Vol. Vilf No. 44
Salisbury N. O.,, Wednesday; October !6th;
vM. H. STtvART, Editor
ADYAiTABES OF A MOTORCYCLE.
Seas of tsi Various tU ta Wuieh i
- UotorcTCle can lis Put.
" That a good motorcycle is
a inmg macii to dw uesirpu
will be aDDdrent after read-
inrr lli V' fitlliiwinc na rratiori
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an authority oa matters per-
THE JfOTORCYdLE AND FARMER
A motorcycle is a luxurj to
the city man, but to the
farmer it is both a luxury and
a business' necessity After
the chores are done he car
get on his machine, go to
town . in fifteen or iv) enty
minutes, go to the theatre, or
spend the evening at the club
or park, and not have to put
in three or four hours on the
road with the old lamiiy
plug. The motorcycle ntedf
.very little care; if inexpensive
to operate, and is a piece o
machinery that very tarnv r
who can afford it should
have.
Leaving out .the pleasure
side, the motorcycle is very
useful on the farm in making
quick trips to town. Maybe
the housewife fiuds thai, she
jg going to ran short of gro,
ceries for dinner It is only
a matter of half an: hour to
make a trip to ' to wn and get
the needed supplies. : ,Sup
pose it is during the wheat
harvest and the work is rush
ing, a bolt or castiug i?
broken and the wholecrevv
iB-thrown out of work. You
can make the trip to town on
your motorcycle, get the
needed part and have the
machine running in less than
an hour, while if you had to
hitch up the family horse and
make the trip it probably
would take half a day. A
motorcycle is very handy in
case of- emergency. Speed in
getting the doctor or some
medicine has saved many a
life.
Every motorcycle should
be equipped with a luggage
carrier. With one of these a
load of eight or nine hundred
pounds may be carried. One
carrier may be attaehed back
of the seat and another in
tront of the handlebars. In
this way a motorcycle may be
used in making butter de
liveres in town, and taking
vegetaoles and other pro
ducts to market and exchang
ing them for groceries and
other necessities. A chair
attachment may be' used on
the front of the motorcycle
and a luggage-carrier on the
back. Two persons can ride
then, for pleasure or busi
ness Some persons who own
motorcycles use them to run
the washing machine, churn,
cream separator, and other
machinery. A belt is at
tached from the rear wheels
to a flywheel on the machine.
This is using a motorcycle to
a great advantage, but ac
cording to a motorcycle ex
pert it should not be used for
running machinery. A motor
cycle engine is made to be
air-cooled, and this will not
be properly accomplished un
less the machine is in motion.
The engine should not be
run more than three minutes
standing still, or the piston
may begin to stick. The
guard must be removed when
a 1 a m a t
oeiting it up, ana on some
machines this requires con
eiderable time. The mac
hines must also be held
steady or it will throw off the
belV Ihis is usually acconv
plished by. means of a rope,
If the the belt comes ff it
may get mixed up with . the
wheel, causing considerable
damage. r A - motorcycle en
gine will not do its best .work
unless it is running at about
1,000 revolutions a minute.
and this is almost too fast for
the.average piece of machin
ery. oome arrangement it
needed to reduce the speed;
.A - 'Ik. i n
a couniersnait usually is
used for this purpose.":
It is not a paying propose
tion to, use a valuable motor
cycle engine to run machin
ery, when a stationary en
gine can be . obtained for v: i
. low price to do the same work.
, GOVERNOR W00DR0W WILSON .
Democratic Nominee for President" of the United States,
Tk! Cotton Pick'ng Machine.
Many visitors from the ad
joining counties, as well as
hundreds of Scotland county
farmers, are here this wek
to witness the operation of
the Price Campbell cotton
picking machiues which are
being demonstrated by Theo
dore H. Price of New York.
It is the unanimous opinion
of J;he Fcfcctators that the
machines are already a suc-
Lcess, aitnougn tneir are some
improvements . which Mr.
Price will add before another
cotton season. The machine
picks one row at a time, and
gathers at least ninty per
cent of the open cotton on
the first trip, and after going
over it the second time, it is
estimated that not more than
me per cent of the cotton is
left in the field. The cotton
gathered is not altogether
free from trash, but is much
cleaner than that picked by
the average negro. The stalk
is left uninsured, open blooms
and morning glory blooms
being left intact. Mr. Price
will remain here with his
machines about a weekH
1 o n g e r. Laurinburg Ex
change.
The alderman of Speucer held
an interesting oaucu3 Wednesday
night discussing the waterworks
pr-positiou now before the town .
Almost a' l tbe aldermen were
present ai d the board was found
to favor a purchase of the plant cf
the Spencer Water Company now
in use provided of course a satis
factory price can be agreed upoD,
A. recent appraisal made ny ex
perts ho -inveatoried tbe plant
placed the value at about $20 000.
James A Rosemond and Fire-
man 1j l) ferKins were severely
injnred on th Spencer yards Wed
nesday night by falling in a man
hole It is stated they walked
across au openiajr, covtrea by
plank, which broke and they were
precipitated upon each other in
the hole. Mr Rosemond sustain
ed i ijuries in his back and leg.
and is now off duty on account of
the aocideat. ' .
In other words, using
a
motorcycle engine to do this
Kind oi worK is hkb using a
fine driving horse
heavy work on the
J. M. Palmer.
for the
farrn.
For sore throat, swollen tonsils
pimples on the tougue. gargle the
tQroat or riii9e the muth with
D A R BY'S PROPHYLACTIC
FLUID diluted in a little water
It will-quickly ree'tbre norma
conditions. Bathe thi skin with
it to reduce swilliugs," aure insert
bites or. sting?, ash out ragged
wjonas, oia sires or narDed wire
tsuts. jilt "disinfects the : wuud
and heals the flesh. Pried 50
cts. per bottle. Sqld by All Drug
J gut
Last Year's Lessen, Don't Rush Cotton to
-
C)tton. selling last fall for-1
eight or niue cents a pound before
it was known just what a "whop
per1 the crop was is now selling
for etevea cents (nearly twelve).
And this, despite the fact that the
fficial statistics now show that
the crop was over 16,000,001' bales
Higher than anybody dared pre
dict in the beginning.
The advance has come after the
great bulk of the crop has passed
oat of th hands of the men whose
sweat and labor brought it into
being. Millions and tens of mil-
iocs of dollars that should have
gone to enrich the plain farmers
of the South have gone into the
bands of speculators, merchants
and c-tton buyers.
But for last fall's stampede to
tell the wholesale flooding of an
already satisfied maaketthe farm
era might have gotten eleven cents
last fall aB easily as the specula
tor gets it now. ' .
It was a risk to take, because as
Hmry Grady said, "CUtton is a
darn fool," but The Progressive
Farmer did take the risk of con
tinually urging farmers to hold
for batter prioes. We predioted
that cotton would be twelve cents
'y spring, and if the crop had beeD
no bigger than conditions then in
dicated, it would have gone to
twelve before, now. Even with a
16,000,000 bale crop, it is nearly
twe've. And our readers who fol
lowed The Progressive Farmer's
oudbbI, refusing to- be frightened
by tbe decliniag market or by
eight and nine-cent offers have
profited notably.
The big lesaon that seems to
stand oat is the need of warehous.
g and gradual marketing, pottii g
the crop on the market through a
period of twelve mouths instead of
a period of three. "The laborer
is worthy of ' his hire," and this
spring advanco should have gone
to those who earned the wealth,
not to thos ) who merely trafficked
in it The Progressive Farmer
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The readers of this paper will
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Sold by DruggistB, 75). T
Take.Hall'a Family, Pills for
I constipation.
! TWO BIG ISSUES,
: SAYSPLLIER'S
The Tariff and the Proper Treat
ment of Monopolies.
WONT TIE TO . ROOSEVELT
"Actively Disagrees" With His Views
About Trusts and eWastes of Com
petition" and ' Supports tfle Candi
dacy of Wilson and Marshall. -
Collier's is out forWilson and Mar
shall. .It refuses to support Theodore
Roosevelt, plus George W7 Perkins,
Elbridge H. Gary and the rest of the
steel trust-harvester trust magnates.
Its open opposition: to the third term
ticket was Indicated In the issue of
Sept. 14. In the issue of Sept. 21 its
reasons for espousing the Democratic
cause are clear and forceful.
The leading editorial, "The Wastes
of Competition," says:
"More and more the campaign is
coming down to twoJ pressing issues,
the .tariff and the proper treatment of
monopolies. Collier's actively.- dis
agrees with the view of monopoly be
ing .urged by Messrs. Roosevelt, Per
kins and Gary.
"They talk a great deal about the
wastes of competition. The necessary
wastes, of competition are relatively
Insignificant, and the wastes of unfair
and destructive competition are wholly
unnecessary. They will be largely
eliminated when competition is regu
lated. . ,
"The La Follette-Lenroot and the
Stanley bills to perfect the Sherman
law and the Newlands-Cummins pro
posals for an interstate trade commis
sion are all directed in part to that
end. The remaining wastes of compe
tition may be likened to the wastes of
democracy. These are obvious, but we
know also that democracy has com
pensations which render it more effi
cient than Absolutism. So it is in in
dustry. - The margin between what
men naturally do And what they can
do Is so great that, the system which
urges men on to effort is the best sys
tem. --
"The necessary wastes of monopoly,
on the other hand, are enormous. Some
of these can, of course, be eliminated
by regulation.. An efficient interstate
trade commission, acting under appro
priate legislation, could put an end to
much of the oppression of which trusts
have been guilty. It could prevent un
just discrimination. It could prevent
ruthless and unfair use of power; but
a government commission would be
powerless to secure" for the people the
low prices commonly attendant upon
competition. . v
"As no means exist for determining
whether greater net earnings are due
to greater efficacy in management or
to excessive profits, large net earnings
would be followed by compulsory re
duction of prices, which in turn would
create a Bense of injustice suffered,
paralyze individual enterprise and pro
duce unprogressiVe, slipshod manage
ment The attempt to secure low
price through price fixing would
prove as impotent a the statute
which have sought to protect the pub
lic in railroad rates "by limiting the
dividends.
"The Interstate commerce commis
sion has been invoked as an argument
In favor of licensing monopoly. That
commission has stopped many abuses;
it has practically put an end to cor
rupt and corrupting discrimination in
rates; it has protected the shipper
from oppression and arrogance and in
justice; it has prevented unreasonable
advances in rates; but it has -secured
comparatively few notable reductions
in rates, except those involved In
stopping discrimination between per
sons, places or articles. It has teen
powerless to reduce operating costs,
and greater reductions in rates can
come only with reductions in the cost
of producing transportation. The In
justice and corruption attending the
earlier railroad period were extremely
serious. But we must not forget that
tfte sweeping reductions in American
operating costs and rates belong to the
earlier period of competition among
railroads. In the ten years from 1889
to 1899, while competition among the
railroads was active, the freight rate
per ton per mile was gradually re
duced from .941 to, .724. The years
1899-1900 marked the great movement
for combination or ."community of in
terest" in the railroad world as well
as in the industrial world. The freight
rate per ton per mite began to rise. In
each of the eleven succeeding years it
was higher than in 1899, and. in 1910
It was .763.
"The deadening effect of monopoly
is illustrated by its arrest of inven
tion. The shoe machinery trust, form
ed In 1899,, resulted in combining, di
rectly arid indirectly, more than 100
shoe machinery concerns. It acquired
substantially a monopoly of all -the es
sential machinery used in bottoming
boots and shoesvas well as many oth
er machines. It believed Itself unas
sailable, and shoe manufacturers had
come to regard their subjection to the
trust as unavoidable. Nevertheless, in
1910 the trust found its prestige sud
denly threatened and its huge - profits
imperiled. It was confronted with s
competitor so formidable that the
trust, in flagrant violation of law, paid
$3,000,000 to buy him out Thomas Q.
Plant had actually succeeded in devel
oping la about five years, while tii
, troat jraa atoM twaa Bsoaosoly.
- GOVERNOR THOMAS R. MARSHALL
Democratlo Nominee for Vice-President of the United States.
Sell Brought to Test Newspaper Regula
. Hons.
Suit to test the right of the gov
ernment to enforce the Federal
law of August 24, 1912, requiring
newspapers and periodicals to pub
lish their circulation figures'twice
a year and imposing other public
ity requirement, has been filed in
the United States District Court
in New York by the Journal of
Commerce and Commercial Bulle
tin Company, publishers of the
Journal of. Commerce.
The suit is directed against
Post-master General Wickersham,
United States District Attorney
Wise and Postmaster Morgan of
New York. The petitionercharges
the law is unconstitutional and
prays foe a temporary injunction
restraining its enforcement until
final adjudication. It also re
quests that the defendants be re
quired by Bubpoena to answer.
Back of the actions, aocording
to Robert C. Morris, of counsel for
the complainant, is the American
Newspaper Publishers' Associa
tion. The association decided re
cently to file a test suit and this
suit, it is said, will be backed by
the association .
Pi ope r Use of Lime.
There are millions of tons of
lime reck in the South that could
be prepared for use and laid down
at the nearest railroad station at
a cost of from $1 to $2 a ton, and
there are millions of acres of land
that needs this lime ; but as yet
we have not realized the true use
of lime in our agriculture. The
application of lime to the average
soil for crops like cotton, corn,
oats and hat is not likely to be
found highly profitable, and con
sequently many have concluded
that lime is not needed. Lime
is needed, firBt, for the growing of
more and larger crops of legumes,
and with more and larger crops oi
legumes, then larger crops of ev
erything And then, lime will al
so be valuable because it helps to
set free and make available plant
food in the soil. This is the cor
rect purpose in the use of lime and
we need more of it. The Progress
sive Farmer.
substantially complete system of shoe
machinery which many good judges
declared to be superior to that of the
trust.
"George W. Perkins, apostle of the
economic and social efficiency -of mo
nopoly, quoted to the senate commlt
tee on interstate commerce the state
ment that:
" 'The corpoirations'that Mr. Edison's
business inventions had made possi
ble were today capitalized at $7,000,
000,000. - "The Inventors' guild, an association
in which Mr. Edison is naturally prom
inent, said in a memorial addressed to
the president:
'"It is a well known; fact that mod
ern trade combinations tend strongly
toward constancy of processes and
products and by their very nature are
opposed to new processes and products
originated by independent inventors
and hence tend to restrain competition
in the development and sale of patents
and patent rights and consequently
tend, to discourage Independent Inven
tive thought, to the exeat detriment of
Don't Waste Lab jr.
Isn't it, when you come to think
of it seriously, just as unwise and
as extravagant to waste labor as
to waste money? . It all amounts
to the sam" thing in the end, for
to fritter away time and strength
doing unremunerative work, or
work unnecessarily hard is to de
crease the profits of the day or the
year just as Burely as would be
don j by scattering dimes or dol
lars . Yet there ate many farm
ers who would lament the loss
of a nickel but who, day after day
and year after year, do work that
is absolutely unprofitable. To put
the potato patch, for example, ten
minutes' walk from the house,
when there is plenty of land avail
able right at hand, and 10 make
necessary a lot of extra steps and
some extra time every time pota
toes are wanted for eating, is just
as truly a waste as it would be to
throw away the prioe of the extra
time required in going to this dis
tant patch for the potatoes, -'-The
Progressive Farmer.
Pirtisianshlp Gone to Seed.
That is what the .decision of the
State Executive Committee in de
termining who may vote in the
senatorial primary amounts to.
If none are Democratsjexcept those
who vote for everybody whom the
Democratic party puts up, the
ranks of the party will be won
derfully diminished, and ought to
be more so. It is nst a pleasant
doctrine to party organization
leaders, but the sturdy independ
ent voter is the hope of the nation
It may do for the ambitious poli
tician to boast of party regularity
but the man who will vote for a per
son whom he knows to be unwor
thy or unfit for the position, pos
sibly a menace to the public good,
simply became he has secured the
endorsement of a political party,
always represents something
somewhat less than the highest
type of manhood. To make such
a course a test of party fealty is
partisanship gone to seed. The
attempt to enforce such a rule is
a slap in the face of the sturdiest
manhood of the State; and at this
time when "party ties are held
somewhat loosely, it will cost the
party heavy loss that attempts it,
and it ought. Raleigh Advooate.
Fortunes In Faces.
There's often much truth in the
saying "her face is her ; fortune,"
but its never said where pimples,
skin eruptions, blotch s, or other
Flemishes disfigure it. Impure
blood is back of them all, 'and
hows the need of Dr. King's Ndw
Life Pills. They promote health
and beauty. Try them; 25 cents
at all druggists. ; - '
THE FASTEST HUSTLER
GETS THE MOTORCYCLE.
PRODUCTS OF 1HE SOIL IUPR0YED.
Sods Things Thit Lnlier Barliaiiks, tti
hint WIztrflThisllone.
A.uttTo ueara oi unmans Jisi
as i nave heard of Edison, bat
1 A. 1 ' 1 1 , 1
wuii6 oiii ne aone tnat is of nrao
tical and lasting value?" asked a
maEno waa discussing Luther.
Out of the results of forty years
of daily achievement, it is hard to
pick a single illustration thai will
answer the question ; ""What has
he done?"
But there is Jot example, the
common potato. Thirty-five years
ago potatoes were round, red
skinned and small.
The potatoes of today are long
white-skiuned and large. -
It would be difficult now to find
specimens of th;se little, round,
r9d-ikinued potatoes of olden daya
for the Burbank notato h&a hw-
oome practically universal, it no
longer pays to raise the other
kind.
Luther Burbank did three things
j tne Dotacoe:
He increased its sue.
Hejiuoreased the namber tha
And third, he imnroved th
quality and flavor.
The United States Department
of Agriculture at Washington, in
one of its bulletins, has said that
the Burbank potato is adding sev
enteen million dollars a year Vo
the agricultural income - of the
country.
On this basis, and remembering
that Burbank products are . not
limited to America, but ' are, in
faot, batter, known abroad than, at
home, it is easy to compute that
the Burbank potato in the thirty
five years Bines: its discovery, has
added to the farm income a grand
total in the neighborhood of six
hundred million dollars.
In other words, Luther Bur
bank with this one single plant
improvement, has given the farm
ers of the world an added in
come which compares favorable
with the whole estimated earning!
of the Standard Oil Company
sinoe its inception.
And the casual inquirer, who
had eaten Burbank potatoes all
his life and who had never seen,
tasted or even heard of any other
potato, asked what Burbank had
done that was practioal 1 v
Or, to pick at random another
example:
Amerioa'a most precious tree,
the Walnut tree, is practically ex
tinct, at least as a source of mas
ketable lumber.
The walnut tree, as nature
planned it, is slow to grow.
In tweuty-five years it usually
reaches a height of twenty feet
and a circumference of eighteen
inohes.
Burbank has produced a walnut
tree, equal, if not superior in the
quality of the lumber, which is
only seventeen years, has attained
a height of eighty feet (as against
twenty feet in twioe that long)
and a circumference of seventy
two inches (as against eighteen
inches in twice that long.)
At the cost of $2. per tree for
planting, this new walnnt can
yield Or twelve years a lumber
value of three thousand dollars
per acre.
Or, to put it another way: in
these days when forest conversa
tion is an acute issue, Luther Bur
bank has given us a short cut to
reforestation, has enabled us to
make good a lumber shortage, due
to our own wanton recklessness,
and to do all of this, not a gener
ation from now, but in the mere
span of a dozen years.
Yet the question is asked :
"What has he done that is practi
cal?" Saves Leg Of Bo jr.
It seemed that my 14-vear old
boy would have to lose his leg, on
account of an ugly ulcer, caused
by a bad bruise, wrote D- F. How
ard, Aquone, N. O. "All reme-
till we tried Bueklen's Arnica
Salve, and cured him with) one
box." Cures , burns; boHs, skin
eruptions, piles. 25 oe&U at ali
druggists, 'ir-rSv--'