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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-04
The Presbyterian Synod.

At the meeting of the Presbyterian
Synod, in Winston last week, a new
Presbytery was established-to be
known as Kings Mountain Presby-
tery-the territory being cut off from
Mecklenburg P~resbytery. The new
Presbytery is composed of the coun-
ties of CASTOR, Cleveland, Lincoln
and Rutherford.
The statistical report read to the
Synod showed 179 ministers, $50
churches, 3 licentiates, "a candidates
for the ministry, 35,487 communi-
cants; funds raised $244,OOO; 10
churches organized; members added
on examination 1,483, on certificate
LIS; foreign missionaries 7; vacant
churches 40; average salary of pas
tors 1927; counties without churches
fourteen.
Mr.. J. G. Steele, of Statesville, was
elected a regent of the Barium Or
phan's Home, to fill out the unex-
pired term of S. @. Rankin, deceased.
Rev. G. G. Vardell, of Red
Springs, was Moderator of the Syn
cd. The next meeting will be held in
MISUNDERSTANDING.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-04

prefer not to sell and hold out
against the contamination of the
park plan, if it is passed by the next
Congress, the government might con-
denim the property and pay the pres
ent owners the price at which the
property is valued. It is understood,
on the contrary, that the policy of
the Department of Agriculture will
not be to intimidate the lumber in
dustry, but that permission will like
Iy be given for the removal of such
timber as will be suitable for COM
mercial purposes, though the quaint
ty may be limited.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-04

New Trial of the Gattis-Kilgo Case.
There is to be another new trial in
the Gattis VS.. Kilgo damage suit.
The Supreme Court yesterday af-
ternoon handed down an opinion
granting a new trial on the ground
of the admissibility of evidence.
That is, the court holds that it was
not the proper practice for the court
below to have allowed evidence to
which exception was made to go to
the jury, remain with them several
days, some of it until arguments
were closed, and then withdraw it
from the jury. 1t was, the Supreme
Court holds, obliged to have biased
the minds of the jury, even though it
was withdrawn.
AS is well known to Post readers,
the first trial of this case, which is a
suit by Rev. T. J. Gattis against
President Jno. G. Kilgo and Trus-
tees B. N. Duke and W. R. OdeIl of
Trinity College for alleged damage
to character and business by reason
of publications made by the trustees
in the Clark-Kilgo controversy, re-
suited in a verdict for $4,000
against the three defendants. And
the second trial, from which the ap-
peal just passed on came up, resulted
in a verdict for $4,000 against DR..
Kilgo and Mr.. Duke.
The Supreme Court is unanimous
in the present opinion, which was
written by Justice Montgomery. JUS
tice Clark did not, of course, sit in
the ease.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-04
Rural School Libraries.

The Observer correspondent had
an interesting chat to-day with State
Superintendent Joyner regarding the
rural school libraries. He says
North Carolina is the first State in
the South to have these. It will no
doubt crafty the legislators who
voted for the bill giving $4,000 out
of the public school fund for the two
years 19O1-19O2, to know what a
great success these libraries are.
Durham was the first county to have
them. Four years ago it established
two by subscription. Then two years,
ago it got the six for which the State
allowed appropriation. Along came
big-hearted Julian S. Carr and offer
ed $40 for each school in the district
not thus covered. In a few weeks 25
libraries were provided, and in less
than six months there was one in
each of the 35 white districts. The
State has in all given $50, the county
$3.50, Julian S. Carr 1920, the re-
mainder being raised by private sub
scriptions. There are Abb volumes
in these libraries and they cost over
$1,100. The largest number of books
read by any one pupil was 81, and 327
pupils read Over 10, while 1000 we're
read by 1000 persons outside of the
schools. Only three books we're lost
and these we're replaced. Scholar
ship is greatly aided by the libraries,
says the County Superintendent of
Durham, who makes this report to
Superintendent Joyner. They have
created a demand for all kinds of
good literature. They are a true
inspiration. The State Superin-
tendent is delighted with this report,
the first ever made. He says that
Georgia is taking up the matter of
establishing these Libraries, but in
that State there is no special appro-
priation, the movement being purely
voluntary. In this State the plan
will grow. The old Libraries will be
maintained, new ones will be created.
The State Literary and Historical
Association, which drafted the bill
for the libraries, can always be sin
cerely proud of it's work.-Raleigh
Cor. Charlotte Observer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-04
Registration Notes.

Democratic County Chairman
Armistead Jones says that all the re-
turns of Wake registration are in,
and that $3.50 whites and $50 ne
groes have registered. He says more
negroes registered here than in 9TH
er counties, as the law was literally
construed.
In Scotland County there are
1,18O white voters. The total regis
tration this year is 1,107 whites and
one colored. And this one vote was
all that applied for registration from
the colored race.
The registration in Catawba Coun-
ty for the coming election shows
more than thirty-six hundred names,
all whites except possibly three or
four negroes. About five hundred
negroes failed to get on the books.
Many of these did not apply, while a
few made determined efforts to read
and write sections of the Constitu-
ton.
New Bern special to News and OBJ
server: The registration for Ora
ven County is complete. Over 95
per cent of the white people having
registered. Very few negroes in this
county made any attempt to register,
and for the most part they take no
interest in the election at all. Most
of the negroes that have registered
will vote the Democratic ticket.
Washington Gazette: From the
best information we can obtain there
are not $50 negroes registered in the
entire county. In the Third Ward,
this city, where heretofore there has
been about $50 colored votes cast,
only forty have registered. There
are 81 whites registered in this ward.
Reports indicate a full registration
of the white voters of the county.
Chatham Record: The last census
Gin 1900 showed that there were
then 1861 colored voters in Chatham
County. Out of that number less
than fifty have registered for the
next election. In this township
about 200 are usually registered, but
now only three are registered and all
of them under the grandfather
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-04
STATE NEWS
FROM cURRIrUCK TO CHEROKEE.
Items of Interest Cleaned From Our Cor
respondents and Exchanges.

member OF the State Board OF Elec-
tions, and the Governor has appoint
ed Mr.. j. r. Lewellyn, of Dobson, n
his stead.
Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer:
The Congressional Republican Com
mittee of this district met here last
night, but made no nomination, nor
did it endorse John W. Atwater, the
Independent candidate.
High Point Enterprise: Twenty
seven furniture manufacturers met
here last Friday for the purpose of
discussing matters of interest to the
trade. 1t resulted in the organiza-
ton of a State Association, the OBJ
iect of which is to act in unity on all
matters pertaining to the furniture
manufacturing business, bringing
about a uniformity.
Landmark: Major Graham Dawes,
of New Bern, died in Asheville Mon
day morning and his remains were
taken to New Bern for burial. Ma
jor Dawes was a prominent citizen of
the State and was widely known as
a gentleman of scholarly attain
ments. He was secretary to the late
Governor Ellis and at the outbreak
of the wal entered the Confederate
army, where he attained distinction.
S~tatesville Landmark: Speaking
of the Senatorial situation-and this
is only a guess from general appear
ances-it looks like Hon. Lee S.
Overman is in the lead, with @. B.
Watson second. By the same process
of reasoning it would seem that
Craig's campaign with Pritchard
damaged Craig's chances. Certainly
it does not seem to have helped him.
But-we will know more about it
next January.
Washington Cor. Charlotte OBJ
server: The official approval of the
Old North States inland waterway
project, mention of which was made
in last nights dispatches, means that
the $4,000 appropriated in Congress
man SmalPs bill is made Immediate
" available for a detailed survey. In
the preliminary survey, which was
yesterday reported to the Secretary
of War, the estimate was made that
the proposed waterway would cost
$7,OOO,OOO. Engineers are engaged
elsewhere at present, but it is pre-
sumed that they will give their at
tention to this survey in a few weeks.
Murphy Democrat: An assistant
secretary of the Forestry Depart
ment of Agriculture, United States
Government, is spending the season
in the region of East Tennessee and
Western North Carolina, which it is
proposed to include in the Appala-
chan Park Forest Reserve. 1t is
understood he will secure informa-
ton as to titles the amount of land
in reservation now being worked for
its timber, and other resources, etc.
A number of lumber companies are
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-12-30
Christmas Customs in the
Hawaiian Islands

For thin gowns are the order Of the
day in Hawaii. even i'm midwinter; and
the maidens. with their organdies and
grass linens their quantities of fresh
flowers their big sun hats, look like
so many picknickers rather than par
takers in Christmas festivities.
what to give for Christmas" in K'.-
wall is indeed perpleNing When one
cannot make any use of furs, velvets,
sleds, skate or the hosts of things ar
preciated in 1.-THE states" it is easily
seen that ones choice is limited. Pre-
ceding Christmas. the Chinese and
japanese stores are haunted by
anxious woud-be-giyers-of-gifts, and
every year the orientals do a thriving
business Thin silks, crepe Shawls.
lovely, lustrous cloths of banana and
pineapple fibers, carved sandal wood,
and ivory bits of cloisonne. are hung
on the Christmas tree in lieu of the
heavier articles so popular in cold
cline.
The real Hawaiian will banquet on
pig and poi Ga pasty mess), and feel
confident his is the choicest. food of
the land Bread-fruit will also grace
his board, and perhaps the deyilfish.
too. will have place in the Christmas
fare. But you must not judge the ma
tive savage because he eats strange,
outlandish food you will find at his
feast. in the wreathS of ferns and
flowers that are strewn about so Law
ishly evidence of a keen love for
beauty.
Whatever they eat, whatever they
drink. however queer some of the OBJ
servances may seem, there is much
good fellowship abroad, much Christ
mas cheer.
There is one thing about Christmas
in Hawaii that is like Christmas every
where; the chief part. the best part
of the festival is the JOY the children
have in it. And how the tots out there
do enjoy i'll There are the little Ha-
,vaiian girls, dressed only in cotton
slips legs and feet bare hugging to
their breasts dolls white as they are
brown. The moon.faced Chinese kid
dies stand about the wonderful tree
The heaihen Christian has trimmed
for them and with pleasant calm ac-
cept of the striped candy and popcorn
balls The Jap small things laugh soft
~ and smile sweetly as their portion
of goodies is bestowed The shrill
happy voices of the white youngsters
fill the air And in Hawaii Christmas
Children's day. has full swing
KATHERINE PoPn.
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y ,
a - one not at all orthodox,
conventional And that is just about
what it. is.
The newcomer is apt to consider it
very like the Fourth of July. Up above
there's bright sun shining, under
meath green grass waving, flowers
blowing; and all about is the fire.
cracker with small boy attached. Pop,
pop, goes the cracker; boom, boom
goes the cannon, from midnight of De-
cember "a to midnight of December 25.
Just what its significance is. on that
date and out there / am sure do not
know. Probably the many Chinese.
rather than the Americans, are respon-
sibe for the outrageous noise. The
Hawsiians have long had the Celes
tials within their borders, and they
have been not a little influenced by
contact herewith; and the Chinese,
YOU know. celebrate their New Year
holidays with the festive cracker.
The Hawaiians' queer medley of a
Christmas is made up from the observ-
ances of many peoples. The Portu-
guese form a large per cent of the
popula ton in Hawaii, and these Latin
folk have loaned TO the native born
their way of keeping the great holt
day. Gay clothes. presents of flowers
and sweets. Wine-drinking with ones
friends. attendance at church. tinsel
gifts: i'm this manner the Portuguese
keep Christmas. and the Hawaiians fol-
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-12-30

by Che girls mamma with tine httif
ones needs principally m mind; a
home which occupies a large part of
d city block; which is $50 feet long
and ian the other dimensions proporI
tionate, and set in a small forest of
big trees removed at lavish cost to-
make the place shady; a home with a
wonderful nursery as its chief fea-
ture instead of a formal parlor; q
home with all the 800 acres of Cen
trial park at its front door for play
ground.
The child is to be absolute owner
in her own right of this home-which
is with one exception the most cost
ly, and with no exception the finest,
in America. Mr. Carnegie will lease
it from his daughter.
The story of the house is like a
true fairy story; it is the impossible
come true; and that is what we all
hope will happen for many and
many people for many and many q
Christmas
The best of it all is that few peo-
pie will begrudge their holiday hap
piness 10 the Carnegies.
Foreign Christmas on Yankee soil
Cohoes, Mohawk mill town; Wap-
pinger's Falls, a smaller one. near
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married an Italian
count and the second a French noble
man. The third was betrothed to Sir
William Gordon-Cumming when that
unfortunate baronet was implicated
in the "Tranby Croft scandal"
Tranby Croft was the country seat
of Wilson, the fabulously rich Eng
lish steamship man-one of whose
daughters, by the way, is the Lady
Hartopp whose experiences in a Lon
don divorce court have just been SO
piquant. The present king Of Eng
land was some years ago guest at
the Croft" at a gay party; gambling
ran high and there was a whisper
about cheating. The beautiful coun-
tess of Warwick, then Lady Brooke,
is said to have whispered the name of
Sir William Gordon-Cumming; hence
the lady was niclinamed the "Babbling
Brooke" and the man was ostracized
from society.
There has ever been m impression
that ne was sacrificed for some other
person; that he could not have been
guilty of cheating. The motive Wa
absent: AN his life bed been that of
a man not only of honor but OF uu-
usual courage At amy rate. bi.
wealthy American faucce believed
him uuiu-tIy accused and welded uIu
at once and I'm spite of ALL
IT. is This Sir William and Lady
Notwithstanding who have ueer
making q tour of the mill Villages
upon which their fortune rests. be-.
fore setting out upon visit In Can
ada. The husband must have made
his peace with society, since he is to-
hc we'll received by social aud Official
Canada And i'm the thrcr Yankee
villages the pair have been met by
such attention as ia English novels
you read about when The heir"
comes home with his bride Arches
of evergreen have been erected. hear
ing the word "Welcome:" village
maidens have spoken addresses of
greeting. village presidents have bent
their backs in bows unusually low
It's a queer Situation-three viii
lagos fun Of ordinary Americans
working all the year round 10 earn
dividends for British haronet. an
Italian count and French grandee-
But really ! cannot see that the ease
would be much different II thew were
working for native American non
residents, after all.
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There had been lull in the conversation which
had lasted for perhaps five minutes and which
finally broken by Frazer
lis kind O nice country up here just now" he
said but seen it once when it appeared roster
to me than it did to-day, an yet 'twant quite such
fine day as this after all IL you go 20 comparin wealth
conditions"
What's the story Frazier?" asked for I knew
there something back of that statement.
We'll, this story amt about fshin exactly though
I'd been sort of anglin for what caught about three
years, an the strike pretty slow a comm But
you bet when it did come knowed it meant business
an wasn't slow about gettin' action on the line
You see it this way had been a sparkin
Sallie-that's my wifefor three years, and she
didn't seem to take any bait had to offer. Wasn't
cause there any other hook floating round that
she liked the looks of better, but she just naturally
didn't want to he catched Guess you've all them
there kind of fish Makes nigh fghtin' mad
when he sees em just a playing round his bait down
there in the water an maxim effort to nab at it,
just plain aggra yatin of the worst sort, you know
Well, that's just the way Sallie doin' with
Kept hoatn' round all the time, but wouldn't strike
tried her with all O. tackle from just the plain
homespun love tale to the hghfalutin love letters
copied out of a paper / took for the purpose an /
tell you the girl wouldn't shine up to them love
letters bit shy. They about the slickest
worded things ever see printed in paper
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i'm Italy for his health!
In New York Harland was clerl.
in some cit yofIice, / believe the sslr.
rogate's court After hours he wrote
the tales THAI made his first success
Then he went 20 London and fell i'm
with the precious crowd. to bor-
row a French phrase His work was
exquisite but OF limited popularity
Much later he saw the way to com
bine literary merit with popularity in
The Cardinals Snuff Box" and nm
Lady Paramount" and his fortune
was made He Is certainly. in deft
workmanship, one OF the cleverest of
living writers. He win visit kib i'm
Norwich Conn, and those Of his
wife m Concord, Mass. Mrs. Hsrland
was Miss Alins Merriam, Of In old
family there awEN LAN&DoH.
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'lBh rHces Press activity provides
Cruelty o" These. steady wages for
all members Of the average family who
work
But what is, after all, the great
manufacturing industry of New
York? Not railway running, not
iron and steel. Ready made clothing
interests directly more workers than
any other trade in this state. Next
come the combined motion" trades
feather and fur workers and the like,
akin to clothing workers.
These people, the prey of the
sweatshop man, are miserably off.
The increase in the cost of living has
driven them from bad to worse; the
coal famine puts the finishing touch.
Sweatshops must be kept warm, that
fingers may be nimblc; usually they
admit the cold through their ill-kept
walls.
Six years ago Miss Adams, OF
Hull House." Chicago. found that
the tailoring trade was constantly
growing worse. The tendency is to
compress all the work of the year
into two busy seasons; between
whites there is nothing Every mem
Der of the sweaters family must
work. Legally those under IA go to
school Practically many evade the
law, that their children may work
IA hours a day in the busy season.
There are boys Of the school age
whose backs are so bowed by stoop-
ing over machines that they can
never again be straight High prices
press cruelty upon these people with
their scanty irregular earnings.
Another great class of city work
ers, the street car men, have harder
times to get along than FIVE years
ago. When l came to the city in
1881 street car employees were not
organized; their pay was miserable,
their hours sometimes 16 at a
stretch, never less than II. The
Knights of Labor organized the men,
and there was a series of desperate
strikes, which left them much bel
ter oil in pay and hours. That adj
vantage they have pretty nearly lost
in the former particular by The rise
in prices. and particularly of rents
In the Main Merry Christmas.
Yet if one can forget the poor fell.
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err, more unpretentious couple. Their
daughter is the sole heiress of $780,
100000 or more. The little Fraulein
Krupp who inherits the famous gun
makers millions cannot compare as
an heiress.
The gift is house-not a dolls
house, even of the most superb devis-
ing, but the finest grown-up city
home in America; a home designed
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-12-30

POUCH k e e p S e,
and Gainesville,
still smaller one
no one knows
where, are the
triple scene of a
strang e Chr St
mas celebration.
The plain bust
ness man, now
dead and gone,
w h q foun d e d
these mills, had
t h re e pre- t ty
daughters. One
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-12-30

pared by Andrew
Carnegie for his
six year old
daughter.
Mr. Carnegie
was almost an
old man when he
married the plain
sensible, goo d.
humored woman
10 whom he was
and is so devot-
eddy a tia C h e d.
There is not in
New York "A Dlain-
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country is certainly
fir
Hd&bN the shores Kah-pee-kog in
NNt4E Where find Isl
iounI to-day comparatively Journey
ued Think of the
ueorgan then of the of
e te you there IS nothing to beat that unless
FOUND over here ON Heaey lake the NtsEoa But an these
aieineluueu IN the assertion that this
II was beautiful summers
lngs are neither too
noA brilliant IN the world
appears with the coming of August where
us most neautful short
o. oanado ana our little party six including the guide,
on Inc shores of little
georgian pay and the Musko
oay excursions TO almost in
hearch or the gamey bass We the
country Yorker and dispute
as indeed who could have done o honestly
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-12-30

y T. a RS a 4 O w 4
knew as Sidney
Luska." author of
As II Was Writ
ten. The Yoke
Of the Torah" and
other New Yorl.
tales.
What a coSmo-
politan! Born IN
st. Petersburg
reared in New
York married in
Massachus G. It s
working mainly
i'm / ouH,p lf,s,-
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this win be a
strange Christ
mas.
The country IS
prosperous, work
is plenty money
flows freely TO
the shops; wages
are high in the
building trades;
those of railway
employees h We
b G e n increased.
while exceptional
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much better OH
in many vases
than when OPP
pressed M Russia
or Roumania
is for New York
a merry Christ
mas.
The amount of
money to be spent
in present giving
a II d Chris tmas
merriment in
creases by leaps
a II d b O u II d $.
Christmas trade
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-12-30

y EDITOR once said to me:
Christmas i'm Hawaii is
ort of inverted, is it not ?"
| took it he meant a kind
of topsy-turvy Christmas,
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But didn't make no bit of
difference what kind of tackle [
lh,,d, Sallie wouldn't take shine
to il. staid ont. o. the woods n
whole winter tryin' to land her.
Paid that Gravenhurst livery-keep-
er as Iauch as four and five dollars
a week for sltighs takin' ner
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The Christmas Times as They
Are Known in New York x &

For that other half which is IN
New York the other three-fourths,