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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-07-01

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The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-04-11
"Corn Crackers" Advice to Cotton
Farmers.
Farmers.

Farmers.
This article is partly meant to be
congratulatory, Mr.. Editor, for the
interest you manifest in the cause
of the farmer, in the interest of pop
ular education, good roads and the
protection of our friends, the feath-
cred songsters. In my citizenship of
twenty-three years in this State there
has been a steady upbuilding along
all these lines, but the harvest is still
heavy and the laborers are few.
Another thing / like about your pa
pers, is its freedom from partisan
and sectarian bias. A man who has
no political or religious convictions
putting it palmer, that does not of
fliate with some political party or
religious denomination, will do little
for his cause in any sphere. But
from the partisan zealot or sectarian
bigot, may the good Lord deliver us
I have known the cause of popu-
lar education throttled, and the in
terest in good roads given a black
eye to perpetuate a lot of politicians
in office for fear of "nigger domino
ton" AS one who deposited n bal
lot to secure "white supremacy" and
forever settled IN North Carolina. /
now propose to cry aloud and spare
not in behalf of things that promote
our prosperity.
In the first place, a word with the
farmers: How do they expect to get
a good price for cotton to be raised
in 1905, if they fail to keep the
pledge, so solemnly made, to reduce
acreage and curtail the use of fertil-
lzers! If Daniel j. Sully is good
authority on how to put cotton up.
and keep it UP, he enjoips it on them
to stand pat. If nothing succeeds
but success, he is a success for he
moved the price up from 7.3O to
1850. If the 1uctuation of cotton
was the result of over production, a
second overproduction will not
nance the price. If it was the cum
ming hand of the speculator, buying
Hour at $3.50, guano at S22. SO. plows
at live cents a pound, will not relieve
the farmer from financial embarrass-
ment.
Another thought for farmers of
North Carolina: Our soil. latitude.
other causes makes cotton a dear
crop for us to raise, as compared |
with Texas, Mississippi, and Louis
lana. Those States can raise a bale
per acre, or sometimes two, without
fertilizer, while we make
half a bale with it. Their cotton
opens a month earlier than what we
'alse In Western North Carolina.
and hence, if any slump occurs in
he market, it comes before we have
my for sale.
Let M implore the men who are
'uy1ng so much guano, to gut part
II 1T under corn. pease, potatoes and
COMMUNICATING but cotton. Some.
n tact manv, are reducing their
creage, but MANY are violating their
oiemn pledges. If too many do this.
uin stares the cotton belt in the
ace. MELVIN T, WHITE
Cleveland Co., N. @.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-04-11

in our rural life, and the prosperity
of u country will be astonishing.
Then the farmers will be no longer
looked down upon, but will be looked
upon as the noblest class of people
in our land. And in travelling
through it, instead of seeing poor,
rundown farms, and their owners
wearing long faces and complaining
of hard times, we shall see them IN
the midst of prosperity and their
homes will be a delight not only to
their own occupants, but to the whole
community. We shall have o
and better farming, and better men
at the back of the farms, and they
will enjoy their work and become
more intelligent in every way.
PERCY S. GUM.
Rockingham Co., n. G.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-04-11
IMPROVING A LIFE.
A Farm Boys Views: Teach Agr1cui-
ture, Have Business System, ano
Read Farm Literature.


Messrs. Editors: / am a farmer
boy of the Tar Heel State, and l am
very much interested in agriculture,
because / think there is no life a man
can live that will afford more happl-
ness and real pleasure than living
near to nature on the farm.
Now, what we want to do first is to
make the farm more attractive IN ap-
and plan our work so as not
to make it a drudgery, and have a
system by which to work, and follow
it out, and work as nearly as posi-
bic at the right place and at the right
time.
If you will practice the ten-hour
system, and work while you are at it,
| feel absolutely safe in saying that
you will accomplish in a given
time and enjoy your work better than
if you work twelve hours and have
no regularity in your work. And In
stead of the boys on the farm COM
planning of the hard work they have
to do, and wander into the city where
they are TOO often led astray by bad
influences, they would love the farm
and enjoy their work, and take a
great interest in the building up and
improving the farm on which they
live.
Now, l have been a constant OBJ
server of a goodly number of farm
homes in our county, and have taken
particular notice that wherever you
find good farm literature in the
home, the young folks naturally be,
come interested in it and the next
step is to- become interested in their
own farm, and enjoy their work
much better.
We will take for example the bus
mess man: What kind of business
would he have if he had no system
by which to work, and had no educa-
ton or experience in his line OF
work? So it is with the farmer
ne u1d not try to improve in his meth
DDS of farming and let the farm run
him instead of him running the
farmy-as | am sorry to say that
there is a large percent of farmers
In that condition throughout our
country; poor, rundown farms, ar
eyesore to the ~passer-by, and all the
result of thriftlessness. Can you
blame a boy for wanting to leave
these kind of farms? Wherever you
find such a farm go into the home and
you will find no agricultural litera-
ture. [ feel safe in saying that every
dollar spent in agricultural books
and papers will be worth five to the
boys of that farm in years to come.
Why not let the boy study some
thing about that which he has to deal
with every day? Why not put agri-
cultural books into our public
schools and force them to be taught
In connection with the literary
studies, and start at the foot of the
ladder to build up more and better
to be the farmers of tomorrow?
Train them while they are young to
love the farm, and when they become
of age and branch out from their
own home to build a home for them
selves, there will be marked change
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09
Athens Democrat.

Local significance Is attached - the visit on Wednesday, June 4th. or Will liam Hays, Assistant Secretary Of Agrt- culture. Washington. D. C., to the Ath- ems School of Agriculture. He had pre- viously visited the State Agricultnral high schools at Blountsville and We tumpka, as well as the State Agricul- tural College at Auburn and the agri- cultural department at Tuskegee. He spent ten days in Alabama accompanied by MT. w. c. Smith of the Bureau of Soils, in inspecting several of the coua- ties where soil surveys have been com pleted, and in studying Alabama's sys- tenn of agricultural education and agri- cultural experimentation. More than one hundred and fifty miles or traVel by team was made through the various counties. Assistant Secretary Hays has devoted much time to agricultural education, plant breeding and farm management in several Northern states and has been sent South by Secretary Wilson to study Southern agriculture
 He Is prominently identified with the National Educational Association. tht General Board and the Asociation of American Agricultural Colleges anu Experiment. Stations. all of which are at present working on the education or the boys and girls who are to be farm CTS, and are eadeavoring to bring sys- tenn into country life education. Sec retary Hays predicts that the movement to organize technical education Tor farmers and farm home makers Will proceed rapidly from this on, and gives to the aRricultural coneees tba credit
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09
Hill Not n "stock Jobber.v

It is said that J. J. Hill always in- sists that he is not Wall Street man. He wants to be known railway manager and as a railway constructor. He does not dabble in the stock market. In his trading an doperations with his however. he has the repu- tation of being thrifty" Mir Hill has the faculty of seeing contingencies and of the future further than any living railway man. Experts in wall Street familiar with the ideals and methods of both men state that Mir. Hills only competitor in this respect is E. H. Hartman, with whose forces the memorable Northern Pacific struggle was fought. Mir. Hill is at once practi- cal. theoretical and imaginative. These qualities, combined with daring. orig inality. confidence and common sense. have placed him on the top list of rail- way men in the United States.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09
DIsCREDITING MOLLY.

The wicked iconoclasts are at 1t again. For more than a century and a quarter the story of Mrs Molly Pitcher has been as sacred and as firmly estab- lfshed in the minds and hearts of the American people as Is that of Paul Re- were or John Stark. We have all read about the battle of Monmouth, ana how Molly's husband was killed by the side of his cannon. how Molly took his place and served the gun through the battle, and how Washington gave her a commission as sergeant for her brav- cry. All this is familiar history. but now comes The Butte Inter-Mountain with this:
 One version given some credence Is that Molly's husband was intoxicated in the battle. and that Molly chancej that way. in search Of hsr errans his spouse Mo,is sseing naa 1m taken %P mp aeSa with with a view to awakening, the valiant Pitcher by a crack over the head. A regiment of charging British: n, ,,sr seeing ing iieved she had assumed charge of the battery and fled. Molly, quite uncon- scious of how she had turned ibereunon tne o dragged Pitcher off in triumph to a neighboring well, where she sobered him up.
 Isn't that calculated to knock hole in ones faith? It turns one of the most romantic incidents of our Revo- lutionary history into a thoroughly common place combination of drunkard and virago. It dislocates all our rev. erence for patriotism and courage and marital devotion. That is. 1t would do so if we believed it, which We lack very much of doing. We are not going to have our faith in Molly busted in any such way.
 Nof will the people of Carlisle, Pa, take any stock in the islander. They firmly believe that Molly's remains rest in their town and on the strength of that belief they paid due honors to her memory on the first Sunday in July. In fact. we are told that her grave was marked--"with impressive ceremonies" the account states. Tha, was the way to do 1t and we beg to thank the good people of Carlisle for 1t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09
BLUNDER OF FIRST MAGNITUDE.
The Lockwood Plan . Large and Ugly Looking Cotton MiIl.

Mobile Register.
 If the pictures displayed by The Montgomery Advertiser are truly repre- sentative of the three designs present ed to the Capitol Commission, we must heartily agree with The Advertiser that the adoption of the Lockwood plan is a blunder of the first magnitude This plan proposes to change the three-story scheme and put two two-story blocks. to the niIs,t rishs and rs left G of the present structure and the lack of accent are the most noteworthy features of the plan. If reconstructed on these lines so much as large and rather ugly cot ton mill. with an inexplicable dome crowning its centre.
 The Smith plan. the second choice of in elevation and decoration. and the additions strengthen the main building, making 1t actually impressive
 We should prefer CT. this ,h.s second plan to last or third plan has the defect of magnifying the tower and dome at the expense of the rest of the building, the Appearance of being merely an elongated base for a lofty and heavy superstructure.
 The Advertiser says that the Lock- wood plan was adopted by the judges of the Supreme Court, all voting to- gether and that the judges,in their desire to get an interior peculiarly SulteQ 10 the neeus OI the court, QlSTe- garded the general effect of the Lock- wood plan.
 We hope something will be done to obtain better result. The State capitol, if rebuilt now. will remain as rebuilt for a century or more, a monu- ment to the taste of the era when erected. The old capitol as 1t stands is unprepossessing. but 1t was designed in the States infant days. when the people did not know much of any save certain form of Greek and Floren- tine composite style of architecture; We of the present know a great deal of the purest type are constructed these days. We of Alabama shall hardly be excused if we turn our faces from our opportunity. and adopt a within our reach. Posterity will cer- tainiy ask what we of this generation were thinking of when we chose the Lockwood plan as an ideal according to our Judgment. Will they not infer: and correctly. that we are ignorant. of the best that was being accomplished In our own time?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09
Russian Admiralty Joke.

Admiral Falkersahm, Russian con- mander who lost his life in the recent sea fight with Japan. was of great physical proportions and one Of the jolliest men personally. Some years ago he was put in command of tor pedo boat. but found that he could not get into his cabin, the aperture leading thereto being too small to permit the passage of his huge bulk He communicated with the admiralty authorities regarding the matter. but for time they regarded his appeal as joke and Falkersahm had to pass his nights on deck until he was trans ferred to a more suitable vessel
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09

A note from the Lewis and Clark Exposition says that The Man With the Hoe" Millet's famous picture which inspired Edwin Markhams still more famous poem. is one of the costly works on view in the museum of art. The writer of this~nQe does not know that Millet's picture was famous long before Markham ever saw copy, of It; and it was famous for two things: Its homely simplicity of subject, and its title. of the two. the title was the was called The Potato Digger" it re- ceived little attention. Poetry and TO- m;znce came to its aid. however. when 1t was entitled The Angelus. Mark ham looked at 1t in wholly prosaic and ,utilitarian way, when he made prominent one of the figures and called his poem The Man With the Hoe" Markham wrote strong verse on this topic. but we see no reason why the picture should lose It's proper title on that account or why the verse should be described as more famous than the picture. An assertion of that kind is provincial.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09
TAFT ON JURIES.

Mir. Secretary Taft, in an address before the Yale Law School. said 1t Is by nc means clear that in our jurispru- dence trial by jury in civil cases is an unmixed good" If the Secretary will tell us of anything connected with our human affairs that Is an unmixed good we shall feel that something has been added to our stock of knowledge. And he would also enlighten us very much If he will assure us, and prove to us, that trials without a jury would be an unmixed good There are judges to whom we would rather leave the de- cision of an important case than tc the average jury, but 1t is not every judge that we would be willing to trust to such an extent.
 But MT Taft might have gone on and explained that one of the reasons why trials by jury are not always just what they should be is not the fault of tho jury system, but of the laws and the | lawyers. The exemptions from jury duty are so many, and judges are often so lenient, that the men who are best qualified to decide intelligently and equitably in an important suit arc gen erally excused from the panel. When the lawyers get through excepting to men on the list and the judge gets through excusing them. the jury that Is left is not always composed of men who are best qualified to decide i'm | portant questions.
 And the Secretary also knows. or should know, that 1t is too often the case that the strongest efforts on the part of the lawyers on one or the other l side Is directed to confusing the minds of the jury, blinding their judgment and getting them interested in anything but the merits of the case. The judges are too lenient in many instances, and all low the attorneys a latitude that Is hardly calculated to ensure a just un- derstanding or fair verdict. The jury system and practice may not be an unmixed good, but Mir. Taft has not pointed us to anything better.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09

Legislature contained others of his kind. % that he did not feel out of place Elected to the National Senate in 1873 and three times since then. he has had ample opportunity to earn an honorable reputation. but 1t was not in him to do 1t. The evil side of him was bound to show itself. sooner or later. and 1t has done %.
 The crime for which Mitchell has just been convicted is set out in the technical words of the indictment as '.practicing before the departments of the United States government for a compensation while occupying the of- fce of United States Senator That is the legal phraseology used. but but there are those who use plain. English and call him a land thief. And 1t is also of interest to rsmark that he has been indicted for bribery and perjury. along with the other charge.
 As indicative of the sort of man he Is 1t may be remarked that last win ter while these grave charges were hanging over him he remained in his seat in the Senate. brazenly defying public opinion. instead of remaining in retirement. as . man with a hide less thick than that of . rhinoceros would do. Although he has been con victed by . jury and may get two years in prison, his case is going. or will go. through the higher courts on appeals. and the actual exe- cution of his sentence may be delayed for years. if not for such time as he may live. His present term has yet some two years to run. and during that time, unless his cases are sooner de- cided against him in the court of last resort, he will not be allowed to oc- cupy his seat in the Senate chamber, though he may visit the committee rooms, and draw his salary. It would be like him to brazen out and remain in Washington, as he seems to be proof against public opinion.
 And this is John Nipple. alias Mitch ell, who has represented great State in the upper house of Congress tor about one third of a century. Let us hope that there are no more like him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09
A DISCARDED STATESMAN.

"Be sure that your sin will find you out" were the words of Moses to the Israelites. and history from that day to this gives us many instances of the truth of his words Many a villain has worn the mask of virtue for al- most a lifetime only to have 1t torn from him at the last and leave him exposed to the world for what he real ly is. ..- ...
 When John Nipple. almost half q century ago. deserted his wife and left for California for his own safety. and in 1860 bepok himself to the then frontier StAte of Oregon, he began the career of deception that has just cul- minated in his trial and conviction. Changing his name to John H. Mitch ell was the first move in the game. Not that such a change was a very unusual one at that time and in tho wild West. Strangers coming into one of those new settlements gave whatever name best suited them, and the neighbors were not inclined to be inquisitive about their antecedents or the name they may have left behind them. In fact. it was not always a safe thing to do.
 Having shaken off his wife in Cali fornia he married another in Oregon, but was unfaithful to her also. Her prettier sister attracted him and their conduct became so unbearable that his wife had to leave him. and that while he was occupying the high position of United States Senator from Oregon, a position which he Is now filling for the fourth term But he began his political career soon after he reached oregon. having been elected to the State Senate in 1862. No dohbt that
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09
Let Them Have Rights of Way.

CentTeVlIIe PreSS.
 If a new railroad is coming through Bibb we hope the right of way will not have to be condemned. and court proceedings instituted for them to run through our county. Centreville miss ed having Eoline junction on this ac- count and she may miss having an- other railroad for the same reason. Af- ter the road is built we don't care what you charge them for the old speckled COW, that in a twinkling has become valuable, but let them come in. 1t is the only way to build up and im- prove our county.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09
Feared That Jury.

PhIIadeIphia PuDIlc LeuBef
 The tailor. rising to state his ease, and having declined the services or lawyer for reasons best known to him self, looked over the durymen and then turned to the Judge.
 'It's no use for me to tell you about this case, your Honor" he said. de- iectedly, mot unless you dismiss that Jury and get in new lot. There isn't a man among 'em but owes me sorna- thing for clothes"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09
A Good Proposition.

FfHttVl1Ie FrOSresS.
 Council, the negro educator of Ala. bama, favors a vagrancy law which will prevent idle negroes from congregat- ing about towns. Very few. negroes who stay on the farms get into trouble. but of those who come to town and learn to live by trickery and scheming. large per cent. sooner or later get killed or land in the penitentiary. Coun- ell Is right. A good vagrancy law with a proviso which will compel officials to enforce it. will be worth more to any Southern State than an effcrt to induce foreign immigration.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09
Repartee.

Harpers Weekiy.
 nies, were heard quarreling in the Street. The number and Variety of epithets in Pete's vocabulary were re- he hurled them at Billy. The latter turned a lively bacon color with rage. but words failed him. Finally he gathered himself up for a grand coup, and exploded with:
 You fool nigger, you! All dem t'ings what you say is. you is:'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09
Eather nnd Son CIassmate.,

Gallagher and Gallagher is the name of new law firm in Cleveland, O., the members being father and son. Both are graduates ot the same law school, which they entered together three years ago. just after young Gal lagher left high school. They grad uated together. were admitted to the bar at the same time and side by side took the oath yeserday. The father is forty-three years old and the son nearly twenty-two,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09
Good Work Appreciated.

nTUnIUWE T1VTdIU.
 Staff Correspondent Sheehan. of The Advertiser. who recently visited Uniontown for the purpose of writing up this God-favored section of the Black Belt, has the thanks of this entire community for the able and in- telligent manner in which he perform ed his work His article, recently pub lished in The Advertiser, will be of in- calcu.able service to this town ana roent. and we are sure that The Ad- vertiser will lose nothing by it's liber- ell