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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-06
The Planter Is No More.

The planter has gone. He filed his place-a
grand one-in his day and generation. He was
of unexcelled stock, a magnificent race of peo-
pie. But the poor people about him, under his
system, had no better opportunities than slaves.
IT'S not the great wealth of one man that makes
a country rich. 1t is the average wealth of all
the people, their producing capacity, that makes
a rich country. The new conditions open op-
portunities to every man who has brains and
energy-Monroe Journal.
The planter has gone inded, and while he was
the soul of courtesy and hospitality, the country
is better off without him. The Journal is right,
the poor man on the plantation was little better
than a slave. The future held no hope for him
or his children. They we're on the outside OF
the high old civilization of the ante-bellum
times, and there was no way in the world tor
them. to break in. Nothing less than a bloody
war could have reversed these cruel conditions.
The perpetuation of the social system of South
ern life meant ruin to both peasant and pa
trician, for the sons of the planter, ~desplslng
honest work, would have degenerated into men
tai and physical weaklings, more pitiable and
helpless than the young Romans in the last days
of that proud empire. So among the other
blessings the war has brought us, not the least
is the passing of the planter and the breaking
down of the social barriers between the rich and
the Door. The strong men of the South to-day
the very brain and Drawn of the country-are
not the descendants of the favored classes OF
fftv wears ago, but the boys whose fathers owned
no slaves, and who, if the old times had con-
timed. would have been denied the privileges OF
a fair chance and an open field IN the battle OF
life. We honor the old planter-he was a real
conference.-the we do not need him Ill our bust
mass now. and the South is going on to grander
limos than ever entered his dreams.-Charity
and Children
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-06
Teach Children to Be Ashamed of 1dleness.

That there is much discomfort with work
among the so-caIed middle classes in America
is due in large part to the pampering of children,
to the supplying of their natural and artificial
wants, and to the sentimental idea that "the day
of toll will come soon enough" In general, work
is not a curse, but a blessing-a positive means
of grace. One can hardly begin too early. to i'm
press upon children lessons of sef-help by tasks
appropriate to their age and forces, and to beget
in them scorn of idleness and of dependence on
others. To do this is to make them happy
through the sef-respect that comes with the
realization of power, and thus to approximate
Tennyson's goal of man: "Self-reverence, self
knowledge, self-control."-The Century.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-06

Speaking of rural libraries, we are glad to see
that Superintendent Joyner is not permitting
them to be made a dumping ground for mediocre
literature just because it happens to be. produced
in North Carolina. There is grave danger here,
and we hope it will be continually guarded
against. The object of the rural school library
is not to open up a market for North Caro-
lima books that haven't merit enough to sell
them elsewhere, but to foster the reading habit
among our young people. Once bring them to
appreciate good literature and they will of their
own accord buy and read all worthy literature
produced in our State.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-06

The meeting of the Cotton States Association
81 Commissioners of Agriculture is to begin in
Montgomery, Ala, tomorrow wednesday,, and
will last three days. An interesting program
has been prepared. We observe that the live
stock industry has an especially large place in
the discussion-a gratifying indication of a bet
fer balanced system of farming in the South.
The President of the Association is Commits
sioner Lee, of Alabama, and the Secretary is our
own DR.. B. W. Kilgore.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-06

Since our last issue a copy of DR.. @. Alphonso
m;+o,s Grammar" has reached us. While we
-oEa no pretensions to that critical knowledge
Ibicb is essential to a proper review of a work
" this character, our opinion is that it is an I'M
usually valuable textbook We are especially
impressed with the beauty and freshness of the
literary selections which re-use to illustrate
.bo numerous rules and principles of grammar.
In geographical appearance also, the book is all
that could be desired.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-06
An Articulated' System of Education for Country
Youth.

Youth.
The proposed plan of articulating consolidated
rural schools, each of which will cover an area
from three to five miles square; agricultural
high schools, each to cover nearly a dozen coun-
ties; and the agricultural college course in the
State university or State college of agriculture
and mechanic arts, will meet the needs of four
factors,-namely, the pupils, the teachers, the
courses of practical instruction, and the subject
matter to be taught. The fact that nearly every
farm boy and girl who has had the advantage of
a course of study in the Minnesota Agricultural
High School is not only enthusiastic in its
praise but desires to live on a farm, is proof
that the school has a faculty of instructors pc
culiarly adapted to its work, and that the plan
of the school and the available subject matter
are such that agricultural high-school educa-
ton succeeds and meets the need. While the
home, the consolidated rural school, and the ag-
ricultural high school train for the farm and the
farm home, there is large need for teachers, ex-
perimenters, writer's, and other specialists with
higher training, such as is supplied in the col
lege course in agriculture. The proposed sys-
tenn of three articulated classes of schools needs
all along the line teachers broadly and techni-
cally trained. No doubt many of these teach
ers must be educated in existing high schools,
academies, and normal schools, which more or
less closely articulate with agricultural colleges.
From "Our Farmer Youth and the Public
Schools" by Prof. Willet M. Hays, in the Ameri-
can Monthly Review of Reviews for October.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-06

JoS or"nes know nothing of the satisfaction
MN win" "scorns delights and lives laboriOus
s'S' who can hold his head high and say he
49, earned his right to live, and whose death is
49, HOT d debt paid to nature, for he owes her
~ ns-hlcha Watson Glider, in October
Imperial press and farmer., 1903-02-21
Beef and lrriuatiOn.

One effect of the continued high price of beef is likely to be the open ing of the eyes of eastern public men to the need of rational land laws for the arid west. Hitherto the insuper- able obstacle to intelligent admins tration of the western land problem has been the invincible ignorance of the eastern congressman who must pass on the necessary laws.
 Such laws as have been passed have wholly ignored the physical and in dustrial conditions of the arid regions, and it has been impossible, until President Roosevelt recently opened the way, to secure so much as an in telligent hearing, The attitude of a large faction in Congress, headed by MT Cannon, who is soon to be speaker is even now simply desire to get rid of the whole western land problem by cedng the government lands to the states.
 After the people of the east find out by experience, however, that the high price of beef is not the creation of the beef trust, and can not be cured even by smashing the beef trust they will have brought home to them, as a mat ter of direct personal interest, the true reason why beef is high. They will find that the controlling source
Imperial press and farmer., 1903-02-21
Roosevelt on MatrimOny.

President Roosevelt is an emphatic believer in the biblical precept "in- crease and multiply" Himself the father of six children, he looks with alarm upon the tendency among Amer ican men and women to shirk the du- ties of married life, especially of motherhood. He has issued an earn est protest against this tendency. It takes the form of letter to Mrs. John Van Worst, joint author with Miss Marie Van Worst of the "The Woman Who Tolls" It is used as a preface to the book which will be pub lished early next week by Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co.
 The paragraph which especially at tracted the Presidents attention was one in which Mrs. Van Worst deplored the voluntary sterility of American born women. She declares that fecun- dity among them is less than in any other nation of the world, unless it be France, whose anxiety regarding her depopuaton we would share in full measure were it not for the foreign immigration to the United States.
 Immediately upon reading it Presi- dent Roosevelt wrote her, saying:
 ''I do not know whether I most pity or most despise the foolish and selfish man or woman who does not under stand that the only things really worth having in life are those the ac- quirement of which nominally means cost and effort.
 eff a man or woman through no
Imperial press and farmer., 1903-02-21

of beef is the range land of the west, and that the United States has no laws which even recognize the eX- istence of this land. There is no method by which this grazing land can be either purchased or leased, and there is no system of administration by which it can safely be used in com mon. The law assumes that it is az ricultural land, and provides for talk ing it up as such, by impossible methods in impossible holdings The result of this lawlessness has been the depletion of the range, until the number of cattle has fallen off 10,000,000, during the time that the population of consumers had increased 1O,OO0,00O. Naturally the re- suit is high prices, which will con tinue until the supply can be in creased or the demand decreased.
 When the irrigable land of the arid west is devoted to the raising of corn and alfalfa, and when a system is de- vised for attaching to each small ir- rigated ranch a range right sufficient for the general pasturage of as many cattle as that ranch can supply with winter and emergency feed, then the cattle industry of this country will be put on a permanent basis, and beef will be reasonably cheap The "beef trust" bugaboo is the best possible lobbyist in favor of reasonable land and irrigation laws.-Fresno Republi- can.
Imperial press and farmer., 1903-02-21

ervoir will furnish sufficient water for a population of 100, ,000, and it is believed that it will much more than pay interest on the cost of it's con struction.
 We have, on the borders of South ern California, a counterpart of Father Nile-a stream that has often been likened to the great river of Egypt which has witnessed so much that is interesting in the history of the world, The smile is quite ap- propriate, for, like the Nile, the Colorado brings down with it great volume of fertilizing material, build ing up, in it's lower stretches, won derfully fertile soil of unknown depth, There are at present about 200 government engineers surveying the irrigation possibilities of the Colorado River between Needles and Yuma. Should their reports be ia vorable, We shall doubtless soon see the inauguration of the greatest ir- rgation enterprise yet attempted in the United States. Then on the lower river, private enterprise has already done great things in taking out the fructifying water and creat- ing gardens on the desert. while, still farther down across the boundary line. yet more important and far reaching projects are under consid- eration.
 It is not at all improbable that, be- fore many years, the valley of the Lower Colorado hitherto regarded as comparatively worthless, will be yielding every year crops to the value of millions of dollars, and furnishing
Imperial press and farmer., 1903-02-21
No More Private Ownership.

The people of the State of Cali fornia want and will have no measure upon the statute books which will put them in the years to come at the mercy of water lords, as they have been for many years at the mercy of land lords.
 It is better to bear the ills we have than to fly to a measure that would put the waters of the State in the hands of a private ownership.
 If Smythe and Green are right-and no men in California are better quail fled to speak authoritatively upon this subject-the passage of the Works bill would raise up in California a crop of water barons who would be as great a curse to the progress of the
Imperial press and farmer., 1903-02-21
We, Also, Have a Nile.

A number of European papers, including the Gartenlaube, a popular German weekly, recently published illustrated articles descriptive of the Nile dam at Assouan, a gigantic piece of work that was formally opened on the 10th of last December This, as the journal referred to truly says, is worthy to rank alongside of the great Pyramids as mammoth exhibition of human enterprise. Unlike the Pyramids, which were built at vast cost of human life and blood for the glory of individuals, this great work has been constructed by paid labor, and will result in making homes for many thousands of people.
 The Nile dam upon which 12,000 people worked four years, and the cost of which was nearly $25OO0OO0, is two kilometers long and holds up a lake 175 kilometers in length. GA kilometer is nearly five-eighths of a mile.) The water is let out through five flood gates to irrigate land that has hitherto been uncultivated on ac- count of the lack of water. The dam, massively constructed of stone is thirty meters Ca meter is 39.37 inches) in height, and is the largest structure of the kind in the world. in order to facilitate navigation on the Nile, it was necessary to con- struct, on the left bank of the river, canal 1900 meters long and fifteen meters wide. This canal is supplied with four flood gates. The big res
Imperial press and farmer., 1903-02-21

State as were those who not so many years ago owned leagues upon leagues in the richest valleys. For the time is right at hand in California when the men who owned the water will have the death grip at the throat of the men who think they own their little patches of land. The man who controls the water will be the master; the man with the land, the toiling servant.
 This paper cannot conceive of any legislature so disloyal to it's trust that it would turn the waters of Cal ifornia over to private ownership, and thus leave a whole state forever at the mercy of a plundering band of water rds.-Sacramento Bee
Imperial press and farmer., 1903-02-21

fault of his or hers, goes through life denied those highest of all joys which spring only from home life, from hay ing and bringing up many healthy children, feel for them deep and re- spectful sympathy-the sympathy one extends to the gallant fellow killed at the beginning of campaign, or who tolls hard and is brought to ruin by the fault of others. But the man or woman who deliberately avoids mar riage and has a heart so cold as to know no passion and a brain so shal- low and selfish as to dislike having children, is in effect a criminal against the race and should be an object of contemptuous abhorrence by all healthy people.
 THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
Imperial press and farmer., 1903-02-21
Subdiyiding Ranches.

Southern California has prospered by the subdivision of it's great ranches. It could have prospered in no other way. It is now prosperous only in those places where the once great holdings have been cut up into homes for an intelligent and thrifty people. The process is still goining on wherever ranches remain to which water can be conducted for irrigation. There are of course, large ranches still remaining in the hands of wealthy men, and a few of these are very highly cultivated by hired labor or by tenants. But they are blots on the southern civilization. They rep resent the European ideal of land lords and a peasantry, or more often
Imperial press and farmer., 1903-02-21

the Irish curse of absentee landlords living by the sweat of other peoples brOws. In so far as Southern Califor- mia is known as a desirable place to live in, it is as country of beautiful homes of American farmers.
 Northern California can become prosperous and contented only in the same way. It is now prosperous and contented only where as in Santa Clara county, the holdings are small and highly cultivated The counties of great landholdings are filled with discontent.-San Francisco Chronicle
Imperial press and farmer., 1903-02-21
A Work of Art.

We have received a booklet en- titled "An Album of the Imperial Set clement" the compliment of l.. M. Holt, and We will say that the feat ures of this book far exceeded any of our most liberal expectation and if facts as portrayed in this "album" will draw people the population of this settlement should take on a mar velous growth. The book is pro fusely illustrated with fine half-tones and from a typographical point of view is a work of art.-Highland Messenger
Imperial press and farmer., 1903-02-21

Joseph Whiting, superintendent of pile-driving for the Southern Pacific, who was here about two months on business for the company, left today for Old Beach in the Colorado Desert, to superintend the driving of piles for a bridge on the new road to Imperial. Los Angeles Times,
Imperial press and farmer., 1903-02-21

't v'os oot good time yOl had yes '~~F"v if it is the cause of today's Ncaaaoha
Imperial press and farmer., 1903-02-21

productive homes to hundreds of thousands of American citizens. Great, indeed, is the power of water in a dry land.-Los Angeles Times.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-16

A picture was taken the other day
of the duchess of Marlborough. 1t
showed her grace standing side by
side with Queen Alexandra, the latter
wearing a wheatcolored cloth dress
made up in English trotting style, the
skirt lust escaping the floor, the coat
a three-quarter length. buttoned all
the way down the front to the waist,
and one button below.
The duchess wore one Of those de-
liebtful little American checked silks,
showing yellow and black and reddish
brown for all the world the American
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-16
YELLOW THE AUTUMN TINT--Gol-
den Hue Will Predominant This Fall

silver gilt with everything under the
sun hung upon them.
Shoes that match the gown.
And like golden yod she win .ook
Tall and slender anG all arrayed n
tie ripened coicrs vi autumn, the girl
of fall VIII con.z tortH, brave and ready
il the waning season.
Very Smart for Autumn.
in nature it nay be the time or year
that is called the waning season, but
to the girl of fall it is tAe time when
size puts On fresh gowns. fresh mats
and, adding a smart little coat, or a
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-16
As to the Fall Coat.

The woman of fail will very ea.+- in
'he season have problem placed be-
fore her. She must decide as to what
she VIII wear and must definitely pick
out Aer coming style of dress. Whicn
vii! she wear-a long coat or short
one? Both styles are set forth and
she car look at them and take her
pick. They are equally in favor.
Many prefer the shorter coat.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-16

autumn colors. Both women wore gold
cnatelalnes and both wore shoes to
match their gowns They carried
brown silk umbrellas.
AS coming fashions cast their re-
Elections before them, it can be taken
Tor granted that the woman CT fall viii
wear neat little suit, skirt and coat
alike, and that the colors viii be in
the shades Of yellow And he,e are
some of the things for which you may
look
Narrow belts, made of patent leath.
er or dull leather, with gold harness
backle fer fastening.
Coat facings that are twice as bril-
liant as the coat itself and that show
great many c0lors embroidered,
stamped, brocaded and appliqued.
Skirts that are gathered or box
plated, tucked or accordion plated.
Plain skirts for those who cannot
wear the svelte styles
Sleeves that bell in strange ways
around the hand, cu1ging in unexpect-
ed places. but always below the elbow.
Buttons as large as SILVER dollars and
looking about like dollars with jewels
set in.
Big fiat jeweief studs, as large as
buttons, and arranged so that they
can be slipped out
Snowy chatelaineg of gold and of
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-16

so refined, whether in silk or cloth
or velvet or Yet IN wash goods.
Tie girl of fall realizes that, with
her wheat colors and her golden rods,
she must wear a bit of something
warming and tEat is why sne is Sc
locting coral red and tomato red to
set them off and why she is gong INTO
gold iewelry and picking cut bits OF
poppy color and blood red, both IN
iewelry and in embroidery,
Blue While a summer color, is also
coed in the fall. and uQo. many
gown there is suggestion of blue
trimming. il it be only in the underIay
OF lace hounee or in TIE folds of
the belt or in d few stitches Of the
lace and embroidery scheme.
II is possible TO go INTO great
many celors nowadays without LOCKING
oyerdressed and you can do much with
the materials that are provided for
you.
There is no sign that the many col
cred embroideries will go out of vogue
and no hint that the Persian stuffs and
the stufs fv6m Japan and from Ar
menia will lose their prestige. There
is something irresistibly fascinating
about oriental embrOideries and inser-
very rich and that lends them a value
not alVays their own.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-16

bewildering long one, prepared to
work fresh havoc with her admirers
and to win the eyes of Dame Fashions
approval.
Not even in the spring does she
make as showy an attempt as in the
autumn, for autumn is her home-cOm-
ing and for the next six months she
must create for herself a place in the
~ttil cf society or hold that which
SIZE has olrea>,y created. For. say what
sou will. society Judges people largely
BY heir manner of dress and the wo.
ran who is net smart soon drops out
Cf pace in the running
Tae autumn gIrl Will run to the gOl-
GA rod colors, chiefly because they
are becoming to her and also because
they are fashionable. In the golden
rod colorn a~e Al the golden red tones
from a deep red that is almost SUI
mach 70 bright yellow that IS al,
most straw color.
Wheat color is also coming in and
the ripe rich red Of the s',eaf of wheat
is something that * 1eing initiated IN
every known ca3ric.
Other colors that vii! be seen are
the burnt breads which are almost
reddish and the burnt biscuit tones
which are almost brown, AID besides
these there s tan aad ecra ana all
those pretty leather shades which are
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-16

Yet it cannot be said that the sho's
coat is the most fashionable garmen'
of the season, for just as you MANI
up your mind that it is so, behoiu'
you are confronted with the spec'"'
Gle of the new long coats and lmnie'
diately you are led to change yo"'
mind.
The situation has about resolved ~
self into the fact that all women h1uss
be provided with at least TWO so"'s'
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-10-23

and Miss Anna G. Newneyer OF this
city were married Wednesday in Walla
Walla by Rev. b. E. Utz of thaS atty.
Leakes Spokane Pocket Guide is
now out. Sale at all news stands.
Is cents each. with city map. ps
A petition in involuntary bankruptcy
has been filed against Gaskill & Sut
ton of Kettle Falls, alleging about
$4,000 liabilities.
Fine domestic and imported toilet
soap. Watson Drug company.
Frank Kelly, arrested as suspect
when he called at the county jail tC
see the trio of thugs who beat w. r
Parks at Marshall Junction few day
ago, has been released for want o.
evidence.
Easy Work soap-The largest cake
on the market for 8 cents. No fancy
wrapper-all soap.
Charles H. Wentz Of Wardner, Idaho
and Miss Kenzie Munro of Battl'
Creek, Mich, were married last nigh
at the home of C. w. Weber, l52 Coeu
d Alene avenue. The young couple vii
live at Wardner
II your liver Is a little off. drop II
at the Red Cross Pharmacy and ge
sample Laxative Liver Powders
i The Spokane Traction company ex