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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-06
FOR H SICK ROOM.
JAKE

DEAR AUNT JENNIE:-How many of
US when called upon to assist a neigh
Dor in times of sickness or accident are
reminded of the fact that very few
families keep a supply OF simple RENE
dies on hand, ready for emergencies.
E very house hold should have a medi
cine chest and some member Of the
family should know how to use its con
tents. This usually devolves on the
women members and how anxious we
should De TO prepare ourselves, by
learning all we can Of simple every
day medicines, aud how and when to
use them. This is especially necessary
in the country where the visits OF a
doctor are expensive luXuries.
There should be an especial place for
the bottles, boxes and packages, so
that they Can be readily found when
needed. Accidents will happen and If
you must run all over the house to
look tor a certain bottle, it is provok
ing to say the least of it-ottener, it is
also dangerous.
Now as to the contents OF the medi
cine chest. A bottle each Of camphor,
paregoric, castor oil, vsseline, a good
liniment, a box of pills, a few doses OF
quinine in capsules, faxseed, must
ard, borax, sulphur and various other
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-06
JAKE TAKaS UP AN OLD SUE
JECT.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE AS it has been
nearly a year since l wrote my first
letter, I will now write again, and for
my subject l am going to take love. l
shall not, however, attempt to define it,
as some of the Ohatterers have done,
and indeed 1 think it would be impoesi
BILE for me to do Sd, for not only do the
Chatterers fail, but Webster, Worces
ter, Peabody, and all of those learned
men have failed to define the word
love. l think when a person has no
love for any one in this life, then he is
without energy, without manhood,
without ambition and without an aim
in life. 1t was the poet Rogers, who
said,-
THAT very law that molds a tear,
And bids il trickle from it's source,
That law preserves the earth a sphere
And guides the planets in their
course"
I think the poet here had reference
to the law Of love. 1t was the law of
love that caused the world to be
framed, and it is the same law that
preserves it a sphere until this day. II
was love that inspired the Creator to
make man in his own image and like.
ness and place him in the garden OF
E len, and when the Creator made for
man a companion, we are led to believe
that the man loved her. We cannot
say what love is, but we know that it
ia of divine origin humanity cultivated.
1T as we have said before, those who
have never felt cupid's dart, have nc
aim and no object of any importance
in life. He who has no love for any
one is unfit for any responsibility or
any position imposed upon them; and
cons quently are unfit for sphere OF
life. Paul says:
Though I speak with the tongues
of men and of angels and have not
love, l am a sounding brass as a tink
ling cymbal. And though I bestow al
my gifts to feed the poor and though ]
give my body to be burned, and have
not love, it pro1teth me nothing. And
though I have the gift Of prophecy
and understand ell mysteries and al
knowledge, and though 1 have all faitt
so that I could remove mountains AND
have not love l am nothing"
From this fact from Holy Writ VIZ
are led to the conclusion that there il
nothing in existence as great as love
Yet in all of Paul's Writing-he hal
failed to define the word love, and
think it is unnecessary for any n tt
a tempt to define it. We know thai
there is such a thing, but we canno
tell whence it commeth or whittier i
goeth-so let us not Rttemps to Gefnr
it but be content with the knowledgC
that there is such a thing.
JAKE SELFISH.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-06

NARAH was the daughter Of John
= her father; and John Miggs was
a man with a history. He had
baen born to one fortune, through
which he contrived to run before he
was thirty. He had married another,
If which he also disposed before he
was fortv. He had made a third, and
was living in handsome style, when
bis daughters twenty second birthday
came around. IL was an important
dav for Sarah for more than one rea
son. Richard Cobb, who had been at
.entive to her for a year, addressed
her on that very day and was accepted.
And when Sarah got back to her own
little den that evening, she sat herself
down to think OF all that had happened,
So was only natural. She continued
FOR g month to come to think OF all
TIA, it involved, not with the roman
NC and, it must be confessed, selfish
day dreams of most girls-not at all
but in her own independent, strong
fashion, all her honest, humble heart
bent upon making Richard happy, and
doing her full duty by Richards twins
little girls Of four.
When she came to examine her quail
ifclCions for the ChGe to which she
sspirsd, she became aware OF one fact
Hhl2h, with startling ciearntsa, pre-
senred i-selt at every turn, and that
was tia. she was not fit for it a. all
she toIl Richard so, the next time ne
called. But the man was very mCco
II love and he pooh poohed the idea
Before a man marries rs requires 8
little Of his sweetheart, but alter AT
Is married he will need so much from
his wife" argued Sarah to herself,
after he had gone. And 1 am not
going to be a failure, a fraud as a wife
am going to keep my contract. !
am going to do my duty. 1 am goipe
to look this thing tquare in the face,
and live up to it. And when l an
married 1 am going to take charge Of
D.ck and his house and his children
Just as If l were a lawyer taking
c g, or a merchant setting up a store
OF q captain taking command Of {
ship. Marriage is a business when one
comes to think of it. And a pretty
serious business nos people find it
unless l am much mistaken. l am devo
ted to Richard. Richard is devoted Il
ne. But thai isn't enough. Dick he &C
d be an insurance agent-a successful
exc. l have got TO be a successiu
wife, a mother, a seamssress, {
housekeeper, a cook, a lady, a nurse
g housemaid and a half-dozsn thing
besides, like all American women.
Nov what am l to do9 Set cut
sart, enlist, contract, just as | am
I1possi0lel l know what I'll do
snail make what my Catholic friend
Ssh C novitiate. I shall learn how tt
oa every one of these thing, the LADY
l1.opsed, before I marry Dick.
Poor darling! His Fl s wife livec
IN wrappers aud novels, and let every
s-lag go to the bow.vows. I dineC
there once and his dinner would have
Killed an ostrich. The twins havt
uumbl=d up and 'growed' like Topsy
lac cooked helped herself and all he,
relations. The tradespeople sent wha
tHey pleased, and charged what thel
liked. And now the poor fellow ha
IaRen it into his precious old head ant
heart to marry me. And l don't know
thingl
Father was poor once, and I nigh
ave learned to be of some use in tn
world it that state of affairs had lasted
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but I was a child, and though he is
now rich, he speculates, l know
therefore 1 can't count on inheriting a
cent. l don't mean to look forward to
being anything but poor-compara
tively-for the rest Of my life. Father
has retired to a back street and clerks
place twice already. Some day he'll
go for the third and last time, and ell
this luxury will go with him. Well,
l know what 1 shall do. We can't be
married for a year. l am going to
qualify. How shall l do il2'
This was IS far as Sarah got that
time. But she returned to the subject
that day and the next, and the next,
until at last she had fully made up her
mind and had planned her campaign.
Let me review the situation. I'll
take the cans first. l can row, play
golf and tennis we'll, fence, dance, skate.
Much good they'll do me or Dick, or
the twins either, for that matter! l
can dress well-extravagautly-aIas
poor Richard Well, | give up all idea
Of having my things from Paris and
London from this moment. lean play
the piano we'll, and music is q kind of
mild, mitjgRted noise for Richard, q
where am 1 to get the three hours a
day for practisiDg9-and if l don't
practice l can't play a bit, for l am
not g natural musician at all. I can
paint (8trocioUsiy) IN china, and bad
ert is like bad muse l a speak
French and German, but OK talks
good American only, like the good
| American thai he is, and there is moth
idg better in the shape OF O man. l
can iirt-every woman can; but my
heart never was In that kind OF thing,
and Richard is NOT the man to allow 1t
for one moment; besides, the twins
will grow up after awhile and I've got
to be an example, 1 q lead the ger
man, but I never expect to go to anoth
er after I'm married the German (cook
or maid) will be leading me if l don't
look out-a pretty dance, truly. l
can ride and drive, but we can't afford
horses.
Now for the can Is l can't dress
myself. My maid atEeDCs to all my
buttons and strings, puts away my
things, does my hair, does my dresses
over. I'll discharge her to morrow.
l don't even take. care of my hands
the manicure woman will have to look
elsewhs re fer another customer after
this. l cant cook a thing | have no
idea of how to make coffee even OF
fry eggs-nice that for poor Dick. I
can't keep hcuse-I have never kept
my keys, and l have no idea this min
ute how much Of anything to give cut
for any meal, and as TO the care of
| glass, silver, china, linen, Dicks chill
dren are quite as ex]0 erieGced how
| admirably American girls I oil edu
Gated, to be lre-so practical lily.
Il can't sew, either on tn9 machine
or with NY foge S l never made a
garmenc for myself or anybody else in
nv whole life. l can't even direct
| servants, for 1 have no idea what they
ought TO do, how they ought to do 1t,
how long they ought to be accomplish
ing iU IcAn'U take care Of children,
big or little-at least-I could try. But
1 am sorry for the childrenl 1t is
something awful to become the head
of a household out of hand on a mo-
ment's notice! WE'LL I will go to
school and learn how. I've got some
money of my own. I'll spend it in
that way.
II shall postpone my marriage for
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-06
EEOAEE y
2oGREssWE FARMER.l
A Reminiscent Dream.

I'm homesick for q past which ne'er can come
Again, and for q childhood's Joy that makes
The rest Of life seem like q dreary waste.
/ close my eyes-R picture bright appears
Depicting, wildly, the long ago.
A grand old forest, with it's painless depths
And twilight honows, forth to view are brought.
And / am sitting on q grassy bank
Beneath q giant oak that overhangs
A moss clad rock above q fl owing rHl
Whose gurgling makes q music sweet to heer,
Aud sings the same old song it did of yore
Along it's pebbly bed and babbling shoals.
1t is a lovely GUNNER evening, and
The sun is elowly sinking in the west;
And as / look toward the south see
A road that winds along a steep hill side.
/ hear a COW bell tinkling long its slope,
And see COWS moving slowly up the hill.
How patient and contented do they seem
But they are going home. A sweet faced maid,
Who he's been playing in the sand the while,
Follows the kline and disappears beyond.
And then I'm left alone enraptured with
The dreamy stiffness that pervades the air.
= = = The tints of such a picture cannot last
With scenes go life like on its canvass drawn.
The glorious sunset, the gurglDg brook,
The longlimbed giant oak, the messy rock,
The stretch of road long which the COWS and maid
So slowly moved; the bank on which I rest,
The virgin forest with it's Druid oaks,
Ere being blotted from my r8viehed sight
While /, the cher S ned picture, try to hold
See it recedes and vanishes away,
Oaly to wake TO fud it all a dream
With homesick yearning for the past renewed.
UPTON B GwYNN
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-06

An Irishman, seeing q donkey ready
saddIed, and thinking of having a
cheap ride, jumped on his back. He
had not gone far when the donkey
started kicking and jumping about, so
much 30 that he got his hoof hung up
in one Of the stirrups. 'Shure," says
Pat, IF you're going to get on I'm
going to get eff"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-06

An old Scotch body, who could not
abide long sermons, was hohbling out
OF kirk one Sunday, when @ coach
man, who was waiting for his people,
asked her: rs the minister dune Wi
his sermon2" He was dune lang syne,"
said the old lady, impatiently, ''but he
Wilma stop!"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-06
ITO be Continued }

Prosperity is the UOUchstone of vir
tue; II is less cliff cult to bear mistor
tunes than to remain inccrf upted by
pleasure. -Tacitus.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-06

can sure" said Pat, when a nan
is tired, he niver meets a cart that is
going the same way as he IT,"
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How Miss Miggs Fitted Herself For MatrinODy.
FRANCIS ooURTENAY BAYLOR, IN THE COSMOPOLITAN.

Copyrighted, 1885. by The Cosmopolitan, and published here by special psrntsaonl
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-03
A NEW PASTORS SERMON
REV. o. w. MGAUGHEY At THE
SIXTH CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
He Takes the Appropriate Topic of
sBeginningso for His In
itial Discourse.

Yesterday was the first Sunday in the pas
torate of Rev. o. w. McGaughey, at the
Sixth Christian Church. and the building
was filled at the morning services. Mr..
McGaughey took for his theme Begin
nings," and said in part:
ION this occasion the subject is appro-
pirate, for new occasions bring new duties.
Each day brings new duties and new re-
sponsibilities Life is not always the same,
but its tendency is TO the rhythmical. A
change breaks up the regular beat and
routine and a readjustment demands activi-
ty. In life, first comes the TRANSPORTATION
and then the garden of Gethsemane. On
ieties. not because of new life, but because
of new epoch in the same life of the
church. What this epoch means in spirit
ual results depends on our cooperation and
our care in tending the spiritual plants as
they grow into bud and promise. In plant
life the beginning brings anxiety. The gar
dener puts a slip into a pot and as he does
so. beside 1t plants hope. He tends 1t until
1t grows into a flower of beauty, but frost
comes, it is cut down and the keeper is filled
with sorrows and disappontments. The
same is true of the beginning of human
life A little child comes into the world as
bundle of possibilities. The mother, as
she tends the child. looks forward with a
heart full of anxiety TO a life of promise:
and not until the child is a man in the
world is she satisfied, and even then her
greatest hopes and anxieties are not real
lied. 1t is then she feels what an awful
thing II is TO start life adrift on the great
sea OF time toward the greater ocean of
eternity. What is true of life in particular
is true of life in general. There is no un-
derstanding that has not its anxieties. 1t
is the beginning in which we are interested.
A failure to see the unwilling of the statue
Liberty Enlightening the World, resulted
in a great law suit The disappointment
was not In the work as completed. but in
being deprived of seeing the work as re-
vealed for the first time. There is anxiety
even in prize fight or horse race, or a
football game. As two great armies face
each other for battle, the breath Of nations
Is bated, not so much because of the loss
of blood OF the uncertainty of victory. y
different beginning might make a different
ending. Bull Run won by the North
might have prevented a Gettysburg. But
why all this anxiety? First IL might be
the part of each in the great contest or un-
dertaking In life. Second. because of the
uncertainty of the results
THE BEGINNING OF THE CHURCH.
I'm the history of the church the beginning
was the period filled with most anxiety on
the part OF the advocates Of the church.
This was possibly due TO the professions
that Jesus made as founder OF the church.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-03
The Anti-sputum Law.

Dr. Hurry, the father of the "anti-sputum
law passed by the last General Assembly,
gives a number of reasons why the OBJ
servance of il should not be looked upon by
any one as a hardship. He says that sputum,
In its LIQUID state, will not communicate dis
ease to any one If simply deposited on the
sidewalks or streets, but the real danger
comes after 1t has dried and the organisms.
IL there be any in the sputum, are picked up
by the winds and carried, along with other
dust, into the mouths and nostrils of tho&e
passing. He realizes that it is true that only
a small percentage of the population of any
town Is afflicted with disease germs, but he
feels that it is this percentage that must be
guarded against. He believes that a law
should be passed, in the absence Of any
voluntary movement as the result OF educa-
ton, compelling ali persons known to be
afflicted with consumption to carry small
pieces or cloth in their pockets in which 10
expectorate when necessary. These could be
carried in the pocket, and, when used, trans
ferred 10 another pocket, and on the per-
sons return home they could all be burned
Fire destroys all germs, and consumptives
could, by the exercise of a little consiSera-
tion for their fellow-men, save many others
from becoming contamina ted by the germs.
DR.. Hurry feels that nothing short of a
miracle will ever bring about this condi-
ton, however, but he thinks that the results
so far obtained in public places by the post
ing of ''anti-sputum" signs have been sat-
they mark from old established customs
Splitting he considers one Of the character
istics of American freedom, bred in the
bone and found in no other people to any
degree. He is certain, however. that it is
a serious menace to public health and
should be stopped, but he realizes that only
time and patience Will take from Amer
leans. the birthright that force could never
rob them of.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-03
BASE BALL

homes. regardless of UNCONVENTIONAL dis
tinctions glad TO show their sympathy with
the great picnic, and many have postponed
their summer vacations that they may 90
this.
An incident occurred the other day that
Illustrates one phase of the affair. A can
yasser called the second time on family
that had declined the first application They
well to do, the expense involved was no
consideration and the proposed pecuniary
the canvasser, suppose eight or ten thou.
sand strangers, mostly young people. all
moral Il not religious. shall be compelled
to walk the streets all night or sleep on the
how many ESg sase
the husband. Yes. four or more put In
the wife hurriedly: "set US down for two.
anyhow and foT four IL necessary" These
people did not intend 10 be inhospitable:
they had Supposed there was likely TO be no
put TO any trouble, but when taking q
broader view OF the subject they cheerfully
offered to take their share in the greatest
ricnic American has ever known.
Judge Martindale and Mr.. English are
right. We do not want the Endeavorers
here so early as 1901: let US rest a little and
let somebody else have the pleasure and
profit OF such picnic: but the memory OF
the good time we had while anording q
good time for the picnickers Will make us
our homeopathy auditorium II finished.
and IL that is not room enough we will hnd
a place for the big tent. trees or no trees.
Chicago. with its big hotels and thousands
Of saloons. may have the political coRven-
lions. but we want and Will have such con-
ventions as these IL for no other reason than
that IL wakes up the dormant energies and
sympathies OF the whole church people, and
makes US one In heart and help.
Indianapolis. July l. u. L SEE
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-03

Everyone who knows John T.. Brush. par
ticularly among the newspaper men, knows
that he Is about the hardest proposition a
questioner has to go against i'm this world
and all anyone drags out of him In the way
or information Is generally given only after
there Is no chance of its publicity compli-
eating matters for him or his friends. In
short, Mr.. Brush has few. II any confidants
and the relation of the following incident
can be fully appreciated by those who have
met him in this city. At the time the Ma
tional League schedule was adopted last
spring, there was a scramble among the
newspaper men of New York to secure a
copy Of IL. The magnates decided, however.
TO keep the matter quiet on account of the
Sunday games and the chance there was of
the matter reaching the courts. One after
another of the club owners were asked to
furnish the information, but each refused
and, although John Il. Brush was all along
charged with finally giving the story to the
press, the story as told by himself proves
tnat no one gave 1t away at all, but that the
enterprise OF a reporter is responsible for
due. was
After the League meeting Barney ORGY
fus. OF Louisville, who Is very popular
among newspaper men, met reporter with
wnom ne was on terms of intimacy, and
mat man deliberately set trap for Barney
furnish the information desired. They met
In the rotunda OF the hotel at the close of
the meeting and the reporter told Barney of
a new show that had captured the town and
invited him TO visit IL as his guest. Barney
carried his oyercoat over his arm and the
reporter noticed that a copy of the schedule
was sticking out of the inner pocket of II.
This fact furnished the idea which eventu-
ally led to the capture OF the document The.
night was warm and the reporter suggested
that Barney would be more comfortable IL
he put his overcoat in the courtroom. Drey-
fus bit at the bait and had II checked after
ward going 10 the theater In company with
the reporter. AS soon as the performance
was under way and Dreyis.S had become In
terested. the reporter suddenly remembered
that he had small matter to attend to and
with an apology left Barney to see the show
alone FOR few minutes. He went at once
10 the courtroom and called the attendant.
saying: Il want 20 get letter out of my
overcoat pocket" at the same time pointing
over without a word and the reporter re-
moved the schedule sent IL to HIS office. had
II photographed. and I'm twenty minutes put
Ii back in Dreyfus's pocket and rejoined him
In the theater. Dreyfus at that time was in
bad hurnor with JOIN T. Brush, and when
the next day the matter became public he,
along with several other magnates. charged
Brush with giving the schedule 10 the
papers. "A recent confession made by the
guilty reporter 10 Mr.. Brush brought the
ZEAL facts to light and set all the magnates
right before their fellows. and Mr.. Brush
chuckles at the thought OF his being charged
with voluntarily giving the matter 10 the
press prematurely.