Tuesday, September 1, 1903.
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
gat ion lures him on further and further till' he
divorces his wife and marries the enchantress.
The rest of the story is crowded with incident;
we see the sublime faithfulness of the divorced
wife and mother; the history of the new Social
istic Temple; the irony of fate that brings retri
bution in its most cruel form to young Gordon;
the Overman murder and but we must not tell
it all.
Kvery page throbs with action' and with feel
in':, and no one will read the book without getting
a more impressive idea of the danger and foul
of the evils against which it is aimed. There
i-; little of what we call sweetness and charm in
the story, but that it is powerful, dramatic and
absorbingly interesting no one will deny.
Does Education Pay?
The editor by request withholds the name of
the author of the following interesting biography.
All the statements, however, are literally true
and speak their impressive lesson. It may add
sunn thing to this story to know that its author
and all concerned now live in the South.
"Some years ago my father, a natural genius
in some respects, but uneducated, was a day labor
er in a factory located in a Northern State. Four
vi. n were born and reared in the humble home
.f that uneducated, untrained day laborer. They
all learned their father's trade.
"I was the oldest son and I used every oppor
tunity to get a little education, attending the win
ter school, as did all my other brothers. All of
us irrew to manhood and all learned our father's'
trade. a I said above. I still continued my edu
eatiou largely by home reading. But for several
yt -a i-3 1 worked at my trade only a few months of
the y ar and with the money I earned attended
seh"l. My two brothers next of age seemed not
t.. rare fr an education, neglected the common
school, and took the first opportunity to leave it
forever.
"I succeeded in encouraging my youngest
brother to remain in the common school until he
completed its course of study. In addition to
tins common school training this brother secured
a term or two of normal school training.
"My education soon enabled me to secure a
for man's position in the factory, but my two
brothers, naturally as gifted as myself, had to
rt main laborers because they had not enough edu
cation to take higher positions. From a fore
man's place I rose to be manager of the factory.
I now manage a number of factories and am a di
rector in several large corporations. My young
est brother whom I kept in school is one of my
for. !!! n and is earning a good salary. My other
two brothers now work for me. They are still day
hihorers. They can not get higher because they
have no education. During the past ten years I
coabl have put both of them in positions paying
from $1,500 to $2,500 per year, if they hadrfend
even a thorough elementary school education.1
Southern Education.
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Kind Parents or Silly Parents.
ry father of a larcre familv and being an
v
M-fa,hioncd man I believe in large families .
.,ws that if he has to do well by his children he
' m--t try to do well by himself. Now, haven't
v"'i in your own experience known men and I
::?! sorry to say even more often women who
ihitiu that they are doing a favor to their chil-
hen thov shield thorn from any efforts
Vh. m they let the girls sit at ease and read while
! mother does all the housework? Don't you
cases like that? I do. Yes, and when
;! hoy will bo. 'hrmicrht. nr to bo verv ornamental
1 not useful. Don't you know that, too? Ex-
:1 -fy. Xow those are not erood fathers and moth
rr- They are not beinc kind, they are simply
l-ing silly. From a speech by President Koose-
tit.
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Lynching is Anarchy.
Anarchy is the rejection of government. It
does not consist only of the ravings of the red
mouthed professors of the cult or plotting
against kings and presidents, or in the actual kill
ing of the head of the State. All that is neces
sary to produce anarchy is for any number of
persons to conspire to overthrow the law, or ig
nore it by their conduct. Sovereignty in this
country does not inhere in persons, but in the
codes and statutes enacted by the people.
It was anarchy in Georgia when the mob at
Newton, in Baker County, on Thursday night,
raided the jail and lynched three murderers safe
ly imprisoned and awaiting trial before a lawful
and reliable court and jury. While it is true that
there appears little if any doubt of their guilt,
that fact alone should have inspired good citizens
to await with patience and confidence the outcome
of a lawful trial.
There are delays of the law that are often ag
gravating to the impulsive element among men,
but it were better to keep courts in session all the
year through in every county in the United
States to gite speedy trial to accused men than
that one such affair as that at Newton should oc
cur in this or any other commonwealth of our
enlightened country.
The only excuse that can possibly be pleaded in
justification oT lynch law is that the State is dis
banded, the officials dead and the laws suspended
by an interregnum in which tho natural rights of
men take the place of the orderly regulations of
organized society.
It is astonishing to consider how far and fast
the spirit of anarchy is traveling in this country.
Not many years ago only brutal rapist and mur
derers of helpless women and children enraged the
people to these unlawful methods of vengeance.
Now homicides of the ordinary types, the rob
bing of houses, the stealing of goods and chattels
are in one place and another enough to congre
gate a mob and cause a popular hanging or burn
ing.
It is no longer sectional, if it ever was, but is a
nationally diffused crime and a growing menace
to the good order and civilized procedures of the
nation at large.
It must be stopped! Any further increase of
its virulence and caprices will put in jeopardy
almost any man, white or black, justly or falsely
accused of crime. Society must be protected
from the recidivism of barbarism. Government
must be respected and it3 laws obeyed. Justice
must be speedy and exact. The whole fibric of
our civilization totters on an insecure base when
every arm and sovereignty is broken through by
irrational, irresponsible and bloody-minded mobs.
There is wisdom enough in our States to legis
late such penalties upon this brand of anarchy
as to make it dangerous for any man, other than
a. madman or a besotted idiott, to join a lynching
party. Otherwise our methods of government
are a confessed .failure. t What is needed is a
public opinion in every State that will demand
such penalties and their enforcement at what
ever cost of life and money.
The time when the lynching of a certain breed
of brutes could be winked at because of satisfac
tion that punishment came to him quickly and to
the utmost, has given way to a time when tle
greater peril to society is the mob itself that
does the work: of vengeance Against the growth
of that eveil the best sense of the nation needs to
combine and enforce an adequate protection. At
lanta Constitution.
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The 'American cup defender in the great Anglo
American yacht race at-New York, defeated
Shamrock III, Sir Thos. Lipton's yacht. Andi
still another year is added to the 52 years Amer
ica has held the prize.
Heading is to the mind what exercise is to the
body. Addison.
. Curses will be Turned to Praises.
We. must bring the country people nearer to-
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guux uj guuu ki . LJ-LC-U. w a l aye i
schools. We are pledged to educate the people
of North Carolina. We have heard from the
taxation imposed for the purpose of educating
the children and to build good roads; you must
raise money by levying taxes. Some will-curse
you now, but the future generations will sing
your praises. Governor Aycock, at Winston-Salem.
What a transformation man has wrought in
matter! Nature says here is a lump of mud; man
answers, let it become a beautiful vase. Nature
says, here is a sweet briar; man answers, let it
become a rose double and of many hues. Nature
says, here is a string and a block of wood; man
answers, let them be a sweet-voiced harp? Nature
says, here is a daisy; Burns answers, let it be-
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ochre and some iron rust; Millet answers, let the
colors become an Angelus. Nature says, here is
reason rude and untaught; man must answer, let
the mind become as full of thoughts as the sky
of stars and more radiant. Nature says, here
isrude affection; man must answer, let the heart
become as full of love and sympathy as the sum
mer is full of ripeness and beauty. Nature says,
here is a conscience, train it ; man should answer,
let the conscience be as true to Christ and God
as a needle to the pole. Newell Dwight Hillis,
in "Eight Living as a Eine Art."
Have you seen the bulletin entitled "Good
Road for Farmers" which the Department of
Agriculture is sending out ? "All money spent on
repairing earth roads," says the pamphlet, "be
comes each year a total loss without materially
improving their conditions. They are, as a rule,
the most expensive roads that can be used, while
on the other hand stone roads, if properly con
structed of good material and kept in perfect
condition, are the most economical roads" that
can be constructed."- These are the conclusions
of one of the greatest authorities in the world on
the subject of good roads.- Gastonia Gazette.
The Nebraska Republicans last week declared
for Hoosevelt and Webster as the Presidential
ticket for 1904. Webster is a Nebraska Republi
can who has never been heard of outside of his
own section. But there seems to be a growing
appreciation of the dignity of the Vice-Presidency,
and it is not likely that either party will
name a nonentity for second place next year.
The country risks too much in having a man of
doubtful ability or character with only the brittle
thread of one man's life between him and the
power of the Chief Executive.
On receipt of information from the United
States Minister at Constantinople that the United
States Vice Consul at Beirut, Syria, had been as
sassinated, the European squadron of the United
States Navy was immediately ordered to proceed
to that port. Since then it has been learned that
the Vice Consul was not killed, nor even hurt,
but was fired upon, and the squadron will' proceed
as ordered, and be ready for emergency.
Lord Salisbury, for a long time the rival of
Wm. Gladstone, one of England's greatest states
men, and who succeeded Gladstone as prime min
ister, died August 22.
Major Chas. II. Smith, known the world over
as Bill Arp, died August 24th, at his home in
Cartersville, Ga.
W hat is a great love oi dooksj it is something
like a personal introduction to the great and good
men of all past times. John Bright.