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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-29
SPEAKING SLIGHTLY OF WO-
Man.

h a young man habituallY
speaks slightly of women one may feel
reas )nably sure that q moral blight
rest upon his own character. A
scathing rebuke was once conveyed to
a man of this class, who, al a public
dinner at which no ladies were present..
was called upon to respond to the toast
Woman" He dWelt almost entirely
upon the frailties of the sex, claiming
that the best among them are little bet
ter than the VIC st, the chief difference
being in their surroundings. at the
conclusion of his speech one the guests
arose and said: Il trust the gentle.
man, in the application of his remarks
refers to his own mother and SISTERS,
not to ours" This young man, in his
low estimation of women, unconscious
ly verified a sententious saying by the
author of Youth: THE criterion of
a mans character is not in his creed
religious, intellectual or moral; it is
the degree of respect he has for wo-
man." As a contrast to the light and
flppant tone in which too many young
men of the present day speak of the
other sex, is the noble tribute from an
eminent clergyman, who says: II am
more grateful to God for the sense,
that came to me through my mother
and sisters, of the substantial integrity,
purity and nobility of womanhoOd,
than for almost anything in the
world. christian Work.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-29
MAN, POOR MAN.

Man that is born of woman is of few
days and full of microbes.
He hoppeth put of bed in the morn
ing, and his feet are pierced by the
tack of disappointment.
He sitteth down at noontima, and is
stabbed by the pin of disaster.
He walks through the streets of the
city in the pride and glory of his nan
hood and slippeth on the banana peel
of misfortune and %unjointeth his neck.
He smoketh the cigar of content
ment, and behold it evplodeth with a
loud noise-for it was loaded.
He slideth down the banisters of life
fndeth them full of splinters of tor
ture.
Behold he is impaled upon the hook
of dispair and furnishes bait for the
Leviathan of Death in the fathomless
pit of time.
Sorrow and trials follow him all the
days of his life.
In his infancy he is afflicted with
worms and collie and in his old age he
is tortured by rheumatism and in
growing toe nails.
He marryeth a cross, eyed woman
because her father is rich, and fndeth
that she hath not sense enough to fry
meat.
His father in-law then mopkoyeth
with options and goes broke.
What is man but a tumor On the
neck of e~xistence9
He playeth the races and betteth
his all on the brown mare, because he
has received a tip.
The sorrel gelding with the bald face
Winneth by a neck.
Behold, he runneth for Office and the
dead beat pulleth his leg ever and
anon and then voteth against him.
He exalteth himself among the PEG
pie and swelleth with pride, but when
the votes are counted he fndeth that
his name is Pants.
He goeth forth to breathe the fresh
air and mediate upon the vanity of
all earthly things, is accosted by a
bank cashier with a sight draft for
1927 80.
A political enemy lieth in wait for
him at the market, and walketh
around him. Growing like unto a. cock,
What is man but a pimple on the
face of politics2
He trusteth to a man who claimeth
to be filled with righteousness, and
standeth up high in the synagogue,
and gets done up.
For behold his pious friends are full
of guile and runneth over with decep
ton.
From the cradle to the grave man
giveth his check to the man that
smiteth him.
Verify, man is but a wart on the
nose of nature, q bunion on the toe of
time, a freckle on the face of a uni
verse.-Exchange.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-29
ELBOW ROOM IN DEATH.

Joe Nick stringer was about the most
stirrinest man that was eve turned out
from the Rocky Greek country in this
dav and time. He went eff to the city
before he was good grown, and pres
emily he got to be a lawyer and a
banker. superintendent of a Sunday
School and q standin candidate for
Congress all at the same time.
But in the regular course of time the
bottom fell out with Joe Nick, you I'm,
derstand, and his general machinery
run down and stopped. He had re
turned back home to die, and when the
last day came he sent for me to drop
over to see him. By that time Joe
Nick was so poor and pale and thin till
II took two or three people to see him,
though he told me- himself that more
than onest he had helG such full hands
till nobody couldn't see him.
81 Jest only wanted to shake the
partin hand with you onest more,
Rufe," says he, with a lonesome, far
away look on his face, land then tell
you about some personal, private bust
ness which I want you to tend to when
/ drop out of the game. You will re-
collect, Rufe, that the Skringers people
for generations have been buried in the
general graveyard owe al old Smyrna
church. Don't let 'em bury me there,
Rufe. / wouldn't mind If you under
stand, except from the fact that they
have been burying the dead there so
long and so regular till they have got
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-29
A LOSS TO THE LORD.

When old man EOenezer Ashcraft
had run slap out to the end of the roge
and it came his time to die, he vas like
Dandy Mayo, in regards to n thing
he want fifteen and he want ready. He
had travelled a long and rough and
rocky road, but he went all the galts
clean down to the finish. And then
finally at last when the doctor give out
the news that human help c0uldn'6 go
no further, and the end was clost TO
hand, old man Ebenezer looked up
mighty serious like and sober, and
went on to say:
From what you say, doctor, this
must be a case of great pushency, and
| reckon it amt for me to say whether
should or shouldn't. But by George
Washington, I have got one thing to
say with my last feetin breath, Idon't
make out like / have got any tremen-
dous big sight of religion, you under
stand, but when Ebenezer Ashcraft,
dies God Almighty will lose the best
friend he ever had in this country"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-29
DIDN'T LIKE TO BE DISTURBED
Talking Interfered With Business When
he WAS Killing a Bear.

Talking Interfered With Business When
he was Killing a Bear.
,'BearG' said Mr.. Ottinger. "Bear7
Why, l helped to kill an LAG pound
grizzly just a week ago at WaWOma.
Old Jim Duncan, the slayer of r inety-
four bears, and I, went out on horse
back about ten miles from town after
grouse. We walked five or six miles
in the hottest weather and after get
ting six grouse and hundred mos
quitoes, we thought of turning back
But I was Sd thirsty that | said: Wait
here in the clearing, Jim, till l go
down the canyon to get a drink l
went down about two hundred feet
and had to lay sprawling over some
rocks to get a drink. I only took one
swallow when two gunshots rang out.
Startled at the sound I Q up and
ran as we'll as my weight would let
me back to the clearing. Putting and
blowing I leaned up against a tree and
witnessed the strangest sight ! ever
saw. A big pile Of fur lay in . heap
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-29
SCENES.
THE WRONG TIME OF YEAR"

Last spring a year ago I was down
IN the fat woods and saw Felix Mayo
Dandy" Mayo, as everybody were
won't TO call him-stumble over the last
nnal ditch. I had went down there
atCer some seed potatoes, you under
stand-which the blszin cold weather
mad made mine rot in the ground-and
whist In the settlement I rode by to
see Dandy. He was nigh unto death
"nen got there. TIE doctor had al
ready give him up as a gone goslin and
vent on home. But the family and
Cne nelghbOrs were standin around the
dea6hDed cryin and takin on till it was
a sad sight to see.
Dandy said it was the wrong time of
year for him to die and he won't ready.
he made out like he won't skeered, but
at the same time he lowed if there was
n way to back down or snake out
n dodge the question he would love
20 DO 1t. But the laghin part come in
when Dandy put in to beggin his wife
to take his place and go on ahead
You are the best and most purest
human person I have ever saw, Tidy"
says Dandy to his wife, which she was
Miss Matildy Lucus before she married
him. You never did curse and drink
whiskey and bet on cards like me, and
30 far as l know you never did any
thing particular wrong. You are ready
to die, Tidy, but I amt, and I do wish
you would take my place so I could
have more time to quit my meenness
and git fifth for the Judgment bar"
What made it particular funny to
hear Dandy talkin an carryin on so
that way-everybody knowed that
Tidy, as he called her, had been takin
his place e~verywheres for years and
years. Dandy jest want worth his
room in this world to start with, and
his wife had took his place all along
the line. She was the mainest man in
the family. She took Dandy's place
and run their little farm, and fed the
stock, and got up the wood, and kept
the fences up in general. But the time
had now come when Tidy couldn't
neither wear the breeches nor stand in
his shoes, and he had to face the music
single-handed and alone. She was
willin and more than willin, you under
stand, but she couldn't play his hand
out for him in that game. Dandy had
got things mighty bad mixed and mud
died up anyhow. 1t was his time of
year to die. 1t maybe looked to him
like the wrong time, but in the general
plans of creation it was the right time,
and so there he was. At any rates, the
general situation hit me all in a lump
IN a funny place, and / had to go out
on the back porch and laugh it eff.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-29

The Rural Yorker helps
reduce the mortgage and in
crease the profits of the farm,
Let us send it this week. Send
your address no money.
The Rural New-Yorker,
400 Pearl Street, New York.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-29
POETRY
A SONG OF LIFE.

ua who dearly clings to life
For the fond H. s If a loving wife
For bright smiles thai Danish care,
which himself alone may share,
lam a PHEASANT life to live;
E rth hath nOThinK more u give
X, thing swetter can confer,
Than protecting love of he!
H. who still to life is drawn,
fter his earthly IDOLS gone,
20 the gOOu that he may do
F T he souls, and bO1le~ toe
az his eaker brothers here,
Eour ny hour. and year by year.,
Hath a ~ell Of joy near Dy,
Ntver aiLing, never dry.
e. NEWLIN STOUT.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-29
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-29
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The Sussex Republican., 1895-04-13

NEW CASTLE AccoMMopATIoN TRAINS
LeaveWilmington l2l0 a. M, and g. 10 p. IA.
daily, aud S.1S, ll.l2 m. go 4.30, $50 p. m i,
weekdays. Leave New Castle $50 IN. and
$50 p. M, daily, s.3l. 9.45, ll.05 a. M, l.lS
o.Sb, 642 p m. weekdays.
Express trains leave Harrington so5 a. M,
and arriving at $50 p. M, weekdays, run
PnrtPrG and NaWark
The Sussex Republican., 1895-04-13
Largest ReyimentaJ T.as..

The largest regimental loss on either
side during the late civil war was sus-
tanned by the Twenty-sixth North Caro-
lina-Pettigrew's brigade, Heth's divi-
sion. They had full quota of 800 men
on July l., 1868, but in the single battle
of Gettysburg lost as-nasn, ee ! s1 aiArese
and 502 wounded, not including the
missing" of which there were 120.
According to Colonel W. F. Fox, in one
company, SO strong, every man was hit,
and the orderly who made out the list
did so while suffering from a wound in
each leg. Surely those were times which
not only '.tried mems souls" but made
heroes of those who survived and mar
tyrs of the dead. st. Louis Republic.
The Sussex Republican., 1895-04-13

Many years practice have given G.
A. Snow & Co. Solicitor of Patents at
Washington, D. g., unsurpassed sue
cess in obtaining patents for all classes
OF invention. They make speciality of
rejected cases, and have secured allow
ance of many patents, that had been
previously rejected. The advertise
inent in another column will be OF in
terest to investors, patentees, manu-
facturers and all who have to do with
patents. 5s5a
The Sussex Republican., 1895-04-13
In the Chair.

Barber-Shave, sir?
Customer-Of course / dos per cent
month. Got a note you wanted dis
oounted?-Detroit Free Press
The Sussex Republican., 1895-04-13

are, to kneei down ana cry TO the Lord
Almighty for his deliveranoe?
You want to get in, do you notf oh,
you have some good friends there This
last year there was some one who went
out from your home into that blessed
place. They did not have any trouble
getting through the gates, did they?
No. they knew the blessed password,
and, coming up, they said "Jesusi' and
the cry was, Lift up your heads, ye
everlasting gates, and let them come
in" oh, when heaven is all done and
the troops of God shout the castle taken,
how grand it will bo if you and are
among theml Blessed are all they who
enter in through the gates into the city.
The Sussex Republican., 1895-04-13
DOM Diet.

If you have dyspepsia. indigestion,
habitual constipation or sick headache.
don't diet. You need the strength that
good food gives Eat whatever you
want, but take one of
The Sussex Republican., 1895-04-13
SCHUMACHER PIANO GO.
1109 Chestnut ST., Philadelphia.
. E N Ms VI Y A N A
= RAILROAD.
P. w. & B. R. R.
DELAWARE DIVISION.

On and after November Is, 1891, trains will
leave as follows:
SOUTHWARK.
The Sussex Republican., 1895-04-13

He breaches to a Mighty Throng at the
Great Academy of Music In New York.
His Subject. 'The Gates of Heaven
The Sussex Republican., 1895-04-13
BRANCH ROADS.

| DELAWARE, MARYLAND& VIRGINIA r. r.
| Leave Harrington for Franklin City and
way stations l0.4o a. M, and 6.25 p. m. week
days. Returning, trains leave Franklin
City 5.52 and lO35 a. m. weekdays.
| Leave franklin City for chincoteague (via
steamer 20l p. m. weekdays. Returning
| leave Chincoteague 4.42 a. m. week days.
Leave Harrington for Georgetown and
Lewes atl048 a. m, 6.2o p. IN. Returning
leave Lewes T55 a. M. l.5l p. m. weekdays.
Leave Harrington for Berlin, l0.46 a. M
and 6.25 p. IN. weekdays. Returning, leave
Berlin 6.56 a. M. and 1913 p, m. weekdays
end for Centreville and way stations 9.25 o.
m. and 8 20 p. m, weekdays. Returning,
leave Centreville $50 a. m. and l.y0 p. m.
weekdays.
Delaware a Chesapeake K. R.--I,eave Clay
ton for Oxford and way stations 9.45 a, m
and .40p, m. weekdays. Returning, leave
Oxford b.55 a. M. and l.55 p. M Weekdays
Cambridge q Seaford 4. R,--Leave Seq
ford for Cambridge and intermepiate sta
Thursdays and Saturdays 100 p. IN. Re
turning. leave Cam bridge $40 a. M, and on
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays 2.i6 p.
m.
Connection,--At Porters, with Newark 4
Delaware City Railroad. At Townsend, with
Queen Anne's & Kent Railroad. AtClayton
with Delaware & Chesapeake Railroad and
Baltimore & Delaware Bay Railroad. At
Harrington. with Delaware, Maryland &
Virglni Railroad. At Seaiord with Cam
bridge d Seaford Railroad At Dellnar,
with New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk,
Wtcomieo d Pocomoke, and Peninsula Rail-
roads.
8. NJ. PROVOST, General Manager
J.. B. Wood, General Passenger Agent,
The Sussex Republican., 1895-04-13
DR.. Deane's
Dyspepsia Pills

afer meals until cured. If you are constipated,
eibottle with white label, otherwise with yellow.
Al all druggists. s5 cents sead to for ffee sample.
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Kingston, New York.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-01
Secretary.
WORLDS WOOL OUTPUT.

WASHINGTON. Oct l, 1895. = The
worlds production of wool. according
to the report of the permanent custom
house. commissioners for 1894, on the tex
lle industries of France, furnished to the
State Department by Consul Bigelow, at
Rouen, had decreased slightly IN the
previous twelve months.
In 1898. the quantity of wool available
for commerce in. the world. was one
thousand twelve millions of kilogrammes
(about 2.257, GOO, 900 pounds) while the
quantity for 1894 was one thousand and
two millions. In France the production
Of wool has constantly diminished. In
1870 the number of sheep in France was
81 151, $50, while in 1898 there We're only
20 2T3, ,716. For the past fifteen years
sheep have been bred for meat pur-
poses. the profit being greater.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-01
CUTLER WON'T Run.
The Morris County Farmer is Not a
Candidate Against REcGiII.

Special to the Jerscu Cstg Neacs
MORRISTOWN, Oct. 1, 1s95-Ah doubt
as to what is to be the attitude of Mr.
Cutler, the defeated aspirant for the
Gubernatorial nomination, in the coming
election, was effectually dispelled today
in an interview with a New York Herald
correspondent. Mr.. Cutler was found
in his studio at home deeply absorbed in
book. When asked if he would consent
to having his name placed upon an fnde-
pendent Democratic ticket, Mr.. Cutter
said
Under no circumstances will I permit
my name to be used at the head of an i'm
dependent ticket. I have seen by several
OF the daily papers that several of the
gentlemen at the head of the Essex
County Democracy anticipated making
such a move. but I have had no confer
lefdce with any one who would have any
authority to start a movement looking to
my nomination as an Independent can
didate. | Went into the convention aus
an avoWed 2spt3tant for the office, and
was defeated and / would deem it di-
rect violation Of my duty as a Democrat
and gentleman of honor to contemplate
any action that would endanger the
chances of the regular nominee, whose
selection my most loyal supporters We're
the first to move to make unanimous.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-01
FATHER FLAHERTY'S TRIAL.
Mary Syveeney's Foster Parents Give
Very Damaging Evidence

GENESEO, N. Y, Oct. 1, 1S95-Judge
Morton, who is presiding at the trial of Rev
Charles Flaherty, is determined that no
time shall be wasted. He called the court at
s:45 this morning. Morris J. Noonan, of
Morris, the foster father of Marie Sweeney,
was the first witness. He is forty-six years
of age and was formerly cigar m anufac-
turer. Mr. Noonan said he had known
Father Flaherty ten or twelve years and
was a member of the Catholic Church of
which Flaherty was the pastor.
He testified to going away on a certain
date in 1892 with his wife. and another time
when he drove horse through the country.
On both of these occasions Marie Sweeney
claimed Father Flaherty called at the
Nconan house soon after the departure of the
Noonans and this testimony corroborated
that of the girls statement. The witness
corroborated Jennie Skillen i'll her testimony
relating to his interview with Marie the day
before Marie confessed to Jennie that Flah-
erty was the author of her trouble
Mr. Noonan. ON croSs-examinati on, said
that his wife first became suspicious of the
fact and related her suspicious to him. Later
they counseled physicians
Agnes H. Noonan, wife of the previous
witness, was next called. She said she had
taken Marie Sweeney from st. Mary's con-
vent at Canandaigue. when she was ten
years of age. The witness described day
when she entered home in the evening and
found Flaherty in the house.
Mrs. Noonan went to the side door and
found it locked. She then rang the bell.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-01
SHOULD CALL HIM DOW n
Senator Griggs Should Suppress
the Bumptious and Partisan
City Clerk Woolley.

(From the N. Y. Herald this mornlng.)
Senator Griggs should plunge into the
bumptious Mr.. Woolleys wool and make
him wooller-though, as Woolley IS al
ready about as exaggerated specimen
of his kind as can be found on the top
Of the earth, that would be an almost
impossible task for even man OF the
genius and resource of John w. Griggs
to undertake. But Senator Griggs should
least find means of stamping effectual-
ly upon the style of campaign which
Woolley, in his double capacity of City
Clerk of Jersey City and Chairman of the
Republican County Committee, seems to
have inaugurated in his behalf.
The people of New Jersey have been
nursing the idea that possibly Senator
Griggs expects them to win the Governor
ship for him by their votes. Woolley is
creating the impression that the Govern
orship is to be won for him by a sort OF
petit larceny.
And that is bound to hurt.
OF course those who know Senator
Griggs feel assured that nothing is fur
ther from his purpose; that he is citi
zen who would rather be right than Gov
ernor: an open and candid campaigner,
who would not stoop to ignoble methods,
and a public servant who would scorn an
ONCE Unat naQ not come TO MIN DIS The
honorable reward of his merit or of his
effort. But there are thousands of people
in New Jersey who do not know John w;
Griggs as well as the rest of us do, and
may be preverse. enough to size him up
in the light of the bumptious Woolley
And that is bound to hurt.
Therefore it is that Senator Griggs
owes it to himself and to the people OF
call the bumptious Woo1ley down in a
way that everybody will understand and
appreciate; Jersey City people who know
in believing, that his failure. to publish
time specified by law is not all bumpti-
business. but a neat little scheme on
Woolley's part to throw cloud upon
the regularity of the election prepara-
tions in the city and to disfranchise her
votes. Jersey City is sure to give a
majority for Chancellor McGill, and MI
Woolley is suspected by his neighbors
of having resorted to a trick to fix things
SO 1,t that It the majority cant be counted,
attempt to obgtruct the taking of a
confined to that municipality Recent
Republican triumphs have been but the
protest of the Democratic independents
Of the. State against the theft of their
franchise by the ballot box suffers.
They will as quickly resent any effort
ike this Of Woolley's to "bunco them
dressing i9 8 All of his pleas. If they are
him he will lose. 1t wouldn't take many
such experiences as Jersey City is hav-
ing with her swollen City Clerk to
turn Them all against him.