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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-14
ALLEGED FUN.

The Parson: Il want to sell my
horse. He's sound as a dollar, gentle
as a lamb, and a good goer." How
old is he's" 'Oh. about the usual age
of horses."-La Cross Chronicle.
While porting over a recipe book the
other day, my attention was attracted
by a recipe which ended something like
this: Then sit on the front of the
stove, and stir constantly" Imagine
sitting on a stove without stirring
constantly.-Harper's Round Table.
"Well, Doctor how is my husbands"
Doctor: Fair to middling, so to
speak; he wants rest above all things.
/ have written out a prescription for
an opiate." Wife: "And when must
I give him the medicine" Doctor:
"Him2 The opiate is for you, madam"
Hamburger Nachrichten.
Mr.. Flynn: "Mrs. Glligan, I see
yez have a horseshoe over the door. Do
yez think it's lucky7" Mrs. Gllligan:
II do that. That shoe wor on the horse
that kicked the top off Glligan's head,
an begorra, I got siventy-foive dollars
from the insurance company."-Scrib-
ner's Magazine.
An old man and his wife were last
summer sailing on a steamer between
BIackpool and the Isle of Man. AS
the sea was rather rough, and the old
woman unaccustomed to sailing, she
said to her husband: oh, John, this
ship is going down." well, never
mind" said her husband, sit isn't
ours. Tit Bits.
Father" said the little boy, looking
up from his picture book, eff I ask you
a question, will you answer it," Ger
tainly," was the afabIe reply. "And
not get angryY" ''Of course" Nor
say it is time time I was in bedY' I
won't do any of those things" "Well,
what | want to know is, where does
a snake begin when it wags it's tail7'
Washington Star.
That is the prettiest little foot in all
the world" said Baby Ruth's father one
morning, as he stopped to caress a tiny
pink and white foot thrust out from a
little white nightgown. There isn't
in all the world another such a pretty
little foot as that" "Oh, yes, there is,
papa" was the little girls reply, and
thrusting out the other foot, she added
Here it is, papa."-Youth's Compan,
ion.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-14
A UNION RIDGE GIRL WRITES

Mr.. EDITOR:-I am an Alamance
girl and want to write a short letter to
the young folks column. Papa takes
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER and I like
to read it very much. I will answer
Sexton Ennis question. 1t was Lord
Worth, who exclaimed: "Ob, God it is
all over" I will close by asking the
cousins a question. What was Presi-
dent Harrisons last words? If this es
capes the waste basket perhaps viii
write again. Yours truly.
MAMIE WILKINS.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-14
A DUTIFUL GIRL.

COOPER, N. @.
Mr.. EDrToR:-I am a little girl Is
years old. Papa has been taking your
paper for a long time and likes it bet
ter and better. Ienjoy reading it very
much, especially the young folks col,
umn. Papa thinks it is the incest pa
per published. Mama likes to read the
young folks column. Papa is a cooper.
He makes barrels. I like to go and
carry him a pitcher of cool water at
the shop. If this escapes the waste
basket I will write again.
T. r. HAIR.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-14
AUNT FANNY ON HASTY MAR
RACES.

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer,
Girls, you can't be too careful. Take
the advice of one who has seen much
of the world and the doings of the PEG
pie in it. Some say that the height of
every girls ambition is to marry and
dress we'll. True or untrue, there is
nothing wrong about it. Girls should
dress neatly and sensibly, and marry
when they meet a worthy man and
mutual love develops.
But please do not fall in love with
every handsome man you see. Never
fell in love with brass buttons or mil
itary titles. When a smooth talking
stranger appears on the scene treat
him with courtesy, but stop right there
until you know something of the man.
| do not mean that all strangers are
frauds, but a prince in Disguise is a
rarity. Every man can furnish re-
ference, if given time, and you should
no only expect gilt edge reference, but
should demand it, before you ever
consent to be the sweetheart of a
stranger, to say nothing of marrying
him, and be sure that the references
given are not fraudulent.
Some are opposed to long courtship.
| am, too. But if you meet a stranger
and fall in love with him, make the
courtship long enough to be sure that
you are not marrying a scoundrel or a
bigamist, six of one and a half dozen of
the other.
Some of my readers have heard of
the sad ending of the marriage of Miss
Florence Love, of Raleigh, while others
have not. I will give the particulars
briefly. Miss Love was, and is a very
pretty young lady. She stood high in
the community. Less than a year ago.
while visiting her uncle, Rev. N. s..
Jones, of Salisbury, she was introduced
to Rev" Mr.. Burton, who was repre-
senting a daily newspaper, published
at Charlotte, and a book concern. It
was a case of love at first sight. In
four days, Notwithstanding the OPP
position of friends, the couple married.
They soon came to R.leigh. Burton
made some debts here that are yet I'M
paid. Later on they went West. Bur
ton still the garb of a mirister,
but he began q career of crime and de
ception, which, doubtless was not new
to him. He procured money by fraud
at many points. and finally got in jail
at Metropolis, Ill, where he now lam
guishes. It is said that he has two
other wives living. Recently Mrs.
Burton telegraphed her people here for
money, this being the first message re-
ceived from the young wife for months.
Her brother went after her instead of
sending money, and she is now at home
with her parents. Burton is still in
all. This is only one of hundreds of
similar cases. Hasty marriages will
not do. Deliberate ones are danger
Gus enough.
Girls have a fashion of falling in love
with travelling men, agents, who are
good looking and timber tonged-Be
ware of them. They may be all right,
but remember DAvy Crocketts' ad-
vice, 'be sure you are right and then
go ahead, " if you fall a victim to the
charms of any stranger.
AUNT FANNY.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-14
THE FAKIRs OF INDIA.
Feats Performed by Them--Testimony
of Chicago Witness.

of Chicago Witness.
Professor ]. G Leonard. a Chicago
oculist, spent nine months in investi
eating his favorite science as practiced
in the Orient. He says that 80 per
cent. of the feats he saw done by the
yogis, conjurers or fakirs of India he
perform himself, but 10 per cent. of
them completely mystify him. Speak
ing to a Chicago Inter Ocean reporter,
the professor said:
''The most remarkable performance
of the yogi was an example of what is
sometimes called levitation. -Four sa-
bers were thrust into the ground with
their sharp points up. After two yogis
had made passes before his face and
apparently hypnotized a man perfectly,
nude, they placed him or the points of
the sabers. He rested on them, I'm,
supported by anything else, for per
haps two minutes. Then the Yogis
lifted his body about a foot above the
swords, removed their hands, and he
remained suspended in the air for fully
a minute. Then, at a signal from one
of the fakirs, his feet descended and
his head raised until his body was per.
pendicular and he stood erect on the
ground and then woke up. While his
body was suspended in the air I passed
under it and satisfied myself that there
was absolutely no support. I know
exactly how Kellar and Hermann per-
form their feats in deviation, but this
was not done in the same way.
another thing which I could not
understand was done by a fakir and a
boy of fourteen years, the latter being
stripped of all clothing. From a spool
the fakir unwound about thirty feet
of thread, coiled it and then cut it up
into pieces seven or eight inches long.
These he rolled into a ball and gave it
to the boy, who swallowed it. A min
ute later the fakir made a small incis-
ion in the boys left side, cutting
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-14
YOUNG FOLKS
Written for THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
ANEW SANTA CLAUS.

If I were deaE old Santa Claus
So brave, kind and true.
l would not always come and go
In such a rush would yOu?
I would not ride upon the roofs
With such g. precious pack,
n, r all night hurry up and down
The chimneys hot and black.
I'd drive my little reindeer horse
Along the public road,
And when | met a boy or girl,
I'd tarIy and unload.
Or if it happened to be late
Ana small folks all abed,
Id tap upon the window panes
And nod my jolly head,
And cry, wake up, you sleeping things,
Wake up. and let me in;
1t does seem strange that | cannot come
Without this hOrrid din.
And when the stockings all were filed,
I'd sit and chat a " lille,
And crack a Christmas joke or two,
To make b children smile.
But our dear Santa Claus never
When we are wide awake,
That we may see his funny face,
And near the sleigh bells shake.
And tt ough kind, nice and good,
And generous as a be,
1t seems to me old Santa Claus
is fond of mystery.
A boy of Is, M. P. WILLIAMS.
TarbOrO N, @.
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FROM PAMLICo COUNTY.

PAMLICO, N. @.
Mr.. EDIToR-Papa takes your valu-
able paper and we all like it very
much. And I especially like the 55h
page. I generally turn to the young
folks column first, and then peruse the
rest of the paper. II is who shall get
it first. when it is brought from the
Office. But I am generally the lucky
one. For the boys have to get in the
wood and feed up. And Papa don't
read much at night, SO it makes it just
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-14
FOND OF THE PAPER.

PANTEGo, N. @.
Mr.. EDIToR:-Please allow me a
space in the young folks column. I
would like to speak a word or two in
behalf of The PROGRESSIVE FARMER I
think it is a nice paper especially for
the young people. am always anx
iOgs to see The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
come. Respectfully,
MAMIE WINFIELD.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-14
FLOWER HINTS.
SOFT GINGER COOKIES.

One cup moIasses; n sugar; one-
half cup shortening; two eggs. one
tablespoon cinnamon; one tablespoon
ginger; one tablespoon soda; two table
spoons vinegar.
~SCALLOPED POTATOES.
Cut raw potatoes into round, thin
slices, put layers of potatoes, butter,
salt and pepper, and add milk enough to
u nearly cover them. Bake about an
hour and half.
sUET PUDDING.
Four cups -four; one cup sugar; one
cup chopped raisins; one cup suet; one
sour milk; one teaspoon soda; steam
two hours in a tin with a spout. Serve
with a hard sauce of butter and sugar
rubbed to a cream and favored with
J~anilla.
VEGETABLE SOUP.
Caop fine one medium sized cabbage
and two or three good-sized ripe to
matoes or a half can of canned toma-
toes; add a half can of sweet corn; boil
together until quite done; dress with
salt, pepper, butter and milk, using
enough milk or water, as you like, to
make the soup.
CREAM PUFFS.
One cup hot water; one-halt cup but
ter; boil; while boiling stir in n cup
dry -four; stir into a smooth paste
when cold stir in three unbeaten eggs;
add a pinch of soda and stir five MN
utes; drop on buttered tins and bake
in a quick oven.
Filling: Oae and one, half cups
milk; three-fourths cup sugar; one
egg; two tablespoons cornstarch flavor
with lemon or vanilla.
TO MAKE LIGHT BREAD
Make the sponge in the evening, to
rise until morning. Put a half gallon
fresh buttermilk in a saucepan, let
come to a boil; CRATE and stir in one
pint of potatoes while the milk is boil
ing; set aside until cool; sift in -four
enough to make a thin batter, add half
teacup of yeast, and stir well. In the
morning stir in all the flour that you
can with a spoon, salt TO taste, let rise,
work down, let rise again, make into
loaves, let rise, and bake 80 minutes
inAa moderate over Grease the tops
of&oaves, while hot, with butter. Let
s4ol in pans.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-14
POETRY.


Janus am I; oldest Of potentates!
Forward / look, and backward and below;
I count as god of avenues and gates,
TIL years that through my portals come ard
block the roads and drift the felds with sn ~;
/ chase the Wild fowl from the frozen FEM
NV frOsts CONCEAL he rivers in their flow. =
man -LongteIlOw.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-14
INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL ON THR
LONGEVITY OF MAN.

DR.. CrOthers, of Hartford, who has
had long experience in the manage
ment of institutions for the inebriate
and insane, says that ''inebriety is the
active cause of from Is 60 so per cent.
of all insanity; from 80 to 80 per cent.
of all idiocy; from 80 to 81 per cent of
all pauperism, and from SO to IS per
cent. of all crime" then asks the ques-
ton, "Who can estimate the re,iet of
Of the taxpayers by the removal of the
perils to both property and life from
drunkenness9"
DR.. Day, of Boston, in his late an.
nual report of the Washington Home
for the Treatment of ~Inebriates, says
'On, the individual the effect of vi
cious alcoholic indulgence is disease
of the body sooner or later it must
succumb. Disease of the mind is not
far off; it may be delirium or insanity"
Dr.. Formal found in the dead house
autopsies of the Philadelphia hospital,
that in $50 chronic alcoholists nearly
80 per cent. had congestion or a drop
steal state of the brain; the same num-
Der an indamed or d~egenerated
stomach, while not quite one per cent.
had normal kidneys.
To be convinced of the cause of so
much pauperism in the country, we
have only to examine the statistics of
The Rural New-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, 1896-01-14
FOTSEHOLD
AICOHOL FOR GRASS STAINS

o GRASS STAINS
It is claimed that alcohol will i'm
mediately remove grass stains from
any white material.-New York Re-
corder.
NEW USE FOR GLYCERIN.
In cases of illness, when the burning
thirst of the patient cannot be assuaged
bv water or cracked ice, it is said a
teaspoonful of glycerin will afford
prompt aud comparatively long relief.
New York Re order.
LAMP BURNERS.
At least once a month lamp burners
should be boiled in strong soapy wa
ter; lamp wicks should as often be
washed In soap suds; lamp chimneys
should not be washed, but moisted
with cream, and polished with paper.
A cloth and kerosene gives a good
bright surface.
FLOWER HINTS.
Always pull the leaves off the stalks
of flowers before putting them in wa
ter-those which would be in the wa,
ter, not those above it, and with
flowers from any hard stalked sort OF
shrub the bark should be peeled off as
we'll as the leaves. The flower live
ever so much longer If these precau
tions are taken. A scrap of charcoal
in the water is also a great preserva
tive.-NeW York Recorder.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-14
Wants.

WANTED-Every man who has land for sale
to advertise in The Progressive FarEer.
WANTED-Every man who raises blOoded
horses, cattle. hogs or chickens to advertise
them in The Progressive Farmer.
WANTED-5O manufacturers doing business
in North Carolina to advertise their various In
dUstries in The Progressive Farmer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-14
Lands Wanted.

Large and small farms. mineral lands, water
powers and other real estate property. We Will
also sell, lease or rent city property, make col
tions, examine titles. survey and plat land.
Ado ress, D /. FORT q CO.,
1888 Real Estate Agents, Raleigh, n. g.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-01-14

Cut raw potatoes into round, thin
slices, put layers of potatoes, butter,
salt and pepper, and add milk enough to
nearly cover them. Bake about an
hour and half.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-05-07
Keeping Bears Out of Cornfields.

In the district of Rachinsk, in the
Transcaucasus, bears are regarded as
the worst enemies Of the maizefelds,
and when the season for the maize cobs
to ripen comes round the population
take all possible steps to protect the
fruits Of their toll. In the evening the
peasant, armed with gun, kinjal, a
stout oaken cudgel or whatever other
weapon no can secure, takes all the dogs
he possesses with him and goes off to
the field, where he sleeplessly guards
his maize during the whole night, some
times at the risk of his life. He passes
the night in firing of his gun and con-
tinual shouting, while during the day
he is forced TO work to the utmost OF
his powers, seeing that it is just at this
period-.i. G., when the maize is ripen-
ing-that no has to thrash his wheat,
gather in his crop Of beans, repair his
vinnower and make ready tho places
for storing his maize. If bear gets in
to a maizefeld in which he does not ex-
pect to bo disturbed during tho whole
night, he first sets to work and gorges
himself; then, feeling heavy, he begins
to roll and sprawl on his back. Having
sprawled about a bit, the bear begins TO
feel playful, and it is then that the
maize stalks suffer most severely. Tuck
ing his legs under him, he rolls head
over heels from one end Of the field to
tho other, and in his course he natural
" breaks and rolls down everything in
his way, rendering the whole crop USE
less.-London Times.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-05-07
THO Compllments of tho street.

IN little crush Of trucks and wagons
at Broadway and Blocker street the 9TH
or day ono driver said to another, Of
third who had just driven by rather
clumsily, "He's farmer and clam
digger, and the next time no comes down
this way I'm going to punch his head. "
But ferocious as these words were they
were not spoken ferociously, and they
were smilingly received, and one did not
understand them necessarily to mean an
inordinate amount of bloodshed. nor to
contain any reflection upon the occupa-
tions of farming and clam digging, but
simply to express resentment at the ap-
pearance in the crowded streets as q
truck driver of one skilled in those 90
eupations only. New York Sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-05-07
Saved by Shot.

Sir George Yule Of the Indian civil
service was mild, sweet natured man.
but "mighty hunter" who had killed
hundreds Of bears and shot tigers on foot
and from horse and elephant. Sir Ed
ward Braddon, in his "Thirty Years OF
Shikar," tells of Sir Georges narrow
escape from death in an encounter with
q tiger.
He was standing outside Of jungle
from which tiger was being driven by
heaters. The tiger came from the jungle
within few feet Of the spot where Yule
stood and rushed at him. He had only
time to bring his rifle up to his hip and
fire as the beast sprang upon hlm'
knocking him TO the ground, smashing
in his sun helmet and tearing his shout
der and chest.
The tiger was dead when 1t reached
the ground, killed by the chance shot SO
coolly fired.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-05-07
Man Under ThlrtY-nve.

Mrs. Lillian Bell, tho authoress, as
serts that conversation with man I'M
der 80 is impossible, because the man
under 35 never converses; he only talks
And your chief accomplishment OF be-
ing q good listener is entirely thrown
away on him, because no does not In
the least care whether you listen or not.
Neither is it of any use for you to show
that he has surprised or shocked you.
He cares not for your approval or dis
approval. He is utterly Indifferent to
YOU, not because you do not please him,
but because he has not seen you at oil.
He knows you are there in that chair.
flo bows to you i'll the street-oh, yesl
He knows your name and where you
live. But you are only an entity to him,
not ON individual. He cares not Tor
your likes and dislikes, your cares or
homes or fears. ue only wants you to
be- pretty and we'll dressed. Have a
mind if you will. He will not know it.
Have heart aud soul. They do not
concern him. lie wants you to be tailor
made. You are a girl to him. That's
all
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-05-07
Popo Leo's Boyhood.

lie spent his childhood in the simple
surroundings of Carpineto, than which
none could be simpler, as every one
knows who has ever visited an Italian
country gentleman in his home. Early
hours, constant exercise, plain food and
farm interests made strong man OF
him, with plenty of simple common
sense. AS boy he was a great walker
and climber, and it is said that he was
excessively fond. of birding, the only
form Of sport afforded by that part Of
Italy, and practiced there in those
times, as it is now. not only with guns,
but by means of nets. 1t has often been
said that poets and lovers Of freedom
como moro frequently from the noun
tains and tho seashore than from fiat
inland region. Marion Crawford in
Century
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-05-07
No. 1onrned In Chinook.

Ono Of Calgary's recent contingent to
tho coast evidently knew but little
about the Chinook, Judging by the story
that is being told on him. Wishing to
get some clans to take back with him,
he asked an old squaw. who had cob
webs in her eyes and basket on her
head, what she wanted for basketful.
and tho blushing brunette replied, "Sit-
cum dollar, hyas klosh." To this the gay
Calgaryite said: "Yumping yimminyl
six dollars and all my clothesp No, by
ginger snapl I'll give you $3.50, my
watch and overcoat. F" 1t is unnecessary
TO state that the offer was accepted, as
all tho dusky maiden asked for the
CLAIMS was four bits. -Vancouver World
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-05-07
rrench Flshermen.s yvIvc..

Tho good wife has put on her lowered
korchief and tho apron with tho wide SILK
ends. She wore thom oil perhaps at her
marriage, and she brings them out or the
chest where they lilo on tho great church
festivals ard for tho return Of her CARS.
Tho cider Is ready at home, tho room
swept, and the groat armchair set close to
the fire. tho high, two storied box beds
have little curtains draped neatly nt their
windows. Everything Is ready and clean
and waiting.
And there IS perhaps ayoung wife, with
n bundlo In her arms. This timo last year
sho was married, and now thoro Is some
thing foe her man TO see that ho has mover
seen before. Sho will put it into his arms
presently, and he will look at It with q
half alarmed delight, and then he VIII call
his mates 20 como and sec and tell them
that it Is n boy, parbleul And 10 VIII
cali Il Mousse and talk Of taking 1t with
him TO tho Banks presently In year OF
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-05-07
The Sharp Lord Tenterden.

Tho story Of Charles Abbot has been
often told-the scrubby little boy who,
failing to become chorister, ran after
his father through the streets OF Canter-
bury carrying pewter basin, case OF
razors and bag of hair powder. The
unpretentious dwelling whence the pair
emerged was situated in narrow street
opposite the stately west portal OF the
cathedral, and it's owner, who shaved
for penny aud cut hair for twopence,
boosted that he had thrice prepared his
grace the archbishop to deliver his trien-
NAL charge to the clergy OF the diocese
A good story is told Of Lord Tenter-
den, as this disappointed little choir
boy became, having one day at his own
table asked county magistrate II he
would take yenison. "Thank you, my
lord, boiled chicken" was the reply.
His lordship had contracted an invet-
crate habit of keeping himself and every
body else to the precise matter In hand.
"That, SIR" said the judge, lis no an
swer to my question. now ask you
again if you will take venison. and
will trouble you to say yes or no with
out further prevarication.
Tenterden was habitually down on
witnesses, and on one occasion told the
chairman Of the East India company,
whom he had failed to recognize as he
entered the box, "to hold mp his head
and speak out like man." The ruling
passion is sometimes strong in death,
and just "ere the weary pulse of life at
last stood still" Lord Tenterden was
heard to murmur to himself:
Sand now, gentlemen Of the jury, ]
leave you to consider Of your verdict. "
Temple Bar.