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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-20
THE ALLIANCE IN TEXAS.

Come days ago it was ~telegraphed
~ rel the country that the papers
had been filed and that suit would be
brought against the officers of the
Texas State Alliance for the recovery
$1,000, 600 which was alleged to have
been misappropriated in some way.
The fact that since that news came
the Alliance and Wheel in that State
have held a meeting and consolidated
the two organizations ought to show
that the members of the Wheel in the
State, who vel in a position to know
the facts as to the status of the Ali
once, had nc fears of a big suit or
anything else. The Southern Mercury,
organ of the State Alliance, has been
received and for the benefit of numer-
Gus enquirers we append several ex-
tracts relating to the subject. 1t says:
"The Austin Correspondent of the
Times-HeraId has had snakes in his
boots again and has telegraphed that
sheet another "sensa alton in alliance
circles" This time the snakes are
great angry looking moccasins each
with a jug Of mean rum in his mouth
belching forth liquid fire. The ex-
perience of years of failure ought to
have learned this acrimonious Bohe-
milan that his vaporings will be about
as effective in causing the disruption
among the Alliance people he so
much desires as the historic fy's at
to disturb tabled OK"
Again the Mercury says in regard
to the alleged dissatisfaction as to the
management as telegraphed by this
friend in human form.
"Well, yes, the Alliance people are
dissatisfied. They will express their
dissatisfaction at the polls next No
vember. They are dissatisfied with
the way corporate influence is domi-
mating in this state-dissatisfed that
corporate gold controls the opinion of
men who claim responsibility among
gentlemen and some of whom are lying
awake at nights concocting schemes
to cause disruption among the farm
ers Alliance of this State that corpor-
ate Influence may move up another
notch in its effort to more complete
ly subjugate the people of Texas.
The Alliance people of Texas may ex-
pect many such kilograms. The enc
my is at work and if he can once
get you divided and fighting among
yourselves you will be an easy prey
to corporate greed"
It is strange that apparently sensi-
bic people will pursue the Alliance
with such vehemence. And especially
is 1t so when their darts fall to the
ground brokenwithout accomplishing
the desired effect. Such liars should
be ~placarded and compelled to MAJ. b
through the main streets of their TOW n
crying at the top of their voice: II
am a 'great liar, don't believe me
again.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-20
~DO HIGH TAXES HURT THE
FARMERS7"

IN our issue of two weeks ago we
saw fit to differ with the Nashville
Argonaut and the Wilmington Mes
asuger. The Messenger thinks that we
did not treat it fair. 1t says we re-
Buked it for a paragraph that appeared
N the ArgonaWt; that the Messenger
s~ontroverted what the Argonaut affirmed
IN a column editorial. The ArgonGut
says the whole thing is in a middle,
9nd there seems to be a general mis-,
understanding all around. We did
not wish to place our respected con-
semporaries in a false light before the
public, and as we do not remember
just what arguments they made in
opposition to high tariff, trusts and
other mean things, we will take their
word for it, "that they are as much
opposed to those things as The Pro
HREssIvE FARMER is" We thank
chem for saying so, and feel that in
Shem we have powerful allies. So if
our contemporaries are willing we
will consider ourselves a unit on these
matters and say nothing more about
4he "muddle."
But we will now come down to
where the Messenger and 4rgonaut
misunderstood The PROGRESSIVE FAR
xER. Be it remembered that we had
but little to say about the tariff views
Of our friends. We laid all the stress
on the following paragraph, and really
It was our text:
Unlike ourselves, the editor of
the Argonam has tried his prentice
hand at farming, We agree with
him a to the general charge of slip
shop farmlng-to a want of thorough,
ness and intelligence in much that is
done"
Now that was our text and we con-
fined ourselves to that alone. That
accounts for a part of the misunder-
standing. We we're simply defend
ing the farmers as a class instead of
discussing the tariff out of which the
whole matter came. Here it is in a
aut shell: The ArgOnaut said among
other things, "that the man who
moves about through the country and
witnesses the want of intelligent
energy, the slipshod, haphazard way
IN which many farmers conduct their
business, will not be at a loss to dis.
cover reasons for want of thrift"
The Messenger agreed with it and so
We got after both with a sharp stick.
It is true that intelligence and energy
are lacking, and we are sorry that it
is so. We made this admission in the
former article, but declared, and re-.
peat it now, that farmers work as
much as other people, generally
speaking. If not, who furnishes the
means to build the thousands of miles
OF railroads, manufactures, towns,
cities, ETC., throughout this great re,
public The Messenger or Argonaut
can find as many worthless, shiftless
characters in Wilmington or Nash
vile, in proportion to population. as
they can find in the same population
in any farming section in the United
States. Then away with the idea that
farmers are any more responsible for
their troubles than other people. It
is entirely erroneous.
While on this line we might con.
slider another matter. We hope the
Messenger and Argonaut have not been
guilty of such mistakes, but we know
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-20
AMONG THE ALLIANCES.
What the Organization is Doing
Throughout the Country.

Throughout the Country.
An Alliance warehouse is to be
erected at Chester, S. G.
The first brick for the new ALI
ance tobacco warehouse at Oxford
was laid last Thursday morning.
They bore with a big augur out
West. Missouri nov has $500 Sub
Alliances. One county has IS alone.
"Orders have gone out from Wall
street to eliminate the Greenbackers
from the Farmers Alliance Indian
GpoESs Leader.
Five hundred and ffty-fve dele
gates attended the last meeting of
the Minnesota State Alliance, held re.
Gently at ST. Paul.
The T0tler, of Nashville, Tenn,
says there was over two hundred
Alliances chartered in the past sixty
days, and forty Wheels in the same
length of time.
The corner stone of the Alliance
Cooperative Manufacturing Com
pany's building at Iron Gate, Va,
was laid last Thursday. Col. G.. T.
Barbee, President of the State ALI
ance, and others, conducted the cere-
monies.
The Newberne Daily Journal has
-ooJ had - IN tic had II
says: "When in the course of hu-
man events an Alliance rises to pro.
test against any political action, it
will be justly considered a summons
to halt and deliberate upon the situa-
ton"
The Agricultural Wheel and the
Farmers Alliance of Texas, consoli-
dated at a meeting held in Fort Worth
on Saturday last. The consolidation
will be known as the Texas Farmers
State Alliance. Among those who
attended the meeting was L. L. Polk,
President of the National Alliance.
The Rural Messenger says the Ali.
ances have more than doubled In
number since the last State meeting
in Virginia. Three hundred charters
have been issued since the first Of
January. Floyd and Charles City
counties were organized on the 18th
and 14th. Total number of Sub
Alliances in the State is 915.
The Alliance is only a few weeks
old in Michigan but already ten coun-
ties are on the march. There is
something magic about the touch of
the Alliance, when you get into this
army, now three million strong, you
feel that you are shoulder to shoulder
with the "patriotic liberty-loving peo-
pie" of this country.-LGnStng (Mlch.
Sentinel.
Nh. J. 7. McKibben, State business
agent of the Farmers Mutual Bene.
fit Association, in Illinois, announces
that he has made arrangements
whereby the farmers will get their
Irvine at a saving of from $500 to
$1,000 on every car load, less than
trust prices. "Down went the jute
trust, to the bottom of the sea-" is the
song we farmers now sing all over
the South and West.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-20
ONE PATRIOT HEARD FROM.

HAwFIELD, N. G.
Mr.. EDITORIALS a member of the
House of Representatives from Ala
nance county, I neither accepted a
free pass or any free rides. My PEG.
pie expected me to vote for a railroad
commission and to have accepted
would have placed me in an unenvi-
able position.
l send this according to request in
your paper.
Very truly,
R. W. SooTT.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-05-20
A A " ASKED.

VIII the judges, members of the
State Senate and members of the
lower House who have refused to &C
sept free passes from the different
railroad corporations in the State be so
kind as to drop us a postal card to
shat effect? We would appreciate
this little act of kindness very much.
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RALEIGH, N. c., MAY 20, 1890

yaH pQDer entered as sec0nd7dGss matter at the Post
Office in Raleigh, NJ. CT
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-22
Feminine. hut Neat.

After your soup and fish you begin to
talk with your neighbor.
She is an American married to a French
man, and she tells you this funny little
story anent a famous little beauty who had
been betrothed to her husband before she
ever met him.
Said she: "Iwas little under the weather,
and so when she called l had to ask her to
come to my boudoir. On my writing desk
stood picture of my husband-one he had
given me when first met him and which
was framed very gorgeously in silver. After
she had talked about herself little while
she went over to this picture, gave it the
most loving look and said ''Ah, he had that
taken for me-
Angry? OF course l was angry, but my
native wit didn't desert me. l waited for
few minutes after saying. Did hep And
then l reached out and got little case
from the table just beside me, opened it
and showed her the picture inside 1t was
the heads of my husband and myself taken
together on our wedding trip, and then l
announced He had that taken for me-
don't think she will bore me again" You
couldn't help but laugh, it was such an in
tensely womanly thing to do.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-22
How Baby Is Fed.

My baby nurses practically when she is
hungry, every four to six hours, on the
average. l am inclined to think that bot
tied babies should not be fed oftener than
once in four to six hours. Our baby is
never overfed, and we never allow her te
nurse until we know that she is hungry.
Nor do we ever interrupt her sleep to feed
her. Not long ago she woke up at noon,
nursed went to sleep again at O'Clock
and slept till 10 o'clock at night-1O hours
without nursing.
The sleep was of as much benefit to her
as the food given when she walked hungry.
We hope that she will nurse until she is IL
or Is months old, and we will not begin to
give her cows milk until we see that the
mothers milk is actually insufficient
When she is ready to take solid food which
she will not be until she is 12 or Is months
old, then she will get graham bread with
the milk and we may add a little fruit
later. Many babies die of dyspeptic star
walton by overfeeding, and don't intend
to let mine.-Interview in Boston Globe.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-22
The Young Women of Today.

1t is not enough that the young women
of today shall be what their mothers are
or were. They must be more. The spirit
of the times calls on women for a higher
order of things, and the requirements of
the woman of the future will be great.
must not be misconstrued into saying that
the future woman will be one of mind
rather than of heart. Power of mind in it
self no more makes true woman than does
wealth, beauty of person, or social station.
But clear intellect, well trained mind
adorns woman, just as an ivy will adorn
a splendid oak; a true woman has a power,
something peculiarly her own, in her moral
influence, which, when duly developed,
llnakes her queen over wide realm of spirit.
But this she can possess only as her pow
ers are cultivated. Cultivated women
weld the scepter of authority over the
world at large. Wherever a cultivated
woman dwells be sure that there you will
find refinement, moral power and life in
its highest form. For woman to be cul-
tivated she must begin early; the days of
girlhood are transitory and fast fleeting,
and girls are women before we know it in
these rapid times. Every girl has GER
tain station to occupy in this life, some
one place to fill, and often she makes her
own station by her capacity to create and
fill it. The beginning influences the end.
Ladies' Home Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-22
woman's Mistake in Shopping.

No pursuit known to the feminine world
so successfully and delusively disposes of
time as shopping The experienced hus-
band and father knows that any engage
ment with his family which stands at the
end of a shopping day has large chances
against fulfillment. Even a woman of dis
cretion in other matters who has but an
hour at her disposal will plan enough err
rands for that time to crowd half day.
"It is o'clock, " says the shopper. ''Two
hours more and in that time l can easily
call on the dressmaker up town, make sew
eral purchases at Bartle's and run in to
look at the new etchings at the gallery
since l shall be so near I'll look at the
book store as l come down and select a
book for Susie's birthday. Then l can
take cross town car and get home in
good season."
When the great church bell chimes she
is shocked, dismayed and ashamed to find
that she must be late to dinner and keep
the family waiting, and she frets herself
into such nervous condition because of
what she has done and what she has failed
to do that husband and children learn to
dread the days "when mother goes shop
ping" A little forethought, and especially
the remembering what so many women
forget, that it takes time to go from place
to place, and that street cars are not light
ming transits, would make vast differ
ence in many cases.-Harper's Bazaar.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-22
To Cure Freckles.

Freckles are of little account in children,
who had better be left free to run and play
in the sunshine; but older persons, besides
guarding against unnecessary exposure,
may need to increase the tone and nutri-
tion of the skin, which can be done by
washing it once or twice day in tar soap
and cold water, and afterward applying a
lotion of borax and rose water.
Here and there person is troubled with
large, irregular patches, most frequent on
the face and back of the hands. They are
caused by morbid disintegration of the
red blood corpuscles, the debris being de-
posted in the scarfskin as pigment.
This disintegration is caused by some
form of debility, induced by disturbance
of one or more internal organs. Treat
ment must aim to restore the nervous pow
er and the general health. Local stimu-
lants may be applied, as in the case of
freckles.
Sometimes this discoloration is spread
uniformly over the entire body, and is then
known as Addison's disease. Its origin is
essentially the same as in the more limited
disorder last mentioned, but the extensive
destruction of blood corpuscles gives rise
to serious an@mia or poverty of the
blood Youths Companion.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-22
Women and Their Teeth,

Dentists have some decidedly funny ex-
periences," said DR.. Howard Magnusson.
"Not long ago German woman came into
my office and wanted to know if she could
get set of up stairs and down stairs teeth.
OF course knew what she meant, and she
was speedily accommodated. Another
woman applied for the privilege of renting
set of false teeth for an evening. She
had been invited to an entertainment, but
had no false teeth of her own and had no
money to buy set, so she thought that
she would rent a set, that she might be
able to do justice to the viands that would
be set before her. Another woman had an
ulster on her tooth, she said and wanted
to have it removed. The latest funny Incl
dent that happened to me was the visit
paid to me day or two ago by woman
who wanted to have her teeth sharpened
so that she could eat beefsteak That
party had the true carnivorous instinct y
Chica0O Post
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-22
The Expression "Lady Friend"

You don't need to explain that you're
doing this or that with a friend-you
wouldn't do it with an enemy; the only
thing you do with an enemy is to fight
her, so there's no need of explaining that
you were walking with lady FRIEND you
were walking with lady or with a gentle
manor preferably, with man or with a
friend. The conversation will tell whether
your friend was a man or woman. The
good old word ''lady" has been vulgarized,
until now it means almost the opposite of
its old meanings. You read about "two
ladies" being arrested, of society ladies'
who know no more of what the women
who are in society are doing than they
read in the newspapers. Gentleman"
hasn't been so vulgarized, but it's badly
treated, and with LADY, should be put
aside to recover.-New York Sun.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-22
A Pretty Baby Basket.

should like to tell howl made a very
pretty baby basket at a cost of only few
cents. Procure some stiff pasteboard, cut
two eight sided pieces as large as you want
the bottom of your basket to be, cover both
on one side with pink or blue lining cambria
and overland them together neatly. If de-
sired more delicate, use thin white muslin to
cover the cambria. Now cut sixteen pieces
to be covered in the same way for the sides,
having the bottom of each piece just wide
enough to fit on the eight sided piece, and
slanting it out toward the top to make the
latter about an inch wider than the bot
tom. After these pieces are covered over
hand them together to form circle, sew
the bottom in, add cushions and pockets
to please the fancy and edge the top with
cord, plated ribbon or lace. One can make
the basket as costly as she pleases, but as
described it is dainty enough for a princess.
Cor. Housewife
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-22
A Good Manager.

A bareheaded woman, with faded and
ragged dress, solicited aims the other even
ing of a gentleman who was crossing the
City Hall park. He came to a halt and
asked
SIS it for drink"
"No, sir; it's for food"
"But don't know how you live. have
to practice economy in order to have mon
ey in my pocket. You may be recklessly
extravagant for all know. How much
money have you spent todayS"
"Well, sir, I've made seven cents run
five of us on cold potatoes so far; and if !
can get three more we'u top off with bread
and water before we go to bed. Might leave
out the bread, sir, if l can find bit of tar
somewhere to thicken up the water and
deceive the children. Can you draw it any
finer than that, sirP"
The man held out dime as he passed by.
New York Sun.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-22
Chance for Women in journalism.

Women make splendid typesetters, good
proofreaders, good reporters and fair edit
ors. They do not make as good editors as
men, for the reason perhaps that they are
not so much in contact with public men;
and this simply because their sex prevents
them from gathering in hotels, clubs, cafes
and places of like character, where men
find it convenient to sit and discuss all
sorts of topics. I see no reason why wom-
en- should not in the near future find daily
Journalism very remunerative field
They will be brought into competition
with men, to be sure, but I have little
doubt that they will be able to successful
ly hold their own - Foster Coates in
Ladies' Home Journal
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-22

and arranging for its return at suitable
time. Should this plan become general,
card cases neatly fitted with an indelible
pencil and miniature calendar will be in
demand. Another innovation for relieving
the ugly monotony of lady's card is to
decorate it somewhat after the manner of
the dinner card, that is, to have a bird, a
flower or plume of ferns in colors or ner
tral tints thrown across the left hand cor
ner. This fancy, if adopted, will result in
great extravaganza, and the cards of the
wealthy and artistic be treasured as verita-
BILE works of art.-New York Letter
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-22
Wonlan's Work.

Married women would do we'll to paste
in their scrap books the following statis-
tics relative to a woman's work: In one
year woman gets dinner 365 times, washes
the dishes 1,095 times, gets the children
ready for school twice day for 1sO days,
gets the baby to sleep 1,460 times and
makes about 300 calls. Who says that q
woman has nothing to do? Armed with
such an array of facts any wife may calmly
await the next time when her husband
tells her that her activity is limited in
duration and degree and then simply par
alyze him by quoting figures. Exchange.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-22
WOMAN AND HOME.
THE EVIL EFFECTS OF MRS. MARTl-
NETS INFANTRY DRILL.

How to Give Money to Children-Wom-
ans Mistake in shopping-How Baby
Is Fed-The Young Women of Today.
Feminine, but Neat.
The infantry drill in some households
we wot of is subversive of all the most en-
gaging qualities of childhood. Look, for
example, at Mrs. Martinet's family Every
thing like impulse has been disciplined out
of them. Mrs. M. herself is said to have
been very strictly brought up on the auto
matte principle, and the strait jacket
system of education which made her the
statuesque creature she is she faithfully
repeats upon her children. People say
they are remarkably well behaved. They
never romp or laugh or do anything OBJ
streperous. When spoken to they respond
in set phrase, as if talking out of book.
If in their babyhood they exhibited any
germs of a rollicking disposition the said
germs were carefully extinguished No
signs of them at present exist, and looking
into the dull, untwinkling eyes of Mrs.
Martinet's children one can hardly fancy
that even in their long clothes they ever
ventured on a chuckle or a crow.
And yet, as we have limited, the little
Martinets are considered model children
So, in fact, they are in one sense, for they
are about as unimpressible as if they had
been nodded out of wax, or cast in plaster
of paris. Their mother, who, in her cold
way, is somewhat proud of the little ''pre-
leisians," in making honorable mention of
their negative virtues, assures her ac-
quaintances-she is too much of machine
to have friends-that they never make any
noise The idea of noiseless boys and
girls! What do children come into the
world for but to make a noise-to whoop,
whistle, sing, dance, run, jump, fight, yell,
roll in the dirt and spoil their clothes? Ali
Mrs. Martinez, your repressive system is
all wrong. The enthusiasm of childhood
should be gently and wisely guided and
Idirected-not choked down. The boy is
father to the man, and if the boy is sys-
tematically snubbed into silence be as
sured the man will never make noise in
the world. New York Ledger.