The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-02

to look sternlY at the Chandelier, DuG
it's neck was 80 timber that every little
while the object escaped.
The child had evidently been con-
veyed for a long distance through the
cold, for its chin was completely ray
from exposure. It had a bottle with
nothing in it but space, and ever and
anon the poor thing made a hungry
grab at the cork, while the mother
looked over the costumes of other call
ers and mentally put a price onthem.
Mr.. Cleveland no doubt enjoys meet
ing his fellow citizens, but as a general
thing he does not expect them to report
to him as 500 as they r born.
OF course society in Washington
must of necessity be somewhat mixed,
especially where it is of an official
character and subject to almost con
slant change, but even here I think
the line should be drawn somewhere,
and it would be a good plan to admit
no one into society till after christen-
ing.
At the Presidents New Year recep-
tion this year one gent appeared in a
neat-fitting swallowtail and full even
ing dress. 1t is only fair to say here
that. even the servants at the White
House declined to recognize him.
We must do something to suppress
this sort of lawlessness, or other nations
will poke fun at us. 1 attended a funeral
once when one of the pallbearers, a
young man who had not yet matricu-
lated very much, wore tan shoes, a silk
hat and a sweater.
Such things as that awake the deris
sion and contumely of effete dynasties
and reveal the fact that our ancestors
in Great Britain, prior to the invasion
by the Romans, ran wild in the marshes
where London now stands, ate snails,
shells and all, wore nothing but a fur
boa Tin winter) and shot each other
with cross guns.
Let those who wish to do so trace.
with patient industry their ~wavering
and wabbly lineage back to the May
flower; but, as for me, I am mighty
willing to let bygones be bygones.
Ever since the nuptials of Pocahontas
there has been a strain of Indian blood
among the E. F. VS., and doubtless no
b9dy born under a republican form of
government could be more naughty on
slighter provocation than those who
traced their lineage back to the tepee
of Powhatan, or the original life saving
station established by Pocahontas.
Pocahontas, it is said, never wore
corsets, never shut off the view Of the
stage by means of a war bonnet, with
the carcass of a dead bird in it,
bought Christmas presents for people
whom she loathed, nor loaded a Christ
mas tree with glucose candy and ash
receivers for the poor. She never
waited till her husband got into bed
and then asked him to bring in the
oleander. After Mr.. Rolfe got bald she
did not use his hairbrush and leave her
long dark dresses thereon to tickle his
phrenology.
Colonel Cornucopia J.. Wigwam of
Virginia, claimed to belong in a dis
tant way to the Pocahontas band of
hostiles, and n day he said in an i'm
pressive way to Major Borax, a rival
who belongs to the other family of
which Virginia is composed:
"Sir, 1 have the blood of Pocahontas
in my veins!'
Never mind, Colonel" said Borax,
Il shall honor your confidence, sir. I
shall never repeat it to anyone, sir"
81 am a native of Virginia" said a
very bright Washington woman the
other evening, but I am white"
Last week 1 assembled the Washing.
ton monument. 1 do not claim anv
special credit for doing so, because
there is an elevator which goes to the
top every half hour, ana 1 rode.
The top of the monument on a crisp
winter morning is a good place to go
and cool ones fevered brow.
The site for this great obelisk was
chosen by Washington himself. The
monument is hollow inside, and it will
no doubt some day be worked up into
flats. It is the only place in Washing
ton, except the dome of the capitol and
Washington's tomb, not utilized for
lodgings. In a morning paper you see
such little adlets as these:
Furnished room, cor. West and
| Arizona avenue, northwest. Nice.
quiet place, facing the cemetery. Good