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RELIGION IN COLLEGES.
ENCOURAGING GROWTH IN
 AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS.

or she Total m.le Enroll mens. Res ported as per Cent. are Members of the Y. M. C. A.-Bsst Result. From Iiifnois-Prayer Needed.
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", treasurer and chaplain. New business.

", treasurer and chaplain. New business. 1f:15 a. m.-Conference. Chairman, A H. Kinney, Christ Church, New Haven.) Hymn 249.
 "The Principles of the Broth erhood.
 Speakers:
 Frank Westervelt, Christ Church, New Haven. R. c. McAllister, New Eng land secretary. Hymn 25S. 12:S0 D. m.-Lunch. 2:30 p. m.-Conferenee. Chairman, Henry T. Fidler, Council Member for Rhode Island. Hymn 509.
 "The Outlook" Hubert Carleton. M A., Oxon, General Secretary of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew. 3:30 D. m.--Junior conference.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-28
CUMBERLAND FARMERS SIGN.
They Will Reduce Acreage Twenty
Five Per Cent.

To the Editor: 1 enclose you a
copy of the Joint pledge of the
Farmers and business men of Cum
berland county to show your readers
the methods we are adopting to over
come the present unfortunate cottor
situation.
Should the same methods or some
thing similar be adopted in every
cotton growing county in the South
1T must certainly result in the spring
report of the government, showing &
reduction of 25 per cent on acreage
whereupon, / believe that spot cottor
would as surely advance cents {
pound from present prices, as QUICK
ly as it declined three cents on the
publication of the report showing the
size of the present crop.
We, hold that Cumberland will be
benefited anyhow by this reduction
OF acreage, even if it was alone, as
present prices are not profitable and
should prices advance, We would ge1
the benefit of same for what we do
make, and have the crop given ir
the excess acreage as additional profit
The hearty cooperation of the press
of the South ip solving this great DIG
important question by advocating the
united action of all of our people Is
indispensable, and if you care to pub
lish what we are doing, we should be
glad to have you to do so.
J. d. McNEILL,
President Fayetteville Chamber OF
Commerce.
Fayetteville, n. c., Dec. &c, 1904.
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Al | TOGETHER.
How Farmers Can Get
Better Cotton Prices.
Must Hold Cotton, Reduce the Acreage
and Must Create Better De-
mand For Cotton
Goods.

To the Editor: Since the
slump in cotton many suggestions
have been made and farmers have
been organizing to adopt some plan
by which the South can get pay for
their cotton. l have not heard or
read a single one that was not good,
and the people are now ripe for some
plan that will enable them to obtain
better price for what they have on
hand and for future crops, TO mold
the balance of the 1904 crop for better
prices should be done by all means
TO cut the acreage next year, 1905, is
more important than holding what
we have for higher prices, and to
create a better demand for cotton
goods is as important as either of the
two suggestions. Our people are GO
ing to hold their cotton and are going
to cut the acreage next year Is per
cent in Johnston county, And we are
ready to organize and build a cotton
mill to spin cotton and make cotton
duck for covering cotton in place of
Jute bagging, and to make fertilizer
sacks in place of the Dundee sacks
In order to make the mill a success
it is important to have farmers and
merchants throughout the State
take stock in this mill to insure the
use of the duck bagging after it is
made. 1t is important for every State
in the South to build one TO two of
these mills. If the cotton crop of this
year had been covered with sixteen
ounce cotton duck, and the fertilizers
had been put up in twelve ounce cot
ton duck sacks, it would have taken
over half a million bales of cotton to
have furnished them. Ii we can even
create a demand for a quarter million
bales extra. it will soon amount to
over fifteen dollars per bale, should
the farmers continue to raise around
eleven million bales. Every fertilizer
manufacturer / have talked with is
willing to use cotton sacks if the mer-
chants and farmers demand it. and
is ready to take stock in a mill that
will make the South.
We are raising money to build a
mill of this kind at Selma. We want
stockholders in every cotton growing
county in North Carolina. We want
merchants, farmers and ginners. We
want the newspapers, the doctors, the
lawyers. We want everybody that is
interested in higher prices for cotton
To take stock. The shares will be $40
each, SO small farmers with
limited means can take stock
Farmers at their meetings will be
money TO help build the mills Every
State should organize at once and
build in order to get as much as pos
sible on the next crop of cotton. Mills
organized soon can begin to weave by
August, 1905. Will be glad to hear
from any one interested on this sub
ject. Respectfully,
M. c.. WINSTON.
N,
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COUNTY MEETING JAN. Z.
Cotton Farmers Will Meet i'm Town
ship, December Dist.

To the Editor: We, the committee
appointed for Raleigh Township, by
Chairman A. G. Green, Of the Farm
ers Mass Meeting, held on the 18th
of December, request a meeting of
every farmer, merchant, banker, man
ufacturer and all others interested, of
Raleigh Township, in the farmer
maintaining a remunerative price Tor
cotton, the money crop Of the South,
to assemble at the court house, on
Saturday, 31st inst. at IL O'Clock i.
m.
Object: To consider plans for per-
manent organization to be submitted
to the County Convention, that meets
on January 18th, 1905.
Every merchant requested to inform
farmers throughout the township.
l.. r. WYATT.
BRYANT SMITH,
w. A. MYATT.
WIN. F. TAYLOR,
JUNIUS f. GILL,
Committee.
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Notice!

BY virtue of power of sale con-
tanned in q certain mortgage deed
given by n. E. Ranes ct al, to p.
Bobbitt, duly recorded in the office of
the Register of Deeds for Wake coun-
ty, in Book 1853. page 42S, L will, on
Saturday, she 31st day of December,
1904, at IL o'clock m, at the court
house door in Raleigh, sell to the
highest bidder for cash the following
parcels or lots of land:
First lot, beginning at a stone on
the western side of the road leading
from Wake Forest to Forestville, Will
lis Holdings corner and runs with
said road south IL degrees east,
149 feet to a stone on Beckwith street,
thence along said street 31S feet to a
stone, H. w. Vernon's corner; thence
along his line 153 feet to j. A. YER
mons lot; thence along the line of J.
A. Vernon and j. H. Vernon 48 feet
to a stone, J. A. Vernon's corner;
thence North 1920 degrees east, 113
feet to Willis Holdings corner; thence
with Holdings line S. 7.20 degrees
east 3 25-100 chains to the beginning,
containing 1 Ito acres.
Second lot, situated on Smithfield
road and bounded on north and west
by lands of w. II. PAGES estate and
the south and east by lands of G. A.
Ranes, containing 26 acres more or
less.
j. P. BOBBITvr, Mortgage.
November 90. 1904.
12-4-1 aW-4
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FLAG PRESENTATION.
Great Celebration by Junior Order in
Sanford.
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Sanford, N. c., Dec 27.-The jun
Tor Order of American Mechanics at
this place presented the Sanford
graded school with a Bible and
United States flag this morqing. The
ceremonies OF presentation, which
were very impressive, were witnessed
ty a large crowd.
At 1880 o'clock the Juniors and the
Daughters of Liberty, headed by the
Jonesboro Cornet Band, marched from
the lodge room to the school. Here
the people assembled in the auditor
ium. and Mr.. w. A. Chisholm, master
OF ceremonies, made short address.
Rev G. b. Underwood, of the Christian
church, offered a short prayer The
band then rendered a selection, after
which Rev. NJ. d. McNeill, of the
Presbyterian church, presented the
Bible, making a few we'll chosen re-
marks.
Mr. Il. p. Smith, State Vice Chan
celor, was expected to be here and
present the flag, but owing to severe
cold he was unable to come. In his
stead Rev. G. r. Underwood was
chosen to make the presentation
sreech which he did very gracefully.
Mayor II. S. Chisholm, in behalf of
the board of trustees and of the school,
accepted the Bible, and Hon. ID. e.
MclNtI, Clldii iiidit VI Tic boNhAN stN
cepted the flag. Both of these gen
tlemen spoke in their usual happy
style and delighted the audience.
The band played the Bonnie Blue
Flag" and the people assembled sa1
the front OF the building to see the
flag raised.
After the ceremonies of raising the
flag the band played Dixie and head
ed the procession back to the lodge
room.
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Cotton i'm Cumberland.

AT the mass meeting the following
resolutions were adopted:
Resolved That we recommend ac-
tive cooperation in every practical
way between the farmers and bust
ness men, to guard against the Gala
nifty which now threatens the South
by means of the over production OF
our great money producing crop, by
reducing the acreage for the coming
year and by devising some plan OF
preventing the surplus or the pres
ent year from being thrown on the
market at ruinous prices
Resolved That we urge upon the
different branches of the Farmers Al
lance in this county and State. and
throughout the entire cotton belt, to
call meetings in each township to pro-
mote concerted action on the part
of the cotton growers, and TO assure
from each one of them pledge TO
reduce the cotton acreage for the en-
suing year at least % per cent and
the use of commercial ferullzers py
the sa me percentage.
Resolved. That the merchants ana
cotton factors also be requested &c
sign q pledge not to advance money
or other supplies to such farmers as
have declined to sign the above agree
ment.
Resolved That the chairman for
each township in the county be APP
pointed to carry out the purpose OF
the above resolutions
Resolved, That it is the sense OF
this meeting that the present crop
should be marketed as judiciously as
possible until an acreage is known by
government estimate.
committee from each township
was appointed to secure signatures to
the following:
Joint Pledge.
We, the undersigned cotton plant
ers, residing in .... Township,
pledge ourselves to reduce the cotton
acreage on any lands cultivated by
us or otherwise under our control,
for the year 1905, as compared with
the year 1864. by the number of acres
placed opposite our individual names
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and to make as near as possible a.
corresponding reduction of at least IS.
per cent
We, the undersigned, on our parts
as merchants and cotton factors,
pledge ourselves not to advance
money and supplies on crop time to
any cotton planters who decline to
obligate themselves TO reduce the cot
ton acreage and the use of CONNER
cial fertilizers at least 20 per cent.
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Miller & Uzzle, III Fayetteville
street represent the manufacturers
who make the Pianos they sell. Our
prices will appeal to you if you want
to buy one on economical basis,
whether for cash or time.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-19
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JAYHAWKER JOTS.

Galena fears a proposed pipe line is
meerschaum.
Municipal ownership of electric
lights at Wellington is a success be-
yond dispute.
At an Abilene society dance only
four couples stayed for the Home
Sweet Home" waltz.
The thief who steals from a resi-
dence while the family is absent at a
funeral, resides at Ellinwood.
A Democratic politician OF Green
got partially even by paying his cleo
ton bets in cabbage leaf cigars.
Mr.. Storms. of Chanute was granted
a v from his wife this week The
court session was a stormy one.
In addition to his other duties
Thursday the Ottawa marshal round
ed UP and killed seventeen delinquent
tax CANNES
Automobiles speed so fast along the
Independence streets that dogs are run
over. What chance then has a two
footed human,
The Mcpherson theater manage
ment have two new furnaces and are
win the public a hot air blast about
cozy quarters this winter.
In discussing the Arizona statehood
bill Mrs. Carrie Chapman-Catt dls-
played her claws and used far from
purring language.
Thirty years ago a daily stage line
W Lawrence and Ottawa was
contemplated to run in opposition to
the railroads. Many people still think
a good hack line could drive n pres
ent corporation into bankruptcy.
The first roundup of tramps by the
Chanute police included an even
dozen. Included in the party was a
boy of 13 and a man of 80.
The local Ottawa weather prophet
says it will be wonderfully fine atmos-
pheric conditions until Christmas and
blamed little winter after that.
This warm weather has started a
coal war hat has cut the prices to
$3.75 per ton. And are
going early to avoid the rush.
Mr Crane has been lowering over
Pratt the past few days on a mysteri-
Gus mission. Now If it had been Mr..
Stork the guess would have been easy.
Turkeys are coming in to the Sa-
lima market at a rapid gait. However.
they are listed at 10 cents per pound
and are as poor as the original Jobs
article.
William Erwin, a freshman who
is playing guard on the West Point
football team, is from Chapman. He
made one of the touchdowns that won
the game against Yale.
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THEY ARE s%ATIsFIED.

The grievance committees Of the
engineers and firemen on the Santa
Fe railroad met in Topeka this week
but they a few if any grievances.
This may sound strange but it is new
ertheless a fact.
The fact that the grievance commit
tees have no grievances to complain
of and ask to have adjusted speaks
well for the attitude of the Santa Fe
railroad, the largest 9 corporation in
the state, towards its employees.
The average daily wage of the Santa
Fe engineer is $4.63; the fireman
$2.s7; the conductor $4.64 and other
trainmen $2.S2.
In this connection it is interesting
to note that the representative dele
gates from the various divisions of the
Santa Fe have no complaint to make
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to their officials and employers in re-
gard to the condition of the motive
power of the road.
The members of h International
Association of Machinists who went
on a strike against the Santa Fe about
six or seven months ago have at diff
ferent times endeavored to create the
impression hat the motive power of
the Santa Fe has not been kept up to
the standard in state of repair, and
that the engineers who operated the
locomotives were complaining on this
account. One of the most prominent
of h engineers at the session here
this week says that he mas heard moth
ing of this nature from n of the
engineers on any part of the system.
If UGH a condition existed it would
undoubtedly be considered a most
serious matter for the grievance COM
mittee to handle in the most diplo-
matte fashion possible.
1t must be gratifying to the Santa
Fe company as well as the trainmen
that their relations are harmonious.
1t means the best service for the
company and the best conditions for
the EMPLOYEES.
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TINE TO CLEAN UP.

The people of Topeka have an op-
portunity right now to insist upon
something which will be of value to
the community in general. namely.
the cleaning of streets and alleys while
the good weather is still here and be-
fore the winter comes.
At the best a town is dirty in the
depth of winter. The snow, rain,
s1ush and mud which the contrary
elements bring during the three cold
months litter UP the highways and
byways of a town worse than if it
were done with malice prepense. pom
dered over, and intentional.
There is a way to preclude that
state of affairs this winter. By taking
advantage of a few of the nice days
which we now have. and using their
hours to the fullest extent, with the
application of a little ommon sense
and energy, the fallen caves and
twfgs from the trees. the dead grass,
and the many different kinds of refuse
which come from everywhere imagin-
able and otherwise, could easily be
taken up and hauled away.
Individually the citizens Of Topeka
ought to employ themselves in this
way. Every man ought to foster the
microbe of civic pride for a few days.
even though he has to take down the
rake from his own BARN and wear a
few blisters on his own hands.
The street commissioner should
drop all of his other work for a few
days and clean UP all of the streets.
A public announcement hat this is
to be done would at once put the ma
jority of the people in the city to work
to clean up their yards. BY unifying
the efforts of the citizens individually
and the city department maintained
for that very purpose, Topeka could
have a pretty clean city this winter.
AS it is Topeka has a reputation
for beauty. AS a western city, without
the years of growth for trees, for i'm
provements which time alone brings,
this town has made a mark. Compi-
ments without end have been given us
by strangers, and Topeka should do
everything to maintain its self-made
Sfa n n
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SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe.1

lETOm the ALCnlSOn IlODo.J
We sometimes think it is foolish to wor-
ry over trying to not worry.
If you buy a meal at a 15-cent restaur-
ant your dish of peaches will be small.
We can't imagine a more dangerous
combination than a loose tongue and tg-
norance.
A man who will submit to being imposed
upon by his kin can be worked by a book
agent.
If you are invited to a party, attend, or
give a mighty good excuse, unless you
can stand being roasted.
The average housekeeper's idea of hell
is a place where she will have to wash
dishes forever and ever.
An Atchison girl thinks SO much of her
father. that she refuses to marry and
make him a grandfather
The Democrats are again telling the ne
groes that they do not get their share of
the Republican pie.
The merchants have gone to New York.
The farmers have gone to the harvest
field. And there you are.
a girl misses her mother when she dies,
but she doesn't fully appreciate what the
loss really means till her father acts like
marrying again.
If there is a woman named Pearl, she
Is from 80 to 35 years of age. In the same
way one can almost estimate how old a
woman is whose ears are pierced.
mo wonder people hate you," writes a
subscriber to the editor; you are always
saying things" We say those things to
make people love us. That's where we
lack judgment.
A mans descriptive powers fall short
when compared with a woman's. They
look < French knots" was an Atchison
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What william and Mary Might Drink.

M. Sorbiere, who made a journey to
London in 1898, when he had given an
enumeration of French liquors to
some one engaged in the trade on this
side the English channel, che an
Swered me that he had a thousand
such sort of liquors, as Humtie Dunn
tie, Three Threads, Four Threads, Old
Pharaoh, Knockdown, Hugmatee,
S~houldree, Chamber Clown, Hotpots,
Newgate Market, Fox-comb, Blind
Pinneaux and Stiff1e." These pictur-
eSque rotations seem as far removed
from popular English memory as
William of Orange himself, popular
though they apparently were in his
reign, and their very names are now
a puzzle to antiquarians, though Old
Pharoah and Knockdown (the latter
likewise known as Clamberscull) are
remembered as strong Yorkshire ales,
Humty Dumpty as a fearsome mix
ture of ale boiled with brandy, and
all of Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
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POINTED

LFrom the Chicago News.1
Many a man who seems to be stupid
and good is neither.
The zebra is born with stripes; mar
must acquire them.
In boarding pennies many a man
squanders good opportunities.
Truth isn't stranger than the twen-
tieth century brand of fiction.
The man who frequently gives him
self away isn't necessarily charitable.
By making a bluff at being busy
some men are able to dodge a lot OF
work.
Some young men are stage struck
and some others are only soubrette
struck.
Don't be dissatisfied with your lot.
Hang on to it and pray for q real
estate boom.
Many a man who wouldn't think of
telling a lie is an adept at side-step-
ping the truth.
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A PERTINENT SUGGESTION.

The recommendation of State Aud
itor Wells that the state of Kansas
provide a training school for its color
ed youth, to be modelled after the
noted Institution built up by Booker
T. Washington at Tuskegee, Ala, will
meet with appreciation from many
people who ave studied the race
problem. The trace problem in the
north is one of educating the colored
youth, and educating them properly.
They can have no better education
than n which teaches them to work
intelligently. such as is given by the
manual training school, along with
their school education. An
institution of his kind is more i'm
portant for the colored race than for
the white. for more opportunities are
open to white people to learn these
things.
There are two institutions in KAN
sas which are attempting to give a
manual training education. One, the
Western university at Quindaro,
Wyandotte county, receives consider
able aid from the state, but is under
h control of the African Methodist
church. The other, the Topeka In
dustrial n Educational institute. is a
private institution which receives a
small donation from the state each.
year. These institutions are undoubted-
ly doing as great a work as they can
with their limited means, but they are
extremely limited. If either of them
were turned into a state institution it
might be possible to build UP an in
stitution hat would rival the cele-
brated Tuskegee institute in its eff
cheney.
At present there is a very small en-
rollment of colored young people in
the higher institutions of learning in
Kansas. Not very many complete the
high school work. In many instances
their white associates do not make
their school life one great round of
pleasure, with the result tina a move
ment has beer started in some places
to provide separate schools for the
races. 1t is meeting with bitter OPP
position in most localities where it has
been mentioned, but some of the
leaders among the colored people ia
vor the move for the reason it will
give the colored boys and girls a bet
ter chance, although there is argu-
ment on both sides of the proposition.
This argument especially holds
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woman's remark when looking at a field
dotted with wheat in the shock.
Up in our neighborhood there lives a boy
who is said to be good to his mother. We
are so glad to hear a boy complimented
that we often induce the neighbors to talk
about this one.
If a daughter of the house goes riding
in a rubber tired rig with a nice young
man, the neighbors don't happen to see it,
but does any one imagine they wouldn't
see 1t if the patrol wagon were to call
You seem to despise book agents"
writes a subscriber. We have reason to:
the way we have been worked by book
agents Is scandalous. Lately. by scream
ing Justify, we have escaped for as much
as a year at a time, w~hereupon an agent
comes along with a new graft and catches
rs