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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-05
R SWAIN U N


BIRDTowN, N. c., Oct. II, '89,
Nh. EDIToR:-We are GROWING
surely, and l think, fast enough-no
mushroom business. We have a verv
large majority of the best farmers.
and in the general make up, it is good,
but we have few doubling Thomases
to whom you must furnish a year or
two of supplies free of cost for them
to realize their expectations. I think
the Alliance can do better without
such than with them. The county
was organized in June with about zoo
members; we will now reach some.
thing near 500, and we are beginning
to get our heads up and feel that we,
too, are men, and not only men, but
there is a visible appearance that we
would like to be Geemen. We can
make u own arrangements; other
people make theirs, and let's rise to
the full stature of our manhood, and
no longer be the slaves and serfs of
the few. We fight none without they
fight us and then we will fight to the
finish
Corn crops are good, wheat an
average, tobacco good but not average
more than so per cent. of last year,
and farmers are all hopeful. We
raise our own supplies, and if our
merchants would only sell us their
goods at a reasonable price and buy
our produce and pay what they can,
we would be in no great trouble fnan.
cially.
The Alliance in our county is doing
all it can to stop this abominable
mortgage business, improve the
methods of farming, encourage rails.
ing better stock and to bring the agri.
cultural classes closer together social
ly, in fact we are endeavoring to be
brethren in the full sense of the
word. Disputes r stopped and will
be settled in the Alliance, so let the
world and the race of mankind know
that the Swain County Alliance still
lives. l hope we will raise a reason,
able amount 500 for the business
agency fund.
Fraternally,
A. H. HAYES, Sec'y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-05

It is understood that 10000 copies
of the compendium of the census are
stored away in the Pension Building
in this city. Volume 2 of this com
pendulum contains a vast amount of
information of great value to Alliance
members and lecturers. These re
ports were printed by the Government
for free distribution, and if those de-
string the work will write to the Sec
rotary of the Interior it will most
probably be sent. 1t is suggested that
lecturers avail themselves of this op-
portunity and secure a copy.-EoOm.
omGSt.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-05
C~LEMMoNsvILLE, n. c.. O.

CLEMMoNsvILLE, N. c., Oct. IL, '89.
MI. EDIToR:-As [ have not seen
anything in your valuable paper from
this part of Gods moral vineyard, l
thought L would dot you a few lines:
will say in the>frst place that I am
truly glad to see the union between
the Alliance and Wheel; am more
than glad that the jute bagging trust
is "on its last legs" And now let
me say to you, MI. Editor, and to all
Alliance men, let US put down the
coffee and sugar trust. "But," says
one, chow r you going to do that?''
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-05

greater than the ordinary profits of
legitimate industry, but even beyond
the wild dreams of speculative adven
ture. But who can efectually use it,
and more important still, who pays
the piper? WIN. L. Wilson.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-05
"Breathes there a man with soul so dead'
Who never to himself hath said, ..,

"Breathes there a man with soul so de4u'
Who never to himself hath said, .,
{ This is my own, my native land?
But it isn't our own land when Ino
power of money and Of ~corporauopo
controls our Legislatures Il even
compels us to eat oleo sold to Us a.
butter prices as honest butter. l1elS
is work to be done to reform al theso
great abuses. But this work VIII ~,
be accomplished until the farmers Nv
it. Thank God, they are not lost w
all instincts of patriotism. Let cnp
political revolution come in tbs yo~
of grace, 1889. Let the yeomahi'
and natural nobility of the country
the farmers-rise in their might ans
elect men who will defy all the pow
of earth and hell in restoring u ~
tenn of government to its former P ~
ity and simplicity. The hgns tSs
honest butter is only a first step ln'N
right direction.-Farna and H@"S'
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-05
A. H. HAYES, Sec,


You may cry peace! peace but
there is no peace while capitalistic
combines rule the nation, make the
laws, and political prejudice blinds
men to support and uphold those who
sell rights to the great illegltimate
combines. There must be a political
reformation in both the great political
parties before the people who toll will
be heard in our national councils.
The head center of political corruption
is at the capitol of our great govern
ment, Washington City. When Con-
gress is in session it swarms with
lobbyists, representing the great cor
porations. 1t is fashionable to LOBBY
and be lobbied with. If the father
of our country could look down on
this city bearing his name while Con'
gress was in session, and see the PO'
litical corruption that makes and un
makes law, he would, if in his power
no doubt disown the name.-I0''8'
Nashville, Tenn.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-05
WOLVERINE ON HOG CHOLERA.

Poor pigs now feel
The glittering steel,
Oh bow they squeSl
In dismal chorus:
While visions sweet
OF picked feet
And sausage meat,
Rise up before Us"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-05
SO CONCLUSIONS

l. Swine plague is caused by a
specific microbe multiplying in the
body of the diseased animal. The
microbe belongs to the germs bac-
terium, and has the power of spon-
taneus movement, etc.
2. When introduced beneath the
skin, this bacterium is fatal to pigs,
rabbits, guinea pigs, mice and a GER
tain percentage of pigeons. 1t is also
fatal to pigs when introduced with the
food, OF when fed with internal organs
OF swine which have died of the dis
ease.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-12-16

First Tramp-sFMe5 old feller up
the road yesterday that thinks that when
man dies his soul goes into some ma
chine or other. Thinks he's got his own
grand-daddy in a old pump" Second
Tramp-tWell. that there amt such q
bad notion. just think Of feller bein'
turned into q beer keg when he died.
Eh, Jerry9"-TerTe Hapte Express.
Johnnie, you must stop playing with
those Murchison children across the
way. They are common, and their
father is nobody" ga nobody?''
echoed Johnnie. "Why, guess you
don't know him, NAL He ate twenty
hsrd-boiled eggs in twenty minutes,
and his likeness was in last weeks Po-
lice Scrapings. Next week he's going
over Niagara Falls in q barrel."--N. Y.
Ledger.
Mrs. Mushroom -'rWell, altogether,
am not 80 very sorry that 1 have not
any ancestors" Miss Mushroom--"Why,
mamma, thought you rather regretted
that we had none that we know Of"
Mrs. Mushpoom-T have changed my
mind. Ihave been to call on Mrs. Mon
tegue Deyereaux and she showed me all
the portraits Of her ancestors" Miss
Mushroom--'Andd didn't you like their
looks2" Mrs. Mushroom- the peo-
pie was good enough, s'pose, but ]
wouldn't own ancestors that dressed
without no regard Tor style, "--America.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-12-16
ROMANCE in REAL LIFE.
\ Thrilling Episode That Would Have
Delighted Wllkie Collins,

Delighted Wukio Collins.
A case of mistaken identity involv-
ing elements of dramatic interest suffi-
cient to make the fortune OF a sensa-
tional novel has just occurred in
Switzerland, says the Pail Mall Gazette.
a young couple named Favre belonging
TO the working class had lived happily
together for some years at Neufchatel,
when the, husband, working mason,
began to give way to habits of drinking.
Efforts were made to reclaim him, and
he became an abStainer for some time.
Some months ago, however. he broke
out again and left his home. His wife
had heard nothing of him for three
months, when one night she was
awakened by a voice calling her repeat
edly from the street outside and which
she felt sure was that of her husband.
She rose, dressed, and went into the
street, but found no one. A few days
afterward she read an account in the
newspapers of man who had commit
ted suicide on the railway at small
village near Bale. From the descrip-
tion of him she suspected it might be
her missing husband, and became full
OF the idea that the voice she had heard
was communication from him at the
moment of, death. She was corrobo-
rated in her belief by learning, as the
result of inquiries. that he had made
application for work at neighboring
quarry, but being in liquor at
the time had been roughly re-
fused by the foreman. The body
for some time now had been inferred,
but in order to put an end to her sus-
pense the poor woman, having got to-
gether little money, started off with
the determination to have the body dis
inferred. She reached the village, and
after some delay secured permission to
open the grave. With two or three men
as assistants she set to work. When the
coffin was opened the effluvium was so
terrible that her companions ran and
left her alone with her dead. For
twenty minutes nnaided she pursued her
ghostly task. The body had been de-
capitated by the train, and the head,
horribly mutilated. was wrapped by it,
self in a cloth. She uncovered it and
recognized 1T by the teeth. One of the
stockings also she knew again from hav-
ing mended it with particular kind of
worsted. Her worst fears thus con-
frmed, she returned home in the depths
of sorrow. The aged mother of the man
was informed Of the Identification, and
mourning was being prepared for the
whole family when the 'crowning act Of
The drama was furnished by a letter
which has just been received from Favre
himself, announcing that he is at Win
terhur alive and we'll! The wife had,
after all, identified the wrong mani
Who 1t is that atactually lies in that 10 le-
ly grave no one knows. What would
not Wilkie Collins have made out of
that midnight voice, the graveyard
vigil and the extraordinary denouementl
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-12-16
INSCRIPTION RATES.
ADVERTISING RATES.

Will be made as low rs is consistent with
snund business principles. Apply at tho Of
1Ge Tor terms.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-12-16
Live And Let Live

Live And let Live.
Those who desire to purchase the
best quality Of Groceries and Pro-
visions are referred TO the above re-
liable house whore fair dealing and
courteous eatment is the rule.
Glassware, Tinware, Stoneware, Nails
etc. always IN stock.
II H,CHAsE,
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-01-05
A SAFE INVESTMENT.

Diamonds One Of Enc Few Articles unaf-
fected by Market Fluctuations.
In these changing times nothing is more
firmly established than the value OF d1a~
monds. It is one Of the few things that re-
main unaffected by political revolutions.
Mercury does not rise and fall more rapidly
than stocks; real estate is booming today
and in state of collapse tomorrow; grain
Is cornered in few hours and held at taou-
;cus prices and as quickly thrown upon the
market to be almost given away. But the
prices of diamonds may be said never to
Auctuate, says the New York Tribune. A
stone that is bought to-day may be worn
for ten years and resold to the dealer for
ninety per cent Of its original value. All
reputable dealers sell diamonds with that
understanding, the ten per cent. being held
to cover the wear Of the gold Or other ma
terial in which the stones are set. This ar
rangement accounts for the large trade IN
diamonds among the poor as well as the
rich. "A person with afew hundred dollars
to spare can find no more satisfactory in
vestment than some pleasing ornament,
which after years wearing IS as readily
convertible into cash as check on the
Chemical bank. The rarest diamonds are
the green and canary, found in the South
African fields. The ordinary White variety
is becoming rather too common for very
rich people, who like novelties and care
nothing for expense. One Of the Oldest
pieces Of jewelry in Maiden lane is band
ring set with stones the initial letters OF
which spell the word "regard," thus:
Ruby, Emerald, Garnet: Amethyst, Ruby,
Diamond. The effect is charming.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-01-05
AN INDIAN LEGEND.
Mount Desert island the North American
Garden Of Eden.

Mount Desert island the North American
Garden Of Eden.
The early Indian tribes who inhabited
Mount Desert Island believed, according to
the Lewiston (Me.) Journal, that the Gar
den of Eden was situated at that spot, and
according to their legends, when the white
man gave the name of Eden to one part Of
the island, it was only coming to its own
again. Strange as it may seem, the prime.
val father OF the Maine red man was youth
with golden hair and eyes like the hazel.
berry. tall and OF great beauty. The Eve
vino came to him just when his loneliness
was getting insupportable first appeared
coming through the clouds. Her first ex-
clamation at seeing him was the Indian for
"Oh! dear"
She at once cut of his golden locks and
began to weave them into strong cord,
growing larger as she proceeded. At sug.
gestion from Monicho, a god of evil designs,
the man took the cord from her and, bound
her with it, when she ceased growing but
did not stop working. The rext thing she
did was to bend down tall, green stalk near
her and gather from it it's golden seeds,
which she made into bread, being thus the
discoverer Of Indian corn. The couple,
after teaching their children how to raise
and use this grain, were translated to the
constellation of stars. known as the sickle,
whence they still watch over their earthly
home.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-01-05
TIE OLD DINNER HORN.

When the Eaters in blossom an the tas
sells on the cor,
An the ripe MIN tomaytesses are blushin' Ike
the morn,
When the beans are young an tender an Inc
angen an the beet
An, the cowcumber an cabbages are big
enough to eat,
When the yaller- legged chickens fried in BUT
ter, ito a turn"
An, corn pone's hot, an buttermilks Jest
emptied from Inc churn-
On it's then love the music O. the tootln
w,n,n tn 'taters arc in blossom an the tassei's
Oh the corn.
When the scorchtn' sun o. summer pours down
ON q 1ellers head,
It'll he thinks the b'ilin' straw stack an the
medder's painted red,
When the dusty sweat's q pouriE' down his
face into his eyes,
An the thrasher keeps buzzin' like a pantry
tun off1ies,
xernomic ''why,'
rroo,,n round about his buzzum nothin' else
can satisfy
Like the appetizin' music OF the tooS1n' dinner
horn;
When the Eaters are in blossom an tho tas'
sells on the corn.
Buckvheat cakes an tree molasses are
mighty luscious sight,
An milk an honey, han, an eggs an biscuits,
y hot ard light,
An roast spar-rib an sweet potaters oaReo
with sausage meat;
aut Tx an garding sass Is mighty hard
&c beat,
An wien feller's empty from bis buzzura to
his boots,
They's sight o'hally looyer in the satisfyin'
touts
OF the womsn.folxs a blown on the olo tln
duner-hora;
When tn Q ta,ers are in blossom an the :asser
on the corn.
.-E s. Uozkiss, In Louisville C'ourier-Jou@nGh
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-01-05
DESPERATE BURGLARS.
An Adventure, In the Career Of Revered
Ann TawlOr,


Ann Taylor.
When Ann Taylor, sister Of Jane Taylor,
with whom she wrote the ssHymns for In
fan Minds,'' was about eight years Old, she
was leftaIone with her mother one Sunday
afternoon. says the Youths Companion.
The other members of the family had all
gene TO church. The mother had fallen
asleep, and the little girl was tho sole
guardian Of the premises.
Suddenly heard a tremendous noise
somewhere in the kitchen, 81 knocking and
a batterng SO long and loud that nothing
Less than determined burglars could account
lor it, My mother was so poorly that l
CARED not wake her, aud so deaf that she
Gid not hear the noise. With indispensable
terror I listened and watched. to see the
r,,ffians either enter the room. or emerge
from the back door into the garden: and,
only eight or nine years old as [ was,
armed myself with the poker for the worst.
If had not happened to catch sight OF the
culprit at the precise Elc!lentof escape, the
mystery might have remained to this day
unaccounted for: but aid. a big dog
issued suddenly, with rrcdigious speed,
from the back door, with tI5 remains or a
large, deep stone lnilk-jar about t'ls neclSl
Doubtless q little milk had been LETT at
the bottom; the poor fellow had unwlttingly
thrust in his nose; the neck WAS narrow,
the milk beyond his tongue tip; he thrust
and thrust, until he found hiuself in dread
full custody. Then began che sound that
had chilled myblood, as he banged his port
able prison about the kitchen aocr until the
bottom gave way; and, though still having
a good portion Of the pot about his neck, ne
made use Of recovered daylight, and de-
camped through the garden, wearing, to my
astonished eyes, something like close cot
tage bonnet. Whittier his terror carried
him, never heard, though IL he scampered
through the town in such guise, thin it
must have made some stir. One Of the
family afterward put the incident into
rhyme. The last stanza ran thus:
"At last he broke the bottom out
OF this disastrous jug.
But still the dog was not without
Tho remnant OF the mug.
With this, the trophy of the day,
In haste forth trotted he,
And if twas ever knocked away,
They have not told it mo-"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-01-05
Fashions In Halr-P;n..

'The most fashionable hair-pin now
comes from Paris,' said jeweler to re.
porter for the New York Mail ard Erpress,
ut is made to represent shell fountain,
over which is a spray of leaves q fine
flowers in cut steel They are very attract
I've looking; the steel will ghtterdn the
light like diamonds. The pin set VII gar
nets il all kinds Of designs is also Ireat
favorite. A popular design for garl pins
Is round ball with the garnets set a1 over
it, giving the effect of soidity. Some Of
the more costly hair-pins, which an only
for adornment and not for use, arg very
handsome. They are made as balls oKgold,
some plain and some richly engraved, and
others are studded with jewels. ThesS1e arc
worn by ladies, with fair hair. The bru.
nette's taste runs to enameled pins. These
are mostly made to represent flowef1, and
have all the delicate tlnts of nature One
OF the new designs is spray Of liiesapf the
valley, with leaves in green gold. His is
worth SIS A bunch ct sweet peas sells for
$lOO. Forgetme-nots are worth about $50,
!, and other small AoWe IS, like Margnassfrjtes,
violets and ransies, about the Sans pti
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-01-05
ABOUT GENERAL tai EMIT.
Why Persons Endowed With 1t Hardly
Ever Make a Mark I'm History.

whv Persons Endowed With 1t Hardly
Ever Make Mark I'm History.
The progress of the world in valuable
knowledge has been IN all ages mainly due
to men in whom one faculty dominated the
rest and determined toe profession or pur-
suit of the individual. TO the accumulated
discoveries and inventions OF such men,
says the New York Ledger, we owe oil the
glories of civilization. Rousseau sale
rightly that it was better to be great IN one
Of the arts or sciences than conversaat
with many. he meant that it was better
for the lndividual-for his interests, his rep
utation; but it is also better for mankind.
Had Newton's faculties been on q par one
with another; had he possessed what Is
called 'sbalanced mind" he had never
discovered the principle of gravitation or
written the r,lncipia. 1t was because one
mental attribute overtopped and over.
shadowed all the others, compelling them
to its uses, that he achieved such wonder
Jul triumphs in abstract science,
Men Of general talent, who possess no
salient faculty directing them to one
special subject Of study and research,
seldom make their mark in the history OF
their own times, and never achieve endur~
ing fame. They shine in society, they are
popular, they are useful in their day and
generation, but they add little to the
| golden store of knowledge to which
| men who are great III particular
! branches Of science and art are continually
contributing new and inestimable treas
ures. These latter rarely possess the social
qualities most priced by the world at large.
! They are absent, taciturn, reserved. The
gay and thoughtless vote them dull and un-
companionable, perhaps; but remember
they are thinking for all time, for all hui
manity.
] IT a great philosopher happen to boil his
watch while he holds the egg in his hand to
time the cooking, or to take up has pretty
wifes finger and use it as & tohacco-stop-
per, as Newton is SAID to have done with
young lady's, let us. before we rldicnle such
eccentricities, recollect how the absent mind
was employed-what reaches it was making
otter hidden things, what mysteries it was
unwilling, what important practical truths
it was deducing from objects which the
ulillidA pass with unobservant eyes.
Wetako it to be o principle in rational ed
ucation, that the master faculty, when it
tends to the useful, or the beautiful, In SCI
ence or art, should always be cultivated.
Nature gives to one man talent and pred
Election for natural science: to another
! faculty and taste for mechanics; to a third
a genius for poetry, and it is impossible to
make the poet o shining light in mathe-
n1atics Or chemistry, or the chemist or
| mathematician an epic poet.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-01-05
Cold Food the Best.

Cold food, says the Boston Journal Of
Health, is more easily kept on sensitive
stomach than hot. Sc, in cases where it is
rejected in the ordinary warm or hot form,
it had better be tried as nearly frozen as
maybe taken. In many fevers this would
be a decided advantage. Milk may be adj
ministered in frozen state often with
positive advantage. The Sanitary Era adds,
from frequent instances, that ice-cream
suits admirably some conditions where hard.
" any other food is acceptable.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-01-05
FLYING MACHINES.
The Impossibnity of a Successful Invention
In This Line.

The Inpossibility of a Successful Invention
in This Line.
We must admit, says the Popular Science
Monthly, that bird is an incompatible
model of {; fying-machine. No machine
that we may hope to devise, for the same
weight Of machine, fuel and directing brain,
is half so effective. And get this machine,
thus perfected through infinite ages by q
ruthless process Of natural selection,
reaches its limit Of weight at about fifty
poundsl I said, ''weight of machine, fuel
and directing brain" Here 10 another
prodigious advantage Of the natural over
the artificial machine. The flying animal
Is its own engineer. The directing engi-
neer in the former {the brain) is perhaps
an ounce, in the latter it is one hundred and
fifty pounds The limit OF the flying animal
IS fifty pounds. The smallest possible weight
of flying with its necessary fuel
aud engineer, even without freight or pas
sengers, could not be less than three or
four hundred pounds.
Now, to complete the argument, put these
three indisputable facts together:
/. There is low limit Of weight, certain
" not much beyond fifty pounds, beyond
which it is impossible for an animal to fly.
Nature has reached this limit, and with her
utmost effort has failed to pass it.
2, The animal machine is far more effect
i've than any we may hope to make; there
fore the limit of the weight Of a successful
flying machine can not be more than fifty
pounds
8. The weight Of any mashine constructed
for flying, including fuel and engineer, can
not be less than three or four hundred
pounds. Is it not demonstrated that true
fyiug-machine, self-raising, self-sustain
ing, self propelling, is physically impos-