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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-25
Story of Wreck by Jockey 0dom.
washington post.l

Among the passengers who were on the
wrecked train were the famous little
Jockeys, George Odom, and his brother,
Jack Odom. The latter was accompanied
by his wife and baby. The OdOm brothers
were on their way from New Orleans,
where they have been spending the win
ter. to Washington George Odom will
have several mounts at the Benning
races this week The boys arrived in
Washington yesterday afternoon with
hardly enough clothes to keep them out
of the hands of the police, but delighted
at having escaped with their lives.
GEORGE ODOM's EXPERIENCE.
Il was sound asleep in my berth, said
| George Odom, at the st. James last night
where he was surrounded by an admiring
throng or racetrack followers, who We're
listening eagerly to his narrative, when
heard an awful grinding noise, and the
| crashing sound made by the falling in of
all the windows 1t was pitch dark in the
car. and in an instant the steam came
rushing in, so that it felt like Turkish
bath. / jumped up. called by Brother
Jack. so he could get his wife and child
out. and then began to hunt about for
/ vest SO | grabbed that first Then l began
to hunt for my trousers, and by the time
l found them and put them on, my vest
was lost in the bed clothes again All
this time the car became hotter and hot
ter, and l was becoming more frightened
every minute Finally, I found my vest
and started out AS l ran along l grabbed
up an armful of blankets. This was a
! 7 infn
nv brother. he hadn't a rag of clothing
He found a porter, and offered him $40
if he would go back in the car and get
him any suit of clothes he could find. The
man went and fortunately found Jacks
own suit.
Il was running around there in my bare
feet and lady who was on the train gave
NE pair of stockings. l gave her a
blanket We divided things up pretty
evenly among us and got along all right.
Finally we went over to a little town and
/ bought a shirt and these shoes you see
on my feet"
LOST NEARLY EVERYTHING.
Did you lose anything?" asked one of
| the crowd.
-Four trunks, all my riding toys, dia-
mond and ruby pin worth $500, and every
thing else except my bank roll The
worst part of it was I lost my little fox
terrier that I always had with me. He
was my mascot, and if he could have
been saved the rest wouldn't make any
difference. Any way, I'm thankful to be
| here alive"
Odom, who has been very successful in
New Orleans this winter, had about $15,-
! 600 in his bank roll
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REsCUING THE INJURED.

The wreck occurred in deep cut, and
We who were not seriously hurt struggled
up and down the bank carrying those who
were injured and making them comfort
able We kept it up until we both fell ox-
hausted before we realized how much we
had been shocked by the injuries we had
received. Some of the passengers finally
carried us up the bank and put us with
the others, and there we lay until we'll
along in the morning when we were
taken to Charlottesville. We were kept
warm with the blankets taken from the
sleepers that were not burned. We could
not see very much of the wreck, and we
did not know what had happened in the
coaches in the rear. Some one told us
the fireman and one of the porters were
killed, and we also heard that a tramp
had met a like fate.
You see we postal clerks haven't much
show to escape when we get in a wreck,
We are locked in those cars, with all the
windows barred. and when the engine
strikes something the heavy Pullman
coaches pile into the mail cars. break
them all up and shove them over the en-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-25

pulling away one of the cars, but the
others were consumed by the fire.
"A special train made up at Charlottes-
vile left the scene with the passengers
about o'clock. 1t came as far as
Washington, where another train was
made up and carried a number of the
passengers on to New York. came
through or this.
THE train was made up entirely of
Pullman coaches, and was one of the most
valuable in the country. 1t burned with
out so much as hand being turned to
save anything. l secured a blanket from
one of the herths as a souvenir, and it
proved a decided comfort in the cold of
the early morning."
Mr.. Moore will remain in the city sew
eral days.
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fishes regularity, dries weakening drains,
heals Inflammation and liberation, and
cures female weakness.
cHaving used DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton and Golden Medical Discovery during
the past year" writes Mrs. Matte Long of
Pfouts Valley, Perry Co., Pa, ri can truthfully
recommend these medicines for all female weak
nesses. have used several bottles of Favorite
Prescription which consider great blessing
to weak women. / was so nervous and dis
couraged that hardly knew what to do. Your
kind advice fer home treatment helped me won
derfully. Thanks to DR.. Pierce"
Biliousness is cured by the use of DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
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Story Of Wreck by Mail Clerk.
washington Post.)


the wreck, including A. L. Holton, who
went to his home in Culpeper. Va. have
been in the Railway Mail Service for
periods ranging from two to twelve years.
All are comparatively young men, and all
are natives of Washington or Virginia.
None of them has ever been injured in a
wreck before, although Schindel was on
duty on a Southern mail train last Thurs
day night when it collded with a Sea-
board Air Line train near a small Viz
ginia station. The trains had been brought
to low rate of speed when the collision
occurred, and neither engine was de-
rallied The mail clerks were thrown from
their stools and several received slight
bruises but Schindel escaped without a
scratch.
Schmidt and Loving. who were the least
injured of those who were taken to the
Emergency Hospital, were placed in a sep
arate room together yesterday afternoon
and they were able to discuss their ex-
perience with the few visitors who were
admitted to see them. To a reporter for
The Pest, Loving said:
CLERK LOVING'S STORY.
We had just finished our work for the
light. We had made every connection
and had a very heavy mail on board.
The two cars must have contained at
least five or six tons of matter, and a
great deal of it was registered stuff We
were about to change our clothes when
the crash came, and for short time we
couldn't tell what had happened There
was succession of deafening crashes,
and while we realized that we were in a
wreck, We could not determine whether
We were out of danger until we had
crawled out from under the wreckage and
saw that it was all over. tt was dark.
and the effect of the scene was heighten-
ed by the flames which broke out in the
mail cars almost Immediately. There
wasn't a piece of either car left as large
as this bed I'm lying on, and how we
eXer got out of that wreckage without
being killed l cannot see. Our escape
with our lives was little short of miracu-
lous.
"Schindel and l crawled out of the
wreck together. He was in the first OF
the two mail cars, and l was in the sec
ond. Both had been piled upon the
wrecked engine, and both We're so badly
broken up that we could not tell one from
the other. Jefferson, Wine, and Link
were in the second car with me. and
soon located them. We then found all of
Schindel's companions except Holton, and
we finally located him in the wreckage,
after it mad begun to burn He was pin
ned down and thought he had been left
TO be burned to death We lifted lot OF
heavy stuff off his breast and shoulders
and he was able to wriggle out.
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the local pny-
stefan w hi c h
seem indelicate.
The thought of
examination is
alb horrent to
them, and so
they endure in
silence a condi-
ton of disease
which surel y
progresses from
bad to worse.
1t has been
DR.. Pierce's
privilege to cure
a gre at many
w om e n w h o
have found a
refuge for mod
esty in his offer
of free consulta-
ton by letter.
All correspond
ence is held as
strictly private
and S acre ly
con Fl d l.
Address Doctor
R. V. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. Y.
DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Pre-
ScriDtiou estab-
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SIkEMGEy

The instinct of rnodesty natural to
every woman is often a great hindrance
to the cure of womanly diseases. Women
shrink from the personal questions OF
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-22
THE PASSING OF EVANS AND MILES.

Two prominent government OH
ials, Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Com
mander of the Army, and Pension
Commissioners Henry G. Evans, are,
it seems, to give place TO new men at
about the same time.
AS for President Roosevelt's &C.
ceptance of Mr.. Evans's resignation,
we must say that we do not like it.
Mr.. Evans has stood like a stone wall
in the face of the attacks of dishon-
est pension raiders, earning thereby
the gratitude of all good citizens. 1t
is said, to be sure, that his successor
will continue this policy. But If
so, why was it necessary to change
officers? We have seen nothing TO
indicate that Mr.. Evans could not
have been induced to remain. What
ever the outcome, the pension sharks
now seem to regard the matter-and
with much show of reason-as a
victory for them.
General Miles, it is true, has not
yet been retired, but his decapitation
is momentarily expected. We sup
pose that he made a very good record
as an Indian fighter, earning the
promotion he has received; but his
recent antics indicate that his judg
ment has not improved since the
days when he heaped unnecessary
indignities on Jefferson Davis. Per-
haps we should say right here that
Mr.. Davis has never commanded our
admiration in any striking degree,
go far do Lee and Jackson tower
above him in our estimation. But,
defeated and humbled as he was, he
was a gentleman and a man of his
word, and there was ne reason for
shackling or Handwriting him. Never
theless, we mention this matter now,
not to revive memories that should
perhaps be left undisturbed, but to
compare this performance with some
of the more recent acts of General
Miles.
OF course the papers that habitu-
ally oppose everything done by Presi-
dent Roosevelt will open up their
Walls of wrath when the General gets
the natural and almost inevitable re-
suit of his recent pernioious activity.
For our part we think that he has
about outlived his usefulness as the
head of the army, and we shall watch
his departure with dry eyes
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-22
OLEOMARGARINE.

We congratulate the farmer, !.
the country ON the fight thew h.
made and won to prevent imitss.
butter being palmed eff as the -
article. We we're sorry to note q.
some of the Senators from the Soma
were more interested in the suoo..
of the oil mills than the BUILDING =
of the dairy interests of the farms,'
IF there is one thing of more imDo,
tance in the South to the farm..
than almost any other, it is the fssa.
ing of stock both for the dairv AND
for beef. The amount of oottop,sd
oil used in the manufacture of On
would not amount to two cents ,
bale on the cotton crop of the Soub
The plea made that the law is,
tended to kill the manufaotnrs -
oleomargarine is only true if the II,
of cleo depends on it's being sold
butter. Under the new law, anym
who wants cleo can get it ohesp
than ever, and the restriction in
gard to coloring may have the efd
to prevent the article being palned
off on the public at restaurants and
hotels as butter. It will also stop
the business of the butter stores that
have all sorts of fancy brands d
butter and not an ounce Of but
ter in the house. The fact is that
the cleo manufacturers know that
the larger part of their sales come
from the palming off of the article a
butter. No one has any objection 10
the making and selling of cleo q
oleo, and the talk about taxing th
poor mans butter is Iall fol der
for if the poor man waats IL no OF
get it cheaper now that the %ooloring
is forbidden. The passage Of the
law is simply a victory of an honest
product over a fraud, against which
every business is entitled to prOteG
ton. The cotton oil mills will not
suffer a particle and the farmer Of
the South will have a better chance
to build up a dairy business when
not compelled to compete with 8
fraud.-Praotical Farmer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-22
The Thinkers.
TWO DREAMERS.

Two men dreamed dreams of en-
pire but one dreamed more splendidly
than the other. One dreamed of
national isola ton ; the other of con
tinental combination. One dreamed
of a single realm where he, as the
head of the people, could say TO this
nan Come and to that nan 600"
and could sift and sort the Citizen
ship and divide and apportion the
public activities at his own sweet
will the other dreamed of a second
vast union of States modelled after
that which rose in splendor toward
the setting sun far beyond the West.
ern waters, but the empire of him
who dreamed of the single State was
swallowed up in the empire of him
who dreamed of the union of States.
Few Of their fellowmen dreamed
such dreams as these two nation
building seers and none wrought so
ceaselessly or untiringly to work out
0AACA4 N4S4OAS 4ACO pO44p4OGI 4b4O5,
The one dreamer spent his youth in
herding cattle on the veldt, or fight
ing alternately the Kaf1rs and the
lions, or again trekking TO north and
northwestwaTd to find his dreamed.
of empire; the other dreamer lived
out his youth in the greatest of the
schools, studying problems Of finance
and reading in the libraries those
volumes which told Of nations and
nation builders. One dreamer wore
sl0uohy clothes and Horace Greeley
whiskers and inoessantly smoked a
malOdOrOus pipe; the other, clean
shaven save for a croppy musfache,
dressed in the style and smoked the
finest brands of cigars. Both dream.
ers loved money and made millions,
n of them, like the miser, for
moneys W sake; the other, for the
men it would buy and the influence
it would WELD. One digged gold in
the Wltwatersrand mines the other
sorted diamonds at Kimberley. One
was a constant reader of the Old
Testament Scriptures of the Bible,
and found examples in Israel's
slaughter, hip and joint, of Amorites
and Amelekites, Perizites and
Invites, for wasting the Kaffr and
the Matabele peoples and possessing
their land; the other rejected the
Scriptures and was known of men as
an agnostio-was it because the
teachings of the HOMEGROWN CAP
tive of whom PLATE queried: cart
Thou a KingP" we're foreign to the
aims and ideals of an empire builderP
One dreamer paused in his making
of a republic long enough to set up
home and enjoy the sympathy of
wife and children; the other, in his
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-22

devotion to ambition, paD.o,
even for the joy of the touch y. aa
mans hand or ohild's oaress "a
Each of our dreamers Game
the foremost man of two raoos y
struggled for living room M as
mastery upon a continents wy
dreams of both could not be rea,,t ~
being antagonistio, and the ann
war for arbitrament of the a..
finds Paul Kruger an aged exile que ~s
wife dead of a broken heart
in soldiers graves and Cecil Rbosl'
dead at 40 from the disease of !
strenuous life, with his great vi.,'u
yet unrealized, and his last wo',
these: "There is so little DOM
much to do" "
Is the dream of the empire bull.
worth wh1le?-CharIotte Observe
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-22

the peculiar drawbacks to be: 1st,
a multiplication of small school dis
triots End, a want of better houses !;
Bird, a sad want of more money and
4th. Indifference on the part of pat
rons. The first and second can be
removed by a consolidation of school
districts. The third by local taxa
ton. The fourth by agitation. The
school law by section ~ provides
for the formation of special school
tax districts, the carrying into
effect of which I believe to be the
most important consideration OF
this conference embodying as it Ices
the remedy for the present draw
backs to better schools, better houses,
more money together with the re-
moval of that Indifference which
paralyzes educational effort in North
Carolina. I would then earnestly
recommend the establishment OF
special school tax districts in the
country and graded schools in our
towns. Agitation, consolidation and
local taxation is our hope"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-22
THE APPALACHIAN RESERVE,

The bill for the establishment OIL
national forest reserve in the Sous
ern Appalachians has been repoFtA
favorably in Congress. Nothing
should be permitted to prevent I'D
becoming an act. 1t authorizes t'
Purchase of 1000, 900 acres Of land ID
the mountain region extending fron
Southern Virginia and West Virgll'
to Northern Ala bams and GeorgA
touching South Carolina and TennS'
500, and containing not only |
greatest variety of timber IN ~'
country, but what is of equal impu,
tance, the head springs of more 'D'l
a dozen important rivers emptylDS
into the Atlantic ocean, the Gul ="
Mexico and the Mississippi and oDO
rivers. The passage of the Dill =
Of prime Importance to secure Oonu4
tions whereby the value Of tn0''
streams for transportation anu III
cation, and as sources of indus'lD'
and commercial power, may DO maiD
tanned, if not increased, and to CIV
practical encouragement to DSC
velopment Of scientific foressN'
necessity for which is beo0DD'
every year more recognized .-A'D'
facturers Record.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-22
1.-THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATION

@IHE AND hDOOA1AON
AL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARA
MOUET TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
OF STATE POLICY, is the motto of The
Progressive Farmer, and upon this
platform it shall rise Or fall. Serving
no master, ruled by no faction, cir
cumscribed by no selfish or narrow
policy, it's aim will be to foster and
promote the best interests of the
whole people of the State. 1t will be
true TO the instincts, traditions and
history Of the Anglo-Saxon race. On
all matters relating specially TO the
great interests it represents, it will
speak with no uncertain voice, but
will fe~arlessly the right defend and
tmpartially the wrong condemn. -
From Col. Folks Salutatory, Feb.
10, 1885
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-22
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.

See some good pioture-in nature,
if possible, or on canvass-hear a
page of the best music, or read a
great poem every day. You will al
ways find a free half hour for one or
the other, and at the end of the yea
your mind will shine with such an
accumulation of jewels as will aston
ish V @ yourself -Longfellow.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-22

We smile complaoently at the :.
ten5ot whose pride is centered IL
tawdry ring he wears in his nos
yet how much are we raised SV.
this savage, we who prostrato " =
selves before the minted gold o.
millionaire? In our absurd mOp%
worship, we have reached q ''ss
where a golden calf, instead OF ivy
eagle, might we'll be the symOo o,,ne
our national spirit. We are ho ~
the Almighty Dollar 80 close 80 sr
eyes that we are obscuring AIm6
God. In our old catechism We 4
asked, "What is the chief CIV
manP" The up-to,date reply
be, "The chief end of man ri.
glorify Gold and to enjoy rrt
ever. Edwin Markham, IN
success"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-22
EDITORIAL NOTES

In our last issue Harry Farmer
talked of the advantages offered by
our eastern swamps and savannahs
for beef raising. "Araohel," we
think, furnished US a letter on the
same subject some months ago. We
should like to hear from others.
Our readers living along rural free
delivery mail routes will be inter
-ested in the report of the commission
that has been investigating the letter
box problem. Mr.. Mitohell's letter
indicates an early change in the
Postohoe Departments rules in this
particular.
The Governor of South Carolina
positively refuses to sit by quietly
and allow a prize fight at the Expo
sition. He says: "South Carolina
laws positively prohibits contests of
the kind, and, and 1 will use all
legal machinery TO prevent any at
tempt" Goods for McSweenyl
If it were not for the fact that
those citizens who deserve the ballot
do not need to be reminded again,
we should say that there are only
nine more days in which those who
have not paid their poll tax will have
the opportunity of saving their right
to vote next November. And now
that we have said it anyhow, we
shall let it go at that.
It appears that under the provis-
ions of the new school law all text
books used under the old dispense
ton must be presented in exchange
for those now in use on or before
July 1st otherwise dealers will allow
nothing for them. We expect that
there are several thousand parents
who read The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
who should make d note of this.
That was a delightful letter from
Mr.. h. H. Williams which we pub
lished last week under the title
profitable Stock Raising in Or
ange." He not only had something
80 say, but told it in an entertain
ing manner. And that picture of
seventeen black calves, sleek and
plump, eating together out of one
trough-well, it made Us want to get
out of town and back into the ooun-
try at once. We hope Mr.. Williams
will write again.
The Charlotte Observer says it has
never been able 'to muster up the
regulation amount OF admiration for
the late lamented Nathaniel Macon"
because he "once voted for a war
with another country and then voted
against supplies" It has been some
time since we investigated Mr..
Macon's record in Congress. But
unless we n mistaken, the Observer
refers TO the War of 1912, and while
Mr.. Macon may have voted against
some measure for supplies, the re-
cords show that one of his strongest
speeches was that defending a bill to
authorize the President TO borrow
money TO carry on that war.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-22

The publishers of the Ladies' Home
Journal are sending out the follow
ing notice regarding Helen Keller, to
whose remarkable autobiography we
have already alluded "It is not at
all improbable that before many
years have passed the South will be
pointing proudly to a new writer in
the field of fiction a writer whose
present work alonganOther line gives
promise of something of enduring
interest if she turns to fiction when
more mature-Helen Keller. This
wonderful girl from Alabama, blind,
and deprived of all sense of hearing,
is putting so much poetic feeling,
sentiment and deep thought, and is
showing such marvellous descriptive
power, in her story of her life now
appearing in The Ladies' Home
Journal, that one cannot help won.
dering what she would do if she
were to try her hand at a romance.
It is too early yet for her to think of
it, as she is only twenty-one, and
still in college; but it requires no
stretch of the imagination to con
ceive of her as becoming one of the
South's most famous authors by
and by"