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The St. Johns herald., 1900-02-17
Fight the Bill
Aimed at Western Settlers
 and Home-;nak!ig.

The most pernicious Bil. ever aimed against the set ting up of our great Vest was introduced in congress recently by MT. Foster of Washington. and known as the Bill for Leasing the Pulp lie Lands of the West.
 Some of the objectionable points are:
 1. It gives to one man-the Secretary of Agriculture the right to decide which lands are to be set aside for grazing. 2. When lands are so set a. part, they shall not be open for filing or entry for homes under any of the land laws of the United States while such lease exists. 8. The lands may be leased at one cent per acre. 4. The lease may run ten years.
 There are other very ob- jectionable features, but it is sufficient to see that the tenor of the whole billis to de- prive citizens of the right to establish new homes in the West. The Bill is in direct conflict with the American l. dea of providing homes, and threatens to retard the devel- opment of the West, or even kill the chance of growth for all time. It is solely in the of a few. The man of limited means, whether stockman or farmer, will be left out entirely if this Bill becomes 3 law.
The St. Johns herald., 1900-02-17

Teachers are deprived annually
 of 9 considerable sum of money by
 an oily tongued individual who ap.
 pears on the scene usually between
 terms of school, and by some mys.
 terious cajolery employed by that
 genus agent" peysuades the trus,
 tees to purchase school apparatus, It may be map, one of dozen kinds of chmsts. 8 globe or some other one of the many school de- vices which are good enough when ever needed and properly handled. The harm comes iuwhen the deal is made and there Is no earthly need of the apparatus, or when 1t is not properly used or not used at all. And it is notorious fact that 90 per cent of such apparatl is never used. This shows great outlay of money without any ben eft resulting to the schools.
 It is not cause for censurlng teachers. The we'll qualified in- stuctor will succeed much better hv inc use of blackboard in teach ing the alphabet. spelling, reading, writing or numbers tffan by using any of the so.called labor saving charts ever "palmed off" on an in- nocent(?) school trustee. And it is not likely that teacher who is 80 ignorant that he can't use black board to advantage. will eyer succeed in handling classes before charts. Where then is the good of all this expense? There is not q single thing of good in It for the schools.
 We have seen $60 chart stuffed into a broken window to keep out the cold rather expensive, but it was a success as a window stop per and the agent. good fellow, had given the board a "rakeoff," so no harm was done only the teacher lost that much salary. but he didn't miss it he was making $50 month, 1 tell you! We'll, the pupils lost the money, too. But they wouldn't learn anything under that $50 teacher. And the chart did look lovely, stuffed into the window
 There should be laws enacted by the next legislature looking toward the preservation of school funds from this nefarious traffic in charts and other useless things whereby school terms are shortened and pupils are harmed.
The St. Johns herald., 1900-02-17

Chicago women intend to stand up for their rights. The school teachers of that city have had their salaries cut down once too often for the benefit of other people, and they have formed an association and employed counsel to watch the tax lodging corporations and rich men, and see that they are forced to pay up. The idea might be we'll worth adopting. ng.-Jour-Miner.
The St. Johns herald., 1900-02-17
SToP THE FLOODS Irrigate Millions!

From 1858 down to the present day. said Ex-Gover- nor McCord of Arizona in 8 recent address, the officers of the U. s. Engineer Corps have been advocatin the bull ing of reservoirs as means
 of protection and not for the
The St. Johns herald., 1900-02-17

School has been running for several months in the new school house at Solomonville, but reports are that things have been pretty rocky for some time with some of the teachers. They seemed to be in sort of family quarrel which eliminated in big row last week, and this week new principal and one assistant are in charge. In
 fact, there lave been three princi- pals since that tine, but at last ac-
The St. Johns herald., 1900-02-17
NUMBER a

class of buyers in the worldf and practically at the doors of our factories. Arid Amer ica stands ready to be annex ed. She suggests no foreign complications nor embarrass< ments, no treaties. no army. She is of us, and if she Is asked she will gladly come
The St. Johns herald., 1900-02-17

Our uncle Hezekiah thinks that a dictionary is the most useless of all books ever printed. He says, You can't find out how to spell a word unless you know how to spell it at first" He made this remark after q long and painful search in the ks for the word "kwi-et."
The St. Johns herald., 1900-02-17

Pima county has received $l, ,495 of school money from the territo- rial treasurer. The rate of appor- stionment is 56 cents per capita, on the census of 1899. This gives Apache county $533.6S of territo- rial funds for school purposes.
The St. Johns herald., 1900-02-17

Phoenix Indian school has 75o pupils. The pupils publish pa per, weekly, called the Native American" For some reason we have seen only the first issue.
The St. Johns herald., 1900-02-17

Four illustrious Americans were born in February, each in his own way standing without a peer: Washington. 22d. Daniel Boone, 11th. Lincoln, 12th. Thos. A. Edison, 10th.
The St. Johns herald., 1900-02-17

As far as we can ascertain. the L. D. s. Academy at Thatcher and the Greenwood school in Mohave county are the only ones that planted trees. Arbor Day. If there are others, we would like to hear of them.
The St. Johns herald., 1900-02-17

vY1ANTED---sEyERAL BRIGHT AND HonEs
 w persons to represent us as Mana agers in this and close by counties. Sal ary $9O0 year and expenses. Straight, bona-fde, no more, no less salary. Posi- ton permanent. Our references, any bank in any town. It is mainly office work conducted at home. Reference. Enclose self-addrrssed stamped envel ope. THE DOMINION Company, Dept, 8 ', Chicago.
The St. Johns herald., 1900-02-17
SCHOOL CENSUS.

According to the school census of May, 1899, there were 19:823 census children in Arizona, that fs bet ween the ages of six and eight teen.
 The following table shows the number by counties:
The St. Johns herald., 1900-02-17

we would like to see the report of the County Superintendent of Schools" is a wish expressed in several personal letters received by the editor of this department.
The St. Johns herald., 1900-02-17

"No longer forward nor behind Hook in doubt and fear; But grateful of the good I find The best of now and here"
 Whittier.
The St. Johns herald., 1900-02-17
purpose of irrigation. They
 have claimed that the only way to regulate the volume

way to regulate the volume
 of water and prevent the an nual destruction of property
 if not of life, was to control | the flow of waters at the head
 of the stream from which ii
 came. They have claimed
 that it was practicable to inn
 pound the waters in Spring
 time when the rains come,
 and the snow melts, and al-
 low it to escape gradually in
 stead of in great devastating floods. Now, the advance
 ment of civilization has at
 last made the conservation ot
 these waters not only valua-
 ble, but also necessary for az
 ricultural purposes.
 Much trouble, vexation and great loss have resulted from constructing reservoirs at places without any consid- eration as to whether the To- cation would interfere with other reservoirs or be made useless by reservoirs built Ia- ter on. If constructed with out due regard to the future, it will frequently happen that higher up the catchment area other reservoirs will be built which will prevent the filling of the lower one, rem der it useless and destroy the value of the lands below. By government control this ele- ment of danger would be e. liminated and the works of confining the waters would be constructed on such a scale and with such reference to the future as to benefit the great est number.
 One third of the United States is yet vacant public land, rich in possibilities. Here lies a broad field for statesnaanship in directing the utilization of untouched opportunities, and our suc- cess in handling these prob lens in our midst may nat measure our ability to handle our external affairs.
 The government survey ors agree on there being at least 71, ,000, ,000acres of pub lie land which could be re- claimed and made highly productive by irrigation. These lands are now arid and useless to agriculture. At. $1.25 per acre they would be worth $88, 8,75O, 900, while un- der irrigation at the lowest rate of $10 per acre, they would amount to $710,G00, 600. Should we in time add these Fl, ,000, acres to our arabic domain we would in- our capacity one hun dred per cent for supporting a farm population and at the same time annex 8 vast tax able property.
 Commercial expansion has been the cry of the declining hours of the 18th century. We have been, and are today reaching out into the markets of the Orient for new fields to sell our manufactures and are sending men into every part of the world to find more trade for the products of A.
The St. Johns herald., 1900-02-17

Preventioa is better than cure, Keep your blood pure, your appetite good and your digestion perfect by laking Hoods Sarsaparilla.
 Hoods Pills act harmoniously witfs Hoods Sarsaparilla, gentle, efficient
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-09
~Children's Column.
CHRISTOPHER GREEN.

CussshOpper Green is a comic chap,
He lives on the best of fare;
pright little jacket and trousers and
cap,
These are his summer wear.
or+ in the meadows he loves to go,
Paving away in the sun.
rs hopperty, ~skipperty, high and
low,
summers the time for fun.
Grasshopper Green has a dozen wee
boys;
And. soon as their legs grow strong,
Egcl of them joins in his frOlicsome
joys,
Singing his merry song.
Under the hedge in a happy row,
soon as the day is begun,
It, hopperty, skipperty, high and
SUMMERS the time for fun.
Grusshopper Green has a quaint little
house,
It's under the hedge so gay,
Grandmother Spider, still as a
mouse,
Watches him over the way.
Gladly he's calling the children, 1
know,
Out in the beautiful sun,
It's hopperty, skipperty, high and
low,
summers the time for fun.
-Sn1pcta6
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-09
HI sILENCED THE DEVIL.

If you find yourself getting very
misery, begin to scatter, like a
wealthy farmer in New York State l
heard of. He was a noted miser,
but he was converted. Soon after,
a poor man who had been burned out
and had no provisions came to him
for help. The farmer thought he
would be liberaHand give the man a
ham from his smOke-hOuse. On his
way to get it, the tempter whispered
to him:
Give him the smallest one you
have"
He had a struggle whether he
would give a large or a small ham,
but finally he took down the largest
he could find.
You are a fool" the devil said.
IF you don't keep STILL" the
farmer replied, Il will give him
every ham 1 have in the smoke
house. D. L. Moody.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-09
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMERS STATE
PLATFORM.
Four months public schools.

-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-
nails.
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
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, 1900-10-09
Christian Life Column,

THE PRAYEB

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
Starting forth on life's rough way,
Father, guide them;
Oh, we know not what of harm
May betide them!
Meath the shadow of thy wing,
Father, hide them;
Waking, sleeping, Lord, we pray,
Go beside them.
When in prayer they cry to thee,
Do thou hear them;
From the stains of sin and shame
Do thou clear them;
Mid the quicksands and the rocks
Do thou steer them;
In temptation, trial, grief,
Be thou near them.
Unto thee we give them up;
Lord, receive them,
In the world we know must be
Much to grieve them
Many striving oft and strong
To deceive them;
Trustful, in thy hands of love
We must leave them.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-09
THE PRAYER OF THE UNFoRG1vING.

The late Augustus Hare wrote the
Prayer of the U~nfOrgiving Man -
30 God, l have sinned against thee
many times l have been often for
getful of thy goodness ;Ihave broken
thy laws l have committed many
secret sins. Deal with me, l beseech
thee, O Lord, even as 1 deal with my
neighbOr. He hath not offended me
One-hundreth part as much as l have
offended thee, but [ cannot forgive
him. He has been very ~ungrateful
to me, though not a hundreth part
as ungrateful as l have been to thee,
yet 1 cannot overlook such base in
gratitude. Deal with me, 0 Lord,
l beseech thee, as 1 deal with him.
| remember and treasure up every
little trife which shows how i'll he
has behaved to me. Deal with me,
[ beseech thee, O Lord, as Ideal with
him. selected.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-09
FROM K COUNTY.

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"
Fraternally,
T. M. FRIZELL, Sec'y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-09
Miscellaneous.
MAxIMs WORTH REMEMBERING.

The following from Ebert Hub
oard's Little Journeys" are worth
being treasured in the memory of
every boy who wishes to make a
man of himself:
"Whenever you go out of doors,
draw the chin in, carry the crown of
your head high, and fill the lungs to
the utmost drink in the sunshine /;
greet your friends with a smile, and
put soul into everyihandclasp. Do
not fear being misunderstood and
never waste a minute thinking about
your enemies. Try to fix firmly in
your own mind that you would like
to do, and then without violence. of
direction you will move straight to
the goal.
Fear is the rock on which we
split, and hate is the shoal on which
many a barque is stranded. When
we are fearful, the Judgement is as
unreliable as the compass of a ship
whose hold is full of iron ore when
we hate, we have unshipped the rud-
der and if we stop to mediate on
what the gOssips say, we have al
lowed a hawser to befOul the screw.
picture in your mind the able,
earnest, useful person you desire to
be, and thought you hold is hourly
transforming you into that particu-
lar individual. Thought is supreme,
and to think is often better than
to do.
"Preserve a right mental atti-
tude-the attitude of courage, frank
ness and good cheer. To think
rightly is to create.
1.-The only way to secure friends
is to be one. And before you are fit
for friendship you must be able to
do without it. The man who Graves
friendship, and yet desires a self
conferred spirit more, will never lack
for friends. If you would have
friends, cultivate solitude instead of
society"
There is a good deal in the above
worth thinking over. Nothing in
jures the prospects of a young man
more than the development of a
revengeful spirit. 1t never pays to
be a good halter nor does it pay to
seek revenge. The man who under
takes to revenge his own wrongs
thereby shows his lack of faith in
the moral order of the universe, for
it has been fOreOrdained long before
the foundations of the world were
laid, that sins of men will find them
out and their iniquities will be
visited upon their own heads, and
the man who undertakes to do the
of faith in the wisdom of the Su-
preme Ruler and is very liable to
suffer himself in his interference
with the plans of Providence. Do
your own work nobly, hopefully,
and cheerfully be a sublime Optim-
ist. The Lord will look after the
fellows who undertake to wrong you.
It is much easier to give this ad-
vice than to follow it, but in this, as
in about anything else, who wills
can, and the sooner he fOrgets his
rivals, his enemies and defenders,
the quicker the world will forget
them.-WallaCe Farmer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-09
HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT.

ION a cold winter evening"" said
DR.. T. L. Cuyler, recently, 1 made
my first call on a rich merchant in
New York. As 1 left the door and
the piercing gale swept in, 1 said ::
What an awful night for the poor =
He went back, and, bringing to me
a roll of bank bills, said: Please
hand these for me to the poorest
people you know After few days
[ wrote to him the grateful thanks
of the poor whom his bounty had re-
lieved, and, added: How is it that
a man so kind to his fellOw-creatures
has always been so unkind to his
Savior as to refuse him his hearth
That sentence touched him to the
ore He sent for me to come and
talk with him, and speedily gave
himself to Christ. He has been a
most useful Christian ever since.
But he told me 1 was the first person
who had talked to him about his
soul in twenty years. One hour Of
pastoral work did more for that man
than the pulpit effort of a lifetime"
Young pastors, don't neglect the
hand-tO-h hand and fa~ce-to-face COM
bat. Be diligent seekers of individ-
ual souls. Watch your Opportuni-
ties.-EX.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-09
HE PRAYED HARD.

An old man in Georgia named Jack
Balwin, having lost his hat in an
old dry we'll one day, hitched a rope
to a stump and let himself down. A
wicked wag named Neal came along
just then and, quietly detaching a
bell from Balwin's old blind horse,
approached the well bell in hand and
began to ting-a-ling.
Jack thought the old horse was
coming and said: Hang the old
blind horse! He's coming this way
sure, ard he amt got no more sense
than to fall in on me. Whoa, Ball ~
The sound came closer.
"Great Jerusalem, the old blind
fool will be right on top of me in a
mint! Whoa, Ball! Whoa, haw,
Ball! :"
Neal kicked a little dirt on Jacks
head, and Jack began to pray:
ooh, Lord, have mercy on-whOa,
Ball "a poor sinner-I'm gone now ;
whoa, Ball. Our father who art in
whoa, Ball !-hallowed be thy-gee,
Ball, what'll 1 do!-name. Now I
lay me down to sl-ge, Bali" Just
then in fell more dirt. ooh, Lord,
if you ever intended to do anything
for me-back, Ball! whoa! Oh,
Lord, you know I was baptized in
Smiths mill dam-whoa, Ball, no
up murder whoa -
Neal could hold in no longer, and
shouted a laugh which might have
been heard two miles, which was
about as far as Jack chased him
when he got out.-Atlanta Journal.
"Pa, did you know ma long before
you married hep" mo, my boy,
didn't know her until long after. .
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-09
N. C. Tobacco Growers Association.

President-J. Bryan Grimes, Grimesland,
Vtce-Prestdent-J. B. Phillips, Battleboro,
n. c..
NC
Secretary-T. B. Parker, HilIsbOrO, Nc.
Treasurer-W. B. Upchurch, MOrrisville, n. c..
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Col. r. w. Wharton, Washington, n. c.; DR.
R. H. Spetght, 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. T. F. Toon, LumbertOn, N. c.; DR.,
Elias FuIp, Fulp, n. c.; w. L. Bouldin.
ArchdaIe, n. c..
N. C. Agricultural Experiment Station.
Director-George T. Winston, West Raleigh,
NC.
AgricuIturist-Benj. Irby, West Raleigh, NC.
Horticulturist-W. F. Massey, West Raleigh,
Nc.
Professor of Animal H~usbandry-J. NJ. John
son, West Raleigh, n. c..
N. c.. Crop Pest Commission.
S. L. Patterson, Chm'n, Raleigh; DR.. Geo. I.
Winston, Raleigh; J. Van Lindley, Pomona.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-10-09
A TINY -HOUsEKEEPER.

U0 among the rafters 1 found a
charming little home. Come and
look at it.
oh. a spiders homer'
No: not really her home this
widespread web is her trap, her
hunting net, fishing seine, but not
Madame Spiders home.
Look back of the web. Do you
see Il funnel of white silk, tightly
woven and firmly fastened down?
That IS Madame Spiders home-her
bedroom, dining room, nursery-her
home.
i think the spider is the ugliest
insect that there is" says one. But
parudon me, the spider is not an in
sect ut all. All insects have six legs
the spider has eight every insects
body Is in three parts-head, chest,
hinder parts; the spider has but two
parts to her body. The spider is
something like an insect, something
like a crab or crustacean-in fact, it
Is claSsed of late among the crusta-
ceans. Its covering is not built of
rings like that of insects, but is a
tough skin approaching to the cover
ing Of some of the shrimps. Let us
look ut the life of Madame Spider.
~WAy not say Mr.. Spider?" you
ask.
1t Is Madame Spider who is the
usual spinner, house builder, care
taker. In nine cases out of ten the
web is made and inhabited by the
mother spider alone, except when
her children are little. Mrs. Spider
Is generally on bad. terms with Mr..
Spider. She has an ugly habit of
biting off his legs so that in general
he has only three or four of his eight
LETT him. He then goes into a re
treat among roots, or under stones,
to wait until new legs grow. In this
power to regrOw a lost member the
spider is like the crab.
How does Madame Spider build
her web? The material is wound on
little spinnerets or wheels within her
body. She attaches the end of a line
Of her silk to some object from
which she means to begin her web,
and she draws it forth slowly, guild
Ing and twisting it with her feet. In
making her trap web she makes the
long lines or rays first. They cross
u the center. Then she begins with
The circular or cross lines, the outer
one first. The exterior three or four
four are widest apart as she nears
the center the lines are closer to-
-ether. Finally the web is finished
and madame is at the center.
Now let US sprinkle on the web a
little bit or two of broken scraps of
straw or leaves. The line reports
disturbance, and up comes the house
mistress. The spider is exceedingly
neat; the very least litter on her
web is a prOvocatiOn to her at once
She takes hold of the web with one
o. her hands and shakes it gently, to
shake off the refuse. If it still clings
She shakes harder. Now, if still on
the web, she resolves to sacrifice a
part Of the whole; a more rough
Shake may bring down the entire
web, so she carefully cuts out the
~oiled portion, using her jaws as "a
pair of scissors. When the Objec-
tIonable part falls out she carefully
mends the web, matching the threads
as beautifully as the most expert
seamstress.-EX.