THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, SEPTEMBER 30, 1890.
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OUR LOST LOVED ONE.
BT KATB C. FLEMING.
Death laid Its icy hand
Upon onr last loved one;
Not In the fond home circle,
But In a far distant land.
He came not at dawn,
Nor in the silent night;
But in the toft even'tid ,
Just as :he etars we e shining bright
All through the day they watched him,
All through th-J starry night;
'Till that dear voice waa huehed In silence,
And his spirit had winged its flight.
There was no mother's heartrending shriek,
No friends or relatives near,
To offer up a word of p ayer,
No one to shed a tear.
It was wafted o'er the wires,
As it it were some message of love;
W hen Sid hearts were to receive it,
Aiid pray to God for mercy from above.
He has gone, we hope, above us;
Far, far from sorrow's rod;
Standirg by the 4 Beautiful River
That flows b the throne of God."
The Saviour has taken dear Johnnie,
Our loved and cherished gem.
To shine beyond the twilight's purple 'ale,
As a star in a diadem.
He has reached that world of light,
Watchir.g you with holy love;
la the brrezes hear him whisper,
" I am waiting you above."
He was borne away from home and pleasure,
Fiona native hill and vale,
In search of lualih, that golden treasure,
Which God alone can give.
But alas! no earthly aid could cure him,
No innty Sculhern skies;
He tough , in vain the western landscape.
And there had hoped to seize the prize.
A we gazod on that still face
It b ought back sweet memories of the paa
Wh ch still linger around our hearts,
As we a cend beyond the mind's futile gra? p.
Gone, gone, forever gono ;
Gone from the sight of human eyes;
Dead in a desolate land above,
Away from the hz&n thit loves him he llei.
He has left alone a loved on-,
It was sad for them to part;
Yet that spirit hovers near him,
With a throbbing, ac eing heart.
The ways of earth are dark and lene,
But Fuher be thou my guide;
On! let thy hanc clapmy own,
And lead me safely to thy side.
Farewell dear one, it may be for the best,
Lovtd ones have gone before;
Bat soon we all shah be at rest,
Where parting In no mare.
Vaughan, N. C.
SPONGE CAKE.
Three eggp, bt at t wo minutes, add one
and one-half cups of sugar, beat five min
utes, add one cup of flour, beat one min
ute, add one hab cup of cold water, beat
one minute, add one cup of flour, contain
ing one and one half teaspoonfuls of bak
ing powder, and beat one minute.
CREOLE PUDDING.
at eight eggs with half a pound of
sugar, half a pound of butter and the juice
cf one lemon. Line a deep dish with
puff paste, cover with quince preserves,
pour over a little of the mixture, lay on
more preserves, then more of the mixture
and preserves. Bake and eat with sauce.
FLOUR DUMPLINGS.
One-half cup of sweet milk, one heap
ing teaspoonful of baking powder; mix
stiff enough to form in cakes with the
hands. This makes about seven. Drop
in the kettle where chicken or meat is
boiling (do not let them sink beneath the
water), cover tight and cook fifteen or
twenty minutes.
. CRULLERS.
One cupful of sugar,- a piece of buter
the size of an egg, rubbed well into the
flour, two eggs bea'en into the sugar and
butter, one cup of milk, three tea-spoonfuls
of bakiDg powder mixed into a cupful
of flour. Add a little salt, unless the but
ter is very salt. Flavor with 1 J teaspoon
fuls of lemon extract. Mix very soft.
A NICE DESSERT.
No more wholesome dessert can be
made than "pop-overs," if they are light
and well baked, and it is one that is al
most universally liked. A. good propor
tion f . r these is four eggs, two cups of
milk, two cups of flour and salt They
should be baked in small earthenware
cups, which are sold for the purpose, and
the oven must be of m; derate tempera
ture. BAKED OMELET.
Five eggs, half-cup milk, quarter-cup
fine bread crumbs, tablespoonful melted
butter ; pepper and salt to taste. Soak
the crumbs in the milk ten minutes; beat
the eggs very light, the whites and yolks
separately; stir the soaked crumbs, the
milk, the butter and seasoning into the
yolks, and mix the whites in li?htlv.
Pour into a well-greased pudding dish,
and bake in a qu:ck oven.
SCOTCH PUDDING.
One quart of stale bread crumbs, grated,
and seasoned with salt, pepper and pow
dered sage. Add one pint of minced
boiled mutton, one well-beaten egg, one
cnopped onion and one pint of mutton
broth. Bakft in r hnt nvon nntn j
. u uui,u u.i ixi auu
browned upon the top. When cold, slice
in thin slices. Beef or chicken soup may
be used instead of mutton, but the Scotch
receipt calls for mutton.
CHERRY ROLYPOLY.
Sift half a pound of flour into a bowl,
add one quarter of a pound of suet,
chopped fine, about a quarter of a tea
spoonful of salt and just water enough to
make a dough that can be rolled out on a
board. Roll the crust nea-ly an inch
truck, spread the cherries evenly over it
and dredge them lightly with flour. Roll
it up, put it in a floured cloth and pin it
securely. Put it in a pot of boiling water
and boil it, without stopping, two hours.
LITTLE SPONGE CAKES.
andvnaikJnt? S6parate bowls lhe whltes
of suit L .8iX tFS- Add six s
f;S e yolks of the and the
juice of one leu.on. Beat the yolks, sugar
bnbrW Jul(V0her till the miss
bubbles then add the whites of the eggs,
Thiti fTe hei beaten t0 a iff frotk
The whites of the egg must be stirred in
1 Y' .as not t0 break the mass
arS' li SIX ounces of flour must be
m, a momeQt the sponge cake is
form? .mUftJbe Pured int0 the small
wen 1 1Dttrlded for it, which should be
wen greased and just before they are set
m the oven dredged with powdered sugar.
erall0Dge,Cake in a stead7 t mod
erately heated oven.
FEEDING A FIRE SOME IDEA
OF THE WORK OF A LOCO
MOTIVE FIREMAN.
Incessant Action and Intelligent Direc
tion Necessary Passenger Train
Engines the Hardest to "Fire"
Why the Gauge Should
Have Attention.
Little has been written of the locomo-
t ve fireman. Like the ne wspaper reporter,
his ide tity is sunk in the greatness of
his machine and the prominence of his
superiors. He is seldom heard from un
less he neglects to jump at the critical
moment and his name appears m the lists
of the' dead or wounded. A passing
notice is all he receives until he serves the
full period of the slavery of a locomotive
gangway and moves from the fireman's
box on the left of the cab to tae engine-
man s dox on the ns:ht, and then he is a
fireman no longer.
Few of the travelers gliding across the
country in comfortable pissenger coaches
give a thought to the motive power that
enables them to visit two or three States
in a day. They can not realize that there
js any severe labor attached to the trip.
They see the neaJy-uniformed conductor
who leisurely treads the aisles, the indolent
brakeman lounging from one end of the
train to the other, and the white-jacketed
colored porter, evidently not suffering from
overwork. These visions do not give the
traveler any very vivid impression of
hard work. But while they are appearing
and reappearing there is one man who is
"earning his bread by the sweat of his
brow," and that is the fireman. Dirty,
begr mmed and greasy from head to foot,
the fireman is performing duties that no
two of the passe: gers in the train behind
him would care to undertake, were they
capable of so doing. There is very little
poetry and a vast deal of reality in an
engine cab, especially the cab of a pass-
enger engine. The tram is running at
high speed; the eLgine is the motive
power; steam i3 is life, and in it devolves
upon the fireman to tupply the steam.
Many people would say : "Why, thats
easy enough ! All he does is to - put in
coal."
"All he has to do is to put in coall"
It would be great sport to see the au
thors of such remarks " put in the coal "
It would be interesting to watch them
climbering from the box to the gangway,
and the gangway to the box a few times
while performing the double duties of
firing and watching the track ahead.
Putting in the coal is all right, but
when the coal is put in every two or three
minutes it soon becomes monotonous and
shortly fatiguing, especially on a twelve
or fifteen-hour trip. The prac ical fire
man becomes used to his work, however,
and is able to keep up during the trip.
Me not only " puts in a hre every two
or three minutes, but he is obliged to put
it m rightly and scjientihjally. It would
be impossible for a green fireman to keep
up the proper amount of steam for a
passenger engine or to "keep her hot."
The fire-box of a locomotive is a treacher
ous thing to one not understanding it.
The box is from six to eight feet in
some cases ten feet in length, and four
or five feet in width. The bottom is
composed of two movable grates which
are so placed as to leave crevices at the
ends and sides which are virtually con luits
for the draught. At the front end of the
firebox are the flues. A fireman who
knows his business understands the con
struction of the box thoroughly. He is
careful not to "fire" too much in front
and thus shut up the flues, and he " feeds "
to the ends and sides, thereby closing up
the crevices and shutting out the cold air
which would speedily cool the flues and
destroy their steaming power. Not so
much attention is paid to the center, al
though the coal must be 3venly distributed
and, in no case, allowed to " heap " which
would result in big cinders to clog the
grates. Nor must the fire be heavy. Too
much coal is almost as bad as none at all.
The fireicg must be light and frequent to
steam quickly. A heavy fire would burn
slowly and the steam would rise slowly,
and this would never do.
An ordinary "fire" is four or five
scoopsful well thrown and evenly distribu
ted, and a little high at the ends and
sides.
The speed of the engene depends upon
the ability of the fireman to " steam her,"
and thus the fireman is the important
factor in running a train. Some engines
" team " more readily than others, but
all of them require skill in fireing and a
great deal of work. An ordinary switch
engine will burn about three tons of coal
in twenty-four hours, while road engines
will burn from ten to fifteen tons. The
heavier the load or the greater the speed,
the more stean and coal is required.
But the fireman's hardest lot is when
his run is heavy and his engine " gets to
leaking." Engines poorly "packed" or
loose in their joints will leak steam with
astonishing rapidity and it requires aeon
stant effort to keep them up to the work
ing notch. The working notch or "when
she pop3 " is, on an average, about 135
pounds of steam. Some engines, are set
at 140 pounds pressure before the escape
valve will raise and the extra steam escape.
O a an engine where the gauge reaches
135 pounds the fireman aims to keep a
pressure of between 125 and 135 pounds.
Sometime?, of course, the steam will run
down to 110 or 100, when the work is
heavy, but a good fireman will never let
her down below that.
In some Ea3tern States the number of
pounds of steam which an engine may
cany is regulated by law, ljut in the West
ern States little attention has been paid
to the matter. In consequf nee, some en
gineers who are possessed of more am
bition than judgment will rate their en
gines as high as 150 pounds in order to
make a running record, and it is a danger
ous custom which is liable at any time to
result in disaster. Not long ago the
writer's attention was called to an engine
on a Missouri road which did not "pop,"
or blow off steam at 170 pounds. The
engineer was proud of his reputation as a
" runner," and was foolishly risking his
own life and the lives intrusted to his care
for the sake of a little notoriety. In
such cases the fireman's lot is a slavish
one, and the labor required to keep up
his engine is simply tremendous.
In addition to firing, the fireman is re
quired to keep his machine, inside the
cab, clean, and " bright works " must be
kept spotless. Such trifling duties as
ringing the bell, keeping a sharp lookout
ahead, and watching for signals are thrown
in just to keep him in pra:tice during the
few m'nutes he may chance to tpend on
his seat box
After he has served in this capacity
from three to seven years, and he is sue
cessful in passing the examination in
which reading and writing a-e the easiest
branches the fireman is placed on the
extra list, and after six months' trial he
becomes an engineer. Often, however,
the fireman lacks certain requirements or
has bad luck at the start, and has an acci
dent or smashup, and he is condemned to
another long term of shoveling coal which
may be made a perpetual occupation.
F.remen, as a rule, are a steady class of
men ; they must be, as it is from them
that eng nemen are made. The firemen
have a brotherhood which is second only
to the engineers' in importance, and the
order is doing a deal of good in preparing
its meuiberu to become capable and reli
able engineers. Kansas City Star.
HOOSIER SHREWDNESS.
At Guessing the Native of Indiana is the
Equal of any Yankee.
One day, as I was riding through the
lower end of Tipton county, Indiana, I
came upon a native, who was engaged in
picking trash and burning logs m a
little clearing by the roadside, writes Ed.
R. Pntchard m the Arkanaw Traveler.
Not knowing exactly the best way to
reach the neighborhood I desired to visit,
I reined my h rse up at the fence and
asked the Hoosier to direct me the way
to Bennett's mills.
"Wall," he replied, pausing in his work
and seating himself on a stump that stocd
conveniently near, "I 'low it's a matter
of five miles, though it mout be a leetle
grain less. You jess keep this road fer
bout a milk furderon; then you turn to
your right an' go north 'til you come to
the second cross roads ; then turn west
and keep straight ahead 'till you git to the
mills."
I thanked him ard was about starting
off when he hailed me and aid :
" I reckon it mightent be none of my
business, stranger, bat I'd like to ask you
a question er two, ef you've no objec
tion" " All right, fire away," said I.
" Well, then, I'd jss like ter know
what you're going down to Bennett s
fer?"
" Well," said I. " there is a man down
there that owes me some money, and as
I'm hard up myself I thought I'd see if I
could collect it."
"I thought so," he answered; "and
now I'll bet a dollar I kin guess the feller's
name the first pop ; an' I'll bet a .uther
dollar on top o' that one that you don't
git a cent "
"Well?"
"I see y. u won't bet, so I'll jes? tell
you fer fun. The feller is J ake Rodkey
an he hain t worth shucks. You re jess
wastin' your time a-rid in' round the
country tryin' to git money out of him."
The fellow had named the very man 1
was going to see and about whose finan
cial soundness I myself had serious doubts,
but having got this much information
rom an entirely unexpected source, 1 was
naturally anxious to get more.
"Well, my friend,' 1 said, "youve
guessed the man; but what makes you
think that he won't pay me what he
owes? The claim is just, and besides,
has been standing a long time."
" It's fer a mowm machine you sold
him more'n two years ago, hain't it?"
" Yes, I answered, now more puzzled
than ever that a man whom I had never
met before should know more about my
affairs than I did myself. " Yes," I con
tinued, " and there's a balance of nearly
fifty dollars still due.
" Mout as well be fitty thousan , an
swered the native; ' Jake could pay it
ess as easy.
Concluding that the fellow was chaffing
me and thinking to let him know that
act, I said:
" Oh, I think Jake will pay me, at any
rate I'll just ride on over and see him."
" Wall, he answered, with a grin, " if
you're bound to see him you'd better take
s )me men with spades an' a screw driver,
relse you 11 fiad him perty hard to git at.
"Whit do y:u mean? '
"Why, nothin'; only that Jake Rod-
key s aeadern a mackerel, we ouned
him last week over in the Bald Hill bury-
in groun, oout er mile north or the
mills."
" Is it possible ?" I exclaimed.
" Course it is. I was at the funeral,
an' I reckon I know a dead man when I
see him."
" I've no doubt of it," I answered ; and
bidding him good day I pursued my
journey. Sure enough, 1 found on reach
ing Bennett's mills that my man was
dead, and also that I stood no earthly
show of collecting my bill. I never did
learn, though, how the native knew who
I was and the nature of my business, but
have always supposed he simply did a
good job of guessing.
UNCLE REMUS.
Brother Fox Makes a Narrow Escape.
From Nighta With Uncle Remus.
The next time the little boy had an op
portunity to visit Uncle Remus the old
man was alone, but he appeared to be in
good spirits. He was cobbling away
upon what the youngster recognized as
'Tildy's Sunday shoes, and singing snatches
of a song someth'ng like this:
" O, Mr. Rabbit yo' eye mighty big
Yes, tny Lord, dey made fer tef see ;
Oh Mr. Rabbit I yo' tail mighty short
Yes, my Lord ? tit des fits me !"
The child waited to hear more, but the
song was the same thing over and over
again always about Brother Rabbit's big
eyes and his 'short tail. After awhile
Uncle Remus acknowledged the presence
of his little partner by remarking :
" Well, sir, we er all yer. Brer Jack
and Sis Tempy en dat ar 'Tildy nigger
may be a pacin' 'roun' lookin' in de fence
cornders fer Chris'mus, but me en you en
ole Brer Rabbit, we are all yer, en ef we
aint right on de spot, we er mighty close
erroun'. Yasser, we is dat;-mo' speshually
ole Brer Rabbit, wid he big eye and he
short tail. :Don't tell me 'bout Brer Rab
bit!" exclaimed Uncle Remus, with a
great apparent enthusiasm, " kaze dey
aint no use er talkin' 'bout dat creetur."
The little boy was very anxious' to
know why..
" Well, J tell you," said the old man.
In Ohsprvunpo rf Atrmomanf Tliir
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Your Leadixg Clothiers,
" One time de wuz a n onst'us dry season
in de settlement whar all de creeters live
at, en drinkia'-water got mighty skace.
De creeks got low, and de branches went
dry, en all de springs make der disappear
ance 'cep'n one great big un whar all de
creeturs drunk at. Dey'd all meet dar,
dey would, en de bigges' 'ud drink fus',
en by de time de big uns all done swaje
der thuss dey want a drap lei ter de little
uns skacely.
" Co se Brer Rabbit uz on de happy
side, Ef any body gwme git water Brer
Rabbit de man. De creeturs ud see he
track 'roun' de spring, but de aint nev'
ketch 'im. Hit got so atter w'ile dat de
big creeturs 'ud crowd Brer Fox out, en
den 'twan't long 'fo' he hunt up Brer Rab
bit en ax 'im w'at he gwine do.
"Brer Rabbit, he sorter study, en den
he up'n tell Brer Fox fer ter go home en
rub some 'lasses all on hisse'f en den go
out en waller in de leafs. Brer Fox ax
w'at he mus' do den, en Brer Rabbit say
he mus' go down by de spring en w'en
de creeturs come ter de spring fer ter git
dey water, he mus' jump out at 'urn, en
den atter dat he mus' waller lak he one er
dem ar kinder varment w'at got bugs
on um
"Brer Fox, he put out fer home, he did,
en w'ei he git dar he run ter de cubbud
en des gawm hisse'f wid 'lasses, en den he
went out in de bushes, he did, en waller
ez de leafs en trash twell he look mos' bad
in Brer Rabbit lo k w'en he play Wuh-
er-de-Wu?t on de creetu-s.
"W'en Brer Fox git hisse'f all fix up,
he went down ter de spring en hide his
se'f. Bimeby all de creeturs come atter
der water, tn w'iles dey 'uz a-scuffin' en
a hunchin', en a pushm', en a-scrougi
Brt-r Fox he jump out'n de bushes en
sorter switch hisse'f 'roun', en, bless yo'
soul, he look lak de Ole Boy. '
" Brer Wolf tuck'n see im fus, en he
ump spang over Brer B'ar head. Brer
B'ar, he lip back, en ax who dat, en des
time he do dis de t'er creeters dey tuck'n
make a break, dey did, lak punkins rollia'
down hill, en mos' 'fo youk'n wink yo'
eye-ball, Brer Fox had de range er de
spring all by hisse'f.
" lit 'twan't fur long, kaze 'to de cree
turs moved fur, dey tuck'n tu'n 'roun',
dey did, -en crope back fer ter see w'at
dat ar skeery lookin' varment doin'.
W'en dey git back in seein' distuns dar
'uz Brer Fox walkin' up en down switch
in' hisse'f. -
" De creeturs dunner w'at ter make un
im. Dev watch, en Brer Fox march, dey
watch, en he march. Hit keep on dis
away twel bimeby Brer Fox 'gun ter wal
ler in de water,, en right dar," continued
Unile Remus, leaning back to laugh,
'right dar 'uz whar Brer Rabbit had 'im.
Time he 'gun ter waller in de water de
'lasses 'gun ter melt en 't van'tno time
skacely 'fo' de 'lasses en de leafs done all
wash off, en dar 'uz de ole Brer i?ox des
ez natchul ez life.
" De fus Brer Fox know 'bout de leafs
comin' off, he year Brer B'ar holler on
top er de hill :
"'You head 'im off down dar, Brer
Wolf, en I'll head 'im off 'roun' yer!'
" Brer Fox look 'roun' en he see all de
leafs done come off, en wid dat he make
a break, en he wan't none too soon, ner,
kaze little mo'n de creeturs 'ud a kotch
'im
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Without giving the litt'e boy time to
ask any questions, Uncle Remus added
another verse to his Rabbit song, and
harped on it for several minutes :
" O Mr. Rabbit ! yo yer mighty long
Yes, my Lon; ! dey made fer ter las';
O Mr. liabbit yo' to of mighty sharp
Yes, my Lord 1 ley cuts down grass !"
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
Lots of Things Happen in Those West
ern Towns.
We extract the following from the last
issue of the Arizona Kicker:
Notice. If the party who threw the
brick at U3 last Tuesday night as we stood
on the corner of Apache avenue and
Green street will call at our office he will
hear something to his advantage. We
can make him realize in about five minutes
that men of his talent are wasting then
time in this country. He can also make
his choice of 165 eligible sites in our pri
vate burying-ground free of cost. Come
early and avoid therush.
No Boom. For two straight years the
Kicker has persistently opposed the idea
of a boom to attract attention to our
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by us to fit, to wear and to suit you equal to anything you could be measured
usage of the youngsters. All ages, sizes
&. D. T3E RWANGEB,
town. We have watched this boom busi
ness in scores of other places, and in every
instance it has re-acted disastrously. Our
course has aroused the ire of certain spec
ulators, but we shall continue it just the
same. We've got 200 acres of cactus
pasture which we would like to dispose
of to some Ohio farmer who wants to bet
ter his . ondition and who could be worked
up to part with $3,000 in cash, but we
haven't the cheek. We own half a mile
of side hill, which won't even grow rat
tlesnakes, but we haven't the gall to boom
it for a peach orchard. A million years
hen?e we may have six railroads here, but
we can't force ourselves to whoop -la!
hurrah! over the prospect. We own
about fourteen billion dollars' worth of
wild -cat mining stock, every mine being
in the clouds, but for our honesty we'd
proceed to boom and unload. We are at
the head of a company to turn the Pacific
Ooean into the deserts of the West
president of an artesian well company
secretary of the Great Strawberry Grow
ers' Association, etc., etc., but we were
born honest and we can't look a tender
foot in the eye and lie to him.
N07- gentlemen, this town is what it is
and no more. It isn't going to be a sec
ond Chi ;ago. It has no Niagara Falls.
There isn't even good fishing within thirty
miles of us. We simply have the great
Arizona Kicker, 148 s-aloon?, sixteen gamb
ling houses, five stores and a population
of 3,800 souls, most of which will take
"the other road" when the judgment day
arrives. That's all, and those who don't
want to come can stay away.
Personal Mrs. Judge Embo, who has
been absent at Tuoson for tho past two
weeks, returned last night, and, as usual,
found the Judge so drunk that he couldn't
tell her from a Digger Indian. She didn't
go away for her general health, but to
get over a black eye inflicted by the Judge
in one of his sober moments.
Calls for Sympathy Maj. McKnight,
our popular and efficient City Clerk, met
with a sad accident last Sunday. While
trying to enjoy a drunk, a hammock, a
smoke and a nooze at the same time, he
set himself on fire and was so badly
burned that he will not be out of his bed
for two weeks. The Major has many
friends who will sympathize wilh him in
his misfortunes.
In the Wrong "Handsome Charlie,"
the genial and enterprising proprietor of
"The Black Swan" saloon, has c-lied at
this office and convinced us that we were
wrong in stating that he had killed seven
men and was a dangerous character. His
list includes only four men, a'l laid away
in self-defense, and so far from being
dangerous he says that he has refused to
put up fly screens ti is summer out of
general pity for the poor flies. He also
has pictures of three different angels on
the walls of his bedroom.
We cheerfully make the correction, not
because the gentleman subscribed for five
copies of the Kicker to be sent to his
friends and gave us a $30 "ad.," which
will be found elsewhere, but because we
wish to do all men justice.
Fair Warning. Ben Stays, the eating
house man, has made public threats to
wring our nose on the streets. The
trouble dates back to a year ago, when
Ben tried to pass some cactus soup on us
for mock turtle.
Ben may attempt to wring our nasal
organ. He may even 6gu:e thathecm
succeed. We give him fair warning,
however, that he'll have to be prepared
to dodge six bullets, and if he doesn't
happen to be quiok enough it won't make
us feel very bad.
Uncle Pete (having-been landed upside
down, and his load strewed for a quar
ter of a mile along the road) B'rer Jons
ing say w'en he sol' me dat anemil dat he
hed one fault, but he couldn't remember
w'at it was. I shouldn't be soaprized ef
dis wa? de berry one. Harper's Weekly.
SUB BUSINESS AGENTS OF
MOORE COUNTY.
You are requested to meet the County
Business Agent at Jonesboro Thursday
September 18th, or at Carthage, Friday,
19th, to attend business of importance.
Do not fail to attend. Hour of meeting,
12 o'clock. D. O. Bryan, C. B. A.,
Moore County F. A.
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The Bciontiflo men 0!
to-day claim and prove
that every disease is
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AND
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Exterminates the Microbes and drives them
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Send for book " History of Microbe Killer,"
given away by Lee, Johnson & Co , Drugjrista,
so e agents, corner Fayetteville and Martin
streets, Raleigh, N. C.
NOTICE.
The stockholders of the Border Farm
ers' Alliance Warehouse Company will
meet at Masmic Hall at 11 o'clock in
Danville, "a., on Wednesday, the 3d day
of September, , 1890, for the purpose of
electing a board of directors and attend
ing to other important business.
Jas. H. Wilson, Pres't B. D.
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 postoffice and also shipping point.
In sending money please state who it is
for. Fraternally,
W. H. Worth, S. B. A.
WAKE COUNTY ALLIANCE BUSI
NESS AGENCY READY
TO WORK.
The Wake County Allh.nce 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 yon
have stock of any kind to sell, give me a
careful description and price of same that
T may record it in this office, or if you
wih to b'iy stock, call at this offi and
Hxanauie my registry. Consult thU office
on the market prices of all your produceta,
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 office and
they shall be attended to.
R. Jas. Powell, Bus. Agent
The National Economist Almanac is the
cheapest and most valuable publication
for tanners and Alliance men that has
ever been presented to the public. It is
a-perfect hand-book and gives valuable
facts nowhere else to be found. For two
cash subscribers to Thk Progressive
Farmer, we will mail a copy of the
almanac postpaid. You can't afford to do
without it It is worth ten times the.
price. ""