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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-29
CHANCE OF A LIFETIME.
FINE FARM FOR SALE.

FINE FARM FOR SALE,
On Beech Swamp seven miles from
Scotland Neck. 40 acres-an eight
horse farm clean ed and in good state
of cultivation. L imbercd land is pine,
oak cypress. Coed houses, barns,
stables &C.
VITA this farm will be included
the follow ng: = good mules, 100
barrels Of corn, 10000 pounds of
fodder, 1900 bushels cotton seed j.
6 carts, wagon and plows, hoes
and shovels. ThiE valuable farm :,
with the stock Oh it and supplies for
one year will be sold cheap.
Price ,000-cash OF in ncgCtia-
bic papers; or S6,00O-OrC-siXth
cash and the balance on five years
time without interest.
A BARGAIl3 IN LAND.
A FINE RESIDENCE
THE CORPORATE LIMITS
OF SCOTLAND NECK.
25O acres of land and IS cleared.
Well adapted to the cultivation of
all Southern crops. Truck farming
could be made d speciality, A fine
young orchard wit large number of
choice grape vines. Good new two
story six room house, besides din,
inc room and kitchin. Fine water
Good OuthOuses.
Easy terms with SO cash.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-29
hOpSes,
EARNS AND OTHER PROPERTY FOB SALE

a good river farm, A1own as The
Smith Farm 425 acres, 200 acres
cleared. Well adapted to corn, cotton,
peanuts. wheat, oats, and as fine
grass and clover land az there is in
The State. 225 acres wood lard of
pine, oak, gum and crypress growth,
4 4,room building, good cotton gin,
Ii stalls, barn and good tenant
houses. The farm is not subject TO
overflow by fEeshets in Roanoke
river. Situated l mile from the
river, ? miles from Scotland Neck
r, r., 4 miles from Scotland Neck.
Price a, 250-one.fo fourth cash and
balance on easy terms.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-29
FARM FOR SALE.

800 acre farm for sale near Crow
ellis. Three-horse farm cleared.
Good houses, orchards and out
hOuses.
Price $500 or part cash and
balance on easy terms.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-29

Two good stores on Main Street,
Scotland Neck. Now occupied, and
bringing good rent. Will exchange
for real estate in the country.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-29

Collins and Caskets.

oOl11I1O d11Nk odS No Us.
Also q full line of wood Collins and
baskets. | STALL make FOUR STYLES
Of wood collins and TWO STYLES of
baskets, and Guarantee them equal
10 those Of other manufacturers ho III
IN style and flash, ard at regular
Associated Prices. | shall
give my entire attention to the un-
deFtaklng business. And as | thor>
oughly understand it, with many
ears of Practical Expert
enCe, and feeling SIRE that my
trleuds will appreciate the necessity
Of Practical Undertaken,
| shall spare neither labor nor money
for the successful prosecution of tie
business.
My stock will be complete.
With thanks to my friends for
their support in the past, trust h,
square dealing 20 merit their conf l.
ence in 5Ee future.
CABINET DEPARTMENT
shall continue to work in this
department, either 81 ecial or regular
repairing.
Yours truly,
j. g. VILLA us.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-29

The "Edmondson Farm near
HIPS X loads. AIS acres, 140 acres
cleared adapted to corn, cotton, oats,
clover and grass. The woodland
growth pine and gum. Fine 2-story
lO-room house. Good Clubhouse,
stalls and all other necessary outs
houses. Fine orchard-fIuits in
abundance. Good water. AS fine
country residence az there is in Hal
fax comfy. A miles from Scotland
Neck, / miles from Spring Hill.
Price g, 500-one-fourth cash and
the balance on easy terms,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-01
No, 81

are filed with lobbiests from all other
professions and especially the money
lords, buying laws from the lawmaker
for his own benefit.
While the old clod hoppers ara
busy wearing away the hours in toll
earning his bread by the sweat of his
brow, not thinking that other parties
or other professions are scheming to
get his labor from him beneath its
real value. And today the specula-
tors are busying themselves to find
out the number of bales of cotton
grown in order that they may price
our cotton for US before it is out of
the patch, showing plainly to the
farmer that he is incapable of pricing
his own production.
The merchants of Washington
county are at stand still, not know
ing whether to buy jute or not. The
Alliance men tell them very plainly
they are not going to use jute bag
ging again; no, never.
Mr.. Editor, [ think you have not
had a single word from White Oak
Alliance, No. 1857, yet. Our ALI
ance organized with nineteen mem
bers and to-day we number forty. one
and constantly increasing and I am
proud to say we are harmonious i'm
all our transactions and each member
comes with the grip of bull dog that
never releases his hold until death
breaks it. l have never talked with
any Alliance man yet but what he
seems to be fully alive to the work
before him and says the Farmers
Alliance has come and come to stay.
Since the Alliance has been organ
lied in Washington county it is one
of the pleasures of our lives to meet
brother. They seem to be friendlier
and more sociable and have more chat
and warmer and kinder feeling for
each other which, I think, is a good
indication that every man is trying to
do his duty. White Oak Alliance
will pay to the business agency fund
in November fifty-one dollars and
fifty cents. We are desirous that
every Alliance man in the county viii
pay one dollar for that fund and az
much more as he can.
Brethren of Washington county, let
us bestir ourselves in behalf of the
agency fund. 1t is necessary that we
should have it and let us not come up
in the rear of any other county that
does not outnumber us. We believe
that Washington county will not be
weighed and found wanting; she will
do her whole duty, though her crops
are very poor indeed through the
county because of so much rain.
The more THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
is read among the brethren the bet
ter we are prepared to fight the trusts
and monopolies. would that every
Alliance man would take and read it
1t would build him up and make him
strong in the cause and he would see
more clearly how to advance the
cause which he has espoused.
Fraternally yours,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-01
FROM WASHINGTON COUNTY.

LEES MILLS, n. c., Sept. 13, 'S9.
Mr.. EDIToR:-Our County Business
Agent is now taking steps in regard
to cotton bagging to cover our cotton.
Small orders are being sent to the
State Business Agent in order to start
our cotton to market, that we may
have the money to pay as we need the
bagging.
You have not had but very little
Alliance news from Washington
county. We are slowly advancing in
the grand cause of self.protection, and
every farmer that takes hold of the
order holds with the grip of bull
dog that never let's up on his hold,
and is fully enthused, and is aroused
to keen sense of the injustice that
he has been compelled to submit to
for the want of being organized, to
fight with more success the trusts
and monopoEes that have combined
to make the best class of people on
the earth hewers of wood and draw
ers of water. While we have never
known the farmers to lobby any leg
islative body, neither State or Nation
al, (Gov. Vance says he
never knew one to do sol
to enact laws in the interest or
benefit of the farmer, but on the other
hand there is not Legislature, either
State or National but the lobby rooms
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-01

A SISTERS LET TER.

VAUDEVILLE, N. c., Sept. IA, '89.
Mr.. EDITORIAL a stated meeting
held on the 7th of September, 1889,
by Dyson Greek Alliance, No. 212, l
was elected Corresponding Secretary
of said Alliance and ordered to send
to The PROGRESSIVE FARMER for pub
ication the following resolutions
passed by said Alliance:
ResoLVed, That we will not use jute
bagging as covering for cotton.
R.soived, That we will not patronize
any ginner that uses jute as cover
ing for cotton.
Now, Mr.. Editor, 1 suppose your
many subscribers will not expect
much from a female correspondent
and if SO, they will not be disappoint-
ed when they read this article, but if
! can be of any service to the Alliance
by putting in my little mite, I ana
willing to do what / can. think
ladies ought to take great interest
in the Alliance and encourage the
men all they can to be good Alliance
men. We have some in our Alliance
as true at steel, while there are acme
that don't take much interest.
Crops are very poor in this section.
Corn is fairly good, where it was
worked, but cotton is very nearly
failure, and that causes the farmers
to be low spirited and the merchants
to ware long faces. There was so
much rain that farmers could not
work their crops as they ought.
will close by asking my Alliance
sisters to throw in their mite and
help the Alliance cause. l think it a
worthy cause, one that should bring
out the talent of our male and female
members, and put to work the ener-
gies of both sexes. Success to The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER.
E. L. CRowDER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-01
,.rcroRY OF FARMERS Or
CARNATIONS.

no,1r. FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
p-..;dart-Elias Carr, Old Sparta, NC.
Viicce-President-A. II. Hayes BIRD
town, 49,. N; y; L. Polk, Raleigh, n. G.
Tes,surey-J D. Allen, Falls, N. .:
Inot,,rer-Thos. B. Long, Longs, n. Z.
Assistant Lecturer-R. B. Hunter, Char
i0tSS' 0b'aDIain-J. %i ]. Scott, AlfOrdsville'
NC. II rou,,;nsor Fov-
'''Sss' Assistant Door Keeper-H, E. King
Serge GsSenrpesant-at-Arms-J. s. Holt, Chalk
Level, N. G. Wy u,
Raleigh, n. c.
TrHstee Business Agency Fund-W. A.
Graham, Machpelah, N. g.
.xrcUrrvE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH CARO-
LIMA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
& B. Alexander, Chariot e, N. c.,
Chair ian; ]. NJ Mewborne, Klnston N.
CT. S. Johnston, Rufin, N. @.
oEFICERs OF THE VIRGINIA STATE ALL1ANCE'
President-G. T. Barbee, Bridgewater,
Va.
Vice-Pres dent-Aaj Marin Page,
Brandon, Va.
Secretary. ]. Silvey, Arnissille, Va.
Treasurer Isaiah Printz, Stonyman,
Va.
Lecturer D. Shepperson, smithville,
Va
Lecturer. 81. Strobe, Step
hen City, Va.
Chaplain-Wm. M. Rosser, Luray, Va.
Doorkeeper-B. Frank Beahen, Kim
ball, Va.
Assistant Doorkeeper, G.. E. Brubaker,
Luray, Va.
Sergeant t-Arms-Milton Pence, For
estville, Va.
State Business Agents. P. A. Bruba-
ker, Luray, Va. 80
Ch'mn Elk. CONF. T. Brumback,
Ida, Va.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-01

tal In the good olden time when
we had majority of farmers in Con-
gress and in our Legislatures, the
money lords of Europe had no
thought of making such investments.
Brethren, we must return to first
principles, and with the help of our
God aOe a0aU.
We deny that railroad corporations
have the right to charge excessive
rates either on freight or passenger
traffic. We deny the right of railroad
companies to water stock so as to
evade payment of taxes on property
owned by them. We deny the right
of Legislatures or Congress to create
monopolies and assert that their crea-
ton by law was unwarranted, unjus-
tifable and unconstitutional and we
care not whether these monopolies are
banks or trusts, pools or combines.
Brethren, we stand to-day On a
Constitution that will give us a
bloodless victory, and once again give
to the farmer and laborer the vantage
ground we had in days of yore.
In the year of grace, 1890, we will
go into the fight with vast army of
voters 100000 strong and under
the leadership of Macune and Polk,
and better, truer or braver field mar
shalls never before challenged the
admiration of mankind, and because
justice and right is with us we will
prevail.
AS our forefathers did, so must we
go to the primaries and the polls,
and we must see that good men and
true are placed in nomination. We
are not seeking to aid in upbuilding
the Democratic or the Republican
party; nor do we desire to form a
third party. We have no need to do
either We stand pledged, a band
of brothers 100000 strong, to vote
for no man who will not in public
print pledge himself to support oar IN
terests
We can force either party or both
to nominate for the Legislature and
for Congress only such men as will
devote their time, their ability, their
votes for the just reforms demanded,
and then let either party win. We
shall haze accomplished oar object.
We need no third party. We are
not here for spoils-if that we're our
object, God in Heaven knows that
we never could hope to organize q
party that would equal those we now
have. ...-..
We will follow in the footsteps of
our illustrious sires of century ago.
1t shall no longer be disgrace to
enter the Legislative halls. No longer
must the barrel be requisite for a
nomination but we must send our
best, our ablest, our purest men to
make our laws, and then let us see
that the Legislative halls are Kept
clean. let them not be defled with
money changers and the hirelings of
corporations and corporations.
Men and brethren, are you less
patriotic than your sires ? You who
with unfaltering step, led where shot
and shell fell like hail, will you, for
your wives and children, for your
proud heritage-for our common
country, do less than then 2 Will
you not here and now in the sight of
high Heaven pledge once again your
fealty to our cause, to advance the
interests of our country, to aid in
building up our waste places, and
with charity for all, give the grand
rallying cry: Down with monopolies,
trusts and combines, and up with our
banner, craven on .it-EqUGz rights
for all and special rights to none.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-01
AN ADDRESS BY "oLD FoGY.'
Delivered Before his Alliance, No. 884,
Panacea Springs, NJ. c.,
Sept. Is, 1889.
Published by Request.l

Published by REQUEST
BROTHER PRESIDENT AND BRETHREN
OF THE ALLIANCE:-I ask at your
hands a patient hearing. shall not
appeal to your sympathies nor seek to
excite your prejudices in favor of my
cause.
I shall agrue the questions at issue,
and shall draw such conclusions as
the data before me warrants; and if
any brother, or any lover of right or
justice thinks my conclusions false,
shall be indebted to him if he will
show wherein my error lies.
The toiler, whether he be laborer,
farmer or artisan, tell the same story.
Not only that labor is poorly paid,
but that thousands are out of employ.
ment.
The farmer, with his broad acres,
with wife and children, toll the day
Long, and yet at the end of the year
he has but little, if any more than
when the year was young.
| II during the year he wishes to ex-
tend his operations, if he wishes to
save the profits rightfuIly due him
by cash purchases, he cannot do so,
Tor ne has not, nor can he borrow the
FUNDS necessary so to do. Money
loaners in the South and West are
scarce, and the rates of interest ex.
ceedingly high.
have, brethren, briefly sketched
the situation here. -...
HOW is IT ELSEWHERE.
Farms in the North and West are
mortgaged for their cash value
Strikes by poorly paid and lily fed
iaOorers in the North and in England,
TELL the heart-sickening story that
children go to bed supperless. Ire.
Ian land is being depopulated and starved
Inc |; artisans of England make a bare
nVlng and the toiler there with
mother, wife and children toll with
them In field, factory and mine all the
DAY long to exc out miserable living
IN the Fatherland, in France and
spain, in sunny Italy Trusts are being
IOrmed, and the common people are
everywhere oppressed by the "Money
LORDS and today Americas proud
Ooast that she gives an asylum to all,
nome to all, and riches to all has be.
come mocking bye word, a delusion
and snare.
A LABoR1NG MACHINE.
In every country under Heaven to.
oay the laborer has become a labor
ing machine, cared for so lonp as
productive, and thrown aside wben
no longer valuable for sheckLes to b;s
employer. W LIS
These propositions will not be de-
nled. Unfortunately for US thew are
no longer propositions, but truths.
II this unfortunate condition of
affairs prevails everywhere, then the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-01

A tailor-made man should never be
considered responsible
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-10-01

members around and in our Legisla-.
tive halls.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-07-30

she said; "when [ was ten years old
1 had hemorrhage Of the lungs. Now
| am as sound as a dollar and L at
tribute it all to riding" 81 am
charmed with Sedalia and delighted
with her people"
Miss Lizzie Williams, who will ride
against Miss White, is now training
at Topeka, Kansas, and will be here
with her horses some time naxt month.
Miss Williams has lad long exper-
fence Oh the turf and is the pride OF
Kansas. She ia about 80 years old
and weighs $50 pounds.
TIE race will be viewed by thous-
ands and will be one of the greatest
attractions ever offered in Sedalia.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-07-30
HYDROPHOBIA.
The Merits of the Mad Stone
to be Tested.

A farmer named l.. j. Hefren
living about Z miles northeast of the
city came here Thursday morning
with his little son and daughter. He
claimed that the children as well as
himself had been bitten by mad
dog. The girl had an ugly wound on
her forehead. DR.. Trader cauterized
the wounds and mad stone was ap-
piled to the little girl. 1t stuck to
the wound a few moments when it
dropped off led with greenish blood,
which the mad stone theorists claim is
the poison which ultimately runs
through the entire system and causes
death. DR.. Trader, however, places
his faith upon the canterization and
thinks his patients will get along all
right. In view of the recent mad
stone discussion caused by DR.. Small's
five.hundred-dollar card, the result
in the cases will be watched with great
interest.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-07-30
A Nice Party.

Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Lister gave
pleasant little party in honor of their
young friends, Misses Bessie Hope
and Katie Troetie. of Jefferson City,
at their home in East Sedslia. The
little folks present were:
Misses Mabel Ready, Emma Russell,
Laura Lister, Anna and Mamie VIII
lis, Mamie Roach, Katie Murphy,
Jennie and May Chaple, Josie and
Alice Rucker, May Hickman, Flora
Lister, Masters Eddie Wood, frankie
and Jimmie Myers, Lee Jefferson,
Willie Bumgardner, Arthur Lister,
Luther Campbell. Willie Mcclure,
Charlie Lister, Bert and Ralph R1ck-
er.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-07-30

Oul pCttlSo6lS AdASS "a w
lection TO the adjustment of his
trousers"
1t is reported that widower in this
city who has reached the four score
mark, is about to take unto himself a
new partner and some of those people
who keep a stand which attends strict
Iy to other peoples business are Won
dering what IN the world the old
fellow wants to marry for?" The
Prowler, who respects the gentleman
referred to will answer for him, that
since his first wife is as dead as she
ever will be he has right..to marry,
and having the. right he should marry,
because certainly nothing is
more forlorn than all old age
which is alone; nothing needs
companionship more. 1t is we'll
enough to say, when a man has chill
dren, he has no business to marry,
but indeed he has. If the children
are young he needs help to bring them
up to be useful men and women and
if they are old and, perhaps settled
with families of their own, they have
so many interests that the aged parent
is good deal like the old family dog,
he is suffered to live because he was
once useful, but he is better liked in
his kennel than anywhere else. The
Prowler thinks that no matter how
old people are in this world they have
rights and one of these is to- marry if
they can find anybody to have them,
who will be cOmpanionab.e.
A new puzzle has been introduced
in the east which is absorbing more
attention from those who have seen it
than did the famous thirteen puzzle
in its day. Seven spots are made III
a row thus:
e Y o %
Three coppers plac' d on e's end and
three dimes on o's leaving nothing on
Y.
The puzzle is to place the coppers
on the o's and the dimss on the e's by
removing the coins and jumping one
copper with one dime, or vice versa,
never moving coin backward. 1t can
be worked.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-07-30

Naughty boys" said Johnny's mother.
"ofi rude to one another, but hope that
you'll remember careless MANNERS ale
not right
And, wherever aud Whatever your sur
roundings, will endeayor to be scrupu-
lousy, cheerfully and ceaselessly polite.
"That | WILL" said Johnny sweetly, and he
kept his word completely, and said
please" and "Beg your pardon" in a
way that's seldom heard,
And "Allow me" and Excuse me"-oh,
II really would confuse me TO enunerste
his phrases as they constantly occurred.
AS youth and as a man he still adhered
unto the plan he had so earnestly adopt
ed as his gentle rule of life,
And was often deferential when ii wasn't
quite essential, as for instance TO his ser
wants and his children and his wife.
When his business up aud bursted, and hi,
creditors were worsted, with ciyility he
told them he regretted such an end
And at his wife's demising. with courtesy
surprising. he responded, dead"
thank youl" to the question OF friend.
What I'write is but sample OF the daily
bright example which he sci to show hog
life by proper manners may be creased.
Would that we might see another one so
mindful of his brother; but, alas! he isn't
born, and John, alack is long deceased.
The Providers bright lady frien d I,
whom he has before referred to, was
out of humOr again day or two ago
because some old crank had been find
ing fault with her for not having the
weight of her skirts-or petticoats |
believe she called 'em-swung from
her shoulders. After prefacing her
remarks with a statement of the case
mixed with some very clean cut deals
regarding meddling she said
Now why should man bother
about the health of petticosts He
doesn't have to wear them. The Lord
didn't build him so that !. he has to
have them hung around bis hips, and
when he made woman he did. Those
marvels of lace and silk were thought
of, and it Was known that their ap-
pearance would be entirely spoiled il
they were slung from her shoulders
by pair of braces.
Take any wild country where CIV
ilzed dress is unknown, where the
natural woman is found, and you
will discover that she carries her ba.
by on her hips and pitcher of water
on her head, but that she slings moth
ing over her shoulders. think it i:
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-07-30

When we say must go
we mean that we don't intend
to carry over a yard of sum-
mer goods, nor any article
pertaining to warm weather,
so that the prices will scarcely
cut any figure in the selling.
Look out this week for a
tumble in prices and profits.
Ladies' Kid Riding Gloves
reduced to $3.50.
Parasol slaughter, at
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-07-30

year and settled in Pettis county,. The
duties of railway mail clerk before the
war was nothing compared to what it is
now. We had nothing to do but to watch
the pouches. The postmasters made up
the mail and did the work now done In
the postal cars.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-07-30
THE PR0WLER.
He Sees "POwer's Greek Slave
Oh Broadway and Chants
of Several Happen
ings.

A young lawyer of this city said to
Prow!er, referring 10 the Punishment
of the hustle.
at all right for the plump
That the hustle is gone,
But the woman that has no plump
Had better have one on"
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-07-30

Miss Julia s. Hilldied Yesterday morn
ing at the home of her parents III East
Thirteenth street. The funeral will take
place at the Congregational church this
afternoon az 2 o'clock.