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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-05
PRICES Low IN GREENvILLE.

The Greenville Reflector head lines read
about 100000 pounds reported sold
Prices so low as to cause much complaint.
II says:
THE Greenville tobacco market opened
the new season today with very large
breaks.
THE sales in pounds as reported by the
different warehouses were about as fol
lows: Star $4,000. Liberty $4,000, Green
vile $4,000, Jeffries 10000, Parham 10000
Farmers $4,000
LAS was expected the prices opened very
low and there is complaint among the
farmers. Inquiries from other neighbor-
ing markets that opened today bring the
information that lowdprices prevailed at
all of them resulting In much complaint.
1t makes a poor outlook for the season
so far as prices go, but as the trust has
control of the situation it seems there
is no remedy"
TRUST PAYS NOTHING FOR TOBACCO.
Writing of the opening day of tobacco
sales on the Wilson market the Wilson
Times gives these additional facts:
About $4,000 pounds of tobacco was of
fered on The warehouse floors by our farm
crs today The sales would have been
larger but expecting low prices because it
is ruling low everywhere, and because
of the arbitrary determination of the
American Tobacco Company to scoop it
for nothing, our warehousemen did not
encourage and neither did the farmers
bring 1t in large quantity. ,nl
1.-The tobacco sold from sc. to 12c. per
pound, and the average was from to 5
cents. Tobacco that sold last season at
from 20 to % cents is today bringing II
cents, and stuff that brought last year 10
and Is cents is today bringing and 3
cents"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-05
Grover Will Bar Politics.

(By the Associated Press)
Chicago, Aug. 3.-James H. Eckels, who
extended the invitation to ex-Presldent
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-05
SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS.

Atlanta Constitution.
In fleeing from the evils of a cornered
cotton market, the South should have
care to dodge the outstretched arms of
the new cotton mill trust.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-05

Why shouldn't Christian churches make
a stronger effort to convert those Chinese
who come to this country? In Norfolk on
Sunday two Cinnamon joined the Cumber-
land Street Methodist church. One was
baptized as David and the other as Paul.
There are nine Cinnamon in Norfolk who
belong to Christian churches, and one ex-
poets to return to China as a missionary.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-05
SLUMP IN PRICE OF TOBACCO

Tobacco that sold last season at from
20 to % cents is today bringing twelve
cents, and stuff that brought last year
10 and Is cents is today bringing and 8
cents"
The above is from the Wilson Times.
confirming the special story printed in
yesterdays News and Observer. To the
same effect writes the Goldsb0ro Argus,
the Greenville Reflector and all papers
published in tobacco towns.
Visitors noticed the great drop from last
years prices in the opening sales in Raj
eigh yesterday 1t is the same story III
every tobacco market in the State.
The trust gave the farmers big bait
last year when competition forced fair
price. Now they are giving it out that
they have enough on hand to last several
years and starting the sales at a figure
that will not pay for the cost of pro-
duction The farmers are troubled to
know whether to sell at present figures
OF hope for better prices little later on.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-05

What the people want is not fewer as
better editorials, brighter editorials, edi-
torials which are full lof the homely. cdi-
torials, or shorter editorials, so much COM
mon sense of the masses, and capable,
therefore, of striking responsive chord.
There is no likelihood that the editorial
page will lack for ability, but there are
times when it seems to lack "gumption, .
or 'horse-sense;' to lack evidence that
the editor has ATTENDED a good woman S
school," and at such times. it may be,
Mr.. Jerome's sneer is justified"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-30
RACE OF WADERS
LIVE IN NEW GUINEA
Human Beings Resembling Apes De-
scribed by British Explorer.

LONDON, March 2s-It is seldom
that blue book contains anything so
interesting as the report on the ape like
swamp dwellers of New Guinea. This
strange race of human beings has dwelt
In the swamps from times which ante
date the oldest, native traditions, and
they are evidently on the high road to
becoming a distinct variety of the ami
NAL known as homo species.
They have 1ostathree inches in stat
ure, and, while retaining muscular
arms and robust trunk, have short
and slender legs Walking always in
water or on moist ground, they have
feet with long, fragile looking toes,
winch they place on the ground like
wooden feet" Walking on hard ground
makes these bleed, and, unlike the ordi-
nary natives, whose skin is everywhere
tight and smooth, the outline of their
loins is obscured by folds of skin.
More ape like than any human be-
Ing that l have ever SEEM is the con-
Guiding criticism of the acting admin
1strator. 1t is probable, of course, that
this effort Of nature to create a new
species of amphibious human being,
with flat swimming and wading feet,
and degenerate physique, will be de-
feated by our civiliZing agencies. Fifty
years hence the last recognizable spec
linens of this queer. race WILL perhaps,
have encased their paddle feet in boots
perhaps their women will be wearing
high heeled shoes. But the record of
their existence is interesting.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-30
FARMING IN ENGLAND.

Farming is not everywhere the same
throughout the world and, for that
matter, no other occupation is con-
Quoted on the same principle every
where. Nor are the uses made of farm
products the same in all countries.
We make q large use Of the pumpkin.
Doth for human food and the feeding
or cattle. We also make an extensive
use of Indian corn for the same pur-
pose, and In doing so surprise MANY
foreigners by our taste and the man
ner of preparing the article for hu,
man consumption. Still, one would not
think that there would be much diff
ference as to these matters in the two
English speaking countries of the Unit
ed States and England, but by refer
ring to few points of comparison it
Will be seen that a great difference ex-
lists.
The farm products of England are
chiefly wheat, oats, rye, barley, peas,
beans, potatoes, turnips, clover and
rape. OF course. this includes largely
all that is raised in this country or
anywhere else. But Americans. and
especially those who live in the West.
Will notice the absence in this enum-
Grafton OF one important product
corn. That article is not cultivated in
England to any extent worth consider
ing. The ripening season is too short.
And over there they do not call 1t
corn, or Indian corn, but maize. All
KINDS OF grain are designated as corn
IN England. In the great struggle
known as the Corn Laws" in fhat
country, 1t had no reference to corn as
we understand it, but to all kinds of
grain. But this everybody is supposed
to know. England every year imports
immense quantities of Indian corn
from America which she uses for stock
feeding.
The yield of wheat in England is
from thirty-five to forty bushels to
the acre, but the native supply is faI
below the quantity necessary for con
sumption, hence the grain growing
countries of the world are drawn upon
for supplies, these countries beina
chiefly the United States, Canada. Ar
gentina, Russia and other sections of
the world. Beans of a dark color
are raised for stock, but the white
beans. as we know them, are not rails
ed there. Theyarafse squash, calling it
vegetable marrow, but very few punaD-
kIns. CabbaSes are grown ,but America
and Germany far exceed the English
people IN the use of that article. To-
matoes- are used there, but less so than
here or in Italy. They are Increasing the
growth of this vegetable in England.
though, but the plants require a hot
PED In spring and this may prove q
drawback. Rape is largely used both
for feeding and for the oil extracted
from 1T, the oil being used for lamps
and machinery. When the oil is ex-
tracted What remains is made into rape
coke as a food for cattle The Eng
fish climate is not we'll adapted for
fruit raising of the more substantial
kind, being too moist, and the dry sea-
son too short. The outside world is
called upon largely for a supply OF
fruit as 1t Is for grain. Currants,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-30
SOME APRIL MAGAZINES

Al. An article on Jerome VS. Crime in the
April Pearsons has excited widespread
niterest; 1t does not spare corrupt off,
incred Mno are responsible for the almost
prevalling in New York and its arraigno
ment OF the police force is scathing.
The Home Maker is the significant ond
appropriate title of a new maga inc af1 1itu
ga py mrs. Emma F. A. Drake, M. D.
problem Of parents and children. along
lines of thinking and living
- Inc Inc, child labor problem. which is agi-
ed,Ilg lhe entire country at present ia
ably a discussed in the leading article in the
ticia 1 NUMBER OF Lesie's Monthly an ar
". :; eWaudby, special agent for the
United States department Of labor. An
1oner artlcle as remarkable for. Its pho
" aIFSiTap1 ms. as Tor its text, is that on the
pialned miracles of our own day "The
autobiography of a. Shop Girl" q true
story Of life, on the same. lines as the
begins In this number INCL
The April COSMOPOLITAN is carefn1,,,
balanced magazine. 1t appeals to the in
dividual tastes of the MANY. and tha
many tastes of the Individual There are
seventeen stories and ,articles-101 pic
article. on The Americanization Of the
Canadian Northwest" written by Willia m
X; Stewart A personal sketch of Bjorn-
son, the e., prophet-poet of Norway. is most
With VI h. numb number Of beautiful photographs
Loved is a philosophical essay, bv La
vinla Hart, In the course of which she
physical beauty-an end which NAV be
gained by physical exercise.
Conkey's Home Journal gives its read
ers anoth9r pleasing surprise by another
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-30
FUEL FARM S.

The warning recently uttered by
Prof. John Perry in England against
the waste Of coal, and his somewhat
gloomy picture of the. future conse-
quences, have led to the suggestion
that the time is coming when man
will raise his fuel as he raises his
food, from the land. The basis of fuel
energy is heat derived from the sun.
The supply of this heat is continuous,
and vegetation transforms it into an
available shape. Already, in Germany,
new industry which seems to point
the way, is growing up in the produc-
ton of crude spirit from potatoes, for
use as cheap fuel in internal combus-
ton motors. By fuel farming" at
first with purely chemical agents, Wal
ter Rosenhain thinks the problems
connected with the exhaustion of coal
may be solved, while Prof. Perry sug-
gests that the transformation of solar
energy promises a future for the Sa-
hara and other cloudless regions
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-30
MILK AS POISON.

81 have sometimes wondered" said
an analyst, with a touch of satire, why
some Of the famous prisoners of the
past took so much trouble over their
deadly drugs, when they might have
chosen milk with the same results.
Milk when pure Is harmless enough
but it is strange what pains people
take to make it poisonous. They ex-
pose it to all manner of impurities
until 1t IS a perfect hotbed of bacteria
las a promoter of indigestion milk
is almost without a rival. People take
it with ice in summer, with the result
of rendering certain elements in it
more indigestible than leather. They
take it with acid fruits, a combination
that would try the digestion of rhi-
noceros.
Some have been known to try
pickles in milk, simply fatal, mix
ture to any but cast iron digestion,
and one from the effects of which peo-
pie have died.
Used as a beverage milk should be
taken by itself and drunk slowly, with
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-30
LIFE ON THE FARM.

In his message to the last congress
PRESIDENT Roosevelt puts his stamp of
nearly approval on the rural free de-
livery system, and he sees more in
1t than the simple delivery of mail
matter to the folks on the farm. It
IS one of host of modern things
that are making life away from cities
more pleasant and attractive and some
day 1t is believed the constant flow
OF young men and women from broad
acres to-ePowded cities will be check
ed.
There are not enough successful
farmers = progressive, wide-awake
modern uilers of the soil. How can
there be when the sons are not will
ing to follow in the footsteps of their
fathers? These boys crave excitement,
luXuries, better clothing, the noise and
hustle of a busy world.
In a good many instances these
youngsters of the farm swap pure gold
for dross; peace for discomfort. They
even make less money than could be
WreSted from the soil at home They
prefer to chase dollars in a crowd.
Ihey risk health and morals. There
are temptations in city that the farm
jewellers know nothing OF, and are
blessed in their ignorance.
There are little towns in Ohio that
nave been almost swept of their young
!Heh' " me at the plOW there are gray
boards, old fellows who need the help
of their sons, and mourn because of the
city madness that has become epidemic
The foundation of American pros
perity is in the soil. We are still an
agricultural nation, and wise men as
sert that we must remain such.
Anything that science, invention and
new laws can do to make life on the
farms more attractive to the young
Iolks VIII nave bearing on the future
welfare of the nation.
Cheap telephones, rural free mail de-
livery and interurban street railroads
are putting the farms in touch with the
test of city life, and the result can
only be good.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-30
Mlnnesota-The Miller of Our Wheat.

Against the golden sunset skv
A youthful giant stands,
me plenty of the harvest time -
~ ernoWS his open hands
His saber is. the emerald blade
Upspr1ng1ng at his feet
The plume that crowns his kinelv brow
A sheaf of silver wheat.
He sings all days a pleasant song
Between the sun and rain;
Around him like halo flies
A mist of powdered grain. -
his bounty goes to every land. -
And starving nations eat
Inc sweet white bread, and bless the
OF Minnesota's wheat.
Behold the cottage kitchen bright
with shining tins arrow,
The table and the wooden bowl
deaped high with flour like snow:
And with eridimpled elbows bare.
q maiden trim and neat =
VINO deftly moulds the staff of life
In dalnty--loaVes Of wheat
No dish has tasted half SO good s
In later years, we feel
AS the simple bowl Of bread and milk
mat made our childish meal;
A banquet laid on cloth of gold
Would still be incomplete
Without a pile of slices cut -=--s
FROM brown and crutsy wheat
Where Mfnnesota's busy mills
Inc maren OF commerce play
"A ripping sea of billowy green
Grows taller night and day
May mildew never blight the crop
ana sunshine keep 1T sweet,
me glory of the great Northwest
Long wave It's fields of wheat!
-Mllna irving in. Leslie's Weekly.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-30
WIN BREAD FROM THE SEA.
DwelIers In the Misty Norman NJ:

DwelIers in the Misty Norman Mac
Lean. Published by the Fleming H
Revell Company, New York.
This is a book of life among the pic
turesque Scots of the Hebrides, a people
of much native shrewdness. unaffected
simplicity, distinguished by hearts filled
with the nobler promptings of humanity
These Scots of the Hebrides are a zeal
ously religious people-of the old-fash-
Toned sort, who rather live in the fear of
as ignorant fanatics, gleeing in the belief
that eternal damnation is to be the lot of
large proportion of a vast number of the
people of earth.
Among the distant people of the He
brides, living apart from the intelligence
OF the twentieth century, Norman Mao
Lean takes his reader and shows him a
new phase. The book is a picture in
words Of an unknown land, strongly
drawn In outline and in detail. 1t will in
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-30
FARM HELP FOR 1903.

The question of help needed on the
farms Of the northwest is coming up
for solution. There is nothing to in
dictate much change from the condi-
tions which prevailed last year. There
is the same general demand for la
Dor in all business lines outside the
farm, and there has been a general
scaling up of wages for this class. At
even wages the average worker pre-
fers to belong to some union, have his
hours of work definitely fixed, work
In company with his fellows rather
than alone and be where he can en-
JOY more Of the social pleasures than
he can on the farm This means a
continued scarcity of men for farm
work, at least no lower rate of wage,
and still further search after some
method of carrying on the farm
whereby the need for hired help may
be done AWAY with
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-30
NOVEL GOING INTO CONDITIONS.
On satan,s Mount-Rv Dwight ril.on

On Satan's Mount-By Dwight Tuton
published by the c. NJ. Clark Publishing
Company, Boston, Mass.
Since Miss Petticoats tripped lightly into
our path and kept US on the oui yiye
as to her next move, the author has given
the ;, reading public no pretentious novel
view. ie
On Satan's Mount is a tale of love
ana supreme temptation, finding ~ in
spring motive in the present social and
eliminating in possible situation aris-
ing from The present craze for the central
izatlon OF wealth. The authors view
of a cabinet officer to represent labor viii
do9otless create much interest Comment
a pno perhaps. not toe. friendly criticism
Fromlnent students Of sociology and la.
por topics declare that ION Satan's
Mount with fits bold treatment Of VIZ
tai national peril. will occasion comment
and win large number of readers
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-30
TALE OF TWO COUNTRIES.

Tito-By William Henry Carson. Publish
ed by the c. M. Clark Publishing Com
pany Boston.
Mr.. Carson is not unknown to readers
OF current novels. His Hester Blair and
The Fool had general approval from a
large number of lovers of good books. Just
what credence is to be given the profess
has foundation in fact is matter to be
determined but Mr.. Carson stoutly insists
that Tito tells an unreVealed romance
IN one OF New York's oldest and most ex-
elusive families. Tito himself was born
OF Italian .peasantry on his mothers side
and American aristocracy on his fathers.
Tne book is in strong literary style.
the interest in the characters is kept
alive all the time. and the vicissitudes of
me hero Of complex character never leave
the reader time for languor. The con-
trasts of life in sunny Italy and dark New
York are vivid to degree.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-30
CANNED RoNED TURKEY.

A large purchase Of Belgian hares
by an eastern canning factory was logi-
cally followed by a large shipment Of
choice selected boned turkey from the
cannery soon after. After all, it's what
you think you are eating rather than
that which you really eat, evidenced by
the serving of fried cat for squirrel
as joke at party, the participants
at the feast pleased and satisfied, only
to undergo a serious digestive disturb
ance later when Informed of what they
had really eaten.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-30

that its object is to point out to the
thousands of unskilled women often with
domestic cares, who are anxious to work
but do not know how to turn their abilities
to financial advantage, ways Of increas-
ing their income.
To such women this volume will indeed
be interesting, for what it does not sug-
gest in Woman's field is not worth think
ing of. Indeed, it is quite astonishing
that so many of the little accomplish
ments. many of them possessed by every
woman, can be turned into ready cash.
Many of the ideas presented will not
prove profitable for any given locality or
under all conditions, but surely any
woman could find out of the eighty sug-
gestfons. one, or several ideas to help her
among the many things suggested are
mending, backing shoes, story telling, ar
ranging and unpacking books, polishing
silver and brasses, planning and taking
private library professional packing. 'is fes d
sons in housekeeping, entertainment and
care OF Children; making aprons, prepar-
ing for dressmakers, assisting an under
taking establishment, etc.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-30
ANOTHER NATURE BOOK.


The Story of a Bird Lover-By William
Earl Dodge Scott Published by The
Outlook Company, New York.
In Mr.. Scott's laboratory at Princeton,
n. j., there are five hundred Or more
birds which are his personal friends. He
and is qualified to write of bird life. He
has been in almost every section of the
United States for the purpose of familiar
izing himself with bird life, having con-
tinued his studies in college under the
great Agassiz in the open woods and fields
of America.
The book is rather minute account of
Mr. Scotts life, work and studies among
the feathered tribes. 1t is replete with In
formation about birds every one knows
not about fanciful and imaginative birds.
Mr.. Scott is a naturalist and not a ro-
mancer. His book is never timesome
never dull, for it is full of birds, and birds
are among the delightful things Of life
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-30
WRITE TO THEM.

Secretary Latham, Of the Minnesota
State Horticultural society, at Mime
apolis, or Prof Green, of the expert
ment station, at ST. Anthony Park, will
answer queries and are always glad
to hear from fruit growers at any time
regarding their problems. In fact, such
communications are not only an ad-
vantage to the grower in the informa-
ton desired, but also to the expert
ment station people, as it keeps them
in touch with the practical problems
which are confronting the grower, and
also any new ones which may arise
in the field Of agriculture.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-30
Business Opportunities for All.

Locations IN Iowa, Illinois. Minnesota
and Missouri on the Chicago Great West
ern railway. The very best agricultural
sections OF the United States where
farmers are prosperous and business men
successful We have a demand for com =
petent men, with the necessary capital.
Tor all branches Of business. Some spe-
cial opportunities for creamery men and
mlllers. Good locations for general mer-
chand1se hardware. harness. hotels. banks
and stock buyers. Correspondence solicit
ted. Write for maps and Maple Leaflets.
w. j. Reed, Industrial Agent. GOA Endicott
Bldg. st. Paul. MINI.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-30
SOME BOOKS REVIEWED
MEN MAKING HISTORY.
British Political PortraIts-By Justin N
CarfhU Pl1hliShad Tha OlfIn

British Political Portraits-By Justin Nc
Carthy. Published by The Outlook
Company, New York.
England has been making history pretty
fast the last decade and most of the men
instrumental in shaping the career of the
nation are still participating IN her public
life. Some of them are bound to figure
more extensively in her affairs in the flu
ture-notably, Joseph Chamberlain.
The well printed volume under con-
sideration contains carefully compiled in
the literary features are handled in Justin
McCarthyS strong style. Among the
men written about are Balfour. Salisbury,
Rosebery, Chamberlain, Labouchere, Red
mond Harcourt John Burns, John Nor
ley, and others.
The volume with prove an immense aid
to the student desiring in condensed form
reliable information of the personnel of
English statesmen and philosophical dis
cussion Of the times in a history making
country.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-30
CLOVER IN MINNESOTA.

The clover belt is certainly extend
ing its boundaries in Minnesota, says
Prof. Thomas Shaw, who finds that
many of the grain farmers who have
heretofore given it little attention are
now beginning to realize it's value in
rejuvenating the soil, and the stock
men are fast finding out that it comes
near being king among stockmen.