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

"You mustn't repeat this, you
know, for 1 promised not to tell"
said a girl who vas betraying a CON-
fdence to a friend and apparently
it did not enter her head to wonder
why she should trust her friend
more than herself. She had pledged
her word to keep another's secret,
and had broken her promise. What
assurance did she have that the other
would not follow her example?
Some of us who betray confidence
in this way excuse ourselves by say
ing, "I promised not to tell, but you
won't count" But do we always
make it clear to those who are so IN
fortunate as to trust us, that we in
tend to share their secret with at
least one? Mental reservations are
not enough. If we cannot keep a
confidence, let us refuse to ACCEPT it.
And it does not excuse US for telling
a secret we have promised to keep.
that we take it for granted that
some ones else honor is higher than
our own.-Young Peoples Weekly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

night on Park avenue, near Seven
tieth street, making off with a buD.
die Of silverware. He gave ohaso
The burglar threw away the bund,.
and jumped the fence that Surrounds
the cavernous ventilating holes ~
the New York Central Railroad TIM.
mel. Duggar followed him. Thu
burglar ran TO one of the holes, hest.
tated, and jumped a sheer twenty
feet to the tracks below, regardless
of the danger of being crushed BY
passing trains. Without a moments
consideration Duggan sprang after
him, landed on him, and dragged
him out by the collar. When the
president of the police board heard
of that he straightWay sent for
Duggan and heard the story from
his own lips, and when Duggan went
away he was a roundsman.
And this is only one instance
among a hundred.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08
WHAT DO YOU talk ABOUT!

Don't talk about your troubles,
above all, any ill Health or sickness.
Nothing is so tiresome as to hear
long tales of illness and suffering,
unless it be to bear those Affections
You deepen, strengthen and prolOng
the effects of sickness by dwelling
upon it in thought and speech. You
can hasten your recovery by enjoy
ing your return TO health and show
ing your delight in it, and that is the
only way you should allow yourself
to remind others of the ills you have
endured. Never speak of strictly
family affairs, and especially be care
full not to allow yourself, under any
provocations, to criticize any mem
Der of your own family in converse
ton with even your dearest friend
And avoid too much talk of every
kind about your own nearest OF kln'
You are naturally deeply interested
in your brother college experiences
Or your sisters cOming-O out parry,
but it is all rather ~colorless to people
outside of your own house. Therg
is nothing more becoming to a glLi
than a wOmanly reserve about noa
personal and family affairs. BeWaL0
Of going into details in convesatlon
upon such subjects. They are tl[1
some TO any thinking person VIZ
has to listen.-ADa G. Sweet, IN bn0
October Woman's Home Companion
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

country, and the newspaper editors
of New York City, as will presently
be seen, in proportion have had
greater scholastic advantages. The
Supreme Court justices, however,
presumably on account of the nature
of their work, are hard students all
their lives, and some mon compare
lively i~lliterate in the beginning of
their career on this exalted bench
have become ripe scholars long be-
fore the end of their service. Judes.
however, have better opportunities
for self Improvement that almost
any other men in active life. =
SIT has been difficult to deter
mine exactly the collegiate status of
the members of Congress. AS we'll
as 1 could make it out, it stands thus {:
Out of sc members of the Senate, A
r college men out of $50 members
of the House of Representatives 1853
were graduated from college. + + (
l confess that l was surprised at the
showing, and do not hesitate to a
to the youth who would go to Con-
gress that he will further his chances
enormously if he will go through
college and bear a proud sheepskin
TO his home, even tho he never be
able to read it's Latin text.
81 suspect that in the professions
of medicine and law the proportion
of college men who reach distinc-
ton and high earning capacity is
higher than in the higher fields of
politics. In journalism, whether
literary or political, the proportion
of leaders who have had the advan-
tage of college training is note
worthy. Of the eight leading New
York dailies we find that V of
the editors in chief are college men.
Of the fifteen most important
monthly magazines, fourteen of the
editors have been graduated from
colleges. These may seem to be the
highest intellectual walks in which
others do not strive. Such is not
the case, The others do strive, but
they appear not to get up as high
as the men who have had the four
years at college. Recently a very
useful and interesting book has been
compiled. Who's Who in America.
This compilation was intended to in
clude all living Americans that had
done things sc notable as to make it
interesting for the public to know
about their achievements, their per
sonality and history. But the title
is more descriptive than any elucida-
ton of it. Now this book includes
$500 names, and these are presum-
ably the present men and the wo-
men of distinction in the country
in all the fields of endeavor.
Of these, 3,237 were graduated from
colleges, 271 were graduated from
West Point and Annapolis, 733 at
tended college but were not grad,
uated, 693 went to academies and
seminaries, and III to high schools.
ina strikes me as an enormous pro
portion, if we grant that to get into
ms book is to indicate succefs al,
ready achieved. There are only a
5rlne over 5000 college men turned
ou5 into the fields of practical work
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08
SOMETHING THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND.
among a hundred.

Gen. Barnum. of Abbeville, 8. c.,
had a body servant before the war
who aped him in everything. Peter
so loved his master that he grew to
talk like him, act like him and al.
most look like him. He lives to-day.
che heart OF hospitality, the soul of
honor. Sunday two white men drove
up to the door Of his cabin and
asked him If he had any liquor in
the house. He said he had about q
quart. They offered to buy. He re-
fused to sell, but, just as his old
master would have done, invited
them to have a drink. Having drunk
they handed him a half-dollar. Of
course, like his master, he declined
the coin. The scoundrel went to
town and swore outs complaint that
he was violating the dispensary
laws. 1 happened to DO in Green
vile the other day when the trial
took place, and saw a revelation.
Peters counsel was Gen. Barnum's
son, AdjUtant General of the State
under Gov. John Gray Evans, and
the chief witness for the defense
was the general himself, who had
come over from Abbeville, distant
about one hundred miles, to say a
word fer his former slave. The Gen.
eral took the stand, and his son said
"What is your name?"
81 am Gen. Barnum, sir"
""Where do you reside?"
Gin Abbeville, sir"
Chow long have you known the
defendant?"
"Sixty-fve years, sir"
"What is his reputation?"
Gas good as any mans in this
courtroom, SIR"
"Would you trust him?"
"Trust Peter? Why I'd trust him
with my life, my honor"
The jury didn't leave their seats.
The scene "sorter tuched me up"
I met young Barnum and asked him
if he received anything for his servi-
cess. "Accept a fee from Peter?"
he said in Amusement. "Why, sir,
I'd as soon think of charging my
father"
"You and your father come 100
miles to clear this old negro?"
eyes, and we would have come a
thousand or ten thousand. Old Peter
was a second father to me. He
raised me. When I was we'll he
played with me-; when I was ill he
nursed me. When I was a boy I'd
rather sleep in peters cabin than in
my own bed at home. I'd rather
take a snack with Peter in those
days than dine with the President"
I'm afraid we yankees dom under
stand the "nigger" question yet
New York Press.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08
ROOSEVELT IN ANECDOrE.

Anecdotes in which President
Roosevelt figures as the star are al
most as numerous as those told of
Lincoln. Possessing a striking per-
sonality and having a habit of doing
and saying things out of the ordi-
nary, his words and deeds are always
interesting. The range of stories is
wide and varied, as might naturally
be expected of a man who has been
a cowboy, a traveller, a writer, a
reformer, a soldier and a statesman.
1t has been said of him that no liv-
ing American to-day is so versatile /;
that there is no calling that he could
not. fill, and with credit. Be that as
it may, be has certainly played a
long list of roles, and in each he has
been a conspicuous figure. And he
is still a young man. His complete
biography, when written, will be
quite as Entertaining reading as that
of any of our popular heroes who
are dead.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08
The Home Circle.
A STILL DAY IN AUTUMN.

love TO wander through the woodlands hoary,
In the soft gloom Of an Rutumnal day,
When Summer gathers up her robes of glory,
And, like q dream of beauty, ghdes away.
How through each loved, familiar path she fingers,
Serenely smiling through the golden mist,
Uniting the wild grape with her dewy fingers,
Till the cool emerald turns to amethyst
Kinding the faint stars of the hazel, shining
To light the gloom of Autumns moulding halls;
With hoary plumes the clematis entwlnlng,
Where, DER the rocks, her withered garlands fall.
Warm lights are on the sleepy uplands waning
Beneath dark clouds along the horizon rolled,
Till the slant sunbeams, through their fringes raining,
Battle all the hills in melancholy gold.
The moist winds breathe of crisped leaves and flowers,
In the damp hollows of the woodland sown,
Mingling the freshness of autumnal showers
With spicy airs from cedarn alleys blown.
Besides the brook and on the numbered meadows,
Where yellow fern-tufts feck the faded ground,
With folded lips beneath their palmy shadows,
The gentian mods, in dreamy slumbers bound.
Upon those soft, fringed lids the bees sit brooding,
Like a fond lover lOath to say farewell;
Or, with shut wings, through silken folds intruding,
Creeps near her heart his drowsy tale to tell.
The little birds upon the hillside lonely,
Fit noiselessly along from spray TO spray.
Silent as a sweet, wandering thought, that only
Shows its bright wings and softly gides away.
Forget TO breathe their fullness of delight;
And through the tranced woods soft airs are streaming,
Still as the dew fall of the Summer night.
So, in my heart, a sweet, unwonted feeling
Stirs, like the wind in Oceans hollow shell,
Through all it's secret chambers sadly stealing,
Yet finds no words it's mystic charm TO tell.
Sarah Helen WhihHa
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08
COLLEGE EDUCATION AS A TRAINING FOR LIFE.

he antagonistic views held by
many as TO the practical value of a
college education have lately been
prominently exemplifed in the ase
of Mr.. Charles NJ. Schwab, president
of the new steel trust, who counsels
boys who aim at success in business
to aVeid the colleges, and Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie, who values colleges
sc highly that he has recently
startled the world by his great gift
TO the Scottish universities. Neither
of these is callege man. From the
standpoint of the latter, Mr.. Gilmer
Speed, the well known American
writer and a granddaughter of John
Keats, treats the subject at some
length in Ainsley's Magazine. After
referring to the fact that of the
t~weaty-four men who have reached
the Office of President of the United
States, fifteen were college men and
only three without what may be
called academic training, while all
of the non graduates save two wer
members of a learned profession, he
continues:
'sSuppose we leave this field of
speculation, which leads back to the
beginning of our national life, and
confne ourselves to the present. In
the present Cabinet of President
Mckinley there T eight members.
Six of these are college men one,
himself a non-graduate, was Il pro-
lessor in a college when he entered
the Cabinet. The remaining eighth
man finished his education at an acad-
emV which, likely as not, ranked in
scholarship with many of the colleges
that confer degrees in all the dignity
of a Latin text that many.a recipient
would be stumped to put into literal
English. The administration of Mr..
Mckinley, himself not a college man,
tho q graduate of a law school, is
mainly conducted by men of college
training. There is probably nc man
in the country, not a crank, who
will say it is any%he worse for being
so. At the other end of Pennsylva-
mia Avenue, where the legislative
and judicial coordinate ORANGES of
the Government do business, let Us
see what is the collegiate condition
of the judges and legislators. The
judges are as follows, with the
college of each opposite his name.
"Chief Justice Fuller, Bowdoin.
"Mr. Justice Harlan, Center.
"Mr. Justice Gray, Harvard.
"Mr. Justice Brewer, Yale.
"Mr. Justice Brown, Yale.
"Mr. Justice Shiras, Yale.
"Mr. Justice White, Georgetown.
"Mr. Justice Peckham, Albany
Academy.
"Mr. Justice McKenna, Bonica
Collegiate Institute.
"Here we see that the members of
our highest court do not rank any
higher as college men than the mem
oers of the Cabinet, though they
are appointed and confirmed to Office
in large measure by reason of their
great and sound information in a
branch of learning that has been
called the sum of all knowledge,
indeed, the magazine editors of the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

Mr.. Roosevelt was once asked Tor
an opinion on what he termed true
Americanism. The reply, which he
Incorporated in one of his books, is
as follows:
81 have no wish to excuse or hide
our faults, for I hold that he is often
the best American who strives hard
est to correct American shortcom-
ings. Nevertheless, I am just as
little disposed to give way to undue
pessimism as to undue and arrogant
optimism. In speaking to my own
countrymen there is one point upon
which I wish to lay special stress ;
that is, the necessity for a feeling
of broad, radical, intense American
ism, if good work is to be done in
any direction. Above all, the one
essential for success in every pOliti-
cal movement which is to do lasting
good is that our citizens should act
as Americans not as Americans with
a prefix and qualiication-not as
Irish Americans, German-Ameri-
cans, native Americans-but as
Americans pure and simple"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

Nh. Roosevelt attends the Dutch
Reformed Church, but his real relig-
ion is perhaps most clearly revealed
through an incident of his visit to a
big ranch in Wyoming n Sunday
during his late national political can
vass. The owner of the ranch and a
number of his friends were anxious
to entertain the Governor in any
way that might be pleasant to him.
He chose to ride. A wolf hunt was
proposed. "There is nothing l would
like BETTER" Governor responded,
''but it is Sunday.
"Still nobody will know" sugges-
ted one of the newspaper men 1--WE
won't any of us say a word"
"My dear fellow" said the Gov
rnor, "tnere are swo ways OF Keep
ing out of trouble. One is to do
nothing that could by any possibility
make trouble for you. The other is
to conceal the things you have done
which might trouble. The
first way is the simpler. If you act
by it you lever want to tell a lie."
There was no wolf hunt that day &.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

There never was a man who had a
keener appreciation of bravery than
Mr.. Roosevelt. "Every feat of hero
ism," he says, ''makes us forever in
debted to the man who performed
it."
He was continually watching for
it and rewarding it among his men.
A lank, red-headed Irish patrolman
named Duggan saw a burglar one
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

Once, when a school boy, Roose-
Welt was called upon to recite the
poem beginning:
cat midnight, in his guarded tent,
The Turk lay dreaming of the
hour
When Greece, her knees in suppl
ance bent,
Would tremble at his power.
Theodore rose and started out
bravely. With all the fourishes of
boyish energy he repeated the lines
as far as "When Greece, her knees"
and then he stopped.
He stammered, shufhed his feet and
began again When Greece, her
knees The old schoolmaster
leaned forward, and, in a shrill voice,
said "Grease 'em again, Teddy, and
maybe it will go them" And Teddy,
with his usual pluck tried it again
with marked success.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

While Roosevelt admires indepen-
dence he believes in organization, be-
cause he has the instincts of a SOL
der. But he is not a martinez, and
has no faith in men who have not
minds of their own. It was to AS
semblymen Price and Morgan of
Brooklyn, two young legislators, to
whom he took a great fancy, that he
said at the beginning Of a session
of the New York Legislature eff
you choose to be cattle, I must con-
suit your driver. Be men, and I
want your advice"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

vour appearance at first, but any
man who will show as much zeal
irving to get into the army deserves
to be enlisted"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

President Roosevelt was once
travelling in Idaho, and passed a
book store, in the window of which
was a copy of his ''Winning of the
West" Going into the book store,
he inquired: "Who is this author,
ROOSEVELT" "Ohl" said the book
seller, "he's a ranch driver" "And
what do you think of his book?"
asked the President. "Well," said
the dealer, slowly and deliberately,
GIVE always thought I'd like to
meet the author and tell him that if
he had stuck to running a ranch and
given up writing a book he'd have
made a powerful more of a success at
his trade"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

When Colonel Roosevelt set out to
raise a regiment of Rough Riders
he decided that he would make sure
that every man enlisted possessed
not only nerve, but staying qualities
as we'll. His experience with one
young Westerner is a type of Sew
eral. The young man was strong
and husky enough, but there was a
look in his face that the Colonel took
to be one lacking a continuity of
purpose. He told the would-be re-
cruit that the ranks we're practically
full and that he could not enlist him.
The next day the young man re-
turned to repeat his request to be
enlisted. Again he was turned
downed. This proceeding was re-
peated for a week, the Western
youth never missing a day at the re.
cruiting headquarters. The peril
nacity of the boy finally interested
the Colonel.
"What did you say your name
WASP" asked Roosevelt on the eighth
visit.
"Henry Johnson"
"Where do you come from?"
''Iowa."
"You want to enlist as a Rough
Rider?"
81 do"
CHOW did you get here?"
81 walked some of the distance,
stole rides part of the way, and paid
! my fare as far as possible"
"Can you ride a horse?"
eyes"
"And shoot?"
eyes"
"Well you are the kind of man
we are looking for. 1 did not like
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

Julian Ralph once asked MI. Roose-
Welt:
"What did you expect to be or
dream of being when you we're a
boy?"
81 do not recollect that I dreamed
at all or planned at ALL" he an
swered. 81 simply obeyed the in
junction, Whatsoever thy hand find
eth to do, do that with all thy might
so 1 took up what came along as it
came. Since then I have gone on
Lincoln's motto: DO the best if
not then the best possible"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-08

The new President has appeared
on the political stump times without
number, but only once SO far as
recorded, has he appered in the pull
pit. This was in Chicago recently.
Mr.. Roosevelt is a personal friend
of the Rev. Mr.. Moerdyke of the
Trinity Reformed Church.
"Come and preach to US some Sun
day." wrote the preacher several
months ago to Mr.. Roosevelt. 81
will fill your pulpit the next time I
am in Chicago" was the reply. He ar
rived in Chicago on Saturday, and
the next day accompanied by Col.
j. II. Strong, he drove to Trinity to
keep his promise. The Rev. Mr.
Moerdyke was in the act of announo-
ing the hymn when the then Vice
President and Colonel Strong entered
the church. They took front seats.
The reading of the hymn was post
poned and the preacher stepped down
from the pulpit to greet his guests.
A minute later the minister returned
to the pulpit and announced that his
regular sermon on christian States
men" would be postponed and that
Vice President Roosevelt would
preach. "There is one thing I ad.
mire about Colonel Roosevelt more
than all others" he continued: she
is a man of his word" The Vice
President did not preach doctrine,
but he did deliver a lay sermon on
"Be Ye Doors of the Word, Not
Hearers Only" that was listened to
with the closest attention. The
afternoon of the same day he ad-
dressed the Gideons at the First
Methodist Church, and was elected an
honorary member of the association.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11

Two hundred young women braved
yesterdays rain to attend the Sunday
afternoon open door" session OF the
Chicago Woman's Club in the Fine
Arts building, says the Chicago Trib-
une. Miss Clara Dixon presided and
introduced the speakers. Carl Lambert
gave several selections on the violin,
accompanied by Mrs Favorite. Miss
Bingham sang. Martha Foote Crow OF
Northwestern University delivered the
principal address, speaking on The
Studies Of Modern Fiction" THE in
spiration for higher life In this
world come from literature" she said.
Il think understand the terrible lone
illness of the working girl in a great
city. She may have friends, but then
there is feeling of being alone when
she looks about her. | think see
gradual movement among men and
women to extend helping hand to all
these brothers and sisters who may
need 1t. There is none of us but who
needs some kind of help. The litera-
ture OF today | believe more truly re-
fleets the conditions. hopes and ambi-
lions OF the people than the literature
of any other age"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11
R.,nblicaps win I'm the state.

Voters throughout the state were
apathetic on the LIST and their indiffer-
ence resulted in a light vote being
polled. Jurticc Robert NJ. Montgom-
cry is reelected to the supreme court
bench by plurality of more than 67,-
600. The Republican candidates for
regents of the University of Michigan,
Frank w. Fletcher, of Alpena, and
Henry W. Carey, of Manistee, will not
run far behind the head of the ticket.
From meager reports received it is
more than probable that the legislative
salary and the Bay county court
amendments to the constitution were
defeated. For the state ticket Wayne
county went overwhelmingly Repub-
lican. Montgomery, for supreme court
justice, and Fletcher and Carey for re-
gents of the university, carried every
ward in the city
Probably the most interesting fight
in the state was over the Van Buren,
c)unty seat. According to returns
Paw Paw wins a victory by 500 votes.
More votes were cast in this county
than at presidential election.