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THE PROSBEME FABIIEB HEa L.L. POLK,- Proprietor. J. L. RAMSEY, - Editor. J. W. DENMABK, - Business M'o'b. Raleiffb, K. C. SUBSCRIPTION CIeSber. On, Yjgfc. ............ Lj One copy one yx free, to the oae rending Club 11 Tn CJJ.V-Intara&:y In .Adwne. Money at oar ri. If sent by registered letter t? money order. PUcu dent mk! $timv. Advertising lUtes Quoted on application. To CcrrnvontenU: Write all communications, designed for pnb Uaation, on one side of the paper only. We want Intelligent correspondent in every iounty In the State. We want act of value, result accomplished of value, experiences of ralue, plainly and briefly told. One solid, fmonstrated act, is worth a thousand theories. The editor is cot responsible for the clswi of correspondents. BALEIGH, N.O., NOV. 16, 1897. TkU vaptr cntcrid a ueond-elast matUr at th Pott Ofic in RaUiah C The ProgressiTe Fjmer Is the Official Organ of the II. C Fanners' State Alliance Do you want your paper changed to mother office I State the one at which fou have been Retting it. E7" Our friends in writing to any of our advertisers will favor ua by men tioning tha fact that they saw the advertisement in Teh Progressive Faritzr. f7" The date on your label tells you trhcn your time is out. " I am standing novo fust behind the curtain, and in full glow of the coming runset. Behind me are the shadows on the track, before me lies the dark valley and the river. When I mingle with its dark waters I want to cast one linger ing look upon a country whose govern ment is of the people, for the people, and by the people," L. L. Polk, July tfh, 1890. N. R. P. A. 14 Montlis for SI. We want 20,000 paid up subscribers by Jan. 1, '93 A paper of the er.zx character and prise of The Progressive Farmer should have them, and will have them if every reader will ehow his gratitude by working for the paper i,hecan. In order to make it easy POo-ufcecriber3 to double our sub for our l ,0 we offer: ecnption 1135 a. e a subscriber To anyone not Wij, -..Farmer must r every week until Jan. 1, 1899, for on?i one dollar. This ia dirt cheap and we ought to have 10,000 new subscribers at once Unlike some other papers, we have no campaigu fund at our backs to euable us to hire a travelling agent. There fore ask our readers, every one of them &nd you, dear reader, especially to get m up a club. The paper has stood by you and your interest. It managers have made sac rificea to keep the paper going to some of the readers. And now if you ap preciate thes9 kind acts, if you are grateful for them, prove it by this little action. We will thank you for this little work in your own interest. Shall wo hear from you? The Progressive Farmer? Raleigh, N. C. EDITORIAL NOTES. Calamity criers this year are keep ing away from facts and figues. Yad kin Ripple. As a proof that the Ripple likes facts and figures, will it kindly compare the pried of cotton with the price before silver was demonetized? f Replying to criticisms by numerous "persons regarding the failure of email farmers to secure premiums at the State Fair, tha Fair officers say that, were they to depend on the small farm ers for exhibits, they would not get a wagon load. They do not say whether or not this failure to get a wagon load was caused by the fear of the "big farmers." But if the farmers of the State care no more for the Fair than this, we rise to suggest that it's time to give such an enormous farce the "go by." We regret that we cannot yet an nounce the starting of the shoe factory. The Superintendent has not yet re turned from his trip north to exchange machinery and arrange for materials. He will return thU week, and as soon as the machinery arrives it will be placed in position and begin work in earnest. Let the brethren be patient, and bo ready. Tha Executive Com mittee have been wasting no time, but making all possible haste and the delay is no fault of theirs. They have found unloosed for obstacles which they have had to overcome, and it has re quired the exercise of much patience and no little study on their part to de cide what was the best course to pur sue. The Superintendent is quite sure he can begin work before Decem ber 1st. H THE ONE-CROP SYSTEM Sow some wheat. Bs an all round farmer. Tne all-cotton farmer is pretty blue now, and the evil effects of the one crop system are daily . becoming more apparent. Diversified farming is the hope of the South. The Monroe Advertiser may tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, but neither the Advertiser nor any other paper seldom says a truer thing than this: "When our farmers fill their smoke houses with meat, their corncribs with corn and their barns with provender, then can they hold their surplus cotton crop until it brings a price fixed by them and not by the speculators in the fleecy staple. Then, oh, then, what an industry farming wUl be." If you are a farmer, you can readily find proof of the value of diversified farming. Take your neighbors for in stance. In nine cases out of ten the more prosperous ones are those who . mm iL raise email crops crops wnicn iney sell to their one crop brethren. At any rate, the experience we have had'war- rants us in making the statement. There's a lesson here, and tuition fees have already been paid by the eadder and, let us hope, wiser one crop farmer. Do you, too take in the lesson? The Trans Mississippi and Interna tional Exposition of 1893 promises to be a great success. THE STATE FAKIR SHOW. The 8tate appropriates from the Pub lie Funds $1,500 per year to the State Agricultural Society, or,in other words, to the 8tate Fair. There is scarcely a farmer who would raise his voice in opposition to the appropriation if they could see an agricultural fair as it should be, but when the farmer comes to the grounds and finds it a Fakir Show, pure and simple, and that it has bean so arranged that it is impossible to pass from one end of the grounds to the other without being compelled to elbow his way through a mixed multi tudes of all shades, grades, classes, colors, conditions and professions of beings, jammed in by fakirs, pick pockets, lewd women and vulgar men, he fiads t iat he has paid his money for that which satisfieth not. Then he opens his eyes and begins to think that his representative to the next general as sembly ought to look into the matter, and pay no more money out of the pub lie treasury for the encouragent of any Fuch disgusting and disgraceful Fakir Shows. Tee Progressive Farmer will do anything in reason to encourage a State Fair that will be a credit to our con Tvative, moral Christian population. but u -P eucn as was 1 1-tober fakir fcffiir. Call U9 the last Ox. u hn &Lwe shall oppcea all such frauds. Dr. G. W. Biackuall, of Ra!eig ied last week. WHITHER ARE WE DRIFTING? Sp3aking of the colored fair recently held at Rileigh, the Chatham Record says: 'While this fair is creditable ti our colored fellow citizens is is also a proof, or product, of the kind treatment of the colored people of North Carolina by the Democratic party while in power in this State. And yet the Demo cratic party receives no credis nor thanks for its kind and just treatment of the colored people for educating their children, for building asylums for their tfflicted, and placing them in better condition than the negroes in any other State V Great Scott? How the mighty have fallen 1 If some Populist paper had claimed credit for kind treatment of the negroes, the Record would have gone into the calamity howling busi ness in a jffy. "Nigger traders, social equality, nigger rule," and kindred words would have followed in quick succession until the whole vocabulary of such terms became exhausted. Other Democratic papers would have chimed in. But here oh, the degrading spec taclel a Democratic paper bidding for "nigger" votes! What are we coming to when a Democratic paper does this and no other paper of the "great and only white man's party" protests? - ARE WE NOT ABOUT THERE? From a speech delivered in Congress in February, 1831, by the Hon. Daniel L RusBell, then the N. C. Representa tive from the Wilmington district. We take the following extract, which sounds like words of prophecy now that . we see every word of it has about come to pats. He &aid: "No man can be so blind as not to eee that the issue of the future is be tween the people on the one hand and untaxed and lawless capital on the other. Ten or fifteen years more of submission by the people to the "en croachments of monopolists and the demands of capital will see the Ameri can aristocracy enthroned and the peo ple powerless. The monopoly class THE fEOGEESSIVE PARLIES: NOVEMBER 16. 1897. have now, their hands upon the throat of the Constitution. They have ceased to work to accumulate money except as a means for obtaining political power. They dominate courts and legislatures. They have their representatives by the score in this House. They are fast cap turing the Senate. They are to day ex ercising mere actual power than the Congress itself. They can by a stroke of t e pen fix the price of bread in every Atlantic city, and pinch with hunger the toiling millions. The press they have already bought and paid for. With only a few exceptions they carry in their pockets a bill of sale for all the leading newspapers of the country. Even the great channel of speedy com munication and thought, the telegraph, is theirs. Vanderbilt and Gould are our masters. You cannot speak to a friend at a distance, or send a quick order for a dozen shirts, without pay ing tribute to them. Their grip is fast closing upon the entire railway system of the country. This colossal interest, embracing seven or eight thousand million dollars in capital and bonded debts, employing an army of 600,000 servants, is rapidly falling into their hands. They, with a few other kings with whom they are combining, handle double the revenue of the government, attd stand menacingly at the gates of commerce. And yet when we attempt to pass an interstate commerce bill that shall in some degree put a curb upon their power and afford some little protection to the people, we find that it receives less than a hundred votes in the popular house. When we try to establish a postal telegraph for the pro tection of the people, we cannot even bring it to a vote in this House." On page 1, the statement that there is no other North Carolina paper as large as The Progressive Farmer, (x cept ' these re hashed from dailies) should be "there is no other weekly," etc. HOW IS IT? The Progressive Farmer does not approve of tne course of Superintend ent Jno. R. Smith and Chairman Claudius Dockery in taking $50 of the Penitentiary funds with which to pay for the illustrated write up of these two men, which appeared in the Fair week Extra edition of the Evening Press Visitor of this city. Such conduce is unbecoming the dignity of an official But the other side of this question is the one we will notice now the side which shows equally as badly as the one which is receiving so much de served airing, that is, the side of the newspaper which received that $50, knowing that it was coming from the public funds. If our memory is not at fault, for months previous to the said write up the Evening Press Visitor was one of the most bitter papers in the State in its denunciation of the superintendent n Jnanagement of the 8tate Peniten not find epithets too vie and nause ou9 to express its contempt for them But strange to say while this insinuat ing fl nging at some still is being kept up along the old line, not one of those who paid for. the write-ups is being re ferred to in an ungentiemanly sugges tion even. This is evidence which shows plainly that the State ad minis tration might procure the valuable(?) assistance of the Evening Press Visitor if they would make up a small amonnt, $10 to $25 apiece and turn it to the credit of the bank account of said paper. Pi-,or boodle, seems to be the height of its ambition, whence and how it comes is not to be considered. Mr. Walter L. WombleV who has written many interesting and enter taining stories for this paper, gives us this week a soul stirring elegy which is enough to draw tears from a delin quern's marble statue. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? In one of our exchanges, the Wau tauga Democrat, we believe, we find the following item from The News and Observer just before the late fair: Rev. Dr. Kingsbury says several reputable Populists of this State have suffered a change of heart and gone over to the Democrats. It appears to us that the learned Doctor might get out his Gitling gun and capture one of these '-critter' Jhere is some vacant space in the State Museum, aud such a curiosity would be a great attraction". If the Doctor ' will capture a specimen, have him hermetically sealed up, marked "right side up with care" and shipped to Secretary John Nichols, it might be the means of bringing many people to the Fair next week. We've heard of these critters before, but they seem as hard to capture as an ordinary ghost." That's the way the Savior of the State can save the 8tate.-If he him self, instead of Dr. Kingsbuy, will cap ture "one of thse critters," the pur porse for which he left Washington will be accomplished. . A I " J WITH THE EDITORSj The Telegram, of Greensboro, is now a seven-column paper. The Populist Banner has just made its appearance at Federalsburg,'Md. A bright reform paper. Paul Dana, eon of Chas. 'A. Dana, succeeds hia father as editor of the the New York Sun. Farm and Home, of Springfield, Mass., issued a beautiful 24 page edi tion Nov. 1. It is a credit to agricul tural journalism. - An advertisement in a recent morn ing paper announced thathe adver tiser "wanted a servant who knows how to wash, cook and take care of children." Mr Will X. Coley, will be the night editor of the new Raleigh daily, the Post. Mayor Blount of Mocksville, as sumes the editorial management of the Davie Times. Henry George, the lamented candi date for Mayor of greater New York was at one time a printer, then a re porter, and finally editor of the San Francisco (Cal ) Times. 1 TheN. O. Journal of Elucation for November is out. It is bright and in teresting. The educators of North Carolina nesd an organ, and this seems to "fill the bill." We advise all inter ested in education to buy and try it "The newspapers are how discussing the question, how many times can a man kiss a woman? As many times as he has opportunity, of cours. So says the gallant and level headed young editor of the Hickory Times." Editor Sossaman, of the Charlotte People's Paper, gives the names of these who have paid up within the last week, thanks them and says he has a few thanks left for the next man. Same way with The Progressive Farmer, brother. A man stopping hia paper wrote to the editor: '"I think fokes ottent to spend thar munny fur a paypor my dadda din't, and everybody sed he was the telligentest man in the country, and had the smartest family ov boise that ever dugged .taters." An Arkansas editor who read that a young lady in New York kneads bread with her gloves on, says: "We need bread with our pants on ; we need bread with our boots on, and if our subscrib era in arrears don'c pay up soon we shall need bread without anything on. The Buff alo Express says that a Kan sas editor was blown up by a cyclone a short time ago. "That is a good town to rise in," he observed as the cyclone lifted him to the top of a tall pine; 4,but when men start on the downward road," he added, as he lost his hold, "their descent is rapid." The Sentinel, a brand new paper from Eastern North Carolina, says: In order to run a newspaper success fully it is only necessary to learn to do three things: eat dried apples for break f asjt, drink warm water for dinner, and swell upTJT?fWSZiSean8 an editor can get three square meSfS & day. Last week we mentioned the new Raleigh daily billed to appear in a few days the Post. Now we hear of still another soon to appear. That settles it We thought last week there would be room if a few died ouVSht if an other one appears there will not be room enough in the cemetery. Then what will happen? The editor of the Chatham (N. Y.) Courier gets off the following: How. dear to our heart is Cash on subscription. When the generous subscriber Presents it to view; But the man who don't pay We refrain from description ' For, perhaps, gentle reader, Tnat man might be you. Frank R Stockton has just completed a combination ghost and Christmas story. The possibilities of such a com bination are great, and Mr. Stockton is the man to bring' them out entertain ingly. This new story was written especially for Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, and it will appear in the Christmas number of that periodical. Newspaper men can't please all. As proof, see this from the Roxborn Cour ier: tlOneof the prisoners, who has been in jail for several months for block ading, took offence at The Courier last week. He said when he was put in jail we didn't say a word about is, and , when another gentleman was put in I for robbing the mails we gave him a long write up." I The printers of some, papers earn , more than the editors. In fcuch cases, it is generally understood that they must take the blame for all that goes wrong about the paper. The editor of one of our great dailies says his fore man, by mistake, mixed up an article on the conversion of the heathen with a receipt for making tomato catsup. When his paper appeared the mission ary talk and the receipt were jungled up in this wise: "They are accustomed to begin their work by securing heathen children and educating them. The easiest and best way to prepare them is to wipe them with a clean towel; then place them in dripping pans and bake them until they are tender, then you will have no difficulty in rubbing them through your sieve, and save time by not being obliged to cut them in slices and cook for several hours." An editor out West has recently lost two subscribers. One of them wrote asking bow to raise his twins safely while No. 2 wanted to know how to rid his orchard of grasshoppers. The edi tor wrote the answers on separate sheets, but by accident he put them in the wrong envelopes, so that the man with the twins received this answer: "Cover them carefully with straw and set fire to it, and the little peats after jumping in the flames Tor a few min utes will be speedily settled." And the man with grasshoppers received the following astounding reply: "Give castor oil and rub their gums with a bone." A correspondent of the Portland (Me.) Express wanted to know how keep his neighbors' chickens out of his garden. The Express editor replied as follows: "Dear Correspondent: Take a lot of small, stiff cards, about one by two inches; write on them: Tlease keep your darned old hens at home.1 Tie a short string to each card, with a grain of corn at the other end of the string, and scatter them where the hens con gregate. When the hungry biddy gobbles up the grain that draws the prize, she follows up the string, stowing it away till she comes to the card. Then she will pull out for home, carry ing in her mouth yy polite request." Samuel Archer's arMcles on "Politi cal Chaos" have elicited much favor able comment. We hope Mr. Archer will write ua often. His articles enter tain, as well as instruct. Besides the favorable comment received from North Carolina, we have received fe- qiests for papers containing his ar tides from Pennsylvania and thi3 week Mr. L.C. Batman, from far away Maine, pays a just tribute to Mr. Archer's skill as a writer. . J THE BEAM IN THINEy WN EYE." The State Fair fares badly. The press has joined the people, and the pulpit the press, in protesting against the use of any more of the State's money for such purposes as those for which the last appropiation was used. The Biblical Recorder, organ of the Baptists of this State, says: "The Fair and the State must separate, since it (the Fair) has separated from decency." When the newspapers first began to show something of the nature of the fair, its-managers made some terrible threats about exposing "the cant and hypocrisy of the press"! It strikes us as being rather strange that they should have waited so long to expose the evil deeds of others There was abundant timber for such work on the fair grounds from October 18 ;h to 24 h. Worse things than even "cant and hypocrisy" could have been found right under their noses, so to speak, but they were hot in an "rp3Siug'J-h'J2Har just then no, not at all I Wonder why ? A fair that seeks to bring together the rabble of the State the ignorant and vicious, and those who can prey upon them rather than the real farm ers farmeis of the middle class does not deserve the name of agricultural fair, nor yet "Sbate Fair." We do not say the management intended this, but nevertheless extra inducements for bringing together the lower class of people were given this year by keeping bar rooms open all night. This in itself was an insult to the honest and self re specting farmers of the State. It was a good thing "to catch 'em a comin' and a g wine," for by making this bid for the patronage of the lower class, the fakirs and gamblers seeing the op portunity of hoodwinking the ignorant, doubtless secured more space in the fair grounds. We repeat: "Reformation or ruin seems the only alternative which will the managers choose?" V AMEN. ti , A bill which the State Treasurer was called on to pay last week was one of $50 for a write up of the peniten tiary in a Rileigh paper, with pictures of the penitentiary building Superin tendent John R Smith, and Chairman Claudius Dockery, of the Board of di rectors. This is a very small tffiir. compared with some other penitentiary t , 7 m?l7 T 9 if m7n t matter; but should the Ste be caitS t? the A1 i will 6 matters; but should the State be called on to pay even small a bill as this, contracted for the gratification of par3 eonal vanity P Scatesville Landmark! Echo answers, "Why?" After all it's not so inuch the money aa the principle involved. It the Ssate pays for write ups in one paper, why should it not pay for write-ups in all) Why use favoritism! Besides, we didn't know before that theenitentiary needed advertising, but we now learn that people fare so well there, and the State so much de sires to board people free that the man agers have decided to test the efficacy of advertising to increase the number of convicts. Bah I is: WORD OUR SUB?pd,. I In writing our adverti?Pr The Progressive Farmer xh favor we always ask ot subscribe18 readers. We are enabled to paper of the s5Z3 and cbarQCter JX1 Progressive Fabmer for cne d n year only by means of the liberal'5 ronaereof subscribers anri l W A rotra nuanr xn..i a. - t aaa. ouc ot tne paper. Of 1 A . , course lose mbney by this, in one wav a. 1 .. Ji d"' wu uuounoer8 and t they will give those who do adver h liberal patronage. And juat hern will adapt a sensible item romth t cellent periodical, Farm and Horn -The more liberally you our advertisers, the more liberally IT will patronize us and the Lir hotter wo nan mlr tui b Via,n p.-jpy advertisers will never know that saw their "ad" in The Proq j B.j wnen mer to them. Tha mr, ' get stating that their "ad" was ea? The Progressive Farmer, the iT advertisers will see that it ' payathT v ouwg iu uui paper. If fU fnrfi. Yftti RPfl t.hft Damn "Jit .' w O ttU 1Q 0jL rvE Farmer onlv when nt,- advertisers, so that your order mayi). creauea 10 mis journal. AswerM every fuun mkj auoin only reliable 6j vertisera, all orders from ourreadea get the best attention." Thus it's to our mutual advantto that you patronize our advertisers, patronize them liberally. LANDS WANTED. North Carolina farmers having for sale will do well to adverts ft j The Progressive Farmer Numbea of persons in other States re w.ndq to buy land in this State. Pataaai in.this paper describing your lcndand get ahead of your ksg pr.grtssire neighbors. The last bulletm eays th! the following persons, residing in other States, wish to buy farming lands ic North Carolina: A. N. Day win, Frank fort, Ind., (any kind); L P. Ciausto, Hamilton, Ohio, (land suitable for cat tie raising); C. A. Dsan, Hpricgfleld, Vermont, (any kind) ; John W. Hugh 1203 Adami street, Toledo. Olio, (3tt and general farming) ; F. J. Humphry Mansfield, Ohio, (fruit groin0;Ll! Weiss, Circleville, Ohio, (?ram r grass growing); Dr. S. E. CampM 1307 Broadway, Bay City, Mich.,(b general farming, in a healthy locals George F. Veitt, 561 Main sr.reet,fo folk, Va., (poultry and gardening);! S. Jackson, 525 N. J. Av., R I Washington, D. C ; James F. Campa, Reading, Mich., (any kind); Jobnfi. Woodhull, Somerton, Pa , (-uitablefe a colon ) ; F. E Simon, YouDgstw (any kind) ; Dr. F L Avery. Hustburj, Tenn. ; A. D. Braden, 928 W. 8;n etreet Canton, Ohio; Leonard strtet, Beaw Falls. Pa. ; Frank W. Smyth, Fjxbai Mass. ; Anthony Biumou, flsranfci Pa. ; G30rge E. Morey, RadiDg, Mid (grain and stock farm) If these names have been gather without advertising, how manyns would be heard from if every ftftf in the State would tell of bia write j lands in our ad. columns? 2ry u see. , Some interesting farmers' bm-i have j istbeen issued by the J)J ment of Agriculture. ' Beefeeep&j No. 59 will interest all those who. A. I U.. 1 4-1 1 .-. inaanta Wt there is scarcely a farmer in N4 Carolina who cannot find some vawf facts in No. 62, which ti entitled ' f keting Farm Produce." If any ofj readers wish any of thee buW "Secretary of Agriculture, Wastw ton, D. C." y - FILLS A LONG eLT WANT- Our thanks are due Mr. W. j. m of the Raleigh bar, for advance of "Lives of Distinguished Nortfi olinians," which is collected and &"j piled by him J We have long felt the need of a t of this kind, and are glad to i wo are at last to have one. B f have-and we predict it will large and steady sale. It is Pu ' by the North Carolina Publics J t ci ty, Raleigh, N C, and fifteen Old North State's moet ds.1EW sons are the subj33t3 of j chapters. were simply the dry nww--- known ariven, the bocK 'M' then be interesting, but flf. eider that the authors are t known and entertaining JudeeClafk. W. A. Mf Uox, etc, and the aaare----prominent men as T. H $ Z. B. Vance, some idea of w; - and interest of the boot can We rezret that we aie at tow . able tcgive this valuable wor f extended notice. , the The fifteen men of wn"Ll treats are as follows: V 6& Murphey, Gaston Bad p Ruffin, Bragg, Graham, erew, Pender, Ramseur. f Hustling young men Sjf , ble employment aa agent snu at once to tne pu&usne
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