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Tho Proijressivo banner, April 29, 1902. Published Weekly at Raleigh, N. C. CVAICVCC l.'POE I. V. CtMAE... Prairteltri ..tilttr. SUBSCRIPTION 'Single Subscription One Year.. .11.00 t Six Months... .50 Three Months. .25 . TnE Industrial and education "al Interests of our People Para kdunt to all other considerations or State Policy, is the motto of The Progressive Farmer, and upon this platform it shall rise or fall. Serving no master, ruled by no faction, cir oumscribed by no selfish or narrow policy, its aim will be to foster and promote the best interests of the whole people of the State. It will bo true to the instincts, traditions and history of the Anglo-Saxon race. On all matters relating specially to the great interests it represents, it will speak with no uncertain voice, but will fearlessly the right defend and Impartially the wrong condemn." From Coll Polk's Salutatory, Feb. 10, 1886 Be sure to give both old and new addresses In ordering change of poatofllce. 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We Invite correspondence, news Items, sug etlons and criticisms on the subjects of agri mlture, poultry raising, stock breeding, dairv . jig. horticulture and garding; woman's work, iterature, or any subject of interest to our lady eaders, young people, or the family generally; jubllc matters, current events, political ques tions and principles, etc. In short, any subject llscussed in an all-round farm and family news paper. Communications should be free trom enonallties and party abuse. A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEX. ' To day is, for all that we know, the opportunity and occasion of our lives. On what we do or say to day may depend the success and com pleteness of our life struggle. It is for us, therefore, to use every mo ment of to-day as if our very eternity were dependent on our words nd deed3 Trumbull. EDIT0RIAL NOTES. 8tate Entomologist Butz, of Penn sylvania, adds his not very flitter lng testimony to that of many other authorities in e the moth catcher. Read what he says on page 1. The program of the East Tennessee Farmers' Convention, as outlined on page 1, is very attractive, and should draw an unusually large crowd to the next annual meeting a month hence. The Gastonia Gazstte now appears emi-weekly instead of weekly, as heretofore. Few North Carolina quill drivers give evidence of more talent in newspaper making than does Editor Marshall. We wish him suooests. It is a little late to sax so, but it is worth recording as we go along that the News and Observer and Char lotte News recently issued Charles ton Exposition editions that refleoted great credit on those that brought them out. The authorities have agreed, we believe, that this is the year in whioh we may expect the seventeen year locusts. Slate Entomologist Sherman has prepared an article on the subject whioh we purpose pub lishing soon. Frank R. Sfeookton, one of the best known American novelists, died in Washington City a few days ago He had written many books, the best known perhaps being "The Lady or the Tiger." The world is happier for his having uved in it. A bulletin issued by the Census Bureau last week showed that North Carolina leids all the rest of the States in sweet potato production. For the year covered by the census statistics our acreage was 68,730, pro ducing 5,781,587 bushels, worth 2, 119,956. It is interesting to note that Georgia had a larger acreage 70,620 and valued her smaller pro duction, 5,087,674 bushels, at $2, 354,390. The editor of the Chatham Reoord says that he 'is one of the very few editors vsho has never published an editorial that was not written by himself. " That is one of our rules, to publish not a line as editorial mat ter not written by the person whose name appears at the masthead as editor. We agree with the editor of 1 Charity and Children that the "dif ferenoe between stealing an editorial and stealing a pair of shoes is smaller than some people think it is.' We are interested in the disoovery made by a correspondent of tne a . Presbyterian Standard that the last words of Cecil Rhodes, "So little aone, so muou u uu, iutm a 4uuia- - - A J I . tion from Tennyson's "In Memo- riam' which reminds us again that 1 4. trA oa(lmab) wouaYouuo.mou au of Rhode that is satisfactory even pie have understood him, the ele- ments in him being so mixed up. His great bequests to education, pro- vision being made for two perpetual OTfnrrl snhnlarshins f or everv Amer- ioan State and Territory, have ex- cited muoh comment. A very timely article is that on the strawberry weevil which En to- moloiet Sherman furnishes us this week. This pest is doing consider- able damacB iD some sections, as the following Wilmington dipatoh in Saturday's Charlotte Observer in dicates: "The strawberry crop promises to be large though grow ers in the Burgaw and South Wash ington seotions report the appear anoe of the strawberry weevil, a small inseot which attacks the bloom of the plant and makes maturity im- possible. The pest is not a new one r orrn roora Vint i ts RnnflnrHTir'fl in tho section named will have the effect, -, " - - - - ff - i so it is saia. to snorten tne crop nearly one-third." A POSTAL CURRENCY NEEDED. ttt j: i. it 4.1, yYouirwb nnounuu 6u tuo wmuio i. XI XX XU9CCA UliUJ V . t, w I L A lJ-in.. I v AW ' TTt V-t-t or pcaxo kju auutuci page wjl tuin xjuia- ber. The proposed arrangement would be of very great advantage to our rural population, the vast ma jority of whom find difficulty in get ting bank cheoks or money orders The "post-check" would encourage trade prove a great convenience to millions of citizens, and insure a cleaner currency. It seems to have all the advantages of the present paper money with several very valu able features added. WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF SOUTH"? 'THE OLD '11XE PROGRESSIVE FARMER OllOrS a oopy of Rev. James Battle Avirett's "The Old Plantation," a description of ante-bellum life in North Carolina (bound in cloth, 202 pages) as a prize tion "would be welcomed by the pro- tion day. In the Iowa campaign out exaggeration that no war in his for the most interesting letter re fessional politicians beoauao it would gome months ago, Wallace's Farmer, tory left more wreckage or soars be- P-ardino- thn Snnth of other davs incidents, reminiscenoes, sketches, etc, of life in the Suth in slavery days, or in the Civil War, or in the days of Reconstruction and the Kuklux. Any writer can discuss any one or all three periods. The prize will not be awarded until at least eight writers enter the contest Mere is an opportunity tor our older readers to describe to a younger generation the periods of Southern history that are to have no parallel in the future and must, except for the descriptions of those that lived through them, be forgotten or mis understood. We hope that a large number of our readers, both men and women, will write us their reoolleotions of the Old South. THE REGIMENTAL HISTORIES. Says the Charlotte Observer : V CX f nn Vi anrl laa -r-l ti rv- r v4 the North Carolina Regimental His tories has been issued It oontains. besides regimental histories, histo- ries of battallions and brigades, the iunior reserves, home ernard and military prisons and ia. perhaDS. the riohest and most interesting of all the volumes. These four volumes constitute an inva.lnw.hle rennrrl. and while all the writers of sketohes have done wall we are moved to say again that Judge Clark, the editor, has done best of all " This tribute to the book and to the DAumjuuu vvur. ui juugw viurjt, its i tirrViri tun 1- t t .1 m i .- privilege of examining these "Regi-1 mental Histories" and the Obser ver's oomment reminds us that the press of the State should join in tho effort to to secure the largest possi ble circulation of them. It will al ways be a matter for congratulation that the story of each of the North Carolina regiments has been thus told by a oompetent eye witness and put in lasting and convenient form, We understand, however, that the fourth is not the last volume of this series, but that there are to be five voiumea in an. copies may De or- aerea irom Air. ai. u onerrni, Htate Librarian, at the rate of $1 per vol- ume. Postage on eaoh volume, 34 rZZl k ' :F marges, must be paid by purchaser. EAISIHO CO BAIT AUD SIT 21 ATE AN TO BACCOS I IT NORTH CAROLINA. nave already published several artioles regarding the growing of the high-priced tobacco under cloth, the I . a am m Connecticut experiments, me pro Da bility of introducing the industry in North Carolina, etc. On page 1 of .V.aw Vi waoHo. fA tuio uumuoi boo iu jliuu. letter from State Unemist Kilgore on this subjeot. In a later letter to the lln. ttia Vroo PrOQfl Tkf TTi.crn-rn --.b sums up the whole matter in this 'In Conneotiout they have been quite successful in growing bum at ran tobaooo and in South Georgia and Florida they grow both the 8umatran and Cuban tobaooos with success. In all of thebe places, however, they use a covering of either cloth or slats. This is done to modify the climatic conditions, as I understand it. we snaa nave to investigate all these points in an experimental way and we believe that our experiments of this year will indicate to us as to whether or not we can hope for suo- oess. We have advised all of the farmers who have put out any of these tobaooos to do so on a very small scale, so that there would be no heavy loss to them in oase of total failure. We hope to get the benefit of their experience to combine with our own in suggesting methods and details for work another season in oase further experiments are desir- uo euau Bxwrr "" quantity of tobacco under cover, the main part of our crop being grown under the usual out-door conditions. w qVirII v fihl hv thfipft Ttififtim. to ' I I Tl III! I H TM I nRIl I hi" IV bUH n U billAia. I X Thn tfista. if snooflssfnl. -will brinff w i - a new and very important industry into North Carolina, creatlv helDintr ; d uiauy Ui. uur laiuiiug eouciuiiO! uuc we fear that the Free Press became a little too enthusiastic, and we wish to emphasize Dr. Kilgore's statement that while the matter is attended by so mucn uncertainty, experiment should be made on a small soaleonly. It is said that Mr. Crumpaoker's resolution for the investigation of suffrage regulations in the South, is sleeping the sleep that knows no waking. The powers that be have deoided that it is best to leave tho South to work out its own salvation. The Biblical Recorder makes the Pint tha a Crumpaoker investiga- revive the decaying partisan spirit in the South THE ATHENS EDUCATIONAL ENCE. CONFER- The fifth annual session of the Con ference for Education in the South was held at Athens, Georgia, last week. Many of the best and brainiest men of the North and the South met together to discuss our educational problems and to plan tor improving our schools. The recent organization in Now York City of the General Education B3ard adds significance to this Con ferenoe. This Board it composed of some of the ablest business men of the North and some of the best- known eduoators of the South. Its purpose is to aid Southern public sohools in the way that this work began at Greensboro a month ago- the Board will duplioate guts of iNortn Carolinians to JN or in Carolina schools whose people in turn show heir interest by voting a looal tax on themselves. John D. Rockefeller n&s already given $1,000,000 for this wort, and it is certain that other wealthy men stand ready to con tribute largely, if the South shows itself alive to its opportunities. At the Conference last week, Chairman Baldwin, of the General Eduoation Board, set forth the objeots of both organizations as follows : 1 To promote education in the whole country, irrespective of race, bpt fir nnlni" 2 To develoD nublio sohools. and especially rural sohools. 3 To encourage eelf-help and the urging of local taxation for sohools. 4 The training of school teaohers, especially in the industrial depart ments. 5 To co-operate with institutions already established and to aid in thbir maintenance and improvement. 6 To co-operate with other insti- tutions of learning. 7 To oollect educational statistics. o-io furnish information regard- inS education and to be the clearing ouuuauaai h6ibbios. iumu iue press witn in- formation looking to the advance ment of educational interests. vry xorm oi ae- serving eduoational work. THB centennial or saleu female ACADEMY. Salem Female Academy was opened in 1802, the first girls' boarding improved stook and up todate farm school in the South, the third in the machinery. What a great improve United States. Having lived through ment in the financial oondition of a century of good work, this excel lent institution will at its commence a i mout, junj ? I mant UTott OlnH tr VUtM T A1"TT1.I celebrate the centennial 01 us iouna lng. it is an event in wmon me nrVirtla 4-o (a oVinnlfl ho intfirPHtRfl. - and we congratulate tne iaouity ana reoord behind it and its bright pros peots as it enters its seoona century of work. Speaking of this Academy (how that modfist name contrasts with the glowing titles worn by many inferior schools!) Dr. Truman J. Backus said at the Conference for Education the South last year : "Hereafter I can boast no more ot Massachusetts as the pioneer State in the eduoation of women,l for have been in the Moravian seminary at Winston-Salem, within these mass- ive walls that were ereoted for the education of young women before Boston or Northampton were willing to give girls a plaoe in their oommon sohools FARMERS SHOULD ATTEND THE PRI MARIES. Ksajro wo ivuauuwuuwou nmw. Farmers are paying but-little at . . J At A 1 ! 1 ! 1 A. nn iixiiiii mi iiiiainiiin in i w a ki wijumxak now, their whole time and attention to the farm. The professional poli ticians who take this seeming indif ferenoe to mean that the farmer can- i r , . I W V W MA V U WW T W WW I I find thev are mistaken. Good men to fill public offices are demanded . . ' The farmer should be aroueed to vntn Kr,t, c-nUi aion mna i w uuumu mu vovv a good deal earlier. The most effeot ive work for good government can be done in connection with the nom- inating conventions, in foroing the parnes iu put up guuu mou an uau- didates. It is unfortunate that so many honest and intelligent citizens who would not think of failing to vote, feel that they have no time to attend a primary and work in behalf of the oleanest and most efficient men available as oanaiaates. liut this work in the conventions is not a whit less important, a duty in no degree less worthy of attention, than i8 the casting of the ballot on eleo- Qf Des Moines, published a sensible editorial on this subjeot, whioh we dipped and filed away. Here it is and we commend its argument to our North Carolina voters at this time : "While Wallaces' Farmer is not the organ of any party or any fac- tion of anv nartv.it is deenlv intm-- ested in good government. Good " - v ' g-ovornmont in tho TTnitori Rtntoa means government of the people, by the people, for the people. In our day good government of the people is possible onlv when the people take an active hand in it. The onlv wav fhA-c r.n tfttfi nn nnHvo Tinnrl in it ia to begin at the commencement whioh is the nrimarv where men are nomi nated for offioe. If farmers, because the primaries are held in corn plant- ing or oorn plowing or hay making or harvest, stay at home and don't take any part in the nominations of nonntao via-rr Dv. if they are whipped into voting for oandiaates whioh are the other fel- low's nominee. Thev must either then stand the whipping and vote tnr tho nthfir folio w' nhni nr hnlt their ticket and vote for a et nf principles they don't believe in, or stay at home and cease to be a part nf tVm aif .anmrnmnnt trriiinVi ia fha boast of our State and Nation. w0 hope, therefore, that everv reader of Wallaces' Farmer whether he be a Republican. Demoorat. Ponn. ii8t Prohibitionist, or what not, will I . i i . . -. . . . tase a aay onanaatienaine primary t na.. a vi. seouring good government, or if not good govenment then government which he thinks is good,whioh is for him the same thins. x. p xa tM uvi iiiiiuh Ci kj a. kjm. uuiiiiliJinUS -u. i j j. t vv Li u ii a, v n j tiici eiiua b(J borvts to call th nrimRTf x7Y1 or onmnvirufi n-al-rr tow icki uioi a uau a c UDUU, ill blltJir more aotive part than they have been doing the farmers will have to submit to tms and submit with the best grace possible. After all it don't take very lone for a farmer to go to the primary and vote, or if ne spends a half dav in working for hig candidate he will never miss it wnen he oomea to di6. He probaDly needs a half day off anyway ; there- fore take it." FABXXING progress in THE EAST. , ... There is no surer sign of agnom tural progress than the buying - North Carolina farmers would soon - occur, if of every county it could IV I tunthfnllw sold Afl If I I flfWH muuuj dm, J craven tms wee : "oorn snreaaers, i" Aa' wron cream separators, gooa stocK I run Tier rtoaa oil lfinnm1nC TnnTll&r. r Bat craven is not tne oniy eastern - uo any etriPia 685 no"r OI 1118 llie puritv nfi, - forward. The Rich Square Times last weefc says tnat I arming in entire Roanoke Chowan section "gradually undergoing a great charier and for the better. " And Editor Conner sets forth the possible proof of his assertion in best the in statements that follow "Instead of cotton fields and oorn patohes of a few years ago we ana a great variety of crops, and the latest I improved machinery. Manure spread ers, grain drills, mowing and reaping 7 v ... . ' 41 machines and suoh maohinery a years ago oould not be found on farms in this section ; now they largely used and the sale for them rapidly increasing. Siile of Western meat in this seotion has deoreased fully one hundred per cent, in ten years while the shipment of beef cat tle from here has assumed large pro- nor ong. wnereas a few vears aero i c 1 - rai8ing 0f oattle for market was not i a. a. j. j m w The Thinkers. pnvstTTVEWT Rnnsi?.VT?T.T Awn okwiitiatJ . . . i Public attention was directed last . a, A weeK to aoutn Carolina Dy two flvfints of national siffniflcance and i o - interest : the visit of President Koose- velt to Charleston, and the death of Qoneral Wade Hampton. It is a generation sinoe the last gun was tou. x ouo xAuxUooa, uu. cu? cc- rible struggle of ideas and arms ended by the surrender of General Lee after a skillful and heroic de- fenoe whioh has given him a plaoe among the notable soldiers of his- tory. The devastation incident upon that war, was so widespread, the material ruin of the South, the de struotion of the old sooial ideas so complete and personal sorrow so universal, that it may be said with hind it. The completeness of that recon ciliation reoeived a dramatic illus tration when the President of the United States, standing in the city of Charleston, struck without disson- ance. out witn a narmonv unsus . - peoted in the older times, the note perfect respect and admiration for I the heroism of the South and of per feot aoceDtanoe and lovaltv to the national idea "I olaim " said the President, "your State is mine by an inheritance no less than by the stronger and nobler right whioh makes each foot of Amerioan soil tho nronsrtv rif all AmflrifiatlS." While the President was speaking, a representative South Carolinian the finest type was dying at his home in Columbia. General Wade Hampton was a man of the old-time fibre, the old time eduoation, and the old-time high-mindedness : a sur- tH xtt of tVm Iutto ration Rnnth nark lina was ruled by an oligarohy, it true, but bv an olierarchv made no of men of hierh ideals, of erenerous eduoation, and of devotion to publio interests. He fouerht with nonsnimv oua erallantrv throueh the war. was wounded again and again, and came out of it id find, as so many South- ernnrn fnnnri. h'ia fnrtnn wratfi itnri his home obliterated. Like General Lee, he accepted at onoe the new duties of the new times. When South Carolina was in its worst estate, at the feet of carpetbaggers -1 i . x i . ana ignorant negro poucioiunp, uen grasp of the situation and a states man's practical sense in dealing with it. In a critical hour he restrained popular passion, organized nublio I ooi o o u uuu ulquu uuu nay M.JA r-i e i.. pottuoiui sumtiuu ui yruumma wmou Hfiomorl tn thrpntnn 1 nro 1 ri -rri 1 nro tcuoivcu iixauj puuixu UUUUiB, UUb the personal affeotion whioh he evoked from all who knew him, and whioh made his funeral al Columbia on Sunday a beautiful tribute to his onaraoter as a man. as well as nis A mm m services as a statesman and a soldier. President Roosevelt and General Hampton illustrate the great quali. tie8 whioh gave the Civil War its dignity, whether waged by the blue or the gray. The President is in temperament a born soldi. azeous. outspoken. atiH.. Co - M t t' C?"1 adventures ; but frank, heart oli of sxvs, uuu CUOi U US . rSanava 1 "Flo yy-it ,-. rePreg muvo vi eiiuBo qualities whioh v XI in. en made the South couraffonna o m p.. be f "utiy l0v tie wouia nave aaorned anv flT I whioh he esnonsed hv Vi ana i m ' 1 18 Pow of self-effacement. When the "cu "Eft St).,. I slQ was over, in nrobahw Tu Parity of v,. motives was most conspicuous tT had in a pre eminent degree t? graoe of acceptance as he had t the courage of his convictions 8 In President Roosevelt and q eral Hampton aro to be found th two elements, the recognition whioh has brought the North the South together and turned great war full of bitter memoril into a oommon tradition of hprr.i of me is - v Jmt uon few " J and the the gray, the Federal and the Confedej, are e . taken the sting out of th, is civxi war ana nave made it a com mon heritage of noble examples The Outlook. QUALIFICATIONS FOP SUFFEAGE. To Vote in the Coming Election One Knit x-gssesB me uaaiincauons set xcrth iallj Artiole. i m v, w mug will be permitted to vote at the next general election, to be held on fa TnnsinAV nftTt utter tho firu ht.j in jNovemoer. lyuxj, bein ' the 4a day of the month, must, under fte new State constitution and lam nossess the followiner nnHlifi - a murst db a native corn citizen or being of foreign birth, mnslia been duly naturalized. He must be twenty -one yewa old. He must have lived in this Slate two years next preoeding the elec tion. He must have lived in the county six months next preceding the eleo tion. He must have lived in the voting preoinct four months next preceding the eleotion. But if he has moved from cue precinot to another, in the same county, he has a .righ to roteir the precinot whence he moved at ftnv nlAntirvn Vi a11 within f nnr mnnthH. He must not stand oonvicted of any crime punishable by confinement in the State penitentiary under the laws of this State. But if he has been so convicted he may be restored by the proper oourt. If he was twenty-one years old on -lii j t mm tion ha of tlAO UIBb Utt UL uuuo, must nave paia, on or uexuru n . j p t. r -.nrt-i i : . for - urB uay OI Aaui ni uu taa f or tne Year 1901 His tax receipt must show the payment of his poli-tax, and it ne should lose his receipt he will to furnished a duplioate thereof &7 the sheriff or tax colleotor. Bat in the absence of any receipt he may vote nPon swearing to the pajms of OI nis pon-tax. - If he was fifty years old on the first day of June, 1901, he is exempt from the payment of polltax. If he was not twenty-one yea" old on the first day of June, 1801, and has attained to that age since, is he exempt from the payment o poll-tax this year. The board of county oommission- era may release him from the pay- ment of poll tax on acoount oi erty or infirmity, in which case they will give him a certificate of release whioh will entitle him to vote wit out a poll-tax receipt. He must be able to read and wri any. seotion of the State Constitution the English language. But if he voted in any State or Union prior to the first of January, 1-toeT n . i irninrtAOD UL - ou) ur mo avu. wi bm" - he is exempt from the require of being able to read and write Colored citizsns, with fe ex tions, did not vote prior to iu' ead It I ij ..Ua aonHnn nf the LOU8" woo oujr - tntinn in thft Ensrlish language. I jjjtojt uiuv uw . jg votes, and the registration boo - eaoh precinot will be open purpose for twenty uj y- the second Saturday before tn i A A It. A. H mmmrxa f tion ior iuat puxpuoo. If any person oomo -0 nee the close of the registrar but on or before election day, he be permitted to register and vot the day of election. I Register.