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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15
EDUCATION IN THE Oh

Every father and every mother is
charged with a great responsibility.
To real children in a worthy way is a
high calling. Animals properly fed
and sheltered require nothing more,
but for boys and girls the mind as well
as the body requires n~ourishment. As
a rule an effort is made to give the
children the advantages as far as pos
sible of the district school. But the
school at the best does not 90 far
enough, and sometimes the work done
is not of satisfactory sort. In any
case from the home should come the
best help and inspiration. The growth
of the intellect is surely of as much
Importance as that of the body, and a
good supply of nutritious food as nee
essary in one case as in the other. The
teacher has the oversight of the child
only a few months of the year for a
part of five days in the week; the pa
rent associates with the child every
day, and upon a basis more free than
is possible in the case of any teacher.
While the educational work done in
the home may be less formal than that
in the school, it is often more effect
i've and permanent on that account.
In this matter of home education,
too, there must be a companionship.
1t is not enough to provide good books
and periodicals. There should be an
active interest of the parent as of the
child. If the educational advantages
the parent have been limited here
is a great opportunity for parent and
child to make progress together. Now,
suppose an hour every evening during
fall and winter be set apart for fam
lily reading. Take for instance, Rob
lnson Crusoe. VIII there be any diff
in securing an interest? On the
other hand, the difficulty will be to
the reading at the end of the
The work of education will not
limited to the time of reading, but
will continue through the whole of
next day. A thousand questions
Will be asked, the Imagination will be
I~uickened, and a healthy sympathy
Viii be established between the differ
Mt members of the family. Many side
ubjects can be investigated, and when
book has been completed in this
7ay all who have joined in the ezer-
ises will be ready to proceed with
Their books. Everything that has been
earned in the school will come into
tactical use and this reading will be-
ONE a great incentive to study in the
chool.-Selected.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15
THE TRUE THOMAS JEFFERSON.

Mr.. William Eleroy Curtis's volume
on Thomas Jefferson is not a biogra-
ply; it is a series of character sketch
es; it is analytical, not historical.
The author photographs the sitter be-
fore his camera in various attitudes
rs a lawyer, a farmer, a politician, a
public officer, an educator, a moralist,
a scientist, etc. This method is not
without it's advantages in the case of
a man so many-sided as Thomas JEFF
ferson; the different aspects of his
character are thus brought out in
strong relief; his complexity of char
acter is emphasized; his inconsistent
cies of behavior are explained, be-
cause they are seen to be the inevita-
bic results of ingrained inconsistent
cies in his nature; in a word, the
man, who was at once masked behind
and revealed in his public acts, is in
terpreted.
In calling Jefferson the greatest
genius of his epoch we do not mean
to designate him as the greatest man.
In sObriety of judgment, steadiness of
purpose, worldwide apprehension of
men, moral pOise, and practical ap-
prehension of National needs, Wash
ington was so far his superior that
there is no comparison between them.
But Jefferson was distinctly a genius,
with the versatility and the instabil-
ity, the idealism and the impractical
bility, the noble faith and the strange
Inconsistencies, which often charac-
terize men of genius.
The American people by the Revo-
luton did more than sunder the polit-
zeal ties which bound them to Eng
land; at the same time they broke
the bonds which bound them to the
past, and they had to create not only
a new political but also a new social
and industrial order. The age was
creative. Such an age requires two
classes of men. 1t needs men who are
sincerely attached to the traditions of .
the past, who leave the old ways with
reluctance and only under compuIsion, |
who dread the future and know no
other light to guide them in it than
that furnished by the experience of
the past. Such a man was Alexander
Hamilton. It also needs men who are
intuitiOnalists, who get their light
from within, not from without, who
look to the past chiefly if not exclu-
sively for warnings what to avoid,
who, not by a study of the past. but
by a kind of prophetic vision, lay hold
of some great principle or principles
of action, and who, breaking away
from traditions, seek guidance for the
future from these principles. Such a
was Thomas jefferson.
If all the statesmen of that epoch
had been Hamiltons, the United States
might easily have become a feeble i'm
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15
THE LAKE OF THE DISMAL SWAMP
AT OLD TIKI LEGENDS

They made her a grave, too cold and
damp
For a soul so warm and true;
And she's gone to the Lake of Dismal
Swamp,
Where all night long, by a freely lamp,
She paddles her white canoe.
"And her freely lamp I soon shall see,
And her paddle I soon shall hear;
Long and loving u life shall be,
And I'll hide the maid in a cypress
When the footstep of Death is
near"
Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds,
His path was rugged and sore,
Through tangled juniper, beds of
reeds,
Through many a fen where the ser
pent feeds
And man never trod before.
And when on earth he sank to sleep,
IF slumber his eyelids knew,
He lay, where the deadly vine doth
weep
Its tear, and nightly steep
The flesh with blistering dew.
And near him the she-wOlf stirred the
brake,
And the copper snake breathed in
his ear,
Till he starting cried, from his
dream awake,
"Ohl when shall I see the dusky lake,
And the white canoe of my dearw
He saw the lake, and a meteor bright
Quick over its surface played
"Welcome," he said, "my dear ones
light"
And the dim shore echoed for many a
night
The name of the death-cold maid.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15
CHOOSING The sPRCKED APPLES,

When we look over a landscape we
let our eyes feast upon it's beauties
the hills and rivers and smiling sky.
Unless our nature has a most uncom-
Portable twist we do not select the one
unlovely, U~nattractive feature, and de-
vote our attention to that. If we
have the privilege of filing our hands
from a rose-bush in bloom we select
the most perfect buds and blossoms,
not those which are wilted and worm
eaten and falling to pieces. Unfor-
tunately we are not always as wise
when we are dealing with the traits Of
those about us. DR.. W. 1. Fee tells
how he once showed a fault-fnding
parishioner the unreasonableness of
his course:
On going to one of my charges, I
was told that a certain farmer belong
ing to the church was greatly addict
ed to faultfnding, and that, when I
visited him, he would be sure to take
that occasion to serve up to me the
foibles of all his brethren. I had lot
been there long until he invited me
to come out to his farm and take din
ner with him. As had been foretold,
he then brought out with great appa-
rent relish the faults of all the mem
bership. "So-and-so was all right,
but, unfortunately, he was so and sc ;"
and thus he gave a stab in the back
to each of the members as they passed
in review before him. I heard him
without comment, or attempting any
defense, or bringing any railing ac-
.cusation against him as an ~"accuser
of the brethren;" but I watched nv
time, before leaving him, to lodge my
impression with him in an inoffen-
sive way, which might yet do it's own
work.
He had a large apple orchard, load
with choice. ripe fruit. Just be-
fore starting for home he gave me a
basket and said, Brother Fee, 90
nto the orchard and fill a basket with
to take home with you" Ac-
the basket, I went to the or
'hard and filed it with specked and
lalf-rotten apples. When [ return
I'd, he said, "Why, man alive! what
lid you fill your basket with that
worthless lot for, when the ground is
covered with fine, large, sound ones g"
md he threw them away with disgust,
nd brought me the basket filed with :
he best. :
Then was my opportunity, and [
aid to him as gently as I could,
Brother, all the afternoon you have :
cen filling me up with the specked :
lembers of the church, when I am
ure there are multitudes of good :
He took my rebuke with the :
of good-nature, and said, "Broth-
r Fee, you are right, and I have been
'rong; and I'll never do it again" b
nd he never did while 1 was his pas f
or.-Selected. r
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15

itation of Great Britain, with a feuda.
system as i'll adapted to its needs as
the armor of Saul was to young Da.
vid; if they had all, been Jefersons
the United States might easily have
followed France out into a fools par
adise, ignoring all the lessons of the
past and %plunging recklessly into ex-
periments which would have involved
the greatest of perils and possibly ir-
~retrievable disaster.
Jefferson was essentially a doctri-
naire; but he lived 1T an epoch when
a doctrinaire was sorely needed. He
believed in abstract principles, and
was always quite ready to stake, not
only his own fortunes, but those of his
country, on such principles. Like all
d~octrinaires, he was an egotist, having
~unbounded faith in his own visions.
impatient of those who did not share
his faith, and illustrating his radical
ism sometimes by curious, not to say
IudlcrOus, utterances. When conser-
natives expressed their apprehension
of rebelliOns if the Federal Govern
ment was not made strong, he replied
that an occasional rebellion was a
a good thing: Good forbid" he said.
that we should be twenty years with
out a rebellion" His tastes and his
principles combined to make him an
admirer of agriculture; cities were
abhOrrent to him; and he positively
deprecated the development of manu-
features on moral grounds. 81 con-
he said, "the class of artifcers
as panderers of vice and the instru-
ments by which the liberties of a
country are generally overthrown."
He wished that no person should be
permitted to serve in Congress for
more than two successive terms; op-
posed official mourning and the ceIe-
bratiOn of the birthdays of public
men, lest these customs should lend
sanction to aristocracy; and would
not issue a proclamation recommend
ing either fast days or thanksgiving
days. because a President had no au-
shorlty to prescribe any religious ex-
erclses. Yet this same invincible faith
n his own intuitions made him a
great leader. 1t inspired him in his
battle in Virginia against church and
clergy for that principle of religious
liberty which all Americans now as
sumo to be an axiom. "The blue laws
# Connecticut" says Mr.. Curtis,
were a forgery, but those of Vir-
;Inla were genuine" Celebration of
he mass IN the one side, denial of the
LIvinity of Christ on the other, were
10Th capital ofenses. Baptists, Quak-
RS, M~ethOdists, and Presbyterians
forbidden to teach or hold SER
Lack of respect to a clergyman
vas punished with public whipping, as
vas a repetition of failure to attend
sunday instruction in the catechism
I took nine years of persistent agita-
lon' following some previous years
II more quiet educational work, TO Sc
,ure the repeal of these and kindred
avs and the embodiment in the Code
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15

%Nos. 6Oand 81, of our series of the Worlds
besI rooms, arranged especially for THE Pro
GkESSIVE FARMER by the editor. In this
series selecoons from the following authors
nave already appeared: Burns, Bryant Mr.. and
MIS- Browning, Lord Byron, Campbell, Eugene
EleloI Goldsmith, Leigh Hunt, Holmes, Omar
1hhsyyam, Kiptng,, Lampman, Lanier, Long
tetLoWs LoWeu, Markham, Macaulay, Milton.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15

More sickness is caused by improper
eating and drinking than from all
other causes combined. If ever peo-
pie learn how to eat and drink there
will be but little work for the physi-
cians.-Farm and Ranch.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15

Troy Examiner: Crop prospects are
brighter than for many years, and the
farmers are making a heroic effort to
regain former losses.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-15

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The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-01-30
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT.
Clinton Griffin, of ValdOsta. and Ebb
J. Harris, of Madison, Lessees of
Davis Opera House. Number
o Performances Booked.

Arrangements were completed asst
Saturday by which the management of
the Davis Opera House in this city was
secured by Messrs. Clinton Griffin. OF
Valdosta, and Ebb ]. Harris, of this
city, for the balance of this year, 1902.
It is the purpose OF the new manage
ment to make this one OF the best show
towns in the State, and already num-
Der of performances have been secured
for the balance Of the season. Il is also
proposed to have summer performances
aud negotiations are now in progress to
that end. Mr.. Griffin is the manager
Of the Park Theatre at Valdosta and
understands the theatrical business from
every standpoint, Ebb Harris will have
The management Of the opera house
lere which is suili lent guarantee that
It will be conducted IN a strictly up-to-
late manner.
Some OF the companies already booked
are the Spooner Dramatic Co. fer three
lights; Fale's Comedy Company, ]
light; Southers in Monte, Cristo to-
light; Harry Wards Minstrels, one pei.
'rmauce in March, and the Valdosta
Ninstrels for Thursday night Feb 9Th.
or this latter organization it's said thst
ney are fine, aud their performances
are equal to those of professional com.
jan es
Reserved seats will be sold at Davis
Drug store and due notice will be
given of all dates on which perform.
inces will be he'll.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-01-30
Clay Crawford Secretary of State

Governor Jennings at a late h ur lest
night appointed II. Clay Crawford son
OF the late secretary of state, to fill the
uneSpired term Of his lamented fath.r.
and it is safe to say that the appoint
ment will give general satisfactio, OF
only in Leon county, but throughout
the State.
Mr. Crawford has for - years acted
~ assistant secretary of state, and 70,
the past few years, since his fathers de-
G Inc In health, has virtually been in
CHARGE OF the Office who.e duties be is
NV 30 we'll qualified to discharge.
Henry lay Crawford was born in
Btnbri 'ge, Ca. on April 8, 1856 His
early education was acquired in the place
Of hs birth, and after his removal to
Florida, he was In 1887 elected a member
OF the legislature fro Wakula county.
Hon. William B. Lamar being one of his
colleagues.
In 1881 Mr.. Crawford married Miss
Anna Moring at Crawfordville, six chll.
drpn having been the result Of the
union.
Few men in Leon and Wakulla coun-
ties are better known or more highly es-
teemed than Clay Crawford, He is es-
sentially a man Of the people, and his
friends are numbered onl, by the circle
of his acquaintance. Capital. 2Gth
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-01-30
TayIor--Stubbs,

Mr.. William NJ. Taylor and Miss
Bessie Stubs we're married Tuesday
January 2lst, at o'clock p. M, at the
beautiful home of the BRIDES parents
at Arlington, Md. Mr.. w. NJ Carter
acted as lest man and Miss Marion
Henderson as maid Of honor. The
bride was attired in very pretty and
stylish travelling dress. After the
ceremony grand supper was spread
afterwhich tho bridal party left for
Savannah by boat.
The bride is not stranger in our
city as she was here in the fall and
made number of friends, and we are
glad to have her back with us again.
Mr. Taylor is young business man
of Madison of sterling character and
has many fine traits. He is one of our
leading young men and for number OF
years has been one of the leaders OF
society. He has many friends who
wish him long life full of pleasure
and sunshine.
The young couple will be at home at
the residence Of Mr.. and Mrs. III. NJ.
Taylor after February lst.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-01-30
The spinsters. FortnIrhtIy Club.

"The Spinsters' Fortnightly Club"
similar to the "Old Maids Conyention,"
will be given at the Opera House, Madi-
son, Monday night, Feb 3, under the
auspices Of the Daughters OF the Con-
federacy.
The Hlawatha (Kansas) Democrat
says concerning this entertainment :
aOver 400 tickets we're sold, TWAS the
general opinion expressed by those pres
emit that they had never seen funnier
home talent entertainment"
A Paola (Kansas) minister says: at
was one Of the funniest things ever
saw; delightful from beginning to end"
The Clarendon (Arkansas) Sun states;
ut was laughable in the extreme and
an unusual success"
General admission, 35c. Reserved
seats, SOC. Children, DC. Reserved
Seals are on sale at DAVIS Drug Store.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-01-30
A Cutting Scrape.

Tuesday night William Massey the
barber, and Peter Pinkney, both well
known negroes OF the town became in
volved in difficulty which resulted in
Pinkney getting his throat cut with a
razor in the hands Of Massey.
The trouble, it is said, originated
about a woman, the wife of Pinkney
Massey was apprehended by the Sheriff
'hortly after the cutting and is now in
jail. While the wound inflicted upon
Pinkney is serious it is not thought
that it will cause his death.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-01-30
MARRIED IN VALDOSTA.
Epb J. Harris and Miss Pearl Morrow.
Popular Young People of this City,
United In Marriage Last
Sunday.

AT the home OF the groom's brother
IN Valdosta on Sunday, Jan. 26th, 1902,
Ebo' D. Harris and Miss Pearl Morrow,
or tins city were united In marriage by
Rev. &C Carson, pastor OF the Pres
oyterian church in that city. The
couple were attended by Mr.. Osward
Griffin and Miss Lucy Shafler, both OF
Madison, and the ceremony was witness
ed by Charles Morrow, brother Of the
6ride,'and several other friends and rel
atives OF the contracting parties.
The news OF this marriage came as
distinct surprise to tho many FIR ends of
the happy and popular young couple in
this city, their intention being known to
only II v ry few Sc ect friends. Mr.. Har-
ris IL the agent for the Valdosta South
ern Railway at this point, and while he
has been a citizen Of our town but q
snort time no young man possesses more
friends among our people. The bride is
the beautiful and accomplished daughter
Of Mr. and Mrs. t.. V. Morrow and has
reigned as one Of our most popular
bellies.
Mr., and Mrs, Harris are at home to
their friends at the residence OF Mrs. j.
I. Skipper where they have taken
apartments.
The New Enterprise extends heartiest
congratulations and wishes for these
young people long life Of happiness
and content.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-01-30
N1ADlooN FLA, THURSDAY JANUARY 80 1909 !

man might well be proud. and which It
would be difficult indeed to parallel else
where.
Dr. Crawford was, indeed, slngularly
happy In all the relations Of life Sue
cess and fortune came to him early in
long and happy life. He enjoyed all the
fruits OF political success with as few OF
us shadows as ever fell across the path
way OF any public man. The breath Of
caiumny or suspicion left bis name un.
furnished; and il he had enemies they
were only such as become loyal, clean
minded Christian gentleman.
He married young and happily, and
his chosen mate was left with him al
most to the enc Of his long and useful
life, To few men have so many of the
good things Of life been given. ana by
lew have the gifts Of fortune been more
worthly employed.
Three children survive him-Hon, Fl.
Clav Crawford, assistant secretary of
state, Charles Y. Crawford, of Arcadia
md Mrs. j. w. Adams, of Crawford
Vllle' hll OF whom were with HIM at the
end. Daily Capital.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-01-30

Effective December lst., important
changes in the schedule and additional
trains were inaugura.ed on the Seaboard
Air Line Railway. The Florida and
Metropolitan Limited through train be.
tween New York and Jacksonville via
Washington and Richmond, is quick
ened in schedule TO arrive in Jackson.
vile 300 p. m. instead If O;l0 p. m. as
formerly. The New York and Florida
Fast Mail, known as trains % and GO,
will arrive dt Jacksonville 9:OJ a. m. in
stead Of 9;l5, while the departure will
continue at TAO p. nj. All three Of these
trains make connection in both direc-
tons for Brunswick, Ga, via Thalman
and the Brunswick and Birmingham
Railroad.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-01-30
REMARKABLE CURE F GROUP
A LittIesoy's Life Saved.

have a few words to say regarding
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. 1t
saved my little boys life and feel that
/ cannot praise it enough. bought a
bottle of it from A, T. Steere Of Good
win, S. d., and when got home with it
the poor baby could hardly breathe. /
gave the medicine as directed every ten
minutes until he 'threw up" and then
thought sure be was going to choke to
death. We had to pull the phlegm out
Of his mouth in great long strings. /
am positive that # l had not got the
bottle cough medicine, my boy would
not be on earth to-day JoEn DEMoNT,
Inwood, Iowa. For sale by all drug
eists,
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-01-30
SIMPLE COLDS,

Cease to be simple, il at all prolonged,
The safest way lie to put them aside at
the very beginning. Billiards. Hore.
houd Syrup stops cold and removes
the cause of colds, 25c, soc and Sl.oO
bottle at ID G. Smiths.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-01-30
A LIFE AT STAKE.

II you but knew the splendid merit OF
Foley's Honey and Tar you would never
be without it, A dose or two will pre-
vent an attack Of pneumonia or Ia grippe
IL may save your life, Sold by d. G,
Smith.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-01-30

"rhe art OF printing, siry' exclaimed
the Optimist, sis in its infancy! My
grandson, and possibly my son, will one
day have his Sunday newspaper brought
to him IN twenty-eight handy quarto
volumes, In a polished oak bookcase,
all for five centsr'
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-01-30
nrsr IMMINENT ON EARTH

Henry d. Baldwin, supt City Water
Works, Shullsburg, Wis, wIites:F"I
have tried many kinds Of linlment, but
have never received much benefit until
/ used Billiards. Snow Liniment for
rheumatism and pains. ! think it the
best Eminent on earth" 25c., zoe. and
sl.OO bottle at d. G. Smiths
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-01-30
A a3op RECON- mRNpAr1oN

81 have noticed that the sale on Cham
berlain's Stomach g. Liver Tablets is al
most invariably to those who have once
used Them" says Mr.. j. II. Weber, a
prominent druggist of Cascade Iowa,
What better recommendation could any
medicine have than for people to call
for it when again in need Of such a
remedy? Try them when you feel dull
after eating, when you have a bad taste
in your mouth, feel bilious, have no APP
petite or when troubled with constpa-
ton, and you are certain to be delighted
with the prompt relief which they af-
ford. For sale by all druggists,
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-01-30
SICK HEADACHE

is the baneof women. What is wanted
is not relief alone, but relief and cure.
DR.. Loyal Ford's Dyspepticide will cure
sick headache for all time. 1t makes
the stomach right. Sold by D. G.
Smith
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-01-30
|ouNTY OFFICERS.

tr-L p. Martin.
burt. 4. Martin.
\. Armstrong.
pR-R j. Paterson.
|ToR-- 5, ]. Ellison.
Iic lxsrRucTloN-.l. A. Hughes.
IAsuRrR-f, W. Dale.
|ynoh-I q, Leslie.
|NNisslovERs w. II. Dial, j.,
nv. Mcdonald, L,J. Porter, q. w.
|B Williams. Regular meeting on
cslay Of each month,
Fp-l. c. Horne, Chairman, w. j.
b Goodman, Regular meeting on
|y Of each moEth.