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Wonders Of a Cheap Restaurant

At some of the plain, cheap, American
restaurants 50 plentiful in New York, you
have four or five kinds of soup, as many,
perhaps, of fish, half a dozen roasts, and
IN ample array of made dishes, pie, puds
dings, etc., and all the vegetables, canned
or fresh, in ordinary use anywhere. Yet
the entire kitchen is no bigger than that
of an ordinary house, and one, or at most
two, assistants TO- wash dishes is all the
help the n plain cook requires. How
is this possible? Stand aside and see.
Here comes a waiter with an order for
vegetable soup, made by boiling bones
and scraps of beef, mutton, chicken, veal,
etc. Out of this boiler the cook dips a
bowlful of the clear soup and into it he
pops in quick succession a little from each
pot of boiled vegetables he is serving for
that day. There is your vegetable soup.
Is it consomme7 From a big pitcher he
pours into the clear stock some brown
t~hickcning fluid. Is it macaroni9 a pot
of boiled macaroni is near at hand, and
he forks a few strings into the bowl. Is
it ox-tail2 A big tin of condensed OK
tail soup stands on a handy shelf, and a
spoonful lends its flavor to the stock. Is
it chicken? He thrusts a pair of tongs
into the boiler and brings up morsels from
the depths until enough scraps of chicken
are found to pass muster. Is it tomato?
a squirt of weak but thick tomato-cat-
sup does the business, Is it rice9 Some
of the rice pudding is available. More
rice, some thickening, and a fistful Of
curry-powder, and you have a curry. A
little t%hickening and a kidney from
another pot makes the ~kidney-stew al
ways in demand. Roast lamb and roast
mutton come from the same joint at its
touch, and, by the aid of an unctuous
salad and some jelly, so will roast veni-
son at a pinch. Roast rib or roast loin
come from the same piece of beef depends
altogether on his carving. The veal is
veal, or it is chicken for salad, or it is
turkey for fricassee, or it is rabbit for
stew, or it is lamb for pie, just as he de-
sires. The plain old cod, too, if boiled,
is turned into boiled halibut, OF haddock,
or bIuefish: and if baked becomes baked
halibut, or bluefish, or haddock, at his
simple touch. With the aid of q few Bit
ing sauces, they become almost anything
one can name in the way # fish. When
it comes to deserts, the distinction be"
tween fruit-cake and plum-pudding is
with him only the difference between hot
and cold, and vanishes before the blast
from his e The boiled rice of the
curry or soup, with milk, sugar, and a
little nutmeg, is straightway rice-pudd-
ing. Tapioca and sage come out of the
same dish, and it is a wonder how he re-
members all the names he calls his cot
tage-pudding by.-Argeuant.
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Tanning hy Electricity.

This talk about tanning leather in a
few hours by electricity is all rubbish.
You might as well try to fatten pigs by
electricity. But leather can be tanned in
a tvery short time, although a perfect
article cannot be produced in less than
five or nix months. Some time ago a
BaTTIast(N. " man asked me how long
it would take me to tan a goat skin and
make a pair of boots. I told him it could
be done in twelve hours. He bet me
$100 it couldn't be done. That night I
went to a butcher and bought a goat. At
six the next morning the goat was skinned,
twenty minutes later I had the hair off
the hide, colored and in the liquor. By
noon it was dried, dressed, and dried
again and glazed and ready for the boot
maker, who finished the boots by five
o'clock in the evening. It cost the Buff
falo man nearly 5000 after the wine and
extras were paid for. It was leather,
but it wouldn't do to risk a reputation
on its wearing qualities.-Atlanta Con-
ststutioB.
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Mighty Tribes of Smiths and Jones.

If we are to believe unsophisticated
statisticians there is one Smith in every
eighty-two persons comprising the popu-
lation in the United States, and one
Jones in every ninety. This would give
us 1872, 6S3 Smiths and ia, 444 Joneses.
Two pretty mighty tribes if they could
ever congregatel The Smiths could all
by themselves replace the whole popula-
ton of Philadelphia and the Joneses that
Of Brooklyn. The German schmidts
md the Dutch Smids are closely allied
to Il Smiths; but in Gaelic, that pro.
life cognomen becomes Cow, as all
readers of the "Fair Maid of Perth" NAV
know. How very undignifed, com
pared with the high-sounding Lefevre of
the French, and especially the Petulen-
gro of the Gypsy tongue!-New York
San.
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pent her decisionF Irresolute whether to
retreat or advance. Harvey Stillman
stood in the doorway till Matte neither
seeing nor hearing him, felt she was not
alone, and looked up. In a moment she
was on her feet, and for the first time the
clergyman saw her eyes fash with anger.
"Why do you come back?" she said.
'Have you not sufficiently Inundated
me2"
"I!" he cried. ~ humiliate you?"
"What else is it to come to me to
plead Mr.. Gordon's Iove2 Is he an idiot
that he cannot speak himself, but must
make my name a byword by prating of
his love to every s~tranger2"
ttMiss Woolston, you misjudge him and
me-me most Of al if you imagine I de-
sire to humiliate you. I, who honor you
above all othae women! I, who came
tearing my own heart to plead against it
for your happinessl Do not judge me
harshly, Matte, for my loves sake!"
She had SO visibly frightened as he
spoke, such dewy happiness rested in the
brown eyes, such tremulous smiles gath
cred around the small mouth, that the
Rev. Harvey Stillman felt his own heart
swell with sudden rapture.
"Mattie," he cried, II am many years
older than you are, and yet I love you
with all the strength of my heart!"
Sand love YOU
Simply as a child, she told the truth Of
her own heart. He was not a man for
any outburst of rapture. Tenderly he
folded her in his arms, saying softly.
'"Thank God, darling"
Nobody but Matte and her betrothcd
knew why Ned Gordon resolved to pur-
sue his studies in London instead Of re-
naming with his father in Greyport, but
years later, when he came back to the
country town to take his fathers prac.
tice, the Rev. Harvey Stillman felt, with
grateful emotion, that the good resolu-
tons had not faltered, but had ennobled
and purified the entire life of his old ri,
val, while Matte gave a cordial welcome
TO the pretty blue-eyed wife, VINO had won
and kept the heart of her old lover.
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Wonderful Rucceaa.

remedy must have mesit or it will never be.
come a favorite remedy with Che people. Where
the virtue of Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. b. are
thoroughly known, it sells better than any other
medicine. Naoers & Morrow, Of Birmingham,
Ala, say they sell a gross of B.. B. B. q mouth
to their retail customers. They buy it ten gross
at atime, as they also have a good wholesale de-
mind for it. O'her similar instances might be
m ntloned, but we have not the space to spare.
en1flcient 1t Is to KNOW thatB. B. B. ha. quicker
ebe;t than all other blood purifiers, and, as a
general health r storer and SIR ngthener of the
SIS en-: Vt IL tie st and only safe remedy.
When your blood is impu,e e. when aches and
pains trouble you, W ien sores br ak out on YOUR
person, when you fe-l wax, nervous and debil-
ltated, when your appetite fails, when you are
troubled with dyspepsia, when there is q gener-
al rune lonal arrangement Of the system, when
yon feel all broke up and life hardly seems worth
living, give B.. b. B. a trial and you will at once
begin to grow better and stronger.
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A Bad Egg Detective.

The camera obscura is used by some
grocers for testing eggs. A box fifteen
inches long by twelve wide and twelve
high has six holes, each large enough to
admit the large end Of an egg about one
third the d~istrance from the front. At
the back, n edge resting on the bot
tom, and on the back of the box, is .
piece of mirror extending clear across
the box. IT is inclined at an angle Of
about thirty degrees. Just above it 10 8
semi-circular slot or peep hole. To ope-
rate, the front Of the box is set toward
the light, and six eggs are set into the
six holes. If they are good the mirror
shows the reflections in pale pink. Bad
eggs are Opaque and simply darken the
holes. A little light is enough for the
front Of the box-a candle win do.
Every family should have such an egg
tester.-star-Gausags.
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Gillian Longevity.

The Chilians have evidently discovered
the secret Of longevity. From a recent
return it appears that nearly 500 persons
out of a total of 2 $500, 900 are upward OF
a hundred years old. One man puts his
age down at $50, making himself the
oldest man in the world. After him
comes a woman aged 1888; two women
and one man report themselves as 1876;
1872, $50 and 1877 each have a representa-
tive, while there are seven 1875 years old,
eight 1870, twenty-seven lis, and no less
than ninety-one aged ITO. But they are
mostly colored persons. The whites in
Chill are cut down like flowers at the
early age of ninety or so.
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Two Comparisons.

Simon Greenleaf, the eminent jurist,
who for fourteen years previous to his
appointment as professor in the Harvard
Law School was a practicing lawyer in
Portland, had a charming daughter. A
foppish young man named Barrel, meet
ing her at a social gathering in this city
one evening in early spring, remarked to
her that he had that day seen in Deer
ing's woods something that reminded him
of her. When asked what it was he said,
"a green leaf" "And I saw something
this morning from my window that re-
minded me of you, remarked bliss Green
leaf. INLAY l ask what it was2" asked
the youth. can empty barrel!"-Poyt-.
land lMe.) Transcript.
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A Remarkable Specimen Of Defarmitr

There is a remarkable specimen of del
formed humanity of Paradise, Mo. His
name is Joseph Jesse. He weighs 200
pounds, has no hands, feet, elbow joints
or shoulder blades; but, notwithstanding
these drawbacks, he enjoys fife inn
mensely, walking about on lis chair,j
talking well, writing with a pen in his
mouth, singing, growing, barking, and i'm
fact constituting IN entire museum in
himself. He has a wonderfully de-
veloyed chest, and can hold his breath for
three minutes without any apparent in5
convenience Chicoao Herald.
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TIE 7

Where the rocks are gray and the shore is
steep,
And the waters below look dark and deep:
Where the rugged pine, in its lonely pride,
Leans gloomily over the murky tide;
Where the reeds and rushes are long and
lank,
And the weeds grow thick on the winding
bank;
Where the shadow is heavy the whole day
through,
There lies at its mooring the old canoe.
The useless paddles are idly dropped,
Like a sea-bird's wings that the storm has
Topped,
And crossed on the railing; one Ger one,
Like the folded hands when the work is done.
While busiiy back and forth between
The spider stretches his silvery screen,
And the solemn owl with the dull sstoo-
whoo,"
Settles down on the side of the old canoe.
The stern half sunk in the Shiny wave,
Rots slowly away in it's living grave,
And the green moss creeps Ger it's dull decay,
Hiding its moldering dust away,
Like the hand that plants DER the tomb a
flower,
Or the ivy that NANTES the falling tower;
While many a blossom of ~ioveliest hue
Springs up DER the stern of the old canoe.
The currentless waters are dead and still,
But the twilight wind plays with the boat at
will,
And lazily in and out again
1t aoats the length OF the rusty chain.
Like the weary march of the hands of time,
That meet and part at the noontide chime,
And the shore is kissed at each turn anew,
BY the dripping bow of the old canoe,
Oh! many a time with careless hand,
L have pushed it away from the pebbly
strand.
And padded it down where the stream runs
quick,
Where the whirls are wild and the eddies
thick,
And laughed as I leaned DER the rocking
side,
And looked below in the broken tide,
To see that the faces and boats were two,
That were mirrowed back from the old
canoe.
But, now as I lean DER the crumbling side,
And look below in the sluggish tide,
The face that I see there is graver grown,
All the laugh that l hear has a soberer tone,
And the hands that lent to the light skiff
wings
Have grown familiar with sterner things,
But I love to think of the hours that sped
As I rocked where the whirls their white
spray shed
Ere the blossom waved or the green grass
grew
Ger the moldering stern of the old canoe.
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Soldiers Singing Under Fire.

As an example of the spirit which
animates the German army, Prince Kraft
Hohenlohe tells a fine story. At the
battle of Chateaudun a battery found it
self without ammunition under a heavy
fire. What was to be done? The officer
commanding ordered the gunners to take
their places on the limbers and sing the
"Wacht am Rhein," Tin ORDER" as
Prince Kraft says, 'tthat they might pass
the time a~greeably while waiting for fresh
cartridges. n- Micoao HeraM.
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There is a man in our town
Aud he is very wise, sir.
When e'er ne doesn'e feel just right
One remedy he tries, sir.
It's just the thing to take in spring
The blood to purify,
He tells his friends, and nothing else
Is he induced to try
because, having taken DIR. Pieroe's Golden
Medical Discovery to cleanse his system,
tone it up, and enrich the blood, and finding
that it always produces the desired result,
he considers that he would be foolish to eX-
pertinent with anything else. His motto is,
prove all things and hold fast to that which
is good" That's why he pins his faith to the
"Golden Medical Discovery"
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The railroads Of India have almost
done away with caste. AL sorts Of re-
igions now have to mix up, and it
hasn't hurt 'em a BIT. On the contrary,
Ianaticiam Is fast disappearing.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-16

The Gear of Russia has suppressed the
Lutheran Church in his domains. There
were three years ago about three million
members of this body in the Russias,
mostly in the Baltic provinces.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-16

Bradfield's Female Regulator VIII cure all
irregularities or arrangements peculiar to
woman. Those suffering should use it. Sold
by all druggists.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-16

The senior Clergyman Of the Church of
England il Archdeacon Philpot. He was
born i'll 1871 and graduated in 1912.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-16

Il love lies dreaming, can he tell the trut
when he iSawake2
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-16

Cornell University has . Japanese noble
nan among its students.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-16

Is marriage Il failure? Ofconrse not; MAJ
riage Is II assignment.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-16

The Bohemian element is rapidly multiply
ing in New York city.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-16

Walking e dvertisements for DR.. Sage's
Catarrh keinedy are the thousands it has
cured.
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Have you tried "Tansill's Punch" Cigar?
The Opelousas courier., 1889-11-16

II afflicted with sora eyes use DR.. Thomp
sons Eye water. Druggists ssllat 25c PSF bottle
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SORGHUM

April II, 1889.
Mr.. EDIToR:-I have my mode of
sorghum culture to the readers of
your paper. And, surely not because
I have created any revolution in it's
culture, but because I have been cult
waiting it for several years, with one
purpose in view, to obtain better and
cheaper syrup than I can buy with
cotton; which I think l have sue
ceeded in doing beyond a doubt.
In this section, land that will pro-
duce 1000 pounds of seed cotton, will
make 100 gallons of syrup. 1 will
leave your readers to make their own
calculation from these figures and
from what l shall say of the cost of
cultivation, which is this. That the
seed from the sorghum used to feed
hogs, will amply pay for all expenses
of cultivation.
It may be planted any time between
the last of March, and the 10th or
18th of June. The ordinary late va
rieties should be planted in April or
the first of May. The early varieties,
such as early orange and amber may
be planted as late as the 18th of June
after oats.
1 lay off my land in rows three and
one-half feet apart, and bed it off, dis
tributing manure in water burrows,
either barnyard or commercial, or
both. Then throw either two or four
burrows back on the fertilizers &C.
cording to size of pillow. The bed
should be just high enough to leave
the young plants about on : level
with the land. Open this bed with a
very small pillow Or an old-fashioned
cotton drill and either SOW the seed
very thin or drop them in hills about
Is or 20 inches apart, and cover with
a board or block attached to a shovel
stock.
AS 500 as the plants are up so they
can be seen, and taken care of, stir
the ground lightly with a cotton pillow,
and when they begin to grow thin to
one stalk in a hill. After this, the stalks
begin to sucker and you will observe
that all the suckers come from the
point where the stalk leaves the root.
AS soon as the stalk is strong
enough to bear dirt sufficient to cover
this point, break the suckers all off
and turn the dirt to it. If you sue
ceed in covering this point, the
trouble of cultivation is mainly over,
as it grows very rapidly, and will
soon take care of itself. 1t will over
come a backset from want of prompt
cultivation, or unfavorable seasons,
better than almost any other crop.
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PETERKIN COTTON SEED

AS I have some seed unsold, rather than
carry them over to another season, I will
fill orders accompanied with the cash as
follows:
busheL. sacked. S1 90
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ALLIANCE CONVENTION.

EDENToN, N. c., March IA, 1889.
Resotved, That the County Business
Agents Of the northeastern counties
of the State be and are hereby ap.
pointed a committee to consult with
proprietors of factories as to cost of
building a cotton factory and other
factories contemplated in the call of
this Convention.
RESOLVED, That the Sub-Business
Agents Of said counties be and are
hereby appointed a committee to So
icit subscriptions Of shares in stock of
SIS each for the construction and
establishment of said factories, and
make their reports in so days, and in
every go days thereafter to the County
Business Agents, and they to the
President of Convention, James Bond,
Windsor, n. G.
Resotved, That these resolutions be
sent to The PROGRESSIVE FARMER for
publication with the request that
Fisherman and Farmer, Windsor Ledger,
Murfreesboro Mder and other friendly
copy.
Adopted.
JAMES BOND, Pres't,
WOOD PRIvATT, Sec'y.
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have also experimental as to it's
injury to the soil. / find that it is in
my judgement no more injurious than
other crops. It grows well after itself,
but I do not approve of planting any
crop on the same land too often.
After it is cut in the fall, the old stub
BILE should be plowed up to give them
time to decay before next spring, and
not allowed to remain and sucker all
the fall. The old patch gives a good
open piece of land in time to SOW rye
for an early spring pasture. IONA.
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Lands are seldom so rich, but it may
be a matter of gain to increase theil
fertility; and few tracts are so poor
but that with proper tillage and
manuring they may be made the
residue of plenty.
Manures are composed of all those
substances which either directly or in.
directly supply plants with their re.
quisite food, by means of which they
are enabled to. expand and come to
maturity.
In the first place, different earths
will serve to manure each other.
Thus, clay is a fertilizer of a light,
sandy soil, and sand is equally a fer
tiltzer of clay. Where clay hands are
in grass, the sand should be laid on
as a top dressing; but where they are
ploughed, it should be we'll mixed
with the soil, for the purpose of de-
stroying its adhesion. Sand which
has been washed down in roads is best.
Where clay is applied to sandy soil it
| should be carted on in the fall and
spead evenly on, that the frost may
pulverize before it is mixed with the
soil in the spring. The better these
earths are mixed in the respective
soils, the more sensible and immediate
will be their effect; but their princi-
pal excellence is that they are calcu-
lated permanently to improve the soil
to which they are applied. Stiff lands
are also in the same way assisted by
sand, and sand again by these, but
neither in so great a degree as in the
former case. Generally, it may be
observed, that all dry, light soils may
be improved by being mixed with
heavy earth, and vice versa. Ashes, I
do not think, are sufficiently appre-
ciated. They answer a most valuable
purpose when applied to corn, particu-
larly where the soil is not suitable to
this plant. Where the soil is wet,
cold, loamy or clayey, the plants are
apt to get stended by the cold rains
which usually fall after planting, then
then the ashes serve to supply the
natural deficiency of the soil till it
becomes fertilized by the summers
sun.
Ashes should generally be used for
top dressing. Their salts lose nothing
by exposure to the air, and some find
their way into the soil.
Common salt is a good fertilizer,
and adds very much to the yield of
wheat, and strengthens the straw and
prevents rust; top dress five bushels
to the acre. 1t is, however, more
.eficacious when mixed in compost
than when applied in its crude state
to the soil.
Soap-suds is valuable. It is usual
to throw this manure away; but this
is a needless waste. 1t may be taken
in the watering pot and thrown over
"Dairy Maids" flowers or vegetable
garden, where it will be of good use
as a manure and in expelling insects.
PLASTER AND LINE.
Of these my experience does not
entitle me to say much. Plaster is
especially beneficial, when top dressed
on clover.
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Alliance, and as q news medium it has no equal. I1
entire outfit is owned and controlled by the Farmers
dollar per year, cash in advance. SEM for specimen
opy to The Alliance Publishing Co., Georgiana, Ala.
I'D. Stewart and Ed. Williams, Home Editors and
Business Managers mro6H
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Any Farmers Alliance sending me a
note that their Business Agent will en-
dorse as good for $40, payable Nov. lst,
next, I will deliver, sacked, at the railroad
depot in this city so bushels of these seed.
1 have planted these seed for four years,
getting a larger yield of seed cotton to
the acre each year, and a yield Of 38 to
AZ pounds of lint cotton from each 100
pounds of seed cotton.
B. P. WILLIAMSON,
Raleigh, N. G..
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