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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-06
Machines.

The roaring OF the wheels has filed my ears.
The clashing and the clamor shut me in.
Myself, my SOUL in chaos disappears,
cannot think feel amid the din.
Toiling and toiling and toing-endless toll.
For whom? For what? Why should the work
be done?
do not ask or know. l only toll.
work until the day and night are gone.
The clock above me ticks away the day,
Its hands are spinning, spinning, like the
wheels.
1t cannot sleep for moment stay,
II is thing like me, and does not feel
1t throbs though my heart were beating
there.
Heart? My heart? / know not what il means
The clock ticks and below strive and stare,
And so close the hours. We machines
Noon calls truce. ending to the sound.
As If az battle had one moment stayed,
A bloody field! The dead lie all around.
Their wounds cry out until / grow afraid
1t corles-the signal See the dead men rise
They fight again. Amid the roar they fight.
Blindly and knowing not for whom or why
They fght-they fall, they sink into the night
Isaac Reingold.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-06

@1HE flicker is known throughout al
most the whole OF North America,
- and wherever he is known he is
H3MSM loved by all right-minded men,
- bers of the community. He is of
good appearance, Industrious in his habits
and minds his own business. He Is a
good citizen, and an example to the rest of
US: many Of Us are proud Of him and the
others ought to be.
Last spring 1 saw a male flicker alight
on the slanting trunk Of a dead tree. and,
after hitching sidewise two or three times.
he stopped near a spot where the bark was
loose. and began prying off bits of it with
his strong curved bill, pausing now and
then to devour the insects which he brought
TO light. Once he waited for a second or
two, with his head on one side, as though
he heard something moving beneath the
surface, and then he began to attack a par
ticuIar spot with great vigor- "Rat-ta-at-
at, rat-tat-at-at'' went the bill, as it drilled
q neat little hole. and then the woodpecker
paused to drive I'm his barbed tongue, which
pierced a luckless grub and dragged 1t,
writhing, from it's stronghold Then, flying
TO higher branch, he sent forth long
call, "wicka-wicka- wicka-wicka." which
Presently he few to another tree, alighting
close to a hard. dead branch, where he
shifted about as though to secure perfect
foothoId, two toes of each foot in front and
two behind, their sharp nails nipping the
bark like claw pincers, and with his pointed
tail feathers propping him up from be-
low Then he threw his head back, and.
after momentary pause. brought the tip
OF his bill TO bear upon the dead branch
with marvellous force and rapidly. The eff
feet was loud, vibratory sound not unlike
the rapid rolling Of a small drum, and
after q moments silence, during which the
woodpec'Ser turned his head on one side as
though listening, IL was repeated, SEEM
ingiy louder than before. Again and again
the sound rolled forth from the resonant
branch, and then, with little pat Sec
ond flicker alighted upon the tree. Then
the drummer ceased his drumming, for he
had something better TO do. The lady love
he had been calling for had arrived, and
the delightful task of winning her affec-
lions was before him. He drew near and
bowed to her. uttering notes which sounded
like as though they might be pretty
speeches; then pranced In front Of her,
spreading his tail and his wings. display
fng the golden weather shafts and the white
patch on his rump. How much further he
would have gone with his courtship will
never be known, for at this interesting
point another male flicker arrived from
somewhere. and the two rivals, uttering
harsh notes. dashed off together. and were
followed soon after by the cause of their
jealousy.
Which, II either of the two males was
eventually successful. don't know. but,
at all events. I saw pair of mated flick
ers in that corner of the woods a very few
days later. Apparently they were consid-
ering the question of making their home I'm
one Of the branches Of dead chestnut-tree
which stood on the edge of the wood, for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-06
Chimmie Fadden Stories

Mr.. PAULs PLAN FOR Owe RNMENT REVENUES
-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-06
"Deathbed Thieves"
Golden Penny

Golden Penny.
An ingenious and shameful system of
thieving has been brought 10 light I'm
France. The system Is worked only at
funerals and hence the thieves are known
as "deathbed thieves" When they read in
a newspaper that a well-to-do person has
died some of them go to the house hour
or two before the funeral takes place and
coolly mingle with the invited m0urners.
OF course the members OF the family do
not know them. but they naturally assume
either that they were known 10 the de-
respects. that they were invited TO be
present by some aunts or cousins who are
unable TO attend In person. Thus they are
left TO help themselves TO whatever they
can safely take away.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-06

SEE" says Mr.. Paul, dat a
political economist has come to
de FORE" he says, wit bote
feet" he says, land has put it
TO England, in de interest of low
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of population Re. p.
Yes, locating it in Ohio, about midway
between Columbus and Cleveland. Its po-
sition has been calculated since the census
of 1850. when it lay a little to the south
of the center of Pennsylvania.
Is paraffin made largely in Scotland from
coal? If so, by what process?-Doubter.
Yes. By distillation there is secured an
oily, greenish liquid that contains parafin
in solution. Cleansing with sulphuric acid
and soda is followed by further distillation.
and brings crude paraffin that is purified
with benzine and whitened by heating 1t
with powdered coal.
Who is the present chief justice of the
United States? 2. OF Indiana? 3. Might a
presidential candidate receive the popular
vote and yet be defeated? 4. When did the
political parties first frame national plat
forms?-J. NJ. B.
Melville w. Fuller. 2. John v. Hadley.
3. Yes; it has happened on two or three oc-
casions, at the time when Benjamin Har-
rison was elected for instance.
Who was st. Cecilia, and of what is she
the patroness?-J. z.
There are two saints of this name; one,
the patroness of music, was Roman vir-
gin. said to have suffered martyrdom go
A. d.; the other. whose day in the calendar
of the Roman Catholic Church is Feb. II,
was born in Africa and was starved to
death under Diocletian.
In drilling an artesan we'll through rock.
how Is the bore kept clear of the rock cut
away by the drill at great depths?-H. NJ.
The denominations are removed with a
cylindrical bailer some sixteen feet long,
with a valve in the lower end. This is
dronr,ed infA the hore On tho ond of :, Ii.,1a
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described bunch of such goils-merely ten
or fifteen million grade-could be accom-
modated wit dukes at cut rates, and de
gov'ment get out Of ten weddings what in
good times one would fetch"
"How's dat?" asks Whiskers fought
dere was no more dukes in de dull season.
mo new ones, sir. All de old ones re-
main on hand. and dey can be bought into
de job-lot market by de simple means of
divoice. Dere you are? AS long as dere
is a demand for marked-down dukes de
divoice mill goes on-de same duke could
be used several times. of course. IL de
period of low stocks was long-and when
de market was good again new dukedoms
could be put on de curb
"But. Paul." says Miss Fannie. After
you have woiked your plan for a few years
all de coils wit money would be supplied
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-10
Charming New Orleans.

If you should take your map of
the United States and run your finger
far down its surface until it rested
upon the largest city in all the beau
tiful South, the one which is the Sec
ond largest export city on the Amer.
lean continent, and the metropolis
of a vast inner empire which holds
two civilizations, one French-Span-
ish, American, both slowly, very
slowly, merging through the centu-
ries; or, better still, if you should
stroll along the streets on a sweet
March day, peering into its curious
quarters, watching the beautiful lit
tie children and the dark-eyed men
and the gailv dressed and all
the ~thrOngs of people, city people
who can never long remain away
from the green fields and the noble
old trees and the scent of the roses
then you could not fail to hit upon
this charming old place, New Or
leans-in many ways the most inter
esting of all the cities in America,
the beautiful city that lives outdoors.
From "The City that Lives Out of
Doors" in March st. Nicholas.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-10

y distinguished lawyer and politi-
can was travelling OF the train when
an Irish woman came into the car
with a big basket, bundle, ETC., and
sat down mcar him. When the con-
uuctor came around to collect fares
"e Woman paid her money, and the
conductor passed by the lawyer with
O0' collecting anything. The good
woman t~hcrcupon said to the lawyer:
IN faith, am why is it that the con-
T.e,'r takes the money of a poor
I''S'' Woman an don't ask we, who
same t" be- a rich mon, for any,
"'"g: The lawyer (who had a
pass replied: My dear madam, I'm
|o'cI'n@ on my beauty" The wo-
Ind" looked at him for a moment. and
s sn5" quickly answered: An is that
; io1rn INN ye must be very near Yer
journeys end."-SeIected.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-10
Adam and Eve and the Apples.

According to the following figures,
taken from an exchange, Adam and
Eve did not stop at one apple, but
kept right on eating until the entire
orchard was consumed. 1t is no Won
der that they were turned out and
the gates closed:
How many apples did Adam and
Eve eat? Some say Eve 8 and Adam
Pa total of 10 only. Now we figure
the thing out far differently. Eve
8 and Adam s also-total 16.
And yet the above figures are en-
tirely wrong. If Eve s and Adam 80,
certainly the total would be 80.
Scientific men, however, on the
strength of the theory that the ante
diluvians were a race of giants, rea-
son something like this: Eve 81 and
Adam 8-2-total 1853.
Wrong again. What could be
clearer than if Eve 81 and Adam
SIP, the total was 1913?
If Eve 8-1-1st and Adam SIP,
would not the total be 1923?
I believe the follwing to be a fair
solution: Eve 8-1-4 Adam before
Adam 8-1-2-4 Eve-total, 8,938.
Still another calculation is as fol
lows: If Eve 8-1-4 Adam, Adam 81
2-4-2 oblige Eve-total 82,O56. We
think this, however, not a sufficient
quantity. For though we admit that
Eve SID Adam, Adam if he 8-O-8-1-
2-4-2 keep Eve company-total,
8,O82,O56.
All wrong. Eve, when she 8-1-8-1-2
many, and probably she felt sorry for
it, but her companion, in order to re-
lieve her grief, SIP. Therefore,
when Adam 8-1-8-1-4-2-4Ofy Ewes
depressed spirits. Hence both ate
81,896,8 1854 apples.-World's Events.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-10

o,,d more time in simple and ideal
1~,,rsuits, and more money in beauti-
FLING Il own little worldly posses
siOns.
# has been said that environment
:; than heredity in charac-
cor buiIding. And just in proportion
vo make u homes beautiful and
rofned and attractive will our chill
dron or whoever are occupants of
those homes be, also refined and gra-
o;ous and symmetrical of character,
and the influence of such surround
mos will reach out and restrain and
shane and refine all along the jour
ney Of life.
And lust in proportion as a beauti,
fuI and attractive farm home is a
helm to the higher life of its occu-
nants and an ornament to the nat
uraI emery, and just in proportion
a. it breaches the gospel of thrift
and refinement and grace and beauty
10 the outside world, just so will the
farm home. with old dilapidated, >un-
paintcd buildings, tumble down gates
and fences and yards filled with the
accumulated debris of years, and
without trees, grass, shrubs or flow
crs preach a sermon of shiftlessness
and a low status of refinement and
spirituality. and it will have an abid,
inc influence upon those who are
reared within, as well as the occa-
sionaI ~passer-by.
1t does not cost very much to sod
a little lawn to grow green grass.
To be sure one must keep the swine
and stock in their proper places, and
the proper place for swine and stock
Is not running at large about the
farm premises, though / am sorry to
say a good many farmers seem to
think it is, and that it is not worth
while to have the lawn anything but
stock yard or a pig pasture, but we
all know that is not the way to live,
and live up to the best there is in us.
But given a man and a wOman who
have a proper appreciation of the
relative value of things, and under
stand the influence of the home upon
everyday life and character, as we'll
as the value of home missionary work
IN identifying u home surround
ngS, and hal man and woman will
md a way Of making the desert to
bloom a. the rose, and the influence
OF their work will radiate through
out the whole community and Ieaven
a whole lot of rather slack and inert
materiaI-Mrs. /. G.. H, in Rural
Voice.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-10

Youngwed Con bridal tour)-
would like rooms for myself and
wife.
Hotel Clerk-Suite, I suppose?
Youngwed-That's what. She's
the sweetest thing that ever happen
ed.-Chicago News.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-10

"That's good counsel the new
preacher gave u.s." said the deacon.
(Which is g"
Glove yer neighbor while he sleeps,
but watch him while he wakes.-At-
lanta Constitution.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-10

-DO SHOA w ~ SNO 100000 ~
A fute-note from the woods,
Sunset over the sea-;
Seed-time and harvest,
The reapers in the corn,
The vine-dresser in his vineyard,
The village girl at her wheel.
-Arnold's Empedocles.
He who cannot find pleasure except
in gaiety, nor recreation except in
some sort of amusement, is a crea-
ture made of coarse and sordid clay.
The pursuit of pleasure is quite an
occupation with many people, but
pleasure is an elusive spirit and is
more often captured on a still hunt
than by the hot and strenuous chase.
There have been men and women who
have spent their lives amid the giddy
excuses that are supposed to consti-
tute pleasures peculiar realm who
have died confessing that they lev
knew a day of happiness in all their
lives. The world saw the glitter and
pomp that surrounded them, but
could not know of the heartaches and
soul hunger that often lurked behind
the smiling faces.
You noisy, restless fellow; pursu-
ing pleasure in gaiety and dissipa-
ton, do you know what you are miss
ing? If you would only try, you
might get a more serene and lofty
pleasure in another way. Last night
as you were hurrying to a ball you
felt sorry for the lot of the poor
young laborer whom you met going
home after his days work. But
while you were bowling and smiling
and dancing and drinking in the
stufy hall and the glittering saloon,
he was sitting by his freside chat
ting his wife, frolicing with his
babies, smoking his pipe, MOI envying
you any of your rioting. He felt
sorry for you this morning when
he met you going home through the
early dawn flushed with wine and
with excitement.
Oh, ~reveller, you have been pursu-
ing pleasure, but last night as you
FASTENED along pleasure was pursu-
ing you and you needed it not. The
stars looked down upon you from
. their far heights, and you could have
beheld the splendor of ten thousand
worlds had you but lifted your gaze.
You could have beheld what moved
David to poetry and worship, Job
to divine philosophy and Copernicus
to discovery and exploration. Orion,
the armed warrior, held his lofty
station, Arcturus famed in dazzling
brightness, the Pleiades shed on
old Earth their "gentle influence"
Ursa Major swung half way around
his mighty polar circle, while you
we're listening to tinkling instru-
ments and shutting feet. You
might have seen it all; and have
watch the moon rise over
the shaggy hill and thus have been
'present like an a~rchangel at the Gre
alton of light" Today your face
would have been less pallid and your
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-10

imagination run riot, and have con-
jured up many a pleasant fancy.
You could have heard the voices of
the spirits of the night as they
trooped by in the wild gusts. You
could have thought of the fox prowl-
ing under the winter moon, the rab-
bit hopping timidly through the
brush, the great owl blinking at the
stars, the lamb in the fold, and the
little child in his cot.
You have longed to see Swiss sun
sets and italian skies; but are you
familiar with American sunsets and
skies? They are not commonplace.
Sit in your western window this even
ing and watch the glorious SUI go
down, and you will not wonder that
simple, untutored peoples have wor-
SHIPPED it as a god. With what re-
splendent glory does it veil its de-
parture? What cloud-mountains of
gold and jasper, what stately pal
aces lifting their heads to be crowned
in living light, what varigated ban
ners athwart the world! Watch the
light fade away until the beauty is
family visible in the distance, like
the gates Of heaven, far, far away.
Then lift your eyes to the pale even
ing star which, like your soul, fingers
in sight of, but all too far from, the
courts of glory. And you will won
der if you can ever have an evil
thought again, or an unholy ambi-
tion-and this will be pleasure such
as spirits enjoy about the throne of
the Highest.
You would go to Italy to see its
beauteous skies? Wait until some
mild day next June, and go out into
the orchard, and lie down fiat Of your
back in the lush clover, and look up
through the branches OF the apple
tree to where the white clouds are
floating in seas of ethery blue. And
presently you will begin to wonder,
to wonder that you never knew be-
fore that the skies were so blue over
your orchard. And as you gaze
solemn and sweet thoughts will
come to your soul unbidden. How
paltry and mean will all those things
appear that vexed and worried you
only yesterday. You will look upon
the things of earth from the heights
of heaven and see them as they are.
And your soul will be thrilled with
ecstacies of pleasure, and you will be
happy with the same kind of happi-
ness that fills the mocking birds
throat with melody and the poets
mouth with song.
These are a few of the pleasures
that you might have in place of those
giddy rounds of amusement that are
eating out your heart and running
your life. But you say it would
take a poet to enjoy all this, to see
and hear the glory of earth and sky.
Yes, you must be a poet or a child.
Many of US who cannot be poets
have to content ourselves with the
hearts of children.-Rev. Charles I.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-10
On Pleasure.

The smallest thing could give us
pleasure them
The sports of the country people,
A fute-note from the woods,
Sunset over the sea;
Seed-time and harvest,
The reapers in the corn,
The vine-dresser in his vineyard,
The village girl at her wheel.
-Arnold's Empedocles.
Danskeren. [volume] (Neenah, Wis.) 1892-1920, 1903-08-21
SuberfulDiens GruclisbeO.

Gn tpf 5orifer bar nblig ofentligz
giort ReIultatet al en- HGtte llnDerie=
gelIer dngauenOe bette Spsrgsmaol.
0dn bar unoerIgot / aft 1884 3ils
feloe al 2ltn9etuberfulpie pad @e6z
barbts alinit Berlin. Get oiIte fig,
at Der 6oS 983 (33 pGt.) bar Outer
tulpis bos Gorelprene, bos 751 (25
pGt.) oerimpo life. Sm ReIten tuns
De intet iittert OplpIes. gleoarOnin=
gen ituloe bos SOB (51 pgt.) Ifnloes
5aberen, bos 1923 (33 pGt) Moberen
og bos 151 (16 pGt.) begee 6or9lorez
ne. @n itor M9neoe utlare SilfGl=
be mentes at mdatte benregnes til De
neourpeOe, oeri6lanbt mango, bbis
mere Sl9gtninae leO df Qungetubers
tuloie, oe mango andre, Der allerere
| ben fsrlte 8arnbom bapbe frem6ubt
tnbertuloIe Sbmptomer.
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YoitpGi

@aIbinstOn D. g., 19. Qtug. -
Den fsoeruIe @runOjurp, iom bar
BAIT qoitbeibieellerne unbsr 9ebunOs
ling, Iammentraaote after Gag, pg
man penter meb bet ferite nbe 3ilz
talebeilutnin9er. Site aae be Siltal=
te bill bliOe dntlaset for obIolut itrafs
bare Sanolineer, men for Gorieelier
tilltretteliet alpprliee til, at be ber
fremorages. glanbt iaobanne nqpz
nes 80. 8. Sa33arO. superintendent
for ben frie Ganbpoit / Staten Ieip
Yort. iom paaitaas at BABE bsregnet
fig $4 pr. Dag / ,aejIeuogtfter" /,
meosns ban | gslteligbeben laa ct
5oIpital unoer gebonpling for ei
StubIaar.
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sS5talien Osiaa meS.

Rom, 20. Qug. Sngen Magt er
bebre enO Stalien Stanb til 6urtigt
at IenOe en- 5lauoe til 5Drfiet. 5
9irteli9teben bar Stalien aGereoe ct
Grigsiti6 paa Sfueplaoien, ba3orpes
ooeoel9ggeren .,Minerpa" ligger pau
&piten al gen 2emnos bet eg9iife
9ao, fun fau 5imers 5urt fra Gu
lonitd, og &rigsifibet oReumberto"
Der itdtionerer oeo QguIta / Sileiien,
fan nad De t0rtiife 8anoe ca. 40
3imer. Zen italienife MiDbel6ab8z
flaaOe er beororet fra Saroinien til
Sicilien for at p9re n9rmere Silz
faloe af alborlig Q(ttion.
Den italienIte @eIanbt &onItanz
tinopel bar telegraferet til lloenrigsz
Oepartementet, at 9erten ertlarer ia
| Stano til at genopretteOroen Wlaz
teoonien pg bar trufet energiIte 6or=
bolosre9ler til at beIf1tte aQe oerpes
renre fremmeOe &oniu!er.
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N=Strnalcr.

Den franife HaturForiter, R.9lonbz
lot Far gjort ben eien0ommelige Spz
bd9elIe, at Q1iet fra Ell 9luer6renber
inpe6olOerStradler, 1om fan gennemz
trange Sarn6lit, 9ra og iort Ydpir,
men oerimoO life 8ano. 9isie
Straaler fan life umipbel6art ppFatz
tes al 2iet, men pprigt bar te megen
2ig6eo meo alminoeli9e 2nsitaaler.
De laoer fig nemlig baabe brDbe, til
6dgetaIte Do t0ntentrere, 6bdD life er
Silf9loet meO RSntgenitraalerne, %
bar enopiOere ben i9rlige Ggenitab,
at De laOer fosforiierenoe 2egemer
fremtr9oe meO itprre 9bsitbrte.
9eO nGrmere llnberiB9elle fanot
glonOlot, at en- alminoelig ringfor=
met @as6r9nOer ubienoer lignenoe
Gtraaler. 0an bar talot bisIe mop
pageoe 2p5itraaler gfzStraaler, forpi
tdn bar foretdget fine Gtsperimenter
/ Ndntb.
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sSrGf NplOsmano.

aincoln g}e6r., 10. Qtug. WliIs
2(nnie 9ropn al Oma6a bleD / @adr
2tftes operFaloet / Statstdpitoliets
aorrioor al en- utenOt U}anb. SUN
baooe Iammen meb en- Del 9etenote
be9iOet fig til aupitoIiet og tom paa
en- eller ancen UlaaOe bert fra fit
6elge. s en- mprt Sang trdf bun
paa en- Manb, iom, efter at bun baDbe
tiIbageoiIt bans 9ilnarmeIier, fors
io9te at oOlotuge Fence 6enoes
alaber bar ipnoerreDne, o8 bun be-
funot iia / bet belle taget / en- fsrgelig
6orfatning, ba 6enbes @enner oms
fiber fanbt benoe.
9olosmancen flap besOerre bort.