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A FEARFUL FATE.
Shocking Accident at a Penn
sylvania Oil Well.
VIM. Miles Burned to Death
in a Lake of Oil.
Favorable Crop Report From
Washington.

PITTsBURa, May ga shocking aud
fatal accident occurred in the Wildwood
oil field late last night. Two brothers,
William and Frank Miles of CORY, Pa
were in attendance on the well known as
Rabshouse, No. 6, owned by the Midland
Oil companv OF Titusville. The former
had assembled the derrick about midway
when the well suddenly took fire. Taking
desperate chances he jumped to escape
the flames which were already filling the
space beneath and rapidly ascending the
derrick. He struck the ground out some
distance from the base of the cerrick.
The fall broke his right leg above the
knee and the bone protruded through the
flesh. penetrating and pinninR him to the
ground. His brother Frank had fed to
one side just in time to escape
the ontburst of flames. Seeing Williams
plight, he rushed to his rescue. ac-
c%Ompanied by another workman. Before
they could withdraw the wounded mans
leg bone from the ground and get
him loose the oil had flowed about and
saturated the ground, and they we're
driven from the place, which had sud-
denly been converted into a veritable sea
OF fire. Frank fingered longer than the
other in his last desperate effort to rescue
his brother, and retreated only after beng
seriously burned. From a little distance,
with emotion pitiable to witness. he saw
his brothers body writhing in the flames.
Later 1t was recovered, charred and unre-
cogniZable. The cause of the well taking
fire was reported to have been doe TO the
absence of the usual check" in the pipe
which conveyed the supply of gas from
the gas tank to the boilers. where it is
used as fuel. The fire ran back up the
pipe to the gas tank and then lgnIted the
derrick and engine house. and everything
was burned to the ground.
, 1891-05-24
SNAP SHOTS.

Never use a 8 by 8 lens to take a 4 by 5
picture.
Amateurs would do well to learn to use
one developer, and use only that one.
Mrs. L. W. H. Myers, of London, a sister
oil Mrs. Henry NJ. Stanley, is said to be a
skillful amateur photographer.
Photographers should keep their cameras
in a rubber bag having a draw string, to
keep them from the dust, and so in a great
measure do away with pin holes.
A neat focusing arrangement is made
of a rubberc cloth cone, the large end to fit
over the back Of the camera, and in the
small end is fitted a magnifying glass.
Morris Tyler of New Haven, president Of
the Southern New England Telephone and
Telegraph company, is a devotee of photog.
raphy. His particular delight is photo
graphing specimens of landscape garden
ing.
f. Warren, of tho society of amateur
photographers Of New York, has made a
speciality Of photographing the slumbering
homeless wanderers along West street. He
has succeeded in getting a large number OF
exceedingly funny pictures.
, 1891-05-24

PARIS. MAY 23.-Dclegates OF the
congressional party, referring to the re-
port cabled to Europe from lquique that
the forces cf President Balamaceda cap
tured Taltal, give a different story of the
affair. They declare that the government
warship, Imperial and Almiranta COudell
entered tine harbor OF Taltal during the
absence of the congressional feet, landed
troops aud issued a proclamation in favor
of President Balmaceda. But instead OF
re establishing the old regime. according
to the congressional delegates, the inhabi
tants attacked the government troops aud
compelled them to withdraw. The con-
Rressional delegates also announce that
Bolivia has officially recognized the con
gressional forces as belligerents.
, 1891-05-24

CHICAGO, MAY % The Quakers sailed
in today and gave Anson's colts their first
coat of whitewash on the home grounds.
Both pitchers we're effective, bat Thorn
ton had the best of it. Score-Chicago O.,
Philadelphia 3. Batteries-SteIn and
Kittridge, Thornton and Clements.
CINCINNATI. May pa poor decision
by the umpire and two errors BY Kenna
in the first and second gave the visitors
five runs that won the game. Score
Cincinnati ., New York 7. Batteries
Duryea and Kleinau, Ewing and Clark,
CLEVELAND, May 23.-Clarkson was
, 1891-05-24

To ranchmen and 'armers-For sale at
much less than cost: Champion moving
machines. H~ollInRswOrth improved sulky,
hay rakes, two hay sweeps or 20 devils,
one tiger sell dump hay rake, boss sickle
grinders, plows and cultivators, lard oil
for machines, iron and wagon material
aud blacksmith tools and other articles too
numerous TO mention. All will be sold
for less than cost as | want to close out
this line of business. Also one new large
safe, weight, 300 pounds.
III. HAAS.
, 1891-05-24

ST. LOUIS. May 23.-At the western
intercollegiate championship contests at
S%portsman's park today, Charles S. Rebor
OF Washington university of St. Louis
broke the American intercollegiate record
In = running broad jump, clearing twenty
two feet, seven and a half inches. The
best previous record is twenty-five feet,
six inches. by A. j.. Sherman, Jr, OF
, 1891-05-24

G~RAvEsEND, May %. Six ~iurlongs-
Hell Gate won, Spinalong second, Pairi-
mony colt third. Time. l:l6f.
Nine furlonRs-Eon won, Banquet
second, Text thlrd. Time, 1851.
Mile-Pissara won, picknicker second.
Port Chester third. Time. l:45.
Five and a half furlongs-St Florian
won. Nomad second, Victory third. Time,
:O9!.
Mile and a quArlcr-Kingstou won,
King Tholnas second. Time 2:II4. Only
two starters.
Eight and a half furlongs-Admiral
won, Pearl Set second, KiDgsbridge third.
Time, l:5I4.
Six turlOnRs-Merry Monarch won,
Airplaut second, King Mac third. Time,
l:I6i.
, 1891-05-24

SAN Francisco, May 23.-.Jim Cor
bett today received a telegram from the
New Orleans Olympic club offering a
$l2, 900 purse for a fight between him and
Slavin, Corbett replied that he would
be in New York in TWO weeks and would
talk fight. He states that he probably
will not engage 10 another contest for a
year, when he will be larger and stronger.
, 1891-05-24

CHICAGO, MAY 23.-Four furlongs-
Mantle won, Grandman second. Richie
lieu third. Time. 0:574.
Six furlongs-Fred Taral won. Ivanhoe
sec md, Renounce third. Time, LIS.
Mile and a quarter-Ethel won, Fakir
second, Burch third. Time, 2:l44.
Nine furlongs-Hoeksey won. Dundee
second. Clifford third. Time. 2:O7.
Mile-The Moor won, Pat Coney second,
Hardee third. Time, lao.
, 1891-05-24
ELECTRIC SPARKS.

The latest electrical novelty will be an
electric street railway for the slow going
old dons at Madrid.
Perfect success has been obtained in the
endeavor to speak from london to Mar
settles via Paris, a distance of over 100
miles.
So popular have electric launches become
on the Thames nat a London firm will
erect a charging station where boats of all
sizes will be supplied with electricity at a
moderate fee.
Paul Reisser, a noted Stuttgart ~electri-
clan, has received the gold medal for art
and science from the king of Wurtemberg.
Herr Reisser is one of the pioneers of cleo
trio lighting in Germany.
In order to show the application Of cleo
tricity to aerial navigation a captive bal,
loon, capable of seating ten persons, will
be exhibited by Captain Rodeck at the
forthcoming Franfort exhibition.
In a new hotel in Florida is to be placed
the great orchestrion from the Paris ex-
position, which is to be connected by teIe-
phone with every room in the house and
simply by touching n button each guest
can have the music transmitted in full vol
ume to his apartment.
The steam turbine has been applied re-
Gently at the United States torpedo station
at Newport, r. l., to the running of a
dynamo for electric light. The dynamo is
intended for a normal speed of 5000 to TO-
900 revolutions a minute. The appliance
is regarded as a success.
DeUiIed crabs at HeaLh'S
, 1891-05-24

NEw HAVEN. Conn, May 23.-The
Yale Princeton championship ball game
here today was one of the hardest fought
that the two teams ever played When
defeat seemed inevitable for Yale, the
Princeton men became ratified and as the
result the score at the end stood: Yale 4,
Princeton |.
, 1891-05-24

St. Paul-St, Paul 4. Sioux City 8.
Omaha-Omaha 10. Denver l..
Lincoln-Llncoln 4. Kansas CITY 3.
Observation-Disclosures G, Minneap,
oils .
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very wild today and besides giving bases
on balls was hit easily. Score-Uleveland
9. Boston ?. Batteries-Gruber and
thinner, Clarkson and Bennett.
, 1891-05-24

Boston-BCston 7, st. Louis /.
Observation-Disclosures 4, Columbus I.
WashingtOn-Louisville game post,
pOned on account of rain.
Philadelphia-Athletic I, Cincinnati B.
, 1891-05-24

CHICAGO, May 23.-The following is
the standing OF the National League aud
American Association clubs including to-
DAYS games.
, 1891-05-24
ARNICATEU EUREKA CREAM

Is the finest and most effectual lotion for
chapped hands, rough and sore SKIN, cs.
p~ecially prepared for tins climate and
pleascs everybody. Try it. Twenty five
cent bottles. DRUGGISTS
, 1891-05-24
A FLYING MACHINE.
]. Maxim, an English
Gunmaker,
Tells of His Machine for
Navigating the Air.
Philadelphia's Treasurer Short
$1,512,OOO

Gunmaker MaTIm's FIyIng Machine.
WASHINGTON. May 23.-"Ifl can rise
FROM the coast of France, sail through
the air across the channel and drop half
a ton OF nitro glycerine upon an English
city | can revolutionize the world. | be-
lieve | can do it if / live long enough. II
| die some one will come after me who
will be successful where | failed
The man who made this prophecy was
Hiram j. Maxim, the famous gunmakcr.
He has built at his workshop, near Kent,
England, a small flying machine with a
wooden screw as its motive power.
ct is not necessary to initiate the flap.
ping of wings in making a flying ma
chine" said Mr.. Maxim. Suppose
Stephenson had said that, as a horse
was the most perfect form of locomotion
over roads and fields, he would make his
steam engine walk. What speed would he
have secured2 He might have made his
engine walk as fast as three miles an hour.
BY using wheels he obtained continuous
motion, and that Is why | use the screw.
But the screw has TO revOlve with great
rapidity-all the way from / 900 to .. 500
revolutions a minute. You cannot make
sufficient impression on the air with any
thing less
What Is your machine hke2'
My first machine was a small one. 1t
was an inclined plane thirteen feet long
and iour feet wide, and set edge wise
against the air. | balanced 1t on an arm
about thirty feet in length revolving in a
circumference OF 200 feet. The arm was
movable so that it would rise and fall.
When the machine Travelled at the rate OF
thirty miles an hour it renamed on the
same plane. When the speed was in
creasea to thirty five miles it began TO
rise. At ninety miles it pulled its guy
wires with such force that it broke them.
and now we have to keep it chained. All
our experiments were conducted with the
greatest accuracy. Delicate mae ines
measured the speed per minute and per
hour, the push and lifting power of the
screw, the horse power OF the moter. and
every other factor
But this little machine can hardly be
OF practical use2'
Very true. but now am at work on
a large machine, built of six and steel,
that will do on a large scale what the
W. go b- a1Ia Io"'
rN i Npeiinent lnIt one morse
Pp"el "Uui1 oaiiy 100 pouhuS at rae
$50 nisa ~ miies au hoII we
If, ro,,r Ia. oui soteT Woulu e9siV
n.1 ,aTn mIeh pu d pane II
Up,mr !; !. 0ush, nave M
1920 0nh .io'V pounIs anu "4lcu
III, So l,V9V pounIs' M NJ VIII therefore
49, lo''oo pou1 lne weight oil my
s sene.a'pl, con9enser' water
2 npdpn u pe'iSeum anu OF Two men Is
80 punn 'o Sou sec "hat a mar
kiH W., zen
ob;no9" " II SIZE Vi your large ma
~, nil 4.
lam WIZ oe ~ leet "lue a9d tortY leet
an oe propeIien ny Two I'M
u m"oueu scrgWs, neafIy elRhteen teet
- .ooA'uk very mucn IKE the
49, h,5 uI'"T steamers; NY WIN
Sv bea,;mr i"G steam - orISlna5eu
Wy nNaGK Goppc ny petroleum. ana Is
get along with two gallons of water. The
boiler Is OF the hnest Nh'tworth steel,
n nn,r W." sn4" use ao"'t 'or'' pounds oil
How are y"n poiog IN tc,t tho nae.
, 1891-05-24
NOTICE-

Ice cream pnd strawberry short cake at
Germania Hall.
, 1891-05-24

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May 23.-City
Treasurer John Bards'ey has resigned his
position and will make an assignment to-
morrow for the benefit of his creditors
and may perhaps finally wind up by go
ing to Jail IN account of his mIsmanagc-
ment OF the city and state finances.
Bardsley owes the state some 1881 900,
which he has received as state taxes and
which he had neglected to pay over to
the state. The money he declares he de
posted in the defuuct Keystone bank and
he exhibits a bank clearing house receipt
for this sum. But the most astonishing
thing is that no trace of the 1881 900 can
, 1891-05-24
3O4 w. 18th STREET.

-or1cal Dept; Cheyenne, Hyo.
, 1891-05-24

But suppose you should tip over2''
"Oh, no said Mr.. Maxim with a
laugh You may be sure that that Is
one contingency We are bound shall not
occur. 1t will be impossible for the ma
chine to tall forward, TO sink backward or
fall over"
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PROGRESS.
POSTAL PROGRESS.

To realize the enormous progress of
the postal service of the United States
one needs to consult history to learn
that the present system of postal ser
vice originated in 1894, with Samuel
OsgOOd as the first Postmaster General.
At that time there was not a daily
mail. There were but 100 postofices,
and but 1000 miles of mail routes. The
first year of the postal service the gross
receipts were $50, 900. At that time the
cheapest postage vas six cents for each
letter, one cent for a distance not ex-
ceeding thirty miles. The rate of post
age for 100 miles distance was 124 cents
per letter, and for all distances over
40 miles the rate was twenty-five cents
per letter. In 1887 the gross receipts
OF the United States Postal Service had
risen to S., 600, 900, while in 1890 the
gross receipts aggregated SOL, 900, 600.
In 1890 the mail routes travelled in
this service equalled a distance forty
one times the circuit of the globe. Eight
thousand letters are dropped into the
mail boxes every minute in the day,
and $50, 600 people are employed in the
service, both in the p~ostofices and on
the post routes.
The amount of business which any
particular office reports during the
year Is a true index of the business of
that community. Thus New York re-
turns S., 200 per annum for the
gross receipts of it's one postoffce,
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Poetry
THE MILKING OF THE cow.


The milk pail used to Versl1y . milo ana meno"
When went to milk old Brindle in the yard;
And the shining milk was sWeeter unto me and
little Peter
cense, and nard,
The sunset flung Its banners from the glIuou ILLS
about US,
And the odors of the evening seemed to drop
from every bOugh,
There was peace and glad cOntentment both
within us and without us,
At the sweet mellifuOus milking OF the cow.
And wandering like a memory, from the silent
past's abysm
Ismel the greatfuI odors of the fragrant even
ing breeze,
And 1 bend to catch the crism of the twilight's
glad baptism,
And the Outstretched benedictlon OF the trees.
The glory of the summer night, the magic of the
And the tinkIings of the twilight on the farm
are with me now,
But through all the mingling music still l hear
those falling fountains,
The sweet mellffuous milking of the cow.
Still I hear the joyful rhythm of that titillating
tinkle,
And I smell the ~greatful odors of the placid.
Perfumed night,
odors blown from glens a-sprinkle with Wildrose
And from lakes whore lazy lilies lol in Ian
gOur for the light,
Through the valley of the Long Years that is
glimmering behind me
l peer down through the vista that connects
the then and now,
With a youths audaciOUS unOOncern a careless
boy | find me.
At the sweet mellihuouS milking of the COW.
S. W. FOSS, In YANKEE BtGde.
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were appointed by the State Executive
Committee, at it's recent session, as fol-
lows:
First district, Prof. F. S. Blair Menola,
N. G.
Second district, Capt. E. A. Thorne,
Third district, DR.. V. N. seawen, Vii
lanow, N. @.
Fourth district, Rev. P. H. Massey,
Durham, N. @.
Fifth district, J. B. Smith, Gull
ford College, N. @.
Sixth district, R. B. Hunter, Hunters
vile, n. @.
Seventh district, Hon. Augustus
Leazer, MooresvilIe, N. @.
Eighth district, DR.. L. N. Durham,
Shelby, N. @.
Ninth district, not yet appointed.
These Lectures will be regular
authorized agents for The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER and other Alliance literature.
Parties who wish to secure a lecturer
will do we'll to correspond with their dis
trict lecturer. w. S. BARNES,
Sec'y N. @. F. S. A.
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NOTICE TO THE BRETHREN.

Copies of President Folks official
plan for organizing a lecture system,
which is sent out by the instructions of
the National Legislative Council of our
order, has been sent to each County
Secretary in the State and to the State
and District Lecturers and Stew
ards. Be sure these circulars are
carefully read, studied and explained
at your next county meeting. Do all
in your power to see it's requirements
carried out. We mast haze a uniform
understanding of secret work, a
higher appreciation and more thorough
knowledge of the noble principles of
our Order and unity of action wherever
our interests are concerned. 1t is i'm
possible for us to have these things
without a thorough system Of LectWTing.
If we follow the plan" we will soon
have that. Lend your aid and infu-
ence, my brother. Be sure to attend
your county meeting and look afterthF
all-important matter.
Yours fraternally,
SeC'y N. g. T. S. A.
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INDISPENSABLE FOB EVERY
CITY Or COUNTRY HOUSEHOLD,
FARM lR DAIRY,

FRANKS AMERICAN WONDER MACHINE.
Awarded highest medals at Paris World Ex-
position, etc. Always produces HIGHEST
A GRANULAR SUITED the very gilt
edged), from sweet milk, sweet or sour cream,
IN TWO MINUTES,
invariably whether in winter or summer. party
not keeping COWS can buy or more quarts of milk
or cream, and make his own pure butter daily,
costing less than such of even an inferior quality,
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MS

SELLING SMoKE-A yearly rental is
now paid to three or four of the iron
works in Scotland for the privilege of
collecting the smoke and gases from
the blast furnaces. Passage through
several miles of wrought-iron tubing,
gradually diminishing In size from 6 #.
to IS inches, cools the gases and con
denses a considerable quantity of oil.
The smallest of these smoke-saving
plants, at Glasgow, pumps and collects
about 6O'OOG,1Go I teet OF Il furnace e. gas as
IS, 900 gallons of furnace oil per Week.
The residual gases are used as fuel for
distilling and other purposes, and a
considerable PUPPY of sulphate of
ammonia is also obtained. The present
demand for the oil is small, the chief
uses being for the Lucigen light and for
picking railway sleepers.
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Sec'y N. G. F. S. A.

In obedience to the new lecture sys-
tenn, the time for holding county Al
liances, will, by authority of the State
and National Presidents, be changed
so as to conform to the appointments
following, when and where 1 will adj
dress the people, publicly, at IL o'clock
a. m. and an Alliance meeting will be
held at p. m.
Windsor, BERTHE Co., April 10.
Jackson, Northampton Co., April Is.
Halifax, Halifax Co., April Is.
Warrenton, Warren Co., April Is.
Henderson, Vance Co., April 90.
Tarboro, Edgecombe Co., April "a.
Wilson, Wilson Co., April 25.
E. A. THoRNE,
District Lecturer
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Chicago returns upwards of $3, 900, 900,
Philadelphia and Boston upwards Of
50, 600, 600 each, st. Louis upwards of
81, 600, 600, Cincinnati $500, 600, Brook
lYn and San Francisco each about $780,
600 and Baltimore 5000, 600. No Office in
the United States does so large a bust
ness in comparison with the population
of the city as Boston. Thus the gross
receipts of Boston being upwards of
So, 900, 900, showed an average of 81 so
for each member of the community.
New York shows $3.50 per head aver
age, Chicago 1910, St. Louis $3.50,
Philadelphia 1920, San Francisco about
81, Baltimore $3.50, Cincinnati 81. so
and Brooklyn but seventy-five cents
| per head of population. The Boston
pOstofice shows a remarkable business,
| so far as gross receipts and profits are
concerned. Uncle Sam makes a net
profit out of the Boston pOstOffice Of
nearly 81, 225, 900 per annum, the gross
receipts being 81, 07O, 214, and expenses
$846, 629.
The bushes of these great postofices
approximates more nearly to a great
express company than to anything
else. 1t is a huge business, which re-
quires a business administration, and
those pOstOffices are most successfully
managed which are conducted by the
highest administrative ability. It is
surprising, when the amount of bust
ness is taken in consideration, how few
mistakes there are in proportion to the
number of letters handled. 1t is a fact
that by far the largest percentage of
errors in delivery at our large post
Offices are caused by carelessness in
directing letters by those who address
them.-AmerIcan CultiUdtOr.
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SPECIAL NOTICE TO LECTURERS

There has been no money appro-
priat9d to defray the expenses of any
meeting of the District Lecturers. The
expenses of each County Lecturer to
these meetings should be borne by his
County Alliance.
All appointments made hereafter by
any District Lecturer must be confined
to the counties composing his district,
as laid off by the last legislature.
Fr~aternally yours,
W. S. BARNES,
Sec'y N. @. F. S. A.
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District Lecturer
To the Presidents Of the County AHi-

UTUC6o U LW6 DoCOTVU DtoLTICL.
Since publishing the above appoint
ments, inasmuch as my public lecture,
instructions in the unwritten work,
and other duties devolving upon me,
will consume so much time as to pre-
vent the usual important business Of
the several County Alliances, I sug-
gest that it would be best to hold your
quarterly meetings according to your
regular appointments, and give notice
then of my appointment and let us
open the day as best we may, endeavor-
ing to promote the great aims and pur-
poses of our organization.
~Fraternally,
E. A. THoRNE.
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PEANUT UNION MEETING.

The next meeting of the Alliance
Peanut Union of Virginia and North
Carolina will be held In Suffolk, Va,
10 a. m. April 23d, 1891.
r. S. BOYKN,
37O Secretary.
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Pulpit Review of Current Events by Rev. ThOs.
Dixon, Jr., for Sunday, April5, 1891.
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if bought; Farmers and Dairymen
get double the price in the market,
for their butter, If made with this
machine). No experience needed;
any child can successfully manage
it. Works from one pint w; makes
more butter. Buttermilk remains
perfectly sweet for coffee, ETC., and
is recommended by physicians as
Best Baby Food. Machine also
makes finest Ice Cream in four
minrr&nn nd dnl;ninnn- &C.,