Tuesday, November 4, 1902.
14
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
OUR YOUNG PEOPLE
The Raggedy Man.
Oh, the Raggedy Man! He works
for Pa
AW he's the. gooderft man ever you
saw!
He comes to our house every day
An waters the horses an feeds 'em
hay,
An he opens the shed an all ist
laugh
When he drives out our little old
wobfcle-ly calf;
An nen, ef our hired girl says he
can,
He milks the cows fer 'Lizbuth Ann.
Ain't he a' awful good Raggedy
Man?
Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!
Wy, the Raggedy Man he's 'ist so
good
He splits the kindlin' an' chops the
wood,
An' nen ho spades in our garden, too,
An' does most things 'at boys can't
do.
He clim'ed clean up in our big tree
An' shooked a' apple down feT mo,
An' nother'n, too, fer 'Lizbuth Ann,
An' nother'n, too, fer the Raggedy
Man,
Ain't he a' awful kind Raggedy
Man?
Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!
An' the Raggedy Man, he knows most
rhymes,
An' tells 'em, ef I be good, some
times. Knows 'bout Giunts an' Griffins an
Elves,
An' the Squidgicum-Squees 'at swal-
lers therselves.
An' wite by the pump in our pas-.
ture lot
He showed me the hole 'at the Wunks
is got,
'At lives way deep in the ground, an'
can
Turn inter me er 'Lizbuth Ann.
Ain't he a funny old Raggedy Man?
Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!
The Raggedy Man one time when he
Was makin' a little bow-'n-arry far
me,
Says, "When you're big like your
Pa is,
Air you goin' to keep a ffoo store;
like his,
An' be a rich merchant, an' wear
fine clothes ?
Er what air you go'n' to bo? Good
ness knows !"
An' nen he laughed at 'Lizbuth Ann,
An' I says, " 'M goin' to be a Rag
gedy Man!
I'm 'ist goin' to be a nice Raggedy
man;
Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man!"
James Whitcomb Riley.
Eight Puzzles.
Feet have they, but they walk not
-(Stoves).
Eyes have they, but they see not
(Potatoes). -
Teeth have they, but they chew not
(Saws).
Noses have they, but they smell not
(Teapots).
Mouths have they, but they taste
not (Rivers).
Hands have they, but they handle
not (Clocks).
Ears have they, but they hear not
(Cornstalks).
Tongues have they, but they talk
not (Wagons). Golden Days.
A TREACHEROUS WIND hits
you in. the back, and the next morn
ing you have lumbago. Rub well and
often with Perry Davis' Pain-killer,
and you will be astonished to find
out how quickly all soreness is ban
ished.
A Pet Bullfrog.
Mr. D. L. Arey's young son, of
about seven years, has accomplished
an unusual feat in taming a bull
frog. Several months since, Mr.
Arey went seining and caught sev
eral bullfrogs. He took them home
and his little son, upon seeing them,
determined to make a pet of a large
frog. The boy immediately set about
cultivating friendship with the frog,
and in a short while his f rogship was
on terms of the closest intimacy
with his little master. Now the boy
calls the frog, and he answers to any
command. He gives utterance to a
particular order, and the frog be
gins to croak. Another order causes
the frog to jump into a wagon in
which little Arey takes him for a
drive each day. The frog is as much
a pet as a kitten, and is thoroughly
domesticated. Salisbury Sun.
A Strange But True Story of Old Times.
Editor of The Progressive Farmer :
Once a slave ship was wrecked
down on the North Carolina coast
and six slaves escaped. They trav
eled west after they landed and came
to Raleigh.
The Sheriff of Wake County put
them in jail for some one to come
and claim them, but after a time all
of them died of jail fever, except
two. The Sheriff then released these
two and gave them land, on which
they built a log hut and farmed.
The people called the slaves Mark
and Will. Mark was a tall black man
and had been a cannibal when in
Africa.
Will was a short, yellow man and
had a dog that he was very fond of,
for it had come with him from
Africa.
One day one of the Sheriff's grand
daughters went to the cabin to see
the farm. Will told her to go up into
the loft and get some pop-corn. She
went, but was very much startled
when Mark grabbed her by her long
yellow plait. She screamed and Will
came in just in time to keep Mark
from murdering her. He had not
forgotten his life as a cannibal, and
.wanted to taste human flesh again.
This was the last, though not the
first time, that the children visited
the cabin. Mark used to file his
teeth in true cannibal style.
Not long after this event Mark
died, and the inhabitants of the com
munity were not sorry, for they were
all afraid of him.
When the circus came to Raleigh,
Will was allowed to go, but instead
of enjoying himself, he wept because
he was homesick at seeing an ele
phant. When Will died he was buried sit
ting up, and in the grave a bag of
parched corn and a walking stick
were put. His dog was also killed
and put in the same grave. Will had
asked to be buried in this way, for
he thought he would go straight over
to his own home in Africa, and want
ed his dog with him.
LEONITA D.
Raleigh, N. C.
Riches are parents of eternal care.
Blacklock.
ABOUT MUD-DAUBERS.
How the Weil-Known Wasp Comes into
Life Well Provided For.
An interesting tenant of the farm
is the mud-dauber, the best known of
the solitary wasps, whose nests are
found stuck to the rafters in the at
tic and outbuildings, or to a nail in
the wall or in an old coatsleeve be
hind the door. She places several
cells about an inch long side by side
or on tiers above another without re
gard to regularity. As she toils she
sings squeaky little solos in a high
key which sounds like a tiny circular
saw as it issues from a piece of hard
wood. The moment the industrious
little mason has completed the cell
she sets about to fill it with spiders,
all of the same species, of which it
takes eighteen on an average. On
one of these an egg is deposited
which soon hatches into a grub and
immediately begins to devour the
feast of paralyzed spiders. When it
has eaten all, it spins a dark-brown
covering for itself which is about
transparent. At the proper time it
breaks through the walls of its mud
house and proudly jerks its pretty
steel-blue wings with the same grace
ful flirt as did mother while she was
busily engaged with her nest-building.
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NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL
DIRECTORY.
FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE.
President W B. Fleming Rldgeway, War
ren County.
Vice-President T. P. Johnson, Salisbury,
Rowan County.
Secretary-Treasurer and State Business
Agent T. B. Parker, Raleigh, Wake County.
Lecturer J. C. Bain, Wade, Cumberland
County.
Assistant Lecturer or Steward Jno. M.
Mitchell, Walter, Wayne County.
Chaplain Rev. W. S. Mercer, Moyock,
Currituck County.
Doorkeeper Geo. T. Lane, Greensboro,
Guilford County.
Sergeant-at-Arms R. II. Lane, Aurora,
Beaufort County.
Trustee Business Agency Fund W. A.
Graham, Machpelah, L'ncoln County.
XXXCUTIVE COMMITTEE.
J. W. Denmark, Chairman, Raleigh.
W. B. Fleming, Rldgeway.
John Giaham, Warren ton.
Dr. J. E. Pet son, Pikevllle.
Thomas J. Oldham, Teer.
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
John Graham, Chairman, Warren ton.
H. T. Jones, Goldsboro.
J. K. Hughes, HilUstHKO. -
for
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS
RTATTON. V
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Director B. W. Kilgore, Raleigh.
Agriculturist O. W. Burkett, West Raleigh.
Horticulturist W. F. Massey, West Ral
eigh. Chemist W. A. Withers.
STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
President J. Van Lindley, Pomona.
Vice-President O. W. Blacknall, KlttrelL
Secretary and Treasurer Franklin Sher
man, Raleigh.
Executive Committee J. Van Lindley,
Chairman, J F. ulliver, B von Herff, O. W.
Biacknall, T. K. Bruner, Franklin Sherman,
P. H. Peck.
District Vice-Preiidente W. L. Baxter,
Rldgeway; Geo. N. Ives, Newport; Wm.
Cole, Waynesville; P. H. Beck, Southern.
Pines; Moses Cone, .blowing Rock.
STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
Piesident J. A. LoDg, Roxboro.
Secretary J. E. Pogue, Raleigh.
Treasurer C. B. Denson, Raleigh.
FARMERS' STATE ASSOCIATION-
President R. H. Speight, Wrendale.
Secretary-Treasurer T. B. Parker, Raleigh.
Executive Committee J Bryan Grimes, S.
L. Patterson and E. F. Lamb.
an A m'C xyr a t r Aim . nmriTTi ikttiti
S. L. Patterson, ex efiicio. Chairman.
District Members: (1) J. B. Coffield, Eve
retts; (2) E. L. Daughtridge, Rocky Mount;
(8) wm. Dunn, Newbern; (4) C. N. Allen,
Auburn; (5) J. S. Cunlnghan, Cunlngham;
() A. T. McCallum, Red Springs; (7) J. P.
McRae, Laurinburg; (8) P. B. Kennedy, Dal
tonia; (9) W. A. Graham, Machpelah; (10) A.
Cannon, Hors- Shoe.
Howard Browning, Littleton.
J. R Joyce, Reidsvdle.
G. E. Flow, Monroe.
J. C. Ray, Boone.
OFFICERS.
S. L. Patterson, Commissioner.
T. K. Bruner, Secretary.
B. W. Kilgore, State Chemist
Tait Butler, State Veterinarian.
Franklin Sherman, Jr., Entomologist.
Gerald McCarthy. Botanist and Biologist.
H. H. Brimley, Naturalist and Curator.
Postofflce address of all offleers, Raleigh