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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-12
THE RATE OF INTEREST.

DECEMBER 20, 1888. :.
Belmont Alliance, No. 339, being
in regular session on the l4th of De-
cember, 1888, J. w. A. Kerr pre-
sented the following paper for adop-
ton:
"Resolved I, That we ask of the
Legislature of North Carolina the
passage of the following law, entitled
usury:
"Be it enacted that chapter Ga Of
the I'd volume of the Code of North
Carolina be repealed and the follow
ing be enacted instead of the said
chapter Ga: That the legal rate of in
terest be 6 per cent. per annum for
such time as interest may be charged;
provided, that upon special contract,
in writing, signed by the party to be
charged Herewith or by his agentse
great a rate as 8 per cent. may be
charged. And, further provided, that
any person or persons Or corporations
securing or demanding a greater rate
than 6 and 8 per cent, either asa
premium or bonus, or by any other
name, directly or indirectly, shaIT~ be
guilty of q misdemeanor and shall
forfeit the whole amount OF the debt,
and, on conviction, shall be fined not
less than $50 and imprisoned not less
than 80 days, the fine in all cases to
be equal to the amount ofthe debt"
I'd. That no article of goods or per,
sonal property shall be sold on time
for a greater amount than 10 per cent.
in advance of the cash price of said
articles, But safes of personal prop
erty at public. auction, where the
highest bidder is to be the buyer,
shall be exempt from the provisions
of said section. The Imprisonment in
this case to be not less than 80 days
and the fine in all cases TO be equal to
the amount of the debt.
Sd. That all laws and parts of laws
in conflict with this act be repealed.
4th, That the Secretary of this
Alliance be directed to send a copy of
this paper to the Statesville Landmark
and The PROGRESSIVE FARMER for
publication and that allpapers friendly
to the Alliance be requested to copy
Mnaame." S. L. RAMSEY, Sec'y.
- 80 EE E
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-12

AT the last regular meeting of Union
Hill Alliance, of Nash county, it was re-
solved to use no guano on corn or cotton,
if the price is higher than it was in 1888.
Cedar Fork Alliance, No. 358, Dur
ham county, has resolved that they will
buy no guano this year unless it can be
procured through Alliance Agents, and on
as good or better terms than last year.
-Reaves' Chapel Alliance, No. 447,
passed the following on the 4th inst
"We, Reaves' Chapel Alliance, do resolve
that if we cannot get guano through the
Farmers Alliance Agents we will not
buy any"
"A brother writing from Mt. Mourn,
Iredell county, says Oak Grove Alliance,
No. 338, besides endorsing the demands
of the State Farmers Alliance, resolved
unanimously not to use n pound of
commercial fertilizer at the present ex-
horbitant prices.
-Richland Alliance, Beaufort county.
requests the Legislature to abolish tiielaw
requiring the. appointment of cotton
weighers, and enact a law, instead, re-
quiring that all cotton be weighed and
marked at the gin; the ginner being pre-
EioQsly sworn to give true and correct
weight on tested scales.
Ata meeting of the Business Agents
of Wake County Alliances, held in this
city on Friday last, the following resolu-
tfons were adopted: That the Suh-Agents
recommends TO their Sub-A llfanees in the
county MOTTO use any commercial fertili-
ger at the present prices. Also d resolu-
ton requesting the President to call n
meeting of the Wake County Alliance
for Friday, February 22d. at 10 o'clock.
AMenloa Alliance, HEREFORD county,
No. 991, adopted the following: RESOLVED,
That we-will not buy any. gnaho unless
we procure it through the County Bust
ness Agent, and 0 her unless it is put
up inscotton bags; I'd, That we ask the
President of the North Carolina State
Alliance to call a meeting az early as pos
sible and assess the membership of the
State enough to raise the deficiency in
the State Business Agency Fund
AT the last meeting of Horse Shoe
Bend Alliance, CASTOR county, MI. Bed
Idingfeldss bill, repently introduced in the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES trusts and combine
tons was heartily endorsed. They also
endorse the petition to the Legislature
ffom 0sgood Alliance, Chatham county.
in regardto voting &c.,sand, further. re-
solved that they are in sympathy with
any action looking to the repeal or modi7
ication Of the homestead Law, in order 10
restore to the debtor class of our citizens
the credit which belongs to them.
Where's. ~incalenlable loss has been
sustained from time immemorial by the
sureties of sherifs of almost every county
in the State of North Carolina; therefore,
RESOLVED, By the Farmers Alliance at
Oak Dale, Columbus county, No. 372,
that it is just and proper that the General
Assembly of the State of North Carolina
should legislate for-the protection of said
s~ureties on the official bonds of sheriffs
by making them a body corporate, with
power to require said sherifs to secure
them by legal mortgages on their property
at the time of entering into the bonds re-
CURED by law.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-12
NOTICE.
FARM HILL ALLIANCE, No. 243,

FARM Hill ALLIANCE, NC. 20,
Wake Co., N. c., Feb. 8, 1889.
The Presidents of the several Alliances
in Marks Creek and Little River town
ships and Rogers Cross Roads, and Roles
vile Alliance, in Wake Forest township,
and Stoney Greek Alliance in st. Mat
thews' township, are requested to call a
meeting of their respective Alliances at
once, and send committees to meet with
Farm Hill Alliance on the 4th Saturday
of this month at l o'clock p. M, at their
regular place of meeting, to consult on
matters of Importance to the order.
w. A. PULLEY, Sec'y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-12
See Here, Brother !

who works for the money you get We'll, if you
do. Won want to know where you can spend 1t, and
get the best value for it. Find D.. 4. Swindell's
Big Racket Store before You part with one cent OF
SwindeI has bought the Racket Store and moved
in the Adams Building, and now has one OF the
largest and best selected stocks OF Clothing and
goods far cheaper than any one else in Raleigh can.
D.. Il. SwindeM has had ten years experience In the
anction rooms Of New York, Philadelphia, Balt-
more and Chicago, and has unlimited cash to buy
with.
If You go to the Big Racket Store. you viii have
your ewes opened, Under buy and under sell.
ID. 7. SWINDELL,
Cor Martin and Wilmington SITS.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-12
MEETING POSTPONED.

The meeting of the Executive Commit
tee for the list inst, at Raleigh, as an
nounced in THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER of
last week is postponed. It will be called
at an early day, or as soon as the Legisla-
ture shall act on the charter now before
it for the incorporation of our State ALI
ance> Due notice will be given through
The P~RoGREssIvE FARMER.
ELIAS CARR, Chm'n Elk. Com.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-12

Raleigh, N. c., February II, 1889.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-12
NOTICE.

The Business Agents of all the Alliances
in CASTOR county are hereby notified to.
meet in Dallas on Friday, February 18th,
at 10 O'Clock. A full meeting is earnestly
requested. 3. L. WILSON, G. B. A.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-12

Mrs. Matilda Frelinghuysen, widow
of the late Secretary of State, died at
Newark, N. j., on Sunday. I
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-12
vEEIcLES

We have employed the best skilled labor that the
country affords, which will be under the control
long connection with the late N. s.. Harp, the
pioneer carriage and buggy builder of this city. is q
guarantee that az work intrusted to Mr.. Yancey
win have prompt attention and be executed in a
workman1ike manner.
Write for prices and estimates.
Send us your repairing and we win do it well and
reasonably.
YANCEY q STRONACH,
Work shops No. $50 Morgan Street.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-02-12
Farm and Spring Wagons.

At the solicitation of a great many friends in the
country and city, we have opened our shops for the
manufacture and repairing of all kinds of
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-08
What Becomes ofold Shoes.

"Old clio" and "old shOen merchants
never pass an ash pan without inspect
ing for old shoes. says the New York
Sun. If any ia fOnnd it soon finds
place in a capacious bag carried for the
purpose. Each days labor is taken to
the home of the "old shoe man." where
it is sorted over. Shoes that are not
past few days of usefulness go under
the resuscitating care of an Italian cob
bier. He gives the old shoes a new
sole and other repairs. These go to
some second hand shoe-store, of which
there are goodly number in New
York. The shoes that are past repair
are taken to old junk dealers, who in
turn ship them to the shoddy factories.
There they are pulled to pieces in order
to remove the steel shank piece, If there
be any, and then ground to Inc dust.
This leather dust ia then mixed with
about 40 per cent. of rubber, which has
been gathered in the same way. The
mixture of rubber and leather dust is
spread in sheets about two feet square,
and subjected to a pressure of 5000 to
10, 900 pounds per square foot. The sub
stance is colored, and sold at prices some
so per cent. below that leather. This
manufactured leather is used by the
manufacturers of cheap shoes, most for
inner soles. AS it is wholly wanting in
fiber, it is manifestly poor substitute.
Shoes with these shoddy inner soles are
found in large quantities strung on poles
and bearing the legend, "All leather,
ST." The industry of making shoddy
shoes has greatly improved. At first
straw; board was used for inner sole
counters, and sometimes for out soles by
pasting over with thin veneer of sole
leather. Next leather scraps and old
shoes were ground up and mixed with
the straw paper. This gave little bet
ter substance. Now shoddy contains
leather dust and rubber.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-08
A scrap OF paper Saves Her Lie.

1t was just Oh ordinary scrap ofwrap.
ping paper, but it saved her life. She
was In the last stages of consumption,
told by physicians that she was incura.
bic and could live only a short time
she weighed less than seventy pounds,
On a piece Of wrapping paper she read
of DR.. Kings New Discovery, and goi
a sample hottie; it helped her, she
bought a large bottle, it helped heI
more, bought another and grew bettel
fast, continued its use ard is now strong
healthy, rosy, plump, weighing l4(
pounds. For further particulars senG
stamp to w. H. Cole, druggist, For
Smith. Trial bottles of this wonderful
discovery free at ]. Leist's drug store.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-08
A School of Motherhood.

There are already established abroad
certain schools for mothers, in which the
duties of motherhood are taught, together
with all the technicalities of work con-
nected with those duties and various of
the moralities of the situation, including
not only the proper training and treat
ment of children in other than physical
matters, but a training also Of the mo-
theirs themselves in the difficult arts of
knowing how to refuse, to prohibit and
punish, without injuring either Che moral
nature of the children or themselves.
Unless we are willing to let the state
take charge of the children eventually
and relieve the mothers Of their dear
duties, as some social reformers, so called,
have dared to. suggest, there are plainly
things in which these mothers should
perfect themselves in order to do justice
to the children and to the future careers
of those whose charge they have assumed.
Were such schools established among
ourselves, it would not be the material
part of the work and duty, in which we
should advocate effort half so much as
the immaterial, that immaterial which,
under certain views, becomes the one
material
ALL very well as it might be that the
mother should go to school, in order to
learn how to cut out the little frocks and
pinafores, make the little flannels, knit
the little socks, and that with the least
effort and waste conceivable; very well,
too, that she should be taught how to
give the bath, to keep the skin whole
some, to judge of the food requisite and
to prepare it. to remember the first treat
ment of the little sicknesses before the
physician can be summoned, and to
make herself competent nurse for such
occasion; and indispensable as it is also
that she should be informed as well as to
the food and sleep and exercise necessary
for herself in order to perform her
own part wholesomely-it is still more
absolutely necessary that she should be
taught also how to treat the child's pro-
pensities toward wrong doing, and to
encourage all its tendencies toward well
doing; what to do if the child's imagina.
ton runs to lying, how not to intimidate
I into lying, how to foster in it generosity,
purity, truth, steadfastness, sweet tenn.
per, love of humanity and alteration OF
God.
And when the mother has learned how
to encourage the germ of those qualities
already existing, to create them possibly
in their absence, has learned how tc
teach the child its rightful relations tc
the universe, she will have learned also
how to repress and control and sweeter
her own temper, how to be Transparent
and truthful as light herself, how to low
her race in trying to perfect this young
member of it, how to be unselfish in tht
daily practice of the art, and in giving
the child God to adore, will have founc
God herself. f.-Harper's Bazaar,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-08

Elsie, you have dismissed him
why? Do you not love himP
She raised her eyes shyly now.
'Oh, how You torture mel he cried.
Il love you. Elsie; and your
d love you better than | ever did
Leroy Palmer she said softly
Filled with great JOY DR.. Godfrey
returned to his home some time later
There he found a note in his lat,
guests handwriting.
my Dear Doctor: Pardon my abrupt de
parture, thank you for your hospitality ant
generosity, but cannot stay to witness you
happiness. ! understand it all-well. YoI
are better man than Elsie is wise.
LEROY PALMER"
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-08
PAT ENTS

Obtained and all other business In the O. s, Patent
Once attended to for MODERATE FEES.
Our office is opposite the U. 8. Patent Office, and
we can obtain Patents In less time thos those re-
mote from WASHINGTON.
Send MODEL OR DRAWING. We advise as to
patentability free of charge; and We make NO
CHARGE UNLESS WE OBTAIN PATENT.
We refer, here to the Postmaster, the Supt.o
Money Order Div and to ofacials of the o. s. Pat
ent Office. For circular, advice, terms, and refer
ences to actual clients In your own State or county,
address g. A. SNOW & CO.,
Opposite Patent once, Washington, D. O,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-08

The Joliet Tll.) rolling mills sub
scrlhed $24, 900 to Mr.. Quay's campaign
fund last year. Recently the company
made 12 per cent. reduction in the
wages of its employees, by which they
will recover $4,000 of that sum. Mr.
Carnegie subscribed S150,000 to elect
Mr.. Harrison. Mr.. Carnegie and his
associates recently made II IL per cent.
reduction in the wages Of their ''pro
tected" employees and by so doing they
can, If the employees accept the reduc
tiOn, recover 500, 900 of that sum. Grea
is protection-for capital solely. The
tariff protected barons not only com
PEELED their employees to vote for Harri
son and protection" but will now com
pei labor to pay their campaign con
trihutions back to them. Just stoI
awhile, dear reader, and think upon
that situation. and if you can fran,
language that adequately expresses it
meanness write down your thought
and send them to US.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-08
A few Pointers.

The recent statistics of the number of
deaths show that the large majority die with
consumption. This disease may commence
with an apparently harmless cough which can
be cured instantly by Kamp's Balsam for the
throat and lun9s. which /. guaranteed to cnre
and relieve Nil ct.es. P-ics 5Oc and $1.00.
Triai slzs free. For sale by all dru ygists.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-08
A Task In Multiplication.

A problem that at a glance seems easy
enough to tempt many schoolboy to
spend portion of his vacation in an en-
deavor to solve it, appeared recently in
Maine journal, and is as follows: Take
the namber 10. Multiply it by itself and
you have 225. Now multiply 225 by
itself, then multiply that product by
itself, and SO on until fifteen products
have been multiplied by themselves in
turn. The question aroused considerable
interest among lawyers In Portland, and
their best mathematician, after strug
Cling with the problem long enough to
see how much labor was entailed in the
solution made the following discourag-
ing report upon it,
1.-THE final product called for contains
38, $50 figures (the first of which are
1,419). Allowing three figures to an
| inch, the answer would be over 1,07O
feet long. To perform the operation
would require about 500,000,0 900 figures.
If they can be made at the rate of 100 a
minute. person working ten hours a
day for 300 days in each year would be
twenty-eight years about it. If. in null
tiplying, he should make row of ci-
piers, as he does in other figures, the
number of figures used would be more
than $685. 1898. That would be the
precise number of figures used if the
product Of the left hand figure in each
multiplicand, by each figure Of the null
tiplier was always single figure; but
as it is most frequently, and yet not al
ways, two figures, the method employed
to obtain the foregoing result cannot be
accurately applied. Assuming that the
cipher is used on an average once in ten
times, 475,OOO,OOO approximates the ac-
tual number. boston Transcript.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-08
Why Should l
Go to Montana I?

Great Reserv alton. Because 100000
acres of free Government land, with delightful
climate, and equally suited for general farming aud
stock raising, have just been opened 10 the home
seeker, in the Milk River Valley and near Benton
and Great Falls.
Stock Raising. Because the favorite cli-
mate and superior grasses of Montana make 1t the
natural home of horses, cattle, sheep and other do
mestic animals; and because winter feeding is not
required as stock grazes at large the year around
CeneF al Farming. Because a rich soil
and abundant summer rains produce wheat, oats,
rye, barley and the grasses and vegetables of a
quality, size and yield unsurpassed.
Mining. Because Montana produces more of
the precious metals than any othhr state or terri
tory, and abundant opportunities remain to secure
valuable properties at nominal cost.
Immigration. Because the Great Reserva-
ton the meeting point of settlers from the Pacific
Coast and from the Eastern States and is the only
extensive tract of good land left suitable for set
tlement.
Business. Because the rapidly growing towns
along tho st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Ry. Of
fer splendid opportunities to engage in busieess.
Manufacturer. Because the 1,O0O,Oco
sve coal veins, the WOOL mineral and grain raising
resources of Montana offer EXCEPTIONAL opportunities
to the manufacturer.
Tourist. Because the canon of the Gates Of
the Mountains, the Great Falls of the Missouri the
Giant Fountain and Continental Divide offer the
most sublime and diversified scenery to be found on
the Continent. Take summer tour
Why Travel by the st. P, NJ. d M.9
Because only by you travel through the largest
body Of free land left for settlement. Because II
reaches the Great Falls, with the largest water pow
er on the continent. Because 1t reaches Helena,
the richest city Of its size in the word and because
the shortest and best route to Butte the largest
mining camp on earth. Special tourists and land
seekers rates. Daily trains through solid TO Mon
tans. Choice of three routes to the Pacific Coast
Find out all about it by writing for ''The Great
Reservation" and Tourists Summer Guide" Fol-
further information, rates, maps etc. apply to F.
WHITSEY, G. P. Il 7. A.. st Papl, Minneapoli:
g Manitoba Ry., st. Paul, MINI.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-08

III ONE Treatment for all Chronic Diseases
"A especially those Of the Nervous System and
Lnga. Prompt personal attel ton to all inquiries.
Address with stamp, H. A. Mumaw, NJ. D.. HON.
eopathist. Orrville, Ohio. dec 8S-iy
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-15
Ladie,. HnHe Ynn Hair

On cheeks, chin or lip? If so, you can
have every hair destroyed forever without
pain, scar or injury by the electric needle by
consulting DR.. J. VanDyck, electro sur
geon, permanently located at 5O2 Penn ave.
Never fails. Book free.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-15
SANTA CLAUS
POP CORN BAKERY.

Knowing the weakness of the average little or
big Boy and Girl for Pop Corn, good old Kris
KingIe has brought his own Bakery from the far
off land of ice and snow to Kaufmanns' Grand
Depot, where, commencing tomorrow morning,
he will "sail i'm like good fellow and turn out
thousands of the delicious balls, which he will
present to all the children who, accompanied by
their parents, will visit him at Kaufmanns'.
Right on the first floor Ito spare the children
any climbing of stairs) Santa Claus has erected
his Pop Corn bakery. And what quaint, queer
and unique affair it is. Be sure and see it, for
it's sight beautiful beyond description And
don't walk out without getting
A BIG, DELICIOUS POP CORN BALL.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-15
LATE NEWS I'M BRIRF.

king Humbert granted private audience
% Nj. Albert g. Porter. the United States Min-
isrsr, yesterday.
"A peculiar burial took place at Milwaukee
Friday, DR.. John Bartlett was cremated, and
then the ashes inferred the same as an ordinary
-PStrick Sullivan, aged SC. an employe Of the
killed BY an electric shock in New YORK City
yesterday.
William A. AspinwalI, q young man from
Brooklyn. N. Y, was taken to the Baltimore
City Hospital Friday night from PerryvlIe.
&c was suffering from an overdose Of opium.
BE died yesterday.
John 8. Wise of Virginia who is now in
New York, Is disgusted with the present admin
istration and writes TO Republican friend in
Washington that they are mugvump, sniv-
cling, pharisaical lot
-Dissension has arisen in the Austrian Cabi-
net over tho draft Of the reply that Count Taafe
promised to Herr Plener, rhe leader of the
German party in Bohemia. It is reported that
two members Of the Ministry threaten to re-
sign.
Charles Wilson, young truck driver. who
was Friday sentenced in New York City to 20
years imprisonment for ranslaughter, in
shooting his wife, Louise, in q Mt Of Jealousy,
attempted suicide yesterday morning in the
TOmbs prison by taking poison. The prompt
use Of stomach pump saved his lie.
"A report has been received at Washington
that Representative-elect Shipley, of Guthrie
county, Iowa, is in q critical condition at his
home near Yale from the results of the bites
he received in his recent difficulty with w. La
Edwards, and is not expected 10 live more than
3 few hours. Tn: grand jury Of Guthrie coun-
ty has returned an indictment against Ed
wards
Three prominent Mexicans supposed to be
ringieaders Of the White Caps and fence cut
ters in New Mexico have been arrested at
Las Vegas, making seven men in jail and Ii
are yet TO be arrested for murder and other
crimes The Sheriff has the names of 96 resi-
dents Of San Miguel county, who are likely to
be arrested for completely in these land
troubles.
The Compannia Mercantil, small local
company in Para, trading in rubber, has peti-
toned the authorities of the Provisional Gov
ernment in Para for an order compelling all
other rubber houses in Para to pay to the Gov
ernment, for the credit of the Comp2nnia Mer-
cantil the sum of 20 reils (three-eighths of
cent? for every pound of rubber bought Of such
house, the object being TO raise the price OF
rubber.