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IS Cents to January 1To New Subscribers! A Farm and Home Weekly for trie Carolina, tirginia, Tennessee and Qeorgia. PROGRESSIVE FARMER VOL. XXI. NO. 33. THE COTTON PLANT VOL. XXIH. NO. 32. RALEIGH, N. C, SEPTEMBER 27, 1906. Mr. Subscriber A Personal Letter to You (u!i Big Campaign of Last Year Put Us in Sight of the Mark and We Are Going to Have the "Twenty Years and Twenty Thousand" by Thanksgiving. Var Mr. Subscriber: Say, Mr. Subscriber, this is a personal letter ii you yes, sir, for you whose name we have j ; luted on the little slip herewith- and it is very much the same sort of personal letter I wrote you a year ago this week. You remember that letter, don't you what it was about? "Twenty Years and Twenty Thousand!" That was the keynote of it, if you remember; and I meant exactly what I said, "Twenty Thousand!" Great Scotland! that sounded big then, v for we didn't have quite ten thousand actual subscribers -lacked a few hundred. But I decided to aim high, and I told you we were going to get Twenty ThousaDd by the end of 1906. ' ' . J Say, did you ever hear about the Dakota Indian who was opposed to the train running over his hucting ground, and so decided next time it came ite would lasso it? Well, he did. Yes, by a great good hit he land ed his lasso around the whizzing smokestack and if it didn't jerk him to Kingdom Come, it wasn't the locomotive's fault, and all the engineer could say was: "Well, sir, I admire your spunk, but doggone your judgment!" (Only I am afraid he didn't stop at "doggone.") The point is that my'talk about getting Twenty Thousand when I didn't have quite Ten looked rather the same way fine spunk but doubtful judgment. But 'it wasn't, and I knew it wasn't. "The Progressive Farmer will be twenty years old next year," I wrote- just a year ago this week "and we are going to have 20,000 subscribers before the year ends." And we are sure. Why, before February we had over half of the extra Ten Thousand, and we have gained a thou sand or two since, and we are almost in sight of the Twenty Thousand mark now. We are cer tainly going to get them "before the year ends," as 1 said. Yes, and some more besides a great many more. The old Progressive Farmer is a humming, but Ave are going to make it hum some more. We not only want to strike while the iron is hot, but we are going to keep it hot by striking. ! Do you know, we are going to get that Twenty Thousand by Thanksgiving? Well, we are. We are going to have that to be thankful for. And you must help, Mr. Subscriber. This is the final grand rally in the Twenty Thousand Cam paign, and every member of The Progressive Farf mer Family must do his duty. If you sent us a club last year, send! us another Weekly-$l a Year. now just to be in at the final "round (up. If you didn't send us a club last year, by all means make haste to redeem yourself! and to get into good standing before it's too late. It is of no use to put if off. We aire just de termined that every decent farmer in your neigh borhood shall come into the fold; we are con vinced that it's your Christian duty to bring them in, and that it's our Christian duty inot to let you see any peace "whatsomever" until you do bring them in. Mr. Dooley speaks of Mr. Rocke feller as being " at peace with the World, the flesh and the divyle," but we can't be at peace with either till we reach our mark. 0 At the same time, we are going to make it just as easy as possible for you to getj these lost sheep into The Progressive Farmer Fajmily. We are going to make it so easy that njbody will refuse. And this is how we are going to do it: THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER WILL BE SENT TO ANY NEW SUBSCRIBER EVERY WEEK FROM NOW TILL JANUARY 1, 1907, i FOR ONLY FIFTEEN CENTS! That's the offer, and it's so cheari that the t wayfaring man, though a mossback, will not re fuse you when it is offered. Fifteen Cents till January 1st. You have a dozen neighbors, friends, and rela tives who ought to take The Progressive Farmer who will take it if you mention this offer to them. And you must mention it to them. It will help your neighbors to read the paper. It will help your neighborhood to have them read it. It will help you to do this missionary work fo them. Moreover, we'll pay you liberally for your work in getting these trial subscribers will Credit you i one month on your label for every fifteen-cent o' der you s:nd us; six months . credit for a club of six, eiht months credit for a club of eight, etc. - I Moreover, we are going to mail Saturday night of each week in October a check for $5 to the man or woman who has sent in the biggest club of fifteen-cent subscribers that week, a;nd $2.50 for the fcecond largest. ! ' i Twenty Years and Twenty Thousand by Thanksgiving! j Bring then in. j Let no gi-ilty man escape no man iguilty of trying to fi rm and keep house without The Progressive Farmer. j Spot your .nen: now make a list ofj'em all your friends and neighbors yet outside the fold and then lay for them. At the postoffice, at the mill, at the store, at the cotton gin, at the Satur day church meeting, at the Cotton Grqwers', at the Tobacco Growers' or at the Alliance meeting, there are opportunities enough for getting them; we want you to clean up your township. Don't let it be said that there is a farmer left who can read and write who don't take The Progressive Farmer. And to the first , man who sends us a club with the statement (corroborated by two witnesses) that he has brought the last white farmer in the township who "can read and write into the The Progressive Farmer Family we'll give $5 in gold and $4 to the next- and $3 to the next- and $2 to the next and $1 to the next. Send us a club- a club of eight if you can. Strike while the iron is hot, as we have said. If any man sent 15 cents last year and didn't, get his paper, send us his name now and we'll send it to him free. But get up the list. We must have your help, and we are paying you well-r-one month's credit (8 1-3 cents worth) for every 15 cent subscriber you send us, and $5 extra if your club is the biggest of the week, or $2.50 if it's second biggest, and $5 more in gold if you are the first man to clean up your township. Now let's have a grand rally of The Progressive Farmer Family we are going to have that any how and we are going to have that Twenty Thousand by Thanksgiving. :7?iflClI-we,wairt; Is "you, YOU whose name is onthe little slip at the top of this page, YOU to do your part and serid us the names of all your friends and neighbors not already in the Family. And what thou doest, do quickly. Awaiting your reply, I am, . Yours sincerely, CLARENCE H. POE, Editor and Manager. v Torrens System in Georgia. Fron an item, in the Savannah Weekly News, it seemf that there is a prospect of the Torrens System df registering land titles, being tried inv Georgia. At any rate, the work started in the re cent .uesisiaiure. ine iNews says: A Din, dratted by Judge J. L. Sweat, providing for the -adoption in this State of the Torrens Sys tem of registering land titles, is pending in the Legislature. The Torrens System is in use in sev eral of the States, including Illinois, where it is considered to be a model in its way. The pending bill creates no new offices or courts, and the sys tem is not to be compulsory even after the people endorse it at the polls. The Torrens System sub stitutes for the present system of registering deeds a system of registering titles, making it possible to show the true title at once. Instead of a long list of deeds, some of them perhaps obscure or fraudulent, a certificate is issued showing on its face the owner of the land. A simplified method of registering lands has long been wanted." Florida Agriculturist. ' The farmer no longer feels that he is the vic lim of many adversaries. Nor may he ever again despise his calling. He is more of a master now ihan he has been; and his life always senti mentally the envy of many is becoming a genu ine object of envy. Wide acres, clean furrows, green slopes, fat stock, fresh air, independence, und the old homestead is there a man among us that would not have that sort of business, if he were fit for it? Biblical Recorder.
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