VOLUME XXXI
ASKS FOR ARGUMENT. NOT ABUSE.
••Dog-Killer" Reproaches "J." For
Voting for Whiskey at Walnut Cove.
Two Bitter Pills.
Mr. Editor:
1 n our last letter, we said that
as long as Mr. "J." continued to
palm oil' abuse as argument in
support of the liquor business, we
would waste no more time on him.
But as it seems that he has mel
lowed down somewhat in his last
letter and nwiv wants to make it
appear that he is not trying to de
fend the business?and wants us to
answer some questions, we will
consider some of flu*things he said
in his last letter.
First, then you nay. Mr. "J."
that we made groundless charges
against you when we left tlu- im
pression that you said all are mean
who say anything against this
business, and charged you with,
trying to defend or uphold it. We
do not wish to misrepresent you.
But we did say that it seemed
that you thought every one was
mean who opposed the business
and the course you were taking to
uphold it. We admit, however,
that you did not say so in just so
many words, but you did say it
by your actions or Tiy what you
said atioiit them in other ways. A
statement in your last letter will
show that what we said in this
matter is not without foundation.
In that lotto" v u s;dd that" you
had not offered u single para
graph in defense of the liquor
business. And it is equally cer
tain. Mr. "J " that you have not
offered a single word against it.
Then please toll us what you have
been writing about, if not only to
find fault with, and belittle -those
who have not spoken out against
the business down there. If you
did not think they were mean,
then why did you so belittle and
abuse us all? Here are two pills
of your own make, and yotf will
have to swallow one or the other
of them, and we believe that either
ojie of them will make you sick.
You will either have to admit that
when you had nothing else to
write about, but to say hard things
about those who had spoken out
against the whiskey business down
there you thought they were mean
enough to justify you in what you
paid against them, and that therein
you did give us ground to say that
it seemed that you thought they
were mean, or else admit that you
said those hard things without a
cause. Which pill will you take?
If it tastes bitter we can't help it,
you u»|do it so. ami brought about
the necessity of your having it to
swallow. As to the charge we
made about your trying to defend
the liquor business being without
foundation, we will just say that
yvit hftve nefer accused yon of
bringing a single argument in sup
port of it. In fact, that is just
what we have tried to get yon to
do. We wanted you to bring your
argument in support of the busi
ness if you had any to bring, and not
fii iihiisjug those who are oppos
ing it, Hut it Is just like you said
in your last letter, you have not
offered a single paragraph of argu
ment in its support. But we are
informed that you did otfor your
vote fur it, and to this must be ad
ded the abuseaiid discouragements
you offered those who told you
that you made a mistake or did
wrong in doing so, When a per
son helps to establish a thing in a
place and then abuses, belittles,
and tries to discourage those who
oppose it, does lie not defend the
thing just to that extent? Surely
lie does. This is }ust what you
have done in the whiskey busi
ness down there. You helped to
vote it on a people, even the whole
world, not only men, but helpless
women and children, and all ex
posed to its evil influences. Yet
all of them except the men in
Walnut Cove were denied any vote
or voice in saying whether or not
it should be so.
And liecause some of them made
complaint about it, you belittled
and abused them for it. Yet you
tell the public that we made a
groundless charge against you
when we said that yoij wen: trying
to uphold the liquor business.
Now. who made the groundless
elu»rgp? Did I make a false
charge in the itiauur, of did you
make one when yu said to the
public that my charge was without
foundation? lam willing to let
the public judge between us in the j
matter. Hut I wish to say to you thai ,
this is another bitter pill, but ]
there would have been no need of j
jyour having ii {so swallow, had i
| you not fixed if up and tried |o
put it into my mouth. And if you
don't uuilt to keep yourself sick
lon these nasty bittut tiling, you
had better quit fixing them up j
I,u! trying to put them into my :
mouth, Fur J will not swallow
them.
It does Boom that if you have no
argument that you can bring in
favor of the whiskey business, and
you do not want to say anything
against it, yoii.could afford to be ,
quiet about it, and not be abusing
those who have spoken out against j
it. Hut you say that it was otq
mode of attack that you have been
speaking against. Now, Mr. "J," j
it seems to us that that is far-fetch
ed. If you have not sufficient
interest in the liquor business to
bring arguments, fcjtlier for, or
against it, what matter's it with
you about our mode of attack?
The fact of the matter is, you have
shown your colors for whiskey by j
casting your vote for it and then
by abusing those who said you did
wrong in doing s«. And now be
cause you can bring no arguments
to justify your course in the mat
ter, "you fall back on our mode
of attack, as your ground of objec
tion to what has boon said, We
imagine that if the attack had
been made in some other way,
your objection would have boon
just the same. And further, if
we had been the only one who
made the attack then perhaps we \
might think that possibly we were
blind and made it in an improper
way. Hut various ones made the
attack. Some refined and well
educated people, school teachers
who -have the respect and con
fidence of the best people in the
country were among the number;
and they all made the attack from
their respective view-points, and
in the way their own reason and
judgment deemed to be proper.
Yet, you called them "Smart
Alexs," and said other hard things
about them. If there is not at
least one person on the other side
of the house, who is rapidly prov
ing himself a Smart Alex, then
wo, and many others are mistaken
and have too little sense to know
what a Smart Aleck is. There is
a person whose years and experi
ence are little beyond tlios.* of a
mere stripling. He has cast his
vote for whiskey, which every
thoughtful person knows is filling
the land with misery and shame.
He can bring no arguments to
justify Ills action in the matter;
yet he is busy nnd smart enough
to jump on people whose years
and experience entitle them to at
least the courteous consideration
of the young, and abuse them be
cause they have spoken out against
S TOIC ICS A X I) VA JiOL
J)ANBURY, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 20, 11*04
the whiskey business down there.
Take a good look at him, Mr. "J;"
size hfm up, and tell the readers
of the Reporter what you think
of him.
You say that our statement
alwxit your stopping with us for
dinner one day last summer is not
true. We l>eg your pardon, Mr.
"J," we did make a mistake as
to the time of this occurrence, but
not as to the fact of the occurrence.
It was a year ago last summer,
when you stopped with us, and
not last slimmer, as stated in our
letter. We discovered the mistake
just after we had mailed our letter
to the Reporter; and we trusted
that you would exercise charity
enough towards us not to hold us
up as a falsifier just because we
happened to make a mistake as
to the time you stopped with us.
We were glad to have you stop
with us that day, and no mention
would have been made of it, had
you not tried to make it appear
that we had done something mean
and sneaking, ami therefore had
not the backbone to disclose our
whereabouts. While it was un
pifnjsotd to us to sj)?flk of this
matter, we mentioned your stop
ping with us and the particulars
of the occasion, in order to press
nifittpr h«iJ)e to you in such a
way that you eould Hot mistake
our whereabouts.
Now, Mr. "J," I am tired of
these wranglings, and it has not
been my desire to refer to personal
matters; but it seems that your
letters have hpen of sqch a nature
as to mate it necessary for me tu
do so to some extent in order to
exonorate myself from your charges
or imputations. Let us stop this
abominable thing. I imagine that
the readers of the Reporter are
disgusted with our letters already,
both yours and mine. So
if you have any arguments to
bring in support of the liquor
business, why just bring them, and
lot us bring ours on the other side;
and don't be causing us to have to
waste our time to answer your
personal charges.
We intended to answer your
questions in this letter, but as the
letter is too long already we
will have to defer them till we
write again, at which time we will
tell you about your five dollar
challenge.
D(KI-KTLLER.
Come to Sunday School.
K(ng, July 10,
We want to ask one favor of the
boys that stay at home and run
over town and break into houses,
to come out to Sunday School and
be l>etter boys, Parents, makp
your children go toSunday School.
Some men say they had rather for
their children to go fishing on
Sunday than to go to Sunday
School. Men and women, yau are
wrong in such an idea as this,
Now, parents will you please look
after your children, more particu
lar especially on Sunday and keep
them out of bad company, it is
better to be alone than to be in
bad company,
BILLEY BOY.
A VERY CLOSE CALL
"1 struck to my engine, although
every joint ached and every nerve
was racked with pain," writers C.
W. Bellamy, a locomotive fireman,
of Burlington, lowa. "I was weak
and pale, without any appetite and
all run down. As I was about to
give up, 1 got a Iwttle of Electric
Hitters, ami after taking it, I felt
as well as 1 ever did in my life."
Weak, siukly, run down people al
ways gaiu new life, strength and
vtgor from their use. Try them.
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Druggists Price 60 cents.
THE ONE-HORSE FARM.
Prof. J. S. Newman Argues That It is
Chief Enemy of Progressive Agricul
ture In the South.
The chief enemy to progressive
agriculture in the Southern States
is the "one-horse farm." The
equipment of the one-horse farm
is generally a cheap mule, too
weak, as usually fed, to do good
work; a boy Dixie, and a scooter]
plow provided with shovel, scooter
and half-shovel. This primitive
equipment iu the hands of one
ignorant of the very fundamental
principles underlying successful
agriculture is a guarantee of not
only failure in production, but of
the deterioration of the soil. The
history of Southern agriculture
fully illustrates ami substantiates
these statements.
The land-owner has the matter
largely tit life own hands. Self
proservationjaud the protection of
his lands from continued waste
demand that lie stop the present!
practice of superficial preparation,
ignorant and wasteful use of ferti
lizers upon land incapable of re
taining the moistuio necessary for
their utilization by the plant and
cultivation which is destructive
rather than conducive to the best
(}eyeJo|jinput of plant growth and
production, The average land
owner tenants out his land to any
responsible person who can secure
supplies from a merchant by mort
gaging crops »ot yet planted, and
buy on credit Yonie broken-down
horse or mule blanketed also with
a mortgage. The landlord does
this knowing and acknowledging
that what he receives from the ten
ant will not pay for the deteriora
tion of the land from which his
profit is supposed to be derived.
This policy and practice are suieid
al in their results.
OUTWORN METHODg,
The tendency of the age in all
other enterprises is towards con
centrated efforts combined with
the use of the most advanced and
economical implements and ma
chinery. The farming industry
must fall into line and keep up
with the procession.
Cotton mills are discarding
antiquated machinery and install
ing instead the most up-to-date
appliances of every description.
Wo find no one-horse cotton or
woolen mills, no one-horse cotton
oil mills, no stringer and scrap
iron railroad track. We never
now hear of the whip saw or the
upright saw of fifty years ago, but
the one-horse plow is still in evi
dence.
Land-owners can protect their
land, increase their products and
benefit their one-horse tenants by
requiring them to unite their
teams in the preparation of the
land. The writer did this thirty
five years ago. The tenants com
plained iti spring, but thanked
him in the fall. The best invest
ment a one-horse farmer can make
is the purchase of another horse
or mule. Land cannot bo proper
ly prepared by a single team nor
can the most valuable and economi
cal implements be utilized with
less than two-horse power. The
weeder, which should bo ou every
farm, is the only exception to this
statement.
M Y ANOTHER MULE.
Any small farmer can better
afford to buy the extra mule than
he can to attempt to farm with
one, provided he will determine to
plant no more laud than ho can
thoroughly .prepare and fertilize
and will diversify and rotate his
crops, thus producing ample food
for the stock and annually increas
ii>K tli*s productive implements,
such hs the Chattanooga reversible |
j disc plow, the Mai lory plow, the,
disc harrow, the disc cultivator,
[the mower, etc., on all of which |
| the plowman rides, better crops
lean be grown at reduced cost. By
the use of such labor-saving im-'
I plements the wages of one man
can be saved, and this will buy the
extra mule, while the improvement
lof the land and increased crops
will pay for the implements.
Again, the improved prepara
tion will not only reduce the fer
tilizer bill, but will increase the
effects of those used by enabling
t'ie soil to absorb and retain more
moisture. For the same reason it
will render the droughts of summer
less injurious. Again, by having
full team, more work can be done,
while the land is in the best con
dition in both preparation and
cultivation. By using wide scrapes |
and cultivators the two mules will '
be able to cultivate the com and
cotton promptly after each rain,
and thus dispense with much of
the hoe work. More than twice
the load can be carried on a two
horse wagon than on the one
horse.
BETTER MACHINERY CAN UE I'SED.
One man with two mules can do
tnore and better work in prepar
ing land than two men with one
horse plows. One man riding a
mowing machine can do more work
ami do it better than five men
with grass scythes. By using a
double team, without increasing
the area under cultivation, twice
as much soil is made available to
plant roots while its capacity for
absorbing and holding moisture is
quadrupled, thus diminishing the
risk of injury to the crops by eith
er excessive rains or summer
drought, thereby insuring larger
crops of better quality at reduced
cost of production.
Not only is this true, but in
stead of increasing in fertility, as
is usually the case with the one
horse farm, with a judicious rota
tion and deep and thorough prepa
ration the productive capacity
of two-horse farms is annually in
creased. A three-year system of
rotation in which c6tton, corn,
small grain, peas and sorghum
constitute the principal crops may
be made to combine profit and
progressive improvement of the
soil.
ROTATION OF CROPS.
The following rotation combines
money crops, forage and soil re
novation;
First year: Field (a) —20 acres
cotton; field b) 20 acres corn
and peas; field (c)— 10 acres small
grain followed by peas, 5 acres
sorghum, 5 acres peas and hog
crops,
Second year: Field (a) —Corn
and peas; field (b) Small grain
followed by peas, sorghum and
hog crops; field (c)- Cotton.
Third year: Field (a) —Small
grain followed by peas; field (b)
—Cotton; field (c) —Corn and
peas.
[ln the above table, substitute
tobacco for cotton in this country :
tobacco being our money crop.—
1 Editor Reporter.]
| It will observed that in thi ß
rotation two-thirds of the culti
vated land has humus supply
ing anil renovating crops every
year,
Sweet potatoes, ground peas,
, soja beans, artichokes, rape and
chufas are classed as hog crops.
J These are to be gathered by the
hogs under movable fences, which
are easily made with cable hog
wire by nailing strips of plank to
the jtosts and braddnig the wire to
NUMBER 2 r,
! the plank. To move this the plank,
j with wire attached, can be rolled
, and carried to the new plot to be
inclosed. The posts are reset at
| the same distance apart as before
and the plank re-nailed to them.
I By this means pork can he grown
i very cheaply without recourse to
the corn crib. Ten acres should
be sodded in Bermuda grass ami
several planted in alfalfa, the
former for permanent pasture and
the latter for green soiling or for
hay. A few acres in Texas blue
grass will complete the pasturage
for permanent use, as this is green
when Bermuda is dormant. Rye
sown thickly, part in drill and
part broadcast, is the best winter
grass.—Prof. J. S. Newman, South
Carolina Agricultural Experiment
Station.
Our State Normal And Industrial Col
lege.
The catalogue of the North
Carolina State Normal ancl Indus
trial College, advertisement of
which appears in another column,
shows an enrollment during the
past year of 53> college students
and 353 pupils in the Practice and
Observation School.
Stftdents secure free tuition by
agreeing to become teachers in the
public or private schools of the
State for at least two years after
leaving the college, and in no
other way can free tuition be se
cured. All the free tuition stu
dents cannot secure board in the
dormitories where board is furnish
ed at actual cost, but places will be
reserved in the dormitories for 175
free tuition students and 175 pay
ing students. Provision will be
made for fifty free tuition students
with board in private families and
twenty-live tuition-paying stu
dents with board in private fami
lies.
There arc so many aplications
for free tuition with board in
dormitories that will be necessary
occasionally to hold competitive
examinations, and in order, to se
cure a chance for one of these free
tuition places with board iuthedor
mitoriesan application should be
in the hands of President Mclver
on or before July 15. Each county
in the State is entitled to one of
these places, according to the white
population of the county. In the
dormitories the annual expense of
a free tuition student for board,
laundry, and fees for registration,
physician's attendance, library,
use of text-books, etc., is slls
Tuition-paying students pay sll>o.
Non-residents of the State pay SI SO.
The annual expenses of students
in private families is about sl2
more than that of boarders in the
college dormitories.
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE
crKED.
By local applications, as they
cannot reach the diseased portion
of the ear. There is only one way
to cure deafness, and that is by
constitutional remedies. Deafness
is caused by an inflamed condi
tion of the mueouslining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this
tube is inflamed you have a rumbl
ing sound or imperfect hearing,
and when it is entirely closed,
Deafness is the result, and unless
the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its norma
condition, hearing will be destroy
ed forever; nine cases out of ten
are caused by Catarrh, which is
nothing but an inflamed condition
of the mucous surface.
We will give )ne Hundred
Dollars for any case of Deafness
(caused by catarrh) that cannot
be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars free. F. .T.
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