This might have been rendered, "Matters are no Forwarder."
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
I don't know what's the matter; but I've been watching them both for weeks, and somehow things seem never to get any Forwarder."
"Hilda Wade A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose"
Grant Allen
That rain was very disappointing; for, in the intervals between tunnels, we had fancied, from the few brief glimpses we caught of the landscape, that the April so backward elsewhere in Italy was Forwarder in the blossomed trees along the eastern Riviera; and we learned at our hotel that the steam-heat had just been taken off because the day had been so hot and dry, though the evening was now so cold and wet.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells