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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-11-07
THE FLIRTING HABIT AND THE
TOBACCO HABIT.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE -One
seems Disguised with correspondence
between young people of opposite
sexes believing that it leads to
trouble when they write abou5 love.
Well, it depends upon how they write.
True conjugal love is in itself a sacred
thing and should be made the
subject either Of conversation or of
correspondence without a due consid
GRAFTON of its full meaning and all that
it implies. It was not implanted with
10 the human heart to be made the
plaything Of an hour and then tran
pied under foot causing trouble to one,
and sometimes to two. ThNre are times
when CORE %spondence carried on in
sincerity means a grand uplifting for
one without the degrading of the
other.
There are thousands of people in
North Carolina who would not recog-
nizs a gold dollar from a new copper
cent. I have seen persons handling
gold with suspicion so little did they
know Of it3 rue color. Again it is
such an easy matter TO alloy it that it
sometimes requires the chemists aid
to tell whether it is pure or not. SO it
is with love. Thousands VINO marry
thinking they vera very much in love
with each OthFr, find out that what
they thought was love was only a pass,
ing fancy, founded on nothing greater
than the wave of a curl or the grace of
q bow.
True love is something so easily coun
terteited, that many a maiden's heart
is lost, and many a life blighted by the
receptions prac6iced by male flrts.
This may be doubling the term but
since Irritation is carried on by either
sex now, and the word, ccquetry, is
going out Of use, I use the term thus.
There are men living in bachelordom
today, whose first and only love was
encouraged, then cast aside. But
when true hears are united in mar
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-11-07

hber-persons of high and established
character.
The best home must be a pure home;
it must recognize the distinctions be =
tween right and wrong in all things,
and must be kept clean from all moral
defIement in act, speech and influence.
In these times some persons have slur
ring words for refinement; they con-
slider those who insist on the little nj
ceties to be over nice, fnical or prud-
ish. But after all, these are but the
tribute paid by coarseness to refine
ment.
The home must be q place where not
only verbal instruction is given, where
procepts arc laid down, where moral
rules are expatiated upon, but one
where there ia inspiring example, where
the personalities with which the chill
dren come in contact are full of noble
qualities. There must be real, genuine
parents, or good people who take their
places, to inspire children to fae char,
acter. Ugly moods, scOlding, fault
finding, moroseness, i'll nature and the
like make a poor atmosphere in which
to grow the delicate plants OF child
hood. When hearts are full Of kind
ness and lives instinct with g~entleness
the children will drink in the same
spirit.
When the home offers genuine affec-
ton, it burns and CLOVIS until the whole
house is bright and warm with it, and
all hearts feel it's power. This is a pow,
erful factor in character building.
Many men and women, when the world
has proved cold 60 them, look back to
the early home to warm the heart
again, and memories Of those condi
tions are more potent to waken the
heart than all other things upon earth.
The homGis needed to be the train
ing place for character. There the
children are to be prepared for the
great business of living, to be made
ready to stand and struggle alone.
They will have battles to fight, a liv-
ing to earn, work to do, temptations to
resist. difficulties to meet everywhere.
The home aims to help them to keep
pure and good, to be success tul in all
the undertakings OF life.
Toe making of a home is an art, a
study. Other attractions await those
who can find no satisfaction at home.
With such elements as those indicated
home may be made that will establish
and build character that will be fitted
for the worlds battles and storms
Ledger Monthly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-11-07
THE HOMR IN CHARACTER
Bull DING.

All thinkers, teachers, rulers, philos
pliers, philanthopists who have been
or are interested in humanity agree
that the great and necessary ~prereuui-
site for all we'll being is the develop
ment OF character. The wise agree
that for this end the schools, religions.
society, homes exist. The object of
them all is to make the right kind OF
men and women. There are MANY
elements that enter into the making
OF character. There are the schools.
and labor at ones business, and the
church and books and society. Bat
among them all there is none so fun
damental as the home.
The home must have ideals, and must
give them TO the children. If children
find within the home nothing better
than they fad upon the streets-the
same c~oarseness profanity, low views
OF lite-it cannot be expected that
their ives will be pure. The home is
environment; the home is the mold
Tor the cast The home should have
nigh ideals and refinement.
a home that is fit for character
Dulloing must have parents that are
themselves of strong and fine moral
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Hamilton county, Tenn.
FROM BROWN EYEs.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE:-It has been
quite awhile since l cnagted with you
and the cousins but if you will permit
I will presume to write, although the
others can do go much better 5nanL
that I almost ashamed to try.
There are SO many subjects for DIS
cussion that / am somewhat unl0-
cided as to what TO say.
I am another book worm. I had
rather read than eat; I done care 80
very much for poetry, but any thing
in the line of history or fiction &C.
lights me.
How many of the cousins have been
working ia Tobacco" this yeafI
have, but dome think it the incest Eun
in the world.
went on an excursion to Wumlno-
ton last week. Had a delightful time
as l saw a good many old friends tnS'
I hadn't seen in a good while. aIs'
met a good many young people L.
any of the Chatterers we're on dIan'
know them. l think it would O9So
nice for US all to have badges, LnVu
when in a crowd we would recognize
each other. 49,,
L9t me say just a few words on 'no
SUBJECT OF love. What would 0ec0mo
of the world if love didn't e1!S''
think love is the chief hom9-maH9r'
was the love of G. ID that OhrIs' cAn.
into the world, and for love tna' '1~s
Christ suffered and died that the SOu'
and daughters of man, might EnFoUo.
love Of HIM be saved. And th7H
hear soma one say. "th9re is no Suva
thing as love-" Yet love Tu'5' Wv
world Just imagine youfSeIl h'-9
in this world. without one toA7nG
love. Aud then when done VIII 49, 49,
world, finally go down thFousu .,,t
valley OF the shadow of death Wl'uyU
one tender word of love or Wl'u0L ,t
loved one to care for you IN you LID
hours. OIL what a sad death IL WV
be! And then to think OF any ~
trifing with the affections OF ano'DII
I think love too So 3red for anyFnlnSo N
the Kind myself and the young llaD 40
woman wto would stOop TO Inins Of
low, should not be recogDlDo'd dies.
nosiced by true gentlemen or !1 @aot
Now please don't say that l oGns mar
TO talk OF anything but love- Du' lard
love a and II such foolishness until s l Sm
utterly disgusted. 1 prefer ny or
and solitude TO any such tCOlISnD
BROWN EYES'
Wayne county, N Q.
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Cumberland county, N. @.


DEAR AUNT JENNIE:-S0m9 one has
asked SIS modern society corrupt2'
We declare that it is corrupt. On
every hand we can SEQ the youth OF
ourland plungiog into vice aud crime
young men who should De letting their
lights chine, who should b8 trying
to elevate the mselves, walking the
streets or public highways under the
influence OF drink, keeping bad com
pany, growing more and m IRE vicious
and shameless.
Nor will I stop here and speak only
Of the young men. But the young
women are as much to blame as the
young men, The young women might
use their influence in such q manner
as to prevent many Of the evils to
which our country is now subject.
Now the girls are ready to say that
they encourage nothing that is wrong,
but we declare that they do, and they
do so in this way: When a young
woman associates with a young man
who keeps bad company, she is guilty
o. the same offense and when she as
sociRtes with one who engages In
vicious and wicked indulgenc9s then
she encourages vice and gives it
a quasi endorsement. How often have
I known young ladies to go for an
evening ride with a young man whose
breath was tainted with poisonous
drink. I do not hesitate to say that
such a girl is as c~haracterless as the
man whose company she keeps.
The time has come when we must
appreciate character more highly, We
must look well to our own character
and to the character of chose with
whom we ass ociate.
JAKE SELFISH
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THE MAN WITH THE HUMP.

With an honest appreciation of 1.-THE Man With the Hoe" ana a S"cS'
to its aWthOr)
Bowed by the dropping handh-oars ne leans
Uoon his bike and gszes at the ground:
His back is bumped and crooked q MS a.
Ia strained and agonizing IN its look.
Who made him cit upon q wheel like thlsF
Or are we fast approaching to the time
When man., to ride g wheel must needs ssum
The postureo of the beasts which have four ieef
He scorches down the crowded avenue
tSlaves to the wheel of labor, what to him"
Are mem and women who are in his path
Or children in their innocence at plays
There i o shape more terrible than this"
Spread eagle chump who rides upon his nose,
Deforms his spine and brushes in his chest;
Times tragedy is in that aching SCOOP"
What il the bars would break-where would ne gov
Or. With his face against the tire IN front,
Which WI will grant is filled with puncturIne;
What il said tire should burst" and all that stuff
SQUIRT IN his faces Would he not be a sights
HIS mother would not recognize her son.
How will you ever strRighten up this shepe;,.
"Give back the upward looking and the HghtF
Must we who love tie poetry and grace
OF upright riding long endure this pest
This sprawing, spder-shaped, unsIghty man
Who rides thus with his foolish head bowed o
Add with his back up like a cat at bayE
Will not some grave retormer crush the fad;
Will not he straghten up these twisted splnes,
And thus forever relegate the humpG ~
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O 1slow county. N. G.
FROM TENNESSEE BOY.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE:-It has been a
long time since / knocked for adm 8
sion into the Chat Corner, SO 1 will
write and let the old bachelors know
how I am getting along / have taken
in some Of the country since I last
wrote. I went to Tallutah Falls, in
August and had a fue time. There
were six of US and all old bachelors.
although we we're not 80 old as some
may think, the ages ranging from II
to IS II any of the Chatserers want
to take an outing I would advise them
to go to Tallulah Falls, as it is a quiet
place. The only noise to disturb aov
n is the water that falls 80 feet and
you will never get tired watching it.
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We attended a Horticultural -
ton there and all had our NJ OOnVea,
taken down near the falls aO'Os'apb
been out on several outings sino, lha'e
wrote. On one of my trips a feU | iaa
ego l was traveling'about u miI Teea
home in a buggy. Had lots 5'ON
camping out, etc. VI tUa
l certainly enjoyed the ,o.,.
Patience in The Progressive FosU '' Of
recent da TO-. No, Patience,
an old bachelor and it locks ~ st
shall still remain so. 1 have beon SSF
ing and hoping other wise but. a1a' '0s
in vain. About one year ago p
told me through the column =. eos
Progressive Farmer not to becon..
couraged, I have kept this in
but just think: at an Ice Cream y
val l walk up to one of those cbo.s 0sN
young ladies and ask her to tako
cream with me and she fatty rofn.l
by saying that she has already bos
she wants, and before ! can u
around is gone to the table and il o.. .&''
for the cream with all her mio5,
had just such an experien %. I NJ,
the cream at a church festival s'4
worked like a Trojan for six bonr,~
not one dish of cream did I oct T.,
with a girl. I tell you, Patience, baS'
a right to be an old bachelor. tb;,H
that I can truthfully say that MT
man in this section treats the VOW
ladies with more respect than ~
and yet I am kicked off. Only q ~
weeks ago I was at church and a noon.
rain came up and there were ~.
young ladies there (6ne ones ct tboS
alone and they had two miles tn D.,
dark, muddy and pouring down rain in
so I took them home in my buppr
kept them dry and saved them a I'm,
trip through the mud and rain Tboi,
usual escorts were at home, and had en-
engagement with them that night. N,
very next night they were there sD3T
Wes-left.
SO you see how it is. / FURNISHED a
certain young lady in strawberries tho
past season, and you know all YOUNG
ladies like Strawberries. She was ea5
to see me as long as the berries lasted
but when the berries were gone, che
had no more use for me. I know that
there are lots of good hard common
sense girls, but the most Of the girlq
are firts OF something Of the kind. All
they want is for young men to spend
money on them aud when that ia gone
they have no more use for them. Now
don't understand me to say that nv
friend Patience is a firt; l have TOO
good an opinion of her to think
that of her.
have written a long letter, SO I will
close for this time by sending greeting
ia all the CnatGerer5.
TENNESSEE Boy.
Hamilton county, Tenn,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-11-07
THE CEREMONY OF THR HAT.

1.-The ceremony OF the hat is some
what more punctiIious than formerly, "
says Mrs. Burton Kjngsland Of God
Form for All Occasions" in the No
vember Ladies' Home Journal. "a
man awaits the lady's recognition be
fore h9 raises his hat to her. H9 also
rails. s his hat VIII presented To a wo
man, when meeting and taking leave
of her, when about to address her, or
when she first speaks to him-for what
ever reason, Il be passes her On a stair
way or in front Of her in a public en-
veysnce, theatre or else where-indesd
wherever the least apology would be
ia order; when he offere his services
IN any way, even tacitIy, or shows her
some trihing courtesy; and he should
alwey s raise his hat when acknowl-
edging her thanks. A mar should a
the same mannerly tribute to her sex
when a woman enters an elevator,
and remain uncovered during her atay
therein. H9 should also raise his hat
upon recognizing an acquaintance who
has a lady with him. If the friend
with whom he may be bows to a LADY.
he should show the same courtesy, al
though she may be unknown to him.
Should a lady be with him and recog
nize a friend, he should lift HE hat"
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rage, then peace and hap 2iness are
their companions through life. The
folio wing lines by Harriet Newell
Swanwick describe a true hearted
woman:
"Whether climbing life's hill by a
stormy path,
Or calmly treRding the vale below
With cheerful content she will meet
her lot,
If a true heart loves her aud tells
her 80.
You may give her your houses, your
lands, your gold,
E aiIinR the gif6 Of love to bestow;
She'll envy the poorest woman she
knows, ,
Who has some one to love her, and
tell her so
ado IN her life stream she may
peacefully glide,
O: against the winds be forced to
row;
Whatever DETAILS her, she'll fearlessly
B side one who loves her and tells
her So"
To take up the tobacco question
again, besides the disagreeable smell
of tobacco, there are diseases that seem
to develop more rapidly in persons
who use tobacco than in those who do
not. Cancer of the tongue is said to
be wholly due to the use of tobacco.
The excessive salvation dries out the
system, makes the skin wrinkle and
gives a hardened expression to the
features. And there ia nc doubt that
persons who use tobacco for " a
short while, are more irritable than
those who never use it. Children born
Of parents who use tobacco are irritable
from the start.
When I was a little ver five years
old, I began to dip snuff; " when about
thirteen, I quit it for awhile, but when
about twenty eight years old, I com
menced using the pipe on account OF
toothache. Later I took to using
laudanum, until I saw that it would
soon kill me, if I persisted in it's use,
then I returned to dipping and smok
ing until I saw that it was nearly, if
not quite, as bad as opium. I laid it
down onc9 more resolving never to re
sort to it again for toothache.
While tobacco smoke blown into the
ear of a person suffering with earache
may give relief, and while lockjaw
may be prevented by blowing toba 'co
smoke into a wound, and the bites Of
poisonous insects and reptiles may be
cured by the application of tobacco
Juice to the wounds, still tobacco
should be looked upon as poison,
handled as poison and labeled as
poison. How many Twenty One
Year Odds" will sign a petition to the
next legislature that tobacco be 80
labeled when manufactured
MRS. M. e FILLYAw
Cumberland county, N. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-11-07
soME L1rTLR.KNowN FACTS.

Only eighteen per cent. Of all the
families in America employ domestic
help, leaving eighty two per cent. with
out even one servant.
IL all thu dressmakers known to ex
lst In America = ,rked twenty four
hours each day Tor a whole year, with.
out stopping for sleep or meals, they
would still be able to make only one
dress apisce for less than seven eight
of the women in America.
Not six per cent. of all the women
in America spend as much money as
fifty dollars per year on their clothes.
Out Of twelve million American
families the income OF four million of
these families in less that $500
each per year, and the income of nearly
eighty per cent. of the entire number
are less Uhan 81, 1000 each per year.
There are azores Of places in this
country where only one mail comes
every fourteen days.
Ask the average person where the
central point OF area is in the United
States and he will fix it somewhere in
Illinois. Tell him it is nearer San Fran.
cisco and he will be %increduIous until
he remembers that Alagka ia within
the boundaries OF acio Sam.-Edward
Box, in the November Ladies' Home
Journal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-11-07
Social Chat.
EDrrED By AUNT JENNIE, RALEIGH. N. c.
AUNT JeNNIE's LETTER.

You will be highly entertained by
the letters this week. We have one
each from Ms Fillyaw, Brown Eyes,
Jake s .l1sh, Careless Tom and Tennes
see Boy. We are glad &C many of
you have called aud all of you will re-
joice to fnd that Tennessee Boy is still
living and has not forgotten US as we
had begun to fear he had.
1t is raining today and we feel the
first chilling northeast wind Of the
fall. This October has been simply
delightful but November promises to
tell US a few things about real winter
How many OF US are ready for it's
storyG Are last winters warm clothes
all ready for the first cold day9 Aud
how is the chicken house, Is there
sufficient shelter for the domestic ami
mails on your farm9 If not see to it at
once; delay in this may mean many
dollars loss for you. How is the house:
is the roof all right and how are the
fire places and windows9 Is there a
glass out of a windoW2 If so, fix it for
the patient wife. Sac will appreciate
your thoughtfulness. Some men I am
sorry to say leave the house and all it
contains to the Woman's care. Now
this is not right. I know that some
women aspire to do mems work in
some spheres but / have never yet
heard of q woman who clred to cover
a house. / will not say that they have
not often wished that they were final
Cially able to have it done. Yes, it
would heve afforded them infinitely
more pleasure to have had it done than
to be awakened some night by a sud
den shower which, caused that drip,
drip, somewhere in the house that
must be looked after at once. l was
busily engaged at one time in my life
looking after and providing for the
wants Of many poor in a city where
the landlords we're not over careful for
the comfort of their tenants and I
know what discomfort can be caused
by a roof which leaks. One window
pane is a little thing but oh, the cold
wind finds it's way through the whole
room if one pane is missing from a
window. Have you enough nice dry
wood stored under shelter to last the
entire winters II 80, yours is a3happy
wife. There are more frowns on the
foreheads of womankind caused by the
worry over vet wood than almost any
other seemingly small matter. Cat
every thing ready before winter sets
in. Look to the little things for is net
life made pleasant or the ver by
little thing.G
We hope to have letters from some
Of cur boys and girls who have entered
boarding school. Why do they not
writes 1 ana sure ali would enjoy the
letters written by them. You probably
think your routine duties too dull and
uninteresting to US. Now let me tell
you many Of US have experienced the
life you are now living and to have a
letter telling us of your pleasures and
seeming hardships would carry us
back to our youthful days with their
trust and hope. AUNT JENNIE.
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Pity is sworn servant unto love-
8. Daniel.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-07-06
STRIKERS FIRE ON A TRAIN.
One Woman Shot Through tho Hear
Bloody Riots Expected at
LOwder, HI.

Murphysboro, H., July 1.-At nine
o'clock yesterday morning Conductor
William Bryan's train on the johnson
bearing AZ negro miners from PAM,
was shot into by a crowd OF miners
at Lawder, in Williamson county. One
negro woman was killed by bullet
through her heart. The negroes were
brought by Sam T. Brush, superintend-
ent of the St. Louis and Big Muddy
mines near Carterville, to work in his
mine there, where there is now a
strike. The miners, so in number,
were armed with rifles, and were hid
den in the grass behind the county de-
pot. When the train stopped. the
leader. who was an Italian, got ON the
platform, and commanded the negroes
to get out. Conductor Bryan inter
fered, but was stopped by revolver in
his face. The train began to move.
and the miners poured in a whitening
fire. Conductor Bryan yelled to the
negroes to throw themselves on the
floor. All escaped serious wounds
save the woman, who was killed in
stantly Half a mile further ON the
negroes were unladen and placed un-
der charge of guards. They were then
marched to the mine. Intense excite
ment prevails in the Carterville coal
field, and bloody riots are expected, as
the feeling has been intense for
weeks.