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The progressive farmer., 1902-08-26
NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL
DIRECTORY.
FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.

FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
President-W. B. Fleming, Ridgeway, War
rem County.
vice-President-T. P. Johnson, Salisbury,
Rowan County.
secretary-Treasurer and State Business Agent
II. B. Parker, Hillsboro, Orange County.
Lecturer-J. c. Balm, Wade, Cumberland
Comfy.
Assistant Lecturer or steward-Jno. M. Nit
cheIl, Wayne County.
ChapIain-Rev. W. s. Mercer, Moyock. Cur
rituck County.
Doorkeeper-Geo. T. Lane, Greensboro, Gull
ford County.
Sergeant-at-Arms-R. n. Lane, Aurora, Beau
fort County.
Trustee Business Agency Fund-W. A. Gra-
ham, Machpelah.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
]. W. Denmark, Chairman, Raleigh
w. B. Fleming, Ridgeway.
John aham, WarrentOn.
DR.. ]. E. Pc n, Pikevllle.
Thomas ]. Oldham, Teer.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
OFFICERS.
Commissioners. L. Patterson.
SecretaTy-T. K. Bruner.
Entomologist-Franklin Sherman
State Veterinarian-Tai Butler.
State Chemist-B. W. Kilgore
BOtanist and Biologist-Gerald Mccarthy.
POstoffice address of all officers, Raleigh.
AGRIC ULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION
Director-B. w. Kilgore, Releigh.
Agriculturist-C. W. Burkett, West Raleigh.
Horticulturist-W. F. Massey, WesERalaigh.
STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY,
President-J. vanLindIey, Pomona.
Vice-President-O. w. Blacknall, Kittrell.
Secretary and Treasurer-Franklin Sherman,
Raleigh.
Executive Committee-J. Van Lindley, Chair
man, ]. F. Gulliver, B. Won Herff, o. W. Black
nall, T. K. Bruner Franklin Sherman, p. n.
Beck.
District Vice-Preeidents-W. L. Baxter, Ridge
way; Geo. N. Ives, Newport; VIM. Cole,
WaynesviIIe; P. H. Beck, Southern Pines;
Moses Cone, blowing Rock.
STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
PTesident-J. A. Long, RoxbOro.
Secretary-J. E. Pogue, Raleigh.
| Treasurer-C. B. benson, Raleigh.
The progressive farmer., 1902-08-26
GleasOn'S Horse Book.
PROF. OSCAR GLEASON.


ernment as the most expert and successful horseman
The whole work treats of
Breeedng, Training, Breaking Driving, Feeding
remarkable first sold exclusively by
edition. printed lighter
heavy. .toughp hpaper
The progressive farmer., 1902-08-26

ONE HUNDRED MILLION bot
ties of PainkiIler used since Perry Da-
Wis made the first. Billions of
stomach-aches and other aches cured !;
what a record in go years. Have a
bottle always handy-you will not re-
gret it.
The progressive farmer., 1902-08-26

We:are this offer Send ubsOr
oheE than OWN and will send free prepaid
will
for only s95 First
Address PROGRESSIVE
IA ATTTTCTT NJ
The progressive farmer., 1902-08-26

LittIeton Female College, a notice
Of which appears elsewhere in this
paper, has the reputation of being one
Il the most thorough and progressive
schools In North Carolina. A postal
card would bring you a copy of the
large, illustrated catalogue which is
a very handsome booklet.
Arizona republican., 1902-04-28

The exhaustive report of Mr.. Arthur
p. Davis, photographer of the United
States geological survey,
DAVIS rendered TO the water
REPORT. storage commission of
Maricopa county, and
printed in The Republican of yesterday,
is the most interesting and valuable
contribution yet made to the literature
OF the water storage problem before the
Salt River valley-and as q matter of
course this paper was the only one in
the territory having the enterprise and
facilities for printing the report in full.
Notwithstanding its great length the
document will repay q second reading,
and copies of the paper containing it
should be preserved for future refer
ence.
The public was already aware that
the Tonic Basin reservoir site
is one of the largest and best
in the world. MIR. Davis empha-
sizes this fact and settles beyond
further controversy three questions
upon which doubt occasionally has
been expressed here and there. He
shows a. that the dam can be con-
structed at reasonable cost; (2) that the
water supply is sufficient to justify The
expenditure for construction. and 90
that the Sitting" question about which
so much has been heard from people
ignorant of the situation, need not
trouble the valley for many generations
to come.
The estimated cost is within two mill
lions OF dollars. The data gathered 10y
the water storage commission show
that the revenue for irrigation alone
will yield 10 per cent annually on The
total cost. The profits from the power
would be fully as much more. Mr.. Da
Wis, Of course, was not expected to so
into the question of revenues, for this
was no part OF his work, but the facts
on this point are as well established as
any of the details brought out in the
report.
Mr.. Davis shows that notwithstand-
ing the severe drouth of the past few
years there has been water sufficient to
furnish 100000 acre feet annually. As
Stunning an acreage of 100000 under the
canal systems on both sides of the ri
yer, this means that each acre would
have water to a depth OF two feet.
1t is shown that the problem of silt
in the reservoir could not begin to be
t,-r, HI
hundred years, and the reservoir could
not fill up inside of five hundred years.
This estimate of Mr.. Davis is extreme
ly conserve tive. Were it necessary to
discuss the question further it could be
shown that nature has furnished the
means for protecting the basin from
How long will the people of the Salt
River valley ignore the reckoning hand
| of prosperity?
Arizona republican., 1902-04-28
BENsEI. AND HIS BANJO
How it Brought him Luck When He
Was Reduced to Extremities.

The death recently of Billy" West.
the negro minstrel. recalls the luck
that a banjo brought to a New York
boy who went to California in 1852 to
"get rich in the gold mines. He was
Charlie" Bensel OF a well-known fam
lily in this city, and had learned the
machinists trade, as we'll as to play the
banjo, and he obtained a position as
assistant engineer on small steamer
that went around to the Pacific by the
way of the Straits of Magellan. While
lying in harbor at Calao, Peru. the
vessel took fire and was destroyed, and
those on board saved only what they
could carry in their hands. Bensel and
the others subsequently reached San
Francisco by working their passage on
other vessels. So '.-f
When young Bensel reached San
Francisco all he had in the world
We're the clothes he had on and his BAN
| jo. and after wandering around two or
three days in an unsuccessful search
| for employment he became so hungry
that he concluded to get one good meal
at restaurant and then give a prom
| Use to pay" After eating a couple of
dollars worth in one of the restau-
rants he went to the proprietor and
| told his story. The proprietor was so
that he would trust him until he got
enough to pay his bill, but, observing
| that he had 4 banjo, asked him to play
| a tune, which resulted in his being
hired to play and to sing negro melo-
| dies at the door of the tent to attract
custom. Soon afterward he went into
the mines at Virginia City, where he
succeeded beyond his anticipations,
but in a couple of years he organized
a minstrel company, which became
popular not only on the Pacific coast
| but also in China, where it went on a
tour and where Bensel died. He had
been associated with Backus Birch
| Wambold, Gotten, Coe, and other min
strels, including West, and before he
died he owned large property in Sac
ramento. His start in life he attribut-
ed to the banjo, which he had learned
to play when an apprentice in New
| York.-New York Tribune.
Arizona republican., 1902-04-28
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, APRIL %. 1902.
1t may not be absolutely untrue to
say that the packers combine

1t may not be absolutely untrue to
say that the nIeat-packers' combine
the. so called beef
THE "tfust'-is, not respons-
CATTLE s-2ible for the present high
SHORTAGE. prices of beef and other
meats. But 1t is an un-
deniable fact that the existing condi-
lions in the cattle industry and trade
are such that high prices would be in
evitable were there no trust al all.
or no agreement or understanding
among the packers. There is an ac-
tual shortage of fat cattle-and that
condition makes it impossible for even
n trust to maintain low prices with
out enormous losses. perhaps financial
ruin. .s---
There was serious drouth last sea-
son. it will be readily recalled, through
out the range region of Kansas. Mis-
souri, and Oklahoma, and in portions Of
Iowa, Nebraska and Colorado. There
was a shrinkage of 80 per cent from
normal crop of corn in that section. 1t
became necessary, in consequence, for
the farmers and ranchmen to reduce
their herds very considerably before
the advent Of winter; with corn at
sixty cents bushe1 it would be I'M
profitable, if not impossible to winter
the usual number. - So train load after
train load was shipped away to the far
northwest, and thousands of beeves
51o1 oh of hot n
them tout OF condition Beef was
selling at normal prices. or lower, and
the public gave no thought to the then
unusual conditions in the trade. But
its turn was coming. -
The number of cattle on the plains
isSnot SO much smaller than usual just
now, as to warrant the sharp advance
in the prices of dressed beef; but as a
direct result of the corn shortage las.
year the number of fat cattle now fir
for Strengthening has been enormously
cut down-and that fact alone easily
accounts for the greater part of the
advance in beef prices.
In fact, the return of -"good times
and of fail, Profits in cattle raising
found the ranchmen unprepared to
take full advantage of the situation.
You can't get a steer fattened and
ready for market on twenty-four
hours notice: it is not like starting uo
a: mill or putting in a new stock of
goods. The process is slow even under
the most favorable conditions. The
low-tide point in the cattle business
was in 1897 and the industry had just
about advanced into a normal condf-
tion again when the drouth of 1901 up
set it anew. 1t must be borne in mind
too, that the steady removal of gov
eminent lands from free range mar
rows the ranchman's field of opera
lions and adds to his burdens very ma
terially. It, is said that the taking of
the Comanche, Apache and Kiowa res
erVatfons from the range last summer
caased sacrifice of fully. 10000 cat
tfe-and that incident became, of
Arizona republican., 1902-04-28

1t has long been 4 custom on the
farm to set aside the money arising
from the sale Of eggs to the wife as
her. perquisite. Now judge at Wau-
kegan. Illinois. has decided the ques-
ton once for all. Jacob Max is far
mer. Finding that his wife had secret
ed a basket of eggs he started with
them to town. She discovered her loss
and fought him. but he proved the
stronger and carried the eggs off and
sold them. Thereupon she sued him
and a sympathetic justice of the peace
decided that eggs are more the product
of a woman's care of the hen than
the direct result of farm labor, and so
he gave Mrs. Max decision for SO and
COSTS. the value of the basket of eggs.
All We farm wives. therefore, stand
| upon your rights demand your eggs,
and the law will sustain you. Inas
much as this amounts in the United
Estates to s24O,8ee. 900 annually it will be
seen that the decision of the Wau-
I kegan justice is far reaching in its
effect.
Arizona republican., 1902-04-28
could very easily get rid of him with
out doing him the favor he asked

Germany, it is claimed, is steadily
gaining in power and influence in Asia
Minor, and especially in Palentine. In
proof of this proposition the following
facts are quoted. Three years ago 4
German bank was established at Jeru-
salem and last year it exchanged SIS
GO0.000. German steamboats, are ply
ing on the Dead sea. opening commune
cation between Jerusalem and Kerok
on the caravan route across the Ara
bian desert. Germany is also promot-
ing the Bagdad railway through Asia
Minor and Syria. which will drain thu.
commerce of the rich valleys of the
Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopota mia.
Arizona republican., 1902-04-28

1t is of small consequence to the tax
payers of Phoenix whether the demo-
cratic candidates for the council are
of the orthodox faith and opposed to
the retention of the Philippines. But
it is of consequence to know that if
they are elected the policies of the
present city administration in the mat
ter of extravaganza will be continued.
Arizona republican., 1902-04-28

Goes the crockery and the waitress will
probably be- called clumsy and careless
Her plea of sudden dizziness is not
Arizona republican., 1902-04-28

President Roosevelt still maintains
his firm stand against bills to pollute
the pension rolls by removing the disa-
bilities of deserters. Had former Pres
idents maintained the same stand there
would have been great diminution
of these scandalous bills of complaisant
members of congress having little real
regard for the honor of the nations
pension list.
Arizona republican., 1902-04-28

j. L. Rome of Bowling Green. Ken
lucky. killed a man and was sentenced
to twenty-one years in the peniten-
tiary. A young lady named Miss Nell
lie Duke was engaged to be married to
him. Just before he was taken to the
pen, a justice was called in and they
were united. He begins his term this
week. Just what the young lady has
gained by being married to convict
doesn't appear. There is one salts
faction. She knows where her hus-
band is at night, when he can't put
any story of lodge meetings to account
for his detention. He won't be able to
go out after supper ito see man." and
he will lead a moral and circumspect
life for time at least, SO that there is
some small advantage in having a hus-
band in the penitentiary. He is where
he can't grumble at the cooking and
compare it with the cake that mother
used to make
Arizona republican., 1902-04-28

p It's entirely safe to disbelieve the
story that Sam Moy of Chicago, who
died last Saturday, left an estate OF
100000. He was one of the richest
Cinnamon in this city and by long odds
the most inf1uential-a sort of univer-
sal counsellor, arbitrator and protec-
tor to his compatriots. Why" said
a Chicago police lieutenant. Sam had
more influence with his people than 1
general has in an army. He wouli
go out of his way and take chances
himself i'll efforts to shield China men.
especially those who belonged to the
secret societies with him. he would
come here to the central station on cold
winter nights WHEN some of his people
would get into trouble and no one
Arizona republican., 1902-04-28

The University of Pennsylvania re-
Gently came into possession OF what is
regarded as the Oldest piece of writing
in the world. 1t is not a manuscript,
but fragment Of vase Which was
broken in the raid on the ancient city
CT Nippur. The inscription is in pic
ture writing. and indicates that the
piece dates back to $500 years before
the Christian era.
Arizona republican., 1902-04-28
The National Bank Of Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona

CAPITAL PAID UP. 800, 600
SURPLUS ...-:......:. ......... rs, 900
EMIL GAM, President
SOL LEWIS. Vice-President.
S. OBERFELDER. Cashier.
JOHN ]. SWEENEY, Asst. Cashier.
DIRECTORS: Emil CAM, Sol Lewis,
J. Y. T. Smith. Charles Goldman, 8.
Oberfelder. Edward Eisele, Joseph
Thalheimer.
CORRESPONDENTS: The Bank of
California, San Francisco; Laidlaw &
Co., New York; National Bank of
Commerce, st. Louis; National Bank
of Commerce, Kansas City; Firt Ma
ti io Bank, penEer; Farm nar and and
Merchants National Bank, Los An
geles; Consolidated National Bank
Tucson; Bank of Arizona, Prescott;
Messrs. N. NJ. Rothschilds & Sons,
London.
Arizona republican., 1902-04-28

What does it signify that Nick San
candidates for councilmen, are estim-
able citizens in private life? The point
for the voters to keep in mind is that
these candidates stand for the policy
which is carrying the city of Phoenix
steadily deeper into debt-and that
without anything tangible to show for
the increased burden.
Arizona republican., 1902-04-28

Not all of the big railroad men of the
country look with favor upon the craze
for merging" railroad systems. Mr..
NJ F. ingalls,, president of the big
-Four" railroad, said the other day:
You see we cannot tell how ambitious
our Caesar will be. If the merging of
apparently is its logical conclusion. one
man would be at the head of all the
roads in the United States. The gov
eminent would then be forced to step
That contingency 1 would regard as
nothing short of public calamity
Arizona republican., 1902-04-28
TO CURE GRIP IN TWO DAYS

Laxative Bromo- Quinine removes the
cause. E. W. Groves signature on
every box. Price % cents.
Arizona republican., 1902-04-28

course. an immediate factor in the beef
shortage.
The policy of encouraging the set
Element and cultivation of range lands
is no doubt a wise one-but it cannot
be maintained without shortening the
supply of cattle until such a time as
the industry shall adjust itself to new
conditions.
Arizona republican., 1902-04-28

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Women who are
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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-08-29
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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-08-29
A PARTY OF FINE PROMISES

a political party must be judged by
what it does, lot by what any number
of its voters may want done, but can't
get done. No man of sense questions
for a minute that the average Republic
can is patriotic citizen. If a vote of
the party could be taken tomorrow
there is every reason to believe that a
large majority would be given in favor
of justice TO Cuba, revision of the
tariff So as to deprive monopolies of its
shelter, and thorough going enforce
ment of the Sherman antitrust law
But it happens that the voters Of the
Republican party no longer shape the
policies of their party. That business
is taken out of their hands by the lead
ers who control legislation at Washing
ton. These leaders and the preying
plutocracy which commands them are
aware that among the Republican
masses their exist discomfort, resiive-
ness, and protest. But so long as the
Republican masses will take fine pro-
LESSONS of patriotic purpose as an offset
to evil deeds, and accept vague plat
form promises of good deeds in the fu-
ture, no matter what the recent actual
party performances may have been, the
Republican masses may be as discon-
tented as they choose and as FESTIVE
and as protesting, yet they will be no
better off. If you want a Preparation
of trust domination continue to vote
the Republican ticket, for the strength
of the combined trusts which govern
the United States today lies chiefly in
the political partisanshipo of the Repub-
lican masses-a partisanship made up
of habit, sentiment, and inherited or
acquired fondness for party name,
regardless of what that party has really
come to stand for.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-08-29

Every reader of the CITIZEN should
make themselves familiar with the
strong resolutions passed by the Demo-
cratic County Convention last Satur-
day. 1t is truly the keynote OF the
campaign in the State and nation.
There is 10 equivocation, no lodging,
no moons 'stency. The trusts are made
an issue and one not to be lightly reck-
Oned with. Admiral Schley is also in-
jected into the fight on account of the
objectionable treatment he received at
the hands of the administration. The
Republican party will loose many
thousand votes on this one account
alone. For strong and clear presen-
tation Of party principles the Demo-
cratic resolutions are commendable.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-08-29
EVADE ANY ISSUE TO CATCH
THE PEOPLE.

The Republicans are working great
game of acknowledgements n-any old
issue this fall. The political advisers
OF that party are smart and shrewd
men, who get Zig salaries for their ideas.
They are trying to humbug the people
again this year, as they did in 1900 on
the Full Dinner Pair' fake. They
are issuing arguments most inconsist-
ent, that belle one another, and yet they
continue with unblushing gall to ask
the people for their support Roosevelt
is cut crying against trusts, saying that
the National Government should have
control over all trusts" aud then in the
next breath 'the corporations are the
creatures of the State, and the State
not only has the right to control them
but is duty bound, wherever the need is
shown" Then he grins and looks wise
He says als1 "let well enough alone"
and that the friends of the protective
tariff will amend the tariff" Then
the farmer is patted on the back and
told in sweet words that he was never
more prosperous in his life, and some
of them, if it was not for that unpaid
mortgage, fertilizer or machinery bill,
would take it as the truth. And when
he leaves these delicate questions, and
ht1aNr x.ff n tho latn
one between the States, it takes rapid
stenographer to follow him. Ideas
pile on ideas; he is TRANSPORTED and the
old soldier is euloquized to the sky.
No doubt he deserves it, but the soldier
is a comparative small factor in this
campaign, except the War Department
carpet knights" and the naval
clique" who conspired against Miles
and Schley. Any one with common
sense can see that this is hot shot
for election purposes. If Roosevelt was
in earnest why did he not do some
thing in line with his loud claims
when Congress was in session. There
is trust law on the statute books but
no one has heard of its being enforced
If it is no good, why did he not advise
Congress to make another. The trusts
need not worry about Roosevelt. They
understand each other. Without the
trusts and big combinations the Repub-
lican party would make sorry show
ing and it is not likely to step down
from this vantage point. The people
may be short sighted, but any one
can see through this little game.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-08-29
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