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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, OCTOBER 13, 1887. .6 THE WONDERFUL ; COUNTRY. V ,J. VJ J. I X X There once was a time when, an old songs prove it : The earth was not round, but an endless plain ; The sea was as wide as the heaven above it Just millions of miles, and begin again. And that was the time ay, and more's the pity It ever should end ! when the world could play, When singers told tales of a crystal city In a wonderful country far away ! But the schools must come with their scales and measures. ' To limit the visions and weigh the spells : They scoffed at the dreamers with rainbow treas ures, 'And circled the world in their parallels ; They chartered the vales and the sunny meadows, .' Where minstrels might ride for a vear and a day ; They sounded the depths and they pierced the shadows Of that wonderful country far away. For fancies they gave us their microscopies ; For knowledge a rubble of fact and doubt ; Wing-broken and caged, like a bird from the tropics, Romance at the wandering stare looked out. Cold Reason, they said, is the eartbJy Juien, Go, 6tudy its springs, and its ores assay ; But fairer the flowers and fields forbidden Of tiat wonderful country far away. They questioned the slumbering baby'e And cautioned its elders to dream by 's laugnter. jy rule ; All mysteries past and to come hereafter Were settled and solved in their common school But sweeter the streams and the wild birds singing, The friendships and loves that were true alway The gladness unseen, like a far bell ringing, In that wonderful country far away. Nav. nor in their reason our dear illusion. But truer than truths that are measured and weighed O land of the spirit ! where no intrusion From bookmen or doubters shall aye be made ! There still breaks the murmuring sea to greet us On shadowy valley and peaceful bay ; And souls that were truest still wait to meet us Tn that wonderful country far away ! John tloyle O'Reilly in Scribners Magazine. Charlotte Home: A cotton stalk over eight feet and having on it 207 fully developed bolls was shown this afternoon. "Winston Daily : Vie were shown a gourd, suspended from a vine in a peach tree yesterday which is 37 inches long. Gastonia Gazette: Mr. Lucius Hen dersbn, of Begonia, picked 380 pounds of cotton one day last week. "Who can beat it ? Wilson Advance: Mr. J. E. Brown showed us a squash last Tuesday that measured 48 inches in circumference and weighed 38 pounds. Durhan Recorder: A large meeting of renters was help in the mayor's office Saturday night looking to the formation of a Building Association The revenue collections in this district during September were $104, 740, 86. Durham paid $54,008,99 of this amount. There are fifty counties in this district. Southern Tobacco Journal: Maj. W. "W. Rollins, of Marshall N. C, has 100 acres in tobacco this year, and the Major claims that the crop will bring him $50,000. Major Rollins is the largest tobacco grower in the world, and his crop this year is somewhat un der the .average. At the low prices of last 'yeaijpwe understood that his crop real'igp& $40,000. Gold peaf: The North Carolina Tile and Brick Company was formed at Pomona! Guilford county about a yeap ago for the purpose of manufacturing tilinks, piping and lire proof brick and teracotta flues from a Kaoline clay de posit about four miles "West of Greens boro. The success of this . plant has been somewhat phenominal, and to-day they are uftble to fill their orders. New Jon Enterprise : A capiralist and manufacturer was in Newton a few days agfc looking arounp for a location for a -f 100,000. cotton factory. We understand that he left favorably im pressed with the place. He would be wise in locating here as no town oilers better advantages than Newton and the citizens offer great inducements to all persons desiring to establish manu facturing enterprise among us. Kernville News and Farni : No town can succeed Ipng without diversified industries, v They are essential to the life of the .town, each assisting the other and, all giving vitality to the place. Thtpwn that shuts itself up to one manufacturing enterprise, is like the farmer that raises but one crop, its jmoney goes to enrich others. Several small industries are worth a great deal more to a1 town than one large one, although few seem to think so. Newberne Journal: Mr L. Harvey has on exhibition a "stalk of cotton from Mr. W. L. Kennedy's farm that con tains eighty-nine bolls. An acre of such would produce three good bales of cotton.- The oysters brought to market now are in much better condi tion than usual at this season of the year. The Atlantic Hotel syndicate passed up from Morehead City yester day morning. Morehead is destined to become the summer resort of the Souti?-: The hotelis in the right hands to make it so. ... - fpurham Plant : The great and pow erful weed that comforts and soothes is the staple of this section, and at Dur ham its sale reaches enormous propor tions. Over fourteen million pounds of leaf tobacco sold in Durham since Oct. 1st, 1886. The farmers bring their tabacco to Durham because it is a steady market all the year round. In summer and winter, well as in spring and fall, the buyers are upon the mar ket and 'the highest prices are paid. The output of manufactured tobacco for the year amounted to about 4,000, 000 pounds of smoking tobacco about 100,000 pounds of chewing tobacco, 50,000 pounds of snuff, and 350,000, 000 cigarettes. S) North Carolina Farmer: "Whatever will benefit the farming interests will benefit all others. If the reduction of interest will promote the farmers pros perity, it will also in the long run benefit the whole body politic. North Carolina takes the premium over Pennsylvania. The grass and grain exhibit gotten up" and exhibited at Asheville, 'and the Mt. Holly Fair and Institute by Capt. Nat. Atkinson, was sent to the Pennsylvania State Fair, and took the first premium, as it has in every place shown, and yet, we do not make enough of these articles to supply the home demand. " We show what we can do, but fail in what we ought to do. Shame on our farm ers. Sanford Express : Mr. A. F. Page, of Blue's Crossing, Mr. D. A. McDon ald, of Carthage, and Mr. J. M. Gra ham, of Jackson Springs, have formed themselves into a company to build a railroad from Blues Crossing on the R. & A. road to Troy in Montgomery county. They will build this road 13 miles without a charter as these gen tleman own 13 miles of land in a solid body extending 1 3 miles west of Blue's Crossing. In this 13 miles of railroad there will not be a cut more than ten feet deep. This road will penetrate a body of the finest timbered pine land in North Carolina. It is indeed a big project, but its promot ers are business men, and will no doubt build it. Wilmington Jfesicnger : The gas works at Greensboro, now use Chat ham county, (N. C.) coal. This is an entirely new sourse of supply. It is only since the opening of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Vallev railroad that these mines have become accessible, yet located as they are, only forty miles from Greensboro. The road taps the coal-field country and the supply is abundant. Colonel A. H. Left wich, of Lynchburg, manages the plant here, and we have it on the au thority of those operating the works that in gas-producing capacity the Chatham coal is fifty per cent, supe rior to the East Tennessee article hith erto ised. The North Carolina coal begiln to be used last april. jrtuusuoro siraus : lvir. i . i. i arxer s ut t . r rn -r t i i ,60 worth of ensilage to the acre, which we told of yesterday, if conver ted into beef would be worth 81 00. Of this at least $50 would be clear profit. Can anybody equal this mak ing cotton ? If not why will not our farmers raise corn and at the same time enrich, their la&d V- - Mr. Parker is engaged in filling his silo with choice corn. He has about six acres of corn, planted after his pea crop, which he is cutting now, and he thinks his crop worth about $60 per acre. The crop was only plowed twice and never howed at all. It is easy to be seen, therefore, what a snug little profit there is to the acre. Next week he will sow the same land in rye there by making three crops which he has planted on the same land this year. Of. course this requires heavy manuring, but then it pays. Raleigh yews and Observer : Messrs. Alfread Williams & Co., of this city, will give at the next session of the Teachers' Assembly a beautiful solid gold watch, stem-winder and stem -set ter, chatelaine model, handsomely en graved, for the best examination in their Moore's School History of North Carolina. The examination will be publicly held in the Assembly Hall, and competition will be open only to all actual teachers. Thirty questions will be submitted, and written answers are to be handed in for inspection by the examining board. Former suc cessful contestants in the examinations in Nort Carolina History will not be allowed to compete for this prize. The wonder of the street yesterday was an immense pumpkin displayed at the store of Messrs. W. C. & A. B. Stronach. It weighs 115 1-2 pounds and measured six feet around. It came from the farm of Mr. W. C. Stronach. Slate Chconicle: Ring the belle! Beat the cymbals ! Blow ye the trum- pet ! Sound the trombone ! The Warrenton Gazette says that not a car load of hay or conchas been brought to that market durng the season; on the other hand, Jtfr. J. L. Shaw and Mr. S. Johnson are both shipping hay to Northern markets. A friend in Pender countywrites a long lette giv ing an account of the recent visit of Commissioner Robinson and Immigra tion Agett Patrick to pender county. The Chronicle had already published the facts about the meeting and the crowded condition of our columns pre vent the insertion of the communica tion. We give space to one sentiment : "If Commissioner Robinson and our new State Chemist, Mr. Battle, can break down the wall of separation be tween the people and the Department and can show the people that they are. heart and hand, with the farmers and for the farmers, they will render this Department more useful and beneficial to the State than it has yet been. To this end they can canvass the State and revive the drooping cause of Ag riculture, the better for themselves and the State at large." X If the farmers of this country ex pect ever to See their condition bet tered, they must cut loose in a meas ure from the bitter political factions that have cursed North Carolina and the South since the war. They must cease to follow and take the lead. Surely they have seen enough of both sides to know by this time that their interests demand separate and indepen dent action and an entire repudiation of factious politics, unless they can utilize these so as to promote their own ends. In order to no this effect ually they must take hold of the ma chine and run it select their own men for conductors, engineers, and firemen. Otherwise, their impovished, and almost hopeless cindition. must re- . rail A 1 IT main as it is. 1 no larmers snouia or ganize at once a mutual- protective union for the elevation and advance ment of this great interest. Salisbury Truth. FARMERS' CLUB. Form of Constitution and By-Laws. CONSTITUTION. This club shall be known as the Far mer's Club of Township. Its object shall be to improve the condition of the farmers and promote the cause of Agriculture. Its officers shall consist of a President, Vice-president and Secretary and Treas urer, who shall be elected for the term of one year. It shall be the duty of the President to preside at all regular or called meetings of the Club, and to announce the order of bu siness. In his absence, the Vice-president shall preside. In the absence of both, the club may elect a temporary Chairman. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep a record of the proceedings of. the Club, and carry on such correspondence as the Club may direct. Iri addition to the officers there shall be an Executive Committee, consisting of three or more members, as the Club may determine, to transact business appertain ing to the Club. Applications for membership must be made by petition, endorsed by one or more members of the Club. Such petition shall be referred to a committee, who will report at the next regular meeting, when a vote may be had upon the petition, a majority of the Club, not of those present simply, being necessary to elect to mem bership. No one shall be eligible to membership unless practically engaged jn Agriculture. Farmers' wives and daughters may be elected as honorary members. There shall be no initiation or other fee charged. All necessary expenses shall be defrayed by proportionate assessment or by voluntary contributions, as the Club may decide. The President, Vice-president and Sec retary shall be ex-officio representative members of the Club to the County Club, when such is organized, and shall have full power to vote and act for the Club, unless the Club shall decide to elect other members as such representatives. The Club shall have power to draft by laws for its government. The Constitution may be amended by giving two months' notice of the amend ment proposed, in writing, but no amend ment shall be carried without a two-thirds vote of the members of the Club. BY-LAWS. I. The meetings of the Club shall be held once a month (or of tener) at such time and place as the Club may direct. Special meetings may be called by the Ex ecutive Committee if deemed advisable. II. The Order of Business shall be : 1. Calling the roll. 2. Reading minutes of preceding meet ing. 3. Election of new members. 4. Report of committees. 5. Unfinished business. 6. New business. 7. Election of officers. III. Elections shall be by ballot, the tellers appointed by the President, and those candidates receiving the largest num ber of votes, as counted before the Club, shall be declared elected. . IV. After the regular business, the Club may hear discussions, essays or addresses upon Agriculture, but no religious or po litical discussions will be permitted, or nothing calculated to mar the harmony of the Club. V. Seven members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Each member will have the right to ex press his views fully upon any subject un der discussion, but must do so courteously and not indulge in rudeness. Breach of courtesy will subject the offender to re proof, and if persisted in, he may be ex pelled by a vote of the Club. An expelled member cannot regain admission under one year. Every member should feel it his duty to advance the interests of his fellow mem bers and of his brother farmers, giving such aid and council as they may seek, when in his power to do so. The above form, with slight mod ifications, will answer for the organization of County Clubs. RACKET STORE! THE GREAT Bargain House OF E ALEIGH! Is taking a great boom. We arc now opening the largest and eheajK'st elock of goods ever brought to the Racket, consisting of Dry Goods and Notions of all descriptions. Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Keady-made Clothing. Carpeting, Hardware and Cutlery, Stationery, Jewelry, Gold and Silver Watches, fcc. Our Millinery Department is full and complete and will be run by Mrs. Allice Good win and MiKs Undine DeCarteret. These goods arc purchased for cash and from houses that are com pelled to sell at reduced prices. They will be sold for cash and for less than they can be bought in any other market in this State. To the intelligent, who will be convinced, these facts and figures must command conviction, but these eloquent sledge hammers are powerless to him who lacks the level head, the honest heart and the almighty dollar. They are of no avail whatever to the ante'deluvian of one hundred per cent, who piles on the profit until the land pirates, who were inquiring the prices, have converted his real values into bubbles, valued at'the mills two cents a pound. Ladies, come to the Racket and buy your Cloaks. Silk and Silk Velvet Cloaks for $14, worth $24. Come and buy your Clothing and Boots and Shoes and save your money. YOLNEY PURSELL & CO., ju91y No. 10 E. Martin St. A. C. VOGrLER, MAXUl'AC'TXrj fill AND DEALER IX ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE. UNDERTAKING iN ALL ITS BRANCHES, You will find me at my same old stand in Salem, where I have been for 29 years, always ready and wil ling to wait on my customers. My. stock of Furniture is complete, also my Un dertaking Department, where I have all kinds of WOOD AND METALIC COFFINS and CASKETS, BURIAL ROBES, COOLING BOARDS AND HEARSE READY At any minute, Day or Night, to wait on you. " Dont foriiet the place when vou want anvthinsr in my line. Also Yeach's Ironing Stand. Thanking you for past favors, I remain, Respectfully Yours A. O. VOGrLER, Main Street, SALEM, N. C. Biblical Recorder. (established 1835) Rev. C. T. BAILEY, Editor. Rev. C. S. FARRISS, Associate Editor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy 1 year, including postage, $2 One copy G months, " " 1 00 00 Address, EDWARDS, BROUGHTON & CO., Raleigh, N. C. Important to Tobacco Growers ! In saving your Tobacco Crop, use VERNON'S TOBACCO HANGERS. By their use the capacit of your barn is doubled ). Great savin? in time. with same number of stic fuel and labor. change of sticks. in saving your ires no chart oe in barn ansl ill repay their cost first season primings alone. Have been thor- on ernly tested ana a Die success. Guaranteed to ex- cell anytning oi tne juna erer Invented, Their cheapness brings them within the reach of all. No tobacco grower can afford to be without them' Will be on exhibition at our State Fair. Send your oraers, giving numocr or bucks to be filled, and wui quote prices. AgeniS warned. Address, VERNON TOBACCO HANGER CO., sep222m Greensboro, N. C. we f 4 , Pomona Hill Nurseries, POMONA, N. C, Two and a half miles west of Greens boro, N. C. The main line of the R & D. R. R. passes through the grounds and within 100 feet of the office Salem trains make regular stops twice daily each way. Those interested in Fruit and Fruit growing are cordial ly invited to inspect this the largest nursery in the State and one amono the largest in the South. The proprietor has for many years visited the leading Nurseries" North and West and corresponded with those of foreign countries, gathering every fruit that was calculated to suit the South, both native and foreign. The reputation of Pomona Hill Nurseries is such that many agents going out from Greensboro, representing other nurseries, try to leave the impression that they are representing these nur series. Why do they do it? Let the public answer. I have in stock growing (and can show visitors the same) the largest and best stock of trees, &c, ever shown or seen in any two nurseries in North Carolina, consisting of apple, peach pear, cherry, plum, grape, Japanese persimmon, Japanese plum, apricots nectarine, Russian, apricot, mulberry quinces. Small fruits: Strawberry, raspberry, currants, pecans, English walnuts, rhubard, asparagus, ever greens, shade trees, roses, &c. Give your order to my authorized agent or order direct from the nur sery. Correspondence solicited. Des criptive catalogues free to applicants. Address, J. Van Lindley, Pomona, Guilford county, N. C. THE OLD RELIABLE Dr. V. O. Thompson's DRUG HOUSE Winston. N. C. THOSE IN NEED OF DETJGS, MEDICINES, PAINT, VAKXISHEi Chemicals, Soaps, &c, Will find a complete etock of these and all other articles kept in a First Class Dnig House, at bot tom prices and prices that defy competition. We keep none but ' FKKSH AXD STANDARD DRUGS. 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