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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-12
CORRECT FORM IN LETTER-wRTrrrs
Points for Those Who May be in Dou,.
the Best Usages, as to

To every one outside tho e.,
circle the Christian nam and ly
name should be written in f1r SUI
married woman writes her A
Mary Bruce Talbot, andin a bna;~ le'
letter adds beneath it, in brool9SS
Mrs. John Talbot. An unnoo@1,
woman writes "Miss" in braoLISo
before her full name, to a s~trannsl,
when a reply is expected. e'P
Typewriter letters are onlv .
MISSILE for business commnn;ao
tions. In such epistles the signa+nu.
should be written by hand
Speak first of the interests Of VIM.
correspondent and afterward -
those which concern yourself.
Never write anything over Won.
own signature of which you miobt
later be ashamed.
Never allow any one to read a lot
ter intended for your eyes alone. u
is intrusted to your honor, even il
not so explicitly stated.
One does not use the word sshonCo
party in an invitation, but saws
81 am asking a few friends, etc."
A letter sent by hand should be
left unsealed, unless a servant be the
messenger.
Business letters should begin with
s'Sir," Dear Sir" or "My Dear
Sir" or if in the plural, with "Gen.
tlemen," and end with "Yours
truly" or Respectfully yours
never Respectfully" alone, emitting
the subject of the sentence. Ladies
are addressed as Madam, " whether
married or Unmarried.-Mrs. Burton
Kingsland, in the June Ladies' Home
Journal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-12
TRAINING A CHILD.

Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
We notice the item from the Stock
man and Farmer on this subject, page
4of issue of The Progressive Farmer
for May 8th. The physician answered
a lady's query when to begin the ed
ucation of her three year old child +.
"Madam, you have lost two ear
already"
The physician was polite and easy
to let the mother begin by learning
first of the two years lost.
Before she was through training
that child she should have had an
inkling that a generation before she
began with the three year old would
have been none too soon. It is said
to require three generations to pro-
duce a scholar.
Prenatal influences are potent in
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-12
The Home Circle.
LITTLE K-INDNEssEs.

If you are toiling up a weary hill,
Bearing a load beyond your strength to bear,
Straining each nerve untiringly, and still
Stumbling and losing foothOld here and there;
And each one passing by would do so much
AS give one upward lift and go their way,
Would not the slight, reiterated touch
Of help and kindness tighten all the day?
There is no little and there is no much;
We weigh and measre and define in vain;
A look, a word, a light, responsive touch
Can be the minister of joy to pain.
A man can die of hunger, walled in gold,
A crumb may quicken hope to stronger breath,
And every day we give or we withhold
Some little thing that tells for life or death.
Susan Coolidge, IN Baltimore Weekly
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-12
CLEANLINESS IN THE COUNTRY.

The sanitary condition of many a
country home is about as bad as it
could be made without adopting the
European plan of maintaining in the
front yard a monumental heap of
manure, and sleeping in the same
house with horses, cattle and hogs
as a means of keeping warm. MANY
farmers do not even attempt to keep
their premises clean, and are neglect
full to a shocking extent of their
water supply. Sad are the penal
ties they pay in doctor bills and
funeral expenses. The very first
thing to be done in making a home
is to provide a supply OF pure water.
This provision should be followed by
an intelligent and persistent effort to
conform to the laws of common
sense and safety in making sanitary
arrangements. Great difficulty will
be found in work of this kind on
many OF d farms n ranches. Inc
necessary improvements may require
a deal of care and labor and some
money. This fact should not deter
any man who is determined to pro-
vide for his family comfortable and
safe place to live. MOI a the
housewife afford to be %negleCtful.
Her duties along this line are quite
as pressing and important as are
those of the husband. Pure air,
pure water and pure food are quite
as necessary in the country az they
are in the city, and there is no reason
why the cleanliness movement should
not interest the farmer Is much as
it interests the man whose home is
in toWn.-Galveston News.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-12
TO SUCCEED WITH LITERATURE.

My advice to struggling fellow
scribblers is if you are blessed with
some talent, a great deal of industry,
and an amount of conceit mighty
enough to enable you to disregard
superiors, equals, and critics, rs well
as the fancied demands of the public,
it is possible, without friends or in
Productions, or bothering celebrities
to read your manuscripts, or Guilt
waiting the camp of 1og-rollers, by
dint of Shaving day and night for
years, during the flower of your
youth, to attain to fame infinitely
less widespread than a prize
fighters, and a pecuniary position
which you might, with far less
trouble, have been born t~o.--Israel
zangwill, in June Success"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-12

Tt is frequently said of a gfeS.
paper, a great mandatory, a gre"D
store: 1T failed two or three times
before it succeeded, but the falluTp'
taught the proprietor how to esssD
lish it firmly at last. June "0u0
cess"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-12

We wish we had the gifts toso
phrase the truth that public opinion
would be educated thereby to char
acterize the id1er as truly disgrace
full as the sheep thief. What a great
service we would be able to render
to the church and to the State How
much of the criminal docket, the
family scandals, the neighborhoOd
broils, is due to the idler, the man
who with little or nothing OF his
own to occupy his mind and his
tongue, loafs about the streets OF
neighborhood peering into other
folks back yards and thrusting his
nose into every heap in reach IN
search of moral filth no one a tell.
He who said "Thou shalt not steal,
said for every idle word that Is
spoken account thereof shall Do
given. Let public opinion imPal0
the idler, the loafer, the stirrer up
of strife, the propagation of unclean
hints and suggestions, as it Wouiu
the sheep thief. Both r disgrace
full and if n should be degraded 50
ought the other. IF both were MADE
to fare alike many a community
would thereby Danish or reform tn0
very worst sources of evi1in them
Lumber Bridge News. &.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-12

Only 81 per cent. of females Is
years of age and over are unmarried,
while among males of the same ages
the proportion is Al per cent. TAX
ing girls and boys between Is and
20 years of age, it is found that one
out of every ten girls is married,
while among the boys the proportion
falls to one in two hundred. These
were the proportions in 1890. Wheth-
er the conditions have changed since
then is a question that can only be
answered by the census of 1900.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-12

Have the moral courage to deny
yourselves, and from the great mass
of printed stuff with which the world
is flooded select such reading only
as the educated, cultured mind
should seek. Don't be ashamed to
say when asked of books: "No, 1
have not read them" I cannot un-
derstand it, yet I am convinced that
it is true that educated, refined
Christian women T reading stuff
in books which if addressed to them
in conversation they would consider
highly insulting.-Dr. Pittinger, in
Sermon to st. Mary's graduates, Raj
eigh.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-12

Mistress of the House-"My good
man, did you ever take a bath?"
Tramp-'No, mum /; 1 never took
anything bigger'n a silver teapot
Sci.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-12

By trying we a easily learn to
adVersity-another mans, I
mean.-Mark Twain.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-12

1t cannot be too often repeated
that it is not helps, but obstacles,
not facilities, but difficulties, that
make men and bring final success
Exchange.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-12

Younghub-aI'n tell vou what 7
do with mine I walk the floor nights
with it. ''-Ex.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-12

Politicus-HThe question is. what
shall we do with our new posses
sions?"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-07-06
Quick and Convenient Schedules East
via Southern Railway.

Passengers from Middle and West
Tennessee points, will find the Southern
Railway to be the most convenient and
desirable route to all eastern cities.
Double daily service is afforded from
Nashville ON following schedules: Leave
Nashville $50 p. m, arrive Washington
second morning at 6:42 a. m, Baltimore
500 a. m, Philadelphia 1915 a. m New
York 12:43 p. m. This train is operated
via Chattanooga and Asheville, and
passes through that beautiful and
scenic portion of North Carolina poeti-
cally termed THE Land Of the Sky "
Elegant Pullman Drawing Room sleep
ing car is operated from Nashville to
New York without change, and dining
car service is afforded east Of Salisbury
Another train leaves Nashville at $3.50
D. m, connecting at Chattanooga with
train leaving Chattanooga at 1000 p.
m, arriving at Washington $50 p. M.
Baltimore ll:35 p m, Philadelphia 2.Jf
a. m, and New York 6.23 a. m, and
carries Pullman sleeping car and day
coaches from Chattanooga 70 Salisbury,
and Salisbury % New York.
For further information apply 70 your
nearest Ticket Agent. q
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-07-06
FOR FALSE
IMPRISONMENT
w. 0. Gordon Sues Lazarus Bros. for
$4,000 Damages.
Claims That He Was Locked Up in
Their Office While in Their EN-
ploy as Bookkeeper.

A suit of peculiar nature was begun
in the Circuit Court at this place last
week by the filing of bill by W. o. Cor
don against Moses and Ben Lazarus,
seeking to recover damages to the
amount of $4,000.
The declaration in the case has not
yet been filed but the facts as given a
HERALD reporter by Mr.. Gordon are
substantially as follows:
Complainant was bookkeeper for the
above mentioned parties, composing the
firm of Lazarus Bros, and had been
for quite while. On frequent occasions
his friends came to him in the Office
where he was at work, to talk to him
upon matters of his or their private
business. His employers complained of
this, and on two occasions they locked
him up in the Office so that he could not
get out and no one could get to him.
He notified them that if the indignity
was repeated he would bring suit against
them. A few days ago they locked him
up again, and he then brought suit,
claiming that he had been imprisoned
without process of law.
W. j. Webster, Esq, is attorney for
the complainant.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-07-06
The Judges Mother.

Mrs. Smith had paper to write for her
club, The subject she had chosen was,
"How can women up.ift the coming
generation?"
She was puzzled to choose the best of
the many ways which suggested them
selves to her. Should it be through art,
lecturing, literature or general reformY
She confided her difficulty to old
Judge Adams, who was sitting with her
husband on the veranda.
81 can only give you my experience, "
he said. IL was one of five brothers.
All we're men who exercised a strong in
fluence in the world, and each one of us
owed his bent and force Of character to
our mother.
sour father died when we were chill
dren. Mother made us what we were.
Until we were gray haired men we went
to her whenever we were in perplexity.
Mother we would say, what is the
right thing to do in this case?' She
knew nothing of law nor politics, but
she always knew the right. l Think
said the judge, gravely, "that my mother
influenced the next generation to her
own more strongly than any other
human being l ever have known"
"She no doubt had powerful mind
and broad educationY" asked Mrs.
Smith.
mo" The Judge smiled. "She got
her hold on us in very simple ways.
remember one of them. When we came
home from school on cold days, mother
was sure to be waiting beside big fire
She was plump little woman, with
merry blue eyes. OFF came our wet
shoes aud stockings; she rubbed the
cold feet warm with her own hands
Then there was always huge brown jug
waiting before the fire with roasted ap-
Piles and sugar and hot water in it, and
| each one had his mug of the delicious
stuff; and we sat and grew warm, and
joked and laughed, and no doubt opened
our little hearts to the dear, wise woman
"Al day long she was our comrade
Nobody came so close TO us as she. We
carried to her all our secrets and
miseries when we were men, as we had
done when we were boys. Two of us
we're ministers, two Legislators who
helped to form the laws of new States,
but doubt if one of US ever took an
important step in life without being in.
fiuenced by the opinion of that one good
woman"
Mrs. Smith looked uncertainty at her
paper, on which she had scrubbed
al fists, lecturers, civil and political re
| formers.
"You think, then, she said, "that wo
mans strongest hold upon the world IL
at home, through love and a Christian
life?"
The judges eyes twinkled. 81 car
tell you only what / know. | cannot
decide for the world" he said.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-07-06
A SERIOUS DILEMMA.

I love her well, and yet--and yet
There comes a sober question
That fills me with vague regret
And troubles my dig. stion.
lis not matter of the heart,
But, in life's wedding weather,
Can we, whose views are so apart,
Live happily together
She's beautiful and fresh and sweet
And altogether charming;
The instant that We CHANGED 10 meet
My symptoms were alarming.
Yet, IL we're happy, ali! fear
Twill be, indeed, marvel
Ny favorite IL Will Shakespeare,
She dotes on "RichaId Carvel.'
She's piquant, yet she's solid. ton;
She knows her moods and lenses;
A witty thing that's straight and true
She oftentimes dispeUses.
Yet all my faith seems but a sham,
And doubts throng harum- scarum
At thought Of how love Charles Lamb,
While she loves David Harum."
The fact is, while she's very good
Al lighter conversation,
She has that fault IT womanhood-
She does lack concentration.
I'm ike an ale that's heavy blent,
While she's a bright Martini;
My mind on history Is bent,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-07-06
Headache tor forty Years.
His English Proudly INDICATED.

After the census mn had jotted
down the answers to the preceding
questions, he asked: DO you speak
the English language?"
Say" replied the gent" who
was under examination, "what kind
of spiel is this you're uncorkin' on
me, anyhow? Me speak the English
language? Well, my boy, if you
think I'm talkin' Choctaw to you,
now, you're up against one of the
emptiest propositions that ever come
down the pike. Say, If the man that
invented the English language
could hear me spiel on my larinx he'd
boiler for help, and that's no Josh
neither. You don't haft to have no
translator to get my meanin' into
your headpiece, do you, huh? Me
talk English! Old man. if I'm
rowin' anything else into you rite
now you give me a map of it on a
roller will you?-Chicago Times
Herald
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-07-06
STORM IN NASHVILLE.
A Veritable Cloudburst Occurs
Large Area Submerged.

NASHVILLE, June 29.-Thunder,
tightening, some wind and torrents of
water handled staid old Nashville in
rough manner last night.
Not only wAre telephones and electric
cars burned out, trees and fences blown
down, but every thing and everybody
were soaked, while water stock three or
four feet in houses and on several streets.
In fact, last nights storm had several
of the earmarks of goodly cloudburst.
Business was brought to s5andstill
and the damage to property will be con-
siderable.
Many narrow escapes from drowning
we're made. About 9 o'clock telephone
message was received at the station
house that people were drowning in
West End like rats and asked for aid.
The patrol wagon, with Lieut.. Cart
wright in charge, FASTENED to the
flooded districts, but found no one in
actual danger. The excitement, how
ever, was great Women were scream
ing for help, while men rushed frantic
ally about trying to move the house
hold goods.
The sewers were unable to hold the
mass of water, and the torrents rushing
from the higher ground soon caused a
food in the bottoms.
The water rose rapidly and soon
covered the streets. 1t crept into the
houses, and at the highest stage, stood
four feet in a number of places In
some of the low quarters, sheets Of water
several feet deep extended over several
hundred square yards. Houses sur
rounded by water were cut off, causing
the terrified inmates to cry for help.
The flood lasted about two hours before
it began to subside.
The street cars we're unable to run on
several of the lines, and on West Cedar
street one car was caught by the food
and half submerged.
AS an example of the ravages of the
storm and ram, McNairy street for
hundred yards north of the railroad was
wiped out of nce-sidewalks, curb
ing and all.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-07-06
Mai. whItthorne Speaks.

In response to calls, Maj. Whit
thorne took the stand. He began by
stating tnat he would not worry his
hearers with long discussion of the
tariff ana other questions, as every
one knew his position upon these
matters. Two years ago, he said,
he was member of the State
militia, and marched with the
soldier boys az the Centennial and
on other occasions. When the call
came for soldiers to fight in the war
with Spain he answered the call of
his country and went to the Philip
pines. There he was made military
Judge over one of the islands, and
endured hardships, which, If he had
to face again to- day, he feared he
would shrink from. In thus serving
his country, he had made many
sacrifices by leaving friends and
loved ones and dropping his CAN
dIdacy for Congress.
Mai. Whitthorne then proceeded
to attack Mr.. Padgett's political
record, charging that he had been a
candidate in years gohe by upon the
"sky-blue" ticket, In opposition to
the regular Democratic ticket, and
that he had atten ded negro meet
ings in the interest of his can
dIdacy that, as member of the
last Legislature, he had voted
against law allowing women to be
elected notaries public, thereby de-
priving many poor girls and women
of a means of earning money; that
ne had cast his vote against the bill
providing for factory and mine in
spector, and that he had also al
lowed himself TO go on record as
present and not voting" when the
bill came up TO reduce the pensions
allowed a certain class Of Exon
federates from $25 to SIS per month (;
furthermo g, the Legislature OF
which Padgett was a member had
gotten things in such tumble in
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-07-06
An Omission.

Chloe, young negro house.ser
Want in an Atlanta family, had
asked permission to attend the we'd
ding of one of her friends. This per-
mission having been granted, Chloe
set forth arrayed like unto a combi-
nation of Solomon and glory and the
Hlies of the field. The next day her
mistress said to her,
well, Chloe, how did the wedding
90 or"
"Oh, la, missus, it was de grand est
weddin' I ever saw! 1t was jess
Nbly! abs an de splendid weddin'
suppah an de bride-oh, de bride |!
She had on de oh, yo' jess ought to
eb seen de flow-longest trail an a
white veil all ovah her, an a wreath
OBJ fiowahs, an oh, it was jess de mos
elegant weddin'"
How did the bridegroom look?"
An expression of initiate disgust
came into the face of Chloe as she
said ceornfully.-
LA, missy, dat gOod-for- nothin',
no-'count niggah nabbah come
h.nighr-Morris Wade IN the July
"NeW Ldpoincott
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-07-06
Summer Jackets.

Separate tailor made jackets are
decidedly among the smartest things
Of the season. They are worn with
all sorts of gowns from cloth to Swiss.
The black taffetas are more generally
worn though various colored silks
are also fashionable. A very fetch
ing one is of gray silk, corded for a
ffnish. They are cut short, just
Earring over the hips aud are rounded
off at the fronts. s. ne, however,
are in Elton style, just to the waist
and point at the front, fastening with
several loops I'd buttons. Quite
young women will wear over their
thin dresses when the evenings are
oool, tatfeta jackets in Oriental tints
with trimmings of point d'Alencon
lace. With white, black and pale
eolored dresses these jackets will be
decidedly attractive and delightfully."-
useful.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-07-06
HOW TO DRESS PROPERLY.
1t is Easy For Women to do This if
the Prophecies Are Observed.

For ball the essential quality of a
gown is it's freshness. The only diff
ference between the dress at ball and
an informal dance is in the degree of
elegance.
For large dinners women reserve their
finest gowns. They are subject to
closer inspection and risk no deface-
ment as at dances.
Gloves are removed at table and re-
sumed in the drawing-room or not, as
one pleases.
Dainty, diaphanous materials are
most becoming to young faces.
Young girls make distinction in their
dress for little dinners by wearing lace
or chiffon sleeves with their w.necked
gowns.
A hostess shows good taste in dress
ing somewhat more simply than her
guests.
1t is reversal of the proprieties when
a mother dresses her daughters in a
more expensive style than herself.
In the street elaborate dressing is in
bad taste.
For church a woman's dress, while
suitable to her station, should be so in
conspicuous as to prove no distraction
to her fellow " orshipers, and never sug-
gest even by it's tastefulness that it has
occupied her thoughts over-much.
A woman's appearance must suggest
that quality expressed in the slang of
the day as ''wel groomed."
For driving and coaching we now
initiate the good sense and practical
IL - ~
gauze parasols, no dainty furbelows, but
garments that fear neither sun, rain nor
dust.-July Ladies' Home journal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-07-06
Apparently a Lucid Interval.

"This," said the man who was
driving the visitors through the
grounds of the lunatic asylum, "is
an inmate who Is incurable, Dut per-
fectly harmless. He is permitted to
wander anywhere he chooses inside
the inclosure."
At this the harmless lunatic, sit
ting on the grass under a tree, with
book In his hand, looked up and
saw them.
"Three big men," he called out,
land one poor horse to pull them!
And it's Sunday, too! Gentlemen,
Id rather be your prayer book than
your horse. 1t isn't worked as
hard!"
And as the party drove on he re-
sumed his book and his ordinary
condition of neutrality-suspicious.
Tribune.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-07-06
"a Grave, Thoughtful Man"

One of our American papers has a
good story of a grave, thoughtful
man." who met petite blonde at
dinner recently:
"Then you must admire Sir Walter
ScOttn' he exclaimed, with sudden
animation. us not his Lady of the
Lake exquisite in it's flo wing grace
and poetic imagery? Is it not"
ut is perfectly lovely, she as
sented, clasping her hands in
ecstasy. II suppose I have read it a
dozen times"
And SCOTS Marmion,'" he con
tinued, with its rugged simplicity
and marvellous descriptions. One
can almost smell the heather on the
heath while peruslng its splendid
pages"
ut is perfectly grand" she muir,
INJURED.
"And SCOTS Emulsion" he con-
tinued, hastily, for a faint suspicion
was beginning to dawn upon him.
Il think" she interrupted, rashly,
"that it's the best thing he ever
wrote