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The Washington times., 1902-07-27

N ROBARLY no city in the country
offers better facilities OF is more
Il interested in keeping alive the
history Of the struggles and
achievements of the Army OF the Poto-
mac than Washington. The National
Capital is still full Of the men who COM
prised that army, and 1t is the home OF
their relatives and children as well.
Through Grand Army posts, through the
press OF the day, by means of volumin-
Gus histories, and meetings the sur
vivors of that army perpetuate the deeds
and stirring events of forty years ago
Few, perhaps. are unfamiliar with the
details of that struggle and the deeds
of that army. They have lived in the
memory of the people since the days of
the war. and will doubtless continue
there while the nation exists. One of
the most comprehensive and impartial
works on this subject is that of Mr.
J. II. Stine, the historian of the First
Army Corps. Running through his work
is an excellent account of the move
ments of the Army of the Potomac
When Sumter was fired on" he
says, 'and war was reality for the new
Administration to face, it was extremely
difficult to find officers who had expert
ence in handling large commands. Gen
eral Scott was then too far advanced in
years (nearly eighty TO take the field,
but he well knew the great work to be
performed. II had been given out by
prominent men and officials that IL
would be a short war; Secretary Seward
placed its duration at sixty days, there
fore the first volunteers were called for
ninety days only. The zeal of the Cru
saders did not surpass the activity in
both sections, and thousands enlisted
through recruiting officers, and regiment
after regiment was formed, ofiicercd.
equipped, and dispatched to the front
with wonderful rapidity. Soon large
armies were facing each other. Butler
at Fort Monroe was met by Magruder;
at Harper's Ferry Patterson and Johns
ton were organizing large commands. In
the mountainous region of West Virginia
several commands were meaacinR each
other. The Confederate forces were
pressed TO within a few miles of Wash
fngton, while Alexandria was a rem
deZvous-in fact, their rear guard was
Just leaving when Colonel Ellsworth's
command entered the city on the fatal
morning when Jackson shot him dead for
hauling down the Confederate flag
"The first battle Of Bull Run proved
a great fiasco for the Union forces. Dur
ing the fight the enemy had been forced
back "a mile and a half and was in great
confusion. Bees troops we're In full re-
treat. Then came a lull in the action
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MAILER than the smallest page
in the House of Representatives,
~ and less than fourteen years old.
little Johnnie Black. os Chambers
burg, Pa, holds the unique record of
being stenographic clerk to two Con-
gressmen at one time. Every day dur
ing the long session which has Just
closed he has ground out promises of
office, settled postmastership controver-
sizes. distributed garden seeds. besides
doing the many other intricate tasks
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S the years go by much of the
bitterness reused by the civil
war in the Southern States has

A S the years go by much of the
~ bitterness reused by the civil
war in the Southern States has
disappeared and its place is
taken by sympathy for the men VINO
fought on the losing side.
''The Spirit of the Confederacy,"
monument by Mr.. F. Wellington Ruck
stuhl the New York sculptor, to be
erected in front of the Mount Royal en-
trance to Druid Hill Park, appeals. as
never yet monument to the Lost
Cause has appealed, to this modern sem
timent among the people of the South.
Statues to generals exist, not to speak
of single figures of Confederate soldiers.
But there is no expression of south
ern feeling by means of statuary apart
from the portraits and the effigy of the
average private soldier.
Still in the Clay.
The statue is still in the clay. The
site has been set apart for it by the
city council of the Monumental City,
and the committee of the Maryland
Daughters of the Confederacy, which is
to erect the statue, has selected the de-
sign of Mr.. Ruckstuhl, subject. of
course, to the approval of the Balti-
more Municipal Art Commission.
Grace and Beauty.
AS a portrayal of grace and beauty
in the very highest degree the work is
admirable. The Confederacy and its
Lost Cause are symbolized in the young
soldier. From the sky descends the
Spirit of the Confederacy in the shape
of splendid and perfect woman, wing
ed, and with draperies indicating by
their motion the impact of her feet on
the earth. She bears aloft the crown
OF glory for the vanquished, the glo-
rious wreath which represents the love
of the country for those who, however
misled and i'll counseled, fought in what
they believed to be war of defense.
She is thus a symbol of victory, the
victory of the vanquished. But she is
also the Valkyr visiting the battlefield
to bear away with her the soul of the
brave who falls, and it is in this view
of the subject as theme for sculpture
that the power and the novelty of the
sculptor's effort reside.
"Calmness of the Gods"
The Spirit of the Confederacy has in
her face the calmness of the gods. but in
her gesture that sympathy that is more
human than god-like. The sculptor has
tried to blend in her the superior be-
ing. the consoling and uplifting force.
with that sympathy of womanhood for
those in distress which is the more
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Features of the Design.

A specially called meeting of the
Maryland Daughters of the Confedcracy
was held recently in Baltimore and Ian
tern slide views displayed of the clay
model of the statue, and other matters
pertaining to its erection discussed.
Mrs. D. Giraud Wright, president of the
organization, called attention to the
in the design and said it was the in
tention of the committee to have the
artist substitute shattered battle flag
for the musket. She spoke Of the mod
cling of the figures, and said that it is
difficult to exaggerate the impression
which the sight of the model itself
makes, bringing out, as 1t does. with
wonderful power the contrast between
the face and figure of the dying young
standard bearer, with his worn cloth
ing, broken boots, and the unruffied
grandeur of the figure of Glory.
Mr.. Ruckstuhl is to come over from
New York within a few days to con-
suit with the committee of the Daugh-
ters and with the municipal art COM
mission in regard to matters connected
with the erection of the monument.
The FYynda nm Hand
The Daughters now have on hand In
their monument fund about $4,000 This
includes slo,075 raised by the bazar held
last December and $1,000 raised at
large bazar held about four years ago,
and the remainder collected by special
committees organized for that purpose.
The triangular lot in front of the
Mount Royal entrance to Druid Hill
Park was selected by the city council
as the site for the monument.
Several members OF the Daughters uf
the confederacy appeared before the mu-
nicipal art commission and discussed
with it the plans for the monument.
There was some talk of changing the site
from the triangle at North and Mount
Royal Avenues, which is of to one side
from the squares, to a place at the end
of the northernmost square. No action
was taken on the proposition. however.
The design was selected by special
committee consisting of Mrs. D. Glraud
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which fall to the lot of the private sec
retary.
The remarkable thing about this Lii
liputian amenuensis is that he is as
modest and retiring as he is bright and
quick. II you ask him how he happens
to be in Washington he win tell you in
matter-of-fact way that he cane here
10 work for Representative Mahon CT
Pennsylvania; that after coming mere
he found he could do more work than
Mr.. Mahon required, and took on Rep
resentative Woods of California - A.
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the Maryland Daughters of the Confed-
eracy; Mrs. Clara Marshall, first vice
president; Mrs. John P. Poe, second vice
president; Mrs. E. s. BealI, treasurer;
Mrs. J. Francis Dammann, registrar;
Mrs. Hugh H. Lee recording secretary;
Mrs. Samuel C. Shaw. corresponding Sec
retary. eManagers-Mrs. T. B. Gres-
ham, Mrs. B. Jones Taylor, Mrs. S. ].
Hough, Mrs. McHenry Howard, and Miss
]. NJ. Cary. Representing county chap
ters-Mrs. C. Smith Norris.
The Ladies Enthusiastic.
Great enthusiasm was manifested by
the Daughters when the different views
OF the model were thrown upon the
screen, and a standing vote Of thanks
was given to the committee to whom
the society has intrusted the selection Of
the design. A vote of thanks was given
also to Mr.. ]. Plumer Bighar, who made
tographs, for his assistance in enabling
the committee to display the enlarged
design to the Daughters.
The sculptor now has :. studio In New
York, but comes from Missouri. He is
a warm sympathizer with the South. and
said OF his group to the committee:
'It is an apotheosis of the Confed-
eracy-its valor, its suffering and its
sublime patience. 1t also suggests the
splendid role Of the Southern woman,
who, by her Spartan spirit. nerved her
sons to the last measure of devotion"
To this Mrs. Wright added: ''It is the
most poetic glorihcation of the South
ever made in sculpture. and the ladies'
may congratulate themselves on full
reward for their long and arduous la
bors. and will merit the gratitude Of
their native city for adding to it's works
of art one of which it may we'll be
proud"
The Sculptor's Prominence.
Mr.. Ruckstuhl studied for eight years
in Paris. He has received an "honora-
BILE mention" in the Salon and grand
medal at the Chicago Exposition He
was one of the organizers of the Ma
tional Sculpture Society, was member
of the Jury on fine arts" at the Atlanta
Exposition. He is slated for the direc-
torship of sculpture for the st. Louis
Worlds Fair, is a member Of the Ma
tional Arts Club and OF the National In
stitute of Arts and Letters, and vice
president of the New York Municipal Art
Societ..
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membership of the general committee
was as follows:
Mrs. D. Giraud Wright, president Of
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2uckstuhl's Beautiful Group Designed to Ex-
press the Idea Of the Soldier Of the South
Who Went Into the Fight in Obedience to
His Sense Of Duty and Right ds He Saw
Then-AIso Suggests the Heroic Devotion
Of the Southern Woman Who Sent Forth
Her Husband and Son to Battle D. D.

modern view of a superior order of
things.
The wings. the wide gesture, and grand
movement of the spirit carry the mind
upward from ordinary earthly ideas, and
then the chords of pity are struck by
the figure of the youth, still handsome
in death, who will never be seen again,
sands.
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TRIBUTE OF MARYLAND WOMEN TO MARYLAND CONFEDERATES:

~loRument to Be Erected in
Baltimore = The Result of
the Plans and Labors of the
Maryland Daughters of the
Contederacy-Oreat Enthu-
siasm Manifested Over the
Design Submitted by Mr..
Ruckstuhl-The Sculptor's
Success in His Chosen Field
Of Art-Site Chosen for the
Work a Particularly Suitable
One for the Purpose. :.
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THE SPIRIT OF THE CONFEDERACY

of the members of the executive board
Of the society with Mrs. G. Smith Norris
representing the county chapters. The
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10
INTELLIGENCE AND LAND VALUES.

"A piece of land which will only sup
port ten idle, ignorant, and improvi-
dent persons will support thirty or for
ty intelligent and industrious ones"
says Ruskin in his essay AID Valorem,
and it takes only a very little observa-
ton to prove the truth of the state
ment. Also, the ignorant are, as a
rule, the idle and improvident; the in
etlligent are the Industrious. The saw
age who lives by the precarious means
of hunting and fishing requires wide
wastes of forest and stream for each
povertv-stricken family. The herds
man and ranchman live somewhat bet
ter on fewer square miles of territory.
A farm of 300 or 400 acres will barely
support one family of ignorant people
who, knowing nothing of the chemis-
try of soils, the laws of animal life, the
demands of the markets, or of house
hold economy, at the mercy of wind
and weather, harvest their scanty crops
and consume them in their lowest
forms or sell them at the lowest prices.
The same farm will support in COM
fort a good large community Gin Sax
ony and Belgium from $50 to 500 of
intelligent, educated men and women
who not only know how to make the
most of the soil and to use it's products
economically, but who know also how
to change these crude products into
forms of higher value and sell them
in the best markets. If some know how
to control the forces of nature and put
the winds and waterfalls to work,
while others work in higher forms of
art, making pictures, statuary, songs,
books, or finer products in metals,
woods, textile fbers or leather, a still
larger number may be supported in
comfort and luxury, and there will be
found leisure enough for higher and
gentler culture for young people and
old.
The value of real estate in any coun-
try depends upon the intelligence and
culture of the people rather than on
the richness of the soil or other native
qualities.-Prof. p. P. Claxton. in At
lantic Educational Journal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10
Ansmer. Yes. sir; some do.

Answer: Yes, sir; some do.
Question: Does that individual test
ever average above the composite
test?
Answer: No, sir.
Question: Then he brings his nights
milk and mornings milk in separate
cans?
Answer: Yes, sir. The mornings
milk tests probably from 5 per cent. to
Is per cent. better than the nights milk.
Question: How about having wa
ter in the barn for the cows to drink
and have access to all night?
Answer: That is just exactly the
way we do that.
Question: You just have a tub there
and fill up the tub?
Answer: We have an iron basin Tor
each COW that is connected by a sys-
tenn of pipes which is automatic in It's
action.
Question: Do you ever have any dit
fculty in the way of your cattle dying
from eating sorghum?
Answer: We have v had any
trouble of that kind.
Question: Can you account for that
trouble?
Answer: I think it is bloat. l think
the reason they die more often on sor-
ghum is because they eat it faster
and fermentation goes on faster. L
read an account of where one man said
his COW never ate two ounces, but it IS
nv opinion that if the thing was in
vestigated you would find that it was
bloat, or that they might have eaten
enough to kill them in IN ordinary
way. The COW might have been in a
state of bloat already before she got
in the pasture. It is very likely that
a cows stomach might be in such a
condition that the addition of the
sweet sorghum might set up fermen-
tation.
Question: In feeding sorghum, do
you feed it whole or cut it up?
Answer: We cut it up just like we
do the ~ensilage.
Question: What kind of power do
You use when you cut it?
Answer: We use an engine. We
used to have a tread power, but now
we use an engine.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10
AMERICANS.

In New Mexico, that land of queer
contrasts, the threshing of our wheat
is still done after the name of the
ancients. The threshing-ground is
swept until it presents a hard, clean
surface, the wheat is piled in the cen
ire ready to be thrown beneath the
feet of horses, sheep and goats, which
animals are then driven around and
around until the grain is separated
from the husks. Winnowing is carried
on in an equally primitive manner,
men and women tossing the crop into
the air by shovelfuls, and letting the
summer breezes separate it.-Country
Life in America.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10
70 AVOID pAMAeE BIZ GROWS.

A new plan to keep away the birds
and crows is given by one of our best
farmers: A farmer whose field of
corn was last year partly injured by
crows and blackbirds pulling up the
young plants to get the corn, states
that he tried the plan of scattering
corn around the edge of the field daily
until the plants were well grown, with
the result that the birds we're kept too
busy searching for the grains on the
ground to do much damage, and that
he did not have to use more than half
a peck daily. AS the birds also destroy
many insects and worms, he did not
desire to poison or shoot them. By
scattering corn for them the crop was
then damaged very ttle.-Chapel Hill
News.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10

Thinning fruit aids perfection of
fruit. Men sometimes try to bear
more kinds of fruit than they are able
to bear, and are tempted to prop the
tree with tonics. "They are over
worked, ov~erburdened and overtaxed."
They try to do o many things, and
do nothing well. The best way is to
shake the tree, and free it of the ex-
ira fruit. Prune, clip, cut, pluck, and
reduce the fruit till it becomes man
ageable, and let every branch be load
ed with fruit that comes to perfection.
but not overloaded with fruit which
never will reach its full development.
H. L. Hastings, D. D..
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Wayne County Advertiser; The
Fruit Growers Express carried 1850
car loads of strawberries from North
Carolina to Northern markets this
season. The efficiency of the service
is proven by the fact hat the company
had at all times nearly 200 cars be-
tween Goldsboro and Wilmington,
over and above the number required to
transport the berries, and at the wind
up of the season 200 ions of ice re-
main in the icing stations.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10

As each toiling generation gropes its
way blindly along life's uncertain
pathway, the weary pilgrims one by
one, soon or late, happily or unhap-
PLY, find pause from the maddening
crowd, and, turning suddenly aside,
seek quiet graves along its dusty
course. 1t is at times well for their
fellow travellers to halt a moment,
commemorate briefly and muse upon
the life story of each tired sleeper. No
life, however humble, but tells it's elo-
quent tale.-Selected.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10
rEED1HG EXPERIMENTS.
Jor. of The Progressive Farmer.

Cor. of The Progressive Farmer.
The Pennsylvania Experiment Sta
ton has made some Investigations COW
ering three thirty-day periods to COM
pare feeding in pens and stalls and to
test the effect of having water con-
stantly before COWS in stalls
The results of this experiment fail
ed to show any advantage in having
the water constantly before the COWS
in the stable; those hat were turned
into the yard for water once a day
made as good returns as those having
constant access to water in the stable.
Much more bedding was required to
keep the cows clean and comfortable
in the pens than in the stalls, showing
that it is not economical to keep mich
COWS loose in pens on farms where the
supply of bedding is limited.
Naturally considerably less labor
was required to care for the COWS in
the pen than for those in the stalls
while the increase of the amount of
bedding would also tend to produce a
greater bulk of manure. The accumu-
lation of such a great bulk of anu
makes the mich COWS less clean re-
sulting in a greater amount of bacteria
in the milk of COWS placed in pens,
than in stalls. M.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10
CORN BILL-BUes, AND OTHERS.

Cor. of The Progressive Farmer.
In the same mail with the issue of
The Progressive Farmer which con
tanned Harry Farmers accurate dis
cussion of the corn bill-bug, there
came to me a serious complaint from
Bladenboro, Bladen County, next door
to the county in which Harry Farmer
resides. This complaint is from a
man who says these insects destroyed
so per cent. of a six-acre field of corn
on his place. In reply to this com
plant l have written practically the
same directions as are given in Harry
Farmers paper, namely, rotation of
crops and avoidance of low lands, es-
pecially when such low lands have just
been in rice. These comprise about
the most practical means known to
avoid injury by this pest.
Farmers generally do not appreciate
the value of farm methods in escaping
insect injury. Regular rotations pre-
vent many species of insects from ma
turing in a crop, and the bill-bug is
one of these.
Every now and then some n asks
me about the "bud-worm" in corn; but
it is always at a time or place when
specimens are not to be had, and as yet
l have never seen a specimen of this
pest, and do not know what it is, nor
a remedy for it. Will some farmer
please secure a few specimens and
mail. them to me, with the injured
plants, in a tin or wooden box?
The year gives every promise of
being one of unusual activity among
insect pests. In 1901, there were Al
different species of injurious insects
reported tO this office, while this year
Q9O2) to date, there have already
been reports of 40 species. We are
being kept busy answering letters of
inquiry.
Every one is asked to write to us at
any time hat we can give aid or in
formation concerning insect pests. We
do not invite idle inquiries, but any
insect which really arouses your inter
est, we will be glad to know about.
Write an account of the pest as it is
known to you. But always remember
that in asking about a pest it is almost
a waste of time and ink to write a let
ter, unless the specimens are sent also,
and they should never be put in the
envelope. If you could see some of
the bug-stained letters which come to
us (the insects themselves having been
crushed to pieces) you would not won
der at this request.
Insects should be put in a separate
package, in a tin, wooden, or quite
strong pasteboard box, plainly marked
with the name of the sender and adj
dressed to
FRANKLIN SHERMAN, JR.,
~Entomologist, Department Agricul-
ture, Raleigh, N. @.
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LumbertOn Robesonian: We hear re-
ports from different sections that
crops are looking finely and the cot
ton, especially, very fine. Deputy
Sheriff Barker, who travels all over
the county, and who keeps an eye on
everything pertaining to Robson
County's welfare, says that all around,
everywhere he has been, he has noticed
unusually fine crops.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10

Mount Airy News: Prof. Rogers
says he tried the cotton seed meal po-
tato bug exerminator but met with lit
tie success-the meal only fattened the
bugs. He thinks by applying the meal
to the vines frequently it will keep the
pesky bugs so fat that they will refuse
to partake of the potato vines.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10

Asheboro Courier: This section of
the State is especially adapted to cat
tie raising and our people should turn
their attention to the raising of grass
es. Cattle raising, sheep culture, and
the growing of fruit should be the
chief occupation of our agricultural
classes.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10
Grow Grasses and Raise Cattle

Examine agricultural statistics and see th'
high a North Carolina takes in yield pei
acre OF grasses and forage crops. Con
pare her advantages for stock-raising with
those OF other States. Profit by these .fsCs
Grow grasses; raise stock. n whether yoU
have few animals or many, you cannot afford
not to read
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Deafness Cannot be Cured

q local applications, as the cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure Deafness, and that is by constitu"
tiOnal remedies. Deafness Is caused by an Inc
famed condition Of the mucous lining Of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube getsIinfamed
YOU have a rumbling sound or imperfect hear
ing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness il
the result, AID unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its normal
nine cases out Of ten are caused by eatarrh,
which is nothing but An infamed condition OF
the mucous surfaces.
we will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case Of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can.
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars, free.
F.J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
S~Hd nv Ornrgists. 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.