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