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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-31
How Can a Woman Earn Her Own
Pin Money?

Dear Aunt Jennie:-I have long
delayed writing, not for lack of in
terest, but for lack of time. I have
been busy in the yard; and have sown
some garden seed. I am almost per-
suaded to get some worms and try
silk culture. If any of you can give
me any information or advice [ will
be very grateful.
Women do have a dreadful time in
this world. They want money earned
by their own effort, and which it is
nobody's business how it is spent.
Why, in u own town about two
thirds of the women are book agents,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-31

destroy what is already on hand. /
have used this preventive for seven
years, and with much success. I find
it saves a great deal of labor.
Can some of the Chatterers tell me
how to destroy the insect that de-
YOURS the chrysanthemums? I was
troubled with them last summer, and
could not find any one who could
give me any advice on destroying
them.
If the house plants become pale
and sickly give them a dose of ammo
MIA by putting a few drops in the
water you water them with,an it will
act like magic. It is the concen-
trated essence of fertilizers, and acts
upon plant life as tonics upon human
invalids.
To sweep a carpet nicely, wet
thoroughly a newspaper, wiring near
ly dry, tear in pieces and scatter over
the carpet. Then sweep as usual with
the broom. The wet paper collects
the dust and does not soil the carpet.
It also keeps the dust from rising
and falling on the furniture and
drapery.
Can some of the Chatterers give
me a recipe for green tomato sweet
pickles? [ will be in time this sum-
mer by asking in due time to get an
answer.
Well, isn't it a lovely sight to see
everything coming to life again? It
seems like summer is close at hand,
and oh, how I do love spring when
everything seems to enjoy the warm
sunshine, and we can open the doors
and windows and let in the beauty Of
outdoor life once more!
NELLIE.
DTD1iD % N y
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-31
Duplin Co., N. G.

There has always been more or less
experimenting and dabbling with silk
producing in the United States, and
so many requests have come to the
Department of Agriculture for infor-
nation on silk culture that a bulletin
has been prepared on the subject and
is now in press.
The mulberry silk worm has been
cultivated in China from time imme-
mortal, and has been in Europe since
the sixth century. The worm is an
artifcially improved product, the
various wild species not producing
good silk. The leaf of the white
mulberry is the silk worms natural
and best food. The bulletin gives
detailed direction as to the hatch
ing, feeding and raising of the
worms, and producing the silk. The
thread of a cocoon from a single
worm varies in length from 1900 to
1900 yards. There is a regular mar
ket for the cocoons. The successful
handling of an ounce of eggs should
hatch about 10000 worms and 3d.
900 of these should succeed in spin
ing cocoons. The whole work of silk
production can be done indoors
in a single room-with the excep-
ton of gathering the mulberry
leaves.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-31
Aunt Jennie's Letter.

NUM- JCu14C y ASIIGIs
The letters this week are very help
full, and I trust that some of you will
answer the questions asked. If we
could become interested and always
try to answer all questions, we should
have a lively time. We have been in
doors SO long that it is a treat to get
out, and [ suspect most of the Circle
are so busy enjoying the fresh vege-
t~ation, fine atmosphere and sunshine,
that they are forgetting that such an
institution as our Chat exists.
1t will not be many weeks now be-
fore chat trunk or box of spring
clothing must be sent to the girl who
is in boarding-schOol. How to have
her dress becomingly and at the same
time economically, is the question
that many mothers are trying to an
swer. [ am so glad that girls can
always appropriately wear white.
There is no color that is so becoming
to a fresh young complexion and GER
tainly none that proves so economi-
cal as pure white. The oftener it is
washed Crowded, of course, that it
is washed-not dabbled, then dried
and half ironed) yes, the oftener it
is really washed and nicely ironed,
4h@ -~@LAS@- - ILL., $500
medium weight and light airy stufs
in white, so that one need not wait
for the very warm days before don
ming it. Indeed, the heavier mate
rails in white have been worn all win
ter, and this summer it will reign SUI
preme. If a white dress simply gets
mussed or wrinkled and not soiled, it
can be made to look almost as we'll
as when quite new by simply dampen-
ing and then pressing it carefully. I
have known girls who could wear one
dress all the season in this way, and
always look we'll; however, it is adj
visable to have several, and some that
will stand much washing if you are
not a very neat and careful girl.
White silk or Isle thread gloves go
nicely with these suits and they too
will bear much washing. Change
your ribbons and you change your
suit when you wear white. There
now! I have written you a letter on
dress when I had no idea of doing
anything of the kind this time, but I
do so like to see pretty young girls
look their prettiest that I just must
give them a few hints as to the Chow"
sometimes. AUNT JENNIE.
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or are making frantic efforts to be
book agents or agents for one of the
hundred other n~uisances, and home
makers at the same time; and it can't
be done. [ know because I have tried
it. I was agent for The Brilliantina
Company, advertised in our church
paper. I paid a quarter for a little
rag, soaked in some salty sour, bitter,
sweet-smelling stuff. This wonderful
rag was to polish silverware with.
And I could not have sold it for a
penny in a town of a thousand inhab-
ltants. Perhaps some agents could
have, but I could not.
know a little woman in our town,
who is agent for the woodworking
Licosite. (And it is a good thing I
suppose.) It is an arrangement to
blow fits and fire up the nostrils, to
cure catarrh ;the agent does the blow
ing. This friend of mine said she
had fun enough blowing people and
seeing how they took it to pay her
for her labor, but this coin would not
be very acceptable to the Licosite
Company. (No ofense meant to the
honorable company I am only try
ing to illustrate woman's weakness in
freezing on to anything, no matter
how impossible, or improbable it is,
to earn her own money.
How can a woman cook, keep house,
sew, wash, iron, nurse, do all her own
work, whate'er it be,and make money,
without ~neglecting any of her du-
ties? That is the question. She must
begin without capital, and accom-
plish a miracle. She must make some
thing of nothing, and how is this to
be done? To the one who best an
swers this question (Aunt Jennie to
be the judge), I will be very thankful,
and when I coin the money from
their plan, I will then give a more
acceptable reward.
Hoping to see Chat always full
to OVERLOOKING, and never a worse let
ter than my own, I am,
SINCERE.
Mecklenburg Co., N. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-31

A Marysville schoolma'am was
teaching her class the mysteries of
grammar.
"Now, Johnny, said she, Gin what
tense do I speak when I say, I am
beautiful
The little fellow answered, quick
as a wink, The past."-Epworth Her
aid.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-31
Industry, Not OratOry, the Quality
Needed in a Congressman.

III llt 1iNA
Committee. He went over the evil
lo,,oo in election contest cases, and
.bo chairman of the committee found
him 2 reliable young man % lean
,,non Long stayed up nights with
trivial details of his work. When
bo made a report as member of a
subcommittee on 8 branch Of a case
the members of the committee found
that he had the right Of the matter.
They put him on the Ways and
Means Committee-the most i'm
nortant one in the House-in his Sec
ond term. He gorged himself with
statistics and became fat with facts
the most u~ninteresting facts, that
could by no possibility have anything
to do with brilliant Uratory; he help
ed the more experienced members of
tLp committee to form their judg-
mcnts by furnishing them with facts.
At the end of his second term they
gave him a chance to make a speech
on the Porto Rican tariff; it was not
a speech that will ever appear in the
school readers. When it was printed
it looked like a State Auditors re.
port; it was bristly with statistics.
But the members of Congress said it
was the best presentation of the Re
publican position on the Porto Rican
tariff that the session brought out;
and the Republican National Com
mittpe used the speech as its textbook
on the subject. The next term the
young man devoted himself to Cuban
reciprocity. General Wood, who was
Governor General of Cuba at the
time when Long was studying the
Cuban tariff, said in a public speech
recently that Longs requests for in
formation kept coming from the War
Department to Cuba until his name
used to make the Cuban clerks groan.
They knew it meant work for them.
But Long mastered his subject, and
when the Ways and Means Commit
tee began to work on the subject of
Cuban reciprocity they turned nat
uralIy to Long for information. On
that branch of legislation he became
one Of the leaders of the House. And
last month his State promoted him
to the Senate. The case of Long is
used because it is typical of success
tuI work in the House of Represen-
tativcS. The reader can see that
rhetorical eloQuence had nothing to
DO with it. Nothing but hard dig
gIng-tho thing that students call
honmg'-wins in the House. The
instruct that sends an orator to the
House might as well send a Eastwood
man. \ modern Robert ~Ingersoll,
II ne depended on his oratorical pow
ef>' would be unknown in the House
to-day. Debate has ceased virtually
III the National House of Represen-
'a'lVeS. It has become a laboratory
ana not a forum. A deaf and dumb
reader of the House is much more
probable now than "an orator as Bru-
"> lS,-WiI Allen White, in Sat
Urday Evening Post
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-31

""ilNome is as handsome does;
y"' II saves a lot of trouble to be
Oofn goodIooking.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-31
OUR SOCIAL CHAT

All letters intended for this department
should be addressed to "Aunt Jennie" care
OF The Progressive Farmer. Raleigh, n. G.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-01-31

Is the statement, BOTTLED In 1890
for Medicine" The oil Is Of dark
color, evidently heavy from evap.
Grafton CD and at least interesting
to any man who has sought the
golden fluid In any locality.
The gentlemen report a most
pleasant trip, genial people, good
feeding and a general good time.
The one fact gathered from their
experience Is that Kentucky IS a
good place for trust with unlim'
tied millions, but very uncertain
place for the man with limited
means.
Messrs. Thompson and Cushing
disposed of their interests 10 the
lease while away, and 1t Is now
owned by Mr.. Mercer Of this city,
and Captain Massey. a riverman OF
some prominence In that country
and a Mr.. s. M. Rodgers. 1t will
be retained until developments In
the immediate neighborhood fur
Their indicate Its value.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-01-31

S,stersville. ". Va.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-01-31
LAY UP YOUR TREASURES
No Man should Spend the whole Of
His Income.

No Man should Spend the whole OF
His Income.
Is any one too poor to save? Is an, i'm
portant problem which the readers Of
; London daily are at present attempt
ing to solve. The question Is not by
any means a new one. 1t Is one which
has troubled past generations, just as,
in all probability, it will affect the gen
erations yet to come. We cannot say
that this latest discussion Of the sub
ject is throwing much. II any. fresh
light upon 1t.
In the first place, there is diversity
Of opinion regarding the term poor"
One man, who derives an income Of
$3.50 a year from private property.
fancies he comes under the category.
while another does not consider any
one poor who has an income Of 5000
year. says writer in Leslie's Weekly.
1t Is manifestly impossible to fix az:
limit in q matter like this. Very mucii
depends upon the locality and the CON,
ditions and surroundings Of the indi
amply sufficient to insure family Il
comfortable home, excellent social al
vantages and good living in coun-
try village would mean many priva-
lions and sore discomforts in any large
city.
On the whole, however, we are in
clined to believe that Max ORelrs
views on the point under discussion
come nearer the safe and common
sense rule than anything we have seen.
II do not care" he says, show small
the income of man is, he should never
spend the whole Of it, especially if he
has a wife and children. He should
at least save enough to pay every year
the premium on good life policy. No
man is worthy of the name who does
not do this, at least. at the price Of
whatever privations he has to submit
to. Some pleasure may be derived
from high living. but certainly no hap
piness" ~
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-01-31
OVER THE OCEAN.

Four new lighthouses have been
erected recently OH the coast of the
Red sea.
By the rectification Of the India and
Tibet frontier, which has now been
completed, $50 square miles have been
added to British territory.
Regulations to be adopted with re-
gard to airships in time of war are
now being discussed by the institute OF
international law at Berlin. -,
The China Times of Peking started
the new century by issuing, its paper in
seven. languages = Chinese, japanese,
English, French. German, Russian
and Italian. 49,.
Warm blankets are now being lent
to poor persons in the first arrondisse-
ment of Paris on the sole condition
that they return them on the first Mon
day in May.
For two years the slaughter of COWS,
heifers and calves for sale as meat Is
prohibited in the Transvaal under pen
atty of fifty pound fine or six months
imprisonment. a.
To obtain money to complies a fine
Gothic church, the erection q which
began in 149S, the municipality OF
Alost, Belgium. has decided to sell one
of Rubens' masterpieces for 100000.
SPANS minister Of justice recently
suggested in a public address that the
minimum marriage age, which is as
low as twelve years for girls and four.
teen for boys, should be raised and that
consanguineous marriages should be
prohibited.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-01-31
Pleased at II.

THE fools are not all dead yet" said
the angry husband.
I'm glad of it, dear" calmly replied
the other half of the combination. Il
never did look we'll in black. Chicago
News.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-01-31

The agricultural department, which
has been one of the features Of the
Kicker for the last year, has been in
definitely suspended. We have tried
our level best to run department on
burdocks. wild plums and rattlesnakes,
but it has proved too agricultural for
us.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-01-31
Don't Miss
These Bargains We are
Offering
As THEY ARE BIG
Il VALUES.

8 once Bars Laundry Soap &C.
Jaxon and Amnonia washing
Powders per package sc
Quart jug Catsup I2Hc.
II ID Plug Wetmore's Best Iooac
co 2Sc.
Genuine York State Buckwheat
finest In the country try 1t.
Swans Down Cake Four some
thing very 6ne. try 1t and be con-
WINGED
lust received some new Potato
Flour.
Fresh Fish every Thursday and
Friday.
Fancy fresh Oysters all the time.
White Star Coffee specially.
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ON THE SURFACE.

Thinly plated Silverware LOOKS
like the Solidware. You can tell
the difference 10 the way 1t wears,
but when the article You bought
for solid triple plated turns out to be
thiuly plated what are You going
to do about 1t?
GOODS BOUGHT FROM US
ARE SURE.
We know what they are. and we
tell you, fully and frankly, all we
know about everything you ask to
see. Everything Is protected by
oar iull guarantee that 1t Is just as
we represent. "It's better 10 be
sure than sorry"
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-16
Alton Pattern In Green
Scroll Decoration.

Constitution and laws and department or
ders. Concedin8 the exigency, the saliva
ton Of Missouri to the Confederacy. any
movement northward would have been de
fensive' OF the territory of Arkansas,
Louisiana and Texas. AL were threatened
by the advance Of Lyons army.
ut was the plainest dictate Of common as
well as military sense to follow up the VIC
tory and persist In an invasion which had
been provoked BY Lyons advance. The
consequence of failing to do 50 was probably
the loss to the Confederate cause of the
great State Of Missouri, at time when. its
adhesion to the Southern side meant the
success Of the Southern cause
1.-THE Miesourians were heart whole IN
the cause. and made immense sacrifices in
support Of It. No better soldiers ever joined
In battle than they became. True 1t Is.
that Price was ambitious and audacious in
his military views, but that was the kind
of leader needed for the special service. the
holding Of Missouri Later. his march and
success at Lexington proved his policy was
right. II he had heen strong enough to
30 to st. Louis 1t would have been still bet
ter"
The author devotes little space to dis
cussion of the problems back of the war.
and says nothing Of the problems which yet
remain as q legacy of the struggle. but his
narration OF the part his batteries Played
in various battles and of Incidents Of camp
and Held life. Is interesting and complete.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-16

with the Light Guns Is the title Of an
interesting book by Major w. E. Woodruff.
late Of the Confederate States Army. giving
the personal "reminiscences Of the author,
who first saw service in the Civil War as
q Captain in the Totten Light Battery.
volunteer militia organization stationed at
Little Rock, at the beginning of the war.
In 1861. Captain Woodruff was made q
Major Of artillery by the authorities at
Richmond. The book treats of the batteries
from Arkansas. Missouri and Texas, with
which the Major served.
In discussing the days Immediately pre-
ceding the Civil War. and the secession of
Arkansas. the author says:
.sThe Arkansas Legislature met in Novem-
lima, called State Convention. which met
early in 1851 majority Of Union men,
friends OF Bell and Douglas, dominated the
body. David WALKER was elected Its presi-
dent. Moderate counsels prevailed. IN nope
OF good results from the Crtttenden confer
ence. By common consent the convention
determined to await the action Of Virginia
temporary adjournment Of the Arkansas
convention Was had, subject to the call Of
President Walker.
'Things rocked aiong'-the Union men
hopeful of good results from the Crfttenden
conference. and It's effect on the presidential
policy: the friends of secession very in
credulous. Then. on April Is. 1851, came
listment Of sA0oe men to suppress ths re-
bellion. Itg eject was az horrifymG - ire
mendous-like the John Brown raid upon
Virginia n y.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-16

composed i it now gray-headed fathers and
grandfathersl It was s picnic sScurs Sore
welcomed at every town, landing and wood.
yard by the newborn secessionists, besot
OF the force proelamation., :. 49, ,oo,,s
was at the wharf at Fort Smith on arrival,
and IT was announced that Sturgis and MS
forces short few desertsrs ;on NAG ned TO
supposedly to Join Captain Emorys com.
mand. thought to be in the vicinity OF Fort
Washita. 49,, ,.,o,o,n.
Colonel Borland's men occupied the garri-
son grounds at once. Shortly after daylight
r rise walls. moved by hand by the gunners
.The roads were p.cketed. and our hist
began. Tents were pitched, guards placed,
messes formed and cooks appointed. and
drum and bugle sounded the orders ana
in profound r. confusion and disorder: sad
dies, brides, arms, revolvers. sabers, pistols
and carbines, blankets. clothes. ammuni-
were everywhere, eyidencins the departure
According to Majo. WoodsuGG ,, the des sns
Pearce to keep strictly within the letter Or
their authority may have been responsive
for fs ssn Sf t q in the battle
Independence, and was possibly the cause
of the ultimate overthrow OF the Confeder-
Discussing the situation after the battle
of Oak Hill. which was fought August 10.
1861, the author says: Price favored pur-
suit and making tight for Missouri; Nc
CuIloch had already overstepped the letter
of his authority, which held him to the
indian country; besides. his orders to the
contrary were peremptory; Pearees foIce
was composed wholly of State troops en-
listed for a short term for the defense OF
Arkansas from invasion.
sgnEo C,,It n<l,ss. md q ms
the whole well drilled and disciplined the
Missourians were not SO we'll but many
had acquired valuable experience in and
out of battle. and large proportion ion. was ~
those they possessed were obsolete and In,
adequate to meet the modern arms supplied ne
obviated by the result Of the battle.
MISSOURrS HELP LACKING.
"All Of these three Generals were right
in their respective views as to their author
ity; but as In the case of the Louisiana
Purchase in 1908. surrounding circumstances
would have JUSTIFIED some stretch Of the
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-16
DFCI ARES LOSS OF MISSOURI
DEFEATED SOUTHERN ARMS.
In Rock Entitled the Light Guns Major W. Woodruff
Late Army Describes Features of the Civil
War and Its Relation Kansas Missouri and TexasTels
of With the Art ry of Which He Was Officer

at satisfied the South that the Northern
policy OF force was to overthrow the con-
stitutional rights of the South. Seventy
five thousand men! 1t seemed to the con-
servatives OF the South an invading army
Sas formidable as the flights Of wild pigeons
the lovers Of the Union. At the South. as
at the North. 1t instantly drove-it did not
convert-all conservative into radical senti-
ment.
"As Mr.. Blaine said of the North-so at
the South-.'Yesterday there was division: to-
was the watchword; at the North compul-
fully refused to respect the Presidents req
uisiti0n for troops from the State. Immedi-
ately President Walker called the State
Convention to assemble on the 9Th of May.
Virginia and North Carolina had acted, and
the hrst act of the convention on reassem-
bling was to pass an ordinance of seces-
sion. WHICH was officially recorded as unan-
fmous. with the exception of one yote-that
OF Isaac Murphy of Madison County
The book contains an interesting account
OF the capture Of the United States camp
at Fort Smith q short time before Arkansas
Smith was squadron of United States
cavalry commanded by Captain Samuel
Sturgis.
FORT SMITH EXCURSION.
I'm few days" says the book, "a force
OF near LOO men embarked from Little
Rock under command OF Colonel Samuel
Boriand In execution of the design. Among
the the. t I;s was the Totem Battery with
sufiiciency Of ammunition-shot, shell and
.:As recollected. three steamers were re-
CURED to transport the force-the Little
Mock the Lady Walton nd. perhaps. the