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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20

and it was a pleasure for the editors = ~.
him in person at the meeting Of the STATE -
Association at Montreal. AS a token ~ -;
appreciation Mr.. Shuford brought with hin, -
the editors great quantities Of delicious creao.
buttermilk, and an abundant supply Of so,e
packages Of appetiZing butter and cheese
at his creamery. 1t was an exhibit which e
phasized the possibilities of dairying in Non
Carolina, Mr.. shuford's appreciated treat, =
the editors being made because, as he put i.
'the newspapers of the State have treated -.
so kindly, and have SO encouraged the craar,a,
Interests as to give substantial aid IN the
%velopment Of the industry in North Carolina
The Shuford treat and the exhibit 81 NJ
treat were such as to demonstrate that sve,a.
matte dairying and creamery work are no lonrs.
ventures in this State, but it has been sboo,
that they will pay. The farmers of North earn.
lima should take notice.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20
ALL FOR $1.7O

There has never been offered In North Caro-
lima so much good reading for so little money as
we are Offering under the following proposition:
For $40 we will send the following for one
year:
The Weekly News and Observer, an eight
page weekly newspaper.
The ommone an able monthly journal,
published by william Jennings Bryan
The Farmer and Mechanic, sixteen page
North Carolina home and farm weekly journal.
Thus for One Dollar and Seventy Cents you
can get all these papers one year.
v. G. MOORE, Manager.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20

New Orleans and London should quit irving
hoaxes on the people. The London effort "~5
to show that the Kaiser at a talk with German
bankers in Berlin had said that the war would
end in October. while New Orleans gave us ne
"Pearce" letters.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20

Thomasville is now in the process Of trying
out the city manager plan, the purpose being to
have business principles put into a business
proposition. Experiments in the city manager
plan will be watched with interest.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20

Petitions are being circulated in Cata"t&
county for an election on an issue Of ~S250,QVp III
bonds for roads. Catawba is on the right track
In Newton and Hickory townships the construc-
ton of 100000 of good roads has blazed mo
way for the countrywide movement.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20
Morni ing Tonic
Titus iii: 1-2.)

(Titus iii: 1-2)
DUT them in mind to be subject to principali-
Il ties and powers, to obey magistrates, to be
ready to every good work, to speak evil of no
man, to be no brawlers but gentle, showing all
meekness unto all men.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20
COTTON-THE MIGHTY.

There was a day when all that was thoreb,
to be in cotton was the staple itself. and in thosa
days the use Of this staple was confined to the
making of cloth in almost an exclusive degree
But In the years it has come about that II has
been found that many other things could he
made from the cotton itself, and the war-lords
found that it was. a need in the making If
munitions.
Great heaps of cotton seed were thrown away
year after year without the producers knowing
that it was good money that was being tossed
aside. Then came the day of extracting oil from
the cotton seed, and cotton seed meal made q
place as a feed stuff. Experiments were made
with the oil, it was refined and cotton seed oil
went on the market in competition with olive
Oil. More experiments and there was cottolene
as a substitute for lard, and with the contn-
uance Of experiments there came the making Of
substitute butter.
The cotton staple and the seed have made
their way in many uses, but there was a halt in
the use of the cotton stalk. That there was q
commercial value in it was the thought of many,
and now the day has come when cotton stalks,
which have heretofore been thought Of little use
in any way, and largely regarded as a nuisance.
are to find a place of value in the commercial
world in the making Of paper pulp and several
by-products, including fertilizers.
Taking hold Of the proposition for this utiii-
cation Of cotton stalks is the Economic Power
and Products COMPANY of Philadelphia. That
company is to have erected at once a plant at
Greenwood in Mississippi which is to have a
capacity to consume about As, 900 tons Of cotton
stalks yearly. The calculation made is that
from this there will come $1,000 tons Of pulp
for paper, $1,000 tons of fertilizer, and 1900
tons Of by-products, markets to be found for the
products in Eastern cities. The program IS TO
have the plant in operation by the first Of NO.
vember Of this year, the total investment 70 oe
about 5000, 900, with from fifty TO two hundred
and fifty men employed the first year.
Cotton is mighty. If this new project for me
use of the stalks proves a success then It WIZ
extend it's domain. With uses for the staple
the seed, and the stalks, there will be no waste
in the production Of a cotton crop.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20

The Greenville Reflector has the temerity
to ask: us this hot enough for you" Some
one should attend to it's case.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20

Evidently Henderson would be a good market
for razors. Says the Henderson Gold Leaf: This
Is such growing weather that a mans beard
grows rank in twenty-four hours time"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20

We believe we have the thread of thought in
the remark Of the Charlotte News that 1.-THE
threatened strike of pants makers has been
patched up"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20

Nation Keeps Cool-Editorial caption Ashe-
vile Citizen. Wrong. You should have said
the iceman.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20

1t may be true that "a friend in need is a
friend indeed but what about it when he Dor
rows a five-spot from you?
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20

We had hoped for different news. 1t is now
stated that the Seaboard Air Line has no present
or early future purpose to build beyond Ruther-
fordton.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20

The present signs are that the Republicans
think it will be best to Root for the next Presi-
dent. No applause, please.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20

The Wilmington Dispatch remarking: "Mar!on
Butler can always be counted on TO turn up
during campaign time to help the Democrat -
North Carolina win by a large majority, per-
NIT us to say that when Marion turns ~ me
people conclude that the thing to do is to turn
down his proposition, and sit on Marion.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20

inquiries Editor Cowan, of the WilmIng'on
Dispatch, I'VE should like to ask Caine, q '7
Asheville Citizen, and Gonzales, OF the COLUMBIA
State, if when a comely, rosy-cheeked country
maiden comes to the big city for the first tl"0
is she considered a green peach?' Before near
ing from Asheville and Columbia permit US =
say that she will not be a green peach II S"o
visits Wilmington and Cowan sees her first T
then she will become a red peach.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20

The poor we have always with u.s." Blu
why let Thaw get away, sigh the lawyers.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20

Vic. Huerta is of the fixed opinion that the
"open door, policy should prevail at Fort Bliss.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20

What May We Expect After the War ?
Headline. Pensions, dear friend, pensions.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20
Nmck MaH'4 Na4
By w. Frank Booker, Apex, N. c..

Il ScribeS, rest your weary pen, for Harry's
a no longer insane. For years we've yearned
for the end Of this incessant pain. And o, We
Knights of the Law, where now shall come the
scads to supply your pantries with fresh prunes,
your wives with latest fads,
HARRY THAW. since poor old Thaw has been
set free, and we at last have
rest, and Matteawan no longer waits for her once
famous guest; since a plying jury saw twas best
TO declare one man sane, and save the rest Of
us from Dicks Hill, and stop the dreadful pain
that awaited us in the daily news as we sought
some balmy dope to make us forget our grocery
bills and to give rs courage and hope! A vaca-
ton now for all We mcn-ye perspiring pushers
of the pen, for Harry, like Jack johnson, is out!
Find something else to write about.
What May We Expect After the War;
Headline. Pensions, dear friend, pensions.
The poor we have always with u.s." But
why let Thaw get away. sigh the lawyers.
Vic. Huerta is of the fixed opinion that the
"open door, policy should prevail at Fort Bliss.
The present signs are that the Republicans
think it will be best to Root for the next Presi-
dent. No applause, please.
Nation Keeps Cool-Editorial caption Ashe-
Vile Citizen. Wrong. You should have. said
the iceman.
1t may be true that "A friend in need is a
friend indeed" but what about it when he Dor
ows a fve-spot from you?
The Greenville Reflector has the temerity
to ask: as this hot enough for your" Some
one should attend to it's case.
We had hoped for different news. 1t is now
stated that the Seaboard Air Line has no present
or early future purpose to build beyond Ruther-
fordton.
We believe we have the thread of thought in
the remark of the Charlotte News that 1.-THE
threatened strike of pants makers has been
patched up"
Evidently Henderson would be q good market
for razors. Says the Henderson Gold Leaf: This
Is such growing weather that a mans beard
grows rank in twenty-four hours time"
Thomasville is now in the process of trying
out the city manager plan, the purpose being t
have business principles put into a bushes
proposition. Experiments in the city manage
plan will be watched with interest.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-20

Entered at the postoffice at Raleigh,
second-class mail matter.
Sharp County record., 1915-03-26
Faithful Oh Timer Gene

"0ld Tiny" the favorite nae Of
judge W, II, Evans and family,
passed to her reward last Sunday
morning. 1t Is the opinion Of thoss
In a position to know that she died
Of old age, Had she lived till April
she would have celebrated her
thirtieth anniversary. She carried
the judge through his first political
campaign, which was In 1892, and
It Is said to be d matter Of much
satisfaction TO him that she could
not talk One Of the judges friends
has estimated that odd 1'iny"ravel-
ed l2,500 miles, witnessed the kisS'
ine OF 0,374 babies and freiehted a
little over seven tons Of candy.
Peace to her ashes--Benton Courier
Sharp County record., 1915-03-26
TOLD in TWO LINES

Fruit prospects are reported good
around Jonesboro.
Socialists have candidates for
city offices in Argenta.
Unable to secure morphine, B. F.
Howard died at Atkins.
A Boys Pig Club has been Or
eanized in Greene county.
Mrs. Roxey Ashton ended her life
with a pistol at Little Rock.
&. w. Shern's grocery store was
destroyed by fire at Jonesboro'
A,gDeri Owens, aged 19, died at
Warren from the kick of a horse.
The Methodists are building a
$4,000 church at Sloan Springs
Sharp County record., 1915-03-26
ABSOLUTE CONTENT
IS NOT P0SS|BLE E
Hope Has Been The Essence
Of Our Lives And Will
Continue To Be Such.

Editor Record:-We can hear lit
tie but talk of hard times. The
financial condition of the people has
almost reached the point of alarm
in some quarters
If we get no assistance from any
source we must content ourselves
to face this crisis as brave citiz9ns.
We should not be given to too
much discomfort, but cheer our
selves with the hope of a good crop
this season and better times gener-
orally.
If we get no other benefit from
the past year, we may learn some
good lessons in self-denial and
economy.
1t does not fall within the scope
of the human mind to be perfectly
contented, and we can only do our
best and cherish the hope of a
change in the future.
Hope has been the essence of our
lives and will continue to be such.
Hope-Hope sustains the boy in
his doubtful love affair against his
rival.
1t sustains the statesman as to
the consequences of his actions.
1t is the guiding principle of the
politician.
1t is the fondest possession of the
care-worn mother concerning the
future of her child
1t is the ship upon which the
christian depends to carry him over
the tempest.ridden seas of life to
those ever-bloomine shores beyond.
When we think of it we see that
we live upon hope, anticipation and
expectation.
Since life is largely what we
make it, much Of human happiness
Sharp County record., 1915-03-26

will make ten pounds Of pork.
But corn should not be fed to grow
hogs. A little corn fed to growing
hogs is all right, but If you depend
on corn entirely to grow your hogs
you will lose money. Pastures, sor.
ghum, peas, soy beans, rape, skinned
milk, middlines, rice polish, etc. are
the things to grow hogs with, and
corn is the thing to fatten them for
the market with.
Do not 60 too strong on potatoes
and truck, unless you are o truck
farmer. Anyway, a variety Is better
than a single crop. Get into the
stock business as soon and as strong
as you can, Get hog vaccination
started in your neishboorhood and
stamp hog cholera out. You can
do 1t.
There will not be more than half
as much fertilizer used this year as
last The people are too poor to buy
1t. There will be no fertilizer or
feed inspection after April first, and
you should be careful what you buy
and patronize only the most reliable
firms. The Senate refused TO make
an appropriation for inspection or
to make analyses, consequently we
can give no protection to the farm
ers along this line, though every ton
of the fertilizer Is taxed twenty-five
cents to pay for inspection, and the
money will lie In the treasury two
years and cannot be used for any
purpose,
John II. Page,
Commissioner Of Agriculture.
Sharp County record., 1915-03-26
JOHN PAGES ADVICE
ON INVESTIGATION
Be Very Cautious If You
Would Succeed In DiverSi-
flying Your Crops.

The agitation of the subject OF
diversifcation during the fall OPEN
ed the way for a good many to urge
diversification who are the wisest
counsellors about farming. 7 h e
subject of diversification is broad
and deep and has many angles, 1t
is an easy matter to advise a man
to diversity his crops and leave the
subject there; but that is not all.
The man who diversifies is going
to succeed Or fail, accordingly as he
does it. Some who have been won
to diversifcation, and away from so
much cotton and corn, are going to
substitute crops that will involve
them in failure, just as surely as
cotton and corn would, Some are
going largely into the growing of
potatoes, others are turning their at
tention to cantaloupes, watermelons,
cabbaees, etc, 1t does not make so
much difference what crops are
grown, II they are produced at the
lowest cost, aud can be marketed at
a profit.
However, 1t should be remember
ed that diversifcation does no
mean to quit raising one thing and
90 to raising another, Under that
plan, the same old troubles would
be met In O different form. The
Lord says In the good book to Seek
ye first the kingdom of Heaven and
all else will be added unto you
In diversiAcation II might be os
truly said To seak ye first living
at home, then put your surplus into
any good money crop, and prosperi'
ty will be added unto you.
It Is wise to produce, first Of all
the necessaries for home and farm
use, and then grow the staple crops
such as corn and cotton, Cotton Ia
a good money crop, II not depended
on to buy everything else, Corn IL
d hne surplus crop If 1t cannot be
sold for cash at good price It can
be fed to stock, and sold at a good
price In that way, A bushelof corn
Sharp County record., 1915-03-26

and misery, much of human char
acter, is determined by this spon-
taneous flow of thought.
There is in man train of ideas
and emotions which he is disposed
to follow every given instant, i'm
PEELED unconsciously by deep, un-
derlyine appurtenanees, natural and
acquired, flowing in the channels
opened by the laws of emotive and
intellectual association.
Our floating ideas, not determin-
ed by outward circumstances, move
like clouds in the sky. Sometimes
they are light and fleecy and have
no real significance. Sometimes
they are bright and cheerful, like
the morning dawn, and we are in
spired by the sunshine OF hope and
melted to greater activity.
Sometimes, as in the present
crisis, our thoughts are cherries,
our sensations uncomfortable. OUR
prospects dismal.
We conclude that thought is the
mother of action, and hope the
mother of happiness.
We should be like Tennyson:
when the dawn Of rosy CHILDHOOD
past, enjoy the warmth of life's as
cendine sun"
Sidney Kelley.
Ash Flat, Ark.
Sharp County record., 1915-03-26
Too Many Chi|dren

nfe backward In studies, pale and i,o,,
WITH pinehed faces and poor bleed, a,I ,nni.
minds and bodies are actually , starvsa 1he.' ha
eanse their regular food does moi po'sls. tsu ps,
hey. need pure medical bourIsb,psa,,,s a,s1 ~
set in action the body forces, rensrots t 70 =
ensergy and create rich blood. 'e'a'e
sue such children need scott's Emulsio,
above everything else because Il ,oio, eon,o,,a
natnre,s rarest life.giving fats; i ',.as ia es'
eehtially food value-blood. food and hoss M es-
pod, and 10 totally free from sleohol Jle. or
htniul drugs. '''o' or
y i sa,l Your ehildren are tired when rising.
lek energy, healthy color aad ninb,,,oss
find theft etudies difficult, get a bo,,ls
scotia Emulsion at the nsareat i I,u',
sote' ltspufe medical nourisbment ol,sss ls
''illde a many times its weight In solid fssb
SCOTS Emulsion Is not a prop but % !.
,uhdation for sturdy growth and active
Iqm'ns, and Is so very good for growing
',IIlren ne q pity to keep Il from them. %
!" scott & BOVINE, Bloomfield, MI
Sharp County record., 1915-03-26
STATE FINANCES

STATE FlNANCEo
N Tho recent session of the general
assembly did absolutely nothing to
'I ,;o,o the states embarrassment IN
financial matters
''' Not only was no legislation along
this line enacted but none was at
tempted ;n
roduced measures which they con-
tended, if enacted into law, would
assist in bringing the state out OF
debit but this was only an opinion
uoop the part of the authors OF
these measures, which, anyhow
failed to become laws
The matter of the states indebt-
edness, which increases week by
,vaek and month by month, except
in that short period when the treas
,,rv drouth is temporarily relieved
by taxpaying, was not met 1alrly
and souarely by the last legislature,
and it can truthfully be said that
no real effort was made to afford
relief to the states financial dis
tress.
The legislature may have been
Given a bad start in this important
~ matter. 1t is a fact that in his
message to the general assembly at
Its opening and in those messages
that followed at different times Gov.
HAYS most signally failed to even
suggest a plan of action in paying
the states debts, and the members
have felt justifable in follow
ine the governors lead and letting
1.-The boat rock along
State warrants are now selling at
considerably less than par, and the
Little Rock banks, which handle
great majority of these warrants,
declare that in short time state
warrants will be selling for less
Than sixty cents on the dollar.
Secretary of State Earle W.
MHodees, in an official report from
bis office some time ago, called at
tention to the fact that every month
&tle state is losing large sum of
money because of the fact that its
purchases must be paid for with
warrants that are marketed at a
discount.
W No explanation Of how that fact
Works is necessary. If an article is
Worth one dollar when paid for in
cash it will sell for a dollar and a
quarter, or more, when paid for
with warrant worth seventy-fve
GENTS on the dollar in an open
market And there you are, with
10 remedy except to pay the back
debt and become a cash customer
M Surely these matters are import
ant enough that they should have
some attention from the governor
Of the state and the state legisla-
ture.
The states Indebtedness was the
one great question before the late
General assembly, yet that question
vas ignored as II 1t had no exist
ence' 1t does not speak volumes
Ior the craftsmanship of the leeis-
lature that its members would run
away and leave unsolved and un-
touched the greatest problem of the
Day, yet the evidence conyicts the
leeislature Of just that.
~ his report Secretary of State
hodges recommended that the state
porrow a million dollars for q per.
'od Of years at a low rate of inter.
eot, pay Its debts and maintain Il.
Sharp County record., 1915-03-26

The Paraeould Soliphone says the
states present financial condition
Is but the logical result of the ad-
ministration Of demaeosueS and In
competents, That statement is
well worth thinking about,
Sharp County record., 1915-03-26
If again on a cash basis.

self again on cash basis.
Gov. Hays announced that he
was opposed to that plan, without
suggesting another himself.
The legislature did not accept
that plan, and no member proposed
either a better or worse one. Evil
IDENTIFY the general assembly was
playing shut-mouth.
In fact, Secretary of State Hodges
is the only official who has offered
suggestion Immediately touching
the situation. Others seem to be
shieing around the problem, almost
afraid to move or breathe, always
playing politics and scared to death
of losing votes.
Mr.. Hodges plan would have left
the state in debt a million dollars,
but that amount could have been
secured at rate of five or six per
cent interest, and it is certain the
state is now paying several times
that rate of interest in the purchase
of supplies and in other ways by
reason of the depreciation in state
warrants.
Whether the plan offered by the
secretary Of state is the best that
could be brought forth or not, the
states debts are going to have to
be paid some time, and it certainly
is the height Of folly to rush head
long into more debt every day
without at least an effort at resist
ance.
1t is high time the Arkansas leg
islature contained a majority of
men who understand the real prob
lens of the state and who would
not shun or evade these questions;
men who are big enough to look a
problem squarely in the face and
fearless enough to proclaim and
remedy such bad situations as they
may find.
Sharp County record., 1915-03-26

Representative Sam Rorex Of
Yell county takes slap at Gov,
Hays by saying the legislature had
no leader in formulating legislation
for the betterment of the states
credit, and that nothing definite on
that subject could be gotten out OF
Gov, Hays. Something amusing
about that statement. This same
Sam Rorex was Gov, Hays leader
in the house until the smash-up
came In the very last days Of the
session.