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COMMUNION WITH NATURE.

DEAR AUNT JENNIE - By your
kind permission I would tell the
readers of your department. some
thing about a small territory of
country neal my home, known as
the Sand Hills, or White Hills, as it
is sometimes called.
These are slight elevations of
sandy land, which in places where
they are free from grass and shrub.
berry, present almost a snow-white
appearance, and hence their name.
They were once thickly set in long
leaf pine, but most of these having
long since yielded to the lumber.
mans axe, their places r now
filed by different kinds of oak-post
oak, sand oak, black jack, etc. Two
churches, two school. houses and
quite a number of cottage homes
have been erected within the last
few years on the White Hills, and,
nesting among the oaks and pines,
add their charms to the natural love.
lniess of the place.
To-day 1 was seized with an ire
s1stibIe longing TO throw away dull
care and seek refuge among these
hills, where the happy birds are
holding their councils, and the honey
bees r blowing their soft and mel.
low pipes. How pleasant to stroll
"amid the scenes of my childhood
and observe the beauty of coming
spring" Nature, the master pain
ter, is using an exquisite brush in
painting these woodlands. Millions
of buds, peeping out from their
winter ooverlets, are shaping them
sci YES into tiny leaves and blossoms,
which Ire as yet varied in tint,
being delicately shaded red, golden,
reddish brown, and brownish-yellow
suggestive Of the green of early
summer. I admire a we'll painted
picture of a landscape, but the origi-
nal, the landscape itself, with it's
carpet of green, it's shady trees, it's
delicately tinted flowers, it's crystal
streams and murmuring brooks
with their sun-tipped wavelets
blithely dancing to their own ripping
music, Is to me inexpressibly lovely.
Spending a day amid such scenes
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Our Social Chat.
. DIR BY AUNT JENNIE, RALEIaH, y.

as CONTRIBUTORS to this department OF
The Progressive Farmer, we have some OF the
most Wtde-aWake and progressive oun ladies
and young menNand sOn1eO OF the most entertain
ing writer's among the older people OF this anQ
other States. the ages of the members ranging
from sixteen to more thOn sixty.
YOU ARE REQUESTED to join by sending
as q letter on some subject OF general interest,
and writing thereafter as often as possible.
WHEN WRITING, give full name n post
II you do not wish your real name to appear
in print, give name by which you wish 10 DC
known as 8 Chatterer.
elapse between the time q letter Is written ana
the date Of its publication.
ADDRESS all letters to Aunt Jennie, care OF
The Progressive Farmer. Raleigh. N. O.
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is truly refreshing to thu
nature and makes one betso,
pier and wiser. For AQ
mature never did betrar
The heart that loved her
privilege, "s be-
Through all the years Of ~.
life, TO lead, '"s on
From joy TO joy for she osr
form sOa,
The mind that is within ia
press ~ n
With gentleness and beauty
feed "oaa
With lofty thoughts that nail,
evil tongues, 4'''as
Rash judgments, nor the snoo.-
of selfish men, 0fS q
Nor greetings where no kindr..,
nor all 'A
The dreary intercourse Of dai,um
Shall e'er prevail against ns , 9'
turb Ql
Our cheerful faith, that ali NJ,
we behold "|'C
Is full Of blessing"
Beaufort Co., N. G. 0VS'
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great many negroes stayed. A r1ch
man by the name Of Cameron owned
these slaves. These two IONS went
after a sack of salt one of them
carried a long dirk knife, fastened
around his waist. AS they were re-
turning home, coming through the
low grounds in the pitch darkness
of the night with the sack of salt on
his shoulder, his foot slipped and he
fell, the long knife few up and out
the iugular vein of his neck. He
got up walked across the creek with
the blood flowing in the water as he
went. After he OF ossed he staggered
and fell to the ground. They car
ried him home to his father. I saw
him next day, when he died.
remember in the war times some
things were hard to come at-cofee,
for instance. But somehow or other
the news was circulated among the
old women that persimmon seed
made good coffee, and so my mother
thought she would have coffee plenti-
full as we had a barrel of persimmon
beer and the beer was nearly ex-
hausted. So one day the barrel was
rolled out and the neighbors sent
after to come and pick out the seed
for coffee. I remember one old maid
that was more expert at picking
seed than the others, got nearly half
of the seed. don't know how our
neighbors relished their persimmon
coffee, but I heard my mother say,
after she had made the first potful
Gas she went toward the door, with
the coffee pot in hand, and gave it a
sling, and the ground caught the
%oontents), 81 don't want any more
of the 'simmon seed Coffee"
Ny uncle was lieutenant in the
first regiment of the Civil War. I
was nine years old when it ended.
And such a time we did have hiding
everything from the Yankees !
While they we're securing the ooun.
try and taking every fine horse they
could find, not n dared to enter
our door. My father took advan.
tage of the situation and fed his
horses nothing but shuoks for a
week or two SO they got so lean in
flesh the Yankees wouldn't have
them. He owned six and when the
Yankees dashed up to the stable
doors, my father said to them, "Hold
on, I have the key in my pocket"
They said, "All right all right !"
"I believe you are a Union man."
said one of them. 81 will give you a
fine young mule. If any one claims
this mule don't let them have it, for
it followed us from Alabama
have often wondered to whom
that mule belonged. We named him
Jack and he lived to be 80 years of
age. MRS. Il. M. VEAZEY.
Granville Co., N. G.
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About half the years of a oolL0so
course are spent in teaching tn0 w.. ~
to talk, and after he graduates -
has to spend two or three tlnnoT
many years learning to keep BILL
Washington Capital.
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be impressed upon educators" Her
wall text would be, "Suffer and be
strong" The great test of character
with her was that of suffering-and
sometimes the Spectator has been in
clined to accuse her of wishing that
that there was more of Ii in the world,
else when would the millennium
come in? She had pronounced views
on what she called the parental cult
of complaining in children, holding
that too many parents, in their rest
less anxiety lest their children should
be i'll, create in their children an ex.
aggerated conception of ordinary ill
ness.
= y \ = =
Was itnot the genial Autocrat who
said that, alas there were too many
people in the world who used their
troubles for clubs wherewith to
knock down the good spirits of
othersP And may not our friends
and relatives-almost everybody one
knows, in fact-be classified under
two heads, those who suffer OF suf-
fered without complaining, and those
who don't or did not?-the classified.
ton running through the great
names of history and literature. Poor
Missis Gummidge sits in many a
chimney-oorner, crying because the
fire smokes and she feels it worse
than anybody else, and her croaking
is never compensated for by any
amount of loving and sacrificing ser.
vice.
y X = y \ =
The Spectator once knew a family
of which the Children large brood
were such experts at complaining
that the father was moved to place a
box in the dining room in which a
penny was to be dropped by the
maker of any complaint whatever,
the fund to be given at Christmas to
the Hospital for Inourables. A good
sum was realized, and, best of all,
the happiness of that family was in.
creased tenfold.
\ y X y X X
But suffering without complain
ing is not always praiseworthy by
any means, says Croaker over the
Spectators shoulder. There comes
a time like that in the Colonies when
the tea must GO overheard" "Cer
tainly," says the Spectator. "Let
us give thanks that our f~orefathers
would no longer drink it with dis
gruntled complainings-continually
whining at the heavy tax upon it,
and doing nothing but whine. Thank
you for the point, Croaker no doubt
the teachers who discourse to the
children on the wall text proposed
will bear it in mind, and will supple
ment your illustration with many
more, showing when patience under
suffering eases to be a virtue, and
making clear the distinction between
justi1able revolt and mere complain.
ing"
X = X X X X
"Now, about the most disagreeab BILE
folks l have ever known" says
Croaker, ''have been those who never
whimpered no matter what allied
them, but who made sure, neverthe.
less, to have it seen that they were
s%uppressing anything like a oom-
plant. When that sort of thing is
made ones religion, and pain is de-
olared non existent when you know
it to be a verify, it tempts one to put
a premium on whining, and insist
enoe upon attention to every ache"
He had learned, he said, shat all who
suffer without complaining are not
the Lords anointed, by any means.
de had known many a degraded
specimen Of humanity to silently
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"LEARN TO SUFFER WITHOUT COMPLAINING"

If the Spectator might suggest q
wall text for our public schools, what
better could he give than the words
the Emperor Frederick III. of Ger.
many who shortly before his death
wrote upon his tablet (his dreadfuldis-
ease of the throat prevented his speak
ing) for his son, the present Emperor
LEARN to suffer without complain
ing? The Spectator would have a
picture of Frederick the Noble hung
above the wall text, and the children
should know the story of his life and
his heroic endurance in the face of
death.
= = y = =
"Learn TO suffer without complain
ing" For the exceptionally cheer
full, long-suffering people we call our
selves, are we not given TO much
complaining about petty discomforts
and annoyances? If n doubts the
same, let him bear the question in
mind any day of ordinary experience,
and it will not be at the dentist 8 o
in an o~vercrowded excursion car, nor
even near the furnaces of the great
f%oundries, that he will hear the loud
est outory against physical disoom
fort. Is is not in such places that
the Spectator would hang up his wall
text, particularly in hot weather, but
rather on the cool verandas of u
try houses and along the breezy golf
links with the country club in the
background. Who made the loudest
complaint, as q rule, the Spectator
would ask, during last years tropical
heat of summer, the woman overh her
washtubs, with a baby pulling at her
skirts, or she with her palm-leaf in a
cool, shady parlor?-the laborer dig.
ging a ditch under the broiling sun,
or the clubhouse lounger with a
yacht at command?
x y X X X y
The Emperor Frederick had only
actual suffering in mind, of course
not that great multitude Of com
planners whose whimpering is largely
from fear of pain, or in recalling
what is a thing of the past save TO
those who must hear it described in
detail. A very small hornet, wrote
one of our humorists, is more than
enough TO break up a big camp meet
ing so a cut finger, an aching tooth,
or a tight shoe, if the afflicted be a
Louis the Magnificent (whose petty
aches and pains disturbed his whole
kingdom), may receive far more
sympathy and attention than a heroic
silent sufferer who, like General
Grant in his last illness, is best con
spared, as far as may be, the know
ing of what he endures. No man is
a hero TO his valet, it is said and
generally believed and this shows
what the average man is thought to
be-but who doubts that, no matter
what a mans faults as known TO his
valet, if he can suffer without com
plaing he becomes a hero in that va
let's eyes?-and blessed is he if he
have a valet that knows that it is the
nibble of the little foxes that pro-
duces far more suffering in the pa
tient than t 9 roaring of great lions,
the fierce barking of wolves. 81
wish we might introduce in our pub
lilo schools" said the head nurse of a
great hospital to the Spectator not
long since, especial training in self
control, and that the great lack of it,
not only in children, might somehow
This is No. A of our series OF the Worlds
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-05-06

"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 following authors
have already appeared: Burns, Bryant, Mr.. and
Field, Goldsmith, Leigh Hunt, Holmes, Omar
khayyam, Kipling, Lampman, Lanier, Long
fellow.
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CAN YOU NAME THESE NORTH CARO-
LIMA COUNTIES

accurate list of answers. If an en-.
tirely correct solution does not reach
us by June 10th, the book will be
awarded to the person sending the
most nearly accurate list of names,
Those who compete for the prize
must not get help from any one ex.
oept members of their families. TIC
give the reader a start, we answer
the first three problems
1. King Solomon (Davidson).
2. A popular vehicle (Surry.)
8. Mondays work and a ton (Wash
ington.)
4. sold Hickory"
5. "Keep your bones from"
6. For their mother country.
z. Our last state.
8. A shaft and a kiss.
9. An adjective for towards.
10. A great war Governor.
IL. Suggests a mystery.
-. One deceived and a water
fall.
10. An infammable substance and
20 cwt.
IA Verdant.
Is. An English Admiral.
16. SIN it there is strength"
II. Suggests Mrs. Noah in the nur-
sery.
18. A tropical fruit.
10. We hope the baby won't-at
night.
20. An English statesman.
81. GA far cry" to Cherokee.
%. One of the ''last words" of
Marmion.
%. A favor is its capital.
"a. Good grapes.
95. Named for a German Prin,
cess.
%. An English river and the lions
home.
81. An ante bellum cake.
%. A city on the James.
%. Rough food and something to
burn.
80. Toward the ARCTIC and a Con-
federate General.
81. An injured crossing.
80. Advises Sootchman to behave
himself.
SO. Advises the same gentleman to
proceed.
"a. Insane first person singular !;
what a Chinaman most desires.
35. A great astronomer.
SO. To deface a metal.
81. Forward deliberately.
38. The tree of viotors, a blow, an
exclamation.
80. Prefix three letters and most
trousers need it.
40. What all girls want and a forti-
fcation.
Al. A Warrior bishop.
AZ, A rustic lover.
43. To attire a near relation.
A. "Was it .... or another ADM.
ral?"
As. A Colonial Governor.
40 To burden soil.
AZ. A vehicle and an ancient hang.
ing.
48 May they swing wide at last.
40. Anger and a dell.
so. A short conversation and a
hogs hind quarters.
81 A chieftain at a famous ball.
81. big talk II"
So. Where Joseph's brethren cast
him.
"a. A boatman said to his wife
55. One oountryman asked another
at a shallow river, "Will you
ferry?"
"No, I'd $685."
Sc. Change a letter and how it
will sting!
81. A Scot would enjoy drinking
from it.
So. An ancient warrior King who
cried.
Town-The doctors have finally
agreed upon the cause of Jones ill
ness.
Browne-They've held another
consultation, Ell?
Towne-No; a postmortem.-Phil-
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Town-The doctors have finally
agreed upon the of Jones ILL
ness.
Browne-They've held another
consultation, eh?
Towne-No a postmortem.-Phil-
adelphia Press.
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Onslow Co., N. G.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-29
STOCK EXCHANGE T4x FOUGHT
ARGUMENT IN ALBANY AGAINST TAXING
SEATS

albany, Jan 2.-The New-York Stock Exchange
was arrayed against Assemblynau Fftzgerald to-
'aE at nearing given before the Assembly Com
hlttee on Taxation the bill taxing the seats OF
members or the Exchange. Rudolph Keppler presi-
ueht or the Exchange, and Lewis Cass Ledyard
OF carter & Ledyard, did most Of the arguing
against the measure
OWlng 10 the absence OF Mr. Fitzgerald the COM
iiii'Iee TOOK no action deferrng consideration of
tue DliI until next week. Mr. Keppler explained
al length the composition Of the Exchange. decIar-
''ie lnat II was simply association Of members
anu uld no business itself He said il was i'm
possible for a member 10 transfer his membership
Unless @ the Committee on Election should elect his
-I-1es''I 20 membership. This. he said sin
~ "a transaction between
~ GtLAc4aHse mad nothing to do with H. He said
80 EAo.1tdIIss was SIMPLY place where the MEM
'tIS gathered together to do
Connecton Mr. Ledyard asserted that the business
"i brokers' was done borrowed ca0iraI sud +hev
Coutd trahsa't their business Is ell on the curb
,S o.. ~ ne tx mango He termed the bill class
.eElSidtlon ana said II would be n line witt,
ing a liquor dealer for his license as II had
monetary value. or placing hotel for the
~ T. receives from its newsstand He declared
me otH was tax on brains and honor and in
tegritN. and a step in the wrong direction stem
even by the present administration which is an
PlpdCiilnS tEe danger line q s regards taxation in
driElng business out Of the State
sdt. IcdFard reviewed the decisions Of the Court
ners- he said such men Russell Sage would
Ipt pay the tax. as they would have to- but ii
,NouIu ldll the heaviest upon the dollar bro
fh1eIS' Whc only act for the rich brokers He said
@ ILtal IlN STOCK Exchange enjoyed the respect and
with honor and integrity.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-29
MORTGAGE TAr All FOR STATE
BILL STILL PROVIDES no FRACTION FOR COL
IEtTION DISTRICTS.

BILL STILL PROVIDES No FRACTION FOR COL
LECTION DISTRICTS.
Albany IAN. Is (SpeciaD.-Senator Krum. the
chairman OF the Senate Committee on Taxation,
said tonight that this committee had decided 70
reserve the State all the income from the mort
gage tax imposed by Senator Stranahan's mort
gage tax act. This decision keeps the bill in the
shape in which it introduced. As introduced
provided for a tax Of 20 cents for each 800, or
major thereof Of indebtedness which is or
under any contingency may be secured by mort
gage. This tax Is retained. There was PROPOSE
tion that the localities collecting the tax should
receive one-thrd or one-half Of it. but this has
been rejected Senator Krum said tonight in ex-
PLANTATION.
The bill has been amended so as 10 provide for
the payment Of the tax by the owners of old mort
cages II they 20 desire. Doubtless the holders OF
old mortgages VIII record them, and we MADE
up minds that in about two years there would
be no mortgage taxation except Of new mortgages,
and that there would be few new mortgages re
therefore income from that direction.
The bill has also been amended so as TO guard
builders from double taxation It is provided that
a tax shall be credited any mortgage on the
same property which takes the place of a satisfied
mortgage within a year after its execution
The Individual owners of railway bonds are also
to be- permitted pay the as though the mort
gage had been originally stamped.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-29
F4TORs CUBAN ANNEX4TION.
FORMER ASSISTANT RECTOR OF GRACE
CHURCH COMES FROM HAVANA
ON THE MORRO CASTLE.

5. McCivney. of the firm Of McGivney & Rokehy.
who have the contract TO construct sewers and
pave the streets Of Havana, came up from Cuba
the steamer MORO Castle. which arrived mere
yesterday. He said that he expects to begin work
on the Havana contract by April l. All that ne is
waiting for is the floating Of the Cuban bonds
from which the money for the Improvement is 10
come. The contract calls for 100000 square metres
Of paving and "A complete sewerage system OF the
city and suburbs.
The Rev. Eliot White, rector Of St Johns hpls-
copal Church In Worcester. Mass. ana formeriE as
sistant rector of Grace Church. IN TINS CITY, Me9
also Il passenger the MORO Castle. MI. hI1e
said he had changed his views entirely apoul lie
future Of cuba while the island, and was no"
firmly convinced that before long the CNpanS Lnetn-
selves would ask for annexation This, Nj W nte
thought, would be effected eventually, ana ne ne
aves il would he the hest solution of the Cuhan
problem that could be wished.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-29
PLANS RIVAL TUNNEL.
Union TERMINAL COMPANY
TO SER We ALL ROADS.
INTENDS TO CONNECT WESTERN LINES
WITH BROOKLYN. UNION SQUARE
AND PERHAPS MONTAUK POINT.

General Roy Stone. a director of the Union
Terminal Company Of this city. staying at the
albenlarle Hotel. Twenty-fourth- and Broad
way. explained last night in detail the plans Of
rhe Union Terminal Company incorporated yes
terday al Albany.
The project is a revival Of the New-York and
Nev-Jersey Terminal Railroad Company. in
-orporated in 1891" said General Stone "One
reason the old company did not fulfil expecta-
tons was that several Of its most influential
hackers died before operations could be success
fully initiated. These men were J. NJ. Smith. of
he Consolidated Gas Company: General Henry
X. slocum and Thomas Rutter. That concern
contemplated the building of a Manhattan
terminal for all the railroads entering Jersey
City. JUST as does the corporation. The old
plan was for tunnel under the North River TO
about Fourteenth-st.. and thence southwark by
terminal under Greenwich-st. 70 the lower part
Of the city to connect with the shipping district
The new corporation has q nominal capital
o. 100000. We have estimated the cost of our
work n he S40oo0ooo can say truthfully
that ne have solid. substantial backing. This
is not a mere paper proposition. I am not at
liberty 70 give you the interests which are be-
hind is. Some Of the names in temporary
directory are not representative of capital, some
OF cur principal supporters asked that their
names be not AT this time published
Is This plan in any way connected with the
Pennsylvania Railroad tunnel project ne was
asked.
NO We are receiving no active support from
that corpora ton, nor do We expect any adverse
action from them. Our company has strong
influence with the eleven roads other than the
Pennsylvania which are seeking entrance 10
Manhattan Island. We hope TO gain their sup
porr. These roads ara looking for the rich
trsFic het6 Of Brooklyn There are many posi-
hi,iries for Western roads in Brooklyn, and
other parts OF Long Island. I should not be
surprised II one of these roads developed the
Montauk steamship terminal plan. of which We
have heard SO much"
The company Just incorporated hopes 70 have
rs great central underground station at Union
Square. where are fifty thousand square feet of
pavement From that point branches will be
run 70 connect with The New-York Central Sta
ton. the shipping about Greenwieh-st and with
Brooklyn Every parT OF the road will be under
ground I can say nothing definite about when
ne shall begin work Plans and specihcat tions
vCil be laid before the Board OF Aldermen very
soon After gain the consent Of the ciry
and the Railroad Commissioners we hope 10 GO
70 work in earnest on the physical side Of the
project