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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-09-29
HINTS FOR GRAPE GROWERS.

Prepare the ground in fall. Give
the vine plenty of manure, old and
we'll decomposed; fresh manure ex-
cites growth, but does not mature it.
Luxuriant growth does not always
insure fruit. Dig deep, but plant
shallow. Young vines produce beau
tiful fruit. but old vines produce the
richest, Prune in autumn in order
to insure growth, but in spring to
promote fruitfulness. Plant your
vines before you make trelIises.
Vines, like old soldiers, should have
good arms. Prune spurs to one
developed bud, for the nearer the
Old wood the higher favored the
fruit. Those who prune long must
soon climb. Vine leaves love the sun,
the fruit the shade. Every leaf has
a bud at the base, and either a bunch
OF fruit or a tendril opposite it. A
tendril is an abortive fruit bunch-a
bunch of fruit a productive tendril.
A bunch of grapes without a healthy
leaf opposite is like a ship at sea
without a rudder-it can't come to
port. Laterals are like politicians
if not checked they, are the worst of
thieves Fine Dresser.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-09-29
THE GAME LAW.

Many people ask questions about
the game law Of this State. This
synopsis of time when game may
and may not be killed answers them:
Deer, August Is to February TO-
except in the counties Of Johnston
and those east of the Wilmington a
Weldon railroad. Partridges, qualls,
doves, robins, larks, hooking birds
and wild turkeys, October 10 TO
April 1, except in the counties OF
Clay, Cherokee, Graham, Jackson
Macon, Swain, Pennsylvania, Tyr
rell, Johnston, Jones, Dare, OnsloW'
Carteret and Columbus, in when
these birds are not protected. In
Currituck county, cartridges anu
quails, December l to April 1. Elk
portation of cartridges and quallS
(alive Or dead) from the State Is pro-
hibited. Sunday shooting is pro.
hibited. Killing wildfowl for SAFE
in Currituck county or shlPPlnS
them out Of that county is prohlol.eu
between March 10, and November
10. Non-residents forbidden "
shoot wildfowl in the waters OF CUR
rituck and Dare counties from blll,u'
box or battery not on land at tnS
time. Eggs of cartridges and 9ua,1
protected. Fire hunting ofwlldio"'
unlawful.-Raleigh Necs an" O0s"'
Ger.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-09-29

The Arkansas Meteor says
Tennessee pays 100000 to sup
port it's dogs and $4,000, 900 to eeur
cate it's children. Three dollars ~
dogs and one for the children OF 'no
State. We suppose it is in aoou,
the same ratio i'm Arkansas; n nay
be a little more so.n These are ho'
the only States that pay three tln' ~
as much to support their dogs a.
educate their children. The aVel's'
dog, like the anarchist popula'lV"'
is a non-producer Of wealth, anu
destroyerof property.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-09-29
farm 9otes.
CARBoLIC ACID.

The use of carbolic acid is very
important to the keeper of poultry:
1t acts as an insectide, keeping fowls
and nests clear of vermin, is an eX-
cellent deodorizer, and in small guam
titles given with drink or food pro
notes the healthfulness of fowls and
prevents, ifit Will not cure, chicken
cholera.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-09-29

The cobs from which sweet corn
has been cut contain considerable
nutriment and will be greedily eaten
by cows. Putting IL little salt on
them makes them IA little more pal
atable. Until the corn ripens,
the cob contains much of the sac
charine matter that is afterward
changed to the starch of the grain.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-09-29

The first use of a locomotive in
this country was in 1929.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-22
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

5s "A Boston minister objects to
having his sermons printed on the same
page with advertisements of Old Bour-
bon.-BostoB Globe.
ID The schools of Austria have been
forbidden using paper ruled in square
or diagonal lines, as such paper has
been found to injure the eyesight Of
pupils. In future only paper plain or
ruled straight across is to be employed.
i Pastor Schneider, of Bethlehem,
now breaches regularly at Hebron, the
ancient city where Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob were buried. The Gospel has
not been preached there since 1887,
when the city fell into the hands Of
Saladin. 3 IS
There are in the Church of England
at least twenty-five sisterhoods and
about eight Diocesan Orders of Deacon
esses. In the American Protestant
Episcopal Church there are fourteen
sisterhoods and two well established
Orders of Deaconesses, in the Dioceses
of Long Island and Alabama.
The pronunciation OF Latin, as now
taught at Harvard, would sound like
burlesque to those who learned Latin
twenty or thirty years ago. Veni, vidi,
vici is pronounced Vance, weede,
weeke. This revolution is due to Prof.
George M. Lane, who thinks he finds
4 his authority for it in a careful study OF
Quintilian. Boston Traveller.
For over three centuries quaint
ceremony has been performed at St.
Margaret's, London, over which church
Canon Farrar presides. After the
sermon recently preached by the
Canon, a basket containing nineteen
loaves of bread was brought forward,
and nineteen aged persons presented
themselves at the chancel rail, and
each received loaf and six pence.
Each loaf was wrapped in new hand.
kerchief.
DIR. Loomis' statements before the
New York Medical Society concerning
the danger of overtraining in college
gymnasiums are not novel, but they
are decidedly timely; and coming from
SO distinguished source, they will
doubtless have some effect. All college
authorities, and even the students
themselves, have known of late years
that if training was oyerdone, heart
and lung troubles were sure to follow.
They always have said that in their
own particular institutions care was
taken that entertaining should not
occur.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-22
BABY'S BEAUTY.
1t Is Saved by Delicate and Successful
Surgical Operation.

IL Is S8ttu Uy OcnG1bc nnu 0uCCCDoAak
Surgical Operation.
An operation performed at one of the
South Side hospitals in this city is thus
described by one of the attending sur
geons: The patient is girl baby whose
body is covered with hair moles. One
of these began on her forehead, EXTEND
ed down over her eye-lids and covered
the bridge of her nose, disfguring an
otherwise beautiful face. The opera
ton was for the purpose of removing
this growth of hair. The patient was
placed under the influence of an an@s-
thetic, and the surgeon made an incis-
ion in the skin covering the forehead
and cheek bones on each side and
through the outer skin of the eyelids
and upper part of the nose. Then he
cut through the skin over each eye.
leaving pair of eyebrows. The skin
was removed and small pieces were cut
from the patients limbs and trans
planted over the forehead, nose and
eye lids. The child was so completely
covered with moles that the surgeon
was obliged to make the transplantation
of several small pieces of skin instead
of one piece. ''The forehead will be
slightly Scared said the surgeon,
..bnt will be thousand times more
slightly than if it was disfgured by that
mole.'' The little patientdid not seem
to mind the operation, and in half an
hour, recovering from the influence Of
the an@sthetic, was sleeping soundly.-
Chicago Telegram. 81 m
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-22
The solitary passenger was now
eaparlv lookin o. ont from the hatchwav

The solitary passenger was now
eagerly looking out from the hatchway,
which stood breast high to her from
her footing on the box beneath. She
was able to see young lads who had for
some time been watching the smack.
She waved her arms and raised her
voice to its highest pitch. AS the
poor woman screamed for help
the lads shouted in return. Sew.
eral ran off to the nearest hamlet
called Farstad, for assistance. A mum
Der of fishermen arrived, but as the
vessel was distant from the beach siz
hundred yards and was in a heavy surf
it was evidently going to be work oi
considerable difficulty to get on board.
One fisherman with rope around his
waist walked into the sea, but was sew.
eral times beaten back. At length,
getting hold of a part of a sail and a
rope hanging from the bow he climbed
on board and was soon afterward fol
lowed by a companion. Meantime
Elizabeth had by desperate effort
climbed out on the deck, where she
had never been since she had gone on
board, and the men found her sitting
almost helpless. Their language was
unknown to her, but they soon gathered
that the helpless woman was.the only
living creature on board. Bymeans of
rope from shore and with the assist
ance of the recurring waves, the vessel
was pulled as far up on the beach as
practicable and made fast.
Still, however, the distance between
the vessel and the land was great. The
fishermen put rope around the
woman's waist and threw it to land.
They next lifted her over the bow and
gave her hold of the rope by which the
vessel had been drawn toward the
shore, and which was there held taut
by willing hands. Suspended in mid
air, this much tried woman of sixty
years actually scrambled hand over
hand for distance of several yards
until relieved by two men from the
shore, who, standing up to their mid
die in the water, caught her in their
arms. She was carried ashore nearly
dead with terror and exhaustion.
The people gave her food and rest.
She gained strength rapidly and was
taken soon to the mainland, and thence
by steamer to Hull. Thence hither by
rail. Here she. found a telegram
awaiting her from the manager of the
Royal Aquarium in London offering to
pay her f10 week and expenses to
come to the aquarium. All she would
have to do would be to receive visitors.
The proposal was at once declined
Chicago Tribune.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-22
American Millionaires.

A well-known New Y York broker gives
the following as nearly the true wealth
of number of capitalists: j. j. Astor,
$125, ,OOO, 900; Jay Gould. 800, ,O00, 900;
Cornelius Vanderbilt, $50, ZOO, 900; w.
K. Vanderbilt, $75, ,000,0O0; Russell
Sage, $4,000, 600; C. P. Huntington.
$25, ,O00, 900; Winslow, Lanier & Co.,
500, 900, 900; D.. o. Mills, $4,000, 900;
Pierpont Morgan, $4,000. 900; Robert
Garrett, $15, 600, 900; Armour, $15. .0O0,-
600; Fred Vanderbilt, $4,000, 900; ;
Sidney Dillon, $4,000, 900; Woeris-
hotter, $40. 900, 600; j. r. Hoxie, $8, ,00O,-
600; Addison Cammack, $4,000, 900;
John Rockefeller, $5, 900, 900; II. Rocka-
feller, $4,000, 900; Alexander Mitchell,
$5, 600, 600; Cyrus w. Field, 81, ,000, 600;
S. v. White, SO, 900, 600; w. r. Travers,
So, ,000, 600; r. p. Flower, $4,000, 900;
John Shaw, $4,000, 900; w. E. Connor,
81, 600, 600; Slayback, 81, 500. 900; Gen.
eral Dodge, $1,000, 900; Victor New
comb, 81, 200, 600; and Sam Sloan,
81 900, 600. .-To Tososs Iopses
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-22
SMART MAJOR.
A Dog That Knew How to Behave Him.
self at Church.

self at Church.
/ once visited a pleasant country
house, the owner of which had a power
full and sagacious dog called Major.
This dog was highly priced by his
master and by the people of the neigh
borhood. He had saved many lives.
Once when swing-rope became en-
tangled around the neck of a little girl,
Major held her up until help came.
One day the butcher brought in his
bill for Majors provisions. Majors
master thought it altogether too large,
and shaking the paper angrily at the
dog, he said: -.
SSee here, old fellow, you never ate
ali that meat-did you?"
The dog looked hard at the bill,
shook himself all over, regarded the
butcher with contempt, and then went
back to his rug, where he stretched
himself out with a low growl of dis
satisfaction.
The next Sunday, just as service
began at the village church, into my
friends pew vaulted Major.
The Major kept perfectly quiet until
we all arose for prayer; then he sprang
upon the seat; stood on his hind-legs,
placed his fore-paw upon the front of
the pew behind, and stared gravely and
reproachfully into the face of the
butcher, who looked very much con-
fused, and turned first red and then
pale. The whole congregation smiled
and Uttered. Majors master at once
took the dog home. But the butcher
was more considerate in his charges
from that time. Evidently he felt
mortified and conscience-stricken.--
Lizzie Hatch. in st. Nicholas.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-22
a GLOVE.

An. Yesterday found glove
: Grown shabby, full of tiny rips, esrF-
nat dear to me because my love
once through 1t thrust her fnger-tipA
"A QIoye one would not care to see
a-i|pon his arm in public street:
Yet here 1 own there is for me s4
No relic in the world more sweet. Sa8
& faint far scent of lavender 5A f9
Steals from it, as the cloter smelt,
when through the fields walked with her
And plucked the blossoms for her belt.
Faith! but loved the little hand,
@ That used to wear this time stained thing
IE slightest gesture of command
Would set my glad heart fiuttering.
Or it touched my finger so, a-f3
or smoothed my hair-why should speak
OF those old days2r 1t makes, you know, Z
The tears brim over on my cheek.
I Poor stained. worn-out, long-wristed glove!
Think it almost understands
Thatreverentiy and with love
hold it in my trembling hands.
And that it Is SO dear to me, =
- With Its old fragrance, far and faint,
Because my mother wore it, She
s On earth my love, in heaven my saint.
james Berry Benscl.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-22
CANAL-BOATMEN.
Living Like Kings on the Erie Canal DuC
ing the Winter Season.

Living Like Kings on the Erie Canal Dun.
ing the Winter Season.
Abee and a 'canaler'' are alike in sew
eral respects. Each works hard in the
summer, and each as long season in
which he lays up, living on what he has
stored away. s @ a @
''You have picturesque and roman
tic way of living, have you not?' asked
a reporter of woman who was emerg-
ing from the cabin with basket Of
snowy clothes in her arms.
! Hum; well it is not all romance by
any MEANS" was the reply. '.Still we
manage to live very comfortably on the
canal. We are always warm. Our
cabin is divided into two state-rooms, a
kitchen and sitting-room.
Descending into the cabin the re-
porter discovered that the entire apart
ment was about 16x15 feet. The state
rooms were boxes entirely filled by bed
ding. The kitchen, a range, partially
enclosed by wooden screen at one
side, while the estof the space was de-
voted to a ''sitting-room, contained a
table, a couple of chairs, and left
enough space for one to walk around
between them. A man, his wife and
two children lived in this particular
cabin, which is. exactly similar in size
and arrangement to those of all other
boats on the canal. 95
'.In the summer" said the woman,
''we have an awning and hammocks
upon the deck. The children always
have plenty of play room, which is
more than can u said for many who
live more expensirely. In this way we
not only save rent or taxes for the
majority of canal men own their boats),
but during the summer we lay in a
store for the winter, purchasing along
the canal wherever the article wanted
Z can be bought the cheapest. During
the winter canal man may become
teamster, his horses or mules setting
him up in trade.n @
The owner OF, finer boat said: ssWe
winter wherever we happen to be
frozen in. I live like a bee, do. /
never work in the winter, not /. Look
at that butter (uncovering beautiful
sample) that cost me just twenty cents
pound. 1t would bring thirty cents
now, and it is long way to spring yet,
There are about 1000 boats on the
canal and from 1900 to 5000 families
live in this way. A trip from New York
to Buffalo takes thirty to thirty-three
days by horse or mule power and from
twenty-three to twenty-seven days by
steam. We stable our animals on the
boat at night. Come and see the stable.
There, it is small, but comfortable.
But we risk mules life every morning
and night as we get him in and out.
am careful, lam, but the man in the
next boat killed two last fall. 1t is, Of
course, pleasanter to winter in the
basin at New York, though you musi
pay $25 wharfage: There are from
| 700 to 1000 boats in the basin every
winter. We have church boat and
an entertainment boat. During week
days school is kept on the church boat
and every evening prayer meeting is
held there. 1t costs from 5000 to $500
for man and family to winter on the
canal. On 5000 he lives like poor
man, on $500 like king. live like 6
king, like king bee, | do. "-Rocheste'
| Post ErpreSS.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-22
PuNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
Two stupid Michigan hunters s

4 Two stupid Michigan hunters shot
woman, mistaking her for bear. A
woman should never be mistaken for
anything but dear.--Detroit Tribune.
Evil to him, etc. --s.Look here, my
friend, your molasses and whisky are
not pure, said Gilhooly to an Austin
grocer. Grocer (striking a tragic atti-
tude)--ssTo the pure all things are
pure. Teras Siftings.
1T is a marked indication of the In
ward cussedness of mans nature that
he invariably feels aggrieved when he
buys an accident insurance policy and
then travels five thousand miles with
out so much as stone bruise.-PhSla-
delphaa Call. M
Really" confided Angelina to her
dearest friend, 'I'm getting worried
about John. Before we were married
he used to pick me up in his arms as If
weighed but ten pounds instead of
1856, and now he says it tires him to
hold the aby.''-Sonaerville Journal.
A babbler once told a secret that
had been trusted to him to. friend.
'sOf course you will not repeat it," he
added earnestly. Don't fidget,' was
the ready reply, II shall be quite as
careful Of it as you have been. CHI
oago Ledger. t
! old Mr.. Bently (reading the paper)
IL see that in recent storm at sea
ship loaded with passengers went
ashore" Old Mrs. Bently (placidly)
How fortunatel I can imagine Just
how glad those passengers must have
been to get on dry land. IN Z. Sun.
-..Is the King of Wurtemberg COM
ing over here to lecture, or sing, or
anythingP'' asked LIE Diggs. Not that
know OF, =" replied DeWiggs. why"
II see that he has justtold a newspaper
correspondent that heloves Americans,
and that is a pad symptom, you know"
$50 it isr' = Pittsburgh Chronicle.
One of our brother journalists went
into barber-shopthe other day to have
his hair cut and fell asleep during the
operation. The barber, who awoke
/ him when he had finished, said to him:
..You are tired. / understand it. It's
the same way with me when evening
| comes. All, this head work is some
thing terriblep'-Paris Echo.
-aMrs. Prime is beautiful woman,
isn't she?r ..Yes, she is quite hand
some, but they say she paints" I" "Well,
suppose she does, what Of itp' al
don't like to see awoman resort to such
lodges to make herself attractive" "
II don't see why she shouldn't. When
it has got to be all the rage to decorate
potato-mashers, scoop -shovels, and so
on, You can't blame woman for giving
| herself dab with the brush now and
then.''- The Interior. ss
A great many young men are
growing up these days who will likely
I have often to mention the honorable
place held by their ancestors. They
seem to forget that honorable ancestry
demand honorable successors, and that
any let-down from the high mark Of
ancestry is rightly charged up by the
public as disgrace. A man may not
have the talent of his father or grand.
father. but he can always have the
manhood and honorable characteristics
A man may live in poverty and still bt
all man in the best acceptation O
the term CHICAGO Inter Ocean.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-22

Sunlight has been put to odd use
at Brussels. Falling on small shaft
the rays cause an upward draught Of
air which sets fan in motion, and that
in turn starts machinery that winds q
clock. 4& s9 W v
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-22

A Pittsburgh journalist says: 81
started to walk over to Allegheny yes
terday, when highwayman met me
and demanded cent" The only thing
that worries the journalist is to know
how the robber learned that he had
just received his weeks salary.-M r.
Graphic.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-22

There are vast number of houses,
both old and new, in London and its
vicinity ready to tumble down at any
moment upon very slight provocation,
and whose collapse would be attended
with the most serious results.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-22

Monkeys are sold for food in
France, but in this country they hang
on the front gates every moonlight
night and kiss the prettiest girls in
every community - NeUDsaaa Independ-
ef7f .
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-22

1T is estimated that fully one-third
of the entire number of Unitarian
churches in America has been founded
during the last twenty years. ea i
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-22

Next to dead elephant, the most
helpless creature in all this world is .
ditched locomotive.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-22

"A German statistician says that
there are about 800, 600 deaf mutes in
the world, 63 per cent of whom are
born thus, and 81 per cent. become so
later. There are altogether 397 insti-
tutions for the education of these unfor-
tunates, in which 2,0OO teachers and
26.473 pupils are found. OF these insti-
tutions, 80 are found in Germany, II in
Austria, II in Switzerland, in AUS
tralia, 1oin Belgium, 4 in Brazil, z in
Canada, in Denmark, 81 in France,
46 in Great Britain, 2 in Japan, 81 in
Italy, in Luxemburg, in Mexico. 2
in Holland, in New Zealand, Tin Nor
way, in Portugal, 10 in Russia, II in
Sweden, Z in Spain, 38 in the United
States and in Bombay.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-10-20
High Bridge, KENTUCKY.

In one of the most beautiful and
picturesque locations in America stands
High Bridge, Kentucky. It spans the
Kentucky River, aud is the railway
crossing of the Cincinnati Southern
Road on its track to New Orleans.
Picnics to High Bridge are the fashion
IN summer in that region for hundreds
of miles around. A flight of six hum
sdred steps leads the foot passenger
down beside the bridge to the water
below. Once an unwary traveller fell
down the steps and was killed.
High Bridge is one Of the great
bridges OF the North American conti-
nent. It's three spans are together
l,l25 feet long. It is 276 feet high.
The idea of bridge at this romantic
spot is more than generation old. It
was first attempted to be carried out by
the Lexington and Danville Railway
Company. They planned suspension
bridge. The President of the company
had such faith in it that at his own
expense he constructed the towers.
Then the organization failed, and the
towers stand to this day monument of
blasted hopes. The Cincinnati South
ern Company bought the road bed Of
the former conc ern, and built across
the river bridge Of the ordinary con.
struction, in which the towers were not
utilized,