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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-30
g0Etry.
written for THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.l
OUR LOST LOVED ONE.

BY KATE @. FLEMING
Death laid its icy hand
Upon our last loved OLe;
Not in the fond home circle,
But in q far distant land.
He came not at dawn,
MOI in the silent night;
But in the soft even'tid
just as The stars we e shining bright
All through the day they watched him,
All through the starry night;
'TiII that dear voice was hushed in silence,
And his spirit had winged its flight.
There was no mothers heartrending Shrek,
No friends or relatives near,
To offer up a word of p aver.
No one to shed a tear.
1t was waited DER the wires,
AS il 1t were some message Of love;
Wher, sad hearts were to receive II,
And pray to God for mercy from ABOVE
He has gone, we hope, above us;
Far, far from sorrows rod;
Standing by the : Beautiful River
Tha flows By the throne of God"
The Saviour has taken dear Johnnie,
Our loved and Cheria he'd gem,
To shine beyond the tWIlight's purple Tale,
AS d star in Q diadem.
He has reached that world Of light,
Watching you with holy love;
IL the breezes hear him whisper,
81 am waiting you above"
He was borne away from home and pleasure,
Flom native hill and vale,
In search of health, that golden treasure,
Which God alone can give.
But alas! no earthly aid could cure him,
No Gunny Southern skies;
He rough in vain the western landscape,
And there had hoped to seize the prize.
As we gazed on that still face
It b ought back sweet memories Of the past,
VIII Oh still finger around our hearts,
As wea Cend beyond the minds futile grasp.
Gone, gone, forever gone;
Gone from the sight of human eyes;
Dead in a desOlate land above,
Away from the heart that loves him he lies.
He has left alone a loved one,
1t was sad for them to part;
Yet that spirit hOvers near him,
With a thrObbing, &C eng heart.
The ways of earth are dark and Lone,
But FA1her he thou my guide;
On! let thy haHC clasp my own,
And lead me safely to thy side.
Farewell dear one, ii may be for the best,
Loved ones have gone before;
But soon we all shall be at rest,
Where parting Is no more.
Vaughan, N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-30
sUB-BUsINESS AGENTS OF
MOORE COUNTY.

You are requested to meet the County
Business Agent at Jonesboro Thursday
September 18th, or at Carthage, Friday,
10Th, to attend business of Importance.
Do notfail to attend. Hour of meeting,
II o'clock. D. o. BRYAN, c. B. A,
Moore County T. A.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-30

Uncle Pete having been landed upside
down, and his load strewed for a quar-
ter of a mile along the road)-B'rer joins
ing say wen he sol me dat anemil dat he
he'd one fault, but he couldn't remember
wat it was. / shouldn't be soaprized ef
dis was de berry one.-Harper's Weekly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-30

The National Economist Almanac is the
cheapest and most valuable publication
for farmers and Alliance men that has
ever been presented to the public. 1t is
a perfect handbook and gives valuable
facts nowhere else to be found. For two
cash subscribers to TEE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER, we viii mail a copy OF the
almanac postpaid. You can't afford to do
without it. It is worth ten times the
price.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-30
NOTICE.

The stockholders of the Border Farm
ers' Alliance Warehouse Company will
meet at Masonic Hall at II o'clock in
Danville, Va, on Wednesday, the Sd day
Of September, 1890, for the purpose Of
electing a board of directors and attend
ing to other important business.
JAS. II. WILSON. Pres't B. D.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-30
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
Lots of Things Happen in Those West
ern Towns.

We extract the following from the last
issue of the Ariz ma Kicker:
NoT1oE.-f the party who threw the
brick at us last Tuesday night as we stood
on the corner of Apache avenue and
Green street will call at our Office he will
hear something to his advantage. We
can make him realize in about five minutes
that men of his talent are wasting their
time in this country. He can also make
his choice of 165 eligible sites in our pri-
vate burying-ground free of cost. Come
early and avoid the, rush.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-30
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town. We have watched this boom bust
ness in scores of other places, and in every
instance it has reacted d~isastrously. Our
course has aroused the ire of certain spec
~ulators, but we shall continue it Just the
same. We've got 200 acres of cactus
pasture which we would like to dispose
of to some Ohio farmer who wants to bet
ter his ondition and who could be worked
up to part with $4,000 in cash, but we
haven't the cheek. We own half a mile
of side hill, which won't even grow rat
tlesnakes, but we haven't the gall to boom
it for a peach orchard. A million years
hence we may have six railroads here, but
we can't force ourselves to whoop la T!
hurrah! over the prospect. We own
about fourteen billion dollars worth of
wild cat mining stock, every mine being
in the clouds, but for our honesty we'd
proceed to boom and unload. We are at
the head of a company to turn the Pacific
Ocean into the deserts of the West
president of an artesian well company
secretary of the Great Strawberry Grow
ers' Association, etc., etc., but we were
born honest and we can't look a tender
foot in the eye and lie to him.
No, gentlemen, this town is what it is
and no more. 1t isn't going to be a sec
ond Chi ago. 1t has no Niagara Falls.
There isn't v good fishing within thirty
miles Of US. We simply have the great
Arizona Kicker, l48 saloons, sixteen gamb-
ling houses, five stores and a population
of $500 souls, most of which will take
" the other road" when the judgment day
arrives. That's all, and those who don't
want to come can stay away.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-30
Beware Of Fraudulent limitations!
RALEIGH, N. G.

See that our Trademark (same as above
appears on each jug.
Send for book "History of Microbe Killer"
given away by Lee, Johnson & Co Druggists,
sole agents, corner Fayetteville and Martin
streets, Raleigh, N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-30

FAIR WARN1EG.-Ben Stays, the eating
house man, has made public threats to
wiring our nose on the streets. The
trouble dates back to a year ago, when
Ben tried to pass some cactus soup on US
for mock turtle.
Ben may attempt to wiring our nasal
organ. He may even figure that he en-
succeed. We give him fair warning,
however, that he'll have to be prepared
to dodge six bullets, and if he doesn't
happen to be quick enough it won'tmake
US feel very bad.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-30

Personal Mrs. Judge Embo, who ha~
been absent at Tucson for tho past two
weeks, returned last night, and, as usual,
fou1d the Judge so drunk that he couldn't
tell her from a Digger Indian. She didn't
go away for her general health, but to
get over a black eye inflicted by the Judge
in one of his sober mon ents.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-30

No BooM-For two straight years the
Kicker has persistently opposed the idea
of a boom to attract attention to our
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-30

In THE WRONG &c Handsome Charlie"
the genial and enterprising proprietor of
"The Black Swan" saloon, has c,lled at
this Office and convinced us that we were
wrong in stating that he had killed seven
men and was a dangerous character. His
list includes only four men, al laid away
in self-defense, and so far from being
dangerous he says that he has refused to
put up fly screens tits summer out of
general pity for the poor flies. He also
has pictures of three different angels on
the walls of his bedroom.
We c~heerfully make the correction, not
because the gentleman subscribed for FIVE
copies of the Kicker to be sent to his
friends and gave US a $50 "ad," which
will be found elsewhere, but because we
wish to do all men justice.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-30

CALLS FOR SYMPATHY Maj Mcknight,
our popular and efficient City Clerk, met
with a sad accident last Sunday. While
trying to enjoy a drunk, a hammock, a
smoke and a snooze at the same time, he
set himself on fire and was so badly
burned that he will not be out of his bed
for two weeks. The Major has many
friends who will sympathize with him in
his m~isfOrtunes.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-30

, September 23d, until sun

We place before yua Meo of Mems sand youths Suits equal in every respect to the Fines Garments 1et
hghetpnoed @Is Some gntemenh hold prejudice against ready made garments as nmpegnbea
Gibraltar They must weaken if they'll but let sp on Oeo fO our SUITS made up-ungng
nprceN$5 N$5 samewoud cost d@hmoHdoube ndM obeMr- cntba0
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-30
FEEDING A FIRE-SOME IDEA
OF THE WORK OF ALOCO-
MOTIVE FIREMAN.

Incessant Action and Intelligent Direc-
ton Necessary--Passenger Train
Engines the Hardest to "Fire"
WIN the Gauge Should
Have Attention.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
NOT REAGAN's CREATION.

In an article out of which shines more
than the iorcible opposition of the New York
Sun to any attempt to regulate or confne
the railway corporations within their proper
limits, that journal devotes some space to
attacking the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. Its criticisms of that body's decis-
ions open up field which is commensurate
with the entire discussion on railway regu-
lation that has gone on for the past ten
years. But statement of facts is made
which, as historical inaccuracy, requires
correction, as follows: "The Commission
originated with Senator Reagan, " no is a
type of the lowest quality OF representative
that has been sent to the upper House of
the American Congress-"
This assertion must have come from the
same source as that which recently led the
Sun into asserting that the Interstate Com
merce law requires the railways to charge as
much per mile for long haul as for short
one. We need not discuss the quality of
Senator Reagan's craftsmanship, in view of
the fact that, so far from the Interstate
Commerce Commission having originated
with that legislator, during the entire time
that the bill was under consideration
by Congress he steadily and urgently op-
posed the creation OF a commission. His
entire argument on this point, like that of
most of the. more earnest supporters of
such legislation, was that the provisions Of
the law should be construed and enforced
Sy the regularly constituted courts, and
that commission would not only be un-
necessary, but would naturally fall under
control of the corporations. The Reagan
bill, as it passed the House, was formed on
this plan. The Cullom bill, which was
passed by the Senate, provided for the COM
mission, and the compromise reached in the
conference committee was to give complain
ants against railway discrimination the right
of going before either the commission or the
United States Courts.
The correction of the Suns very decided
error with regard to the history of this legis-
lation has additional Importance from this
one fact: While Judge Reagan was a
steady opponent Of the commission, cor
porate influence was thrown entirely in
favor OF the creation OF that body. All the
railway magnates who appeared before the
Congressional committees favored the crea-
ton of a commission. All the corporate
organs praised the Cullom bill, which
established it, and denounced the
Reagan bill, which left the enforcement of
the law to the regular courts. The idea of
the opponents of the commission, that it
would be swayed by corporate influences,
was evidently shared by the railway inter-
est; and it continued long after the bill be-
came law and the commission was estab-
lished. The corporate organs not only
praised the commission so long as it did
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
NOVELTIES IN JEWELRY.

A oUEEN chain pendant of yariegated gold
representing small cylinder shaped Chinese
lantern is very attractive.
A1ADY,s oxidized silver watch case with
the owners monogram in gold surrounded
by finely executed figure work was recently
shown.
THE miniature painting is again in vogue.
and gentlemen are now wearing as watch
charms. portraits of their favorite actresses
painted on ivory.
AN oddity of this seasons production is a
gentleman's watch chain of oxidized silver
which realistically represents a shoe lace. The
bar of the chain Is gold buttoner.
A MINIATURE silver rat trap intended for use
as paper clip will prove convenient and at
tractive addition TO the writing table. Around
the handle of the trap is coiled twig with a
dimiuutive rat contemplating the snare laid for
its capture.
THE heavy chain bracelet of Roman gold
which was so popular last season has been re-
yiyed and promises to enjoy continued favor
A massive paddock having diamond, ruby and
sapphire mounted around the keyhole is this
season attached to the ornament.
THE feminine fancy is sought to be enlisted
in behalf of small bonbon box representing
an ANTIQUE snuff box. The snuff boxes Of
notable personages of the seventeenth century
are being reproduced in gold and silver by en-
terprising manufacturers and appear to be
popular.
ABOVE a knife edge bar of six diamond set
tinss are coiIed two snakes, each about to
strike at fine, white pearl which lies between
them. Above the reptiles, which constitute a
new lace pin, is poised beautiful diamond, the
rays from which are supposed to be protecting
the pearl from harm.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
PROMINENT PEOPLE,

SIR EDWARD GUINNESS, the big Dublin
brewer, is to be raised to the peerage, mostly
because of his justly celebrated ale.
COLONEL A. L. NEWMAN, President of the
National Bank of the Commonwealth in Bos-
ton for nine years, has just resigned that posi-
tion.
GENERAL Hustled, who retired from poll
tics a year ago to devote himself to the busi-
ness of getting rich, has concluded to re-enter
politics.
THE Empress Frederick, to whom the En-
gllsh taxpayers have contributed $4,000 year
for the past 35 years. has at present an income
of $3.50, 900 year.
GENERAL 8. E. MERwIN, of New Haven,
Republican candidate for Governor of Con-
necticut, is business man and President of
the Yale National Bank.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, of Newport, KY,
the Temporary Chairman of the Blue Grass
State Constitutional Convention, is a direct
descendant of Samuel, a brother Of the i'm
mortal George.
THE engagement is announced in London of
Miss Isabel Scott daughter of ex-President
Scott, OF the Richmond and Danville road, and
Mr.. Douglas Grant, son of the late Beach
Grant, of New York.
KING HUMBERr unveiled an equestrian
statue of his father, the late King Victor
Emanuel, at Florence yesterday. An immense
crowd witnessed the ceremony. A number of
bands played national airs.
IN Baltimore, where Chief Justice Fuller has
just been making visit on business. it is
thought that he resembles Henry Ward
Beecher in appearance, probably because he
wears his hair long. Beecher was much
heavier and wore no mustaches.
CAssIUs MARCELLUs CLAY. JR., President
of the Kentucky Constitutional Convention, is
a grandson of Henry Clay. He is a farmer of
Bourbon county. good Judge of a horse and a
graduate of Yale in the class of 1866. Mr.. Clay
is proud of the fact that the trotting stallion
Cassius NJ. Clay was named after him.
IsMAIL PAsHA, the ex-Khedive of Egypt,
who presented Cleopatras Needle to the city
of New York, is practically prisoner at his
residence on the Bosphorus. He is in bad
health, and recently made arrangements to go
to Carlsbad to take the waters. but was pre-
vented from doing SO by the Turkish Govern
mept,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
PITTsB URG. SUNDAY. SEPT 81. 1890
INGALLS, INVESTMENTS.

There is a disposition, not unnatural
10 the political mind, to make a good
deal of capital for the Democrats out of
the disclosures of an investigation into a
bank suspension at Abilene, Kansas. The
President of the bank has testified that S10,-
coo OF notes secured by mortgages had been
discounted at the rate of IS per cent, in
cluding the ten per cent interest allowed by
law, and that the notes belong to John j.
Ingalls,
The idea is to represent the Senator
as protesting friendship for the farmer and
vet grinding his life out with usury. On
that point, while il must be admitted that
is per cent is a very lively rate of interest,
it Is rather difficult Tor the Eastern mind to
see how Senator Ingallsi is responsible for it.
Il IS per cent Is more than the market rate
there the people who pay it must be fools
for not going where they can get lower rates,
or else the security must be inferior. II the
Senator is trying the speculation of lending
money on poor security at smashing rates,
he is entitled to the big rates, but not to the
public sympathy if he should get loss of
both principal and Interest. Nevertheless
the general prejudice against the business
OF loaning money at rates which Will eat up
the principal in five or six years is so strong
that the disclosure will not be particularly
beneficial to the Kansas Senator.
Another point of interest is the light this
disclosure throws on the current represen-
tation that the salaries ofo our public men are
insufficient to keep them. Senator Ingalls,
himself has often been used as an ilIustra-
ton of the poor Senators who will always be
kept poor by devotion to the public service.
Yet when we learn that in addition to a
S25. 900 place in Kansas and his interests in
the Kansas Investment and Mortgage Com
paur, the Senator has been able to lend
some $4,000 on private account at 1S per
cent. we feel that his efforts to get little
ahead of the world nave not been wholly un-
availing. Also, the fact that the Senator's
investments are of this remunerative sort
Quiets any fears of future poverty for this
public servant. Men who are able to invest
money at is per cent are not in danger of
the poorhouse.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
CAMPAIGN CLIMAX.

The climax of interest in the Pennsylvania
campaign will be reached by the promised
performance of ex-senator Emery at Brad
ford on Friday evening next. During the
past week he caused it to be generally known
that he proposed on the date named to prove
his charges against Candidate Delamater
of corrupt methods in politics and of render
ing services for a consideration to the
Standard Oil Company, while sitting as
representative of the people at Harrisburg.
1t is easy to see that the success or failure
of Emery's undertaking will have a pro-
found influence on the November vote. If
he adduce evidence to impress the public
with belief on his Indictment, the weather
will be very cold for Candidate Delamater
with prospect of the freezing point by No
vember. On the other hand, it is equally
clear that failure by Emery, or disproof by
Delamater, would greatly strengthen the
latter chances in the campaign.
Both sides realize fully the Importance of
the occasion. For the present the case is
one of positive assertion. met by equally
fat and emphatic denial. The burden of
proof rests on Emery. If he is not equal to
the occasion he will have rendered his po-
litical enemy such a service as the most
powerful and willing of Delamater's friends
could not have proffered. 1t is in sense
one of the turning points of the campaign;
and the public can afford to await the out
come in impartial and judicial mood.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
FIGS AND THlSTLES.

WE will never find out until we get to heaven
what it means to live.
IT is an awful thing to live, and not live as
God intends we should.
THE man who is afraid of getting too much
religion will bear watching.
The napkin that had concealed the face of
Christ was left In the grave.
THAT man will get to heaven soonest who
will use the wings God gives him.
No man loves God very much who isn't doing
something to help His other children.
THE mines of God are full of gold for the
man who will hunt for them on his knees.
IF the people in the pews were more prayer
full the preacher would be more effective.
THE man who is quarreling with his lot in
life helps the devil to make him miserable.
HAD Jesus died natural death there would
have been no necessity for His resurrection.
THE way to get your children to 60 the way
you want them TO, is to walk the way you point
THE only way to be useful and happy is to
be willing to be wherever God wants you to
be.
TRYING to be saved by works is as foolish as
trying to sweat by watching boy turn grind
stone.
IT won't do to trust your feelings for an hour,
but it is safe to depend upon the word of God
forever er-Indiandpolis RAMS Horn.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21

nothing. but even went so far as to assert
that the commission was going to perform
the great work of modifying and amending
the act of Congress which created it, by
means of its own decisions.
1t is only after the commission has devel-
oped the quality of virility that the
corporate conclamations are heard concern
ing its perniciousness. 1t is not worth
while discussing the pros and cons of its
decision on Western rates, against which
any railroad that chooses can appeal to the
nearest United States Court But in view
of the fact that the corporate interests
favored the commission idea in legislation,
are responsible for its adoption in the
national law, and have praised the commits
sion without ryhme or reason for that large
portion of its existence in which it did little
or nothing. itwould now be seemly for them
to take the medicine they provided for
themselves without quite so much squealing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21

But it is we'll to study ideals, in order to
see what heights of municipal development
might be attained, if the work were not
hampered by the qualities of distrust
and jealousy on the part of the people and
dishonesty or incapability in the admins
tration of public affairs. To take in the
outlying districts and tax the poperty-
holders into bankruptcy, merely that we
might say that there was city Of 100000
inhabitants stretching from McKeesport to
Sewickley, would be mere wantonness.
But supposing the government of such
city to be ruled by that intelligent and en-
terprising economy which gives the people
the full value of their money in muni cipal
improvements and administration, it is not
hard to see how the unified work of such a
city would raise by an almost infinite
power the standard of our Improvements.
For instance. such a city might be able to
connect all the outlying boroughs and sub
urbs by boulevards not necessarily paved,
but macadamized, with cable and electric
roads giving prompt access to the city from
every direction. AT present such enter
prises are hampered by the multiplicity of
authority, and the impossibility of getting
the various boroughs, cities and township
authorities to act together. Such direct
boulevards bringing all sections within
forty minutes of the business center, would
in a few years fill the slopes of the Ohio,
the valley of the CHARTERS and the uplands
of the entire circuit with suburban homes.
The workingman or the clerk who now has
to pay $1,000, or the interest on it, for
home in closely-built sections could for less
cost get one with open grounds surrounding
it. The progress OF the last five years has
been remarkable, but it only shows what
could be done, if the whole of the popuia-
tion in the proposed district were united
under one municipality in the effort for in
tellIgent and honest Improvement.
1t may be an ideal; but it is an ideal well
worth keeping in mind. With the union
of all the cities and boroughs under good
administration, our community might be
made the seventh city in the land in popu-
lation, and the second or third in attractive
ness and enterprise.