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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02

roads should be required to account
at least quarterly for all. receipts and
shipments, of tobacco from the depots
along their, lines" That was the
opinion Of at least three-f6ufths 6bour
last Legislature and of at least eight
tenths of the tobacco farmers in our
State, but their Senators from the
largest tobacco. -coUntaeS said 1t should not
be done, and eoted donOn every PROPOSE
ton looking to that object We refer the
To6acconast and it's farmer readers to
their votes on both the Railroad
Commission bills.
The cotton crop of North Carolina
in 1883 was 398, 200 bales, which sold
for $17,321, 700, about $43:5O per
bale. In 1886 the crop was 400, 625
bales and sold for $14,133, O26, an
average of about $4,000 per bale.
The crop,of '83, though 22,425 bales
less than the crop of '86, sold for
$3,l88,6 74 more. The average yield
per acre of lint cotton is less than l54
pounds, and a prominent farmer has
just remarked that it has taken at
least one-third of the cotton produced
in the State for the last twenty years
to pay for commercial fertilizers,
What has been your experience. or
this line, brother farmer ?
h" . Judge Walter Clark owns a spIen-
did farm on the Roanoke river. He
hoe cooIo1 10O ooroc +o c..oee "a
acres of upland to clover, orchard
grass and tall meadow oat grass, and
so acres of lowland to clover, red top
and timothy. He says if he succeeds
he intends to increase it to five hun
dred acres next season. He has also
planted 20 acres in pear, trees, grape
vines and wild goose plums. And
this, remember, in one of the finest
cotton sections in the State. We wish
him as much, success in this important
departure in Roanoke farming, as he
has attained in the profession of law.
We shall watch his effort with in
terest. *.-.: -"
The farmers Of NorthernNe York
are complaining that their hay. and
other crops which come in competi-
ton with the products of the Western
States must be abandoned. They say
the Western farmer can transport his
crops a thousand miles by rail cheaper
than they can send their crops fifty
miles at local freight rates. And yet
we have a class of so-called political
economists in the country who have
the effrontery to say this outrage is
just. The Massachusetts farmers com
plain that German potatoes and cab
bage a be placed in Boston cheaper
than they can produce them, and yet
the farmers will not demand that the
protective laws be applied to farm
products.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02
COMMISSIONER ROBINSON AND
THE AGRICULTURAL BILL.

WYE published last week the in
w terview with Commissioner Rob-
inson, by q reporter of the Charlotte
Chronicle, on the bill proposed by a
large number of the farmers in the
Legislature, amending the law under
which the Department of Agriculture
is operated, and which Commissioners,
Robinson claims the honort05 Of hav-
ing defeated. This bill was maturely
considered by a large number: of the
leading farmers, was introducedin the
House and Vd passed unanimously and
was sent to the Senate on March, the
4th, and was not brought up in that
body until the 9th, the last day of the
session, when it was defeated. The
House lin which, We, presume, there
were at least one hundred farmers) was
unanimously Of the opinion that the
law ought to be changed and said so
in the most emphatic and deliberate
manner Mr.. Robinson says that the
House proposition would have ride.
troyed the efficiency of the Depart.
ment; that it changed the number
of the board from 9 to 49," that ait
was intended to do away with the De-
partment and have a new management
entirely; that "the organization of
farmers Institutes would have been
stopped" and that the Department
would have been so crippled that it
could not have been run on S., 600"
Now, what are the facts7 Under
the law as amended in 1887, the De-
partment was allowed for that year
$2l,O 900 out of the fertilizer tax and
$4,000 per mum for subsequent
years, and all above these amounts
was to go to the Agricultural College.
The Legislative committee and the
whole House thought that the service
rendered to the State by MI. Robin
sons Department, were not worth $780,
900 per annum, and they were con-
frmed in this opinion when it was
ascertained, according to his figures,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02

worthless people, trades, or to convert
t lntpA monopoly by which its law.
abiding, and honest citizens r to be
OF their honestly acquired
means of living I believe the Peni,
Tertiary shoald be, a place of punish
ment for these scoundrels. Hire them
out to rallroads-put them to drain
ing the public lands and bring them
into market wherever practicable
put them to raising meat and bread
and supplies for our penal and chair
table institutions, and, work them ON
the public roads of the State"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02

The Labor Sunbeam says the sup
port of their own papers and the
upholding of their press is one of the
first duties Of Alliance men.
Lone Star Alliance, No. 900, has
resolved MOTTO use any manipulated
guano the present season, believing
the advance in price unnecessary and
only gotten up for the purpose of
depressing the farmer
The Alliance movement in Kan
sas goes grandly on, quietly but
steadily and persistently. Nearly every
day an organization is effected. En-
couraging reports r received from
various parts of the State.
The Secretary Of Rosebud Alli-
ance, No. 700, writing from La Grange,
N. c., announces the death of Bro.
John ILHerring. He. died on the
18th of February, 1889, of pneumonia,
in the 64thrYear Of his age.
-Hecter's Greek Alliance, No. 2l7,
Harnett county, at its last regular
meeting, took a stand against high
priced guano, and will not give more
than three hundred pounds Of cotton
for highest grade of standard guano.
Griffin Alliance, No. Al, of Colum-
bus county, at a recent meeting, de-
clared against high-priced fertilizers
and resolved to plant less cotton and
more corn, peas, potatoes, rice, &c,
andto live at home, and give'no mort
cages if it can be avoided.
j. Z. Graham, Corresponding
Secretary, says Miranda Alliance, No.
381, which was organized some four
teen months ago, now numbers thirty
three members. The Alliance moved
slowly until last fall and winter, when
it begun growing and continued until
now It is in q very prosperous con-
dition. q '%@~|7 -
AT, meeting held on March 18th,
Oak Dale Alliance, No. 1872, Johnston
county, passed a resolution instructing
it's treasurer to pay into the State
Business Agency Fund the sum of ten
dollars. The delegates to the County
Alliance were instructed to ask that
body to double the amount and for
ward it to Bro. Graham, at Machpelah,
N. G.
The Kansas Farmer hopes to be
able to announce in due time that both
the Northern and the Southern
branches of the Farmers Alliance
have united in one grand Organization.
The organizers of each organization
r at work in that State and both are
gaining daily. The objects are SINH
lar, but the best features of each
should be incorporated in one organi-
zation.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02

friend to the farmers than they all, as
his interview would indicate, but
there are some things which he does
mot seem to knoxville should know
that "those who live in glass houses
should not throw stones" He should
know that a State official should be
very careful how he assails his fellow
citizens, and especially how he charges
them with unworthy motives through
the public prints. He should know
and he should remember that he has
a public record, and that that record
is public property. By his official
course and conduct he must and viii
be judged.
For example, and by way of re-
.freshing his memory: He was a mem
Der of the Board Of Agriculture two
years ago. Mr.. McGehee was Commits
sioner Mr.. Robinson wanted Mr.. Nc
Gehee's place. He worked, hard for
months to get the members to. pledge
him their support. A majority of
them did so. At the meeting in April,
when the question Of an election
came up, Mr.. Leazar offered the FOL
lowing:
RESOLVED, "That it is the sense of
this Board that it would be improper
to elect or appoint it's own members
to Offices under it's patronage when.
the services of other citizens of equal
qualifications can be secured"
Mr.. Robinson and others worked
and voted against it and it was de-
feated by a majority of one. II.
Against this action Messrs. Leazer
and Grant entered their written pro-
test. - - 49,: ,-Ss~
It was agreed by the Board that
the salaries of all the officers should
be reduced 25 per cent. DR.. Dabney
and Mr.. Patrick expressed their ready
a~cquiescence. The vote was taken on
DIR. Dabney's salary, reducing it to
$4,000. MI. Robinson voted for
it. Next, the vote was taken to re-
duce the Commissioners salary from
$4,000 to $1,000. Mr.. Robinson
voted against. it and it was defeated.
Mr.. Robinson knew chat he had a ma
jorityTof the Board pledged to make
him Commissioner. Whereupon the
Board, seeing it could not reduce all,
determined to reduce none, and DR..
Dabney's salary was restored to
$4,000. Somebody's vote cost the
Department 5000, and the Com
missioner got $500 of it. The
election came on. q Stirring and
animated speeches we're made.
Mr.. W. r. Williams who had
pledged himself to vote for Mr.. Robin
san under representations made to him
by lettersfrom Mr.. Robinson, declared
in the presence of the Board that Mr..
Robinson had "deceived" him and
that he would not support him. Mr..
Robinson was elected. Thus endeth
the sacond chanter is: . ....:z. ~ -
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.

. Brethren, pray for the Alliance.
The politicians r beginning to give
it advice and taffy.
We congratulate our readers on the
good things they will receive from the
able pen of Maj. R. L. Ragland, of
Hyco, Va. He is one of the most pro-
gressive men in the South and always
instructs and edi6es on all subjects.
Rssad his a~FfN9e5SYsplc carefully. \
~ One oftAe most exacting monopo-
lies yet formed, is that which has
obtained control of all the Manila and
Sisal hemp of which Irvine is made,
but the farmers Of the States in the
Northwest have called a meeting and
will resolve and agree not to use it in
their binders.
A New York farmer states in one
of our exchanges that he planted corn
in a field which had been two years in
clover; that he put in each hill a
handful of hen manure busted with
lime. That he mixed the manure well
with the soil SO that it did not come
directly in contact with the seed. And
that he gathered from that field 100
bushels to the acre. IL. ;E@ ~
Do not fail to read the speech of
Senator Payne, in this issue, on the
Railroad Commission bill. These great
and important subjects Of economic
interest to our people, should be
studied by them, and NJ class of peo-
pie are more directly concerned and
should give them more careful thought
than those who read The PRoGREssIvE
FARMER-the farmers, mechanics and
business men of our State.
There is no rivalry between the
Alliance, and the Grange, except in a
noble effort and a holy purpose to ad-
vance and elevate the agricultural
masses of the country mentally, NOR
ally, socially and financially. There
are quite a number of papers in our
State largely devoted to the objectsof
these two orders and The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER greets them all with thekind-
Hest fraternal feeling, as faithful CO.
laborers in a great and grand work.
There is room for US all, brethren, and
more work than we all can do.
-. The Southern T~ObGcconist complains
that the bungling and unsystematic
manner of handling our tobacco crops
in our warehouses, is such that not
even an approximate estimate of the
yield can be had, either by the planter
or buyer. 1t applauds the efforts of
"the North Carolina and Virginia
Alliances in demanding the keeping
of separate accounts of planters to-
bacco and sales from Others" We
join the Tobacconist in the hope that
many needed reforms in the sale of
leaf tobacco will be brought about by
the Alliance men. It says: "The rail
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02

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our advertisers, will favor us by mention
ing the fact that they saw the advertise
ment- in The Progressive FARMER.
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ALLIANCE NOTES.

Members of the Alliance, when writing to us,
will greatly favor us if they will always give the
No. of their Alliance. We have given the sixth and
seventh pages of our paper to the exclusive use Of
the Alliance. Use them, brethren. For all official
orders, rulings, notices, &C, the brethren will e1-
anime these pages.1
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, Do you want your communications pub
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and your postof6ce- n,.s
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~ The date on your label tells you
when your time is out. -
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Do you want your paper changed to
another Officer State the one at which
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that his Department could be operated
on SIPS. They accordingly allowed
him $4,000. Hesays that Mr.. Leazar
said that "it would be a tight squeeze. u
Well, if that g~entleman's record and
the record of the men who voted to
limit these expenditures be- inyesti-
gated, it will be found that both he
and they are in favor of "a tight
squeeze" as they ought to be, when
appropriating the peoples money. The
$4,000 vas to be expended strictly in the
interest of agriculture, immigration and
&atistics-such statistics pertaining to
agriculture, as in the judgment Of the
Board should be deemed of advantage
to the farming interests of the State.
The House thought that So, 900 would
be ample, after a thorough investiga-
tion~ Mr.. Pm. Wilson, the best in
formed. man, perhaps, in the State as
to the details of the work, except Mr..
Patrick, said that $4,000 would be
ample for the immigration Depart
ment. And what did Mr.. Robinson
himself say ? Mr.. Mcdonald says that
while the committee was considering,
the bill, he "asked MI. Robinson for
an itemized statement of his expenses. ~
He went" says Mr.. Mcdonald" to
his office and gave on his return the
following fgures-I took them down.
&c bo ~o y fbom. -.Iv 81.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02
RALEIGH, N. c., APRIL 2, 1889.

Il This paper entered as second-cAGss matter at the Post
Office In Raleigh, ". CT
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-02

Brethren, pray for the Alliance.
The politicians are beginning to give
it advice and taffY.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-20
nuffs and ladies' capes, for fifty cents apiece

muffs and ladies' capes, for fifty cents apiece
in silver.
In the many small Indian villages
through which the mahogany roads passed
| experienced nothing but kindness and
hospitality for very small price, Is
cents being one nights bill for the outfit,
including four animals, two Indian serv-
ants and myself. Many of the men were
away from home, in the mahogany cut
tings, and most of the women, while keep
ing their vegetable garden and corn fields
in good condition, found time to manu-
facture rope, hammocks, saddle-bags, horse
gear and hats from the pita or fiber of
variety of cactus which covers the low
lands in the greatest profusion.
The cactus leaf is cut and rolled and
pressed between fat stones, to squeeze out
all pulpy matter. The mass of fiber is
then dried in the sun and separated into
threads, to be twisted and fashioned as de-
sired. saw some very fine hammocks of
fiexibility never seen among those sent
to foreign countries, which sell on the spot
for S25. They are nearly as fine as lace
work, and so skillfully are the different
eolors braided in that they look like en-
broidery few feet distant.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-20
The closing of an Important outlet.

The blockade of port is not more inju-
rious to lis commerce than even the tenn
porary obstruction of the bowels to the
health of the system. Constipation neces-
sary arrests the secretion of bile, impedes
and disorders digestion, and poisons the
circulation. The safest and most effective,
as it is also the most genial, laxative and
snti-bilious medicine in existence is Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, and il is more
than probable that its sovereign efficacy as
a preventive and remedy for intermittent
and remittent fever is largely due to its re-
formatory action upon the liver, an organ
prejudicially involved in all malarial COM
plants. Persons with tendency also to
rheumatic, neuralgia and kidney trouble
cannot do better than 10 antagonize il with
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which invari-
ably checks it at the outset. The weak,
moreover, are invested with strength by
this fine invigorant.
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Written for the RECoRD-CNIoN.I
ON MT. HAMILTON.


Above the sea. and land, and clouds stand;
And as gaze into unmeasured space,
The darkened scales fall from me as the hand
OF Power Divine had struck them from their
place.
o, strange, far. seeing Eye for thee, the earth
Hath waited long to know thy mighty power;
And some had hoped by thee TO trace the birth
OF worlds and their strange growth unto this
hour.
And that perehance beyond where sight of man
Erstwhile had pierced the dark and trackless
Across the vast deep, thou mightiest span
And bring us unto bliss all unallOyed
That thou and thy fair sisters mightest find
In floating nebule, LIES primal germ
From whence all being sprang of varied kind,
From myrlad-mlnded sage to gIoyeling worm.
And some with reverent heart had thought to
see,
Fair as gem in which all colors blend,
That God-lit city of the soul where we,
And all that were, and are and shall be, tend.
SIMPLIFYING to its down, nor formless void,
Nor out the radiant dust of flaming star.
Nor wandering wrecks of systems self-de-
stroyed.
For who by searching can find out that One,
Whose Living presence permeates all space I?
Or come upon, in planet star, or sun,
The matchless glory OF His dwelling place?
For yelled alike to rustic and to sage
Him and His throne; but yet to all and each
He is revealed upon Lies living page
Or in the harmony of Natures speech.
And not alone as Wisdom, Power or Might,
As seen in blazing worlds unbuilI by man,
That more majestic cross the plains of Night
Like glittering armies marshaled to one plan.
But in that "still, small voice" the prophet
heard,
He speaks in tones of love; and heart to heart
We list to catch the fullness of His Word
That to our lives can perfect peace impsrt.
July IL, 'S9. +. J. RICHARDS
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SUMNER RESORTS.
CAMP TAYLOR.

GtAMP TAYLOR On. P. C. R. R } ONLY 90
~ miles from San Francisco, will be reopened
the LIST of June as a frst-ciass summer resort
Terms, SIS to SD per week. Our Napoleon cot
tages are the perfection of comfort. Boating,
bathing, fishing, and camping no fog, no mos
quietoes; a difference of 20 degrees of tempera-
ture can be had IN a radius of 100 yards
Address JAMES ]. TAYLOR, proprietor Camp
Taylor n, P c. R. R. iy17-tf
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ALLEN SPRINGS.

TN ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CAN
i yons in Lake county, with four of the best
varieties of mineral water, is now open under
the new Manager, D. J. STEVENS. Hotel rates
reasonable. Cottages for rent Daily mail and
telegraph. Go by rail to SITES. on Colusa Mar
row gauge, thence by stage same day to the
Springs. 1m4p
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-20

ANGosTURA bitters, the world-renowned
South American appetizer, cures dyspepsia
etc. DR.. ]. G. b. Siegert & Sons, sole man
utacturers. At all druggists.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-20

Above the sea. and land, and clouds / stand;
And as gaze into unmeasured space,
The darkened scales fall from me as the hand
OF Power Divine had struck the m from their
place
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-20

Which lies on the banks Of this river
about two miles from its mouth-one must
land at Lobos Point, fully seven miles
away, whence roads leads to it over a
burning sand bank But don't expect any
hacks to meet you there, or even hay
rick or anything else on wheels. If you
are so lucky as to End man, who, for
some inscrutable purpose. came down to
the sea on horse or muleback, and who,
for a moneyed consideration is willing to
walk back to town and let You ride his
beast, you may proceed in style and lux
ury; otherwise you must foot it as the
natives do.
The village of Todos Santos resembles
the site of the ancient mission of Santa
Rosa, which was once the richest and
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-20

If YOU want to enjoy your meals
strengthen your digestion with Simmons
Liver Regulator
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-29
A CLANDESTINE ORGANIZATION.
Masons of the District of Columbia Warned to
Withdraw from the Cerneau Body.

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-The controversy
which has been general among the Masonic
fraternity throughout the country respect
ing the Cerneau Scottish Rite, has culmi-
mated here in the issue of an edict by Har-
rison Dingman, most worshipful grand
master of Masons of the District of Colum-
bia, under date of July 25. pronouncing the
Cerneau organization clandestine, and
warning all members of that rite that they
are liable to discipline from the Grand
Lodge. unless they at once withdraw from
said Cerneau body. The main reason for
the edict, aside from other questions aris-
ing In the Scottish Rite controversy. is
stated TO be that the Cerneau organiza-
ton has established relations of amity and
Masonic correspondence with the Grand
ORIENT OF France. the governing body of
Masons In that country, which Is under
the ban OF at least every English-speakiDg
Grand Lodge in the world because the
Grand Orient has stricken the name of God
from its rituals. The Grand Lodges of this
country, 1t Is said, have an additional
grievance against the Grand Orient of
France because the latter persists in recog-
nizing the negro Grand Lodge of the
United States. Grand Master Dingmap di-
rects that all visitors in the District of Co
lumbia shall be required to state before adj
mission that they are not members of the
Cerneau organization. The meeting of the
Cerneau organization in any Masonic hall
is also prohibited.