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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-08-01
INCENSE AND PRAYER.

In the inner court of the tabernacle
three sacred articles were appointed
to be set-in the centar an altear on
which incense was burned, and on
either side of tia table on which twelve
cakes of bread were laid and a great
lamp stand with seven lights. Each
of these pieces Of sacred furniture
symbolizad a side of the religious life,
and, taken together, they sugg ct q
beautiful conception Of it, which is as
imperative and as vital to-day as OF
old. What does that altar Of incense
say to us3 Incense is a symbol OF
prayer, as the psalmist had learned
when he said, Let my prayer be di
rected before Thee as incense" using
the technical word for laying q sacri-
flee on the altar. In Isaiah's vision Of
Israel's true King, the ''houae was
filed with smoke" when the seraphim
sang their Holy, holy, holy Lord God
Almighty" What is the point Of com
parison between symbol and reality
How was the fragrance Of the incense
set free to rise in wreathsu Of smokel
By being kindled. Whence was it
kindled9 By Goals from the altar of
sacrifice. (which things are an allie
CORY" and mean that cold prayer is
no prayer, that when a spirit is
touched with the divine fire it will ex
hale upward to God, and be sweet to
Him. The cold stick Of incense had
neither fragrance nor power to rise,
and could lot but ascend in fragrant
Wreaths when winged by fire. The
soul that is touched to fame is v2la
tilted and its aspirations and desires
go up to God.
There were specific directions for
insurilg the perpatuity of the incense
burning. Twice a day the ministering
priest carried a censerful to be laid on
the altar. Kindled in the morning
from the altar of sacrifice, it glowed
and glimmered all day-perhaIs much
of it white ashes, but with a little
spark at its heart. In the evening it
ives rene wed, and in like manner smol,
dered all night. If the incense of our
prayer is to glow all day, it has to be
renewed and rekindled daily. No man
will have reverence ditfused through
his life, unless he has a concentrated
reservoir Of worship in the background
of his life. We plead for no mechan
zeal observance of times of prayer,
but still there must be the frequent re
currence of special seasons if devo-
tion is to run like a special thread
through our lives.-Alexander Nc
Laren, D. D.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-08-01

registration and elections, az contained
in this act, amending the Constitu,
| ton, shall go into effect on the first day
of July, 1902, if a majority of the quail
fed voters OF the State so declare at
the next general election.
Section 3 This amendment shall be
submitted at the next general election
to the qualified voters of the State. in
the same manner and under the same
rules and regulations IS is provided in
the law regulating general elections
in this State, and in force May 1st,
1899; and at said election those persons
desiring to vote for such amendment
shall cast a written or printed ballot
with the words For Suffrage Amend
ment" thereon: and those with a con
trary opinion shall cast a written or
printed ballot with the words Against
Suffrage Amendment" thereon.
Section 4. The said election shall be
held and the votes returned, compared,
counted and canvassed, and the result
announced, under the same rules and
regulations as are in force for return
ing, comparing. counting and canvass
ing the votes for members of the Gen
ersI Assembly, May let, 1899, and if a
majority of the votes cast are in favor
Of the said amendment, it shall be the
duty of the Governor of the State to
certify said amendment under the seal
of the State to the Secretary of State.
who shall enroll the said amendment
so certified among the permanent re-
cords of his Office.
Section 8. This set shall be in force
from and after It's ratification.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-08-01
AIMING AT PERFECTION.

1t is only by trying to better our
best that we can bring up our average.
The head Of the weather bureau does
not expect the forecasts of his depart,
ment to be always right, but he intends
them to be alway s right. To lose sight
Of the ideal is to lower the real, and
good enough" is more than a step on
the road to too bad. Sunday School
Times.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-08-01
Christian Life Column
THE SHORE OF ETERNITY.

Alone to land upon that shore
With nc one sight that they have seen
before,
Things of q different hue,
And the sounds all anew,
And fragrance so sweet the soul may
faint.
AloneI o that first hour of being a
saint!
AIoneG No. God hath been there
long before,
Eternally hath waited on that shore
For US who were to come
To our eternal home;
And he hath taught his angels to pre-
In what way we are to be welcomed
there.
Alonef The God we trust is on that
shore,
The faithful One whom we have trusted
In trials and in woes
Than we have trusted those
On whom we leaned most in our earth
ly strife
o We shall trust him more in that new
life.
So not alone we land upon that shore;
Twill be as though we had been there
before;
We shall meet more we know
Than we can meet below.
And fad our rest like some returning
dove,
And be at home at once with our eter
nal Love! F. W. Faber.
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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-03-15
ROBBED BANK OF ENGLAND.
Austin Bid we'll, Who Got $5,OOo,O00
by Fraud, Is Dead.

by Fraud, Is Dead.
Austin Bidwell, who died Tuesday at
Butte, Mont, was notorious in two hemi-
spheres as the man who by swindling Sc
cured the largest amount of money ever
obtained by fraud. For sheer audacity
and skill Austin Bidwell stood unriyaled
among criminals of his class. The ex-
ploit in which the Bank of England fig
ured as his victim to the extent OF $1,000
600 is without precedent i'll The annals of
chicanery.
The famous robbery of the Bank of
England occurred in 1878, when Austin,
with his brother George and another part
ner, successfully passed forged securities
on the big bank, and thereby secured $5,-
100000 in cash. With plunder amounting
to millions the three Americans fed from
England. Austin Bidwell settled in the
West Indies, believing himself safe from
discovery. He had poor opinion of the
English police, and i did not occur to him
that the case might be put in the hands of
American detectives. But after the Eng
lish officers had exhausted themselves in
searching for the fugitives, the Pinker-
tons were asked to work on the case.
L
work, and after search of some time the
Bidwells and their accomplice We're
caught.
All three of the swindlers were Yentenc-
ed to Imprisonment for life. Austin Bid
well served twenty-one years in prison,
and was finally released. He then return
ed to America and, after suffering from
almost certain starvation he wrote book
entitled From Wall Street to Newgate,"
and from the sale of this and with other
writing he made considerable money. He
then set about to secure the release of
his two partners from their English pris
on. He was successful, and the three
met, after a separation of twenty
years, on the steamboat wharf in New
York Austin Bidwei! was 80 years of
age. and was born in Hartford, Conn.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-03-15
I Old I[lf lf1lIEIRS !
| -. q - s "a
! ". 2Vs' HTT.

Gen. Gomez stands about ) feet { inches
in his shoes, weighs about 40 pounds, and
though 20 years of age, has been from
1895 to 1898 often in the saddle for thirty.
six hours without sleep. Indeed, he found
his health better IN tent than in a house.
Mrs. Catherine G. Quantrell, mother Of
the notorious guerrilla, William Clark
Quantrell, is dying in St. Joseph's hospiia!
at Lexington, Ky. She is 20 years old
and is anxious to retarn to die among her
friends in her former home at Canal
Dover, Ohio
Gen. Sir Arthur Cotton is one of Eng
lands oldest soldiers, being in his 9gth
year. On four different occasions his
medical advisers told him that he had not
a week to live, and sixty-four years ago.
while serving in Persia, his grave was dug
in readiness for his occupation.
Sewer ForcieF, who died recently M
Chippewa Falls, Wis, was perhaps the
oldest resident Of the Badger State. lie
was born at Montreal a century ago and
settled at Chippewa in the early 30s. lie
literally never knew what sickness was
until few weeks before his death.
Gen. Sylvanus c. Boynton. a well
known lawyer OF New York City, who is
over 20 years old. has just finished term
of six months Imprisonment for refusing
TO pay a $4,000 judgment in favor Of
relative which he considered unjust. By
his staying in jail the Judgment was va
Gated.
Sims Reeves, the greatest ballad tenor
the world has ever known, is nearly 90
years old, ont recently sang at concert
arranged fer his benefit The song he
chose WAS Come Into the Garden.
Maud e which be gave In manner re-
calling to his older hearers the matchless
phrasing and tenderness of years ago.
Mime. Candelaria, who died at San An
tonic, Texas, the other day, at the age of
ia, crossed the enemy's lines and sutered
the Alamo during its memorable siege,
when she acted as nurse, seeing the
death Of James Bowie and Davy Crockett.
The State Legislature gave her pension
of ST. year.
David Kahnweller, the inventor of the
cork jacket life preseryer, who died in
New York recently, lost fortune several
times and made il again by new inyen-
tions, among which were a milling ma
chine. metallic life raft and cash car
rier system for use in large stores. He
was born in Bavaria and was 72 years
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-03-15
THE CENSUS OF 1900.
1t Will BE Taken Under Different
Auspices from ANY Other

The taking of the census of 1900 IS more
than year in the future, yet the matter
attracts more than usual interest This
may be due in part TO the fact that that
census will be taken under different aus
pices from any other the act just passed
establishing Census Bureau as a per
manent part of the machinery of the gov
ernment. The taking of the census under
the new law creates the Office of director
of the census, and to that office the Presi-
dent has appointed Ex-Governor William
K. Merriam, of Minnesota, with DR. Fred
erick II. Wines, of Illinois, as assistant
director.
Governor Merriam has more patronage
at his disposal than the President of the
United States. He has under the law
the appointment of more than 54 900 pub
lie employees, as follows:
Fifty thousand enumerators of the cen
sus at graded pay
Three hundred supervisors, salary
81 900 each or more
Five chief statisticians, salary $1,000
each.
One chief clerk, one disbursing clerk,
one geograpner, salary $500 each
Five experts chiefs of division and two
stenographers, salary $4,000 each.
Ten clerks of class four, salary 81, 700.
Fifteen clerks of class three, salary
$1,000
Twenty clerks of class two salary ST.
300.
Three thousand clerks of class one, and
clerks, copyists, computers and skilled la
Dorers, with salaries of from 5000 to 81,
600 each.
One captain of the watch salary $40.
Two messengers and forty assistant
messengers, watchmen and laborers, at
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-03-15
WILL STUDY THE FlLlPlNos.
Duties of the American Comm is sion
Are Made Public.

sNA( haoE
The uncertainty concerning the powers
and scope of the Philippine commission
has been set at rest by the publication
of an order issued by President Mckinley
to the Secretary of State.
The order is concise statement of the
personnel, duties and authority of the
commission, and defines its exact rela-
ton to the military government now in
force.
The commission, which is composed OF
Jacob G. Schurman, Admiral George
Dewey, Maj. Gen. Il. s. Otis, Charles s.
DENLY and Dean c. Worcester, is in
structed to meet at Manila and announce
by public proclamation its presence and
authority carefully setting forth that,
while the military goY crnment already
proclaimed is to be maintained and con-
tnued so long as necessity may require,
efforts will be made TO alleviate the bur
dens of tex.sior, 20 establish industria.
and commercial prosperity and 20 provide
Tor the safety of persons and of property"
The commissioners are to ascertain.
without interference with the military
authorities, what amelioration in the con-
dition of the inhabitants and what inn
provements in public order may be prae-
ticable For this purpose they will study
attentiycly the existing social and polti-
cal state of the various populations, par
ticularly as regards the forms of local
government. the administration of jus
tice, the collection Of customs and other
taxes, the means of transportation and
the neeG of public improvements. They
will report through the State Department
and will recommend such executive action
as may be required, The military gov
ernment will continue in force until Con
gress shall determine otherwise.
The commissioners are authorized to
confer with residents of the 'lands to
recommend suitable persons among them
for appointment when personal changes
in the civil administration seem advisa-
BILE, and to exercise respect for the ideals,
customs and traditions of the natives,
emphasizing the just and benevolent in
tentions of the United States Govern
ment Acknowledgment of allegiance to
the American Government is Il primary
requisite to recommendation for appoint
mont
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-03-15
$4,000 FOR REGULAR ARMY.
President VIII Not Increase Force to
the Limit.

President Mckinley has decided the
regular army of 65,000 men will be ample
force at present, and that no steps shall
be taken to organize provisional army of
$4,000 volunteers. This decision was
reached in view of the favorable outlook
in Cuba and Porto Rico and the prospect
in the Philippines that the outbreak there
will be suppressed at an early day.
Enlistments TO bring mp the strength
of the regular army 10 the number au-
thorized by Congress, $1,000 men, will he
made at once The roster of the major
generals of the provisional army has also
been decided on, according to the best
information Obtainable. 1t is as follows:
Nelson a. Miles, major general command
ing; Wesley +. Merritt department Of
the east; John r. Brooke, department Of
Cuba; Elwell S. Otis, department of the
Philippines; William r. Shafter. depart
ment of California This is disappoint
ment TO Gen. Joe Wheeler, who had hoped
to go to the Philippines to take part in
the fighting there.
The new army will absorb 63.095 en-
listed men. leaving Il surplus of 905 re-
cruits on hand all the time TO fill vavan-
cies. Each regiment of artillery will
have fourteen batteries of 100 men each,
making a total of 1,6S0 men. The heavy
batteries will contain the same number
of men as the light batteries. Under the
other law heavy batteries had more men
than light batteries.
Each troop of cavalry will contain 100
Ken, making ZOO ren TO the regiment.
Each company of infantry will contain
112 men, making 1,344 men to the regi-
ment. The allotments of enlisted men for
battery of artillery and troop Of cav
airy were reduced, while the enlisted
strength or each company of infantry was
increased from 106 to 112.
This is the distribution of enlisted men
agreed upon by the military authorities
and indorsed by President Mckinley:
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-03-15
REFUSES iTALYS DEMAND.
Chinese Government Declines to Lease
San Mum Ray for a CoaIinn GfntIo-.

NhAuSbC DGCIIucS TO Lease
San Mum Bay for Coa1ing Station.
The Italian demand on China has been
refused, and the result may be combine
between Italy and England against the
Flowery Kingdom which may result in
the dismemberment OF China.
Dispatches from Pekin say: 'The
tsung Ii yamen Chinese foreign office)
has returned to the Italian charge DAFT
flares, Marquis Salvage Raggi, his dis
patch containing the demand of the Ifal-
ian Government for a lease of San Nun
Bay on the same conditions as those un-
der which Germany holds Kiao- Chou
Bay, accompanying it with a letter declar-
ing that the Chinese Government is una
BILE to grant the request.
'"The demand of the Italian Govern
ment for ninety -nineyear lease of San
Nun Bay, province of Che kiang. as a
coaling station and naval base, included
also demand for the concession of three
islands off the coast of Che Kiang. with
the right to construct a railroad from San
Nun Bay to Po-Yang Lake and to prefer
ential railroad and mining privileges with
in sphere of influence covering the
southern two-thirds of Che Kiang
province.
According to the dispatch the action
of the Italian Government had caused
great excitement there, not only among
the Chinese but also among the foreign
diplomats, the Chinese being convinced
that Great Britain was chiefly responsible
for the demand and that it had been made
to emphasize Great Britain's displeasure
at the turn which the northern railroad
question had taken"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-03-15
Nnfes from Cnha.

Havana custom house receipts on Feb.
Is amounted to S41 ,694.
The Sport is now Havana's leading and
most popular club. 1t occupies the build
ing of the former Spanish Circulo Mill
tar.
Northern tourists are .lrriving in Cuba
at the rate of q hundred Jay, and the
leading Havana hotels are already over
crowded.
The men OF the Seventh army corps
are to have a new form of amusement
near their camp. 1t is good old Ameri-
can circus. which Mr.. Stiekney, the owner
and manager, has imported from the
States.
Some of the trumpeters of the Seventh
army corps have developed liking for the
Spanish bugles, and it is no uncommon
thing now out in the Marianao camps to
hear the high, shrill notes of Spanish
bugle sounding an American call.
FL Oceidente, Guanajay newspaper,
urges Cuban land holders not to sell their
property TO Americans, and insists that
the rapid requirement of Cuban estates
by American and foreign syndicates is the
greatest menace to future independence.
A gunner OF Ine Initeu olateS navy
named Albro became insane from concus-
sion of the brain, the result of the deto-
nation of the heavy guns fired at Ger
yera's feet. This is a veF1 'Inusrial case
The medical authorities of the navy and
army do not remember anything like it.
There is no record of a disease of the
mind produced by noise.
Guillermo Dolz, brother of the late
Snanish autonomist minister of public
works for Cuba, has been appointed by
Governor General Brooke to the civil
sovarnorship of Pinar del Rio province.
The officers Of the Third Nebraska have
leased a dwelling house on the Marianao
road. near their camp in Ceiba, and fitted
il out as club. 1t is delightful resort,
and is well patronized by the officers Of
the Nebraska regiment and their friends.
Mai. Gen. Brooke governs Cuba from
a little wooden hotel, the Trotcha, in the
suburb Velado, about two miles from the
city boundary proper. He has no senti-
neIs, no guards saluting, no secret service
men in plain clothes protecting bis person.