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Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-10
WEALTH OF TIE CONGO.
Ivory and Rubber the Chief Sources of
Its Prosperity.


Its Prosperity.
Ivory and rubber are the sources OF
wealth of the Congo Free State, in Af-
RIGA, the connection of which to Bel
GUM is now engaging the attention of
the legislators of that kingdom. At
present the Congo Free State is the
private possession Of King Leopold H.
or the 700 tons of ivory annually
produced in the worla 900 are derived
from Africa. Half century ago ali
the African ivory came from Egypt
and Zanzibar, but to-day the Congo
Free State holds the irst rank among
ivory producing countries. In 1899 no
less than $40 tons were exported to
Europe, this being more than half the
total African output. The Antwerp
ivory market, which was started on
July 81, 1888, with a sale of Is tons,
surpassed the Liverpool market in
1890 and the London market in 1895.
The Antwerp ivory market is to-day
by far the most important in the
world.
Herds of wild elephants are still ex-
tremely numerous in the immense vir-
gin forests of central Congo. The ma
tives hunt these animals more on ac-
count of their flesh, which the negroes
greatly appreciate, than for their
tusks. But only a small proportion of
the ivory annually exported from the
Congo is taken directly from newly
killed animals. Thus, during 1899, of
the 29,9S5 tusks sold on the Antwerp
market, $3.50 alone came from freshly
killed animals, the remaining 21,446
tusks being what the natives term
dead ivory" For centuries the alb
origines have been collecting elephant
tusks, which they considered as hav-
ing little intrinsic value. but useful as
articles of exchange.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-10
Russia May AbOll.h Her Nobility.

At present the Cars subjects are
divided into four general classes-the
nobility, the clergy. the inhabitants
OF the towns and those of the coun-
try, says a St. Petersburg correspon7
dent. The nobility is Itself of two
kinds, hereditary and personal. An
officer acquires life nobility on acQuil
ing a certain rank in the army or.
navy. Those who attain the rank of
colonel in the army and of captain in
the navy become hereditary mobiles. 1t
is most probable that when the pro-
posed reform OF the Russian system of
class organization takes place the no.
bility will cease to exist as a separate
class In the nation
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-10
FRESH WATER SHARK
FER0ClTY OF THE MUSKALLoNGE
WELL ILLUSTRATED.
tts Jaws Capable of Crushing Metal or
severlnG Mans Hand - UnbAIted
Rook siezed by n Giant Fish In Blind
Rage-The Result

They have on exhibition at Fiield,
Wis, No. 9 Skinner trolling spoon
as an illustration of one of the many
tricks of the muskallonge. 1t be-
longed to Byron L. Veatch of Chicago,
a frequenter of the Flambeau waters
in season.
1t is Of the usual heavy metal, gild.
ed upon one side and silver on the
otner. II was hurt during the fishing
season which closed in October.
This spoon was struck by "musky"
in the waters of Mason Lake. which
is connected with the Flambeau, thence
with the Chippewa and thence with
the Mississippi. 1t was struck in
anger 1t was Undated at the time
and the fish knew that II was un-
Naited
He nosed it once or twice as it was
trolled past his lurking place at the
roots of the lily-pads ten feet down.
A guide was pulling the heavy boat
and the fish was tired of being dis
turbed. He rushed it suddenly, seized
the great spoon in his jaws, steering
clear Of the gang of hooks at its end.
mashed it with one powerful grip.
rolled over and disappeared.
The spoon looks as if it had been
laid on an anvil and hammered by
a blacksmith. 1t is crushed almost out
Of semblance to itself.
The metal at one side is rolled over
and over as if some giant had tried
to make an alloy cigarette. Its lower
o,,d &c hant unon itca1f In cuab
shape that nothing could be done with
it unless it were melted and remolded.
II is proof of the tremendous force
in the jaws of this shark of the un-
salted seas. Such grip would have
taken a mans hand off at the wrist.
1t would have severed one-half of his
foot cleanly. The fish that did the
trick weighed probably not more than
thirty pounds.
In the village of Fifield are copper
bound oar blades which bear the
marks of muskallonge teeth; tin cup
once snatched from a fishermans hand
as he leaned over the boats side to
dip water; a woman's Dreastpin of gold
which was seized before it reached bot
tom and cut from its captured captor's
belly.
The guides say that it is impossible
to have much to do with muskal onge's
mouth even after it is dead, without
suffering some lGceration of the fin
gers. This is due to the numbers OF
rows of teeth and their exceeding
Nharpness.
Muskallonge are known often tc
strike a trolled spoon with closed jaws
and send it flying fifteen feet in the
air. Men who have seen the jaws ol
a twenty-pounder wide open do moi
wonder why they dissever four
pound bass faster and more neatly
than a circular saw could do it.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-10
ON TOUR TO SELECT WIFE.
Clergyman Has started o

Novel Quest
The Rev. George w. Brownback of
Reading, Pa, is making tour to
select a wife.
Believing that to be successful in
the ministry a clergyman should have
helpmate, and being unable to find
his ideal in Reading, he inserted an
"ad" in a matrimonial paper. Re
Sponses came in great numbers from
Ill parts of the world, He received
about 1000 letters and nearly as many
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-10
WILL PRESERVE OLD MILL.
Kentucky Landmark Built by Father
of President Lincolp.

A movement is now on foot for the
preservation OF the old Kirkpatrick
Hour mill, near Hodgerville, KY, built
by the father of Abraham Lincoln.
The mill is located a mile from the
was erected in 1916. Abe often trudg-
ed across the fields leading from the
humble log cabin to the mill with a
sack OF corn across his shoulders
During his term as president. Lincoln
frequently asked about the old mill.
and in an old notebook of his was
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-10
AS THE WORLD
REVOLVES |
YOUNGER is LEGALLY DEAD.
Famous Bank Robbsr Finds Himself In
Peculiar Position.

James Younger Northield, MINI.
bank robber, wants to get married. He
cannot, because he is legally dead a
hence he is unable to enter into any
contract. Younger submitted the ques-
ton of whether or not he could wed
to Gov. Van SAINT. who has looked into
the matter with some surprising re-
suits. In Minnesota man who is n
life prisoner Is civilly dead
The only way he can make any
binding contract in the eyes Of the law
is through the board which pa-
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-10

photographs. He dropped ali but
twenty-five candidates. gradually sift-
ing the number to seven. These live
at Hartford, Conn; glastonbury
Conn; Dover. Del; Gloucester Point.
Va. Wheeling, W. Va; Erie, Out;
and Toronto, Ont.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-10

roles him, in this case the state board
pt control, which board is empowered
to enter into contract for him
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-10

vices for the comfort of the COWS ana
for keeping down all bacterial growth
detrimental to the butter.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-14

We had a pleasant call Saturday from Bro. II.
M. Gates, who was returning fom his tour of
County Alliance meetings heretofore outlined
in The Progressive Farmer. He was very well
pleased with his trip. In Johnston County the
attendance was not so good as he had hoped for,
but the Cumberland and Sampson meetings were
thoroughly successful. In both these counties
the Alliance IS not only holding it's own, but is
on the up grade. Heavy rains Friday night and
Saturday morning caused Bro. Gates to miss his
appointment at Grantham's Store, where he was
to address the Wayne County Alliance. He did
speak, however, to a good audience near Colds
boro Friday night, and says that the order in
Wayne is in good, healthy condition. "The Al
liancemen in these counties / have visited are the
salt of the earth" he says. "They have the best
farms and are the best people in their com
munities." We hope that Bro. Gates will let us
have a full account of his trip for publication in
The Progressive Farmer next week.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-14
A Thought for the Week.

How true, for example, is that other old Fable
of the Sphinx, who sat by the wayside, PROFOUND
ing her riddle to the passengers, which if they
could not answer she destroyed them! Such a
Sphinx is this life of ours, to all men and So
cities of men. Nature, like the Sphinx, is of wo-
manly, celestial loveliness and tenderness; the
face and bosom of a goddess, but ending in claws
and the body of a lioness. There is in her a ce-
lestial beauty-which means celestial order, PHI
ancy to wisdom; but there is also a darkness, a
ferocity, a fatality, which are internal. She is
a goddess, but one not yet disimprisoned, one still
MISUNDERSTANDING articulate, lovely, still in
cased in the inarticulate, chaotic. How true!
And does she not PROFOUND her riddles to us?
Of each man she asks daily, in mild voice, yet
with a terrible significance, "Knowest thou the
meaning of the Day? What thou canst do To-
day, wisely attempt to do" Nature, Universe,
Destiny, Existence, howsoever we name this grand
unnameable fact in the midst of which we live
and struggle, is a heavenly bride and conquest to
the wise and brave, to them who can discern
her behests and do them; a destroying fiend to
them who cannot. Answer her riddle, it is well
with thee. Answer it not, pass on regarding it
not, it will answer itself; the solution for thee
is a thing of tooth and claws; Nature is a dumb
lioness, deaf to they pleadings, fercely devouring.
From Thomas Carlyle's "Past and Present"
Chapter II.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-14
To Succeed, a Man Must Love His Work.

l think in this connection that parents might
be a little more careful than they are in many
cases how they try to dissuade a son from the
kind of work for which he hungers or shows de-
cided taste. 1t may not always be agreeable that
a son wishes to be a physician. The parent would
rather see him a lawyer, as his father is. But
it does not necessarily follow that his son can be
one. If a sons tastes tend toward medicine, great
care should be taken how his tastes are attempted
to be turned toward the law. There are enough
bad lawyers now who might have been great doc
tors had they been left to choose their own ca
reers. A. prominent New York man identified
with the two leading law and medical schools of
that city told me not long ago that each year
these schools were turning out scores OF young
men who drifted at once into car conductors, sta
ton agents and commercial clerks. And this is
simply because of the mistakes of parents to force
round pegs into square holes. It cannot be done.
No sight is so sad as a son forced by his parents
into a trade OF profession which is uncongenlal
and distasteful to him.. A young man cannot
honestly make a success in any business unless
he loves his work, any more than a husband can
be happy in his home unless he loves his wife,
Edward Box, in his book "Successward."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-14

The meeting of the Farmers National Con-
gress, held in Macon, Ga, last week, was, if we
may Judge from the press dispatches, one of the
most successful sessions of the organization
that has been held. The writer regrets that he
was unable to attend, but we hope to publish
next week a report from an observant North
Carolina delegate who did attend. Resolutions
were adopted by the Convention requesting Con-
gress to increase it's appropriations for the i'm
provement of public roads; favOring the rapid
construction of an Isthmian canal; calling upon
Congress to increase the appropriations for the
work of the Department of Agriculture in the
collection of more accurate crop data for the
farmers; commencing the work of Secretary
farmers; commencing the work of Secretary Will
son in promoting farmers Institutes; recommend
ing the sam supervision of the government funds
of agricultural colleges as is now exercised in re-
gard to experiment stations. We are glad to see
that the ship subsidy bill was vigorously sat
upon.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-14

however. a man has learned to read and write in
the acceptation of those two words by men of in
teIlipence, he is entitled to register and vote under
the educational clause. If he is learning to read
and write, but has not yet learned, he would
not be entitled to register or vote under this
clause. [ wish strongly to dissent from the in
terpretation of the educational clause given by
the registrar of the Rutherfordton precinct, and,
if the article referred to gives a correct state
ment of the facts in this particular case, to ex-
nress the hope that he will reconsider his de-
cision and register this man."
This letter is very creditable to Mr.. Simmons.
The Amendment was intended to disfranchise
(and will disfranchise) the larger number of the
negro voters, but those who can read and write
should be given all the rights afforded them by
the educational clause.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-14

1t gives us pleasure to correct a statement
made in last weeks Progressive Farmer regard
ing Hon. Cyrus B. Watson's position as to the
division of the school fund between the races.
Mr.. Watson says that his Henderson speech was
incorrectly reported, and that he did not declare
that the Southern white should abandon negro
education. To correct the report, we say, is a
pleasure, but it was a greater pleasure to observe
the general condemnation (by the press) of Mr..
Watson's reported position. This idea of race
division of the school taxes is dangerous, how
ever popular it may be, and no man who believes
that the white people of the South are the ones
to direct the Negroes training, can afford to ad-
vocate it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-14

We are glad to see that Superintendent Joyner
is endeavoring to interest the school authorities
of every county in the rural school library plan
arranged for by the last Legislature. Three hun
dred and sixty-seven of these libraries have now
received aid from the State, but the appropriation
available for the two years now drawing to a close
is large enough to aid 500 libraries, and the peo-
pie should show their appreciation of this wise
move to encourage the reading of good litera-
ture,tby establishing libraries enough to exhaust
the entire appropriation.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-14

Onward and still onward goes the system of
rural free delivery y of mails. From an appropria-
ton of $4,000 about five years ago, it has gone
forward by leaps and bounds until the expendi-
lures in this department of postal delivery this
wear will exceed 100000. 1t is believed that
the appropriation for the next fiscal year will
be S12, 655, 800. The POstmaster-General will ask
for that amount, and he will probably get it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-14

1 hold with Algernon Sidney that there are but
two things of vital importance-those which he
calls Religion and politics, but which I would
rather call our duties and affections toward God
and our duties and feelings toward our fellow
men; science and literature are but a poor make
up for the want of these.-Thomas Arnold, of
Rugby.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-14
BOOK NOTICE.

$1.OO. Doubleday, Page & Co., Publishers, New
York.
Three ESSAYS toward the training of the com.
mon people of the Southern States" make up this
book. The first, "The Forgotten Man." was de,
ivered at the commencement of the Greensboro
Normal and Industrial College a little more than
five years ago, and aroused so much interest that
had Mr.. Page done nothing else, he would not
yet be a forgotten man among North Carolin-
ians. The second essay is "The School That
Built a Town." it has also done service as a
commencement address. The third and final pa
per is the one from which the book takes It's
title, and was originally published in the At
lantic Monthly last May.
DR.. Page, it is unnecessary to say. is a ma
tive of the Old North State, but has been for
fifteen years past in the North, editing success
fully the Forum, the Atlantic Monthly, and the
Worlds Work. He writes therefore with a
Southern mans sympathy and frst-hand knowl-
edge of Southern affairs, and with something more
than a mere Southerner's breadth of view.
In the opening paragraph of his address on
"The Forgotten Man" you will find the keynote
of this book: that the South needs to quit talk
ing so much of it's undeveloped resources of
soil and forest and stream and quarry, and turn
it's attention to its resource of infinitely greater
worth-the people themselves. Train the peo-
clip properly and all other resources will be de-
veloped, but, as surely as the sowing must pre-
cede the harvest, so surely must the training of
the people precede the development of the natural
resources. In this essay, too, DR.. Page sets forth
his plan for dealing with this first great resource
of the South:
"a public school system generously supported
by public sentiment, and generously maintained
by both State and local taxation, is the only eff
fective means to develop the forgotten man, and
even more surely the only means to develop the
forgotten woman"
Here then we have two noteworthy facts on
which this book lays great emphasis: CD The
States most important resource is it's people.
(2) The only way to develop this resource is by
a right system of public education. And yet a
third fact is presented no less forcibly: 90
This right system of education must be indus
trial as we'll as literary.
But let us permit Dr.. Page to speak for him
self. Here is his creed in his own words:
81 believe in the free public training of every
child born of woman.
II believe that by the right training of men
we add to the wealth of the world. All wealth
is the creation of man, and he creates it only in
proportion of the trained uses of the commune
ty; and, the more men we train, the more wealth
every one may create.
81 believe in the perpetual regeneration of So
ciety, in the Immortality of democracy, and in
growth everlasting"
This bit of DR.. Pages inspiring doctrine re-
veals the spirit of his book. In it's publication
he has done his people a distinct service. It's
merit would be recognized at any time, but the
general educational awakening in the South Is
sure to give it greater power for good.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-28
Letter to e. E. Davis & Co.,
Augusta, Maine.


Dear Sirs: when you see we'll
dressed man. you like to say: There 5
a sample Of our clothes. That man is
worth two of himself as he was when
he came to us"
We have the same feeling. our paint
on a house is worth twice as much as
old-fashnn painters paint, lead and
oil. II looks the same when first put
on. In three months it don't. In three
years it decidedly dent.
Lead and oil chalks off in three
years: it is considered a first-rate jot
that lasts three years.
Devoe lead and zinc is about as good
| lin three years as it was the day the
l painter left it.
| Zinc is the secret of it: 10 secret al
i all. good many painters know zinc
some mix it in with their lead. W.
Igrind it in: not little: good deal.
It's the zinc and the grinding thai
ldoes it. You can't mix zinc by hand
We grind it by machinery.
Painters are finding us out, though
some painters are slow.
| You know that it pays a good mar
to wear good clothes. How many Gus
toners have You that know it?
Yours truly,
F. w. DEvOE & CO.
P. S. J. H. Cogan & Co. sell oul
paint "a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-28

Masonic Temple was the scene of on ,
of those social events, Saturday even
ing, which contribute to the bright
spots in life, and leave pleasant mem
cries which are never forgotten. Mem
hers of Augusta Masonic bodies We're
the entertainers, and the guests were
a party of gentlemen from Wallaston,
Mass. who came to this city as a
building committee to inspect the tenn
pie with a view to obtaining ideas in
connection with the erection of q tenn
pie, which is contemplated at Wallas-
ton. The personnel of the party was
as follows: f. H. Bishop, w. E. Sim
mons. n. /. Holen, +. f. De Normandi
and G.. G.. Lee. They were met at the
evening train and escorted to the tenn
pie. where they met the Augusta fra
tiers. and looked the building over.
Later. an adjournment was made to
Viewers, where lunch of broiled
live Holsters was served. 1t is needless
to say that they enjoyed every moment
of their visit to the city, and were
much pleased by their hospitable treat
ment at the hands of their Augusta
brethren. The temple met with their
hearty approval, and it is very probable
that the new building at Wallaston will
be a duplicate. The party returned to
Boston at 1870, Sunday forenoon.
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Bishop of Portland.

The following companies have filed
| articles of Incorporation at the office of
the secretary of State:
G. r. English Co, organized at Kit
terry, for the purpose of manufac curing
and dealing in cloths, felts machinery
and general merchandise with $50, O0J
capital stock. of which nothing as paid
in. The officers are: President, Chas.
r. English of West Newton, Mass /;
treasurer. Arthur p. Putnam of Bos-
ton. Mass. Certificate approved, April
&c, 1902
Summer Amusement Co, organized
at Kittery. for the purpose of carrying
on = general theatrical and amusement
business, with 100000 capital stock, of
switch nothing is paid in. The officers
are President, Albert T.. KnOwltOn of
Maiden, Mass; treasurer, Mark w.
Paul of Kittery. Certificate approved,
April %. 1902.
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Colds

You first take cold, then
you cough. Then you have
a doctor. He says it's bron-
chitis, and he orders Ayers
Cherry Pectoral. 1t is his
favorite prescription for colds
and coughs. If he knows Of
anything better, tell him to
give it to you.
81 had very severe cough for many
weeks. Nothing relieved me until l
tried Ayers Cherry Pectoral. This
rapidly and entirely cured me-"
j. J. Hargrave, New York City.
*, Soc. sloa. &c. AVER CO.. Lowell. Mas.
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Rev. Charles w. Doherty, pastor of
ST. Mary's Catholic church, preached

W. - CutIOlIN NHulCil, DI
his farewell sermon, yesterday, prior
to his departure for n 5-monthS' trip
to Europe. During his absence, Rev.
Arthur A. Hamel, pastor of ST. Au-
gustine's~ church, will act as pastor of
st. Mary's and will be assisted by Wis
iting priests during the summer. On
Saturday evening, a committee repre-
senting the parishioners waited upon
Father Doherty and presented him with
a purse of money, Thomas J. Lynch,
ESQ.,, making the presentation speech.
Miss Julia Buckley for the young ladies
presented him with handsome sum,
and from another source he received
enough to make an aggregate of nearly
S700. This money was given to Father
Doherty to assist him in paying his ex-
penses abroad. During his remarks,
yesterday, he took occasion to thank
the members of his parish for their
great kindness to him. He will leave
Augusta on the 10 o'clock train, Tues
day forenoon, and will sail from Bos-
ton on Wednesday. Father Doherty
will visit Rome while abroad and hopes
to have an audience with the Pope.
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Ralph Cross johnson.

Belfast. died at his residence in New
York City, on Thursday last. aged s.
years. The funeral service will be held
at st. Marks church, Augusta, at 2.Se
o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Burial pri-
Vate.