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The record-union., 1898-08-01
American Week
Kitchen Utensels

Knife sets. Bread, cake and par
ing knives. with serrated edge;
price, for complete set of 3 knives.
American week, special --15 cts
Flat irons. Seven-pound fiat irons.
best made. American week, spe-
cial --22 cts
Kettles. Enameled round kettles,
with wire bail; hold quarts. Amer
lean week. special 30 cts
Shelf paper. Fancy embossed lace
shelf paper; pink, white, yellow and
blue; regular price, 10 yards for D
cts. American week, special
80 yards for 10 cts
Wash boards. Small wash boards,
good, hard wood and zinc Amer
lean week, special -5 cts
Freezers Two-quart White Mount
ain ice cream freezers; very linn
tied number; the best make. Amer
lean week, special > 40
White enameled sauce pans; three
different sizes; all go at nearly half
price. American week, special
-25 cts each
Dish pans. Granite steel dish
pans; best quality steel enamel;
14-quart size. American week, spe-
cial --47 cts
Tea kettles Granite steel tea ket-
ties, with fiat bottoms that will fit
any stove; regular price 63 cts.
American week, special As cts
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American Week
ROCkerS-Chairs

Upholstered reception chair The
greatest bargain Of the week. A
superb upholstered parlor chair;
frame Of solid oak finished in an
tique, or birch in imitation mahog-
any; upholstered in figured tapes
try, with silk plush trimmings;
colors light blue, olive, mahogany.
old rose, myrtle green; also has
spring edge. American week, spe-
cial. -$Z.Oo
Cobbler seat rocker. A handsome,
comfortable rocker, with leather
seat, beaded spindles, embossed
back and high arms; made of elm,
but finished in perfect imitation OF
oak. Regular price S2.15. Ameri-
can week, special. "$I.Io
Reclining chairs. Canvas, reclin-
ing, pine frame; adjustable to any
hight. Regular price 50 cts. Amer
lean week, special. "6S cts
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A SAD CASE.
Unhappy End Of a Bride Of But a
Few Months.

A few nights ago man named D. A.
Lake was arrested on the report Of
neighbors who said that he had while
drunk, thrown or pulled from her bed
his wife who was very low from typhoid
fever.
1t was learned on Saturday that Lake
did not go to that extremity, although
he did make a great row in the house
and attracted the neighborhood. He
was released on his promise to keep
sober and attend to his sick wife He
kept his promise by filling up again.
That same night the poor woman
was called to her final rest and while
friends and neighbors were trying to
smooth her pathway through the
shadows of the dark valley her hus-
band was taking in the town. Mrs.
Lake was 80 years of age, and had been
married but about seven months:
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Her Answer.

Its all nonsenSei" exclaimed the
man who is usually out of the house at
night and out of temper in the morn
ing.
What do you mean?" inquired his
wife, who can smile while she speaks
firmly.
This idea of rolling eggs
"Of course dear; but let the children
have their little pleasures. In the
course of time they will grow up and
realize the superior intellectual devel-
opment to be attained by rolling wood
en- balls down a bowling alley
Try McMorry's 45c tea 531 M.
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American Week
Baby Coaches

Our regular $3.50 Baby Coaches.
reduced during this sale for the first
time; reed body; upholstered In
Victoria cretonne; steel wheels and
rubber tires; parasol of silk-finished
ribbon cloth, lined with silesia; deep
scalloped ruff1ed edge; a bargain at
the regular price; a gift at this
weeks figure. American week. spe-
cial. "$o.oo
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Hotel Arrivals.

Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hote
yesterday: f. w. Fusinon, Chicago;
Charles Wood, I. H. Ward, Oakland
Mrs. j. E. Wood, Stockton; c. c. Hop
kins, Abe Arnheim, r. F. Allen, NJ. w
Davis, r. A. Alexander. r. w. Wood
ford, San Francisco; L. c. Morehouse
San Leandro; j. 7. Burke, San Rafael;
A. 2. Maginnis, Los Angeles.
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State law prohibiting the killing OF
more than a given number in one day,
and such law should be enacted at
the meeting of the next Legislature The
man who cannot be satisfied with MS
days sport until he has killed every
thing in sight, from morn till might,
may be pleased to call himself Sports
man, but in fact he is nothing but
game hog, and should have his propen-
sites for slaughter restrained by law
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Not at Gebert's Place.

1t was stated yesterday that w. z.
Morline and G. Hodge engaged in a row
the day before at Twentieth and o
streets. Jacob Gebert, proprietor of
the saloon there, states that the men
had their fight block distant from his
place.
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Open-air Concert.

The City Plaza was crowded last
night by men, women and children. at
tracted thither by the choice program
of selections announced by Conductor
G.. c. Holbrook Of the Foresters' Band.
The concert was greatly enjoyed from
the first sweep Of the conductors wand
to the close
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American Week
Carpets

Half wool Union 3-ply Ingrains,
a heavy and durable carpet, made
on the same looms as our standard
extra grade 2-ply. Latest designs
floral, scroll and block-and fash
ionable colors. Regular price 70 cts.
American week, special.
SIS cts yd sewed and laid
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American Week
Rugs

Best body Brussels Rugs. Made
from our very best grade or BODY
Brussels carpets; unusually hand
some patterns and colorings; size
22ala inches wide by 3 feet . inches
long. Regular prices S1.OO and SLID
each. American week, special.
Zach rs cts
Smyrna Rugs. Genuine Smyrnas
are these rugs, alike on both sides;
in handsome Oriental effects; size
1S by SO inches. Regular price Sl.OO.
American week, special.
Each 80 cts
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Painful Accident.

While cleaning his bicycle Charles
Murray of 1916 p street had one of his
fingers badly lacerated yesterday by
having it caught between the chain and
sprocket. The end of the finger was
nearly severed
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During this sale doors will be open
for business at 7:3O a. M, to give all
a chance to trade in the cool of the
morning.
Remember - These special prices are
positively for American week only.
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Children's Society.

The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children meets this evening
at City School Superintendent Erie
wines office-the directors at Z, and the
society at O'Clock
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MunyOn' 5 Headache and Indigestion Cure

is the only remedy on the market that
will cure every form of Headache in to
10 minutes, correct Indigestion, stimu-
late the nerves and build up the system.
1t should be in every home and every
travellers gripsack. At all Druggists. 25
cures 25c
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Third Ward Republicans.

This evening the Third Ward Repub-
lican Club will hold a. high jinks at its
headquarters on Fifth street, between
n and o. A rare good time Is prom
iSad
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American Week
ChinaWare

Carlsbad china bread and butter
plate. Decorated with small moss
roses; assorted colored borders;
gold tracings. American week. spe-
cial. -15 cts each
Carlsbad china mush bowls. AS
sorted decorations; very pretty.
American week, special.
10 cts each
Carlsbad china sugars and cream
ers. Odd shapes; assorted decora-
tions; regular price % cts. Amer
lean week, special.
-15 cts each
Carlsbad china decorated black
coffee cups and saucers; assorted
decorations and shapes. American
week, special. liz cts each
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American Week
Sofa Pillows

Wonderful inducements in sofa
and porch pillows: prices that
you'll never see again.
Porch pillows Of soft, figured mat
ting, cool and clean, that were 90
cts; reduced to 40 cts.
SOFA PILLOWS
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Chocolate is still used in the interior
of South America for currency, as are
coocanuts and eggs.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

BAKER & HAMILTON, wholesale hard
ware, bicycles, carts. buggies. carriages,
phaetons, Balm farm and header wagons.
Send for catalogue.
has been used for over fifty years by mill
ions of mothers for their children while
teething with perfect success. It sootnes
cures wind collie, regulates the bowels. and
is the best remedy Tor diarrhea, whether
sale by druggists In every part Of the
world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Wins
lows Soothing Syrup. Twenty-Five cents
q bottle. MWks
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Mills College and Seminary.

GRANTS DIPLOMAS AND CONFEHSS %
degrees. Seminary course accredited to
University. Rare opportunities offered IN
music. One hours ride from san fTam- y,
MILLS. President. Nils College Postof-
flee, Alameda County, Cal. Thirty-Secohd
year. Fall term opens August 8, 1885,
iY14-2W4n
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LIST OF LETTERS

Remaining in the Postoffice at Sacra-
mento, August /, 1898:
LADIES' LIST
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American Week
Curtainings

Silkolines. Our entire stock of
dainty summer silkOlines, sold
throughout this entire season at 10
cts and II cts the yard. American
week, special.
IS 1-3 cts the yard
French cretonnes. Entire assort-
ment, SO inches wide, reduced from
% cts the yard to American week,
special, -1212 cts the yard
Silk stripe curtains. Light weight,
and just the thing for summer;
dainty as well as heavy, strong
colorings.
American week
special.
10 pairs, cut from $500 to S2.65
10 E" $50 to 3S5
@ 6.T5 to 4.40
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NEW TODAY.

THIRD WARD REPUBLICAN CLUB
high jinks THIS EVENING, at club
rooms. Fifth, between 0 and p it,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-03
USE OF FER rILIZRRS.

Prof Martin P. Scott in Southern
States Farm Magazine, of Baltimore,
for February:
You cannot, by the uSe of CONNER
cial fertilizers alone, make your land
rich Indeed, if they are ignorantly
applied, the result will be the impov.
erishment of the soil If you add $40
to your bank account and check out
$40, you know the result. In like
manner, when you use small quan
tlty of your fertilizer, it grows a Wig
orous plant, which enables it to gather
fertility from the soil largely in excess
of the materials added by the fertilizer.
JudIciously used, they are a great
boon to the farmer. But, I repeat, the
best method of using the phosphRtes
and potash salts is on the pea and
clover crops. It ensures. as a rule, q
fine crop of these renovators."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-03

It is a mistake to let the pastures
grow up to a mixture of brush and
worthless wood. The owner Ghould
decide at once whether it is worth
while to clear if off for pasture. If mot
let him do the next best thing, which
is either to plant it to orchard trees or
some valuable timber or nut tree. A
field of pitch pines for instance, al
though it will not mature for 40 years,
will even when half grown cause the
land to sell for much more than if left
to brush, says an exchange.
Apple trees can be grown on such
land, although it is rather slow work.
But anything profitable is better than
the mixture of scrub oak, brush and
berry bushes usually found on such
land.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-03
aORTICULTUBE,
A STUDY OF THE TREE.

If you wish to become thoroughly
acquainted with the trees mode OF
growth the first thing of Importance
to keep in view is the function of the
''cambian Iayer"-the soft, spongy
substance lying between the wood
proper and the bark. The PUPPY, por-
GUS substance is in reality a tissue
of minute calls, visible only under the
microscope, and apparently of the
same size and shape in any given vari
ETY. of tree. The cells lying nearest the
bark contribute e permanent accration
to the trees covering, while those
which lie nearest the wood slowly
change from ''cambian layer" to real
wood fiber. In this way the bark be
comes thicker each year, and at the
same time the tree itself is permanent
ly enlarged. In the spring and early
summer the bark on all the trees is. to
q certain extent, loosened to permit
the cambian layer exercising it's func-
tions, and when this wholly ceases the
result is manifest in the ''ring" Of new
wood and the main layer of newly
formed inner bark.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-03
A FARMERS TRUST.

Because Southern farmers are trying
to make combination to control the
acreage and marketing of cotton, g
great howl has gone up from the'met
ropolitan press. They say it will be
the biggest trust of all, If this scheme
to limit the product and fix the price
of col ton succeeds. We observe that
this anti-trust talk is very loud in GER
tain papers whenever farmers try to
help themselves, but such journals
keep still when the big corporations
are putting on the screws. If there
ever was body of people who needed
TO look after their own interests it is
the cotton planters. They can't and
won't organize trust, but they can do
agood deal to improve their conditions.
The high price Of cotton for the past
two years has had it's logical result in
an increased acreage, an immense crop
and the loves values on record. We
hope that the present high prices for
wht at will not lead to similar overpro
dUction and consequent low prices
within year or two, though we con-
TESS to fears in this direction.-Farm
and Home.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-03
BACH MAN A STUDENT.

Prof. Charles r. Vanderford, in
Southern States Farm Magazine of
Baltimore for February:
One of the frat things to be done
whenever the farmer will set about
permanent improvement of his lands
is to prevent surface washing. In the
laying off, for planting, in the direc
tion of the longer burrows when break
ing the land and which will allow a
modified system Of terraces or of sur
face drains must be so directed as to
catch the surface waters and deliver
them at the foot Of the slope by q gen
tle descent of not more than one foot
to five hundred-one inch to forty feet
of drain. There must be careful con
sideration in advance and equally care
full execution of plans adopted. 1t is
best that all of the rain shall percolate
into the land upon which it falls and
that it shall not flow upon the surface.
This is rarely possible in the open fields,
even under the best conditions; but
there should be endeavor in this direc
tion, not only for the conservation of
plant food, but to lessen the injury to
the physical condition Of the soil which
always comes from the rapid move
ment of overflow waters. Wherever
upon nearly level lands Except, of
course, the small areas of alluvials
subject to overflow, the rain waters
submerge the fields and remain stand
ing for hours, or for days, as the writer
has seen in the red clay sections, at the
fret opportunity the under soil should
be deepened. The use of the sub soil
pIow in midsummer or early fall is
here indicated as the next best thing
TO thorough underdrainage.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-03
REAL BLUE GRASS.

One of the standing jokes of the blue
grass region is the fact that ''blue
grass" is green. People who visit the
famous rlcl grazing country found in
kentucky ere often the subject for
jokes when they want the ''blue grass"
pointed out. But there is blue grass,
a sample of which can be found grow
ing at the Department of Agriculture,
which is as blue as cloudless sky on
a summer day. 1t is a native Of the
Apache country. 1t can be found all
through New Mexico and in some of
the aoj0ining states. It is known as
the Apache blue grass. It has broad
spear and grows a couple Of feet ia
height, A field covered with il looks
like lake in which has been dumped
a barrel of indigo It is said to be one
of the most beautiful sights of the
Southwest to view great fields of this
blue grass, dotted here and there with
flowers. Especial attention has been
paid to the cultivation of a patch of
this grass at the Department Of Agri
culture, where it grows luxuriantIy,
and is one of the interesting sights to
all visitors to the grounds Of that de
partment. Washington Star.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-03
HOW TO SET our TRRRs.

In preparing to set out trees, shrubs,
vines, etc, hole should be dug large
and deep, q foet at least larger than tne
natural spread OF the roots, from the
feet that a tree or anything set out
should grow a year or two in good
loan before it runs its roots into the
original gravelly material; otherwise
it's progress in growing is apt to be
very slow and sickly looking, If it lives
at all. When settiag out tree, shrub
or vine-in fact anything of size
the loan should not be shoveled
in in body, for any person can
see that in this way it cannot be air
tight. Around the roots the loam
should be very carefully shaken in,
and at the same time using water,
which will make a porridge of the loan
so it can be carried into the least hole,
crack or crevice, and thus it is made
air tight around every fiber, which,
the reader can see, is of great import
ance for the tree to start right way
and so continue to grow right along.
Trees often die from the eff, Cts OF be-
ing set out in a hurry and the roots
bent and cramped into a post hole.
Anyone setting out trees in this way
should wear boot or shoe few days,
two sizes too small so it may cramp his
toes; then he can pity the tree that has
it's roots cramped and bent to ft q
small hole Wood ward.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-03
WHEAT AND CORN.

The New York Journal of Commerce,
comparing these two important crops,
says:
From no point of view can wheat
be regarded as the peer of maize, ex
cept that it realizes a higher price.
The corn crop occupies 80, OOO, 600 acres; ;
wheat only "a 600, 900 acres. The guam
tity Of the product of corn now aver
ages about 1000 600, 900 bushels; that
of wheat about 45O, 600 coo bushels;
while the value of the former aver
ages $500, OOO. 900 and of the latter on
an average from 1890 to 1895, only
$500 O0O, 600. True, the exports Of
wheat reach a much higher value than
those of corn, the average valuation OF
the former, for the six years 1890 to
1895, having been $157 600, 600 and Of
the latter only $6O,OOO,OO But, in
this branch of the trade, corn is fast
gaining upon wheat, the exports for
the first nine months of the current
year having amounted in value to
$47. 600, 900, while the shipments of
wheat and -four are valued at $95, ,O0O,-
600; in making this comparison, how
ever. it is to be remembered that this
year our wheat exports have been ex.
traordinary both in quantity and
market value.
I'm the economy Of domestic con-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-03
SWEET APPLES.

It does not cost half as much to cul
tivate an acre of fruit as an acre Of
potatoes or corn; while the amount oh
tanned is greater than either, and all
ready for the table without going
through the process which the grain
crop requires, Of threshing and win
moving, and grinding, and kneading
and baking. By planting rich, highly
favored apples for stewing and for
pies, instead of poor ones, each family
may save from fifty to two hundred
pounds of sugar annually, in sweeten-
ing and in Spices. A friend Of ours,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-03
OBJECT LEssoN TO FARMERS

There are some few farmers to be
found who make an independent living,
despite the hard times and the low
price of cotton. One of them is Mr.
Thomas Ritter, of Carter's Mills, this
county. Mr.. Ritter is Sc years of age
and has a family of fourteen children
He has farmed all his life and has
never bought bushel of corn, pound
of bacon, a pound of -four or pound
of anything else that can be raised on
the farm, but has always kept these
things on hand for sale. He never owed
any man cent and never buys any
thing from the store except coffee and
sugar and such other things as he can't
raise at home. He has fat horses, hogs,
COWS and poultry and his table is al
ways furnished with the very best that
a good farm can furnish. He raised
one bale of cotton this year and says
that it makes little difference with him
whether it is five or ten cents pound.
Mr.. Ritter reads the newspapers and
keeps we'll posted in regard to current
topics. The secret Of his success as a
farmer is that he raises all his own sup
plies and pays little attention to cot
ton. The country would be better of
IL we had more farmers like Mr. Ritter.
He has brother who has been equally
as successful as farmer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-03
LIVE SEoCE
A PLEA FOR PURe.BRED STOCK.


The great mistake in the average
Southern farm to day is in the breed
ing Of scrub stock of all descriptions
instead OF thoroughbreds. It set ms
that great number of Southern farm
ers have a perfect mania for scrubs
and crosses even when thoroughbreds
have been purchased Of some noted
breed and strain, the characteristic Of
which took years and generations to
establish The prepotency ia soon lost
by this Unsuitable desire to Cross breed.
There was never bigger blunder or
mistake made, and / now enter my
protest against scrub COWS and razor
backs in favor of pure-bred stock of all
description. The scrub COW may be
valuable in the range, and the rszor
back, when he often has chance for
life only because he has the qualities
that enable him to outrun a nigger.
But the conditions that may have war
ranted their existence in the past, have
gradually given away before the inten-
sIve and modern methods of farming
in the South. Let me further protest
against scrub and crosses by reasoning
little from common. sense view of the
matter. Suppose you take 'Guern-
sey," that for generations has been
bred and selected for the sole purpose
of making butter, and Cross with
Shorthorn that has for an equal length
of time been bred for the sole purpose
OF making beef. Note the result two
opposite qualities in one individual
the calf will usually lean toward the
sin or vein that the greatest pre-
potency powers and no one can tell the
result of an animal that is bred with
two conflicting heredities.
By the merest chance you may get
good individual from the first cross,
but the chances are greatly against
you but continue TO breed from crosses,
it makes no difference whether horses,
COWS or swine or what the breeding is,
or how long the pedigree, the ultimate
results will be the same, and the
further you continue to cross breeds,
the further you get from the blood of
the original parent and the nearer you
get to ''simon pure scrub" You are
simply going backwards. We can
never hope to combine in any animal
all the good characteristics Of all the
other breeds. That little trick has
TnonrTrTI-n or pAanRl