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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-03

Farmers associations should be organ
lied in every township. These associa-
lions, besides gathering and dissemnat-
ing information, would serve as agricul-
tural schools, and the experience and SUI
perior intelligence Of one farmer would
teach an inexperienced or less gifted
neighbor. What is said Of the tobacco
farmer applies with equal force to the
cotton, grain, stock, truck or general
farmer. The practical benefits to be de-
rived from farmers associations are too
many to enumerate.
An intelligent club Of farmers could use
only what their soils demanded and buy
their fertilizer in quantities, which would
be great saving. AS an illustration Of
the difference in wholesale and retail
prices. l will instance one. Acid phos
plate was offered in December, 1899, for
$3.50 a ton and sold at retail in May
1900. at $1,000 a ton
The difficulty of securing farm insur-
ance and the apparent Discrimination
against farm property should cause the
farmer to look TO himself for protection
and organize farmers mutual insur-
ance companies, but these companies
should be upon conservative business
principles and so safe-guarded as to make
the risks absolutely solvent
1t is wise and advisable for the town
ship organizations to have a benevolent
feature, and upon the death OF a member
to collect not more than one dollar each
from its members to pay to the widow
or dependent minor children of the de-
ceased member. but in no case for this
amount to be above three hundred dol
lars.
A non-political. agricultural newspaper
would be a valuable aid and educator to
the farmers Of North Carolina. and
should be established.
For a generation the power and influ-
ence Of the farmer has been waning IN
North Carolina four-ffths Of our people
live by agriculture. but they are scatter
ed, unorganized. and do not exercise the
influence they should.
In the United States today more than
half OF its population live on the farm.
More than one-third of the people en-
gagged in gainful occupations" work on
the farms, and they have invested il
agriculture thirty billion dollars. or four
times that invested in manufactures
OF the appropriations of the last billion
dollar Congress the smallest OF the ger
eral appropriations was made to agri-
Cultures, 20S, 960-when the products OF
agriculture amount to five billion dollars
annually The business interests" of the
country are organized and are legislats1
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grows seventy-hve per cent of the bright
tobacco made. Such a combination of
farmers for even that small territory may
be ridiculed, but it is possibility, and
necessity may force them to it. The to-
bacco crops of 1900 and 1901 were short,
so it was reasonable to hope that with
worldwide prosperity. expanding mar
kets, increased demand and an average
crop last year, profitable prices would
prevail.
We want information and a full and
free discussion of the situation in all it's
phases, especially in relation to produc-
ton. consumption, local cooperation,
factories, markets, etc Steps should be
taken to curtail the acreage, if possible
and endeavor to restrain the great
planting which it appears will be made
in 1908, and which must have a depress-
ing, if not destroying, effect upon prices
Some system must be devised by which
accurate information can be obtained
from the various counties as to area
planted. yield per acre. proportion crop
marketed. class of tobacco raised, the
amount of and kind of fertilizer used, etc
Some Of the estimates of yield for
North Carolina seem high, and doubtless
much tobacco is counted several times, a 9
it is sold and resold ON the several mar
kets in this State and Virginia before it
Is exported
These statistics can be gathered by leg
islation, supported by the hearty coop
Grafton of the State and National De-
partments of Agriculture and with the
aid of the farmers associations. BY he
ing we'll organized and informed as to
true conditions we can act intelligently
and control acreage and production, and
incidentally prices.
With the increased demand for tobacco
and higher prices for manufactured to-
bacco. and with a short supply, no com
bination or combinations can be suff
GENTLY strong to absolutely control
prices. The acreage of 1902 was unusu-
ally large but the crop not alone above
an average.
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fStaff Corresnondence.


Rocky Mount. N. c.. May 2.-The meet
ing of the tobacco farmers held here yes
day was a great success in every way
The attendance was large. Of the most
successful tobacco growers in this fine
tobacco section of the State. AS Presi-
dent Of the Farmers Protective Associa-
tion the chief speech was made by Col.
Cunningham. He said:
Mr. Chairman. My Fellow Farmers and
Fellow Citizens
I noticed a few days ago that over 600
negroes left one county to go North to
work in the brick yards. and in fact we
hear it from every part of the state that
the negroes are leaving for the public
works and railroads They go off in the
spring time and come back during he
winter There are few of them who reap
any benefit or reward by what they terIG
high wages. because all Of the money
which they receive they spend in lavish
way which is detrimental to them. as they
not only lose their work. but il is iniu-
rious to them physically and mentally. II
is well known fact that the white peo-
pie of the South are the best friends of
the negro race.
l read an account a few days ago where
a mob hanged a negro to a tree in Illi-
nois and riddled his body with bullets.
After accomplishing this a bloody riot
took place and many negroes were shot
and the tents of the negroes were burned.
In the same paper we see an account
where race trouble breaks out in the In
dian Territory. There were some negroes
who set up in business in the Indian Ter
ritory. Their stores were destroyed with
dynamite. Posters with pictures OF the
negro hanging were put on the door We
read in the same paper that Bloomington,
Illinois also had case. A lot OF mask
ed men took a negro man and whipped
him with barbed wire and struck him
with brass knueks in the eye, but still
the colored people of the South seem to
be inclined to emigrate and to go to 9TH
er sections of the country where they
feel that they have the sympathy and
the good will of those in distant sections.
If the colored people were to settle down
and go to work and save what they make,
they would find in short time that they
would sbe prosperous in this section and
that they would bring peace, comfort and
happiness to their families. The people
Of the South spend millions of dollars to
educate them, and we find now that the
land property of the white people is taxed
in the South to educate their families,
when so many Of them come back during
the winter season when the weather is
cold and spend their time in the South
and when the summer time comes a
great many IT them pay little regard to
their contracts and they leave without
any cause or reason and go North and
West to work upon the public works to
the different towns and cities, only to re-
turn during the winter season. The fact
that they violate their contracts causes
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a great loss to the farmers who lay their
plans and who prepare their lands and
incur numerous expenses to make crop
during the year. This is the great prob
lem which faces the people not only In
this State, but in other States. I am
firmly of the opinion that our people
must organize to study these questions
Unless they do, when necessity brings
them to it, the loss to them will be very
great; and there is another thing which
we must study and that is labor saving
machinery. Our people must diversity
their crops and raise their own supplies
at home. It has been clearly demonstrat-
ed to our people beyond the shadow Of
doubt, that the only hope of our State is
in the Investigation of our crops. Dur
ing the present year our agricultural
people have been unable to do anything
on account of the continued rains and
think that this is one Of the strongest
proofs that we should grow wheat, oats,
tobacco, cotton, vegetables and corn, be-
cause it is a fact that where we diversl-
fly we are less liable to lose all crops,
than we are one crop.
New England has for years flourished
and made hundreds Of millions of dollars
by law. The United States Congress has
before and since the war protected their
manufactured goods, and from this bounty
they have reaped immense fortunes.
The great West today owes largely its
success to land grants and to the United
States Congress for bounties allowed by
the general Government. Our young men
from North Carolina and other Southern
States. seeing the opportunity afforded
them by the Government, have left their
Southern homes and gone West. The
South was devastated by our Civil War
and did not share in these vast bounties
from the general Government.
The question of taxation today is being
considered by our conservative and think
ing men. Previous to 1900. for some
years, our products were low. The adj
vance in cotton and tobacco found eli
things that the farmer had to buy much
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-03

annoyance because they are so per-
sistent and unsightly and detract so
much from ones personal appearance.
Middle aged and old people and
those whose blood is contaminated and
tainted with the germs and poison Of
malaria or some previous sickness, are
the chief sufferers from chronic sores
and ulcers. While the blood remains in
an unhealthy, polluted condition heal
ing is impossible, and the sore will
continue to grow and spread in spite of
washes and salves or any superficial or
surface treatment, for the sore is but
the outward sign Of some constitu-
tioual disorder, a bad condition of
the blood and system which local
remedies cannot cure. A blood purifier
and tonic is what you need. Some
thing to cleanse the blood, restore its
ton and invigorate the constitution,
S. S. S. reaches these old chronic S
the very root of the trouble and counte
the impurities and poisons, and gradua
strengthens the sluggish circulation, a
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-03
Sores
Eating Ulcers, ap6 son tbs sy .5a1R

Nothing Of much trouble
located
and sluggish gangrenou eating fghtiul sight
and the poison burrows deeper
continues to SPREAD
the strength out with the sicenng
and deep offensive ulcers often develop from simple boil swollen GLAND
bruise or pp and threatening always because while iii
such sores are not cancros great you
suspicious OF all chronic, soweang
in your family Face common and cause the greatest
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-03
SORES ON BOTH ANKLES.

Gentlemen: About ten years ago q
small sore came on each Of my ankles.
lew got into the places and they be-
came large, eating ulcers, and suf-
fered intensely for nearly ten years.
had spent more than $4,000 try-
ing TO get well when I CHANGED 70
sec s. s. s. advertised in a Memphis
paper. I began to take it and was
cured. ny limbs have never been
sore or given me any pain at an
since. I have recommended S. S. 8.
TO great many people, and am now
giving it to my nine-year-old son for
Eczema. During my long sickness I
was living near Memphis, Tenn, but
have since removed to Kansas City,
and am now residing at No. GA
East Sixteenth Street.
hrs. B. A. HARRIS.
Kansas City, Mo.
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lost properties, quicken the circula-
and S. S. S. is just such a remedy.
ores through the blood. It goes to
racts and removes from the blood all
lily builds up the entire system and
nd when the blood has been purified
the system purged of all morbid,
althy matter the healing process
IS, and the ulcer or sore is soon
ely gone.
S. S. contains no mineral or poison
rugs of any description, but is guar
d a purely vegetable remedy, a blood
and permanent cure for chronic sores
sore of any kind, external or internal,
i'll advise you without charge. Book
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-04-18
ARE GOING TO TAKE
TRIP To COLUMBUS.
The Schools Have Arranged
to Go.
THE CHURCHES NOT INCLUDED
Public Schools to Picnic at Wildwood
On May Ist Excursion VIII Be
Open To All and Great Crowd
viii Go That Day.

Arrangements were finally complet-
ed Yesterday for the annual picnic of
the Americas public schools. May
1st. is the cate selected, and Wildwood
park in Columbus the place of this
festive occasion, Supt. j. E. Mathis,
of the city schools, has secured a re-
duced rate from the Seabosrd Airline
for the hundreds of pupils and their
friends, and fully one thousand people
will leaye Americas on that bright
May morning upon pleasure bent.
The schools will go by the morning
passenger train leaving here at a. IN.
This train will be held three hours in
the afternoon, leaving Columbus at 5
o'clock and arriving here at 1880 p. m.
A rate of ST. for adults and so cents for
children has been secured. The Sun
d 4y schools will not Officially" unite
with the public schools III the picnic,
but as all the Sunday school children
attend the public schools it really
amounts to the same thing, The Sun
day schools, it is understood, Swill have
big union picnic at a later date, the
time and place not yet being agreed
upon. But the Columbus excursion
comes first, and will be a great occa.
sion.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-04-18
ELKs RETURNING TO AMERIcUs
Antler Wearers Report Big Time In
VaIdosta

To the qualification of their numer-
GUS friends here, the Amer1cus delega-
ton of Elks to the Valdosta state re-
union are all safely back in the corral
and the gate shut. The dozen dele
gates attending report a magnificent
trip and royal entertainment in VAL
dosta. Exalted Ruler G. Ii Fields
and former Exalted Ruler e. A. Frick
er were honored by election to Offices
in the state grand lodge. Col Cssw
ford Wheatley was given an enthuslas.
tic reception upon his arrival at Val
dosta. He was supposed to have Gus
tody of the goat belonging to the
Amerlcus Lodge, whereupon a com
mittee of Elks hooked eighteen pun
gent and petuIant 'bilIies" to a tin
wagon, met Col. Wheatley..at the depot
and drove him to the lodge room in
royal style amid the blare of trumpets
and bleats of the horned steeds.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-04-18
COUNCIL IN LENGTHY SESSION
Disposes of Much Business of Rou-
tine Nature.


full board of aldermen, with May
or Hawkins in the chair, disposed of
considerable routine business at last
nights meeting of the city council,
and the session was strung out several
hours.
Tue council agreed to pay Mr.. r. L
Mcleod $50 in settlement of damages
to property by reason-of grading street
ia front of his residence.
Sexton Gliding is to be furnished
water at his residence, free of charge
by the city in future.
P.D. Hill former sexton, was paid
500 for the map and book made by
him, showing the location of all graves
in Oakgrove Cemetery. This informa-
ton is invaluable to citizens of Ameri-
Gus.
Mr.. Thomas Harold asked for q
brick sewer on Forrest street.
The street committee recommended
the grading of Jackson street, and
SAVJ AUbOAAOJ AunPhAA WAL S0OA3t
the proposition of Council to the Sea-
board Railway, which proposes to con-
tribute the amount of gravel that will
be needed.
BY order of council, the Pantone
light will be put in new location at cor
ner of Hudson and Lamar streets.
Extra hands will be employed next
week in cleaning up OakgroYe Gene.
terry for Memorial Day. Mayor Haw-
kins will appoint committee of al
| dermen to meet and look after the
wants of the Macon Volunteers.
In the bills ordered paid was that OF
$500 for the new horses purchased fol
the fire department..
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-04-18
OWL CAUGHT ON A FIsHHooK

Queer Catch Made BY a Fisherman
Yesterday.
Muckalee creek has given up some
rare specimens in the way of hide, hair,
scales and feathers to the hunters and
fishermen who throng it's banks twelve
months of the year, but John Speight
made the prize pull yesterday IN the
capture of a monster horned owl on a
sethook. Mr.. Spelght had left the
hooks out of the water the night be-
fore, one of them being baited with a
small fish. The owl had swallowed
the fish and hook and in its terror
thereat, fell in the creek and was
drowned, Mr.. Speight finding his
queer catch yesterday morning.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-04-18
a Sweet Breath

Is never falling sign of a healthy
stomach. When the breath is bad the
stomach is cut of order There is nc
remedy in the world equal to Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure for curing Indigestion
dyspepsia and al stomach disorders.
Mrs. Mary S. Orick of White Plains,
KY, writes: 81 have been a dyspeptiC
for years-tried all kinds of remedies
but continued TO grow worse. By the
use of Kodol [ began to Improve al
once, and after fading few bottles an
fully restored in weight, health anC
strength and can eat whatever / like
KodoI digesis what you eat and makes
the stomach sweet. w. A. Rembert
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-04-18
Dreadful Attack of Whooping Cough.

Mrs. Ellen Harrison, of 300 Park Ave.
Kansas, City, Mo-, writes as follows
Our two children had severe attack
of whooping cough, one of them in the
paroxyism OF coughing would often
faint and bleed at the nose. We tried
everything we heard of without getting
relief. We then called in our family
doctor who prescribed Foley's Honey
and Tar, With the very first dose they
began to i'm prove and we feel that it has
saved their lives. Refuse substitutes.
Eldridge drugstores.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-04-18
ADAMS DIsPosEs OF CHILDREN

Makes a VIII In Which They Go to
Relatives
Having disposed of his small proper
ty and worldly effects some time ago
Monroe Adams had regularly execu-
ted will drawn up yesterday morning
wherein he disposes of his four or five
children. These are called by name
and all are ''giYen and bequeathed" to
his mother, Lucretia Smothers. The
Oldest living child is a daughter of
fourteen, Adams having murdered his
first born, for which crime, with that
of the murder of his wife, the brute
will swing next Wednesday. The will
executed yesterday "revokes all other
wills, and his last will and. testament.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-04-18
Chronic Bronchitis Cured.

Forsten years had chronic bron.
chitis SO bad that at times [ could
rot speak above Whisper" writes Mr..
Jos eph Coffman, of Montmorenci, Ind.
81 tried all remedies available, but
with no success, Fortunately my EN-.
ploYer suggested that I try Foley'f
Honey and Tar. It's effect was almost
miraculous, and am now cured of the
disease. On my recommendation many
people have used Foley's Honey and
Tar, and always with satisfaction" El.
bridge dIugstores.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-04-18
Silk MOuSS0Iire De Sole.

Silk MousseIine De Sole in pink
and light blue; worth 35c, at 25c.
One lot Silk Mousseline De Sole,
in pink, light blue, nile, white,
yellow and linen with embroider-
ed dots; worth soc; specially priced
at 35c.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-04-18
A Great Sensation.

There was a big sensation in Lees
Vile, lad. when W. II. Brown of that
place, who was expected to die, had his
life saved by DR.. Kings New Discovery
cor Consumption. He writes: II en-
dured insufterable agonies from Asth-
ma but your New Discovery gave me
immediate relief and soon thereafter eff
fected complete cure. Similar Cures
of Consumption, Pneumonia, Bronchito
is and Grip are numerous. It's the
peerless remedy for all throat aud lung
troubles. Price SOC, and $1.00. Guar
anteed by the Edridge Stores. Trial
bottles free.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-04-18
Due Notice Is Served.

Due notice is hereby served on the
public generally that DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve is the only salve on the
market that is made from the pure,
unauthorized witch hazel, DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve has cured thousands
of cases of piles that would not yield to
any other treatment, and this fact has
brought out many worthless counter.
teits. Those persons who get the genu-
inc DeWitt's Witch Hazel salYe are
never disappointed, because it cures.
w. A, Rembert.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-04-18
SUNSHINE is PLENTIFUL AGAIN
Americus is Again Kissed BY Sunshine
Breezes.

For the third or fourth time since the
advent of the flying ant, the ground
hog, the swallow and other advance
agents of spring appeared in Amerlcup,
overcoats were RELOCATED to the moth
chest Yesterday under the solemn
promise that summer had taken off her
wraps and was here to stay. The
scorching winds and chilling blasts
that have been running foot races here
for week were no longer in evidence,
and sunshine followed in their wake.
Much injury has been done by the re-
cent cold snap, butvegetation will soon
revive under the influence Id Sol'a
f9r1ent glances. Away with icicIes aud
overcoats; and send US instead the
plebian blackberry, the watermelon and
the straw berry festival.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-04-18
CROWDS GOING FROM AMERIcUs
To Attend the Chautauqua Session
Next Week.

To Attend the Chautauqua Session
Next Week
While Americas has always sent
hundreds of visitors to every assembly
of the Georgia Chautauqua at Albany,
the throng going next week will be
the largest of any previous season.
The session opens Sunday, Goth. and
continues until May 3rd-one week OF
sp endid entertainment. The Ameri-
Gus Light Infantry will, of course, go
down on Governors Day, which is
Tuesday, 28tb. and the big attendance
of the week will be there on that date.
A rate of one fare round trip has been
allowed, as heretofore. Albany is
making splendid preparation for the
Chautauqua session and the programme
of the week this season will be the
finest yet offered.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-04-18

For liver troubles and constipation
There's nothing better In creation
Than Little Early Risers, the famous
little pills
They always effect cure and saved
d ctors bills.
Little Early Risers are different from
all other pills. They do not weaken
The system, buF act as a tonic to the
tissues by arousing the secretions and
restoring the liver TO the full perform
ance or It's functions naturally. w. A.
Rombelt.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-04-18
A Boy with Backbone

When a boy or girl asks his married sisters,
cousins and aunts to save him the "sec-
tons" from "GOOD LUCK" Baking Powder
cans, and finds any one of them isn't using
GOOD LUCK" he should insist upon her try
ing It at once, and tell her that it has larger
sale in the South than all other Baking Powders
combined; thatit contains the Highest Leaven-
ing Power and is Pure and Wholesome. He
shouldn't let up until she orders it,
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Makes a Clean SWeen.

There's nothing like doing thing
thoroughly. OF all the Salves you ever
heard of Bucklen's Arnica Salve is the
best 1t sweeps away and cures Burns,
Sores, Bruises, Cuts, Boiis, Ulcers, Skin
Eruptlons and Piles. It's only 25c, and
guaranteed to give satisfaction by the
Eldridge Drug Stores.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-04-18

. .EverybOdy's Buying Now.

The Spring buying season is fairly opened, and this
makes strong bid for share of the selling just
how big this share will be depends largely upon the honesty
and variety OF its merchandise and the economy of It's prices
constant watchfuness your best interests
responsible for the steady growth oths business and
never keeny alert than right You'll
find profitable In eAer way do your Spring Quitting