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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17

Satan than any thing sacred. 1t would
as you say be far better to pass it by
unnoticed than to celebrate it in that
way.
Well, Aunt Jennie, Icannot stop I'M
till I tell you how much I enjoy your
letters. They have been of untold
value to me. They contain such good
sound instruction and advice, just
what we young people especially need.
My letter has grown longer than I in
tended. With best wishes to Aunt
Jennie and all the Chatterere, I am
your friend.-Patieuce.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17
PRESIDENT ELIOT ON HAPPY
MARRIAGES.

President Eliot, In a recent address
before thu Dorchester (1aseachuseEts)
Woman's Club, discussed the happy
marriage, and gave it what free and
easy writers call a first class notice.
A very brief extract from his address
credits him with saying that the ideal
izing devotion with which the happy
marriage begins is the most admirable
thing in human nature. He does not
seem to favor the idea that the corner
stone of happiness in marriage Is a
sufficient income secured against the
chances of fortune. On the contrary,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17
TOWN AND COUNTRY.

The case of town and country has
been argued and reargued from the
remotest antiquity. The following in
cident, related in Literature, published
by Harper 6 Brothers, gives q com-
parison which is very much to the ad.
vantage of the country. A class Of
children in Manchester were shown a
picture called ''Spring," bearing the
images and names of the daffodil, the
violet, the purple Crocus, and the mar
cissus, and after locking carefully at
the picture, they were required to
write their Impressions. The result
was lamentable. The title of the pic.
ture was altogether disregarded; spring
had no message for the minds Of these
children, while their description Of
the flowers might almost come from a
class Of infant imbeciles. Thus, one
child says:
II saw some flowers on the picture
A. was ColOred green called a Di.
B. was a d)Wer called poets.
@. was a CrOcus Colored yellow.
D. was some tulips colored blue"
And this was one Of the most favor
able examples! Country children, on
the other hand, were found to have
both the power of observation and
real delight in the beauty of nature;
they are educated, not from text. books,
but by the blue sky, the hedgeroWs,
and the woods: in a word, they have
prese rived that humanity from which
the Manchester class had 60 terribly
lapsed.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17

Dear Aunt Jennte:-Here comes an
other niece to ask for admittance, first
because I think it is a Christian band
and second, because it binds all the
Old North State, together. Aunt Jen-
ME, I'll tell how I felt when I read the
letters from the other sOhatterers, I
felt just as it I were in a room with
some friends and hadjsto keep silent.
Aunt Jennie would it be too expensive
for you to put your picture in The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER so all the nieces
and nephews could see .it9 I'll admit
that I'm getting tired of the bachelor
question, for some of them are my
very good friends. Do any Of our
band ever get down. hearted and dis
conraged over anything they wish to
come to pass9 II. so here is a nice little
verse: Commit thy ways unto the
Lord; trust also in Him, and He shall
bring it to pass" Psa. 1915.
Cousins, while. we r trying to down
king Alcohol, let's slip one foot on
cigarette smoking. We have a West
minister League in our church and
hope it will stop some Of the evils
Cornelia, Mecklenbury Co., N. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17
BUSINESS AND SOCIETY BARS
THE DRUNK ARD.

drunkenness to-day is deemed dis.
reputable in the very quarters where
only a little while ago it was looked
upon simply as a misfortune" writes
Edward W. Box, in the Ladies'
Home Journal. Every line of bust
ness shuts it's doors absolutely to the
drunkard. It has no use for him.
,"Rusiness competition has become so
keen that only the men of steadiest
habits can find employment. This
fact the habitual indulger in alcoholics
has found out, and the diff srent cure
establishments for drunkenness-and
Godsends they are, too, to humanity
are to day filed with men who have
come to O realization of the changed
conditions, Tho man of steady habits
is the man of the hour, and the drunk
ard realizes this. In the social world
the same thing is true. The excessive
indulgence of even a few years ago
would not he tolerated at any dinner
to-day. Society has become intolerant
of the behavior which inevitably re-
suits from excessive indulgence in
drinking, and men realz9 this. It is
bad to day to drink to xcess.
Good taste is spreading, and modera-
ton is necessarily following"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17

1t may appear like folly FIR me a
woman to write an article on farming
but / feel an irresistible impulse to
say just a little on that very important
subject or at least tell you Of some
things that l think c attribute wonder
fully toward making farming a success
The farmer must, unlike most business
men wait until the close Of the year
before he realizes any thing for his
labor il cotton or tobacco is 10 be his
money crop and then he is at the mercy
of heartless spectators and many
other things that conspire to make cue
cess difficult. The young farmer must
of necessity, if he is poor, struggle
desperately for the first few years but
by economy, thrift and prudence In all
things he will eventually attain sue
cess. Fine horses, fine buggies, fine
harness and f1e clothes ell Cost much
money but after all do not forget that
ine cigars, fine dogs and fine liquors
costs more Young farmers must
for q time lay aside all desire for ex
travagant dress and display and stag
clear of debt. There you have the
key not to SUCCESS. Debt is a terrible
thing, robbing US of peace Of mind: con
sequently there is Ioes of sleep, irritable
ness, deception, lack of confidence in
our fellow man and innumeTable other
g wills follow. There are very few
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17
Our Social Chat,
EDITED BY AUNT JENNIE. RALEIGH. N. C.

Here is a column for everybody-ladies, gen.
tlemen, boys, girls. fathers and mothers.
Everybody is invited TO write on subjects of in
teresJ to them. Never mind If you are not
perfect as q writer, give us your thoughts and
we will see hat they are In good shape before
they are published.
TaE Progressive FARMER is a paper for every
member of the family. and young and old alike
are its patrons and its friends. We hope to
unite these thousands of our friends lin q bond
of friendship that will be a help and an inspira-
ton to each one of u.s." The friendship OF each
of our readers the confidence of the old North
States sturdy sons, and the trust of each of her
daughters, is what this paper aims to win by
helping each one of them to do more. to be more
ana to enjoy more in this beautiful world" We
hope this brit will animate each letter, and
breathe through every page. Address letters to
Aunt jennie care of h PROGRESSIVE FAR
MER. Raleigh, n. G..
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17

Dear Aunt Jennie:-I will again en-
deavor to write a short letter for your
corner, that you may know that I am
still a reader of Our Social Chat" and
enjoy it better with each issue. I
think it is improving rapidly. There
are 80 many new members and all
write such interesting letters it makes
me think-well if I could write such,
letters I would not mind writing tGUGce
o. month. Nevertheless / intend to do
better in the future. Will try to say
something at least every two months,
and every month If I can. Just think
how swiftly time speeds away. AS /
write, in an hour OF so the old year
will be numbered with the past, and
the new year will be ushered in. l
wonder how many of us can view the
past year, without a feeling Of regret
that many precious moments were
wasted that we might have used in
helping some one, if we had only
thought in time. They are gone, but
with the new year let US improve each
shining moment, and so live this year
that, should we be called from time to
eternity ere another New Year Day,
that some one would feel that it a
we'll for US to have lived. l want to
add a word to what has been said
against flirting. Careless Tom says
he thinks there are some kinds Of hlrt-
ing that are excusable. I don't. ! do
not think flirting with a flrt excusable
for you are bringing yourself to their
level in &c doing, and / would not care
to do that. For an experienced flrt to
1irt with an innocent person is a san
for they are trifing with the first warm
and tender love of an innocent heart,
and if it should be the means Of ruin
ing that life, what else can you call it
but sin2 I believe that flirting is One
reason for so many old ca bachelors.
''Tafg," has confessed that his expert
ence in flirting was the kind that hurt
No. 1. Who knows but that has some
thing to do with his remaining a bache-
lor9 There ia another thing IN Careless
Toms letter I wish to mentiOpr and
that is, the women of our country
wearing the beautiful birds, that God
put here to sing for us, on their hats.
For my part I would prefer wearing a
calico Stat" to church, or anywhere
that I might go, to wearing any
part Of a bird on my hat. Just think
of the torture, the pain, the poor things
have to endure that the demands of
fashion may be gratlisd. Ga, it is
cruel. Let me appeal to you all, to do
what you can to stop it. 1t is in the
power Of the women Of our land to
stop it il they oOiU.
think ''Ernest's" letter on "R sspon-
sibility" just splendid. It is so true,
too. Dear C~haEterers, let us heed the
good advice we receive through u
Chat.
Pansy, I agree with you as to the
celebration OF Cnrist's birthday. Many
celebrate it more as the great day Of
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MOTH
ERaOOD.

The best thing in all the world is to
have had a good mother, writes Ed
ward Box in a recent Ladies' Home
Journal. Noting the tendency of
mothers to escape the care and respon
sibility Of training their own children,
resorting to nursing their own chill
dren, resOrting to nurses, governesses,
kindergartens, etc he vigorously con
tends that woman should consider her
God given duties" to her children
vastly paramount to every ''claim"
that can be made upon her time. ut
is one of the most baleful tendencies
of the times" writes Mr.. Box, that
young children are placed so much
and so entirely in the hands Of nurses,
and so far away from their mothers.
I do MOI think that women exactly re
alize what the early teachings and in
huences of a mother mean to a man
when he reaches years of maturity.
The time which a boy spends at his
mothers knee is never forgotten by
the man. Our morality is learned
there. Our characters are formed
there. We are most impressionable
when we are in a stage Of absolute
dependence upon others. What sort
of a recollection is it for q nan to look
back to q line of nurses or go~vernesses2
what moral stimulus does he receive
from the recollection ola mother inev-
itably reading some novel end resting
in a languid sEupor with fan and
smelling bottle7 What moral fibre is
instilled into a child who sees his
mother only as che fits before him be
tween morning calls, l~uncheons, meet
ings, teas, drives, dinners and theater
parties9 WHAT does a boy learn at
the knee of a nurse9 Goods Perhaps
But lsU as often he learns that which is
not good.
Many a man.has stood at the forks
of Gne ruad IN his life, broken. hearted
and perplexed, only to have his moth.
er's words, uttered to him when q
child, come before him and point him
the way. 1t is then that he realizes
that the best thing in the world to a
man is to have had a good mother,
watchful, tender and anxious, as only
a mother can be where her child is con
cerned. In those supreme moments
the lesson taught-not by the nurse,
not by q stranger, not at the kinder,
garten, but at the mothers knee-be.
comes a precious recollection and a
b%enedic5ion. It means then a mans
salvation. And in that quiet moment
a man thinks of a good mother as he
never thinks of any other woman. A
look of tenderness comes into his eyes,
a feeling of softness creeps into his
heart, and the attitude Of his earliest
infancy comes to him as, unconscious
ly he looks upward and breathes to
himself the most precious of all words:
'Mother.' 1t remains for the moth
ers of to day to determine how much
that word will mean to the men Of to
morrow"
pRRSIDRNT ELIOT ON HAPPY
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17

The praises of others may be of use
to US in teaching us, not what We are
but what we ought to be. -Hare.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-17

Dear Aunt Jennie:-Having read in
our Column what others say Of far
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-16
THE MODERN WAY
OF MAKING SHOT,

new and unusual interest is at
present being taken in ammunition De-
cause of the stand taken at The Hague
peace convention by certain OF the pow
ers in this matter. Englands REFUSAL
to agree to the abolition OF the DUN
dunn bullet and Captain Mahan's advo-
cacv of the explosive rifle ball have
aroused public curiosity as to how the
ordinary shot and shell of war are
made and wherein they differ from the
more destructive leaden implements OF
death.
The DUN dunn bullet. on account OF
having. it's steel apex either cut off flat
or previously split at once "mush-
rooms" when striking solid body,
the heavier and softer lead behind the
steel tip spreading out and tearing its
way through flesh and bone, infictins
a frightful wound. The English rep
resentatives at The Hague claim that
this is the only bullet that will effec-
lively check the mad charge of savage
and frantic tribes on civilized infantry,
and for this reason will not agree 70
its abolition
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-16

found one Of these tall shot towers.
where the process Of shot making may
be seen busily carried on.
This process is an extremely inter-
esting one. The typical shot tower is
divided into two stories. one floor about
50 feet from the ground, and the other,
which is at the top Of the tower, nearly
twice that height. On the floor Of each
story is a tremendous caldron. heated
by stove placed beneath 1t. Beside 1t
may always be found a strange looking
instrument resembling a much distort-
ed frying pan with long handle and
supported by an iron framework close
to te caldron. Just under this is a
hole in the floor opening down into
200 feet of dizzy darkness. The pigs
OF lead are hauled I'D to the top OF
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-16

lead into the colanders. The size Of the
shot, of course depends on the size
of the holes in the eoIander and as
the thick liquid slowly drips away 1t
is replaced by fresh ladlefuls.
The shot is then removed from tho
water tanks below and carefully dried.
after which 1t goes through the process
of shifting. A certain small proportion
OF the shot is always imperfectly form
ed, and to separate the goats from the
sheep, as 1t were. or rather the chaif
from the wheat. it is put through a
sort OF diminutive threshing machine.
It Is then placed in long horizontal
cylinders revolving by machinery and
pierced by different sized holes. Ac-
cording to the holes from which IL IS
sues the shot drops into appointed re-
eeptacles. After this II Is placed in re-
vOlying barrels, the long continued
turning wearing away its original
greenish hue and leaving 1t a glossy
black. II is then done up in stout can
vas bags ready for shipment.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-16

Mrs. Annie Brady; Treasurer, Mrs.
Jenny jenkins.
An entertainment will be given next
Wednesday night in the Episcopal
parish building.
A Japanese lecture will be given in
the NJ. e. church the night of July 18th.
The Presbyterian Sunday school will
picnic at Bloomington. Nd, July goth.
After lodge Wednesday night the
Heptasophs took supper at Mrs. Hoe
nicka's.
There are several vacant houses in
toWn-something very unusual.
Mr.. Ed. Watkins has returned home
to Fairmont.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-16
their summer trip of two months dura-

their summer trip of two months dura-
ton.
Messrs. Billy Steger and Joseph
Felt returned to the city yesterday
after rusticating for week down the
Ohio.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Thompson
Rhodes and children, of North Main
street, leave Thursday for Atlantic
City.
City Clerk Thomas O'Brien, Jr.,
has returned from his visit to Pittsburg
where he took part in the Elk Fair fes-
tivities.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph R. PAUL, Mrs.
Maude Eccles Heiskell and Miss Laura
CrangleDalzell leave August 6 for At
lantic City.
Mrs. John Scott and son, of Pitts
burg, are house guests of Mrs. Scott's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Frew, or
Fourteenth street.
W. L. Russell, Lynn Kertland, j. A..
Poorman and wife, SiStersville; |. D..
Thomas, MaTtington; T. r. Dunlap,
New Martinsyille. are at the Howell.
Mrs. Frank Coleman. of Toledo, nee
Miss Nan Laughlin. with her daughter,
Louise, is the house guest of Mr.. ano
Mrs. Oliver Thompson Rhodes, OF
North Main street.
r. F. Menefer, Grafton; P W. Stew
art, j. H. Hanks, w. e. Weiss, Sisters
vile; T. C. Gallaher, R. l.. Cunning
ham, Fairmont; 7. P. Duane, Kidwell;
John E. MCGUIRE, Sistersville: are the
State arrivals registered at the Grand
Central.
Mrs. J. Z. Giffin and three children
sail for Europe Tuesday next on the
Leitpold to visit friends in Mainz
Bremen and other points. Mr.. Giffin
will accompany Mrs. Giffin and child
rem to New York and will then go TO
jamestown, N. Y. where the Photo
graphers Association convention Of
America is in session. Mr.. Giffin will
return within week or ten days.
+ T. NJ. Showalter, Miss Lulu NJ. Bum
berger, Will Anderson and wife, Miss
Daisy Lahore, Basil T. Bowers. Mes
danes, Clark Leap, and L. j. Williams,
Miss Christina Humphrey and Ross
Shepherd, q. o. Woodcock and r. H.
Sharp, New Martinsville; the Misses
Stella Parker and Louisa Twain. JAS
McGovern. Robert Mccormick Sis
tersville: GIN. Carson, Matamorae:
w. G. McGll}hphy. Jr.. Rock Lick; Miss
Mabel Hows Id, Cameron, are the State
arrivals req btered at the Stamm.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-16
PIECE WORK PLAN
Not Satisfactory to Iron Molders-WiH Try
to Have 1t Disc arded.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, July 1.-THE ma
tional convention of iron molders. to-day
discussed changes in the constitution of
the organization, suggested by resolutions.
Resolutions had been introduced looking
to the entire abolition of the piece work
system and the convention mad up for final
action a resolution doing away entirely
with the piece plan after January l next.
1t was decided however, to refer them all
back to the resolutions committee. This
committee to-day reported in favor of the
appointment of committee to confer with
like committees from the National Found
ers Defense Association and the National
Foundrymen's Association. The commit
tee was instructed to do all in its power
to secure the gradual abolition of the piece
plan. The report will be acted upon finally
next week.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-16


suppose these horses want their supper?
Fix that hay up!'
Where is a2?"
Where would 1t be? Open your eyes;
It's right in front of you Get them hits
out! Ard why don't you get your hay?
Get move on, there. All ready q, get
them horses in and be lively. Whoa.
Charley; you got no more sense than your
driver! Get in, you rascal, Hay in No.
20, - YOU Hustle along, there. No. II
all ready. Lock her up.~'Got your hay,
10? Get a hustle on.s
And so it goes for three mortal hours,
and the big circus is finally loaded and
train after, train pulls out. with tired men
lying among the horses, and on the wagon
cars and everywhere else they can find
a resting place. And SO 1t goes day after
day till the season is over. 1t is a. hard
life
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-16

NUN IOI oE ION EN-.
Wonderful developments have been
made in the manufacture of these lead
en- missiles since the time they were
first cast one by one in rough iron
1t is not often that a mere dream if
the direct source of a new idea and
invention capable of revolutionizing
an important industry But there is one
instance of such an event recorded in
history, and that instance is in con-
nection with the process of shot max
ing. For many years gun shot. had
been made by the melting of lead in
colanders, which are merely vessels of
suitable size, pierced with small holes,
through which the heated metal drip
ped into tanks Of water placed beneath
them. The result was that the small
drops of lead, being still hot, were in
variably fattened at the point of Inn
pact with the water. This was a Sc
rious defect in all eighteen century shot,
and troubled the manufacturers of that
article of ammunition very much.
The problem seemed insuperable, until
one day a shot maker of the town of
Bristol by the name Of Watts dreamed
a dream in which was revealed to him
the inspired fact that if only his drip
pings of melted lead wereNo fall from
sufficinet height before impact with
the water beneath they would BE suffi-
ciuently cooled during their descent
and would retain their regular globu-
lar shape.
The result of this happy dream was
a speedy test from the tall,tower Of the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-16
CONCERNING INDIVIDUALS.
DR.. Hill has returned from a shorl
vacation trip in Ohio.

DR.. Hill has returned from a short
vacation trip in Ohio.
Mr.. and Mrs. James K Hall and
children are at Atlantic City.
Charles d. Miller, of the South Side,
leaves to-day for Atlantic City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hoffman, and
daughter leave August 6 for Atlantic
City.
I. Mr.. Charles f. burst is spending a
short time at Oakland, Md, and Mt.
Lake Park.
Miss Mary Phinney of Boston, Mass.
is the guest of Miss Ella Brice, on Six
teenth street.
Mrs. David Riester, of Toledo, O., is
visiting her mother, Mrs. VIM. Tucker,
of South Chapline street.
DR.. and Mrs. John C. Hupp, of Four
tenth street, nave SIZE to Mackinac
Island for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex. burst and son
Robert, leave Thursday for Atlantic
City to be gone two weeks.
Frank Miller, clerk at Mobiles, is ly-
ing very i'll at the residence of his
mother on North EOtf street.
The Misses Odie Lingaman and Letta
Marsh arrived home yesterday from a
visit to friends in Columbus.
After two weeks vacation Will Bar
tells and Rich Gaus, of Hicks & Hoge,
can be found at the store again.
A. T. Wilmoth, Elkins; E. B. Dyer,
Charleston; E. o. Keller, New Martins
vile, are guests at the Windsor.
Mrs. George S. Feeney and daughter
Miss Angela Feeney, of North Cnapline
street, leave August 6 for Atlantic City
DR.. and Mrs. Frank Lemoyne Hupp
of Fourteenth street, left Tuesday for
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-16

sickness and all other discomforts that
precede maternity 1t makes labor light,
short and almost painless. 1t helps to
make real new women" An honest
druggist won't urge upon you SUBJ
etitute
Mrs. Emerson Alien, of Dorset Ontario Co,
Ont, writes: !" can truly say that / think DR..
Pierce's medicines the best haze ever used. I
was ID very poor health for lqhg time. dating
doctors and different medicines derived very
muck more benefit from youp medicines than
dom any other have eyer used i took four
hotties Of FavQlite Prescription and three bot
ESep ne fellsts il the house!''