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Editorial.
ALLIANCE MATTERS.
Visiting Hillsboro last week, we
found Secretary Parker quite optim
istic as to the future of the Alliance.
The Order is steadily gaining ground
in spite of political excitement, and
unless all signs fail, with good man
agement and brotherly feeling on
the part of the present members
viin things essential, unity; in all
things, charity" thorough re-organization
after the August election
will be easy.
From Columbus, Wayne, Guilford,
Brunswick and nearly all other
counties comes news of steadily in
creasing numbers and renewed en
thusiasm. A new Sub. has recently
been organized in Alexander and a
general revival in the Piedmont and
mountain counties is expected.
Bro. Parker has nearly 62, 000
worth of Alliance shoes on hand and
wishes it known that he is still
ready to till orders. The shoes have
given almost universal satisfaction.
The State Alliance adjourned last
year to meet again August 14th, 1000.
This is only a few days after the
August election and most Alliance
men with whom we have talked be
lieve that it would be better to post
pone the State meeting for two or
three weeks. Political feeling will
then have subsided and the brethren
will have had time to consider plans
arfd measures for the promotion of
the Alliance cause. Going only a
few days after the culmination of a
heated campaign, it is feared that
the delegates would not be prepared
by previous study, planning, and
consultation with brother Alliance
men, for the really great work be
fore them. If a majority of the
counties at their July meetings in
struct their delegates not to go to
Hillsboro August 14th, ask the Presi
dent to call a meeting within a stated
period after that time, the delegates
to attend the called meeting, the
Shite Alliance meeting can be post
poned ; otherwise, it cannot be done.
Several counties have already de
clared in favor of the change and so
tar only one has opposed it.
President Cluirles D. Mclver, of
the State Normal and Industrial
College, who has been often men
tioned as the man best lifted to suc
ceed Dr. Alderman as President of ; neighbors turn ashy pale and gives
the State University, announces pos- to the landscape the hues which it
itivcly that he is not a candidate for ' takes in a stereoscopic picture. The
the position and could not accept if moment the last ray of light disap
elected. In this we believe Dr. Me- pears there bursts upon the specta
Iver has acted wisely. v While he tor a vision so marvelously beauti
would be a worthy successor to Dr. ! ful, so startling by its novelty, that
Alderman, he has had long exix'ri- his self-possession and self-control
rncc in the education of young wo- desert him."
1. . 1 j.i . . - ' - r
men, iia.s gicn this subject careful ,
ivcu mi.-, .suoject careiui ,
enthusiastic study, and is exception- '
ully well qualified for the position he
posit
now fills. We are glad that he will
""remain wU-the Normal.
THE ECLIPSE.
The total eclipse of the sun, booked
for the 2Sth of this month, is a mat
ter of interest to the whole world
and ought to be of special interest to
North Carolinians in view of the
fact that Old Sol has specially
favored our State in his little per
formance. As a fully total eclipse
this will bo seen only along a path
fifty miles wide, which crosses
Mexico, darts across the Gulf and
runs straight from New Orleans to
Norfolk, crosses the Atlantic and
ends in northern Africa. The path
in America includes Mobile and
Montgomery, Ala., Macon and Mil
ledge ville, Ga., several South Caro
lina towns, and in our own State,
Wadesboro, Fayetteville, Raleigh,
Smithfield, Nashville, Louisbur
Eden ton, and intervening country.
To the unaided eye the eclipse will
appear total throughout the State.
At Raleigh the eclipse begins at 7 :37
a. m., becomes total at 8 : 40 and ends
at 10 : 10 a. m. Some of the world's
most noted astronomers will observe
the eclipse at Wadesboro. Not within
more than a century, perhaps several
certuries, have conditions been so
favorable for observing a total
eclipse of the sun in this State.
An eclipse is caused, it is unneces
sary to shite, by the dark body of
the moon passing between the earth
and the sun and thus obstructing the
sun's light and throwing a shadow
upon our planet. A solar eclipse
v,v"" j
moon is now, just as an OClipSO of the
- , , .,
moon nappens oniy wnen mu mouu
is full.
The sun can never remain totally
eclipsed to any part of the world
longer than seven minutes and 58
seconds. In the eclipse of this year,
the duration of totality is very
short, being little more than a min
ute near New Orleans, and less than
a minute and a half in North Caro
lina. Americans have been quite fortun
ate in the matter of total eclipses of
the sun, this month's being, we be
lieve, the third or fourth of the
century. On the other hand, only
one total solar eclipse has been visi
ble in London, England, for more
than seven hundred years and the
next one does not become due for
six hundred years.
Nothing so excited and terrified
our ancestors of a few centuries ago
as these eclipses. Nor is it sur
prising that thoy were so affected.
Of all the phenomena of nature,
nothing is said to be more awe-inspiring.
The famous Professor Grant
says :
"On no other occasion does the
display of stupendous power in the
economy of the physical universe
exercise so subduing an influence
over the mind, or produce so humili
ating a conviction of the impotence
of all human efforts to control the
immutable laws of Nature and arrest
the course of events, as when the '
glorious orb of day, while ri ling in j
the heavens with unclouded splen-;
dor, begins to melt away from an '
unseen cause, and soon totally dis-
appears, leaving the whole; visible j
world wrapped in the sable gloom of j
nocturnal darknoss. The scene is j
rendered still more impressive by the J
circumstances accompanying so re- j
markable an occurrence. The !
heavens assume an unnatural aspect,
which excites a feeling of horror in j
the spectator ; a livid hue is diffused j
over all terrestrial objects ; plants
close up their leaves as on the ap
proach of night ; the fowls betake
themselves to their resting-places ;
the warbling of the grove is hushed
in profound silence ; in other words,
universal Nature seems to relax her
energies, as if the pulse which stimu
lated her mighty movements had all
at once stood still."
A gentleman who observed the
eclipse of August 7, 186D, says of it :
"No one who has not seen a total
eclipse of the sun can fully appre
ciate the grandeur of the occasion.
As the light, ray by ray, is cut off, a
strange and ghastly darkness comes
down upon us ; not like the darkness
of night, but a violet colored dark
ness which makes the faces of our
icantimo. we hooet for fair
ix-aimine, we hope i
wcuther and an unclouded si
day of tho 0(;lile.
iky on the
The President, cannot attend
Charlotte celebration this week.
the
The Progressive Farmer, May 22, 1900.
WHAT CONGRESS IS DOING.
According to the Washington Post,
the House leaders say they will be
ready for the sine die adjournment
June 1, but allowing for delays and
accidents incident to the closing up
of the session, they are not inclined
to think both Houses will be ready
to quit before June 10th.
Among-the items in the general
deficiency bill taken up in the House
last week was one of $20,000 for ex
penses incurred by Richmond Pear
son in his contest.
The Senate, after a protracted dis
cussion, has passed the Naval Appro
priation bill. By this measure, as
finally agreed to the Secretary , of the
Navy is authorized to procure armor
of the best quality at $445 per ton ;
but if he is unable to obtain it at that
price, he is then authorized to pay
$545 per ton for the armor for the
battleships Maine, Ohio and Missouri,
and proceed to erect a government
armor factory at cost not to exceed
$4,000,000 one half of which amount
is made immediately available.
Congress had another sensation
last week. W. A. Clark, the mil
lionaire Senator from Montana, fur
nished this one. It will be remem
bered that every member of the com
mittee appointed to consider his
case became convinced that his elec
tion was accomplished by the whole
sale use of bribes and that common
honesty aud decency demanded his
expulsion from the Senate. Finding
that he was to be kicked out, Clark,
on last Tuesday, rose to a question of
personal privilege, announced that
he had telegraphed his resignation
to the Governor of Montana, and
bade farewell to his colleagues.
Right here it may be stated that
tho Governor of Montana, Mr. Smith,
is an avowed enemy of Clark, while
the millionaire Senator has no firmer
friend than the Lieutenant-Governor
of the State, Mr. Spriggs. Well,
Clark telegraphed his resignation to
tho Governor of Montana, but it so
happened (?) that Governor Smith
was absent on a business trip to
another State, leaving Spiggs acting
Governor. Whereupon Spriggs ac
cepted the resignation of Clark, and
within a few hours appointed the
self-same W. A. Clark to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation.
This, it appeared, would make Clark
safe, for while it could be shown
that he was elected by fraud, the
Governor had a perfect right to ap
point him to fill the vacancy.
But the end is not yet. The Semite
is naturally. annoyed at Clark's little
scheme to avoid expulsion. And on
Friday, 18th, the committee resolved
to press to a vote the original resolu
tion declaring that his election kiis
null and void on account of briberies,
attempted briberies and corrupt prac
tices by his -agon Is and of violations
of the laws of Montana (leaning and
punishing crimes against the elec
titive franchise."
The passage of this resolution
could not, of course, affect Clark's
title by appointment, but it would
give him a hint as to the feeling of
the Senate and the country as to his
election and the methods adopted to
accomplish it.
And the situation is still further
complicated. Gov. Smith returned
to Montana Friday, revoked acting
Governor Spriggs' appointment of
Clark, and appointed Martin Magin
nis to fill the vacancy caused by
Clark's resignation. As reasons for
this action Smith asserts that Clark's
re-appointment was secured "under
circumstances and conditions which
indicate collusion and fraud."
He asserts, we believe, that a Clark
agent induced him to leave the State
Thus the matter stands as this is writ
ten. The case is undo abtedly without
a parallel in. American history.
In the matter of anti-trust legisla
tion, Congress proposes a Constitu
tional amendment that is worse than
nothing, a cowardly makeshift. The
amendment would give Congress
power to dissolve a North Carolina
corporation, were if not objection
able to the people of this State. It
is not at all probable that such an
amendment could be adopted. Con
gress pretends to favor anti-trust
legislation, yet continues to protect
the worst trusts in the land by high
tariffs on products controlled by mo
nopolies. If our law-makers would
prove their faith by their works, let
them no longer protect from outside
competition these gigantic robbers
of the peoiJle.
-
The General M. E. Conference will
vote this week on the resolution
censuring President McKinley for
alleged shortcomings in temperance
mutters. Great interest is manifested.
STOPPING A PAPER.
Editor Johnson of Charity and
Children recently scored that class
of people who discontinue their sub
scription by "a cutting message on a
postal card, 'Stop my paper,' or the
abrupt information sent by a post
master, "refused,' without a word of
explanation." Continuing, he said:
"If the Editor has offended you, or
if you do not wish to continue taking
his paper, sit down and wTrite the
man a decent letter (not a postal
card) and tell him all about it. That
is the polite thing to do, and while it
will cost you two cents it will be
money well invested. Besides it will
give the editor a chance to defend
himself against possible injustice
and may open your eyes to some
facts you did not know before. It al
ways pays to do the fair thing.
Spend two cents and quit like a man.
You will feel better for it and save
the feelings of another."
While we have very little cause
for complaint along this line, as the
circulation of The Progressive Far
mer is steadily increasing and few of
the old guard dropping off we never
theless feel like endorsing the state
ments quoted from Bro. Johnson.
Only last week a gentleman called at
the office to stop his paper because
of a misunderstanding of our position
on a certain matter. A moment's
explanation put him straight. Had
he adopted the mode criticised by
Bro. Johnson ho would still have a
mistaken idea of our course.
CONTROL OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF
LIVE STOCK.
There has just been issued from
' the Biological Division of the State
! Dejjartment of Agriculture a neat
pamphlet under tho above title.
I Readers of The Progressive Farmer
' whose names are not on the depart-
! ment mailing list will do themselves
; a benefit by sending for this pam-
i phlct and registering their names
' for other publications of this depart-
ment of the State government.
! You will find this one full of mat-
i ter pithy and pointed injts line and
I this for your benefit. The State De-
i partment of Agriculture is taking an
advanced stand all along the line of
agricultural improvement and in the
! division which issues the pamphlet
I -i . ii
now under review is seconu to no
similar division in any State. You
will note that not only is it in close
touch with the U. S. Bureau of Ani
mal Industry, but that that Bureau
is being asked to define its position
and to take position on movement of
stock in relation to diseases which
may be regulated, but which without
such regulation might result in in
jury to North Carolina breeders.
The present Board of Agriculture
is a progressive set of men and have
installed active efficient officers in
this department. The conse'quence
is a real awakening along new lines
and the effusion of more life into the
department, perhaps, than ever be
fore certainly more than since the
days of Col. Polk, when this was a
new untried part of the State gov
ernment. The stock law and quarantine map
is well worth a postal card to secure
the bulletin. It is included in the
bulletin. This shows all free range
and stock law territory as defined by
present State laws. The U.S. Quar
antine line is also shown . This line
marks the boundary by which the
value of all cattle on the South and
East are condemned to pass to the
shambles for immediate slaughter if
shipped to any Northern point. This
is an effectual barrier against the free
shipment of even the very best of
breeding stock. The bulletin says :
The Federal quarantine of the cattle
traffic of 81 counties of " this State,
while the traffic of 16 others is not
intered with, leads to a consideration
of the means by which they too may
obtain free traffic. The conditions
of the stock law area are such that
on the part of cattle owners but lit
tle EFFORT IS NECESSARY TO FREE ITS
ENTIRE TRAFFIC.
If this last statement is true and
we know it to be true then the cat
tle owners of all the stock law region
have the power to remove the dis
crimination of the U. S. quarantine
law against the movement and there
fore the value of their cattle by a
"little effort." That this effort will
be accompanied by saving much
value in cattle now sometimes lost
by disease and raising the value of
stock in the territory thus freed
irom restraint is without question
and will be so recognized as fast as
these cattle owners begin to investi
gate it for themselves. Crush out
disease, gentlemen, and take your
legitimate places in the live stock
traffic of the nation. F. E. E.
HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE.
No one has more severely con
demned the present election law
than The Progressive Farmer. We
believe, however, that it should
have credit for each and every fair
provision it contains. It is being
charged that it gives to the Demo
crats all the judges of the election.
The charge is untrue. The law says
that the county board of elections
shall appoint twp persons "who shall
act as judges of the election at each
place of holding elections in their
respective districts, each of whom
shall be men of good character and
able to read and write, and they shall
be of different political parties."
RAPE IN NORTH CAROLINA.
In the article by Prof. Henry
printed last week he says : "So far
as known to the writer the only in
sect pest attacking rape is a plant
louse which severely injures it in hot
weather."
There is another insect, also a bug,
which does great harm to rape in
North Carolina. This is the terrapin
bug, or calico bug, (murgantia his
trionica) .
Rape should be sown very early
for spring use or in later mid-summer
for fall grazing for two reasons.
First, that it does better at those
times and corn, cow pea, or sorghum
does much better in the early sum
mer ; while, second, the bug enemy
will thus be avoided except during
seasons which there is much dry hot
weather in the fall. F. E. E.
COMPOSITION OF OLEOMARGARINE AND
NOTES.
From report of Internal Revenue
Bureau to Congress, May 14th, 1900:
Natural Lard 34.27
Oleo Oil 26.82
Cottonseed Oil 4.77
Sesame 53
Coloring Matter 16
Sugar 12
Glycerine 01
Stearine 07
Milk 1.5.-35
Salt 7.42
Butter Oil 4.76
Butter 1.72
Cream 3.86
100.06
The above was taken from Raleigh
Morning Post May 15th, 1900. This
shows manufacturer's formula as
we understand it for the year ending
June 1899. What factorv, or com
bination of factories used this for
mula is not stated. Some of the
figures are not exact, since it should
foot down to 100. There is less stear
ine than we had been led to suppose.
If this is the general formula for
oleomargarine to date the water in
it could come from the milk used in
the manufacture. There would be
some water from the cream. But
the finished product contains much
less salt than given in the formula,
so the per centage of each other in
gredient would be somewhat higher
than given in the above formula.
But New York chemists have
"found from 9 to 11 per cent, of
paraffine in several lots they ana
lyzed." "Paraffine is an absolutely
indigestible petroleum product."
"The editor of the Chicago Dairy
produce has ascertained that a large
quantity of stearine is used in the
cheaper goods where a great deal of
cotton seed oil is used in order to
give the mixture the body that is
necessary." Thus it would seem
that even the revenue officials have
been duped as to the composition of
this .stuff and that there is no end to
the cheap stuff that is used when
it can be found cheaper than some
thing else and that consistency can
be reduced or increased at will of
operator by using "any old thing" at
hand without regard to statements
filed in Washington or to consumers'
stomachs. The more this fraud is
aired the more reasons come to light
why this nefarious trade should be
taxed into "innocuous desuetude."
TUBERCLE BACILLI FOUND IN OLEOMAR
GARINE. Hoard's Dairyman for May 4th
quotes the London Lancet as authori
ty for the statement that Margenroth
of the Hygienic Institute of Berlin
has found virulent tubercle bacilli in
9 samples out of twenty examined.
This is 45. Our con tempo remarks :
"We readily see the necessity for
rigid legislation to restrain this great
fraud of the present century."
GROUT BILL.
Representative Wadsworth, Chair
man of the House Committee on Ag
riculture, has given his word that
this bill will be brought up May 23rd.
The friends of this measure pure
food and dairymen, with all food
consumers are confident it will pass
safely. This means much for dairy
men and pure food. , F. E. E,
A SQUARE STAND FOR tut..
When there was a lull in the i
ings on the Grout bill caused w "
delaying tactics of the sulK.0Tl J
tee, we
several
gloomy letters from disc
North Carolina dairymen.
these wTe forwarded to Hon. Tlie0 v
Klutz, at Washington. D. c.( -y.'
not only a member of Con-re t
also a loyal member of the X
State Dairymen's Association, as th(
following letters attest. We did (
know of Mr. Kluttz's sickness untj
it was announced in the papers that
he had returned to his seat in th
House. There he had only caught
up with his duties enough to
us tho day of the vote on the Tawney
resolution. We asked leave to prin't
this letter and are glad also to lave
the honor of presenting a fuller 0ne
on the same subject.
Readers will note, as stated else
where, that Representative Wads
worth, of New York, Chairman of
the Committee on Agriculture, ha-,
given his word that the Grout bill
will be brought up on Wednesday
May 23d, and we may be able to an
nounce the fate of the measure jn
next week's Progressive Farmer, and
also the vote of each North Carolina
member of both houses of Congress
on this measure, which is of so much
impor tance to people who ha vt t pur:
chase their food and to dairy? nen. WV
regret that so many North Carolina
representatives "went wron-v' on
the Tawney resolution, but trust
that all will support the Grout bill
F. E. E.
Washington, D. C, May s,
Dear Mr. Emery: I have boon
quite sick with "grippe" for ton days,
which explains delay in answering
yours of 2nd. I note Mr. Darin's let
ter and have had a numher of the
same tenor. I feel much interest in
the fight against the oleo fraud, and
hope we are going to down it. After
a determined fight today the Houso
passed the Tawney resolution by a
good majority, calling on the depart
ment for the statements of composi
tion of the stuff, filed by the makers.
They fought it vigorously. I fed
confident of the passage of the (rout
bill if we can get a square vote en it.
Sincerely yours,
Theo. F. Kluttz.
Washington, D. C, May 17, 19V.
FrankE. Emery; Esq., Raleigh, N. C;
Dear Sir: Your favor of 11th
inst. to hand. I wrote you hurriedly
and with no thought of print, but I
have no objection of being quoted on
the oleomargarine question.
I am in favor of pure foods, and
especially of genuine butter. The
vote on the Tauney resolution, Inch
I heartily supported, shows v.hat
the House would do if it could eta
chance to vote on the Grout bi"
That vote, on a privileged qucstk.-n.
was a triumph over the Ways and
Means Committee, and was really a
test vote on the question. I favored
it, because I thought the House i.ml
the public entitled to know the real
composition of the oleo stuff, nd
this knowledge, I believe will d
much to open the eyes of tho country
to the deleterious nature of this sub
stitute for butter.
The Grout bill does not propose to
interfere with the manufacture or
sale of oleomargarine as such, but it
does seek to restrict its manufacture
and sale to its own merits, and to
prevent its fraudulent sale as and
for genuine butter. The additional
tax of ten cents per pound is im
posed only when it is colored in no
tation of butter, and I can see no
honest objection to this, but instead,
a protection not only to the dairy in
terests, but to the butter-buying and
butter-eating public as well.
If the stuff is wholosomc, as the
manufacturers allege, let it he sold
in its natural state, on its merits,
and not as a colored counterfeit of
pure .butter. If not so colored and
l fMT is n-
ot
levied upon it. The revelations of
the iniquitous frauds in Pennsyl
vania show how necessary such legi'
lation is.
Very truly, yours,
Theo. F. Kllttz.
Pass the Grout bill and the con
sumers of millions of pounds of ok j
will buy butter instead, the prie 0
butter will be substantially increase
and new life will be put into W
dairy business. Watch how yur
Congressman votes on this measure
Republican State Chairman Holt'
rejects Mr. Simmons' offer of
discussion, charging that bad teUl1
of Democracy, red shirts, etc,
this course host for the il ea-
State. I
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