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The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-10-04
THIS WEEKS PAPER-soME RANDOM COM
MENT
MENT.

Our readers will agree with us, we think, that
our article on the selection Of seed corn deserves
all that we said of it last week. The illustrations
also add very much to it's effectiveness.
DIR. F. L. Stevens concludes this week his series
of articles on "Fungicides and Spraying They
have been very instructive and will undoubtedly
induce some of our readers to test the value of
spraying in their own fields and orchards. Next
week we shall have an article from DR.. Stevens
on "Treatment of Seed Wheat, Oats and Rye for
Smut"
"To the Girl Away From Home," is an article
that every mother of a girl at boarding school
will wish to send to her daughter. The suggestion
in regard to window gardens from Mrs. L., of
South Carolina, ought to be generally adopted.
One need not buy expensive ferns, however; the
common ones will add greatly to the attractive
ness of the home.
The very finest article on the cotton situation
that has yet come to our notice is that which we
have reprinted on pace 10 of this number. The
argument for higher cottonseed prices deserves
especial attention. Cottonseed oil is now so
generally used as a substitute for lard, that there
is no disputing the logic of this cotton growers
reasoning: "a short crop and high prices for
corn means a short crop and high prices for
hogs; and with hogs high, lard will be high, and
high-priced lard means high-priced cotton oil;
then why not high prices for cottonseed paid to
the farmers %
The last of Mr.. Koonce's series of articles on
the proposed cotton farmers trust will appear
next week.
The "Reading Course for Teachers" promises
to be, even for the general reader, one of the most
interesting departments of our paper. Do not over
look it. It is none the less Instructive and enter
tanning because labeled "for teachers"
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-10-04
PROF. sTOcKARD's BEST POEM.

We are glad to have a request from a reader
for the republication of Prof. Henry Jerome
Stockard's "Nocturne," that exquisite little poem
written for The Progressive Farmer several
months ago. Prof. Stockard regards this as his
best piece of poetic workmanship: in twelve short
suggestive lines he paints a picture so vivid as to
make every reader feel it's supreme loneliness
and tells a story charged with life's deepest emo
tion. The poem is as follows:
might closing in on reaches gray
Of marsh and dune and single lone,
Whose hush brings out the far-away
Eternal moan.
Darkness unbeaconed, unconfned;
A mist along the void that sleeps;
A lost, forlorn, and crying wind
From central deeps.t
90 ship that sailed with canvas black
Into the dolorous waste of sea,
From it's uncharted zones bring back
My love to mep
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-10-04
Importance of the Cotton Crop.

The net earning of all the railroads in the
United States in 1908 would not have paid for the
cotton crop raised that year by something like
800, 100000.
On July 1, 1903, there was not half enough
money, gold, silver and currency in the United
States Treasury to pay for the cotton crop made
that year, nor would all the gold in circulation in
the United States at that time have paid for it.
In 1902 (the last report [ could get) there lacked
in round numbers $3.50 ,OOO, 900 being enough gold
and silver combined, coinage value, produced in
the world to pay for our last years cotton crop.
ALL the gold and silver coined in the United
States in the last five years would not have paid
for the cotton crop produced in 1908. And all
the money held by all the National banks in the
United States on September 9, 1903, when their
report was made, would have lacked more than
$780, 900, 900 paying for that cotton crop. Our
last years cotton crop would have run the public
schools of the United States two and one-halt
years.-From Mr.. T. B. Parker's Response to
Address of Welcome, Southern Cotton Growers
Association, ST. Louis, No, Septeber 70 l9o4.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-10-04
FILL UP THE BLAME AMI SEND IT AcK

Mr.. Subscriber, The Progressive Farmer will en-
ter its twentieth volume next February, and we
must have 1000 more new subscribers before that
time. Do you say it can't be done? Well, "doing
things that can't be done is the glory of living"
as somebody has wisely said. Besides, let us tell
you a story:
Uncle Remus was telling the Little Boy of one
of Brer Rabbits hair-breadth escapes. The pur-
surer was almost upon Mr.. Cottontail and i'm an
other moment might have him in his grasp. "And
right then Brer Rabbit he clumb a tree" said
Uncle Remus.
"But rabbits can't climb trees" protested the
Little Boy.
"Never mind" replied the old darkey, "Brer
Rabbit this time was obleeged-iest obleeged-
to climb the tree-en' he clumb it."
The moral is that we are "obleeged" to get these
1000 subscribers and-we are going to get them.
The only thing needed is to get people to read
our paper till January LIST. And this is where we
must have your help, Mr.. Subscriber. We are
sending you this week a subscription blank for a
list of names and you can fill it up easily within
the next week with names of 15-cent trial sub
scribers if you will speak to your neighbors,
friends and relatives.
Fill it up, please, and send it back. We must
have the subscribers and we count on your help.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-10-04
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.

The farmer imagines power and place are fine
things. But the President has paid for his White
House. It has commonly cost him all his peace
and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve
for a short time so conspicuous an appearance
before the world, he is content to eat dust before
the real masters who stand erect behind the
throne. Or, do men desire the more substantial
and permanent grandeur of genius? Neither has
this an immunity. He who by force of will or of
thought is great, and overlooks thousands, has
the responsibility of overlooking:-From Emer-
sons Essay on compensation"
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-10-04
THE SOUTHERN COTTON GROWERS coNvEN-
TON.

We regret that we have not received for this
issue a fuller report of the meeting of the South
ern Cotton Growers Association In st. Louis last
week. In our next number we hope to have its
action reviewed by Mr.. 7. B. Parker and Secre-
tary Jno. 2. Allison.
The meeting was called to order by President
Haryie Jordan Monday morning, the Association
welcomed by Hon. F. W. Taylor, Chief of the
Agricultural Division of the Worlds Fair, and
the response to the address of welcome was by
Mr.. L. b. Parker, of North Carolina.
Plans for the warehousino of cotton chiefly ac-
cupied the attention of the meeting. Hon. S.
F. B. Morse, of the Southern Cotton Corporation
of New York, presented one plan; Mr.. W. d.
Summerell, of New York, another, and Judge
Eugene Williams, of Texas, presented what is
known as the Waco warehousing system. A COM
mittee, consisting of Peters, of Texas; Speight,
of North Carolina; Davis, of Georgia; Potts, of
Missouri; Stewart, of Florida; Randolph, of
Missouri, and President Harvie Jordan, was ap-
pointed to consider these plans and report on
Tuesday. This committee on Tuesday recon-
mended the adoption of the Waco plan, which is
in brief as follows:
"It is here proposed to organize a corporation,
whose capital stock in shares of ten dollars each
shall be placed in the hands of the farmers, mer-
chants, bankers and business men generally
throughout the cotton growing States and Terri
tories. The idea is to call upon secretaries of
farmers organizations and business mems clubs
and associations In counties where they exist, and
upon the leading farmers, bankers, merchants,
county officers, and especially school teachers and
other enterprising citizens to volunteer and cause
others to volunteer to canvass their respective
counties, cities and neighborhoods for subscrip-
tions to ten dollar shares of the capital stock
of such corporation, these solicitors to be well
paid for their services.
soon as sufficient subscriptions have been
paid in, stockholders meetings of subscribers of
each county will be held at the respective county
seats, to be called through the press, to elect a
proxy to vote the stock of such subscribers in his
county at an Interstate meeting of such proxies
to be held at New Orleans. La, as early as practi-
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-10-04

cable. These proxies should be the best men of
their respective counties, to be selected for their
business capacity, fitness, and deep interest in
the cotton growing industry, whether farmers,
bankers, merchants, or men of other vocations,
being a secondary consideration. This Inter
State meeting at New Orleans will deliberate up
on the best method of accomplishing their one
great purpose. The chief and probably only posi-
tive action to be taken at New Orleans would
doubtless be the selection of a board of directors
approximately one from each cotton growing
State and Territory, to organize such corporation
and manage its affairs for the first year. The
success of the whole enterprise would depend upon
the wisdom displayed in the selection of
these directors, for to them would be COM
out the details of the system"
Another resolution adopted by the Association
urges farmers to sell no cotton for less than ten
cents a pound, and to sell as little as possible in
October and November, conditions favoring ad-
vancing prices later.
Hon. Harvie Jordan, of Georgia, was reelected
President of the Convention, and Mr.. Jno. P.
Allison, of Concord, N. c., Secretary and Treas
urer.
Since the foregoing article was written, we have
received another report of the meeting from Mr..
L. LIZ Il o1nSAS OSSASO0AJ vi CO ~
cultural Publishing Company, and our representa-
tive at this convention. Says Mr.. Parker:
"It was a great meeting. I think every cotton
growing State was represented. Georgia had the
largest delegation, North Carolina next. There
were thirty or forty Tar Heels. The discussions
were very interesting.
"The committee appointed to consider the diff
ferent plans for warehousing cotton reported ia
vorably the Waco plan, which was adopted by the
convention without a dissenting vote; but there
developed at the last moment of discussion some
suspicion as to the advisability of adopting eth
'er of the plans to the exclusion of the others, or
of any other that may yet be presented. How
ever, the action of the convention is not construed
to bind any State, nor any part of any State, to
the plan adopted"
Vice-President III. D. Edgerton, of the Farmers
State Alliance, who arrived in Raleigh Saturday
on his return from ST.. Louis, is highly enthusi-
astic over the meeting. "I believe it will prove
to be for Southern farmers the most important
meeting that has been held anywhere for many
years" he says. "Within a few short years I
believe that this warehouse system will practically
cover the South and that it will be the greatest
step yet made toward the proper control and mar
keting of our cotton CROP"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-03-24
Afrisnd Of the tsoms-
4 toe OF the Trust
Calumet
Baking
Powder
Mods,s&s In prJos-Mskss unrest foods
Joe.

The same Joe as CT old, the same
good-natured, beaming countenance,
the same jolly Joe as ever. 1t is just
as natural for Joe to come back and
see his friends in Sank Centre as it is
for the four seasons of the year to
come and 60, and his friends are al
ways glad to see him. 1t was no great
surprise, but an agreeable one to
many, when on Saturday evening Joe
Smiths arrival was announced.
For the past four years he has been
in North Dakota, and has done we'll.
He has taken up homestead near the
Canadian line, and made improve
ments on his land, in the winter he
works at his trade and plays in an Or
chestra, and lie happy. For great
many years Joe was one of the main
stays in the Herald Office. and has
a bunch of interesting incidents that
while he was with the Office,
that are we'll worth hearing. He will
remain about a week. He ia en-
ployed or a paper at Whe atland, N.
D., at present.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-03-24
South Ashley.

Fine weather, and good roads for
results. I
Sleigh loads of men from all parts
OF the country were seen going to
Padua to the sale on Tuesday last. -.
A large party Of young folks were
entertained at the home of Mr.
Wehehahn on Sunday evening. The
time was pleasantly spent playi, g
games and listening to the melodious
strains drawn from the organ to &C
company the singing by Mr.. August
Klone.
Mr.. Walter Angstman spent Sunday
at home.
John V. Gray purchased a driving
horse on Friday last. "Something
doing"
Carroll Haynes spent Sunday at Mr..
Geo. Gray's
Miss Mirtle Gray returned home on
Friday last after a two weeks visit
with her sister, Mrs. G. A. Irish of
Sank Centre.
Mr.. Ed. Haynes spent Sunday after
noon with Kernie.
Otto and Allie Gray spent very
pleasant evening at Mr.. Henry Haynes
on Saturday.
Miss Geneve iye Riley of Grove Lake
is visiting her grand parents, Mr..
and Mrs. S. Kinsella.
Miss Name Lynch has been visit
ing her aunt, Mrs. Martin Kinsella,
the past week.
Mr.. Carl Hilderbrant had a cow
killed last week. Bad luck for a new
starter.
Mr.. George Collins was on the sick
list last week.
Mr.. Ralph Haynes had a slight &C
cident on Sunday last by spraining
his ankle.
Mr.. Clinton Collins spent Saturday
and Sunday with his cousin, Orvis
Collins.
Take Guse's advise, never start out
in q storm when you can find shelter.
MIR. Elwynne Judd returned home
on Saturday last after a weeks visit
with relatives at Grove Lake.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-03-24
SWanViIIe.

Rev. Raffensparker went to Gushing
Saturd ay returning Monday.
John Stroman will this spring erect
a mommoth building on his lots on
Main-st. The upstairs will be used
as the Central telephone Office and q
printing Office. The .frst floor will be
for rent.
Joe Chevalier returned fcom ST.
Paul Saturday.
Misses Myrtle Stith, Anna Kreger,
Mrs. A. J. Hunt, c. P. Slith and JOHN
Stroman we're Little Falls visitors on
Monday.
Samuel and James Martin went to
Long Prairie Saturday and got Pearl
and Mollie Raffensparger who have
been visiting relatives at Browerville.
The livery team of W. H. Cox that
ran away Tuesday was found Saturday
morning in a ramerack swamp three
miles south OF town. They were very
weak having had no food during this
time, but were as we'll as ever and
there was nothing broken.
The Crokinole club met with Mr..
and Mrs. Pennie Wednesday evening.
The jolly Rovers met with Miss
Maud Underwood Friday evening.
John Cox, M. Corcboran aud Thos.
Willet were drawn on the iurv for the
Snow murder case and went TO Little
Falls Friday. All but Mr.. Willet
were rejected.
The Danger Signal drama was given
Friday evening in the opera house for
the benefit of the M. w. A. A large
crowd was present. A dance was
given after the play.
Mesdames Sartell and Clark of st.
Cloud, spent Friday with Mrs. James
Hall who is seriously ill.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-03-24
The First National.

The National Bank examiner ex-
amined the First National bank last
week aud found it in first class condi-
ton. This examination will take the
place of the one required by the
Comptroller of the Currency upon the
renewal of a Charter.
The First National will have been in
existence twenty years on the fifth day
of April next, and on that date will re-
'ceive a renewal OF it's Charter for
entv years longer. 81 ~
The First National is one OF the
strong financial insti buttons of our
city and has earned the reputation of
being one of the strongest and most
carefully and conservatiyely managed
banks in the state.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-03-24
A Success.

The ladies of the Congregational
church realized quite nice little sum
from their sale Of homemade pies,
cakes, cookies and beans, which were
offered for sale at the drug store of
Hanson & Emerson on Saturday after
noon and evening. Such was the de-
mand that there was not enough to
accommodate all, but on Saturday the
ladies will have another sale at the
same place and same hours, but not
the Same edibIes, they feel proud over
their success, and everything offered
for sale this week will be-if possible
better than the former sale. Remem-
Der the articles are quick sellers, and
if you want to buy you must be early.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-03-24
WAR IN THE EAST.

There is not much authentic news
relative to the war in the far east.
The reports the first of the week
stated that the japanese had cap
tured Port Arthur, that there had
been land battle and Russian sol.
diers had been defeated-but was
mere rumor. Wednesdays report
says that Port Arthur was attacked
by the japanese fleet only, and dur
ing the bombarding five Russian
soldiers were killed. Another re-
port has it that more than forty
dead were carried out of the forts.
In all probability land battle is
imminent, but no authentic account
of the war can be obtained.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-03-24
Ladies Musical Club,

The Ladies Musical club will hold
its last meeting for this season at the
home of Mrs. c. M. Sprague on Mon.
day, March 18th. The club will give
an sat home" later. The program for
Monday will be as follows:
Piano Solo-"Spring Song ....... Liebling
Mrs. Gilman.
Vocal Toio-"Pit Pat or There Falls The
Rain" ...... ...........B Bailey
Mesdames Lamb Garland and Schleusener.
Piano Solo-(a) A Happy Farmer Schuman
(b) Sonatina
Mrs. Austin.
Review of Years Work
Mrs. Sprague.
Musical Notes Mrs. Hilsdale.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-03-24
How "Abide With Ne" Was
Written.

At the age Of "a, Lyle found himself
doomed to die of consumption, and in
sorrow at having to leave his task
unfinished he prayed that at least it
might be granted to him to write some
thing which would live to the glory Of
God when he was dead. Then on the
last evening he eyer spent at Brixham,
after preaching his farewell sermon,
he took pen, and as the sun was setting
over the ships that lay in the narbor,
abide With Me" was written. Next
morning he started for Rivera, and
there died a month later.-London
Telegraph.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-03-24
Fearful Odds Against Him.

Bedridden, alone and destitute.
Such, in brief was the condition of an
old soldier by name of J. J. Havens,
Versailles, o. For years he was
troubled with Kidney disease and
neither doctors nor medicine gave him
relief. At length he tried Electric
Bitters. 1t put him on his feet in
short order and now he testi6es. II
am on the road tc complete recovery. "
Best on earth for Liver and Kidney
troubles and all forms of Stomach and
Bowel Complaints. Only SOC. Guar
anteed by Fiesler McNeice. druggists
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-03-24
A ResourcefuI Bridegroom.

A ReSourCeful Bridegroom.
1t is generally held that the BRIDE
groom at a wedding is a considerably
''rattled" person, but little incident
that occurred at fashionable church
wedding here this week proves that
there is at least one bridegroom who
had his presence of mind we'll under
control, even under trying circum-
stances.
1t was an evening wedding and, OF
course, the principals were in even
ing dress. The groom was bothered
about getting pair of white kid
gloves, but finally, as those he had
ordered did not arrive, one of the
ushers kindly procured pair at the
eleventh hour.
When the groom tried to put them
on, for some reason only one would
fit. Here was q nice state of affairs,
to say the least. The ushers were al
ready in the church seating the friends
as they arrived.
The glove still refused to go on, and
it was evident that something must be
done, and soon too.
The next chapter of the story de-
veloped in the church.
"Why, doesn't it look odd," whis-
pered one woman to another, "to see
all the men with one glove on and the
other in their hand?"
" Ssh! Keep still" commanded
her friend. 81 suppose that is a new
wrinkle. This is very stylish we'd
ding, you know"
The fact was that a happy thought
struck the groom while he was fussing
with the obstinate glove, and he sent
word to his ushers for each one to take
off one glove and carry it in his hand
when the wedding party marched up
the aisle. Most of the people who wit
messed the wedding, which was very
tasteful one throughout, do not know
yet why all the men wore one white
glove and carried the other. The Sc
cret leaked out recently. Brooklyn
Eagle.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-03-24
What is Life.

In the last analysis nobody knows,
but we do know that it is under strict
law. Abuse that law even slightly,
pain results. Irregular living means
arrangement of the organs, resulting
in Constipation, Headache or Liver
trouble. DR.. Kings New Life Pills
quickly re-adjusts this. It's gentle,
yet thorough. Only Csc at Fiesler &
McNeice's drug store.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-03-24

A Japanese house is the simplest
thing in the world. 1t consists of a
post at each corner and a roof. One
may say it is all on one floor. And
in the day time it is all one room, if it
is small house. The number of rooms
in it depends On the number of bed
rooms the owner requires. They are
divided by night by paper shutters
fixed in grooves like the divisions of
an old-fashioned workbox. There are
no doors or passages. Your bedroom
acts as passage, and when you want
a door you slide back the nearest
panel.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-03-24
Pensions.

Soldiers 81 years of age are entitled
to pension of Sc month; over Is
years 20 So a month; over SO years to
$40 a month; over 10 years to Sl2 a
month.
All old soldiers entitled to these
provisions, can have their claims
made and prosecuted by calling at my
Office in the municipal court room at
Sank Centre, Minnesota.
David Wilcox,
U. s. Pension Attorney.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-03-24
Announcements.

l Excursion rates to the South.
2 Very low rates to California-only
1872 80 during March and April,
3 Through California tourist sleeper
every Tuesday, berth 1915, the
"Sunshine Route"
4 Five daily trains to Chicago.
5 Quickest time to Chicago-the Fast
Mail.
6 Most luxurious train to Chicago
the Pioneer Limited
7 Complete information about your
trip.
w. B. Dixon, N. w. P. A.
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Ry.
st. Paul, MINI.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-03-24
A Boys Wild Ride for Life.


With family around expecting him
to die, and son riding for life, Is
miles, to get DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds, w. n. Brown, of Leesville,
Ind, endured Deaths agonies from
asthma; but this wonderful medicine
gave instant relief and soon cured him.
He writes: Il now sleep soundly every
night" Like marvellous cures of Con-
sumption, Pneumonia, Bronchitis,
Coughs, Colds and Grip prove its
matchless merit for all Throat aud
Lung troubles. Guaranteed bottles
SOC and $1O0. Trial bottles free at
Fiesler & McNeice's, drug store.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-03-24
Long Prairie Wins.

On Friday evening at Long Prairie,
the high sch ool debaters defeated the
Anoka high school. The former had
the affirmative of the state league
question. The judges were Supernten-
dent E. L. Carroll of Wadena, ]. A.
Niles of Anoka and W. E. Lee OF
Long Prairie.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-03-24

This spring you will neeo nerve
food, one that will cleanse and recon-
struct your nerve centers and wasted
energies. HOLSTERS Rocky Noun
tain Tea will do it. IS cents. Tea or
sblets. Hanson & Emerson.