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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-25
The Passing of the Planter.

The Passing of the Planter.
In one Of his remarks before the farmers last
Wednesday, Prof. w. F. Massey knocked the word
"planter' into a last years bird nest. What mem
cries of ease and leisure, elegance and dignity
cluster about the word planter" the lordly old
Southern planter-to-day a fragrant memory.
The man who tries to raise but one CROP" said
Professor Massey, lis not a farmer, he is only a
planter. The future agriculturist of the South
must be a farmer, not a planter, must sell many
things, not one or even two" Professor Massey
made a fine suggestion when he said that each
farmer should have some specially, some one crop
towards which he makes all his others contribute.
1t may be hogs, or cattle, or cotton, or corn, or
hay, but it should be some one thing to develop
to the greatest extent, to take pride in, to make
money out of.
Aye, the planter has gone. Here and there may
be one, but he is in the passing. A man who has
been in every noog and corner of North Carolina
told the writer yesterday that wherever the great
big plantations formerly existed, land is cheap.
The big tracts are pr%oitless, because their owners
do not want to live on them and manage them,
and in the hands of tenants they do not pay. So
they are being broken up, falling to pieces of their
own weight, and the small farmer is stepping in,
buying the pieces, and beginning to farm, not
plant, doing his own work, making many things,
among them money.
The planter never existed to any great extent
IN Union County, and Union is comparatively a
rich county to-day. A little more town population
to give a firm market for fruit and truck, a little
more cattle raising and more hog pens, and we'll
be richer still. City and town population is an
overwhelming advantage to the farmers. 1t
gives them a firm market for diversified products.
a man who has travelled extensively over the
United States, coming especially in contact with
farm machinery, spoke highly one day last week
to the writer concerning Union County He
brought up the subject at the hotel table, and
said: "Union is in fine shape every way, and one
Of the best counties l know"
X
The planter has gone. He filled his place-a
grand one-in his day and generation. He was OF
uneXcelled stock, a magnificent race of people.
But the poor people about him under his system,
had no better opportunities than slaves. lis not
the great wealth of one man that makes a county
rich. 1t is the average wealth of all the people,
their producing capacity, that makes a rich coun-
ty. The new conditions open opportunities to
every man who has brains and energy.-MOnrOe
journal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-25

In his Study of Census Statistics Mr.. G.. 3.
Poe, of the Progressive Farmer, brings forward
some facts which are both interesting and sur
prising. For instance, the Abstract of the
Twelfth Census shows that North Carolina, in
point of population, manufacturing, and agricul-
ture, advanced more rapidly than any other
State. The rest of the Union will discover In
time that North Carolina is not the "tar-pitch-
a~nd-turpentine" commonwealth of fifty years
ago. The amazing development of the State in
population, manufactures, and agriculture is
only less significant and auspicious than the
awakened educational spirit. The State in It's
present growing condition cannot remain much
longer the younger child in the family of States.
Raleigh Christian Advocate.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-25

Some people are always grumbling because
roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns
have roses.-Alhponse Karr.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-25

Half the gossip of society would perish if the
books that are truly worth reading were but read.
Dawson
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
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THE CoNECAH ELECTION.
A Statement as to the Dispensary
 Fight There.

evergreen, July 10, l$O. Editor The Advertiser:
 this place in reference to the efforts by the officials of Evergreen and others to establish a dispensary in our town, which have a tendency to mislead.
 The officials of Evergreen made futile effort to have the present Legislature re- peal our present prohibition law, which we have had for number of years, and as we voted for the present prohibition law and there was a very large petition against its repeal and placing us again in favor of whiskey under the name of a dispensary. There were two bills de- feated, one to establish a dispensary in Evergreen and the other to leave 1t to vote of the county of Conecuh to say whether a dispensary\ should be located in Evergreen.
 During the recess our Representative, Dr. A. Jay died and the Governor ordered an election to fi,l the vacancy.
 The officials of the town of Evergreen primary ordered by the Democratic Executive Committee and those in favor of the dispensary selected their -candi- date and those opposed to the dispensary votd for Dr. R. T. Holland. pr. Hol- lands majority was 3S1. Our fight was to retain our present prohibition law which has been in force for more than ing to legalize the sale of whiskey. as shown by the vote in the primary cleo tion on the 11th of this month. It is reported that MT. J. M. Foshee may run agains our nominee, If he should do so he will be defeated as there would | nominee and MT. Foshee an independent candidate. Both gentlemen are opposed to the repeal of our prohibition law Subscriber.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16

are reached at an hour and moment which renders 1t extremely difficult even to get out the nimeograph sheets which fly to the telegraph companies and the press let alone doing anything else with them for the promotion of special interests.
 The Stories of Leakage"
 Today. at p. m.. the general crop re- port for the month was issued. Yesterday at p. m., not even MT. Hyde himself could have told what it would be when all the pa1ts should be put together Yet at that hour he was reading trade cir cular which told of tip" current on the Chicago Board of Trade at least two days before, that the Departments figures on corn would show a decrease of 100000 acres as compared with last year. The New York Cotton Exchange has had sim liar tips" for the last two months on its special product. MT. Hyde has learned to take these things very philosophically
 Hardly a month goes by without an experience of that sort in some quarter, he said. Tt may go all wrong nine times in succession, and every one forgets i-; but let som efellow make good guess the tenth time, and the whole community shouts: "A leak in the Department"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
A PLAIN AvowAL.

: The New Haven Register of last Sunday contained some extensive comments on the failure or refusal of the Georgia Legislature to enact a law regulating child labor. conclnding with this siEnifi- cant languaget
 We in Connecticut therefore, are in quite vital f6e n tne 69e fo onT business mems desire to make a little more profit through the advantage gained Iscome Rs la this Is ' evil in the South. brought about by this commercial greed Of our own Northern people. that propaganda some of the other Southern States to put an end to the condition. The selling or children into industrial bondages has lively legislative dispute as at present. Movements have been inaugurated to put an end to 1t. and to secure radical anti usual the reformerS have had to match pennies with the commercial element, with the result that. thus far. the cam. m usual setback which public reformers re- ceive when they run up against corposs rate or factional greed. The failure of not regarded as final. The campaign will go on until the desired end Is reached. In the ye here he fbn in New eyer n own Constitution to the conditions preva- lent in the South.
 The first thing to strike the reader in this connection is the open-almost shame less-avowal that the business men of New England are directly interested in. and benefited by, the inhumanity of the Southern people. This would be an anom- ally if none of the Northern mill men were interested in our own mills. If all the business men of New England kept their capital at home, invested entirely in their own mills. the Southern people by their system of child labor, which is an- other name for child slavery. could man. ufacture all cotton goods cheaper than could be done in the North, and thus practically drive the New England mills out of business.
 This is just where they take advantage of our system and inhumanity. By in- vesting largely in Southern mills, often controlling them. where they do not own them altogether. they make good profit out of the labor of our children. much to our own discredit. While these business men of the North. if they had no inter ests down here, would be glad of the abolition of this kind of labor, because that would raise .the- -price- -af goods and thus benefit New England, they do not want to see it discontinued as long as they can use it to manufacture goods cheaply. In plain words. the Northern men who own mills and factories down here are enriehing themselves by the la bor of our little ones.
 What The Register says about matching pennies is true The greed of the mill owners is matched against justice and humanity, and the former was able to dominate the Legislature of our sister State. We have no doubt that some of those same business men of whom The Register speaks had agents in Atlanta tc antagonize the reformers and to prevent relief for the children. How long will greed and inhumanity prevail?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
ANOTHER CLAIMANT.
Town Topics" Makes Good Claim to
 Origin of Cleveland Boom.

Chattanooga News.
 There Is considerable controversy be- tween q number of our esteemed contem- poraries as to who first suggested Grover Cleveland for the Presidential nomination The Brooklyn Eagle, New Orleans Pica- yune. Montgomerv Advertiser and Town Topics seems to have waited until the Eagle, Picayune and Advertiser had shown their hands and then quotes from its own columns to show that it was a year or two ahead of the whole pack, For example, on November 15, 1900 Town Topics contained the following references:
 Grover Cleveland, if his life and health be spared. will succeed Mckinley as Pres ident of the United States.
 Tn 1888 the politicians defeated Grover Cleveland.
 "In 1904 to whom will the people turn, that the Republic may be brought back to it's original simplicity of Government of the people, by the people, for the peo> pie?
 This is just two years earlier than any date the other claimants set up, and of course Town Topics wins first place.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
PIANO WRECKED BY HEAT.
Instrument Became Too Warm, and
 Exploded With a Loud Report.

Exploded With 8 Loud Report.
 Among hard luck stories the following as related by w. T. Richards, a New York piano agent deserves a place in the hall of fame:
 What company I represent is better left out" said MT. Richards in the Brown Palace Hotel. Anyhow, I am a piano man, and once a year make a tour of our branch houses throughout the coun- try.
 II was in San Francisco for a week. Every day, of course. I was in our branch house. woman who had been trying to buy tn instrument for several months was in at least dozen times. I became inter- ested in the sale, as she was lowering be- tween our make and another. She had arrived at this point. but try as she would she could not make up her mind. Every art of our salesmen had been exhausted and on the final day one of our men was standing beside the instrument she liked best.
 He had explained for the hundredth time it's merits. He went over the tone touch. style and other details again and again.He was playing with the keys touching them lightly, when all of a sud- den there was an explosion. It was like the roar of a cannon, fntermingling with the pealing of 100 guitars. A piece of
 
 | the smoke of the battle had cleared away we found the woman on the floor, in a dead faint. A bit of blood trickled down her forehead, while the salesman was pushed fiat up against an iron pillar. A nasty examination was made and we | found the piano had blown up-the first | incident of the kind, as far as know. Some way or somehow it had been keyed up to the highest pitch and the strings had given way. Later we found that the piano had been close to hot air shaft. The wood had dried out and the strings had stretched just that much more.
 When we got the woman back to life again she started in to talk. She claimed she had been damaged for life and swore she would enter a suit against us at once. I managed to settle by giving her an in- strument free of cost. We are out the damaged instrument and a second that cost us at least $500 to make.
 "The piano was a wreck, the top had been blown off and even one of the sides cracked by the force"
 MT Richards had a photograph of the wrecked instrument. He is taking it back | to the New York factory
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
NO WHITE PAINT FOR LIBERTY
Senator Cockrell Stops the smearing of the Statue on Capitol Dome.

Washington Special.
 The seventeen-foot bronze statue Of ho' erty surmounting the 6ome of the capi- tol is not to be painted white after &ll- at least at present Senator Coc!lrell of Missouri has few ideas of his own on art. It was a good, strouy protest on his part that stopped the painting.
 When Congress adjourned preparations were made to give liberty l coat Of white lead to remove the weather stains. ocaf- folding was built and workmen who know nothing of art except as applied with a whitewash began the job.
 Senator Cockreli was not in town when the work was begun. He only recently returned from St. Louis. He goes to the Capitol almost every day and when he made his second trip after his return he stopped a policeman.
 What are they doing up there?" he asked.
 "Paintin' the statue" was the laconic answer.
 Painting Liberty?' shouted the sena- tor. That beautiful bronze statute! What color?''
 White" answered the policeman. Somebody said 1t looked dirty"
 Then Senator Cockrell was mad. He walked out and, shading his eyes with his hand and looking at the white blur, fairly boiled with rage. StOp IL! StOp II! He put tHS workmen so high up paid no heed to him. The Senator went in and saw the Rep resentative of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, and demanded that the work be stopped
 Its an outrage to ruin that statue with white paint" he declared. If it isn't stopped immediately I'll make somebody suffer for it when Congress meets again.
 Senator Cockrell has some influence and orders were at once issued for the work to stop.
 Don't you let those fellows whitewash the grass or paint the trees white while I'm gone. either,' Senator Cockrell eau toned as he left.
 MT. Cockrell is one of the oldest mem bers of the Senate, and takes as much in- terest in the Capitol as in his own home. That is why Liberty has a coat of while paint only down to her waist line. Since Secretary Shaw had men shooting hot sand at the massive pillars of the Treasury Building removing the stains of age, there has been a desire to spruce up the buildings. But the Greasury looks worse than 1t did when it looked old and substantial. It was stated at the time that Secretary Shaw was going to paint the pillars white and put green blinds on all the windows; but he didn't. Age stains are good things for our buildings" Senator Cockrell believes and ] 1t looks as though somebody will have a | chance to climb up and use a barrel or so of turpentine removing the white paint from Liberty.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
HE'S FOUND THEM.

Dean Swifts somewhat fanciful sugges- ton that "a flea has smaller fieas that on him prev and so on, ad infinitem, is not such a poetic license after all If pr. Charles Stiles is correct in his reported discovery of a parasite which preys on and destroys mosquitoes He describes it as very fine, hairlike worm which he calls "agamo mermis culcicis,"-a big name for a small creature. and 1t must be exceedingly small, as 1t inhabits the internal economy of the mosquito. and. as Dr. Stiles declares. Kills millions of mosquitoes each year." r.
 All this is interesting, but not as much so as is the proposition, or the assump- ton. that nothing is now necessary but to discover a rapid and inexpensive man. ner of propagating the parasites in all To- calities where mosquitoes do much abound, and the thing Is done. How that is to be accomplished we have yet to learn. These infinitesimally small worms will not be easy to round up, we imagine. in quantities sufficient to plant very large preserve, though it Is possible that they multiply so rapidly that 1t will only be necessary to plant pair of them in a pond to produce a bountiful harvest in one or two seasons.
 But leaving out all questions of supply and demand we are exceeding glad that our old enemy has found something that can get the best of him. To say nothing of mosquitoes as disease carriers, they are an all-around nuisance. A swarm of hungry ones can put the heaviest strain on a mans piety and patience of any thing that flies or crawls, and we are proud to know that something has been found which will worry them as badly as they have worried us on various oc- casions. If we are troubled with them in I future, we shall buy or rent a pond and plant agamos in 1t for home consumption 1 and then tell mosquitoes to come across, if they dare. We'll meet 'em when the sun goes down, or at any other hour. and 1 fill 'em full of worms that they'll have no room or stomach for b-l-u-d.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16

q Boston girl to prefer the chances of broken neck to a soiled sleeve.
 Would it not be better to give the con ductors orders to wash their hands occa- sionally2 However. we suppose the Bos- ton ladies are too dignifed and precise in their movements to be in danger of in- turing themselves by jumping on or off moving cars.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16

Indianapolis must be a tough town, if We may judge from a speech recently made before the Bar Association, by an ex-Attorney General, who declared that from 300 to 800 pistols year are taken from the pockets of men arrested in this city" All these pistols are from men ac- tually arrested. Just what per cent of the population go armed and escape ar rest could only be conjectured. but if all their guns could be taken from them, the city would have to build special ar senal to hold them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
But Eggs Are First.
Ozark Star.

The Montgomery Advertiser and The Brooklyn (N. VI Eagle are chunking each other with bouquets; The Eagle very gracefully yields the honor of nom mating Grover Cleveland for President in 1904 to old grandma, while the latter as generously admits that The Eagle has done more to bring MT. Cleveland to pub lie notice as possible csnaidate sI ta Hoid are couated before you can boast of your brood of chicks.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
Is Passing Away.
Birmingham Age-Herald.

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 The false boom which has misled the people Is passing away, and the consum- CTS and plain. old-fashioned people are to have a chance. and they will back the party of correct principles and time-hon- ored methods. It is a mistake to say that MT Roosevelt will surely be elected. There is nothing sure in such changing times, and the Democrats have a golden opportunity before them if they will get together.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
Need of Improvements.

DOthan Home Journal
 There are yet many school houses that are hardly good enough for barns, in which parents should be ashamed for their children to be seen. And there are teachers who have passed the examina- ton. but who are without culture. and whose language in conversation or in writing would suggest that they have linn ited acquaintance with the best forms of speech. There is need of improvement all along the school line.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
Time and Patience.
Selma Timf

selma Times.
 Time and patience alone can adjust whatever of the differences and antagon- isms that may exist between the races in the South. Any interference or even suggestions from the North as to how the Southern people should treat the ne gro is rank impertinence, and should be resented by silent contempt the most ef- dlers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
Is a Humorist.
Birmingham Ledger.

bII IIIIIIB IItfIH ItUBVI.
 MT. Byrne. the man whom the Presi- dent appointed District Attorney of Della ware in MT. Addickss interest, says that he thinks it so important that MT. Roose- welt shall be elected President that he will advocate his cause even at the risk of losing his office, by meddling with pol itics. MT. Byrne is humorist.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16

Since we come to think of it, one must have powerful optics, and subject to tor tuous adjustment to keep a line upon the political twists of The Advertiser.-M Sbile Item.
 Cut 1t out! You've had experience enough to enable you to follow the gyra- tions of a swallow on the wing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
Fleishmann is Convicted.

St Louis, July 1.-The jury in the case of Julius Feischman, former member of the House of Delegates. charged with bribery in connection with the passage of the city lighting bill, returned yer dicr this afternoon finding the defendant guilty His puishment was fixed al sev- en years in the penitentiary, the largest term yet inflicted in any of the poodle cases.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16

A New Jersey man who drank and smoked all his life has just died at the age of 1O2, and some or our exchanges are wondering how old he would be. If he had cut out liquor and tobacco.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16

The St. Louis man who tried to pick up what he thought was dead alligator at side show will know more about the animals, when the doctors get through mending his crushed wrist.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16

The report is now extant that Hanna and Foraker have agreed to stop quar- rellng and divide the political jackpot in Ohio. That means that they will get all there is.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16

There's no accounting for tastes. Kan sas people are trying to secure the scaf- fold upon which old John Brown was hanged. Have they other citizens like him whom they are desirous of sending off?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
THURSDAY, JULY 1e, 1903.
SUMMER TRIPS.

When you leave home this Summer. have The Advertiser follow you. Sent by mail to any address, postage prepaid, at the following Tates
 One W sek Daily and Sunday. .lS One month Daily and Sunday. .65 Three months, Daily and Sunday,....... I.go Foreign postage leach monthl extra. .6o
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16

The Portsmouth Star is willing for the women to wear our socks, but for heav- ems sake don't ask us to mend them." it prays. Why not? They've been mending ours all the time.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16

There's one bit of advice that is good for all communities. When a mob is do- ing business, peaceable people should stay cut of danger.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16

A negro In Indianapolis f1ourished pis- tol and ordered everybody to get out of the way. The Sentinel thinks such idiots should be locked up for at least 25O years.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16
Cats and Dogs.
Mobile Herald.

Mobile Herald.
 The fact that Philadelphia's voting list has fallen off leads to the surmise that there is a dearth of cats and dogs in the Quaker City.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-16

According to The Talladega News-Re- porter:
 Boston car conductors have orders not to assist ladies on and on trains, because of complaints of soiled sleeves. Just like