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p 1 ; ; 75he Anglo -S qlXOii. Succeeding the Rnckinham Rocket, Fouoded PUBLISHED THURSDAYS BY THE ANGLO-SAXON COMPANY IC. WIIITLCK, ParsiDtxT. A. S. DOCKEKY.Sec. axdTuai. (First dan matter entered as second ROCKINGHAM, N.C, AUG. 6 1903. A POPE ELECTED. At half-past 11 o'clock Tues day xuoruing the C2 members of the college of cardinals as sembled at Rome elected a suc cessor to Loo XIII. The new Pope is Cardinal Sarto, Patri arch of Venice. He is an Ital ian, is CS years old, and. was created a cardinal June 12, 1393. He has taken the name of Pius X. He is said to be mod eat and agreeable, of pure and upright life, a highly cul tured man, and one of the great est preachers in his church. He has not mixed much in politics, and his election will be favor ably received by the Italian, French and German govern ments. While the new Pope was not one of those four or fivo great figures who seemed to stand out, and from among whom the world expected to see the successor to the late Pope chos en, such as cardinals Itampol la Gotti, Vanuutelli, and Oreg lio, still he seems to have been regarded by the late Pontiff as his probablo successor and en tirely worthy to wear the triple crown. And it is probably well for the Roman Catholic Church that a man of the type Pius of X was elected. He will, no doubt, persue the same conciliatory policy that characterized the administration of his late predicessor, and by which that great statesman and diplomat steered clear of broils and en tanglements, and so advanced the interests of his church, : SELECTION OF SEED. -One of the matter to which fanners pay too little attention is the selection of seed. Especially is this tree in the eae of cotton. It is a law of natore that like pro daces like. This is not only true as to species and varieties, butjthe same tendency manifests itself in the case of individual. Br !e process of continually scl. ...! certain individuals possessing in a marked degree qualities of certain kinds new varities and even new species of animals, as well as plants have been developed. In this way all your varities of cows, some remarkable for the quantity of their milk, others for its richness, and still others for their quality as beef-cattle, have been developed. So have your race horses and vour draft horses, your Plimouth Rock and your game poultiy." In the same way yon have gotten your various and sundry varieties of corn wheat, oats and potatoes. In - a great many crops, such as corn, water melons, cantaloupes and others whert the selection is easf all farmers observe the rule of plant ing only the seed from the best ths largest ears of coin, the sweetest and best flavoied water melons. ! N In the case of cotton' it. is very different. The seed are usually taken from the pile at the gin, where good bad and indifferent, first, middle and last picking have been gjnned and the seed are mixed together. The faulty seed and the good seed are planted side by said and the puny, fruitless plants and the healthy, vigorous plants grow up together, and the farmer wonders at the difference. The consequence is that there is very little ioprovement in the fruitful ness'or staple of cotton. If a new and improved variety is introduced it is allowed to degenerate by a fai Hie to keep the strain pure .by the selection each year of seed from the best fruited and most thrifty stalks .The Progressive Farmer quotes the following from Dr. H. I. Webber, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Depart ment of Agriculture, who was one of the speakers at the Farmers' Convention, recently held' in Raleigh, in which he suggests method of selecting cotton seed fo replanting, which, while a little tedious would amply repay one for the trouble: . j "Select careful pickers that re main on the plantation from year to year and train1 them to recognise the best plants, that is, those mott, productive, earliest in ripening and having the largest, best-formed, and most numerous bolls. Each year-before th second picking, have these select pickers go o er the field and pick the cotton from the best plants only. The picker should be paid by the day and not fnr thf amount oicked. Preserve such seed cotton,' separately, gin it j separately on a carefully cleaned j ein to avoid mixing, and use the I seed to plant the general crop the j next year. If sufficient seed is net secured t the second picking, the same pickers can be sent over the field again; before the next picking. In general, it is desirable not to use the seed of the first or last picking. The trouble with our friends at the North is that they do not understand the negro. Because they saw in Booker T. Wash ington a great man, they de cided the negro race was a great race and wanted to asso ciate with them on terms of equality. Now-that they have seen lhat -some negroes are brutes they are, in some places, wanting to exterminate them, or. drive them lout of the coun try. We people down here un derstand the j negro. We re cognize in him an inferior race that hasn't sense enough to goven us andlhat smells - too bad to make good bed-fellows, but that, barring these draw backs, is a pretty good race of people. He is .welcome to stay here and enjoy himself so long as he obeys the law and doesn't offend us in the two respects aforesaid. The tact is. we, like him mighty well in : hi place. Mr.A.JVMaxwll, one of the brst editorial writers & the State pres for sometime. the editorship 0 1 Mm resigned from e Rockingham Anglo-Saxon, a$djentered another line of business. f we read aright, the fine Italian i$nd of the Hon Cameron Morrison is to be bbserv ed in the AagloSaxon's editorial columns now. Monroe Journal We ; are glajt f Bro. Beasley thinks so well0f the present editors of The Anglo-Saxon. We desire to say, ffdwever, in jus tice to Mr.Monsisbn, that he has nothing whatever to do with the management or editorship of the. paper,'! And- has never written a line ft or its columns except over bis! Own signature. The hand oiirH! (friend sees is probably Scoti-or Irish. ' - ' We have juS Received ;bullo tin No. 184ii led by the N. C. , Agricultua Experiment Station at Jleigh. It deals with culture a4 marketing of orchard and firden fruit, in cluding the pef the peach, the plum, the cherry, the fig, and the5 the quince, pomegranate. It is a very interesting and in structive pamphlet, and can be had for the lsking. Every farmer ought p!have his name on the mailingtlist of the Ex periment Stati" We reproduce elsewhere, from the Ctiarfo beautiful Httl 1 te Observer, a poem entitled "Quail Calls" ffpm tne pen of our friend JcjJJn Charles Mc Neill,of Laurioburg; He is a true poet. What gentle touches of nature! j nd those lines addressed to; defes: ; , Thou, mother; of ill beauty born , . Beneath thy shadowy, purpling vi ne Crushing thy ppjiies into wine For wanderey whose hearts are ' , v torn, -j) : ; - ' Tney are superb! ' . Buckler s Arnica Salve. Has worldwide fJaime for . marvellous cures. It surpassfesTjuiy other salve, lo tion, ointment orJailm for Cuts, Corns, Burns, Boila, Soqi,, Felons, Ulcers, Tet ter, Salt Rheumj &Ver . Sores, Chapped Hands, Skin Eruptions; iafaJlible for Piles. Cuae guaraeed.Only 25c at All Druggists. ..-M : - Progress Across the Line. - The Gibsou correspondent of the Charlotte Observer noies progress just over the line, about ten miles from Rockingham, as follows: The Marlboro Fruit Company, with D. D. McCali as secretary and treasurer, and Z. T. Pearson, resident, will plant 04,000 peach trees, mostly of the Elberta and Cremen varieties. Five thousand trees are now growing and will bear this season!, besidest 35 acres is in tobacco, 50 in corn, 40 m sweet potatoes. The company has a store, side track and bold stream on which a knitting mill will be established. This property r. is situated near Osborne, Richmond county, but is just across; the line in South Carolina, The character of the soil and climate is similar to that of Southern Pines, and when fruit is killed at all other points, peaches always "hit" and are abundant in this section. It is ex pect that Northerners will - make extensive purchases in that locality and that a veritable "sanitarium for Northern invalids will very soon be established near Osborne, in the northern portion of Mail- boro." . J And as it is in "hollering dis tance" of Richmond we can look on a whiie and then do it ourselves. But what's better we can start off with thsm and begin . earlier, to reap the reward. , ! QUAIL CALLS " : ' . ; 4) " . ' ' '! . Charlotte Observer, 1 If on such harvest-sce'nted morn. : t -With soft wide rasp of stirring blades, And from the ear-hung colonnades Hearing the quail among the corn. I met hard by some fruited thorn " Our gentle Ceres, waiting there , With grapes and grain twined in ' her hair " '- - '. : . ; : : - ;;; And plenty bursting from her horn. 1 should not laugh my eyes to scorni But feel that I had found at last F Her whose sweet presence near 1 me passed i When uiaiy a fleecy flock was shorn, Or when on weary journeys worn i ' I longed to rest my aching feet f" And watch the fireflies in the wheat,' Or hear the quail calls in the corn, j Thou, mother of all beauty born Beneath thy showy purpling vine I Crushing thy poppies into wine . j For wanderers whose hearts are torn Far from home acres I, forlorn, f ' Have known thy joy almost to yieald . At some rav whiff of harvest field. I Some hint of quail among the com ! I TnUWPUlDI 17C M.V1TTT T. 7 If you do, Wliitlock & Morri son's is tlio place you arc looking for. The Line of Groceries car ried by us is of the best quality, the greatest iariety and very! fresh. We buy GORn, IIAY AND SIIIPSTUFF In carload lots, and hence can ,---,' . . sell it cheaper than those who buy in smaller quantities, Thony Vall nn IIR. 'Tf we haven t what you want we Avill get it f o you and send it to your house, i you live in town or at the mills -A rn, . Cvl m - j 1 i r.b. it you are comiug" to town irui 1 j the country, bring us along a few pounds of butter, a dozen eggs, a han anything you want to sell, and we' give you the top of the market for i t t ft ctttttf tttf ft ft ttttAAAAA 1 DC '31 I 4 - 1 t i- ;4 ti-. . . . ! W . - BP 0 1 TTOOI DOM Jl, TOE WiRDKIAS WE WT ' ABSD TME PEilPL CED. TfillAT WE .'ARE WfiaATr WE-SAY.'AKID. TISAT 'Do! just whafce advertise 1 1 & n - m m 4 a t3 We handle a clean up-tomow! stock of goods at such prices I that competition is not in it with is. We have got them all skinned f i mgnam belore. we are still domj! business at the same old stand, i I m the same: way, only known and jilone by us. is ts Always in the lead, withj lgodds at lowest prices. 1 m v 1 ::i u 1 r-i Opposite the Courf House. "I. :;i " 7J r i .m PA I i x r ! I f r & u u n 1 n t . N ' - ..... " ............ .......T..T.. - ? - - c - ; ! ; " : : ' .... rr""" . , ....... . .. - n--- , - I " ' " 1 """" ' " 1 ' - ' -" i . "i ... . in 1 ' -"." 1 . C : " : " : . . - J ' ' .. ... - : ' -: (t
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