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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-02-02

Running across a newsboy in the
street, Cyrus offered him a penny
each for three papers. The regular
price was three cents, but the boy
was oyerstocked and gladly made the
sale. Cyrus sold his papers at three
cents each, and went home richer by
six cents.
This was the beginning of a for
tune which Cyrus Curtis, the owner
of the Ladies Home Journal, and
the Philadelphia Saturday Evening
Post, has since acquired. After the
first business venture young Curtis
sold papers regularly when out OF
school. When but thirteen years old
he published a little amateur sheet
called Young America. He paid the
printer five dollars for printing four
hundred copies. The business did
not succeed, however, but this did
not discourage the boy. Saving a
few dollars from the sale of ews
papers, he went to Boston, where he
purchased a small printing outfit
and established a little printing of
fee.
From these humble beginning MIR.
Curtis became one of the great pub
fishers of the present day.-Selected.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-02-02
OUR YOUNG PEOPLE
O-u-g-h.

"Good morning, dear. So sorry that
Your hands are in the dough.
We're out sleigh-riding in the park,
And hoped that you could cough"
"Oh, never mind! Of Lakeside Park
l never see enough.
Please wait a moment, and I'll get
My hat, and cape, and mough.
II think I'll take my boa, too;
I've something of a cough.
I'll leave the bread this time for
Nell,
And now at last I'm ough.
"Ah. fairyland! What sprites have
wrought
With snow and ice and Dough!
I'm sure the park has never looked
So beautiful as nough.
"My cough? Well, really, I believe
I've gust q little hiccough,
Which somehow in the mornings
spin
l have contrived to ~piccough.
ooh, dear, the morn has quickly
passed!
Too soon. it seems. we're through.
Best thanks for a delightful time.
Although, my friends, adiough."
"A. Fitch, Jr., in January st.
Nicholas.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-02-02
Capital, Three Cents.

One day, in 1862. a boy who lived
in Portland, Me, asked his mother
for a quarter for spending money.
He had at the time in his pocket
three cents remaining from what his
mother had given him a few days be
fore. The mother said: "Why
don't you try to earn some money.
Cyrus, ard thus have spending money
Of your own!"
Can | have all | make| he in
quired.
"Certainly," she answered.
The boy forthwith began to plan.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-02-02

thargy of Information. One of the
commonest evidences of this hiberna-
ton is to be seen when fire wood is
carried into the house and placed
near the warm stove. 1t takes only
a short time to bring out a swarm
of ants that we're sleeping in beetle
behring's, their common retreat
From Mature and Science" in Feb
ruary St. Nicholas.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-02-02
COLD AND INSECTS.
The Lowest of Low Temperatures Does
Not Kill Nor Injure Them.

The severest cold has no terrOrs
for insect life. 1t has been shown
by experiments that insects may be
artiticialiy or naturally frozen, sub
jected, indeed, to very low tempera-
lures, without killing or even injur-
ing them. Eggs, larvae, and pupae.
the stages in which most insects pass
the winter, are perfectly immune to
cold.
1T Is a common idea that o
of insects serve as a protection
against cold, but this is entirely err
They, like the summer
webs of wcb-worms, are a protection
against birds and insect parasites.
but not against cold. The
of summer brOods are as stout and
thick as those of the generations
that pass the winter. Moths. butter
flies, and other insects build stoutrr
and more compact in tropi-
cal and torrid countries than they
do in those climates where they arc
besieged by winter. There are many
insects, allied to the builders of CO.
cOOns, that make no such covering.
the pupa or the chrysalis being left
entirely exposed. And so little heat
is maintained by the pupae of insects
that no matter how thick the co
cOons, they are always too slight to
repcl freezing cold.
Certain degrees of frigidity seem
to have vastly different effects OF diff
ferent effects of different species
OF insects. Gnats and midges dance
III the winter sunshine. butterflies.
Nanessa, Grapta. and sometimes Co
Has, skim over the snow; wasps and
bees wind their way through the leaf
less woods; ground-beetles run quick
ly over the cold earth; crickets peep
from beneath stones and rotten logs;
while other species, the vast major
lty, in fact, are locked in the le-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-03

already attempted to evolve plans for a
building which will be suitable for home
and at the same time cost as little as
possible. No conclusion has been reached.
however, but the committee believes that
building such as will be necessary will
cost at least $4,000.
The present building used as the Chill
dren home is soon to be occupied by the
nurses of the Fannie Paddock hospital.
More interest is being taken in the
home each year and everyone is requested
to give the assistance during the newt
year that has been given in the past. For
encouragement as Mrs. A. f. Mechanic
aptly put it, Stimulates new zeal and
Vlgor to enter upon the work of another
year"
The officers for the ensuing year were
elected as follows: Mrs. Everett G.
Grlggs, president; Mrs Claude M. Seeley,
tirst vice-president; Mrs. C. E. Hill. sec
ond vice-president; Mrs. G. H. Stone.
third vice-president; Mrs. d. A. Cove.
treasurer; Mrs. A. F. Mechanic. recording
SECRETARY; Ms W. E. Hacker. correspond
ing secetary.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-03
REAL ESTATE

l.. NJ Berry and husband to Cnda ID.
Klinkenbeg, the north so feet Of lots 3
and 4, block l, Keloggs addition $4,000.
Fred c. Chamberlain ct ux to Hannah
A. Miller, plot containing five acres more
or less in section u, township % north,
range 4 east, 81 800.
j. o. Lee and wife to John dIardtke,
lots u and 10 in block l, Orchards adj
ditionf $1,000.
Arthur Louis Dickinson to Andrew E.
Anderson, the west half of the northwest
quarter and the northwest quarter Of the
southwest quarter Of section "a, town
ship II north, range 2 east, 81 500.
Mary McShell, widow of Adap-cup, Of
Butcher Sab Puyallup Indian, to Hokan
northenberg, r Stmfw mfw mfw mfw mfw
T. Stenberg, the east Is acres of the
northwest quarter of the southwest quar-
ter Of section 20, township 20 moth, range
east. consideration $500
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-03
GHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY
NEEDS new QUARTERS

Yesterday afternoon the patronesses of
the Childrens home met in the parlor of
the Tacoma hotel and discussed many i'm
portant questions. Reports of officers.
showing the progress of the work during
the past year, were read and plans for the
future discussed. The year 1908 has been
the most successful one in the history of
the institution 1t is the expectation of the
officers and special committees to build
a permanent home on ii lots on the South
X street car line, between Twenty fifth
and Steele streets, These lots were do
mated by G. w. Griggs and Henry Hew-
lit. They are graded and ready to build
upon. The report of the committee
showed the building fund to amount to
"a, 534.72
In the report of Mrs. G. w. Bullard,
the matron, Miss Grace Kittridge. to
whose untiring efforts the health and
habits of the children and credited. is
praised very highly.
Many cases of abandoned children We're
mentioned in the report, also many in
stances of relatives and friends of the
family having been found. into whose
homes the children are gladly received.
The report of Mrs. w. j. Fisher, the
treasurer shows an increase of the build
ing fund in 1903 from 1850 % to a. 34 Y,
the fund in 1903 from $3560,2S to 81, 534. Y,
SlO34 Of which increase came from the
sale of old rubber.
Mrs. Fisher stated that architects have
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-03
HISTORICAL FRIGATE
MAY BE PRESERVED

BOSTON, MASS, Feb. 3.-The coun.
Gil of the Massachusetts Historical society
has prepared memorial for presentation
to the senate and house of representa-
tlves, praying that the necessary steps
be taken for preserving the Fighting
Frigate' of 1872; that she be renewed, put
IN commission as training ship, and at
suitable seasons be stationed at points
along our coast where she may be Access
sible to that large and ever-increasing
number of American citizens who, retain
ing a sense of affection, as well as deep
gratitude, to her, feel also patriotic and
an abiding interest in the associations
which the frigate Constitution will never
cease to recall"
The petition is preceded by a lengthy
resume of the glorious past cf the famous
old ship. sets forth that she is now ~
ing at Charlestown, Mass, in dock also
used by the steamships of the so-called
White Star line; she is dismanted, out
of repair, and liable at any time to injury
from carelessness or accident if not to
destruction.
"In the memory of the people of the
United States the Constitution is
throughout her long record, inseparably
associated with feats of daring and sea
manship-devotion and dash-than which
none in all naval history are more skill
full. more stirring, or more deserving of
commemoraton.
GLOW can they be so effectively com
memorated as by the pious and lasting
preservation of the ancient ship, now
slowly rotting at the wharf opposite to
which she was launched six years more
than century ago?
"The Constitution is the yet living
monument. not alone of her own victories,
but of the men behind the guns who
won them. She speaks to us of patriot
ism and courage, of devotion to an idea
and to a sentiment for which men laid
down their lives.
"Therefore, your memorialists woull
respectfully ask that immediate provision
be made to the end that the course pur-
sued by the British admiralty in the case
of the Victory may be pursued by our
navy department in the case of the Con-
stitution."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-03

PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. S.--The oldest
hotel in the United States is located in
Phoenix. 1t was built in the seventeenth
century, not long after the erection of the
famous "Palacio del Gobernador-still
standing, 1t has been the scene of many
exciting episodes and its dingy adobe walls
and earth floors have been spattered with
the blood of many human beings.
The building is of the regulation style
of ancient adobe-long, low, one story, fiat
roof, with dingy, many-lighted windows
and low doorways.
The chief inquisitor of the Spanish con-
tingent took refuge in this ancient struc-
ture when Penalosa sought to capture him,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-03
STRONG WOMAN CHARGED
WITH Assault TING CHILD

weeks when they were trying to secure
a variety engagement in Seattle. The
Waggoners say that the treatment of the
lad at that time was SO brutal that they
demonstrated with the Shones about it.
The case was to have come to trial
next Monday, but the Shones have sue.
ceeded in having the time changed to
Monday of this week They have an en-
gagement in an Aberdeen theater, begin
ming next week and they want to get pos
session of the boy so he can do his usual
turn with them by that time. He is the
drawing card of the trio and they have
made contracts on the strength of his
popularity.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Shone the acrobats.
from whom 8-year-old Ray Sansome was
taken during a performance at the Edi-
son theater Monday night, as stated
in yesterdays Times, deny that the
boy was ever cruelty treated. They claim
that the bruises and scars on the child's
body were all a part of the business and
were the result of falls received while
learning his flying somersault stunt.
Nevertheless, Humane Officer Clark of
Seattle has sworn out warrant charg-
ing the woman with assault and battery
and offers the child's bruised body in
evidence. This case and the contest for
possession of the boy will come up on
Friday of this week
The child is now in Seattle and it is
likely that he will be adopted by Humane
Officer Clark and his wife, if they can
secure legal possession of the boy. Two
other parties have applied to the Chill
dren's Home society for the adoption of
the child if he should be given into its
care by the Tacoma court.
Yesterday morning in the Offices of the
Chldrens Home society in Seattle Young
Ray Sansome was the center of some
twenty people-lawyers. doctors and hen.
eVolent persons--Who came To learn more
OF his story. He had spent the night at
the home Of Row II. D. Brown The
bruises on his body were so sore and
his joints so stiff and lame that he had
to be helped to dress in the morning. He
related to those in tho office yesterday an
incident of his stay with the Shones which
brought tears to the eyes of everyone
who heard it.
Il was ordered to do the splits" he
said. 'and tried to, but my legs wer,
too short and my joints so stiff that m,
body couldn't reach the floor Then the
strong woman put her hand on my heaC
and jammed the body down. Tt hurt ter
ribly, but | didn't dare say so then be
cause the strong woman would whip m,
with her leather strap"
After making further investigation O
the case, Humane Officer Clark decide,
to swear out warrant charging Mrs
Shone the ''strong woman with assault
and battery. Officer Clark will urge hi
case of assault and battery against tn
woman largely on the testimony of T.. Z
Waggoner and his mother, Of Fremont
with whom the Shone trio boarded tw
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-03

and he was found there and dragged from
the low doorway to prison cell in the
Palico in the year 1868.
The hotel became temporary fort in
1851, when the Indians threw off the
Spanish yoke and made successful at.
tack upon the town. Many of the Indian
wars were planned in the town, and its
dingy tap room has witnessed many blood
trays.
Under it's roof have slept many men
known to fame, including tho "Pathfnd-
err" John G. Fremont; Phil Sheridan, Ze-
bulon Pike, Custer, Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill
and many other famous scouts, plainsmen
and Indian fighters.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-03
E. M. MOORE GETS
SEWER CONTRACT

Commissioner of Public Works r. w.
Clark yesterday awarded the contract for
the construction of sewers in local inn
district No. 1876 to e. NJ.
Moore. The sewers are to be laid on
South j and X streets from Twentieth to
Twenty-third street. e. M. Moore's bid
was $3.50 and was the lowest estimate
received. The city engineers estimate was
60 AK
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-03
KENTUCKY HONORS
GOEBEL'S MEMORY

FRANKFORT, KY, Feb 3.-Today was
the anniversary of the death of Governor
William Goebel, and in honor of his mem
ory appropriate exercises were held by the
state legislature in session here. Ad-
dresses eulogistic of the character and
public deeds of the dead executive were
delivered, and as a further mark of re-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-03
COUNTY CLERK BANKS |
rs IMPROVING

County Clerk A. NJ Banks is improv-
ing rapidly and hopes to be in his office
again in week or 50. What he needed
was complete rest, and this the doctor at
the hospital compelled him to take.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-03

the foremost actresses of Germany ever
since. She is dark. with jet black hair,
and fascinating black eyes The number
of her conquests among the royalties and
nobility of Europe are countless. Two EN-
perors, one king, eight grand dukes, three
dukes, a score of princes and several
counts have competed for her smiles from
time to time.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-03

Farmers in the vicinity of Prescott re-
port horse thieves are operating in that
section. Several valuable animals have
disappeared within a week.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-03

spect to his memory both chambers of
the assembly adjourned for the day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-03

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 3-Herewith is pre-
scented an interior view of the machinery
palace, which will be one of the most mag
buildings on the ground of the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-03

Special sale every day at Jolls', e44 Pa
ci6e Avenue. sA4
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-03

Ride on the Greyhound when going to
Olympia.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-03

BERLIN.-M Reisenhofer is the
best Trilby in Europe. She sprang into
fame in one evening through her creation
of this role. Previous to that occasion
she was an insignificant chorus girl, and
volunteered her services to play Trilby
when the leading actress of the company
was taken suddenly ill., She played the
part to perfection, and has bean one of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-03

The fast steamer Greyhound is now or
the run from Tacoma to Olympia.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-03

NORTHWESTERN Detective Agency.
42O-7 Cal. Blk. See us. Tel Black 1925.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-28
Permanent Fund for Schools.

Within the borders of North Dakot*
there are approximately forty million
acres Of land. Of this vast area only
about ten million acres, y or one-fourth
OF the total area, is under cultivation.
Approximately two and. one-haf mil
lion acres of land are held in trust BY
the state for the benefit of it's public
schools. At intervals portions of this
land will be offered at public sale on
favorable terms, and the income derived
will form a permanent fund for the
benefit of the schools Of the state.
The higher educational and charitable
institutions of the state have land
grants approximating six. hundred and
seventy thousand acres in the aggre-
gate, the proceeds Of which will go to-
ward permanent fund for the support
of these institutions. About two and
one-half million acres of land are held
by the Indians in the Turtle Mountain.
Fort Totten, Fort Berthold and Stand
ing Rock reservations. -. -
System of Education.
The most substantial progress Of a
Of the system of education in that state.
No truer index of a community s higher
life can be found than the interest and
attention given the public schools of
that community, North Dakota need
have no reason to fear when the edu-
cational system Of the state is compared
highly developed states: The progress
made in education. in the fifteen years
Of statehood has been rapid, yet sub
stantial. North Dakota has profted by
the best experience of other states;
what has seemed good in other systems
has been incorporated; what has seemed
been studiously avoided.
The state has been in a formative
condition, and by, reason Of the high
standard Of educational leaders, the
best ideas have held sway The con
servatism Of older states has not handi-
capped 4 the sta e's development. The
result Of favoring conditions has been
that today North Dakota need make no
apologies whatever for it's educational
conditions ,...L =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-28

North Dakota is pre-eminently an
agricultural state. Her domain en-
braces portion of that area of the
North American continent generally
not usually productive of minerals, altho
extensive coal deposits underlie great
areas in the level west. No mountains
occur in North Dakota, and no deposits
of valuable metals or minerals Of any
kind are found within the state that
compare in value with the resources Of
the soil.
Extensive deposits of Ignite coal and
clays of great value underlie the surface
formations thru extensive districts, and
these only await development to become
commonwealth. Yet these compare but
feebly in Importance with the vast re-
sources of the soil. North Dakota is,
and probably must ever remain, an ag-
ricultural state, whose people will be
largely interested in the varied pur-
, suits Of those industries more or less
, directly allied to the soil.
Harvest Never Fails.
The record Of North Dakota is with
out parallel for certainty of crops of
the staple cereals, wheat, barley, oats
and flax. Corn is now also counted
one of the state s regular crops, as i'm
proved methods have given it a seed
that natures within ninety days from
b the time it is planted. Corn acreage is
showing a marked increase each year.
A pleasing feature of the recent
growth of the state is the character
4 of the people that have gone there to
{ make their homes, being very large
percentage of not only. thoro farmers
with considerable capital, but good tai
ent along professional and commercial
lines. It was not so very many years
ago that the idea very generally pre-
vailed thru the eastern communities that
most any kind of a professional man
who was the owner. of diploma could
60 to North Dakota and rise like a
r rocket, little thinking that the profess
I is made up of as good material and as
well trained as in the greater portion
Haof the east. .~S.'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-28
STRONG EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES OF w. DAK.;
MZNOZ, AND WARD CO.'S SCHOOLS UNSURPASSED

value of assessed property in school
districts in 1901, was S1l7,916,7oe.6o.
AS striking example of the remark
able development this state has made in
education in the past few years, the
county of Ward, of which Minot is the
haps the best. illustration, In the year
1901 Ward county had but fortytwo
schools. July, 1904, it had 237 schools.
In 1904, this county had 1912 children
Of school age, which is 1876 more than
there were people in the entire county in
1901. There are eighty organized
school townships in the county. Four
city Of Kenmare has just completed
school building that cost $l8,00e to re-
place the one that burned last spring,
that cost $4,000 This city has a pop
ulation of about 1000 people and had
towns in this. splendid county have ex--
cellent school buildings. the most Of
them being constructed in the latest ap-
proved style Of school architecture.
-Four years ago Minot had common
school with six Or seven departments in
operation with teachers with little or no
one Of the best equipped high, schools
in the state with a corps of fifteen in.
structors each of whom is profession
ally trained and selected for the espe-
cial character Of the work he is to do.
with the binding swiftness Of enchant-
] ment, and it is doubtful if any county
( in any state in the Union can duplicate
this performance. That change is here
to stay. Not only to stay, but to grow
until Ward county shall have one of
the best and most complete systems for
/ the education Of it's children that can be
found within the borders of any state.
Let the emigration boom-boom on,
and yet North Dakota will never be
great either relatively or intrinsically
Until we learn to do our own work with
our own hands; until North Dakota 8
splendid resources are developed by
North Dakota brain andsNorth Dakota
J brain educated on North Dakota soil.