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Middletown transcript., 1897-02-20
MlDD1ETowN MARKETS.
PRODUCE.

Creamery Butter, lb. b.......... 25c
Country Butter, lb. .agSc
Eggs, dOz. J4C9tOc
Lard, 10. Ogoc
POLaUOeS, SoVqaz<'
Spring chickens. ...,.. lOc
Apples per basket. 45c
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Black Dress Goods {:

Black Dress Goods
BLACK MOHAIR SICILIANS-
with very bright, fancy figures, 48
in. wide. Real value, Is cents per
yard, at 80 cents.
BLACK -JACQUARDS-all-wool,
granite ground, an excellent quality,
40 in. wide. Real value, 75c; at 5Sc.
BLACK CREPON FRIEZE AND
BASKET WEAVE-all-wool, 46 in.
wide. Real value, $3.50 per yard; at
Is cents.
BLACK MOHAIR AND WOOL
NOVELTIES-42 in. wide, beautiful
designs. Real value, $3.50 per yard; at
SLIGO.
MOHAIR AND WOOL NOVEL
TIES high. class, 46 in. wide. Real
values, $500 and $3.50 per yard; at
$1.25 and $1.50.
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for the designs and fabrics are
prettier than ever, Linen for its
effectiveness. Some are heightened
in beauty with threads of silk; some
hold cotton in combination-what-
ever helped to carry out the de-
signers' ideals.
Fancy Plaid Grass Cloth, 30c.
Silk-striped Grass Cloth, CSC.
Silk Swivel-striped Grass Cloth,
37Hc.
SiIk-striped Linen, 371zc and 45c.
Silk-striped Etamine, 75c.
Silk-striped Linen Chiffon, 6oc.
Striped and Plaid Chiffons, 4e
in, So.
WOOL DRESS STUFFS-
The show as, new as the morn
ing. Just first comers-the select
few from mills at home and abroad.
Examines, coverts, cheviots-or
variations of these Weaves. Black
and colors. The stuffs for tailor
made gowns are ready.
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RIGS. That is easily seen, whether
we stroll among the colored stuffs
or blacks. Let a word of Satur-
days black goods arrivals hint of
the dress goods newness of the day.
EXAMINES AT $3.50
Three styles of etamine weave, with silk
crepon stripe. New idea.
ETAMINE AT So. So
Silk-and-wool; open mesh; fancy effect
very rich for making over color.
CREPON AT So. .25-
Silk-and-wool feather-weights. Graceful,
wavy designs of gauze-like beauty.
PLAIN EXAMINES, 75c to 81. So
Atwood Examines from the Priestleys.
and Priestley goods are foremost for
weave, dye and finish. Little or big
mesh; the threads are put together for
service. No'slipping.
STRIPED EXAMINES, 75c, 81, 81. .25-
Raised mohair-stripe Examines from across
the water. Just out Of the Custom
House. Too many designs to allow of
even an attempt at descriptions.
FANCY GRENADINES, 81 to 2.50-
A big family of alI-silk Granadines-
stripes and figures. New designs.
Gauze grounds, embroidered and tiny
beaded stripes woven on threads OF
finest silk; small effects and some large
bold patterns are in the collections.
PLAIN GRENADINES, soc to 81. 20
Old standbys, more than ever in favor for
this spring. We have donated large
part Of the Black Goods Section to the
showing and selling Of Black Grena-
dimes.
+ JOHN WANAMAKER.
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EPPS'S COCOA

GRATEFUL COMFORTING
- Disting uished Everywhere
for Belicacy of Flavor, Supe-
riOr Quality, and Nutritiye
Properties. Specially CRATE
fuI and comforting to the
nervous and dyspepfic.
Your Grocer and Druggist sell it. In
= HaKPound Tins only. Prepared by
JAMES EPPs & Co, Ltd Homaopathic
Chemists, London, England.
1HEAkFAsT SUPPER
EPPS'S COCOA
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THE BAcHFLoRs' BANoURr

Mr.. aearne entertained his best man and
the ushers at banquet on the night before
the wedding, at 10 o'clock at the National
Hotel in town. All the choicest viands of
the season were served in mine host, Nc
Tntire's most tempting style, and the guests
furnished each his quote of wit and humor
and the young men had merry party.
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New THERE are new things
n.a., under the sun-at least
SSS new and better applica-
uOOdS tions of things you have
known. The fabrics for the new
season prove that.
For eight years our dress goods
chief has had mill-men experiment.
ing on gauzy dress stuff that
should be durable. Most of the
,spidery weaves are loosely held
the strands slip and the fabric soon
looks old. At last success crowned
his efforts and you have
PINEAPPLE GRENADINE.
Daintiness personified-grenadine
beauty in cotton, and the new stuff
is ready at the opening of a season
when grenadine weaveS prove likely
to lead the. van in popularity.
Twenty-Five studies in stripes, eight
plain colorings. SOC yard.
And then CRISPENE is as new
and fresh as May morning. Fear
less of dust and dampness. lnde-
pendently pretty-needing no lin
ing or stiffening. We have made
up sample gowns of it. Smart
looking. Durable-as warm weather
goods are counted durable, Laun-
ders safely and easily. Eighty-fve
styles. 35c, 4Oc and 45c a yard.
DRESS LINENS
Last summer wove them into
popularity. This season bids fair
To see them doublY appreciated
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GRAIN.

Wheat, No. l, BUS. S0e
Wheat, No. 2, bus. 8S(
Timothy Seed, bus. U
Corn. yellow, bus 2:
Corn cob. bus, 23C
oats. bus. .... 22C
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Samples Of Dress Goods and Illustrated Cat
alogue of Linens sent on, request.
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Removal!
Spring Goods

are already abundant in every depart
ment. We mention several especially
attractive lines of Dress Goods and
Tjnana.
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DIVORCE NOTICE /

D. P. HUTcHIsoN, Auct.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-06
POETRY.
o.m The Progressive F1C"~.l
AMMO OOMINI 1899
. Member of the Cabinet Writes to a
Friend.

,.u,ber of the Cabinet Writes to q
Friend.
Lar old chum, in rummaging an old
l u trunk. just out of fun,
I'M lame acToss some letters Of eighteen
IVA hundred and ntnety-One,
And how the women cOntItVed to stand
49, Il in those old days
mast my comprehension to conceive in
many ways.
IT'S hard to i think bi9E OF times when women mad TO
mesH Of men. and round their necks, such
lhS ".|orish woke to wear.
si DooT 0old-fime girIsI how degraded must
1A have been their state
-b.ac1ei. as they were. to such a hateful, mis-
placed fate!
lat think Of it! when men, In those old times,
,ns Women folks a no control, nor hardly
+ must ipave been a pretty state of things-such
Tbsb the United States had a man to rule as
President
And tust to think that woman's rights were
ever held in doubt!
And now men talk of presidents, their rights to
bring anOut-
Rut no indt edl They must be made to know
their place, and kind.
Attendi. g TO their household duties. and the
children mind.
Affairs of State are matters that concern them
For nafu6e circcumscribed their brains to what
And there is that timid. chicken-hearted hus-
Who. V every I time I go to Washington begins to
whine.
Although he knows my family never with me
sIDss I've held the high position of Secretary
Z. bS " and looks the picture of the most de-
lacrpl woe
WIS Ger I Il cunt my flying gig the Capital to
60
4. Erate me a most supplicating appeal the
To let him and the children come to Washing
..ss at the President about it and she told me
y his RI morals valued, at home he'd better re-
main
No indeed. I'll never run the risk with him in
Why. ja-t the other day, a girl betrayed Mrs.
And ever ever Since no mother lets her son go out
Z, fact no man is safe who sticks his nose from
on his home.
! must close for I've Just been t~elephoned from
one Of the stars:
Il is a message from the Foreign Minister of
And as our stellar relations are now out Of
To give them the promptest attention I made it
a point
? G-Thfs secret keep: There's no avoiding war
with the planet Mars.
II 50, he'll soon cease to shine above among the
FOR we viii 6uri him. as he whirls. headlong
Or blow him into satellites ere he can say Jack
U. B. GwYNN.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-06

smartest man in the world could never
set a stream of water on fire, and go
perhaps many of you who have heard
this expression have wondered what is
meant by setting the river on fire.
In England, many, many years ago,
before the millers had machinery for
sitting -four, each family was obliged
to sift it's own -four. For doing this it
was necessary to use a sieve, called a
tense, which was so fixed that it could
be turned round and round in the top of
a barrel. If it was turned too fast
the friction would sometimes cause it
to catch fire; and it was only the
smart, hArd-work boys who could
make it go so fast as that, people got
into the way of pointing out a lazy
boy by saying that he would never set
the tense on fire.
After awhile these sleeves went out
of use, but as there were still plenty of
stupid boys in the world people kept
IN saying that they would lever set
the tense on fire. Now, the river
Thames is pronounced exactly like the
word tense; and so, after many
years, those persons who had never
seen or heard of the old-fashioned sieve
thought that "setting the tense on
fire" meant setting the river Thames
on fire. This expression became very
popular and travelled far and wide,
until the people living near other
streams did not q why it was any
harder for a slothful boy to set the
Thames on fire than any other river,
and so the name Of the river was
dropped and everybody after that
simply said 1.-The river" meaning
the river Of his particular city or
town. And that is how it Is people to-
day talk of setting the river on fire.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-06
HOUSEHOLD
APPLE MICKLR

AGHLh mlChLH
Soak a half loaf of bread a few hours
and press out the water. Then take
about six cooking apple, pare, ore and
cut into dice. and mix these through
the bread. Sweeten to taste. Flavor
with a little cinnamon or nutmeg. Also
mix in a few raisins or currants il
liked. After mixing well, bake one
hour. 1t can be eaten with or without
sauce, as preferred.
BEEF LOAF.
Take three pounds Of raw beef,
chopped foe, and add six tablespoon.
tuIs Of rolled crackers or bread crumbs,
one desertspoonful of black pepper,
the same quantity of thyme and
chopped parsley and onion juice; a
piece Of butter the size of an egg;
three te0lespooDfuls of cream and two
beaten eggs. Mix all the ingredients
together, and put the mix ure into a
buttered bread tin; rub the top with
butter, and pour a little water over it.
Pace it in a hot oven and bake one and
oHehalt hours. When cold cut into
siees.
TOMATO TOAST,
e4e tomato, one large slice Of toast,
one ounce of cooked ham, half an
ounce CT butter, half a sliced onion, a
pinch of sugar, pepper and salt to
taste, one egg and a little bread crumbs.
Put the butter into a small saucepan;
cut the onion into rings, fry it, add to
It the butter. Skin the tomato, mince
ham fne; then put it in the saucepan
with the pinch of sugar, egg, etc. Stir
gently over the fire till it thickens
al8h5ly. Do not allow it to boil. Have
ready the slice of toast buttered and
spread the mixture on it. Serve very
hot.
MUTTON STEW.
3 delicious mutton stew may be
nile oy cutting the remains of boiled
mutton into cubes. To one pint of
me7- add half a pint of mutton broth,
one email onion chopped fine, two
'9o'-zpo2nfuis Of butter, one table
spoonful Of salt, a little cayenne pep
PEI. 1atf a teaspoonful of kitchen bou
41.r nd a suspicion of mace. Place
'--a- i1gredlents in a saucepan, and
p'ag- 1t over the back of the fire, Gov
81 L. oosely, and cook the meat gently
~ .aree quarters of an hour. Then
Gu 81 -sii a can Of green peas, and cook
~'--a minutes. A little wine is q
9'7@s addition. Garnfsh the dish with
5'o-A5 and serve a lettuce salad and
''1Acn dressing with this stew.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-06
TIMES WILL BE HARD
When Earth Can No More Support Her
Children

A 7 the Academy of Science in Brus
IA self the other day Lieutenant
General Brialmont of the Belgian army
delivered a lecture upon the increase
of the worlds population.
Many s~tatisticians have studied this
problem, and according to the average
of their calculations, we find that Rus
sia doubles her population in so years,
England in 81, Germany in 81, Belgium
in 70, Italy In "a and France in 1873
TIE General did not mention the in
crease of population in the United
States.
"a time will come" he said "when
there will be too many men on the
globe, and the equilibrium between
population and production will be re
established by the disappearance of
those for whom there will be no place
at the banquet of life. According to
statistics most worthy of conf fence,
the population of the world in 1882
and 1892, OOO, 600, and in 1890 it was
], 400, coo, 00O-that is to say, in eight
years it increased by 50, 600, 900, or
more than 6 per cent. II, calculating
upon this basis, we seek the date when
the population of the earth will reach
81 milliards of inhabitants, or double
the number of hectares that the land
of our planets measure, we come to
the year 1880" Consequently, accord
ing to the General, who in his lecture
simply made himself the interpreter of
the economists, in 386 years the world
will no longer, be able to feed it's in
habitants.
Ito deny the exactness of my calcu-
lation," says General Brialmont 'it
will be necessary to prove that the
population will not continue to grow
as rapidly IS I have supposed"
Now, in 1888 the population of Eu
rope was LA, 900, 900 souls, and ia 1886
it was 349, 900. 900, presenting an in.
crease of 14O per cent in a century.
The President of the Congress of Sta
tistics in Vienna in 1887 produced
documents showing that the European
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-06
HE PINRD NO MORE.

THE proud lips of the maiden curled.
= 80, Algernon Thinklittle," she
sneered, "you say that you love me.
Do you love me better than Richard
Winebiddle, who signed the temper.
ance pledge for met Do you care mora
for me than James Locust, who
thrashed two men twice his size for
saying that in my new theater hat 1
looked like an animated feather dus-
teri Do you"
''Stop, Regina Blueblood," cried the
young man, and the light of high re-
solve came into his eyes. 81 love you
more than all these, I swear it. I
shall rest my head every night on that
pine needle sofa cushion you gave me-"
"Algernon," murmured the young
woman, 81 have been cruel. Forgive
me. l don't think that I can get ready
for the wedding in less than six weeks"
And Algernoon pined no more
New York Herald.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-06
OBITUARY.

The subject of this sketch was born
in Edgecombe county, N. O., July 8,
1871, and died January 10, 1892, and
was raised by parents of strict, moral
character, observing the religion of
Jesus Christ, though they never united
themselves with any church. They
instructed their children in the paths
of rectitude. Their son, NEEDY w.
Proctor, Of whom we write, Joined the
rebel army when quite young and
served through the war with distinc-
ton. After the war he took up the oc-
cupRtion of farming. Realizing the
folly Of living alone he married Miss
Mary Calhoun. His character in the
neighborhood was of such that he will
be greatly missed. In sickness he was
often by the bedside with words Of
cheer and comfort. In death and dis
tress he was always ready to lend a
helping hand.
He was a member of Juvenile ALI
ance, No. 1880. He held responsible
Offices in the Alliance satisfactory to
all, therefore be it
ResoIVed 1, That in the death of
Bro. Proctor our Alliance has sustained
an irrep 2rable loss, and the commu-
nifty one of it's best citizens.
2 That this Alliance wear the usual
badge of mourning for thirty days.
8. That the death of Bro. Proctor be
and is hereby recorded on our minutes,
and a copy sent to The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER with request to publish and
send a copy of the paper to the wife Of
the deceased. Il. Ct. WORsBY,
MCG. MOORE,
J. A. THOMAS,
COMMITTEES.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-06
A BARROW ESCAPE.
Scruggs Played a Joke on His Dog and
Got the Worst of it.

Scruggs Played q Joke on His Dog and
Got the Worst of it.
There is a clerk in the war depart
met at Washington with a keen sense
of humor, who, for the purpose of
Identification, I will call Daniel Web
ster Scruggs. He is what people call
"a funny man" He spends about half
the time he should devote to his official
duties thinking up conundrums, puns,
practical jokes and other disagreeable
things. When his fellow clerks find
mucilage in their ink bottles and
crooked pins in their chairs they al
ways bless ScruRgs, but he has been
warned by the chief of his division 80
many times that he is less humorous
In the Office nowadays than he used to
be. But at home, with his wife and
six children, there is no one to restrain
him, and the neighbors are good natur-
ed. Mrs. Scruggs is a patient, long
suffering woman, and says she's so
used to it" that she doesn't mind
him any more" She is nursing Scruggs
Just now with a devotion that shows
her genuine affection for the man who
has been a perpetual torment during
seventeen years of married life. For
Scruggs is a victim of his own humor.
About a week ago Scruggs conceived
the idea of shaving off his abundant
whiskers, and one evening after Office
hours, without saying a word about
his intention, left them on the floor of
a barber shop. When he got home he
thought he would have some fun with
the children. So he turned his coat
and hat inside out, let himself into the
hallway of his residence with q latch
key, and, launching up his shoulders
like a tough, made some queer noises.
The children rushed out of the sitting
room, followed by their dog, which is
about as big as a flour barrel, and
stoned with alarm as they saw what
thew supposed to be a tramp. But the
dog was not at all frightened. He
sprung at the stranger with an elo
auent growI, and in an instant he and
Scruggs were rolling over and over on
the hall floor. The children screamed,
and their mother came hurrying from
the kitchen. Scruggs shouted and
coaxed and swore, but the dog didn't
see the joke, and didn't recognize his
voice, and Mrs. Scruggs, and the oldest
boy we're a long time separating the
combatants.
They sent for the doctor, who eau
terized the wounds and bound them up
carefully. He says that SCruggs had
a narrow escape, and will not be able
to return to his duties for q fortnight.
The clerks In the office says that it was
good enough for him.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-06

Ninth-Ray machine. Taking this he
went to the window, scanned the
heavens for a few minutes, fixed it
upon the earth and babe him look:
He could hardly credit what he saw,
for before him was the college building
which @ few hours before he had left.
Now" said the President, ''let me
show you the other side of your
planet" Through the machine for the
refraction of the rays, he was soon
viewing the nation of China. The
machine was constructed on the prin-
ciple that light, in passing from a den.
scr to q rarer medium ia refractory
from the perpendicular.
The audience could no longer con,
tain themselves, but gave vent to their
amusement at his assumed wisdom
and real ignorance.
The conversation of the President
had been in the best Of English, while
his attendants spoke an unknown
tongue. In a bewildered way he asked
il the inhabitants Of Jupiter spoke the
English language.
The President smiled at his limo
cence, brought another machine, ar.
ranged an apparatus for shutting off
sound from the sides, and bade him to
listen: He could hear the voices of his
schoolmates, and through the ninth,
ray machine he could see them stand
ing around in little groups.
He inquired if any of the planets
might be viewed in this way, and for
answer the instrument was turned
upon Mercury. The scene of splendor
which met his eyes was one before
which the tropical beauties of our own
cline paled into insignificance. It was
q veritable hot house filed with sun
beams. The waters of their oceans
were 70 clear as the chrystaline pools
Of our tropical chimes; their mountains
covered to their SUBMITS with q
of surprising beauty"
There were seas of flowers extend
ing as far as the eye could reach DER
the plains, DER which fitted g~orgeously
colored butterflies, and here and there
a humming bird with its shimmering
.irredescent hues, slipped the nectar
from the flowers, but there was one
thing lacking mid all that seemed so
unto perfection: The race of men
it was little superior to the
brutes.
The instrument was turned upon the
planets one by one untilhe had viewed
them all, and then he continued in con-
.versRtion with his host for an hour
or more and in that time there was
revealed to him more of the truth az
ter which he had been seeking than he
had gained in all his college areer
Tnen, for the first time, he who had
felt himself without q peer, knew his
inferiority; he realized how little he
how much there was to be
known, he felt that he had only turned
one page in the massive volume of
= but suddenly there
swewt across the bosom of the lake
the college cheer uttered by a score of
boys-Rah! Rah! Rah! Rahl Rail-
. III! Rahl Rail- = Il = With a start
be awoke. 1t was only a dream.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-06

population had doubled in 20 years,
notWithstand numerous wars and a
constant stream of emigration.
From the ten milliards and q half
hectares that the land of the earth
measures, we must deduct the polar
regions, the steppes. the deserts, the
mountains that are covered with snow,
the roads, hollands which are rendered
unprOductive by industries and the sur
faces occupied by houses. After that
deduction We lind scarcely two mil
lisrds Of hectares of arabic land, from
which We must also deduct half a mil
lard hectares for the support Of ami,
mails. Therefore, according to Raven.
stein, the learned English geographer,
we shall be short of rations in 176
years.
II General Brialmont and Mr.. Raven
stein are anywhere near the mark,
they underestimate the danger. By
following their line of argument closely
we are brought to the conclusion that
the worlds population will be starved
out In less than a century, because it
is increasing now more rapidly than
ever before. The doctors, with their
microbe slaughtering serum, give no
show to honest plaques, and even
threaten consumption; the philoso.
piers, with their high toned theories,
will suppress wars; the reformers pro-
pose to find bachelors for the benefit
of future mothersin law; the preach
ers conspire against mortality, and
centenarians are on the increase
New York Sun.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-06
HIS DREADFUL VRN

I'''Vet-Did you hear OF the dread
's'enge rockingham took on Miss
D'lng when she refused his proposals.
deer What was it,
I,IVVet-He proposed to her mother,
1'S' DImling was a widow, and now
I' won't let a man come to the houge
""e Ills stepdaughter. Life.