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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-11-11

Lincoln, Neb., Nov. o Complete coun-
ty returns coming in do not materially
change the early estimates of the re-
suits Of the election. The fusionist 5
carry the state by 1000, perhaps more,
on the face of the returns from nearly
half the counties. They elect William
Neville to congress over Moses r. Kin
kaid, in the Sixth district, but by re-
duced majority. and gain slightly in
judicial districts. Chairman Edmiston
of the fusion state committee insists that
l'olcomb is elected judge of the supreme
court by $4,000. The Republican COM
mittee has given UP the fight.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-11-11

ottawa, Nov. 9-Lord Mimic has re-
ceived a cable from the imperial war
office, stating that the second offer of
troops for the Transvaal by Canada
would not be accepted. as they were not
required.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-11-11

Philadelphia, Nov, 9.-Complcte re-
turns from 60 of the g. counties in the
state and including Philadelphia, with
carefully revised estimates from the
seven missing counties, show plurality
of ,4G5 for Barnett ORep.) for state
treasurer over Greasy lDem.). The
plurality for Brown (Rep) for supreme
court Judge will exceed that Of Barnett
by probably 10000.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-11-11

Sioux Falls, =. d., Nov. 9.-Additional
reports show but little change in the
Republican majority, increasing it from
1878 to 4Oli. Union and Dawson coun-
ties practically nullfy each others vote.
the fusionists carrying the former by an
average of about l06 majority, while the
Republicans carried the latter by about
the same figures
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-11-11

Jackson. Miss, Nov 9-Late results
do not change the estimated majority
of 10000 for the Democratic state tick.
ct. headed 10y H. IL. Lousin, nomineen for
governor.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-18
EDUCATION

l presume that most of our readers
are farmers or farmers children, so
that in some way we are interested in
the welfare and education of the BOYS
and girls that r growing up on the
farm. Boys who expect to follow the
profession of their fathers may think
they need only enough education to
read, write and figure a little.
This is a great mistake, for to be
come a successful farmer on should
have as good an education as he should
have to become successful in any of
the occupations followed by man. At
other times parents of children are re
sponsible for their children's education.
There are not many people who live
n the country who are not able to
send their children to school.
1t is also a great mistake to think
that the girls of the farm who when
they grow up expect to become the
wives of tarm9rs should know only
enough to be able to wash, iron and
cook. The educA alton Of the girls should
not be neglected any more than that
of the boys. Education is something
that you cannot buy, and is something
that every boy and girl of to day needs
that they may enjoy life and make a
success out Of whatever they under
take. 1t is a mistake for young people
upon the farm to think that they can
not at least start to get an education
IN our own district schools.
Some of the best man our nation has
ever known have been educated at che
country free school when they did not
have half the opportunities that the
boys and girls of to day have. Boys
and girls who neglect their studies
while going to the country school
thinking that they will put off study.
ing until they become older too often
live to regret it. There is no school,
academy or college at which you can
get an education without working for
it. W. G. Lyon.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-18
JENNIE ACTON LIKES HER NAME

DEAR AUNT JENNIE:-I can't help
feeling disappointed when We get The
Progressive Farmer and I find no let
tiers in it Are We all getting lazy, Or
has it been too warm to write9 II the
latter ia your excuse Aung jimmie
ought to get lots Of letters this week
for it has been exceedingly pleasant
out here-I hope she will
Unjust tell you all Of something that
has impressed me very forcibly of late.
Ny school mates are marrying and
losing their identaty- Beautiful Lncy
Smith will be known to US no more as
such for she has entered another sphere
and is now Mrs. W. Johnson. What
a pity that we girls can't retain our
maiden name, too, for instance it
seems to me that it would be right for
all of US to keep our names and
afix that of the gentleman whom We
are 30 fortunate or unfortunate as TO
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-18
A OVERNOR's FAILURE.

W. E Curtis tells the following story
in the Chicago Record" of Gov. Theo.
Roosevelt, of New York, which may
encourage many a boy who has had
similar experience. A first failure
should encourage to greater effort.
The story is as follows:
lone day, while he was a echoolboy,
it came his turn to speak a piece He
was one of the best declaimers in the
school. His elecution was greatly ad.
mired by the scholars, and it was equal
IL a source of satisfaction to his teacher.
On this particular Friday afternoon a
number Of the town people had come
in to witness the exercises and every
body was expected to do his best.
Young Roosevelt had selected for
his defamation and carefully commit
ted to memory the well-known poem,
Marco Bczza ris.' He went to the
platform made, a stately bow, and
commenced:
"'At midnight in his guarded tent
LUG AuEA Was 0ASdI4EDS "a U1C AOOG
When Greece her knee
and there he stuck. He had forgot
t n the lines But he started again at
the beginning:
LAT midnight in his guarded tent,
The Turk was dreaming of the hour
When Greece her knee
but he could get no further. He
coughed, wiped his lips with his hand
kerchies, and blushed painfully.
"'When Greece her knee
he repeated, and again in despair,
"'When Greece her knee
but it was hopeless, and he looked
over toward his teacher for sympathy.
"'Greece her knee again, Theodore
s suggested the teacher, with a wink,
and maybe she'll CO.
sat that the whole school burst into
laughter. and the future Governor Of
New York fed mortified from the
STAGE"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-18

the university, from the home to the
hospital, from the church to charity.
Your hand is fashioned fair for love
and pity it touches all life with ten.
derness and swooths the froWn of care
off the face Of the world; il signals the
throne above and beckons angels into
our Gethsemanes, and strokes the
harp of Joy with the melody of peace
and hope. Sad indeed would it be for
your charming ~vivacity, masterful
magnetism, and irresistible influence
to be withheld from the vocations of
love in a world that is signing, and
crying, and dying. Blest would be the
earth if a generation of our women
would lift their hands in oath of sol
eman conservation to Chris and the
church"
OF the ~consecrated foot, DR.. Rust
said:
'%Sneering critics laugh because our
churches are full of women and only
half full of men. Isay, God be praised
for that. Satan can not capture the
earth as long as women stand in our
churches and keep the faith. The men
can not carry the world to perdition
as long as our women ring the alarm
bells Of heaven with ropes of prayer.
church ITSELF cannot become deganer
ated as long as our mothers, wives,
daughters and sisters kneeI at a throne
OF grace and pray their sons, and hus
bands, and fathers, and brothers into
their duty and their glorious destiny.
But once let woman desert her office
at this altar, as often man has done,
and then all is lost and the black night
of eternal death has c)me."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-18
Berthe County, N @.
HR WAS HIS OWN GRANDFATHER

William Harmon, a resident Of
Titugville, Pa, committed suicide a few
days ago under the melancholy conVic-
ton that he was his own grandfather.
Here is the singular letter that he
left:
II married a widow who had a
grown up daughter. My father visited
our house very often, fell in love with
my step daughter and married her. So
my father became my son in law and
my step daughter my mother, because
she was my fathers wife. Some time
after ward my wife had a son. H3 was
my fathers brother. in law, and my
uncle, for he was the brother Of my
step mother. Ny fathers wife-that
ia my step daughter-aIso had a son.
He was, Of course, my brother, and in
the meantime my grandchild, for he
was the son of my daughter. Ny wife
was my grandmother, because she
was my mothers mother. | was my
wife's husband and grandchild at the
same time. Add as the husband Of a
persons grandmother ia his grand
father, / was my own grandfather. -
Exchange.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-18
Our Social Chat.
EDTTED BY Aunt JENNIE. RALEIGH, N. C.

Here Is a column for everybody-ladies, gen.
tIemen, boys, girls, fathers and mothers.
terest to them. Never mind if you are not
perfect as g. writer, give US your thoughts and
we will see that they are in good shape before
they are published.
TIE PROGRESSIVE FARMER is Il 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-
ton to each one of u.s." The friendship OF each
of our readers. the confidence of the Old North
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
hope this spirit will animate each letter, and
breathe through every page. Address letters to
Aunt Jennie, care of TIE PROGRESSIVE FAR
AER, Raleigh. n. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-18

choose as a companion. I do not be.
lieve that any girl should be given two
names and then when she marries she
could adopt her maiden name as a
middle name, and all would know who
she was as a girl. Do you ell agree
with me in thinking that it is enough
for a man to ask you to be his partner
through life without expecting you to
lose your old self entirely9 I can't
much blame Winnie Davis, for not
marrying because she disliked to
change her NAME. Some how things
seem unequally divided in this world
any way, but I may be bilious and
every thing looks blue through blue
glasses.
Why does not some one give us a
subject for discussion, and why don't
more of you write, and why don't we
all do what we ought all the time and
what makes some people happy and
others always, misserable2 Why can't
We see the silver Inning to every cloud
and know that after rain comes sun
shines Is the world growing better or
worse, and why can't we ask ourselves
what we are doing to help it in either
direction7 I must stop for some of
you might believe me blue and it is
terribly contageous-even more so
than, smallpox. JENNIE ACTON.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-18

Rev. Minot J. Savage said, in a re.
cent sermon on r creation and Iite'
How much sleep do you nead7 Just
enough and. it is foolish for us to lay
down rules for other people I know
people, was brought up that way
myself-who have the insane idea that
it is q virtue in itself to get up early in
the morning. There is no virtue in
getting up early in the morning I'm
less you have slept enough. The hour
for rising depends entirely upon what
time you went to bed. Sleep enough,
and IL you do not get it Rt n time
during the twenty four hours, get it at
another If you can."-Ex.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-18
YOUNG MIN SHOULD REMEMBER

That i6 takes more than muscle to
make a man.
That bigness is not greatness.
That it requires pluck to be patient,
That selfshness ig the most unmanly
thing in the world.
That consideration for mother and
sister does more to mark a gentleman
than the kind of necktie he wears.
That piety is not ~piggishness.
That the only whole nan is a holy
man.
That to follow the crowd is a con
tession of weakness.
That the street corners are a poor
college.
That one real friend is worth a score
of mere acquaintances.
That to be afraid to be ones nobless
self is greatest cowardice.
That it is never too soon to begin to
make a man of ones self.
That what is put into the brain to
day will be taken out of it ten years
hence.
That the only manliness worth pos
sessing is shown in the life of the Son
of man. Selected.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-18

DEAR AUNT JENNIE:-With your per.
mission, I will write to the Chatterers
and tell them what I think of the max.
i'm, "Where ignorance is bliss, tbs folly
to be WISE" Bliss is defined as "the
highes5 happiness" and if ignorance
we're bliss it would be folly to be wise,
because we cannot attain to anything
further than 1.-The highest happiness"
But ignorance is not bliss, and the
author Of this very specious maxim
does not ass BRIT that it is. He merely
assumes that under certain circum.
stances the knowledge Of a particular
tact might give US trouble, and in that
case it would be folly to inform our
selves as to that fact.
But this ia not true, as I can prove
by a few illustrations. The child is in
blissful ignorance, il I may use the
expression. of the cares of this world,
but it is not folly to instruct him. II
it is, then have all the teachers been in
error from time immemorial even un-
til now.
The Scribes and Pnarisees were
blissfully ignorant of their duty to
mankind, but the Great Teacher in
structed them.
The heather woman who throws
her babe into the raging river to quell
it's OVERT owing waters, is in blissful ig-
norance of her duty as a worshipper
of God, but it is not folly to enlighten
her.
Aguinaldo's followers, who believe
that his picture around their necks is
a perfect talisman against the deadly
bullet, are blissfully ignorant Of their
danger, but how much batter for them
If they were ~undeceived.
The masses Of the voters of this ma.
ton are in blissful ignorance and total
blindness to the dangers now threaten
ing Dur country, but oh! how urgent
the necessity Of awakening them to a
realiz alton of the same.
I might go on indefinitely down this
line, but I have said enough to prove
that although knowledge Of certain
facts may and does )metimes cause as
untold anxiety, yet it is never folly. to
be wise.
If anyone thinks so let him read the
Proverbs of Solomon or the four Cos
pels, and his hallucination will be dis.
PEELED like mist before the rising sun.
Love TO all.
FIFTY THREE.
Berthe County, N @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-18
A TALK WITH GIRLS.

There are few things more wonder
ful to me than that old people never
tell young ones how precious their
youth is. They sometimes sentinen
tally regret their own earlier days;
sometimes prudently forget them;
often foolishly rebuke the young, often
more foolishly indulge, often most
toolishly thWRrt and restrain, but
scarcely ever warn or watch them
Remember, then, that I at least have
warned you, that the happiness Of
your life and it's power, aud it's part
and rank in earth or in heaven, de
pend on the way you pass your days
now. They are not to be sad days;
far from that; the first duty of young
people is to be delighted and delightful,
but they are to be in the deepest sense
solemn days. There is no solemnity so
deep, to q rightly thinking lure,
as that Of dawn. But not only in that
sense, but in all their character and
method, they are to be solemn days.
Take your dictionary, and look out
solemn, and fix the Of the word
well in your mind; and remember that
every day of your early life is ordain
ing ~irrevocably, for good or evil, the
custom and practice OF your soul;
ordaining either sacred customs OF
dear and lovely recurrence, Or trench
ing deeper and deeper the burrows for
seed of sorrow.
Now, therefore, see that no day
passes in which you do not make your
self a some what better creature; and
in order to do that, find out first what
you are now. d. not think vaguely
about it; take pen and paper and write
down as accurate a description of your
self as you can, with the date to it. If
you dare not do SO, fad out why you
dare not, and try to get strength of
heart enough to look yourself fairly in
the face in mind as we'll as body. I do
not doubt that the mind is g less pleas
ant thing to look on than the face, and
for that very reason it needs more
looking at so, also, have two mirrors
on your toilet table, and see that with
proper care you dress body and mind
before them daily. After the dressing
is one over for the day, think no more
about it. AS your hair will blow about
your ears, so your temper will get
r, fiji ID with the days work, and may
need sometimes twice dressing, But I
don't want you to carry about a mental
pocket comb, only to be smooth
braided always in the morning.
Write down then, first, what you
are, or, at least, what you think your
self, not dwelling upon those inevitable
faults which are OF little consf hence,
and which the action of a right life
will shake or smooth away. D3termine,
60 the best OF your intelligence, what
you are good for, and a De made in
to, and you will fnd that the mere e
solve not to be useless, and the honest
desire to help other people, will, in the
quickest and most delicate ways, i'm
prove you. Thus, from the beginning.
consider all your accomplishments as
means of assistance to others john
r Iskin.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-18
EIoNHE =
MY

I never build a song, by night or day,
OF breaking ocean or of blowing whin.
But in some wondrous unexpected way,
Like light upon a road, my Love comes in.
And when I 90 at night upon the hill,
Ny heart is lifted on mysterious wings:
Nv love is there to strengthen and to still,
For she can take away the dread of things.
Edwin Markham, Author of THE Man With the Hoe Z"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-18

Beauty is the first present nature
gives to women and the fret it takes
aWaY.-Mere.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-18

Bcevity is the best recommendation
OF speech, whether in a senator or an
orator. Cicero.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-18

Tiny. brittle band of gold,
Ennan tongue hath never told,
Al the wonders thou dost hold.
Emblem of eternity,
Holding 10 epitome
loves immortal history.
More than all the wise have found,
overhead or underground,
Lies within thy little round.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-18
HI RING.

By the light of Fancy's sheen,
In the magic spere I ween,
He'll or heaven may be seen.
Heaven brrn Love and hell born Hate,
Progress Of both Time and Fate,
Strive to pass thy golden gate
Wo il Hate should entrance win,
Through thy gate and enter in
With her retinue of sin!
Love alone
heart hath gone,
The age-herald., 1899-08-18
ATTORNEY GENERAL DAVIS
Of Arkansas Says Corporations Need
 Not Furnish Affdavits

Little Rock Ark, August 17.-Attorney- General Jeff Davis has given out a state ment to the press in which he says he will advise all corporations who refer the mat ter to him not to furnish to the secretary of state the affidavit required of them by the celebrated Rector antitrust law. He says if they decline to furnish the affidavit there Is no law to punish them that can be enforced He bases his opinion upon this fact:
 The affidavit is a verbatim copy of the affidavit prescribed by the legislature in @ similar antitrust law of the state of Missouri The question was carried up to the supreme court in that etate, which body declared, after a hearing in the case of the state of Missouri versus Simmons Hardware company, reported in the Eighth Southwestern Law Journal, page 1125, that the affidavit is unconstitutional, holding that the requiring of a corporation to fight an affidavit of that character is virtually compelling man to testify against him. self which he is exempted from doing by the organic law of the state.
The age-herald., 1899-08-18
TWO HUNDRED
 PERSONS POISONED
At Oregon, Illinois, by Lemon- ade Drunk at a
 Picnic,

Rockford, H., August 1.-Two hundred persons were poisoned at Oregon, H., to- day by lemonade they drank at picnic. AS yet no fatalities have been reported.
 The sickness developed during the after noon and towards the close of the day the doctors in the community could not be- gin to respond to the calls for assistance. In the office of one physician thirty people were stretched upon the floor at one time Many people were taken i'll while driving to their homes in the country and lay helpless along the roadside. Doctors were sum- moned from neigbboring villages to care for them. The poisoning is supposed to have been the result of citric acid in the lemonade sold at one of the stands. The most violent cases are those of small chil- dren. The picnic was the annual celebra- tion of the Modern Woodmen of Ogle coun- ty and was attended by 20OO people.
The age-herald., 1899-08-18
This Will Give General Otis a Force of 62451 Men With
 Which to Prosecute His Campaign
OFFERS FOR STOCK
 OF CLOTH MILLS
Scheme to Organize Combine of Print Cloth Man.
 ufaCturerS.

Fall River, N. Y., August 17.-Offers were made today for the stock of nearly all the seventy print cloth mills in this city by the New York promoters of the yarn mills combine, which was formed some time ago Print cloth mills of Fall River are con- trolled by t'hirty-six corporations. Treasurers were asked to secure from their stockholders an option on the con- trolling interest in the stock until Decem- Der 1, 1900.
 The prices offered for the stock of the various mills are for the most part from s15 to S25 per share above the last quoted market price. Offers are made for thirty corpora tions with combined capital of SIS, 153, 700. The bids did not include the Fall River iron works mills, the Parker, Rob- inson and Slade and Hargraves corpora tions Many treasurers are opposed to the consolidation, but a large percentage of stockholders are said to be disposed to accept the offer
 The following is 0 list of corporations which have received an offer:
 American Linen company, Arkwright, Barnard Manufacturing company, Border City Manufacturing company, Chace, Cor heii' NoHdiHCul, DoneNdl, DufIe%, Full River Manufactory, Flint Granite, King Phillip, Laurel Lake Merchants Manu- featuring company, Mechanics Meatiomet Manufacturing company, Narragansett, Osborne Manufacturing company, Richard Borden Manufacturing company, Saga more Manufacturing company, Seaconnet, Shoeve, Stafford, Tecumseh, Troy c. and W. Manufacturing company, Union Manu- featuring company, Wapamango Wempe- tee.
 No sooner had the effect of the offer by the English syndicate to purchase the Fall River cotton mills been announced than it became known that another and much larger syndicate had entered the field and was busy through a New York man in ar ranging matters preparatory to making q larger offer than that of the English peo- pie. It is stated that the capital of this new concern is to be $135, ,OO00 900 at least, and the aim is to consolidate all the cotton mills in the country under one manage ment, the purpose being to reduce the cost of production.
 The New York man states that he will confer tomorrow with the syndicate mem bers, and within forty-eignt hours will off, fer bid fin competition with the English concern. From present appearances 1t seems that the situation may develop into an auction sale to all intent of fifty mill lion dollars worth of Fall River cotton industries to the highest bidder. At pres ent, however, the only bid in evidence is that of the English syndicate