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Woman, Lovely Woman.

Woman is guilty of many awkward
nesses in public. She causes delays by
her chronic inability to find her ticket
or her fare, but this is because she has
but one chaotic pocket in which to keep
all the things which men have a dozen
places for. She will never believe that
information on time table is as accur-
ate as that furnished by preoccupied
official, but that is because she is used
to assimilating such facts only after
they have filtered through the masculine
intellect. She wears disasreeable and
torbidding expression, but it is from
motives of rigid propriety, not from Dad
temper. All these 81 S are hers. but, in
he matter Of deliberate carelessness of
le rights of the unknown multitude
bout her, she is by no means the chief
IT sinners.-Katc Fields Washington.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-03-26

ACCORDING to reliable estimate
there are four hundred women lecturers
in the United States. This estimate,
however. does not include those who
follow in the footsteps of the renowned
Mrs. Caudle
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A Duluth Paper Assigns.

The Duluth Herald Company, pub
fishers of the Evening Herald, made an
assignment to ID. Ii. Stevenson. 1t was
said that the paper had lost money
steadily for the last year or two, and
owed between $4,000 and $4,000. of
which $4,000 was secured by mortgage
on the plant to Miron Bunncn, the
former proprietor
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a Verdict of AcQuittal.

At Crookston the case of the State VS.
Russell closed and was given to the
jury. After being out for a number of
hours the jury returned a verdict of &C.
quittal. The plea of defendant was in
sanity. Mrs Russell confessed to
having been intimate with DR.. Bahnsen
for period of four months. Russell
met Bahnsen at Fisher, Polk county,
and shot him dead.
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Lively Times in Court

Mrs. Mccarthy was arrested at Little
Falls for abuse of her 10-year-old step
daughter and fined S25 and costs, and,
in default ii payment. was committed
to the county Jail. Mr.. Lucia, wit
ness, was badgered by Attorney Smith,
of the defense, and knocked down the
legal light with left-hander He was
arrested and fined IS, which was paid
by contributions from citizens.
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"A WOrStel-(IOOdS Factory.

W. II. Lewis, of Cleveland, O., and
George Hodsell. of jamestown, n. v,
will build a factory in the marine divis-
ion of Duluth, to employ from 500 to
1000 men for the manufacture of fine
worsted goods. They are given d free
site and Duluth capitalists take a por-
ton of their stock
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MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
Excluded from the Synod.

Lutheran church circles in Minnesota
are discussing the action of the Angus
tana synod which has excluded, by a
vote of u to 10, the church at Litch-
field, with a membership of nearly 200,
from both conference and synod, be-
cause the congregation at Litchfeld de-
liberately violated the rules of the
church by admitting to membership
persons belonging to secret societies or
orders
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Secured a Gold Medal.

Albert Miller, clerk in the tenth
division of the postal service running
on the Chicago & Minneapolis R. P. O.,
has been awarded the gold medal Of
fered by the postmaster-generalf for the
most efficient work of all the clerks in
his division. Miller handled 1927 cards
at the rate of 1925 per minute. The
medal is Of virgin gold valued at $40
and appropriately inscribed. The pre-
sentation was made in st. Paul.
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Purify
Your Blood

At the coming Of spring tho blood should %
purified. as impurities which have been aocumulae
ing for months or even years, are liable to mani
fest themselves and seriously Affect tho health
Hoods Sarssparills is undoubtedly the best blood
purifier. 1t expes every faint of lmpurity. drives
out scr0fulous humors and germs Of disease. AMI
gives to the blood the quality and tone essential to
good health.
EVERY spring for years have made 1t . practice
tQtake from three to i've bottles of Hoods Sarsa.
parilla because l know it purifes the blood and
thoroughly cleanses the system Of all impurities.0
". II. LAWRENCE Editor Agricultural Epitomist.
indianapolis. Ind.
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LATER

! HUGHES won the six days walking
match in New York, making 55S miles.
Bennett made $40 miles, Moore, $50;
Hegelman, 526; Herty, 525; Norenac,
525, and Peach, 800.
I The sixteenth legislature of Arizona
was adjourned sine die.
AT Caldwell, O., George Harris in
fit of jealousy cut his wife's head al
most off with a razor and then cut his
own throat.
The forty-seventh annual boat race
between the crews of Oxford and Cam
bridge universities was won by the
former
OVER 200 houses were destroyed by
fire in Yokohama, Japan, and four or
five persons were burned to death.
INCONSISTENCIES killed officers r. J.
Barnwell and T. L. Brine near Green's
boro, N. c., while they were attempting
to make some arrests
ELEVEN greenhouses belonging to
William K. Vanderbilt at Islip, l.. l.,
were burned, causing loss of 500. 900.
JUDGE RICHARD H. STANTON, aged IS
years, died at Maysville, KY For six
years he was member of congress-
PETER RICHMOND, living near Wheel
ing, w. Va, chopped his wife's head off
because she did not obey one of his
commands with sufficient CELEBRITY.
ELMER COLLINS, of Allegheny City,
Pa, finished his thirty days of fasting.
The Swedish ship Senator Weber,
Capt. Winck, which sailed from Cardiff
March 9, for Rio Janeiro, was wrecked
off the English coast, and fourteen of
the crew were drowned.
| GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON died on the
21st at his residence in Washington, aged
"a years.
NEARLY all of the traffic upon the
railways of Chilli had been suspended
because of coal famine in that coun-
try. The price of coal was SIS ton,
and the supply almost exhausted.
| MANY Louisiana cotton fields were
flooded by break in the East Carroll
parish.
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 21st aggregated
81, O32, 42S $3.50, against 1895. S51 ,944 the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week of 1890 the decrease
lamounted to rs.
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TIE word "milliner" owes its origin
to Milan.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-09-08
FROM AURORA.

Mr.. EDITORIAL have seen nothing
j.. ZOur valuable paper from this part
OF Uhe vineyarC for some time, [ write
to let the brethren know that we are
alive and marching on in the noble
cause of reform. We number 81 males,
a large majority of whom are fire-triad
standing sQuarely on the St. Louis and
Ocala platform and will allow no side
tracking. Our Alliance had the grand
est picnic yesterday, the goth, that it
was ever the fortune Of the writer to
attend. The number present was
variOusly estimated from 800 to 500,
consisting Of all classes except attOr
neys. Some of the best Alliance talent
in the county had been invited to enter
tain us with speeches. AS none Of
them were present the duty fell upon
the "old war horse Bro. J. R. Cal
lOway, and [ say with all candOr that
[ don't think there was q brother
present but what felt like he had Gov
cred the ground efficiently and to the
perfect satisfaction of all present, Mrs.
A. G. Lane opened the exercises with
music by her school, which seemed to
be very much enjoyed. After the
speaking was over, the baskets were
brought forward and | never have
seen as much gsOd vituals at one time
before in my life. If there was q single
person there who did not satisfy his
appetite, | know it was his fault, for
am satisfied that half the vituals were
not eaten. It never has been my good
fortune to be in such q harmonious
gathering. I did not hear a profane
word the whole day nor see 4 single in
tOXicated man.
am delighted to know that the yoi-
IeY shoes has got back with The PKO
GREssIyE FARMER, for I don't feel like
their places could be filed by any
other kind with much success to THE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER
r. H. LANE, Sec'y.
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FROM pennsylvania.
Brothers View of Some Correspon-
dents Letters.

SPARTANsBURG, Pa, Aug. s, 81.
Mr.. EDITOR:-In our Grange and Al
lance agricultural papers we frequent
Iy meet a correspondents s article which
is devoted to a very skillful method Of
sagging back in the breeChing. Those
correspondents are very sOlicitOus for
the welfare Of the Alliance and the
people, and are very anxious to COun-
sci them not to do anything to injure
the old party machinery. They say:
Don't ask for too much; a little is bet
ter than nothing; more slowly; if YOU
get nothing in your lifetime, your chill
dren viii certainly accomplish some
thing if they only become educated;
wait, wait, wait. Wait where? In a
pit Of Quicksand, in a quagmire where
every moment you are sinking lDWer?
Wait where! Where the mud is up to
your chin? Who says wait, when the
people have waited twenty-siX years
and been robbed of their labor, their
fortunes and homes, and every cOndi-
ton threatening a darker day in the
future: 1t IS the shylOcks, the pluto
Gratis, the mllllonaires and, their hire
ling DOOdlerS. They say: Don't leave
your good old party now: there never
was a time 50 important as the present
to stick together. Just look and YOU
may see we have 10 gOOd 0d Dayfics,
They are the leaders Of two new h-Il-
born and h-ll-bOund parties who have
stolen the names of the old parties and
through deception and fraud are run
ming the people into poverty, anarchy,
confusion and an imperial government
These imperial anarchists say to their
constituents: DON'T disturb us; don't
turn us out Of office, you will get honest
men IN that may disturb our schemes
od money making and lessen the value
Oh our millions, and that, you know,
you'd be euntair. Some of Us have only
two hundred millions and our imperial
company ran down as low as two or
three millions and it would be unjust
to snatch tJel3boring class. the wealth.
producers out Of our clutches all at
once Go slow. Let the old people.
that prize liberty, die off and the yoilng
people that grow up under our ODpres-
sion will think we are the government
and have a right to rule and have the
right to own all the property. and then
the conflict will be over. MeniaIs
workers will then dOff their hats. make
their bows and obey orders.
What strange thing it is that three
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offices. Why, when our bosses get to
Congress they are never willing to
leave. 1t is big pay and little work,
and they care nothing about the
interest Of the lahOring classes.
In the garden of Eden the Almighty
sent forth the edict that all mankind
should earn their living and now think
poor farmer and labOrer, you are doing
much now. You are supporting and
3nriching thousands who are literally
doing nothing.
While they are holding their Bacca
liam feasts, and idling away their time
at luxurious summer resorts, or
making big funeral t,Iips with drunken
horse races (Which cost our govern
ment hundreds of thousands of dOllars)
you are plOdding away on the farm,
In the factory, in the mines, and the
cream of all your labor will ultimately
30 into the pocket of the capitalist.
i fully agree with Americus Proctor,
of New York, in regard to what he
said about the old political parties.
Neither care a snap for the labOrlng
man. All they ask is your support at
the ballot box to keep them III big
paying offices. Just now, remember
Allianceman and labOrer, that our
political bosses are not going to give
you up without a struggle. But re-
member, too, you still have a chance
to redeem yourselves and children at
the ballot box. If our next Congress
fails to give the relief demanded then,
by all of our labOring classes stand
ing and voting together, we can
change everything from the gulf Of
Mexico to Maine. We are all about to
enter a blOOdless warefare to struggle
for our own God-given rights Let all
the labOring classes unite and rise in
their might and not only ask, but see
that they have equal rights, and they
will rear to themselves monuments
more enduring than all the marble and
bronze that is being put up to Grant
and Davis, for they won their laurels
on the bloody battlefield.
| was in the Confederate army in
the first regiment, and fought through
the whole war; was in the battle of
Bethel Church to the last battle, and
now l would gladly extend my hand
in fraternal greeting to any of the
Union soldiers. The war is over be
tween loyal soldiers North and South.
Our Alliance, No. 81, is alive and
doing all it can. Hoping the Pro
GRESsIvE FARMER much success, l am
Yours fraternaIly,
2. NJ. NULL, President
Jacobs Fork Sub Alliance No. 81.
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PLAIN TALK.

AUGUST 20, 1891.
Mr.. EDITOR:-To show you which
way the world is drifting, in a speech
made by old man Robbins, a lawyer,
of StateSviIle, he says the farmers are
lazy and lOafing around town, not
working half the time and the fool
farmers want the government to loan
them money and that the people would
have to be taxed to get it. The nation
al banks get it and we are as good as
they. Hold on, Major, we will be most
as big fool as you in '92, and then you
Will want to be in the Ramsey, Polk
and PETER crowd, but the door will be
sut and the word will be given, De
part from me We workers Of iniquity,
we know you not" God bless you,
brothers l.. l. Polk and Ramsey and
friend PETER.
Tell Uncle Zeb. to pass the free and
unlimited coinage Of silver bill and the
Sub Treasury plan, if he don't when
his time expires to sweep out the house
clean for he will have to give up his seat
in the Senate and we will send men
there who will pass these bills.
Fraternally,
J. w. BOST.
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RE SOLUTIONS.

At a large and enthusiastic union
meetidg Of citizens and Alhancemen,
held in the rooms of the Red House
Alliance, this 22d August, 1891 repre-
senting Halifax county, Va, Person
and CaswelI counties, n. c., the fol-
lowing committee was appointed to
draft resolutions expressive of the sen
timent Of this meeting with regard to
our future political course: DR.. w. @.
Stephens, n. M. Richmond, Y. E. Jour
dan Y P. Rainey, II. 7. Barker, W.
G. Smith, ThOs. S. Lea, S. S. Brandon,
VIM. Lea, w. A. Hinton, Alex, Guthrie,
Y. L. Marion and B. S. Barker Com
mittee reported the following:
Re8OIUed, That we demand reform
in the administration of our govern
ment, and we will not cooperate with
any party nor vote for any man for
any political Office that does not adopt
the measures we approve.
ID, That we fully approve the OcaIa
platform.
Sd, That copy Of these resolutions
be sel.t to the National Economist,
Progressive FARMER Richmond Dis
patch and Milton Advertiser with re
quest to publish,
Unanimously adopted.
w. G. STEPHENS. Chm'n.
n. NJ. RICHMOND, Sec'y.
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LETTER FROM HEREFORD.

Mr.. EDITOR u herewith enclose ten
dollars for you to continue to old and
commence to new subscribers Nav
you multiply and replenish in the
State and divide and radiate from
Raleigh to every home and hut in the
commonwealth.
A called meeting Of MenOla Sub ALI
ance to hear from the delegate and
visitors from the State meeting at
MOrehead sat three solid hours last
Saturday afternoon, hot and sultry as
it was, to hear of the dOings Of the
Sta meeting.
To show the interest there is in our
Alliance in the purposes and prospects
of the Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union, [ state that beside the regular
delegate four lay members paid their
own expenses to MOrehead City and
back, and two others would have done
so but for sickness. These four paid
between $40 and $50 to attend the State
Alliance as visitors. | regret that
visitors went from no other Sub Ali
4nce IL the county. a number Of Sub
Alliances in the First district sent visit
ing brethren and paid their expenses.
A higI ly COmmendable course.
Our delegate to MOrehead reported
the legislature, and thought he knew
much of the political trend of Demo
cratic and Republican politicians of
the State, and thought that the ALI
ance would be used only to for
ward party purposes, found he was
greatly and gladly mistaken III the
makeup Of the Morehead meeting. He
said there is a deep sealed conviction
in the people Of this country to move
on for the benefit Of the tOiling millions
which cannot be stopped short of sue
cess by anything under heaven?' He
was enthusiastic in his belief that the
Alliance Of North Carolina is determ-
ined to allow no political party to come
between it and it's declaration Of prin-
ciples, especially the Sub-Tre asury
plan, which he regards as the pith, the
marrow, the financial salvation Of the
nation So said we ALL and amen
and amen. He said further the State
meeting revealed to him a regular
stampede from the manners and Gus
toms of the past; that a man would
sooner have stuck his head in the fire
than to have gotten up in the State
meeting to oppose the Ocala demands;
that POlk's speech to the State Alliance
Of twenty minutes was equal to half
day Of ordinary speaking; that he had
a dignity and power wonderfully i'm
pressive; that he POLK has a greater
place in the hearts Of the American
people than any other man; that the
politician and trickster cannot down
this movement by argument; party
money and the party lash is all that
can have a hindering effect, and that
will eventually bring the cOnsumation
devOutly wished.
This gives you a little hint at the
feeling and faith in our Sub-Alliance.
Fraternally,
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morals. That argument won't do; that
has been the cOWardly subterfuge of
the old parties, and if we wish to avoid
the rock upon which they have fOun-
dered, we must do different from what
they have An evil that absorbs 5000
600, 900 a year directly, and as much
more indirectly, nearly two billion
dollars Of the peoples money, for
which they get no return Of value,
every cent of which had better be
burnt up than spent thus, must not be
ignored by economic refOrmers. Our
best people would not tolerate the
ignoring of such an evil as this.
The writer is a friend Of these indus
trial organizations, but he wants them
to load up SO as to stay there when
they get there. We had better be a
little longer getting there freighted
down with manhood and stay there,
than to get there sooner without it and
die premature death. There is such
a thing as going up like a rocket and
coming down like a stick. No party
can or ought to live long in this cOun-
try, that ignores the greatest Of all
social, financial and national evils.
This letter is not written in dicta-
tOrial spirit, but is sounded as a note
of warning. The good men in these
new organizations must come to the
front and stay there. Not dead issues
of the past, but the needs of the pres
ent, m0ral.and economic, are what our
people are interested in The old
parties have disgraced themselves by
trucking to capital, to the whiskey
and other monOpolies, by cowardice.
Let us act different from them and
thus avoid their inglorious fate.
! A STIKEIEATHFR
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LETTER FROM CUMBERLAND.

Mr. EDITOR We CWade Alliance)
are still among the living and are en-
joying good health. We are solid for
the Ocala demands with the Sub-Treas-
ury plan not excepted. There has
been two recent occurrences in the Al
lance circle of our State that especially
pleases the brethren Of this section.
The first was the return Of Bro. Ram
sey to the editorial chair of The Pro.
GREsSIvE FARMER, the second was the
election of Bro. Butler President of the
State Alliance, though the advice and
leadership Of those and alike other
brothers we feel sure that we will
march steadily and firmly on to
victory.
The majority of the brethren of our
lodge used the n. c. F. A. Official
Guano this year, and they all say that
it has proven so far to be as good If not
better than any other Standard guano
they have ever useG.
I close with best wishes to The Pro
GREssIvE FARMER and its patrons.
Fraternally,
J. G. B., Cor. Sec,y.
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STILL AWAKE.

WORKMAN, n. c., Aug. II, 1897.
Mr. EDITOR:- i write to tell you and
all Alliance brethren that we are wide
awake even here in the backwo0ds Of
Western North Carolina This is a
new era in the history Of the labOring
classes. For long years they have
tOiIed unCOmplainingly not thinking
that another class reaped the fruit of
their tolls. But at last, thank God,
they are rOusing from their Slumbers
Now is their time for united action,
unless they wish to leave their children
a heritage of poverty and vassalage.
We have some bold, eloquent leaders,
and we have plenty Of Alliance papers
to flash the intelligence along the line
A great awakening among the labor
ing classes now like
"The lightnings fash from pole to pole
Nearer and more near the thunders roll"
During the days of negro slavery it
was against the law to teach our slaves
to read or write, realizing the old
adage that knowledge was power.
Now it is essential that all the labor
ing classes read the Alliance papers.
| wish the PROGRESSIVE FARMER and
National Economist and other good
papers could be read by the toiling
masses all over the United States.
There IS going TO be one grand
struggle between labor. and capital.
Farmers do not be deluded into the be-
lief that you are going to get any re
lief from either of the old political
parties. The aim of both is to keep in
power and have all of the big paying
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FREE TUITION AT THE UNIVER-
SITY.

We are authorized by President Win
stCn to state that the benefits of an
education at the University shall be
placed, as far as possible, within reach
OF every deserving young man in the
state, The following help is offered :
l. Free tuition to the sons of minis
terS of all denominations.
2, Free tuition to any young man
preparing to be a minister.
3. Free tuition to bona tide teachers
of public schools,
/. Long time indulgence on tuition
to all really poor boys, be repaid when
able.
5. Scholarships to the needy, upright
and talented.
6. Loans to the very needy and very
talented and upright.