The Progressive Farmer, July 9, 1901.
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The Home Circle.
AFTEB ALL.
We take our share of fretting,
Of grieving and forgetting ;
The paths are often rough and steep, and heedless feet may fall ;
But yet the days are cheery,
And night brings rest when weary
And somehow this old planet is a good world, after all.
Though sharp may be our trouble,
Ths joys are more than double.
The brave surpass the cowards, and the leal are like a wall
To guard their dearest ever,
To fail the feeblest never ;
And somehow this old earth remains a bright world, after all.
There's always love that's caring,
And shielding and forbearing,
Dear woman's love to hold us close and keep our hearts in thrall ;
There's home to share together
In calm or stormy weather,
Aud while the hearth-flame burns it is a good world, after all.
The lisp of children's voices,
The chance of happy choices,
The bugle sounds of hope and faith, through fogs and mists that call ;
The heaven that stretches o'er us,
The better days before us,
They all combine to make this earth a good world, after all.
Margaret E. Songster, in the July Wotion's Home Companion.
HOW ANDREW CARNEGIE
Choose at random almost any self
made American millionaire, get if
you can his real life-story, and in
studying it you will find that the
hardest part of the work of building
a great fortune is the laying of the
foundation, the first $1000.
Andrew Carnegie, for instance,
spent the best eighteen years of his
life accumulating his first $1000,
years of hard, constant work. He
began saving pennies at the age of
twelve, but not until he was thirty
did he stand forth owing no man
and owning $1000.
On the twenty-fifth of November
last Mr. Carnegie celebrated his sixty-
first birthday by making himself a ;
present of a $1,000,000 plot of ground, i
two blocks long, on Fifth Avenue. !
Here he intends to spend another j
$1,000,000 building a "plain, roomy, j
comfortable home,1' to be presented j
to his daughter two years hence. j
Since that proud day thirty-one
years ago when he deposited the j
thousandth dollar, the corner- j
stone of his present $25,000,000 for
tune, in the bank of Pittsburg,
Mr. Carnegie has become the largest
manufacturer and exporter of steel
products, and one of the largest em
ployers in this country. The steel
and coke companies ot which he i$
the head, and, as such, the con- j
troller of $00,000,000 capital, include j
seven distinct plants within seven
miles of Pittsburg, and 40,000 of coal
lands in the Connellaville ditrict. He j
employs 15,000 men in the steel
works, and 10,000 more in the coke j
works, in mine and in transports- j
tion. His monthly pay-roll exc:elsi
41,125,000. or nearly $50,000 for each !
working day. j
Orator and essayist, he is, besides, !
the author of three books of notice- (
able success Vexed if called a phi- !
lanthropist, ho has given Pittsburg a j
1,000,000 library, and has promised
to spend $1,000,000 more in the city j
in which he made his fortune. For j
libraries in other Pennsylvania 1
towns ho has given another $1,000, j
000, and to Scotland, his native land, ;
half a million. ,
When Carnegie Mode One Dollar
i Wee:. '-Every thing comes to him :
who works while he waits," is one !
of Air. Carnegie's mottoes. "Wait- !
:ng, but working meanwhile, he be .
gan laying up his first $1000 while j
making $1.20 a week as "bobbin-boy" j
in a cotton-mill in Allegheny City, j
His father, mother, younger brother
and himself the family had just j
come from Scotland, and had hardly J
got their two room house "to rights" j
when "Andy" brought in his first j
contribution to the family earnings, i
But the lad of twelve was doing a J
grown man's work, finding his way j
to the mill and beginning on his i
bobbins while it was still dark out- j
side, every morning except Sunday,
and working until dark every even
ing with only forty minutes inter- ',
val at noon. !
Sevc-n steps above this, eight steps j
in all, he had to climb before he 1
finally put that thousandth dollar in
the bank.
The second step was made in his ;
thirteenth ; ear. He became a dum- ,
'liy-engin tender in a bobbin fac- i
tory, in Allegheny City. But his
work there was even harder than in
the cotton mill ; for lie was put to
.iiring the boiler in the collar, as well
-is to tendiiMi; the little engine which ;
:rtm the machinery.
( 'amen if d. Engineer. The full re- ;
Mponsibility of keeping the water at
the right temperature, and of run- ,
siing that little engine, the danger of !
making one mistake that would
MADE HIS FIRST $1000.
bring the building crashing down
upon him he stood this strain and
this worry very bravely, for one
reason, namely : that he was con
tributing $2 50 a week toward the
expenses of the Carnegie household.
Even then he managed to keep out
a few pennies every week for him
self, and, instead of spending them,
he put them away in a bureau drawer
that was all his own.
After months in the cellar he was
at last promoted to the ollice, and
his income increased to three dol
lars a week. As he was skilful
with figures, and could write a legi
ble, schoolboy hand, he became his
employer's only clerk, making out
bills and keeping crude accounts.
Thus he stood firmly on the third
step, and nickels instead of pennies
were deposited in the bureau-drawer
bank.
The fourth step, at the age of four
teen, brought him into a new realm.
The family had moved to Pittsburg,
and here he found a "job" as mes
senger boy. A stranger in the city,
his great anxiety was that he might
lose his position because he knew so
little about the names and addresses
of the men for whom telegrams came
pouring in.
Memorizing A U Business Addresses
in Town. He spent the evenings,
therefore, wandering up and down
the streets, and before long he could
start at the head of any given business
street and, with his eyes shut, name
every firm on either side all the way
down. Ho was now earning only a
per centage on each message deliv
ered or called for. When, at the
end of the week, the amount exceeded
$o.50 he added the surplus to thof
fund in the drawer ; when less, he
drew on the private bank to make
up the deficit.
While he sat on the bench in the
office, waiting his turn, the other
boys talked, but "Andy" listened
to the click of the telegraph instru
ment. At last one of the men tai ght
him the mysterious alphabet, and
very soon he became one of the very
few persons in the United States
who could take messages by ear at
that time extraordinary.
The l-uture Millionaire Works
Overtime This led to his taking the
fifth step. He was made an opera
tor, and his salary became enor
mous $25 a month. With this he
could and would take almost entire
care of the whole family. But how
was he to pay the bills and save
money even a little at the same
time?
One evening, reading as usual, he
came across the words "extra com
pensation for extra work." He began
thinking. The six newspapers in
Pittsburg were receiving their tele
graphic news in common. Six copies
of each dispatch were made by the
operator at the next table, who re
ceived six dollars a week for the
work. The next day the ambitious
young Carnegie told the six-dollar
man that he, "Andy," would copy
the dispatches for one dollar a week.
The offer was accepted, and thus a
hundred cents a week went into the
bureau drawer.
One day a locomotive eame bellow
ing over new tracks into a new sta
tion, bringing the first train over
the Pennsylvania Railroad into Pitts
burg. The Superintendent rushed
over to the te;egraph ollice and gave
Carnegie a message to wire to the
General Manager at Altoona.
The young operator who was then
only sixteen, clicked off the message
as fast as the Superintendent talked.
Later, when the Pennsylvania
-: 1 I
strung a wire of its own, that Super
intendent chose "Andy" as "clerk
and operator," and subsequently as
train-dispatcher, at $35 a month.
What a fortune was this to come
with his sixth step upward! The
family, with money from other
sources, was doing nicely with his
$300 a year ; but here was $420,
tremendous sum ! One Saturday
night the hoard in the drawer was
augmented by a whole two dollar
bill, later by a crisp five-dollar note,
and finally $10 were deposited in a
lump. Thus, by dint of "Andy's"
persistent work, did the Carnegie
family rise.
With the seventh step Andrew
Carnegie became a shareholder in
the Adams Express Company, and
for the first time he earned money
by other means .han work. He was
told that a man had died who owned
ten shares of the Express Company
stook, and that the shares could be
had for $00 each. Carnegie, then
past twenty, jumped at the opportu
nity. But how was he get the $000?
He went home, and the family, in
joint session, decided that the brave
son must be given a start. They
had bought a home in order to save
rent. Mr. Carnegie's recollection is
that the house cost $800 ; anyway,
they mortgaged it, and thus, with
what "Andy" took from his bureau
drawer, the $000 worth of shares
were paid for in cash. The Express
Company was then paying monthly
dividends of one per cent. The day
on which he received his check for
the first two months' dividend
"Andy" understood that he was a
capitalist.
II in .First XI oon in Sioht.llr.
Carnegie remained with the Pennsyl
vania Railroad for thirteen years.
The important incident, the eighth
step, which led to "his first $1000,"
occurred on a train as it rushed to
ward Altoona. A tall, gaunt man,
who looked like a farmer, came and
sat besides Mr. Carnegie, and handed
him a model of the first sleeping
car. Tho tall, gaunt man was Mr.
Woodruff. Instantly Carnegie un
derstood its value. He took it to
his employer and friend, the Super
intendent of the road, and a contract
wa made with the inventor, who
thereupon offered Carnegie a share
in the enterprise. He accepted ; but
to his dismay he was told that his
first monthly payment would be
$217.50.
Perplexed, yet determined, he
went to the local banker, who knew
him well, and boldly asked for the
loan, declaring that he would re
turn the money in small monthly
payments. T lie banker agreed, and
Mr. Carnegie signed his first note.
The receipts from his sleeping-car
investment more than covered the
monthly pavments due at the bank,
and within two years Andrew Car
negie, free of debt, had to his credit
in that bank his first $1000. Satur
day Evening Post.
BUSINESS METHODS.
It is strange that so many people
never learn the importance of con
ducting their business by methods
universally conceded to be sound
and safe.
No status of business is wise if not
in accord with law. "Set thine house
in order," embraces in its sweep an
injunction to keep secular affairs in
such shape as will involve no loss to
one's family or to any else or any
painful litigation after death. Many
people allow their business to fall
into a shape that can entail no con
tention while they live, but must do
so after death. It is a well-known
fact that the state of the private
business of very many is in such
condition that at death the heirs
and juat beneficiaries of their estates
that have been accumulated by a life
time of toil must lose all or a large
part of them. A proper recognition
of the value of doing business of all
sorts according to the requirements
of the law would avert such mis
fortunes. Even titles to reality are
felt to be matters of little concern.
A very large number of the tracts of
land in this country are held by titles
that will not stand the test of the
investigation by our courts. All
these things are admittedly true,
and yet men go on in the ways of
unbusinesslike and illegal methods.
Robesonian.
Every society has a right to fix the
fundamental principles of its asso
ciation and to say to all individuals
that, if they contemplate pursuits
beyond the limits of these principles
and involving dangers which the so
ciety chooses to avoid, they must
go elsewhere for their exercise.
Thomas Jefferson.
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PAN-AMEBICAN SCULPTURE.
Elaborate and Beautiful Decorations Upon
the Grounds of the Exposition at Buffalo.
The sculpture of the Pan-American
Exposition at Buffalo is upon a
most elaborate scale. There are some
125 original groups and many other
pieces of statuary, numbering in all
about 500. The buildings and grounds
are so profusely adorned as to consti
tute in themselves a vast art gallery.
The sculpture is used chiefly about
the fountains, in the courts, the en
trance to the principal buildings,
uson the Triumphal Bridge, the Elec
tric Tower, Plaza, Propyhea, and
along the main thoroughfare called
The Mall, which runs between sev
eral of the principal buildings.
A harmonious and paetic sculp
tural scheme, carrying out many al
legorical ideas, was devised by Mr.
Karl Bitter, Director of Sculpture.
THE THANZ-YOU HABIT.
We are sometimes humiliated that
we have shown so little appreciation
for kindness done to us. We are
often amazed that others think so
little of our attempts to serve them.
We are often amazed to see how
much some will allow us, and other
people, too, do for them without a
word of thanks. Sometimes this is
due to a lack of appreciation, some
times to thoughtlessness and some
times to pure neglect. The thank
you habit is a good one to acquire.
We need to get into the way of al
ways thanking those who serve us
even though the service they ren
der is small, and unimportant. It
may be a greater service in their
eyes than in ours, they may have
taken great pains, and they may be
looking for the apprecative word.
We are not advocating flattery, and
we have no patience with gush,
but we do think those who serve us
should be thanked. And the more
humble and lowly the one is who
serves the more readily should they
be thanked. Yet our obst rvation
goes to show that those who care
less about such things are the very
ones we are careful to thank, while
those whoso faces would light up with
a smile of gratification if we should
bestow a hearty thank -you upon
them never receive it. It will be
good for us and for those who are
about us if we should acquire the
thank-you habit. Put it into prac
tice with the children and servants
about the home and you will not
likely negleot it when you go out
into the world. Selected.
SO FRIENDLY.
After they had kissed each other,
and each had disposed of a chocolate
to show that there was no ill feeling
between them, the blonde said :
"So Mabel is married?"
"So I've heard," returned the bru
nett. "Nice girl," ventured the blonde.
"Oh, ye3," returned the brunette.
"I wouldn't say a word against
her for the world."
"Neither would I. How do you
suppose she ever got him?"
"I'm sure I don't know. Do
you?"
"No ; I would give anything to
know."
"So would I. It certainly wasn't
her beauty."
"Oh, no."
"Or her cleverness."
"The idea is absurd."
"I can't understand it at all. They
say she was married by the registrar
first, and afterwards at the church."
"I shouldn't wonder; she natur
ally wanted to make awfully sure of
him."
"Of course ; it is the only way she
could keep him. But I am glad she
has caught some one. Mabel is a
dear girl, and it would be cruel to
say anything against her."
"Indeed it would ; I wouldn't do
it for the world !"
"Neither would I." New York
Press.
This is the preparation for a good
old age : duty well done, for its own
sake, for God's sake, and for the sake
of the commonwealth of man. When
a man works only for himself, he
gets neither rest here nor reward
hereafter. Robert Colly er.
SUMMER PERSPIRATION NATURE'S BEAU
TIFIER. The summer time is the golden
opportunity for the girl troubled
with pimples and comedones. The
torrid heat offers an efficacious sub
stitute for the Turkish or Russian
bath. The healthy streams of perspi
ration with which Dame Nature
strives to eradicate these facial
blemishes should never be dammed
by the opposing powder rag. Rather
encourage the very friendly drop
which adds its tiny share in promo
ting the health and purity of the
complexions.
I am reminded here of a young
girl who has happily been cured of
some very disfiguring pimples of the
chronic type which physioians had
prescribed for in vain. One intoler
ably hot day she tried to catch a nap
in the attic where the temperature
equaled the hot room of the Turkish
baths.
A member of the family called her
to come down to cooler quarters.
"Oh, no, mamma," she replied,
"this is part of the cure ! I am told
that I must perspire !" and she reso
lutely turned a deaf ear to all expos
tulation. When last seen, that girl
had a complexion without a blemish.
Stella Stuart, in July Ledger
Monthly.
A DEAD POET.
At the age of sixty-five Theophilus
Hunter Hill has passed away at his
home at Raleigh, the town of his na
tivity. The writer only a few weeks
ago had sent him by Mr. Hill a poem
that may have been his last, and its
subject and sentiment not only man
ifested an abiding trust and un
clouded hope as to the better life
beyond, but the poem reads now in
the view of his death as if he may
have had a prevision of a speedy
close of life and the coming glory
that awaited him. His last stanzas
were these :
"For I know that his mercy endur
eth, Else it never had waited for
me ;
His life my salvation ensureth,
And thine, for he waiteth for
thee.
"As of old, ever new the. sweet story
Of Christ the Redeemer of men ;
When grace is transfigured to
glory
May we sing it together again !"
We trust and feel assured, that his
immortal spirit is now with the God
who made it in the realms of the
sanctified and glorified. We knew
Mr. Hill since about 1858. In that
year or the year later we read his
first volume of verse, and wrote of
it at some length, perhaps as much
as two columns in a newspaper. He
was not a prolific versifier, but he
produced some poems of true
melody and grace, and with original
inptiration of their own. We think
Mr. Hill was a genuine poet, not of
a commandiog or very original
type, but he sang sweetly, sometimes
pathetically, and there is to be found
in his best work something of gen
uine lyrical excellence, and a careful
art as well as the sincere utter
ance of one who was blessed with a
God-given inspiration and poetical
refinement. He had the poet's
touch and the "swallow's song." If
he was not a poet then we fear
North Carolina is poor indeed, with
out one poet to strike the lyre. WTe
mean that he has no superior among
our natives singers with their "wood
notes wild." Indeed, upon a re
casting of judgment we incline to
the view that Theophilus Hill was
the best of North Carolina poets.
We are not essaying to write a criti
cism, for that was done by us long
ago. We add merely that like all
poets he had moods. Sometimes he
was even gay, something rollicking
in his humor. But the more prevail
ing qualify of his verse leant to
pathos with much of a religious
tone. There may be found, we dare
say, a phase of melancholy in his
writings. He certainly produced
some memorable poems. He had
smoothness, felicity, natural grace
and form and was careful in phras
ing, knowing the artistic use of
words. Dr. T. B. Kingsbury in Wil
mington Messenger.
NORTH CAROLINA AND THE STAMP ACT.
The July number of the "North
Carolina Booklet" will be written by
that noted scholar, Col. Alfred Moore
Waddell, on the object "The Stamp
Act Proceedings on the Cape Fear."
It will be remembered that when Dr.
Houston, the stamp master, came to
Wilmington, the people with drums
beating and colors flying took him
to the court house and made him re
sign, and with a mournful cortege
burned the effigy of Liberty; and
later seven hundred men with arms
in their hands under their chosen
leaders, Ashe and Waddell, marched
to Old Brunswick andtook the crown
officers from the Governor's resi
dence and male them swear not to
issue any stamps, and forced the
British sloops of war to release two
merchant vessels they had seized bo
cause their papers were not stamped.
This hostile demonstration against
the Royal ships of war was far
bolder than any other proceeding at
that time elsewhere in America. In
deed, the whole affair was unique
and picturesque no less than bold
and resolute.
GOOD SUGGESTIONS.
We predict a long, unusually h 4
summer, attended by severe stor
The crops will no doubt be
benefitted, but, we beg to repe
where great care is not taken
sickness may be expected. in s !j
weather over-eating and drinki
must be avoided, and frequent batf
ing indulged in.
Sprinkle lime on the premises m
round about the house, especial
in cellars. This will destroy ma
a disease germ as well as many i y
sects of more or less annoying prQ
clivities. Raleigh Post.
DON'T BE A "PORCHES.-
At every summer hotel there i
1 o J I'1
0
De seen an army oi wo
and
Ki-iio vviiu xittvc uetj-u named '
ers." Don't be a ''porcher," evea
though you have to spend your holi
days at a hotel. The "pcrcher"
well, she sits on the porch. That"""
all. Perhaps she crochets idly
dawdles over a bit of lace or mislii
which she misnames her or
"Dressed up" and ready for inspec.
tian morn, noon and night, the
1 porcher "sits and rocks in her chair
meanwhile gossiping over the really
live people who come and go he
tween her -and the rest of the world
My dear girls, run about on the
grass, in the woods, along the coun
try roads, afoot, awheel or on horse,
back ; row on lakes, drift on streams
and rivers, dip in the salt sea ; camp
in the pine woods ; rejoice in the
natural life of the farm ; journey the
world round, or stay in the sugar
camp cabin with a jolly party of
friends, and be happy in whatever
you do, finding change, exercise,
happy companionship and rest ; bu
never; never be a "porcher !" Ada
C. Sweet, in the July Womans'
Home Companion.
A COOL ONE.
We have received a poem from
southwest Georgia which strikes
the warm weather favorably. Fol
lowing is an extract :
"I would not rest, with burning soul,
Beneath a weeping willow ;
But let me roll
From pole to pole,
With an iceberg for my pillow!
Oh, when they come tolayine low,
Be it upon a bed of snow,
With icicles a-hangin' low,
And an iceberg for my pillow !"
41 Well, suh," said Brother Dickey,
"dey may Pay what dey a-mind ter,
but dis hot weather hez sho been a
blessin' in disguise ter me. Hit run
de rheumatism clean outen my right
shoulder into my wooden leg ; en hit
wuz so hot dat de leg kotched fire, en
de fire dat consumed de leg took de
rheumatism wid it !"
"My fust wife," said the old col
ored citizen, uwuz kilt by lightnin':
but lightnin' know better dan ter
come roun' de one I got now!"
Frank L. Stanton.
LITERARY NOTES.
The Autobiography of Jacob A.
Riis, published under the title of
'The Making of an American, ' ' which
has been running for several months
in The Outlook, continues to hold
the attention of its readers, and the
installment in the current number
is of especial interest as Mr. Ibis
tells of hi first work in Mulberry
street as a reporter on the Tribune.
($3 a year. The Outlook Company,
287 Fourth Avenue, New York.)
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA.
The last session of the University
was the most prosperous in its his
tory and everything points to an in
creased prosperity and usefulness
during the coming session. The
faculty has been greatly strength
ened by the adittion of eight new
teachers, making forty-three in all.
There are two new domitories, new
recitation rooms, water-work, cen
tral heating plant and electric lights.
Board, lodging, heat and light can
be secured at from $10 to W'- I)er
month. The session opens Septem
ber 12th. Examination for entrance
September 9, 10, 11.
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