North Carolina Newspapers

Tho Progressive Farmer, ITovcmber 20; 1900. Published Weekly at Raleigh, N. C. 5IR5. L. L. Polk, - - Proprietor 'Clarence H. Poe, - '- Editor. Benjamin Irby,) Corresponding Frank E.Emkry, S Editors., . . J. W. Denmark, , Business Manager. ; SUBSCRIPTION Single Subscription One Year. . .$1.00 :.. 44 Six Months'. . ; .50 44 Tliree Months, .25 44 'The Industrial and Education al Interests of our People Para- ttOCXT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS of State Policy,' is the motto of The Proirressivo Farmer, and upon this platform it shall rise or full. Serving no master, ruled by no faction, cir .mnseribHl bv no selfish or narrow policy, its aim will be to foster and Promote the best interests of the 'vhole people of the State. It will be true to 'the instincts, traditions and history of the Anglo-Saxon race. On -All matters relating specially to the reat interests it represents, it will -peak with no uncertain voice, but snll fearlessly the right defend and imnartiallv the wrong condemn." from Cob Polk's Salutatory, Feb. 10. 18SG DISCONTINUANCES Responsible subscrib ers will continue to receive this journal until the publishers are notified by letter to discon tinue, when all arrearazes must be paid. If you 1 nr wish the journal continued for another fear after your subscription has expired, you should then notify us to discontinue it. Whi n M-ndinsr money please say w hether it -is for renewal or a new subscript lion. Thk Fko.;kf.nsive Farmer is the Official Orjr in of the Nonh Carolina Farmers' State .V Ilia nee. Address all business correspondence to and make monev orders payable to"THE 1kogkes 4i vt Farmer. Kai.f.igh, N.C.," and not to any n I i vidua I connected with the paper. W in vite correspondence, nows items, su sri'stin ;.ni c riticisms on the subject of aeri--u!ti;!v. poultry raising, stock breeding, dairy ing, ! h rt imiit life and lardintc; woman's work, lit? n.turo. or anv subject of interest to our lady rcad.-rv, vo'.invr people, or the family generally; put ii- matters, current events, political ques lionsand principles, etc, in short, any subject dis--u-t d in an all-round farm and family news paper. Communications should be free irom jersinahtifs and party abuse. When sending your renewal, be sure to give exactly the name on label and postotlice to -wlii-h the copy ot paper you receive Is sent. REN KWALS The date opposite your name ou your p p-r, or wrapper, shows to what time ?oiir 411 inscription is paid. Thus 1 Jan. 'UO, 4hows that pivment has been received up to Ian. I. lHS. 1 Jan. '01, .to Jan. 1, and so on. Tw. weeks are required after money is re ceived 1h Tore date which answers tor a receipt, jnn l-e chanced. If not properly changed within two wi.vks after money is sent notify us Editorial. TO SUB3CRIEESS AND NON-SUBSCRIBER There- was never a better time to subscribe for The Progressive Farmer than now. During the next few months the paper will contain, in addition to the regular agricultural, news, and literary features, a full nnd unbiased report of the work of Congress and the Legislature, espe cially the latter. We make no special offer. We believe The Pro gressive Farmer is worth $1 per j year. Subscribe now and if you j don't aiiree with us alter vou have! i read it a 7ear, you may have your money back. Taeie was never a better time to renew your subscription. Every de linquent is expected to pay up before January 1, lv01. Regarding each subscriber as a friend, we shall be us lenient and obliging as possible, but Ave shall le compelled to change our tactics in regard to those who neither make a payment nor do us the com mon courtesy of reporting an excuse before that time. "BUYING COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS. Did you know that North Caro lina farmers pay out $5,000,000 each year for fertilizers, 2,000,000 of which represent cost of manufacture and sale, and that $1,000,000 of the last named sum might be saved to them by intelligent home mixing and co-operation in buying? Better talk with your neighbors now and lay plans for home mixing next spring. It is not too early to do so. A POPULAR REFORM. The movement for the establish ment of a reformatory for youthful criminals is gaining strength every day. The reformatory is one of the things bound to come ; as the poli ticians would say, it is now only a question of majority. Early in Au gust, the State Alliance unanimously endorsed the movement ; later in the same month, the State Press Asso ciation gave the idea its hearty ap proval ; last month the State Re formatory Association was organized by representatives of practically all the religious denominations and fra ternal orders in the State, and last week the North Carolina Presbyte rian Synod cordially endorsed the reformatory. With things moving in this way, it is believed that the legislature will also have to join the procession and endorse the move ment a consumation devoutly to be wished. EDITORIAL NOTES. The Scotland County Farmers' Protective Association seems to be progressing nicely. A meeting will be held at Hasty today. The officers of tho new Association are : Presi dent, D. Stuart; Vice-President, D. Z. Harden; Secretary-Treasurer, E. F. Murray. - - The great advantages of Western North Carolina as an apple -growing region are rapidly securing recogni tion. The last exhibit of apples sent by Mr. Bruner to Paris has taken two silver medals. Thus our North Carolina apple exhibit has taken fourteen prizes. With the jute bagging trust pre paring to levy additional tribute and the cotton seed oil men entering into a combine to lower prices of cotton seed, what does that ex-Allianceman in your neighborhood think of try ing again the club with which we knocked out jute bagging a decade ago? It is impossible to get copies of The Progressive Farmer to persons whose narjs have been sent us for sample copies as soon as to those whos enames are on our regular sub scription lis. We must attend to our paying subscribers first. Let tho sample copy man send us his sub scription, however, and he will al ways get his paper promptly. The Charlotte Observer says : "The South will not command that measure of public respect which it is duo until it ceases to accept unqnes tioningly whatever may bo offered it in the way of platform and can didates." We hope the Observer will not cease preaching such sound doctrine when its party again gets around to its way of thinking. So long as human love is believed to have a spiritual side for those who know it in its fullest, the story of the Poet Browning and his wife, and of their perfect union and com munion, will bo of interest. Clara B. Laughlin, of The Interior, who has during the past few months written so cleverly regarding tho loves of various authors, gives a sec ond installment of tho Browning Love Story in the December Delinea tor. Mrs. Browning's father never forgave her marriage, never saw her again, never opened any of her let ters to him ; but neither severed family ties nor frail health were able to mar the bliss of her perfect union ! with Robert Browning. j READ THE ADS. Never neglect the advertisements in The Progressive Farmer. If you wish to buy improved live stock or poultry, you will find reliable first class dealers soliciting your patron age through our columns. Manufac turers of the best, most up-to-date farm implements and machinery ad vertise with us. If you wish to buy, sell, rent, or lease a North Carolina farm, it is likely that our ad vert is- i ing columns will help you? There j are many other ads. that you will ! find it profitable to read. Now, for j instance, one of the State's leading apple growers is advertising for a young man to assist him in his work. Some bright young man who regu larly examines our advertising col umns doubtless saw the ad. last week and has forwarded his application, whilo the fellow who never reads ad vertisements has missed an oppor tunity of securing a desirable posi tion. It pays to read tho ads. ALLIANCE NOTES. We hope that our Mecklenburg readers will work earnestly to make Bro. Parker's visit to their county a splendid success. Mecklenburg is one of the most prosperous counties in tho State, and with its good farm ers, good schools, and good roads, ought to be thickly dotted with live Sub- Alliances. And the indications are that this will soon bo the case. In tho last issue of the Southport Standard, the editor says: "There is a strong probability that the Farmers' Alliance will be re-organized in Brunswick county." We do not know that the State Alliance officials have given Brunswick any special attention as yet ; there seems to have been no Alliance work by persons outside the county. But the intelligent farmers in that county, as elsewhere, are awaking to the need of organization and realize that of all farmers' associations the Alliance has by all odds tho finest plan of organization, the noblest pur poses, and can be made of most bene fit to the individual member. Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked and never well men ded. Beniamin Franklin. THIS WEEK'S PAPER. Our farmer readers will find on pages 1 and 8 tho usual number of articles of special interest to them. Mr. Merriam's article urging a closer study of the commercial fertilizer problem ought to be thoughtfully considered. The purchase of com mercial fertilizers without reference to their ingredients or the needs of the soil to which they are applied is perhaps the greatest drain upon the wealth of the Southern farmer. Mr. Merriam -makes a profit of several thousand dollars each year by his trucking operations, and one of the things that enable him to do this is his close attention to the needs of the soil and his study of the fertilizer question. Harry Farmer contributes a "talk" even better than his last. Two other papers of unusual value are "Better Farm Implements Needed" and Commissioner Patter son's letter to stock raisers in West ern counties. We expect to publish soon two or three valuable articles dealing with the tick and quaran tine question. Our quotations from Henry Wal lace's "Letters to the Farm Boy" on page 4 ought to be carefully read by the farmer boy's father und mother as well. It is worthy of a place in any farmer's scrap-book. A TIMELY WARNING. Tho Progressive Farmer has pub lished a number of articles warning our farmers against the evils sure fo come as a result of a wholesale slaughter of the birds. Insect pests on fruit trees and truck crops are in creasing just in proportion as the number of birds decrease. A note of alarm that is by no means un founded is contained in the follow ing letter written by Mr. E. E. Reynolds, of Catawba county, to a Northern farm paper. Read it and think about it : 'The woods .?nd fields are overrun with Northern bird hunters and dogs. Many farmers sell to city sportsmen the exclusive privilege of roaming over their lands with dog and gun, shooting and killing every bird they can find on the premises for the pitiful sum of five cents per acre. Other farmers sell the right to hunt birds on their farms for their land tax receipt. In this way hun dreds of thousands of acres of farm ing lands are secured by Northern sportsmen for bird hunting purposes. The robin, every farmer's best friend, appears to be the special victim of these hunters. At the present rate of destruction I believe this valuable bird will become practically extinct in the South within a very few years. With the rapid extermination of insect-eating birds, a steady increase in the number and destructiveness of insect pests is noticeable. If some means are not soon taken to prevent the wholesale slaughter of birds the fruit industry in North Carolina will be destroyed." PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD. The North Carolina Presbyterian Synod held its annual meeting in the beautiful new Presbyterian Church building in this city "last week. The meeting was well attended and thor oughly business from first to last. Rev. Dr. W. D. Morton was chosen Moderator and Messrs. J. M. Mclver and F. II. Johnston, reading clerks. Tho North Carolina Presbyterian Church is making steady, even re markable, growth. During the dec ade 18;)0-1900 the population of North Carolina increased only 17 per cent., but the increase in membership of the Presbyterian Church was 32 per cent. In the same period their, gifts to foreign missions increased 52 per cent. In this connection it is note worthy that the amount contributed by the whole Southern Church for foreign missions the past year is an increase of $11,000 over the previous year ; $5,000 of this increase is from the Synod of North Carolina. Ten of the 50 churches giving more than 500 are in North Carolina. Perhaps the most important work of the Synod was that in regard to the twentieth century educational fund. The North Carolina church will undertake to raise for this cause, in addition to the amounts already subscribed, tliree hundred thousand dollars, to be distributed among their educational institutions as fol lows : $125,000 for Davidson College. $50,000 for Union Seminary, Vir ginia, $100,000 to the Presbyterian schools and colleges- of the Synod, $25,000 to the Assembly's Treasurer of tho million dollar fund for the general cause. If the entire $300,000 is not raised, then the ratio as indi cated above will be observed in the distribution. The Synod adjourned Saturday, to meet next year in Charlotte. FOE INDEPENDENCE IN POLITICS. Here's some sound Progressive Farmer doctrine, with 'a bit of irony in conclusion, from a recent issue of the JDurham Herald : We hear much of the intelligent use of the franchise, but how many of us use it intelligently? As a rule, we line up with our . party regardless of its .platform, and after a while come to think that we believe what it promulgates. No mortal man knows on what issues the campaign four, years hence will be fought, yet the . men who are Democrats now will be Democrats then, with very few exceptions. Of course the same can be said of the Republicans. The wonder to us has always been that there were not more independent voters. But what is the use of think ing for yourself when you can have somebody to think for you ? ELECTION RESULTS. We gave last week a very full sum mary of election results.- This year our North Carolina people seem to have regarded the National issues more sensibly and philosophically than our Yankee brethren. Of the Tar Heel voters, only a small propor tion decided that with their candi date defeated, the country would go straight to destruction. In the North, however, a different state of affairs existed. Nearly half the Re publicans seem to have decided that Mr. McKinley's defeat would close all tho factories and blight all the crops, while a large proportion of the Democrats were cocksure that Mr. McKinley's re-election would de stroy liberty and wipe out the Con stitution and the Declaration of In dependence. As everybody knows, the battle of ballots resulted in a Republican landslide. But by one of those fantastic tricks of the Electoral College, Mr. Bryan's defeat is made to appear much more overwhelming than it really was. While Mr. McKin ley's electoral vote is practically twice that Mr. Bryan, his plurality of 700,000 represents less than five per cent, of the populur vote of 15, 000,000. This fact may have a sober ing effect upon the now exultant Re publicans, somewhat as the slave's reminder, "Thou art but mortal," affected the victories Scipio in his celebrated triumph. At any rate, the people must not take literally the Democratic cam paign talk of "imperialism" and "the republic vs. the empire." While we believe with President Harrison that in some points, wo have made a "grave departure from right prin ciples" in our colonial policy, yet the republic still lives and the people still rule. Mr. McKinley has no idea of wearing a crown or arraying himself in imperial purple, and the fanatical editors and spell binders who told you that Bryan, liberty, and the Constitution were one and inseparable and would together sink or swim, live or die, survive or per ish, have crawled into their holes and pulled their scare crows in after them. Not only does the Republic live, but, as we have said, a change of five per cent, of the voters from the McKinley column to the Bryan column, would put a Bryanite into the White House. On the other hand, those gullible mortals who gave Mr. McKinley all the credit for the increased prices of farm products and the good times generally, and who believe that he can single handed, or by tho aid of Congress, maintain the present prices or force prosperity to remain with us for four years longer, may pre pare to be disappointed. Prosperity is not a local matter or a matter en tirely in control of the President or of Congress, whatever the politician may say about it. Several weeks ago while the Republican impers and orators were claiming for the Re publican party all the credit for the better times in this country, we visited a Canadian city and found the Liberal papers asserting that their party alone was responsible for the present prosperity in Canada. Of course, our financial and tariff legis lation affects prices to a considerable degree, but the party in power is not always responsible for the state of trade. We may have "good times" in spite of unjust and unwise legisla tion, or "hard times" in spite of wise and beneficent laws. This is a matter that calls for an unbiased study of great, issues and principles ; not a reckless assumption that the party in power is responsible for prosperity or its absence. So there was a good deal of hum buggery on both sides and those narrow-minded and excitable beings who thought the defeat of any one man would ruin the country, may retire into their shells until the party bosses call them forth to do service in another campaign. ABOUT SOME OTHER PAPERS. An all-round farm and ; family newspaper is what we try to make The Progressive Farmer, so that he who reads it may, without seeing any other paper, keep well posted upon agricultural progress, the news of the State, Nation, and the world, and upon all public questions, at the same time sesring each week some of the choicest bits of general litera ture. 1 But here in the dawn of - the twen tieth century few up-to-date people are satisfied with one paper only. Therefore a few words to The Pro gressive Farmer. reader who wishes to take two or more papers may not be out of place. Every man who can do so should take his county paper to keep in touch with home folks and local in terests, and we ask for each clean, enterprising local paper the support of the people in the -territory it covers. Of papers outside North Carolina, thousands and thousands solicit your support. Among these are a large number of trashy Yankee story papers that are a disgrace to the country. Teeming with humbug ad vertisements, silly sentimental fic tion, and . blood curdling stories of crime or vice, they are very effective agents of the devil. A home is a thousand times better off with no paper at all than with one of this type. In another way such papers do much harm. If some innocent citizen subscribes for one of them, reads a few of its impossible yarns, and gets bitten by some of the hum bugs and quacks advertising in it, he soon becomes distrustful of all newspapers and all advertisers. Don't subscribe for such papers, and if they come to you free, it is not a bad idea to destroy them to keep their storios, silly if not vicious, out of the hands of children. One other class of papers you will find it well to shun. We refer to those papers that quite plainly ac knowledge their worthlessness by trying to catch you with some free prize offered to subscribers. The paper worth the money is willing to stand on its merits, and it is a safe plan to steer clear of those that catch suckers with chances in puzzle or guessing contests. It's merely a confession in advance that the paper alone is not worth the money. But there are thousands of clean papers that run on business princi ples and are worthy of support. From the multitude, of such let us select a few of special merit. For convenience' sake, we -shall commence with the high priced magazines. The Century ($1 per year) is one of the best known of these. We re gard it as much superior to Harper's. Both are handsomely illustrated and employ the best writeas of the day. The Century's articles on historical subjects' are famous. Tho Atlantic Monthly ($1 per year) is more distinctly a literary maga zine. For many decades it has pub lished much of the best work of American statesmen, novelists, and bookmen. Some of the most success ful of recent works of fiction first appeared in the Atlantic "To Have and To Hold," "Caleb West," "The Battle of The Strong," etc. Among $3 magazines, Scribner's is perhaps entitled to first rank in quality, as it is perhaps in circula tion. Fiction, biography, .history, etc., by the best writers of the time, and its beautiful illustrations make it a desirable addition to any reading table. Lippincott's ($3 per year) has made remarkable improvements recently. Instead of serial stories it gives a complete long story in each issue. We value highly Current Litera ture, of New York, ($3 per year.) It contains little original matter but collects the best poems, anecdotes, and sketches found in other leading periodicals and in the newest books. But the world's news and move ments are by no means fully treated in the magazines to which we have just referred. Two magazines that do cover this field fully are the Re view of Reviews ($2.50 per year) and the World's Works ($3 per year.) The first named has been established for a . number of years and is ably edited by Dr. Albert Shaw. From cover to cover it is packed with timely articles upon the news, the men, and the issues of the day. The first issue of The World's Work appeared less than a month ago, but it starts out well, has an able man at the helm, and bids fair to live long and prosper Editor Page, a native of North Carolina, is a man of experience as well ability, having edited the Forum as of ana tne. Atlantic monthly. Cram's Magazine ($3 per year . devoted almost exclusively ' f thoughtful articles from differe t points of view on matters of natid , or world wide interest. To thema who wishes to "keep up th th times" it is almost indispensable 6 But even if , you do not wish to pav $3 or U per year, tor a maga there is still no reason for doin without the great thoughts of Amerf ca's best writers and deepest think ers. Having secured such remark ably large subscription lists nfi heavy advertising patronage, some oi rue cioiiar monmes are now able to lay before you the choicest of lit. erary productions at a price but lit tie in excess of the bare cost of paper and printing. McClure's and the Cosmopolitan are leaders among these $1 per year magazines. Both are ably edited employ the best writers, and are handsomely illustrated. Until a few years ago no magazine to compare with them was sold for less than $3 The same is true of Frank Leslie's. The monthly visits of the Ladies' Home Journal are now a source of pleasure to hundreds of thousands of men as well to two or three million ladies. It is richly worth the l per year it costs. No other American magazine has ever been so widely circulated. For the ambitious young man or woman we know of no magazine so helpful and inspiring as Success ($1 per year.) Its title indicates its char acter a magazine treating of suc cessful careers and success-matin qualities-. The high class literary weeklies that deserve special mention are not so numerous as the monthlies. We do not value very highly the weekly or semi weekly editions of the big Northern dailies, often teeming with stories of vice and crime, nor the clean and enterprising but gaudy and overly-illustrated Harper's, Les lie's and Collier's weeklies. To keep posted upon national and inter-national affairs the weekly New York Outlook ($3 per year) is worth many times its cost. It is one of the fairest and ablest of the great North ern weeklies and its monthly maga zine number included in a year's sub scription is in itself the equal ol many $3 monthlies. The Literary Digest and Public Opinion (each $3 per year) are the weeklies best suited to those who wsh to get "both sides" of every question. Each gives a full and im partial summary of the opinions of the country's leading men and news papers upon all disputed questions of news, politics, iteraturo, science, and art. Of Northern dailies, The Washing ton Post, in our opinion, heads the list. In politics, it is independent; its news columns are clean and free from vicious or sensational features, and its editors are men of courage and ability. For young people, there is no weekly to compare with The Youth s Companion ($1.75 per year.) It is at once entertaining, instructive, and elevating. For seventy years it has been making young people happier and nobler. Among monthlies for children, St. Nicholas ($3 per year) is entitled to first place. It is published by the Century Co. The American Boy (monthly, 50 cents per year) will delight any boy. Among agricultural papers, we especially recommend todairymen the weekly Hoard's Dairymen ($1 Per year); to stock raisers, "the weekly Breeder's Gazette ($2 per year) ; to poultrymen, the monthly Poultry Advocate, (25 cents per year) ; to sheep breeders, the Ameri can Sheep Breeder, ($1 per year) ; to apiarists, Gleanings in Bee Culture ($1 per year.) Among magazines devoted to wo man's work, the Delineator (i P year) leads all others. A310 cheaper magazines of the kin know of none toiexcel the AmerlL Queen (75 cents per year) or Gentlewoman, the regular price which is $1 but which can be 0 -tained with Tho Progressive Farm for $1.40. e What has been said in this an we have said freely, without so tation and without reward or of reward. More first-class , j ana tewer trasny one xp hope North Carolina Jiomes and w ,t .. .. . 1 ' I iUU" ' that what we have saia w) ' . for. in good. We will receive an ward subscriptions for any y v -7e have named on many we her's a slight discount from poo priee, as will be seen from ow bing list on page 6. 7