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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-11-27

If there is friction, out with your
oil-can. If there is a quarrel, pour on
oil. Blessed are the peacemakers.
But the oil-can is for the rarer emer-
gencies. It is not everybody that has
the gift of putting oil on just the spot
that CRATES; and it is not every day
that Quarrels occur which call for the
oil-can.
But blessed be tafy. It is wanted
every day and from everybody. It
is the universal sweetness of social and
domestic life.
Husband, have you come home and
do you find your wife tired and hot
with the days work in chamber and
kitchen? Give her a little taffy.. Say
a sweet thing to her. Praise her for
something. Tell her how nice the
bread is, so. much better than the
bakers; that the ketchup is the best
she over made; that the house looked
so sweet and restful when you came
in; that she has the dearest children
that ever lived; and at your leisure,
before she goes to bed, tell her she is
your own hearts treasure. It will do
her good; it will make the smiles come.
She may box your ears when you say
sweet, petting things, and tell you you
are talking as you would to the cat;
but she will like it just the same.
Wife, does your good man come
home weary and burdened, exhausted
and-no, not cross, but undemonstra-
tive and silent? Go up to him with
a sweet welcome. Say something
pretty to him. Men all love to be
appreciated and fattered. Give him
the sugar stick. Tell him some pretty
thing somebody said about him. Tell
him how much you admire what he
has done; and when you can sit down
alone with him take his hand and pet
him and tell him you love him more
than tongue can tell; don't be afraid
Of OVERRIDING it and using comical lit
tie exaggerations. He may know,
and you may know, that there is taffy
in it; but it is very nice tafy. We all
like it; we all like to be told we are
loved, and the saying Of it makes it
all the truer. It is a great deal better
to cultivate ones love with warm ex-
pressions than to blight it with frost.
Pretty nothings? Why, they are big
realities, the stuff happiness feeds on
Give u more taffy.
Did you ever see doves rub each
others bills What is a kiss? Taffy.
What is a compliment? Taffy. What
is p%oliteness -? Tafy. The good Lord
himself praises his loved ones with a
well-done far beyond their deserts.
For quarrels give us oil; but give us
taffy every day, all we deserve, much
more than we deserve. Don't be
over-conscientious about it; let it be
full and abundant and very sweet;
sweet with smiles and love and
laughter. Give it to your father, your
mother, your husband, your wife,
your brother, sister, child, friend.
How your child loves it So do you.
More, more taffy.-Ihe independent.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-11-27

probation of Sicillian fruit in Ameri-
can and other markets. The export
of lemons, however, is likely to con-
tinue profitable, on account Of the ap-
titude of the Sicillian climate. Florida
is producing magnificent lemons, and
may yet become as strong a competi-
tor in the production of this fruit as
it has in the matter of the orange.
The Labor enquirer., 1888-03-24
$I.5o PER YEAR. GElyI1 PAk Corr

dom and virtue; whereas here not
only the tendencies Of the age,
but the deliberate efforts Of gov
ernment, are helping to build up
centers of population which
neither the family nor religion
nor education can preserve from
physical. mental and moral degen.
eracy. And worse than all, even
to utter such thoughts is to speak
in desert which sends not back
even an echo. All that the two
great political parties now contend
for, is whether this or that hundred
thousand men shall have the
Offices, which is really matter Of
no concern at all to the netion;
but neither of them will honestly
take sides on a question which is
of critical urgency and intimately
related to the permanence Of free
institutions.
The Labor enquirer., 1888-03-24
Chinese Labor Condemned.

At a regular meeting of the
Plumbers, Steam and Gas Filters
International Association No. 38,
held attheirhall on Friday evening,
the following preamble and reso-
luton were adopted:
WHEREAS, There are certain es-
tablishments in the city of Denver,
employing Chinese labor to the
detriment of white labor; there
fore be it \
Resoived, That we, the members
of the above-named association,
do refrain from patronizing any
establishments where any such
people are employed.
The Labor enquirer., 1888-03-24
"Nasal Voices, .Catarrh and False
. ui AHs9 Teeth" 4,

~ g Teeth" f..
A prominent English woman
says the American women all
have high, shrill, nasal voices and
false teeth.
Americans don't like the con-
slant twitting they get about this
nasal twang, and yet it is a fact
caused by our dry stimulating at
mosphere, and the universal pres
ence of catarrhal difficulties.
But why should SO many of our
women have false teeth2
This is more of a poser to the
English. 1t is quite impossible to
account for it except the theory
of deranged stomach acrion
caused by imprudence in eating
and by want of regular exercise.
Both conditions are unnatural.
Catarrhal troubles everywhere
prevail and end in cough and con-
sumption, which are promoted by
mal-nutrition induced by deranged
stomach action. The condition is
a modern one, one unknown to our
ancestors who prevented the ca
tarrh, cold, cough and consunp-
ton by abundant and regular use
of what is now known as Warmers
Log Cabin Cough and Consump-
ton Remedy and Log Cabin Sar-
saparilla, two old fashioned stand
ard remedies handed down from
our ancestors, and now exclusively
put forth under the strongest
guarantees of purity and efficacy
by the world-famed makers of
Warmers safe cure. These two
remedies plentifully used as the
spring and summer seasons adj
vance give positive assurance Of
freedom, both from catarrh and
those dreadful and if neglected,
inevitable consequences pneumo-
MIA, lung troubles and consump-
ton, which SO generally and fa-
tally prevail among our people.
Comrade Eli Fisher of Salem,
Henry county, Iowa, served four
years in the late war and con-
tracted a disease called consump-
tion by the doctors. He had fire.
quent hemorrhages. After using
Warmers Log Cabin Cough and
Consumption remedy, he says, un'
der date of January I9, 1888: 81
do not bleed at the lungs any
more, my cough does not bother
me, and do not have any more
smothering spells" Warner:
Log Cabin Rose Cream cured hi:
wife of catarrh and she is ."sounc
and we'll"
Of course we do not like te
have outwomen called nose talk
ers and false teeth owners, bu
these conditions can be readily
overcome in the manner indicated
The Labor enquirer., 1888-03-24

Take your wife and the children
to Elitch's for Sunday dinner. from
3 to 8 p. M; 50 cents, with wine.
The Labor enquirer., 1888-03-24
Fer Exchanate.

A good second hand piano fof a
horse Or horses. Apply At EN-
|QuaRER Office. 3Iotf
The Labor enquirer., 1888-03-24
The Hells a A. prlh IN
WoodsTsA l II !! I / 4 ! 4 tS :
!. Luulhef luu.
YICB IlSRRY SLLYRRYDBl1H
A System whieA Mte1s TAsss = a.
ready ~ Dssslssils Dss.sa
= 3as15at(tp.

~ W.
The enclosed clipped from =
Denver daily paper. think il
would be a splendid thing to print
in your paper. What heart but
must bleed for those poor. unfor-
tunate girls who, in order to avoid
starvation. are tempted by prom
ises of situations to 60 into the
wilderness of those pineries only
to find themselves duped and in
the power Of brutal menf don't
believe in force as a remedy for
the evils of our times but when
read this must confess It stirred
me to such a degree that my first
thought was that a system of So
ciety and government which can
breed such misery. crime and bes-
tiality ought to be wiped out with
bombs or any other weapon which
science can place in the hands Of
men or women. Of course, sober
second thought teaches that ideas
alone will accomplish our ends.
Please mail me few extras if
you print the clipping. \.
Respectfully, Mrs. E. A. C..ss'
Pueblo, Colo.
The Labor enquirer., 1888-03-24


alone will accomplish our ends.
Please mail me few extras If
you print the clipping. IS
Respectfully, Mrs. E. A. Ca
Pueblo, Colo.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. IA
reporter to-day interviewed P. H..
Moore, who has just returned from
a tour among the notorious dives
Of northern Wisconsin. Said he:
within two hundred miles of the
Twin Cities several hundred peo-
pie are held in slavery of the most
infamous kind, and young girls are
bought and sold like slaves in the
south before the war, only their
treatment is much worse. have
travelled all through the section
where the most notorious dives are
located, and by representing my
self first as procurer and after
wards as the proprietor of a dive
looking for girls, ! have been able
to see for myself what the press
has never dared to publish. You
may have seen in the papers that
Governor Rusk, of Wisconsin, sent
three detectives to visit the locality
of which speak, and that they
found nothing of the kind, Now,
| was with one of these detectives
part of the time and he saw the
same things that / did, and if it
were not for money which is paid
for these wretches who are holding
girls in slavery worse than death,
the reports will corroborate mine.
These wretches do not deal in
prostitutes, but have lot of
persons who are known as 'pimps'
stationed here at Minneapolis, St.
Paul and Milwaukee who are con-
stantly on the watch to hire virtuous
young women as school teachers.
sewing girls. dining-room girls or
chambermaids, and after they are
safely landed in one of the supply
depots they never go out again
except as slave to some dive
keeper, who, after inspection, has
purchased them. All these dives
are guarded by large, fierce dogs
to prevent the girls from escaping,
and one dive near Washburn, kept
by man named President Wade,
was enclosed by a board fence, in
addition to the guard of dogs. to
prevent the inmates from escaping.
This place of hades was finally
closed up by the authorities on
account of several murders being
committed at the place. When 4
girl is sold to dive-keeper every
thing is taken away from her and
she is given Mother Hubbard
dress and a pair Of slippers, for
which SIS is charged. This amount.
with the amount Of the purchase
money paid for her. is entered On
the books against her, and in case
she manages to communicate with
anyfof the authorities and thew
desired her release, this charge IS
brought forward to show that she
! is a their debt and that they have
2 right to hold her. The dive
The Labor enquirer., 1888-03-24

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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-10
THE PRIMARY GROWING.

From the reports of the views OF the
various Township Clubs so far received,
it would seem that Newberry is almost
unanimous in favor of primary
election for nominating all officers,
from Governor down, and there seems
now little doubt that the County Con
ton on Saturday will favor such plan.
This is not only the case in Newberry
County, but we observe that several
other County Conventions that have
elected delegates to the Convention
favor the State primary. 1t is coming.
This demand for primary plan of
nominating officers is growing. The
people realize that it is the only way by
which they can exercise any choice IN
the matter under our peculiar condi-
ton and surroundings, and they want
it. This much had best be yielded, too,
forif the people are denied this privilege
it will sooner or lat.r make discord
within the ranks. The people rule in
this country, and 4 Slavish obedience to
party will not last unless the people are
given voicein saying who shall be the
leaders of that party.
But in case the primary plan is denied
this time the demand is general for two
State Conventions.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-10
Overwhelmed by a Cloudburst.

WICHITA. KANSAS, May T. A
strange atmospheric phenomenon WAS
seen at Maize, west of this city, yester-
day. A storm cloud burst and extend
ed over a space, parallelogram in form,
about 500 yards wide and one mile in
length. For half an hour the rain
came down in torrents. The heavens
were black, and darkness almost equal
to that of night covered the entire area.
The people ran affrighted from their
homes, many crying that the end OF
the world had come.
Maize IS situated on the south bank
of the Arkansas River and the streets
were turned into rivers, which fortu-
nately found outlets into the Arkansas.
AN eyewitness described the rain
coming down in torrents, washing away
a number of houses and moving others
from their foundations. A house in
which a family named Rockby lived
was picked up by the floods and carried
into the Arkansas River, where it sank,
drowning Rockby, his wife and two
children. a number ofnarrow escapes
are reported. The water from the cloud
seemed to come straight down and
could not have been thicker had it
found its source from a lake in the air.
The bodies of the Rockby family have
not vet been recovered. The damage
will be very large. A great many cattle
and horses were drowned.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-10
KNIGHTS OF LABOR.

The Knights of Labor organization is
said to be growing weaker in this
country every day. Two years ago the
order numbered upwards of 100000 in
this country, and now the number is
about 25O,0OO. In fact we do not
believe it has accomplished any good to
the laboring men..of our country. 1t has
cost them vast deal Of money, and in
many eases, after ordering strikes, failed
to bring them to a successful termina-
ton.
This thing Of strikes is wrong any
how. Labor and capital must regulate
themselves, and should not be arrayed
against one another. The one is as
essential as the other, and for a few
men on either side to try to regulate
it-why it won't work.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-10
PENSIONS.

The pension board of the State so far
has passed upon 1,0S5 applications for
pensions. Spartanburg County heads
the list with 1873 applicants. Beaufort
and Georgetown have only one each.
Newberry has 26, list of which is
published elsewhere.
There are number of applications
yet to be passed upon. The Legisla-
ture appropriated $4,000 to pay the
pension claims. 1t will require about
s65,OO0 to pay the pensions of those
already approved. 1t is going to be a
little bigger thing than our lawmakers
seem to have anticipated.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-10

nine to ten dollars a month. Our CO
temporary then suggests that perhaps
this farmer who is viewing life in this
way would not find much comfort in
rejecting that man is placed here for
something nobler and higher and more
useful than wearing fine clothes and
living luxuriously, but it was fact all
the same, and we should look at it in
that way.
Here are the paragraphs referred to:
as there no dark side to profes-
sional or mercantile life? Many a man
who is dressed like dandy goes
through life utterly miserable, running
:. thousand risks, selling his little soul,
and humiliating himself in every pos
sible way to find the means of keeping
up his expensive and wretched exist
ence. He would be q million times
happier as the sovereign lord of little
farm, wearing coarse jeans and eating
hog and hominy, honestly earned by
his own labor. Ninety per cent. of the
professional men and merchants either
fail or worry along making bare liv-
ing. Wealth and distinction fall to
only & few.
"But must q farmer necessarily re-
main in the depths of poverty? As the
French say, that depends. The far
mer who is shiftless and eXtravagant, of
course, will not prosper. If he lacks
Judgment he will be failure. If he
locates himself beyond the reach of
good markets he will find it hard to get
along. Now when a man labors under
these disabilities he will find it impos-
sible to succeed in a profession orin bus
iness, because judgment, industry and
economy are absolutely essential in
every line of work."
The certainty and independence and
freedom from anxiety, care and worry
incident to farm life will compensate
for all the gaudyism, and fine clothes
and high living that the farmer boy
imagines he is deprived of.
TO our mind the life of the farmer in
this country is the one above all others
to be desired. If he will, he can be
almost independent. Of course this
will not apply to the farmer who buys
everything he has Use for in foreign
market, but the farmer who lives at
home and has plenty of everything
around him should and can be con-
tented and happy. We do not mean
the wage Garner, but every young man
with energy and. a willingness to work
can soon become the owner of farm,
though it be u small one, and that is just
what this country is in need of-more
small farmers who are industrious and
willing to work.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-10
NEN| FIRM, NEW GOODS!!

With cordial thanks for the liberal pa
trouage received In our opening, We
would respectfully inform our patrons,
friends and the public generally tnat we
are constantly adding it ms to our STOCK.
We now keep our special line complete
and YOU can always find what we adver-
tise.
Our Dress Goods now consist OF Cash
meres, Nuns Yelling, Henrietta's Almos
SebaStopol, Flannels, Tricot, and al
other WOODEN goods now fashionable,
Silks. Watered Silks and Satins, Cling
hams and domestic PlaidS and Calicos.
Knit Goods for Ladies and Misses and
Children Jerseys, Undervests. Pants
and Skirts. also, Gents Undervests.
We can give you full Bridal Out
fit'' as cheap as you can buy and mase
them. Why then, all the trouble aud
vexation of gathering up and making,
when We have them ready at your door!
Full line of nicely finished and emorold-
cred UndrrWe ear in i.4ll sui,s-at prices
to suit all.
Corsets and BuStles OF all sizes and at
all prices.
Ladies, Misses and Childrens' Hose,
and Gents Half Hose.
Ladies and Gents HandkerchiefS.
Linen, Lawn,a Silk.
Ladies Linen Collars and Cuffs.
Full. line of Trimming Goods in all
the latest and most fashionable goods
viz: Furs, SatinS, Silk, Velvet, Velveteen,
Gimp, Gaaloon, Hercules Braid Coff's
BRAD, Beaded Sets, (hand made) Beaded
Trimming in all colorS, Domestic Home
spun. Bleached and Unbleached Tick
ing<, Flannels, etc., in fact every hing
usually found in 4 tirst-class Dry Goods
store.
All Millinery Goods will now be sold
at big discount. preparatory 10 Spring
trade.
Agency for s'Brohaid's Window
Holder" or Lock, useful and safe, no
Burglar can enter where this lock is ap-
plied-now on exhibition in front of
store. Call and examine.
Three nice rooms, Immediately over
store, for rent at reasonable prices.
Misses Leila Rives. Mamie Metts and
Stevie Bowers are still with us and will
take pleasure in showing our Iew and
select stock of fashionable goods to their
many friends and customers generally.
Again thanking you for the liberal
patronage extended and soliciting con-
tinuancc of the same, we are
Most Respectfully,
NR. & MRS. THOS. T. TARRANT,
Main street. Newbcrry, s.. C.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-10
Women Lose the Fight.

New YORK, May 7.-When the de
bate on the eligibility of women as lay
delegates to the Methodist Episcopal
General Conference closed to-day 4
vote was taken on the adoption of the
Rev. Davis H. Moore's substitute for
the report OF the committee. 1t pro-
posed that women elected rs delegates
to the present General Conference be
seated, and the question of their eligi-
bility to future General Conferences be
det ,rmined by vote of churches and
annual Conferences. This substitute
was lost
Then a vote was taken on the amcrd-
ment to the report offered by the Rev.
DR.. Neely, of Philadelphia. This
amendment excludes women from seats
in the present Conference, and submits
the quest ion of eligibility to sit in fu-
ture Gen eral Conferences to the An
nual Conferences. 1t was adopted by a
vote of 249 yeas to l73 nays.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-10
4 CONTRAST.

We take the following paragraphs
from an article of an esteemed cotem-
poraIv. the subject of the article being
"a blue farmer" \ correspondent had
written the editor giving his reasons
why there was such disposition on
the part of students leaving agricultu-
raj colleges to abandon farming and
enter law, medicine or other profess
ions. The correspondent said the far
mers had to wear common clothes and
eat hog and hominy, while professional
men and clerks wore fine clothes and
lived on the fat of the land, and the
farmer boys seeing this are naturally
inclined to do likewise and did not take
readily to farming. Clerks getting
from fifty to one hundred dollars a
month and farmers getting only from
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-10

hundred thousand dollars. He then
offered the following resolutions as
substitute for both Of the other sets Of
resolutions:
Resoired l. That this convention
earnestly favor the establishment
of an Agricultural College, in which the
main features of instruction shall relate
to agriculture and shall vote and labor
for its establishment.
Resolved ,. That we request all cal-
didates in this County for Legislative
positions to express their views on this
Subject through the press of the County.
Mr.. Sigh said he was in favor Of the
last resolution, and so did Mr.. keitt,
and it WAS adopted without further
debate and the convention adjourned.
TURBULENT REPRESENTATIVES,.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-10

The friends of our efficient County
chairman, Jas. X. P. Goggans, are
talking of urging him as well fitted to
creditabiy represent this district and
fill the position of delegate to the Ma
tional Democratic Convention from the
Third Congressional District. They
would be highly gratified at his selec-
ton as one of the delegates from this
district.
We heartily endorse his selection as
such delegate, and would be pleased to
see him elected. Mr.. Goggans is a
young lawyer of fine practice, Of pleas
ing address, we'll educated and good
speaker, and he would make worthy
representative from this district. He
has filled the position of county chair
man for this county for several years
very acceptably.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-10
Meeting of the Fort Hill Trustees.

The following is the official report of
the meeting Of the seven trustees APP
pointed by the will Of the late Colonel
Clemson, held last Tuesday, in the par
lor of the Fort Hill residence:
FORT HILL, s. c., May2, lSSS.-ln
response to the call of Col. r. W. Simp-
son, executor of the will Of Hon. Thos.
G. Clemson, the seven trustees appoint
ed by the will, viz: r. w. Simpson,
d. K. Norris, NJ. l.. Donaldson, K. +.
Bowen, B. r. 1illman J. f. Wanna
maker and J. f. Bradley, met this day
at Fort Hill, for the purpose Of organ
izing under the provisions Of the will:
A temporary organization was formed
by electing Col. r. K. Bowen chairman
and Capt. ID. X. Norris secretary.
All of the trustees signified their will
lingness to serve.
The Board then organized perma-
nently by electing Col. r. W. Simpson
chairman and J. F.. Wannamaker Sec
retary, and adjourned subject to the
call of the chairman.
J. f. WANAMAKER,
Secretary Board Trustees.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-10
TEN NILS OF SOLID ICE.
The Delightful Spring Weather in the
Northwest.

MAcKINAw CITY, Men, May =
The propeller Tio";,, with the .jewett
pushing behind, succeeded III forcinga
passage through the south channel ut
3 =. NJ. They We're closely followed by
the new steel steamship Oswc%o and the
propellcrs Boston, Arabia, and Norther-
ner The ice WAS solid in places and
frequently brought the two icviathans
to Il dead stop.
The situation above here remains un-
changed. The fleet ut Waugoshance
has made no Roadway to-day, and the
Gilchrist has only been able to make
about mile. Tomorrow will decide
whether the Jewctt and Tioga can break
the ice bridge There still remain about
ten miles of solid ice, and it is doubtful
about boats getting through until the
weather gets warmer There is lots of
piled ice ten feet thick and over, and
sail vessels should not think Ofstartlng
out until it has had chance to waste
away. The wind is southeast and fresh
and the weather is cloudy and cold.