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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-12
HOW LONG A CHILD SHOULD
SLEEP.

A healthy baby for the first two
months or so spends most Of its time
asleep. After that a baby should have
at least two hours of sleep in the fore
noon and one in the afternoon, and it
is quite possible to teach almost any
infant to adopt this as a regular habit.
Even to the age of 4 or S years a child
should have one hour Of sleep, or at
least rest in bed, before it's dinner,
and it should be put to bed at 6 or 7
in the evening and left undisturbed
for twelve or fourteen hours. Up to
the 18th year most young people re-
quire ten hours, and till the Goth year
nine hours. After that age every one
finds out how much he OF she requires,
though as a general rule at least six to
eight hours are necessary. Eight
hours sleep will prevent more nervous
arrangement in women than any
medicines can cure. During growth
there must be ample sleep if the brain
is to develop to it's full extent, and the
more nervous, excitable or ]precocious
a child is the longer sleep should ii
get if it's intellectual progress is not te
come to a premature standstiu or 1T
life be cut short at an early age.-Dr
C.. F. Pollock, an the Chautauquam.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-12
HARD AND SOFT WATER IN
COOKING.

All cooks do not understand the
different effects produced by hard and
soft water in cooking meat and veget-
ables. Peas and beans cooked in hard
water, containing lime or gypsum, will
not boil tender, because these sub
stances harden vegetable caseine.
Many vegetables, as onions, boil nearly
tasteless in soft water, because all the
flavor is boiled out. The addition of
salt often checks this, as in the case
Of onions, causing the vegetables to
retain the peculiar 1avoring principles,
besides such nutritious matter as
might be lost in soft water. For ex.
tracing the juice of meat to make a
broth or soup, soft water, unsalted
and cold at first, is the best, for it
much more readily penetrates the
tissue; but for boiling where the juices
should be retained, hard water or soft
water sailed is preferable, and the
meat should be put in while the water
is boiling, so as to seal up the pores
at once.-Jourmal Of Chemistry.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-12
BILL NYE ON BR1GHT's DISEASE

A useful fact is shown in the fol-
lowing paragraph from Bill Nye;
namely, that the popular humorist,
though not medically educated, has
discovered by personal observation,
that the wealthy, who can afford to
live "high," and whose habits are
sedentary, have pretty much a monop-
oily of Bright's disease of the kidneys:
"John Bright vas born in 1911.
He made a tour of the Holy Land at
the age of twenty-four, but did not
decide to purchase it, owing to the
existence of a flaw in the title. On
his return from the Orient, he discov,
cred that what was most needed in
Europe and America was a good, re-
liable disease for the Use of the better
classes. The poor and humble were
we'll supplied; but the rich, the aristo:
cratic and patrician statesmen, crowned
heads, and porkists, of the two lands
langulshed for a good, reliable disease
that the poor could not obtain. Sc
he began to sit up nights and perfec1
Bright's disease. He gained the prize
at the Paris Exposition, and honorable
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-12
READ AND

A writer in the Congregatsonasst
gives these causes of taking cold,
which are so generally overlooked. A
common carelessness, especially with
mothers who have occasion to rise
suddenly in the night to attend to the
children, is to step on the floor with
bare feet. A pair of warm slippers,
loose enough to slip on before the feet
touch the floor, and as easily kicked
off, is an indispensable part of night
attire. Fatal illnesses have resulted
from lack of precaution in this direc'
ton. Another carelessness is enter.
tanning callers in a chilly room. The
guest keeps her wraps on and does not
suffer; but the hostess, leaving the
warm sitting-room, which she thinks
too disorderly or not furnished well
enough to admit callers, runs serious
risks. So with children who are sent
to practice their music lessons in a
cold parlor. The mother throws a
shawl, perhaps, over her child's shoul'
ders, but forgets the chill that may be
conveyed to some delicate organ
through the fingers contact with icy
cold keys.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-12
ALPHABET OF PROVERBS.

A grain of produce is worth a pound
of craft.
Boosters are cousins to liars.
Confession of a fault makes half
amends.
Denying a fault doubles it.
Envy shooteth at others and woundeth
herself.
Foolish fear doubles danger.
God reaches us good things by u
hands.
He has hard work who has nothing
to do.
1t costs more to revenge wrongs than
to bear them.
Knavery is the worst trade.
Learning makes a man fit company
for himself.
Modesty is a guard to virtue.
Not to hear conscience is the way to
silence it.
One hour to-day is worth two to-
morrow.
| Proud looks make foul work in fair
faces.
| Quiet conscience gives quiet sleep.
| Richest is he that wants least.
| Small faults INDUCED are little thieves
that let in greater.
The boughs that bear most hang
lowest.
Upright walking is sure walking.
Virtue and happiness are mother and
daughter. ..
Wise men make more opportunities
than they find.
You never lose by doing a good act
Zeal without knowledge is fire without
light.-Church Union.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-12
THE MORAL INFLUENCE OF
CLIMATE.

Since the revival of naturalism, the
tendencies of educational reform make
it probable that the progress of moral
philosophy will become identified with
the development of new science. thus
far only outlined in a few incidental
treatises on the ~interactien of body
and mind. The possibilities of that
science are suggestively indicated by
the results of the statistical studies
devoted to one of it's branches-the
moral influence of climate. Modern
French scientists r nothing if not
methodical, and have repeatedly called
attention to the curious regularity in
the geographical distribution of GER
tain vices and virtues; intemperance,
for instance, north of the f~orty-eighth
parallel; sexual alteration south OF
the forty-ffth; financial extravaganza
in the large seaport towns; thrift in
the PASTORAL highland regions. 1t is,
indeed, a remarkable circumstance
that in the homes of the best wine
grapes, in Greece and southern Spain,
drunkenness is far less prevalent than
in Scotland or Russian Poland, where
Bacchus can tempt his %votaries only
with nauseous vodka. The idea that
a low temperature begets an instinc-
tive craving for alcoholic tonics seems
disproved by the tetotalism of the
Patagonian savages, who horsewhlp
every Spanish stimulant-monger with
out benefit of clergy. The Lesghlan
mountaineers, too, observe the inter
dict of the Koran in the icy summit
regions of the Caucasus; but there IS
no doubt that the bracing influence OF
a cold climate affords a certain degree
of immunity from the facilitating
effect of the alcohol vice, and that a
Scandinavian peasant can for years
survive the effects of a daily dose OF
alcohol that would kill an Egyptian
fellah in a single month.-Fslsn l..
Oswald, NJ. d., in Popular Science
Monthly for May.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-12
Weekly News and Observer

The Weekly NesOs and Observer is a long
ways the best paper ever published in
North Carolina. It is a credit to the peo-
ple and to the State. The people should
take a pride in it. It should be in every
family. It is an eight page paper, chock
full Of the best sort of reading matter,
news, market reports, and all that. You
canno afford to be without it. Price
s1.25 a year. We will furnish the Weekly
Ne,ns and Observer until January 1st,
1889, for 81. Send for sample copy.
Address, News AND OBSERVER Co, RALr
EIGH, N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-12
MRS. GEORGES FRANC
STORY.
She Had to Tell it to Keep a Brother
and Sister from Marrying.

She Had to Tell it to Keep a Brother
and Sister from Marrying.
A telegram from Mrs. Eliza George,
living ten miles from Louisville, KY,
to Chief of Detectives, Bligh, On Mon
day morning, asked him to arrest
Madeline George, l6 years of age, who
had eloped with Robert Stevens, Jr.,
a neighbor, Is years old. The young
couple were arrested in a Justices
Office, where they had gone to be mar
ried. The boy said he and Madeline
we're desperately in love with each
other. Six hours later Mrs. Eliza
George arrived in Louisville, with her
face flushed with excitement. Twenty
ago, the woman said, her father
died. leaving her his farm and several
thousand dollars on condition that she
should never marry. Before and after
the old mans death Eliza had been
assidiously courted by Henry Steph-
ems. The young woman loved him,
but, under the provisions OF her
fathers will, could not marry.
At last Cupid provided a way, and
STEPHENS and Miss George were mar
ried under the names of A. Goodman
and Sallie White. For three years
they lived together, two children be-
ing born to them. They then separated
Mrs. Stephens taking her maiden
name and the younger child, whose
name was Madeline. She returned to
her country home, while Stephens
took the eldest child, whose name was
Henry. Some years later Stephen
gave up his business in Louisville ano
moved to the country, buying a farm
adjoining that of Mrs. George. The
children grew up together withou'
knowing their relationship and soo1
became desperately in love; Tn
parents tried to separate the children
but without success. Madeline am
Henry finally eloped, and their arres
Just in time prevented a union betwee e
brother and sister.-New YORK; 81"
May %.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-12

tartar Sift the flour four times. Beat
the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth,
add the sugar gradually, then the flour
and cream of tartar. Bake in a pan with
a tube in the centre.
COL MEAT
Chop any kind of good, cold meat,
season with salt and pepper and place in
a mold, Take the bones and bits of meat
and boil them with an onion or two cut
fine. When boiled enough strain, and
add n spoonful of gelatine dissolved.
Pour this owe the meat and set away to
cool and harden.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-12

mention at the great celebration at
Philadelphia for a neritorious and
effective disease for the better classes.
Since that time he has been grati6ed
to notice that the very best people,
both in his own land and in this, are
handling Bright's disease. It has
been kept out of the reach of the poor,
and to die from this ailment has been
regarded as a proud distinction"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-12

The Wheel and Alliance number In
Tennessee one hundred and eight
thousand members, according to best
statistics we can get, and the increase
of members has been from 1900 to
2 500 per week-Ioaler.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-12
H G OF REASON.

treason cannot show itself more reasonable thai
% cease reasoning on things above reason."-Sn
PHILIP SIDNEY.
Man dares to question Gods just laws,
To sneer, pervert, dissect;
To prove their fallacy, because
He has an intellect.
Created king of every cline,
Possessor of the sod,
Because he wears the form divine
He thinks himself q god.
He reasons out salvation's plan,
Brings theories of his own,
And with his puny, human hand
Usurps his Makers throne,
Then with his feeble, fleeing breath,
Begs pardon at the gate of death.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-12
gdEtry.
THE Y'S FARM r.

Thre Is a farmer who is US
Enough to take his E'e,
And study nature with his rs
And think Of what he C's.
He hears the chatter of the Us
As they each other Us,
And rs that when q tree ID KS
1t makes a home for BIS.
A pair of oxen he will US,
With many haws and G's,
And their mistakes he will Kos
While blowing for his P's.
Whitehall Times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-01-21
The Rainfall.

The chief signal officer believes that
there is no evidence of a permanent
change of climate in Nebraska and Kan
sas, save so far as the increased cultiva-
ton of land, the planting of trees, and the
preventing of forest fires have increased
the amount of vegetation to such an ex-
tent that the moisture is better distribu-
ted and longer retained in the soil than
formerly. Consequently, the relative
humidity and the absolute amount of
moisture in the atmosphere is slightly in
creased. It follows, too, that the plant
ing of trees induces q slightly lower tenn
perature in the country which is wooded,
and which, by lowering the dew point,
facilitates slightly increased rainfall.
Observations for several decades more
will be needed to establish the fact of
any permanent change, since there are
fluctuations in precipitation which seem
to cover several years, and oftentimes a
slight deficiency is followed by slight
excess. There seems to be slight dim
mutton in 1879, then an increase, and
now q slight decrease west of the Mis-
sissippi river Farm and Home.
At late meeting of the Kansas Acad-
envy of Science, held at Topeka, Prot
Snow read paper on rain cycles in Kan
sas, which was illustrated by charts,
showing the curve of rainfall for thirty
nine years past at Fl. Leavenworth, and
for twenty years at Lawrence. There is
a period of seven years in each locality
from maximum to minimum rainfall
Exchange.
General Morrow claims that there has
been a decided increase in the rainfall.
Mr.. Dorsey takes the other view OF the
matter. As the result OF number OF
years of continued, though not scientific,
observation OF the region in question, l
am inclined to concur with General Nor
row in his conclusions rather than with
Mr.. Dorsey. + = There seems no
good reason for doubling that the entire
area OF country west of the Missouri and
east of the Rockies will within few
years enjoy rainfall sufficient to admit
of raising crops without any considerable
degree of artificial irrigation, the general
breaking up of the present tile like, I'M
pervious surface of the soil being the
single condition precedent Charles
Francis adams tn the Nation.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-01-21
TOPEKA COMMONWEALTH" THOUGHTS

TOPEKA COMMONWEALTH THOUGHTS.
SPEAKER CARLISLE depends upon the
Democratic majority in the present con-
gress more than upon the vote of his dis
triet. The latter seems to have been
against him.
CAPTAIN ELI TITUS, the live stock
agent of the Santa Fe company, says that
the number of cattle being fed in Kansas
this winter is considerably less than du-
ring either of the two years previous.
The wool growers of Texas, who repre-
sent in large measure the great sheep
raising industry, do not propose to have
their rights sold out to help the policy of
the Democratic party. The leading wool
growers of that state are Democrats, but
they are not free traders, and they are
making it unusually lively for Mr.. Cleve-
land since his message attacked their
business. A delegation of prominent
Democrats has gone to Washington to
protect the interests of the wool growers
of Texas and to repudiate the free trade
sentiments which their party has tried to
fasten upon them. One of these promi-
nent Democrats said that Mr.. Mills, who
is now at the head of the ways and means
committee, Is not representative OF
Texas opinion. He declares that there
has been vast change in public senti-
ment in that state in the last two years.
and that Mr.. Mills and other free traders
had failed to keep up with the times. He
declares that there is very strong pro-
lection sentiment in that state, and that
it will not submit to the fragrant attacks
of such un-American Democrats as all Of
the free traders have shown themselves to
be.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-01-21
CURRENT COMMENT.
Live Qnestisls Stripped Of Useless
verbiagc.

! KANzAsCTY aJoURNAL" KERNELS.
ffTY the poor policeman. He is unac-
cnstomed to exposure, and to be obliged
10 leave his warm corner In the saloon and
pace beat while the weather is so cold is
Certainly hard
How CAN the Globe Democrat publish
Illustrated accounts OF Sunday bull fights
In the City of Mexico and still hope to re-
tam its position as the great religious
daily OF the west?
ITS d-n funny they never try to hold
this place up. Then we'd catch 'em."
That was the remark addressed by one
policeman to another in saloon at the
corner of Twelfth street and Grand ave-
nue. on the very night after the police
commissioners had decided to expel sum-
marily from the force any policeman
found in saloon.
IT is very apt to be the case that when
q womanaccepts mans offer of marriage
she begins to shape her life in course
which means the virtual Amendment for
ever OF all other opportunities of securing
the comforts, Injuries and even necessi-
ties of life. When, through no fault Of
her own, this engagement is broken, she
COA WILLY 10 OuG1IlOu W SOlu0 COlup6uSdGlOu
from the person responsible for it. It is
this view OF the case, and not the senti-
mental one, which is responsible, unques-
tionably, for the heavy verdicts which
now and then are given in these cases.
IT is so often said, and we hope it will
continue to be said until there is no more
occasion, that it is disgrace to this coun-
try to permit England practically to con,
troll the markets of a country just across
our southern border with which we now
have ample railroad connections. The
United States is gradually gaining ground,
and the time will come when the disgrace
will be removed, but progress is very slow.
The activity OF late years in railroad
building in Mexico has had marked
effect in increasing her commerce with
other nations, and of this Hnew business
the United States has perhaps received
the largest share. But England still
leads us and France, Spain and Germany
each take a large slice. There are few
things which Mexico needs that this coun-
try can't supply, and any feasible measure
to promote commerce between the two
countries will be hailed with great salts
faction.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-01-21
Shepherd Ships Sheep.
Ellis Headlight, IT.

Alb. Shepherd returned one day last
week from Otego, Otsago Co, n. Z. Mr..
Shepherd shipped q double deck car o.
sheep to that point in November. be
reports that he found ready sale and fair
prices for them. He win ship two carr
moro in short time. Mr.. s, expects TO
stay at Otego this winter, and has ordered
the HenRieit seut to that point
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-01-21

w etherbee & Morgan
Make long time loans and handle
real estate in all counties in this
Land District. No delay in paying
out final proofs. Call on or address
them at their office, Ness City, or
Wa-Keeney, Kans.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-01-21

Fish; late editor of the Lacrosse Chief
tain. The libel is alleged to consist of
statements derogatory of Mr.. Fish's
character when he lived in West Virginia.
We are told that the alleged editor of
the thing in the basement took a pro-
foundly deep interest in the arguments
in the court room Tuesday forenoon on
the question of dismissing the libel case
from Rush county. He may well afford
to congratulate his rotten carcass on the
fact that his general worthlessness has
been the only thing which has prevented
him from having to face just this class OF
music.
The following gentlemen comprise q
portion of the Rush county people who
have been in attendance on the district
court this week: Mr.. Frazier, editor OF
the Lacrosse CMefiain; J. A. Yawger,
clerk of the district court; 81. s. Fish, ex-
editor of the Chieftain; ]. W. Mccormack,
county attorney; w. A. Ficken, sheriff;
L. x. Ham, ex-county clerk; G. Il. Nc
Kee, deputy sheriff and city marshal Of
Lacrosse; G. G. Fish. The most of these
gentlemen have paid us friendly calls du-
ring the week. Mr.. 81. 8. Fish. whom we
have long regarded as good friend, has
been the pilot in chief Of the LACROSSE
boys in the Trego capital.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-02
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH
FINANCIAL

FlNANClAL
NEW YORK., Sept. 1, noon-stocks quiet
but strong Money easy at ia per cent. Ex-
change-long. "a s4s4; short, 81 S734 Govern
ment bonds neglected State bonds dull but
steady
Erie ......... % Richnd & W. PIT
Lake shore. 49,. 9.ss Western Union. S3ss
Norf & w. pref. 1915
D. m.-Rxchange dull but steady at 81 S516
GA $50. Money easy at III per cent. Sub
S19.g7 900. Government bonds duh but steady;
four per cents 1887; four and half per conts
l06s6 State bonds entirely neglected
The stock market to-day while little more
active than last Saturday, was equally insight
ficant as regards the trading of the day The
tone of dealings, however, was uniformly
strong from the beginning to the end, and
everything on the list at the close is higher
than last evening Interest conferred entirely in
Northern Pacific and Oregon Transcontineptal
supplanted later by L.ackawanna, Reading and
Colorado Coal Buying was good all day out,
while traders were the principal sellers gen
orally of short stock. The opening was gen.
orally from the advance over last evenings
closing figures extending to Is per cent, while
Wheeling and Lake Erie was exceptional, with
a loss of "a per cent Animation in the early
dealings was all i'll Oregon Transcontinental,
and it was strong, advancing nearly point, the
rest of the list sympathZing, while Canada
Southern and Wheeling and Lake Erie preferred
also showed marked strength. There was a
period of stagrAtion after the movement was
checked, but later coal stock came to the front,
and Lackawanna, Reading and Colorado Coal
became the special features, the latter ad-
vancng nearly per cent The general list ad-
vanced small fractions, and the movement
lasted until the close. Everything is higher this
evening, though, except in Colorado Coal, which
rose 1B per cent, gains are for fractional
amounts only. Sales aggregated 1000 shares.
The following were the closing quotations: