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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-15
GOOD ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN

It is through the reading of gooa
books and papers we all become gooa
and wise. By following the examnlo
of those men and women whose Evoo
were exemplary, we too may fiji
places of honor with credit. Tho
parents, advice should be the best nd,
vice for every boy but when thew
are gone, to whom must he 20, IN.
less to great and good men through
the medium of books and papersq
Not dime novels or love stories which
fill the mind with unreal imagiDa.
ton and injure the memory, but
to substantial books and practical
helpful papers.
Every boy should endeavor to get
the best education within his power
When he has decided what profss-
sion he will follow, whether it be
agriculture, a physician, lawyer,
merchant, mechanic, teacher Or anv
of the many professions, he should
endeavor to master his profession.
The saddest mistake of the writer is,
that he set his mark beside others
instead of above them. If we could
call around us the army of young
boys who are thrown upon their W
resources as we we're in youth, we
would say If you would succeed in
life, boys, select and keep good COM
pany be honest and truthful be in
dustrious and willing to do any hon.
orable work at the price offered; be
temperate and courteous, and above
all be a man. Make up your mind
you will be a man, that you will
study to live for all that is good and
noble in the world, cultivate perse-
veranoe and stick-to-itiveness and
put a dollar in the bank every week
for a rainy day.. M. whitney, in
Farm and Home.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-15
DISAPPOINTMENT THROUGH THOSE WE
LOVE.

The loving, trusting girl who has
believed herself to be blessed by the
strong and true affection of a man
who seemed to fulfill her ideal of
manhood and then finds that she is
mistaken, has met a sorrow that is a
sorrow indeed.
The mere discovery that she has
erred in fancying herself beloved is
bitter, and if to this is added the
disenchantmen regarding the nature
he had trusted and believed worthy
of her affection, it is bitterer still. A
thousand times would any true
woman prefer to find herself unloved
than to learn that one she had loved,
~reverenced and confded in was false
and unworthy.
1t is a beautiful trait in the char
acter of all unselfsh women that
makes it their crown of sorrow
to find that one whom they
had counted d true man is a mere
semblance. Ten times easier is it,
to really fine natures, TO suffer
through their own mistake than to
see that a character which had won
so much from them was unworthy.
In a disappointment like this,
where all tia dreams and hopes of a
young life have linked themselves
together to create q future which
seemed full of the most beautiful
promise, all the force of woman
nature must arouse itself in her own
defense.
Concealment of regret is the natural
instinct OF even an inferior charac-
ter complaint is impossible to>a true
woman. To be altogether fine and
noble under such circumstances, no
shadow of jealousy must darken the
understanding. To be great under
this trial, a young girl nus be free
from desire to reproach, and above
criticism of a possible rival. She
must simply, by a heroic and always
ennobling effort, shut the door on
this past and let the wound lie open
to Gods sunshine and be healed by
His benediction.
Never count the sorrowful ending
of what had seemed q happy love
affair an ~affliction wait and see if
Gods angel did not stand at the
parting of the ways for your rescue
from a life of trial and grief.-Mrs.
Clement Farley, in The Ledger
Monthly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-15

school (and that, rs one may read in
my whitening hair, was many years
ago. who has not stepped forward
one inch on the road TO success.
This man has a fine brain; and keeps
abreast of current events. He is
sober, honest and courteous, but he
has never earned Il higher salary
than fifteen dollars a week, and all
because he is a Jack of all trades
and master of none. He is shifted
about from one department. to an
other in a vain endeavor to find the
one in which he will prove himself
of greatest value. He has lived the
life of a mere automaton and does
things mechanically. Other men of
one-third his number of years can
tell him more about his own business
in half an hour than he would'oare
to listen to-. An old man, he is still
dissatisfied with his lot, but will not
remedy it by acquiring a thorough
knowledge of some n branch of
the dry-goods trade. 1t is pitiful,
but not inexplicable. To the young
man who would rise in the world l
have but one word of caution-be
thorough, if you do not want to be
numbered among the worlds fail
ures.
wuUpu WI comm LEARN FROM ORR
ANCESTORS.
/ think our American spirit of
r~estlessness has much to do with
personal failure. The fever to gain
riches and honors in a hurry leads to
a slurring of work and a laxity of
morals. We have too little of the
stubbornness of purpose of our early
ancestors. Modern life is almost a
game of touch and go. We are striv-
ing continually to accomplish more
than we are built to accomplish the
twentieth century business man is
a two horse. power engine trying to
do the work of a freight locomotive.
The tendency of the average young
man is to fly before he has learned
to crawl. He will quote you Elmer
sons phrase, "hitch your wagon to
a STAR" but he forgets that one must
first get near enough to his particu-
lar star before the hitching process
can be accomplished. There is one
kind of ambition that works only
fol evil, and that is the kind of am
bition which says, q will succeed at
once. Let those who have to, plod
along. I will go straight to the
mark" Nothing but purest folly
could dictate such a procedure of
conduct for a young man. Failure,
after al, is merely the leaving I'M
done, or badly done, those things
which should have been done, and
done thoroughly.-Saturday Even
ing Post.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-15
WHY YOUNG MEN FAIL.

JOubS MAs SLl1Uh Will p4ONO q SAOdb
acquisition to your business" or
that "Mr. Brown, with his superior
intellect and many accomplishments,
will undoubtedly be a valuble aid in
some one of the more responsible
berths at your disposal" My ques-
tiOns to such applicants are some
what in this vein:
"What can you dO?"
ooh, / can do anything, Mr.. Og-
den. I am an all, around man, and
have filed many responsible posi-
tons"
''Can you take charge of our silk
department. and buy to advantage in
the open market as we'll as sell in our
store?"
We'll, no. 1 do not understand
the details of buying silks"
"Can you go down in our shipping
department. and take charge of the
general freighting of goods, or direct
our city d~eliveries?"
81 have been a shipping clerk, but
L am afraid 1 couldn't quite take all
the responsibility of the shipping
department."
perhaps you can assume the
management of our interior decora-
tions department and suggest to
patrons harmonious color schemes
for floor, walls and draperies?"
I'm afraid 1 couldn t do that, sir.
1 can sell carpets and wall paper, but
| don't understand interior deco
rating"
And it all ends in placing the name
of the applicant on our waiting list
as an ordinary salesman, if he is
thought to be worth employing at
all. They all know something about
everything, but only once in many
cases do l find a man who knows
everything about some one thing.
The man who is the square peg in
the round hole is the rule the
thorough master of a trade or branch
of business is the rare exception that
proves the rule. Education, breed
ing, even a high order of intelligence,
curiOusly enough, m no guarantee
that their pOssessOr will achieve
success. Lacking the capacity for
doing his best with a thoroughness
beyond all criticism, the most gifted
young man in the universe will fail
and fall into the ranks of second
class plodders.
SAVING HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS BY
PENMANsHIP.
In my experience l have found that
in so small a thing as penmanship
the average young business man is
astoundingly deficient. If I could
get clerks who wrote a uniformly
rapid and legible hand, l could in the
course of a year save hundreds of
dollars arising from plumbers due to
careless writing. 1t is easy to find
men who write with a beautiful
flourish, but the man who writes
legibly under all conditions and at
all times is as rare as hens teeth.
Take the average stenographer
he is usually an expert in the tran
scription of phonetic signs, but he is
more often a perfect ass in making
grammatical, well-phrased and cor.
rectly punctuated English of the
necessarily hurried dictation of his
busy employer. There is no depart.
mentiof human activity in business
or the professions where failure is
not due TO lack of thoroughness. :
There is one man in my employ to.
day who began his business career
at the same time I launched out from
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-15

hOD0E6 ~. SuOu upon "uO50 dOlO
shoulders rests the executive re-
sponsibility of John Wanamaker's
great New York establishment, is of
opinion, based on forty-odd years
experiece in the employ ment of
young men, that all the causes con
tributive So failure in a business "a
reer are embraced in a single COM
prehensive negative quality lack of
thOroughness-that paucity of intel
lect which begets the perfunotory
performance of duty and deprrives
the hand of dominating skill. Per-
haps no man in the drygoods trade is
better qualified to speak convincing
Iy on the subject of why men fail
than Mr.. Ogden, and this what he
says about that very important ques-
ton:
LACK OF THOROUGHNEss.
Failure TO achieve success in bust
ness, the falling short of great desires
and high aims on the part of young
men, is traceable to one primal cause
the absence of thoroughness. In
the race for supremacy in all COM
mercial undertakings, nine out of
every ten men either fail absolutely
or become Ronentities, not because
they lack ambition, not because the
proper opportunities for advance
ment have not come to them, not
because they have not received the
best educational advantages OF are
handicapped by poor health, but be-
cause they have never been at the
pains to master completely the thing
that has been given them to do. The
world is OvercrOwded with men,
young and old, who remain station
airy, filling minor positions and draw
ing meagre salaries, simply because
they have never thought it worth
while to achieve mastery in the pur-
suits they have chosen to follow.
Mostly, this is so because the aver
age young man fears hard work, and
would rather drift with the tide of
circumstances than pull against it.
Everywhere l see mentally near
sighted young men disconnected be
cause of their small incomes, and
chatting under the burden of their
humdrum duties, wondering all the
while why others are advanced and
they are left behind, but never for
an instant opening their yes to the
real fact that they have taken hold
of their business with but half a
heart and no mind except for what
is just beyond the hours need.
THE YOUNG A WHO CAN DO ANY
THING.
The crying curse of our land at
the present time is it's vast army of
incompetents, andits lack of workers
who know their business from the
ground up. For every thoroughly
informed and competent salesman
who has sought employment at my
hands there have been a hundred
who we're of mediocre ability OF
downright incapacity. There are
too many young men who are con.
tent to remain among the "hewers
of wood and drawers of water" be.
cause they will not step beyond the
beaten path TO acquire thoroughness
Almost every working day in the
year 1 am called upon to receive
some young man who comes to mt
highly recommended for a position
in our establishment. The letters O.
introduction these applicants bring
me are usually of a ste~reotyped form
in which some well-meaning paste
or person of influence is certain tina
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-15

The education of a child cannot "
shifted to the shoulders of teacn0'
or educator. The responsibility r0SpS'
first and foremost, with the parenSI'
September Ladies' Home Journ"''
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-04-04
Does It Pay 70 Buy Cheap?

A cheap RENE lv for coughs and
colds is all right, but you want some
thing that will relieve snd cure the
more severe and dangerous results
of throat aud lung troubles. What
shall you do! Go to n warmer and
more regular climate? Yes, if pos.
sible; if not pos ible for you, then iu
either case take the ONLY remedy
that has been intro luced in all civil
lied countries with success in severe
throat and lung troubles. Bosch S
German Sy"up." 1t not only heals
aud stimulates the tissues to destroy
the germ disease, but allavs inflam
nation, causes easy expectoration,
gives good night rest, aud cures
the patient. Try ONE bottle. Re.
commended mauy wears by all drug
giSts in the world. Get Green's
Prize Almanac.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-04-04

Marion Kooke, manager for T. NJ
Thompson, n large importer OF fine
millinery at 1868 Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, says: During the late
severe weather caught dreadful
cold which kept me awake at mini
aud made me unfit to attend t., nv
work during the day. One of nv
mlllners was taking Ch,noerlain's q
Cough Remedy for severe ccij ot
that time. which seemel to relieve
her 80 quickly that 1 bought some
t1r myself. 1t acted like magic and
l began ~ improve at once. I am
now 81 ir 'y wellaud feel very much
p'ease' to lcknowla'g it's merits.
ror ST Q oy the il,l lIeburg drug
store.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-04-04
An AItOOna nnner. sneakinn

An Altoona paper, speaking OF
ihe Pennsylvania railroads aband
onm'nt of the canal, says the canal
will bau'ed in many places for road
bel 70" It's tracks. Hear 1t: "The
old bed has been used by the Penn
sylvan'a at points along the Middle
division, and will be the main line
of the Pennsylvania through many
parts Of the Lewistown narrows
when the reconstruction work a,
that point is finally completed.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-04-04
BRIGADIER GENERAL FUNSTON.
kRnsan Gets Com isSion in Regular
Army-AEuinaldO May He ExiIed.

knnnan Gets Comm isSiOn in Regular
Army-AEuinaldo May he ENiIcd.
Washington, April 1.-The following
important army appointments were an
nornced at the White House Saturday
night: To be major general Of the
United States army, Brig. Gen. Lloyd
Wheaton, vice Miles, promoted lieu
tenant general. To be brigadier gen.
erals in the regular army, Brig. Gen.
Frederick Funston. United States VOL
unteers, vice Wheaton promoted; Col.
Jacob H. Smith, Seventeenth United
States infantry, vice Daggett, retired.
1t cannot be too emphatically stated
that the administration will avoid Civ
ing the captured leader any basis for
posing as a martyr. The matter Of
transporting him to Guam will receive
serious consideration. One senator
who called at the White House suggest
ed to the president the advisability Of
transporting Aguinaldo to some place
like Tutuila, in the Samoan group,
where, it was pointed out, he could be
kept at distance from the scene of
his old operations, and where he would
be in climate of which he could make
no complaint. The trend Of views as
expressed by the cabinet indicated that
ultimate transportation to some place
Of confinement outside Of the Philip
pines was the course most likely to be
Qdopted.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-04-04

trr blood is constantly being pur.
l,l"l by the lungs, liverand kidnevs
h''p these organs ia healthy con
"'t"" aud the 30 veIS regular and
YOU wlIl have no need of a blood
pnnh"r. For this purpose there is
'."thlng equal to Chamberlain.
Sl"inarh ari Liver Tablets, one dos,
"( them viii do You more good than
ndoilar bottle Of the best blood pur
lhr Ptic",, % cents. Samples free
a the Midllrbnrg drng store,
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S,ol,us.l ..aaiin7, Committee.

Adams--C. =. Bingamsn. J. d. Sipe.
Bssver-.Charles Dreese, Elmer wetxel.
Beaver W -Thos Herbster. Jackson Baker.
Jentre-W. A. Napp. r II Slime.
Chapman = Peter Shaier. C. II. Updegrove.
Frsnkiin-John Hsekenburg, Geo. {. Stetler.
Jackson--J Harvey Moyer, q. A. Brouse.
Middleburs--f ". Specht Frank Reitz.
Niddiecreek ID Y. Row, Geo. G Stuck.
Monroe" l.. Young, d p. Ritter.
Penn Harry l. Engie, Geo v. Wilmer.
Perry-F. + Boyer, Allen Valentine
Perry v. Josiah Whey. G. :. Spriggle
Selnsgrove--J. A Luma ard, j. r. Keller.
Spring -Chas Il. Jose, ID. II Shook.
Union--Jscob Stahl, A. J Stroh.
Washington -Myron doyer, w. r. Blown.
PBrER YOUNG, Chairman.
ELMER WErZEL, Sec retary.
fRAvy REIrI Treasure
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WRITERS
CORRESPONDENTS or
K :2O2TESS

Nantei everywhere. Stories, news
feas, poems. illustrated articles,
advance news, drawings, photo
sr'phs, unique articles, etc, etc
pufcnas' d. Articles revised and pre.
pare | for publication. Books pub
l'H1"d. Seni for particulars and
full Inform atom before sending ar.
ti2ls..
Tie Bulletin Press Association.
New York
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SALE NLuIJILN

/. Notices OF sales will be inserted free nnder
TINS healing when the bills are printed at thi.
otmce' mhen the bills are not printed at this
Office 81 cents will be carged Persons e,nect'
ing to have sale should select IA date and have
1t inserted in this column.
SATURDAY. April 6, at 'Verdilla, DIR. Wv
Longacre and DR.. IL. VI. Krebbs. attorn eys
u. ,oi the estate OF Geo VI. 1ouscr, will sell !
u horse, cows and farming Implements.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-04-04
4 reStilDl.
land.

Il cousi1er Chamberlaiu's Cough
Remedy the best in the world for
bronchitis, says Mr. William Savory
of Warrington, England. 1T has
saved my wifes life, she having been
martvr to bronchitis for over six
Years, being most OF the time con-
fined to her bel Sheis now quite
we'll. S'll by tue M,iilebnrg drug
store.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-04-04
No YellSw Fever In Hayana.

Havana, April 2.-For the first time
in the history OF Havana the month OF
April begins without a single case OF
yellow fever in the city. Maj. w. G.
Gorgas, chief sanitary oficer, 10 con-
adent that, with the sanitary measures
now being enforced and the valuable
information gained during the recent
Investigations OF the yellow fever COM
mission, there will be but few cases
during the coming season.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-04-04

WANTsD.-Capaile. reliable person in ev.
cry county to represent large company of solid
able weekly 81 per day absolutely sure and a,l
expenses straight. bona-fde. definite saiarv
commission; salary paid each Saturday and
nRD HOUSE. SO Dearborn St. Chica1o AMI
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4 DMINISTRATOKS' NOTICE.

- tsrs OF Administration in the esfa'e Of
Havid weaver, late OF Union township Sny.
der County, Pa., deceased, having been q, ntcd
TO the eundersigned. all persons know ing t,em.
selves indebted to said estate sre request i IN
make immediate payment, while tho.c ", 'rp'
claims sgainst the said estate will Or s.u n.
duly sut 1enticated 70 the undersignei
AH TR0UTNAN, Admtpi.svatas,.
Apfili, 1901. Port REVERT Pa.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-04-29
An Explanation.

! see stated 10 ARDMoREITE of
26th inst, over signature OF Me-
Cullough & TAYLOR that | had been
discharged and that they were no
longer responsible for anything /
said or did. | would state that |
was not discharged, but that | quit
their service on about the Sth day
OF April. That just prior to my
quitting they had both told me
to send in orders to them during
the coming season.
| wish to have those people who
have heretofore so kindly favored
me with their orders for trees,
shrubs, roses, etc, during the
past year and a half, as well as tie
public generally, know that | am
in the business representing trees
grown at Wynnewood, |. r., aud
shall get my roses and choice
shrubs and flowers from the cele-
brated rose house of Dingee &
Conard company Of West Grove,
Pa, who have been ffty'one years
engaged in the culture of roses.
hope from now on my patrons
will find plants, trees and roses
true to name; that no fictitious
labels will be used to make vari-
eties as has been done in the past.
Very respectfully.
STEPHEN o. DoANE.
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Good Work.

l.. l.. Tyer, deputy national pres
ident of the order of American
Plowmen, showed us a check yes
terday for $l40O in favor of Mrs
Laura Eikman, wife of John Elk
man, who was a member of Ard
more Council No. -. He also
informed us that two claims for
like amount were paid to Wynne-
wood council and one fo~ Over
brook council, all in full.
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Chiekasaw Reunion Committee.

The executive committee of the
United Confederate Veterans of
the Chickasaw nation are hereby
called to meet in Ardmore on the
first Monday in May, at which
time we will receive bids for the
annual reunion to be held some.
where in the Chickasaw nation
during the latter part of June or
the first of July, 1901.
j. w. GOLLEDGE, n. +. LAW,
Secretary. Chairman.
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A Good Investment.

The White Elephant buggy is
worth every cent Bivens & Will
Jams ask for them. They are bet
ter adapted to rough roads than
any other buggy made. In point
of wear, comfort, finish and style
they cannot be excelled. When
YOU are ready to buy ask for the
White Elephant. 24dwtf
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Stauifenberg's $40 suits are
cracker jacks. Remember that
every garment he turns out is made
in his own shop and by expert
tailors. 23-6t
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Refrigerators and ice boxes at
2Stf g. h. JONES.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-04-29

Warm prices on screen doors and
paint at the Laidlaw Lumber Cos.
% If
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White Elephant.

The name plate white Ele-
phapt" is put on the best buggies
made. You can get them from
Bivens & Williams. 24dwtf
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-04-29

Buy screen wire and screen doors
from Spragins.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-04-29

! keep the best ice cream and
purest soda water in the Territory
and have the only electric car
bonator in Ardmore. Fresh car.
donated water made daily.
1ltf X b. PEOPLES,
Successor to Simpson & Co.
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]. II. Stauffenberg

Has made some big additions to
his stock of tailoring goods. He
took advantage Of some very low
prices and now must reduce his
stock All wool pants, former
price. 26, 81 and IS, now go at So.
All wool pants, former price SO,
$40 and $ll, go in this sale for Sc.
Fine fancy wOrsted suits from $40
up. Fine Scotch tweed suits from
500 up. London special trousers
from So up.
This big reduction is offered for
30 days only. Remember that
every garment is made at home
First door north of the First
National bank. % Ct
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-04-29

Some person who lost a small
bundle of clothing may find same
at this office. 26 2t
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-04-29

Notice is given to the public that
one s. o. Doane, our former
agent has been discharged and in
future we are not responsible for
what he may do or say.
MCCULLOUGH & TAYLOR,
26-tf Props. Indianola Nursery.
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a pretty line of baby carriage
cash or easy payments at
2Stf &. X. JONES.