THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, MARCH 25. 1890.
LES VOYAGEURS.
To a country of magical dawns,
Moons whiter than snow,
A glory of amber-hued morns,
We go.
Where the rose stays forever In bloom,
With heart all aglow,
To breathe Its alluring perfume,
We go.
Where the white lily, siint among flawerp,
Soft, pways to ana fro
Her chalice, through all the glad hours,
" , we go.
Where the amorous victor of song,
With rapt voice and low.
Awakens the wondrous night long,
We go.
To the music, and beauty, and song
r a world frae from woe
In his own barque, Love bears us along.
We go.
Abbie Elizabeth Snow.
FRUIT CAKE WITHOUT EGGS.
One cud each of butter, brown sus:ar,
1 Jiolasses and sweet milk, four cups of
jour, one pound of raisins, one teaspoon
fil each of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and
soda.
LEMON PIE.
Take one lemon, grate the rind and
squeeze the juice, one egg, one cup of
sugar, one half cup of water and two
spoonfuls of flour Stir all together and
bake with two crusts.
APPLE MERINGUE
Add three beaten eggs to a quart of ap
ple sauce ; pour into a pudding dish and
bake ; when well erusted over, cover with
meringue made with the whites of the
eggs and powdered "sugar.
SEED COOKIES
One cupful of butter, three cupfuls of
sugar, two eggs, one cupful of cream,
t eight cupfuls of flour, 2 teaspoonfuls of
baking powder, one teaspoonful oi caraway
seed ; roll out, cut and sift with sugar ;
bake in a quick oven.
HERMITS.
One cup of maple sugar, one-half cup
each of butter and sour cream, one egg,
one- half tea-poonful of soda, one tea
spoonful each of cloves, cinnamon and
Nutmeg, and one cup or chopped raisins.
Knead a3 little as possible. Bake like
cookies.
MOLASSES CAKE.
One cup of molasses, one cupful of
brown sugar, one cupful of cold water.
Boil together, then add a cupful of butter
and set aside to cool ; flour a3 thick a a
pound cake, add four well-beaten eggs,
lone pound each of raisins and currants,
'one-half pound of citron. Bake two
hours.
POTATO SALAD
Two well-beaten eggs, three teaspoon
j 'fuls mixed mustard, two of salt, three
'tablespoonfuls each of sugar and olive oil,
i 'or butter, one dessertspoonful of flour;
I mix well, pour into a teacupful of boiling
vinegar, let cook until it thickens, stirring
constantly, then pour it over two quarts
f tt cold. boiled potatoes, chopped with two
It rm a coif r focfo
Xll likll lIiAO)
Sift a light pint of flour, take from it a
light pint; sift two or three times with
one teaspconful of cream tartar and one
half teaspoonful of soda. To this add a
saltspoonful of salt, two eggs whipped
Tery ngnt, two taoiespoontuis oi sugar
and three-fourths of a cup of rich milk
ltub through the flour first a dessertspoon
ful of butter. Beat all to a smooth, light
batter. Slice bananas into four length-
wise strips, dip each slice into the batter
and fry a golden brown.
CARNAFFS.
Take some cold cooked ham and chop
I lit fine, season with pepper. Put a table
It tspoonful of butter and an even tablespoon-
f ul of flour in a saucepan ; mix, and add a
gll of cream ; stir continually until it boils,
take it from the fire, add the well beaten
yolks of four eggs and a half-pint of
chopped ham. Put this into butterei
cups, stand them in a baking-pan half
foiled with hot water, cover with paper
knd cook in the oven for twenty minutes.
Serve with cream sauce.
LAYER CAKE
Four eggs well beaten, one and one
half cups of sugar, one and one-half cups
!of flour, two teaspoonfuls of yeast powder,
four tablespoonfuls of water, and flavor-
nriff in Bint tftctp Tl-iic; will moVo fttro
;iyers in patty pans. Give the cakes a
good beating, and bake as quickly as
possible without burning. In recipe just
I given, anything desired may be put be
lt ween the layers, though most are partial
to cream
filling.
HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS.
'Chamois can be washed in warm water
without soap ; rinse well, and pull and
k. stjetch to soften while drying.
jBe very particular aboui disinfecting
trc kitchen sink. "Washing soda, two
tablespoonfuls to a gallon o ; boiling
tvtter, makes an excellent wash to pour
Vu t into the sink after you have finished
&pg it.
I Silverware to be kept bright should
arer be washed in soapsuds ; clear water
sroest. 10 prevent articles rrom tarmsh-
int.
warm them and apply with a soft
rsh a thin solution of collodium in alco-
The ware can be brightened bv rub
bing with a flannel or chamois skin dipped
in . whiting or chalk, then with a news
paper. Little red ants, it is said, cannot travel
over, wool or rag carpet, One who has
ned it covered her floor with noarse
aize, set her sofa on that, and
has not
- yoeen -troubled since. She arlH -
" Cover
1 'ta sneu in your closet or pantry with flan-
ael, set whatever you wish to keep from
I ants on it, and they will at once disap
K pear." -
' Dr. F. D. Reese, of Cortland, N. Y.,
I writes tq the Medical Recorder describing
X n -ai.wuiiz.cu uii appiiea to the
carDtricle, ana then covered with oakum
whiah. had previously been saturated with
the ii Of a few cases of carbuncle
treatid in this way, not one has run over
two keeks. The disease has yielded to
the arbolized oil and oakum treatment
as byiaagic. He uses twenty per cent,
soiutn.
SQUIRE SHARP.
How He Became Rich by the Tooting
of the Steam Whistle.
His Fat Daughters Would Marry Slim
Men, Vice Versa lie Celebrates the
Arrival of a Male Heir and Makes
Day and Night Hideous for
His Neighbors.
The other day I met Col. Beverly Sum
mers, who, sometime ago, went to Ala
bama for the purpose of spending the re
mainder of his life in peace and profound
quietude. When I bade him good-bye he
had seemed to be so hopeful, his eyes had
been so bright with the emotional ooze of
anticipated happiness, that upon meeting
him again I was astonished to see that
his countenance had grown dull under a
presumable disappointment. When I had
asked the cause of his apparent dej -ction
he conducted me to a quiet corner and
then, after a few moments' silence, said :
" I settled near a postoffice known as
Antrobus. There were but few houses
near us; the neighborhood is pic uresque
and my wife and I were delighted. From
the top of our graceful hill we would see
the sun coming up out of a beautiful
valley, far away, and at evening we could
see the brow of a distant mountain, en
circled with a wreath of blazing glory.
In an evil hour a shoving fellow, a des
poiler, a man who would turn the sweet
blush of dewy nature into the hard frown
of enterprise, started a sawmill not far
from our house. This was annoying, but
we soon became reconciled, especially as
the mill was compelled to shut down for
want of patronage, and we were about to
congratulate ourselves, when one morn
ing at 5 o'clock the mill began to whistle.
Well, sir, at 12 o'clock that mill was still
whistling. By this time I was almost
wild. I sent a negro boy down to inves
gate the tantalizing situation. He came
back about an hour later and reported
that the mill was not running and had not
been, but that the boilers were under a
full headway of steam. The thing whistled
all night and the next morning, as the
situation instead of showing signs of im
provement seemed to be growing worse,
I went over to expostulate with the pro
prietor of the mill. I found him sitting
on a stump complacently smoking. He
was an easily recognized type of a Georgia
'cracker' of the improved breed. His
hair was long and there were pieces of
bark clinging to his grizzly beard. He
paid no attention as I approached, but ap
peared to be lost in the contemplation of
a distant hill top. I had never met him
before, but I knew his name.
" ' This is Mr. Sharp ?' said I.
"'Yep, b'leve it is,' he answered, still
looking away.
" ' My name, sir, is Beverly Summers.'
" ' Yep, wouldn't be surprised.'
" ' I have called on you, Mr. Sharp, to
find out what is the matter with that mill
whistle.'
"'Nothin' the matter with it now.
Didn't start off so well at first sorter
wheezed a little but I can't complain at
the present outlook.'
"'But why do you keep the infernal
thing blowing ?"
'' He removed his gaze from the dis
tant hill top and looking at me, said :
" 'Boy down at my house.'
" ' What !' I exclaimed.
" ' Boy at my house born yesterday
moraine:.
'"But is that any reason why you
should make day and night hideous?'
"'Don't know anything about makin'
nothin' hideous, but it's a reason why I
should blow that whistle. I promised
myself that if fortune smiled on me this
time, and sent me a boy, I would raise
merry how are you, and fortune did her
work kept her promise, as it were, and
I'm going to keep mine. Look around, .
find a stump some wh&r and sit down a
while.'
'"I don't wish to sit down, sir. I have
come to demand that you stop blowing
that whistle.'
" ' No ; I'm much obliged to you.'
" 'I will have it declared a nuisance,' I
exclaimed.
" ' Won't make no difference, fur you
see I've got an order from the court to
blow that thing -s long as I want to. So,
when fortune proved that, after so many
years of girls and hard luck, she had de
cided to favor me, why, I hired two fellers,
one for day time and the other for night,
and told them to tie back the rope of that
whistle and keep up the pucker all the
time. Hired thesn for a year.
" ' You don't mean to say that you are
going to keep that thing blowing for a
whole year!'
" 'That's what the contract says. Mis
ter, you don't understand the situation.
I've got ten gals, but not until the other
mornin' was the voice of a boy ever hearn
in my house. Now, you may sneeze at a
good many folks, but let me advise you
not to sneeze at the pore feller that has
raised ten of the oneryest Icokin' gals in
the country. Now, thar was Moll. I do
reckon Moll was the fattest gal you ever
seed. Waddled when she walked
waddled like a 'possum. Wall, what did
Moll do? Disgraced me by marry in' the
slimest man in the world. That feller
was so slim that he could stand in a double
barrel shotgun and reach down and take
hold of his boot straps. An' thar was
Lize. I reckon she was the slimest gal
that ever destroyed shoe leather. What
did she do ? Tuck her ter town one day
an' she fell in love with the fat boy that
they had in a show, and she married him
shortly afterwards. Then there was Kitty.
The palest critter, I reckon, you ever seed
in your life One day she got nervous
and anxious, an' I knowd right then and
thar that she was lookin' round fur some
monstrosity to marry. Wall she found
him. She found a feller with a nose so
red that he could hold up a newspaper
the darkest night that ever come and read
it. That's about the way all of them
married, and when they come to live with
methey turned my home into a regular
asylum for physical extremes, as old Dr.
Miles 'lowed, and now that nature has
given me a boy instead of another gal an'
I want to show my 'preciation w'y you
you '
" He bowed his head and wept yes, I
would have sworn that he wept. I could
say nothing more ; I actually sympathized
with him, but the mill continued to
whistle.
" I returned home and reported to my
wife. She- felt sorry for the fellow, but
declared that we must leave the neighbor
hood. I sold out at a sacrifice and just as
we had reached the railway station, some
ten miles distant from the home I had
learned to love, I learned that an iron
mine, worth probaby $1,000,000, had
been discovered on the land that I had
sold for a mere song. .
" 1 But why didn't you tell me,' I de
manded. " Well, the fellow replied, ' the saw
mill man made me swear ter keep my
mouth shet till atter he had made a trade.
He got a feller to buy yo' place fur him.
Mighty smart man, 'Squire is. Groin' ter
marry my sister."
"You know now why I left," Col.
Summers added. " That story about all
those girls and the new boy was a lie.
The scoundrel had never been married
and he built the mill in the first place to
run me away.
Copyrighted 1890. Opie P. Read.
HOW IT IS DONE.
Senatorial Victims of Misplaced Con
fidence. Senator Faulkner, of West Virginia,
aad Senator Bate, of Tennessee, were
seated together in a committee room on
Tuesday, when Mr. George Harries, a
newspaper man, entered.
" Harries," said Senator Faulkner, " I
wish you would tell me how you news
paper men get information of the trans
actions of our secret sessions ?"
" Why," said Mr. Harries, " there is a
committee upstairs trying to find that out.
You ought to go up and listen to the tes
timony." "Never mind the committee,'" said the
Senator. "Won't you tell me just for
the gratification of my own curiosity ?"
Mr. Harries reflected a moment and
said: "I would have no objection to
telling you, Senator, if you were author
ized by the Senate to receive the infor
mation." "Then, why don't you tell it to the
committee ?" asked the Senator.
" Is the committee properly constituted
and duly authorized to receive such in
formation, Senator?"
"Of course it is."
" How do you make that out?"
" Why," said the Senator, "It was con
stituted by the Senate in the regular way
under Senator Dolph's fesolution.
Then Senator Faulkner went ahead and
gave every detail of the manner in which
tha Senate discussed and adopted the
resolution, how the committee was con
stituted and what it was empowered to
do. When the Senator had concluded,
Mr. Harries said :
" Well, Senator, that is the way we
newspaper men get information of the
proceedings of the secret session. Good
day."
Senator Faulkner did not get the full
meaning of the newspaper man's remark
until Senator Bate quietly and good
humoredly said: "Faulkner, if every
Senator were as easy to pump as you are
we might as well hold our secret sessions
out on the portico." Cor. N. Y. Herald.
"THE GALLED JADE."
It has so happened every time we have
been obliged to kill a man in this town in
self- defense, that the Coroner and every
body else was in a great hurry and that
the body was buried in the most con
venient place. Last week we were struck
with the idea of getting them all together
in one coramoa -pot, and we bought an
acre of snd lot of Col. Hawkins for a
ground work. Our green eyed contem
porary got a hit of what was up and he
went blowing around town and did his
best to head us off. He failed, however,
and during the thaw we had the five
bodies taken up, removed to what is
already known as "the Kicker corral,"
and each grave designated with a white
headboard with the name painted neatly
thereon. In the spring we shall see that
each grave is covered with trailing ar
butus that is, if arbutus will trail in this
country. The names, as they appear on
the headboards, are : " Mose, Pete, Jim,
Sam Jack." We shall probably add a
couple more to the list before the Ides of
May, whatever this h." Arizona Kicker.
HOW TO MARRY WELL.
What girls should never forget is to be
neat! Not primly so but daintily so. The
girl well got up, with irreproachable
gloves, and shoes that fit, though her
gown be only cotton, yet if it be well
turned out, may compete with the richest,
while the slovenly dresser, who scorns or
forgets to give attention to details, is
passed over by the discontented eye,
though her gown may be a masterpiece
of Worch.
A girl should learn to put her gown on
properly. No creature living takes more
heed of externals than your orthodox
man. He may not know the price, color,
or material of your clothes, but he will
know to a nicety whether you are well or
badly gowned.
One special point I would impress upon
the girl who desires, (as all girls do) to
range themselves well, to make a good
marriage is to be gentle. The craze for
vivacity, for he free and easy style that
border so closely on the manners of the
demi monde that distinguished the society
of ten years ago has providentially died
a natural death. Now-a-days, men are
sensible enough to look for comfort in
their married lives. And surely the
knowledge that one s future wife has a
heart as tender as it is sympathetic should,
and does,, go far to arrange a man's
decision of who shall be the partner of
his daily life. The Duchess, in Ladies
Home Journal.
A POPULAR MEDICINE.
Our live, wide-awake druggists, Lee,
Johnson & Co., has secured the agency of
the wonderful medicine known as liadarn's
Microbe Killer. This medicine is entirely
new, but in the short time it has been
discovered it has created an immense stir
among the medical profession by the
wonderful cures it has made. Among
those most prominent was the case of
James Cavanaugh, Jr., who was cured of
leprosy after being isolated from the city
of New Orleans for three years. This
case alone was enough to bring the medi
cine into great prominence, but it has
made a number of other equally as re
markable cures, for it has cured every
disease ever tried on.
SAVED BY A TRAMP.
Why an Engineer Could Not See an
Old Fur Cap.
" No, we don't bounce the tramps that
ride on the bumpers of our freight train,"
said a freight conductor who has run to
the West " I presume that we. carry an
average of a dozen each trip, but if they
remain between the cars we pretepd not
to see them."
"But it is against orders," was urged.
" Oh, yes, but there is a higher power
than general orders, even for railroad
men. Five or six years ago I used
to be hard on the railroad tramp. I'd
have the train looked over at every stop,
and if we caught a chap he got handled
pretty lively. Nowadays I throw out a
hint to the brakeman to shut both eyes
and if the tramp don't presume too much
on my good nature no one will disturb
him."
"What happened to change your mind?"
" Oh, a little incident of no interest to
the public, but a great deal to me. I was
married in December three years ago. On
the third night I got an order to run out
with an extra. There was a cold rain,
which froze as it fell, and one of my crew
got hurt at our very first stop. This left
us short-handed, and as we could not
supply his place I had to act for him. We
were back in the mountains, running
strong to make time, when the engineer
whistled brakes for a grade. I climbed
out of the caboose with the brakemen,
and had set two brakes and was after the
third, when a lurch of the cars threw me
down, and I fell between two of them. I
had just one glimpse of the red-cheeked
bride at home, just one swift thought of
her in widow's weeds and her heartbreak
ing, when a hand grabbed me. I was
going down head first, but the strong
clutch turned me over and my feet struck
the bumpers. I'd have gone then, only
some one put my hands on the ladder,
flung his arms around me from behind to
hold me there, and sa'd:
"'You are all right, old man. Your
nerve will come back pretty soon.' "
"And it was a tramp, eh?"
"It was, and he held me there until the
train reached its stop, and then helped me
down, for the sudden fright had taken all
my strength and nerve away. But for
him I should have been ground up under
the wheels. This is the reason I keep a
soft spot in my heart for the genus tramp,
and why, when I sometimes walk the
length of every train and find every
bumper occupied, I look skyward and
pretend not to see so much as an old fur
cap." N. T. Sun.
WHAT A LADY DOES NOT DO.
There are several things always absent
in a true lady, which girls will do well to
notice and remember.
A lady, for example, will never ignore
little kindnesses.
Conclude in a crowd that she has a
right to push her way through.
Consume the time of people who can
ill spare it.
Wear on the street a dress o ly fitted
to the house or carriage.
Talk loudly in public places.
Wear a torn glove, when a needle and
thread and a few stitches would make it
all right
Fail in answering letters or returning
visits, unless she is ill or in trouble.
Fret about the heat or the cold, the sun,
or the rain, the air, or the lack of it.
Make an engagement and then not be
on time.
Complain of her family, or discuss per
sonal affairs with strangers.
Always believe the worst, rather than
the best side of a story.
A lady does not do any other than
make the best of everything the world,
the weather and herself. She believes in
the golden rule and endeavors as far as
possible to live up to it ; and that's what
you and I ought to promise every morn
ing that we will try and do during the
day. March Ladies' Home Journal.
ROBERT AT THE GEYSERS.
Which geysers, you will naturally ask,
for there are geysers in Iceland, geysers
in California, geysers in our great national
park. Robert went to see tnose in Cali
fornia, riding for a good many miles with
his uncle along a road from which he
could see on the left the white peaks of
the coa-t raoge of mountains towering up
into the blue sky, and down below the
beautiful valley with all its woods, likes
and meadows of Russian river. It was a
very, very steep path, winding over the
sharp ridge of the Hogback and then
plunging suddenly down into the valley
of the geysers.
"What noise is that?" aked Robert.
"It sounds just like a train. Oh, see!
there's the smoke coming up! no, it's
more like an ocean steamer."
His uncle laughed. " That's the roar
of the geysers."
It was not long before they were in the
midst of the steam themselves though I
have not begun to tell you of the scram
bling and climbing they did to get there,
and Robert found to his surprise that the
mud was quite too hot for him to bear
holding his hand on it.
It seemed quite pleasant afterward to
stop in the grotto, where theie is a lonely
little cascade of cool water and the
boughs of the trees stretch across the
water like an archway.
" Oh, this water is hot again !" hp ex
claimed, trying curiously the strange little
streams that they began to find bubbling
up along the creek. They were the
queerest little streams you ever saw, for
some were beautifully clear and blue,
others very near them black, some pink,
brown, gray, yellow, and then on the
edges of some he could see white glitter
ing crusts of a salt like hoarfrost, and
around others yellow flowers of sulphur
like delicate mosses. Besides all these
different colors, the temperature was dif
ferent; some of the springs was cold,
some hot, some boiling away like an under-ground
tea-kettle.
" Stop, Robert," said his uncle. "Listen
to all these springs at work down below,
and tell me how many different sounds
you hear. I seem to hear something like
a great quartz crusher."
Robert listened a little. " It's just like
a big kitchen. I hear kettles boiling. I
can hear something that sounds just like
potatoes cooking, and then there's a noise
like a grislmill cracking cobs. Oh, uncle!
I can hear the noise of waves dashing on
the rock."
His uncle listened a moment. "It
sounds like all these things and another
besides like the wind blowing in the
treetops."
"How curious it must be down there.
I should like to look in."
But he hardly said this when he changed
his mind most decidedly, for the earth be
gan to shake and tremble so that he felt
quite frightened, and heartily wished
himself safe at home. Fortunately this
did not last long.
The witches' cauldron was so hot they
could ha dly stand the stifling bursts of
air, and they did not dare go too near the
great column of the steamboat spring, the
very largest of all, for the clouds of
scorching sulphurous steam were very
dangerous. The waters seem to shake
and struggle terribly to get out, and the
earth seemed again to tremble under foot.
But the place Robert truly enjoyed was
the vent-holes, two springs very near to
gether where they boiled eggs in a min
ute and a half, and where Robert dropped
stones in to see them bcund up three or
four feet like India rubber balls into the
air, as if some great boys were playing a
game with him. It was such fun, he hated
to leave off at all. M. &, in Home and
Farm.
BROTHER GARDNER ON THE
GRIPPE.
" I hev received seberal letters of late
axin me why so few of the cull'd people
had been tooken down wid de grip," said
Brother Gardner as Paradise Hall grew
quiet. "I lay it to fo'ce of character
alone. No black man of any account is
gwine to fool around an' lose time an' pay
doctor bills wid anything less dan small
pox. Sich ailments as grip' ar' too triflin'
fur him to bodder wid. Dey belong to
women an' men of weak minds. Any
member of dis club guilty of harborin'
sich a complaint would hev to stand up
heah an' make a mighty reasonable ex
planation or pay a fine of not less dan
$10,000. Let us purceed to bizness."
Detroit Free Press.
WHAT MAKES A CAT TREAD
SOFTLY.
"Grandpa, what makes a cat tread
softly?" asked little Tammy Findout of
his aged relative as the piir sat down to
improve their minds when the evening
lamps were lighted.
"It is a faculty provided by an all-wise
Creator, my son, which enables the cat to
walk softly," replied the old man as he
laid down his paper and beamed on the
youthful seeker after knowledge.
" All members of the cat tribe are en
dowed with a noiseless tread which great
ly facilitates their capturing their prey.
You have doubtless noticed that the
pedal extremeties of the feline are fur
nished with soft, velvety balls or covering
instead of hoofs. These balls extend be
low the claws, which are drawn up when
not iu use, enabling the cat to walk across
a board floor without the slightest noise."
" Oh, that isn't what makes a cat tread
softly," said Tommy, when the old man
had finished.
"No? What is then?" asked grand
pa. "Rats," replied the boy, while a happy,
happy smile lit up his ingenious face.
TWINKLINGS.
Birdie McGinnis My great hobby is
art. I do dearly love to paint.
Gilhooly I am glad to hear that. It
convinces me that I am an expert phys
iognomist, for I knew it by the looks of
your face for sometime past. Texas Sift
ings. American Heiress : Gracious ! My
hair is coming down. Won't you please
push that bunch back into its place and
hold it while I fasten it ?
Count de la Fayette Mont Morency :
Certainmong, mees. Dair, eet ees fineesh.
Next. A". Y. Weekly.
A bishop was at a dinner party one
night, and a waiter carelessly upset into
his lap a plate of hot soup. He glanced
around with an agonized look upon his
features, and then exclaimed : " Will
some layman make a remark appropriate
to the occasion?" -Glasgow Mail.
A dog on exhibition at the New York
bench show is valued at $6,000, and be
longs jointly to tvo gentlemen of thtt
city. When dogs get to be so valuable
that it takes two men to own one, it is
about time to propoucd Socrates' cele
brated conundrum, " Whither are we
drifting ?" Norristown Herald.
Shoe dealer- (for the sake of adding the
strength of another favorable opinion):
Ah, madam, but that shoe is simply per
fection upon your foot. James, how do
you think Mrs. De Hoof's foot looks in
this shoe ?
New Clerk (anxious not to fall short in
his enthusiasm): Immense. Harper's
Bazar.
Mrs. O'Flaherty: Oi dunno pfwat will
became of my Tammy. He is gittin' to
be a messenger boy any more, an' he has
been wid 'em that long it's not faster than
a snail can he walk at all.
Mrs. Groarty: An' sure, pf wy don't
yez git um on da polace fooree. Terra
Haute Express.
" What a genius you are !" exclaimed a
young lady visiting an inventor's work
room. "I believe you could make almost
everything."
"Yes," replied the young man mod
estly. " Is there anything you would like to
see me make?"
" Make me an offer," whispered the girl,
softly. Munsey's Weekly.
m
"Say, will you be my valentine?"
She was a gay coquette.
But he was t5o rich to decline,
And her answer was " You bet !"
Rosenbaum (the elder) " My cracious,
Abie ; don't study so hardt, or you will
ruin your spegdacles."
" When a fellow gets mashed on him
self," says a talented Roman, " it isn't
long before he cuts out everybody else."
She (in the museum) 'This is Minerva.'
He " Was 6he married?"
She "No; she was the Goddess of
Wisdom."
TO COUNTY ALLIANCE PRESI
DENTS. Old Sparta, N. C, Feb. 20, '90.
In accordance with section 18 of the
statutory laws of the National body, I
have this day appointed Bro. J. B. Oliver
Mt Olive, State Crop Statistician, ani
request that each County President at
once select a county crop statistician and
report his name and address to the Stats
officer. These county officers will be re
quired to make there reports during tho
year. One May 1st, showing acreage -one
August 1st, showing condition, and
one in November, showing yield. Tho
Alliance is in a position to compile the?
most reliable agricultural report ever
issued, and I trust the officers will appre
ciate the necessity of it
Elias Carr, Pres't N. C. F. S. A.
NEW RITUALS AND NATIONAL
CONSTITUTIONS.
The new rituals with burial service
and the new Constitution of the National
Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union
are now ready. Brethren can get sup
plies by ordering from State Secretary.
Rituals 50 cents per dozen, National Con
stitutions 25 cents per dozen, State Con
stitutions 50 cents per dozen, by mnX
post-paid on receipt of price.
E. C. Beddingfield,
Sec'y N. C. F. S. A.
NOTHING SUCCEEDS
LIKE SUCCESS.
The reason It ADAM'S
MICIIOBE KILLEIt is
the moat wonderful
medicine, ia because it
never failed in any in
stance, no matter what
the disease, from LEP
ROSY to the simplest
diseat e known to the hu
man system.
The scientific men at
to-day claim and prove
that every disease ia
CAUSED BY MICROBES.
AND
RAMI'S MICROBE KILLER
Exterminates the Microbes and drives thont
out of the system, and when that is done yo
cannot have an ache or pain. No matter what
the disease, whether a simple case of Malari
Fever or a combination of diseases, we cure
them all at the same time, as wetreat all dis
eases constitutionally.
Asthma, Consumption, Catarrh, Bron
chitis, Rheumatism, Kidney and Liver
Disease, Chills and Fever, Fe
male Troubles,in all its forms,
aad, in fact, every Dis
ease known to the
Human Sys
tem. Beware of Franflnlent Imitations!
See that our Trade-Mark (same as above)
appears on each jupr.
Send for book " Uistory of Microbe Killer,"
given away by Lee, Johnson & Co , Druggists,
sole agents, corner Fayetteville and Martim
streets, lialeigh, N. C.
MILLSTONES,
Rowan County Grit
The unsigned has bought the Rowan
County Millstone Quarry of E. E. Phillipj,
deceased, and wiU continue to supply the'',
public demand for Millstones from thi
celebrated grit. Millstones and all kindi
of Granite work delivered on board can
at Salisbury, N. C, at the lowest possible
price. Address,
J. T. WYATT,
Lock box 140, Salisbury, N. C.
TO THE
FARMERS' ALLIANCE OF I C, AND C?
THE SOUTH !
Otiewing and. Smoking I
h A WIP ?
AiAnSfACTUKtu BY
1E CMANliLLE COltJTV
- - v- r
F&nMERlS Uluiuicb
TCZMCCO MANUrASTl'RIXS (o.
THE ONLY CEfiUiNE
' ffl THE IVOnLB.
This manufacturing company is established "bf
AJllance men, and run by Alliance men, Is th$
heart of the world-renownt .1 golden tobacco belt. '
Arrangements perfected for manufacturing as gootf
smoking and chewing tcb?f o as is made. Orderr
solicitec Alliance prices wi'A be given to this and'
other States. Price list l urnlshed. We refer to '
Col. L. L. Polk. Sec'y K. C. 8. P. A., W. El
Worth. S. B. A Raleigh, N. C, Capt. 8. B. Alex
ander, Cbir.'' Ex. Com., N. C. S. A., Charlotte, N.
C, and Ella Carr, Pr eiden N. C. 8. E. C.
Granville County Fam Alliance Tobacco
Manufacturing Co., Oxford, N C. apl61-
Til Bosk cf Eccb fir tin Eircas,
" Fewer Acres with a System of Irn
provement."
BY . ROMTLUB CXOTX, A PBACTICAX. TXKXXR.
A system tending to the improvement of thm
soil, condensed in?o a book. Fully endorsed. "Tar -best
work on the subject we have ever fros
the pea of a North Carolinian." Sfewton Entr-
"Sfeould he in the hands of every farmer, and tan
cheap at $1.00. 'Hickory Pre and Carolinian."
"We heartily recommend it to the brotherhood
and farmers generally all over the South." Cataw
ba Countu Farmerf Alliance.
"No farmer thould be without It." Col. Hiro
A. Forney.
Price 25 cents postpaid, or 5 opies for $1 CO.
Silver or postal note. Liberal discount to thm
brotherhood on quantitit
jslm Catawba. 21. C