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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-22

bone and that I had been looking
straight through my bones.
I wore a medium sized gold ring,
but could tell I had it on only by the
shadow it made on either side of my
finger. This caused me to get my
purse and I found I could see through
silver, nickel and copper coins quite
easily. I then looked through a pen
Gil and a full box of matches. Though
all I could see the fringe on the win
dow shade and the branches of trees
on the outside.
viii some one please tell why this
is so?
They say there are farms in Flor
ida; I am not sure. I only know there
is none on the route of the S. A. L.,
and I have been twenty miles north
and twenty miles south in this county,
and though I have seen groves and
patches" I have seen not a farm.
People live on "store rations' almost
exclusively. When they kill a hog
they have to cut out all the bones.
Imagine how nice a ham is after it is
treated sol
The first evening I came here my
aunt carried me into the dining room
to give me something to eat. At the
door a horrid smell met me and [
started back.
[ always speak before I think, so I
asked her what that was sinking?
She looked quite surprised for an in
slant, then laughed and said she sup
posed it was guavas. There was a
dish, in the center of the table, piled
high with this pretty fruit. While
she was setting out something for me
to eat, she told me several good jokes
about Northerners and guavas.
At first I thought it was a scheme
to keep me from eating that they keep
that dish of raw guavas on the table
and had cooked ones most every day,
but gradually they began to smell nice
and to taste better, and now I like
them better than [ do most fruits.
My husband said that once he set
some Georgia boys up to guavas and
they almost mobbed him.
[ watched with interest the papaw
trees, their straight bodies with
"eyes" where the long leaves Chat look
like huge okra or castor bean leaves),
had fallen off, and the pretty umbrel-
la top with a "melon" hanging just
above every leaf. I thought they
would never get ripe, but one day [
noticed that one had turned a golden
all over and I ran in and re-
ported. Uncle got it down and I cut
it up and peeled it for dinner. The
seed were small and black and we're
sticking to the inside which was hoI-
It weighed several pounds. It
was not so good as [ thought it would
be, but [ could eat it, and each one got
better than the last.
About Christmas there came a
light frost and the beautiful trees
their loads Of fruit we're killed.
They say this fruit will cure the worst
case of dyspepsia, and that a tough
steak wrapped in one of it's leaves
over night will be found tender in the
morning.
My letter has grown too long apd I
nave only started. The next time I'll
say more about what we get to eat.
MARGARET.
Manatee Co., Fla.
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Al FIVE O'CLOCK TEA.

$50 glad to see your
"Ah, thanks"
$50 good of you to comet"
$50 good of you to ask me to
come"
GAS if I could get along without
you'll The obligation is all on my
side"
"How sweet of you to say SOP
"Now, I want you to meet Mrs.
Slambang. Mrs. Slambang, let me
present to you my deah friend, Mrs.
Unbelievable"
$50 glad to know you, Mrs. Slam
bang! I have so often heard deah
Mrs. Sweet speak of you hat I feel
quite as if I knew you. Beautiful
day, isn't it?
."Chawming"
"What a lovely wintah We are hav-
ing"
"Chawming! So very, very gay,
isn't it~
ooh, very gay! Haven't I met you
at Mrs. Filters tease"
81 daresay you have. Isn't she a
deah?"
ooh, I am extravagantly fond of
her!"
"I am too. SO clevah"
"Of course you go to the operah 2"
ooh, I couldn't exist without it.
Oh Melba! Melbaw
"And Nordica! I rave over them
ALL"
"I fairly cry over them! And, do
YOU know, I have a friend who does
not care in the least for them. She
isn't a bit musical"
ooh, how sad! I would die if I did
not Who is the tall lady in black
over by the pianos"
"I'm sure I do not know. What x
quisite lace on her gown! Do you
know that I just simply rave over
beautiful Lace"
"Really?"
eyes, indeed! I care more for it
than for jewels, because it Do you
know the tall, ~fne-looking nan who
has just come in?"
Il am sure I have seen him some
where, and yet I cannot Yes, thank
you, I think hat I will have a cup of
tea. How lovely the dining-room
looksr"
lovely"
"Mrs. Sweet has such exquisite
tastew
Exquisite! I often say How do
you do, my deah? So glad to see
your
Thanks! SO glad to meet your
$50 good of you to say so! Quite
well, deah?"
ooh, vulgarly so. really must say
good-by to deah Mrs. Sweet and go.
l must look in at Mrs Shoddy's for
a few minutes"
$50 must I. Well go together"
"How lovely! Good-by, deah Mrs.
Sweet. Have had such a chawming
time!"
"Must you go so soon?"
eyes, really! Such a lovely time
$50 glad! But it is quite naughty
of o to go so soon. SO glad you
camel"
"By-bye, deah."
"By-bye. You will come to see me
eyes, indeed"
"You must. By-byew
"By-bye"
And as she gathers up her trailing
skirts to walk down the steps she
says
"Thank goodness, that's over!"-I
Morris Wade, in Lippincott's Maya
zine.
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o n JENNIE's LETTER.

llGS6 long warm udJS Will GuG1L
bright sunshine and few clouds are
capable of banishing the thought of
winter and it's needs, which will inev-
itably come and force our attention.
There are so many things that we can
do now which will add much to the
appearance of our homes when the
house will be more comfortable than
out under the trees. Now few of us
are so very Industrious that we care
to do real work, but all of us like
amusement, and if we can supply this
in a profitable way so much the bet
ter.
There is nothing more profitable
than to read good books, and many of
us whose school days have long been
numbered with the things that we're,
could review some of our studies in
order that we may be better able to
help the little folk of the family over
rough places this winter when they
will have many lessons to learn, and
a limited time in which to prepare
them. Teaching is pleasant work pro-
vided we know what we would have
others learn.
Then there is the ever pleasant and
interesting, intricate, beautiful and
restful crocheting. So many useful
articles are made with a crochet
needle, and we can lay it aside as of
ten as we wish and always find it ready
when we care to again take it up.
There are many ladies who prefer
to piece quilts in summer, n star or
square at a time; and before you real
ize how much you have done the quilt
is finished.
Don't laugh when I suggest that
now is a good time to buy linen sheet
ing and begin to hemstitch that bed
set or those doilies you would like to
give mother Christmas.
Embroidery is beautiful if we'll
done, but it takes time to accomplish
much. 1t is, however, an interesting
occupation for these extremely warm
days and may beguile you into be-
lieving hat the mercury in the Their
mometer has not crawled up near the
top of the tube. (After all life is
what we make it and the weather
seems just as we take IT'D
Margaret's letter reminds me of the
probability that many of you are wait
ing to see your name in the list of
those 1 call each week. I trust that
this is not the case, but that you will
know that I mean you, too, if you have
not been with us in some time. We
appreciate Margaret's letter the more
because of her not having waited to
be called.
Plum writes this week from our sis
ter State, Virginia. We have missed
her so much and hope that this letter
is the forerunner of a series of inter
ones from her pen.
Mrs. M. S. calls for the first time
and we thank her heartily for her kind
words of appreciation, and hope to
hear from her often.
Where are Matabel, Sixty Five,
Mrs. S. NJ, Lucille, Trixy, A Reader,
Country Girl, and Leila? We should
like to hear from them. Let me repeat
that [ am calling only the names of
long absent members, and I hope that
our more faithful ones will write
promptly without waiting to be called
for by name.
AUNT JENNIE.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-22

"This Is No. 81 of our series Of the Worlds
BEST rooms, arranged especially for THE Pro
8REssIVE FARMER by the editor. In this
series selections from the following authors
have already appeared: Burns, Bryant Mr. and
Mrs Browning, Lord Byron, Campbell, Eugene
E1eld, Goldsmith, Leigh Hunt, Holmes, Omar
fellow, Lowell, Markham, Macaulay, Milton,
Moore.
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Emma was accused of being vain.
Me vain!" she exclaimed, indignant
ly; "why, I don't think myself half as
good-looking as I really amp
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-22

He-I don't see what people keep
diaries for; I can keep all my affairs
in my head. She-That's a good way
too: but not everyone has the room
New York Sun.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-07-22
STICKING AT 1T.

Most failures lie in not going on
long enough. The hour that tests a
man is that in which the first fevor
of his undertaking has died out, and
yet the goal of his efforts seems a lit
tie farther off than when he began.
That is like the point in the revolu-
ton of a driving wheel, where the for
ward push of the piston rod has ceas-
ed, and its backward pull has not be-
gun. A vast mass of human enter
prise, in great things and small,
breaks down at that point, and many
a good work is deferred until it finds
a man who has the impetus of faith in
sufficient measure to carry him round
that curve. It is the mark of a really
able man to finish what he began, in
small things and in great alike.-Ex-
change.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1902-02-02

Max RochOn, defendan.
Action brought in the District Court
OF the First judicial District Of the
State Of Nevada, Ormsby County, in
the Office of the Clerk OF said District
Court on the Goth day of January, A
D., 1902.
The State of Nevada sends greeting
to Max Rochon, defendant.
You are hereby required to appear
in an action brought against you by
the above named Plaintiff in the Dis
triot Court of the First Judicial Dis
trict OF the State of Nevada, Ormsby
| County, and answer complaint filed
| therein within ten days ieXclusiye OF
the day of seryice) after the service
on you of this summonsi If served in said
county, or if served out OF said coun-
ty,but within the district, twenty days.
in all other cases forty days, or judg-
ment by default will be taken against
you according to the prayer Of said
complaint
The said action is brought 10 obtain
the decree OF the Court dissolving
the bonds Of matlimony now existing
between plaintiff and defendant. on The
ground that you, defendant. on OF
about The 25th day of March. 1900
disregardinE your marriage VOW, viii
fully and witlou. cause deserted and
abandoned plaintifI, and ever since
have and still continue to 50 w:Ifuly
and without cause desert and aban
don plaintiff, and 10 live separate ant
apart from her, against her viii anf
without her consent. Also. on the
ground of failure 10 provide plaintiff
with the common necessaries OF life
since said 25th day OF March. 1900
and for the care and custody of tn,
minor child, issue OF said MARRIAGE. al
more fully appears by the complain
on file herein, to which you are rel ell
led for further particulars.
And you are hereby notified that i
you fail to answer the Complaint, til
said Plaintiff will take the decree 0
the Court herein prayed for.
Given under my hand ard Seal O
the District Court Of the Firs. Jud
cial District, of the State of Nevada
Ormsby county, this goth day OF Jaar
airy in the year Of our Lord one thu
sand nine hundred and two
GEO " COMING Clor.'-
Alfred Chartz, attorney for plaintiff
SIN.
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The UGLY DUCK

ENGLAND Russia Germany in fact we'll nigh all the Powers
IL Of the Old World protest their friendship for the American
Republic and the world Power cannot help being battered by
these tributes The eagle 50 large strong IN such excellent
condition. tempted forget that he
eag larger birds peczea him the barn
yard fowls peckcd at tle ugly duck.
School teachers patriotic speakers keep alive the
serss Of the Revolution There
is mixture of glorious the horrible about those
early days; but noify think OF the wretoieness that fol-
lowed the OF Nominay independent act
uay ling poverty stricken miserable
possible that would to their
allegiance. Ragged soldiers cursng ungrateu Govern
long without protecting navy from
tier constantly exposed Indian credit conspicuous by
absence; practically nothing hat call Amercansm.
English faction, which considered the Fourth of
July vulgar radical French which excused the worst
dees the Partisan Revoluionis these things Of which
to boast For time Mediterranean commerce was protected
because Portugal at Asers Portuguese pro-
land fulfill tie conditions OF he heard unpleasant
still unpaid French allies insulted
reproaced asked for brides and captured merchantmen
until driven fight Apparently every Power which
the eag pecled him; but powers did
know him When Bainbrdse sailed to Consaninople (oiered
fhe not by his Governments but by Asier lie found that
nobody United States America and forced
plan that he New World discovered by Columbus.
So ended the eighteenth century, and the nineteenth opened
under rather than better auspices. An American vessel
could scarcely enter European port without being liable to
a English cruiser
c she merely stopped American merchantmen and
od for dcserers \ good seaman named John Smith was seiz-
ed undoubtedly Engsman sailor named Hugh Mcdonald
claimed scotc1nan and Murphy necessarily
hman The mans father and grandfather might have been
born America but that made difference During second
he Indians hoped half of
the Spaniard play into the hands of the British and
Ageas their former hosiities Long
still battle grounds
for the red and the pale face For several decades endu
ed all of i'll treatment from the Spanish authorities in the
West Indies
The Republic started without money without without
and without dignity It had territory but it was
1ats 11rGr LAT he
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1902-02-02
For Sale.

A ranch near Mound House. Good
locality for sheep OF would make a
splendid chicken ranch. Good house
OF five rooms; barn, with room fcr
eight horses. 4 good spring near the
house Must be sold. Price $500. APP
ply at this office.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1902-02-02
ANNUAL STATEMENT.

Annual Statement Of QuhRTETTE
Mining Company, for the year
ending December 81, 1902.
Location OF property Searchlight,
lincoln Ciunty, Nevada.
Receipts.
Total receipts from ore and
other sources -. 80. .s222,36S 40
Disbursement
Amount expended in develop
mert Of property and miscel-
laneous disbursements s2G5,232 As
Cash On hand, Dec. 81. 1901 17,135 90
s222,36S 40
GEO. 3. DRAKE, Secretary.
F2.
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ANNUAL STATEMENT.

Forty-second Annual Statement Of the
Gefmania Life Insurance Company.
;. ;. ;. Ct New York. :. :.
For The year ending Deem Der 81, 1901
Assets .... s28, 790,S1O 35
Liabilities .. -. 24.957,399 AZ
Surplus .... 3,S33,41O So
Payments to PoiicyhoIders.
in 1901 ............... $2,640,319 50
Since organization in 1860
to December 81, 1901. .$4S, 217,532 u
Nevada Business.
Number OF risks written .. A
Amout OF risks written .sS5, 500 90
Premiums received ..... 5000 80
Losses paid ............... $4,000 90
Losses incurred ........... $4,000 90
Number Of policies in force
December 81, 1901 .... 81
| Amount OF same SL"6,i03 20
All figures are on paid basis.
II. CELLS,
Secretary
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1902-02-02
Summons

In the District Court of the First Judi
cial District of the State of Neva-
da, in and for the County OF Crm-
cnv
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-10-03

NO CASTE OVER THERE.

oh! We who poise a lordly head - ~
IN naughty, old-created, pride..S -, Z,
Who walk the streets with 3kingly tread
And brush the honest poor aside, -
Who think the toilers 1.-THE scum
OF earth and always in the way,
Know you the time will surely come
When you will be as poor as they?>
That death will level king and slave?
There'n be no caste beyond the grave.
You look with proud and cold disdain
On those who toll for daily bread;
The clanking of the labor chain
You hear with careless toss of head.
You never shake a poor mans hand y
Unless you have san~ax to-: grind. =
Some new ambition to%be famed "~" :.
From coal to flame, but keep in mind
Death knows no master, knows no slave
There'n be no caste beyond the grave.
This life Is as a quick-drawn breath
Compared unto eternity:
IT'S but a span from birth to death, aSNs
Then out upon the, shoreless sea =
We drift, and there the man of pride -
Who was a king upon the earth
Must float as equal side by side
With fellow man of humber birth.
He cannot ride a private wave
There'n be no caste beyond the grave.
Till crack Of doom wise men may preach
OF universal brotherhood,
With tongues inspired may strive to teach
That principle so grand and good,
But just as long as gold is good
And purse-pride sways the human heart
A battlement both high and broad
Will keep the rich and poor apart;
But death will equal lord and slave
There'll be no caste beyond the grave.
Denver Post
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-10-03
DINING CAR SERVICE.
Mobile and Ohio Reduces Time to
st. Louis.

\ Mobile and Ohio Reduces Time to
st. Louis. ST. :s
u: The Mobile and Ohio Railroad Is engaged
IN g commendable effort to annihilate space
between this city and St. Louis, and, be-
ginning Sunday, August 3lst. + viii ma.
terlally shorten the time taken to traverse
the distance between the two cities by the
way of Meridian. And this date, too. will
mark the Inauguration of dining-car serv-
ice a Ia carte, on this line. This innovation
will be "a welcome one to travellers, who
heretofore have been subjectedto the abom-
ination Of taking their meals on the catch
ascatch-can plan at meal stations along the
route. Passengers, by means of this new
service, will be enabled to eat when they feel
disposed; eat what they want at their
leisure, and pay only for what they order,
with a choice of anything in the CASTRO
nomic Line from cup Of coffee to q course
dinner. :%ts. E@*- -.
: These new dining by the way, are
to be veritable palaces, fitted with every
possible convenience known to modern rail-
road traffic. The decorations are of SUI
peru order and the cars are brilliantly il
Illuminated with incandescents, while a
plenteous supply of electric fans Will keep
the atmosphere at a comfortable tempera-
ture, no matter how high the mercury may
soar outside the cars The cuisine will leave
nothing to be desired. One of the most strik-
ing as well as pleasant features of this serv-
Ice 10 the announcement that the dining
car service will be made merely conven-
fence for the travelling public, serving every
th1ng Of as near cost as possible, with no.
desire to make the service q source Of profit
to the company Times Democrat" New
Orleans, August %. HI
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StODDed for Once

A citizen from the. frontier, who
never had been in Washington before,
was visiting a friend in the nations
capital, and was taken one day to the
gallery. of the senate while an impor-
tant measure was under discussion.
: A senator was delivering long,
prosy and apparently aimless speech.
and the visitor soon grew tired Of It.
'".Why doesn't he, say somethin,
worth listening to?'' he whispered to
his friend. $3.50 .s:s z= : zz.ss=zt.:. q
''oh, he's merely talking against
time s. i. s. IS zss
/ Whats the. good Of that?" asked
the other, aghast Time goes on just
the same, doesn't j t q .=s=
8 suppose It does : replied his
friend, loo king: at his watch and yawn.
ing; but It doesn't seem to Z, outh,s
Companion. s.s ..ss &
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THE SUcCOTH CARPENTER.
An Odd Character Who IL Conspicu-
GUS in the Jewish Quarter
of New York City,

The oldest industry in the metrop-
oils is that of a succoth carpenter,
who finds employment one week of the
year in the Ghetto among the ortho-
dox Jews, says the New York Evening
Post. His work is done in the fort
night which precedes the feast of
tabernacles and consists in building
odd little booths known as succoths in
the back yards of the tenement
houses. The feast of the tabernacles
is supposed to commemorate the time
during which the children of Israel
wandered in the wilderness, and prob
ably also their sojourn in the land
of Egypt. During this period they
lived more or less in the open, which
fact is symbolized by the booth hav-
ing no roof or else covering of ever
greens and bulrushes. According to
another school the booths represent
the time when the Israelites came in
such numbers, that they were unable
to get into the temple and so built
temporary shelters around the sacred
edifice. = i ~: ..,..l:<.s* 49,
The succoth~ should be. boxlikes in
shape, not less than six feet in height,
six feet long and four feet wide. It
should be made of the cheapest and
fimsiest building material to indicate
what is represents. Some of the build
ers take pride in making the struc-
tuEes, as ramshackle as possible 9th
ers use the poorer materials, but saw
and fit them with so much skill that
the finished succoth is neat and at
tractive. There is but little CONNER
cial element in the industry. The en-
ployer supplies the wood or the build
er sells it to him at cost, while for the
work of setting it~up his price is near
ly always so cents. Charitable He
brews will often employ two or three
builders and pay each the same as the
rest.
Here during the festival week the
family takes it's meals, and assemblies
every day for prayer. 1t is not at. all
unpleasant in fair weather, but when,
as often happens, it rains, the situa-
ton is decidedly uncomfortable. On
rainy Gay symDOllsm Vanlshes, as
rain is practically unknown in the
stony desert where the Israelites wan
dered ages ago..
Still more suggestive is the way in
which the prayers are said. Instead of
kneeling or of clasping the hands, the
one who prays holds a fruit, usually
a pomegranate, in one hand and a
bulrush or water-reed in the other.
At the end of the prayer each of these
is shaken twice and then handed over
to the next member. of the family.
The water reeds are supposed to com
memorate the finding of Moses in the
bulrushes, and the fruit the promise
of the Lord to give them a land flowing
with milk and honey 30
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: Age Lines on Fish Scales.

4 Tostell the age of a tree by counting
the annual rings Of growth in itsswood
is a familiar experience, but many.
will be surprised to learnsthat SINH
lar index Of age is found on the scales
of some fish,. An exhibit in proof of
this was recently made by the Marine
Biological association in London The
lines on the scales are smore widely
separated il. that part formed during
the warm season Of the year, and the.
IaIternationsofw wide and narrow bands
gives = series sembling the annual
rings Of q tree Science.