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The leader., 1905-02-18
PRICE DRUG COMPANY.

3. j. Martin, of Meridian, who
will be master of ceremonies at
the annual pilgrimage of the
Hamasa Temple, Mystic Shrine,
to be held in jackson next Tues
day evening, is in the city confer
ring with the local committee of
arrangements relative to prepara-
tions for the event, which is to be
followed by the traditional ban-
quet.
The leader., 1905-02-18

Richard Mansfield will be in
New Orleans next week. The
Merchant of Venice, Beau Brum-
mel, DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde
and other well known plays will
be in his repertoire for the week.
The leader., 1905-02-18

The seventh anniversary of the
wreck of the Maine, Feb. Is, was
observed at Havana. An Ameri-
can flag and a number Of wreaths
were placed on the wreck.
The leader., 1905-02-18

Gen. Lew Wallace, the veteran
author Of sBen Hur, +" The Prince
of India, and other books is dead
at the age of Is. His last words
we're, Il am ready to meet my
Maker.
The leader., 1905-02-18

At a meeting Of cotton growers
at Terry last Saturday, the meet
ling divided on the very unique
lquesbion as to whether the New
| Orleans convention recommended
q reduction Of % per cent. in
acreage 81 recommended reduc-
ltion of Is per cent? il muleage.
The advocates Of the mule idea
we're 90 stubborn and obstreperous
THAT TIE meeting broke UP with
tout deciding the moment0us prob
llem
The leader., 1905-02-18

There will be two haDgings at
Canton, on March 10 and 3, re-
spectively. Jim Walton, Of Mad
ison Station, sentenced for the
murder of his wife and Bill
Thompson, a negro, fol- the kill
ing Of his step-son, at which time
he also attempted to take the life
Of his wife.
The leader., 1905-02-18

Jackson IS rejoicing over the
news from Washington which is
to the effect that the $40, 900 asked
for has been included in the omni-
bus appropriation bill and report
led favorably to Congress. Gulf
port, for $5O, ,000; Yazoo for $4O,-
600 and Greenville for $50, 900,
have also been mentioned in this
connection. jackson wishes to
build d much-needed addition to
| the federal building she already
| has, while the other towns want
Inew buildings.
The leader., 1905-02-18

At Clinton, the senior class Of
Mississippi College, entertained
the seniors of HilIman College at
the home Of President and Mrs.
w. I. Lowrey.
The leader., 1905-02-18
Death Of r. K. Scott.

The Leader chronicles with re-
gret and sympathy to the bereav-
ed family, the death Of Mr.. r. K.
Scott, of the Veto neighborhood.
He was the beloved father Of Mrs.
3. Fl. Wentworth, Mrs. r. s.
Butler and Robert Scott, 0f this
city, and Of Willie Scott, OF
MeadyilIe. His age was IS. Mr..
Scott was a prominent citizen, q
successful farmer, and worth ]
and esteemed man. He is deeply
mourned by relatives and by hosts
Of ardent friends.
The leader., 1905-02-18

AT the State University the
thermometer fell to 10 below on
the 18th.
The leader., 1905-02-18

A. &. Roux, for 40.odd years.
a citizen of Raymond, has been
adjudged insane.
The leader., 1905-02-18

The Howell Hotel at Edwad,s
WAS burned
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-01-10
Statesville Cattle Sale, February 18th,
Not I4th.

Mr.. Frank G.. Hogan, Keller
Building, Louisville, KY, an extern
sive and reliable breeder of Short
horn cattle, will sell thirty head of
pure-bred bulls and heifers of this
~well-known breed, at the Iredell Test
Farm of the North Carolina Depart
ment of Agriculture, Statesville,
February 18th, 1905. Those desiring
their purchases i~noculated against
Texas or tick fever, may have it
done at the expense of the seller.
This takes the place of the sale that
was to have been held by Mr.. W. B.
Dale, January 31st. The date given
in the ad. on page Is is February
18th, but on account of the Bit
more sale on this date, the time has
been changed to February 18th.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-01-10
FARM ACCOUNTS.
Begin the New Year Right and Know
What You are Doing in 1905.

Messrs. Editors AS the new year
is just coming in, this will be an OPP
perfume time to commence keeping
accounts for 1905. We have been
keeping farm and other accounts for
nine years, or since we moved on
the farm in the beginning of the
year 1896.
We will give for the encourage
ment of some who are just beginning
farm life a daily average of farm
produce sold since 1895. This may
stimulate and energize some one to
better methods and closer attention
to the details of the farm and a deep
er desire to succeed.
I want to say right here-that to
succeed in any calling it is extremely
important to stick to the one thing.
It is the man of one idea that will
become renowned in his calling. How
often we try to do too many things
and fail at them all. In reading
"Our Farming" by T. B. Terry, I
am impressed with his one "idea,"
that of tilling the soil. To-day he
is one of the best known agricul-
~turists in the United States.
In adverse circumstances we be-
gan farming in 1896-in debt for
our farm and $50 for first years sup
plies. Thus we started, having some
faith in Mother Earth, and I trust
some in it's Creator. Our daily aver
age sales for each year are as fol-
lows: 1896, So cents; 1897, $1.49;
1898, So; 1899, $2.14; 1900, 5000;
1901, $3.11; 1902, 1919; 1908, $500;
1904, $6.7s.
It is a great benefit to keep a
strict account of all produce sold
from the farm, and the date, price,
etc. In looking over our past sales
we can tell whether the market is
better or worse than in the past, or
whether we are growing more stuff
and getting it on the market earlier
than in previous years.
If you never have tried it, COM
enc this year to keep account of
the groceries and dry goods bought
this year. At the close Of each day
it requires but a few minutes to
record the transactions of the day.
Thus we will save many dollars in the
run of one year, besides learning
some system and business PRINCIPLES.
The business world will have more
faith in our ability and [ presume
we will have more faith in ourselves.
W. L. KIVETT.
Guilford Co., n. G.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-01-10
TALKS ON INSECT PESTS.
XVm.-Literature About Insect Pests
for North Carolin Farmers.

= ANN AHNSA4A
gent farmer should try to have at
least a fair knowledge of the worst
insect pests of his crops. Of course
every man cannot be an entomologist,
but there are certain pests of such
Importance that every farmer, in JUS
tice to himself. should know some
thing about them. For instance, ev-
cry gardener should understand thor
oughly the complete yearly history of
the common potato beetle, should
know where it came from, how it
goes through its transformations,
and how it passes the winter. Every
man with an orchard should have a
similar knowledge of the cooling
moth, plum curculio and peach borer.
Every grain farmer should be thor
oughly familiar with the chinch bug,
and wheat growers in the Piedmont
section should know by heart the life
history of the Hessian fly. Cotton
famers should know the boil worm,
and should inform themselves in adj
vance regarding the boil weevil which
will probably reach us in the future.
There are at least three, and per-
haps more, distinct species of cab
bage worms, yet to the average farm
er they are all simply worms" and
he does not take the trouble to be-
come familiar with the different
species. / doubt whether there is a
farmer in the State who knows these
three species apart and can tell which
does the greatest injury in his own
garden. There are two distinct
~snecies of tobacco worms or horn
worms, and it is a point of much in
terest to know which is the more de-
structive in the various sections of
North Carolina, vet our farmers do
not even know that there is more
than one kind.
On the other hand some insects
which are commonly thought to be
of different kinds are the same. Thus
the bud worm" in tobacco, the
'boll worm" in cotton, the "ear worm"
in corn, and the worm which eats into
the fruit of partly ripe tomatoes, are
all of one and the same species, which
attacks quite a number of different
crops.
Then, again. there are other in
juries in which we do not recognize
the true cause. The "bud worm" in
corn is the larva of the spotted (not
the striped) BEETLE that attacks melon
and squash vines when they are
young-yet there are very few farm
ers who know that these two pests
have any connection with an
other.
Now l maintain that every farm
IT ought to know some of these most
important facts about his common
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-01-10
Every Cotton Farmer Must Do His Duty.

Ing o better prices IOr cOIIOn
means for them. The census reports
that Is per cent of all the farmers
in the Cotton States lost their farms
between 1890 and 1900, and the tale
of woe is not half told. Thousands
of farms were mortgaged, and thou
sands of mules, horses, COWS, wagons
and other things were mortgaged and
sold to pay debt during the years
that cotton sold at AZ to Z cents.
With everything we have to buy
now at from 25 to Is per cent higher,
and hands, with board, from four to
five dollars per month higher, it will
not take half the time to lose Is per
CEN of our farm by 5 to 7 cent cot
ton.
If we win this fight, we must have
united action by all cotton farmers,
bankers, merchants and all business
men, and all of us will have to make
some sacrifices for our mutual good.
Once, just before a great naval bat
tie, an English admiral ran up to the
masthead the signal: ENGLAND ex-
poets every man to do his duty"
Brothers farmers, this is a fight for
your wives and children and homes,
and the future prosperity of the
South, and if you expect to win, ev-
cry man must do his duty.
This is a fight of much Importance
to all of us, and we can win it in
even months if we will stick to-
gether and hold our cotton and de-
crease acreage Is to 80 per cent so
that after planting time in June the
Government reports a decrease of
not less than 25 per cent. Then the
manufacturers will hustle to get our
cotton at ten cents per pound, and
we will not have two million bales of
surplus cotton next year to help beat
down the price of the next crop. If
farmers will plant another large crop,
the price will be four to five cents
next fall, and it will take five years
to from the effects of the
thirteen million bale crop of 1904,
and before then, many of us will be
sold out.
Once, during the Civil War;, the
Northern and Southern armies were
drawn up in line on opposite sides of
the Rarpahannock River, at Freder-
icksburg, Va, ready for the battle
next morning. The night before the
battle the Northern bands played the
"Star Spanoled Banner" and the
Southern bands "Dixie," trying to
get up some enthusiasm among the
troops, but all was quiet along the
Rappahannock except the hooting of
the owl and the croaking of the
frogs. After awhile both bands
commenced playing "Home, Sweet
Home" and the woods echoed with
the yells of the soldiers for miles
because it went home to the hearts of
the soldiers who wore the blue or the
gray.
1t seems to me that we Southern
are similarly situated to-day.
We have been divided in business
and politics and many other things,
but when we have to fight against
six cent cotton, the day has come
when all can agree, and stand to-
gether, as this is a fight for the prop
on4- &c A. C@,,4I a-l Hl1o~oo Srroo4
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-01-10

South Carolina-Chas. E.. Cham
bliss, Clemson College.
Georgia-Wilmon Newell, Capitol
Building, Atlanta.
Alabama-R. L. Macintosh, Au-
burn.
But we can concern ourselves only
with the work IN North Carolina, as
we have. nothing to do with the work
in other States.
We are striving in every way to
place before our farmers the best
information obtainable regarding
their insect pests. In several of the
bulletins of the State Department of
Agriculture and of the Experiment
Station will be found careful &C
counts of many of our worst insect
pests. Study them. W. are writing
this series of Talks for readers of
The Progressive Farmer. In addi-
ton, we are in constant correspond
ence with many farmers in all parts
of the State and we welcome every
inquiry on the subject.
But here is a point of special i'm
portance. We have found that our
most careful farmers want informa-
ton in a clear, practical form, and
yet in brief space, so that they can
study the complete history of a pest
at one sitting, without sitting yer a
lot of uninteresting and unimport-
ant details. Furthermore, this in
formation should be given at oppor-
tune times, each pest being discussed
in the season when it can be best
observed or combatted. 1t is imposi-
BILE to give such timely information
in the bulletins which are issued only
at intervals, and which are often
taken up with other matters. In or
der to meet this need, we have made
the necessary arrangements and be-
gun the publication of a series of
chronological Circulars" each cir
cular containing from four to twelve
pages, and each discussing some one
insect OF question pertaining to in
sects in the plainest terms possible.
We attempt to make the discussions
timely. These circulars are entirely
separate from the bulletins. They are
issued at irregular times, at the rate
of about ten or twelve per year.
y y
In order to be on the mailing list
to receive these chronological Cir
c%ulars, you will have to go through
with a little of what you may call
"red tare." You first write to me
and for an application blank. This
is sent you. and you then carefully
fill it out, giving your acreage, prin-
cipal crops. size. of orchards, etc.,
and return it to me. Then, and not
until then, is your name put on our
mailing list. If you are not willing
to go to this trouble to get the circu-
lars. we would rather not have you
ON our list.
And remember this: we do not care
to have more than a thousand or ff-
teen hundred persons on the list any
way. We have nearly that number
now. and from time to time we expect
to thin out and cut off those who are
showing the least interest in the sub
iect. So you might as we'll not get
on the list if YOU are going to waste
the information which we send you,
- 4I- -~,,- $1,000 /
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-01-10

Now / maintain that every farm
IT ought to know some of these most
important facts about his common
insect pests, for the knowledge will
stand him in good stead. Where can
he get this information?
Every farmer should get into close
touch with the Entomologist In his
W State. For the benefit of read
ers outside of North Carolina, / VIII
here give a list of the names and ad-
dresses of the official entomologists
of several of the Southern States:
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HAD INFLAMMATORY RHEUMATISM.
Duluth Man After Suffering Untold Agonies
Instantly Relieved by Peculiar
Medicines.


Rheumt tismc elieyed.
with Rheumatism with
of
Cooper's Relief Carlson,
a swelling entirely disappeared"
phenomenal steadily
by
Relief remedy per fifty
Is
Rheumatism, Trouble
Paralysis healthy
sunder mysterious
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LaFollette for president. Still,
from all appearances there is not
much immediate danger of the
LaFollette boom growing to large
proportions. At present the coun-
try seems to be very much salts
fed with President Roosevelt and
ifthe last named gentleman is not
careful he is liable to receive the
nomination, whether he wants it
or not.
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The representation at the next
state convention seems to be the
bone that is being picked by the
country press and the thing has
gotten so bare that dry picking is
being experienced. If left alone
the fancied difficulty will work it.
self out to the satisfaction of al
concerned. There will be no dearth
of delegates on either side as neal
as can be figured, using either the
vote for president or the vote fol
governor as a. basis.
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Subscription $2per Year.
Entered at the post Office at. Ely, MINT
sofa as second class matter.
THE village of Chisholm most a

The village of Chisholm most as
suredly has had its share of adver-
Using of late, both good and bad.
Five years ago when the census
was taken, Chisholm was not on
the map. To-day the town num-
beers nearly 5000 and is constantly
growing. This fact was exploited
in all the newspapers of the state
and the village received much
praise on its rapid growth. Then
came the street carnival of August
with its attendant dissolute exhi-
billions. This fact was also exploited
in the papers and the former praise
was swallowed by the censure and
put to nought. The district court
last week filled the unfortunate vii
lage cup of bitterness to the top
and the testimony adduced still
further tended to give the fair
name of Chisholm an unsavory
taste. 1t now comes to pass that
the town was not as bad as painted
as each and every case before the
court has failed to prove the alleged
rotteness to jury empaneled to
try the indicted officials. A gentle
zephyr waited from the prosperous
young city on the Mesaba says
the entire slush was mixed up by a
nest of knockers" who had. their
eye on the official positions of the
indicted ones. 1t is also claimed
the county attorney, in his zeal to
make campaign literature for next
year, lent the dignity of his office
to the nest of prosecutors. AS
Chisholm happens to be on the
ranges where all the rotteness of
St. Louis county is central accord
ing to the county attorney, the
theory of persecution instead of
prosecution has gained much foot
hold among those who have kept
tab on the proceedings. Many
years will elapse before Bill"
Grant, president of Chisholm will be
placed in the sanctifed category,
but the man was elected by the
majority of the people in the town
and the majority should stick by
him and help pull the name of their
home town from the mire into
which it has been plunged of late.
At the next election many changes
can be made.
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We sincerely hope the Mesaba
range editors will get over theil
local crouch in time for the work
that will be entailed in the division
of st. Louis county and the forma
tion of Iron county. The scrap be-
tween the editors has come to a
point where the statements made
sound like hades and this in the
face of the fact that all the scribes
concerned are fine fellows.
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Is it not something terrible that
some people are compelled to live
in Ely or be compelled to come
here and do business? We this
week heard a peddler make the
remark that Ely was so dull, he
though he would not come any
more. Terrible isn't it? The
fellow was peddling without a
license at that. For the benenfit
of those who feel so bad about it,
we will say, two passenger trains
and innumerable ore and freight
trains leave here every day aud
the sooner the disgruntled ones
make their escape the more re-
spect they will receive from our
citizens. The walking is also extra
fine. While Ely is not as lively as
some other towns just as present
it will be in line to remark that
the only beggars on our streets
are those that come in from the
outside. The banks here made
the statement this week that they
have at present as many deposits
as they can conveniently handle.
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THE haters of newspapers have
been classed into several groups
and are composed of bunco men;
machine politicians; dishonest of
ficeholders; police protectors of
crookedness; men prominent in un-
lawful financial operations and
those who flourish in the dark and
thrive on public ignorance. To this
latter class belong the life insur-
ance leeches recently pulled loose
by the government investigation.
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THOSE who are everlasting kick
ing on the proposition that it costs
more to live now than it used to
should remember also that it is
worth more to, live now than it
used to be. 1t must also be re-
membered that it worth consider
ably extra to be permitted to live
in this grand old state of ours.
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MEsABA range towns report an
alarming increase of typhoid fever
and reports to the daily papers
say that all the range towns are
affected the same way. This is a
mistake. There is not a case OF
typhoid fever in Ely, nor has there
been for year, or since Ely put
in the new water works and filter
ing plant.
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Vaulting Ambition.

II suppose, Willie, when you are q
man you are going to be an auctioneer,
like you papa" remarked the caller.
Il expect to be an auctioneer," said
the little boy with the large head, but
not one like father. He has neither
the vocabulary, nor the faculty or
unique and original expression that a
man of his vocation should possess"
Chicago Tribune.
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To read the reports OF comics
sions" "refundings" and "investi-
cations" one would think party
campaign funds were to be a thing
of the past; but the coin will be
there next time, for all but the
country newspaper man. -Warroad
Plaindealer.
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Thought. It Fitted Him

"Woman!" he cried-"woman! do
you thus spurn my heart after leading
me on?"
When did 1 lead you on, as you call
it?" asked the girl.
Did you not tell me that fortune
teller had told you that you were to
wed handsome, blonde young man,
with the grace of Greek god and the
voice of an-Aeloian harp?''-Tit-B1t.
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Turn your thoughts on the high
er things of life" says John D.
Rockefeller. In other words, keep
your eyes in the air while we 60
through your pockets.-St. Hilaire
Spectator.
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A PUsHER in town is worth a
dozen pullers. A knocker is a no.
nenity and should be treated as
such. In other words the man
with hammer is a cipher with
the rim removed. Be a pusher.
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Penhecker-Immensely!
The Only One.

/. when I marry, l want a woman
who is not all the time looking for a
husband, and who does not consider
marriage the only object in life.'
But you can't marry a married wo-
man, you now."-Cleveland Leader.
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Couldn't Be Prejudiced.

The Father want you to under
stand, sir, that my daughter is one Of
the ornaments of the smart set.
!, The Suitor-Don't try to, disparage
her, sir. I'm willing to take her just
as she is,-Gleveland Plain Dealer.
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Accounted For.

He-Five years ago, when I married
you, believe you claimed you were Is
] She-That is quite correct.
"And now find you are 49,"
yes; have aged very much since
married you. "-Yonkers Statesman.
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Proved.

! Parke-By the way, whatever be-
came of our old friend Griggsby?
j Lane-Why, he's gone into the grave
stone business.
well, always knew he was mon
nmental liar. '-LiIe.
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st. Car Skp'd Jno,

A person whose first name was Jno.
Said he must a street car get upno.
But it slid past his st.
With a notion so fit
That before he half saw it twas gno.
Judge
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Bluffed the Bluff.

And old man with ruff
Once made a great bluff
At tying a mule in a stall,
But when he had tied her
He wasn't beside her.
oh, twas rough on the ruff, that is ALL
Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
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A Mean Man.

'These are my first biscuits, dear"
said the young married woman.
Are they, indeed?" he answered.
looking critically at one. go get me
my pistol, love-"
What do you want your pistol for?"
"I'm going to see if they are bullet
proofi"-Yonkers Statesman
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There are 100000 more males
than females in Minnesota. Now
is the time for the Eastern girls
to buy tickets for the North Star
state. The Minnesota men are all
handsome, accomplished, good-na-
tured, and make ideal husbands.
st. Cloud Journal Press.