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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-07-09

that he keeps body and soul together.
At the end of the year he finds that
although he has practiced the most
rigid economy, he can scarcely make
both ends meet. There is trouble
somewhere; there is black evil abroad
in the land. What is this trouble and
where -is the remedy, are two vital
questions for the Alliance to solve.
The aid of machinery and the many
inventions of farming implements, the
progressive minds and active brains
of the farmers have heaped up ar
immense mine of wealth somewhere.
Where is this wealth today? Is it
with the farmers? No, a thousand
times no. Almost every other indus
try is on a boom. The railroads are
rich, the fine buildings and palaces
in the cities show that the merchants
and manufacturers are wealthy. All
these have grown fat while the farm
ers have grown lean and poor and in
a few years they must perish without
a change. The day has come for us
to reform, and the Alliance is the
place to do it. We must reform or
we must sink and be lost.
Fraternally,
F. F. SMITH, Sec'y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-07-09
THE ALLIANCE IN VIRGINIA.

CLARKsvrLLE. Mecklenburg Co., Va,
June %, 1889.
Mr.. EDIToR:-Our County Alliance
met in Boydton a few days ago, and of
the thirteen Subordinate Alliances of
this county, eleven were represented.
Hebron Alliance, No. 125, with it's
thirty-seven members five of whom
are of the feminine gender" " also
met on last Saturday. At each of
these meeting some very important
business was transacted, each day
highly enjoyed by all present and
everything passed off in harmony
among the brethren. The day, we
trust, is not far distant when we
will feel no delicacy or be in the least
reluctant in making known more
infinitely to those of our "faith and
ORDER" as well as to many, who, with
us, are not yet agreed, just what we
are driving at in the way of adjusting
a few ~ wrongs" which have here
fore been and are still being imposed
upon our people. But for the want
of more strength and a more extern
sive spread of the Alliance spirit in
our county and State, we must of ne
cessity make short steps until we are
better organized. The building of the
A. & D. R. R., to which this county
in an illegal election several years
since voted a subscription of thirty
FIVE hundro6 dollars nor milo with
the understanding that the above
named railroad was to be completed
within two years from the day of
election, will be, it is thought, COM
pleted by December LIST. The legality
of the election above named, with the
act upon the Board of Supervisors in
extending the time of building the
above railroad, will be tested.
Success to The PROGRESSIVE FAR
MER. Fraternally yours,
L. J. Jacket, Cor. Sec'y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-07-09
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE.
A Recital of Some of the Work it Has
Accomplished Even in It's Infancy.
Correspondence of The Landmark

incompetence ASSA 4A 10 AAAAAA~y
Correspondence Of The Landmark
Not many years ago, amidst and in
front of powerful opposition, the Far
mers' Alliance was started. I say Gin
front" of opposition, because the op
posing forces really were behind and,
contrary to their own expectation, did
actually push things along. Has the
Alliance accomplished anything worth
the cost, trouble, etc. 1t certainly
has. What is it? Just about as much
as a teacher has when he has learned a
boy his letters. Well, that is not much
to be sure, but when a boy gets his A
B Cs down fine you can't keep him
from making a scholar of himself if he
determines to do it, and he may some
time become a statesman. The ALI
ance has learned its letters pretty well
and it is possible that it will become
famous in some respects. It can't say
the alphabet backwards yet but a few
efforts at spelling have proved beyond
a doubt that it will be able to read
some before it reaches the age of 81
years.
The Alliance has been thoroughly
tested as to its disposition to leave the
school room and play horse with the
politicians. But all work and no play
makes Jack a dull boy. The Alliance
actually is too dull to go out into the
political park and play "horse." Well,
the politicians thought it would be fun
to retaliate and so some of them have
actually refused to help the Alliance
boys with their studies, or play with
them at all. Not because the boys
don't have clean faces, but from the
fact, I suppose, that the Alliance boys
don't care to "play horse" Well,
| Jack will be able to take are of him
self one Of these days and his former
| schoolmaster will exclaim, GLOW that
boy has grown!'
I will not undertake to tell what the
| Alliance will do, but what it has done.
One of the first things needed was
newspapers, and cleaner papers than
the Alliance organs throughout the
country can't be found. The latest
venture is the National Organ, pub
lshed at Washington. 1t takes no
advertisements, not because they are
wrong, but its columns are filed with
reading matter entirely, statistics, etc.
The different oil manufacturing
concerns are not trusts, but rather
anti-trusts. These, in connection with
the fixing of the price of cotton seed
| at 20 cents per bushel, will in time
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-07-09
A SHOUT FROM WAYNE.
FREMONT ALLIANCE, No. TIA,
,June 9th 1890

EDITOR PROGRESSIVE FARMER
Please allow space for a few words
from this Alliance. We think the
voice of liberty and freedom is once
more being heard in this goodly land
of ours. Let the cry be passed along
the line until it shall become general
and every yeoman is thoroughly
aroused and enthused. Let us all
exclaim, as did the noble and patri-
otto Patrick Henry, over a century
ago, "Give US liberty or give US
death" 1t had come to pass that the
farmer was under a more rigid servi-
tude and suffered a more tyrannical
slavery than did our forefathers be-
fore the period of the Revolutionary
wal. Mans ~snhWmaGnsty to a had
made countless numbers mourn. We
know by experience the hard lot of
the farmer. He tolls from early
morn till twilight's glimmering rays
fade away in the west; from the first
day Of January till the last of Deem.
Der; through the binding SHOWS and
drenching rains, through summers
blistering suns and winters chilly
winds; and yet with all these struggles
! for existence is is with great difficulty
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-07-09

Miss Minnie Ewin, after three yesa
study abroad, made her debut as Gnos
in " Rigoletto " in London on MONDAY
night with what are reported to ns10
been promising results. Miss EVIL
Is OF an old Virgins family.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-07-09

If q man emptiss his purse into bis
head, no man can take it away from
him. An investment in knowledge
always pays the best interest-F0Hk
LIN.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-01-24
A -,uria Ceda Forest.

An industry, the ike of which does not
exist anywhe eelse in the world. furnishes
scores q people in this part o. New .lerse
wi h rem ner tie emp oyment, AMI has
made comfor q 10 for unes for many ci j.
zens Ii IS h novel CUISINE 5 of inin T,
cedar trees-diggng rom far benea h the
surface immense logs OF sound an aroma
tic cedar. Thy fallen aud subm 'rged ced
ar forests of southern New Jersey were
di C vered first beneath the. ennsv lie
swan seventy live yea S o. an have
been a source { C rs ant ,tere,t to grOl-
ogsts and scientists ever since. There
are Standing at The present day no sue /
enormous specimen, of the cedar any
where on the face of the globe as are found
/ Dedded in the deep mu of he Dennis
Vile swa 8. Some Of the trees have
been uncovered measuring six feet in dia-
meter aud trees our tect through are
common. DennIsville \ !. Letter.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-01-24
Mrs. Whender's Pet.

Car'line," said old Uncle Whenders,
as he pushed away his plate and reach
ed FOE tar-splint for crow -bar purposes
in connection with his teeth, "dat yere
Makeshift's gittin' hogger an hogger
ebery day. Use ies' been a watchin',
oh him, an TO- dc good Lawd, eff d. boy
doan' die OBJ appleplex befo' he's ten
year ole Use pow'ful mitey mistek'n,
da's all.
"Les' look at 'em nowl He's wnlred
dat linth r ham-riud TO- times up an
down he's mouf, till hit looks like hit
were ground polish ID, en-hi dar, TEX
lat out, yo' brack imp, 'r'fl lean on yer,
da's what ri do. + 'r did'n' hab ser
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-01-24


eyes, s'r," replied FL 'abct h; ana -
she ran upstairs she thought Of hueben
In the cupboard.
"Woteyrr shall do" she said to her
self. ere is r. clancy wantln' to
saw something private to the M ssus, and
that ere be will he listenin al the
time. prat i'm! ever a,ea Dung
man in t. sup or aga without rst askin'
leave my name not bath Awkns
Upstairs in the sitting room sat Mrs.
Atwood and he two gentlemen, Captain
Stur9is was in very jovial frame or
mind, for he had had an extra JtrOke OF
good luck.
so you won t6o thousand pounds, Ell.
Sturgis. DER the It. Leger! Well, yol
are lucky, hat Is, IL you get paid I"
Il have been pad, my boy" returned
Stprgis. 1T wa setting Gay to day; and
| received every penny OF IL In 90 old
Bank OF England notes. What do you
think Of that? oh, I'm prec Gus careful
whom l bet with, you may take your
oath
Two thousand pounds though; George
Atwoo /, "a he regarded the man sitting
opposite to him wi h ieel ngs OF envy and
hatr, d. Whal woul a enth part o. hat
be to him ust then What good would 1t
90 urRlS lidu ne not PIE Aly uifeauy ;
Bah! t was always the way.
THAT will be a n &c addition 10 your
banking accountl' he remarked careiessly.
es, replied turgis, smiling COM
placently. -. must 90 and pa 1t in to-
morrow. | intended to have done so to-
day, but was tao late"
" GU don mean to say you carry such
large sun abOLr with you" said A.
wood.
%" answered the ca tain; III am
not ute such i0Ol as al that. I've got
1t safe enough, you may depend.
IL was at this mo ent that Fli'abeth
knocked at the door and. beckoning To
her IN stress, intlmat d that she wished TO
speak to her.
What is it, Eli aboth?" asked Mr.. At
wood.
"Oh nOihink, sir,-leastwa nOthlnk
in rarticu ar 4 only wantei to speak To
missus for moment
Mrs Atwood le t the room.
RI. CDNrtNI-Hll
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-01-24
Women m NLlis.

The fact Is mo- G morally known that
women o alread occupying PAGES and
d ing work IN iron mil and IN maaufac.
tories wire. Thr ears ago the men
in PittSburg bolt MANI ac!ory gave 81
IN .ch trouble that ,hel were displaced 10y
wOme j. The venture proved To be a
marked success, so tina the employers
could not be induced to go back to mea
and DO s. The wire mi | W lich vas
established about that lime took up With
the idea, and again everything " rkrd
satisfa torily. Then hinge lac DRY was
opened tn them, and once more the won
en- proved better w.rrers. more reliable
and less troublesome than theil male
RIA S. How tar the innovation wi: %
cannot b. estma e,l. violently the end
Is no yet seen. Meanwhile girls as &C
coLntants and omce hel are winning
the way. BY aid y the boys VIII! havs
10 agilate for equal rights.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-01-24
A Woman a Reason

You said to me, why don't you do itp'
only could answer, because"
You laughed at the feminine reason,
And prated Of logical laws;
laughed at your trumpery sc ienco-
What good are you going 10 do
With logical'chair that is faultless
And nothing TO fasten it tot
You have to take something for granted,
Just like any woman or Ounce;
Your argument needs o foundation,
So build it firmly at once.
A fable says earth Is supported
BY turtle that rests on COW;
The cow is sustained by n something,
But never fable says how;
And that is the way with your reasons
Thus far I'D no further you go;
There s"ns~thing you never can fathbm
Some Y 8 you never can lnow.
II you asa your logic were missing,
The w'rfd would not totter nor pause;
Aocep ZEN, what is III you like it)
And give as your reason; "Because.n
Miriam X. Davis, in Frank Leslie's.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-01-24
Good Cause for Suspicion.

Westerner lin New York restauranD
-"Cracky, that steaks good. Best
ever see. But, l say, waiter, y'r cook
ought TO be careful about keepfh' things
clean"
Waiter-"He is very careful, sir"
HE is, ehp Look at them dark
streaks across that steak. That never
was cooked on clean fryin' pan, !
know. New York Weekly.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-01-24

The Chinese colony OF New York has a
municiral overnmen OF its o n |
OF the leading thin men are cho ZEN OFF,
ce thereof The keep the uney and
papers OF the municina Ivy in Dig TOR
safe. The sac Is locked wi h IL pm Ter
Gus brass pa llDck acl OF the /, mem
bers OF the Chinese council or hoard OF
aldermen has ket 10 one IT thee pad
locks. When the safe 20 emed all the
/. must be on hand. len. Ill o,
the d,stln urshed Mon Ian bur ell few
days ago WA a member of The board of
aldermen, aud now The mun'ci al n airs
of Little thina' are in mudde. They
can't find tie Key to unlock his padocN,
and, even II they could. no Chinaman
would fll the pla Q officially, of l Yu
boo. one will accept an cleo ion IA
the position, for there Is Chinese super
sutton tina the de ID man would be jeal
Gus oil his su ces o..
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-01-24
The Skunk De trey + of Insects.

The Skunk a DE tr Y + OF lnSecfS.
The much delpised skunk Is good en-
tomOlogist an the farmer d ardrner
make great mistake i'm prosecuting and
estroyin this humble little animal The
few eggs he uilo rs -um the farmer S
hen yard er poorly compensate for the
& eat numLer OF nOXiOus in ects he de
S roys. In May, he is sometimes seen;
about 5 nlown, on some elevated spot,
watching for the May eetle as he wht, Is
his drOn NC light, and he save him, too
not in he sense Sp ken of in the lmmor
tai elegy but between h teeth. He wi |
sit an hour at a time ga herring In the de-
structive bee les e is persis ent hunt
er, and in his nocturnal rambles moves
along with his nose e @ 10 the gro nd;
his SENSE OF smell Is so ute not a insect,
not q larya, aJOYe ground or below, eau
escape him; his eyes now glow w h UNI
usual briliancy as he's ans every leaf and
branch for the hidden prey. bout tobac-
20 plantations his ser lees in destroy NJ
the to COW rms ar considered valuable
several y airs ago tOb eco was cultivated
10 some ,tent in the al OinIhg town Of
Bri hton. The writer, wish NJ To get O
few OF the worms TO rear moths from
ca led on gentle an Ownin plantation
in The town. an ma kno n his oh. ect
The reply was TAKE all you can nd;
we wa t get rid of them. going
thr ugh the rows / noticed many holes In
the ground, five or six inches deep but
could rot IN Ike out the oh I. as they i'll
not have anything TO 90 W n the toba co.
] mentioned In fat 10 the gentle an,
who smi ed as he told me that IL was done
by 9EgrGs to obtain tie toba co worms
A..
aelves 10 undergo Their iranSfo-mati1 ms,
tn ere to eslalled by TIE Eeen-scen'ed
animal and made to serve as food. -Viek S
MAGAZINE
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-01-24
ALIFE LESSON.
ny JAMES wuIrcoMD RILEY,

There little girl; don't cryl
They have broken your doll, / know;
And your tea-set blue,
And your playhouse, too,
Are things OF the long ago;
But childish troubles will, soon pass by
There little girl; don't cry
There little girl; don't cry!
They have broken your slate, II know;
And the glad, wild ways
OF your schoolgirl days
Are things G: the long ago;
But life and love will soon come by,
There little girl; don't CT.
There little girl ;don't cryl
They have broken your heart, know;
And the RAINBOW CLEANS
OF your youthful dreams
Are things Of the long aso;
But Heaven holds all for which you sigh.
There little girl; don't cry
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-01-24

Now does the thoughtful man understand
tina wise provision Of nature which order
that he should grow thinner in summer, for
the cardinal jacket can be stuffed under hi
coat without bursting the buttons.
''Can young man marry comfortably on
$500 yearp asks a correspondent. Yes.
able afterwards
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-01-24

They tell Of q convict in Sing Sing Prison
who has five pet cockroaches; but there isn
cook in this town who has Eve million OF
them.--Judge.
The Newtown bee., 1889-11-29
RoxBURY.

A large number went to Litchfield, last week Thursday evening, to witness ssUn- cle Toms Cabin at the Opera House.
 A party of hunters from Danbury and this place found the body of Charles B.. Wheeler. aged Fl, in the woods north of Joel Judd's, last week Thursday. Medi- cal Examiner Pons was called and it was decided that his death was caused by apoplexy and exposure. He was insane and left his home in Southford on the l4th. The body was removed to A. l.. Hodges warehouse and delivered to his nephew, Theodore Wheeler. the follow ing morning. MT Wheeler was we'll to-do bachelor.
 Church sociabie at Mrs Isaac Prindle' s. last week Wednesday evening; also, the same evening, another at Mrs Henry Bur i ritt's. Owing to unpleasant weather, the attendance was small.
 Ruth Merwin picked Il dandelion II 1 full bloom in Dr Pons' yard, 2lst. Burton Hodge was out, Sunday, witt new horse and carriage. Many of our farmers took advantag'
 of the damp weather, last week, to stril ! and deliver their tobacco.
 Hunters from Bridgeport visited (
 Sanford, last week. and bagged a larg number of cartridges.
The Newtown bee., 1889-11-29

John s. Gaffey of New Haven, secre- tary of the State Republican Young Mems League, who spends his Summer vacations at the Parker house, has been appointed deputy collector of internal revenue for the fifth district.
 Frank B. Judson has moved to Water bury to engage in business there.
 A supper was given at George H. Mall lett's for the benefit of St. Pauls parish aid society.
 The insane man who has been wander ing about the streets has at last been sent to Litchfield jail as vagrant.
 In spite of the tempest, ? persons at tended the supper in aid of the parish aid society at Harmon Judson's in Upper Wecuppemee district.
 Charles C.. Nettleton and family have visited Danbury. Walter Gibson has rented a tenemen in Scratchville.
 A. W. Mitchell has a sprained wrist. Mrs Charles Munson is sick.
 Mir and Mrs Charles Judson of Anson ia have visited Mrs A. W. Mitehell's.
 Mrs Emerson and Mrs Irving Atwoo are at Holyoke, Mass. : Francis Dawson visited New Haven Reuben Munson of Colorado has bee here.
 The sheds near the Strict Congreg; : tional church are being repaired. The
 were wrecked in the blizzard.
The Newtown bee., 1889-11-29
Prof Cyrus Hill.

Rev William Y. Hill, formerly of New town, has recently lost his son, Prof Cy- rus Hill of Milwaukee, Wis, Academy, once Markham academy. Prof Cyrus Hill was born August l2, 1859, in Win chester, Conn.,, whsre his father, now of Bridgehampton, l.. l., was pastor of the NJ. F.. church. He was educated at Phil ips Exeter academy and Yale and, af- ter teaching for six years in Chicago, re- vived played out Milwaukee academy, leaving it with more than 100 boys as pupils. The professor married the daugh- ter of William A. Giles of Chicago. The Milwaukee Sentinel says of him:
 As principal of Markham academy, he achieved great success. especially in his in fiuence and control over the boys attending that institution. He was actively interested | in religious work and just before his sickness | had been elected n director of the I. NJ. C. | n recognition of his successful labors. He be gan his religious work while in college anI was active in Chicago in the Second Presby tcriun church, under Dr McPherson. He wal | elected deacon ot Immanuel church here and | n year ago was elected superintendent of th' Sunday school, where his ability to manage and interest the boys was soon apparent. Hi lite was Il very unseltish one,tull of high aim and noble purposes. His sickness was a lonl and severe one, that of typhoid fever, deatl being directly due to heart disease-
The Newtown bee., 1889-11-29
BLOOMFIELD.

Miss Carrie Peck has returned from a visit with friends in New York.
 The scholars of S5. Paul's Sunday school will begin to practice their Christ mas carols, next Sunday.
 Miss Sadie Kellogg, who is studying stenography in New York, is spending a weeks vacation at home.
 Charles Kellogg and Mrs Benjamin Griffen attended the funeral of Mrs Julia Stahl in Newtown.
 Miss Jennie Kellogg expects to spend the Winter with her uncle in Brooklyn.
 Miss Julia Merwin has been visiting friends in Bethel. 1 Mrs Frederick Rowland of Danbury has singing class of l7 scholars at tho Curtis school, every Friday afternoon.
 Miss Lucy Bishop, niece of Mrs E. l. Whitcome, is attending school at Mis- Winnie Skidmore's.
The Newtown bee., 1889-11-29
HATTERTOWN.

John Roberts has purchased rapid roadster of Ira Wildman.
 Charles Roberts Is building stables un- der his barn and making other improve mcnts. He intends to put new siding on his house.
 Fred Porter has Il large hawk conspic- uously placed upon the side of his house. It measures over three feet from tip to tip of it's wings.
 George Ball, boy living at Grandson Parmelee's, stepped out of doors the oth- CT night, and dimly disccrned white, ghostlike form near the road gate. Ball, who Is nervy boy, drew Il revolver and fired three shots. The ghost made off on run. Ball says the ghost was appar- ently over six feet high.
 Miss Emma c. Luth was guest of A E. kraemer of Cutters Farm, l7th.
 Sunday, l7th, Superintendent Lizzie Booth had our Sunday school vote whether to have Christmas entertain ment, as last year; II yeas, o nays.
 Saturday evening, l6th, the Hunting town burial association met at the Hat tertown school house. Jerome Nichols c. D. Stillson and C. Mccarthy wer chosen committee to draft constitution and by laws, which were at once accept ed. These officers were chosen for thre years from last August: David Parm' lee, president; c. D. stillson, secretary George R. Parmelee, treasurer.