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The Newtown bee., 1904-03-25

It the last the Exposition Days All the merchants of the city have combined hold their Spring Openings the time that people from distance might and profit by the Spring displays all the trouble of single trip For the last of these Exposition Days Saturday. they have united in
The Newtown bee., 1904-03-25
$2.25 Hats,
 $I.I0, Saturday.

VI hest are new shapes in black chif- ion and fancy straw Hats, almost
 y to wear, too.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-03-01
HARVIE JORDAN,
Cotton Growers Protective
Henry Grady on Cotton.

"What royal plant it is The world waits in
attendance on it's growth; the shower that falls
whispering it's leaves is heard around the
earth; the that shines on it is tempered by
the prayers of all the people, the frost that chils
it and the dew that descends from the stars are
noted and the trespass of a little worm on it's
green leaf is to England than the advance
of the Russian army on her Asian outposts. It
is gold from the instant it put forth its tiny
shoot. Its fibre is current in every bank, and
whenS loosing it's feeces to the sun, it floats a
sunny banner that glorifes the fields of the hum
bic farmer, that man is marshaled under a flag
that will compel the allegiance of the world and
wiring subsidy from every nation earth. It
is the heritage that God gave to this people for
their own when He arched skies, estab-
ished mountains, girt us about with the
ocean, loosed the breezes, tempered the sunshine
and measured the rain-ours and our children's
forever; princely talent as ever came from
His hand to mortal stewardship"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-03-01

Why, gentlemen, the other day the Congress
of the United States appropriated $2OOO00,0O0
to build the Panama Canal. Is there man in
this audience that will not say that $20OOOO,OOO
expended in the betterment of our roads will do
more good than if spent on the Panama Canal2
I think it is going to make Gulf of Mexico
the great Mediterranean of the Western World;
I think it is going to extend our trade with the
Orient more than anything else; I am for the
Panama Canal but above all things I am for good
roads.-Col J. B. Killebrew
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-03-01

will provide for slow movement of the crop from
the farms each season.
We must learn to be business well as the
mere producers of the most valuable agricultural
product in the world. We must learn how to sell
as well as produce, and when we have made a crop
sell it for profit, else the years labor has been in
vain. I think great good would result from large
meetings held in the States this summer by cotton
producers and the question of marketing their
cotton and cotton seed fully discussed from the
business standpoint of the situation. [ am salts
fed that the these questions agitated
among the producers the better the results. The
time has come, when the producers have bright
prospect ahead of them if the situation is handled
properly Cooperation throughout the belt is
essential to success. Let not make the vital
mistake at the very threshold of bright future
by trying to raise surplus which can be used to
blight the present hopes which animates the heart
of every grower. Let every farmer who reads
these lines pause and consider before he plants his
cotton acreage for the year 1904.
Very respectfully,
HARVIE JORDAN,
President Southern Cotton Growers Protective
Association.
Monticello, Ga.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-03-01
THE PRESENT COTTON SITUATION.
Notable Article by President Harvie Jordan, of the
Southern Cotton Growers Protective Association.


Southern Cotton Growers Protective Association.
Editors Progressive Farmer:
l have noticed with much pleasure the strong
advocacy of the best interest of Southern agricul
ture through your widely-circulating paper. The
press is the most powerful educator of modern
times, and when rightly directed can accomplish
great good for the masses. Your special "Cotton
Edition." issued at this particular season of the
year, feel assured will be highly appreciated by
the many readers into whose hands it will go.
The present consumption of American cotton by
the spinners of the world having exceeded the sup
plies, prices for the staple have advanced more
than hundred per cent since last October.
Naturally, the present price of cotton, higher
than it has been before in twenty years, has fired
the hearts of Southern cotton producers with fe-
verish impatience to become the possessors of
many bales of this valuable staple as possible
in the year 1904 Those who had the good judg
ment to market their crop slowly through the
present season enjoyed part of the recent high
prices, but a vast majority of the producers pur-
sued the old method of rushing their staple the
market fast ginned, and the spectators
reaped the profits
Present indications point not only to an in
creased cotton acreage throughout the belt this
year, but it is apparent that producers are also
preparing to largely increase the of CONNER
cial fertilizers. The general disposition of many
planters at this time is to make the effort not only
to increase their cotton acreage per plow, but to
increase the yield per acre. Last year, we were
forced to abandon five per cent of the acreage
planted on account of the scarcity of labor, and
we are now confronted with labor conditions not
so fattering as they were in January, 1908. The
increase of cotton acreage only be made
at the expense of our supply crops This would
be suicidal policy even if we felt assured that
the prices of cotton for next season could be
maintained at 10 and u cents per pound from the
opening to the close of the selling
PRICE OF PROVISIONS HIGH.
The present prices for Western wheat have ad-
vanced to more than 81 per bushel and -four will
soon be selling at from So to So per barrel Mules
are already selling at 25 per cent higher figures
than they commanded one year ago. Commercial
fertilizers have advanced fully 25 per cent Cloth
ing and all the necessaries of life have recently
been marked in the same proportion.
Farmers who purchase their supplies with which
to make the cotton crop under existing conditions
cannot do so at less than 10 cents per pound for
their staple. Great nations now at war, and
the price of provisions will necessarily be much
higher than at present before the end of the year
The question of provisions for the vast armies is
of more Importance than that of clothing. The
greatest mistake ever made by Southern cotton
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-03-01

producers will be to reduce their usual acreage in
wheat, corn, oats, pease, sorghum and other simi-
lar crops in order to create abnormal acreage
in cotton which cannot be proftably cultivated or
sold. We want to make enough cotton to meet the
worlds requirement for our staple next fall, but
we will need the supply crops just as much, if not
more. than the cotton.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-03-01
A GREAT OPPORTUNITY.

Southern cotton producers now face the great
est opportunity they have had since 1855 to con-
troll the cotton situation next and force the
buyers of their staple to pay them its true and
legitimate value The first thing most needful is
to make the smoke-house and corn crib the bull
wark of safety between the growers and the COM
mercial world. This can only be done by stead
fastly clinging to the usual acreage devoted to
supply crops and approaching the high impor-
tance of correct system of diversified agricul-
ture.
We have already learned that short crop of
cotton sells for more money in the aggregate than
an abnormaly large crop. The second important
lesson to learn is to market the crop slowly. No
farmer should sell more than one-tenth of his
crop each month, thereby extending the market
ing season through ten instead of four months as
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-03-01


debtor absolutely in the hands of the merchants
during October and November. Through the
Agricultural and Census Bureau Departments at
Washington, d. O., we are now assured of correct
statistics regarding the yield of the crop each
season in advance of sales, and I am much graft
fed to know that such Neil, Buston and
others of like calibre, have been thereby put out
of business. Farmers no longer be handi
capped and hoodwinked by the false reports of
commercial concerns issued for private and selfish
purposes. The work of years in bringing about
these safeguards for cotton producers has at last
been accomplished, and now the producers must
put forward some individual thought and action
in order to fully protect their interests from the
avaricious hands of the commercial world. 1t
cannot be done by increasing the present acreage
in cotton and decreasing the acreage in supply
crops. It cannot be done by rushing the staple on
a glutted market and selling it at whatever price
the buyers may offer 1t only be done by
planting a reasonable acreage of each farm in
cotton and by making proper effort to increase
the yield per acre; by raising all the supplies
needed on the farm with which to make the crop,
and the immediate adoption of a system which
Arizona republican., 1904-07-08
REDONDo BEACH
How the Fourth Passed at That Sea-
 side ReSorf.

1 Redondo Beach, Cal, July 5.-
 Especial Correspondence of The Repub- | ltcan) )-Attractions ir, Redondo brought people in large numbers here on the Fourth.
 The street ears on both lines were crowded to the guards and in addition had double headers, while the santa Fe was obliged to add extru coaches ! to accommodate the crowds arrived here. They thronged the bath houses. took the boulevard to Knob Hill. and while these saw the fine golf links the tennis court, ,carnation gardens and the beautiful residences there, took launch rides on the ocean wave, lunChed at the great hotel, ard in many other ways enjoyed the festivities of the day. in the afternoon a high-class vaudeville slow attracted largse numbers, and in the evening the fines. display of fire works ever seen here was witness eI from the water. The day was rounded out by a dance in the Tent City audi torium, which brought out a fine com pany.
 The weather was ideal, and nothing of note occurred to mar the days gay etics.
 Nr. Brown landed fine mackere} yesterday, weighing thirty pounds, and MT. Johnson reported a catch with net, of two tons.
 Capt. J. c. FarnswOrth, Los Ange- les. passed the Fourth in Redondo.
 J. II. Murphy, Bernard Nlieves, Le- royle Macomber. WuA. Blanchard Jr., and wife, are Pasadenans at Hotel Re- dondo. Redlands guests are MT. and Mrs. Hemingway and II. N. Botsford and wife
 Tent C5ty is fast filling up wi,h tour ists for the season. Not the least at traction is the auditorium which has one of the best floors for dancing on the coast.
Arizona republican., 1904-07-08
1.-The EfarNest of War :"

It is to Ihe credit of humanity that the statistics Uf wounds and death in battles such as those fought between Russia and Japan should read so grievous}y. but there is comfort in the reflection that "a modern fight is infinitely more merciful in every as- pect then an equivalent contest in oth- CT ages. It is doubtful whether even "villsinous saltpetre" or all the horri- blc science of explosives has added to the actual loss of life in battle, since the very deadliness of modern fire arms holds armies for the most part separate, and the hand-to-hand strug
 gle, the bloody massacre of the defeat cd, which formed so frequent and, in the eyes of the old ballad-makers, so picturesque an incident of the mediae- val combat, no longer take place.
 MT. Edwin L. Arnold, the novelist points out in an article in the New York World that the record of mor- talities in modern war cannot be conn pared with the slaughter of ancient times. Thus, when Attila, the "Scourge of God" was beaten by Act
Arizona republican., 1904-07-08
The Moore-C Cliff.

12l So. Hill St. LOS ANGELES.
 A new house just completed. European plan. Large, sunny outside rooms. single and ensuite. Newly and handsomely fu n- ishcd. Private baths. Hot .tnl coII Wa ter in every room. Delightful location Cars from all depcJs. Rates 75c dey and UT. Special weekly and monthly rat 8.
 :. T. MODIIE. Proprietor.
Arizona republican., 1904-07-08
Democracy In China.

A marked change has taken place in the relation between the dynasty and the people to China, according to a pa per by Harold Boice in the July Book lovers Magazine. At one time officials exacted commodities rom merchants at rates rUinously below their actual value. It was euphemisticalIy called selling at mandarin prices.' Now all that officials and nobles wear or eat, everything they use in any of the arts of peace or in ceremonial rites, is paid for at the market price
 Formerly when princes travelled the people were burdcned to pay the ex- penses of their journey. The tidings of their coming spread ocnsternation. Today when a prince makes q pilgrim age through the empire the taxes along the route of his itinerary gre in many cases remitted as a special act of off, cial chiyalry.
 In other ways more intimate rela- tions are developing constantly be- tween the pcpulace and the governing classes. Many of the penai laws of China have been modified. From a maximum hundred blows of the bam- boo the agonizing limit has been re- duced to forty and during the hot mouths to thirty-two.
 Formerly when criminal deserving capital punishment was caught in Chi ma no member of his family survived to grieve over the disgrace. Extermin- ation was gruesomely dealt out to all his kindred. This wholesale extirpa- ton has been checked, and if a crim- inal happens % be an only child he is kept alive ard compelled to support the parents he has dishonored.
Arizona republican., 1904-07-08
H0STETTER'S STOMACH BlTTERS
HIN

Eighth and Hope st. Los Angeles Cn- der new management. A splendid house. Close in, central location. American plan only. Low summer rates prevail and r point of economy and comfort, ArizOuians viii md his most desirable house te stay at. Ex- celleny table large, airy, wei fuuiellfd rooms, Cars from all railroad statiou7 pass the door. Ii. N. RICkS, Prop.
Arizona republican., 1904-07-08
A
The To1lraine.

AT So Hope St, LOS ANGELES, CAL.
 Offers to parties desiring accommoda- tions in Los Angeles during he summ months, 2S completely and finely furn- ished apartments, each with private bath and Kitchen. The Touraine apartments, by means of patented features have all the conveniences of a room flat in two rooms. The greatest advance in modern apartment hotel building. Descriptive booklet and terms on request.
Arizona republican., 1904-07-08

If the Globe makes notice Of an amateur concert readable, you have no idea how # is hated by those who took part. Therefore we have decided to pay more attention to the Uplift herc- Globe.
Arizona republican., 1904-07-08

The dressmaker allows many of her best ideas to go to waist A..~..-.
Arizona republican., 1904-07-08
PATENTS.

PATENTS-Hazard 6 Harpham, Les Angeles. Send for frse book on psteHts.
Arizona republican., 1904-07-08
GET THERE
THE POsSMoRE

l1e w. Sixth st. Los AnqeIes.
 A splendid roOming house. Close in location, opposite Central Park. Free baths, every convenience. Just thor oughly renovated, Rates $3 week and up.
Arizona republican., 1904-07-08
HOTEL COLUMBIA
612 s. Broadway, LOS ANGELES.

A homelike place where Arizonians will be particularly well cared for. Large, airy rooms, community kitchen, free baths, roof garden, convenient to all beach cars and theaters. Reason able summer rates.
 MRS. L. T. BCRRELL, Propr.
Arizona republican., 1904-07-08
TIE FIRST SEP

Toward recovering your health is made when you commence taking Hostetter's s Stomach Bitters. l. restores the sto- mach to a normal condition, corrects the liver, promotes bowel regularity and induces resdul sleep. Doctors en- dorse and recommend it. IL always cures Vomiting, Bioating, Headache, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Dizziness, Cramps, and Malaria, Fever and Ague. Try one bottle and be cohvinced of it's value.
Newport daily independent., 1904-08-17
DECLARES ALFALFA
 MORE PROFITABLE.

Lafayette Lancaster has SUD- piled the Batesville market this season with a lot of fine alfalfa hay, says the Batesville Bee. MT. Kaneaster has about 50 acres of land now set in alfalfa. He has cut it the third time and has secured each time about one and one fourth tons of baled hay. He will get two more crops that will turn out equally as well as the others. MT. Kaneaster gets SIP per ton for all the hay he deliv- CTS.
 MT. Lancaster used to be a cotton grower and cultivated the best land on White river, and he was successful too, but he thinks growing alfalfa hay is far more pleasant and profitable than growing cotton.
Newport daily independent., 1904-08-17
CHARLEY COLE
 ATTACKS DAVIS.

Mammoth Spring, Aug. 16.- Charles F. Cole, representing Harry Myers candidacy for gov ernor, spoke last night to fair ly good-sized audience.
 MT. Cole touched lightly on national issues, confning himself principally to state issues. He attacked Gov. Davis on the ques- tion of public schools and said that the governor was not friend ly to them.
Newport daily independent., 1904-08-17
FOR SALE CHEAP.

We are closing out the balance of our stock of lumber at greatly reduced. figures. Those needing lumber for the construction of outbuildings, fences, sidewalks, etc., will do well to call on us before purchasing elsewhere. h. quire at the office of the Kelley Lumber Company. 79-d12t
Newport daily independent., 1904-08-17
ON THE HEIGHTS
 OF MAGAZINE.
Mount Magazine, Aug. 15. To the Independent:

Mount Magazine, Aug. 15. To the Independent:
 Above the clouds or in them, above the heat and dust and ma laria, far from the confusion of tongues, the conflict, competition and cares of everyday life, just a few people gather here year after year to enjoy the exhilerat- ing air and the inspiring com panionship of woods and cliffs and clouds, of splendid sunset skies, ravishing views of moun- tain and valley, and through it all a closeness to the great heart |of nature that seems to attune human hearts to higher ideals and purer purposes.
 Magazine mountain is one of Fhe many good things of Arkan- |as that the people do not seem Q appreciate to the extent of ppropriating and enjoying.
 The thermometer today, which
 one of the warmest, registers ply 80 degrees at noon and the is so dry there is such a good
 eeze that this seems nothing
 e so warm as the same tenn
 rature in the valley.
 At the inn there have been but
Newport daily independent., 1904-08-17

Huston and children from Ben ton, Mrs. Gratz Jones and little son from Magazine and Mrs. Adams of Havana, with the hus- bands of these ladies coming up to stay over Sunday. Yesterday Miss Sue Oldham of Magazine and MT. J. Maiden of Little Rock were pleasant guests on the mountain and assisted materially in the Sunday school service that is held every Lords day at the pavilion, under the leadership of Mrs. M. A. Dorsey of Newport. There were twenty-one present, who followed with much interest the lesson for the day.
 There are always a great num- Der of children on the mountain. There is quite a little colony of campers, chiefly from the town of Magazine, among them the Leftwich family, Dr. Hooper and family, two families of John sons and others. The George family of Magazine occupy their cottage and the Wilmans family of Newport are enjoying their encampment at "The Roost. " Among their guests this season are Mrs. G. P. Horner of Balti- more and MT. and Mrs. J. J. Webster of Nashville, Tenn. Members of the large family come and go continually, so there is always a crowd at "The Roost. Father Wilmans pre- sides over his household in pa- triarchal fashon and spends his time playing with his youngest grandson, J. E. Wilmans, Jr., and talking prohibition to the mountaineers, among whom he finds many strong sympathizers. Many express much satisfaction at the opportunity his candidacy affords them to save their citi- zenship and yet not vote for a certain obnoxious candidate.
 The family of MT. Harris, mer- chant of Belleville occupy their cottage, and MT. Brown, the hearty octogenarian and Boa nerges of the mountain, still en- tertains with his songs and rem iniscences and speaks with un- abated enthusiasm of Hon. James K. Jones, who with his wife spent some days in MT. Browns home two years ago.
 So much for our grand old mountain and it's inhabitants, and a kindly remembrance for all who have been with us in past seasons.
Newport daily independent., 1904-08-17
TOURIST RATE.

The Frisco System will issue, during the summer months, tour ist round-trip tickets to various resorts and locations the moun- tains, lakes and seashore, at greatly reduced rates, with am- pie return limit.
 Call or nearest agent, or ad- address Passenger Traffic Depart ment, St. Louis. 82-3w
Newport daily independent., 1904-08-17
BENEDICTS BEAT
 BACHELORS AT BALL.
Game Tuesday Won by Married Men, Though Called in
 Sixth Inning.

The much talked of ball game between the benedicts and bache- lors of our little city was pulled off Tuesday afternoon in Chas- tain's addition, as announced, and resulted in the discontinue of those who have not yet found better halves.
 The score at the end of the sixth inning, when the game was called, not on account of dark ness or rain, but for the better reason that the benedicts were winded and exhausted, was 29 to 21, but as fifteen points of the latter score had been made in the last three innings, it is only reasonable to suppose that the singles would have come out ahead had the full nine innings been played.
 But perhaps the umpire, Mir. o. s. Lawrence, was afraid the printer would run out of figures if the score was allowed to pile up at the pace set in the first half of the game.
 Reamey occupied the box for the benedicts, and, with his outs and down shoots, kept the boys at the bat guessing. He soon had a glass arm and Arthur Um- stead took his place. For the bachelors, Owen and Buford were in the box, but their twists were easily located by the older crowd.
 c. w. True was doing some clever work behind the bat. talk ing in Reamey's curves without a mask, when he was badly struck by a foul ball over one eye, causing a painful injury.
 w. B. Robinson is another mar ried man who had quite a mishap and was put out of the game thereby. He was making a backward run to put man out between bases and skilled as he is in lodging switch engines and freights in the railroad yards, took too many chances, fell backward, struck terra firma with a dull, sickening thud and saw more stars than shine on a moonless night.
 As to the features of the game, they were many and varied, but chiefly errors. The water wagon was there and received many hurry-up calls from the in and out-feld. The lineup of the