The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-01-22
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A new and very attractive feature of
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER for the year
1889 will be a series of original Stories
written expressly for it by American
authors. The themes will be American
and the reader will not be annoyed by
foreign scenes, characters and styles of
composition. American individuality will
be depicted in American places, doing
things American. Another great recon-
mendation will be brevity, as compared
with the slow-dragging length of most
serial works. These will be novelties of
from %, 900 to 10000 words, each divided
into weekly installments for publication
in a single month. The Manager has
closed contracts with such eminent writ
ers of fiction as
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, ID. D.,
Mr.. Maurice Thompson,
Mr.. Joaquin Miller, and
MI. Franklin File,
each of whom will furnish serials for The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER during the year.
Beginning with February the 18th,
Rev. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, d. d.,
than whom there is no more fascinating,
popular or more successful writer in the
country, will contribute a story of New
England life. The mere announcement
of the writer's name is a guarantee of
the quality of this new work to which he
has not as yet given a title.
Mr.. MAURICE THOMPSON, of Indiana,
whose contributions are announced by
the Century Magazine to be the feature of
the ensuing year in that periodical, will
contribute to The PROGRESSIVE FARMER a
serial entitled "The Lady of Rochon."
The story is an American one, well spiced
with adventure, but not sensational. The
scene is laid at Bay St. Louis on the
Gulf Coast of Mississippi, some years be-
fore the war, at a time when Bay St.
Louis was isolated from the outside world,
and was visited by only a few New Or
leans people, or at rare intervals by wan
dering tourists. The place is a lovely
and salubrious one, settled early in the
history of the South and was long the
hiding place of political criminals and
men whose past lives were hidden as care
fully as were their real names. 1t is a
tale of love, mystery and adventure.
Mr.. JOAQUIN MILLER, the celebrated
poet and prose writer of the far West,
will contribute to THE PRoGREsSIvE
FARMER a romance of typical California
days, and with his famous pen dipped
anew in the enthusiasm of a congenial
theme, there is no risk in warranting his
story in advance. He says he Twill not
name this offspring till it is born" trust
ing to itself to suggest one. He is well
ahead with the work, however.
Mr.. FRANKLIN FILE will write for
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER, "The Colonies
Cards. a depletion in narrative of some
strongly individualized and ~singularly
behaved New York men and women.
Several types Of money getters will
be concerned with more sentimental
persons in a reasonable and yet alb
sorbingly unusual plot. Mr.. File is
the well known dramatic critic Of the
New York San, and has for many
years varied his editorial duties with
graphic works that nave commanded the
admiration of journalists. His novelties,
we give positive assurance, will be both
excellent entertainment and good litera-.
ture, besides providing a remarkable ex-
ample of dramatic force.
In addition to the Stories, THE Pro
GREssIvE FARMER will have contributions
and practical suggestions on domestic
economy, the science of health, educa-
ton, veterinary problems, sanitary archi-
lecture and natural history by the best
known writers.
The management of THE PRoGREssIvE
FARMER have had these features of i'm
proYement under consideration for some
time past, and now, after the expendi-
ture OF considerable money, they have
perfected arrangements which will result
in making the paper the leading literary,
as it already is the leading agricultural
weekly and Alliance organ of the South.
Send in your subscriptions now, and be-
gin with the new volume, which com
nences in February, 1889.
Raleigh, N. c., Jan. %, 1889.