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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-23
THE WEEKS ALLIANCE NEWS.
A Budget of Important Matters from
Notional Headquarters.

"A Budget of Important Matters from
Notional Headquarters.
WASHINGTON, June IA national
educational campaign isto be a feature
of Alliance work this year. It's general
scope has already been announced.
Last week the places and dates for a
number of States were selected and
special speakers assigned for~each.
A great farmers encampment is to
be one of the features of social and
educational effort during the present
summer. The matter of arrangingfo for
the encampment for this year is in the
hands of a committee of which Col. H.
@. Demming, Secretary of the Penn
,sylvania State Alliance, is Chairman.
They will arrange for an encampment
of 100, 900 people, who will represent
every State in the Union.
The erection of a vast auditorium is
contemplated, and one special feature
will be n of the best bands of music
that can be procured. Railroad rates
will be as low as were ever offered any
assembly for any purpose. 1t isyin-
tended to make the encampment a per
manent annual affair, and to this end
a committee on permanency has been
appointed, the members of which are
Col. H. @. Demming, of Pennsylvania;
Col. Robert Beverly, of Virginia, and
Mr.. Hugh Mitchell, President of the
Maryland State Alliance.
Oregon will fall in line with the
organized Alliance States next month.
Thirteen counties are now organized,
with 125 Sub-All1ances, and the State
organization will be effected on July
8th. 1t is expected that the State of
Washington will be ready for organiza-
ton before the first of August.
II. w. AVER.
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OBITUARY.

Vienna mel number or long obituary
notices and Alliance memorial resoIT
lions are coming in faster and lonpor
than we a possibly find room for
them. We regret that we have not
space to publish them. In order. how.
ever, that. we may catch up, we will
condense those we have on file. and
ask our brethren to please see to it in
the future that their resolutions are
short enough to insure their insertion
say not longer than can be plainly and
easily written on a postal card. The
resolutions we now have in hand would
more than fill the whole paper, so we
simply give the following brief sum-
mary:
Sister America King, of Dresden
Alliance, died Oct. 9th, 1890.
Sister Mariah Henderson, of Wolf
Pit Alliance, Nc. 100. Date not given.
Sister A. E. Norville, of Pea Ridge
Alliance, No. 912. Date of death not
stated.
Bro. Jno. G. Freeman. of Freemans
Alliance, No. 2,143, died May 21st,
1891, aged 70 years.
Bro. Isaac B. Myatt, of Hollands
Alliance, No. 1904. Died March 10Th.
1891, in his I'D year.
Bro. o. P. Gipson, of Patterson
Springs Alliance, No. 939, died May
18th, 1891, aged Sc years.
Bro. H. H. Harrell, of Lewisville
Alliance, No. 943, Forsythe Co., died
April 8th, 1891, age 80 years.
Bro. John T. Tatum, of Gibbs ALI
ance, No. 1,716, Currituck Co., died
April 23d, 1891, aged SIS years.
Sister Sarah Wolf, of Pleasant Grove
Alliance, No. 1887, died April 18th,
1891, in the 10Th year of her age.
Bro. Simeon Matthews, of Pleasant
Union Alliance, No. 465, Harnett Co.,
died April 23d, 1891, age rs years.
Bro. A.. B. Hinshaw, of Pleasant
Garden Alliance, No. 2,195, died May
9Th, 1891, in the cd year of his age.
Bro. William Sexton, of Pleasant
Union Alliance, No. 465, died February
goth, 1891, in the SD year of his age.
Bro. Richard H. Jones, of Gentleman
Ridge Alliance, No. 731. died April 9TH,
1891, an old and much-loved member.
Bro. John White, of Spring Hill ALI
ance, No. 9th, Fontcol, N. c., died
Feb. 18th, 1891, leaving a large family.
Bro. G.. w. Smith, of Little Rock
Alliance, No. III, Pernell, N. c., died
of pneumonia April 10th, 1891, age 81
years.
Sister Frances Long, wife of Bro.
James Long, of New Britain Alliance,
No. 408, Brunswick Co., N. c., died
May 8th, 1891.
Bro. Wilson Morgan, of Garfield
Alliance, No. 1,496, Garfield, n. c.,
died May 9TH, 1891, aged 68 years, after
several years of aff1iction.
Bro. w. @. Thaggard, of Thaggard's
Mills Alliance, No. 306, and of Moore
County Alliance, died-date not stated,
and resolutions not dated.
Bro. John Atkins Cameron a dutifuI
and much beloved member of the Har-
nett County Alliance. Resolutions
dated April 18th, 1891. Date of death
not stated.
Bro. P. A. Kelly, of Pleasant Grove
Alliance, No. 667, died April LIST, 1891,
aged 78 years. He was the first chap
lain of his County Alliance, known
throughout the county and loved by
all who knew him.
Bro. W. @. Ward, Vice President of
Green River Alliance, No. 1926, Hen
derson Co., died May LIST, 1891, aged
60 years, leaving a wife and seven
daughters and four orphan grand
children, to mourn his loss.
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SPECIAL NOTICE TO LECTURERS

There has been no money appro-
priat9d to defray the expenses of any
meeting of the District Lecturers. The
expenses of each County Lecturer to
these meetings should be borne by his
County Alliance.
All appointments made hereafter by
any District Lecturer must be confined
to the counties composing his district.
as laid off by the last legislature.
F~raternally yours,
w S. BARNES.
Sec'y n. @. f. S. A
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-23

Sub-Alliance Business Agents r
especially requested to read the recon-
mendation of the State Executive Com
mittee In regard to trading direct with
State Agent. Those who have availed
themselves of its provisions are well
pleased. w. H. WORTH, S. B. A.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-23
w. H. WORTH,
S. B. A. N. @. +. S. A
w. T. wHITsErT, A. NJ, sup,r..

With an able Faculty of Assistants. Founded
1884. Both sexes. Three departments. viz:
Regular Academic, business College and Teachers
Normal; Prepares for College, Teaching, Busl-
ness or for Life.
~ Board, $3.50. Tuition Low. One hundred
and fourteen Students from six States. Military
feature optional.
u. Penmanship, Vocal Music and Calls
themes Free to entire School.
Fall Term begins August 10. 1891. Catalogue
and Beautiful Specimens of Penmanship Free
Z Address
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-23

mands. Our National President, L.
L. Polk, the silver tongued orator OF
North Carolina, with Livingston, OF
Georgia, President of the State ALI
ance, and our own State President,
Mcdowell, are holding a series of meet
ings through Mississippi that are sure
to be productive of great good to the
people. Education and a fair show OF
intelligence is all that is necessary to
carry the Ocala demands to a success
full issue in any State, and from all the
facts we can gather from those who
favor the Sub-Treasury plan, as well
as from those who oppose the measure,
we think that the brotherhood have
every reason to congratulate them
selves upon the outlook in Mississippi
as well as from all other points heard
from.-The TOiIer.
Gov. Pennoyer, of Washington, at
the Jefferson Anniversary in Portland,
Ore, made the following pointed re-
marks: "And now I want to say to
you tonight that if in the next presi-
Dental campaign the Democratic party
falters and fails to be outspoken upon
this finance question, which affects the
interests of the great masses of our
people to as great an extent as does the
tariff question; if it fails to favor the
free coinage of silver and the separa-
ton of the moneys of the government
from the banking institutions, it will
be defeated, and may I not add, if it
should thus prove untrue, both to it's
own long-established policy and to the
interests of the great masses of the peo-
pie that it ought to be defeated."-
Portland, Ore, Reform Journal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-23

Brother, should not The Progressive
Farmer haze 90, so, or 10 regular sub
ScTi6erS IN yOur Alliance? What are
yoW doing to help us to get them? Help
as ont, brother.
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RALEIGH, N. c., Jan. 9, 1889.

RALEIGH, N. u, Jan. y, 1889.
It is hereby ordered by the Executive
Committee of the North Carolina Farm
ers' State Alliance, in session in Raleigh
this day, that the State Alliance Bust
ness Agent shall, on and after Febru-
airy LIST, 1890, fill orders only from
County and Sub-Alliance Business
Agents when cash for the full amount
of the bill shall accompany the order.
Except orders from such County ALI
ance Business Agents as shall have
filed their justified legal bond with the
Executive Committee of their County
Alliance, and the State Business Agent
been duly certified of the same under
seal of the County Alliance.
S. B. ALEXANDER,
Chm'n Elk. Committee.
The small amount of cash in the
hands of the State Business Agent, and
the increasing business of his office,
render it necessary that the above
orders should be made. County Agents
should always send in cash for full
amount of bills not later than twenty
days after receiving them. Prompt
ness In these matters is very necessary
and will greatly oblige,
F~raternally,
w. H. WORTH,
S. B. A. N. @. +. S. A
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-23

Bro. w. G. Ward, Vice President of
Green River Alliance, No. 1926, Hen
derson Co., died May LIST, 1891, aged
60 years, leaving a wife and seven
daughters and four orphan grand
children, to mourn his loss.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-23

Population, g., 900, 900.
Per capita, 50. 97.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-21

The opponents of the public school sys-
tenn in Illinois are doing some rather crafty
maneuvering. A bill has been introduced
in the Illinois legislature which repeals by
omission the requirement of English in any
school and the authority of boards of edu-
cation or school directors to say whether a
private school is or is not satisfactory in
fulfilling the requirements of the compul-
sorry school law as it reads otherwise. 1t
also prevents by omission truant officers
from replacing in private schools children
arrested under the act for truancy. 1t
authorizes these officers to place public
school truantsin public schools; and where
parents designate no school for child
in public school. But it affords no pro-
lection whatever to children playing
truant from private schools, although
authorizing the parents to designate the
private school to which he wishes the child
to go. Thus all children attending private
schools and playing truant may be arrested
by truant officers. But there the bill halts.
It does not say what the officers shall dc
with them. This will leave hundreds OF
such children practically at large to become
idle and criminal. Another feature that is
an innovation is Withdrawing the enforce
ment of the law from the board of educa-
ton or of school directors and placing it in
the police OF county courts. These are au-
thorized to refuse to enforce it "for other
good and reasonable cause" altogether in
their own discretion.
All such attacks on the public school
system should be promptly repelled. The
legislators of Illinois will be false to theil
duty if they pass this bill.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-21
EDUCATED.

She-You were at college, We're you not.
He-Yes. She-ABl He-No. G. B.
Harvard Lampoon.
Can anyone tell why it is that when a
woman is being weighed she smiles, while
a man having his weight ascertAined al
ways looks serious.-Boston Journal.
"But, doctor, you said last week that
the patient would certainly die, and now
he is perfectly we'll" Madam. the con-
frmation of my prognosis is only a oues-
ton of time."-Light.
a Tennyson Fizzle-''It is your day
now, but / will be remembered when you
have been forgotten" Old Gotrox-
Shouldn't wonder; always pay cash
indianapolis Journal.
Detective Catchem-How did YOU ever
get confession from Tough Tobles, De-
tective Quizem-I gave him Connecticut
cigar, and after he'd smoked it he thought
he was going to die and told me all he ever
did--BuffalO Express.
Ethel was positively ashamed of the
way you treated your father last night. 1t
was outrageous. Arthur deeply injuredl
Now, weally, Miss Ethel, cawnt fawn
upon the guv'nor, don't you know He
isn't in twade.-Munsey's Weekly.
George-Darling, don't you think if you
were 10 SNuuf YOU learn love
mes Jessie-We haven't got to love vet;
here is an easy one: If there was one hat
on the hall rack, and it should be taken
away, how many hats would remains-New
York Herald
Out of His Reach.-Mrs. Gopher Lyons
-Babette, Why are you putting the
candelsbra on the mantel instead of on the
dining table: Babette-Mr. Lyons Just
tould me ter take thin of. He said the
Rooshin Count. what's comm to dine
moight forget himself.-Puck.
''My wife has saving disposition" said
Hicks. "When We got our upright piano
she made red plush cover for it, so that
the rosewood wouldn't get scratched.
Then she covered that with sort of linen
duster arrangement, so as to save the
plush. l tell you, women have great big
minds. ."-Harper's Bazaar.
Bjenkenson had Just returned from
church in dim religious frame of mind,
and for the instruction of his four-year-
old daughter he told her in graphic style
the biblical story of Jonah and the whale.
When he had finished Ethel looked up in
his face and eagerly said: Now. papa, you
listen, and see if I can't tell you a bigger
lie than that.-Somerville journal.
Teacher Missionary come from a
Latin word and meaus lone sent that is.
one sent to the heather to convert them
Now. children, at the end of the class |
shall ash you what missionary means.
Teacher (ten minutes later)-So We will re-
view the lesson. Dorothy, it's your turn
What does missionary" mean. Dorothy
One penny.-New York Ledger.
When a man dies it is the women who
wonder if his wife takes it hard, and who
are her severest critics if she fails to put
on as many yards of Grape as she should.
The widow who is pale and sorrowful
looking has more admirers among the
men. The men want to be mourned for
themselves when they are gone, but they
rather prefer that other mems widows
look cheerful l-Atchison Globe
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-21
TAKE THE HINTi-

Difficult sometimes the truth people,
shams about There ARE people who don't tenga
hint enough them This coming
sale right along The early months of sl will be pleasant
these are The sale'books could tell if they chose
Excellence of make and quality 4uckses these shoes
Would nothing wonderful about the sale if only
binary rubbish cleanup.
it, Everything choice of the
whose looks last long the leather Buying
powerful indeed when quality rich and
Recoect lngerers, that the life Of the sale short!
Ladies' Dongoa top straght Goat foxed Cork
opera and So SO to S45O S225
odds and small reductions
prices. nj. BRISTOL & SONS.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-21
No. As

ly betrothed as thaugh bans had been read
from the pulpit. The lucky maiden care
fully preserves the "ferin" and trium-
phantly divides it with her relatives and
friends. She is now a person of conse-
quence in her little world; and ''axing
out, that is, the proclamation of her be-
throthal at church and marriage, the
blessed haven of all good women, are Sc
quentially but matters of time. But woe
to the poor Cornish lass that returns from
Mazard Fair without a ''ferinn She
shuns, and is stunned by all, until the
hard hand of labor or her work-a-day duty
forces her appearance at neighbors or upon
the streets With hopeless defiance she
meets the gossiping crones.
''Dee'st dedn't git aw ferin, dost ees'
sneers some grooming old wench to further
wound her.
cav s'pose thee's allus been aw lucky
UNI" she snaps back with desperate saw
agery. And thus with lance for lance she
battles her way back from positive dis
grace to sturdy calm and renewed hope
for
'Mazard Fair comes once year
An FERNS come as cheap as beer
EDGAR l.. WAKEMAN.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-21
KICKED, ABOUT TO DIE.

AAOA AD3 kA"oO ~ DANs
The free coinage idea is meeting the
usual fate of those who are down. It is
being jumped on with much heartiness
and by many of those who were supposed
to favor it. Thus the Wisconsin legisla
ture has passed resolution against it.
In the senate the vote in favor of the reso-
luton was unanimous, and in the house
only four members recorded themselves in
the negative-two Republicans, one Union
Labor man and one Democrat To appre-
ciate the significance of this action, it
must be remembered that Wisconsin is one
of those Western States which have been
alleged to be in favor of free coinage with
out distinction of party, and especially SO
far as the Democrats are concerned and
that the Democrats control the legislature
by working majority in the senate and
by thirds vote in the house.
1t has been supposed that the South was
in favor of free coinage. The Memphis
Appeal l-Ava1anche thought the Democrats
of Tennessee favored it, and so it asked
some of them about it. Most of those
asked were decidedly against it. This is a
sample answer: Cleveland is right. Free
coinage would be a dangerous experiment.
The merchants with whom I have talked
are opposed to it. 1t certainly ought not
to be made a party question. We are do.
ing we'll enough now. Only spectators
raise the cry of scarcity of money. 1 am
| opposed to free and unlimited coinage Of
| silver, because it is Greenbackism disguis
ed. Silver agitation is due to a vain hope
for relief on the part of the discontented
Free coinage would be disastrous to the
whole country; silver would be debased
our currency would be like that of Mexico
which is deprecated in foreign countries
below it's intrinsic value.
| And so forth and so on. 1t is evident
that free coinage wont be a very powerful
issue next year.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-21

planned at that time, an internationa
council with Mrs. Millicent Garrett Faw'
cett of England as president, and q
national organization for the United
States which should consolidate all asso-
Citations of women devoted to educational,
progressive and philanthropic movements,
and social reforms.
The system of organization is to join
local societies, working on the same, or
harmonious, lines, into town or city
councils; these city councils should
then be allied in state councils, which for
still great efficiency in their chosen work
would become auxiliaries of a national So
ciety, while representatives of these would
constitute the great Federation known as
the Woman's National Council, the basic
principle of which is defined as "unity for
the general good of women, and through
them of all humanity"
The presidency of the council was first
offered to Susan B. Anthony who refused
it, explaining that her connection with the
suffrage movement might prejudice anti
sufragists against the new organization,
and Frances E. Willard, a woman with
hosts of friends and one whose sincerity
has never been questioned, was chosen as
first president, an office which she still
holds.
Barton. Mrs. Stanton, Mrs. Croly, Mary F.
Seymour, Kate Tanatt Woods and other
well known names. The corresponding
secretary is Mrs. May Wright Sewall, who
is associated with her husband, Professor
Sewall, in the Indianapolis classical school
for girls She also edits the educational
department of The Business Woman's Jour
nal, is president of the Contemporary club,
and has an enviable reputation as writer,
inquist and public speaker.
The press superintendent is Miss Mary
F. Seymour of New York, the principal of
business college and managing editor of
The Business Woman's Journal, which
will be the official organ of the association.
Addresses will be made on wide range
of significant and weighty topics. Mrs.
Clymer, president of ''Sorosis," will have
paper upon "Women's Clubs" Mrs. An
ME Nathan Meyer, through whose efforts
Barnard college was established, will speak
on ga New Phase of Woman's Education
in America" Mrs. Stone upon ''True
Co-education," and Rev. Anna 81. Shaw of
Washington upon "Woman as an Agent
in Religious Work" In addition to other
important papers announced, delegates
from the six great national associations,
which have now a membership of five hun
dred thousand women, and from the many
other societies represented, will report the
aims and workings of these bodies, and
many interesting discussions and debates
will follow.
The care with which the program has
been prepared, the high standing of the
officers and delegates, and the worthy aims
to which they have directed their intel
lisence and energy, are sufficient evidence
that this first triennial parliament OF
women" will do honor both to the organ
ization and to our country. HILARY.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-21
NEW HAVEN. CONN. SATURDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY

must not exceed $4,000 words, and should
treat of the economic and social import.
ance of good roads, the causes of poor
roads existing in much of our country,
the best systems of road-making, recon
struction and maintenance, Ancluding
cheaper methods suited to dirt roads as
well as methods for permanent roadways,
the best systems of street improvement,
the systems of taxation that should be
employed in both country and city to
distribute justly the burden of road and
street improvement, and the legislation
that is required to further these ends.
Competition is open to all.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-21
8r1J Goods.
Howe & StetsOl.
SPRING DRESS GOODS.

IS pieces all wool Novelty
Plaids Stripes, etc., at soc pei
yard. These goods are confined
to us in this city and cannot
be found elsewhere. Styles and
quality much better than most
goods sold at SOC.
20 pieces Grey Checks (half
woody at 1oc per yard sold for
25c usually.
Large assortment of High
Novelties in Dress Goods from
75c to $2.5o per yard: Special
Bargains in Broadcloths and
Costume Cloths at 75c, 85c
per yard. Camel's Hair and
Homespun Suitings in all
grades and colors, at popular
prices. Special values at ST.
and $1.25 per yard.
Black Mohairs,. 81 inches,
at 48c per yard. This is the
CSC quality.
Great assortment Black and
Black and White Dress Goods
from csc to $1.5o per yard.
ALWAYS IN STOCK
Priestley's and Ecroyd's Black
Silk Warp Henriettas, special
values at $1.25, $1.5o and
$1.75 per yard. We have only
few pieces of this lot left and
cannot duplicate them at the
prices.
Spring Opening Wash Dress
Goods-The largest and best
line of Anderson's Scotch
Ginghams ever shown by us at
only 25c per yard, and All
Are New Fresh Goods. Also
a line of French Printed India
Batistes, both in light and dark
grounds, at 25c per yard.
We shall open on Wedncs-
day of this week a line of fine
quality Sateens, in desirable
patterns, at I8c per yard.
One case of Black and
White Checks at 121ac yard.
Perfectly fast colors and the
best imitation of Wool Checks
ever seen.
All the latest styles in the
new Printed Serges and Nov
city Dress Goods at 10 and
12Hc per yard.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-21
gnmrua1 aud Gn1trfer.
The Oldest Daily Paper Pub
lished in COnnecticut.

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 15
CENTS WEEK, so CENTS A MONTH, So
FOR SIX MONTHS, Sc A YEAR. THE
SANE TERMS BY MAIL.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-21

Mrs. Worth, the wife of the famous Par
isian dressmaker, dresses very plainly.
The women will doubtless see the explana-
ton of this in the fact that she is married
L.