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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-17
The
Umbrellas
We Sell

Are beauties, easy to tell them any
where, because they are out of the
ordinary in construction. fold small
as a cane, have strikingly individual
handles, paragon steel frames and
are covered with the best, selected
ma aterial.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-17
The
Umbrella
To Buy

Is one that has distinctive features
easily recognized in crowd; some
popularity of handle or construc-
tion that you can readily identify.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-17
White PiQue Skirts

Made of extra fine quality piQue, width
four and half yards, with five-inch
hem elaborately trimmed with white
Soutache braid and white embroidery
insertion, length 43 inches .............a
$3.50 values for $3.50
Fine Quality Pique Skirt, four yards wide,
with four-inch hem, panels of pique.
trimmed with two rows of light blue
pique, length AZ inches. es...................
1000 values for $50
Fine White Pique Skirt. four yards wide,
with tive-inch hem, panels of net open
work and white Soutache braid, length
AZ inches ............ NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
$50 values for 500
Fine White Pique Skirt four and half
yards wide, trimmed with one and q
half inch embroidered insertion over
drape of pique, trimmed same as skirt,
length "A inches NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
1850 values for $50
Extra fine quality, four yards wide, with
four-inch hem, trimmed with three
rows of embroidered insertion and two
rows four inches wide of Soutache
braid, length AZ inches. es...................
1000 values for 0.5O
Extra Fine Quality Pique Skirt, four
yards wide, trimmed with two rows Of
wide embroidered insertion around bot
tom and one row of fournch embroid-
cry and insertion down front and
around bottom, length Al inches.......
1850 values for 1000
White Pique Skirt of extra fine quality,
four yards wide, elaborately trimmed
with fancsy black and white braid and
narrow plain black Soutache braid, six
rows in fancy design, length i3 inches.
1900 values for 1000
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-17
Dry Things
in Umbrellas

Are ours. They commence at $3.50
for 26 and % inch silk covered, close
folding kinds. We have also an al
most endless variety of high grade
ones, with many unique handles
suited to fastidious tastes at prices
to make you
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-17

Cleveland, O., July IT, The conductors
and motormen of the Big Consolidated
street railway system, who were on a
strike last month, went out again at Ala
this morning. Eight hundred men are
affected. They claim the company has
not lived up 10 the agreement made which
ended the former strike.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-30
FRANKLIN's sRLF.CULTURE.

Few men have known more than
Benjamin Franklin, yet few have had
less education, in the common sense Of
the word. In writing of him in the
Century Magazine, Paul L. Ford says:
For not more than two years, 1t the
age of eight to ten, he went to a
grammar school and a private school
in Boston; for the other fourscOre
years and more of his life he learned
without a teacher. HIS fathers library
was small, but the lad himself spent
the little money that came into his
hands on serious books and pamphlets.
Having proved deficient in arith,
metic in his early youth, he afterward
made a special study of mathematics,
and for some time amused himself by
constructing all sorts Of magical
squares and circles, with rows of fig
ures that would add up alike which.
ever way they we're counted.
Poor r chard" made merry over
the many witty men whose brains
cannot fill their bellies" and of those
who would live by their wits, but
break for want of stock" "a learned
blockhead is a greater btockhead than
an ignorant one" he asserted, and
claimed that "of learned fools l have
seen ten times ten Of unlearned wise
men I have e a hundred"
Yet Franklin was far from showing
the usual contempt of the self taught
man for an academic education. On
his settling in Philadelphia, he found
Two things which I regretted" and
one Of these was There being no pro
vision for the complete education of
youth, l therefore in 1743 drew up a
proposal for establishing an academy"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-30

even if she was lost to him, through
death, or because she was false, or
through a lovers t%houghtless quarrel,
or misunderstanding, than he ls if he
has never known love for in that ase
he has missed the best of life. It is the
same with a wCman-her past life will
seem empty and blank with a sense of
some thing wanting if she has never
loved. If she has loved and had the
misfortune to lose she has memories,
sweet and bitter, as the case may be,
to keep her heart fresh, and to make
her tender with young people in their
loves and SORROWS. Yes! it is better
to have loved and lost, than never to
have loved at ALL"
Daisy Belle, where are you hiding
your daisy self3 I have looked so
eagerly every week for a letter from
you. Aunt Jennie has called the roll
for both of us. l have ans wered, so
must you.
Bachelor Bob's'' letters are grand
he is another favorite of mine. Yes,
If we watch there is always a chance
to do some good, " as he said
Mrs, M. E Fillyaw writes a splendid
letter her last one on Ignorance and
E ucation" was good. 1 wish l could
write half as we'll.
Tonkey B Ill! Manila Dawey where
are you3 in fact all Of you3
declare, I must close, Aunt Jennie
will be so tired Of me-of course she is
the head favorite of all. Our dear
kind Aunt Jennie, goodbye, for awhile,
then I'll come again. With love and
best wishes. EVA PLAN NDON.
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ALL CONE TO WOOL.

Yes, l suppose you may call E3en a
successful, man.. He does a good bust
ness, but to my mind he isn't pros
porous"
SO said Mrs. Tracy to her sister,
who had congratulated her on the pur
chases by her husband of a mill which
he was thought to have bought at a
bargain.
WELL" returned her sister, sit
seems to me every thing he touches
comes cut just right. He's the busiest
man in town"
That's just it." retorted Mrs. Tracy.
He's busy, and he succeeds in his do
ings, but that isn't progressipg-not as
| understand it. Y1u see" she C )ntln.
uad, when We we're first married he
leased the little wool mill on the stream
and got along first rate. He wasn't
over busy, and used to ride around to.
gether every afternoon and have lots
OF company and good tim s
But he began to make money and
buy % wool and more mills to take
care of and more storehouses to put it
in, until il takes about ell his time to
get from n mill to another. Some,
times I see him on a Sunday, but be is
generally busy resting up to start
again. HIS about as much a slave
IS if he was chained in a galley"
Yes, but he does make money, .
$ id her eister.
well, perhas so, but it all goes to
buy more wool If anybody bankers
from 10 Of wool in this world, that's
one thing. Eben has any mount Of
wool, but when it comes to getting
the real solid goodness out of life and
enjoying it, he's forgotten how to do it.
Really, as l look ct it, Eben is the
mCs5 unprosperoUs man in town
Youths Companion.
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a LAST WORD.

O all i%nsidious, peace destroy ing
habits, a rRbid desire for the last word
IN argument or arraignment takes the
highest rank. 1t is but a form Of that
self5hness which stoops at nothing to
attain its own ends, pleasure, or gain.
1t is at the root of three fourths Of
the troubles that beset relatives in
law, and relatives Themselves, for that
matter.
''Providin' things go to my say"
says the squire, in Carleton's School
masters Guests" and the dark and
sooty fate that overlook his SAY"
might be a salutary lesson to all effc
ted with a like weakness. Even when
one has gained the coveted last word,
silenced every opposing argument,
turned every tide in his desired direc
ton, what has he Accomplishment Not
to mention the old adage of the man
convinced against his will, he has not
in motion one single kindly thought
for his side of the question, or gained
any respect for it, or himself.
1t is rather the patient, gentle toler
ance of the opinions of another, be it
neighbor, husband, wife, child, mother
in law, daughter-ia law, that wins in
the end. What matter if old Jede
diah Hopkins's first wife was a Miller.
and his second a Jones or vice versa2
Arguing the matter for a month willnot
change the record in Jedediah's time
worn Bible, and it GER tainiy does not
freShen the domestic atmosphere.
Right and truth will come uppermost
Of later, from their very ma
lures, 80 if one knows he has the truth
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-30

only study the conditions of their re.
spectIve lives &c ~undeceive themselves.
The womsn who distinguishes herself
in outside pursuits may have been
forced to accept the situation by her
environment. She may not have home.
parents, younger brothers and sisters.
she may have recognized a stern duty
in the profession she has chosen. and
avail herself of it as the best mode of
providing herself a life of useful, re
munerattve occupation. Compare
lively few women enter the field Of out
side labor from choice; but once they
accept the situation they nobly re
solve c~reditably to fill the office,
whatever it may be But whose con
dition Of life offers the greatest posi-.
bilitiesof ding good to others at home7
Would it not be selfish ambition onlv
that could tempt you beyond your
own threshold when duty called loudly
on every hand to tighten the burden of
an over worked mother. to train care
fully the little ones so dear to you, and
above all to set them a noble example
Of unseIfsh devotion? You may i'm.
sgine that to go out and do for your
self relieves your parents OF expense
and responsibility, and if your incli
nation is in that direction you may
fAtter yourself that it is q noble re
solve; but it might be far more unset
fish and noble to ''bide a vice." and
share those duties and cars. II would
bring at last its own reward. You
might miss in youth some pretty
gowns and gloves-indeed, many
things very dear to the feminine heart
out what you would gain would be of
priceless value. IL would save you
many regrets and much sorrow when
you take your own turn in life to be the
forsaken mother.
The best marriage-the happiest and
most enduriDg-is not made by the
society belle, but by the home girl,
who, like the violet, is sought in some
quiet home, not purchased in some
gay watering place.
There are rich women, noble, self
sacrificing women, living the lives of
saints within the sacred precincts of
home and doing charities that bless
and save. In all conditions OF life.
from wealth to poverty, We may find
heroes by the home ireside as well as
at the camp fre.-The Coming Age.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-30
BETTER LOVE NOT THAN LOVE
AND LOSE.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE:-It has been SO
long siuce I have had the pleasure of
being with you all that l am sure you
will not recognize in me the boy, who
wrote a letter concerning his Asheville
trip last summer. As l look around
me there are so many new faces that
perhaps Aunt Jennie will have to take
me around and give me an introduce
ton.
You will please excuse me il I take
up an old subject, with you all, just
one minute. Now don't understand
me to say that l AN in favor of flirting
in all forms. Bat l do not see the
harm in Just 9 little flirting. It makes
girls more sociable, if I may use the
comparative.
Now 1 see several questions have
been suggested for discussion, and as
there is no particular one, don't you
all think it would be right for Aunt
Jennie to give US one to write upon for
a certain time?
see some letters from Mecklenburg
county and am glad to hear from my
native county. But I can't agree with
Sincere" of Charlotte, about it being
better to have loved and lost than to
have never loved at all. How often
have we seen persons who were re
fned and educated, journeying through
life as it we're in a dream, unconscious
of their manifold blessings, making no
use of the talents which God in his in
finite goodness has bestowed upon
them. Then ask the cause Of this, and
the answer comes disappointment in
love-" Beecher has said that when
there is love in the heart there are
rain bows in the eyes which
every bleak cloud with gorg 9ous hues ="
Yes, love helps US to look on the bright
side of life, but when it is lost there
is but side and that is the dark side.
'H1w can each dark cloud
II ave a silver lining,
Wnen the sun has set,
And no moor is shinIng3"
Now "Sincere said that there was q
hope in the heart of those who have
loved and lost, to be united in Heaven
to the loved one lost on earth. ''8in.
cere" surely was not sincere in that, for
the Bible says, that in the next world
these who enter neither marry, 10
are given in marriage.
Boys, let US not let the girls usurp
this whole corner or they will prove
that women are more selfish than men.
BILLY, THE DE CONs BY
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-30

DEAR AUNT JENNIE:-Ia Toe Pro
gresslve Farmer of May 9jh on page 4
there is an article, entitled. the First
Southerner" which speaks of the Lost
Colony of R Roanoke" as still enveloped
in mystery. Perhaps, some OF the
Cousins will be surprised to learn that
a band Of Croatan Indians went to
r oanoke Island and offered the colo
nists the chance to live with them in
peace, which the colonists accepted.
And these Croatans and coIonists inter
married. Some OF their descendants
went to South Carolina and inter
married with the Huzuenots. There
are now in R )beson county persons OF
Croatan, E Iglish and French descent.
Very likely the blood Virginia Dare
flows in the veins of some Of them.
The most of those in R Jbeson county,
and South Carolina have French
names.
Let me suggest a subject for the
Cousins to write about, tn t is, Local
and State History.
Aunt Jennie, l think you are right
about factory hands not being as happy
as those that are not under party
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-30
Fl SHIRT WAIST.

The days Of the arbutus AMI the shirt
waist are here, and the summer girl
has made good use of her time since
the season began. What is there that
gives greater charm to a bit of femi-
ninity than a shirt waist SUITE When
you see it you think of apple blossoms
and you want to wander IF 60 a beDcn
under the trees, there to SIC at the feet
of beauty, as it we're. and devour her
with your ey es. Un!-'The Tattler, ="
in AsnevIlle Git I'm.
It's the truth. There is nothing else
that a girl can wear that makes her
look so sweet, as a shirt waist. A
shirt waist and q sailor hat is q comb
nation that is simply out Of sight. All,
if the dear creatures only knew it.
Then they whuldn't wear SO much
crepe de chine, MORE, nainsook, taffeta,
foulard, mOUselIne de soia, aud all that
sort OF stuff, nor carry SO much bunt
ing draped tulip patcn on their heads.
i schRnge.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-30

bosses. l stayed little over a week
at a factory village last summer, and
the people did not seem to be as happy
as those that + free, although they
seemed to have plenty to eat and
% They were bound down to
harder work than the farming classes
are. Where I was the HANDS had to be
at the factory By six in the morning;
from twelve till a qlarter to one they
had dinner. and if the factory closed at
nine (Which it did most of the time)
they had a quarter of an hour at six
for supper. Some times they were
turned out at seven in which case they
didn't bother with supper till after
they went home. Once in a while
they had a day or part of a day for a
holiday.
They had but little time to read
study or write or for a stroll in the
woods, neither did the boys often have
a chance to go fishing O. hunting, and
the most of what little time they did
AhNC G4Sy SC0A4SO w VIC wv GAEGO Lux
such things.
In n respect they r better off
than country people who live several
miles from church, as they have
churches near them and religious meet
ings oftener than in the country. In
the country hardly a day passes but
that I hear some one talking politics,
but while in the village I never heard
the subject mentioned. Before l went
I thought / would learn something
about factory politics, but if any man
had any political views, he kept them
to himself. The gentleman at whose
home I visited took four papers and
they were all of but one party. But
farmers are right often no better than
factory people, go far as party bosses
are concerned. A big farmer will
bias the politics of the little farmers
for miles around.
Can any of the Cousins tell me the
names of Patrick Henry's children8
l am e descendant of the Henry's, and
would like to have the information.
LILLE a FILLYAW,
~ Az
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-30
Social Chat.
EDITED BY AUNT JENNIE. RALEIGH, N. C.

Here is a column for everybody-Iadies, gen.
fIemen, boys, girls, fathers and mothers.
everybody is invited to write on subjects of in
terest to them. Never mind If you are not
perfect as a writer. give us your thoughts and
We will see that they are in good shape before
they are published.
TBE 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 in a bond
Of friendship that will be a help and an tnspira-
lion to each one Of US" The friendship OF each
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
nope this sOir1t will animate each letter, and
breathe through every page. Address letters to
Aunt Jennie" care of The FAR
MER, Raleigh, y. @.
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in his hand, he can efford to possess
his soul in peace.
Il mean to stand up for my rights"
says some one, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
way of saying, Il mean to have my
say, my good, my wishes. ahead of
every other consids ration" Rather,
stand up for the right; not combat
lively, but pleasantly and with charity,
and ones own rights. be they of speech
or possession, will take care of them
selves.-H. P. R, in the Housekeeper.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-30
Dial, N. Q.
us MARRIAGE A FAILURz7"

DEAR AUNT JENNIE For the last
few weeks, I have been listening atten-
lively to what the Chatterers have had
to say about ignorance, and I think
they all talk we'll. But for my part
somehow I cannot help being under
the impression that ignorance has very
little to do with happiness. Yet it may
be true that some very ignorant people
are perfectly satisfied and seemingly
happy. Other questions, however,
present themselves to my mind: Is
their happiness by reason of ignoranceG
@: is it that don't care" disposition
with which nature has endowed them7
If ignorance is bliss, it seems like the
most ignorant person in the world
would be the happiest one.
Well, it seems that there has been
some thing said on nearly every sub,
ject suggested save the n by Eva
Plamondon, lis marriage a failure9"
And I for one think it we'll worth some
consid GRAFTON and also think if it were
more deeply considered the world
over, there would be fewer unhappy
homes and divorce cases. l have no
right to say as 1 have no experience
along that line but as Eva says I'VE
can tell what we think about it," and
that is Just what I am going to do. I
don't think marriage is always a fail
ure, neither do / think it always a sue.
cess. When a man fails to get the
woman of his choice and then mar
ries the one he can get just to show
the first one that he could; or just to
have a housekeeper, VT may reason
ably ex pect that marrying to be a fail
ure. Again when a girl forms a special
attachment for a man who INDUCES in
habits that she is not satisfied with,
and marries him with an idea that she
will reform him by her influence, she
takes the shortest cut to a failure, for
when the time comes for her to use
her influence ahe will find that it
amounts to just about the same as
dropping a knitting needle endwise
into the middle of the ocean to part it's
waters.
But when a man truly loves the
q woman and the woman loves the
n man and find in each other the
companion that God has intended, and
the angel of peace hoveTs over their
homes 1 rec ogniz3 no possibility ola
failure.
We need not marry simply to have
some one to share the sunny side of life
with US; for any body will do that.
But there is no life so full of sunshine
but that at some time its horizon is
obscured by a cloud.
The pathway may be etreWn with
Fl overs, and yet We occasionally fad
the hidden thorn concealed under b
petals and the companion who will
by US amid the frowns OF mis-
fortune and speak an encouraging
word in the time Of disappointment,
failure and defeats is the one on whom
we should center our affections and
with whom we should share U
And the time to consider
these things is when we are free to do
so. After we have knelt at the mRr-
ALTAR it is too late. 1t my letter
is already long and the waste basket 10
convenient. | expect the sooner / stop,
the better. So with love to all l DID
you by by. NETTIE NRoSS'
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-05-30

"Well, my son." s aid the freshman's
father, Il am very glad you have
gone on your class football team. Have
you got everything you needs"
Everything, father, except q new
set Of teeth, and | may be able to get
through the year without losing those
that / have" replied the freshman
Elk.
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@oNEE = crRcr.E
Only q Sister to Him.
ROBERT J. BURDETTE.

He lifted his head in the starlight dim,
And all that he saw was q round. dull sky:
And the stars that twinkIed, looked to him
Like the phosphor CLEANS of the fire fly,
The new moon hung In an awkward shape
And was crooked and bent like the horn of q ram;
The sombre NAPLES seemed hung with Grape
And the garden gate banged to with a slam.
The brook oCzsd over the shiny stones
From stagnant pools in the meadow marsh;
Or it crooned along with plRintlve means,
And the song Of the whip.poor will was harsh,
He jabbed his ribs on the clumsy style,
For dark as pitch was the dusty lane;
And his thin lips curved in q bitter smile
As he smote the weeds with a spiteful cane.
Rough and ugly and long the way,
The skies we're dull and the earth was cold;
He hated the night and he dreaded the day,
And his heart seemed a hundred centuries old,
With the drge of his signs he timed his tread
As one who wonderful bitter things;
But he only whispered, with drOnDing head,
And a heart that wondered-"Kicked by jings!"
-NeU York /