The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-04-23
News.
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The Facts Boiled Down and Presented in
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Readers.
Directors Of the State dispensary
in South Carolina have decided to
test the right of the United States
government to exact license or reve-
nue. of the dispensary system.
The Arkansas Senate has passed
a bill making it unlawful for any
person to drink any Intoxicating
liquor as a beverage unless he or she
shall have first obtained a license as
a dram drinker. The license is fixed
at S. per annum.
A bill requiring a physical and
mental examination of all applicants
for marriage has now passed both
houses of the Minnesota Legislature
and will probably become a law.
The law is aimed to prevent the
marriage of persons afflicted with
incurable disease, or of imbeciles.
Mr.. James M. Barr has been elect
ed First Vice. President and General
Manager of the Seaboard Air Line
System. MI. Barr, who resigns the
vice presidency of the Atchison, To
peka and Santa Fe System to accept
the position on the Seaboard, is one
of the most widely known railroad
men in the country.
State Health Commissioners Clough,
of Colorado, has promulgated a rule
excluding from the public schools all
teachers and children who are suffer-
ing from tuberculosis. Where the
disease is known to be in a family
the child must present a certificate
from the family physician declaring
there is no danger of contagion.
The popular practice of obtaining
divorces in the DakOtas and other
States, where annulment of matri-
mOnial ties is made easy, was given
a serious blow in the Supreme Court
last week by decisions in cases de-
claring the divorce so obtained to
be null and void in the courts of the
States where the couple legally re-
sided.
Governor Dockery, of Missouri, has
vetoed the compulsory education bill,
bill, entitled "An act to enforce the
stitutional right of every child in the
State to an education, and to pro-
hibit the employment of children dur
ing school hours. "Governor Dock
cry declared that the act interfered
with the personal rights of parents
and savOred of paternalism on the
part of the State.
Here's a man the like of whom we
do not often see Mr.. John A. Kas
son, of Iowa, special reciprocity COM
missioner of the United States, de-
clines to accept any compensation
from the government on the ground
that the failure of Congress to act
on recent reciprocity treaties with
foreign governments has practically
made it impossible for him to render
any service to the government. He
could draw $40, 600 per year.
In Oklahoma within a few months
the surplus lands (about 1900, 900
acres) of the KiOwa, COmanche and
Apache reservations will be opened
for settlement, after allotments have
been made to the Indians thereon,
under the provisions of the general
homestead and town site laws of the
United States, by proclamation of
the President, which, when issued,
will fix the date of the opening. In
addition to the usual fees, each en-
tryman is required to pay the sum
of $1.25 per acre for the lands enter
ed by him at the time of making final
proof.
UNEASY lies the head that veal
a crown" For example, take this
report of a recent act of the great
Russian Gar "a young officer en-
tered the room in which the Gar
was seated. His majesty had not
heard any knock, and, suddenly
seeing a man in his presence, a few
feet away, unannounced, he suspec-
ted an attempt to assassinate him.
In a panic, the Gar seized a revol-
yer and shot the officer dead. The
soldier on guard quickly removed
the corpse The Cars remorse for
his hasty act has grown into acute
nervous depression"
A recent press dispatch says:
benjamin o. Davis, of the District
of Columbia, has the distinction of
being the first colored man to pass