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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-04-06

With Just three weeks remaining CT
what promises to be the greatest Top
llarity voting contest any Southern
newspaperthas ever launched, canli-
dates are entering into-the spirit OF the
battle with. an enthusiasm that be-
speaks an exceedingly. .torrid period
from this ting forth.
The end of the first bonus period
their mistakes. !. OF course the great
majority Of the leading contestants
utilized last weeks opportunity to such
goOd purposes that they slept thu sleep
Of the peaceful and victorious Ned
nesday night, but those who did not
beans dismayed. Their last week s
failure has in no way affected their
derermination. With a bulldog ten
acity that is worthy Of the greatest ad-
lniration they are going to put forth
every effort to get in on the succeeding
BONUS offer made by The News and
Observer Contest Department.
Now it is I'D to those who failed of
q bonus last week to grab UP this eN-
cellent opportunity to repair that mis-
rake within the next three days. A
little rebuff, q slight set back, q trifling
disappointment is but the acid testing
Of the pure gold Of a mans good reso-
tuition in his world. 1t has been
demonstrated by experience that there
is 10 real failure except in no longer
trying n by that same token it is
usually the man who boasts hat he
had never failed in anything that he
had undertaken who will be found to
have never undertaken anything
worthy of great reward.
Many q game is won in the ninth
inning and it is always the extra inning
games that develop the rea merit Of
any player.
Therefore. be it resolved: "T'n try
the work cure today" Stand up
straight and squarely on the two feet
hat God gave you look every MAN
teafIessly IN the eye and proclaim your
purpose honestly. heartily and with a
spirit of that confidence in your own
aniilty which begets confidence in
otners. Regretting past mistakes f. a
= Woeful vast Of valuable time
Nnlcn can be employed SO profitah lv
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-04-06
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SECOND BONUS OFFER.

Every candidate bringing CT
sending to The News and OBJ
server office five NEW yearly
subscriptions to The News and
Observer between 8 a.. III.
Thursday. March 25th, and
midnight Wednesday, April
18th, Will he awarded q .Ot;ng
certificate for 10000 votes adj
ditiOnai TO the regular scale.
Tor every five NEW six months
subscriptions turned in during
this period, a certificate Tor H.
900 votes, additional to the reg
ular scale, will be issued. One
tNO-year subscription may be
counted either as four six
months subscriptions, Or As lwo
yearly subscriptions.
Six NEW yearly subscriptions
to the Weekly News and Obser-
yer and the Farmer and Me-
chanic will be counted tire same
as one yearly subscription to
the News and Observer. Each
candidate may secure as many
Of these Clubs as possible.
l. -L Il
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-04-06
w. H. BAGLEY,
Business Manager

by going ahead and avoiding the MAX
ing of those same mistakes again.
Don't look backward! 1t is true that
diva Bellamy made a fortune by
Looking Backward" but Lots wife
only made her salt. Merely a differ
ence in people, that's all. Which
prompts the thought that while every
dog may ave his day, yet the kind of
a day depends a great deal upon the
kind OF dog.
A Common Experience.
SO get busy right now and secure a
number OF this weeks n votes.
Every candidate has heard many,
many times the meaningless words:
No, l can't subscribe, but I'll do all
! can to help YOU" They have heard
the words 50 many times. and noted
The expression that accompanies them
that they can almost tell at q glance
when they are about to be uttered.
1t is an experience that is as com
monty recurrent as the rising of the
sun, only it hapens with more fire.
Guency.
But the wise contestants are not
discouraged by this sort of help
They have an answer ready which
goes something like this: Well if
o really want to help me, show III
Non mean ita if you don't Subscribe
You don mean anything at all.
= III liz way ~ NOU 10 W. OF
any assistance to me and that means
that o must either come across"
or virtually admit that sultry south
ern zephyrs,: or rather, common old
hot air. form the parts
OF his conversations
And then there is that other class
of friends whose promises manifest
such an alarming tendency to take
the reverse English: the fellow who
is frankly glad hat you are in the
contest; who hopes you do we'll and
who IS just a day or two removed
from giving you his own subscription.
This is the man on whose trail yo,.
must camp with all the persistence Of
a QUIZ pup hanging onto a Dot
Value of Cheerfulness. =
A pleasant smile, a CHEEKY conf
dence in your own success and col1r-
teous but firm advocacy of your "
cause will accomplish wonders dur
ing h next few weeks. It's going
to require some pluck and keen OBJ
s~erVatiOn, combined with good judg-
ment and patience, to win these mag
n1ficent prizes. 1t IS going to show
to the people, not only Of Raleigh, Blu
OF the entire State. Just what sort OF
material enters into the composition
of the various contestants and THEN
efforts will be watched and judged
with the keenest discrimination in al
sorts of unexpected quarters. A good
race in this contest viii attract the
attention of h wide-awake business
mar tr the possible merits of some
contestant whom he may be able, tt
use to their mutual advantage in his
own affairs.
Don't fail to get in on his week
bonus. And if you did get in las
week just start the ball rolling al
over again. It is necessary to success.
in this business. Watch and worl
and-whistie. Smiles and cheerful
ness go far; they cost little and d,
/ much.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-04-06
RATE
WAR HAS BEGUN
Prices SIashed and Small
er Companies Suffer

New York, April 3.-Otfieials here
state that a fertilizer rate war is on
and prices are being smashed.
Starting among the smaller independ-
ent fertilizer companies operating IN
and near Baltimore. the rate-cutting
has progressed to C an extent that
the two big companies doing business
in the South. the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Chemical company and h American
Agricultural company, have been
drawn into the vortex. which has re-
solved into a three-cOrnered rate war.
% Cuts in finished products have run
from 50 to 81 a tor and unless the
situation is readjusted before the
closing of the spring season several
Of the weake companies are likely
90 suffer severely.
The american Agricultural company
is perhaps in the best position to carry
on the struggle with the least dam
age. While it does considerable bust
ness in the district affected by the rate
war, %etending as far north as Penn
sylvania, it is essentially a Northern
company and the greater part Of it's
trade IS in the North and West.
The Notwithstanding Chemical
company operates for the most part
N the Southern states and the rate
cutting is in the very heart of the
territory which it covers.
There is no question about the two
larger companies being able to wealth
er the storm. although the earnings
of the MISUNDERSTANDING viii
undoubtedly suffer materially in the
event OF the struggle proving Of long
Duration.
The American Agricultural COMPANY
Tor some time attempted to maintaiI
prices in h face of the cutting bv
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-04-06
Then Those who Got Busy Kept Busy and Kept
Riqht on Keeping Busy Will Realize the
Reward to Which Their In
dustry Entities Them
Caution To Candidates

Every candidate is cautioned that no evasion OF
the rule Of the Contest Department regarding
new subscriptions will be permitted. No sub
script;on will be accepted as new if it is simply
transferred from one member OF a family to an
Their, or from an individual to a firm or cor
~poration, or vice versa. Any effort to evade
this may cause a candidate to be one or more
short in a club in the big bonus offer and the
difference between new and old will be taken
from the score OF any candidate persisting in this
practice. From this date all new subscriptions
must start at once.
w. H. BAGLEY,
Business Manager
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28
Stop Wheat Gambling

Wheat gambling in the United
States is still at white heat and
with no immediate prospects of
it's cooling off. Already the Tex
as wheat is being harvested and
it is estimated that the yield will
equal fifteen bushels to the acre,
which if true, will be a great re-
lief to the consumers Of that now
precious article of food. Despite
the fact that the Texas wheat is
being prepared for the market
wheat sold in the gambling pit in
Chicago this week at S1.359 per
bushel. To thewheat raiser and
producer the prospect of getting
such fabulous prices for the
wheat he has in the fields is a
fiattering one and must give him
great joy, but where he rejoices
thousand souls almost grow
frantic at the outlook for bread
in the coming months. Is it pos
sible that both the state and ma
tional governments are powerless
to put an end to the wheat gam
bling which will sooner or later
cause bread riots in the United
States? There is sufficient
amount of wheat raised in this
country to supply the civilized
world, but the pit gamblers keep
it off the market. The matter
has really become serious not
withstaneing the fact the wheat
growers are making barrels of
money on account of the specula-
ton.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28
Hill-Harriman Harmony

There may be differences
among the politicians of the
Northwest, but there are none
whatever among the railroad cor
porations and if in the past there
have ever been all of them have
faded away like a summers
dream or snow storm in July,
judging from the recent Hill
Hartman deal, who entered in
to an agreement that the
trackage of the Northern Pacific
between Portland and Tacoma
is to become a common user for
the three great continental sys-
ms-the Northern Pacific, the
Great Northern and the Union
Pacific. The citizens about these
two cities had prepared them
selves to see a great struggle be-
tween these great railroad cor
porations and the expenditure of
large sums of money for loca-
tons, which they in some way
would become beneficiaries, but
both Hill and Hartman are too
cute to get caught in any such
jack pot as that and when they
saw that that people were in line
to get a few of the dollars that
they are and have been daily fill
ching from them they set up and
took notice and at once began to
get their heads together to shut
off any possibility of any such
mismanagement and as a result
their troubles are now all little
ones and the people be damned.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

if he got drowned for him to re-
cover his body, which was as a
joke, but became a sad reality.
The printing concern of the
Acme Publishing Company,
which was the property of the
Bushell Brothers, burned last
Saturday afternoon. W. F.
Bushell, the manager, has been
in such poor health for the last
two months as to have to give
up business, while another
brother is also seriously i'll,
which is another vertical
ton of the old adage, -" that it
never rains but it pours.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

Lumber is to remain on the
free list if the actions of the SEN
ate one day this week stands for
anything, as it voted by a two
thirds majority to continue lum-
Der on the protection schedule.
The lumber barons must have
shown the senators that it was
necessary to rob the common
people out of a few million dol
lars before giving up such soft
snap and the senators evidently
knew on which side their bread
is Euttered.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

A twenty-year-old father, who
for the past five months has been
a fugitive from justice, heard
that his little son was seriously
sick and jeopardized his liberty
to see his little boy and wife, but
was arrested few hours after
reaching his home. Though he
is now resting in durance vile he
is every inch a man and it would
be hard hearted jury that would
send him to the penitentiary
though actually guilty of embez-
Element.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28
BORROWED THOUGH rs

Another lion or are the cores
pondents?- Boston Transcript.
Spring Styles in feminine head
gear are rather Striking. Wash
ington Post.
In these high priced times,
many $4,000 banquets to Taft
may break the solid South. At
lanta Constitution.
In the neighborhood of Mario
bi, British East Africa, shots are
now being fired that are heard
round the world. New York Ev-
ening Post.
Now the suffragette sisters are
calling the Pope an old bachelor.
Occasionally they do get hold of
an indisputable proposition. =
New York Sun.
Abdul Hamid Of Turkey, Alb
dull Aziz of Morocco, and Abdul
Castro of Venzuela are in a posi-
tion to organize new Order of
Descendants. New York Even
ing Post.
Out of the many wives of the
Sultan, how many do you sup
pose there are who are telling
him that if he had listened to
her all this would not have hap
pened. New York Mail.
To be able to talk to Mars
would be cheap at $40, 900, 600.
The Tribune will cheerfully agree
to be one of the 10, 100000 con-
tributors to raise the needed
amount. Chicago Tribune.
There are some people who are
more afraid that Mr.. Rooseyelt's
sojourn in Africa will give this
country the sleeping sickness,
than that he will catch it him
self. Augusta Chronicle.
Still, it doesn't look as if it
wo uld be absolutely necessary to
establish postal savings-banks to
take care of the money we're all
going to save under the new tar
if law. Ohio State Journal.
Spain's hopelessly backward
condition appears from the fact
that her 5000, 900, 600 loan is for
agricultural improvement refore-
station, and public works, and
not for Dreadnoughts. = New
York Post.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28
Why They Took Stock

Perhaps the reason why the
teachers at the Washington Col
lege took stock in that bank was
because the president of the in
stitution insisted on them doing
so and they concluded that it was
cheaper to take the bank stock
than to lose their official posi-
tons. That reminds the writer
of the early Klondike days when
the superintendent of a city
school under whom there were
a large number of teachers, or
ganized an Alaska Gold Dredg-
ing Company. The tip was quiet
ly passed around, so goes the
story, that every teacher that did
not subscribe for a certain
amount of stock in the company
in which the superintendent
seemed to be the chief factotum,
need not. expect to get employ
ment in the city schools next
year. It is needless to say that
every teacher and every teach
er's relative took a block Of
stock in the company. Like all
such concerns the dredging COM
pany only proved profitable to
the man that sold the stock and
the teachers that got bit buried
their troubles in their boys and
books.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

Lady Granard may have been
the direct outcome of the Mills
of America, but whether of the
mills or the mines she was full
of fight and that bowling ape of
England now knows it and he is
doubtless a wiser, but sadder
man for having found it out.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

Oklahoma is so often torn by
tornadoes and floods that one is
inclined to think that the very
God of the Universe has taken
umbrage at the class of cattle
that has gone to Oklahoma to
cast their lots and carve out of
that sandy desert a state.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

Of course the coal operators
want the tariff to continue on all
foreign products for it means
whatever the duty is that much
gain to them, the same amount
of loss to the consumer and not
a penny's profit to the miner.
Senator Piles holding a large
amount Of common stock coal Ger
tifcates of course is fighting to
keep the duty on coal.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

Persons who insist on keeping
vicious dogs in the city where
they enjoy free mail delivery
must take pleasure in seeing
those whelps chase the carriers.
Such dogs should be shot by the
police and the owners made to
pay heavy fines for having them.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

There should no longer be any
doubt as to the rapid develop
ment Japan is making along the
lines of civilization from a white
mans standpoint as a graft
scandal is being exposed in ia
pan that is involving a number
of the leading officials of the
country,
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

London Lancet is of the opin-
ion that, the usual spring house
cleaning is dangerous. Here is
one danger in life that we will
religiously steer clear of.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

Unless General Ortis Hamilton
manages by hook or crook to en-
ploy a press agent he is going to
have a hard time to keep out of
the penitentiary.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

Puget Sound holds the record
for coal so comes the report from
Washington City, and it occurs
to US that it likewise holds the
record for high prices for coal.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

" President Eager to Visit
Alaska" says a head line. Then
why does he not do 80 since he
is not indispensable at Washing
ton City.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

That Iowa's junior senator has
his short Cummings those that
know him best does not deny,
and those who have watched his
career in the senate are willing
to admit it.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

Abdul Hamid might send a
wireless to Castro to the effect
that, they are two of a kind,
Castro however, might not look
upon that as either information
or news.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

Are the taxes paid by the rich?
has been asked. Only when it is
impossible to find the poor.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

Let us hope that the title of
the Wenatchee bridge will be
found so defective that it will be
impossible for the state to pur-
chase it for it was the monumen-
tai steal of the last legislature.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

Senator Dick Hutchinson may
be a pessimist, but his allega-
ton that the Washington Col
lege was rotten to the very core
promises to prove the words of a
prophet.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

Raising the Maine has again
become a slogan. All this talk
about raising the Maine is cheap
sentiment for the Maine raised
could be made neither useful nor
ornamental.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

When Turk met Turk then Alb
dull Hamid realized that he was
down and out and he did not miss
his guess.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

Blowing the great tariff re-
form balloon up only to get pune
tured before it gets into good
working shape will undoubtedly
be the result of the alleged hard
work congress is doing just now.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

Teddg's presence in Darkest
Africa has caused all of the birds,
beasts and reptiles of the forest
to set up and take notice and a
general immigration to a foreign
land may be the result.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28

New York City, Mr.. Justice
Gaynor, is not the only city in
the United States that is being
bled in every pore by grafters,
but it is true of every city and
county in the country.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28
SEATTLE FLASHLIGHTS

The order of the Seattle Elec-
trio Company forbidding their
to give two transfers
for the payment Of one five-cent
fare has been countermanded
and things will move on the same
old way.
AS is the custom, the Grand
Army of the Republic of this
city detailed some of it's mem
bers to speak at the various
schools of the city today, Friday,
which is the last Friday before
Decoration Day.
After reading the list of in
vited guests to the Wegert-Hem-
rich nuptials, which happy event
took place last week, no one
would 'doubt that it was a Ger
man wedding entertainment.
A Seattle thief after breaking
into a house staid long enough
to take hot bath. In this in
stance Mr.. Thief had more con-
sideration for the general public
than some people who live where
bath tubs go begging for users.
Councilman Zbinden is abso-
lutely correct in saying the clerks
in public offices seek and study
how to do just as little as is pos
sible any yet draw their salaries,
and it will continue that way I'M
til public offices are conducted
as are business houses.
Former Superior Court Judge
w. R. Bell has been charged with
issuing faulty checks with the in
tention to defraud, Judge Bell
since he was elected has been
giving John Barleycorn a merry
chase and it looks as though he
might overtake him in Walla
Walla.
Jean Fortier is to plead insan-
ity as a Justification of his act
of killing his brother and his
brothers wife some few days
ago. Fortier may have been in
sane, but he will have a hard
time establishing that fact to the
satisfaction of jury of twelve
men good and true.
William D. Haywood, the So
cialist agitator, who at one time
was charged with having killed
Gov. Stuenberg, of Idaho, is
touring the state with the view
of educating the Socialist and the
Socialisticinclined. Haywood had
better go to work and stop trying
to poison the minds of men
against each other.
Supt. Bouillion of the board of
public works continues to file
charges against Clarence Bagley,
the secretary thereof. After lis
tening to the hundred and one
charges made by Mr.. Bouil-
Ion as to Mr.. Bagley's ineficiency
one kinder wonders how the
city has managed to pull through
all these years without the as
sistance Of Mr.. Boullion.
From the amount of noise the
travelling men of the city are
making over their failure to land
two of their number as deputies
under the state hotel inspector,
it looks as if there is a great big
graft in the bill somewhere and
the travelling men are sore at
seeing that graft get away from
members of their bunch. Am /
right?
Isaac Marshall, an Afro-Amer-
lean, was drowned in Lake Union
last Saturday. The man had
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-05-28
OBSERVATIONS

Only a fool will pay twice for
the same experience.
A Dreadnought is an indiea-
ton of national alarm. -Memph-
is Commercial Appeal.
Friend Abdul is not being
troubled by persistent life insur-
ance agents now. Washington
Post.
A Kentuckian who committed
a cold blooded murder has been
convicted and sentenced to year
in the penitentiary. The majes-
ty of the law is looking up a bit
down there. = Philadelphia In
quirer.