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The Progress., 1896-07-30
DRY AND WET.

Monday our roundman met Mr.
H. H. Swayze, of Monroe. and Incl
dentaIly the matter Of the recent TO-
cal option election held there, came
up MIR. Swayze was asked if there
was a revival Of business in the Par
Tor City since prohibition had been
reversed and l'cense prevailed there
now His reply was that during the
year that local option prevailed a
compress bad been built in Monroe
about one hundred new dwelling
houses and an opera house. But
since the last election when louor
gained the ascendency again, bust
ness had fallen off and more me-
cnancs were leaving there, for lack
of employment at home, than ever
before.
oh yes local option kills a town
and the llqnor traffic insures good
business always? Yes, in horn,
aud only in the minds of selfish mer-
cenar Annaniasses.
The Progress., 1896-07-30
BATON ROUGE BULLETIN.

There came to our Office for the
first time Monday morning, the
Baton Rouge Bulletin, published at
the Capital City,
The Progress had heard of this
journal before and thought
1T was still au infant
but few months old aud i'm
aglne our surprise to note that the
copy coming to our sanctum bore the
marks, volume 2, No. ii.
We don't know who the editor is,
he seems too modest to place his
name at the mast head, but he is a
good one, tho Baton Rouge BnIle-
tin, Judging by this copy, beiug
splay, newsy and we'll edited, a@
Yes brother ! The Progress ex-
changes with pleasure and our edl-
tor hopes to meet your personally at
the Press Convention, if not before.
The Progress., 1896-07-30
TAllYlNG P.NEApPlES.
Quick Work Done In Handling the Fruit
on the New York Wharf.

; Quick Work Done In Handling the Fruit
on the New York Wharf
The pineapple season lasts from about
March | to about Aug. /. New York
gets pincapplcs from the Florida keys,
from the West Indies and from the Ba-
hamas. Some come in steamers, some
i'll sailing vessels. Pincapplcs from Ha-
vana by steamer are brought in barrels
and crates. Pineapples brought in sail
ing vessels are brought mostly in bulk
hot thrown in loosely, however, but
snugly slowed, so that as many as pos
sible may be got into vessel.
On the whRrfs here pineapples
brought in bulk arc handled with great
celebrity. Men i'll the hold of the vessel
I'LL bushel baskets with them and hand
the baskets up on deck, where they are
passed along and set up on the string.
piece of the wharf The trucks in which
they are to be carried away are backed
down handy. A box Of suitable height,
and which is as long as the truck is
wide, is placed at the end of the truck.
A man standing near on the wharf lifts
the baskets from the stringpiece and
sets them up on this box. Two men
stand at the box. each with a basket of
plnoapples in front of him, to count the
pines and throw them into the truck.
which has racks at the sides; lengths Of
board are placed across the end al tho
load rises. Two men stand in the truck
to level the fruit as it comes to them.
1he two counters are experts, and they
work with great rapidity and stcadincss,
Keeping plneappl"s going all the time.
Each man picks up two pineapplcs at q
time, ono with each hand, and gives
them a toss into the truck, both men
counting as they go along, one after an
other, 'onc, y two, three, "''four,"
five, and so on up, each count neal
ing two pineupplcs. When they strike
lone hundred" the tallyman makes o
straight chalk mark on the end of the
truck; that stands for 200 pincapplos.
While he is making the chalk mark tho
other counter keeps right on, and he may
have got up to two or three" again,
for it takes second Or two to make tho
chalk mark, but by that time the tally.
man IS at it again Ginning in with
-four and away they 60 together
again, counting up rapidly toward an.
other hundred. If "a man on the load
finds specked pine, he drops it over
the side of the truck into basket that
stands there, and says: conc out The
tallyman losses in one without count
ing, to keep the count good.
AS fast as the counters empty the
baskets they push them off the box, and
the man at the stringpiece sets up a full
one in its place and the counters keep
the pineapples going without cessation.
At the fifth hundred the tallyman makes
a mark diagonally across the four he
has already made, in the commonly
used method of tallying freight; but
these five marks here stand for ], 600
pineapples. On a double truck there are
usually carried from 1900 to 5, 500
on single truck, from
2, 900 to $500 New York Sun.
The Progress., 1896-07-30
RUSSIAN LODGING HOUSES.
Wherein They DiHer From Those os Other
Countries.


In apartment houses in Russia the
lodgings which open on the courtyard
rent for Il lever price, says a writer in
L1pplnCOtt $, because the entrance is
through a porte Cocherc, or, at night,
, through Il wicket therein. This is an
unobjcctionablc, rather an arist0cratic
arrangement III a private house. but
elsewhere the courtyard may contain
too many stables, workshops or even "a
large number of cows to supply dairy
shops which profess to deal In Finnish
that is to say, in pure countrywide
ter, cream and milk. In this case also
the winters supply Of wood for the
great house is sure to be stacked in piles
a couple of stories high SO close to the
less desirable lodgings that the project
of tho town was obliged to issue an or
der protecting the poorer inhabitants
and regulating the position of the wood
piles at proper distance from the
building for light and air.
Our researches revealed the fact that
very few "furnished' lodgings provided
either towels, bed linen, coverlcts or
pillows, or anything, in fact, beyond
the bare bedsteads and furniture. OF
course we wero aware theoretically that
this is q "reminiscences of the DAYS when
every landed proprietor Travelled accom-
panied by an entire housekeeping outfit
and staff Of servants when he under
took tl<bsc long carriage journeys which
preceded the days of railways and which
are still compulsory in some parts of
the empire. Nevertheless, i'll practice.
we We're not prepared to accept this be.
You'd towels, and we protested that no
traveller should be obliged to drag such
bulky objects about with him in these
days OF improved transit facilities The
logic of this argument was not very
strong on our side, it is true, but most
travellers will agree with us neverthe.
less The Russian lodging house people.
III return, seemed to regard us with
amazcmcnt and pity because we did not
possess these things and declined to pur,
chase them, Their idea must have been
that we were accustomed to sleep in
our clothes, like their own peasants.
In some cases they were willing to
provide the bed furnishings for a con
slderation, but they regarded one towel
a week and one change of linen month
as ample.
The Progress., 1896-07-30

The subsidized Courier -Jouraal is
raising seven kinds Of hell over tho
nomination Of Mr.. Bryan. That pa
per had rs we'll go to the Republican
party aud be done with it. When
any political party reaches point
where the majority must be ruled and
dictated to by u mugwump and hired
press 1t had better retire. Bat
thank God, the Democratic party is
OF the people and for the people, and
the Chicago convention adopted a
platform to answer the demands of the
peope. Let the Sound money"
go to that Hill of theirs, and spell it
with an ''e."-Richland Democrat.
The Progress., 1896-07-30
Bullen Not Irish.

Those who are not Irishmen some
times trespass on Irish property. A
French cure, preaching about sudden
aeath, said. THUS it is with us-we 20
10 bed well and get up stone dead!'
An old French lawyer, writing Of an
estate he had just bought, added,
There is schapel upon it in which
my wife and fwish to be buried, if God
spares our lives.
A merchant who died suddenly left
IN his bureau letter to one Of his COR
respondents which he had not sealed,
His clerk, seeing it necessary to send
the letter, wrote at the bottom, "Since
writing the above l have died"
The Progress., 1896-07-30
The Glacier Of tho Dead Plain.

The finest scenery in this part of on,
journey, at the west end Of the famous
Bernese oberland, was that Of the gla.
cicr Of the great Dead plain. We did
not see it until we were on its edge and
the white expanse spread before us. It
fills kind of elliptical hollow, some
two miles long by mile wide. Once
Oh its smooth, large surface the external
world is SHUT out by a ring of low
mountain wall. Not q trace Of human
activity can be seen in any direction.
The largeness, simplicity and seclusion
of this strange snowfield make it unique.
We traversed it's longest diameter. The
snow fortunately remained hard
throughout the hour OF our passage
thanks to cool breeze ana yelled
sun. The surface was beautifully rip
pied and perfectly clean. "A Thou
sand Miles Through the Alps" by Sir
w. M. Conway, in Scribner's.
The Progress., 1896-07-30
LAUGHTER.
Has 1t Evblnted From the Brutal Yell
Over q Tortured Enemy?

Has 1t Evbluted From the Brutal Yell
Over Tortured Enemy?
just as the hoof Of the horse is the
remnant of an original five toes, just as
the pineal gland in man is now said tc
be the survival of a prehistoric eye on
the top of the head. So perhaps, this
levlty III regard to particular ailments
Tin othors) may be the descendant of an
aboriginal ferocity in man. 1t is a we'll
known theory that what we call humor
arose from the same source that the
first human laugh that ever woke the
astonished echoes OF gloomy primeval
forests was not al expression Of mirth,
but exultation over the misery of a
tortured enemy.
There is to this day something ter
rible i'll laughter. The laugh of madness
or Of cruelty is sound more awful than
that Of the bitterest lamentations.
BY means Of that strange photograph
that we call literature we can listen
even now to the laughter of the dead,
to the hearty outlaws or cynical litter
ings Of generation after generation Of
bygone men and women, and if we are
curious in such matters we can probe
into the nature Of the changes that have
passed over the fashion of mems hum6r.
For it has been said, not without the
support Of weighty cumulative evidence,
that, as we penetrate further into the
past, we find the sense of hum6r de-
pending always more obviously and
solely upon the enjoyment Of the pain,
misfortune, modification or embarrass.
mel,t of others. The sense Of superiority
was the sense of humor in our ancestors |;
or, in other words, vanity lay at the
root Of this, as Of most other attributes
Of our bumptious speciesl
Putting ear to our photograph, we
catch the echoes of strange and merry
tumult; boisterous, cruel, often brutal,
yet with here and there tender cadence
from some solitary voice; and presently
this lonely note grows stronger and
sweeter, as we travel slowly toward our
time, until at length, through all the
merriment, we can hear the soft under
murmur Of pity. Does the picture not
seize the imagination-the long laughter
Of the ages which begins in cruelty and
ends In Observation-Disclosures Review.
The Progress., 1896-07-30
IN LINE

Free silver Is TO is now sweanin o.
the country like big hroom in tue
hahds or a giant among the cob
works. Sixteen to one seems to be a
magic word aud | am always quick
to catch out to anything good and
push l. along. [ have been quite
busy with roofs lately, but lam so
taken with l6to | that | want to
paint Is in the future to wbera 7
have painted one in the past. Salts
faction guaranteed every time.
W. B WEAVER.
The Progress., 1896-07-30
Esrseslng ScOtch womsn.

1t would probably take many genera.
tions of undesired and undesirable adj
versity to train Americans into the far
seeing thriftjness Of the Scotch. An H.
lnstration Of this thrift is contained in
the story Of a Scotchwoman who had
been promised present of new bon.
net by lady. Before she made the
purchase, the lady called and asked the
good woman:
Would You rather have a felt or .
straw bonnet, Mrs. Wilson,"
"Weel, " said Mrs Wilson, II think
I'll TAX . strae ane. It'll maybe be a
mouthfu' to the COO when I'm done wi
it"-Youth's Companion.
The Progress., 1896-07-30
TO BRO. ANNIS or CAPITAL
ITEM

Will you kindly inform us why
you hold back the entire six issues of
you daily until the week is up, and
then send the entire weeks issue,
with the weekly thrown in for good
measure, at one time This query
is propounded in no VEN of criticism,
but from a severe and pointed de.
sire to know the why's an d where
fores thereof.
The Progress., 1896-07-30

Not our dear Sam, M
IA" 'o"rS, th" preacher, said
DAYS since during a sermon A.
ton, La.: o'if my dog had ,sso
w'tn '1" ho"'S'"na Lpyi-lat,
the last session, | would h,vo
HI" w'e" he came back home
is correct, for any dog who won
'"'k to HIM after having lily,
respectable society for six,v
ought to be klIIed.-Baton
Bulletin.
Look out brother ! Sam ~;
after you 'fyon don't mind out.
The Progress., 1896-07-30
ART IN ST. PETERS.
There Are Few Pictures or Frescoes In
the Great Cathedral.

There Are Few Pictures or Frescoes In
the Great Cathedral.
Nothing perhaps is more striking as
one becomes better acquainted with St.
Peters than the constant variety of de,
tail. The vast building produces at first
sight an impression of harmony, aid
there appears to be a remarkable uni.
formity OF style in all the objects ore
sees.
There are no oil paintings to speak Of
in the church and but few frescoes. The
great altar pieces are almost exclusively
tine mosaic copies of famous pictures
which are preserved elsewhere. Of these
reproductions the best is generally con-
sidered to be that Of Guercino's est
Petronilla" at the end of the right aisle
OF the tribune. Desbrosscs praises these
mosaic altar pieces cxtravagantly, and
even expresses the opinion that they are
probably superior in point of color to
the originals, from which they are cop.
led. In execution they are certainly
wonderful, and many stranger looks
at them and passes on believing them
to be oil paintings
They possess the quality Of being i'm
perishable and beyond all influence of
climate or dampness, and they are mas
terpieces of mechanical workmanship.
But many will think them hard and
unsympathetic in outline and decidedly
crude in color. Much wit has been man
ufactured by the critics at the expense
of Guido RENTS Michael" for in
stance, and as many sharp things could
be said about good many other works
Of the same kind in the church. Yet.
on the whole, they do not destroy the
general harmony. Big as they are, when
they are SEN from little distance, they
sink into mere insignificant patches of
color, all bit lost in the deep richness
of the whole. Marion Crawford in
Century.
The Progress., 1896-07-30

Judge Dnpre and the police jury Of
ST. Landry are having a little private
show of their own The scene on one
occasion WAS the Jail, through whose
grated bars four members of the par
lsh Legislature looked ont on the hot
sunshine and their friends, by orde,
of Judge Dupre The Snprem.
Court, however, had the last say aao
the Jurors stepped out, and now the
laugh is on the Judge.
The Progress., 1896-07-30

II Oil is spilled upon carpet, imme-
diately scatter cornmeal over it and the
Oil will be absorbed. Oil that has soak.
ed into carpet may be taken out by
laying thick piece Of blotting paper
over it and pressing with hot fiatiron.
Repeat the operation. using fresh
1'iece Of paper each time
The Progress., 1896-07-30
YES SIR.

A glimpse at the pay roll OF the
members of the House Of Representa-
tiyes of the General Assembly shows
that the actual travelling expenses Of
the members from New Orleans to
Baton Rouge and return ranged from
50 40 to $50. We think an investiga-
tion should be had to ascertain what
those actual travelling ex-
penses consist of. With
only one single exception,
THAI of Hon. Alex. Brewster, the free
pass from the railroad company is
admitted. Honest old Alex. refused
to take cent from the State after
making the round trip on a fres
ticket. Baton Rouge Capital Item.
The Progress., 1896-07-30
OUR OBJECT LESSO,

As the Grover Cleveland cd
gent seem to so highly favor ii
Ject lesson plan of PROSECUTING
men; suppose a little Of tno,r
medicine be pressed to THEIR lind
whenever one holds a ebeckI
bank which favors the gold sta,
let them demand gold on ord
ment; when you labor for a
standard man, make him nav
wages in gold; when you sell to 4
standard man, accept nothind
gold Tor your produce, ware|
whaieyer it may be; when Ieas,I
store to II gold standard man.
nun 10 pay his rental ln yoId|
all. transactions where money I'll
IN denominations of a dollar, led
alone be the medium of exch|
Apply these transactions to
standard men alone, and see
long it will be before there vii
heard a loud, ear splitting squed
The Progress., 1896-07-30
An Old Hand.

Bob-How much is it customary to
give the. minister when he marries you!
Ben-Oh, i gensrGlly give him 90.
.-Yonkess Staesa,asn.
The Progress., 1896-07-30
EXTRACTS
From Speech Of Hon w. J
Bryan at Chicago.
V
A PEOPLES SLOGAN

I This is not contest among per-
sons. The humblest citizens in the
land when called to arms in right
sous cause are stronger than all the
che hosts of error that they can
,erlng ! come to speak to You in
defense of the holy cause of liberty
Che cause of humanity.
~
'f The individual is but an atom; he
lis born, he acts, he dies, but princi-
oles are eternal, and this has been
contest of principle.
*s*
The man employed for wages is as
much a business man as the en-
ployer. The attorney in country
sfeal j,
: town is as much a business man as
. the lawyer in the great metropolis.
! The merchant at the crossroads is as
much business man as the mer-
ehapt in New York. The farmer
goes forth in the morning and tolls
all day, begins in spring and tolls all
summer and by application of brain
aud muscle adds to the natural re-
sources of this country and creates
wealth, is as much business man as
ms the man who grows up on the
board of trade and bets on the price
Of grain,
The miners who 60 1000 feet into
She earth, or climb 1000 feet upon
the cliffs and bring forth from their
hiding places the precious metals to
i be poured into the channels Of trade,
sre o. much business men as a few
financial magnstes who in back
: room corner the money of the
.-la II'.
V protection has slain its thous-
sanis the gold standard has slain its
tens OF thousands.
Burn down your cities end leave
sour farms, and your cities will
,<spring up again as il by magic. But
: aestroy our farms and grass will
sgro in the streets of every city in
this country.
Ifthey dare come out and defend
the gold standard rs good thing we
shall fight il to the uttermost. You
SHALL NOT eRrclrY MANKIND rpoS
k6n6nn ox aoy.D. -"
The Progress., 1896-07-30

The Progress believes in And
for Americans This IS our pol
religion.
The Progress., 1896-07-30

How is it possible to legislate the
poor. rich. without making the rich,
richer I?
The Progress., 1896-07-30

rule, gold monometallism is
IN sel6shness.
The Progress., 1896-07-30

silva
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-10-09


he, could and could only accept
salary OF SIS week for his
services, though he wanted to.
keep a pig and twelve hens in
the back yard. If defeated he
would have to hustle around for
his winters wood, but would
teel that he had stood up for his
principals. His remarks were
greeted with the widest ap-
plause and the greatest enthus-
iasm, and it took seven police~
man nearly quarter of an hour
to run the last of the crowd
down the alley stairs and over
the vacant lots.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-10-09
Eastern Carolina Dispatch
o1aDontn1on Iiae

old on Lilac.
The steamer Neuse leaves Elizabeth
City Tuesday, Thursday aud Saturday
a. $40 D. M, for Newbern: connecting
with the \. & nc. R R. for Goldsboro,
kins.on, and Morchead City, and with
the W. ~ & y. r. r. for Jacksonville,
" iirlirgtcn, n. c, etc. Returning,
leave New bern Monday, Wednesday
and Friday, stopping at Roanoke Island
and Ocracokc going and returning.
Tickets Oh sale at Elizabeth City
Station to Roanoke Island, Newberne,
kiuston, GolCsboro, Morehead City
and Wilmington, N. c.
Daily ali rail service between Eliza
beth City and New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore ard Norfolk.
Through cars and,as " rates and
quicker time than by aay ether route.
Direct all goods to - shipped via
Eastern Carolina Dispat-'. as follows:
From Norfolk by Mort. :: & Southern
Railroad; Baltimore by NV. & B. X.
R., President Street Station; Philadel-
phia, Philadelphia R. r., Dock Street
Station; New York, by Pennsylvania
r. r., Pier p North River, and Old
Dominion Line
For further information apply to NJ.
| H. Snowden, Agent, Elizabeth City, or
| to the General Office of the Norfolk 4
Solrt hern X. r. Company, Norfolk, Va.
NJ K. KING, General Manager.
H. C. HUDGINS, G. F. & P. Agt.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-10-09
Neighborhood News.
CONTINUED from md Page
SHAWBORO, Currituck Co

Mrs. II. E. Flora and children
are visiting relatives at Norfolk.
Miss Ella Gilbert, of Delcross,
spent a few days with Mrs. B.
Grandy last week.
Mrs. NJ. H. Snowden, Of Eliz-
abeth City. spent Tuesday with
Mrs. J. E. c. Bell.
Mr.. ]. L. Grandy, who is at
tending school at Elizabeth City
spent Sunday last at his home.
We are sorry to report that
Miss Bessie Morgan, daughter Of
P. H. Morgan, Esq, is quite sic!:,
Mrs. Chas. E. Bre wer. Of Wake
Forest, n. c., is visiting her
father, J. Z. c. Bell, Esq, of this
place.
Candidates for the different
Offices of the county seem to be
quite busy canvasslng and al.
sure of their election.
There were quite number
who took advantage of the ex
cursion on Wednesday and S .3ent
a pleasant day in Norfolk.
Mrs. J. E. c. Bell, who has
been very i'll, we are glad to an
nounce is 1,luch better and we
hope she will soon be out again.
On Thursday, Oct. 18th, at
Grandy's racing track, Shawboro
N. c., there will be spent a
pleasant day under the manage
ment of r. E. Flora, Esq, who
is well known to the people OF
this and the adjoining counties
There will be plenty Of horse
and bicycle racing and other at
fractions too numerous to men
ton. Come and enjoy yourself
pleasant time guaranteed. The
ladies are especially invited.