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The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-24
Nfii FightIncreasr.

Buffalo, Aug. 23. - A vigorous fight will be waged against the proposed in- crease in assessments upon the older members of the Ancient Order of Unit
 ed Workmen., A committee represent ing the protesting members will report at mass meeting to be held here on September 1. .. .,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-24
4 PERMANENT INSTITUTION
To be prade ssate Ailianc ce of BuiIhing 2
 Trades.

Hartford Conn, Aug. 2S. A meeting 5of the executive board of the Connecti- cut Alliance of Building Trades was held here to-day, the announced object being the formulation of plans to make the alliance a permanent institution. Carpenters, briclSlayers and bridge and structural iron workers were represent ed in the meeting. The session was se- cret and nothing was given out regard ing the business transacted.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-24
In.nn. w. m,n roup,l in ,.lIar.

An insane woman was found in the eel lar of Vernon street house early last evening She was taken to police head quarters and questioned, but nothing could be learned from her accept that what talk ing she was doing was in Polish. About nine o'clock an elderly Folander called at was his daughter. She was then turned oyer to his care and ha took her -h0paa. l-.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-24
At St. Louis First game

R.H.E. St. Louis ......3o000oao 0 0-s 10 4 Boston ..........0 021002 0-5 Batteries -Sievers and Sugden; Hughes and J. stahl Attendance 21.- 300.
 Second game
 R.HE. St. Louis .......0 O0 0s02 0 0 0l-2 V 1F Boston .....2001001O Q 0--4 IA 1 Batteries Sudhoff and Sugden; Young, Criger and Farrell.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-24
SUNDAY BASEBALL.
American League. ,onF;rct uov,,o

" AmeFIcAh Lengue. T- At Chicago First game
 RH.E Chicago ........o 092s00s0 0 0-Sl = New York ......3 .31 0 o-l e-s-l 06 g g. Batteries White and Slattery; Grif- fifth and Beville. Attendance -10, ,S25. Second game
 RIFE. Chicago ........01 0 0 000 2 *-3 New York ......0 0501000 0 0-I SF Batteries Patterson and Slattery; Howell and Beville.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-24
|SfATE TlRS' CAMP IS DRY
LIQUOR, IFTHERE IS ASY, KEPT
 OUT OF SIGHT.

A aai..sanaay-Ii..l. Work Required of the Msn-win e., Dowa to Hu.l- mes. ro-day-Arrival or she Hartford Desail-Maroh to Camp from Crescent Beach.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-10
Lincoln's Gettysburg Grafton.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth upon this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty and dedicated to the PROPOSE
ton that all men are created equal. Now we are
engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that
nation or any nation so conceived and so dedi-
Gated can long endure. We are met on a great
battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate
a portion of that field as a final resting place. for
those who here gave their lives that that nation
might live. It is altogether fitting and proper
that we should do this; but, in a larger sense, we
cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, We cannot
hallow this ground. The brave men, living and
dead, who struggled here, have conseerated it far
above our power to add or detract. The world
will little note, nor long remember, what we say
here, but it can never forget what they did here.
1t is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated to
the unfinished work which they who fought here
have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for
us to be dedicated here to do the great task re-
naming before us; that from these honored dead
we take increased devotion to that cause for
which they gave their last full measure of devo-
ton; that we here highly resolve that these dead
shall not have died in vain; that this nation, I'm.
der God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and
that government of the people, by the people and
for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-10
Money as a Measure of Value.

1t would be strange if our huge, spectacular
success in gathering wealth should not for the
time being blunt our appreciation of the othe:
kinds of success. Money is a VIGOROUSLY imper-
feet measure of the value of work, but after all it
is the most definite and comprehensive measure
three is, and the common tendency to feel that
the work that brings in the most money is the best
worth doing has plenty of excuse. Moreover, the
work whereof we have seen the results and
rewards in this country during the last
five years has been of immense value not only to
Americans but to civilization. The benefits of it
have not been e~quitably distributed, but in such
cases they never are. Where there are great OPP
portunities some men see and grasp them, and
have the power to profit by them far more than
others. There have lately been vast opportuni-
ties in this country. We have seen wealth Gre
ated in enormous volume, and we have seen many
inordinately large slices of it get into individual
hands. Some of the results have been disturb
ing. Luxury has increased and the development
of classes has seemed to go on with unprecedented
rapidity. We ordinary, wage-earning people,
who are thankful if we can manage to win the
comforts of life, see. palaces rising about us in
bewildering number, see the evidence of luxuri-
Gus living on every side, and feel, of course, that
the conditions of American life have changed
and are changing fast, and that we are less and
less of the social class of these people that we
watch or read about. We wish the times might
grow simpler again. We wish there were less
basis for the cry that the ordinary individual is
becoming of less and less Importance, and that
machinery, organization, and combination are
constantly glowing more powerful.
l guess that as a result of all our years of
plenty we have got the mOney-making end of our
great machine too much on our minds-From
"The Point of View" in the December Scribner's.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-10

What a college really does for a man is this
it increases his power, makes a little more of what
there was in him to begin with. If there was
genius in him, it enhances his genius; if there
was leadership in him, it makes him a greater
leader; if there was asinnity in him, he becomes
a greater ass. AS old Gorgon Graham says:
"Some men are like pigs, the more you educate
them, the more amusing little cusses they become,
and the funnier capers they cut when they show
off their tricks"
Finally, Old GOrgon has summed up the whole
matter in these two sentences: "a good, strong
boy will turn out a bright, strong man whether
he is worn smooth in the neutrality-suspicious.
eat-standing-wi ne-eye-open-for-the-do school
of the streets and stores, or polished up and slick
ed down in the Observation-Disclosures
get-a-sixteen-course-dinne school of the profess
sors. But while the lack of a college education
can't keep No. 1 down, having it boosts No. 2 up"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-10
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.

He had always INDUCED his temper, and had
regarded the proud and contentious element of
human nature as a sort of nobleness and mag
nanimity; reason and discipline had not imbued
him with that solidity and equanimity which en-
tiers so largely into the virtues of a statesman.
He had never learned how essential it is for any
one who undertakes public business, and desires
to deal with mankind, to avoid above all things
that self-wil, which, as Plato says, belongs to the
family of solitude; and to pursue, above all
things, that capacity so generally ridiculed, of
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-10

An article from the Charlotte Observer, en-
hasizing the value of cottonseed as a Southern
farm product, was reprinted verbatim in last
weeks Progressive Farmer. If we had given the
matter a moments thought, the incorrectness of
the figures in the article would have been appar-
ent. As it is, we have to thank DR.. TAFT Butler
for directing our attention to the error. With
100000 bales of cotton, there are, of course,
about 5,OOO,OOO,OOO pounds of lint and 1O,OOO,OOO,-
900 pounds of seed, worth at present prices fully
$9O,OOO,OOO-or $780, 900, 1000 if all the seed could
be sold at 30 cents, the price paid last week in
Charlotte and Raleigh. The Observers figures
were 1,OOO,OOO,OO pounds of seed, worth $9,OOO,
900.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-10

submission to Entertainment. Marcus [Coriola-
nus,] straightforward and direct, and possessed
with the idea that to vanquish and overbear all
opposition is the true part of bravery, and never
imagining that it was the weakness and woman
ishness of his nature that broke out, so to say, in
these liberation of anger, retired, full of fury
and bitterness against his people-From Plu-
tarch's sketch of the life of Coriolanus, describ-
ing his defeat for the consulship.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-10

We have received a copy of the first biennial
report of Hon. J. Y. Joyner, Superintendent of
Public Instruction, and our candid opinion is
that no State Superintendent has ever sent out
a better one. The recommendation and opin-
ions are such as might have been expected of a
just aud courageous man, a clear thinker and an
efficient officer. Mr.. Joyner has made a highly
favorable impression on the people of the State,
and the general opinion is that none of his prede-
cessOrs since Wiley have surpassed him in ability
and devotion to the cause of education
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-10

State Alliance Lecturer Balm has recognized
several sub Alliances in Columbus County, and
Lecturer Gates organized two more in Vance last
week. Brother Gates will spend this week in.
Granville, visiting different neighborhods in the
interest of the Order, and we hope that our read
ers will do all in their power to aid him in his
good work. Help advertise his meetings, go out
to hear him, and get your neighbors to attend
with you.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-10

A poem quite worthy of a place in our special
treasury of verse is that on page 15-"that great,
fierce poem" as Mr.. Irwin Avery calls it-but
Mrs. Daskam. It is tense with passion; every
line and every word is charged with the deepest
emotion that can touch the human heart.
Decorah-posten., 1903-06-19

aIore og arSrc pofsne ariitne, fan
tlue nosen pirfelis leDertoe ariiien.
tro."
GenHe Gag bfep pe9 forriee Spno-
Senisoe meo Gpgtigbeo forberest al
en- aomite, Ger fremIagSe en- Snoltil-
ling. JON finoes pao Bag. 47--49 |
forrige aars SpnooaBeretning. Spn.
oSen beilntteoe Senaang af operIaoe
BERNIE Gag, beri in0befottet ani9tteIie
al en- Observation-Disclosures, til Nenig.
Daoerres % NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
S%oerCsielie. % uSiatte Sagens vi.
gjsreiIe til nGroGrenOe SGlesmsoe.
Zen af forrise SproSe beilutteSe
eiroelige Gepiiion al Cen ripe, forfor.
teoe 6ortlarins er foretaaet gogen
or tGroig. % oct operlases iii Wenia.
tfoerEeS % Erpiternes afgisreIie,
ON De pil benptte ben.
5 &irferaaOets SammeniGtHina er
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thrift, er inStraa0t ! Sormmo Sal.
pcriens Steo. 8eunes Reuigbeo or
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ReItgtation iom Brett. for at tdu ef.
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De ONE Jig for Sormanosem6soet.
Sra SDnooens ire 2prearitalter
foreli9ger trpfte Sr66eretninger. Sra
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JON er siIfreositillenSe.
Sim flageS Ser al SHipnsfomiteen
for Slit6eran 9ormal Shool ooer
Nargel paa Hum iom en- ppientlig
SinSring ior arbeioet. dig ipneS,
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al Stolens betponingSfuloe
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Decorah-posten., 1903-06-19
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IN Siiobereilling til SDnoSpn:
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ferjte SGrere I adfetiSmtsien. oa
boer artItenoomsifoIe cnter iIet life
opretteS eler inbifrGrteS til set
multge, Ser fan ieg life
tneie, at De, JON 1ar Sfplo 5cri, 5or.
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The Press., 1903-05-14
 Some survfvaIs of Fashion.

Man is unquestionably highly rar tional being. Sdll. if you travel and observe, from the mouth of the Danube to the Golden Gate you will find most men wearing q coat with a useless col lar marked with a useless V shaped slash and decorated with two useless buttons at the small of the back and one or two more useless buttons at the cuffs. The collar, the slash and the buttons are there in answer to no rational need. It is not a common eli mate nor a common racial need of pro tection against climate that they repre- sent, but a common civilization whose form and ritual they mutely confess Over this entire area those who aspire to be of the Brahman caste deck their heads for wedding, funeral and feast with a black cylindrical covering, suit ed, so far as we can discern, neither to avert the weapon of the adversary or the dart of the rain nor to provide q seat wheraOn man may sit and rest himself. And as for the women con- tained within this same area we behold that the amplitude of the sleeve, the disposition of the belt and the outline of the skirt ell obey the rise and fall of one resistless tide which neither moon nor seasons controL-Benjamin Ide Wheeler in Atlantic.
The Press., 1903-05-14
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
tItems of local interest taken from the columns
 of The Press, thirty years ago.l
May 1s. 1873.


 o. w. Sanford's hen Is ahead thus far having produced an egg measuring 6axS inches.
 Local market, meal, $1 60; oats, .65 and TO; corn, 85 and 90; flour, $10 90 and 12.5O; potatoes, .75 and 30; beans, 8. and $50; apples, 90 and 1.25; butter, 35 and 45; pork, 14; lard, ;123 eggs. .25.
 There are severalcases of sm III K re- ported among the school children in the west district, Rockville.
 At meeting on Monday evening, Tor rent Engine company voted to observe Memorial day by 8 parade and suitable ceremonies and 8 committee consisting of Anthony Adams, c. E Brandy. William Potter, John Brockbank, M. P. Hanley, Albert Parkess. Cyrus Bandford, c. J. Holmes. Smith w. Page and w. A. Con- ins was chosen to make arrangements. The following persons were appointed to cooperate with the above committee; A. Eaton and Alba Perkins of StaffoIdvIlle ; E. l. Beckley and O R. Brown of the Hollow; John A. Smith and Frank Or cutto Stafford Street Capt. T. D. John- son and E. O. Wilber of West Stafford
 BIRTHS. South Coventry, May 13, 1873, a daughter to D. F. Lathrop.
 Stafford, 3. a son to Frank Orcutt.
The Press., 1903-05-14
THE WOODCOCK.
Where Does 1t Hide During the MOlt
 ing SeasOn2

Where Does 1t Hide During the Molt-
 ing SeasOn9
 It is during the months of August and September that the mystery of the woOdcock's life begins. This is the melting season, when the bird changes it's plumage before beginning its journey southward. At this time it leaves the swamps. Where does 1t go? That is question. which has new CT yet received satisfactory answer, although each sportsman and natural ist has his own opinion, and many fine spun theories have been advanced. Some say that the birds move toward tlie north, some that they seek the mountain tops coming into the swamps 10 feed only after nightfall some that they seek the cornfields, and there have been many other such theories.
 Probably the truth lies in mean of all these statements. I think it prob able that the birds know the loss of their feathers renders them to a cer- tain extent helpless and more exposed to the attacks of their natural enemies, and they therefore leave the more open swamps and hide in the densest and most tangled thickets. 1t is certain that they scatter. for at this season single birds are found in the most un- usual and unexpected places.
 Years ago when shooting In Dutch ,'ss county, N. Y., knew one or two swamps. which we called molting swamps. where in August we were c.,ro %o find o li,oifod nrp1hor nf htrdo These swamps were overgrOwn with rank marsh grass and were full of patches of wild rose and sweetbrier. If we killed the birds which we found there. we were sure in week or ten days to find their places filled by about the same number.-Outing.
The Press., 1903-05-14
THE OLD WOOD FIRE.
Putffng the Big Backlog I'm Place
 YNma Unite a Iaah

PuGffmg the Bxg Backlog 1@ F1@C0
 Was Quite a Job.
 After the evening chores were done my father would appear in the doorway with the big backlog coated with snow, often of ampler girth than himself. and fully breast high to him as he held 1t upright, canting it one way and anoth- CT and walking 1t before him on it's wedge shaped end. He would perhaps stand it against the chimney while he took breathing spell and planned his campaign. Then, the andirons hauled forward on the hearth and the bed of half burned brands and live coals raked open, the icy log was walked into the chimney. where a skillful turn would lay it over, hissing and steaming. in it's lair of hot embers. It seemed thing alive. and its vehement sputtering and protesting made dramatic moment for at least one small spectator.
 The stout shovel and tongs or perhaps a piece of flrewood used as 8 lever would force it against the chimney back; then a good sized stick. called s.back stick" was laid on top of it, and the andirons were set in place. Across the andirons another good sized stick was laid, called fore stick" and in the interspace smaller sticks were crossed and thrust and piled. all quick ly kindled Ey the live coals and brands. In very cold weather fire was kept burning all night, our father getting up once or twice to replenish it. Even in summer. the coals rarely became ex- tinct. A good heap of them covered with embers at bedtime would be found alive when raked open in the morning. U. T. Trowbridge in Atlantic.
The Press., 1903-05-14
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The Press., 1903-05-14
REFLECTIONS.

A wife often permits her affection to blind her reason.
 Regard for petty things often will dwarf mans ambition.
 A woman's love can become annoy ing as well as burdensome.
 Marriage based on honest affection will withstand the ravages of time.
 When woman gives way to anger. she begs her own pardon with tears.
 Many women find happiness only when attending to the affairs of others.
 Confidence is not easily gained where exaggerated love of self is found to exist.
 To decide between love and duty has caused hours of worry to men as well as to women.
 The man with vice wonders why so many persons think it their duty to make public the fact,
 Man often shows the hard side of his disposition to mark more strongly the generous shades .- Philadelphia Bulle fin E-S