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going to have it; they r taxed most
numerically, but derive no advantage
from this taxation or its methods of
collection. They are not included in
any of the big trusts. AS States and
counties and corporations, they owe
millions and billions of dollars, and
they are determined to pay in the cur
rency they borrowed.
The people are separating themselves
from their old leaders, while progress,
hard times and the Alliance are abroad
in the land preaching a c~easeless cru
SADIE against old party leaders, their
methods and measures, as well as
against trusts and insatiate combines.
With best wishes for THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER and it's attaches, 1 am,
F~raternally yours,
J. @. FREEMAN.
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moved or greatly reduced, there will
be trade in plenty for the ships, and
very O the mercantile navy will be
vastly increased. No sort of protection
can be devised that will suit all classes
twill upbuild one and pull down the
other for ever, and such a course
should never be tolerated by any gov
eminent claiming to hold a respect
able position in the eyes of its own peo-
DIE. and in the esteem of foreign
powers. ..
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billiard, Stokes Co., N. c.,

DmLARD, Stokes Co., N. c.,
Mr.. EDTTOR:-Dillard Alliance, No.
1888, was organized December 26th,
1890, with "a members, and now num-
Der about Is, and is working well in
full accord with the aims and objects
of the noble order which is "equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none" We saved hundreds of dollars
last year in the purchase of fertilizer
and other farm supplies, and are unani-
NOUS in their praise of the Farmers
Alliance Fertilizer, and hope the COM
pany will keep it up to its present high
standard. We will order over 500
sacks in a few days.
President Polk struck the keynote
when before the Congressional Com
mittee he said the salvation and hope
of the country from the grasping greed
of the monopolists and capitalists was
in the honesty and integrity of the
middle classes and their education in
government matters. We are proud
of our President, and also of another
distinguished North Carolinian, Rev.
Thomas Dixon, who is striking sledge
hammer blows in behalf of the toiling
masses, and against greed and corrup-
ton, and such fanatics as would keep
alive sectional animosities, that they
may plumber the treasury and Cypress
the people.
Several Of our members are subscrib-
ers to The PROGRESSIVE FARMER, and
others will become such, although
there r many secular papers in this
section seeking patronage; but they
labor mostly to build up the towns,
and are run mostly in the interest of
the mOnied or faUored classes, and we
are getting tired of seeing "the OK
muzzled that treads out the corn
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-04-07
STEM, N. c., March 81, 1891.
J. G. FREEMAN.

STEM, N. c., March 81, 1891.
Mr.. EDITOR:-If you will allow me
space in your valuable paper, I will
tell your readers something about Tally
Ho Alliance, No. 487. 1t was organized
in April, 1888, with about II charter
members, and we have been increasing
in numbers until all of the best farmers
in this section now belong to this grand
and noble society, known as the Farm
ers' Alliance and Industrial Union.
When the Alliance was first intro
duced in this section, it seem that
some men thought that it was an orphan
asylum, and they were poor, pitiful
orphans. They went into it soul and
body, and when they found that it
would not support them, they lost all
their energy at Once but there + afew
thanks to good grit who have stuck
to it like a leech, and have made it a
success, in spite of the most bitter oppo-
sitiOn. Now these faint-hearted ones
are being encouraged, and 1 think with
a little more pluck and perseverance
on the part of the brave ones, the entire
laboring class will soon be united with
us, to fight monopoly, fraud and cor
ruption, and help to build up the poor,
dOwn-trodden toilers. Then, and not
till then, may we expect to hold the
position in the world which we should
have held since Adams son Cain made
his first "crap." Toll.
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lance than the keeping of a good sized
piece of potato with each pair of eyes,
and this can be done better with pota-
toes larger than a hens egg than of
that size. The great advantage as seed
of faII-grown potatoes is that they have
not sprouted. and therefore the starch
In them is unchanged, and when
sprouted in the ground the shoots get
the full benefit of the food stored up in
the piece of tuber, and make a more
vigorous stem as they appear above
ground.
In regard to the fertilization of the
potato crop, while it may be true, as
some assert, that at the North but lit
tie nitrogen in any shape is needed, at
the South, in order to get a full crop,
nitrogen in some form must be used in
connection with the other ingredients.
While it may also be true that in what
ever form it is applied, it changes to a
nitrate in the soil, nevertheless the
potato seems to prefer it to be applied
as a nitrate than in some other shape.
l would suggest comparisons of differ
ent forms of nitrogen-nitrate of soda
having always given best results with
mine, though with us cottOn-seed meal,
probably, is most economically. F.
Massey, an Southern Planter.
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Hope you will not weary in well doing,
but continue your good fight against
corruption everywhere.
Much sickness prevails amongst us
at present; la grippe, epizooty, and
kindred diseases; and worst of it is, we
have no doctor nearer than Madison,
Walnut Cove, Danbury and Sandy
Ridge, which is each ten miles from
billiard, therefore hope you or some of
your readers will send us a good doc
tor, as this is a splendid opening.
Fraternally and truly,
J. G. Fl. MITCHELL.
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THE NATIONAL FARMERS ALL
ANCE AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.

President-L. L. Polk, North Caro-
lima. Address, 3A D. St., N. W.,
Washington, D. @.
Vice President-B. II. Clover, Cam
bridge, Kansas.
Secretary-Treasurer-J. H. Turner,
Georgia. Address, 239 North Capitol
st., n. W., Washington, D. Q.
Lecturer. H. Wiletts, Kansas.
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
@. w. Macune, Washington, D. c.
Alonzo WardaI, Huron, South Da-
kota.
J. F. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee.
JUDICIARY.
R. @. Patty, Macon, Miss.
Isaac McCracken, Ozone, Ark.
A. E. Cole, F~owlerville, Mich.
NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
The Presidents of all the State organ
iEations with L. L. Polk Ec-O6fctO
Chairman.
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ALLIANCE CORRESPONDENCE.
GROGANsvILLE, Rockingham Co.,
March %, 1891.

~ AOOA'
Mr.. EDITORIALS Center Alliance,
Nc. 2O77, has appointed me to write
you a few lines for publication. I will
say u lodge is progressing finely.
Every one of our members is up with
his dues, and we are in good working
order. We meet twice a month, and
generally have a good turnout of mem
bers. We like to read The PROGRESS
sIvE FARMER, and some of our mem
bers are subscribers.
In conclusion, will say that we bought
several hundred dollars worth of goods
through the Alliance in the way of
fertilizers. Wewere very much pleased
with results of the Alliance Guano.
Will use about twenty tons this year.
Wishing success to The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER and brotherhood, I am,
Yours truly,
P. N. BARNES, Sec'y.
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SKATER ALLIANCE, No. 716,
March 8. 1891.

l. AS~4"
MR.. EDITORIALS it has been a long
time since our Alliance has been heard
from through THE PROGRESSIVE FAR
MER, I will drop you a few lines. We
number about 80 paid-up male mem
bers and II females. We meet once a
month. Our attendance is good and
we are all solid in the Alliance mot
party cause. AS the days go by the
more necessity we see for the solid
hanging together of the Alliance, North,
South, East and West. Brethren, this
must not be forgotten; let us supply
this necessity to a nan and stop so
much talk about Democratic and Re-
publican parties. Can it be that you
have so soon forgotten that the Alliance
was established to remedy the rotten
ness of both, and it is the only remedy
to save this country, North, South,
East and West, from wreck and ruin;
it is the only remedy to save the wo-
men and children of the laboring class
of these United States from ignorance
and extreme poverty. Brethren, there
is much at stake; let us use the remedy
to it's fullest extent, and let us use every
effort to strengthen it continually, and
by the help of the Lord we will save
the country.
JOHN w. ALLEN, Lecturer.
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SANS SOUCI, BERTHE Co., N. c.,
March Q. 1891.


Mr.. EDTTOR:-The Alliance people
down here are firm in their cause, and
it is gratifying to know the course of
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER is so strongly
endorsed! We like your manly, out
spoken editorials. We are in the fight
and the old cry NEGRO supremacy"
with all the long tariff speeches so often
repeated by the old party bosses, can
never swerve us from our purpose. We
read the political papers for general
news, but our political creed is shaped
by our own leaders and by our own
organs, and our love for the old parties
is growing smaller and beautifully less,
as we watch their aims and methods.
We know the Alliance means business,
and means what it says, and no local or
personal or political prejudice shall
prevent determination from being
known and our power from being felt.
The people, the working, producing
masses, need more money, and they are
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-04-07
DRAIN, Douglas Co., Oregon,
u NY
P. N. BARNES, Sec'y
January 81, 1891.

january 81, 1891.
Hon. L. L. POLK-Dear SGr:-Seeing
that you are again at the head of the
Farmers Alliance, and having read
your National platform adopted atyour
late convention, it suggested some
thought to me by it's excellence. I am
a old Peter Cooper Greenbacker, and
have been battling for reform ever
since President Grant signed the so
called Credit-strengthening Act Drop
-erly the public robbery act. There
a r two subjects which I think the
times i~mperativay demand, which I
have not yet seen discussed or men
toned in any platform of reform,
namely: A National law fixing the rate
of interest at 2 per cent. per annum,
and calling a National Convention to
frame a new Federal Constitution.
Both r subjects of prime necessity,
in my judgment. Please give these
two subjects your best thought, and if
you think them worthy of it, an edito-
rial in your valuable paper.
Very respectfully yours,
H. P. BRooKHART, M. D.
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NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALL
ANCE.

NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALI
ANCE.
President-Elias Carr, Old Sparta,
N. @.
Vice-President-A. H. Hayes, Bird
town, N. O.
secretary-E. G. B~eddingfield, Raj
eigh, N. @.
Treasurer. D. Allen, Falls, N. @.
Lecturer-Thos. B. Long, Asheville,
N. G.
Assistant LECTURER. B. Hunter,
Huntersville, N. @.
Chaplain-S. j. Veach, Warsaw,
N. G.
Door-Keeper-w. H. Tomlinson,
Fayetteville, N. @.
Assistant Boor-Keeper-H. E. King,
Peanut, N. @.
Sergeant-at-Arms-J. S. Holt, Chalk
Level, N. @.
State Business Agent-W. H. Worth,
Raleigh, N. @.
Trustee Business Agency Fund-W.
A. Graham, Machpelah, n. 9.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH
CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
S. B. Alexander, Charlotte, N. c.,
Chairman; J. M. Mewborne, Kinston,
N. c.; J. S. Johnston, Ruffin, N. @.
STATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.
r. J. Powell, Raleigh, N. c.; N. c..
English, Trinity College; J. J. Young,
POlenta; H. A. FOrney, Newton, N. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-04-07
A CHEAP COMPLETE FERTILIZER.

A mixture of acid phosphate, cotton
seed meal, and kainit will make a
complete fertilizer and of moderate
cost if used in the following proportions
to form a ton:
1900 pounds acid phosphate.
600 " cotton seed meal.
200 kainit.
The acid phosphate should run II
per cent available phosphoric acid, the
kainit should contain IL per cent.
potash, and the meal should contain 8
to 9 per cent. of ammonia. This mix
ture will yield 8 per cent. Of phosphoric
acid, 1.68 per cent. of potash and 2.O8
per cent. of ammonia, which is but lit
tie lower than the average commercial
fertilizer selling for S25 and $50 per
ton. The ingredients and the mixing
of the above formula should cost not
more than $19 per ton, and possibly
less, if the ingredients are carefully
purchased.
You may have to mash up some
Jumps in the kainit, but both acid
phosphate and meal are always in fine
condition for mixing. By mixing with
hoes on a smooth floor the whole may
be rapidly and easily mixed.-H. B.
Battle, N. G. Experiment Station.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-04-07
H. J. REED, Sect'y.
HUNTERsv11LE, N. c., March 10, 81.

HUNTERsvILLE, N. c., March 10, 81.
Mr.. EDITOR:-The late treaty made
with Brazil is a movement that carries
with it the very same evils to our
country that I'LL so-called protection
enactments have done from the first
and are still doing. Indeed this latest
scheme overtops all the rest in it's vii
famous effects-the biggest steal that
has yet ~transpired. It is a two-edged
sword. It cuts down government reve-
nue. and also requires a subsidized fleet
and the amounts for both must be
wrenched from the people, who are not
in the smallest degree benefited in any
shape or form; and yet the latter are
saddled with the burden of the loss.
cannot be less than 300 millions. Let
there be a vast reduction of tariff ;
take down that Chinese wall of protec-
ton, that hydra headed monster which
when one head is Topped off another
presents itself, and so on in quick sue
cessiOn.
! So then if the tariff taxes are re-
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Have you ever gotten a subscriber
for THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER 4? If not
why not
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-15
Pursued by a Demonstrative Damsel
He Takes to His Heels.
From the Chicago Mail.

from inc CHtcQgo MQu.
Miss Annie Cummings, a young lady Of
Allegheny City. Pa, who, while visiting
friends at 1928 Walnut street, was taken in
sane and sent to the detention hospital, bad
lots OF fun this morning with slim young
dude wrapped up in light check trousers,
double-b breasted box overcoat, q supercili-
Gus expression and a few other necessary
articles of apparel, who was passing the
corner of Dearborn avenue and Illinois
street Just as Annie was Oh the point Of
making her escape.
Annie is q little woman, one Of whose &C.
centrIcItles is strong desire to kiss every
man in sight. This propensity has caused
worlds of annoyance TO the modest sucepti-
bilities Of County Physician Ware and his
assistant, DIR. Noble, whose room is at the
northeast corner Of the building, the only
entrance being through the female ward
Anuie's chief delight, outside Of the red
wrapper she wears continually, is to way
lay the doctors as they pass through
the ward and make violent love to them
This morning chance Of fortune threw the
dude in her way. The female at endants
had been called to the main office, the door
Of the doctors room happened TO be un-
locked, and Annie slipped in, opened the
window, got out and sat on the ledge. She
sat there few moments and crowd Of 100
people quickly gathered. The dude was the
last to errive. Catching sight of him Annie
had a spasm Of ectasy.
20, what a lovely manp she cried
20, come here, quick, and let me kiss
you!"
The dude. wild with terror, turned to
escape. He was inside the crowd, and some
Of bis roguish fellow spectators impedsd
his egress.
"Hold him Hold himl" screamed An
ME. 20, / must kiss him, he's so nice.
Don't go. darling, I'm comingr'
The announcement made the dude fran
tic, and be broke through the crowd aud
ran wildly down Dearborn avenue Just as
Annie jumped from the window and gave
chase, still screaming:
"Stop that lovely MANI
Annie was much in earnest, but the dude
gained RAPIDLY. As he ran past the Office
window Attendants Nicholson and Canary
of the male ward, who vera attracted to
the window by the excitement, saw Miss
Cummings and ran ont and caught her.
The dude was still running desperately
when last seen on the Dearborn avenue
bridge.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-15
A RACE OF NEWSPAPERS.
THE RIVALRY OF THE "CONTINENT
AND THE "RECosDEa

The Champion of the Other Half
oustard-Pie Houses The Water
Color Fashion The Schoolmasters'
Club Nobody Walks on the
Bridge.
(coDuight)
NEW YORK, March l4.-New York peo-
pie are keenly interested just now in the
rivalry of the two new papers, the Recorder
and Continent. The Continent was first in
the field and the Recorder hurried up its
preparations and came in soon after; before
1t was quite ready, apparently, for the Sun
day edition hasn't yet been published,
Both papers are very interesting as exper-
iments. The Continent has tiny sheet not
larger than Puck. Its publisher, Frank A.
Munssy, is more Of a business man than a
journalist. He has absolute confidence in
himself, aud, as one Of his editors puts it,
Failure is afraid OF him. He hasn't SO
much money as the Recorder people, but
perhaps c. P. Huntington is backing him.
The Recorder is, perhaps, the only IN
stance OF a newspaper born full grown. IL
was a complete newspaper on the day 1t
was first published. The best newsnauer
good salaries, and money has been spent
literally in advertising. 1t is said that the
men back or it-John II. Slarin, Duke, the
cigarette man, Joseph z. Knapp, Brewer
Ehret and fow oihers-have put up a
million to start the paper and are prepared
not to pull long faces il they lose it. They
probably went A million will run the
paper at loss a good while, and by that
time who knowsl
The Continent is being written largely by
the staff OF Aunsey's Weekly which looks
like mistake, but perhaps isn't. Howard
Carroll, Starin's son-in-law, has been placed
in full control OF tho Recorder and oversees
every detail, even to the selection Of the
funny cuts on the last page. He is mid
die aged man OF medium hight. with COM
fcrtable plumb body and countenance, hair
more than little gray and keen eye John
w. Keller, the managing editor, is big
and bearded, has been a dramatic critic and
editorial writer aud has written plays.
tangled Lives" among others Both men
have plenty Of experience and ability, and
they know exactly what they are trying to
do.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-15
NOBODY WALKS ON THE BRIDGE.

believe the trustees Of the Brooklyn
bridge owe me a cent and four-fifths.
When the pathway in the air was cum
pleted everybody who ever went to Brook
Ign at oncs resolved that he'd walk over
every time. 500 the wondrous panorama of
bay and river and fill his lungs with pure
air fresh from the ocean. Panorama and
pure air; l believe that was the idea.
Everybody at once bought a bunch OF
tickets. The other day / found In the
pocket OF an Old pair OF trousers nine left Of
my bunch. wonder If the trustees would
let me cash In the chips at a fifth of cent
each. Probably not.
Nowadays no one walks over the bridge
but visitors from out Of town. know an
Intelligent aud active business man who has
never seen it except from distance. Yet
1t is undoubtedly the finest promena de In
the world
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-15
THE soHooLMAsTER's CLUB.

The new Schoolmasters' club il bound In
time TO be variousiY Dicknamed as "The
Ruler" TITO Weeping Willow" "The
Birch, 1.-THE Berule,' 1.-THE Tear Com
peller." 1.-THE Educational BludReon," but
up to date the ferocious suggestiveness of
the title has escaped notice. The organiza-
ton is by no means the least interesting of
New York's thousand clubs. Thus far its
meetings have been held at Columbia Col
lego, but there is talk of a removal soon TO
the old quarters OF the Aldlne Club, on La
fayette place, bookish and learned region.
where the aston Library stands, and any
number Of publications are printed.
DR.. Seth Low, the president, had been a
tea merchant and the mayor Of great city
before hiB debut as a master Of school
masters in the presidents chair Of Column
bic. He's plump, round, roly poly little
man, with a rosy, young face, slight
mustache and an air more business like than
learned or dignified He is great favorite
with his students, partly because he was in
his student days a doughty champion at
football. President Elliot OF Harvard was
in the four-oar crew of years ago In his
alma mater. DR.. Low is one Of the best
platform speakers have ever heard, be-
cause he is always In earnest and has no
rhetorical tricks.
There are other distinguished men in the
club. DR.. Maxwell, the city superintendent
OF Brooklyn's schools. an ex-journnlist, an
enormously tall county Tyrone man, with a
fine. handsome face and head too big for
his mock; DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, the
editor Of the Educational ReuieU; Herr
Leipziger. the manual training expert, and
q good proportion Of the male teachers
within radius Of twenty miles Of the me-
tropolis
Probably most OF these educators would
agree that the art OF tsechina has made
proportiouately less advance In modern
times than many less important. Perhaps
we shall find out soon what they propose 70
do about IL with their new oroa nization
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-15
cUsrARD PIE HOUSES.

That purely domestic product, the custard
pie, is the model upon which the swagger
new houses are not alone being built, but
decorated. The Tiffany house is dark Gus
tard, with basement OF English plum pud-
ding. The Freundschaft club house is a
custard, smothered in grated nutmeg, and
aud with well Drowned crust Toe new
Century club house is a dainty concoction
Of milk and egg yelk, with no nutmeg. On
upper Fifth avenue private residences in
tho colonial style have their crusts, their
trimmings. their door jambs and the like
pure white against the yellow Of the bricks
The new combinations Have It all their own
way in interior decoration, FOR paint is
cheaper than bricks and mortar, and We
are gethog well used 70 the stereotyped
scheme In which about the only range is
between cream and gold, always with wnite
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-15
row DOES IT TAKE.

How long does it take to paint water
colorF asked an artist. "Ob, not long.
II las to be done very quickly, the paint
dries SO rapidly. You remember j.. g.
Earle's 'Gamekeeper' that was so much adj
mired at the recent exhibitionl Priced at
$500. Well, Earle painted that In Just four
hours. Bruce Crane did "A Winter Note
in one forenoon; sold it right away for $50,
and has orders now on hand for two similar
pictures in oil and one in water color. He
worked week to get it right. though, and
tore up as many as dozen half-hnished
sketches which didn't suit him."
1t looks as If, in spite Of the present craze
for water color, the supply were likely to
equal the demand, doesn't it7 Good Judges
say that the water colorists are getting too
ambitious, that they should confine them
selves to slight aud skstcay tri6es and let
alone the ambitious and complicated sub
jects which can only receive Just treatment
In oils, where the painter can erase, correct,
experiment and finish at his leisure.