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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-08-13

at Amherst, presaged the gifted di-
vine who thrilled all English-speak-
ing nations Ralph Waldo Emerson,
reading divinity under Charming,
was imbibing philosophy for exploi-
tation in his peerless essays James
Kent, the New York lawyer whose
first lecture before the students of
Columbia College won him a profess
sorship, was simply laying the foun-
dation of American Jurisprudence /;
Gilbert Stuart, the Rhode Island
boy who studied art in Edinburgh
amid great privation, was getting
ready for his portrait of Washing
ton George Peabody, as a clerk,
was building the pedestal for his
own international figure as the
great philanthropistof the age and,
lastly, looming grand and gloomy
above all the others, Abraham Lin
coin, on a Mississippi 1atboat,
watching with melancholy eyes the
fogging of a negro, was preparing
for the emancipation of four million
human slaves, and lifting his mighty
soul to it's immortal destiny.
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PARENTS AS sOUL-wINNERs.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE: = Struck
by the article in this weeks
Progressive Farmer, entitled, "Par-
ents as Soul-W Winners" I have de-
cided to write Our Social Chat, Civ
ing my opinions on this subject, also
giving an answer to S%incere's ques-
ton concerning q fathers response
bility in such matters.
lido think parents should talk more
to their children about spiritual
things but do you not think most
of Us that are followers of Christ
neglect opportunities to speak a
a word for Him more often than we
seive them? Sometimes our con-
science tells US that we ought to
speak out, but we, being so weak,
let the chance slip, simply because
we are afraid of ridicule from our
companions. We who always stand
up for our friends sometimes neglect
to stand up for Jesus, who is longing
to be everybody's best friend.
think parents should talk to their
children, when they r very young,
about the love of God, of His great
goodness to men in sending Jesus to
die for all mankind. Really, it
seems to me, a child is just as able to
understand it all as is u grown per
son, for there are so many things we,
none of US, will ever understand. I
think d child should be taught to
do right because God wants him to
do so-not because, eff you do right
God will reward you," as some peo-
pie tell their children. I think that
if children are taught to love God
when they are little they will be-
come Christians as they grow
older.
It is natural for children, or at
least for most children, to think that
Christians have 'hard times" that
to become a Christian means to drop
all pleasant things, all that we most
enjoy, and become solemn as an old
judge. It is certainly some ones
duty to tell them that this is not
true, and why not the parents, who
desire that their children should be
Christians more earnestly than any
outsider?
Aunt Jennie, if you will excuse a
personal illustration, I will say that
l lived many years without being a
Christian after becoming grown and
I remember only one person who
ever asked me to be a Christian
When we think of the many young
men and ONE around ustwho have
never once been asked to become
followers of Christ we feel that it
is not much wonder they become
hardened and stop going to church.
[ am sure, when we think of how
some of US never speak of the good
ness of Christ, in fact, of any sacred
thing, it looks as if we ale ashamed
of all such thoughts or feelings. If
it is real, and I feel now that it is,
why should we be ashamed? I am
sure sometime before I became a
Christian I wanted some one to ask
me to become n in fact, 1 did not
know what to do to come to Christ,
and yet had a desire or longing in
my heart for something, 1 did not
know what.
Now, before closing I will try to
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-08-13
AUNT N LETTER.

No, Jack, your letter did not tire,
but rather interested us. We are
delighted to hear from you again,
even if you do return with a new
name.
We enjoyed reading sincere's let
ter and think that she has correct
ideas as to parental responsibility.
M. D. Evans asks a very important
question in her letter which many of
the wives and mothers will not fail to
answer. To know ones duty and
then have the courage to do it is
heroic.
INDECENT Bill joins US this week.
We are glad he has come and hope
that he will help us to find the absent
young men and old that have before
written for the Chat. Our Circle
has been woefully-shall l say neg
lected by them? or should I say
that we have failed to interest
them, and finding us dull, they have
left us? I am sorry in either case
and hope that all will write again,
and join the lady readers in the en
deavor to make Social Chat more
Interesting than ever before.
AUNT JENNIE.
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THOSE ASTOUNDING ADvERBs.

One evening a gentleman came.
home with a budget of news. An
acquaintance had failed in business.
He spoke Of the incident as "deli-
ciously sad" He had ridden up
town with a noted wit, whom he de-
scribed as ~"horribly entertaining,
and to cap the climax, he spoke OF
the butter which had been set be-
fore him at a country hotel as
"divinely rancid"
The young people stared, and the
Oldest daughter said, "Why, papa, l
should think you we're out of your
head"
"Not in the least, my dear, he
said, pleasantly. 'I'm merely try
ing to follow the fashion. I worked
out 'divinely rancid with a good
deal of labor. It seems to me rather
more effective than lawfully sweet.
I mean to keep up with the rest OF
you hereafter. And now," he CON
tinued, E'let me help you to a piece
of this exquisitely tough beef"
Adverbs, he says, r not 80 fash
ionable as they we're in his family
Boston Post.
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UNCLE 'RAsTUs EXPLAINS.

Uncle 'Rastus was intently gazing
at a newspaper, when some of the
young men from the factory passed
the doorstep on which he was sit
ting.
Found something interesting,
uncle?" said one of them.
"Pow'ful news in disshe1e paper
said he, without raising his eyes.
"Pow'ful news"
but look here, you're not reading
that paper at all. You r only
pretending"
600 long wild yoh foolishness, an
doan desperate de ole man. Co'se
rs readin'."
But you've got the paper upside
down"
The discovery aroused no conster-
nation with UEcle 'Rastus.
"Some folks is mighty KNOWN, -
he remarked, with placid contempt.
"Ef yo'd noticed a little mo-, VOID
'see dat I'd put mel specs on upside
down. Stead OBJ takin' 'em off an,
putin 'em on ergin, l jes' reversed
de pappah, SOS ter make 'Iowance
tCh de position OBJ de specs. "-Ameri
can Industries.
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A HISTORIC SLAP.
Chatham Co., N. G.

The Toledo Blade explains as fol
lows the old feud between Schley
and Sampson:
When Sohley was an ensign he was
on board ship with Sampson, then
a lieutenant, and a difficulty occur
red between them, and ever since a
grudge has ranked in the breast of
Sampson. The difficulty, years and
years ago, originated this way:
One day Sampson missed some
bananas which he hung up I the
ship to ripen He was very angry
over the loss of the fruit and tried to
find the thief. Finally he came to
the conclusion that a certain marine
was the culprit and sent for him.
The marine replied Indignantly that
he had not seen the bananas and
that he was no thief.
This Infatuated Sampson, who
said: "I will punish you for lying as
we'll as stealing" Sampson sent for
the druggist and gave the poor
marine an immense dose of ipecac.
Schley was ashore at the time, but
when he returned he saw the marine
suffering. Schley asked Sampson
who had administered the powerful
drug that had caused the suffering
of the marine.
Sampson told the whole incident.
The matter so incensod Schley that
he exclaimed "No gentleman would
treat a poor marine that way"
And Sohley, following the excla-
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A NEW MEMBER.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE For a long
time I have been a reader of Social
Chat, and have thought several times
of writing. But as most of the
Chatterers are girls, and I am a little
shy of girls, I have never before
ventured. What has becomerOf all
our boys anyhow? Are the girls so
much better writer's that the boys
have become Disguised with them
selves? Boys, even if they out
strip us in number and with words,
let us do our best. We hardly ex-
poet to be able to talk as much as
they can, but that needn't hinder us
from saying a little.
"Nature, impartial in her ends,
When she made made man the
strongest,
In justice, then, to make amends,
Made woman's tongue the long
est"
So we see chatting is woman'sforte.
Mrs. Fillyaw and Rex would make
US think that the fathers should take
a part in training their children.
Why, doesn't every man concede
that, eff I take care of the woman,
the woman ought to take care of the
children?" The father is responsible,
to be sure but NJ mt a WELD such
an influence as the mother. If "the
home is the foundation of our indie
pendenoe, " the mother is the founda-
ton of the home. Oh for mothers
to impart proper training to the
children of our land then will our
State have a constituency of whom
she may justly be proud.
INCIDENT BILL.
Chatham Co., N. G.
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GEN. E Z COURTESY,


Offenses of a certain kind may be
so handsomely atoned for as to leave
the offended almost glad to have
been the victim of them. A good
example of this is found in a story
reported by the Baltimore Sun, as
related by General Mcclellan.
cit was near the City of Mexico
during the Mexican War;" said
General Mcclellan, ''that I first met
my future great opposing COM
mander. I was a lieutenant of engi-
neers, and Lee was a major of engi-
neers, and a favorite On the staff of
General Winfield Scott. Twas walk
ing alone across a field one day,
when 1 saw General Scott and his
staff approaching on horseback. As
the party drew near, Major Lee
refined up his horse, and addressing
me in an angry tone, said:
Lieutenant, don'tyou know you
are disobeying orders? What is your
name?'"
81 told him my name was Nc
Clellan, and that I did not know 1
was disobeying orders.
"tAl officers have been told to re-
main in their quarters and await
orders he exclaimed, still appearing
very angry.
81 replied that no such order had
reached me, and be then peremptori-
ly ordered me back to my quar-
ters, and FASTENED away to join Gen
eral Scott and the rest of the staff,
who had not stopped.
81 returned across the field to my
quarters, feeling much injured, for 1
had not knowingly committed any
breach of discipline. l complained
to my fellow-officers of Major Lees
treatment of me. Scarcely had /
FINISHED my story when l was told
there was an officer outside who
wished to see me, and l was greatly
surprised to find Major Lee seated
there upon his horse. He saluted,
and returned the salute.
"'Lieutenant Mcclellan said he,
Il ear that in our meeting just now
l was disco1rteous in tone or man
ner, and I have come to sxpress to
you the regret which, under the cir
cumstances, a gentleman should
81 assured him that it was all
right, and with a salute and a bow,
which I feelingly returned, he rode
away, leaving me lost in admiration
of a superior officer who could so
promptly and generously repair an
e-rOr."
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nation slapped Sampson in the g..
Then a scene followed. samna~"
demanded satisfaction.
schley reminded him that it ~.
against the regulations for ro"S
officers to receive or send challana"I
to fight a duel, but added: uTSoS
need not prevent your getting sa+ia
faction, sir. We can both resion ~
day and then fight it out"
Sampson did not resign, did ~.
seek satisfaction, and the mats
was dropped.
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figure, in the early intellectual and
religious life of New England, is
shown in it's most understandable
and lovable light as a slender, studi-
Gus boy of thirteen, studying spiders
and writing an essay about them in
a vein of philosophio reflection that
gave an inkling of the later mental
triumphs which made him famous.
Two romantic condolences, or,
rather, sets of condolences, rewarded
my search for material in this con-
nection. Eli Whitney was born in
1866, in Massachusetts,. Robert
Fulton was born in 1865, in Pennsyl-
vania. Both were poor, as, in fact,
were twenty-three out of the twenty
nine national success winners whose
tablets now adorn University
Heights. Toe Pennsylvania lad was
able to go to school, but in his hours
of recreation, he equipped a fishing
boat with paddle wheels, on a little
pond near his home. The New Eng
land boy worked in a small nail fac
tory, to get money to buy books.
William Ellery Charming and Joseph
Story were chums, and were gradu-
ated together, in 1898, one to become
the greatest pulpit orator and liberty
lover of his day, and the other the
ablest jurist of New England. Mr..
Charming got his dislike to slavery
while serving as Il tutor in the
South.
Charming, too is that fragment
OUT of the past waich shows Nathan
iel Hawthorne playing football on a
college green, with Franklin Pierce
and Henry w LOngfellow in the
game. 1t was this particular game
which injured Hawthorne, laid him
up for two years, and gave him an
opportunity to turn his attention to
literature.
In the woods and fields of old Ken
lucky, at about the same time, were
two boys who never met in life, but
who climbed, by different paths, to
glory,-John James Audubon and
Henry Clay. The latter was ''the
mill boy of the slashes," and the
former the great ornithologist who
began his career of bird study by
lying for days in the blue grass of
Kentucky.
Poor little Horace Mann, braiding
strawfor book money, on his fathers
small farm, probably never dreamed
of the days when "a bronze
statue would convey the thanks of
Massachusetts, to him for distin
guished services in behalf of popular
education. Nor could Samuel F. B
Morse, a contemporary, guess that
the glObe-a revolving model of
which he studied in his fathers
ibrary,-would one day be encircled
by him through e~lectricity's mys-
FERROUS agency. Robert e Lee and
Ulysses S. Grant were West Pointers.
Washington was a surveyor. Far
ragut was a sailor all his life.
Franklin, rs a printers boy and
Peter Cooper, as a halter, expe-
rienced hardships of life only second
to those of poor farmer lads. Mar
shall, the mighty judge, attained
his manly bearing while fighting for
American independence. Webster
acquired his mastermy over men
by storing up useful knowledge
devoting even his lunch hour to an
eaTor pnrusal Of law books.
Henry Ward Beecher, debating
~farEentlV in q stndant Irnenn o.
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Our Social Chat.
) EDITED ny Amt TENNIE- RALEIGH- NC.

AS CONTRIBUTORS to this department OF
The Progressive Farmer, we have some OF the
most W~ide-awake and progressive young LADIES
and young men and some of the most entertain
ing writers among the older people of this ana
other States, the ages of the member ranging
from sixteen to more thOn sixty.
Y0UARER REQUESTED to Join by sending
and writing thereafter as often as possible.
WHEN WRITING, give full name and post
Office address for Aunt Jennie's informauOn'
If you do not wish your real name to appear
in print, give name by which you wish to De
known as a Chatterer.
TWO WEEKS OR MORE must, as q rule,
elapse between the time a letter is written ana
The date of it's publication.
all letters to Aunt Jennie, care OF
The Progressive Farmer. Raleigh. N. G.
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The Home Circle.
LONG AGO.

I once knew all the birds that came
And nestled in our apple trees
For every flower l had a name
NY friends were woodchucks, toads and bees,
I knew what thrived in yonder glen,
What plants would soothe a stone. bruised toe
Oh, I was very learned then,
But that was very long ago.
1 knew the spot upon the hill
Where checkberries could be found;
1 knew the rushes near the mill
Where pickerel lay that weighed a pound!
I knew the ood-the very tree
Where lived the p%oaching, saucy crow,
And all the woods and crows knew me,
But that was very long ago.
And pining for the joys of youth
I tread the old familiar spot;
Only to learn this solemn truth:
have forgotten-am forgot.
Yet there's this youngster at my knee
Knows all the things 1 used to know;
To think I once was wise as he
But that was very long ago.
I know it's folly to complain
Of whatsoever the Fates decree;
Yet were not wishes all in vain,
I tell you what my wish should be:
I'd wish to be a boy again,
Back with the friends / used to know;
For was, o! so happy then
But that was very long ago. -EUgene +
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answer Sincere question in n sem
tence: think the father has equal
responsibility with the mother n
regard to the moral training OF the
child they should work together
both aiming for the same result,
a good Christian child. Hoping my
letter will not tire you out, I am,
Wake Co., N. @. JACK.
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Other pens have described, in his
tory or biography, how the twenty
nine immortals thus far chosen
reached the Hall of Fame. Let it be
nv modest mission to show, to the
readers of Success, how they started
for it.
In this attempt to gain an early
view of their lives, to turn the flash
ing light on scenes unfamiliar to the
reading public, 1 am indebted, for
many helpful suggestions, to the
scholarly Henry Mitchell Nc Cracken,
chancellor of the New York Univer-
sity, and president of the Hall of
Fame Senate. The chancellor has
given practical value to the munif-
cent gift of Miss Helen Miller Gould
by bringing the original suggestion
of establishing a hall of fame up to
the plane of adigniied, a~U3omplised
fact.
To the American youth, it will
probably be far ore inspiring to
get a view of Thomas Jefferson, for
example, as a youthful member Of
the colonial legislature of Virginia,
making his first speech for the ameli-
grafton of the condition of the slave,
thanJto furnish a time-worn picture
of the signing OF the Declaration Of
independence.
What a clear insight, too, into the
character Of Asa Gray is obtained
from a glimpse of him working in
his fathers tannery, in the little
village of Paris, New York, keeping
a big bunch of common field flowers
near him That boquet was the
trade mark of the great author
botanist Of later years.
New York was a sleepy town, in
1902, giving little promise of its flu
ture greatness but there vas moth
ing sleepy about that bright, studi-
Gus boy who could be seen opening a
merchants shop on William Street,
every morning at six o'clock, and
displaying his fathers wares in the
windows. The keen eyed youth was
Warrington Irving. If his vocation
gave no hint to his future laurels,
his manner did. Hesaw everything.
His active mind grasped those i'm
pressions of life and locality which
afterwards, when woven into sketch
es and stories, gave him immortality
as an author.
At a little wayside inn, in sunny
Spain, in 1926, Washington Irving
sat, writing his Columbus, when
a youthful traveller from America
met him. This youth was Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow. The infu-
ence of that meeting, far from New
England's shores, was exceedingly
great in determining the younger
mans ambition. No one could meet
Irving, it is said, without loving and
admiring him. The youthful poet
imhibed of Irving's spirit. They are
neighbors now, in the American
pantheon.
John Adams was anything but an
amlable CT majestic man. The Puri-
tan faults of intolerance and egotism
stood out in his character. He was
jealous and suspicious by nature,
and yet his soul was a great one.
Look at him as he stands before a
crowd in Braintree, making a fiery
speech against the stamp actI That
was IN 1865, when it took manhood
to protest in public against ones
sovereign.
Jonathan Edwards magnificent
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Our greediness for wealth and fan.
tastlcal expense have degraded, and
will degrade the minds OF our mari
time citizens. Those are the peculiar
vices of cOmmerce.-Thomas Jeffer-
son.
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Many a man has succeeded in MS
business or profession, but failed as
a man many a man has become en-
ineRt as a lawyer or merchant, but
has been a tyrant in his home ana
faithless in his friendship many q
man has reached the top round III
his occupation, but is still on the
bottom round in his character
Success.
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Be cheerful do not brood oV0r
fond hopes unrealized until a chain'
link after link, is fastened on eacn
thought and wound around the
heart. Nature intended you to Do
the fountain spring of oheerfulnesS
and social life, and not the traVel-
ing monument of despair and melan'
choly.-Arthur Helps.
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There is a woman at the beginning
of all great -things.-Lamartin6.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-09-20
Alnlena.


Miss Lille Grace is attending school
at Paw Paw.
John Gill will move his family to a
place near Williams.
Mrs. Mary Masten has been seriously
i'll for nearly three weeks.
Mrs. Walter Tracy has partially recov-
cred from her recent illness.
Henry Weaver and George w. Brown
made business trip to Marcellus last
week.
There is a newcomer at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Van Wiltenburg; it is a little
daughter.
Mrs. Eva Masten of Dowagiac was
called here last week by the serious i'll
ness of her mother.
The Solomon school began September
2 with Miss Fannie Healy as teacher.
There is large attendance.
A little daughter weighing 1917
pounds took up its abode with Mr.. and
Mrs. George w. Brooks, August %.
Harley G. Areaue was reelected direc-
tor and George w. Brown was elected
assessor at the school meeting of district
No 10.
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Decatur.

Mrs. Carrie Ingraham was in town the
forepart of the week.
Claud Young of Lawrence was in town
the first of the week.
Attorney VIM. Howard of Kalamazoo
was in the village Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Porter of Paw Paw
spent Sunday in this village.
f. b. Copley left Wednesday for a
business trip to Arkansas and Oklahoma.
William West of Warren Pa, is the
guest of his sister, Mrs. Arson Knight
Mrs. James Henderson of Pinconning,
Mich, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs.
q. l.. Guichard.
Mrs. Marie Chadwick left Sunday for
a visit among friends and relatives in
the state of New York.
Miss Hazel Hammer of Chicago, who
has been spending the past week with
friends in this village, returned home
Tuesday. Miss Maude Goodenough &C
companied her.
Loren Dewey of Kansas City stopped
at Decatur the forepart of the week to
visit relatives. He was on his way to
Ann Arbor, where he will enter the med
ical department of the University of
Michigan.
The town hall is completed and the
scenery and seats will be put in this
week. The hall will be opened Thursday
evening, September 26, with the comic
opera, "The Dr. of Alcantara," given by
a home talent company, under the direc
ton of Mrs. katherine Robbins of the
Mehan school of music, New York.
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Hartford,

Mrs. E. f. Bradt and children have
returned to Iron Mountain.
Beatrice Cochrane returned to Kala-
mazoo, Tuesday, to resume her course in
Kalamazoo college.
Harry Merriman returned to the Or
chard Lake Military academy yesterday
to resume his studies.
Mrs. F. Walling and daughter have
been guests for few days of Mrs. j. G..
and H. L. Bunnell of Lawrence.
Mr.. Jacobs of the Dunkley canning
factory is moving his family here from
Kalamazoo into the Collett house.
The death of Mrs. Samuel Wolcott of
Watervliet occurred Saturday at the
home of her son, NJ. Wolcott in this Will
age. She recently was afflicted with
paralysis.