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THE PERFECT CHEAP FERTILIZER
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LOST OR STOLEN.

Lost or stolen through the agency
of villains, under the disguise of
friends. The undersigned has lost
within the past few years the follow
ing items of property, namely:
An unincumbered estate,
A vigorous constitution,
4 fair moral character,
A good standing in society,
An active, healthful cOnclence.
Also, at the same time, or soon after,
the affection of a wife, children and
friends.
The miscreants who have thus
robbed me are the members OF one
family. Their names are Rum, Gin,
Brandy, Wine, and Ale. Another
base fellow, a recent emigrant from
Germany, named Lager, it is supposed
had a hand in the robbery, as he is
much in the above-named b~rotherhooo
of thieves, and seems to be a kindred
character. The villains are still Turk
ing in this city. Whoever will appre
bend them to justice shall receive the
thanks of the undersigned and a cul
of cold water.-Er.
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TO GROW EARLY CUCUMBERS

Fill old quart cans half full of muck
or sod. Fill up with fine rich earth
and plant one seed in each can. Set
in a sunny place where they can be
protected from cold, and when danger
from frost is over, set out without dis
turbiug the plant, which can be easily
done with a little care. This plan
may not be advisable on a large scale,
but for family use it answers we'll.
Cucumbers are gross feeders, and
plenty of fertilizer should be within
reach of the roots, but care must be
taken not to put too much on them.
If forced to feed on what they do not
need they are apt to turn yellow and
die, as they will do if the proper food
is lacking.
This is one of our best market
vegetables, and reports of experiments
with it would be both interesting and
valuable to many of the readers OF
this paper. 1t is often attacked by an
| insect which we think might be de,
stroyed by applying a solution OF to-
bacco, but care must be taken not to
have it strong enough to injure the
VINES. L. Reed, IN Florida Farmers
Fruit Grower. ~ %
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cut in shape, and let rise again. Have
the fat smoking hot, and the doughnuts
light enough to stay on the top Of the fat,
not 90 to the bottom of kettle.
SPANISH CREAM.
Take half a box of gelatine, cover with
water, and let stand about half an hour.
Take one quart of milk and let it boil up
once or twice. Beat five eggs very light,
and add sufficient sugar to sweeten them,
and mix we'll together. Add the melted
g~elatine to the boiling milk, and when
perfectly dissolved pour it upon the sugar
and eggs. Return it to the fire for a lew
minutes, stirring all the time. Season
with vanilla and pour into moulds Serve
with cream.
APPLE FRITTERs.
Mix one pound of flour with half a pint
of milk or water, then half a pound OF
butter melted in a stewpan; mix well to-
oether with a wooden spoon very smooth,
thin it a little with water, whip the
whites of three eggs very stiff, stir it
| gently; have six apples peeled, cut IN
| slices about a quarter of an inch thick, the
cores taken out with a cutter; dip each
piece in the batter, and fry in hot lard
about six minutes; to fry well, the fat
| should not be too hot at first. but get
hotter as it proceeds. They should be
crisp, and of a nice golden color. Serve
on a napkin, and sift sugar over them.
s&EE PUFF PASTE. - Z
Put one pound of -four on your pastry
slab, make a hole in the centre, in which
put the yolk of one egg and the juice OF a
lemon. with a pinch Of salt mix it with
cold water deed in summerif convenient
into a scottish flexible paste; with the
right hand dry it off a little with hour
until YOU have well cleared the paste from
the slab. but do not work it more than
Won can possibly help; let remain two
minutes upon the slab, then have a pound
of fresh butter from which you have
squeezed all the buttermilk out IN a cloth,
bringing it to the same consistency as the
paste, upon which place it; press 1t out
with the hand, then fold owe the edges
of the paste so as to hide the butter, ano
roll it with %rolling-pin to the thickness OF
a quarter of an inch, thus making it abou'
two feet in length; fold over one-thlrd
over which pass the rolling pin; then folc
over the other third, thus forming
square. place it with the ends top anC
bottom before you, shaking a little t1ou
both under and over, and repeat the roll
| and turn twice again as before; Hour
baking-sheet, upon which lay 1t upon lc'
or some cool place Gn summer it woul'
be almost impossible to make this past
we'll without ice) for half an hour. The
, roll out twice more, turning it as before
place again upon the ice a quarter OF al
hour, give it two more rolls, maxim
seven in all, and it is ready for use whe
required. rolling it whatever thickness &C
, cording to what you intend making. UI
wards of a hundred different kinds G
: cakes may be made from this paste.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-02-23
GREAT OVERFLOW IN CHINA,

1t is hardly possible for people to
realize, or even to conceive, a disaster
which counts it's victims by millions:
Yet this is what has actually happened
through the overflow of the Hoang
Ho. Twice in the last ten years the
river Theias, in Hungary, has burst
through it's artificial banks and spread
devastation far and wide in the neigh
borhood of Szegedin. But the mis-
chief wrought on each occasion,
though sufficient to excite a thrill OF
compassion throughout Europe, was
positively insignificant by the side OF
the calamity now reported from China.
The number of persons drowned IN
Honan, says a correspondent, can
never be reckoned with any approach
to accuracy, and can hardly ever be
guessed. Hazarding a conjecture,
should say that it cannot be less than
one million, and probably is not SC
high as two. Still the European In
Pekin. who by his relations with the
Chinese government: is in a position
to be better informed than any one
else, has put the number at seven mil
lions. The Deluge alone affords a par
allel to this appalling catastrophe.
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HOW DIMES ARE MADE AND
COUNTED.

The United States mint in San
Francisco is said to be the largest in
stitution of the kind in the world.
Just at the present time there is a
lively demand for silver dimes, and
two of the money presses have been
for some time running exclusively on
this coin. The demand is so great
that these machines are not even
stopped Sunday. The process of dime
making is an interesting one. The
silver bullion is first melted and run
into two-pound bars. These in turn
are run through immense rollers and
fattened out to the thickness Of the
coin. These silver strips are then
passed through a machine, which cuts
them into proper size for the presses,
the strips first having been treated
with a kind of tallow to prevent their
being scratched in their passage
through the cutters. The silver pieces
are then put into the feeder of the
printing presses, and are fed to the die
bv automatic machinery at the rate of
100 per minute, 4S, 600 dimes being
turned out in a regular working day
of eight hours. AS the smooth pieces
are pressed between the ponderous
printing dies, they receive the lettered
and figured impression IN a manner
similar to that of a paper pressed upon
a form of type; at the same time the
piece is expanded in a slight degree,
and the small corrugations are cut
into it's rim. The machine drops the
completed coin into a receiver, and 1t
is ready for the counters hands. The
instrument used by the counter is not
a complicated machine by any means,
as one might suppose. 1t is a simple
copper-colored tray, having raised
ridges running across it's surface at a
distance apart the exact width OF a
dime. From the receiver the money
is dumped on the board or tray, and
as it is shaken rapidly by the counter
the pieces settle down into the space
between the ridges. All these spaces
being filled, the surplus coin is brushed
back into the receiver, and the counter
, has exactly 1850 silver dimes, or $l25
| on his tray, which number is required
to fill the spaces. The tray is the1
1 emitted into boxes, and the money l
, ready for shipment. The dime doe
, not pass through the weigher's hands
. as does the coin of a larger denomlna
ton. One and one-half grains l
allowed for variation, or tolerance,
f in all silver coins from one dolla
down, and the deviation from tn
standard in the case of the ten-cen
pieces is so triaing that the troubl
and expense of weighing coins of tn
denomination is dispensed with.
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SMELLING CORN.

It is no small job shelling 200 or
800 bushels of corn, whatever method
is adopted. Perhaps for economy IN
labor and S the old way of tramp
ling it out by horses is as good for
large lots as any. The hand shelters
REQUIRE two men to work them to adj
vantage, one to turn and another to
place the ears. One hundred bushels
a day is a pretty good work, and no
time must be lost at that, these short
days. Still a hand-sheller saves a good
deal over the slower process of shell1ng
with the naked hand. In shelllng
corn for poultry it is better to shell
and feed one a at a time, giving the
fowls a chance to eat more slowly, but
this can be managed by feeding slowly,
even though the corn is all shelled be-
fore the feeding begins.
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NORTH CAROLINA
PHOSPHATE.
A Natural Compound of Bone Phos
phate, Lime, Magnesia, Soluble
Silica, Sulphates, Chlorides
and Potash.

To Make q Fertilizer for all Crops.
Compost 800 lbs of Lime Phosphate and goo ibs:
of Kainit with 1000 lbs, or say 80 busheis OF staple
In the present condition Of the markets, with cot
norton. don't YOU think there is need OF a change
in this business of buying high:pric;e e feF ran Martb
The wav to make the change Is TO Dhy M6s Ia
and lime, ingredients necessary to plants, and is
not loaded with acid, which makes it hlgh-prlceo'
C0anDost Your Fertilizers at Home.
Lime Phosphate is delivered free on board cars
mo if cost YOU $12 at your farm and kainit BIZ per
ton. the aoove ton of fertilizer will cost you, DE-
sides labor. ($7.5O, seven dollars, and MY Genus;
This is an excellent manure for cotton, corn OF
almost any crop. Address, ~ M
N. c. PHOSPHATE co.
fa,eom Raleigh, N. c.
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Mnnsehnla.
APRICOT FRITTERS.

APRICOT FRITTERS.
Cut the a~pricots in halves, proceed as
above. cook until quite brown, Sltt sugar
over them and serve.
ORANGE FRITTERs.
Peel four range divide them IN quar-
tiers by the thin skin, before cutting the
flesh, and proceed as above
BOILED HAN.
Cut the ham about one-third OF an inch
thick and broil over a brisk fire lay on a
hot dish. and season with pepper and
butter.
PEACH FRITTERS.
Skin and cut in halves six ripe peaches,
take out the stones, have a batter pre-
pared as above, dip them in, fry, and serve
the same as bOye.
JELLY ROLL.
Three cups of sugar, one cup OF butter,
five cups of -four, one cup OF milk, hVe
eggs. one teaspoon OF soda, TWO TEA
spoons of cream tartar; bake IN thin
Sheets, spread with currant Jelly, and roll
when cold.
SHORT PASTE.
Pit a pound Of best four upon your
nastrv slab. make a hole in the centre, in
which nut an ounce Of salt, half a pound
Of fresh butter and sufficient water to
form a stiff paste; mix well together and
| it is ready for use where directed.
NEAT sALAD
Chon fine one or two pounds of corned
beef. then take two thirds OF a cup Of
vinegar, one tablespoonful of sugar ano
one EGG. Beat all together, and pour into
a frying-pan and let boil, then pour INTO
dish and mould. Serve in slices whe1
cold.
SHORT PASTE FOR TARTS.
Put a pound of flour upon your pastry
slab, with 6 ounces of butter, and rub then
well together; then make a hole in thu
centre, in which put two ounces OF pow
dered sugar, two whole eggs and a larg
wineglassful of water; mix the eggs
@ and water well, then drown in tn
-four and mix together and work l
lightly.
ARBLE CAKE.
Light part-Two cups of white sugar
one cup of butter, one-half cup Of swee
milk, whites of four eggs, q teaspoons Q
baking powder, two cups of -four. Oar
nart-One cup Of brown sugar, one-ha
ccnp of molasses, n cup of butter, on
fourth cup of sour milk, half a teaspoo
Of soda, yolks of four egg, flour to thicker
and flavor.
PUFF PASTE WITH BEEF sUET.
Where YOU cannot obtain good butte
for making paste, the following is an e.
cellent substitute; skin and chop or
Mound of kidney beef suet very fine, p
in a mortar and pound it well, molstenir
with a little oil, becoming as it were OF
niece. and about the consistency OF gu
ter: proceed exactly as in the last, usl1
it instead Of butter.
WHITE BEAN sou
Soak one quart of beans over mgr
drain off the water, put the beans III
stock pot with one carrot, n onion, OF
tablespoonful of prepared seasoning, thr
quarts of water. Let them simmer TO
hours, then strain through a colander, ST.
| ring it over the stove, and remove t
| scum while boiling. When finished, az
a pat of good butter, a little sugar and
little chopped parsley. Serve with fri
crust of bread.
One pint of milk, one-half cup shorte
ing, half butter, half lard, two cups sug;
one-half cup potato yeast, two eggs, flo
for a batter; mix at noon; after supp
or when light, stir in flour until the spo
will stand alone; in the morning turn G
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Flour, Sugar, Coffee, Salt, Nalss'as, &C.

1000 Sacks Special Tobacco Guano
(Star Brandt.
1000 Sacks Complete cotton Manure
(Star BRANDY.
1000 Sacks Merryman's Ammonlated
Dissolved Bones.
1000 Sacks High Grade Acid Phos-
phate.
500 Sacks Genuine German KANT,
fresh from the Mines. 49,.
In offering the above Fertilizers we can
confidently recommend them as hrst-class
in every respect. None better: but few
as good. We offer all the above at the
very lowest price for cash or upon crop
time, payable this fall, where satisfactory
arrangements are made.
Viii be glad to have your c~onslghments
of cotton. Will hold it for higher prices
and advance upon same when desired.
Call at our Office when in Raleigh.
J. J. THOMAS & CO.,
3l3: 315 and 81, S. Wilmington St.,
fe163m RALEIGH, N. G.
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2dEtry,
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.

Ry THos. NEWTON CRUMPLER.

BY THos. NEWTON CRUMPLER.
(Our esteemed friend, Col. Walter w.
Lenoir of Watauga, kindly furnishes us
with the following brilliant poetic gem.
Il was written by the gifted and noble
hearted and heroic Crumpler-his friend
and our friend-and it makes its first ap-
pearance in these columns. One beauti-
full summer day in 1862 he sprang to his
saddle, cheerfully singing "Blngen on
the Rhyme" and placing himself at the
head of that magnificent body OF men,
the First. Regiment n. c.. Cavalry, led his
last charge. His tuneful Tyre was hushed
in the stiffness of death amid the hoarse,
laundering chorus that poured forth from
the metal Threats of a thousand guns. A
truer man never lived-a purer patriot
never died.-ED. PROGRESSIVE FARMIR.)
And God said. Let there be light and there "a'
light.-Gen.
When first Jehovah's high command
Babe earth to her existence leap,,
Thick darkness lay DER all the lanu
And on the bosom OF the deep.
God snake and DER the young earth flashed
The glorious light unknown BEFORE,
And the bright waves of ocean dashed
Their sun-dyed jewels on the snore.
Thus when sins heavy mantle lay,
Like night, and all the earth en1urleu'
shut out the light of heavens bright day.,
And dimmed and yelled the fallen world.
God loved. and 10 a beauteous gem
Rose ~glittering on the brow OF night,
Hopes star, the star OF Bethlehem;
And gave to all nations llfe ana hsnl.
Lord. as we drive DER life's dark wave,
Let mercy's light be on our path.
Save us, thy erring children save
From the red lightnings of thy wrath.
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KAFF'IR CORN.
Produces enormously of either grain or forage
Superior Quality

crovys and nroduces well on poor land and will
T vieIT two On to three times as much grain per acre as
common corn. The grain is excellent !. for Goa all n klnds
eonsI to that of wheat. and for buckwheat cakes Is
an Improvement on the original: Three to five
pounds will plant an acre. Price OF SEED per pouno
So cents: six pounds for $1.OO; per bushel $4Oo.
A. 7.
foo.+ Wa Kulla, n. G..
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One pint of milk, one-half cup shorten
ing, half butter, half lard, two cups sugar,
one-half cup potato yeast, two eggs, flour
for a batter; mix at noon; after supper,
or when light, stir in flour until the spoon
will stand alone; in the morning turn out
on the moulding board, mould enough to
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HOrSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

The House called to order by the clerk, who an
nounced the fact OF The Speakers indisposlton and
stated that nominations for Speaker pro tenn we're
in order. Mr. MILLS, Of Texas, OeGred a resolution
appointing Mr. cox, Of New York Speaker during
the present temporary absence of the Speaker Unanl
mously agreed to.
Mr.. COX having taken the chair and called the
House TO order, the chaplain offered a prayer in be-
half Of the Speaker.
Mr.. MKINLEf, Of Ohio presented the resolutions
adopted at the conference of wool growers, wool deal
ers and wool manufacturers. recently held in Wash
ington, and they ordered printed in The Record"
Mr.. WILKINS, Of Ohio. called up the unfinished
business the bill to provide for the issue Of circu
lalatng notes to National banking asSOciati0ns-the
pending question being ordering the previous ques
ton. on which the yeas and nays had been ordered
At this point season OF fbustering under the drec
ton of Mr.. WEAN Err of Iowa. and Mr. ANDERSON
OF Kansas, began. and the morning hour of consdera
uon' was closed without any action the bill
The Speaker pro TEN laid before the House the
Presidents message accompanying the reports Of the
Pacific Railroad Commits siOn. The message was re-
ierred to the Committee on Pacific Railroads.