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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-19

has not already been found, and on stormy
nights they go home, to return again
later on.
a woman comes running Down the
street. She is one of the East Side Door.
A shawl answers the purpose of cloak
and hat She stops long enough to ask
of an idler on the corner:
Where is the headquarters ?"
"Down where you see the green light
is always the answer, and she is off again.
Up the steps she runs eagerly. AS she
passes the swinging doors she almost runs
down Old Joe, the doorman, who keeps a
little private record on a slate of the chill
dren who are brought in during the night.
Joe's voice is gruf, but it bellies his
nature.
whats the matter 2" he growls.
"Have ye found me baby?" and the
toil-worn hands clutch ~nervously at the
frayed edges of the old red shawl.
"Boy or girl?"
GA little gi1l with light hair"
eco upstairs and look-top floor"
The stairs are steep and tiresome to
climb, but mothers on such errands don't
tire easily, and up she goes. Five minutes
later a step Is heard on the stairway. She
is coming down again and the red shawl
is the background for a head Of golden
chair. Two dirty, chubby hands are about
her neck. The woman is smiling now.
She is about to go out to the street, but
Old Joe again is in the way.
"Go in there and give your name"
and he points to Sergt. Kelleher, and
chirrups at the baby.
The sergeant takes the woman's name
and address, and, hugging the lost one
tightly, the woman passes out into the
street.-N Y. Evening Sun. :
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TOM THUMBS WIDOW.

Tom Taumb's widow, who will not con-
sent to exhibit herself at museums now,
passed through the city a few days ago.
Seated in an easy chair, to reach the seat
of which the need of a cricket was abso-
lutely necessary, the diminutive lady ex-
tended the hand of welcome, and, with a
smile, shook her head as her visitor gave
greeting to Mrs. Charles S~tratton." mo
longer Mrs. Ttratton," she said, Il am
now the Countess Magri, and this is my
husband, the Count" The gentlemen
thus introduced was a handsome little
fellow, whose years and whose inches are
almost the same, for the crown of his head
reaches only the level of an upright yard
stick and his age is but SO. Mrs. Stratton-
Magri, if the double appellation may be
used, is Al years old now, and she stands
a head-that is to say, a lilliputian head
shorter than her husband.
"We were married only four years ago."
she said, land I notice that many people
still find it hard to separate my name from
the Generals. "He, poor man, passed
away six years ago."-Boston Journal.
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g6EttN.
rue OLD .PREssMAN.

edward A. oldham in brakes m'Sa annina
,o.s. dey's got de power press ensrno
en-, R 1Iieki Te Oh yer eye dey runs de paper
froo, r,s cot erside. dey SEE hit
no ole han'-press oey
wOr TOO TO- n]igger's los er job, en- don't
III stan any show.
=. Under mecks me sorter sao 'ef 500 U@'
ole m me az Wsv becaze hit amt so new
an cI o me- WIZ monstrons friends, we
Dat [eSow'd each udder we'll,
know = or tongu to talk dar's many er
ID tale twould tell.
.raer anv odds dat eber pulled er
press. 40 frisket boss. so fas' yer
Case / could WoIA
coulan roll down mer face, I'd open
me e5 nIe songs OBJ sIabery days, dat OLE
De" 9{ime 'membrance DrlnS'
uontv wears afo' de war ole marster
h 1--WE week 'twixt den en- now hits done
III : hits level bes',-
-, one week in de winter time dIs Niger
WuZn't dar. =, uou
aFn' Whar wuz l dat umeF you ak WaAl'
bJss, I'll tell yo' whar. ,-
>, 600 dat clump O. pines out dar, jes' fore
" YOU gifts ter town?
o.,s whaT I wuz dat wIntry day, en- dsts de
buryln' groun'; Ill ho,5.
TTuz Patsy, mer ole oman sar' via nanoS
-, dat's de only time l know'd she eber
stopped ter rest.
IN, now dey's got er new mercheen wild lots
er wheels en- SIGH,
Nat prints de papers mighty fast widout er
balk or hitch,
Dr.. Daixt ter mer ole 'oman, sar, 1 lubs de ole
Tn, aIIus shall, till desc ole bones am laid
erway ter res
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-19
SIX SHOTS AT AN EDITOR.

An Arizona contemporary in telling how
its editor was fired upon the other day by
a citizen who dissented from it's comments,
but whose six shots, discharged at a dis
lance of ten feet from their mark, did not
come within a foot of it, states that; never
theless, the shots were not wholly ~unavail-
ing, as they wounded a 5000 mule and q
$50 dog, which damage the awkward
marksman compromised for $3.50. The
citizen contemplates leaving the town, and
our contemporary encourages him in that
purpose by suggesting that a man who
holds a gun with both hands, and shuts
both eyes when he shoota, is of no &C
count whatever IN that district.
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HINTS TO

Apples will not freeze if covered with
nen cloth nor a pie or custard burn if in
Tie oven with a dish of water.
Aremedy for burns is a paste of bak-
ag soda and water. Take a wet cloth.
@Ver with the paste and bind e the
sgn. Should the paste become dry, wet
Arom the outside.
Sorunken, half-worn bed blankets or
S%O9iOrts, past using on a bed, make good
Ssg to put under a stair carpet. They
a - answer the purpose just as well as
&c bought pads, and be a great saving
: We wear of the stair carpet
never wash cups, plates, spoons and
f. 'eS used in the sickroom with those of
f %e family. Scarlet fever and other in
va OuS diseases have been spread in this
my DO not eat in the sick persons
No. or partake of anything that has
Painting the kitchen walls enables one
sn" them of, and in general tends to
poo eS' appearance. The paint should be
Tort OIL paint, applied as for outdoor
with nrSt sizing the surface to be coated
to solution of one-half pound of glue
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FOR THE

Bridesmaids presents have come to be
important features not only at English
weddings but in our own country. These
are the gift Of the bridegroom, and are
frequently as unique as they are costly.
Chatelaine watches have already made
their mark at fashionable weddings as
bridesmaids present. These have been
greatly improved upon of late. so they can
be adapted to form the chatelaine, a brooch
with the recipients initial letter Set in
diamonds on an enameied ground), and
also a bracelet.
Bracelet watches are popular brides
maids presents. At a fashionable we'd
ding early last month the bridesmaids We're
supplied with bracelet watches set around
with rubies and ~sapphires.
Double heart moonstone bracelets,
heart-shape moonstone brooches, outlined
with b%rilliants, and crescent and horseshoe
pins, are other popular gifts for brides
maids.-JeWeJers' Circular.
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VERY CHEAP

Iasked my Chinese servant, while tarv-
cling through to Picking as to the prices of
shaving. He told me that in the interior
you could get a shave for a cent, and that
the prices rose according to the wealth Of
the customer. "Mandarins," said he,
Gotten have BARRIERS connected with their
yamens, and the swell Chinaman is shaved
in his OWL residence. N~inety-nine hun
dredths of the shaving is, however, done
on the streets, and the BARRIERS whole outfit
costs less than So. His razor, which is in
the shape of a triangle, can be bought for
from 5 to 10 cents. The strop, made of
cotton or leather, costs about a nickel, and
hisibrass basin is less than 81. He has two
little stools painted red. without backs,
upon which his customers sit bolt upright,
while they are being shaved ."-Letter IN
PitSburq DISpatch.
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NOTICE.

FAYETTEVILLE, Sept. Z, 1889.
The Cumberland County Farmers ALI
ance having made a satisfactory trade ar
rangemgnt with J. go. Evans, merchants
in Fayetteville, whose house is known as
the Farmers Exchange, would say to
their brothers in the following counties
and all good Alliance men when trading
in Fayetteville, upon presenting to these
gentlemen a trade card, the same ,cour
tesy will be extended to them: Samp-
son, Harnett, Moore, Chatham, Mont
gomery, Richmond, Bladen and Johnston.
w. w. AUTRY, Sec'y
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STORIES OF GOUNOD.

NJ. Gounod, the composer, who spent
his youth in a monastery, and is a man of
intense religious convictions, once spent
an hour on his knees praying for the o n
version from Judaism of Sarah Bernhardt,
in that lady's presence. Sarah's response
was short, but not sweet, and at last she
turned him out of her house. Gounod's
country house was threatened during the
Franco-Prussian war. Trusting to his
fame for defense, he put up the following
inscription: "The house of Charles
Gounod, composer Of Faust" But the
Germans burned it to the ground all the
same. San Francisco Eraminer.
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HE WANTED TO GET OUT.

The Oxford (Me.) Democrat tells a story
of a gentleman of the old school in Ok
ford county, who used to aspire to all
sorts of official honors and sought every
occasion to expose his oratory. He was
once undertaking the feat of fording the
Androscoggin river with the old mare and
wagon. Suddenly one wheel struck a
hidden rock, while the other settled in
the sand, and the old man found himself
Gagged beneath his wagon on the bed of
the river. The old man, in relating the
circumstance, said: "The first thing 1
thought of was how I should exonerate
myself"
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OLD ROMAN coUNTERFE1Ts.

At a meeting of the Society Of Anti
quaries in New Castle, Eng, recently,
DR.. Bruce told about a discovery in his
private collection of coins. Among them
was one upon which he set great store,
being a scarce gold coin of Allectus, who,
having murdered his predecessor, ruled in
Britain for three years about the close of
the third century. It was valued at e40
or ESQ. Doubts raised in regard to its
weight led to an assay by an expert, when
the coin was found to be copper, silvered
over and then gilded and touched with
varnish. Quite a panic may be expected
among collectors from the discovery of
the skillful counterfeiting by the ancient
Roman.
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4Omsehola.
SUGAR

One and one-half pounds of -four, one
n,und of sugar, three fouths pound butter,
| Eve eggs, ginger and a little saleratus,
snread on thin sheets aud roll thin.
Six cups of -four, three of sugar, one
half OF butter, four eggs, teaspoon s~aleratus
dissolved in a cup of milk; drop on tins
with a spoon. sprinkle with sugar and
bake quickly
NEWPORT TEA CAKE.
One cup Of sugar, one half cup OF
melted butter, IL of milk, two spoons of
cream of tartar, one soda and -four to
make a stiff batter; mix the soda and
cream of tartar with the -four; bake
twenty minutes.
POTATO CAKES.
/ Rub two tablespoonfuls of butter into
two pounds of mashed potatoes; add two
bounds of -four, a little salt, and milk
enough to make a stiff batter; add half a
Lcupful of yeast; set the mixture to rise,
and when light bake in cakes the size Of
mullins. Serve hot and buttered.
a HOT CREAM SAUCE.
Dissolve a teaspoonful of cornstarch in
a little cold milk, and stir it into a pint of
hot milk, continuing to stir until the milk
boils, and adding to it half a cupful of
! butter and a cupful of fine sugar. The
sauce will be the better for being stirred
quickly with an egg-wip until it is done.
CORN BREAD.
Two cups of Indian meal, one cup of
wheat -four, one cup of sour milk, one
cup of sweet milk, one egg, half-cup of
\ molasses, half-eup of sugar, n teaspoon
Of butter, one heaping teaspoon of baking
powder. Mix up quickly; bake soon.
If you have not sour milk put in the
sweet instead.
Melt one-haf pound butter and mix
tWo-thlrdS of a pint OF milk, -four to make
a thick batter; add three tablespoonful
OF yeast and set the batter in a warm
place to rise. When light beat two eggs
with one-half pound of rolled sugar, work
into the batter with the hand, add one
teaspoOnful salt, cinnamon, and -four
enough to make them sufficiently stiff to
mold them into cakes the size you make
\ biscuit; lay them on fiat buttered tins !;
let them remain until of a spongy light
ness before baking. They will bake in
ABOUT fifteen minutes in a quick over.
TEwED PIGEONS.
clean wash, stuff and tie them iii shape.
Lay them in a saucepan close together on
Nner backs. Cover them with boiling
water. Lay a few slices of bacon over
Inc tops of the pigeons. Stew gently un-
u tender, about one hour. Then season
with pepper, salt, butter and a little sum-
ner Sayory, also minced parsley, if you
IKE; Dish the pigeons, thicken the gravy
mlth a little -four, boil up once and pour
over the birds. The bacon may be omitted.
some add little minced carrot and onion.
Line the platter with buttered toast, if
you like, or serve the pigeons on a bed of
nee This is the best way to cook pigeons
"nlch are not very young.
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WOMAN

Who saves up for a month for a per-
sonal treat and then shares it with the
whole family?
Woman.
Who turns deadly ill at blood, yet
stands recklessly in it's rain in time of war
or accident?
Woman.
Who eats scraps for lunch that noble
% man may have tidbits for dianer?
Woman.
She is a heroine in danger, a coward
when looking under the bed. And yet
there are persons" who claim that wo-
men do not understand the meaning Of the
word courageous. It's a libel, for true
courage shows in the little things of life.
Women are forced to deal with smaller
side. They have to marry men.-Sam
Francisco Report.
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THE LATEST AND BEST.
All the FORMS and CHANGES, in
Guiding those passed by the Legis-
lature of 1889.

Col. Walter Clark, author of "Clark's
Code of Civil Procedure, Overruled Cases"
&C., writes:
Ihave examined with much care and in
terest The North Carolina Manual of Law and
Forms, by Messrs. Jones and Holding. The
work has been compiled with great care and
labor. It is well designed and well executed.
Justices of the peace, county officers, lawyers
and Business Men will find in a compiled
form ready to hand, much serviceable lnfor-
nation that cannot be found anywhere else
without considerable labor and research. 1t
is a most excellent work and should command
a large sale.
NJ. B. Barbee, Esq, one of the leading JUS
tees of the Peace in North Carolina, says:
I FIND in The North Carolina Law
and Forms a work more thoroughly adapted to
the needs of Justices of the Peace, to guide
them in their official duties, 'han any work
vet seen by me. I TAX pleasure In recon-
mending it to the Magistrates OF the State.
C. D. Upchurch, Clerk of Superior Court OF
Wake county, writes:
In it are more statutes, forms and decisions
relating to the duties Of county officers, and
especially to clerks of the Superior Courts,
than I have been able to find in any other
book. No county officer ought to be without
such an excellent aid.
I. A. Murchison, Esq, of Dunn, n. u, says:
It is the best form book for North Carolina
LAWYERS, Justices Of the Peace, Business Men,
&c, that 1 have ever seen.
PRICE BY MAIL, $500.
EDWARDS & BROUGHTON,
PUBLISHERS, RALEIGH, n. u
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How the City's Waits Are Cared for
Until They Are Called For.

|, A great policeman, big enough and
strong enough to have felled a horse with
a single blow, carrying in his arms a little
golden haired girl, upon whose sleeping
face the tears had washed clean places in
the dust and CRIME, walked briskly down
Houston street toward police hea9quar-
tiers. The child was ~slumbering as com
fortably as though she had been in the
little crib at home, and the officer was as
tender as if the little one was his own
and helped make sunshine in his home on
his days off duty. Half a dozen children
of the street, quick to catch sight of the
pair, followed closely on the big police
mans heels until he went up the steps of
the marble building in Mulberry street,
and was lost to view behind the swinging
doors.
Bluff Sergt, Kelleher was on duty, and
when he saw the little bundle of human
ity brought in, he sat down at his desk
and began to turn, in a business-like way,
the leaves of an enormous book which
lay in front of him. He kept turning
until he came to the page where he had
written last. Then, after carefully ad-
iusting his eyeglasses and dipping his
pen in his big inkstand, he queried:
"Boy OF girl, oficer2"
"Girl."
"How old 2"
"Bout 4 years"
"Where did you get her?
"Sixty-ffth street and Third avenue"
"Take her upstairs"
"Upstairs" meant to the top floor of
the big building, where Marion Webb
presides and acts the part of foster mother
to the waits and strays and foundlings of
this big city who are picked up by the
police.
The same scenes are enacted every
night, and each day sees the pages of the
big book, which Sergt. KeIleher keeps,
fill up one by one with the brief stories
and records of lost children.
Every night in the year fathers and
mothers visit police headquarters and ask
for the children who have been lost dur
ing the day. On pleasant evenings they
sit on the stone steps and wait if the child
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-19
Female Academy,
Salem, M @
Largest, Oldest and Best Female COL
Iege in the South,

Session opens August 9th, 1889. Faculty
80 Professors and Teachers. Special features
the Development of Character, Health and
Intellect. Fully equipped Preparatory and
Collegiate departments, besides frstclass
schools in Music, Art, Languages and Com
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STATIONS.

Train so connects with Wilmington &
Weldon train bound North, leaving Colds
boro 11.57 a. H., and with Richmond &
Danyille train West, leaving Goldsboro
200 p. m.
Train 81 connects with Richmond &
Danville train, arriving at Goldsboro 80
D. m, and with Wilmington & Weldon
train from the North, at 3.I5 p. m.
S. L. DILL, SURF.
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and thousands upon thousands of others
are sweeping in princely incomes while
they spend their time in idleness and their
families doing over twenty-dollar din
ners? Any one who does not expect
such conditions to produce an explosion,
is a fool.
The whole thing in a nutshell is, we
must have representation or revolution;
which it will be, the people alone must
determine. If they are intelligent they
will secure a speedy reformation, if they
are not, a revolution is inevitable. The
stomach argument must and will be an
swered, and it is here. Confronted by
these facts the plain duty of every citi-
zen is to Join the Farmers Alliance, be-
cause within the ranks of this organiza-
ton is found the only power under heaven
that can save US from revolution. Look
where you may, no other power can be
seen. Besides, when anyone joins it
their work has just begun, and to make it
possible that work may be effective, it
becomes an absolute necessity to read
your State organ, also your National
organ, the National Economist and ALI
ance literature generally, and any member
who fails to do this is like an unarmed
soldier in battle-contemptible in the eyes
of his enemies and a stumbling block to
his friends. HARRY TRACY.
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NOTICE OF INCORPORATION.

hereby give notice according to law that under
and by virtue of Sectiod 677, of the Code of North
Carolina, and acts amending thereto, 1 have this
Store"
The business proposed is that of buying and
selling farm produce and the carrying on the bust
ness of general merchandising.
The principal Office and place of business of said
corporation shall be at r. N. Wynne's, Wake
The duration of the corporate existence shall be
for the period of ten years.
The CAPITAL stock shall not be less than one thou
sand dollars, nor more than ten thousand dollars,
divided into shares of the par value of twenty-five
dollars each.
The stockholders of the corporation shall not
be individually liable for its debts.
Has D. UPCHURCH,
se176w Clerk Superior Court.
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the Brother Farmers Of the
Alliance

At the State Convention of the Alliance held
at Fayetteville, Aug. 18th, 14th and 18th, last,
the undersigned was appointed al agent for
the purpose of aiding and promoting the
work of bringing settlers 70 buy the surplus
lands of Al lance farmers throughout the
State. All such farmers who have land to-
dispose of should send for blank forms to z.
d. Wilson. the State Immigration Agent, who
has offered to facilitate the business.
It would be well to give a full description
of the land for sale. together With a statement
of the lowest price for which it can be bought.
All blank forms, when filed out. and also all
other communications on the subject, should
be addressed to me, in care of Mr. Wilson,
immigration Agent, at Raleigh. There will
be no charge for this service.
Fraternally,
Statesville, Oct. 81, 1889.
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MILLSTONES.
Rowan County Grit.

The unsigned has bought the Rowan
County Milestone Quarry Of E. E. Phillips,
deceased, and will continue to supply the
public demand for Millstones from this
celebrated grit. Millstones and all kinds
of Granite work delivered on board cara
at Salisbury, N. c., at the lowest possible,
price. Address,
j. T. WYATT,
Lock box l40, Salisbury, N. O. .
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TE0s9VeEsaE0 STOCK FOR SAiEI

One Jersey Bull four years old, one,
Holstein Rnll Calf dropped Feb. 24th, 49,,
both registered. A few Victoria pigs.
Address, S. A. LOURANCK,
ap16 Mooresville, N. q.
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= 8 NORTH CAROLINA R. R.
II TIME TABLE II,
To Take Effect 6 90 A. M, Tuesday, June Is, go.
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BY estimating the number of u popu-
latlon engaged productive e~mployinents
who OF course produce all our wealth.
at l4,OOO,OOO which is a large estimate.
we INT that an annual tax Of $40 per
capita is levied upon their earnings. This
Is not all; the exactions of trusts and
combines, which are daily multiplying, is
left out Of the account.
The question now that must be an
swered in the near future is, can produc-
tive labor stand this demand? One mo-
ment's reflection will teach anyone hat
it cannot. Then we are driven to tbe
unpleasant conclusion that relief must
come OF dissolution is inevitable, and that
at no distant day.
We already see that in the States of
Massachusetts, and Illinois an average
laboring man cannot support a family,
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COW PEASl

One thousand bushels Cow Peas for
'ale by S. S. NASH,
apr30 Tarboro, N. @.
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and those States are no exception to the
rule. In those States they have a more
perfect system of finding out the con-
dition of their people than elsewhere;
this is the only difference. At this rate
the important question is, how long will
it take a working man to secure a home?
Can it be expected that the laboring
people will be satisfied to remain passive
when they see themselves and families
daily sinking into poverty and helpless
ness, while they see the capitalistic man
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TEA CAKE.

One cup of sugar, one half cup of
melted butter, IL of milk, two spoons of
cream of tartar, one soda and -four to
make a stiff batter; mix the soda and
cream of tartar with the -four; bake
twenty minutes.