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well begun, and we beg to call the at
tention of our readers to the fact that
the spread of this disease can surely
be prevented. The source of the poi
son is in the discharges of a patient.
1t is conveyed by drinking water or
flies infected Herewith. The sim
plest and surest way therefore to de-
stroY the germs is to Immediately and
thoroughly disinfect all discharges
from the bowels and kidneys, and then
bury them not less than $50 feet from
any well or spring. AS the germs are
also found in the discharges of conva-
lescents and in the preliminary stages
of the disease surface privies should
always be carefully looked after.
As bearing on the above, we take
pleasure in printing below the excel
lent Farmers Bulletin No. 155" of
the 9. S. Department of Agriculture,
by DR.. L. o. Howard, Entomologist of
the Department, emitting, much to
our regret, the illustrations for lack
of the plates; and the very interesting
speculations of DR.. King on the effect
of light in the production of malarial
fever. Here follows a reprint of the
bulletin. Any Progressive Farmer
reader can get a free copy by writing
to his Congressman
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-19
L A n YPHOID

Says the July Bulletin of the North
Carolina Board of Health:
1t has been conclusively demon
strated that the poison known as ma
laria is not "bad air" but a blood par
asite, the plasmodium malariae which
feeds upon and develops in the red
corpuscles of the blood, and that it is
conveyed by a particular genus of
mosquitoes named Anopheles-and
probably in no other way. This de-
m~onstration shows malarial fever to
be a preventable disease. A person can
reside in the most maIarious region
with perfect impunity if he can pro-
tect himself against the sting of the
variety of mosquitoes mentioned
which have previously stung another
person having the fever, thereby in
fecting themselves with the germs of
the disease. This can be done in three
ways-by destroying the mosquitoes
and preventing their breeding, by pro-
lection against them by screens, etc.,
and by preventing their singing per-
sons sick of malarial fever. Either
one of these methods if properly car
ried out would be effective, but as per-
lection cannot be hoped for, all three
should be resOrted to.
The next two months, August and
September, constitute the season of
the year in which malarial fevers, and
m~alarial fevers of the most malignant
type-aestivo-autumnal or the old
fashioned "billious fever" pernicious
and hemorrhagic-are most prevalent
with us. It is therefore in order for
our people living in malarious sections
to begin at once and prosecute unre-
mittingly a vigorous warfare against
mosquitoes.
The typhoid fever season is already
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-19
ChiIdren's Column.
A GENTLEMAN.

l knew him for a gentleman,
BY signs that never fail;
HIS coat was rough, and rather worn
lis cheeks were thin and pale
A lad who had his way TO make,
With little time Tor play
l knew him for a gentleman
By certain sigrs to-day.
He met his mother on ,he greet,
Off came his little cap.
Ny door was shut; he waited there
Until I heard his rap.
He took the bundle from my hand,
And when I dropped my pen
Jfe sprang to pick it up for me,
This gentleman of ten.
He thinks of you before himself;
He serves you if he can;
For In whatever company,
The manners make the man.
At ten or forty It's the same,
The tell the tale;
And I discern the gentleman
By signs that never fail.
Selected
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-19
SIN IN THE LARGER CITIES.

Some of US who live in the quiet,
~peaceable, law abiding, church going
country districts never realize what
sin, w~ickedness and corruption are 60
ing on in the world, especially in the
world of the larger cities. We read a
few statistics, sometimes, of crime and
immortality in these large accumula-
tions of all sorts and conditions of
men, but we never fully appreciate the
difference between the moral atmos-
phere of the great city and the wide
spreading country. There are said to
be six thousand bar-rooms in the city
Of Chicago, the daily income of which
is more than three hundred thousand
dollars.
One Sunday evening not long since
seventeen thousand, one hundred and
sixty young men were counted at sew
enteen of these places of sin and de-
struction-over a thousand young men
at each bar-room in one Sunday even
ing! There are few churches in that
city, we fancy, who gather that num-
Der of young men on any Sunday
evening. In a single ward of that
city there are over three hundred
houses of impurity. In the same city
are about nine hundred thousand
young people under twenty-one years
Of age. Only one hundred and eighty
thousand-a little over one-ffth-are
enrolled in Protestant Sunday-schools.
Chicago, we suppose, compares about
equally with other large cities in vice,
sin and corruption. The boys and
girls, the young men and young wo-
men, of the country may think there
are many luxuries, much ease, and
many advantages in city life that they
themselves never see and enjoy. They
should bear in mind that there Is also
much sin, vice, and degradation and
corruption In the city that their plain,
honest. pure country life eve sub
iects them to. The best place on
earth to rear boys and girls in hon
esty, integrity, morality and all Vir-
tues is in the country. What the coun-
Try loses in commercial advantages 1T
more than makes up in moral purity,
honesty and integrity.-Elon College
Christian Sun.
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HOW TO LIVE A HUNDRED YEARS.

Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper Mcintyre
died in Philadelphia recently, at the
age of one hundred and two years, and
was buried at Woodland Cemetery.
Her rules for living, in her W Ian
guage, we're:
"Be honest and don't worry"
MARRY early and save money"
Glove breeds happiness"
"Keep at work and don't drink"
"a rich girl can be happy with a
Door husband if she really loves him."
"Eat plenty, sleep long, and don't
bother" =.
"When you feel like crying-laugh."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-19
POLITE LITTLE sPANIARDs.

Spanish children, as Miss Katharine
Lee Bates depicts them in her recent
book on Spain, are among the most
charming in the world. They are ex-
quisitely polite, even from babyhood.
One day in the park at Seville Pro-
fessor Bates noticed a pretty baby of
eighteen months carried in the arms
of a young woman, and stopped to adj
mire him. The result was startling.
Not in the least expecting this in
FAINT, whose rosy face was bashfully
snuggled into his young aunt's neck,
to understand, I said to her, What a
fine little fellow Whereupon Master
Roly-Poly suddenly sat up straight on
her arm, ducked his head in my direc-
ton, and gravely enunciated, Es favor
que listed me hace' ct is a compli-
ment you pay me).
Il could hardly recover from the
shock in time to make the streotyped
rejoinder, No es favor, es justicia'
(No compliment, but the truth). To
this Don Chubbykins sweetly return
ed, Mi gracias' CA thousand thanks) ;
and I closed this uncanny dialogue
with the due response, No las merece'
ct does not merit them)."
Not in words only we're the little
Spaniards of a most winning and gra-
cious courtesy.
TN Mrs. Gulick's school mere mid
gets of six and eight, returning from
class, will not close the doors of their
rooms if you are in sight, although
perhaps seated at a reading-table at
the far end of the corridor, lest they
should appear inhospitable.
Con our return from Italica a thirs,
ty child of seven, heated to exhaustion
with the sun and fun of that Andalu-
sian picnic, refused to touch the ami,
seed water which some good Samari,
tan had handed up to the dusty car,
rage until the glass had been offered
to every one else, driver included
leaving little enough for her"
When they we're coming back al
midnight from the feria this same
nina of gentle memory, staggering
and half-crying with sleepliness, would
not precede any of her elders in enter,
ing the home door.
after YOU" she sobbed, with hard.
ly voice enough to add, "and may you
all rest we'll"
"The same to you" chorused the
adults trooping by, and her faint muir.
muir followed: "Many thanks"
"Shan I give you this fan when
go away" Miss Bates asked her once
"or would you rather have it now tc
take to the party~
She wanted it then and there, but
she answered, "I shall be best pleased
to take it when you like best to give
it."
So natural is politeness to Spanish
childhood, so far are the little ones
from regarding it as a thing enforced
or artificial, that it creeps with nc
sense of incongruity into their very
prayers. The brief bedtime petition
of young Spain is quantity like anc
unlike the familiar Now I lay me" Of
our own land:
. Jesus, Joseph, Mary,
Your little servant keep
While, with your kind permission,
I Law me down to sleep.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-19
Health Notes.
THE GIRL WITH A BAD COMPLETION.

There is really no excuse for the
girl who goes around with her skin
making open confession that she is a
rebel against laws of health.
There are many forms of skin di-
sease, of course, that are beyond the
control of those suffering from them.
Some o fthese are exceedingly OBJ
scure as to their origin and obstinate
ly resistant to treatment, and all such
cases should be under the care of COM
petent dermatologists. We have only
reference in this article to those mud
dy, pimply, uncared-for skins too Of
ten shown by girls who should be in
the very bloom of youth and freshness,
but who, through ignorance, and far
too often through uncleanliness or laz-
mess or greediness, start and main
tain, sometimes through years, a CON
dition of skin that would disgrace an
Eskimo.
There is n great prescription, and
one only, for a clear, bright complex
ion, and that is-frst, last and always
bodily cleanliness, both external and
internal.
Now, cleanliness of the skin is by no
means attained by mere surface rub
bing and scrubbing, although a GER
tain amount of this is necessary, and
many a proud, fastidious and other
wise dainty young woman needs to be
told to wash her face properly.
But she needs to be told more than
this. The organs of this wonderful
body of ours are curiously loyal to
each other. If one organ is unable to
perform all the work which is put up
on it, for instance, the others faithful
ly turn in and labor to do its share as
well as their own. This is a b~enefcent
provision for the tiding over of tenn
porary difficulties, but it was never
intended in the scheme of things to
become a permanent arrangement.
When it has lasted long enough, the
organ or organs doing extra work be-
gin to show signs of distress. Nature
is just, as well as kind, and always
takes toll.
When the skin is put to it to per
form part of the work that should be
done by the liver, the kidneys or other
organs, it must soon throw out its sig
mails of distress in the form of saIlow-
ness, roughness and pimples.
A young woman ashamed of hel
complexion should try the effect OF
drinking more water and eating less
candy, giving her digestive organs
bath and a rest. Let her then treat
the face to an occasional thorough
washing in soft water, using one of the
good, mild soaps of which there are
now so many offered. Let her also
breathe plenty of fresh air, and the1
watch the speedy improvement thar
will come.
On the other hand, errors of diet
neglected bowels, insufficient bathing
and an unventilated bedroom would
dim the complexion of a dryad in
week.-The Youths Companion.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-19

Custom is the pillar round which
opinion. twines, and interest is the tie
that binds 1T. L. Peacock.
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OUR GREAT OFFER,

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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-19
GleaSOn'S Horse Book.
PROF. OSCAR GLEASON.

Renowned throughout America and patronized by the United States Gov.
eminent as the most expert and successful horseman of
the age. The whole work treats of
Preceding, Training, Breaking Drying, Feeding,
This remarkable work was first sold exclusively by agents at 90 per
oon A new edition has been issued which contains ever word and every
iT1stration in the 50 edition, but is printed o lighter paper and has :
heavy, tough paper binding.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-10-03
LARGE Treasury ?eceipts.

TIE receipts OF the state treasury
from all sources during the quarter
ending September 50. were the larg-
est in the history of the state for a
similar period. The! were as fol
lows: Collectors. s1021 ,S14.24; insur-
ance fees, S720; land commissioners
fees, S2,13S.S5: secretary of states
fees. etc, S4,S90.79; sales and re-
demptions, S11,167.7G; swamp land
sales. S2,67529; internal Improvement
lands, $16415; real estate bank lands,
$500; saline lands, 81 1,307.56; sixteenth
section lands. S46,221.91; nomination
fees, SS67.50; pentitentiary deposit,
S24,5S6.09; miscellaneous, S44,102.61;
tctal, s1.160, 0,94675. The item for mis-
cellaneous includes S1S,600 from the
state university settlement, S25 900
from the government from the Morrell
fund, 5000 from the sewing machine
companies, S277.11 from the inherit
ance tax under act of the last legisla
ture, and $3.50 from timber cut on
state lands.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-10-03
NAVAL ESTIMATES.
Mr.. Moody Wants S52 2,426,o3o for Next
Year.

Washington, October 3.-SecfetaFy
Moody has prepared his estimate OF
the amount of money needed for the
naval estimate for the year endlnS
June 80. 1904. The figures call 1or
$50 426. .O5O.5S. The estimates IN de-
tail are as follows:
PAY of navy. S17,106. .O99; mlscelan-
eous pay. 100000; contingent navy
SO 900: emergency fund, 100000; bt-
reau of navigation. s1,137.125: bureau
of ordnance, S2.761 .006.75; bureau OF
eouinment S6O1S,6O2.52; bureau OF
yards and docks, S75S.9O3.70; pubic
works. wards and docks, S5,S14,44O, ma
vigation and naval academy, $1.OoO,'
600: naval training station, California
$4,25O.
Naval training station. Rhode Is
land. S232O00; ordnance, S42l,S
medicine and surgery. S4S5.oo0; sup
plies and accounts, $3S3,97S.34; con-
struction and repairs, $S,367 ,024.2o;
steam engineering. S4,007,900: naval
academy. $2S4,105.77; marine corps
paymaster, $1,S39 ,046.75.
Quartermaster, s1,379,116.5o; In
crease of navy and construction and
machinery, $15,025,632; arms and ar
mament. $1oo0o,ooo; equipment, $780,
900: two steel ship training vessels,
propelled by sail, $75O,0o0; one wood
training vessel, propelled by sail, S5o'-
600: total, $S2, 26,030.5S.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-10-03

forced out of the senate to make room
for Hanna. Alger goes into the cabl-
net, from which, after having been
made to bear the burden Of all the
blunders of the administration during
the war with Spain, he, too, is forced
out, resigning in 1899. and returning
to Michigan Being rich man and
still ambitious, the death of Senator
Mcmillan was his chance to reappear
at Washington. Thus runs q part of
the story of Alger.
Roosevelt, the other day in Michi-
gan, all but embraced him-this trust
magnate, whose nefarious monopolis-
tic performance disgusted the high
est court in the state. Alger is COM
ing to Washington where the battle
against the trusts is on? Is there any
doubt where he he will align himself?
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-10-03
COUNTRY FOR THE NEGRO
New Methods of Promoting Colonial
ton of the NEGRO in Liberia.


Some new ideas relating to the
transplanting of American negroes
in Liberia have been introduced by
Rev P. J. Harris and Mr.. and Mrs.
J. H. Green three Mississippi negroes
of intelligence and business capacity,
who expect to reside permanently in
Liberia and give all their time to the
interests of immigration of their race
to that country. These agents before
any negroes are invited to go tc Ii
IBERIA are to make a thorough study
OF various parts of the country to
ascertain what locations in elevated
and healthful sections cf the republic
away from the coast, are desirable as
homes fer the Americans. The eff
fort will be made to build up vigorous
and self-supporting settlements, whose
chances for success will be greatly
improved by the fact that favorable
conditions are to be found before Am
ericaHs are to be invited to go to the
new regions.
Mr.. Green reports that about 1000
negroes, substantial farmers, artisans
skilled in various trades and other
persons who will make desirable colo
nists are ready t. start for Liberia
as soon as they are informed that
suitable regions have been secured,
No negroes except those who are
qualified to do good and skillful work
Will be permitted to g to the proposed
settlements. Tc information obtained
by the agents in Liberia will be circU-
lated among all the members OF the
African league, as the emigration com
pany is called, so that at all stages of
psogress everyone Interested may
know Just what is being aaae to start
them off successfully and just what
conditions they will meet in the new
country
Iiberians arc cry desirous Of en-
eouraging immigration from America
There is no doubt of the large agrcul-
tural resources e the country and of
the fact that American negroes can
mako comfortable homes there. but
the conditions in the republic are diff
ferent from those in this country;
great deal of the emigration thus far
has been haphaZard and badly plan
ned and on the whcle the various colo
nizing enterprises have not been very
successful. 1t remains to be seen what
measure of success will be attained
by this planned movement to provide
suitable opportunities to a large num-
ber of black Americans to return to
the land - their fathers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-10-03
WARM FIGHT.
Ends With Election Of Rev. Ben Cox
By Baptists.


Little Rock, Oct. 3.-The election
cf Rev. Ben Cox of this city as CORES
ponding secretary of the Baptist state
board of missions, closes one OF tie
bitterest contests ever waged IN Bap-
lists circles in this state.
The fight had reached the o2lnt
where the Arkansas Baptist. edited
by DR.. Clark, and the Baptist Advance,
edited by Dr. Bartum, r22le counter
charges of fraud. Or. Bartum had
been secretary of the beard for years
and was reelected ;he last time after
a hard fight.
Mr.. Cox is pastor Of the First Bap-
tist church of this city, and it is be-
lieyed that he will be able to straight
en- out matters.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-10-03
ALGER AND TRUSTS
MICHIGANDER is AT HEAD OF
TWO OR THREE.
pearance in Public Life Causes
Some Speculation.

Washington, d. c., Oct. 3.-The re-
appearance in Washington public life
of Gen. Russell A. Alger, of Michigan,
who has been appointed by the gov
ernor of his state and elected by his
own party to succeed the late Senator
Mcmillan is likely to be fruitful Of
diverse "reminiscences of incidents #
his most uninteresting past public
career.
Gen. Alger will be most readily re-
called to readers of Southern news
papers for the part he played in the
incipiency of certain campaign for
the presidency. 1t was the year that
the late John Sherman of Ohio was
induced to believe the country was
ripe to accept him as the chief magis-
trate of the nation.
Senator Sherman having demon
strated his zeal in behalf of the ne
gro race, went southwark and gather
ed promises enough of delegates to
make him very formidable candidate
for the nomination before the Repub-
Iican national convention.
1t will be remembered how carloads
of negro delegates went from the
southern states pledged fer Sherman
and how they came back home, after
having had good time, arrayed in
high hats and other costly raiment-
all dressed up and "ruint The Sc
duction of the Sherman delegates was
always ascribed to the fell spirit of
commerciasisn introduced into the
race by Cen Algcr, the Michigan ium-
Der king, who as soon as the delegates
began t, gather where the convention
WAS to be held, promulgated his re
Dutaticn as a man of liberal ideas and
great generosity.
1t was too much for negro stamina.
That race has always been responsive
To generous treatment. Inc negro
DELEGATES hockcd from Sherman to
Algcr and were given great season
of festiYity by Gen. Alger and friends.
So it was they came back to Dixie the
SweIest dressed eoaas that ever cross
ed the line. Alger did not Win. after
all: but the story had = sequel, which
Just now many may not recall with
out a reminder
Besides being a lumber king, Gen.
Alger was the magnate of match
trust. which got into the Michigan
supreme court and out of which ii
WAS kicked and the magnate and his
contending associates told by the in
dignant court to clear out and divide
their swag.
Now, there came a time when Sena-
tor Sherman. remembering the rape of
his delegations from the South which
subjected the Republican party to the
ironical admission by Democrat that
it had advanced from stealing to pur-
chasing votes, went to work and in
terested himself in the trust question.
He and o;ner senator's framed a law
which lecame well-known as the
sherman antitrust law.
In the report favcNing the legisla-
ton Senator Sherman took care to cite
the action of the Michigan supreme
court in the match trust case in which
Gen. Alger was mainly interested.
Senator Sherman was after while
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-10-03
Nasal Catarrh quickly yields tt

Nasal catarrh quickly yields to
treatment by Elys Cream Balm, which
is agreeably aromatic. 1t is received
through the nostrils, cleanses and
heals the whole surface over which it
diffuses itself. A remedy for Nasal
Catarrh which is drying CIR exciting to
the diseased membrane should not
be used. Cream Balm is recognized
as a specific. Price so cents at drug
stores or by mail. A cold in the head
is instantly cured when Ely's Cream
Balm is used. Ely Brothers, 56 War
rem street, New York.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-10-03
Cures Eczema, itching Humors

Especially for old, chronic, cases
take Botanic Blood Balm. 1t gives a
healthy blood supply the affected
parts, heals all the sores, eruptions
scabs. scales; stops the awful itching
and burning of eczema, swellings, sup
purating. watery sores, etc Druggists
81. Sample sent free and prepaid by
writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta. Ga.
Describe trouble and free medical ad.
vice sent in seled letter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-10-03

Il requires five trains of double
length railroad cars to transport Ring
Inns Brothers great circus from city
to city. If placed end to end, these
trains wcald cover nearly mile of
track. N1f
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-10-03

Increase Of Gun Pow.
In 1860 the four and a J
iron plate was declared invu
today, it could be pierced BIZ
stx-pOuEder at short range.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-10-03

GRAY KEY, PLANTER AN
CHANT: Walkers Liver "
about the only medicine
They are the best sellers I eve
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-10-03

Monarch cver pain. Burns, cuts,
sprains, stings. Instant relief Dr.
Thomas Eclectric Oil. At any drug
store.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-10-03

NEBRASKA CORNCRIB HOLDING THOUSANDS OF BUSHELS.
hold
In
thirty
the
large
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MAX GOTTLIEB, JEWEL
Bluff, Ark: Walkers Liver q
certainly a good medicine for|
and biliousness. I cordially recl
them to my friends.
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W. l.. JONES, CONDUCT
THE COTTON BELT RAIL
Pine Bluff, Arkansas: v
Liver Tablets have give.
better satisfaction than any liz;
icine or pill I ever used. Their
comparison between them and
ual remedies found on the ma.
cordially recommend them.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-10-03

A. L. RIKE, ENGINEER 0.
COTTON BELT RAILWAY:
used Walkers Liver Tablets
state without hesitation that I
far superior to anything l haI
taken.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-10-03

CAPT. MAT DOWNS, PIN
After using all other liver met
find Walkers Liver Tablets 4
ter satisfaction than any I h's
used before.