The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-08-16

NAOWA dS Gu0 Aauu Oh GQ0 Oky. Du6
L say that VIZ should not expect to
wreak the vengence of a century upon
or collect the consequential damages
of four years of hard fought and cal
amltous war from a peaceable man
who has been already picked on " by
the so called artists of the United States
till he does not dare to unvail himself
in public till after twilight.
1 do not come before the public ask
ing for 800 Pinkerton men to protect
me at the cost of their lives. My
grounds are free to those who wish to
come and gambol on them, and no
armed force will be invoked to keep
the peace on my plantation. I only
ask that no n will refer to this well
until I am more calm.
1.-THE meantime I have large, beauti
full, geared windmill for sale. bought
the windmill feeling certain that here,
where the rain only pauses to spit on
its hands and get a better hold, water
would be plenty, eve if we had
to catch it in the we'll in the shape of
rain, but my well is now the only dry
place in North Carolina.
To my other duties I have to add
now that of sprinkling the well. That
is not all. After three or four months
watching the growth of a we'll you get
attached to it. You cannot bear to see
it suffer and toss about and hear it cry
for water. A typhoid we'll with moth
ing in it but a shortage and a dead
kitten of the pole variety is one of the
saddest sights 1 ever listened to.
Before I dug the we'll a man came to
me claiming to be a water witch. He
claimed to have the gift of discovering
the location of a vein of water by
means of a hazel wand or crotch. For
50 he would have shown me where the
water could be easily reached, but l
lacked faith. Coming from New York
I was checked up pretty high, and I
claimed to know as much of metropoli-
tan life as DR.. Parkhurst, also a good
many other things; so I pooh-poohed
the water witch and went my way. I
lacked faith.
Faith is necessary in the affairs of
this life as well as those of a future
state. Faith has done much to ad
vance the cause Of progress and human
advancement must naturally go hand
in hand. Faith has done much to ad-
vance progress and to give progression
to advancement (Sic).
Faith in a physician has done much
to advance the cause of medicine, for
instance. A neighbor Of mine here,
through faith in his doctor, made the
discovery that it was the capsule and
not the contents that cured him One
day the doctor had the capsules with
him, but none of the filling, and so he
administered the capsule. 1t did the
patient so much good that now he
often uses the capsule by itself with
crafty ing results.
Last spring a man in Buncombe
county was taken sick with a sort of
misery in his side and a rising in his
head. The doctor was sent for and
decided to take the temperature of the
invalid; so he wiped his thermometer
on the knee of his trousers and put it
under the tongue Of the sick man. 1t
remained there ten minutes. Those
who have given themselves up to the
gastronomic delights of a ffteen-cent
thermometer that has been through a
long hospital practice will agree that it
gives one the gay look of a man who
has just swallowed a soft shell ostrich
egg or a wet umbrella.
After the doctor had gone the wife
said:
"Agamemnon, what was that there
thing he give you when he first
come in?"
"That," says Agamemnon, twas
electricity, and I never got relief so
quick since I was born"
Faith in a physician also brought
about the use of terpentine internally.
The doctor erred in his order and wrote
for it to be used internally instead of
externally. Faith of this kind has
been the father of many important
discoveries.
I knew a doctor very well who was
also digging a well, yer as I have
been this summer, until it got to run
ming in his mind. Night or day he
could think of nothing else. When at
leisure he was all the time looking
down the road watching for a messen-
ger who was expected to tell him that
the vein had been struck and the old
well was squirting a column of water