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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-02-22
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lDTTED BIZ AUNT JENNIE. R4TE1GH. \. G.

mere Is q column for everybOdy-ladies, CEN
Tseme1 boys, girls beaus and sweetbearfs.
ENeryoody Is invited to wT1ta on subjects OF In
Gne point Above all don't wait until every
enc else has Wi n to join the band. Our
farmers TER daughters sons and wives, have
more leisure during winter thar any other sea-
son OF the year and we hope = large number of
Gnem VIII write US. Never mind IL yuu are not
perfect asa wIit-r give us your Thoughts and
Me VIII see that they are In good shape before
they are pubfisned.
roE PROGRESSIVE FARMRRi l. paper for every
member OF the family and young and old alike
9fe IT'S patrons and its friends. We hope to
" friends Up that will be Q help and an tnspira.
uon 70 each one Of u.s. The friendship or each
OF our readers the confidence of the Old North
SGatg's urdy sons, and the trust of each OF her
~SAnghGers, Is what this papeE@aims to win by
neIping each one OF them to do more, to be more
Sna TO enjoy more in this beautiful world" We
nope this 8 1Ttt viii animate each letter, and
DEe&tne through every page. Address letters To
Aunt Jennie" care Of Tan PROGRESSIVE FAR
GsR. Raleigh, N. c.
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MRS L D.. DEFENDS HERSELF

@G8S - ~R N@G 1CNO0 -
The chatterers have had quite q in
teresting time discussing my &rtiCle
THE New Woman" I have enjoyed
it as much if not more than they have.
Some have miscOnstrued my meaning
as to woman's right sphere. They
seem to think that I would reIegate
her to the rear in. the march Of pro
erosion il indeed I permitted her to
join in the march at all. Now my dear
friends you misunderstood me for / am
not only anxious to have her in the
army but insist that she be made the
color bearer in order that the world
which runs may read that we at least,
are for the predominance Of right in ali
things.
Remember, you mothers who read
this that / am deeply conscious of the
fact that as my girl is, just so will she
influence your boy to be. Yes, in spite
Of all your protests it will be thus in
life. He loves you, yes; but r you
with him alWays8 Does not the smile
of somebody's girl have a WOE derful III
fuence over hint Does it not behooVe
you to see that that influence ia for his
good 90 far as it is in your poWeri
Your girl will vote, too. She may not
go to the polls and timidly cast her
ballot, but, depend upon it somebody
will cast his vote just rs che wishes
him to do.
Progress, is a most admirable word
and often inspires heroic efforts. But
is not progress in the wrong direction
worse than r~etrogression7 L. it not
much more diff suit to unlearn thing,
than to learn lt3 Have you mothers a
boyG And did that boy when small,
learn (trom some boy with whom he
associated without your permission)
ugly, or profane wordsG Do you not
remember how difficult it vas for you
to have him unlearn, or forget those
wordsQ Can your little girl ride and
enjoy her bicycle, and as she grows to
young womanhood have sufficient self
denial in her composition to cast from
her as vie this pleesure7 Think you
that the Wills Gan she regain, or cul-
tivate modesty then7 "As the tWig is
bent, +" etc. Cast your influence in tbs
right direction; that Of womanliness in
u southern womanhood.
Reforms are needed everywhere.
Especially needed in our dress" Yes,
but how are we to rectify this evil9 As
long as we are blind followers of fash
ion no release from her letters can be
hoped for. The Chinese bind their lit
tie girls feet to keep them small. We
are more cruel still, for We permit the
binding of more vital organs and laud
the foolish girl who is thus injured, or
destroyed physically.
have sometimes wondered whether
We women, ConsCientiously anxious as
we are not to play the shirk in ell ques-
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tons OF serious import do not q
age 1t in others. Whenever women
demonstrate that they can do things
better than men for less pay, Of course
the mel stop. We insist that we can
do everything for ourselves; that we
do not need to be cared for, that it is q
matter of brain and that our brains are
as good as those of man. So now this
queer situation is presenting itself
men taking easy chairs, reading novels
and cultlvating the meditative frame
OF mind, that used to be purely femi-
mine. But they are not keeping the
houses; they are not making the family
garments; they are not mothers. So
far as these things are pursued the
woman is still the one who undertakes
them. Truly with woman 90 ambitious;
% able and 90 eager to do all the work
OF the world, man ought now TO have
an easy time. She must know O little
OF all the arts and sciences, must be-
long to several clubs, Of in town OF
city, superinteDd he childrens eduCa-
ton, keep up with the fashions IN
social matters, and understand all the
ms and outs of her husbands business
In order to be able to give him good
advice or steer the ship herself in case
he proves incompetent In addition she
must keep pace with all movements for
the broadening Of Woman's sphere, that
she may be equipped for any new
duties that may arise. No wonder
then that the average woman has lost
the capacity for sound sleep and many
have nervous prostration. No wonder
that mothers simply must let nurse
take charge OF baby" and that the older
children exercise their own sweet wills.
The modern woman is conscientious ia
q fault, but she feels responsible foI
many affairs that her grandmother
calmly left to the men to perform
Woman's will and ambition are I'm
limited, but her nerve power is limited.
Nothing SO speedily wastes this, ouI
most precious possession, as the anxiety
to crowd too many things into oul
lives. And as for the extreme business
in which we seem to glory what car
be said of it more than that it argues
not so much for ability as for inability
to exercise q wise and proper discretion
in the affRirs Of life. 1t indicates also
4 a leeaened sense Of DePeOnal dignity. iY
that We permit ourselves to be whipped
like slaves through each day with thu
scourge Of many self imposed duties
necessarily half performed.
In the language of Mrs, D. 8. B.
MAY the day be not far distant wher
we will dare shake OF the letters; dar'
be ourselves, dare be women"
With best wishes for The PROGRESS
I'VE FARMER and Social Ohat.-Mrs. J
L.. D., PIttsborO, N @.
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tIVeS we're already assembled around
the insufficient amount Of fire that
they we're allowed to keep, O fearful
sight in curl papers and yellow fan
mel dressing gown, and brandishing in
her left hand an empty ~japanned box.
Its goneI" shrieked Mrs. Paget
Poppleton.
whats Comet" echoed the three.
with one accord. ''Not-not the dia-
mosd necklaceI"
'YesI" cried Aunt Poppleton, cast
ing the empty box upon the floor. I'm
the night Taken from under my pill
lowl o. OF OF what a world of crimes
and rascelity this isl Nov, tell me,
children, which one of you stole it9"
Mr. Nicholson, Mr.. Poppleton and
Miss Ellieslaer looked blankly at each
other at this very frank and unvar
nished question.
mot but what you might better
have waited until after / was dead"
scathingly went on the fairy god
mother; lit wouldn't have been long,
and it would have saved my nervesI"
Dearest aunt, surely you never can
suspect me-" cried Miss Ellieslaer,
striking an attitude at once.
"And I am innocent as the babe I'm,
born, !" added Mr.. Nicholson.
az should never dream of such q vii
famous act" struck in Hiram Popple-
ton.
The police were notified. Instant
search was made, but in vain. The
necklace was gone, leaving no trace
behind.
IF you have no objections, Aunt
P~0ppletoD, " said Psget Nicholson, the
next week, 81 should like to go New
Orleans this winter. Ny lungs are
weak and"
"And leave met" said Aunt Popple
ton, suddenly looking up with her
sharp green gray eyes.
"You have Ruth and Hiram to care
for YOU" pleaded the nephew.
LOT course, you'll make me an al,
lowanceF queried the old lady.
IL couldn't do that" answered
Mr.. Nicholson, turning red, and tWirl
ing his thumbs. my small income
only meets my own expenses, and in
Justice to myself, I cannot afford to
curtail i'll"
on" said Aunt Poppleton, good
byeI"
Hiram PoppIeton was the next to
drop away from the ring of adherents.
He had heard OF an excellent business
opportunity in Canadian opening
which would require all his spare cap
ital; was very sorry he could not leave
a small sum with his Aunt Poppleton,
but could remit-ahem-as SOON "a he
found himself pecuniarily in circum
stances to do 80.
"And 1 may starve, I suppose, in
the meantime" said Mrs. P~oppleton,
grimly.
WELL" said Hiram, feeling his
shaven chin, 'if one of US is to
SG6EV6s ~ Mhy as "CA 10 SO0 0S ACI
And Mr.. PoppIeton went his way.
The old lady turned plaintively to
her nis ce.
II have only you left now, Ruth"
she said.
Mics ElIieslaer turned her head.
81 don't kno " about that" she said ;
'Thave myself to look to. A friend OF
mine-a very respectable widower-
needs a housekeeper, and I have prom
to take the situation day after to-
morrow"
But, 7" gasped Mrs Poppleton, what
is to become of meG'
That's your own lookout" said
Ruth, viciously. "I have borne with
your abominable temper and unreasoa
able exactions quite long enough"
Mrs. Poppleton said nothing more,
She dropped her head and shrank as IT
from q blow.
Miss Ellieslaer packed her trunk
and departed, and old Anagtasia Pop
pleton was left alone In the tumbled
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"% She was dWarfed and
NQR crooked and i'll tempered,
and wore clothes cut after the patterns
Of half a century ago, and walked
with an ivory headed cane, and had q
store of old world superstitions won
derful to listen to. She lived in an
old tumbled down brick house, full of
rats and leaks and echoes, and boast
ing q ghost in the cellar Of rainy Fri
day nights. She dressed like an old
beggar woman, and haggled over q
cent with sickening eagerness, and yet
Mrs. Paget Poppleton's nephews and
nieces courted her with the most sh9c-
tomato assiduity on account Of the
Poppleton diamonds.
Most people have hobbies, whether
they are trotted out in daily life or
kept in the decorous retirement Of
''behind the scenes" Mrs. Psget Pop
pleton's had been precious stones.
There's nothing certain" the old
lady would ~reiterate, nodding her
head as if she had q &c Of palsy
Banks can't be depended ON. Gov
ernment bonds go up and down like a
see saw Bonds and mortgages are un
reliable, but diamonds always repre-
sent q standard Of value; therefore,
I'll put my money into diamonds."
And that was the history of the Pop
pleton's necklace; the history, also, Of
the abject devotion Of Paget Nicholson
and Hiram Poppleton, her two neph
ews, and Mary Smith and Ruth E,lies-
laer, her nieces.
Mrs, Poppleton kept her precious
stones-Vsry fooIishly-in her own
possession. All day she carried them,
shrouded in a channels. leather bag, In
her wiGhered old bosom, and &C night
she keps them In a small, fat apanneO
box under her pillow.
mo n shall get EN- as long as I am
alive" said Mrs. Poppleton, with a
grim chuckle, land when I am dead I
will b questh them to whom l pleaseP
Under the circumstances it can easily
be imagined how obsequious and de-
voted w're the nephews and nieces.
Except Mary Smith. Mary had a
spice OF independence about her, and
toad eating, as a daily diet, did not suit
her.
Aunt Poppleton," said she one day,
when driven almost frantic by the
merclless flashing OF the old fairy god
mothers tongue, II know I owe you
some duty, but-bus l can't endure to
live on sol May 1 go awayr"
And starVei" said Mrs Poppleton.
i can get a situation in a store"
said Mary, and I shall at least be in.
dependent"
DO as you please, miss said Mrs.
roppIeton, with a toss of her fantas-
VIC cap ribbons. There are enRugh
uefe 20 take care of me without you'll
mats just it, Aunt Poppleton,"
sad Mary Smith. 81 could not leave
you'll you we're aloner'
| uare say notI' shifted Mrs. Pop
p,s'on, You're very devoted, amt
You're very obedient
~, "y to 0e, Aunt PoppIetopr"
w. w. yer said Mrs. PoppIeton.
Ul79r out then. can do very we'll
Ano she made a curious circular
"-sS OF her cane, as if she were de-
TO'ng a magic circle around her.
- Utmost expected to see her van.
- through a crack of the floor. But
% Mary Smith went away and took
NJ SITUATION as store girl. And Paget
FT.uCIlson' Hiram Poppleton and Ruth
slaer redoubled their attentions
Iaelr venerable aunt.
1n'ii, one morning, the old lady
tearing downstairs into the
breakfast room, where the three rela.
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sit seems from the evidence that you
were drunk and very dIsorderly. What
have you got to say about it7"
I'm guilty, your honor"
''The fine will be three-drunk on
whiskey, I supposed"
mo, your honor. It was hard cider"
"You deliberately went and got
drunk on hard cider3"
Eyes, your honor"
s'The fine will be SO and costs.
Officer, commit this man till fine and
costs are paid."-Thicago Tribune.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-02-22

Billy (triumphantIy)-When / gets
er man I'm goin' ter hev all pas farm
en- make piles of money, there o q.
JImmie-Aw, thet's nOthin'. HI be
or bunco steerer in Their city en- git yer
money eE fast as yer makes it.-NeW
York Journal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-02-22

Whatsoever thy hand 6ndeth to do.
do it with thy might; for there ia no
work, nor device, nor knowledge, MOI
wisdom, in the grave, whittier thou
goest.-EccL. tx, 10.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-02-22

"Duty points with outstretChed fingers
Everyone to sctiOn high,
Wee betide the soul that fingers,
Onward, Onward, u the cry"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-02-22

find the great thing in this world ID
not so much where we stand, as IN
what direction we are moving
Holmes.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-02-22

Thare il Q things in this world for
which We are never fully prepared, and
that M-twina-Josh Billings.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-02-22

"God bless all good womenl To
their soft hands and pittying hearts
we must all come at lastI"-Ex.
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JUST o FUN.

81 wish that I were an ostrich" said
Hicks, angrily, as he tried TO eat d
OF his wife's cakes and couldn't. sI
wish you were, !" returned Mrs. Hicku.
I'D get q few feathers for my hat
then."-Pick-Mc-Up.
Willie: INA, can people leave parts
Of themselves in different placesG" Ma:
mo; don't be ridiculous" Willie:
well, Mr.. Jiggs said he was going 60
Arizona for his lungs."-PhIladelDhfa
Record.
YES" he said, I'm q self made
man." 81 take it for granted" return
ed the smart young man, looking the
old fellow Over critically, ''that il o
bad it to do over again you'd let che
contract out"
The young man had no expectations
in that quarter anyway. GO the remark
had no effect upon his future.
Eli BlundeE.-.Ah, I SEQ have con-
veyed q wrong ~impreasionI" said the
young man who had mistakenly kissed
the young woman's maiden aunt in the
darkened hallway az he came in.-
Chicago Tribune.
Judga.-"You say you are not q
vsgrantI"
sunburned samuel.-'No, your
Honor"
J.-"Did any motive bring you g
shis cityG"
8. s.-"Yes, your Honor"
J.-"Whatf"
8. S.-"Locomotive."
J.-"Ninety daysr-Ex.
Maude-Tom and I we're out sleigh
riding last night and he got angry at
something I said and we had a falling
out"
Clare-"Wel, it served you right. II
you would make him drive with both
hands or do the driving yourself there
would be no excuse for falling out ofa
sleigh. Chicago Daily News.
Louise vas furious about her we'd
ding"
"Vhat was the matterH"
"The organist was a rejected lover,
and he played the bridal couple out OF
church with the tune, Hes Got an
Elephant on His Hands.'"-NeW York
Herald.
Hargreaves-What are you looking
so absent about
Ferry-I-I was trying to collect my
thoughts.
Find that sort of collection pretty
dull, don't you9"-CjnCinnati Enquirer.
she-You looked like q fool when
you proposed to me.
He (~gloomily) Well, why didn't you
tell me before it was too late.-Boston
Journal.
''This woman claims that you stole a
kiss from her on the public street."
said the judge.
''T'm innocent Of the charge, your
Honor" replied the prisoner. "Inever
stole a kiss from her on the contrary, I
gave her one."-Yonkers Statesman.
Laura-Charlie sent me the ~lovelieat
present OF q mirrori
Flora-Yes, 7 heard that he said o
woman was too old to be pleased
with q looking glass.-Ex.
$50, he married in hastef Did he re-
pent at leisure9p
mo; he went to North Dakota
Cleveland Leader.
Mamma Coaching Mabel her letters)
And what comes after ''tG"
Mabel-Why, after tea papa kisses
the chambermaid, and she laughs
Philadelphia Inquirer.
"UncIe Alex, why do people saw
wood and say nothiDgG"
:'Because the words a man wants 60
say when he is saving wood would get
him turned out of church. "-Detroit
Free Press.
Watts-Tve got an uncle eighty
years old and he is as frisky as q
schOolboy.
Potts-Asa schoolboy going to school
or coming out9-Ex
"They say kissing will cure dyspep-
sia."
"That may be; but dyspeptics always
look SO cross that nobody wants to kiss
them."-Chicago Record.
"God bless all good womenl To
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"They say kissing will cure dyspep-
sia."
THAT may be; but dyspeptics always
look so cross that nobody wants TO kiss
them. Chicago Record.
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.Mrs. POppletOn,I
Rs PAGET POPPLET.

Rs PAGET
the most like q fairy
grandmother Of any crea-
ture being out of the pages
of q picture book.
She was dWarfed and
crooked and ill tempered.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-02-22

Watts-Tve got an uncle eighty
years old and he is as frisky as q
schoolboy.
Potts-As a schoolboy going to school
or coming out3-Ex
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$50, he married in hastei Did he re-
pent at leisure3p
mo; he went to North Dakota
Cleveland Leader.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-02-22

Laura--C Charlie sent me the lovelieat
present OF q mirrori
Flora-Yes, I heard that he said o
woman never was too old to be pleased
with q looking glass.-Ex.
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Bis Blunder.-'Ah, / SEQ I have con-
veyed q wrong impression" said the
young man who had mistakenly kissed
the young wOmRn's maiden aunt in the
darkened hallway az he came in.-
Chicago Tribune.
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Willie: INA, can people leave parts
of themselves in different places5" Ma
mo; don't be ridiculous" Willie;
well, Nh. Jiggs said he was going 20
Arizona for his lungs.n-PhIlladelphio
Record.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-09-14

amendments of the ballot law sug-
gested recently by the WATCHMAN.
The use of the square and the direc-
tons for marking the ballot that are
applicable to the State and county
ticket, are nonsense and lead to con-
fusion and error when applied to the
representative ticket. In the bulk of
the representative ballots printed in
the WATcHMAN Office the square and
the directions relating to its use were
omitted for the reason that they tended
to entrap the voter, to lead him into
Just such Irregularities as are illustrat.
ed by the double marking of ballots at
the Middlesex election. Had the
square been left off the ballots, and
the directions for marking confined to
the simple requirement to place cross
(X) in the margin opposite the name
of the person voted for, there would
have been no superfuous marking, and
no ground, on this score, for an cleo
ton contest, with its accompanying
evils. The protection secret ballot
throws around the voter is desirable,
but what becomes of this palladium of
the weak or timid voter when Tom,
Dick and Harry are admitted behind
the railing, into the booths, to ''assist"
voters in marking their ballots, or on
some other pretense? And what are
these helpers really in the booths for,
in most cases, unless it be to superin-
tend and insure the delivery of certain
goods, to wit, the suffrage of the assist
ed voters? In many, and particularly
the smaller, towns the secrecy in vot-
ing the law was designed to insure is
openly violated by the admission to the
sacred precincts behind the rail of per.
sons who have no legal right to &C
there while the voting is in progress
The object of the law is defeated, ant
provisions that were designed to pro
tect the voter are employed to make
more certain his obedience, in the use
of his vote, TO the will of another
or his compliance with corrupt bar
gain. There is work for some man o.
sense to do in preparing and securing
the enactment of amendments to thu
ballot law that shall remove certain OBJ
vious defects.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-09-14

for the influence that candUr and honest
conviction sustained by ability to i'm
press his views upon his associates
yields, will be Harlan W. Kemp, rep
resenting the city of Montpelier.
In the Senate are many men who
have won distinction in the affairs of
the State. An inspection of the list of
membership will impress one with the
fact that the body that will assemble in
the east end of the Capitol will be one
of unusual ability. The constitution OF
the Legislature, in both branches, JUS
titles the belief that the maximum OF
good and the minimum of evil deduct
BILE from Vermont's cumbersome legis
lative system will be realized from the
new law-makiDg body.
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grotesque in such a proposal coming first |
from the sovereign who has the largest |
standing army in the world. But English |
men feel that nothing should be allowed to
stand in the way of such reduction OF
ornaments, II safe and practical, and GER
tainly the experience of America in its lat
est war will be (and no doubt has already
been in the Czar's own mind) an argument
of tremendous weight With one Of the
smallest standing armies, and not the most
remarkable of navies, you have won this
great victory. Clearly, therefore, 1t is not
the difference between the appearance
nations ornaments make in the budget re-
turns, but the difference in the men, which
is of the first and utmost consequence"
Another eminent Englishman, Mr..
Joseph Chamberlain, Great Britain's
colonial secretary, is in this country,
accompanied by Mrs. Chamberlain,
who is an American lady, the daugh-
ter of Mr.. Endicott of Massachusetts, a
member of Mr.. Cleveland's cabinet
during his first term as President. Mr..
Chamberlin's visit is purely social and
for rest. Nevertheless, the presence
here of one of the foremost of Eng
lands public men, the author of the
famous Birmingham speech in May,
cannot fail to excite great political in
terest and to have an important bear
ing upon international questions. He
thus reiterates views formerly express
ed:
"when 1 declared in Birmingham in May
that even war itself would be cheaply pur-
chased II, in a great and noble cause, the
Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack
should wave together. 1 had no mental
reservation, and am happy to say that /
voiced the sentiments of 500 out of 1,00C
Englishmen. England is ready, land this
was said with emphasis upon each word), to
meet the United States more than half way
1t Is for you to determine how close the re-
lations between the two countries shall be-
come. There are no great obstacles to be
overcome in bringing the English-speakinl
people in alliance. When your Senate de
cides that it is to your interests to join will
us in securing certain benefits to both ma
tons, the alliance will be an accomplished
fact Why should not we be allied2 Oul
interests are common, as is our language
We are both striving for the betterment o
mankind. England gloried in3your success
in the late war, or should say the presen
war? Our sympathies are yours. Now lie
us have little better understanding al
around and we can snap our fingers a
hostile intrigues."