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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06

Farmers of Georgia, and of the cottop
producing states, who are using CONNER
cial fertilizers. what say you to the re-
cent % per cent advance in the price Of
guano Do you realize that the price of
the manufactured article is rapidly adj
vancing and that the price of the raw ma
terial, cotton seed, out of which the guano
is made has fallen in value this season 40
per cent. lower than the price one year
ago.
And this, too. in the face of a shorter
cotton crop than was produced in 1902.
The most expensive element of plant food
which goes into our complete fertilizers is
nitrogen, and cotton seed meal is the dom
inant factor which furnishes that element
In our factories.
Shall we be content to sell our cotton
seed to the big guano trust companies at
10 cents per bushel less this year than
last, and turn right round and pay an adj
vance of $500 per ton on their guano?
1t is said that John d. Rockefeller got
control of a majority of the stock of the
VirgiAia-Caro Chemical Co. in July.
and that gives him control of the most OF
the oil mills and fertilizer factories that
were merged into that corporation a few
years ago. The Standard Oil king is IN
the habit of squeezing both ways; that a.
insatiate desire for millions, not thou.
sands, fills his capacious nav with all the
profits without division, on all things
that he touches.
At one fell stroke this great financier
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06
A Cotton Producing Tree,

Austin, Texas, Nov eft is expected
that the Mexican government will soon
made public the results of the experiments
which it has been conducting during the
rast three or four years in the cultivation
of a new species of tree which produces
large yields of cotton of superior quail
ty. While no official announcement on the
subject has yet been made. it is known
that these experiments have been highly
successful. The discovery that a high
grade of cotton is produced by this tree
and that it may be successfully grown in
many parts of Mexico, and probably in
the Southern portions of the United States
particularly in the semi-arid region of
Southwest Texas, is looked upon as of the
greatest Importance to the industrial and
agricultural interests of the two coun-
tries. The fact that it is also claimed that
this cotton producing tree is immune to
the attacks of the cotton boil weevil,
which at this time menaces the cotton
growing industry of the South and Mex
leo, is of itself of sufficient significance
to attract wide attention
The experiments of the Mexican gov
eminent in the cultivation of this tree
and in the manufacture of cotton goods
from its product were undertaken upon
the suggestion SOf Senior Hiario Cuevas,
wealthy cotton planter of the State of
Jalisco, of which the city of Guadalajara
is the capital. Senior Cucvas discovered
this tree about five years ago. growing in
remote and unexplored part of that
State. He obtained some of the seeds of
the tree and planted them on his Dlanta,
ton. The seeds seemed well adapted to
their new soil. and the trees which they
brought forth had rapid growth and be-
gan to bear when very young. Senior Cue
vas gradually enlarged his new industry
until he now has several hundred acres
of the growing cotton trees in cultiva-
ton Many of these trees are now in
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06

good pair of horses to a hillside pillow
and then put the bull tongue in the same
furrow behind them so the subsoil would
be loosened and not turned up, you will
find that instead of killing the land it
will be greatly benefited and less liable
to wash. The winds that sweep over
your mountains in winter doubtless do
blow off all the dead vegetation, and it
will be of advantage to bury it and then
SOW RE on the land as winter cover,
for that will not blow off The Malta
muskeet apple was originated on the
peaty soils of Hyde county and is there
good apple but we would not advise it
in your section of the State, where it
would hardly ripen at all. 1t is not a
handsome apple, and is only of value
in the warmer sections of the State
where better apples cannot be well grown.
in your section you can grow any of the
best apples, and should not use the Malta
muskeet. If you plant anything on the
supposition that your climate is as warm
as that at Raleigh you will find that you
are greatly mistaken, for you are in a far
more elevated and colder section than the
city of Raleigh. Where the Mattamuskeet
apple is grown the climate is so mild that
they can leave them on the ground under
the trees all winter, covered with leaves.
MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA LANDS.
w. Stuart, Winchester. Ky.-"Have no.
ticed your speaking well of the soil and
climate of North Carolina. Lands here in
the blue grass country are very high
priced and / can get 1925 per acre for
mine. and have a notion to sell and buy
further South, where the climate is more
mild. Would like to have your counsel
as to the lands on the Eastern Shore OF
Maryland, the Roanoke Valley on the Sea-
board Air Line Railroad, Piedmont North
Carolina and Northern Georgia. Have
been following general farming, with
small dairy and some tobacco About
the hardest task one has to do is to adj
wise men in regard to a change of loca-
ton. It seems to us that one coming
from the blue grass country of Kentucky
would naturally want something similar
if it could be had. There are some good
lands near where the Seaboard railroad
crosses the Roanoke. but it is largely a
very undeveloped country, and social adj
vantages are rather deficient. In the val
leys Of Southwest Virginia there is a
superb blue grass country along the Nor
folk and Western Railroad from Roanoke
to Bristol. with climate generally no
warmer if as warm as Kentucky, because
of its elevation The upper counties of
the Eastern Shore of Maryland Cecil,
Kent Queen Annes and Talbot are hard
to excel for general farming and fruit
growing, ard their nearness to the great
cities and abundant TRANSFORMATION facili-
ties, with fine social conditions make them
very desirable. If we were looking for a
place to settle we do not know any that
we would prefer to the bayside section of
these counties. Then Piedmont North
Carolina is a broad exoanse of country,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06
Naboth's Vineyard.

My neighbor hath a little field,
Small store of wine its presses yield,
And truly but slender hoard
IT'S harvest brings for barn or board.
Yet though hundred fields are mine,
Fertile with olive, corn, and vine
Though Autumn piles my garners high,
Still for that little field I sigh,
For ah! methinks no otherwhere
Is any field so good and fair.
Small though it be. It's better far
Than all my fruitful vineyards are,
Amid whose plenty sad l pine
"Ah, would that little field were mine!'
Large knowledge void of peace and rest
And wealth with pining care possest-
These by my fertile lands are meant.
That little field is called Content.
by Robertson TroWbridgc, IN the De
cember (Christmas) Scrlbner's
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06

Some years ago a Northern lady living
in the mountain country of North Caro-
lima wrote to me that she found 1T I'M
possible to grow Irish potatoes fit to eat,
while, in fact, there is no better potato
growing section than the high, cool noun
tain country of this State. If this lady
could have seen the potatoes 1 had mash
ed on my table today, of the second crop,
grown from potatoes that were raised
last spring. l think that even she would
have admitted that they were not only
fit to eat, but very fine. l asked the good
wife if they were not old potatoes. She
said no, that they were dug from the
garden just before time to cook for din
ner. Well ripened potatoes. fit for mash
ing. dug from potatoes planted the last OF
August, are not bad this ninth of No
vember. And there are more yet TO dig.
/ was rather amused at the Old darkey
who dug the potatoes, He found that the
old potatoes were still sound and he put
them back carefully in the burrows and
covered them, saying that they would
make another crop in the spring, which 1
doubt.
The frost has taken the leaves off the
figs and we will now tie them up with
rire bushes around them as a protec-
ton, for the early frost seems to promise
a cold winter. They had no protection
last winter and bore heavy crop, but
if the winter should prove unusually
cold they may get nipped, and little
protection will do no harm. If they were
smaller / would bend the branches to the
ground and cover with pine boughs, but
this cannot be done on account of the
size Of the trees The new ones sent me
from Washington last spring will be wrap
ped in gunny sacks as they are small
FLOWING STEEP LANDS-APPLES IN
NORTH CAROLINA.
(E. F. Ruff. Dimsdale, N. CT
Il have been reading The Practical
Farmer for two years and have seen moth
ing about the blowing of steep lands A
large party of my land lies so steep that
1 cannot turn it uphill. and 1 would like
advice on this subject. think that
here all stubble land should be plowed in
the fall. for the wind will blow a coed
heavy stubble off our lands in winter.
and the land will be naked by spring.
1t does not matter what kind of stubble
1t Is, pea vines, crab grass or ANYTHING
else is all gone in the spring. Would
you advise a hillside pillow? Some farm
ers here say that it will kill the hill lands
to turn them. / see that in the Expert
ence Pool you mention an apple called
Mattamuskeet as a good keeper. Can
you tell me if it would keen with me- as
l suppose it is as warm here as at Rail
eigh? l think of setting small orchard
of this if it will keep well and sell well
on the market" The only thing for your
steep mountain lands is the hillside plow.
They have been scratched with the bull
tongue till care will be needed in using a
turning pillow, and not to go too deep all
at once. If you could run two teams. a
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06

independence unto themselves. II the
mills do not want the seed at a price
higher than sixteen cents per bushe!, then
let every farmer keep his seed at home
and use them as a fertilizer instead Of
sacrificing thin at low price and buying
high priced guano. The farmer who sub
mits to the present deal of the trJsts is
being Int both ways and being hit hard.
Cotton seed in themselves are a CONS
plete fertilizer and will make The SOL rick
which the more soluble complete guano
will rot do The price of meal is higher
tins season than a year ago, but the
price OF seed onethird lower. Cannot
any farmer see that il is ruinous for him
to quietly submit to the dominating in
fuences Of the market with which he
trades If the mills will give / 800 TO 1000
poun5s fmeal for ton OF seed. then
make the exchange and buy enough acid
and O!asl. TO make your guanos at home
If the mills cannot see their way clear to
do thi, tten take the whip handle into
your own hands and spread the seed on
your lands. Instead of being the loser,
each farmer who does this will he the
gamer under present conditions, no mat
ter what chemists or other scientists may
say as - the fertilizirg value Of the seed
compared to the meal. Ever man who
Is ever Ifec cotton seed rs n fertilizer
know; III, Vi.lue from Drii2 IT. Il results.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06
Dixie Forever.

(Minna Irving, in Lesle's Weekly)
cat the State Confederate reunion j
Missouri motion to re-write Dixie "A
most caused a riot. and was unanimousl
voted DOWN.
What! change the words of Dixie"
The good old song we sang
When leaden bullets marked the time,
And silver bugles rang?
The lines that find an echo
In every Southern heart.
The strains that melt our very souls
Until the tear-drops start?
You might as well make over
In something strange and new,
The prayer we lisped at mothers knee
When well the evening dew.
The moth to dust and powder
Has turned the coat of gray.
But Dixie" lives on every lip,
The Southern "Masseillase"
Away down South in Dixie"
Calls up vision bright
OF moonlight where the Suwanee flows,
And cotton-field by night;
And rows Of tall palmettos
Against the starlit sky
And oh! to live in Dixie-land.
In Dixie-land to die!
Beneath the starry ensign
That high above our heads
It's splendor to the morning breeze
In fadeless beauty spreads;
The banner from whose glories
The South no more shall sever,
take my stand in DiXie-land.
For "Dixie's" words forever.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-06
Handsome Mahogany
Furniture

Several pieces of handsome colonial and
antique furniture will be sold at auction
at noon on December 10th. at our shop,
corner Morgan and Blount streets. You
are invited to call at any time and inspect
this furniture.
CAROLINA WOOD WORKERS.
Successors to Boyd Furniture Co.
Sun Tues. Thurs.-2Wks.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25
THE PRICE -MURPHR CASE
pemurrers to the Indictments on
 Several Grounds Argued.

Yesterday was the time set for For | nler Surveyor General Price and For n1er Chief Clerk Murphey to plead to | the indictments returned against them | by the United States grand jury. charg- | ing eXtort!on under color of office, con l spiracy to Gefra the United States government and bribery The plea ! were not entered but instead the whole | day was taken up with the arguments | on deinurrers offered to the indict- ments. Numerous objections were of | fcred to them by the attorneys for the defendants. It was claimed that they Were not direct and certain as to the chenses charged; that the indictments
 do not contain statments of facts in ordinary and concise language: that | they do not state acts or missions con- | sritGting an offense: that they are not | direct and certain as to the party charged; that they are not direct and | certain as to the offenses charged: that they are not direct and certain as to | the. particular circumstances of the of lenses charged; that more than ono ofense is charged in the same indict-
 Hent; that the facts alleged do not constitute a public offense: that they contain matter which if true constitutes
 legal Justification as well as other
 matter which is a legal bar to prosecu, tion; that the indictments do not con | form to the requirements of sections SzA, S25 and S26 of the revised statutes Cf the United States. These are the statutes defining eXtortiOn, bribery and conspiracy.
 The greater part of the argument of
 the day related to the charge of con- cniraFzr .t1 the charges were taken up. One of the contentious of the defense was that Mir Murpkey was not an officer as was charged in the indictment against him and General Price for conspiracy. and that as officers they could not therefore have conspired. The office he holds. it was contended, had not been created | by an act of congress and he had not been appointed by the department. but had been employed as clerk.
 MT. Nave, United States attorney took the ground that his position hav- ing been cstaj j'lished by the regulations i of the department became an office and the occupant Of it an officer of the United States as charged in the indict- | ment.
 In connection with this 1t is recalled that in q case brought before the su- 1 preme court Of this territory from Co., conino county in which an indictment had been found against a sheep owner | for q violation of the regulations gov erning the forest reserves. It was held that the regulations formulated by the i department were not laws and that vio- latious of them could not be regarded
 as ofienges against the laws. The sam. opinion was afterW ard expressed by the 1 Washington court of appeals.
 | The demurrers were taken under ad- | .isencnt.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

internal remedy for catarrh. There are practically no medicinal rivals in tho field.
 Peruna is not a local application CT temporary relief; its . permanent cure. Peruna is systemic remedy. It eraG.- cates catarrh from the system. It cures catarrh wherever located. Its cures are radical and lasting
 Fritz Nollmer, President Schwle. bischer Ssengerbund, Chicago, in a re- cent letter to The Peruna Medicine Co.,, says:
 "My voice was so badly affected from catarrh that was afraid would lose it entirely. road of some of the wonder f;:l things your Peruna would do and thought 1t advisable to try some myself.
 "I am pleased to state that in very short time was cured. ."-Fritz Vollmer
 Address the PerUna Medicine Co.,, Co. lumbu O., for 2 book of testimonials, containing letters from prominent men and women concerning PeruEa.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25
DO YOU WANT TO YAWN?

Feel cold shiverings, aching in the bones, lack of energy, headache and great depression? These symptoms may be followed by violent headache, high fever. extreme nervousness, a condition known as malaria. Heroine cures it. Take it before the disease gets a fair hold, though it will work a cure in any stage. J. A. Hopkins, Manchester. Kan, writes: 'I have used your great medicine. Heroine, for several years. There is nothing better for malaria, chills and fever, head ache, biliousness, and for a blood-puri- flying tonic there is nothing as good.' soc at Elvey & Hulett's.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

Catarrh has already become a national curse. Its ravages extend from ocean to ocean,
 More than one-half the people are affected by 1t. T. has become such a serious matter that It has passed the boundaries of the medica. profession and become national question. Sena- tors are talking about it; Congressman are discussing 1t,
 They are not only considering the ex- tent and chronic nature of the disease, but the possibility Of finding national remedy 10 meet this national calamity.
 The catarrh remedy, Peruna, seems to be the main expectation in this direc- ton.
 Dr. Hartman, President of The Hart man Sanitariuu, devised the remedy, Pcruna, over forty years ago, and the remedy as catarrh cure has been grow ing in favor steadily al, these years.
 It stands to-day before the nation as 9 thoroughly tested. accurately scientific
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

The attention of the daughters wi.o refuse to let their fathers marry again is called to the case of MT. K H.s daughters let him marry again and his second wife had the entire care of hi'n during a four years illness. letting the daughters escape.-Atchison Globe
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25
Change Converted a Bishop.

Bishop William M. Brown of the Arkansaw Episcopal diocese says thal before he left Ohio for his present fielt of labor he used to look with horror O,
 lynching. But since I have been Soutf my eyes have been opened" he adds Imprisonment does no good, and I car think of no other punishment than
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25
The Whyness.

''I suppose" said Mrs. Mixer My rep utation as q bread maker is due to the practice I have had. I am the mother of seven boys, you know
 Yes" rejoined Mrs. Catchington. and my reputation as a matchmaker Is doubtless due to the fact that I am tho mother of nine daughters" Chicago News.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25
ar GOES RIGHT TO THE sPoT.'

When pain or irritation exists on any part of the body. the application of Ballard's Snow Liniment will give prompt relief. "It goes right to the spot" said an old man who was rub ping it in to cure his rheumatism. c. R. Smith, propr. Smith House. Tenaha, Texas, writes: "I have used Ballard's Snow Liniment in my family for sev- eral years and have found it to be q fine remedy for all aches and pains, and l recommend it for pains in the thi Oat and chest" 25c. soc and s1.OO at ElVey & Hulett's.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

the 
 
 
  Mckinley Chairman
  
 Washington, D. C., April 6, I00L have used Peruna af various neS during win satisfactory reSuIts entirely relieved Irritating cough-fhe excessive effort in the presidential and Heve In Is efficacy for such trouble Jno M
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

lynching for the crimes which cause H. legal execution in the South. The en- franchisement of the negro was a ser ious mistake. I am of the opinion that 1t would be we'll to leave the solution
 of the negro problem to the Southern people. They know best what to do.''
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25
GAINED FORTY POUNDS IN THIR
 TY DAYS.

For several months our younger brother had been troubled with indi- gestion. He tried several remedies but got no benefit from them. We pur- chased some of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and he commenced taking them. Inside of thirty days he had gained forty pounds in flesh. He is now fully recovered. We have a good trade on the tablets.-Hollev Bros. merchants. Long Branch. Mo For sale by all druggists.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

Slobbs-"He Is q professional partner" BlCcoS "A professional partner?" Slobbs-"Yes he parts the fools and their money. Philadelphia Record.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25
Very Little to Know.

"The fact is my husband doesn't SSam to know his own mind" "Oh that's a very small ma tteT.'.- Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

As time goes on. it becomes harder to find a girl who can accomplish sone- thing without first organizing a club with that end in view.-Atchison Globe.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

first met her, the date he proposed, the date of the wedding. her birthday, and
 the age of the baby when it cut it's first
 tooth.--Atchison Globe.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25
A TIMELY REMINDER.

It is time to remind voters again that corruption in government is merely q disease developing from The public-apathy germ.-Raltimorp American
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

It is never safe when Q woman is complaining of the way her husband treats her to remind her of the days when she was afraid some other girl would get him.-Atchison Globe.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

A woman's head wil always turn with the bonnet that has just passed Chicago News.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

Bad luck appears occasionally to be a good tEing-aiter it's over.-Chicago News.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

be surprised if people go out of their way to plant 2 foot on yo-;.-Archison Globe.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

Can you eat grapes without thinking of appendicitis ?-AtchisoR Globe
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

A woman's idea of good memory in a man is one who can tell when he
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

When 1t comes to an uphill fight the rolling stone isn't there.-Philadelpi ia Record.
 '''That man" sd a citizen today. sreaEing of an enemy, would Xiii you when he wasn't mad.-Atchison Glohe
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25
sueE FOLLOWER OF THE FLAG.

Recent advices frCm Manila would seem to indicate that graft has less
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

My boss has promised 10 raise my salary on the first of next month"; said Slyman.
 Sorry, old man" interrupted Hewitt, but I've had to borrow sonic money myself this week"
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

Some pictures are like some people hanging too good for them.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

trouble than the constitution in fol- lowing the tlag.-Augusta Chronicle.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

A railway time table-Twenty min. utes for dinner.-Chicago News.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25
Dr. MClaughIin's Electric Belt Cures
 While You Sleep.
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Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

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Arizona republican., 1903-10-25

blSDee, RTlZ. pr. Mclaughlin:
 Dear Sir: am well satisfied with my Belt and would not take any amount of money for it if l could not. get another. l am entirely cured of my weakness and feel like a new man. for which I am very thankful to you. I beg to remain. with best wishes,
 Yours very truly,
 l.. A. HORNE.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-25
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