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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-25
FlREMEN AND DOCK HANDS ARE
THE VICTIMS.
NUMBER KILLED UNKNOWN
Bodies of the Dead Are in Twenty
Feet of Water-Severai
Injured.

st. Paul, Nov. pa special to the
Pioneer Press from Ashland, Wis,
says: The Wisconsin Central ore
dock was completely destroyed by
fire, the loss involved about $3.50, 900.
In falling the dock carried with it a
number of firemen and dockmen, and
several lives were lost, Just how
many will probably not be known for
several days.
A number Of badly injured fremen
were rescued from the burning ruins,
one of them with beth legs broken.
The fire caught about 5 O'Clock, pre-
sumably from a boat unloading lum-
Der across the slip, and before the
firemen arrived the entire ore dock,
half a mile long, was in flames. An
engine was run on the tramway as
near to the fire as it could get, and
half a hundred men began tearing
apart the timbers connecting the
i "Cy IL tuC uONt' oCuuClly IuO
dock gave way, falling with a crash,
and carrying with it 200 feet CT the
tramway, an engine just barely escap-
ing a fall icto the bay. Several hun
dred people were under the tramway,
but most of them escaped with slight
injuries.
As the broken tramway and burning
dock fell, fully a dozen men we're seen
to go down in the ruins. The wreck.
fell into 20 feet of water and it will
be impos. bic to ecove the bodies
for scmG time. A large force Of men
is engaged in an effort to recover the
remains Of the dead firemen:
When the fire began the upper dock
men were cut off from shore and a
lumber bark put off to rescu them.
Another man, in running to the shore,
fell into an GRE pocket and his COM
panions were compelled to leave him
to his fate. The fire is still raging
and Murray's sawmill is in special
danger. Mowat's mill is also threat
ened.
The known dead are:
GUS ANDERSON, upped dockman,
foreman of crew.
WILLIAM LYNDON, driver of Ellis
hose cart.
The injured:
Andy O'Tcole, pipeman, Bardon
company, badly injured about head
and internally, is unconscious, will
die.
Charles Workes, lipeman, Bearer
company, badly injured on head, may
die.
Vivian Young, injured internally and
skull fractured, may die.
John Stem. pipeman Ellis company,
inbred OF head, will live.
Tony Schabach, Ellis company, knee
wrenched and flesh wounds, will live.
Louis Schaetzlechis, Ashland de-
slightly injured.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-25
Illinois VS.. Northwestern.

Chicago, Nov. 23.-The University
of Illinois football team wiped out
last years defeat here yesterday by
downing the Northwestern university
team by a score of II to 0. All of the
scoring was done in the second half,
but luck and Baird's excellent kicking
kept the final count as low as it was.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-25

w. D. STORY, President.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-25
Physicians Prescribe It.

Many broad-minded physicians pre-
scribe Foley's Honey and Tar, as they
have never found so safe and relia-
BILE a remedy for throat and lung trou-
bles as this great medicine. Sold by
Holmes & Rixon.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-25
Other Games,

At Cedar Rapids-Cornell college
35, Coe college O..
At South Bend-Notre Dame %, De-
paw, 0.
At Ann Arbor-Michigan 60, Ober-
lin 0.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-25

There will be a special meeting of
the stockholders of the Park Hall
company held at Park hall in Park
City, Mont, on the 9th day of Deem
Der, 1902, for the purpose of election
of trustees.
5S-4 w, D. STORY, President.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-25

Money to loan on city and farm
property. T. J.. BoutOn. 55-tf
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15
The Thinkers.
CRAFTS AND CANDIDATES.

There is no reason under high heav-
en- why a farmer or lawyer or doctor,
preacher or merchant should not be
elected to office one as readily as the
other. From time immemorial good
men from all classes have been elected
to Offices of trust, and the results
have been the fat of the people a. a
whole. But these things are talked
and class-prejudice is always appeal
ed to. No harm is probably meant
some other Jealous person is merely
anxious to gain votes for himself or
a friend. Such questions as these are
not issues; they are only ~vote-catch-
ers; they do not unfit a man for hold
ing office, and should not be be con-
sidered. Let us urge that petty diff
ferences be dropped. There has been
no better governor of North Carolina
than Elias Carr. He was a farmer.
Governor Aycock, a lawyer, is filing
that high position no less acceptably
and is doing more today for educa-
ton in this State that any man who
has ever graced the chair before him.
It is not that one was a farmer and
the other a lawyer, but because the
people saw in each the man for the
time. The same has been true
throughout the ages.-Stanly Enter
prise.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15
EDUCATION AND CRIME.

Our Southern States have still
learn that education is the biob.%
concern of a people and that the Gsss
duty of the state is to provide school,
for all of its children. The businoaS
man on scanning the ledgers of +boaa
States would, however, be bound ~
declare that their chief concern Is NJ
education but criminal prosecution
In the year 1895, for example, ~
county Of Knox, in Tennessee, no;l
$4,000 to prosecute 1868 mostly pettn
criminal cases; and in addition =,
this the State paid $4,000 toward tbo
same prosecutions, making a total of
$4,000, or $2O.35 a case. This vo.
simply the cost of prosecution; it did
not include the cost of supporting tho
convicted criminals in prisons. There
were 1868 prosecutions in a popuIa.
ton of $4,000, or about one in "a,
Among the people in our iails ara
eight illiterates to one who can read
and write. In our penitentiaries there
are six Miterates to one who can read
and write. Now one-haIf of the peo.
pie prosecuted in Knox county were
of school age One-half the COST NJ
prosecuting these cases would haze
sent nearly 10000 children to school
for the full annual Tennessee term.
Can we doubt that if this money had
been expended for the education Of
the people we should not have had to
send them to jails and penitentiaries9
Since certain reforms in the methods
of criminal prosecutions and the es.
Enlistment of an industrial school,
matters are much better in this coun.
ty.-Charles W. Dabney.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15
T VS.. COUNTRY.

Harry Farmers Talk this week en-
phasizes one of The Progressive Far
mer's old, old stories: that if a farmer
vii apply to his work the same bust
ness ability and industry that the sue
cessful merchant must exercise, farm
ing profits will compare very favor
ably with those of merchandising; at
the same time the farmer will escape
the turmoil of the city in which men
wear out soon and die young" 1t is
a favorite theory of DIR. George T.
Winston that three generations of
city life will wear out any family, and
in support of his argument, he points
to the fact that the majority of our
great men have come directly from the
country, a smaller number are sons of
men raised in the country, while only
a very few whose ancestors for three
or more generations have lived in the
city's turmoil attain prominence.
President Roosevelt is a seeming ex-
ception to the rule, but it will be re-
membered that he was a weakling and
gained strength only after several
years of Western ranch life. DR..
Winston's theory reminds us of the
old Greek fable of Antaeus. the son of
Terra, the Earth. He was a mighty
giant and a great wrestler, and no
matter how sorely attacked, to fall to
the ground, to come into contact with
Mother Earth, always renewed his
strength. He was invariably success
full in his struggles with Hercules,
rising from each fall with fresh
vigor, until Hercules raised him in
the air and strangled him. AS it
was with Antaeus, so it is with States
and nations: they lose strength as
they leave the soil. More and more
generally is this fact being recog-
nized. We have before referred to
the statement of Tom Dixon at the
Wake Forest commencement last
year: gin the twentieth century the
people will not build cities, but will
clean out the pig pens they have al
ready built" The beautiful maya
zine, Country Life in America" is
an exponent of this new tendency-the
movement "back to the soil" which
may distinguish this century.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15
WILL YOUNG MEN EDUCATE?

While the State seems stirred as
perhaps never before on the subject Of
education, for the most part the en-
thusiasm is directed towards the edu-
cation of children in the free schools.
Many young men who are not includ-
ed in the number of children who are
of the free schools, need some thought
and encouragement as well as the
children.
This is the season when many soon
will have to determine upon a future
course. Occasionally a young man
has a fairly good situation in a store
or factory where he is getting a good
salary from which it seems difficult
to turn and spend several years in
school. Such a young man is under
peculiar temptation to determine upon
a cours that may dwarf his life
especially the intellectual part of it.
In such case the young man sees a
pretty sure thing in his present m
ployment and is inclined to continue
his work of money-making although
he feels sure it will dwarf him intel
lectually.
To all such we would suggest that
they weigh carefully the pros and cons
before they reach the final decision.
Let it be remembered that while
money is great and money-making by
proper means is to be commended,
there are other things in the world
besides money, and some things worth
far nor than money.
Taking it all in all, the record OF
college men shows a decided adVant-
age in their favor.
Will Jul young men educate them
selves, or will they be content to start
life without preparation and end 1t
in regret 1Scotland Neck Common
wealth.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15

mixes the value of the college. No
young man or woman should allow
any inconsiderable obstacle to stand
in the way of collegiate training. At
the same time between the man who
lacks a college education but makes
the most of his home opportunities
and the man who depends upon his
college course exclusively, the former
is rather to be chosen.
Our boys and girls will miss an en-
joyable article and some timely infor-
nation if they fail to read "What is
Going on in the Bee Hive" on page 5.
Our older friends, too, will find it
worth reading, for the facts it sets
forth are by no means as well known
as they should be.
An unusually able article is that
from Clodhopper discussing our edu-
cational problems. In all our reading
we do not remember having seen the
question, why should l be taxed to
educate another mans childrenY q
more conciseIy and accurately an
swered. Before going a step further
every friend of education should get
C~lodhopper's argument well fixed in
his memory. Next week he will discuss
some other phases of the public school
problem.
Another feature of this weeks pa
per to which we ask attention is the
little red slip on page 1. If the date
on it is behind the date of this num-
Der, please remember that a payment
on your subscription would not Of
fend us. Money is scarce at this sea
son we know, but those who can send
renewal or part payment will oblige
US by giving the matter prompt atten-
ton.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15

An article mailed at Fayetteville,
July 5th, and signed "a Subscriber"
has been received at this Office. If
the author will kindly send us his
name, (not for publication, but simp-
ly as a guarantee of good faith in ac-
cordance with the time-honored Gus
tom that the editor must know the
name of every person whose articles
he publishes,O we shall be glad to
print the letter. Correspondents
should bear in mind that they must
give the editor their real name, even
if they prefer to conceal their iden-
tity from others by the use of a nom
de plume.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15

All things considered, the Beers
have won much more favorable peace
terms from the British than the South
obtained from the North at the end
of our Civil War. Take two items
as illustrations: the Beers get $751;
100000 indemnity for property de-
stroyed; the South received no indem-
nifty, but has virtually had to pay
tribute to the North in the shape of
millions in pensions for Union vet
Grams. The North enfranchised our
Southern negroes and made our ac-
ceptance of this policy precedent to
our restoration to the Union; the
Beers, on the other hand, have COM
PEELED the British to agree never to en-
franchise the Transvaal negro with
out their consent.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15

The National Printer-J Journalists
Editorial Notes and Points" are al
ways full of sound and clear-cut OBJ
~serVations on journalistic matters. In
the July number we notice this strik-
ing sentence: "The newspaper editor
or publisher who measures his edito-
rial expressions and his news by the
effect he supposes they will have on
partisan success or on the destinies of
favored place-seekers, is a traitor to
himself, his country and to the high
calling which he ~disgraces."
And in another part of the same
issue the same idea is set forth at
greater length and with no less force:
"That in this age and country there
should be any other idea than abso-
lutte independence is a mystery only
to be accounted for on the theory of
heredity. Men who have inherited
the subservient, slavish, crawling
spirit that demands a master or boss
have no right to remain in the field of
American journalism. This is not
saying that an editor or publisher is
not to have and Loyalty hold political
opinions and manfully sustain the
party that honestly upholds his opin-
ions or principles, but it does mean
that the newspaper editor or publish
er who does not reserve to himself
and exercise the right of judging fair
ly all public questions, measures and
men, in the treating of them in the
columns of his own publication, de-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15

grades himself and Injuries his papers
influence, standing and business. This
is an age of the recognition of the in
diyidual and of individual rights.
There is no divine right of kings, par
ties, unions or bosses in free America.
No man, boss, nor set of men have any
right to rule, dictate to or in any way
coerce another, and the people do not
admire a newspaper that shows the
slavish spirit"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15
SUBSCRIPTION:
aFhe Industrial and Educational

@Fhe Industrial and Educational
Interests of our People Paramount to
all other considerations of State Pol
lew is the motto of The Progressive
Farmer, and upon this platform 1t
ahaU rise or fall. Serving no master,
ruIed by no faction, circumscribed by
no selfish or narrow policy, its aim
will be to foster and promote the best
interests of the whole people of the
State. It will be true to the INSTINCTS
traditions and history of the Anglo
Saxon race. On all matters relating
specially to the great interests 1t rep
resents, it will speak with no uneer-
tain voice, but will fearlessly the right
defend and impartially the wrong con-
demn."-From Col. Folks Salutatory,
February 10, 1886.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15

Secretary Parker has issued an ex-
cellent address to the Alliancemen of
the State, urging more earnest work
in ehalf of the Order. We hope
that the appeal will accomplish good.
In every county in which a county
meeting was not held last week, a call
for a special meeting to elect officers
and a delegate to the State Alliance,
should be at once issued. It is very
important that no county organization
e without representation at the State
meeting next month.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15

will receive gifts from the Southern
Education Board; in other counties
also sections showing a spirit of self
help can get aid.
Now, kind reader, why cannot such
work as this which is being done in
Pitt and Orange be planned and exc
cuted in every rural district in the
State-and especially in your neigh
borhood-during this season of com
parative leisure on the farm9 Speak
to your neighbor about it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15
A A POSITION.

The Monroe Enquirer is a, capital
paper, edited by a sensible and good
man. We are the more surprised,
therefore, to see the strange position
it occupies with regard to the estab-
lishment of a reformatory for young
criminals in North Carolina, a mat
ter upon which public sentiment seems
to be so nearly solid. Says the En-
quirer:
"We believe that the young criminal
receives a great deal of misdirected
sympathy. If a twelve-year-old boy
steals he is as much a thief as is the
seVenty-year-old man who steals. Both
are simply thieves, and that is all
there is about it, and you might as
well say that the boy will have a bed
influence over the old man as to say
that the old man will have a bad infu-
ence over the boy, if they are kept to-
gether."
We are sorry to see so harsh a SEN
timent from any North Carolina
newspaper. Bro. Ashcraft was either
out of town when that paragraph was
penned or his liver was out of order.
To be sure a twelve-year-old thief is
as much of a thief as the mar of sew
enty who steals. But the tweIve-year-
old drunkard is as much of a drunk
ard as the man of seventy who gets
drunk, except that he has not been at
it so long. Would the Enquirer allow
a boy to go to the dogs by surround
ing him with beer guzzlers, if it were
in it's power to lift him out of that
baleful influence before the appetite
has fastened its deadly grip upon him?
1t is childish in the Enquirer to talk
about a criminal of twelve years hav-
ing as much influence over a grown
man as the grown man has over the
boy. The Enquirer knows better than
that, for its editor is a man of inteIli-
gence. The truth is, there is no pub
0O SI0dG1y hS0uSO III
North Carolina as a place where chill
dren who have become violators of
law may be rescued and saved. In
nearly all the progressive states of the
Union these agencies of protection
and training to child criminals are do
ing their blessed work. Ask any Just
and humane judge his opinion about
the necessity for the establishment of
a reformatory. Our judges ought to
be good authority in matters of this
kind. But there is no need to bother
the judges with this question. Any
man who has paid any attention to the
proceedings of our criminal courts
has seen the pressing need of some
place where a child may go to save
him from becoming a hardened Grim
inal. And the Monroe Enquirer edit
or is too good and wise a man to hold
to the rather cruel sentiment express
ed in the above paragraph when he
has coolly thought the matter over
Charity and Children.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15

In the rough block of marble
Michael Angelo could see the angel
face ere his genius had made his ideal
a reality to others. In the rough block
Of humanity-the unframed, undeVel-
oped boy-the world sees no more po-
tentiality than it saw in the block OF
marble before which the sculptor halt
ed when he cried, ct see an angel i'm
prisoned there and must give it free
DOM" In that boy there is imprlS-
oned a greater than an angel. In him
there is almost infinite power, when
needs but to be quickened into life by
the divine touch of a friendly hand
leading him to know how to live and
how to work. There are thousands
yea, hundreds of thousands, of sucn
untitled rough blocks of marble all
over the South-they are the untraln'
ed boys of our cities and our villages
of our valleys and our mountains
There are hundreds of Michael An,
gelos in the teachers in industrial
schools ready and able as master soup
tors to chisel out the imprisoned al,
gels. But the tools-the chisel ana
the mallet-are needed. Without them
little can be accomplished. They rep
resent the money needed to bring these
two forces into 1~ife-giving contacE
Every dollar wisely expended in ana
ing a boy to secure a technical tram
ing helps to give skill to the brain 70
plan and strength to the arm to exc,
cute, that out Of the rough maTD.9
there may be created a man htted "
do his part in the work of the world
Richard q. Edmonds.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15

The High Point Enterprise says:
ct is true that there are a class of
men in North Carolina who practical
ly worked themselves out of a job
when they joined in to pass the
Amendment. They never did their
State a better service. After the
elimination of the ignorant negro
vote, the passing of the small poIiti-
clan comes next in the line of health
full advancement" Now if every paper
that two years ago was promising
greater freedom and broader issues as
a result of the Amendment would re-
echo this sentiment, it would do good.
It is a truth, and the sooner it is e c
ognized as such the better, that the
party or class that attempts to carry
the small politician in this new day
will find him sooner or later a burden
and an incubus.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15
CONSOLIDATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS
BETTER sHOOLHOUsEs.

The Progressive Farmer has many
readers in the Farmville and Bethel
sections of Pitt County, and we notice
with much pleasure this report of ed
vocational progress in those sections,
as given in the last number of Kings
Weekly:
petitions from Bethel and Farm
vile were before the county commits
sioners Monday asking for elections
for schools. They want to vote on
the question of taxation for high
grade public or graded schools.
Bethel has consolidated three town
ships and nearly one half the free
holders asked for the election.
Cali of Farmville township joined in
asking for the ELECTION; more than the
necessary one-fourth of the free hold
ers signed the petition"
The idea of school consolidation
seems to be taking firm hold on the
popular mind. a strong argument,
and in some respects, a surprising one
in its behalf is that from Mr.. E. @.
Brooks which we are publishing on
another page. The time has come
when hat section of the school law
fOrbidding, except for geographical
reasons, the formation of districts
containing less than sixty-fve chill
dren must be strictly enforced, and
when consolidation of districts of
legal size must be urged wherever
practicable.
But not less sorely do we need bet
ter school houses, and while Pitt is
laboring so earnestly for consolida-
ton, we are glad to see that Orange
(another county in which The Pro-
gressive Farmer is widely ready seems
thoroughly aroused to the Importance
of improving the school buildings.
The Hillsboro Observer of last week
publishes this item as an Illustration
of what is being done:
III Saturday night, June 2Sth, SUI
perintendent Charles E. Maddry spoke
at Andrews school house and the peo-
pie decided to build a $3.50 school
house, and raised $40 on the spot for
this purpose. They will raise the
amount with all ease.
DAT Pickard's school house Thurs
day night Superintendent Maddry
raised 800 in money and enough
rough lumber and framing to build a
two-story academy. There will be a
rally in Hillsboro in the near future
to raise funds to build an up-to-date
school house here. It is badly need
ed, and we must have better public
school facilities for the white children
of this district"
1t is probable that these districts