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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-04-26

school boys was looking at it recently and In
formed me that I would not do any good with
that. There's too much of it" He is . nice
bright fellow from South Carolina, but they had
better wake up down there if they still cultivate
with the bull tongue, paying a man to follow
one mule, going four to six times In a row, when
with two mules and a proper tool, he can do bet
ter work going once. Some object that "you can't
pillow big corn with it" Ihave used them and seen
them used since my boyhood, every farm in the
great corn belt having one or more of them, and
L ind that if corn is kept perfectly clean as long
as 1T will go under the arch, you can afford to
lay it by and begin building your crib.
Cultivate your corn every week If possible. No
matter how dry and clean it may be, stir the soil.
DO your deep blowing before the planter; shall
low afterward.
LOVE YOUR FARM.
! am heartily sorry for any man who is farming
for money merely. / would as soon marry money.
Either condition., it seems to me, would approach
very near the height and depth of human misery.
Next to my sweetheart wife, I love my farming,
and my pride and joy in its products is next to
that L take In our happy, helthy children. I
study its care and management, it's interest and
well being, present and future, almost as I study
theirs.
L am indeed truly sorry for the man who farms
as they used to say in nlinois-"to raise more
corn to feed more hogs, to make more money to
buy more land, to raise more corn to feed more
and so on to the grave.
Brother farmers, let US look up. We stand
next to God as the ministers of His material
benefits to the needs of mankind. Let us love our
and our homes. honor them and make
hem lovely.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-04-26

The best time to begin to improve methods of
cultivation is before the seed go into the soil. In
order to nourish the plant in the best possible
manner the soil must be thoroughly pulverized~
A clod does not give up food to . niant. The
greater the number and the larger the clods the
greater the amount of locked up or unavailable
plant food in any given soil. Complete pulveri-
zatlon OF the soil is essential to the best crop
y1eld. 1t is much easier and cheaper to prepare
the soil well when the two or three mule blows
and harrows can be used than when only the one
mule pillow and cultivator may be employed. The
single pillow and cultivation are all right after the
crop Is up, but as implements with which to pre-
Prof. J. NJ. johnson.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-04-26

better. I would apply three hundred pounds of
acid phosphate on the land before sowing peas,
and harrow it in well. To make a fertilizer for
late potatoes, I would use a mixture of one thou
sand pounds of acid phosphate, six hundred
pounds of cottonseed meal and four hundred
pounds of muriate of potash to make a ton, and
would apply not less than five hundred pounds per
acre.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-04-26
HENRY M. DANIEL.
Madison Co., N. G.
Peas and Late Irish Potatoes.
ours sincerely,
Progressive Farmer

H3uIIOIB IIUBIWBs1VTF BTmGTs
L am thinking of planting a crop of late Irish
potatoes. Will you please give me some advice
through your paper? I have a comparatively
fresh piece of ground. How will it do to SOW in
peas the middle of April? And how much acid
should be used under the peas? Also what grade
of fertilizer is best for late Irish potatoes?
r. S.
Rowan Co, N. G.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-13
What a Quick Witted Girl Did.

BY cultivating the faculty of doing
the right thing at the right time-that
is, the faculty of acting on ones own
initiative when the occasion calls for it
in the minor duties of the subordinate
he is preparing himself for the time,
sooner or later, when by exercising
his resourcefuness he will be able to
render his employer a great service.
This is the emergency that once
confronted a girl of seventeen years,
who was employed as book-keeper and
general Office clerk by a steam-heating
contractor in an Indiana city, says the
New York Commercial: The contrac-
tor, lis assistant anC the young Wo-
man book-keeper constituted the office
force. The contractor had not been
in business for himself long and was
hampered by lack of capital. He often
found himself in desperate straits. A
government contract was to be let in
a nearby city. He had sent his assist
ant there to bid for the work. He
knew that a heavy bond would be re-
quired and he didn't know where he
could get a bondsman but he told his
representative to go ahead and get q
bid in, if possible, hoping almost
against hope that he might be able by
hook or crook to land the contract.
The young book-keeper knew nothing
ed her employer. The assistant went
off to bic Oh the contract. There was
no lodging, the government require
ments, he found. a $4,000 bond
must accompany the bid. He wired
to his employer, but the latter was
then out of the city. The girl read the
dispatch and began to figure. She had
only an hour and a half in which to
get bond into the mail in time to
reach its destination before the bids
were t. hc closed. Besides, where was
the bond to come Ii ON? She knew
that he matter was Cf the utmost i'm
portance to her employer. She hur-
ried TO the bank where the contractor
had an account that was then close to
the low water mark. She asked to
speak to the president, who she had
never Seen-and she saw him. She
must furnish bond at once, she cx-
planned. She ut the situation strcne-
ly and emphasized the necessity of
Immediate acton. The bancr WAS inn
pressed by the girls earnestness and
her pluck, and she hardly gave him
time to take a second thought. In
ten minutes he had wired the govern
ment officials that he would go ON the
bond. The bid was accepted and the
contract was awarded to the girls
employer.
1T turned out to be his salvation.
HIS profits from the contract put linn
on firm financial footing and his
business prospered from that time on.
The young Womans salary was
promptly raised, of course.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-13
KleptOmania and Stealing.

Marshville Home.
The Monroe ENQUIRER scores a good
point when it tells about how the
Charlotte papers failed to make a
news item complete last week when
they refused to give the name of
young lady who stole a lot of goods
there during the fair. The reason
they refused to give the name was be-
cause the young lady belonged to a
very prominent family and she was
therefore pronounced a victim of Klep-
tomania, which is a new tangled dis
ease that is said to affect the minds
of rich people who steal. 1t never af-
fects poor people. AS the ENQUIRER
says, IF that woman who is such a
light-fngered thief was nothing more
than an ordinary cotton picker whose
father was somebody's cropper. the
name would be the first thing given"
Certainly it would. and she would have
been sent to Jail and you would have
heard nothing about "Kleptomania." 8"
either. This is another instance that
shows how being prominent and
wealthy covers un some awfully bad
sins. for it puts a person UP where
medical science has discovered a dis
ease that viii apply in such cases with
out calling it stealing.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-13

huge basin. two of the largest ships
afloat the Land Title Building of
Philadelphia and the Manayunk Nat
iOnal Bank oi the same city and the
st. Nicholas Church of Atlantic City.
Recently a large quantity Of cut stone
has gone to the Navy Yard at Wash
ington, and similar material is now
being delivered in Lexington, Ken
lucky for the erection of a fine bank
building. The Quarries are now cut
ting a large order for stone that viii
go into the great railroad tunnel III
course of construction in Washington.
The highest compliment ever paid
a southern quarry is the award to the
North Carolina Granite Corporation
told of a few days ago in a special to
the News and Observer under the
head of "a big contract awarded"
Your correspondent saw the official
notice sent to the different successful
bidding quarries that submitted bids
for stone to be used in the New Nat
fonal Museum to be erected in Wash
ington at cost of millions of dollars.
The stone alone for this great building
will cost about eight hundred thous-
and dollars. The official notice of the
awards contains this paragraph:
"The Attic story to the North Caro-
lima Granite Corporation as being the
lowest bidders for the most suitable
coIored stone to be superimposed upon
the Bethel (Vermontl stone of the
first and second stories" This cOp
tract it win be remembered amounts
to neadly $10S,000.00. This state
ment by the Construction Department
of the Government places Mount Airy
granite in the forefront of American
GRANTEES and establishes for all time
its claims as a building stone of the
first class.
Extensive improvements are being
made at the quarries and the facili-
ties are being greatly increased in or
der to handle the rapidly growing
business. A mammoth cutting shed.
thoroughly up-to-date, 500 feet in
length by 65 feet in width is now be-
ing erected. Every facility for hand
ling cut stone work will be installed
in the new shed and there will be no
cessation at any season on account of
weather.
The receipts of the railroads for
handling the products of the Mount
Airy quarries are $50,000.00 annually.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-13
S. M. SMITH,
w. G. WICKER,
l. r JOHNSON

Rev. C. w. Schiller, Secretary of the
New York Southern Conference was
extended the courtesies of the floor.
The committee on education was made
yesterday. Strong speeches were made
in support of the report. DIR. Staley,
the president of Elon College took
part. His management of the college
has brought it uD out of debt and
given it a permanent endowment fund
The committee on moral reform
read their report which was discussed
by the Hon. j. Fl. Fleming, of Raj
eigh. 1t took strong ground against
the divorce evil. Sabbath desecration,
sale of liquor and the cigarette habit
To-day the committees on Home and
Foreign Missions reported. Rev. j.
Q. Atkinson preached to-day at Il
o'clock. Rev. DR.. Staley preached a
fine sermon yesterday.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-13

bench cannot be oblivious to the in
fuence which procures promotions; and
how fatal to confirmation by the pluto
cratic majorit-v in the Senate is the
expression Of any judicial views not in
accordance with the safe. sane and
sound" predominance of wealth.
AS far back as 1920, Mr.. jefferson
had discovered the "sapping and min
ing as he termed it of the life
tenure, appointive Federal judiciary.
owing no gratitude to the people for
their appointment and fearing no in
convenience from their conduct how
ever arbitrary, in the discharge of
such office. In short they possessI the
autocratic power of absolute irrespon-
sibility. Step by step, one goes very
far" says the French proverb This
is true of the Federal judiciary. Com
pare their jurisdiction in 1904, when
Mars hall ascended the bench. and
their jurisdiction in 1904. The Con-
stitution has been remade and re-
written by the Judicial CLOSES put
upon ii. Had it been understood in
1881 to mean what it is construed to
mean today, it is safe to say that not
a single State would have ratified it.
rms IS shown bE the debates in the
state conventions, in many of which
the bare possibility of much less OBJ
Jectlonable construction was bitterly
denied and yet nearly caused defeat of
ratification. In 1922, in his letter to
Mr.. Barry, Mr.. jefferson said that it
was imperative that the United States
judges should be made elective for d
term of years, and suggested six years
as tho period
The tenure of judges for q term of
years is the popular will and judgment
as is shown by the adCotiort of that
method In fortv-one States. It has
worked satisfactorily in those States.
else they had returned to the appoint
i've life-tenure. The latter system Of
selecting the United States judges has
Continued on Page Two.)
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-13
TO PUSH THE WORK
Sunday Schools of the
Christian Church.
Eastern Conference in Session. Cons
mittee on Moral Reform Takes
Strong Ground Against the
Divorce Evil.
Especial to News and Observer.)

Especial to News and Obsarver.)
Jonesboro. n. c., Nov. 12.-The
Eastern North Carolina Christian corr
ference has been in session at Shall
lowell church near here for the past
three days. Prof. w. c. Wicker. OF
Elon College. n. c., is the PRESIDENT;
Rev. M. w. Butler, of Raleigh, y. c..
is the standing secretary. and J. +.
Ballentine. of Fuquay Springs, is the
treasurer. There were about twelve
ministers present and forty churches
represented. The annual sermon was
preached by Rev. w. G. Wicker. 1t
was excellent. Rev. w. c. Clements,
of Morrisville. n. c., was elected 10
deliver the next annual address with
Frof. $. NJ. Smith alternate Mr. j.
A. Banks was elected assistant secre-
tary. Rev l.. +. Johnson and NJ w.
Butler were appointed to fill vacan~
cies on the committee on Sunday
schools. Rec. w. w. Staley, d. d., of
Suffolk. Va, Rev w. r. Hernjon. Of
Elon College, Rev. j. O. Atkinson.
editor of the Christian Sun. Prof. :.
NJ. Smith, of Raleigh, n. c., were IN
vited TO seats as deliberative members.
The following report was diScusSe
by S. NJ. Smith, l.. F. Johnson. -. ".
Butler and adopted:
Schools.
We, your committee on Sunday
schools, beg to submit the following
report:
To begin with, we wish to say THAI
the Sunday scIool work OF our con-
ference is far from being satisfactory
We believe that to whatever extent We
may become dissatisfied with present
conditions in the work, to that extent
We may have to accomplish greater
things. Aside from what is done at
our annual Sunday School Conventions
we see little evidence of Advancement.
We believe provision should be maGe
whereby the interim between conven-
tions may be used for an intelligent
and aggressive prosecution of the
work. We therefore recommend:
/. That the system of fifth Sunday
meetings be resumed and that these
meetings be devoted regularly TO our
Sunday school and mission work.
,. That the officers of the conference
together with the officers of the con-
vention constitute q board of mis-
sions, and Sunday school work. - whose
duty it shall be to direct the work.
3. We endorse most heartily the ac-
ton of the Southern Christian Con-
vention, in creating. during its last
sessions, a Sunday school department
with Rev. NJ. w. Butler as its secce-
tary.
4. That we approve the establish
ment of the Young Peoples Worker
as the organ of the above-named de-
partment and pledge to it and TO its
editor. our most loyal support.
5. We recommend that our Sunday
schools use our own literature pub
lished by our publishing house at Day
ton, Ohio.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-13

A woman might be happy without
one.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-13

If woman could have her way she
would never quarrel.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1904-12-28
OFFICIAL CANVASS.

Chicago Dee. ~. The official can
vas6of the votes cast for president on
K7oyember Sth, was completed today
/when the result was announced in Min
nesota, North Dakota and Washington
The official total vote of all forty-fve
states is l35oS. 100, against l. 8, SOS j74 in
900, a decrease of 160.Oi2
Roosevelt received 7,627,632 votes and
Parker 5,0S0,034.
OF the seven candidates for president
Roosevelt received over all l,76,76
votes and over Parker 2,5l757S.
Roosevelt carried thirty states against
twenty. eight carried by Mckinley in
1900, and has $50 electoral votes under
the apportionment of 1000. Mckinley
had 1862 under the aprortionment of
1850, there having been all additional
twenty-nine by the last apportionment.
Parker carried thirteen states and has
40 electoral votes
Bryan carried seventeen states in 1900
and had 1j5 electoral votes.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1904-12-28
WORLD COOPERATION.

The idea Of cooperation among
farmers Is becoming universal, says
Up-To- Date Farming, and the other
classes that have so completely soli fed
their interests may well wonder If
they have not Taught their lesson too
well Word CONES from distant, and
distracted, and daspotic Russia, that
the farmers of that unhappy country
are rapidly forming cooperative
organizations. There are now 22O such
organizations in Eurol can Russia, say
the dispatches, and their number is
rapily growing. These associations
are devoted to the securing Of better
prices tor farm products, the buying
of supplies at wholesale, the improve
ment of farms and farming, and the
general upliit of agriculture. With
the world of rural life IN close CO.
operative combination, other com
blnes may need microscope to dis
cover their own insigniticanVe.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1904-12-28
TOTAL ADMISSIONS

The official report OF the directors
Of concessions and admissions of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition have
been made puolic. The report shows
that the total recorded admissions for
the period Of the Exposition from
April 30 TO December /, inclusive,
was 49, 694, So; of these, 10 s04, 6l6
were pad ana $3.50 239 were free.
The free admissions included from
~, 600 to 80 600 workmen who were
admitted daily for several weeks to
complete the work Of construction of
buildings and installation of exhibits
In the recorded admissions, Su ndays
are not taken into account, that day
having no relati onsbip to the official
records Of the Exposition.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1904-12-28
BIGGEST EVER.
Total Foreign Commerce For 1904
The Largest In HiStOry--A
Decrease In Exports.

According to the Bureau of StatIs-
tics of the Department of Commerce
and Labor. the total foreign commerce
for the calendar year about 10 end
will exceed that of any previous year
The total exports will probably fall
slightly below those of last year and
the years 1900 and 1901, but the total
imports Will materially exceed those OF
any year IN the past. The grand total
of exports and imports combined will
be the largest in history.
For the IL months ended with No
vember the imports amount to 1899, =
900, coo against 1913, 600, 900 for 1903
The total of exports for the II months
is about s., O0O 600 below the figures
for 1903 and S23, 600, 600 below those
of 1901 The decrease of s., 900, 600 is
consi dered very Insignificant one in
face of the decrease Of 1874 600 900
in the exports Of bread stuffs alone,
which was almost made up 10y the
decrease in other products
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1904-12-28
A Certain Cure for Group.

When child shows symptoms Of
Group there is no time TO experiment
with new remedies, no matter how
highly they may be recommended.
There il one preparation that can al
ways be depended upon. It has been
IN use for many years and has never
been known TO fail viz Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy Mr. ME-. Comp
TOP Of Market, Texas, says Of it, IL
have used Chamberlain s Cough Rem
ely i'm severe cases OF Group with my
children, and can tcuthtully say 1t
ALWAYS gives prompt RELIEF For
sale 10y Short q; Haynes.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1904-12-28
Grip Quickly Knocked Out.

"Some weeks ago during the severe
winter weather both my wife and my
self contracted severe colds which
speedily developed into the worst kind
of lagrippe with all. its miserable
symptoms, says Mr.. j. S. Egleston
of Maple Landing, Iowa. Knees an
joints aching, muscles sore, head stop
ped up, eyes and nose running, with
ternate spells of chills and fever. We
began using Chamberlain Cough
Remedy, adding the saline with dose
OF Chamberlain s stomach and Liver
Tablets, aud by its liberal use soon COM
plete knocked out the grip" These
Tablets promote a healthy action of
the, boweli liver and kidneys which Is
always beneficial when the system is
congested by cold or attack of the
grip For sale by Short q Haynes.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1904-12-28
VOTE OF OTHER YEARS.

Mcclellan in 1904 poll-d 453 j6S more
votes than Douglas in 1860
Seymour III S6S polled 900, 800 more
votes than Mcclellan IN 1861,
Greeley in 1872 oiled 12f,464 more
otes than Seymour in 1868.
Tilden in 1876 polled lao 500 more
votes than Greeley in 1872.
Hancock in 1880 pollei l51 $50 more
votes than Tilden in 1876.
Cleveland i'll 1884 polled lGS, 972 more
votes than Hancock in 1880
Cleveland in 1888 polled 62G,2l6 more
votes than Cleveland in 1884
Cleveland in 1892 polled ,6S5 more
votes than Cleveland in 1888
Bryan in 1896 polled 946,O07 more
votes than Cleveland in 1892
Bryan in 1900 poled l44 1872 fewer
votes than Bryan in 1896
Parker in 1901 polled about l,250.0O0
fewer votes than Bryan in 1900, nearly
100000 ever vot as than Bryan in 1875.
about 49, COZ fewer votes than Cleve-
land in 1892, about AIS coo fewer votes
than Cleveland in 1888, and /, 200 0c0
more votes than Cleveland in 1884.
From 1860 to 1900 the Democratic
party gained votes in every national
election. In 1876, in lSSl,in 1888 and
1892 itpolled a plurality of the popular
vote and in 1881 HaucOCly fell ONLY.
1000 behind Garfield.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1904-12-28
DIDN T KNOW THEM.

He leanei against the newsstand OF
the FIFTH Avenue hotel and stroked
his gray beard as he watched the clerk
handing out copies OF the current
number of popular magazine as
rapidly as possible, saws the New
York World
"What are the people buying that
book for he asked
sob, it's gotta long piece In it about
Lawson, said the clerk, sitting out
another magazine.
Lawson Who's Lawson" asked
the stranger
W e-l,-l, say, are you Kiddlng?'
and the clerk leaned over In amaze
ment.
mo, - declared the stranger, Who
is her,
"Oh, he amt ANYBODY but Tom
Lawson, and he's just paralyzing
that STANDARD Oil bunch. Say, uncle,
did you ever hear of Cassie Chad
wick?"
mo, l never heard of him either.
The clerk gasped. Say are there
any newspapers u your town.
Certainly, replied the stranger
Indignantly.
well, where do you nve-in
Cheyenne
mo sir, said, the stranger, NOV
ing away, Il m a resident of Boston.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1904-12-28
The Breckenridge News.
WEDNESDAY. December IS. 1870!
RICH FURNITURE
Mans Niece, Miss Katie Burns, Of
anderson, Bride Of Eugene
Tatum, Of This City.

.Mr. Eugene Tatum, of this city, was
married, last Wednesday afternoon at
l 80 O'Clock, to Miss Katie Burns, of
Henderson The ceremony was per-
formed at the residence of the bride
father, Mr. Robert Burns, at Hender
son. 1t was quiet home affair, there
being no attendants. Mr.. and Mrs.
Tatum returned to this city Wednesday
Afternoon on the AS train. Mr..
Tatums brother, Weaver Tatum at
tended the wedding from this city.
Miss Burns is niece of Amos
Rhodes, of Louisville. Mr.. Rhodes is Il
member of the firm of the Rhodes
Burford Furniture Company, which
has the largest store of its kIud In
Louisville. Mr. Rhodes is one of the
leading furniture dealers of the coun-
try, he and Mr.. Buford having large
branch furniture stores in Southern
cities.
Mr.. Tatum has the position of car
knocker at the L. H. q st. l.. shops,
and is II well-liked young man. He
came to this city from Morgsntown
about three years ago.
Mr.. ana Mrs. Tatum will reside on
the north side of Fourth street, in the
West End. Mr. Tatum formerly board
ed at the Squires House
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1904-12-28
Fight Will Be Bitter.

Those who Will persist In closing
thire ears against the continual recon-
mendation of DIR. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, will have
a long and hitter fight with their
troubles If not ended earlier by fatal
termination. Read what 7. r Beall
of Beall, Miss, has to say; Last fail
my wife had every symptom OF con-
sumption She took DR.. Kings New
Discovery after everything else had
failed Improvement came at once and
four bottles entirely cured her Guar
anteed py Short a. Haynes, Druggists.
Price SOC, and 81. 90. Trial bottles free.