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The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15
Building Sand Clay Roads in South
Carolina.

Messrs. Editors: AS [ am inter-
ested in road building or the good
roads movement that now seems to
be getting into the thought of the
whole country, it is very natural for
my eye to catch publications along
this line. Therefore [ have just read
and enjoyed The Progressive Far
mer, especially the communication
on road work by II. NJ. Daniels.
[ subscribe for the Good Roads
Magazine published in New York,
there for counties which are working
along the macadam system or any
other hard-surface methods. But
down here in the middle and lower
counties of South Carolina where we
have no rock or good, coarse gravel,
and it costs us about three times its
selling price to freight it down here,
we can't use such material. But we
are doing the best we can with which
nature has given us. Our permanent
improvement, or what we call perma-
nent, is done by mixing sand and clay.
We have lots of this kind of building
stuff, though it is not so good as [
would like. The most of our clay is
too soft, and our sand too fine and
round.
I find the work that stands best
was done with good, tough rich clay
with IA Of good coarse sharp sand.
When [ can get both sand and clay
of this kind and give the road a good
roll from center to edge,they will
then stand most any kind of pressure.
Now, Mr.. Editor, [ started out to
see if you could not get the county
supervisors, both in North Carolina
and South Carolina, who are below
the rock and gravel line and are try
ing to do something in the way of
road improvement, to give the result
of their efforts through your paper.
[ think VEN light get UP a good roads
talk that would be beneficial to all.
I think all of the supervisors would
like to see more of such pieces as
was written by Mr.. Daniel in the last
issue, and hope he will do so again.
If this is not too long and meets
with your approval and not the waste
basket, [ will try to give our method
of raising and expanding u road
funds. I have just been elected for
the next two years and hope to give
my people better services than [
have for the last four. Come again,
Brother Daniel.
Yours in love with my work,
JAS. B. MCBRIDE.
E7oro-1o ~ Q ~
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15
ROOSEVELT AND FAIRBANKS.

influence in behalf of your valuable
paper.
Should you deem this worthy Of
publication you may hear from me
again.
With best wishes for you and your
paper, [ am, A FARMER.
Chaplin, S. @.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15
South Carolina Tidings.

QUILL N04OAu6 44O1uSSs
Messrs. Editors PLEASE allow me
space in your valuable paper to give
your readers some dee of what we
are doing in Lexington County, in
the old palmetto State"
We have a live County Alliance,
composed of seven energetic subs.
Our meetings are held quarterly; and
at every meeting some question of
vital Importance to the farmer is
discussed. This makes the meetings
very interesting, ineed. So much so,
that our next meeting, which will be
in January next, we will have a two
days meeting instead of one as we
have had heretofore.
Not long ago., the County Alliance
held a picnic at Hilton, Lexington
County, S. O., to which the public
was cordially invited. A large crowd
was present from the surrounding
country, and enjoyed the beautiful
dinner and the good sDeeches which
had been prepared for the occasion.
In the evening of the same day, as
a result of the picnic, a large and
fourishing sub-Alliance was organ
lied. And thus the Alliance in our
State is not dead, as some would
have the world believe, but it is a liv-
ing organism, founded on right prin-
ciples, and ever ready to fight for
justice and the right.
The corn crop through our Sec
ton of country is splendid this year.
A lot of our farmers are having their
corn crops shredded, and thereby saw
ing an immense amount of food
which has heretofore been wasted.
We have had a severe drought for
the past six or eight weeks, but the
blessed Bain has come to refresh the
thirsty earth. On account of the
dry weather very little grain has
been sown, but now the farmers will
use every effort to put in a large crop
of wheat and oats.
Now let us farmers wake up and
unite ourselves in one good organi-
zation-and I know of no better Or
der than the old Farmers Alliance"
and use our best endeavors to make
farming what it should be, n of
the noblest callings on earth.
Let US educate ourselves and our
children. And right here, let me say
I am highly pleased with The Pro-
gressive Farmer and The Cotton
Plant, and know of no better way to
educate our farmers than to get them
to take and read some good, live agri-
cultural paper; and I shall use my
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15
A REPUBLICAN AVALANCHE.

Breaking MaJority-His Majority in
Electoral College 71o, Largest Since
Greeley's Defeat In 1872-How the
States Voted-LaFollette Elected in
Wisconsin, Folk In Missouri, and
Douglas In Massachusetts Colorado in
Doubt.
The following statement of results
in the Baltimore Sun sums up more
concisely than any other statement
we have seen the results of last Tues
days election,and we print it in lieu
of other matter on this subject:
The latest returns from Tuesdays
election show that in Maryland there
was a great decrease in the vote cast
from the vote in 1900. On the unof-
fetal returns Roosevelt has a plu-
rality of 1875 in the State, which may
be changed by the official count. Bal
timore city gives a plurality of Alb
for Parker.
Roosevelt has received the UMPIRE
cedented plurality of 1885, 41 in the
popular vote, according to the esti-
mates, which is nearly 100000 more
than McKinley's 1900 plurality of
S61,527-at that time a record-break-
er. These figures may be consider
ably reduced when the official count
is made. The plurality of 100000
for Roosevelt in Pennsylvania alone
is almost as much as Parker's total
pluralities in the States he carried,
$4,000. Bryan's aggregate plurali-
ties in 1900 were 59O,927.
Of the total electoral vote of 476,
Roosevelt received 343 and Parker
133, a Republican plurality of 21O,
which may be compared with Nc
Kinley's plurality of 1877 in 1900.
Roosevelt carried all the States
which Mckinley won in 1900 and in
addition, Missouri, Colorado, Idaho,
Montana and Nevada, which Bryan
carried in that year.
The Republicans will have a ma
jority of ga in the next House of
Representatives. The Democrats
will have 146 members of that body,
the Republicans 24O. The Republi-
cans will probably gain one United
States Senator from Missouri, in
creasing their majority in the Senate
to ~ffty-eight.
Democrats and Republicans both
claim the Governorship of West Vir-
ginia. Though Roosevelt's plurality
is probably 10000, Dawson, the Re
publican candidate for Governor, was
scratched so extensively that the re-
turns so far received lead Demo
Gratis to believe that Cornweu is
elected Governor. The Republicans
elected all five Congressman.
As a result of his reelection, Con-
gresham Slemp is expected to sue
coed Park Agnew as Republican
State leader of Virginia. Parker's
plurality in the State is about 25,-
900.
Both parties claim the Eighth
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-11-15

President Roosevelt has received
ten thousand congratulatory mes
sages; he will visit the St. Louis Ex-
position November 26th.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-01-30
SHATTERED HIS THEORY.
An Unexpected Answer That Nom
plused School Examiner.

In the days when board schools
were young visit was paid to one
of those schools by local dignitary
who had theories on the subject Of
Scripture lessons. He requested the
head master to pick out a particu-
larly dull boy and let him ask that
lad few questions, whereupon the
following dialogue ensued:
"Now, my boy, what do you I'M
derstand by miracle?"
Boy, looking hopelessly at visitor,
makes no answer.
Visitor (triumphantly to head
master)-4ou see, it's as I've always
maintained Scripture must be ex-
planned and illustrated if any COM
prehension of its meaning is to pen
citrate this sort of skull. He can't
tell me what a miracle is. Now,
hear me make him understand.
Head Master with sarcastic in
credulity) IF you do, sir, you'll
have wrought a miracle yourself. I
haven't duller boy in the school.
If you'd question some of the 9TH
ers-
Visitor-No, no; I'll show you
what | can do with this one by using
common sense methods. Now, my
boy, pay attention to me. You don't
know what a miracle is, eh?
Boy confesses it by his silence.
"Now, listen to me- Suppose you
got up in the middle of the nj ht
and saw the sun shining, what
should you say it was?
Boy (promptly)-I should say it
was the moon.
Visitor (argumentatively) But
you couldn't, you know, if you saw
it was the sun.
Boy (doggedly)-I should see it
wasn't.
Visitor recovering from a dis
concerted pause) - But suppose
some one told you that it was the
sun?
Boy (emphatically)-I should say
he was liar.
4 Visitor (angry at such persistent
stupidity)-But suppose I told you
that it was really the sun. You
wouldn't dare to tell me that | was
a liar, would YOU?
Boy hesitates moment; then in
accents of conviction, Il should say
you was very drunk - London !
Tit-Bits.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-01-30
How to Make a Campfire.

An absurd and reprehensibly destruc-
tive practice is the building of fires be-
meath a tree lin order to get the draft"
The fools that do this kill great trees
for nothing but a campfire. There is
no sense in that wretched practice. A
fire for camp cooking should be built
in the open, and nothing is easier. A
bare rock is the best place, and if you
are to cook by it put up a barrier of
loose stones just extensive enough to
make Il fire as large as a kitchen stove
would hold. put fiat stone over these
walls. and YOU will have all you want.
You can fry bacon and your corn
cakes and boil your coffee on that
stone. This is as good for winter as
for summer. And if you want hot
old campfire clear a Place Of all COM
bustibles and begin small. gradually
adding a stick or two, and the heat
beneath will soon grow so strong that
you can keep it IN for as many hours
as you please But be sure that you
let it get down to the ashes before you
leave. Nobody knows what may hap
pen after you leave a blazing fire.
Springfield Republican.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-01-30
Noses.

One of the most brilliant essays on
nasology is the one which classes noses
not by origin, but by mentality. The
aquiline nose, for example, is the sign
Of goodness, amiability and weakness.
By that nose Louis XVI. was led to
the direst catastrophies. Let us have
commiseration for the nose that is very
slightly prominent 1t is the muzzle
Of sheep and belongs to people who
are easily deceived. Distrust the nose
with the medium part elongated. That
elongation marks the extent of desires
and the instability of appetites. Look
out also for the ferret nose, with it's
sharp point, always on the scent for
secrets. 1t is the nose Of the inquisitor.
The devil-may care nose is slightly
turned up at the end. 1t denotes a
character without firmness. But when
you see nose that rises from the
depths of the orbits and stands out in
bold relief take off your hat. You are
in the presence of the nose of a think
er.-Toronto Mail.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-01-30
Mixed Pickles, ESQ.

Lord Wolseley in his remi-
niscences tells this incident of his
campaign in Ashanti: ESailors are
proverbially fond of pets, and the
naval brigade adopted one, a negro
boy, very black and very small.
They had dressed him in the full
uniform of a bluejacket, which
made him very proud of himself
and of the wooden sword they had
made for him. When you asked
him his name they had taught him
to stand up to attention, to salute
and to answer quite solemnly, Mix
ed Pickles, Esq, SIR They took
the utmost delight in teaching him
English, and the appearance and
frolicsome pomposity Of this child
were a source Of perpetual amuse-
ment to ali ranks
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-01-30
Poison q.

Snake poison would kill the strongest
man if the smallest possible drop of it
were injected into his veins OF laid on
a cut finger or chapped lip. But the
smallest child might drink teaspoon
ful-probably a glassful-without suf-
fering the least injury. The same is
true Of most of the poisons savages in
ject into their arrows, and you can
suck the dangerous wound with i'm
punity.
Arsenic eaters become so accustomed
to the use of this drug that one of
them could eat as much of it in week
as would kill a troop Of cavalry, horses
and ALL If man took dose of lunar
caustic and his wife dose of hydro
chloric acid they would be subjects for
a coroner's inquest in very short time
But if either the man or the woman
took both doses together the result would
hardly be different from that Of taking
so much strawberries and cream. If
two men each took small quantity of
hemlock one might drop dead, if he
had a fatty heart, and the other feel
only slight. inconvenience, if his heart
was all right.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-01-30
ANCIENT PLANTS.
Results of Inquiry Into the Antiquity
of Agriculture.

Results of Inquiry Into the Antiquity
of Agriculture.
Few persons realize what wealth
of interest is to be found in the
study of the history of cultivated
plants. Agriculture must have been
one of the first steps in civilization,
when man began to give up the no
madic habit and claim a permanent
residence as ''home." Horticulture
would follow at no very distant date,
still as an adjunct of home, so it is
no wonder that the two arts are in
variably associated with that most
expressive monosyllable so sugges-
tive of peace, rest and affection.
One eminent botanist, al phonse de
Candolle, spent years of incredible
labor and research in this study,
and one of his monuments is his
work on the "Origin of Cultivated
Plants
AS a single instance of the inter
est to be found in this study just
glance for moment at one of our
cereals. The cultivation of wheat
is lost in the mysterious past. An
cient Egyptian monuments, far old
er than the Hebrew Scriptures, show
that the Egyptians had grown this
plant for SO long time that the
cultivation was thoroughly estab-
hshed. They ascribed the gift of
wheat to their goddess Isis. Rice
was grown in China so long ago as
twenty-eight centuries before the
Christian era, for in ceremony in
stituted at that period the emperor
had to. SOW rice once a year with re-
igious rites. Barley and millet also
go back to the distant past of the
early men who built the lake dwell
ings of Europe. Oats followed later,
and later still came the cultivation
of rye. Maize was grown to such an
extent that varieties were recog-
nizes when Aztec monuments were
raised. Thus the story goes on, car
rying us on to prehistoric-nay,
primitive-times, whose records are
only read in the refuse heaps of the |
early farmers of the world.-Ex-
change.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-01-30
A SPORTING PARsoN.
The Sequel to Wager Laid on the
Life OF NAPOLEON.

| Life OF Napoleon.
/ In 1912 an action was brought by
Rev. Robert Gilbert against Sir
Mark Sykes, and it arose from a bet
! made between the parties upon the
life of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Sir Mark ten years before the &C
ton had invited some friends to
| dinner, the reverend gentleman be-
ing one of the number. Politics be-
came the subject of conversation,
and the opinion was freely express
ed by some of the party that Ma
poleon was in critical situation at
that time and that attempts would
be made to assassinate him.
This view was held by the host,
who said that he considered Bona
parties life in such danger that if
any one would give him 100 guineas
he would pay him a guinea a day
during Napoleon's lifetime.
Upon this Rev. Gilbert, ''in the
language" as the defendants coun-
sci put it, E'of common five guinea
bettor on a race course, nailed him
with: will you, Sir Mark? I'll take
you-done. "
The sporting parson gave 100
guineas to Sir Mark, who for a con-
siderable time paid him various
sums of money on account of the
wager, amounting in all to $4,850.
Then for five or six years the
guinea day payments ceased, the
baronet feeling no doubt that if Bo-
naparte was not dead he ought to
be, and Gilbert, who, it may be men
toned, enjoyed living worth some
$4,000 a year, brought this action
against Sir Mark to enforce the
wager and sought to recover from
him further $1,000.
The plaintiffs counsel contended
that, although it might be objected
that wagers on the life of men were
immoral, yet the laws of England
supported such wagers.
The judges did not seem to have
laid much stress upon the question
whether this wager tended to i'm
peril the safety of the state. He
asked the jury to consider whether
the bet had been seriously made, and
if it were serious bet whether in
all the circumstances the plaintiff
had not been paid enough money
by the defendant. The jury took
the hint and gave verdict against
the rapacious acknowledgements
Magazine.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-01-30
A Fine Gentleman.

The Duo de Richelieu, the beloved or
ladies. the breaker of hearts. was the
perfect fine gentleman of q studiously
elegant epoch. The suave repose of his
manner was inmovable. When his
second wife lay dying he came in te
see her. stepping softly, hat in hand.
Though she was expiring, her fading
eye lit up at the sight of him.
..How sweet it would be for me to
die in your arms" she murmured.
He held her as she wished till she
died. then went out again, stepping
softly, hat in hand. One of his spiteful
chroniclers-a woman. needless to say
suggests that he was off to rendez-
vous with the lady of the moment, and
that the graceful manner in which he
bore the delay caused by his wife's
death was proof of the perfect breeding
of one of the finest gentlemen in Eu-
rope. Geraldine Bonner in The Reader.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-01-30
Pence and Bones.

A writer in a London newspaper
says: "The other day l heard an, Eng
lishman defending our system of coin
age on the ground that we are the only
nation on earth who can say that the
system is bone of our bone For there
are 240 bones in the body and 24G
pence in the pound: there are 100 bones
in the head and trunk and 100 in the
limbs and 100 pence in half sover.
eign; each limb contains 80 bones, anG
half crown contains 80 pence; in the
spinal column there are "a bones and
in a form "a pence, and as we have
II ribs on each side, so we have ~
pence in every shilling. See how the
proportions of the skeleton of our com
merce conform to natures teaching
No wonder it is vigorous"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-01-30
[Sea1l
Order for Hearing ON Claims.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, }
COUNTY OF STEVENS

In probate court, special term, January
1S, 1904.
In the matter of the estate of Anton
EyStad. deceased.
Letters of administration on the
estate of Anton Eystad deceased late of
the county of stevens state of Minnesota,
being granted to Charles Bruer.
It is ordered, That six months be and
after the date of this order, in which all
persons having claims demands
against the said deceased are required to
file the same in the probate court of said
county. for examination and allowance, or
be forever barred.
1t is further ordered, that the 18th day of
July 1904 at 10 o'clock A. NJ, at special
term of said probate court to be held at
the probate office in the court house in the
City of Morris in said county, be and the
same hereby is appointed as the time
and place when and where the said
probate court will examine and adj uSt
said claims and demands.
And it is further ofdere that notice of
persons interested in said estate by forth
with publishing this order once in each
week for three successive weeks In the
Morris Tribune, weekly newspaper
printed and published at Morris in said
county.
Dated Morris, MINI. this 18th day of
January, A. D. 1904.
BY the Court.
: Probate E. J. BAHE,
! Seal. Judge of Probate.
First Jan. 23-Last Feb. 6
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-01-30
Brain Work and LOnrevifv

In a lecture on longevity delivered
before the Royal College of Physicians
Sir Hermann Weber, himself an octo-
genarian, gave official support to the
doctrine that brain work does not kill,
but rather the reverse. A few of his
instances were Sophocles, Plato, Galen.
Cicero. Moltke. Bismarck, Mommsen
and Gladstone, to whom we might add
Hobbies, Carlyle, Spencer and Kelvin.
The facts are that brain work increases
the supply of blood to the nerve cells
and promotes their nutrition and
health. Mosso. an Italian. laid a man
on delicately balanced table and
showed that the head end sank when
ever the subject did mental sum or
any other brain work. The increased
weight of his head was due to the life
giving blood. The truth is that. brain
work. as such, never killed anybody
London Chronicle.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-01-30
Shorthand and Mental Discipline.

Shorthand and Mental Discipline.
The mental discipline which may be
derived from the practice of stenog-
raphy is permanent. Speed may be
lost, word signs may slip away, but
the power of concentra ting the atten-
ton persists. Nor is the increased pow
er of analysis confined to the analysis
of spoken words 1t is brought into
play in all kinds Of mental work. Pos
sibly the truth may be that only per.
sons with minds naturally analytic can
become expert stenographers and that
the faculty is a cause rather than an
effect of such proficiency. However
that may be, the man who has mind
Of that sort can select topic at ran
dom, analyze it rapidly into it's natural
subdivisions and make speech or
write an essay on It while the other
men would be cropping around for an
introduction. The value of this sort of
discipline to a lawyer or preacher or
writer is obvious. Mathematics is the
only study that can be compared to a
scientific system Of shorthand for the
development of analytical powers
The World Tndav
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-01-30
The Candle Nut.

The candle nut is native of the Pa
cifc islands, and the name is derived
from the fact that the kernels are so
full Of oil that when dried they are
stuck on reeds and used as candles.
The people of Hawaii, after having
roasted these nuts and removed the
shells. reduce the kernels to paste,
which is favored with pepper and salt
and is said to be a most appetizing
dish The husk Of the nut and the gum
which exudes from the tree have me-
dicinal values. while the burned shell of
the kukui is used to make an indelible
ink with which tattooing is done:
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-01-30

An incident in the life of Paganini
comes to us from Liverpool The great
violinist was visiting friends in the
suburbs of that city at the house of
lady whose religious ideas were severe
~ strained by her guest venturing to
play on the Sabbath day.
"Vy," asked the musician, "eef re
Sabat mos be SO hole that nosng mos
be done at all, Wy does Proveedence
permit re leetel birds to sing on dat
day and re leaves of re forest to clap
zere hands for joy, making re rustling
music, and re waters of re great deep
to sound zeir mysterious harmonies?"
Paganini's stay at that house, we are
told, was brief.-London News.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-01-30
Brought Trouble.

White-What is the matter with
Plunger's head?
Green-Yesterday was his wooden
wedding, and be gave his wife rolling
pin for present, and when he return
ed from celebrating the event she re-
turned the present with speech suit
able to the occasion.-Butte Inter
Mountain.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-01-30
Figuring 1t Out.

''Did the old lady give you anything
when you took her trunk upstairs with
out knockin' the lid off," inquired the
first porter.
"No, but she thanked me kindly"
"Well. kind words will never de- re-
turned the first porter
Neither will they buy groceries,
Cleveland Leader.