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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-01-24
Child Worth Millions.

my child is worth millions to me, ?
says Mrs. Mary Bird, of Harrisburg,
Pa, ''yet | would have lost her by
Group had / not purchased bottle of
One Minute Cough Cure" One Minute
Cough Cure is sure cure for coughs,
Group and throat and lung troubles.
An absolutely sale cough cure which
acts Immediately. The youngest child
can take it with entire safety. The
little ones like che ia 'te and remem-
Der how often it helped them. Every
family should have a bottle of One
Minute Cough Cure handy At this
season especially it may be needed
suddenly. Moss, the Enterprising
Druggist.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-01-24

Red Snapper fish for sale at J. e.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12
THE SUPREME COURTS SCHOOL TAX
OPINION.

In the course. of a recent opinion of
the Supreme Court written by Judge
Furches, the provision of our State
Constitution which says that "there
shall be no discrimination in favor of,
or to the prejudice of either race" in
public school affairs was interpreted
as meaning that the school fund
should be divided between the children
of the two races per capita. Said
Judge Furches:
"That is, one white child of the
school age shall have the same amount
Of money per capita as a colored
child, and no more; and the colored
child shall have the same amount per
capita as any white child, and no
more; that both races shall have equal
opportunities for an education, SO far
as the public money is concerned"
This opinion or dictum has attract
ed a great deal of attention for, since
negro schools are less expensive than
white Gall negro labor being cheaper
than white), the practical effect of d
per capita distribution would be to
give the negro schools a longer term
than that of the white schools. Tbs,
ii seems to us, would be a "discTimi-
nation in favor of" the negro race and
ito the prejudice of" the white race.
Clearly, it is inconsistent with the
doctrine expressed in the very next
clause in the Courts opinion-"that
both races have equal opportunity for
an education"-this being, we be-
lieve, a correct Interpretation of the
spirit of the Constitution. And as
the per capita distribution theory
conflicts with this no clearly express
ed opinion of the Court, we take it
that the judges did not attach so much
Importance to this rather incautiously
worded paragraph as the wide adver-
Using it has received would indicate.
At N rate, the matter is set at rest
for the present by a circular just is
sued by the State Superintendent of
Public instruction, in which he says
that, per capita distribution not being
specifically commanded by the
Court, this dictum will not be re-
garded by the school. officials.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12
KORE ABOUT THE RURAL TELEPHoNE.

The loneliness of farm life, which
has been considerably reduced by ru-
raj mail delivery, has been still furth-
er 1essened in a number of Western
communities by the introduction of
the telephone.
The chief obstacle to the wider use
of this great modern convenience has
been the high rates charged by the
regular companies. Several plans to
obviate this difficulty have been tried.
The simplest is the actual building of
a line and the installation of a small
circuit by those who wish to use it.
Groups of Western farmers have
themselves cut and set the poles and
strung the wires for their own lines,
and after buying receivers, ~insulators,
batteries and other material, have di-
vided the cost and shared the expense
of maintenance.
Lately another plan has been tried
with excellent results in a number of
Wisconsin towns. A stock company
is formed of those who desire to use
the service. The shares sell for a I'M
form price of fifty dollars, the aver
age cost for installing each telephone
in a good exchange; but no stock is
sold to any n except those who rent
a "phone," and only one share is al
lotted for each receiver in use. The
charges are so regulated that the
stockholders receive a dividend of one
per cent a month. This is applied to
the reduction of the regular rental.
In one of the Wisconsin towns, for in
stance, the rent for a phone in a bus
mess Office is two dollars and a quar-
ter a month, and in a residence n
dollar a month. The dividends aver
age seventy-fve cents a month, so
that the actual cost to the consumer"
is only a dollar and a half for a phone
in an Office and twenty-five cents for
one in the home. This is less than
half the usual cost.
Many a farmers wife, tied to her
work and cut off from social oppor-
tunltles, would gladly pay twenty-five
cents a month merely for the luxury
OF nearing a neighbor's voice at will ;
and the farmer himself, if he is alert,
hnds constant advantage in closer
connection with his market.-Boston
Youths Companion.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12

The coronation of Edward VII,
R. l., by the grace of God, of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, and of the British do
minions beyond the seas, King, de-
fender of the faith, Emperor of In
dia," was successfully and pompously
carried out Saturday, to the intense
relief of the English people. Owing
to the physical weakness Of the King,
the program was much shortened, but
it was long enough for a gorgeous dis
play of royal magnifcence.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12

We gladly publish the reply of
Prof. W. F. Massey to our note of
last week. Unfortunately, his entire
card is based on the incorrect assump-
ton that our editorial was a personal
attack on him, instead of an attack
on a principle, a protest against the
Boards setting a precedent that
might lead to dangerous results. We
are sure that no one save the Pro-
fessor himself made the mistake of
regarding it as aimed at Prof. Massey
personally, for whom we at the time
expressed our high regard. A mans
chief business, it is perhaps more
nearly correct to say, is that which
contributes most largely to his in
come rather than that to which he de-
votes most time. Judged by this
standard, we had been led to believe
that editing the Practical Farmer
was Prof. Massey's chief business. If
we we're wrong, We shall be glad to
make correction. We regret that we
fell into an error with regard to the
probability of Prof. Massey's doing
institute work in Pennsylvania. What
we said was based on the following
paragraph from the Raleigh Post:
"Prof. Massey is now editor-in-chief
of that paper and does his work in
Raleigh. If he goes to Pennsylvania
he will engage in farmers institute
work for that State. Prof. Massey is
willing to remain in North Carolina
provided the Board of Agriculture
will give him similar employment
here"
1t is still difficult for us to see that
we were wrong when we said last week
that ga farmers institute conductor
to canvass among North Carolina
FARMERS at the States expense should
have no important connection with
any institution not primarily devoted
to the development of North Carolina
agriculture"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12
TO CLEANSE THE STATE FAIR.

No paper having waged more earn
est warfare against vulgar and i'm
moral Midway ATTRACTIONS" at our
State Fair, it naturally gives us much
pleasure to print the following sim
pie and straightforward notice by the
State Fair authorities, it being in the
shape of a resolution adopted by the
Advisory Board at it's meeting a few
days ago:
Resolved, That no gambling de-
vices, illegal games of chance, or i'm
moral exhibitions will be allowed on
the grounds of the North Carolina
State Fair, and the following are ex-
pressly excluded, such as plate boards,
spindles, pickouts, fish ponds, card
games, cloth pin games, slot machines,
book-making, etc. Hoochee-coochee
or Oriental dancing, or other degrad-
ing exhibitions, within or without
booths or tents, will not be allowed"
This declaration has the right ring,
and we hope hat it will be thoroughly
enforced. The indecencies licensed
at the last State Fair shocked the
whole State. 49,,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12
The Thinkers.
SUCCESS.

A farmer of Union County, while
in conversation in the Journal Office
one day recently, remarked that while
he looked back over the fifty years of
his life and contemplated his present
age and his financial standing he was
inclined to be ashamed of himself, but
upon further reflection his shame
would rather. turn into pride. Look
ing at his life from the standpoint of
those who count only the getting of
money as success, he could but admit
that it had been a failure, for though
surrounded with enough to give a
moderate amount of comfort, he had
neither made nor saved much money.
But the other side of the picture
well calculated to stimulate a feeling
of pride-was that he had made his
home happy; he had educated his
large family of boys and girls and
trained them to be useful men and
women Chose of them who were
grown, the others were yet being
trained) j.; while living for himself he
had lived also for others and had
welded an influence for good in his
community and county. These
thoughts came to him in no spirit of
vanity or sef-laudation; they we're
merely the reflections of a sensible
man who could look at things as they
are.
There is another farmer in Union
County who has attained success. He
has worked early and late-worked
both himself and family. He got all
he could in his fifty years and kept
all he got. His profits of each year
we're put into lands, improved ma
chinery and better stock. When the
hour glass of his life pointed to the
half century mark, men spoke of him
as well to do. But his children had
grown up as the weeds about him, and
none of them can read or write; in an
age of which education and the spread
of intelligence are the most marked
features, this man has reared his chill
dren as he might have done before
the invention of printing; his cattle
are slick and fat, his barns are full,
but his children are dwarfs; and in an
era of brightness and happiness, when
the world is getting better, they are
shut out from the light and will pass
their days expatriated, their birth
right sold for a mess of pottage which
they themselves did not even receive.
Which has been successful? Fewer
and fewer grow the cases of success
like the latter, while those like the
former daily multiply.-Monroe Jour
nal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PATRIOTIC
SERVICE.

Everybody who reads The Progress
sive Farmer knows that the rural
school library plan is one of our hob
bies. And we are not at all ashamed
of it. 1t has already accomplished a
great deal of good, and its work has
only begun. I
Just now when so many country
schools are running we are again
moved to put before our readers the
advantages of the plan, and to urge
that no rural school for which it is
possible to secure a library be closed
before an earnest effort is made to
start such a collection of books for
the benefit of the children.
We suppose that we have stated a
dozen times the main provision of the
rural school library law as passed by
the last Legislature. 1t is, in brief.
that when the friends or patrons of
any country school raise 80 % more
to purchase a library, the County
Board of Education will set apart $40
of the school fund for that purpose
and the State Beard of Education viii
give another $40, making IN all $50
or more for the purchase of books.
But this State aid, it will be renleln-
bered. is given to not more than six
schools in any one county. Up to
date 353 of these libraries have been
established, representing II counties.
In twenty counties (if the reader hap
pens to live in one of these twenty,
let him hasten to the work of putting
it in a more creditable position) no
move has been made toward taking
advantage of the opportunities af-
forded by this law. Whether or not
your county is one of these twenty,
or just what position it really occu-
pies, can be readily seen by consulting
the following table which we have
compiled from statistics given out by
the State Superintendent of Public
Instruction last week, and which
shows the number of libraries that
have ~beenSaided by the State in each
county. 1t will be seen that there are
forty-two counties designated by
stars) in which the limit, six, has been
reached; in these no further aid can.
be had from the State. If your coun-
ty is not one of these, then your
school can have and should have a IL
brary. Some public spirited farmer,
now that crops are laid by, can con
suit the teacher, see the patrons of the
school, and speedily raise the $40
needed to secure the $40 from the
school fund and the $40 from the
State. This is a splendid opportunity
for patriotic service.
Here is the table by counties show
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12

ing the number of libraries establish
ed under the provisions of this law;
salamanca, 6; Alexander, =; Sal
leghany, 6; samson, 6; Ashe,1; *Beau-
fort, 6; *Bertie, 6; Bladen, 1; Bruins
wick, 3; Buncombe, =; Burke, 1;
*Cabarrus, G.; Caldwell, 4; Camden,
=; Carteret, =; Caswell, 1; Catawba,
5; *Chatham, 6; Cherokee, 4; Soho
wan, 6; Clay, -; *Cleveland, 6; Co
lumbus, 2; *Craven, 6; Cumberland,
G.; Currituck, 1; Dare, =; Davidson,
2; Davie, 3; *Duplin, 6; *Durham,
6; *Edgecombe, 6; *Forsyth, 6;
Franklin, 4; CASTOR, 2; Gates, 3; Ora
ham, -; Granville, s; *Greene, 6;
*Guilford, 6; Halifax, /; Harnett, 5;
Haywood, =; Henderson, 6; Hert-
ford, 1; Hyde, 5; *IredeIl, 6; Jackson,
-; Johnston, 5; Jones, =; *Lenoir,
6; *Lincoln, 6; Mcdowell, -; Macon,
2; madison, 6; Martin, -; Mecklen-
burg, 5; Mitchell, 1; Montgomery, 5;
*Moore, 6; *Nash, 6; *New Hanover,
6; Northampton, 6; *Onslow, 6;
*Orange, 6; Pamlico, 1; *Pasquotank,
6; Fender, =; Perquimans, 4; Person,
5; #Pitt, 6; Polk, /; *Randolph, 6;
Richmond, 2; *Robeson, 6; Stocking
ham, 6; Rowan, 4; Rutherford, 6;
Sampson, =; Scotland, -; *Stanly,
6; *Stokes, 6; Surry, 2; Swain, -;
Pennsylvania, 8; Tyrrell, -; *Union,
6; Vance, 8; *Wake, 6; *Warren, 6;
*Washington,6; Watauga, 2; *Wayne,
6; Wilkes, 4; *Wilson, 6; Yadkin, -;
Yancey, -.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12
THE ARTICLES ON "OLD TINES IN THE
SOUTH"

Seldom has it been good for
tune to publish such an excellent Sc
ries of articles as that by our lady
readers on "Old Times in the South"
recently concluded.
It is a thing very often said in
awarding prizes, but this time it is &C
tually true that nearly every contest
ant deserved a prize. But in the ma
ture of things all couldn't get the
prize, and we have to thank the
judges, Mr.. o. W. Blackwell, of Kilt
rell, Vance Co., N. O., and Mr.. T. B.
Parker, of Hillsboro, N. c., for decid-
ing to whom it should go. They de-
eide that the best letter of the series
was the thirteenth, written by a
Burke County lady who uses the nom
de plume "Happiness" and whose ar
ticle appeared in issue of July
9Th. Accordingly, a copy of "The Old
Plantation" by Rev. James Battle
Avirett, has been forwarded to her.
The prize for the best mans letter
on "Old Times in the South" Ga copy
of an interesting and handsomely
bound book, "Sketches of Old Vir-
ginia,O will not be awarded before
October 1st. The letters by our lady
readers were so remarkably interest
- 49, I7-.@ A. 1850 e.
not measuring swords with them, but
now that the men have the field to
themselves we hope that a large num-
Der will write their "reminiscences of
slavery, war and Reconstruction days.
Mr.. B. B.. Raiford starts the ball roll
ing this week with his war time recol-
lections. Let others follow his exam
pie.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12
TALK ABOUT HOME Ary1rp,
Says the Asheville Citizen.

"This being an off year in nol;..
the Tennessee Democrats are n;u:'
their campaign a very practical saEs
of turn. Candidates for the Lno;a1.
ture are being appealed to in -
than one paper to stop talking abo,t
trusts, tariff and the Philippines onS
discuss better roads, better school.
the revival of agricultural Interest,"
and other topics that deal diroc+l~
with the development of the Sta+o
The change suggested is a sens;b,o
one, it strikes US. These are prac+;.
cal questions and their discussion
will do much toward educating tbo
people concerning them and therein
may bring about much-to-be-desirod
improvement along these lines. The
twenty candidates for Congress N
this State can do about all the tall.
ing on national issues that the peonIa
care to hear. Let our candidates f.,
the Legislature tell us sometime
about what they propose toward en-.
larging our asylum, giving US bette,
roads, improving our schools and
building up the various interests Of
the State"
This is ~eminently sensible, and We
hope the suggestion will be followed,
For years candidates in this State.
when they talked at all, have devoted
most of their attention to national is
sues, something with which their off.
ces had no concern. Let the people
force the legislative candidates to
talk about home afairs-the practical
questions with which the Legislature
will have to deal. The candidates for
Congress, as the Citizen suggests, can
do all the talking necessary about ma
tional Enthusiastically Landmark.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12
NIB. BLAIR AND MR. eUDeER.

In the Monroe Congressional Con-
vention a few weeks ago, it will be re-
membered, Mr.. J. r. Blair, of Mont
geometry County, one time received a
fraction of a vote more than half the
number of votes cast, but there being
an understanding that one full vote
more than half would be required to
nominate, another ballot was taken,
and he lost the seat in Congress that
seemed to be within his grasp. But
Mr.. J. M. Gudger, Jr., of Buncombe
County, is not the man to let such an
opportunity slip through his fingers.
At the Tenth District Democratic
Congressional Convention held in
Hendersonville last week, he made this
fact very plain. There were 324 votes
in the Convention and on the third
ballot Gudges had 1924. The chair,
holding that 1853 votes would be re-
quired to nominate, was about to or
der another ballot, when Gudger
jumped to the platform and declared
himself nominated. And the excited
delegates, seeing his spirit, let him
have his way. With Gudger's tenn
permanent and agility, Blair might
now be his party's nominee for Con-
gress.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12

aThe Industrial and Educational
Interests of our People Paramount to
an other considerations of State Pol
icy.' is the motto of The Progressive
Farmer, and upon this platform it
1hau rise or fall. Serving no master,
ruled by no faction, circumscribed by
no selfish or narrow policy, its ann
viii be to foster and promote the best
interests of the whole people of the
State. It will be true to the instincts,
traditions and history of the Anglo
Saxon race. On all matters relating
specially to the great interests it rep
resents, it will speak with no uncer-
tain voice, but will fearlessly the right
defend and impartially the wrong con-
6emn."-From Col. Folks Salutatory,
February 10, 1885.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12

Prof. G. W. Burkett says that he
believes there will be 1875 students en-
rolled in the several agricultural
courses at the A. and M. College this
fall and winter-a record-breaking en-
rollment. There is only one sad fea-
lure about this brilliant outlook for
the agricultural course, and that fea-
ture is the pitifully inadequate equip
ment and accommodations for Prof.
Burkett's department of the College
work. The need for an agricultural
building is pressing.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12

"There appears to be, so far as
heard, general disapproval of the par
don of A. L. DAILY, the gold brick
swindler. The public thinks that
those rascals got off lightly enough,
anyway" So says the Raleigh cor
respondent of the Charlotte Observer.
This does really seem to be the most
i~ndefensible use of the 'pardoning
power that the Governor has yet
made.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12

The opposition to Judge Walter
Clark seems to be assuming a more
tangible shape; as to its strength,
that is unknown. Hon. Thomas N.
Hill, of Halifax County, announces
himself a candidate against Judge
Clark subject to the action of
anti-Clark convention of Democrats
that may be held. We are informed
that Mr.. Hill is a man of unblemish-
ed character, an able i%urist, and a life
long Democrat. Either MI. Hill or
Mr.. J. Lindsay Patterson, of Win
ston-Salem, Ga Gold Democrat,) will
probably be chosen as Judge ClarE's
opponent.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-12
THIS WEEKs PAPER-soNE RANDON
COMMIT.

Harry Farmer tells the interesting
story of one farmers success, success
that is within the reach of any ener-
getic man. When reading of any
ones progress, it is always well to call
to mind John Ploughman's homely
couplet:
"Said I to myself, Here's a lesson for
me,
For this mans a picture of what I
might be-"
The cotton crop report will inter
est many of our readers. 1t will be
seen that the condition of the crop in
North Carolina is 4 points higher
than the average. Texas stands at the
foot of the list.
The Farmers Institutes announced
on page /, will be conducted by men
well qualified to make them of value
to all that attend. We hope that
Progressive Farmer readers living
within reach of these meetings will
do all in their power to make them
successful. = waT~~
! We have already published a letter
from Treasurer Reynolds regarding
the Farmers National Congress to be
held at Macon, Ca, in October. The
list of delegates from North Carolina
is given on page 1. Secretary Stahl
says that 1000 delegates from North
ern States will attend. The railroad
rate, it is said, will be one straight
fare for the round trip.
Another note about corr shredding
is published this week. We know that
a great many shredders have been sold
in this State within the last two
years. Will not some who have bought
write their experiences for the benefit
of other farmers?
The comparative advantages of
town and country life are very well
set forth by a correspondent on page
6. Just why so many strong, sensible
country boys will surrender the free
dom of a farmers life and shut them
selves up as underlings in city stores
has always been hard for us to I'M
derstand.
A corrected list of educational raj
lies appears on another page. Those
already held seem to have been thor
oughly successful.
The best piece of agricultural liter
allure that came to our notice last
week was that article from the Mon
roe Journal which we give the place
of honor in our Thinkers" depart
ment on this page. True, it doesn't
say a word about corn or cotton or
mules or plows or fertilizers, but it
does say something richly worth the
saying about what constitutes true
success on the farm. And in this
commercialistic age We need contin-
ually to remind ourselves of the truths
emphasized by the Master Himself
that " the life is more than meat and
the body is more than raiment" and
that "a mans life CONSISTENT not in
the abundance of the things that he
possesseth." True success has to do
with higher things than none get
ting.
An article from the Youths Com
panion tells how the rural telephone
plan is worked in the West. We
should greatly like to hear from any
of our readers who are interested in
this subject.