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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-10-13
The Postofice Department Scandal
Again.

Again.
Editor of Tn Progressive Farmer:
After devoting four months almost
exclusively to the consideration OF
the charges growing out of the post
Office scandals, the Washington grand
jury was dismissed last Monday. Its
last act was to add thirteen to
the long list of indictments found
against those who stand accused of
defrauding the Government through
the p~ostofice. These last indictments
were against James n. Tyner, Har-
rison j. Barrett, George w. Beavers,
w. Scott Towers, James 7. Metcalf,
August w. Machen, all former postal
officials, Norman r. Metcalf and
Harry @. Hallenbeck, both of New
York, William d. Doremus, of Wash
ington, and State Senator Green, of
New York. Several of these were
formerly indicted and have now two
or more new indictments returned
against them. In fact, Machen must
now stand trial on fourteen indict-
ments and Beavers on six.
There are now about thirty cases
awaiting trial. Many of the accused
held high positions in the PostOtice
Department or elsewhere in public
life. Tyner was at n time Post
master-G General, and until his recent
removal, held the important position
of Assistant Acknowledgement for
the PostOffice Department. Edmund
H. briggs was formerly a member
of Congress from New York, Green
is a member of the New York State
Senate, John 7. Cupper is mayor of
Lockhaven, Pa, Machen was Super
intendent of the Free Delivery Di-
vision, Hedges of the City Delivery,
and Miller and Christiancy were as
sistant attorney for the Postofice
Department. The charges against
these men may be divided into three
classes; taking commissions on sup
plies sold the Department, allowing
"get-rich-quick" and other fraudulent
concerns to use the mails on the pay
ment of a consideration and tamper-
ing with the accounts by the improp-
er registration of expenses. Most of
the trials will be held in Washington,
and will commence with the present
term of the criminal court. They
will be continued through the winter
and are expected to drag along
through next summer. Many fur
Their changes and dismissals are ex-
pected in the Department, and talk
of a Congressional Investigation of
the postofice continues.
A. B. M.
Washington, D. c., Oct. 10, 1908.
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law and freedom from arbitrary DOW
er.-From "The Macedonian Strup-
gle," by can American Born in TN
key" in the American MONTHLY Re-
view of Reviews for October.
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GENERAL NEWS
The Lesser Events of Last Week.

China has appealed to Japan for
assistance against Russia.
Professor Langley's flying machine
was launched and proved to be a
complete failure.
The Bristow report on the postal
scandals probably will be completed
about October 20.
A decrease in tie number of new
S of yellow fever at Laredo,
Texas, is reported.
Extra precautions are being taken
to protect the President against
cranks and insane persons.
John Alexander Dowie, the evan
gelist, was quoted as expecting to
get $5O,OOO,O 900 in New York.
The Steel Trust reduced the divi-
dend on the common stock from n
per cent to one-half of one per cent.
Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, of Mary
.and, a famous Confederate soldier,
died at the home of his son in Gooch-
land County, Va.
The commercial treaty between
China and the United States, open
ing certain ports in Manchuria, was
Si0Dad of SHANGHAI
Twenty-Five members of a mob
charged with lynching a negro have
been indicted by the grand jury of
Moore County, Tenn.
President Roosevelt appointed
John P. Neilds, of Wilmington, an
anti-Addicks man, United States At
torney for Delaware.
Tammany Hall has taken steps to
establish an organization of its own
in Brooklyn as a rival to the n
headed by Hugh Mclaughlin.
Senator Thomas G. Platt, who is
70 years old, announced that he
would marry Miss Lillian T. Jane
way, of Washington, on October Is
in New York.
Secret service officers had a des-
perate encounter with an armed in
sane man who was determined to see
President Roosevelt in the vestibule
of the White House.
Joseph Chamberlain, speaking at
Greenock, Scotland, said he was a
free trader, but wanted a tariff as a
means of forcing a fair exchange
with other countries.
The trustees of the Peabody Edu-
cational Fund held their annual
meeting in New York City. DR.. S.
A. Green, of Boston, was chosen to
succeed DR.. J. L. M. Curry.
Peter Elliott, a Swede from Min
neapolis, drew a pistol and fought
desperately when elected from the
White House, where he said he called
simply to see the President.
The Federal grand jury made its
final return in the postal scandals in
vestigation, indicting Judge James
NJ Tr1or -Ho-o- Do..o44 H.
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A perverse temper and a diScon-
tented, fretful disposition, WheIGvel
they prevail, render any state OF LI0
unhappy.-Cicero.
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THE eoYoAYs.

The boy days-the boydaysee-they were the
best of all
rhrough all the bushes Of TIE years the
boydays ever call;
Gut OF the darkness Of the night re sple nd
sfptiy they shine; -
And what a wrea III OF memories for one
and all they twine.t -
No matter what of baser stuff the later
Wears may hold. -
We may look up and back ard see the boy
oays all were gold.
The boydass-the boydays-wken come the
tkreadS of gray,
4 on may live in Tomorrow. but you dream
You may look In the mirror but the only
face sou see
Is one that has the semb.ance of the boy
you used TO be: = 81
And, musing. you may stumble on broken
bit CT song
That waAfers from the boydays in a
cadence sweet and strong -
The boydays- picture with not a hue to
fade;~i
The glamour Of the grasses where the sum-
mer sunshine played:
Thessparl9e of the ripple in some jolly little
stream
Whose song was built of jewels of a never
dying gleam; &
The holding of the roses; and the white
neSslof the snow
They blend across the ricture of the long
and long ago. 4s
The boydays-the jboydays-we never lose
them all; - ~
The best of all the m mories. they come at
fancy.s call.
somehow they are made perfect by the
alchemy Of years, - 49, .
Which keeps alive the smiles they held and
never fn6s the tears.
4,fa h,,k tvao 1rdr hae ffr mr. a
cious things to hoEd..N
And chiefest of the goodiy tors. r. all the
sboydays' gold. - -. Sc
Chicago Daily Tribune. = - =.
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HISTORY OF PANAMA
Little State Which Now Threatens
to Secede isom Colombia.
1t Contains the Oldest City On the
American Continents and Is Inter
estinE I'm Many Other Ways-A
Port of Great Importance.

Should the Colombian congress fail
to ratify the canal treaty. as now
seems probable, and this ia lure re-
suit in a revolution in Panama. as also
seems probable, there is likely to be
established in Central America some
new international boundary lines oil
more than passing interest
Press dispatches tell us that plans
for the revolution are going on apace
and that eeIingly nearly every resi-
dent Of the state is in favor of break
ing away from the government AT 30
gotta and declaring the independence
of Panama for the purpose of grantirs
q right of wcv for the oalal to the
United States. 1t does not tai much
of prophet to imagine the stars
stripes flying over the entire isthmus
in the near future, and Panama be-
coming the next addition to our terri
tory in our programme of expansion
So far have the plans for the revolu
the leaders, that even the boundary
lines to be demanded If Colombia havs
been decided upon. They will give tbs
state a total length of ATS miles.
st. Augustine is the Oldest city ir
the United States at the press mt time
but should we get this slice of Colon
bia that city would have 10 take 3
back seat in favor of Panama, which Is
the Oldest city founded by Europeans
in either O. the Am ericas. The foun-
dation of Panama was laid by Pedro
A,;o To ;n
but one other settlement of Europeans
on either continent. that CT Santa
Maria ell Antigua. near the Atrato.
which was afterwards abandoned. anu
of which no trace now remains.
Panama has always been an impor-
tant point in the history of Central
and South America. Through it passed
the gold and silver of Chilli and Peru
on it's way to Spain; 1t was the center
of religious activity for that section OF
the world on the part Of the Jesuits,
and there are within it to-day several
notable buildings erected by the
monks OF it's church buildings the
most notable is that of Santa Ana, the
rallying point for the revolutionists of
the past. Much of the original city
was destroyed by the buccaneer Nor
gan on February "a, 1911, when, after
three weeks of rapine and murder, he
burned the warehouses and many of
the public buildings, and with rs
mules laden with spells and 600 pris-
oners he recrossed the isthmus to the
Caribbean. Two years later the Span
ish Villacorta began rebuilding the
city, and though it has suffered from
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Donkeys Do Not thrive Here.

An Englishman paying his first visit
to Central park talked with the mar
who keeps the donkeys on the Nal
about the small size and generally pcol
condition of these little animals seer
in this country, as compared with thos,
at Brighton, Scarborough, Margate OF
any of the fashionable English water
ing-places. Neither donkeys mol
monkeys thrive in this climate said tn,
New Yorker, ''as they do in England; anf
I'm not joking with you, either l have
imported several English and Irish
donkeys, and they have followed one an
other to the donkey's paradise, whereve.
that may be. Donkeys get consumption
easily here, and it carries them OF quick
~. Il seems to make little differenc
whether they are kept indoors or out
they catch cold some damp night. and tn.
first thing we know they're gone. IN
Y. Times.
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Telephone "DiabolfcaI."


Truly extraordinary is a story of the
failure of an attempt to establish a
telephone service at Saint Etienne des
Ores, situated in the Tarascon district.
The necessary apparatus had been
packed all ready to start for the viii
lage when the carter heard that the
Inhabitants. being under the odd i'm
preston that the invention was the
work of the evil one, were determined
to oppose its entry. and were resolved
to arm themselves with their agricul-
tural implements and to make a fight
OF it. The man said that he was will
ing to confide his cart and its contents
to the electricians, but that as for him
self he would not risk his life in such
an adventure. A telegram was for
warded to Marseilles asking for in
structions. and the reply came that the
cart was to be left at Tarascon. What
the sequel to the present deadlock win
be remains to be seen, but meanwhile
the good people Of Saint-Etienne des
Ores stoutly declare that they will have
nothing to do with the telephone,
which Is ga diabolical machine" Lon
don TELEGRAPH -
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revolutions. earthquakes and other
frightful affairs, there is much left to-
day that reminds one of the old Span
ish reign.
To run a canal through this narrow
neck of land from Colon to lanama
has been the dream of mankind since
1927, when H. de la Serna explored 3
route. There are to-day nearly a dozen
routes surveyed across the isthmus,
but only on the one undertaken by De
Lesseps has there been any noticeable
amount of work done.
The entire state consists practically
of barren range of low mountains,
and would be of small interest to the
. world in general were it not for the
proposition to connect the two oceans
through it, and also for the existence
of the Panama railroad which has
been in operation since 1855, and was
the first railroad which connected the
two oceans. This railway is to-day,
short though it is, one of the impor-
tant lines of transportation of tbs
world, and pays to it's stockholders
probably larger dividends than any
other similar enterprise. 1t has made
both Panama and Colon ports of no
small importance, and on It. and the
canal hinge the value of the state.
II the revolution occurs, and the
state is successful in it's fight for indie
pendence, it will hold within it's bor-
ders practically every practical route.
with the exception of the one through
Nicaragua. for an inte-oeeanic canal.
MAX nyyEN
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EMPRESS AND THE KODAK.
Her Majesty of Russia Delights the
Camera '.Fiends" by Her
Example.

For the review at Reims miles of spe-
cial railway were built. rot Only for the
car. but for the public; nearly a mile of
stands was erected and covered with gold
and scarlet cloth. A special station and
great dining pavilion were constructed
especially for his majesty's use, and both
seemed too beautiful to be torn down the
next day. The vast crowd, which came
on foot, in carriages, in automobi and
by endless trains, were taken care of,
seated and dispersed with as much ease
land less struggling) as the audience Of a
Paris theater any night in the week,
writes Capt. T. Bentley Mott, in Scrib-
ner's
= The little touch of contrast needed 10
heighten and perfect the prevailing rote
of magni1cence throughout these fetes
was furnished by the unaffected SIM
piicity of the emperor in 6ress and bear
ing. He moved about and greeted peo-
pie with the quiet naturalness of any
captain in his suite. But when at the
close of breakfast, in the presence of
hundred generals and the rulir g men of
France, he answered the toast of the
president, it was with the manner and
word of a king.
The empress was delight to all the
camera "fiends,' for she set them an i'm
perial example. Wherever she went
all Cossack followed. bearing kodak,
which she constantly used, and after this
II saw many an officer bring out a camera,
until then concealed, ard boldly snap
whatever pleased him. Such is the force
Of high example
The Russians were usually the envy of
all the visitors for their easy command
of foreign languages. but it is a mistake
to imagine all of them have this talent
have seen Russian officers attending
the maneuvers who could rot even speak
little French. Another surprising thing
about them was that, as rule, they
drank SO little. Of course, al Russians
are pictured as talking every known Ian.
guage from birth and drinking gallons of
{ rum each day. can Only say that those
the emperor sends to France DO neither.
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A WOMAN DRIVER.
Everything That Went on Wheels
and Some Other Things.

MY wife has haG pony carriage
or the last two years." said Detroi
merchant the other day, relates thu
Free Press, land has driven here AM
here and everywhere, but only yster
lay did l have cause to wonder how il
he name of Heaven she had ever driver
.ven five blocks without smashing the
Whole outfit and breaking all her limbs
besides. She has asked me hundred
lave always excused myself on one plea
>r another. Yesterday, however, got
stuck and got into the buggy to be
iriven down to the store.
Were Off says my wife as she
picked up the lines and gave the pony
cut that almost jerked the hind wheels
IF the buggy and sent us off on the gal
OPP. Before the pony was pulled down
trot he had grazed the wheel of a
wagon, just missed street car and al
most run over three pedestrians. and
ny wife didn't look upon it as at all I'M
Usual. The pony had no sooner got
;teadied down than the whip was ap-
,lied again, and during the process he
.ook to the sidewalk, broke down tree
,ox and bumped up against Load OF
nay I was there to be killed or Grip
pled for life, and didn't say anything.
,ut l was more frightened than at the
,attle of Bull Run. We got uHtanglee
rom the hay and started OF and chased
.wo men up against the fence. When
We hauled OF from them we rubbed
wheels with q butcher cart, and then
,ollided with a grocer's horse and
stripped most Of the harness OF his
back. When my wife had got through
explaining to the grocer's boy that she
aad the right of way over everything on
wheels in the United States, and that
the collision came about entirely
through his ignorance Of the rules Of the
road. quietly asked:
"'Is this a sample Of the way yor
irive about town.
Why, what is wrong? she innocent
ty queried in return
Nothing wrong, except that you
haven't pumped into a street car and
been ground to pulp
But / shall hit one on the next
block. and you'll see that 1t won't dam
,ge us bit
81 refused to take the chances, how
ever, and got out then and there and
footed it the rest OF the way. and all
lay long there was song Of thank.
fulness in my heart that Pro-dencs
had preserved ny ufs.-
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certain rich invited person of high rank with him
Extraordinary made for the repa all the dcaces
the provided The Dog the host having wished
entertain another Dog friend of his, thought this would be capital
him AS therefore, fell DUSK the
by his friend the kitchen The
there filled him with establishment and he resolved that
when the he would enough last him for week He
wagged his tail hard and licked his chops anticipation with
much that he attracted the notice of the head cook who
Dog caught him the tail, and after nl
the him flying through the window into the
He mped surrounded by lot of Ours
had boosted Of his invitation They asked him eagerly
how he had Jared oh rarely answered he Il that
that hardly knew which of the house,
we Standup but slipper
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odd saWa Reaef.

Two birds in the bush are better than
one in the nand. They may have a nest
Whistling girls and growing hens mark
the standing Of the new woman.
Little pitchers have big ears-and
considerable Zip" thess Gays. too.
Children ans -ools sps.lk the truth;
slows how foolish they arc.
Silence Il .clden, but banks otes will
do. at face value. Ask lawyer or rail-
road man Y Herald
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CUPID'S HOUR IN GRAVEYARD.
NOOninE of the Typewriter Girl,
Among the TOmbstOnes of
Old Trinity.

1t is just after the chimes Of old
Trinity have proclaimed noon that the
paths among the tombstones in the
churchyard begin to blossom with pic
ture hats and ribbons, says the New
York Sun. 1t is the stenographers'
hour at Trinity. The graveyard has
become PARK, picnic ground, a tryst-
ing place. From the low slabs girls
swing their feet contentedly, holding 9
book in one hand and a cracker in the
other. On the steps of the shaft COM
memorating the heroes of the revolu-
ton they 90 homage to sandwiches and
fruit, and in out-of-the-way places, on
the grass beneath little trees, in far cor
ners. you may see them engrossed in
tales of love, except now and then when
they take bite Of pie.
But not all are absorbed in imaginary
love and luncheon. At noon Cupid
haunts the churchyard. If you had the
right kind of eyes you might see him
perched on tombstone, waiting. Ere.
quently when the gravel crunches, a. girl
will glance up expectantly. Suddenly
the color rushes to her cheeks. She
bows and smiles and hastily puts aside
her cake. They sit down together, these
two, and forget the swift stream of life
outside the fence and the days cares.
Cupid looks pleased and skips to anoth-
er tombstone. 1t is peaceful here be-
meath the trees. The head keeper, who
witches all with a fatherly eye, says
that there have been many avowals OF
love and matches made in the grave
yard during the lunch hour.
But the minute hand on the big clock
above keeps on its logged course. How
ever thrilled the girl may be who has
been listening with downcast eyes, she
can't quite forget this mentor that so
sternly measures off her time of duty.
An anxious expression fits across her
face, and she glances up at that minute
hand. Good gracious, it's five min
utes to one!" she exclaims. Il really
must be going, Harry. But tomorrow.
right here in the same place. Until then
good-by-dear." When the chimes an
nounce that it is one o'clock you notice
that they have lost some of the note OF
JOY and triumph that was theirs when
they proclaimed the noon hour, for the
churchyard is no longer gay with pic
Der now. and is given over to the tour
lists, who neglect venerable and worthy
stones to inspect the very Oldest, and
who want to know "the name of this
cathedral
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Usual Custom.

Dolly Tinsel-Dear me, / wanted t,
fiirt with that saltwater clerk, so
winked my eye.
Belle F7ies-What happened?
He almost filed my glass with oil
rye."-Chicago Daily News.
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Knowing ONE.

at seems to me-" said the auburn.
haired damsel, that it is only the men
who never marry who know all about
women"
"Or, in other Words replied the
cynical bachelor. st Is only the men
who know all about women who never
marry."-Chieago Daily News.
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French Word Defined.

Ennui is a French word for an
American amalady, which generally
arises from the want ofsa want, and
constitutes the COMPLAINT Of thoseswho
have nothing to complain of.-Puck.
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MAX OWEN.
Hard to Suit.

Employment Agent-What was the
matter with your last place?
Domestic-The missus was too young.
It made me look old.-N Y. Weekly.
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AN seraps.

Pete-Dey tell me dat bully was al.
ways coming around here looking for
scraps. Did yo' accommodate him?
Sam--should say SO. An hit him wild
bowl oh bash.-Chicego Daily Nevn
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May he only aPfpeDre

Standard Oil capitalists are reported
to have bought Coney Island We may
yet. remarks the Chicago Record Her.
aid. be able to get our midway amuse-
ments through pipe line.
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Probably the Case.

That Beirut affair threatens to be
explained away. says the Chicago
Daily News. until it shall appear that
the alleged assassin was only trying
to throw a bouquet at Mr.. Magelssen.
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Twice as many infants are born In tia
United States perl Geo Of the population
as in Europe. 1t is thus q question OF
centuries when our surplus population
begins emfsrating to Europa
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Kansas City, Mo, May %. 1881. ;


My Dear Frank: I've changed my
mind about little Sadie. Well, she and
j will be married this fall The night
We went boating We got caught in one
of those cyclones don't know what
they are back in Detroit-but they are
the worst thing you ever saw or read of
worse than any lake storm ever saw.
She was as cool as could be. Cool as I
was-and she really knew the danger
and l didn't-though L could imagine.
1t didn't hit us exactly, though don't
believe it missed US over so yards. II
killed two people and wrecked a lot of
houses. Well. I am in a rush. tonight,
but you'll see the sweetest little,
bravest little woman in all the world
when bring my little bride home.
Write soon Yours in haste. -
MART.