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The progressive farmer., 1903-06-02

Indeed in the recent struggles
'9abor" has been getting rather the
best of it. At Omaha, for instance,
the Union invoked the majesty of
the courts and profted by that "gov-
ernment by injunction" which it has
so often assailed. A temporary in
junction was granted by Judge Dick
inson to prohibit the Business Mems
Association of Omaha from boycott
ing persons who employ union labor
ers, or imposing fines on such per-
sons, or receiving and paying out
money for the purpose of breaking
up labor unions, or offering bribes
to members of such unions to in
duce them to abandon unions; also
forbidding the association to "im
port labOrers into the city of Omaha
or State of Nebraska in pursuance
of any existing plan to destroy labor
organizations; ;" further, restraining
employers from bringing any other
injunction suits or actions Gin pur-
suance of any general plan of prose-
cutions to break up labor unions" :"
Judge Dickinson certainly gave the
union all it asked for, and doubtless
more than he had a right to give.
But it is not a misfortune that the
appeal was made to the courts rath-
er than to violence, or that it has
been thus pointedly shown that the
courts will do quite as much for the
laborer as for the capitalist.-Coun-
try Gentleman.
The progressive farmer., 1903-06-02
COTTON CONDITION IS POOR.
1t is 16. 9 Points Off, While the Season
is Two or Three Weeks Late.

New York, May 3O.-The Journal
of Commerce yesterday issued the
results of a careful investigation of
acreage planted in cotton, the con-
dition of the plant and the progress
of farm work. These results in brief
are: First, an increase of 1 per
cent in the area under cultivation;
second, a decrease of 16.9 points in
condition, and third, agreement that
the season is two or three weeks late.
In other words, an increase of 244,-
422 acres is indicated while the
crops average condition is Is, COM
pared with 91.9 reported last year
by virtually the same correspondents.
The returns are from 1900 CORES
pondents, whose reports bear average
date of May "a.
North Carolina reports an increase
area of 6 per cent, or 68,843 acres,
South Carolina 4 per cent, or 1851
acres, Georgia three-tenths of 1 per
The progressive farmer., 1903-06-02
Alabama Negro Suffrage Case to Come
Up in New Shape.

Washington, May 29.-Jackson w.
Giles, the colored man of Montgom-
cry County, Ala, whose suit in equity
to test the validity of the suffrage
provision of the new constitution of
that State, was recently decided
against him by the United States
Supreme Court, will have two more
opportunities to make the test in
that court which will come as the re-
suits of writs of error allowed to-
day by Justice White. One of the
suits was brought to compel the
Board of Registrars of Montgomery
County by a writ of mandamus to
enter his name as a voter upon the
registration list, and the others for
damages because of the failure of
the board to make this entry.
Giles is represented by Wilford
H. Smith, and the application was
made to Justice White as the presid-
ing justice of the Fifth Circuit
There is no possibility of a hearing
in the cases before the beginning of
the next term of court in October.
Both of the present proceedings
were instituted in the State courts,
and both came up from the Alabama
Supreme Court, whose finding was
against Giles. When Giles equity
case was decided by the Washing
ton court an intimation was given
that his only channel for relief was
in suit for damages, and he has
now decided to avail himself of that
chance
The progressive farmer., 1903-06-02
Persecution of the Jews in Russia.

It would seem that the very last
dregs of paganism-dregs which to
this day have not been entirely re-
fined out of the Christian world
are the dregs of hatred to the Jews.
From almost the beginning of his
tory the Jews have been a persecuted
people. Whatever may be said by
ambassadors and prime ministers
about Jews bringing their troubles
on themselves, the fact remains that
the treatment which they have re-
ceived in so-called Christian nations
has often been unspeakably atrocl-
Gus. The Dreyfus case in France
was sufficiently obnoxious, since 1t
displayed a deep-seated hatred for
whole people. But though France
had not sufficient civilization to cease
hating Jews, she had at least ceased
to murder them by the Wholesale In
recent weeks, however, the world mas
been shocked and dismayed at the
unquestioned news Of the most par
barous massacre which has just taken
place in Kishinef, in Southeastern
Russia. This city, which till with
in the past century was but con
paratively unimportant town, mas
since it's cession back to Russia III
1919, rapidly developed and become
an important centre of pOpulatlGIn
and business. The sickening detalL'
of the murderOUs attack on the '0I
ish people of the place are Slowly Ido
coming to light, and it IS not !.oU ;oO
much to say that the whole CnPlS'I6bT .d IS 6r
world is disgraced and HORNED W
what has taken place. Words cannos n
be made too strong in condemnationn
of such sbarbarity. The, huSIlf nus of
government should be ashamed his is
any effort to palliate or excuse aS 35 ,rbo r
atrocity, or to shield its otlciaIS Sl.;s, VIZ.
permitted it. In defense OF CnlI9 Cat
tian civilization, however, it may az
least he said that the section t u
country where this recent qurO5Td qHul'rnO5Ted
occurred remained for two nuleI LoonIe
years a part of Turkey. LIS ?0tPt ?;Dtact
seem to have brought down lnsa noars
the spirit of three hundreds 55oS9rder
ago, when throughout Europe nnD q very
Of Jews was looked upon f4 as 2GSbTistian a t
slight ofense.-NashVlle OD
The progressive farmer., 1903-06-02
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE
POSTOFFICE SCANDAL.

A Clean Sweep in the Law Depart
ment
Editor of The Progressive Farmer:
The Investigations into the Post
Office Department scandal have as
sumed startling proportions during
the past week and two important de-
veIopments have occurred. August
W. Machen, whose political infu-
ence has heretofore been so strong
that he has passed unscathed by the
most caustic criticism, and who has
not only been maintained in Office,
but has been sustained in a position
where he defed his superior officers
and ran the free delivery division
to suit himself, brooking no inter
ferences, has been dismissed for NAL
feasance, arrested, charged with hav-
ing accepted bribe of $4,000 and
has been released on bail amounting
to $4,000. The extreme penalty of
the law under which Machen's Of
fense comes is three years imprison-
ment and a fine three times in
amount of the bribe accepted. 1t
appears that Machen has had each
year a fund approximating $5OO,OOO
appropriated for the miscellaneous
expenses of his division which he has
expended as he saw fit. In the in
stance just discovered, 100000 has
been paid to Croft Bros, for little
cast iron clips used to fasten mail
boxes to lamp-posts in cities, and
collection boxes on rural delivery
routes to posts. For these clips
which cost 25 cents to manufacture
the Government has been charged
$1.25, of which amount 40 per cent
has been returned to Machen as q
commission. Immediate steps have
been taken to recover the sum OF
which the Government has been de-
frauded and Machen's salary, which
he has not been permitted to draw
since his suspension, some weeks ago
has been attached. The Croft Bros
have both been arrested, and any visi
bic assets which they may have vii
also be attached.
The arrest of Machen is a materia.
triumph for First Assistant Post
master-General Wynne and Fourth
Assistant Postmaster-G General Bris
tow, both of whom have met with lit
tie encouragement in their efforts
to purge the Department of the pres
ent scandals, and both of whom have
been made the subject of numerous
attacks in newspapers whose editor!
or correspondents were controlled
by Machen and his political friends
So powerful has been the influence
exerted by Machen that in the case
of a local newspaper, in which
charges had been preferred agains
Machen and his associates, the part
ner of one of the best known New
York fnanciers went to the proprie
tor of the paper and secured the dis
continuance of the attack and tn
discharge of the managing editor
! 1t was, in fact, the knowledge of thi
The progressive farmer., 1903-06-02

A moments insight is sometimes
worth a life's experience.-O Oliver
Wendell Holmes.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-12
POREIZ AZ
SNXE1NGX

This will take the party near the
north pole.
j. j. Thomson, professor OF expert
mental physics at Cambridge, Eng.
land, said the other day at Columbia
university, after having received its
degree of doctor of science, that
teachers of science in the United
States receive smaller salaries than
in any other country.
Pneumonia has now given way to
consumption as the leading cause Of
death. Pneumonia is essentially a
disease OF vitiated germ polluted. and
overheated atmosphere. Consumption,
while also communicable germ dis.
ease, has all seasons for its own.
Animal foods. judged by bulk and
weight, are more expensive, pound for
pound, than vegetable foods. But as
a whole vegetable foods are not more
economical. Animal foods furnish
more than six-tenths of the protein
and nine-tenths of the fat of the total
food consumed.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-12
An Air Shin That Sails.

On the 23d ult., the King Edward
VII, a new departure in Siderable
balloons, the invention of Capt. Small
bones, of Kensington, made it's maiden
ascent from Stamford Bridge Grounds,
says an English exchange. There Is
no motive power in the balloon, so
that 1t cannot go against the wind.
but by the aid of two triangular sails
attached to the sides its course can be
directed. Capt. Smallbones, accom-.
panied by Capt. Williams and Mr..
Cove, assembled shortly after o'clock,
travelling over Putney, Hammersmith
and Barnes and Moulsey. At Hamp.
ton Court the balloon was steered
round the park and across the
Thames. At Guildford the balloon
was navigated round the town before
course was set for Godalming, the
objective of the trip.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-12

tablished the loneliest and most dan
gerous mail route in the world.
The mail carriers travel on foot
over sixteen hundred miles OF the
route, and one stretch of nearly eight
hundred miles through desolate, un.
inhabited country has to be covered
by single postman. The Yukon mail
carrier must travel with his dog
sledge along river piled up with
blocks of ice like the boulders on u
hillside.
The river Is several miles wide in
places, and sometimes the surface is
so broken by hillocks of ice and snow.
drifts that its winding course cannot
be distinguished from the land. The
carrier then has to don his snowshoes
and break new trail for the dogs
over the trackless waste.
Theodore Blum started to do this
one morning 1t was on the Yukon
flats, just inside the Arctic circle,
where the river is nearly fifteen miles
wide.
He carried long fr pole with him,
his dog team following him, and when
he felt the ice giving way he threw
down the pole and rested his weight
on it. But even though his weight
was thus distributed It did not always
save him from a duckirg. He broke
through no fewer than six times in
his endeavor 20 cross the river, and
narrowly escaped being frozen before
he could reach one Of the shelters.
Ben Downing the most famous of
the mail carriers, narrowly escaped
death at the close of last season. II
was spring time. and the sun an hour
before and after noon softened the
snow and made travel difficult, so
most of his travelling was done in the
night.
He left his station at / o'clock in
the morning, putting laced moccasins
sharp ice crystals from cutting them
He had made twenty miles and was
going along at clipping pace, his
hands on the bars of the sled, when
he heard the ice crack under his dogs.
He halted them with a word and
planted his feet rigidly to break the
momentum of the sled. This sudden
throwing Of his weight in one place
broke the ice, and down he went
The sagacity which Genes to the
dogs from daily going through such
experiences enabled them to drag
him on to the solid ice, and away they
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-12
A Railway Motor Coach.

railway motor coach is soon TO
run between Fratton and Southsea. 1t
will certainly surprise those who see
this strange little combined engine
and coach for the first time. IL runs
on two four-wheel bogies, and Is di-
vided, as regards its passenger ac-
commodations, into two compart.
ments, first and third these being sep
arated by a sliding door. The first
class compartment. where the seats
are placed longitudinally, is intended
to seat ten persons. The third-class
compartment, where the seats are ar
ranged in pairs transversely Gu either
side of a central gangway, holds mir
ty-two persons-a total of fortytwo in
the two compartments. The motor
coach will be used during the middle
OF the day, when the traffic Is very
light. heavy trains of the usual pat.
tern being only run in the morning
and evening. The possibilities of this
invention are great when one con.
slders how suitable such motor coach.
es would be for the midday, and, in.
deed, much of the light traffic OF all
suburban lines.-The King.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-12
TICE'S WATERLOO
Pc, of Maine Man Learned Few Things About Skunks by
Bitter Experience-The Fredul Pcrcupine.

and drooled and whined and was on
bad terms with himself and the world
for three days. He was desperately
ashamed of his predicament, and for
weeks after he had no. confidence to
look any of us sqpaN in the eye.
That ill-smelling ihidA nt put Tige
wise to strange RlSck and white noe.
turnal animals, and thereafter he
was mighty careful about trying to
put stray cats up handy tree. II
what he took to be a cat in the night
refused to run when he growled an
rushed: he'd sidestep the proposition
quicker than he could snap at the bite
of flea. At such times he seemed
to remember the Understanding dis.
aster of his puppy days, when a thing
that looked like cat put 1t all over
him.
"Tige knew skunks, and after his
first catch-as-catch-can with one Of 'em
he seemed to have made up his mind
that the only safe way to fight them
was to maneuter beyond the danger
line and bark out a lot of sass and
abuse. He had been bitten by coons
an woodchucks, and being an apt pup
he learned to run around his quarry,
feint for a drawout and when oppor.
tunity blossomed jump in and get a
strangle hold. But porcupines were
new to Tige. They are no good as
game and until the enactment of the
Csc bounty law there was no in
centive to hunt them, but whole
lot OF 1t to let them alone. Their
blamed quilts are like a bad habit.
Once they get fleshed into man or
beast they work deeper. Being barbed
they pull out like fishhooks. The kind
of porcupines we have in this part Of
the country are greedy bark eaters,
and it is the inside of the bark that
they prefer. Their front teeth are
like those of the beaver, and they can
strip the big limbs of tree in short
time. Stripping the bark from tree
will kill it, and it Is to save the spruce
and hemlock of Maine that the incen.
tive to exterminate the animal has
been made.
"Porcupines are fool animals. Their
WIS are dbOuI DIS sharp as tne nlnQ
end of an ak, and like the skunk, they
either don't know enough or don't
care a fig, to look out for the engine
when the bell rings P'r'aps it's be.
cause, like the skunk they are so we'll
armed. Meet one in the road, and in.
stead of taking to the weeds and tall
grass, he'll just drop his snout be-
twnnn bic fprplnoc 1n, bic 10 flo in,
the dust, hunch his back, bring all Of
his quilts to charge bayonets, and
await your pleasure. He cannot shoot
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-12

to woodchucks or coons he was
bowling blizzard and he would tree
partridges, but he had no use for
skunks. Once in his younger days,
before he had become wise to many
things which puppies learn by ex-
perience, he deserted in the moon.
light of June evening a sleek little,
plump little black and white object
that looked like cat.
"Skunks never run from impend-
ing danger. Neither do porcupines.
Both are well armed, and they seem
to know that anything alive with
sense enough to get from under when
it rains ought to find it convenient to
let them alone. Tige was a frolic-
some, callow pup. Having had lots Of
fun racing the farm cats up an old
butternut tree that stood in the yard,
he seemed to think 'twould be a high
old jubilee to make the strange pussy
in the moonlight take to the timber.
Barrow, he mumrmured, and away
he went. yelled call off after him,
but twas no use. He was in to get
all that was coming to him, and he
did
"Jebus netty, but that was sur
prise for the pup He let loose a
blart like a scared calf. Yes, twas
a blart. There was no suggestion of
bark or howl in Tiges voice when
the little black and white thing in the
moonlight checked his rush. It was
blart pure and simple, blart all
aquiver with dire dread. Guess Tige
thought his time had sure come, and
he looked to me for succor. With
tail tucked between his legs he shap-
ed course for master, and very
naturally took to my heels to get
away from the overpowering stencil.
Twas no use. Tige was a Splinter,
and fearing he'd get close and con-
taminate me I began Jerking stones
and yelling for him to get out and
keep away.
"The poor cuss seemed to think me
ungrsteful, and when later on the
whole household, including the fam.
lily cats, tagged him he looked like
he felt meaner than watered milk. He
was for time the sickest pup !
ever saw. When the perfume got
good and next to him he'd slide his
head along the grass, first one side
and then the other. This skating on
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-12

their safety. The passenger crossing
the ocean would certainly feel no small
degree of added security were he pro.
vided with the apparatus shown in the
Illustration. No one would think of
wearing one of the bulky life pre-.
servers usually provided on shipboard
all the time, but here Is an appa-
ratus which will answer the same
purpose, and yet without discomfort
when the tube Is given enablesshrdl
when constantly worn. The spiral
form which the tube is given enables
the wearer to suspend 1t around his
body by means of the supporting
jacket, beneath the outer clothing. and
it takes but short time to initiate the
reservoir through the mouthpiece.
which is provided with a valve to
check the outward flow Of the air. The
spiral coils lie fiat when debated, and
are scarcely perceptible to the wearer,
who even If the device rendered him
slightly incompatible, would have
the feeling of safety to countenance
the annoyance.
Wiley p. Tibbets, Of Toledo. Ohio.
is the inventor.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-12
"shake 'em, TigeI"

his quilts, as some vivid imaginations
would have the children believe. but a
bare touch Is sufficient to fasten one
of them In a body's flesh With his
tail, which will flow like steel spring
when he is touched, he can drive
quilts homo as a shingler drives nails,
and that's one Of the things Tige
learned about these thorny animals ON
his last hunt.
Some OF the fellows near where |
live had collected sufic!ent evidence
IN the way Of shouts and claws to con.
vince the proper authorities that there
had been a considerable falling or
In the porcupine population of the
country. They had gathered in enough
coin to make something of Jingle in
their pockets, and their success some
what excited the neighborhood Ev-
erybody all at once took a notion to
go porcupine hunting. My pup Tige.
a friend with whom I have hunted
coons, and myself went out one moon.
light night and bagged three before
Tige met his waterloo. We had mt
big one up tree, and had quite for
gotten Tige in our excitement. NV
friend gave old porky a load of skies
and down he came ker.thump. The
instant he struck Tige was at him.
and |, forgetting twas porcupiIes in.
stead OF coons, yelled: Shake EN-,
boy!'
Poor Tige for the moment typified
the fellow in the old song. There Was
Man in Our Town. The song tells
how the man Ricked red,hot iron
right up and laid 1t right down again.
Well 1t was something like that with
Tige. He got mouthful of porcupine
before he discovered what an unde-
sirable Dit of chewing he'd stacked IN
against. HIS mouth and throat were
as full of quilts as a dress makers min
cushion OF pins, His whole body was
decorated with them. | made up NV
mind then and there that hunting nor
cupines for % cents q head was
hardly worth the effort"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-12

There's one thing you don't want
to do when you hunt porcuplnes,"
said a Maine man who has been
here. land that is sic a green dog
after one of 'em. Did it once myself
during period of excitement and
lost my dog. Twas this way: An
other fellow and I, after the enact
ment of the law fixing a bounty Of
25 cents each on dead porcupines,
started out to gather in few. Tige,
the dog lost, knew there was some
thing in the air when he saw me load
ing shells, and he whimpered his
eagerness to be away.
Now, Tige wasn't what you might
call likely candidate for bench show
purposes, nor would he stand bird
in a woodcock cover, but all the
same he was a fair to middling all
round, everyday dog. When it came
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-08-12

business, and really enjoys its haz-
ards.
Two mail carriers on the short run
to Atlin did not arrive last winter,
and a search party was sent out. They
found the tracks of the sled leading to
what had been hole in the ice. That
was all
In the same district the frozen body
of mail carrier was found and identi
fed by his watch. He had been lost
three years previously.
Harry Frayne, a mail carrier from
Valdes to Eagle, started out last Janu-
airy with the expectation of meeting
the carrier on the next stage. He
found the dogs and the sled. The
carrier, Tuffin, had abandoned them
when the dogs were exhausted, and
had started off with the idea of carry.
ing the mail on his back for the rest
of the distance.
Some Indians found his frozen body
six miles from the summit Of Men.
tasa Pass. He had plodded with the
mail until he fell in the snow, frozen
to death
From the lower end Of this lonely
trail of 1000 miles to Nome there is
often in the local newspapers brief
mention of the disappearance of mail
carrier. 1t is an episode of daily life,
exciting no more comment than a run
away horse does in a big city
Leaving all danger and adventure
nf nf n
Arctic mail carrier is rough and hard.
Do not imagine the carrier reclining
at hts ease, covered with warm robes,
while the dogs lope along over a
smooth surface.
He has to guide the sled from one
side of the river to the other to miss
the heaped.up ice, the soft places and
the .snowbanks.
In temperature of 60 degrees be
low zero, which is common, he has to
keep warm, and yet he must not per.
spire, or the moisture will immediate.
ly freeze. His greatest care is as to
his footwear. He has two or three
pair of woollen socks and over them
pair of moccasins made of deer hide.
Should these get wet his feet freeze
and he is little better than dead
man.
After he has made his distance for
the day he arrives at lonely cabin
under some feet Of snow. He has to
put on his snowshoes to break a trail
to it for the dogs.
The cabin contains a rusty stove