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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-10-18

Fredendall's big department store
had six and one half pages of adver-
tising in the Columbia Herald Sep
TENDER 2Sth. Such merchants bring
more trade TO a town than a dozen
who sit around and talk about the
bargains They've got" to sell. The
trouble is, these people usually keep
such bargains. while the advertiser
sells his goods, buys more and sells
again -Ex.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-10-18

R. f. Freeman. who owns an
island i'll the Usage river near War
saw has been experimenting with
various crops on it, but they have
invariably been washed away. This
year he planted the island in sor-
ghum cane. From a qutarter of an
acre he has made 12O gallons of mo-
lasses, and at this rate the acre of
land will net MIN S16S.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-10-18

1t has not been a great while ago.
You will remember, Atkeson was
nomenated for circuit Judge. What
did he do? You alIknow he Withdrew
Just before the election and threw his
support TO Denton. the republican
nominee. Nor only this. but ha usa.3
ms paper 70 the best OF his ability II
nenton'S interest.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-10-18

Mrs. Addie Hoatson. whose hus
band was killed by the explosion of
an engine in Texas. was awarded a
Judgment OF So. 900 against the NJ.
h. X I, railway company at Hills
boro, Texas last week.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-10-18

Jim Hicklin, the negro who at.
tempted to rob and dangerously
wounded farmer Thos. Smith. near
Lexington. Mo. last week. was can
tured near MAYHEM. afavette
county, Friday. 1t is thought the
negro is crazy. He has served two
terms in hepenirentiarv.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-10-18

Il had female trouble OF all kinds,
had three doctors. but only grew worse.
l began taking Lydia E Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills
and used the Sanative Wash. and can
not praise your remedies enough. =
Mrs. EFFIE PERKINS, PEARL, La
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-10-18

Haven't heard any more talk re-
Gently from Hanna's headquarters
about Missouri being doubtful.
Have YOU? Wonder what they really
think OF New York New York Yer
diet.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-10-18

have received
from the use of
Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegeta-
bic Compound.
Soon after the
birth of my first
child I aau
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-10-18

Senator David B. Hill will speak
with Bryan in Madison Square gar
den, New York, Oct. %. This goes
to show the New York democrats are
united for the ticket.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-10-18
COUNTY TICKET

For Representative-Thos. J.. Harper.
For TrcasuTcr-H. I. johnson.
For Prosecuting Att0rney-Miles s. Horn.
For SheriG-JOe I. smith.
For Probate Judge alvin f. Boxley.
For Public AdministratOr-D.N V. Brown.
For SurveyOr-R. + Johnson.
For COroner-O. r. Renick.
For Judge County Court, North Disirict-L.
ID. Wim5ast. South District-.John j. March
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-10-18

ILETrER TO MRS. PrSxEAx NO. o3.zs4l
DEAR Mrs. PISkHAM-For some
time have thought of writing to you
TO let you know of the great benefit /
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-10-18
Democratic National Ticket.

For President:
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.
For Vice President
ADLAI f.. STEVENSON.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-10-18

The success OF the Worlds Fair at
St. Louis hinges wholly upon the
vote on the constitutional amend
ments, authorizing St. Louis to is
sue S5,OOO.OOO in city bonds in aid
of the fair and in authorizing the leg
islature to appropriate S1,0O0,OO0
from the sinking fund for Il state ex-
hibit. The amendments We're in
dorsed by the state conventions Of
both the democratic and republican
parties. The Worlds Fair will at
tract millions of dollars OF capital to
Missouri and benefit all classes alike
1t can not be held unless these amend
ments carry.
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ter men in the whole confines OF Bates
county could not have been found
than Judge Wimsatt and John
March. The former has been tried
and not found wanting. He has
made one of the best judges the
county ever had, always on the alert
for the county's interests, he has
scrutinized every measure which came
before the court and has acted at all
times in a fair, fearless and independ-
ent manner. Mr. March is a young
man OF splendid business ability,
honorable and upright in all his
dealings and will be a credit TO his
constituents. Both will be elected.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-10-18
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

For Supreme Judge-James h. CAN'T
FOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS VI Dockery.
FOR Lieut.. -GOyeTnOr-John Lee
For Secretary Of stase-ssm Cook
Fer AuditoF-Albert . Allen
For Attorney Generai-E { Crow
For Treasurer-RoDert +. Williams
For Railroad and arehouse Com r-JOseph
Harrington.
For COMPENSATION ID. A. DeArmond.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-10-18

Hon. Webster Davis will speak at
Lamar the Goth.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-10-18
BRlAN'S STYLE OF CAMPAIGNING
Never Too Tired To Talk or Shake
Hands With People
Since Sept. 18th He Has Made zS5
Speeches and Shook Hands With
IN Oo0 pPoDle

SV'VV' 4 NpPAC-
BRYAN sCAMPAIGxIxG.
Began campaigning. Sept. ~.
Speeches, 80
States covered. II.
Cities and towns visited. $50.
Number OF auditors, $4,000.
Handshakings- so. 900.
Average number OF words in speech
$500.
Total words, 901.0OO
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
Miscellaneous.
o OF AUTUMN.

| recently chose a favorable day
and went odor-hunting, says the
naturalist, DR.. Charles G. Abbott, in
the October "New Lippincott." It
was no childish whim nor aimless
undertaking. What in the minds of
many is the freak of a fool may have
weightier purpose than the crowd
wOts of. I have always known sweet
birch and ~sassafras, spice-wood and
pennyrOyal, but these are but four
of a full four hundred. Delightful
as are the odOrs of oak and hickory,
they must yield to the walnut, and
all give place, perhaps, to the white
crowns of balm or dingy clusters of
aromatic yarrow. The long, mar
row knobs that divide the wide
marsh meadows, and that only the
greater floods shut out from view,
appeal at present to neither eye nor
ear but stoop low and sniff the damp
air that rests upon the dead grass,
ard these same knobs will prove
something very different from what
you suppose. So doing, you discover
the Spice Islands. All your life you
have thought them in the far-off
Indian Ocean but here they are,
too, in the valley of the Delaware,
as they are, also, in the valleys of all
III rivers.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02

to the last degree. Read fiction if
you will, but let it be the kind of
fiction that will give you right
standards of living and inspire you
to be better boys and good men.
This is an age when there is great
interest in outdoor life, and nearly
all boys have in their boyhood the
instincts of the naturalist. They
are more or less interested in birds
or flowers or animals or sports or
geology. Such boys will derive
much pleasure and profit from such
books as "Wild Animals 1 Have
Known" How to Know the Wild
Flowers" Natures Garden"
"Birds Through an Opera GLASS; -
Cup and Down the Brooks" "Out-
door Papers" It is a good thing
for a boy to have a real interest in
the world of nature. It is a good
thing for him to know all that he
can about animals and flowers and
trees. Hunting and fishing and row
ing are fine for both mental and
physical development, and every
boy should read natures books.
mo boy can be we'll informed
without reading history. Every
boys library should have in it as
many historical books as possible
and they should be for us and not
merely for ornament. Charles Cot
fms Boys of 49," Parkman's
books, particularly his "Oregon
Trail" Fishes "War of Indepen-
dence, " 1.-The Rise of the Republic"
Gray's Crusade of the Children
and the books Of Motley and Pres
colt will be valuable additions to the
library of any boy.
Every boy should have a library,
and the books in hat library should
stand the test. Never was there an
age when good books could be had
for so little money. Let every boy
invest a part of his money in good
books and have nothing to do with
the penny dreadfuls. H. H. H,
in American Boys.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMERS STATE
PLATFORM.

-Four months public schools.
A law to prevent the removal of
cases by corporations from State to
Federal courts.
A statute making agriculture a
common school study.
A reformatory for young crimi-
mails.
A fair election law, providing for
equal representation of each faction
upon boards of election judges and
registrars.
A law making it illegal to employ
children under fifteen years of age
in any cotton mill, except where the
child so employed attends school for
at least three months in each year.
Lower priced school books.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
Children's Column.
A LULLABY,

The Wind is weary in the west
Sleep, my baby, sleep!
The angry clouds are gone to rest.
Sleep, my baby, sleep!
The lights along the shore appear,
The day is done, the night is here,
And father-O! what keeps him,
dear?
Sleep, my baby, sleep!
There's sorrow in the sea gull's
screech,
Sleep, my baby, sleep!
And mournful shadows stalk the
beach,
Sleep, my baby, sleep!
y, woe is mine and thine, alack,
Across the bay the way is black;
Ten boats went out and nine came
back,
Sleep, my baby, sleep!
We searched the sulIen sea all day,
Sleep, my baby, sleep!
Our tears were mingled with the
spray,
Sleep, my baby, sleep!
And still the waves roll on the shore,
With ~deSOlatiOn in their roar
And ne'er a footstep near the door,
Sleep, my baby, sleep!
1t is so lonely and so drear,
Sleep, my baby, sleep!
The night grows dark and full of
fear,
Sleep, my baby, sleep!
The surges sing Of salty deeps
Wherein our we'll beloved sleeps
All now the night wind with me
weeps,
Sleep, my baby, sleep!
1 hear him singing in the surge,
Sleep, my baby, sleep!
The waves, relenting, sing his dirge,
Sleep, my baby, sleep!
Ten million souls are all Thine own
To dwell in glory neal Thy throne,
0, spare him, GOd-we're all alone !
Sleep, my baby, sleep!
George V. Hobart, in the Chicago
American.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
A BOYS BOOKS.

So much of the reading of boys,
and of men is ~valueless that one al,
most wishes there were not SO much
reading matter in the world. Some
of it is simply inane while some is
harmful. Some is really amusing,
and we find no great fault with this
for there are times when one ought
to be amused. But the boys of to-
day do not read enough books.
The best literature of the day is to
be found in books. The most last
ing impressions are made by the
careful and systematic reading of
| good books. 1t was that wise and
good writer, Horace Mann, who
wrote:
Good books are to the young
mind what the warming sur and the
refreshing rain of spring r. to the
seeds which have lain dormant in
the frosts of winter. They are
more, for they may saw from that
which is worse than death, as we'll as
bless that which is better than life"
If you believe this to be true, and
it is true, you may be glad to know
the names of some of the best books
for a boy to read. 1t is a great waste
Of time to read other than helpful
books. What books will be most
helpful to you? Theodore Parker
answered this question for all read
ers when he said: THE books which
help you most are those which make
you think the most. The hardest
way of learning is by easy reading ;
but a great book that comes from a
great thinker-it is a ship OF
thought, deep freighted with truth
and with beauty"
Every boy in America ought to
read a book that [ fear a good many
of our American boys do not read,
and that book is the Bible. He
should do this because, as some one
has wisely said, cit is the history OF
all that is highest and lowest in man
kind the depths to which he can
sink in degradation and despair the
heights that he might reach II he
but would" A wise and careful
reading of the Bible cannot but be
helpful to every boy, even though he
read it only as history Or literature.
It is not often that a boy reads the
Bible without being impressed by
it's spiritual power and influence.
And so I would urge all boys to
read the Bible because Of its helpful
ness.
Most boys like to read some fc-
ton. and good fiction is often help
full reading. One of the best books
of fiction is Cooper's Spy" SCOTS
,sIvanhoe," Irving's "Bracebridge
Hall" Aldrich's STORY Of a Bad
Boy" and Hawthorne's Grand
fathers Chair are all charming
stories in which an intelligent boy
will become interested. It is well
to give all ssblood and thunder tales
a wide berth. They convey abso-
luteIv false impressions of life. They
weaken the intellect, and have a ten
dencv to make a boy coarse. They
never inspire him to do or to be any
thing that is good. They are trashy
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
christian Life Column.
AT LAST.

,,,o, on my day of life the night is
W. falling,
spaces blown,
,,ar far voices out of darkness
calling
Nv feet to paths unknown.
r,o, who hast made my home of
IH' life so pleasant,
Leave not its tenant when its walls
decay
Love divine, o Helper ever pres
ent,
Re thou my strength and stay!
20 near me when all else is from me
drifting;
Earth. sky, homes pictures, days
of shade and shine,
And kindly faces to my own uplift-
ing
The love which answers mine.
rbave but thee, my Father Let thy
Be With me then to comfort and
ulAAS~N
NJ cate of pearl, no branch of palm
Inherit,
Nor streets of shining gold.
Suffice it if-my good and i'll I'M
reckoned,
And both forgiven through thy
Astounding grace
find myself by hands familiar beck
Oned
Unto my fitting place.
Some humble door among thy many
mansions,
Some s~heltering shade where sin
and striving cease,
And flows forever through heavens
green expansions
The river Of thy peace.
There. from the music round about
me stealing,
Ifain would learn the new and
holy song,
And find at last, beneath thy trees
of healing,
The life for which I long.
John Greenleaf Whittier.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
AGRICULTURAL DIRECTORY.

Members North Carolina State Board of Ag-
~ricuIture.
John S. Cunningham, Chairman, Cunning
ham, N. c.; NJ. B. Pitt, Old Sparta; G. F. Wes-
ton, Biltmore; c. McArtan, Ellington; J. B.
Grimes, Grimesland; R. H. Jones, Raleigh;
w. c. Sprinkle, Marshall; A. Z. McCaIIum,
Red Springs; Howard Browning, L~ittletOn
w. A. Graham, Machpelah; j. D. Maultsby,
WhiteviIle; j. w Bailey, Raleigh; ]. CT L. Har-
ris, Raleigh; L. G.. Waugh, Dobson; H. F. King,
Raleigh; n. L. Barnard, Franklin; J. R. Joyce,
Reidsville; ]. B. Cofield, Everetts; Geo E.
Flow, Monroe; w. R. Capehart, AvOca; S. F.
Shore, Shore; J., a. Stevens, GOldsBOrO; j. G.
Ray, Boone; &c. Bunch, Oak Ridge.
OFFICERS.
commissioners. L. Patterson.
Secretary-T. K. Bruner.
Assistant, in Charge of ImmigratiOn-J. w.
Thompson.
State observation-disclosures Curtis.
State ChemiSt-B. w. kilgOre.
Acting Entomologist and BOtanist-Gerald
Mccarthy.
Postofice address of all officers, Raleigh,
NC
N. C. Farmers State Alliance.
President-W. A. Graham, Machpelah, Lin
coin Co, N. c.
Vtce-President-J. t. Paschal, Ptttsboro,
Chatham Co., n. c..
Secretary-Treasurer and State Business Agent
II. B. Parker, HiIIsbOrO, Orange Co; n. c..
Lecturer. c. Balm, Wade, Cumberland Co.,
Co., NC.
Assistant Lecturer or Steward-JnO. NJ. Nit
cheIl, Wayne Co., N. {.
Chaplain-Rev. w. S. Mercer, Moyock, Curri-
tuck Co., n. c.
Doorkeeper-Geo. T. Lane. Greensboro, Gull
ford Co, n. c.,
Sergeant-at-Arms-R. H. Lane, Aurora, Beau.
fort Co., M G.
Trustee Business Agency Fund-W. A. Ora
ham, Machpelah, n. c..
COMMITTEE.
j. W. Denmark, Chairman, Raleigh, NC.
w. b. Fleming, Ridgeway, n. c.
JOhn Graham, WarrentOn, n. c.
DR.. J. E. Person, Pikeville, M c.
Thomas j. Oldham, Teer, NC.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
A DOGS sCRIPTURAL NAME.

A gentleman travelling in a sec
ton of country which shall be name
less, stopped at the house of a pious
old woman, and, observing her fond
ness for a pet dog, ventured to ask
the name of the animal The good
woman answered by saying that she
called him Moreover"
els not that a strange name?" in
quired the gentleman.
YES" said the pious old lady
but I thought it must be a good one
as I found it in the Bible"
"Found it in the Bible?" quoth
the gentleman. Pray in what part
of the Bible did you find it?"
The old lady took down the Bible
with utmost reverence, and turning
to the text read as follows ''More-
over, the dog, came and licked his
sores"
There" said she triumphautly,
shave I not the highest authority
for the name?"-Scrap-Book.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
EMOTION IN RELIGION.

Religious fanaticism by a natural
process ends in sensual excess. This
thought. which has often been in
our mind as we have waded through
the dismal periods of church history,
was recalled afresh when we read in
the PenticOstal Herald that the edi-
tor of the Live Goals of Fire, organ
of the Fire Baptized Holiness AsSO-
citation. had been caught on the
street at Omaha "drunk and smOk-
ing a cigar that at first he denied
the drunkenness, and tried to hide
the cigar and that finally he offered
money to save himself from public
exposure. The morbid and I'M
natural excitement of the human
emOtiOns-that kind of excitement
which is produced by fictitious or
unworthy causes and not by the
sober truth-disturbs the balance of
the faculties, enfeebles the will, and
leads on to gross immortality.
We do not wish to be understood
a. saying u single word against
healthy religious emotions. They
are as natural and as legitimate as
thought or vOlitiOn. The gospel
makes its appeal to the heart is we'll
as to the intellect, and it's great dis
closures are we'll adapted to kindle
the feelings into a glowing flame. 1t
Is not the intensity of an emotion
that diScredits it, 10 the feebleness
Of it that justifes it. A perfectly
sober Christian may burn with the
white head of a seraphic love. Emo
ton never becomes bad till it is
churned up by artificial stimulants,
and looked upon as an end in itself.
James Russell Lowell rather irrev-
erently described that type Of 1T as
"a sort of celestial debauch," a
drunkenness and frenzy of the soul.
Once more we wish to repeat what
We have often said before, that our
holy religion, when properly appre-
hended, is the sadest thing in the
world and that a true believer is at
the farthest possible remove from
being a crank.-Nashville Christian
Advocate.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
FROM < o N

Our next regular County.Alliance
meeting will be held with Loves
Chapel Sub. on the second Thursday
in October, 1900. Let each Sub.
come fully represented, so we will
have a revival of the Alliance. We
need a shaking up of dry bones"
F~raternally,
T. M. FRIzELL, Sec'y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
secretary-T. B. Parker, HiIlsboro, N. c.
M q Anrinnltnral Exnariment

N G. Agricultural Experiment Station
Dfrector-George T. Winston, West Raleigh,
NJ C.
AgricuIturist-Benj. Irby, West Raleigh, Nc
HortfcuIturist-W. F. Massey, West Raleigh,
NJ c.
Professor of Animal Husbandry-J NJ. John
son, West Raleigh, n. {.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
North Carolina State Dairvmen,s Assoei

Presidential. F. Weston, Biltmore, NC.
Nice-President-C. Z. SeymOre.
SecretaFy-Treasurer-C. W.. Gold, Wilson,
N. c.
Board of DirectOrs-W. E. Dulin, T. P. Bras
well, F. E. Emery, T. B.. Brown, c. c.. Moore,
J. L. Knight.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
National Live Stock Association.

No organization in this State. North Caro-
lima Member of National COmmittee-Frank E.
Emery, West Raleigh, n. c.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02

The Greeks and Romans had no
standing armies, yet they defended
themselves. The Greeks, by their
law, and the Romans, by the spirit
of the people, took care to put into
the hands of their rulers no such
engine of oppression as a standing
army. Their system was to make
every man a soldier. and oblige him
to repair to the standard Of his
country whenever that was reared.
This made then invincible and the
same remedy will make US so.--
Thomas Jefe-. N.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
N. c. Tobacco Growers Association.

President-J. Bryan Grimes, Grimesland,
Vice-President-J. B. Phillips, Battleboro,
N. c.
N c..
Secretary-T. B. Parker, HiIlsborO, n. c.
Treasurer-W B. Upchurch, MOrrisVille, n. c..
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
CO... r. w. Wharton, Washington, N. c.; DR..
R. H. Speight, WrendaIe, n. c.; R. H. Kicks,
Rocky Mount, n. c.; H. H. knight, Eagle
Rock, n. c.; w. L. Kennedy, Falling Creek,
n. c.; Gen. I. F. TOon, LumbertOn, n. c.; DIR,
Elias FuIp, Fulp, n. c.; w. L. Bouldin.
ArchdaIe n. c..
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Because God loves US, and would
use Us, God is not willing to leave
Us inactive and useless. Because
the upturning of our heart soil is
essential to the securing Of a crop
from the seed of Gods planting and
rearing. we have reason to rejoice
and be grateful when we feel the
cutting in on our heart surface OF
Gods pIow of trial. Samuel Ruther
ford said: why should I start at
the plow of my Lord, that maketh
deep burrows on my soul? L know
he Is no idle husbandman, he pur-
po>eth u crop."-Sunday School
Times.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
N. C. Cron Pest Commission.

S. L. Patterson, Chm'n, Raleigh; DR.. Geo.
Winston, Raleigh; J. Van Lindley, Pomona.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02

The doors of your soul r open
on others ana theirs on you. Simply
TO he in this world, whatever you
are, Is to exert an influence, an incom-
pariSon with which mere language
and persuasion are feeble.-AnOn.