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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-10-02
OFFICIAL ORGANS OF FARMERS
ALLIANCE.

National Alliance-Southerm Mer-
curry, Dallas, Texas.
Alabama alabama Farmer, Athens.
Arkansas-State Wheel Enterprise,
Little Rock
Mississippi-7Ae Farmer, Winona.
North Carolina PROGRESSIVE
FARMER, Raleigh, official organ for
North Carolina and Virginia.
Florida-Farmaers' Florida Alliance,
Mariana, Fla.
Louisiana Union, Choudrant.
Tennessee and Kentucky-7he
Ioiler, Nashville, Tenn.
Free Speech, Beaumont, Texas, OF
the counties of Jefferson, Orange,
Tyler, Hardin, Chambers, Liberty.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-10-02
JUTE BAGGING.
Nj. OLIVE Nc, Sept. 6, 'S8.

+ H. Mt. OLIVE, Nj Co. Sept. 6, 'ss.
EDITOR farmer; The ~a bagging
question seems to absorb, every other
question With the Alliance IN these
parts at this time, and they are de-
termined not to use jute, and don't
you forget it. There is none of US SO
blind but what we can see that it is
a blow aimed at us direct. 1t is a big
fight, but the worst Of the battle is
over and the victory is and will be
ours. We may have some trouble in
getting something to, wrap our cotton,
but we will get something in time that
will do just as well. Let US stand by
the action of the State Alliance, every
one of US. That is what we are or.
ganized- for; let no man lag or straggle
at this particular time We cannot
afford to be whipped out in our first
fight. We think we can get along
without jute during all time to come.
Why, sir, we can put us up factory
of our own and buy up damaged cot
ton at low prices to make the warp,
and there are old rags enough in the
United States that we can buy at half
a cent a pound to make the filing that
will make better and cheaper bagging
than jute. So let us 60 to work as
soon as possible and prepare for next
year and let the jute go forever. :a4
Our best wishes to you and The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER.siI tell you there
is nothing like that paper. Il is doing
us more good than anything else in
the world could do. Every farmer
in the State ought to take it., ID = 6,
hrs Yours truly, % y-,2 sIaj .
r..,.- .,..... G.. f. r, KoRNEGAY.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-10-02
No. 33
DOES FARMING PAYa

WAYNE Cos N. c., Sept. II, 'S8.
'@ Col. L. L. ..PoLK.-Deor SIR The
great cry throughout the beautiful
land of the South is, does farming
pay? / wish to ask you, why does it
not pay :? and then proceed to give q
few answers to the last interrogative,
in . feeble way. = = .EatH.tG +
Perhaps had best inform you be
fore go farther that I am not
member of the great Farmers ALI
Iance iof -the1good Old North State, but
that I have been a landowner, and a
two-horse, farmery up to few years
since, when adversely turned its power
full hand upon me, and all that 1 pos
sessed was swept away from me, a
victim to this awful mortgage system,
and though a farmland, was denied
the privilege Of joining Alliance No.
-, because 81 was net engaged (O in
farming interest, y as a charter member.
i am, always have been, and always
will be, the friend of the farmers, who
are the most oppressed people under
ltheG canopy of heaven But am
DEPRESSING, please pardon me, kind
reader. promised in the outset to
give you few reasons why farming
does not pay Well, we will begin at
home first, go, with me to the court
house door; there we will see stuck
to either side thereof a slip of paper
on which. is this inscription: Land
for Sale;'' underneath is long rigma-
role of boundary lines, &C., by which
method the farmers are robbed of
their houses by the monied kings who
strive to be monarch of all they
survey It matters not with them
how energetic and economical they
are, their wives and children are re-
duced to poverty and want.
z Now let us 60 to the registers Office,
and there we will find nine-tenths of
the farms in any county either under
mortgage or have been. Then let us
take anything the farmer makes, to
market, and ten chances to one we
don't get anything like value, be it
ever so minute an article. No, no,
the farmer must not have his price
for anything he produces, or he might
get above want, possibly, and make
his farm pay.
Then there is the little one-horse
tenant, who has to mortgage all he has
and makes, and possibly his wife,
children and himself to help pay the
enormous protective tariff prices ON
everything he consumes each year and
then if the farmer rides anywhere by
rail, he pays SO much tariff per mile.
Am I not true ? -,a D
Now then, the only way to put
down bagging trusts, high tariffs and
other high-minded monopolies, such
as high taxes, mortgages, illegal in
terest, ETC., is for the farmers to rise
on naasse, as they are nobly doing, and
fall into line and put down this oppres-
it and kept it meath their
feet, and into their hands the reins of
government properly belongs, and
they have the right to rule.
They do not desire free trade. but
are willing to pay taxes, but in plain
system protecting all, and granting
favors to none, dispensing the blessings
of Democratic administration "like
the dews of Heaven, unseen and un-
felt, save in the freshness and beauty
they contribute;" then, and not till
then will the farm pay.
May The PROGRESSIVE FARMER con-
tinue till it speaks in every house in
the land. READER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-10-02
THE PRESS AND THE ALL
ANCE. .,
Dover, N. c., Sept. 10, 81

a& DOVER, N. c., Sept. 10, 'S8.
EDITOR + FARMER:-The following
resolutions offered to Dover Alliance,
No. S7S, by committee appointed to
draft the same were unanimously
adopted. '71i ..." @.-+ .s-'.i''-..
WHEREAS, Certain newspapers have
been publishing articles stating that
cotton was not marketable unless
wrapped in jute bagging, and the same
being calculated to mislead farmers.
Therefore be it
Resolved, That we, by those resolu-
tions, denounce such papers, and that
we withdraw our patronage from the
same.
Resolved, That we call on the Cotton
Exchange of New Borne, N. c., by
these resolutions, to commit itself as
to whether it will receive our cotton
wrapped in other than jute bagging,
and to notify it by the same that in
case they fail to do SO, that we shall
use our utmost endeavor 10 stop all
manner of trade with it's city.
Resotved, That copy OF these reso-
lutions be sent to The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER, New Berne Journal and Will
mington Messenger for publication.
Dover Alliance also wishes to be
put on record as joining the grand
army of farmers in their fight against
the Bagging Trust Company. This
Alliance unanimously adopted the fol-
lowing resolution.
Resolyed, That we heartily endorse
the action of the State Alliance in re-
gard to jute cotton bagging, that we
pledge ourselves to stand by said
action, and that we will not use Jute
bagging at any price when sold by
the Jute Trust Company.
Most respectfully,
F. P. OUTLAW, Sec'y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-10-02
INTERESTING LETTER FROM
F""i"1' ,uHa OXFORD -H2H
OXFORD, N. c., Sept. 10, '88.

T a| OXFORD, N. c. Sept. l9, '88.
EDITOR Farmer I'm. the historical
old county of Granville, twenty-five
miles from the classic and prosperous
town of Oxford, on the Raleigh Road, )
stands a large wooden structure which
was once used as church building g
and known as Tabbs Creek Church,
but its membership, from one cause
and another, became too weak to sup
port pastor, was disbanded, and the
church house was sold to prosperous
farmer and removed, somewhat on the
Libby Pison style, from its original
site some two miles away, to where it
now stands, and now each curin &
season fills this old building which
was once consecrated to the service of
the Lord, from it's floor to it's joists
with crops of the golden leaf that has
been the prime factor in the up-build-
ing of so many towns and railroads,
factories and fortunes; the walls that
once reverberated the voice of the
minister of the Gospel as he preached
from the word of God, now encases
and defends from the sunshine and
the rain the silky fbers that command
such piles of that filthy lucre so popu-
lar with those who are filed with the
root of all evil, and hold still in their
embrace the delightful and intoxicat-
ing odor of the "evil weed" 1t was
in this building few days ago that
Oak Grove Alliance, No. 833, at a
regular meeting, adopted The Pro
GREss1vE FARMER as their special
organ. This Alliance has in it some
frst-class material-farmers who
know how to handle the dirt and get
pay for turning their grit We have
a son and son-in-law of one of the
most successful tobacco planters in
the State (Fielding Knott( whose
income from farming alone is
sufficient to pay the salaries of half a
dozen Governors of North Carolina,
and these men keep time with "Pap," !"
and find their near neighbors keeping
abreast with them in all that pertains
to good farming. Some of our mem
bers are premium takers too, one OF
them, if l am not mistaken, having
successfully taken two or three annual
premiums at the State Fair on tobacco,
and as for raising big watermelons,
some of our members can beat Cur
rituck county and the whole Atlantic
coast. Mr.. H. E. Overton, for in
stance, who long legged as he is, can
without STOPPING thump some of his
big ones in the allow grounds. "
But with all our good farming, (ace
killed the bear, you know the present
crop is bad one, and whoever has
fine bright cutters can just count on
raking in the money. [ have never
seen tobacco so coarse and heavy.
Even land that has hitherto produced
silky leaf, this year makes a grade Of
that is decidedly rough. How
ever, I have never known year when
didn't make good crop, and
even sections, and in this respect it is
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-10-02
ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY;

striking to~note the difference in this
and what is called the Beaver Dam, or
south side country, lying on the south
side 'of Tar river; here the tobacco
has not been subjected to quite such
extremes in weather, and consequently
is curing up finely with, some excep-
tions; but the great bulk Of fine to-
.bacco country will come up, with q
very low average in quality, but the
crop will weigh we'll to it's size, Will be
rich enough, and ought toaoseHefor'
good prices. . eggenilrsc ~ tnerof1ib
The State Business Agency was not,
very popular with US at first, but we
are beginning TO look upon It an
absolute necessityhand will NO doubt
do all Of our part as soon as we get
money-that is when the. tobacco
season opens. -
We are having entirely too much
rain for present needs, according to
human understanding, which is some.
times bad thing to go by, even in
much simpler things than running a
world like this. 90 So, Il
..- ''5 n Yours truly, ray :ss2z-tI 81
'--,a -. u -.--l Ii foJoHx Buck
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-10-02
DIRECTORY OF FARMERS OR.
s.ss eri3 CARNATIONS. Nna@f /

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FARMERS NATIONAL ALL1ANoB AND oo-oP-
ERATIvH UNION OF AMERICA. ..
President-C.s W. Macune, Texas.
First e-President-L. L. Polk, N. G.
Vice -Pres't for Ala-H..P P. Bone. , .
Vice-Pres't for Ark-W. H. Moore.
Vice -Pres'ti for Fla.-Oswald Wilson.
q. Vice-Pres'tfor Ky.-S. B. Irwin. 7l
Vice-Pres't for La.-Lnn Tanner.
Vice-Pres't for Miss.-R. 7. Love.
- Vice-Pres't for Mo.-A. B. Johnson.
vlce-Pres't for N C.-S. B. Alexander.
Vice-Pres' for Tenn.-I. 81. Mcdowell.
Vice-Pres't for Tex-M. D. X. Taylor.
Secretary-E. B. Warren, Texas. 51n
Treasurer-A. Z. Gardner, Tenn.
Chaplain-Rev. J. G. Jones, La.
Lecturer Terrell Tex.
Asst. Lecturer-J. A Tets, La. z ST E
Door Keeper-Newt Gresham, Ala
Asst. Door .Keeper-H. G. Brown, KY.
Serg't-at-Arms-T T. E. Groom, Miss. 9
NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCB.
Presidents. B. Alexander, Charlotte,
n. G.. ...'. 80 .-''
Vice-President-T Ivey, Ashpole, NC.
Secretary-L. L. Polk, Ralei gh, N. c.
Treasurer-J. D. Allen, Falls, N. G.
! Lecturer D. Reid Parker, Trinity
College, N. g. y... ..t--..aT
Assistant Lecturer-D. D. Mcintyre,
Laurinburg, n. G. lbo2 ..
-. Chaplain-Rev. Carl MOORE Towns
vile, n c..
Door Keepe-W. H. Tomlinson, Fay
etteville, N @. '''r
Assistant Door Keeper-R. T. Rush,
Mt. Gilead, N. G.
sergeant-at-Arms-J. s Holt Chalk
Level, N. G. *. '|i r
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES OF THR NORTH cAno-
LIMA FARMERS Stair ALLIANCE
Elias Carr, Old Sparta, N. O., Chair
man; Thadeus livery, Ashpole, Il. c.; ]. s.
Johnston, Ruffn, N. G. 1& =
THE NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS ASSOCIATION,
President Elias Carr, Old Sparta,
Edgecombe county. '''k =. ~ -
B. f. Hester, Oxford, Secretary; 8.
Otho Wilson, Vineyard, and w. E. Ben
bow, Oak Ridge, Assistant Secretaries.
VIRGINIA STATE ALLIANCE. -
z President-G. T. Barbee, Bridgewatar,
Virginia. a.r
Vice-President-T. B. Massey, Wash
ington, Virginia GE-g.E SIS +
Secretary--J.J Silvey, Bridgewater,
Virginia.
Treasurer Isaiah Printz, Luray, Vir-
ginia. --.-
Lecturer-G. H. Chrisman, Chrisman,
Virginia. .'@ "
Asst. Lecturer-J. S. Bradley, Luray,
Virginia 50, -..sa... - aa
Chaplain-Wm. NJ. Rosser, Luray,
Virginia. 3qI --...t.. isE...
Door Keeper-B. Frank Beahm, Kim
ball, Virginia .,...n, F.
Luray, Virginia '-l
ington, Virginia. oh W.. : ..-.... -
State Business Agents.. P. A. Bru-
baker, of Luray, Virginia. .s.5.a.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. ~
3 T, ,BFumback, Jas. 3. Compton and
Geo. 81. Chrisman. g.., ......t
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-10-02

A tablespoonful of turpentine boiled
with your white clothes will aid the
whitening process.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-27

MOI A BED OF HOSES.
A City Clerks Life Full of Woe and III
Hours Not Nura harad

A City Clerks Life Full of Woe and His
Hours Not Numbered
The poorest paid class of genteel labor
ers III city are the clerks. There is no
exception to this statement when it refers
tc the rank and file of the employees of
stores The reason of this is no doubt
apparent when it is considered that tue
tendency among the youth of the country
is to shun a mechanical calling The
slavery OF working in store has its
charm Tor young men who have neglected
TO learn trade, because it is more gen
teel than hammering iron or saving
boards. 1t is q compromise between
IN annual labor in the common acceptance
OF the term and a dignifed profession
The youth who has not the opportunity
to obtain college education harbors the
1alse logic that a clerkship is genteeI
employment and ekes out a miserable
daily allowance during his whole life
standing behind counter.
NO estimate can be made of the mum.
Der OF young men who are toiling their
lives away as grocery clerks for pit
lance, but they are among the thousands
Their hours OF work are long and tedi-
Gus. They must be at the store not later
than $50 o'clock in the morning, and sell
dom finish their days work before 8
o'clock at night. There is not day dur
ing the week that they are not on duty
more than twelve hours, and the time is
oftener sixteen hours of continual service,
with half an hour for dinner If the pay
was commensurate with the labor, then
the hours would not seem so long, but it
is not. The average salary of grocery
clerk in city is less than $12 a week.
w hen muscular young man presents
himself as candidate for clerkship, his
education is inquired into. If he has a
common school learning and is otherwise
bright and intelligent he is placed behind
the sugar counter. He stands there
measuring sugar for the magnificent sal
airy OF $6 a week. AT the. end of six
months he is qualified to take position
at the order counter, and gets So a week.
lie is liable to remain order clerk for an
indefinite period, and there is only one
more promotion. He can become sales
man at an advanced salary, which never
exceeds $16 a week. There seems to be
no hope that the grocery clerk can better
his condition, as the servitude of life
time would not result in the accumulation
OF 81 900, even with the most rigid econo-
my. The grocery clerks condition may
serve to deter other young men from
adopting his calling, and may bring them
TO a realization that now, as always, the
skilled mechanic is king,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-27
DEEP-SEA DESOLATION.
Ihe ocean Bed a Desert of Slime After
the First Mile i'm Denth

HE Ocean Bed a Desert of Slime After
the First Mile i'm Depth.
Despite the fanciful pictures which
some writer's have drawn of the ocean
ped, Its desolation, at least in its deepest
part, must be extreme. Beyond the first
mile 1t is q vast desert of slime and ooze.
upon which is constantly dripping rain
OF dead carcasses from the surface, which
carcasse5 supply the nourishment for the
scanty fauna inhabiting the abyssal re-
glon. in some places more than five miles
from the sunshine. At long intervals a
phosphorescent light CLEANS from the
head OF some passing fish which has
strayed hlther from higher zone. But
1t is not until we have mounted good
deal nearer the surface that the scene
changes Tor the better. We now meet
with forests of brilliantly lighted sponges,
while the phosphcrescent animals swim
ming about are much more numerous:
ana the nearer we get to the littoral zone
more and more phosphorescent lights
appear, Till at length the scene
becomes truly animated When only
l,S0O feet separates us from the sunshine
we come upon the first sea weed and ket,
but we must rise still another 1000
feet and more, and get as near the top us
100 feet before we find any reef building
corals. AS plants do not live in deep sea,
the deep sea animals either prey on one
another or get their food from dead or
ganisms and plants which sink down to
them. Since sunlight does not penetrate
much farther than the littoral zone there
would be beyond this but perpetual dark
ness except for phosphorescence. Many
OF the animals inhabiting the continental
and abyssal zones have merely rudiment-
s.ry eyes; but these blind creatures have
very long feelers, which help them to
grope their way along the bottom. Other
deep sea animals, on the contrary. have
enormous eyes, and these very likely con
sregate around such of their numbers as
are phosphorescenr and may perhaps
follow the moving lamp posts about
wherever they go. And so bright is this
light on many of the fish brought up by
the dredge that during the brief space the
animals survive it is not difficult to read
DV il
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-27
GEoRGIANA. INDIAN RIVER, J
FLORIDA. Dec. TX. 1888.

LONlDA, DCC. y, 1000
Col. M. Frank:
Ny DEAR SIR write you few
lines thinking you feel interested 10
know of our safe arrival to this gen
ial climate and of the general feeling
of health-seekers and tourists about
visiting Florida SO soon after theyel-
low fever epidemic at Jacksonville
We came through very comforta-
bly, and on schedule time except a
delay Of twenty-four hours at Allan
ia. AS only one fast train is organ
lied on each route for Florida, fail
ure to connect forces travellers to
wait full day. Quarantine ends to-
day, and in future two daily through
trains will leave Chicago for Florida
There is no apparent decrease in
the number of health-seekers and
those who own winter homes now on
the way to Florida. 1t remains to
be seen whether the tide of tourists
that fills the great hotels from Janu-
airy to April will be as great as usual
Florida is large state and only a
very small part of it has had yellow
fever. | met gentleman interested
in the Ponce De Leon and Casa
Monica. He told me their orders
for rooms were more numerous than
one year ago and that no orders had
been cancelled.
Thorough disinfection and fumi-
CATION is now going on in Jackson
vile. In the quarters Inhabited by
poor and colored people, clothing,
bedding and shanties are burned and
paid for.
My health has improved rapidly
during the three days since our ar
rival on the river | walked slowly
a full mile at one time yesterday.
Visited our two promising little
orange and lemon groves. The
growth and fruitage the past season
quite surpasses our expectations.
On my first visit | picked two fine
fully ripe pineapples and large bas-
ket of oranges, lemons and guavas.
A good exhibit from land that was
"wild-scrub' five years ago.
We have had on our table lettuce
and turnips from Mr.. Aliens, radish-
es and roses from Mr.. Munson's,
shelled beans and a fine squash
shocked" from neighbor Burt Rob-
bins or Frank Kingman's. I am
writing with window toward Indian
river open Temperature 2:3o p. M,
740. Still it is too rough for people
welded to a conventional life.
Sincerely yours,
F. w. LYMAN.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-27
A Cat Tail, or How to Dispose
of Surplus Cats

A natural genius to the manner
born resides in the town of Salem
AS a taxldermist he is second to
none. He owns the finest collection
of ORTHODOXY in the country, the
same being the result of his own
skill. AS cabinet maker he excels,
as may be seen by the samples in his
house. AS mechanical engineer he
is above criticism, having construct
ed a model locomotive perfect in all
its parts, and applied the motive
power. In drawing, drafting and ar
chltectural design, he is very prohc-
lent. AS millwright he is not sur
passed, having constructed wind and
water powers for his personal use
and operated successfully the same.
He is also an amateur musician, op-
Grating brass, string and organ in
struments. He is very modest and
humane young man. He is farmer
by birth and practice. He never has
taken any lessons in the aforesaid
arts, but depends entirely on his nat
ural skill. His affection for domes-
tic animals will not permit him to
kill a cat or dog. But he has nov
ell and ingenious method of disposing
of his surplus cats. He constructs a
light willow cage and then places his
surplus cats within, covers them with
mosquito bar and attaches the cage
to the anchor line of balloon al
ready prepared and lets it fly.
The balloon mounts on high
The cats go mewing through the sky;
They. float away to Pluto's bourne
From whence no felines err return.
Communicated.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-27

The Chicago Opera Honse, en-
tirely free from the effects Of the
inundation, was opened last mig hit.
While it was closed for a week the
management entirely redecorated the
house, and have made it the hand
soonest theatre in the city to-day, as
far as decoration is concerned. The
style of decoration is the modern
Romanesque, and the retiring rooms,
foyer, boxes, etc., are marvels of
decoration, skill and taste.
The piece with which the house
was opened was Kiralfy's "Water
Queen, }" which made an instantane-
Gus hit.
The next attraction at the Chicago
Opera House is the "Crystal Slip
per- which will come on in Jan
uary 9TH. The engagement will be
a limited one, and this will be its
last representation in Chicago, the
management of the Chicago Opera
House being hard at work upon its
success. The "Crystal Slipper"
piece leaving Chicago, has been pre-
sented in Boston, New York and
Philadelphia, and in those cities it
has won the admiration of the entire
press, and the theatres have not
been large enough to hold the audi
ences that have focked to see it. It
will be revived at the Chicago
Opera House with all the beauties
of the original production. The
company will be precisely the same
as that which gave the piece here
last summer. Little Itch, the charm
ing wonder, is again a member of
the company and will come. The
balIets will be led by Mile. Qualitz,
Newman and Morando.
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Kenosna Post Office
Arrival and Closing of Mails.

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D. A. MAHONEY. P. NJ.