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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-06

The versatility Ct the composers of
the lighter and more popular forms
OF songs and instrumental music ia
amply shown oy the variety C )ntained
In the new music for the current month.
There is the song of the ~lovelorn and
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-06

Referring to the recent discussion
over free oliver, between the Char
lotte OTIS arver (goId Standard) and the
Charlotte news (silver) Mr.. WIS Pear
son (Democrat) writing in his paper,
the Morganton Herald asserts that the
dominant Democratic forces IN MS
State are with the Observer. He says:
Cleveland was your true counter
feiter and to intimate his kinship with
Jefferson is a violence to the vernacu-
lar; but we wholly differ with Brother
DoWd in thinking the average North
Carolina Democrat locks at 1t this
way. On the other hand the dominant
forces of the party in tn State are
distinctly with the Observer and even
in Mecklenburg this observation must
have occurred to many and to none
more strikingly than to Brother
Dowd."
The Belmont.SIoan scandal and other
developments showing the degradation
and senauality of the upper 400 Of
New York's wealthy society causes
the Nashville Christian Advocate to
say: ut is a great mistake to suppose
that only very poor people are likely
to be very Vulgar in their tastes and
lives. As a matter of fact, the very
rich often excel in this respect. Mere
wealth has no refining power. When
it if AGO Tired by doubtful means, and
boarded or used only for selfish ends,
it is an instrument Of moral and social
debasement. The riotous animallsm
that displays itself now and then IN
the socalled upper classes Of the
great cities is a reproach to our hu
menity. Grossness is non the less
base and repulsive when it clothes it
clothes itself in purple and fine linen
and fares sumptuously every day. For
ourselves we prefer the unwashed and
half starved drab or drunkard to the
we'll fed and well dressed sinners who
live in fragrant disregard of Gods law.
AS a menace to society and clviliza
ton the vulgar rich are more 10 be
dreaded than the vulgar poor"
Those people who yelled ''socialism'
at those members OF the last Legislature
who wished to impose a tax upon the
gross earnings of railroads, should read
the following from the pen Of @ Jvernor
Roosevelt:
There is evident injustice in the
light taxation OF corporations. Ihave
not the slightest sympathy with the
cutlery against corporations as such, or
against prosperous men OF business
To drive out Of q community the men
OF means and the men who take the
lead IN business enterprises would
probably entail, as n Of its first re
suits, the starvation of a considerable
portion Of the remainder Of the popu
iation.
But while l freely admit all this,
it yet remains true that a corporation
which derives its power from the State
should pay to the State a tax per cent
age Of its earnings as return for the
privileges it enjoys. This should be
especially tru- for the franchises be
slowed upon gas companies, strettr rail
roads aUd TIE Use"
And what Makes tlis ~utterance of
greater weight, the Ne1 York Repub
lican legislature has jIsg passed the
Ford FRANCHISE tax oil, em0o >ying
this prinCIpie! TINS bill IS veil caI "a
1.-The most i'm Jortant tax reform law
evere nae ed By q AmaricaA legieIativa
body" And we go marching on
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-06

The sudden and entirely unex 2ected
death of R-sweIl P. Flower last Fri
day night at E sstport, L I, created a
great stir in financial circles, and many
who had been rich, as they counted it,
became poor within q few short hours,
and others are said to have been made
rich as quickly. Mr. Flower was
directing tue bull campaign in Wall
street. Behind him were many of the
leading Fl 2anciars Of the street, and
the week had been peculiarly exciting
to MIR. Flower. The evening papers of
last Friday we're filed with accounts
of bic remarkable career. He had paid
off IS 900 900 in obligations during the
few precediCg days, they said, and
was in BETTER position Gnan ever TO
mold up" the securities with which
his name was connected. when the
announcement Of his sickness was re
ceived," said the v%erRcious chronicler
of events, the bears began to pound
Flower stock, and came nearly start
ing a panic"-a brotherly OF OBJ
legation expressed in the beautiful way
to which Wall street gentlemen are
accustomed. Mr.. Flower died that night
and the nex5 morning the pounding"
began, No. only did the stocks with
which M. Flower had been particular.
~ identified suffer, but others as we'll,
and events in Wall street were in the
highest degree exciting. Only the
nerve and GOODNESS of the Flower fac.
ton saved the Gay, but as it WAS, it
proved a BLACK saturday" for many
of the gamblers. The entire incident
serves only to illustrate the inherent
cruelty Of this sort of c3mmerc ailsn.
Manhood, brotherhood, all the finer
feelings, those amenities which make
life worth the living, + swallowed up
in a selfshness which knows no limits.
L. the game worth the car dle3-Far.
Tnprp Vince.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-06
TRR PUBLIC

E cry farmer in the land feels, or
ought to feel, a deep and abiding inter
est in the public schools, for they are
the scaool of last resort to the great
majority Of the future farmers. How
ever important high schools and col
leges may be, the public schools will
long remain the flashing school for
many farmers children. TIE time has
come when the elementary principles
of science that underlie the successful
practice of agriculture aud hoTticul
ture, or mature studies," should be
taught in all our public schools, in
order to cultivate a love for rural life
and rural affairs among our children
and thereby train them for the higher
agricultural education in u egrlcul
tural colleges - Prof. T. c.. Atkeson.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-06

Mention The Progressive
when writing to advertisers
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-06-22
Get your legal blanks at this office.

Bad management keeps more people in
poor circumstances than any other one
cause. To be successful one must look
ahead and plan ahead so that when a
favorable opportunity presents itself he
is ready to take advantage OF it. little
iorcthought will also save much expense
and valuable time. \ prudent and care
iul man will keep a bottle OF Chamber
laln's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy in the house the shiitess fellow
will wait until necessity compels it and
then run his best horse going for a
doctor and have a big doctorbil to pay,
besides; one pays out % cents, the other
is out hundred dollars and then won
ders why his neighbor is getting richer
while he is getting poorer. For sale by
all druggists.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-06-22
VOTED FOR BONDS.
Bonds Carried at Tuesdays School Election
by Unanimous Vote.

Bonds Carried at Tuesdays School Election
by a Unanimous Vote.
An election was held on Tuesday for
the purpose of naming two members of
theschool board, also to decide whether
or not to issue bonds in the sum of
$4,000, for the purpose of erecting addi-
tional school buildings. Only 143 vutes
were cast and the ladies divided the hon.
ors of the day almost evenly with the
men. The polls we're opened at the city
hall at nine o'clock in the forenoon, and
from that time until they closed at four
in the afternoon it was self evident that
the ladies were playing an important
part in the affair all the way through.
The judges selected were Il. f. Burke
and Mrs. G. S. Hunter, the positions of
clerk being filled by Miss Grace Morgan
and Mrs. Knapp. The only feature of
the election that seemed TO awaken the
interest of the voters was the selection
of member af the school board for the
short term-two years. The two candi-
dates placed in the field by their friends
we're Mr.. Vierhus, the retiring member
and Mr.. ALERT, who has in years past
seen considerable service in that capa-
city, and when the ballots were counted
it was found that the latter was elected,
the vote standing 81 to 80 in his favor.
Nothing but the most friendly feeling
was given expression to by the friends
and workers of both candidates in their
canvas of votes and it IS possible that the
fact of Mr.. Allert's absence from the city
made his friends take up his candidacy
with more zeal than otherwise, anyhow
the result was received with satisfaction
on all sides. In the run for member of
the school board for the short
term Mr.. E. A. Farrell had the field
all to himself with lis votes to his credit
when the books were closed. His candi-
dacy meeting with no opposition and
never previously having made run for
anything makes the unanimous vote ten
dered him on this occasion especially
significant of his popularity. Bonds were
so generally conceded to be the proper
thing that DOLLY rs Of the voters consider
ed that their vote was needed and all the
votes cast on the bonding question were
unanimously in favor of the bonds.
This week the school board starts the
ball rolling by calling for tenders for the
building of the new school building,
which it is expected will be ready for
occupancy when the fall term opens
early in September.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-06-22

in all Of the papers of the civilized world,
and the heroic deeds of our boys are
spoken of in every tongue. This is the
kind of common fame that the people of
this state should rejoice in, for it reflects
honor and credit on the state. We may
have been advertised in the past as rath-
or loose in our laws regarding divorces,
but this advertisement by our military
representatives in the Philippines more
than sets us right before the world.
Fargo Argus.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-06-22
WHOLESALERS
WV. .FEGAN
GRAND FORKS. N. OAK.

DeWitt's Dittle Early Risers act as a
faultless pill should, cleansing and reviv-
ing the system instead OF weakening it.
They are mild and sure. small and
pleasant to take, and entirely free from
Objectionable drugs. They assist rather
than compel. II. D. ALERT & Co.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-06-22

Wo don'f care when you see us, as
VIC uUII long as you see us when
the other party isn't treating you right.
We buy more real estate, sell more real
estate, loan more money than anybody
else in the county and our clients are al
ways satisfied. TRUAx s. MCLEAN.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-06-22

j. \. Schear, OF Sedalia, Mo-, saved his
child from death by Group by using One
Minute Cough cure 1t cures coughs,
colds, pneumonia, la grippe and all
throat and lung troubles. II D. Alert
& Co.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-06-22

SICK HEADAcHEs;-The curse OF over
worked womankind, are quickly and
strely cured by Karl's Glover Root Tea,
the great blood purifier and tissue build
er. Money refunded if not satisfactory.
Price 25 cts. and SO cts. Sold by H. D.
ALERT & Co.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-06-22

You get up in the morning tired, a bad
taste in the mouth and headache.
Know what's the matter? Biliousness!
Take DeWitt's Little Early Risers. They
regulate the liver and cure constipation
pleasantly and promptly. Never grippe.
81. d. ALERT & Co.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-06-22

Thomas Thurman, deputy sheriff Of
Troy, Mo-, says if everyone in the United
States should discover the virtue OF De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salve for piles rectal
troubles and skin diseases. the demand
could not be supplied. H. D. Alert 4 Co.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-06-22

To cure piles strike at the root-that's
the way. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve
strikes at the root-it removes thecause,
quickly and permanently. Don't squan-
der time and money in a vain effort to
remove the effects. II. D. ALERT e Co.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-06-22

John F. Anderson has formed part
nership with E. N. Swiggum, of Grafton,
and will establish a drug store at
Carlton. They expect to be ready for
business on July 1st. John will feel
quite at home in Grafton, that city having
been his place Of business before com ing
to Milton in 1887.-Milton Globe.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-06-22

F. H. Stoltz was up from Minneapolis
last week looking after his lumber yard.
After taking an inventory of stock, he
was so we'll satisfied with the way things
we're being run that he forthwith raised
Manager w. H. Lackey's salary SIS a
monnh.-Deyils Lake Inter Ocean.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-06-22
NUBS OF NEWS.

The many friends of Ed. Andrews will
be pleased to learn that recent letter to
hand reports Of his entire recovery from
the fever and that he is expected in a
few days to join his regiment. alfalfa
Mountalneer.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-06-22

The Man in the Moon office at Hannah
expresses his disgust thusly: ''The re-
publican editors of the state-who had
the pull-and stood in with Insurance
Commissioner Harrison-will be able to
take in the editorial outing this summer
But when the political rottenness of the
transaction is sized up-it is no wonder
that men lose their faith in humanity
and become populists. Grand Forks
Herald.
F. B. Tracy, the North Dakota news
paper man who is now doing excellent
work on the Boston Transcript, has sew
eral magazine stories accepted which
will be printed shortly. One of them will
be story of the Bad Lands. He writes
friends in this state that he is getting
acquainted with Colonel Plummer who is
living in Boston. In the colonel him
self Tracy can get material for dozens of
rich narratives of any kind of school.
jamestown Alert.
'North Dakotans whistled and died."
is the way the New York World heads an
article. in large type, on the daring of the
troops from North Dakota, in a recent
action. The Worlds special correspond.
ent cables that IN the attack on the town
of Paeta two North Dakota boys we're
shot down, and as they lay on cots, side
by side, one exclaimed, 'Lets smile and
die game" The other one replied, eve
might as we'll whistle, too" This caused
an Unlocking Englishman to exclaim
"that the American volunteer is the
pluckiest thing on earth" North Dako-
ia people at home can feel proud Of the
boys. The name Of our state is written
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-06-22

Hon. John Bidlake, formerly of Cava-
lier county, whom everybody knows and
Uuited States consul at Baranquilla,
South America under Cleveland, is re-
ported as successful i'll organizing in
Minneapolis syndicate to control the
mahogany forests near Baranquilla.
John was elected business manager, and
has again taken his departure for his
southern Eldorado Fargo Forum.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-03-02

withstanding this great national
effort to preserve something of the
memory of these tongues, there
is nowhere to be found among the
accumulated data Of that institu-
tion single one of these languages
preserved in its entirity and puri-
ty. Now that the government of
the United States has laid our ma
tion's neck on the block. and is
daintily feeling the edge of the
axe for the final blow, it would be,
though a pathetic, yet a very be.
fitting act on our part to hand to
the executioner complete and
nicely embellished dictionary and
grammar of our language with the
solemn reqest that the invincible
white man, as he walks along in
his glory down the future centu-
ries, may take them and read OF US
intelligently by the way, and re-
member.
We have no objection to the
building of a stone monument to
the memory of Sequoyah; but that,
in time, will crumble and be for
gotten. A far more enduring and
a much prouder memento would
be finished Cherokee English
lexicon, and an exhaustive Chero-
kee grammar, composed in those
admirable characters which his |
genius invented. A monument of
stone worthy Of the man, cannot
be erected for less costthan $10,-
600. This sum, economically ap-
piled would be amply sufficient to
enlist all the needed talent and So
cure these two memorials in per-
fection. And this is not great
sum, when compared 10 the impor-
tance Of the end to be attained.
Our national council has long been
in the habit Of applying much
larger sums than this 70 purposes
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-03-02

ly topress upon the attention OF
our national authorities the pro-
priety of doing something by
means of legislation to help and
encourage the cultivation OF our
vernacular Cherokee. To that end,
he caused measures at various
times to be introduced in the ma
tional council; but in every in
stance the proposition met with
decided disfavor, and was in more
than one instance branded as only
one among the many sinister
schemes for depicting the public
treasury.
The circumstances attending the
invention of the Cherokee alpha
bet ESQ called) constitute perhaps
the most remarkable triumph that
was ever achieved in the field of
linguistic research. 1t is true
enough, Muller, Whitney and
such men, did much more than
Sequoyah; but we must remember
in the comparison that these men
had the advantage of as much as
thousand years of previous learn
ing. Prior to the day of Sequoyah
Cherokee philology was, not only
a strangely unique, but an abso-
lutely unexplored, region of lin
guistic science; it had never been
touched by the tread OF civilized
scholarship. Yet this untutored
Indian, at the suggestions of moth
ing but his own unaided genius,
stepped boldly into this wilder
ness of thought and developed a
method of expressing words in
writing which is a miracle of sim
plicity, and at the same time
squaling, in completeness, any
thing, in the nature of orthog-
raphy, met with in the cultured
tongues Of the world.
1t is this work that entities Se-
quoyah to distinction; and if the
Cherokee language We're, like the
English destined to live forever,
the eternity of his fame would be
well enough assured. But such is
not the case; its use as spoken
language is soon to be disoontinu-
ed, and it is simply question OF
determination on part of the pres
ent generation of Cherokees,
whether it Is to sink into oblivion,
as all the other American Indian
tongues have done, or whether,
like the Greek and the Latin, it
shall be suitably embalmed and
preserved as monument to the |
memory of our race and the special
glory of our great countryman. In
order that the languages OF Greece
and Rome might be saved from an
oblivion as complete as that
which has overtaken the dialect of
the Narragansets and Pequots, it
was necessary to wed them, ESQ to
speak, } by means of suitably con-
trived grammars and lexicons, to
the living languages Of modern
times; there own innate vitality, !
freighted though they were with |
all their treasurers of ancient i
thought, was not able to perpetuate
for them an intelligble existence.
Of course, the motive for picking
down the Cherokee in this way
would be somewhat different from
that which prompted the preser-
vation of these classic tongues. 1t
would have been to posterity a
great loss of enjoyment indeed had
Homer and Virgil, Thucydedes
md Livy been hopelessly swamped
y an oblivion that might have
,vertaken the languages in which
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-03-02

much more questionable. Would
ii be too much to ask that, at the
next session, 1t appropriate from
the public treasury of the nation a
reasonable sum to be applied to
the cultivation of our native tongue
and in carrying on to completion
the great literary work begun by
our illustrious genius, Sequoyah?
Too-oUA.sTEE.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-03-02
MONUMENT TOSEQUOyAH
His Invention Neglected and
No Literature to Per-
petuate His Name.

honor which the Cherokee people
owe to the memory of Sequoyah is
great indeed; but the time is now
far past in which adequate pay
ments was possible. To 60 to pill
ing up stones, at this late day, to
the name of Sequoyah, would be
not little unlike an attempt to
monument the man who invented
the art of making Egyptian num-
mics; there is now no Egypt to be
proud of the fame of such genius.
Commemorations of the dead are
commendable only for their salu-
tary effect upon the living. Mar
BILE, without a contemporaneous
literature explanatory OF the SUBJ
ject to which it relates, is but
meaningless pile. In the absence
of any historical record, the great
pyramids Of Egypt stand there up
on the banks of the Nile from age
to age only suggesting to the mind
of the beholder vague and mon-
strous pictures Of popular slavery
and unbridled despotism; but as
TO who the despot was, and who
the people were, little or nothing,
is definitely known. That great
white shaft that rises and pierces
the heavens to the height of more
than five hundred feet, to the
memory of Washington, is a mag
niicent piece of art; but, after all,
what would 1t be unless the light
of history bsamed upon it9 Sup.
pose the story of the hatchet, and
a few other things of literature
like that, should be lost; what
would become of the Washington
monument What would it be
worth to posterity?
Sequoyah, like Cadmus, is with
out history; and the feeble grasp
OF tradition itself is soon to let his
memory slip forever. The time,
if not now present, will soon come
when a stone monument to the
name Of Sequoyah will be as de-
void of significance as the stone
axes and flint arrow heads which
have been dropped here and there
on the earth's surface by hands of
which we know nothing except
that they have been dissolved by
time and mingled with the dust
which we are treading under our
feet.
No, no; the renown of our great
countryman is of such nature as
tn-defy the keeping power of brass
and stone. II he is to live at all
in future fame, he will have to be
introduced to the favorable atten-
tion Of coming generations through
the medium of his literary inven-
ton. That unique material, ap-
parently bearing upon it some
thing like the supernatural, he
left in the hands of his people, and |
then like Moses, in a most singu-
lar manner stepped off into the
unknown; no man living can tell |
where be was buried, and history, I
sxcept in the most general terms, !
8 silent upon the subject. Ira
1ition says that his demise took
place somewhere in the distant
southwest.
Now the most suitable and en-
hearing monument to his memory,
ind the most creditable to the
Cherokee people, would be the
completion OF the work which he
o wonderfully began. But no
nan, 1t would seem, has ever been
lbls to take up the work where be
aid. it down; and, what is still
more deplorable, few only have
The Lamar register., 1899-10-18
Lassr., Heard 10 tho world.

Probably the longest beard In the
world is that of n metai-worser in
AAAFse!iles. France. The man Is "a
years old When IA years OF age he
sAd beard six inches long. 1t grew
'Ioin year 10 year, and GOV his hirsute
attachment. when unroiied. reaches the
respectable length OF ten feet ten
inehes. When this man goes out walk
ing be carries his beard rolled up in a
Dig skeln under bis arm. Since be is
rather small in sire. measuring bat
nSe feet three inches. the beard IS more
than twice the mans length.
The Lamar register., 1899-10-18
p...rs,l.x GU n-t-..

lord Kelvin OF G!AssoW has Hsaas an
szttsa sag fsRari on The destruction
O. Igwa rstaks at Edinburgh. Brad
io7d I'D Oldham. he nys taai in one
iHaiaHes he sxpeF Ineated on damp
11Eis refuse. containing a large pro-
FostaE Of nigat soil and vegetable
E1tS' waioh WAS all consumed with
eGi Ias s.ighsess trace OF smoke. and
'Ae residual products acre. besides. of
E'sAi commercial value. In another
ease the steam produced by the proc
ss OF Destruction vas employed TO
ei'Ve electric lighting machinery and
Tor other light purposes No coal or
e'As Sas employed and there was an
eatiFc absence Of smoke.