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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-02-20
WAKE COUNTY FARMERS
ARE FAST ORGANIZING
G7rom News ana Obseryer.)


4 North Carolina poet has this ia
@ay:
And with cotton fetching eleven
cent.
And with corn in every crib,
The farmers now can cut the gent
Aud let the merchants live;
-;ut if they override the thing,
And plant too much this year.
cotton Will sell by early spring
-E9 20" as tlSH', ledI.
p" me proper thin$ Tor them 10 90
tots OF gram TO SOW
'"ni Less cotton, but gather TWO
" mere one bale used 30 grow,
Md IL they will take old HarVie's ad-
Wee.
.n'E II never Leave to beg
ui II tiley don't Ola Iheouofe Price
!. IH certainly pull their leg.
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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-02-20

Washington. Feb. Public opin-
ion. apparently. is the dominant power
here at present. TAcre + no boss
Of the United states. cities no
bossed ana court,es and states. there
is boss Of tho House Of Hepresea-
tadvcs ana there are bosses IN the
L. :. Senate. The boss has climbed
high on his way 40 the toD and The
iat@ Marcus \. !Ianna casne pretty
near reaching it, bat he didn't: nos
fuite No one man ever has retgne4
over lac Whsle National government
III the sense that George Cox. for eN-
ample. lorGed il over Cincinnati. not
yet The friends of the senate rre-
tend TO fear lest the President may
aud we saw last week that ne does
practice some of thu methods OF a
rather nasterful politician Also yee
noticed, however,. that the dread OF
Roosevelt arose from the suspicion
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-02-20

that ne Represented Us Ana hence
his power.
The President may not realize i1. he
may think he wins because he plays
the game well and he may think he
has To play ON with the machine 10
make his victory complete. But he
doesn't. The longer / stay here the
surer l am that. much IS they prize
his patronage and dearly as they loNe
lis Presidential powers, our repreSou-
tatiNes ia Congress would sacrifice hie
favor, defy his discipline. ana. pos
sibIy defeat his policy il thes did not
regard him as tire leader of public
opinion. i city If intrigue. e6leIai
Washington follows the President To
fGOl hin-oF US.
Ana their cry- that ne is a boss is au
attempt 10 fool us. The President is
no boss. a boss doesn't work With.
ne works against or around the public
viii The test question for a boss,
as for q Representative IS ''Nhat does
he represent" and the boss repre-
sents business. bad business any busi-
ness that will contribute funds To pay
him u corrupt men and make 'oug
government favor the few who want
to get things out of the rest Of us.
hat is the system. that is tine great
American system Of So-catlcd 'Poiiti-
cal corruption which disgFaces our
cities. humi!iatCS our states and loots
our insurance companies. etc. Ana
without a sy~tsem, there can be ap
boss.
There can be q system without
boss. however. ami as ii New jersey
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-02-20

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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-02-20

Ia amazing Educational Development
Pack OF ,Dapan'S prOgTesS-ITcI.
school System Modelled Nftcr Best
tHc Ages Have f'roduccd-Sevcn
Government Iniycr,,;lics-Engl
Taught in all Middle schools, Col
Ie%cs and Univcrsities-Larsc We
Mans niVcrity al Toltio--t 'i;si~-
tian EnStituti0ns--25 900 Primary
Schools i&indnc-9 10 Japanese
l2o5s abroad Being i.eraid-
lager Young Men - ienine 10 Steady
in AmcTira Appeal 20 tir. BrNa,i--
Itu:nartic Career OF Il Japancsc
E'us.Ii~Jics-Siitniot., the state
:tc!i9i0n, Has 40 Code O.. Morals
-ECautiiuI .-!iinto 'Gatcs--Shin;O-
i-ni Absorbed hS siuddi:is,n--Gi-
%tHtic Images OF Bu;idiaa-l;Hd-
,ihist Mode OF WorSllip-Stonc
Lanterns and Korean 7ious at ihe
Tcmpic-SacTcd Park Containing
zoo Tame Dcc2'--S!aded Avenue
- Miles Long Leading to Nilzt>o
Templc-''S OH Cannot Say B1auti-
FIJI Uniii You Have Seen Nii<ls0'-
TmbcTs for Temples Drawn by
Cables Made OF Womcn'e Hair
buddhism losing Its iEoid-Edu
Gated Glass Turning to CFiristiin-
ity-Spcakcr OF Congress Pres
bAterian E!dcr-i'irst Missionary
Work by CatloliCs-CIriStian
and Buddhism Contrasied.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-02-20
Copyright, 1905, by Joseph
Copyright in Great
Britain-AII Rights Re
SCrVed.)

Back of JaDan's astonishing prog
Tc&S along material lines lies her
amazing educational development.
Fifty years ago but few of her peo-
pie could read or write. now consid-
erably less than ten per cent. would
be classed as ilIiteratc. 1t is difficult
to conceive of such q transforma-
ton taking place almost within a
generation. The prompt adoption OF
western methods and the rapid assim-
llatfon of western ideas gives indubi-
table proof of the Dre-existence Of
vital national germ. a pebble dror-
ped in soil, however rich, and culti-
waited no matter how carefully gives
back no response to the rays of the
-pmnStlme sun. Only the seed which
has life within can be awakened and
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-02-20

developed by light and warmth and
care. Japan had within her the vital
spark. and when the winter Of her
isolation was passed, her latent encr-
gies burst forth into strong and sturdy
growth.
Her sons. c,mDitious to know the
world. scattered themselves through
out Europe and America and having
laden themselves with new ideas re-
turned like bees to the hive. IN this
way Japan constantly gained from
every quarter and her educational
system is modelled after the best that
the ages have produced, She has her
primarA- schools for boys and girls.
attendance being compulsory. and be-
low these in many places there are
Kindergarten schools. The middle
schools in which the boys and girls
are separated. take up the course of
instruction where the primary schools
leave off.
Then follow the universities, of
which there are seven under the con-
troll of the government. Besides
these there are in the cities institu-
tions known as higher commercial
schools, which combine general in
Struction with such special studies as
are taught in our commercial colleges
There are also number of normal
schools for the training of teachers.
In addition to the schools and col
leges established and conducted by the
government, there are {, number
founded by individuals and socie-
ties. The largest Of these is Waseda
college, founded and still maintained
by Count Okuma, the leader of the
progressive party It is adjoining the
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-02-20

Eiotion uefare the House Demand
s'or roll cali declared
Ohio. 'Long ngWorth-' No response.
Note on record. "Paircd'
Ed Mott, IN New York Sun.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-02-20
THE REIGN OF PUBLIC OPINION

~ y m us
;
Rv lincoln Stpffan
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-02-20

By Lincoln Steffens.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-09
ARKANSAS 4 A STATE NEWS
On a Sad Mission.

Capt. Lloyd England, Artillery Corps, U. S. A, and J. E. England IT, have gone to Atlantic City, and will remain in the East awaiting the arriy- Il of the body of Lieut.. Clarence Eng land, who was killed on the bridge of he Chattanooga at Chefoo, China. The body will not arrive at New York for about six weeks or two months. Capt. England has been visiting his parents, MT. and Mrs J. E. England, on leave of absence. Gallon England will ac- company his father, J. E. England Jr The body of Lieut.. England has been sent to Yokohama This information was conveyed to Capt. Potter, acting chief of the Bureau of Navigation of the Navy Department at Washington, Wednesday by cable dispatch from Rear Admiral Train, commander-in- chief of the Asiatic fleet. The admiral stated that the body was being con- veyed to the Japanese port aboard the officers own ship for transportation to the United States.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-09
AN EPITOME OF THE MOST IM- PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Digested and Condensed Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.
SITUATION IN RUSSIA.

Peasants of Bolgusha, who have as sembled for the village fair, attacked a passing patrol of Cossacks. The lat ter replied with two volleys. A num- Der of peasants were killed or wound ed.
 The conductor of a street car was ar rested at Yohaterineslay for reading to his passengers, among whom were several soldiers, accounts of the mu- tiny at Sveaborg.
 The first move in the general strike in St. Petersburg has been taken. The employees of the electric lighting plants have responded to the call, and St. Petersburg is in darkness at night.
 The governor of Samara was in stantly killed by a bomb thrown by an assassin, who was immediately ar restef.
 There is said to be disaffection among the Moscow regiment of the guards quartered in St. Petersburg. The demands formulated by the men are both economic and political.
 The entire Sveaborg fortress is said to be again in the hands of the gov ernment, the prisoners being trans ferred to Skatudden island.
 The emperor is reported to have fiatly refused to accept the conditions to which Premier Stolypin agreed in his negotiations with other members for the reorganization of the cabinet. There IS increasing apprehension that the emperor proposes to turn the coun- try over to the military dictatorship of the Grand Duke Nicholas. St Peters burg is filled with armed patrols.
 A report was current in Vibourg that the Russian flotilla stationed at Hanyo, Finland, had mutinied, impris- oned the officers and sailed to the as- sistanee of the mutineers at Svea- borg.
 According to latest accounts the mu- after heavy bombardment by the war ships. The reports, however, were fragmentary and conflicting.
 Trouble has broken out in fresh spot. Troops in the great fortresses of Sveahorg and Skatudden, on the gulf of Finland, the Gibraltar of the North" have mutinied, and some hard fighting has occurred between the mu tineers and the loyal troops, partici- pated in by the warships in the har bor. The first mutiny was reported suppressed, but late dispatches indi- gate that the mutineers held their po- sitions and had possession of all the movable artillery, including quick frers and machine guns. The situa- tion was considered serious
The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-09
Couldn't Down the Stock Law.

Justice of the Peace Fisher tried a case involving the validity of the Ozark stock ordinance. The city mar shal had recently taken up and i'm pounded several head of cattle which were running at large in the incor- porated limits and belonging to George A. Smith, who lives on his farm east of town. MT. Smith replevied the stock, his counsel contending in court that the present law was invalid and that the city had no jurisdiction over stock belonging to non-residents. Jus tice Fisher decided that the law is valid It is said Mr. Smith will ap- peal to the Circuit Court
The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-09
A Popular Resort.

Two negroes and one white man, who are charged with burning the Cleveland county jail at Rison, are confined in the Jefferson county jail for safe keeping. The white man, be- sides being charged with burning the jail, is also charged with breaking jail twice before, and in addition to this there is charge of bigamy against him. The Jefferson county jail has quite a reputation for safe keeping, for at present Cleveland. lincoln and Arkansas counties have prisoners there, and there are good many more who use that jail when important arrests are made.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Italian steamship Sirio from Genoa for Barcelona, Cadiz, Monte yideo and Buenos Aryes, with about 800 passengers, mostly Italians and Spaniards, went down off Cape Palos, near the coast of Spain, and 3S5 people were drowned. The captain commit ted suicide, declaring that the disaster was owing to him own imprudence. The vessel struck a rock while thread ing the narrow passage among the Hermigas islands.
 The republican primary in Illinois resulted in a victory of Senator Shelby NJ. Cullom over former Gov. Yates for republican nomination for United States senate by about 35,000 plural ity.
 Striking Mexican railroad shopmen attacked an American master mechan- ic. who killed one of them, and the rurales shot ten more.
 Fifteen persons. including dozen children, were struck by lightning at Decatur, III.
 The Transmississippi Commercial congress issues call for meeting in Kansas City, Mo-, to discuss river nav igation.
 A quarrel over five cents, at Evange- line, La, led up to an altercation which terminated in H. c. Greggs, re- gently from Pennsylvania, being stabbed eight times with carving knife and fatally wounded by w. H. Crouch.
 As a result of an election tragedy, in which E. B. Adams, candidate for tax assessor, and his brother. Sam Adams. were killed and several others wounded, the sheriff asked that ran- gers be sent to Cold Springs, Tex, to prevent further bloodshed.
 Government authority say that crop diversification will cause increased production nf southern products.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-09
4 Just Judgment.

In the Second division of the Pu- lask Circuit Court judgment in favor of the State of Arkansas has been given against the Western Union Telegraph Company for s19,404. The suit was brought against the tele- graph company by Prosecuting Attor- ney Rhoton for failure to file articles of incorporation During the trial it developed that the company had filed the articles, but it was also brought out that after they were filed the company had increased it's capital stock to an amount several times in excess of the capital stock on which the fee for filing was paid.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-09
New Companies Chartered.

Articles of incorporation have been filed with the secretary of state by the Peoples Gin Company of Morrill, ton. The capital stock is $S,000, of which s7,000 is subscribed and paid in. The incorporators are: J. R. Stallings, R. A. Dowdle, R. D. Earle, c. w. Garner, w. s. Cazort, T. A. Dowdle, H. B. Henley, W. V. Higgins, NJ. A. Dowdle, B. G. White and Chas. w Gordon. A charter was also granted to the Farmers Cooperative Gin Company of Chickasawba, with a capital stock of s5,00O, all subscribed. The corporators are: J. F. Lyeriy, w. H. Bryion, R. W. Crawford, J. B. Fields, J. J. Lane, B. B. Hodges, R. B. Cook, w. c. Burks, I. Y. Crawford, J. T. Craig and c. H. Lloyd. The Union Zinc Mining and Development Company of Colorado has filed a certi- ficate showing the appointment of G. J. Crump of Harrison as agent for Arkansas.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-09
A Big Enterprise.

The Wisconsin-Arkansas Lumber Company is a strong corporation which has recently been established in Gar land county. The company is now erecting a big sawmill plant near Mountain Valley, which will have a capacity of 30,000 feet a day. It now has about 5000 acres of timber lands in the vicinity of it's plant, and expects to add to it's holdings. It will use trac- tion engines to transport it's output to Hot Springs for shipment, but if this experiment should prove unsuc- cessful will probably build an cleo tric line. Its first traction engine is expected to arrive in few days.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-09
The Wages of Sin Is Death.

Accused of a serious crime against his own daughter, Isaac Patey, mid dle-aged farmer, who lived about nine miles west of Dardanelle, placed a brains rather than submit to arrest. A warrant for the arrest of Patey was sworn out by his son-in-law and it was charged that an unmarried daughter of Patey was the victim. Being advised of the issuance of the process, Patey took flight from the officers and evaded pursuit. A telephone message announced that Patey had appeared at a neighbours house about a mile or more from his home and shot himself.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-09
Arkansas Postal News.

A postoffice has been established at Luber, Stone county. Service from Southern Home to Havana has been changed; supply Riley. Service has been discontinued from Ferguson to Steamboat Landing. Myrtle Adams has been appointed postmistress at BrOOkingS
The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-09
Valuable Calves,

R. F. Young, a farmer, who lives near Greenbrier, Faulkner county, lost S2,000 in currency in his pasture, and all but S375 was devoured by calves before the loss was discovered. The money represented the savings from his crops the past three years. It was in charge of his wife, who kept it locked in a trunk when she was at home and concealed on her person whenever she left. Mrs. Young went to the pasture to pick some black berries and dropped the handkerchief containing the money. The next day search was made for the lost fortune. MT. Young found the handkerchief and close by two twenty-dollar bills. The whole pasture was searched and bits of the money were found scat tered around promiscuously, having been chewed up by calves, the amount destroyed being S1,625 Each year for the past three years Mir Young after paying his bills, put the savings into 8 Handkerchief and placed them in the custody of his wife.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-09
Hogs on the Warpath.

Al Kuykendall declares that five i'm mense porkers chased his wife and daughter quite a distance the other night as they were returning home from church.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-09
A Richochet Shot Did It.

A negro farmer in Crawford county, went out to kill a chicken with a 22- calibre target gun. He was followed by his 3-year-old son. When he fired he misser the chicken, and the bullet striking rock, glanced and struck the child in abdomen with fatal re SllltS
The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-09
Sues for Seven Years Wages.

Mary E. Adams has brought suit in Pulaski Circuit Court against Frank P. Adams for $S40, which amount is alleged to be due for serv. ices as servant covering a period ot seven years.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-09
Is It a Case of Atavism?

Ranger Jones, a young negro, whom the police think is crazy, has been placed in the Little Rock calaboose, pending an investigation into his san ity. Instead of eating meat and vege- tables and the diet of the ordinary hu- man being, Jones insists that he is a cannibel and told the officers that nothing but human flesh would satisfy his appetite AS he has eaten nothing for several days, his desire for flesh has as yet gone unsatisfed. The officers say it is impossible to make him eat ordinary food.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-09
Had Dynamite in His Pocket.

Efdu OJlidIIillG III FOCkSl.
 With enough dynamite to destroy a section of the city in his pocket and a large cargo of intoxicants in his stomach, J. NJ. Ivey, a laborer, was arrested in Little Rock recently. Iyey was drunk and raising disturbance in the saloon, and the officers were called to place him un- der arrest. When searched at the station, a package wrapped in news paper was taken from him and care lessly laid on the table in the office of the chief of detectives. When the package was opened it was discovered that it contained one piece of dyna- mite weighing about eight ounces, several small pieces of fuse and cartridge, such as is used in blasting to explode dynamite. There was a age were discovered. Nothing could general scattering of police and detec- tives when the contents of the pack be ascertained from the man as to his purpose in carrying the dynamite, nor as to the place where he secured it. He was locked up on charges of drunk and disturbing the peace, pending an investigation of the case. While in the saloon with the dynamite the man was surrounded by a large number of laboring men, and had the dyna- mite fallen to the floor there would have ben little chance for the escape of any of them
The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-09
Wireless TeIegraphy for Arkansas.

J. T. Downing, district manager for a wireless telegraph company, which proposes to use the DeForrest sys- tenn, says the company which he rep resents will soon install wireless tele- graph stations in Little Rock, Pine Bluff, Fort Smith, Hot Springs and two or three other cities of the state.
 There is on exhibition at Walnut Ridge pumpkin that weighs 12 1-2 pounds raised by H. l.. Ponder on new ground. The seed from which the pumpkin matured was planted just thirty days previous to the time 1t was picked.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-10-06
M. A. NO. 1875.
United states Land omce.

United States Land Office,
Carson City. Nevada, August "a, 1906:
Notice is hereby given that, The
Wheeling Goldfeld Mining Company, a
corporation organized and existing UNI
der and by virtue of the laws OF the
Territory of Arizona, and authorized TO
and doing business under and in com
pliance with the laws of the State of
Nevada, by Richard Sleeves, its attor-
ney in fact. whose post office address is
Goldheld, Nevada, has applied for patent
for 1888 linear feet of the Berlin lode.
1900 linear feet of the Berlin No. / lode
and 1900 linear feet of the Berlin No. 2
lode. bearing gold. being u. 5. Survey
No. 2524, situate in Sections 33 and "a,
T. 2 s., Range 43 f. NJ. ID. NJ, in Gold
field Mining District. Nye County. Ne
yada, described as follows. to-wit:
BERLIN LODE.
Beginning at Cor. No. !, whence the s.
w. Cor. Sec. "a T. 2 s., r. 43 f. NJ. ID.
NJ bears S. 26o 81 80" Z. 2163.54 TT;
thence n So II E. 500 IT. to Cor. No. 2;
thence n. 27o as w. 14s1.3S IT. to Cor.
No. 8; thence s. 62s IT w. 800 IT. TO
Cor. No. 4: thence S. 27s AZ Z. 14s1.Ss
TT. to Cor. No. /, the place of beginning
BERLIN NO. l LODE.
beginning at Cor. No. /, whence this
S. w. Cor. Sec. "a T. 2 S., r. As E. NJ.
thence n. Il So w. 600 #. to Cor: Nc; 2
thence n. So IA e. 1900 #. to Cor. Nc
8; thence S. II Sc f. 500 #, to Cor. Nc
4; thence S. So IA w. 1900 IT. to Coz
No. /, he place of beginning
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-10-06
JUMBO ExrErsror xrurxo CON-
PAUY

Incorporated in Arizona Capitalist
ton l.250.000 shares OF 800 par value
each; SOC. 900 shares In the treasury.
Principal office rooms s n z. Nixon
Block Goldfield, Nevada Stock for
transfer should be sent to box $40, Gold
held. Nevada Transfer fee Csc for zach
new certificate issued.
Property is situated in the Goldfeid
Mining District, Esmeralda County, Ne
vada. and comprises two groups: The
Soldfield group being the Gold Wedge"
"Poloverda," "Vinnegarone," and Dick
Bland" all fractional claims. but nom
contiguous. This is situate in the most
aristocratic portion of the camp, adjoin-
ing such well known properties as the
Jumbo, Red Top. st. Ives and Velvet.
The other claims are situate a short
distance northerly from the town of
D~iamondfeld. This Diamondheld group
Is made up of the cold Coin" Saddle
Rock" Three Friends" Three
Friends Fraction" BLACK Butte No. 4"
and BLACK Butte Fraction" seven con-
tiguous claims and fractional claims.
The LeF0e-McClosky lease upon the
Gold Coin is now shipping high grade
ore. Every claim In both groups has a
splendid surface showing.
officers and directors are: T. G.
Lockhart, president and general man
ager; Albert S. Watson. vice PRESIDENT:
Edw. s. Van Dyck, secretary; C. II. Hig-
ginson, director; J. L. Towley, director.
Goldfeld agency Eye q Ormsby
County bank. depository.