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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-14

or dumping the crops from the harry
est fields upon satisfied markets. is in
no way allied to business methods. 1t
places farmers at an insurmountable
disadvantage. and makes them the
easy prey of everybody else. The
OF a year are harvested in a
very few weeks. To rush that years
supply on the market within those few
weeks is not only idiotic from a bust
ness point Of view, but it is suicidal
from a practical standpoint. Nobody
wants more Of it than to supply his
needs, and few will take more than
enough to supply present want
Hence somebody must hold the future
supply until future demand requires
it.
The present method Of marketing
could do nothing else but build up
the system hat has now grown into
such proportions that it can easily
rob the farmers by forcing prices
down when everybody is so unwisely
selling, and just as easily rob the con-
sumers by making the prices to them
excessively high, when they must buy
to supply their personal and family
needs.
The theory of farm holding is not
to starve the market into high prices,
but to supply it at prices that should
be paid throughout the year. A price
up today and down tomorrow is of
itself evidence Of N unnatural adjust
ment. and it is proof positive that
somebody is being robbed-either the
producer who must accept the low
price or the consumer who must pay
the high. When the much-talked-of
law of supply and demand is allowed
to control the price, and the years
supply is marketed to meet the years
demand, prices cannot be other than
steadv varied only by the fluctuations
in production and ~irregularity in con-
sumption, neither Of which will often
be preceptible. The producer may
then figure upon his income with rea-
sonable certainty, and with like GER
tainty the may estimate his
probable expense bill.
We wish our friends would thus
take a proper view of the situation,
and advise the holding Of crops, not
especially to obtain high prices, but
to secure steady prices, and get farm
ing on a business basis, not for the
benefit Of farmers alone, but for that
Of also. Steady prices so
secured cannot be other than remun-
erative prices while at the same time
they cannot be exhorbitant prices. 1t
is the unsteady prices, the fuctuat-
ing prices, the unnatural prices, that
rob at both ends of the market.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-14
WHATS THE NEWS?.,
Nine Men Out of Ten Will Tell You,
Not a Bit"

The following story, borrowed from
Harper's and given an Osark setting,
illustrates an experience quite famil-
lar to neWsgatherers:
A country editor was out in the
hills of Missouri looking for whatso-
eve he might devour and for some
news for his journal, when he met one
of his rural subscribers:
h amt a bit of news" said the
farmer. "A1l down this way is too
busy with their crops to think of any
thing else"
Fine crops, Ell ?" asked the news
man..
"Couldn't be BETTER asserted the
farmer. Il oughter to ge in my field
right now, and would be only I
come to town to see the
"The coroner! Who is dead?"
yes; he's wanted to hold an in
quest on a couple of fellers in our
place"
"Accident?"
II reckon not. Ran Morgan ain't
doin' nothin' like that by accident. He
got Jim Jeffords and his brother Tom
with two shots. Got to have an in
quest though"
What led to the fight?"
"There want no fight Ran never
give the other fellows no chance to
make it a fight. Jes' hid behind a
tree and give it to 'em when they
come along"
HAS Ran been arrested? ?"
mo; what's the use? Some Of the
Jeffords people burn Rams house and
shot him and his wife and set fire
to the barn. No; Ran amt been ar
rested. But I amt got time to stand
here talkin' to you. Got to get to my
harvestin'. Thar amt no news down
our way, but if anything should hap
pen I'll let you know. Get up,
Hawk"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-14

SO he was penalized another 5 per
cent, making his time 20 minutes
II 2-5 seconds
If Curtiss had not shown up at all
until the day Of the race I suppose
tina they would (quite rightly have
made his official time 2 hours and As
minutes or something like hat.
While all this is logical, I would
like to suggest that instead of fgur-
ing in time they should have figured
in height. We will say that Curtiss
actually flies 500 feet into the air,
beating all competitors for a certain
day.. but that contestants are pen
allied" a hundred feet deduction for
every day in which they have failed
to contest.
There have been contests on sue
ceeding days and Curtiss has not been
present: therefore the judges deduct
500 feet from his elevation, n we
find that Curtiss, although he has act
ually flown higher than any of his
| competitors has Officially not left
the ground.
These "handicaps' always strike a
| 1avman as logic carried to a%ttenua-
ton.
In a life-saving contest, B., B and c
lump into the water and save a child
each, while D saves twins, but owing
TO the fact that D has not been pres
ent at the previous contests he is Of
fcially shown not to have saved the
| twins, who are therefore dead, and
| ought to be buried. And the French
are logical.
CHARLES BATTELL LOOMS.
Leonia, N. j., Sept. 8.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-14
OBJECT IN HOLDING CROPS.

Many papers that never did SO be-
fore are now advising farmers to hold
their crops, especially the grains; but
these apers do not seem to fully
comprehend The reason for doing so.
1T is almost invariably the case that
the advice is to hold for higher
prices" That is too selfish a purpose
to be either right or popular, says
Cp-to-Date Farming.
Farmers do not contend for high"
prices any more than do manufac-
turers or merchants. All they ask
Tor is equitable prices, prices up to
the general level Of values, which
VIII no more than place their rewards
on a plane or level with the rewards
received by other classes of labor, es-
Peclally of creative labor.
we advise the holding and gradual
marketing Of crops to bring farming
20 a business basis. The practice that
Las so long prevailed, and that has
oeen peristently taught by the farm,
1iess and other educational agencies,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-14

planted about three feet in the drill,
rows about our feet apart. and it
mas two ears to almost every hill"
and many of them three. It will easily
make fifty bushels to the acre. and
much of it Will do even better. On
but few acres of this was any fertil-
lzer used. It is fully the equal of
much fine corn l have seer on what
was considered rich land well ma
nured. Plenty of land in North Car
DINA that produces not more han 25
bushels of corn to the acre is con-
sidered fine land. Mr.. Downing has
here a test acre of corn on which he
has 16 varieties growing. This is his
method of selecting the best variety
for his land. He has eleven test rows
of cotton in one place. n each row
planted in a variety different from
all the others, and in another place
he has another such test. A undred
bales of cotton are grow or his land
every year, besides the thousands Of
bushels of corn.
Mr.. Downing Dol a premium at
the Fayetteville Fair one year for
raising over 90 bushels of corn on one
acre without a dust of fertilizer.
At Mr.. Downing's upper place. at
Beard, he has about 500 acres of land.
Over 200 acres of it is cleared. There
is some of the finest corn I ever saw.
There are acres and acres of it in
which a ploW has never been used.
This was cleared a little over two
years ago. The woods growth was
cut from it and allowed to lie awhile.
Then tbs was burned off in the
spring and the corn vas planted by
punching holes in the ground With a
stick. The weeds and grass were kept
down with a hoe. The logs lie there
still, and it will make close to 100
bushels to the acre. The stalks are
twelve to fifteen feet tall. The corn
is planted three feet one way and
four the other and two stalks to the
hill. Every stalk has a heavy ear,
most of them two and many Of them
three. It is simply wonderful If /
had not seen it / would hardly have
believed this tale had some one else
old me-. But If any ''doubting
! Thomases'' read this story. all I have
to say is let them go and see it for
themselves. Mr.. ". F. Bullock, who
is on the place, or Mr.. D. A. Balm,
will how you through. Otherwise
you would be in danger of being lost
in a corn field
MIR. Downing cultivates his land by
the tenant system, on shares He
gets thousands of bushels Of corn
every year, and to his cribs come
people from all Of eastern Cumberland
and western Sampson to buy. He sells
at a good price and makes money.
Think of getting ten thousand BUSH
els of corr every a with no eX-
pense practically but the taxes on the
land-after it is Drained!
]. A. PARHAM.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-14
For A That and A. That.

Wit apologies all round
The summer girl sits by the sea,
While others, envious, pass her by,
A we'll contented maid is she.
For by her side. a beau doth lie.
His tie is green, his hair is red,
A cross is there within hi eye:
A cross is there within his eye;
But cen content, the maid doth sigh,
Ave, for a that and a. that,
His wobbly legs and a that,
There's only one at that hotel
A mans a man for a that.
It matters not that he's quite young.
And she, we'll she is over twenty;
She wouldn't notice him a mite,
Were she at home. with beaus a
plenty;
But while she does this quiet spot,
Here with her auntie. Mrs. Pratt:
up against it quite for beaus.
And he's a man for a that.
Despite his way and that
His ties SO gay and a that.
He's in demand, you understand
A mans a man for a that
Yes, often, men are necessary
Articles Of furniture;
If your school friend comes to visit,
Then, escorts you must lure.
To motor, to drive, to boat. to walk.
We've all been where you're att
You qualify not in the least
You want a man for a that.
To WOO each way and a that,
To dance till day and a that
like him swell, but yet. you bet!
A mans a man for a that.
Mrs. w. F. HARDING.
Grifton, N. c.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-14
Took the Wrong Medicine.
burlington News

(buI1luSt y A~C"o.(
One night last week Mr.. W. c. Isiey
happened with wha might have been
a fatal accident. Before retiring ne
took what he supposed were four
calomel tablets, but wha4 IN reality
were four strychnine tablets contain
ing in all 40 OF a grain OF strych-
nine. He did not discover his mistake
until he began to have severe paaas,
and a physician was summoned. BY
using a stomach pump and administer
ing antidote, he was soon brought
around all hight and was out next
day.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-14
SHOWS IT'S ABSURDTTY.
How The French Penalized CIrtiss in
TTe Trials at Rheims.
New York Sum-

\INCW 10TH Ouu.J
To the Editor Of the Sun-Sir: AL
though I could hardly pass for a
sport" I take the keenest interest
in aviation, and I was delighted to
read Of the triumph OF Curtiss, the
American, at Rheims.
I was also delighted to hear that
those logical Frenchmen had added
five minutes to the time it 90 him
to cover the air course To quote:
'Curtiss went out for the speed
prize at $3.50 and covered eighteen
miles in "a minutes Is Is seconds,
but being under a penalty of ten per
cent, in addition to 5 per cent each
for not contesting on Sunday and
tuesday in the same race, his Off
ria, time became q minutes 81 rs
econds. Then the committee discov-
cred that he was driving a different
aeroplane from the one he used On
his previous appearance in this rae
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-14

Il suppose, among other things, n
won't be able to get a Democrats
cook to work with a Republican
Pos
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-14
S $500, 10000

Total g. . . :. . a. IS 1880, 10000
The increase in corporation excess
(the difference between the capita
stock and local assessment of real
and personal property is $5,S93,342.
There are four large railway sys-
TENS and 81 miscellaneous roads in
the State.
OF the banks in North Carolina,
there are SIS State and 70 national,
a total of 3S5. There is not a sin
gle private bank in the State.
There are sc electric light and pow
er companies; 118 telephone compa-
MES and more than 1000 corporations.
The number of individual share
holders in banks is 1924. The name
of each shareholder, the number Of
shares and name of bank in which
held with the value of each share
and total value have to be certified
to the county officials in which the
shareholder resides.
The counties having the largest ap-
~portionment of valuations are as fol-
Jnuyc.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-14
FIGURES SHOW
GREAT INCREASE
1909 Industries $16,-
5OO,403 Over 1908
THE LEADING COUNTIES

Corporation Commission Completes
Assessment of the Various Corpor-
ations-Increase of $%13,919,707 in
Industrial Corporations over 1908
Total Assessment Of All Corpora
tons in North Carolina is $685.
1895.
ne Corporation Commission has
completed the assessment Of the va
rious corporations and the certificates
of apportionment to the various coun-
ties and towns have been sent out.
The result is as follows:
Valuation.
Railroads . . IS sc, 345,553.OO
Telegraph, telephone,
street railway. cleo
trio light and pow
er companies &. 7,774,544.0 90
Bank stock. 1,6S3,711.00
Industrial corpo a
tons =. -. . =. =. 73,3O2,356.OO
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-14
$685. 9S,99 90
Increase
over 1908.
S 7~64,750.00

372,391.00
5~0,02S.00
13,919,7O7.OO
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-03-06
TO OPEN SCHOOL ROOMS
Sunday School at Baptist Church
Plans Increased Attendance

Sunday is to be another day Of &C
complishment for the Free Baptist
church, Main street South. The Sun
day school will occupy for the first
time the fine class rooms in the new
church building.
Special music has been arranged
for the occasion, and earnest efforts
are being put forth to add new mem
bers to the roll. There are a great
number OF children and adults not
allied with any particular congrega-
tion. To these the pastor extends a
most cordial invitation to be pres
ent and join the ranks Of the Baptist
school. All attending tomorrow's s
Sabbath school services Will be met
at the door and ushered to their re-
spective classes.
Revival services in the church be.
gin Sunday evening and with the In
spiration Of the handsome new home
the congregation hopes TO make them
abundantly successful. All are In
vited
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-03-06
THE PHoToeRAPHeR's TEST.

you note" said the photographer
that in pictures taken anywhere, in
any part OF the globe, the humans
face the camera as if they wanted To
be taken. It may be curiosity that
prompts them or Il may be vanity
hut they all seem to like To get into
the picture.
Take Il group picture made any
where, say among our tribe Note
the people in the rear with necks
craned to get their heads ont from
behind blanketing people in front, so
that their faces will show. Shyness or
modesty may keep some who are in
the background from doing this, but
unless he photographer has personal
ly posed every member Of the group
10 that he will show you will always
find In such pictures some figures OF
persons who would otherwise have
been more or less obscured but who
have 80 disposed themselves as to
make sure that their faces show
$50 OF any sci group, and the same
would be true of any sort Of picture
in which r.any persons were taken,
as at a banquet or wedding, and it
would be true Of some Of the onlOOkers
in picture taken Of Il funeral. People
like to get into the picture.
Just how true this is appears in
many ways in all sorts OF pictures;
in pictures in which people are not
the main but only incidental or sub
ordinate features, as OF accidents, or
ruins, or scenes of a great variety
of sorts. In such pictures where the
presence of the camera was known
you will always find some persons
facing or turning toward the pholo-
grapher, with an evident desire to get
into the picture, and it easy to im-
agine that the qualification OF seeing
themselves there may give them pleas
ure. ..
Look at pictures taken OF semi.
savage or semi civilized people in re.
motest countries, where perhaps the!
k had never seen a mirror or heard OF a
camera, but you may be sure that
human vanity exists as IL does with
us, and you may see somebody trying
to get into 1he picture or smiling to
look well in it.
Seriously, this pleases me as no
other one minor thing that know OF
does. 1t brings the whole world closer
| together, for IL shows that however
far apart IN land and tongue and GUS
toms the races Of the wide world may
be, yet in some at least of mans un-
derlying human traits we are all kin. "
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-03-06
os interest TO women

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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-03-06
THE uNDEeTAKsR CAUGHT ON,
He Was From Michigan and Saw a
Facial Beautifer Demonstration.

He Was From Michigan and Saw a
Facial Besutiher Demonstration.
Once again does the West score on
tine East. Recently a New York manu-
facturer of facial beautifers was dem
onstratlng i'm one of the large Chicago
department stores. One morning the
New Yorker and her assistant noticed
decidedly sober faced man hanging
around the counter, watching the DEM
onstration aud taking in all that was
said in the attempt 10 push sales ANA
advertise the goods.
After about an hour of this he mus
tered courage to come up TO the coun-
ter and purchase several large pack
ages of the goods. When he had paid
for them he handed his card to the
assistant. She was surprised to dis
cover that the man was an undertaken
doing business in a large Michigan
city.
A week later the undertaken wrote
to say that he had used the prepara-
ton with most gratifying success in
his business. and that every one who
had seen the results was amazed at
the lifelike appearance and the absence
of the ordinary pallid hue of death.
Facial beautifers for the dead cer-
tainly seem TO be new departure.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-03-06
A 200 Pound Amethyst.

An amethyst which it is. believed is
the largest in the United States has
been sold by Alexander Meads, a pion-
eer prospector Of this city, to f. r.
Vigeant of Sault Ste, Marie. 1t
weighs 200 pounds.
The stone was found in a cave on
the north shore of Lake Superior forty
five years ago and it has been in Mr..
Mead's possession ever since. The
numerous conical projections are ex-
ceptionally well formed and ara coated
with an eighth of an inch of iron ore.
The next largest amethyst OF which
there is record is in the'Central Park
Museum in New York city. It Weighs
1870 pounds.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-03-06
How Brussels cabmen AaItate.

Cabmen in Brussels have found Il
new form Of protest yesterday against
the taXi-autos. They met TO the mum
Der of 200 with Lbeir horses aud cabs
on the plateau de Koekelberg, and ad-
journed on masse to an adjoining cafe.
Thereafter they paraded the streets
in line, with Grape on their whips, and
carried a band OF Music In the leading
vehicles. Meanwhile, the hated taxis
drove thriving trade.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-03-06
RURAL DELIVERY.
Increases the Sale Of Postal Money
orders Ninety Per Cent Since 1905
A Business Proposition.

Increases the Sale Of Postal Money
orders Ninety Per Cent Since 1905,
A Business Proposition.
The Hon. p. V. DeGraw, fourth as.
sistant postmaster general, while dis
cussing the marvellous growth and use
fulness of the rural free delivery SER
vice, instances the amount OF money
order Ind registry business transacted
by It's carriers, the official figures
showing that applications for money
orders received through rural delivery
carriers since 1905 have increased 80
per cent and that the number of pieces
of registry mail handled by rural car.
rlers during the same period has
Increased 104 per cent. This most ex.
traordinary growth has developed not
withstanding the fact that the increase
in the number of rural routes estab-
lshed since 1906 has been but % per
cent.
During the year just closed, 1925
750 money orders were issued through
rural delivery letter carriers, repre-
sentlng value of s37 2S7, ,G9794. which
the department construes as lndicat-
ing that the patrons of rural delivery
fully appreciate and utilize the ad-
vantages of the rural service. One-
tenth of the entire number of money
orders issued by all postmasters
throughout the United States during
that period were. upon applications
received through rural letter carriers
and the money value represented
thereby was 1-15 of the entire amount
of money transmitted in the mails
by money orders.
The average amount of each order
issued on application through rural
carriers was about So. The greatest
number of orders issued through rural
carriers was in the state of Michigan,
which gives a total of 4Sl 1926 orders,
representing $2,2s7 5O6a2. In proper
ton to the number OF routes in oper-
alton, the greatest amount of money
order business was transacted by tho
rural letter carriers in Alabama,
through whom 224 ,76S orders were re-
ceiyed representing a value Of $l,0l4,-
OS2.42.
The total number of pieces Of regis
tered mail matter delivered, collected
| Tor dispatch and handled In transit
by all rural letter carriers during the
fiscal year 1908 was 2,553, ,4gS pieces.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-03-06

Spanking does not cure children OF
tedwettlng. There is a constitutional
cause for this trouble. Mrs. M. Sum
mers, Box w, Notre Dame, Ind,
will send free to any mother her
uccessful home treatment with full
Instructions. Send no money, but
write her today II your children trou-
BILE you IN this way, Don't blame
the child, the chances are It can't
help It. This treatment also cures
sdults and agea people troubled with
urine difficulties by day OF night.