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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

Each house of Congress trusts its
committees. Were 1t not so it would
be impossible to do business, so great
Is the multitude and complexity of pres
ent-day problems. Congress realizes the
need of specialization. Some critics Of
its acts and omissions forget the mag
nitude of the task, and sometimes won
der why every member is not making a
first-hand investigation of every meas
Ire that comes before him.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

President Eliot OF Harvard is of the
opinion that no man can work too
Aard. Possibly Professor Eliot has
never tried it. Let ulm go to the coun-
try some day and take note of some
farmer who has gone forth with his
hoe at sunrise every morning and
worked till sunset, and Is bowed, bro
ken and rheumatic at As and dies In
the COS, leaving the farm he has paid
for with hard worN to some young
Teller" who has captured his daugh
ter with 8 horse and buggy.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

former being mar
shaded by John w.
Springer, recently
elected for the fifth
time President of
the National Live
Stock Association.
Unless better terms
can be secured by
the cattle-growers
from the packers it
is probable that the
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

New York and Philadelphia are sup
plying up-to-date idols for Korea and
China. America supplies the world.
Use homemade idols. They are better
and dearer than those Matchmaker
MANY IL =
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25
Long EYeuinua

YES we carry an evening suit" said
the Arctic explorer. '-0
But isn't 1t lot of trouble cbsno
Ing so often in those cold climates q,
protested the friend. 'eS {
We don't change often. Yor ,,no
there" Aons up
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

The Sioux City journal complains
that the American railroads last year
killed 292 passengers. The railroads
Of Great Britain in the same time car
ried more passengers and did not kill
one. Perhaps. But the British roads
did not pay such large dividends as
we did. So there!
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

Among the other sins that the devil
wagon has to answer for Is its interfer-
ence with the good roads movement.
The agricultural person now argues
that If he improves the country roads
he will be beset with automobiles; ergo,
he prefers to proceed to town with mud
up to the hubs Of his wagon.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

Poultney Bigelow says this country
would stand no show In war with
Germany. 1t will be remembered,
however, that Poultney has said a
good many other things.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

All this trouble over the wine used
at the launching Of the Meteor might
have been avoided by using plain wa
ter according to W. G. I. U. prefer
RncaS
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

Russia claims u man who has Gre
dentlals to prove that he is 200 years
cid. The fact that he has been a
widower for 1875 years may explain 1t,
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

Venezuela's other" creditors have a
well-defned suspicion that there amt
a-goin' to be no core" Hence their
insiStencY
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

Pat Grove has turned up In Liver
pool as a hero Of the Boer war. But
a war shouldn't always be judged by
Its heroes, ... n--
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25
Superior Art

Pallette-DeAuber is an odd genius.
brushly-What's he up to now?
FaAette-He is painting a $500 Dor
trait Of a 3O-cent man
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25
PASSING OF THE BICYCLE.

HERE were 300 bicycle factories in the United States in
1895. They produced annually 100000 machines These
machines cost the users $3750O0O0 each year. and the
supply was not equal to the demand Nearly 8OOOOO
bicycles were manufactured in 1885, but the price
clned 40 cent in the next two three years and
the supply was In excess of the demand In 1898 the
membership of the League Of American Wheelmen was
O3000 it Is $500 In 1898 there the United
States fifty newspapers devoted to cycling there
Is only Five years ago city bouevards and park
ways were crowded with bicycle riders; last summer
there cOmDaratvey few streets or hou1ovoraa
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

II Is not at ell likely. however. that
the next get-rich-quick schemer will
have any serious trouble in finding
iffims.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

poraton shall be compelled to make public information
about its business. ,
The average price which refined sugar has been sofa
ia 455 cents pound. This includes 1S1 cents pound
which goes the government 1t thus appears that the
been reduced to 264 cents pound as against
net price which in 1877 at the time OF the FORMATION OF
the Sugar Refneres Company, $50 cents The low
price leads to increased consumption and enables the
business to done the lowest possible margin The
natural increase of consumption year by year may be
stated 475 per cent During the last year the In
ST. This must be attributed to the reduction
in price brought about by the combination 1t is only
by keeping the price down that competition can be met
and legislators would inform themselves of the sit
uaon they would learn that in industry there Is ne
such thing preventing competition and the building OF
reineres.
The above makes 1t impossible to understand what
sonabe motive there be for much Of the socaed anti
trust legislation. The is certainly benefited by
low price My company will adhere to the policy which
has heretofore pursued of doing business at minimum
OF margin relying for its profits upon enlarged consump
ton.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

A trust company has been formed to
take care Of Carnegie's gifts to New
York. Now let us have the charity
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25
DOGS BETTER THAN THE BABY.

BY Or. 6. r. Shrady, Editor Medical Record.
The fashionable woman of to-day does not
want children. If she bears them she does not
rear them properly and they become sickly and
die That this aversion to children Is rapidly
spreading through all classes of society is gen
orally recognized by the medical profession. 1t
is true among the well to do everywhere, In the
country we'll as In cities. We are following
rapidly in the path of France. where the snhiect
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

benevolent monopost and made Germany richer and more
prosperous and his $4,000 employees happy. There are
other good monopoies.
The large number Of consolidated corporations are
and well managed and are for the public welfare
Others however organized for speculative purposes
and capitalized at figures sell stock to people
who don't know any better than to buy It, and such
ought to be crushed out The remedy is simple
Compel them to make showing before they are allowed
to put stock the market Make them show what they
have got and what it Is worth If company in Rhode
Island wants to sell stock in California, ought to be
required to give people out there honest statement Of
it's business national banks and insurance companies
compelled to do.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

ton ounumber those Of native birth But such develop
has been caused by the fact that
of foreigners have coming here annually
but the further fact that they have gone
agricultural regions and that they have from
Britain Germany and Scandinavia whose inhab
ants closely resemble people in blood traditions
and ideals of than Is the with any of the
other larger countries of Europe from which our imm
grants 1t is almost certain that had early
grafton proceeded from these portions of
Europe which sending such large numbers
ierate aliens into great Cities this country would
now enjoy its present civilization.
Statistics show, and it Is well known fact that thu
great stream Of migration to-day is city immigration anc
that the bulk of the immigrants do go cannot BIZ
urged to into the unsettled parts Of the United States
for the purpose Of developing them The pauper statistics
show that about thirty aliens every Thousand
become objects Of charity whereas in the the ma
tive BORN both white and coored only out Of every
ten thousand persons become such.
The question at issue to-day is not the restriction
of immigration but only the proper regulation thereof
Europe has great many desirable people, and also mil
lions who undesirable and nation Europe ha
its quota Of both. At least a portion many of III
believe considerable portion of our immigration toda
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

fallen from its high Wheeling has ceased
hobby simply Of
factories has been channels The
ontwenteh in
declined
Chicago
bicycle 1893
local sales of wheels declined
o bicycle-Chicago ~ S H"SNns
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

President Eliot of Harvard has dis
covered that college education Is H.
able to cause extinction of the peo-
pie Of the United States. Harvard
graduates don't marry, or If a few do
they contribute slightly or not at all
to the population. This is not the glo-
rious reward we were promised as the
outcome of higher education, for
which the American craze continues.
Only a few years ago a professor of
history in the University Of Chicago
Bolemnly said that the great need of
the United States is universities. Their
number has increased. The President
trary, In proportion to. the number of
our universities the nation will de,
cline and may disappear. President
Eliot would shorten the college course
to enable men to quit school earlier
and marry before they are enervate
Would 1t not also be well to come low
er and eliminate lot of the unneces
sary subjects in the preparatory
sehools2 If more time were given tt
q few elementary studies and college
admission were accordingly modified
81 college men would be out In practica
life sooner and would be more In sym
patty with Its essentials. But Their,
is no ground for alarm as to the cen
sus, says the Chicago Chronicle. Tn
American people will continue to in
crease and multiply without the uni
yersities. The proportion of Amer
cans who stay at school until too oil
to marry is relatively so inifitesima
as not to count in the census prot
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

occupied the attention of statesmen and lawmakers
for years and prizes offered by the government for
large families In this country however Anglo
prudery will always stand in the way any general cam
paign Of education this subject Physicians do
something in the OF educating their patients but
their efforts in the aggregate little The de-
mands Of society and the life of people fats where
the baby Is more unwecome than dog are among the
FACTORS responsible for this state of affairs see no
hope for the future.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

The average woman can detect fat
terry every except, of course,
when it is lavished upon herself
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25
FIGHTING THE BIG PACKERS.

National Live Stock Association I'm
tiers on a Mammoth Struggle.
A great struggle is now on between
the cattle growers of the West and
the big meat packers, the forces of the
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25
BEAUTY OF RUSSIAN COURT.

Grand Duchess Serge, the Cxariua,a
sister, Holds the First Rank.
Among the ladies Of the Russian
court there is none that EQUALS in ner-
sonai beauty Grand Duchess Serge, sis
ter of the Czarina, and niece of King
Edward of England, Before her mar.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

such information to stockholders as
they as a body have asked for. 1t mas
conformed to the action heretofore TAX
en- at annual meetings that special In
formation shall not be given to 1ndlVld-
nal stockholders. This recognizes that
business which is to be done by corpor-
atoms in competition with individuals
cannot satisfactorily be done II the
individual may withhold all informa-
ton about his business and the cor
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25
NEED OF RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION.

BY William Williams, Commissioner of Emmfgra ton.
1t is generally conceded that immigration in
the past has been an important factor in ena-
bling this country to attain the position of emf
nence which it now occupies, and that it has
contributed in a large degree towards the won
derful material development of the United
States The Northwest is in this respect under
a peculiar obligation to the old world and in
some of it's sections the voters of foreign extrac
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

One of the lessons inculcated by the
fuel shortage seems to be that we
should require coal-and perhaps a
good many other commodities-to be
sold by weight instead Of by measure.
The poor folk who are compelled to buy
coal by the ''pailfur' or the "basketful'
are dealing with quantities as elastic
as a swindler's conscience, and their
pitiable necessities are taken advantage
of by INSCRIPTIONS men-few In mum
Der, 1t is to be hoped-in a way that
would not be possible If dealers were
compelled to weigh out the stuff they
SELL. The French laws regulate suck
matters strictly, and our labor unions
might probably urge the adoption Of
the French methods, which make i
possible for a poor man to get moneys
worth for the wages he has to spend.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

s J. HIT, FFGS7WeHE UTS"t 7OE EHV7" aV87F7"~7
There are different kinds OF trusts
Some Of them are formed for good pur-
poses and serve the public welfare, and
the President and members Of Congress
and other intelligent people ought to
be able to discriminate between honest
and dishonest corporations. Take Herr
Krupp, the great German ironmaster,
who died the other day, as an example
He was q very rich and powerful and
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

lem. The bucket can spare one drop
and not miss 1t.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

No self-respecting baby eva
dulges in sO-caIlqd baby talk
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

VINO was daughter of Queen Victoria
H a a sister of the Czarina, the
Grand Duchess stands in the curious
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25
WHY PUBLICITY IS NOT FAVORED.

Nv o. Havemeyer President Sugar Refining Co.
NV company has Heretofore given
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-04-25

DAVIS 3 SHORE, Publishers.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-03
Number ST..
Surry County Tobacco Growers.

"Our people will try for another
full crop of tobacco next year" said
Mr.. J. R. Llewellyn, of Dobson, yes
terday. "They did so we'll the past
season that they are sure to have as
large, if not larger, crop this time"
In discussing the prices received
by many growers Mr.. Lewellyn de-
clared that he knew of several in his
section who actually received more
for their tobacco crop than they
could sell their entire farms for and
it is in view of these conditions that
these men are willing to take chances
this year on another full crop.-Ra-
leigh Post.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-03
IIhhhI I AhMLIC.
Columbus Co., N. @.

When I enter a farmers home I
like to see a few first class farm pa
pers on the table. It seems to speak
well for the intelligence of the fam
lily. The farmer cannot afford to get
along without taking one or more
up-to-date, agricultural papers. It
is absolutely necessary for his great
est success, but now and then we find
a man WHO does not read farm pa
per. He "dOn't b'lieve them fellers
what make the papers know nothin'
bout farmin' nOhOw" The farmer
needs the aid of agricultural papers,
that he may become broad-minded
and elevated in the matter of agri-
cultural information. The good that
the agricultural press has done for
the farming population of this
country in the last twenty-five years
cannot be estimated. 1t has been the
cause of the farmer erecting better
buildings, embellishing his home, i'm
proving his fields, keeping better
live stock and wearing better clothes
and becoming more polished in his
manners, to say nothing Of the chill
dren becoming better educated; and
I have not yet mentioned all the
good that the agricultural paper has
accomplished.-F. III. Dow, in Farm
ers' Voice.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-03
The Agricultural Lien Law.

The attention of the Legislature
is called to take into consideration
the practicability Of repeating the
agricultural lien law" which has
been in force the last thirty years.
In the early days of the republic
when factories were built tariff was
placed on their goods in order to
compete with foreigners. It was
deemed necessary for the protection
of "infant industries" but now it is
unnecessary, and the privilege is
abused. So likewise after the war
ended in 1865, when the South was
broken up and it's credit destroyed,
it was necessary that something
should be done to help the farmers to
make their crops; so the Legislature
passed what is known as the "agri-
cultural lien law" making it lawful
to mortgage their future crops
something not in existence. It was
thought that after a few years it
would be no longer needed, and that
they could take care of themselves.
The law for protection of "infant
industries" is still in force, enrich
ing few at the expense of the
masses; so also the agricultural lien
law" keeps the farmer poor to the
benefit of a few. If these laws we're
a blessing once, they are now curse
to the country. 1t opens the door to
and extortion and the
indolent and unprincipled take ad-
vantage of it.
If this law should be repealed far
mers would be compelled to raise
wheat, corn and hogs. Farming
then would be on a solid foundation.
Short crops and panics would affect
them less than any other class.
Thirty years trial of this law ought
to prove that it is no longer a benefit,
and it is hoped that the Legislature
will investigate it.-Farmer, in Scot
land Neck Commonwealth.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-03

tried for late fall pasturage: they
will grow all the summer and when
the weather begins to turn cool they
hold all of their leaves and the large
clusters of green beans afford a guam
tity of succulent food at time when
such food is hard to get The COW
pea sown very late will not make
much growth, and early planted ones
will she'd off the leaves, so we have
found nothing that will do as well as
velvet beans. We intend to grow
some another year and try them OH
the milk COWS.
THE ROAD AND INTEREST LAWS,
We have been informed the Legis-
lature changed the road law two
years ago. 1t seems that our road
supervisors failed to notice it.
Our reason for advocating a
change in the rate of interest as set
forth in the last issue of The Pro-
gressive Farmer, was based on the
success that farmers in the States of
Georgia and South Carolina are hav-
ing by borrowing money instead of
buying from merchants on time. 1t
is done to a certain extent in this
State but to evade the law Farmer
B goes to Banker A and tells him he
wants to borrow one hundred dollars,
He is informed that he can get that
amount if he will give his note for
$1O5 and per cent. He agrees and
after he signs the note he gets $94
A change in the law will prevent this
to a certain extent.
HARRY FARMER.
CO1TOoh1S co N O.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-03
Kainit or Phosphate in the Compost ?

Kainit or Phosphate in the Compost
Editor of The Progressive Farmer:
Kainit has often been recommend
ed as an excellent chemical to apply
to barn-yard manure and to chicken
manure to prevent the loss of am
monia, but some experiments noted
by the office of experiment stations
of the National Department of Agri-
culture indicates that crude rock
phosphate and acid phosphate are
probably superior. In the expert
ments a lot of COW manure was di-
vided into four parcels. On one
parcel finely ground, untreated South
Carolina rock, known in the South
as "foats," was busted on the ma
'nure; on a second parcel, acid phos-
phate was busted; on another the
crude potash salt, known as kainit,
and on another, land plaster or gyp-
sum, these materials all being used
at the uniform rate of forty pounds
per ton of manure.
For corn and wheat the manure
was applied as a top dressing, bein.
put on with a manure spreader at
rates of four and eight tons per acre
in the rotation, and two and One-half
to five tons in the continuous crop
ping. The results of the experiments
show that it will pay well to give
more attention than is done on the
average farm to the preservation of
barn-yard manure; first, by guarding
it from the sources of loss which
occur in the ordinary open barn
yard, and second, by treating it with
materials calculated to reduce the
losses from escaping ammonia on
the one hand and to increase its con-
tent of phosphoric acid on the
other.
To accomplish this purpose, acid
phosphate appears to be the material
producing the largest and most prof
liable immediate increase in effective
ness of the manure, but the expert
ments strongly suggest the possibil-
ity that finely ground South Carolina
or Florida rock from which acid
phosphate is made may be found an
economical substitute for the latter,
by using it as an absorbent in the
stables and thus securing an intimate
mixture with the manure in it's fresh
condition.
GUY E. MITCHELL.