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CHARLOTTE DAILY OBSERVER, FEBRUARY 61909. 8 THE BUILDERS OF AN AGRICULTURAL COMMONWEALTH GLARES Ct II. POt. IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY The uplift of an agricultural .'. hlt men are tiding this m-i'ir-nc work, and what mo'.h..:.-- "' !' using ? On of the men it .Mr. A iM.us Will la me. a Martin cui.tj '.rmr. He gav a big l.urt-e. tie tt. '..! ne.gh Hors last fall had all hie friend an.l kinsfolk and tenu'!tt uini hired men take a Saturday "ft and m.'ike ni-rry with him And what "as he elf -bratln ? A !' Mf ta : vi-t.,rj '.' No. The discover ..! ,1 .;i'l n.'.i e on his plantation -"o 1 ha c-.ii.uiiimatlon of some important finan isl transac tion? Not at all. Mr. Williams f e leoratirig Him fact that hp hd ii'--ci-lfd hi hia effort to get 70 bushels of corn per acre fr.-in Imu! i.oii c ! long ago was onl a . "run.":. i-",r . m; h'iistde. Tea. 7 0 bushel.- per ana, al though f.r St.lic yield per acre av. ccl't.c, '" '''' inst rniui ahi only a I.fth cf t bushels Now, however, th.i. ,i r liun-l'r! of farm ers who are passli.g even the 70 buah-fcl-per ar Mlarh .tli.l Mr. W 1 II IK I m 9 himself. :.oi onf.-rii with his la-t ftears re.-il !-e!:eves tiiat he can double h ,i'M .moo again hear much r i in 6 0. T'l ind even 100 bushel- per p.- rv non ta farmer in hm pTeu'l ti-.iv if ! milling up a w urn out farm am) of doubling his ie!d of coin or cot'ori as lo- u.-.1 lo be of getting a poMMva! ..nt-.i. and the bent part of the whole sr irj In most .is 9 not the j ii bl per acre, hut the spirit of pro' e.sB iiojcateil by contrast with the sli a II ,e f u 1 1 low fields of fin hut year.-- Th.rc H Mr J A. Heal ,r Ns&h count), for example, who mail? 62 1-2 b'ifhel per acre iast year on land that live yenra ag i jiri.riue.-d onl) 7 1 2 bushels The difference, h at a different'.- of 7n0 pet i-enl In tot,, yield, and the .litleicine i,... tween .starvation and pros;..- r 1 1 In th rial'' - of net result ix duo n : i r " 1 v to reading agri. ultuial l't ' i a t u , siertfiri. larmlng, and thin ix but .i.e example of Hit- leohllloli that 1 1 going on The people have d' ule I that all wisdom illdn I die with th !r Jather.-- and that hik i .; m farniln depends upon other things than plant lug at the right tune of the moon. XOL'MLIN'J CHOP VIKLI WH II i L'T EXTUA COMT So while Mr James J Hill, in bin Uo.v fain us M Paul udilree-i, di-i Urt il that thi averagt rrnji e, per acre In the I mlid platen rould he doubled without h:ih cnbt, there are thous ands of larmers ,n the Cat" man who have determined that their j leld shall be no; tihmK doutded but .jiuul rup'ed. iiv.d th.-isandn of them are (',!' dug liown In some sections of Mi i i c 'iinii where it was once thought that the land would hardly be worth '.axes after the pines iotu cleared oft, Mr. W J. Hronks harvest ed 91 bupheld of corn per acre last tall Anil there la an fc n t h urn .1 in about the people that In almost rellg ioufc in l'f ;nl - nsit.v I feel as if I luid JuM learljed flow to tarill." said one t lie oitier day who fugan to rend hud 1 a t 1 fi the spirit of hew agio ill ture a jtur alio. ' Wlij, 1 h;te learn ed more ahnwt farming in tfiese past twelve months than 111 all tn life before The or) .1 1 t fi seems new to me since 1 fouri,! out how a- lent e and i-k ll 1 i .i n 1 1 o! u 1 1 o r 1 1 . e in w o r k " Said a Yadkin la? mot last winter "I have bei n n:i;kr to farm lor thirty yearn, t'U It looks now as jf 1 have riot d' in- a thm fit to look at not a single );. ,ug. 1.: v. tiling in, th.. pld' e v'lpl two old loosti'IS II m go:i:e fo begin rlnht now to aim at 40 ;u.-:ieis of orn to the 10 re instead of lu. and to fcet . ne H.-'kshiie hugs InMe.i.! of the -1 i'j'.n 1 have always r:. o-il. Am! 1: w .1? lie, .1 . Mil ler who told Te last spring "As a loo I hHpeil t,, wf.ir out .1 1 irollna farm ."Sow !i a ' and am go building to corn n i ; l.'.l jon'h TU 11 1 c. ni t ! ,! r !i lolow 11 p!, . trv o ,-.. .11 bio.l o f oi .,iii5 1 Mindly 1 , u 1 1 1 . 1 ; 1 : B I K' H I i . 1 . IU .W S 11 h 1 - 1 ! 1 . 1 r 1 nil 1 r . 1 - s i 1 r 1 da . and ; ' 1 1. ,, : w , ! : .t - 1 saving two ..icu.'Us ,10 t h.i niati w h" m;ih - i n. Ca i-s of or two eats ot , 01 n g'..w w n. ne grew :..!..? e .1 . ... . n . 1 . 1 h -nil er h e to mankind race of polltli latls pu then of the ma n w le '. Iia 11 t l-.j.' ;n a k 1 iW . to three go..,! e.iis bann pi "in: n the ataik where onl) a miawn t:u' n om e huny in sfino s,, i;h Carolina the aveiage oi:i .. l ..-i ni re in ly.io ivas l..i n- en r 1 1 1 - 'n vorth Carolina, although t h. ,1'h.t yield ev er made in America as m ' in that Ktate, and one ,,f n, ,..vu acquaintam i s there Mr W H Walk er, of I'mon . nintj --made I'm bush la per acre last year without an ..um. of commercial fertilizer. The .. ret here is that he has cattle and thus keepi up the fertllit) of the land. : fides usillg a strain of improved p. . .! tliat he has carefully t.re.l u.. v.,ir after )ear from ins miwtj prof .).. Fta'ks Cif 1 "urse. too, he ptepar-s his land well and doesn't Lit Co- orn roots at la v ing-b time Small won.br that results lie these rU h er ' hus a-:n t hat : have Ins;.!' . d h i n : i !arg. : a 't. 'oied . ..r-v. ! : - t-.o tlva o. j. p. ,!' ., 1 , . ,,, v . 1.' : ... , 11 tereM - to d u s .) .1 r. r ' t .. p t: 1 lie ylt l.l o' I I ,,s . 1 ' I ..,'-. - nawepapers, Utinity no .'I 1 . cat'hii.g the i.'iijiri'.n. !'. fi nally to th . h prl'. s .., a: e d fered for ! .1 1 , . a, i; . , 1 rouTitits, wfidi tin p' ' - foi ' est re-) ; '1 1. ' . i.t .r, s; fregated J7'." The Stat. licahle CorriTo'sioT er of Vic Mr. K J W.. - r s . , , ,1 r k - lore. veil rs ; h" ,.o... the :ate has i to 1 '' l-Ufh'i- a I crop hai; ;r.' r;.--: void p-l i r, !: . r. ,- 1 th v.i.. :.v eS... 'n he North 1 '.11 ! a L' f r ' .1! Ina ug u ra 1 1- 1 a s . . , the "cor rl t:i:ri w1:, v, ( e & Sou'herI: li.i'lw.iv i;r ov.o last spring, ard wfo- -i on large lrv r. ase ,r. . ..dS ' Not t h ' '.f-'di'i.,. iv at I ! ir l!n.-i rn'es i r eas'err NEW IliKAa 1 X K I K I ' I 1 V 'TP i.V It us men who a i.rn.cr-g out s o h results as Ihis. vv h- t vo e t , ,.r ni't, who are lead.-- i" ; ,e u; ft of an agricultural ta ar.j we Should all of us i' .ft olir fiats t 1 them. It is time to have d,.r,e w th tfe.t. uiii. itaro-aut imUtary a.n j ijjMtl ai Ideas of dlstincivn and see what rv Jce Is worth ms: to the pu'.l' in'our ,Ha tlm. Ttiej-f arefew i ijjrrMi irten who so much dear'-e p.rtoilar SXiplauve as the farme-i who teache his neighbors how to double their corn yields. The .s-ientiat who makes some notable chemical discovery Is not more worthy of honor than the man who breeift an Improved tpe of cotton or corn or tobacco. The man who gelt good highways in a com o unity where bad. mill once ham ted progress should have a etatue in tnnrket place as high as that of od owtln eneraL And the and gtrlH bounds a good school wire waJkeo the mind of boys Ihs iafu ly' would have other , 1 Btknea should have ' , . '"' Jess than If b had given us some masterplecs of art or literature. lake, for example, Elder W. A Himpklng, a Primitive Baptist minis ter of Wake county, who has labored untiringly for ten yeasr breeding an improved variety of cotton, an earlier and more prolific type, a kind espe cially, useful in aectiona infested' with the boll weevil because It matures too early to give that Industrious post an opportunity to do It much damage. "Money-Maker." 'Mortjage-Lifter." 'New Bank Account.' are names of cotton varietlea w.hlch other plant breeders have developed and which; indicate the new appreilatlon of w iat 1 a ...H.kr.aHI-a u.nllUl I loiiuve., ceu- .,, , ,,B ., , Heretofore, In cotton farming and planting, seed have been rnoie w reti h edly seiei ted than in any other crop that men grow n feartu! mixture, shoveled out indlsi 1 Imlnately front the general run f seed at "he nearest gin. seed from dwarf. -d. diseased and (legem rate stalks mixed w ith w hat ever good seed ihuh.e.l to Jet w 1 1 ll thern. The a v erase leld of seeij ; cotton in the South is "iilv about f 7 0 pounds per at le In the variety tenia, ; londucted by the state Iieparlment of : Agriculture, of sections of Xurth Car- ! olina. well bred. carefully selected I vrle'!e of io'i.oi have made (with) ea' tl the ,ime let 1 1 1 iza tion. cu'tl - ' VHtloll and gehel.ll expense) lino pounds more s t ...tton pet a. re than a sirnb or mongrel variety, audi as farmers general!) planted In ot In r ; days Thi'il- f how mari) tfiousa ids i of lives have ueen wasted lie- auae of scrub lotion seed, this one handicap j meaning the dlfTereme between pov- : ert and independf m e for tho f.irin- er . 13.000.000 MOKK l'OR N'OHTH CAR OLINA FA KM KKS Supp"-e V e inerc.i.-e the )lttld not bv ficft pounds of sci d cotton to th. .0 ! but by Just ion pounds, as wi should be able .i do with well-hied varieties even on averuge land vv Mi average treatment, this would no. in an 1111 n ase ,,f J t.:i.!:t uun h year ' b ar profit to the I111 inrci of North Caro lina And this is what is coiihiik about. one breeder of improved i,t--f,wl ! tilth H lllltl bushels for sale.' and the faMioirs bought aU but i0 bushels for plant ing purposes our farmers are learning, too, that money can bo made growing oilier irops than cotton or ti.ba. co. A clear profit or Jlf.hou a year on tne larrn in the South Is as good as a tS.000 salary In New. York City, and far more easily made Not only lias the. Smith a monopoly of cotton and of many types of tobacco, but the """"'""",' T , , . . prices lor all kinds or live stock an dairy products. Iihv and corn that a Htickeye furmer wrho recently visited N.ulh Carolina (and will probably move heie later) spoke of the uiat lei to me wllfi soiiie a i'i aii.t mn t. Tile aveiage slzu of the tarins in this State is more than 100 arris but a Catawba ..unit) faiiii'-i cultivating only ;".') a. ics made $.'.4'iii dear profit last cur raising ho,;s. He had three eu- . losures ot five acres eio h for soil cow ueas another her in wheat and ing crops one in in corn, ami another in wheat an clover, on 3; at res more he grew mafiiie corn for feeding in the ear The ni gs are marketed as soon as thev weiKh ISO pounds, and, of course, only improv ed. a uick - fattening breeds are used. The difference here Is il lustrated lev this experience of Mr. K G Palmer ' uLui full. He put b hogs and improved breeds m the same pasture and few them at the same trough. "The blooded hogs fattened and were sold weeks vi, p,im., .SM in t.n.i.r. "i,,,."ia s. rub bogs are not fat yet! and are , about the same size as when I bought t he 111." MONEY IN DAIRYING. Pspe. iall In dairying are there!8 science mer.-i) pr-achert at the st , toll, I ,.i portunitiea in the South I 'ar "'ers. tiiousanda still sat In the f"i the man who knows the business and isn't attuid .d worg Mr John Ml dieis, ot West Raleigh, showed mi the otlor dav the results of Ihe pievlous nionili .s re, oid with 41 dairy a w a net profit of JJ63.78 or ut lb.- rate of 13.1 i5 . Iii a )ear Another man who has made money il. i Irving is Mr R I-. Shuford, of New ton. He started fourteen years ago vi'.h four cows. Now he has 40 and. In addition to this 1,000 per cent. n. reuse in his capital stock, he has doubled the value ot his and. His 1 s- i-t' Simply intelligence in the.'fie lesson of now to carry knowledge management of hl.Vows The nab-!'" ,,le "ian behind the play ... k test is his watch-dog. and if a ."STOP RUNNING YOl'R HRAIN o v a yp,ir fall to make as much j WITH ONE HORSE-POWER." i.s inn pounds of butter she is prompt- I An(j hne much has been said about lv s ,1.1 for-I.eef or to some less pro-i.ne improvement In cultural metn uressne dairyman or farmer. "Last !,. Heed selection, etc . tuught by v.ur. s-.v s Mr. Shufortl, "the record I these demonstration agents, perhnps i f mv I, s' , ovv was r,6,'l pounds, the even more Important Is the work they so,, i..-t iwifh perhajix an expense or ; Mre dolnjr In supplanting the old-time nlv Jin l.-ssi made only 212 pounds, one-horse plows and other farm iui W ceding out such animals steadily, I nimr.t with two three or f.o.r. have hr halt in., ght up my, herd now until horse tools. "Stop running your wet 4 09 pounds of butter bratn with one-horso power" has be come a slogan. "We may be as smart as 1'NK-Horse FARMER Western farmers, but If they run their Fill". j brains with two to six-horse power S H A I' A ni il: w with mt in :'. ng ncc u ai k'-t- d ' be awiit'U'eii w,.ri, is r.o. r. ''iu: aisinc honey tor lo. al Mr 11 H. Howard. of in-v . i,,,s , l. .ireti j;,o an ilea lei i i . c Tlie grow my; n , i i ...is So u t lo r n prod ud, !'"t.'.l". h.ls become unite i.istr. lit 1 1 a 1, lour s om. sections, and al io profits Mr. Dante of Clave:: c- ' m l . d a ci oi il years, find II I! t y . who has kept fit if expenses for that he cm r.iua potato,- for tuev s,,, in 1 ii , -nts a bushel . and Rah igh last spring for ore-half tunes the power and accom 'k' of course there is I'llshes about eight times the work ;; cuts a pe K -s .r, lairvn.g them .through the w intei. hut w ith a yield ,,f from Km i" lioj u hels per acre. It is easy to s.e that f!ie net profits are still con soi.ra'.e I should like also to tell ne-horse farmer. lr nc.sei.r. of South Carolina, makes ie;ir profit a ve;ir growlnir over ..ats. .orn and , ow peas, while lnP scnooi curricujum. ana as mis .c t.ie sam. time no reusing his land ! written. Dr. F L. Stevens, who-has v . .. -ah ve.ir h ;,o p. r ,.rit. of the l more for agricultural education . pur. hiise price ' Hut vou can read :h,,n anyone else In the State, is con 'tins so.rv in Farmer 'Bulletin No. Ending a train4ng school for teaeh ' ; 1 2 ss ,ed bv the Pnlted States De- f'r" Hl 1 h A- M- rl'ege for the par tm. nf of Agriculture,. Dr Ram- especial purpose of enabling them s. t.r -, )n,l was worth oiilv about $15 ,pach agriculture. ,-n an eight years ago It now HOW A RURAL HIGH SCHOOL RB vidds jjt, M ear and has a markets HI'ILT A COMMUNITY, value of Duo. ! Hand in hand with the agrlcul- The onservatism of the Southern ! ,uraI r-vlvl a the surest gujar 1 fariqer. who is taught to swear super. 1 ""M of permanence, in fact, has - -ftmir stirjum-r tWfrm ana- . gone . the. educational revival,- w hich iwero, probably keeps him from reap izng in oilier lines of agriculture 'Bofh the" Yrti' and stocO depart- ments of my paper are conducted by men who came here from the WeBt : once the Immigrant gets over his homesickness, he suriaiiuff the nutlv f ! In enthusiasm. One of our most ' prominent State-builders is Mr. A L- ! French, who several years ago moved trom onio roUgnt a 240-acre farm In Rockingham county tor I2.&00 and began general grain and stock farm ing. The result Is tbst he has not only made about IJ.C00 a year for himself, but al! the wide-awake, farm ers far miles around have Intredtved profit-making blooded stock Into thslr herds, and a revolution is on la ths I entire live stock Industry of the sac tion Incidentally Mr. French has liken land bo hard and lifeless that not even weeds or "povertvi grass. would grow on It and built it'up with manure and cow peas until It now makes an average of 50 bushels of com per acre "GO D ALMIGHTY AND THE COW PEA." One of the most intelligent and most successful Immigrants I know of. is Mr J. Lewis Lee, who came to Conway, S. C. seven years ago with some other immigrants from the West. The others became discour aed and started back home and we will let Mr. Lee tell the rest of trio ,8torV j ,. In despair my wife exclaimed, with tears In her eyes. "Whatever shall we do, Lewis? All our friends are leaving us and we shall be left alone down here ' ".N'o." I pu laiiimd, "we shall not be left alone. wH still have two friends w ho will stav by us. " Who ate thev ." she asked dubi ously The Almighty (Jod and the cow pea!" I replied, "and as long as they will stand bj me 1 will stand by the South: "Thev have stood by me and to day I am more atlsned than ever ibat bv proper rotation and manage ment the South musrt take the lead anil become the most Important "I all sections 011 this continent " Hut perhaps the Ity reader doesn I know about the great legume and so! bullder. whose partnership with th" Almighty kept Mr. Lee In the Smi'li : Let rue tef'T him ttcn to aiioilo r !,State-biiilder. Prof W. K. Mli: i-' V t he lal'OSlle ol the cow pea. whose liuitcl- I loejit is renewed with each recurring I season In tens of thousands of acres of 'lids w a 1 1 h -111,1 k inn imp. Not only does it furnish "tie of the finest h.ivs in Hie world 1 pea hay aituallv rival inn lotion a a money rropi but It sores up nitiogeii In the soil - rnlio n. that most o8tl of all I 1 1 1 ' 1 . 1 r k elements, for which the farmers of tills and adjoining States lord. .fore have spent about 1 1 Ti.tiOOOnii a v.ur Vet theie are an.noo tons of this ele ment in the air above evcrv .ore of 1 . "ienilsts tell us Jll.0-in.0d0 worth Mint the farmer owns with his evorv acre, and the cowpea Takes of .t from the air and stores It in tne sol! MAKING WAY FOR CATTLI It AIS- 1NO Another builder of the State is I r. Tall Butler, w ho has cleared the wa;. tor latil ralsin and therelore. as It H. T. fiallowuy says, for a sys- tehl of tiirid-l.iilt.lint to . . t. r I .. laiid-i obhlng In a few years' tlin under In. Hutler's direction, the ,;,ttle tick has been exterminated in nearly one-fourth of Ihe men of the State and this section thereby openet, up tor toe first tune In years to 1111 re-t rlcleu live stoi k trade with the rest of th, word tfie burdensome tj ua ra n t i :ie regulations Which keep tit k 1 1 1 1 C s I - . I mi lions from an .iial chniice w;lh other se, Hons iu the stock raising; iti ilustiv have be.-n at las; removed. M"8t Important of all perhaps 1:1 'cultural uplift Is the demon- stiall .u vv.uk. tke most strlklnir edu cational i h hov a iVn of tills genei utlon nud tine of sin li intent merit thai the wonder IB that Adam himself did not think "! It. I r Knapp's careful ly selected held a,'ents are at work In a considerable number of counties while In others the State Department of Agriculture, through Ml. T l. ' ,a,rKk"r- ,l"u ''''nionstration work with no less sin For a long Mute the Iieparlment Agrlcu 1 1 ure sought to reach the farmer tnrough lf flr1ni'11 bulletins, but this was llks ""'"K B l-?Vn '"H,s to ""lettered children. Then th" Introduction of I farmers' Institutes mastered a murk led educational advuiue, but. so lung seats of the siornful Then oatne .n this Stale test mrrns operated at public expense in different sections, but the obdurate farmer declared that this was not "practical farming." He doubted whether they really paid Last and best of all has come the demonstration work whereby the leader guides the hand of the every day farmer while he learns to write the magical letters of science and profit upon his own soil To the naxt generation It will be u wonder that we wrre o slow in learning this slm- wnue we run ouis wun oui) one-norse power, uothlng can keep us from los- '"ft dt." Dr. Knapp pointed out the weakest place In Southern agriculture when he said; "Where the South Carolina farmer uses one mule, weighing 800 to 908 pounds, and one man to plow, accom plishing less than an acre per day from 3 to 4 Inches deep, the Iowa farmer uses at least three horses, weighing from 1,400 to 1,300 pounds ea.h, and plows four acres per day to inv ti. s oeep. tie uses five ana in a dav. If depth of plowing be con sldered " A long time we have been trying to t.-mh agricultural science to the old f. Miner and. as we have seen, we have Just learned how. but the farmer boy " '' arP J negtnning to leacn at all. -itoi uiuiu- now nas a uonnjie place Ior slx earB P na oeen directed hv one of lhf mo8t useful public ofTl- e4..te-. Stat. -uprlnteodo ? Joyner. The records show that 'hese five years we have averaged Beware of Frequent Cotda. siicceskion of oalds or a protracted I . r k fr.-im which few Dersarvk a whnlly recover, uive every coia the at tention It desenree and you may tvold hi digreeabl disease- How can yen cure a cold? Why not try Chamberlain's Cough Remedy? It Is highly reoom men.led Mrs M White, of Butler. Tenn.. sv Several ywra ago I was bothered with ror throat and lungs.. Someone told me ot Chsmberlsin's Cough Remedy. I began using n inn it relieves m at enoa. kow mr throat and lungfs are sound and 1L" Tor ssH by W. U Hand AC a new school house (or every sunset. Including Sundays; one new rural school library, 'too, for every dsy ln these six years; every 71 working h'urs (or six years we have also added a new rural local tax district (though there were neither rural school libraries nor rural local tax districts before lt02; a school house loan fund of J 400,000 has been built up. and most notable of recent achievements 8 1 counties these last 'l months have established rural high schools, a thins for which there was no provision before the General As sembly of 1907, Nor are there anywhere Hullders of the State more worthy of honor than some of the heads of these rural high s. hools The school at Bunn. Frank lin county, established four years ago, the product of local taxation and the consolidation of districts, is a fine il lustration of their power to rebuild a community and awaken a dormant people. There Is no railroad within ten miles of Bunn. and four years ago it was a typical backwoods neigh borhood The school brought a mes sage of new life, opened a window to the outside world, fired pupil and par ent with new ambitions. The old residences have been remodeled and painted. Though the school does not yet give especial attention to agri culture, men around It farm better because of other agricultural Influ ences and new Impulses generally that have come Into their lives, and lands have doubled In value There is a change In the very appearance of the people, in the kind of hats the young women wear and In the bear ing of the young men Every child now looks forward to an education hs his rightful heritage, and the num ber of young women going off to col lege betokens better teachers for the public schools of the county round about as they return home. The farmers have bought pianos for their homes, more newspapers are read than ever before; fhe flags of the Rtatn and nation filiating above the build ing s'and for a new patriotism, and I know nothing Indeed which gives stronger ground for such patriotism than the rebuilding of old Hunii neighborhood and its seoree of eager hearted hoys and girls singing "A mertea." HOW TO GET BETTER ROADS. About the proposal for the reduction of railway Ir.Tght and passenger rates In the South, much has heen said these last twelve months, but there js one form of--traffic rato reduction In progress about which little has been written, wh'ch vet Is a factor of no small importance in tile agricultural uplift of which 1 am writing To transport a ton one mile by sea cost rne-tti.tl. o' a cent, b; rail, one cent; while p. haul a ton a mile over a good road costs seven cents, and over an ordinary country road 25 cents. It is the extortionate freight and passen ger rate exacted by the ordinary country road that we are now setting ourselves to reduce, we must bring tin- ton rate down from 25 cents to seven cents a mlie. Hence, another builder of the State I would mention Is S. B. Alexander, of Mecklenburg, leader In the movement In which that county built highways which have made l famous Rut the agricultur al uplift Is debtor not only to th.se expensive methods of road-making, but also to that marvelous)- simple and inexpensive, and no less marvel ously effective, good roads maker, the spilt log drag "With a three-horse plow and a drag," Mr. li H. Wil liamson, of Rockingham county, teljs mi. "I have built near!) a mile of rood in ten hours which in man) re spe ts was superior to roads made with an expensive machine." For another example, take Griffith dirt ro.ud out of Monroe, dragged after nuns this spring with two pieces of Umber lashed together. "It will do vour eyes good to nee It." as a farmer e pressed it. "road 50 per ienl. brt-ii-i at practically no cost; a dirt road is smooth nnd lev el as the mai ailam streets in Monroe." HI ILUERS OF fllE STATE. Hut the men who have done notable work as State leaders In the agricul tural uplift are too numerous tu mention In this article, while a separate article might be given to the work of public-spirited women -such as Mrs F L Stevens. Mrs. W L. Holloweli and others, who are doing in North Carolina the came sort of betterment work that Miss Mary T. N'.iin' . not birifr cut of college herself, is doing with such passionate devo ii.iii end . ntn iini.'ism for the country school- an.l Ihe country hoys and girls of South Carolinn. Hut these ither men and women whom I should like to mention as leaders of State wide prominence are but types of hun dreds who fave caught this vision of the possibilities of State building and are doing their parts with a fine, high spirit and b keen Joy In construc tive achievement that Is the surest promise of the South s corning leader ship. Charles R Aycork led the fight for a reformed suffrage in the State; Charles D Mclver was a leader In the educational awakening; John II Small has the vision of a great Inland waterway for the development of our commerce; Henry A. Page and John A Mills have built railroads and thereby rebuilt communities, and D. A. Tompkins and B. Frank Mebane and the Holts and the Dukes have done the same thing; with factories; )et they are not more surely servants of the State than the man who teaches us how to redeem famishing farms to life and comeliness, as R. W. Scott, of Alamance has done, or who gets the farmers of a county to save their land by means of a splendid system of ter racing, as did the late Priestley Man gum, of Wake Forest. Whether his ambition be to remake the agricul ture of his State or only to build a piece of good road in his township, the spirit of the times demands that every man do something In which he may find the Joy of working, apart fame, nnd which may count, whether for much or for little, 1 nthe rebuild ing of our Southland. TAKEN TO STATE PRISON. Iredell she-riff Carries Two N'eigroos to Raleigh. Ppe-lal to '-"he Observer. Ptatesville. Feb. 6. Sheriff J. M. Deaton left yesterday afternoon for Raleigh, having In custody Richard Potts and Sam Carlton, colored, who will serve terms In the State prison for offenses In Iredell. In Superior Court last week Potts submitted to manslaughter he killed Lon Sum Trrerir, colored, at Elm wood Christmas Eve and was sentenced to fifteen years In the State prison; and Sam Carlton was convicted of arson, he having burned Will McLelland'a barn, and was sentenced to six years In fhe state prison. Carlton is a mean. (Srwii sep' -a'tnaaiscrtlfilfij TJnless the guards keep a strict watch on mm H 1s" doubtful -If fee sremales In prison long. Potts la a mean ne gro when drunk, but ordinarily is quiet enough. The Ststesville officers took no risks with him. Mooresvllle Mill Mast, More to Texas. Mooresville Enterprise. - Sir. P. 8. Boyd, who for ten years has acceptably filled the position as superintendent . of the Mooresville Cotton Mills, has res!gnd his place and has accepted a similar position with a cotton mill at Fort Worth, Tex., and be will soon leave here with his family for their new home. HILLS AND MARKETS. pESTEIVS OOTTOX KKPORT. Five Days of February eibow an In rresMe of 03,000 Bales Over Use Same Period Laa Yeajr Foreign Exponas Show aa Increase Over Last Year. New Orleans. Feb. &. Uecraiaxy Hes ter's weekly cotton sstaument issued to day shows for the five days of February an Increase over last year of 63,000. and an increase over the same period year before le.it of 36.000. For the hi days vt the season that have eiapseu the aggregate Is ahead of the same days of last year and ahead of the same days year before last The amount brought Into sight during the past week has been 327.708 bales against 328.670 for the same seven days last year and I48.7U, ear before last. The movement since September 1st shows receipts at all United States ports 7.663.731 bales against (.406,168 last year; overland across the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers to Northern mills and Canada 822.531 against 405,061 last year; Interior stocks in excess of those held at the close of the commercial year 670, OTJ against 403.972 last year; Southern mills takings 1.253,000 against 1.227,122 last year. These make the total movement since September 1st to date 10,399,341 against 8, 441.311 last year. Foreign exports for the week have been 1'44.148 against 288.546 last year, making the total thus far for the season 6,949,601 ngalnst 5.2I6.1TS last year. The total takings of American mills. North, South and Canada thus far for the season have been 3.041,963 against 2,243,761 !at year Blocks at the seaboard and the 29 lead ing Southern Interior centres have In creased during the week 64.068 bales against a decrease during the correspond ing period last season of 76,834. Including stocks left over at ports and Interior towns from the last crop and the number of bales brought into sight thus fur from the new crop, the supply n date Is 10.IWO.6S8 against 8,789,317 for the m me period last year. World's Vlwible Supply. New Orleans. Feb. B Secretary Hes ter s statement of the world's visible sup p!v of cotton Issued to-day shows the total visible to be 5.639,458 against 5,6ti9. : last week and 4.030. 447 last yeas. Of this the total t of American cotton ts 4. .I'i j.'.s against 4,(83.3N last week and 3. 76.1.571 last year, and of all other kinds. Including Egypt. Brakll. India, etc., 1.08S. 0(ji against 1,086,000 last week and 1.166,876 lust vear. of tli a world's yislble supply of cotton there Is now afloat and held In Great lirltaln and continental Europe 3.225,000 H(jtnst 2,872.000 last year; In Egypt 30S.0OO against 222.000 last year; in India 417.000 axalnst 54H.O0O last year, and in the I nl'eil States I.639.0S9 sgalns't l,2S8.flH0 last v ear. CHINA Ul VERS IN' AGAIN. They Have tVtund Iris Stronger Than Before . llollda'ys Inquiries niul Some Onlers For South Ameri can Account Red Sea anil India Also Asking Kor Prices Export For Twelve Months Make t.ood .Showing. New York Commercial, 3d. Expectations of a larger bualness with China on cotton goods are high er than they have been since the year opened. Quite a few inquiries have conie through since the holidays In China markets, and additional busi ness is reported as having been put throdgh in a quiet way. Further or ders are said to have been placed on sheetings and drills, at prices now looted In the market. Some buyers claim that they could have put through considerable more In the way of business, had sellers been a little less lirm in their price Ideas. As it is, they found sellers firmer than they were a week or ten days ago, and apparently not as anxious to do i business, except at their own terms. .Mail advices from China state that merchants there are very hopeful for the future, and have bein placing or ders in this market at higher prices than those at which similar goods could have been purchased In their i wn markets. During the last month of the old year, cotton goods taken for China account in the American markets showed a marked Improve ment over the last month In 1907. The total shipments for the month of De cember, 1907, amounted to 1.298,319 square yards valued at $96,945, as against 5, 482,472 squarjf yards valued at 1293,296 for December, 1908. Some orders and quite a few In quiries are coming forward from Red Sea ports. The prices which sellers are asking for 3.50 yard sheetings seem to be a little too high for that market, however, and business has been restricted. As a rule sellers sre asking S 5-8 cens for these goods, but buyers are not as yet willing to meet this figure. South American buyers are taking moderate sized lots of colored goods, and have also plac ed some additional orders for light weight drills and sheetings. Stocks are reported to be running low, and there are not sufficient goods on order to cover future requirements. India has also been making Inquiries as toj nv1rA rw stvttla b i-.l furthar V, . . I n "I is looked for from that quarter in the Immediate future. The official figures just to hand for the 12 months ending December, 1908, and comparisons with those for 1907, show quite a respectable increase In favor of 190S. The total shipments for last year amounted to 172,142,179 square yards, valued at 116,904.383; as compared with 216.S87.642 square yards valued at 114,900,431 during 190". The figures In detail by coun try follotfs: Vara Orders Received. Orders for yarns ss follows have been reported to the office of the Hard Tarn Spinners' Association: Date. Description. Jan. 57 30-2 sketns " 26 20-2 warps Pounds. Price. Terms. 12.600 18 63 33.606 18 lwOOO IS4 - 10.000 20 10.009 194 " 1.000 21 " Feb. I. Jan. 27. " 26. . " 30.. " 86V.. ..ijJfr-3 skeins 2V3 warps ....243-2 skeins ....30-1 skeins . ....30-4 skeins Boy Names Himself. HUIsboro Observer. Mr. Johri T. 'SJSesT of -BltigTiarfl township, one of The Observer's best friends, anrf one of" the counryibesl citljens, was In town Tuesday and called at our office to renew his sub scription. Mr. Sykes is the father of several fine sons. . He didn't name his youngest vn and when the boy was six years old he named himself. Both father and sob were such strong ad mirers of Korth Carolina's popular Governor, that the father suggested to the boy to name' himself Glenn. The boy was so delighted with the name suggested by Us father, that no he la named Glenn Eykea, v 43OTT0X YARNS ARE IXTVVEK. Hr. E. B. Dickson, a Weil-Known Cotton Tarn Man, Talks of the Markets Demand Generally Qnlet and of the liand-to-Moutli Char acter. Mr. E. B. Dickson, In talking of the cotton yarn market, yesterday, had the following to say; "Stocks of medium and low num bers are very heavy. The cotton yarn market shows little or no change for the better. Sellers talk of large ac cumulations ' here and in other mar kets, and buyers see no necessity for purchasing ahead 1 In volume when yarns can be had from stock on the more staple numbers so readily. "Some commission houses and dealers holding stocks have confidence In their value, but they are not pre pared to try to stem the effects of an over-production, unless mills are will ing to join with them In steadying values. "The demand for the .moment la generally quiet and of a hand-to-mouth character. Buyers appreciate that they can secure, numbers under 50s without difficulty, whether weav ing or knitting yarns are wanted and until their needs become much more pressing they are not disposed to an ticipate in any way. Some spin ners are offering yarns at lower fig ures than dealers care to quote. This policy may become more general as the smaller mills run out of orders. Should it reach the proportions now feared In some quarters there is very little likelihood that yarns will stiffen much, before April. The conviction Is growing that the demand for yarn will not broaden before the middle foMay. The intervening period can be made a very hard one, If mills be come pressed and are forced to sell while dealers are carrying stocks. "Yarns In Oreat Britain and Man chester are very quiet and stocks are accumulating. There Is some desire to consign yarn, as some of the mills feel that they will be able to get higher prices later. However, con signment goods are never very profit able. "There has been little doing In the export markets recently. Some sales of Canton flannels have been made for China shipment and some stand ard drills are wanted at a price for India shipment. Red Sea buyers will operate in small lots, whenever the late low figures can be reached on 3.50 to 4 yard goods. The miscel laneous buying Is fairly steady and some of the South American coun tries are coming forward with re peat orders for goods delivered at low figures last year. The West In dian trade hoVds quiet. "Quotations given below are as, cor rect as we can give on such an Ir regular market: SOI.'THERN TWO-PLY SKEINS. i.s to 8s. 16c 36s 2Sc to 24c lt. to 12s 16Htc to 16c 40s 24c to 3ftc 14h 16c 60s 30c to 81e 16s 16c to 16c 60s 39c to 40c 30s ISc 3-ply 8a. up- Jtfi tc holstery..l6c -'tis 19c 4-ply 9. lip SOS 20c to KMC hosiery. 16c SOl'THf.H! BIND LB SKEINS. 4s to Hs.itV tu l&c Km 17c to 17Hc 10s to 12s. 16c to ISHc 23s 18c 14s 16c 26s IIViC to 19c ls lHc 80s 20C SOI.'THERN SINGLE CHAIN WARPS. 12s 16c 34a 18c to 18Ho Hs 16c to 164c 26 19c 16s 17o 90s ante 30s I7HC 40s 25c 22s ISc to 18Vc SOITHKHN TWO-PLY CHAIN WARPS. ETC. 8s to lus 2-p!y 24s. .19c 2-ply l5Hc to 16c 2-ply ?6s..l9Hc 12s to lie. 2-ply 30s..3Te to 21o 2-ply .I6M10 2-ply 40s. .95c 2-ply 16s . 1Hc to 17c 2-ply 60s. ,31c to 33o 2-ply a lXc to l.fcc SOUTHERN FRAME CONES. 10s ISc tol6Wc 20s 17Wctol7o lis 12s. 16c to lic 22s 17ic to 18c 16Hc tol7c 24s 18Mc to 1S9 14s 16o to 174c 16s 17c to 1740 18s 174c to 17V 2s"".'.'!lHc to 20e 30s 20Hc to 210 WEEKLY COTTON REVIEW. New York. Feb 5 Though prices have declined during the past week the falling off In values . has been comparatively mall as far as net changes are con cerned. Strong spot interests have been steadily buytng. There has been a pres sure to buy the actual cotton this season, both because ot Its cheapness snd be cause of the fact that not for years has the average quality been so high. Mean time, the New York stock Is steadily de creasing. Tariff agitation Is keeping the dry goods trade in check. But in many fabrics fair business is being done and ss soon as the tariff question Is dlapoed of. It Is expected that bualness will Im prove. The present depressive tenden cies in the cotton market are reports of dullness and depression here and there In spot cotton at the South, unexpectedly large receipts, and the slowness of trade revival In this country. The dullness of speculation also counts against the mar ket. It is too much an affair of a few large people and some board room trad ers. Spinners' takings have fallen off and visible supplies have been ginning more rapidly than they were a year ago. Bears think this means that of late the crop has been under estimated and that prices mint decline. Bulls maintain that it Is only a pissing phase that the crop Is not over 13.000.000 bales and that every little lack of It will b wanted at higher prices. Some 4,(00 bales of low grades have lust been sold from the New York stock for export to Liverpool. McFaddea In terests are buying steadily. Twenty thousand packages of cotton goods were sold here on Friday for China. Tough on the 'Gator. Columbia State. Between Mr. Taft and Col Para grapher Bailey, of Houston, the alli gator has a hard time. Mr. Taft eats the saurlan's flesh and Colonel Bailey wears his hide a a vest. 1 Deliveries. Boon. 30 to 40 warps weekly: com mence March 1st. March. Prompt. Prompt. Prompt. Prompt T. W. CRETT3, Secretary. The Biggest Hog Yet. WsdMboro- Messenger and , Inteill- gecr,, -4th. a..,4 - Papers in all sections of the Stat Tiave been - pHntUrg -iccun ts-.of the killing of hogs weighing 100, 400 and sometime S00 pounds, but these arc not la It with aa 11 -months-old pig which was butchered at Lilerrills Tuesday by Mr. 8. E Hatcher. This pig kicked the beam at 720'pos.nda, and was the largest bog of its age ewer killed In this section. , Malaria Make Pale Blood. The Old - Standard GROVES' TASTELESS CHILL. TONIC - drives out malar la sad builds wp the sys tem. . For grown peepl.. and chil dren, I9e . DRINK . PLENTY OF , WATER; ADVICE' AJfP PREfKCRITTIOxj TVMa at Kshm's llreM BeawH i Al , How to Make. This Splendid Mix-, tare at House For - Kidney attdj Beadder Trouble nod Rheumatism. . Shake the Three Ingredlonu Well In the Bottle. -"The people hare do not - drlnto 'enough water to ikeep healthy," -exclaimed a well-known authority. "Tht numerous cases of kidney and bladder diseases and rheumatism are mainly' due. to the fact that the drinking of water, nature' greatest medicine, has1 been neglected. Stop loading your system with md4 Icinea and cure-alls; but get on -thai water wagon. If you are really sick, why, of course, take the proper med-J idnes plain common vegetable treat-' went, which wlU not shatter thai nerves or ruin the stomach." To cure rheumatism you must makei the kidneys do their work; they are, the filters of the blood. They must, be made to strain out of the blood th waste matter and acids that causa rheumatism; the urine must be neu tralised so R will no longer be a source of Irritation to the bladder, and, most of all. you must keep these adds from forming In the stomaqh. This Is the cause of stomach trouble; and poor digestion. For these con-1 dHlons. you can do no better than take. the following prescription: Fluid Extract Dand-ellon, one-half ounce) Compound Kargon. one ounce; Cmi pound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. Mix by shaking wall In, bottle and take in teaspoohful dOseej after each meal and at bedtime, bufl don't forget the water. Drink plenty and often. This valuable Information and sim ple prescription should be pasted up in each household and used at the firet sign of an attack of rheumatism, backache or urinary trouble, no mats' ter how slight. CARTHAGE'S X'NIQCE 43LAIMS. Two Advantages That Town Ha to Offer Pythian Orphanage. Special to The Observer. Carthage. Feb. 6. The Carthage Lodge, Knights of Pythias, Is making a vigorous effort to locate the Pyth ian orphanage here. Options have been secured on three large farms, and the people are making liberal subscriptions to this fund. It Is argued that Carthage hs two advantages over all her competitors. The pine-clad sandhills of Moore county have a national reputation for healthf illness. Typhoid and malarial fevers are unknown. It ts claimed, furthermore, that the farm could be made to sustain the orphanage. The Moore county dewberry has given Carthage a unique reputation. It Is the unanimous opinion of the dewber ry growers that one acre set In dew berries will more than maintain one child In the orphanage; therefore, an acre In dewberries for every child In the orphanage will make the Institu tion eelf-sustalnlng. The sandy lands around Carthage produce excellent fruit and vegetables by reason of the high altitude, and that the soil re sponds rapidly to Intelligent cultiva tion Is shown by the Ptnehnrst farm. The foods we eat furnish energy for the body just as burning coal makes steam for an engine. The experiments of Prof. Frankland, Ph. D., of London, show that cod liver oil yields two and one-half times more energy than starches or sweets. Scott's Emulsion is pure cod liver oil combined with hypophosphites of lime and soda. It forms fat, gives strength, enriches the blood, invigorates the nerves, and repairs tissues. Send this advartttcmrnt together wnh nans ef paper in which it appears, row addrai and four cents takeover pettaas. and w M sead yea a "CompkS Handy AtiM ef th World" a :: SCOTT A BOWNE. 409 Pr1 Sb-est, NswTark Comfort IfV SOCTHEBX QTJEKN GRATES SAVE FTJ EL. J. H. VVEARN & CO. Charlotte. Pf. C. . . Write for Mantel Catalogue. A GOOD RCUS TO FOLLOW In deciding en where te place your ! order for -plumbing and heating work I the reliability of the plumber.. To wlli flnd us reliable in eat-, mate arrft in work. Good work al--ways, and price the lowest at which good work can be dona, .- - : - - HACXXET BROS. CO, Those SIS. C-borlotte, X. CL s- - . I.I II. - -i mMMJX h tSSr i 1 - - -'
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