The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

votes much space to fashions and
household matters. Mrs. Larned,
the well-known authority on cook
cry, contributes timely articles. Two
notable features are a double-page of
Southern beauties and a beautiful
reproduction of a painting by Alma
Tadema. Published by The Crowell
& Kirkpatrick Co, Springfield, Ohio
one dollar a year ten cents aocopy
sample copy free.
In the concluding paper of his
popular series on Careers of Danger
and Daring" in St. Nicholas Cleve-
land Moffett describes the excitement
and perils attendant upon the life of
the Locomotive Engineer" and
especially those who run the limited
expresses at a cost of nervous energy
little appreciated by the travelling
public. Nothing in st. Nicholas,
however, is more interesting than it's
departments, "Books and Reading, "
"Nature and Science" and the est.
Nicholas League" These both en-
terrain and instruct.
With the installment published in
in the October magazine number of
The Outlook, Mr.. Jacob A. Riiss au-
photography "The Making of an
American" comes to an end. With
the single exception of the autobi-
ography of Booker It. Washington,
Cup from Slavery" also published
in The Outlook, no recent autobiog-
raphical story has been read with
more interest and entertainment.
"The Making of an American" will
this month appear in book-form.
($3 year. The Outlook Company,
287 Fourth Avenue, New York;
The October number of "The
North Carolina Booklet" is written
by the Hon. Heriot Clarkson, of
Charlotte. The subject is "The
Hornets Nest" The history of the
famous Mecklenburg Declaration of
independence with it's stormy and
dramatic setting, Mr. Clarkson tells
in a manner as original as it is CON
vinoing and sincere, strengthening
the truth of this oft-disputed history
and tracing the characteristics of
the men who framed 1.-THE sturdy,
brave and honest Scotch Irish stock,
the truthful and fearless old Hugue-
not settlers.
Little is thought and less ia known
by the average man concerning the
lives and aims of the 400, 900 men
and boys who delve under the sur
face of the earth in places of dark
ness and danger, when hardly a day
goes by without recording the death
by falls of rock, coal or slate of
more than one unfortunate miner.
An article on this subject at once
impartial and vitality interesting is
contributed to The Cosmopolitan for
October by John Mitchell, President
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea, whom every one recalls as the
man who organized the miners and
carried through to a successful ter
mination the great anthracite strike
of 1900.
In the October Review of Reviews
there appears an unsigned apprecia-
ton of President Theodore Roose-
welt. The writer regards Mr.. Roose-
Welt, not as a political accident of the
Tyler. Fillmore johnson Arthur GLASS
but as a man picked out in advance
for the Office to which he now u
ceeds under the most painful and un-
dreamed-of conditions. In the
writer's view, the spirit of the origi.
nal constitutional provision regard
ing the Vice Presidency has been,
for the time being, restored, since
the second choice of the electors for
President was the man whom they
na med for the Vice Presidency, and
who now, as the result of the assas-
sins act, becomes Presio ent. In
other words, Theodore Roosevelt
was in fact his party's second choice
for the Presidency in 1900.
The Century for October covers
an unusual range of topics and ap-
peals to a variety of TASTES, and yet
the topics r so we'll chosen that the
reader will find each article attrac-
tive. Especially noteworthy, among
articles devoted to our land, is that
by Milton Harlow Northrup upon
the Electoral Commission. Under
the title ga Grave Crisis in Ameri-