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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-09

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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-09

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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-09
Clear the Track

John Bull is trying to down our 10
comotives"
They'll run him down fast enough il
he gets in the way."-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-09

flTs Permanently Cured roass or nervousnsss aftes
1rSt days use Of Or. Kltnes Great Nerve Restorer,
e0ud for FREE $500 trial bottle and trsatiso.
t. 3. b. KaE. It'd. 9Sl Arch st.. Philadslph1a Pa.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-09

xrs. wlnnow's soothing syrup.
For children teething, sottens the gnms reauces III
lsmation allays pain.cr es wind collie. Soc Dosts
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-09
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% 20 Three mn vers On base, and I
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Tho Ladies' An thea!
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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-09

Absence may conquer love, but ri
sometimes takes costly presents to hold
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-09
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+ she-You said you wersApjsgto hsr-
~ :. an g artist ..aa, and now yeafy Sngessd
Jlo-Well. isn't he an artist? He
draws. from real life. "Philadelphia
Bulletin.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-09
L1rTLE LAUGHS.

Slow.
We earl our little. branch railway
the g. o. p" KS
II Whats that for 2"
Il - :. .1Get out and push =
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-09
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Well that's the worst yet"
g What's the matter 3"
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ned aaars under the head 1Ra@sd.t
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-09

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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-09
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81 Safer o. HI E3aoi!
Pinching-bls Say. 'what makes yoa
wear your fnr oyercoat III such hot
weather? .s
Catsrpillar- Oh. half the moth hans
We get now are no good.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-09

ttOu, Tic QuIpOC0 UC4u6 ~ 0udU10 Ok.
|sporters of dairy products to give for
seign buyers the assurance of certifica-
|stion by the government Of the United
States Of the purity. quality and grade
|ssof dairy exports.
Secretary Wilson has decided to ex-
sercise the authority conferred On him
by establishing in the customs dis
Ftrictst Of Boston, New York. Chicago
and San Francisco a system Of inspec-
Etion Of dairy products. but first will
have experts. in those districts gather
all possible data in order that efacient
regulations may be drafted for the
conduct Of this new service. a begin
ming will be made In q tentative way
with the purpose in view to Bring
about practical and an honest sys-
tenn " which all persons may be prop
erly protected.slsss w ii4ts s}e @s5
: It II stated at the department TO be
probable that at an early data lne
owners OF shippers. Of products for sx-
sort may, upon application, have the
same marked and certified a. to purity
and quality. provided they are above
minimum grade, yet to be- fixed.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-03-26
CARNEGIE'S GREAT EDUCATIONAL
PLANS.

PITTsBURG, PA, March 23.-Inti-
mate friends of Andrew Carnegie
say it is his intention to give at least
$25, 600, 900 for the erection Of the
buildings and for the endowment of
the proposed technical school at
Pittsburg. 1t is also declared by
those who have talked with Mr.. Car
negie that he intends to make this
school the finest of it's kind in the
world, and that it will lend as much
fame to Pittsburg, on the theoreti-
cal side of iron and steel making as
his famous works have done in &C
tual practice.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-03-26
P8UNE CROP

SAN JOSE, CAL, March 19.-The
California Cured Fruit Association
has cornered the entire prune crop
of the State. All prunes not in the
hands of the association (some 5,OOO,-
900 pounds) have been purchased
outright. The deal has been under
way since the meeting in February,
when the association authorized it's
directors to expend not exceeding
5000, 900 for advertising and other
wise advancing the interests of the
combine. The prunes were bought
secretly and packers did not suspect
they were purchased for the asso-
citation.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-03-26
WILKES WINS HER BOND CASE.

A Washington dispatch this morn
ing tells that the Supreme Court of
the United States has affirmed the
decision below in the Wilkes county,
North Carolina bond case. This
means that Wilkes county will not
have to pay the bonds issued in be-
half of the Northwestern North Caro-
lima Railroad. The county voted
bonds to extend this road from Win
ston to WilkesbOro and the bonds
were marketed and the road built.
Then the question was raised as to
the formality of the vote by which
the act authorizing the county to
vote on the bond issue passed the
Legislature. 1t appeared, as a mat
ter of fact, that the act had not been
read three times on different days in
both branches of the Legislature, aC-
cOrding to the cOnstit require
ment. The case has been fought
through the Superior and Supreme
Courts OF NOEGu CdEOlludj duu I'll
cult Court of Appeals to the Supreme
Court of the United States, where 1t
is finally adjudicated against the
holders of the bonds. Thus Wilkes
eats her cake and has it-she has her
railroad and doesn't have to pay for
it. The case has been fought with
vigor and ability, in behalf of the
county, by ex-Judge A. G. Avery,
and he has won a notable victory.
We infer that this decision carries
the Stanly bond case with it. The
two may differ as to immaterial
points but. are substantially alike,
the act under which Stanly voted
bonds for the Yadkin Railroad hav-
ing passed the Legislature as the
Wilkes bond election law did, with
out full compliance with the con-
stitutional formalities charlotte
Observer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-03-26
BRYAN HAS HOPES.

WASHINGTON, March 21.-William
Jennings Bryan told the friends with
whom he spent the day in Washing
ton that he believed he was as strong
as ever with rank and file of the
Democrats; that all the efforts to
reorganize the Democratic party
against his interest had come to
naught that he saw no rival that
need be seriously considered, and no
one who might be developed into
such a rival, and in short, left the
impression that he expected to be re-
nominated in 1904.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-03-26

son q Buchanan, of Blowing Rock,
and we learn that the shipments
from Elk Park and Montezuma will
average a carload per week. These
leaves are picked by women and
children, counted and tied in bundles
of % each and sold to the stores at so
much per thousand, thus affording
profitable employment for the chill
dren and others in the mountains,
where there r no factories. The
merchants then pack the leaves thus
tied In bundles into cases holding
10000 leaves each and ship them to
the cities for decorating purposes.
CThe Galax is a specimen of the or
namental South African dwarf herb,
with a dubious rOOt-stOck and short
stem bearing a cluster of narrow
leaves and handsome funnel shaped
yellow or purple fowers.)
Sanford Express: On Saturday
morning, February 23rd, a small
dwelling house just west of town,
which had been vacant for some
time, was destroyed by fire. While
hunting nails in the ruins last Tues
day, Mr.. Ed Fields found the charred
remains of a dead person. DR.. Nc
LeOd, county coroner, who was mott
fed of the finding, came down Wed
nesday and investigated the matter.
Upon examining the body he found
it to be that of a man. There was
nothing let but the trunk and skull,
the arms and legs having been con-
sumed by the fire. No person in the
community seems to be missing, and
it will probably never be known who
the dead man waS.-SOme of our
farmers who are now selling their
cotton at s cents, no doubt wish they
had put it on the market last fall
when the price was 10 cents. A four
hundred pound bale now brings So
less than it did then.-The output
of coal at the CumnOck mines was
10, 900 last year. The mining force
there now is not so large, and not so
much coal is being mined. The COM
pany finds some difficulty in getting
hands to work in the mine as explO-
sions are liable to occur at any time.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-03-26
FOR BETTER ROADS.

The State highway commission,
created under the new road law, will
meet some time this month to for
mulate plans for aiding the counties,
says Col. Odds. Fifteen counties are
now macadamizing their roads,
among these being Mecklenburg,
Wake, Alamance, Durham, Guilford,
Rowan, Cabarrus, New Hanover,
Haywood, Buncombe, Castor and
Arson. The following counties are
adopting legislation to inaugurate
road Improvement this year: Gran
vile, Person, Orange, Wilson, Ca
tawba, Union, Lincoln and others.
Laws have been enacted by the pres
ent Legislature for the voting of
road bonds in Orange, Granville,
Guilford, Rowan, Buncombe, Ca
tawba and Mecklenburg. For Char
lotte township there is a wide tire
law. Ten years hence such a law
will be in force in a large part of the
State.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-03-26
THE ANT1-CIGARETTE CRUSADE.

Next to primary election bills and
tax bills, measures directed against
the sale of cigarettes have occupied
the most prominent place before the
Legislatures that have been in $685.
sion this winter. Last week the
House of Representatives. in New
Hampshire passed one of these
measures, providing that hereafter
no person, firm, or corporation shall
make, sell, or keep for sale "any
form of cigarette" The gift of a
cigarette to minors is made a mis-
demeanOr quite as much as the sale
to adults. Persons violating the
law may be punished by a fine of ten
dollars for the first Offense, and fifty
dollars for any subsequent ofense.
to pass the Senate and receive the
Governors approval, is a sample of
those which have been presented to
most of the Legislatures which have
been in session. The Chicago "Tri-
bune," which recently investigated
the subject very thoroughly, reports
that only two States, Wyoming and
Louisiana, have not given some at
tention to cigarette-smoking, and
that eleven Safes have already passed
laws against it. In some cases, it
says, as, for example, Rhode Island
and Ohio, the law when first passed
was allowed to remain imperative,
but now public sentiment seems to
demand enforcement.-New York
Outlook.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-03-26
H SYSTEM.
Stations in Operation at Roanoke Island
and Hatteras.


and Hatteras.
WASHINGTON, March 21.-Secretary
Wilson, of the Agricultural Depart
ment, is pushing the wireless teleg-
raphy experiment along the Virginia
and North Carolina coasts. The
work is being done by Secretary
Wilson's direction under the imme-
date supervision of Prof. Willis l..
Moore, Chief of the Weather Bureua.
Professor Moore made this statement
to the Associated Press to-day re-
garding the results of the expert
ments so far conducted:
"The most efficient method Of long
distance transmission has been found
to be from wire cylinders. The new
coast stations are being equipped
with cylinders, it is expected to owe
a magnetic field of not less than five
hundred miles. The stations now in
operation are at Hatteras and at
Roanoke Island, in PamlicO Sound,
North Carolina. WOrkmen are be
ginning the construction of a sta
ton at Cape Henry, which will be
the third station. When this is fin
ished the two remote stations will be
127 miles apart. The three points
now are connected by a Government
telegraph line, but this line will be
abandoned on the completion Of the
Cape Henry station. This inciden-
tally, will be abandoned on the com
pletion of a half dozen repair sta
tiOns,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-03-26
DDArH KNELL OF FUSION IN NEBRASKA

LINCOLN, NEB., March 19.-The
first step to end fusion between the
Democrats, Populists and Silver Re-
publicans in Nebraska was taken
to day when the Senate, by a strict
party vote, passed the Edgar Ballot
bill. It's passage by the House is
assured by the party caucus action.
The bill provides that the nomi-
nees of each party shall be placed in
columns, precedence being awarded
those which polled the highest num-
Der of votes at the preceding cleo
ton, but any candidate who is the
nominee of more than one party
must elect the column in which he
wants his name to appear, no name
being permitted in more than one
place on the ballot. Heretofore
fusion candidates names have ap.
peared as often as they received
nominations or with all party desig-
nations following them
The f~usionists rely upon the fusion
supreme court to prevent the bill
ever becoming operative.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-03-26
POSITIONS THAT PAY.
1t is Worth Something to Be an Expert in
Agriculture.

Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, March 22.-Mr. Mil
ton Whitney, chief of the division of
soils, Department of Agriculture,
was before the industrial commission
to-day. Mr.. Whitney said that there
is still a tendency among young men
reared on farms to leave agricultural
pursuits in order to go into indus
trial or commercial pursuits, but a
change is taking place in that re-
spect, brought about by attractive
salaries to be obtained by agricul-
tural experts. It is a common thing
now, he said, for a tobacco expert to
be paid So, 900 or 81, 900 a year. These
experts are not college bred men,
but frequently have deficient general
education, but have become prof
cient in the practical work of tObac-
growing and allied industries. Such
salaries are now often paid men who
are experts in the manipulation of
soils, of various kinds, and in the
management of large truck farms.
Recently Japan gave a salary of
6 5000 a year to a tobacco expert of
the Department of Agriculture, and
still more recently that government
offered 5000 a year for an expert of
that kind to go to the island of For
mOsa A 1arpa beet OrOwinO ron
Germ had paid $4,000 a year to a
man who could successfully treat
the alkali soil with which it has been
troubled.
While this change is taking place,
the agricultural classes of Harvard
and Yale are poorly patronized,
when compared with other classes
of those universities.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-03-26
News.
TO DIsFRANCHIsE MARYLAND litter
ATES

Election Bill With This Purpose Has Passed
The Legislature-Expect to Make Mary
land Safely Democratic.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, March 2O.-The
new election bill, having for it's OBJ
Ject the practical disfranchisement
of most of the SO, 1000 illlterate voters
OF the State, by provisions abolish
ing party emblems, requiring ros
marks TO be made opposite the names
of each candidate and denying to
voters the assistance of ballot clerks,
has passed both Houses of the Mary
land Legislature. In the Senate, the
vote was a strictly party one, ex-
cept five Democrats who voted with
the Republicans against the bill.
The most important change in ex-
listing methods accomplished by the
enactment of the new law lies in de-
priving ~illiterate voters of the as
sisGance of ballot clerks in prepar
ing their ballots. Under the pre-
viOus practice these clerks accom-
panied such voters into the booths
and marked their ballots for them,
or showed them how to do it. The
Democrats claim that this practice
utterly destroyed the secrecy Of the
ballot and made it possible for cor
ruptiOnists to learn through signals
from the ballot clerks whether bar
gains made with corrupt voters were
carried out. The arrangements of
the names on the ballots has been al
tered so that the candidates for each
office + grouped instead of being
arranged in groups according to the
party they represent. Party embIems
are abolished and other changes
made which make the new law very
similar to that in existence in Mas
sachusetts.
The effect Of the law is, of course,
largely a matter of conjecture, and
n upon which the party leaders
widely differ. The Democrats ex-
pect that it will disfrancise about
$4,000 negroes and perhaps 16, 900
white voters who cannot read or
write. OF these it is claimed that
all the negroes and about fifty per
cent. Of the whites vote the Repub-
lican ticket. With these out of the
way the State Will be safely Demo
cratic for many years to come, and
the immediate result will be the cleo
ton of a Democratic Legislature
next fall and of a Democrat to sue
coed United States Senator Yelling
ton in 1902.
The active interest taken by Sen
ator Gormon in the passage of the
bill leaves no doubt of his candidacy
for the Senatorship in the event
that the effect of new law is as the
Democrats expect it to be.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-03-26
THE CHARLESTON EXPOSITION,
Not Crippled by Failure of the Government
Appropriation.

NFS@NE14G14S
CHARLESTON, S. c., March 23.-The
failure of Congress to make an ap-
preparation of $3.50, 900 for a govern
ment building and government ex
hibit at the South Carolina Inter
State and West Indian exposition to
be held at Charleston, will not inter
fere in any way with the scope and
purpose of the undertaking. The
work of construction on the expo
sition grounds and buildings is pro-
ceeding with all possible expedition.
The bill which Congress failed to pass
simply provided the means for cover.
ing the expenses of the government
building and exhibit. Not one
penny of the amount asked for could
have been diverted to any other than
government uses, so that the failure
of the bill, while a disappointment
to those who lean upon the govern
ment support for the achievement of
practical ends, has not diminished
the resources Of the exposition COM
pany or caused any change in it's
general plan.
The great manufacturing and in
dustrial development of the south,
and the opportunities which will be-
presented through the exposition st
Charleston of the cultivation and
establishment of closer trade rela-
tions between the United States and
the West Indies will make the parti-
cipation of the great manufacturing
and commercial states and cities of
practical value TO them.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-03-26
FIVE LILO MORE.
Carnegie's Offer to New York for Branch
Libraries.

Carnegie's Offer to New York for Branch
Libraries.
NEW YORK, March 22.-Andrew
Carnegie has duplicated in New York
his S., OOO, 900 gift to Pittsburg for a
library and other purposes. For
some time before he left for Europe
the retired steel magnate had fire.
quent conferences with the library
officials of the New York public Ii
brary, the Aston, Lenox and Tilden
libraries, as to the needs of branch
library stations in Greater New York
to be operated from the central Ii
brary, and the result was that he
agreed to furnish the money to build
sixty-ive branch libraries in the
great city at an estimated cost Of
S., 200, 900. The conditions of the
gift are that the city furnish the
necessary land and provid salts
factory arrangements for the main
tenanCe of these branches. The offer
has been submitted to Mayor Van
WICK for action by the city officials.
That the magnificent offer will be
accepted there seems to be no reason
to doubt. The correspondence rel
alive to the proposition was with
held from publication at Mr.. Carne-
gie's request until after he had sailed
for Europe.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-03-26
STRUGGLE WITH THE BOERs NOT YET
ENDED.

LONDON, March 19.-The Boer war
is to be continued. The peace con
ferences between General Kitchener
and the burgher leaders in South
Africa for the purpose of reaching
an understanding that would end the
hOstilities have come to naught, and
there is no telling how much longer
the guerilla warefare will be cOntin-
ued by the remnants of the Boer ar
mics in the field.
In the House Of Commons this af-
ternoon Mr.. Chamberlain, Secretary
for the colonies, said that General
Louis Botha, in chief of
the Boer army, had informed Gener-
al Kitchener that he (Botha) did
not feel disposed to recommend the
British terms Of surrender to the
consideration of the Boer govern
ment. General Botha added that his
government, through it's chief Off
GERS, agreed with his views.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-03-26

The Bureau Of Engraving and
Printing has orders from the Post
Office Department to print the new
Pan American Exposition stamps in
the following quantities: One cent,
II, 900, 900; two-cent, 16O, 600, 900;
four-cent, 5000, 900 fve-cent, 8,O00,-
900 eight-cent, 5000, 900; ten-cent,
1900, 900: total, 251, 600, 900.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-07-18
women confeetloner-. Success.

A London confectioner's establish
ment. which is run entirely by women.
has become so great success that its
kitchen has Of necessity been partially
converted into q school. where women
anxious to learn are taught the confec-
toners art. At the neat marble slabs
women of good education are busy with
dainty connections. Some of these pu-
pills are ambitious to become managers
of similar establishments of their own.
The concern in question is carried on
in connection with a restaurant and
tearoom. and, since tearooms are often
managed by women. pupils from such
establishments are coming in increas-
ing numbers to this school, One course,
in which only two pupils can be taken
at time, includes the making of cakes,
sweets. ices. bookkeeping and shop
management. All the latest inventions
of the cOnfectioner's art are mastered
by these women as rapidly as they APP
pear. and they find it necessary in this,
as in every field Of work. to keep
abreast of the times.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-07-18
Anglo-American Luxury.

A New Yorker just returned from
England thinks that he has had an eX-
perience that marks the limit to which
pretentious luxury may go. He was
stopping at the home of an American
girl of wealth who married an Eng
lishman of title and lives now in Eng
land in all the circumstance that his
position and her wealth make possible
The dinner was, of course, served by
as many men as there were guests at
the table and was as pompous and elab-
crate as was to be expected. 1t was
the next morning, however, that the
most peculiar feature of the household
methods came to his knowledge He
was awakened by his valet at the hour
he had named and was surprised to see
him a moment later, before he was
fully awake, holding at the side of his
bed silver bowl filled with water
The American guest stared in amaze
ment at the man and the bowl without
the faintest idea what his duty in the
matter was. The valet looked at him
cOmpassionately a moment before he
came to his assistance; then he said,
with a suggestion of pity, 1T is to test
the temperature of your bath, SIR
Chicago Record Herald.