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The Progressive Farmer, July 22, 1C02 State News. fgOU CTTSKITTJCS TO CHEBOXZE. ne ' lattrtit'ditaaad Prom Our Corre spondints and Exchanges in all Farts' of tie 8UU. If Mitchell. County had been repre sented at the Democrtic Convention, Conner's majority would have been, re; ueed to two, ,for Mitchell had in; itructed for Brown. pr. Winston .predicts that the , A. i:d M. College freshmen class this fall 31 number 200, and. that there will ke 00 students: in all. He bases his estimate on the number of boy3. who fcpye stood entrance examinations.: Prof. P. P. Claxton, who holds the chair of Pedagogy in the North Caro lina State Industrial and Normal Col lege, has been elected to the chair of the Department of Education in the "Diversity of Tennessee. He will ac cept the offer. Hickory Mercury: The Populist State Convention will soon be called, frcin information obtained it is very likely that there will be three State' tickets in the field. This will not af fect county tickets or arrangements. 4. citizens' State ticket would be pre ferable. Charity and Children: This is a great time for toilers to take a rest. pearly everybody except editors and fanners go off somewhere to loaf a little, or lounge, as" they may prefer. We hope they may all be profited by their breathing spell and find their vacations very pleasant. .. Cel. Olds: Julian S. Carr, the Com mander of -the North Carolina divis ion, United Confederate Veterans, says that all the arrangements are complete for the reunion of veterans at Greensboro August 19, 20 and 21. He says he expects from 1,500 to 2,000 to be present. The State tents have been secured for the encampment. Stanly Enterprise: It is a signifi cant fact that two. of the leading men who worked to redistrict the State in the last Legislature, and were candi dates for the Democratic nomination for Congress, were defeated before their district convention. We of the Eighth District, who suffer so lament ably -from the change, look on with selfish satisfaction at the turn of af fairs. Elizabeth Citv Tar Heel: The sev enteen year locust has made its ap rearance in the fertile fields of Pas quotank. Only the advance guards have appeared but already one can almost hear the thrumming of an army, excelling in number the house fly and mosquito. This unwelcome visitor resembles the ordinary locust in color and in noise, but any child ill tell you that his size is almost double that of the fellow who comes with us annually. Raleigh Post: A special com mittee was appointed Saturday by the State Board of Agriculture to select the locations for two new experiment farms, one suitable for experimenting in the cultivation of lands in the coastal plain formation and the other in the Piedmont section. It is under sT'Vxl that the farm for the coastal plain section will be selected some-vl'-re iri the vicinity of Red Springs, r.l the one in the Piedmont section will be- in either Iredell or Cabarrus cc unties. ' M.rganton dispatch, 22d: Ninth Bis-rict Democrats, four hundred in u:r.bcr, assembled here to-day and r. rrnated E. Y. Webb of Cleveland frr Congress on the seventh ballot. IT-r.?. W. C. Dowd and W. C. Max 1: r,( Mecklenburg, E. Y. Webb of CI-v( land, Thomas Hufham of Ca .i, and W. E. Abernethy of Bnrke, T placed in nomination. Oo the i ballot Webb received 166 votes, H - mi 62, Dowd 52, Maxwell 42, A: -TM-thy 32. The succeeding five hi.' were practically the same. On u - venth ballot Webb was norai L !. receiving 17S34 votes. ' .re disconsolate set of men can L '" i found anywhere than the farm met in town yesterday.. Every c:' met was suffering from a gen- ftack of the blues. They tell us tuv t(-ks ago the prospect fvas t:ie k?i.-'-r crop of corn ever raised in vo.rt County would be harvested : ar. Now on account of the cori-t;r.-;. .iry weather, the fodder in s r: ' laces on corn that had not tar, .vas ripe enough to pull. In r laces the wells are so low if is 1Dr4 ible to get drinking water, es tHi.iiy for stock, and the bear and wild animals are leav'n-? the and taking to the highland in r. h f water, and are playing havoc with pigs. Unless there is rain in the next three or four days the crop so promising a few weeks ago, will be a complete failure. Washington Ga zette. Presbyterian Standard: The reso lutions looking toward an extension of the primary system of electing the candidates for party offices, including that of the United States Senator 'was stricken from the Democratic platform. This leaves the question of primary election in the counties where it was, which means a steady progress toward the primary as preferable to the party convention for nominating candidates. The next United States Senator from North Carolina will be elected by the Legislature, without immediate in struction by the people in a State pri mary as was the case in the last, elec tion. Commenting on the Democratic platform, the Biblical Recorder says: "No mention was made of a .Reform atory for youthful criminals, or of us ing the swamp-land funds for building free-school houses, or of putting an end to employing children in factories or of revising our legislation with re gard to the liquor traffic. These are live issues in North Carolina and while we regret that they were not noticed, we hope the people will make demands on the candidates with ref erence to them. The only State is sues, mentioned in the platform are the Amendment (conditional as ex-: plained above), maintenance of free school . policy, good roads and good government in general" The hot winds which prevailed for a few days are reported' to have dam aged cotton quite much. A few farmers report the shedding of leaves. In 18S4 it is said that no rain fell from July 4th till November, yet there was a large 'cotton crop made. It is prob able ' that the first half of that year was not as dry as has been the first six months of this. Twenty counties are using convict labor on the roads, thirteen are using improved machin ery, four have recently abandoned en tirely the old labor system and now work the road3 by taxation. These four are Forsyth, Edgecombe, Gaston and Lenoir. Eighteen are using part ly the labor and partly the taxation system, while 52 use the old labor sys tem. Tarboro Southerner. Manufacturers Record: Applica tion nas been' made for chartering the North Carolina Central Railroad to build a line from Concord to Fayette- ville. The contract for building the extension of the Raleigh & Cape Fear Railrad from Fuquay Springs to Lillington has, it is reported, been awarded to A. & C. Wright of Rich mond. John A. Mills is president and general manager. -Concerning the Graham, Burlington & River Falls Street Railway Company, Mr. E. W. Myers, civil engineer, writes to the Manufacturers' Record that the main line will be six miles long from Bur lington via Graham to Haw River. A fifteen-mile branch from Graham will reach River Falls via Swepsonville and Saxapahaw. Contracts are expected to be let soon. Asheville Cor. Charlotte Observer: The proposition has been seriously advanced in some Republican quarters that it would be the part of wisdom ito endorse the Democratic nomination of Judges Connor and Walker, there by making the nomination of these gentlemen unanimous, with a view to securing Democratic asistance in the effort to encompass the defeat of Judge Clark, an end that is devoutly hoped for by Republicans. Such Re publicans argue that neither their party nor the State has anything to fear in the election of Judges Connor and Walker, and moreover, that hun dreds of Democrats would regard the endorsement of these gentlemen as an act of liberality which would strength en their inclination to vote against Judge Clark. But while this sugges tion has been heard in high places, it is not likely that it will meet with fa vor generally. The friends of Judges Cook and Timberlake would doubtless voice an objection, and much confu sion would resfult. It was pointed out this morning that there would even be a great deal of difficulty about print ing the tickets and both parties would do no end of scratching. Judge Tim berlake had an ambition to be nomi nated as Chief Justice, but will inter pose no further objection to the plan to nominate some such man as Hill, of Halifax, or Patterson, of Winston. As Judge Timberlake now occupies this attitude ' the assumption seems fair that he has assurances of strong support for the nomination of Associ ate Justice. 1X00BE COTJUTY 8ZT8 PACE FOB STATE. Will Have Bnral library for Every School Also a Teaeher's Library. ' . During the progress of the Moore County Teachers' . Institute at Car thage last week a pace f or the other counties of the State was set in the matter of the provision ' of public and school libraries. The County Board of Education announced ' that they would appropriate $10 to every school that would raise $10 for a library, the county having already provided for the six libraries under the rural school library law. In consequence of ! the offer of the board forty teachers of public schools pledged themselves to raise the "money to establish the libra ries in every school in the county. '- Subsequently the teachers asked the County Board to establish a teachers' library at Carthage for the exclusive use of the public school teachers of the county and the Board appropriat ed $130 for this purpose. A number of valuable books were donated for this library. The County Superintendent of Public Schools was designated as custodian of the teachers' library, the books to be kept in the Superin tendent's office. In addition to this a movement was inaugurated looking to the establish ment, of a public library for the town of Carthage. One citizen offers a de sirably located site and another says he will raise the money for ther pur chase of the books. The establish ment of the library is assured Ra leigh" Post. EDUCATIONAL SALLIES. Conference at Hickory Augnit 13 and 14 Dates of Bailies Arranged Por. The next educational conference corresponding to the ones at Greens boro and Charlotte, will be held at Hickory, August 13 and 14. It is de sired to have all of the county super intendents of the western counties, who did not attend either of the other conferences, to be present at this one. The management will be under the direction of the State Executive Com mittee of the Southern Educational Board, composed of Governor Aycock, Dr. Chas. D. Mclver and Superintend ent J. Y. Joyner. There will be pres ent besides these ex-Governor T. J. Jarvis, Dr. Geo. T. Winston, and ex State Superintendent Chas. H. Me bane, and several distinguished visi tors from other States. It is the espe cial desire to touch all of the western counties at this conference. In order to aid the work of this meeting, and to increase the enthu siasm in the different counties, the following rallies, with speakers, have been arranged for: Asheboro, July 31. Prof. J. B. Car lyle. Boomer. Wilkes County, August 2. Prof. Carlyle and Hon. R. B. White. Jefferson, August 4. R. B. White. Pinnacle, Stokes County, August C Prof. Carlyle and R. B. White. Dobson, Auerust 8. R. B. White. Yadkinville, August 8. Prof. Car lyle. Thomasville, August 8. -Dr. Geo. T, Winston. Taylorsville," August 11. Dr. Geo. T. Winston. Granite iTalls, August 15. Dr. Mc Iver, Superintendent Joyner, ex-Goy-ernor T. J. Jarvis. Lenoir, August 16. Dr. Winston, Dr. Mclver and ex-Governor Jarvis. Boone,. August 18. Dr. Winston. , Hayesville, August 21. Dr. Win ston. Peach Tree, Cherokee County, Au gust 23. Dr. Winston. The arrangement for the education al rallies in the counties east of Greensboro' will be completed by the end of this week. Superintendent J. T. Alderman, of the Henderson Graded School, began a one-week educational campaign in Alamance County on Monday. Begin ning with August 11, he will canvass Orange County with County Superin tendent Maddry; Superintendent Gra ham, of. the Charlotte Graded Schools, will assist County Superintendent Hefner in Lincoln County, beginning August 4th. U Educational rallies for Cleveland County, Rutherford County and Davie County will be arranged for about the middle of August. Nejvs and Observer. There was a genuine sensation in Greensboro last week when it became known that Mrs. Ida Stafford (age 35), wife of a well-known Greensboro man, had eloped with Mr. Harding (age 25), both having been highly re spected. They were captured in Nor folk, but released and allowed to go on to New York. General News. . . T7JIAT THE DISPATCHES TELL. The Sews Boiled Sown and Freiented in Con- venient Pora for Busy Eeaden, t - Of the 76 enlisted men in the Phil ippines who died between May 9 and June 11, 32 were victims of cholera. J. Pierpont Morgan; is said to. be planning , a merger of the, principal railway lines in the South with a cap ital of ,400,000,000. . I John W. Mackay's body is to be brought to America and interred in the superb mausoleum in Greenwood Cemetery, New York, : It is said that Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson is to marry Miss Le titia Stevenson, daughter of former Vice-President Stevenson. Floods on the Upper Mississippi river have recently caused damage of $6,000,000 or more, covering an area of about 700 square miles. The War Department last week re ceived a dispatch from Manila stating that four American school teachers had been murdered by natives. Salisbury's resignation is said to have been r a surprise to the King, the Premier declaring that he resigned be cause he was losing his memory. Standard July oats touched the highest point in thirty years on the Chicago Exchange last week, and closed at 67 cents, exactly on a par with the July corn prices This is a novel situation, the difference in price usually being about ten to fifteen cents in favor of corn. The Secretary of War has issued an order announcing the retirement from active service by operation of law of Major-General John R. Brooke, commanding the department of the East, "terminating a period of over forty years of efficient, honorable and distinguished service ' on the active list of the volunteer and regular army. SEEMS TO DISPROVE KOCH'S THEORY. Tnbercnlosie May be Communicated to Hu man Beings from the Cow, 8ays Sr. Oarnault Paris, July 25. Dr. Garnault, who, on. June 17, inoculated himself with matter taken from a consumptive cow in order to disprove Prof. Koch's theory that it is impossible for human beings to catch tuberculosis from cat tle, has written to the Temps announc ing that the inoculation has pfoduced tuberculosis tumors. He says this proves that' man is quite as suscepti ble to bovine tuberculosis as any other animal. He again inoculated himself July 15, by inserting under the skin of his left arm a fragment of tuber culosis matter from the liver of a dis eased cow. The second inoculation was performed because he feared that the tuberculosis of the skin resulting from the first would remain too long superficial. The second form of inocu lation when performed on a guinea pig inevitably causes death within eight weeks. This will give an idea of the risks Dr. Garnault is running. KING EDWARD'S CONDITION CAUSES GRAVE CONCERN. Another Operation Will be Necessary in the - Fall and Doctors Will not Predict the Consequences London, July 24.- A high court offi cial who has seen King Edward many times since the operation was per formed upon his Majesty yesterday gave out the following statement: "With the utmost precaution the king will get through the postponed coronation, though it is likely he will not' go to London until the night be fore the ceremony, and afterward will immediately return to CoWes. The reason for having the coronation so soon is a grave one as the king's phy sicians believe he will never be so well again. "The operation, which was far more serious and complicated than any one was led to believe, revealed diseased conditions involving a large portion of the intestinal cavity. The opera tion removed the immediate danger and gave a chance for a rally, which the king wonderfully availed himself of5 but the conditions are still such that a second dperation is only a ques tion of time. . "The operation will probably be per formed in the autumn. Of the king's chances from this operation the doc tors are unwilling to. predict. The king is eager to be crowned soon for the sake of the empire, feeling that it would be unsafe to postpone it longer." PRESIDENT PALiI A HOPEFUL. He Thinks that Cuba Will Emerge Victorious from the Present Crisis. Havanar; July 22. The Union Es- panola quotes President Palma as saying in an interview that "he has great hopes that the country will emerge victoriously from the present crisis. President Palma said: "If American syndicates have bought all our cigar factories and con siderable land, besides a number of smaller estates, it is because" of faith in the economic future of Cuba. Moreover, Senor Terry, who is a plan ter, admits that a price of three reals per 25 pounds of sugar offers a profit, which, though not very great, makes it worth while for those to cultivate sugar who can avail themselves of the best methods. Furthermore, we are approaching a day when sugar boun ties will be suppressed and when Cu ban sugar will be able to compete with the European product and there are besides favorable symptoms of reci procity with the United States. With these reasons as r. basis, we may hope that the economic future of Cuba will soon improve. Wnen once the eco nomic problem is solved the political situation will not present difficulties. The inexperience regarding official or ganizations is compensated for by the good sense of the people. Annexation is not the way to save Cuba as. it will not come when the present population of Cuba would benefit by it, but when the Americans choose ; that is, when the influence exercised by the Latin element in Cuba shall have ceased". DEATH OF JOHN W. MACKAY. John W. Mackay, an American citi zen, died in London Sunday evening and to-day buildings in all the princi pal towns of the United States and in cities in even the remotest parts of the world are draped out of respect to one who from 1851 to ' about 1860 wielded a pick in trying to uncover gold in California and Colorado, and often found it hard to make the dust he collected pay for his "grub stake." The dead man leaves an estate valued at millions. By reason of his connec tion with the Postal Telegraph-Cable. Company the visible signs of mourn ing are carried to all the world In the shape of the regulation black which hangs across the doors of his com pany's offices in many lands. There is always something interest ing in the life of a man who becomes a "captain of industry" by his own ef forts in such a short period of time. We like to consider the career of a man who, working as a day laborer less than half a century before, passes away at the head of vast interests and in the possession of more of this world's goods than he really knows what to do with. Was Mackay merely lucky as the world uses that term, or was he the man of ability that his career would indicate? There is rea son to believe that he at least had the tenacity of purpose which demands success, for it is related that "in 1863 Mackay formed a partnership with Flood, O'Brien and Fair. In 1871 this famous mining quartette purchased the site of the Bonanza territdry, north of the Ophir Mine, on the cele brated Comstock ledge. They began work on a. lode abandoned by Sharon and other large operators. The enter prise was a fruitful source of ridicule in mining circles, nothing but finan cial disaster being freely predicted. Without losing heart or patience, the four men continued, expending a half -million dollars in prospecting opera tions. The ledge was struck and over $110,000,000 was added to the world's stock of precious metals." When the need of a cable between the United Statesand the Orient be came apparent Mackay made a propo- - sition to the government to lay the line without a bonus from the Uuited States, and immediately began to make preparations for the building, of the cable. It is said that he .was greatly interested in the project and had been in London personally . attending to some of the details of the business, and only a few days ago a ship with a section of the completed cable on. board left London for the Pacific coast to begin connecting our outlying possessions with the mainland. It is sad to think that the head of the movement could not have lived to see in operation the first submarine tele graph line across the Pacific. Ocean. But when it is completed it will bear his name and his memory will be hon ored to some extent for the speedy completion of a big undertaking. Charlotte Observer. UcLATTRXN WILL NOT ACCEPT. t Declines Position on Court of Claims Reach Stnnjf by Paper's Saying He 8 old Him self for Offiee. ' Oyster Bay, K. Y., July 21. Presi dent Roosevelt is in receipt of a letter from Senator John ; Z: McLaurin, of South Carolina, declining the proffer ed appointment -to the vacaacy on the bench of the United States Court of Claims. ..The President much regrets Senator McLaurin's decision, as he be- . lieves that McLaurin's Senatorial ex perience and his career , as .Attorney General of South Carolina.. would nave rendered him a particularly; good addir tion to the Court of Claims. ' The President is now : uncertain what he will . o!o . about , Senator, Mc Laurin. It is understood .that he is anxious to appoint him to some' posi tion in recognition of what the Presi dent regards as, his, ; services to Ithe country and his demonstrated , ability -in public life. Senator McLaurin's letter is couched in the most positive terms and evidently was based in par ticular upon a newspaper article which accompanied the letter. The article stated that the Senator had sold him self for the prospect of getting suck an office as that offered, to, him. It can be said, however, that the Presi dent regarded such a type of accusa tion as beneath notice and sincerely regrets that Senator McLaurin should have deemed it necessary to pay any attention to it. ' '" ; AMERICAS ' PARMS , AR; '. WORTS SIX TEEW BILLIOK DOLLARS. i f Average Size, of. Farms 140. Acres, ,49 Per Cent Improved i-In 50 -Years the Number Quadrupled The Total Value of Parm , Products for the, Year 1899, $4, 739.118;758.' : Washington, July 22 The, census bureau yesterday, issued a bulletin giving the condition of Agriculture in the United States, for the year 1900. It shows that there were, at that. time 5,739,657 farms in the entire country which were valued at $16,674,694,247. Of this amount . $3,560,198,191, or over 21 per cent, represented the value of buildings, and $13,114,492,056, or over 78 per cent, represents the value of lands . and improvements other, than buildings. The value of farm imple ments and machinery was $761,251, 550, and of live, stock $3,078,050,041. These values, added to the value of the. r. farms .gives a. total value of farm property amounting to $20;5l4, 001,838. . . .. The total value of farm products for the year 1899 is given at $4,739,118, 752, of which amount $1,718,990,221 was for animal products, including live stock, poultry and bee products. The bulletin places the average size of farms in the United States at 146 acres, and it is stated that 49 per cent of the farm land is improved. , The to tal acreage for the entire country was 841,201,546. ;. , ; ... ,; The, number of farms in .the United States has increased in every; decade for the last fifty years, and so? ragidly that; $n -1900 there were nearly, i four time? as many farms as, in , 850,and 25 per .cent more .than, in 1890,, . The total, acreage of farm, lan,d; also has increased but up to 8,8,0 . less rapidly than the number of farms, thus involv ing a steady . decrease in ; the average size ; of . farms. Sinee,, 11880,,. however, the ;t?tal .acreage-ybas, iincreased more rapidly, than the numberof jfanflfs so that the' average size; of. ,f arms has in creased. ! The total area p improved land, had increased in, every . decade since 1850. . n. , A comparison by , States indicates that the most important States in the agriculture of the country are, begin ning at the West, Missouri, Iowa, Il linois, Indiana, .Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. ., Together they, con tribute 44 per cent, of , the total .value of farm property and, 38 per cent of the total value of farm products. Tex as leads with the greatest number of farms, 352,190, arid also with the high est acreage: 125,807,017. But only a little over 15 per cent of the farm lands in Texas was improved, and the value of the farm land in Texas was. less than in Pennsylvania. Ohio,' New York, Missouri, Iowa or -Illinois, being $962,476,273. , Missouri ranges second in the number, of farmst haying 284, 886.: Other States, having4 more, than 200,000 farms are': &lama ' 223,220, Georgia 224,691, Illinois '234,151, In diana 221,897, Iowa 228,622, Kentucky 231,667, Michigan 203,261, Mississippi 220,803, New York 226,720, North Car olina 224,637, Ohio 276,719, ..Pennsyl vania 224,248,' Tennessee 224,623. The livf1 stock farm "lands of the country are put down at a value vof $7,505,284,273, or more than . 36 per cent of the whole; thJiay and grain lands at $6,379,548,543 or 31 per cent of the whole, dairy ' products over 8 per cent ; cotton over 5 per cent. There are 512 coffee farms in the country, valued at $1,932,915. . . , ,
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