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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-02-27

George Washington knew that the
duties OF peace are OF vital Importance
and farreaching in their results. AS
president elect he lifted his hand over
the opened Bible and promised to up
hold the constitution of the United
States with as solemn q consecra ton
and reverence as when he drew his
sword as the commander Of the Revo-
iutionary armies. He knew that the
work OF the pen was just as important
as the work OF the sword. On his way
to inauguration he made this sugges-
tive entry I'm bis diary: april IS, 1889
About 10 o'clock I babe adieu to
Mount Vernon. With a mind oppressed
with more anxious and painful sensa-
tons than i have words TO express /
set out for New York. with the best
disposition to render service to my
country. but with less hope OF answer
Ing its expectations" AS he stood
taking last farewell OF his beloved
Potomac and with anxious eyes tr!cc
to look into the future George Wash
ington fully realized that his acts a,
nrst president OF thc E,.Ited S'.,c
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-07-07

centrated or chemical fertilizer ap-
piled to the soil year after year, and
the land cultivated in cotton or other
hoed crops so that the land is left
bare In the winter, will soon exhaust
the best land. In order to raise good
crops heavier application is made
every year and a cry goes up that
fertilizers are not so good as they
used to be. Now the cause of this is
not in the fertilizer but in using up
the vegetable matter in the soil. A
man can take a glass of whiskey and
it will make him feel stronger and
he can do more work for short time,
but it is necessary to increase the
quantity in order for it to have the
desired effect until the man is ruined.
So concentrated fertilizers, used as
stated above, will affect the soil. The
remedy is rotation and increasing
the humus in the soil. This is the
secret of that lady's success.
HARRY FARMER.
Columbus Co., n. @.
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The Prevention of Hog Cholera.
Editor of The Progressive Farmer:
Columbus Co., N. @.

ho1Lor OF Ine Progressive FARMER:
As so many of our farmers are in
creasing the number of their pure
bred hogs, it is well to remember
that hog cholera is still in the land.
Twenty-Five years ago I was raising
hogs in the rich corn country of
Illinois. One year, the two counties,
Champagne and Iroquois, lost some
thing like million dollars worth of
hogs. The farmers we're distracted.
We tried everything; at last bought
at a high price the following recipe
(Which / have taken pleasure to give
the farmers). After its use very
little hog cholera ever prevailed in
that section. It is also very useful
as healthy condiment or for kidney
worms, etc.:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-07-07

Mr.. r. D.. Martin, who conducts
the agricultural department of the
Gastonia Gazette, writes The Pro
gressive Farmer as follows:
Cotton has developed very slow
". There are hundreds of acres of
cotton not twelve inches high. No
limbs or squares yet. Last year
blooms were plentiful by the 25th of
June. / have heard of no blooms yet.
The farmers think the first blooms
in this section will be about July 15.
The crop is three weeks later than
last year. The plant to-day is the
smallest ever known at this date. The
corn prospect is fairly good"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-07-07

- = $1,000 O0GuAOoy GNCAAAS 4AnSAHSS'
Editor of The Progressive Farmer:
The weeks work is finished. The
farm work has been pressed; it is
so much better to drive the work,
than to let the work drive us. We
take a reasonable task, do it to the
finish, and then rest.
Work-rest, these are grand words
fraught with a meaning high as
heaven. None can rest but he who
works. It is so sweet to rest. Our
Father worked, then rested; it is
the order of heaven as well as Of
earth. We look around us this even
ing to see if the work has been faith
fully finished; the minute, varied,
duties of the farm carefully carried
out. Sweet potatoes worked before
they got grassy; cotton clean; corn
tasselling out prettily and so green;
tomatoes ripe and luscious, gathered
for tomorrow; peaches and apples
all in store for rest day, and pre-
pared as far as possible for Sunday.
No hot dinners for Sunday haunt the
minds or burden the hearts of our
household.
Things are not perfect here-no,
not by long difference. There is
that three-acre piece of oat stubble
that was to be broken and sown to
peas this week, not touched; ground
too dry to plow it. So we took the
weeds out of the corn and laid it
by, and this compensates for the
failure to turn the oat sod. The hens
are trying to set and we only had
five dozen eggs for market instead
of eight or ten dozen; but they are
up three or four cents and that is
not bad. Our old COW has got down
to one and a half gallons of milk a
day, but the young one comes in next
week fresh and promising, SO the
cream bowl will not be empty.
Some one says, "These nights are
getting awful hot" Well, we just
think that cotton is doing its best
these hot nights, and that is quite a
compensation.
We leave the farm this week, full
of gratitude for the wonderful privi-
lege of living, working and resting
on the farm, it's wondrous variety
for heart, head and hand culture, it's
consultations, it's real satisfactions.
No other work affords so great va
riety as does farm work, and no other
affords rest so sweet. Just the
thought that after Sundays rest we
look on the fields and patches and
find the work going on; yes, the
farmers work goes on while he rests.
Melon vines longer and melons
larger; that peach tree that yielded
up all it's ripe fruit to-day, will have
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Number 22.

more red, luscious and palatable by
Monday. That little cucumber, only
two inches long this morning, will be
six inches long next week and ready
for use or sale. So Natures labora-
tory is at work down in the ground,
up in the air, rain, sunshine, wind,
all move the farmer forward in his
work.
Owe envy not the banker, nor any
indoor wok,
We'd rather sweat behind the pillow
than sit as Office clerk"
We think as we muse this evening
that no farmer can really enjoy his
work without reading the current
news and learning what other people
are doing. A farmer needs about
three agricultural papers, three liter
ary and three religious, and of course
his local paper. And this farmer has
the number as above and even more.
We like plain living and high think
ing.
We love to mediate, review. Yes,
last Sunday was review day in the
Sunday-school. Every day should
have its review. That man is losing
ground who does not take time for
a few minutes quiet, careful,
thoughtful, prayerful review. It
helps the man and often helps those
around him.
We followed Paul in our review
last Sunday-the grandest man
among men, the noblest Roman of
all. He could face a Jewish mob,
command a ships crew or lie in
Roman dungeon and write one last
loving letter to his son Timothy.
It will help us as we close the
book of life some Saturday night
and retire from the scenes that sur
round us here, to awake in the glo-
rious eternal Sabbath of rest that re-
mains for all Gods children who have
toiled on, followed on faithfully, till
the Master says, "Come up higher"
d. L.
Craven Co.. N G.
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Craven Co.. N. G.

Mr.. Editor, I know that I will
enjoy reading your most excellent
paper with more pleasure when I
have paid for it, SO I herewith en-
close you check for $3.50 to pay one
years subscription, from April 1903,
and for a copy of DR.. Burkett's
Feeding Farm Animals" Every
farmer in North Carolina should be
a subscriber to your paper.-Jno.
Knox Hughes, Sheriff Orange Coun-
ty, N. @.
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Volume XVIII.
HARRY FARMERS TALKS.
CXXVI.

Editor of The Progressive Farmer:
We met a lady few days ago who
has succeeded in farming, and know
ing the land well, we asked her to tell
Just how she managed to increase the
crops on such poor land. Just listen
"I commenced rotating the crops and
using some acid phosphate, kainit
and cotton-seed meal, about 200
pounds of each of the two first named
and 100 pounds of the latter. / use
this under cotton and get over a bale
to the acre. When I begun I made
one bale on three acres. l bought a
subsoil plow and broke the land deep.
l keep the land we'll stirred in the
summer. l have used several varie-
ties of cotton and-de not find much
difference in them. The cluster cot
ton does not mature the bolls near
the top if the weather is dry. I have
tried some of the improved grasses.
| succeeded in making one good crop
of hay, but do not think it at all GER
tain. | want a shredder. I think it
would be nice. If we had the stock
law it would save me a lot of money
that l spend now for posts"
Now the writer knows this land,
and used to hear just such remarks
as these about it: "That land makes
humble bee cotton" because it grew
so small, ''If it were mine, would
hill it up and let the cotton have an
other year to grow in"
CROP ROTATION
Her rotation now is corn, cotton,
oats and COW peas. We have often
told the readers of The Progressive
Farmer the Importance of rotating
crops, deep blowing and frequent cul-
tlvatlon during the dry weather in
summer. Part of this lady's land is
nothing more than a sand bed. IF
she can succeed so well under such
difficulties thousands of farmers can
certainly do as well or better. There
IS one thing she did not mention that
Is important: she did not try to cul-
IlV9tp foo y,,7,oI 1o-J
FERTILIZER AND HUMUs.
Did you notice that she used ton
OF fertilizer on four acres? To have
used only 200 pounds to the acre
would have resulted in about one
'nlrd the usual crop, not that that
amount of fertilizer alone would in
crease the crop 200 per cent, but it
"5lped to increase the other crops
which gave more vegetable matter
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-07-07

Editor Warner, of the Lexington
Dispatch, was elected president of
the State Press Association at its
meeting at Wrightsville last week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-06

dal-mired supporters Of the decadent mon
archy; details of Mrs. Dominis demands
for the heads Of her opponents; the Ameri-
can commissioners bargaining for
slightly less bloody program-aT this would
indeed have been read with avidity on the
mainland and would doubtless have pre-
cipitated the crisis much earlier than was
actually the case. 1t Is not difficult to
imagine the American public perusing these
reports with growing indignation over the
spectacle of an American President nego-
tiating with barbarlc ex-monarch for the
punishment of progressive white founders
Of a republic. OF course it would not have
changed history, for not even did the Sc
cret maneuverings of Mr.. Cleveland and
his paramount agent avail to stay the
course Of republicanism in Hawaii. But the
cable would have. checked the incident by
force Of the overpowering tide of public
sentiment which would have been raised by
the disclosures. The American people have
their good fortune to thank today that the
lack Of cable did not precipitate conditions
for which this country would have had
cause forever to blush in shame.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-06

ure and neglect. be prevented from partic-
ipating In the next presidential, state and
city elections and will reduce themselves
to the level of the lowest and most fgnor-
ant negro"
So, then, 1t has come to this: The very
men for whom the polling lists were re-
vlsed-and that, too. by unconstitutional
means; those for whom was reserved the
great responsibility of shaping the affairs
of the state; those whose position and edu-
cation, it was assumed, would improve the
tone of public affairs and insure better gov
eminent, are so Indifferent to their privilege
and duty that fully one-half of them in the
largest city in the south will not be heard
from at the polls. The reason? The poll
tax; and this, in an Individual case,
amounts to as much as the price of half a
dozen drinks of good liquor, or as many
cigars of a good brand!
The republicans made the first mistake In
the south. The wholesale enfranchisement
of the negroes fresh from slavery was
colossal blunder. The democrats made the
second mistake. Ballot-box stuffing and
forged election returns robbed the polling
booths OF the respect of everybody. When
the elections have not been tragedy they
have been a roaring farce. And yet, with
chaos come again, there are men twiddling
their thumbs and trying to persuade the
country that everything will work out for
the best along the lines of fraud and
apathy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-06
Home for National Relics.
From .he Minneapolis Times.

from me minneapolis Times.
The United States needs. and needs badly.
In Washington, a handsome and absolutely
fireproof structure in which shall be placed,
at once for public examination and safe
keeping, valuable relics of the nation. in
Guiding state documents that are historic
and portraits the value of which enhances
as years are added to our nations life The
agitation about Watts picture of "Love
and Life and its removal from the Cor
coran Art Gallery to the state dining room
Of the White House. may result in good.
1t has been found that in the White
House are numerous paintings that have q
historical value far beyond any intrinsic
worth they could possess though painted by
the greatest artists the world has ever
known. For lack Of space many Of these
have been relegated to obscure corners of
corridors and. while under the direct super
vision Of the President and his wife they
are now being hung on the line," as 1t
were. the embarrassments as to light, room
and position are serious. Every one who
has been in the White House knows some
of the portraits in question and how incon-
gruous many OF them appear in any Of the
rooms or corridors In which they could be
hung.
In the patent Office and elsewhere in the
departments. are relics of Washington and
other revolutionary heroes and, of higher
worth still. the original documents by
virtue of which the colonies proclaimed
their independence. The loss by fire, theft
or accident Of any of these would be ire
parable. We should have Hall of Records
or Of Relics that could, and would. be con-
stantly guarded. where thieves could not
break through nor steal; where moth could
not corrupt; where fire could not destroy
The public has a right to see these things
1t is impossible to admit the public at all
times to the White House. The Congress
sional Library that, 1t was at one time
supposed, would afford ample room for the
proper display Of these relics of the repub-
lie, will not be any too large for the pur-
poses for which 1t was mainly designed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-06

The daily receipt of news items from
Honolulu by cable starts a chain of MEM
cries running back for ten years or so. and
covering the stirring events of the revolu-
ton of 1893. and the subsequent events.
Suppose there had been a cable then! What
a difference 1t would have made! Week
old news would have been forgotten and
displaced instead of just startling the main
land. Accurate knowledge Of the situation
would have been had here instead Of the
incomplete knowledge permitted by DELHI
erately prepared reports. which. gaining cir
culation long before denial was possible.
produced an erroneous but lasting impress
sion on the public mind. Most interesting
of all Is the speculation as to what would
have been the fruits of the Cleveland
Blount enterprise. What interesting read
Ing It would have made for the American
public from day to day. Reports OF con-
ferences with Mrs. Domints by Mr.. Para
mount Biount: hobnobeinss with the soan-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-06
White Suffrage in the South.

When the movement for curtailing the
suffrage In the south was first inaugurated
its authors defended II on the score that it
was absolutely necessary to the we'll being
of that section. THE negroes" they as
serted. have no proper appreci of the
ballot They use it only for a little money
gain. They are not qualifying themselves
as time goes on for a responsible exercise
OF the voting privilege. They have never
felt the Importance or the sacred charact er
OF the polls We intend, so far as Ii may
lie In our power. to cut them off, and re-
serve the polling booths for those who will
approach them in the right spirit, and ex-
ercise their influence for good"
With this uoast. and with this declared
object In view. the work was done Laws
were drafted DISTINGUISHING the negroes by
wholesale. but dealing with the utmost lib
crafty with the ignorant white vote Here
and there a poll tax qualification was i'm
posed. but as this was only a matter of a
dollar or two no thought prevailed that any
white man would lose his vote as the result
What has been the result? Louisiana s
election laws were so framed. and the New
Orleans Times-Democrat, q leading demo-
cratic newspaper OF the south. says of the
situation under Its own immediate obser-
walton:
The apathy Of Louisiana voters IL
shown this year by the small number who
have paid their poll taxes. All the indica-
tons afo that very considerable proper
tlou OF the white votang population Of New
OrisaoS-asariy ons-AaifLWlll. BY their fan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-06
Tariff Reform-How Much?

The democratic leaders are generally
agreed that the tariff will be leading, if
not the leading, issue in next years cam
paign. They are preparing for the fray
with that idea very firmly fixed in their
minds. But what will be their demand in
the premises? How far will they propose
going in the matter of revising the present
schedules?
For years the democratic party was
known as the party of free trade Men like
Mr.. Watterson, Mr.. Mills, Mr.. Vest, Mr.
Russell Of Massachusetts and the late
Frank Hurd of Ohio all avowed free trade
principles. And they were very influential
in shaping their party's course on the tariff.
Mr.. WattersOn in two national conventions
defeated an effort to straddle the issue. He
insisted on a straightout declaration, and
got It. Mr.. Cleveand's success in 1884 was
achieved not so much because Of any spe-
clio declaration Of his party in Its platform
as because of the divided sentiment of the
republicans respecting Mr.. Blaine.
But in 1892 Mr.. Cleveland was elected on
platform which promised tariff reform. in
heroic form. At last. it seemed, we were
to have measure which should express
to the country the meaning Of sixteen years
Of vigorous tariff agitation. Ten thousand
leading editorials and twice that many elo-
quent stump speeches were to be written
into law. But Congress baked. The meas
ure that had been promised could not pass
that body. A great many people, 1t so
turned out, had been writing and talking on
the tariff question either without sufficient
knowledge of what the country wanted, or
what their party was able to perform
There were democrats who proved to be
as pronounced protectionists as any repub-
leans In commission and between them
they made a spectacle of the tariff plank
OF the democracy's latest platform. A
hodge-podge tariff bill which recognized
the principle of protection as distinctly as
the Mckinley bill had done was passed. and
the free traders We're routed
Nor have the free traders recovered their
old form. Nobody today is demanding free
trade. On the contrary. many of the men
who followed the free trade banner so long
are now declaring that the country will not
have free trade, just as they are declaring
that the country will not have free silver
But how much tariff reform do they now
propose? What is their line of thought on
that subject? How far away are they from
their position when they were challenging
the protected industries to a struggle to the
death? The tariff is undoubtedly a live
issue. and the time has come for bot
sides to be specific.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-06
Mr.. BRYAN Returns.

Mr. Bryan has returned to the United
States from Mexico and reports material
progress made by the Mexican people Ed
ucation and industry are greatly strength
ening the republic. He declines to discuss
the financial question, although it Is fact
that the very men who in public station
are doing so much for Mexico are just now
considering the advantages of the gold
over the silver standard and entertaining a
proposition to give their country the bene-
fit of the former. AS Mexico adds to her
wealth and comes into closer touch with
the great powers the advisability of adopt
ing their medium of exchange increases In
weight. May we not reasonably expect to
see at no distant day the Mexican finances
resting on a gold basis?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-06
A Renaissance.

Where's the girl, the charming lass,
Whom we greeted oft of yore,
When with timid grace she'd pass
To the center Of the floor,
And so Witchingly recite
''Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight?'
All, she was the village pet;
At the grand piano there
l can see her sitting yet,
Offering up THE Maidens Prayer"
But that didn't equal quite
"Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight"
No tragedian of today
Deep devotion can secure,
Strive and struggle as he may,
Like the lassie, so demure,
Who declared, in tones polite,
"Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-06
Ratify the Cuban Treaty.

1t Is most confidently predicted now that
the Cuban treaty will be ratified The OPP
position. we are told, while still uncon-
WINGED as to the measure, will not further
exert itself. If this is true. ratification
should be promptly accomplished. Here
are three strong reasons in the treaty
favor:
~ We owe to Cuba on sentimental and
moral grounds a market on advantageous
terms for her leading staple. We have prac-
tlcally made her dependent on us for fair
profit on her sugar crop. We have brought
her old arrangements to a close, and as
matters now stand they cannot be re-
established We are in the way of every
thing but freer trade between Cuba and
ourselves. Why then should we not bring
that about?
(2) In meeting these moral obligations we
will at the same time be forwarding our
own commercial interests. Cuba is no beg
gar. standing at the door with hat in hand.
She wants to buy as we'll as to sell, and
she needs our products as much as we need
hers. We shall increase our sales to her
very rapidly, and at no distant day should
supply nearly everything she imports. The
theme of the hour Is new markets, and here
is market which II we improve 1t properly
will be both new and profitable. Why talk
about reciprocity with any other country II
we are blind and Indifferent to Cuba?
(3) There is a sentiment in the United
States in favor of the annexation Of Cuba.
Some Of the foremost of our public men
would be happy to see the stars and stripes
waving over the island. But they would
not II they could force such a measure.
They realize that time alone can properly
influence the situation. The Cubans must
apply OF their own free will to share in our
destinies- And the better our treatment Of
them as neighbors the sooner they will be
likely to do that This treaty therefore pos
sesses every factor which the annexation
lists should wish to see employed in the adj
vancement of their hopes. For the reason
the Cubans are permitted to inspect the
opportunities of our system and the full ex-
tent OF its operations the more certain they
will be to desire to share in all of It's ben
efits.
The treaty is we'll drawn. Its terms are
reasonable. The advantages to both coun-
tries will be very great. Why not prompt
ratification? Why not close a chapter be-
gun four years ago in a spirit of sympathy
and generosity with an act at once gener
GUS and eminently business-like?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-06
Inconsistency.

There are people who haunt
Our lives with their rant.
Sometimes they say "cawn't,"
Then forget and say cant"