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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-01-19
Fresh.Afr Tableta.

Fresh air tablets are a preparation
discovered by French scientist. II
was while investigating acetylene that
he found that he could combine certain
chemicals into tablet which, on being
dropped into water, dissolved and gave
forth pure oxygen.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-01-19

A trust has been formed by the re-
tail book dealers Of Germany which
has advanced the price Of books 10 to
Is per cent Foreigners can now get
books produced in Germany Is to Is
per cent less than Germans can.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-01-19
Soap Not Needed.

In the valleys Of California grows
tall, slender-stemmed plant of the
lily family with purple and white fow-
ers, which played an important part In
the economy of the Spanish population,
and is still more or less used by the
common people. It is the amole, OF
soap plant. 1t rises from subterra-
mean bulb. which is egg-shaped in
form, two or three inches in diameter,
and enveloped in a thick coating Of
black, matted-hair-like f1bres. This
bulb has the cleansing properties Of
soap, cleaning the hands or clothing
quite as well. and much more pleasant
ly than the coarser kinds of soap.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-12
A Quotation Well Used.

Few have ever forgotten the cyclone Of cheers
that burst over the Republican convention of 1880
as Conkling, tall, majestic, imperious in his bear
ing, strobe upon the platform and faced that
great audience of 10000 souls. Conkling was
there determined to secure the nomination of
Ulysses S. Grant as President for a third term.
1t was fifteen minutes before he could be heard.
The mighty thunder of those 10000 throats, from
friend and foe, rolled and crashed and rumbled
on. AT length C~onkling, swinging his arms above
him, brought them down, down, down, by grace
full moves as if to soothe the tempest. He did
this a dozen times. There was silence at last. In
a voice broken by four days of battle in commit
tee-rooms and on the floor of the convention, yet
sonorous in it's very hoarseness, he began his
speech by declaiming:
And when asked what State he halls from. our
sole reply shall be,
He halls from Appomattox, and it's famous apple
tree.
No scene in any National Convention of either
party since has rivalled that which greeted Conk-
ling's use of Miles O'Reilly's famous lines. It
was half an hour before he could proceed, and
through it all the multitude cheered and roared
MISUNDERSTANDING Moments at National
Conventions, Everybody's Magazine for July.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-12
Long Life.

Weber sums the main points to be observed by
those DESTROYS of a long life as follows 1, Mod
Grafton in eating, drinking and physical indul-
gence. 2, Pure air out of the house and within.
3, The keeping of every organ of the body, so far
as possible, in constant working order. 4, Regu-
lar exercise every day in all w~eathers; supported
in many cases by breathing movements and by
walking and climbing tours. 5, Going to bed ear
ly and rising early, and restricting the hours of
sleep to six or seven hours. 6, Daily baths or
additions according 10 individual conditions, cold
or warm, or warm followed by cold. Z, Regular
work and mental occupation. 8, Cultivation Of
p~lacidity, cheerfulness and hopefulness Of mind.
9, Employment of the great power of the mind
in controlling passions and nervous fear. 10,
Strengthening the will in carrying out whatever
is useful, and in checking the craving for stimu-
lants, anodynes and other injurious agencies
British Medical Journal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-12

Mr.. Mckinley always had a way of looking
into things for himself. The story is told that
during his lawyer days he very often passed a
pork butchers shop on the way to his Office and
back home. +.
In the morning he used to notice that sausages
were twenty cents a pound always. The sign
read:
"Good Pork Sausages, :
20 cents"
Sometimes they were twenty cents a pound in
the evening, but more often twelve. The sign
might even read:
Cline Pork Sausages,
10 cents"
The thing, he used to say, worried him. Sau-
sages were not of so perishable a nature that they
would not keep until next day. So he stopped
one evening at the shop, said it looked like rain,
and inquired about the price of sausages.
"Ten cents" said the storekeeper.
"But," said Mckinley, "they we're twenty cents
this morning"
$50 they were, Mr.. Mckinley" said the I'M
abashed sausage merchant. $50 they were. Then
l had 'em, now [ haven't. Sausages at ten cents
is simply to get me a reputation for cheapness.
Seeg
The future President saw, and was in the habit
of saying a great many regulations were made .
that way.-Selected.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-12
Market for Moss.

One of Major McClellan's favorite stories is of
a young Irish lad who came to America to seek
fame and fortune. He had an uncle engaged in
a small business, who, taking advantage of his
nephew's ignorance, offered him employment on
terms highly advantageous to his employer.
The boy soon discovered the situation, and at
the end of the year informed his uncle that he had
obtained more lucrative employment, and intend
ed to leave.
"You are making a great mistake" protested
the uncle, "in leaving a steady job for a little
more money. You should remember that a roll
ing stone gathers no moss"
"Moss," queried the lad; "and where is there
a market for moss2"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-12
L. Your Whea Good
Christian Reid.

Two men were having a spirited argument over
the merits of their respective churches. One was
a Presbyterian and the other a Baptist. Finally
one called a neighbor who was passing, and asked
his opinion as to which was the only church in
which to be saved.
"Well," said the neighbor, "my son and / have
hauled wheat to the same mill nigh on to forty
years. Now there are two roads that lead from
our place to the mill-one's the valley road,
t'other over the hill. And never yet, friend, has
the miller asked me which road I took. He al
ways asked: is your wheat good.'"-Selected.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-12
Degeneracy Disproved.

There are people who declare that the country
is going to materialism and degradation. There
are even people who prove this awful condition by
isolated examples of individual degeneracy. But
at last we have the final word on the other side.
"The Worlds Work" devotes itself in July to
showing the finer side of American life, and to
proving, by most interesting articles and inter-
esting pictures, that the conditions are becoming
better every day; that our schools are better; that
our appreciation Of art is better; that we buy
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-12

more pictures and books than any other people
in the world; that our charities are conducted
with more skill and judgment than they ever
were before; that there is less dishonesty, and
that the cultivation of the arts and of the higher
life is making rapid strides-keeping pace, in
fact, with the great increase in the material adj
vance of the people. This helpful review has been
worked out with success, and the pictures add
very greatly to the interest of the number.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-12
Better Drop the cigaretet, Young Man.

The cigarette-smoker would do well to take
warning while there is yet time for him to quit
while there is yet ground for him to stand upon.
Evidences multiply that he is presently to be shut
out, of the ordinary avenues of business, the latest
coming from Rock Hill, S. c., where the direc-
tors of the Union National Bank have adopted a
resolution that no person who smokes cigarettes
can find employment in that institution. Better
quit, young man, or you will find soon that nobody
wants you.-Charlotte Observer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-12

Hon. Robert B.. Glenn, the next Governor of
North Carolina, is in his ffty-frst year, the very
prime of life. Like his predecessor in this high
Office, he was a country boy and began and carved
his career without the advantages, or perhaps dis
advantages, of inherited wealth. The gallant and
heroic father left a far richer legacy to his sons
an indomitable will and a firm maintenance of
conviction. Capt. Chalmers Glenn, the father
of the next Governor of the Old North State, en-
listed in the Confederate army and lost his life
in the battle at South Mountain. His body lies
in an unmarked grave.-Raleigh Post.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-12
THE HOME CIRCLE
Regret

IF 1 had known, o loyal heart,
When hand to hand we said farewell,
How for all time our paths would part,
What shadow DER our friendship fell,
I should have clasped your hand so close
In the warm pressure of my own,
That memory still might keep its grasp,
If / had known.
If I had known, when far and wide
We loitered through the summer land,
What Presence wandered by our side,
And DER you stretched it's awful hand,
1 should have hushed my careless speech,
To listen well to every tone
That from your lips fell low and sweet,
Ii I had known.
If I had known, when your kind eyes
Met mine in parting true and sad
Eyes gravely tender, gently wise,
And earnest rather more than glad
How soon the lids would lie above,
AS cold and white as sculptured stone,
l should have treasured every glance,
If I had known.
If / had known how, from the strife
Of fears, hopes, passions here below,
Unto a purer, higher life
That you were called, 0 friend, to go, =
l should have stayed all foolish tears,
And hushed each idle sigh and moan,
To bid you a last, long God-speed,
If | had known.
If I had known to what strange place,
What mystic, distant, silent shore,
You calmly turned your steadfast face,
What time your footsteps left my door,
/ should have forged a golden link
To bind the heart, so constant grown,
And keep it constant even there,
If I had known.
If / had known that, until death
Shall with his finger touch my brow,
And still the q~uickening of the breath
That stirs with life's full meaning now,
So long my feet must tread the way
Of our accustomed paths alone,
/ should have priced your presence more,
If / had Known.
If I had known how soon for you
Drew near the ending of the fight,
And on your vision, fair and new,
Eternal peace dawned into sight,
I should have begged, as loves last gift,
That you, before Gods great, white throne,
Would pray for your poor friend on earth,
If I had known.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-12

Miss Alice Roosevelt is quoted as having said
recently, while the wild life of the West was under
discussion, that "if papa had turned out to be a
bad man he would have been the baddest man
that ever was" It must very frequently occur to
Miss Alice that the family has much to be thank
full for, seeing that the head of the house became
President of the United States instead of a very
bad man.-Asheyille News.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-12

This In No. "a OF @ series OF North Carolina Poems se.
lectsd especially for The Progressive Farmer by ths Editer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-07-12

Senator Stewart of Nevada, in making a speech
before a committee, once used the word "intrin-
sic"
"Here," interrupted another member of the
committee, "you didn't use that word right"
"What word? 90 asked Stewart.
"Why, intrinsic"
eyes, I did"
"Webster doesn't say So"
"Webster? What Webster?"
"Webster's dictionary"
"Now, see here" growled Senator Stewart, II
am tired of having that book quoted at me. Every
schoolboy knows that it is a mere tumble Of
words"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-08-06
Notice to Republicans

The several District Committees elect
ed on Saturday August 9Th 1904. will
meet for organization on Friday August
18th 1904
The c mmittees elected on the islands
of Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai will meet
ait such time of day, and place as the
present District Committee may decide
best
The 4,h and 5th District Committees
will meet at 1880 p. m. as follows:
The 4th District Committee will meet
in Waverley Hall corner Hotel and
Bethel streets.
The It'll District Committee will meet
in Castle & Cooke Hall corner King and
Lethel streets.
Republican Territorial Central Com
mittee
c. l.. CRABBE,
Chairman.
NORMAN WATKINS,
Acting Secretary.
Honolulu, August l, 1904
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-08-06

1t moreover opened the door for favor
ltism and fraud by making it possible
for the superintendent of Public Works
to give definite assurance to a favored
bidder as to the number of old piles
which would be permitted to be used
IN the work; thus enabling him to un-
derbid others who might consider it
unsafe to bid on any other basis than
that of new piles for the entire work
there being no certainty under the spe-
cllcations that any old ones could be
used. Many obvious abuses might
follow such a course of conducting calls
for bids, if it once became established
IS a precedent 1t would be likely to
defeat entirely the object of the law
requiring the letting of public contracts
only after a call for tenders. The facts
in the present case do not warrant the
slightest imputation against the Super
intendent of Public Works. He acted
in perfect good faith. The uncertainty
in the specifications arose from a desire
to save to the Territory the value of the
old piles, If they had any. and to re-
duce the cost of the work in hand. In
fact the disadvantage resulting from
the uncertainty in the specifications
occurred to him. This was the occa-
sion for the letter to intending bidders,
requesting them to figure on new piles
and to state an allowance per pile for
those furnished by the government. No
new advertisement was made however.
Prospective bidders remained in the
dark as to whether the right reserved
to require the use of old piles would be
exercised and there was the additional
uncertainty as to whether the letter
was a legal modification of the call for
tenders There was no uniformity of
action on the part of bidders, and none
was to be expected under the conditions
as they then stood Some bidders
ignored the letter, as they had the right
to, treating it as no part of the legal
call for tenders. Others complied with |
the request, This shows there was no
real competition"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-08-06
INJUNCTION
STILL STANDS
SUPREME COURT DECIDES THAT
BREWERS WHARF CONTRACT
Is NOT A VALID ONE.

The decision of Judge Robinson grant
ing permanent injunction on the COM
plant of John Lucas against the Anne
rican-Hawaiian Engineering and Con-
struction Company, c. S. Holloway,
superintendent Of public works and J.
II, Fisher auditor of the territory. was
yesterday affirmed by the Supreme
court in a unanimous decision.
The contract nulihed was for con-
structing Brewers wharf and shed, be-
ing awarded to the American Hawaiian
Engineering and Construction Co. at
SSS,1OO and % cents per square foot for
b'tumen and concrete foundation At
ter the call for tenders was advertised
some Of the specifications referred to
therein We're altered, written notices of
the alterations being sent to intending
bidders but no change made in the pub
lie advertisement. Among the altera-
tons We're stipulations regarding the
right reserved by the Superintendent of
Public Works to use old piles from the
former wharf. 1t was on this Darticu-.
lar that the suit for injunction was
based.
The decision reads in part thus:
The first contention advanced by the
plaintiff is that the original plans and
specifications We're too indefinite to be
the basis for competitive bids. The
uncertainty claimed arose from the
right reserved by the department to use
In the new structure any of the piles
removed from the old structure. This
right being reserved in the specifica-
tions was binding upon all intending
bidders, and they were obliged to take
it into consideration and make provi-
sion against its exercise. 1t is impos-
sible however, to see how any intending
bidder could intelligently provide a
gainst the exercise of the right re-
served. Instead of framing a bid for
a definite quantity of material and de-
finite work, the bidder was faced by
conditions purely speculative. The de-
partment did not undertake to say for
what percentage of the new work old
piles could be used. 1t did not COM
init itself to furnish, or permit the use
of, any old piles. Yet the menace was
always present that the most careful
estimate of bidder might be upset by
directions to take and use old piles.
The Assistant Superintendent of Pub
lie Works, Mr.. Rowland, testified that
at the time the original plans and spe-
cificatioHs were filed it was not known
how many of the old piles, if any,
would be available for use in the new
structure, and that it was not positively
ascertained that none were available |
until after they were pulled up and
placed on the bulkhead which was af-
ter the contract had been awarded. |
Bidders We're thus left entirely in the |
dark as to what the conditions actually |
would be when the work was under
taken. The element of uncertainty |
was so great as to render definite and |
exact bidding impossible. This tended |
to prevent competition and to defeat !
the law requiring the call for tenders.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-08-06

with debarkation. Gunboats and torpedo
boats stood guard behind the mass of
cables and wire netting. Owing to the
heavy seas it is with great difficulty
that these defenses are kept intact
other evidences of the thoroughness
and great care of detail with which the
Japanese take their precautions, were
observed.
The Manchuria came as far down as
Talienwan bay, but she did not proceed
further south for fear of encountering
mine fields She turned on her course,
and passed a flotilla of gray warships,
six torpedo boats and four torpedo boat
destroyers, sliding through the leaden-
colOred a, to relieve the guard ships
off Port Arthur. Ira sports and col
Tiers were passed constantly.
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon the Man
chura met the Makasa and the battle
ship Asahi and two torpedo boat des-
troyers in the lee of n small island in
the vicinity of the naval base. A tell
tale cloud of smoke was visible over the
distant hills. The Erim fighting ships
were battle stained. but they were alb
solutely uninjured. Rusted torpedo
nets hung from racks along the lead
colored TANKS of the warships.
The Manchuria came to a stop, and
her passengers went on board the Mi
kasa. The newspaper correspondents
were given the freedom of the ship.
Lieutenant, the Imperial Prince Ka-
chO, who is an able officed is in COM
mand of battery of twelve-inch guns
He received the Japanese parliamenta-
rians only. Admiral Shimaura, chief
of staff of the standing squadron, was
on board the Mikasa. He is fine
looking officer.
The guests from the Manchuria were
entertained bv the officers of the staff
and of the flagship. The marvelously
fit condition of the Japanese sailors, af-
ter five months of hard campaigning
and successive fights at moments no
tice, was noted. From Admiral to ca
bin boy there were no signs of nervous
strain.
Captain Numoto, commander of the
tleship Asahi, who has spent many |
years in Russia, was spoken to by the |
representative Of the Associated Press |
He said "At first the Russians under |
estimated our strength and thought this |
war to be a joke. They are now be- |
ginning to realize their mistake 1 have |
many friends in Port Arthur; maybe I |
shall see them soon"
Captain Numoto smiled as he left the |
flagship to the strains of the Admiral's |
band. He returned to the Asahi and |
that battleship steamed away in the di-
rection of Japan. As she went she dis
played the signal Victory" This was |
answered by rousirg cries of "Banzai" |
from the crowded decks of the other
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-08-06
USEFULNESS OF
WORLDS FAIR
ITS EXCEPTIONAL INTEREST AND
VALUE AS AN EDUCATIONAL
ADJUNCT.

Within the Worlds Fair is a univer-
sity which in completeness surpasses
the regular university in many ways,
because there are assembled at the
great st. Louis Exposition many val
liable and instructive features which
no university agquires. For this reason,
university students, and even profess
sors, are taking advantage of the ex-
ceptional opportunity afforded
Each exhibit of an educational char
acter is demonstrated, thus the higher
education is made to appeal to all WISH
tors. For instance, the Exposition does
not merely exhibit implements with
placards showing that they are used
for life-saving, but it builds lake and
shows how the owrk is done. Cur
rency and coins are exhibited, but there
are also plants where money is made
in the sight of all.
1t is this method of conveying know
ledge by means of exhibits that makes
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-08-06
VISIT ADMIRAL TOGO
WAR CORRESPONDENTS AND JAPANESE Ma
VAL COMMANDER ON
ARTHUR-ToAsTs DRUNK BY THE THE ADM1RALs
SUCCESS IN NJ (

NAGASAKI July 90 p. m.-The
steamer Manchuria, which is on a. tour
of inspection of the theater of war with
members of the Japanese Diet, foreign
attaches and press correspondents on
board, reached the japanese naval base
on July IA. The passengers of the Man
churia We're received by Admiral Togo
on the 18th on board his flagship the
battleship Mikasa
The fighting admiral received and
greeted the naval attaches of the seven
nations represented in his private cabin
subsequently he received the thirty
newspaper correspondents in the bare
and unadorned wardroom of the Mikasa
Here there was seen a piece Of an ex-
ploded she'll which is the only missile
that has struck the Mikasa during the
five months of her commission. 1t hit
the main top on February Q and wound
ed Lieutenant Matsumura, tearing his
thigh. Photographs of the leutenant's
wound stand beside the piece of shell as
a grewsome souvenir.
admiral Togo is gray-haired. He
spoke little and appeared to be shy His
sun-browned and clever face showed
the strong jaw of the born leader. He
was clad simply in a white uniform
tunic and dark trousers. On his should
ers were an admirars straps. and he
wore the decoration of the order of the
Rising sun.
The Admiral expressed himself as
honOred by the presence of the news
paper correspondents, and he replied
briefly to their congratulatory speeches
The correspondent of the London Times
spoke for the British press and a re-
preventative of the Associated Press
for the American and an Italian cor
respondent for the continental press.
Admiral Togo proposed the health of
his guests, who responded with three
cheers for the Admiral's continued vic
tories.
The Manchuria left her anchorage be-
hind the naval base at O'Clock in the
morning and steamed outside the guard
ship line in full view are the fleet. She
passed Yentoa bay (a.bout seventeen
miles southwest of Pitzwo and about
twenty-five miles northeast of Talien-
wan bay), where the white tents of the
transport camp were seen encircling a
cove. The bare bluffs were crowned
with long storehouses and the beach
was fringed with small boats A fleet
of junks and supply schooners was an
chored in the ofIiing There are at pre-
sent but few troops at this station,
which is used merely as a commissary
depot for the northern army The
Manchuria sighted a few buoys and the
remains of boom defenses which for a
distance of ten miles had been thrown
across the channels through the islands
through which it was expected the Rus
slams would come to make a torpedo-
boat attack and attempt to interfere