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! I ( ' :AjJ... jpootnr. ff r Tii I'ROQRBSSITl D ARMIR.J f aR HiiEL IN THE WEST. r' l-n1in low. A.: lQtroduced THE PROGRESSIVE FAFMSR: FEBRUARY 16, 1892 Ger and BILL AND CHRISTOPHER- NYE GIVES SOME NEW JOINTS ON COLUMBUS. f Ik" nty rarer tar ardea grow. .sic?: J ..h.gU? vn dare to claim, - j . i . . , ! Hirv xmu po grana, ' ' ...is one whi.-h is blessed v aiUlitjr band." rp I Vinkinsr of the day hee plains shall rnm Ki-,t:i' i8 or mankind w m v 2 ;, i tuejnselves a horue. v; funcjfar too srrand to speak iff ''IwatolW the sky. -r vaa Vainst mv ere. yw -what jou mean? quite fresh, rise on you j of this brush." l '" nam a prnnning blow. H r " o hi, uiiii iow ru ine oouili, r I Lad the time to think other struck mi mouth. - vs thc T 8id. ,4 O, tdv me back v f elds of waving cotton, ii P'Vn?- Vck the pood old days, L:a k I nad most forgotten. z.ts jt back the moss-srown wood f,roRU which the rac oon roves- g me bac k the sloping hills, g-i ve Xi back the groves. "Y? tT??ive e bjic. f Pray, f t Umdipc slrets and rains, As.lw ill gladly give in turn T-,itfi-et in the plains." I. HOUSEHOLD. Hi JX SNOW (WITH CORNSTARCH). Xo : pint of boilingr water, add two kea? tablespoonfuls of cornstarch (Weiith cold water), tho juice of J V. DUgUl , ?eir o from the fire, and when a IttlcSheat in the whites of three .Vfn but in a dish, and pour i around it. BAKED HAM. r.umin cold water over night, if :: vitly, and cover it all over ; X. a It :aucc i rust ol nour ana water. to- I y eijrht hours. Remove the cover tne top with - Kin ru nbs slightly sweetened, oven till the crumbs are . f cold, cut in very thin Potatoes many m 171U, into Russia in 17t into Scotland son: e years later ) The be can draw twenty tim its own weight, can fly more thanffour miles an hour and will seek food at a distance of four miles. Washington died shortly after 11 p. m.f baturday, December 14 1799. the last year of the century, the lost month of the year, the last day of the week, and within the last hour of the day. The Imperial University at Tokio, Japan, is probably the largest in the world, having an enrolment of two thousand scholars and a facultv of forty members. It is under Govern ment control. An English tramp, arrested and brought before the Justice of the Pet worth Police Court for the crime of ' damaging some cut clover by sleep ing on it," was fined by the justice, with the alternative of going to jail for eight days. " The Petition of Right " was a cele 1 A 1 Tl 1 1 , Draiea n.ngusn satute passed early m Uolumbus took prevarication in its the reign of Charles I. of England for infancy, it is said, and put it on its the purpose of restraining and limiting feet and made an industry of it. "He the acts and prerogatives of ttie Crown, had a talent of deceit," says his bio- ana securing the personal and civil grapher, "and sometimes boasted of liberties of the subject. it, or at least counted it a merit Londoners are very much interested I And this is the gentleman whose in the discovery that the original home name we give to the world's great of cashmere shawls is not Cashmere, exposition 400 years after he found us uid Man Cbns was Out for the Dust-- He Was Not the Pioneer m the Theory of the Earth's Sphericity. wiuiam JJocsrft Want to Kick a Man When He Is Still Talked of in Chicago and OtJier Places. Copyright, 1893, by Edgar W. Nye. it is now 400 years since a solitary horseman might have been seen riding between his own home and the reign ing works of King Ferdinand, wrapped in thought. Four hundred years have sped away and a mighty nation, proud and arrogant, has arrisen to do honor to that heroism and the eourac-eotis blunder 'which added a ne w world to civilization. Reading carefully the biography of Columbus we find that bo one in his age or generation could have been better fitted for the m;htv iob of opening up and booming a western world than Christopher Columbus, for he is said to have been one of the brightest young liars of his time. Columbus took prevarication in but Germany. Large quantities of German made shawls are taken to India with imitations of Cashmere marks on them and sent into the interior and sold as native products. JNevada is a part of the territory ceded to the United States of Mexico while looking for some one else! I hate to seem pessimistic or speak lightly of a great man. I believe that I should speak of Columbus with re spect, as I would have wished him to refer to me if our places had been reversed; but oh, how sad it is o by the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, know that the. land of Washington r.1 .ND CORN CAKE. rice, boiled and hot, butter, three eggs, one adl, two tablespoons flour, r'n salt. Stir the butter into ".when cool add the well mr rid flour and salt. Mix V nwke a thin batter and ' -von. 1 ARONI. M. a ,-ound of macaroni in v,v:- till tender, but not ai otf the water- Take tho 1 'o?ani cne half pint of cream white jiea and ham chopped fine, three fiHXfih of grated cheese. Season salt and pepper. Heat all to at, stirring constantly. Mix with 181x;carcni;put into a buttered mold Wm one hour. H -XGB CAKE. k.t whircs and yolks of four eggs I a. Id two cupfuls of pow- ,---(- 32 r-i,.,,. Ut wpII tWO CUDfuls of ur, one-half cupful cf corn- id two teaspoonfuls of 'taking add to the eggs and uiar. 1 ho whole, stirring briskly, ; of boiling water. F vor. . 0 pans about 1$ inches leep. o spread blackberry or ether a the cakes. :: MEAL. GRIDDLE CAKES. ' 1' Tint of corn meal, one heapng 5r"7ccmful of butter, one saltspoonkil a-r - m -T r !lt, one teaspoonf ul ot sugar. r-oir vv cr slowly upon the mixture rin-rJtlll all is moistened, and leave Then break into tiu Or February 2d, 184S. It was at first a part of California Territory, and was subsequently attached to Utah. It was constituted a Territory in March, 1861 with somewhat smaller boim daries than at present. Dr. Williams, a London physician, has a complete copy of the Bible writ ten in shorthand characters. There are many curious copies of the Holy Writ in various collections, but it is doubtful if there i? anything in the world that will compare with the Doctor's unique work. A recent traveler in Morocco says that for people who dress in white and love to be very neat in their personal appearance the Moroccans are very indifferent to tho cleuiliness of their towns. Around the most beautifully furnished houses are heaps of refuse antTtTlSuuis of dead animal. All the care of the people is centered upon the interior of their houses. They furnish them as expensively as their means permit, but what is outside of their walls does not trouble them. SENSIBLE WORDS TO MOTHERS. TIRED v. . . . 1 are three unbeaten eggs, wmcn ?H be well beaten into the dough. Ai i ve teaspoonfuls of cold milk, one r .. - i mi j 11 11. fiulf.t a time, 1111 it is an smoom, he bake on both sides a nice 'erve hot, one griddleful at a J .3 l ey are baked. fiURIOUS FACTS. las seven hundred languages. Iwere first appointed in 1485. lexiccThas a messenger boy ' -ilioi). was tne nmin iuumu 01 .'.vie time. 1 ho sowed the first field of in r-Jotland died in 185u :ae couple in 11,500 live to iheir diamond wedding. 4 ling expencea of thc.aon 'Vu.,r,V.l dn rHpvU $500 a if an cjF. 4iary elephant and are worth rif llyr. iv. of England left as a port ?jd whips and 500 poeket- fC:2,y, Sunday and Monday a-re JI'jA dzyB for marriages in England ' wjand. I n corrC''?T;iidciice - from' : the 01 Rom concerning . cnurcn ! in lurried on ia ;Iatin.'. " i- 11" the United States :-nuin-'i)-3.i . sjii it co-:t3 C200,c: To reign nbly and successfully even in a cottage housekeepers need a few simple acquirements of body and mind, need to have them become habit, habits so deeply woven into her ex istence that the posse -sor is uncon scious of their presence, but habits of whoso absence she would be ex quisitely conscious. First Breathe slowly, breath deeply, breath quietly, breath pure air. There is no room more easy to ven tilate than a well planed kitchen, for its heat is sufficient to permit the con stant entrance of cold air. Many a morning's preserving or baking may be metamorphosed from a mere tiring, fatiguing task into healthful exercise if tkese points are attended to. Many a sinkful of heavy dishes have washed with as good results as gymnasium practice, if pure air is well breathed meanwhile (which is a strong pout against un ventilated butlers' clcxet?.) Soad Stand well, not on the heel, not ax v,he toes, but flat on the balls of the !e, the body poised alightly for ward, tie chest well raised and air filled. Ordcs given to servfints or trades men, iron such a poise, doubly im press tl?rr selves and bring doubly fine results. When you stand in this way you rest pari off your body, even though the standnfcmusclei are fatigued. Above til, when you rest, rest! If you have c f w moments to it or lie,, do nothing fa in that few minutes Allow yoi.ir chair or couch to re ceive the wnoe of your weight, an i give j our tloght only to your own weight. In tM way you will double the amount 03 i?st you get from five or ten minute' freedom from work or car. - Do not, whiles siVting or lying, allow your mind to plXnVyh&t vrork you will do next, how ycu '-ill do it, how ebon you will be suflicitntly reste d to 5,et up, but simply reM t nd grow heav. Boston Herald, To lead a little kiild by f to command an GrmvU George Washington, the man who would not lie even about his circula tionthat such a land, I say, should have been discovered by a liar who represented the pauper labor of Europe I Tiiis, I say, pains and grieves me. The biographer of Columbus also produces good evidence to show that Chris was not by a long, long distance the pioneer in the theory of the earth's sphericity. It was an idea taught by tho Pythagoreans in the sixth century before Christ, which was, as the ready mathematician will see at once, about 2,000 years befo o Christopher Colum bus got bis lunch put up for his great journey west, two nunared years before Christ, Crates is said to have constructed a globe map over ten feet in diameter and offered it as a premium with his paper, so that even in the the earth was not a new thing. Re ligious matters of course engrossed the attention at that time so much that geography was yet in its infancy, but it was common talk in Jerusalem, especially on tho west side, that the earth was round like a ball and com posed of land and water. Toscanelli had much to do with firing up Columbus to make the voyage of discovery. We hear very little of Toscanelli, and yet ho taught Colum bus that the earth was round liko a ball and flattened at the poles. Tos canelli had figured out by means of logarythms and a piece of chalk that the circumference of tho earth was 18,000 miles. This slight error of 7,000 miles, considering what disadvantages he had to deal with and also thatone astronomer as late ta the sixteenth century made an error of S, 00, 000 miles in figuring out the distance of the earth from the sun, not even dis covering the mistake till years after ward, when h accidentally paced off the distance out of curiosity I say an error of 7,000 miles, at a time when there were o few barns upon which to make geometrical calculations, is not surprising. Let us now pass on rapidly to speak of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, viewed in tho light of more careful re search by the biographer of Columbus. Is it not too bad to learn, after years of faith and trust in Isabella, that she was really one of our coarsest and jay est of queens? Oh, what can be sadder than to catch a crowned head in a mean act? What can bo more depressing than to know that your favorite monarch is a chump or a jay? Oh, it is terrible! I never had but ono such experience myself. Our houso used to be quite a ren dezvous for people of title when I was a child. Wealthy nobles used to come to our house and bringj their dinners with them. We were very popular with that set. When they came I slept with my parents. So did the other boys. I held these titled people in great esteem, and gave them my pie. But ono day a duke who was at our place shooting grouse, prairie chickens and cows, eat at the table and combed his red, red whiskers with his fork. That settlfd it with him. I could not respect him after' that. Ha also put his teeth on the table while speaking of his r" tors. -1 hate that. A. man " who v"1" c,fik freely cf his " ""-ing Ilia teeth her jewels that Columbus might go to the west and find a new word. The historian says she did not do that. So in the woman's department of the great exposition Isabella should not be per mitted to hold the place which by rights Queen Victoria should hold. Victoria U very different from Isabella. She is upright as a monarch, and has never once js tepped aside from the path of duty in order to gratify her own selfish wishes. She has put in her little old eight houisper day reigning just the same as she would if God had told her to stand behind a counter and rap on the show case and call 4 ' cash " for the srme number of years. So the historian says that Queen Isabella, hoping for new remains to govern and for several new sealskin sa iques on the return of Columbus, bade him godspeed and made him sign a cast iron contract to turn over all of hia di-coveres to her and Fe. dinand. Then, believing that the great traveler would strike Asia, they gave him a letter of introduction to the kahn of Tartary instead of a letter to Sitting Bull, as they should have done, and ho set out. He was to be commodore of Long Island sound if he succeeded, and gov ernor general of Constable's Hook. He was, by contract, permitted to retain one-tenth of all gold, silver, pearls, precious stones and pelt found on the voyage after tho costs had been de ducted. The biographer of Columbus tells us that the story about Isabella having pawned her jewels to fit out Columbus on his trip will not do at all. She and Ft-rdie just simply cast an anchor to windward, hoping to get a controlling interest is the Standard Oil Company before anybody else did so. nd so tho story gradually comes down to the spinal column of lust for gold, not only on the part of his royal backers, but even Columbus and his crew were out for the dust, and that alone. What commonplace tale after our school boy wonder and admiration. Wherever Columbus landed he asked if gold existed there. If not, he as sessed the natives so much cotton per head. When there was gold, it was a hawk's bill of this motal per man and a calabash of gold per chief. Tho rotundity of the earth did not worry him so much as his own rotundite. Finally Columbus got to lying again. He gave offices to his relatives, not only to his wife's family, but at last he got reckless and Jsegan to hand out ofll3es to his Tumorous children. It .11 vbuy 111, anu xu xo u.iy v ttxiwv - that this little episode in nonor ot ma Tfae NoTCiist four hundredth anniversary may. score I FJ a success, as the dramatic critisssome- (With Interpolal if L. Ubei: 1 - i ir Ar er.) f S: iig: belli tn. of Gecni times say. Bill Nye. HINTS TO THE POSTMASTER- GENERAL. local Genoa papers so truly said, and when he offered to open up a slave trade between Spain and the Bahamas people lost faith in him. It is pretty well settled that Colum bus drew the prize for first seeing land, when as a matter of fact one of his men was nrsc to see it, ana mat ne put tho money into a watch with a poach stone charm on the chain. Columbus had been dead 230 years before he learned that his discovery was not a part of Asia. We can im- . i - ji-.i ji agme mm now, as ne roae aiong tne Jersey coast, inquiring for the Ah Khooned of Swatt, to whom he had a letter irom eramana. 1 can see him now at the Potter building or the Mills building asking for tho khan of Tartary, or trying to find his telephone number on a pink phamplet at the ferry. Yet wd might as well give to Colum bus the glory of his great discovery, whether he did it accidentally or from a mercenary point of view purely. We will let that go. The time is ripe for celebration. Let us celebrate. When columbus came here Patrick Henry had not even been surmised; Henry Clay had not been thought of. The application of electricity had not been dreamed of, and the pink tea was yet unborn. Oh, what strides have been mado even in one century, and in 400 years the change ha been most marvelous. The use of ensilage at the time of the discovery of America was yet in its infancy. Lot3 of people did not know what it was. It is even so now. Religion was at that time in a rudi mentary state. Now it is perfected and painless in its operations. Then religion was a calamity; now it is a blessing, and is rarely as it used to be. Cooking has advanced with giant strides. Pie, both plain and engraved, has been introduced. Tho brevetted pie with monogram has taken the place of the early tart, which was not durable, and which yielded readily to the action of the stomach. Statesmanship as a means of obtain ing a livelihood has come to stay. The study of government is beginning to interest the scholarly, while those who are not scholarly continue to scoop in tne votes ana ao tne growing.- i . Whether Columbus discovered thi3 country on purpose or not, the writer of these lines is much obliged to hinx I It is all right, this talk of mail de livery at the farmers door, but the government wants to remember one thing really it should be able to re member two or three thmgs, but it won't do to overburden the government it wants to remember that the daily delivery of mail in the rural districts will have to be preceeded by the con struction of roads in those district'. If that is not done the mail carrier will have to learn to fly before he can re ceive an appointment. A mail carrier who could only walk or ride would be of no earthly accouut delivering mail in the country during bad weather. Why, there are millions and millions, maybe more than half as many as that, of places in the country, in this greatest and most progressive and prosperous land in all the universe, where people never dream or going to tne corner grocer's durmg wet weather of long continuance. Men have pined away and died longing for the healthful excitement f a game of checkers with Si. Bentley and couldn't get down to the etore, four miles, or rather four mild, away, to have the debauch. The road to perdition is a bad one, as it is often described I have never traveled it myself, although I have been told they have the best pave ments in the world, if it is in the world when you get there but it really can't be much awfuller than tho average country road in America during the fall rains and the spring thaws. Why, it isn't so bad, not nearly; can't be, or else nobody would ever ravel it. They wouldn't, just because about nine tenths of the year they just couldn't. Daily mail delivery in the country ! Why, it's the craziest notion yet. When it ia an old established fact that the people in the country can t get it to tne postomce days at a time, how is the postoffice going to get out to the farm? One good thing might come of this idea, however; the government might establish the rural delivery where there are roads that are passable nino months of the year. Then would the rural supervisors get onto some new method of road making other than the time honored custom of dumping fresh oads of. ntw mud into old mudholea to fill them up. And another good thing for the Congressman would grow out of it. We have dredged and dammed all the creeks and dry runs in the country, and are at a loss to know what can be devised to take the place of the good old river and harbor im provement grab. Here we have it government appropriation for mail roads ! Uunder the old grab some localities were forced to go to the expense of a steam pump, and in some very des titute towns they had to haul water in barrels in order to make a creek big enough to get a slack water appropria tion on; there was no end of hard work and both ends of much harder ing in order to secure an appropriation for slack water improvement. But every county, every township in the land, has a road, or at least a trail through the dust and bottomless mud that passes under that name and is entered on the map as a road. Oh, country men, know that Opportunity with a big O and a surplus knocks at our doors 1 In the language of the gentle man from Calaveras, "Mr. Speaker, I move to rake her." BobBurdette. Lega Chapter 1 T The sun wa towers of thee on-the-Driblet rifc must be c understood that tended to refer t word "ereen" U e-' Jy and dl t .3 village I ; 1 ' -ny parkh" r;i: Toducoi in tl: f such livi:i : lo and di:tlr UNTHINKING MEN. They Little Know the Trials their Wives Must Bear. There are men who suppose they have all the annoyances. They say it is the store that ruffles the disposition ; but if they could only stay at home as do their wives, and sisters, and daugh ters, they would be, all the time, sweet and fair as a white pond-lily. Let some of the masculine lecturers on placidity of temper try for one week the cares of the household and the family. Let the man sleep with a baby on one arm all night, and one ear open to the children with the whooping cough in the adjoin ing apartment. Let him see the tray of crockery and the cook fall down stairs, and nothing saved but the pieces. Let the pump give out on a wash day, and the stove-pipe, when too hot for handling, get "dislocated. Let the pud ding come out of the stove stiff as a poker. Let the gossiping gabbler, of next door come in and tell all the dis agreeable things that neighbors have been saying. Let the lungs be worn out by staying, indoors without frech air, and tho needle be threaded with nerves exhausted. After one week's house hold annoyances, he would conclude 1 . . . . , VJhrihPr m did it for revenue only or that Wall street 13 Heaven ana tne 'is- thft advancement of civilization, clatter of the stock exchange rich &3 courses la worthy our respect and ' Beethoven's symphony. -7 TaJmas 1L- all incumbant the most hono of men ) oi - ' Two persons were bidding one : adieu. The first was a man prime of life wearing a 'suit ci : (Please note that tho nr.rr. - tailor is riot given, and it 13 1 t . assumedfior a single ncir. this refers to any individual : ticular.)' ... - The grl for she. was cnly ; wore a costume of alrnc.:t simplicity. (Again, no dressmaker is eiic for discussion. It is nurolv r. A " ' portrait ) -' They were both "in tear3. hour had come for parting. (It is necessary to state parting " no reference is m:. existing firm of hair-dresser? For a moment they were t watching Phoebus as ho de : r 1 '. his glory of purple and gold. (This refers to , tho mythical rz 1 day, and is not to bo confound:! . a member of a well known firm manufacturers of blacking-.) r Then they dp )ke to ono another. 4 Zozimus, " he, .murmurcdrx d I Knr Aim -i4-$v ' HUU AO Vi-LXO UU1 JUulC-ViAi-lQ 1 (Tho name of Zozimus was eclcc! for the hero because it i3 an uncomn one, and consequently unlikely to confounded with any mora frequc: used designation. If by tn unlc : chance there is a Zozimus, ho iz sured that the coincidence i 3 pur accidental.) o "I am afraid it ma-t bo eo, 1 Zulu wolf a," was tho heartbroken sponse. (Again the name has been chczzzi the same lmes a3 in tho Eclectic Zozimus, and tho explanation r.l given may be taken as having rcfc: to both.) "And so you are going cere " sea in a boat?"' she queried, tryi. o smile, in spite of her blinding tenra (No bo it in particular is intcn and we have the author's null ... fcr sayktg that ho "has7 tho grc ' respect for every official ccr. with the shipping interest.) "Yes," he returned, eadly. "it my father's wish and I trust that t new world 1 snail find greater perity than I have been abld to e.elh in dear old Englaid." . (No reference is made in the above any weekly publications, aithcu, perhaps, " The World " and La gla ; may have been taken as titles for C urday" journals. Before passage, we received tho assuranc:; the author that he felt tho deer: esteem for the editors of the periodic: 7 thus inadvertently mentioned.) "Well, my beloved, you "-'will t see me; and, aeaa or alive, 1 ≠Ii . by your side in the spirit." , (This passage is;not intended tor : out any particular firm of distiller,:.) "We shall neet again," ho cri 1, pressing ner irau xorm to nu ure: Indeed, we shall meet again." "It must not be assumed that tlicr has been a misprint in the above o sage, ana mat reference 13 maae to any particular firm of butchers. . And so they parted ! ;f (To be continued in our next, eft: 0 consultation witl our solicitor.) , A BRIDE WHO WILL LIONS. HAVE MIL- Miss Harriet Pullman, dau;-ht the palace car builder,. who -1 married in the f pnng, ia as well Lo in New York, Riria and London 1 is in Chicago, f:r she divides h'. : between the th- ?6 cities. In r.; ance sh is till, superbly fori, typical American girl, indcpci: dashing, straight and' strong. L not exactly bea itif ul, but'sho ir 2 an intellectual face. Sho is a h: a musician, something of an 0: : student t f the drama. She dre rare good taste. I saw her c: -banker's office in Paris, where come with a lett ? of credit. clerk eved her fc a moment c ( xamined her let timidly inquired it?" "In bills," wa "How much d "All of it," r of credit 1 How will y 10 quick re -you want! 5 .000 1" 4 I know it. ! need it an. h pay my French dresamac: ; r liners to-morrcr, before I 10: America." - The clerL-' akaobt had a fit, 1 handed the young lady tho hu:: she swept out of tho ciHc?. Some day she will 1. 1 x . ' , many -millions.. Her hi: ... : to bo is relby.-too. i will be a greet event. IT cncoisTsid tt-bo err ried to a nowe Daper ;i , Foster CcaU't, "in2, : ; ., -V it IS I f u ft 1 ; if iff
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