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-. TEE -PB0SESSSXVD IMBX1BB : OCTOBER 19f 1897. THE PR0&lE:SIE FARIilEfi UES. L. L. FOLK, - Pboi'iuetok. J. L. RAMSEY, - Editor. J. W. DENMARK, - Business ATg'b. R&lelgb, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION l&e copy oa rr free, to the on lentitas Clur ,f Ten ccurr-lneariabhi 4n .Adoone. Money t oar nek. ff eent by referral letU tx money order. P mm4 etar;. Advertising Rt quoted on Application. Writ all coHimanictlons, designed for pub XesLtlon, on one side of the paper only. We want Intelligent correapondenta i in every ounty In the State. We want facts ot value, SSilte itccompllfihed of valne, expeacea of ralue, plainly and brleQy told. One ecUd. inonRtratfi faeu Is worth a thousand theories The editor is not responsible for the flews of correspondents. RALEIGH, N. C, OCT. 19. 1837 yWi papr ntrr4 at sootKi-ela matUr at th Pott Ofits in Raiti-jK N. 0. The Progressire Fanner is the Official Organ of the N. C Farmers' State Alliance Do you vrsnt your paper changed tc mother office ! 8tate the one at which f ou hav8 been getting it. rjr Our friends In writing to any of tit advertisers will favor ua by men Zoning the fact that they saw the advertisement la The Pboorsssivs: AECTSB. 7TTh8 date ou your label tells you henycar time is out. I am striding now just behind tiu mrtain,and in full glow of the coming UrhinA np. are the shadow or- the track, before me lies the dar valley and the river. When I mingle with tt.n dark water I want to cast one linger Jh .,tini i-l ftwintrv whost aovem t.'J " " a - r -f tv. a nortnl fnr the rtfWle. and by the people !. L. Pell, July lh, isso. N. R. P. A. EDITORIAL NOTES. The Alliance is reviving. In Wake county-three new Subs were reported at the County MeetiDg last week. If you want a paper run in your in terest do not expect one that ia paid for out of the party campaign barrel. Ever? one interested in dairying should read our "One Hundred Hints n paper. J Senator Tillman is suffering from attack of jaundice. We hope he will goon be able to wW-i his pitchfork -.va yiiiiy throws' down the ,-. id-t! -11 1 yr:;r unty take it upf ii 's Report of the VVii fTMA "V. . ot- g. Oiir grass minded farmers will find some gcoi suggestion in the report of L. L. Polk Alliancs discussion of grasses in another column. vlZ?ks Bilkins is waiting to subscribe for the paper that the Charlotte Oa server callei the "organ of the disap pointed office-seekers." Which one was itt Whero is that brother who premised or was instructed or requested by your County Alliance to write en account of the meeting to The Progressive Farm er. Shove him up, donTt let him be the last. Jl The man who intends going to the Klondike next spring will do well to get in practice this winter. Let him discard clothes, wrap himsalf up in a cow hide and try minir.g in our own State. v If there had bean a wheat famine in America instead of India, wonder if McKinley and hia allies would have taken the blame for dollar wheat as they have taken the thankbf What do you thiak of itt There ia no better time to work than to-day, and if you mtet a man who does not belong to the order, if he is elligible, ak him to join. If you fail to get him try the next man you meet and the next and the next. JOf a certain Populiat in this State a Democratic exchange says there is not room for him in that party. Great snake ! A man that can't find a home in 8omo one of the 82 elements of the party must ba a queer animal. SWith the cotton crop more than a million bales short, and still worth about $10 per bale less than last year, those who talk of McKinley prosperity and those who argue on supply and de mand are in equally bad condition. Dr. B H. Dula, of Tillery, N. C, writes us that twenty one State prison ers of Caledonia Farm, Capt. T Mc Caskey's Camp, No. 1, picked seven thousand, three hundred and fifty five pounds of c tton Oct. 15 ;h, making an average of 350 5 21 pounds of cotton to the mar. Oae prisoner picktd 525 pounds. Pretty goxl for one day's w no can beat itt D not expect a piper the size of The Progressive Farmer for lees than cine dollar per y er to serve your inter est It costa that mucn to mase it therefore if y ou got it for less some bedy who hopea for gain thereby is footing the bill in hia interest not in m-r il. : yours, xou may mars hub. tfc RApma that there is eomrtbine new untler the sun. The mfmbera of the Kentucky Bankers' Association, at their rerent seat-ion in Frankfort, re fused to drink wine or any intoxicants whatever. The next thing to do is to prove that these gents were real Ken- tuckians. j We regret that Secretary Hoover's letter on Guilford County Alliance reached ua too late to get in this week's issue. We understand that the meet ing was a very good one, in spite of the temptation of many to harvest crops during tbo splendid weather which we have been enjoy ing. To our good brethren who are kind enough to send us communications, we beg of ypu to get them here before Sat urday. We have to work all the week to get up the paper and after having it about finished to have several long but interesting and important articles come in and insist upon going in. Well we will not say how it makes the editor feel but leave y cu to imagine. Please get them in before Saturday or do not cuss if you do net see them in the cext paper. We do all we can tJ serve you, but must have tim-?. The Nw York World estimates that the cotton crop is 2,000,000 bales short Sliny are advising fttrmt-r'i to hold thtir cotton F-jr k. stance The Atlanta Journal says: It is often ruteiJe tn province of a daily te wnpaper to a l vise the farmers eitcer to hold or aell thc-xr crop of cotton, t ut ia the present in stance v?o feel ct-rttia that the pri-e must shortly go higher. For soveral weeks professional bara have ruhd the market. This cl qui cannot long keep control of the ei u ition, for the plain and eventually coatroilitg facts are adverse to their domination. kF or fifty five years Connecticut has had a constitutional provision that "every person shall be able to read any article of the Constitution or any sec tion of the statutes of this 8 Date before being admitted an elector." This, how ever, has been construed to mean that anyone who can read any article of the Constitution in any language is en a titled to vote. The last session of the legislature submitted to the people at. amendment to the Constitution, dis franchising all those who cannot read anyarticle of the Constitution in Erg lish. 'aQStlSirrr' ?S$ and the amendment was adopted by a majority of nearly twenty to one. Thi means that thousands of men in Con necticut must give up the plea&ure of voting. The oldest "old maid" in the world iBatty Doling, of Indiana, she is 101 years old. S e savs she never "kep' compauy with but two fellers," and as they didn't have spunk enough to pop the q irstion, she became dis gueted with folks of the sterner sex A certain Pennsylvania woman nas more courage than theee "two fellers." Toe other night her spoute, aa he had frequently done before, came home, warmed up by "fire water" and went to bed. While he waa thus in a state of dizzy repose, in the pleasant com pany of snakes and cross eyed dragons, she proceeded to inclose him in the sheet, and soon warmed him up still more, not with strong drink, but with a strong whip. When she was through with the flagellation, she released him. The next day, he had her arrested, but the judge sent the man instead of the woman to jal. .THE DURHAM FIRE. The long continued drouth has caused many destructive fires in Minnesota, Wisconsin and surrounding States and North Carolina now adds another to the long list of conflagrations. On last Thursday, Durham was vis ited by the most destructive fire in its history, witn the possible exception of the one in 1885. The burnt d district covers an area of eight aires and the loss is estimated at about 1300,000. The drouth seems to have cut quite a figure in this fire also, for the failure of the fire company to get it under control at ODC3 is attributed to the insufficient water eupply. The fire originated in the Basa to bacco warehouse at ll:25 a. m , and quickly spread to surrounding build inga. Soon after 12 oclock the Raleigh fire department was telegraphed for, and in S5 minutes after leaving Raleigh mey were at tne scene of the fire. Tney arrived too late to render any assist ance, however, as the fire having de siroyea seven pnaa houses, eight uweuings ana scores of tons of to bacco, was at last under control. The fire originated from an engine snark. More than half of the loss was covered by insuraLC3. - t UR. ROCKEFELLER'S LTH. Everybody likes to reaa or yarning big sums of money. The story of Mr. Jno. D. Rxjkefeller's life and vast wealth, to the average man reads like an Oriental fairy tale. S:ill it is well to remember that there are two sides to this picture. This vast river of wealth that empties itself into the c II t:rs of this modern Croesus, must somewhere have a source. Wealth must be produced; people are divided into two classes producers and consumers of wealth. When the wealth of the consuming class is iucreased is is plain to all that t je wealth of the producing class must be decreased in a corre sponding degree. Turn thus from the vast wealth of the Rjckefeller's and see the other side of the picture. Look at our North Carolina laborers who make less per day than docs Mr. Rjcfcefeiler per second. Look at the tnouaanas who must every day work so many rninuces longer strike so many more blows at the anvil, or plow so much longer in the fields, in order that Mr. Rockefeller's wealth may be increased as ic has been done in the past. There's something wrong hsre soma wrong in the financial stem that en riohts the few at the expense of the many. Tne way fariLg mun, though ne be a fool must see it. Ha may not ba a eiUJeut of finance, he may not snow the meaning of stock and bonds and futures, but sail the truth muds dawn upon him the fixed truth that Mr Rockefeller is a consumer and that all this weahh id the earnings of Amen eun labor, the earnings of the protuc iug elaafces. Tnis is tho cuuviction of tne people. AJl of them can not be touleU t4i the time. Tiie leuvan ia woiking. 'The re 'a something wrong somewhere'1 say too people. Tnis wrong muso oe remtdied. Ic will be. Already we hear the first shots in the battle of R-gat against Miht. Tne crisis is cjtning keep your eye oa Angelica's ballot bcx. 4 This will make good rf a iingHr the man who is continually complaining ot lutfiieiont teachers of our day. It is from the Chenoa (lil.) Gazette: Not long eiace in a Western school a student's examination paper contained this marvelous budget: The human body is divided into three parts: The head, the chist, and stummick. The head contains the ey es and brains, if any. The chist contains the lungs and a piece of liver. The stummick ia de voted to the bowels, of which there is five. a. e. i. o. u. ana sometimes w and y." .wrjBP-NPWS Some one who signs himself "Repub lican" writes to the Elizabeth City Carolinian aa follows: In your paper of Septembfr 22. sou have a clipping from The ProGjessive Farmer which states that the fees from the Secretary of State have in creaEed 250 per centum since Mr. Thompson took thetffijo, and why? Doubtless this increase ia due to a larger business, but the i ffie has been loosely conducted for many years past. "While cleaning the effi ;e this sum mer Mr. Thompson found $150.00 in checks, money orders, postal notes and coin, but there was no shortage charged in any of the books. In fact, until Saptember, 1895, when the pros pect of the ffi ;o falling into our hands became seriou, no ledger bad ever been opened in this c ffi ;et which handles more money than any other in the Scate, save the Treasurer's. "Ia the same connection it is inter esting to know that $40,000 in oil bonds have been found in the Treasury De partment, of which no entry could be found. 4 'These effises are in good hands now, and we shall have no more loose busi ness. A change waa needed." Here is some food for thought. If all the facts in the case were known, there might be also some good political food for the "unterrifled Democracy." Evidently there has been some inter eating business transactions in the c ffice of Secretary of Scate in days past by and gone. These are good news items interest ing and almost sensational, but our esteemed contemporary, the News and Ooserver, which announces iteelf as "the leader in news" has not discov ered them. Wonder why t GRASSES. When? What? Where? The regular meeting time of the L. L Polk Alliance is the first and third Fridays of every month, 7:30 p. m , at the A. & M. College, At the last week's regular mseting, the subjsct of grasses waa diecussed, and the follow ing important points were brought out: The time to sow grass in Central North Carolina is in Octobar and No vember, which means we are now in the grass-planting season. For a hay crop, sow a mixture of such grasses aa will bloom and ripen at waA the same time, say timothy and fowl meadow grass, mixad with sappling or pea vine clover. This should be cut for hay just before the seeda ripen, best just before it b'.ooms, but if after it blooms, wait until it has shed its polen. Forgrrzng, so w a mixture of s?uch grasses aa do not ripen at the same, but at different times, that ia boch early and lace. The late will be ripening after the early is gone. For pasturage, Varieties which give best growth of root leaves should be chosen; a good mixture suggested meadow fox tail gives a heavy growth of root leaves, wish Kentucky blue grass which will continue to grow root leaves through the whole season wnen cut eff from seeding early, provided it has a eupply of food and moisture. A good mixture for pasture, for rotation of growtn given in about the order of eariiness would be meadow fox tail, sweet vernal Kentucky blue or orchard, poa compreesa, and meadow fescue grasses, with a small quantity of white or red clover, and in eome places alsike clover. Of a mixture of this kind use about 40 or 45 pounds ot the grass seed to the acre with one to one and a half pounds of white clover end four to six pounds of red clover. Grasses are nitrogen loving plants. In order to make a successful growth, the land must be rich in humus and other elements of plant food. Nothing but .disappointment can come of,sow ing grass on poor land. L. L Poik Alliance is arranging a program of timely topics for discussion at ttieir mf-ecing, and thesa will b reported ia The Progressive Farmer Several professors ot too A- & rl. Col lege bslong to this Alliance, and take a very lively interest iu the work. The Secretary of the Bjurd of Agrieulrure, trie Stale Treasurer and hia Cinef Clerk al-oare member, while they have with tnein the Commissioner of Agriculture, the Secretary of Ssate and several other brethren whose menibsrehip has not been removed to thfmyoc, but who are heart and eoul in the work, and who will contribute to make these reports worth reading. 4 7. CYLINDRICAL BALING. 4 The American Cotton Company does not seem to be making as much prog ress as was anticipated. It seems in fact to be the opinion of many that the invention is not nearly so valuable as was at first anticipated. A few days ago a bale of cotton packed by the new press was on exhibition at the office of a New Orleans cotton factor, Mr. Par ker by name. Concerning the views of those who inspecjs4atlhQ vTir&sa J Demppy&ys: 'There were cotton factors, mer chants, steamship men, cotton press men, cotton mill men, screwmen, stevedores, and many others interested in cotton who went in there to inspect it, and of the 500 people, at least, whom Mr. Parker says saw the cotton, not one of them in hia presence gave it a , favorable opinion." The Atlanta Journal says that the question as to the practical woi th of the new method of baling "is still an open one.'' 1 SOME HOTSHQj Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, ia one gent for whom the plutocrats have lit tie use or perhaps we should say they have a great use for him, provided they could induce him to go ever from the people's side. This he does not pro pose to do, and he is consequently nothing but an ''anarchist," "social ist," "nihilist" or something of that kind. The following extract from an address recently delivered by him at Brooklyn, N. Y., struck some tender spots and the plutocrats are once more raging at this fearless Governor. Gov. Altgeld said: 'In no country and in no age have the higher courts been on the eide of the people or of liberty. They are everywhere the exponents and defend ers of that force which for the time be ing dominates the land. 'Since the war the higher courts have, as a rule, occupied the same posi tion toward the corporations and money power that they formerly did toward elavery, and for thirty years they have been regarded as cities of refuge by corporations. In eome re spects they havfr done more to bring about the present unhappy conditions than has Congress, for Congress did occasionally pass a measure intended for the protection and relief of the peo ple. But almost every one of, these acts haa been killed by judicial con struction. At . the same time the law has been strained to deprive the humble man of his liberty, to defeat trial by jury, and to destroy the safeguards which the Constitution has thrown around the cit'zm. The darkest fore bodinga of Jtff jrsoa have been realized. "But these things should not dis courage our people, for the courts have never yet permanently stepped human progress. The colonies were freed in spite of the Chief Justice cf Eogland. Jefferson saved the liberties of the American people in spite of the federal judiciary. Jackson triumphed in spite of the Supreme Court, and slavery went down in spite of the decision of ' Chief J ustice Taney." HIT SO HARD HE CANT ceraed for its success as am The Hickory Mercury, which es that j DQ J j paper aptly remarks, ia a paper with a Vclick" to it, save: 'As soon as Judge Robinson disclosed the fact that it was a clear violation of a plain law for any one to ride on free passes, the News and. Ooserver rises and charges that Gov. Resell had ridden on free paese3. The Progres sive Farmer riees and charges that Mr Ay cock aa U 8. District Attorney and Solicitor P .u and a certain Supe rior Court Judge had been riding on free passes. Then it charges that Senator Rmsom rides on a free pass: So they have it among themselves. Let the truth come, boys." We also say let the truth come. Bro Click will notice that tho News and Observer was aa silent as the tomb when we made the above remarks. Another illustration of the fact that, sometimes a dog ia hit so hard he can't howl. i A COLOSSAL TRUST. "Peacaably, if you canprcibly, if you must." The American people can now keep trusts under control with their ballots, if they will. But gradually, slowly, but surely, capital is tighten ing the chains that hold labor captive, and the time may corns we do not say it will, we hope the American people have enough manhood and horse sense to prevent it but the time may come when they will ba compelled to act forcibly. A gigantic combination of trusts in other words, the formation of one uni versal trut, is now talked of. We do not know whether or not there is any truth in the statement. We hopo-there is not. But at any rate there is food for thought in the suggestion. Ra membering tho - formation of such a trust is noz impossible, is it not well to consider what would happea in case Buch a trust should be formed t Here are the names of thoso which, it is rumored, are to combine : Scandard Oil Company. 4 Uuited States Leather Company. American Sugar Rsftuk g Company. National Lead Company. United States Ruober Company. American Tobacco Company. American Spirits Manufacturing Company. American Cotton Oil Company. New York, Chicago and Bay State Gas Companies. Consider for a moment the great in fluence which each one of the&e com Din a tion 8 exerts in its respective field, and aain imagine if y ou can, the vaster influence which would be exerted were they to merge their identity into one colossal whole! The capital stock of these companies reaches the enormous sum of $535,000,000. Again we say that we hope that the American people now realize the im portance of getting trusts under their control. Ac exchange fears they do not, and in speaking of this proposed combination, says: 'There is only one way to break the prejudice of the people for the existing social anarchy and that is by the prt fi gure becoming so hard that they can't stand it. Let it come, let it come. ' But we hope this is unnecessary. Al ready the great common people are be ginning to find out that they must quit fighting each other and must get to gether. Where are you, reader t Are you still in the old ruts, fighting over tariff and other insignificant issues, or do you think that the laboring maeses should get together into one invincible whole to fight their oppressors t SHOE FACTORY NEWS. Mr. Editor: Oar County Alliance met yesterday, though small in num bers, we had quite an interesting meet ing. We have a few of the old guards left yet. The probabilities of the shoe factory starting were discussed, and we came to the unanimous conclusion that the starting of the shoe factory at an early date is an important factor in the Alliance. I was requested to write a letter to The Progressive Farmer, requesting the editor to give me some information in regard to starting the factory. Winter is near at hand, and it is feared that if the factory does not pstart at any early date, most of the members will supply themselves with shoes elsewhere. f Please, Mr. Editor, give us all the information you possibly can in re gard to the factory. Fraternally yours, E D Sjiead, Sec'y -TreasL Four Oaks, N. C, Oct. 17, 97. The Editor handed the above com munication to the Chairman of the Ex ecutive Committee, who writes as 'fol lows:' .- 'Dear Bro. Snead, and all other brethren who think and feel that much depends now upon the starting of the shoe factory soon, I will gay : "Your State Executive Committee j put me at its head because they knew that I had been tho starter of . thfe j 'aetnoM v saiqnoi Sambas HQWL. , movement, and was & 7 mm i " M r-Mrl "The Committee also put th ' of doing the correspond nee, : ttr the superintendent ai'm 1 the factory on me. I have not idle bread. I Have worKea har and late, and spent '1 bed thinking, and have eM guidance from the G vtr dom. I thinfc I have uoae tty I know as well as an0ae -t- I stake. Mistakes are causer. 11 i cant faff or d to i am d at f., i.. . this work. We muac c.uJt We have nothing to ftle j look at the matter v?nh o and do what I am covc a i , do. "When I camo heme from the 3 , Alliance, I at once put m 3ai ti f fniHid a man wh-k,r. T .... - . - ' 1Q convinced would UJi-J IQ we could secure his serviced. , him August 16 ih. ( Msa I coui lidh all the corret?poL.deui, buiiiW,J not be wise.) tie anevvtre-d 20 , sent a copy of his reply witn a copy my letter to each mmoer of tLel ecutive Committee, i heard from and made the man a propo which he intimated be could !, cept, but wanted time to see ployers and get an honorable rjl Here the matter hunn. I urg anawer. I had all the time that we must start Oot l,c. 3 ber 245h a telegram wag recei' which said, 'Oaanoc gt relea This ended corresondeLci wi; I have other correspond once, hot ever, which will b j d bh hhe Executive Comniitipo a-, a ing called for -the 22nd K, 8mething wiilthfn d-j o-,h- Iamsnti Your Committee are i. c '.t(-tpBJ iui. vve wouia scr trrs hto fru C3 itre to circumfereno - ia s nn ty caji, as it was never stirred, if every : 1 . oer ot tee oruer cou'u ne '.ca rear trie imporcance of pHri, tu si UMi-edscl tlOO, BS I see It, ' t Yti;eroa.iy, 'J W Denmark, "Chm. Ex Comm. N C. & F i IF YOl 7 ARE NOT A REGULAR SUBSCRIBER To The Progressive Farme3&- well, it's notour fault. Weureeonj for you. At any rate, pleaee eiamisi thia copy closely. The paper spesbi for itself; it challenges compare! and is sold on its merits. j In quantity, it is an 8 pag:e 6 cdlut paper all home print. Every ei $1 North Carolina paper taat ia way approaches it in sizs ia merely t rehash from some other paper ores patent outsides. In quality, it ia a paper for farm as. home. It is the oldest and only or: nal weekly farm paper in the Statt With its stories, poems, j kef, Christian Life column, it is a paper toj the heme a paper read aad eujoj by every member of the family, year and old. j Ia price, it is dirt cheat) Tbre have it. The Progkessive Fabs leads in quantity, quality tuc pj Now, as we said before, if joa failed to subscribe, it is not our .W j We are here, ready to receive jj money and send you the pipsr at tf time. We could publish some sort of acl page paper for lebs money, but j don't propose to public tbat The Progressive Farmer wafij class paper a paper that can't bep& j ashed for less than a dollar and. worth every cent of it. If that's the kind you are locks! for, here we are. 0ie year, $1. WHY I AM a'haPPV FARMS A farmor writincr in an states that he takes a g iod firm pfl ana reaas it witn pieaeuic and gives the following addition sons for being a happy farmer: I love the farm. "I love its surroundings. 'I enjoy better health. It has added jeara to my lf0- - ..wrrin?. i mace a success ui n h u$ "I always have plenty of tr" and vegetables. 'I keep out of debt. "I managed to keep my beip tented. "I keep good stock. "I have good farm implead" "I am on good terms with my D bora. 'I never fret or worry. . f mjjj. 'It ia the best place to raiaa a It ia a eafe business hrfi&&.' "The farmer's banfe nver Drea FOR Mts-N oNLY- Ladies, please skip this Pay It got into our columns by and we have asked the printers it upside down : xa- pBaqasquo pow" pew A-peaai q V c)f Hop o sjaao a muus jo paq w olj. euioa -mo ii pug rn VWi 4&oas o oa jqano eq Qi3qn qm n i afl e! "
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