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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-05
NEW SOIL.

When John Dalton came back from
the asylum where he had gone to place
his wife, his neighbor, Perry, met him
at the station and went home with
him, that he might not enter the
empty house alone. The old man was
stunned and dazed.
II don't know what allied Mary" he
said, duly. "You see how clean and
snug this house is? She always kept
things so. Up before dawn, milking
and baking and washing. Same thing
done at the same hour year in ard
year out. She hadn't complained of
sickness for forty years. Then, all
at once, she began talking of an iron
band around her jaws and queer pains
in her head"
"She seldom went into town, did
she" asked Perry.
"Never, hardly. I'm not much of
a hand for gadding about to no pur-
pose. She used to want to go in to
church Sundays, but I didn't just like
to hitch up when there was no work to
do. But I wish now I'd done that for
Mary"
"She didn't visit much with the
neighbors, either, did She" asked
Perry.
"No. That was my doing, too.
When the days work is done, I want to
put on nay slippers and rest, and then
to bed, and not go sk~irmishing about
or having a lot of company in"
He was silent a while. "I don't
know what allied Mary" he said again.
"She would sit looking at nothing,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-05
BURNING MONEY" IN NEW YORK.

A lady, and a very pretty lady she
was, good to look at from the crown
of her head to the soles of her feet,
entered the shop. A demure saleswo-
man, faultlessly gotten up in black,
met the lady at the threshold. They
greeted each other pleasantly and then
conversed for a few minutes in low
tones. What they said did not reach
my ears. There was a clock on the
opposite side of the street, and, being
prohibited from paying too close at
tention to the pretty lady and the de-
mure ~saleswoman, I watched the
clock. 1t had licked off seven and a
half minutes when the conversation
that had been beyond my ears in
creased in volume. The lady and the
saleswoman were approaching the
front of the shop where I was stand
ing. What followed could not escape
me.
eve are very much obliged to you,
indeed, Mrs. Blank"
II am sure the obligation is on my
part" was the gracious response, "for
a prettier gown I have rarely seen in
my life. You don't know how pleased
[ am at securing it."
"Thank you, indeed, for your good
opinion. Good-morning."
Woodworking"
The pretty lady had reached the
door, which was held open by a page
in buttons, when she suddenly seemed
to remember something.
"By the way" she said, 'Iforgot to
ask the price of the gown. How much
is it?"
Seventeen hundred dollars" was
the calm answer.
"Isn't that rather highw suggest
ed the lady, as the ordinary m
might have suggested that peaches at
sixty cents a basket we're high.
mo, [ think not" replied the sales
woman, as demure as v and also
apparently looking at the transaction
as the most commonplace thing in the
world. "You know it's a n exclusive
design and the very best importation.
Then the fur trimming"
eyes, I suppose that's true; I had
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-05

straight ahead of her, by the hour,
and then cry and cry, yet always say
ing she had no trouble. And she got
weaker every day, and then her mind
went altogether. She didn't know me,
nor even her W name"
"She will be cured in that santa
rium," said Perry, cheerfully, sand
come home well in the spring" He
watched his old neighbor furtively a
while, and then said:
do you know, Dalton, some years
ago my wife and daughter got peevish
and irritable. I thought the steady
work and loneliness we're telling on
them. So I got hat parlor organ,
and paid for a years lessons for Susy.
We had music and singing every even
ing, and the young folks would gather
in with their reading clubs. Then I
took two or three papers; my wife is
a main hand for guessing the riddles.
And once a year I took her an Susy
up to town for a week"
eyes," said Dalton, dryly. "You
spent a lot of money, I've heard"
cts bringing me in good interest"
They sat in silence a while. Then
Perry put his hand on the old mans
knee. "When she comes back, if she
ever does come, I'd open up life for
her a bit, Dalton. You know how it
is with potatoes. You plant the best
kind in good ground, and they yield
splendid crops for a year or two.
Then they begin to dwindle and rot"
"Of course the ground runs out.
They need new soil"
eyes. You plant them in a differ
emit lot, and they yield big, healthy
crops. Human beings are like them,
Dalton. You've got to renew the soil,
give them fresh food for their minds,
or they'll dwindle and rot"
Dalton did not speak for a long
time. "There's something in it." he
said, finally. "PIl do diferent-if I
ever have the chance."-The Youths
Companion.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-05
A FRENCH STORY.

They thought more of the Legion Of
Honor in the time of the first Napo-
leon than now. The Emperor, it is
said, one day met an old one-armed
soldier, and asked him where he lost
his arm? "Sire, at Austerlitz." "And
were you not decorated" 'No, sire"
"Then here is my own o for you;
I make you chevalier." "Your Ma
jesty names me chevalier because l
have lost one arm! What would Your
Majesty have done if I had lost both"
ooh, in that case [ should have made
you officer of the Legion" WhereupOn
the soldier Immediately drew his
sword, and cut off his other arm.
P. S.-Had it occurred to you to ask,
Glow did he do t?"-Selected.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-05
EXAGGERATED ILLS

"I may not have achieved anything
great in my life" said a woman the
other day. "but I have brought up two
daughters who never talk about their
pains and aches"
maybe they haven't any" ventured
a woman who enjoys poor health.
ooh, 1 fancy they have their share"
resumed the first woman, placidly.
zone has enoromus dentists bills, and
they are documentary evidence of a
certain amount of suffering, don't you
think? The other is anything but
robust constitutionally, but she is sell
dom i'll because she takes care of her
health instead Of talking about it. [
don't think I have been an unsympa-
thetic mother, and I fear [ am not
made of Spartan material; but when
my girls got old enough to talk about
headaches and toOthaches and all
ments-real, exaggerated or imagi-
nary-I made up my mind to discour-
age it at once. I refused to listen to
accounts of mysterious aches and SEN
satiOns when I had reason to believe
they were the outcome of too much
introspection and too little exercise.
Fresh air and occupation were the
prescriptions for headaches and bad
temper; and a bread-and-milk supper
and early to bed was the treatment
for other ailments. Real illness sell
dom comes unheralded, and when the
eyes keep bright, pulses regular and
appetites good there is scarcely any
thing that cannot be cured by witch
hazel or a good sleep. We are a busy
family, for there is seldom an hour Of
dreaming for the girls. They had
plenty of pleasure, but it was active
and jolly rather than leisurely. They
never got into the summer piazza COM
planning habit, because they we're al
ways playing tennis or sailing boats
or reading books. I suppose their ed
u~cation has been sadly neglected so
far as fancy work is concerned, but
the hours that most women spend
over fancy work are, in my idea, like
those hours after dinner which Thack-
cray says women always spend in dis
cussing their diseases. =
Advertiser.
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forgotten it. All right; be sure
get it around early"
And the thing was over. A d..
costing seventeen hundred dollars ~
been bought by this woman a. fraoII
as the average maid would bo1.
bought a kerchief. It hadn't even ~
Cured to her to ask the price. exoan.
as an afterthought.
And that is the whole tone in Non
York today. It is the Era of Burn;na
Money. There are bonfres on ever,
corner of Fifth Avenue, from Twen+T.
third Street to F~orty-second, and tbon
are being fed with greenbacks at .
rate that would have made the ~.
clients, tabled for their luxury, star.
and write themselves down noyica.
This dress transaction that l have At.
tempted to describe is simply an inc;.
dent, and a very small and unimpor.
tant one; an incident that is repea+.
ing itself in scores of shops every dav
almost every hour of every day. In
the jewelers., the florists, the furnish.
er's; everywhere it is the same. Ask
any tradesman in the fashionable dis.
trict which lies along Fifth Avenue
between the streets I have mentioned
and, if he knows you well enough, be
will tell you that his sales have in.
creased fifty per cent during the last
eighteen months, and that his prices
have gone up in proportion-Satur.
day Evening Post.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-05
THE MOTHERS OF TOMORROW.

The following from one of our ex-
changes is too good to lose, though We
have forgotten the name of the ex-
change: "There has been, according
to history. an idea in the world that
education was intended for boys, ard
boys only; that woman had no need
of any book knowledge more than to
read, write and figure a little; that to
educate a girl was waste of energy,
time and money; and, too, that all ed
ucation would not and could not be of
any advantage to the female sex.
Things for girls to know were how to
spin, weave, wash, sew, cook, and all
such drudgery work as might need to
be done in housekeeping, and when
she advanced beyond this she was get
ting on forbidden grounds for a wo-
man.
"Such was once the prevailing idea
in regard to the education of the fe-
male sex, and even to-day some of our
people cling to that nOnsensical idea.
"The girls should know how to do
all these things mentioned, and more.
The old idea of this being a sufficient
knowledge for a girl has been aban-
doned by our best and most broad
minded people. They see that to ed
ucate the girls of our land means
more than mere contentment for that
seX, but, on the contrary, means true
happiness and prosperity for the
rising generation.
"The girls of to-day are to be moth
ers of tomorrow; and oh! how thank
full a boy or a girl should be who has
an educated mother. An educated
mother almost means an educated son
or daughter. A child who never hears
poorly spoken English never speaks
such. It is the mother who has the
everlasting influence over the son or
daughter; and for these reasons, if for
10 other, give us educated women
women with an all-round education,
and Christian women.
$50 give US rightly educated moth
ers, and we will have less trouble with
the young generation, need fewer law
yers, fewer prisons, fewer sherifs, and
have fewer drunkards. We will have
more schools and better Ones, more
churches and better members. better
citizens and better and happier homes.
Humanity will then stand on a higher
and nobler plane than v e before"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-05
A YANKEE D

Some American raftsmen being
obliged to return home without sell.
ing their timber, were out of cash,
and had no mode of replenishinR
their whiskey key. "Let me have it."
said one; ct will try what I can do"
So putting in half a gallon of water,
he stepped into a store and asked for
half a gallon of whiskey, which was
measured and poured in. "You must
wait until we come down again for
your pay" said the raftsman; "We
have left our timber, and shall return
next week" But the storekeeper re-
fused to trust. "You must then take
the whiskey back" said the fellow.
So the storekeeper measured back his
half gallon of grog, and the raft8man
rejoined his companions with two
quarts of strong whiskey-and-water.-
Exchange.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-05
WOMAN's RESPONSIBILITY

Women make society; they are ac-
countable largely for the faults Of the
male portion of it, at least for the
growth and extent of fault; if men
fall short it is because women have not
demanded higher standards. And if
the woman who works is not treated
with the same courtesy as she whose
d~elicately gloved hand holds her own
handbook, it is the fault of that same
dainty hand which is not held out in
kind comradeship to one that Yields
pencil or scissors. Men get their cue
from woman's treatment of woman.
But men are rarely unkind; theirs is
rather the absence of kindness; and
of the two the latter were preferable.
Florence L. Tucker in Woman's
Home Companion.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-05
How TO COOK
Good Counsel to Women who are Married and
to Those who Would Like to Be.

From Good Housekeeping: Miss
Carson has given the following recipe
for cooking husbands, which we hope
all who have an occasion to use may
find successful:
"a good many husbands are utterly
spoiled by Encouragement. Some
women go about as if their husbands
we're bladders, and blow them up; 9th
ers keep them constantly in hot water;
others let them freeze by carelessness
and Indifference. Some keep them in
a stew by irritating ways and words.
Others roast them. Some keep them
in pickle all their lives. It cannot be
supposed that any husband will be ten
der and good, managed in this way,
but they are really delicious when
properly treated. In selecting your
husband you should not be guided by
the silvery appearance, as in buying
mackerel; nor by the golden tint, as
if you wanted salmon. Be sure to
select him yourself, as tastes differ.
Do not go to market for him, as the
best are always brought to your door.
It is far better to have none unless
you will patiently learn how to cook
him. A preserving kettle of the very
finest porcelain is best; but, if you
have nothing but an earthenware pip
kin, it will do with care. See that the
linen in which you. wrap him is nicely
washed and mended, with the required
number of buttons and strings nicely
sewed on. Tie him in the kettle by
a strong silk cord called ~"comfort,"
as the one called "duty" is apt to be
weak. They are apt to fly out of the
kettle, and be burned and crusted on
the edges, since, like crabs and lob
sters, you have to cook them while
alive. Make a clear, steady fire out
of love, neatness and cheerfulness. Set
him as near this as seems to agree
with him. If he sputters and fzzes,
do not be anxious; some husbands do
this until they are quite done. Add
a little sugar in the form of what con-
f~ectioners call kisses, but no vinegar
or pepper on any account. A little
spice improves them, but it must be
used with Judgment. Do not stick
any sharp instrument into him to see
if he is becoming tender. Stir him
gently; watch the while lest he lie too
fiat and close to the kettle, and so be-
come useless. You cannot fail to
know when he is done. If thus treat
ed, you will find him very digestible,
agreeing very nicely with you and the
children, and he will keep as long as
you want, unless you become careless.
and set him in too cold a place"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-05
AT A

A man was found by a policeman
one evening investigating a building
somewhat closely. "What are you do
ing" asked the policeman. "Noth-
ing" replied the man; II am thinking
of opening a jewelry store here, and I
thought I would look it over" and so
he was allowed to remain. The next
morning when it was noticed that the
jewelry store had been robbed, the po-
liceman scratched his head, and finally
said: "Wen that man be a thafe, but
he's no liar."-W. W. Catlin.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-05
A REPRESENTATIVE LIST OF THE FIFTY
GREATEST LIVING AMERICANS.

The letter of a Social Chat CORE
spondent last week regarding the
Success" prize contest may make the
publication of the successful list of
interest to some readers. The prize
$50 offered for the best and most rep
resentative list of the fifty greatest
living Americans-was won by Oscar
M. Mortex, of New York City, who Of
fered the following names
Statesmen.-Theodore Roosevelt,
Grover Cleveland, William J. Bryan,
Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller.
Commerce.. Pierpont Morgan,
John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carne-
gle, Charles N. Schwab.
Religion.-Bishop John II. Vim
cent, Bishop Henry G. Potter, Arch
bishop John Ireland, DR.. Emil G..
Hirsch, Francis E. Clark.
Army and Navy.-Lieutenant-Gen
eral Nelson y. Miles, E1igadier-Gen-
eral Leonard A. Wood, Admiral
George Dewey, Rear-Admiral Winfield
| Scott Schley.
Editors.-W. R. Hearst, Whitelaw
Reid.
Educators.-Charles William Eliot
president of Harvard University; Ar
hui Twining Hadley, president of
Yale University; Charles F. Thwing,
president of the Western Reserve Uni
versity, Cleveland, Ohio; Jacob Gould
Schurman, president of Cornell Uni
versity, Ithaca, New York; E. Benja-
min Andrews, president of the Uni
versity of Nebraska; Woodrow Will
son, president of Princeton Univer-
sity, Princeton, N. J.; Ira Remsen,
president of Johns Hopkins Universe
ty, Baltimore, Maryland; Booker T.
Washington, principal of the Tuske-
gee Normal and Industrial Institute,
Tuskegee, Alabama.
observation-disclosures A. Edison;
John B. Holland, inventor of the sub
marine boat; George Westinghouse,
inventor of the air-brake.
Explorers.-Robert F. Peary, Evelyn
z. Baldwin.
Art.-Charles Dana. Gibson, J. Nc
Mel Whistler, Edwin A. Abbey, John
LaFarge, Augustus ST. Gaudens.
Music and Drama.-Lillian Nordi-
ca, opera singer; Joseph Jefferson, ac-
tor.
Philanthropy.-Clara Barton, Mrs.
Phoebe Hearst, Mrs. Jane L. Stan
ford, Miss Helen Miller Gould.
Literature.-Samuel L. Clemens
MARK Twain), William Dean How
ellis, Edwin Markham, James Whit
comb Riley, Edward Everett Hale.
Science.-Professor Jacques Loeb,
Edward F. Barnard.
Says Success: "a poll of the votes
revealed some very interesting facts.
Ninety-seven per cent Of the lists con-
tanned the name of Theodore RoOse-
welt, and 95 per cent the name of VIII
liam J. Bryan. Other names we're
voted for in the following proportions:
Thomas A. Edison, 80 per cent; Gro
yer Cleveland, IS per cent; Bishop
Vincent, so per cent; Francis E.
Clark, so per cent; S. L. Clemens, so
per cent; Edward Everett Hale, Is
per cent; Booker T. Washington, 70
per cent, and George B. Westing-
house, so per cent"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-05
HERE'S A GOOD WAY.

A Howard man has been trying a
novel experiment during the last year
He watched the stock markets, and
made suppositious investments, OF
which he kept careful track. At the
end of the year he found that if his
speculations had been real he would
have been out of pocket just $300,OOO.
It is a fine illustration of the fate
which lies in wait for the amateur on
the stock market.-Kansas City Jour
nal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-05

Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this
ominous bird of yore,
What this grim, u~ngainly, CHASTITY,
paunt. and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking "Nevermore."
Thus / sat engaged in guessing,b but no
syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now
burn'd into my bosom's core;
This and more I sat divining, with my
head at ease reclining
On the cushions velvet lining, that
the lamplight gloated DER;
But whose velvet violet lining, with
the lamplight gloating DER,
She shall press, ah, nevermore!
Then methought the air grew denser,
perfumed from IN unseen censor
Swung by angels whose faint footballs
tinkled on the tufted floor.
"Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent
thee, by the angels He hath sent
thee,
Respite, respite and nepenthe from
the memories of Lenore:
Quaf, oh, quaf this kind nepenthe,
and forget this lost Lenore!"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."
prophet" said I, ching of evil
prophet still, if bird or devil!-
Whether tempter sent. or whether
tempest tost thee here ashore,
Desolate, yet all undaunted, on this
desert land enchanted,
On this home by horror haunted,-tel
me truly, I implore,
Is there, is there balm in Gilead? tell
me, tell me, / implore"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."
Prophet" said I, ching of evil
prophet still, if bird or devil!-
By that heaven that bends above US,
by the God we both adore,
Tell this soul, with sorrow laden, if
within that distant Alden
It shall clasp a sainted maiden, whom
the angels name Lenore,-
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden,
whom the angels name Lenore?
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."
'Be that word our sign of parting,
bird or fend," 1 shriekd, up
starting;
"Get thee back into the tempest and
the nights Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of
that lie thy soul hath spoken;
Leave my loneliness unbroken; quit
the bust above the door;
Take thy beak from out my heart, and
take thy form from off my door,"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."
And the raven, never fitting, still is
sitting. still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas, just above
my chamber-dO1r:
And his eyes have all the seeming of
a demon that is dreaming,
And the lamplight DER him streaming
throws his shadow on the floor;
And myself from out that shadow that
lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted-nevermore!
Edgar Allan Poe.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-05

"This is No. "a of our series Of the Worlds
Best Poems, arranged especially for THE PRO
~SREssIvE FARMER by the editor. In this
series selections from the fOllOwin authors
nave already appeared: Burns, Bryant, Mr.. and
Mrs Browning, Lord Byron, Campbell Eugene
F1eid, Goldsmith, Leigh Hunt, Holmes, Omar
Khayyam, KipIing, Lampman, Lanier, Long
yellow, Lowell, Markham, Macaulay, Milton
Moore.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-05

"Here's a letter from Mirandy at
college. She says she's in love with
Ping-Pong." "She is, hey? Well
she'd better give him up; we amt goin'
ter stand fer no Chinaman margin
inter this family."-From "Just For
Fun" in the August Woman's Home
Companion.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-05

But, the raven still beguiIing all my
sad soul into smiling.
Straight | wheeled a cushion'd seat in
front of bird. and bust. and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I be-
took myself ID linking
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-05
The Home Circle.


Once upon a midnight dreary, while
ponder'd, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious vol
ume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly mapping, sud
denly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rap
ping at my chamber-door:-
'OTis some visitor" I mutter'd, "tap-
ping at my chamber-door,
Only this, and nothing more"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-26
VOLCANIC REGIONS.
The Five Active Groups of the Vest
ern Hemisphere.


The active volcanic groups of the
western hemisphere occur in five wide
ly separated regions:
First.-The Andean group of volca-
noes of the equatorial region of west
ern South America.
Second.-The chain of some twenty
five great cinder cones which stretch
east and west across the south end of
the Mexican plateau.
Third. The Central American group,
with its thirty-one active craters, eX
tending diagonally across the western
ends of the east and west folds of the
Caribbean corrugations, fringing the
Pacific side of Guatemala, San Saliva
dor and Costa Rica This is separated
from the Mexican group on the north
mus of Tehuantepec, and on the south
from the Andean volcanoes by the 18TH
mus of Panama, where no active vol
canoes are found.
Fourth chain of volcanoes of
the Windward islands, marking the
eastern gate of the Caribbean sea,
standing in a line directly across the
eastern termini of the Caribbean noun
tains, trending east and west and paral-
lei to the Central American group SIM
ilarly situated at the western termini.
Fifth.-The volcanoes of Alaska and
the Aleutian islands.-Professor Rob-
ert T. Hill in Century.