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Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-06-12
Only Four Bodies Recovered
From Mine Shaft, At
Port Royal Pa.
RESCUE PARTYS CLOSE CALL.
Inspector and Brave Miners Stumbled
over Bodies Of supt. Mccune and
Taylor Gunsaulus, sr.-others Had
TO Return For the Bodies.

Port Royal, Pa, June f2.-As re-
suit OF the explosion in the Port Royal
mines OF the Pittsburg Coal company
liz men are dead, seven are Injured
and thousands of dollars worth OF
property destroyed.
The official list of the dead and in
jured was made public by the coal
company Ii is as follows
Dead Recovered.
William McCune, 52 years old, SUI
perintendent OF the eompanys mines
along the Baltimore and Ohio rail.
road; body found lying ia the passage
way about 1000 feet from the smart;
removed 10 the family home at West
Newton wife, three sons and one
daughter survive.
Taylor Gansaulus, Sr., rs years old,
loader in mine No. 2; survived by a
widow and several grown UP chill
dren; died from injuries.
Fritz kreuter, died at the McKees-
port hospital.
Still In Mine and Known TO Be Dead:
William +. Allison, assistant super.
intendent of mines below West New
ton, on Pittsburg aud Lake Eric raj
road, leaves a wife and five children
Dennis Wardley, foreman Of mines
Nos. ! and 2 lived at Port Royal, and
is survived by a wife and four chill
dren.
John keek, foreman at Darr's mine
leaves a wife and several children,
Michael Roy. foreman at Euclid
mines; married, and leaves a widow
and small boy.
Bernard Ball, loader in No mine
lived at omitnCon, survived by a wife
and two children.
Taylor Gunsaulus, Jr., son of man
taken from mine; employed as road
man; leaves a wife.
Jerry DAILY, roadman, began work
Monday morning, lived at Gonnells-
vile, where wife and children are.
John Peoples, roadman IN mine No
2, leaves a wife.
David James, machine setter in
mine No, L, lived at Smithton with
his wife.
John canto, machine boss at Darr
mine.
Samuel Hadley. assistant foreman
at mine No. 2; leaves a wife and one
daughter
Peter Merchando, boss driver ia
mine No. l; survived by wife and
child
John Sickle, pipeman in No. 3
mine; leaves wife and three children.
Frank Davenport, roadman; mar
ried; no children: lived here.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08
WEATHER

The r~everential faith with which
so many of our people still approach
that hoary old fraud, the weather
predictions in the "almaniok, seems
very deep rooted, very slow TO yield
to the advance of progress. The
truth of the matter is very foroibly
set forth by the Twentieth Century
Farmer as follows:
"AnY fool can guess on the weather
and be right a part of the time. We
will only repeat what we have here
tofore said in these notes, viz the
weather service of the government,
based upon Geographic reports Of
temperature, humidity, barometrical
pressure and the knowledge pos
sessed of the law of storm move
ments, constitutes the only reliable
basis of any weather forecast. These
forecasts it is we'll TO heed, for they
are based on common sense prin
ciples, but when some old crank,
hairy and idiotic, essays to forecast
weather conditions based on sun
spots, star orbits and lunar changes
and gets off a mess about perhelions,
oonjunctions and all sorts of stellar
rot, no sensible man should waste a
moments time on him or pay the
least regard TO his twaddle. For a
fact the American people should
have Outgrown the stage of fifty
years ago, when a patent medicine
almanac was accepted as weather
authority if it was right part of the
time. While we might possibly ex-
ouse some very old people for belief
in such lunaoy, we have our opinion
of a live man who will invest his
money or govern his business by
such folly"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08
The Thinkers.
TIMELY WARNING.

When the church does that for
wealth which she would not do Tor
poverty the agitator secures his IN
fammable material. In these times,
of all times, the church cannot afford
to give color to the accusation that
it is partial to the rich and harsh to
the poor, subservent to capital and
hostile to the interests of the labor
ing neutrality-suspicious. Standard.
The above is an extract from q
merciless but truthful arraignment
of all the guilty parties, including
parson Hoge, connected with the IN
holy Flagler marriage.
It is we'll enough for churches Of
all denominations to pause and re-
feot upon these words. Fashionable
churches r very apt to cringe to
wealth. They need a good deal OF
money in their business. They have
been known to retain in their mem
bership men, who, if they had no
bank account, would be kicked out
without ceremony.
The Standard is right. The agita-
tor has had a tremendous leverage
placed in his hands by the persuasive
power of money in many of
strong and prominent churches.
Elder Flagler is a very good illustra-
ton of the power of a ''barI' in the
church.
"The poor ye have always with
you," means than we some
times think. The church which gets
above it's poor and disoriminates
against them may be prominent and
popular, but it cannot be powerful.
Giving a high seat in the synagogue
the man in goodly apparel, and a
footstool to the ragged or the seedy,
may be according to the rules of
society but it reverses the teaching
of the Scriptures.
God is no respecter of persons, nor
his churches be. The Head of
the church came from the ranks of
the laboring men and he was poorer
than his fellow-laborers, for he had
not where to lay his head. Woe be
unto the church which offers a 1.-THE
more to a banker than to a drayman.
may, and sometime does, buy
legislatures, but the Lord pity US
when it begins to buy u churches !!
and Children.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

The evidence is multiplying against
the abuse of our agricultural fairs
by the introduction of illegal and de
moralizing features. 1t is a good
omen to note that tine public press
generally condemns such features,
They have been admitted by the
managers, not in response to a pub
lie demand, but because they pay a
good privilege fee and are less trouble
than to get good, moral attractions.
Wherever liquor is sold, disgusting
exhibitions allowed to vaunt their
ATTRACTIONS in the face Of visitors,
or games of chance permitted, the
voice Of public condemnation should
be heard in no uncertain terms. One
of two things must be done either
these fairs must be made clean or all
State aid should be withheld and
they should be prevented from hold
ing any exhibition whatever. Better
have no fairs than fairs that breed
vice and corruption.-Exchange.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08
AN ALARMING TENDENCY.

The editor of the Elon College
Christian Sun, after several weeks
observation, announces that "about
fifty per cent. of the matter in the
news columns of our North Carolina
dailies is about thieving, robbery,
rape, lynching, murder, etc." With
the New York dailies it is even
worse. From time immemorial it
has been observed that the character
of every person is moulded largely
by his associates, and it is high time
for us to realize that this ancient
law extends into the intellectual
sphere also, and that if ones friends
in the newspaper world talk oontin
ually of crime and wiokedness, he is
as surely brutalized as if his daily
associate were a living criminal re-
peating stories of vice and sin. The
newspapers must give the news, but
the present tendency to report the
of all crimes, giving column
column each day to such sick-
stories, when there are so
many events of greater Importance
over in a few words, ought to
be rebuked.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08
HRART TO HEART.

-
When Mr.. William J. Bryan was
shown the bulletin from Buffalo de-
noting that President Mckinley was
on the verge of death, we are told
that he read it carefully and with
downcast head. When he looked up
tears stood in his eyes. In a voice
that broke he indicated a bulletin in
which the dying President was stated
to be murmuring, "Nearer, My God,
to Thee" and said: isn't that
pitiful? Isn't that pitiful?"
Goods will, not ours, be DONE" he
read in another bulletin giving the
Presidents last words to Mrs. Mo
Kinley. Again Mr.. Bryan was deeply
moved. He made no comment, but
tears again sprang to his eyes. He
stood like one looking on the bier of
a loved one, and the room was
hushed in funeral silence.
It was with a visible effort, adds
the correspondent, that the Demo
cratic leader threw off the evidences
of grief and shook hands with the
committee members, who had been
sympathetic spectators.
This is one of the most beautiful
and significant incidents in connec-
ton with the sad tragedy of Mr.. Nc
Kinley's taking off. We Americans
have our political differences and we
quarrel with one another in the heat
of political discussion. But beneath
it all there is a deeper feeling, a
community of feeling which makes
us all akin.
Mckinley twice defeated Bryan for
the Presidency, and under circum-
stances which, in the frailty of hui
man nature, tended to arOuse in Mr..
Bryan a feeling of bitterness and re-
sentiment towards his successful
rival. Yet, when Mckinley is on bis
death bed, Bryan stands up in a pub
lie gathering and declares that he has
the highest personal regard for the
President, and by his tears, which
flowed IN spi6o or h1mseIf, that SO far
from resentment and envy ne is in
afeotionate sympathy with his
esteemed cOuntrYm8n.
There is compensation in all things.
In this hour of our sorrow and be
reavement, we open our hearts the
one TO another and in frank sim
plioity exhibit the rich store Of God
like sentiments therein. At Buffalo,
where the President was shot, there
is an exhibit of the nations material
wealth and handiwork. But this
exhibit of American hearts shows
that the strength Of the republic is
within. Individual character is that
which makes a nation great, and
American character has never given
a grander account of itself than in
this hour of the nations Distress
Richmond Times.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08
THE AGRICULTURAL FAIR

James Ct. Blaine once said that a..
agricultural fair is the farmers No.
lament. This is not so true now
formerly when speechmaking was
conspicuous part of the ~proceedinn.
We question if the agricultural fei,
has not declined in power for goo3
to a greater or less extent, by elm;
mating this feature that was intendos
to serve as mental stimulus as wo,.
as entertainment, and the subst;tr
ton of sEattractions" of a decidadI-
different character. The present dsv
agricultural fair is largely based M
two general features-entertainmen.
and exhibits. The first is made Il
serve the purpose of drawing peonIe
through the gates at so cents a head
and the other to serve the purDose
of the exhibitors in advertising thei,
wares. Both of these features NAV
be and usually are worthy 80 far q.
they go, but they do not meet the
full purpose of an agricultural fair
We believe that a return to the
farmers parliament idea as express.
cd by Mr.. Blaine and a development
of this feature would be productive
of much good.-Colman's Rural
World.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08
ROTEC THE BIRDS.

1t had escaped our notice, but a
reliable exchange reports that
"The 1901 General Assembly of
North Carolina made it a misde-
meanor TO kill or destroy the nest of
hooking birds or blue birds, also
made it unlawful to kill, shoot, trap
or net cartridges, quail, robins,
lark or wild turkeys between March
10 and November 15 in each year. 1t
is unlawful for any person to have
quail in his possession either dead or
alive between March 1st and NOvem-
Der 10th of each year. Penalty for
the violation of this act is that sUoh
person shall pay a fine of $40 for
each offense, to be recovered before
a Justice of the peace, (one-half of
which shall go to the informer,) and
also be guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction shall be fined not
exceeding $50 or imprisoned not ex-
ceeding % days. This act went into
force on the 4th day of last March,"
This is an excellent law, and we
hope that it will be enforced. Every
year insect pests are becoming more
numerous and destructive, and the
farmers must protect their bird
friends, or suffer from their insect
enemies. Enforce this bird law.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08
1.-THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATION

THE INDUSTRIAL AMI EDUCATION
Al INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARA
HoUNT TO L 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, it's aim will be to foster and
promote the best interests of the
whole people of the State. 1t will be
true to the instincts, traditions and
history of the Anglo-Saxon race. On
al matters relating specially to the
great interests it represents, it will
speak with no uncertain voice, but
will fearlessly the right defend and
Impartially the wrong condemn. -
From Col. Folks SalUtatory, Feb.
10, 1886
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

A reader writes; "Can you tell
me who is our rural mail route in
spector and where he is located? l
should like to get his address" In
speotors as a rule keep ION the CO."
and if our correspondent thinks that
one is needed in his neighhOrhoOd,
he should write TO his Congressman
or Senator or to the Postmaster
General, Washington, D. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

~ If yOu are not a subscriber,
6ut receiUe a copy of this paper, re-
member that 1t as sent yOu that
you mag critically examine 1t
Please do so, and If yOu decide that
at IS north q dollar q gear, goa need
the paper, 1Ce need the dollar. Send
as the dollar and the paper WiU go to
yOu for a gear, then If goa ? not
pleased sag so and the dollar IS
yOUrS.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

We Invite correspondence, news items, sug
RestiOns and criticisms on the subjects of agri-
culture, poultry raising, stock breeding, dairy
ing, horticulture and-garding; wOman's work,
literature, or any subject of interest to our lady
readers, young people, or the family generally;
public matters, current events, political CUES
tons and principles, etc.,-in short, any subject
discussed in an all-rOund farm and family news
paper. Communications should be free from
personalities and party abuse.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

You may help a dog out Of troaOI',
and no matter what kind of a dog ~
is-clay dog, country dog or litter q.
ate or plebe-and he will Wag -
tail into paralysis and exhaust e'0.9
muscle in his body trying to tell w.
that every drop of blood in his VSiDt
is at your service. Help a man
of a ditch and what he will 90
you afterwards depends greatly
his breed. There are plenty OF ~
who are not near as good as a uos
more respects than one.-Du"
Sun.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08
WILL COVER THE COUNTRY.

If your neighborhood wishes rural
free delivery of mails, forward your
petition as early as possible. Uncle
Sam will spend 50, 500, 900 for this
work this fiscal year, but only those
that ask will receive.
In this connection we ask attention
to the following interesting state
mens and prophecy by Postmaster
General Smith. Speaking 80 the
New Hampshire State Grange last
month, he said:
81 feel, as a member of the gov
eminent, that while we have been
doing so much for the people who
live in the great cities and large
towns, we owe a part, and a large
part of our best service to the peo-
pie who live in tho rural districts.
We have in the United States carried
the ~postofioe to the doors of 81, OO0,-
900 population who live in the cities
aud the large towns, but a large
problem is to carry the mails to the
doors of 81, 900, 900 of Americans who
live on the farms of the United
States.
81 want TO tell you that l believe
that work is now, within the last
three years, so far carried forward,
so we'll begun and so firmly estab-
Iished that no pOWer hereafter can
stop its extension OUer the entire
United States.
"Before this fiscal year is closed
we shall have carried this service
over 5000 routes, bringing the post
offices to the doors of more than
5000, 900 people and reaching one
third of the population which we
aim to reach"
Not only does war partake largely
of the nature of that region to
which it is compared in Gen. w. T.
Sherman's immortal phrase, but it
is the most expensive luxury in
which nations indulge. One of our
Northern exchanges, for instance,
has to say of one phase of it, the
pension matter: "The Civil Wal
ended thirty-six years ago, but we
are now paying five dollars where we
paid one at the end of President
Grants second administration. The
total payments for pensions since
July, 1865, have been 81, $50, 9O4, $50.
Two prices could have been paid out
of this vass sum of money for every
slave in the Southern States at the
outset of she war, and enough left
over to have given each slave family
forty acres of land and a mule"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

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

Some very interesting figures to
Southerners interested in the race
problem were given out by the Cen
sus Bureau last week.
The figures since 1890, showing
the percentage that the negroes have
constituted of our total population,
are as follows:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

Apologies for such offences are sell
dom of any use, but we wish TO ex-
plain that the absence of the editor
for several days last week is respon
sible for the incompleteness of the
news and editorial departments of
this number.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08
NORTH CAROLINA COTTON CROPS OF 1899
AND 1900 BY COUNTIES.

Census reports show, officially, the
number of bales of cotton averaging
500 pounds to the bale, ginned in
North Carolina in the years 1899 and
1900 by counties as follows:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

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DO not wish the journal continued for another
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should then notify us to discontinue it
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Organ of the North Carolina Farmers State
Alliance.
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World.

OAO0 as q AOd0D VI D60A,
fitting the masses of the people, "tbe
greatest good to the greatest mum.
Der, " is being more and more proved
as time goes on. Most of us know
of the wonderful results and vast
amount of business now done each
year through the cooperative soci.
cites of England. Late reports show
that little Denmark has made great
progress also along this line. One
paper says:
Denmark is said to be the second
country in the world in this per
capita of wealth, and GO, operation is
said to be the key of the success it
had. A peculiar fact in that ooun.
try is that the tide Of population is
from the cities toward the country,
instead Of the contrary, as is the case
here and elsewhere. And a great
many business enterprises are scat.
tered all through the country. These
are u by cooperative societies. and
the wealth of the country is so gen.
orally distributed that there are said
to be over four hundred banks con.
trolled by the peasantry themselves,
Moreover there is a social Organiza.
ton that brings the people into
pleasant social relations, and every
village has it's library, amusement
hall, and other institutions for the
general entertainment. We highly
commend the development of SUCH
spirit among the people and should
be glad to see it become more COM
mon in this, country. "-Exchange.
On n of the rural free delivery
routes in Maryland the other day a
strange man was noticed riding with
the regular carrier. Tt was the
assistant postmaster at Toronto, who
had been sent here by the Canadian
postmaster general to investigate our
newly inaugurated but rapidly eX.
tending rural delivery system. The
prOmptness with which enterprislng
men jump from one country to an
other in search of improvements
when they hear of them is notable
Nova Scotia already has some rural
delivery routes, and it would not be
surprising if a United States Official
appeared there before long to LOOK
them over. The interchange of ideas,
helpful to both countries, was never
so popular as it is now. PARKWAY
Australia has given US ballot re-
forms, and-for some of our States
a new system of land transfer. New
Zealand has also made it's oontriOu'
tions.-Youth's Companion.
eve now know that all the theses
which the first class in Harvard Cot
lege defended in 1912 are false, " says
Edward Everett Hale ''their astron'
omy was all wrong, their logic wa
all wrong, their metaphysics WERE
all wrong, and their theology was q"
wrong" While we are priding our
selves upon the inte1leotua successes
with which this century opens Z"
will be wholesome to reflect that 'n0
men of light and leading in 1912 "9l1
as sure that they had the rlgn'
things as we are to day of our OWL
scienCe.-Se1ected.
You may help a dog out Of trouble,
and no matter what kind of a dog ~
is-clay dog, country dog or litter 81.
ate or plebe-and he will W"g
tail into paralysis and exhaust e'0l9
muscle in his body trying to tell Wv
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-11-15

We have full line of DUCK COATS,
GLOVES, WORK SHIRTS and
UNDERWEAR for all. We have
y big stock of Gents Furnishing
Goods that we will sell fright.
Say? Do you use FLOUR? We can
sell youSFlour. Moses Best Grade,
for 81 is per cwt 500 ID lots 81. to
per cwt. Cash.
We carry full line of School Sup
plies that we sell cheaper than any
place in Edwards aDdsadjoining
counties.
Stop eating from broken plate and
let US sell you your Queensware.
We carry full line.
School Shoes? Yes, we have them
the Dist No. Is and the Village
School Shoe. We guarantee to
give satisfaction. For neat dress
shoe we handle the La Vista. man
ufactured by r. P. Smith Il Son.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-11-15
The co.nmonu.

The Commoner has attained within
six months from date OF the first issue
a circulation Of 100. 600 copies. y rec
ord probably never equaled in the his.
tory of American periodical literature.
The unparalleled growth of this paper
demonstrates that there is room in the
newspaper field for national psper
devoted TO the discussion of political,
economic, and social problems. TO
The columns of The CommOner MIR.
Bryan contr ibutes his best efforts; and
his review of political events as they
arise from time to time cannot fail To
interest those who study public ques-
tiOnS.
The Commoner's regular suhscrip
tion price is Sl.N per year. We have
arranged with MIR. Bryan whereby we
can furnish his paper and the Graphic
together one year for ST. 10. The reg.
ular price of the two papers separate
ly is $500.