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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-10
HE SAW HIS FATHER.

Father he began, after taking
the old man out back of the barn,
'your years are many"
Eyes my SON." .
"You have toiled early and late,
and by the sweat of your brow you
have amassed this big farm"
"That's SO, William"
at has panied me more than [
can tell to see you, at your age,
troubling yourself with the cares of
life. Father, your declining days
should elspent in8the old armchair
in the chimney corner"
eyes William, they should"
"Now, father, being you + old
and feeble and helpless, give me a
deed fthe farm and you and mother
live out your few remaining days
with me and Sally IUIHI
AWilliam, said the old man, as he
pushed back his sleeves, II think [
see the drift O. them remarks.
When I'm ready to start for the
poor house I'll play fool and hand
.GGYes, sir!a' II T7iII fIlH
"In order to dispel any delusion
on your part that I'm old and feeble
and helpless, I'm going to knock
down half an acre of cornstalks with
your heels!".O L.
And when the convention finally
adjourned, William crawled toathe
nearest hay stack and cautiously
whispered to himself:
"And Sally was to breach the
same thing to ma at the same time!
[ wonder if she's mortally injured
or only crippled for life! ,. a,it
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-10
AN EASY PLACE.

A lad once stepped into u office
in search of a situation. He was
asked:
care you now employed?
Eyes, sir"
"Then, why do you want to
changer ~. 1@
ooh, I want an easier place"
We had not a7place for him no
one wants a boy who is seeking
an easy place; yet just here is the
difficulty with thousands. They
want easy work and are afraid of
earning more than their wages.
They have strength enough to be
out late at night, to indulge in vices
and habits which debilitate them;
they have strength enough to waste
on wine or beer or tobacco, all of
which leave them weaker than be-
fore; they have strength enough to
run and leap and wrestle, but they
think they have not the strength to
do hard work. 8
Will the boys let us advise them?
Go In for hard places; bend yourself
to the task of showing how much you
can do. Make yourself s%erviceable
to your employer at whateverycost
to your own personal ease and if
you do this he viii soon find that
he cannot spare you, and when you
have learned how to work you may
be sent to teach others, and so when
the easy places + to be had they
will be yours. Life is toilsome at
best to most of us, but the easy
places are at the end, and not at the
beginning, Of life's course They
are to be won, not accepted, and a
man who is bound to have an easy
place may as well understand that
the grave is the only easy place
within the reach of lazy people.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-10

"My DEAR" said a sensible Dutch
man to his wife, who for the last
hour had been shaking her baby up
and down on her knee: II don't
think SO much butter is good for the
child" "ButterI 1never give my
Artie any butter; what an idea!'
II mean to say you have been Civ
ing him 4 good feed Of milk out of
the bottle, and now you have been
an hour churnlng 1t"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-10
flashes Of fun.

Why is a poor doctor like a mole?
You can track him by his holes in
the ground.
How much could Father Time
borrow on his note of hand? Not a
cent-"we take no note of time
A farmer says he is going to make
his sole remaining son a drug clerk
because he wants one pharmacist in
the family
Honesty is the best policy, but
too many people complain that they
cannot afford to have the best of
anything. f#.
what is sweeter than to have a
friend you car trust?' asked the
poet. ITO have a friend that will
trust you" reptile the editor.
"Isn't my photograph excellent p
said a somewhat spunky wife to her
husband. "Well, my DEAR" replied
he, "I think there is a little too much
repose. about the mouth"
A Georgia darkey prays with dis
cretion. He said: of [ ask the
Lord to send me a turkey [
won't git it, but if | ask him to send
me after a turkey [ always git one
before daybreak."
Lady with an eye for the pictur-
esque): "How old are you, little
boy p Little darkey: "Well, if you
goes by wot mudder says, Is six;
but if you go by de fun rs had, Is
most a hundred"
A clergyman, endeavoring to
console a rich miser in his dying
hours, asked him: "In looking over
your past life, what do you regret
the most at this time" THAT [
didn't die twenty-five years ago
when funerals were cheaper"
Jim Fisk is saidto have made this
reply when asked to contribute to-
wards building a. fence around a
cemetery: "Not a@cent there is no
use in a fence those who are in
can't get out, and those who are out
don't want to get in"
A gentleman, who had purchased
an oil painting, at q sale, called IN an
artist to consult him as to how he
should hang it. The artist looked
at it long and .curiously, and then
said: II wouldn't hang it if were
you" "Wouldn't hang it'll Why
notY' because the sentiment of
the age is rather against capital pun
ishment. / would commute it's SEN
tence to solitary Imprisonment for
life" #Nf~#
A little three-year5 old, the young
hopeful of an estimable lady on Pie
ty Hill, in Salem, isjust beginning
to verge into the period of childish
investigation, doubt and inquiry.
The little fellow had heard the words
'grass widow" and fastened to in
quire it's meaning of his mother. By
way of ILLUSTRATION she told him that
if his father should run away and
leave her alone without any cause,
then she would be a grass widow.
The future Senator looked up in his
mothers face and said: Then,
what'd [ be? Would i be a grass
hopper-Salem (Oregon) Statesman.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-03-10
A BIRTHDAY PARTY A BORE TO
HIM.

Kill anything2 asked a citizen of
the suburbs who met a boy carrying
a gun.
Nav! 81 kAJ -.
See anything to kill?
Nav! ~ /0TItgJ TIC &.
Expect to e anything?
Nav?
Then what on earth are you
tramping around in the slush and
mud for? s, 800 I4.fa.Ef
Cause it's my birthday.
Well what of that?
I've either got to do this or hold
a birthday party. Guess you don't.
know what it is to be a boy.-De-
trOh Free Press.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-28

all his vast popular influence he has been
true to the people as the needle to the
pole. Others no doubt have fallen and
in all parties.
Nearer home we could point to men
who resisted monopoly and temptation;
resisted it contemptuously. and who
never even tried to get the credit of
cheap fame for SO doing. The ten who
talk SO glibly of every man having bis
price, know little of human nature after
all, and reason from the premises of
incomplete parts to whole conclusions.
And it is time, with the portentious
issues of the present impending, for the
people irrespective of party to honor
the men be they Republican or Demo.
cratic, who lead the van in the peoples
fight against corporate aggression. 1t
is time to heed the admonitions of such
men and to follow their advice if we are
to resist successfully the successive and
mostly successful assaults of the common
enemy. In Mr.. White the people have
q man who has never wavered. No man
in the Democratic State Convention had
such an overshadowing personal pres
tige. Had it not been for the radical
rampage of an indiscreet supporter, Mr..
White would have been the choice of the
convention for chairman by an uuanim-
ity approaching acclamation. As it was,
he was elected by heavy majority. No
other man had such influence on the
floor; no other man had had so much in-
fuence with the committees which
shaped the policy of the convention.
Evidences Of his powerful grasp of the
S ate situation are to be found in more
than one plank of the platform. Its
symmetrical equity as q political whole
is chiefly due to him. Its outspoken,
manly stand upon every overshadowing
issue had his far.seeing guidance. He
modified radical opinions, because they
were not equitable, re.reconciled oppo.
site ideas and fused them in an equita-
BILE medium; he sternly repressed every
tendency towards either the demagogic
or the monopolistic-he demanded a
platform and policy in harmony with
the broad necessities OF the people of
California-and he got both. The people
owe him much. They will pay their
debt. There is no position within their
gift which will not be rendered unto
him. The day is not far distant when
it will be his own fault if he does not
govern this great State or represent it in
the u. s. Senate.-San Bernardino Cou-
rier
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-28
back all the pounds he had lost and

back all the pounds he had lost and
more.
"The only medicine given in The
Sohweninger treatment is, in certain
cases, two drops of fluid preparation
before each meal. That is the only secret
in his treatment, If indeed it can be call
ed secret, and it is not administered in
all cases. No, it is not given in so small
a dose because it is SO dangerously pow.
erful, but because that is enough, and
the Schweninger system is SO consistent
IN its denial Of fluids that it would not
admit of a tablespoonful whore two drops
would be sufficient.
Il have given the treatment an expert.
mental trial on myself, not because l
needed it. but l wanted to test it on my
self before applying it to my patients.
On the 10Th of last month, at Baden
Baden, when | began the treatment, l
weighed 1919 pounds, not too much for
a man of my height, which iswithin half
an inch of six feet, but enough for me to
lose o little from and be all the better
for the loss. On the l4th of this month,
here at home, l weighed ISL pounds,
reduction of sixteen and one half pounds
in twenty-nine days, and during that
time | have suffered no disagreeable re.
striction of diet, and have felt IS well as
ever in my life. | have not even shut
off sugar and cream with my peaches. or
butter, or bread, or as much beef and
mutton as l wanted, or coffee, though |
should probably be little more strict
with patient, particularly in the matter
of coffee.
jealous rivals of DIR. Ernst Schwen.
niger in Germany affect to decry him,
but his work proves his ability, and he
has the enthusiastic confidence of the
people and the backing of Bismarck. A
small pamphlet, bearing the title Sch.
weninger's Kur, brought out in Berlin
and sold for what is the high price there
of two marks (forty cents), although un-
authorized and incorrect, by virtue of its
title alone, reached, while was there,
its eleventh edition. III N. Y. Sun.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-28
silver Circulation.

Silver bullion has advanced in the
London market from AZ pence an ounce
in July to 44s in October. The best
opinion of financial writers is that silver
has touched its lowest point. In 1872
silver was worth COZ pence in London
and at 43 in July nearly one-third OF its
value had disappeaeed. 1t has recover.
ed one.fourth Of the loss, but is still
about one-ffth below the standard of
equality with gold on the basis of Is. IS
to J.. There is a very general disposi-
ton now in gold circles to compromise
with silver on basis that will leave the
latter the status of money within Ger.
tain limit. 1t is proposed, for exam pie,
to coin no gold in England below the
sovereign, none in the Latin Union be-
low the 25.fralc piece, uone in Germany
below 20 marks, and none in the United
States below five dollars. This would
employ about $1,000, 900, 900 of sui.
sdiary coins, and the increased volume
in circulation would naturally tend to an
advance on prices. Another proposition,
or a part of the same, is to issue no
paper money of lower denominations
than gold coin, except as currency issued
by governments against silver held by
them in payment of the same. This
would make the silver certificate in this
country the only paper of less denomina.
ton than five dollars. These movements
are of importance as showing that the
necessity Of retaining silver as money is
being recognized. The greater the use
of silver the less the difference in market
value between that metal and gold.
When the two metals approximate on the
ratio of Is. .SS to there will be little diff.
ficulty in arriving at an international
agreement as to ratio which shall pre-
vail in all the principal commercial ma
tions on which gold and silver shall be
interchangeable.-San Francisco Call.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-28
Their Candidates.

The Los Angeles Erpress recently in
speaking of our Col. Edwards speech at
Pomona, says: "He reviewed the work of
the Legislature and pointed out the blum
ders and villainous course pursued by
the Democracy. We smole smile when
we thought of any one reviewing the
work of the two parties in the Assembly.
We want to know what they did to be re-
viewed and then we want to know what
the Democratic blunders were when the
Senate was tie, and the lower house
overwhelmingly Republican. A minor:-
ty don't blunder in legislation. Yet the
party in power that has elected the mil.
llonaire railroader Stanford and the mil
ionaire liquor dealer Williams to the u.
S. Senate want to distract public atten.
ton from their blunders by talking about
what the Democrats did and did not do.
The only Democratic blunder in the past
two years was Gov. Stoneman's, in call.
ing two special sessions of the general
assembly, and our illustrioas Col. signed
q petition asking for the last call. We
hope the Col. will change the subject in
his speeches hereafter, and tell us wheth.
er he is for Sargent for U. S. Senator or
not. The Chronicle wants to know
Santa Ana Standard.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-28
REPUBLICAN RALLY.

A large audience, larger than that
which assembled at the Democratic rally
of last week, was on hand last night to
hear the Republican speakers, Messrs.
Vandever, Rea and Bowers, candidates
for members of Congress, Railroad Com
missioner, and joint Senator, respective.
ly, assisted by Messrs. Morehouse and
Edgerton, privates. Mr.. E. G. Seymour
acted as chairman, w. j. Guthrie as
secretary. A long list Of Vice-P Presidents
was called, and number of Republicans
took their place upon the stage.
Gen. Vandever came forward, and
after a few unimportant preliminary
remarks, launched bodily into what ap-
peared to be the subject of his lecture
for the evening, the history Of the U. s.
from George the Third down to as late
as 1884, with special reference to the Late
Unpleasantness and the part the Demo-
cratic party took therein. He advanced
the old worn.out argument that as the
Democratic party had failed to do Just
the right thing twenty-four years ago,
they should not be trusted with power
new. He blamed Grover Cleve-
land for not using the surplus
in paying off the debt and for his
veto OF pension bills. And he wonder
ed that the laboring organizations should
be so dereliect to their own interests as
not to declare in favor of protective
tariff. Yet he failed to produce a single
substantial argument to prove that pro-
lection was beneficial or that free trade
would be detrimental to the interests of
the laboring classes. But it was plain
to be seen that Gen. Vandever was not
interested in the present. He thought
only of by.gone days. In the questions
of the hour he took no interest. His
mind was still wrapped up in the qdes.
tions which agitated the public mind
when he, in the flush of manhood, en-
tered the political arena. Heimagined he
heard the clash of arms, and he wondered
whether in the event Of war the Demo-
Gratis would be found marching should
er to shoulder with the Republicans in
the defence of their common country.
He complimented( (?) them by saying he
thought they would. During his speak
inp. when he mentioned the name of
Grover 70 Cleveland, some Democrat started
the applause which swelled to consider
able volume.
As lecturer on political history, Gen.
Vandever will pass, though rather one
sided. As political speaker on the is
sues Of the day, he is not what the peo-
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-28
"A Bubble Bursted..
ANAHEIM, Oct. 26 h, 1856.

ANAHEIM, oct. 70 n, 1000.
EpIToR HERALD:-Under the faring
heading ga Bubble Bursted, "True In,
wardness of the Mackey case" publish
ed in the Evening Express of Oct. 23d !.
we have the most complete tissue of
falsehoods ever compressed in SO small a
compass.
The first statement made, that Mack
ey could not furnish bail, demands our
attention. This statement is unquali.
fiedly false. Mr.. Mackey could have
furnished all the bail necessary in his
case. In fact some of our best citizens
went to Los Angeles to go upon his bail
bond for any amount, but were met up
on the very threshold by the remark of
Sheriff Gard, "that is no use gentlemen,
il bailed out this, will have him imme-
diately arrested upon another charge,
and keep on arresting him.
The next point that engages our at
tenton is the denial on the part of Mr..
Gage that he had stated at public
meeting in Anaheim, that Maekey had
never been shackled. In the face of
this denial we have the united testimo-
ny of every man, woman and child pres
ent, that Mr.. Gage did make the state.
ment. This is the worst ease of crow
eating known around here for some time.
He now says: 81 know to the contra
ry, for Mr.. Mackey was shackled when
arrested, and for few days afterwards. T"
This is the worst statement of all, for
Mackey was not manaoled when arrest
ed, neither was he until some time after
his incarceration, as corroborated by
those Immediately concerned in lis ar
rest.
Sheriff Gard makes the most damag-
ing statement of all against him
self. He states that he was in.
strum entail with other officers in
breaking up one of the worst gangs of
thieves that ever infested our valley. In
this we are more than willing to accord
him his need of praise. We are also
willing to concede him his right to be.
lieving Mackey to be one OF them, at
the time these incidents occurred; but
by what right does he make the asser.
tiOn that he still believes him to be one
of them, in the face of all the facts
brought forth in his trial and complete
vindication, both by the Judge who sat
upon the bench and the jury who tried
his case. Even Mr.. Gage in his grand
Eloquent style proclaimed from the plat
form that Mr.. Mackey was an innocent
and deeply injured man.
This statement of Sheriff Gard only
furnishes further and stronger evidence
of the terrible animosity that has led
him to hound an innocent man to his
financial ruin.
Iustead of only having half an hour
to talk about these matters now, he
will find that after the I'd day of No.
vember next he will have months and
years wherein to reflect upon the cursed
folly that led him to manifest such a
viudictive spirit. CIvIs.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-28
stephen M. White.

Stephen M. White. the idol of the
young Democracy of the State, will
speak in San Bernardino tonight upon
the issues of the campaign. Mr.. Whites
hold upon the popular heart, strong as
it is, was nobly won. 1t was won by a
brilliant and consistent championship Of
the people against all comers; and
against repeated temptations before
which many an eloquent and able cham.
pion of the people has fallen-into the
Delilah's lap of seductive monopoly.
Mr.. White has great mental powers,
among which dazzling. magnetic per-
suasion is one of the most easily visible.
But powerful and masterful as is his mag.
netic oratory, it is inspired and con.
trolled by profound solidity OF judg.
ment and an extraordinary intuitive
perception of the motives of men and
meaning OF measures rarely given TO a
man who also possesses the
dazzling and oftentimes dangerous
gif 8 of brilliant and persuasive elo-
Guence. When nature lavishes such a
remarkable combination of the gifts
which create public opinion and pre-
eminently make great popular leader,
the man so endowed is inveriably great
force whether for good or evil. When
such man espouses the peoples side as
against the gigantic monopolies, the lat
ter leave no means untried to seduce
him. Walpole said, every man had his
price, but the cynic's assertion based
upon his own infamous practical expert
ence among venal aristocracy, was a
libel upon mankind as even the current
history of monopoly-ridden California
demonstrates. Had all men in Califor-
MIA public life had their price. the State
Of California would have been beyond
redemption the fief of the railroad mo-
nopoly to-day. Broderick had no price;
millions failed to buy Downey; not all
the gold ever yielded by California
would have bought Haight. Reddy has
spurned every offer of monopoly "con-
cilistion" with contempt White, with
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-28
THE CHINESE CANDIDATE.

Well, we have seen and head the Re-
publican candidate for Congress, and so
far as this county goes, he is ours. He
is an eminently respectable man who
lives in the past, and has no ideas of, no
qualifications for an actor in the present.
He lives in the past. His motto is the
"bloody shirt" He sought the rebellion
all over again on Monday night, from
Bull Run to the Five Forks. He is not
thinker, not speaker, not worker.
He shrked every issue in the present
campaign. He seems wholly ignorant of
State politics. He is man Of most re-
spectacle reticence; of the most dreary
prolixiiy of words. He is feeble in body,
feeble in mind, devoid of every requisite
in Congressman from this district.
Were he elected to Congress he would
simply be personified negation. Unless
the Chaplain of the House should be i'm
PEELED to pray for the Chinese. General
Vandever would hardly find a subject
before the House in which he would be
fitted by ability or requirements to par
ticipate. He is a fossil of the frozen age.
He did not attempt, in his rickety,
rambling rhodomoLd lte, an attempt at a
discussion of the questions surcharged
with the fate of Southern California. He
was as afraid of water as good Prohibi
zionist ia of whisky. He had no light to
shed on the Heath Amendment. He did
not explain that episode in his refulgent
career, wherein he participated in a pub.
lie prayer meeting held to invoke the
Divine protection for the Chinese against
the people Of California. The great
masses of our people were of course then
classed by this pious nonentity as hood.
lums. Why man SO utterly incapable,
so unpardonably obnoxious to the people
on this Chinese question was selected for
Congressional candidate. seems an un.
solvable mystery to people Of common
sense. Perhaps because the nomination
went begging .-[San Bernardino Cour.
ier.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-28
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Bond Department..

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und,ge,tiom or Constipation.

A few HAMBURG FIGS are all that is nee:
essary for the cure of the severest cases OF
indigestion or constipation, and one taken
occasionally will prevent the development
of these affections. 25 cents. At all drug
gists J.J Mack & Co., proprietors, 5. Il.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-28

pie have right to expect as represen
tatiye of their interests in the national
halls of legis lation.--[San Barnardiuo
Times, (Indep endent).
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-28
Knights Templar.

C0ua De lion CoxMArDERY NO. Q, r.. -
Holds its stated conclaves at the asylum d 49,
sonic Hall, on the Third THURSDAY Ct -.
month, OF u o'clock P. N. Sojourning Kulx1>[.
remplars in good standing are cordially invit11 to
attend. BY order Of the E.. C:.
II. It. MULLARD, Recorder> ~
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-28
SOCIETY NOTICES.
10 Bakers. C0nfectionerS. Hotels. itf.
American Legion Of Honor.

Safety Council No. 664 meets second on(
fourth Thursday evenings of each mon>L
at their Hall, Evening Express" Butldln1
Sojourning Companions in good stan0lu
are cordially invited.
W. T. BARNETT. CommandeE.
GEO. w. KNOX, Secretary.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-28
X. OF r,

Tri- Color Lodge No.96 meets every <1K&
Friday evening In Pythian Castle, E1V
No. "a SPRING. treet. l5 H#>
6ojourning Knights invited. V
H. T. PAYNE C. O. ~
ISAAC 8. SMITH, X. of X. aud 8.
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