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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-07
A PATENT BED.

A Partisan millionaire, M. Lang,
has recently had made for him a
wonderful bed, which is certainly
one of the most luxurious pieces Of
furniture we have yet heard of: If
it could only become universal
what a boon it would be to early
risers! The description makes
M envy the fortunate possessor.
The bed itself is a model OF comfort
and the following devices have
been adopted to render rising from
it as pleasant as possible. When
it is time to get up a chime of bells
ring. The occupant continues to
sleep. Suddenly a candle is lit by
a clever mechanical arrangement.
The sleeper rubs his eyes and an
invisible hand proceeds to divest
him Of his nightcap. By means of
electricity a spirit lamp with coffee
roasting apparatus affixed next be-
gins to burn. The water soon boiIs
and the smell of coffee fills the room
with a delicious fragrance. Lux
uriously revelling in a crowd of
agreeable sensations the occupant,
now just beginning to awake, is
soothed by sounds proceeding from
costly musical box. At length the
bells ring out another merry peal
and at the foot of the bed a card
with "Levez-vous" ("Get upD
inscribed on it appears. If this in
vitation is without effect a power
full mechanism lifts the occupant
bodily from his bed and deposits
him on the floor.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-07

The root is the part used as medi-

The root is the part used as medi-
cine.
Medicinal Uses.-Dandelion root
is laxative and somewhat tonic.
Dandelion seems to act especially ON
the liver. Half a pint of the root
stepped and drank is good for dis
eases of the skin and kidneys.
Doc TOOTH VIOLET most
commonly, perhaps, by the name of
Adder Tongue. 1t is a small plant,
having but two leaves, which are
smooth, lace-shaped, five or six
inches long, and covered with dark
purple spots, giving them a peculiar
appearance.
Medical uses.-Both the root and
leaves are used, and mainly as a
poultice applied to scrofulous ulcers.
The fresh root and leaves arc to be
stewed in milk, and then applied to
the n A decoction of the arti-
Gle may also be drank.
DoGwooD.-This is a small, COM
mon, and when in blossom, a most
beautiful tree, we'll known through
out the United States. The flowers
which appear early in the Spring
are white.
Medical Uses.-The bark and root
is the part used, being an excellent
tonic and somewhat astringent.
Dose Of the powdered bark, from
half to one teaspoonful.-HealM and
Home.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-07
THE PRESIDENTS HABITS.

A great deal has been said about
President Cleveland's belief in fatal
ism and in luck derived from certain
habits. Many great men have had
these eccentricities, as DR.. Johnson,
who could not pass a gate-post with
out touching it. 1t is probably not
true, as has been stated, that tt e
president welcomes all fortune-tel-
lers to the White House. But it is
rue that he does believe in a certain
amount of tate. His peculiarly
takes shape in the direction of Spi-
itual mediums. It is a common
story that while he was Sheriff in
Buffalo a medium told him that he
would be president. This prophecy
made a great impression on the Pres
ident, and, although a practical bus
mess man, he has had a permanent
faith in mediums ever since. Ac-
cording to creditable testimony,
Mrs. Sawyer, a noted medium, visit
ed the White House several times
last year and administered to the
spiritual wants of the President.
She assured him that he would be
elected President again. 1t is a mat
ter of common talk that this medium
warned Mr.. Cleveland that he must
be very particular with himself. and
that this will account for the extra
ordinary care with which the Chief
Magistrate exercises with reference
to himself. It is a singular fact that
while Mr.. Cleveland claims to be
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-07
1T WON'T WORK.

A blue-bird perched on an aspen limb
In the February glitter,
You can't fool me with your siren hvmn
Or the twit of your tunesome twitter;
| know, while of vernal things you blab,
That the buds don't burst nor the brook
lets bah,
And that meath your promissory CAB =
There's an pathological litter.
It's a chestnut, birdie, so it is
This little toot you're footing:
You seem to make it your annual "biz"
To come at the first saluting
OF genial air, and chirp about
The dandelion's coming out,
And the rhubarb's readiness to sprout,
And the verdure's general shooting.
But, the blue-bird perched on an aspen
limb!
This spring you sings a spectre,
You can yawp the thing till your senses
In the sea of a god-kissed nectar,
But you can't inveigle a chap that's cute
To shuttle his four-ply flannel suit,
Or, in a moment of rashness. "shoot"
His all-wool chest-protector.
-Yonkers Gazette.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-07
HERBS AND THEIR USES.

DANDELIoN.-This is a well known
herb growing in all parts Of the
country, in fields, yards, meadows,
along the roadsides, on the banks of
creeks and hillsides. 1t is an early
Spring plant, its leaves remaining
green throughout the season. The
young leaves are used on the table
as green's, and are both agreeable
and healthy. The flowers are OF a
bright yellow color, attached around
a sort of head, about an inch in di-
ameter, at the end of a smooth,
round, light colored hollow stem
about the size of a large goose quill,
which rises from the center of the
leaves to the height of ten inches.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-07
RATS WILL LEAVE.

A correspondent of Chambers Jour-
nal says that chloride of lime will
drive rats away. He first made
this discovery on board ship, and
says also: "On my return to
England | took Il house and fur
nished it. After being in a short
time, | found hat it was infested
with rats. They would get through
every part on the ground floor.
On examination [ discovered that
a drain ran under the house, emp
tying into the harbor. [ here again
used the chloride of lime freely, and
in less than a week every rat had
taken it's departure. [ have rec
commended this remedy to many
shipmasters and friends on shore;
and in all cases it has proved a sue
cess. I have occupied my present
residence for five years, and we
have neither rat nor mouse on the
premises. I attribute this to the
free use of the above mixture,
which is also effective as a deodo-
rizer and disinfectant."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-07
BE CAREFUL.

There are two kinds of perspiration,
sensible and insensible. When we see
drops of water on the surface of the
body as the result of exercise, or subsi-
dence of fever, that is sensible perspira-
tion-perspiration recognized by the
sense of sight. But when perspiration is
so gentle that it cannot be detected in
the shape of water drops, When no mois-
ture can be felt, when it is known to us
only by a certain softness of the skin,
hat is insensible perspiration, and is so
gentle that it may be checked to a very
considerable extent without special in
jury. But to use popular language,
which cannot be mistaken, when a man
is sweating freely and it is suddenly
checked. and the sweat is not properly
brought out again in a very few mo-
ments, sudden and painful sickness is a
very certain result.
What, then, checks perspiration? A
draft of air while we are at rest, after ex-
e~rcise, or getting the clothing wet and
remaining at rest while it is so. Getting
out of a warm bed and going to an open
door or window has been the death of
multitudes.
A lady heard the cry of fire at mid
night; it was bitter cold it was so heal
the flames illuminated her chamber.
She left the bed, hoisted the window
and the cold wind chilled her in a mo-
ment. From that hour until her death,
a quarter of a century later, she never
saw a well day.
A young lady went to a window in her
night-clothes to look at something in
the street, leaning her unprotected arms
on the stone window-sill, which was
damp and cold. She became an invalid
for life.
Sir Thomas Colby, being in a profuse
sweat one night, happened to remember
that he had left the key to his wine eel
lar on the parlor table, and fearing that
his servants might improve the inadver-
tence and drink some of his wine, he
left his bed, walked down stairs, the
sweating process was checked, from
which he died in a few days, leaving
100000 in English funds. His illness
was so brief and violent that he had no
opportunity to make his will, and his
immense property was divided among
five or six day laborers who were his
nearest relations.
The great practical lesson which we
wish to impress upon the mind of the
reader is this: When you are perspiring
freely keep in motion until you get to a
good fire OF to some place where you are
perfectly sheltered from any draft of air
whatever.-HaN's Journal of Health.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-07
GEMS OF

There is not SO contemplate a plant
or animal that does not confound the
most enlarged understanding.--Locke.
To-day is a king in disguise. To-day
always looks mean to the thoughtless, in
the face of an uniform experience, that
all good and great and happy actions
are made up precisely Of these blank to-
days.-Emerson.
The moral projections of the Deity,
the more attentively we consider, the
more perfectly still shall we know them.
-Aherbury.
Our happiness in this world depends
on the affections we are enabled to in
spire.-Duchess DePrasHn.
1t is the talent Of human nature to
run from n extreme to the other
Swtt.
Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion
Knocks God, presenting to him the out
side, and ~reserving the inward for his
enemy.-Jeremy Taylor.
There is but one thing without honor;
smitten with eternal barrenness, inabil-
ity to do or to be, ~insincerity, unbelief.
He who believes nothing, who believes
only the show of things, is not in relation
with nature or fact at all,-CarIyle.
A lie has no legs, and cannot stand;
but it has wings and can fly far and
wide.-Bishop Warbmton.
1t is wilful deceit that makes a lie. A
man may act a lie, as by pointing his
finger in a wrong direction when a trav-
eller inquiries of him his road.-PaLey.
No sophism is too gross to delude
minds d~istempered by party spirit
Lord Macouiay.
All the crimes on earth do not destroy
so many of the human race, nor ALLEVIATE
so much property, as drunkenness
Lord Bacon.
The virtue of justice consists in mod
Grafton as regulated by wisdom.-Aristotle.
That which causes us to lose most of
u time is the repugnance which we
naturally have to labor.-Dryden.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-07
Seienee audi Sndustru.

Large lots of American dried
apples are sold in China and Japan.
The number of hogs packed in
the United States for the year end
ing March 1st, reaches the enor-
nous sum of 11,263,567.
1t is said that $4,000 workmen
are engaged in the production of
petroleum in Pennsylvania, and
about 10000 in refining it.
Let keepers Of apiaries be on
their guard against toads, for they
are determined bee eaters. They lie
in wait at the foot of hives to seize
their prey.
The average price of orange
groves in California is said to be
$1,000 an acre, that contains seventy
five trees, the best producing about
ten boxes of fruit each.
1t is stated that at least fifteen
cars per day for four months will be
required to move the orange crop
out of Southern California. Seventy
five per cent. of the crop will come
East.
THAT agriculture is depressed
in Scotland may be judged from the
fact that in a recent issue of a Scotch
paper forty-seven country mansions
with about 245, 600 acres attached
yer advertised for sale.
"A Missouri farmer who has
been testing seed corn from the butt,
the tip and the middle of ears for
three years, finds that the corn from
the tip Of the ears will ripen first,
that from the middle next and that
from the butt last.
Canadians are beginning to wor-
ry over the loss Of their forests. In
the more thickly settled portions of
Ontario only 10 per cent. of wood
land remains, and wells must now
be dug to the depth of forty or fifty
feet where formerly water could be
reached at six.
The bef grus, or fatted OK, at
the New Orleans festival this year
was a remarkable animal. He was
the purest white, $500 pounds in
weight and appeared ready for sac
rifice, with hoofs and horns gilded
and neck and shoulders garlanded.
In a late lecture at Yale, Prof.
Arthur T. Hadley stated that no
less than $4,000 persons were injur-
ed annually in the United States
from the single duty Of coupling
cars. This estimate is made from
statistics Of surgical aid given in
such cases
The immigration to this country
shows a great falling off for 1885,
the total number Of foreigners land
ing in New York aggregating but
291,O66 against 354,7O2 in 1884.
This is the smallest number since
1879. Germany sent 97,913 immi-
grants, Ireland 35,277, England 25,-
657, Russia 1885, Sweden 16,O45,
Italy 1910, Hungary 1865, Aus
tria 1882, Norway 1914, the bal
ance being natives Of other Euro
pean States. It is a singular fact that
nearly $4,000 Of these foreigners re-
manned in new York. The percent
age of agricultural laborers was
comparatively small.-American Cul-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-07
A BOOST.

There is no better roost than one
made of 3x4 scantling, the edges
being rounded off slightly to pre-
vent cutting Of the feet, with the
narrow side up. Such a roost is
strong, solid and will hold any
weight that may be placed upon it.
Nor should the roots be placed one
above the other, or inclined so that
they will be higher at the rear than
at the front, as the fowls will all
crowd to the higher roosts. A roost
should be detachable, SO as to be
taken outside and cleaned, kerr
osene being freely used. The
roosts should also be so arranged as
to permit of easy access in remov-
ing the droppings. Farm and
Garden.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-07

plr excellence the President of the
people and one of the masses, he has
never appeared on Pennsylvania av-
enue-down which Grant and HAYES
used to walk every week-and that
he has never exposed himself to pub
lie view except in a vehicle in COM
pany with Col. Lamont Washing
ton Letter in Baltimore Herald.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-07
TO GET RID OF STUMPS.
For the Progressive Farmer.

With a large anger, bore 4, 5, or
6 holes in the stump. Fill them
with kerosene oil and wait II or
"a hours until the stump absorbs
the oil, which it will ido. Then
pour some more oil in the holes {;
wait a few minutes; then stick a
match to the oil and if don't get
away with that stump, l will come
and try On Ho.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-04-07

HARD AND Soft BRIsTLEs.-The
wild hogs of southern Spain are
clothed in fine, curly black hair,
and thus the proverb, Never did
a Spanish hogs bristle pierce a
shoe The fineness of hair and
absence Of bristles are attributed
to the hot climate, for in those
provinces of Spain where this black
breed prevails, winter frosts and es-
pecially snow, scarcely ever appear.
On the contrary, in those parts of
Russia where the winters + long
and severe and the m short
and cool, the swine produce extra
long and stiff bristles in great
abundance, like the okatska,
which are exported in considerable
quantities and sell at a high price
in foreign markets.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-03-19

THE COMMON SCHOOL FUND.

The reason why only a partial
distribution of the common school
fund is being made does not seem
to be generally understood. AS
the question has been SO much dis.
cuSsed of late, there is no reason
why every one who reads the news.
papers should fail to understand it.
The funds in the treasury, from the
fact that appropriations for the
years 1884 aud 1885, so far exceed
ed receipts, had run Sc low that
there was not enough to distribute
the full amount. On this account,
the Legislature passed an act di.
reCting the Auditor to issue no
warrant for the common school
fund, till after April LIST, except tor
monies actually paid in to the cred
it of it.
The amount paid in to the credit
of this fund by saloons, in round
numbers; was found to be ninty five
thousand dollars and this amount
is now being distributed to the
different counties. 1t is all the
funds available, and is, therefore,
only a partial distribution. After
April LIST, the balauce will follow,
and each county will then get all
entitled to under the law. The
failure TO make the tull distribution
is attributable TO no cause except Il
scarcity of funds.-Stdte LedgeF.
We presume then that the distri-
button is not to be delayed on re-
count of the failure to receive re-
turns of educable children from ii
few counties, which is the case, as
we stated last week, and we are to
get our distribution next month.
1t will there appear more clearly
that this county was entirely too
previous, as we predicted. Other
counties are going on With their
schools, and some, at least, do not
seem to be uneasy, rs will appear
from the following from the HouS-
ton Free South
Owing to the delay in the distri-
button of public school money an
til April, warrant brokers in Ger
tain portions of the county are
Offering only so cents for second
mouth warrants. The attention OF
teachers are called TO the fact, that
at Houston they can always get
the cream of tue market in spot
cash.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-03-19
THE pesMEr MILLS FOR SALE.

We publish today an advertise
ment for the sale of the DeSmet
property by Mr.. Ii. q. Vaughan,
Receiver. Mr.. Vaughan will sell
this property in accordance with
the provisions of IL decree ia favor
of creditors recently rendered by
our Chancery Court, half cash and
half credit with good security.
This is a very valuable property,
was improved and equipped with a
lavish hand, the machinery being
the best of modern improvements.
The location is as good if not better
than any other in this section for
the manufacture of lumber on a
large scale, being accessible from
the Gulf of Mexico by IA navigable
river upon which it is located few
miles from the Gulf.
All this property, consisting OF
mills, houses, land and logs will, of
course, sell cheap, much below their
intrinsic value, and the buyer will
secure Il are bargain.
An appeal has been taken from
The decree under which this sale is
% be made, but that proceeding
will in no wise effect the sale or the
title of the purchaser. If the tie
,ree is reversed it will only determ-
the rights to the proceeds of
he sale aud settlement before the
faster in Chancery.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-03-19

A BILL has passed the Legisla-
ture creating a Board of Control OF
the pe%nitentiary, and making the
Railroad Commissioners that board.
l. provides that the Gulf and Ship
Island Railroad Company's rights
under the recent partial transfers
of the present lease under act of
1884 shall be forfeited unless per-
fected in thirty days. 1t grants to
this road the preference of the fu.
ture lease, after expiration of this
year, and of an annual expense of
$4,000 first mortgage bonds of the
road.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-03-19

The Lower House of the Legis-
lature of this State has passed, by
a very large vote, on its first read.
ing, a resolution submitting to a
vote of the people an amendment
to the Constitution providing that
the Governor of this State shall
not be eligible to hold the office for
but one term of four years. That
is just in accord with our way OF
thinking. Set down on the COnsti-
tutiOnal convention and give it to
us in broken doses. This amend.
ment is especially needed, as our
people are getting so charitable
that they will never consent to turn
a mar out of Office to the injury of
his reputation. The idea now is to
them out of the dilemma.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-03-19
LAND NOTICE,

LAND OFFICE AT JACKSON, Mss
March II, 1856.
Notice e hereby given that the follow
ing named settler has filed notice Of bis
intention to make final proof in support
Of his claim, aud that said proof vii be
made before the Judge OF b bis absence
the Circuit Clerk Of jackson county. at
Scranton, Miss, ON April e, 1850 viz /:
j White, homestead No. 1850.
for the southeast qr, eoutiteast qr, section
and southwest qr, southwest q, go
tsCn - township 4,south range7 west
ard northeast Or, northeast qr, section 6
ahd northwest qr, northwest u, seetioa 5,
township 5. south range , west
He N the following Witnesses to
prove be continuous residence upon a1d'
Of said Lard vizs Harry y.
N7odman, Willian A. Fletcher, john
iavenS George W. Tootle, all Of van
leave p. o., Jackson county. Miss.
JAS. d. STEWART Register
Harch ~ lss6 26f
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-03-19

The Senate, in executive session,
rejected the nomination of Dr. @.
A. Rice to be Superintendent of
the East Mississippi Insane Asylum
at Meridian. We suppose the re-
ceat investigation into the manage
ment of that institution was the
cause of the action of the Senate.
But the friends of DR.. Rice made
another effort and succeeded in
getting his nomination, which the
Governor renewed, confirmed.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-03-19
LAND NOTICE.
LAND OFFICE AT JACKSON. MISS,
AarnI 10 fSgc

LAND OFFICE AT JACKSON. Miss, I
March 10, 1526.
Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing named settler has filed notice of his
intention 20 make final proof in support OF
his claim, and that said proof will be made
before the Judge or in his absence the
Circuit Clerk ut Scranton, Miss, on
March Ii, 1886, viz: William Howell,
homestead entry No. 11157, for the north
hf, northwest Or and southeast pr north
west Or and northeast or, southwest Or,
section %, township 2, south range Z west.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of said land. viz: William H..
Golf, Alexander +. Cochran, Redding
Rouse, Charles p. Eubauks. all Of Gross
Roads p o., Jackson county, Miss.
JAS. ID. STEWART, Register,
March 10, 1886. 3-6t
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-03-19
TO ADVERTISERS.

The DEMOCRAT-STAR
is the Oldest newspaper on the
Mississippi Gulf Coast ; has a
larger bona tide circulation
than any other newspaper in
this section; therefore, it is
the BEST advertising med
Jun. Advertisers, bear this
in mind.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-03-19
LAND NOTICE.
LAND OFFICE AT JACKSON, Iss.,
March 10 tS3i {

LAND OFFICE AT JACKSON, \ Iss., I
March 10, 1886.
Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing named settler has fled notice of his
intention to make final proof in support
of his claim. and that said prout will be
made before the Judge, or in his absonce
the Circuit Clerk Of jackson. county, at
Scranton, Miss, on April 30. 1886, viz /:
Redding Rouse, homestead No. 1000, for
the east hf southeast Or, section IL and
southwest Or, southwest or, section IL and
northwest or northwest or. SECTION IL,
township 2, south range Z west.
He ntnes the following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence upon
aud cultivation of said land, viz: William
Howell, William H. Golf, George NJ. How
ell. Charles p. Euhanks, all Of Cross Roads
p. o Jackson county, Miss.
JAS. d. STEWART, Register.
March 10. 1886. Bot
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-03-19

The mufderers, Patrick Ford aud
John Murphy, were hung in New
Orleans on the 18th inst. They
succeeded in dosing themselves on
the previous night with belladonna
aud came near cheatingthe gallows,
but were hung while in a stupor.
A subscription fund is being made
ap for the benefit of the family of
Pit Ford.