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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-09-06
Circular No. 2OI.
Revision Of Freight Glasses and of the
Classification of Railroads.

Revision of Freight Glasses and of the
Classification of Railroads.
1t Is ordered, That Circular Number
800, dated July s5, 1902, go far as the
same relates to the revision OF the
Freight Tariff Classee, and to the
Classification Of the Rairoa]s is
this State respecting their Rates or
tariffs of freight, be, and the same is,
hereby revoked and annulled.
1t is further ordered, That Glasses
Numbers One ~, Two (2l, Three (3)
and Four a. be, and the same are,
hereby created aud made effective Oc-
tober 10, 1902.
1t is further ordered, That the rates
applicable to said classes on and after
October 10, 1909, shall be, and the
same are, hereby made as follows:
Class No. l.
The Standard Tariff, without percent
age.
Class No. 2.
On classes l, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, A, E, G, Fl.
L., N, o, the Standard Tariff with
twenty per cent. added.
On Glasses b, X, M, r, the Standard
Tariff with ten per cent. added,
On Classes C. d, F., and P, the
Standard Tariff without percentage.
*OA Lime and Ice, Glass L, with ten
per cent. added.
Glass No. 8.
On Glasses l, 2, 3, 4, 8, 6, A, E, G, Il,
L., N, o. the Standard Tariff with
25 per cent. added.
On B, X, M, r, the Standard Tariff
with ten per cent. added.
On Glasses q, d, F, j. and p, the
Standard Tariff without percentage.
*On Lime and Ice, Glass L, with ten
per cent. added.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-09-06

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Nna ,NNMnNNS
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-04-15
MR.. R. J. PATTERSON, says:
~ Owe My Life to the Wonderful and
Speedy Curative Powers OF Paine's
Celery Compound"

Thousands Of families today mourn
the loss of near and dear ones who,
when sickness first came upon them
were forced to use other medicines
instead of the great disease banisher,
Paine's Celery Compound.
We earnestly appeal to the relatives
and friends Of the suffering, to break
away from the bondage Of medical ct.
iquette and dictation, In order that
the suffering ones may have a surer
and happier hope of q new life.
The one remedy known to medicine
that can bring vigor, strength, and
permanent tealth to the weak, run
down, rheumatic, neuralgia 'dysneptic
and those burdened with kidney and
liver troubles, blood diseases and de-
rangements CT the digestive organism
is DR.. Phelps great prescription
Paine's Celery Compound.
Weak, run down, sleepless and des.
pondent men and women will find In.
SEPARATION and comfort IN the following
letter. written by Mr.. R. J. Patterson
of She,idanvllle, Pa, who was fully
restored to the blessings Of life after
use of the great medicine that truly
''makes sick people WE'LL" Mr.. Pat
tersOn says
II was greatly troubled with in.
somnia and felt a. tired in the morn.
ing as when I went to bed. l finally
lost my appetite and could not bear to
AVIAN lob Of foo1 was en- waak thai
1 almost ~despaired Of getting we'll
again. Before I had used one bottle
Of Paine's Celery Compound, l felt
like a new man. My brain has be.
come clear, my sleep refreshing
and my appetite excellent. l now
find work a pleasure instead Of q bur.
den. owe my life to the wonderful
and speedy curative powers Of Paine's
Celery Compound"
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-04-15
SKATER AT WHEELING.
All Is In Readiness Now For the
AIna1gamated's Convention.

All IL In Readiness Now For the
AInalgamated's Convention.
Wheeling, w. Va, April 15.-Presi-
dent Shaffer, Secretary Williams and
Assistant Secretary NJ. f. Tighe Of the
Amalgamated association arrived dur
ing the day from Pittsburg, and imme-
diately the wage scale committee went
into session. Its report will be ready
for the convention when it's first ses-
sion %convenes.
The convention will open with an adj
dress Of welcome by Mayor A. T.
Sweeney, to which President Shaffer
will respond. The opening ceremonies
will be brief, as it is the desire of the
convention to get down to business
Immediately.
1t is reported that the suspended
Chicago lodges intend to make a Wig
orous fight for reinstatement before
this convention. Their charters were
taken away from them during the
strike for refusing to quit work, and
they gave as a reason for their action
that they were working under a sane
toned contract which forbade their
striking. 1t is said they will make a
vigorous fight and that it will be one
of the interesting contests of the con.
vention.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-04-15
DIAMOND DYES True to name and
color. Nothing can equal them.
THE VAN WORMER TRIAL
Fight Made Over Admission of Har.
e Bruce's Evidence. u

vey Bruce's Evidence.
Hudson, N. Y, April 15.-The trial
of the three Van Wormer brothers for
the murder Of their uncle, Peter A.
Hallenbeck, at Greenport Christmas
eve was resumed during the day.
There was a sensation in court when
Harvey Bruce. who was accused with
the Van Wormers, was called to the
stand to testify against the three de-
PENDANTS. Bruce is a cousin of the
Van Wormers and made a statement
within a week after his arrest.
Bruce was pale and nervous when
he came into the courtroom, but his
entrance was seemingly without effect
upon the Van Wormer brothers. For
mer Judge Cady. for the defense, OBJ
jected to Bruce being worn as a wit
ness against his ~codefendants with an
indictment still pending against him.
He argued that the indictment against
Bruce would have to be dismissed be-
fore he could take the stand.
Colonel Chase. for the prosecution,
replied, saying the argument of attor-
neys for the defense was just and that
Bruce was incompetent to give EVIL
dence unless Judge Chester made a
special ruling. The prosecuting attor-
ney requested the Judge to exercise his
power to allow Bruce to testify. Judge
Chester said he would reserve decision
on the question.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-04-15
Local Market Report.
Corrected to Tuesday, April 1877

There is but little change In prices
FIR staple articles In the local markets.
I'ne recent raise In the price of beef
Is about all that the ''beef trust
think that the people can stand for a
few weeks at least. Other meats res
main the same. There is no change
IN vegetables as yet although new
vegetables will soon make their ap-
pearance. Groceries are the same
with the exception that dairy butter
is q little cheaper than 1t has been.
Eggs are now quoted at 10 cents and
fruit Of all kinds remains ,the same.
Hay and grain Of all kinds remains
unchanged. Fish Of all kinds is plenti.
full and cheap.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-04-15
Central Vermont Rv.
Time Table

Central Vermont nv.
Time Table
Corrected tc Mar. p, 1902.
OTrains leave Barre daily except
Sunday, as follows
GOING SOUTH
8:3B A. M.-Mail for Boston via Low.
ell or Fitchburg; New York via
Springfield and all New England points
Parlor car to Boston via Lowell.
1901 P. M.-Fast Express for Bos-
ton via Lowell; New York via Spring.
field and via New London. Buffet
parlor car to Boston.
$50 p. M.-Local Passenger for
Northfeld, Randolph, and White
River Junction
1901 A. M Night Express,
daily, including Sundays, for Boston
via Lowell OF Fitchburg and Spring.
field. Pullman sleeping cars to Boston
via Lowell and to Springfield.
GOING NORTH
$3.50 A.. M.-Passenger for Bur.
lington. St. Albars. Montreal and
Richford. Connects at Essex juno.
tion with express for all points IN
Rutland Railroad.
3.O5.P. M.-Mail for Burlington,
Rutland, Cambridge Junction, ST.
Adams, Montreal and Rouces Point
Parlor Car 60 Montreal,
$50 P. M.-Express for Burling.
ton, st. Adams Montreal and Chicago
ulman sleeping Car, Montpelier
Junction to Chicago without change.
Due Icago 8 As P. N next day.
eubYtban .eevvlce
..aInS to Montpelier. Leave Barre
e.35, AM, 1901, sos, $50, Pm
1901 A. M.
Trains to Barre. Leave Montpe.
lier $40, $50 A. NJ, 1876,
$50 and $40 P. M.
WlnlanstoWn Grains
Leave Barre 1.20, $50 p. N. Due
Williamstown, 1856, $40 p. M.
Leave Williamstown 7.30, A n
$50 P. N. Due Barre, sos AN
800 P. N.
lE.H. FITZHUGH, 8. W. OUMMIN
Vies. Proc 4 .dso. Mar .h0sn: Pass. a
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-04-15
FOR SALE
Old

0ld American engravings and caS.e,
e~ngrayings. prints, Autographs, colored
and black and white; naval and marine
pictures: old engravings of General
Washington. Send name Of engraver
and publisher and date and full parttc-
ulars with name and address. Address
F.. 80 Congress St., Boston Mass.
3O2 1Od
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25
THE OUTLOOK FOB LITERATURE IN TIKI
COUNTRY.

In a recent lecture, DR.. Jno. S.
Bassett, of Trinity College, spoke
rather despairingly and disparagingly
of the prospects for the growth of
the literary spirit in our rural dis
tricts. The growth of towns and
the resultant CLOSE contact of mind
with mind, he argued, is essential to
the production and proper appreoia-
ton of good literature.
What is worse, DE-. Bassett saw no
reason to hope for any marked i'm
provement in the country. Just
here we think he erred. The supe
riority of the townsman in these
matters is not due to the fact that
he lives where houses are built close
together, nor is the baokwardness of
the rural districts to be asoribed to
the isolation of their population. It
is simply a matter of the education
of the people and of ease of acoess to
books.
$50. where DIR. Bassett sees no signs
of promise, we find many eason to
hope for improvement. We are be-
ginning TO deal fairly with our long
neglected public school system, and
this means better ed educational advan
tages for the country The rural
school library idea, young as it is, is
firmly rooted in our educational sys,
tenn, and this means that "the read
ing habit" is to be fostered in these
schools. And the rural free deliv
cry of mails by providing ease of
access to books and papers is to re
move the second of the two great
difficulties that we have noted.
We think that a study of these
three movements would give DR..
Bassett a accurate and more
hopeful view of the outlook for
! literature in the rural districts.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25
THE SHIP SUBSIDY BILL.

The ship subsidy bill, as our news
columns tell, passed the Senate last
week by a vote of 40 to 81, only six
Republicans voting against it and
only one Democrat for it. The bill
provides for gifts of 81, 5000, 900 an
nually to American shipping inter
ests until 1902 and So, 900, 900 an
nually from 1902 so 1920 The bill is
unpopular and unjustifable. The
press of the country is against 1t; as
the Literary Digest says: "The In
dependent and Democratic papers
are practically a unit against the
measure, and not many of the Re-
publican papers favor it very
heartily" IL should not perhaps be
characterized as a steal, but at best
it is paternalism of the most vicious
kind. The bill now goes to the
House and will probably pass, though
the Republicn Representatives would
do the country good service and i'm
prove the record of their party by
defeating this unjust and un-Ameri-
can measure.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25
THE REMARKABLE CoMMEnszar rho
REss OF THE UNITED STATES.

While our sales to foreign ooul
tries have grown so prodigiousy
the other side of our financial 40
count during these last five or Six
years has shown no proportionate In.
crease. We have bought from The
foreigners an average of only $780,
OOO,0 900 a year, and that total bad
shown little tendency to expand, II
was this fact, this mighty develop
ment of our sales, while our pH'
chases we're, comparatively, on do
clining scale, which piled up in bali
a dozen years q favorable trade bal
ance SO enormous as to startle th
world. In the last six years we ban
sold in merchandise, produce, and
manufactures 81, 1000, OOO, 900 more
than we have bought whilei1I
our history, from the beginning@
the Government up to six years $780,
the foreign trade balance in 0a
favor had aggregated a net total O
only 1888, 600, 600.
The Significance of these surpElE
ing totals was recognized on bow
sides of the Atlantic. An analysis
of them brought out features moI'
important than the vastness OF p'
aggregate. Heretofore our sales DIV
been made up almost wholly Of fo0p
stuffs and raw materials. EufoP
was the workshop. But that DID,
changed, and we find, year GIL"
year, an astonishing increase in op
exports of manufactured articles, "
increase that in the last two or thf"
years reached totals which gov,
ample basis for the popular talk !"
our invasion of the European u
dustrial fields. Our exports of manu-
featured articles in the decade pr"
to 1892 averaged 1853, 900, OOO ~
nually. In 1898 our sales of MAUI
featured articles to foreign cusFoI
ers jumped to 1920, 600, 900, the ns y
year to 1893, 600. 900, the next T"
$434, 0OO, coo. -,
These figures, showing a STEADY u
vasion by our manufacturers ="
foreign industrial fields, have {
natural corollary. AS exports n
manufactures increased, our imPo ~
of the handiwork of foreign saCp.
showed an even more rapid de0li liz
Our manufacturers we're not w. ~,
invading the foreigners own p Ioid
kets, meeting him at hia thres tSsT
with a new competition, but VII Sis
were taking away from him ms,
greatest market-the United osn' ars
We have in the last half dozen w.
been manufacturing for ourselV0V ue
vast amount of goods, suoh %
have been accustomed to buy a DSojs1
From "The American 'CommoEA
Invasion of Europe" by Fran
Vanderlip, In Scribner's MagsDD
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25
HOW YOU PAY YOUR PART OF =,
$40, 900, 900 TAX. %

The lowest estimate put on /.
tax paid annually by the peor,.
North Carolina on account ~ -,
roads is ten million dollars, M,
an enormous outgo but I cannot
lieve the amount far from trna -,
I LOOK at the conditions. ina
you will ask how is this tar III
Let us see. You buy a buggy J
$3.50 which should do You Il
service for six years, but on aeon
of bad roads it wears out in q,
years. Here is $500 lost to MI
part of this heavy tax. You \
$4,000 for a mule to haul with !
should last five or more years !
the worry and strain CAUSED
rough roads makes him
out in about three years win
pays $500 20 more of the
millions. You take a dmgl
team and go to town for r.,
tilizers but the roads are 90 bad
can only carry back half a load. N
are forced to go back next dsyh
what you could easily have osns
the first load If the roads had M
good. The second days WORK al
yourself, your wagon and team vi
make at least $1.5O more to The h,
Thus in many ways this ten mGBn
dollar tax is paid. 1t has beeuaM
"a mud tax'' or ga bad road sru
but call it what you will it is haU
and hard to pay. It is surpiing
that men pay this tax rather than
work the roads. Many of them pay
it and never think about it. Iftb
State or United States should impu
a tax SO heavy you would hear muC
said about it. I suggest that we a
go to work for good roads and
lieve ourselves of this great bulda
M. Beatty, in Smithfeld Heral
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25
THE LIPPs' SECRET PROCESS FERTILE.
ZERs.

As we said last week, DR.. B. W.
Kilgore, State Chemist, has prepared
an exhaustive article on this subject
that leaves no ground for the "farm
rights agents to stand on. We had
expected to publish the article in
full this week, but find that we have
not room for it. The complete ar
tiole, however, will appear in the
Bulletin of the State Department of
Agriculture, dated February, but
which is just now ready for mailing.
DR.. Kilgore, having obtained q copy
of the 'sprocess" from the Patent
Office, publishes it in full in this
number of the Bulletin, interspersed
with pertinent comment that ex-
plodes completely the arguments OF
the inventor. Then follows a sum-
mary of reasons for warming farm
ers against the scheme. This sum-
mary we shall publish in full next
week, but no farmer living in a SEQ
ton which has been invaded by the
Lipps agents should fail TO read all
shat DR.. Kilgore says of the matter.
Moreover, every reader of The Pro
GREssTvE FARMER should receive the
Bulletin regularly those who do not
now get it should apply at once,
asking that it be sent them as often
as issued hereafter, beginning with
the February issue. It is a publica-
ton of real value, and since a postal
card request will insure it's regular
delivery to any farmer, there is no
reason for any ones being with
out is.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25
THIS z PAPER.

DIR. F. L. Stevens, the popular
professor who has given a new
meaning so the study of biology at
the A. & NJ. College, appears in our
columns for the first time with some
suggestions on the prevention of oat
smut.
And DR.. Stevens pupils have or
ganized a biological club that is doing
excellent work. It's meetings are
very interesting, as all that have
attended one of them know. We
are under many obligations to the
corresponding secretary, Mr.. Miller,
for his we'll written report of the
last meeting, and hope that he will
give an account of future meetings
also for the benefit of our readers.
The promised report of the Con-
neoticut experiments with Sumatra
tobacco under cover appear on page
1, and we may have more on the
same subject next week.
A paper containing an unusually
large number Of helpful suggestions
is that on Tomatoes for Profit" by
Mr.. Merriam. Few men in the
South make more money by trucking
and gardening than he, and on both
subjects he speaks with authority.
Mr.. Blaoknall, after several years
experience, gives his opinion of the
cloth cover for strawberries. It
"adds from so TO 100 per cent. TO the
yield of the berries, makes them
larger and more reliable, and ripens
them earlier, he says.
We regret the absence of letters
by DR.. Butler and DR.. Burkett
this week, but we hope TO give
articles by both next week.
1t is noteworthy that the best of
Kipling's poems are in the form of
prayers the "Reoessional," every
one admits, stands head and shout
ders above any other effort of his in
verse, and we think that his "Hymn
Before Action" deserves second
place. Especially stirring and lofty
ia the second verse.
In his article on page 4, Henry
Wallace gives some excellent advice
that should be needed alike by
parents and children.
We are glad to publish the resolu-
tions passed by the students who
took the short courses in agriculture
and dairying at the A. & M. Col.
lege this year. The number who
entered for these courses and their
enthusiasm and ~earnestness have
greatly pleased all interested in
agricultural education in this State.
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER has a
special correspondent in New York
now, and he knows how TO get up an
interesting letter, too, as a reading
of what he has TO say on page 6 will
prove.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25

presses so accurately what
trying to do. Whatever the d #S
ties or shortcomings, we try t.
each issue of the paper a Iit,S 4
ter than that of the week ~.
We do lay claim to whateva, p
there is in persistent and ~" ~
effort in this direction. Ana y
succeed in making a paper of inta
and value to it's readers, it - '
to nothing more nor less than y
we try TO do our "level best" ~ y
time and that our "traoes are ~
slackened." D''
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.

There is only one real failure pos
sible in life and that is, not TO be true
TO the best one knows.-Canon
Farrar.
He who fails bravely has not truly
failed, but is himself also q con:
queror.-From inscription on Stad-
ium, Pan-American Exposition, 1901
written by Richard Watson Glider.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25

We thank Rev. B. W Spilman for
his interesting report of the work
done by ian old wounded Confeder-
ate soldier with a few spare minutes
each day, a bent buggy spring, one
sack of fer 5ilizer and an eighth of an
acre of ground" None Of the old
proverbs contain more truth and
wisdom than that which says that
''there is more in the man than there
is in the land"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25

products for home consumption and,
with proper management, these can
be raised more oheaply here than in
the West. This because the cost of
w~intering is less hay and forage
crops, COW peas, etc., oan be grown
more cheaply and one of the best
feeds, cottonseed in it's variousforms,
is a by product of cotton and can
always be used with profit,
The development of the live stock
industry also means the solution of
the fertilizer problem. North Caro-
lima, for instance, spends more than
$5, OOO, 900 annually for commercial
fertilizers. These are needed, as we
have already seen, because the sup
ply of humus has been depleted and
the one-crop system draws unequally
on the elements of fertility. Stock
raising, on the other hand, would
render necessary the diversifying
and rotating Of crops the growing
of grasses and leguminous crops
would soon give us enough humug {;
and the manure saved from the
stock would keep the soils in a state
of constantly increasing fertility. A
saving right here of the larger part
Of a single States annual bill Of $5,.
600, 600 for commercial fertilizers
may be worth considering.
Sell your feeding stuffs as they are
and you get but one profit; feed
them to stock and you make another
profit, all the time maintaining the
fertility of your soil without COM
mercial fertilizers.
Of course, better breeds are needed
and better methods of caring for the
stock. About the same feed and
care is required for the scrub COW
that barely pays expenses as is needed
for the improved dairy COW that may
return ten times as much profit as
will the scrub. Yet it seems hard
to convince some people that the
non-paying scrub may be dear at
$15 and the other cheap at five times
that price. But more depends on in
telligent feeding and management
than on breed
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.
In conclusion, it should be said
that the hope of Southern agricul-
ture lies in the general realization
and acceptance of this fundamental
law:
Where skill and Intelligence begin,
there profit begins. In that part of
farming where competition with the
most ignorant, that is to say, with
mere muscular labor, must be faced,
there is no profit. It is only as we
advance into the branches where
skill and trained intelligence are re-
quired that profit begins.
Let the reader ''inwardly digest
this statement at his leisure.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25

We invite correspondence, news items, sug
esgtiOns and criticisms on the SUBJECTS OF agrl-
Sulture, poultry raising, stock breeding, dairy
ne, horticulture and.garding; Woman's work,
literature, or any subject of interest to our q d
eaders, young people,, or the family generally;
public matters, current events, political CUES
IONS and principles, etc.,-in short, any subject
discussed In an all-rOund farm and family news
oaper. Communications should be free from
personalities and party abuse.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25
tsTHE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATION

1.-THE AND hDUOAI4OG
AL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARA
MOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
OF STATE POLICY, is the motto of The
Progressive Farmer, and upon this
platform Ii shall rise or fall. Serving
no master, ruled by no faction, Dir
cumscribed by no selfish or III
policy, it's aim will be TO foster and
promote the best interests OF the
whole people of the State. 1t will be
true to the instincts, traditions and
history of the Anglo-SaxOn race. On
all matters relating specially to the
great interests it represents, it Will
speak with no uncertain voice, but
will f~earlessly the right defend and
fmpartia1ly the wrong condemn. =
From Col. Folks Salutatory, Feb.
10, 1885
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-25

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