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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-12
GAIN WISDOM WITH STRENGTH
TN the great movement of the farm

IN the great movement of the farm
l. ers for reform, they must not
forget that the stronger they grow
the greater the temptation will be to
overstep the bounds of prudence.
And again, the stronger they grow
the greater the temptation to the de-
signing and the demagogical, to get
into u ranks, that they may the
better carry out their selfish schemes.
We warn the brethren again, that one
traitor In our own ranks is more dan.
gerous and more to be dreaded than q
score of open foes outside. Watch
your door. Take no man into the
order, whatever may be his influence,
unless you have good reason to believe
that he is with us at heart and in
principle. Let us gain wisdom with
strength.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-12
EDITORIAL T

The official programme for the
Centennial exercises at Fayetteville
announces as speakers Gov. Fowle,
Senator Ransom and Senator Vance.
It will be a grand occasion for Fay
etteville and for North Carolina.
Gov. Fowle has issued his proc
lamation naming Thursday, the 18th
inst, as a day of thanksgiving and
prayer. He asks the people not to
forget to invoke the blessings of God
on the poor and needy amongst us
and to contribute literally to the help
less orphans.
The Office of Bro. w. II.
Worth, our State Business Agent, is
one busy place, and the work is grow.
ing every day. We are glad to note
some handsome orders from the
brethren for him to fill. Bro. Worth
is working hard and his labors will
be of vast benefit to the brethren, if
they will only club their orders and
send them to him.
In 1857 the wheat crop Of this
country sold for $1,284,O 600, 600. In
1887, twenty years later, when the
acreage and the yseA had been more
than doubled, the crop sold for S. 1904
00O, 600, a decrease of $79, I'll, 900 i
Is it due to over-production, as flip
pant politicians assert? Can there
be over-production when there is de,
mand? Study the matter and see if
the answer is not to be found In the
following: In 1857 our, volume of
currency allowed $50 per capita. In
1887 it was less than So per capita,
This is one. of the political questions
which monopolists and their hirelings
are afraid the people will investigate,
hence Che howl that FARMERS must
keep out of politics. "&' But they are
going to investigate these matters
and will not longer be deceived and
defrauded.
' We learn from the Southern
AusanGe Farmer that agoodly number
Of the GA. Legislature are Alliance men
and that they have been holding meet
ings regularly every Tuesday might
during the whole session, which have
been very enjoyable and (which have
held the brethren together in love and
friendship" If they ventured to "go
into politics the public has not, heard
it. During the sitting of our Legisla.
ture last winter we had over forty
members of the Alliance in that body
and they held but one meeting during
the session and that was publicly an.
nounced from the clerks desks in
each House. We thought then and
think now that they should have mel
and consulted together for theueom,
mon good and should have conferred
together on those matters relating tc
the industrial interests of the State
But we all knew that should such 8
course be taken, some one would dis
cover that treason was lurking Stealth
ly in their shadows. rs.
There is sore disappointment
in the outcomeo of the crops this sea
SON in all eastern North Carolina
The excessive and continued rainfall
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-12
AN OFFICIAL COOK AT A FOR
EIGN COURT.

WE have received a copy of a ma
w tional cook book, published by
the United States Government and
issued under the great seal of the De-
partment of State. 1t is gotten up by
Hon. F. H. Underwood, United States
Consul at Glasgow, Scotland. The
title of the work is: Cooking for
Wo~rkingmen'S Woes and Dat Meal
Food. 1t embraces SO pages and the
government published 10000 copies.
For the ~edifcation Of our readers we
may say, that the great philanthropic
purpose of our Consular cook in Scot
land, seems to be, to show the wife of
the workingman in his poverty-strick-
en- country of America, how she may
prepare a palatable meal for her hus-
band and four children for the sum of
twenty-four cents. He even goes so
SO, far as to tell Us how to boil an egg.
That our readers may Judge as to the
merits of this production, we quote
recipes and cost for making three de-
licious dishes for these poor American
WO1A1ASunOA' ~
R6ce soup and baked hGricot beans
One.half pound rice, O3d.; bone, Id;
vegetables, Id; one pound beans, I'D;
onions, Id; two ounces dripping, O4d.;
salt and pepper to taste. Total cost,
SD.
Rice soup, trtpe and potatoes.-Sheep's
bag, 24d.; one-half pound rice, ODD;
vegetables, Id; 81 pounds potatoes,
I'D. Total cost, sgd.
MuHigataUny sOup.-A calls head
and feet, 4d. pepper, salt, carrot and
turnip, Id; apple, Id; onion, mario
ram, thyme, curry powder and sugar,
Id. Total cost, I'd.
Consul Underwood gets a salary of
$4,000, and over SIT, 600 in fees are
attached to his Office, and yet one of
the high functions of his position is to
ascertain how to make a dish of Stops
palatable to the poor dependent work.
ing people of his country.
While the government is support
ing these ~high'salaried official cooks
abroad, to learn how to make the de
grading dependence of his people en-
durable, would it not be we'll for a let
OF the prominent officials at home, tc
devote a little Of their time to devils
ing means and methods for eliminating
1nose conditions which make this state
oltnlngsp possible in this free and album
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-12

dant land Gracious, magnanimous
and merciful government 1t mas
pandered to monopoly and forced the
price of the dollar up and forced the
price of labor and its products do1On,
until, in this land of abundance and
plenty, it must needs publish, under
the great seal of State, how a work,
ing man can be made to relish q meal
at a cost of six cents, with calm CON
tentment and gratitude. Whittier
are we drifting?
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-12
SEcRE TARIEs PLEASE
REPORT AT ONCE.

.THE State Secretary, was ordered
i blythe State Alliance, to publish
a directory of the County Score,
taries, County Presidents and County
Business Agents and State officers,
with their postofices, for the use of
the order. The directory will be of
great value especially in our business
relations. Please send to this Office
at once a report as follows, under seal:
County, N. q.
President. O.........
secretary.
Business Agent. ,a.t-....
If either of these Offices be vacant
asked the County Alliance to fill it at
its first meeting and report. Report
all changes promptly to this office. The
above call was published to the coun-
ty Secretarys on the 10th of Septem-
Der and only about fifty of the Secre-
taries have responded. 1t is tmpor-
tant to our order that this directory
should be published. We send a
marked copy of this paper to each of
the tardy Secretaries and hope to haze
their prompt attention.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-12

~ Our friends in writing to any of
our advertisers, will favor US by mention
ing the fact that they saw the advertise
n1enti in The PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-12

J. l.. Ramsey is our authorized
agent, to receive subscriptions and
advertisements for The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-12

ALWAYS give the name and number of
your Alliance, your postofice and your
county, plainly, when you write to the
President, Secretary, Trustee, Business
Agent or Chairman of Executive Com
mittee of the State Alliance
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-12

e The date on your label tells you
when your time is out.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-12

Do you want your communication pub
lished2 If so, give us your real name
aad your postofice.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-12

Do you want your paper changed to
another Office? State the one at which
you have been getting it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-12

The Alliance wedding at the
State Fair is said to have BEEN an in
teresting and impressive scene, and
the high contracting parties have re-
ceived the congratulations of many
distinguished men of the State
Ro6eSonGam.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-12

President Evan Jones has ap-
pointed as Executive Committee of
the National Farmers and Laborers'
Ur ion of America, J. II. Mcdowell,
Nashville, Tenn, Chairman; G.. l..
Clark, Stephenville, Texas, and J. A.
Tetts, Ruston, Louisiana. =
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-12

Bro: E H. Ray, President of
Stony Hill Alliance, Wake county,
enclosing a club of nine subscribers,
says that they had a royal time at
their picnic on the 29th ult. and q
splendid speech from Bro. d. 2.
Meachum. His Alliance is in good
trim, thoroughly alive to the great
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-04
WOMEN WAGE BARRIERS.
The Reason They do Not Receive as Much
Pay as Men.

New York Evening SUM-
One gets very tired of that woman who
does mans work and gets only half his
pay. She is altogether too much with us.
The first axiom of economics is, that the
worth of a thing is just what it will bring
in open market. II this woman's work
brings $15 month less than her husbands,
it is worth just that much less, and her ac-
eeptance of the lesser pay signifies her assent
to the fact.
And it is just. In SO cases out of hund-
red woman's work will always be worth
less than mans, and will command less
pay. A score of causes, more orlless remote,
are operating to bring about this effect. The
main one undoubtedly is that the man is
paid not alone for what he does, but for the
things he may do in case nodded necessity.
A man can do all woman can do, and
hundred other things beside. He is paid for
potentially, for the reserve power which he
may never need to use perhaps, but which
makes him more available than woman.
1t isn't question of equality of skill or
of understanding; it's question of physi-
cal strength, of units of horse power, if you
will.
When any woman teacher can thrash an
unruly youngster into whimpering submis-
sion, as man can; when any saleswoman
can lift bales and boxes as man can; when
every woman can dispense in all her work
with any added thought for her safety and
comfort-in short, when women can sing
bass, then woman's work will be worth
just as much to the world as mans Is.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-04
PULLMAN PORrERS IN DISGUISE.
Lots of People in England Who Levy Tributl

Lots of People In England Who Levy Tribute
on American Travellers.
Confagration Jones, IN Inter-Ocean.J
There are more Pullman car porters in
disguise doing business in England than
any place ever saw. 1t was embarrassing
at first to find people who in America could
pass themselves off for Governors or Sena-
tors and not half try, and yet who act polite
to you for tuppence, more polite for
pence, most polite for 6 pence, and would
bump their brows on the floor for you for
trife like shilling. These people, whom
you find pretty thick in hotels, stations and
churches, invariably do cash business.
Quick sales and small profits seems to be
their motto. I met am American here who
came over to reform the country, and redeem
it from the evils of tipping. He had re-
solved never to tip anyone. On your side
he had been fine, large, portly man of 210
pounds. To-day he surreptitiously wears
TWO pillows to make his clothes fit him. He
is holding out nobly, paying his hotel bills
and nothing else, but there is no telling how
long the spark of life will last.
We first saw him when he had fallen
down in the street through weakness, not
having tasted food for II days. The police
man would not. pick him up, for he very
foolishly had announced that he would die
before he spoiled his record. No eabman
would help him for the came reason. We
took him to his hotel, where he was Stunned
by everybody, and got him some beef tea,
which we forced between his teeth. This
man had paid every legitimate bill, and yet
he was at the point of death from starvation.
This is no fancy sketch.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-04
SENDING TRUNKS BI MAIL
Oddities and Conveniences of the Postal
Service in SwiI zerland.

Oddities and Conveniences of the Postal
Service in Swii zerIand.
Bernese oberland Letter to Providence Journal. ]
It came to be quite an amusement,
when nothing better offered, to go to the
village and see the mail arrive. The post
man left at Z in the morning, going down a
steep, narrow footpath between fences, to
the high road that runs beside the river far,
far below us. There is another postofice
where the passing stage leaves the mail
bags thrice day.
When the carrier comes to the house he
only has a black leather bag slung over his
right shoulder by strap, in which are the
letters and newspapers, and in his hand
whatever bundles there are to deliver in our
direction. But it is quite different when he
comes up to the village. Then he has on his
back kind of shelf, painted brilliant yell
low, as are the vehicles of the Swiss post
Office. This shelf, as call it, for want of
better English name, is board about three
feet long by two wide, smaller board fast
ened at right angles to the upper end of it
rests on the carriers head. Another board,
fixed like shelf halt way down his back,
projecting the other way, and strengthened
by two supports, holds all the bundles that
can be tied on to it.
One can send almost anything in Switzer-
land by post, and at very small expense.
For instance. an ordinary letter that costs 2
cents may weigh half pound, and news
paper costs two-fifths of cent. A trunk
that weighs 200 pounds may be sent by post
at rate varying with the distance. For 4
cents pretty large bundle may be sent.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-04
MAKING BILLIARD BALLS.
How the Spheres Are Fashioned From the
Tasks of Elephants.


Mr.. Burroughs, an English manufacturer
of billiard balls. has been interviewed re-
garding his trade. He says the average
number of balls cut from an elephants tusks
is ten, five from each tusk.
1.-THE size of tusks out of which balls are
turned are called scrivelloes. You cannot
make satisfactory ball out of a tusk that
is over certain size, because if you turn
2 1-16 out of tooth that measures 2Z or 2ss
you will remove too much of the outside
skin or hard surface of the tusk The nearer
you have the tusk to the size of the ball the
better surface you obtain. We consequently
select different sizes for the English and
Continental balls.
"The process of manufacture is very SIM
pie, but it requires great skill. The block of
ivory is placed IN an iron chuck, and one
half of the ball is turned. The ring that is
taken of is, in the case Of the smaller size,
used as coupling ring for pair of horses,
and in that of the larger is sent to India as a
native bangle.
"After the second half has been turned it
hung up for few months with its fellows in
a net to dry. No artificial heat is used.
They are kept free from any draught of air,
as ivory cracks when exposed either to hot
or cold current. When considered thor
oughly seasoned they are most skillfully
turned by men who have been taught this
process for years, and it is certainly one of
the most wonderful pieces of handicraft
there is. There are thousands of turner's in
the kingdom, but not one in hundred will
turn billiard ball so as to produce a per-
feet sphere. Each one is carefully tested to
insure accuracy. But, besides the size, the
weight must also be exact, for this is essen
tial to the correct playing of the game of
billiards. A set of match balls weighs four
teen ounces. Balls of the same tooth will
vary very considerably, and SO there must
be careful selection. The polishing is the
final operation, and that is done simply by
whitening and water, with a good deal Of
elbow grease. A ball always retains Its
beautiful polish,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-04
A SCHOOLMARM'S GREAT LUCK.
Her Bravery Leads n wealthy Nine Owner
TO Offer His Hand and Heart.

Her Bravery Leads n Wealthy Mime Owner
TO Offer His Hand and Heart.
CHATTANOOGA, December 3.-A most
romantic story in real life has become known
to-day by the arrival OF Mrs. cambridge
Harrison from New Mexico to visit rela-
tives. Two years ago Mrs. Harri-
son, then Miss Childiess, was teach
ing school on Sand Mountain, and
she became the object of the affections of one
of her older pupils, Jim Majors, who, fail
ing to have his affections reciprocated. began
to circulate stories.against her. Miss Chill
dress procured shotgun, and, hunting him
up, demanded a retraction, which he made
in the most abject terms.
The facts were published at the time, and
attracted the notice of a wealthy mine
owner in New Mexico, who wrote to her,
asking her to correspond with him. She
paid no attention to the letter, as she re-
ceived hundreds of letters at the
time from ali parts of the country;
but after a week, for some reason
unknown to herself, as she states, she an
swered this letter, and the result was a cor
respondence which has now eliminated in
her happy marriage.
Mr.. Harrison, the successful suitor, is the
owner of valuable mining property, and the
brave young school-teacher returns q
wealthy lady.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-04
BOOTS AT A BARGAIN.
Young Lady Gets Pair by Walking to
the POntO1ice.

tn6 EOntOAnces
Lewiston Journal.1
She was as gentle of eye as soft gazelle,
that is she was, for this didn't happen this
week. 1t was in shoe store in Lewiston,
and the gentle maiden was an acquaintance
of the proprietor and always bought her
No. rs there when she encased her dainty
feet in anything brand new. Heres some
thing that would fit you" said the jocular
proprietor passing out pair of wool boots
fitted with pair of lumberman's rubbers.
''I'll make you present of them if you will
wear them down to the postofice and back. 7"
'Wait a minute said she. and in q
"minute" she was arrayed in wooden boots
and lumberman's rubbers.. "Watch me to
the postofice, and she was gone.
"Her feet beneath her petticoat like little
mice stole in and out as if they feared the
light" wrote the poet 200 years ago, but he
didn't refer to the Lewiston young lady
who did this feat on loot, or he never would
have said it. She was back in less than ten
minutes, red-cheeked and laughing.
''There," said she, "as she pasesd up the
boots" 'Do them up. I'll send them to
nv iather down in Penobscot county. I
never lose chance to help the folks at
home" and the shoe dealer was as good as
his word, and "dad" marVeled at a pair of
nice wool boots from his thoughtful daughter
in Lewistown.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-04
BELLIES AT A BANQUET.

They Act as Eavesdroppers, but Screen
Fails and Exposes Them.
ST. LOUIS, December 3.-Society is dis
cussing rather novel affair which occurred
a few days ago when the ''School for Scan
dal," with the scandal left out, was played.
1t occurred in the halls of the University
Club on the occasion of very swell din
ner party. Two society bellies had the
leading parts in this little comedy not
down on the bill of fare. Both young
women are prevented by deep mourning
from accepting invitations to social
events juss now, and their hearts thirsted
for some excitement. They got gentle
man friend to fix up screen for them, and
were smuggled in behind it, where they
could have an opportunity of seeing the
festivities, drinking anon sparkling cham
pagne brought by male gallants into their
retreat
But during the evening the screen by
mishap fell and Oexposed the fair caves
jroppers in blushing confusion, whereat
they withdrew. The young ladies were
Misses Smith and Garrison, representing
the very cream of st. Louis society, and
their innocent adventure has caused no un-
favorable comment except that of censuring
their awkwardness in allowing the screen to
fall
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-04
A DOG THAT FELT FOOLISH.
He Lost Young Kitten While Holding it In
His Mouth.

A@A-
Boston Courier.z 4Fse.
A gentleman who has a big mastiff was
much amused the other day to see how
humanity absent-minded the creatures could
be. There is in the family tiny kitten
with whom the big dog lives upon the terms
of the greatest intimacy. The pair play to-
gether as might Tom Thumb and the
Chinese giant in circus, save that the con-
trast between their relative sizes is in this
case greater. If Bruno hears the little
thing cry be instantly runs.to see what the
trouble may be, and if possible to help his
small friend.
One afternoon the pair had come into the
library, where it was the tradition of the
house that neither vas allowed, and were
having a fine irolic together; and at last the
big dog, in perfect good nature, took his
companion by the head and held her up in
the air. Only tiny black nose stuck out
OF the dogs mouth, and from the helpless
kitten belonging thereto proceeded the most
doleful of miaws.
The instant the first cry was heard, Bruno
stopped in his play and listened. Evidently
he did not remember that he had the kitten
in his mouth and was at loss to tell whence
the cries came from. With puss dangling
from his jaws and utteriBg the most
mournful yowls, he ran all about the room
In search of her, getting more and more puz-
Zled at every step. When the gentleman,
in pity for the kitten, called out to the dog
to lay her down, Bruno obediently opened
his mouth, and then when puss dropped and
went scampering away as fast as her small
legs would carry her, an expression of self
consciousness and foolishness came over his
face which was most comical to gee.