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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-08
CANNOT BE COWED.

When it was supposed that the editorial
association in session at Washington
would not denounce the spirit Of lynch
law prevailing at Trinity College. The
Washington correspondent ct the kinston
Free Press t~elegraphed that paper as fol-
lows:
ct was a great surprise to me to see
such action. The incident has created
much u~nfavorable comment and indigna-
ton. The nearness Of President RoOse-
welt seems to have cowed the old Tar Heel
spirit
The later report showed that the edi-
tors were not cowed or Of two minds,
but deliberated in order to make a IN
animou declaration confined to the overt
and lawless act, seeking to destroy the
liberty of the press. Some members felt
that the hanging in effigy was the logical
result Of Kilgo's policy Of rule or rum,
and they were right; others wished to
| limit the criticism to the actual exit
| bition of the lawless spirit. With bat
one dissenting voice, such declaration was
put on record.
Mistakes, editors, as Well as other men
in North Carolina, do make, but there +
no power that can dominate or silence the
press of North Carolina. Nearness to
Roosevelt, the millions Of the cigarette
trust, the mouthings of prosecutors who
prate Of the right Of free speech while
practicing prescription do not deter
them from expressing their convic-
lions and standing for the freedom OF
the press as the very bulwark ct liberty.
Of course among the scores OF newspapers
there are two or three subsidized sheets
that take their opinions from their trust
or monopoly owners, and change as or
ders are sent down." but there IS 40
one profession or calling in the State SO
independent, so fearless, SO outspoken,
and so generally right as the editorial
| profession.
would North Carolina be without
a tree press and brave editors to expose
wrong and stand for right? Jefferson was
eternally right when he declared that,
II given the choice between a free press
ana a free government, he would choose
a Tree press because such q press would
De sure to secur a free government.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-08
a LETTER FROM COL. GALLOWAY.
Urging Our Farmers 10 be Iadcpeaa.
emf of the Trusts.
Madison, y. c.. Noy

Editor Reporter: In nearly eE...
Of your paper | see some farmer a.#
ing OF unsatisfactory price, te-
bacco. | wish through your l.
make one or two suggestions. al &.
crop Of 1903, we caunot help Dug
The crop is made, the trust aaa'... .
prices. We must take what wa .
AS to the crop OF 1904, we can a.
selves. Most Of Il, are so situate. #.
we cannot quit entirely the maH.u. ..
bacco. We can make a smaller ..
make 1t better. 1000 pounds g.
brings as much money as 1000 -.
sc. The extra time and iatog 81.
devote to something to eat. 1851. .
and bread at home mighty It.. ~
is necessary. Old clothes are 9.r.
Portable than new mes.
Rye is tire cheapest grain 80 t#."..
make. 1t is cheaper to raise cl.aa.".
pigs. IN the great state Of 81
money from poultry is far d t...
none from all other farm r%roaH#..
biued. Most OF the eggs are #e=-
England. Stokes county is fin. 5#
try, plenty OF clear running "a..
Of gravel and sand. Very .tt..
food is necessary. / read ct ..
farm near Cleveland, Ohio. $50
voted to chickens. The owner .
$50, 600 a year clear. This u.s. just
pie Of what can be done.
Winston and Green bcco are E
rapidly, and viii buy aal #a ea
There is more money in an aeE. .
tatoes than an acre Of tobacco.
know 4up man an Em.ta.H. .
who makes $500 on IN acre #
and then planted The same ts.s g.
expecting TO make as much uE L#"
Let US think as well as wa.
in town must Get. The eaaH
furnish it. Let %. DO so al
one-third OF what Niuston aa
IN North Carolina. We ought Fl.
ter.
Respectfully,
Etr#.H... .
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-08
The Advance in Price of Fertilizers.
Cor the Farmer and Mechanic.)

For the Farmer and M~echanic.)
MIR. Harvie Jordan in your issue of Dec.
/, has an interesting article on the above
subject. The following Is an extract:
IF the mills do not want the cotton
seed at a price higher thar sixteen cents
a bushel then let every farmer keep his
seed at home and use them as a ferti-
lizer instead OF sacrificing them at a low
price and buying high priced guano."
The article is doubtless correct in al
It's details, and especially is the above
extract correct.
Farmers who rely on making crops with
commercial fertilizers alone will surely,
IN the end, come out losers, and especially
when they apply said fertilizers in an
unbalanced state to any and all crops.
If stable manure be properly balanced
for corn il will go three times as far
as it will without balancing. To balance.
add to a ton of the manure 200 pounds
OF KANT, or so pounds of muriate Of
potash IN lieu Of the amt, and 1S0
pounds (say a SACK Of acid phosphate
One ton OF manure thus balanced (2.4OO
pounds) viii in practice 20 as far as
three tons 5000 pounds) OF manure IN
balanced. Other crops and other man
ures will require a special balancing for
each.
me pest plan 10 get your moneys
worth Will be to literally f~ertilize a le-
gune crop. Such as crimson clover or
COW peas, with potash and p~hosphoric
acid and turn down at maturity. You
thus procure, at small cost, a complete
plant food and at the same time keep
up the necessary supply OF humus.
The COW peas should be placed in drills
OF proper width and thoroughly cultiva-
ted; any fertilizer that may have been
applied viii thus render better service.
What | mean by thorough cultivation is
a proper stirring OF the soil soon after
each rain until the pea vines become
too large. The number of workings. ow-
ing to the frequency Of showers, would
probably aggregate six to eight. Who
ever heard Of cow peas receiving six to
eight workings? Well suppose you try
it on and see the difference.
RYO TYSON.
Carthage. N C.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-08
CHEAPEhING THE GOSPEL.

In his sermon 1T Conference at Colds
boro Bishop Gambler declared that no
preacher should take advantage of tie
pulpit and the Sabbath day TO deliver =
lecture on current political or govern
mental events. Some men declare that
certain men have not the courage 70
preach on current events" The bishop
declared further, that he lacked that
courage himself. He didn't believe it was
tie business and right OF ministers 10 80
INTO these matters for the sake OF a lit
tie cheap notoriety.'
The business Of the preacher i pri
marty TO call men 20 repentance. If he
is called to preach the gospel. he should
preach it from the Word. He is none
the less a citizen. ana at proper times
ard in proper ways. he should perform
the duties OF the good citizen. But the
pulpit Is no place to deliver lectures on
current political or governmental events.
The preacher VINO does that often Will
not have success in winning souls, and
his pulpit viii no longer attract men who
need the comfort OF the gospel.
There has never been a time since
the birth OF Christ when preachers who
preached the gospel in earncstness and
power did not reach the hearts OF men
The question is often asked: Why DO
men remain away from church? Ana
why do those Who sc seem not to be III
- --fo-...-I H. r. w-,1--..r,r
of the plan OF salvation? There are many
reasons. The growing Worldiness and in
difference is, OF course, a potent reason.
But there has always been Worldline5s
come. One reason is that too many
preachers preach ethics instead OF rel
gion, ak about politics ana public cues
tons instead of repentance, and preach
vital truths in such a way as to cause
the Indifferent man to feel that the
preacher is merely filing up the hour.
The world always welcomes 4 ministry
of earnestness and conservation, whose
motto is: This one thing | do" Thee
will be little zeal in the pew unless there
is Il consuming zeal 10 save souls IN the
pulpit. The preacher must feel the ire
mendous power of the truth he proclaims
if he would catch the ear and win the
heart OF a busy age, intent upon follow
ing pleasure and money getting. But the
preacher whose one idea is to save men
from their sins, who breaches the gospel
with the earnestness of Calvin, w eslev,
Whitedeld, Roger Williams, Jonathan Ed
wards, even though he has only one talent,
will have congregations anG will reach
mems hearts.
The worldly-minded man, the man who
gives little thought to the call Of the gospel
upon him, will never be reached by the
preacher who talks politics, civi! govern
ment and ethics to him. The preacher
who will call that man to Righteousness
must be tremendously in earnest and must
rely on nothing but the old fashioned
preaching of the old fashioned gospel.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-08
THE COTTON SITUATION.

We publish elsewhere a thoughtful COM
affects cotton growers and cotton mill
owners and operatives. Mr.. Thompson is
president Of three cotton mills and has
long been a successful cotton buyer. He
has given the subject upon which he
writes serious consideration and has
studied it both in New York and New
England, upon a recent trip North, and
in North Carolina, where he keeps well
posted as to the cotton situation from the
planting to the production of the cotton
goods.
The situation with the farmers is one
for general rejoicing, for cotton is bring
ing a fine price this year, and they are
receiving adequate return for their years
work. The situation for the mills is the
reverse. There is little demand for the
product Of the mills that make yarns and
cheap cotton goods and the price has not
been increased since the rise in the price
of cotton.
The people of North Carolina are deep
ly interested in the su6cess of the farmers,
the manufacturer, and the mill operator.
The mill owners and operatives are face
to 1ace with a serious situation-a situa-
ton very much like that which confront
ed the cotton farmers when cotton was
selling at five and six cents. In New
Tn nd III $500. &C
been reduced. In North Carolina there has
been no curtailment of the product or re-
duction of wages, but unless the mill
owners can find a larger demand at better
prices for the product of their mills, they
say they will be forced to take some step
&c prevent serious loss. A meeting has
been called ct Charlotte this week of the
cotton mill officials to take counsel one
ct another and to try to determine upon
what course the serious situation in the
business renders necessary.
High cotton and small demand for goods
are not the only things that embarrass the
cotton mills. They find, as do all other
business men, that money is abnormally
scarce, and that it is not easy to obtain
money at ordinary rates of interest. 1t is
said to be a fact that large Northern
mills are seeking to borrow money in
Southern banks. This shows how tight
money is.
AS to the future of cotton, this pape
never venture a prediction, agreeing with
Henry Grady that cotton is a fool. But
we do not think, considering everything
relating to cotton, that cotton is alb
normally high. That is not the trouble
with the mills. Their trouble is that the
demand is small and not steady because O.
financial conditions, and that the price O
the product is too low. The best condi
ton for the South would be continued
high cotton and a corresponding increas,
IN the price of goods, with a return O
normal financial conditions that would in
crease the demand. It is to secure fiji,
desirable condition that the cotton mil
men Will work.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-08
SAMIvEL WELLER ON kiLGO AND
BASSETT.
Rhamkatt Roaster-l

Mr. Fditur Ramkatt Roaster: / Tote
youns last weak how that youns was
70 intolerant withe the perfeseT. Pears
like youns woant take 10 advise down ?
Raley. Mr.. luke sed ii WIZ time fur TO
| hev the trusteez cum in an he wood hev
p~erfeser basit 60 2 bed while thay Sc
on hiz case but be was fraid > hey him
resine. So the trusteez cum; but Their
wuz nothin dom. Mistur Killgoo he med
a speach and toad the trusteez that
hiz letle crib an it wood bee q pity ,
wake him. The trustee sed it Wuz no
use as basel had not resined Their WIZ
nuthin . du. Tha dident want ? ak him.
Then Mister Killgoo he med anuthc.
speach and sed that if baset he'd it , du
over agin he woodent bee so eXclooslve.
He wuz shore he wud- mcleod Gineral
l.. Green along withe MaIse Lea. At this
Mistur luke smiled a letle. Then Nj.
Killgoo med a little longer speach and
showed the t~rusteez how that when Mlstur
Jo-see-for-us DANIELS and Others hit
basel. tina hit the c~ollidge and when tina
hit the c~ollidge tina hit the Methods
church; and when tina hit at the Methods
church, tina hit Wesly, and when tina hit
Wesly tina hit Paul; and when tina hit Paul
tina hit him. SO he aXed the trusteeZ to
pass his character agin wich tha did,
and this showed that Mistur Kiilgoo haint
dun no harrum sence he lef confluence
the da before. And basel wuz still asleep.
Sum of the trusteez objected to passin
Killgoo's character so often. Tha sed tina
past it after his trubble withe kingsberry
and after hiz trile~ of Jedge Clark and
after hiz MISUNDERSTANDING. withe Webster
after hiz trubble withe julie Carr and
after what he sed about dimons and after
what he sed about Thomas Jefferson, and
steamboats, and the mishionarys and why
woodent it bee a good time now TO pass
it agin as Mr.. basel wuz still asleap?
Then wun of the trusteez, up then and
tina and SEE he, ''That's what We cum
fer. to pass Mistur Killgoo's character
and all agreed.
Sum of the t~rusteeZ wantead to go
home without waken up basel to get rs
resinement; so tina past a resolution say
in that the provinshals must not inter
fear with in%dipindint thinkin and if emmy
body sed ennything agin basel it wuz
agin the collidge and John Wesly and
Paul and Mr.. Killgoo. Then tina past
Mistur Killgoo's Character agin.
Then the boys who wuz keepin awake
so basel Good sleap took one Nv tina pro-
vinshals out and linched him for inter
fearin withe freedom Nv speach an al
the time Mr.. basel wuz asleep in biz
little crib dramin Nv booker.
The trusteez went hoam Yesterday
mornin earle. Just before the train
started tina past Killgoo's character.
Mistur basel wuz still asleap and the
provinshal wuz swingin in the wind bak
wv Mistur Juke's house and sum good SEN
yor he'd pinnid this latin trays on hiz
brest "Liberantur academicianos, to hell
with the edituros'' Mistur Killgoo sed SO
fur's he Good tell it wuz good latin.
SAMIVEL WELLER.
Durrum County.
P. S. Mr.. Basit woak at nine O'Clock,
and te~legraffed Mr.. Peecock at Greens
boro 2 hav the trusteez bee shore 2 stop
thare and pass Mistur Killgoo's carec-
ter.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-08
Light on a Murder.

Carthage, =. G., Dec.
here from Troy, y. C., tina. p
there has tod the autaaE. .
county that his father and t"s
grocs were the murderer of
of the Mills Lumber Cor .aaI
year and a half ago. Ia"
Ray was robbed % sri and
negro graveyard, that he l...
while the Others inhurea the -.
negro says his father drove
home, hence this %betrayaI.
At the time Of Ray a-a
W. Mills offered $1,000 for t."
Rays body. The authorize "".. -
grave.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-08

Dowie also thinks that the race ques-
ton will never be settled if 1.-The inferior
ity Of one race is insisted upon" His
remedy is intermarrlage between the
races. He says tinternarriage would be
a manifestion of brotherhood" The trus-
tees of Zion will keep Dowie at the
head of that institution. The truth is
that out in Zion Dowie is regarded as
most as big as the devil
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-08
John r. Morris DEAD.

Baltimore, Md, Dec. 5.-Jo-- .-
died in University FcsGEta. -.
80. The funeral services
the parlors of Eutaw House
largely attended. Rev. j. w.. VI
Quoted these services. NJ. q.
VII or Jenkins ana Hr. @
brief addresses. Resolution
were adopted. The floral t1.
superb.
The remains Of Mr.. M9rl.-
at Goldsboro tomorrow at 3 p.
pall-bearers here are: Charlie o.. .
W. Ramsey, vi. J. Motley, j. Ia.
y. NJ. King, H. NJ. Lanler
Martindale, all CT the Norm
Society.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-08

A negro farmer in Arson county last
year paid all his debts and has seventy
bales of cotton on hand. Fifteen years
ago he was a cropper on a one-horse farm.
He now owns his farm and runs fifteen
race than all the problem solvers in the
country.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-08
All For$1.70.

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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-08

Dunn, n. c., Dec. +.-El. 'a.-
Gus Brooks, negro stab-cmeIl.
( with robbing q drunken NAt-~
$3.50, are in the lookup.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-08

P. S. Mr.. Basit weak at nine O'Clock,
and telegraffed Mr.. Peecock at Greens
boro 2 hav the trusteez bee shore 2 stop
thare and pass Mistur Killgoo's carec-
ter.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-12-08

President E. Benjamin Andrews held
a different view from Rockefeller & Co.,
upon a financial question upon which the
people of the United States were nearly
evenly divided. In an article in the Cos
Evening star., 1903-10-24
The Dangers of Irony.
From the Argonaut.

from the ArgOnaut
Justin Mccarthy says that Thackeray
often created quite erroneous Impressions
of himself by indulging in irony in the
presence of people who were incapable. of
understanding it. One curious Instance
which he gives is this: ''Thackeray had
been dining at the Garrick and was talking
in the smoking room sitter dinner with
various club acquairitances. One of them
happening to have left his cigar case at
home Thacheray, though dislikfng the
man, who was notorious tuft-hunter.
good-naturedly offered him one of his
cigars The man accepted the cigar, but,
not finding it to his liking, had the bad taste
to say to Thackeray, Il say, Thackeray.
you won't mind my saying l don't think
much of this cigar? Thackeray, no doubt
irritated at the mans ungraciousness, and
bearing in mind his tuft-hunting predilec-
tions quietly responded. You ought to. my
good fellow, for it was given me by lord
Instead, however, of detecting the irony,
the dolt Immediately attributed the remark
to snobbishness on Thackeray's part, and
to the end of his days went about declar-
ing that Thackeray had boasted that he
had been given a cigar by lord!
Evening star., 1903-10-24
FORGOT he WAS MARRIED.
Story of the Absent-Minded Man and
What It Led To.
From the New York Press.

FROM the New York Press.
She knew before she married him that he
was absent-minded, and while they were on
their wedding journey she realized that GlI
the stories she had heard about him were
not the exaggerations she believed them to
be before that happy event. The final blow
fell, however, on the day after their re-
turn home.
He had gone to his work They lived
away up town and she did not expect him
home to dinner until o'clock. When that
hour came and passed, she began, after
the manner of brides, to grow nervous.
At $50 she went downstairs to the tele-
phone in the hall and tried to call up his
office. Central replied, after an agonizing
interval, that no one answered the call.
Then the young wife called up her brother
fn-law. She pleaded with him to help find
the injured Benedict. for she had visions
of her husband having been knocked down
in the street and taken to the hospital The
brother only laughed.
Hes forgotten he's married." he said.
Don't bother. He'll turn up all right.
You'll have to get used to this sort of
thing, so you might as well begin at once"
She said he a brute and jammeJ
the receiver into its hook Then she went
upstairs again and waited, waited, waited
in an agony of spirit, until II O'Clock. when
a key ratified in the lock and the door
seemed amazed to find her in his arms.
':Oh. John" she sobbed. Il thought you
were dead"
After he had comforted her for a few
moments she dragged the story out of him.
You see. darling" he explained, shame
facedly, getting back to regular work at
my desk threw me into my old ways again.
and after 1 left the office l went over to
my old apartment in Brooklyn. / had the
key still and l let myself into the rooms,
lit the gas and sat down to go on with the
case l hadn't finished when l left the office.
The man l had sold my things to hadn't
disturbed one of them, there was moth
ing, you see, dearest, to suggest a change.
About II o'clock-yes, l had forgotten all
about my dinner-a man came into the
room. stared at and yelled, What are
you doing here? / got mad at once. of
course, and said sharply, These are my
rooms They're not he replied, they're
mine. I've just rented them from Wilcox
Then it came over me in a flash what
had DONE"
But why didn't you telephone me from
there, dearest?"
Really. darling, IN afraid forgot that,
too
Evening star., 1903-10-24
Cigarettes and Sunday School.

From the Boston Herald
There have been numerous attempts in
America to enact legislation against the
sale of cigarettes in fact 1t is Illegal to
sell cigarettes to those under sixteen years
of age in our own state. What would these
anti-cogarette agitators say to a Sunday
school teacher who offered presents of Gig
arettes as an inducement for boys to at
tend his class? According to one of the
London papers at All Saints Church, We'll
lington. in Somerset. the practice of giving
cigarettes to members of the Bible class
was started. 1t was reported that this
distribution of cigarettes increased the at
tendance of the Bible class nearly 100 per
cent. The experiment has stirred up a
great deal of criticism. however, and the
vicar denies that he had any knowledge of
the matter, 1t having been an experiment
made by Mr.. Wilmont. the teacher of the
Bible class. While the boys in this class.
as a rule. were over sixteen years of age
there were a number of them who were not
allowed TO smoke. and the parents of these
boys naturally seriously object to this new
scheme OF securing better attendance in
the Bible class.
Evening star., 1903-10-24

until thick and smooth and when dropped
| on a saucer there is no watery juice eXudes.
AS soon as the marmalade coOlS in the jars
pour enough paraffin wax over it thiS you
can get at your grocers) to make cover
that will exclude the air and moisture, then
tie paraffin paper over the tops. The mar
malade can be put up in wide-mouthed
glass Jars and sealed hot same as canned
fruit, but this is not necessary. Keep air.
tight, and in dry dark place.
Chilli.
Mrs. S. T. H. writes: Having read with
interest and profit your very practical and
excellent recipes, 1 wish to ask that you
give me a good recipe for making "chili." p"
You gave chilli sauce some time ago, but
want to know how to make the regular chilli
that we find in the chilli P made of chicken
or veal, red peppers, etc., etc.
Chilli Con Carne
This is probably the dish you refer to.
Cut the meat of a tender young chicken
weighing two and one-half or three pounds
into rather large pieces, about two inches
and fry brown in little butter or oil or the
clarified chicken fat. Take ten red peppers
of chilli, sweet Mexican peppers. scrape out
the seeds and veny part and scald them in
boiling water until they can be mashed and
pressed through a coarse sieve or colander.
Chop a small white onion and three cloves
of garlic fine and add to the meat, add the
peppers, a level tablespoonful of salt, a
teaspoonful of black pepper and sufficient
water to cover. Stew very gently, closely
covered. for about two hours, or until meat
of chicken is very tender. Add boiling
water if necessary.