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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-10
An Educational catechism.

Is the child the supreme interest
of the Stateg
Is the education of the child the
greatest investment of the State9
Can there be any better test of true
citizenship than activity for public
education?
Should the payment of taxes for
schools be considered more of a priv
ilege than a duty9
Is it a wrong to the child to keep
him in a poor school nearby when he
might attend a good consolidated
school a mile or two away9
Can the problem of education in
the South be solved without district
taxation?
Should we expect an efficient sys-
tenn of public schools if we do not
have non-partisan specialists as
school officials?
Can we employ suitable teachers
on poor salaries?
Is manual training in the schools
a necessity or a luxury?
Is the influence of attractive school
houses and grounds Of decided edu-
cative value?
Should we emphasize only those
studies that contribute most to the
usefulness of the pupil in after life?
Can the South rise to industrial
prominence without industrial edu-
cation?
Would agricultural courses in the
public schools greatly increase the
product of Southern farms NSouth-
ern Education Notes.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-10
ESCAPED AN AWFUL FATE.

MI. II. Haggans of Melbourne,
Fla, writes, "My doctor told me /
had Consumption and nothing could
be done for me. I was given up to
die. The offer of a free trial bottle
of DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, induced me to try it..
Results were startling. / am now
on the road to recovery and owe all
to DR.. Kings New Discovery. It
surely saved my life" This great
cure is guaranteed for all throat and
lung diseases by Druggists. Price
SOC. and $1.OO. Trial bottles free.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-10
STRANGE CAREER OF JOHN C. FIRE.
MONT.
In a Worldly Sense, Forty Years Of
Failure and Disappointment"

Failure and Disappointment"
The life of Jessie Benton Fremont,
who has just passed away at Los An
geles, was marked by a contrast of
fortunes that gives it a very excep-
tional interest. We find in it the
reverse of that passage from obscu-
rity to fame which is the common
history of American celebrities. The
fame not only came very early but
In most generous measure. 1t is
safe to say that there never was a
young couple in this country so
widely known or of so brilliant repu-
tation as Lieutenant Fremont and
his wife. Fremont at thirty was ac-
claimed as an explorer both in the
United States and in Europe. He
cleared up the chaos of Western
America, and was ranked as a great
contributor to geographical knowl-
edge. At this period of his life also
he was the most conspicuous figure
in the movement for the annexation
of California, and he was elected
Senator from that State before he
was forty.
IF in the half century that has
elapsed since, he has come to be one
of the least of the stars in the con-
~stelation. We turn back to contempt
rary documents to discover that he
once shone ~resplendent among them.
Though he was but nine years older
than Grant, he had twenty years the
start of him in general notoriety, and
he was a candidate for the presidency
five years before the Civil War open
ed. From that time, however, the
eclipse began. He was defeated by
a Democrat, and when the Republi-
cans became dominant he was not &C
cepted as a leader, but was involved
in Jealous alterations, and left to
struggle futilely against that most
deplorable of fates-the living death
of the man who has enjoyed the
most ~fattering renown and who sur
wives to find himself neglected and
well-nigh forgotten.
Throughout his career the wife
shared to an unusual degree the fame
and fortune of the husband. She,
too, was brilliant; she had a fine So
cial position; she was active and in
fuential in helping Fremont in every
way. But in a purely worldly n
the result, in spite of dazzling be-
ginning, was forty years of failure
and disappointment, and the widow
of the Pathfinder became an object
of public charity. For she was not
pensioned as the widows of Presi-
dents have been, but received her
governmental allowance only after
private effort had been made to res
cue her from actual poverty.-Chi-
cago Record-Hera1d.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-10

Did it ever occur to you that thou
sands of people on earth die every
day." asked the parson.
eyes, parson, it has," repiled the
party addressed, "and, what is more,
it has set me to thinking"
"Indeed!" exclaimed the good
man. "And what has been the result
Il have come to the conclusion,0
answered the other, chat living is a
dangerous thing"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-02-10
The Steel Trusts Proft-Sharing
Scheme.

The United States Steel Corpora
ton, which is understood to be one
of the "good" trusts, in President
Roosevelt's definition, inaugurated
with the New Year an interesting
plan of proft-sharing, by which ii
is hoped a large proportion of its
employees will become holders of its
preferred stock. From the earnings
during 1902, 100000 or more has
been set aside for the purchase of
at least $4,000 shares of preferred
stock. The employees are divided
into six classes, and each class is
given the right to subscribe to the
preferred stock at $3.50 a share,
to the extent of a certain percent
g of his salary-for instance, a
member of Glass B, those who re-
ceive from $4,000 to $4,000 a year,
may subscribe to the extent of 8 per
cent of his salary; while a member
of Glass F, those who receive $500
a year or less, may subscribe to an
amount of stock equal to 20 per
cent of his salary. A man is given
three years in which to pay for this
stock. Dividends on the stock will
go to the subscriber from the date
on which he begins to make pay
ments on account of his subscrip-
ton. Interest at 5 per cent will
be charged on deferred payments on
the stock. If a man discontinues
payments before his stock is fully
paid for, he may withdraw the money
he has paid on account of principal
and keep the difference between the
5 per cent interest he has paid and
the Z per cent dividend he has re-
ceived on the stock. When a man
has paid for his certificate, it is
given to him, and he is free to sell
it when he chooses. But if he keeps
the certificate, and in January of
each year, for five years, commenc-
ing with January, 1904, will exhibit
the certificate to the treasurer of
his company, together with a letter
from a proper official, to the effect
that he has been continuously in
the employ of the corporation, or
of one of its subsidiary companies
during the preceding year, and has
shown a proper interest in it's well
fare and progress, he will during
each of such five years receive checks
at the rate of SIS a share per year.
At the end of the fifth year this
payment on each share~he holds will
be increased. The plan is not a
benefaction, but aims to secure more
firmly the interest of the men; and
it's results will be watched with in
terest. The returns on the invest
ment to the men are certainly at
tractive. At $3.50 a share, the
stock yields 81 per cent, which,
with the S. a year added, nets IA
per cent.-Albany Country Gentle
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-17
wild Ride on Deer,s Back.

An exciting hunting story is told
by Frank Thompson, a guide, who
claims to have been carried through
the Maine woods near Mount Desert,
for a distance of half a mile, upon
the back of a wounded and fighting
mad buck.
Thompson was hunting in the coun-
try around Eagle lake, when he came
upon a big buck standing upon a
knoll. He fired at the deer and the
animal bounded into the air and then
fell into a heap, as if dead. The
guide ran up knife in hand, to bleed
the deer, but just as he was about
to cut the animals throat the buck
jumped up, full of fight. To save him
self, Thompson grabbed the animal
by the horns and got a firm hold. The
buck dashed away into the woods.
with Thompson clinging to his horns.
Over jagged stumps and through
thorny underground the maddened
buck dashed and the guide was
banged against trees and rocks and
dashed through brush, his clothing be-
ing torn to shreds and his body
gashed and bruised. At last the deer
stumbled over a log. and the shock
threw Thompson forward, breaking
his hold and allowing the animal to
escape
When Thompson picked himself UP
he staggered to where his rifle lay
and then made his way home as best
he could. He estimates the distance
over which he was carried by the deer
at about half mile.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-17
Monument to Famous Hound.

The Cheshire hunting season has
commenced, and more interest than
usual centers round the obelisk erect
ed to the memory of the most famous
Cheshire foxhound that ever lived
The monument was raised by the
tate Hon. John Smith Barry, and Blue
cap. the name of the hound, has been
tmmortalized in prose and song, and is
known throughout the length and
breadth of rural Cheshire. The ODE
isk is in a good state of preservation
and bears the following quaint inscrip-
ton:
This obelisk. reader. is monument
raiS'd
To a shade tho a hound. that deserves
For if life's but a stage whereon each
acts part.
And true greatness term that's derived
II fame honor and glory depend on the
Then: o Bluecap. rare Bluecap. wen
boast of thy breed,
II no tear. yet a glass Wen pour on the
30 high-famed he was IN the glorious
But no more of this theme, since this
life's but race
And Biuecap has gone to the death of the
Even to-day, although 12o years and
more have elapsed. stories of Blue
caps exploits are told. Some of the
tales have become legendary, and it
is difficult to sift the true from the
false This much is certain. that ne
was one of the speediest hounds that
ever lived.
1t is on record that Bluecap ran for
and won an estate, which is stiu in
the possession of the Smith Barry fam
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-17
The River of Life.

The River of Life.
The more we live, more brief appear
Our life's succeeding stages;
"A day to childhood seems a year,
And years like passing ages
The gladstone current of our youth.
Ere passion yet disorders,
Steals lingering like river smooth
Along its grassy borders
But as the careworn cheek grows wan,
And sorrows shafts fly thicker.
Ye Stars that measure life to man,
Why seem your courses quicker?
When joys have lost their bloom and
breath
And life itself is vapid.
Why, as we reach the Falls of Death,
Feel we its tide more rapidz
1t may be .strange-yet who would change
Times course to slower speeding,
When one by one our friends have gone
And left our bosoms bleeding?
Heaven gives years of fading
strength
Indemnifying feetness:
And those of youth. seeming length,
PropOrtiOned to their sweetness
Thomas Campbell
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-17
TALES OF IRISH DOCTORS.
Queer Experiences Recorded by the
Profession.

Queer Experiences Recorded by the
Profession.
A physician in the out-of-the-way
corner of Ireland has many opportuni-
ties to laugh, although his amusement
must be mingled with anxiety, for his
peasant patients do strange things.
They have great faith in the foctor,
superstftious faith in his drugs and
appliances, but they often make non
sense of his orders. Mr.. Michael Mac
Donagh in his Irish Life and Charac-
ter gives some instances of Irish
simplicity in dealing with the physi-
clan.
A dispensary doctor once prescribed
two pills for a sick laborer, which he
sent by the mans wife in a small box,
bearing the direction: THE whole to
be taken immediately
On visiting the patient a little later
the doctor was surprised to find that
the pills had not helped him. He
asked the mans wife if she had given
him the medicine.
81 did, DOCTOR replied she; .sbut
maybe the lid hasn't come of yet"
The sick man had swallowed box and
all.
Mrs. Murphy's husband was ex-
tremely i'll and she consulted the ply
sician-
I'm sorry, madam. he said, grave
ly, "but your, husband is dying by
inches"
WELL" she said. with an air Of
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-17
THE LAWYERS EASIEST FEE
Money Pleased Cranky Farnnee



Smith was home. and told him that
/ had come out to look over the build
ings, as 1 supposed he wanted to re-
new the insurance. He said he did,
so we walked about. / kept my eyes
open and pretty soon saw the fish
box.
Hal 1 exclaimed. the very thing
WANT
Whats that?' he asked.
Why, that box there.
"-Oh, that old fish crate. nearly
got into row over that thing. and
just bought it to spite Jones'
s'what will you take for it?' I in
quired.
Well, I gave 1926 for it. and you
can have it at that. figure
LOAD i in said, and the mon
ey's yours
Il took it to my office and put it In
the back room. A couple of days later
Jones walked in.
We'll, what luck?' he inquired
"-.I have it, 1 replied.
"'where?'
I'm the back room there I said,
pointing to it.
lis there any more to pay?'
No, that will be all right l said
".Well, sir, would have spent $500
before would have been beaten said
Jones as he walked out, carrying the
box and smiling his complete satisfac--
on.'-New York Sun.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-17

A naturalist, while visiting Great
Sangir, one of those islands of the In
dian Ocean, known as the Celebes, or
Spice Islands, found a curious time re-
corder lodged at the house of raiah.
Two bottles were firmly dashed to-
sether, and fixed in a wooden frame.
A quantity of black sand ran from one
bottle into the other in just half an
hour, and when the upper bottle was
empty the frame was reversed. Twelve
short sticks marked with notches upon
a string. A hook was placed between
the sticks bearing the number OF
notches corresponding to the hour last
struck, and the one to be struck next.
The sentry announced the time by
striking the hours on a large gong.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-17
PROVIDENCE AND A TRUST
Monopoly PubEo
Necessity.
Necessity.


s'This trust business now agitating
the public is by no means new
thing said a banker from northern
Michigan the other day to Chicago
Journal reporter, although it seems
to be something of surprise to the
public. Trusts were heard of as many
as forty years ago, and if not on such
large scale, it was because money
was not SO plenty.
81 believe that was one of the first
trusts ever heard of in the United
States. I was in business in Missouri,
and a creditor who went to the wall
turned over to me a barrel of catfish
hooks. The supply was large enough
to meet the ordinary demand for ten
years to come, but a singular thing
happened that fall. There was an cpl
demic among live stock, and beef,
pork and mutton became scarce and
high. There hadn't been run of cat
fish in the fall for twenty years, but
that fail they fairly swarmed in the
Missouri. Everybody went in for cat
fish, and, of course, there was big
demand for hooks.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-17
HierogIyphic Stairway.

Noteworthy among the surprising
discoveries made by the Peabody
Museum recent expedition in Central
America was that of a magnificent
hieroglyphic stairway at Copan, un-
earthed by Mr.. George B. Gordon.
From its design and workmanship the
stairway is considered the greatest
architectural feature that has yet been
brought to light in this celebrated
prehistoric city This new find has
revealed two important facts. The
antiquity of Copan is pushed back to
a greater period than was supposed.
as the stairway bears an inscription
over 700 years earlier than any IN
scription yet found on any existing
which the stairway was decorated is
the longest hieroglyphic one that has
been met with among the Maya ruins.
Fragments of sculpture mingling with
the ruins show that the stairway be-
longed to a temple undoubtedly the
in all ancient America. The stairway
extended from a plaza terrace to the
top of the mound, a distance of 125
feet, and was &c feet wide. Every
foot of it was covered with elaborate
sculptures and hieroglyphic inscrip-
tions. These are being deciphered,
and, it is thought, will yield valuable
new information in regard to this pre-
historic city and people.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-17

speaking of fees. saio the country
lawyer, 81 well remember the easiest
one 1 ever earned. The trouble began
at one of the usual Saturday night auc-
lions, when Bill Jones and Abe Smith,
who had been at logger heads for
some time, began bidding on an old
fish crate. The box wasn't worth a
single dollar, but the bidding ran up.
a nickel at a time. until it was finally
knocked down to Smith for $3-25-
Hold on, says Jones, I bid 1925
on that crate myself, and I intend to
have it. Then they had a squabble
over it, but Smith paid the money,
loaded the box on his wagon and drove
home.
came into my office.
'Hello.' said he, I've got job for
you You was down to the auction
Saturday and saw me bid on that fish
box. Now, I want that box, and 1 in
tend to have it if it cost me 500. Do
you think you could get it for me?'
''1 guess so,' 1 replied.
How much will it cost?' he says.
About $25,' says 1.
with that he planked down the
cash and 1 told him to come in again
in a couple of days. AS soon as he
was gone 1 hitched up and drove out
to Smiths farm. 1 was in the insur-
ance business, too, in those days, and
Smiths insurance had about expired.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-17
A Sinoie-Tax Town.

On the coast of Vancouver island,
in British Columbia, the flourishing
town of Nanaimo. with it's 5000 inhabi-
tants, has no tax for municipal pur-
poses save one on land values, levied
alike on occupied and unoccupied
land, according to the orthodox inter
probation of the single tax theory The
town is a miners town. where the
doctrine of three acres and a COW"
is almost universally realized, as well
as that of every man his own house
owner" For this result the easy
terms of tie London syndicate which
owns the coal and land in the neigh
borhood are largely responsible.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-17
THOUGHT HIM THE PRESIDENT
Newspaper Man Received Thunders
o Applause

There is a newspaper man of sturdy
build in Philadelphia who is a few
inches taller and bigger of girth than
he was Saturday, by reason of the
visit of President Roosevelt to this
city, says the Philadelphia Inquirer.
And there are lot of high school boys
whose first impressions of the nations
Chief Executive were slightly at var
lance with those of the majority Of
American citizens. 1t was another
case of the Presidents double.
The newspaper man received the
plaudits and cheers of several hun
dred high school boys who imagined
they were gazing upon Roosevelt's
visage. Their error furnished much
amusement to the boys and the news
paper man who was so highly honored.
1t was just as the Presidential
party arrived at the school that the in
cident occurred. They had driven up
Broad street and the newspaper man
had gone up on a car, in order to
reach the High School in time to see
the ceremonies there. He arrived
while the president was discarding his
hat and overcoat in the faculty roSm.
Thinking he was late, the reporter
started briskly along the corridor, be-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-17
JOKES AMONG THE sAeEs.
congressman Enjoy Jests Between the
Dry Debates.

Congressman Enjoy Jests Between the
Dry Debates.
Mr.. Loudenslager of New Jersey
was showing a trick in the House
cloakrooms yesterday while the debate
ragged, and some choice spirit gathered
together to exchange the latest yarns.
Who can stick out his tongue and
touch his ear" inquired the New Jer-
seyite, jubilantly, as he broke in upon
the raconteurs.
Nobody can do that unless he has
a long tongue" came a chorus of an
swers.
"Oh. yes, you can" replied Louden-
Slager.
Impossible"
mot at all. 1 have seen it done
many a time
This did rot dispe1 the doubts, and
some of the coterie of statesmen be
gan to try it. without success.
Just stick out your tongue and
touch your ear with one finger. Easy,
isn't it," said Mr.. Loudenslager.
The joke was passed around during
the afternoon Mr.. Loudenslager says
he heard of it in the draughtsman' s
division of the patent ofilce-wash-
ington Post
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-17
For Education Of Monkeys.

A college for the education of mon
keys has recently been opened in Cal
cutta. The founders, who are devoted
disciples of Garner, share his belief
that the monkey possesses human in
telligence in a latent form, which it
is the function of the college to de-
velop. The system of teaching is that
known as the letter block" method
The alphabet is arranged on big block
letters, all of which are wildly col
ored- By definite degree the apes are
to be taught to place these letters so
as to form simple words. AS they sue
coed in doing SO they will be rewarded
by gifts of nuts and other dainties.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-17
Sure cure for Hiccouohs.

In a clinic at one of the medical col
leges yesterday afternoon the operat-
ing physician showed the assemblage
of students good way to cure in
stantly a cough or an attack of
hiccoughing.
A patient was wheeled in who hap
pened to be coughing violently. The
physician said to him:
Push your tongue out as far as you
can, and press it hard against your
lower lip and chin"
The patient did as he was told and
his cough ceased.
This little trick, gentlemen, the
physician said, rarely fails. 1t is
quite as efficacious in cases of hic-
coughs as in cases of coughing I ad-
wise you all to note it down."-Phila-
delphia Record
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-17

1T wasn't long before 1 discovered
that l had the only supply for hun
bred miles up and down, and, after
thinking the matter over, / stated the
case to an old justice of the peace.
who came into the store. He smoked
a pipe over it and then replied:
Tom, this seems to be a case OF
Providence. Providence decreed that
there should be a run of catfish to
help us out
"'But about my barrel of fishhooksr
I asked. Do you think Providence
decreed that l should have them ON
hand to sell at cent apiece?
No, sah-no, sab, he replied. with
much earnestness. When it come to
you Providence let right go and gave
you chance to either play the fool or
sell them hooks for dime apiece, and
now you take your own way about it
Il put up the price and sold every
hook" said the trust originator, and
if 1 made a thousand per cent profit
the people along the river had plenty
of catfish and Providence that winter
as an Offset
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-17

tween the double line of boys choked
with bottled-up enthusiasm and waiting
for a chance to give vent to it. 1t so
happened that the newspaper man
was Immediately in front of commit
tee proceeding to the assembly ROOM
His roundity of figure, athletic car
riage, full, virile countenance, as we'll
as the wearing of a pair of glasses
perched on his nose, and general ap-
pearance and carriage of concentrated
strenuous activity, melted one boy I'd
shout, Here he comes"
That was enough. Overlooking with
enthusiasm, the boys gave their IA
miliar yell:
Hoo rahi Hoo rah! Hoo rah! High
School. High School, High School.
president! President! PRESIDENT"
The newspaper man glanced around
to see the distinguished guest, but
found all eyes were conferred on him
In a flash he appreciated the error. but
good-naturedly bowed right and left
His distinction was short-lived, for
Immediately in his wake came the
real President, whose reception was
none the less hearty and noisy for the
preliminary thunder.