving the rural schools and
school houses. Then followed some
thing more substantial than words.
DIR. Wallace Buttriok, Secretary of
the General Education Board re-
Gently organized in New York, an
nounced that he was authorized TO
duplicate any amount, not exceeding
"a, 900, that might be raised by popu.
lar subscription for the betterment
of Guilford County's rural schools.
The people of Greensboro rose to the
occasion. Within a few minutes
more than $4,000 was subscribed by
men in the audience.
This money is to be expended in
townships that vote a special tax for
school purposes. The Northern
philanthropists who make this gift,
attach no other conditions whatever
They realize that the Southern men
here on the ground are better pre-.
pared than they are so direct the ex
penditure of the money.
Such was the suspicious beginning
of a movement that means a great
deal, a very great deal, for the
try public schools of North Carolina
and of the entire South. The South
ern Education Board has millions at
its disposal, and what it is doing for
Guilford, it is ready TO do for other
counties that show similar interest
enterprise. "This offer was only a
feeler," DR.. Buttrick said to the
writer after the meeting Friday
night. "And the magnificent re
Spouse will be very gratifying to the
members of the Board, to whom 1
shall report at once"
The friends of the public schools
should thank God and take courage.
It is difficult TO decide which spec.
tacle is the more inspiring, that of
men of wealth in the North CON
tributing SO literally to the cause of
popular education in the South, or
that of Greensboro's townspeople re
spending with such promptness and
enthusiasm TO the call made on them.
Now for a ringing response from
b people who are to be helped by
the Improvement of these country
schools!
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-08
A THOUGHT FOB THE WEEK.

e No man or woman of the humblest
sort can really be strong, pure, and
good without the world being better
for Is, without somebody being
helped and oomforted by the very
existence of this goodness.-Phillips
Brooks.