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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-15
Poetry
For THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.I
THE WALL OF A LOST POLITICIAN
BY S. H. BRIGHT.

III - Il ANNANAA
lam dying. voters, dying,
Ebh$ nay life in office fast,
And the dark Alliance shadows
FUther on the evening blast
Let tiny arms, 0 friends, enfOld me,
Whisper comfort in my ears,
Tell me @ will not fOrSakG me,
That alone will dry my tears.
Though my Scared and veteran party
Bear their eagles high no more,
And wrecked hopes and scattered 1ancIeS
Constitute my only store;
Though no ti9ttering thrOng surrounds me-
Prompt to do their masters VIII,
must perish with my party
Die - politician still.
Let not those Alliance minions
Noes The lion thus laid low:
Twas no farmers hand that teIlea hlih'
iva Ess own that struck the blow;
His, WHO reaching for the Doodle
Turned away from honor > ray
His. who charmed by jingIng dollars,
Now It home, he fears, TO stay.
should the base Alliance rabbIe
StiI ~-zaH my Wall street friends,
Who v.A, lrIrd me so nODly
While lpbOrgd for their ends,
Seek JH@iu, say my party pledges
With .trong laws to crush these farmers
TIL = makes them on their SIN.
A. 70 @ my noble voters,
Pride and buiwark OF the land,
Help me, hep me with your ballots,
ii reward you, every man;
Give Ia Folk Alliance hOnOrs,
Let him President remain,
| can sv0ru the farmers triumphs
/ your ballots l can gain.
I am dying. voters, dying,
Hank the e~NuIting farmers cry;
They are coming quick your ballots.
Let me have them or die.
All. no more at the election
Shall ny heart eXulting swell;
They have conquered me and Wall street,
Sadly ! r.t7-t SAY farewell
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-15

inserting my head In the EXTENDED
jaws as far as it will go and then rudely
removing it. Their names are Brin
and Bolly.
Crops here are not above the aver
age this year. Rabbits are eating
many of my vegetables, and that, to-
gether with a prolonged visit from the
artist who is sketching my steers, will
make times pretty hard here during
the winter.
Hay is rather a light crop here every
year, and grass of all kinds does poorly.
Very few laws Of any merit are seen in
the State, owing to the extreme thin
ness of the soil and its tendency to
wash into a neighboring State.
I used bOnedust in my farming this
year, and the crop will pay the dray-
age on this bonedust, leaving, perhaps
eighteen or twenty cents for future
use. [ use only the best bOnedust, if
possible, no matter what the cost. 1t
will pay in the end. Nothing is gained
by buying the bonedust of inferior
people.
Commuters between New York and
Philadelphia viii find a DOC boneworks
between Jersey City and Newark. 1t
is on the left hand side Of you-but you
can go right to it if you wish to do so.
Apples are looking we'll, especially
the EARLY Horse apple, the Low Flat
Early Dutch Drum Head apple, the
Isabella apple, the Limbertwig apple,
the late Worthless apple, the Head
Red or League apple with lignum vitoe
works in it, the Winter Death Rate
Seeding apple and the Trunk Line
apple are all looking very we'll indeed.
Flowing for winter grains is now go
ing forward, especially on some of the
more erect farms. Rye will be sown
in large quantities here next year. A
North Carolina farm looks best with
vegetables at the base, then grain of
some kind, and then at the top a Dor
der Of p~eavines running around the
upper edge of the farm, together with
amolding OfsOme kind to hang pictures
Some of these farms hook well
when draped with something pretty,
and on cold nights | hang a drop de
tot portiere over my farm, or some
times a Rice curtain, to keep the
moths out of my watermelons.
WORKING H ROADS.
Willing hands are now working on
the roads of Bunc0mbe county, and
orders are issued that the dead along
the road who have persisted from in
ternaI injurieso or corduroy dislocations,
conclusions, etc, shall be buried at
the expense of the State.
Our principal roads are soon to be
macadamized, and the legislature will
be memorialized, This viii be of I'M
told benefit to both.
The condition of this county is rap
idly approaching completion, and will
one day add to those already past, thus
gathering in its wonderful career all
those which is held forth to be, as the
good book has said, For the night
cometh when no man shall roll together
as a scroll, falling some on good ground
and some on the just as we'll as the I'M
just" and, as Isaiah would say, if I do
not forget the exact wording, go
forth as the cedars of Lebanon or q
great rock in a weary land to cry out,
fear not and flourish from the rising of
the sun even unto the third and fourth
generations, of just men made perfect"
BILL NYE.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-15
IT WAS NO USE.
He Had Reason for His Actions, bu
Something Was Wrong.

49, ~S4O4 Jul
Something Was Wrong.
When the train pulled up into the
way station the young woman was
standing on the station platform sur
rounded by several other young wo-
men, who were all talking at once.
The young man stood a short distance
away, holding a big valise.
Hop on there, Mariar' he called
out, Don't be all day about it"
Every girl in the crowd, with the ex-
ception of the one addressed, exclaimed,
con-" and looked as though something
dreadful had happened. She retorted:
Hop onyourself ifyOu want to, I'm
coming.
The other girls said "Oh!" again,
and the young man got on the train,
Then he called out again:
Cant you get a move on you,
Maria? You'll talk an arm off of some
One.'
III come when I get ready, Jacob!'
she returned.
Then she hastily kissed the girls
goodbye and boarded the train, while
they retired to a corner Of the station
and held a whispered conference over
something that seemed to trouble them.
FLOP down there" he said as they
came to a double seat, "YOu don't
mind riding backward and it bothers
me"
She sat down, and he put the big
valise on the seat beside her and then
settled himself comfortably on the
other seat, while the old lady two seats
behind exclaimed, "Well, [ never"
and some one else muttered, The
brute,,'
For fifteen minutes after the train
started he pretended to be reading a
paper and she was looking out Of the
window. But every minute or two he
glanced at her over the top of hispaper
and her gaze frequently rested on his
face.
And she seemed to be proud of him.
Suddenly she turned toward him
with the exclamation:
Jacob, do you reed every paper in
this carr"
He threw her over one he had in his
lap.
= wonder you didn't think Of it be-
fore, she said.
"YOu're able to speak out if YOU
want anything" he retorted. "You've
got a tOngue.'
There were more comments from
various portions of the car and every
one seemed to be wondering what he
would do next.
Ten minutes later he looked steaithily
around the car. Every eye was fixed
him or the young woman who was
looking shyly overthe top of herpaper.
He threw his down.
Maria" he said, they've sized us
up. We can't fool EN- and there's no
use trying"
\ moment later the newly made
wife's head was pil}owed on her hus-
bands shoulder, and as she looked up
into his eyes she suggested;
"Perhaps we overdid it, Jacob"
"Perhaps we did" he said, but
this is better anyway"
Then he kicked the papers into the
aisle and they carried on a whispered
conversation for ninety minutes
Chicago Tribune.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-15
COUNTY BUSINESS AGENTS.

All County Business Agents are re-
quested to send up new bonds as County
Agents. Any that have not received
Blank Bonds, can get them by notify
ing this Office. The Bond will be
promptly sent.
w. H. WORTH, S. B. A.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-15
HIS LITTLE SCRAP.
He Anticipated a Soft Snap, But Daniel
Knew His Trade and Disap-
pointed Him.

FN~0 1919
Up at Mott Haven the other day |
met a young man who had lust come
off a train. He had a black eye, his
los had received an awful jam, and
after a patient investigation of his
right lower jaw, at his request, l did
not hesitate to tell him it was fractured.
When l asked the particulars Of the
collision and how many were killed he
smiled a Top jawed sort Of a smile and
SAID:
there wasn't any collision as l
heard ot-at least not on the all
a
Then you've had row"
1T was this way: Yesterday morn
ing L was 0 here looking for a
Joo a man m up to me and
looks me all over, and then asks if l
was q nShtel. l says that was
hothlhS 10 Drag OF, though L Knocked
Cle Erie hld out IN V rounds, III
fought the Buffalo Rusher to a stand
sui IN even,
"hat SORT Oh a match does you
want 10 make! Saysl,
"aH, says he, I'm alvin up
her a OlC on a farm, and We got a
ooy named DAM Hes a cheerful
young man, DAM IS, but hes got a
S"ellln Oh the head aoo prize tights.
tie thinks he's the comm Sullivan,
and the craze IS runnm' away with
him.
But "na1 mas L TO DO with your
blo0mln son DAM:
- wants you to go home with me
III pass you OFT for an orphan | picked
up. Then [ wants you to put on the
mlttens with Danl and knock him all
over the township and reduce the
sWell1n' OF his head.
For how much sugar"
Wall, if it's a success l won't
mind ten dollars and your railroad
fare and a big boiled dinner.
"Well, sir, it struck me right, and
We hoped onto a train and bowled
away. The old man was a chucklin'
all the way home over the way I was
goin to do up his bloomin Danl, and
he gave me all the pointers he could
to make the job easier. We arrives
arter awhile"
And Dan1 was there?"
"He was, sir, He proves to be six
feet high and to weigh about a ton. l
suppose I looked a bit lonesome, for
the old man winks me q side and
says:
"'Never mind the size of him. He's
big, but slow and awkward, and one
tap on the ose will grog him
And you put on the glOves?'
"That's what we did. Dinner was
hardly yer when Dan1 invited me
out to the barn to soap a bit. He had
an old set of gloves and he could
hardly to peel OIL. The old man
wlnks at me to play his blOomln child
a minute or two, and then land him,
and [ proceeds accordingly"
Did Dan1 seem at all ~agitated?" |
asked.
Never a bit, sir, He was as cool
as the north side OF an lceburg IN
January"
"Well?"
We'll, the Old gent calls time on
us and we stepped out. L leads with
my left after claret, but doesn't get
any. swings my right for his jaw,
but it wasn't there. Had l better see
the doctor, sir"
Eyes, later on. What follOwed|"
"Why, sir, the bloomln innocent
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-15

Some love letters are so soft they
cannot be filed.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-03-17

Minister of the Interior, and the
first of it's kind, and states that
Government Survey observations
extend back for a period of only
seven years for rainfall, and about
ten for barometer, etc.; neverthe-
less, Mr.. Lyons has tabulated the
observations of several gentlemen,
dating back to DR.. Rookie in 1887,
and S for rainfall and thermometer,
and to 1921 and 2 for thermometer,
registered by the first American
Missionaries.
Observations for rainfall, Table
l., are now registered at eight sta
tions in Oahu, four in Maui, six in
Hawaii and two in Kauai; these
two latter, however, are unfortun-
ately too near to one another to
give any idea of the rainfall of the
island except at Koloa-Lihue.
Table II. gives 16 years observ-
ed by Mr.. w. W. Hall, and Table
LII. 13 years by DR.. McKibbin,
with average maximum and mini
mum. Tables ". to y. contain
valuable series of observations
thermometrical, days Of Trade
wind, cloudIness, barometrical, etc.
Mr.. Lyons suggests, and we
heartily endorse his suggestion,
that permanent observers be sta
toned, one at the Crater House and
one at Hilo, to record both meteor
illogical and volcanic phenomena
for Hawaii, so also one at Olinda
and one at Spreckelsville for Maui.
a moderate outfit of instruments
would be probably all the outlay
required.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-03-17
South MINDS and Trees.

Mr.. EDITOR: The recent continu-
Gus winds from the south and west
showed the suitability of the Casu-
arina equisetifolla or ironwood for
the beach; while all other trees
have a scorched appearance, in
some cases, as the algeroba, being
killed back years growth. Even
the hau and cocoa-palm show signs
of the salty blast from the ocean.
The casuraina has thrived on it
and improved in appearance. For
proof see the trees at the entrance
of Kapiolani Park. Respectfully
yours, BAR HARBOR.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-03-17

We are indebted to the courtesy
OF Mr.. c. J. Lyons of the Govern
ment Survey Department for
copy of his Report as Assistant in
Charge of Meteorology, addressed
to the Chief of the Department, the
Hon. W. ID. Alexander, on the oath
April, 1890.
In his accompanying letter to the
Surveyor-General, Mr.. Lyons men
tions this Report as prepared by
the especial direction of the then
The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-03-17

Brain workers, and all who have to
stand the severe mental strain conse-
quent on intellectual employment, find
Clements Tonic invaluable. HoL-
LISTER 6, Co. are the Agents for the
Islands.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-03-17
EXTRAORDINARY COLD WEATHER
HERE AND IN AMERICA
AND EUROPE.

1890 prepared by Mr.. w. r. Castle
and printed in the ADVERTISER OF
the 10th, we find that the average
for the month of February in that
year was at A. NJ. 6Sl, at | P. N.
722 and at 9 p. NJ. 683. Compare
this with the observations recorded
by Mr.. Curtis j. Lyons and pub
lished in these columns on the 9th
inst. At 6 a. NJ. on that day his
thermometer indicated 54o or
14o %" below the average at the
same hour, for the same month last
year. Mr.. T. r. Walker reading at
6:30 the day after Mr.. Lyons OBJ
servation was "a other observers
have noted readings varying be-
tween these two, while at Lihue,
Kauai, three independent observers
though not exactly at the same
height above sea level give A >
45 . and 46o as q minimum.
These are undoubtedly the low
est temperatures ever registered Cat
so little elevation) on these islands,
and looking abroad We find that
throughout the Northern Hemi-
sphere the weather has been ex-
ceptionally severe.
One singular feature in the
European winter is the great sew
Gritty throughout the South and the
comparative mildness in the North.
The northwest part of Norway has
been positively warmer than Lon
don, and during the long frost
Blarritz in the south of France was
colder than Norway, and for near
two months the thermometer stood
higher than in the north of Scot
land than IN the south of England.
Spain, Italy and Greece have
been visited with winter weather
of unprecedented severity, with
heavy snowstorms, even Algiers |
and Tunis on the south of the |
Mediterranean have suffered.
At Oxford a four-in hand was
driven on the frozen Thames a
feat that has not been practicable
for thirty-eight years.
All across the Northern states
we hear of floods, snowstorms,
blizzards from New York to San
Francisco, and on the 2lst of Feb
ruary the Signal Service officials
announced a cold wave approach
ing, and the thermometer, it is eX-
pected, will fall to zero in Illinois,
Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan. At
8 4. NJ. on the 22d ult. there were
recorded in Chicago 26, st. LOUIS
32. New York 80, and Winnipeg
degs. minus.
On the 18th of January New
York was visited by blizzard
which wrecked all telegraph, tele-
phone and electric light wires above
ground and broke down the posts,
leaving the city almost IN darkness
and without telegraphic commu-
except by few surviving
wires, indeed the condition of the
city was nearly as bad as during
the great storm of 1880.
1t will not be until meteoroIogists
have summed up their observations
and carried out a thorough COM
parison, that the natural causes of
his departure from the usual or
average weather conditions can be
sought and found, but in the pres
ent stage of systematic cooperative
observations throughout the world ;
with the constant comparisons and :
of scientific intelligence !
rendered possible by the electric
no doubt In time the key i
TO this atmospheric disturbance
will be discovered, and another
step in advance towards the solu-
ion of some of the great mysteries
lf nature.
We are indebted to the courtesy
ii Mr.. c. J. Lyons of the Govern
o,aDt Survey DeDartment for a
The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-03-17
CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not hold ourselves responsible for the
statements made, opinions expressed by our
correspondents.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-03-17
NrD AOpertlsenlents.
NOTICE.

MY BUSINESS WILL BE ATTENDED
III to and Kahuku Plantation drafts
cashed by Castle d Cooke, during my alb
sence from the Kingdom.
2712 1861 j. B. CASTLE.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-03-17

A water "gate" burst on Bere-
tanla, near Emma street, Tuesday.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-03-17
Messrs. KING BROS, have been appointed
Agents for the
JEWEL GRAND
GASOLINE COOKING STOVES
Which they are now offering for sale.

Which they are now offering for sale.
The following are " f..w of the merits of
the I've:
IL requires no Ci.,c..ley, there being no
| smoke to carry off.
1t does not blacken the cooking utensils.
BY the simple turning of a screw and the
application of match the Stove is ready
for use.
Water can be boiled in five minutes from
the time the fire is started.
Any kind of cooking can be done on this
Stove, that can be done on any other.
The expense of fuel is reduced to between
ten and fifteen cents per day, aud in some
cases to much less.
No cutting of wood or bother about coal
with this Stove.
The fuel comes in cases like kerosene oil,
and years supply can be easily stored in
a very small space.
The best refined Gasoline is the fuel used,
with which there is no more danger than
with kerosene oil.
For people who do their own cooking this
Stove can not be beaten, and we venture to
say that after they have gotten over the
prejudice of the use of Gasoline, that they
Will not give the Stove up for wood and
coal stove under any consideration.
There are at present six of these Stoves
in successful operation on the island of
Kauai and one in Honolulu, the owners of
which will gladly furnish information to
those wishing to know more about the
Stove.
.zts For. further particulars apply to
KING BROS,
Hotel Street, Honolulu.
p. o. Box No. 63. 1852 -3m
The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-03-17
AGrerttsemenfs.
READ THIS!
and FORSALE CHEAP

Galvanized Ridging,
Galv. Screws and Lead Washers,
Plain Galvanized Iron,
Sheet Lead, rheet Zinc,
Boxes of Tin,
Galvanized WATER PIPING, x, q,
1, II, IL and inch;
Pipe Fittings,
Hair FELTING and Asbestos Sponge,
Tor covering steam pipes;
Rubber Packing, all kinds:
BLACK FENCE WIRE.
Galvanized Fence Wire,
Galvanized and Copper Telephone Wire,
Genuine Bell Telephones,
Electric House Bells, and
ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES +!
90 ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANTS of any
size and description furnished and in
stalled.
SHIP CHANDLERY:
Bbls. Coal Tar,
Bbls. Stockholm Tar,
Bbls. Pitch, Asphaltum;
Blocks, in great variety;
Manila Rope, !. to inch;
Iron and steel Wire Rope,
Iron Seizing, assorted:
Yellow Metal Sheathing, IA or. to 26 or.
Oakum, Oars, all sizes;
Patent Logs,
Nautical Almanacs,
Bunting, assorted colors;
American and Hawaiian FLAGS.
A great variety of
SHIP HARDWARE of latest DESIGNS.
E& NO OLD STOCK!
Also, constantly on hand, a full stock of
SHELF HARDWARE,
Tools of all kinds,
Agricultural Implements,
KEROSENE OIL, OF good quality;
SPERM, and all other
LUBRICATlNG OILS;
Boston Card Matches,
Rubber Hose, assorted;
ALCOHOL OF high test ior mechani-
cal and medicinal purposes, just
received
EE ALL OF THE ABOVE FOR SALE BY
E. @. HALL & SON.
Cor. Fort and King Streets.
1862 2684-Im
The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-03-17

NOTICE.
Hawaiian Bell Telephone Company.
AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF
n stockholders held Feb. 2s, 1891, the
following officers of the Company were
elected tor the ensuing y ear:
Godfrey Brown. President and Treas.
Cecil Brown. Vice-President
]. Cassidy. ....Gen1 Superintendent
II. Won Holt t......... Auditor
Directors-Jas. Campbell, w. o. Smith,
J. +. Brown.
(Slgned) ]. F. BROWN.
Secretar II. b. Tel. &c.
2704-2w 1365-1m
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-02-19
A Big Tin Mine Unearthed.

NEW YORK, Feb. IA Tribune spec
ial from Wildwood, Va, says:
About two years ago Captain VIM. II.
Sales, proprietor of Capon Springs, a
well-known summer resort, rs miles
in the Blue Ridge, discovered tin. He
purchased some of the mountain land
containing the ore Ten barrels of fore
were then shipped from Boyce Station
on the Shenandoah Valley NOW the Nor
folk and Westerly Railroad, but where
it was shipped to nobody about here
knows, although the discovery provoked
considerable comment at the time. The
general belief was that the ore was
shipped to England for the purpose of
comparing it with the tin ore of Corn
wall
Nothing more was heard of the ore and
the matter was dropped from the public
mind until recently, when large extent
of land op the mountains in and around
the ore vein, owned by Capt. Sales, was
disposed of under a trustees sale. 1t
brought sum much in excess of the
usual price paid for mountain land, and
the people were still more surprised to
find that the purchaser represented Cap
tain Sales. After securing this big tract
of land it is now announced that the Vir-
glnla Mining Company has been lncor>
porated, with Capt. Sales as president
and several well known gentlemen of
Winchester and Baltimore as directors.
The capital stock is $1,000 900 and it is
said that all has been subscribed, and
the work of developing the mines will be
begun at once.
Big smelling works are to be erected,
the owners believing that they have
found probably the richest deposit of tin
in the United States. The mines lie on
the western slope of the Blue Ridge, q
| few miles north of Ashby's Gap and
about sixty miles southwest of Washing
ton, as the crow flies. People of the
Shenandoah Valley are not disposed 10
criticise the tin-plate clause of the Me
Kinley bill as freely as heretofore
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-02-19
Claueland ON Silver,

Between six and seven hundred people
Union, New York, Thursday, the 18th,
to oppose the silver bill, in response to
the call of the Reform Club. Resolu>
tions "that,we shall oppose with all the
bill, or any one which fayors the free
courage of silver without co operation
of ether nations,n &C., were adopted.
Speeches were made by ex-Secretary
Fairchild and others: The following let
ter from ex President Cleveland to Mr..
e. Il. Anderson:
Nv Dear Sir-I have this afternoon
received your note inviting me to attend
to morrow evening meeting called for
the purpose of voicing the opposition Of
the business men OF our city to the free
coinage of silver in the United States"
] shall not be able to attend and address
the meeting as you request, but l am
glad that the business interests of New
York are, at last, to be heard on the
subject. 1t surely cannot be necessary
for me to make a formal expression OF
my agreement with those who believe
that the greatest perils would be initia-
ted by the adoption of the scheme EN-
braced in the measure now pending in
Congress for an unlimited coinage of sill
yer at our mints. If we have developed
an unexpected capacity for the assimi-
lation of largely-increased volume of
the currency, and, even if we have DEM
onstrated the usefulness of such an in
crease, these conditions fall far short OF
insuring against disaster, if in the pres
don
Gus and reckless experiment of free, I'M
limited and independepent silver coin
age. Yours very truly,
GROVER CLEVELAND.