The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-06-06


ooh, the coldness of the age" sighed tho -.
lanthropist. "Who would not be affected stand;~-
as do here at the last resting place Of Caorna
Washington, the purest of the immortalsv
"Tomb all fshhooksw said the irreyoron+ ..
tendant. "This isn't the tomb-it's the icebo,soto
Mr.. Thomas E. Watson is of the opinion +l..
America is the victim of similar case Of nj,
directed sympathy. While the rest Of US bavo
been patriotically emotional over the fndino of
the body of John Paul Jones in Paris. Mr.. Wat.
son sits on the seat of scornful He doesn't
believe it is Joness body and he disturb> tba 60.
renity of the nation by asking General Porter
some embarrassing questions in regard to tbo
specifications of the late lamented
But perhaps it serves us right. We ought to
have given our naval hero more attention while
he lived. In this old world however, as the Irish
man lamented, people never go around srewing
mans grave until after he is dead"
The Lewis and Clark Exposition.
The Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland
Oregon, was formally opened last Thursday when
President Roosevelt in the White House touched
the electric button that set the machinery in mo-
ton 5000 miles away. Lewis and Clark it is per
haps unnecessary to say, we're the explorers who
blazed the way and were the advance guard of
that band of early pioneers who carried civiliza
ton to the shores of the Pacific. We cannot bet
ter tell their story in so few words than to quote
from the life of Meriwether Lewis in Arpletons
Encyclopaedia of American Biography:
"He set out in the summer of 1903 accompa-
MED by his associate, Capt. William Clark. and
"a wa of nina men
from Kentucky, fourteen soldiers, two Canadian
boatmen, an interpreter, hunter, and a negro
servant of Captain Clark. They began to ascend
Missouri River in the spring of 1904, passed
second winter among the Mandans, and on April
Z, 1905, continued to ascend the Missouri until
the middle of July when they reached the Great
Falls. Near the close of this month they attained
the confluence of three nearly equal streams to
which they gave the names of Jefferson, Madison
and Gallatin. They ascended the Jefferson to its
source, travelled through the mountains from Au-
gust till September 22nd, when. they entered the
plains of the western slope, in October embarked
IN canoes on the Kooskoosky, a branch Of the
Columbia, and on November 18th, reached the
mouth of that river, after travelling than
1000 miles from the confluence of Mississippi and
Missouri Rivers. They passed the following viii
ter on the south bank of the Columbia III an IN
trenched camp; in March, 1906, began to ascend
the Columbia their homeward journey. and IN
May left their boats and made difficult journey
on horseback across the mountains to the Mis-
souri, upon which they re-embarked in August
reaching st. Louis in September, after an alb
sence OF two years and four months"
As an Illustration of magnificent distances IN
the West, it will probably surprise the average
reader to learn that the people of Denver. Col,
which we usually think of as a far, far Western
town. will have to travel so per cent further to
get to the Portland Exposition than North
Carollnlans had to travel last year to the
w Orld(S Fair AT ST L ;c