gSECE BILHIII3. LI. A. mi Major Bilkins and Col. Josephus Daniels Are to Get Big Slices of Pie if They Capture the People Patty. B. 4 Hello! Mr. Editor." R "Hello ! Major. Your voice has a far away, husky tone." B. "Yes, I'm in St. Louis now, try inter eave the country. Me and Kur nell Joeepua Daniels cum hero tergether an1 we are trying ter run the Cjnven shun in the ground or somewhere sd it will ba out ov site. R. ' Tnat is curiou3. I thought the Populist were holding their Convea tion in St. Louis this week." B. 'They are; but we air try inter run it fer them. Our party iz bo small that me an' Joseptun can find time ter run two or three other parties this year. Me an' him are goin' ter git big pieces of pie if we capture all the Pops an' git them in our perlitikal net. Jcse phus will be Secretary ov the Interior an' I'll be nite watchman at the capitol in Washington." R. "You are easily pleased. I don't consider your job sufficient pay for the work you are trying to accomplish. B. "Why, Kurnell Daniels tele me it is the best job in the country. He 'lowed ef I got that the crowned heads ov Europe an' the nobility ov America will be at my feet. Ho said Qieen Victoria, ov England, will make it con ventient ter bring her knittin' an' spend the day an' take dinner with Betsy at least once a week, an' that the Prince of Wales, or Whales, I dis remember which, will always be comin' over ter go shin' with me. Sich az that makes we wurk like a sailor." R. "Are you getting along pretty well?" B. "Not much. Them Texas fellere an' others hav' skared ua eff The call ns Wall-streeters an' pie extermi naters. I don't know whut iz gointer happen, but it don't look much like I'm goin' fishin' with the Prince ov Wales fer sum time yit. But me an' Jose phus is here puttin' in licks fer Mister Bryan an' the Wall Street end of the party, too. You know the Dymakrat party is allurs run in sections. In a silver State it iz fer silver, in a golo State it is fer gold. Ic also stands b the standard oil trust and condemns awl the other trusts, except the sugar trust an' erbout 700 other tru9ts. But that iz awl rite, aa' wiU not make any difference if we can capture the Popu lists an' bunco them. Me an' Josephu? can work a bigger perlitickal bunco game an' sell more sawdust than any two law abidin' sitizns in these United States or England. Just keep your eye on us an' see us bag the suckers Gude-bye." WAKE COUNTY ALLIANCE. ROLESVILLE, N. C. Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer. The Wake County Alliance met with L. L. Polk Sub Alliance at the A. & M College on the 9 th with a good repre eentation. It held its previous meet ing here, in April, and tho brethren urged us to come again in July, and we again accepted the invitation. We were very kindly received. The two meetings of the Wake County Alliance at the A & M. College will long be re membered by the brotherhood. Bro. J. M. Mewboorne was present at the meeting and talked to the brethren about matters at headquarters. The next meeting of Wake County Alliance will be held with Mitchell's Mill Alliance. We hope every Sub Alliance in the county will be well and fully represented. Brethren, come thia way at the October meeting. We want to see you. The following resolutions were unani mously adopted at the July meeting : Whereas, The Alliance has been knocking at the door of legislation sev eral years, pressing her demands upon the legislators for consideration and action, and has as yet only secure i slight recognition, but public interest i3 being awakened in these demands, and we are getting the national ear; Resolved. That we do stand firmly and unwaveringly upon the principles set forth in there demands, and push them constantly to the front till we shall get them all together one by one under the consideration cf cur political powers. 2 That our votes shall be cast with a purpose to most speedily secure the adoption of the Alliance Demands into o 8&ttem of our government. 3. That we place special stress upon id AT GUILFORD BATTLE GROUND Exercises and Incidents at the Annual Celebration Senator Butler the Orator of the Day. Sreciil to 1 lie Caucasian. Greensboro, N. C, Jvly 4, 1896. At sunrise this morning the booming of the cannon announced the advent of the 9 th annual Guilford Battle Ground celebration. The report of the cannon could be distinctly heard in Graensboro, five miles from the battle ground, and, in fact, all over the ad joining country, .kirly in tne morn ing, special traits began to run from Greensboro to the battle ground, and continued to run every half hour all day, transporting immense throngs of people. Senator Butler, the orator of the day, and the distinguished visitors were driven over from Greensboro, ar rivicg at the grounds at 11 o'clock; when they were escorted to the large and elegant auditorium. Dr. Egbert Smith, Captain of tho Guilford Battle Ground Company, c fibred an eloquent and earnest prayer for deliverance from certain national evils, among which he named anarchy, organ z 3d selfishness, and partisanship. Judge D. Schenck, the venerable and distin guished President of the Guilford Bat tlo Ground Co., introduced Senator Butler, the speaker of the day. The speaker's subject wes: "The part played in North Carolina for civil and religious liberty during our Colo nial and Revolutionary period." He first reviewed briefly the struggle m de for civil and religious liberty in Eigiand, and showed tho source from which our ancestors got their iide pendent spirit, and their cetermina tion to fight oppression. He Slid: "It was in the 12oh cen tury that our Eoglish ancestors re belled against the weakness and tyr anny of King John, and wrested from him the Magna Charta, the great char ter of liberty and the corner ston6 of Anglo Saxon freedom." He also sketched the struggle made for religious liberty, showing how the reformation began when Martin Luther and his as sociates rebelled against the abuses of the Church, and the tyrannous exac tions of the Pope at Rome. But, in this connection he called attention to the fact that the civil and religious liberty which the p3opleof England enjoy to day was largely acquired and established after the American Revo lution, and that it was the patriotic examp'e of the American colonies that taught the mother countries what true liberty was. He said that there was much oppression in England from the Church and State during the 17th and 18:h ceni uries that the highest tj pe of cne unri3tian ana tne patriot were forc-:d to seek larger civil and religious liberties in the wilderness of the West' em hemisphere. Ha showed how the very evils from which our colonial ancestors flsd from Eogland to escipe, followed and con tinued to oppress them here in Amer ica, until the time of the Revolution. Ia this connection he referred to a Spanish colony almost in eight o'. our st ores, that had been suffering for over three hundred years, and 's still suffering frcm greater oppression from Spanish tyranny than wo ever suffered from the English crown. This colony, he said, was to day in the throes of a mighty revolution, defying unjust taxation and struggling for tho same boon of hbsrty that we achieved over a hundred years ago, and yet this gov ernment stands by with stolid inditfer ence and refuses to lend a helping hand. Ha said that if the voice of the Ameri can could be heard through their gov ernment, that it would be d fferent. He He declored that Cuba ougat to be free and that it wa a shame oa the Amer ican Republic that we allowed such op pression and butchery to go on right at our doors. Returning to our colonial history, he spoke of the restless nature of the early settlers of the Carolina?) under oppres sion and religious intolerance. He called attention to the fact that our Colonial ancestors frequently protested against the oppression of the Rjyal Governors, placed to rule over us by the British Crown, and how, on more than one occasion, long before the Rjv olution, Royal Governors of the Caro lioas were driven from our quarters; how not only the first protesc against British oppression came from the col onists ef North Carolina, but, also, how the first bold declaration for independ ence on American soil was made at Mecklenburg, en May 20th, 177." ; and how in the spring of 1776 the General Assembly of thi3 colony instructed their delegates to th9 Continental Con gress to vote there for absolute inde pendence from the British Crown, be fore tho people of any other colony had dared to take such a bold and daring sup. Ho said that the colonies had for more than a century been petitioning Gaorge III. to stop his oppressions and to grant them justice, but their prayers were in vain, just as Martin Luther's prayers and petitions to the Pope to etop church abuses were in vain. THE PROGRESSIVE FARHEB : JULY 28, 1896. "For," said the speaker, "it ia always vain and hopeless to petition for the righting of wrongs and abuses when the remedy is left at the disposal of those very persons from whom the evil proceeds." He said that the Colony of Carolina was the first one to perceive the folly of such a course, and that while other colonies were begging for mercy and justice and at the same time professing their loyalty to the English Crown which oppressed and robbed them, that our colony was preparing to take the only course that could ever bring liberty and justice. He ehowed how the Regulators of Alamance made the first strike for liberty by force, and that the first bat tie of the Revolution in the South was fought at Moore's Creek, in North Carolina, and also that one of the last great battles, and the one that had more to do with breaking the English forces, and driving Cornwallis to sur render at Yorktown, was fought at Guilford Court House. He next called attention to the part that North Carolina played in refusing to adr pt tho Constitution until the first ten most important amendments to the Constitution were added. Senator Butler then drew a picture of the dangers and evils that, now threaten the Republic. R ? quoted from the lG.h chapter of R.velatione, where John said : "I saw there unclean fp-rits, like frogs, come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of tho mouth of tho false prophet." Commenting upon this quotation he said: "I do not essay to appear in the role of a prophet, or even to express an opinion as to the meaning of that part of the Scriptures, as given us by the Divine Revelator ; but I see to day, with my own eyes, three unclean spirits in our body politic: Oae is anarchy, which may be said to come out of the mouth of the dragon; the second is organiz3d avarice, which may be said to come out of the mouth of the beast; and the third is blind and intolerant partisanship, which may be said to come out of tho mouth of the false prophet." He said that anarchy was the result of oppression or ignorance ; and that the existence of anarchy was a warn ing note that something was wrong, and it should behoove patriots and statesmen to look to the other end of the social strata and there find the cause that produces anarchy. He said that he had no patience or sympathy with anarchy; neither had he any tol erance for those whose oppression and tyranny created anarchy. He spoke of foreign immigration as one of the fire brands of anarchy, and said that steps should be taken by our national legislators to prevent the scum and ex crescence of the evil social conditions of the old world from beirg dumped among our people, as a deadly poison to our institution?. He said that until the present cen tury, avarice seldom appeared in an orgamzd form, and then only to a a limited degree; but that the new in duatrial conditions, especially of the last half century, had made it possible for avarice to organize and become more oppressive than was King John of Eogland, or any tyrant upon any throne. He referred to the numerous trusts, combines, oni monopolies as so many uncrowned tyrants which to day stand at every avenue of commerce and hold in their greedy clutches every agency and institution of commerce. Ha said that partisanship was the third unclean ppirit, and more danger ous, if possible, than the other two. 44 Were it not," ho said, "for the idola try of party name and party preju dices, it would be impossible for the other two unclean spirits to thrive and exist among a free people." He said that organized greed used parties as agencies for dividing and confusing the people, while it robbed them. He said thatorgam'z d avarice was never it3elf controlled by partisansaip; but, on the other hand, it used the demon of party ppirit to accomplish its direful end3. He said that were it not lor idolatry of party that at the next elec tion the people would unite their votes against the common enemy and restore to us the great principles of Democratic government, for which our ancestors gave their blocd and their lives. The Senator expressed his opinion, however, that the only remedy for these three evils was tho increased in telegence of the people, and the intel ligent direction of their t ff orts through the ballot b. x. In closing, he paid a glowing tribute to Judge Schenck and hia co laborers who had worked so faithfully to per petuate the memory of our honored dead. He said that no nation would long preserve its liberty and prosperity unless it kept aglo w the fires of liberty by commemorating the valorous deeds of its heroes, and by building monu ments, and through other means, to set a standard and an example for future generations. He said that na tions as well as individual must have ideals in order to progress. e maue an appeal to North Carolinians that in asmuch as our ancestors had been in the forefront in the struggle for civil and religious liberty in the colonial days, and had been the first to declare for independence, and in the forefront in the mighty revolution in which it was so nobly achieved, that we should to day and forever be in the forefront in guarding these liberties and in pre serving this great Republic and ad vancing it on its great mission; "for," gt-id he, "if we do not preserve these liberties, and keep burning the fires of patriotism, then we are unworthy sons of those who fought and died on this hallowed spot." "This is the lesson that this day should teach." At the close of Senator Butler's speech, which was listened to attentive ly by the vast throng, throughout, Mr. David Schenck, Jr , arose and very gracefully presented the Senator with a souvenir spoon as a testimonial from the Guilford Battle Ground Company for his faithful work in behalf of the battle ground appropriation. Mr. Joseph Morehead, who was mas ter of ceremonies, next followed in a short talk in which he presented the Battle Ground Company with a por trait of Mejor Hughe?, one of tho sign ers of the Declaration of Independence, which was presented to the Company by D L Clark, of High Point A fine oil painting of the present view of the Guilford Battle Ground, painted ry Miss Rimseur, daughter of General R.imsuer, was presented to the Com pany by Judge John Gray Bynum. At the close of tho ceremonies at the auditorium, the crowd proceeded to tho monument of Lie utenant Colonel Hal. Dixon, which has just been erected. Mr. A M. Scales read a poem written by Mrs. H. C. Morton for tha occasion. Tais closed the ceremonies for the day, when the cinon again boomed forth. The attendanco at the battle ground on this occasion was the largest that has ever been known in its history. At the nxt annual celebration a handsome broi z 3 statue of General Green will be unveiled. SELECTING A CAREER. Self-Shaping Decesions are the Only Sa e Guides to Follow. "Next to the matter of selecting a wife which in the maj irity of cases is little more than a le p in the dark the most important problem which a young man has to confront is that of deciding upon his trade, business or profession," writes Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, D. D. in August Ladies' Home Journal. "Almost any young man's decision aa to what he is going to do will mean the narrowing of his preparation, whereas all success that is fairly worthy of the name means broadth of preparation. A man needs to get a great mass of foun dation under him if he is going to put either a high or a wido structure on the top of it; and if he knows too soon exactly what it is he is going to do, that mass of foundation will not be forthcoming. In ail cases where it is possible it is a great deal better for a mm to get the knowledge first, and then let that decide what the vocation shall be, than to decide the vocation first, and let that determine what eort of knowledge he shall accumulate. "If a man h in earnest to do the bes' that is in him it will be much to his ad vantage to get over the feeling that there is any hurry about actually set tling down to hts life work. It is a great deal wiser to dri't, aud to do al most anything that offers, as a tempo rary arranguient, than to make up one's mind finally and irretrievably to an employment that miy possibly be a misfit, and that will involve, there fore, a certain amount of failure. We can pafely depend upon it that in the case of a man who has a strenuous pur pose there is a certain gravitating ten dency between him and the work he i best fitted to do, and if that gravitat ing tendency is nou hurried too much it will assert itself, and the man, with out any excessively painful searchings of heart, will find himself where he be longs. Along thid line the only safe decisions are the decisions that shape themselves, and that we settle into without being very distinctly conscious at any time that a conclusion is being reached." GODEY'S FOR AUGUST. Godey's Magazine for August con tains lots of entertaining reading for the summer time. Half a dozen pieces of fiction in as many keys give a very readable variety in that line, and some thing stranger than fiction is told in Albert L. Parkes' acecdotes cf Anna Bishop, in the series of "Great Sing ers of this Ctntury." It seems that prima donna was under the control of M. Bochsa, the harpist and musical direector, in much the way that Trilby, the tone deaf, was dominated by Sven gali ir the story, and there is certainly reason to suppose that her career sug gested this part of Da Maurier's novel. An especially timely article is "Some Armenian Notables," which gives many unfamiliar and interesting facts in re gard to the ill-treated nation of Asia Minor and its greatest men and women. "Light and SouDd on the State" tells many of the secrets of mechanical ef fects in use in the theatre, and the il lustrations help to make them clear. "American Wives of Foreign Diplo mats" contains much that is descrip tive of diplomatic life in Washington society; the eighth of the "Talks by Successful Women" treats of the career of the Rev. Phoebe A. Hanaford ; and the Fashion Department is filled with designs and descriptions of the latest things in gowns and all matters of in terest to women. The United States has the best and cheapest postal service of any country on the globe. Tne same would be true of the telegraph if it were owned and controlled by the government. All should work for this reform. Journal of Labor. The Executive Ccmcnittee of the N. C Farmers' State Alliance will meet at Alliance Headquarters, near Hillsboro, on Thursday, the 6th day of August, 1896. All tfficsrs of the State Alliance are requested to meet with the Execu tivo Committee on Saturday morning, the 8th of August, for consultation and advisement in regard to our busi nees enterprises and the good of the Order generally. A. F. Eilem N, Chm'n Ex. Com. PEOPLE'S PARTY COUN1Y CON VENTION. A County Convention of the Popu lists of Johnson county is ordered to be held in Smithfield, on Saturday the 1st day of August, 1896, at 12 m , for tho purpose of electing delegates and alternates to the States CoLvantiou t be held in Raleigh, op the 13ih day of August, 1896. Also to elect delegates and alternates to attend the Cpngres sional District Convention to be held in Rileigh on the 12th day of August, 1896; and to transact such other busi ness as may properly come before the Convention. The Populists of each election pre cinct will hold primaries in their re spective precincts on Wednesday, the 29 ch day of July, 1896 and elect dele gates to attend the County Convention on August 1st, as aforesaid. Also se lect and recommend a Register for each voting precinct. W. R Creech, Chm'n Populist Ex. Co. Com. July 21. 1896 MEETING PRIMITIVE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION, DURHAM, N. C. AUG. FIRST i?o6 On account of the above occaeion. the Southern railway will sell round trip tickets to Durham, N. C. and re iurn from Goldsboro, Henderson, Reidsville, Winston Salt m and High Point and intermediate Nations on basis of tarn2, circular 5174, rates in dicate below to govern. Tickets to be sold July 29 h, August 1st, final limit Aug. 5 h. Goldsboro $3 65 Greensboro 2 75 Henderson 2 25 Raleigh 1 50 S lraa 2 75 Winston Slem 4 05 Sale of XLa,n.cL. Vke Counry. Lieik Superior Court. Lizzie Pear'or.: J. J. Maynard, Guardian, and othtrs, ex parte. By virtue of autho ity conferred on t e as C numssioner in the nbove entitled Specfal Kro redi s I will on M mila , the 7th uay of St p tembnr A. D., 1MW exp fr.r s!e aT d sell at public outrr'v t the highest b'ddr for cash at the court hous-e door in Raleigh. N. all that tract or parcel of lan in VVae County, X. C . in Whi'eoak To vet ship adj ing the iand r.f Ij u. Upchur- h R. Join son J P. IV arson. E. P MayiiHTd Sidney Seatcraves an J. .1 Maynard. being the sime owned and occupi. d hv the late James Peaison. up to the time of his death, and a'toiethnr containii g ore hundred and t-ixty t cies more r les-. and more fully described in tue Petition iu said Special Proceedings. W .1. PEELE, Commas-ion' r. Peelk & Mayxakd, Attorneys for Petitioners. NTING. "W L. 1ST T B ID . T7VERY ONE in need of printing of any kirn to &end their orders to Smith, Faison & Co. Mail orders promptly at ended to. Addrfesi SMITH, FAISON & CO., Raleigh, N. O. it .If V1 Bverrthm? sells low 10 join, nations, 8- Jt: IKu deal with, the PRI CV JAST fiVt gsfl wind power to one-sixin v.'ist it v.-;.-. yCZ''fr Ve believe in lew price-, hij: rx- li'- CmW aRd lare sales. TO cue knovs tiie &&f ours. We waho short hand and -L it r;V'',iSS;&l power stroke pumps, with be?i sc--.:.:- E-i-r: i its windmill business. We have 2a branch houses -r -: 3-r";5.Wk .. . . ... .. ... . s .wvjxuus uecic you. 1896 N. C. BAPTIST ALMANAC 189 First 'number issued 1865. Price 10 mail, prepaid, for $1.00. One hundred FPEE cal Ii i, I, nr P rVflid Bo uable information to any m ,..n man afflicted with any form r or special disease. Addi s: ing Physicians and Spccia:; . Country. Dr. Hathaway & ( , 70 Dearborn street, Chi , CURE3 GUARANT;: Southern Rai ay (PIFDMONT AIR I.INF Condensed Scliea n . IN EFFECT JUNK 4 ,v Trains Leave Raleigh p., Norfolk and CiiaTtammk; a 1.: 4:12 p. m. Daily. Solid v ; . trains with sleeper frcm Xuri Chattanooea via Salipbury, MorU;, AsheviJIe, Hot Springs and Ki : Connrera at Durham for . . Clarksville aud KyevilH cxc-.-t .t; day. At Grernt-boro vvith tbf v. .! ington and Southwestern Y -(Limited) train for all poina Nor:; ' with mam line train No. 12 for vilie, R-chmocd and intermedia;.- statiors; also, has connection for -7 sron Kulom and with main line ' No 35, "United States Fast Ma i 7r Charlotte, Spartansburg, Gnci: Atlar.ta and all points Snub; :. Columbia. Augusta, Charlento!-. vannab, Jacksonville and ail ;:!,' :: Florida. Sleeping Car for Atiur u. Jacksonville and at Charlotte ., ; -Sleeping Car for Augusta. Norfolk and Chattanooga Limited. 11:45 a. m Daily. Solid train n sisting of Pullman Sleeping car ... coaches from Chattanooga to Norfolk, arriving at Norfolk at 5 a. m . in i.-.n to connect with the Old Dominica Merchants' and Miners', Norfolk v., Washington and Baltimore. i peake and Richmond S. S. Cos f .r points North and East. Connects at Selma for Fayettevi!!o and intermediate stations on the Wil son and Fayetteville Short Cut daily, except Sunday for Newbern and Mo r -head City daily for Goldsboro and Wil mington and intermeeiate statiors or; the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. Express Train. 8:50a. m. Daily Connects at i':r ham for Oxford, Keysville. Richrnoi d; at Greensboro for Washington and ail points North. Fxpress Train. 3 C9 p. m. Dilv For Gold fcbero and intermediate stations. Local ccemmodation. 2:00 a. m. Oonnects at Qrcmboro for all points 'for North and South wvA Winston Salem and points on tho Northwestern and North Carolina Uul road. At Salisbury, for all poii.ts in Western North Carolina, Xnoxv.i!', Tenn., Cincinnati nd western p va; at Cnarlotte, for Spartenburg. nn ville, Athens, Atlanta and all puints Sou'h. Trains Arrive at Ralekjil X. C : Express Tra n. 3:05 p. m. Daily. From Al!.::.:. Charlotte, Greensboro and all pa.u-: South. Norfolk and Chattanooga Limited 4 12 p. ru. Daily. From all ;n.::.r- easc, Norfolk. Tarboro, Wilson u:jJ water lines From Goldsboro, Wilmington. : etteville ai d all points in Eastern -ro lina. Norfolk and Chattacooga Lin iter. 11:40 a. m. Duly.-From New V rk. Washington, Lynchburg, D.nvi!.v : r : Greensboro, Cbattaaooga, K.v. .w Hot Springs and Ashevilio. Express Train. 8:50 a. m. Daily. From G J i i . : and intermediate stations. Local. 7:20 a. m. Daily. From G'-ccj L' rc and all points North and South s. p ing car frcm Greensboro to Ralfi.:n. 9.00 p. m Daiiy except Sur.'iuy. From Goldsboro and all p-itti- K Local freight trains also cans ;!) sengers. Pullman cars on night train 'r n: Raleigh to G eent-boro. Through Pullman vestibuled Driv ing Room Buffet Sleeping Car bmi tibuled coaches without change u: Nor folk limited. Double daily trains botwf en H.l-icb., Charlotte and Atlanta. Oiick ' unexcelled accommodation. W. II. Ghfk.v General Superintend nt. W. A. Turk. General Paspenger Agent, Washington. D C. J. M. Culp. Trhfln M ;r :.. r the farmer eolla i to him ? We have repeatedly refused . ana, taeretore, defeated windmnl conni- V- and have, since '89, reduced the c t cf Ipsa Krpcs tnTi.- r-vlinrier. lower t iSQ iroaones a 2! X is'inch atS.i-J. 1';J 1, vevnr dealer. Euv none other. Aerraotcr primer. '.. . world has piven us more than Laii : writs tor m-autuuny liiusuaisa ziziv..e...- -.y cents single copy, or eixteen copies W by express C. O. D 00. Adcirt i express j. kj. u. r Rev. N. B. COBB, Raleigh,