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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-01-02
YOUNG MEMS PROFILE MS.
NO Excusa ALLOWED.
county, n.

4 successful business man told me
there were two things he learned when
he vas eighteen years old which were
eve after wards Of great use to hin-
namely, Never to lose any thing, and
never to forget anything" An old
lawyer sent him with an important
paper, with certain instructions what
to do with it.
But" Inquired the young man,
suppose that I should happen to lose
1t, hat ehall l do then4"
You must not lose it," said the law.
yer, frowning.
II don't mean to-" said the young
man; but suppose I should happen
COZ"
But I say you must not happen to.
I shall make no provision for such an
occurrence; you must not lose it,"
This put a new train Of thought into
the young mans mind, and he found
that if he was determined to do a
thing he could do it. He made such a
provision against every contingency
that he never lost anythtn. He found
that ually true about forgetting. If
a certain matter OF Importance vas to
be remembered, he pinned it down on
his mind, fastened it there, and made
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Eigecombe county. N {
EDUCATION AND GIFTS TO COL
LEGES.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE:-As l have not
seen a letter from my county in your
columns, 1 will write a short one, al
though / am not a good writer. I see
the girls are still discussing flirting
Iove, etc. / would like to Din them,
but am not old enough to know any
thing abous it. / think the boys ought
to write more about education. because
l think boys need to be educated more
Gnan girls. I wonder how many OF the
writer's of the Chat are going to school.
Nv teacher tells me- it I don't study
and learn while I am young, that when
/ am old 1 will have Il work and toll
for those that did study and learn
while young.
Isaw in last weeks paper that back
woods fllow writing on education,
wanted to know how many OF the cir
Gle approved of a col ege receiving gifts
from rich men. /, for one, do. / don't
see to what better purpose the Dukes
could spend their money than to en-
dow some Christian college to help edu
cate poor boys who can't ges an edu
cation other wise. And yet that back
woods fellow thinks it is wrong for a
college to receive a gift from a rich
nan, I think il would be a right dull
college to refuse a gifts frtm a mar be
Cause he was rich. The D axes have
done and are doing more for North
Carolina than all the of the people who
are bowling against a college receiving
gifts from rich men.
That backwoods fellow don't say
anything about the State paying taxes
20 keep up the University to educate
Ooys who are a0le to educate tnem-
selves, but thinks it harm for rich men
20 give their " money to colleges.
| would like TO know which is the
most harm, for a college to receive a
gift from a man who manufactures &c
Oacco or for the money that is made
from a ~dispensary to be used IN the
public schools3 The only diff n l.
the one is made from selling CT garettes,
the other from selling whrskey.
/ would like to zee mOre letters on
education and to see who are in favor
Of colleges receiving gifts from rich
men and who are opposed. I reckon
ehe ChatGerers are getting tired of this
letter so l must b 4sten on to q close
With bess wishes TO Aunt Jennie and
the Chatter eFs. SCHOOL Boy.
Warren county, n. Q.
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sPuRRlNG A MAN TO SUCCESS

There's nothing like giving a boy a
LITTLE encouragement once 10 a while, "
saidasR wealthy downtown merchant
the other day. II know l owe a great
deal to a remark a Grabbed old farnor
made to me when 1 was quite small,
Il was trying to split a CT ose-grained
hickory log and, as OUT wood pile was
close by the roadside, my Efforts at
tracted the notice Of the farmer, who
stopped his team.
II was gre atty fattered by bis at-.
tention, b because he was the c~rossest
and surliest man in town, and never
took any notice Of US boys, ex apt to
sit in his orchard with a sh tzuu in his
hand when the apples we're ripe. So Il
put in my best licks, and Gov red INV
hands With bIisters, but the log refused.
to split. I hated TO be beaten, but.
there seemed no help for it. The old.
man noticed my chagrin.
"'Hum0hl / thought you'd hey to-
give it upT he said with a C 1uckle.
''Tnose words were all | needed.
mace no reply UuU Vno wpy that
AK. head went into that log ives a rev.
citation to me. As I drove it into the
knots, they yielded. There Yves q
cheerful crackle, the gap widened, end
soon the halves lay before me and far
mel drove off discounted.
But I never forgot that scene
When I first went into business l made
mistakes. a. every young man will
But whenever I got caught in a doubt
full enterprise I remembered that M
friends we're sanding around waitin
for the chance to say I thought you
have to give it up
"You see that, if a boy has any gri
in him, he is bound to profit by th
right sort of encouragement; and,
that connection, 1 may remark O. wei
placed sneer is often worth more tina
a barrel of tafy."-Puck.
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Our Social Chat.
EDITED By AUNT JENNIE. RALEIGH, N. c.

AS CONTRIB TORS to this department. of
The Progressive Farmer. we hAve some or The
most ~~ide-awake and pr gresslve young ad IS
and young men al d some of the mos" entertain
ing writer's MOI g the O der people or this ana
other states the ages of the members ranging
from slxtee , to NOR tn N sixty.
You ARE STED to join by sending
us - letter on some subject of general interest,
and writing thereafter as often as possible
WHEN WIRING, give fu | name q Al post
If you do not wish your real nome to appear IN
print, give name by which SO0 wish TO be known
as q CT atterer.
TWO WEEKS OR MORE must, as a rule.
elapse between che tune q letter Is mr1tten and
the date of it. publication.
all letters TO Aunt Jennie care
of The Progressive farmer, Raleigh. N. y.
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AS IS THE YoUTa SO IS T
MAN.

Some time in 1860, a team was dT
en- M to the village store az d.
G. reen. Ill The driver entered 6
told the merchant he would g
those hides. y" While he Waited for.
purchase TO be weighed and lca0eC
the wagon, with q handful or q
taken from the bin, he seated him
by a bar el, and ranged the kernels
re glments and brigRdes in line OF {
tie on opposite sides, in all SORTS OF p
lions. h would move his line iowa
or by tae flank, advancing and FetTe
ing. managing thus both armeies, !
working out ais problem OF atGacH .
defence. 1t was SAID that be Culo
absorbed for hours IN one OF ~
studies, and never quit until the ~
ic battle with his grams OF cogn \
decided one wsy or the other. III
manner he fought over the greaV :
ties Of the psss, and imaginary pay
of the future. The q1iet man VIII
stubblv, sandy hair and short music
was Ulysses 8. Grant. WasnlDsI
Pest
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oneself in the way, q kind of kill-jOy
and marplot to tie younger peop'e
The tendency of cur time is not to rev
erence age. but to put it in a corner.
The young do not o seem es much
in unison and sympathy with their
elders ss in times past. When the old
brought up the young in simple house
holds, it was different. The separa
ton Of inter ests has been q distinct
loss TO 10th CLASSES The family is les.
a school OF manners and morals than
it was when ali the members lsbored
It some common task. Now the young
gain most of their training from the
oustde. In weilCo-do families they
have few home cares. Their interests
are abroad. They know a great deal
more about athletics and less about
domestic life.
Golf, tennis, college sports, the bi
cycle, have done something to break
up family unity. The old cannot share
in these things. Some fathers and
m0thers strive to TO low their chIldreo
on tie @ paths. They must follow them
il they are to enter irto their lives
alphabetically, O5hers cannot go
with their children in these ways. The
very language OF sport is to them an
unknewn tOngu9. Thus the separation
between the young and the old be
comes more marked, and has a dissinc5
If CT on manners.
The advantage Of athletics to health
and physical development is another
story. 1t it is not probable that the
bicycle track and the golf field will
ever furnish a school of fine manners
The rough contacts Of athletic exercises
do not lie that way. Manners inhere
I q a gentle, refined, delicate apprecia
ion OF the excellences Of others, q
power Of entering Ito others lives
through sympathy, tbs power of sacri
dcing self, of taking the ne'ghbor's
point Of view, and not Of brutaliy
thrusting u own in the face Of society,
Fine mrnners make an ideal retreat
from the struggles and conflicts of the
world, a little pause in the great bat
lie, where people may meet on a higher
plane, out of reach OF contention and
strife. r agister.
-
Wrong motives for action bring ruint
Ia their rain; right motives cannot
fail to bring success. Right for rights
sake is the only safe guide for our
chill as tor ourselves. And it is 6
suh ;ient n Contrary TO the accepted
idea OF many grown people, q child
can grasp it. / am not cure bat that
often child can grasp this truth much
more clearly than an adult, because
the youthful mind IL less befogged by
worldly wisdom. Ladies' Home Jour
nal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-01-02
Manners and No Manners.

7 T is well to be reminded FIRE quently
L Of the little everyday, common
z place duties. Ws cannot always
& be on the mountaintop. The great
er part Of life is lived in the lowly
valley among plain people, who look at
things from the average angle, and
do not relish the unusual and the high
hown. But il euch an expression is
allowable the commonplace may have
its idealism Il may be touched with
the fine bloom Of charm, or it may
sink to rude v~ulgerity.
There is a way Of shaking hands, OF
sayiGg a simple good morning, Of lift
ing q hat, that makes Us happier for a
day. There are other ways of doing
these things emphasize the fact that
some people are different, aud do not
care whether we live or die. All the
gamut of emotions is run by subtle
signs-the glance Of an eye the turn OF
q head, the curl of a lip. This Ian
guRge expresses more in a gesture than
many words a express. 1t speaks
the truth where the tongue might
utter falsehood. 1t is the play Of ex.
preston that no mask can wholly
cover. The truth of what we are es
capes like a foe fragrance from high
civiiisy and the soul Of courtesy, and
On the osher hand marks as low bred
some who pride themselves on all the
elegancies.
The etiquette books that aim to teach
how to sIE and stand, to bow and enter
q room, 30 courtesy and hold a fan, do
not speak Of these things. They mise
the secTe5 Of manners so completely
they are ludicrous. Many years ego,
in the old fashiore1 girls boarding
school, manners we're Taught, on q false
method perhaps, but they were taught
At present they do not eeem to be
taught on any method. 10 spite of the
stiff, stlited style of the old days a type
was created. We speak of old fash
joined courtlinesssn breeding as some
thing finer and better than anything
that txists now. A gentleman of the
old school shines in contrst to the gen
tleman OF no school. The young man
who always places a chair for his
mother, who opens a door for her, who
gives her his arm when she passes from
a room, is considered exceptional, per
haps a little eccentrin. Mothers and
grandmothers are uot spoiled by pei
ting In our time. 1t is we'll if they are
not considered a burden. The dwell ng
with beautiful old age in it is conse
Grated. Well it is if the dignifed,
silver head be truly the head of the
houee. When deposed from h~eadship,
cid age is not always happy in foe
homes. It is sad to be old and to fee
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my youngest child is only IS
months DID," remarked Mr.. Snaggs,
"yet he can play on the piano"
oh, what sreyou giving usW re-
piled two or three of the crowd.
Its a fact. Just put him on top Of
the piano, with a few play things, and
he'll play as contentedly as you please
for an hour at q time"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-01-02

of the tobacco habit that Rebecca May
has. But there is one thing she didn't
mention, and I think it is the worst OF
All. Il is to see a boy with a cigarette
IN his mouth. It always makes me
think OF the old saying fire at "a end
and fool at the other"
AWKWARD jim.
franklin county. N Z.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-01-02

THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW.

H2 GIts S"i maS they ys ss
And their darkest of nights whose ehadowy slopes
Are Lit with the Fl ashes of starriest hopes,
The clouds Of the tempest-the shadows of the glOOmI
AP With sRI g Ss P sa sroar.
That the years may stay
No. 49, When their graves rave g. are near r br,oD.
TRRn 'S love 6f soa With vi so 5osoty, Sts e lie s9' AND y? With O HsS''
To the hearts that survive them, are eveFmore dear.
Z To ' each PV Cd Year cieaves;
Tho the hand OF the New
D.. 49, FIoW eS E g4rlana 3 T9 9esor and fair
With the past's withsred Leaflets may never compare
In the wreatha which the OrOWs of our past years have worn.
With a love to the lost,
Their arms round their pastl
As the vine that. that ci Ings to + the oak 6b T69s I IaTs,
F FSs me che 91 stars 81 t q o. q ss6 So oTs irons GooS the eH futures 3reiS bright skies.
And why not cot
THEY SX 6 69s Bo aRS s sRSy ,s eno"
x Ms T sS.y fi sy iR Of c'as' s sea '" While i9a Sb sq'@ @b sSPe s5lH Relief;
And the stories of hearts that may not be revealed
In the hearts of the dead years are buried and sealed.
Let the New Year sing
VA Al the the S SG years Year b F6ayo;
What the Old Year gavef
Ahl the stranger-Year trips over the SHOWS
And his brow Is wreathe1 with many a rose:
But how NAV thorns do the roses conceal
Which the FOtes, when Withered, shall go soon reveals
L3t the New Year smile
When the Old Year dies;
In how short q while
Shall the smiles be signs {
Veal Stranger Year, thou hast many q charm,
And thy face ia fair and thy greeting warm,
But deaTer than Chou-in hs shroud Of snoWs-
Is the furroWed face of the Year that gees.
YeaI Bright New Year,
Ger all the earth,
With song and cheer,
They will hail thy birth;
They will trust thy words in q single hour,
They will love thy face, they will laud thy power;
For the New has charms which the Old has not,
And the Strangers face makes the Frien 1s ForRnt.
From Father Ryan's Poer
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-25
KEEPING 1T UP.

Emphatic Talk by Wheeling Citizens.
Every day of the year some resident
of Wheeling is telling a friend or
uelghbor about experiences with
Doan's Kidney Pills No such emphat-
ic, endorsement was ever given for
any modern medicine. Read what this
citizen says:
Mrs Frank Edele, at No. II Thirty
ninth street, says: II had constant
ness and I felt tired and tanguid all
aching In the loins. headaches. dlzZi-
the time without the least energy. This
Frank Friday, alias doc" Riley,
was particularly SO in the mornings
when arose feeling more tired than
when went to bed. had seen Doan's
Kidney Pills so earnestly recommend
cd by others that thought they would
at least help me, so ] got box at the
Logan Drug Company and began their
use. ] had not progressed very far be-
fore ] felt decidedly better and ! con-
tlnued taking them until was free
from my old trouble"
For safe by all dealers Price. 20
cnts, Foster Milburn Company. Bufta-
10. n. y, sole agents for the United
States,
Remember the name Doan's--and
take no others.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-25
TranklIn COLLEGE Commencement.

Special Dispatch to the Intcnlgcncer.
NEW ATHENS. o., Juo 2t.-The ex-
erclses Of tho saventy-Gfth annual
commencement of Franklin college be-
gan this morning. when Rev. H. /.
Whnlen. Of Carbonate. Pa. preached
the bnccalaurente sermon, This even
INK Rev j. B. Eakins. OF ST. Clairsville.
delivered the address to tho Christian
associations. Monday evening Rev. w.
/. Wishart, OF Allegheny. addresses the
literary societies. Tuesday evening
win be held class exercises. and We'd
nesdny morning the commencement ex-
prClFpg
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-25
Cold Steel or Death.

"Therc is but one small chance 10
save your life and that is through nm
operation" was the awful prospect set
before Mrs. I. Il, Hunt. Of Lime Ridge,
WIS, by her doctor, after vainly trying
TO cure her OF n frlghtful case OF stom.
nch trouble and yellow jaundlce. lie
Didn't count on the marvellous power
OF Electric Bitters to cure Stomach and
Liver troubles, but Rhc heard OF IT,
took seven bottles, was wholly cured
avoided surgeons knife, now weighs
more and feels better than ever It's
positively guaranteed to cure stomach,
Liver and Kidney troubles and never
disappoints, Price Soc at Logan Drug
Company'B drug store,-l.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-25
TOPICS OF THE SCHOOLS.


A few more days Of the very hardest
Of work on the part of the teachers; a
few more days of anxiety on the part
Of the pupils; the several perform
ances of the eighth year pupils; the
commenrements, and then the school
year of ls99-19OO will be thing of the
past How the years do come and go.
Great events follow each other In such
rapid succession in this great big world,
that 1t almost makes ones head whirl
to try to keep pace with them; but
through it all the teachers go on their
way, II not rejoicing, with the satisfac-
ton Of knowing that they are doing
some little in shaping the great events
TRANSPORTING around them, The silent
influence Of our public schools, perhaps
more than any other one thing, is doing
its work In moldIng the future manhood
and womanhood of America, and they
will contribute more largely to the
same end as the years go by. The at
teutfou Of the readers Of these notes
has from time to time been called to the
fact that the teacher, and especially the
public school teacher, is one Of the
greatest factors in the worlds progress.
This is true. let carplng critics say what
they may to the contrary. In saying
this, the true teacher is meant, But
who Is the true teacher? Not the one
who tolls day after day, only for the
pIttance received in money Tor the
work: not the one who seeks the em-
ployment merely because II is more
genteel than other work may be; not
the mere school keeper, hut the man or
the women who sees in It the good that
may be done for humanity, and enters
upon the work with this end in view.
These are the teachers that are the
benefactdrs OF mankind. There are
many of them and they are doing their
work well, though It may not be appre-
.clateI, -i
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-25
CHAPTER al, ACTS 1897.

An act to ona Virginia
OF
reurnedd III q ANN
Be ienacte by West Virginia:
be aenu ana so
rs
thc
Thereafter sh proosc
H., emit. 40, .yo borebv reneaed
H. c. RICHARDS, a
Sheriff Ohio County.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-25

The coming vacation will be enjoyed
by the teachers better for a1i the work
they have performed In preparing
themselves for the coming examlna-
ton. One word OF advice to all the
teachers. Don't worry. The long look
cd for and much dreaded days will soon
be counted In the past and they Will be
none the worse for the passing through
the dreaded test. The examinations are
not Intended to puzzle any one and all
Will know Il after the time passes.
THE PEDAG0GUE.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-25

cagQ belongs 10 what Is Cdlleu VIC
North American Saengerbund.
~ thp Northwestern saengerbGnd be.
longs, Baltimore Philadelphia, New
York. Providence. Syracuse, Newark
and Brooklyn
Each city sends s9veral societlea
which sing together as one chorus. The
Mannerchor OF Philadelphia Is the, old
est society in the bund, and as a special
honor Is to sing alone at enc OF the
concerts. This society has been in e&s
istence since 1885. e
For the occasion symphonic poem
has been composed by Franz Van der
siucs2n, the well known. German Amer-
lean musician, It win be played BY an
orchestra of 1876 pieces under the dlrec-
ton OF Arthur claussen. The poem IL
lusSates the horrors Of war and the
trlumphs OF peace, ending with the
choral, Now Thank We All Our Goo"
Greatest Of All saengerfests.
The musical director ARTHUR Claus
sen, has given all his time and thought
to make this the greatest OF oil saen-
gerfests. His ambition has been to train
these societies 50 that the finest male
chorus singing in the world Will be
heard ut this festival.
He was born In s'arsard, RUSSIA IN
1850. He was educated in Darsig. and
then entered tte CONSERVATORY -'r u :" "a
mar AZ ,@en,y'o"e ~, ysaEs u cott
incgen, After directing IN Germany he
come n America n the invitation of the
..lcbsenkronz of New york to become
ne dIrnc,or In 1870 he became director
az The prooklyn Ariop. The Arior, uu-
dar HE leadership has won many prizes
At nravIons sa.nearfests. His compost
t,ons for m. vnIce ara numerous and
n,or,,od ,or tbe,r strpny,b ana baautv.
Ths pr.,t nr,ze for which several
,ocI,,,.s ,vIn comnate 10 that given nv
M TI,,noror n, cermanv II IL 10 be q
w,rdarirg nr,za. II can oniy bslong TO
one society from one saengerbund to
oro,hor Tho workmnnship ia very
ha,r,,,,,t,rd rho dss,gn was s,,bm,,tpf,
hv I'm ,rnaror himself from among
otL.. a,s,rn. .,,t,o,,,.d IN, tn, bcat. art
,s,s -, c.or,nany Tb. Pb,IodalnhIa Tnr.
No., ,,,s . rrizn a, n golden Ivra which
Wi, h. won nv the soc,atv coming seq
or5 ,,,I,h t,,a h,yh.st narcsntprs for tho
La,s,r nr,zs