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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09

priests, instead of allowing them to
continue in their outrageous course
The Voice of God Calling to Sam
verses assigned for our
study in this lesson narrate the IA
miliar and beautiful story of how the
Lord spopke unto Samuel by night as
he lay in the temple. He was then
a boy of twelve years of age, we r
told by Josephus; just the age, some
one has remarked, when our Lord
went up to the temple at Jerusalem
and instructed the doctors of the law
The message which Samuel receiv-
ed from the Lord was one of woe, for
it pronounced upon the house of Eli
a sad and awful doom in punishment
of the sins of Hophni and Phinehas,
and subsequent history verified each
one of the dread predictions which
Samuel heard that night.
Present Day Application.--The
voice of God called to Samuel in a
special way, but we may still hear
the message of warning and of judg-
ment, if we but listen to God as He
speaks through the Bible, through
providence, and through the admoni-
ton of the Holy Spirit within our
hearts. May we be quick to hear and
to heed the message, which is sent in
love, that hearing we may repent of
our sins and find eternal life through
faith in our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09
A FRIGHTENED R

Running like mad down the street
dumping the occupants, or a hun
dred other accidents, are every day
occurrences. It behooves everybody
to have a reliable Salve handy and
there's none as good as Bucklen's
Arnica Salve. Burns, Cuts, Sores,
Eczema and Piles, disappear quickly
under it's soothing effect. Csc. at
all drug stores.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09
Newspaper Job Office Bargain.

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per and Job Office outfit, including one
Liberty Hand Press, foot power Job
Press, one Acme Mailing Machine, full
set of type, forms, Ell ctTOs, ETC., neces
sary for a weekly newspaper and b
Office. All the type Is In good condition,
nearly new. Will be glad to correspond
with any one interested
A. ]. MCKINNON,
Maxton, N. c.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09
NOTES ON THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON FOR DECEMBER II.
The Boy Samuel.
1 Samuel 8 1914.

the history of Israel, to the closing
period of the theocracy. Samuel was
the last of the judges, and we are to
study the record of boyhood, contin-
uing the story of his subsequent life,
six months hence, when we shall
again take up Old Testament lessons.
The Divine Answer to a Woman's
Prayer.-The birth of Samuel was in
direct answer to the prayer of his
mother Hannah, who was a devout
woman, and, like all Israelite women,
eagerly DESTROYS of having offspring.
So anxious indeed was Hannah for
the accomplishment of this desire
that she vowed if only she might be
given. a son, to devote him to the ser
vice of the Lord. The Lord was not
deaf to her petition, and in due time
Hannah had the JOY of carrying out
her VOW. The son whom she bore she
named Samuel" which means "asked
of God," and as soon as he was wean-
ed she took him to the tabernacle at
Shiloh, and gave him into the charge
of the high priest Eli, that he might
minister unto the Lord.
The Childhood of Samuel.-The
account which we have of the child
hood of Samuel is beautiful in it's
simplicity. We read that Samuel
"ministered unto the Lord, being a
child, girded with a linen ephod."
Moreover his mother made him a lit
tie robe and brought it to him from
year to year, when she came up to
offer the yearly sacrifice.
The child Samuel was under the
direct charge of Eli, the high priest,
and he grew up in the same devout
faith which had characterized his
mother Hannah.
The High Priest Eli.-Eli was a
man of pious character and devout
spirit. He lacked, however, the
strength of mind which was needed
in the position which he occupied,
and miserably failed to restrain his
own sons from acts of the grossest
impiety and immortality. Yet in es-
timating his life, we must not forget
that tie boy Samuel grew up under
his direct influence and became in
after life one of the greatest proph-
cts of the Old Testament dispense
ton.
The Faithless Sons of a Pious
Father.-The record of Ellis two
sons, Hophni and Phinehas, is shame
less in the extreme. They were sons
of Belial, says the sacred narrative,
and their crimes we're those of abom-
Unable greed and lust. While Eli is
not to be blamed for their sinfulness,
for many a good father has had bad
sons, yet he is distinctly censured in
the Scriptures for failing to restrain
his sons from their acts of impiety
in connection with the worship of
the Lord. These men were faithless
priests as well as faithless sons, and
Eli in his capacity of high priest
should have ended their career as
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-12-09

Wou4od 1000 bushels White BIack-eyed
VolALSu Peas. Must be thoroughly leaned
and not mixed with any other variety. State
price and quality you have to sell. ,
HICKORY MILLING CO.,
Hickory, n. O.
The age-herald., 1902-03-04
Dispensarles in Two States.

Rome, in Georgia, has voted to sub- stitute a dispensary for the license system. and this decision covers the entire county in which Rome is located Although the first dispen- gary in the country was established at Athens, Ga, yet the system has not spread widely in that State, there be- ing not exceeding ten in the 137 coun- ties of the State. Fully 110 of the q Georgia counties are, however, dry" Athens has a population of 10,245, and Rome a population of 7,291. No larger town has tried the plan in Georgia.
 Dspensaries have been established much more freely in this State, as follows; Ashford, Clayton. Colum- bia. Camp Hill, Camden. Columbiana, Dothan, Florence, Athens, Lafay- cite, Marion, Oneonta, Luverne, Scale. -Tuskegee, Troy, Tuscaloosa, Tus- cumbia. West .Blocton, Uniontown, Roanoke, Wedowee The dispensaries at Dothan, West Blocton and Tusca- loosa have awakened the entire State to their money-making possibilities, and no doubt many more towns will ask the next legislature to grant them dispensaries. This is one local sub ject that the legislature is free to consider and to act upon.
 < In West -locton all city taxation has been abolished, although one-half of the profits of it's dispensary goes to other half is, however. sufficient to meet Blocton's local expenses and build by degrees a sewerage system and procure water supply. In Dothan the plan has been in operation four years, and in that time dispensary profits have built $25,000 school house and $15,O0o sewerage system besides meeting to some extent cur rent school expenses. In Tuscaloosa the system is new but it is antici pated that this years profits will be $25,OOO.
 Such results are surprising to many, and they are leading not a few to say that the dispensary may the difficult problem Even some of the advocates of prohibition are talk ing such view of the case.
The age-herald., 1902-03-04
New Jerseys Two Pests.

New Jersey is the chief focal point of trusts and mosquitoes-two pests that from that center go out to prey upon the people of the entire country to pump in the one case money out of the people and in the other case to pump malaria and levers into them. Between the two the country is well worked. and it is difficult to say which of the two is the greater evil
 But the New Jersey legislature has decided to attempt to rid the State of Mosquitoes, having voted a good sum for that purpose. So far so good But why should New Jersey discriminate in it's pests. especially when it can put an end to the one without further expense by simply closing it's factory?
 Its trusts are more devastating than it's mosquitoes, and the country would be glad to have action taken ln reverse order. If New Jersey will stop manufacturing trusts to order, the country will endure at least for a season New Jersey mosquitoes, grievous as their bites are.
 New Jersey, the home of trusts and mosquitoes, could rise to heroic size if she would strike at once at both of her pests. Let her not think that the extermination of her female mosquitoes as large as a ruffled hen, with a double action proboscis, will suffice. It will not The proboscides of her other pest go much deeper They seek everybody's pockets, and they leave but little beyond old jack knives in those pockets. Let New Jersey start a double-headed cam paign. Let her fight each of her pests with equal tenacity and as. tiduity. Both are much alike in their habits. as well as their habitat.
The age-herald., 1902-03-04
Fair Basket Ball Played.

"I have travelled around great deal" said Mir. Henry Dean, the prominent Nor ris avenue broker, last night to a party of friends in the Hillman cafe, but never in all my wanderings have I had exactly the same feelings as I experienced In Chattanooga last Friday upon coming face to face with a girls basket ball team.
 Our basket ball team from the Bir- mingham Athletic Club was in that city for the purpose of playing the Chatta- noosa Athletic Club, and Friday morning we went around to the gymnasium to get some preliminary practice. The janitor stopped us at the street door, explaining that the young ladies Is playin basket ball upstairs an you can't go up yit.' We had scarcely been made to comprehend what he meant when a bevy of thrilling laughs upstairs warned us that the fair basket ballists were coming down.
 Our crowd seemed to be dazed, and notwithstanding the fact that during the past five years our fellows have gone up against the most formidable basket ball teams in the South, the unexpected sight or lneSe ldlT SndltdHOOkd SOCl6ly D6lltSg with the announcement that they were basket ball players awed us completely. Some one suggested that we draw up in line as the girls passed out. but the sug- gestion was not carried out and nearly all seemed inclined to follow Ed Warren, our big guard, who stepped way back be- hind the crowd and sat down on the curbstone.
 "As the girls were filing out of the door with their faces beautifully flushed from their recent exercise one callow youth in our crowd claimed he knew one of the fair players and chased over to speak to her. She pretended to recognize him. whether she did or not and in an instant was introducing him to her entire party and telling him of their game.
 Tn the meantime the rest of us stood off to one side holding on to our grips for dear life. In another instant the young ladies had broken up their little gather ing, some getting into their carriages and others walking away. I have been thor oughly disgusted with myself and the rest of our crowd ever since. Next time we meet a girls basket ball team, though, believe we'll know better how to act"
The age-herald., 1902-03-04

annually used. When we consider that shelf room is even more expen- sive than the books themselves, 1t Is seen that the multiplicity of books is becoming a serious problem.
 President Eliot recently discussed it in his annual report. The housing of books in vast and useless numbers is so expensive that ten dollars are spent in that way in many libraries to one dollar expended in books. President Eliot's remedy is this: Now that travel and the sending of books to all parts of the country have become cheap, it may well be that the great accumulations of print ed matter will be held accessible at only three or four points in the coun- try, the great majority of libraries contenting themselves with keeping on hand the books that are in con temporary use, giving a very liberal construction to the term 'contemp- orary.'" MT. Putnam of the Con gressional library takes like view of the situation.
 Like all other solutions of other difficult problems, this has it's ob- stacles. Who shall say what is "con- temporary" and what is not? Who shall locate the three or four great depositaries of a broad country But these obstacles can perhaps be over come, and if they can be long step will have been taken towards the set clement of a problem that now bids fair to become more burdensome each recurring year The congestion of books should be confined to three or l four points, in which storage room is practicable from an economic point of view. The prairie dog district of Chicago offers one possibility.
The age-herald., 1902-03-04
Eccentric Millionaire.

"I knew intimately well Charles Broad way Rouss, the New York millionaire who died today, and a more eccentric man I never ran across remarked a Confederate veteran yesterday.
 "I was in the same regiment in the army of Northern Virginia that Rouss served in. He was a good soldier. but he was then only plain Charlie Rouss of Winchester, Va. The day after Lees surrender at Appomattox he said to his comrades:
 make money. We Confederates have done the best we could, but now it is all over with our cause. There is no use whin- ing Goodbye. boys. I am off for New York
 'I did not see Rouss after that until 1895. He was worth millions by that time. He inserted Broadway in his name partly as an advertisement and partly as an acknowledgement to the people who passed along Broadway that he was appreciative of their patronage. He kept a great variety store.
 Rouss was generous in his gifts to his native town-Winchester. He also gave literally to causes organized to perpetuate the history and the glory of the Confed- crate soldiers. His largest gift was HOO,- GOO to the Battle Abbey at Richmond, One of MT. Rouss" peculiarities was his phonetic spelling. He dictated his letters to stenographer-a beautiful Vir- ginia girl-and a strict requirement. of his
The age-herald., 1902-03-04
PRUssIAN INCOME TAX.
Ambassador White Reports on the
 Law and It's Results.

Ambassador White at Berlin has made regard to the operation of the income tax of Prussia in which he says;
 "The law under which the Prussian income tax Is levied went into effect June 24, 1891. Roughly speaking, all in comes of more than 900 marks (s21420) a year are taxed Incomes from 900 marks up to 10.5 800 m arks (s21420 up to s249O and divided into twentX-six classes, the tax rising from marks a,4s) annually for the lowest class to 300 marks CsT1. 4O) for the last. Incomes of more than 105OO marks (s2499) are taxed upon a special and more rapidly progressive scale. Under the ap- plication of the law, the number of per sons liable to taxation has continually risen and except during the second and third years, the amounts yielded by 1t to the state have also steadily increased. By a law passed July ?. 1900. this law extended to the so-called Hohenzollern lands in south Germany. so that 1t now affects the whole kingdom of Prussia, with the exception of the Island of Heligoland. According to the census of 1890. the population of Prussia was then in round numbers 2aOoo,0 600; according to the census of 1900, It had risen to s4i- 400, oOO-an increase of oyer thirteen per cent. During the decade 1ss2-lsOl, the income tax statistics show the following increases:
 In 1901 the total population liable to the tax was S,64a, 1sS; the total value of their incomes liable to the tax was S,s54, 1S2, 2sl marks (s2, 1O7. .295,s7S) and the total amount of the income tax was 1S6, 1SS, 6s4 marks (s44 479,5O7). As against the statistics for 1892 the number of those liable to the tax showed an increase of 4s69 per cent Gan increase of 7.9S per cent as against 19OO); the amount of income, an increase of 1853 per cent as against 190o). In 1901 the number of 'non-physcaF' persons l. e., corporations. etc.-liable to the in- (s113, 7s3, ,e2T, paying an amount of 1S,761, 5s4 marks 94, 157).
 "The number of physical persons lia- ble was 3,646,52 with incomes liable to the tax of S,376057,77S marks (s1. .993, 5O1, ,751), of which 5,S56 100, 900 marks (S1, ,393, ,751, ,S0O) came from towns and 2,519, $50, 900 marks s5ss, 14S, l00 from the country. It will be noticed from the above that while the population of Prussia has increased during the last decade to the amount of, rough ly, 1S per cent, the number of persons liable to the income tax has increased over A per cent. While the total of their incomes has risen In about the same pro- portion, the average of their incomes has diminished, the dininution since 1900 being "A marks S571l. This shows clearly that the number and amount of the smaller incomes have increased in greater pro- portions than those of the larger ones. An example of this increase is the num- Der of persons having incomes of more than 3Q90 n arks C1D, which since 1900 has risen per eent-from 4i13so0 to 435, 7OO."
The age-herald., 1902-03-04
ALABAMA EDITORS.

From the Andalusia Covington News.
 A Georgia editor thus declines to be- come candidate for office "No kind but deluded friends the mission of the hireling who holds the blow handles of this paper Is to keep the fires burning on the altar of liberty and the beacon light blazing on the snore of time at s1 per blaze, invariably in advance. He does not hunger or thirst after official life. He did think once he would like to go to the legislature, but he has grown in grace since then and purified his sys- tenn of that unholy desire. Since then he has not yearned single yearn distinction"
The age-herald., 1902-03-04
Deep Reuret.

Not only in musical circles, but in business circles as well, deep regret is expressed at the determination of the Guokenbergers to leave Birmingham. said First avenue merchant yesterday.
 MT. Guckenberger has been recognized as one of our foremost citizens for several years past, and as for his leadership in music, he has done what few men could have done. He has created a musical at mosphere here and has given Birmingham a reputation throughout the country for musical culture which is now second only to its reputation as an industrial cen- ter.
 'I am not familiar with the records of musical conductors, but l think 1t would be a safe bet that not one in a dozen musicians fitted by education and experi- ence to train eheruses and direct or chestras have Guckenberger' energy, said that artists are good business men. Well then. Guckenberger is an exception to this rule"
The age-herald., 1902-03-04
Primaries and Registration.

1 The registration lists will not be completed until August 1, and it would be manifestly unfair to call primaries before that time. It would perhaps be illegal, and a primary called be- fore August might lose its legal stand ing when it comes to the official bal lot. The new constitution provides that mo person shall be qualified to vote or participate in any primary election, party convention, mass meet ing or other method of action of any political party or faction, who shall not possess the qualifications pre- scribed in this article for an elector, or who shall be disqualified from yot- ing under the provisions of this ar ticle."
 There is no need of legal quibbling or hair splitting sover this section of the new constitution. It's obvious meaning to any friend of the new constitution is that primaries should be postponed until the registration lists are completed. There is ample time in which to hold primaries after August 1, when lists will be com pleted of all wo- are entitled to at tendance and participation. Over three months will elapse between Au- gust 1 and the election day of Mo- vember, and primary called before August 1 is a primary called for some sinister purpose,
 The friends alike of the primary system and of the new constitution will endeavor to have all primaries held on a given day in every county of the State, which day may be and probably will be a day in August. The attempt to forestall public opin- ion by holding a packed and care fully devised primary here and there has been tried, and it's effects were not brilliant. Such tactics have been unacceptable as a rule in this State, and no one need go out of his way this year to repeat the experiment.
The age-herald., 1902-03-04
THE BookWORM.

Each past number of The Bookworm has showed marked literary improve ment on the preceding number, and the March issue is no exception to this prog ress. That it's merit is thoroughly recog- nzed here, as it is elsewhere, is unques- toned
 The literary publications of the East praise it and use extracts from its re- views. and many of the men and women throughout the country prominent In let ters have written highly congratulatory letters to the editor. The South has quick ly realized 1t is no mere house organ, and the evidences of this fact are the Ameri- can News Company's present standing order of five hundred copies and the long and fattering notices The Bookworm is each month receiving from the leading papers in the South. Its reviewers of which there are thirty-represent those men and women of the South who are to- day foremost in matters literary, many of them successful as authors as they are critics.
 The March number contains, among other able criticisms, a most noteworthy review of Miss Johnst on's new book Aubrey" It is most analytic dissecting the principal characters in the book pointing out its charm and making us so acquainted with those characters as to enable us to better understand and ap- preciate them as we read the story. But the review does not stoop to unbare the plot and so rob us of half the pleasure of reading Audrey" No; the book will be read with greater pleasure by very reason of the review
The age-herald., 1902-03-04
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Country Produce.

The heavy rains of last week affected the country produce market, especially in the line of chickens and eggs, said MT. L. A Townley. the Morris avenue merchant. yesterday.
 Eggs and chickens were very scarce in Birmingham because the country peo- pie could not cross swollen streams and reach shipping centers. Today, however eggs were sufficient to supply the de- mand and the wholesale price did not go above 21 cents. Week before last eggs brought. 26 cents at wholesale"
The age-herald., 1902-03-04
HOW TO MEND PINe-PoNe BALLS

From the St, James Budget.
 The cost of ping-pong may be mini- mixed by an ingenious method of restor- ing damaged balls which an enthusiast in the game has discovered and made public property. The celluloid balls com- monE used are often bulged in and then thrown away as eseless. Instead of throwing them away they should be dipped into very hot water, when the bulge will immediately disappear and the ball can be returned to play as good as ever. It is not necessary to immerse the whole ball. It is sufficient if the bulged part be dipped and this can be done without scalding the fingers