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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09

the course Of study have all gwen the
high place to Latin. They erred IN
not adding more chemistry and sci
ence, but the greatest error is the
present tendency to exclude the cui-
tural studies and admit only practcal
studies. You cannot make a schoiar
giving him Latin, ana the
farmer and mechanic G the broad
foundation which it suppiIes' tnd
needs the aid which it gives hlm III
mastering practical topics.
Elsewhere is printed a communica-
ton from Professor Paschal, OF wake
Forest College, that is most timely. II
is a practical article on a practical sub
ject, and is an effectual answer to the
modern theory that is turning out
men ''practical' without the nee
e.sxry culture to give them
the largest success in the prac-
teal work Of life. No more
charmingly written or true arti-
than Prot. Paschal's. Let every farm
er, tempted to doubt the wisdom Of
Latin, read it and see that his son has
the cultural uplift and practical help
that Prof. Paschal shows is to be de
rived from the study of Latin.
Stronger laws well enforced are
needed TO stop pistol toting. There
were two killings at Rowland last
month and the Sun thinks proper
laws would have reduced the number
to one. How long will legislators by
falling to pass stringent laws and
judges by failing 20 enforce present
laws help TO cheaper human life?
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09
THE FORTUNATE SOUTH.

The new census will show that the
sections is to Texas, Oklahoma and
other Southwestern States. There
are two reasons for this:
1. These States AVE given cree land
or furnished cheap agricultural lands,
and farmers in Iowa and other States
have sold their high priced lands to
home folks and moved where cheaper
land could be obtained.
The railroads have co-operated
with the State and the land owners in
advertising these lands and have
given very low rates to prospectors
and settlers.
2. 1t has been represented to these
farmers in the North and West that
they would like Texas and Oklahoma
better than North Carolina or South
Carolina because there are fewer ne
groes, and this has been helped by
Interested parties.
But the tide must turn to all the
South, and the people and the rail-
roads in North Carolina should has
ten the day When this State will re
ceive settlers who will help develop
its Writing Of the For
tunate South" the Cincinnati En-
Quirer recently had the following edi-
torial:
The reports from the Dakotas and
the Dominion as to the poor results
to be expected from the crops this
sear may be n1agnifeG es regards the
losses sustained by the farmers in
the far Northwest, bat these reports
Will undoubtedly check, If not stop.
the tide of immigration to that por-
ton OF the country for the imnedi-
ate future.
There are but few persons imbued
With enthusiasm sufficient to move
into States where there has been a
crop failure In the present or past
year, and the flood OF settlers thai
has been in full sweep for the Domth-
ION during the past three years viii
without doubt be succeeded by an
ebb that will continue for some years
from his date.
1T is unfortunate fer the far
Northwest and those who remain
there will have to put forth every
energy to retain the population al
ready in the country.
1T Will not be possible to
act the effect Of these reports this
year. next year or the year after.
The confidence in the perennial great
harvests OF the Dakotas and the Do
minion has been injured, and the
rush to that region will not be re-
su5ned tor a long time to come.
Ihe harvest prospects Of the
South and especially the Southwest.
are quite brilliant, and the American
farmer Of n North, who is
richer fields, and the European i'm
migrant: who can take no chances on
crop failures, will both be attracted
by the report of the prosperous con-
ditfons In the South.
FROM the entire northern belt
east OF the Dakotas there has been
an increasing movement of
people Tor nearly 80 years to the
lands OF the South, and now that q
blight has fallen upon h agricuItu-
raj prospects Of the section OF the
Northwest referred to this movement
from the North to the South will as
sumo greater proportions than ever
before.
Agricultural, manufacturing, trans
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09
III E.SDAX
TONIC.
(LDrd AVepury.)

Do not look on your WORK as a dun
duty. If O choose, YOU q make it
interesting. Throw YOUR heart into It.
master It's meaning, trace out the
causes and previous history, consider
1T in all its bearings. think how many
even the humblest labor may benefit,
and there is scarcely n Of our duties
which we MAJ not loo to with en-
thusias1n. You viii get to love your
work; and if you co it with delight,
you will do 1t with ease. Even if at
first YOU find this impossible. this may
be just what you require; it may be
good, like mountain air, to brace Up
your character.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09
MIR. POU DEFENDS THE FAIkk
Err UNION.

Every time a demand is made TO Sc
cure effective laws to end robbery by
the trusts, some apologist fer the
trusts come. forward in opposition by
suggesting that the proposed leglsla-
ton might hurt the b unions or the
farmers organizations. The Standard
Oil trust was convicted in Texas, but
any labor union or farmers organiZa-
ton. A trust IS essentially a rnonop-
oily dictated by q few and has no reia-
ton to a labor franchise organization.
In the expiring hours Of the last Con-
gress, Mt. Bocten, OF Chicago, the
ablest Republican in the House from
Illinois, not even excepting Cannon,
took occasion to assert that h Farm
eTs' Union was a trust. Hon. Edward
W. Pou. OF the Fourth Congressional
District, briefly replied to Mr.. Bouteli
and said:
Before the fall OF the gavel ends
this session Of the ~Sixty-frSt Congress
l wish to call attention to the attitude
of the party In power with respect to
prosecutions under our so-called anti
trust laws. Before the ext regular
session cOnvenes the people Of the ma
ton will have decided at the ballot
box whether the next House Of Repre-
sentatives shall be controlled by the
party which IS in control now.
In the first place / think it cannot be
denied that h party Ia power pre-
fers to hold the Sherman law as q sus-
pended sword over the head OF organ
lied labor. Until very recent years no.
body ever dreamed a a law drawn
to make monopoly illegal could be SO
construed that laboring men could be
sent TO Jail for uniting in q common
demand for higher wages 1t is said
that the fraIner Of the iaw himself de-
clared that it had no such purpose,
and we all know how President
Roosevelt urged thai it be amended.
The party In power na had a
working majority in this chamber and
in the Senate since the first day Of this
Congress. You cannot go before the
people and plead lack OF power or
opportunity. You have had the power.
You have had h opportunity. You
have both now. If you permit this
law to remain as it is, if hereafter men
shall be put in prison for peacefully
striving in harmony to better their
AIN -S iAN1 IN
country viii know where to put the
blame.
And today the attitude of the game
party was made manifest in another
respect, We all know, Mr.. Chairman,
who are the rea leaders of the Re-
publican party IN this Chamber. We
know that the distinguished gentle
man from Illinois CONT. Boutell) is
one Of these leaders.
To-day he has suggested that the
Union, composed, | am told,
Of more than 1900, coo farmers, is as
liza BILE to prosecution under his Sher-
man law as the members OF the beef
trust or meat trust. Our guished
friend sees no difference in an organi-
cation of 1900, 600 arner uniting to
procure a fair price for the commodity
which they produce and less thar a
dozen capitalists putting together their
great fortunes in one common fund to
control the price of something which
no one Of them ever turned a hand to
produce. Did anybody ever hear Of
the OF this nation depressing
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09
LATIN AND THE FARMER BOY.

inere are few boys who begin to
understand English until they begin
20 hiaster Latin. There Is no such
'hins as the broadcast foundation for
eoocauon without the study of Latin.
Inc wise men who have long SHAPED
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09

portation and financial
IS certain to follow the inqr,ye .opne-s
Ing. : now rars
The South is now .ba
promise and Of p~rosper+[., 'a1a Of.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09

Mr.. Doughton challenged c'nS
man CoUles for a joint =" lid
Cowles at first lodged ana '''" $50
he would meet Doughton al
places, Wilkesboro and spar" -.ss7
will cow.es slight the other c01 vii
He knows his record ID o0"
not stand the light.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09

Morehead never said a trnf' ''..7
than that the Republican P'IN
North Carolina is "a close t''I'.
tion.'' The Morehead-Butl'F
object to the Duncan dynasty Taaa.,1
the "close corporation. 1h+f
Morehead and Butler to run w.
all tire row is about-to scr
gang shall slice the pie.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09

Morehead will not run for '.'
in the Fifth, neither WIZ
Holton. The candidate will EN-
a drafted postmaster or some -" M
the '.also ran" type, who W" .s
reality running for q ..r.o-
North Carolina Will eIeCO
Gratis this year.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09
ALL FOR $1.7O

There has never been offered in
North Carolina go much good reading
for SO little money as we are Offering
under the following propositions: For
size we Will send the following tOF
n year:
The Weekly New. and Observer. M
eigiit-page weekly, newspaper.
The C0mn.oner, an able weekly
Journal. published by William Jelh'
hing Bryan.
The Farmer and Mechanic, sixteen
page North Carolina home and farm
weekly journal.
Thus for One Dollar ard Seventy
Cents you can get all these papers
one year.
v. G. MOORE Manager,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09

August =. 1910.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09

When I was young 1 used to dream
Of scaling all the heights of fame. L
rn;I. sAgAvv s~otya Sr,o nd
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-20

yesterday gathered in something like
$4,000 canned eggs which were in
storage in the wallabout market in
Brooklyn. The raid was led by Assist
ant United States Attorney William p.
Allen. who spoke of the eggs as filthy,
putrid and decomposed."
Is it a part Of the policy of the ware
house to let eggs rot in storage rather
than throw on the market to the detri-
ment of stiff price?
1t costs 5 to cents dozen to
warehouse eggs thru the summer,
not including interest on capital in
vested, and since the storage system
prevents alternate egg gluts and egg
famines. the plea is made that it
Should not be denounced offhand as a
scheme of a trust or conspiracy to re-
strain trade" But the possible evils Of
the thing are obvious and to aid the
warehouse people in their efforts to re-
sisttemptation there should be thor
ough oversight and regulation Of their
business on behalf of the people.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-20
Suggestive Questions on the Sunday School Lesson
by Req. Dr. Linscott for
the International Newspaper Bible Study Club

Rev. T. S. Linscott, D. D.
difference in marrying the wife Of a
living man with, or without, divorce?
Specify the good that John accomp-
lished thru his death. and what he
would probably have accomplished had
he lived?
Verse 5-To what extent does the
moral sentiment OF community keep
men from outward sin?
Does the moral Sentiment OF q COM
munity have healthful effect? and
is a man whose conduct is governed
by public sentiment a truly good man?
At what stage, in the progress of
these events, would God adjudge Herod
guilty of murder?
Verses 6-7-Convivial and social
functions create mental and nervous
excitement, and inspire desires akin
to the common sentiment Of the gath
ering. Now, in such case, is 1t safe to
commit ourselves to any course or ac-
ton, until we have got back to our
normal condition, and why?
What influences induced Herod to
make this rash promise to this girl?
Examine by experience, or other
wise, the ballad dance. the so-called
round dance, and the square oance. and
specify tuelF luordi teuoeACieS'
Verses S9-By what process did this
woman, Herodias. reach this deepest
hell of cruelty and revenge. Of demand
ing the head Of John to be brought to
her in a platter?
Which is the greater sin. to make a
bad uromise or keep it?
Verses 10-12-Specify some Of the
results Of gratified revenge and wheth-
err it brings happiness or sorrow? (This
question must be answered in writing
by members Of the cIub.)
Lesson for Sunday, May 20, 1910
The Multitude Fed. Matt. xiv: 1924,
XIV: $3.50
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-20
BUYING NEWSPAPER OPINION.
fCedar Rapids Gazette.l

[Cedar Rapids GaZette.1
The Chicago Tribune has lost the
patronage of one business house be-
cause the Tribune exposed the Lorimer
political scandal.
The Tribune is to be congratulated.
The business that a paper loses be-
cause it exposes corruption is poor
business. 1t isn't an asset. And the loss
If there is any loss-will be more
than compensated in the receipt of 9TH
er business. The Tribune will get
many times over the amount it has lost
thru the misguided peevishness of
departed patrons.
The firm that withdrew its patronage
made a fool of itself. 1t went on the
theory, evidently, that because it pat
ronized the paper, the paper should
have no views of its own; should be at
least Journalistic molly-coddle, if not
avowed supporter of political grafters.
The average business house buys
newspaper space because the space has
value to the purchaser. If it has value
to him, he is all the bigger fool if he
discards its use because a papers pol
icies do not agree with his own.
That there are business interests
which think that papers opinions
and policies should be for sale has been
demonstrated often. But it is not to
the credit of such business interests.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-20
LONG AND SHORT HAUL.

One effect of the compromise on the
railway bill is TO strengthen the long
and short haul clause of the inter-
state commerce law.
The original purpose of the law was
to allow greater charge Tor shorter
than a longer haul. the longer embrac-
ing the shorter, only in exceptional CIR
cum stances. But the practice is 10
treat as exceptional any circumstances
the railway company chooses to regard
as such. the theory being that greater
competition at the terminal point JUS
ttfies the lesser charge for the greater
service.
This is the very evil against which
the law was originally directed, and II
it can not be eliminated except by max
ing the prohibition against such dis
elimination absolute it should be made
absolute
There is no objection to low rate
that will move a comm odity of low
value to a distant point. The objec-
ton is to Withholding that rate TO the
Intermediate point 1t is this practice
that builds up great cities at the ex-
pense of the smaller ones.-Dubuque
Times.
And yet the Times is giving its aid
and assistance to the coterie in Iowa
who would rebuke the two senators
from this state whose coura geous at
tacks upon this railroad bill have made
amendments of as great Importance as
this one possible.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-20
SEND IT AFTER THE BETTING SHEDS

The proposed JeffrieS-J ohnSon min is
being played up by its press represent
atives as a mighty struggle between
the white and black races. The news
papers which pander to the practition-
ers and the devotees Of the ring are
bloviant of betting. prospective bruis-
ing and racial contest.
There's nothing in it but the coin
The ring is the lowest scale of physi-
cal measure because it is the most
mercenary, closest to crooks and I'M
der the control of the gamblers who
hold intellectual and commercial SUI
premacy over the battling brutes who
furnish the show If prize fight
meters can not agree upon a division
of swag A real fight for an actual
object, an honest measurement Of
strength and skill and physical cour-
age in rage or emulation is a stirring
thing The Jeffries-J johnson fight is
none of these but simply another sys-
ture field has more real dignity and de-
cency than the proposed clash Of pugi-
listic champions
1t is no test of racial supremacy in
any sense Neither Jeffries nor John
son represent any thing Of moment to
either race. Two ownerless dogs
fighting over a bone in a dark alley
represent as much of race supremacy
as the men who hope 70 divide bunch
of the easy money of easy marks.
1t is very much of a public and ma
tional disgrace. The movement to
prevent this fight and to abolish prize
fighting appears TO have fair chance
of success. It ought to succeed. When
boxing contests have become the ex-
cuse for gathering of thugs and
crooks and gamblers fro nnNew York
to Frisco, the boxing pavilion should
follow the race track betting she'd
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-20

was to the public. Roots efforts to at
tack his testimony availed little and In
fact helped Kerby more than it did the
cause of Ballinger.
It was so plain that Senator Root
was not the impartial investigator
looking for facts but a partisan Of the
Ballinger cause that 1t annoyed the
spectators and caused sympathy for
Kerby.
The most sensational revelation was
that Ballinger had accepted hospitali-
ties on the yacht Of George w. Perkins,
who is the right hand man of j. Pier
pont Morgan, had written him various
letters and had been advised of some
of Perkins plans as to Alaska, that
Ballinger's son was asked to accom-
pany Perkins on a trip to Alaska, and
that Ballinger, by request, had named
an engineer for Perkins, this engineer
being one whom Ballinger had prom
ised to put in the place Of Director
Newell Of the reclamation service.
In view Of the fact that there has
developed strong evidence that the
Morgan -,Guggenueim syndicate has
planned to get strong grip on the
Alaska mineral lands and that this
syndicate has an option ON half of the
Cunningham claims, this revelation is
generally regarded as Of the most
startling sort That it will cause
great outcry for the resignation Of Bal
linger may be expected.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-20
TAFT THEIR JUSTIFICATION.

lSlOuX City IrlDune,J
Fordney, Dalzell and the crowd of
tariff grabbers for whom they speak
are fully justified in telling Taft that
they will not stand for this enlarge
ment Of the tariff boards functions and
scope of investigation. Mr.. Taft, him
self. is their justification. Did he not
translate the tariff plank and tell US
ali what it meant and that it meant a
revision downward? And did he not
keep his hands off while Aldrich and
Dalzell and Fordney and the rest were
rapping that plank? And did he not
approve what they had done? And did
he not say that the platform did not
promise revision downward? Why
should these fellows not think that they
can again coerce him to their wishes?
Why should they not be confident that,
at some later day, he will say that he
never favored investigation by the
tariff board into the difference in cost
here and abroad? May these fellows
not have ground for saying that Taft
is now abandoning his party while they
are the only true blues?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-20
EGGS AND COLD STORAGE.

We suppose it might be figured out
to a mathematical certainly whether
the producer of eggs in Iowa is bene-
fitted or harmed, or not affected one
way or the other by the influence Of
cold storage as a supply and price
prising very much if the last named
situation were found to be the case,
altho it would seem to follow that
if in the edualizing there is also a
little elevating of the average price to
the consumer, there must be a cor
responding benefit to the producer, but
possibly not fully commensurate.
BY the latest official reports from
fwenty-eigtt Of the thirty-tWo united
warehouses" in and around New York
city it is shown that there are now
1, $4,000 cases of eggs in storage, each
case containing thirty dozen, as against
only 815, 900 cases in these same ware
houses at the corresponding date OF
lest year-near1v double the 1a6a
amount, JHS OdllS ISCSiplS I'll ceSS
are at present exceeding the consump-
ton by thousands Of cases, so that the
supplies in storage will continue to
pile up for some time, it is expected;
still, the prices have not declined ma
teriaIly and are just little higher than
they were at this date year ago.
why, asks the consumer, Is the
price higher now than year ago
when the supply was not SO great as
now. Perhaps the following from a
recent issue OF New york paper
sheds some light on the point:
Inspectors from the department OF
agriculture with the assistance of the
United states district attorneys office
ana the United States marshars office
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-20
Copyright. 1910, by
Nav %. 1910.

May %, 1910.
The Death of John the Baptist
Matt xiv: 1-12
Golden Textile that is slow to
anger is better than the mighty, and
he that ruleth his spirit, than he
that taketh city. Prov. XVI: 80.
Verse Who was Herold the te-
trarch?
To what extent is the fame" or
the sayings, or the indirect influence.
of a good man, instrumental in doing
good, as compared with his direct in
fiuence?
Can you recall one or more cases
of conversion thru words repeated sec
ond hand?
What has the fame" of Jesus ac-
complished?
Verse 2-Is it fact that bad men
dread the company Of aggressive good
men and if So why?
Verses 3-4-How much good or
harm did John accomplish by reprov-
ing Herold of his sin?
What can you say for, or against,
the proposition, that it would have
been in the interests of Righteousness
if John had kept his mouth closed,
concerning Herod's sin?
If John could have foreseen the re-
suit, what effect would that probably
have had upon the act which cost him
his life?
Should a good man always reprove
a bad man for his sins, and, il not,
what rule should he adopt in the mat
ter of reproof?
When does reproof do more harm
than good?
What can be said for, or against,
man who marries the wife of his liv-
ing brother?
What is the moral, or spiritual,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-20
Iona Newspapers
CENSORSHIP PLAN WRONG.
Waterloo Courier,1

=
A bill introduced in the house by
our Walter Smith of the Ninth Iowa
would forbid the publishing Of prize
fight news in the newspapers Of the
country. Now whether prize fights
or the news Of them is good thing
or not, the plan conceived by Smith
is dangerous way to tackle the SUBJ
ject II prize fights should be abol-
ished, let them be abolished. Let the
heart of the subject be aimed at at once.
Censoring the press will only create an
ill-feehng among the millions who are
interested in affairs of this sort which
are taking place.
The worst feature of the scheme,
however, is that suppression Of any
news except the obscene is un-Ameri-
can and dangerous policy to begin,
no matter what the subject. The
strong and righteous way is to openly
fly at the throat of those evils which
do not look well in print and not to
encourage them by covering them up
where they are freer to thrive than if
the purifying light of publicity were
turned upon them