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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-02-15
Legal Notices.
NOTICE
TO INSURANCE AGENTS.

Sea ed proposals will be received by the
Trustees Of Iowa Co. Asylum and Superin-
tendents Of the Poor, on or before March LIST,
1909, lbids to be opened on the 9TH OF March
for The Insurance on three two-stOry bpick
buildings with solid walls tin roofs and
brick partitions, used for asylum purposes,
and one brick building in process of erection,
for poor house, with same kind of walls and
roof: also on furniture in bui dings, aud on
two-story frame barn. sllo and sheds, aun
dry shop, slaughter no Sc, aud stock and
implements therein, amounting 10 $50, 900
or $4,000. said buildings are protected by
local water works, With fire hydrauts out
side and several hose connections inside
with hose connectsd NJ an times Some OF
he buIlclng~ are now insured and inSur-
Ance hereby proposed for shall take effect
after expiration of present policies, IN ess
these pO icies can he canoe led at d profit o
the county, In " ich event all The property
viii be insured at aece We reserve the
right u reject any or Il bids, but will ct
the coutrac 10 the lowest satisfactory bid
der state company or companies YOU pro-
pose insurance Ia with bid. Address T., j.
PERKINS, ~upt., D1dgerillC, Wis, aud en-
dur~e on envelope Sid for Insurance
SWtNEHARr,
j. BAILEY,
DLE SrEENSLAND,
Trustees OF Asylum and Supts. OF Poor.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-02-15
rnmlnN,s snecch.

Sue lwho has just been asked to play
something ON the pianol-I really can
play anything
Tommy But say. Sue why don't
you play that piece you spoke TO ma
about:
Sue-Wbat piece?
Tommy WAY that one you told us
TO ask you TO play when we had COM
pany cause YOU knew II hetcr'n any
OF the others 1 forget the name.
Then Tommy was sent 10 bed -iAa--
sas City Independent
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-02-15

Mrs. Crow8er has been president %
your club a long time
"Ncs, none Of Us could call ler to ot
der, So we decided we might as wei. ~
her regulate the rest Of us. Chicago
Ennnrl
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-02-15

Children who are troubled with
Worms are pale in the face. fretful
by spells, restless in sleep, have blue
rings around their eyes, bad dreams
variable appetite and pick the nose
WHITES CREAM NERMIFuGE will
kill aud eXpel these parasites
Price 25cents.-Eastman d Meserole
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-02-15

Chicago journal: Standard OH
stock is paying dividends at the rate
OF so per cent "a year. If the STAN
dard people want their fleet subsi-
died they ougbt to be permitted to
subsidize It themselves.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-02-15

GOV. TAYLOR has said that he IS
willing 10 submit his claims to the
arbitration of any three men APP
pointed by the supreme Court of the
United States. which is liberal in
him. for he was uuquestionably
elected Governor by the people of
Kentucky.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-02-15

THE Clark and Quay cases are
doing a great work. They are con-
vincing the people that the system
Of electiug our senators by a popular
vote is the only thing that will save
the republicans Of the t. :. SENATE.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-02-15
4 Blow TO superstition.

"Jimmy's rabbit got drowned IN OF
bathtub"
Goodness, Didn't he have his leis
hind leg with him r = Indianapolis
Journal
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-02-15

GEN. RusK's family is now located
in its own new and handsome home
at Nlroqua. Blaine, the younger sou,
Is in the local bank which his hon
ored fathers reputation helped to
make strong, and, with his sister,
Miss Mary, aud his good mother, is
part Of household in which the
people of Wisconsin must ever take
moro IhNn pn-.lng lnterost.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-02-15

Oshkosh Northwestern: whether
Ex-Governor Peck's appointment as
state university regent was De-
cause Of his large experience III
dealing with bad boys, is not author
itatively announced.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-02-15
CUBAN CHILDREN SCHOOL.

| Inter Ocean.
one of the most encouraging fea-
| lures of the reconstruction of Cuba
under American supervision is the
progress made by the public schools
Superintendent Frye now reports
that after three months work 1873
primary schools have been opened,
with a total attendance of 100000
children. He estimates that by May
the attendance will reach 10000,
and that If money can be found to
provide buildings and teachers next
fall will see nearly every child of
school age enrolled.
The progress made with the schools
has done much to promote better
feeling ON the part Of the public to-
ward the American government.
Many newspapers strongly opposed
the appoiutmentofan American sup
erintcudout TO control and improve
the school system. These same pa
pers are now praising Mr.. Frye's
work and the American methods of
education. and are asking that more
English he taught in the schools.
Tho enormous percentage of Hitter
acy In Cuba makes the work Of the
schools of particular Importance to
the future of that island. With the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-02-15

THE southern states are getting
their share Of the prosperity against
which they iguorantly voted. All
the states producing cotton, and the
states consuming all bat 26,9l3 bales
out OF l,.oOO2G bales of Gotten con-
-umed at the south last year, voted
against Mckinley, but "the advance
agent" has brought better times to
them as we'll a. 10 Others, larger
wages better profits and happier
homes.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-02-15

Whitewater Register; There is a
growing feeling throughout the state
that mistake was made ia creating
a commission Of this kind (the wis
con-in State FAX Commission TO
continue forten years. \ half or a
third OF the tine ought apparently
to be sufficient for three competent
men who are paid $4,000 year,
which Observation-Disclosures
t. study the question extensively
and formulate a., perfect a code OF
system a- cuutd be- desired.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02

When sending your renewal, be sure to give
exactly the name on label and pOstOthce TO
which the copy OF paper you receive is sent.
Address all business correspondence to and
make money orders payable tO"THE PROGRESS
sIVE FARMER, RALEIGH. N. c." and not to any
Individual connected with the paper.
RENEWAIS-The date opposite your name
on your paper, or wrapper. shows to what time
YOUR subscription is paid. Thus l Jan. 700,
, shows that payment has been received up to
Ian. L, 1900; l Jan. OI, to Jan. l, 1901, and so on.
Two weeks are required after money IS re
ceived before date, which answers tor a receipt,
can be changed. If not properly changed within
two weeks after money is sent notify US.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
POLITICAL HATRED.

There are many people who do not
realize to what extent hatred and
hard feelings of neighbOr for neigh
Dor, kinsman for kinsman, and
Christian for Christian, engendered
during the late State campaign, are
still doing the devils work in many
localities. It is a shame upon our
State that we have SO many little
narrOw-minded voters, who allow
the bosses to use them as cats paws
and who, with all the little brains
and mind they have, believe that no
one can honestly differ with them.
Even the political leaders who use
them hold such creatures in con-
tempt. AS Mr.. D. L. Cove said in a
recent issue of the Southport Stand
ard:
$50 many good men r almost
wrought up to the fighting point by
those bosses, when, if the bosses
could e you fight over their lies,
they would only laugh to e what
fools we mortals be-"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
ITO HAVE AND TO HOLD"

The best selling book Of the year
is Miss Mary JohnsOn's "TO Have
and to Hold" We read it with I'M
bounded interest when it was run
ming serially in the Atlantic Monthly
and predicted a great sale for it
when it should appear in book form.
AS a Southerner we are proud of the
success of this young Southern wo-
man. It is encouraging, too, that
this, the seasons mostpopular book,
is clean and popular throughout. AS
the New York Christian Advocate
says "Lofty in sentiment, pic
turesque yet restrained in language,
exquisitely refined in feeling, yet
t%hrobbing with the most robust and
virile energy, it is altogether re.
markable."
Miss Johnston-a native of Vir-
ginia, by the way. in which State
she lays the scene of her books
not yet out of her twenties and the
South expects vel greater things of
her.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The North Carolina Baptist has an
excellent article in its issue of last
week urging the next legislature to
provide for a Board of PardOns to
share with the Governor the weighty
responsibility and strain imposed by
the one-man p~ardoning power. The
Progressive Farmer endorsed this
suggestion some months ago and we
hope that the next legislature will
takO action in the matter. Georgia,
we believe, inaugurated this yefOrm
a year or more ago.
Reorganization is the paramount
subject for the October county meet
ings. Let all that take an interest
in the Order and can do so attend
these meetings and by suggestion
and counsel assist in p~erfecting plans
for the Alliance revival. But unless
a good, influential man is selected as
organizer, it is useless to begin work.
Better wait than choose a man whose
record is such as to excite suspicion
or prejudice against the Order. From
whatever party he may be chosen,
let him not be d man who has not
mixed his politics with his Alliance
work. We do not think that any
county is likely to choose a man of
the kind to which we have referred,
but occasionally make an attempt to
lead in Alliance matters and it is
well to inform them in advance of
the State Alliance sentiment.
The September Success" prints
the last article ever written for the
press by the late millionaire c.. P.
Huntington. 1t is therefore of
special interest. The following
paragraph from the article is signif-
cant: The sons of farmers are for
saking the fields because the cities
are more attractive to them. 1t
seems to me that, slowly, but surely,
there is growing up a stronger and
stronger wall of caste with good hon
est labor on one side and frivolous
gentility on the other. We seem to
be. fast ~OutgrOwing those things
which, when our fathers lived, were
called sterling qualities but now
are called follies, or work that a
gentleman should not do as if al
honest work were not honorable
work. It would be one of the most
unfortunate things in the world il
the present generation of youne
people should widen that wall o.
build it higher, for so to do would
be to render a return to old-fashioneC
principles more difficult"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
".THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATION

"'THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATION
A INTERESTS OF DUB PEOPLE PARA
MOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
OF STATE POLICY, is the motto Of The
Progressive Farmer, and upon this
platform it shall rise or fall. Serving
no master, ruled by no faction, cir
cumscribed by no selfish or narrow
policy, its aim will be to foster and
promote the best interests of the
whole people of the State. 1t will be
rue to the instincts, traditions and
history of the Anglo-Saxon race. On
all matters relating specially to the
great interests it represents, it will
speak with no uncertain voice, but
will fearlessly the right defend and
tmpartially the wrong condemn
From Col. Folks Salutatory, Feb.
10. 1886
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02

than the farmers. Yet they have
themselves to blame mainly, for itio
their votes that will send the law
yers to the National Capitol, Wa
hear it on every side that farmers
must have sufficient representation
in Washington Of their own fellow.
to make known farmers needs and
exert the power that will effect leois
lation, but farmers will nominate
lawyers and fall all over them
selves" in their efforts to secrra
election of the lawyer candidates.
The claim is made that the Farm
ers' National Congress has more in
fuence with Congress than any other
agricultural association. This NAV
be true, yet the actual results have
been so meager that the writer who
has been a delegate nearly every
year, beginning with 1890, has failed
to find the actual c~rystalized IegisIa-
ton resulting directly from action of
the Farmers Congress. We want
$40, 600, 900 appropriated the coming
winter for free rural mail delivery.
we want cleo taxed out of the realm
of genuine butter we wantdomestic
parcels post we want better rural
schools we want the Morrill, and
Hatch funds strictly applied to agri-
cultural and mechanical education
and experiment work and there are
some other things we want. Yet
how far will farmers petitions re-
ceive attention? They may get into
committee rooms. Farmers will saw
we have not competent men among
farmers to represent us. A man who
has had 4 years in an agricultural
college and has kept up his general
reading afterward Of course is not
as competent rs the young fellow
who has taken the 2 years course of
law. The latter can talk" yet the
first probably has a grasp of affairs
IN general that would astonish the
latter,-W. S. Delano, Custer Co.,
Neb.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02

can almost fall asleep and keep on
dOingit.
''This last class is very apt to take
the town or city fever. To them the
city seems high life, fine houses, nice
lawns, lighted and paved streets,
people we'll dressed, working in
shady offices, crowds on the streets,
bands of music, pretty girls,
churches, theatres, gaines, society,
comfort. They do not know and
cannot be made to believe,
except by experience, that every
city has a Whitechapel where vice
reigns supreme, and which no city
in the world has been able to control
fully, much less entirely suppress.
They do not know the careworn faces
filled with failures, tailings, so to
speak, which the town has hidden
out of the way-faces that look ont
of the windows on the back street"
There's just one thought here that
Mr.. Wallace does not emphasize
strongly enough. We refer to the
independence of the farmer and the
democracy of the farm, c~ontrasted
with the townsman's position and
the kingly system that prevails in
town.
The long and short of it is that the
country is democratic, the town
a~ristOcratic.
In the country each man is his
own master.
In the town, you r either boss
or servant-not likely your mas
ter unless master of some ,One else.
In the town the few plan the many
execute. The few command the
many obey. This you will find in
the case of the great merchant and
his clerks the factory manager and
his employees, and i'll business
generally as distinguished from
farming. The town needs many ser
wants and it needs h few rulers.
This IS why the town, rather IMAM
the country, has the wretchedly
poor and the enormously wealthy.
The country will always contain the
great middle class.
To sum up for him who loves the
farm and who is willing to give it
the same attention he would give one
of the learned professions, success
and independence are as certain as
in other vocations, while the town
still calls for many servants and a
few masters, for the few born rulers
of men and the many needed to serve
thnnn
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
A DIFFICULT QUESTION.

EDITORS PROGRESSIVE FARMER -
Knowing that The Progressive Far
mer is a good paper for answering
hard questions as we'll as for giving
instructions in all departments of
profitable living, l send you the fol
lowing difficult problem for solution {:
We have a brood SOW that was bit
ten by a mad dog. We gave her
elecampane root and sweet milk,
which is said to be a sure cure for
hydrophia. She has not gone mad.
She is with pig. Now for questions :
1st. Suppose she does not go mad.
Will it be sefe to make pork of her
a few years hence?
2nd. Will it be safe to raise the
pigs and eat them, provided no signs
of hydrophobia are seen before
killed? R. L. B.
Rowan Co., N. G.
answered by Corresponding Editor
Emery.)
1. Yes.
2. Yes.
Reasons for these replies may be
found in noting that few dogs which
are thought to be mad, I. e., have
rabies, are really afflicted with this
dread disease. r. l.. B. has not
given reasons, or facts, to prove that
the dog which bit the SOW really was
rabid in the sense of having the
specific disease known as hydro
phobia hence tits logically probable
hat the dog did not have real rabies,
in which case there is no very great
danger of the sow's developing the
disease from the dog bite.
Again, if the dog were really rabid,
I. e., had hydrophobia and bit the
SOW, she would either develop rabies,
if enough of the virus of the disease
were injected into her blood, or the
medicine destroyed it's activity in
in one case or in case of it's lying dor
mant for several years it could hard
ly survive cooking. But if eaten
raw it would not be likely to attack
the host while passing the digestive
tract after years of dormancy in the
tissue of the first subject. We are
skeptical about the dogs disease,
but if it were real rabies we should
not hesitate to eat his pork and beans.
if an opportunity occurred, should
R. L. B. tell US this pork came out of
the SOW or one of her progeny, even
to the third or fourth generation.
f. e. E.
IL taxes moral courage and good
mental fibre tO rooL .o,-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
FARMERS AS LEGISLATORS.

Although nearly 40 States elect
local legislators this fall, several of
whom will elect U. S, Senators and
all the States will elect Congressman,
how many actual farmers will be
sent to Washington? The ~probabili-
ties are that the number a be
counted on ones fngures. Farmers
all over the country complain against
Congressional extravagance-legisla-
ton in favor of all other interests
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
BELGIAN HAREs AGAIN.

Readers of The Progressive Farmer
will remember that we reviewed a
Raleigh Post article in these columns
last spring. The receipt of an illus
trated circular booming the hare
business, closely followed by a re-
mort that the bubble has burst and
that the fears which led to the in
ouiry by the editor of The Morning
Post are likely to be realized in Cali
fornia, reals the subject so wildly
that we give a few moments more to
it's consideration. Undoubtedly a
few hares kept in confinement and
fed from scraps or garden waste can
furnish a family with some cheap
meat, but as a business speculation
1t has had it's parallel in tho Dutch
bulbs and many other things.
One of the absurd features of this
business is that in raising a little
timid hare for a few pounds Of meat
that style and ticking, the color
of the outer ends Of the hair, con-
trolls the scare and helps to carry the
prices of breeding stock to hundreds
of dollars. The circular names 81, 900
as having been paid for a buck Dex-
ter, score SO ''the highest sum ever
paid for a single specimen" The
circular continues:
IA bona-fde pedigree accompanies
every animal sold by this firm. We
guarantee every hare to be as we
represent it. For a short time we
offer you reliable breeding does,
mated to either Belgian King or Lord
Britain, Jr., at from $6 to $40 each.
Standard markings of the doe make
a difference in their value"
The Country Gentleman publishes
a Los Angeles, Cal, letter from an
exchange which starts out with {:
LESS than a year ago the whole
State was Belgian hare mad! K X
Now the bubble has burst and the
agricultural and horticultural inter
ests of Southern California are
threatened with a Belgian hare pest.
The effort to create a demand for the
hare for food purposes was not sue
cessful and the present market prices
are considerably less than is required
for feed alone and the industry is
prOfitless and d~iscOuraging. 1t is
for this reason that many breeders
who have become Disguised at the
almost utter lack of market for their
hares are secretly, and in some in
stances openly turning them loose to
forage on the country, in order to
avoid the expense Of feeding them"
Let US hope the fecundity of the
Belgian hare in California and the
Southern Stairs has been slightly
overdrawn, and that it will be as
subject to disorders in rainy seasons
as the common rabbit is said to be,
and that the fears of the pessimists
will not in this case be realized.
F. E. E.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
GEORGE WASHINGTON ON PARTISAN,
SHIP.

Let me take a more comprehensive
view, and warn you in the most
solemn manner against the banefuI
effects Of the spirit of party gener-
ally. This spirit, unfortunately, is
inseparable from our nation, having
it's root in the strongest passions of
the human mind. It exists under
different shapes in all governments,
or less stifed, controlled ORE
pressed but in those Of the popular
form it is seen in it's greatest rank
ness, and is truly their worst enemy.
The alternate domination Of one
faction over another, sharpened by
the spirit Of revenge natural to
party dissensiOn, which in different
ages and countries has perpetuated
the most horrid enormities, is itself
a frightful despotism. But this
leads at length to a more formal and
permanent despOtism. The disOr-
ders and miseries which result, grad
ually incline minds of men to seek
security and repose in the absolute
power of an individual and sooner
or later the chief Of some prevailing
faction, more able and more FORUM
ate than his competitors, turns this
disposition to the purposes Of his
w elevation, on the ruins of public
liberty.
Without looking forward to an ex-
tremity of this kind, which never
theless ought not to be entirely out
of sight, the common and continual
mischiefs Of the spirit of party are
sufficient to make it the interest and
duty of wise people to discourage
and restrain it. It serves always to
distract the public council, and en-
feeble the public administration. 1t
agitates the community with i'll
founded j~ealOusies and false alarms
kindles the animosity of n party
against the other, foments occasion
ally riots and instruction. 1t opens
the door to foreign influence and
corruption, which find a facilitated
access to the government itself
through the channels of party pas
sions. Thus, the policy and the VIII
Of one country are subject to the
nO1icV and will OF another.
There is an opinion that parties III
free countries are useful checks upon
the administration of the govern
ment, and serve to keep alive the
spirit of 1ihnrtT. This within certain
limits is probably true, and IN gov
ernments of a mOnarchlcaI ca9V
patriotism may look with lnu4I-
gence, if not with favor, upon sHo
spirit Of party. But in those oL @
popular character, in governments
purely elective, it is a spirltnOttoD W
encouraged. From their natural G0I
dency, it is certain that there VIII d.
ways be enough of that spirit 10
every salutary purpose and tnGIo
being constant danger of excess W.
effort ought to be, by force OF put -
opinion, to mitigate and assuaS0
A fire not to be quenChed DuI
mands a uniform vigilance 70 ~
vent it from bursting into a 1anIt1Td
lest, instead of warming, 1t silob his
consume.-Gen. Washington IL
Farewell Address.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02
EDITORIAL.

The Progressive Farmer will be
sent to any address from now till
January 1, 1900, for % cents. You
can't keep posted without it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-02

Men of all parties are asked to contribute, the
editors assuming no responsibility whatever
for opinions expressed. If you find an article
advocating views of which you do nOtapprOve,
reply to it. We wish TO get both sides of every
question. Avoid personalities and partisan at
tacks: discuss measures, not men; principles,
not parties.