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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-04
AFFAIRS IN THE POsTOFFICE DEPAR%.
HEHT.
Against Negro POStmsStsrs- Civil Service
One Cent Letter Postage.

Against Negro POBtmsstsrs- Civil Service
One Cent Letter Postage.
Three recent events affect the con.
duct of the PostofiCe Department.
One of these is the refusal of the
President TO appoint q negro as post.
master in a Georgia Office, On the
ground, as reported, that a negro
would be obnoxious to the patrons
Of the Office. The decision Of the
President lie entirely justiRable. Itis
not the purpose Of any branch Of the
Government to give employment to
any one, white or black, bat to serve
the people, not only efficiently, but
satisfactorily. The presence of q
negro in a postmastership is evi-
IDENTIFY not essential to the efficiency
Of the service. Therefore, if his
presence isdistasteful TO those whom
he is set to serve, it is right that his
place should be given to some one
else ; as it ought to be if the ground
of dissatisfaction were other than
one of ace feeling.
The second event of Importance is
the announcement of the Postmas-
ter General that fourth-olass post.
masters may be removed for cause
only. It is to be hoped that this
purpose will be maintained and be-
come a permanent policy of the De-
partment. 1t is significant that the
first important decision under the
administration Of Mr.. Payne, who
before his appointment was best
known az a skillful political manager,
should be in the direction of Civil
Service Reform. It has been pointed
out by those who are ready to at
tribute unworthy motives for acts
which are entirely explicable on 9th
ers and better grounds that this pol
10y will tend to keep the fourth-class
postmasterships in the hands of
members in the party in power, and
therefore may be interpreted as a
partisan move. We prefer to leave
to others the improbable specula-
ton as to motives and, instead
welcome the fact of reform, which,
if sincere, is the more courageous
because open to misconstruction,
Mr.. Payne himself, at all events,
could not have brought about this
change under any other conditions
than those which he found when he
entered upon his official duties.
The third event is the presenta-
ton to an Illinois Representative in
Congress of a petition in favor OF
his bill providing for the reduction
of letter postage TO one cent. The
petitioners ask for relief from the
abuse Of privileges accorded to seo-
ond-class matter. Such relief is of
far geater Importance than any legis-
lation on letter postage. As the
Outlook has already said, that reform
should begin by reducing the rate
paid to the railroads for carrying
mail to the level of the rate paid
by private corporations for carrying
express matter. So long as the Gov
ernment pays we twice as much as
the express companies pay for the
same service, and consequently regu-
larly faces a deficit, reduction of let
ter postage is not a matter for i'm
mediate cOnsideration.-New York
Outlook.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-04
THREE JUSTICES TO REr1RR.
shiras, Harlan and Gray Likely to Leave
Supreme Court Bench.

shiras, Harlan and Gray Likely to Leave
Supreme Court Bench.
President Roosevelt will probably
soon have an opportunity to appoint
three Associate Justices of the Su-
preme Court. The justices who are
expected to retire are John NJ. Har-
Ian, of Kentucky, appointed in 1877 ;
Horace Gray, Of Massachusetts,, ap.
pointed in 1881, and Geo. shiras, Jr.,
of Pennsylvania, appointed in 1892.
Justice Harlan will probably be
succeeded by former Secretary of
State Day, of Ohio, or by Judge
Taft. Both are from the circuit to
which Justice Harlan belongs. Judge
Day was slated for the place by
President Mckinley. Judge Taft, it
is said, does not want the place,
being anxious to return to she Phil
ippines and complete his work there.
When Justice Shiras retires, as
he is expected to do in the next few
months, it is believed the vacancy
will be filed by the appointment of
former Attorney General John W.
Griggs, of New Jersey, although the
Pennsylvania Senators will make a
strong effort to secure the selection
of a man from thaT State.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-04

M. Santos umont, the flying ma
chine man, met with a disaster at
Monaco, France, Friday. His ma
chine dropped into the bay and he
had a narrow escape. He is not dis.
couraged, however, and will continue
to work his flying machine to per.
lection.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-04
SCHOOL TAX ELECTION.
A Good Example for other COmmunitt

A Good Example for Other Communities.
At the meeting of our County Com
missioners, they ordered an election
to be held On the 18th of March in
district Flo. 1 in Gulf township, for
the purpose of the voters therein
deciding whether they would levy a
special tax for the public schools Of
that district. The proposed special
tax is thirty cents on the one hun.
dred dollars valuation of property
and ninety cents on poll. Mr.. John
Jones was appointed registrar and
Messrs. Wesley Thomas and o. H.
Dorsett we're appointed poll holders
for said election.
This Is the first election asked for
in Chatham under the school law
enacted by the last Legislature. SEQ
ton 70 of that law provides for
such election when petitioned for by
o%ne-fourth of the freeholders within
any special school tax district that
may be formed for that purpose.
Many school districts in every county
would vote a special school tax if it
could be expended only on the
schools of the ACE paying it, and we
hope that our State constitution will
yet be amended so as to allow this
Chatham Record.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-04

season Of 10000 900 pounds. The
farmers in this and surrounding
country are greatly increasing their
acreage for the forthcoming crop.
Estimates vary from q 30 TO S5 per
cent increase. Kinston has an in
creased territory TO draw from next
year also, and 1t is expected fully
is, 200, 900 pounds will be sold on the
Kinston tobacco mari et next season.
-Kinston Free Press.
Raleigh Times: The historic home
of the late Wiley P. Mangum, in
Durham county, was sold at auction
q few days ago and purchased by w.
D. Hampton for $3.50. Mangum
lived, died and was buried at this
plantation, and no slab marks his
grave. His maiden daughters re-
sided at the old homestead until
they passed away a short time ago.
Wiley P. Msngum served North
Carolina for years in Congress and
vas m of the ablest men this State
ever had in the United States SEN
ate. A few years ago Hon. Hannibal
Hamlin, of maine, ex-Vice President
of the United States in an article
written for a magazine, olassed Man
gum among the ablest and greatest
men he eve met in his long public
career.
North Carolina folks are all right
at bottom. In the trial at Rowan
court of three negroes for criminally
assaulting Mrs. Livengood, that lady
stated that is was humiliating for
her TO give her evidence before a
curious crowd. The judge said he
had no authority to clear the court
room, but requested everybody not
connected with the case to retire.
According to the Salisbury CORES
pendent of the Charlotte Observer
''the crowd, white and black alike,
immediately complied, excepting
only a group of negro women in one
corner, who persisted in remaining"
There ought TO be some way of en-
forcing a request of that character,
and it would remove n of the
arguments in favor of lynohing.-
Exchange.
Wilmington Cor. Charlotte Obser-
yer: Strawberry growers along the
line of the Wilmington & Weldon
Railroad are viewing the smallpox
situation with considerable alarm.
They say if the disease is not checked
and stamped out entirely before the
crop movement begins about April
10th, the condition will result in
much financial loss TO them. Negro
lsborers in large numbers have TO be
imported TO pick the berries and
they will not go into the infected
districts or if they do go, they are
Of such q migratory character that
they would spread the disease far
and wide. Prevalence of the disease
would also check the small army of
produce solicitors who come into the
strawberry belt each year and de-
stroy the lively competition which
is the life of high prices. The hotel
men on the latter account T taking
a very gloomy view of the situation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-22
The Samoan Decision.

The decision of King Oscar of
Samoan controversy between the
United States and Great Britain on the
one side and Germany on the other is
not matter of much interest to the
world. The Samoan question was set
tied when the islands We're partitioned
among the three powers named above
| and such a complication as caused the
earlier -rouble cannot arise again.
King Oscar has always been known as
| tie fairest of arbiters. and no doubt he
| looked upon this matter from a calm
and judiciCus standpoint. Probably
his decision is technically right. and
the United States and England should
Fay Germany the slight sum awarded
as damages for interfering with the
German policy on the islands. But the
moral right of the controversy was all
with the United States and England
whose representatives at Samoa had nc
SiNc' anu tie pIotectlOn OF property
while Germany was plainly violating
the spirit of the tripartite agreement,
and was indulging in exasperatins
taetics TO stir up the natives and drive
the other powers to aggressive action
Now that the Samoan islands hav.
heen rarritioned they are no longer .
. constant source of danger and thi.
country can regard with all, compla
cency tile adverse decision regardin.
; TIE unpleasantness Of a few years ago
But it will probably be better in tn
future to refer international! contro
versies to The Hague tribunal rathe
than to King Oscar or any other ma,
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The Next House,

The official list of the newly elected
pared by the journal clerk OF the
House, confirms the accuracy OF the
press reports on the days Immediately
following the election. 1t shows tha'
there will be EOS Republicans ana l'e
Democrats, a clear Republican ma
jority of 80. which is larger than was
claimed by the most optimistic Repup-
Iican before the election. For the first
time in wears all minor political dis
tinctions disappear from the list OF
members and all array themselves
souarely with one of the other of the
dominant parties. In the present
House there are three members who
call themselves "Populists and two
"SiIverites," though they have COM
monty been classed as Democrats. 1t
will be the same in the next Senate.
not Populist will be on the list, and
thus ends one of the most notable of
the third party movements. Unless all
signs fails, the next third party" to
have representatives in Congress will
be the Socialists who are gaining
strength. mainly from the Democrats,
in northern centres.
The list Of the members of the next
House shows 131 names not on the
present roll. though some of these have
served in earlier sessions. OF these
131. 30 come from the new districts
provided for under the apportiOnment
based on the Twelfth census and the
others are due to changes in old dis
tricts. The father of the House will
be Gen. Bingham VINO has already
served 80 years. The history of the
House presents no equal record,
though Cannon of Illinois is only two
years behind him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-22
liqht on Tammany Methods.

A party of young collegians. ColOm-
bia students. are ready to go on the
| stand in New York and throw light on
some of the methods by which the
large Democratic majority in that city
was rolled up at the recent election.
Under the direction of Superintendent
of Elections McCullagh they disguised
themselves as tramps and in the few
days proceeding elections and on cleo
ton day they accumulated "a great
mass of evidence about Tammany's
methods of corruption. colonization and
repeating. which have made sensa-
ton in the New York papers and have
caused dismay among the Democratic
election officials and heelers. There
will be some sensational developments
in the case, and some of those high
up in Tammany are likely to decide
suddenly that Europe is "a good place
to visit.
The college boys threw themselves
| into their work with the true under
graduate spirit. and made the most of
their lark. They found no difficulty in
had no actual residence. Their board
and lodging were cheerfully paid for
cut of the Honest Biz Devery cam
paign, fund. They were thoroughly
drilled for their work as repeaters on
election day, and when the day came
they actually voted early and often"
without being challenged or having
trouble of any sort Presumably what
they did as volunteer evidence seekers
for McClllagh WIS done by scores and
hundreds of real tramps in many other
districts. The process by which they
cincts is simplicity itself. They were
fun nshed by Devery's captains with
names Of actual voters on the lists who
were known. for one reason or another,
! to be unable to go to the polls on cleo
ton day. On these names they pro-
cured official ballots walked into the
booths. prepared and folded them in
the usual way ard came out ana voted
them without challenge. They We're
| careful ~ vote so as to spoil their bal
| lots and to mark them for future iden-
| tifioaticn. The case will make an in
teresting chapter in New York politics
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-22
Personal Notes,

John Sparks, the newly elected Gov
ernor of Nevada, is a native of Texas
and was one time a cowboy
Rudyard Kipling, it is said, has or.
dered a rolling pin from a New Yorl
store, to be sent to England to be uset
in making Yankee pies. ..-..
Miss Lizzie Sherman, the only un.
married daughter Of the late General
w. T. Sherman, will not return tC
Washington this winter but will re-
main in Paris.
The coming Chinese Minister. Sir
Chen-tung Liang Chang, who is Wild
over, is said to be engaged to be mar
ried to the daughter of a Chinese Min
lister at i foreign court.
Fen Austrear, the American artist
now living in Paris, has brought over
two hens from the United States to
pose for him, as he contends that he
cannot get hens in France to pose pro-
perly.
The Duke de AbruZzi is about to pub
fish an account of his voyage in the
Arctic seas in 1S99-19OO 1t will be
brought out simultaneously in Italian
English. French, Spanish, German and
Russian.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-22
yayvilIe on the Bum,

a member of the football team lay gasp
ing on the ground;
There was lack of amDulances-not
enough to go around.
A comrade knelt beside him while a sur
geon set his nose,
And asked with student frankness.
Would he soon turn up his toes?'
The wounded player shuddered as he
heard the query kind
And then to turn the talk said he had
... something on his mind.
Take a message to the distant friends
who thought I'd make things hum.
For I'm from far-of Jayville-frOm JAY
Vile on the Bum.
Tell my brothers and companions wnen
they meet to hear my tale.
That the captain said my punting made
., the whitewashed fence grow pale;
That l ran just like a cripple, and my
kicks were like mules,
With just the understanding of that
beast about the rules.
He said that for tumble he'd back ME
against ten;
And that I'd score touchdown when the
robins nest again.
He asked were there more like me i'm me
place where came from.
And loudly smiled when L said 'Yes-in
Jayville en- the Bum.
Tell my sister not to weep and fall d
fainting from the shock.
While the doctor takes an inventory of
remaining stock.
There're one or two ribs whole yet. and
I've saved part of my face
think there's one sound feature left
my countenance to grace.
One leg has only three breaks, my neck s
just twisted been,
And there's a section of my skull which
has not been mashed in.
or better looking fellows l know she has
seen some,
But they don't know much of football
there in Jayville on the Bum.
There's another-not ha1fback-in the
happier days gone by
You'd have known him by the bargain
pins that sparkled in his tie.
Too innocent for kidding. not enough fun
cen for hazing.
All on the field you'd have thought it
was feather they were raising'
They kicked him quite as often as they
tried to touch the ball,
For the colleges, they have 1t in for men
who know it all.
And when they picked UP from the
ground all of him that would come.
He was too dead for Jayville e'en-for
Jayville on the Bum"
sighed and gave a squeak.
For the surgeon in his hurry gave the
battered nose a tweak.
His comrade bent to cheer him, but the
spark of hope had fled:
As soldier of the gridirOn he knew that
he was dead.
The lights of the patrol came up. and
calm the cops looked down
On that red and bloody battlefield with
human remnants strewn.
And as they took up the debris, they said.
1.-THE game was rum. ai
That team must be from Jayville-from
Jayville on the Bum.
Baltimore American.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-22

Some papers have lamented that the
President failed to raise the death
rate among the bears along the Little
Sunfower river in Mississippi. But
why? The bears appear to be well
behaved lot and there is no charge
against them that they ever killed a
president. The President had a good
outing and his i'll luck is no reflection
on his craftsmanship. There is a story
of an English lord who was hunting
birds in India. On his return to camp
the native attendant was asked il hi.
lordship shot well. oh yes" wa.
the suave reply. his lordship shot
beautifully. but God was very good +,
The birds" Thus special providenc,
was probably with the canebrake bear
IN their miraculous success in keepin.
out of range of the presidential rife
The warm south wind of the past few
days s probably the result of the Ion.
Sreaths Of relief drawn by the bears.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-22

Mr.. Mitchell showed himself very
adroit and resourceful young man on
the witness stand and he came out of
the ordeal of examination before the
commission much better than most
men would in his position. However
as Il result of the examination, he and
his organization appear at n decided
disadvantage. They did not stand foi
law and order during the strike ant
they want the operators to be held t,
"A degree of responsibility that the,
themselves are not bound to-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-22
Brief Dispatches.

Luck laughs when you tickle him with
industry.
The goddess of music has all the gifts
save humor. 80 q
We are but clay. and some of, us will
yet be fire clay. IN
Even live stock broker will be dead
un some day.
The devil is almost as pleased with a
mistake as with sin.
Luckily most of the mistakes We make
are unknown to us.
For the ills Of life Time is a good doc
tor. but Death Is better.
No man can properly drive a mule or
make up a bank statement unless he ~
able to cuss.
Life is railroad train. and we grumbl-
at its slowness until we near the getting
OF place.
Rural free mail delivery is doing much
to keep clean the stove in the country
grocery store.
No man can get so far away from HON.
but that the little mother can pull at his
lheartstrings
somehow man fails to swell with i'm
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-22

In speaking of the Philippines at
Memphis. President Roosevelt said:
We are there, and we can no more
haul down our flag and abandon the
islands than we could now abandon
Alaska" This remark is specially re-
commended for the mastication of the
"antiS"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-22

The only Democratic gains of note
i'm TIE recent elections We're in Rhode
Island. New York City and in some
Southern states. Those in Rhode
Island were due to the calling out OF
troops to suppress lawlessness by
strikers. those in New York were made
on Socialist platform, and those il
the South We're probably the outcome
of the Booker Washington incident
These are sad but glorious days fol
the Democracy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-22

The king of Portugal who is now. Wis.,
test and jolliest ruler in Europe, not
a small distinction on continent
where the king business is full of wor-
ries and sorrows. But POrtugaps mon
arch does not lead a very busy life
officially. and it indicates his happi-
and hardly knows his name. He is on
the best of terms with his own people
and is a first rate sort of fellow.
Carlos is his Eame and he is 40 as
well as fat.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-22
|W8lQ0uB Gossip
Miahtx Good Country.

Amt it a mighty good country-spite OF
its troubles an all.
From the red o the blooms in the May
time to the crimsonn' fruits o the
fall.
Then no for a song
As were trudgin' along
For the brightest old country of all.
Amt it mighty good country-answerin'
quick to your call
From the fields that are heavy with har-
vest to the clustering vines on the
WALL
Then no for a song
All the bright way along
For the brightest old country of all.
Amt ii a mighty good country-from cot
tage to garlanded hall,
With room in the hills an the valleys for
the hearts and the homes of us all.
Then it's no for song
All the glad way along
For the brightest old country of all.
Frank l.. Stanton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-22

In Effect, Oct. 13, 1900.
Passenger trains leave Augusta % t.
lows:
THROUGH TRAINS.
| GOING WEST-6.40 A. M. for LeWlstoA
Farmington. Phillips. Rockland. Port.
land, Boston. Bridgton, Montreal and
Quebec. 1000 A. NJ. for Brunswick, Lev.
iston. Pennington. Phillips. Carrabasset
n. Conway. Fabyans. Lancaster, Cor.
ham. N. H., Berlin Falls, Groveton,
N. Stafford. Island Pond. ColebrooE
and Beecher Falls: $40 P. NJ, local 70
wick. Portland and Boston, connecting
for Bath, Portland, Lewiston, Cornish,
BRIGHTON. No. Conway and Bartlett 7.06
Z: NJ. for So. Gardiner: 1898 P. M. (night
Portland and Boston; 2.35 A. NJ, daily ex-
cept Monday, for Portland and Boston.
GOING EAST--12.59 A. M. (night ex-
Dor. st, Stephen, (Calais). St. John, Hail
fax and Aroostook county and to Wash
ington Co. r. R.; Monday morning, going
east does not connect for Skowhegan nor
or beyond Bangor. except at Ellsworth
q Wash. Co. r. R.: s.27 4. NJ. for Water
vile. Foxcroft and Bangor; $40 A. NJ, for
Waterville, Belfast, Skowhegan. Bangor
Bangor. Old Town. Patten. Houiton and
Caribou via. B. & A. r. r. Vanceboro
st. Stephen. Calais, Houiton. Wood
stock, st. John and Halifax and to Lew
istOn, via Oakland and Winthrop: 2.3O p.
NJ, express for Waterville. Bangor bar
Harbor. Wash. Co. p. r, Old Town,
Greenville and Katahdin Iron Works. 3.a
z. NJ. for Waterfalls, Oakland. North
Arson, Bingham. Skowhegen, Belfast,
Foxcroft. Greenville. Bangor. Old Town
and Mattawamkeag: 7.26 p. NJ. for Wa
terville.
sUNDAYsGoins west. sss =. N. for
boz nd NJ
for Brunswick, Bath, Portland and Bos-
ton. Going east. Il. 50 A. NJ, Bangor. S15
A. NJ. and go p. NJ. for Waterville and
Bangor
The Night Pullman Train leaving al
1888 A. NJ. Monday morning, going east
does not connect for Skowhegan, nor on
Sunday morning for Belfast. Foxcroft or
east Of Bangor, except to Ellsworth and
Wash. Co. r. r.
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portancc when he Is told mat he Is hap
py hunting ground for countless germs.
The man who ticks another and liz after
ward fined for assault and battery IL apt
to believe that victory IL more costly than
defeat. .-r-ssl-
One difference between small boy and
u pup Is that pup has been known 10
eat soap and be sorry for II, and no small
boy would dream Of putting the stuff nea
his face unless obliged.