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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-06-09

Of the bridge the figure Of a man. a stream
Of blood coursing dowp his pallid cheek.
For a moment the apparition stood on
the bridge. and then seemed to be wafted
towards a thicket of chokecherry bushes
a hundred yards up the canon.
Doilie's frenzied horse reared madly. and.
dashing her to the bridge. crashed through
the railing and plunged into the stream.
Dollie was rendered unconscious by the
fall. and Patience tainted for the first time
In her life. She was aroused an hour later
by the voices of a score of men whom
ABE" Holden had summoned to his assist
ance when his daughters horse had gal
loped into the barnyard. muddy and rider
less.
On the way home the girls told the story
Of the ghost and that night the frequent
ers OF the "Forty-NIile House discussed
the terrible apparition until "Zeb" Little's
stock of whisky. both good and bad. was
well-nigh exhausted.
While the excited ranchmen were talk
ing. Carlos Hartman entered the room.
He was unusually pale and drank glass aft
er glass Of fiery liquor. His cleaning eyes
| and trembling hands bespoke his agitation.
Standing at the bar he seemed utterly
oblivious of the group of men around him
until "Hank' Tucker struck the bar a fierce
] blow and said. vehemently:
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-06-09

Sbeeiai Correspondence Of The Sunday RepuhliA
Atchison, Kas.. May S-James w Orr.
Mayor OF Atchison, is said BY some
Of his admiring friends to b perhaps
the shrewdest and ablest politician IN
Kansas Politics Is his amusement. He has
been a member OF the Democratic State
Central committee for nearly fifteen years
He has been delegate to Democratic nation
al conventions. and in 1855 was nominated
for Congress from his district while away
from home. but declined the honor.
MI. Orr 10 assistant attorney for the Mis-
souri Pacino RAILWAY. and member e tho
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-06-09

irm Of wagssner. Horton = Orr ne lsA0.
ing law nrm IN the State Of KanaaA H
came to Atchison In ISL from 1(je1lQAL
He graduated from . prsparatoEy seAeea q
Nnes, Mich. with . view Of sttsndfug 81.
lege. but was too poor to continue -
studies. He was employed three yeaEU u .
drug store. read Law. and At the ago q .
was admitted to the bar. and at . -
pointed Deputy County Attorney. n -
he was elected County Attorney Of AtchiooD
County. He has held other political poni-
tons. and has for years been proui1nen4 =
the councils Of the Democrats PARTY =
beth Dtato and ration
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-06-09
n H. " FINN r. ~ Ut i. MDnHWmMH
A STORY OF A WESTERN TRAGEDY
AND THE ULTIMATE VISITATION OF JUSTICE.

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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-06-09

The long. hot summer passed without an
incident more noteworthy than q quarrel
between Missouri" Hawkins and Carlos
Hartman. The two men from their nrst
meeting had given evidence Of mutual dis
like. A sarcastic remark from missouri"
had brought a quick retort from Hartman.
and then the lie was passed. In q moment
.Missouri's' hand was at his belt. Before
he could draw his heavy Colts from is
holster the barrel OF Harriman's weapon
was cleaning uncomfortabiy close to Mis-
s~ourfs" head.
Harriman's cold smile and sparkling eye
unne-ved Missouri" He skunk from the
room ard thereafter commanded NO r.
spect. Even 'cayouse" Irving. who oncs
had executed q Jig under the persuasive In.
4fuence of "Misssourits' six-shooter. was
embroidered to make sorry Jokes on the
lattsr's downfall.
When the winter came with it, snow and
~sleizhrides and dances. Carlos Hartman
was easily chief among the young ranch
men. At one of the dances given In ABS"
Holden's barn. Hartman met Dollie Hol-
den. .Abe's only child. who by general
Acknowledgement was the p~rettiest girl
in Wasco County.
Doliie was about Is years old. and had
tust come from Portland. where she had
spent two years at school.
At the first meeting OF Dollie and Carlos
Hartman. in his bright yellow buckskin
eayiy decorated In silver lace. the ire Of
love was kindled In her heart and before
long its fame was sparkling In her eyes
and glowing in her cheeks.
The sight Of Dollie and Hartman. SIDE
nv - N his sleigh. or in the aame 81 II
The da5ske. prepared Tfehs Ridge for thu
news Of their bstrotha. uhteh soou cana,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-01
AN EPOCH OF AssAss1NAT1ONs.

The nineteenth century ran red
with the blood Of rulers, beginning
in 1901 with the killing of the Gar
Paul of Russia by some of his mobiles.
There were over so assassinations or
attempts at assassinations of ruling
statesmen and crowned heads, be-
ginning with the Car Paul and end
ing with President Mckinley. But
a clear distinction can be drawn be-
tween those which occurred prior to
1894 and those which have crowded
the few years since Carnot fell.
The assassination of President
Carnot in 1894 was the first avowed
work of the modern revolutionary
anarchists, whose propaganda of
murder is aimed against all govern
ment of whatever character and
however liberal and free. Every
assassination and attempt at assas-
sination since then have been their
work. They have been exceedingly
busy and their bloody harvest has
been uncommonly fruitful. Within
seven years they have shot the presi-
dents of the two greatest republics
in the world, besides killing the
monarch of a great Power, the En-
press of another great Power, the
prime minister of still another Eu-
ropean kingdom, and have attempted
the life Of the heir to Britain's
thone.-Springfeld Republican.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-01

activity last year in the development
of mines and mineral properties in
this State than at any time in Is
years. This vas general and con-
fined to no n mineral. There was
re-opening of old copper and iron
mines and search for new properties.
The high price of copper has kept
up. The demand for oorundum, tale,
mica and monazite is attracting
much attention to the deposits.
Many failures in this State in min
ing ventures are due to overcapitali-
zation, and show that mining must
be done on business methods. While
a few new gold mines have been
opened, most of the work was done
in the old ones, some of which were
operated quite extensively, yet the
year was n of development rather
than of actual mining.
Successful, and in some instances
extensive mining operations are
shown in pottery clays, lump pyrites,
manganese, corundum, garnet, mica
(and it is said the North Carolina
mica is superior to any in the World),
tale, pyrophylite, graphite, hidden
tie, rhodolite, monazite, tungsten
(for hardening steel, a product of
Cabarrus county,, s~amarskite, iron,
coal, gold, silver, copper and gran
ite, white, blue and pink marble,
brownstone and other building and
monumental stones. The list serves
to give an idea of, the mineral re-
sources of North Carolina and it is
encouraging to know, as intimated
by Prof. Holmes, that there is a
growing activity in the mining and
marketing of this vast our of
wealth. In instances where previous
operations have proved failures, the
cause was generally attributed, and
perhaps justly, to bad management.
In mining, as in any other industry,
practical business sense is necessary
to success. When this is applied to
the mineral beds of this State, sue
cess is almost certain to follow. If
the mining industry could be revived
on a sound basis it would be fellow
factor with the textile industry in
adding to the prosperity of the State
and the wealth of our people.-Char-
lotto Observer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-01

by the State Agricultural Depart
ment of the intrinsic value of cotton
seed for fertilizer, stock feeding, cot,
supplemented by the individual
knowledge and experience of the
farmers present in relation TO them,
the following recommendations we're
made, and the undersigned appointed
a committee to briefly outline the
conclusions of the convention.
"That we should not dispose of our
seed, in case of sale for less than
twenty five (25) cents per bushel, or
when exchanging the same to the
mills we should not receive less than
1885 pounds of meal, analysing
81 per cent. ammonia for a ton of
seed. This price was based on pres
emit price of cotton seed meal and oil.
If these products advance in price
the seed should sell at a higher price
than 25 cents per bushel. In the event
we are unable to sell or exchange
on these terms then it was recon-
mended that we should use the seed
on the farm for fertilizer, and wher-
ever practicable there should be
established by the farmers neiShbor-
hood cotton seed oil mills. 1t was
the sense of the convention that Is
was preferable to exchange the seed
for meal to be used on the farm
rather than impoverish the farm by
the system of robbery so much prao-
ticed by our farmers>in making an
outright sale of the seed. In all
cases of sale or exchange the pur-
chaser should pay the freight on
seed and the farmers freight on
meal"
1t was furthermore agreed to urge
upon our friends the Importance of
township and county organization to
accomplish this desirable end for
we fully realize that mere State or
~ganization and resolutions can &C
complish but little unless those
whom we seek to aid shall organize
among themselves and actively and
intelligently cooperate with US. To
this end we insist that every farmer
interested in procuring better prices
for cotton seed engage actively in
this work of organization and that
no time be lost in p~erfecting the
same in each township and county.
"W. R. Cox.
81. BRYAN GRIMES.
"JOHN W. ATwATER."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-01

President Roosevelt is consistent
member of the Reformed Church,
which is one of the great Presby-
terrain family. When in Chicago
recently he preached a good sermon
from a Reformed pulpit from the
text, "Be ye doors of the word and
not. hearers only" "He enforced
upon his audience the shame that
any bearing the name of Christian
should fail of honest effort to do all
that the Bible enjoins upon them"
1t is surely a matter of congratula-
ton to the nation that again a God
fearing and Bible-loving man is it's
Chief acknowledgements.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-01
A STATE RICH IN MINERALS AND GEMS

The time is not far distant when
the fact that North Carolina is one
Of the richest States in the Union in
minerals and precious stones will be
much more generally known than is
the case at present. The mineral
resources of the State have been ad-
vertised in many ways in years past,
but mining is a slow business and
not as much progress has been made
in the development of our under
ground wealth as the variety and
abundance of the mineral beds would
Justify. When we consider the rich
ness of the field and the certainty of
profitable returns, the slow develop
ment of the mining industry in this
State is a matter of surprise. Rich
as North Carolina is in gold veins,
that metal, while not the least, is
certainly not the most important
production.
In yesterdays paper a very inter
esting extract was given from the
report of State Geologist Holmes in
regard to the mining industry of this
State in 1900, in which it was shown
that the total value of the different
produced in 19OO5 including
coal and granite, was 1871, 931. Prof.
Holmes says that there was greater !
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-01
State News.
FROM CURR1TUCK TO CHEROKEE.
rsms Of Interest Cleaned From our Cores.
pondents and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State,

pondents and Exchanges in all
Parts Of the State.
The decrease in the number of
State oonvicts is very steady. The
discharges the past month, as in
July and August, by reason of end
of terms, considerably exceeded the
admissions.
Graham Tribune The demand
for cotton mill help in this State is,
it seems, in excess of the supply.
Recently there has been posted here a
circular from a mill in Salisbury,
wanting help, and this week there
has been a gentleman soliciting help
for the new mill in Durham.
Tarboro Southerner A we'll known
gentleman was speaking a few days
ago about railroad construction in
this State. He says it's popularity
is that the roads are all on ridges
save in the mountain sections, where
they perforce follow the streams. AS
a result of the ridge roads only the
poorest part of the farming section
is seen from the track.
The records of the Furches-Doug-
las impeachment trial will be~oon-
tanned in one volume, though it will
be a bulky volume, comprising 200
pages. The volume will contain the
articles of impeachment preferred
by the House, the evidence and in
fact all the records. Most of the
speeches will be printed, though it
has not been possible to obtain all
these.
Col. Odds: Speaking about COM
pulsory education, to-day, State
Commissioner Warner said the devel-
opment of the movement is remark
able, as all the replies from his re-
port show. In his own county all
correspondents favorit. He expects
it in five years. 1t is much stronger
in the west than in the east. He
this is, however, because a ma
jority of the white people in the
parts of the State where the negroes
are do not want the ne
groes educated at all. In the
tern counties, where negroes are few,
this attracts no attention.
An Asheville correspondent writes
TO the Charlotte Observer of what
Solicitor Gudger says of the lumber
situation in Madison county that in
years, unless something unfor-
seen happens, all the valuable timber
in Madison county will be
1enuded. Five companies are oper-
ating in the county, which handle
from five thousand to twenty-five
thousand feet of lumber every day.
Mr.. Gudger says the estimate of
twenty-five thousand feet for the
company at the mouth of Laurel is a
very low one.-Ex. !.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-01
General News.
NEWS NOTES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

An amusing bit of news comes
from Manila. Governor Taft had to
explain to the Filipinos that Mr..
Bryan did not succeed to the Presi-
dency upon the death of Mr.. Nc
Kinley. They thought that, as Mr..
Bryan had received the next highest
number of votes, he would be en-
titlod to succeed the dead President.
The money in circulation in the
United States, at the close of the
fiscal year, June 80, 1901, amounted
to So, 177, 266, $50. On an estimated
population basis of ", 754, 900 this
sum indicates a per capita oircUla-
ton of $28, as compared with $685. so
a year ago. The increase in volume
of circulation during the year has
been $114, $40, 784.-Exchange.
Notwithstanding the fact that Hen
ry Clay Evans, the United States
pension commissioner, has been an
~unrelenting foe to those who have
been securing pensions falsely, there
are nearly a million names on the
pension rolls. One in almost every
seventy-six of all the people of the
United States is a pensioner, and yet
there are those who still whine about
"the ingratitude of republics. -
Success for October.
Capital punishment has been re-
stored to the statute books by the
Colorado Legislature, in the hope
that the d~eplorable lynching record
of the Centennial State may be in
Permitted and redeemed by observ-
ance of the laws. Among the forty
five States of the Union, Rhode
Island, Maine, Michigan and Wis
consin are now the only communi-
ties in which the penalty of a life
fo1 a life is not exacted under terms
of statutory enactment. Ledger
for September.
The Bureau of Navigation, this
year, will ask Congress to increase
the enlisted strength of the Navy
by three thousand men. With the
recent completion of three battle
and the prospective completion
Of several more now under construc-
ton, it has become imperative that
there be a corresponding increase
n the enlisted personnel. At the
present time the Navy lacks five
thousand of the authorized quota of
twenty-five Thousand. The recent
recruiting of the United States
steamship "Alvarado," along the
Iouthern coast, vas not successful.
Ne take great pleasure in bringing
hese facts to the hundreds of able
men who write us that they
willing to do any kind of work, j
ut cannot find anything to do 1
for October. II
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-01
NEWS FROM THE NATIONS CAPITAL.

The Important Parts of Long Dispatches Told
in Brief Paragraphs.
In the last eight months for which
the War Department. has been able
to secure complete figures, the ex-
ports of Cuba have increased nearly
43 per cent. while the imports have
decreased 11H per cent. Cuba seems
to be prospecting.
The State Department has been
notified that the foreign troops have
at last evacuated the Forbidden City
at Pekin and that the Chinese have
again taken possession. Owing to
the interest in President Mckinley
this important act seems to have
passed almost Unnoticed by Amer1-
BANS.
1t is announced that the Neeley
case is at last ready for trial and
may begin at any time. The pub
lie, it is said, fails to realize the
enormous amount of work involved
in it's preparation, owing to the
anomalous position of Cuba, being
controlled by and yet not a part of
the United States, thus making diff
fcult the summoning of witnesses,
and so On.
General Wood, U. s. A, Governor
of Cuba, is in this city, having come
to bring a cop7 of the new Cuban
electoral law for submission to Score
tary Root. According to it's terms a
general election will be held in De-
cember some time and the new gov
eminent will be launched next May.
There are three political parties in
the island, none of which has it's
as yet very definitely defined.
The guards detailed to protect the
President and other prominent men
nowadays do not have an easy time
of it, chiefly because of the restive-
ness of the men whom they wish to
protect. These always object to be-
ing guarded, fearing that some one
may suspect them of being afraid,
and the watohmen therefore have to
keep we'll out of sight, and at the
same time keep off all cranks and
assassins.
Exports from the United States in
5he year ending August 81, 1901, were
Il, 500, 613, 1856. This is the first time
n the history of our export trade
hat the figures for a twelve months
oeriod have crossed the billion and
lalf line. The Bureau Of Statistics,
n it's statement of imports and ex-
Dorts, issued each month, gives a
otal for the latest twelve months
nd compares it with the correspond
ng twelve months in preceding
ears, thus giving a convenient
of not only measuring the
commerce but also measur-
1g it's growth. This table shows an
1crease in exports of S1O1, 0O0, 900,
nd in imports of IS, OOO, 900 in the
asst twelve months.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-10-01
A NEW PLAN FOR HIGHER EDUCATION.
IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

800 SS0SS8'
The following from the Raleigh
Post should have appeared in The
Progressive Farmer several weeks
ago, but as it was then crowded out
we now give it, believing it a matter
deserving the attention of all inter
ested in country schools:
The school committee of Mt. Ulla
township, Rowan county, nave de-
cided upon a novel experiment in
public school work.
At a recent meeting of that COM
mittee it was decided that it would
be wise to establish a high school,
centrally located in the township,
for the instruction of the more ad-
vanoed public-school children.
This idea was c~Tysta1ized at a
meeting of the committee and a
number of educators, who will ca
deavor to establish in each township,
or suitable-sized territory in the
rural districts, where the funds will
justify, a high school to be supported
in part or whole, as the case may be,
where the more advanced grades of
pupils may be the better olassed and
taught than in the primary free
schools. The idea met with hartye
endorsement and was referred to the
county school committee with the
request that it be carried out it Mt.
Ulla township next year.
This matter has been brought be-
fore General Toon, the Superintend-
emit of Public instruction, by Prof.
J. K. Goodman, member of the
Rowan county board of education.
The resolutions adopted by the
Mt. Ulla committee are as follows:
WHEREAS, Incur system of com
mon schools it appears that the pre-
vailing tendency is for more money
and longer school terms, and,
Whereas, The four months term
now had are amply sufficient for the
grade of work usually done, and as
long a term as those for whom it is
specially designed can afford to at
tend, and,
Whereas, It is evident that the
secondary or higher education is
sadly neglected in rural or country
districts, and experience and obser-
walton prove that attempts to com-
bine it with the primary free school
proper have, in most cases, fell short
of producing satisfactory results.
And,
Whereas, All are taxed alike for
school purposes, and the funds avail
able are in excess of the necessary
requirements for primary schools,
and the more advanced pupils have
not under the present system the
benefits which they deserve, there
fore be it
ReSOLUed, That in view of the fore
going, for the best interests of COM
school education in general, and
of the rural districts in particular,
that we are in favor of establishing
a central high school in each town
Cor convenient sized territory,
for the special benefit of pupils of
such advanced grades as it is not
practical to teach in primary schools.
2. That we would favor such ap-
portionment OF school funds AS would
run the now primary schools not
over four months in the year, and
the excess to go to said central high
as a nucleus for it's support in
part, or whole, as the oase may be.
3. That a copy of this paper be
to County Board of Edu-
of Rowan county, with re-
quest to consider this matter, and if
the way be clear, make the "experi-
if such it be, in Mount Ulla
township the present school year.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-11-01

H. F. Jordan the optleain, may be
found on High street, next door to
Express office.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-11-01
DEATHS.

years, months.
In Brattleboro, Oct. 30, Howard Asa Pratt,
70 years, 10 months.
In Brattleboro Oct. 81 Mary Elizabeth. 10
year-old daughter of John Il. Kaine.
In Keene, n. H., Oct. p, Mrs. Maria c. Butler,
50, a native of Chesterfield.
In Spofford, n. H., Oct. %, Mrs Polly Torrey
widow of Levi Torrcy, 81.
So.
In Turner's Falls, Mass, Nellie Holton Bag
nall daughter of the late William Holton of
Northfed
In Winhall Oct. q, Mrs. Jerry Mcdonald, So.
In keene, n. H.. Oct. y. Harold, seven
months-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Austin Smith,
formerly of Putney.
In Putney, Oct p, Dennison Davis, 80.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-11-01
MARRIAGES.

I'M Brattleboro, Oct. 30, by Rev. II. II. Miles,
Walter E. Snow of Brattleboro and Mabel q.
Brown of Marlboro.
In BrattlebOro oct. 30, by Rev. II. X. Miles,
Arthur c. Barr of Manchester, n. H., and
Miss Dorothy E. Cray of Brattleboro.
In BrattlebOro, Oct. 30 by William s. New
ton, Esq, Herbert c. Phillips and Gertrude b.
Streeter both of Bernardston, Mass.
In South Newfane, Oct. "a. by Rev. f. S.
BickfOrd, Robert c. Allen of Vernon and Mrs.
Minnie A. Easton of Williamsville.
In Salisbury, Oct. y, Fred Wheeler of
Readsboro and Miss Ruby Matteson of Shafts
bury.
In Hinsdale, N. H.. oct. 20, by Rev. d. c.
Ling, John f. Raleigh and Margaret +. Cole.