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The Conservative, 1902-01-09
Cbe Conservative.

Politics in our times are strenuous and
penetrating, and the medieval idea
Of an offended Deity having vanished,
the public mind seeks remedy against
the panic-our modern economic pest
from the hands Of the politician, and
turbulently demands change. Politics,
strongly interviewer with industrial
questions, are the dominant factors of
our times, and the transient psychic
alterations of the national soul are
therefore necessarily of a politico- indus
trial character.
The most violent and widespread
manifestation of this sort was the silver
delusion Of t h Q
Outbreak of 1896. years 1896. The
times were exceed
ingly hard, drought prevailed in the
western states, and the flooding of the
country with under worthy silver dol
lars brought on the disastrous conse-
quences predicted by prudent and con-
servative statesmen; other causes CO.
operated to make the resulting panic
the most terrific and overwhelming one
in the history of our country. The
people were suffering, they brooded over
their troubles, and the soil was we'll
prepared for morbid outbreak. Then
like 'deus ex machina" the Silver
Messiah arose and his plausible fallacies
were readily accepted as the truth, the
gospel of 1871 spread like wildfire and
the climax was reached when the Ma
tional convention of a once great his
torical party accepted the new creed in
a paroxysm Of hysteria. The followers
of the new faith were a motley crowd,
the old greenbackers focked to it's stand
ard, schemers and Missionaries abounded,
populists and that class Of men, best
described as "cupidi rerum novarum," :"
(wanting change swelled the mass,
there was the man eager to scale his
debts via the ''dollar of our fathers
route, and the whole thing was engi-
neered by cunning politicians, scenting
office, fame and fortune in the game.
A great many people, of course, voted
the silver ticket actuated by business
and private reasons, as their self inter-
est demanded, or prompted by a strong
feeling of party allegiance. From the
day of that convention unto the day of
election the country was turned into a
perfect bedlam.
In every hamlet prophets and sons of
prophets arose. Everywhere estates
men" turned up, solemn of mien and
gesture and loud and declamatory Of
voice, who dealt out with free hand, to
ever.willing audiences the most stun
ming financial theories.
And-here the fun came in-these
Statesman" took themselves perfectly
The Conservative, 1902-01-09
The violent silver
agitation Of t h Q
years 1893 to 1896
is a. niece of con-
THE SILVER
FEVER

pGNhNl years 1890 GO lOdO |
is piece Of con-
temporaneous history, which thus far
has not been given the attention it de-
serves by the psychologist. The very
intensity Of the silverfurore of those
years was highly interesting from the
standpoint Of the alienist, and presented
a series Of strange phenomena.
Nations as we'll as persons possess a
soul. A composite photograph of a
number of people
Its Psychological furnishes the aver
Aspect. age type; and the
sum and substance
Of sympathies and antipathies, of hopes
and fears, Of loves and hatreds in the
hearts of the individuals, who form a
commonwealth, make up the soul of
the nation, a composite type of its
physical status. This national soul is,
just as much as the soul Of man, prone
to suffer from emotional and hysterical
disturbances and from delusions. The
worlds history demonstrates the fact,
that great national disasters prepare the
soil for the outbreak of widespread
popular delusions.
In the middle ages pests, famines and
great wars brought on violent mental
manifestations in Germany, France and
Italy.
Public life in the modern acceptation
>p% %1o Il o% TO-
and as religion was
Disasters and the dominant fac
Delusions. tor, the idea of an
offended Deity
gained ascendancy in the minds Of men,
and the desire to pacify the Almighty
swayed the folk soul, leading to strange
doings. For instance ten thousands of
so-called "fagellants" wandered about
the country, chastising themselves pub
icly in the most cruel and bloody man.
ner, hoping to conciliate God thereby
and to stay the scourge.
We moderns are apt to speak half
pityingly and half f-contemptuously Of
the delusions and follies of former
generations, but we should not forget
that through the course of ages human
nature and human weakness remain the
same-they only appear in different
forms in accordance with changed en-
vironments. Nearly perfect methods Of
transportation have done away in our
times with famines Except in some re-
mote and ill-favored lands), deadly
man. destroying firearms shorten wars,
and an improved way of living, hygiene
and preventive medicine have prac.
tically stamped out pestilence in civil
lied countries. But still we are not
altogether happy, because every age has
it's own distress and disaster.
Fierce industrial competition, over
-,.od,o4;o,, ond oo11caS of a IOlitical
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17

ways if possible, with the head to the
north, that the stalk. which is the most
tender part, may be the better pro-
tected. The earth is drawn in apun-
dainty, and pressed over the root ana
stalk, and partially over the leaves
which are gathered about and over tpe
head. Nothing more is required until
the approach of severe weather. when
with pillow and hoe the earth must be
drawn over the whole. abundantly over
the stalk, and firmly pressed, and sulfi-
GENTLY over the head to protect it from
alternate freezing and thawing rather
than from the frost. AS early in the
spring as the ground can be worked,
the soil must be removed from the heads
by blowing away, and carefully using the
hoe and the outer leaves of the head be
separated to allow the heart or centre
germ to come through. Cultivate
and hoe, and when the plants are eigh-
teen to twenty-four inches high, throw
the earth to them for support. or better
still. tie to stakes. Il Of course, there
are various other plans and methods or
planting cabbage for seed purposes. The
seed, when ripe, is harvested, threshed
and cleaned. all of which operations
present no particular difficulties. Cab
bage growers, outside of a few favored
spots (Long Island, Puget Sound, etcr
will do better to buy their cabbage seed
than attempt to grow it. Whenever 1t
is undertaken, however, the local condi-
lions must be taken in consideration.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17
BETTE THE AFFECTI0NATE"
A ROMANCE WITH A MORAL
Short Stories From Real Life That Quicken the
Pulses and Furnish Food for Reflection
to True Students of Nature.

1t happened in what is generally
called the tenderloin district, but why
"tenderloin," is hard to imagine-"tough
roast" seems much more appropriate for
there is certainly nothing in that vicinity
that can be called tender, unless it is the
little children and it is said that they
become hardened to the ways of the
wicked world at an early age. But any
way it happened.
Bette, The Affectionate,' or Bette
Davis as her name reads on the church
roll, is a female specimen of the dark
skinned habitants of that district. She
has a reputation which is all her own
and of which there is certainly no one
envious. Her long suit is not her good
looks, as might be imagined, but rather
her winning ways-when she asks you to
give her a quarter to help on the re-
building Of her church, or to make a do
nation on de Revend Bruder Hezekiah
Hopkins overdue salary, she beams on
you with a smile that would move a house
from it's foundation to another locality
in the next block.
Last Saturday night as Arthur Aston,
gentleman of color, was vending his
way home from his days labor, he was
spied by the ever vigilant Elizabeth and
asked to contribute. Now Arthur allowed
as how he wont going TO do no SIGH a
thing, whereupon the most foxy and
effeminate Bette by pressing him to her
bosom attracted his attention while she
cleverly extracted $3.50 (his all in alb
from his trousers pocket.
When he finally was aroused from the
delightful bliss occasioned by much kiss
ing and other tokens of love, on Bettie's
part, he thought about his one fifty. 1t
was gone and so was Bette.
So straightway he hied himself to the
city court of justice and invested in
warrant against one Bette for undue af-
lection by which only she herself profted.
Yesterday morning Mayor Powell said.
Bette you may go down and use year al
fectionate embraces on the inmates of the
jail 1t may be more appreciated
A COLORED MAN AND A RAZOR.
George Cross is a colored man. If lie
hadn't been this tale would have never
teen told. and George wouldn't have been
in trouble But being q colored man, he
carried razor, and getting mad all OF
sudden with Ivan Strickland he took
it out of his boot leg and started to
carve up everything in sight Now George
is in Jail and they wont even let him
have a razor to shave with
WHAT COMES OF FORGETTING.
John Andrews, colored, and Bunny Mer-
rift, also black, got drunk Saturday night
and forgot all about the commandment
which says, Thou shalt not say bad
words" ETC. They were allowed to de-
part after giving up STEPS and $525 re-
spectively.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17
SAVING CABBAGE FOR SEED.

M. w. Eller Zionville, n. CT wish
someone would give me information
about keeping cabbages for seed. How
do seedsmen keep them from rotting
until SPRING." I greatly doubt whether
the Southern States are the proper place
for raising cabbage seed, but it can be
done. Our friend would probably have
to proceed in the same way that North
ern growers raise seed of early yarie-
ties, namely, by starting the plants late
in the season so that they are not over
ripe by the time that winter sets in.
Possibly cabbage seed at the South could
he grown in one year. from plants start
ed in winter or early spring; but such
seed would soon deteriorate. The fol-
lowing directions for growing and keep
ing early cabbages for seed purposes are
taken from Brill's Farm Gardening and
Seed Growing: Il SOW three separate
times. and as near as may be the FIRST
tenth and twentieth of June. When
the plants are large enough to handle
they may be set out. but at this season
of the year transplanting is not always
practicable, hence my reason for making
three different sowings, in hopes that
we may be favored with rain at such time
as one lot or the other will be in con-
dition to set out. A piece of land on
which has been grown peas, spinach, or
other early maturing crop is used, being
plowed, narrowed and marked out al
ready for such time as the rain may
come The land is well MANFRED, broad
cast, for the first crop in anticipation Of
the second, hence no further manurine
is necessary, and, in fact. l have found
tht early cabbages grown late, in over
rich ground, are apt to be tender, and
do not preserve so we'll over winter as
when less stimulated. l always wish
to get at least a part of the early sowr
plants set out, as they get fully head
ed, and give a chance for a very choice
selection for stock seed while the second
or last sown, in consequence of not be-
ing quite so hardheaded, generally winter
the best. About the first of No
vember another plat of ground is taken
one which has Just been cleared of cror
and was we'll MANFRED in the spring, as
1 md that cabbage seed does better or
such than on freshly MANFRED land
This is deeply plowed narrowed ant
| quite deep burrows marked out. four fee
apart. The choice cabbage from the be-
are placed in these burrows, eighteen
| inches apart, and laid parallel with tht
burrows, at an angle of As degrees, al
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17
COLORING BUTTER.

The astonishing statement recently
made by Major Alvord at the Butter
makers Convention in Milwaukee, that
the coloring of butter is a fraud, Is at
tracing the condemnation it deserves
from the agricultural press. From time
immemorial buttermakers have been in
the habit of coloring their winter butter
so as to keep up a standard color the
year through. The coloring has not been
done to make the butter look like any
thing else, as is the case with COL
ored limitations of butter. but merely to
Keep a uniform standard of color at all
seasons of the year. There is no effort
to deceive anyone by the coloring, for
the yellow is the trade mark of butter,
and colored butter is still butter aid
Iothing else. The American Agricul-
turist says that butter makers expected
treachery in the camp of the enemy, but
TO find Alvord going back on them is
dsconeerting. 1t Is up to him to
explain or cease posing as the friend of
the darymen. His influence is forever
lest. He will do dairymen more harm
than good They demand that he make
a satisfactory explanation or resign, and
to do one or the other quickly" And
so say we ALL
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17
Notes From a Carolina Garden.

Only three days of November remain
and mo killing frost yet. Our Irish po-
tatoes are planted, and we are getting
afraid they may come up. We had some
Black Eye peas planted in rows in the
garden for table use. The peas were all
gathered and we then ran deep burrows
between the rows and dropped the pota-
toes whole. Then furrow was Tapped
over from each side and the middles
plowed out clean. The deep spaces be-
tween the beds were then filled with
leaves to prevent too hard freezing and
We hope they will be all right till spring
Big Boston and Hanson lettuce are head
ed well and going to market at IS cents
dozen to the grocers, and there has
been no glass used over them at all If
we were growing on a larger scale and
had to ship North it is probable that we
would not clear this price for the lettuce.
But we are only growing for the local
market and the dealers send out for it.
Spinach, too, is selling very well. 1t
has always amused me to note in most
books on gardening that they advise the
sowing Of the prickly seed spinach in
the fall and the smooth seeded in the
spring. All gardeners l know do the
very opposite. In fact few market gar
deners ever SOW any of the prickly
seeded spinach at any time. / never do.
Then, too, here in late November we
are punching green onions fully as large
as they usually are in March. What the
winter may do for them is to be seen.
In the flower garden the Amaryllis
Johnsonii are still throwing up their big
crimson lily-like flowers. Roses are still
with us as a matter of course, and there
are stir some pretty chrysanthemums,
but most of these have withered. Can
mas as bright as July still adorn the
beds though Christmas is less than u
month off.
November %. First killing frost last
night,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17
In the Supreme Court.

Opinions handed down yesterday:
Stewart VS.. Keener, from Macon; af-
filmed.
Bird VS.. Bradburn, from Jackson; ap-
peal dismissed. 4-a
Johnston VS.. Case, from Buncombe;
new trial.
Shelton VS.. Wilson, from Pennsylvania;
error.
Commissioners VS.. Nichols, from Nc
Dowell; error.
Bond VS.. Wilson; affirmed in both ap-
peals.
Mcclure vs. Fellows, from Mitchell;
error.
State VS.. Fey, from Forsyth; error
State VS.. Pugh, from New Hanover;
error.
State VS.. Dixon, from Jones county;
affirmed.
Simpson VS.. Lumber Co, from Hall
fax; new trial.
Liverman VS.. Railroad, from BERTHE;
affirmed.
Worth VS.. Wilmington; motion to re-
instate appeal denied.
State VS.. Ray, from Halifax; reversed.
The following were disposed of per
curiam order and without written
opinion:
Tudor vs. Wilson, from Wake; motion
of appellant to reinstate appeal and file
transcript denied.
State VS.. Nicely, from Macon; error
upon authority of State VS.. Reams, III
N. c., 556.
Nelson VS.. Blanton. from Swain; af-
firmed.
Fain VS.. Early. from Cherokee; af-
firmed upon authority VS.. Blossom, 81
N. c., sos.
Benedict VS.. Jones, from Buncombe;
affirmed.
Smythe vs.. Ayers, from Graham; af-
firmed.
Herren VS.. Abrasive Co., from Hay
wood; affirmed.
Fender VS.. Railroad, from Swain: af-
firmed.
Adams VS.. Railroad. from Swain; af-
firmed
State VS.. Lackey, from Burke: at-
f1rmed.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17
FARM NOTES.
(W. F. Massey. in Practical Farmer).

them to procure cheaper article than
butter, should not be debarred the priv
ilege of obtaining that article in a pre-
sentable condition. Every article should
be sold on it's merits, and for exactly
what it is. but the prevention of colora-
ton is no great aid in enforcing such
a policy. and we do not believe the end
justifies the means No one denies the
wholesomeness of well made oleo. and
no poor man is prevented by the law
from getting it if he wants to. But be-
fore the passage of the law there were
hundreds of places in the city where the
Prairie Farmer is published in which
all sorts of fancy brands of butter were
offered for sale and never a pound of
oleo. though there was not an ounce of
pure butter in any of the places. The
poor man is the very one who does not
want to be deceived in his butter. The
very life of oleo depends on it's being
passed off at hotels and restaurants as
butter. II the success Of the oleo trade
depended on the sales to people of slen-
der purses, knowing what they are buy
ing, there would be little of it sold
Nine men out of ten. if told at a hotel
that the butter offered was oleo and not
butter, would refuse to use it, The fact
is that we have not yet seen a sample
of the so-called uncolored oleo that is
not yellow enough to. pass for butter,
and it is still offered as such at hotels,
as we know. So far it would seem that
all that the law has accomplished is to
make it a little paler than colored but
ter and is compelling dairymen to use
more color than they should. A farm
paper that Joins the oleo ranks should
take down it's sign.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17
Farmers Should Raise More Poultry
Stanford Express. }


There is one thing the Express be-
lieves would pay we'll in this section,
and that is poultry raising even for the
local market. Good sized chickens sell
here now at from Is to % cents. Eggs
sell at 20 cents per dozen. and bring Is
the year round. There is no trouble in
getting the cash for them. The demand
is increasing all the time for these neces-
sary products of the farm. An exchange
says, and truly: The reason for the in
creased demand, and consequently higher
prices, is very evident So many people
have left the farm and moved to cotton
mills and the number of people who raise
their own chickens in the towns and
cities is constantly decreasing, because
as these places become more populous
there is less opportunity for raising
chickens. The progressive farmers should
take advantage of this situation and pre-
pare a place, fencing it in properly so
as not to have their crops injured. and
get ready for poultry raising for market
on more extensive scale. 1t will furn-
ish ready money all the year round.
Small patches of grain or clover can be
sown for the chickens and thus reduce the
expense of keeping them very materially
The advantages of diversified farming are
becoming more and more apparent.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17
THE FALL FLOWING THAT PAYS.

The subject of fall blowing is now up
in the Experience Pool. Our readers are
fully aware that the editor has consist
emily opposed fall blowing and leaving
the land bare in winter. 1t is usually
urged that fall blowing saves blowing
in the spring. But soil that does not
need re-plowing in the spring is usually
one that should not be plowed at all in
the fall. The heavy soils that are most
benefited by fall blowing. will usually
be found bettered by replowing in the
spring. We believe that the ordinary
fan blowing, and leaving the land bare
il winter does more harm in most cases
than good. True in the far North where
The soil closes up tight all winter there
Will be less damage than where there
are heavy rains and thawing and freez-
ing all winter. and the damage in the
far North will be hardly appreciable as
compared with more Southern localities.
sun we believe that even there some
hardy winter covering crop that neces-
states the spring replowing, will be of
advantage. There is no time during the
whole year when the deep blowing and
subsoiling needed by many soils can he
better done than in the late fall and
for this reason we always favor the do
ing of the work at this time. provided.
always, that some crop is sown for the
winter. 1t is true that at this writing
it will be too late over large section
Of the country to sow this winter cover.
but we have said enough on this point
heretofore to show what we favor In
the South there is still time to get the
winter cover of rye. and while legume
crop would have been better, rye is still
a good thing for this purpose. and the
benefit to the soil will fully repay the
additional labor of turning it under in
the spring. The fall blowing that pays
then. is that which prepares for winter
cover that makes the farmer plow again
IN the spring.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17
PEACH YELLOWS.

Every now and then some one thinks
that he has found out that the yellows
in the peach comes from poverty of the
SOIL and that potash or something else
is needed to cure it. The whole diff
Guilty is that these people do not know
the true yellows. There is a great diff
ference between tree affected by the
disease and one that has yellow leaves
simply from starvation. Fertilization
will cure the last but will have no effect
On the true disease. In fact, the exact
nature and cause of the disease is one
of the unsolved problems in horticulture.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-17
Knocks Out beg Cholera.
Norfolk Pilot-Virginian. }

Suffolk, Va, Dec. 11.-Mr. E. D. Brink
ley, the supervisor from Cypress district
of Nansemond county, has discovered
what he considers an infallible preventa-
tive against hog cholera. He says if
pork growers will plant liberal supply
of pumpkins and feed the product to his
swine they will never have cholera. Mr.
Brinkley has been using them several
years and not a single case has developed
among his herd. Other persons who
have tried them find pumpkins equally
effective.
Not only that. but they make a cheaI
fattening food and hogs will eat them vo-
raciously. At perks present prices the
cholera antidote should be worth the
knowing. And it will help the consum-
ers. too.
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