THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
Thursday, October 24, 1907.
8
CLARENCE H- POE.
W. F- MARSHALL,
B. W. KILGORE,
T AIT BUTLER.
C F. KqONCE. Trav'l'g Agt.
Editor and Manager.
Associate Editor.
Agricultural Editors.
;T. B. PARKER. SC-Tras
I :-; -s-KTVTTWvrr-KTa A TUT CfTWT TTC A - f!T .TTC
xou ve ueen tuiiutiug a guuu ueai auuuii ov,
lection of corn and cotton, but what about the , -
trees? .You will want to plant. some this fall To any man not now a subscriber we will send
shade trees, perhaps, and fruit trees. Remem- The iTogressive raracr every ween irom now uu
ber what Mrs. Grimes suggested about transfer- January 1, 1908, for 15 cents, and stop the paper
ring -native trees and vines from the woods and promptly then if the paper is not renewed.
fields to the home grounds? They will do much - ! H.
to make the farm home beautiful, if it is not al- For every new tria 15-cent subscriber you send
. ANOTHER WONDER AT WORK. r
The world now has benefit of another wonder
across the middle seas. It is not that a faster
steamship has appeared among the flocks of the
deep, though since we mentioned the matter a
month ago, the Lusitania has broken her own rec
ord, and all the records of the seas, by crossing
the Atlantic in less than five days, or to be exact,
in four days, nineteen hours, and fifty-two min
utes. But the new wonder is not that the path
between the Old World and the New has been thus
oinrfonoH if Tiocs ho on RhnrtPTiPfl in annthpr wav.
The ocean has been bridged by wireless telegraphy
so that even the poor now have the price of com
munication over the .separating seas. This does
not mean that the first wireless message has just
been sent across the sea. That was' sent by Mar
nn r iQft3 oowTi vAnrsi after Via had declared to
a skeptical world that he Intended to do it. He
ready so.
us we will credit you a month, on your subscription
Before the leaves fall, select your shade trees twleve, new trial subscribers will renew you for a
in the woods near by. Oh, it will be a fine Octo- year free of cost, six for six months, three trial
ber stroll you'll have, too. You will select a tree subscribers credit you three months on label, etc.,
of good size, so you will not have to wait tor it to etc;
grow. See that it has a thick crown of -foliage ni
and that the leaves hang on late. Another thing: And finally, in addition to this, we are going to
avoid bringing into your home grounds the kinds give a prize of $1 every day during the month of
of trees that have fuzz on the underside of the October to the man or woman,, boy or girl, who
leaves to make convenient nesting and breeding sends us the largest list of 15-cent subscribers that
places for enat-like pests of various kinds. And day whether the number, sent be three or three
tn oo1oHTirvrviiT fruit trooe a n r! flnwers nn1 vItips I CiOZen.
get the larger sizes and take unusual care to make
them live. : They cost a little - more than: the
younger specimens but by the extra outlay of five
cents or twenty-five cents per plant you may gain
a whole year, or two years, of roses and fine fruit.
.' JP YOU WISH, TO BUY ANYTHING.
A great many of our readers write us in regard
to buying! anything needed for farm and home,
and it is ' always a pleasure to answer such in
quiries. The reader should, of course, always first
look through our advertising columns; if they can
not help him, write direct to us.
This then,.in brief, is a good rule to follow:
If you wish to buy anything, look first in The
you.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING.
"No man in North Carolina has done more for
the prosperity of the State than "Uncle Jo," said
Mr. C. C. Moore in conversation with us the other
JOHN CHARLES McNEILL.
John Charles McNeill is dead.
It is hard to write the words. It is hard not to
startled the world by keeping his promise. Since Wrlte them half-rebelliously against the'cruelty of
then his system has become a part of oceanic navi- the Iron-hearted fate that took him just as his Progressive Farmer advertisements: if you do not
gation ; but not until last Thursday had it- been genius was coming into flower and his own dreams, find it advertised, write direct to The Progressive
developed into a commercial system of inter-conti- and the long dreams of his gray-haired father for Farmer office
nenuu couiuiumcatiuu. sju. iua. uaj, ;Wu x . , nim were coming into glorious realization. When it will at all times be a pleasure for us to help
1907, the Marconi wireless service oetween tne a man has done his work, it may even then be
Old World and the New was opened and 10,000 hard to die; , but when all one's days are before
words transmitted. The first westward wireless him, and all the promise and richness of a splendid
press message was received' on that date by the genius ripening into fruitage, the pity of it Cannot
New York Times from Privy Councilor Lord Ave- De tQld in words.
Dury, iormeny wr jouu uuuuuvk, m.uuuuuu. And so ne is dead, the big-hearted, human,
v mus Qoes me worm nave ueueuL ui miei-ioui- lovable North Carolina country-bred boy gifted as day. "He ! has set people to growing chickens
munication over as well as under the sea. The lat few in our generation have been he who knew the everywhere and you hear him quoted everywhere
ter was begun forty-nine years ago, ana prougnt to common things of our farms and fields and forests The Progressive Farmer is read.
greater perfection eight years later in 1866. At and sang about them;' he whose sensitive nature j. ; &
mat ume me raie across me sea was o a wuiu. could divine the tenderest feelings of "the little A big tobacco manufactbrer of Winston-Salem,
ine marcorn system puts me rate as iuw as uve white bride"; , could laugh with barefoot boys who owns a first-class farm, was commenting the
cents a word, and thus are even the poor of all the on Lumber River; could tongue love's sweetest other day on the improvements in agriculture since
world brought nearer together. You just leave dreams in such poems as "Oh, Ask Me Not"; could his boyhood. "Most notable of all, of course,' 'he
your message at your nearest telegraph office as look straight to God in Christmas and Easter said, "is the improvement in farm machinery and
uoUx w nymns; couia reel the tragic barrenness in the life implements of culture. With these I can now pay
scoua over tne usual iana wires; mere it is taKen of Tne Drudge; whoSe heart beat with pity hands $1.25 a day and make corn more cheaply
nr anil thrniifrh t"hc trnrVlAsa :iir if is spnt flvinerl i . . .. ' I . i ?
o v v..- - - even ior me outcast woman; who lived so near to than we could-do twenty years ago with day la-
inerranuy to its aestination on me omer siae 01 Nature that the mood of every season found magi- bor at thirty cents and forty cents.
the sea. inaeea, wnat natnsiioa wrougnt: cai expression in his fancv: and who also felt ns
we feel now, the hopeless mystery of untimely
RISING TIDE OF PUBLIC REVENUES. death and expressed it in words of matchless
beauty in his tribute "To Melvin Gardner."
It has been but a month since the write saw Mc
Tax-gathering time is here again, and one of
the striking things about it is the big number of Neill but a month since we talked and laughed
"I didn't see a weed nor a gully anywhere in
England," said Mr; C. S. Wooten who is just back
from a trip abroad,! and who called at The Pro
gressive Farmer office last week. And Mr. Wooten
items in the papers from all - directions telling together and planned even then not unhopefully r?ld otner interesting .things about European ag
about the increase of revenues. One town sets ior iuture years, we had long been our friend and
$10,000 in taxes more than last year, "another ffi?nd of The Progressive Farmer's. Some of his
$20,000. One county's tax income is increased by
finest prose articles were written for our paper-
the very first, in fact, to brine- him i
iV. .3 J 1 1 I " ' ' " " .vw niuv
uioei.ia "euuo uciiveu iiuui au muease ui nrhmlnonro a a wrlt nA , v,
Progressive Farmer readers are also familiar with
property Increase of $2,000,000 to yield extra many of his poems. '
' "ax. ' " ... a . m
taxes, ana so n goes. mese are dul smgie items; -ana now ne is dead Lycidas-like, "dead ere
similar conditions are almost universal in The nis .prime and hath not left his peer" but death
Progressive Farmer's territory. This increased Drings him the peace and sleep that life of late de
0 7.nmp wii-Tnih withnnt. Pxrpntinn fmm le him He loved the autumn-time---".the fall
. g tne only season," he said to us a month ago;
.v..v,n.wv- .-v-w w. i - - v. auu w ueu mst weeK tney laid down his weary bodv
recall an increase in the tax rate. unless for some In the old churchyard in Scotland Countv th
special purpose voted on by the tax-payers. We c ng 11Qes of his own beautiful "October," wrlt-
nuuiture, some or wmcn win De mentioned in a
later issue.! "The Progressive Farmer," he says,
"is an education for any farmer who will read it
carefully yes, it will literally make an educated
man of him." ; '
FARJMERS INVESTING IN COTTON MILLS.
There are a number of the more progressive
farmers in the county now who own stock in bank
ing and cotton mill;: corporations and are letting
their money work for them, arid it is hrineriner
r i - - a
them. all the way from 10 to 35 per cent on the
investment.! If more of our farmers will get cured
of "land fever" and invest their surnliis in inrlns-
Iperity of the section in
Home, Marsh ville, N.i C.
which they live. Our
trial enterprises, they will realize -better results
ro 1 Lten in praise of his favorite month mt and at thel same time contribute to the develop
uV-'ii.- i- ix.- . . , . quints tu Liie minus oi more than one fripnd n f " " " 'y-f"--"u . -y c uiaucui yiua-
li. I K liih Iit-".1. i.iiiit-t in i.iiH w 1 1 T i 1 1 l lr nnn no oarirnntn
n i a k - been written in Presentiment of. his own
; ---- " 7 r, . passing from us:
ing public affairs. The time to save money is -
Ana it, mayhap, a wandering child of thfte.
Weary of land and sea,
Should turn him homeward from his dreamer's
quest ,
To sob upon thy breast,
when you have it, not when your pocket and your
.treasury are empty. Thrift is a fine horse to ride,
but frugal thrift is a better .one, has better wind
and stronger legs,- will go further and last longer.
Wise and prudent public officers have now a gol
den opportunity to serve their people well.
And the people, too, should demand now. more
permanent improvements and especially larger
sums for building better highways.
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.
Thine arm would fold him tenderly to prove
How thine eyes brimmed with love,
And thy dear hand, with all a mother's care,
Would rest upon his hair.
, uxau ucucvc in uuu, ana not in nanies ana
places and persons. Let the great soul incarnated
In Kruno wnman'o fmi-m t-. j j j " .
w w.u.u. yuui . itllU SilU ttUU SJUglC,
in some Dolly or Joan, go out to service and sweep
chambers and scour 'floors, and its effulgent day
beams cannot be muffled or hid, but to sweep and
scour will instantly appear supreme and beauti
ful actions. Ralph Waldo Emerson. J