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They call him a failure; he passes by
In clothes that were threaobare long ago;
His head droops forward that once was
high,
slow.
The stubbles look gray on his wrinkled
His eyes are heavy where pride once
He has stepped aside and has Quit the race,
The hope that once led him to hurry has
flown.
They call him a failure; but one still clings
TO the love that he gave her long ago;
She sits and she sews and she sometimes
sings
The words Of brave songs that he used to
know.
Her face IS fair and her eyes are bright
And still her kiss on his lips is pressed
When he shiftlessly shambles home at
With a shriveled heart IN his sunken
breast
They call him a failure; they do not know
THAT he still IS majestic in her glad sight
Though she tolls for him and Is foolish, on,
He still IS her girlhood's glorious knight
IS. e. Kiser, in Chicago Record Herald
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hostess hopelessly as well as the rest
of the guests. The man was obvious
ly in a funk, and if l had told him to
90 or showed him by my expression
that such was my wish, he would
have rushed away in a second. So
decided to acknowledge the introduce
ton by a bow and my wife did the
same. The man was led away i'm
mediately to be presented to the
other guests.
Sin the minute that my wife and |
were together we decided to remain
perfectly quiet on the subject. Luck
ily, the man was placed at distance
on the other side of the table. When
the women left the room he excused
himself on the ground of another
engagement and hurried away.
"When we got home that night to
the hotel [ found evidence of his
services. [ was not in the habit OF
seeing him under any circumstances
until morning, and L awaited him
with especial interest the next day
It seemed to me that / should have
to let him go. was just starting
on a long tour, and had no idea
where l should get another man sc
good, if indeed | found one of any
kind. This thought always dis
| turbed me, but it seemed there was
nothing left for me to do but tc
tell him to go back to England
| where he was at least free from the
| temptation of trying to go where
! he had no business.
''But [ never had the opportunity
of testing my fortitude in discharg
/ ing him, for he never came back. A
very respectable note was brought
! by one of the boys in the hotel. Il
| told me that in view of what had oc
Cured the night before he had de
cided to take passage on a steamer
sailing that day for England. He
said he had been up all night put.
ting my affairs in readiness for his
successor, who would find every
thing in good order. That was the
last L ever heard from him. and
never saw him again-even at din
EN-. Y. Sun.
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eight months from suppressed men,
situation, and it effected my entire
system until became weak and debil-
itated, and at times felt that had u
hundred aches in as many places. 1
only used the Compound for few
weeks, but it wrought q change in me
which | felt from the very beginning.
| have been very regular since, have no
pains, and find that my entire body is
as if it was renewed. I gladly recon-
mend Lydia Il. Pinl1ham'S Vege-
table Compound to everybody. -
Miss ELIZABETH GAME, 90 w. Division
ST., Fond du Lac, Wis.--S5oo0 forfeit if
above testimonial is not genuine.
At such time the greatest aid to
nature is Lydia r.. Pinlxham'S
Vegetable Compound. 1t prepares
the young system for the coming
change, and is the surest reliance for
woman's ills of every nature.
Mrs. Pinkham invites all
young women who are I'LL to-
write her for free advice. ADJ
dress Lynn, Mass
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EXCELLENT SHEEP RUN.
ford Protection TO n Small
Sized Flock.

Sheep are naturally rather tinid,
tender, inoffensive animals, and for
the safety and thrift of small
flock a covered yard is valuable. 1t
is not necessary for it to be costly,
but it should be well protected from
the weather and have a dry floor.
If it can be conveniently built as an
addition to the barn, and have door
opening into it directly from the
barn floor, so much the better; in
which case it should be made high
enough so that grain and the like
can be stored in the loft above, as
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AN UNFORTUNATE FIGURE.
The Explanation Was Spoiled by the
Use of a Suspicion Creating
Illustration.

F'Dearie, I didn't know that wheat
could be harvested in the winter time.
and yet l see in this newspaper some
thing about the price of January
wheat. When [ was a girl on the farm
the wheat always ripened in July or
August" and her face bore a troubled
look as she laid down the paper in
which she had happened to glance at
the market reports, while looking for
the society gossip, relates the New
York Tribune.
wheat doesn't ripen in January
now any more than it did when we
were young, my love" replied her hus-
band. ''The terms you refer to do not
mean that the wheat ripened in Janu-
arv. but that it was sold for delivery
in that month. 1t was harvested in
July. just as it used to be, stored in
elevators and kept for use at some
future time. The supply thus accu-
INFLATED is then sold to various buyers,
some of whom want it delivered in one
month and others in three months.
Sales thus made are called futures
and form the basis of much of the
gambling that takes place on change"
"How interesting! Now tell me
what squeezing the shorts means?"
He unused a moment, and then real
ling the impossibility of properly ex-
planning the term in his limited time,
said:
sYou are much shorter than l. you
know. Well, when [ put my arms
around you squeeze short see?"
"Oh, indeed Well, if that's what you
men do on change it accounts for your
devotion to business"
And he realized that he had made a
mistake.
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Give Them PLENTY of Room

Crowding 200 hens into the space
that ought to accommodate 100 will
crowd out all the health, comfort,
vigor, flesh, temper and eggs of your
entire flock Overcrowding is bad for
any stock, and particularly bad for
feathered stock.
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Enter Italy over Mountains.

Suzanne Henning, an American
girl, 14years of age, who has been stay
ing at ST. Moriz, has succeeded in
climbing the mountains direct into It
ally. She ascended the Diavolezza,
crossed the Pers glacier, and descend
ed Morteratsch glacier. She was ac-
companied by a maid and guides.
Sleeping after eating is condemned
by a German physicisR,w who has shown
experimentally that stomach move
ments are lessened and acidity is in
duced.
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mi where Is His q.

"Fine ruler; fine people, says Prince
Chen concerning President Roosevelt
and the United States. The educated
ChiRaman, you perceive, says the Chi
cago Tribune, has no trouble with
his r.
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nnris moo Not Rnre Is

There is one good thing about the
Russian grand duke who is now visit
ing in this country, says the Chicago
Record-HeraId. He doesn't hang
around in one place long enough to
bore us.
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TO YOUNG LADIES.
From the Treasurer of the
Young Peoples Christian Tenn
perance Association, Elizabeth
Game, Fond du Lac, Wis.

stDEAR Mrs. PINKHAM: / want to
tell you and all the young ladies of the
country, how grateful am to you for
all the benefits / have received from
using Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. l suffered for
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THE HOME IN
THE SCHOOLS
BY WIN. H. P. FAUNCE,
President Brown University, Providence

great facts OF the transmission OF he the
sacred mystery Of the dthese things
which prudes have banhed from the teaching IN ete
and the domain where the student most needs
noble minds he IS left seek from the
reverent the degraded OF his companions
silent here IS Wretchedy incomplete Like
the ostrich the sand and hopes all will be we'll
rejoice in an increasing treating these themes and
every true teacher find to lead from
the birds home and show how all creation cun
mates in the the reside and the cradle
In our secondary schools colleges obligations and
life be clearly forth When they
seriously studied people will bunder into mar
driven Mississippi will be driven by rising public sen
net into teachers will then think OF stu
studies OF making than OF school pro
gramnes apparatus.
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Back state church and school stands the home THE
FUNDAMENTAL. INSTITUTION OF CIVILIZATION.

When the home IS strong
and pure, all other institutions
will flourish; when the home de
Gays, all is corrupt. Yet probably
all of us who have been through
the public schools have heard not
one word of direct instruction on
the duties of parenthood or even
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10
THE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.

The track is clear for the re-nomi-
nation of Representative Chas. R..
Thomas, of the Third District of this
State. Col. Jos. E. Robinson, of
Wayne, and Mr.. Chas. L. Abernethy,
of Beaufort, who were competitors for
the nomination, withdrew last week.
There is less contest over Congress
sional nominations in this State this
year han in any year that can be re-
~membered. In the First District Gen,
W. P. Roberts is a candidate against
Representative Small, but his candi-
dacy does not seem to be taken very
seriously. In the Second District Rep
resentative Claude Kitchin is unop-
posed, as is his brother, Representa-
tive W. w. Kitchin, of the Fifth. Rep
resentative Pou, of the Fourth Dis
trict, and Kluttz, of the Seventh, are
also without opposition. In the redis-
tricting of the State Representative
Bellamy fell into what will hereafter
be the Third District. He has a fight
on his hands, but the indications r
that he will win out. Of the new dis
tricts there are two in which no Con-
gresham resides. These are the Sixth,
extending from Scotland to Yadkin,
inclusive, and the Tenth, embracing
Mecklenburg and Yancey and inter
vening territory. In both there are
stiff struggles for the nomination. At
present there are in the House from
North Carolina but two Republicans
Representatives. These are Messrs.
Blackburn and Moody, of the Eighth
and Ninth Districts. What the out
come of this years election will show,
it needs a wise man to foretell. Con-
ditions are radically different from
what they have been. AS an indication
of how estimates vary some friends
of Representative POu calculate upon
5000 majority for him over ex-Repre-
sentative Atwater, who has announced
himself as an independent Democratic
candidate, while the Durham Herald,
an Independent paper, strongly init
mates that the result is doubtful. It
will be interesting to note the voting,
in the counties, districts and the State
at large, under the changed conditions.
The negro is out of the way and for
the first time since 1866 it is to be a
battle of white men.-Charlotte OBJ
server.
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TAX LISTING.
see us.

The annual tax-listing season begins
next week, and the value of all prop
erty will suddenly shrink. There is a
wonderful difference in the value of
property when it is listed for taxation
and when it is offered for sale. There
is an old saying, "Thin as a June
shad," and other things to depre-
ciate in June besides shad. That
month seems to have a peculiar effect
not only upon the shad that swim in
the waters below but upon all animls
that move upon the earth above.
1t is a sad commentary upon the
frailty of our weak human nature that
so many men-and many of them con
sidered good church members-resOrt
to all kinds of tricks to evade paying
their just taxes. So many persons
either do not list all their taxables or
do not list them at their true value.
Honest taxpayers are interested IN
getting all other taxpayers to pay
their just share of taxes. AS a certain
amount of taxes must be raised every
year, if any persons evade payment
of their share, others must make it up
by paying more than they otherwise
would pay.
One great trouble is that the list
takers in many counties do not under
stand, or at least do not properly dis
charge, their duties. They are not
generally accustomed to their duties
and are without experience. In many
counties new or different list-takers
are appointed every year, and OF
course being without experience in the
business they are not so efficient as II
they had been list-takers before. Any
list-taker could and would discharge
his duties better the second year than
the first, and thousands of dollars
more would be paid in taxes every
wear if experienced list-takers we're
appointed in every county.-Chatham
Record.
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our PARKS WORTH ssss, 5 .ssa,
~ NonSuS keport on Agriculture in North
Carolina shows Ss4,6 ss Farms in
Operation,

Washington, June S.-The census
report on agriculture in North Carroll
ma shows that on June 1, 1900, the
State had 224,637 farms, valued at
$194,655,92O. Of the valuation 81 per
cent was in buildings and the remain
der IN land and other improvements
than buildings. The farm implements
and machinery was $9,O72,6OO and live
stock $30,1O6,173 making the total
value of farm property 1898, 834,693.
The total value of farm products for
1899 was 89,3O9,6 38, of which % per
cent was in animal products and the
remainder in crops, including forest
products, the products for 1899 exceed
ed those of 1889 by Is per cent. The
gross income upon investment was 81
per cent.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10
POTATO GROWING IN BEAUFORT

The Aurora correspondent of the
Raleigh Post, June 9th, says:
Notwithstanding the lateness of the
spring potato planting was at least
two weeks later than usual, the crop
has matured some four days in ad-
of last year. Some small ship
ments were made in May, but ship
ments commenced in earnest yester-
day when the Aurora and Washington
Transportation Company connecting
with the Atlantic Coast Line at Wash
ington, carried four hundred and fifty
barrels, the Old Dominion line to Bell
port three hundred barrels, making
the shipments seven hundred and fifty
barrels the first day. The shipment
for today will be over n thousand
barrels.
The potato crop in this section is
good and will probably amount to
some thirty-fve or forty thousand bar
rels. This only includes a small sec
ton of country around Aurora, but
within a radius of ten miles around
Aurora some seventy-fve or eighty
thousand barrels of Irish potatoes will
be shipped within the next twenty
days.
Crops generally are looking well, al
though the lack of rain has been felt
to some extent, but has enabled the
farmers to put their crops in first
class order at small expense.
We believe this, the eastern part of
the State, has many advantages. The
farming lands are not surpassed in
any county. No floods or droughts,
tornadoes or destructive winds, and
the health of the people is as good as
in any part of the State. All that are
looking for the best place, come to
see us.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10
server.

Selected: Uncle Sam is nearly
ready to begin laying the Trans-Pa-
.cifc cable, from San Francisco to Ma
Mia, touching Honolulu and Guam. It
will be one of the great undertakings
of the twentieth century. The cable,
which is now being manufactured, will
be the longest in the world. It is esti-
mated that the work will cost in the
neighborhood of $2O,OOO,OOO. In lay
ing the cable four vessels of special
design, and a staff of 1000 electricians
and engineers will be employed. The
pathway for the cable has already
been marked out by a United States
vessel.
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WE WILL SEND THE VALUE OF ONE
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containing twenty-Eeven pen ana lux phOtO-re
duced sketches of W~ashington's life by mail
for ten cents leash or stampsl. Queen Victoria
knighted Sir John Tenniel for similar artistic
work in London. (YOur editor hae sample OF
this).
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1859 Third Ave, New York.
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bles and Bright's Disease, which is the worst
form of kidney trouble.
DR.. Kilmer's SWamp=ROot is not rec
o~mmendedfor everything but if you have kid
ney, liver or bladder trouble it will be found
just the remedy you need. Ithas been tested
in so many ways, in hospital work, in private
practice, among the helpless too poor TO pur-
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every case that a special arrangement has
been made by which all readers of this PAPER
who have not already tried it, may have a
sample bottle sent free by mail, also a book
telling more about Swamp-Root and how 10
find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble.
When writing mention reading this generous
offer in this paper and E|F0r
send your address to @s;EE7kH3As!"9ssk
DR.. Kilmer & Co., Bing- Is rzssf n 4 sHs Is e sGs$
hamton, N. Y. The sAsaaAsLsasg
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dollar sizes are sold by all good druggists.
Don't make any mistake, but remem-
Der the name, Swamp-Root, DR.. Kill
mer's Swamp-Root, and the address.
Binghamton, N. Y, on every bottle.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10

There is no higher duty to be per-
formed by an army officer than that of
self-control. The man who cannot com
mand his own passions cannot be
trusted to command other men.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10

!. If you want a harvesting machine
that is reliable-one that will work
successfully in all conditions of grain
the Mccormick.
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cures made by DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root,
the great kidney, liver
and bladder remedy.
1t is the great medi-
cal triumph of the nine
teenth century; dis
covered after years of
scientific research by
DR.. Kilmer, the emf
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Read the Complete Poultry Book! g

The Complete Poultry Book contains just what the poultry raiser OF
the irrespective poulty-raiser wants to know. It contains the best thought
on this subject of c. e. Thorne, Director of the Ohio Agricultural Exper
iment Station, and of P. Fl. Jacobs, now and for many years poultry editor
of the Farm and Fireside.
PROFUSELY Observation-Disclosures a very large number of up
to date illustrations from designs made for this book. The illustrations
of poultry houses cannot be surpassed as they combine practically every
known design, both cheap and elaborav9.
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DO YOU GET UP
WITH A LAME BACK i?


Almost everybody who reads the news
papers is sure to know of the wonderful
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apart from all others o. the same subject it it's intensely practical treat
ment of the poultry business. from the standpoint of experience. 1t con
tdns something valuable for everybody interested in poultry, whether
theyskeep a dozen hens or one thousand hens 500 ~
1t contains special chapters o Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Pigeons, etc:
For the purpose of the general poultry raiser ii is the most complete, most
up.to-date and most practical poultry book yer published, giving just the
information every poultryraiser wants. = za#M" =
We will send any one a copy Of this work and THE PRoeREssTvE FAR.
MR M year for only 81 .25. First come, first served. Order at once.
Address: THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER,
RALEIGH, %.
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FERTILIZER \
\ ANNOUNCEMENT.

We have again arranged
with the Durham Fertilizer 5I
Co. for the manufacture Of -.
the Alliance brands of Fer. +,
tilizer North Carolina Off, .
oial Farmers Alliance Guano, {,
and Acid Phosphate, and
Progressive Farmer Guano.
These Fertilizers are too we'll
known in every community
where fertilizers are used In
this State TO require an OK.
tended description of them.
They have been time tried
and time tested, and always
found reliable. Our arrange.
ment for this year provides :
for their being kept in stock
by all Agents for the Dur
ham Fertilizer Cos GuanoS,
who will furnish them In =.
any quantities at lowest
prices. For further informa-
ton concerning them, adj
dress: aa.
DURHAM FERTILIZER Co, DURHAM, N. o.
Orders will be received for
Fruit Trees, TO be delivered
next Fall.
Make all Post Office Mon
ey Orders payable at Raj.
eigh, but address all letters
to me at HILLsBORO, N. G. !
Fraternally
B. PARKER, S. B. A.
HILLsBORO, N. C.
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Our Five Drawer, "Drop Head"
Machine is a Beauty.
Price, only 81. SO. -

.
Price, only s17. So
The above are all the Improved
Alliance Machines. We are Offering
no other machines now. Send for
descriptive circular. 4-t ~ -.
t~E tl.t
ferns
Now Is the time TO send In your
orders for, ...r-e
Plow and Plow Castings, :. rr;.
Guano Sewers and Farming r.. ~
Utensils of every descriptions
Farm Bells, .~s...E ,,@,i
Cook Stoves, .. y, a~eeH 81
Feed Cutters, ~
Corn Shelters, tnre
Harrows, a,4
Smoothing E,
Getaway and Solid Dtso),
Wagons, .u...
Buggies and Harness,
Barbed and Plain Wire,
Poultry and Farm Fencing,
Washing Machines,
Furniture,
Pianos,
Organs, Etc,
Sugar, =
Coffee,
Flour,
Lard, Etc.
-Granulated Sugar TO, day is worth
&4.s5 per 100 pounds, but is sub.
ject to change without notice.. as
all other prices are .
WGreen Coffee from 80. to 100. per
pound.
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10

INCUBATOR.-Plans are given
for making a practical working in
cubator, hundreds of them being
now in use.
BROODER.--Plans are also given
for making a brooder, these plans
alone being worth many times the
cost of the book. Thousands of
breeders have been made according
to these plans and sold for So each.
BREEDS.-All the different breeds
are described and illustrated and
their merits and dement's frankly
discussed. The best breeds for
raising broilers, best for layers, best
for Matching and best for gen.
eral purposes are pointed out,
and the reasons for their selection
given.
DISEASES OF POULTRY are full
~ described and the proper remedies
prescribed. A chaper which will
save money for you.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-06-10

FINER THAN DAINTIEST SILK
f,t Iae membrane lining the bowels. A
All "a irritation of it produces gripping
Uarrhoea. Stop the trouble with
ly Davis Painkiller. No honest
gftSslst will deceive you with a sub
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The above are all the Improved
Alliance Machines. We are Offering
no other machines now. Send for
descriptive circular. 4-t ~ ~
The Iola register., 1902-03-21

Don't fail to read the ad of the. "Hi-
awatha" Incubator Co. in this issue
experts say it is the most successful
ncabator yet invented.
Empty syrup cans and buckets will
be taken at Claiborne's mill in pay
ment for sorghum syrup, apple butter
and pure cider vinegar.