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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-26
One dear Sunshine sister writes

school here tit is a college,. My
husband is devotin~ his life to teach
ing, trying to educate boys and girls
and preparing them to live better
and more useful lives, and I try to
encourage him and make his life
happy. I want to be a true Sun
sinner, and do all I can to help the
Society. If there is anything I can
do to spread Sunshine, please tell
me; / do not have much time to
visit, but I try to be cheerful and
sunshiny at home. I am not much
of a leader, but I will follow, so if
there is anything I can do, please let
me know. MRS. B. A"
What a true, sweet Skinner she is.
Sunshine always begins at home, and
her husband is a Skinner, too, for in
our constitution, section two, reads:
''The membership fee shall consist
of some act or suggestion that will
carry sunshine where it is needed.
This may be the exchange of books,
pictures, etc., suggesting ideas thai
may be utilized for the benefit of the
sick, education of the ignorant, etc.
Dear Mrs. A. also adds in a P. S.:
eff you ever get to this part of
North Carolina, come and see me-"
And she tells me just how to get
there. Bless her heart, we certainly.
shall, for we should love to have a
peep into that sunshine home.
Now won't you all write me and
tell me what you think of our Sun
sinners plan for a crest Home"
here in the mountains. The "home"
is intended not only as a place of
rest for u working women, clerks
in our cities, etc., but for children
and other people who need the rest,
pure water and invigorating air of
the mountains during the summers
heated season, but whose means will
not allow them these things at the
prices usually charged Summer
boarders." 1t is not to be exactly a
clearinghouse or hotel either. The
plan is known as the cottage plan;
a number of small furnished cottages
where a few can join together in
housekeeping-a dining-room where
all who desire may get day board, a
large hall or dormitory for children
where those who are alone may be
under the motherly care of a matron.
This plan insures quiet and rest for
all, as each party has it's own little
home and can mix and mingle with
others as they please, can do as
much or as little cooking as they
please and come and go as they
please. A true home of rest and re-
cuperation at a merely nominal
price.
1t is hoped that every one interest
ed who thinks it a good plan, or
wishes to help in its accomplishment,
OF who would like to take advantage
of its accommodations, either for
+beuoo1uoc or othore will write 11e
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-26
SUNSHINE COLUMN
NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION OF INTER
NATIONAL SUNSHINE SOCIETY.

de~rsonville, N G.
The constitution, bylaws and names OF
ondcers OF the society will be furnished on
APPLICATION. Ea CHI correspondent should en-
close stamp for re 'ly.
International C~olors-Yellow and White.
Sta e Colors-Turquoise Blue
Internationa Flower-Coreopsis.
State Flower-Marguerite.
Motto-Good Cheer.
Society S~ong-Scatter Sunshine.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-26
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
In effect Nov. 2e, 1903.

This condensed schedule Is published az
information and Is subject to change
without notice to the public.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-26

From Gold Hill ZONES a CHEEKY
letter from two loyal 'Shiners-Miss
M. M. and her sister-who are al
ways doing something to give cheer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-01-26
Mrs. Ransier's Letter.

"Isn't it a good time now, while
the nights are long and days with no
strenuous toll are before us, to do a
little planning for the new years
work 2"
ooh the delicious things that can
be made to grow in the garden with
little effort and cost!"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-12

mills emphasizes the idea that consum-
ers are not willing as yet to advance
bids to a point at which raw cotton can
be purchased and manufactured at a
profit. Notwithstanding the numerous
improvements in machinery, methods
OF operation and distribution. On the
other side of the ledger there must be
put the increased cost of labor, fuel
and supplies of an kinds, which have
enhanced in value very appreciably.
Massachusetts has given up the fall
lacy of the common law which presum-
ed to keep a woman from talking when
she would or make her talk when she
wouldn't. The supreme court of that
state has reversed the law principle,
that wife may not testify against her
der the new ruling as under the general
custom of women she Will do as she
pleases.
Look here said the sour faced lady
who had answered his personal your
ad is a fake; it is distinctly stated,
object natrimony'
"Well-er-um-you see" faltered the
man nervously, there was some mis-
take. The printer omitted word. The
ad should have read, object to matri-
mony.' Town Topics.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-12
Eurnfgs anua Frsdap april ~ 1904

HIN by with cold sad expressions on
their faces, and when they had disap-
peared the young man realized keeniy
that he had been snubbed ooh, /
thought you were acquainted with all
the cabinet" remarked one of the wo-
men, with a scornful look. and the
guide was totally crushed The next
day he happened to be in Secretary
Moody's office. and told the head of the
navy department how his GOODNESS has
brought humiliation upon him. I think
YOU might have given me at least Just
a little nod said the newspaper man,
reproachfully We'll, / owe you an
apology" said Secretary Moods but
the truth of the matter is that when |
so into the White House on cabinet
days l feel very much embarrassed es-
pecially when there is a crowd of young
women there. | guess all the cabinet
feel the same way. That feeling causes
us either to keep our eyes on the floor
or straight ahead, and plants a naughty
expression on our faces. But we don't
feel that way at all
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-12
PRACTICE AND PRECEPT.

The Keokuk Gate City and the De:
ing for NJ. L. Hostetter. a temperance
worker Of some prominence in tht
state, whose unfortunate fall from So
briefly to Drunkenness and subsequent.
arrest and punishment for intoxicatior
has been featured in the state news
papers. Mr. Hostetter is personally
known in Keokuk and Des Moines
where these papers are pleading a sus-
pension Of public condemnation and 9
fresh chance for man who has tough,
bravely and fallen fighting.
The individual case of Mr.. Hostetter
appears to be one wherein the public
should show deserved leniency His
fall is apparently an incident in long
hard fight for personal freedom from
the drink habit made by man whose
4 sincerity is unauestioned by those
who know him best. There will be
general sympathy for his individual
lie usefulness as a temperance workac
is utterly bad. Perhaps, as the Regis
ter and Leader suggests, he will rise
from his fall better qualified to teach
temperance and his lift from thu.
crush of circumstances become an OBJ ).
ject lesson to others who have fallen
However the fact remains, that his
fall has weakened his influence as q
temperance worker. There is no class
so censorious of failure as the drinking
class. A temperance worker can not
get drunk and retain influence more
than a minister may break the com
nandments and remain trusted
leader.
The public Is not to be blamed for
this attitude AS patriotism Is said to
be the last resort of a knave, so tenn
perance work. is the dernier resort of
the CRATER who has failed in other
lines. The public has been worked
over and over again by frauds and
dmposters until 1t has grown wary.
critical and censorious. and ready to
condemn upon the face Of the circum-
stances without investigation of ind-
vidual cases. Mr.. Hostetter deserves
another chance. which the public will
gladly accord him as an individual,
whether or not it refuses to accept his
mission as a temperance evangelist.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-12
be stipulated that the package should

be stipulated that the package Should
| be returned.
Then there are plans by which the
expense of grave digging and dray-
age could be reduced. In one of the
suburbs of Chicago there flourished
an undertaken who made tlourishing
the chief part of his business And
he flourished. He had the contract
for burying all the dead from a chit
dren's home at the rate Of $40 per in
terment. He also had a large Gus
tum among the people of the suburb.
When one of the children died this
Napoleon in the undertaking business
kept the body until called to attend
to the burial of an adult, and when
preparing the body he would place
the body of the child between the
feet of the other body, thus saving
the entire SO as a net gain. IN
time, of course. some one detected the
villainies of this prosperous business
man and at last accounts he was
still going. His business was not re-
spectacle, but as the aim of those in
control is that pauper burial shall not
be respectable this hint might be fol-
lowed, ana one box might be made 20
do double service Ditto one grave.
Ditto one dray to the cemetery.
Then they have trick at ST. JOS
eph, Mo-, of letting the business to
the lowest bidder. The price per in
terment of paupers goes AS low as
one cent under the competition. The
undertaken securing the body takes 1t
to his morgue, where it Is supposed
the friends or relatives will call and
order such a coffin that he will be
able to make a profit In case the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-12

| for realism loses idealism. He paints
] the nude and seeks muscle in his mod
ell more than innocence. Ills nero is
strong and tainted. His heroine beau
/ tiful With u shading of sensual sug-
gestiveness. His love scenes are tur-
sid with the passion with when the
| new novelist has replaced the ideal
| affection OF the older authors. He
force and warmth and interest, but the
root of its intensity grows out OF the
| purely physical Realism IS truth, but
not all the truth. 1t is only the passing
1 fact of the day. The ideal belongs TO
all time past and future. Chemical
analysts and the microscope change a
drop of pure water into a pond of hor-
rors. The realism of the modern nov
elist uncovers the primary instincts
| beneath screen of idealizatton. He
smells of the dissecting room. He is a
student of life hurrying to classify its
nerves, fibers and arteries before they
rot. There is an element of unclean-
illness in modern fiction.
For a long time-too long-we nave
been flooded by so-called historical nc
ton. A few pairs of high boots, a
slashed doublet or So swords and dag
n
sire the same woman furnish all the
practical necessities of this school.
There is clashing of rapiers in every
line. pools of curdling blood upon every
page and dead men thick as periods in
every chapter. And these books, which
are in reality only "Deadeye Dick and
THE Bucket of Blood" of the nickel Ii
braries written into higher art for the
delectation of the more refined and
better educated. have sold into the
hundreds of thousands, carrying the
same lesson to the class that bought
and enjoyed them that Harry Tracy
the Bandit does to the class that buys
and ,devours it. 1t is but step from
the historical novel to the penny dread
full and from the slashing bravo of the
popular novel to Neidermeyer and
vile murder in car barn.
Perhaps fiction does not make NOR
ais. Possibly it only aids to unmake
them. The effect of bad book is that
of an evil companion. Novels which
condone and idealize crime and analyzs
human affections and friendships PACK
to purely physical impulses and in
stincts are not Influences toward hui
man betterment, moral or spiritual.
The modern author writes too much
for money and not enough for the gods
He Graves success and loses sight OF
his mission. If he is to be teacher,
a maker of real literature, ne must
amend and reform his methods and the
morale of his work.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-12
TOPICS Or The
TIMES = = =

Jo6ge Pasher's 16 to l policy differs
from Nh Bryan's. Sixteen times he
said nothing. And he hasn't spoken
ret.
| General kurepatkin has reached the
front and active hostilities are only be-
ing delayed awaiting the arrival OF the
| baggage train carrying his name.
|
General Cronje, the famous Boer
/ fighter, has arrived in this country In
command OF a selected company of the
Boer cavalry and wifi be part of a
/ spectacular exhibition at the St. Louis
! fair portraying the British-Boer war.
49,
A carrier on northern Iowa mail
route, where the patrons are largely
write English. He has learned the
number of letters in the names of those
receiving mail on his route and makes
his delivery by counting letters in the
addresses on letters and papers. Two
of hds patrons. however, have names
containing exactly the same number Of
characters and in these eases it is a
gamble who gets it. 1t is probable that
this singular case Is the only one of its
kind in the United States.
The census bureaus's estimate Of
ing off of nearly 1000 inhabitants since
1900. The low estimate is responsible
for high words at Sioux City
49,
II there We're really anything in the
story that General Miles paid fortune
teller a dollar and the fortune teller
truthfully predicted hat he would be a
candidate for the presidency Mr.. Hearst
could afford to buy prediction OF his
election from every fortune teller dn the
country and still have money left.
The x-ray is to be applied to pearl
fishing. Prof. Dubois, in a paper be-
fore the Academy of Sciences, Paris,
shows that 1t is possible by means of
the Rontgen rays to examine the living
oyster without in any way injurlng it,
and to ascertain whether or not it con-
tains pearl. If it contains only a tiny
pearl the oyster is returned and is al
lowed to live until the disease has de-
veloped large pearl:
While the French iconoclast has been
busy proving Columbus a liar another
searcher after truth has discovered that
Robinson Crusoe was actually cast
away. The law of compensation is still
working.
Now If Judge Parker could do as the
eastern judge did who ordered Mr..
Bryan to SIT down and made him do it,
all would be web,
1t has been claimed frequently dur
ing the past season of sensational huc-
tuations In the cotton market that at
no time was the level of the goods mar
l<et up to Il parity with the raw mater
ial. Consequently the manufacturers
have found the situation most unsatts-
factory except where they had secured
q large supply Of raw cotton early ia
the season at comparatively low prices,
The recent decision to materially cur
tail production a Fall River ana other
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-12
HOW MANY FIRMS FAlL2

A statement often made and toe
that of the total number of persons who
Ego into business" 95 per cent fail. Or
reversing the statement, that but five
out Of each 100 commercial firms sue
coed in staving off bankruptcy. Like
other gossip. the s per cent statement
dwindles under investigation.
The failure records of Dun's COM
mercial agency go back nearly fifty
years. Leaving out the period of the
" disorganized, and beginning with
1856 the records of the agency are as
scrupulously exact as it is possible to
make them, and these records not only
prove the falsity of the 50 per cent
statement, but furnish abundant evil
6ence of integrity in the American
business world.
From 1866 to 1903 there were 334.216
commercial failures reported in the
camille concerns engaged in business In
the United States in 1866. according to
the best obtainable information. was
about 10000. The number has In
creased each year during the interview
Ing time, with the exception of few
years of trade depression. During the
past twenty-five years the number OF
mercantile concerns engaged in bust
ness In the United States has about
doubled and is now 100000. The fail
ure records show that the ratio OF COM
mercial failures to mercantile firms in
business in the United States from 1866
to 1903, inclusive. averaged only LOS
per cent each year-that is, for each
100 firms in business only one failed
In 1866 the ratio was "a per cent and
In 1903 it was liz per cent. The low
est ratio was in 1871, 81 per cent, and
the highest In 1873, 1.55 per cent. The
ratio exceeded ! per cent during the
years of adverse conditions In trade
from 1875 to 1873. inclusive, and again
from 1893 to 1898, inclusive. There
were other years when the ratio was
more than 1 per cent, but OF the thir-
ty-eight years from 1866 to 1908, inclu-
sive, there were nineteen years when
the ratio exceeded per cent and nine
tn vars in which tn ratio was smaller
than that figure.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-12
Best Cough Medicine for Children.

When you buy cough medicine fol
small children you want one in which
you can place implicit confidence. You
want ore that not only relieves, but
cures. You want one that is unques-
tionably harmless. You want one thai
is pleasant to take. Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy meets all of these con-
ditions. There is nothing so good fo-.
the coughs and colds incident to child
hood. 1t is also a certain preventive
and cure for Group, and there is nc
danger whatever from whooping cough
when it is given. 1t has been used in
many epidemics of that disease with
perfect success. For sale by all drug
iSfS
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-12
MAKING MORALS.

II, as some magazine author not long
since asserted. the writers Of fiction
make the morals of the country, there
Is need Of writer's of a different school.
There is not much doubt that the mag
azinB writer's assertion is more than
haaf true. A large proportion of the
whole people who read do so for enter
tainment and amusement. The per-
cshtage who seek knowledge or the
upliftment Of literature is small. Tn
questionably the fiction of the DAY mn
presses its lessons upon the morals OF
the time.
The tendency OF current fiction is
scarcely toward the higher standards
OF purity in morals. The modern now
elist OF the average type in his desire
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-12
A REMARKABLE RECORD.

[Register and Leader.]
| Governor Cummins In his message
to the legislature made several i'm
| portant recommendations at the open
| ing of the session. AS the session is
! now drawing to close. it is of M
| terest to note how generally these rec
concentrations have been adopted.
| In their order the governor suggest
| ed:
| The collection OF interest on state
money deposited in banks.
A reform in the methods of exam
lining foreign insurance companies and
a definition of what constitutes a life
insurance policy
The adoption of the indeterminata
sentence and the establishment of 4
Juvenile court.
Providing a hospital for inebrIates
A primary election law.
Survey of state roads by the en-
cheering departments Of the college
at Ames and the university.
A more adequate provision for tax
ing the state census in 1905.
Liberal provision for the state edl
cational institutions.
The building of another wing of the
state historical building.
thorough revision Of the drainage
laws of the state.
In whole or in part every one of
these recommendations will find its
way into the enactments of the SEES
sion. Together they will form a body
of new legislation as important as ha1
been credited to any previous general
assembly. The present session has
not been as interesting as some, nor
has it attracted the attention. But it
has started the state out in some new
directions the Importance of which
cannot be over estimated. When its
work comes to be summed up the Thir-
tieth General Assembly like Abou Ben
Adhem may be found to lead all the
rest.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-12
Presidents Bashful Advisors.

A bevy of pretty girls sat in the Tit
tie White House" office anteroom just
before the last meeting of the cabinet,
and watched the presidents ministers
file In. The girls We're chanperoned by
one of the newspaper correspondents
who is assigned to the war. state and
navy building. and as he Is on especial
ly good terms with several of the cab
met members he expected that they
would bow and speak to him as they
passed in, but they did not. AL passed
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-12
A Great Sensation.

There was big sensation in Lees
vile, Ind, when w. II. Brown, of that
place who was expected to die had
his life saved by DR.. Kings New Dis
oovery for Consumption. He writes:
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bronchitis and grippe are numerous.
It's the peerless remedy for all throat
and lung troubles. Price so cents and
81. Guaranteed by the Mcdonald &
Manhood Company. druggists. Trial
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-12
Russia Japan Atlas, Ten cents-The
Northwestern Line.

Russo Japanese Atlas has been
issued by the Chicago & Northwestern
railway. Three fine colored maps, each
14x20, bound in convenient form for
reference. The eastern situation shown
in detail, with tables showing the rela-
tive military and naval strength and
financial; resources of Russia and Ja-
pan. Copy mailed to any address on
receipt of 10 cents in postage by L. f.
Berry, general agent, C. & N. w. rail-
way. 401 Walnut street, Des Moines,
Ic,1Ia
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-12
Are You a pysp.prIe?

II you are dyspeptic you owe it to
yourself and your friends to get well.
Dyspepsia annoys the dyspeptic's
friends because his disease sours his
disposition as well as his stomach.
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure will not only
cure dyspepsia, Indigestion and sour
stomach, but this palatable, recon-
structfve tonic digestant strengthens
the whole digestive apparatus, and
sweetens the life as well as the stom-
ach. When you take Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure the food you eat is enjoyed It is
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-12

of continuance of a system that
smacks of a form of bribery, implied,
| if not real. The only possible plah
in Iowa to end this generally recog-
nized evil, seems TO be to require
pledges of future candidates of the les
islature to vote in favor of an anti /.
pass law. and for Mr.. Hughes con-
stituents to continue TO send him to the
legislature until such a bill is passed.
and then for the state of Iowa to grant
him a pension for life of $4,000 a yeal.
All of which if carried out would leave
money in the pockets of the taxpayers.
The people are inclined to think 1t
was the better part of wisdom to post
pone action on the board of regents
law. This for the reason as claimed,
the incompletion of the bill as it came
from the senate. Nevertheless there is
a strong sentiment on the part of the
voters in favor of putting our educa-
tlonal institutions under the control of
a board of three members. and clothing
them with power fully as complete as
possessed by the state board of control.
Iowa presents the curious spectacle of
having state institutions. educational
and otherwise. far in advance of many
other states, this in poin't of advance
ment in all ways, and than to leave
them under form of mana cement that
has been abolished by less progressive
commemorative.
The proposed law requiring the state
to furnish indemnifying bonds for the
ct of 20
the average voter as sensible a proposal
la.Iri Of