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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-04-23
AUNT JENNIE's LETTER.

Another county heard from /:
Uncle Dan comes from Craven, and
we are glad to have him with us.
I hope each member Of the Circle
will read his letter and suggest
plans for maintaining interest IN a
"'reading circle" in the country
There is nothing more conducive to
sociability and the general upbu1ld-
ing of a neighborhood than such a
society.
Nellie is with US after having been
absent some time. Her letter is a
thoughtful one.
Mrs J. L. D. re-appears this week
in a helpful letter.
And still a number of favorite
members of the Circle have been
long absent. Can't we have a re-
union of them? Who will be first to
RETURNS AUNT JENNIE.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-04-23

and secured, but all seemed -.
avail, SO I deliberately carria5 D
an open fireplace and gently 1, @
over the Goals. In an hour
all appearances) a new pan. T.
thoroughly clean and a joy to bot,,
There are other iron things n
kitchen that I mean to subioo.
like treatment. "
am so glad that we are to /.
public school libraries. The soI, '
here will have one and nv cbiI5'
will be benefited by free accoss y
it, thus gaining much knovIa3'"
that they would otherwise ba y
prived of. With best wishes - y
each member of the Circle, -"
Mrs. J. TT
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-04-23
CRAVEN RESPONDS.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE - Will you
allow one who has passed
the threescore years, to join the
Social Chat? I have looked for some
time to find a Chatterer from Craven
county, and as 1 e none yet, I feel
that our noble old county should be
be represented.
We are in the Glow grounds" of
the Old North State, but by no
means the ''poor grounds" for the
variety of our productions is hardly
equalled either in quantity or diver
sity. We are behind, however, in
two very important points that make
true progress. Our public roads r
poor, and our school houses in the
country are far behind what they
ought to be.
Will some member of Social Chat
tell US how to make a "reading
circle successful in the country
among farmers? 1t is needed
very much to stimulate mind and
heart, but how to keep an interest
is the point we desire. Perhaps some
have been successful if so, let US
know the plan, as farmers r so
secluded because of their vocation
that they so often neglect the social
and educational privileges that
should always be cultivated. Perhaps
the new move in helping the schools
to get libraries, will be an incentive
to move the people up to their duty.
AS many OF is about here are
troubled with weak eyes, I am glad
to learn from Kentuckienne how we
may improve our eyeglasses by a
vigorous bath. l think to give it d
trial very soon but cannot expect to
make young eyes of mine any more
till sight is perfected in the ''won-
derful country" where 1--WE shall
see as we are SEEN"
UNCLE DAN.
Cro Won 10 NJ ~
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-04-23
CULTIVATE THE BEAUTIFUL.

John Wanamaker says that one of
the most beautiful sights he ever
saw was in the Museum of Arts.
"When the twelve o'clock signal
for dinner sounded" he says,
''two bod carriers came through the
galleries and stood awed and fasci-
Gated as they studied the pictures ;
and, as those men stood there, I felt
they were being lifted up nearer to
the angels"
Ruskin and many other great
souls made it a rule never to allow
an opportunity for seeing anything
really beautiful, inspiring, or up
lifting, to pass without improving it.
Almost everyone, eve the man
whose daily routine is filed in
with drudgery and the most prosy
details, can manage to see some
thing beautiful every day, something
that will bring a CLEAN of light and
sunshine, an uplifting influence into
his dull life.
One should never go past any beau
tiful object, whether a park, a tree,
or the flowers in the show window
of a florist, without pausing to enjoy
a glimpse of the loneliness and har-
monv which nature is constantly
holding out to us. These passing
CLEANS of beauty become stratifed
in our lives, and are more powerful
influences in character forming than
we appreciate.
A plant which a poor city girl
brought to a flower show took a
prize, and people who knew in what
a wretched, sunless attic she lived,
expressed surprise that she could
grow so beautiful a plant in such a
place. "Oh," she replied, ga little
sunlight comes into the alley every
day, and I kept changing my plant
to get as much of it as possible. That
is what made it beautiful"
There is a great lesson for Us in
this little story. We may be sur
rounded by the most forbidding en-
vironment, and yet we can manage,
in some way, to get sunlight enough
TO brighten hfe.-Success.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-04-23
THE LESSON TAUGHT BY sICKrrs,

DEAR AUNT JENNIE 1t has bo,.
SO long since I have written a wo,,
to Social Chat that I hardly knos
how to commence, but l feel if ~,
duty to write enough to let Won 81
know that I am still reading and o,
joying the good letters written b,
those more competent than mvsaf
I am a poor writer, anyhow. and
since I have two little children II
bother me, I seldom have an oDnn
tunity to write. Ny little girl, two
years old, has been sick nearly ali
the winter. Then la grippe came
and all in the house were sick at thu
same time. I think all that have az,
perienced a trouble like this will 81.
cuse me for not writing sooner.
But is there no lesson to be Learned
from these Affections?
We do not know how to value
health till it seems to be slipping from
our grasp. I often think that sick.
ness is sent on US for our own good
to call to our attention the blessing,
we receive each day that we had not
realized before. And after the
trouble has passed away, and we
know that God again has remem.
bered US, we feel more thankful
than words can express. So even
these troubles work out Gods right.
eous purposes, and we realize that
all things happen for the best.
Wishing you all much joy and sue.
cess, NELLIE.
Duplin Co., N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-04-23

The farm furnishes the best train
ing school school for boys that has
yet been found. It's curriculum is
such as tends to strengthen the body
and the mind and qualify a boy for
a practical and useful life. The
weak, worthless and vicious elements
of society naturally drift into the
cities and make bad environments.
If a boy desires to have his name ap-
pear in the biographical dictionary
in the future, let him spend his early
years on the farm William LARA
bee, Ex-Governor of Iowa.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-04-23
Our Social Chat.
- EDITED ny AUNT JENNIE, RALEIGH, n. Q. !.

AS CONTRIBUTORS to this department OF
The Progressive Farmer, we nave sone - dioS
most Wide-aWake and progressive young Laui1e
and young men and some Of the most enterIaIn57
ing writer's among the older people OF THIS anu
other States, the ages of the memDers Ranging
from sixteen to more thOn iXty.
YOU ARE REQUESTED to join by senoIng
rs a letter on some subject of general interest,",
and writing thereafter as often as possible
WHEN WRITING, give full name ana posi-
office address for Aunt Jennie's information.
IF Won do not wish your real name to appear
in nrint give name by which you wish to be
known as a Chatterer.
ola nse between the time a letter is written and
the date of it's publication.
The progressive Farmer. Raleigh. N. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-04-23
The Home Circle.
THE FIST DAY OF SPRING.

o! thou bright and beautiful day,
First bright day of the virgin spring,
Bringing the slumbering life into play,
Giving the leaping bird his wing!
Thou art round me now in all thy hues,
Thy robe of green and thy scented sweets,
In thy bursting buds, in thy blessing deWs,
In every form that my foOtstep meets.
1 hear thy voice in the lark's clear note,
In the crickets chirp at the evening hour,
In the zephyr's signs that around me float,
In the breathing bud and the opening flower.
1 see thy forms DER the parting earth,
In the tender shoots of the grassy blade,
In the thousand plants that spring to birth,
On the valleys side in the home Of shade.
1 feel thy promise in all my veins,
They bound with a feeling long suppressed,
And, like a captive who breaks his chains,
Leap the glad hopes in my heaving breast.
There are life and joy in thy coming, Spring.
Thou hast no tidings of gloom and death:
But buds thou shakest from every wing,
And sweets thou breathest with every breath.
-WiIiam GiJmOr
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-04-23
THE BATTLE OF GUILFORD COURT.
HOUSE IN A NEW NOVEL.

when Blades Are Out and Loves Afeld"
Announced by The Lippinootts.
The people of Greensboro, after
having so long and lovingly labored
for the Battle Ground cause, should
find peculiar pleasure in the notice
that is now being taken Of the sub.
ject of the battle far and wide
throughout the country, all of which
comes from the patriotic labors Of
identifying and caring for the battle
field. Stories of this battle are now
a fad with the magazines and papers
and even a book is now announced
by the big publishing house of Lip
pincOtt & Co. The name, "When
Blades Are Out and Loves Afeld,"
is itself romantic, and the publishers
make the following announcement
of it:
GA typical novel in Mr.. Brady's
best style this,-a tale or war and
love in the Revolutionary times.
The scene is laid in the country
around Greensboro, North Carolina,
and the chief action that known as
the Battle of Guilford Court House,
when General Greene met Cornwall
lis and inflicted such damage upon
the seasoned troops of the latter,
that though technically victorious,
he was forced to fall back upon vii
mington, and the British advance
into the south was checked. The
day after the battle, writes Mr.
Brady, abandoning the severely
wounded to the Americans, Corn
wallis without baggage and supplies
gave up the field he had so gallantIy
contested and obtained, and began
that march towards the coast, which
threw him into the arms of Wash
ingtOn and de ROchambeau at York
town. Greene Immediately reOccu'
pied the field and dispatched Lee and
Colonel Washington to harrass the
retreating British soldiery.' Somuch
for the flashing blades Mr.. Brady
knows SO we'll how to depict
Greensboro Telegram.
cts a queer worl'," said the OLD
man, "when you come to think II
over. You know, I dedicated jim
fer a lawyer?"
eyes"
can Bill fer a preacher?"
EXACTLY"
can Tom fer one O. those here
literary fellers?"
GIVE heard So"
can Dick fer a doctor?"
eyes"
"Well, now, what do you reckon
I'm a-doin' OFF"
"Can't say"
"Well, sir, you mout not beIl9F0,
- As-g 0G Tim An
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-04-23

store in them. The performs a very
useful labor for the farmer by carry
ing pollen from flower to flower.
The people around Charleston who
raise early cucumber in greenhouses
for the early markets find it neces-
sary to use the brush in distributing
pollen, but they take care to have a
swarm of bees to do the work as
soon as the weather is warm enough.
Tens of thousands of Smyrna fig
trees that should produce the most
valuable fig of commerce, brought
from the Turkish Empire and plan
ted on the Pacific coast, have never
ripened fruit except when artificial
pollination was practised. An entO-
mOlogist, visiting the trees, told the
owners that what vas needed was q
little wasp that lives on a wild fig
in the neighbOrhoOd of Smyrna.
Alter repeated efforts, that little fly
has been brought from its Asiatic
home, and is now domiciled in the
fig orchards, ready to help the peo-
pie of that neighbOrhOOd to begin a
new industry.
The attention of the young far
mer at the country schoolhouse
could be gradually drawn, by easy
stages, from n insect to another.
A little help by the teacher would
arouse in the student intelligent in
terest in our insect friends and enc
mics.
Children should be encouraged to
bring specimens to school, collections
could be made, and the student s
name associated with every new dis
covery. In all these ways the stu
dent can be brought to an under
standing of nature, living and mani
mate, to knowledge that will develop
head and hand and heart -
Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of
Agriculture, in The Youths Com
paniOn.
AS Don the young ducks or geese
+ Matched, don't put them in the
water thinking because they can
swim they ought to be in the water.
Keep them out for Is or 20 days,
and thus avoid having a number
lame with rheumatism, and slow to
grow. Of course, give them plenty
of water to drink and enough to eat.
Have a lot fenced off, with plenty of
grass and a good pond in it. Don't
have them running at large, destroy
ing more than they are worth. If
for market sell just as soon as large
enough. Don't keep them till they
''eat their heads Of."-D. T. Whit
mer, Eagle Rock, Va.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-04-23
THE INSECTS

chronological studies might very
we'll be carried on around the coun-
try school-hOuse. The wild bee
goes from flower to flower of the
clover plant seeking pollen with
which Q .build her cells or honey to
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-07-26
t The Corn Crop.

Corn has become tho groatcst and
most valuable crop Of tho Unitod Statos,
and ID therefore watched ovory yoar
with great anxiety. Reports Of gen-
oral bad condition Of tho growing corn
have therefore susod much alarm, and
it is gratifying to know that tho prodio.
tions of damage to tho crop havo boon
exaggerated. Tho corn soaro was i'm
doubtedly designed by spoculators and
tho effoot of their Misrepresentation
have boon to great dogreo oountor.
acted by impartial and reliable informa.
ton. II is undoubtedly truo that corn
has suffered terribly in parts Of tho
west, especially in Missouri, Kaneas
and Nebraska, but tho drouth in those
states has boon brokon by tho rains Of
tho past few days and tho condition Of
corn improved worry much. Tho Federal
department Of agriculture docs not be-
liovo that tho crop will fall below 2,000,
OO0,00 bushels. 1t must bo remom.
bcred, too, that worry largo amount Of
corn was loft over last year. 1t is prao.
tioally oortain that tho country will
have ample corn for all its own moods
and enough to meot tho demands Of
other countries which arc taking moro
OF that ar!iclo every year. M
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-07-26
Italy Takes Matter Up.

A special from Washington says:
Tho Italian govornmo ont has taken cog
nizanco of 8 recent affray at Erwin,
Miss, IN which it ID claimed two Itali-
ans were lynohed and third seriously
wounded. The facts haye bcen COM
nuniosteG TO tho foreign efiioo at Komo,
and the Italian embassy hero has made
representations to tho state department.
Aa tho same time, the Italian authori-
ties arc pursuing an investigation OF
thoir own through their counsel at Now
Orlcsns and their consular agont at
Vicksburg, Mies., which is not far from
tho scene of the alleged trouble. Thus
Tar the reports received from these 0 fiji
cials cBtabll5h two essential points in
what ia considered rather serious CON
dition of affairs. First, it is reported
positively that tho Italians woro killed
by lynohing, and not through any aooi-
dent or chanoo aifray. Second, tho
Italian authorities ncaroat to tho sccne
Of the trouble hsvo established to their
satisfaction that tho persons killed arc
Italian SUBJECTS in tho full sonso, not
having taken out naturalization papers.
Thus far tho oaae is in state &C inquiry
both on Tho part Of tho state depart.
mont and tho Italian authoritios, but
thero is oycry Indication that the fact
will constitute. an international moi
dent similar to that with Italy growing
out Of tho killing of Italians in Louis
lana s f.s ~ ...tstg 2EtF {.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-07-26
THE HOT WAVE.
more disastrous to Human Lifo Than
Any Recent Epidemic.

The recent hot wavo with it's hun.
dreds Of dcaths and thousands Of pros.
trations has been more disastrous in
it's effoots than any epidemic that has
visited the country. Cholera, yellow
fevor, smallpox, each have also claimed
hundreds of victims, but not within
tho space of so few days. The direct
faalities havo boen enormous, but tho
soourage cannot bo Judged by these
alone; the inoroaso in tho number of
deaths from othor causes must also
30 attributed to the excessive heat,
fatal in its results on system en-
foebled by disease. In the future hun.
drods OF those prostratod who escaped
Immediate death will suocumb to COM
parativoly mild attacks of disease and
thus the mortality will 20 on for months
In tho largo cities ambuanoes and pa
troll wagons were insufficient to convey
the stioken to the hospitals and these
were unable to respond to all the de-
lnands made upon thom with every bed
occupied and extra cots in the corridors
and physicians and nurses overtaxed,
sometimes falling bonoath the strain.
The strenuous life is inevitably con.
qurod by tho strenuous thermometer.
In suoh crises nothing osn be done
save to trost each oaso individually
and instruct the populaoe how best to
accommodate themselves to condition,
In citios tho permitted free use Of wa.
tor to cool burning pavements, the co.
cupancy Of the parks during tho night
by th0Bo whose sloeping places were
akin to ovens, tho free distribution Of
ice, all had effcot in keeping the
doath ratio from soaring still higher but
tho chief work to be dono, tho ohioi
lesson learned, is that Of prevention.
tho Improvement of housing of the
poor, tho devising of means to pre-.
Won't factories stores and stroet from
becoming infornos, tho modification OF
cation VIC * hours, tho abating OF
somo Of tho hurry and rush Of our
usual temperate zono to the dolce far
nionte moro in keoping with tho oooas.
siona' torrid experiences. All this until
tho day whom man will have it in his
power to modify atmospheric conditions
to produce cooling showers by explo.
eivo foroe or otherwise, and to lowor
temperature in large areas by the use
OF somo agent suoh as liquid air Amor.
icsu Modioono.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-07-26

crops that wero not too far gouo reviv.
cd rapidly, but over much Of tho great.
or part of tho State serious drought is
prevailing, Cotton, that has Withstood
tho drought 90 we'll, is beginning to
fail. That planted on uplands is shed.
ding badly and in many othors ways
shows tho effeots Of dry woathor. Low.
land cotton ID doing fairly we'll; it ja
fruiting rapidly, but tho crop moods
rain badly and unless it is relieved
soon much loss than an average crop
will sbo mado. In tho southwestern por.'
>tiontof tho State somo ootton5has boon
picked, but it will be somo tina hofore
this work will bo general In Frio
county ono bale Of cotton has boon
ginped. .-
" Ia Arkansas generally very high
temperature prevailed Throughout tho
State. No rain Of any oopsequonoo
,was,roported. Crops of all Kinds have
benah dam aged by tho oodlinuod cry,
hot weathor. Cotton has bosn badly
injured in most SECTIONS and 10 gon
,eraly sufferipg for mood Of rain.
In Oklahoma and Indian Territory
the drought conditions arc very So
wore and threaten injury to most
crops, but cotton has withstood the
dry woathor and high temperature
very we'll, except that tho plants ale
beginning to shed their fruit.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-07-26
Constable Removed /.

Governor McSweenoy has discharged
Constable Rowoll, stationed at Flor
enoe. Monday night Of last woek this
constable tolegraphed the governor 8
sensational message from Florence In.
tlmatinR that there was real trouble
over there and saying that ho would
leave Tuesday. The governor ordered
him by wire to report the nature OF tho.
trouble, and no reply was given. The
kilograms wero published Wednesday.
RoWell wont to Columbia and called
on the governor Wednesday morning,
The trouble" was found to be only &
little personal matter between the con-
stable and somo ono else. The COVER
nor forthwith removed Rowell from tho
force for acnding sensational kilograms
and refusing to explain whom ordered
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-07-26
! GEORGIA JUSTICE
Two White Mon Punished for Killing
q Negro. 4

A dispatch from Atlanta says the
Sholl Cochran case, which was decided
by tho Georgia snpreme court Thursday
against the convicted men, Is ono Of
the most interesting Gases that has ever
como up from Campbell county. Shell
and Pegram Cochran and one Of their
companions, man named Hester, are
now convicted Of numbering Sterling
Thompson. Of Campbell county, during
January Of tho prosent year, and they
all throo faoo life sentonoos in the pom
itontiary. y,
Indictments arc in existence against
Steve Cochran and men named Mo-
Konzio, DaMounoy and Reeves, who
will doubtless bo tried at tho next
torn of court, The case came up from
tho superior court Of Campbell county,
Judge John s. Gambler presiding. The
story Of the murder is perhaps best told
from tho evidence Of Hoster, ono Of the
convicted men, who turned states evil
donoe.
Sterling Thompson was an old negro
man, who hold lease upon farm
which had been purchased by old man
Ohchran, tho father Of Sholl Cochran.
The state gavo as a motive for tho
crimo tho fact that tho Oochrans wan.
tod to OCCUPY the Thompson farm, and
alleged that they adopted murder as
tho best method Of riddidg themselves
Of him.
Eoster testified that tho Cochran
boys had asked him to join in CON
spiracy to whip cid man Thompson,
as tho negro had boen talking against
tho whites. Hester stated that ho,
Shell Cochran, Pogram Cochran and
Mckenzie, DaMouney and Reev, swent
in buggics to tho farm Of tho old no
gro: At store they stopped to ask
for o light. Tho storokoeper reoogniz.
ed MoKenzie and 80 testified at the
trial. a,s
Whom they arrived at Thompsone
house, said Hester, McKer zio, who
had beon olooted captain, oalled to
Thompson to come out and holp him
in attending his team. Thompson 70
fused to como because his vito advised
him not to, she believing that she had
heard Footsteps around tho house.
Hestor testified that tho mon told
Thompson they would baator down his
door if he did not como out. He again
refused and with tools obtained from
nearby blacksmith shop thyy batter
cd down his door. AS they entered,
said Hostor, Thompson fred at thom
with a shotgun, filing the door facing
with squirrel shot. d
They thon fired a yolley at the ne,
gro, killing him. His son nattaoked the
white men with a hoe and several shots
were fred ct him. After being kicked
for several times l he was left for dead as
he did not move ); III
z %M Heater testified B that tic d, part had
Igou uos To q a a house ffor3 fhe pYsf.
|Spoae of dipping Ri IN, e but had ID boon
forced to II III him. Il Iost / alho tostii.
fed that Steve Cochran was not iii tho
party, but tho state contends that Steve
Cochran was the ringloader of tIo whole
business, having induced his brothers
to do the work while he remained at
homo. i3 b n; Ne Sgl.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-07-26
No Weather Flags.

Tho Charleston Post says the daily
woathor singals have not boon display
for several days and tho reason givon
is that tho chief of tho bureau has ro.
cently issued instructions that in oitios
Of ovor S. 900 Inhabitants, no flags, OK
cept tho cold wayo signal, bo boroafter
displayed, but that tho forecasts be
mado available to the public through
tho daily newspapers and by positig
thom at prominent points Thoy will be
displayed as formerly If tho flags arc
provided without expense to tho bureau
rs tho monoy appropriated for flags
vii bo spont. for th cqipmont and main.
tonanco Of forecast disply stations in
rural communities. In South Carolina.
this ordor will affoct Charleston,
Columbia, Spartanburg, Greonvillo,
sumter, Anderson, Ofangoburg, Rock
Hill and Union ,H