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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER. Thursday, July 23, 19 08. RJRMER. (Established 1886.) Published Weekly Tbe Agricultural Publishing Gompany. Entered at the Raleigh Postoffioe as second olass mall matter. " Under the Editorial and Business Management of ; CLARENCE H POE. I. f W. P. MARSHALL, Pro. WV MASSEY. CHAS. M. SCHERER. T. B. PARKER, 0. F. KOONCE, - ROBERT S. FOUNTAIN, - Managing Editor Associate Editors SECRETARY-TREASURER Traveling Agent Western Representative 315 Dearborn Street, Chicago, 111. "What's 6e News?" A GLANCE OVER THE FIELD. - . - - - - i With the exception of the small-sized revolu-j tion going on in Paraguay over a change in presidents there is nothing new this week in the j way of war and bloodshed. In Russia the douma j has adjourned until October and in England thei Olympic Games of London, opened by King Ed ward, have been a great holiday affair for Eng lishmen, Colonists, Europeans, and Americans. In the United States politicsPresidential politics, of course, occupy the stage. THE PROHIBITIONISTS NOMINATE. To the list' of parties which have put out candi dates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency must be added this week the Prohibition party. Its National Convention was held in Columbus, Ohio. The nomination for President went to Eugene W. Chafin, is a Chicago lawyer who was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He has been a candidate for Governor on the prohibition ticket both in Wisconsin and Illinois. Aaron S. Wat kins, of Ada, Ohio, was nominated for Vice President. The platform declares for such re forms as the election of Senators by the people, an income tax, postal savings banks and guaranty of deposits ,and a constitutional amendment aganist the; importation, exportation, or transpor tation of intoxicating liquors. NOTIFICATION OF CANDIDATES. The National Populist Party has formally no- tified Thos. E. Watson, the brilliant Georgian, of his nomination for the Presidency. This event took place in Atlanta and was the occasion for an elaborate and stirring speech by the nominee. -The Republican notification of Mr. Taft is to be in Cincinnati on the 28th of this, month. The nominee's speech of acceptance is to be brief, but his letter of acceptance is expected to go more fully into political issues. Mr. Bryan will receive formal notification on the 12th of August and, of . course, may be expected to take notice of any utterance of Mr. Taft to which he may wish to reply. PUBLICITY OF CAMPAIGN FUNDS. The healthy progress of public sentiment is shown JjyV the respect commanded "hy the demand that financial contributions to political parties for campaign purposes be made public. In the past four years agitation has been going on which has had an entirely good effect. If the public conscience needed sanitation, it has received a very beneficial course. Mr. Taft's managers and headquarters are in New York and they announce that, of course, they will obey the laws of that State requiring publicity of campaign contribu tions; while Mr. Bryan's managers declare that they will practice what their platform preaches and give publicity to - canlpaign contributions as the campaign progresses, and will receive no sin gle gift larger than ,$10,000, and no 'gift at all irom any corporation. " r Notes of Passage Across the Atlantic. Editor Poe Writes of His Ocean Trip Along the "Northern Route" Between New York and Glas- This is the second day of. July, so . the menu card in the steamer dining room tells me, and so say all well-regulated calendars, but it doesn't seem right to put a July date line over a letter when I have spent the morning with my winter coat on, my winter overcoat, and one blanket (steamer rug) securely wrapped around me while the only thoroughly warm and comfortable moments spent in my steamer chair to-day were those in which my fellow-passengers threw a sec ond blanket over me! It's as cold here now as it is in the South in mid-November with cotton picking in the daytime and 'possum hunting at night: cold enough for muscadines to be getting ripe and for persimmons .to be: giving promise of the time for making " 'simmon and locust beer" again. I could hardly believe before I left home not even when it was established out of the mouths of two or three witnesses that I should need a heavy overcoat in crossing the ocean in July, but rflnd in fact that the only thing more comfortable than one overcoat would be two over coats. ' It's colder, of course, the way we have come: the "Northern route'' as it is called, landing us in Scotland. After leaving New York we skirt the New England coast and keep to the northeast until we go through the "banks" off Newfound land. This put us so far north that the aurora horealis or "northern lights" are 'plainly, visible, as they were last night and night before. These "banks," as most readers know, are sub ject to terrible fogs, fogs so dense that vessels can be seen only a short distance away, so that if our steamer did not sound its fierce and terri ble fog horn every four or five minutes for hours at a time sometimes, there would be serious dan- . " n ger of running into some small and unsuspecting fishing craft. It has been but a short time since such an accident did really occur: a great steam er dashing through the mist upon a small fishing boat, with the result that seventeen men were knocked Into the water and drowned before they could be rescued. " For two days now, however, we have seen no signs of life apart from our own boat: not a fish ing smack nor steamer nor any living thing ex cept one or two seabirds. So far as our ocular evidence goes, we might be the sole and solitary inhabitants of an ocean-covered planet. And yet you would not think of this unless you did so deliberately: the steamer carries such a little world in itself, that it seems self-sufficient; and somehow, too, the ocean in its every phase seems to breed a spirit of complacency and satisfaction such as the dry land nowhere knows. Those that go down to the sea in ships, those that do busi ness in great waters do they not seem to have in all cases a certain calm confidence and repose such as it would seem more natural to associate with-the immovable majesty of the hills and the mountains? On the ocean, time goes by with noiseless tread. We have now been on board five days and nights and have done nothing more ex citing than eat and sleep (eating with its three full and regular meals a day, and two or three other half-way meals in the shape of tea, broth, cakes, sandwiches, etc., thrown in for good meas ure, is our principal occupation), except to play an occasional game of quoits and. shuffieboard, walk the deck in the cool October breeze, or joke and prank with fellow-passengers. Still the time has passed all too quickly. Barring the time when sea-sickness holds you in thralldom, you would like a voyage of a month instead of a week; and not many of our passengers have been seri ously sea-sick. Such is "life on the ocean wave" as we have found it thus far: our previous experience having been confined to occasional trips between Norfolk and New; York, between Norfolk and Boston, and one brief trip on the Pacific between Los Angeles Cal., and the ineffably beautiful and romantic Catalina Islands: a spot where one's castles in Spain seem to shape , themselves into reality and where Tennyson's lotus-eaters might well dream their lives away. Somehow the Atlantic, blus tery, practical, commercial, seems to partake of the nature of the busy English, American, and German peoples found on its borders, while the peaceful Pacific, with its thousand sleepy and easeful islands dotting its sunny bosom, seems indeed to typify the spirit of the Orient with its dreamy religious and its easy-going nations. - . - V Thus far on this trip we have not had a real storm such as the " Atlantic in its jnore restless moods is capable of bringing to pass, but we have had about the usual quota of rough weather: high waves ; last night and this morning that showed us indeed how it feels to be "rocked in the cradle of the deep," while at other times the sea has been as smooth as a mill-pond. & There are yet two more days before I can mail these notes; and before that time there will prob ably be others, that I shall wish to add some, for example, about my fellow-passengers, represent ing all parts of the United States and the utter most parts of the earth: as far at least as Luck now, India. A number of Scotch people are on board, and my first definite and clear-cut impres sion of having really left my home country came last Sunday when in the Church of England ser vice in the music room prayer was made not only for the President of the United States, but also for "our gracious sovereign King Edward, Her Majesty Queen Alexandra," and for the Prince of Wales and the nobility of Great Britain. V;V.-:l ' CLARENCE H. POE. On board Steamship Caledonia, Anchor Line, July 2, 1908. Lay aside that money for buying fruit or orna mental plants ..and - for animals or poultry to be used for breeders. A bird in the hand is the one that counts; and good live stock, poultry, or help ful plants make farming and the home more attractive. No one should fiddle around and run back and forth in the same old rut all his days, because he cannot take up stock-raising on a large scale to begin with. A small herd well cared for will help to buy a larger one. A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK. There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neigh bors that is robbery; the second, by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third, by agri culture, the only honest way, wherein man re ceives a real increase of seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual" miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his victorious industry. Benjamin Franklin. APPROBATION FROM SIR HU BERT IS PRAISE INDEED! The Progressive Farmer, if not the best, at least one of the best farm journals in the whole country. Col. R. J. Red ding in Atlanta Constitution.
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