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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-15
SOME MISSING LINKS.

She was a real Old-fashioned motherly
woman and she was eating a lunch
from a paper bag in the Pennsylvania
depot. She nodded, and she flashed
up a piece of mince pie and said:
4 want you to eat some of it, even
if you amt hungry. I made it myself"
Thanks, This does taste like old
times"
Cant git nc such mince pie in New
York"
mo, indeed"
DO you notice the lack of any
thing?"
Il can't say that l do"
"Well, there was something left out
by mistake, but I'll fix it in the next
batch"
Didn't you mix up meat, suet apples.
cider, nutmeg, cinnamon, currants,
r~aisins, cloves, allspice, salt, pepper,
mustard and sugar9"
81 did"
AFTER all was mixed didn't YOU
heat it for fifteen minutes and stir
with q big spoon?"
"Of course"
And then put it in a crock and set
it down cellar with a plate over it?"
Exactly"
Well, I don't see where you made
any mistake"
lido, though. forgot to squeeze
in the juice of two lemons, and the,
and the citron and brandy were left
out eatirelyP'
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-15

investigation committee at Ocala be
authorized and requested to file a com
plete transcript of his stenographic
notes with the President of the Nation
al Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union.
Resolution by Brother Gwynn read
and adopted:
That the National Farmers Alliance
and Industrial Union, in Supreme
Council assembled, cordially approves
of the general purpose of the Woman'S
Christian Temperance Union, and
wishes the members of that Organiza-
ton q heartfelt God-speed in their
brave pursuit Of that righteousness
which alone exalteth a nation.
Motion adopted that a committee be
appointed on summer encampment
with full power to act as last year.
TneS Supreme Council then adjourned.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-15

him a bear story. He was gradually
becoming interested and had probably
made up his mind that I was at least
his step-father when a little old man
who hadn't the slightest excuse for
living blocked my way and shrilly
observed:
My wife died and left a baby about
as big as him on my hands and / know
how to pity you. Are you raising him
on the bottle?'
I went on with the bear story, but it
was no use. The baby began to kick
and claw, and he finally yelled out at
the top of his voice. Ichanged him to
the other shoulder, but it was no good.
| got him down on my arm and tossed
him up and down, but he plped the
harder. No less than six full grown
people at nee gathered around to dis
cuss the case, and because I couldn't
stand still to answer their questions l
heard 'em saying that | was a heartless
father and that the Humane Society
ought to station an agent at the depot.
[ took the sobbing, kicking thing
over to the news stand, but he failed
to become interested. | carried him
W. to the ticket Office and the in
formation bureau, but he was not in
want of anything in that line. walked
and waved him to and fro; then [ stood
still and tossed him up and down: then
I sat down and bounced him on my
knee until his first tooth was almost
shaken out. He had made up his
mind that things were not according
to Hoyle, however, and he stuck to
his tune.
l don't remember all that was said
by the waiting passengers, but here
are a few sample specimens from the
stock:
mo one can make me believe he is
that child's father"
He doesn't seem to have a spark of
love for the poor little thing!'
Its curious that the police haven't
interfered before nowW
Dear me, OuG IL ne knew anyCnng
at all about children he'd know that a
pin was pricking the poor thing to
DEATH"
There was just one faint hope left
and I seized upon it, I cantered the
child out of doors and the sudden
change shut him up. Then I walked
along until 1 got the sun in his eyes 50
he could no longer see me and he got a
new train of thoughts and stopped
kicking. While he was wondering
who had been elected, 1 began to sing
"Old Uncle Ned" and gave him my
inger to chew on, and when the mother
returned he had both eyes squinted up,
4 smile all over his fat face and was
IS content as a pumpkin in a corn
field.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-15
HE WENT WEST.

1t was about 9 o'clock in the evening
that he suddenly rose up off a box in
front of a store on Chambers street and
accosted me with:
Say, do you live hereT
Eyes"
Regular New YorkerF"
Yes"
proud of the town, of course, and
wouldn't live anywhere else for a mil
lion dollars a year,"
"Well2"
"Well, she's a buster. Lots O things
to be stuck up over. Don't wonder
you go around patting yourself on the
back. Say! I don't live here"
Nor"
"Live way out West in a chipmonk
town of 1000 inhabitants. Just going
home tonight. Sorry to go, but 1 got
to. Say"
yes"
81 want to take away with me a
pleasant impression of your great and
noble city. Want that impression to
last me clear home, and when I get
there l want to go down to the grocery
and say to'the boys: Boys, it hain't
no use talking. She beats all creation,
and them New Workers is the all
fredest, richest, smartest and big
heartedest people in all this world"
q see, but where do l come in?"
Right here: You hand me a dime;
dime produces pleasant impression:
pleasant impression makes me a friend
of New York's. Present impression
fuctuates and wobbles; mebbe l like
New York-mebbe Idon't. Seer Better
fix me-"
FASTENED to fix him, and after as
himself of the value of the
coin he liftedh his hat, bowed gra .efully.
and said:
Impression is now all right, and is
going to be Fighter in about five min
utes! Westward hollis my watchword
-farewellr' M. QUAD.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-15

helped the settlers ever way we could
and when the angels come fer his leetle
gal and took her spirit away, we made
a grave on the prairie an buried her
whar the grass growed and where Big
Jim planted a tree an some flowers.
[ never see old Jim cry before, stranger,
but he shed tears over that grave like
the leetle gal was his own, and from
that day he was a different man, an
as kind an gentle as a woman
Detroit Free Press.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-15
IN THE D OF LIFE.

Citizen-I hear Mr.. Oficeholder is
dead.
Statesman-Yes; he died about five
minutes ago.
Citizen-I dislike to show any IN
seemly haste, but desire to put in my
application for appointment as his
successor.
Statesman-Walk into the other
room and take your place in the line.
N Y WeekIu.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-15
A FLAG OF TRUCE

A FLAG OF TRUCE.
I had been told that Jessup and the
Whites had a feud which extended
back to 1865, and that three or four
men had been killed on either side.
Therefore, when [ reached Jessup's,
where I was to stay a couple Of days
I determined to find out the particulars,
The opportunity came a the old man,
who was over sixty, and l sat smoking
| on the veranda. | referred to what I
had heard, and asked him how it
began.
Let's see," he replied, as he
scratched his head, It's dun bin
so long I've about forgot. [ reckon
old man white took up my mewl for a
stray and wanted to charge me a
couple of dollars. We had a fout, and
I took the mewl away. Then we
begun fussin' and are at it yit."
"Is it true that several men have
been killed."
"Jist six" he replied as he slowly
counted up, "Three Jessups and three
Whites"
and whenever you meet a White
do you begin shoOting2"
ooh, no. It's this way: II [ go to
town and get three or four drinks,
then I look fur one O. the critters and
try to kill him. It's about the same
way with them, I reckon. We is allus
ready to shute, but we don't allus pull
trigger"
when was the last shooting2"
six months ago. See thar?'
He rolled up his pants leg and ex-
hibited a bullet wound which had just
nicely healed.
q met old White in town and we
was both purity full, 1 shot an he
shot. He hit me in the leg and I hit
him in the shoulder"
NOW, then, Mr.. Jessup," said I,
this must be a very uncomfortable
way to live2"
"Sartin."
You'd much rather be at peaceG"
Il would"
Il presume White feels the same
way. There has been enough blood
shed over one old mule"
There has"
Suppose I go up and see White
and talk it over with him9 If 1 find
he wants peace why can't l bring you
two together to talk matters over and
become friends7"
Yes; I see."
"Shan't l set about it,"
"Look-a-here, " he said after thinking
it over, cit can't be dun. Yo' see, yo'd
fix it fur us to meet in the road half
way. l wouldn'ttrust him, and should
take my gun. He wouldn't trust me,
and he'd take his. When we met we'd
begin to talk about that mewl, Of c0'se.
Ia say the critter dun broke out Of
my lot and walked off. He'd say he
thought it was a mewl from over in
the cove" =
We'll wouldn't that be all right2"
"Of co'se it would, but right thar
would come the trouble"
what troubles"
why, sab, we've met jist that
very way fo'teen different times, and
at jist that pint I call him a thief, he
calls me a liar, and we begin to boiler
and shute and kill each other off! No,
sab; no. sab. I'm sot and old White
is sot, and it wouldn't do. We kin
never git beyand that mewl, and we've
got to keep shutting over his bones till
they all or we all is wiped out"
M QUAD.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-15
A DEAD

Kingley-Hello! what have you got
your best clothes on for, and that red
rose in your buttonholel
Bingo-I just told my wife I was
going fishing.
EKingley-Ha, ha! Do you expect to
catch anything?"
Bingo-I do when I get home
Clothier nRd Furnisher.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-15

Pick the cranberrieS quite clean, and
put them in clean bottles; fill the
bottles with cold water that has pre-
viously been boiled; cement the corks,
or cover them with thin paper rubbed
over with white of egg, and keep them
in q cool, dry place.
MILK SOUP
One quart of cold water, one pint of
milk, two boiled and mashed potatoes,
one tablespoonful of butter, two table
spoonfuls of tapioca. Let this mixture
boil before adding the tapioca, and
then boil ten minutes. An onion may
be added if preferred.
GOLFER ROLLS.
Work into a quart of bread dough a
rounded tablespoonful of butter and
half a teacup Of white sugar; add some
dried ~currants (well washed and dried
in the oven), sift some -four and sugar
ever them, work into the dough
thoroughly, make into small, long
rolls, dip them into melted butter,
place in the pan, let it rise g short
time and bake.
CRANBERRY TARTS.
Nothing makes q more dainty tart
than Cranberries. Prepare pastry shells
not over two or 81 inches in diameter,
from puff paste. Prick them on the
bottom thoroughly to prevent them
from rising, as puff paste will, if left
to its own devices, in an uneven and
unseemly manner The edges, of
course, must be left to rise as they
please. Fill each tart with a table
spoonful Of ~cranberries< ter the shells
are cold and the cg a aries are hot.
Set them away to fanbelb ld.
hoohR RTLE oo&r'
in two, save RsR a Co. boil the head
until tender in plenty of water; put a
slice of fat ham, a bunch of parsley
cut small, a sprig of thyme, two leeks
cut small, six cloves, a teaspoonful of
pepper and three ounces of butter into
a stewpan, and fry them a nice brown;
then add the water in which the head
was boiled, cut the meat from the head
in neat, square pieces, and put them in
the soup; add one lemon sliced thin,
and cayenne pepper and salt to taste;
let it simmer gently for two hours
then skim it clear and serve.
K FISH.
Spread some butter over a dripping
IN, sprinkle over it one onion minced
fine. lay on this a thin slice of halibut
or any small, whole fish, split down
the middle. Add one tablespoon of
vinegar and spread thickly with but
ter. Bake until done, the time depend
ing upon the thickness of the fish.
Remove to a platter. Add -four to the
butter left in the pan and when well
mixed add water until it is the desired
consistency; add three or four minced
mushrooms or pickles. Pour this over
the fish. Garnish with lemon points
and parsley.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-15
USING HIM UP.

He-It state hyur dat in de late wah
it TUX on de av'rage bout free humid
poun's O. lead t. kill a man.
She young and giddy)-My! I bet
dat man felt used up when dat free
humid poun's struck im!-Harper'
Bazaar.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-15
TO COUNTY AND SUB-SECRE.
TARIES.

Lhave had prepared for the use of
County and Sub Alliances three books.
with stubs, which will be found of
great benefit to the order using them.
in keeping their records in goo shape,
The books will be delivered at the fol-
lowing prices:
S~ecretary's receipt book for dues, 25c.
warrant book, 10c.
Tfeasurer's receipt book, 10c.
Fraternally,
W. s. BARNES,
(676) Sec'y-Treas. N. G. F. s. ia
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-15
HOUSEHOLD.
TO BOTTLE CRANBERRIEs.

~ DO11LE C~hANbhhRAES.
Pick the cranberries quite clean, and
put them in clean bottles; fill the
bottles with cold water that has pre-
~viously been boiled; cement the corks,
or cover them with thin paper rubbed
over with white of egg, and keep them
in q cool, dry place.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-15

It was about 9 o'clock in the evening
that he suddenly ros up off a box in
front of a store on Chambers street and
a~ccOsted me with:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-12-15
MILK SOUP

One quart of cold water, n pint of
milk, two boiled and mashed potatoes,
enc tablespoonful of butter, two table
spoonful8 of tapioca. Let this mixture
boil before adding the tapioca, and
then boil ten minutes. An onion may
be added if preferred.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08
A sMAsH-UP.
Serious wreck on Narrow-Guago Rail-
road-Fourtccn Persons Injured, One
Fatally aud -Four Seriously.

Serious wreck on Narrow-Guago Rail-
road-Fourtccn Persons Injured, One
Fatally and Four Seriously.
Another horror has been added to the
late list of railroad accidents in Ohio.
Friday morning passenger train No.
on Bellaire, GAINESVILLE and Cincinnati,
Narrow-guage railroad left the track
three miles south of Bellaire, o., two
cars being overturned and dragged
some distance by the engine. There
were seventy passengers on the train,
and the two cars that turned over into
the ditch were crowded with well-lSnown
people of that section. When they
left the track some one cried out that
every body should cling to their seats,
but the shock was so awful many were
hurled from one side TO the other, those
not badly injured being terribly shaken
up. Assistance was soon at hand from
other passengers and trainmen, and
when all wereSfnally taken out of the
wrecked cars it was found that four
teen people had been injured, four of
them seriously and one fatally The
train was running ut the least calcula-
ton at the rate of thirty-fve miles an
hour, and as it reached u curve, the cars
were noticed to sway violently, and un-
needing the cries for passengers to keep
their seats, rush was made for the
doors. Many of the frightened passen-
gers had reached the platform when
the cars jumped the rails, and when
they turned over in another moment,
these were hurried into the ditch
in an indiscriminate mass of men,
women and children, the lat
ter shrieking fearfully as they
went down. The list of the injured is
as follows: John Morris, baggagemas-
ter, hurt internally, badly bruised and
will probably die; Charles McElroy, leg
broken and otherwise bruised; William
McElroy, head hurt and internal iniu-
ries; John Irwin, of Bethel, O., head
crushed and scalp injured; G. f. Wilcox,
of York, Pa, head badly injured.
In addition to these, there
were many badly bruised but
able to take care of themselves,
and in the afternoon they went on to
their several destinations. Physicians
were telegraphed for from Cincinnati
and Bellaire. Norris, the baggagemas-
ter, had been cooped up in his car, and
when it left the track he was thrown
violently against the sides, being in
jured by the miscellaneous baggage
heaped upon him. Friday night all
were reported to be in fair way of re-
rOyerv with this eycnption
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08
INCUMBERED HOMES.
Figures on Mortgages Furnished by the
Census Office.

tlBureS on mortgages FURNISHED by the
Census Office.
WASHINGTON, July 30.-Census office
mortgage figures are pretty well along.
The counts of the farm and home trans
cripts have been completed, and the re-
suits are nearly correct, though the fig
ures are subject to slight notifications
There were returned to the enumera-
tors of the United States ., 491, $50 farms
and homes occupied by owners and in
numbered by mortgages. This number
includes some farms and homes
about which enumerators made no re-
port and which belong partly to the
class of hired and partly to the class of
owned free, as well as partly to the
class of owned and incumbered. Until
this unknown quantity due to
the failure of the enumerators is
eliminated it may be regarded
as approximately true that 1885,
0OO families of the 19,50O,O 900 fam
lilies of the United States live on
incum bered farms and homes, and that
1850, 900 families occupy farms and
homes that are either hired or owned
free. The proportion of hired and
owned free will be known when inc
population division completes the
count of these points. The prelim-
mary results Indicate that the average
debt Cor farm in Iowa is $1,293;
home, $T19: average for farm and
home, 81, 140. If these averages hold
good for the union the incumbrance
on the farms and homes of the United
States occupied by owners Is about 81,
565, 600, 600. The success of this investi-
CATION has been far beyond the antici-
pations of the most experienced
statisticians, and the result will
be of immense interest and value
to the nation. The first volume relat-
ing to recorded indebtedness will prob
ably go to press this year. Incomplete
returnsfrom several western states in
dicate that farms and homes are mort
gagged for about one-third the value
put upon them by the owners.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08
RECIPROCITY.
Provisions of the New Trading Arrange.
inent with sau Domingo to go Into
Eject Sent, 1,

Provisions of the New Trading Arrange.
inent with Sau Domingo to go Into
Eject Sept. 1.
New York, July 3O.--A Washington
dispatch announces the conclusion of
an important treaty of reciprocity be-
tween the United States and the
republic of San Domingo. The
treaty was negotiated by Maquel
De j. Calvin, minister plenipo-
tentiary and envoy extraordinary.
on the part of San Domingo and
John w. Foster special commissioner,
on the part of the United States, and was
signed in Washington June 4. Under
the terms of the Mckinley bill the
treaty does not require ratification by
the senate. As Senior Calvin was special
ly authorized by his government to carry
on the negotiations and was granted
full power to sign the convention the
treaty will go into force without delay.
September 1 is the day fixed upon.
The full text will be officially published
within few days. Both Secretary
Blaine and the president have approved
the treaty.
Secretary Suarez, of the Dominican
legation, has just returned to this city
from flying trip to San Domingo,
where he laid the text of the conven-
ton before President HeureauX and re-
ceived his Endorsement on July y.
The treaty follows closely the
lines laid down in the convention with
Brazil. In the opening sections
the authority of the Mckinley act for
the free entry of sugar, molasses, cof-
fee, cocoa and hides is referred to and
in reciprocity for these concessions
the admission into Dominican ports
is authorized of goods enumer-
ated in two schedules which
are appended, the one schedule
without any duty and the other with
reduction of 25 per cent upon the
duty now levied. In the free schedule
are enumerated various breadstuffs,
potatoes, hay and oats, pork and fish,
cotton-seed oil, agricultural imple-
ments, mining and mechanical tools
and material for the construction and
equipment of railways.
The admission into Dominican ports
of q large number of articles with d
reduction of % per cent. on the pres
ent duty is authorized by clause in
the treaty and schedule appended in
Guiding cured and canned meats ant
vegetables, manufactures of cotton
iron and steel not included in the free
schedule, manufactured leather, lum
ber, and manufactures of wood, etc.
In exchange for S1,715,000 worth o.
sugar the United States last year sent
to San Domingo a trife over 1925, 00C
worth of goods which included wheat
flour, lard, cottons, iron and steel man
ufacture and wood manufactures. A
good deal of New England capital is in
vested in the island.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08
LAW Is LAW,
And While It Stands on the Statute
Books Must Be Obeyed.
Decision In the Noted Memphis Seventh
Day-Adventist Case, Regarding the
Observance of the sabbath.

e. s. Hammond, district u. S. judge,
handed down his decision in the now
famous case of II. Nj. King, the Seventh
day Adventist. King was convicted a
year ago of Sabbath breaking by plow-
ing on Sunday in Obion county, Tenn.
He appealed to the Tennessee supreme
court, and the sentence was confirmed.
Then the Adventists and National
Secular association took up the case.
Don NJ. Dickinson was engaged as coun-
sci, and the case was taken to the fed
eral court at Memphis last November
on a writ of habeas corpus, the conten-
tion being that the conviction was con-
trary to the bill of rights of Tennessee
and the constitution of the United
States, and that the defendant was
held prisoner by the sheriff with
out due process of law. The applica-
tion was argued several months
ago, and Judge Hammond has had
it under advisement ever since. The
opinion is a lengthy and learned docu-
ment, and dwells exhaustively upon
every phase of the argument in favor
of the religious prisoner. The defend
ant is remanded back to the custody of
the sheriff, to pay the fine or serve the
time in lieu, according to the sentence.
The decision is based not so much on
the constitutionality of Sabbath laws
as upon the fact that King was
convicted under process of Tennessee
law, and it is not in the province of the
federal court to review the case. NAL
ice, religious or otherwise, may dictate
a prosecution, but if the law has been
violated this fact never shields the
law breaker. Neither do the courts
require that there shall be some NOR
al obloquy to support a given law be-
fore enforcing it, and it is not necessary
to maintain that to violate the Sunday
observance custom shall be of itself i'm
moral to make it criminal in the eyes of
the law. 1t may be harmless in itself,
because, as petitioner believes God has
not set apart that day for rest and holi-
ness, to work Sunday, and yet If man
has set it apart in due form by his law
for rest, it must be obeyed as man S law
if not as Gods law.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-08
A MIDNIGHT AWAKENING.
Fifty Kegs of Powder Do tho Job al
birmingham, Ala.


Fifty kegs of powder in the Alabama
Great Southern depot, Birmingham,
Ala, exploded about midnight Thurs
day night completely wrecking the
building and demolishing a number of
cars on adjacent side-tracks. A fire
was noticed in the building before the
powder exploded but there was scarce
ly time to give the alarm before
the explosion followed. The depot
was almost entirely consumed, with
all its contents. The latter are valued
at about $4,000 and the other losses will
foot up about the same amount Only
one man was in the building, and he
was thrown out of bed by the explo-
sion. A few minutes before the explo.
sion the watchman had been over the
building and found it all right. The
glass was shattered in all the windows
around the neighborhood for four or
five blocks, and houses trembled for a
mile around. 1t is believed that two
men seen loating around the building
early in the night set the building on
fire.