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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-30

because they are placed in his power,
under his subiections, to train for
future life. And if he who has the
power fails to teach them the way OF
the Lord, is he not responsible Tor
their spiritual dwarfng? The moral
training does not rest on the father
alone, or on the mother alone, but on
both. EFor they twain shall be one
flesh" and in the matter Of raising
children in the way of truth, the re-
s~ponsibility for the children's welfare
revolves upon the father just as it
does upon the mother.
All parents should, by indootr1na-
ton, bring their children up in a
way that will make them good and
useful men and women. Children
usually try to follow the examples set
by their parents, whether they be
good or bad.
Once a mother asked her little boy
why he did no attend Sunday School ;
he replied, "Why father doesn't go
to Sunday School" If the father
had set a good example for his boy
to initiate, the lad would have, no
doubt, enjoyed going to Sunday
School also.
I hope to see better answers to Sin
ceres questions than this. Wishing
prosperity to The Progressive Far
mer, the cousins and Aunt Jennie,
I close by saying, VigiJGte ct crate.
REX.
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RESIGNED TO HIS FATE,

In the early Indiana days, when
both judges and attorneys literally
erode the circuit" a newly elected
Judge, noted for his lack of personal
beauty, was plodding along on horse.
back between two county-seats one
fine summer day. Passing through
a piece of woods he was suddenly
confronted by a hunter, who unsIung
his squirreI-rife from his shoulder
and ordered the horseman to dis.
mount.
Somewhat startled by this peremp.
tory command and the fact that the
hunter was, if possible, even more
deficient in facial symmetry than
himself, the jurist began to remon-
strate.. He was quickly cut short,
however, by the remark:
cts no use talking. I long ago
swore that if I ever met a homelier
man than I am, I'd shoot him on
sight !"
The Judge was quiok-witted, and,
sizing up the situation, he promptly
got off his horse. Folding his arms,
he faced his assailant and said,-
eff I am any homelier than you
are, for Heavens sake, do shoot,
and be quick about it"
Then came a hearty mutual laugh,
and a black bottle, produced from
the Judges saddle bags, was duly
investigated. After this came self
introduotions, and the rising jurist
gained IN enthusiastic supporter for
his future campaigns.-E. P. Howe,
in Exchange.
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had gone from the Woman's faoo
the JOY from her heart; and Love
Love was done.
But though through tears, tba
eyes that looked out upon Life shono
bravely and steadily, and again fou
reply she pressed the roses-now dis
covered of their thorns-to her lips
and to her heart.
She had nc regrets; for tbough tbo
thOrn8 hart cruelty, the noemory ~
the roses Sweetness WG greater thar,
the pam.
And as life looked upon the wo
man, the corn faded from his face
and in it's placed dawned a graot
pity and a great understanding
M. Palmer Sweet, in August New
Lippincott.
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I hain't no great detective like you
read about-the kind
That solves a whole blame murder
case by fOotmarks left behind /;
ut then, again On t'other hand,
my eyes hain't shut so tight
But I can add up two and two and get
the answer right;
So when prayer meetings Friday
nights got keepin' awful late,
And fer an hour or so I'd hear low
voices at the gate,
And when the gate got saggin' down
bout hat a foot er so,
I says ter mother, "Ma," says L,
"Matildy's got a beau"
We oughter have expected it, she's
most eighteen, yer Q Q
But, sakes alive she's always seemed
a baby like ter me
And so a Teller after her, why, that
jest did beat all
But t'Other Sunday, bless yer soul,
he come around ter call;
And when I see him all dressed up as
dandy as yer please,
But sorter lookin' s if he had the
shivers in his knees,
I kinder realized it then, yer might
say, like a blow;
Thinks I, "No use |! I'm gittiR' old
Matildy's got a beau"
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ANSWERS sINCERE's QUERY.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE For the first
time I knock for admittance at the
door of Social Chat. Sincere's
question regarding the father duty
to his children is d question for
deep thought. It seems to me that
it is a fathers duty to proide not
only food, shelter and clothing for
his children, but also to provide for
their spiritual Welt re by ''bringing
them up in the nurture and admo-
milton of the Lord" The father is
in a great part responsible for the
spiritual welfare of his children,
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AUNT JENNIE's LETTER.

I hope all the fathers and mothers
that read Our Social Chat also read
the very timely article on page z
of last weeks issue, "The Hygienic
Management of Typhoid Fever"
All the year, the weather has been
so unseasonable-an unusually warm
winter, then a cold spring, followed
by an almost unprecedented amount
of rain so far this summer-that I
fear diseases will spread rapidly
where proper attention is not given
sanitary laws. 1 am sure that the
suggestions presented by DR.. Ander-
son will benefit all that observe
them, and those who have not yet
read his article should do so at onoe.
S~incere's query has called forth
two responses which we published in
this issue. Memo also visits our
corner again and l am inclined to
think that the last paragraph of his
letter is also a mans half concealed
reply to Sincere. Let us hear from
others.
The canning and preserving sea-
son is now at it's height. It would
give me pleasure to have the lady
member of our Circle exchange sug-
g~estions and experiences regarding
this important part of woman's mid
summer work.
I hope that none of the members
are dead, as Memo suggests. But
in order to set such doubts at rest
let each Chatterer report to the Cir
Gle and get 10 good standing again.
AUNT JENNIE.
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THE MOST TRYING PERIOD IN A YOUNG
MANS LIFE.

The transition or ~hObbledehoy Pc
riod, between boyhood and young
manhood, when a youth is no longer
a boy and not yet a man, is the most
trying period of his life. This is the
age when the interrogation point as.
sumes colossal proportions, when
every faculty of his nature is asking
questions and wondering what the
future has in store for him. This is
the period which tries him. This is
the time when great changes, the
meaning of which he cannot solve,
begin in his life. He is growing so
fast, and his tastes are changing 80
rapidly, that he does not yet know
what he is going to do, what occupa-
ton or profession to choose.
While the youth is in this unset
tied condition, teachers and parents
should exercise great patience n
dealing with him, as whatever is put
into this part of his life is put into
the whole of life. This is the i'm
questionable stage, when, if he hears
a lawyer expatiate upon the beauty
Of the law, he will think that he is
cut out for the bar, and will change
his mind next day in favor of modl'
cine, if he hears a doctor enlarge
upon the nobility of the medical
profession. The lad changes from
one thing to another with equal i'm
partiality and lack of Judgment.
He has not sufficient experience TO
see the thorns, the difficulties, the
discouragements incident to the dill
erent vocations, but he sees only the
flowers and the pleasant side of them
20. S. Marden, in Success for
August.
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Our Social Chat.
= EDITED BY AUNT JENNIE, RALEIGH, \. G. =

AS CONTRIBUTORS to this department OF
T1s tFWTIi6dessWRsReI and 1r2og w9 ISve 7 STnne ladies
and young men and some of the most entertain.
ing writer's among the older people OF this and
other States, the ages of the members ranging
from sixteen to more thon sixty.
YOU r REQUESTED to join by sending
us a letter OF some subject of general interest,
and writing thereafter as often as possible.
WHEN WRITING, give full name and post
Office address for Aunt Jennie's information.
If you do not wish your real name to appear
in print, give name by which you wish to be
known as a Chatterer.
TWO WEEKS OR MORE must, as q rule,
elapse between the time a letter is written and
the date of its publication.
ADDRESS all letters to Aunt Jennie, care OF
The Progressive Farmer. Raleigh. n. @.
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Jest twenty-four short years gone
by-it don't seem five, / VOW
I fust called on Matildy-that's Ma
tildy's mother now;
I recollect I spent an hour a-tyin' my
Cravat,
And I'd sent up ter town and bought
a bang-up shiny hat
And, my oh, my! them new plaid
pants {! well, want Isomethin'
grand
When I come up the walk with some
fresh posies in my hand ?
And didn't I feel like a fool when
her young brother Joe
Sang out, "Gee crickets !Looky here |!
Here comes Matildy's beau !"
And now another Teller comes up my
walk, jest as gay,
And here's Matildy blushin' red in
jest her mothers way;
And when she says she's got ter go
an errand to the store,
We know he's waitin' round the
bend, just as I've done afore {;
Or when they're in the parlor and I
knock, why, bless yer heart!
I have ter smile ter hear how quick
their chairs are showed apart.
They think US old folks don't catch
on a single mite but sho!
I recken they fOrgit I was Matildy's
mothers beau.
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a ship" With you the work of men
tai construction has been going on
for years. You haye come to the
goodly condition of to-day by hard
blows, and through patience and toll.
You + at a transition period. You
are eagerly waiting for the parch-
ments which I shall soon have the
honor to estow. But it takes more
than a diploma to make an educated
man, more than a bachelors degree
to constitute a character, safe and
strong, tried and true, so necessary
to meet the emergencies and bear
the burdens of the world.
The methods of shipbuilding have
been developed from the rude art by
which the slow and clumsy bulks of
ancient navigation we're constructed
to the creation of the great ocean
liner and the graceful pleasure yacht.
The theory is well-nigh perfect. But
after thousands of years of expert
ence, the building of every ship is
an experiment. with increasing prob
ability of success and decreasing pos
sibility of failure. The we'll built
ship goes out with a guarantee of a
good name for honest work and ap-
proved skill. But that is as far as
the builder can go. The rest must
be done under the straining canvas,
with the throb of the engines, and by
the power of the oceans swell. Ev-
cry beam and plate, every bolt and
screw, may be of the best material,
and properly put together, every
piece of machinery may be perfect
in construction and adjustment, but
in finding herself out on the wild
seas, the ship ceases to be a comb
nation of separate pieces, a group
ing of individual machines, and be-
comes n organism, responding az
a unity to control, and moving as a
thing of life.
The figure fails for the process of
true education is one of constant
~unification and adjustment.
You go out to your life's work
with your scraps and masses of
learning, some Latin, some Greek, a
block of mathematics, Il corner of
science, a touch of philosophy. It
will take the experience of life to
bring all this scholarship into har-
monioUs adjustment and to the sym
metrical grace of culture.
To find ones self is to learn what
one can do the best. Till sci find
ing is experienced, conflicting de,
sires, opposing purposes often hinder
the greatest efficacy. To find ones
self is to get into the line Of service
tor which, by organization and equip
ment, one is best fitted The ship
does not find herself till she passes
through the storm. We long for
clear skies and sunlit seas, OF, to
change the figure, for 1owery paths
and easy tasks but pleasant ways do
not try strength, test character, and
compel the forces of life to come to-
gether in mutual support. No life
becomes great, no character matured,
no heart subdued in harmony with
] human sympathy and divine love
without passing through the baptism
of suffering.
As you launch your barks to day
we wish you bon Uoyoge. Bunting
is flying and the bands are playing.
Life seems to be made up of fair
wind and favOring tides. But soon
you will find that the really good
journey, the one that means most
to you and to the world, is n that
leads through days of cloudy skies
and nights of storms, when neither
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sun nor stars appear and only faith
in God can hold you to your course.
In the stress of the storm we find
ourselves and God.
X = 4
The ship is TO carry precious freight
and more precious lives from shore
to shore. There is no reason for it's
existence, but for it's use. The ship
having found herself and become
adjusted to her work may and
recross the ocean. She may move out
on her voyage with the best wishes
of her owners, she may be greeted
with applause as she moves majesti-
cally to her moorings at the end of
her Journey. But some day she may
90 to pieces in a storm, some day may
strike a hidden rock and founder in
the waves. But the life that finds
itself goes on, it weathers all storms,
it knows no wreck. Some day it
may move beyond earthly vision, it's
sails may be filed with celestial
breezes, it's PROV may cut the waves
of a stormless sea, it's keel may touch
the golden sands, it's anchor may
drop in the port of eternal life.
"Home at last"
There could be no real life without
service. But the life itself in its ad-
iustment to itself and God is worth
saving. Think not to live without
work, sacrifice, service.
"Go, labor on: spend and be spent,
Thy joy TO do the Fathers will,
1t is the way the Master went"
But when work is ended, when
service is done, the character of the
man is to stand forth, the product
of all educative agencies, the result
of all care and culture, the trophy
of elf-sacriicing love, the thing of
highest worth in the sight of God
and the estimation of the eternities,
a soul-saved, purified, glorifed.
Finding ones self, the problem of
life is solved, it's philosophyis under
stood, the powers and forces of
life are directed to the noblest ends.
Finding ones self is to come into har-
mony with all truth. Taking the
simplest things in nature, as we'll as
the most sublime, an atom or a
star, the educated man who has
found himself reads in all the ex-
pressions of the divine thought.
"Flower in the crannied wall,
/ pluck you out of the crannies
Hold you here, root and all in my
hand
Little fower-but if I could under
What you are. root and all, and all
in all,
l should know what God and man is"
Young gentlemen, if you have
worth, the world is almost Ire to
find you; but it is more important
that you should find yourselves.
Of little value is "the garish day"
The voices of popular applause may
have an echo of mookery. But the
manhood that knows it's integrity,
appreciates it's worth, and is mod
estly conscious of it's powers, will
illuminate the sphere of its influence,
will serve it's generation we'll, and
under the approval of the divine
eye will find a satisfaction that is
deep and abiding.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-30
FINDING ONES SELF.

Kipling has a little story called
"The Ship that Found Herself. The
ship was on her trial trip. The own
er's daughter, who had recently
christened her by breaking bottle
of champagne over her bow, was on
board. In conversation with the
captain she expressed her admira-
ton of the ship. go, she's no. so
bad" the skipper replied. "But I'm
sayin' that it takes more than chris
TENN to make a ship. In the nature
of things she's just irons and rivets
and plates put into the form of a
ship. She has to find herself yet "
The figure may not hold good in
every particular, but it brings the
useful suggestion, young gentlemen,
that going out into the world to try
your strength, to contend with diff
culties, and to adjust yourselves to
the conditions of life, like the new
ship just out of the dock, you will
need to find yourselves.
1t is necessary, in the first place,
that the ship should be made of good
material and we'll constructed. Infe-
rior material and poor workmanship
covered over with paint and gliding
means wreck and loss in the storms
that must be encountered.
So the strong elements of good hu-
man stock, grasping and incorpora-
ting great truths under careful in
struction, are necessary to enable
n to meet the duties and conflicts
of life. God, society, the country
have need of men, so constituted and
trained, and demand them of US, the
shipbuilders of manhood.
''Build me straight, o worthy Master,
Stanch and strong, a gOodly vessel,
That shall laugh at all disaster,
And with wave and whirlwind wres-
tie"
With the good material of sound
bodies, strong minds and stout hearts
furnished us by your parents and
homes, with your intellectual and
moral training, this institution,
through the instruction of the class
room, the personal influence of teach
ers and fellow-pupils, the power of
religious cOmpaniOnship, has endeav-
ored to bring your characters into
order and sympathy, and to furnish
you the best possible equipment for
the storm and stress of life's vOyage.
Years spent in preparation, expendi-
tue of money and energy, if wisely
directed, are not in vain, but r es-
sential TO securing strength, endur-
ance and efficiency. Sometimes you
may have become tired of waiting,
and impatient at the slow process of
development of moral and intellect
ual character. But the waiting and
the labor pay even in visible results,
much more in the enlargement and
enriching of life.
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Honesty is the first chapter in the
book of wisdom.-Thomas Jefferson.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-30
The Home Circle.
"MATILDY's BEAU"

Joe Lincoln, an Puck
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Whoever is really brave mas d.
ways this comfort when he Is oP-
pressed, that he knows h1mse1 10 70
superior to those who injure him Oy
forgiving it.-POpe.
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AS in a piece of tapestry, where on
one side all IS a confused and tangled
mass of knots, and on the other d
beautiful picture, so from the ever
lasting hills will this earthly life aP-
pear not the vain and chancetuL
thing men deem it here, but a per
feet plan guided by a divine hano
unto a perfect end.-Cardinal Man
ming.
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Don't be satisfied. Push onward
and upward. If you are not so strlV-
ing, remember
''If thou couldst in vision see thyseLI
the man God meant,
Thou never more wouldst Do bH0
man thou art, content"
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sun nor stars appear and only faith
in God can hold you to your course
In the stress of the storm we find
ourselves and God.
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You are ready to 60 out at last.
The dock can no longer hold the
ship. No more can the smooth wa
tors of the harbor cOnfne her. She
Vas made for the sea, and though
waves and winds are waiting to toss
and buffet her, still she must go.
Well Is 1t If the material il strong
and the workmanship good, or soon
her broken masts and spars will be
seen,
"Bori nantes Ia gurgite U0stO,"
and her stranded hull may tell to
passing vOyagers OF failure and loss,
disappointment and disaster
But the wise old skipper said at
takes mOr than christenin' TO make
Tkrom the baccalaureate address of Rev a.
r bowman, DID. Presidentof Emory COlIegs
oxford, ga.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-03-27
For Winter or snriny rira.

Pigs coming in the months of De-
cember, January and February need
the very best conditions of warmth and
are quite expensive on account of the
Ions time they must be kept penned
ul before grass grows. Pigs farrowed
in January. and February need a
warm, roomy, well ventilated pen,
which few farmers have. The two best
months for litters to come, under or
dinary circumstances, are March and
September, and good, thrifty sow can
just as well have two litters a year as
one. The SOW. when mated, should be
in good, thrifty condition. 1t is a mis-
take to breed when either boar or sow
is in poor condition.
When two litters year are desired,
the SOW should be bred between Nov.
10 and Dec. Is. If only one litter a
year is wanted, breed a month later.
There is a decided advantage in not
having pigs come until between April
Is and May Is. The weather is then
quite warm and there will be no dan
ger of losing the youngsters by cold.
Grass will then be obtainable, and the
sows having access to grass will give
little OR no trouble when farrowing.
But those who mean to raise two lit
ters a year must have the first litter
come not later than April l, so the
SOW can be bred in good time for the
fall litter.-J. A. Mcdonald, in Orange
Judd Farmer.
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IHinfer-NIndc Iutfcr.

You cannot produce first-class winter
butter unless you churn often.
To churn every other day is better
than once in three days. while to put
it off till every fourth day is cXecrahle
practice. And yet~a vast amount of
butter manufactured on the latter plan
is marketed every winter much to the
disgrace of the dairy trade.
1T is found primarily in country
stores, where it has been exchanged by
small dairymen at q second rate price
for groceries.
The tradesmen ship it i'll lots to the
city market. where all the way
through, whether it ends in the lardcr
of a baker or On the table of the poor
workingman, it is classed as inferior
and sells for a low price.
And yet the original material from
which this butter was made was as
good as that which is employed in
turning out tho % and S0-cent article.
The inferiority cf quality and conse-
quent loss to dairymen follows because
they ignore the right principles of but
ter making.
Suppose tha. farmer after raising
fine crop Of potatoes and digging
them should allow the tubers to lie a
day or two in the sun before storing
them in the root cellar? Could he ex-
pect to sell the green, bitter vegetables
for full market quotations? Most GER
tainly not, and even the most obtuse
are thoroughly we'll aware of this fact.
And yet those who use common
sense in this respect with inconceiva-
Bile folly will spoil good cream and
butter by wanton neglect, as outlined
above.
1t is pretty costly neglect, too, as it
forfeits from s to 10 cents on every
pound of inferior butter.
This could be obviated by churning
cream when it is fresh and pure, i. e.,
Slightly matured, but not bitter, and
manufacturing it into butter according
to modern principles.
Cream should all be secured from
the milk in at least "a hours, and then
the cream should be matured and
churncd within the next "a.
This can be done usually by keeping
it at temperature of between GO de-
grees and 10 degrees.
1t is where cream is kept at near 40
degrees and for several days that it
develops that bitter flavor ruinous to
butter quality.-George e. Newell, in
American Cultivator