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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-02-07
WE NEVER KNOW.

Rev. A. E. Rogers, a former pastor
Of the Baptist church in Martinsburg,
W. Va, some years since, told the
writer the following Incident, which
ne knew TO be true, and which is 80
suggestive that we would like the Her
aid to publish it.
A young preacher had an appoint
ment to preach at a country church en-
a certain Sunday mornig, many years
ago. 1t was a rainy day; but, full of
youthful ardor, the preacher deter
mined to meet his appointment. There
was no n person there, and, after
waiting a half hour, he concluded that
it might be a helpful exercise to him
self to preach anyway. Filling the
pews, IN imagination, with attentive
hearers, he accordingly went through
with the entire service.
Many years after, he was warmly
greeted by a stranger, who told him
that, passing that church that Sunday
morning, he was induced, partly by
the tac5 hat he saw but a single horse
and partly by the desire to get out Of
the rain, to dIsmount. He was 80 sur
prised to notice from the vestibule that
the preacher was preaching to empty
benches that be heard the sermon
through, was convicted of sin, and
soon thereafter converted, and for ten
years or more had himself been a
preacher Of the gopel and had been
blessed in leading many to Christ
A. D., in Religious Herald. Ea
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-02-07

States senators and railroad commits.
sioners by the people.
We favor the enactment OF such
legislation as will encourage capital to
take investments within our State,
and guarantee that the same shall be
justly protected.
We favor q union of the silver forces
of the country in the Congressional
elections, and cordially invite all vot,
ers, without regard to past party at
fliations. to unite with us in support
ing u candidates for Congress who
favor the free coinage of silver, thus
giving practical force and effect to the
recommendation of our Democratic
National Chairman, Hon. James K.
Jones, and to the Congressional COM
mittee.
We admire and recommend without
stint the great and gallant fight made
by Hon. William J. Bryan in the last
national campaign for the success of
our party and the principles of our
platform.
We call attention to the wise, eco
nomical, honest and honorable admin
istration of the affairs of our State for
twenty years prior to the present Re
publican administration, and promise
the people a return of wise, honest,
economical and honorable administra-
ton under Democratic success. We
call upon every believer in honor, hon.
eety and economy, upon every advo-
cate of white supremacy, upon every
advocate of equal and just taxation,
upon every advocate of the income
tax and opponent of plundering tariff
taxation, upon every advocate Of the
restoration of silver, and opponent Of
the single gold standard, and the pres
ent issue of bonds, as threatened by
the Republican party; upon every OPP
pOnent Of government by injunction,
and advocate of the Jurisdiction of
State courts over cases arising in the
State against corporations doing bust
ness therein; upon every lover Of de-
cency and good government and op-
ponents of the prevailing conditions,
to unite with US in our contest with
the Republican party-the greatest
enemy Of our principles, and aid us in
redeeming the nation from the clutch
es of greed and injustice and the Stale
from the scandal and incompetence
hat now afHict it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-02-07
Christian Life Column.
BE THOU NY GUIDE.

Be Thou my guide, and I wilk in dark
ness
As one who treads the beamy heights
of day,
Feeling a gIadness amidst desert sad
. ness,
And breathing vernal fragrance all
the way.
Be Thou my wealth, and, rett Of all be
side Thee
1 will forget the strife for meaner
things;
Blest in the sweetness of Thy rare com
pleteness,
And opuIent beyond the dream of
kings! $3.50
Be Thou my strength, highly One, and
Saintlyl
And though unvisioned ills about me
throng,
Though danger WOO me and deceit pur
sue me,
Yet, In the thought of Thee, I will be
strong!
-LIPPINCOTT's.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-02-07
PRAYER IN SECRET:

Christians often complain that pri-
vate prayer is not what it should be.
They feel week and sinful. The heart
is cold and dark; it is as if they have so
little to pray, and in that little no faith
or joy. They are discouraged and kept
from prayer by the thought that they
cannot come to the Father as they
ought OF as they wish. Child of God,
listen to your Teacher. He tells you
that when you go to private prayer
your first thought must be: The Father
is in secret; the Father waits me there.
Just because your heart is cold and
prayerless, get you into the presence
of the loving Father. Do not be think.
ing of how little you have to bring to
God, but of how much He wants to
give you. Just place youself before,
and look up into His face; think of Hi
love, His wonderful, tender, plying
love. Just tell Him how sinful and
cold and dark all is; it is the Fathers
loving heart will give light and warmth
to yours. O do what Jesus says: Just
shut the door, and pray to thy Father
which is in secret. THE Rev. Andrew
Murray.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-02-07
Little Folks.
wYNKEN, BLYNKEN, AND NOD.
BY EUGENE FIELD.

b4 hOIhNH rlEAOs
This is one of q series Of children's
favorite poems which will be published
in The PROGRESSIVE FARMER, the frs
Of which, Riley's 1.-The Elf Child, was
published last week. The little FOLKS
or their mothers may find it to their
advantage to preserve these poems
either by FASTING them In q scrap
book or byisome other method.-EDs ]
Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night
Sailed off IN a wooden shoe
Sailed on q river of misty light
Into a sea Of dew.
"Where are you going and what do
you Wish2"
The ola moon asked the three.
1--WE have come to fish for the herring
fish
That live in this beautiful sea;
Nets OF silver and gold have We,"
Said Wynken,
Blynken
And Nod.
The old moon laughed and sung q song
AS they rocked IN the wooden shoe;
And the wind tha5 sped them all night
long
Ruf1sL me waves of dew;
The little stars were the herring.6s
That lived in the beautiful sea.
Nov cast your nets wherever you
wish,
But never afeard are wei"
So cried the stars to the fishermen
three,
Wynken,
Blynken
And Nod.
All night long their nets they threw
For che fish In the tWinkling foam,
Then down from the sky came the
wooden shoe
Bringing the fishermen home;
Twas all so pretty a sail, 1t seemed
AS If it could not be;
And some folks thought twas a dream
they dreamed
OF sailing that beautiful sea;
But I shall name you the fishermen
Wynken,
Blynken
And Nod.
Wynken a1d Blynken are two little
eyes
And Nod is q little head,
And the wooden shoe that sailed the
skies
e Is a wee one's 6rundle bed;
So shut your eyes while mother sings
or wonderful sights that be,
And you shall see the beautiful things
As you rock on the misty sea,
Where the old shoe rocked the fish
ermen three:
Wynken,
Blynken
And Nod.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-02-07
THE WAR as viewed BY A BOY

A 6 year-old boy in an Evanston Ill }
school turned in the following Compo.
sition one day during the war with
Spain:
This war Is prsy sirius, and this ia
why it ~, csus at first you no the
Spanish Minister swor at Mukinley
and did not apoIugis FIR such a long
time. Aud the next sirius thing was
the Maen, and l should like to of seen
that CRATE eksposion. And then the
starving Cuobeas are prty cirrus to
And now we have begun the war, and
many brave comrades will die for
their country. Prhaps ther will not be
a man in the town, and meny a muEher
will morn for her huzbans. Ded lay
they on the batlild, and there stand
ther muthers weeping for Their huz
bands. Trey tax the Wunded to the
hosbitl and the ded to the graves. And
meny Spanish ships will singk and
feeW American ships will singk, and
we shall lite the Spaanyrds on land
and sea. And Our flag waves over the
Filupeens liens this dRv and are army"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-02-07
NUMBER PUZZLES.

Answers to Those Printed January 10th
1. The buyer gives his dollar and his
two cent piece TO the peddler, and his
~three-cent piece to the neighbor. Then
the pedler gives his half-dollar to the
buyer and his quarter to the neighbor.
Tken the neighOor gives his two dimes
and his penny to the buyer and his
nickle and his tWo-cent piece to the
peddler, and then each man has his
just due.
2. By the proposed plan the landlord
would lose aix5een bushels.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-02-07
DEWsY saOR ON BUTTONS.

The little daughter Of John Card
we'll, of New Albany, KY has received
the folio wing characteristic letter from
Admiral Dewey:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-02-07
W RR17E5 Silver WVandOtteS.

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teed. /. M. PROCTOR, RALEIGH, NO
~ Registered Berkshire Pigs ready
for delivery in March
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-02-07

Il you are going { DO a kindness to
a fellow. creature, be sure to do it in
such a manner az will not make il
painful for him to receive it. A good
deed becomes all the better when it is
graciously performed, but loses more
5aan half its merit If it be accompanied
by any rudeness or bOorIshness OF
speech or look. There is such q
thing as stabbIng a man with tavors,
Oy making him feel a humiliating senee
of his dependence, or by exacting from
him a groveling display of gratitude.
No true gentleman will ever be guilty
of any such conduct, and no C
Christian will fail to abhor it.-Ex.
The Bible mas a good deal to say
about forgiveness, but " nowhere
states that 1t is easy to forgive. The
man who thinks iE IS easy to forgive,
either has nothing to forgive, or does not
know what forgiveness means. For.
giveness Is not, as some imagine, a
mere negative sustaining from ir.
iIcGIng injury upon the offender. Bible
forgiveness means also the positive ex-
hIbI5IOn Of a loving and actively pitt
tul temper toward a wrong doer. 1t
mas been well remarked by someone
that we must not think we are for
giving because anger is getting
tired" FOrglving is more than simply
forgetting. 1t is an active grace, off
cult of requirement, even with help
from above. Bu5 If it is not easy it Is
blessed to forgIve.-Ex.
The Richmond Times says:
Bible study is a thing that nom can
afford to neglect, and in this day of
cheap Bible literature and helps t the
study OF the Bible there is no excuse
for such neglect. Leaving out alto
| geEher the question of religion, the
BiOle is well worth the study of every
man and woman, for il is the best n
sures5 guide Of lite. In it are LAID
do wn the broad principles, upon which
all systems OF morals and law are
founded. Those who take the trouble
to search its pages will find the truesE
philosophy, the purest poetry, the
sweetest romancss, q most dramatic
situations, the o complete por5rayal
of human character tina are to De found
in any book Ia existence. The BIole ls
the tairesG book that was ever written.
IL nothing exGenuAJes, nor sets down
aught in malice" Its history is writ
ten with due regard TO fact, and us
greatest heroes are never fattered. 1t
tells the truth and spares not. More
than all this, It's rules of conduct in all
departments of life are perfect. Tue
man who will follow them, the man
VINO will live in the simple, honest way
that the Bible MARKS out, will be
healthy, wealthy and wise as far as IL
is in his capacity to attain health and
riches and wis Tom.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-02-07
Flagship Olympia,
"Manila, P. l., Nov. II, 1898.


Manila, P. l., Nov. IL, 1898.
My D5ar Little Friend:-I have re,
ceived and enjoyed your etter 80 much.
l am very much obliged to you for
your picture, and it is the very incest
present you could have sent me.
"I am very sorry that I have moth,
ing to send you, for l would like to
very much. So many people have al
ready asked me for buttons and pic
lures that I have a long time ago given
them all away. I don't have enough
buttons left now even to button my
coat"
Signed) GEORGE DEWEY"
A Strictly FANNY AtfaIr.-Mamma:
did you tell God how naughty you
weref" Lily: mo; l was ashamed.
1 thought it had better not get ou5 Of
the family"
New-York tribune., 1899-06-01
,ouovK LAKE CONFERENCE.

Mohonk Lake, n. Y, May 9-Ihe MN ~
Mohonk Conference for the promouon 0, "ssom wams.
,'on,I arbitration met at the Lake Mohonk hous'
'''"o' ,,,o devotional exercises. led by the hev'
, nr = L. Cuyler. Albert X. Smiley delivered an
add-ss, Of welcome Upon his motion ex-senator ,r
george F. Edmunds was elected cnhii maj
ss-oss Mr. Edmunds doubted the immediate ou'.
"uu ..o =, results from the Hague Conference, on.
,,srsd the triumph Of international areitra,ion
t'e,.ahIe The following officers were eiec'eo
lheF' ,u., uartha d. Adams and Henry u.
. pa,aw,n; press Committee-Major NJ H. br'sns
Pa r. wales and Mrs. Louisa HOushton Tne o,, 'o,,
lowing business Committee was app0'nrsT cars
~ Coombs John l. Gilbert G. r. WOOL, Wo0aI"p' q
Hohn H. stiness. Robert Treat Faine Haue: Ward nd
Capen, Lyman Aooot"
James Wood. ,,-.xo., tra,e made the opening
.ddrs.s culogzing the efforts Sf me bs,ween
md insisting that minor dinereneesu u,sr a.
peace anu aho,,ld he settled BY arbitration brct su
aSesses We're also made by EVesem Wood John
W C,ibept Robert Treat Paine AmosS Snrsyer ara
l. 1I.oW ~ ludlow, g. G.. Mercer. JULIUS D'eye' $50
AZ = Fright.
New-York tribune., 1899-06-01
NEW STATE CORPORATIONS

Albany. May Sl.-The following companies were
TODAY incorporated with the Secretary OF State:
The Hart-Ayres Plumbing Company, Of Brook
lyn: capitsL t25 600 and directors. Charles Hart
Joseph r Mclean Andrew Halsey and Richard
Bergen Of Brooklyn; Paul Ayres, OF Oceanside'
Queens County. - -, o,,. A..
THE Meodia Company. OF New-York City. TO
ors Kate b. Truax, OF Crawford n j.; Joseph
e Heath Of New-York City; Frank J. Van Order.
OF Newark. y. j. -- -, ,-on,
YORK City; capital 900, and directors, isaac Do
vega Charles f. Taller. Harold Nathan or New
The Campbell Knitting Mills Company Oh FL
mira: capital $1,000; directors, charles y. @ bruce
Eimlra: Fernando r: Rogers or hoches'e'' "e'' So
w Clark OF Hoosick Falls . 49,, val. c,,,,.
o,,e,ai sio on and directors. Martha H. Stout, or
Rrookivn: Albert e. McMulkin. Charles b. Hovey.
~ New-York City.
New-York tribune., 1899-06-01

Washington. May Sl.-The following Army and
Navy orders have Deen issued:
= ARMY.
Captain JAMES PARKER 4th Cav%Z EeSsn,y YS- mus, US
viii join tie 4th Cavalry At San PfsnC,seo
Clinton Liberal Institute Fort Plain. n 7.
Acting assistant d Sl1 s sTUART s 6oFD
manding general Department Of California for
BY direction Of the Secretary of War, the follow
Ing second ieutenants recently appointed are SS-
Cavalry: THOMAS A. Wears, Quartermasts H.,
HAGEDoRN faG 5is s sergeant sa Infantry he ls6 IN
s6y GEoaGH yoN P4TER H the the d Sh Infantry Infantry
5osEfHUs H2EfHU $ CECIL to the 1sh Infantry WAIT
GADsEEI' SfiNSGS to the 18th @ 2f Infaniry aia''
Leuienants HAYNE and JOHNSON o will Tsport TT to join Join
eeed San Francisco for duty IAsusnsns INA, FEER
SnSG s%S Meade eG ada a s SS %
eHienan 2 .Rot FouNG Rn Join hs his
Captain LOUIS GARRARp M roJs.s JE % SsaTts ty
perntendent Army Transport ssTyGe anta U5 farek
fn a Nc MscsSi SSi''''' N'0'e''''.' ''''''''''
coTIE tS remain 9 on the he c9nsssSn
revoked
Assistant Payma.ter NJ R. ooLDsBoRoUoH, to the
Passed Assistant Paynaster NJ NJ RAMSEY. detached
from the Dolphin
Pensacola. purchasing paymsster and general
storekeeper
Passed Assistant Paymaster p. " MOHUN detached
Navy Yard Pensacola. ready for orders to the New
ark
lieutenant W. r. SHOEMAKER, detached command tho
Talbot June 10. and the Massachusetts.
lieutenant T G. DEWEY. detached the Essex. home and
wait orders.
Naval Cadet L. r. SARGENT. to the Massachusetts.
Lieutenant F. II. TILLMAN, detached Naval Academy.
10 10 the Essex. June p.
Lieutenant W WINDER. the Raleigh, TO tenn
porary duty Bureau Of Navigation. then 10 Michigan
compass instruction
The following officers are ordered to the Newport
Torpedo Station for instruction in torpedoes and
electricity
IAeutenants s 3 ROBINSON and c. F. coo PER; I'm
sign G +. SNOW Naval Cadets +. r. HOLMAN.
4. W. PRESsEY, H. p. PERRIII4 O. G. MURPHIS'
r. ". HENDERSON, o. 6. DUNCAN, D. F. BOYD,
J.; W. GRAEME. D. E THEJ1EEN HN T. L JONES. 2STS
STREET T c. HART and 1. c. RICHARDSON.
New-York tribune., 1899-06-01
WATER TOWER DOES EFFECTIVE WORK

The big seven-story brick building at Nos 54 and
6s Fulton-st was threatened with destruction by
fire which started the fourth floor 6l5 o'clock
last evening BY the prompt of water tower
No / at the command OF Acting Chief Croker tho
structure was saved and much OF the stock Of the
tenants on the lower floors. The flames started in
the pattern shop of II. B. Olmstead. on the fourth
floor and ate their way UP through the hatchway
10 the floor above which was vacant. The upper
floors were occupied by the Manhattan Tin Can
Works. and we're destroyed before the tower
stopped the advance OF the flames.
+. Mitchell manufacturer OF brushes. occupied
the third floor and will suffer a small water dam
age The second contained the stock OF the Isaac
sen Insect Powder Company. which also was dam
aged by water Dickerson, Van Dusen & Co., deal
ers in metals antimony and tin, lose only by water
Croker estimated the fire loss a 5000
New-York tribune., 1899-06-01
NOT A BACKWARD STEP.
THE ORDER CRITICISED.
RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE CIVIL SERVICE RE-
FORM ASSOCIATION OF MARYLAND.


pa,t,more Nav S1-The following resolutions
were adopted to-day at the annual meeting OF the
CIVIL Service Reform Association of Maryland:
Tho Civil Service Reform Association Of Mary
lond a,nresses the profound regret with whlcn IL
learned OF President McKinley's action IN taxing,
Tor the first time In the history or the EXecutVe
Pendeton bill became law. an unmistakapie step
backward in the application OF the merit system 10
the public service OF the Nation II recoroS us
conviction that the order OF the PresioeIit VIII
oaItions from the protection OF the civil service
r1ies and thus sanctionng their use as means 0!
corr,intIon in politics, Is no less ncoIsIse!e
win the principles OF good government man VIII VIZ,
MCKINLEY himself and it deems THIS measure open
70 the graver censure because adopteu WIN @ iuit
arning as to it's consequences ana despe ea 80,
remonstranceB from patriotic citlLehs anu i'' 'e
press. $1,000. ,,o ,oi,uro NJ Congress TO
oro,,tde 40 far as practicable, for the seiectou vi
EMPLOYEES Of the Census Bureau throukn III, nnnr
ough and practical competitive eHanilnhuon9 p oPr
6ols attendant on the taking OF the last cehsuS
due TO the selection Of many among mos snpai
In tho work solely through partisan OF peIsoiItal
s.a,,oritisu as a fragrant violation OF the pronsSe
ma de by the party now dominant ,nae % o,m,ondeed,
nation Of the merit system should De eHteiIuvu u
~ hnra,er nractcabe and sacrifice OF the coui-
trv's interest to the private advantage Vi P'''
ticians. , -,oos,ra In contrasting with
,hase discouraging and discredltaple lai.uie ~
ss. ~ ,be mart OF executive and leRslatiNs ON
cors the recent gratifying progress maui nS ,noiro
80, tn Tho State OF NewIork unaer tne liInp.' a.
r nV notIcs and honest government IS mus snoT Tt
putto roatter OF principle and not matter 0i PIU1..
70 10 p ~ heen better proven than by Iouu P'"ieS
ainns ahu " az variance with official acts
New-York tribune., 1899-06-01
INDIANS LEAVE CLOTHING BEHIND.

Guthrie okla, May 81 (SpeciaD.-The quarantine
maintained over the Sac and Fox tribe or lnoians
for three months by the Government because OF
snoallnox was raised to-day One hundred and
twelve Indians had the disease, Of whom seventy
seven died. When the physicians declared the
disease stamped out the Government agent erected
a new village Of tepees. a mile from the OLD village
near cushion where they had been quarantined.
Each Indian was stripped naked ths morning
and made to run a mdle from the old to the new
village where he was furnished with tent cloth
ing. blankets and supplies by the Government Inc
bucks protested savagey against running but they
filed up on whiskey surreptitiously given 10 thenf
and after stripping ran amuck through huhoreds Oh
-hI,os aesenobIed The affair was highly sensa-
tional hut no one hurt. After the lndiahs nau
deparied the historic village, with all Its recs was
n,rrp Cd
New-York tribune., 1899-06-01
uorruryTS OF NAVAL VESSELS.

Washington. May u.-The New-Orleans has ar
r,,.d AZ pensacola The Prairie has arrived at
Southport with the returning North Carolina Navai
Nt,litIa aboard The Nashville has arrived AZ Nat
chez Miss. The Yosemite sailed yesterday rom
Gibraltar for Port Said for Guam carrying 1oV-
ernor Leary. The Potomac has sailed from foIs'-
s,nm,h to- pos,on. Tho Amphitrlte sailed yesterday
,,or, No,foIk for League Island. to undergo re-
na,rs The Abarenea has arrived at Monteyideo on
her way TO samoa by the Strait OF Mageiiah. nc ~
will cruise down the east coast OF Africa as lar as
the cape OF Good Hope and then cross 70 n 5Iatn
video on her way TO the Pacinc station. Ihe An
r.nnei,. has heen turned to the Naval Acad-
hapo.s % a nractice ship The Marietta has been or
dsred froun Norfolk to Boston. where she WIZ -
repaired