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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-13
These Were Confirmed.

Washington, Dec. 12.-The senate to-
day confirmed the following nOmina-
tiCnS:
Charles II. Darling, Vermont, TO be
assistant secretary of the navy; c. IL
Egbert. Illinois. consul at Durango.
Mexico.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-13
Mrs. Roosevelt viii Receive.

Washington Dec 12.-Mrs. Roosevelt
viii hold a public reception for ladies on
Saturday. the 18th, from to p. N. This
viii be the first of the public receptions
by the mistress of the White House since
the Cleveland administration.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-13
Heavy Glory.
(Chicago News.)

Il tell you. the British officers have
heavy weights resting on their shoulders
observed the man with the South African
dispatches.
You mean on their bOsoms," said the
cheerful cyniC. They don't wear their
medals on their shoulders"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-13
Killed Hundreds of Sheep.

Rock Springs, Wye, Dec, 12.-Passeu-
ger train No. 101, west bound, ran into
a band Of sheep near Point of Rocks
this morning, killing between 500 and
400 animals. The train was delayed
about two hours. No one was injured.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-13

committees viii be announced. 1t is said
by members Of the executive board tina &
the federation viii have over f0000)
members in it's affiliated organization
before the national convention is held AT
Lhicaen next LuLA-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-13
Frozen to Death

Muscogee, I. T, Dec. 12-News has
reached the United States marshaIs or
flee here that S. L. Hall. sewing ma
chine man. was found dead along the
side of a road near Eufala The suppo-
sitioh is that he was frozen to death.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-13
Beginning at Home


Jasper-I understand that you had
turned over a new leaf. and were even
going to love your enemies, but it seems
20 me that you love no one but your
self.
Mrs. Jasper-well. I am my own worst
enemy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-13
Called on Presidant-

Washington, Dec. 12.-GeneraI Sam
uel Pearson, the Boer representative
in this country, called upon President
Roosevelt today. The president sUg-
gested nothing that would lead to a
discussion of affairs in South Africa.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-13
win Go to the Jurv TODAY

Washington Dec I?.-The concIud
ing arguments in the trial of Mrs. Lola
Ica bonine. charged with killing young
census Clerk Ayres was continued to-
cay The case probably viii go to the
jury tomorrow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-13
WILL REoovER THE JEWELS.
Chief Donahue Of Omaha is Very San
guine Of Success.

Omaha Dec. l2-Chief of Police
D0rahue said tonight that he expected
10 recover $4,000 worth of the dla-
monds stolen in PCgtland a month ago
tlue Johnson and ncr companion, who
1tere arrested yesterday with part Of
me gems in their possession, We're put
Do the sWeatb0x today and the police
SLY iJ was with very favorable re-
suits From what was gotten from
neg u Is believed the Johnson woman
did not commit the theft, but is being
used 10 DISPOSE of the valuable jew
elry.
ly4Wenthal. from whom the goods
were stoen. is expected 10 arrive in
the city tonight
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-13
senators WIN Recess

Washington, Dec. 12.-The senate has
passed the house concurrent resolution
for a recess from Dec. 10 to Jan. 2
The senate has adjourned until Mon
day.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-13
Washington is seIected-

Chicago. Dec. 12.-On account Of the
dedication of the monument to General
sherman, the next meeting of the @. A. K.
will be held in Washington next fall. The
choice was unanimous on the part Of the
nrarrar rafffon
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-13
THE TRICK.

GgZ1 TRICK may involve deceit or It may
NEANl be display of peculiar skill. There
E9i is deceit IN some soaps, but there is
none IN Ivory Soap; It IS a display of pecu-
Lar skill. 1t will stand any test and can be
relied upon to do ali that is claimed for It.
IVORY SOAP IS 9o',6. PER CENT. PURE
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-13
The Missing Link
Chicago Newsl

tNtItdBO NeWs.J
Mamma-Wiilie, what did you do with
that penny I gave you this morning?
Willie aged 81 gave il to the monkey.
Mamma-And what did he do with it?
Willie-He put it in his cap, then gave
IL to his father, who played the organ.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-13
lon't Fight 80 Amateurs


II looks as If Kitchener might be able
to make out a strong case Of profession
alism against the Beers. If ne cared to
take it I'D.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-13
A Bard's Conclusion
CWashIngton So

I wrote a poem years ago.
Its meaning is obscure.
It ism {. Interesting so
7 guess it's literature.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03

this connection and with ;
end IL view we would sugoa. 4srFed
night gatherings, religions o. snat
wise, in the country districts y H'Ier-
couraged, and in place of tboeo us,
parents keep their girls and boT. i't
home and train them in the 1esas "s
Of morality, truth and dutv. po~"S
should set the example of VOL.
six days in the week themselves
influence the young to Q that p ol1
is honorable in all. A
"a. We note with growing oons
dence the administration Of ;not.1
in the courts and the faithfu1nosa
officers in the discharge of tbai~
sponsible duties. The law mns+
upheld and criminals of all races onS
classes dealt with according therota
ia order to the general good Of oil
The orderly administration of ins
tioe imparts a sense of securitv -
every honest man and enlists b;S
sympathy and cooperation as again.+
the criminal class. 1t deprives that
class of supposed encouragement and
sympathy and gradually weakens i
and relieves the community Of thu
criminals.
"5. We again urge upon our mao
pie the duty of securing homes and
improving them. Buy land, if it j,
only an acre. Build a little homo
there and improve it.
"6. In all public places be as
cleanly and tidy as possible. No one
has a right to render himself often.
sive TO his next door neighbor bv
disregarding the ordinary REQUIRE.
ments in this respect. In this con.
nection attention is called to the evil
of our women gathering about thu
recorders and criminal courts. No
woman should ever enter such a
place unless compelled to do so under
the law.
$50. We would call to the attention
of the landlord class the fact thar il
is mutually advantageous to both
parties connected that the one room
cabin be destroyed and that they be
replaced by better houses, and on
the other hand we urge our people
to improve their surroundings by
planting fruit trees and c~ultivating
gardens, although they may be only
tenants. This will serve to the bene.
fit of all. No landlord wants to get
rid of a tenant who improves his
farm"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03

memory of the 'jute bagging vic
tory" will induce the farmers of the
State TO join hands and profit by
the advantages now offered.
The foregoing letter and those
previously published in our columns
leave little for us to say upon this
subject. We do wish to urge every
Progressive Farmer reader, how
ever, to discuss this matter with his
neighbors that are not subscribers
and endeavor to awaken the cotton
growers TO the splendid opportunity
that is now theirs. 1t should not be
allowed to pass unimproved, mol
will this be allowed if the facts as
they are, are brought to the atten-
ton of the farmers.
The great obstacle is Indifference,
caused by lack of information. Read
again the matter upon this subject
in last weeks Progressive Farmer.
Post yourself and then post your
neighbors.
If we succeed in bringing the peo-
pie to understand the situation in
time, rest assured that proper &C
ton will be taken.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03
EDUCATION ANn nracoHrrNr.

When Mr.. Maurice Thompson's
article with the above title appeared
in the Saturday Evening Post some
months ago, several letters comment
ing upon it were received by that
publication. One of the best OF, these
follows:
Education and Discomfort, by
Maurice Thompson really excel
lent article The strangeness is that
he did not quote Paul, 81 have
learned, in whatsoever state I am,
Herewith to be content" The re-
vised version translates therein
There is a wide difference between
being contented with a thing and be-
ing contented in it. We should never
be contented with the world, for it
is a wicked worlJ, but we should
always be contented in it.. Nc man
could be content with suffering as a
permanent condition for a time he
may be contented in it; like a trav-
eler in a foreign land, he is willing
to put up with many annoyapces in
view of the terminus 0d qWem. In a
word, we are to be content in every
state as educational.
"Discontent with slovenly work."
says the writer, "is the greatest aid
to self. training" A memorable sen
tence, surely Discomfort is the
first rung on the ladder of progress.
We became disconnected with the
pen, hence the printing press with
the sickle, hence the heaper. We
do not say to the man head and bars
in debt, "Do not worry, brother
learn to be content" The content
ment of men with themselves is the
greatest barrier to progress. The
savage is perfectly contented with
himself and Booker T. Washington
tells us that the first thing his teach
ers try to instill into the colored
youth of his institute is a noble dis
content.
The man who is satisfied with
himself has lost his ideal, or reached
it, which is the same then uplift is
is impossible henceforward is de-
cline.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03

W. expect to publish in our next
issue the list of books recommended
for use in North Carolina rural
school Libraries. The lists are very
good, though perhaps there is some
reason for the complaint made by
the Newton Enterprise that a larger
per cent. of advanced books should
have been included. But we earnestly
hope that arrangements will be'made
for the exchange of libraries, and
that with this in view the same list
of books will be purchased for no
two libraries in any county. Then
let exchanges be made, bringing new
books before each school once or
twice a year.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03
EDITORIAL NOTES,

The outlook for our North Caro-
lima schools and colleges is unusually
bright Those that have already
opened report largely increased at
tendance. The campaign in behalf
of education is having effect.
The action of the Alabama judge
and jury in imposing a life sentence
upon the leader of a lynching mob
may have been too severe, consider
ing the present condition of public
sentiment. But it is true that un-
til those in authority make it plain
that a hundred men have no more
right to take the law into their own
hands than has one man, lynching
will not cease.
We T asked why we do not pub
Ish the National Alliance "de-
mands." One reason is that neither
The Progressive Farmer nor the
North Carolina Farmers State ALI
anoe as any connection whatever
with what is known as the National
Alliance, or any part in it's work.
We never receive any report of it's
proceedings, hence can give no,infor-
nation regarding it.
One of the most valuable articles
that we have published this summer
is that On "Apple Growing In North
Carolina. Event if you have only a few
trees you cannot afford to miss read
ing it. Study especially the para
graphs regarding your section of the
State. Apple growing should be one
of orr most profitable industries, but
this will not be possible until the
orchards are more carefully and in
diligently managed.
Government by Injunction is in
deed reaching the absurd stage. In
Chicago last week, by the decision
of one Judge Doyle in a case against
two strikers for pulling the sleeve of
a nOn-union worker and asking to
speak with him, it was decided that
"Union pockets may be arrested
without warrants and held to the
criminal oout for unlawful interior
ence, if they touch a non union man
and request the privilege of a con-
versation."
In the great steel strike now on, our
sympathies are with the strikers,
largely because of Pierpoint Nor
gan's refusal to accept President
Shaffer's offer of arbitration. Shaft
er's proposition was GIVE are will
ing to arbitrate. Let the Amalga-
mated Association select one man
and let the trust select one, these
two to select the third. We will
abide by the decision of the three
This, it seems to Us, was fair enough.
But Morgan's imperious reply was !:
''It's no time for arbitration"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03
THE sPOILs SYSTEM AND RURAL FREE
DELIVERY.

The rural free delivery service pre-
sents an excellent field for the extern
sion of the civil service system. For
instance, we know a man who inter
ested his neighbors in rural free de-
livery, mapped out a route, and
thoroughly canvassed the section
covered by it, securing signatures to
the petition for the service this man
also has a petition signed by go per
cent. of those who will receive mail
along the route, asking that he be
appointed carrier. Yet this man,
because of his political views, may
have his application refused, and
some man who has not aided in the
establishment of the route appointed
TO the position which the people
wish the worker to have. These
things ought not so TO be. While
it Is yet in it's swaddling clothes, we
should like to g the rural free de-
livery service taken from the unholy
grasp of the spoils system.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03
CONSIDER THE LILIES"

We bope that none of our subscrib-
ers will fail to read Mrs. Orgain's
really excellent paper, "The Ideal
and Artistic in our Homes" which
we r publishing on page 4 of this
issue. If you cannot read it now,
file it away until you can do so. God
has filed the world with beauty, and
in farm life especially can man look
up through Nature to Natures God j;
and he is recklessly negligent of the
advantages GOD has given him who
will not open his eyes and see, enjoy
and develop the beauties with which
he is surrounded. Let us do all that
we can to make farming profitable,
but let Us also give attention,
as Mrs. ORGAN urges, TO ''the ideal
and artistic in our homes" 1t is
our duty to bring into our own lives
and the lives of those about us all
the JOY and beauty possible not only
should we be "diligent in business -
but let US also t'consider the lilies. -
"The life is more than meat and the
body is more than raiment, and he
only half lives who takes interest in
nothing except that which has money
value. Nor is this a matter of
wealth or of poverty. Many men of
great wealth are, no less than Mark
hams oman With the Hoe, "slaves
to the wheel of labor" who, absorbed
in money-making, find no beauty in
''the rift of dawn, the reddening of
the rose," and get no joy from ''the
long reaches of the peaks of song"
Read Mrs. Orgain's address, and
practice the doctrine which she so
effectively breaches.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03

THE END OF AN ERA. BY John s..
Wise. Published by. Houghton,
Mifain g Co., Boston. $3.50.


THE END OF AN ERA. By John s..
Wise. Published by Houghton,
Mifain g Co., Boston. $3.50.
This is n of the most fascinating
war books that we have ever had the
pleasure of reading. The author is
a loyal son of the Old Dominion,
though at this time residing in New
York, and this is a book of renin-
iscences of Virginia life prior to and
during the exciting days of '61-'65.
While no less interesting than cred
Rock" it is not a work of fiction,
but a report of events that actually
occurred.
Beginning with the period just
preceding the war, the book gives
vivid and delightful glimpses Of life
upon the old Southern plantations.
Then comes the war and although
but a boy, Mr.. Wise was an enthusi-
astic participant in some of the his
tory-making actions of that period.
Being himself the son of a distin-
guished general, he came in contact
with the leaders of the Confederacy-
Lee, Davis, Johnston and others /;
these figure in many of the incidents
he relates. Entertaining as are his
war experiences, the Southern peo
pie owe Mr.. Wise more for his
sketches of life on the Virginia
plantations of ante be1lum days. We
should like for every old soldier and
every Southern youth who likes a.
a story of brave men and heroic
deeds to have the pleasure of reading
this attractive volume.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03
TELEPHONES ON THE FARMS.

Students of sociology have for
some years been much perturbed by
the drift of population from the
country to the city. Man, naturally
a gregarious animal, has found the
farm lonesome, tiresome and unin.
teresting in it's limited social andin.
tellectual atmosphere. 1t has been
his desire and ambition, therefore,
to leave the farm at the earliest pos
sible moment and go to the city,
where there is life, activity and an
abundance of companionship. How
to make farm life attractive and
thus satisfying to the youth of both
sexes is a problem the solution OF
which will do much for the happi'
ness and prosperity of both the tndi-
vidual and the country.
Modern inventions-the trolley
car, the telephone and the horselesS
vehicle-and good roads no doubt
offer a partial solution of the prob
lem. With quick communication be-
tween farms and neighborhoods by
means of the automobile, or with the
animal-drawn vehicle, over good
roads, and with the farmer put
within speaking distance of all his
neighbors and the postofice ana
village stores by means Of the tele'
phone, the isolation of the FARMS
destroyed, and each family enjoying
these advantages is putin touch with
every other family of the community
equally fortunate. No matter Whst
the weather may be, business ana
social intercourse is kept up, and the
folks of the farmhouse feel that they
are in the busy world and of it, not
"stuck off to one side" to vegetate.
In the sparsely -settled farming
communities of the South the rursl
telephone might be more expensive
than in Indiana and Kansas, but We
hope the day is not far distant when
Georgia farms generally will have
the advantage of permanently har-
dened public roads and good telo'
phone lines connecting them WILL
their neighborhoods and the village
p~ostoffces and stores. The arnouns
of time and money to be saved anu
the pleasure to be derived from sucn
conveniences can hardly be es1l'
mated.-Savannah News.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03

Our Washington correspondents
statement regarding the Georgia
farmers experiment with hay de-
serves the attention of all our peo-
pie. The census reports show that
the yield of hay per ere in North
Carolina is better than in most of
the leading hay producing States.
Yet very little is produced here.
What is worse, we are even paying
high prices for hay produced in
sections less adapted to it's growth
than our own State.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03
The Thinkers.
VIEWS OF CoLORED FARMERS.


A Conference at Charlotte Expresses Itself
Upon severnl Important Subjects.
A largely-attended conference of
negro farmers was held in Charlotte
last week, at which the following
paper was adopted as an expression
of the views of those present. It
will doubtless interest many of our
readers, giving, as it does, the point
of view of a convention of intelligent
colored men:
t'The age in which we live, our
immediate conditions as we'll as the
Importance of taking into account
whatever may improve our future
environments as farmers and home
builders justify this second annual
gathering of the colored farmers of
Mecklenburg and adjoining counties.
The time is past, if it ever really ex-
listed, when the farmer can live unto
himself. There are mutual interests
which must be considered in the
light Of new and advanced methods
of work. There are community re-
lations and mutual interests existing
between us as oolored farmers and
those of similar mutual interests as
between us and the white people who
are the principal owners of the lands
and control the capital involved.
Providentially and by virtue of the
laws of economic existence what
affects one affects all, and conse-
quently what aids one aids all.
These principles have governed us
during the conference and it is there
fore appropriate that we make the
following expression:
81. The right education of the
youth of the race is of first import
ance. We note with pleasure the
growing interest of our school au-
thorities on this behalf. Oar people
are urged to avail themselves of the
opportunity afforded for the educa-
ton of the children. Connected
with every school house in the G
try there should be facilities, if only
in a small way, for instruction in
those things which the farm home
builders must do in after life. Thus
educated there will be a deeper in
terest and greater contentment with
rural life. We favor compulsory at.
tendance at school.
So. We believe it to be of import
tance to the race and to the country
at large as we'll as good for individual
welfare, that our young people be
encouraged to stick to the farm. In
order to do this, more than right
education begin with is necessary.
There should be ceaseless care for
them and every inducement should
be offered to have them remain at
home. The tendency to enslave
them while parents loaf over the
country or about Charlotte and in
villages, or systematic harsh treat
ment will drive the boys and girls
from the so.called home into the city
and often to destruction at the first
opportunity.
"3. We deplore the idleness and
criminality so fragrant among the
about Us who have far too
many bad examples among their
We most earnestly appeal
to parents, teachers and the minis
ters of the Gospel to bend their most
persistent and energetic efforts for
Improvement in this direction. In
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-03
. THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIoN-

AL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARA
MoUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
OF STATE POLICY, is the motto of The
Progressive Farmer, and upon this
platform lis shall rise orfall. Serving
no master, ruled by 10 faction, cir
oumscribed by no selfish or narrow
policy, it's aim will be-to foster and
promote the best interests of the
whole people of the State. It will be
true to the instincts, traditions and
history of the Anglo-Saxon race. On
ali matters relating specially TO the
great interests it represents, it will
speak with no uncertain voice, but
will fearlessly the right defend and
lmpartially the wrong condemn. -
From Col. Folks Salutatory, Feb.
10, 1885