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hcult to SurpaSS in point of a smart
workmanlike appearance, and after all
this is the race wrap par excellence,
since it is as easily carried as worn.
Thanks, moreover, to an immense va
riety of tweeds and cloths, the most
surprisingly effective productions, pre-
senting herringbone patterning, large
line checks-very family suggested
ETC., to say nothing of many admira BILE
colorings and mixtures, there is every
promise we shall be privileged to ac.
count these chic, and as eminently
'convenable', to summer services
Nor strangely enough to our latter.
day taste and understanding, do these
supremely sartorial evolvements strike
the incongruous note one might just.
ly imagine they would, worn over
some summer frivolity of muslin and
frills. Wherefore are they to be TAX
en- into the best consideration by those
whose dress allowance requires to be
carefully and economically maneuv-
cred. And who with less provocation
than a diminishing banking account
might successfully repress desire, to
possess at least one of the more elab-
crate silk seductions, the which are
being held in gentle allegiance to meet
the exigencies of the midseason and
Ascot.
Someone, if mistake not, murmured
a desire to have particular word writ
ten anentslips, preferably transparent
slips of esprit net muslin And
it was wish at once so reasonable and
SO seasonable, and so conducive to
providing employment for the handy
sewing maid, to say nothing of the
girl who aspires to being her own
| modiste-a most larrlable aspiration
by the way, where blouses are con-
cerned, though not quite the simple
task dreamt of by an untutored intelli.
gence-that it was very real pleasure
for me to comply.
I The models picture veritable slips,
lovely limp connections; that one at
the top of ring spotted cream net. box
plated, and set on to a yoke collar and
front piece of stitched "ciel'' blue glace
with chemisette of cream guipure.
The other. dainty thing of pale
mauve white spotted muslin relieved
by fine embroidered lawn, in one OF
the new medallion patterns, further
! pleasing motive to be remarked being
the "treillage" tucking at the top OF
| the vest piece, a nice bit of workman
ship that betokens the ringers of much
delicacy and taste.
A perfectly charming sacque taffeta
coat is that depicted in black with
'Amande" green Venetian satin fac
ings and great collar of coarse beige
lace
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Hoot, Mon! and Be Wise.

BY its persistency of face repose, the
owl gets a great reputation for wisdom.
But whoever heard of an owl doing wise
thing? MoraE If the conversation is too
deep for YOU. look owlish and hoot occa-
sionally Washington Post.
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The Jox of Relief.

Casey-You're lookin' purity bad this
Cassidy-Indade Oh am. 1t makes me
feel great to think av the turrible toot ache
Oh had lasht noight.
'Phwy sh'd thot make yez so happy"
Because Oi haven't got it this moornin' +,
thot's phwy. ."-Philadelphia Press.
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SPECIAL SEA SHORE EXCURSION.
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Railway

From Chicago July 18th. $500 for the round
and Sea Isle City. Stopovers allowed al
Niagara Falls, at Westfeld and Sandusky
for side trips to Chautauqua and Put in Bay
Tickets good via boat between Cleveland
and Buffalo if desired. Full information
at City Ticket Office, $50 Clark St., or by
addressing c. F. DAILY, Chief A. G.. P. A.
Chicago.
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Breakfast Spinach.

Spread finely chopped, warmed-oyeI
spinach on rounds cf buttered toast,
season to taste, drop nicely poached
.gg on each piece, and serve very hot.
splendid breakfast dish in place of
neat.-Home Magazine.
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A New Bug.

Brooklyn advertises "reliable bug e,
terminator," which may be of use to an
one who wants to exterminate reliabl
bugs.-Boston Globe.
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Eadies Can Wear Shoe.

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease. A certain cure for swollen, sweating,
cept no substitute. Trial package FREE.
Address A. S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, n. Y.
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Piso's Cure for Consumption is an nfalli-
bic medicine for coughs and colds-N. w.
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- ARATOGA is again coming
M>N to the front as a summer
WSSE ing place for the wealthy,
&NISEN and this season may see it
~ again in it's old-time glory.
with it's great hotels well
filed with guests, its towns-people liv-
ing in luxury brought to them by the
wealth of New York-and its race
courses patronized by fashion.
1t is to be the latter attraction, prob
ably more than anything else, that
Saratoga owes this revival of interest.
For a number of years society has vir-
tually dropped the race course as it
exists in this country. True, Derby
day is the one great day of the summer
social season in Chicago, but New York
has nothing that equals the American
derby, and has shown but scant par
tiality in the races at Sheepshead and
Saratoga. Paris and London have
both, however, kept up social inter
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DeIirhtfuI Ea.tern Trtp,.

The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Ry
has justessued a new summer book, Lake
Shore Tours,' showing selected list of
eastern resorts, with routes and rates.
Copy will be sent on application to G. F.
Daily, Chief A. G. p. A, Chicago.
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One way to avoid fatal mistakes in dis.
tlngulshing between mushrooms and toad,
STOOLS is to confne your operations to
parsnlps-Chicago Daily News.
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He who gives up the smallest part of 6
secret has the rest no longer in his power
Richter.
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stops the Cough
md works off the cold Laxative Bromo
-luinine Tablets. Price 25 cents.
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A little knowledge is only dangerous
when one is contented with it-Ram's
Horn
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WHEN WHITING To ADvERTIAEBa
please state that yeu saw the AaxeEfass.
0ent In this DaDer.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-26
A DEADLOCK RESULTS
Democrats and Pcpulist Can't
tgree on Governor.
II is Believed That Fusion Will be Brought
About on the Entire Ticket Before
Morning.
(By the Associated Press.)

Grand Island, Neb., June 24.-The
Democratic and Populist State Conven
ton met here today, the former opening
at 2 o'clock and the latter an hour later.
At midnight the two conventions were
in a deadlock over the nomination for
Governor. The Democrats are contesting
for Constantine j. Smyth, former Attor-
ney General, and the Populists tena-~
ciousiy cling to Matthew Harrington.
notwithstanding the deadlock, how
ever. the sentiment appears almost uni
versal that fusion On the entire ticket
will be brought about before daylight.
Both conventions early agreed to the re-
port of the conference committee re-
commencing an equal division Of offices,
the party losing the governor to have
their first choice Of the remaining Of
fees.
William ]. Bryan had been on the
ground all day and his influence was
plainly visible in the action of the two
bodies, and to his good offices is due to
a great extent the harmony which has
come out of what at one time seemed to
be a somewhat turbulent body Of dele
gates.
The issues in the State campaign will
be against railroads, corporations and
taxation, but the resolutions endorse the
Kansas City platform and are plain on
national issues.
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presidents of the Congress, one of whom
is appointed for each State, and have
the appointments made without delay.
: Any farmer desiring to attend the con-
gress can apply direct to the Governor
of his State and have the appointment
issued 10 him direct. Each State should
see to it that the full quota of regular
delegates are appointed, and that the
appointments ere given to representative
men who will attend. In addition to this
many associate delegates should be ap-
+ pointed who are sufficiently interested
in the work of the congress as to at
tend the session,
The program of the meeting will in
clude the discussion of the following i'm
portant subjects to American agricultur-
lists: l. interoceanic canal; 2. national
irrigation; 8. reciprocity, how it may
affect agricultural interests; 4. effect Of
present insular possessions on the agri-
culture of the United States; s. preser-
walton of forest and fruit trees and re-
forestation; g. injurious insects, insect
pests and fungi; Z. what part of mans
farm does he sell when he sells the
crop? s. postal reforms particularly af-
fecting the farmer; 8. mutual relations
darby interests of the United States as
related to the markets of the world; II.
farm products other than dairy products
in the markets of the world; II. the la
Dor problem from the farmers stand
point; Is. how can we best build up our
merchant marine?
Mr.. John M. Stahl, the secretary of the
congress, whose address is No 1928
Langley avenue, Chicago, H., will gladly
answer any correspondence for the con-
gress. Letters directed to me at Month
cello, Ca, from any of the Southern
State, regarding the proper appointment
of delegates, etc., will be promptly an
swered. There will be at least 500 dele
gates appointed from this State, and l
am filing the applications for appoint
ment with the Governor as fast as re-
ceived A good delegation ought to be
selected from every county in this State.
HARVIE JORDAN.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-26
rALKING AT INSTITUTES.

What Mr.. Terry said in regard to the
Grange talk of student from the Ohio
University, simply shows the necessity
of being careful whom we set up to in
struct farmers, either in the G:ange o.
Farmers Institutes No medical society
would put up a young man attending a
medical school to instruct the old prac-
titioners No bar association would pu
up law student to PROFOUND the lie
ions to the old heads. But it seems that
as soon as young man gets to know a
little more about agricultural matters
than he did when he started to college
it is assumed that he is qualified to teach
the tillers of the soil. 1t is hardly sur
prising, therefore, that the men of prac-
teal experience get a contemptuous nc.
ton of scientific agriculture when they
hear the crude talk of boys not yet out
OF their teens and not even possessed of
diplomas. The young doctor and the
young lawyer are given back seat till,
by reason of brains and experience, they
come to the front and the graduate of
an agricultural college is no moro a
farmer than the graduate of a medical
college is a doctor. 1t takes years of ex-
perience to make either. The college
euuCdIlOH Is all IlSuJ, out TIE SIduudIc
should be made fully to understand that
he is not yet prepared to teach, but must
learn the application Of his studies in
the practical working of the farm. His
college education viii give him tie foun-
dation on which to build bat the making
of the farmer depends on the man him
self, and he should be willing to sit
away back AMI listen un:l he has &c
quired by reason OF good work done and
experience gained in the field, to set up
as an instructor of others. We HI; ily
believe that the professors in The Agri-
cultural School ut the Ohio, University
were responsible for the vagariCs the
student put before his audience. He
made statements which Ie may have, al
his inexperience, Thought '0rr4ct, but
which his instructors would doubtless
have corrected. Tha. a piece of smooth
ly rolled land will dry out faster than
one the surface of which is kept stirred
shallowly, is doubtless correct, since
there is an unbroken capillarity 10 the
surface. But that a roughly plOwed
ricce of ground will retain moisture bet
ter than soil we'll fined is simply non
sense The blame for such crude talk
is on those who set up yoIth and in
experience to teach gray heads
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COW PEAS IN NEW England.

The Seed Trade Report from Boston,
in the Florists Exchange, says: THE
Southern COW pea (Vigna Catjang [more
properly Vigna sinensis.-Ed ! seems to
have established itself here as a desr-
able crop for blowing under, as well as
for growing with sorghum and cutting
early for fodder. These produce a crop
of sufficient weight for cutting in q
much shorter time than sweet fodder
corn, and are at least equally valuable
with the fodder corn for feeding to mich
COWS. The seeding that has given most
satisfaction is 30 pounds of Amber cane
and 80 pounds of Whippoorwill peas per
acre This we would consider all right
as a soiling crop, but the sorghum would
be in the way of curing the peas for hay.
No doubt the crop is as valuable as corn
fodder, far more valuable, we would say.
And so we find that the New Englanders
outside the suction range have taken to
the COW pea. Prof Burkett, now of the
North Carolina Station, but formerly of
the New Hampshire Station, showed us
photo of a well podded plant of COW
peas grown at the New Hampshire Sta
ton. Mr.. Alva Agee, of Ohio, in the Ma
tionaI Stockman and Farmer, says that
Mr.. c. T. Rothwell, large apple grower
and buyer of Columbiana county, lit
tie north of the latitude of Pittsburg,
Pa, writes: 81 am a great believer in
COW peas for an orchard. I have bought
better apples and more of them in or
chards sown to COW peas than from those
under any other plan of cultivation. Not
withstanding peas are very high this
year, / have bought 60 bushels to SOW
in part of my orchards. ] had ten acres
last year which I have just plowod I'M
der" This is we'll in the range" and
so the COW pea makes it's way, and next
season there yill be largo Quantities of
Northern grown seed on the market
grown well north of the Grange"
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LIME.

1t seems hard for some Of cur friends
to understand the proper use of lime, and
that lime is not manure. We have at
hand a letter similar to many we receive
in which the writer asks: "Where lime
is applied is it necessary TO use COM
mercial fertilizers to grow peas end
clover? Is fertilizer injurious TO land?
Where farmer has plenty of wood and
rock to burn lime, can't he grow peas
and improve his land without having to
pay out money for fertiliZers?" We
have given this friend personal reply,
as we have to others, but it seems so
hard to get farmers to understand the
proper nature of lime and fertilizers
that we have thought best to re-state
here what we have so often said, that
land depends on its condition and what
Whether fertilizers are needed on the
aInd depends on it's conditio and what
plant food may be deficient In it. Fer
tilizers are not in themselves injurious
to land. They are simply plant food in
a very available state Used as they
have been in the South to merely
squeeze a little more stuff to sell off the
land, they have been a curse to the farm
and the farmer Used as they should
DG 10 DtluS up lue pIOuuCLlNiJg- VI tIic
soil through the growing of recuperative
crops like the peas and clover, they viii
cradle a farmer to more rapidly improve
his land than in any other way. Lime
is usually valuable dressing on clover,
but never on the COW pea. In fact, it
seems rather detrimental to the growth
of The pea. Lining after the peas have
been grown is all right but lining for
the pea crop is all wrong Lime is used
as re-agent to bring matters already
in the soil into an available condition.
1t will do this, and the crops produced
make many suppose that all they have
to do is to use more lime to keep their
land improving, while really the lime
has simply aided them in taking out
more food from it. Lime in connection
with the growing of legumes may be
made a valuable aid in the development
Of the fertility of the land, and it may
he that in many soils there is such an
abundance of latent plant food that for
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-26
GRABBING THE PUBLIC LANDS,

..
Reports to the Department of the In
terror show that the cattlemen of the
West have literally appropriated the
whole, or nearly the whole, of the public
lands. Most of the public land in Ne
b!aska still open for settlement has been
fenced off by the cattlemen for pasture,
and the same is stated to be the case
in other sections, and in New Mexico
more than half the public lands have
been thus appropriated and surrounded
by barbed wire fences by the cattle
kings. And now they have a bill before
Congress to lease to them these lands
which they have appropriated. This Is
the bill advocated by the so-ealled Ma
tional Live Stock Association in Chicago
last winter, the same association which
engineered che opposition to the oleo
bill, and which boosted that it had de-
feated it in the previous Congress. 1t
is estimated that if the leasing bill
passes Congress four hundred millions
of acres of the public lands west of the
Mississippi river would be appropriated
by the cattlemen for a term of years
and the bill not only provides for the
leasing OF the lands but for the renewal
of the leases. Thus settlers would be
forever debarred from taking up these
lands. Il seems to be a scheme to CO.
operate with the Beef Trust in maintain
ing a beef monopoly. If the lands were
to be apportioned among small cattle
men in limited areas there would not
be so much objection but the proposal
is to lease vast areas to syndicates
which will ride over the people at will
aided by their associates in Chicago. 1t
is stated that measures are being taken
by the Department to eject these men
from the lands they have stolen, and
I'VE hope that it will be done. The bill
before Congress is very artfully concoct-
ed by lacking on to it proviso to estab-
lish with the rentals a fund for the
irrigation of the arid regions. With the
cattle syndicates in perpetual possession
of the lands, irrigation would doubtless
be greatly to their advantage. The
whole thing looks like a gigantic land
steal, and we hope that it will be sat
down on heavily in Congress, and the
syndicates with their wire fences be
driven from the public domain
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-26
Here From Mississippi.

Mr.. Murray f. Smith, prominent
lawyer of Vicksburg Mississippi. and a
native North Carolinian, is in the city
with his daughter on a visit to Mrs.
Mumford McGhee. Mr.. Smith was the
leading attorney for the w. L. Wells
Company in the suit against the Gas
tonia and Avon Mills, which was tried
in the Federal Court at Charlotte last
week. in which verdict for about
$500 was rendered in favor of the
plaintiff,
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.. - !. ( * $1,000.
PRACTICAL FARMING.


a time the lime will do all that is need
cd. But on most of our old cultivated
soils it pays to use the mineral forms
OF fertilizers literally to produce
heavier growth of the crops that feed
the stock and the land at the same time.
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Christian Workers at Montreal.

The Fifth Annual Assembly of Chris
tan Workers at Montreal, n. c., will
begin Sunday, July 10th and close Au-
gust Bird. The Bible Conference viii be
opened August 10th and close August
oath, and during these two gatherings
some of the strongest men engaged in
Christian work in this country will
speak and sing to the audiences that
gather at Montreal.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-26
FACTS ABOUT COTTON. \


The following table shows the changes
in cotton production since 1S49.
1S99-Acreage, 1907 02O; per cent Of
increase. *12.2; commercial bales, 49,
7O7; pounds, 216,5O6,93O per cent of in
crease, $50.
1SS9-Acreage. 1,147196; per cent of
increase, 2S.4; commercial bales, 1886, POI;
pounds, 100 1896, 497; per cent. of increase,
1901.
1S79-Acreage, 1913, 1884, commercial
bales, 3S9,598; pounds 176,4S7,S9 per
cent. of increase. 1906.
1S69-Pounds. 629O1 100; per cent. of
increase, *2.9
1S59-Pounds, 64,753,72O; per cent. of in
crease, 1892.
1S49-Pounds, %, 53S 600.
(*Decrease.)
The production of cotton in North Car
DINA has fuctuated greatly since 1919.
In 1859 the quantity reported was more
than twice that produced in 1919, while
during the next decade, when the civil
war affected all Industries, there was a
decrease of % per cent. The reports for
1879 showed a great increase in produc-
ton. This was followed in the next de-
cade by a slight decrease, notwithstand-
ing an increase of 28.4 per cent. in acre
age. But in the decade just completed,
the production increased $50 per cent.
while the acreage decreased 1872 per
cent.
In 1899, 1O5, 766 farmers devoted to the
cultivation of cotton total area of l.
007 ,O20 acres, or 12.1 per cent. of the
total improved farm land, and an aver
age of 95 acres per farm reporting. The
total production was ZIG, 546,930 pounds,
an acreage of 215 pounds per acre and
ia pounds per capita
The counties reporting the greatest
acrea under cotton are Mecklenburg,
Robson, Wake, Union, Johnson, Arson,
Halifax Wayne, Cleveland and Edge
combe, ranking in the order named, and
reporting in the aggregate 42.6 per cent.
of the total acreage. These counties are
located in the central and southwestern
parts of the State.
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Aliens New Orleans Minstrels, under
June 9th. Admission IS and
Is cents. Seats for two thousand. Show
grounds city lot.
6-23 1t.
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acres to 1899 acres, or about twenty

acres to 1899 acres, or about twenty
seven fold.
MORE MULES THAN HORSES.
In North Carolina, as in other States
where cotton is staple crop and much
of the earm labor is performed by ne
groes, large numbers of mules are used
as work animals. For most classes of
farms the average numbers of mules aud
horses are about equal, but on farms
| operated by managers, and on farms
of the largest area, more mules than
horses are reported. This is due to the
fact that these two classes of farms in
clude relatively large number of cotton
plantations
If the numbers of horses and mules be
combined, the average number of work
animals per farm compares favorably
with the corresponding figures for the
more intensively cultivated farms of New
England. > N
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-26
(Prof. W. F. Massey, in the Practical
Farmer)

The united States now stands second
among the non-Asiatic countries in her
imports to Japan, and is rapidly out
stripping her competitors. We opened
up Japan to modern progress.
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amounts expended for labor and fertili-

loss INCOMES PER ACRE-NUM-
BIER OF FARMS. ETC.
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Are in many respects like other ulcers or
sores, and this resemblance often proves fatal.
Valuable time is lost in fruitess efforts to heal
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-06-16
THE CLUB BOAT.

Some Of the members Of yacht
club near this city which is distin.
suished by the size Of its rocking
chair" feet, and which may be called
The Never Reef" club. received no.
tees last week that members who did
not have boats might cruise on the
clubs boat this summer. The club
has never owned boat of its own and
this notice stirred up much curiosity.
Members who had neglected to pay
their dues and who were seriously con.
sidering never thinking of them again
sent their checks to the treasurer.
They wanted the privilege of cruising
on the clubs yacht. One of them met
an officer of the club on Saturday and
sold:
THAT idea Of club boat is a grea,
scneme. Have you bought new boat
for the purpose?"
mo, you know the craft well
enough. She will be launched mex
month and you are entitled to youl
share of her."
What is she?"
Its the clubs floating debt. and III
been floating SO long that you neet
rave no fear OF its sinking"
The man who had just paid his due
Is going to console himself by buyinl
new cushion for his rocking chair
New York Sun.