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THE PROGRESSIVE E ARMERr BEGEMBER 2,- 1890;
S1r THI PBOGRKS8IYB FlBKBl.
A LITTLE GRAVE.
.r ia von lonesome wood,
fbere is a litt.e grave,
rtfava beside the road
Where the wild flowers ware.
nit in my lonely hours
rve turned my footsteps there,
rheiios the little flowers
G To make a garland fair.
rTe made a garland fair.
From little flowers that ware.
And oit I've wandered there
To lay it on the grave.
t remember, years ago
BUiUing little face
That now I see no more
In its accustomed place.
ft lies beside the road,
In a cold little grave,
tfhere the wild daisies nod
And in the breezes wave.
ind soon I shall sleep
In a grave by the road,
tfhere little flowers peep,
And the wild daisies nod.
Orinoco, N C.
$xomhol&.
APPLE CUSTARD.
Pare and grate two large, tart appl s ;
. i i r..i i j i ii
iffht of sugar, jui e and grated rind of
0Be lercon, yolks and whites of six eggs,
separaiy beaten, tine dish with puff
paste, and bake like custard.
LYONNAISE POTATOES.
Cut some cold boiled potatoes into
small square blocks; shred half an onion
fineh ; drop potatoes and onion into boil
in? lani and fry a light brown; drain on
' j i :
APPLE AND TAPIOCA PUDDING.
To a teaspoonful of tapioca use a quart
of boiling water; let stand a while
and suften; sweeten a little, add a
lump of butter the size of a
walnut, then slice in tart apples,
sufficient to make a layer over the top
Bake until the hpp'es tie tender. Eat
with sweetened cream.
FRUIT CAKE.
Raisins and spices to taste, one cup mo
lasses, one cup brown sugar, one cup
shortening, two egg. two teaspoonfuls
soda, three cup9 flour, two cup dried
apples (not soaked). Beat al together
and stir ;n raisins and spice to suit. Sok
the apples over oight. In the morn ng
put in the molasses and sugar, boiling
down quite thick.
CRAB APPLE SHORT CAKE.
Two cupfuls of thick, sour cream, a
pinch of salt, a small spoonful of foda,
and flour to make a stiff batter; place in a
deep pie tin and bake a light brown.
Have ready a quart of sauce, made of
crab-apples and sugar stewed thick. Split
the cake when d ne. butter each half and
ipread with the sauce. Serve with the
juice sweetened and slightly thickened
witk com starch.
CHEESE SANDWICHES.
One-fourth pound f crumbled cheese,
the yolk of a hard boiled egg, a table
ipoonful df melted butter, one-half tea
gpoonful of salt, a dash of pepper, one
half teaspoonful of made mustard, a table
spoonful of milk, and thin slices of bread
or biscuits, lightly but evenly buttered.
Put the hard yolk in a small bowl, make
smooth with a spoon, add the butter,
cheese and seasoning, mixing well, and
lastly the milk.
SALT FISH CHOWDER.
Shred up a pint bowl full c f salt fish
and let it soak in cold water about two
hours. Fry a few slices of fat salt pork
the same as for clam chc wder, and put in
the bottom of your kettle, then about
thre pints of sliced potatoes, three sliced
onions and one pint of bread crt mos,
sprinkle with one-half teaspoonful of
black pepper, and add hot water enough
to cover; boil until the potatoes are soft,
then add one pint of mdk and let it boil
up once, and it is ready to serve. If the
fish and pork do not make it salt enough
alt to taste.
SPONGE CAKE.
One tup of sugar, one egg, two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder, a scant one
half cup of sweet milk, one and one -half
cups of flour and one-third cup of boiling
water ; flavor to taste ; beat the egg thor
oughly, add the sugar and milk, then the
flour, slowiy, stirring well, having sifted
the baking powder in thoroughly; add
seasoning, and when the whole beaten
Weil, and the C&kft hr ia rpmlv arid rn.
third cup of boiling water quickly, and
lino me oven at once. This is nice
or layer cake also. MilV in tWa
with sugar, is better for filling and frost
ing too. &
HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS.
.fint tne tongues of your fever patients
itn glycerine, says a physician ; it will
remove the sensation of thirst and dis
gmfort felt when the organ is dry and
iVu8 underwear now so much worn
would not be rubbed on the washboarl,
na?e soap mooed on it, unless on specially
spoiled gpots it should be gently
iqueezed in the hands in a lather of tepid
water. r
Grease spots if old, maybe removed
jrom books by applying a solution of
i!Cg, 6treDgth of caustic potash upon
!, back of the leaf. The printing, which
s somewhat faded after the removal
dW Fp0t' may be fres&ened by the ap
riat f a mixture of one part of mu-
c acid and twenty-five parts of water.
bv Ae m e country who are annoyed
J nies should remember that clusters of
e tragxant clover which grows abund
auy by nearly every roadside, if hung in
fat?001 and Mt to dry and shed its
fragrant perfume through the air,
8auo f away more flies than sticky
cers of molasses and other fly traps and
UJ papers can ever collect.
the best methods of cleaning
of v, ,esia to a full teaspoonful
'household ammonia into a basin of
bS0Watei: Dip the bristles in and rub
With o W,ltH the' hand' r better "till,
clean sh Whea thoroughly
eansed put m the sun to dry, bridle sid4
4nseIatonUcPehe8ma7be
BILL NYE'S LETTER.
Misery of the Guest and the President
The Chair for Appearances Only.
Oste sible Peterson's Laudable Ambition
Bints on Table Etiquette" HilCs
Manual of Penmanship"
Other Things
Noted.
Copyright by Edgar W. Nye
A man who signs himself Ostensible
Peterson, of North Wattlebury township,
Mass , writes as follows :
" have just attained my majority, aad
feel ready to enter up the duties of life
with great zest there are a great many
things of which I would like to know
more of. I learn with great rapidity,
and now know as much useful knowledge
as many men who are twice my age
knows.
" I want to know more about banquets,
and how to appear and speak at them.
We think of having one here soon. I
wish you would give me a few points, for
you certainly must be- authority on these
things. Will you answer through the
papers, so as that others which may wish
to know more of this matter may also
have ths pportunity ?"
Su xjess in life is nc t due so much to in
herent genius as it is to the ability to go
to the right place for what you want to
know Y ou have sh wn the first quali
fication necessary to success. Ostensible,
and you deserve co win. You may be in
rather nebulous and gummy state men
tally, but you know where to go for in
formation anyhow.
Banquets, according to " Hill's Manual
of Penmanship, Calisthenics, Etiquette,
Common Law and Diseases of horses,"
are given in h nor either of some noted
occasion or some dis inguished foreigner
or pro-ninent citizen, generally by an or
ganization or association of men."
The guest of the evening nay be readily
discovered by his ill-conceal -jd anguish.
He smile? on all with the same bright and
bubbling joy that is felt by a man who
canvasses the infernal regions in the in
terests of a largt powder works, carrying
his samples with him from point to point.
He tries to jot down a few points on
the back of a menu, sweetens his con
somme and tries to look tickled, but the
horror of his own fermenting thought
w rks, and the sharp prongs on his un
born speech take away his appe ite, and
his bright, au omatic smile, frozen upon
his white features, looks I ke the mirth on
the face of an ice cream Ju las Iscariot.
Every oanquet has its presiding officer,
who may or may not be gifted in that
way. Some men are born banqueting,
while others have banqueting thrust upon
them. It is so with presiding. Some
presidents wiil make even the guest feel
comfortable, whi e others seem to be
placed at the head of the table to keep a
tally of the grub consumed. A ger erous
and hospitable heart cannot be acquired
just a we are about to fork over our
souls to the great grand jury at the end
of life, and so no man can b r the mere
acquisition of property or positio i alter
his entire disposition in the afternoon of
his existence. You have n doubt visited
at houses, Mr. Peterson, where the hos .
seemed to hang on every word you said,
but kept moving the cuspidore around
with you wherever you wei t, for fear
you might lapse into barbarism at any
moment and spit behind the 'oune. You
have visited, doubtless, Ostensible, at
places where the entire visit was a gentle
reprotch t)you, where the host made it
easy for you by example, so that would
Jjdow what finger bowls and such things
were used for.
I have.
Possibly there is an air about me which
tempts people of great refinement to
watuh me nervously whiie I eat, and keep
their more toothsome children out of my
re tch. I am a plain man, born in obscur
ity in the dark of the moon but when
my friend visit me I do not wat;h the
furniture with apprehension' when they
use it, or start up wildly when an over
wrought chair cracks.
However, I will make one exception.
We have at home, rather against my
wishes, what is called a reception chair.
You hve seen them, no doubt, Ostensible.
It is really a trick chair. It looks well in
the bay window of a furniture store, ad
for any other but sitting purposes is quite
a success. I sat in it once, wi'hout per
misri n, however, and it took me taree
weeks to get ba -k within sight of the
throne of grace. It is a slight, nervous,
sanguine chair, with Queen Anne back
and Sarah Bernhardt limb3 to it. It does
not weigh over a pound when in condition,
and should be given to a guest who does
not know enough to go home until filled
with No. 2 bird shot
But we were speaking of the gift of
entertaining I was about to say the
divine gift of entertaining, for it is, if
success ul, a quality that cannot be ac
quired. Acquired politeness when not
associated with natural usefulness cannot
fool any one but the meaty and obtuse. I
know of a man wh will go along for
days and days without violating a rule,
and then he will forget himself at table
and imagine, that he is feeding the same
old J. I. Case threshing machine thit he
fed in his younger days.
Banqueting ia sometimes carried to ex
cess, but the mo-e you banquet ihe better
you can do it finally. Take me and Gen
eral Sherman, for instance. We really do
n t save a cent by the meals we tak that
way, for we are getting so that we eat
very little at banquets. He used to like
a great many rich victuals, and so did I.
but now we take the plain cooking or
nothing. I used to eat red sweet cake
and green ice cream a good deal at first as
the guest of the evening, but now I wait
till the bacon and pone comes around, and
then eat very little else unless stewed
currants should be served. If .ao, I eat
some of them on my brea i washing this
down with a glass of old Rhenish butter
milk. On taking your seat at the table you
will find at the side of your plate a bou
quet, or buttonhere, as the French call it,
which is not to b eaten, but inserted in
the lapel of your coat If th re should be
no hole in your coat for this purp se do
not with your clasp knife jab a hole in the
garment while filling the airabou: you
with profanity.
You will also find a napkin at your side,
ort rolled in a fantastic wad on your pUte.
It will have concealed in it a blonde roll,
which you will no doubt in an unguarded
moment flip on the floor, and it will get
stepped on by the regular banquet humor
ist of the occasion.
You will be assigned to a seat at first,
and will place your hand on the back of
the chair, thereby filling on the seat, as
you might say. Uoon a given signal
from the chair, and the words " Gentle
men will be seated," you will sock your
legs under the table, and while getting
acquainted with your neighbor you may
unfold your napkin, put a few Brazil nu 8
in your pocket and ask the guests of the
evening if that is his first visit to " our
little town."
Should the finger bowl be placed at
your side at the beginning of the meal
along with the wine glasses, you may
easily distinguish it from the wine g-asses
by its height It is not so tall, and is
more thick set, or thickly set, if you
pleae. It is also liable to contain a sprig
of geranium, which is not to be eaten un
der any circumstances. You will now
bite off a corner of your roll, and while
ostensibly reading the menu you can run
over your piece in your mind or comb
your whiskers with your pocket comb.
If a dish is brought to you which you
have not been brought up on, and you
are mystified about it, do not say to the
waiter, "I don't want that; it's too rich
for my blood," but let it remain by your
side, and possibly some one else wilt ask
what it is, so that you cannot only find
out, but also quietly take home the re--1
ceipt to your wife.
It is considered vulgar to eat every
thing within reach, and then try to dig
the ornamental designs off the plate with
your spoon in a mad effort t get the rest
of the food, or wipe up your dish with a
roll like an engine wiper, on a neglected
locomotive. You should eat all the time
as if y--:u did not choose any, or had no
ccasion. as we say at our house whn we
have company, and throughout the meal
preserve . an air of enLui and appear as
lase as possible. Do not bein to eat
like a harvest horse while the blesing is
oeing rendered, but sit quietJy and do not
fidget with the cake or crack your
knuckles and mnrmur at the delay.
Do not seek to obtain the last drop of
gravy oq your plate by up-ending it into
your spoon or mouth, and if you wear a
heavy mustache it might be well occa
sionally to run your fork through it in
search of custard or other game which
may hve secreted itself there. The
bright bon mots of a man with custard in
his mustache fall upon the mind like a
pall.
In eating raw oysters do not seek to
hurry matters by means of a violent in
halation at the moment of taking thtm
from the f iri; and if you shculd drop one
on the fl or do not gather it up with your
hand and slip it down on your plate with
an oath, or put it on the head of a bald
clergyman whom you know but slightly.
Tell the waiter in a low tone of voice
that if he will get it from the floor he may
have it for hia own. Then you may go
n with your own persiflage or whatever
may be on your plate at the time.
After the entire meiu has been care -full
7 disposed of the chairman will take
another nip, and arising to his full height,
thereby scattering the crumbs that were
in his lap over those who sit near him, he
will proceed 10 pound on the table wita
the handle of a knife, and refer feelingly
to the guest of die evening. Cheers will
greet his remarks, and confusion will
cover the gues:. If you are ever a guest
you v ill know what sorrow is. To sit
up at 12 o'cl ck at night facing an ex
pectant multitude of dear, devoted friends,
and listen to encouiums a foot h gh ad
dressed to you and cheered to the echo,
and know all the time that you are a ery
much over estimated man, Ostensible,
will turn to aloes an i wormwoo i the nice
buckwheat cakes and maple syrup of the
best banquet that ever graced the groan
ing board of a monarch.
I earnestly hopv, Mr. Peterson, that
you may never be placed in that position.
To be compelled to stand up and sadly
say : " Boys, I am much ooliged to you,
but I've taken advantage of you. I've
got your banquet, and I have received it
under false pretenses. I cannot return it
to you, and I am not permitted by the
rules of the game to pay for it I give
myself up I cannot make a speech.
What little glory I ever won was won in
another way, and so I ca- not do it" To
say all this anc see one countenance af ,er
another fall is tough, Mr. Peterson, ex
tremely to lgh.
The i comes the professional entertainer,
and gets the general good feeling a-going
once more. Evey man to his avo ation,
Ostensible, is a great rule. Neither Mr.
Edison nor I can make a good after dinner
speech. The great noticeable difference
between us, however, is that Mr. Edison
knows enough to say so and stick to it
To be a diner out, a bon motter or a rac
coon toor is a gift. It cannot be acquired
any more than parents can be acquired
late in life.
You will think you can make an afte
dinner speech possibly. You may think
so all your life and still be in error But
when j ou get where you know even as
y. u are known, and tne scales of egotism
are removed from jour eyes, and the fog
and cobweb and dust and swallows' nests
ot a lifetime s wept out of your itt Uectual
hay mow, you will be made to ste that
where you erred was in carrying out the
idea that you could make after-dinner
speeches when in reality you were de
signed to watch a snow shed on the rail
road or keep your eye peeled for Charlie
Ross.
Blessed is the man who makes his mis
takes early in life, regrets them and puts
vaseline on the sore places. . But woe to
the man who perpetuates and cultivates
his errors, who stands off and admires
them and points to them with pride ; tne
round man in the square hole who possibly
hit a popular cord in his mouth by cutting
cord woo 1 for the masses and then errone
ously took to the platform, perhaps, or
medicine or the pulpit, and perpetuated
his folly by making a life-long, Pan
A nerican ass of himself.
You will do well. Ostensible, to observe
the Cwstoms of others at these gatherinsrs.
Et little, drink less and say still ess. Go
home early and quietly, leaving your
nap-iia when you go. Remember what
you hear, keep your feet warm, y. ur head
cool, and do not ask unnecessary ques
tion s. At the ticket office in Stamford,
N. Y.. is the following notice:
gpThis is a clock I It is running!
It is New York time I Now thutupIII
S. & D. BERWANGER'S
TPINKSCrlVINTG PEOCLAMATION !
We proclaim that every man, rich or
generous
Beginning tomorrow, Mon
day, we shill give every purchaser in our
house the benefit of a discount of 10 per cent., this special
offer to close Saturday night, November 29th, with the closing of our
doors; so if you have any Clothing, Hats or other Furnishings to buy during this
week, either for yourself or your boys, here is a Thanksgiving Offer you can avail yourself of,
and 10 per cent, of your hard earned dollar remains in your pocket, besides you
will have the privilege to select (thanks to our buyer) from a stock
second to none of the biggest in the largest cities in the
world, and, thanks to our gentlemanly
salesmen, you will have po
lite attention
even if you
are not a
purchaser ;
goods will
be shown to
you equally well.
We are thankful for the immense increase we ma le in our business this year.
We are thankful for the good health that our people enjoyed during this year.
We are thankful for the power of naming the lowest prices for the superior qualities.
We are thankful for the good crop our industrious and honest farmers are harvesting and for their recognition of our
efforts towards the m and every other class of people by giving us the largest trade we've enjoyed during our business career
S. & D. BEEWANGEE.
We should learn from this to avoid ask
ing for information which we may easil
obtain otherwise, instead of trying to
make a good record as a conversationalist
at the expense of our friends. Ask me
some more questions whenever you have
them. Bill Nye.
EXTRAORDINARY CURE.
She Couldn't Get Damages, But In
sisted on Having Satisfaction.
A woman who was painfully making
her way on two rude crutches called at a
house on Third avenue yesterday and
asked if the man was at home. He was,
and he appeared and asked what was
wanted.
" I was passing your house three days
ago and fell on our sidewalk," she ex
plained. "Well?"
"Well, I think you ought to pay me
damages."
"But my sidewalk is all right; there
are no holes."
"But I fell, sir."
" I don't doubt that, but it was your
own carelessness."
" No, sir."
" It certain 'y was."
" I want twenty -five dollars damages."
"You won't get a cent, madam 1"
" I am so badly hurt that I'll have to
crutch around tor three months."
" I'm sorry, but I'm not to blame."
"Then you won't give me anything?"
"No, ma'am"
"Not even $5?"
" No."
"Then take that!"
She dropped tier crutches, swung her
arm, and he received a box on the ear
which made him see stars. Before he
could recover 6he pushed him over the
rail, and as he brought up on the grass in
a heap, she pitched her crutches after him
and walked off, raying:
" There's no man on top this earti that
can walk around me." Detroit Free Press.
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
Things That Try an Editor's Soul.
We extract the following from the last
issue of the Arizona Kicker:
Apolooktical. Our subscribers will
n)t fail to no ice the sad condition of our
third page to-day. We had the form
ready for press waen Judge G lbert, our
popular and esteemed Circuit Judge,
called at the office in adruxikon condition,
and in his atteu pr, to hug us to prove his
affection, he knocked the form into " pi."
W t adn't time to re-set the matter, and
so had to leave the page blank. While
we are sorry it is not ur fault Wt can't
even pitch into the judge about it. He
not only owes us $80 borrowed money,
but controls legal advertising to the
amount of $800. This is our position,
and we trust our readers will appreciate it
A Baffled Contemporary. At 10
o'clock lass Sunday night we got word by
telephone that some one was opening the
graves in our private cemetery, wherein
lie the remains of the seven different men
who Lave tried to get the drop on us but
were a trifle too late. We made for the
scene at a rapid gait, and what was our
atonisnment to discover tht the ma
rauder was no less a person than our
esteemed contemporary the editor, pub
lisher and proprietor of the Cow BeU
Gazette Ding-Dong Advertiser. The old
villain has stolen our office stove bor
rowed our wood pile hooked our job
type-conspired with our foreman-begged
our ink opened dozers of our letters and
lied about us from Su l ay morning to
Sa-urday night. He has attempted to
pe and imitate our enterprises and re
peat d fai ures have ma le him deyperate.
He hasn't the nerve to pull a gun, even
when his cose is between someone's
fingers. He poo-poohed our graveyard
in every issue, and sought in every way
to belittle our courage. Fi-ed with hate
because everybody who come here want
to see that li tie bu -ying ground, he
planned to go out there and dig up every
boiy and transplant the lot to a grave
yard of his own. We hve heard of stu
pendous cheek, but this case takes the
cake. What did we do? Wed ' we
didn't want to kill the poor old, long
shanked, bow-legged cousin of a cactus,'
but we did turn to and maul him until
the boys over at Ranch 14 seven miles,
away heard hi9 yelU and thought that
a new species of "whippoorwill had struck
Arizona. We understand he claims to
have been " highwayed " and robbed, and
S.
poor, shall have the benefit of our appreciation for the liberal patronage this
public has favored us with during the past year,
AND FOR ONE WEEK,
he's bragging that he wounded two
strangers. The case is as we have given it
More Foolishness We have known
Jim Hastings for over two years, drunk
and sober, and we never supposed that
he was a bit sensitive about having the
entire American population know that he
sleeps in the ditch of tener than in his bed.
In our last issue we incidentally referred
to him in connection with a barrel of
whiskey, supposing he would feel flat
tered, if anything. To our great amaze
ment he walked into this office yesterday
and demanded a personal and public
apology. He had with him a written
apology, good for six solid columns,
which he wanted us to publish or take
the consequence. We generally pre'er
the consequences. We did in this case,
and it was a painful spectacle to see poor
old Jim, who was once a gifted lawyer,
and is now living on his mother in-law,
peel off to do us up. We simply dropped
him out of a back window, and when he
b rrowed a gun at the Star salocn aud
fired six bullets into The Kicker office, we
paid him not the least attention. He is
around town boasting of how he is going
to shoot us on sight Foolish old man 1
We can only pity you. Detroit Free Press.
COULDN'T FOOL HIM.
A Man Who Knew How to Keep a
Nickel When He Had One.
" What star is that?" inquired the raw
boned stranger, halting at the street
corner.
Tnat ain't a star,'' said the fakir with
a telescope. " That is a planet."
" H'm I What plnet is it ?"
" That, sir, is Jupiter."
"It's Jupiter, is it? How do you
know it's Jupiter?"
" Why everybody knows that planet is
Jupi er."
" But how do you know it?"
" Know it by its belts."
" Hain't any other planet got b Its ?"
" Possibly some of them have. In the
remo est depths of space there may be
myriads of wor ds that the telescope has
not revealed to us, and some of them may
have belts like this one."
" Tnat's what I thought Do you s'pose
Jupiter is inhabite l ?"
" Some persons think it is, and some
say it has not yet cooled off sufficiently
for human brings t live upon it"
" Do you think it's likely that the peo
ple who live on it, if there are any, cail it
Jupiter ?"
" Oh, no; it iMi't at all likely."
" H'm ! How much do jox charg for
looking at it through that thing?"
"Only five cents."
"Five cents-, hey? You want five
cents for squinting about ten seconds at a
planet you cal Jupiter because everybody
else calls it Jupiter, and because it's got
belt, when you say yourself it ain't the
only one that's got belts, and you ac
knowledge the people on it don't call it
Jupiter, x It's my belief you don't know
whether it's Jupiter or Job's Coffin. I
say that it's a durn swindle."
And he elbowed his way out of the
crowd and walked off leaving the tele
scope man jumping up hnd down in
speechless rage. Chicago Tribune.
NOTICE.
County Agents will please send thir
names and postoffice dress, with certifi
cate of bond, at one to the State Bun
ress Agent,
W. H, Wcfth, Raleigh, N. C.
TO BUSINESS AGENTS.
Any Alliance having seed wheat, pats,
tfover, grass, &c, for Ie, who will send
samples and prices I will show them at
the Scate Fair and take orders for the
same.
W. H. Worth, S. B. A.
W. H. & R. S. TUCKER & CO.
Our shoe stock wa-i never better than
it is this season. We have between 33,
000 and 35,000 dollars' worth right now,
and these: were bought at the old prices,
and will be Sold at the old prhes We
have Rhoes . for the Mother, the Father,
the Daughter and the Son. and the little
Children. Then, too, we have the largest
and best stock of Dress Goods and Car
pets that we have ever had, and our cus
.tomers are pleased because the prices are
"right ' .' . - -
V W. H. & R. S. Tucker & Co.,
x Raleigh, N. C.
&D. BERWAHGER'S
TO THE BRETHREN.
Wo are receiving every day many let
ters of inquiry about things relative to
the business of this office, which are
atrndy answered in The Progressivi
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
U'or Tobacco Growers!
Great Ikducements Offered in ViROuriA,
Near Peteksbubo.
A Pressing Demand for Experienced Men
who know how 10 Cultivate Bright Tobacco
Land Very Cheap and on Easy Terms If
Y' U Cannot Purchase You Can Work on
Shares !
Chamber of Commerce, I
Petersburg, Va., Oct. 6, 1890 J
To the Growers of Bbioht Tobacco :
The Chamber of Commerce ot the City of
Petersburg, Va., takes this method of direct
ing the attention of all parties who under
stand the culture and care and curing of
Bright tobacco, to the large area of lands in
conveni- nt proximity to tuia city which are
peculiarly adauted to the growth of such To
bacco, compriai ig vast acreages, in ten coon
ties as to lows : Amelia, Nottoway, hester
field, Dinwiddie, Brunswick, Prince George,
Sussex, Surry, Greensville, and Southampton.
Their remarkable adaptability to the suc
cessful production of this quality of Tobacco
is n' t simp y au assertion based upon conjec
ture, but rests upon the surer investigation
of ports, who are well qualified to speak
with authori y Furthermore it is also the
opinion of these same exports that there is a
far greater proportion of the lands in the
counties qubfed above suited to the produc
tion of this crop than is to be found in the
same area elsewhere in Virginia or North
Carolina.
In the first five counties named in the fore
going enumeration, Dark Tobacco has been
for a long while the money crop. But, in the
past year or two, some ot the more progres
sive planters, atti acted by the GBEAT DE
MAN I) and consequent higher prices for
Birht Tobacco, have gone into the culture
ot the latter, experimentally. The quality and
quantity ol the Tobacco produced by them
had been equal to that grown anywhere else
in the world. The result was that their crop
COMMANDED THE HIGHEST PKICES.
not only in our market, but in the markets of
Kichmond, Danville, and Hendi-rson as well.
The lands in Prince Gt-orge, Surry, Sussex,
Greensville and Southampton are, every
respect equally ah well adapted to the suc
cessful cultivation of this crop.
Here, again, careful experiments have been
made, and the results attest fully the correct
ness of the statem- nts made above. In the
latter ten counties the i?t iple crops, hereto
fore, have been cotton and peanuts. These
lands, also valuable for Bright Tobacco, can
now be bought at VEUY LOvV PBICES.
In this vicinity, good land can be had for
pi ices ranging lrom $2 to $8 per acre, on very
easy payments. In addition to this an ad
vantageous arrangement wiil be made by
property-holders with those who are unable
to purchase, bu' who understand the culture
and handling of Bright Tobacco. The terms
will be liberal. Thus, a rare opportunity is
offered to the mau with small means, who
wishes to purchase a farm on easy terms, aa
well as to the man who, without the neces
sary means, is anxious to better his condition.
ADVANTAGES OF THIS SECTION.
The section of country lying within all the
counties that have been enumerated, is one
of the most healthful in Virginia. It is well
watered and well timbered and has the most
abundant riilway facilities. There are excel
lent schools accessible, public and private,
andchurches are to be found at every con
venient tpot The people are exceptionally
kino and hospitable, giviug a cordial welcome
to the new comer, and alwys proving them
selves heiptul and neighborly. Within easy
reach is t ie ' ITY OF PETEUSBUBQ, noted
for its hospitality throughout the whole length
and breadth four land, and as at bacco mar
ket ranking amo g the best in the State. More
over, Petersburg it 1 ne of the great tobacco
mnnufacturing cities of the United States. Id
this city there a:e eleven PLUG FACTOIiLES
in active oieran n, rive or six of which are
among the rgfst in this country. They con
sume Hn.iuall iroin fifteen to twenty million
f)o. .nds of leaf tobacco. There are also several
eaf dea ers; so that on account ot the local
demand and the consequent home consump
tion, there is always a stirring and active
m irket. The Chamber of Uommerce of this
city holds itf-lf in readiness to give all the
inform tti n which it has in command in re
gare to the important subject considered in
the to egoiug.
If any person, reading this, desires to re
move to this section, and writes to tue Secre
tary of the chamber of Commerce, every en
deavor will be made to place him in corre
spond nc with the lana owners, whu the
t arties to the correspondence themselves can
then make thir own agreements as to thfc.
purchase of tue proposed lands, or the sys
tem of share-wor king hereinbetore mentioned.
H. C. fclARDT, Pres't Cham'r Com'ce.
C. E Benton, Sec'y.
J. P. Williamson, 3. 21. Green, Jos. J. Perci
vail rreeman W. Jones, Pascal Davio .
Special Comaiittee.
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