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Real Estate Transfers.

Transfers for week ending Wednes.
day, April 9 furnished by j. II
Bailey Of Webster County Abstract
company.
Waller A Seely and wife l, q. +.
lodge NJ 1913 lot 0 blk 4 Guide
Rock VIZ. 4OC
Stephen Bruce and wife to village
Of Blue Hill pit blk 4 Moreys
add to b II wd ..mm-....... 81
Perry 8 Hamilton to Amos l.
Burkholer sea 84.l2 wd. ...... 300
Chas w Haley to James Mcclure
lots 2 and 8 blk 2 r Q wd. -. 80,
Chas Hunter and wife to Harriet
M Garner lot 10 blk Q lnavale
WI. "
Jacob Thurman to Emaline
Phelps pit w2sw4 2 Ill wd. ..... 8
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n2snw4 1912 wd. .........~.m.
Nelson Phelps and wife to Har.
riet q Brown lots II and IL
Patmors add to r q wd ..........
+ A Creighton and wife to W A
Sherwood sw4 Is 2.ll qcd....,,..
Catherine Smith and hush to
Michel L Finkenbinder nw4 &.
nw4 S.l-ll wd .....................
Lincoln Land Co to Mary Reid
lot Z blk 10 Bladen wd. .. cocoa
G H Teach worth and wife to Syl-
vannian G Dunbar lots II to 10
blk Is q X wd.
Chas ID Whitaker to Edith M
Adams ct al SEA sec 10 and No
ne4 1911 IL wd. .m.........m.....
E j MILAN and wife to w G
Gum all 81 19....................
G & Q 4 r Co TO = A Searle
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The CHIEF takes pleasure in an
nouncing that someone of Its sub
scribers will in the near future be pre-
sented with a 800 buggy. We have
determined to increase our subscrip.
ton list, and at the same time offer an
inducement to old subscribers to pay
up. Here Is the plan:
For every dollar paid on subscrip.
ton, by either new or old subscribers
the person paying the same will be
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-03-01

have not, with us it has been a severe winter, and
we are intensely human, and have grown tired of
the house, and find ourselves longing for the
balmy, busy outdoor days of spring-for the
breaking of the stubborn glebe," the odor of the
sweetscented honeysuckle, and even the discor-
dant croak of the distant summer frog. We love
change. We need it. But to many of US who are
housekeepers, the beautiful spring means work
also. Our home comforts and many of our home
supplies depend largely on our foresight and sea-
sonable activity. The vegetable garden, the flow
er garden, the little chicks, the spring cleaning
in fact, a general overhauling and renovating of
our entire surroundings. But occupation is
wholesome for us. 1t leaves no time for the CLUES,
no place for ennui, it broadens and brightens
But, dear sisters, while we rusticate and reno
vate, let us not forget our social circle. We will
need to come together and exchange ideas; it will
be restful to us. It will do us good to talk to
Aunt Jennie. You know we all enjoy her letters.
Barren sands imbibe the showers
Lending neither fruit nor flowers"
Let us help her to make our Circle an interest
ing feature of The Farmer.
SISTER KATE.
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Or where the use of saying to the people, "save
the forests" when in the few short years of one
century, every plain and meadow, mountain side
and valleye, will have to be cultivated in order to-
feed and clothe the teeming millions that will
swarm all over this '1and of the free and home of
the brave"2
Aunt Jennie, these are a few random thoughts
that I am penning, in order that others with more
wisdom than I, may discuss them. And I would
like to see some good letters on these subjects.
By the way, dear Aunt Jennie, l think you will
have to tell us how long our letters shall be, else
I fear I shall be caught "out of bounds" for l
enjoy writing for our corner so much that when l
begin / do not know when to quit.
BERTHE Co., n. c. MRS. S. E.. N.
P. S.-Here is a question that is harder to solve
than the one "How old is Anne"
A tree 100 feet high broke, the top falling and
forming a hypothenuse, and thouching the earth
80 feet from the trunk. How many feet up the
trunk did the tree break? Let the Chatterers solve
it and give us the rule.
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Aunt Jennie's Letter.

I am very glad to notice the increasing interest
in identifying our homes and wish to commend
to all Chat readers a new publication just issued
by the National Department of Agriculture. 1t
is Farmers Bulletin No. 185, and is entitled
"Beautifying Home Grounds" 1t is a handsome
illustrated pamphlet of 25 pages, in which the
following topics are treated:
The planting plan; walks and drives; the green
sward; selection and uses of shrubs; deciduous
trees; evergreen trees and shrubs; tall-growing
perennial grasses; permanent vines; annual vines;
emergency planting; cultural suggestions.
Astounding in helpful suggestions, this is a
publication no farmer or farmers wife can afford
to be without, and / earnestly urge all Chat read
es to apply at once for copies. Application may
be made to any Senator, Congressman or to the
Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, d. c..
We have four excellent letters this week. The
increasing interest in our department is very
gratifying to me.
The judges found it very hard to reach a deci-
sion in awarding "Gordon Keith" but now inform
me that they have decided on "Homely Peggy"
The book goes to her with our congratulations.
AUNT JENNIE.
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On Visiting Ones Friends.

Dear Aunt Jennie i will step in for a few
minutes and say a few words about ourselves and
our neighbors. Did it ever occur to you that we
can be too neighborly with some of our neighbors?
We can call on them so often that our visits will
not be appreciated and become a nuisance, in
stead of a pleasure. All families have their fam
lily duties, and would rather have them all to
themselves. Yet there are people who would like
to know everybody's business (having very little
of their own to attend to), and think it a duty of
theirs to see that the duties of others are we'll
transacted. They always step in just at a time
when we had rather be alone, and generally lend
q helping hand to some part of our duties, and
before we have time to give it the right thought,
our business is everybody's business, and every
body knows a great deal more about it than we
know. Then if we do not submit to this, it's then
the trouble commences. And we find that our
most seeming neighbor is no neighbor at all.
We should love our neighbors as ourselves
yes. love them so much that we would not by any
means impose upon them, or have them imposed
upon If In our power to prevent it. We should
help them in sickness and distress; we should ad-
minister to their needs when in our power to do
so.
If we would like to be more intimate friends.
we must do so by living a perfect straightforward
life, true to our word, true to our duty, true to our
families and friends, and true to God. Then we
can be trusted as a true neighbor without asking
questions to find out what this one and that one
and the other one, and all the rest, are doing.
We must all remember that "short visits make
long friends" and if they are few days or a few
weeks apart, they are still more appreciated.
NELLIE.
Dublin Co.. N. G..
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Looking on the Bright Side.

Dear Aunt Jennie Il don't know when I have
read a letter so interesting as the one about the
fire at the Normal College. I admire v. WIS
courage. And although this was a very serious
occasion, she seemed to be contented and looked
upon the bright side Of things.
And there is more in the saying: "Look on the
bright side of things" than we generally think.
The people who see the best side, who try just as
much to see the good as they do the bad, always
see more good things and fewer bad ones and con-
sequently think purer thoughts, and about better
things. The whole world is better to that person
because he sees it better and the better side of it.
He has more confidence in his friends, and loves
them better and they last longer. He is more of
a gentleman than the other. He even sees the
kind spirit of the animals and brutes. And in
stead of seeing something mean in every turn of
other people, he catches the good things that are
little noticed by others. I have often noticed on
returning from a party or picnic, some one would
say>"Didn't we have a pleasant time; everybody
was so kind to me-" Another would answer: "No.
Didn't you see how Mr.. Fl. acted; just tried to
run everything his. way, and I wanted to be away"
This is a very common occurrence, and often
runs into whole families, and may readily be seen
that it is all due to one trying to see evil and
another trying to see the good.
Some people really make themselves unhappy
by seeing the. wrong nature of other people, while
others find their greater part of enjoyment by
seeing the good part of others.
Aunt Jennie, I often wish that there was some
way for the Social Chat to know more Of one an
other. Often I read letters and it seems that /
would give anything to know the writer. But I
guess this is one of the impossible things.
SEARCH WARD.
Harnett Co.. N. c..
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Harnett Co., n. G.

A beginner in newspaper work in a Southern
town who occasionally "sent stuff" to one of the
New York dailies picked up last summer what
seemed to him a "big story" Hurrying to the
telegraph-ofice he "queried" the telegraph editor:
Column story on so and SO. Shall 1 sendg'
The reply was brief and prompt, but to the en-
thusiast unsatisfactory. "Send 600 words" was
all it said.
Cant be told in less than 1900" he wired back.
Before long the reply came:
"Story of creation of world told in 900. Try it."
New York Evening Post.
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SeaSonable RI Elections
Duplin Co., N. G.

Dear Aunt Jennie:-With my best bow and a
new years greeting to yourself and the SISTER
hood" 1 come again to join the Chatterers Of
1904. As I sit "pinched up" so to speak, over an
old-time open fireplace. we'll filled with blackjack.
bright and blazing with our much-esteemed light
wood, I am reminded of an old colored man who
used to say, "Hain't we had weather 2" Cold, rain
and snow to him meant weather, and indeed to
many of us it has meant much-to some, la
grippe, pneumonia, and suffering; to the more
fortunate healthful, ''curtained closed and warm"
a fine opportunity for reading, writing and con-
temptation, if we have thus improved the mo-
ments as they passed. But whether we have or
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Dear Aunt Jennie: Il have not written in some
weeks, because l thought I would leave the space
for those who could write more entcrtaininoly
than ] can. And I am very much pleased to see
the Chat corner full every week with interesting
and instructive letters. However, / am hoping
for a little space now. / saw an article in Chat
Columns a week or so ago on immigration. The
author wanted more restrictions in our immigra-
ton laws so as to insure a better grade or class Of
people than those that swarm the decks of every
incoming steamer at the present time. / do not
know how it may be in other parts of this State.
but if conditions continue as they are about here.
labor will have to be imported or else those who
are too old and iufrm to do their own blowing and
sowing and reaping and moving. will have to sell
their farms and quit. There arc plenty of negroes
but they are living in their own homes. either
bought or rented, and it is next to an impossibility
to employ one. The more prosperous Of the col
ored race rent all the land they can. and buy all
the horses they can, and hire all the laborers they
can. so as to prevent the negroes from waiting
on white folks" All this has com to pass in the
last few years; since all that antagonism was
stirred up between the races, as you evidently re-
member.
Now, such being the case. I see no chance but
to resort to white immigrants for farm laborers.
And if we must have immigrants, we Will have to
take such as we can get. since it is impracticahle
to receive those who will not come. However. i'm
porting lahorers is a twoedged sword. as we have
learned to our cost, having suffered, and being
still suffering, and likely to continue to suffer.
for the folly of our forefathers in importing
Africans into this country.
And this leads to another idea. Our population
increased in the last century, by natural causes
and BY immigration, almost twenty-five fold. be-
ing now we'll on towards eighty millions; and in
creases faster and faster every year. If this re-
mains the condition for the period of this cen
fury, our population will be something like two
billions. Where then is the wisdom in the Con-
gress of the United States setting apart thou
sands of acres of land in the Appalachian Noun
tains for a national park2
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OUR SOCIAL CHAT

All letters intended for this department should be ad-
dressed to- Aunt Jennie" care OF The Progressive Farmer.
Raleigh, N. G.
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through the post offices OF the world is
thirty-two and one-half billion. About
eight and one-half billion pieces go
through our mails, so that we do about
one-fourth the post office business OF
the world. We have now almost 10000
postoffices. and our postal routes are
half a million miles In length. If you
went all over all the lines you would
have to travel as far as twenty times
around the world, and the annual travel
over them is almost. 500, 100000 miles,
The service is now costing in round
numbers more than s15o000000 year.
and we shall take in almost that much
this year."
Good Times shown by Postal business
How about the postal receipts. do
they show that the times are growing
better or otherwise"
The postal business is one of the
best Of our financial barometers. 1t
shows that the business of this country
is growing. enormously and that ithas
doubled within the past ten years. In
1860 the gross receipts OF the whole
service were only about $S,000,000. and
in 1908 the increase alone over the re-
ceipts OF 1902 was more than $4,000
900. In 1894 the receipts were $75,000,-
900. and this year they will be more
than S15o.ooo.oOo. That is a wonderful
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record"
do you think our postoffice business
is better managed from year to yearT'
Yes, In 1897 the receipts were
about $4,000 600 and the deficit was
over 100000. In 1902 the deficit
had shrunken to three millions, and in
1908 1t was only four and one-half mill
lions. A large part of the last deficit
was caused by the great additional ex-
,pense OF the new rural delivery SER
vice. which will cost US this year about
100000. Were it not for that SER
vice the department would now be self
sustaining"
rs the rural free delivery a success.
general?" I asked.
''Yes, indeed" was the reply. Few
people know how great a success II Is :
We have now more than $4,000 rural
delivery routes, giving a daily mail de-
livery to 100000 families, or to more
than 100000 persons. Estimating
our population at 1900, 900, we are now
serving one-seventh of all the people
in the United States through the rural
delivery"
VIII Pay Some Day.
'Will that service ever pay its own
expenses
TT may pay, but it will be far in the
future. 1t does pay already In the in
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Il am not prophet nor the son of
prophet" said the Postmaster General,
and so cannot answer that question.
Il believe, however, that such things
under a government like ours are far
better off in the hands of private
parties. The government machine is
already enormous and this would null
tiply it. AS it is. the telegraphs and
telephones are very we'll managed.
There are competing companies, and
the rates are comparatively cheap I
should hesitate to take over these great
institutions if I had the power"
Don't Want a Postal Express.
How about a postal express, so that
poultry. butter and other small farm
products as we'll as merchandise could
be taken through the mail?'
II don't think that would do in our
country. We have such magnificent
distances and we should have to have a
uniform rate without regard to dis
tanoe. The result would be that the
private companies would do all the
profitable short haul business and the
government would have the long hauls
at low rates. 1t would enormously in
crease the expenses without a proper
tionate increase of revenue. 1t would
not pay"
Postal Checks and Postal Notes.
How about sending small sums by
mail?' I asked.
we need some new arrangements
for that" replied the Postmaster Cen
eral. The postoff1ce money order Is
well enough for larger sums, but we
ought to have something for the send
ing of small change. l am in favor
of postal notes of the denominations of
81 and 81 with a payable-to order pro-
vision on the back. If no name was
written in the blank these notes would
do for a common currency and If the
order was filled in they would be only
payable by the postoffice. which would
cash them on presentation. Fractional
parts of dollar could be sent in notes
or stamps made for the purpose. We
should have some better way of send
ing small sums"
Frank G. Carpenter.
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for you, and you cannot dismiss them,
except by making charges and bring
ing them before what might be called
the department court. There are many
laws which hamper your individual ac-
ton. The moment you try TO do some
thing you find there is a law against
it. and the result is there are all sorts
of clogs in the way of progress"
How about the postal service-is 1t
good one?"
Yes. with the limitations I have
mentioned, and l do not know but that
they are good limitations on the whole.
One feature which prevents the sys-
tenn being efficient as a private insti-
tuition is the number of superannuated
clerks. We have some clerks who
have been serving the department for
years, and who have given COED SER
vice. They have grown ola, and in an
ordinary business they would have to
go. Here the process of removal is
such that they are allowed to stay"
An Honest POSTAL Service.
How about the Postoftice Depart
ment-do you think it worse or better
than the others of the executive de-
partments?"
1 think the postal service is as hon
est now as any in the United States.
public or private" replied Gen. Payne.
ed 1t. We had fifty or sixty postoffice
inspectors at work for eight months
examining into every branch of the
business. We have prosecuted every
irregularity, and have already seven
OF them indicted and five sentenced to
the penitentiary. Many others are I'M
dereindictment awaiting trial. Indeed,
don't believe that any government
department, in this or any ether coun-
baS
Investigated than the Postoffice De-
partment. The result is that it is now
In u thoroughly healthy condition"
Our Postal business.
Give me some idea of the business of
the department" ] asked.
1T is one of the biggest, If not the
biggest, business of the kind upon
earth" replied Postmaster General
Payne. 1T has been estimated that
the aggregate number of letters and
newspapers which annually goes
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UNCLE SANS
POSTAL SERVICE
Payne Tells About His Department
and Schemes for Improve
ment of the Mails.

u think I must have been fairly
good" was the reply. II have a natur-
al talent for mathematics and keeping
accounts was easy for me. / know that
when we took stock l could keep my
footings so that / could give the to-
tails within ten or fifteen minutes after
the last items were called out. This
was considered rather remarkable.
have met but few people who could do
IT."
As q Street Railway Magnatc.
what did you do after your book
keeping experience" 1 asked.
Almost everything" replied the
Postmaster General. Much of my
work has been along the line of rail-
ways and railways management In
1892 / was one of the receivers of the
Northern Paciht railway, and 1 had
much to do with the consolidation and
development of the electric street
railway of Milwaukee. / am proudest
of my success in that line. Ten or
twelve years ago we had a dozen diff
ferent street car companies in Mil
waukee. Some were run by horses and
others by electricity. The roads had
been built largely to aid in suburban
development and they were poorly
managed 1 was made president OF
one of them and improved 1t. Later
on / became interested in the others
and planned to consolidate the whole,
got other men to join me and we
bought the roads and so reorganized
them that we have now one of the
best trolly systems of the United
States. 1 was president of that sys-
tenn at the time 1 was made Postmas-
ter General"
you were at one time president OF
the American Street Railway Associat-
ion. were you not?"
Yes, 1 was. but am not now.
gave upj active business of all kinds
when I came here"
Five Cent Car Fares the Best.
How about our street cars. general;
| will the time ever come when We will
have cheaper fares?"
81 hope not" was the reply. Chear
| fares are not for the good of the
street car service or of the people. II
| you have low fares yon must graduate
| them by a distance or by zones, as in
| Glasgow and other European cities
You must charge one cent for a GER
| tain distance, two cents for a little
more and so ON. The results Is that
| the working men. to save fares, crowd
! themselves nearest their work. The
cities become congested, the suburbs
are not built up and the working man
! lives in the heart of the city instead
| Of In the country. 1t Is better to pay
five-cent rate per ride and to allow
the people to live out. This is an i'm
portant consideration and one which
! conduces to the making of better
American etc iinztSo- War; flam ttUt
i American citizens"
business View of Postal Matters
You have been a business man,
handling large affairs. general Is the
/ postoffice hard to manage as a bust
ness institution
YES, 1t is. The chief trouble is you
cannot manage it as you can private
. enterprise. The employees are selected
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Copyright. 1904. by Frank G. carpen-



ter.)
WASHINGTON. D. C.
i had a long chat last night with
& Postmaster General Payne at his resi-
dence in the old Charles Sumner man
sion. now part of the Arlington Hotel,
within a stones throw of the White
House. My visit was by an appoint
ment made at the Postoffice Depart
ment and the conversation covered a
wide range of postal business and per-
sonal matters.
first asked the General to tell me
something about himself and family
asking whether he came of the rich
Cleveland Paynes of whom the late
Senator Henry B. Payne and oliver H.,
the Standard Oil millionaire, were
prominent member. or from the poor
Paynes to whom the author of Home,
Sweet Home" belonged.
He replied:
My family may have come from IL G
/ same stem as those whom you desig-
nate as the poor Paynes and the rich
Paynes, but If so the Relationship dates
far back. 1 am one of the Massachu-
sets Paynes. My ancestors first came
to Massachusetts about 1928 on the
third ship after the Mayfoweer. They
were among the first settlers of Bos-
ton. but they afterward moved farther
inland"
Il see you were born at Ashfield?'
Eyes. my people moved there after
the war between the colonists and the
INDIANS known as King Phillips war.
Itftook place about one hundred years
before our Declaration of independence
was signed. When it was over a grant
of land was made to the soldiers who
took part in it and my family got a
share"
From BOOkkeeper to Postmaster GEN
eral.
How did you happen to go West?"
! asked.
THE Paynes seem to have been i'm
bued with the emigrating spirit" said
Mr.. Payne. Some of us early moved
20 the Holland purchase and others.
later to the Western reserve. I lived
in Massachusetts, until l was 20, and
then came to Wisconsin to take po-
sition as a cashier and bookkeeper in
Wholesale dry goods store"
what kind of bookkeeper were you
General?'t