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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02
JUSTICE is THE LAST THING
WANTED.

The Greenville Reflector evidently under
stands the Southern Railway management
when it says the last thing it wants Is
Justice. What it wants is the earth with
a barbed wire fence around it. That las
been shown in plenty of ways before 1t
played the hog in the Durham depot mat
ter It's attitude there is that 1T Will
give Durham a depot if it is permitted to
drive a competing road out of town. Re-
fused monopoly, it attacks the legality
of the Fuller bill and shows It's contempt
of North Carolina laws and North Caro-
lima courts by going into the Federal
court 1t has had quite hand in select
ing some Federal court judges. in return
for the $780, 900 it put up to help elect
Mckinley.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02
What a Girl Should Know.

The German Emperor says: my
daughter must be model German house
wife. and be able to fry sausage, roast a
Joint or bake a cake as though she had
to earn her living as cook. She must
be a womanly woman of the good old
fashioned sort" The Princess Victoria
Louise has therefore been provided with
a kitchen and teacher. The Emperor
himself is master of a trade, as was his
father. His sons are being taught trades
and to know what manual labor IS. His
mother was an excellent cook. Queen
Victoria was good cook and housewife,
and her daughters were taught TO bake
and sew.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02
UTILIZING WASTE PRODUCTS.

We printed last week a story of the
tract sugar from saw dust. Ii the man
who tried to feed his goat on saw dust
and the woman who thought saw dust a
good diet for chickens had lived today
they might be regarded as scientists OF
the first water instead of economical fools.
They only needed the chemical knowledge
TO extract the sugar to make saw dust a
valuable article of diet.
A few weeks ago we printed an inter
view with Thomas Dixon, Jr., about the
wonderful new method OF extracting tur-
pentine by which old stumps and the re-
fuse of saw mills bid fair to become as
great an adjunct to lumber as the cotton
seed have come to be to the cotton crop
And it is yet in its infancy, though 1T
has been demonstrated to be both prac-
teal and profitable.
The Savannah Morning News gives 9th
er illustrations of how chemistry is daily
making waste products valuable, putting
to shame the dreams of the old time al
chemists. 1t says:
ut has been only few years since
coal tar was looked on not only as a.
waste product but as an abominable NUS
ance; now it is one of the most valued
of products of the gas-making plant The
chemists have taken hold of it and made
a hundred or more by-products
from it, ranging from paints to fiavorlng
extracts served at the soda fountains
Many of the new medicinal powders are
coal tar extracts. And so it is with the
cotton seed, formerly thrown away by the
farmer Today the seed is no small part
of the cotton crop in value, giving oil
teal ynl cakeAas direct products, and
soap, cooking fats. salad oil and other ar
ticles as collateral products.l Corn oil is
new product that has given excellent
results and is full of possibilities 1t Is
believed that it will yet be made to yield
the much wanted substitute for rubber.
Gum shoes and other articles are already
being made from it. Wood alcohol is be-
ing made from sawdust in Germany, and
the alcohol is being employed for the
generation of power. What prospects
there are in this particular matter in the
immense sawdust piles of the United
Statesi
''These are only few of the waste pro-
ducts that have been turned to account,
and good account. by the chemists. There
are many more in their class-the bagasse
of the cane plantations, the cotton stalks
of the Southern fields, the reeds of the
vast marshes, the shavings of the wood
working mills, etc. There are POSSIBLE
ties in all of these things. 1t has been
said that by means of chemistry the big
packers of the West have been enabled
to utilize every part of hog except the
grunt. And so it will be in other lines
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02
ASSET CURRENCY.

In 1896 we were told that there was
plenty of money in clrculatloh' MI &c
cles,. Comptroller of the Currency, declar-
ed the country was suffering with "a pie
thora of currency the democrats ue-
cIared that better times could not come
without more money, and they looked to
see the free coinage Of silver supply the
additional need not believing that enough
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02

ton according to the Republican idea The
result was exceedingly disastrous. You
don't have to knock the G. o. P. down
but once to give it hint There will
never be another force bill, and the
resI leaders of the party are not going
to give any countenance to that Crum-
hacker business other than to promise it
to the ear of Northern negroes and break
it to the hope.
Whenever the G. o. P. ceases to be a
hypocrite on the negro question it will
put a negro on the Federal bench and give
him a place in the Presidents Cabinet.
Even Senator Hopkins is not ready for
that.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02

sion among foreign nations But this
prestige of his has suffered greatly from
the recent liquidation which has left many
of his stocks kicking about the street at
quotations of a few cents on the dollar.
The name of Morgan no longer sutfices
to float a security. 1t has become rather
a reason why the investor should look INTO
the enterprise little more closely than
in ordinary cases. His fall is from
higher perch and nearly as far down as
that of Jay Cooke, the first fnarcier OF
the boom of the early 7Os.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02
BOARD OF PARDoNs

Henderson Gold Leaf.
No, it is not fair to pack it all off on the
Governor. Let us have a Board of Par
dons and relieve the Governor of this
power and responsibility altogether But
no matter in whose hands the pardoning
power is lodged it should not be exercised
IN too free and indiscriminate manner.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02

About the strongest argument against
asset and other. like wildcat currency is
the failure of the Doyleston, Pa, bank
It's stock had been worth S165 and only
$35 had been paid on it, Permit asset
currency and such banks will spring up like
magic.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02
A MORNING TONIC.
(Stevenson.A

To be everywhere and everything in
sympathy and yet content to remain
where and what you are-is not this to
know both wisdom and virtue and to
dwell with happiness?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02
SOUTH DAKOTA ISN'T IN IT WITH US
Monroe Enquirer.

The New Bern Journal says: Gust
ROW 1T seems there are more applications
Tor divorce IN this county than there arc
applications for marriage licenses. One
lawyer told the reporter that he figured
as attorney in seven divorce cases to
be presented at next court" If that sort
of thing keeps up South Dakota had bet
ter look to her laurels as a Mecca for
those upon whom the holy bond" lies
heavily and who desire relief
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02

What is the best fish that swims? That
seems to be the question that is now
agitating the public mind, the West clam
oriag for mountain trout and the East for
Spanish mackerel. We enter the Rham-
katie catfish in the contest and are pre-
pared to back it up.-Rhamkatte Rooster.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02
AND THE NEGRO CUES
TION.
Savoyard in Washington Post.

odVoydrd IN washington Post.
Crumpacker will be on hand with his
bill for the consolation of the negroes in
Evansville, Ind, and Belleville and Dan
vile, I'll. 1t will be referred to the ma
tional convention and nailed into the
national platform. 1t would be a most
unreasonable and impairment negro who
would demand more. It was just twelve
years ago when the Hon. henry Cabot
Lodge undertook to settle the negro ques-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02
THE DISTRIBUTING OF MORGAN.
Springfield Republican.

The DISCREDIIlNG- OF MORGAN.
Springfield Republican.
Enough has already happened in Wall
street to rob the name of j. Pierpont
Morgan of about two-thirds of its recent
potency in the financial world Some one
has been at the trouble of figuring up the
shrinkage from highest prices in the
stocks with which he has been especially
identified-United States Steel, Erie.
Southern Railway, Reading, international
Mercantile Marine and one or two others
and it is found to amount to some 5000
100000 The shrinkage in the stocks of the
steel and the shipping trusts alone is
nearly S400, 000,0 600. These trust stocks are
particularly Morgan creations, and they
found a market on the strength of his
name.
He has been the guiding and stimulating
spirit of the whole initiation movement.
He commanded unexampled confidence
among investors. Anything with his name
upon 1t went" People bought his stocks
Tor investment on mere faith in Mr.. Nor
gan as a conservative, wise and reliable
nEancler, whose interests as a commission
ed underwater were secondary to the
general investment interest of the country.
HIS underwriting syndicates thus came to
command ready market for tho great
quantity of new securities they had I'M
dertaken to sell, and their profits were ac-
cordlngly enormous. He was everywhere
regarded as conservator rather than
destroyer of values, fictitious or other. In
Europe he was looked upon as power
that was irresistible in the world of fin
ance and industry, and he could bring
out no scheme related to the commercial
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the United States
which would not cause grave apprehen-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02
MR.. NASH rs WRONG AND
HIS BAND WERE PATRIOTS.
Lumberton Argus

..
Lumberton Argus.
Last Sundays News and Observer is pc
cularly valuable. Mr.. Pittman s. paper
on John Porter and the Cary Rebellion"
corrects a manifestly false conception of
the character of Porter, and at the same
time establishes the reputation oil the au-
thor for thorough going research and the
genuine historie-sense. Likewise is the
paper of Mr.. Frank Nash counter to gem
orally conceived notions OF Herman Hus-
bands and the Regulators Mr. Nash is
a native of Hillsboro, a great-grandson
of Governor Abner Nash, and by both
descent and environment is peculiarly
fitted to deal intelligently, if not impair
tally, with this question. The paper I'M
der discussion is intended to refute the
story of the Regulators as told by Hon.
Thos. Watson, and Mr.. Nash succeeds
only too well, for it is unpleasant to have
former conceptions of the Regulators re
placed by harsher notions of them. But
let truth be established. However, Mr..
Nash should account for the currency
of the higher estimate Of Husbands and
the Regulators, if he voices the senti
ment of the time, for the Regulators fed
to the West and left their regulations to
be colored by their contemporaries in the
centre and the east. We trust the ques
tion will not rest here, but that every
possible light may be thrown upon it.
We commend it to the attention of Mr..
Pittman, being assured that if both he and
Mr.. Nash agree in their conclusions, the
question may be considered settled.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02
Spirit of the Press.

IF WE LIVE TO SEE 1T.
Wilson Times.
Wen all be glad when that Durham
depot matter is settled.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02
VALUABLE LITERARY FEATURE
OF A NORTH CAROLINA DAILY.

Leaksville Gazette.
The Raleigh News and Observer grows
in interest with every issue. One feature
alone is well worth the price of the paper
Each morning at the head of the editorial
column is what the editor designates as
"a Morning Tonic" This feature ought
to be clipped and posted by all young peo-
pie in ap-book, and these selections
taken from the most prominent authors
during the year would make a volume Of
selections that would be worthy place
on the center table of any parlor bein6
genuine gems. The news features of the
News and Observer are kept UP to their
well known and Recognized standard. The
Capital City Of the State. and in fact the
whole State may well feel proud of their
progressive daily.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02
THE NORTH rs THE WORST OF
FENDER.
Springfield Republican.

Springfield Republican.
The unoffending negro attacked at DAN
vile had sought refuge there from the
Evansville mob. AS Tillman> says, it is no
longer a sectional, but a national ques-
tion; and as Senator Hoar has said, the
North has become the worst offender-far
worse. for it's crimes are as black and
hellish as any recorded of the South,
while its enlightenment is greater by as
much as the number of those who fell in
the war of freedom.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02
HEAR HIM CROW.

Duplin Journal.
That "Rhamkatte Rooster" of the News
and Observer is a rooster right
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02

Most women can put up with good
deal in this world if their husbands viii
put up for it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02

A HARSH AND UNJUST JUDGMENT.
Charity and Children.
The Biblical Recorder of last week says
1--WE need men that will tell North Caro-
lima people, not that they are poor; this
is no matter; but that they are blindly
partisan, that they are ignorant, that they
have ridiculous amount of false pride,
and that they are intensely provincial,
and that they are travelling far in tins
rear of modern thought-in education, in
religion and in science"
We have not so learned North Carolina
in a somewhat extensive acquaintance
with her people, and we do not believe a
word of the above. Mr. Walter III. Page
ertertains that opinion of his native State
and has given expression 10 the same SEN
timents, but we hardly expected to find
so low an estimate of our good State IN
the columns of paper which has a record
of seventy years of service for North
Carolina behind it, and which has never
gwen the least semblance of dsloyalty
until now. If what the Recorder says IS
true, to be sure it Is right to say, so, but
thank Heaven, the Recorder is mistaken,
and it's editor will live to regret his harsh
and cruel Judgment of the best State in
the Union. - North Carolina has
warts, no doubt, but they do not cover all
her face. With all her ignorance, and
laziness and stupidity generally she is the
best State of all the sisterhoOd, and her
people are the steadiest and trucst and
most loyal on the earth.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02

The threat of injunctions ought not to
deter the Corporation Commission from
lending a deaf ear to the railroad attor-
neys. OF course they will ask for an in
junction if a fair assessment is made, and
while it is pending they will try to effect
compromise by which they will escape
just taxation. And they may win and
probably would upon the hearing before
some of the little subordinate Federal
Judges But, fortunately, the Legisla-
ture in enacting law for the assessment
of railroad property followed to the letter
the rule laid down by Justice Miller in
I92 =. S, p. COL (not page 275 as incor-
rectly printed yesterday We quote again
the rule of Judge Miller. He said:
1T is obvious that when you have ascer-
tanned the current cash value of the
whole funded debt and the current cash
value OF the entire number of shares. Won
have, BY THE ACTION OF THOSE
WHO ABOVE ALL OTHERS CAN
BEST ESTIMATE 1T. ASCERTAINED
THE TRUE VAULE OF THE ROAD
AL It's property. its capital stock and
its franchises-for these are all represented
by the value of its bonded debt and If
the shares of its capital stock
The State has also followed the rule laid
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-08
J. P. SOSSAMON.
Mecklenburg Co., N. O..
Tobacco Slightly Up.

The prices for tobacco on the Ra-
leigh market show an increase. It
is not a large one, yet the price is up
somewhat.
The sales yesterday were in the
neighborhood of 10000 pounds and
of this there was sold at the Farm
er8' Warehouse of Cheatham &
Mitchell 1892 pounds at an average
price of 1910 a hundred. The aver
age at the Capital City Warehouse
was the same.
The sales of two of the farmers
having tobacco on the market to-day
were as follows:
T. J. Ferrall, of Myatt's Mill, IS
pounds at $3.50, 33 pounds at $40;
81 pounds at $40; 81 pounds at
$1O.25; 70 pounds at $40.
W. A. Adcock, of Hickory Grove,
% pounds at Sc; 35 pounds at $12;
7 pounds at $40; % pounds at $26;
40 pounds at $3.50; IS pounds at
$40; 40 pounds at $5.3O.-News and
Observer 5th.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-08
Hester Cotton Report.

New Orleans, Sept. 2.-The totals
of Secretary Hester's annual report
on the cotton crop of the United
States shows receipts of cotton at all
United States ports for the year to
be 7,724,1O4 bales, against 10000
last year; overland to northern mills
and Canada, 1,O83,383 bales, against
1903, 953; southern consumption
taken direct from the interior of cot
ton belt, 1,92O,O72 bales, against l.
897,4 making the cotton crop of
the United States for 19O2-'O3
amount to 1921 $50 bales, against
10,68O,68O last year, and 1O,383,422
the year before. Colonel Hester has
made his annual Investigation into
the consumption of the South and
has received reports by mail and tele-
graph from every mill consuming
cotton in the cotton-growing States,
including wooden mills that have used
cotton, and the results show a total
of 2,OOO,728, but Of this 8O,657 we're
taken from ports and were included
in port receipts.
This shows that the mills of the
South have used up 62,758 bales more
than during ~19O1-'O2, and &c., 98
more than during 100000, a most re-
markable showing in the face of re-
cent trade conditions, supposed to
have been brought about by the alb
normal difference between values of
the raw material and the m~anufac-
tured article.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-08

of land sharks, and who is to blameE
If they had stuck together as they
we're from 1888 to to 1892 they could
have defed the tobacco trust, and
could have done as they pleased with
their tobacco, cotton and any other
farm commodity that trusts might
have struck at. When they all get
together again, regardless Of politics
of politicians, and stick together,
they have the whole situation in
their own hands, and not till then.
The tillers of the sold, the miners
and day laborers of this nation,
make Is per cent of the voters. When
that class get together and pull to-
gether, then you can say to the Leg
~islature or to Congress, Thus far
and no further. God speed the time
that the wealth creators of this great
nation will get their eyes open to
their best interest.
j. P. SOSSAMON.
Mecklenburg Co., N. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-08
Secretary Wilson on the Tobacco Stu
alton.

The attention of Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson having been call
ed to the serious conditions prevail
ing throughout the "Light Leaf Dis
trict" of the tobacco growing States
the Secretary said last week: "The
trouble is that the farmers and
planters are not sufficiently diversi-
flying their crops. They r growing
too much of a single variety of to-
bacco, and the buyers are already
o~verstocked. Under these condi-
tions they can naturally dictate the
price. The planters should give more
attention to the COW and the pas
ture. The Department can do little
to help them this year, but next year
it will turn it's attention to the grow
ing of more profitable varieties of
tobacco-tobacco of the Cuban type.
We have already established the Su-
matra wrapper industry and it will
take care of itself. We have already
found some districts that will grow.
and we hope to find more. Our or
binary filler tobacco brings about 10
cents per pound, whereas the Cuban
hller brings upwards of 80 cents per
pound. Planters who will turn their
attention to diversified farming and
grow small lots of the higher grade
TOBACCO will make handsome profits"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-08
On Farmers Organizations.
Editor of The Progressive Farmer:

L4AAgOA VI A"O 44OSAOSS4N IL
It is never too late to do good, we
are told. Because we have acted
stupidity in the past, it's no reason
for continued stupidity. W. received
a ten page letter this week from a
business man in Craven County. 1t
was lamentations from start to finish.
He commenced on the first line to
cuss out the American Tobacco
Trust and he got worse and worse
every line through the ten pages.
-. sid lo7f tobacco was selling
from a hall cent 10 one and one-half
and three cents per pound and that
same quality Of tobacco sold last sea
sor q -a-r. six. ten. and as high as
sixteen cents. He further said that
if the farmers failed to get better
prices for their leaf tobacco they
could not pay 90 per cent of the in
debtedness incurred in raising the
present crop in Eastern Carolina.
Well, let us see. Ten years ago
the farmers in the South and West
were organized almost as one man.
They could throttle a trust and down
it at any place and any time. They
killed the jute bagging trust in the
South too dead to skin inside of
thirty days. Other trusts in the
West went the same way before the
Farmers Alliance hosts. That kind
of procedure did not set well on the
stomachs of the leaders, would-be-
leaders and pap suckers-and they
opened fire on the Farmers Alliance,
South and West. Their battle cry
was, "The farmers have gone in poll
tics" The Republicans in the West
saw another rebellion and began to
yell, "Rebel Brigadier." The South
took up the old bloody shirt and the
negro, and they busted the Farmers:
Alliance, and to-day the farmers arc
scattered, and can do nothing in the
way of checking combines and trusts
for want of organization. And they
allowed designing politicians to put
them into these present conditions
and all politicals parties are alike
responsible. Some of the men who
assisted in wrecking the Farmers
Alliance have feathered their nest
some have gone to the dogs political
~. Now the farmer is at the mercy
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-08

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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-09-08
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