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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-05
AN INQUIRY.

Mr.. EDITOR AS this seems
to be somewhat a day of ques-
tions and answers, l believe
/ feel a little disposition to put a
few to some Of our knowing ones. But
you know, it is sometimes said, that
an old dote a ask a question that a
youm9 Solomon may not be able to an
swer. That may be so in my case,
nevertheless, to be fashionable, [ be-
lieve l will venture a few, hoping
some friend will relieve my mind of
it's present embarrassment. You re-
member some time ago the general
government donated land script for the
purpose of establishing Agricultural
Colleges. How was it that several of
the States realized some $500, 900 for
their script while the Old North, or
Tar Heel, only made a showing of
$l25,O0 for her script, if l mistake
not2 Can it be that "Old Rip" was
taking M of his long sleeps and his
sisters got ahead of him, or was it for
want of skill in trade? Either being
the case, don't you think it is getting
time to shake off our drowsiness and
wake up to the reality of our present
condition, before we sleep the sleep of
agricultural death, which we are sure
to do, if we nap 1t much longer =?
Wake up, brethren; wake up.
SENEX G..
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-05
ROBBING THE

With malice prepense and afore.
thought every capitalist who goes into
a trust, a combine or a plot to keep
down prices by simply manufacturing
such a quantity of goods as the de.
mand may make necessary, is a con.
spirator against the agricultural
classes of the country, and will sooner
or later, have such an ending as most
conspirators generally deserve.
Take for example the pillow trust.
AS soon as 1t was perfected the price
of plows went up 100 per cent. This
increase was mainly brought about by
the steel trust, of course, in perfect
harmony with the pillow trust. The
combine includes all the great pillow
manufacturers of the country, and it
is safe to say that plows are at least
100 per cent higher than they would
be If the duties on them and the steel
manufacturers who 60 with them
were abolished. Now, who suffers,
and suffers alone this Communicating Of
trusts :? Who, indeed but the farmer?
He has to pillow his land, stand the
raise, pay the juggled advance, only
made possible through the war tariff,
and struggle along the best he can
under the additional load.
There is no combine to put up the
price of his wheat and his corn-his
sheep, horses, hogs and mules. Com
petition is killed, and whether the
pillow is worth Sill or $40 he has to
have it or quit agriculture. Only so
many are manufactured at home, and
none can come in from abroad because
the war tariff acts as an absolute pro-
hibition.-Kansas City Times.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-05
AS TO S E S

An chronological expert writes as
follows on two insect pests, probably
among the most annoying to the hor-
ticulturist of any, as follows:
CURcULIo REMEDY.-If any of your
readers are troubled with the c%urculio
and if they have plum trees that are,
L have a remedy which I have tried
five years with uniform success. The
Larvae of the curculio hibernate during
the winter in the earth around the
roots OF the trees. If, when the plum
trees begin to bloom, the earth to the
extent of about four inches deep, is
removed from around the tree and
fresh earth supplied to fill it's place,
the larvae will be removed with it and
the fruit saved. Or a better way is to
spread four inches of dirt around the
tree during the summer and remove
1t again in the spring when the tree
begins to bloom. This will be found
much easier than the old way of
Earring the tree, and trying to destroy
the full fedged insect.
CUCUMBER BEETLEs.-This is one of
the most annoying pests of the garden.
My plan of getting rid of them or at
least holding them in check, is to mix
equal parts of road dust and old
Stacked lime and sprinkle on early in
the morning when the dew is on the
leaves, also scatter on the ground all
around the plants. After the plants
get their second, rough leaves, lime
entirely, may be used. If properly
attended to there is no need of losing
any vines. This is my plan. If any
OF your readers have a better n l
shall be pleased to hear from them
through the columns of the Farm,
fse!d and Stochmam, for the benefit Of
all It's readers Chicago &ockmam.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-05
CLOVER PASTURE FOR PIGS.

The veteran, A. B. Allen, writes on
this subject in an exchange as follows;
It has long been the custom to turn
grown swine during the summer sea-
son out to clover pasturage, on which
they got a good support, supplement-
ing it with a little bran, shorts or other
grain feed. But till lately it was
feared pigs in order to thrive we'll
must have, in addition to clover pas.
ture, all they would eat morning and
night of some kind of bran or meal,
mixed up in water together with milk
if to be had. But recent experiments
prove that the bran or meal ration
may be considerably lessened if the
clover pasture is well kept up, and the
pigs thrive quite as we'll as when fuller
fed, which makes it quite a considera.
ton when grain is scarce on the farm,
or it is bringing an extra price on the
market. If the pasture gets short by
September, roots and pumpkins can
be used to supplement it.
If the pigs are rearing for slaughter
by the last Of that month, or the
commencement of October, a good.
ration Of bran with one part Of Indian
meal should be fed to them, moderate.
ly at first, then increased gradually in
the proportion of meal, and all they
will eat morning, Don and night. For
two weeks previous to slaughter the
ration should be made up of not more
than eighth bran. During all this
tim: it would be we'll to give the pigs
oil meal or cotton seed meal, an even
tablespoonful morning and night, in
creasing this with the age of the pig,
which by October may have from a
half to a whole pint twice per day, &C.
cording to the size of the animal. A
half gill of salt should be dissolved in
each gallon of water used for mixing
up the bran or meal: This as well as
the oil assists digestion and is very
healthy.
1t is surprising that pumpkins are
not more grown for feeding swine.
Some have a prejudice against them,
saying they promote an excess of
urine; but this is not the case when
swine are of a good breed, and the
whole of the pumpkin is fed together.
If the seeds are cut out and given
alone to them they might prove in
furious. Being scant of grain one
autumn, but having an abundance of
pumpkins, [ fed a considerable num-
Der of breeding Berkshires during the
whole months of October and Novem-
Der into December entirely on pump
kins, and they kept in as good con
dltion as l ever want to see a lot of
breeders.-&. Louis Journal of Agrl.
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general thing is very good, though
some low grounds yer considerably
damaged by a heavy rain which fell
last night.
The oats, so far as l can learn, are
very good, but the tobacco crop will
be very late. About three-fourths of
the crop has been planted, but very
little has been worked. Altogether
the prospect for this crop is very bad
at the present time.
When you hear from Pelham again
the prospect for the farmers will be
brighter, or at least it is SO hoped by
T w C.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-05

"An Alliance vas organized at K.
.. Pencils last Saturday, so we were
informed, with a good membership.
They are getting thick in this county
and cross roads farmers seem to be de-
termined to better their condition.
This is right, all other professions and
callings have their organizations.
Why not the farmers have theirs p
Franklin Dispatch.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-05

When, for instance, it becomes un-
derstood that the addition of cotton
ssed oil to lard is a step in the direc-
ton Of wholesome and nutritious
TODD and costing the consumer much
less than the natural product, a great
step forward will have been taken.
Medical Classics.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-01
How to Make Kaleidosc0pes.

Chow do we make ksleidoscopesi
Come this way and will show you." !
The speaker, o thin-faced German, long
engaged in manufacturing kaleid doscopes,
led the way into small store. At .
work bench extending the entire length
of the shop many girls were busy.
"The first young woman" said tho
manufacturer, wraps the black paper
about the glass reaectors that produce the
optical Illusion. These strips of glass,
when thus arranged and fastened to
gether, form the body of the kaleiao-
scope. The next girl simply inserts the
united refectors into the pasteboard
cover and then passes the ootagonal paste
board to her neighbor. Number three
adjusts the brass ring which secures the
glass discs at the end. Between the
discs, or plates, are placed the scraps OF
colored glass, the beads and various
trinkets which tumble about as thu
kaleidoscope is revolved, and when 10
fected by the mirrors form themselves
into shifting mathematical figures.
The other young women are armed with
hammers to break the colored glass into
fragments. We obtain the colored glass
from the waste scraps purchased very
cheaply of stained glass manufactures.
The kaleidoscopes retail at seventy-fve
cents each. We can make six gross .
day of this kind, and about twenty gross
of the fve.cent kind. The finest factory
is in Providence, Rhode Island. Carpet
designers get many of their patterns from
the kaleidoscope."-Ne0 York Mail and
ErpresS. .. -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-01
First Use Of TOrpedoes IN Naval
Warfare.

Francis Edgar Shepperd is said to have
been the first man to use the torpedo in
naval warfare. He came of an old North
Carolina family, and was graduate OF
the Naval Academy. lie resigned when
his State seeded, and entered the Con-
federate Navy. twenty-five years ago
shepperd, then Captain in the Con-
federate Navy, blew up the United States
gunboat Cairo with an old. fashioned
tixed torpedo fastened to the bottom of
the Mississippi. Lieutenant Commander,
now Rear Admiral, Thomas o. Selfridge.
was in command of the Cairo. He and
his men were badly shaken, but no ono
was killed or seriously injured. Captain
Shepperd, who was lying on the bank
watching the explosion, made up his
mind then and there that that was q
cowardly way Of fighting, and that ho
would not have any more of 1t. He
never used ano her torpedo. He died
recently In Georgetown, and was buried
near Philalelphia. -.Nte fork SIR.
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A Greenback Done In OIL.

Afac-simile of q two-dellar bill Is At
tracing good deal of attention from
strollers through the Fifth Avenue Hotel
corridor, where 1t is displayed. 1t Is 9
perfect imitation of the genuine, and
bears the signatures Of B. h. Bruce and
Mr. Wyman.
:: 1t is painted on black background.
The original belonged to Chief Clerk
Carr of the hotel, who pulled it out OF
his pocket one night about three weeks
ago, and jokingly told young Proctor q
New York artist, that he could make
money If he could paint greenbacks.
Proctor at once accepted the chsllence,
and last week completed the task.
The texture of the paper has been al
most exactly reproduced, and the creases
that come in bill after it has been tucked
away in dozens of pccketbooks arc
cleverly traced across the canvas. The
best criticism made of Mr.. Procter's
work is the frequent comment from casuui
ipassers-by that it is merely an original
:'cleverly worked over in oils.-Ms'O YORK.
Graphe.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-01
A Female Animal Charmer.

Upton County, Tennessee, has phe-
nomenon in the person of a young
lady who has remarkable power over
animals. She is able to conquer, and
ride, in o moments time, horses and
mules that no one else has ever been
able 10 handle. The most savage dog
in the neighborhood quais before and
never offers to molest her. Squirrels
and birds come to her in the woods and
eat from her hand, and many times she
has been known to pick up q rabbit in
the path. She says that from infancy
she has had this remarkable power over
wild animals, but only within the past
few years was she aware that she was
also 'llorse tanner" She says she is
not conscious of putting forth any effort
in this line, but it just 'comcs natural. "
The only explanation that she can offer
is that she has an intense sympathy and
love for wild birds and animals. In re-
gard to horses she is perfectly fearless,
and by their animal instinct they must
know it. These, she says, are the only
reasons she can give.-Cincinnati 7sle-
QTGW.
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A Story of Jesse James.

Now that am on the subject of trot-
ting" said Secretary Hall, of Detroit, in
the rotunda of the Merchants yesterday,
81 am reminded of an incident that took
place in 1876 at the Kansas City meeting.
There were several thousand people con-
gregated in the vicinity of the ticket Of
flee when suddenly band of men rode
into the Enclosure and began discharging
firearms apparently right into the crowd.
AS they expected there was a general
scattering, and ere the people collected
their senses the ticket man had been
overpowered and his cash box, contain
ing about $1,000, taken away by the
members of the shooting party, who
turned out to be members of the Jesse
James gang. Rewards were offered for
the detection and arrest of the perpetra-
tors, but nothing ever came of it. The
next summer, ono day while travelling
along the road towards Independence
Mission, met O single horseman and we
soon became engaged in conversation.
We did not exchange cards or names,
but rode along into the town on pretty
good terms, and few moments after we
Separated learned that my companion
was none other than the notorious Jesse
James himself. 1t was his crowd that
had robbed my ticket seller year be-
forc, but did not recognize him as one
of the participants. Among the people
it wa, the general impression, and have
never heard it contradicted from relia-
bic source, that Jesse James scorned to
enact the role of highwayman when o
single person was concerned, but took a
delight in frightening large crowds when
in search of booty. His men knew that
shooting over the heads of the spectators
would alarm them fully as much and
create more of panic than by killing
people in cold blood, and hence their
forays were always attended with great
deal of noise but little violence towards
their victims. ."-S. Paul Globe.
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nComine"-"Here". -t'GOne."

Two bclated Thespiaus who found
themselves stranded in a Western town
with but $40 joint capital and 4. 900
miles from home, conceived a plan OF In.
creasing the slender fund. They billed
the town on Monday with the simple
poster: 'He is coming-ThnrsdaN
night" BY Wednesday every villager
of the worst show town in the West was
agog with curiosity, and when on Thurs
day morning the posters went out:
"He is here!'' there was rush for tho
Town Hall, and half the house was sold.
On Thursday night these two WORTHLESS
were on hand, one selling tickets in the
box Office and the other taking them at
the door. There was not even standing
room at 8 o'clock, as the partners,
dividing the spoils, started for the depot
to catch the Sis express for the East
Before going they left word with the
stage hands to raise the curtain at $50,
and lower a specially prepared whita
muslin drop. The muslin drop unfolded
before the expectant audience. It bore
these words: "He Is gone. .'-B'ooklyn
En1Ls
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Immediate Abstinence.

The Rev. J. W. Hornby, III. A., late chap
lain of Clerkenwell Prison, England, read q
paper before the International Congress OF
inebriety, entitled observations Of Inebri.
ETY." from which we quote the following:
IA prison official is in better position
than any one else to see whether or not there
is truth or wisdom in the idea carefully pro
NOTED by not few doctors, and eagerly
caught at and preached by their patients,
that an habitual drinker, or even habitual
drunkard, must be let down by degrees An
ordinary perusal of the papers would prepare
one to believe the fact that at any moment
our prisons must contain thousands of living
contradictions Of this common and popular
fallacy. Years Of drinking may have pre-
ceded the momentary crime that brings on
man many years of penal servitude: another
may be hardly sober when admitted for his
three or six months for an assault committed
when drunk, and yet at once his drink u
stopped, except in a few cases of incipent
delirium tremens, when lin some prisons, not
ALL little alcohol is given until the fit has
passed away. Why, even in cases OF pris
oners who have been opium eaters OF
chloral drinkers, and have far stronger
and more abiding crave than that the
dipsomaniac knows, there is no lettlng
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-01
Russian Excitability.

There is great excitability about q
Russian. He loses his head upon the
slightest provocation. If you ask q
drosky driver the second time how
much his charges are he becomes OK
cited and talks so loud and fast that
people in the next block run to see who
is hurt. was driving one day down
the principal street in st. Petersburg
with member of the Privy Council. The
carriage went at a rapid pace. as car
riages usually do there. Directly we
heard great noise behind US. We
looked, and the people for 200 yards in
the street and on the sidewalks in our
rear were standing still and looking and
yelling at US. asked my distinguished
friend what the matter was. He replied
that he did not know.
Our carriage rolled on at the same
rapid pace. We didn't stop. Finally
the confusion became 50 great that the
people in front of us began to stop and
gaze at us. The workmen who were
putting down the Nicholson pavement
on either hand stopped and yelled at US.
Again l asked my friend what the
trouble was, saying we were making a
sensation. He looked around again,
and sure enough, the whole great, broad
street was full of people directing their
voices tour carriage. They pointed ut
us and made exclamations that even the
native beside Inc could not interpret.
Five mounted policemen now turned
into the street and began to ride US
down. They cried: "Stoi, stoi!" which
means ''stop." Now my friend turned
pale. He asked me if my passport had
been returned to the hotel, with the
chiefs signature, his leave for me to
stay. Ireplied that it had been sent to
the officer but that as had not re-
ceiyed it I did not know if it was all
right.
II expect" said he, "that these officers
are after YOU" and he called to the
driver to stoi."
When the officers came alongside I
unconsciously raised up, ready to be
taken into custody, and looked to see
which one had the handouts.
"See there!" exclaimed one of the
mounted gendarmes.
My friend and I looked at the side Of
our horses, expecting to see evidences of
crime, and saw a pull-back strap hang
ing loose The driver got down and
buckled the strap, the officers rode
back, we drove on, and business was re-
sumed again on the street.-Kansas City
Journal,
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your happiness Celibacy has been honored
by the test being that over lived and his
greatest apostle, Christ and Paul. What
higher honor could single life on earth hayei
But what you need, oh woman, Is to he ain.
ancel forever and forever. and the bands o!
that marriage l am this moment here ana
now ready to publish. Let the angels OF
heaven bend from their galleries of light to
witness while pronounce you one-a loving
God and forgiven soul. One OF the most
stirring passages in history with which am
ACQUAINTED tells us how Cleopatra, tho e1iled
queen of Egypt. won the symL athies OF j ulius
G. Cpsar, ths conlusror, until he becama the
bridegroom and she the bride. Driven from
her throne, she sailed away On the Medlter-
ranean sea in a storm, and when the large
shin anchored she put out with one Womanly
friend in a small boat until she arrived at
Alexandria. where was Caesar, the great gen.
anal. Knowing that she would not be per.
mItted to land or pass the guhros on tue way
to Caesars palace, she laid upon the Dotcom
of the boat some shawls and scarfs ana rlcn-
" dyed upholstery, and then lay down upon
them, and her friend wrapped her IN them
and she was admitted ashore in this wrap
ping of goods which was announced as
present for Caesar. This bundle was permit
ted to pass the guards Of the gates OF tae
palace ami was put down at the 1eet OF tne
Roman General. When the bundle was un'
rolled Cnefe TOS0 UtlOIo Seao' YIN "'SN
courage and beauty and brilliancy are the
astonishment Of the ages. This exlled queen
of Egypt told the story OF her sorroWs, ana
he promised her that she should get back her
throne in Egypt and take the throne OF w1tely
dominion in his own heart. Afterward they
made triumphal tour in a barge that the
pictures of many art galleries have calieo
dCleopatra's Barge" and that barge was Gov
cred with silken awning, and its deck was
soft with luxuriant carpets, anc the oars
were silver tipped, and the PROV was goa
mounted, and the air was redolent "lth tne
spicery of tropical gard ems and resonant
With the music that made the night glad as
the day. You may rejoice, oh woman, ,tnat you
are not Cleopatra, and that the one 20
whom you may be atfianced had none OF tne
aims Of Caesar, the conaueror But it suggests
to me how you, n soul exiled from happiness
and peace, may find Your way to the 1eet OF
the conoueror Of earth and sky. !hougnls
NAV be a dark night of spiritual agltatlonLln
which you put out, into the haroor OF peaces
Won may sail, and when all the wrapplngs OF
fear and doubt and sin shall be removed you
will be found at the feet Of Him VINO Wlll PuI
YOU on a throne to be acknowledged as MI
IN the day when all the silver trumpets or
the sky shall proclaim: Behold the orlae.
nroom cometh,h and in barge Of light you
sail with him the river whose source IS the
foot Of the throne and whose mouth ls az tne
sea of glass mingled with fire.
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All Draw Life from the Country.

The country is the nursery of the towns
and tho towns arc the nurseries of our
cities, says Bill Arp in the Atlanta Con-
ytitution. 1t is Just so everywhere. When
q farmor gets rich enough to 80 to town,
he goes, for the town has good schools
and churches and society. When town
merchant gets little ahead, he gets am
bilious, and wants to get rich with more
slaority. He becomes little uppity and
!bipity, and so moves to tho city. just,
so with lawyers and doctors, and even
the preachers are not proof against high
salaries and beautiful churches. ]
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and returned to Tho hospital. lie was
weak, and even now can only just about
lift his head. The whisky has been kept
up regularly with light diet. There
have been no spasms. DR.. Robb is
satisfied that hydrophioba can be cured
with ammonia, whisky and heat. The
only drawback is that the case did not
result from dog g.bite. but every one who
saw the case admits that the symptoms
could not have been worse if the patient
had been bitten by rabid dog, and it is
generally conceded that if this patient
could be cured there is no reason why
hydrophobia from the bite of q dog could
not be cured with the same treatment.