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The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1904-09-09
Can't.

How history repeats itself.
1ou'll say. when you remember Grant,
Who. In hia buyhOod days. once sought
Throughout the lexion for can't
lie could not ind the word that day.
The earnest boy whose name was
Grant
lie never found Il through long years.
With all their power TO discnchant
No hostile host could give him pause:
Rivers and mountains could not duunt'
He never found that hlndcrinE word
The stoadfaat man whose name was
Grant
Harriet Prescott sponord in g. Nlcho-
las
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1904-09-09

frogs lived, and where no man could
get while Uncle 81 Just stood and
stared after him with bullying eyes
and open mouth.
'Joshua's gone orazyp said he.
The strain has been too much for
Joshua. and he's lost his mind
And that's the way II looked. too.
but II wasn't 80. as Uncle 81 disoov.
cred when 10 hua came sailing back
by and by. having In tow frog al
most MS big as himself with the fian.
nel'baited hook In It's jawl
Joshua had made up his mind that
he'd had about enough OF the sass Of
those frogs out In the swamp. and had
rugged himself up with a hook and
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1904-09-09

Deacon Arland Eaton has caused 70
be placed by tho roadside. near his
farm buildings, In Hancock. n. IT,. a
stone watering trough TO furnish a
public water supply from never.
failing spring, II is inscribed. Eaton.
iT97190i." and IS intended TO com.
memorato the settlement Of his fam.
lily in town.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1904-09-09
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Come Into the garden. Maud
And see how the weeds have crown.
They're setting 30 thick.
Ana growing 10 quick.
/ can't pun 'em an alone.
10 come Into the garden. Maud.
And give me "a helping hand.
There's lot OF wtchErnss
In the lettuce. nlasi
And IT'S growing 10 beat the bandt
Come into tho garden. Maud.
And do weed the onions fratt
The lettuce Il bad
Ana the boctH make me sad.
Hut the onion bed " the worst.
80 put on your boomers. Maud,
And tackle the poaky weeds
Without any fuss.
For woe o. ~.
II ever they scatter their seedsi
Come into the garden. Maud
For the black bat. niFht. has flown.
There's plenty Of work.
- don't Try 90 shirk
And leave u TO me alone.
Just quicken your motions Maud,
Ana Danish that naughty aneor
Ana Futcl down In the dew,
For us right up 60 you
To help got this glrden clcari
-somerville Journal
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1904-09-09
pnrlnn Wartime peedn.

"By the way" said the Captain.
Sergeant Sam Grlmshaw received tho
medal OF honor for seizing an unex-
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1904-09-09

81 found that ne could teach Il tricks.
legs with foot or so streaming out
behind. that end having tho hook and
the red flannel on H. We went bounc'
ing along down TO the pond like a
rubber bali fred out 81 cannon,
Housed Ia and struck out for tho
swampy part whore the big and sassy
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-04-05

politicians are now searching only for a Vice
Presidential candidate.
In the Democratic ranks, there is pretty gen.
eral confusion. Hearst continues to sweep the
Western States and has a larger number of votes
pledged to him than all other candidates combined,
But his victory is not so substantial as it seems.
The South has not been heard from. And the
South is not for Hearst. Leaving his private
character out of consideration, thinking men see
that he lacks the intellectual ability a President
should have. He cannot speak, nor can he write.
In Congress he has not interested himself in pub
lie affairs. Personally, he lacks magnetism. The
East will join the South in naming some other
man.
And at this writing Judge Alton b. Parker, of
New York, seems likely to be that man. The
most serious objection urged against him is that
nobody knows what he thinks on great public
questions. He came down to Georgia last year
to address the State Bar Association, and his
speech was awaited with intense interest. But
the Sphinx preserved his silence. 1t was a law
yer's address to lawyers about the law, and politics
found no place in it. But the fact that he has
said nothing is probably his strongest point.
The party calls for some man who has not identi-
fed himself with any of it's warning factions. And
most of all, the party wants a man to carry New
York. And so Judge Parker-this respectable,
discreet Supreme Court judge, having been for
tunate in choosing his residence and fortunate
in having no irrepressible ideas about the mat
tiers that the Cleveland and Bryan factions have
been struggling over-is likely to carry off the
prize.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-04-05
More Pensions for G. A. R. Veterans.

There has been quite a stir in Congress over the
recent order of the Pension Bureau previously
explained in The Progressive Farmer. The
trouble came about through the demand of the
Grand Army for a $12 monthly pension for every
Union veteran. And it looked as if neither party
would dare risk the wrath of the c.. A. R.. by OPP
posing this proposed service pension law. At
this juncture the Pension Commissioner issued
an order directing that hereafter every veteran
s~iXty-two years old shall have Sc a month, at
s~ixty-fve to be increased to So; at sixty-eight to
$40, and at seventy to the maximum, $12 a month.
Many Congressman now allege (and with some
reason) that the Administration exceeded its
authority in making this order; they do not like
to see Mr.. Roosevelt getting ahead of themselves
in winning the favor of the soldier vote.
And so from $1O,OOO,OOO to SIS, 600, 900 is added
annually to the millions already paid for Grand
Army pensions. And the South must be further
drained of it's resources to enrich other sec
tions.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-04-05
EDITORIAL
CURRENT EVENTS: THE DRIFT OF THINGS
AS WE SEE IT.

The war in the Far East drags YEARLY on. The
armies, in fact, are only getting ready for action
later on. True, our dailies continue to give US
several columns of alleged news from the seat
of war, but these dispatches are largely open to
Mr.. Webster's now famous criticism: "There are
many new things in these statements, and many
true things, but the true things are not new and
the new things are not true" Some of our unem-
ployed statesmen would do the country a genuine
service should they prove themselves able to estab-
lsh a proper parity" between ideas and words in
the dispatches of our war correspondents.
One fact worth noting just in this connection is
that just fifty years ago last Thursday the ports
of Japan were opened to the world through the
efforts of Commodore Perry. There is hardly a
parallel in all history for the marvellous progress
of the japanese nation during the half century
since that date. And this matter is of peculiar
interest to North Carolinians because it was one
of the most distinguished sons of our State, Hon.
William A. Graham, acting as Secretary of the
Navy, who laid the plans for the Perry expedi-
ton.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-04-05
R. F, D. Carriers and Fast Mail Subsidies.

The Senate has now passed the House bill in
creasing the salary of rural delivery mail carriers
from 5000 to 1920 a year, but has stricken out
the House provision that carriers should not carry
merchandise or solicit subscriptions for news
papers after July LIST. And in this the Senate has
acted wisely. The people will be benefited by hav-
ing the carriers extend the circulation of good
newspapers, provided they still transact their of
fetal duties in the prescribed time.
A number of North Carolina representative
opposed the provision in the p~ostofice appropria-
ton bill for paying the Southern Railway a
heavy subsidy for operating it's "fast mair' be-
tween New York and New Orleans. And in this
we believe they were right. We have understood
that this train would be run just the same if there
were no Government subsidy, and Congressman
are not likely to oppose the wishes of a powerful
railroad corporation merely for the fun of the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-04-05
The A. & N. c. Railroad Middle.

In North Carolina public interest still centres
in the A. & n. G.. Railway agitation resulting
from the McBee-Finch receivership case. The
effort to discredit Governor Aycock because of his
alleged agreement to stop the prosecution of Nc
Bee and Finch in return for McBees surrender
ing the receivership, amounted to little. 1t seems
that the Governor simply declared that the State
administration would play "hands off" leaving the
matter entirely with the Superior Court. He
probably felt that while McBee and Finch had act
ed in a pretty high-handed manner, such methods
are rather common among our captains of in
dustry," and that a penitentiary sentence (the
only punishment prescribed by law for conspiracy
would be a rather severe penalty for the offense.
There is quite a little criticism of Judge Pur-
nell for his unsecmly haste in appointing Nc
Bee receiver.
The only really notable development of the
week was Governor Aycock's appointment of a
special committee to investigate the management
of the road. This committee consists of Mr..
Henry A. Page, the well-known Moore County
railroad man; Mr.. r. T. Gray, a Raleigh lawyer,
and Mr.. w. T. Lee, a merchant of Haywood
County. 1t is to be hoped that the investigation
will be thorough and searching. If half the
charges one hears as to the management of the
road be true, there is a crying need for reform.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-04-05
About Presidential Candidates.

In the Republican Party all organized opposi-
ton to Mr.. Roosevelt has subsidized. 1t is now adj
mitted that he is to make a new record in our
political h~istory-for no other Vice-Presiden
succeeding to the Presidency has ever yet won his
party's nomination for a full term. Mr.. Roosevelt
appears to be a man of destiny, anyhow. The
Spanish-American War came at just the right
time to make him Governor of New York. Then
against ROosevelt's wishes, Platt rooted the
Rough Rider out of the Governors chair, thinking
to shelve him by making him Vice-President
But fate interviewed. Mckinley died and Roose-
welt became President. Still, however, the way
to nomination for a four year term was not clear.
Hanna was the man about whom the opposition
centered, and it began to look as if Hanna would
win. Again fate came to the rescue of the Presi-
dent and the death Of the Ohio Senator insures
the realization of his ambition. Republican
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-04-05
ABOUT FARMERS BULLETINS.

"Please have the important Farmers Bulletins
sent to me" write one of our subscribers. Let US
explain once again that any farmer by sending his
name to the Department of Agriculture, Raleigh,
may get the Bulletins of the State Board of Agri-
culture sent to his address every month
free of charge. But to get the Farm
ers' Bulletins" issued by the National Department
of Agriculture you must ask specifically for the
copies you desire. The best way to do is to write
to your Senator or representative in Congress-
and get a complete list of these bulletins and then
mark those you wish or make a list of them. Then
forward your list to your Congressman or to the
Secretary of Agriculture, and the copies asked
for will be Immediately mailed to your address.
The prosperity of the newspapers of the State
is one of the most gratifying indications of
North Cardinals progress. But suppose we had
had in every district every year for fifty years
past a good four months school! Our papers
would now be circulating three times their present
number of copies, and in every department of
life and industry, the State would be richer and
stronger. The Educational Campaign came none
too soon.
And still we grow! The Progressive Farmer
has now made a net gain of more than one thou
sand subscribers in the last ninety days. That is
to say, after allowing for all losses, we have more
than one thousand more subscribers than we had
when the first number under the new manage
ment apDeared January 5th. And still, kind read
er, haven't you three or four non-subscribing
nelghbOrs whom you might probably induce to
subscribe? Think about it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-04-05
hing. In the March Worlds Work Mr.. M. 6.

thing. In the March Worlds Work Mr.. M. G.
Cunnif shows that our Government is now paying
the railroads practically the same rates tor haul
ing mail matter as were paid twenty years ago,
while rates on all other classes OF matter nave
been reduced from one-third to one-halt. Not
withstanding the cheapness of American railroad
rates on other traffic than mails" says Mr.. Gun
milf, "foreign postoffces, taken all together, handle
vastly more mail than ours, send it farther over
a greater number of post roads, and pay less for
the SERVICE" For instance, in 1901 we paid, IN
round numbers, $38, SOC, 600 for railroad transport
tation alone, while the rest of the world, for all
their mail transportation-by railroad, wagon
and messengers-paid only $37,OOO,OOO
The First Jefferson Davis and the Last.
There is a lively contest on in Arkansas.
Governor Jefferson Davis, who has played such
fantastic tricks before high heaven as to get him
self expelled from his church and from the good
opinion of the public, was a candidate before the
Democratic primaries for denomination, and for
some cause or other has won a majority of the
votes. But Judge Carroll D. Wood, his opponent,
will contest the nomination.
And writing the lame jefferson Davis re
minds us that one of the Northern magazines, the
Pilgrim, of Battle Creek, Mich, is now printing
a serial Life of Jefferson Dav1S"-the JEFFERSON
Davis who was a gentleman-which is itself
worthy of comment in our notice of "the drift
of things" For this biography very forcibly IL
Illustrates the drift of public sentiment, North as
well as South, toward a fairer and more passion
ate view of the mighty issues of the Civil War.
The editor of the Pilgrim himself says that Mr..
Knight "shows very plainly that precedents and
constitutional law both were on the side of the
Southern States which desired to secede from
the Union, but both were over-riddcn by the new
sentiment which had been evolved in the nation.
The hard hand of war destroyed the legal fabric
which sixty years of unquestioned judicial appro-
val had created" And this is undoubtedly the
view that will be taken by the historian of the
future.
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-08-27

time when woman 10 supposed to
be more than usually gracious? But
one answer suggested itself. Her
heart was not in her marriage and
that last hour of her maidenhood had
been an hour of anguish and struggle.
Perhaps she not only failed to love
Francis jeffrey, but loved some other
man. This seemed improbable, but
things as strange as this have hap
pened In our complex society, and no
reckoning can be made with wo-
mans fancy. II this was so-and
what other theory would better or
even SO well account for her peculiar
behavior both then and afterwardf
The hour usually given by brides to
dress and gladstone expectation was
with her one of farewell to past hopes
and an unfortunate If not passionate
attachment. No wonder that she
wished to be alone. No wonder that
| interruption angered her. Perhaps 1t
| had found her on her knees. Perhaps
Here 1 felt myself seized by strong
and sudden excitement. l remembered
the filings | had gathered up from the
i small stand by the window, filings
which had glittered ana wnicn must
have been of gold What was the con
clusion? In this last hour OF ner maze
en- life she had sought to RID nerseii OF
some article of 1ewelry when sne
found 1t undesirable to carry into ner
new life. What article Oh ]eweiry IN
consideration Of the circumstances ana
the hour could think OF put one-a
ring, the symbol of some old attacn-
I ment.
: The slight abrasion at the base or
her third finger, which had been looked
upon as the result Of too rough and
, speedy withdrawing of the wedding
= ring on the evening OF ner ueatn' was
i much more likely to nave peen occa-
stoned by the reopening OF some htsie
? wound made two weeks DeIore oy tne
= file. II Durbin and the rest nad taken
y into account these hiings sney mus
y have come to very mucn tne same con
u clusion, but either they mad overlooked
them IN their search ABOUT tne paac'
Y or, having noted tnem' reearoeu tne''
AZ as cleW leau1nB nOWucTc.
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this I had as yet little to offer but my
own belief In her innocence and the
fact, but little dwelt on and yet not
without its value, that the money
which had come to Mr.. Jeffrey and
the home which had been given her
had both been forfeited by Mrs. JEFF
frey's death.
AS | unused and unused over this i'm
promptu synopsis In my vain attempt
to reach some fresh clew to a proper
understanding of the Inconsistencies in
Miss Tuttle's conduct by means of my
theory of her strong. but mistaken de
yotion to Mr.. Jeffrey, a light suddenly
broke upon me from an entirely IN
expected quarter. 1t was faint one,
but any glimmer was welcome. Re
Numbering remark made by Mr.. JEFF
frey In his examination that Mrs. JEFF.
frey had not been the same since cross
ing the fatal doorstep of the Moore
house, asked myself If we had PAID
enough attention to the mental condi
ton and conduct of the bride prior tC
the alarm which threw a pail or hor
ror over her marriage, and, caught by
the idea, 1 sought for fuller accoun
of the events of that day than hat
hitherto been supplied by newspape
or witness.
Hunting up my friend the reporter,
begged him to tell me where he ha'
The reporter
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-08-27
CHAPTER XVIII

- DID some tall thinking that night
1 remembered that this pep had
held some conversation with the
- Jenreys az their carriage door
previous ~ their departure FROM ne
Moore house, ana found myself com,
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~ him you'd save detained thep "a
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A Perfect Painless Pill

is the one that will cleanse the sys-
TEN, set the liver to action, remove
the bile, clear the complexion, cure
headache and leave good taste id
The mouth. The famous little pills
for doing such work pleasantly and
effectually are DeWitt's Little Early
Risers Bob Moore of Lafayette,
Ind, says "All other pills | have
used grippe and sicken, while Pc
Wits Little Early Risers are simply
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mercamp.
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mot for good half hour; not I'LL
every one had grown nervous and Mics
futile and one or two of her most inu->
mate friends had gone more than once
to her door; not, in fact, till the hour
for the ceremony had come and gone
and Mr.. Jeffrey had crossed the hall
twice under the impression that sne
was ready for him. Then, when
WEAKNESS was general and people were
asking what kept the bride and how
| much longer they were to be kept
! waiting, her door suddenly opened aissee'
| caught a glimpse of her face and
| heard her ask at last for her maid. On
I repeat that Veronica Moore was moi
all right that day, and, though L have
heard no one comment on the fact Il
has been a mystery to me ever since
why she gave that sudden recoil wher
Francis Jeffrey took her hand attel
the benediction. 1t was not timid1ty
nor was 1t fear, for she did not know
till a minute afterward what had hap
pened in the house. Did some suddel
realization Of what she had done Il
marrying a man whom she herself de
J clared she did not love come when
was too late? What do you thinkr
Miss Freeman had forgotten herself
l but the impetuosity which had led he
into asking my opinion made her TO
2 get in another moment that she ha
! done so. And when in my turn l pr
r pounded a question and inquire
| whether she ever again saw the be
| who besieged the brides door with
d message, she graciously replied:
{ "The boy; let me see. Yes / So
d him twice-once in back hall TALK
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