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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER. JULY 29, 1890. Written for in YE HILLS OF DAVIDSON. BY CHAVLIE. Ve lovely bills of Davidson, I love your balmy air; Your grassy knolls and rolling fields To me are very fair Ve little brook, Abbott's creek, I love your w!ndicg way; I love yon merry, gurgling son?, As oVr the rocks you play. Ye little flowers i f DavidBon, That bloom around my door, I love to smell your sweet perfume; I aek for nothing more. I love the hills of Davidson, The place where I was born; I love her fields and meadows, With grain and grass adorned. Orinoco, N. C. PEACH CREAM. One cupful of thick, sweet cream, one cupful of sugar ; beat smooth and add the whites of two eggs, beaten stiff. Have a dish of sliced, ripe peaches. Sprinkle with sugar and pour the cream over. Serve very cold. PEARLS. Two cupfuls white sugar, one-half cup ful butter, one cupful sweet milk, whites of seven eggs well beaten, two spoonfuls baking powder, three small cupfuls of flour; flavor with almond or rose. Bake in small, round tins, and ice thickly. COCOAXUT SHEETS. Whip stiff the whites of ten eggs, grate two fresh cocoanuts and add, with one and a-half cupfuls sugar and one cupful of flour, well sifted, with a spoonful of baking powder. Bake one-half hour in thin sheets. Ice and sprinkle with cocoa nut. VANILLA SXOW. Cook one cupful of rice in a covered dish to keep it white. When nearly done, add one cu; fulof cream, a pinch of salt, the beaten whites of two eggs and one cupful of sugar. Flavor with vanilla. Pile in a glass dish and dot with jelly. Serve with cream and sugar. LIGHT ROLLS. One cupful warm water, two cupfuls milk, one yeast cake; flour to make a soft batter. When light add a large spo n ful of butter, and one of sugar, and mold. When well risen, divide into small pieces, make into rolls; rise again; glaze with the white of an egg, and bake. LEMON TARTS. Fill a number of tart shells with puff paste and bake. Grate the rinds of two lemons, add two cupfuls of water, one cupful of sugar, a spoonful of almond flavoring and boil and thicken with two spoonfuls of cora starch. A small lump of butter improves it for some tastes. Fill the tarts while warm ; ice the tops. SMOTHERED FIGS. Three cupfuls of rich milk, one cupful of sugar; a lamp of butter, two well beaten eggs and two spoonfuls of com starch to thicken when the milk boils. Place a layer in a glass dish and spread sliced figs thickly over. Add more cream and another layer of figs; continue till all are used. Ice the top and serve cold. PRESSED CHICKEN. Stew two chickens until the meat will drop from the bones. Chop fine, season to suit taste; a very little sage is an im provement in some cases. Place in a deep jar, cover wii n a plate after moisten ing with the liquor in which the chicken was cooked. Weigh down with a stone or flat-iron. It will be ready to cut in ten hours. BLACKBERRY EMPRESS. Two cupfuls milk, one egg, half a cup ful of butter, a spoonful of baking pow der, and flour to make a ihin batter. Place a layer in a pudding dish; cover with a quart of blackberries well covered with sugar and a few dabs of butter. Cover with the remaining batter. Bake one hour; serve, either hot or cold, with sweetened cream. This is delicious, and other fruit may be used, if desirable. ORANGE CIRCLES. Two cupfuls sugar, one cupful butter, one cupful milk, whites of four eggs and yolks of five, two spoonfuls of baking powder, a spoonful of lemon flavoring, and flavor to make a smooth batter ; bake quickly in round baking powder box covers. Take the white of one egg, and beat stiff with sugar; add the juice of one orange. Place two cakes together with the icing between, and ice the top. The grated skin may be used, if de-ired, in the icing, Ladies' Home Journal. HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. Coffee boiled longer than one minute is coffee spoiled. Boil lothespins in clean water once a month, and they will be much more durable. War n. dishes for the table by immers ing them in hot water, not by standing them on a hot stove. Open canned fruit an hour or two be fore it is needed for use. It is far richer when the oxygen is thus restored to it. Clean carved ivory with a paste of dampened sawdust and a few drops of xemon juice. Lay it on thick, allow it to dry, and then remove with a nail brash. Add a tablespoon ful of borax to a pan of hot soapsuds; put your table silver in it, and let it stand two hours. Rinse it with clear water and polish with a soft cloth or chamon. Bronzes may be plunged into boiling water until warm, then cleaned with soap-suds and dried with old linen cloths. If this is ineffectual try beeswax and tur pentine, rubbed on and nff with nloon soft cloths; sweet oil, and polishing with v.ii,iiivia is anoiner remedy. ' "The proper wav tr ha ih says a well-known hair-dresser, "is not to brush it lengthwise, but to hold the euus oi me nair, it it is long enough, and simply scrub the scalp with the brush. T e process promotes the circulation of the blood and excites the oil-glands to p-viVu. xvxtcr i uair nas Deen tnorouffh- a"cu " wayi " snouia be then finished with a few vigorous strokes lengthwise of the hair. BILL NYE'S LETTER. He Goes to See Jay Gould, and Tells How He Does His Haying. Some of the Beauties of Irvington A Visit to the Hornets and a Search for Better Tilings- Mr. Gould? s Little Piece. Copyright, 1890, by Edgar W. Nye. Eveiy summer I like to ride up to Irvington and spend a couple of days with Jay Gould. He treats me well while there at his bouse, and though nothing is said about it at the time there is a tacit understanding that I am to write a piece about him for the papers when I get home. It is the pleasantest time always to go up during the haying season, which be gins in J une and rages with more or less violt nee for two days. Irvington is a beautiful little nest of well-to-do farmers like Jay Gould, Cy Field and such thrifty grangers as Hank Villard, whose place is a little lower down the river at Dobb's ferry. Hank and Cy Field change work rs in haying, but Jay keeps help enough to put in all of hisgra3s h'mself. Sometimes he used to help Bob Hoe in haying, and Bob would help him in stacking, but since the death of Mr. Hoe Jay doesn't depend much on the help of the neighbors. Mr. Gould's place sits back from the main road quite a piece, and has an ell to it As you drive in you see four or five men with sheep shears trimming off the s'de whiskers on the mall. He has quite a good lot. of tillable land around the house and he has a conservatory about the size of the Paris exposition. In this he grows quite a quantity of rare exotics, such as four-o'clocks, marigolds, batch elor's buttons, "sturshons," morning glories and Johnny-jump-ups (or Johnny -jumps-up, rather) Mr. Gould is a great flDrticulturalist and raises his own seeds rather than trust to the gaudy but pre varicating catalogue of the professional seedsman. Across the main road from the house is the hay lot. It covers about five and three-fourths acres, perhaps, and so with twenty-seven men, all willing to pitch right in with enthusiasm, Mr. Gould is able to get his haying out of the way in time to give him a week in town. This year he was drawn on the jury in New York just as he was going into the hay field. For a while he didn't know whether to go down and make sure of his little old $2 a day, cr stick to the haying and save the crop; but finally he threw his scythe over his shoulder and said, "Come on, boys, they can get other jurymen, but you would be a long while getting another man to take my place in the hay field." 3 Later I saw by the paper that Mr. Gould was fined $100 for non-appearance when his name was called. " Is it true,'" I asked him yesterday at an equestrian lunch counter, " that the judge fined you $100 for contempt?" " Yes, said Air. tfoul f, removing a fillet of Wienerwurst from his whiskers and speaking in deep, interest-bearing netes, "I was fined $100 by the judge as you say, but I proved b one of my hired hands that I was a member of the Tarry- town Hook and Ladder company, and so the judge remitted the fine." On a bright June morning, when the wood bird wakes the echoes along the Hudson and the wren and the thrush come down to bathe their little beaks in the beautiful brook which sings past the door of Washington Irving's quaint and queer old home, the quick ear catches the sound of voices out behind Mr. Gould's barn. Following this sound one comes to a merry group of hands clustered about a large grinds one which has bacon rinds under the bearings. A small boy, reeking with perspiration, is turning the stone, while Mr. Gould with an old scyt e may be seen riding on top of it. There are other men about wlo could turn the grindstone easier than the small boy is turning it, but no one is hopeful enough to turn a Jgrindstone but a boy. It dis courages a man, so it is customary 10 secure a boy to do this heart breaking job, and generally a boy who is about to go fishing is selected. He grinds on hour after, while his worms are baking in the sun and his heart is slowly dying in his little bosom. Later on the merry work hands go joy ously afield. A jug containing spring water and a small straddle bag is taken to the lot and concealed under a swath of green grass. Mr. Gould, wearing a pair o brown linen trousers and blue Warn mus, together with a chip hat, rolls up his sleeves so as to reveal the raven pin feathers now slowly turning to iron gray which adorn his brawny arms. He then stands his scythe and swath up where he can get it, and pulling a large four-pound whet-tone from his pistol pocket, pro ceeds to put a keen wire-edge on his weapon. It is quite interesting to see Mr. Gould and twenty-seven willing husbandmen turn loose on a little bunch of grass and wipe it out ia two days. The hay is a mixture of red top, timothy and red clover, with ornamental hornets nests made of paper mache in the fence corners. In his conversation, Mr. Gould uses a good many railroad terms, of course, to gether with his farm slang, and most of his orders are siven to a bald-headed Spaniard with an ecru plastron of Ma gena whiskers, whose name is Terrance McClusky. " Terrance," said Mr. Gould the other morning as he swung the jug over his arm and took a drink, " I do not know but it would be cheaper next season to nx up the old mower. You see it costs me 108 now to mow this errass. Then new scythes and snaths each year $54 more ; $3 for whetstones, $8 for ornamental hornets' nests, and say $55 for board of hands. That is $228. or $38 per acre, say $40 per ton for our grass and last year the stock would not eat it. Now, the mower needs new countersunk washers on the reverse shaft bearing new tender frame center pins, new oil cups on waist uaici is.uees and new nmges on wnisue snaii arm. Am I right ? ' " 'Dade you air. Mister Gool." " Well, that will not cost over $35 or $40, and wilTgive all the mowing hands two days wnich thev sorely need for rest My coachman could drive the mower, I think, and the hands could rest or prune the sheep. " Yes, we laundry the sheep on the 15th', and we could shear them on the lGth and 17th,; I'm thinkm'; and, Mister GooL ye should get another sheep to as sociate wid the wan ye have or it'll be lonesome and die wid the augwe, as ye call it." "All right, Terrance; and I wish you would see what repairs the hay rack needs. Then you can couple on to it and take it to the machine shop. My idea that it only needs new cress heads babbiting, water-gauge ferrules, pet cock rod handles, steam-chest gland bashing and goose neck ring eves. It is said that much of the hard-earned money which Mr. Gjuld gets every month for his railroading is spent on his farm at Irvington. . He hasn't so much ground as Cy Field has, but it is under a higher state of cultivation. Mr. Gould likes to encourage crops, whilst Mr. Field prefers to see his grounds grow up kind o' wild, as they do in England. Jay has a peculiar weakness. It is for having real hornets on his country seat. He says he thinks it promotes acivity, and induces one to make gigantic strides toward some thing better. Mr. lield has quite a 1 dge or toll gate at the entrance to his grounds, where the lodge keeper's wife hangs out her clean clothes on Monday morning to scare the horses of the gent-y. Mr. Gould goes up at about 4 o clock on the New York Central Road, riding on an annual pass, and it is very rare that he is recognized by anybody. Quite often large railroad hog occupies the seat with Mr. Gould, and almost squats the life out of the man who has squeezed other people so much all fcis life. Mr. Gould stands it like a little man, however, and rarely squeals. The great financier seems quite old this summer, but he says he is looking for ward with hope to a bright mortality, lie said that he was glad to see me, for he wanted to tell me about a kind act which he did a year ago ic se -re, hoping that it would get into the papers before this, but it had not. He said that other folks could do, kind acts in secret somehow, and in forty-eight hours it would be in the papers, but he never could do it He then gave me a roll of soiled manu script in his own well known hand, which had evidently been returned by a good many editjrs during the past y ar, as it had certain blue marks of disapproval all over the back. It read as follows : "As the cold weather set in this year Mr. Gould began to ?o his butchering at Irvington. He generally kills three beef creatures and nine shotes in the fall with his own hand. He begins early in the morning to heat the water for scalditg his(hogs, and by sundown he is all through, and ready to cut up the meat as soon as it cools off. " Yesterday was a gala day for Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, and Tarrytown, for Mr. Gould gave out word in the morning to all the neighbors' boys that they would be welcome at the killing, and could help themselves to their choice of the various internal organs of the animals killed. Many poor people got their winter's tripe in this way, and as far even as Yonkers and Nyack people were supplied with sausage wrappers free. " It was a beautiful scene, in the midst of which Mr. Gould might have been seen cheerily skipping aout, and ever and anon opening up a fresh creature. It was an occasion which will lofg be remembered by the young people of Irvington, and fully illustrates the generosity and innate goodness of Mr. Gould. We trust that he may live long to give yet more delights and other such things to the young of the country.". I hope that the editor of this paper will see his way clear to print the inclosed, for it will not in any way compromise the paper, and I know it will do Mr. Gould much good. Bill Nye. P. S. Mr. Gould would like two extra copies of the paper a'so. B. N. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Squadron of evolution Darwinites. A chest protector The baggage mas ter's check. Lampoon. First Cherry " Why so gloomy ? Sec ond Cherry " O, I am to be pitted." West Shore. They call them cobble-stones, Freddy, because they are so hard on your shoe leather. Puck. "Is there anything sweeter than a peach?" "Yes. A pair. A bridal pair." New York Herald. The difference be", ween a liar and a hypocrite is that the liar is not always in curable. New York New. Talking of a national air, the strongest this country is able to furnish seems to be the cyclone. Philadelphia Times. When lovely women stoop to folly. And tries to make her daily bread, What power can soothe her melatcholy When her hu band calls it chunks of lead ? Texas Sif tings. We are now convinced that the only reliable ground hog is the common do mestic pork sausage. New York Herald. Cadley " What is it your little boy calls you?" Marlow "Pretty papa. Cadley "Isn't he rather young for sar casm ?" Harper's Bazar. Young Man ' How much money have you saved in your bank ? ' Smart Youth " If you give me a quarter, I will have just a dollar. Once-a Week. Stone walls do not a prison make Nor iron bars a cage ; The walls are brick, the bars are steel, In the progressive age. Washington Star. An old sailor at the navy yard remarked that there is one advantage in Arctic ex ploration. In the face of the gravest peril one can always keep cool. Boston Herald There is no particular difference be tween the shop f irl and the saleslady ; but the difference between them and the floor-walker are often something awful to behold. Puck. 44 I believe," said the baseball batter, " I've a right to fame and pelf," So, gritting his teeth with firm Intent, He struck ont for himself. Philadelphia Times. Peddler " Can I sell you some patent cement sir i Mr. eeedie " Cement f What do I want with cement?" Peddler Well you look as if you was broke." Boston Courier. A popular soprano is said to have a voice of fine timber, a willowy figure, cherry lips, chestnut hair and hazel eyes. She must have been raised in the lumber region Norristown Herald. A lecturer upon physical culture has recently decided ihat there is no rule for the size of a perfect foot" Exchange. " What is the matter with a twelve inch rule?" Boston Commercial Bulletin. That quadruped that Mary owned Had a naughty etyl . of buttin'; The youthful sheep lammed Mary so, She sold the thing for mutton. Plunder. Farmer's Wife" If you will help beat this carpet, I will give you something to eat" Dirty Davidson, the Tramp (haught ily) "Ma'am! I'm a gentleman! I never beat my way." Toledo Blade. " How's your family ?" " Pretty well, thank you." "Any of your daughters married yet?" ' No, and I don't under stand why they don't go off; tiey use powder ecough, goodness knows." Boston Courier. One day, when Senator Evarts was Secretary of State, he was entering the elevator at the department to go to his office, and looking around on the crowd of passengers, remarked: " This is the largest collection for foreign missions that I ever saw taken up." Argonaut A MEXICAN DESPERADO. Life and Adventures of the Infamous Juan Nepucemo Cortina a Born Bandit and Murderer His Whole sale Robbery and Slaughter of American Citizens. Texas has long been noted as a land of terrors, and, to own the truth, the title is not altogether unjust, says a Fort Davis letter to the New York Times. Due a lowance should be made, howe er, for her vast extent o territory, her mountain fastnesses and bottoms of chaparral and mesquite (ome of the latter nearly as thick and impenetrable as an East Indian jungle), and especially should Texas be commiserated because she is the unfor turate neighbor by some hundreds of miles of boundary to the very worst country on the face of the earth for out laws, renegades, and hard characters gen erally. Railroad trains plunging along through wild, unsettled tracts offer special induce ments to " road agents " and highway men, who are almost certain of immunity from capture. Then, again, the Rio Grande f pronounced Reo Grandee) in a dry, sandy trough eleven months out of twelve, and rascals oommitting depreda tions on this side can easily skip across into what is known as the "Zona Libre," or Free Zone, and be safe from both gov ernments. This' little belt of nondescript soil, stretching along the Rio Grande on the Mexican side for sixty miles or more, is and has been for years the safe refuge or retreat for all the cut-throats and outlaws of the southwest Steal a horse, murder a man, rob a train or commit some other deviltry, and all they had to do to be safe was simply to cross the Rio Grande dry shod and hide themselves amid the moun tainous rocks of " Zona Libre." To give an idea of what a man can do in this country and escape hanging it is only necessary to recite a few experiences of Juan Nepucemo Cortina, who is now alive, prospering under the care of the Mexican government. This old rascal, gray and aged in crime now, is a born bandit and murderer, and the catalogue of black crimes charged against him would alone be sufficient to fill a good sized volume. He always had an inherent l atred for citizens of the United States, and especially Texans. No red-handed Apache or any other savage or Indian has ever caused to our countrymen one tenth of the sorrow and misery this vil lain has. In his face may yet be discov ered the avaricious, malignant, cruel SLeer which has been a true exponent of his living character all the years of his life. When the war with Mexico broke out, Cortina was a stalwart young fellow, who took possession of nearly all of the lower Rio Grande country and carried on a deadly guerrilla warfare against our peo ple. He was, I believe, really comm s sioned by the Mexican government as a spy and assassin. When the Mexican war closed the guerrilla settled down, nominally to ranching and farming, but his true occupation was horse stealing and the running off of stock. When he stole, from Americans, a market was found for his plunder on the opposite s'de of the Rio Grande at Vfatamoras, Cindad Victoria, and other towns of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. When he despoiled his own countrymen, the animals were crossed over and driven far inland into Texas, principally to Goliad, which was then a flourishing frontier settlement on the lower San Antonio river. His skill at roping was remarkable aad his horse manship superb. None of that day could equal him in either of these accomplish ments. An old Texan ranger, who is himself pretty well along ia years, thus speaks of Cortina in his palmy days : " I knew the fellow well. He could handle the lariat better than any cowboy the northwest or southwest has ever pro duced, and as to his nerve, why with all his wickedness I must say that he was the nerviest and quickest man with a shooter I ever saw. One day in Browns ville (old Brown was a tough town then) Cortina was standing in the door of a saloon smoking a cigar and apparently looking at nothing, yet his eagle eye cov ered eve y thing and everybody in sight. His waist was a perfect arsenal of fire arms, and among others I noticed a large, double-barrelled, old fashioned horse pistol, which was stuck conveniently in front and within easy reach for quick use. " A row sprang up at the other end of the town which created some excitement A Mexican came running down the street, and at his heels the city marshal with pis tol cocked, who called to the fugitive to halt. The pursuer stopped, leveled his big pistol, and fired. The Mexican fell, winged, but not very badly hurt. Cortina stood quietly looking on and made no move to interfere until the Mexican tumbled heels over head in the dust Then he threw away the cigar he had been smoking,walked over to the marshal, cursed him in Spanish, drew his pistol like a flash, and shot the officer ir the face. Then leaping on the nearest hone (it was not his own), with revolver in hand, he rode out of town yellmg defiance at all Americans, but especially at Texans. " In the night he collected thirty des peradoes from somewhere, armed to the teeth, and dashing back . into the town at daylight to the Brownsville jail, determ ined to liberate every criminal and horse thief therein confined. Of Johnson, the jailer, they demanded the keys. " Come and get them,' said Johnson, holding them out with his left hand. One of the Mexicans spurred forward, and as he was about to take the keys the jailer shot him. Then retreating, he opened fire on the gang, but thirty revolvers riddled him with bullets, and the outlaws hacked his body .to pieces with their sabers. Cortina released the inmates of the jail, who were nearly all Mexicans of the worst type. One of the latter had a grudge against the prison blacksmith, Morris, for no other reason than because he had forged the fellow's fetters. Morris was called from his bed and ordered to knock the shackles off all of them, and when he had finished this unwelcome job the prisoner mentioned deliberately blew th9 poor blacksmith's brains ont. " Quite a number of ci izens were mur dered before the day's work was done and many stores were robbed." As a matter of fact, this outrage out lawed Cortina that is, as far as the United States and Texas were concerned. When Maximilian came along to attempt the conquest of Mexco, Cortina was soon in the saddle and practicing guerri-la war fare against the usurper. He actually performed great service for the home gov ernment, and in return received a com mission of full brigadier-general in the Mexican army. Soon afterward he be came governor of the State of Tamaulipas, and when holding this exalted position he encouraged the worst men in his province to raid across the Rio Grande and steal cattle and sheep from the Americans. While he was governor of Tamaulpis the grand jury at Brownsville at one sit ting indicted him no less than twenty seven times for murder, each one being a true and personal b.ll against the Mexican governor for separate offenses. But the Mexican government, as well advanced and as fair and just as it is to-day, cannot see in this arch rascal very much to con demn for he is now roaming the streets of Mexico a free man and without re straint, whi'e the result and effect of his crimes against Americans will not be for gotten nor overcome for years to come. MEETING OF BORDER ANCE. ALLI- The Border Farmers' Alliance of Vir ginia and North Carolina will meet, pur suant to adjournment, at Masonic Hall, Danville, Va., on Wednesday, August 20th, 1890, at 11 o'cloch a. m. All sub ordinate Alliances of the contiguous count es are requested and urged to send the same number of delegates as to the County Alliance Business of great im portance to the order in this section will come before this meeting, and a full rep resentation is earnestly desired. All members of the Alliance are wel comed to this meeting. Read this to your Alliance in open ses sion. J. H. Wilson, Pres't. P. W. Sutherlin, Sec'y. I MPORTANT TO COUNTY SECRE TARIES. County Secretaries who have not re ported, will please do so at once. 1 am obliged to make a report to the National Secretary and cannot do so until I get the reports from the counties. Please send at once. Hereafter I hope the County Secretaries will report within the first two weeks of the quarter. I hope you will collect the National dues and forward as fast as possible. I am sure if the Sub Alliance understood the necessity of pay ing up the National dues, they would be more prompt. The Alliance is gaining ground steadily in our State. Let us not hinder its work by any negligence or tardiness on our part .fraternally, E. C. Beddingfield, Sec'y N. C. F. S. A. ALLIANCE PEANUT UNION. The next meeting of the Alliance Pea nut Union of Virginia and North Caro lina will be held in Suffolk, Va., on Thursday, the 7 th day of August, at 10 o'clock a. m. Brothers J. Z. Ya'es and A. J. Raby will make arrangements in securing hall, etc. for the meeting. Alli ances belonging to the A. P. Union will send one delegate who will be prepared to report the acreage in peanuts in his district Other brethren interested ia growing peanuts will be welcomed. R. T. Barnes, Pres't, Newsjms, Va. R. S. Boykin, Sec'y, Ivor, Va. TO THE BRETHREN. We are receiving every day many let ters of inquiry about things relative to the business of this office, which are already answered in The Progressive Farmer. Owing to the large correspon dence and increasing business of this of fice we are unable to answer as promptly as we wish. We ask the brethren to please read The Progressive Farmer and it will save them much writing and will be a source of great benefit and pleasure to them, and relieve us of a large amount of work. Fraternally, W. H. Worth, S. B. A. NOTICE TO ALLIANCE MEN. It is the purpose of the Farmers' Alli ance and Knights of Labor to manufac ture pl'iir and smoking tobacco in the city of R-i'eigh, and in or 'er to enlist the sympathy and co operation of Alliance men, a meeting is called to be held in this city on the 18th of July to raise the cap ital stock necessary to begin the work' at the earliest possible time. Alliance men should encourage the manufacture in our own market of all raw materia-s raised on our farms. Home manufacturers create home demands and consequent better prices for our products. Shares of stock $5 eaih. R. J. Powell, Chm'n Board Directors. COUNTY BUSINESS AGENTS. I want your name, postoffice address and shipping point immediately after your election in July. This is important busi ness. W. H. Worth, S. B. A. IIOTHIIIG SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS. The reason Ii ADAM'S MICROBE KILLER it the moat wonderful medicine, is because it never failed in any in 8tance? no matter what the disease, from LEP ROSY to the simplest diseat e known to the hu man system. The scientific men ot to-day claim and prove that every disease is CAUSED BY MICROBES. AND RADALI'S MICROBE KILLER Exterminates the Microbes and drives them out of the system, and when that is done yoa cannot have an ache or pain. No matter what the disease, whether a simple case of Malaria Fever or a combination ot 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, and, in fact, every Dis ease known to the Human Sys tem. Beware of Fraululent Imitations! See that our Trade-Mark (same as above) appears on each jug filing fr- K-lr TTi'atnrir nf UiArnKa 1711aw given away by Lee, Johnson & Co , Druggists, sole agents, corner Fayetteville and Martin streets, Raleigh, N. C. IMPORTANT NOTICE. Dear Brethren: In future please write orders and letters on separate sheets of paper. It will save much time to this office, and we will be less liable to errors in transcribing your orders. When mark ing inquiries about orders and letters of importance please give date of same, and duplicate of the order. Don't fail to give your postofiice and also shipping point. In sending money please state who it is for. Fraternally, W. H. Worth, S. B. A. NOTICE FROM STATE EXECU TIVE COMMITTEE. The State Alliance does not pay the expenses of any one visiting or speaking to Alliances except the State Presidents and Lecturers, and any Alliances inviting speakers to address them should expect at least to pay their expenses. S. B. A LEXANDER, J. M. Mewborne, J. S. Johsston, Committee. TO COUNTY ALLIANCE PRESI DENTS. Old Sparta, N. C, Feb. 20, '90. In accordance with section 18 of tie statutory laws of the National body, I have this day appointed Bro. J. B. Oliver, Mt Olive, State Crop Statistician, and request that each County PresHent at once select a county crop tisticiitn and report his name and address to the State officer. These county officers will be re quired to make there reports during the year. One May 1st, snowing acreage; one August 1st, showing condition, and one in November, showing yield. The 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. WAKE COUNTY ALLIANCE BUSI NESS AGENCY READY TO WORK. The Wake County Alliance Business Agency is now established at 307 South Wilmington street, Raleigh, and the Agent is now ready to attend to the wants of the Alliancemen of the county. If you want to sell your farm products, stock, or the handiwork of your wives or daughters, or if you wish to purchase anything in this market, your Agent may be of material benefit to you. If you have stock of any kind to sell, give me a careful description and price of sam? that I may record it in this office, or if you wish to buy stock, call at this office and examine my registry. Consult this office on the market prices of all your producets, and bagging for covering your cotton. Cotton stored and money advanced on same at the lowest rates for charges. Let your wants be known at this Gt'u-.f and they shall be attended to. R. Jas. Powell, Bus. Agent. The National Economist Almanac is the cheapest and most valuable publication for farmers and Alliance men that has ever been presented to the public. It is a perfect hand-book and gives valuable facts aowhere else to be found. For two cash - subscribers to The Progressive Farmer, we will mail a copy of the almanac postpaid. You can't afford to do without it. It is worth ten thne3 the price. MILLSTONES, Rowan County Grit. The unsigned has bought the Rowan County Millstone Quarry of E. E. Phill'pa, deceased, and will continue to supply the public demand for Millstones from this celebrated grit. Millstones and all kinds of Granite work delivered on board cars at Salisbury, N. C, at the lowest possible price. Address, J. T. WYATT, Lock box 140, Salisbury, N. C. RULING OF PRESIDENT CARR. When a State or District Lecturer, or any State officer, organizes an Alliance, it is his duty to pay the organizer's fee to the State Secretary, to be paid into the treasury of the State Alliance, or he should account for the amount as part of his salary.