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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-23

Mr.. EDTTOR:-Ia am just home from a
lecturing tour in the counties of Surry
and Forsythe, and thought this evening
as I had an opportunity I would tell
your many readers how the order is
progressing in that section of the old
North State. The first place I spoke
at in Surry was Little Richmond.
There I found some staunch Alliance
men and a fourishing organization. I
spoke to a tolerably good-sized crowd
in the morning and exemplified the
unwritten work in the evening. At
Low Gap I found one of the largest
Sub-Alliances in the county. We had
quite a good crowd and an enthusiastic
meeting. The Alliance at that place
Liberty Hills taking hold of a joint
stock company, and the indications
are favorable to their success. At
Poplar Springs I found a large Ali
ance and spoke to a good audience. At
Stoney Ridge I found a model Alliance
composed of men who have an abiding
faith in the principles of our organiza-
tiOn-''men who know their rights f:
and knowing, dare maintain them" l
spent Saturday night, Sunday and
Sunday night with that hospitable gen
tleman Mr.. McBoyd, who represented
his county at the State Alliance last
year. Bro. Boyd has abeautiful country
residence right under the shadow of
that magnificent piece of natures
handiwork, the Pilot Mountain, which
rears it's granite-crowned summit in
magnificent grandeur far above the
surrounding plain till from it's top can
be seen points in seven States. The
memory of the pleasant hours spent
with those generous people will long
be cherished by the writer. Bro. BOYD
and his estimable wife are model mem
bersO of the Alliance. Would that we had
many more such, but l am depressing.
At Pfafftown, in Forsythe county, l
met the modest Roman of them all, !"
Bro. Virgil A. Wilson, and found a
splendid Alliance spreading itself like
a green bay three. At New Philadel-
phia I found one of the most flourish
ing Alliances in Forsythe, the men at
the helm are enthusiastic and are
workers and several of them are
anxious to ally themselves with the
Peoples Party"
On my return l spent the night at
the beautiful little village of Boonville,
in Yadkin county, although that
county does not belong to our district,
the 8th. / spoke to rather a small
audience for about an hour on the
origin and growth of our organization,
some of the causes that have brought
this organization into existence and on
the demands of the order. Every
where that | went the Alliance is look
ingup, their Observation-Disclosures and
upward" The emancipation of the
tOiling masses from the grasp of organ
lied monopoly, their aim. God grant
that they may be successful. They
are forging their organizations, setting
their house In order and getting ready
for the great conflict of 1892 that will
try the souls of men as the days of '76.
The people all through the section I
have Just visited are becoming more of
a reading and thinking people, and the
result is that there is a mighty spirit
of unrest pervading the entire section
perceptible even to a casual observer.
FraternaHy yours,
G. @. WRIGHT,
Asst Lecturer 9Th district.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12

Badeau was born about the time Andrew
jackson was concluding his first term. He
was 30 years old when the war broke out,
and after it had been going on for year he
volunteered, and was appointed an aide on
the staff of Brig. Gen. Thomas Sherman. 1t
was from this position that Grant took him
and made him his military secretary, with the
rank of lieutenant colonel, and afterward
colonel He retired from the war at its close
a brevet brigader, and it was through Grant
that he was made secretary Of legation at
London. He was employed by Grant here,
at Washington and he accompanied Grant
on his tour around the world 1t was through
Grant that he got to be consul general at
Havana and he has been mixed up in some
question as to his right to certain salaries
which he had drawn. So far, all of his Off
cial positions came through Grant.
His literary position he acquired in the
same way 1t was through Grant that he
got the material for his Military History of
Ulysses s. Grant" 1t was through him that
he got the experience that enabled him to
write the works on the aristocracy of Eng
land, and it was through him that be made
money out Of his letters headed "Grant in
Peace" To show that it is true, it is only
necessary to cite the other things which he
has written, which have attracted no notice
whatsoever Badeau published in 1859 a
book called 1.-THE Vagabond," collection
of essays which you will not now find even
in second hand book stores, and his ''Con-
spiracy; a Cuban Romance" published in
1885, has hardly had national circulation.
The truth is that Badeau has become great
by the reflected light of Grant, and the at
tempt to make out Grant an ignorant, I'M
grammatical writer, and man unable to
write the book which he left his children, has
fallen fat, as far as Washington is concerned.
1t may be that Badeau was not treated
rightly in the settlement of the contract
which he had with Grant, but he has I'M
questionably injured himself greatly in stat.
ing the case as he does.
Gen Badeau is a very ready writer, and he
writes well He is a very pleasant CONVEX
sationist, and his round, red whiskered
face, his short, stumpy form and his pleasant
blue eyes are well known in Washington He
has been spending the winter here, and it is O
4 matter of regret to his friends that he has
become involved in the present controversy.
/ Even were he correct in his statements he
would have trouble in proving them to the
satisfaction Of the people, and he has entered
4 into controversy in which he is handi
\ capped at the outset and into which he will
get into more trouble the further he goes
/ There is no doubt in the minds of the leading
thinkers at Washington that Grant is tbs
author of his own book, though he may have
received some of the advice and the assistance
which Gen. Badeau could, from his famili
arity with the subject and his knowledge Of
literary methods, SO easily give.-Frank G.
| CARPENTER
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12
EARLY String Beans.

There are some crops which farmers
at distance from market can grow with
profit if they have rich, early land, cap
able Of bringing the crop forward rapid
ly. Beans to be used green require rich
land. 1t can hardly be made too rich
for them, the warmth from heavy ma
nuring carrying them along while the
weather is still much too cold for beans
not thus cared for to make any growth.
The first string beans in market this
year are ready sale at 81 per bushel, or
more commonly 50 for a market basket
full. The best variety is Golden Wax, it
being productive, and its golden-colored
pods being always salable. Two or
more pickings can be made, and the
land cleared in time to plant turnips or
late cabbage. After the price gets low,
as it does later in the season, it is too
bulky a crop to bear long carriage.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12
HUNTING FOR FIGHTING ;og.D
Confederate Soldiers Roaming at win in
the Village of Gettxsbnrr.

Confederate Soldiers Roaming at win in
the Village of Gettysburg.
When the streets of Gettysburg had been
cleared of all armed bodies of Union sol
diers, the Confederates began to roam about
at will, sightseeing and foraging At a
house, closely barred, party of these indie
pendents halted and began to reconnoiter.
Unseen from the street the owner was
watching from an upper window, and soon
he heard his name used in a way very uncer-
emonious. The door plate revealed the name,
and one of the Confederates, who was Ger
man, amused his companions by spelling it
out, Tyson, Tyson" Then he added,
"Wonder who he ISL" and, going to the door,
he began to pound with fist and heels to
alarm the house. The manner of the men
seemed so good natured that Mr. Tyson
opened the door and invited them in to try
his excellent water, for they all looked warm
and exhausted. After drinking heartily the
German spoke up again and said:
Where is Joe Hookerf We're after him
and we mean to have him if eve have to go
to Philadelphia for him"
At this hour the streets were filed with
carts and wheelbarrows, and excited men and
women bearing trunks and bundles and
leading frightened children mothers with
babes in their arms in the throng, all
Fastening out Of reach of the soldiery the
bullets and the shells Officers in gray rode
up and down warning the people to remove
women and children to places of safety, as
Lee was about to shell the town. 1t was
trying moment, but Tyson would not be
scared or cajoled into revealing anything.
He didn't know Joe Hooker any more than
he knew Lees humblest private, but he had
his garrett full of Union soldiers who had
been cut off in the street, and he decided to
be a knownothing, and send the scouting
Confederates away as ignorant a., they came.
After listening to few of his blind answers
the spokesman agreed to be satisfied with
some bread and butter and clear out and
seek for Fighting Joe" elsewhere There
was fresh baking of bread in the house, but
Tyson did not know what panicky times
might follow, and he knew that his blue
coated wards up stairs were hungry; so he
put on a long face and declared that he
had just had a visit from party of Confed-
crates who had eaten up about all the pantry
contained, and there really was not enough
left now to begin on" The true hummer
never expects to live high on a route that has
Just been travelled by others of his kind, and
these unfortunate fellows took the burgher's
word for gospel truth and went away in
neaca
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12
Patents and patent Lawyers.

Ten years ago there were on the yearly
average some 10000 patents applied for
Two-thirds were usually granted, and the
others either refused or abandoned Then
the patent lawyer was only just becoming es-
tablished as a practitioner in the distinct
field of patents Now there are about $1,000
applications each year. About 26,0OG
are granted Many of the devices for which
letters are issued are trivial or chimerical or
so useless that nothing ever comes of them.
Patents are issued now on each of several
parts of one machine, where formerly one
general patent covered the whole thing.
This is in part attributed to the influence Of
lawyers. Many of the letters now given arc
for improvements instead of original de-
vices. New York Sun.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12

WHEAT-Valey, $1.521a@1.55; Walla
Walla, $l.471s@1.50 per Genital.
FLoUR-Standard, $500; Walla Waila,
S4 ter barrel
OATs-Old, 45@5Oc; new, 40@421ac
per bushel.
HAY-Sl2@14 per ton.
MILLsTUFFs - Bran, $22@23; shorts,
nominal, $25@26; ground barley, S 90
80; chop feed, $22@26 per ton barley,
S1.20@1 rs per GENITAL.
BUTrER-Oregon fancy creamery, 300
32lsc; fancy dairy, 271ac fair to good,
25c; common, l5@20c; California, 22l9
"a 24c per pound.
MIA, lie per pound.
EGGs-Oregon, Zoe per dozen.
POULTRY - Old chickens, $3.50 );
young chickens, $2.50@4.00; ducks, $40
8 geese, nominal, 50 per dozen turkeys,
loo per pound.
VEeErABLEs = Cabbage, $3.50 per
GENITAL; cauliAower, $l@125 per dozen /;
Onions, 114c per pound beets, 81 20 per
sack; turnips, $1.00 per sack; new pota-
toes, 60065c per GENITAL: tomatoes, GOO
SIC per box lettuce, l21ac per dozen J;
green peas, 304c per pound string
beans, 2@3c per pound; rhubarb, Sc per
pound; cucumbers, lOc per dozen; car
rots, $l@1.25 per sack; corn, 10c per
DOZEN sweet potatoes, 212tQ3c per
pound.
FRUrs-Sicily lemons, SOS; Califor-
MIA, 5000 per box; apples, 75c@$1. rs per
box; bananas, $4,000 bunch pineap-
pies, $5@7 per dozen; apricots, 85c@S1
per box peaches, GOOSE per box black
berries. 607c per pound plums, 25Q60c
per box; watermelons, $l.50@2.50 per
dozen cantaloupes, 81 .5C@1.75 per dozen,
~ per crate; grapes, Tokay, $3.50
per box, S100@l 10 per crate; muscat
and black, 81 20 per crate; pears, $1.25 /;
Bartlett, $1@1.25 per box; nectarines,
$l.25 per crate; crab apples, SC per
pound; $3.50 per dozen.
NUTs-Calilornia walnuts, IL y @121ac
hickory, 61@c; Brazils, l0@11c; al
monds, 16@18c; filberts, 1S@l4c; pine
nuts, 17@18c; pecans, l7@18c; cocoa
nuts, Sc; hazel, Sc; peanuts, Sc pei
| pound.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12
THAT ALTERED THE CASE.
The Exceeding Difference Betwixt Twes
dledum and TwsedIedee.

The Exceeding Difference Betwixt Twee-
dledum and TweedIedee.
Say, do you see that girlg'
"Why, yes: she's a beauty, too"
"Well, you can just bet she is was ~
gagged to her once"
Then there was silence for the space of two
minutes, as the two men drew near and passed
the pretty young woman. Then the young
man in the box coat remarked:
You didn't speak to each other. How is
thatg'
"Well you see, p" explained the gentleman
with the black mustache and gray hair, ''it's
a very peculiar story. Sounds like romance,
but it's true, every word of it. / met her
two years ago down at Long Branch. She
was the daughter of an old Russian count,
who was reputed to be worth at least half
million fell dead in love with her, and she
seemed to be very much attached to me.
Well, you know Thompsong / invited him
down to stay with me for week or two. He
came, of course Never knew Thompson to
refuse an invitation. He met the counts
daughter. They fell in love with each other
at first sight He proposed after he'd known
her three days, and she accepted him.
"Well, it made me mad. knew the fell
low only wanted the girls money, so put up
a job on him. | told him that the count had
failed, and that he wasn't worth a coppers
As | expected, the blackguard went back tS
New York that night, and next day he wrote
the girl letter saying that he had been mis-
taken and asked to be released The girl
waxed indignant and sent him flying, and
then | went to work and proposed myself.
She accepted me. Well, all went on smoothly
for a week, when"-
"What happened then9 Did you marry the
girl?' asked the box coated gentleman.
Moo You see at the end of the week the
old count died, and when his accounts were
looked up it was discovered that instead of
having a half million to his credit he was in
debt to the tune of 100000 OF course, you
see, after that / couldn't marry the girl very
well, You know. Much as can do to support
myself. New York Sun.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12
SIC of BOSTON Common.

AS is well known to Bostonians through
the medium of New York papers. the
jewellers in this city are morbidly sensitive
to any disparaging reflections on the size
or beauty Of the common. AS this sensi-
tiveness is shared by old and young, the
feelings of young lady who took her
little country cousin, aged six, to see the
common must have been hurt by the
calmly critical way in which he looked it
over.
This is Boston common, Willie, she
said what do you think of it?"
Its a pretty yardl" responded the
youthful visitor. "a big yard, but it
amt as big as our front yard down home"
Boston Transcript.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12
staple Groceries.

CoFFEE-Costa Rica, 2l1Sc; Rio, 23c,
Mocha, SOC; Java, 251c; Arbuckle's,
1OO-pound cases, 2534c per pound.
SUGAR-Golden @, 458c; extra G, 47sc
granulated, SIC; cube crushed and pow
dered, 6Ac; confectioners' A, 534c per
pound.
BEANs-Small white, 924c; pink, 81
@31ac; bayos, 424c; butter, 41ac; limas,
A @5c per pound.
HoNEY-1S020c per pound.
SALT-Liverpool, $16,$l6.50@17 stock,
$11@12 per ton in carload lots.
CANNED GooDs-Table fruits, $l.65,
2Hs; peaches, 5000; Bartlett pears,
$l.S5 plums, 81. 3715 straw berries, ~ %
cherries, $2.50@260; black berries, $l.90;
raspberries, $2.40; pineapples, $4,000
aprcots, $l.75. Vegetables: Corn, 81 35(G
l.65, according to quality; tomatoes
S1.l0@325; sugar peas, 1925; string
beans, $l.10 per dozen. Pie fruit: AS
sorted, 81 80; peaches, $l.65; plums
81 25 blackberries, 81 IS per dozen
Fish: Sardines, S5c@l 65 Holsters, 81. 3C
013.50; oysters, $1.50@3.25 per dozen
Salmon, standard No. /, $l.25@1.50 pei
case; No. 2, $3.50. Condensed milk
Eagle brand, $50; Crown, 81; High
land, S6.75; Champion, S.; Monroe
1913 per case.
SYRUP Eastern, in barrels, 47@55c
hali-barrels, 50@5Sc; in cases, 55@80,
per gallon; $2.25@2.50 per key. Cali
fornia, in barrels, Soc per gallon; $l.7'
per key.
RlcE-$5. % per GENITAL.
DRTED FRUITs-ltalian prunes, 10@llc
Petite and German, 9@10c per pound
raisins, $l.75@225 per box; plumme
dried pears, l0@1lc; sun-dried and fac
tory plums, I1@l2c evaporated peaches
l8@2Oc; Smyrna figs, Zoe; California
figs, Sc per pound.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12
ToIstoi on Medical Science.

Tolstoi does not believe in science, and
he thinks, in particular, that medical
science is progressing in an entirely wrong
direction.
Medical science, he says, lis entirely
arranged for the wealthy classes and it
has adopted for it's task the healing of
the people who can obtain everything for
themselves, and it attempts to heal those
who possess no superiuity by the same
means The physician has studied with
celebrities in the capitals, who only retain
patients who can be cured in the hos
pital, and who. in the course of their
cure, can purchase the appliances requisite
for healing and even 60 at once from the
north to the south to some baths or other
Science is Of such nature that every
rural physician laments because there are
no means of curing worlzingmen, because
he is so poor that he has not the means to
place the sick man in the proper hygienic
conditions, and at the same time this ply
stefan complains that there are no hos
pitfalls and that he cannot get through
with his work, that he needs assistants.
more doctors and practitioners New
York Medical Record.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12
statistics Coneerning Tobacco.

1t is not without reason that it has been
said that you can prove anything by statisa \
tics. Under Louis XVI, for instance, the
tobacco tax only produced 100000 francs, be-
cause the consumption was small At that
time the average duration of life was twenty
seven years Now the tobacco tax produces
300, OOO, 900, and the average duration of life
is forty-three years. Redskins, who suffer
neither from diabetes nor from pituite, have
always the calumet between their lips The
Persians the type of Caucasian purity, say
that "all joys come to the heart through to-
bacco." Where do you find such handsome
old patriarchs as among the Tur1si Yet in
their country the pipe is kept alight as re-
ligiously as Vesta's fire in ancient Rome In
those climes the strongest mark of emotion
that one can give is to take ones pipe out of
ones mouth. York Commercial Adver-
tiser
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12

HTDEs-Dry hides, selected prime, 81
use; IA less for culls; green, selected,
over So pounds, &c under 55 pounds, Sc
sheep pets, short wool, 30@50c; me-
dunn, G0@S0c; long, 90c6$l.25 shear
lings, lO@ zoe; tallow, good to choice, g
@3lec per pound.
WooI-Willamett Valley, 17@19c;
Eastern Oregon, l0@l619c per pound,
according to conditions and snrinkage.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12
Cut Barley while Green.

One of the secrets of barley-growing is
to cut it before the straw turns white.
A little white at the upper part is
enough. All the sap that will ever
come to the berry is then in the plant,
and separating it from the root appears
to concentrate it there where most
needed. Early-cut barley is also less
likely to stain than that allowed to be-
come dead ripe.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12
PORTLAND MARKET.
A Resume of the Condition of Its Diff
ferent Departments.

Business has been very active this
week, especially in the vegetable and
fruit line. The amount of trading was
in excess Of any previous week this year.
In other lines trade has been very good.
The local demand for -four is steady, and
the export demand for China and San
Francisco is larger than the supply. Re
ceipts from the Valley and Eastern Ore
gon were very light. Prices have adj
yanced, and dealers look for higher quo
tations. Oats are more steady, owing
to light receipts and large demand.
Millstuffs are scarce. The demand for
potatoes is fair and the supply very large.
Vegetables and fruits are in large sup
ply. The butter and cheese markets are
drm. Eggs are steady and in fair de-
mand, receipts being light. Chickens
are very plentiful, but find a fair sale.
Very little is doing in dried fruits. The
local demand for wool is fair, holders are
firm, and buyers are not very willing to
purchase. The hide market is weak.
WHEAT.
Telegraphic advices report all markets
dull and easier. English cargo market
is neglected and I'd per quarter cheaper.
Marx Lane spot market is dull and tend
ing lower; Liverpool spot is weaker, and
futures at the close showed decline of
ll4@ls4d per GENITAL.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12

The new city directory of Cleveland
contains 80 ,S25 names, showing popu-
lation Of POS, 475, using three as multi
pie. The city has gained about 10000
people within the last year, and it is
confidently expected that it will pass
the 300, 900 mark by 1892.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12
"No Trust Here.n

Imagine the surprise of a Michigan avenue
grocer the other day when a stranger walked
in and planked big dollar down on the
counter and said:
''Three years ago, in making a purchase
here, you overpaid me to this amount /
have been in Wisconsin ever since, but have
now returned to live in Detroit"
'By Georgel but you are an honest mani"
exclaimed the grocer as he pulled in the
money.
Thanks. l want a few groceries this
morning, and want to get them on credit"
"Ohl-ahl Three doors below, if you
please. Ny terms are cash on the nail. DE
troit Free Press
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12
A Case Quickly Disposed OF.

st. Peter Ito applcant)- say you were
an editorial writer on New York newspapers
Applicant-Yes, sir.
st. Peter.-Step into the elevator, please
Applicant stepping into the elevator)-
How soon does it go ups
st. Peter-It doesn't go up, it goes down.
The Epoch.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12

Employer-Thompson, you are discharged
EmplOye-But what have done, sir? Employer
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. That's what /
complain about
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12

Simply inhaling fresh air largely, by deep
cold in the bud.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12

There is more genius in application thar
in anything elsa ~
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12

Louisiana has twenty-one industrial schools
with 5000 boy pupils.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-07-07
that "of such as little Nannie) is

that "of such as little Nannie) is
the kingdom Of Heaven
She has described the inevitable
condition of the producers of Amer
lea, unless the united efforts of the
industrial organizations with their
ballots sweep from the halls of leg
islation, the tools Of the money
power. 1t is said in the Lords
prayer, "Thy. kingdom come ; Thy
will be done on earth as it is done
in HEAVIER" Are the . legislators
elected by either of the two old
parties trying to produce the condi-
ton prayed for by. the Son of Man,
or that prayed for by the worshipers
of Mammon, the golden calf and the
devil? In the name of God, how
can the pulpit orators read little
Nannie's description Of one mort
gagged home, the census of nine
millions Of them mortgaged, and
then say to their "beloved hearers"
to "be. contented with their lot, and
submissive to the powers that be ?"
Is it is possible that the teachers
and doctors of divinity do not see
that the money power must be de-
throned before the Lords prayer is
fulfilled on earth {? eye cannot
serve two masters"