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J THE PEOaEESSIE FAEUBB : NOVEIIBEE 30, 1897 THE PROGBEiSWE FARHER HSS. L L FOlSi - - - P;c cTists?i : J. L RAHSE?, - - - - CLABESCE B. AS. - Assttiili Editer. I W. DEBHABK, - - toalTgV SUBSCRIPTION- Clajie SubftcrttMr, One Year. . 9 LJ8 " blx Month .75 Five Subscriber, One Year...., U One Tear.... 10.00 One couy out year fre,to tiii one leadtaz Club tl Ten. Coa nearioblv 4n J.deon. Koney at our rtsfc. It sent by ifWiBtered lettet tl money order. FUcu don't towp Mvertlslrw Rates quoted on application. To GorrvonUnt : Write all comimunlcatlonB, designed for pnb iSsatlon. on one side of the paper only. We want Intelligent correspondents In every .Km ii ty In the 8tate. We want fact of value. M-onlt. uiAimnHahMl cit vain a. Tt)eriencee of value, plainly and briefly told. One solid, dmonstrated fatU Is worth a thousand theories. The editor it not responsible for the tiews of correspondents. EALEIGH, 0., NOV. 30. 1897. VU papr nUrd a conti-ckut matUr at th Pott OHm in RaJMoh, N. C The Progressive Farmer it the Official Orsan of the N. C Farmers' SUte Alliance Do you want your paper changed to mother office I State the one at which fou hare been Retting it. gST Our friends in writing to any of cur advertisers will favor ua by men tioning the fact that they saw the g3?The date on your label tella you when your time is nut. r nm mttindina now iust behind the smivtnin. and in full alowof the comina tunset. Behind me are the shadows on th trrtc.h before me lies the dark valley and the river. When J mingle with its iinfk inn.tp.ru I want to cast one linaer (ng look upon a country whose govern ment ts oj we people, tot me peopie and by the people, L. L. Polk, July th 1890. N. R. P. A. Tn cinone not now a subscriber we will send The Progressive Farmer m a -V St A Si . I tvery week until dan i, mva jor oniy one dollar. This ia dirt cheap and we ought to 10 000 nw subscribers at once Unlike some other paper, we have no campaign fund at our backs to enable iistn hire a travelling acent. There fore wrt ask our readers, every one of them ana you. dear reauer, especially trt frat 113 tin h club. The paper has stood by you and your interest. It managers have made sac rificea to keep the paper going to some of the readers. And now it you ap preciate thes9 kind acts, if you are grateful for them, prove it by thia little action. We will tbank you for this little work in your own interest Shall we hear frnm vou? Tns Progressive Farmer? Raleigh, N. C. EDITORIAL. NOTES. At Atlanta, Ga , December 14th, a convention of Southern cotton groweis ia to ba held. The peanut crop in Virginia and North Carolina is reported to bo not as good as usual. The North Carolina 8tate Baptist Convention meets in Oxford 9th to 15th of December. There was a large attendance at the Western tforth Carolina Methodist Conference, held at Aaheville, last week. Please don't ask us to send a receipt for money on subscriptions. Tbe label on your piper serves this purpose, and and if it ia not changed within one month after you send your money, then notify us. Sae the ad. of Raleigh Bu3ino33 Uni versity, and write them for further particulars. In addition to other ai vantages, their teacher of penmanship is said to be one of the fifty best pen men of the world. si Did you ever notice that these gold bug organs that talk of prosperity al ways tell what times they are having in Washington or Illinois, and never attempt to explain why we are having "hard times" down South! ; It looks rather strange to seethe ads. of a company recognizad almoss every where as a fraud, now running in two of the S;ato's leading religious week lies. And still they boa3t of their free dom from humbug advertisements. J At the jint debate between Wake Forest and Trinity Colleges inRUegia, on Tnanksgiving Day, Wake Forest won. It is to ba hoped that such de bates will occur regularly hereafter, as it is a much more profitable exer cise than is football. When writing us, please don't forget to give us the names and addrefses of your neighbors who might bo induced to take The Progressive Farmer Five now subscribers at (1 each or fifty cents and three dollars from new sub eerier will secure a year's subsorip won tor you. ZJORB FRAUD DISCOVERED. The ninety nine year lease provides that there shall 4a drpsitcd by the Southern Railway Company, good collateral of the market value, at all times, of one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars, to secure the lease money to the North Carolina Railroad. Instead of depositing collateral, at all times convertible, into money, the Southern Railroad has deposited a cer tain number of their own bonds that is, tceir own promises to pay. In their re organix ktion of the-Richmond and Danville ttiey have iaaued one hundred and Twenty million of wha they cU "first consolidated mortgaged regis tered gold bonds " Tnis issue of bonds, they have listed on tne stock exchange in New York and they pretend to give them a marfcet value. It is very ques tionable whether they have uny genu ine market value. Every body knows that it is a trick of the money sharks to ifjfiua narjer called bond and put it on the stock exchange for sale and then S8nd out tbeir own brokers to buy it and sell it and operate in it, thus buying from themselves and sell ling to themselves, all for the purpose of mak ins it aDDear that there are bona fide transactions whereas in truth nobody is buy ins or selling, but the whole thing is a dodge for the purpose Of keeping up an apparent market value. Now it turns out that the North Carolina Rtilroad has got no security for its lease money except some of these 'first consolidated mortgaged registered gold bonds." We are in formed that the Southern claims to have put up thirty of these bonds of the oar value of ten thousand dollars each. We are also informed upon what eeems to be reliable authority, that in truth, they have only put up twenty two of these bonds. If this be so, then the North Carolina R iilroad and the Ssate have got no security for the lease money except twenty two Southern Bail way bonds of the par value of two hundred and twenty thou sand dollars. It seems that these bonds have been quoted on the stock exchange ai lc down as seventy six. It ia claimed that they are now quoted at eight j two. It is believed by many good flnan ciers that these bonds have no actual bona fiide market value It is believed that they are simply floated by Mor gan and Company in the hope of un loading them upon investors It is be lie ved that they are really and actually worth little or nothing: The chances are that if this two hundred and twen ty thousand par of stuff which they parade as their great grand "first con solid ated mortgaged registered gold bonds" were advertised for sale by the Njrth Carolina R iilroad Company, tciey would not bring thirty cents on trie dollar, unless Morgan and Com pany should step ia and take uhem up m order to save their own credit. And this ia the trash that the Ettas Carr Directors accepted es collateral to secure one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars to the State and to the North Carolina Railroad. Look a c it I Tne Southern Railroad Company promises to pay about two hundred thousand dollars a year for the North Carolina R iilrcai and to se cure its own promise, gives us col lateral another lot of its own promises A man gives bis note for a thousand dollars then to secure it, he gives an other one of his ovn notes executed by himself, for twelve hundred dollars. Tnat is, if I do not pay my note, o&r. Creditor, then you sell the collateral. That is, I pay my note by giving you another note. Tnat beats Macaw ber. The collateral scheme never struck him. The Governor ought to request his Directors to call upon the Southern Ral way to put cash registered Uni ted States bonds or North Carolina Ssate bonds and to do it quick. This concern should ba made to understand that they are now dealing with men who proposa to look out for tho S.ate and its interests. As a Nimrod we are not a success. and the only kind of bird we positively crave "to bring down" is a dead one, with wings extended on the top of s jme woman s m-incn nat, and tnu3 continually keeping the preacher or speaker from view, when we are in an auaience. "Johnny, get your gun" is ths only tune thac inspires us then. ACT WORTHY OF EMULATION. We saw last Saturday a letter which read as folio "RtD JEWAY, N. C, Nov. 24 '97 "T B Parker, S. B. A., Hdlsboro, N. C: "Dear Sir and Bro : Please find enclosed my caeos for $25 on acoount of shoes to be furnished so soon as the shoe factory is well started." Fraternally yours, John Graham " Now we know Bro Gmham is a modf st man, but he will pardon us for Baying just this: Brother Graham has j ; t m I recently suffered a heavy loss by fire. Besides this we know he has given much time, labor and. money m the service of the of the Allianc for which he has made no charge O, for more John Grahams 1 He is a man worthy of emulation If we have more such willing sacrifices, now is a good time for them to come to the front. Where are some of those who are indebted to the Alliance for the high salary and official honor they are now enj iying? Is it not a good time for them to re port? Let ua hear froai you, brethren We exp: cs it; we have a right to Do not disappoint us Don't wait to bd called out by nam. e srf Great interest m tne culture of sugar beets has now been aroused. Tne fver has struck North Carolina and a five bnndred acre crop will be grown on the penitentiary lands on Rmnoke river. This is merely an experiment but it is to be hoped that it will prove successful as our farmer have stuck to tbe one crop system about long enough. COLLATERAL AS IS RRAL. COLLAT- Farmer, (stepping into the bank).- "Mr. Banker, I am in a strait to day. Can't you help me out!" Banker. Yas, Mr. Farmer, that's my business. Glad to see you. What can I do for you?" Farmer Well, Mr. lianker. i owe $1,0C0, and the time is fast approach ing when it must be paid, and I have been unable to see my way clear io meet the obligation until now. You, of course, will lend me the money." B inker. "Yes. We have money to lend, and will be glad to accommodate you. What collateral have you to put up?" Farmer. "Well Mr. Banker I will give you my note for the $1,000 and will deposit in the bank another note, as security, for $1;200." Banker. " Wno signs the $1,200 note, Mr Former!" Farmer. "I do." Banker, (with a sneer of contempt, shakes his head) "That will not do, Mr Farmer." Farmer. "I see others can get acoom modations on that kind of collateral." Banker (rising exceitedly) "Wno?" Farmer. "Is not that identically the collateral put up by the Southern Rail way uompany to secure tne payment of the 99 y ear lease of the North Caro Una Railroad, and is it not good? ' Ban seer. "You'go to see Elias Carr and his Board of Directors " Farmer walka out, scratches his head "Well, well, wonder why farm ers aint good a" other folks." As will be seen from the Department of Agricultures crop report for N jvem oer the average yield of cotton in this State is 19 pounds more per acre than caan tne average yield per acre m Texas. While the one crop North Carolina cotton farmers are so dea pondent, it may ba encouraging to them to know that they have Texas for company. SOMtt RdMnRKS. In tho News and Observer of last Wednesday, there appeared, a com mubication entitled "Better Than Ora tory " We don't care to write for said correspondent's especial benefit, but as there are men not a thousand miles from Raleigh who write jut such silly nonsense as that correspondent, we wish to relieve our - minds of a few burdensome thoughts. In the first place, we will state for Mr. Mcintosh's especial benefit that the editors of The Progressive Far mer are neither white nor blacfi. Tne editor in chief ia red, and the associate editor is purple in cold weather and speckled in hot. So much for color. If tho Ooaerver correspondent is as devoid of color as bis letter is of truth tnen he is almost invisible, though if we were to judge by his letter we'd say he was "green." Again tho News and Observer's cor respondent complains because we do not publish tbe sickening details of every revolting crime committed in this State To this charge, we plead guilty. The Progressive Farmer has a circle of readers too refined to gloat over such scenes. Asd, we are glad to say, they are too 4 'intelligent" to be lieve that dastardly wretches commit certain crimes because any particular party is in power. Yet there are men in this State, "men with intelligence enouxh to be editors," to use his own phrase m-n prominent in the party which he says contains "the best meet respectable atd most intelligent pec pie" wbo for political effect slander the State and hon sc vet by making such silly and truthlest? caarges. We are not writing ths for the bene fit of any one man. Tne sentence Neither do they (she editors of this paper) say much about free passes," proves that the correspondent in qaes tion knew little of what he was writ ing and will wager a cracked New Year's resolution against a jag of but termilk that he hadn't seeu a copy of thi paper in twelve months. Nevertheless, our observations may make good reading for others of this new sect of Pharisees. , AS TO THE FAIR.' I Soon after the State Fair was held the Richmond Times' Kaieign corre spondent wrote that paper as follows: "The fact that Vanderoilt took sev enty premiums and the $100 special prize at the Fair last week gives ois tinction, The argument is that the farmer who has a little spare cash puts forth every eflforc to make a creditable exhibit, hoping to be at least repaid by the premium money, and he has to compete for these premiums with a man who has unlimited cash to make his exhibit a perfects one. The BjMtf more exoibit could get all the diplomas and honorable mention, bu they think the cash prizes should go to the farm ers " (tialica ourt-) These were our sentiments, and we promptly said so. Two great farms secured seventy or m re premiums ach at the last State Fair, and in last Tuesday's Njws and Observer the Sec rotary confesses that there were only about $600 in prizes awarded to farm era using U es than five horses. Now tome seem to think that we object to these "great farmers" making ex a i bits Tnis is not the cae. The Fair should show the beat of the State's products, nd without the exhibits of "Farmer Vanderbilt" and the best products of the far famed Occonneechee Farm, it could not do so. In fact, the State would not ba fairly represented. Bat it appears to us that, for the good of the Fair, if nothing else, the "small farmers" should have the first consideration. In his letter to the News and Obser ver last Tuerday, the Secretary seems to think that the farmers using leas than six horses did well to secure $600 in premiums. L3t us see. The Pre mium List of the State Fair shows that the premiums on farm and garden croos amounted to $560; on horses, $378; on cattle, $667; on sheep, $300; on a wine, $275; on pounry about $350, and on horticultural products abuut $130 ( ve don't guarantee these figures to be perfectly accurate). If the "email farmers" cut such a Dig figure it is rather strange they didn't get more premiums. But, say the managers, the premiums were not competed for, or owing to the small attendance at the Fair, couldn't be paid. Very well, that simply shows thai the small farm ers are not patronising it, and the only reason we can give i? that they are be ing choked out, or don't care to help out a fakir show. O; course when our editor read the 83cretary'a letter in the News and Oo server last Tuasiay, he crawled into a hole and tried to pull the hole in after him. The above were a f e w of the facts he learned while there There is just one other funny thing he' discovered while in the hole. H found a copy of tne Onarlotte O iserver of November 9:ht and he found taat its Raleigh correspondent had this to say : "In reply to criticisms for the giving of the $100 special pnzS to George Van derbilt, a great farmer, and the alleged discrimination against the small farm ers, tha officers of the Siate Fair say that if they depended upon the small farmers they would hardly get a wagon load of exhibits at the Fair; that they offered the big prizo to induce large farmers to compete, such as Vander bilt, Carr, Wolf and Bagwell. They say further that every small farmer who made exhibits in Department A took a premium." "If they depended upon the small farmers they would hardly get a wagon load of exhibits at the Fair." That's good, but it appears to the best advan tage only when placed by the side of Secretary Nichols' statement that the "small farmers" won $600 in premiums If a wagon load of exnibits gets t600 in priumum well, to use the Secretary's own wore s 'In the language of Shake speare, Lord, Lord!'" This tells how we stand, and we have now given about as much space to this question as it deserves Oar columns, however are open to all for discussion of it. We have objected more to the immorality of the Fair in general than to the di crimination against small farmers. Tne State should have a Fair, but we objt toils paying $1,500 to help out a fakir show. That's ail. QUILL DRIVERS What They are Say ins and 1 Duig. A country editor, writing of- the financial situation, says: "Money is close, but not close enough to reach," The North Carolina Odd Fellow ia a new Raleigh journal, and is the organ of the I. O. .O F. in North Carolina. Mr. I. R. Barnes is editor. Success to it. The editor of one of our exchanges was asked: "What ails my hens? Every morning I find one or more of them keeled over to rise no more." Tne editor replied: "The fowls are dead. It is an old complaint, and nothing can be done except to bury them." The editor of the Boone Democrat claims to be the champion consumer of "buckwheat cakes and 'lasses." Sev eral of the younger editors seem to like the last mentioned article without the apostrophe before it. The wicked editors are not all dead. There's the editor of the Greenville, Tenn., News, for instance. He says he has respect for religion, loves sacred songs, and likes to know that a Chris tian or joys his professions, but when he attends church and hears a delin quent subscriber of several months standing who is able to pay, joining in the chorus, "Jesus Paid It All," he feels like going over with a cane and giving him a receipt in full, A paper down in South Goorgia re cntly remarked that although the late General Avery was an editor, yetjhe was a real gentleman. The Montgom ery Advertiser tells a story of the same nature. An editor went in a barber's shop to be shaved. This done, he in quired the charges. "We don't never charge editors nothin', sah," replied the barber." "But you can't carry on your buiiness unless you charge for it," persisted the editor. "Dat's all right, sah," replied the darkey, "we rrakes it up cfTn gentlemen." A preacher down in Georgia has no great faith in the honesty of editors as a class. That he is, however, too sharp for thieves, is proven by ah anecdote of him related in the Atlanta Consti tution. Finding the weather too warm, he pulled off his coat and preached in his shirt sleeves. The sermon finished, a good brother, thinking an editor who was present would make a sensation of the incident, said to the parson : "I don't suppose you know, when you pulled eff your coat to day, that one Of tnem newspaper fellers was in meet in'? ' Yes, I did," replied the preacher, ' but I had my eye on it all the tim 1 ' There was once a member of the In diana legislature who had an experi ence with an editor that he didn't for get soon, if the Washington Star's re port of the occurrence, is correct. The M. L. drew his chair up close to the editor's desk on the morning in ques tion. "Could you," said he, "put in the paper that I am at the Gait House ith my bride, and -just fl ng in some thing about my being a prominent In dianiaa? I don't care anything about this sort of a thing myself, but you know how the women are. I want fifty copies of the paper ent to this address " He laid down $2.50 in cold cash, grinned, got red in the face, and with a "Good morning," vanished. Next morning ihe paper contained this notice: "Mr. John H. HucklebercpLre quosts us to say that he is at the Gait House with his bride; that he is a prominent member of the legislature of Indiada; and that he himself, per sonally, cares nothing about newspaper notoriety, but that a society note would be highly gratifying to Mrs. Huckle berry. He added that he wanted fif &y copies of the paper for distribution to his constituents " v We notice in the dailies of S mday. 28 :h inst, a report of a terrible aff ir nar Wi mington. A negro, accus d of murdering a white man on Thanks giving Day, was taken from the sheriff and chained bet ween two pine trees in toe forest. Lightwood was then piled around him and he was burned to death. At this writing (Monday 29 ;h) the report has not been contradicted. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? There are at least 10,000 homes in North Carolina, to which The Pro gressive Farmer does not go, but to which it should go each' week to add cheer and brightness. Believing that when once an intelligent North Caro linian realizes its value he will not willingly part withr it, and therefore wishing .to begin the year 1893 with 10 000 new subscribers, we have decided to make an offer as liberal as it is rare. It is this: To anyone who will send us $5 in new subscriptions to i he Progressive A'ar mem we will give a year's subscription Ay one who will send $3 in new sub scriptions we will credit with a six month s subscription. Tnis eff ;r needs no comment. It is made solely in the hope of winning the influence of these not now sub scribers and those making the paper a more powerful agent for good. H-re is a way to help yourself and at the same time, make your neighbors hap py by putting the "Cheapest and Beet" North Carolina paper, into their homes. "Strike while the iron is hoi." Remember that our "until Jan 1.1899, for $1" c ff r is now in force and tbope who suo0cribe this week get it IS months for $1. Write us for samples and suscription blanks to day. Mr. I. P. Upcnurcn, of Wake county called in to renew his subscription a few days ago and left at this c ffi ;e an ear of corn which ia quite a curiosity We said an ear of corn, but rather there is a group of ears one ear of moderate siz i and around it six smaller ears, all sven ears being on one cob The largest ear is the centre of the cir cle, the grouping resembling that seen in flowers tne six small ears repre senting the petals. A VALUABLE FIND. A wonderful discovery has recent! been made in Egypt, near the 1 Nile, and two young Englishmen ?' the discoverers .Toe diC)V and the discoveries are enterum,6'6? talked of in a recent issue of tnp v . . ' Companion. It says: U The buried and long forgntr n cit Oxyrhynchus, in the Valley c f tne N,i has yielded up one of the most pri ' bits of ancient manuscript ev r d ered. It is but a single kaf fr' book, the rest of which ia prorata t ever lost. It is barely larr t lanr' postal card, and is mutilated andV cayed with age; and much of the writ iflg originally upon it cannot be 1 ciphered. Yet this fragment of p iPyr is the oldest known record of the 1 and sayings of J esus Christ. Ic l8 1 tainly quite a century more ancient than any exiting copy of any book of the New Testament. Tbe writiE which is in Greek, contaiLs eight eav ings, called Logia, attributed t ... J" We are told that tbe ApoPtie Mauhe compiled these logia in Hebrew, if supposed that we now have a park of the Greek version of them, transcribed sometime about the year 200 of the present era. Such a compilation, ths leading critics have long m intainei underlies our present Gospel of Saint Matthew. A translation of the sayinw has been published. For the moet part they bear a close resemblance to pas sages in tha Gospels as we know them. In one of the logia there is a stronger injunction to observe the Sariba h ihan is contained in any part of tho n9w Testament; and one paas&gp '-R, the stone and there thou shnit find me cleave the wood and I am th re' may give rise to theological controv. r-y," LETTER FROM BHO GRAHAM. Correspondence of the Projcresslve Farmer. RlDGEWAY . (i, N v. 24 1897. Alliancemen of North Carolina Dear Brethren : Yuur Ex.cmive Committee has, to the beas of irs abili ty, carried out the instruction of the late State Alliance. Your factory ii about to start, and funds are n cessary for iis successful operation. Y u nave been patient, and many of yon have been very libera, but now is the time that the earnest aid of every true alii anceman is needed. Let every Coun ty and Subordinate Alliance tend to our Business Agent all the money that can be raised to push our factory now. Send your orders for shoes wim. yoat money, and Bro. Parker will fl 1 thsra as soon as possible. God heipj those who help themselves. Y m must have faith in the integri ty of your officers. They are worthy of it. Yjur manager, Mr W O Rjb erts is an experienced manuf o ur r of shoes. He intends to f urnisn y .,u good shoes, made of good miterni We cannot compete in the mmu- iotur8of cheap shoddy shoes, nor do w intend to make the effort, believing to it you want a good, honest suostanu il enoe. Let erery brother who is able send an order, accompanied by the ch, for as many pairs of shoes as he can dis pose of to his family, fneud. or ten ants. Let the money roll in, asd Bros . Parker and Roberts a ill roil out the shoes. Your reserve fut.d will be kept intact. Fraternally yours, John Graham. HOW TO MAKE A FORTUNE. The following are extracts from a letter written by Henry Ward Btccher to bis son : 4 You must not go into debt. Avoid debt as you would the devil. Mike it a fundamental rule: No debt caeh or nothing." "Make few promises. R ligiously ob serve the smallest. A man who meaEB to keep his promises can't tffjrd to make many." "Ba scrupulously careful in all etatfl ments. Accuracy and perfec; frank ness, no guess work. Either nothiDg ot accurate truth." ' Make yourself necessary to thess who employ you by industry, fidelity and scrupulous integrity. StiLe 13 fatal." "Hold yourself responsible tot a higher standard than anybody els3e pects of you. Demand more of J lf than anybody expscca of Y00 Keep your own standard high. Nrer excuse yourself to yoursef Neyer picy yourself. Be a hard masterf3 yourself, but lenient to everybody else " "Concentrate your force on jc& own busness; do not turn eff e 000 stant, steadfast, persevering. "Do not speculate or gamble. ww patient industry is both the eures; a the safest way. Greediness and hB are two devils that destroy thousand every year." "The art of making one's fortune to spend nothing. In this country w intelligent young man may rich if he stops all leaks and is not a hurrv. Do not make baste; m - patient,"
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