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The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-12
Don't Dine Alone.

How many people dine alone? The
restaurants all number solitary diners
among their regular clientage. How
many thousands Of people. men or wo-
men, will eat a lone dinner or supper
tonight in the cities and towns and
hamlets Of Christendom2 The evil OF
eating alone is the subject Of an ear
nest although cheerful warning from
the London Lancet. The hygienic val
lie Of gregarious dining Is insisted up.
on. The necessity Of taking food in
social fashion is an inherent racial sort
Of thing. and those who 20 against Il
for years usually have to pay for II
with some Of the Ills Of indigestion.
Breakfasting alone Is not bad for q
busy generation. but dining alone ia
not habit to be long continued. in civ
ilization or out Of 1t. without disastrous
results.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-12

Mrs. Carrie Nations 1Oint-smashine
antics have excited Mr.. Carrie Ma
tion's ire to the point of applying to
the courts for a divorce from his
rum-hating spouse. He charges that
his wife held him up to public ridicule,
neglected her family duties and aban.
dOned her home. Judging from the
remarks with which Carrie greeted
the announcement of the suit, she is
not worrying q great deal. Il never
did love him, but pretended to re-
spect him. l will be glad to get rid
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-12
A Truly True Dog story.

Here is an Australian dog story from
the back blocks: A sheep dog had been
brought from q station into a small
township and fretted after the sheep,
One day not q child was to be seen
about the place, and as evening came
the township became alarmed. Search
was made, and the juveniles were
found huddled up in the corner Of q
paddock. where the dog had rounded
them up. He had no sheep to look aft
er. 20 he took the children. The mar
rator Of this lie guarantees it as q fact.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-12
of him." The experiences of Mrs.

of him." The experiences of Mrs.
Nation during the past few months
should serve as warning to any
man or woman who feels rising with
in them the impulse to hurry on the
moral regeneration of the race with
an axe. While brief uplifting to the
top of a wave of notoriety may re-
suit, with hundreds of equally fanat-
ical but less courageous "reformers"
to howl encouragement, soon the tide
turns and the poor unfortunate comes
to earth with a jolt. Observe the
case of the Kansas woman. The
shriekers and smashers who promis-
ed to stand by her soon lost their zeal,
drifted away, and allowed her to serve
out in Jail petty fine, and now after
twenty-five years of married life her
husband seeks a separation, which,
regardless of her don't care assump-
tons. will probably be blow and it's
results sad to consider.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-12
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER
MONDAY. AUGUST Il. 1901.

ing the See from SUBSCRIBERS.
kAAkAak1k4kAk1hAkA
ANTl-cAMBLING ENFORCEMENT.
attorney General Donovan is rccels-
ing many evidences of approval for
his enforcement of the anti-gambing
law, according to the Independent, in
the shape of letters from all parts of
the state. Among the letters received
was one from young woman who is
corresponding secretary of society
at Kalispell, formed for the purpose of
urging good government and a better
enforcement of the law.
1.-The evil forces Of our country
need to be eradicatcd by the firm
hand of the law, and our citizens de-
pend upon trusted officials for it's en-
forcement," she wrote. 80 we have
great reason to be p,oud of this at
toruey general OF our st q for YOUR
.r:iring zeal in putting down the
ganl ling monster, which has been
scrping the vitality OF city and state
to the great detriment Of morality and
good citizenship"
While there is no room for discus
sion of the question of enforcing law
upon the statute books, the enforce
ment sometimes takes direction that
among liberty-loving people, even
those who on general principles may
be opposed to all forms of gambling.
Such cases as that of d. G. Stevens
of Bozeman, for instance. He with
some friends was engaging IN Il cl'et
game of 2,k,r in the privacy q his
home, whe,i the minions OF the law
swooped dowa upon the scaae of the
hOrrifying exhibition of law-breaking
and placed the host under arrest on a
charge of gambling. The county at
torney took up the case and pressed it
to trial before the district Judge, Mr..
Stevens pleading guilty and being as
sessed $125. The officials in the at
torney generals office are said to
have felt that they had cause for fell
citation in the result of the trial, and
said that while the case was not one
of the most fragrant that could be
charged against a man who likes to
daily with the chips, the attorney gen
eral believed it an entering wedge
to further successful prosecutions OF
violators of the law.
The attorney general can probably
find no more sure way to secure the
repeal of the anti-gambling law thar
to oppressively enforce it. and to en-
ter citizens home and interfere will
a quiet poker game will probably b,
most people be regarded as oppres
sion. Reasonable enforcement will
be upheld, but when people begin t,
feel that their homes are liable tn in
vasion through any law, no matte
what, reaction is sure to set in, gen
orally with the result that the law il
repealed or remains formality
While gambling houses and opel
gambling give good ground for offens
to many, interference with quie
amusement in the home is likely t,
give Offense to all.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-12

"You are an ungrateful child! II It
hadn't been for you. could have gone
to the mothers' congress"
''If It hadn't been for me. you couldn't
have gone. because you wouldn't have
been q mother."-Cleveland Plain Deal.
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The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-12

We do not fade colors. American
Steam Laundry.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-12

Baths Is cents - kalispell Steam
Laundry.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-12

Inquire Of the American Steam
Laundry for special rates on family
washing.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-12

It 10 always pleasure with 10 to
please our patrons. American Steam
Laundry. Phone 81,
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-12

Ladies have you seen the nice line
of silk parasols In black and colors
at the New York store.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-24
NO MORE QUESTIONS.

The nature of a presiding officers
duties varies with time and place.
An athletic miner was in the chair
at a political meeting in New South
Wales just before a close and excit-
ing election. One of the candidates
was present to speak.
During his address he was inter
rupted by hooting and rough chaf,
and the chairman was sOonin a state
of boiling indignation. Smothering
his wrath, however, he pacifed the
boys by assuring them that at the
end of the Candidates speech they
should be at liberty to put any ques-
tions they chose. Accordingly, at
the end of the harangue he rose and
inquired, in stentorian tones and in
a rich Irish brOgue;
elias inny gintleman a question to
airsk?"
A stout little Welsh miner, who
had been a conspicuous disturber of
the peace of the evening, shufded
slowly up the steps of the platform.
But at the top he was met by the
chairman, who without the slightest
warning delivered a terrific left and.
right, and sent the Welshman sprawl
ing on his back.
"Now," roared the chairman, "has
inny other gintleman a question to
airsK?"-and there was no response.
Youths Companion.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-24
BEAUr1FY1NG A GIRLS ROOM.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE Il was in a
girls room last week that was so
artistic and pretty, and at the same
time so homemade, that I imagined
many of the girls of the Circle would
enjoy knowing about it.
Well, the first thing I spied was
the rugs. They yer beauties and
1 could hardly believe that they made
by hand, but they n Little
strips half an inch wide and six
inches long we're cut of red and solid
black goods. Then they sewed
together alternately in a long strip
and a ball formed. She used long
wooden kneedles to knit the threads
and a lovely rug was the result.
In another rug she had employed
several colors with black and it was
equally pleasing.
Over the. mantel and on the walls
in several parts of the oOm were
hung pretty engravings of artistic
design. Her bed was a beauty with
it's counterpart of heavy sheeting
almost covered with little daisies
that looked as if they had been
thrown there, only they were red
and put on with outline stitch. On
each sham was a large bunch of the
same dear flowers likewise in turkey
red, outline stitch. The spatter
cloth back of her washstand was
adorned with the figures of many
brownies with tubs, brooms, towels,
mops, etc.
The curtains I admired very much /;
they were models of neatness, plain
white, with hemstitched hens on
which was an occasional tiny clover
leaf, also of red-not enough of these,
however, to seem super6uOus, but
just a bit of color was all. Many of
our girls could have their rooms
equally pretty with a small outlay
of money if they will only try.
Where there is no ''try," there is no
success.
Most girls like to have fancy work
that they did themselves, and why
not combine beauty and usefulness
in your work? It is more sensible
than spending months on one little
drawn work mat, that will never be
of real use to any one. Where are
Eva ~PIamondon, Patience and Hap
piness? MRS. M S.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-24
MRS. EVANS QUERY ANSWERED.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE Il have never
written a letter for publication, but
feel disappointed that there has been
no reply to MIS-. Evans question,
and as you requested an answer, /
will now try to give one.
Mrs. Evans wished to know her
duty, whether to go church and
Sunday School with her husband
and children or stay at home and
have them warm dinners on their
return. In the first place 1 would
refer to Heb. 10: 25, where we are
told not to forsake the assembling
of ourselves together. Again, we are
told that example is better
than precept. In addition to this 1
would say, take the advice of your
good husband and go with him and
the children to church and Sunday
School, considering the wants of the
spiritual welfare far more impor-
tant than that of the body which is
so soon to perish.
l was raised up on good Sunday
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-24

for, amusement or the least devia-
ton from their duty.
know q number of children who
are kept almost continually in fear
by their fathers harsh words and
terrible promises. At the least at.
tempt at amusement, the father il
ready to rail out at them about the
noise.
Dear parents, children cannot lead
a quiet life, as aged persons Dan,
What father or mother would have
the children grow up full of the cares
of life? They are apt to take up
life's burden early enough without
your scolding them for lack of
seriousness. We are surely commit
ting a sin when we embitter the life
of an innocent child by scolding him
for things about which he has no
knowledge or reason.
In the family where children are
kept in fear by their parents rough
speech, there is but little peace and
happiness for either parent or child. 1t
is a worse evil than picturing to their
minds any ugly creature, or almost
anything else, for when we cannot
live lovingly and pleasantly, without
fear, with father and mother, our
lives are diminished our hearts are
weakened; and the Holy Spirit
grieved.
Parents, please consider with a
prayerfu1 heart these few words. I
should like to hear from some one
else on this subject. A FRIEND.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-24

dinners-the best of all the week.
my mother always taking pains to
have something nice of such things
as could be prepared beforehand
(and warmed over If necessary.
And here I would add that she spent
a large portion of her life keeping
boarders and attended church reg
ularly. I have been keeping up the
same practice in my housekeeping
over % years and am a grandmother
trying to instil the same principles
into those following IN.
e. G.. HUTCHINSON.
Mecklenburg Co., N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-24
RELIGION APPRECIATED.

Spectator" in the New York Out
look reports the following converse
ton with a lady fried:
"You know" she said, "or more
probably you don't know, so I'll tell
you-that when a young colored
woman is seeking religion, one of
the older women in the church, a
sort of mother in Israel, is appointed
to be her mother in the Gospel
This mother in the Gospel looks
after her salvation to the best of her
ability, and has a certain authority
over her in consequence. One day
my colored house girl, who was at
tending the meetings and trying to
come through was set to churn the
butter. She made such a small
quantity that I was rather astonish-
ed Emmeline insisted that that was
all the butter that she could get out
Of it. That evening, as she was going
off to the meeting, I caught her with
a package in her hand, and found
out that it was a pound or two of
butter. Thereupon she broke down
and explained that she had taken it
as a present to her mother in the
Gospel because she had helped her
so much in getting religion !"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-24
Our Social Chat.
E07TFD BY AUNT JENNIE, RALEIGH, \. G. =

AS CONTRIBUTORS to this department OF
THE Progressive Farmer, we have some of the
most Wide-aWake and progressive young ladies
and Young men and m Of the most entertain
ing writer's among the older people of this and
other States, the ages of the members ranging
nom sixteen to more thOn sixty.
YOU ARE REQUESTED to join by sending
MS a letter on some subject of general interest,
and writing thereafter as often as possible.
WHEN WRITING, give full name and post
office address for Aunt Jenn1e's
in print, give name by which you wish to be
known as agChatterer.
W WEEKS OR MORE must, as a rule,
elapse between the time a letter is written and
the date of it's publication.
ADDRESS all letters to Aunt Jennie, care Of
The PROGRESSIVE Farmer. Raleigh. N. Q.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-24
KINDNESS IN DEALING WITH CHILDREN

DEAR AUNT JENNIE Il ask a favor
of any reader of The Progressive
Farmer. 1 read in the issue of Au
gust 9th an article entitled "Chil-
dren's Fears 1t is very true and
interesting.
But I wish to ask, is it not equally
as wrong and sinful to frighten chill
dren by harsh words and cruel
froWns, as by telling them those
horrible stories? Children should
be prompted to duty, in a kind and
loving manner, not harshly scolded
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-24

Of course you are reading GA Re-
public in North Carolina" pub
lished in this paper last week and
concluded in this weeks issue. Very
many persons have believed that the
Indian, no matter to what tribe he
is allied, is an inferior being, and
fail to realize that heretofore their
advantages have been meagre. Our
little band of Cherokees have proved
that they are capable Of much that
more than enlightened ACE find
difficulty in obtaining. Self-gOvern-
ment, for instance, requires good
sense and much judgment, cool
heads and brave hearts. "Manly" and
"Sixty" could tell us much more
concerning the Cherokees, for they
are neighbors of this tribe.
Letters appear this week from
from Mrs. M. s., Mrs. Hutchinson, A
Friend and Careless Tom, all of
which are we'll written.
AUNT JENNIE.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-24

"The greatest menace to the NOR
ality of both rich and poor in New
York is he fact that it is a city of
flats and tenements and not a city
of homes" This is a remark of an
expert from the United States Depart
ment of Labor, who, with six special
agents, has been investigating the
conditions of living among New York
working people. yesterday" he
went on to say, 81 found the family
of a skilled mechanic, consisting Of
eleven persons, living in four rooms.
That is indecent. There can be no
privacy in such conditions, and with
out privacy there can be no civiliza-
ton. I would like to ask the men
who are building colleges and endow-
ing libraries to build model tene-
ments instead. I would see no COL
lege endowed, and not a book given
to a library, until the people had
homes. "-Selected.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-24
COULDN'T COMPETE WITH DICKENS.

A bookseller in Cleveland adver-
tised for a porter. A big muscular
Irishman walked into the shop and
glanced around, Finally his eye
rested on a big sign over a table
filed with books: Chickens works
all this week for four dollars" The
Lrishman read it thoughtfully and
then edged toward the front door.
The foOrwalker asked pleasantly If
there was something he wanted, and
the applicant remarked, with a
backward glance toward the sign,
"Oi come in t. git tn job, but OH
not al FIR it. Dickins kin wor'
ruk all tn week FIR 81 if he wants to-
Oil not, Ye'd better kape HIM
And the visitor strobe vigorously
out.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-24

"What does Satan pay you for
swearing?" asked one old man of
another. "He don't pay me any
thing" was the reply. "WeII, you
work cheap, to lay aside the charac-
ter of a gentleman to infict so
much pain on your friends and on
civil people and to risk your own
precious soul, and for nothing-you
certainly do work cheap, very cheap
indeed" :
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-24

every Cherokee that his children
shall be educated at the national
school. This school is under the
able administration of Professor and
Mrs. Spray, who r doing a work
the value of which cannot be over
estimated. The course of instruc-
ton is comprehensive, embracing
everything from the primary depart
ment to the equivalent of a high
school education. The industrial
idea is also a prominent feature in
ie. The girls are taught to sew,
cook, and in fact everything neces,
says to make them good housekeep-
ers, while the boys r f~amiliarized
by actual experience with the prin-
ciples of carpentry, shoemaking,
iron-work and agriculture.
~
One of the objections the old In.
dian raised to sending his children
to school was that white teachers
would rob him of his language but
that has been proved a fallacy, and
it is certain that so long as the race
exists they will speak the tongue of
their forefathers, irrespective of ed
ucation or other considerations. In
fact, it is an impossibility for any
language to fall into desuetude so
long as the nation that speaks it
holds it in sufficient v~eneratiOn to
conduct their legislative and other
public deliberations in it.
One of the most notable effects of
education on a primitive people is to
ameliorate or change altogether the
facial expression, and it is interest
ing to note how it has operated on
this race. They were always re-
markable for a fine physique; but in
old photographs there is a fierce
harshness of feature which is very
difficult to find at this time. The
Cherokee of to-day has an air of re-
fnement and a certain intellectual
bearing that is not observable in any
other Indian. In the case of the
women it is almost universal, and it
is by nc means a difficult matter to
find types of great beauty.
When compared with other Indian
races his progress has been phenom-
email. Whether the limit has been
reached is a question scarcely worth
discussing, for from an intellectual
standpoint there are no limitations
to his capacity that do not apply
equally to the white man.. If he has
not written a great book or addeG to
the inventions of the world, it must
be remembered that in less than the
hundred years of his national exist
once he has passed through an Or-
deal far more severe than some
which have utterly crushed more
powerful nations. That he rose su-
perior to it and emerged from the
ruins of his greatness and began to
reunite the threads in the rent fabric
of his civilization is the best evidence
that a splendid destiny yet awaits
him here, where, perhaps thousands
of years ago, his Japanese progeni
tors, crossing the blue-crowned hills
of the West, founded for him this
beautiful home in the wales of the
Oconaluskee.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-24

If you have any volumes you WISH
to wear out a good way to make
their lives short is to leave them
open face downward, as to break
them through along the back, says
a writer in st. Nicholas. Another
effective way is to shut up some
thing thick between the leaves. ThlS
latter plan will be sure to crack the
glue which fastens the leaves at tno
back and the early fate of the hab0u
volume is assured.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-24
SELECTED QUOTATIONS.
Mecklenburg Co., N. G.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE 1T has been
quite a while since I last wrote for
Social Chat, and wen now I shall
not write a letter of my own. But
be it known that Careless Tom reads
much. He also has a habit of TAX
ing occasional notes from his read,
ing. Some of these, I think, should
interest Social Chat readers, and
possibly suggest topics for discus
sion. At any rate, if you think this
miscellany worth publishing, you
Gan use it. CARELESS Tom.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-24
The Home. Circle.


Just TO be good
This is enough-enoughl
O., we who find sins pillows wild and rough,
Dc we not feel how more than any gold
Would be the blameless life we led of old,
While yet our lips knew but a mothers kiss?
Al though we miss
All else but this,
To be good is enough
Is is enough
Enough-just TO be good!
To lift our hearts where they are understood;
To let the thirst for worldly power and place
Go unappeased; to smile back in Gods face,
With the glad lips our mothers used to kiss.
All though we miss
All else but this,
To be good is enough! James Wh1tcOn10