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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-21
The Best Equipment for a Boy.

It is Mr.. Carnegie's opinion that
the world would advance much faster
and it's people would be much better
off if it could be so arranged that
no man should be left anything more
substantial than a sound body, a
healthy mind and a good education.
In this, most thinking men will agree
with him. No one can estimate eve
remotely the harm that is done by
rich and indulgent parents who re-
quire nothing of their children in the
way of work and who provide them
with unlimited opportunities for en-
joyment and mischief.
Mr.. Carnegie puts the case very
convincingly, when he asks us to con
slider what the human being would
say to an accomplished old deer
hound that should act as so many
men act. He asks us to imagine this
deerhound corraling a large herd of
the choicest deer in the forest, and
then saying in effect to his puppies:
"Now, boys, sail in and help your
selves. I will do the hunting for
you. All you need to do is to eat"
A NANCY lot of dogs that old deer
hound would raise, says Mr.. Carne-
gle. And the prospects for mango
among human puppies raised under
similar circumstances he considers
equally dangerous-Selected.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-21
Enjoying Good Literature.

The appreciative enjoyment of
good literature is a capacity to be
infinitely developed along advancing
lines. The swift recognition of the
beautiful in literature is an achieve
ment as we'll as a gift. A reader who
has found entertainment in the film
siest and cheapest order of sensa-
tional fiction can, in three months,
by the exercise of a little enlightened
will, grow into even a far higher and
more intense enjoyment of the nov-
els of Tnackeray, George Eliot, Toll
stoi, Sienkiewiez, Turgeneif, Henry
James and Daudet, and into the sim
pie pleasure as well as the intellec-
tual gain of Balzac, to say nothing
Of a host of minor n~ovelists and story
writer's whose fiction is pure and
bright and interesting.
The world of literature is as wide
as the world of humanity, and the
object of this little tour is to turn
the searchlight on a limited selection
of that more vital range of express
sion that appeals to the spiritual life,
that .arouses aspiration and convic-
ton and hat liberates energy
rather than to daily with admiring
contemplation or critical analysis of
literary beauty. There are authors
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-21
And That Was the Truth.

When General Sherman was max
ing his famous March to the. Sea a
Southern gentleman n morning
came to complain of the depredations
of the Union soldiers.
"Your men robbed me of thirty
chickens last night, sir" he said,
angrily.
"I'm very sorry to hear it," replied
Sherman, politely. Perhaps we can
come to some arrangements"
eyes, SIR" interrupted the plant
er, eagerly, off you would buy the
rest of them"
"The rest? Do you mean to say
that you have any left"
eyes, sir. Those Yanks of yours
just took half of all I had"
Excuse me, sir" said General
Sherman. "There's some mistake
here. Some one else robbed your
chicken coop. If it had been my
men they would have cleaned out the
whole sixty."-Chicago News.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-21
Had Hamilton Lived.

When Alexander Hamilton's life
was thus cut short, he was only in
his eight and fortieth year. Could
he have attained such a great age as
his rival, John Adams, he might have
witnessed the Mexican War and the
Wilmot Proviso. Without reaching
extreme old age he might have lis
tened to Webster's reply to Hayne
and felt his heart warm at JacbBon's
autocratic and decisive announce
ment that the Federal Union must be
preserved. One may wonder what his
political course would have been had
he lived longer; but it seems clear
that he would have soon parted COM
pany with the F~ederalists. He had
already taken the initial step in
breaking with them by approving
Jeferson's purchase of Louisiana.
The narrow sectional policy of Pick
ering and the New England Federal
lists was already distasteful to him.As
the Republican Party became more
and more national, he would have
found himself inclining toward it as
John Adams did, and perhaps might
even have come, like Adams in later
years, to recognize the merits and
virtues of the great man whose name
had onc seemed to him to typify an
archy and misrule-Thomas Jefer-
son. Such mellow influence does
wide and long experience of life
sometimes have, when one can wit
ness great changes in the situation
of affairs, that we may be sure it
would not have been without it's eff
feet upon Alexander Hamilton.
When the new division of parties
came after 1926, there can hardly be
a doubt that he would have found his
place by the side of Webster and
John Quincy Adams.-John Fiske.
in the Cosmopolitan.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-21
Setting the Matter Right.

care you a native of this town.
asked a traveller of a resident of a.
sleepy little Southern hamlet.
Gam I whatw
care you a native of the towng"
"Hey?"
care you a native Of this place."
At that Il oment his wife, tall and
sallow and gaunt, appeared at the
open door of the cabin, and, taking
her pipe from between her teeth, said
acridly:
FAin't " got no sense, Jim? He
means wdz We livin' here when you
wuz born, or wuz ye born before you
begun livin' here? Understan'? Now
answer him."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-21

whose works are a living force in
every age, and from whom we may
well select natter that infuses new.
ardor and purpose into life. In this
especial quest restriction is perhaps
more to the purpose than expansion.
A book may be a perpetual
companion. Friends come and go,
but the book may beguile ell expe-
riences and enchant all hours.-Ll-
ian Whiting, in The World Beautiful
in Books.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-21

to live. If I had built a nice cottage
on my farm, and made it as neat and
homelike as the one I built in town,
my wife would never have wanted to
come here. I can see now what a
pretty spot l could have made of it..
The ground lay just right for making
a splendid lawn. I had plenty of wa
ter and power for making a beautiful
fountain. The old trees-oaks, ma
pies and elms-are grand, and all
that was needed to make a home that
would have been the browning glory
of that locality was a little sense E"-
Farm and Fireside.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-21
A Life Lesson

There! little girl; don't cry!
They have broken your doll, l
know:
And your tea set blue,
And your play house, too,
Are things of the long ago;
But childish troubles will soon
pass BY
There! little girl; don't cry!
There! little girl; don't cry!
They have broken your slate, l
know;
And the glad, wild ways
Of your schoolgirl days
Are things of the long ago;
But life and love will soon come
by
There! little girl; don't cry!
There! little girl; don't cry!
They have broken your heart, 1
know;
And the rainbow CLEANS
Of your youthful dreams
Are things of the long ago;
But heaven holds all for which
you sigh
There! little girl; don't cry!
James Whitcomb Riley.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-21

*NOS. 70 and 10 of our series of the Worlds
Best Poems, selected especially for The Pro-
gressive Farmer by the Editor. In this series
selections from the following authors have
already appeared: Burns, Bryant, Mr.. and
Mrs. Browning, Byron, Goldsmith, Holiness,
Kipling, Lanier, LOngfellOw, Lowell, Mark,
ham, Macaulay, Milton, Moore, Poe, Pope,
and others.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-21
H HOME CIRCLE
A Scrawl.*

A SCrawl.#
I want to sing something-but this
is all
| try and try, but the rhymes are
dull
As though they were damp, and the
echoes fall
Limp and unlovable.
Words will not say what l yearn' to
to say
They will not walk as / want them
to,
But they stumble and fall in the path
of the way.
Of my telling my love for you.
Simply take what the scrawl is
worth
Knowing I love you as the sun the
sod
On the ripening side of the great
round earth
That swings in the smile of God.
james Whitcomb Riley.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-21

A child on being asked if she,
thought God would answer prayer,
said with beautiful, childish simplic-
lty, why, of course he will; that is
what he is for"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-10-21
BEAUTIFY1NG FARM HOMES.

p4SC4dICu dAu OMuP4ONC0 ny NOHACAy
Dwellers.
One great mistake thousands of
farmers make is in not identifying
their homes and making them at
tractive to themselves, their children
and to the public. In travelling about
the country one sees thousands of
barn-like and shed-like houses on the
farms, and many of them without a
flower, shrub or even shade-tree about
them. Some have a few shade-trees
about them, and at a distance one
would be led to believe that they
were neat little homes, but closer
view dispels the illusion. Chickens,
ducks and little pigs about the front
yard or in the usual puddle near the
well, with a big brindle dog under the
doorstep, incline one to drive on to
the next house if thirsting for a
drink of water. Very seldom does
one see a farm home where any real
ly effective effort has been made to
make it and it's surroundings attrac-
tive.
Occasionally one will drive into a
community where a grange Or some
other farmers organization exists,
and he will note at once the improve
ment in the homes and their sur
roundings. Here are trees, shrubs
and flowers on fairly clean lawns,
with a swing or hammock and a chair
or two and he will note the absence
of pigs, fowls and the big brindle
dog. One feels safe in stopping at
such a place for a drink of water or
to purchase a quart of milk to drink
as he eats his lunch. Yet even on
these places there are not the touches
of neatness and prettiness one sees
about the suburban home of the mer-
chant, lawyer or other tOwnsman.
This not because that he has better
opportunities, but because he spends
more on his home. Usually the farm
er is not slow about spending money
for farm buildings and fences, or for
repairs about the house; but when it
comes to identifying the house and
its immediate surroundings he shuts
himself and his pocketbook up as
close az a clam.
This IS where the mistake is made.
The townsman ornaments his dwell
ling and puts iron chairs and settees
under his trees, screens in his large
porches, plants the brightest of flow
ers in prettily edged fower-beds,
erects an ornamental fence about his
lot, and does all he can to make it
attractive, though his income may
be nc larger than that of the farmer
who thinks 1t foolishness to spend
money on such things. Beautiful
country homes, these make the coun-
try attractive. They need not be ex-
pensive. they can be pretty without
being costly, and above all they may
be comfortable. A farmer who sold
his farm and moved into town and
built a neat little cottage said, after
Y ~ = 49,
Douglas Island news., 1902-06-04
New Map of Juneau District.

According to Press Bulletin No. 46. United States Geological Survey, a work of interest and importance will soon be undertaken by the U. s. Geo logical survey in the topographic map ping of that portion of Southeastern Alaska known as the Juneau district. This part of the Territory, owing to it's nearness to the coast, abounds in good harbors, and is most favorably situated for the early development of it's rich mineral and other resources. It is, therefore, of special importance that it's typography and general physical features should be made known by re- liable maps.
 The topographic work will be under the charge of of Mir. w. J. Peters, who has for the last three seasons been en- gagged in similar work in different parts of Alaska. It is hoped that the length of the season and the funds at his dis posal will permit of the completion of the quadrangle bounded by latitude 5S degrees, 9 minutes-5S degrees, 22 min utes and longitude 134 degrees, A min- utes-l34 degrees, A. minutes, which will include the areas of greatest pres ent and prospective mining develop ment of the district. The field scale of this work will be about 24 of mile to l inch and the typography or relief will be expressed by contour lines for every 100 foot of elevation. The map will be based on the triangulation already made by the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Douglas Island news., 1902-06-04
NO. 1O6.-NOTICE OF AP-
 PLICATION FOR PATENT.
U. S. LAND OFFICE, S1TxA, ALASKA, :

NOTICE is hereby given that in pursuance of the Act of Congress approved May lOth, 1872, J. T. Barron, by his attorney in fact, OS- car Foote, whose postoffice address is Ju- neau, Alaska, has made application for pat ent for fifteen hundred linear feet on the Irvington lode, bearing gold, the same being 400 feet southwesterly and HOO feet north eaSterly from the discovery shaft thereon, with surface ground 500 feet in width, situate in the Juneau recording district, on Funter Bay, in the District of Alaska, and described the field notes on file in the Registers office at the Sitka Land Office, as follows, to-wit:
 Beginning at location corner No. l, of Irv- ington lode, from which U. $. location mon- umeut No. s bears N. 42 degrees, co minutes W. 15 feet distant, post feet long, inches square, feet ill ground in mound of stone, marked 1, $. $50; thence N. 42 degrees, OO minutes, w. variation 90 degrees, 4 minutes k. along meander line of Funter Bay, S15 feet to location corner No. 2, which is a post inches square marked s. 560; thence N. S7 ing meander line of Funter Bay 1500 feet to location corner No. 3, which is like post marked s. 560; thence s. 42 degrees, co min uteS E. variation same, POO feet cross water Hume 2 feet high, 2 feet deep, 600 feet to loca- tion corner No. 4, at the meander line of Fun ter Bay, Q like post marked 4 $. 560; thence s. so degrees, 4S minutes w. variation same, along meander line of Funter Bay, 40482 feet to location corner No. 5, Q like post marked 5 s. 560; thence s. S7 degrees, co minutes w. variation same, along meander line of Funt- CT Bay, 7S2 feet from which N. E. end of open cut 20 feet wide, 40 feet long, bears N 42 de- grees W. 10 feet distant, TIP feet, from which s w. end of the open cut bears N. 42 degrees w. 10 feet distant, $50 feet from which pen stock of pipe line bears N. 42 degrees w. 1OS feet, 115S feet to corner No. 1, the place of be- ginning; containing an area of 11.754 acres. The location of said claim being recorded in Volume Is Lodes, page 2S2, of the records of the Juneau recording district, Alaska The adjoining claimants of this lode are un- known claimants on the Northwest side and the Northeast end thereof.
 versely should present their adverse claims in accordance with law:
 JOHN W. DUDLEY, Register.
 It is hereby ordered that the foregoing notice be published in the Douglas Island News, a weekly newspaper published at Douglas, Alaska, for the period of sixty days or ten consecutive issues.
 JOHN. W. DUDLEY, Register.
 Date of first publication, May 21st, 1902.
 Date of last publication, July 2Srd, 1902.
Douglas Island news., 1902-06-04

more than one hundred white people here during six months of each year the fishing season-and some Indians. The other six months of the year there are about four hundred Indians here and at Angoon, only three miles across the bay. And three white families live at Killisnoo all the year around.
 MRS. c. k. VANHUEBNER. Killisnoo, May 29th, 1902.
Douglas Island news., 1902-06-04
lillisnoo, May 29th, 1902.
Teachers Selected.

The Douglas school directors, at a meeting held last Wednesday evening, elected Mir. V. l.. Holt, Miss Elva Gal loway and Miss Alice M. Henson as the corps of teachers for the next school year. A large number of applications were on file for the different positions and it is to be hoped that the selec tions made will provide the schools with very competent instructors. All of the teachers chosen come highly rec commended by their previous em- ployers.
 MT. V. L. Holt, who will be principal of the school, has taught in the Doug las school for the past nine months and probably needs no introduction. How ever, we think it proper to say that MT. Holt bears the titles of A. B. and B. $. D., conferred by the educational insti- tutions of Oregon; is graduate of the Oregon State University and the Oregon State Normal School, and also holds a life diploma from the same institution, which papers alone would establish his qualifications to teach in any school on the Pacific coast. He has been teach ing for about 10 years, during which time he was principal of the schools at Talent, Ore, for two years.
 Miss Elva Galloway is graduate of the State Normal School of Indiana, and of the University of California, and has been teacher for the past i2 years in the schools of Oregon and California. Last year she was assist ant principal in the public schools of Klamath Falls, Ore. She held the po- sition of vice principal in the Medford, Ore, schools for years. Her applica- cation was received through the Fisk Teachers Agency, and she comes with the highest of testimonials and recon mendations. She is said to be espec- ially proficient in drawing.
 NulSS AllCS M. IlGuSOuIo OlO OdOSuSOh of our esteemed townsman, John Hen- son, and while the youngest teacher of the trio, is not lacking in the necessary qualifications. She was born in St. Louis, Mo-, came west with her parents, who settled at Port Angeles, Wash, where she graduated with honor from the high school. She then entered the Washington State Normal at Ellens- burg, from which institution she grad uated as member of the class of 1899. She returned to her own home town, Port Angeles, where she has been em- ployed for two years as teacher in the intermediate grades. Miss Henson has taste for music and is heartily endorsed by her previous employers and instructors.
 Whoever drinks Olympia Beer, comes again. Always on tap at Milan's.
Douglas Island news., 1902-06-04
Killisnoo Letter.

Yesterday and today, showery. We need rain very much, as we had only two rainy days in April and three in May previous to this rain. The gar dens look fine since showers. At Kill isnoo they have had to get water from across the bay for four weeks.
 On the last Cottage City Mir. Carl Spuhn, president of the oil and guano company, returned from Portland with several more workmen. They now have about one hundred and fifteen men em- ployed, am told.
 The steamers Angeles and Dolphin started out last night for their first load of fish. There is considerable strife between Capt. Blain of the Ange- les and Capt. Brightman of the Dol phin as to which will bring in the most fish during the season. Last season the Angeles caught sixty-six thousand bar rels while the Dolphin brought in but fifty-eight thousand barrels, l was told by one of the fishermen on the Dol phiu; the Angeles catching eight thou sand barrels more than the Dolphin.
 They employ very few Indians, so most of them have gone out to Sitco Bay to fish for the cannery. They have ninety Chinamen there now, making cans, and expect more on the next steamer.
 The Al-Ki called in at Killisnoo yes terday with a load of lumber. She went from there to Sitco Bay with can nery supplies. They begin fishing for the cannery about the middle of June, I understand. MT. c. E. VanHuebner returned last Monday afternoon from Douglas, where he had gone on busi- ness trip. He went alone in his dory, and the Indians were much worried for fear he would be shot while sleeping. Bad Injun kill him while he sleep" were the comforting words to me when told them that he went alone. Years ago it was not safe for white man to go alone half that distance, but he nor are not in the least alarmed now.
 The week before Easter Father Soba- Jeff was going to the store in the even- ing. He had to go down several steps, and the third one from the top was out. Not knowing it, he went through and fell distance of ten feet, striking his side on step, breaking two ribs and injuring himself internally quite badly. He lay quite long time before anyone knew that he was hurt. Not returning as soon as bis wife thought he should, one of the boys went to look for him and found him in great agony. He was helped to the house, and his wife bathed him and did all she could, but no doctor living there, he was not prop erly attended to. He had to go to Sitka as soon as he was able to get to the steamer. The doctor there baudaged him up and he returned on the same steamer. He is getting along nicely now.
 It seems strange that no medical missionary comes here. There are
Douglas Island news., 1902-06-04
JUNEAU FERRY AND NAVIGATION co.

OPERATING STEAMERS FL OSIE'' and HONE FISHERMAN"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-06

First Commuter-Hows girl coming boil water without burning it, and that the She Is lazy destructive wastef mpudent ing trait.
 First Commuter--Whats
 Second Dlto-She
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-06

Mama-sow, have told you the story of the Garden of Eden. Don't you think 1t was very wrong of Adam to eat the apple7
 Little Bessie-Well, ma'am, it would not have been, polite for him to refuse when a lady offered it to him, would it7 e5a a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-06
A Nice Nelahbor.

A NIce NcIghbor. I'e From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 That disagreeable Mrs. Claque called on me today"
 And you were not at home?"
 "Of course l was at horne. I knew her too well to work any subterfuge on her. She would have gone away and said I was up in the attic making counterfeit money or else that had gone out to the annual picnic of the Stein and Pretzel Bowling Club. Of course I was at home."
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-12-17

Mrs. Emma E. Whittemore died
quite suddenly at her home on Main
street at II. 30o'clock Monday night, OF
valYular heart disease, superinduced
by severe attack Of acute indiges-
ton, after only a few hours illness.
The announcement of her death yester-
day morning was received withsurprise,
for Mrs. Whittemore was apparently In
good health and her sudden demise
was great shock. Mrs. Whittemore
was IN her sixty-second year, having
been born in this city in May 1S41.
She was Postnistress for four years,
having been appointed by President
Mckinley in the summer Of 1893.
The funeral was held at the cenae-
tery today at IL a. N.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-12-17
Prof. WilIiann {. MikslI.

9 William E.. MikelI was elected a pro-
fessor in the law department yesterday
by, the board Of trustees Of the uni
Eersity of Pennsylvania. Mr..
AGikeil is asnatiFe Of South Carolina;
his ancestors being among the earliest
settlers IN that part of the country,
the FIRST William E. Mikell having
come over with Lord Cardross in
1883 and settled at Port Royal. He
received his early education in Sum
Ter, S. O., his native city. In 1880
he graduated from State Military Acad-
emy at Charleston, receiFing the
degree Of bachelor Of science.
He began the s51dy Of faW IA 1882
and later took special course at the
University Of Virginia. He was admit
ted to shesBarsof his native State, IN
1894 and after two years spent IN the
practice ofthis. profession came to- Phi I
adelphia to engage in editorial work
on the Encyclopedias of PennsylFanla
Laws and on anew edition of Blacks
stones Commensurate. he was ap-
pointed an instructor atthe University
Of Pennsylvania In 1897 and three
years ago was advanced to the position
of assistant professor. Heis the author
Of recently published Volume Of cases
on criminal law and a contributor to
several legal magazines. -Philadel.
phia Inquirer.