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The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-29

Enolish fishermen as the ships left Europe. Ihe
Russians hope that this feet will overpoWer the
japanese blockading squadron and relieve the be-
sieoed soldiers. What the japanese do, therefore,
thew must do quickly. This week may see lighting
of the most desperate sort.
We should have mentioned it last week, but 1T
is not too late even to notice the story OF the
Roztoropny torpedo boat destroyer This was
Russian vessel of considerable value, but SO anx1-
ous were the commanders to get dispatches to the
Czar that for this end the RoztOropny was de-
Hberatev sacrificed. In binding snoW-storm
it escaped the japanese blockade and made its way
to Chefoo where telegraphic communication with
ST. Petersburg made it possible to get the I'M
portant messages to the Russian Government
This DONE the crew blew up the vessel in order
to prevent it's falling into the hands of the Jap
anese.
The Mikados Government has again demon
strated it's financial strength by floating foreign
war loan of $6O,OOO,OOO at per cent, while the
japanese people have subscribed for 800, 100000
worth of bonds at a lower rate of interest. Thus
there is confidence both at home and abroad that
the Jap is going to be able to pay his debts.
Japan in nine months has spent half much as
ENGLAND spent in the Transvaal War, but she has
a great deal more to show for the expenditure
than ENGLAND had.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-29
The Crisis at Hand at Port Arthur.

In the Far East there has been a lull in the
fighting for some time, though the two armies
are practically facing each other, and the winter
weather, which will make fighting almost impossi-
bic, is rapidly approaching. But now there is
promise of another desperate encounter The
Mikado of Japan, a press dispatch announces.
has ordered his men to take Port Arthur at anv
cost, and to begin the final assault at once, For
this imperative order there are two verv good
reasons-frst, the approach of the unbearable
winter weather just mentioned and second. the
no less menacing approach of the Russian Baltic
fleet, which has been heading steadily toward the
beleagured fortress ever since the attack on tho
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-29
THIS WEEKS FEATURES.

On page Dr. Freeman gives the second of his
series of Medical Talks. These rapers will be
marked by the sound sense and helpful sug
gestiveness which characterize his farming letters
which, by the way, he will continue, merely in
terspersing occasional medical articles.
The little story page by Mr.. E. E. Miller
whose "When the Circus Came to Town" few
weeks ago very popular-is the first of a
series of special articles which have been prepared
for Home Circle page. Next week Mr.. John
Charles Mcneil, the gifted young North Caro-
linian, who seems to have in him the making of a
great poet, will discuss "Fishing;" and our read
ers who recall his "Swimming" will not be disap-
pointed in this latest article. "Arachel" will also
be heard from soon. From Prof. Henry Jerome
Stockard we hope to have article on
"Southern Poets and Poetry" At this time we
only add that Mr. Fl. E. G. Bryant, the inimita-
bic "Red Buck" will also give us 'fyarn' for one
of our December numbers.
There's some very good advice in the article
Living and Reading" on rage 6. "To know one
hrst-class writer is better than to have bowling
acquaintance with fifty second-rate authors" is
a sentence worth remembering-and worth put
ting into practice.
Our Social Chat is unusually interesting
these days. "Aunt Jennie" is excelline herself
Op
But we have great many readers who ought to
write for this department but have never vet dono
so. The Chat is free for all.
There is batch of interesting farming news
on page 10. 1t is very gratifying to learn that
such progress is making in freeing Western
counties from the cattle tick To get county
from quarantine restrictions means an
increase OF from 1-3 to 1 cent a pound live
weight, IN value of cattle; and it is +bt
our ~ mountain counties gain 100000 annually
6y beng free from ticks. The State Ponitrv
= ar 4 viii be held in Raleig in January DR.. Fl.
n. Z hume, who is one of the most popular and Of.
hc1ent officers of the State Department Of Aori-
culture talks Interestingly of apple growing: and
Ne nGpe to- nave him furnish some articles for
There good many other iit+1a art;o1oa +,4
nelp @ MAKE make this number worth the two cents It
toSss t4e S Ss6scrlber but we have only space left
appreciate Glow It Looks in Print" on 1aea -
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-29
EDITORIAL
CURRENT EVENTS: THE DRIFT OF THINGS
AS WE SEE 1T.

The daily papers last week had to fall back
on murder trials in New York and Chicago in
order to FIJI up space. In fact, however, these
criminal trials are a part of the regular bill of
fare of the Associated Press and it is only when
war or politics offers material equally exciting
that the courtroom news is omitted. The man
ager of this great Notwithstanding agency selects
his criminal news with the same commercial in
stinct that an ordinary editor selects a serial
story for his paper
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-29

1t is quite likely that a large part of the So
cialist gain since 1900 must be attributed to the
split in the Democratic Party-Bryan Democrats
in the North and West voting the Socialist ticket
protest against the surrender of the party to
the reorganizers. But after allowance is made
fo rail- this, there is enough in these comparative
statistics to give serious to all interested In
the preservation of present social system.
And by the preservation of this system we mean
not the preservation of any of it's abuses of which
the strong are enabled to take more than than
fair share of the earth's fulness but the preser-
vation of that controlling principle that men shall
be encouraged to be strong and to use their
strength and that there shall be an incentive to
the most strenuous service of ones fellows.
The True Friends of Both Capital and Labor.
Very often the men who advocate certain re-
forms opposed by the great organizations of
capital accused of being socialistic when they
in fact the effective opponents of social
ism. And the lesson of this rising tide of socialis-
tic discomfort in America-even in the face of al
most unprecedented prosperity-is that in order
to protect the legitimate rights of property there
must be righting of the legalized wrongs by
which immense fortunes have been piled up un-
righteously. We must heal the disease but ultra
socialism as a remedy would be worse than the
malady itself. In natural endowments, in thrift,
in industry, are not equal, and, unless the
laws of justice and nature to be interfered
with, these inequalities must show themselves in
proportionate differences in incomes and estates
The law must never make thriftlessness a virtue:
it must hold out the possession and use of larger
share of this worlds goods as a part of the re-
ward for those who serve their fellowmen, with
brain Drawn, in a larger measure than does
the average Upon these facts are based
what are known "the rights of property" That
they must be respected is true, but they must not
be stretched and made to encroach on the in
fnitely more sacred "rights of man."
The true friends of capital are not those dollar
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-29


worshippers who speak of all efforts to repeal
special privilege legislation demogoguery and
who fight all movements intended to curtaI the
power of great combinations of capital. On the
other hand the true friends of labor are not those
agitators who would put all level of
mediocrity-who would not recognize the superior
earning capacity of training, education and tai
ent but give to laggard and leader, iliterate and
learned, Ounce and genius, the income and
| the same amount of property. The middle ground
| is the safe one, and the true friends of both
capital and labor are those who while recognizing
the validity of "the rights of property" never
theless desirous of repeating every law that gives
wealth greater than it should POSSESS, every
statute that makes possible the plunder of the
people by any form of special privilege
The Story of States Progress.
If one is looking for North Carolina news of
large significance he will find in recent statisti-
cal table prepared by Superintendent Joyner
story of far deeper import than any that has
been graced(O with scare-head type on the first
pages of our dailies. 1t is a record of four years
of educational progress-19O0 to 1904. And it
means much to the Statements, in reality, the
remaking of our Commonwealth, and that before
many years trained intelligence will enable her to
take that high position among her sister States to
which the variety of her natural resources and the
industry and virtue of her people entite her.
Pity the who knows how our progress has
been hampered and how lives have been blighted
by our burden of illiteracy and then feels thrill
of pride at this comparative record of North
Carolina school statistics for 1900 and 1904
1900. 1904
School Term
I4.0 weeks .. no weeks.
Number Local Tax Districts
oo ''.......... .............. 229
Raised by Local Taxation.
@1oo'oOO O............ ............. S33O,OOO
Public School Fund
S'o2'1o2 .................. S1765,362
Value Public School Property
@l'loo'oll .'..'................. $l,o69,o9O
Spent for New Houses
@oo,zO' ...... .................. SlIO,42O
Number Log Houses
l'lo2 '''.'''.'.'..'.. ..'.............. 5Oo
Districts Without Houses.
800 .................. .................. 521
School Population
oo9'oz9 '''.. ............ o|5,r|4
Enrolment
4Oo,4oz .'.... ................. 44O,264
Average Attendance
zVo'9lo ''..'''........'. 26l,l49
Salary White Teachers.
p2f99 $1,000. S2o.36
Number School Libraries
Volumes in Libraries
'.''..'.'..'.. ...........-..... 10000 |
The Crisis at Hand at Port Arthur.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-29
The Rising Tide of Socialism.

In last weeks Progressive Farmer and Cotton
Plant we published the current rumor that Eu-
gene V. Debs, the Socialist candidate for Presi-
dent in the recent election, received 100000 votes.
This fact deserves more than passing notice.
Four years ago the Socialist vote less than
100000, and the steady growth of this party of
discomfort is vivdly brought out by the following
table showing its strength at the various elections
since 1888:
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08

Carey vi stiles staphenFille
MI Lydia Horton Groesbeck
Del Rio Mrs. Mary Ross bar
rad sIrs Florence j Helton
r D. Falres. Ffatonia AIRS. Anna
Kern.
Gonzales Mrs W v. Collins. Jr.
Forney Mrs. l.. L. Jones.
hngIeton Mrs Frances Hayne
Summers.
D. a. Mum. Crockett Miss Fan
ME May
Frank Taylor. Rusk Mrs. NJ A.
Virgins.
Cen. j. s. Grinth, Terrell Mrs,
}. n Gray. Mrs. S NJ. y Mars, Mrs.
Zen Hodges.
Lamar Fountain. Alvin Mrs. s.
j Halcott. Mrs Annie E Spencer,
Airs. Julia Lee Skies.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08


The memorial service having been
disposed Of the regular convention
work was resumed The report OF
the committee 70 locate and care for
graves OF Texas soldiers on battle
fields was called for Mrs Wharton
Bates. chairman OF the committee,
read a very interesting report This
work was reported as progressing
slowly To- the reason thar a great
deal Of correspondence was required
to accomplish anything The grave
OF Texas soldier bad been located
AT Manchester. Va, and marked with
tomb stone Mrs Bates TOOK the
initiative work and ey her dihgent
and uutiring efforts she has located
and marked twenty nine graves of
Texas soldiers The matter of en-
closing the graves OF Texas soldiers
on the battlefield Of Manassas with
iron fences is now being considered
The report W bich attracted most
interest Yesterday afternoon was
made By the Jefferson Davis birth
day committee The report of this
committee was read by the chair
man. Mrs. q q. Nunn of Crockett
The report Was quite yolumlnous
and embodied q resolution introduced
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08
Money for kilograms.

Money FOR kilograms.
During che morning sesalon yes
terday SO many kilograms had been
voted sent hat tho treasurer asked
whore the money ASS to come from
10 pay for them Julia Jaeksa
cha pier paid for the one sent "a
Judge Reagan Mrs West broog al
80 paid 30 send longer one 40 this
grand old man Others followed an
I'll all we're paid Or the delegates
preseat except the one seat 10 Mrs
jefferson Davis. which Wae paid FOR
BY Pes division because 81 was sag
reae3 that IL should hn division
sh5 mos personal matter
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08

each year. the birthday n me Hon
orable e President JEFFERSON Davis.
4 legal holiday
We ask only one day in each year
when attention shall ba called to the
grand struggle made BY the South
for liberty and self-gosernment !:
when succeeding generations shall be
correctly instructed as 10 the motives
and deeds of a noble ancestry when
the truth of history shall be called
to attention.
Such struggle should not be for
gotten The heroic. deeds OF the
Southland should be cherished by
every true Southern boy and girl
and no better way or more fitted OPP
oprtunity could be offered than the
naming of the birthday of that no
BILE patriot and statesman. the first
and the only president and command
er-in-chief Of all our armies OF the
Confederate states as legal holt
day. thus we would honor him and
in so doing would honor every sol
der who fought our battles. and as
we'll, We would honor ourselves.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08

Il is suggested by a number Of
delegates that new committee
should be appointed 10 carry on the
work which has already been so no
bly begun 4 suggestion was also
made that q committee should be ap-
pointed to so to Austiu In Jann-
airy and present the matter 10 the
Legislature
slight error was made yester-
day In reporting that the division
voted to donate 800 annually for
the care OF the Texas room in the
Richmond museum The motion as
adopted was that each chapter make
donation OF 81 90 each year for
the maintenance % his room The
delegate max ng the motion vas la
the rear of she ousa and was mia
understood br the reporter AZ his
liable on the rostrum
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08

had kidney tfouhle for Seara,
writes Afs RaYmuad CoumuF al
HHrWun Wash. au4 the DEBTORS
eaaid nag help me . tried Foley
EAnev CHre. aad tbe tefY nras dows
gave Me EelE*f &aa ! @m nuw cured
sammnf Ag tu8 Mgeh for Foley
sItneF Cuge h makea The dts
sast s8tnvYa smmpa so they all
affa.a#te ten pw&s4w fFmw the hkasa
ta.ess thfY So th. zassf heaitA - m
aa#e5H
58 M H & Eesfs
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08

AFtst7 - - ffhhAff+T
The convention adjourned yesyre-
ta afternoon af fo give she
3eI gates and visitors short ret
before attending ane option la fhe
eeeHHe at the Eft aal] rendered
u rh-F tsaor ae fba members Of
t 9aer Thc sutou @as t8e
ro hp lee at gtlorb aea Hbsa ths
ersf taes reached the hsli tBey
found large number ~ tbc herd
-hfe ready fo extend fhem @ warm
weI.aue lake aIl social fun,t touA
given In the gts thss aue vae yet
pleasant BTai. Tbts reception af
fo-ted tbe visitors chance ta meet
and become acquainted wgth large
par of the Waxahaehf~ citizenship
The Eta6 Nele. assisted la receiving
by fhe ladies' ~ the c3fy and nothiug
Wa ivft uudoue to wake tba evening
pleasant so AL The old Veterans
aud sons OF veterans wore here 90
30 S--s,s5 80 -. ~,ssa as.; .sasr.s.-
tefx OF tbs men who followed t.ee
aud Iasasou and the other intrepid
headers uf inc Southern Nrusf Puuca
vas served from fwo large hov Is
bs Misses MArv Hgawnlmr Louise
skUierr sad Dot HestoFd and while
The visitors sipped she delicious
beverage ard engaged each other ia
pleasant sunvvrsafion the Wise nr~
chssfrs d4aeouvs~a some ~ its
IA esteat u8HIe
n fhe -ontlasson - ths tecsp.
sgnm the visitors we're rendered IL
dance hy fhe vouaK people 1T he
cltf at the sfmorB - be uHniap
Rtnes
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$50 $40 call Ga graMr ~ fhw
president
Invocation NJ Chalmers Aepaef
aam pastor uf Fhe Mails Street
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piano solo The ass ftons Mfa
"a alter EEuM
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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-12-08

Visit royland and see Santa
Claus TOYS for every body at prices
within the reach Of an Big sample
line of nice things 10 go at half price
Come early and save % . per cent on
rgg- r"-"haa"
THE BOSTON STORE
N.N. door ro Leigh Bros grocery %
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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-04-29

filling hers with dainty clothing, which
Ahe is making herself; another is buy
ing ornaments and nicknacks from
time to time, and filling her chest with
them. Not only things to wear, such as
gloves, lingerie and dainty hosiery, but
pieces of lace, tapestry squares for COW
ering sofa pillows, handsome table COW
ers, are receiving the attention of a
bonnie Scotch maiden.
Another is making fine collection of
table linen-napkins, mats, center
pieces and so on. Pretty bits of china
and bric-a-brac go in the chest of an
other maiden.
Thus the girls are slowly collecting
pretty things, and saving them for use
in their homes. AS a rule, their friends
know of the chests, and take pleasure
in helping to fill them, although some
Of the girls like to feel that everything
was bought with their own money.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-04-29
No More Barrels of Matches

Senator Hoar bewails the innovation
recently introduced at that end of the
capitol in the purchase of matches. AL
mostsince the time that friction matches
were invented the senate has been re-
ceiving its supply in little, round,
wooden boxes. Matches in these boxes
have been for years kept about the CAP
itol. When, in Mr.. Hoar's committee
room, some one asked for matches. the
senator would remark: why, we have
barrels of matches" and forthwith. at
the utterance of the bon mot, a round
box would be produced.
Now the purchasing agent of the SEN
ate has decided to buy matches in the
usual paper boxes with which the gen.
eral public is familiar. That is consider
ably less expensive, but it puts an end
to barrels of matches in the senate
committee on the MISUNDERSTANDING
ton Post.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-04-29
Slid Down Like a LADY,.

Miss Marjorie, strong in the dignity
OF young womanhood, was entertaining
callers one evening whea her little Sis
ter came down the stairway in 8 noisy
manner. Frances said the ANNOYED
elder sister to the. delinquent, you
came downstairs so that you could be
heard all over the house. Now. 20
back and come down properly. !"
Frances retired, and in a few minutes
reentered the parlor. Did you hear
me come downstairs that time, Mar
jorie?' asked the little girl, anxiously
mo, dear; this time you came down
IKE a lady" "Yes'm," explained
Frances, exhibiting satisfaction at hay-
Ing outwitted her mentor, this time !
Sid down the banisterA"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-04-29
REAL ROYAL HOUSEKEEPER.
German Emperor's Daughter, Frincess
Victoria Louise, Is Taught to
Be Practical.

If there were such things as mon
archical failures with the consequences
attending financial failures, and if such
disaster meant the giving up of lux
ury and getting back to primitive eco
Monies, as it does with unfortunate
men of business. and if such a disaster
should strike the ruling house in Ger
many, the only daughter of this house,
the Princess Louise, would be perfectly
competent to enter kitchen and be-
come typical German housewife.
Such has been her training under her
careful mother, the German empress,
and her father, who once said that it
was more important for a woman to
know how to bake pancake than to
be able to discuss constitutional law.
The Princess Victoria Louise, as the
only daughter in a large. family, has
been as much in danger. of being petted
as IT she were growing up in large
family of brothers in any German
household. The kaiser, however, is a
stern disciplinarian, and the empress be-
lieves in teaching household arts to
young girls.
The empress herself is famous
throughout Germany as cook, and the
little princess is learning her lessons
in the kitchen. No meal is ever set
before the emperor unless it has been
prepared under the supervision of the
carefully and thoroughly domesticated
wife. 1t is proposed that the princess
shall be just another such woman as
her mother.
Like millions of little girls of her
age, the princess is just emerging from
the doll and dollhouse stage of her ca
reer, which numbers II years. Now
the empress thinks the time has come
to fit the girl for real household duties,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-04-29

catarrh in any form or la grippe. A
course of Peruna is sure to correct all
these conditions. It is an ideal spring
medicine. Peruna does not irritate-it
invigorates. It does not temporarily
stimulate-it strengthens. It equal1zes
the circulation of the blood, franc uilizes
the nervous system and regulates the
bodily functions. Peruna, unlike so
many spring medicines. is not simply q
physic or slim ul ant or nervine. 1t is q
natural tonic and invigorator. ~
Ifyoudo not receive prompt and satis-
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving .
be pleased to give you his valuable ad-
vice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President Of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columb bus,
El11iO 1870