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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-02-14

We are pleased to learn from a
Western correspondent that the board
of management of the Iowa state
fair have granted petition from the
breeders of that state for a special class
for Morgan horses at their future annual
exhibitions. A large share of credit for
this desirable result is due to the indom-
liable efforts of Mr.. J.J. Tynes of Plain
field, Ia, ably assisted by Thomas Dean
of Rudd, j. j.. Scanlcn of Fort Dodge,
f. F. Brown of New York and Mr.. Aver
of Osceola, all prominent Iowa breeders
of Morgans. If the same spirit of enter
prise shown by these western gentlemen
prevailed in every state where this
superior family is known and appreci-
ated, no premium list of state, county
or district fair would be considered
complete without a distinct classified.
tion for the Morgan breed of horses
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-02-14
BEWARE OF OlNTMENTs FOR CATARRH
THAT CONTAIN MERCURY

as mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely deran go the whole sys
TEN when entering IL through the mucous sur
faces. Such articles should never be used eX.
cept on prescription from reputable physic
ians, as the damage they will. do is ten fold 10
the good you can possibly derive from them
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by +. j
Cheney x Co., Toledo, o., containes no mer
curry, and is taken internally. acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF the
system In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be
sure you get the genuine. 1t Is taken inter
nally. and made In Toledo. Ohio, by f. j
Cheney x Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle.
HalPs Family Pills are the Lest.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-02-14
A EIREMAN,s CLOSE Gall.

81 stuck to my engine, although every
joint ached and every nerve was racked
with pain" writes G. w. Bellamy, To-
comotive fireman, of Burlington, Iowa.
81 was weak and pale, without any ap-
to give up, got bottle of Electric Bit
tiers and after taking 1t, felt as we'll as
| ever did In my llfe." Weak, sickly,
run down people always gain new life,
strength and vigor from their use. Try
them. Satisfaction guaranteed by DR..
w. III. Sheldon. Price 80 cents.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-25
A Revised Edition.

The other night a policeman heard
fierce wrangling in the house of a
colored man on Calhoun street, and
he knocked on the door as a warning
that he was around. It was opened
by the man of the house, who saw
that his visitor was an officer, and
explained:
"Dis hain't no family fight or nuf-
fin o dat sort. We is sort O re-
hearsin' fur a play dat is comm off
at our cake walk"
ooh, that's it? I thought I heard
you call your wife a fool"
Oats in de play, sah."
"And she called you a thief"
TN de play, sah."
"And you threatened to split her
head OPEN"
"Zactly, sah-all in de play"
He was standing in the open door,
and at that moment a stick of wood
hit him in the back of the head and
keeled him over, and he alighted on
the ground, where he lay for half a
minute without motion. He was
slowly struggling to his feet when
the officer queried:
"Was that in the play, too"
ooh, no, sah-not 'zackly," was the
reply, "but OATS some AeH bizness
jist worked in, I reckon!"-Detroit
Free Press.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-25

are many good biographies for young
readers, dealing with men of heroic
temper and heroic Iabors: Alfred the
Great, William of Orange, Washing
on, Franklin and Lincoln, for illus
tration. There are a few biographies
which ought to be in every household,
and among them, for people of our
race at least, must be counted "Plut-
arch's Lives" BosweTs Johnson;
Trevelyan's "Iife and Letters of
Lord Macaulay''; Mrs. Kingsley's
biography of her husband; "The Ear
Iy Life of Charles James Fox" by
Trevelyan; Stanley's Iife of DR..
Arnold" -"The Life and Letters of
Huxley; General Grants "Mem-
oirs," and Lockhart's "Scott." The
story of Carlyle, by Froude, although
it is very one-sided, is intensely in
teresting; and the letters of Lamb,
of j. r. Green, of Horace Walpole,
and Mr.. Howells's Literary Friends
and Acquaintance" are all delight
full reading.-Hamilton W. Mabie, in
the Ladies' Home Journal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-25
thoughts for the Ambitious.

Success gives pithy maxims for
ambitious young people and they are
worthy of careful study by the older
people as we'll:
Find your purpose, and fling your
life out to it. Try to be something
with all your might.
What is put into the first of life is
put into the whole of it. Start right.
The first thing to do if you have
not done it, is to fall in love with
your work.
Don't brood over the past nor
dream of the future; but seize the
instant, and get your lesson from
the hour.
Poverty and hardship have ever
been the great schoolmasters of the
race, and have forced into promi-
nence many a man who would other
wise have remained unknown.
Necessity is the priceless spur.
Give a youth resolution and the
alphabet, and who shall place limits
to his career?
Don't wait for extraordinary op-
portunities; seize common occasions
and make them great.
A great opportunity will only make
you ridiculous unless you are pre-
pared for it.
The lucky man is temaa who sees
am f5rasps his opportunity.
3 world listens to a mali with q
will In him.
The man with an idea has rel
changed the face of the world.
Find a way or make one. Every
thing is either pusher or pushed.
There is nothing small in a world
where a mud creek swells to an
Amazon, and the stealing of a penny
may end on the scafold.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-25
Biography.

There is no more interesting read
ing than that which is to be found in
biographies, and none more profta-
BILE. Doctor Jowett once said that
in the future morals would be taught
largely from biographies, and "Plu-
tarch's Lives" have been happily de-
scribed as the "pasturage of great
minds" Real life is quite as fasci-
mating as fictitious life, and, as a
rule, far more educational in its in
fuence; one fine example of a virtue
illustrated in action is more effect
i've and stimulating than the clearest
exposition of that virtue In a text
book. General Gordon's career has
probably inspired more men to reso-
lutte performance of duty than any
modern treatise on ethics, and Rob
ert Louis Stevenson's plucky fight
against disease and disabilities is one
of the most eloquent homilies to
which men have had the opportunity
to listen in our day. 1t is well to
have a shelf full of good biographies
always at hand for recreation, for
stimulation and for encouragement.
Children whose attention is difficult
to arrest are often greatly interested
in the lives of men of action because
such books deal with realities. There
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-25
Cheerful Thanksgiving.

To give thanks cheerfully, we must
have been in the habit of thanksgiv-
ing. The day is not an isolated fact,
but the crown of a whole years ex-
perience. 1t may be a beginning,
where the habit of faith that bears
fruit in continual acknowledgment
has not been established; but surely
among Gods children such an expe-
rience ought to be exceptional. 1t
should be the climax, for the mo-
ment, of an ever growing mood. Too
many Christian lives are like Novem-
Der mornings, which begin in full
sunshine only to have the sun pass
into clouds that keep us all day long
in shade. The secret of the happy
life, the life of praise, after that
faith in God which is the channel of
his life that feeds our souls, is found
in the direction of our eyes and the
order of our thoughts. Which do we
look for first, complaint or praise?
Which goes first into our scale for
estimation, trial or mercy? Are we
looking part way up to compare our
selves with more successful men, or
far beyond success to the center of
our life and joy? If the days
thoughts shall teach us to inaugu-
rate OF to extend the habit of weigh
ing mercies and giving voice to
praise, it will be to us, as we look
back upon it, in a special sense a real
*ThIs is No. "a of our series of the Worlds
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-25
A Black Spot for the Leopard.

Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., the author
of The Leopard's Spots, which has
sold more largely in the South than
any recent American novel, is a ma
tive of North Carolina, but he has
chosen Tidewater Virginia, for his
home.
Nh. Dixon is a man of incessant
and exhaustless activity. He is n
of the best-paid lecturers in the
country, and he has more calls than
he can fill. His income from this
work is very large, and his novel has
paid him well. At present he is en-
gagged on another book which will
treat in fiction form an American
problem, somewhat different from
the race issue, which was the theme
of The Leopard's Spots. When ne
returns from a lecture tour he puts
on his old clothes and goes cunning
or fishing. When he decided to write
a new book he wanted a new work
shop, and so in addition to the big
house on his place he has just com
pleted the erection of a log cabin for
a study. 1t cost him thousands of
dollars and is in itself an elaborate
structure.
Mr.. Dixon has a son who inherits
his fathers cleverness. His repartee
is quoted by all the family acquain-
tances. The other day he asked his
father for a goat. The father re-
piled:
"My son, that is one combination
that I positively refuse to have on
this farm-you and a goat"
Mr.. Dixon went away to lecture
and when he returned the son was
ready for him.
Papa" he said @why have 5u
gwen up preaching and given all
your time to lecturing"
"Tm after the almighty dollar"
was the reply.
eyes, papa, more after the dollar
than the Almighty" he said.-Satur-
day Evening Post.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-25
THE HOME CIRCLE
Patriotism.

Breathes there the man with soul so
dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This Is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath meier within him
burn'd
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd
From wandering on a foreign
strand?
If such there breathe, go, mark him
we'll;
For him no minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his
name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can
claim,
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch c~oncentred all in self,
Living shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he
sprung,
Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.
o Caledonia! stern and wild,
Meet nurse for a poetic child!
Land of brown heath and shaggy
wood,
Land of the mountain and the food,
Land of my sires! what mortal hand
Can e'er unite the flial band
That knits me to thy rugged strand?
Still, as l view each well-known
scene,
Think what is now, and what hath
been,
Seems as to me, of all bereft,
Sole friends thy woods and streams
were left;
And thus / love them better still
Even in extremity of i'll.
By Yarrow's streams still let me
stray,
Though none should guide my feeble
way;
Still feel the breeze down Ettrick
break,
Although it chill my w1fhaS'd cheek;
Still lay my head by Teviot Stone,
Though there, forgotten and alone,
The Bard may draw his parting
grOan.
Sir Walter Scott.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-25

than women, I sometimes think; at
any rate, their favorite types are all
present on the poultry farm.-From
"The Diary of a Goose Girl" by
Kate Douglas Wiggin, in Scribner's
Magazine.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-25
Some Reflections on the Character of
Cocks and Hens.

The longer I study the cock,
whether Black Spanish, White Leg
horn, Dorking, or the common barn
yard fowl, the more intimately l am
acquainted with him, the less I am
impressed with his character. He
has more pride of bearing, and less
to be proud of, than any bird 1 know.
He is INDECENT, though he struts
pompously over the grass, as if the
day were all to short for his onerous
duties. He calls the hens about
him when-I 4hS9NE Gapfrom the
basket, but many a time I have e g
him swallow hurriedly, and in pri-
vate, some dainty tit-bit he has found
unexpectedly. He has no particular
chivalry. He gives no special en-
enlargement to his hen when he be-
comes a prospective father, and rem
ders little assistance when the e
sponsibilities become actualities. His
only personal message Or contribu-
ton to the world is his raucous cock
a-doodle-doo, which, being uttered
most frequently at dawn, is the most
ill-timed and offensive of all musical
notes. It is so unnecessary, too, as
if the day didn't come soon enough
without his warming; but I suppose
he is anxious to waken his hens and
get them at their daily task, and
so he disturbs the entire community.
In short, I dislike him; his swagger,
his autocratic strut, his greed, his
irritating self-consciousness, his end
less parading of himself up and down
in a procession of one.
Of course his character is largely
the result of polygamy. His weak
nesses are only what might be ex-
pected; and as for the hens, I have
considerable respect for the patience,
sobriety and dignity with which they
endure an institution particularly
offensive to all women. In their case
they do not even have the sustain
ing thought of it's being an article of
religion, so they are to be compli-
mented the more.
There is nothing ON earth so femi-
nine as a hen-not womanly, simply
feminine. Those men of insight who
write the woman's page in the Sun
day newspapers study-hens more
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-11-25

Best Peems.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16

wish to charm him with it's velvet pur-
ity and fresh perfume.
Edelweiss was the late Emperor Will
liam's favorite flower, and every birth
day he was the recipient Of many beau
tiful wreaths composed of the wild
flower gathered by loving hands often
at the risk of life and limb. 1t has IA
lasting quality that makes it n gen
cral favoritc, and. as it will not grow
as we'll under cultivation and defies the
arts of the florist, preferring its native
snow clad crags and inaccessible ac-
cHvities, those who make q profession
of gathering the fower-and some few
of these are WOmcn--find it more or
less lucrative.
II am never afraid" said one old
edelweiss gathcrer, who called herself
champion OF the Tyrol, and daily filled
her basket with the fairy blossoms,
''for I have learned to creep to the
highest points with the surest foot
and even the guides who take tourists
to the submits of these mountains
cannot discount ME when it comes to q
real climb.
"Besides, mountain climbing keeps
me young and strong, for am a great
nature lover. as may be ina gined after
half a century of constant climbing
over these crags and peaks.
I'm winter I sit in my little chalet
and knit stockings, in summer I am
abroad IN the valleys and making my
way over the dangerous passes in
search of the pretty flower. and as the
market for it is ever strong, manage
to make a very comfortable living.
'To strangers it may not seem quite
the gentcel occupation for women.
but love it. make good living by it
and shall remain champion edelweiss
gatherer till I die,''
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16
ROYAL PURPLE IS CRIMSON
Color Popularity Known I'm the Unite Il
States as Purple Is Vastly
Different,

Any standard German dictionary
will attest to the fact that the crude
conventional color which is popular
" known in the United States as
purple has never been and is not to-
day the royal purple in which classic
tradition. and the paintings of old
masters robe their kings and queens.
says the Chicago Daily News.
Take Aluret-Sanders, for instance.
a standard German dictionary, and
you will find under the word sspur-
pui," which is the German spelling
for our purple. the definition: seTle
Tyrian dye; crimson; deep red
Among the explanatory phrases at
tached to the definition also is one
which, translated into English, means
Investing the cardinal with the
purple" The color of cardinals
robes and hat is too we'll known,
one would say, to permit one to
think of them as anything but the
color which is known popularity to-
dayas cardinal" j. .* s.s:: :7s. 3
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16
Proper Care Of Hairb-uxhes.

Hairbrushes should be washed once
a week, and are soon spoiled unless
properly cleansed. The best way is to
put teaspoonful of ammonia in a
quart of water, as hot as can be borne
comfortably by the hand. The brush
should be freed from hairs and dipped,
bristles downward, in and out of the
water until clean. 1t should be rinsed
by dipping in cold water in the same
way. Shake well, wipe the back anu
handle carefully, and put on window
sill to dry in the open air. The back
Should not be allowed to become damp
fit can be avoided. Soap should not
be used for washing, as it makes the
bristles soft. u .* d .sz. !
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16
LEARN TO BE GRACEFUL.
IL IN Within the Reach Of Any Girl
Who Exercises Wntchfulness
Over Her Cnrrlare

Women who wish to preserve the
slimness and contour of their figures
must begin by learning to stand
we'll. That means the throwing for
ward and upward of the chest, the
fattening of the back with the shout
der blades held in their proper places.
and the definite curving in of the
small of the back, thus throwing the
whole weight of the body upon the
hips. A graceful carriage is within
reach of any girl who takes the pains
to have it; it is only the question of
a few years Of vigilance; never relax
ing her watchfulness over herself.
and. sitting or standing, always pre-
serving her greatness and pose, the
result being that at the end of that
time it has become second nature to
her, and she never aftcrward loses it.
This i'll a great measure preserves
the figure.
The correct stature of the human
figure is said to be six times the
length of the feet. Whether the
form is slender or plump, the rule is
supposed to hold good. The face.
from the highest point of the fore
head to the chin, is one-tcnth of the
whole stature. The hand, from the
wrist to the middle finger, is the
same. From the top of the chest to
the highest point of the forehead is
& seventh. If the face from the roots
of the hair to the chin be divided into
three equal parts, the first deter
mines the place where the eyebrows
meet and the second the place of
the nostrils.-Chicago American.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16
COMING HOME At NIGHT.

The wtde-thrown door-a flood of lamplight
through;
The touch Of hands and lips. the words are
few;
A woman's upturned face and her glad
That thrill welcome to him tenderwise;
A voice that holds for him the old delight
her crlnging arms-when he comes home
at night.
The snowy little table simply spread;
The gurgling, singing kettle: on the mat
Ensconced IN loud content, the old house
cat;
The lampllght's radiance on a woman's
head
And prodisally over all. the beam
Ut his own flreside with its cheerful Lleam:
A child's shrill voice in welcome lifted high,
A romp In rough-and-tun1ble, hearty
style,
The dropping lids and white crib by and
by,
A lisping voice protesting all the while;
"A little sleeping form-and bent above,
Her brooding face, al!ght with mother
O heart that works and at its working
sings.
o you who have such store Of honely
things.
And homely Joys that seem to you so small,
There is not one that you would sell of all
For any pr1ce, OF ueed away the right
TO what is yours-when you come home at
night!
Anna Spencer TwitcheN, in Western
Christian Advocate.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-04-16
A WISCONSIN PAPER ON
WESTERN CANADA.
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, One of the
Fayoured Districts.

The following clipped from the COR
respondence columns of the Eau Claire,
(Wisconsin) Leader, is but one of
many letters of similar character
that might be published concerning
Western Canada, the land of No. /
Hard Wheat and the best cattle on
the continent. 1t is a simple matter
to reach the lands spoken of, the Cana
dian Government having agencies es-
tablished at St. Paul and Duluth,
Minnesota; Grafton, North Dakota;
Watertown, South Dakota; Omaha,
Nebraska; Kansas City, Missouri; Des
Mines, Iowa; Wausau and Milwaukee.
wisconsin,; Chicago, Illinois; Indian
apolis, Indiana; Sault Ste. Marie, and
Detroit Michigan; Toledo and Column
bus, Ohio, and by writing to or call
ing upon any of these Agents at these
points full information can be Sc
cured. This is a great opportunity to
secure a home free of cost or if you
desire to purchase lands; they can be
bought now at prices much lower than
will exist in a few months. But read
what the correspondent referred to
has to say of one particular district.
10 the Editor Of the Leader:
"The rush of the land seekers will
be to the prairie provinces of the Do
! minion of Canada. The allurelnents of
a soil that yields 40 bushels of wheat
to the acre are too great to be resist
ed, and an immense migration from
this country may be confidently pre-
dicted. People here laughed at first
| at the idea Of any one leaving the
United States for Canada, but the Do
minion authorities knew they had a
good thing and they stuck to it. Their
officials evidently knew the value Of
printers ink. They spared no ex-
pense in letting the people Of this
country know that these lands were
there and that they were exactly as
represented. They did more. They
sent out specimens of the crops raised
and samples of the grain. We have had
them here at four consecutive street
fairs, presided over by one of their
ablest immigration officers. This gen
tleman spared no pains. He explained
the value Of the lands and the richness
of the soil from morning to night to
all comers.
"4All this told in the long run. Sew.
eral went up from here to spy out the
land, and, like Caleb, the SON of Jepun.
neh, and Joshua, the son Of Nun
brought back good report, and now
some ten families will leave here in a
few weeks for Saskatoon to settle
upon farms there, and others are pre-.
pairing to follow. OF course many will
appear shocked at the idea of any
one leaving the stars and stripes fol
the Union Jack, but patriotism is but
a nomenclature after all, and our ex
perience has been that in nine hun
dred and ninety-nine cases out of {
thousand, a man is the most patriotic
where he can make the most none,
and do the most harm to those whom
he hates"