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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29

In many localities the Union needs
somebody to come along and teach
the farmers the value of a manure
pile. There is no institution on the
farm that begins to pay the interest
on the investment that the manure
pile does. In fact it costs nothing,
and is a way to cleanliness and bet
ter surroundings, besides doubling
and quadrupling the yields of any and
all crops. Stay by the manure pile
and the poultry yard; they are gold
mines.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29

All over the Southwest there has
been an excess of rain right lately.
The roads have been almost impassi-
BILE in many localities. This should be
an object lesson to the man who pays
the freight for all the pad roads 1t
has hardly ever happened that pro-
duce brought higher price on ac-
count OF the difficulty of getting it
from the field to the market, yet this
is one of the costly things in the maxi
ing of crop. Get you a split log drag
and get busy after each rain, while the
dirt is in the loblolly CONDITION.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29

If there had been plenty of ware.
houses in this country and the cotton
had been allowed to stay in them till
needed by the factory, Georgia mill
would not have had to go to Liverpool
few days since to get cotton. The
cotton should go from your country
warehouse direct to the factory, and
when it goes some other way, there is
a lot Of expense money paid out that
ought to have gone to the farmer.
No matter if every farmer in the
South was in a Union, and had his
dues paid up year ahead, and was in
terested in a warehouse, and had vot-
ed for resolutions demanding a GER
tain price for cotton, it all wouldn' t
amount to row Of pins If the cotton
raisers persisted in turning the staple
loose as fast as gathered, at whatever
prices might be offered. Talking
about holding cotton is one thing and
holding cotton is another.-Farmers
Union Journal.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29

Have you thought out the problem
of better schools for the country dis
tricts? In some Of the states they
have solved it by building better
roads and consolidating the schools,
In many instances as many as half a
dozen schools have been consolidated
into one. The result is that there is
enough money and enough material to
make a regular frst-rate graded
school. Think it over, and get you a
split log drag and start the ball to
rolling.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29

The only question about the Union
in the minds of many people seems to
be whether the Farmers Union is the
Order that has come to stay" 1t is
no longer questioned as to the wisdom
Of farmers getting together as all
other workers are doing. Every man
who has sense enough to come in out
of the rain knows that this is the only
salvation of the farmer Now, as
there is nothing else under heaven,
even claiming to be a farmers organ
ization, it looks funny to see anyone
longer hesitate. Get in on the ground
floor.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29

Some foolish people have pretended
10 understand by the advice to diver
sify that some one advocated the
abandonment of time-rried and ser
yice-tested crops. Nothing could be
further from the truth Diyersification
means the Investigation of crops to
the end that everything that a farmer
uses should, if practicable, be raised
at home, and that his surplus crops
should be of the sort that will make
him the greatest amount of money
possible at the least possible cost
That is common sense. If the Unions
do their duty, they will help the farm
ers in method of cooperation to the
end that this very thing will be done.
The one-crop idea has long since prov
en- failure? In the days of slave la
Dor, it was all right because such
plan required little thought, and little
care needed be used to make slave la
Dor profitable, but. that was another
day, and another sort of times.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29

We published a squib recently in re-
gard to helping the manufacturer. Our
recommendation was that the farmers
cut their demands for farming imple-
ments and vehicles in two, by taking
care of those they have on hand. The
little suggestion is taxing root. 1t is
easily figured out where the farmer
comes in on deal that will require
only half the tools and implements
that he has been in the habit of hav-
ing to buy, and the shelter from the
weather and little yaseline and
paint does the job.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29

There is a constant tendency In the
minds of some of the Farmers Union
people to want to mix up and ANAL
gamate with the labor unions of the
towns and cities. They make a serious
mistake. There is little or nothing in
common between them, and the whole
idea comes from politicians who would
like to ride the organizations into
Office, or business men" who want to
make good by fleeing somebody. No,
thank you, the farmers will be kept
so busy tending to their own business
that the won't have time along in
August to look at all the Amalgamated
Haymakers' cards TO see whether all
the students from the Eastern col
leges who come west to work in the
fields have paid all their assessments
to the union. No, the thing is too
many; the farmers are farming now,
and are not making shoe laces.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29

1t is time that the Unions were ia
king some notice Of the movement to
fill the South with emigrants from all
over Europe, and particularly from
Spain and Italy This means the plant
ing of more cotton and the consump-
tion Of no more cotton; the produc-
ton Of more food stuff, and the sale of
less, to the Southern farmer. This is a
condition that must be met, and right
away.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29

When the Farmers Union states
that it is not in politics, it means that
it is ont of the business of whooping
it up for some sort of machine organi-
zation. 1t is not out of the Science
and the art of government, not by
long sight The bulk of the votes in
the United States are carried in the
"Hayseeds" vest pocket, and he will
rot at all consent to throw it away.
That vote is his guarantee of liberty,
and he will use it good and strong
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29

There is an organization in the
South composed principally" of the
classes mentioned above, and a few
of them are trying to make the farn-
ers believe that they should belong
to their oganization, and at every
little cross road town and railroad sta
ton you can hear the advocates Of
have his organization and why should
has his organization and why should
he go to the bankers, the merchants,
the lawyers, and the manufacturers
for membership? There is no just
reason for this, but there are many
reasons why he should not go, which
we will not attempt to give here, as
they have been spoken of before in
the columns of this paper
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29

Every now and then we read of the
So-andso Farmers Union Debating
Club. That sounds mighty good to the
old-timer, who in the days gone by
Joined in the country debating club,
and decided whether the Monroe Doc
trine should be enforced as a matter
Of right, or as a matter of expediency,
or some other equally profound sub
ject.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29

The day has gone when diversified
tion needs to be discussed. 1t went
with the crowd of rain makers who
brought plenty of water from the
clouds by the firing Of rockets, and
with the man who plants his potatoes
Sin the moon"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29

There must be warehouses, and the
farmer should own them. He has the
cotton at first hand, it has cost him
less than it will cost anybody else, If
1t is sold at the right price, and he can
therefore, hold it to better advantage
than somebody who has to buy it and
then add his cost and expenses.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29

Don't think for moment that be-
cause some people got rich in the days
of long ago by taking things as they
came you can do so now, You must
keep up with the procession.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29

The Farmers Union should stand up
for the quality Of stuff under the Farm
ers' Union label Make it a guarantee
of first quality, and it will need no
sort Of boosting to keep the price
right But don't amalgamate with
other orders.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29
his children 90 to school.

1t makes no difference how rich
your land is, it is only question Of
time when you will exhause it by con
tinually drawing from it and making
no return.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29

The farmer. more than anybody else,
is interested in building and maintain
ing coed roads. Everything he handles
must use the public roads It is the
way he travels to church, and tie way
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29

The cotton crop has, in the hands of
Providence, been reduced to something
like a money-making quantity.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29

Make your word your bond, and
make your members live up to the
same standard, and pretty soon the
Gay OF the mortgage will have ended.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29

as time and circumstance demands it's
use.
Tell the truth about the Union ard
what it is NOW able to do for it's
members, and then get everlastingly
busy to help make it able to do more
II your Union is not in a condition
to make a man better man for mem
bership in it, it is time that you were
getting busy to make it a better or
ganization The Union should be the
hest thing in the country" and it is
the fault of the members If it is not
just that thing.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1907-11-29

as time and circumstance demands its
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-30

mour, Hartman or other wealthy men
of modern days. According TO the New
York National Review some of the
Romans seem to have been very solid,
while others were fast to degree not
known nowadays. When a Caesar was
killed on the ides of March, Antony
owed S1,600,000, which he paid before
the kalends of April out of the public
money, and squandered, according to
Adams, $2S.00O,000. Caesar himself,
before he set out for Spain. was in debt
to the extent of $10,000,00O Lentulus
possessed $G,145, 900. Claudius, freed
man, saved $12,500,000. Augustus OBJ
tanned from the testamentary DISPOSE
ton of his friends-some people will
leave their fortunes 10 their sovereigns
no less than $l61, 45S,330. !Tiberius
left at his death the enormous sum of
sos ,9G4.3 $50, which Caligula is said 10
have squandered in single year. Yes
pasian estimated at his ascension that
the money which the maintenance OF
the commonwealth required was sligo,
I5S0,00O."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-30
Health in Manila.

The records of the Manila board of
health show that for six months not a
contagious disease has been in evil
dence. Yellow fever has been exter-
minated. Smallpox has been vaccina-
ted out of existence. The death rate
is lower than ever before in the his
tory of the islands. American science
has done it. Under the old Spanish
regime the chief reliance of the admin
istratiOn was in prayer. When cpl
denies broke out the people called on
the saints to save them. The Ameri-
cans are not lacking in reverence.
But it is the American policy to use
broom, soap, water, fire, and other
|cleansers first and then give Providence
at least an even chance to demonstrate
its efficiency. In the Spanish days Ma.
Mia was never free of disease 1t was
one OF the plague spots in the far east
Today it is clean and well, with death
rate no higher than that of other cities
The American plan seems to be a
success, but it is questionable if the
people appreciate or entirely approve
The old prayer cure is cheaper and
easier. even though not so efficient, and
no doubt the people would return to i;
without delay if permitted to do so
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-30

Railways have climbed mountains
and crossed lakes and canyons. Civ
ing the world horseshoe curves. '
switchbacks and great viaducts to
wonder at. Now a railway is going
l5G miles out to sea, and the prob
lens involved i'll its construction make
the feat one of novelty and interest.
The work is an extension of the
Florida East Coast railroad from Mi
ami to Key West. the nations soutt-
ernmost city, now accessible only by
water
1t is as if human coral insects Were
building a solid reef between tho
mainland and the cigar city. employ
ing cement as the material and usin,
the II keys between the two points
as natural piers upon which to anchor
the sections of concrete viaduct con
structed over the intervening 10 miles
OF water
Where the sea is shallow great
dredges are raising entertainments be
tween the keys, but to span the wider
inlets, which sometimes reach a depth
of 20 feet and are more directly ex
posed to tide and storm. six miles OF
viaduct will be required. Altogether
according to a writer i'll the Cemen
| Age, $4,000 barrels of cement. III.
GOO cubic yards of crushed rock ans
$4,000 cubic yards of sand will bt
used, together with $4,000 lineal fee
of piling, 5,TO0 tons of steel reinfOI2
ing rods and 100000 feet of dressed
lumber. An industrial brigade o
$500 workmen is employed on III,
work, which has progressed to pOin
where construction trains run over Z,
miles of track.
| The Lackawanna terminal at He
| EOken. itself notable example Z
concrete architecture, is virtually
railroad depot built in river Pilin!
driven into the soft tidewater mu'
furnishes a foundation for the grea
concrete buttresses on which it rest;
But the Key West railway shows cor
crete utilized to enable man to q
further in his dominance of the Sc
than ever before. There is somethin
in the sOliditv and massiveness of tn
undertaking to recall old Roman aqu(
duct construction.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-30

Sept IA has been set aside as HI
nois day at the jamestown exposition
and an elaborate program has been
arranged for the, celebration of thu
event. Governor Deneen and his staff
will be the honOred guests on that
date, and one or two regiments OF
Illinois state troops will also be pres
ent to participate. Illinois has a beau
ttful state building at the exposition
and also a fine exhibit in the states
exhibit palace. AS the prairie state
set the pace in expositions upon tbs
occasion of the Worlds Columbian
celebration, Virginia is anxious t.
show the people of Illinois what Ia:
been done on this historic site, pr2
senting as it does an exposition con
structed along lines materially differ
emf. but the acme of beauty. novelt,
and stateliness.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-30

The wine growers of France who
made a violent demonstration a few
weeks ago accomplished one of their
purposes. The government instituted
4.203 prosecutions against as many of
iteration of wines and secured cOnyic-
tons in 3,G40 cases. The contention of
the wine growers was that adulterated
products were sold on the market to
the exclusion of pure wines, which
could not be sold as cheaply as the
adulterated stuff.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-30

Isaac Stephenson. the aged multi
millionaire who was elected after Il
senatorial deadlock last spring, as the
successor of United States Senator
John C. Spooner, is now expected to
be candidate To succeed himself for
a full term of six years, though no
authoritative announcement to this
effect has yet been made.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-30

80 per cent: onions IS per cent; AMI
tomatoes 80 per cent The number OF
stock hogs on hand for fattening com.
pared with last year is given as 81
per cent and their condition 100 PEI
cent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-30

Farmers and dairymcn are giving a
good deal of attention to the power
milking machine, but it comes into
general use slowly. While it has been
on the market some time, there are
less than 1000 now in use in the Uni
ted States. The cost deters their use
to considerable extent. They are war
ranted not to cuss or beat the COW
should she kick
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-30

Senator Bankhead of Alabama be
lieves that no good purpose could be
served by the democratic party NOM
mating a southern man for the presi-
dency. He declares his own choice
to be former Senator George Gray
of Delaware. whom he believes would
win over more republican votes than
any other man the democrats could
nominate
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-30

Kodol for indigestion and dyspepsia
is a preparation of vegetable acids and
contains the same juices found in a
healthy stomach. 1t digests what you
cat Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-30

The New York Press, a very pro
nounced republican paper, says that
We ought to have no flim-tlam game
about the tariff Free trade means
something, and so does protection BIT
to protest that protection makes prices
higher when you sell, but no higher
humbug. In other words, let us vote
it out on fair basis"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-30

Frick gave a Pittsburg church a $12,-
600 set of chimes. and when the open
ing concert was given the artist shock
ed the listeners by playing Come, All
Ye Faithful" Immediately followed by
Won't You Come and Splash Me?"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-30

Womeal are gradually putting men
out of the school teaching business in
Illinois. On June 80, 1898, there were
1924 men, as against 1891 women.
In the report of the fiscal year just
closed there are 5,035 men, as against
25,l93 women, according to the figures
issued by the state superintendent
office
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-30

Senator La Toilette has gone fishing
at Marinette, which leads the Milwau-
kee News to remark this is a peculiar
circumstance in view of the fact that
the chautauQuas are biting so hand
snnelX
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-30

If North Carolina becomes a pro
hibition state, which seems to be not
improbable, the old fable about long
time between drinks" may. become :
hot, arid fact yil
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-30
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue Rock Island, Ill I'm
tered at the postofflce as second-class
matter.1
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-30

DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Haze
Salve penetrates the pores and heals
quickly. Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-30

Rock Island is to be honOred by the
tri-city Labor day parade this year
and should fittingly return the honor
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-30

Croesus was a poor man compared
with Morgan, Rogers, Rockefeller, Ar
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-30
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TERMS - Daily, 10 cents per week.
Weekly, 81 per year in advance.
All communications of argumentative
character, political or religious, must
have real name attached for publica-
ton. No such articles will be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every
township in Rock Island county.
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Friday, August 30, 1907.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-30

BY THE J. w. POTTER CO.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-10-11
central" AND HER WORK

The telephone company is engaged
in what has become one OF the most
important of public services. Its pur-
pose is to put people into communica-
ton with each other in the quickest
way possible and to maintain cOmmuni
cation without interruption. Above all
it endeavors to perform this function
always performed under exacting
conditions and frequently in the face
of considerable difficulties-with UNI
failing courtesy.
The New England company, having
provided most efficient plant for the
needs of each individual community,
trains its operators painstakingly before
it allows them to handle the public's
business, and supervises their work
closely after they are assigned to the
regular switchboards Of its exchanges.
Applicants for positions as operators
must meet high personal standards be-
fore they are accepted even as stu
dents. The care with which the raw
material SO to speak, Is selected APP
pears in the fact that only 80 per cent
of the applicants who present tnem
selves are finally employed. One OF
the advantages of the training system
is that it enables a young woman VINO
finds her ideas about the work to nave
been wrong to withdraw without waste
of time~or embarrassment and allows
the company to determine pretty DEF
initely the ultimate fitness OF the can
didate before the interests OF telephone
users have been intrusted to her.
AS students the operators are taugnt
TO do their work intelligently as well
as with mechanical precision: They
are given practice in the actual opera
ton of the switchboard, special appar-
atus being provided for that purpose,
and are educated to meet the almost
inconceivably varied situations likely
TO arise when they become the com
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-10-11

The State Fair.

Now that President Maxwell Evarts
has shown what can be done to push
things in Vermont, 1t is not improbable
that the people will want to put him at
work In our state In still broader fields
in the not distant future.-Burlingto
Free Press.
Make haste slowly, says The st.
Adams Messenger, in commenting on
the squib of The Fress Press that the
state may require greater things OF
Maxwell Evarts In the future, now
that he has shown that he can man.
age state fair. Is Evarts becoming
menace to the Vermont system SO
soon ?'-Montpelier Journal.
The Montpelier Journal seems to have
taken upon itself the duties of press
agent for Maxwell Evarts of the state
fair association and is getting some
assistance from other papers not over
familiar with the facts. We are yet to
be convinced, however, that Mr..
Evarts has shown that he can manage
state fair or anything like 1t. He
showed energy, activity and ability In
getting together material for the great.
est fair ever held In Vermont and then
failed completely in putting the show
before the public and in executive
management of the fair itself.
For instance what can be said of
fair management that compelled pat.
rons of the fair to wait outside the
gates for three-quarters Of an hour be-
fore they could enter, condition that
could have been permanently remedied
in ten minutes? What can be said of
fair management that expected an at
tendance of 10000 people and got
$4,000, yet provided feeding arrange
ments not adequate for over 5000?
What can be said of management that
ignored or allowed exhibitors to defy
the state laws and regulations relative
to bringing cattle into the state with.
out knowing whether they were infect
ed by disease or not? What can be
said of fair management that allowed
walks and entrances to exhibition
buildings to remain impossible during
three days fair when one man with
a mule and dump cart could have
made them all right without interior
ing with the fair?
Now we do not think that Mr.. Evarts
should be blamed very seriously. He
did better than many men would have
done in his place, but at the same time
we are yet to be convinced that he has
shown talent to justify the bouquets
that have been thrown at him. He has
merely done enough to deserve another
chance to see If he cannot do really
well.