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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-23
THEEwEsT WAKING UP.
DROWNING CREEK ALLIANCE, No. l,547.
Rurko % NJ q

Drowning CREEK ALLIANCE, No. |, SAT.
Burke Co., N. @.
Mr.. EDIToR:-If you will allow us
the space, we would like to tell the
brethren where we are, what we are
doing and what we propose doing as
soon as we get through stretching and
gaping and our eyes are fully rubbed
open.
Our Alliance is on the line between
the counties of Burke and Catawba,
and Penelope, Burke Co., N. c., is our
postofice. Our Alliance was organ
lied the I'd of February last, with A.
S. Cooke, President, and L. Warlick,
Secretary, and is the outgrowth of the
old County line Farmers Club, organ
lied over two years ago. Though it
is in its infancy, yet it bids fair soon
to become full-grown factor in the
great and laudable agricultural refor-
nation of the present century, as some
of Burke's best and most influential
citizens are among It's membership. 1t
has had but two meetings and num-
bers twenty seven members, some of
whom live in Catawba county. It
we'll expects to double or treble it's
present number soon and become
noted for its power and influence in
the great course it has so recently but
heartily espoused. It's motto is, Gre
trenchment and reform at home, if
we expect general prosperity through
out the land, which is the desire of
every true patriot. It proposes to
practice what it breaches, to make
more and buy less and begin now. 1t
has learned by sad experience that
cheap goods alone will not suffice.
That if we buy all and will sell moth
ing bankruptcy will be the result in
spite of all man or God will do for us.
1t has also learned that so long as
farmers (so-caLled) raise only cotton
and tobacco, even at fair price, and
have their smokehouses and granaries
in the West and their manure heaps
in the East, they will be "hewers of
wood and drawers of water " and are
not worthy of any higher respect or
calling. Our Alliance is not much for
cooperative stores; it thinks that is
what is the matter with farmers now,
they have co-operated with stores too
much already. 1t think that buying
and selling through State Agent
better and much safer. It will con-
slider this matter at it's next meeting.
Our eyes are open enough to see that
the great trouble with farmers and
drawback to their organization is
ignorance that they have no
common sense or education, but be-
cause they don't read; or, if they read,
they don't read such books and papers
as are friendly to their interests and
calculated to teach them Alright. Farm
ers are too poor to take and have not
the time to read every paper, hence
they should take and read such only
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-23
nrpEcroRY OF FARMERS Or
CARNATIONS.

,op~u CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
Presidents. B. Alexander, Charlotte,
N. @. No
Secretary. L. Polk, Raleigh, n. @.
Treasurer-J. D. Allen, Falls, N. Q.
Lecturer-Dr. D. Reid Parker, Trinity
College, N. G. ,
Laurinburg, N. G.
Chaplain-Rev. Carr Moore, Towns
vile, II. G.
Door Keeper-W. b. Tomlinson, Fay
etteviIe, N. @.
Assistant Door Keeper. I. Rush,
Mt Gilead, n. @.
Sergeant-at-Arms-J. S. Holt, Chalk
Level, n. G.
State Business Agent-W. A. Darden.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH CARO-
LIMA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
Elias Carr, Old Sparta, N c., Chair
man; Thaddeus Ivey, Ashpole, N. o.; j. 5.
Johnston, Ruffn, N. G.
THE NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS ASSOCIATION.
President-Elias Carr, Old Sparta,
Edgecombe county.
B. F. Hester, Oxford, Secretary; s.
Otho Wilson, Vineyard, and W. E. Ben
bow, Oak Ridge, Assistant Secretaries.
VIRGINIA STATE ALLIANCE.
President-G. T. Barbee, Bridgewatar,
Virginia.
Vice-President-T. B. Massey, Wash
ington, Virginia.
Secretary. J. silvey, Bridgewater,
Virginia.
Treasurer-Isaiah Printz, Luray, Vir-
Lecturer-G. b. Chrisman, Chrisman,
Virginia.
Asst. Lecturer. s. Bradley, Luray,
Virginia.
Chaplain-wm. NJ. Rosser, Luray,
Virginia
Door Keeper-B. Frank Beahm, Kim
ball, Virginia.
Asst. Door Keeper-G. E. Brubaker,
Luray, Virginia.
serg't-at-Arms- Fl. LiIard, Wash
ington, Virginia.
State Business Agents. P. A. Bru-
baker, of Luray, Virginia.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
E T. Brumback, Jas. E. Compton and
Geo. 81. Chrisman.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-23
A VOICE FROM WARREN.
R1paEwAY. N. c.. April 5. g
Committee.

R1DGEwAY, N. c., April 5, 99.
Mr.. EDIToR:--Our Alliance is in very
good working order We number up
to date, "A members in good standing,
and others are still knocking at the
dear of the Order for admittance. We
have about $3.50 pledged for the State
Business Agency Fund, and paid in
about $4,000 Our farmers are, using
less commercial fertilizers, and some
Of the guano agents are getting "sick
of the business" on account of slow
sales. We think they will 60 fishing
next year or do something else.
Farmers in this vicinity increased
the acreage in grass, clover, wheat
and corn to a considerable extent.
They are beginning to see that it will
not pay to neglect these crops and de-
pend on making cotton and tobacco
to purchase them with.
l can heartily endorse all that John
King said in last number of The Pro
aREss1vE FARMER (April 2d) and espe-
cially in regard to the merchants, ETC.,
and right here, will add, that we
farmers are very much imposed upon
by some merchants as whenever a
poor clod hopper goes to store.with
his produce which necessity compels
him to sell and the merchant will give
him but starvation prices for it, he has
to let it go and take the merchants
price, let it be ever so little Brethren,
let us pull hard together, shoulder to
shoulder, little longer and the vic
tory is won, and would urge you and
impress upon you to keep the work
ings of the Alliance profound secret
and be very cautious, and don't let the
" kitten out of the wallet, " for the out
siders know too much already. If
you have not derived any benefit in
dividually from the Alliance don't
get impatient and say that the ALI
ance is humbug and abuse it, but
work, watch and wait, and we hope
that the day is not far distant when
we will begin to reap our reward
Fraternally,
]. f. P HORTON
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-23
RINGING LETTER FROM RAN
DOLPH.

TRINITY COLLEGE, n. c., April 6, '89.
Mr.. ED1ToR:-I had the pleasure of
attending the quarterly meeting Of the
Randolph County Alliance yesterday
in Asheboro. There was very full
attendance from all parts of the
county, the usual business was trans
acted in great harmony and the very
best of feeling prevailed throughout.
Many new moves were made for our
general good. We tried to impress
upon every one the absolute impor-
tance of reading and carefully study
ing our best agricultural literature,
and especially to subscribe for our
official organ-THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER. RI herewith send several
aubscribers
We also made considerable progress
in raising money for our State Fund.
Sub-Alliances guaranteed about two
hundred dollars, besides the County
Alliance contributed $25 out of it's
treasury for the fund.
am reioiced to see such unmis-
taxable evidences of progress m every
line of Alliance work in Randolph
county. We should certainly feel en-
outraged to make still greater efforts,
since the little we have done is so full
jof promise. 1t should be our high
ambition to labor on in this glorious
work, until every farm home in North
Carolina is bright with good cheer and
plenty. And when [ meet with so
many good men and women in the
various counties which have visited,
all united in the one grand aim of our
, order, to elevate and bless the toiling
masses, I find my faith growing
stronger in the justice of our cause
and of its ultimate triumph. Let
these occasions inspire in us a zeal and
a courage to do and to dare, as long
as there is single man or woman or
child in North Carolina that needs
our sympathy and help;
"Help us to help each other Lord
Each others Cross to bear,
Let each his friendly aid afford
And feel q brothers care"
This is the very essence of the gos-
pei, OIL peace Oh 0dEGu, duu SoOu Will
towards men," And | earnestly pray
that every head and heart among US
may be thrilled with this higher Joy.
We have had enough of sorrow,
gloom and dependency, poverty,
rags and despair. Let these give
place now to singing, joyous, health
full atmosphere, sweet and balmy and
radiant. We have no right to be
carrying these burdensome, woe-sod-
den faces, around among our people
any longer. Let all the old Mr.. Dis
NAL Glums and their entire brood of
croakers migrate to the lands of
deepest shade and to caverns under
ground and there dwell with screech
owls, footing bats and darkness. We
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-23

In connection with the Territorial
Farmers Alliance of Dakota there is
crop insurance association called the
Alliance Hail Association, which ap-
pears to be IN fourishing condition.
At the late annual meeting of the
Association there were nearly 5000
members represented. Last year there
were 566,814 acres insured and $72,-
529 paid in losses; the receipts amount
ing to $IO7, 900, showing a satisfac-
tory financial condition.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-23

Harrison has removed Mr.. Pearson
as postmaster at New York, position
he had held for many years, having
been retained by Cleveland, although
a Republican.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-23

Senator Vance is resting quietly at
his home in Buncombe county. He
is improving in health very rapidly.
His remaining eye is stronger than it
has been for years.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-23

fits of such union as well as anybody
else
They own the land, the fields, the
focks and the cattle, the timber, the
water-power, the grains and the fruits,
the cotton and the wool, and why,
then, should they be menials and pau.
pers and go " like dumb-driven cattle" "
all their mortal lives?
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-09-26

ana never employed stenographer or
private secretary to do the work. Mr..
Campbell is referred to by his friends as
"a man out of a million"
THOSE who see in tariff protection a
panacea for labor troubles are calling on
the Democratic papers to explain how
the London stevedore strike can happen
in free trade country. They should
themselves first explain how we could
have five years of such extreme indus
trial depression and widespread labor
troubles as we had for five years follow
ing 1878 under the highest tariff that
was ever known-a tariff that laid pro-
tective duties averaging A per cent. on
more than 1000 articles. They should
also explain how it is that wages are so
much higher in ''free trade" England
than in any European country which
pretends to protect wages with tariff
on imports, and why it is that the strikes
of which we hear so much now in
our own country, are chiefly If not
wholly in the protected industries, and
are strikes against 10 and 90 per cent.
reduction of wages, while the strike in
England is for higher wages.-St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-09-26
The Remaining Territories.

After the admission Of the two Dako-
tas, Washington and Montana, there
will still remain five territories that will
be candidates for admission. Four Of
these have at some time formulated con-
stitutions that have been left to season.
Two of these, Idaho and Wyoming, are
now engaged in either revamping con-
situations or making new ones. The
third one, New Mexico, is about to en-
gage in the same work. The question
Of the admission Of these five territories
will probably come before congress at
the next session. The latest estimates
of population made by officers of these
several territories show the population
to be as follows:
Arizona. .....""""..u"....... $1,000
1dano. o.........ssss...s 's.s'ss........... 100000
New Mexico. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 100000
Utah.. s..''.".....".... 10000
Wyoming. ........".,"........... $1,000
The figures here given, especially for
New Mexico and Utah, will probably
bear trimming down. No territory has
right to statehood by virtue of popula-
tion or other qualifications. There is no
statute comforting on territory right
Of admission. There are, of course, nu-
merous precedents. But the Federal
government exercises the sovereign right
Of both admission and rejection.
Francisco Bulletin.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-09-26
POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

ALAS, poor Tanner!
WHO stole the Dow tax?
ORGANIZE, Democrats of Ohio.
LET every Democrat resolve to vote.
THIS campaign will be run by the peo-
Ele and not by the politicians.
TANNER has only gone before. For
sker will follow in November.
"THE Campbells are coming, "and home
gcle and tariff reform are the slogans.
The logical ticket for 1892 is Foraker
and Tanner on a Platform Of "Rebel
Flags" and "Rerating." -
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-09-26

IT is quite probable that President
Harrison will recommend to Congress
repeal of the tobacco tax. This chimes
in with the Republican scheme for pre-
venting tariff reduction and helping
that party in the Southern States. If
the abolition of the tax would cheaper
the poor mans tobacco it might we'll be
spared. But as the bulk of the revenue
from tobacco comes from manufacturers,
wholesale buyers and dealers and ped
dlers, in sums too small to subdivide
among consumers, there is little chance
that the poor would get their chief lux
ufy any cheaper for the repeal. The
bait Of Stree chaw" is both delusive
and indicative of a very poor economic
policy so long as the real necessaries of
the people are enhanced in cost by need
less tariff taxes.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-09-26

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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-09-26
The Debt Reduced More in Two Years
Under HOady Than in Three
Under Foraker.
Foraker Pretends He Refunded
the Debt and Reduced the
Interest,
Yet the Democratic Legislature
Provided for This During
A Hoadly's Term.

Foraker Claims the Tax Levy
Has Been Reduced, But This
is Simply a Failure to
Collect For the Sink
ing Fund.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-09-12
HOW TO EAT BANANAS.


Ordinarily in this country bananas are
eaten raw, says the american analyst, but
in tropical countries, while the natives
eat them in like fashion, more delicate
and, it is said, more healthy mode of
eating them is in vogue. The soft, ripe
fruit, eaten to a cream with a suficiency
of Amontillado sherry, forms a delight
full appetizer, and is the favorite way of
eating the banana in certain parts of the
West Indies and of the African coast.
Taken in moderation at first rising in the
morning, bananas are said to be preser-.,
vative of health, and in this respect are
in marked contrast with other tropical
fruits, which are detrimental, rather than
otherwise, to continued good health. An
Intoxicating drink is made from the ba-
mana, and on account of its astringent
qualities is of considerable medical value.
In Africa, and probably in other places
also, the banana and the kindred tree,
the plantain, are in very large measure
the sole dependence for the food sup
ply of natives. The banana, when
ripe, contains "a per cent. water; of
the 2G remaining parts, 20 are sugar and
two gluten or fesh-forming substance.
1t is not in itself perfect food, but re-
quires the addition of some other nitro
genous material, as lean meat. The pulp
of the banana, but more often of the plan
tain, is ofttimes squeezed through sieve
and formed into loaves, which, when ripe,
will keep very long time. In dried
state it has the. resemblance Of bread,
both in taste and composition, but the
ripened pulp is saccharine, and not farm
aceous. At Panama the rarest and most
delicious of the banana species has its
home. Small and ruddy in color, it
is populally known as the thumb banana,
and on account of its delicate favor it is
priced even there. 1t does not beaI
transportation we'll, although it may often
be found in the markets of Chicago and
New York. Crossing the isthmus by the
line that connects Panama with Aspin.
wall, the natives of the villages along the
route make a habit of coming to the train,
! decked in primitive fashion, with gar.
lands of flowers around their necks and
flowers in their hair, and disposing of the
fruit Here the thumb banana may bt
eaten in its perfection.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-09-12
Mexican SenOrit0s,

The stranger in Mexico, especially if
he be young and good-looking, is liable
to be surprised, at his first ball here,
when some pretty senorita, whom he
has never seen before, trips up to him
with an engaging smile on her face and
something that looks like an egg in her
hand, and suddenly sn.ashes the latter
over his Uranium.
To one not acquainted with the cas-
carone custom it is startling, to say the
least. Luckily, however, the egg has
been robbed of its usual interior, the
contents having been emptied through
a small hole at one end. The shell is
then refilled with finely chopped tinsel
and colored paper, with the addition
of sachet powder or some dainty trim
kets, after which the opening is neatly
closed by bit of paper pasted over it.
In the good old days of the Spanish
aristocracy the egg shells to be used
by the proud grandees at swell fan
dangos were filled with gold and dia.
mond dust. Similar extravagances are
sometimes indulged in nowadays, but
rarely. CapNtolC1a argus.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-09-12
No Ink.

There is no necessary connection be
tween nearsightedness and q quick
temper, but something is to be allowed,
time overheated, out of breath, and
badly disappointed. The Boston CoItr>
Ter reports that such q man came into
friends Office one hot day. ~Pve LOST
my train, he exclaimed, angrily. u
nearly killed myself trying to get it,
and then was Just in time to see it &c
out of the station.
~Let me sit here and write note,
won't you?" he added, as he mopped
his forehead. ~I'n run down to Nahant
to my daughters for the night, and
must send word home that I'm not
coming"
Certainly" his friend responded;
"sit down at that table. Everything
you want is there. Excuse me if go
on with my work; I'm rushing to get
through for the four o'clock train"
The near-sighted man sat down, Sc
lected his paper and pen, and began to
write. The exercise was attended with
frequent EXPLANATIONS, but of these his
friend took no notice until the visitor
bloke out angrily;
"Why don't you have some ink in
the ink-stand?"
"It's FULL" was the answer! "Tve
just been writing there myself"
"Then this abominable heat has
dried it all up. There isn't a drop
here"
The busy host got up to investigate.
In front of the inkstand lay PEN
wiper of black cloth, and into this the
nearsighted man was diligently dipping
his pen. The host took it out of the
way.
Il have no doubt" he remarked,
"that in looking glass land they wipe
their pens first and use them after
ward, but here the other order of things
is preferred"
The visitor looked at him in speech
less rage. Then he sprang to his feet,
seized his hat, and rushed out of the
Office, saying something not altogether
audible about man who keeps pen
wiper to fool his friends with in such
weather as this"
1t is 10 relief to know that he made a
handsome apology on the following
day.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-09-12

ESDERs PA, Feb. Is. 1889.
Piso's Cure for Consumption relieved the
cough. checked the night-sweats and emacia-
tion-in short, gave a new lease of life TO a pa
tent OF mine who was rapidly and surely ap-
preaching the final stage Of this dreaded dis
ease.
To-day she is in the enjoyment Of fair
health, and this result is due 10 he beneficial
effects of only few bottles o; Piso's Cure for
Consumption.
II we take into consideration the DURATION
of this patients sickness, the SEVERITY of the
symptoms, the SMALL quantity Of the remedial
agent and the BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME within
which CURE WAS EPRECTED, we cannot fail TO
acknowledge the truly wonderful effects OF
Pisos Cure for CONSUMPTION.
LEVI JAY ENDKRs. MD.
In every community there are living wit
nesses to testify that in naming our medicine
Piso's Cure for Consumption, we have not
claimed more than 1t can do. Its standing in
the market also proves its merit. We have
not published sensational notices; our adver-
tiSements have been mere signs to indicate the
exis' ence Of Piso's Cure for Consumption. In
stead of endeavoring to excite fea. our pur-
pose has been to encourage hope.
Yet Ptso's Cure for COns9 uption stands to-
day at the head Of all medicines of its clas :,
requiring for its manufacture factory full Of
skilled workers and improved machinery,
whereas about twenty years ago all the work
was done in one little room by one man.
Price, rs cents per bottle.
Z. T. HAZLErINE. Warren Pa
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-09-12

INC golden harvest time is near aud foytun-
SS SSely tne facilities for enjoying 1t are ample.
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points IN Kansas and Nebraska (west of but not
on the Missouri Riv,r), Colorado, Indian Terri.
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and Southwestern Minnesota at ONE FARE FOR
TIE 3dik ROUND TRIP. Dates of sale September
lVth and 24th and October 9th, 1885; return
limit 10 days from date of sale, thus affording
opportunlt es for investment or the location of
FARMS and homes in growing sections of new
sp sSpCuntry SUCH AS WE'RE NEVER BEFORE oFFERED,
the territory to choose from being yery much
larger than that included in the scope Of snv
similar previous excursion THE SOLID vEsTi-
BULE TRAINS OF THE Rock ISLAND are com.
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Sieepere, FREE Reclining Chair Cars and Din
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States and Territories above named. For
more detailed information call on or address
JOHN SEBASTIAN, General Ticket and Passen-
GER Agent, Chicago. III
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-09-12
Didn't Work That WAY.

"Most gamblers have their supersti,
tions, and 1 used to have mine," re-
marked an old sporting man to the re-
porter. "But I was once cured. It
happened this way. You know it is
supposed to bring a man luck if he
gives anything to beggar. About
five years ago l was playing in about
the hardest luck man ever had. I
had the clothes on my back-a new
suit, Northumberland new hat. That
was about all. The day before I had
my last bill broken and was living on
the loose change.
81 was walking down 4th ave. from
23d street in the evening with my
hands in my pockets and large round
vacancy in my stomach, where my
dinner ought to have been, when I saw
woman leaning against the railing Of
church. 1t was nearly 8 o'clock aud
she was alone. She was well dressed,
and looked like working-woman. l
made up my mind in less thHn a second
that she was in distress, and the idea
occurred to me that if I gave her some
money it might change my luck. So
walked up to her and said politely:
is there anything can do for you,
my good woman?'
"She started as if she didn't under
stand me, and continued kindly:
"'Can I be of any use to you. Do
you want any money!
"She slowly came out from the
shadow and stood under the gaslight.
She was as tall as am and looked
twice as strong.
Dye intend to insult me 2 she be-
gan, growing louder and more excited
OF every word. What dye take me
for? If ye speak another word to me
I'll call my husband what works in the
church, and he'll kick lung out OF We.
Go on and let respectable women alone,
ye villainp
II was on Union square in less than
four minutes. I went and played faro
bank for about fifteen minutes later on
in the night, and borrowed money to
get out of town on. That cured me. +"