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Tho Proprcssivo Farmor November 12 1901. The Home Circle. FBOM ' THE CRY "There i no G-o,'' tre foolish saith, lu; n ne, T re i no sorrow," Andnattiio f fecrvo a th In bitter need wdl b irrow Eyes which tho reao her could not school, By wa 8 de graves are raised, And lit s say "God Who no' r s id, Be pitiful, FR01I "THE SONNETS FROM THE F0BTUGUE8E." How do I love thee? L' t " e count the ways I love t ee to the depth und breadth and height My soul cn reach, when feeling f ut of sght For the ends of Being and ideal Qraoe. I love thee to the lvei of everv dny's M s quiet need, by sun nd candle Iteht. I love thee free a men strive for Right ; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee wivh the ration put to use In my dd griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee "with a love I eemed to 1 fe With mv lot saint-, I love thee vith the breath, Smiies, ters, of all my hie ! and, if God choose, Pshall bat love thee better ntter death If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's ake only. I !o nt sav, ;'I love her for her nnih-s her looks her way Of sjeaking gently, fcr a tnck of thought That falls in eil with mine, und crte brought A t-ene of pleastnt t ae n -uch a dav" For these thing- in themselves, Belo ed, may Be changed, or change for tre , an 1 1 ve, so wrought 3lay b unwrc-ught no. Neither love me for Thine own detr pity's wimu rnv ohoek dry, A creature might foraet to ween, who bee Thy c mfort long, and h)tn thy love theieby ! But love me for love's sake, thut evermre Tnou mayst love on, through Love's etern'ty. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Written for The Progressive Farmer. THE CIVILIZATION OF A CENTURY AGO AND THAT OF TO-DAY: A CONTRAST. 8Y J. I. ALEXANDER, II. Horseback Riding; Fearful Diseases Epidemic; Prominent Schools. So the improvement has 1 eon all along the line When the Char lotte & Columbia Rai'road vcas beitg built, those who were oj posed to in ternal improvements (this was a plank in their .Democratic platform) said that they would have but two loads a year, one in the fall and one in the spring. The Whigs alone he a to bear the burden of progress. It was a grand old party, served it day and ied in the heroic struggle to preserve liberty for the common people. Peace to the shades of scch men as Mangum, Badger, Graham, Morehead.and James V. Osborne. In naming these worthy leaders we are reminded of THE CHANGE OF FEATURES in the last century. The men who lived one hundred years ago, lived in a rugged time, had to contend with rugged events and had the mark of rugged features as if to separate them from the mass of corn mon people. Truly we had men cast in a heroic mould in the early years of the nineteenth o-ntury. Their like in all probability will never be seen again. In those days the roads were not worked enough to keep them in a passable condition, and consequently all kinds of travel was done on horse back. It took very little to keep a horse, as pasture was wild and free ; and EVERY WOMAN WS AN EXPERT H0R8E BAvK B DEB. Young men and young women never thought of a buggy, and con sequently buggies never came into Hjie till the century was nearly half ever Carnages for family ore in going to ohuroh or off a distance were used., but they were very few ; only the rioh fo.ks or well to do peo ple could afford to ride in snob, a turn-out The old fashioned gig was used by some of the wea thy class. The gig was a two wheeled vehicle, for two people, had a top to it, and the motion of the horse was communicated to the gig, which made tho riding anything but pleas ant. For tho want of vehicles and good roads we naturally were a nation of horsa-back riders, both men and vionien. A woman never looks ho well or so graceful as when mounted an a superb hcrse. Long journeys were made by women, in the first half of tho century, without fear. Journeys from five to seven hun dred miles were not; thought extra ordinary, in fact, they preferred to make the trip on horse back to trav eling in a wagon. In settling up the No. G and 7 of our series of the World's Bt Poe i, arranged especially for Tiik 1'kukes sivk Fabmek by tht diti.r. Taking th-ntues OJT some of the mo t fuoiou poet, in alphabeti cal order, from one to five'f the best known traductions or eacb will be given belor taking up the work of the next author. In thl s, ries selections from ih f -Mowing joeis have a -riady appeared: I5ryn , October, 19ul. This montliweaie publ ching selection from the worfcsof itoht-rt a1 y, izabeih a. Browning.- OF THE HUMAN." be pitruv "Ond be praised. O God Elizabeth Barrett Browning. M. 0., Charlottt, N. 6. "Dew countries," the territories and newly formed States were called, the people emigrated in wagons and on horseback. In enrlv days the people were not exempt from THE FEARFUL SCOURGE -F SMALLPOX, the plsgueand cholera It is strange that the people should be opposed to vaccination to ward eff smallpox, a loathsome d-seaee tl at has car ried off its thousands every year in all parts of the world ; but this has been their hostility to this preven tivetive measure, ever since Jenner made the discovery that has immor talized his name as a benefactor of the human nice. The plage e, or 'Black D ath," as it was generallv called, prevailed in the New England States in 1818. It came on with a violent chill, severe pain in the buck, large splotches or echymoses would appear en various parts of the body, Infensiblo almost from the b ginning ot the attack, the pa tient was nut conscious of his suffer ing. The majority of the cases di d vsithin eighteen or twenty four hours. If they survived thirty-six houis they gem rally pulled through Imo.ediately after death the body turned black and deoornpc.sition was very rapid. It was said the nearest neighbor, iu mam oaten, were not ap priced of tne s.ckness until they would see the gnost of the deaa prowling about. It became so com iuon for ghosts to appear that it wa& looked upon as nothing supernatural But we st ould receive reports if this sort cum grano satis ASIaTjC cholera made great inroads into this country in the fiist third of the century. It. fallowed the great arteries of trav el and oommeice and attacked the towns on the .Mississippi and Ohio with great ioleno. At Wheeling, W Va , it appeared to have found a very appropriate place to expend its viohnce. It h said that the faculty of meuicine there published oiet etic rules for a guide for the bene fit of the people, bdvising them not t-j eat indigestiblH articles, such as plnms, cherries, Irish potatoes not weil matured, sugar peas, eto A- soon as these rules were posted, about sundown, a young man called to his triend ncross the street: Hello ! Bill, I will bet you five dollars I can eat a pint of cherries and they ill not hurt me" The wager was accepted, the cherries were eaten, and the corpse was ready for burial by midnight. YELLOW FEVER WAS EQUALLY AS FATAL in the first halt of the century. When Dr. J. Marion Simms WaS having the foundati. n for the Wo man's Hot-pital in .New York dug out he removed 27,000 dead bodies that had been buried in the potter's field before the century was one third out. The "Black Death" and yellow fever created great conster nation at different times in the first half of the century. The War of the Rh volution and the Seoond War with England i 1812-14 entailed comparatively little cost upon he country in comparison with the stupendous debts and taxes of recent years. The former were waged from patriotic principles, the last for what could be gotten out of them. In the EARLY WARS OF THE COUNTRY but few pensions were given or asked for by the ex soldiers. Patri otism was the ruling passion of those who were willing to risk both lite and property for their country. But in these latter days say for the past forty years pensions have been the cry, both by deserters and hon est men. Whenever a politician thinks he can secure an office by appealing to the old soldiers, a pension is held out as a bait, and a hook baited with this kind of induce ment seldom fails in procuring the desired result It is now more than thirty six years since the Civil War closed, and there are still a million pensioners on one side of the gre tt struggle ; and on the other, nothing save the demand of their part of the pensions which amounts to one hundred and fifty millions of dollars witu the erd not yet in sight. The South was robbed of everything save honor ; but with all these draw backs she is now forging to the front with all that constitutes a grand civilization. NO COMB NATIONS OF CAPITAL were thought of in the early years of the century. Probably .the main reason that capital was not arrayed against labor one hundred years ago was that money was scarce, but lit-tle-produoe was raised for shipment, markets were far ai art ; only at sea ports and on navigable rivers could a market be found Congress did not issue bonds except in the direst necessity. Wages were in keeping with other values A Congressman's salary was scarcely cne-baif what it is now. Corn, wheat and bac n and all bread stuffs wt re a drug on the market. Nearly everybody lived on the farm. Tnere weie not a half d zen cities in America that had twenty thousand population at the beginning of the nineteenth century Nearly all the solid wealth between the two i ceans was to be found in the country on ti e farms. Only in the Presbyterian settle ments were schools to be found, ex oept the most rudimentary kind. From the earl. et daw n of the century nearly every Presbyterian church had a school-hi uo beside it; in fact, it wan considered as essential for the public good to have one as the other. ECCLESIASTICAL SCHOOLS OR SEMINA RIES were unknown at the beginning of the century, at least in the South. Almost every preober had a class of young theological students. Or dinarily the oh ur dies were far apart. The seven churches built in Aleck l.-nburg county in 1762," now em braced by thiee counties, are still flourishing churches, aDd now have many offshoots from the parent vines. Other e'en urinations have o me in and are fl mrisning with the increased population. The civiliza tion has changed most wonderfully in the pat-t hundred years. SALEM ACADEMY AND THE UNIVER8ITY AT i H A PEL HILL. North Carolina lead all the South ern btates, if not the whole of Amer ica, in establishing the first female school in importance, patronized by every State in the South. The Mo ravian school at Silem was estab lished about the closing year of the ighteenth century The Moravians believed in education and acted wise ly in educating the women first, knowing that men would not lag be hind. The school is an honor 'to their churoh and a blessiug to the country. The UnivrrsHy of North Carolina was establish d in 1795 and has been of great service to t e Sftate. It has been the means of disseminating learning in every branch'of useful ness. There is not a State in the Sourh or West that has not at one time or another been represented by North Carolinians educated at the University of the State. Her record has been glorious indeed, and we are sure the State has aoted wisely in appropriating funds to make the University an institution that will rank wiih the foremost on the con tinent. (To be continued.) Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected. Lowell. Our Social Chat KD1TKD BY AI'NT JKSN1K. RALEIGH, N. C. AH CONTRIBUTOR to thiH department of The Progressive Farmer, we have some of th moflt wide-awake and progressive young ladle and young men and someof the most entertain ing writers among the older people of this and other States, the ages of the members ranging from sixteen to more thou sixty. YOU ARE REQUESTED to Join bv sending us a letter on some subject of general interest, and writing thereafter as often as possible. WHEN WRITING, give full name and post office address for Aunt Jennie's information. If you do not wish your real name to appear in print, give name by which you wish to be known as a Chatterer. - TWO WEEKS OR MORE must, as a rule, elapse between the time a letter is written and the date of its publication. ADDRESS all letters to Aunt Jennie, care of The Progressive Farmer. Raleigh. N. C. AUNT JENNIE'S LETTER. I have been looking at the names on my roll book and must confess that tho continued abDce of so many members of ur ( irele makes me feel just a little blue in spite of my utmost efforts to oontinue the hope that they will eventually re turn. What has c insed them to for sake us for so long a time? Does Aunt J nnie frcold too much? If so, she will promise that she will try to do better in the future. But to day is really the fir t winter day that we have had, and it may be that the beautiful weather has been too tempting to remain in doors or to thitk of letter-writing. Well, I hope all of this will change with the weather and that we shall hear from each mem her of our Circle M least orce a month. I do not agree with Careless Tom in think ing that once every three months is often enough. A pleasuie postponed is deprived of some of its sweetness. A duty that' is, as it were, tifd to your apron strings and can be put off from time to time is often left ribdone. Three months is so many weeks, and this week we simply promise ourselves that next week we will not have so much to do and can and will write to the Chat. Is it not true, ana did yuu do so or did you still promise yourself that the next and the next unt 1 you have forgotten to write at all? Harry Farmer's recipe for liver pudding is goid, I know, and we should like to hear from Liui often. I am aelighted to know that Will Retlaw has not forgoit' n us, and 1 appreciate his generosity in offering a nice book as a premium tor the best letter on "How to Make Home Happy." I hope to hear rom many of you on this subject May the com petition be spirited. The premium is to be awarded the first ot January Now let us see who will ba the for tunate person. Aunt Jennie. WILL EETLAW'6 UENES0U3 OFFER. Dear AuntJenkie: It has been quite a time since I .rote a letter to S cial Chat so long, in faot, that I suppose all of the members of that cucle have forgotten me, perhaps, with the single exception of Tennes see Boy, who, I belie veT was the last with whom I "crot-sed swords." But as he has since married and turned over a new leaf, I not only extend to him the right hand of fellowship, but also my congratulations, that he, too, has at last found one who can appreciate a good thing when she sees it. Let us hear irom you, old boy. 'Jell us what you are doing, anyway. I'd bet you a brand new quarter my wite is a heap prettier than yours now 1 In regard to Sunday dinners and church going, a subject that has been iiiscutsed a great deal lately, I would like to say a word or two, by way of parenthesis : I do not think any man has a right, legal, moral or di vine, to require his wite to remain at h me on Sunday to cook his din ner while he dozes away in his pew at churoh. It's my private opinion that such men go to church on Sun dav morning more to get out of helping tieir wive aiuut home than for any other purpose. They argue that they work six da s a week and when Sanday oomes they want to rest. So far so good, but all w your wife the same privilege I will say that I always assist my wife, not nly with the cooking on Sunda s,but oleaning up the house, sweeping, etc., so that we are free to go where we please, together ; I never attend church without her, nor she without me. No, it is a sorry specimen of manhood that would rt quire his wife to bend over a hot cook stove all Sunday morning to prepare him a nioe warm dinner while he dozes away in some pleasant corner of a ohuroh. I only wish suoh men had wives with the spirit that mine has ; I can assure you it would not be long before they would be the best little boys in the community and as good cooks ' and housekeepers as oould be found anywhere. No, I have little respect for any man wh cn d nothing but poke around with hi bards in his pockets while his wife slaves away ih tier house work on Sunday If he wi-hes a hot dinner, then let him help get it ; if he is not willing to do so, then let him do without it ot make out with scraps. It is no more the wie's place to work on Sundav than it is the husband's, and if there is work to be done, and must he done, then let the hnsband share the burden as he should Men are not nearly so helpless asthey would have it apppar that they are, and. wives should hot allow themselves to be imposed upon, as they are in many instar cs. Ritrht here, I would like to speak es ecia'lv to the book loving mem bers of Social Chat. To the member who wries' the best letter on the subject, "How to Make Home Hap py." I will give a cloth-b und book, either 'A Story of an African Farm ," "Tom Br wn's 8c n onl Dav s, ' "John Halifax, Gentleman," "Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush," "Maker of Venire," or some other book bv a well known author. Aunt Jennie will deride which letter wins the prize and the book will be t-ent to the successful competitor January 1st. H 'ping to see many letters on this subject soon, I am, W ill Retlaw. Wake Co , N C LIVER PUDDINGS. Dear Aunt Jennie :--Mary Jane is mted for her nice liver puddings, and somn Chat readers may be inter ested in her recipe for making them. Take as many pounds of coarse corn meal as you have meat and place it in the stove and roast it un til it is a light brown. It will require oonstant stirring, very much like roasting d ffee Take the has let (lights, liver, heart, etc., after being nicely dressed, and place in a a pot with a few p ds of pepper; boil till very tender. Have just water enough to cover the .meat when done. Then run the meat through a sausage mill or meat chop per to make it fine. It is best to use some c raoklings if the meat is not as plentiful as desired. Then mix the meal, meat and cracklings thorough ly, using the water in which the meat was boiled to make the whole into a stiff dough. Flavor with cinnamo. , salt, sage, etc., to suit your owu taste. Stuff in large caes Then plaoe the pieces, after tying each end with a piece oi cotton thread, in a pot of water and boil for one hour. Take out of water and hang up up to dry just like sau sage. We would praise these puddings to t e highest, but we might cause some good lady who fails on the first trial to call vengeance down on our heads, or cause some children to kick the cover off the bed and make some tired farmer get up in the cold to place it back on the little fretful fellows. We do not want to eat more than one fourth our length, but some of the boys will et four- fouiths, if they have a chance Harry Farmer. Columbus Co., N. C CARELESS TOM. WHITES. Dear Aunt Jenne : I am glad to see that Happiness, one ot the ear lier contributors to our Chat, has re cently written and set a good exam pie fi.r the rest of us by promising to writi once eaoh month hereafter. We should have a very interesting Chat every week if each member would write just once eaoh three months, and it does seem to me that we might, eaoh of u who reads the Chat this week, resolve to write that often at least S many once familiar faces have been long absent trom our Circle among them, Eva Piamondon, Patience, Joe, Mrs. Jones, Ellen, Nellie, Lucy, Mrs. B ack welder, Pansy, Luci'e, Water Lily, Mrs MoKinney, Virginia and Ruby, an excellent list of names Now will not eaoh of these make it a point to write once within the next three months, and will not eaoh member of the Social Chat regard it as one of the duties of membership to make his appearance quarterly from now on? The Chat, I am sure, not only adds to the pleasure of its members, but also draws out the best that is in them, encourages the best expression of thought, and gives training in one of the highest forms of art, newspaper writing. I read a great deal of advice as to reading habits. The point that needs to be .most often emphasized in my opinion, is that our people are giving too muoh attention to the I new books of unknown quality Q chaff on the surface, and too attention to the books that W stood the test of time, aDd ir 'ig ved their right to immorta lty UHU HJJ.I njr wi. iiiuo VKJ 1 rail I'lP) 'itel novel, whose characters and anthoj will be fogbtten five years henr- i)ut neglect utterly the great masters the Bible, Shakespeare, Buru Milton, Scott, Btioon, Tenin' Carlyle Lamb, Rukin, and our Hawthorne, Irving, Cooper, Emer. son, Lowell, Longfellow, Haines Poe and other; whose worts be read by the thoughtful and dig. cerning "when you and I behind the veil have past." Why not read these works of known value instead 0f giving our time exclusively to the newer works, of which a recent writer has said "There are not less than 20,000 novels written yearly. Of these fsome 8,000 probably are printed. Of thesn possibly 25 are above the ordinary and have merit There are probably 10 that deserve much of the praise that reflecting and honest critics accorded them. Of all, not more than two are of positive high merit. Not more than one in five years is so excellent, so strong, go original, so pure and admirable as to style, of Mioh moral tone and ele vated conceptions of duty and char acter and of such oonsu ornate workmanship as to give it entrance into the community of the success ful Active writers. Last winter one of The Progres sive Farmer correspondents asserted that one f the prime oauses of our non appreciation of good literature is that not one person in fifty knows how how to read aloud properly. And I fear that among us this fine art is truly muoh negleoted. Would it not be good training if in eaoh family this winter some of the best works of the authors I have nimed should be selected and one hour or more eaoh night given to reading selections aloud? Writing of this subject reading aloud recently, Hiram Corson said : "The reading voice de-nand at least as much cultivation as the Pag ing voice. Perhaps, in m st cag, a five years' judicious training of the singing voice would result in greater excellence than a five years-' equally judicious training of the reading voice. But what a ridiouloun con trast is presented by the methods usually employed for the training of the speaking voioe, and thoe em ployed for the training of the sing ing voioe I If any one would sing, says Ware, he attends a master, and is drilled in the very elementary principles ; and only after most labo rious process, dares to exercise his voice in public. If he is even learn ing to play on the flute for public exhibition, what hours and days would he spend, in giving facility to his Angers, and attaining the power of the sweetest, and most expressive x- cuti n. If were devoting himself to the organ, what months and years would he labor that he might in after its richness and delioaoy of exprea- -ion i And in this booklet, too, Dr. Corson poiu s cut what I regard b our most common mistake in read ing aloud. I will let the Doctor tell of it in his own words : "Emphasis is regarded by many readers as the all-important thins;; hut it is really the least important. Any untrained voioe can empbas ze. The difidcult thing to do well is the opposite of emphasis the slightiDg of certain subordinate parts, of the disoourse. Whatever is sufficiently Implied, or should be taken for granted, or has been anticipated, and, in short, all the outstanding re lations of the main movement of thought and frelig, require to be slighted in expression, in order tht they may not unduly reduce the prominence and distinctness of the main movement." But I am not an authority on this subject, and have mentioned it simply to get others to thiukin of it and of Dr. Corson's views. I should like espeoiall for our teachers to give this some attention. Careless Tom. Each man stands at the centre of a great network of voluntary influence for good. Through words, bniring and gesture he sends out his energies. Oftentimes a single speech has effeoted great reforms. Oft e man's act has deflected the stream of the centuries. Full oft a single won has been like a switch that turns a train from the route running toward the frozln North to a track , leading into tie tropic Bouth. Nee11 Dwigi; ills. if f Mnmiiii i .1! i immmm--rmm
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