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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-09-11
He Has Presented the
Democratic Party With
a Great Platform.


TO the Editor. since such "a Hum
Der of Our prominent Democrats have
seen ii to point on, that Mr. BRYAN
did not represent the Democratic party
in his recent discussion oc the rail
roau problem. ami that ac spoke his
personal views only. Cuot b,iua ,pu
tent With his own clear statement T.,
that effecD. might 1t not be Weli
enough II point out that these gentle
men. also. with their disclaimers. speak
only their personal views. and mat lh
his particular matter lheN then@eiE'-
are not clothed with parts aAthalltA
OF course no man or number OF men
can speak the platform upon Wh1el.
Democracy VIII wage battle tap years
hence. but ] should be glad inde'd II
the nest party platform should l'I'
over the heads If the great railroad
systems the declaration. IN words no
less explicit han those used tN MI
Bryan. that unless they shall submit
themselves to serve the public under
just public supervision they viii b'
brought under public ownership.
Mn. Bryan presented the party Wlth
Il great pIattorm-grcat because III ie
complete and comprehensive enough
to meet every great evil OF "a situation
grown desperate through forty years
Of unjust special privileges and their
N'i,'t L.' t+ go '''
ruptioa and graft. private
lies must be cEterminatea SAYS MI
RfNa1. Aust We stop there Mi.
bryan SAYS not, and aoGs the futlii"i
word that pubitc service corporation
necessarily m~on"poIe9). must ethef
consent tu serve the UuhliC as tho
pubtlc l-ed9 ana 1lEhis require 'l
the public must take charge tby pnr-
chase, Of their busine7-. No doubt
his declaration chased chlI,s up anC
down the Wall street backbone. 5ut
the Democratic party ought 10 have
learned IN one lesson that trimming ~
sails - eaten INC VAL street breeze ~
mighty poor business.
Is ii not passing strange that ~
shOuld be heI2.Ged as 50 ultra-Iaalcal
Mi. Bry9n's suggestion - = prpDa-
bic c|VentuaiItE that the jnlt'd states
n leader among nations IN many COCO
things. should 90 what VERY H"aiiA
every civilized countf\ on the si"b'
mas already done IrtdiF t'fi'"d.
mat II presents Il great question. @I"
one worthy the pest th'h#Ht "i
great baFtN ana = great ''"diIS' ai'
should not presume 10 enter INTO
a discussion OF Its merits. hut J oa
Just naturally want To- expire NY IN-
patience with the nv" pretended ai-
&uinen1s generally u solely E'.ir"
Upon 10 frightrh the marines
First. the effort Z" shut Of the Npu'I
from any participation in tfts reform
by throwing q ~plc}zaninn5 across the
track. 10 begIh win Ar tiMt- our
suggests Federal ownership ol TRUNK
lines. anu the Jim TO" laNs So. H,"
have do not Apply 70 through train
Ana III any ana every event #'ut'
prefer 10 trast Mr. Lrvan and e
Democratic Congress I" respect south
ern sentiment ora this ANA every 0EH-t
question han t. leave D. "a the good
gldte@ OF COL Roosevelt DT AT- fa!i-
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-09-11

Wilmington. Sept. 3-rurpentlne firm. Gu.
receipts 81 casks
R0-tQ .-~.-. receipts y holS.
Tar firm. 2 VI r.ccigt-. liS
Crude arm. 2 50 "a 4pd reccfIt-~ ll
Charleston. Sept. -IurpentHue firm.
Savannah. Sept. s-Turpentine. steady t24
sG'cs 382. receipts 1885. shipments SIS.
Itosin. firm. sales 1852. receipts eis.
ST. .,ments, 5.34i. stocks G9. 94s.
=, Is. G, Ga. y. 20. T. 40 r, 4 40. r.
! IS. II. 50. | $50. X. 50 Nj. 1 SIS. y s 10
We 81 w w &c.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-09-11
frmer in Response to
Better Cables.
MINORS OF BIG CROP
Market Gets the Impression That
southern Cotton Associations
Hcpnrt~ Indicate Heavy Pro
duCtiOn-Inc Shorts
Cover


..'u the Associated Press.)
york. Sept. S.-Fhe cotton
opened steady a an advance
900 + POINTS i'm response to better
thHn expected ana reports Of
conditions in the English spot
..'. The action IF the Southern
...u Association in urging growers
...uand q minimum price Of ten
-rcmcd partly offset by indefinite
...- that the Associations reports
...trd a very large crop. and huc-
..u# during the early session were
..,E- ana Irregular. The weather
considered favorable and there
considerable selling, but shorts
covering for OVer the week enc
=. prices in the middle Of the morn
r-rc within a point II TWO Of the
-..lz figures.
..~.rlpts at the ports today 1884
-. against 9,lG4 last week and 81
last year. For the week 10 900
.... against 72.74G last week and
4sr last year. Today's receipts at
.H orleans 2,19S bales against 2.095
# year, and at Houston 7,SlI bales
alu-t 10,493 last year
YORK. Sept 8-Spot closed quiet.
81 dtinV up.ands 8 so. middling gulf 40. Us.
rs 70 Uaics. Cotton futures steady.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-09-11
Well Worth Trying.

w. H. Brown. the popular pension
attorney. of Pittsfield Vt, says: Next
TO a pension. the best thing TO get IS
D. Kings New Life Pills" He writes:
They keep my family in splendid
health" Quick cure for Headache.
Constipation and Billiousness. zoe
Guaranteed at all druggists.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-09-11
lOpen,ng. Highest Lowest CLOSING

Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour steady. winter patent 3 .2O@} IS; straights
) OO@3.25. spring patent 37o@5sO: straights
3.2OQ03 SO: bakers SOC 80; wheat No. ;
100 74Lz: No. 3. $50 IS. No. 2 red. 6935dhs, corn
No. 2. AN. No. 2 yellow. 4>0h. Oats No: 2
3osa, No. 2white. 3l@33h; No. 3 white. 2sH@
q. We No 2. $50. good feeding barley
fair to choice mailing 4395f; No. l flax
seed. i0lH: mol Northwestern. 1909; timothy
short ribs Qoose) SSs@S.65. mess pork per
hhl Is 701 $500; lard. per 100 lbs. SIS.
short clear sides tboxed) S.o7H@90o: whis-
KEY. basis OF high grade wines. l.29:
New York Provisions.
New York, Sept. -F!our quiet. Minnesota
patents ! 1904 40, DO baFerS o.4V05.sO. winter
PATENTS J 75as is: straigEtS S.25Go 50.
rye ttpur firm. fair to good 3.2o94.I.
choice to fancy 4 6CdL4 ~
~Ruckwhcat -four easy, XIV.
heat nominal. 6lLa...
Corn meai steady. line i.Io. COARSE i-io9l.lE'
kiln dried 7s@2SS
Rye nominal. No. 2 Western ia
BARLEY steady feeding Az. maltipo. s2@S7,
Wheat e; sy No. 2 red 1874. May NH.
Corr steady. No 2. 57h May 1875. Sept. $50.
Dec. 5G5S.
Oats quiet. miz ed 3Si9.
Bee firm. (; mily 10. 50@t IL 90; packet 90
-. mess $500 90; beef hams Il ooalIoo.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-09-11

Ohio Republicans Follow the Example
Of Their GuilfOrd Compatriot~.

Cleveland, Ohio. Sept. S-The friends
of Congressman Theodore f. Burton
We're in complete control of the uEa
hoga County Republican Convention
which was held today. The platform
adopted demands. among other things
the retirement OF United States Sena-
tor Charles I. Dick as the head OF the
party organization in Ohio. calls for
the election of United states senators
by popular vote and endoreS president
Roosevelt and Secretary Taft.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-09-11
Weekly Bank Statement.
(By the Associated Press.)

New York, Sept. S.-The statement
of the clearing house banks for the
week shows that the banks hold
S6.514,920 less than the legal reserve
requirements This is a decrease in
cash reserve of $9.447 325 as compared
with last week. The statement follows:
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-09-11
New York Money.

New York. Sept. 8-Money Oh cal nominal
time loans easier. to DAYS 9. 80 days 3
. months Z. Prime mercantile paper CG7
sterling exchange irregular at 4S3 10 q
iS5.5O for demand and iS9 9d4s03 s. for
6b day bills, posted rates 49, MIa41
Com nercia bills l79a.11S0. bar SILVER
t0i4. Mexican dollars 81.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-09-11

New York, Sept. S.-THe dry goods
market holds very steady with Il job
ling trade Of good proportions in pro-
gress. Scarcity in many lines of
staple cotton is the feature Of thu
market. Print cloths are firmer and
printers are operating. Heavy goods
are trmcI. GinehanS are VcrE
Stfonp.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-09-11
YOrK. Sept 8-Spot closed quiet
sEddiug up.ands 8 so. middling gulf 40. Us
les u UaIcS. Cotton futures steady.


New Orleans, La, Sept. S.-Spot
.ltlou closed steady and ur- hanged,
adding . Is: sales were LOO bales
.. fu,. SPOT and 100 to arrive.
futures opened barely steady from
t.. point net lower to three higher.
fact that both the government
uatiition report and the ginners' re
.,lt &iIl be given out Monday result
81 i'm keeping the market Stagnant.
Prices showed a downward tendency
% rally toward the close. The
I..v a steady with prices one high
.r tn fOur lower han yesterdays
losing.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-09-11
Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, Ill. Sept. Sth.-The price
of wheat on the local exchange con-
tinued on the downward course again
today. making new low records for the
season. At the close December wheat
was off %. Corn was down IS. oats
were a shade lower and provisions
were 5 to Is higher.
lOuen,ngI Highest Lowest lClOsing
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-09-11

The purchase uf the Nic2IH-l and
Southwestern Railway DF the SeJth-
may mean "a great te. fE ou
county. as il does no. hold ~ reason
that q great company Hk- ta~ south
esu would invest in a road .tarius the
coal fields having for - terminus
Mountain city. ia Johnson cl4nrE
Tenn. \ connection with Len,.r or
North WIlkesborD H.4 e.llautly -
sought and In either event H~ are IN
the direct route--Wata4z- Democrat.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-09-11

Liverpool.

liverpool. Sept. 8-Cotton. spot quiet.
Piece 3 points higher. American mrddling
fair. 5N8, good middling $40; middlin2
55. low middling SIS. gOod ordinary OF: or
diary $50. The sales today were 5000 bales. o.
wtLth so were for speculation and eXnOlt ar
uciuded $500 American. Receipts 900 bales,
Including 4. 500 American.
; lures opened easier and closed quiet.
10 -ripan mid16pp.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-09-11
Women in Wartime.

C'a9Il.L. s5ed uIoU ponunuoD)
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-09-11

We're for the soldiers or for the hospit-
al workers who miniStercd To them.
evening as she served US at the
and the band played THE star
Spangled Banner" at colorS. we spoke
of the fact that that day the air was
played here, in Manila, in Cuba, in
Porto Rico and in Juan. a deep sob
burst from the girls lips, tears rushed
to her eyes and quietly putting down
the dish she held she quietly stepped
from the room, In 4 few minutes she
returned. quite calm, though with
reddened eyelids, and went on with her
duties.
Such courage. patience, fOrtitude
and S~elf-contrOl characterized all
ranks of u women and We're offer
ings of h spirit we'll worthy to ac-
company the offerings of the bodies.
a living sacrifice" which they held to
indeed their reasonable service"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-09-11
Raleigh Spot Cotton.

Prices Yesterday. ......1 to 10 Lie.
iteceiptS year bales
Prices that day. .......10 to 10 3-Sc.
Receipts to bales
Last year same date. .......102 bales
Quotations by grades: strict good
mlddling, - IA cents; good mid
"IuG. 10 %-f6 cents strict middling,
ID is cents; midGiing, o cents
UnEes anC stains. " il to IL cents.
Other Cotton Markets.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-09-11
Baltimore Precision Market.

baltimore. Sept. -Four d.. winter
patSntS I 900 ! ~. spring patents a30Gim
WHEAT weak SPOT contract 6SDH 40 ;
ret western 1-is southern ~ samui- e0GG5
Corn weak suar 54i. Southern ~ntIe
55a57 70 yellow o3I55
Oats easier No. Z mixed 3t-d35.
Rye I rIn. No. , westerD63Loi.
Butter steady. fancy limitation goo II. do
rseamery 2G-5. do iadle. l6al7. store packed
libal5.
Eggs firm p.
Cheese actI.r large ~. sma1I2i4
sugar steady. course krauu4ated 30 fiut
4 so.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-09-11

Brought Into sight for
the week ..I11.2UI POS -H-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-22

that men are of no account when their
top hair and mustaches begin to whiten.
They are fighting for families. paying for
homes, picking up the white mans bur
den to its fullest meaning and extent,
and they are keeping themselves In the
keenest training for these purposes. They
live the most regular lives, Their length
of service has tended to give them, as a
rule an acute zest in their work. They
have put away whatever ambitions they
may have had at an earlier day for adj
vancement out of the government service
and therefore they are giving the gov
eminent everything they possess in the
way Of ability
THE mere suggestion that this large
body of men should he tossed into the
street, is, to my mind, one of the most
malignant and hopelessly mean PROPOSE
tions that ever heard put to or by a civ
LIKED government. The portrayal of these
men. who are doing so much for this gov
eminent every day Of their lives as
wretched old mendicants and fossils who
are hanging onto the pap trough without
any excuse or reason is one of the basest
wholesale libels that | ever heard of.
And | am speaking from the view
point of one of them who doesn't really
care very much which way this cat jumps
or is going to jump. | have been in my
department ever since the close of the
war am not only a pretty comfortable,
but pretty well to do elderly person"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-22
What Bad Writing Cost Napoleon.

From lie Cri de Paris.
The nose of Cleopatra had marked in
fluence on the destines of the ancient
world. The handwriting of Napoleon L.
we are assured by recent historians had
a similar effect upon the evolution of the
modern world. He did not write-he
scrawed. BY reason of this. among other
causes, he lost Waterloo Grouchy could
not read with exactness his decisive mes
sage. Was it "bataille engage" (batte
is on) or bataile gagnee battle is WON {?
Grouchy chose the latter significance.
and, not believing it necessary to press
forward arrived too late So much for the
curl of a letter, a pen stroke, or an lille
gible swell To an "a"
This question was brought forward by
the writing master of the elder Dumas
Remember Alexandra the master
said to him, 1.-The great defeat of the en-
peror was due only to his scrawlng hand.
If you wish to succeed in the world be
careful of your heavy and your light
strokes" So if Napoleon had known how
to write legibly or if he had taken the
trouble to do So his descendants would
reign today In France and we would not
have had the Republic. 1t appears histor-
ically established today that Dumas
writing master was right And on such
slight things rests the fate of empires.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-22
THE BOOK BEER GOAT.
Various Reasons for His Absence
From Town.

From the New York Sun.
I'D hate to join a secret society" said
man. leaning comfortably against the
bar and drinking light beer because he
couldn't get dark IF | really became IL
member of any of those things that have
Most Worthy Grands and Senior Worship
fuls and wear gorgeous uniforms Id be
afraid of discovering thai, the goat ridden
at limitations was only myth.
Il don't want to be undeceived, for the
lodge goat of mystery and secrecy IS
about the last species that is left to us,
here in town at any rate. The Harlem
goat has passed into history and The
Bronx, There are no squatters left, no
frisking kids and solemn rams browsing
ON what is now Riverside Drive. And,
now, this very spring, we are losing an
old friend the book beer goat, the whisk-
cred goat rampant, which, carved life
size out of wood or Autographed in colors,
used to decorate the front or every saloon
on the first of April.
Where is he now? You have to walk
blocks ON Second avenue to see one, and
the sight downtown is Almost much
of a curiosity as a live goat would be-
Nobody wants book beer now in
terjected the bartender in explanation.
Il do" replied the mourner for disap-
pearing goats. why can't 1 get it?''
y
pany nowadays" said the man behind
the bar, and the brewers can't afford to
run their plants to suit just a few people
who want a color scheme for their drink
ing"
THE passing of the book beer goat Is
due to two reasons remarked the Ger
man proprietor of the place adding apollo
getieally that the conversation was one
which might properly be butted into. In
the first place, brewers made book beer
too common when they perfected their re-
frigerating and mailing apparatus so that
they could carry on any part of the beer
making process at any time of the year.
regardless of the natural temperature.
In the old days the book was an Easter
specially: it came only once a year, like
Christmas. and so was appreciated as Il
delight peculiar to a particular season.
In those days the goat meant something
he was as seasonable as a robin.
But the brewers were not content to
let well enough alone; so they forced the
season a little more each year, by putting
their book out ahead of time. To have
the first drink of book and tell your
friends about II ceased to be distne-
ton. because, likely enough, some other
fellow had been drinking the dark brew
since February.
That's one reason why the demand for
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-22
DEPARTMENT CLERKS.
One of Them Asserts That the Old
Men Are Clipper.

"The way they distort the facts and
figures about us old fellows in the de-
partments." observed one of them to a
Washington Star reporter, reminds me
of the way the literary bureaus of the
big parties write their campaign docu-
ments. You know what hopeless mass
of utter unfairness the average campaign
document is, no matter by which party
il may be issued.
1.-THE case of one broken old man who
doesn't visit his department at all, but
who stays al home and draws his pay, is
commonly taken as a correct line ON
hundreds of old men in the Washington
departments. This is about as fair as 1t
would be to accept for Il fact that be-
cause few young men i'm the depart
ments drink to excess all of the young
men working for the government here in
Washington are sots.
Il speak with knowledge when | assert
and maintain that the large number of
elderly government clerks in Washington
are physically about the chirkiest, chip
perest and most competent lot of men of
their age and conditions to be found any
where. The actually decrepit ones among
them are extremely rare. | know liter
ally dozens of sixty fve-year-old govern
ment clerks in Washington who are as
rugged, robust. hearty and able bodied
as they ever were at forty-dve--men who
show no signs whatever of mental or
physical deterioration, who are doing just
as big a days work. and unques tionably
n better days work. now than they were
doing twenty years ago. and who, man
for man. could go into competition to-
morrow with the young fellows in their
respective divisions and hold their own
with the utmost ease under the eye OF
trained and impartial judges.
1T is the occasional decrepit old man
who is used as a bludgeon by these leg
islative and other people who are de-
termined that the elderly men shall be
ruthlessly thrown into the street by con-
gressional enactment. You take a walk
through any department of the govern
ment today. and you will find that the
quite elderly men are the brains. the
steady and actual managing power of
the machinery of the government They
have lived long enough to acquire that
conscientiousness which actuates them to
give the government the best that is in
them for the governments wages They
have sloughed off whatever detrimental
habits may have held them down i'm their
middle government career. They are
giving forth their full force and energy
If only for the sake of fighting by their
own example this modern Oslerish idea
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-22
Airs CHe5IerCur q Airs GboS T. eBr0sVn

A nervous, irritable mother, often on
the verge of Mysteries, is unfit to care
for children; il ruins a child's DISPOSE
ton and reacts upon herself The
trouble between children and their
mothers too often is due to the fact
that the mother has some female weak
ness, and she is entirely unfit to bear
the strain upon her nerves that govern
ing children involves; it is impossible
for her to do anything calmly
The ills of women act like firebrand
upon the nerves, consequently nine
tenths of the nervous prostration, ner-
vous dependency, the blues,' sleep
1essness. and nervous irritability of
women arise from some arrangement
of the female organism.
Do you experience fits of depression
with restlessness, alternating with
extreme irritability? Are your spirits
easily affected, so that one minute you
laugh, and the next minute you feel
like crying?
Do you feel something like ball ris-
ing in your throat and threatening to
choke you; all the senses perverted.
morbidly sensitive 10 light and sound
pain in the abdominal region, and
between the shoulders bearing down
pains; nervous dyspepsia and almost
continually cross and snappy?
II so. your nerves are in shattered
condition, and you are threatened with
nervous prostration.
Proof is monumental that nothing in
the world is better for nervous prostra-
ton than Lydia E. Pin<ham's Vege-
table Compound; thousands and thou
sands of women can testify to this fact.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-22

Mrs. Chester Curry, Leader of the
Ladies' Symphony Orchestra, ~ Sara
toga Street, East Boston, Mass,
writes:
Dear Mrs Pinkham:--
g For eight years l was troubled with ex-
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by irregularities. could neither enjoy life
nor sleep nights was very irritable, nervous
and respondent.
Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
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Mrs. Charles F. Brown, Vice-Presi-
dent of the Mothers Club. 81 Cedar
Terrace, Hot Springs, Ark, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
" | dragged through nine years of miser-
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troubled as | was and the wonderful results
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Women should remember that Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is
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Free Advice to Women.
Mrs. Pinkham, daughter-in-law of
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all sick women to write to her for
advice. Mrs Pinlxham' S vast experience
with female troubles enables her to adj
wise you wisely, and she will charge
you nothing for her advice.
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-22

book beer has fallen off Then there's
another cause, relating to the youngsters
or the grownups with limited tank capac-
tiles who like u enumerate the next day
and tell that they had so many cocktails
so many highbals and so many beers
within a given time.
"'rhey discovered that they could drink
five glasses of light beer, say where
three of dark would make them uncom-
Portable That's about the proportion
no matter what the actual figures may
be. So as thousands of drinkers like to
keep tabs on the intake and boast about
ii the next day the demand for dark beer
has fallen off steadily and that for light
brew has increased
"Well. it's a shame to spoil a fine an
nual custom. no matter ho1 many reasons