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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-26
HOW FAR WOULD a MOTHER GO
A Woman Has the Skin Shaved Of Her
Legs to Patch Her Boy.

A Woman Has the Skin Shaved OF Her
Legs to Patch Her Boy.
Brave Mrs. Annie Muench, ofnumber
35 Norfolk street, yesterday in Bellevue
Hospital voluntarily submitted to a
surgical operation by which a large
quantity of surface skin was removed
from her body. She did it in the hope
that her three year-old son Herman
thereby be saved.
And she did it in a way that shows
her to be a woman of nerve. AS told
in the Herald yesterday her little boy
was badly burned On October 18th last.
He was amusing himself by lighting
matches and his clothes caught fire.
The skin of the whole front part of the
trunk of his body was burned off.
From his neck to his thighs and around
on both sides the flesh was raw. He
was taken to Bellevue Hospital and
the ordinary remedies ere applied.
But he did not improve under them,
1t was decided that the only chance
for his recovery lay in the grating of
the skin of a healthy person upon his
body.
Upon being informed of this last
Sunday Mrs. Muench at once volun-
teered to provide the epidermis herself.
She is a strong woman, imperfect health
and about thirty-five years old. She
made no fuss about it. She asked no
questions as to whether the operation
would be painful or not. She appeared
to give no though as to what the conse-
quences might be to her. It might
| give her back her boy, and that was
| enough.
CALM AND UECONCERNED.
A kind-hearted neighoor agreed to
care for her three other children while
she was away from home, and on Wed
nesday afternoon she entered the hos,
| pital, knowing that she was to go
under the surgeons knife yesterday
morning. Apart from her anxiety for
! the little sufferer who was near her in
ward 7, she was as calm and uncon-
! csrned as if she had been at home
| plying her needle. Her legs from the
thighs to the knees, from where the
skin was to be taken, were done up in
a solution of wet salt, in order that the
skin might be in perfect condition.
When she awoke yesterday morning
her first inquiry was for her son.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-26
THE MAN WHO KICKS.
He May Be Disliked, but He Becomes a
Public Benefactor.

He May Be DiSllked, but He Becomes a
Public Benefactor.
I admire the Kicker. I admire him
even when he theoretically kicks me.
1 have long held that the man who
undertakes to walk through this world
with a meek and humble spirit will get
regularly fattened out and broken in
two at least ono a month. On the
contrary, whoever saw chronic Kicker
who didn't live on the fat Of the land
and have a front seat everywhere.
I've met lots of Kickers in my time,
and I never yet saw one who was
personally selfish. When he kicked it
was for the good of the public. don't
meet up" with one oftener than once
a week, but I'd like to visit and COM
pare notes with three or four per day.
1 hereby invite every conscientious
and we'll meaning Kicker In the United
States who happens to come to New
York to give mea call and be prepared
to stay at least three hours and smoke
half a dozen cigars.
Take my case for instance. There
were twenty of US in an Erie railroad
sleeper. Just as the car conductor got
throught coughing a cough that strung
out along the track for fifteen miles,
and just after the porter had banged
himself tired, a man in upper No. E
began to snore. Out Of the twenty
passengers one snored to keep the
other nineteen awake. It looked sci
fish, [ waited for awhile, but the
nineteen growled around and let it
20 at that. Then l got up and went
down to No, 6 and reached up for the
mans hair. When he awoke 1 said:
''See here, sir, your snore!"
"Well, it's my snore, isn't it9" he
replied.
1T is, and we don't want any of it.
This is a sleeping a r We pay extra
because we hope to sleep. You have
no right to deprive us Of that
privilege"
"What are you going to- do aboutit?'
You either stop snoring or I'll begin
singing. If I can't sleep you shan't,
I've got just as much legal right to
sing as you have to snore."
He growled and clustered around,
but he ceased to snore. l don't know
whether he took his OFF or tied it
I'D. but his wild bazoo nc longer an
noyed us.
Last spring a baggage man threw
my trunk off his wagon In front of a
Philadelphia hotel and busted it. He
drove off singing as I stood looking at
the wreck. Half an hourlater l walked
in on him at the depot and said:
81 want 50 of you"
"What fort"
For smashing my trunk in front of
the Continental"
"You get out! Trunks are liable to
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-26
Poetry.
A MONUMENT.

| ask not, when on earth I'm seen no more.
The cold grave hiding from all men NV face
A costly pillar proudly tOw'ring DER,
Te mark my resting-place.
[ do not ask that mighty men NAV saw.
AS passing hurrledIy there they read the name
Above tEls frame fast mOldering away,
lie won great worldly fame"
Fhe hOnors that | crave when 1 am gone
Are that some lonely one may softly saw.
When l was wondering YEARLY above
He helped me on my way"
A tear of gratitude is what crave
To fall upon the clover or the snow
Above me, and sad voices by NY grave
To say, We loved him So"
A marble slab placed there by loving hands,
one whose white surface will these words
display.
As silently above my grave it stands,
lie helped us on our way"
George Riverside, in Yankee Blade.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-26
KIND TO THE L :.

A boy conducted an oldish man into
the presence Of a patrolman on Four
teenth street The other day, and when
the officer asked what the trouble was
the stranger said:
q expect I've been robbed of my
watch"
watch gone, eh? Haven't you any
idea where yon lost It'll"
"Not the slightest. I was down here
somewhere by a ferry andtook a drink
with a man. Mebbo he got it,"
Anywhere else7"
ct was over here somewhere by a
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-26
THREE EXCELLENT DOC roRs

Some of the eminent physicians of
Paris were assembled about the death
bed Of Dumoulin, the most celebrated
doctor of his day, To their expressions
of grief at the expected loss to the pro
fession the dying man answered:
"Gentlemen, l shall leave behind me
three excellent doctors to supply my
absence" Being pressed to name them,
as each man expected to be included in
the trio, he said: water, Exercise
and Diet"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-26
K THE EDITOR.

"What are you crying about" asked
a kind hearted stranger of a lad who
was standing in front of a newspaper
Office weeping as if his heart would
break.
ooh, dads gone up stairs to lick the
editor"
"Well, has he come down yeti" pur-
sued the gentle samaritan.
"Pieces of him have" exclaimed the
boy, indulging in a fresh burst of tears,
land I'm expecting the rest every
minute
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-26
DOROTHY's MUSIC.

Mamma thinks Dorothy's musical
taste needs to be cultivated. There
was company at tea n evening, a
little while ago, and afterward n Of
the ladies played on the piano. She
plays very we'll, but Dorothy was not
interested. Presently she said:
"Now I'm going to play something
especially for Dorothy"
1t was a very merry kind of tune,
that made us all feel like laughing.
When she finished Dorothy clapped
her hands and exclaimed:
"Oh!my! Wasn't it lovelyi Sounded
Just like q hand organ!"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-26
HI RICHEST MEN.

The richest man in New York is
John D. Rockefeller, who is said to
have nearly $3.50, 900, 600. Then follow
the Astors with probably $50, 600, coo,
Cornelius Vanderbilt with about
1925, 600, QUO, and Jay Gould, who may
have 800, OOO, 600. The richest man
America has ever seen was William
H. Vanderbilt, who, at the time of his
death, was worth 5000, Ooe, 900.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-26
WANTED AN UNDERSTANDING.
Trying to Arrange AdulteratiOn to Sui
All but Hogs.

IrYl9G to arrange AQulCcE&GlOA 10 quit
All but Hogs.
An Illinois merchant who was taking
baking powder in bulk from a Chicago
firm called at headquarters the other
day to say that there was something
wrong with the goods.
81 don't think So" was the reply,
1--WE make the best article sold in the
vest
81 think we ought to have a more
perfect understanding" continued the
dealer. Now, then you a~dulterate
before you send to me; then l adulter-
ate before ship; then the retailer
a~dulterates before he sells and the con
sumner can't be blamed for growing. L
want to see if we can't agree on some
schedule to be followed"
"What do you meant"
why suppose you put in ten per
cent. of chalk; then I put in twenty
per cent. of whiting; then the retailer
puts IN thirty per cent. of -four. That
gives the consumer about forty per
cent. of baking powder and unless he's
a born hog he'll be perfectly satisfied.
You see, if you adulterate fifty per
cent, On the start and l adulterate SIS
much more, and the retailer adulter-
ates as much more as both together,
it's mighty hard for the consumer to
tell whether he's investing in baking
powder or putty. We must give him
something for his money, if it's only
chalk. National Weekly.
The Press., 1892-05-05

proved on March g, 1891, authorizestown- ships to sink wells for public use, and to issue bonds to defray the cost. This aims to make the mysterious basin the prop erty of the people. For farming, the flow of water is not needed during half of each year. It is said if the subsoil is wet, the crops will need no more water. The water should be turned on to the land af- ter the harvest, and kept soaking into it for four or five months. The drilling of wells goes on apace. In one county where there were eight wells year ago, there will be one hundred this summer.
 The James River Basin is 400 miles long and 40 to 90 miles wide. Well-bor- ing has been failure to the eastward of it, but to the westward there are several Hughes county, near the Missouri. The boring is very costly, some wells costing $5 ,000, and even more. At first a soft shale rock of white sand is pierced, and then there is reached 8 sticky clay like gumbo. Minnows of brilliant colors and with bright and perfect eyes have been thrown out of these wells, as if to prove that the water comes from surface streams somewhere. The theory is that it's course is from the west, and an official of the department of agriculture holds that sev- eral rivers to the westward lose all or part of their volumes of water at certain places where they meet the outcropping of this same sandstone which is found by boring. The Missouri, for instance, is said to lose two-thirds of it's bulk after it's flight over the cascades at Great Falls. The Yellowstone diminishes mysteriously in bulk. Three or four streams in the Black Hills run their courses and then disappear in the neighborhood of this out cropping of sandstone. When I was at Great Fall in Montana, was not able to prove that the Missouri loses the greater part of it's bulk below there, but it was said that engineers have investigated the subject, and are to report upon it to the government. I was told, however, that several streams which seem to be head ing toward the Missouri in that neighbor- hood suddenly disappear in the earth without effecting the junction. Prom :" The Dakotas," 6y Julian Ralph, ie Har- per's Mdgasiae .for Mag.
The Press., 1892-05-05
TWO CURIOUS OLD TALES.

Noman-al-Aouar, an Arabian king, who reigned long, long ago at Hirah, con- manded the architect Sennemar to build him wondrous palace. This the archi- tect did, and when it was done 8 single stone fastened the whole structure, and the colors of the walls changed frequent ly during the day. The king was greatly pleased, and showered all kinds of rich gifts upon the builder with the lavishness of Oriental kings. But monarchs were treacherous in those old days, and it oc- cured to the king that Sennemar might superior, for some rival ruler. The more he thought over it the more jealous he became, until one day he ordered the architect to be thrown from the top of the palace, to make certain that no dupli- cate palace would be made. After this the king was satisfied that his palace was the only one, and the Arabians regarded
 it as one of the wonders of the world.
 | This old story is told by the historian |D'Herbelst, but another and similar one \ ID I0la1ou ny tt 1IlSu WEALk1I4- blGy tEO both true, 1t proves that kings were equal l ly treacherous all the world over. l Ever so long ago an African colony re- sided in the north of Ireland, and Neim- heidh, a ruler who came there with his people, selected four of them to build for him. This potentate was rather extrava- gant, for he wanted two palaces. How ever, these were built, and magnificent buildings they were, too. Neimheidh, being twice as lavish in palaces as the Arabian king, was twice as jealous for feaI some one else would equal him, and so upon the day after the African artisans had completed the palaces, the poor men were disposed of in as cruel manner as Sennemar. It is to be hoped that other architects firmly but positively refused after these incidents to work for the kings, and managed to make their escape without trouble. Lessons like these should have been taken to heart.
The Press., 1892-05-05
ARTISAN WELLS IN SOUTH
 DAKOTA,

The story of the artesian basin under part of South Dakota seems fabulous. It is even more astonishing than the wealth of coal that underlies the farms of North Dakota. God does, indeed, move in mys- terious ways. His wonders to perform when to the poor farmer amid the cold blasts of the northern winters, He dis tributes coal that can be had for the talk ing of it, and when under the South Da- kotan soil, that would be as rich as any in the world were it but moistened, He seems to have placed great lake or, as some would have us believe, vast sea.
 Under the Jim River Valley, in both states, there is said to lie vast lake of cryta] water. The fact is amply proven in South Dakota, where, between, the northern and southern boundaries, there are already more than fifty high pressure wells, or "gushers," as they call them there. A hundred, or perhaps more, low pressure wells, reaching flow closer to the surface, are at the foot of the same basin. In Sanborn, Miner and McCook counties almost every farmer has his own low pressure we'll. But the wonderful wells are the high- pressure, deep ones, where water is struck at from 600 to 1900 feet. The pressure in some of these wells is 200 pounds to the square inch. One at Woonsocket supplies 800 gallons 9 minute. One at Huron serves for the towns water system and fire protection. One at Springfield has force enough for more than the power used in sixty-bar- rel flour mill. One at Tyndall is expected to irrigate 800 acres. It is calculated that 8 two-inch we'll will water 160 acres; a three-inch we'll, $40 acres and @ four-inch well, 1280 acres or more. Eight miles above Huron well is used on farm that pro- duced 53 bushels and 20 pounds in wheat to the acre, as against 15 bushels in the unirrigated land of the neighborhood. Some who profess to know say that the great basin is inexhaustible, and that the opening of one we'll near another does not affect the first one. Then, again, Fl read that this is not wholly true. But, at all events, no one doubts the presence of g vast body of water, and no we'll, even among those that are five years old shows any sign of giving out. A law called the Melville Township Irrigation Law, ap-
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't
 "That's what call making glad the waist places," said Smithson, as he put his arm around lady's waist. Rnt Lilly won't care much for this show of affection if Smithson doesn't get rid of that disagreeable catarrh of his. Won't somebody tell him that pr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy will cure him.
 By its mild, soothing, antiseptic, cleansing and healing properties, Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy cures the worst cases of Chronic Catarrh in the Head, as thousands can testify. "Cold in the Head is cured with few applications. Catarrhal Headache Is relieved and cured as if by magic.
 In perfect faith, the makers of DE. Sage's Catarrh Remedy-the Worlds Dispensary Medical Association, of Buff falo, N. Y., offer to pay $500 to any one suffering from Chronic Catarrh in the Head whom they cannot cure.
 Now, if the conditions were reversed If they asked you to pay $500 for . positive cure you might hesitate. Here are reputable men, with years of honor able dealing; thousands of dollars and great name back of them.
 They believe in themselves Isn't it worth 8 trial Isn't any trial prefera- ble to catarrh
The Press., 1892-05-05

E THE SPRING SNAKE. c CRoP.-Now, when
 the vernal sun first begins to warm the
 ravines and rocky lodges of the Nutmeg
 State, comes forth the annual crop of |snake yarns. We begin to hear of the
 snake that comes down the little red
 school house chimney and adjourns the
 session, the snake of vast but indefinite 1ength which interviews the farmers and then escapes into the swamp: the snake Casually .srattler'' or copperhead) which Acomes out from under the rural dwelling
 and suns himself on the doorstep, and other snake stories as numberless as Ithrilling.
 \ Anent this topic of Connecticut snakes Ia letter writer says. 1T may have men, stioned the subjoined fact heretofore, but seven if so, it is worth it's space again: Some twenty years ago heard four gen. Etlemen, each & great hunter and angler, ewho, collectively, had tramped over about shalf the state of Connecticut, tly to swap ssnake stories. At the end of their rem siniscences, chiefly about the alarming but Harmless stblack'' and ''water" snakes, it came out that but one of them had seen "a poisonous snake at large in the state, and in that particular case it was "rat- tler," seen near trout brook almost half D century ago. Ever since that testimony the subscriber has perforce relegated 99 per cent. of our Connecticut snake stories to the realm of bright fable.' Dairymen, stockmen, livery Stable men, and horse-car men enite in saying that no such horse and cattle lotion has ever been put upon the market. It should be kept at every stable and stock yard in the land. Price % cents bottle.
 Three pupils of the Marseilles School of Art were were chatting together in the Cannebiere. Said one of them: "Look here, my friend, the other day painted with such accuracy that, on. heinz thrown into the water, it immediately sank to the bottom.
 "Faugh!'' said another. Yesterday hung my thermometer on the easel sup porting my view of the Polar Regions.
 It fell at once twenty degrees below freez- ing-point."
 All that is nothing" remarked the third, in conclusion. My portrait of the Marquis de la Camargue is so life-like that it requires to be shaved twice a week"
The Press., 1892-05-05

GUARANTEED CURE FOR LA GRIPPE We authorize our advertised druggist to sell you Dr. Kings New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds upon this condition. If youhre afflicted with Ia grippe and will use this remedy according to directions, giving it a fair trial, and ex- perience no benefit, you may return the bottle and have your money refunded. We make this offer, because of the won- derful success of Dr. Kings New Discov- cry during last seasons epidemic. Have heard of no case in which it failed. Try it. Trial bottles free at E. K. Taft's drug store. Large size soc. and $1. 3
The Press., 1892-05-05
(Mrs. Annie A. Preston, in Religious Herald)
 PUSSY WILLOW.

Miss Pussy Willow is out,
 I met her to-day by the brook,- A Maltese without doubt,
 With a very winning look. In suit soft, woolly and gray,
 She is fit for any one's guest, Pussy Willow is having her day
 With welcome from the best. Pussy Willows are ripe!" We lay them against our cheek, We hear the blue birds pipe
 And the rush of the swoolen creek, And the children again by the. brook
 So happy to welcome the spring, "Oh, Pussy Willow!" "Just look!''
 "And a blue bird on the wing!"
The Press., 1892-05-05
Volume 35.
Rowing Dogs Along the Nile.


 In Egypt rowing dogs are less numer- ous and less ferocious now than in am cient times, but they become at times terrible to strangers. It has often hap pened to me. when casually passing through village of upper Egypt about midnight, to be reminded when 1 met them of the bulldog in one of Dickens novels, "a bitter of man and killer of chickens for sport, which usually lived on the right side of the street, but also hid himself on the left side, so as to be ready to jump upon the passer by"
 As it is under Tewfik Pasha, so it was in the time of Rameses II, and the ex- perience of the present day enables us to understand exactly what our scribe meant in the passage have just quoted. THE GREATEST SrRIKE.-Among the great strikes that of Dr. Miles in discov- ering his New Heart Cure has proven it. self to be one of the most important. The demand for it has become astonish- ing. Already the treatment of heart dis ease is being revoiutionized, and many unexpected cures effected. It soon re- lieves short breath, fluttering, pains in side, arm, shoulder, weak and hungry spells, oppression, swelling of ankles, smothering and heart drOpsy. Dr. Miles book on Heart and Nervous Diseases, free. The unequaled New Heart Cure is sold and guaranteed by W.tD. Heald, also his Restorative NerVine for headache, fits, sprees, hot flashes, nervous chills, opium habit, etc. 4
The Press., 1892-05-05
Highest of all in Leavening PowerLatet S Govt Repor
PURE

"Oh heavens !" he exclaimed "this is more than can bear. Down, throbbing heart, down! return home after three years imprisonment for brutal wife beat ing, and how am received am order ed to leave my home by the very woman on whose account I suffered incarceration Oh, it is too much my poor heart will break !"
The Press., 1892-05-05

TFM. A. COMINS, Horse and OK w Shoeing, Machine Forg1ngs and Repairing done to order. Also builder and repa1rer Of all styles of Wagons. SOuth-st., Stafford Springs.
The Press., 1892-05-05
SECURED THE 1NFoRMATlo

The next prisoner at the bar was a for eign-looking person whose beard covered his features, so that it. was quite impossible to say from just what country he hailed. The police justice looked up at him, then called for the German inter- preter.
 "Ask him what his name is ?" said the justice, in an undertone, to the inter- preter.
 "Wie heisst du ?" said the interpreter.
 The prisoner put his hand to his ear. "Wie heisst du? ?" cried the interpreter. | The prisoner looked stupid and did not answer.
 "Call the French interpreter" said the police justice.
 The French interpreter could not make the prisoner understand what was wanted of him, so they called the Spanish inter- preter. The man, however, fared no bet ter than had the others, so they called the Italian and the Hebrew and the Rus sian and the Norwegian and the Danish and the Swedish and the Turkish inter- preters, but none of them could get an answer from the prisoner.
 They came to the conclusion that tho man was deaf; so, after bawling tho question at him, they wrote it down in German, French and every other foreign language. But the prisoner merely look ed stupid and did not answer.
 They came to the conclusion that he was shamming, so they tried to intimi- date him in every foreign language known.
 Finally the court policeman lost his temper.
 "Why the divil don't you tell his honor your name?" he cried.
 The prisoner looked surprised.
 "And shure," said he, "and is that what ye are after2 Why the divil didn't you say so? Me name's Dennis Mul- choonan, and come from County Courk." --Kate Field's Washington.
The Press., 1892-05-05

DR. c. F. MCCARTHY, Diseases
 D of the Lungs and Heart speciality. Foster block Off1ce hours: Until a. m., to and 2 tO n m
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A J. TILDEN, Agent for Fire. Life A and Accident Insurance. None but the strongest companies represented. Onice at resi- dence, East -Mafn-st. Notary public.
The Press., 1892-05-05
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

! B. ME, Agent for Brown Bros. J. Nursery Stock. P. O., Stafford, Conn.