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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-12-01

Kindness has two parts: ~ Un-
willingness to cause needless Paln'
either of body or of mind; this IS the
negative part. % Wish and eHoF'
to add to the sum of joy; this Is tn'
positive part. V. Blake.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-12-01
The Newly Discovered Savings Of chElst.

/ uISLOIVs ~ = buO oA0A
INJURED against Moses, it was a bitter
piece of sarcasm, 'Were there no
graves in Egypt?" Graves in Egypt
there are nothing but graves. The
Egyptian feast was marked with the
ceremony of parading in mummy
before the guests that all might be
reminded of the fact of death and
burial. The arts of Egyptian civil
lization eliminated in burial, In the
embalming of the dead body, in the
monuments which, with all their
hoary centuries still look down upon
the traveller. And this passion for
the preservation of relics for subse-
quent generations was shared even
by the Egyptian Christians of the
first centuries. The dry climate of
Egypt, in which even so frail and
perishable an object as the papyrus,
the ancient Egyptian paper, can be
preserved, has helped in the handing
down of the early records of the
Christian era to our own time.
In the season of 1867, Messrs.
Hunt and Grenfell, two celebrated
English authorities on Egyptian an
Equities, unearthed the oldest known
manuscript of the Greek gospels.
We have seen some fragments of it
in the University of Pennsylvania,
and they can be easily deciphered
now. The date of this manuscript
is put at $50 A. D., by some experts.
But there was even a more startling
discovery made at the same time,
that of some of the sayings of Christ,
called "Logia," eight in number,
which we're not included in our Cos
pels. Paul quotes one such saying,
not recorded in the gospels, "Remem-
Der the words of the Lord Jesus, how
He said, 1T is more blessed to give
than to receive"
1t is probable that there were many
such sayings treasured up in the
minds of the disciples and handed
downfto another generation, though
with the faults and inaccuracies of
such verbal transmission, which the
gospels, being written records and
contemporaneous records, would
avoid. One of these Logia was,
"Cleave the wood and ye shall find
Me. Lift the stone and there am
(which Henry Van Dyke inter
prets to mean, that the laborer in
whatever employment may find
Christ in his work.
But Saturday afternoon the Asso-
ciated Press dispatches bore the news,
of another rich find, this time by
DIR. Grenfell and DIR. William @.
Winslow, of Boston, A large num-
Der of these Logia have been un-
earthed, apparently addressed to
Thomas the Apostle, and all begin
ming. "Jesus saith" The transla-
ton of these precious relics of the
early Christian era is awaited by the
Christian world with much interest.
Some of them that have been publish
ed are the variations of what we al
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-12-01
GENERAL NEWS
The Lesser Events Of Last. Week.

of being assaulted.
A Senate committee will go to Gu
ba to take testimony regarding the
conduct of General Wood.
Senator Dietrich, of Nebraska, ar
rived at Omaha to stand trial on a
charge of receiving a bribe.
Fifteen or twenty Civil War veter-
n in the army are soon to be made
brigadier-generals and retired.
Emperor William has directed the
German authorities to officially rec
ognize the republic of Panama.
The Senate agreed to vote on the
bill making effective the Cuban Reel
procity treaty on December 18th.
Seven prominent citizens of South
ern Georgia we're indicted in the
Federal Court at Savannah for peo-
mage.
The Free Land League opened the
campaign against the Chamberlain
proposals with a great meeting in
London.
1t is thought the Senate sub-com-
mittee Investigating the case of
General Wood will not go to Cuba
before March.
A conference was held at the
White House looking to the adoption
of measures for the determination of
the cotton boil weevil.
At a conference at the White
House an agreement was reached be-
tween the warning Republican fac
tions of New York State.
Mrs. Philo S. Bennett took an ap-
peal in her suit against Mr. w. j.
Bryan and will oppose his acting as
executor of her husbands will.
Turkey was warned by Russia and
Austria that unless the reforms were
carried out in Macedonia at once the
Powers would take charge of them.
Three hundred Moros were killed
and many wounded in a fight lasting
five days with American troops in
Jolo; six Americans were wounded.
No proposition to adjourn the ex-
ira session of Congress will be en-
tertained by the House until the Sen
ate either passes or rejects the Gu.
ban bill.
The Republicans of the Senate
completed their committee assign,
ments. Mr.. Hanna succeeding Mr.
Morgan as chairman of the Canal
Committee.
General Holguin, n of. the Col
ombian commissioners, made a spe.
eial plea to the Panamaians, but wa:
told negotiations cannot begin unit
Colombia recognizes the new repub
lie.
Grover Cleveland, in a letter tt
St. Clair McKelway, editor of the
Brooklyn Eagle, announced his posi-
tive determination not to accept {
nomination for President of the
United States. The letter was writ
ten last Wednesday from Princeton
and in 1t Mr.. Cleveland savS that hi,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-12-01
Our Washington Letter.

Editor OF The Progressive Farmer:
Events in Panama are progressing
rapidly. The canal treaty has been
sent to the isthmus, and ratification
by the people of the new republic is
practically assured. China, France
and Germany have recognized the
republic of Panama, and as soon as
the question of the division of Col
ombia's debt is settled, the other
powers will also recognize the new
government. General Reyes, of Col
ombia, is on his way to Washington,
with the forlorn hope of reaching an
agreement whereby Panama may be
saved to Colombia, even if it is neces-
sary to annex the latter government
to the new republic, with the capital
on the isthmus. The people of Pan
anna would not agree to this as they
could be outvoted by the Colon
bans on every question. Colombia
seconds her proposals by threats to
raise 100000 men and declare a
"Boer War"
THE PANAMA CANAL.
Panama affairs we're discussed in
the Senate. When the announcement
by the Committee on Committees
"a made, that Senator Morgan was
to be succeeded by Senator Hanna
as chairman of the Committee on
In~ter-oceanic Canals, Senator Nor
gan rose and delivered a bitter attack
upon the administration of President
Roosevelt. The speech took up the
greater part of two sessions of the
Senate and before it was over the
Senator had to request the privilege.
of finishing from his seat. In de-
claring that President Mckinley ia
vored the Nicaraguan route, the Ala
bama Senator became involved in a
dispute with his rival, in canal af-
fairs, Senator Hanna, in which the
latter denied that President McKin-
ley had any preference between the
routes. Senator Morgan was very
sarcastic in his speech, using many
times the Presidents favorite words,
"clean" and decent" and referring
to the new Panama minister as
Somebody from Panama" whose only
authority was contained in a tele-
gram received from a revolutionary
junta. He accused the President of
~disobeying the orders of the Senate,
contained in the SDooner act; of
breaking faith with his pledge to
carry out the policy of Mckinley;
of aiding the revolution in Panama,
and of personal ambition to get all
the credit for the building of the
canal.
"Has the President any excuse"
he asked, "for his failure to carry in
to effect the agreement with Nicara-
qua and Costa Rica, unless it be re-
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~"N SldI-
ifcation of personal ambition which
the law deprives him of further now
er to indulgeg Whatever the incon.
tive, he will fail to carry the peonlo
with him n his wild and inexcnsabIo
raid"
CUBAN AFFAIRS.
Cuban affairs were the subject If
an interesting debate in the Senate
brought about by a resolution, intro
duced by Senator Newlands, Demo-
crat, of Nevada, in which Cuba was
invited to enter the American Union
as a State with Porto Rico annexed
to it as a county. Senators Lodge.
Hale, and o. II. Platt opposed the
resolution, chiefly on the ground that
it would arouse the suspicion that
this country was trying to annex
Latin-American territory and that
an invitation, under the circum-
stances, would seem equivalent to a
command.
Mr. Newlands supported his reso-
luton by declaring that Cuba would
gain greatly by free trade with the
United States and that the loan
which she was about to make, could
be raised easier and cheaper if her
bonds we're guaranteed by the United
States. The Spanish population and
many business interests of Cuba ia
yored annexation, but when Presi-
dent Palma was interview on the res
olution, he said that although Cuba
was very grateful to this country, she
had no desire for annexation and was
progressing very we'll as she was. In
Porto Rico the resolution was dis
cussed, and it appears that the in
habitants of the islands have no de-
sire to be joined to Cuba as a coun-
ty. No doubt they aspire to become
a State themselves some day, and
believe their prospects would be les
sened by becoming a province of
Cuba.
The speeches of the three Republi-
can Senators indicated a concerted
attempt to oppose the resolution, and
it is said that the object was to
allay the suspicious Of the South
American countries at the present
moment when affairs in Panama are
so critical. Senator Platt, who was
the author of the famous amend
ment which was incorporated in the
Cuban constitution, declared: 1
think that our relations with Cuba
have been misunderstood. l do not
think we are exercising any protec-
tive power over Cuba. I do not think
that we have even constituted our
selves the guardian of Cuba and
made Cuba our ward" Senator
Lodge said he was opposed to island
States, and that we had all the con-
troll of Cuba in a military and polltl-
cal point of view that we could de-
sire. In the course of his remarks
he said he hoped that all the Euro
pean flags on this continent would
follow that of Spain to Europe.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-12-01

sentiment toward Colombia and pre+-
ifcation of personal ambition which
the law deprives him of further now
er to indulge9 Whatever the incen-
tive, he will fail to carry the people
with him n his wild and inexcusabIe
raid"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-15
TOO MUCH OF UNDERMINING
Marie COrelli Objects to Making over
the Birthplace of
Shakespeare.

Copyright 1908, by Press Publishing Coz
LONDON, Feb. 14.-(New York World
Cablegram-Special Telegram Marie Co
relIi is out with a protest, "at the request
Of several literary people and lovers of
Shakespeare" against the further modern
izing Of Stratford- Avon by the erection
of brand new Carnegie free library next
to shakespeare's birthplace. She goes on
TO say:
while fully realizing the benevolent in .
tentions Of the wealthy American manu-
facturer, this seems to be a point at which
even wealth should draw a line, and the
Stratford townspeople are by no means
overanxious to possess a free library at all.
According 20 the present plans OF the
custodian the cottage In the garden Of the
birthplace is to be pulled down and also
the cottages next II. Personally have no
doubt as to the excellent motives OF all
the persons concerned and exonerate them
from suspicion OF self-advertisement. But
there are so few old world towns remain
ing unspoiled in England that the birth
place Of Shakespeare should at best be
guarded more sacredly for the nation than
that portion OF its most historic street
should be left open to easy purchase Of the
mere millionaire"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-15
SHINING AT AN EARLY AGE
Lady Dorothy WaIpOIe Social Fa-
vOrite, Though Only
Fourteen.

Copyright, 1903. by Press Publishing Coz
LONDON, Feb. 14.-(New York World
Cablegram - Special Telegram.) - Lady
Dorothy Walpole, the exquisitely pretty
young Anglo-American, the pet girl friend
of Miss Muriel White, daughter OF Secre-
tary White, OF the United States embassy,
and who stayed with her much last autumn
at Wilton park, promises to be one OF the
prettiest young debutantes when she makes
her bow at Buckingham place. As yet
she. is by no means tout" but she is in
such great request where young people are
and sne Is so graceful as a dancer that
she has already very important and en-
vlable position. Her mother, Countess
Orford, who was Miss Louise Corbin of
New York, dislikes to have her only child
so much in society at so early an age (she
will be IL next month"; but the Whites are
so fond Of her and she enjoys Wilton park
so much that her mother is easily per-
suaded
With her hair parted In the middle and
knotted at the nape of her neck in truly
American fashion, Lady Dorothy is truly
American girl She is fair \of face and
blue-eyed, and although she would still
rank among the Juveniles, at the big ball
given at Hall Barn last week she had her
program filled up before any grown up
girl in the room. She is a perfect waltzer,
as was proved by the test that Lord
Cricton, a most fastidious dancing man,
danced with her nearly through the whole
program.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-15
ICE ENCRoAcHING ON LAND
North siberia Said to BE Rapidly he.
coming an UninhabitabIe
Region,

Copyright, 1908, by Press Publishing Coz
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. l4.-CNew York
World CablegTam-Special Telegram -
North Siberia is threatened with an ice
age, Winter has never before been any,
thing like so severe as this year. 1t be-
gan last July, before the grain was ripe.
The grain froze in the fields and before the
end Of September. the usual harvest time
the earth was cracking with an intense
frost, SO unusual an occurrence, extend
ing 1,0O0 miles attracted the attention Of
the Russian authorities, and an expedition
sent 10 inquire into the cause now reports
that huge masses Of polar ice are rapidly
leaving the vicinity Of the pole and wedg-
ing themselves against the coast, where
they viii never thaw. and that the impact
OF the masses from the pole is driving the
ice far up on the land. About 200 VIII
lagos have been deserted. The samoyeds
the aborigines OF the country accounted
specially weather wise, say that the ST.
berian grazing grounds for reindeer are be-
ing gradually driven southward and that
the zone Of tros and coarse grass, within
the memory OF their old men. was 200
miles north of the present limit
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-15

Page.
L Scandal over card Games.
Nine. Humbert Now n Heroine.
Venezuelan blockade Raised.
DOinES of Nebraska Legislature.
= ApprOpriRtcs Money for the West.
Turf Men Must stand Trial.
3 News from the state Capital.
Progress of the Lille Case.
Bryan IN Not Candidate,
& Asphyxinted by Natural Gas.
Affairs at south Omaha.
Senator TiIIman Defends LynchinR.
Police Seek HRnna's SON.
Dominican Treaty Arrives.
o Past Week in Omaha Society.
Echoes of the Ante-Room.
Judge Grosscup on Socialism.
Y. NJ. c. A. Gymnasium Honors.
Council BIuns and Iowa News.
Weekly Review of sports.
10 state Men OutshOOt Omaha.
Harvard Wins from Yale.
10 COrtelyOu May Go Into Cabinet.
Debate over Beet Sugar In senate.
IL In the Domain of Woman.
I3 Amusements and Music.
IL EDITORIAL.
10 Chicago Turf Men Are Raided.
Labor Demand Exceeds supply.
~ story, "Seven Secrets"
10 Markets and Financial.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-15
BAUeHMAN'S FAMILY IN NEED
Officers Report that He Has Been Too
Economical in Domestic
Allowance.

A report from neighbors that the family
Of T. A. Baughman, 2625 Patrick avenue,
was destitute and suffering. resulted satur-
day in Officers Woodbridge and Baldwin being
detailed to investigate the case. Their re-
port to Chief Donahue was that though
Baughman gets SIS per week as foreman
for the Martin Anderson company he has
been allowing his wife but 10 cents per day
for maintaining the household and keeping
the children clothed; that as a result of
this excessive economy a half loaf of bread
had had to suffice as both breakfast and
dinner for a family of four; the nursing
babe was improperly clothed and the whole
place and all persons therein suffering for
want of soap.
The officers visited Baughman at his place
Of employment and he gave them So for
his family. He agreed, also. that hereafter
he will repeat the action every Saturday
night under penalty of arrest, a policeman
to receive the money at his place of en-
! ployment and convey 1t to his family. The
neighbors Of the family say they have been
complaining Of the conditions at the Baugh-
pan, home. for some. time psst-.,.as-sz.-..,s,
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-15
WORKS THE PEOPLE OF BERLIN
Bogus American Major Has a Good
Time at the Expense of
the CreduIOus.

Copyright, 1903 by Press Publishing Coz
BERLIN, Feb. 14.-(New York World Ca
blegram-special Telegram.)-A man Civ
ing his name as schiewaugk and calling
himself an American major has been ar
rested here as a swindler. \In society
schiewaugk wore the uniform of the
United States army and talked of his brill
liant deeds In the American war with
Spain. He had read up the geography of
Cuba and knew all about its climate and
people. He had studied also the printed
description Of the fighting and was an au-
thority on the Rough Riders. His position
was strengthened by a letter he carried
purporting to be signed by President
Roosevelt. Schiewaugks bearing was that
OF cultivated man Of the world. His vic
Tins are many and most OF them are in the
highest ranks, from whom ne raised money
on various false pretenses.
AS matter Of cold fact he belongs TO a
poor Berlin family. The only military
training he has was obtained as a private
in German infantry regiment
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-15
STRANGE SECT IN SIBERIA
"Divine" One Spirited Away by Rus
sian Government, but Follow
ers Are Faithful.

Copyright. 1903, by Press Publishing Coz
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb 14.--(New York
World Cabegram-Special Telegram)-A
most interesting and harmless sect sprang
up within the last three years in Semyo-
nonka and the eastern provinces Of ST.
IBERIA on the Mongolian frontier, attracting
thousands Of members. Semyononka was
a desert some years ago. A few Buddhist
nomads wandered there Then came a few
liberated convicts, then some Kierghiz and
Tartars, and they formed a settlement. The
Russians plowed, built huts, sank wells,
wove cloth and people began to gather.
Buddhist priest came along and started
to make converts. He preached about the
soul coming back to earth and entering
the bodies of babies. The Russians got hold
Of a new testament and read about the
birth at Bethlehem. They and the Budd-
hists met regularly every evening and dis
cussed their matters. One night in De-
cember. 1901. a beautiful young girl be-
came the mother Of a boy. A rumOr got
abroad that Christ was coming again. 1t
spread like wildfre all along the frontier
The Russians said It was Christ; the Mon
gols that it was Duddha. The girl could
give no explanation.
Crowds came in pllgrimages. The girl
rich Chinese brocades, with the babe In
her arms. Buddhists and Russians knelt
before her. Mother and child were radi-
ant. The crops flourished, the cattle multi
piled. sickness vanished from the settles
ment.
The new faith spread rapidly. Offerings
and pilgrimages were Of daily occurrence
and every day the girl and her child sat
there in shimmering brocade, with a crown
on her hair and background of gold and
silver and cleaning lights.
A year passed and the fame OF the
strange events travelled as far as st.
Petersburg to the czar's ears. No such
sect must be permitted, he said, and the
police gathered from the adjacent towns
and told the girl and her baby to depart
They did so, and nobody knows what has
become OF them. The temple" has been
closed and the disciples are sitting in
mourning, but there are 10000 of them
and they believe that a day will soon come
when mother and child will return to rule
the earth.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-15
CONFER WITH LEGISLATORS
Members of Committee of Ten Urge
the Passage of House
Roll III.

A subcommittee of the committee of ten
had conference yesterday afternoon with
a number of the members of the Douglas
county delegation in the legislature to
ascertain what work had been done in ref
erence to the bill for the taxation Of rail-
road property in the city on an equality
with other city property. All three Of the
senators were present, but only four of the
nine members OF the house put in an ap-
pearance. These canvassed the situation
with the public's representatives, Herman
Kountze, Robert Smith and w. G. Ure
Nothing definite was accomplished beyond
impressing on the minds of the legislators
the Importance of the bill under consid-
Grafton and the public demand for its
passage.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-15
HOPE FOR MRS. MAVERICK
May he Released Next FAN Pursuant
10 British Custom, but
Not sooner.

Copyright. 1903. by Press Publishing Coz
LONDON. Feb 14.-(NeW York World Ca
blegram-speeial Telegram.l-There is no
probability that Mrs. Maybrick will be re-
leased from prison in time TO give evidence
in the big land suit involving her mothers
fortune. The World correspondent made
personal inquiries at the Home ONCE. 10
which a new appeal has been addressed fer
her liberation, but Home SECRETARY Ritchie
does not intend to depart from the
decision OF his predecessors that Mrs. May
brick shall serve her full term
Her sentence was penal servitude for
life. but there is a rule under which life
prisoners may be released at the end sf
twenty yeas. Counting time remission
for good behavior, her case may come up
under that rule for review next fall, when
Il is possible she may get the beneht Of the
custom Of liberation.
There is no expectation at the American
embassy that she has any chance Of being
released before then.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-15
CHANCE FOR UNMARRIED ONES
German Papers Urge surplus of Fe-
males to EmiErate 10 the
United states.

Copyright, 1903. by Press Publishing Coz
BERLIN, Feb. 14-(New York World Ca
blegram - Special Telegram.) German
women, who outnumber the men by l.5OO,- =
900, are being strongly urged to emigrate
to the United States. where. according to
statistics published here, in certain states
the men largely outnumber the women.
The matrimonial bait is being dangled be-
fore their eyes by newspapers throughout
the country. The Frankfurtsr Zeitung,
for example, closes an editorial on the sub
ject by saying, Forward. then, ye maid
ems. to the promised land"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-15
ABOUT MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP
Omaha Man is Invited to Present n
Paper to National COnV~-
in New York.

In response to an invitation from the
committee in charge OF the program, Victor
Rosewater is preparing a paper to be pre-
sented TO the National Convention on Mu-
nicipal Ownership and Public Franchises
10 be held under the auspices of the New
York Reform club in New York City Feb
ruary 1921 next. He Will treat OF that
part OF the subject bearing more directly
on municipal electric lighting. OF which
he made a special study some years ago
Dr. Rosewater has also a short article on
Value in Taxation" coming out shortly
in the March number OF the Political
Science Quarterly, embodying some OF the
results of his recent experience as a mem
Der OF the Board Of Review in this city.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-15
CARNEGIE NOT IN HIGH FAVOR
English Towns Not Grabbing at His
Oners TO Donate
Libraries.

Copyright, 1903. by Press Publishing Coz
LONDON, Feb. 14.-(New York World Ca
blegram-speeial Telegram ANDREW Car
negie's library donations still fail in some
cases to be received with gratitude. His
offer OF $4,000 to Dover was discussed by
the town corporation this week and after
much opposition 1t was only by the mayors
casting vote that 1t was decided to take
the offer into favorable consideration q"
Mr.. Carnegie offered a library to Jirgs-
heath, Birmingham, but no one would give
site for It, the committee was not in
clined to meet and the public meeting
failed because scarcely anyone attended.