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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17

don't know who Shylock vast cried
his father. go and read your Bible,
sir. Tit Bits.
Mexicans are not very fond of Span
iards, and jokes are constantly CROP
ping up in Mexico illustrative of the
arrogance of the Spanish character.
One now current in Mexico runs as fol-
lows: A Spanisrd arrived at Vera
Cruz and stepped ashore just as an
earthquake occurred. Putting on q
benign smile, he said: "Tremble not,
earth, I am not going to harm thee"
If the thought of getting married
You really will not drop,
Before you pop the question, you
Had better question pop.
"What is the best thing to raise in
such a rainy country as this, Mr..
FarmerG"
Umbrellas, b'goshl" - Harder's
Weekly.
"HoW still they are" remarked Mrs.
Fogg, apropos of the young couple in
the next room.
Eyes" replied Mr.. f.; ''it reminds
me of my army days. 1t was always
wonderfully quiet just previous to an
engagement. Transcript.
The Honorable Bob Fitz simmons
says he can trace his ~genealogy back to
biblical daye, and the wicked Post
thinks he must be a deecendent of the
Hitites. -Facts.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17
TWELVE RULES FOR PHYSICAL
DEVELOPMENT.

1. Stand erect, head up, chin in,
chest out, shoulders back" at short
intervals during the day. every time
you think of it in fact, and draw 10
long, deep breaths each time.
2. Walk about or run with from
5 lbs to 40 lbs weight on top of your
head.
8. Walk or stand with the hands
clasped tehind your head and your
elbows wide apart.
4 Make it a habit to keep the back
of the neck close to the back Of the
collar.
5. Try to look at the top of your
vest or your neck tie.
6. Stand now and then during the
day with all the ~posterior parts Of the
body as far as possible touching a YER
tlcal wall.
z. Practice the arm movements of
breast stroke swimming while stand
ing or walking.
8. Garry an umbrella or cane be-
hind the small of the back or behind
the neck.
9. Put the hands on the hips with
elbows back and fingers forward,
10. Walk with thumbs in the arm
holes of the vest.
II. Try to squeeze the shoulder
blades together many times a day.
10. Look upward when walking
Selected.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17
E. M. ANDREWS,
Largest DGa9r in Furniture, Carpets, Pianos and Organs in The State.
CHARLOTTE, N. c..

provided he makes no mistakes about
us-then he is a---
The editor ought not to make mis-
takes. No matter if he does try to
correct them we can't forget them.
The editor ought to know we are the
most important man in town and
ought to write his editorials accord
ingly.
The editor is a nuisance anyhow. It
he mentions my business he don't say
enough about it. If he mentions my
competitors in business he axegger,
ates.
Editors are entitled to no considera-
ton. Confound an editor, anyhow
Southern Tobacco onist.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17
THR EDITOR.

Anybody can edit a papeH-an op
portunity is all that is needed.
The editor ought to advertise our
business free more than he does.
He ought to huetle for more news
but has no right to try to collect dur
ing these hard times.
We knew how to edit a paper before
the editor was born. Heought to take
our advice.
He ought to mention our name. If
he does he is running the paper right,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17
HOUSEHOLD
scALLoPgD CORN AND TOMATOES.

SCALLOPED CORN AND TOMATOES.
Ia q we'll CREASED baking dish put
alternate layers of peeled and sliced
tomatoes, acraped corn. bread crumbs,
salt and pepper and a few bits of but
ter have the last layer crumbs. Bake
lin a moderate oven from forty-five
minutes to an hour, according to the
lumber of layers, and serve in the dish
in which it is baked.
LOBSTER CROQUETTEs
Chop fue the meat of a two pound
lobster. Take also two tablespoonfuls
Of butter, enough cream to make it
moist very NOISY, one egg, salt and
pepper to taste and half a tablespoon
full fJur. Cook butter and -four TO-
getber till they bubble, add the cream
there should be a scant half cupfuD,
then the lobster and seasoning, and
when hot, tie egg, well beaten. Set
away to cool. Shape, dip in egg and
cracker crumbs and fry.
CORN PUDDING
Score ard scrape from the cob one
pint OF corn. Cream one tablespoonful
OF butter, work into it one heaping
~teaspoontul of -four. n teaspoontul of
sugar, n teaspoonful of salt and one,
quarter Of a teaepoonful Of pepper.
Sir in slowly one cupful of milk, then
turn into the corn. Add the beaten
yolks of three eggs, then the whites
beaten to a stiff froth. Turn into a
shallow baking dish, we'll buttered, and
bake for twenty minutes in a quick
oven.
TO CAN TOMATOES WHOLE.
Drop the fruit into hot water to
loosen the skin. When the peel has
been removed, take out the stem end,
90 no green remains. Pack as many of
the peeled tomatoes in the jar as can
Dc put in, having them whole, if posi-
Ole, though any too large may be cut
INTO halves. Press the tomatoes as
closely together as possible without
breaking them. Turn over the packed
'fuIt boiling water, pouring it in slowly,
50 the liquid will run into all the little
GfeVlces, and allow the jar to overt flow
o5lore sCreWing on the fitted cover.
as each jar is filled with the boiling
water and covered, stand it in a tub,
UoAer or some large vessel that has
S0en filed With boiling water, having
VIC water deep enough to completely
S''er the jars. When all the jars are
= HAe water, cover the vessel holding
ISm with a rug or blanket and let it
GUAM until the water becomes cold.
'he Jars are taken from the water,
"soten the covers if they have loosen
NJ ~ out upon no account lift them eff.
muen the jars are opened to use the
fIa'oes the surplus water with the
may be drained out and not
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17

"She will never marry me-" Will
thought, ruefully, as he folded a long,
long letter, ''but she shall not be
cheated cut of what little happiness
life may etill hold for her.
He wrote, too. to Mrs. W~atkinson, a
letter that caused thatrespectable lady
to grind her teeth, but which she
obeyed, packing her trunk and accom-
panying Mary in her journey west
ward.
1t was Will Spencer who met the two
at the depot and accompanied them to
the clearinghouse. where he kept Mrs.
Watkirs0n in the parlor after sending
Mary upstairs alone. 1t was Will
Spencer who smoothed away every diff
fculty, engaging rooms for mother and
daughter, and quietly efacing him
self.
It was far too long a story to try to
record the three months that followed.
Lee Rowland was resolute on one point.
He would not marry Mary. He had
no hope Of recovery, but it the unex-
pected should happen he would not
risk running Mary's life by binding it
to his.
"Oh," she would cry, 'what am 1 to
deserve the love of two such menG
Mother, il humbles me to think how
they love meI'
And by this love her courage was
sustained through the three months,
when che and her mother smoothed
Lee Rowland's path to the grave. Such
happiness as could be hers, she knew
that she owed to Will Spencer, who
showed his love only by his care of the
invalid. He never spoke of love to her,
giving her up entirely, but upon her
lover he lavished every kindness
wealth could procure, or friendship
dictate. He gave him a brothers de-.
votion until the last parting came, and
when he was laid in the cemetery Will
Spencer took Mary and Mrs. Watkin,
son back to their home and left them.
It was two years later when he came
home from a South American tour and
called on Mrs. Watkinson.
1.-THE old lady, sir, is Dead" the
servant told him, an Miss Mary livin'
in Kimball street. Maybe yes didn't
hear she's come into some money from
her uncle, cir, and Mrs. Dill, she's took
this house, sir"
Come into some money Well, she
did not need him. He would wait
awhile. But in a few daysa little note
reached him:
1T was unkind to let me hear of your
return by accident. Will you not
come to see me9"
Would he not7 And when he went
he could not keep the love OUT Of his
voice., and she-at last! Her eyes
dropped under his gez9, her checks
blushed for him, her voice faltered,
with tenderness he had won his brIdeI
And he had no secret hidden from her
loving eyes, no treachery he would
dread to have her discover. By the
frankness he had thought would
ALLEVIATE her forever he had won her
true, faithful love, q devotion as entire
as that she had given in her girlhood
to the man he had &C nobly befriended.
Elk.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17
FUN.

Weary Raggles: I hope Satan won't
git hold o. me in de mex world.
Wandering Willie: Why so, pard9
Weary Raggles: Cause he's de
bloke what finds work for idle hands
to do.
"Pa, who was shylockY" "Great
goodness boyI You attend church
and Sunday school every week, and
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17
LITTLE OF BOTH.

D1roe-"Sis was banging of fire
On | : on the Fourth and set her frizz9s
"a 'NlEOr-"You mean she was firing
Yang works, do you not3"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17

1t costs q great deal Of money to run
paper like The Progressive Farmer.
. goa ON anything, send the mOneV
Don't SOGGt until tomorrow.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-07

bring their families over from Havana at
an early date.
The case of Mcintosh, captain of the
Vamoose, has been settled at Miami by
agreement of Capt. Denny not to push the
case, for which he receives a considera-
ton of $50. Mcintosh agrees TO plead
guilty to the charge and rely on the leni-
ency of the court 1t is reported that Nc
lntosh has been relieved of his command,
and his successor is on his way from New
York to take charge of the Namoose. The
captain was accused of assault.
Henry Schmidt of Porto Principe. Cuba,
arrived at Fort Meade via Tampa on Mon
day Mr. Schmidt has been engaged in
the cattle business in Cuba for forty-four
years, but was compelled TO leave on ac-
count OF the spanish troops. He says
that If he remained there much longer the
Spanish would have ruined all he had,
Notwithstanding the fact that he was a
German citizen. He is greatly pleased
with the outlook for tobacco growing here
and intends putting in twenty or thirty
acres as a starter"
The residence of Manuel Rodriguez, who
lives in Fort Brooke Tampa, near Pons
& Co.'S cigar factory was entered and
robbed Tuesday night. Everything that
Guiding. considerable jewelry. After the
house had been ransacked, the villains
who committed the outrage went to a bed
occupied by Rodriguez's two little girls
who had been sleeping soundly while the
house was pillaged, saturated IL with oil
and set fire to 1T. The children were awak-
ened by the flames, and their screams
brought assistance, and the fire was ex-
tingushed.
The three mutinous sailors who were ar
rested on the United States training ship
Chase Wednesday, were given a hearing
before United States Commissioner Crane
and i'm default of bond were sent TO TAI. TO
await trial next Tuesday before Judge
Crane The men claim that they have
been very unjustly treated. They say
that the charge of mutiny against them
has no other foundation than the fact that
they did not wish to work longer on the
Chase, and asked for a transfer to some
other part of the service, and that this
they had a perfect right 10 do at any time
They are anNiously awaiting the day for
their trial. and believe that the judge will
turn them loose, and that they will get
The transfer that fhgV desire
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-07

TOptupiilg
Rheumatism.

Tke busiest and most useful me1
are not always exempt from sickness.
Especially are they liable to be at
tackled and completely disabled by that
most annoying and painful ailment-
Rheumatism. Men in all walks of life
are subject at any time to be seized
with this disease, and besides the great
bodily pain, there is almost unbearable
mental anguish at the thought of hav-
ing ones strength and vigor gradually
supp1anted by a condition of utter
helplessness. Under the effects of
Rheumatism, the strongest men be-
come the weakest, and the most useful
are robbed of their usefulness.
Mr.. J. A. LeSeur has lived in At
1anta, Ga, for years, and some of the
prettiest residences and most substan-
tia1 business blocks of that city are
monuments to his skil1 as an architect
and builder.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-07

blame, the cities and towns and counties
and individuals who were ready to mort
gage the future to help along the work
In large measure the wind and the
water and the fraud have been squeezed
out of these properties. In their place
new and honestly acquired capital in the
shape OF enforced loans from bondhoders
and forced assessments of stockholders
has been invested. Foreclosures, the sher-
iff and the courts have wiped out much
of the inflated values and new capital
with reorganization for business. purposes
has followed. Surely no one will deny
that the consolidation and changes. say
OF the last decade, have been beneficial.
mere is more uniform action than ever
Defore. Better business principles prevail.
Inc public has never been so well and
SO cheaply served as now. Considering
the hard times, the discharges, the re-
ouced time, there has never existed bet
Ter 1eellng between the railway employe
ana the officer than at present The loss
OF $lO0,OOO,O0O income in five wears must
nave been staggering blow. A contin-
uauon OF this sort of thing would simply
destroy much OF our wealth and arrest
the progress of the republic. 1t is i'm
portant that the people of the United
states should realize this situation. The
iacts herein brought out should be borne
IN mind in any discussion of the railway
problem, whether for the purpose of state
legislation, for the modification of our
interstate commerce act, or for the pur-
pose OF giving additional employment and
more steady wages to the million that
should be directly employed our rail-
way system, ana to the val hum
ureus OF thousands who. normal
conditions, should be kept busy in the al
lied industries. To ignore these facts will
work great injury and place additional
obstacles in the way of a return to pros
perity.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-07

But like many other busy men, Mr..
LeSeur was overtaken by Rheumatism
and soon his strength gave way to a
condition of he1plessness. This dread
disease produces more agony, he says,
than can well be described. "For
years / have suffered with Sciatic
Rheumatism and often felt as if
small piece of my spine had been
taken out, also as if a fragment of
bombshell had passed through my left
hip. When l would sit down, could
not straighten up for several minutes,
and then only at the expense of great
pain. l could get absolutely no relief,
though many remedies were tried.
Someone recommended S. S. S. and I
was almost i'll despair when began it's
use. In three days, however, l was
so greatly relieved that l felt very
little inconvenience from the rheuma-
tism. The disease grew less painful
as l continued the S. S. S., and very
soon disappeared entirely. S. S. S.
also proved to be a fine tonic, as 1 now
have more appetite, and feel better
than ever before, in my life. cannot
say too much in praise of S. S. S."
Rheumatism is a condition of the
blood which has always baff1ed the
doctors, and it is a popularity that
those who once have it are sure to al
ways be subject to its attacks from
time to time. The reason of this is
that the doctors are only able to give
temporary relief, but cannot rid the
system of the disease permanently.
S. S. S. guaranteed purely Uegetdble) is
the only real blood remedy for real
blood troubles, such as Rheumatism,
Scrofu1a, Cancer, Eczema, Catarrh,
letter, Contagious Blood Poison, etc.
When S. S. S. once forces a disease
from the system it never returns. Our
valuable books will be mailed free to
any address. Swift Specific Co., At
lanta, Georgia
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-07
A Ncgro Colony I'm Mnine.
From the Lewiston journal.

Unlike most of the African settlements
IN Maine, the negro colony at Warren did
not originate from the underground rail
road or the anti-slavery proclamation; It
antedates from Names admission to the
union, and sprung from a single colored
man named Amos Peters. who came from
Plymouth, Mass, in 1857 or thereabout
and his wife Sarah, "a slave from Guinea
The progeny OF this pair had Increased To
eighty people In 1880, but their numbers
have since dwindied down TO fifty. They
became successful farmers their flocks
and herds increased, and one of them ac-
cumulated q fortune Of 5000 They have
been good citizens on the whole the burg
lar, Joseph Henry, recently sent 10 prison
being the illustrious decadent OF "A Ions
line of honest and industrious Petersese
the mischief, perhaps, being due to the no.
tvs white blood in years agone.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-07

of the safeguards against accident usually
provided, thus materially increasing the
danger to life and property. The expenses
due to handling traffic and moving trains
are much less elastic than those incurred
Tor keeping up the quality of track roll
ing stock and signalling apparatus; and
when depleted revenues enforce upon rails
way managers the necessity of Immediate
retrenchment, the latter are most likely
to suffer-"
The interstate commerce commission
statistics show that this is just what did
happen, and that in one year of great re-
trenchment over 81 per cent. of the re-
auctions were taken from expenditures
incident to the maintenance of way,
structures and equipments, though these
combined constituted less than 81 per
cent. of the total cost of operation.
The following table shows clearly that
rates are being steadily reduced:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-07
A QUEENS FIRST ball.
social Debut of the Young Ruler Os
Netherlands
From the Phlladelnhia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
The young Queen of Netherlands re-
Gently attended her first ball, an epoch
IN the life of every girl. The great ball
room in the royal castle, at S'Gravenhage,
was brilliant in a sea of light floating
over glittering uniforms and rich ball
dresses and jewels. Nobody who was per-
mtted to appear at court stayed at home
on this occasion, and like wall the in
Vitcd guests stood at both sides OF the
narrow passage leading to the throne
chairs. Begging and imploring, the cour1
marshal hurried through the ranks, and
Kept this small path open for the queens,
and about ? o'clock they put i'm an APP
pearance. Amid the hourishing of trum-
PETS ana the stentorian announcement
they entered the room. Dead stiffness
felgned, interrupted only by the rustlins
OF the dresses OF the deeply-bowing LADIES'
ana that made by the queens and tnelr
suite entering Queen Wilhelmina looked
truly charming. She wore "A simple white
SILK dress adorned only with few white
roses fastened on the left shoulder. lnS
only 1ewelry she wore were strings oI
diamonds braided through her blonde halIs
the briliancy of which was, however on
set by the happiness and pleasant EXPIRE
sion of her youthful round face. VIM
hundreds crowded to the throne to obtal1
the honor of being presented 70 the vouhS
queen, she looked several times over M
that small part OF the ball room Wheto
some deyotees of the art attempted %
dance. Shortly after her arrival quad
rifle OF honor" was danced. Queen WI,
helmina arose and danced this quadtll,9
with the Russian ambassador, de StruNe,
as the oldest representative OF the dlplOr
matte corps. The same honor was Ell
tended to the chief of the military caplT
net, Count de Monceau. Another recell
ton at the throne followed, the saIls
crowding OF the people present 70 Opel
an exit for the queen occurred, am
through the narrow pathway the youns
queen left the ball room with her mothe..
after experiencing for the first time VIZ
pleasure which young girls SO inlpauehuA
aWait-their first ball
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-07


And a further reduction for 1876.
With the exception of 1894, passenger
rates reached their lowest in 1895 while
freight rates. save small rally in 1892
are steadily coming down. When COM
pared with foreign countries, our rates
are indeed low. 1t is said that if the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company could Sc
cure the same rates as the London and
Northwestern Company, the annual earn
ings would be increased $12O000OO Mr.
George r. Blanchard, in his recent testi-
mony before the interstate commerce
committee of the Senate, said that had
our railways collected the lowest of the
European charges, we would have receiv-
ed $S7O,O00,000 more than we did receive
This calculation was based on the figures
of 1892. The figures of 1896 which ara
lower for the United States, would make
a greater difference.
The impartial student of these data must
be struck with the necessity of CONNER
cial as well as industrial reconstruction.
The census reports of 1880 and 1890 and the
statistics of the interstate commerce COM
mission, all of which are uniform, together
with the valuable reports of II. V. Poor,
give us material on which to base a thor
ough inquiry. The presidents and other
officers who have charge of these great
properties should be accorded the same
opportunity to be heard as the manufac-
turing Industries. so iaf as can learn
there is no desire on the part of railway
managers to generally raise rates. There
Is, however, widespread belief that rock
bottom prices have been reached, and
that anything, even the merest shade low
er, would be absolutely runous. The
people of the United States, including the
million who should be directly engaged IN
transportation, the shippers and manu-
facturers, might as well realize now as
when destruction has set in, that our rail-
way system cannot lose another S15O.OO0 go
of income in ten years-an average of Sl5-
100000 per annum-without sweeping down
with 1t the very interests which sustain
these roads. The fact is, another twist
or so in the downward direction will sim
ply kill the goose that lays the golden
eggs. When the revenues of railways are
sufficient to keep up the properties, to pay
the legitimate interest, to give even a
small return on the stock, to pay Ameri-
can wages to the employees, to give en-
ployment to an increasing number Of Deo-
pie instead of to lesser number, allied
industries must langulsh. And the indus
tries dependent upon railways are numer-
Gus and take a wide range.
The case against the railways is n fanil-
lar one. Those who realize these new con-
ditions have no excuses or apologies for
past mismanagement, nor for the methods
by which some OF these roads We're built
Whatever may be said Of those who built
railways FAR In advance OF population. or
for purposes other than legitimate trade
we have, on the other hand, equally 10