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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-08-22
FROM THE MOUNTAINS OF OLD
MIrCHELL.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE:-I would like to
see your dear face and the faces of all
the cousins, but suspect I will just
have to content myself at the present
by writing you a short letter on
courtesy in the home.
I would like for all the boys and
girls in the dear Old North State to
begin to think about using courtesy,
or being more kind which is the better
term, in home life. I say, 'think,"
because if we think we are pretty sure
to act. We very often thank stran.
gers, or mere acquaintances, for the
small favors they bestow upon US,
while we forget to thank our dear
parents, brothers and sisters for their
many large favors, besides the small
ones, which their loving hands ever
find to do. We even neglect to thank
our Greatest Friend who never ceases
to bless US. If we would thank mother
when che so faithfully patches ouF
clothes, sister when she gathers some
flowers and presents them to US in q
blsboEly "641 6nA 4aUnoE 6uO DEObuoE
whose manly strength enables them to
make our burdens much lighter, and
last of all, our Heavenly Father for all
the i1ys and trials he sends US in his
love, we should find ourselves grow
ing happier, and our no ne, rich or
poor, would become almost q heaven
on earth.
I want all the dear girls and boys
who read this to help me II making
our homes happier and brighter by
using true courtesy towardeRc other.
Will you not7
KATHERINE WALTON.
Mitchell county, N. Q.
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We do a great Injustice to Iscariot
in thinking him wicked above all com
mon wickeduess. He was only a com
mon money lover, and like all money
lovers, didn't understand Christ
couldn't make out the worth of him or
the meaning to him. He didn't want
him to .be killed. He was horror
struck when he found that Christ
would be killed; threw his money
away instantly and hanged himself.
How many of our present money
seekers, think you, would have the
grace to hang themselvts 8. whoever
was killed9 John Ruskin.
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Granville county, N. @.
A NEWCOMER JOINS US,

DEAR AUNT JENNIE Really / think
that we, all of US, are apt to talk
more of love affairs than affairs of
some sense. If people would let such
foolishness alone and try to improve
their minds, I think they would be
better off. Now, I would not advise
all to apply for schools and go to teach
ing, for it is not every one that can
teach, even If they are qualified, but
there is something in this broad world
of u r that they can do which will
be of benefit both to themselves and
others. All of US were put here for q
purpose, and let's find out what we
can do best and then do it with our
might. No one else can fill the little
niche allotted US but we ourselves,
and don't you think that we ought to
do our best in all thingsG
Some of you write splendid letters.
l enjoy reading them very much, and
as this is the only social circle in the
State, it seems to me that Aunt Jen-
ME would have plenty of letters every
week. Now, I hope you all will not
conclude, from the way I began this
letter, that ] am an old maid, for I am
not, and I have never seen a girl who
did not enjoy being told that she is
loved. I mean being told so by the
right person, Of course, one whom she
cares more for than she is most times
willing to acknowledge.
What is the matter with "O!d ach.
elor7" I am inclined to think that he
has either been a firt or soma one else
has firted with him. Am right, I
wonders must tell Tafy Of a girl I
know who is this minute engaged to
two boys who live in different States.
Yes, she is; and has a handsome ring
from each one. She wears them both
sometimes, and sometimes she hides
one until the other fellow is gone.
Tafty seems to like flirting and firts.
I wonder how he would enjoy being
either OF these young men; that is, il
he really cared for the girls
did not intend writing a letter Of
this kind, but how often we do the
things we did not intend doing.
Please pardon me and I will do bet
ter next time. o., I know Aunt Jen-
ME, and she is a little owe five feet
and weighs about one hundred and
forty. lam not going to guess her
age, for I might get it wrong.
She is deeply interested in the mem
hers of our circle, and speaks Of each
of us as a personal friend. You need
not be afraid to let her know your real
names for she calls each one by the
name known in the circle. Fog in.
stance I am simply Kate when if the
truth were known I am not Kate at all.
I hope to be with you all again 5000
and you may remember me as,
KATIE
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AN INQUIRY.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE:-Please allow
me through the columns Of IS gciaI
Chat" to ask how green corn may be
canned or put up successfully for win
ter use, Mason's fruit jars being used.
I am a young househeeper, aud realize
that I have a great deal to learn.
Thanking you for this privilege, and
hoping some one who has had practi.
cal experience in this art will answer
soon, am Very truly,
MRS "WILL RETLAW."
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HR PREACHER.

A colored brother. writing to the
bishop to send a preacher, said: ''Send
us a bishop to preach here Sunday. If
you can't send a bishop, SEMI q sliding
elder; il you can't spar him, send us a
circus rider; il you can't spar him send
a locus preacher; if you can't do no
better, why send US an ~exhauster.
We's bound to have distracted meet
ing"
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Our Social Chat.
GpTTEp BIZ AuNT JENNIE RALEIGH, b. G.
AUNT N LETTER.

Now, Kate, I am inclined to think
you do US an injustice when you assert
in your letter that we talk too much of
love. You are a dear girl, and I think
will take this scolding as q sensible girl
should-not sneak off in some corner
to pout and possibly declare that you
will never write another letter for the
department. Some girls rally ia a few
days after been scolded, while others
go strutting around for quite awhile.
A CHEEKY Thank you, and I will try
to profit by what you have told me-"
evinces a disposition to be much ad
mired. Did you ever think of the test
for true friendship being simply this:
Gan I bear to have him tell me Of my
faults7" How rarely do we meet a man
OF woman who cheerfully receives any
word Of Interpretation Of what they
have planned or arranged! Can I bear
to have my friend tell me that I was
wrong, without a feeling Of resentment
Yet how perfectly natural it is to wish
to warn those We love of approaching
danger-more especially if they seem
not to realize it. If two friends pass
through this experience together and
remain unrU fl ID, there is little posi-
bility that their friendship will not en-
dure. Most persons lack the gift of
bearing with patience what they are
only too ready to call interference"
They are over indulgent to their chill
dren. They may not have chosen the
most becoming color for daughters
dress and may have sent the son to a
school which you think not so good an
one as you would recommend. Dare
you tell them 500 They will think you
are meddling and ten chances to one
you are enemies thenceforth. The
merest information that a child has a
fault or that some change in his man
agement might correct a fault will
often obliterate the remembrance Of
years of steadfast kindness and end a
friendship Of great value. What we de
sire of our friends is that they should
always agree with ue; constantly ap
prove and admire us but never tell us
of our faults. It does seem that we
could persuade ourselves to listen
meekly to friendly advice when given
by those we value most highly, and
thus lift friendship above the common
level of pleasant companionship to
helpful companionship.
Now, if any Of you think you have
been scolded, just know that I did not
intend it that way and come again.
Kate and Puella are with us. Their
letters are interesting. We hope to
have them and others call again ere
long. Now, Puella, I would be SC glad
to get that picture of you, to which
you referred in your note to me. Saw
eral have written me almost ex sctly
as you did-that they would send me
one when they had good mes taken. I
do not remember to have had more
than one taken of myself when a girl
that l was perfectly satisfied with, and
now I am old enough to believe that
that one must have fl sttered my plain
face very much. Send them anyway,
and I will appreciate them very highly.
AUNT JENNIE.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-08-22

HCUCCE55" and failure" in life
y are phases which almost every
one interprets in a certain way. Oae
word, says the Youths Companion,
calls w the picture of a man who has
fought his way to wealth, power and
position; the other, a discouraged fig
ure gathering from the beach bits
which have come ashore from the
wreck of his ambitions. And yet ''suc
:ess," stripped of all the purple and
inelinen in which it is usually dressed,
uaans only to have done what you
Eaito do.
Ts burglar who robs the bank, and
the incendiary who fires the tenement
sra, in the strict sense, "~successtul'
men, since they accomplish their pur
pose. Success in life ought to have a
broader meaping-a meaning which
should not only point to what a man
has done, but which should first ask,
ask, What was it he tried TO do7 The
Companion then gives the story of a
man who succeeded in the highest
sense:
TIE man was On architect. He be.
gan with boundIess ambition. He
felt that he had power Of purpose and
originality Of conception; and to this
equipment he added the most careful
artistic training by working for some
time in the flee of n Of the abiest
architects in America.
Here he devoted many extra hours
Of hard study to the difficult problems
Of municipal architecture, which TO
him offered mcst attractive opportu-
mites. At last he oper ed an office Of
bis own, and began to work for the
recognition which his talent really de
served.
1t came sooner than he expected.
Avery rich man who wished to honor
dis native city by the gift Of a building
worth a million dollars, offered gen
arous prizes for competitive designs.
hundred architects sent plans in
Competition, and the young man Of
whom we have spoken won the second
Ptiza.
There we're many who thought his
design should have been first. The
political ''boss" OF the city, whose
party was VIGOROUSLY corrupt, but
those power was almost absolute, was
One Of these. He sought out the young
architect and said to him:
Mr.. Blank, your design has pleased
ne very much. The city needs an
architect. Your work has convinced
some of us that you are just the man
tr he place. Now what do you sly T.
The young man was fl altered. Il
should like nothing BETTER" he re-
Piled.
Wy we'll, consider it settled.
1u may expect your appointment
within a month; but there are a few
lille things which must be under
5000 bet Heen US.
IN the first place, I must be able
Always and absolutely to count on your
support. You must be one Of my men.
A the next place, we know that it
viii coat you about two and n half
p' cent. to execute commissions.
''o will receive five per cent. from
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numbers Of turkeys; they are so much
trouble and each one 3 eat al much
Rs q hog.
My love to the chatterers and Aunt
J jamie.
FUELLA,
Granville county, N. Q.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-08-22

The world was new in the morning time,
And movement was rhythm, and sound was rhy
Add we never dreamed of a SUMMER cline
Than our natal spot OF earth
The arChing sky had q sweep sublime,
And bobolink's song was q sylvan Chime
And stars were lights God set to shine
Ger places Of good mems birth.
In the morning time Jack and the Bean
We're gospel truth, and giants, l ween
Were as real things as ever were seen,
By any human eye.
And fairies dancing around their queen,
In robes of flashing silvery sheen,
Were spirits that lived in the woodland green
On the borders OF Paradise.
Our childish faith was content to think
That dew was made for the flowers to drink;
Tnat the mountains blue we're the turthest brink
OF the universal world
That garden odor was the breath Of the pink,
That darkening night was the suns huge wink,
As behind the hills we saw him sink
Like a giant down ward hurled.
In the morning time the thunder's peal
Was naught but the rumbling chariot wheel
OF the storm kings march for woe or veal
Across the vsulted sky;
The rainbow arch was a solemn seal,
Whose blessed assurance ell might feel
That the wrathtul storm would bless and heal
All things ready to die.
In the morning time tie whispering trees
Were talking together about the breeze
That swept from the land where all things freeze,
And prophesied Of death;
Then mermaids lived in unknown seas,
And grandfather's stories we're sure to please,
AS, with eyes wide open, about his knees,
We listened with bated breath.
Oh, the morning time the morning timel
When faith was simOle and trust sublime,
And we never dreamed of a SUMMER CLINE
Than our natal spot Of earth;
Then all things living were hAlt divine,
And every dell wss a sylvan shrine,
And stars were lights God set to shine,
And life was endless mirth.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-08-22

One of the humorous writer's got be
yond humor and into the domain or
sacred logic when he said: ut shows
Gods opinion of wealth by the men
He gives it to-" Truly, it is hard to
serve Him and Mammon.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-08-22
A BETTER WAY.

The time for teaching a little girl
sewing by giving her dish towels to
hem aud sheet seams to overland is
passed. A better way has been found,
and she learns happily, notgrudgingly
and with tears. The needle is no lon.
ger pushed with painful effort through
rough crash and stiff sheeting, but
slips easily through the. bits OF old
linen and muelin that r destined to
make S lmething pretty to stock the
little ut edlewoman's doll wardrobe or
bed, or her o IN small tea table. She
is using her imagination as we'll as her
fingers, and happy indeed she may be.
Ia there any comparison, in point of
interest, between a big dish towel and
a dainty little n for play dishes-a
small obloog cut from the whole pOr
ton of a big glass towel and hemmed
neatly A little girl will like to learn
to darn linen il the worn dinner nap
kin she is set to work on Is afterwards
to be nicely washed and ironsd, and
become one OF her Wn little table
cloths And could hemming fail to
be alluI ing when the whole parts OF
another old napkin are cut into squares
for small fingers to make into doll nap
kins9 From pieces of old handker-
chiefs may be cut squares to be tringed
for dollies, useful on doll tables and
toy bureaus. In fitting up these bu
reaus with dainty knicknacks, a little
CARL will employ many a scrap OF lace
aud ribbons, and will l3arn TO be skill
full with her needle. - Harper'E Bazaar.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-08-22
THE TIME.

,ro following beautiful poem was written by Rev. Baylus Cade, once editor
IhsP Progressive Farmer and now the Governors Private Secretary. We
% aifin Hight G. Moore's splendid collection of 'North Carolina Poems y
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Lat no man be sorry that he has
done good, because Others have done
evil. II q man has acted right, he
has done well, though alone; if wrong,
the sanction of all mankind will not
justify him.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-09-07
RALEIGH And
Other !. / / / !. R POINTS
sRs ~, Z. Il l y. 4. US NJ
Two j v New \ y Cotton { Mills For Tarboro,.
One NJ For !. Hickory.
81 - -----------
MI MAJOR HARVEY DEAD
Sending Away Recruits For Service
I'm the Young Mon
Return TO College Life-Personal
4 ana General Noes From the NETS
ropoiis Of Paaquotank-Tho
OF Edcnton Bay.
MAJOR Il HARVEY DEAD

Raleigh, N. c., Sept. 6.--Work is rap
idly progressing on Tarboro's two new
cotton mills.
The, construction Of a cotton factory
at Hickory in the near future is now
assured. Fifty thousand dollars have
been subscribed already. and a. larger
amount is In sight. Messrs. A. A.
Shuford and G.. Geitner are the promo
tiers OF the enterprise. Negotiations
are also pending for the purchase Of
the Rowe shoal near here by. parties
who expect to erect cotton mill there.
OLD CONFEDERATE DEAD.
Major VIM. H. Harvey. chief Of
transportation for the Confederate
States Government, died in New Bern
on Monday. The Journal says that his
executive ability was so marked as to
bring high praise from Jefferson Davis
and all the Confederate generals with
whom he came in contact and whose
forces he moved by railroad.
SENDING AWAY RECRUITS.
lieutenant Settle sent away five re-
cruits yesterday. Two Of theses were
sent to Jackson barracks, near New Or
leans. and two to San Francisco,
whence they sail for the Philippines.
One of the latter was Clarence H.
Weathers. OF the Raleigh company that
went to Cuba.
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IrEKTIrOI,D.

HEREFORD N. c., Sept. 6.--NIr. Wal
lnce Riddick has gone to Oxford to at
tend the Homer Military School,
MIR. w. c. Small has gone to Raleigh
to enter the Agricultural and Mechani-
cal College. Mr.. James NIcNider has
accepted the position held in III. A.
Macht's store by Mr. Small.
Mr.. w. A. Holly. bookkeeper for the
Monticello Wheel Company, returned to
norfolk yesterday after a short visit
to relatives and friends in our city.
The Jewish New Year was observed
here. all of the Hebrew merchants
closing their doors.
Misses Maud Leigh and Julia White,
OF the county. and Miss Virgillia Banks,
of Elizabeth City, have been the guests
of Mrs. Robert White. corner of Grub
and Academy streets. for the past week.
a series of revival meetings began
In the NJ. e. Church. South, Sunday
morning and will continue for two
weeks.
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INGERsoLL,s REELECTION.

During the proceedings attending
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll's funeral Maj.
o. j. II. Smith. of Dobbs Ferry. close
friend of the deceased, read the follow
Ing extract from Ingcrsoll's writings,
entitled MY Religion"
To love justice, to long for the right,
TO love mercy, to assist the weak, to
forget wrongs and remember dement's;
to love the truth. to be sincere, TO ut
ter honest words. to love liberty, to
wage relentless war against slavery In
all Its forms, to love wife and child and
friend. to make a happy home, to love
the beautiful in art, In no turc; to cut
tivate the mind to be familiar with the
mighty thoughts in which genius had
expressed the noble deeds of all the
world; to cultivate courage and cheer
fulness. to make others happy, to fill
life with the splendor OF generous acts,
the warmth of loving words; to dis
card errors. to destroy prejudices, to
receive new truths, to cultivate hope,
TO see the calm beyond the storm, the
dawn beyond the night; to do the best
that can be done and then be resigned !;
TINS ~ the religion of reason, the creed
heart" ''.'1
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EDENTeS.

Edenton. n. c.. Sept. 6.-47iss stella
Duke returhs6 yesterday to Brambleton
after spending several days here with
friends and relatives.
Some OF our farmers are engaged In
picking their cotton crop this week.
DR.. -. w. Hathaway, OF Berthe coun-
ty Is in town to-day.
Miss Sarah Gather Of Hartford, is
the guest of relatives here.
A schooner loaded with gravel tosbe
used on the roof OF the cotton factory
is at the dock.
A colored man was put in jail last
night by Officer Robinson for safe
Keeplng. He Is wanted in HEREFORD for
the larceny of clothing, etc. from diff
ferent people. He will be taken there
to-day by the officep
Mr. Theo. White. of Perquimons, Is
In town this morning.
Or. Griffin is at Woodland this week.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-09-07
NEWS =FRoM TIE OLD NORTH A5TAzIIHI1

four bro Tiers law and innumerable
gentlemen friends along, the checkered
way OF life give one q vast knowledge
of the sex. {: 50 ~
They say you are an angel. You
know and I know you are not. They
say things about your dress and your.
appearance that you know, and know,
haven't aWord OF. truth in them. They
VIII tell you how, beautiful you are
looking this evening. p and you know
your dressmaker failed to send home
your new organdle, and you are wear
Inc, the same chrome green your own
mother said was hideous. Three min
nutes ago he said the same thing to the
girl at tho piano, and five minutes
hence he will contide 1t to the young
lady on the golf links. You need not,
however. class him in the Bible denun-.
ciation that "all men are liars" He
VIII be truth Itself Tomorrow at the
Office or store or the bank
It Is Just a little stock in trade he
Keeps to win your favor, and you
ah. there's the rub, my dear-you
yourself have taught him its value!
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IIALIEIx.

Halifax. N. c.. Sept. s.-Again. on the
noon train Sunday two hearts that
beat as one" arrived in the city and
were duly escorted to the Safer House
The "$3 credentials" were procured and
He arrived and very soon Miss Maggie
Dodson and Mr.. Floyd Lafsey. of Pc
tersburg, were made man and wife.
4 w. Faucet leaves to-day for AEricul-
tural and Mechanical College, Raleigh.
to enter the Junior class, this being his
third year.
Mrs. w. A. Safer is sick. b,,..