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PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT RALEIGH, N. C. STARKVILLE, MISS. COMMUNICATIONS REGARDING ADVERTISING OR SUBSCRIPTIONS MAY BE ADDRESSED TO EITHER OFFICE. ENTERED A8 SECOND CLASS MATTER AT THE POSTOFFICE AT RALEIGH. N. C.. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF MARCH 8, 1879. bnder the Editorial and Business {Management of. TAIT BUTLER and CLARENCE POE. Prof. W. F. MASSEY.Associate Editor. E. E. MILLER..Managing Editor. JOHN S. PEARSON,.Secretary-Treasurer. Advertising Representatives: Fisher Special Agency, New York; Albert H. Hopkins, Chicago; S. M. Goldberg, St. Louis and Kansas City; J. L. Mogford and C. F. Koonce, Field Repre sentatives. We Guarantee Our Advertisers. WE will positively make good the loes sustained by any subecrfber " as a result of fraudulent misrepresentation made in oar col umns on the pert of any advertiser who proves to be a deliberate •windier. This dose not mean that we will try to adjust trifling disputes between reliable business houses and their patrons, hot in any case of actually fraudulent dealing, we will make good to the subscriber as we have just indicated. The condition of this guaran tee is that the claim far loss shall be reported to us within one month after the advertisement appears in our paper, and that the subscriber must say when writing each advertiser: I am writing you as an advertiser in The Progressive Farmer end Gazette, which guarantees the reliability of all advertising that it carries." Average Weekly Circulation for Six Months Ending March 31. 1910, was 90,521. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year, $1.80; six months, 66 cents; three months, 80 cents. To Imdmeo mom omboeripttomo, omo mom omboerlbor amd omo old ■iteu ibm mum both got tho paper omo poor for $1.60, Editorial Gleanings. WE CAN’T MATCH human muscle against mule muscle or steam power and come out even; and we can’t expect to have the work stock we need until we begin raising it. That’s why our Horse and Mule Special next week will urge the raising of more and better horses as well as give valuable practical information to every horse owner. We could fill the whole issue with horse talk, but we must find room for our “$500 More a Year” and our corn-growing arti cles, for another Massey story, and for some time ly legume talk, in addition to the usual depart ments. J* “Give the boys a show.” That is good advice for every farmer to take. Mr. E. L. Vincent will have a little letter next week pointing out how it pays. We are trying to do it, too, as witness Mr. Martin’s article this week. Dr. Knapp has also promised us a letter especially to the boys, and others of the ablest Southern writers will help “Our Progressive Farmer Boys.” None of these letters, however, will be more interesting than those written by the boys themselves, and we shall have more of them. J* What Mrs. Stevens says on the first Home Circle page about the purchase of sewing machines on the “long-time” plan from traveling agents is un questionably true. Most things sold this way coBt from 50 to 100 per cent more than they should. A young lady who used to sell sewing machines has just told us that the machine that sold for $46 cash was priced at $65 when sold on install ments. This was a high-grade machine and sold in a store; those sold by traveling agents at $50 to $60 are usually such as should be bought for $30 or $35. And this is as true of other things as of sewing machines. Jt Mr. Jeffries tells on page 391 of some sheep that made big money for their owner. It is enough, as he says, to make a man hug a sheep. While every sheep raiser may not do so well, there are few farms in the South on which small flock of sheep would not pay a good j l A Backward Step. THERE IS PROBABLY no county in Missis sippi which produces and ships more cattle than Oktibbeha. This being the case, there is no other county in the State which would re ceive as great benefit from the eradication of the cattle tick. At the April meeting of the Board of Supervisors they resolved to co-operate with the State and Federal authorities in prosecuting the work of tick eradication in this county. At the May meeting of the Board a few dealers in cattle, who might be inconvenienced by the work and thereby lose a dollar or two, went be fore the Board and had it reverse its former ac tion. It is a pity that a few dealers in cattle are not above sacrificing the interests of the small cattle raisers and the farmers of the county generally, because the prosecution of this w’ork might cause them a temporary loss of a few dollars. The very inen who ought to be leaders in progress, and who eventually would be the largest beneficiaries from tick eradication, are so selfish and short-sighted, so non-progressive and unjust to the balance of the stock owners of the county, that they are will ing to antagonize this important work and place Oktibbeha County, the seat of the Agricultural Colege, among the non-progressive counties of the State. We hope that those who favor tick eradication, and any man who is sufficiently unselfish to per mit his mind to act normally must favor it, will hold a public meeting—not one from which those favoring tick eradication are excluded, as occur red recently—and bring such pressure to bear on t Vl o Uno r/1 nf Cn n« mill tl. a -— — “ »•« IIIUUV v I liUUl vv carry out their original purposes of co-operating with the State and Federal forces in giving Oktib beha County farmers the benefit of this tick eradi cation work. A dozen men, no matter how much money they may have, or what their selfish inter ests, should not be permitted to block the wheels of progress and cause the small cattle raisers of the county to continue to sustain year after year serious losses from which the State and National governments stand ready to help relieve them. This county, above all others, should get in line and eradicate the ticks. This is an age of prog ress and intelligence, not one of ignorance, selfish ness and retrogression. Did Your Wife Read It ? FROM EVERY section of our territory and by every mail come letters in appreciation of our exposure of the patent medicine fraud As this issue ia a "Special,” we are unable to find space for any further articles on the subject, but next week'B paper will contain some additional eye-openers. Meanwhile, Mr. Suscriber, there are Just two things we Bhould like to sav. Firm Subscriber read the article on the patent medicine fraud? If she didn’t, be sure to get the paper for her and ask her to read It. She ought to read our paper every time—the Home Circle pages in cluding Mrs. Stevens's dressmaking articles now running, the poultry and dairy pages, the review of the news, and all that.—and she might well start with last week's issue. Moreover, she Is the one who decides what remedies shall be used for the sick, and it is more Important that she be in formed than any one else. In the whole matter the saddest tragedy of all Is the number of loving mothers and wives who in seeking cures for their loved ones are deceived into using worthless nos trums or even patent medicines of the more vicious sort that may even carry poison and death The farmers’ wives have heretofore been a main stay of the patent medicine fakirs. We have pre viously quoted the remark of a big manufacturer (he had probably been drinking) who said in aub stance: "Oh, yes, these articles have ruined our city trade, but we still have the country people. They are as thick as mud, and we'll advertise in papers that reach them." Now, we propose that our country people shall hurl back the fakir s in sult and have done forever with a business that appeals only to the ignorant. And to this end the farmers’ wives must be aroused. Our second request is simply this: Since our last issue appeared we have received a copy of the brand-new Farmers’ Bulletin No. 393, "Habit Forming Drugs" just issued by the National De partment of Agriculture. This bulletin admirably supplements our article, and you can get a copy free by sanding a postal to your Congressman or to the United States Department of Agriculture. Washirgton, D. C. Send for it to-day. It gives the names of a few, and only a few, of the very many patent medicines containing morphine, opium, acetanllld, cocaine, and other poisons, these embracing soothing syrups, soft drinks, asthma and catarrh remedies, cold and cough cures, con sumption cures, headache mixtures, cures for fits, tobacco habit cures, etc. Many a farmer has paid a traveling book agent $2 to $5 for books not half so useful as this farm ers' bulletin ofTered free for the asking. Send a postal to-day and get It. The Next Step in Civilization. | AS THIS ISSUE of The Progressive Farmer and Gazette goes to press schools in all parts of America are celebrating "Peace Day." In view of the enormous burden of taxation Im posed upon the American people for war purposes, it Is high time indeed for our people to Join to gether in pushing forward to the next great step in civilization the establishment of a potent and authoritative Supreme Court of Nations to H«ttu disputos between peoples Just as for centuries we have had courts to settle disputes between Indi vidus. In this connection we reprint herewith perhaps the strongest peace poem of recent years -Richard i,e Gallienne's newly-published "War": War I abhor. And yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and life, and 1 forget Wet eyes of widows and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. Without a soul save this bright drink Of beady music, sweet as hell; And even my peace-abiding feet Go marching with the marching feet. For yonder goes the fife. And what care I for human life' The tears nil my astonished eyes And my full heart is like to break. And yet *tl» all embannered lies. A dream those little drummers make O it Is wickedness to clothe Yon hideous grinning thing that stalks Hidden In music, like a aueen I hat in a garden of glory walks, nil good men love the thing they loathe. Art, thou ham many Infamies. Hut not an Infamy like this ° "naP lh« and still the drum. And show the monater ns she Is Instead of the high price of peas being a reason you 8houPlrianUAg them’ U 18 th® Tery reaaon »hy ,“n h? ,t A man "ow" on'y that he may reap. he nrtrl° * hundred ,0,d- a"d the higher Sjns for hi.lbe.Commod,ty* the bigger the re turns for his labor and trouble. As Professor » uihe T T #ne,u at •*to M.OO « Fr!n h ^ °f hav,n« them to buy.” Mr. Pay a mUn7rhald R trU*r th,n* th&n that U w!U (ay a man to borrow money to buy seed peas a rnn* l° B‘md a ,,*‘,,al ,h,B weeh »®d *•« Formln, Drun.™*”’ Bu‘""" No 393'