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The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-01

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a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men
decay;
Princes and lords may flourish or
may fade,
A breath can make them as a
breath has made,
But a bold peasantry, their coun-
try's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be
supplied"
A gradual exodus from the farm
to the city-especially by the young
men as quickly as they reach twenty
one-has been going on in North
Carolina for many years, and has
alarmed the thoughtful, while Legis-
latures have COPIED with the problem
in vain. Stokes has suffered in this
respect a great deal less than many
of her sister counties, and yet the
drafts made on her population have
been most serious, keenly affecting
every business and profession.
The causes which produce this I'M
healthy condition in our rural dis
tricts are many. The remedy is deep
but plain.
Many speculative people think
that the sole reasons for the abandon
ment of the farms are that labor is
high and scarce, while the Tobacco
Trust is tightening its chains about
the threats of the farmers, render
ing agriculture disagreeable and I'M
profitable. These are plain causes,
but when we reflect that-high or low
prices for products-the exodus does
not abate, we are led to the con-
clusion that the causes are far deeper
that there are psychological and So
cial features to deal with before we
can nationally treat the disease.
Many farmers abandon their plan
tations because of low prices for
products, worn out lands, uncongeni-
al surroundings, lawless neighbor-
hoods, lack of religious and educa-
tional advantages, poor mail facill-
i ties, bad roads, and various other rea-
sons. They rent out their planta-
lions to shiftless tenants and HE
away to better quarters.
But why do the young men, as a
rule, as soon as they reach years OF
discretion, leave home? We believe
the most potent cause is u w~retched
system of living. There is in the
breast of every young man whose bet
ter nature has not early been dwarf
ed by disease or vice, some degree OF
moral sensibility, awakened by youth
full and buoyant spirits, that cannot
be satisfied by his unpleasant and un
congenial environment. 1t is a tac1
greatly to be deplored, but v
theless true-that in many homes
there is an atmosphere congenlal tc
ANYTHING but happiness. Existence
is q hundrum affair of eating, sleep
ing and toll. The masters grea'
ambition is to raise more tobacco
TIL howe 10 mo-
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w. E. JENKINSON..
I ak Sale,

BY AUTHORITY OF A TAX EX.
ecution directed to me by S. J. Bow.
man, County Treasurer, will sell at
public outcry, for cash, in Manning,
on Monday, I'd day of May, 10 o'clock
M., L tract of land in Mt. Zion town
ship containing seventy-two acres,
more or less. bounded on the north
by lands of E. L. Wilkins; south, by
Johnson Morris; east, by John G.
Land, and west by lands Of E. L.
Wilkins; levied upon as the property
of Louis Applet for taxes for fiscal
year 1902.
Purchaser TO pay for papers.
J. EBERT DAVIS,
Sheriff Clarendon County.
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for nothing. Neither did education
unless it could be applied. What a
man was in himself, not what he had,
not who his relatives were, was the
test. Ability and character We're ev-
erything."
In his old age leisure came to Sen
ator Hearst, and he interested himself
In public affairs. He gave to the Pa
cifc coast it's first Democratic news
paper-the first Democratic newspaper
that received special dispatches from
the east-and so emancipated the news
from the editing of the Associated
Press, which, on its political side, was
conducted in the interest Of the RepuD-
lcan party exclusively. OF this news
paper, the San Francisco Examiner,
he made gift to his son, William
Randolph Hearst, when the latter left
Harvard, and from that beginning the
system Of Hearst newspapers, embrac-
ing the continent, has grown. Father
and son worked together for the De
mocracy. The boys achievements in
Journalism We're the delight Of the
senator. He was proud of his son
and fond Of him as not many fathers
are. Their intimacy was close and
loving.
The son comes honestly by his De
mocracy. Most men inherit their poll
tics as a sort Of unthinking party hab-
It, but Senator Hearts Democracy was
a matter of living ideas and senti-
ments, which he transmitted by ex-
ample and instruction. He believed in
the people-not that they had any
magical way of being always right,
but because he had seen no set Of men
who were so much wiser and better
than the majority that they should be
commissioned to rule
''The people," the old senator would
say, "can make fools Of themselves
sometimes, but they've got no monop-
oily on that weakness. If they don't
know what's best for them. they're q
good deal more Likely to than others
whose interest it is to work them
What he stood for. by instinct and
conviction. the newspapers Of his son,
whom he admired us much as he low
ed, stand for-governmento Of the peo-
pie by themselves. to the end that we
may have in this republic equality Of
rights and no privileged class.
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ing figure in the east, where men are
regimented and classified and conven-
tionalized until they cease to possess
or shrink from showing individuality.
Senator Jones spoke Of the friends
whom death has removed. especially OF
his once colleague in the senate, George
Hearst, and Of John W Mackay.
These two and Jones himself were
the three very rich Californians most
liked, because most characteristic OF
their day. All made their money in
the mines. and all were humanized IN
stead Of hardened BY wealth.
The California pioneer was personi.
fed by Senator Hearst in perfection.
He began at the bottom, with empty
pockets, pair Of willing hands, c
pluck that nothing could discourage
and resolution to succeed that COM
PEELED success. When millions came to
him he remained the same man his fel-
low miners in the Gulches knew-clear
headed. shrewd. direct, good humored
and warm hearted. The management OF
vast and complex interests was as easy
to him as the handling Of the rocker
at Long Tom, but he did rot seem to
recognize that this talent differentiated
him from his comrades Of the mines.
"Why should money change manT'
he would say in conversational intima,
cy, Except to make him bigger and
better by enabling him to be his best
self? If you're poor you have to do
what you can. and somebody else gives
you orders, but if you're rich you're
free to be what you like"
And this particular millionaire liked
to be q democratic American.
That is what distinguished the sue
cessful Californians for the most part
their democracy. Assumption Of su-
periority, pretension to being different
In kind from those around them, AFRO
gance, aloofness-these traits were for
hidden by their knowledge Of life and
sense Of humor.
Senator Hearst confessed that he was
made humble by his good fortune.
II was nearly q middle aged man,
he related, when I started from Cal
ifornia over the mountains with a
party for the new Washoe mines. The
day was hot, the grade steep, and ]
fell behind I got off my horse and
sat down in the shade, dicking the dust
in the road with my switch and won
dering if I'd better go on to the Com
stock or turn back. I'd left little mill
behind-nothing much, but there was a
living in it. If went ahead to this
untried field the chances were I'd so
broke and have to begin all over again.
But I started after the boys, just as
much for company's sake as anything
else, and inside q year I'd made my
first million.
"Now, why did that happen to me es-
pecially? 1t could just as well have
happened to anybody else.
Put on airs because you've struck
it rich? Oh, I've seen too many good
men go down who deserved to sue
ceed, and too many bad fellows get on
who ought to have gone down, to be
puffed up By my own good fortune.
I'm just thankful. Those early days
tried men out. TO be Of distinguish
ed family back In the states counted
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A Cr.c for Headache.

Any man, woman or child suffering
from headache. biliousness or 4 dull.
drowsy feeling should take one or two
of DeWitt's Little Early Risers night
and Morning. These famous little pills
are famous because they are q tonic as
well as pill While they cleanse the
system they strengthen and rebuild it
by their tonic effect upon the liver and
bowels. Sold by The r. B. Loryea
Drug Store.
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Antiquity Of Pins.

Pins of various sorts have been in ex-
tstence ever since our FIRST parents"
clothed themselves in palm leaves
which grew wild in the garden Of
Eden. AS matter Of fact, pins claim
a very high antiquity, the earliest form
being a natural thorn. which is still
used to some extent for fastening the
dress by the peasant women Of upper
Egypt. In prehistoric times pins were
also made Of the small bones Of fish
md animals.
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s Faycrite Remedy for Babies.

1t pleasant taste and prompt cures
have made Chamberlain's Cough Rem.
a favorite with the mothers of small
children. 1t quickly cures their coughs
and colds and prevents any danger ot
pneumonia or other serious conse'
ouences. 1t not only cures Group, but
when given as soon as the croupy cough
appears will prevent the attack. For
sale by The r. B. Loryea Drug Store,
Isaac N. Loryea, Prop.
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Isms, Fads and Fakes.

book has just come from the Hollen-
beck Press which will be of interest to the
reading and thinking people of indianapolis
'Isms Fads and Fakes" by Jasper New
ton Field. is a very attractive little volume
of 227 pages and treats of sixteen of the
leading 'isms' of the day. Among the sub
iects considered are Spiritualism. Mormon
ism, Anarchism. Dowieism and Indifferent
ism or Criminal Neglect. The author is an
Indiana man. now pastor of the First Bap-
fist Church of Fort Wayne, probably the
largest Baptist Church and one of the
largest of any denomination i'm the State.
The addresses were originally prepared for
his own congregation with no thought OF
their publication. However. they attracted
such widespread attention that the Fort
Wayne Journal-Gazette published them in
full every week. and general demand for
their publication in book form followed.
This is the first book which Mr.. Field has
given TO the public but he has long en-
joyed in his own denomination the reputa-
ton OF being a clear thinker and a forceful
speaker The book is listed at 81 net and is
on sale in the leading Indianapolis stores.
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An attractive little book has just been
printed by Henry j. Glaisher. Cavendish
square, London, called Great Folk of Old
Marylebone." The author, Mrs. Baillie
Saunders, wife of the present rector of
Marylebone Church. has lived for a num-
Der of years in the place about which she
writes. Mrs. Saunders's task has been one
of love. To her the gracious ghosts of
Marylebone are real She says the town is
fragrant with visions OF immortal men and
women las an old garden is drowSiy
aromatic with Virginia-stocks and musk"
and that her desire in writing has been Ito
portray and gather in simple form these
dear great folk" The desire has been full
flled. The book is simple and uppreten-
tious, and all the more charming for its
simplicity. Reading 1T is like walking
about in the town with a lovingly garrulous
resident who delights in pointing out the
places where lived DR.. Johnson, Macready
Dickens, Turner, Mrs. Thrale and others
Mrs. Saunders talks happily of the old town
when il was a mere village; of how it got
its name; of it's gardens, taverns, churches,
customs, people. The closing paragraph is
illustrative:
"Out of the solemn procession of gray
ghosts of Marylebone, many voices echo
to us down the years-the sonorOus voice
of old Samuel Johnson in stern warning
and exhOrting TO duty, truth and right; the
clarion voice of Browning to energy; the
laughing voice of Dickens, with the sound
OF tears III IL, 10 cHdrlly ana humanity the
gentle voice of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
TO earthly love; the angel voice of Adelaide
Anne Proctor TO divine love. Elizabeth
Montagn sends a grave summons 20 wis
dom; Sarah Wesley TO Christian wifehood
and lovely womanliness; James Boswell to
perfect friendship: William Turner to
steady industry, and Pitt, Burke and Ho-
garth TO manly public spirit and social re-
FORM So every voice speaks TO us it's own
special teaching and lesson, an innurner-
able cloud of witnesses, and last but not
least the herald voice of the divine Charles
Wesley. singing down the years distances
those deathlesS hymns which are a trumpet
call to brotheriy love and unity
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New York Mail.
We envy St. Louis the women's hall OF
fame at the Louisiana Purchase EXPOSE
ton. 1t is noble idea TO collect portraits
of women who have gained fame for their
work. for art, for literature, for science
for their country and for their sex Think
of the faces that should look from the
paintings. pastels and photographs in the
great gallery upon the thousands who will
attend the fair Ignorant OF wOmans work
or. careless and indifferent. men. women
and children would be affected and elevated
by portraits of Dorothea Dix. Maria Mitch
ell. Emma Willard. DR.. Elizabeth Black
well. Charlotte Cushman Emma Lazarus
Sarah Hale. Louisa Alcott and countless
others who might be named.
But stop, The women's hall of fame is
not to contain the pictures OF famous
women; IL is TO show the prominent repre-
sentatives OF fashionable society in every
American city. Well. the result is the same
of course. for all fashionable women are
great and good, and work unselfishly for
their country OF course. Mrs This will
represent New York and Mrs. That will
stand for Boston and Mrs. The Other for
Philadelphia, and so on. IL will be a real
education for the masses to see portraits of
the fashionable women whose presence at
dinners at home and abroad. at entertain
ments here and balls there. is chronicled so
fully I'm the papers II VIII be much more
Interesting 70 see nice photograph of Mrs.
Smith-Jones whose dinners and divorce
take up much space. than To look ut
pictures of Margaret Fuller. and the woman
who gave General Grant the tip about
Island No 10 and the Nfcksburg canal. Be
sides. the pictures will be prettier.
III the fair authorities will send us a two
cent stamp will name several photog-
raphers who can supply good pictures with
out their having TO bother about writing TO
the representative fashionable women.
Much time may be saved by going to a
wholesale dealer.
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when Wilderness Was King.

The McClurgs have published new his
torical novel of the Illinois country by a
new author-Randall Parrish. The writer
is lawyer and a newspaper man of varied
experience and mature years, but, although
he has contributed TO the magazines, this
is his first venture into the field of fiction.
The story is founded on one of the most
thrilling incidents of the frontier-the IA
nous Fort Dearborn massacre. The ma
jority of the characters are drawn from
history, but the historic facts in no part
hinder the progress of the romance which
is purely fictitious and fascinating.
John Wayland. the hero of the book, sets
out for Fort Dearborn at the beginning,
in search of a young girl who has been
Entrusted TO his fathers He falls
I'm with a gentleman adventurer Captain
De CroiX, and later with band of Miami
Indians: Then he finds Toinette, the re
markabe heroine OF the story. His
troubles begin, and a sad time of it he has
with his capricious lacy love. They reach
Fort Dearborn, and from that time on the
breadth escapes from the jaws of death.
John is captured, but escapes; he rescues
Toinetie from her savage captors, and for
tune smiles on him once more. The whole
story is that of a man who loves passion
ately a woman he cannot find; she IS so
often separated from him and seemingly
hopelessly lost that his meetings with her
are mere glimpses of happiness. Antoinette
is piquant character and well portrayed :;
the French soldier of fortune is scarcely
less delightful. The strong, sober-minded
frontiersman has the sympathy of the
reader from the start. and all this helps
TO make up a story of absorbing interest.
tender love story softens tale of con-
tinuouS adventure, and the combination is
a happy one.
Not the least remarkable feature of the
book is found in the illustrations in color
by the Kinnsys. These artists drew the
remarkable pictures for THE Thrall of
Lief the Lucky and later THE Ward Of
King Canute," the two popular books by
Miss Iilyincrantz. The cover design, too,
is striking, and the whole book a good ex-
ample of attractive, modern bookmaNng.
The title is reminiscent of that of Major S
historical novel, and like il was taken
from a verse of poetry Benjamin F. Tay-
lors poem, Chicago" contains the lines:
Il saw dot upon the map, and house
hy's flmy wing
They said twas Dearborn's picket flag,
when Wilderness was king"
A c. McClurg q Co Chicago.
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Morning Chat
Give Pictures N Rest.

After all the most ingenious people in
this world are those who have the precious
faculty of concocting variety. Along with
March sunshine naturally. the subject of
spring hOuse-cleaning comes tC the front.
''Do you know what 1 do every March,"
as a pleasant home-maker is undisputed.
II have every picture in the house taken
down. busted and put in a large storeroom
we have. Edmund Russell. you know, says
that We all have pictures on our walls that
we haven't looked at for twenty years, but
1 did not get my idea from him; L evolved
IL myself from discovering how tiresome
even our most precious pictures become
Some of my pictures 1 have fairly hated
just because they were so monotonously in
the same place all the time. OF course,
bare walls look rather curious, but they
rest and refresh the eye 10 wonderful
extent. Besides it gives all my callers
something 10 talk about. Their comments
TO me are queer; and then they all go
of and say how queer 1 am.
after house-cleaning all the pictures
come back again, and enjoy them as
K they were new-especially If hung in
new places. without occasional change
in position pictures often affect us as they
did the little girl who announced after
Christmas that she hated two things
turkey soup and madonnas.'"
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pany comes to the Park again to-day to
remain through Wednesday.
The Empires attraction for the week,
opening with the matinee to-day. will be
the Transatlantic Burlesque Company, an
organization that is said to have enjoyed
a prosperous season in New York at the
opening of the theatrical year The man.
with the best burlesque entertainments on
the road at the present time. 1t is under
stood that there is large chorus of pretty
girls who can both sing and dance. A mu-
steal travesty and a vaudeville olio will
make up the programme. Specialties Will
be given by the Taylor Trio of gymnasts;
Mitchell and Cain, singing comedians, who
are well known TO Empire audiences: Kline
and GotthOld, burleSquers, in a farce called
"A Medical Discovery; Ben Jansen, in
new act, and Josie and Willie BarrowS,
who will appear in an original speciality.
The long-awaited premiere of Nine Re-
james new play, LA Montansier," took
place in Paris last Thursday evening and
the piece proved a great success. The
great French Coincidence thinks that she
has found in it another Sans Gene" Both
she and NJ. CoqueIin achieved unqualified
success in the play, according 10 cabled
account of the performance. Liebler q
Co, the American managers, nave Deen
awaiting the result of the presenta-
ton in Paris TO arrange Mime. Rejane's rep
ertoire for her tour under their manage
ment next season. They now announce
that La Montansier" will be the first
play to be acted by Mime. Rejane in New
York next fall
II is understood that James K Hackett
is endeavoring to arrange for a joint star
ring tour with his wife. Mary Mannering,
this summer that will take in all of the
principal cities of the Pacific coast and
give the two popular players a long season
in San Francisco. The Pacific metropolis
is now one Of the best SHOW towns In the
United States. and the playgoers of Frisco
are eager TO Mr.. Hackett and Miss
Mannering together in a series of plays.
The two have not appeared in the same
company since THE Princess and the But
terfiy," given in 1898.
Frizi Scheff, the little German prima
donna, will begin her first Chicago engage
ment tonight at the Illinois Theater and
indications point to a highly successful
run for the popular singer and her comic
opera, "Babette," which was written ex-
pressly for her by Victor Herbert and
Harry b. Smith. Her charm of personality
and marked musical and histrionic ability
are said TO be displayed to better advan-
tage in this romantic operatta than in any
of the grand operas in which she was for
merly heard