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A Farm and Home Weekly for
The Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida.
FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C.
Vol. XXIX. No. 21
SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1914
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A STORY YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO
MISS
G
OD, I hain't nothin' but a boy.vbut I got to ack
like a man now!"
Such was the prayer of Chad, homeless now
and friendless save for Jack, his faithful dog, as he
kneeled beside the new-made grave of his foster-mother
Chad, the wonderful creation of the pen of John Fox,
altogether one of the most winning pictures of child
hood in all the pages of English literature.
The story starts in this issue of The Progressive
Farmer the story the name of which we have not given
before, but which we have correctly announced as
"The most beautiful Southern story ever written."
And we have also correctly declared that to get the
serial rights for our readers we have had to pay the
highest price ever given by any Southern farm paper.
You mustn't miss, Kind Reader, whether man or
woman, boy or girl, the opening chapters in this issue.
You will love Chad, for you simply can't help it. He
gets mixed up with your heart-strings from the very
first as surely as Kipling's Kim, "the Little Friend of
All the World' and it will do you almost as much good
to know Chad and learn to love him as to make a new
friend in real life.
We kind o expect you will find Mother wiping her
eyes a good deal about the self-reliant little fellow as
she reads the chapter in this week's paper, and you
needn't feel ashamed if you cry a little bit yourself. It
will really do you good and warm your heart and make
you more interested in all the later wanderings of Chad
and faithful old Jack and interested even more, in the
surprisingly wonderful story of love and war and hero
ism through which later on the boy Chad, now grown
up, became the central figure. And through it all he
did "ack like a man."
It's a strong, clean story as pure and sweet as the
mountain breezes of Chad's early home in the hills;
and in this day of oceans of filth, it
is a great pleasure to us to give such
a story to the readers, young and old,
of The Progressive Farmer: a story
which you will really be better and
stronger for having read and which at
the same time will brighten and glad
den a hundred and fifty thousand fam
ily circles from week to week as they
follow it.
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"God!" he said simply, "I hain't nothin' but a boy, but I got to ack like a man
now. I'm a-goin' now. I don't believe You keer much and seems like I bring
ever'body bad luck: an' I'm a-goin' to live up hyeh on the mountain jes' as long as
I can. I don't want You to think I'm a-complainin' fer I ain't. Only hit does
seem sort o' curious that You'd let me be down hyeh with me a-keerin' fer
nobody now, an' nobody a-keerin' fer me. But Thy ways is inscrutableleastwise,
that's what the circuit-rider says an' I ain't got a word more to say Amen."
And again we say, Kind Reader,
don't miss the opening chapters in this
week's paper. Even if you don't in
tend to read the whole story at all, this
first installment is one of the most
beautiful passages in modern literature
DON'T FAIL TO READ- Page
About Squabs 17
Boys and Girls Learn Milk ,and
and Cream Testing 15
Cotton Cultivation Experiences . 6
How Many Times Do You Hoe
Your Cotton? ...... . 7
Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come 5
More Cotton Cultivation Ideas . . 9
Preventable Diseases. ... . . . 10
Texas or Tick Fever 14
What Is a Soil Mulch? ..... 3
What to Grow on Five Acres of Land ,4
and richly worth reading just for its
own sake.
But we believe you will want to fol
low the whole story. The best plan of
all is to let some member of the family
read it aloud each week when the pa
per comes, beginning with the very
first installment on page 5. When The
Progressive Farmer, in order to put
this great serial at your disposal, has
paid the highest price ever paid for a
serial, by any Southern farm paper,
don!t cheat yourself out of the delight
it offers you.
Read it now.