The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-11

of the Chatterers Of you. Chatterers,
are we to blame, or were we crowded
out3 The first named reason is the
correct one. The editors o. crowd
out the Chat.-A. j. Let US hope il
was the latter reason, for since the
editors have been so kind as to give US
a column in the dear old Progressive
Farmer, with Auut Jennie at the head
of it, weshould show our appreciation
by writing for it occasionally, should
we not7 Let US try to make our
corner" a grand success, that it may
be a pleasure and help to all who read
it. Where are Madge B Charity, Eva
PIamondon, etc Come in, girls, we
enjoy your letters so much.
Fifty Three, l agree with you as to
the debate question. I, too, think it
would be much better for the Chat.
terers to discuss some subject that has
been suggested, giving their honest
views on it, and not be obliged should
they be 80 appointed, to speak quite
contrary to what they think is right.
It is one of my failings CO to speak
my mind about everything l say any
thing at all about. So l hope o n Of
you will be offended at what I have
said.
Does Fifty Three consider it an in
suit for a girl to refuse to accept the
attention of a young man who is ad-
dicted to the drink habit0 If she does
/ differ with her. I believe it is in the
power of the young ladies Of this coun'
try to stop the drinking of intoxicants
to q great extent. 1 do not believe a
young man would feel much insulted
for a girl to kindly but firmly refuse
TO associate with him if he drank in.
toxicants, at the same time telling him
her reason for so doing. Girls, if you
value your future happiness, never
marry a man to reform him. 1t will
be the greatest mistake of your life if
you do. I am a temperance girl IN
every sense of the word and long to
see the day when the young men, and
old too, will turn from this dreadful
curse as they would from a serpent.
1t is late. I must close. With much
love to Aunt Jennie and all the Chat
terers.-Patience.
Dear AUNT Jenmie: - Shakespeare
says:
TO thine own self be true,
And it must follow as the night the
day,
Thou canst not then be false to any
man."
I wonder how many OhRtterers and
how many of those who read the
"Chat" have ever thought Of this in it's
deepest senseG Have you ever thought
of the necessity Of being true to your
own vows, your own resolutions, your
own ideals9 No man is irretrievably
lost in sin and shame who is true to
the resolu lions and vows of his better
moments. But truth gone, the cor
nerstone of virtue and character is
gone. Even so when q man fails to
keep those resolutions and vows OF
which no one save himself and the re.
cording angel knows, he has begun to
dig about the foundations Of the tenn
pie of character, and the day of its
fall is not far off. In this to a very
great extent-to an extent far greater
than the world realizes-lies the dan.
ger of evil habits. Tnis is why cigar
cites or whiskey ruin the moral az
we'll as the physical man. In battling
with an evil habit it's victim will prob.
ably prove untrue to himself-unCruO
to the VOWS he makes when the con-
sequences of his own weakness stare
him in the face and mock him-and
chen comes, in his own bosom, the Ger.
rible conflict between Right and Wrong,
with the odds so strongly in favor Of
the latter that only in the case OF brave
souls does Right come out victor. Did
you read that article in The Progress
sive Farmer of March 21s5, The
Kungship of Self ControIV It not /
advise you to hunt up that copy OF the
paper and read it. Here is a paragraph
from it, which / think we would do
we'll to memorIze:
SAT each moment OF mans life he
is either a king or a slave. AS he SUP
renders to a wrong appetite, to any
human weakness, as he falls PROSTATE
in hopeless subsection TO any condi'
ton, TO any environment, to any fail
ure, he is a slave AS he day by day
brushes out human weakness, masters
opposing elements within him, and
/ day by day re- creates q neW self from
the sin and folly of his past-then ne
ls q King He is q KING ruling with