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VOL. VI No. 35.
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Wm.H. Stewart, Edit ORc
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WHICH WAY WILL ROOSEVELT TURN?
; The Insurgents are Becoming Dissatisfied
Orer bis Procrastination.
By Clyde H. Tavenuer, epacial
correspondent of this newspaper.
Kansas City, Mo., Aua; 15.
Thousands of Republicans through
out the land, and iu'the insurgent
diatricts particularly, are becom
ing impatient at Roosevelt's ap
parent reluctance to state exactly
where be stands on the subject of
insurgency.
The result is that Theodore
Roosevelt is not quite as popular
as an ex-president as JUd- was im
mediately followiug his return
from Africa.
This is an unbiased conviction
that has been forced upon me af
ter having travelled from Wash
ington to the Pacific coast and
back. I haved talked with hun
dreds of persons of all classes, aLd
have sojourned especially in the
insurgent districts.
Roosevelt. is not unpopular. I
do not wish to convey that im
pressfon: He still baa a large
following.
But many of Roosevelt's ad
mirers seem to feel the ex-preei-dent
is waiting to see which fac
tion of his party is the stronger t,
instead of making a decision on
the basis of which, is morally
right.
If Roosevelt acts quickly ahd
with clear-cut candor he may pre
vent further inroads on his popu
larity. If he does Lot so act, the
movement which he is given cr d
it for hiving started will march
on without him, with LaFollette
or some other genuine progressive
at the head.
WILL T . R AID LODGE?
Word has come into the west
via the Associated press that
Roosevelt will campaign for the
re-election of Senator Henry Cab
ot Lodge of Massachusetts, who
declares the ultimate consumer is
a myth.
Roosevelt's admirers are gulp
ing hard over this information.
They have been educated by La-T
Follette and other genuine pro
gressives to know Lodge as a tool
of Aldrich and the special inter
ests. They also have the word of no
lesser authority than Representa
tive Butler Ames, a Republican
insurgent of Lodge's own state of
-Massachusetts, that the political
machine of Senator Lodge "it
backed by all the large corpora
tions" and is used to "advance
the selfish financial scheme of the
large railroads, banking and man
facturing interests he (Lodge)
serveo in the halls of Congress."
Roosevelt's great popularity has
- been largely due to the belief of
f the people that he was the enemy
of such corporation servers as
Lodge .
t Therefore all over the land the
ex-president's friends are asking:
"How can Roosevelt conscien
tiously speak for a man like
Lodge, when he does nothing for
men like LaFollette?
The mere asking of this
question has the ; tendency of
placing Roosevelt on the defen
sive, And it is bad for any poli
tician, great or small, to be on the
defensive.
THE DEMOCRATIC POSITION.
Republican spellbinders have
intimated the Democratic party
stands for free trade. Absolut9
free trade is practical with the
United Scatea. Every country in
tlia-world, including Great Brit
ain, levieB some tariff, and this
country must always do so.
The Democratic position on the
subject is substantially as fol
lows:
First: The government should
never collect one penny more of
revenue than necessary to admin
ister its affairs with rigid econo
my.
Second: The lowest rate that
will yield the greatest amount
revenue should be imposad.
Third: Luxuries should al
wavs bear tne nieneet revenue
duties.
Fourtn : experience nas vin
dicated the wisdom of adyalorem
duties ai being the correct prac-
Does it Pay to Succor Corn?
On rich land, during favorable
moisture conditions) if the corn
is planted too thin, there is a de
cided tendency in some .varieties
to produce these suckers or branch
es from the lower joints of the
main stalk. There is some differ
ence of opinion as to whether it
pays to remove these suckers or to
allow them to grow. If weather
conditions could be foretold and
it could be known that later in the
season the stalks already on the
ground would not have more than
barely sufficient moisture and
plant food, it would possibly pay
to remove these suckers . On the
other hand, if the corn is not thick
enough to utilize all the moBture
and plant food available and these
conditions reman thrughout the
growing season of the crop, then
it will not pay to remove the suck
ers, for while the yield of ear from
them will be small their preeence
will probably not lessen the main
stalks and the stover will be worth
something if saved for forage.
In view of the89 uncertainties,
the conseusoua of opinion among
experimenters and close observers
is that it does not pay to spend
time and labor removing these
suckers, taking one year with
another. It must be admitted,
however, that probably the ma
jority of the farmers belive it best
to remove them. Raleigh Pro
gressive Farmer and Gazette.
tice.
Fifth: Revenue duties should
be laid so as to operate with equal
ity throughout the union, dis
criminating neither for nor
agiinst any class or section.
Sixbh: Absolute necessities
should go on the free list.
Seventh : There should be im
posed a revenue duty upon prao-
tically all imports, with certain
exceptions . These exceptions LL
hou id be determined by the test:
Imports coming in competition
with trust-controlled products
should be placed on the free list,
and articles of absolute necessity
hould be imported free of duty.
ALDRICH AT HEADQUARTERS,
Quite an important conference
was held on J. Pierpont Morgan s
yacht "Corsair" off Newport, R.
I., recently.
It is understood that Morgan's
guests included Senator .Nelson
W. Aldrich, Senator George P.
Wetm ore, who had just returned
from seeing rresiaent lait at
Beverley, and Charles D. Norton,
president's secretary.
Morgan is known to take the
view that Aldrich's promised re
tirement from the Senate would
be a "national calamity," and it
i a i t t .
is believed ne urged Aiar.cn to
reconsider the matter.
Politicians in Rhode Island
have never believed Aldrich would
retire at the end of his term, as
he announced last spring. It wad
not expected that Wall street
would consent to lose its most able
representative in the Senate.
FAVORING "NECESSITIES."
President Taf t asserts that in
the Payne-Aldrich bill necessities
were "favored" at the expense of
luxuries. Here are a few com
parisons which show how the Re
publicans really "favored" the
necessities: The necessity raw
sugar was taxed 55 per cent, while
the luxury diamonds, cutbut not
set, were taxed only 10 per cent.
Such necessities as blankets, flan
nels, women's dress goods, shawls,
knit coeds, wearing apparel and
other woolen manufactures, were
made to pay a tax of from 80 to
140 p3r cent., while the luxury
automobiles were taxed but 45
per cent.
ALASKA GOE8 INSURGENT,
Even the people of far-away
Alaska have rebelled at Repubh
can stand-patism. James Wick
sham, insurgent Republican of
Juneau, has just been re-elected
to Congress over Edward Orr, the
Taft-Guggenheim candidate.
A Clean Salie
Is desirable. Dr. Bell's Anti
septic oaive is a creamy snow
white ointment and guaranteed
for all skin diseases,, such as eo
zema, salt rheum, chaps, etc. 25c
THE BATTLE WITH SMALLPOX.
Some Fig' rerand Other Information of. In
lerest on This Subject.
The victory of, scieuoe over
smallpox through vaccination is
one of the greatest sanitary vic
tories ever won . Jenner, the dis
coverer of this method ot preven
tion, is considered by many 'au
thorities the greatest benefactor
of the race that ever lived,
Lord Macaulay, in his History
of England, describing the dis
ease in England before vaccina
tion, wrote: "That disease, over
which science has achieved a suc
cession of glorious and beneficent
victories, was then the most terri
ble of all ministers of death. The
smallpox was always present, fill
ing the churchyards with corpses,
tormenting with constant fear all
whom it had yet not stricken,
leaving on those whose lives it
spared the hideous traces of its
power, turning the babe into a
changeling at which the mother
shuddered, and .making the eyes
arid cheeks cf a betrothed maiden
objects of horror to the lover."
In the latter part of the eigh
teenth century and the early part
of the nineteenth century one
tmnth of all deaths in civilized
countries resulted from -this dis
ease. Ninety-five per cent of the
population of Europe had the dis
ease at some period of their lives .
Every year in Europe 400,000
deaths were caused by., this "pesta
magna." '
Some countries have taken ad
vantage of this great discovery.;
others have not had the faith in
this truth necessary to save. It
may be interesting t observe the
effect of Bmallpox where vaccina
tion is compulsory and where it is
only optional. Between 1870 and
1874, in three years, an epidemic
of this disease in Austria and
p8Bitl.-W5.thirxWath f-162.
000 Austriaus and 172.000 Prus
sians. Prussia, profiting by .her
dreadful experience, passed a com
pulsory vaccination law ; Austria
did not- Result: Prussia, with
a population 8,000.000 greater
than Austria, lost, in the next
twenty years 8,500 people from
this disease, while Austria during
the same time lost 239,000.
Another demonstration of the
saving power oi vaccination is
seen in the French and German
armies in the great war between
these countries. The French ar
my had not enforced compulsory
vaccination; the German army
had, and the German soldiers weie
all vaccinated. Result: Tne
French army lost over 25,000 sol
diers from smallpox ; the German
army, although holding the
French prisoners and living, with
them, lost only 350 frcm the dis
ease. Stilt another demonstration of
the protection afforded by vacci
nation is seen when wu compare
the annual death rates per million
population in countries with com
pulsory vaccination and those
without compulsory vaccination.
Compulsory vaccination : Germ
any, l.i; Denmark, u.o; Sweden,
2 1: Norway, 0 6
Noncompulsory v a c c ination :
Belgium, 99 9; Russia, 46 3;
Spain, 56 2; Hungary, 184.4.
In this connection it is well to
remember that it is not claimed
tnat vaccination win always pre
vent smallpox It furnishes a
protection equal to that of hav
ing had the disease; but a few
people will have the disease twice.
Other points on the subject are
to the effect that a great many
people would as soon, or rather
have the disease as to be vaccina
ted, and some of the most able
physicians of England claim that
if the patient . is properly treated
there is not as much danger in it
as there is in many of the fevers.
Struck a Rich Mine.
S. W. Bends, of Coal City, Ala
says he struck a perfect mine of
health in Dr. King's New Life
pills f or they cured him of liver and
kidney troublo after 12 years of
suffering. Thfy arc the beat pills
on earth for constipation, mala
ria, headache, dyspepsia, debility.
25o at all druggists.
nr 1 Jk" s r
1. No mattfaiafe your crops 'have
beep "laid by.fwTMrio light
ly stir the "ttpperost?.df earth
it'begins'gettingLantf'hafd.
if
2. Get ready: fcfiave.every pos
sible pound, of JwSS'harpen up
the mower. Cut eas:.i when . first
pods begin to turn?, , 1 j
8. Cut the oorrCas;Jlj7mafcnreB
and save all. the;,feed Pulling
fodder is not pnlyxpensive and
wasteful, but serijtaljf decreases
the yield of ear ooi? ;r
4. Where cTopgjjaraken off
the land, begin Hpafation for
fall seeding. DovUstir deep
ly, but thoroughly pulWixo the
three inches on P ter soil.
5. C'ean up all ftaedsj: friers",
bushes, etc., fromditgh bank,
fence corners, arojd f liuildmgs
between cultivated frtdst August
is the best month ft kill bushes
and briers ands ;atraug to
merge piddling patcr into broad
and generous fieldajtfxt'year.
6. Get the cattlejbf tk& infect
ed pastures and gretithem thor
oughly to kill all t&KB jnow on
them. Then put ilheox? in naw
pastures and start 6t next spring
with a tick-free farnpwi tick-free
cattle. P: ii
7. Prepare to he sme win
ter growing crop outiveryiacre of
and now in cotton torn. Sow
crimson clover or v
etfch
after
the
first picking of coUw:rjye- latetjnticipated
8. Keep the hogs-tb-at ,you in
tend to kill next falgrowibg with
all their might. TfJ&y. should Me
in pasture now up t their eyes;
ut see that they hs4o plenty of
pure water and a go sjade to go
to. Sow rape and trnij for win
ter feeding, . ti .
9. - Paint the farcOiojae, paint
or whitewash other bii Icings, and
make all needed repeal f
10. Go to your Falsera Insti
tutes or other ifarmcs meeting,
anjiarrangfl tTeBTtyit1fcAdipodtopa, jarhjaiP.ie,
eigh Progressive Faryier
Life on Panamaanal
has had one frightful-drawback
malaria trouble thasfchafc brought
Buffering and death M thousands.
Tha germs cause chilj fHyer and
ague, biliousness, jatiudieo, lassi-
ity. But Electric .Mtt rs never
fail to destroy them una. i&nre ma
laria troubles. "Tstref. bottles
completely cured megt ajyery se
vere attack of malha,.' writes
Wm. A. Fretwell, offLuiiima, N.
C, "and I've had"- fgood; health
ever since." Cure smch, liver
and kidney troublesrjind -prevent
typhoid. bUo . iiua.rjuteed by all
druggistB. .' . ..M ff
Seven Things to do WheajFigtling Flies,
1. Flies thrive on &ltlJ
i Make
it impossible for theif $qjxist by
keeping everything ir$rijf around
your premises clean. .
2. Remove tilth, &ico(iulation
all decayed or uselesmaiirial in
and about the premisa. f
3. Place your garlagtfip. a cov
ered can or pail, m ""
4. Screen doors yjid windows.
5. Insist that th stibles be
clean-d out frequently ?C
6. Screen or covy: ay food,
whether it is onjj&r ible or
stored in other placesn th house.
7. Burn pyrethrufS pofvder in
the house. It will kilWmoft cf the
flies, and will stun tm others so
that they may be sapt tap and
burned better, Ralekh ff regres
sive Farmer and Gazte.
. .j ?
Deafness Cannot btjeurt xJ
by local application sat jey can
not reach the disease portion of
the ear. There is.-. ony (Tne way
to cure deafness, -andthat is by
constitutional remedied, deafness
is caused by an inflsnee- condi
tion of mucous Jiningif i he Eus
tachian Tube. WheiJhiV,tube is
inflamed you have r'ijnblicg
sound or imperfect Kariag, and
when it is entirely clold,ieafnes8
is the result, and uJessVthe iu
flamation can be tajgen dut and
this tube restored tpit&t normal
condition, hearing wi!TJ: betdestroy
ed forever; nine cased ot of ten
are caused by Catartejy which is
nothing but an iuflam avndition
of the mucous surf acej. J" - ' -
We will give One Ejn,dyed Dol
dars for any case i deafness
(caused by catarrh) 5a4rjcannot
be cured by Hall's Gafarr,"! Cure.
csend ior circulars, j rj. i s
F. J. Cheney & Co.Tci.edo, O.
Sold by Druggists, c. S
Take Hall's F miter Mils for
constion.
5
SUMMARY OF COTTON CROP. J
Crop has Improved In States East of Mis
sissippi Riter for Three Weeks.
Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 14. The
following cotton crop summary
will he published by The Com
mercial Appeal to-morrow :
For three successive weeks cot
ton has 'improved in the States
east of the Mississippi river and
it promises now fair to good. The
crop is'late and would be serious-.
ly damaged by an early. frojLwhile
frost later than usual is' needed to
allow the fullest promise to be
matured. The p'ant within the
past two weeks has grown very
rapidly and is attaining fair- size.
It is setting bolls quite satisfac
tory and the farm tone is decided
ly more optimistic. J
Such rains as fell during the
past week were . beneficial. They
were local in many sections, how-'
ever, and the Carolinas and. parts
of Georgia would be benefited by
general precipitation.
Even m the earliest sections of
this eastern belt there is very lit
tle cotton that is ready to open
and the movement to market will
be delayed well into September
unless drought later on should
force permature opening.
Boll weevils are active in Louis
iana and Mississippi and are do
ing more harm than was earlier
In Texas no rain fell except in
somesf the Red river counties
and the crop lost ground steadily,
Cctton is opening permaturly
and very rapidly in southern and
southwestern-': counties and is be
ing rushed to market as fast as
possible by the farmers. In' west'
em Texas where within the past
few years there has been a rapid
expansion in cotton growing, the
crop is almost a failure and in
many places is beyond repair, but
The Best Hour of Life
is when you do some great deed or
discover some wonderful fact.
This hour came to J. R. Pitt, of
Rocky Mt., N. C, when he was
suffering intensely, as he says,
"from the worst cold I ever had,
I then proved to my great satis
faction, what a wonderful cold
and cough cure Dr. King's New
Discovery is. For, after taking
one bottle, I was entirely cured.
You can't say anything too good
of a medicine like that." .Its the
surest and best remedy for dis
eased lungs, hemorrhages, la
grippe, asthma, bay fever, any
throat or lung trouble. 50c, $1.00.
Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by
all druggists.
Rape a Greal Grazing Crop,
Rape is perhaps the best of all
our winter grazing crops. It will
probably produce more feed to be
grazed during December, January
and February than any other
plant we Know oi ; dub as it is
best sowed in drills it does not,
when sowed this wjty, serve the
purpose of a cover crop so well as
a broadcast crop. Of course,
rape may be sowed broadcast, and
on very rich land may do fairly
well that way; but as a rule we
think rape should be plauted on
very rich land and in drills. It
is, therefore a grazing crop
rather than a cover crop. Ral
eieh. N. C, Progressive Farmer
and Gazette.
Turnip planting time begins in
August, for the early or "summer"
sorts and lasts until November
for the Seven-Top variety used
for greens in the spring . Sow
good supply of both kinds, and
make two or three sowings of the
early sorts. When cold weather
comes they can easily be put in a
pit or hole and kept until after
Christmas. Raleigh, (N. C.) Pro
gressive Farmer and Gazette.
Staggers Skeptics.
That a clean, nice, fragrant
compound like Bucklen's Arnica
Salve will instantly relieve a bad
burn, cut, scald, wound or piles,
staggers skeptics. But great cures
prove its a wonder healer of the
worst sores, ulcers, boils, felons,
eczema, skin eruptions, as also
chapped hands, sprains and corns.
Try it. 25c at all druggists.
A Water Supply in Every Farm Home.
A. water supply and a bath room
in every farm home would revolu
tionize farm life and in many lo
calities would not be a serious
problem at all. Income instances
it wold meen only the cost of iron
piping from the spring to the
sufficient to supply the homes of
the mill village. There is a trage
dy in this incident and it lies in
the fact that the farmer's wife had
carried water from this spring up
a 50 foot embankment throughout
her married life for twenty-five
years.
I know of a farmer who install
ed a "ram" at a cost of $15.
Where there is not a supply of
water of this kind, there are foroe
pumps, windmills, gasoline en
house, the spring not in a few in
stances being at a height above
the house. In other instances
water may be carried up the hill
from thev spring by the use of a
"ram" which need not cost e x -
travagantly nar is it difficult to
install,
A certain superintendent of a
cotton mill purchased the use of a
spring from a farmer in the neigh
borhood and at a cost of $14 for
he "ram" had a flow of water
gines. 1 know of a farmer who
with an attachment to-the pump
used mule strength for power and
filled a tank in the attic tor the
daily supply of water for the
house. This method cost practi
cally nothing in outlay and about
ten minutes a day in time. Ral
eigh Progressive Farmer and Ga
zette.
A Task for Your Sunday School.
Back in tho community in which
the writer was reared and in
which good, books at that time
Were very scarce, a Sunday school
library is now doing excellent
work in acquainting the neoDle
wny snouid not every ouuday
school have such a library? And,
of course, it goes without saying,
that the library ought not
to be composed of the trashy,
goody-goody, sissified story books
that make up so many Sunday
school libraries. Put in Borne re
ligious works by great thinkers
and great preachers, and then as
many standard works of biog
raphy, science, poetry, and fictiou,
as you can find money to buy. No
public school or Sunday school
can do the work it ought to do
without a library. Raleigh, (N.
C ) Progressive Farmer and Ga
zette .
There is nothing that so adds to
the comfort of the family on the
farm as a good garden. Not mere
ly a plot of ground prepared and
planted in the spring and then
let run to weeds after the early
crops are off, but a garden loved
and tended and kept making some
thing for the table all the year
through. A garden in which ev
ery crop is followed at once by
another as doon as past its useful
ness, and the soil kept clean the
whole season and left in winter
cropB in the fall so clean that the
cutworm moths find no place to
lay sggs, and henoe no cutworms
in the spring, as there are always
are if the garden runs to weeds in
the fall. Raleigh, (N. C.) Pro
gressive Farmer and Gazette.
Why Many Babies Die.
A baby cannot digest any kind
of starchy food until after he is
six months old, and it is better
to give him nothing but milk un
til toward- the end of the first
year, aud the mother or grand
mother and I make special men
tion of grandmothers, because I
have sen many offending ones
who puts into the baby's mouth a
morsel of solid food before the
baby is six months old, endangers
the life of that same baby. Mrs.
F. L Steveus in Raleigh, N. C,
Progressive Farmer and Gazette .
Or. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey
is the best for coughs, colds,
croup, grip, whooping cough,
bronchitis, asthma and all throat
and bronchial troubles. Sold
every where. Look for the bell on
the bottle.
WHERE THE SOUTH LOST.
Two or Three Ways by Which New England
Forged Apead of Us.
New England was wise enough
to see that buying negroes' to do
poor work did not pay, aud thai
educating her own children to do
good work did pay. The Soath
has fallen behind because it has
had tbe wrong end of both these
propositions. Thank God, how
ever, we are at last waking up and
are beginning to train our own
people, and we shall soon begin
to give our Southern people the
same educational advantages that
the New England children have
had, and so have our agricultural
and manufacturing development
such as will make us worthy ri
vals of New England even in ma
terial prosperity.
Just in this connection, more
over, I am reminded that while
New England has been too far too
wise tallow her children to be
worked in cotton mills, or any
other manufacturing enterprises,
thousands of our own white chil
dren have been stunted in body
and mind in order to make divi
dends for New England capital
invested in the South. In Massa
chusetss no child under fourteen
is allowed to work in a factory
under any circumstances what
ever; no child under, or between
fourteen and sixteen, unless able
to read and write, and not only
to read and writs, but to read and
write well enough to enter the
fourth grade, and no ohild is al
lowed to do night work under any
circumstances. More than this,
no child can be employed by any
factory unleBS a sworn certificate
as to its age be given by its pa
rents, and this certificate approved
as correct by the local school
committee or their agent, and
kept on tile for inspection by tru-
1 ant officer a whose duty it is to see
that all cblldren wrid ought ' to be
are in school. Going further, the
manufacturer must keep posted, a
list of the nameB of all minors
employed by him, and the State
employs fourteen factory inspec
tors, a part of whose duties it is
to see that these laws are enforced.
Massachusetts is far too wise to
sacrifice her future by grinding
out the lives of little children,
however muoh the Yankee may be
said to care for the dollar . It is
with shame that we confess that
the same can not be said of every
Southern State. Clarence Poe, in
Raleigh, N. C, Progressive Farm
er and Gazette.
A Cold
Is not necessarily serious, provid -ed
it is taken care of. It is, fre
quently the starting point of
many dangerous diseases. When
it comes use Dr. Bell s Pine-Tar-
Honey. Look for the bell on the
bottle.
How fo Get Rid of Mosquitoes.
The first thing to do is to
that there are no unnecessaiy
pools of water, to offer breeding
places, near the premises. An in
teresting aud hopeful fact cci -nected
with malarial rrosquitres
is .that they do not fly for great
distances. Many mosquito
scourges have resulted from the
careless disposal of water ab ut
the baek premises.
If it is impossible to drain end
fill breeding places, the only r
course is to thoroughly screen the
house and promptly kill all ins eta
that find their way into the hc-u.
This may be done, if numbers jus
tify it, by burning pyrethi tm
powder in the infected room. 1 r
sona suffering from malaria sh u d
be protected from the bites of the
malaria-bearing mosquito, for in
this way the infection is spread.
So far as present knowledge os,
this is the only way by which peo
ple become malari' us. Mrs F.
L. Stevens, in Raieigh, N (j.,
Progressive Farmer and Gazelle.
Internally
Dr. Bell's Anti-Pain cures colic,
flux, diarrhoea, . cramps ai.d all
bowel complaints.
Externally :-Curessore breasts,
corns, bunions, toothache, neu
ralgia, and all pains. Sold very-
where. , It is antiseptio . '