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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-20
DRESS GOODS

For camping are to be picked with an eye to
their use. Tough strong, easy to do up,
for knocking about in the rough places.
We commence with Wiry SeersuCkers at 5
cents yard. SeersuCker Ginghams at
and 10 cents, and dozen other de-
Srable kinds, equally low.
Then we have perfect assortment of light
goods--airy, breeze movng-for service
in the sizzling sun. Heavier for evening
deWs and damps. We have thought of
all these things in buying.
All speak in praise of our NEW LINES IN
SUMNER CLOTHING. Well-rnade, fits
nicely, looks well. Prices small and big
assortment to select from. Come
yourself and fetch the boys.
We have not said much about our FURNISH
ING GOODS DEPARTMENT, but we
might and not exaggerate. 1t includes
all the staples and novelties for Men and
Boys. Almost any quality and priced
goods found here. Popular prices make
business good.
The greatest assortment Of TRUNKS AND
BAGS in the CitV. Goods of best East
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-20

Chairman Jones then introduced j. s. Thurs
ton. OF Nebraska, as Temporary Chairman of
the Convention.
De egate Osborne of Kansas, objected to the
assumption on the part of the National Com
mittee of the right to name the Temporary
Chairman, and asked if Thurston had been
elected by the Convention.
Chairman Jones replied in an emphatic affirm
ative, for which he was vigorously applaud d.
But Osborne was not TO be subdued, and in the
same tone as Jones, SAID that his delegation de-
clined to be responsible for the action of the
National Committee in this matter and regarded
it as great mistake. [HissesI He desired the
roll of States called in order that the Kansas
delegation might cast its votes for the Hon.
William Warner
No attention was paid to his demand, how
ever, and Thurston immediately began his ad.
dress.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-20

The greatest assortment Of TRUNKS AND
BAGS in the city. Goods of best East
ern Manufacture.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-20

Side ty side with old John Brown, Abraham Lin.
oln, lysseS S Grant, his soul goes marching
on: Tne other, that ga liant leader, the che
Waller of American politics, the glory of Repup-
licanism aud the nightmare of Democracy, our
Henry of Navarro, is seeking in foreign travel
long-needed relaXat on and rest from the weari-
some burcens OF public life and service. With
the sublime magnanlmIty of his Incompatible
greatness he has denied us the infinite pleasure
of supporting him in this Convention. Desiring
in all things parry harmony and success, he has
stepped from the ce tain ladder of his own
lau able ambition, that some other man may
Climb to power. AS his true friends We cannot,
dare not, commit the political crime of dis
obedience TO his expressed wish. We cannot
place him at the heal of the ticket, but we will
make him commander in-chief at the head of
the forces in the field, wnere he viii be in.
yinciDle, and though
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-20

1--WE hoped and believed that eighteen hun
dred and eighty eight would right that national
wrong of eighteen hundred and eghty-four
Right it. not only for the Republican party but
also for the grand and glorious candidates whose
names were the inspiration of that wonderful
campaign. The infinite wisdom of an all-wise
Providence has otherwise decreed. One of them
the citizen soldier, the war; or statesman, the
Black Eagle, of Illinois-has been summoned
by the silent messenger to report to his old Com
mander beyond the river. But although John
A Logan is dead in body, yet he lives again in
the illuminated pages of his country's most
splendid history and lives in the grateful love
of free people of the Union he gallantly
fought to preserve. He lives in the blessings of
a duwn-troddeu race, whose freedom he had so
manfully struggled to achieve. He lives in the
future song and story of a hero worshiping
world, and along
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-20

May not be our President, yet he remains our
uncrowned King, welding the baton of ac-
knowledged leadership, supreme in the allegi-
ance of his devoted followers, hOnored and re-
spected bv all honest and loyal men, the great
est living Auerican ana the worthy opject of
our undying love. But the Republican party is
not without great men to place ON its ticket
a." We have that honest able and experienced
finaucier, statesman and Senator from Ohio,
and his no less distinguished colleague from
Iowa. Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin pre-
sent to us gallant soldiers, while New Jersey,
Kansas, Connecticut and other States offer
worthy and favorite sons. From this splendid
galaxy of political stars we cannot choose
amiss. The Republican panty
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-11-20

for weighing and ten cents per pile
for auctioneer's fees, where formerly
we paid twenty-five cents per pile
auctioneer's fees and ten cents per pile
for weighing all under n hundred
pounds and two cents for all over, and
all the way from ten per cent. up as
high as twenty and fifty per cent. So
you see what a saving in commissions
we will get. The Alliance men are a
unit on the Alliance warehouse, and
pledge their undivided support, and
lots of people who are not Alliance
men say they will stand by us. Al
ready the. warehouse men are bulllng
the market and creating fancy prices
to try to break down the new ware
house, but the independent tobacco
buyers association here say they will
stand by us with their money and their
influence to put a stop to the exorblt-
ant measures and unjust charges. So
we make this departure confident of
success.
The farmers around here and ad-
joining counties are going to make
their own guano next year. The cot
ton gin men r putting in cotton seed
huller mills to make cotton seed meal
and we are going to make arrange
ments with the State Chemist to fur
nish formula for our own guano,
thereby reducing the cost of our guano
from $22 per ton down to about SIG,
and thereby save SIS on the ton.
Hoping that the Farmers Alliance
may increase it's popularity and con
tinue it's rapid advancement, and that
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER may con
tinue to shed it's benign influence of
truth and light, and that it's subscrip-
ton list may run up to $4,000 by the
first of January next, allow me to
subscribe myself,
Fraternally yours,
P. G.. r.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-11-20
THE SMALL COURTESIES OF
LIFE.

The whole world is like the miller
at Mansfield, "who cared for nobody
no, not he-because nobody cared
for him" And the whole world will
serve you SO, if you give them the
same cause. Let every one, there
fore, see that you do car for them,
by showing them what Sterne so hap
PLY calls 'tthe small, sweet courtesies
of life,' those courtesies in which
there is no parade, whose voice is too
still to tease, and which manifest
themselves by tender and affectionate
looks, and little kind acts of attention
giving others the preference in every
little enjoyment at the table, in the
field, walking, sitting or standing.
This is the spirit that gives to your
time of life, and to your sex, their
sweetest charms. 1t constitutes the
sum total of all the witchcraft of wo-
men.-"Advace to Girls"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-11-20
OF BIRTH.

1t is only shallow-minded p~retenders
who make either distinguished origin
a matter of personal merit or obscure
origin a matter of personal reproach.
A man who is not ashamed of himself
need not be ashamed of his early con-
dition. 1t did happen to me to be
born in a log-cabin, raised among the
snow-drifts in New Hampshire, at a
period so early that when the smoke
first rose from it's rude chimney and
curled over the frozen hills there was
no similar evidence of white mans
habitation between it and the settle
ments on the river of Canada It's re-
mains still exist. [ make it an ANIMAL
visit. [ carry my children to it and
teach them the hardships endured by
the generations before them. I love
to dwell on the tender reflections, the
kindred ties, the early affections and
the variations and incidents which
mingle with all I know of this prim-
tive family abode; l weep to think
that none who then inhabited it are
now among the living; and if I ever
fail in affectionate veneration for him
who raised it and defended it against
savage violence and destruction,
cherished all domestic comforts be-
meath its roof and through the fire
and blood of seven years revolution
airy war shrunk from no toll, no sacri-
fee to serve his country and to raise
his children to a condition better than
his own, may my name and the name
of my posterity be blotted from the
memory Of mankind.-Danaez Webster.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-11-20
WOOD ASHES AS A FERTILIZER

It is to be feared that farmers, as a
class, do not place a true estimate
upon the value of ashes for manurial
purposes. While they r almost
wholly destitute of one essential 'prin-
ciple of plant growth-vegetable mat
ter that is undecomposed-they do
possess, and in an available form, all
the mineral elements of the plant that
are required for it's healthy develop
ment. Ashes may be used upon al
most any soil that is not excessively
wet, in which case their effects will be
little noticed. They may be employed
in the cultivation of almost all farm
crops, and the returns from their use
will be satisfactory. AS a fertilizer
for all kinds of small fruits, ashes are
very desirable; so, too, in the Case of
the larger fruits, if the apple or pear
orchard shows signs of decay, or an
inability to produce fruit, a liberal
dressing of ashes upon the surface will
produce a marked change for the bet
ter. AS a top dressing for lawns and
moving lands, ashes cannot be sur
passed, and the effect upon such lands
is something more than that at first
produced by the fertilizing elements.
Ashes encourage growth of clover,
which, being a deep-rooted plant, goes
into the soil, and finds stores of fer
tility beyond the reach Of ordinary
plants, and by the decay of it's roots
provides not only surplus food to other
crops, but, by the action of the roots,
prepares the soil for the better growth
of cultivated crops. Farmers do we'll
who use ashes to a considerable extent
to supplement stable Con-
gregataonalast.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-11-20
SINGING BEES.

No pure honey a be found in
America in any quantity or in any
condition, that has not gone through
the chemical laboratory of the honey
bee, or some other insect that stores
this peculiar sweet, which has proper
ties as food and medicine, that cannot
be found outside of it's deposits in the
comb by some insect. Most people
have yet to learn this, and many other
simple things in nature not yet learned.
There are other matters relating to
bees that [ find many apiarists have
not yet discovered, namely, in the
working of the bees among some
flowers, they become more irritable,
and more liable to use their simple
weapons of warfare, than they are
when gathering sweets, and the pollen,
or anything which they are seeking to
convey to their rural homes. Some
wild flowers, and the buckwheat flower
contain more poison, and are more
virulent than clover or the willow, etc.
When working on the flower of
buckwheat sometimes they are so
ov~er-charged with poison that they
are quite inclined to sting man and
animals, seeming to relieve themselves
of this surfeit; and we find it in the
honey sometimes, by partaking Of a
little fresh honey (gathered and stored
by these arch chemists, as deposited
in the comb,) which will give gripping
pains; and this poison is in less guam
titles in the seed. By continuing
along for some time, daily, partaking
of buckwheat cakes, it shows the
effects on the cuticle or skin of the
body, and even the scalp may feel
this dry roughness, and an itching
sensation when nothing of the kind
had been felt before.
We have some people who keep
fowls that speak in favor of buckwheat
to make henslay, but that is a mistake;
they may lay in their seasons because
it is their nature, but if one will only
observe how dry and dead their feath-
ers become, and stand out as though
they were suffering pain, they might
desist from putting before these birds
buckwheat as food.
SIMPLE REMEDY FOR BEE sTINGs.
There is a simple remedy at hand
for those afflicted with pain from eat
ing too freely of this honey gathered
from buckwheat. It is simply to take
a swallow of a weak solution of soda
and water, and it IS n among the
best remedies to apply whatever the
bee, the wasp Or the snake has inserted
its venom through the sting into a man
or animal flesh.
But there is another remedy that
will draw out poison from the snake
bite. Kill and open the body of a hen
or bird, and lay it on the stung place;
it will extract the poison. reduce the
swelling, and remove the pain. AT
the usual swarming season, should one
have the solution of common baking
soda, or saleratus on hand, it will de-
stroy the effects of the bee sting at
once, if applied.-S. W. Jevett, IN
American Bee Journal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-11-20
CEDAR GROVE ALLIANCE, No. 1877,
Orange Co., Nov. 4, 'SS.

OA9hSS WV ~
Col, L. L.. PoLK.-Dear Sri
am authorized to inform the brethren
that we are still at work. This ALI
ance was organized in April by Bro.
II. D. Mason, with 26 charter mem
bers. We have gradually increased
in numbers till now we have 81, with
several petitions in for membership.
We have some of as good farmers as
old Orange can boast of, and some as
good Alliance men as are in the State.
W. highly favor the Business Agency
System, and our last two meetings
have been in behalf of it's interest, the
proceeds of which will be forwarded
at once to the trustee of said fund.
Our Alliance is in the tobacco belt of
North Carolina and very near what is
known as the Pea Ridge country, a
country known in all of the markets
for the production of fine yellow to-
bacco; therefore we feel greatly in
terested and heartily endorse the plan
proposed by Bro. Merritt, of Mill
Greek, that we have a meeting in
Durham and consult together on this
matter of disposing of our tobacco.
But we suggest that this meeting be
deferred till say the 18th of Decem-
Der, instead of November, as the cleo
ton and its excitement and all political
strife will be quieted down by that
time; too, it will give more time for
thought and to mature plans for this
business, and we ask that it be urged
through The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
that every Sub-Alliance interested in
this matter will send delegates to this
meeting, for we think it a timely step
in the right direction, and n in
which every tobacco planter should
feel the deepest interest. You may
never be able to decipher this miser-
able chirography, and if it shall find
the way to the waste basket it will do
so without any offense to your friend
and brother.
A. w. TINNIN, Sec'y.
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FIVE POINTS FARMERS ALLIANCE,
Vance Co, Nov. 81, '88.


S. B. ALEXANDER PRESIDENT FARMERS
STATE ALLIANCE:
Dear Brother In reading our Off
cial organ. The PROGRESSIVE FARMER,
[ see extracts and communications
from nearly all the Sub-Alliances in
the State as to how. our organization
is moving along and what progress
we are making toward elevating our
farmers from the burdens of taxation
and the Capitalization of capital against
labor, and hoping The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER will allow me space in it's
valuable columns to let our brethren
know what we are doing.
The Farmers Alliance is second
only to the Christian religion in it's
b%eneficent influences, in my opinion;
and although we yer organized late
in the winter and spring of this year,
has resulted in the saving of at least
five thousand dollars in our guano.
The Farmers Alliance has given new
life and impetus to the farming in
terest in Vance county. The jute
bagging trust is a blank in Vance
county. [ don't think there is over
one hundred bags of cotton covered
with jute bagging in the county. The
farmers are using old guano bags and
coffee sacks to cover their cotton with.
One of our cotton gin men goes so far
as to say he will not gin a mans cotton
if he insists on putting trust bagging,
even if it is old bagging he had left
over on last year. So you see by that
we are determined not to be trampled
upon any longer.
We have established a Farmers
Alliance warehouse in Henderson for
the sale of leaf tobacco, under the
style and firm of Butler, Jenkins & Co.
Mr.. Butler, the senior member of the
firm, is our County Secretary, a gen.
tleman of unquestionable business in
tegrity, and one of our. most popular
Alliance men. While Mr.. William
jenkins is n of the most energetic
young warehouse men in the State, a
good judge of tobacco and very popu-
lar with the buyers, there seems to be
a little hitch with buyers and r
house men on account of PIN Hooker
and the warehouse men being allowed
to buy tobacco on their own floor, so
that the other buyers claim they can
not buy tobacco. It must be because
they do not know when they are buy
ing from the farmer direct. So you
see to what a disadvantage the farmer
is placed. Our new warehouse only
charges us two per cent. commission
and ten cents per one hundred pounds
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-11-20
VANCE u N T
Farmers Alliance Warehouse.

Vance County Alliance met in
special session at Henderson on Octo-
Der 10Th to consider the question of
taking such steps as would lead to the
reduction of warehouse charges on
sale Of tobacco.
After discussing the expediency of
following the example of Granville
county by forming a joint stock COM
pany and opening a warehouse and
factory. 1t was resolved that a Con-
vention, to be composed of five dele
gates from each County Alliance of
the tobacco growing sections of North
Carolina and Virginia could best for
mulate plans looking to lower and uni
form charges, and could intelligently
discuss such other matters of general
interest to tobacco growers as might
be presented for consideration.
Our Alliance elected it's five dele
gates and chose Durham as the place
where the Convention should meet,
and December 5th as the date. The
Secretary was directed to request The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER to publish the
resolution. He was further instructed
to obtain the addresses of the Secre-
taries of the various County Alliances
and to communicate to them what we
had done, and to invite them to CO.
operate with us at Durham.
Later in the day the following reso-
luton was adopted, viz:
Resotued, That a committee of thir-
teen be appointed, n member from
each Sub-Alliance, with our President
as Chairman, who shall have power to
take such steps as may be necessary to
defend the interests of the members of
the Alliance in sale of their tobacco.
On the day following this meeting
the President instructed the County
Secretary to withhold from publica-
ton the resolution in reference to the
Convention at Durham, and to re-
frain from communicating with other
County Secretaries upon that subject.
The 18th of October was the day fixed
for the session of the committee of
thirteen. On account of inclement
weather that day the attendance was
not full, and an adjourned meeting
was held on the following Tuesday.
Mr.. w. H: Jenkins, a popular and
experienced warehouse man, we'll
known in the counties all around us,
made to the committee a proposition
relative to warehouse charges, &C.,
offering to sell our tobacco at much
lower rates than those we have been
paying.
He was followed by MI. J. P.
Taylor, Chairman of a committee from
a large corps of buyers. Nh. Taylor
expressed the belief that the time had
come when the farmers should open a
warehouse for the sale of their tobacco.
He thought that the hour was big
with oppertunities-he gave assurance
that the buyers whom he represented
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-11-20
THINK IT l. OVER.

Here are some figures: The people
of the United States spend each year
5000, 900, 900 for drink, $5O5, 900, 900
for bread, 5000, 900, 900 for tobacco,
$303, 900, 900 for meat, $237,OO 900
for wooden goods, $21O, OOO, 600 for
cotton goods, $l95, 600, 900 for boots
and shoes and molasses, $85, 900, 600
for education and SIS, 600, 900 for
religion.
Yes, sir; $500, 600, 900 for drink
and tobacco and only $948, 600, 900 for
bread, meat, education and religion
In the United States we have 2, 1906
00O, 900 acres of land, and only eight
individuals in each hundred Of our
population who are owners of the soil.
The total wealth of the United
States is $47,475, 600, 600; Texas has
of that amount $3.50, 600, 900 or $3.50
to each ~inhabitant in her limits.
Wehave in the United States Sd, 1873
men employed at carpentry and their
average annual wages are only $40,
and this is about the average of the
trades and artisans. The highest
average wages, board furnished, by
the year paid on the farm is $23.45 in
California, while South Carolina pays
$50, the lowest, and the average
wages paid on the farm in Texas is
$l3.03, and the English lord makes
IA per cent. on his investment in
national banks.
The total agricultural products of
the United States amount to So, 72l,-
OOO, 900, while there is no single.
handed farmer whose profits (from
the production of the soiD after all
the cost of the production is deducted,
can show more than Is cents e day
net earnings, if that.
Who gets the balance7
The United States has 1874, 900
square miles of coal field, or bed,
which cost on top of the ground at the
mine about $2.35 per ton; yet n
suners pay from $3.50 to So.
The total cost of federal States,
counties and the city governments
annually is about $15.25 per capita
Farmers Friend.
The log line was first used in navi-
cation about 1870. 1t is first men
toned hv ROurna in 1577
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-11-20

Sec'y Vance County Alliance.
N. B.-Newspapers friendly to the
cause, will please call attention to the
Farmers Alliance Warehouse at Hen
derson. Also to the proposed conven-
ton of tobacco-growing Alliance men:
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the first Of February, at Durham,
Greensboro, or some other convenient
point, to devise ways and means for
advancing generally the interests TO
tobacco farmers.
If we san act unitedly at an earlier
day, let us not wait. Can we?
Fraternally yours,
n n PrTrT IT'D
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-11-20

The log line was first used in navi-
cation about 1870. It is first men
toned by Bourne in 1877.