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face Scared with every crime. HIS
chin on his open palm, his elbow on his
knee-a picture Of despair. As 1 open
the wicket he starts, and I hear his
chain clank. The jail-keeper tells me
that he has been in there now three
times. First for theft, then for arson,
now for murder. He steps upon the
trap door, the rope is fastened to his neck.
the plank falls, his body swings into
the air, his soul swings off into eternity.
Who is he, and where is he? Tod
playing kite on the city commons.
Mother, you are to- day hosting throne
star or digging a dungeon.
A good many years ago a Christian
mother sat teaching lessons of religion
to her child; and he drank in those les
sons. She never knew that Lamphier
would come forth and establish the Full
ton street prayer meeting, and by one
meeting revolutionize the devotions of
the whole earth, and thrill the eternities
with his Christian influence. Lamphier
said it was his mother who brought him
to Jesus Christ. She never had an idea
that she was leading forth such desti-
MES. But o, when see a mother reck-
less of her influence, rattling on toward
destruction, earlanded for the sacrifice
with unseemly mirth and godlessness,
gayIy tripping on down to min. taking
her children in the same direction,
cannot help but say: There they 60,
there they go-Hagar and Ish,nael!" I
tell you there are wilder deserts than
Beersheba in many of the domestic cir
cles of this day. Dissipated parents
leading dissipated children. Avaricious
parents leading aysricious children.
N
children. They 60 through every street,
up every dark alley, into every cellar,
along every highway. Hagnr and Ish-
mael! and while I pronounce their
names, it seems like the moaning of the
dead vind-Hsgar and Ishmael!
Learn ons moro lesson tron this Oxi-
eatal 1eenAs Ana lit =, tlae esee1
Dodge City times., 1889-07-04
DRAWING OF MAY II, 1889.

Alex. Tafaurcau, 152 Chartre ST., New
Orleans, La.
Alfred d Margaret Friot, San Francisco,
Dodge City times., 1889-07-04


pillow rs we'll as the other man makes the
constitution. There is . woman who
was made to fashion robe, and yonder
is one intended to be q queen and wear
it. It seems to me that in the one
case as in the other. God appoints
the sphere and the needle is Just as re-
spectacle in His sight as the scepter.
do not know but that the world would
long ago have been saved if some of the
men ont of the ministry were in it, and
some of those who are in it we're out of
it. really think that one-half of the
world may be divided into two-quarters
those who have not found their
sphere, and those Who, having found it,
are not willing to stay there. How
many are struggling for q position q
little higher than that for which God
intended them. The bondsvoman wants
to be mistress. Hxga. keeps crowding
Sarah. The small wheel of watch,
which beautifully went treading its
golden pathway, wants to be the balance
wheel, and the sparrow, with chagrin,
drops into the brook, because it cannot,
like the eagle, cut circle under the
sun. In the Lords army We all want to
be brigadier generals. The sloop says:
More mast; more tonnage; more canvas.
o, that were . topssil schooner, of .
full rugged brig. or Cunard steamer"
And SO the world is filled with cries of
discomfort, because We are not willing
to stay in the place where God put us
and intended MS to be- Ny friends, be
not proud to do anything God tells you
to do. Fer the lack Of . right DISPOSE
tion in this respect the world 10 strewn
With wandering Haean and Ishmaels.
God has given each one OF n . work to
dark alley. foa distribute that Chris
tiaA tsast. Yea give tsH ths1sanA asl1
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The Farmers Alliance Warehouse At Dur
ham, n, e.
Under the management of Jno. W. Pope,
has been on a regular boom
since its opening.

This house was opened for the sale of
tobacco, on the 9TH day of February, 1889,
and from that date till the first day of
May saved to the farmers $1,411.61 by
reduced charges, and at the same time
sold every pound of tobacco for full mar
ket value. This warehouse has no special
pets who are paid fictitious prices for
their tobacco in order to get them to
drum for it in their neighborhood, but all
tobacco sells strictly upon its merits; the
rich and poor, high and low, black and
white all get the top of the market. Then
why not sell your tobacco where you get
full prices, and save yourselves thousands
of dollars annually? Stand by the Dur
ham market and the Farmers Alliance
Warehouse, and the Durham buyers will
stand by you. m142t
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Mrs, Joe Persons Remedy Still 10 The Front
TONIC AND NERYINE !!

I do not hesitate to recommend Mrs.
Joe Persons Remedy as the finest tonic
/ ever used. At the time 1 commenced
its use, l had no appetite for anything,
never could eat a mouihful for breakfast,
and had to force myself TO eat, as nothing
tasted natural. l was also so nervous |
could get no natural sleep, waking at
every sound. | commenced with a tea
spoonful, and gradually increased the
dose. Three weeks use of the Remedy
worked wonders, my appetite became
natural, I could eat anything 1 wanted
and relished it, my sleep became sound
and natural, a band of music would hardly
wake me now. My general health is ex-
~cellent, better than it has been in ten
years, and this change is lowing solely to
Mrs. Joe Persons Remedy, as l took, no
other. AS a tonic and nervine it cannot
be excelled. ANNE DAVIS,
Chapel Hill. N. 9.
For sale by Raleigh druggists. Price
81 per bottom, S. per. half Dozen. Wash
so cts. per package, $3.50 per half dozen.
Send for pamphlet.
Address MRS. JOE PERSON,
KIFTRELL; n. G.
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FOR SALE.

- - @-F -r"h --
Will sell 154 acres of land, 100
acres of fine oak and pine forest, on
the waters of Abbott's Greek, sixmiles
from High Point, twelve miles from
Salem and Winston, fine tobacco land,
good two-story building, kitchen and
dining room, well handy and three
good springs neal by; apple, peach,
pear and cherry orchards and good
vineyard, nice evergreen walk totwo
tobacco barns, a very large grain barn,
a good mill, saw-mill, wood and smith
shops all in 800 yards Of house, three
quarters of a mile to two churches.
For further particulars, apply to
N. W. BEEsoN.
High Point, N. c.. March 4, '89.
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A LETTER FROM CARLOS.
SNowDEN. N. c., Nav q. g.

SNowDEN, n. c., May "a, '89.
Mr.. EDlroR:I notice in my article
in the last issue of The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER that the types make me give
my good friend, DR.. Sewell, very
sou name, and in speaking of diver
styling crops they make me say
grapes, when / intended grasses. I
do not know that / ought to. blame
the compositor, as l can scarcely read
my own writing after the ink dries.
We still have the old stereotyped
cry, "Farming don't pay" still our
farmers are living, and / would be
pleased to know of any other business
that would enable a man to even exc
out a subsistence by partially working
five months out of twelve. which is
about all some of our farmers have
been doing.
The soil in this section is naturally
very fertile, and in ante bellum days il
was the custom, as the lands were
worn out, to. clear up more-neR
ground, as it was called. 1t seemed
really a trouble and expense to get ric
of the natural accumulation of ANNA
manure in the horse stables; the COW,
and sheep did we'll if they got a lttl,
salt once a month to keep them tame
they knew nothing of stables, anC
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very few ever had a shelter, it cost
too much, the farmer not realizing
that he was throwing away, through,
neglect, the nucleus of a fortune.
I hope and believe that the disease
which has caused neglect and farming
not to pay, and which has prevailed in
this section beyond the recollection of
the oldest inhabitant, is now getting
mildew in form, and | believe if our
brothers of the Alliance will meet
promptly and often at u meetings it
will be entirely eradicated from our
midst. We, being old-fashioned peo-
pie, call this disease lazlness.
1 hope the members of our beloved
order will be prompt in their attend
anee, and after the regular routine
business is through if they would dis
cuss their different ways of eultivating
(also- of planting) their different crops
much information would be gained
and the business of farming would be
a success, and the cry, Farming
don't pay" would become obsolete. -
The time is coming, and l believe
not far distant, when Management and
not Encouragement will be the rnle
on the farm, and then we may look
with surety for the halcyon days Of
prosperity; for, as the soil is the
groundwork of all solid prosperity,
the farmer must succeed first, or rather
as; is his success So is the ratio OF
the success Of other trades and pro
feSsions. With my best wishes for
the success of our noble cause and The
PRoGREss1vE FARMER, l remain, %4
Fraternally yours, CARLOS.
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CONTRADICTIONS.
SK1PwoRrH, Va, Nav q. lss

SKIPwoRTH, Va, May 81, 1889.
Mr.. EDIToR:--There is a Mr.. Soul
throp travelling through this State and
North Carolina selling a patent tobacco
stick, and telling hat whoever buys
the wire tobacco hanger, that we ad-
vertise in your paper, will be sued for
infringement, by w. H. Snow, and
have to pay snow $40, and that there
IS already suit pending against us in
the Federal Court.
we want to say to all such, that we
nave a patent on our hanger, issued in
July, 1888, and that we and our neigh.
bors have been using it for two years
without paying anybody $40 for the
right, and there is no suit against us
in the Federal Courts.
Respectfully, 7. Y. ALLEN & Bro.
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j AN INoU1RY.

WH1rAKER's, N. c., May 20, 1889.
Mr.. EDIToR:-This is written to
ask the question of the eighty or ninety.
thousand members of the, Alliance
why they don't raise the fifty hdusand
dollars for our State Exchange? Other
States are raising theirs. It was the,
work of our State Alliance which met.
in Raleigh last August, and. they ar
rangedit so as to make it perfectly
ecure The trustees have called for it.
time and again. We have got the
salaries of Trustee and Agent to pay,
fund or no fund. We acknowledge
the necessity for it. Then, why not
raise this small mount and let the
business Agent begin work in earnest.
Certainly it won't do to measure our
loyalty for the order by the way we
are raising this fund. Fifty or sixty
cents per member will about raise it.
Many of the Sub-Alliances have al
ready raised and paid from 500 to-
$l75. Many of them have raised and
paid in nearly five dollars per member
all round. The Alliance of which {
have been president for nearly two
years, nearly all the members have
paid in their five dollars long ago, and
some of these members are scarcely
worth one hundred, dollars and don't
own a foot of land in the world. They
have made no trade arrangements
with any merchant, but are simply wait
ing for the establishment of the State
Exchange, and to do this they will
pay more If necessary. We know that
times are hard but it will not do to
stand still so~long. The order in this
State, as well as elsewhere, is, getting
to be large, and to keep so large a
body contented and from being IN
wieldy we must act together we must
give some benefit; we must impart
life, vim and interest to our work, and
we must all see and feel that ours is
a common cause and as just a cause as
ever enlisted the sympathy and sup
port of any people; and one of the
things in support of this cause is not
to be two or three years in raising this
fund, but false it before or by the
State meeting in August.
J.. M. G.
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NEWS FROM DURHAM COUNTY.
&MoRN1Na SuNALL1ANoE, No. 45l.
Fish Dam, N. q.

&MoRN1Na SUNALLIANoE, No. 45ll
}' Fish Dam, NC:
have been requested to write you
something of our Alliance, but have
neglected it thus far from arsense {
my inability to do. justice to SUI
ject. a,
are doing what we can to further the
cause. The Morning Sun Alliance,
No.451, was organized Feb. 25t 1888,
with eleven charter members, now
we number forty-seven, thirty-nlne
males and eight females, with appli=
2 cations for membership on the table.
At our last meeting there was a vote
on the State Agency Fund; thirty-two
dollars was subscribed, a portion OF
which will be sent on Immediately; the
balance o The crops through
this section are backward, wheat and
oats are looking badly. Spring oats
do not average more than ten inches
in height, clover and rye are fine, the
stand of cotton is generally good and
in all the tobacco crop planted during
the last season, the acreage is not so
large as formerly. Farmers are paying
more attention to the n~ecessaries OF
life. Much damage is reported from
the recent heavy rains.
/. Fruit and garden produce are abun-
dant. Stock and cattle looking well.
Much attention is payed to the i'm
provement of the cattle; people are
keeping fewer and better cows. There
will be less foreign fertilizers con-
sumed and the credit business has
been greatly reduced. Farmers are
waking up to the necessity of raising
their own fertilizers and to the curse of
the mortgage. When they fully real
ize these two facts, then you will see
the farmers in the lead. Am sorry L
cannot give fuller particulars OF the
working, of our band, but hope to do
so in the near future. Best wishes to
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER and may 1t
accomplish much good to the people.
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DOES IT PAY.

We say that there is nothing that
pays so handsomely as advertising when
~judiciously done, but there is no one
thing that ruins any business quicker
than to advertise big bargains when you
have none nor ever did have. To show
what an advertisement will do when the
people know that you never advertise
anything that is not cheap, look at our
Ginghams sales to-day. We advertised
the best Ginghams at 6 ga cents per
yard and at ten o'clock We have sold
more than one thousand yards, and
every person that has bought it says
that it is the biggest bargain eve offered
in Raleigh. If you wish to keep abreast
of the times in news, and the cheapest
place in America to buy goods, read the
GALL and trade at the Big Racket Store.
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"A LETTER FROM A GOOD SIS
TER.
COUNTY LINE ALLIANCE, Nc. 759,

OOONII LINE GALL1A0NES Nv bOO1
Caswell Co., N. c., June Sd SO.
Mr.. EDITORIALS l have not no.
ticed an article in your valuable paper
from this section, [ have thought a
word or two from me would be en-
couraging to some of the sisters. l
sometimes think that we are not pro-
crossing as fast as we might. / be-
lieve some seem to think when we
join the order our work is finished,
but that is only a beginning. Let US
strive to provoke each other to jeal-
ousy in good work. While it has
been remarked that women are neces-
sary evils, let us by our untiring en-
ergy, and zeal show them that it is a
mistake. Let us endeavor to make
our home the eden of the soul instead
of discussing fashion. balls, bells and
beauxs most of the time. lam young
and I know it is perfectly natural to
compliment the opposite sex, still
there are other things that are very
important. We should devise plans
and means by which we can assist
those who have to bear the burdens of
life. While the farmers of this Sec
ton are not a rich people, they are a
noble and happy people; they have
been wonderfully blessed this year.
It fills the heart with gratitude to
walk in the gardens and see the sup
ply of vegetables and look out on the
waving wheat field and see it almost
ripe to harvest. We have had good
seasons for planting tobacco; most of
the farmers are done. I think they are
more interested in corn and small grain
and vegetables and stock, than they
ever were before. ] think there are
a good many joining the Farmers
Trust, and r raising their supplies
at home. Our Alliance is still pro.
crossing; we have fifty enrolled and
one to initiate at our next meeting.
We expect to have a picnic on the 18th
of July and l hope weswill have some
enthusiastic addresses, that will en-
courage US to press forward with
more vigor. l must now close as |
fear this is already too long.
Yours fraternally,
Miss FANNIE L. PENTEoosE.
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Look Here, Tobacco Farmers

You can save one-fourth more tobacco
to the acre by using Aliens Patent Wire
Tobacco Hanger-can be used in the same
barns. The cheapest and best plan known
to cure tobacco off the stalk and best
plan in use to cure fine cutters and smok-
er S; a great saving in storage room and
does not break intpacking, as we do not
pull off the wires to pack. Write for
further particulars to
T. Y. ALLEN & BRO,
ap142m SKIPwITH, Va.
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NOTICE.

Having qualified as Executrix of W. G. Simmons,
this is to notify all persons having claims against
the estate of the said W. G. Simmons, to present
them for payment on or before the 9th day of
their recovery, and all persons owing said estate
will come forward and make Immediate payment.
M. E. SIMMONS,
Executrix W. G. Simmons.
Wake Forest, N. c., April 9, 1889.
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The Tennessee Farmer.

This is the name of a weekly publica-
ton at Nashville, Tenn. 1t is now the
leading Farmers and Stockholders
Journal in the Southern States, and is de-
voting it's great energies to these interests.
No better investment of $3.50 could be
made than in sending this amount for one
year. Sample copies sent free on applica-
ton. Address the Tennessee Farmer,
Nashville, Tenn.
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Farmers, Look to Your Interest!
Improve Your Lands Permanently, At Small
Cost, and il a Short Tiins.

Use Oyster Shell Lime at the rate Of from 500 to
1900 pounds per acre broadcast and harrow in.
Can be used with great benefit in the furrow un-
der cotton at the rate of 300 pounds per acre in con-
nectiOn with 20 to 80 bushels cotton seed.
The cheapness and facility for procuring this
wonderful renovator of the soil should make It one
of the first objects of the farmer to obtain it.
I am prepared to furnish FRESH BURNT SHE'LL
M in any quantity, at shortest notice; In bulk
and sacked.
Thanking you for past favors and soliciting "a
continuance Of your orders, I remain,
Very truly,
w. Z. RI
Norfolk, Va.
All orders sent to Everett Bros, Gibson & Co.,
Norfolk, will receive prompt attention. oc3O6m
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ALETTER FROM CUMBERLAND,

RHODES, &c, May 3lst, 1889.
Mr.. EDITORIALS you never have an
item from our Alliance Goodwin No.
.l3l. Ihave decided to trouble you with
a line. We we're organized Oct. lst,
1887, with twenty-eight male and two
female members by Bro. Barry, of
Texas. We now number ninety-six,
have lost three by death, five dropped,
and one Omitted. We have neve
failed to have a full meeting at our
appointed times-meeting once and
twice a month, owing to business to
be transacted. There can be no
harmony in any Alliance than there
is in ours. We can now look back
over our existence of less than two
years, and see that we have done we'll
in the way of saving.
Our first experience was to send
our committee to the different towns,
to make trading terms, but nothing
that would benefit us could be accom-
plished. All would give us a "big
cut in prices for cash-the very a
ticle we did not have.
We then went to work to build up
a fund to be known as the purchasing
fund, and to a very satisfactory extent
succeeded, and it is working we'll 1t
takes no committee with the "Kelter,"
the Business Agent is all that is need
ed to make terms and purchases that
r beneficial and very satisfactory.
And ! wish right here, in the way of
brotherly rivalry, to notice the con-
munication of Bro. Downing, of Terra
binth Alliance, CUMBERLAND county,
in the last issue of our manly organ,
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER, in which
he says that Terabinth is the banner
Alliance of good old Cumberland.
We of Goodwin Alliance are in Cum
berland, too, and in the roll of honor
published by Bro. Graham, our trus-
tee of the B. A. F., are tenth in said
roll. We were not tenth, and had
the money on the way to him that
would have placed US Ave points
nearer to No. l. than we were rated,
and we have still added to it since,
and did not see our Bro. Terabinth in
any of the rolls of honor published
these are the facts Bro. Downing.
And will wager the seth part of
a big Alliance dinner that we we're
the first Alliance in Cumberland
county that bought guano direct from
the mandatory.
Look well to the laurels you clam,
lest they still Be worn by Goodwin, for
we kno0 that up to this date we can
out banner you.
l. We SHOULD all initiate the examples
OF our best Alliances. Ours have de-
cided that the best decision ever
made by the organization since the
first Alliance man conceived the idea
OF an Alliance was the decision of the
bagging committee at Birmingham,
Ala, the other day when they unani-
mously decided to use cotton to cover
the cotton crop with.
Now SO far as the general senti
ment of our Alliance is concerned.
we have this to say to all donbting
Thomases and the Belshazzers, you
need not doubt nor your knees quake
and shake for we are a native and
come TO stag.
Huge success to you brother 2. f.
ID. g. MCCLELLAN, Sec'y.
! -- -
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Roll Book for Subordinate Secretaries .
Alliances,

A great convenience. Printed page headings.
Will hold 1872 names. Each month and quarter
separate. A column to enter date of payment Of
dues. The attendance can be kept neatly. Try
one. Price Is cts. Address,
J.. w. REID, Sec'y s. c. State Alliance,
Reidv;lle. S. C..
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Attention. Thinkers!

Farmers, Laborers, Producers Do You wish to
know the primal causes of the Industrial Degrees
sion, Social and Political Ills Read the great re-
form weekly the South West. Only S1O0 per year.
Address, SOUTH WEST,
Fort Worth, Texas,
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For SaleI
my2S3t

A few grade Merino and Dorset-horned Lambs.
Also a registered jersey Bull Calf.
A. B. DEANS,
my2S3t Wilson, N. c.