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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-10-14
Row Of Stores Burn.

HiIIsboro. Tex, oct. IA row Of
store houses owned by a. ]. Thomp-
son and occupied respectively by s
W. Brister. grocery: W. r. Chumlea
books and stationery; Mrs. NJ. j
Scogglns. groceries. and T.. D. wilder.
pianos and organs. was destroyed by
FIRE early Thursday morning. The con
tents Of an but Wilder's were entirely
destroyed wilder who resided In rear
portion. lost his household goods and
thirty-two organs. Loss Is over $1,000
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-10-14
Heavy In North Alabama.

birmingham. oct. 12.-Therc was q
heavy frost here and all over north
Alabama Wednesday night. Cool
weather continued Thursday and II f.
expected guarantees In this section
will be raised al once The statement
was made by the state health officer
wednesday that II frost fell Wednes-
day night guarantees would b,
promnlIy IIfted.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-10-14
Attacked bY Circular.

Beaumont. oct 12.-Circulars at
lacking Rev. -. Ham Of Bowling Green
KY. who s. conducting "a revival here
are being circulated here. Mr.. Ham
says this has been done wherever he
has held services. lie ascribes 10 20
llquor men 81 Kentucky.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-10-14
STEAMER STRIKES MINE.
Fifteen Of Her Crew and Passengers
Are Reported Missing.

Toxic. oct. IA report was receiv-
ed az Moii that the British steamer
Leho struck a floating mine ninety
miles east o. shang Tung lighthouse
sept 80. Of her crew and passenger
fifteen are reported missing. amon1
them Two foreign engineers.
Local papers editorially extend
warm welcome 10 British fleet. and In
most the portrait OF Vice Admiral Sii
Gerald Henry Noel appears.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-10-14
ORDERED TO LEAVE.
Negroes Given Twenty -Four Hours 10
Depart From Howe.

Wilburton. I. T., oct IA body Of
men ransack,d negro houses 1t Howe
conhscated firearms and ordered occu-
pants to leave in tweuty-four hours
under penalty OF death. Twenty
negro families had come here to work
IN the mines. Vic" President Neon
nell OF the Mcconnell Coal company
was ordered To get ON train and leave.
which be did. going To Fort Smith
Howe o. "A few miles from here.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-10-14

tors chosen J. II. Ramsey. Jr.. made
no nominations. but cast all the votes
he controlled for himself Mr.. Ramsey
endeavOred TO have a cumulative vote.
but the tellers refused.
Ramsey also loses his seat as d.
rector.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-10-14
coNLEY PASSES AWAY.
Member Of Dawes Commission and
Citizen Of chiekasaw Nation.

Ardmore. oct. l2.-Judge John Con-
ley. a prominent citizen OF the ChIcka-
saw nation ana member Of the Dawes
commission. is dead.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-10-14
Found Dead.

Ardmore. oct. l2.-An unknown man
was found dead near Santa Fe track.
Death was due TO natural causes.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-10-14
w. G. FOUNTAIN
Dentist.

Crown and Bridge work a spec
ialty. Office upstairs over Burt
Norw9 DDS store.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-10-14
GOULD VICTORIOUS.
Iis Men Ne Nominated For Wabash
Directors Were Elected.

Toledo. o.. oct 1.-THE six men
named BY George Gould FOR directors
~ the wabash railway received &C.,
900 votes against $1,000 for the opposi-
ton. Russell Sage was one OF the diree-
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-23
What Northern Young Men Can Learn from the
South

WHAT NOIIneru Young Men Can Learn from the
South.
Numbers of Southern young men have gone into
the North for their training, or at least part
of it; hereafter. with the expansion of the Uni
versity of Virginia the small number of Northern
young going South for at least some of their
education will be increased. Every man born and
bred in the North who goes to Charlottesville will
gradually learn to understand from the communi-
ty point of view in many respects new to him.
He will learn by concrete experiences how men
value race integrity when they think they see it
threatened how they insist on the value of man
apart from his money or his enterprise
when the means and the spirit of COM
mercialism are absent. how they can exalt
honor into force powerful greed or pas
sion when they have been bred to do so. Northern
universities have done inestimabe service in Civ
ing Southerners point of view they never could
have obtained in the South The University of
Virginia is in position to give Northerners point
of view that be had only in the South
New York Outlook.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-23
STUDY ON THE FARM.

I have frequently heard it said that the farm
does not offer the opportunities for study that
the city offers to the young man or young woman.
I have thought about this good deal. have
wondered if it were true. I went about the solu-
ton of the problem by asking some young men
who have been brought up in the city and who have
gone on the farm and have also asked young men
who have gone from the country to the city, what
their opinion of the question is. Invariably they
say that the farm offers superior opportunities for
study over the city. One young man said that
he had studied in both city and country, and that
he finds that his progress in the line of studying
on the farm far exceeds the progress made in the
CITY. There are many kinds of temptations
and so many forms of amusement in the city it is
indeed difficult to do sober studying. While on
the farm one has many a stormy day and long
evenings at night during the winter season that
can be devoted to study by the ambitious boy or
girl. this could not be done in the city by the
boy or girl behind the counter desk. 1t is true
that the city boy may get higher salary on the
average than the boy in the country, but after
board is deducted and car fares and room rent,
the saving is really below what the boy or girl
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-23

can save in the country. And then the city is not
a good place for health The close offices and
dark rooms and poor air have sent more young
people to premature graves than all of the under
mining influences of the country combined.
believe that reading and studying are as near
ly in reach Of the country boy or girl, as of the
city boy or girl and when the farmer devotes
himself to study and improvement he ever finds
his place in the first circles in society, and he
stands for wherever he goes My greatest
faith is in the country boy and the country girl
Let us quit talking about superior advantages in
the city and look around the country home for
them, and I confident we will realize that
country life cannot be compared with any other
form of living so far as health and pleasure and
comforts CO. believe in the farmer in the coun-
try boy and in his future.
@. W. BURKETT
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-23
THIS WEEKS PAPER-SOME RANDOM
COMMENTS.

We are printing this week the promised paper
On draggino dirt roads. This is innovation
that promises to become of the very highest i'm
pOrtance and we hope that our article will be
fully read We shall follow it up with other mat
ter on the same subject.
We are glad to have Dr. Freeman's letter on the
value of the shredder 1t is machine that ought
to be ten times-perhaps a hundred times
numerous it is in the South, and we hope the
Doctors experience will set other farmers to in
Vestgating its advantages Hundreds of thou
sands of dollars worth of good feeding stuff is
wasted every year that might be put into good
form for feeding by use of the shredder.
Apple growers will be interested in Mr.. Emer-
sons paper on "Apple Scab and Cedar Rust"
Frot. Bailey's comment on nitro-culture, al
hough published in May, was probably written
several months ago. The latest reports indicate
Nhat the discovery is of more far-reaching impor-
'"nce than he then thought it.
uncle JOS" poultry talk, always good, is bet
'I ,han the average this week. His advice about
'uSIhg ncubators and bone cutters deserves espe-
N"l attention. The little skit about hens in col
ought also to have come under Uncle JOS
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-23
A Story of Washington Duke.

it is enough to say of any one, is that he was a
good man and honest He made much
monev and laid the foundation for the magnif-
Get fortune which came to him. but which he
meyer enjoyed. The tobacco trust was not of his
creation-he would have had it otherwise. He
was sturdy, sympathetic, whole-souled and honest
to the severest test His riches came after his
habits and character we're formed, and this is
why he said to us upon his return from Europe,
dozen years ago that "I kept telling them to hurry
up-to finish the trip; that wanted to get back
to Durham where I could get some bacon and
green's" In other words bacon and greens strong
lv appealed to him. and meant more to him than
card at table d'hote.-Greensboro Everything.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-23
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.
c. W. BURKETT.

The brave workman who might betray his feel
ing of it in his manners, if he do not succumb in
his practice must replace the grace or elegance
forfeited by the merit of the work DONE No mat
ctr whether he makes shoes or statues or laws. It
is the privilege of any human work which is well
done to invest the doer with certain haughtiness.
From Emerson's Essay on "Wealth"
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-23

signature, as it written by him, and was omit
ted from his letter by mistake
We seldom print more interesting matter than
the reports of farming conditions in the several
counties published in The Progressive Farmer
this week and last. This is the first authoritative
statement as to the acreage of cotton and tobacco
in North Carolina this year: all other estimates
have been mere guesswork. There is also much
other valuable information, very generally of an
encouraging nature. And what we have done
for North Carolina we shall next do for South
Carolina. Reports from that State will appear
next week.
Mr.. E. E. Miller is always an interesting writer
He has just won a $50 prize for an article on
wheat which will appear in The Progressive Farm
later. He also has gifts for more distinctively
literary work. His little sketch Zone Friday Af-
ternoon,' will appeal to all that know the old
country school and its boys and girls.
Prof. j. III. Connell is one of the best known
leaders of agriculture in the Lone Star State and
all Texas farming subjects he speaks as one
having authority. It is very gratifying there
fore to have his assurance, given page 10,
that Texas will reduce her cotton acreage at least
20 per cent. 1t is also interesting to note his
further declaration that "much of the cotton
planted must be replanted because of excessive
rains throughout this entire region: that portion
which must be replanted will be fully sixty days
late, and has only chance in ten to make
much as one bale to three acres" AS to the other
matter mentioned, do not suppose that anyone
ever thought of the weevilspreading idea as being
favored by any considerable body of Texas farm
ers. Tending to confirm Prof ConnelPs estimate
of the cotton acreage is the letter from Mr..
Whittemore of Texas, which we printed two
weeks ago. Mr. Whittemore, it will be
bered reported that in his section the reduction
would reach 80 per cent.
We commend again the subject of farmers sta
tionery, as touched upon on page H. 1t costs very
little to have neatly printed stationery, is it
hard to get Every county has one more towns
with job printing establishments. And if it is
not convenient to have your work done at home,
send your orders to The Progressive Farmer, and
they will be taken Of
The little Sunshner whose picture adorns Mrs.
Ransier's page this week is Donald Roach, of
Asheville. She makes earnest appeal to the
boys and girls.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-23
9nr BIGGEST OFFER WE HAVE EVER MADE.

Tlo Progressive Farmer and Cotton Plant has
oooo more subscribers than it had January 1st,
Il mare than 500 new names have been added
I:,,,onfh. No paper in North Carolina and but
s ,,oners in the entire South are growing so
rapidly.
R,,t we are obliged to have 1000 more subscrib-
..- within the next 80 days, and we are going to
get them.
We might get them anyhow, but since we are
-ou making the biggest offer in the history of the
nancr we know we shall not fail.
Oar offer is just this:
To anv man who has never taken The Progress
sive Farmer we will send our paper and the Min
noanoIis Home Magazine from till January
I 1906. for only so cents
You know The Progressive Farmer is worth
while and we assure you that>the Home Magazine
is also worth while. 1t is a large 24-page illus
+ratcd monthly one of the best of the women's
magazines. the regular subscription rate being 25
cents wear 1t is filled with strong editorials on
vomens affairs; interesting romance; travel and
descriptive articles; fancy work and fashion arti
cIcs and departments of housekeeping and fori-
culture.
The regular subscription price of The Progress
sivp Farmer alone from now till January 1st is 65
monthly magazine for the women readers of your
familv-all for only so cents
Unquestionably this is the biggest offer we have
ever made and ought to bring in hundreds of new
subscribers at
Remember too this holds good only to June
90 1905 and will positively be withdrawn after
that date.
The Home Magazine is simply gift we make
to the subscriber, and the same commission will
be allowed agents, or the same credit given you
on your label, as if the so cents were for The
Progressive Farmer alone.
This is the opportunity of lifetime for get
ting The Progressive Farmer into new homes, and
we hope our readers will cooperate with us in
making it the success it ought to be.
Tel your neighbors about it, and send in their
subscriptions.
There is a full month to work in, and every
member of The Progressive Farmer Family ought
to help
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-23

It's all right when you are calling on girl or
talking with friends after dinner to
versation like Sunday-school excursion. with
stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sem
tences should be the shortest distance possible be-
tween periods.-"Old Gorgon Graham"
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-23
The Progressive Farmer Makes One Happier Even in
Paradise.

Paradise, N. c., May 18, 1905.
Editor Progressive Farmer-Wel, your little
envelope did the business. have been wondering
for two weeks how to send you the fifty cents, as
am much pleased with what have seen of your
paper. VIII mail so cents with this.
GEO. E. RIDER.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-02-03
A Farmer, His Wife and Chill
dren Killed and Burned.
\ FLORIDA HORROR.
7 Is Believed That the Black Crime
Was Committed BY Negroes, Bst
No Trace Of the Perpetrators
Can Pound BY. the
Searchers.

A dispatch from Tampa, Florida
sa7s the little farming community az
Wauchuia, in Polk county. wast
plundged into exoitement Thursdav
morning by the discovery of a crime
=squallinR In horror that tradgedy at
Statesboro, Ca, last year. The home
OF John Kirby, farmer, who moved
there last October from BlOunt coun-
~, Alabama, was found in ashes and
IN the smouldering ruins were found
the bodies of Kirby, his wife and four
children, ranging in age from boy of
twelve to infant Of one year.
The whole neighborkc cod soon reach.
ed the scene and On Investigation was
made which resulted In the inevitable
conclusion that the entire family had
oeen murdered and torch applied to
he dwelling. The skulls of each OF,
me victims. except Mrs. Kirby, had
oeen crushed In by some heavy
weapon, and each with the exception
II the woman had evidently been
murdered as the, 6 spt.
a hammer was the only weapon
found IN the ruins, which could have
inflicted the wounds. The coroner's
jury vas empaneled and after making
xamination OF premises rendered ver-
dict that The family came to their
1eetf' by fire or some other means
unknown
Tue general theory is that a party
u negroes committed the crime, al
though no traces of the perpetrators
can be found. Some believe other
members OF the family were murdered
in oed by being knocked in the head,
md Mrs. Kirby was outraged and
hen Killed by some other MEANS =
Thorough search of the neighborhood
and Investigation among the negroes
rs being made.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-02-03

he found his mother In bed sick and
he said balieve 'it we had staid q
week mother would have been dea5
when We got home., He said; ..We
were not at home an hour befors
mother was up and rejioIng over the
fact that her boys had copne back.n
What must be the suffs ring of a
home where a. boy has been gone a
month or year and sent no ,tidinps
back. Honor thy father and thy
mother. boys, and thy days shall be
long upon the land which the Lord,
thy God Tgiveth thee. No Child can
dtshonor his parents and do we'll here
after. Let q boy suffer anything be-.
fore he will wound his mother. or dis.
honor his father. These Internal
novels with their weird lies and con
torted characters have made a fool
OF many boy and started him on
tramp to the devil and the dogs.
ln the state OF Mi sissippl runa
way boy, who was then q young man,
came to me and told me that he had
been q runaway for more than five
years, that he had never written a
line 10 his father or mother, and asked
me did l know his father and mother.
telling me the town and county where
they lived. I said: "Yes, 1 know
them WE'LL" He said: "Will you
write to them for me and see IL they
%ill let me come back to see them"
did 81, and when he did come back
to his Georgia home there was a reg.
ular can psmeeting, picnic and MAY
festival all combined. 1 can never
forget how eagerly thai boy looked
into my face when he was asking me
about his parents. Five years is too
long, boys, to keep quiet. Then,
mother may te dead, father buried,
and the mischief you have done can
never be undone. Come back, now.
bnys, or write immediately. God
al)ne can measure the depth and
breadth of a parents love for wan,
dering child. 1 would that every boy
"ho has run away from his home
could realize how deeply he has
wounded and how fearfully he ha,
laccrated the heart and feelings OF
those who loved him best. 1 would
that every editor OF every paper In
the United St1tes would catch ur
this refrain and write on the subject
OF the sacred duty Of runaway boys to
come or to write b1ck TO their pa
rents at home. You could serve
your country no better, gentlemen
than to sound the bugle blast down
The line so that every wandering boy
could hear Or read, your words. The
prodigal boy 10 bygone years came to
himself and Immediately he started
for home. There was the fatted
calf killed, there were shoes for hi:
feet, robe for his back, and welcome
that done his heart good Come back,
boys, come back,
Yours truly,
SAM F. JONES.
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-02-03
Watch Him.

The Columbia State says: This ia
not the first time that we have advis.
ed our readers to keep an eye on Gov.
w. l.. Douglas. His part in the settle
ment of the Fall River strike strength.
ems US In the believe that he is destin.
ed for higher things. A man who can
take slx.months strike In hand and
so arrange a settlement between oper-
ators and operative as, in the language
of the press dispatch, to make both
sides regard the outcome Of the delib-
erations as victory" la more than q
passing figure. He is statesman and
n penius
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-02-03
They Mean Busiuess.

a dispatch from Fort Motto to The
State says: "A meeting of the. farm,
ers of this, the banner section OF Or
County, was held on the
10th, TO discuss the cotton situation.
Capt. James a. Peterkln wgs made
president OF tho meeting. The general
spirit OF the meeting vas that it was
time for the cotton plautet to take ac-
tion, aud that organization was 2
necessity to secure a fair ana regulaI
price fol cotton. 1t was agreed tha5 a
reduction In acreage CT % per nj
would be made In this section. Tie
farmers In Tolls section are in posi-.
tion to hold their cotton for what they
consider fair price. The falmals ir
the upper part OF the county Near
business, and we hope they will bt
backed by the farmers OF all scot ions
The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-02-03

not suffio.ent sense Of du.. or obli
CATION to send them, the State Ger
tainly, has the right, for its own pre-
sc rvatiOn, to compel their attendance
Every State in this union ha
provided a asystem of public education
and each year this system Is being en-
larged and perfected. Tnirty-tw,
States have enacted compulsory laws
and it is a noteworthy fact that n,
State which has adopted compuisory
law has ever repealed it, Those State,
which have adopted this law have By
far the smalles per cent. OF illiteracy
This system Is no longer an expert
nent; 1t Is not only endorsed by al
the leading educators as necessity
but its practical operation has beer
successful.
III 1t has been found necessary tc
educate the masses in monarchical
government In order that they may
obey the laws how much more essen
tial Is 1t to US. where Trey both make
and execute the laws? This idea Is not
q new one in South Carolina. 1 be.
lieve 1t Is, or was, law In Charleston
county and possibly In the city of Co.
lumbia. The constitution of 1868 pro-
vided for such law, the new consti-
tuition makes 1t still more necessary.
1t makes the right to citizenship de
pendent on the right to read and
write, or to own a ccrtain amount OF
property. This is practically an edu-
cational qualification.
'Compu sorry education is not only
the logical sequence, but 1t is the only
Justification OF the public school sys-
tenn. This system is founded In the
cuty Of the wealth to guard
its own life and maintain It's efficiency
1t Is universally agreed that the edu
cation Of the citizen is q necessary
condition OF Its life; and, that being
so, 1t is not only the right, but the
duty OF the State to insist upon the
education Of all Of It's people. 1t is
the fnalienable right of every child to
secure that measure Of training which
Will fit him to erioy the privileged
and to perform the duties of citizen.
ship. And II this right is for any
reason denied by parents, 1t is the
duty OF the State to interpose and Sc
cure 10 the child it's right, It is a
MANIFEST injustice to ia Z the people,
whether having children or not, to
support a public school system for
the instruction Of al the children on
the ground that the pubic welfare
demands 1t and then allow Its privi
icges TO ne wasted and children grow
up in ignorance, sS the inGini.rnnce o.
care lessncsS o! parents and thQGe VINO
NJ pl, r.,
dictate.
MY appeal is Cor the poor, neglect
ed children OF this State. The strong
and the wealthy dc not need my as
slStance or that OF the State, but 1t Il,
the weak and helpless wao appeal to
my symplthy. II the State does her
duty In this regard there is nothing in
all her history, glorious as it has been,
that will be com parable to the ach!eY.
ments OF the future."