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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-04
From Henderson County.
HENDERsONvILLE, N. G.

Mr., EditOr:-Iam very much pleased
with the progress we young folks are
making through your good paper. 1
for one have been greatly benefited by
searching for answers to questions
propounded by the Cousins" 1 will
say in regard to THE PROGRESSIVE FAR
MER that such a paper needs a wider
circulation in this end of the State. 1t
is certainly the paper for the farmer.
l will close by asking: When does
Leap Year come again, and why?
JAMES JUSTICE.
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cried, and with an almost superhuman
t # jrt, he drew her upward until her
feet were firmly planted upon the pro
iecting ledge her hands had go frantical-
ly gTasCed. Retaining hishOld upon the
Iden's wrist, he climbed to the top,
and then bending over, he seized her
other hand, and, exer5ing his utmost
strength, lifted her safely to the top
Heavens be thanked! She was saved
saved at last!
For a moment they faced each other.
U to this time not a word had been
spoken by either, Her face was
pale and her brown eyes regarded him
vac sntly. Unconsciously she raised her
hand to her brow. He was just on the
eve of speaking, when, woman ike,
now that the danger was over, sank TO
the ground IN a dead faint.
WHAT to do the artist knew not;
for, since the days Of Adam, there are
two things man has never yet learned
to manage, and they are: f0tnting
ac0men and crying babies. With all
his inventive genius, in these two cases
he is O nonentity, and doubtless will re-
main so until the end of time.
A spring nat dubbed near by sug
gested the idea that perhaps a douclng
of cold water would be the proper thing.
With this object IN view, he fastened
away. He had gone only a few yards
when the command
Halt there, you UilLian!' arrested
his footsteps.
On turning, he beheld a tall, heavy
built man, with long gray hair and a
beard that reached nearly to his waist,
coming towards him, with an uplitted
revolver in his hand. In his steel-gray
ewes there shone a murderous light.
"Why dad yOu Kill my doughtert'
he cried. Die! you UilliomF' and with
the words, he fired point blank at the
artist. The ball grazed his temple,
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P II.
A MIRACULOUS EsCAPE-AN UNEXPECTED
ENCOUNTER-ITS RESULTS.

A MIRACULOUS EsCAPE-AN UNEXPECTED
ENCOUNTER-ITS RESULTS.
After firing the shot, as mentioned in
the closing Of u preceding chapter,
that saved the unconscious maiden
from a horrible death and forever en-
ded the existence Of the venOmous
reptile. the artist sprang to his feet
just in time to see the girl reel
On the brink of the precipice and
with a heart piercing scream disappear
from sight.
Dumbfounded ,speechless and amazed
unable for the moment to credit the
sight his eyes had witnessed-he stood
rooted to the spot, paralyzed with hor
ror. Recovering himself, he dashed
forward, pausing just on the edge of
the chasm. "Mefcful heRvens!' he
mentally groaned-''saved and lost in
the same moment!' He dares not look
downward for fear that he may see her,
as depicted by his mental vision, lying
a thousand feet below among the rough,
Jagged boulders a bruised and bleeding
mass Horrible!
a faint cry reaches his ears, and
arouses him from his mOmentary leth
argy. Dropping upon his hands and
knees and era wing to the brink, he
locks over. An exclamation OF Joy,
mingled with horror, bursts from his
lips. There, lsU beneath, almost
within reach, grasping with both hands
a projecting ledge, hangs the maiden
Hold FAST he cried; hold fas1.
and without a moments hesitation, he
seized with one hand an overhanging
Dough of a mountain oak and swung
himself over. Still holding firmly to the
limb of the tree. he reached downward,
and with the other hand, grasped the
maiden by the right wrist. Now = he
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-04
From Durham County.

DURHAM n. &.
Mr.. EditOr:-I will thank you for
space enough for a short letter. am
a little boy 9 years old to day. I don't
feel like 1 am nine. I am mammals
baby and right smart of a pet. 1 am a
Sunday school boy, and like to go very
much. Mis- Mamie BIalock is my
Sunday school teacher and I like her
fUe. Sne is going to give her class a
present this year for the best lesson. l
want to get the prize. I have two lit
tie calves and two little colts to play
with. I want to ask a question. Who
was the first black man, and how come
him block?
Your little friend,
CLAUDE PENDERGRASS.
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A Busy Girl

hILDEE, N. 9.
Mr.. Edit0r:-I Will write a few lines
to your valuable paper. I live in Ran
dolph county, four miles from the town
of Rsmsuer. 1 go to Sunday school
nearly every Sunday. l work in the
field and help mamma about the house.
I will answer e M Dxon's question.
Elias Howe invented the first sowing
machine. Yours truly,
EMMA YORK.
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HOW ABOUT The ALDERMEN?

Stranger Cooking down Wabash ave
nue. Its q bloody shame to let an
elevated railroad spoil q fle street like
this without having to pay something
for the privilege.
Ciriz9n-You misunderstood. I did
not say tie rail way Company paid
nothing for the privilege. 1 said the
city got nothing for it.
Stranger -On!-Chicago Tribune.
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Some Questions.

SWANS STATION, N. @.
In. Ed6tOr:-Wil you allow a little
girl Is years old to write to your good
paper? like to read The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER, especially the young f1lEs
column. [ will ask a few qls sgions.
What is the shortest book IN Tie Blbit ?
Where did L prd spend dis last Sac
bath2 How long was Christ hanging
on the cross?
Yours truly.
MAMIE J. MORRIS
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POMONA HILL NURSERIES.
POMONA, ". c,

Two miles west of Greensboro, n. c., on the
Southern Hallway. Well known for thirty
years Up with the times with all the new as web
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the maddened man mOves towards the
precipice. When within only q few
feet of the brink, he grows faint and
shows signs Of succumbing to the vi"e
like pressure upon his windpipe. Not
slow TO note these indications of wan
ing strength, the artist relaxes his grip
for a moment, draws back his right
hand, and, as quick as thought, deals
the m~ountaineer 6. heavy blow Ist be
hind the ear. This decides the issue.
The stricken man stasgers, reels and
then comes to the ground with terrific
force, bearing the artist with him,
whose head, as i'll luck would have it,
strikes the sharp c0rner Of a rock,
making a deepgash, ard repd 5ring him
unconscious, almost instantly. Side by
side lay the two men, pale and as still
as death.
X
When the artist RECEIVERS conscious.
moss, or rather that SENT unconscious
state that usually precedes conscious
nesa, he finds the maid Al, whose life
he had twice saved, kneeling beside
him, bathing his face and attempting
to staunch the blood that still flows
from the deep cut just over his
temple.
For a m ,ment he is bewildered.
where is he; who is she, and what
does it all mean anyhow These are
the questions that pass through his
mind as he raises himself to a sitting
posture. Still regarding the maiden in
a dezad way, he asks:
"WhO are you?'
"R9se Haswell," she answers.
Rose Haswell?' he repeats,
slowely.
Yes" she answers, "the girl whose
life you saved.
"And where am II" he asks.
Goa Sunrise Peak, she answers.
Still unable to comprehend the mean
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Written especially for The Progressive Funcrl
A Harvest of Wild Oats.
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YOUNG FOLKS

(TO BE CONTINUED
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CLAUDE PENDERGRASs.
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SUNDAY IN EUROPE.

Augustus, the eminent writer in the
New York Observer, says:
Continental Europe can teach the United
States little about the observance Of the
Sabbath which it is desirable for us to
know. It's religious ohseTIances and hab-
its are largely different from our own, and
even Professionalism is different thing in
its outward form from Americas protes-
tntsm, Just as the manners of the people
their habits of eating and drinking and
their relations to law and government, are
different from ours 1t is certainly as
reasonable to oblige German who comes
to live in New York to observe its Sunday
laws until they are changed, rs it is for the
German government to oblige an American
who comes to live in Berlin to observe its
weekday laws. To each the laws % the
forei IN country may seem unwise and op-
pressivc, but it is only in America that the
foreign-born inhahitant rrsists and seeks to
overthrown, or pcrsStently violates, the
law. Any New Workers who undertook TO
break the law III Hamburg or Munich or
Berlin as it is done over and over again by
men who have come from continental
Europe to live in the United States, would
find the strong hand OF the German Empire
upon them There is nothing in American
Sunday laws which is half so oppressive as
are many of the domestic requirements OF
Germany. How many Americans would
consent to insure the lives of their servants
at the demand of the government, or pay a
regular tax to support church in which
they did not believe? And yet these and
a hundred such regulations are obeyed as a
matter of course on the continent of Europe
Sabbath keeping as enjoined by law in the
United States, is one OF the lightest of
burdens to the citizen, and it insures him
personal rest of body and of mind, better
service from his employees If he is a princi-
pal, and more wages taking the around,
and better health, if he is a laborer, than
seven days labor. 1t is hardly worth
while for American citizens to throw away
system which has worked so well in the
benefits of a continental Sabbath, passed
under very different conditions. by races
educated and trained under institutions
many of which are most unlike our own.
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thousands of human beings had been swal-
lowed up
1.-The earth S surface is continually I'M
dergoing changes by upheaval or dcpres-
sion. On the 10Th of November. 1899. a
broad line of the sea coast in Chill, one
hundred miles in extent, was raised from
the sea. In February, 1885, and in Nov
ember, 1887, other similar rises Of the land
took place. In 1919 the mouth of the In
dus, which had long been closed to navisa-
ton, was deepened in places to more than
eighteen feet. The fort and village of
Lindncr was submerged, only the tops of
houses and walls being visible above the
water, while at the distance of five miles
from this village hill was raised up where
before had beeh low plain, which they
called the Mound of God
"Now, all these facts indicate that we
need not look to the supernatural to find
means for the destruction of the cities
of the plain. The truth is. as mod
ern travellers tell us, that plain is Il blum
inous bog. Naphtha springs abound, sui
phur beds are there. With these condi-
tions under that fierce tropical sun fires are
frequent and long continued These same
sulphur fumes and smoke from the burning
bitumcn beds may be seen to-day by
travellers that Abraham saw when He cot
up in the morning and looked toward the
land of the plain, and 10! the smoke of the
country went up as smoke of furnace!'
Now, | think we may take reasonable
view of the destruction of those cities of
the plain. There was some natural con-
vulsion, earthquake or volcanic. which
everthrew them, submerged them under
the waters OF the Dead Sea, or buried them
under sulphurOus ashes, as Pompcii was
buried, Fire lent its terrors to the scene.
Some might escape, like Lot who fled to
the hills. But those who should remain or
turn back, like Mrs. Lot, perhaps in Il
selfish desire to save some worldly goods.
would undoubtedly be overcome and
Slifocatcd by the sulphur fumes Their
bodies lying there, IN proxipity TO the
Dead Sea, under the drifting salt sands,
might naturally become incrustcd with
SALT just as everything about that shore of
the Dead Sea is in"rustrd with salt to-day
Lo. Mrs. Lot is turned to salt for turning
back at critical time, and is preserved 10
point moral and adorn y tale. '''-Roch-
ester Union and Advertisers
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WHAT THE BIBLE IS.

Professor Goodwin Smiths uttcrances
upon the subject from the view point of a
higher critic: What is the Old Testament?
1t is the entire body Of Hebrew literature,
theology, philosophy, fiction and poetry,
including the poetry Of love as well as that
Of religion. We have bound it all up to-
gcthcr as "A SINCE book, and bound up that
the religion of the two were the same and
the slaughter of the Canaanites or the
massacre of the day of purim were a step
towards Christian brotherhood and the Ser
mon on the Mount We have forcibly
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turned Hebrew literature into sort of
cryptogram of Christianity The love song
called the ''Song of Solomon" has been
turned into crptogrammic description of
the union of Christ with his church. A
certain divine, when his advice was ask ed
about the method of reading the Scrip-
lures, used to say that his method was to
begin at the beginning and read to the end ::
so that he would spend three hours at least
on the old Testament for one that he spent
on the New, and would read the list of
Dukes OF Edom as often as he read the Ser
mon on the Mount. The first step toward
rational appreciation OF the Old Testa-
ment is to break up the volume, separate
tie acts OF Joshua or ,Jehu from the teach
ings OF Jesus and the different books of the
Old Testament from each other.
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Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic
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SCHEDULE IN EFFECT DEC. 18TH.

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The full intensity
of living is reached
only by the perfectly
healthy. Sickness
discounts the capac-
ity for enjoyment.
w h n a piano is
badly ont OF tune,
the noises shat come
from it arc certainly
not musical. They
are not beautiful. If
1t is only 4 little bit
out of time. you can
play some few things
on it. You can create
a sc III blauce of