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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-16

Washington January 15.-The republican
steering committee has decided to give the
Nicaragua canal bill first place in tho
senate order Of business.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-16
Increased Appropriations.

Washington. January 1.-THE senate
committee on appropriations completed the
consideration of the legislative, executive
and judicial appropi lation bill. increasing
the appropriation oyei that made by the
house to the extent of ass, making u
total of s2l ,72S,S5i.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-16
TiIlmnn,r Contest.

Nashville. Tenn. January IA repub-
lican caucus was held tonight. @. N. TILL
man, claiming TO have been elected gov
ernor, being present. But little has been
made public OF the actions Of the caucus.
but il IL understood that Mr.. Tillman's
friends are preparing 10 execute the bond
OF $500 required and that he will make
the contest.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-16
pop. Nominated Thompaon.

Raleigh. N. c.. January 16--The populist
senatorial caucus adjourned at o'clock
this saturday. morning, after having NOM
mated DR.. Cyrus -. Thompson. The nom
ination is claimed by Senator Buffers
friends to unite democrats. populists, part
of the boilers and some few republicans
,gatrut pritchord
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-16
Pacific Cable Project,

Washington. January l5-The Pacific ca
Bile project was considered again today by
the house committee on commerce. which
listened to a statement by General Wager
Swain, in behalf of the Pacific Cable co,u-
pany of New Jersey. In which he Is assoc
ciatpJ
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-16
springer Conferred with oiney.

Springer Conferred with Oiney.
Washington. January I5.-Mr. Springer,
United States vice consul general at Hav-
ana, is in this city on leave of absence from
his post. He has had a personal interview
with Secretary olney. Mr.. Springer Mas
also In conference today with Assistant
Secretary Rockhill touching the condition
OF American citizens now In confinement
in Cuba and tho various claims now before
the state department preferred by persons
who have suffered in person or property
from the war.
Senior Quosada. In charge OF the Cuban
junta here, is Just recovering from illness
which has confined him for some time t.
his bed.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-16

Memphis, Tenn. January 1.-THE stakee
10 be offered at the spring meeting Of The
Memphis Jockey club cloaed today. Many
entries are expected from California an9
far away points and the entries Will rot
be made public for several days.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-16
A Startling Coincidence.

Cleveland Leader.
II may not he a matter of much import
ance to the public. but on the day 'na'
Bryan struck Chicago four OF that city
hunks collapsed.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-16
To Celebrate Arbitration.

Chicago. January ia great demon
stration has been arranged TO take place
February % in celebration OF the success
ful termination OF the tre,ty OF arb.tra.
ton which. u Is expe,ted. the senate VIII
rai-fy In two weeks.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-16
For "A bridge Mt Eel pnso.

Washington, January 15.-The house
committee on commerce today voted to re-
port favorably bill to authorize the
Sierra Madre Construction company to
construct or acquire a bridge across the
Rio Grande at Ell Paso, Texas.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-16
"e"r Pacific Ul,,

eopm,,,.n' January l5,--The senate
ursn,moa. on Pacific roads today by a
Bart on s. 'o'e authorized favorable re-
- senator Gears bill providing for
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-16
No portfoiIo fov LONG.

Canton. Ohio January 15.-Ex Governor
Long Of Massachusetts, has not been ten
dered Q cabinet position. He II still .
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-16

vas not prepared to answer that question.
He was questioned regarding the payment
Of tho expenses Of the trump legislature.
but he was also non committal on that
point. II Ia said here that they are draw
ing their salaries and having their hotel
expenses paid.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-31
ALLEGED FUN.

A Connecticut contemporary given
to the study of entomology has dis
covered that q new insect isnoW in the
air that sttngs people on the tongue
when it finds the opportunity, and so
produces a slow disease for which no
remedy has yet been found. This is q
mint to keep our mouths shut.
A Methodist ~itinerant preacher once
breakfasted at a place where they
served johnny-cakes. Observing a
feather protruding from his cake, he
remarked:
Sister, your shnny-cake seems to
be f%eathering out"
eyes" responded the lady, unabash-
ed, Il told John no longer ago than
yesterday that he must either get q
cover for the meal barrel or move the
hen roost. "-American Stock Keeper.
Grocer-"Didn't that lady ask for
fresh laid eggs9" Clerk-''She did, SIR"
Gfocer-"And you said we hadn't
any8" Clerk-"I did, SIR" Grocer
Didn't you see me lay those eggs my.
self right down there not ten minutes
ago, you mendacious scoundrelG You
are discharged, and see that you don't
refer to me- for a character, either."-
Judge.
mo" said the country store keeper
when the city boarder asked him if he
had Browning; II have blueing and
blacking, bat no browning. Jim Smith
over on t. other corner does whitening,
and his wife does pinking, but I
d'know where you will go for brown
ing"
The man lat a Observation-Disclosures
sort of a chicken do you call this,
waiter9" The waiter-''That, cir, I be-
lieve, is Plymouth Rock" The man
'Ah! I'm glad it has some historic in-
terest; I thought it was just an ordi-
nary cobble stone. Pick Me Up.
There are $50, 900 words in the Eng
lish language, and most of them were
used on Sunday by a woman who dis
covered, after coming out of church,
that her new hat was adorned with q
tag on which was written, Reduced
to $1.65
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-31
DON'T USE BIG WORDS.

In promulgRting your esoteric cogita
lions, and in articulating your superb,
cial sontimentalities, amicable, philo
sophical or sociological observations, be
ware Of platitudinous ponderosity. Let
your conversational communications
possess a clarified conciseness, a com
pacted comprehensibleness, a coales
cent consistency, and a concatenating
cogency. Eschew all conglomerations
of fatulent garrulity, jajuned bobble.
ment, and asinine afectations. Let
your extemporaneous descanting and
unprecedented expatiations have in
telligibility and ~veracious vivacity
without rhodomontade or thrasonical
bombast. Seduously avoid all poly
syllable profundity, pompous prolixity,
~psittaceous vacuitY, ventriloquial yer
bosity, and grandiloquent vapidity.
Shun double ententes, prurient jocosi-
ty, and postiferous profanity, obscu
rant and apparent. In other words
talk plainly, briefly, naturally sensi-
big, purely and truthtully. Keep
from slang; don't put on airs; say what
you mean; nee what you say, and
don't use big words. Eek.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-31
ACOOL SCOT.

The Youths Companion says: Mr.
McGregor, a Scot who resides in San
Francisco, is said by an exchange to be
one of the most argument8tive Of men,
and one OF the caImest. Early one
morning, as he was returning home, he
was addressed by a man who empha-
sized bis words with a pistol:
Throw up your handsI'
"Why G"asked Mr.. McGregor, calmly,
Throw them upI"
But what for9"
Put up your hands!' insisted the
footpad, shaking his pistol. "Will
you do what l tell youY"
THAT depends" said Mr.. McGregor.
IF ye can show me any reason why /
should put up ma hands, I'll no say
but what I wull but yer mere requaist
wad be no justification for me to do SO
absurd a thing. MOO, why should you,
a complete stranger, ask me at this DOR
O. the mornin' on a public street ia pit
up ma hend's4'
"It you don't quit gessin' and obey
orders, I'll blow the top of your head
off, cried the robber.
whats Faith, man, you must be
cot O. yer head. Come, moo, poor
buddy" said McGregor. soothingly,
coolly catching the pistol and wrestling
it with q quick twist out of the mans
hand. "Come, moo, an I'll show ye
where they'll take car O. ye. HechI
Dinna ye try to fecht, or ecod. Ill
shoot vel By the way, ye might as
we'll put up yer ain hands, an just
walk ahead o. me. That's it. Trudge
ava, moo"
And so Mr.. McGregor marched his
mar to the city prison and handed
him over to Captain Douglass.
1T Wudna be q bad idea to put him
in a strait jacket" he said serenely to
the officer. There's little doot but the
buddy's daft"
And he resumed bis homeward walk.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-31
CHAP TER III.

"ALLs WELL THAT ENDS WE'LL
Down by the gate once more Sal
stood, and Jack was by her side. The
wind Suited the apple blossoms over
them like a benediction, and the lilacs
filed the air with fragrance. They had
been silent, both thinking of that other
night so long ago; then Sal reached up
her hand till it stole around Jacks
neck, and looking into his eyes-eye s
that now returned the love they saw in
hers-said Wistfully:
"You never really meant it. did you,
Jack9"
He made no reply but drawing her
closer to him, held her, his wife, as if
he never more would let her go from
the shelter OF his arms.
Was she foolishG Well, perhaps.
Who shall iudgeG There ia no reason
in a woman's love; she follows her
heart, and well it is for man that she
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-31
E. NJ. ANDREWS.
Largest DGd'G in Furniture, Carpets, Pianos and ORGANS in The State.
CHARLOTTE, N. @.
payment of a considerable duty, which
would eat the profits up.

payment of a considerable duty, which
would eat the profits up.
Amasa is honest, but he is also full
of ingenuity, and after deep cogitation
he built a long, slim hen coop, one half
of it in Arizona and the other in Mexico.
Ga the line there is a gate. Over the
line there are barns containing feed.
At feeding time the gate is opened and
the chicken fancier Shoes his flock into
Mexico, where they eat their meal.
Then he Shoes them back to the pro
lection of the American flag, where
they digest this American grain, lay
their eggs and carry on their family
affairs. MIR. Barrow saves about so
per cent. on grain and makes that
much On his chickens, and if there is
any smuggling done it is done by the
innocent and irresponsible biddies.-
Washihg ton Times.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-31
POETRY
LOCALS.
rrom a COuntry-Town Paper.

rom - ~~
-oalous are quite abundant now,
NJ r5 rGastlueears also appear;
.osr1agIy, or else thereu be a row
.,s1de 80 pug you out OF gear.
,.,oer Diggs in town with produce to
ran nc cents for butter, five for eggs,
~ tor chickens, all In trade; ls
ociug we'll"
D.. esld, TO keep me on my lcgs."
J., daughter, Sal, he said was down
wiEn humps,
,,d lie, his son, was up with cole.
n nlow horse, Duke, was Osd CIT
'w.,h the thumps,
And ne felt like getting on a frollc.
.f.s f imsy Flop is on a visit to
pqsr cid schoolmate, Miss Fl0uney
n Mtss Jinks has gone to visit Miss
Pc,
We wish them both a pleasant trip
his Gushy Cloeh, we hear, is laid up
with
Asty that hungs up her IefS eye;
h. Pnis says, though dangerous, she'll
Mrs qulshy has u sympathy.
h,r champion DUDE, Claude Trim, is
very sick,
Ard ali Will miss him on the street,
h. truss he'll soon b. Out anG looking
49, VIZ with his health complete.
Dr,97la 3gIil. TIA e ussiest nan about,
g.s az rsI z III u MS toes;
h. agrs l. Will the uevli IN MIN rOut,
\ Ard AXE the red from eff his nose.
Fss Pa ience saltback, we are glad to
hear,
Will change her maiden name quite
soon;
"a Iueky man is Hsngfre Kllldear,
Ne wisk them tne sweetest honey
moon.
nr anciznt friend, Sage OIdboy, called
by 10 say
Fa had , young girls fancy won,
Ind though old and shrunk, he'd have
q wedding day.
A9Ee believes IN 16 to 1.
ed occurance ends u news this
week,
Miss Circus rides a timid wheel
kDd il ran away, In a frightened freak,
Arc tore her 0loomers and skinned
U. B GwYNN.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-31
CHAPTER II.
"'TWAs EVER THUS"

Sal" said Farmer Mason, entering
the room where his daughter was bust
ly engaged in domestic duties, do you
know that Jack Pretty has gone North
STARTED this afternoon2"
All the color left the girls face.
mo" she faltered; lis it not rather
a sudden thingY"
well, you ought to know best about
that, seems to me, seems he's been
dangling round you for the past four
or five years. And now they say he's
offered himself to that city gal up at
Squire Johnson's and she refused him,
and he has cleared out. How came
you to bungle your affairs in this way .
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-31
AT OUR BOARDING HOUSE.

"Here is a new coanUndrum," said
the cheerful boerder; Il made it my.
self. What is the difference between
me and g. K;ondike miner! Can you
guess, Mrs. Hasbleigh3"
''No, 1 never liked conundrums, "
snapped the landlady.
"AH give it up9'
There was no response.
because" said the cheerful boarder,
lone stakes the claim and the other
claims the steak!'
And he helped himself to the last bit
of sirIoin on the platter.
A little boy. hearing someone remark
that nothing was quicker than thought
said:
81 know something that is quicker
than thought"
What is it, Johnny9" asked his pa.
"WhistIing," said Johnny. when
/ was in school yesterday / whistled
before I thought, and got licked for it,
too.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-31
WHAT CURED HIM.
The Texans Last Lynchiug And Its
Consequences.

4ne 4e4AuS last @yoCn!nS S4u0 AIS
Consequences.
mo" said the Texan, II hain't had
a hand in a hangin' for along time, an
eff the Lord fergives me fer what 1
have had TO do with them I won't do it
again"
You must be contemplating a re-
moval to the eff te intellectually Of
Boston," remarked a Star reporter.
mo; you see it wes this a way.
said the Texan, seriously: "Long
about five ears ago, and it. was hot
tern Phil Sheridan in Texas that year,
me and four or five Of the boys come
across a peaked lookin' teller me day
with q boss that We knowed didn't be-
long to him. We ast him where he got
it. He said he was a stranger and had
nothin' but q wagon about seven mile
back and off the road, and q sick little
gal in it likely TO die, and he was out
seein' eff he couldn't find a doctor n a
woman er somebody to do somethln',
fer the little gal was all he had on
earth, and he couldn'E stand to have
her die like that. He told us he had
picked up the boss We found him ridin'
because he was not able TO walk fast
enough.
"Well, we had heerd that kind of a
story many a time, and the first one
that had been spread out before us
saved the mans life, and lost US q boss
and a subscription fer the sufferers
that we took up, and we had been
learned a lesson. So when this chap
give US g racket like that we give him
seven minutes for prayer and swung
him up.
About a month after that me and
one of the boys happened to be ridin'
along the road where that teller told
US about his little gal, and we seen
something that I reckon l won't forgit
eft I live ter be g thousand years old.
There was only q ramshackle old
wago with q skeleton of a horse in the
shafts, and layin' on some old rags in
the wagon Wes the little bones Of q
child, all picked clean and white by
the ~buzEards, just like the boss was.
II kinder choked up when I seen
that, and my pardner done the same,
and while I was standin' there thinkin'
be reached down under the side of the
wagon bed and picked up a clip of pa
DER pinned to the wood. It was wrote
on with a lead pencil, and was mighty
zeal faded out, but what was left wes
this"-taking from his pocket very
carefully a silver box, from which he
look a small and crumpled sheet of
paper bearing upon the line, ina child's
hand
Deere pa i cant waite no longer for
you to cum Because L"
THAT was all ther was to it, he
concluded: and then me and my pard
ner looked at each other and never
said a word. There was a big funeral
for the little gal, and her pa and the
pore old boss that died in the harness,
but it'll take a good deal more'n aay
funeral to set me straight with myself
and put my feelin' like they was be
fore I found them bones and this little
scrap of writin'. And / don't feel the
same about swingin' a man up fer
stealin' a boss neither "-WREhlngton
Star.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-31
HOUSEHOID.
FRUIT TAPIOCA.

EEIlI IAHlOCAB
Stew any kind Of fruit till it is a
be marmalade, f4voring 1t with g
Eala lemon juice aud grated rind !;
then cooked place it IN a deep dish
IL pour over IL some tapi0ca boiled IN
IK TIL SMOOTH, creamy and just fit
kpour; then place the dish In the oven
nd bake for half an hour. Serve hot
fc1id, with cloGOed or whipped cream,
h toe whites of one or two eggs
khsked inco q stiff troth with powder
dsugar and a fsvoring of vanilla.
TOMATOES CANNED WHOLE
To insure the best results tomatoes
nBsG oe canned during August. Wash,
zeal and u them into pieces. Cook
B a porcelain kettle for thirty min
as. Put them boiling hot into the
Es AMI faateH at once. To can them
FhoIe select email stnCOUn aud solid to-
Fstaes Pack them, without peeling,
h0 vide mou5hod j4rs, fill with colo
aeg, and AID aud q teaspoontul Of
at t. eaca r Cook In a wash
olsr, arranged as directed for Lima
sans, only thirty minutes. b sure
be cans are filed to Overlooking be
be fastening the lids.
BLACKBERRY CORDIAL.
Pas the blackberries in either a pre-
living kettle or a stone jar, set it in
DE the wash boiler, and let them sim,
Der IN their own juice until very soft.
iail through a towel wet with boil
water. Measure the juice. To
Red qua;t of juice allow two table
PoDtuls OF ground cloves, two Of
lace, twoof aIlspice and four Of ground
aDamon. Boil the j lice, and after
ga have removed the scum put In the
Pces aud stir well. When cold add a
as Of Whiskey to each quart of syrup.
I3Il9 immediately and cork tight. II
W use brandy, take a half pint to
very quart Of syrup.
APPLE PIE.
lake six to nine Greetings, accord
= " s'zy. Wash them well before
rug Pare, quarter and core them;
"Sac4 & Larger into lengthwise slices
W. cue fourth of an inch thick and
: 'asm II an earthen dish until the
sly prepared. When the under
- Is ready, place the slices carefully
viz the edge Of the bottom, and
4c'7eS tee bottom with one layer
@@ Fiaccd closely together. Be
''u' noi TO puncture the crust with
VofAeTs OF the slices Over this
= slices pat a cUpsui OF granu-
sugar, then lay the remainder Of
~'''s over the sugar. Sprinkle
Uasaea OF salt we Their apples,
~sn Crate over them about one
SG OF tie yellow rind of a lemon
'Ouf PIE is ready for theupper
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-31
HONEST BUT sHRzwD YANKEE
How He Saves Money Breeding Poultry
On The Mexican Border.

There is a funny case OF inteTna-
tional honesty down in Arizona, just
on the line between the territory and
Mexico. A Yankee farmer lives there,
one Amasa Barrow by name, and it B
his business to raise chickens Chicken
feed is cheap in Mexico and chickens
bring fine prices in Arizona, but to
raise fowls in Mexico and bring them
across the boundary or to buy the feed
and bring it across would involve the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-31

1t costs O great deal Of money to run
q paper like The Progressive Farmer.
If yOW O1Ce anything, send the mOneN
Don't 1Cdit WntH tomorrow.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-31

does go. Foolish, perhaps, but happy.
Jack did not deserve her, but the least
deserving are the most blest as a rule.
For 81 runs the world.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-31
FATAL TO

rc0i. |e Frenchman once said: "Mon-
{ destroyed by poverty, and
WIGS by wealth"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-31
SAL AND JACK.
BY WILL L "
CHAPTER I.
GOOD BYE SWEETHEART "

Farewell! its a bitter, bitter word,
And 1t falls Ii q the pail of night
On the heart as light as tn gladstone bird.
And calm as the lake no wind has stirred,
And warm as the suns soft light.
The heart may moan when its loved ones fade
Like the dying light of day,
But we lay then down in the grassy glade,
And roses bloom in the cypress shade,
And the shadows lit aWayI
But the deepest woe that earth can tell
Is when two tender hearts
That have loved so long, and have loved so well
That one pulse ne'er rose If the other fell,
Each to its grief departsl
Departs alone with a wailing cry
But a dying heart can tell;
On It's sad to see our loved ones die,
But It's ha. d for with avert@d eyes.
TOhear the word FAREWELL"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-26

lin the diagram, folding it on the shoul-
color paper, cut out the legs and feet
double like Nos. and and if desired
black the feet with ink.
The hands should be cut out like No.
8 and If hat Is wanted No. 2 Is the
pattern, folding it on the dotted lines.
To make the head, take piece of the
tissue paper (uncolored), and in the
center place piece of the cotton and
toothpick. Fold down all the sides OF
the paper to keep the face smooth and
about the shape in the picture of the
finished Chinaman.
Take long piece of the thread, double
1t several times, divide in three and
braid 1t, tying the end with single
piece. Insert the end of the pigtail in
fasten there with glue or mucilage.
To put the Chinaman together, slip the
shirt over the head and glue to it, put
the hands in the sleeves and glue in
place, paste together each folded leg
and foot and insert the upper edge Of
each beneath the ends of the shirt and
fasten these with glue. Glue the hat
over the top of the head.
Draw two slanting eyes, nose and
mouth and curved line for the chin with
pen and ink or black crayon and the
face is done.
1t is best TO fasten together all the
edges of the shirt with mucilage. Red,
blue, yellow, green, brown and all col
ored papers may be used, and gold and
silver paper also. The buttons down
the front here are marked with pen,
but little round pieces of another col
ored paper pasted on each give much
better effect.