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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-06
ALLEGED FUN.

"And you wish to be treated9" said
the dentist. mo, ~begorrah," replied
Mr.. Dolan; you shtop the hurrut in
this toot', and Oil trate to anythin'
yez want Washington Star.
He-"Funny, isn't it, how we men
get baldheaded and you women don'tG'
She-'I don't think it's strange. You
know we never get to be old enough
for that. "-Souh Boston Ne1Us.
Ada-'FIo was just going down for
the third time, when DR.. Watson Owed
off a yacht and got her." Grace-"And
saved her lifeI Isn't that wonderful"
Ada-'Yes, for a doctor ."-L1e.
Voice from D oorway-"Maryl What
are you doing out there9" Mary-"Tm
looking at the moon" "Well, tell the
moon to go home, and you come into
the house. It's half past 11."-Vogue.
She-Fdon't believe you think half
so much of me as Tom Dinsley does.
He tells me he could die for me-" He
That's nothing. I love you well
enough to live with you."-BOstOm
Transcript.
Hubby-"How do you suppose the
saying, There is nothing new under
the sum- ever originated9" Wife
Really, I don't know, unless some
woman who wore a bonnet like mine
said it to her husband. "-DetrOit Free
Press.
eff these members of Congress would
only get together, " said Hicks, 81 think
everything would come out all right"
mot at all, -" said Dawson. "The main
thing for the good of the country is
that they be kept apart. Individually
they are harmless. "-Harper's BGzGr.
The password is Sake Now don't
forget it, Pat" said the colonel, just
after the battle of F~ontenoy, at which
SAKE was marshal. ''Sacksa Faith,
and I will not. Wasn't my father a
miller9" who goes there9" cried the
sentinel, after the Irisbman had arrived
at his post. Pat was as wise as an owl,
and in a sort of whispered yell replied,
"Bags, yer honor!'-AdUGnce.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-06
A GIRLS IDEAS OF MARRIAGE.

A young girls ideas of marriage are
very nebulous and underlined, writes
Mrs. Burton Kingslend in the fifth pa
per in the series, "a Daughter at Six
teen" in the October Ladies' Home
Journal. She rarely looks beyond the
prestige" of being engaged" the
trousseau, the wedding festivities, the
novelty of being the mistress of q
house, and the adored being whose
projections are the constant theme Of
the ideal young husband. Her imigi-
nation rarely carries her farther than
the first year Or two of married life,
when the novelty having passed, she
must fall back upon the character Of
the man she has chosen to build her
happiness upon
Parents know how feeting the pas
sions of youth sometimes are, and how
they fail in inharmonioUs conditions.
They know that where the girls loves
the ideal she creates, rather than the
reality that exists, there will come a
time Of awakening, and her love may
die, though the bond remain.
Worldly considerations are stronger
with the old than with the young, and
the most common parental objections
are on the ground of insufficient
means.
'All for love, and the world well
lost, " has always been the lovers creed,
but the parents foresee that when a
man feels the weight of a family upon
him, whom he a barely support, de-
pressing influences set in. His health
fails perhaps; care and anxiety rob
him of the youthful attractions that
won her heart; he may become queru-
lous and exacting, and love itself have
a hard struggle for existence.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-06

to do. Even headache usually indi-
Gates a call for rest.
Pain due to o~vertaxing of the nerve
center, that is, the brain, is usually
the most difficult to combat, since here
the cause is often obscure. In this
State neuralgia-nerve pain-affects
first n part of the body, then an
other. Natures restorer, sleep, is
counted with difficulty, and LIES ordi-
nary duties become burdens almost
too heavy to be borne.
In this condition natures call for
rest is best headed by a complete
change of surroundings. If the call is
disregarded serious consequences are
likely to ensue. AEacation offers one
of the best chances of recuperation.
In fact, a regular indulgence in such
forms of recreation is the best means
of preventing this very condition, and
should be looked upon not as the in
diligence Of a weakness, but as the per-
Torrance of a duty.
In the natural course of events one
adds to, rather than detracts from, the
years which may be given to active
labors by devoting regular periods to
rest.
Treat the body not as a mere ma
chine, which wears out in any case
after a certain number of years or
months of work, but as vital organ
ism having the power of revivifying
itself-capable of being hard worked,
but demanding, too, times of recupera-
tiOn.-COmDnniOn.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Glass collins are used in Russia.
Sense of touch is dullest on the
back.
Ostrich farms return handsome
profits.
Sugar as a food produces fat and
muscle.
White huckleberries grow in Con-
necticut.
Russian Railways have ladies' smok-
ing cars.
The Oldest known inscriptions are
epitaphs.
The metal gallium is worth So, 900
an ounce.
The first tax was laid on funerals
in ERgland in 1898.
Japanese children are taught to
write with both hands.
The Greeks buried or burned their
dead, one word having both signifca-
tions.
Mummy cases have often, on n eX-
ternal lid, a representation of the oc-
cupant.
The early Christian Martyrs were
generally buried in or near the
churches.
The best evidence goes to show that
the pyramids of Egypt were royal
sepulchers.
The practice of burials in churches
was commonly discontinued in France
about 1777.
Many tribes of the aborigines of this
country elevated the bodies of the
dead on poles.
Death is an eternal sleep" is the
favorite epitaph above the doors OF
Roman tombs.
The magi did not bury their dead,
but left them to be devoured by birds
of prey or dogs.
Nero delivered a funeral grafton al
the funeral of Poppeae, whom he had
killed with a kick.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-06
PAIN N REST.

We are told that pain is nothing
more than a nerve irritation. It is ex-
perienced when any destructive pro
cess goes on in any part of the body
and may be felt III one part of the
body while the sources of it is in an
other, Thus, headache may have its
source in the muscles of the eye.
Pain, strange AZ it may stem, is
really a protective and beneficial sen,
sation.
In the case OF a broken limb, ex-
IRENE pain is caused by the motion in
that limb. Therefore the sufferer,
whether man or animal, tries to keep
the limb at rest, which is the very con
dition requisite for its healing. Sur
geons, indeed, have taken hints from
nature in this regard, and in cases Of
tuberculosis affecting joints find that
the best results are obtained by render
ing the joint motionless by means Of
splints, through the affection itself is
often not very painful.
Pain from indigestion is relieved by
temporarily tightening the diet, and
giving the digestive organs less work
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-06
TO MAKE A HOME OUT OF a
HOUSEHOLD.

Does any good housewife who reads
this paper take the covers other stove
while cooking9 If so, don't do it
again.
Try to prepare breakfast or dinner
without removing the covers, and you
will be both pleased and astonished at
the result, especially if you keep your
stove well polished; and in order to do
the latter mix a little turpentine with
the backing.
Cover your table with tin, neatly
nailed on, and there will be no more
unsightly burnt spots, while grease
may be wiped off, and one always has
a clean kitchen table for any kind of
work. J. A p.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-06
BEATING OF CREAM AND EGGS.

There are various churns and patent
beaters without end now In market for
whipping cream and eggs. All these
b~eaters, just in proportion as they are
valuable for whipping cream to stiff
froth, are worthless for beating eggs.
1t is very easy to invent a machine
that will beat eggs to a stiff, leathery
froth, that makes them valueless for
any culinary process. The average
patent egg beaten does this. No better
instrument for beating eggs has been
invented than the simple whip, such
as costs in tlu shops four or five cents.
1t is impossible o get a tender coarse
froth by stirring The eggs as a beater
stirs. The whip does this; therefore it
is better than any thing else for max
ing angel cake, sponge cake, mer-
ingues, or any dish requiring beaten
eggs. The eggs must be beaten till
they may be cut no longer.
The egg beaten is of great value,
however, in making m~ayonnaise dress
ing; it seems to give just the proper
motion for stirring the oil to the stiff,
buttery consistency desirable. Most
egg heaters are also valuable for beat
ing cream. There is no danger of beat
ing this too stiff. On the contrary, it
can hardly be beaten too much. 1t
is not a coarse froth that is now re-
quired, but a fine one. The coarse
froth of cream returns to liquid; the
fine does not if it is drained in a
sieve and kept on the ice. Cream may
be beaten to a stiff froth with a whip,
but it is a tedious task, except for a
strong chef. A woman should not ex-
pect to do the work except with a
churn. Even then a little practice is
necessary. The motion for beating is
a rather slow, firm one at first, the
speed may be increased. A good tin
churn, that will beat cream for family
use, will cost thirty or forty cents. 1t
ought to hold at least a quart, though
not more than half a pint of cream can
be satisfactorily beaten at once.-NeW
York Tribune.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-06
NO ROSES WITHOUT THoRNS.

Things are pretty we'll matched in
'ais world so far as taking comfort
goes, and we begin to believe that,
a.81 and low, all have their tribula-
IONS. Fishes are hooked, worms are
todden on, birds are fired at. Worry
. everywhere. Poor mems wives
worry because the bread won't rise, or
@e stove won't draw, or the clothes
~e breaks, or the milk burns, or the
Hne OF glass is m9nded with putty, or
~ey can't afford to hire help. Rich
~11S wives worry because the pre-
"Eve dish is not of the latest pattern,
" because somebody finds out how a
PARTY dress is trimmed before the party
|appen7. or because some grandee's
we oVerlooks them, or because their
~1Vant sauces them, breaks up a tea
~, spoi.3 dinners, gets drunk, cuts
spsneets into underclothes. Causes
rH'y' bus worry averages the same.
au7 scale of miles is different on differ
~ map, but places remain just so
apart, and so do humanity and
'"''ent Christian Work.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-06
HOUSEHOLD.
A APPLE

CRATE APPLE
Beat half a pound Of sugar and a
quarter of pound of butter to a cream.
Add about six grated apples, the rind
Of two lemons and the juice of one.
Stir this we'll together, then add two
CUBS Of cream or milk, and five eggs
we'll beaten. Line the dish with puff
paste, and bake it one hour. This may
he made without a crust.
STEwED PARsNIPs.
Pare and boil four parsnips very ten
der. cut them in rather thin slices, and
put them in a saucepan with one half
pint Of cream, a piece of butter rolled
in -four. a little grated nutmeg and
alt to taste. Keep shaking the pan
around till it is we'll mixed and is thick
and smooth. Pour into a hot dish and
serve.
LAMB CHOPS SUITE.
Put . piece of butter into a frying
pan and when hot lay in the chops,
rather highly seasoned with pepper
and salt. Fry them until thoroughly
done, but not too brown. Should gravy
be required, pour off the greater part
Of the fat, and then stir in half a table
pOonfuI of -four; stir until the flour
browns, then add a gill of broth or
water. an ounce of fresh butter and
the juice of half a lemon. Stir until
The sauce becomes rather thick, pour
over the chops and serve.
COMPOTE OF ORANGES.
Boil q pound of sugar in one and one
half pints of water with the peel of
eight oranges cut very thin for nearly
twenty minutes, removing the scum as
it rises, After the oranges r peeled,
remove all the white pith without
breaking the inner skin, divide them
INTO quarters, and put them into the
syrup and let them simmer for five or
Tx minutes. Then take them out care
July with a skinner or spoon and ar
range them in the centre of a glass dish,
piled one on the other with the skin
ode downward. Boil the syrup until
nick, and when cool pour it carefully
over the orange quarters, and set them
nj cold place until ready to serve.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-06
N WAS ENOUGH.

"You love my daughter9" said the
old man.
Love her3' he exclaimed, passion
ately, "why, I could die for herI For
one soft glace from those sweet eyes.
I would hurl myself from yonder cliff
and perish, a bleeding, bruised mass,
upon the rocks 200 feet below!"
The old man shook his head.
II am something of a liar myself"
he said, land one is enough for a.
small family like mine"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-06
RoNING C~oNvRNIENCEs.

At best ironing day is not a red
letter day. The good house mother
rather breads it from week to week,
unless she be a natural ironer," and
the pleasure of seeing wrinkled things
grow smooth over weighs the discom-
fort of aching feet and tired back. I
want to suggest several bits Of com
monplace helps to ironing day, though,
of course, some or all of them may be
old stories. They are not at all new
tangled" our mothers and grandmoth-
ers discovered them and used them,
maybe, before we were knee high" to
the ironing table, Or before we were
knee high at all! But their homeliness
detracts not a whit from their useful
ness, and their old fashIonedness only
endears them to us.
First comes the quaint little round
braided rug to rest the iron upon. 1t
is the grandmotherly hearth rug in
miniature, and besides being just the
very thing for this use, is very cunning
and unique. One of my friends mum,
bers among her wedding gifts one of
these little round rugs, made of danny
little braids of blue and white strands,
and sewed into a perfect disc. The
material employed is cotton, as wooden
has a fashion of smelling very I'M
savory when too close a neighbor to
heat.
Another good thing to remember on
Tuesday is that the paper wrappings
about Sidall's laundry soap makes an
excellent surface upon which to rub
the irons. Is is as good as waxed pa
per or the various ''c8lluloid" or pre-
pared papers that are brought to our
doors. Very likely the same use may
be made of other soap wrappers be
sides Sidall's but I can only recommend
that from experience.
Holders for the irons never come
amiss. They are essential always if
one use common irons, and they have
a way of wearing OUT and needing fr>-
quent replenishing, DIvs everybody
know that stocking legs make fine
holders and with only a few minutes
works Colored stockings are better,
as black ones might crock. Pad them
sufficiently and sew up the ends. One
stocking makes several.
With one parting suggestion this
common every day" homily closes.
This peroration is homeliest of ALL 1t
concerns another use for c~orsets, and
may be tits the most sensible use those
articles can be put to, who knows9 A
good sized piece of an old pair of cor
sets-slate color preferred-makes a
specially-good iron rest, if n is not
fortunate enough to own the pretty lit
tie rug. But if one is fortunate enough
to own a dear old grandmother, I had
rather advise her to drop a delicate
little hint about the beauties of minia-
ture braided rugs, and if her grand
mother is like mine every body else's
she will soon be resting her iron on one
of those quaint ''resters "-AlbGny
| CultiUatoT.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-06
AN FRIEND

Jack l have a chance to marry a
poor girl whom I love, or a rich wo
man, whom l do not love. What
would you adviser
George-Love is the salt of life, my
friend. Without it all else is naught.
Love, pure love, makes poverty
wealth, pain a JOY, earth heaven.
Jack-Enough. I will marry the
poor girl whom l love.
George-Bravely spoken. By the
way, would you-er-mind introduc-
ing me to the rich woman whom you
do not love?-PearsOn'S Weekly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-06
Poetry.
- CHANGERS STORY.

hos sir, I never drink,
No, thaIHGIdf did for thirty year,
ThOpgLnLative a mans invite
md to Ef@Iiow feel right queer:
MAKES q - - me- Ouit?" The stOry's short,
what nam .,on might think it strange
Tb0TugI o42Ded so sudden, captain
Thst ne 6penin' OF b grange
twas this way, captain:
sou sG %o+ a fellOw-BroWn,
We gbS his name was-OYer
think tbe grange i n JohnstOWn.
FROM him twenty dollars
hSPsnpakr Tor US an nOuLi a. -
TO sII"%tain. he was with II;
and C"Pa steam horsepower.
.,Id rs of our duty,
be tOl y y to US of love-,
be epUrrht the farD11n' b1znesS
Be tn "a ha better up above.
N VOL ms bout the railroads..
BE toiu tr2ight rates was too high,
ina "When lection day comes roun'
AIa hitter vote than cry"
ale on forty questions
be sPTabbe something more,
Jill some funny stories
4H IuibS0Trnt I'd heard before,
mn he told another
AI5Gt f-ilOW in his town
9LS WHISKY bill grew up so big
NIo95 drank his whole farm down.
-Lo THAT very fellow
SCI ~ ! alters cash to spare
nlIHr[in whiskey punches,
~ gL,T not an easy chair
-p2Td he afford his mother
IG ya ribbOn for his wife,
~ injuries of any kind
W. I ease the cares OF me-"
"a when he said it, captain,
w Nv +ace grew mighty red.
- =. that kiud OF fellow
/ h", - n rVV9S Iruth he said.
- smoke right up in meeJin'-
1iITd b. lpiu' me" SEE l,
.aTTI buv a chair for mother
IIffT buuns my gulleT dry"
nd captain, from that minute,
aTTTL' haven I drank q drop;
Tbat rWtnty-uOllar speaker
Lest helped me to a stop.
And mother, wife and children
All quietly arrange
IN hpIp me every meet1n'
G0 d0wn to tend The grange.
And in my breeches pocket
Vorl dollars OF our dad
Furnish their cliBkin' music
Than before l ever had.&
AND adOZen other fellows
Have lust shook hands with me
and QUIT the drinkin' biZnesS
As sure as sure can be.
and when election day comes round
Well vote instead of cry,
And every blessed ballot
Will be registered as dry"
W0n0pO,ies have got TO AL
And trusts lave got to die
Or every honest farmer
Will know the reason why.
Ii. E. PARTRIDGE.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-06
DID SHE E ONE

Jack, dear,7' said Mrs. Bellefield to
her husband, II think it will be
cheaper for me to have a dressmaker
in the house for a week or two than to
get my gowns made at modiste's.
Have you any objection 2"
mot if you get a real pretty one,"
replied Mr.. Bellefield.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-06

Do you owe this paper anything7 If
you do send at once. We have waited
long enough.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-06

The hitter portion Of the week hats, how
ever Witnessed change for the better
with marked recovery IN stock prices
and a slight. though sufficiently distinct
revival of hopefnlness. Fears OF dis
astcr of considerable importance seem
TO have been the occasion FOR weakness
and dt.spondency which was supposed to
be pending. hal turned out 10 he really
of insignificant character, furnishing the
basis for subsequent improvement.
Trading has been and continues TO be
almost entirely professional, outside par
ticipation being 40 narrow as ever, while
the usual demand for the re-inycstincnt
Of January income Is uoticeahy absent,
The Improvement of the past three days.
may. however, have been somewhat as
sisted hy the rc-aH'crtion Of courage on
the part OF Investors. The 'strcet' is
being convinced thur the plethora OF
money and the exceedingly low averages
Of values can not fail TO create deL
nand for stocks on the part Of sujf
interests. In addition To thiS. 500
ulative sentiment appears to be iniluenc'Hs
more or less 10y tie belief that railroad
earnings have reached their minimum and
Improvement in TINT respect rs well a.
in general business can not be longer de
layed. and that market is prenared TO
discount any manifestations Of this char
acter, however slight.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-06
BELLE STARTS MOTHER,
MRS john SHIRLEY. DEAD AND
BURIED AT DALLAS.
History OF Some OF Her Sons and
Daushters-AL Long Life
orproublc.


Special 10 the Gazette.
Dallas, Tex. Jan. 5 Mrs John shir
ley died In this CITY last evening aud
wis buried today. She was horn a.
Louisville, Ky. In 1921. and her maiden
name WAS Eliza Pennington. In 1897 in
Green county, Ind. she married John
Shirley and The couple located at Car.
thagr Mo. In 1861 they came to Dallas
county, aud settled near Mesquite. Ha,S
the Noungers aud James boys had their
rendezvous IN the yenrs that followed.
John Shirley died III 1867. The couple
hnd Tour sons and two daughters, live
OF whom hecNnic mated outlaws and free
hooters. The eldest daughter married
man named Thompson and settled al
MatamQraS. Mexico, thirty years aga
Edward shirley. famousi horse thief
was Killed In Collin county by man
named Palmer In 1866 Manfred Shir
icy was Killed In u fight with officers
~ tho lndnn territory In 1877; Allison
NJ. shirley was a Confederate rncrilln
md was killed in Southwest Missouri
IN lSNli John Alvn, the Youngest, has
not been seen for years, and his mother
stated repeatedly that he was dead The
most famous OF all the children was Belle
Shirley. afterwards the noted Belle Starr
She was born IN 1850 nt Cartilage, Mo,
aud ~ lSUG RAN away with aud mar-
Rcd Jim lirod q de@nrrndo. Al IL years
of age Belle WIS q widow. her husband
having been Killed hv officers near Paris
Then she became tile wife of the noted
Indian ruilian, sam Snrr lie was
Killed IN the Ihnctnw nnti0u in 1876.
Afterwards Belle cnnsorted with John
starr her hrothorin-law. and became
noted far and wide IN 1871 Relic starr
was assassinhtcd near Eufnln, l. r. John
SiHrr WAS q wealthy man, and loft u
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-06
40 LIVES WE'RE LOST.

BY Associated Press.
st. Louis, Mo, Jan. 5.-The Mason
left ST. Louis for New Orleans last Fri
day in commaud OF Capt George Keith
and Clerk Archie Woods, with 800 tons
Of freight On account Of low water
she was three days makiag the run 10
Cairo She left this point with heavy
load A telegram This morning from
Clerk Woods states that no lives were
lost as tn just how Capt. Keith was hurt
Woods fails to mention. Fotfnory the
boat ran between this city aud Kansas
City. She was owned and named after
A. l.. Mason Of Kansas City who died
recently She was built az Madison,
Ind, IN 1890 and was valued at $4,000
She was 30 feet long. O1 feet wide with
hold - feet in width.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-06
PERSONAL.

W. c. Tansford Of clehurne was 10
the city yesterday.
w. l.. VicLcrs leading business man
OF Wichita Nails, WIS ia die city yes
tcriay'
Mrs. Olive II. lee Of The Period Of
Dallas came over last night to ATTEND
the butterfly fctN
Miss NJ. Mnnken, who has been ylsit-
ing Miss I.illian Paxton, hls returned to
her home at Oak GIN.
BenI. j. 1aller returned Yesterday from
Lille Rock. AFls.. where he had spent
the holidays with HID parents.
Mrs H. Aionkllouse, wiic Of the as
sisiant superintendent q motive power
and equipment Of the Rock leland al
Horton. KIM. accompanied iy her slater,
Mrs r. q. Smith. wife Of the trainmas-
Ter OF the Rock Island at Horton, Kan,
and Mrs. Patterson wife % the superin-
lendcnt Of machinery Of the Nr.nt
Northern a. 81. Paul. passed through me
city yesterday Gu route from Galveston
TO Kansas.