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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-16
THE MARK OF CAIN ON YOUR
CLOTHES.
What a Little Inquiry Reveals : The
Price of Cheapness---The Poor
Sewing Girl

Walking le:surely up the main business
street OF the city the other day, l saw
that the display window of a large cloth
ing establishment vas entirely filed with
an artistic adjustment of white shirts. On
a spacious card board was this notice,
which | give verbatim:
lone hundred dozen Of these unlaun-
dried shirts, all liren bosoms, cuffs and
bands, at only As CENTS"
Nothing strange about that! To the
average pa sser-by, perhaps not. 1t might
not attract attention, save to one in need
of the article, or to a competitor in the
trade. To me, however, it meant a great
deal.
Entering the store I saw the proprietor,
and asked If those goo1S were a part of a
sherifFs or assignee's sale as a reason for
their very low price.
"No, sir; they are a regular made SHIRT,
and come from a 6rst-class nOdse IN New
York"
Continuing the conversation, [ added
You expect to realize something for
handling these 6 Jods don't your"
81 expect to, yes"
"And the jobber that took your order
had a margin of profits, I suppose?"
"That's what I arg7e."
What about the WIN 'lesaler who sold
to the jobher; doesn't ne receive some
thing tor Ills trouble ?"
"He Intends to make a living. no
doubt" was he reply.
There's the manufacturer; ne Is to
have some share of the profits, isn't he ?"
"That's what he makes for, | believe. "
eyes; then there is the raw material,
spinning, etc; all must be added to the
original cost. Now, how much do you
suppose the girl receives that ade one
of those sGirts? ?"
The merchant shrugged his shoulders,
gave me a searching look, and in a distant
manner, as if he intended that he should
not be misunderstood, said: Il don't
know, and it is not my business"
eyes, it Isl" I rejoined, cit is every
body's business. Only 46 cents FIR a shirt,
bosom, cuffs and bands all linen. The
girl that made that shirt must soon starve,
sir, 60 on the Streets commit suicide, or
go mad. | wouldn't wear one Of them
if you were to pay me for it; my con-
science wouldn't let me-"
A set Of men like a horde Of human
wolves, constituencies, heartleSs as to
who goes down-whose life goes out
would crunch between the teeth of a~varice,
greed and gain, all hope, every honest
and honorable impulse of the heart for a
noble and pure life, and like the galley
slave of imperial Rome, death would be
the "surcease of sorrow ;" to these work
ing girls. Are they not as those who in
the morning say: "Would to Godit were
even" and at even say Wouldto God it
were morning ?"
Talk alb ut the cry of the "outcast OF
Lynpon?" The cfy of starving sewing
girls of America almost makes n to say:
"There is need for another Christ to die
for the world!'
Which shall it be, starve? Go mad
suicide? Or to the bad? = Chicago Union
,Sinnnl
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-16
BILL NYE ON THE NEWSPAPER
PUFF.

The newspaper puff is something that
makes men feel bad if they don't get it.
The groundwork of an ordinary news
paper puff consists of moral character and
a good bank account. Writing news
paper puff: in like mixing sherry cobblers
and mint juleps all through the summer
months for customers and quenching
your own thirst W tn rain water. Some
times q man is looking for a puff and don't
getit, then he says the paper is going down
hill, that it is in the hands of a N 9nOpoly,
and he would stop subscribing if he did
not have to pay his bill first. Writing a
newspaper puff is like taking the photo
graph VI a homefy baby. If The photo
graph does not represent the child with
wings and halos and harps, it shows that
the artist dos not understand his bust
ness. So it is with the newspaper bust
ness-if the puff does not stand out like
a bold and fea less exponent of truth and
morality, it shows the pufer doesn't IN
derstand human nature. It is more fun
to see a man read a puff of himself than
to see a man slip on an orange peel. The
narrow-minded man reads it over sever or
eight times and then goes around to the
places where the paper is taken and steals
what he can. The kind-hearted family
man goes home and reads it to his wife
and then pays up his bill on the paper.
The successful business man who adver-
tises and makes money, starts immediate
ly to find the newspaper man III speaks
a word of grateful, acknowledgement and
encouragement. Then the W men start
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-16
H R v
An Allegory Which Contains Advice for
Both Sexes.


Idly wandering along a summer lane
bordered with sweet flowers, the young
man ar. lived at a crossing where three
paths spread out in different directions.
At the entrance to each path was a
young girl.
The first was a blonde, the second was
a brunette, and the tresses of the third
were of the auburn of Titan.
The eyes of the first were blue the
eyes of the brunette were piercing black;
those of the other were cold hazel-brown.
The first held in her hand some ~vIolets;
the second wore at her waist a bur ch f
carnations; between the teeth of the
third was a blood-red rose.
The first was slender; her 1.-THE figure
bespoke virgin grace; her expression was
sweet and trusting, aad her delicate skin
was radiantly pure.
The second was of full form her full
stature was enticingly graceful. Her
alluring glance and flushed cheek were
indicative of voluptuous joy.
The third was slight her ~springly
figure was full Of provoking grace; the
penetrating expression Of the eyes was
capriciously varied with subtle glances of
coquetry.
The first Il alden spoke to the young
man and said: II am the one who will
devotedly serve you, for my heart responds
with love for you. Your glance causes
me to tremble, and I will blushinglv sur
render my life to you. I am the one who
will ever live for thy caresses and thy
love, tor my soul is thine. | am the faith
full companion of our i~ndissoluble union.
Young man, 1 will love thee always"
The second maiden spoke to the young
man, and said
81 am the one who c~uriously awaits
you, for my idle heart feels somewhat
pleased by your glances. I am the one
to whom thy light thoughts turn and l
will gayly abandon myself to thy caresses.
l am the one who will shower love upon
thee for a moment, for am the free and
light companion who will share thy pleas
ures while our transient union lasts.
"Young man, I will love thee for a
while"
The third maiden spoke to the young
man, and said: al am the n who has
not awaited for thee, for my heart has
never felt the influence of love. / am
the one who inspires interest in thy
thoughts. I will feign love for thee, but
will eve be thy slave. I am the one
who will increasingly torture you with
my cruelty, but thou wilt never move q
single fiber in my soul. I am the pe'verse
companion who will deceive thee always
! during our lamentable union. Young
man, I will love thee never"
The young man looked successfully at
the three maidens.
The frs. seated herself my the roadside
and burst into tears.
The second lightly shrugged her shout
ders and slowly walked away.
The third burst into laughter and quick
ly fed, and the young man rushed off in
pursuit of her.-Her6eI Field, in America.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-16

and the constable's surmise proved cor
rect When the precious pair were
brought in, | ven to the lookup to see
them especially tie dog, which | found
to be a very fine bull terrier, worthy of a
better master. His head was pretty badly
cut up by my knife, but he knew and
would have atrac ed me again at sight, if
he had not been restrained
l learned afterward that the man was
convicted of numerous crimes and sent
on a seven-year sentence to the peniten-
tiary. Ny few wounds had been properly
cauterized Immediately after the fracas,
and I never experienced any i'll effect
from them " Thomson, in NeaO York
TedGer
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-16

written for THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER.l
THE CRISIS.
AN ALLIANCE BATTLE SONG.

AN AGL4AESE
Va sons of toll who till the land;
W W bosts who feel expressions hand,
NJ fine has come to firmly stand
Asserting rights defiantly.
No longer let us be the slaves
Of s%Ouiless greed that only Graves
To hind our letters till our graves
The victims show of slavery.
The tocsin calls us forth to meet
The foes whO've kept us under feet
And left us not a winding-sheet
When called into eternity.
So II nv boys, be wide awake,
Our rights they can not, shall not take,
And If our stand we don't torsake
We're bound to gain our liberty.
No politicians mandates mind
let such who try to drill us find
Their tactics not the thing to bind
And chain us in severity.
Monopoly we will defeat,
And nirate trusts and combines beat
The black flag On high to greet
Base plutocratic tyranny.
We will show what It's to bare
An open breast, without a tear,
r. foes who menace all that's dear
To mauhood's cherished destiny.
Rv all we love and cherish here;
Nv ali that God and man holds dear,
We will make the tyrants fear,
Who revel in u misery.
Let North and South and East and West
Arouse-their chickering's arrest
To fight the common foe abre asst,
Meath banners of fraternity.
"The loud w~ar-trumpet wake the morn;
The gu vering drum; the peallng horn"
Arouse to death or Victory!
u. B, GwYNN.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-16
E P MOSES DOWN..
A Widower who Maintained His Rights
at q Critical Time.

at q OT1C1C94 i 1I1SS
The colored people in a small town in
Georgia had gathered at their church to
hold funeral services over the remains of
q woman who had died a couple of days
before, and the ceremonies were about.to
begin when the bereaved husband, who
was a large, corpulent man, beckoned to
one of the men standing in the vestibule
to follow him to the horse shed in the
rear of the church. When they had ar
rived there the bereaved turned on him
with:
"See heah, Moses, I wants an under
standin' wild yo' befo' dis funeral goes
any furder."
Las week, when we buried Henry
Carriers wife yo' was right at hand. Yo'
crowded yo'seIf up to de front. When &c
weepin' begun yo' set yo'self to work
an moaned an took on until Henry had
no show tall. Some of de white folks
reckoned yo' was de bereaved yo'self."
I dun couldn't help it, julius"
"Yo' couldn't? Well, now, let me
give yo' a pinter. Lucinda was my wife
an nobody else's. She libed wild me an
died wild nae, and I'ze got to foot all de
'spenses. Now, den, when de sadness be-
gins, TIE Number l from start to finish.
I'ze de bereaved, while yo' is al. outsider
who feels sad cause TIE left all alone in
dis cold world. Yo' has got to keep shet.
If yo' go to takin' on like yo' did last
week Ize gwine to forgit my great loss
jist long huff to turn around an gin yo'
such a lift under de ear dat you'll reckon
yo' is de subjeck of de funeral. Do yo'
h'ar me, Moses?"
at does"
"Den cum along, and recomember what
TIE bin saYin'. Better take a seat in de
back row an hol yo'self down, fur at de
very fust whoop of sorrow TIE gwine
to light On yo' wild a fo'ce of fo'teen boss
power !"-NeW York San.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-16
NOTICE.

DEAR BRETHREN:-In future please
write orders and letters on separate sheets
of paper. 1t will save much time to this
office, and we will be less liable to errors
in transcribing your orders. When mark
ing inquiries about orders and letters of
Importance please give date of same, and
duplicate Of the order. Don't fail to give
your p~ostofice and also shipping point.
In sending money please state who it is
for. Fraternally,
W. 81. WORTH, s. B. A.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-16

GU of the sanctum and walk thoughtfully
down the street together, and the sue
:essful business man takes sugar in his,
AM they both eat a Glove or two, and
life is sweete-, and peace settles down
like a turtle dove IN our hearts, and after
awhile lamp posts get more plentiful, and
everybody seems more or less int xicated,
but the hearts of these two men are all d
with a nameless JOY, because they know
when to stop and not make themselves
ridiculous.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-16
THE BRUNSWICK COUNTYALLI.
ANCE READY TO WORK.
SHALLorrE. N. G.. Jan. 80. 1890

SHALLoTTE, n. O., Jan. 30, 1880.
The Brunswick County Alliance Bust
ness Agency is now ready to attend to
the wants ofthe A~lliancemen of the u
If you want to sell your farm products,
or if you wish to purchase any thing in
the markets, your agent may be of mate
rial benefit to you. Consult me on the
market prices of all your products. Let
your wants be known to me and they shall
be attended to. E. L. STANLEY,
Business Agent.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-16

The National Economist Almanac is the
cheapest and most valuable publication
for farmers and Alliance men that has
ever been presented to the public. It is
a perfect handbook and gives valuable
facts nowhere else to be found. For W.
cash subscribers to THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER, we will 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, 1890-09-16
NOTICE.

To Business Agents and Cotton Raisers
in North Carolina:
Look to your interest. Norfolk is the
best market for your cotton. Write me
for particulars. Address
j. J. ROGERS,
Man'g'r Alliance Exchange, Norfolk, Va,
Box 364.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-16
NOTICE TO FORSYTH COUNTY
SUB-COUNTY SECRETARIES.

Please send the name and address Of
your Sub-Business Agents to u County
Business Agent, Bro. J. F. Gifith,
Winston, Forsyth Co., N. G This is i'm
portant, brethren, as he has business Of
Importance with your Alliance, but has
NJ list of the Sub Agents.
Fraternally,
&. A. CONRAD, Co. Sec'Y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-16
NOTICE.

The stockholders of the Border Farm
ers' Alliance Warehouse Company will
meet at Masonic Hall at IL 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, 1890-09-16
Beware Of Fraudulent limitations!

See that our Trademark (same as above,
appears on each jug.
Send for book I" 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, 1890-09-16
COUNTY BUSINESS AGENTS.

I want your name, p~ostofice address
and shipping point Immediately after your
election in July. This is important bust
ness. W. Fl. WORTH, s. B. A.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-16
MAKE A NOTE OF THIS.

On all matters relating to the State ALI
ance, address E. @. B~eddingfeld, Raj
eigh, N. @.
On all matters intended for the organ
of the order, address THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER, Raleigh, n. Q.
On ali matters relating to the Business
Agency, address w. II. Worth, Business
Agent, Raleigh, N. @.
On all matters relating to the National
Order, address L. L. Polk, President, 81
9thaSt., N. w, Washington, d. @.
The agency will always keep posted
and buy in the best markets at lowest
prices on the day the order is placed.
W. q. WORTH, State Agent.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-16

Cut stale bread into neat rounds or
squares; fry each slice in boiling deep fat;
spread it thickly with some fruit jelly and
serve very hot.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-16

Slice eight raw potatoes and cut into
small pieces one-half pound of bacon.
Line a basin with some suet pastry and
put in the uacon and potatoes; add boiling
water and a little -four to make gravy.
Put to steam for four hours.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-09-16
COCOANUT CREAM.

One pint Of milk, yolks of three eggs,
one half cup of sugar, flavor with vanilla.
Cook as for boiled custard. Put one
dozen cocoanut cakes in a pretty dish and
strain the hot custard over them. When
cold, whip the whites and pile on top.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-10
The British National Debt.
London Daily TELEGRAPH.

1t is satisfactory to see. by return just
presented to parliament. showing the ag-
gregate gross liabilities of the state during
the last fifty-four years. that the nation is
getting out of debt. From the year 1885,
when the national Indebtedness as be-
tween $4,000 600 and 90O,O GEO sterling,
the amount was gradually reduced till the
disastrous year of the Crimean war, from
which date it speedily rose till 1857,
when II had nearly reached its
former total. Since that time, how
ever. the course has been one of
constant reductions. Within the last four
years the decreases effected in the debt
amount TO no less than twenty-eight and q
half millions, while the total is more than
a hundred and fifty millions below that of
1885. The actual figures of the two periods
are: Close of the financial year ending
January 5. 1886. fs45. ASS. SIT: close of the
financial year ending March 81. 1890. 1884,
954.l50. Some of the older politicians used
to aver that q national debt was . good
thing, but that heterodoxy has vanished
long ago, and it is now recognized that in
the coming economic struggle the country
which is least indebted will have the best
chance
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-10
No More Cigarettes.


Hereafter prisoners in the city prison
will not be allowed to have cigars. cigar
cites or the daily newspapers sent in to
them by their friends on the outside. The
order was issued yesterday by Chief of
Police Crowley. and went into effect at
once, to the intense disgust of the inmates
of the prison. Just why the order was
issued is not explained. In answer to q
question by reporter as to the reason for
the mandate. Captain Stone tacetiously
replied. Il am not supposed TO know
anything" An enforcement of the new
rule will work great hardship upon the
prisoners, whose only solace was derived
from the insidious weed, and utter de-
spair was depicted on their faces when the
order was announced. II think it is in-
tended as a persecution" said one of the
prisoners. "In the foul atmosphere of this
place, with its crookedness and other
creepers, tobacco was something of god.
send. Tobacco has become q necessity,
and to man who is accustomed to its use
it is cruelty to deprive him of it," Lit
lie McGinty and the other newsboys who
made living selling papers to the prison
ers will be deprived OF this revenue.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-10
FIRST ANNUAL SYNOD.
The Presbytery OF Washington Convene
ut TacOma-List Of Delerates.

The Presbytery Of Washington Convenes
ut Tacoma-List Of Delegates.
TACOMA. Oct Especial 1.-The first al.
nusl synod of the Presbyterian churches
Of Washington, including Puget Sound.
Olympia and the Puget Stand pres
byteries, convened this evening in the
the First Presbyterian church. and will con-
tinue to hold daily sessions until Sat-
urday at least and possibly until
Monday. Rev. George whitworth, Of Sum.
ner. was chosen moderator; Watson, of the
Idaho presbytery; Thompson, Of the Olympia
presbytery, and Brown, of the Puget Sound
presbytery, were appointed a committee to re-
port the names for permanent and stated clerks.
Lsckey. of Fairhaven, was made reading and
Deffenbourgh writing clerk. Rev. MCGUIRE of
the Second Presbyterian church OF Tacoma
acted with the session OF his church as q com.
mittee OF arrangements. The synod will con.
vene as a. m. tomorrow, and in the evening
Rev. Lackey and DR.. Gum, of Walia Walla, will
speak OF foreisn missions
Those present were as follows: Olympfa
presbytery-Rev. Robert Cruikshank. Monte.
sano: Jonathan 0smond. Tacoma; George W.
Sloan, Olympia: A. H. Lackey, Aberdeen; David
Thomas, Carbonate; Thomas Mcclure. Tacoma:
J. Thompson, Vancouver; NJ. Mann. Tacoma;
Angus Mckenzie. Union Ridge; F. b. FREIGHT
La Conner: Rev wiilart, centralia; F. +. Young
Gig Harbor; David Dunlap, Kelso; j. w.
TAFT. Tacoma; L. r. Smith, uwaco: ruling
elders. Allen Duffsn, LaConner; Z. Campbell
Vancouver; +. Young. Union Ridge: J. shep.
hard. Chenalis; Matthew Stewart and C. n.
Hays Tacoma Puget Sound presbytery-Rey.
J. 5. Whitworth, Renton; D. T. Carnahan, Port
Townsend; J. A. Hanna, Nooksack City; Benz.
Parsons Seattle; James A. Laurie and C. q
Foster, Anacortes; Thomas T. Weekes
san juan: d. NJ. Davenport, Sumner; r r.
Dnworth, snohomish; w. A. Msckey Fairhayen.
b. X. McElmore. Sehome; Charles C. McCsrty.
&c lar Grove; Elliott W. Brown, Seattle; r. 7.
Reasoner, Port Haddock; Kenneth D. Duncan
hiiensburg; :. NJ Wsrren. Ballard; W. H. Cor.
nett, North Yakima: George DINER, Anacortes:
b. C. Meade. sumner; Mr. Kellogg. Fairhayen:
Dr. 5. W. Price, Seattle; S. NJ. Alien. Ballard:
Professor Breeze, Eilensbure; Hugh sinclsire,
New York; II. w. Ballard. slaughter
Idaho presbytery-T. J. Watson and 3. w. STRAIT.
ter spokane; 7. NJ. Gum, Wala wslls: q. I.
Defenhourgh. Occur d'Alene; A. b LAWYER
and J. Macarthur. Davenport: Rev. Wheeiis
Prescott: D. D. Allen, Elderton: Z NJ Sharp
wala Wala; 7. J. Lamont, Centenary: Serb
Cock, Waitsburg: ruling elders, Shervin Pres.
colt and ID. j. Stories Wa tSburg
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-10
Spainss New Navy.
London Dailv News.


The important addition which was made
to the new feet of armored cruisers that
Spain is building to resume her place
among the naval powers and to create q
powerful squadron of cruisers, gunboats
and torpedo vessels to protect her trade
and colonies is the first OF three sister YES
se.s which the Spanish government has
contracted for with the new shipyards of
Messrs. Martinez Rivas and Palmer, of
Bilboa. This cruiser Is $40 feet long be-
tween perpendicuiars, and 364 over all.
Her extreme breadth is sixty-five feet, and
when fully armed she is 1000 tons. Her
twin screw triple expansion engines under
forced draught will be $4,000 horse.
power, and natural 1900 with . speed
OF eighteen knots The system of
protection is similar to tho Orlando
class. This vessel is provided with q ram
bow of cast steel. Her belt armor il twelve
inches thick, like that of her coming tower.
The cruiser will be lighted by electricity.
Her armament consists of tn o sixty-five-
ton guns OF the Spanish Hontoria system Of
breech-loaders in barbettes fore and aft:
also ten f0urteen-centimeter guns on her
armor-claa upper deck and eight quick
firing NOrdenfeldt guns and eight quick.
firing Hotchkiss guns. She will have eight
torpedo tubes, six above and two below
water. Besides this vessel, her sister cruis-
ers. the Biscaya and the Oquendo, will be
launched in 1891 and 1892. The steel plates
and guns for the three cruisers are made
in Spain, Is Spaniards are very jealous and
protectionists even in such matters, though
it is an open secret that the skilled labor.
the designs, the capital, and the plans Of
this prosperous naval industry were Eng
lish, like al the most fourishing mines and
companies in BiScay