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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-20
SHOULD TOBACCO STUBBLES BE
PLOUGHED UP2
AURELIAN SPRINGS, N. @.

Ii NJ GAANO1 ~ "
Mr.. EDITOR:-Dr. H. B. Battle, of the
Experiment Station, is understood to
have advised the farmers to pillow up
their tobacco stubbles ON the score of
the suckers impOverishing the land.
When a piece of land is cleared up
and by continuous and injudicious cul-
tivatiOn, the blowing being frequently
up and down hill, and the soil allowed
to wash off and so exhausting its fer
tility, leaving growing gullies and
naked subsoil; when this is the case
and the field is abandoned because no
more productive, nature sets to work
to restore its original fertility. Her
first work Is to grow upon it a o a of
vegetation. The roots of the plants
descend into the subsOil, seize upon
the inorganic clements there found,
which are necessary to the growth of
the plant, assimulate and appropriate
these, with the aid of the atmosphere
acting through the leaves and stems
The plant natures in autumn, is killed
by frost. it decays and falls upon the
earth and begins the formation of the
soil.
By the yearly repetition of this pro
cess the soil gradually becomes deeper
and richer as evinced by the increased
quantity and improved quality of the
vegetation produced. In our section
the series is first brOOmsedge, then sec
Ond growth pine, then oak, etc.
The cause of the impoverishment,
then, is the growing of the plant in the
soil and subsoil, its death and return
to the soil.
The process of growth begins at the
opening Of spring and continues till
frost, and whatever hinders the growth
of the plant in like proportion dimin-
lShes the fertiliZing matter to be re-
turned to the soil. None of the enrich
ing properties are lost but all are re-
turned to the soil. If the plant is de-
stroyed in it's growing state, it's fertil-
ing power at once ceases, Why is to
baccO an exception to the rule? When
the suckers r killed by frost the
rains carry from them into the soil a
brOwnish fluid, then the suckers in
process of time follow and the whole
of the fertilizing properties of the plant
return to the earth and none is lost.
So that in blowing up the stubble O
appear to lose just what the sucker
would gain from the subSOil and air
between the period of the blowing up
and the coming of frost. The naked
earth gains nothing. On the other
hand the winters rains must take off
more or less of the soil which the to-
bacco roots would otherwise hold to-
gether. Is it not, then, worse than a
waste of time to pillow up the stubbles?
r. A. PATTERSON.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-20
Sec'y Granville Co. Alliance.
BULLY" FOR ROCKINGHAM.

MIR EDITOR County
Alliance stands firmly. squarely and
unequivOcally on the Ocala platform.
Our craft is manned by the brave yeo
many Of the county and is out on the
broad sea of reform, drift ing with the
tide, and neither the thieving corpora
tions nor the living press can wreck us
on the Wall street shore. We have re
solved to stand by Col. Polk and our
leaders now and for ever and when
the mud is thrown at Col. Polk it sp2t-
tiers on us. None but a cOwardIy or
ganizatiOn would stand aloOf and see
their leaders abused and villified and
not come to the rescue. Bro. Willets
said in his speech at Reidsville that the
Sub Treasury bill was a good egg and
we were going to set on it until it
Matched. Our County Alliance finds
the Ocala platform to be composed of
a nest of good eggs, and we are going
to set on the whole nest until the eggs
hatch, or like a good hen, die trying.
Look out, brethren, and read the resO
buttons in the next issue of this paper
and the National Economist.
Yours f~raternally,
w. H. S~CHOLFIELD,
County Lecturer.
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ADDRESS TO ALLIANCEMEN.

OKIsKO, N. @.
Mr.. EDITOR:-Being myself a hard
listed son of toll, may not [ indulge the
hope that [ do not weary your patience
and those of the ~"household Of faith"
by asking the privilege of addressing
myself to AllIancemen everywhere?
Brethren, ours is the DOblest cause in
existence, save the religion of Jesus
Christ. My only hope for the per-
petuatiOn of civil and religious liberty
Is within its keeping, and should the
devil and his hosts succeed in beguil-
ing and capturing us, farewell to free
America; therefore I feel most keenly
the Importance of not only maintain
ing and sustaining our organ, THE Pro-
GRESSIvE FARMER, and all other friend
ly papers to the Order. The PROGRESS
sIvE FARMER is without doubt the best
educator and has done mere than all
other papers in the State of both par
ties to point out the dangerous pOliti.
cal coast and rocks, upon which the
Ship of State is about to be dashed by
debauched demagOgue political figure
head Wall street servants, styling
themselves Congressman and servants
Of the dear people" Yes, my country
men, it, like the National Economist.
is a safe chart and compass by which
we are to ride over the present political
pillows that come up before and behind
us as did the army of Pharoh and the
surging waves of the Red Sea. But we
have a bold and fearless leader land
we bid him God speed though he be
assailed by dastards and tools of the
money, seeking to defame and impugn
his motives, it will only bind us the
closer to him and the great cause he
represents. AS good soldiers, let us
stand by our guns and in the darkness
rest u arms, trusting in God for vic
tory and a safe d~eliverance from the
Turk, the devil and the comet.
l am puzzled to know why Demo
cratic and Republican political guns
ave oeen so arranged as to shoot over
| each others heads that AIliancemen
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A ASKED.
HEREFORD, N. c., Oct. 10, g

N. u, OCG. H., 81.
To the Directors of the AIbemorle Park
Association, Elizabeth City, N. c.:
GENTLEMEN In view of the fact Of
a general desire to have Col. L. l..
Polk, who has accepted an invitation
to address the Fair on October goth,
1891, and also the fact that many will
not be able to attend the Fair on that
day, upon the usual charge of fifty
cents, and consequently will not hear
such a distinguished citizen upon the
agricultural interests of u country;
and since we believe that the interest
of the Association would be promoted
by the increase of attendance on that
day, as we'll as the general pleasure
and benefit arising from such source of
education, by a reduction of the usual
charges, we, a cOmmitte appointed
by Perquimans County Alliance
to confer with you upon the
subject, do ask your immediate
consideration and make as much re-
duction as possible for that day, and
for your interest as well as the interest
of your county, give ample notice in
the district, that your people may
avail themselves of the pleasure of
visiting your Fair, and hearing a great
man on Il subject of material impOr-
lance to the prosperity of our Repub-
lie. We suggest to the patriotic citi-
zens of the different counties to find
out the desire of their people to attend
the fair on that day, and the probable
increase of attendance, upon the di-
rectors giving notice of a reduction to
% cents (or less if they CAM, and re-
port on Saturday, the 18th, at 3 o'clock
p. m, at Elizabeth City.
Respectfully,
w n NEwRnIn Chairman
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WANTED.

Some of our very wise are asking
where would the government get the
money to advance upon the farm pro-
ducts stored under the Sub-Treasury
plan. Tt Mercury answers by saying
that the government will get it pre-
ciseIy where it now gets it to advance
on silver bullion.-SOuthern Mercury.
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NOTICE.

The Alliance Peanut Union of Vim
ginia and North Carolina will meet ~
Suffolk, Va, Nov. 25th, 1891, AIIA6i.
ancemen growing peanuts are invited
to attend. j. O. THOMAS, Pres't
r. S. BOYKIN, Sec'y.
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NOTICE FROM STATE EXECU.
TIVE COMMITTEE.

The State Alliance does not pay the
expenses Of anyone visiting or speak
ing to Alliances except the State Presi-
dent or Lecturers, and any Alliances
inviting speakers to address them
should expect at least to pay their ex-
penses.
S. B. Alexander, J. M. Mewborrc. J
S. JOhnstOn-COmmittee
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NOTICE TO COUNTY AND SUI
BUSINESS AGENTS.

All parties ordering Bagging and Ties
through this office should accompany
the order with cash to pay the amount
of the order, as these goods T only
sold for spot cash.
w. H. WORTH, S. B. 4.
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E ONE Sc.

The Charleston World in a column
and a half editorial by way OF an
apology for it's u~nwarranted persecu-
ton Of @. w. Macune, gives five rea-
SONS for it's action, every one OF which
is Utterly false. The first was that
Macune went to Georgia and eXerted
his influence in favor of Calhoun in
stead of Norwood for the United States
Senate. That is not true. The facts
are that both the letter of Norwood
and that Of Calhoun in support Of the
Sub Treasury plan were published in
the Economist with a favorable COM
ment that even the most blind Nor
wood partisan will admit vas fair and
equal. Macune did not during the
whole senatorial contest express any
preference as to the man the caucus
should select, and when approached
and Intercepted upon the subject, as
every member of the Georgia Legisla-
ture ~cOnversant with the facts will
testify, Macune said it made no differ
ence as to the man so far as he was
concerned, any mar acceptable to that
caucus must be 20 to all outsiders.
Macune did not have any preference
till the Alliance caucus made a choice,
then he supported the nominee. Nor
wood does not owe his defeat to any
one but himself. The second excuse
of the World is that the Economist lis
not opposed to the present outrageous
tariff" This is not true, as all readers
of the Economist know. The third eX-
cuse is that the Economist sighted the
cause of Major Barksdale in Missis-
sippi. This Is not true. The fact is
the Economist never bOOms any man,
especially n running for office, and
in the Mississippi contest, attention
was given to the platform rather than
to the men who a upon it. And this
Economist. 1t would be an insult to
the intelligence of the people of Mis2is-
sippi OF South Carolina, or any other
State, for the Economist to use its col
jimmy in support of particular men in
local elections, and would quickly and
Justly be resented by the people; and
vet so hard pressed is the World for
an excuse for it's course that it resorts
to this. The fourth excuse is that the
Economist favored the COnger lard
bill. This is not true, as the col
umns of the back numbers show
There is not a particle of truth in
it. The fifth excuse is that the
Economist published the date Of the
recent cotton convention wrong pur-
pOsely. This is not true. The notice
was given the Economist as a matter
of news, from a thoroughly responsible
Alliance man whose name is not pub,
Iished until he may have time to show
where he got it and how it came about.
This must completely absolve Macune
from every one of the Reuse of the
World, and it now remains to be seen
whether the World is sincere in its
work, or whether it is simply hunting
up pretexts for throwing mud.-Na-
tiOnuI Economist.
At the n. c. State Fair this year the
Standard Music Co., of Winston, n. c.,
was awarded first premium on the
Bridgeport Organs and Opera Pianos.
The organization of the lecture
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-20

The organization of the lecture
bureau for the First district will take
place at Edenton, Oct. 3Oth; for Third
district at Warsaw, Nov. Sd; and for
the Sixth district at Maxton, Nov. 4th.
County Lecturers must attend these
meetings. The expenses will be paid
by the State Alliance. Any member
of a district in good standing can be
chosen District Lecturer for that dis
trict. County Secretaries are requested
to notify the lecturers of their respec-
tive counties of the time and place of
meeting for their districts. The dis
tricts are to be taken as per act of last
legislature. F~raternally,
w. S. BARNES,
Sec'y-Treas. N. @, F. S. A.
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NOTICE, NASH COUNTY ALL
ANCEMEN.

Brother l.. A. Lloyd, Lecturer for
Nash county, will address the Alliance
and public generally on the demands,
beauty and duty of the Alliance at the
following times and places. Everybody
invited. Speaking commences at 10
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-20

In Pisa yesterday a mob attacked
six Austrian pilgrims who were on
their way to Rome and compelled them
to cry out ViUG IL Re" Professor
Ackerie, who was one of the pilgrims,
has since my%steriously disappeared,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-20

Send your name and address and
get free sample dose of the Best Liver
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DR., w. S. Anderson & Co., Wilson,
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-20

At the n. c. State Fair this year the
Standard Music Co., of Winston, n. c.,
was awarded first premium on the
Bridgeport Organs and Opera Pianos.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-20
Cheap Railroad Tickets.

If you expect to travel and wish cheap ticket.
and reliable information, to all points il tie
United States, address, in confidence,
CHAS. l.. HOPKINS,
619j Charlotte, n. c., or Asheville, Nc.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-10-20

Other appointments will be pubIlshe'
in due time. @. H. BAINES,
Sec'y Nash County Alliance.
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Mill-StOnes.

Having bought the Milestone Quarries Of f.
E. Phillips estate, l will continue to mauufac-
ture MiIl-StOnes, Mil-Spindles and Portable
mills for grinding corn and wheat. Address
J. II. WYATT.
1885, Faith, Rowan Co, \ c.
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manded to know how | came there. In re-
ply to my questions they said that they had
Just heard some one 60 into the bedroom
opposite--my wife's and mine. Were they
sure it was |? They had not the slightest
doubt on the subject. They had seen my
face my dress and my gait. It was l, and
no one else. How then could l be Ill two
places at once?
Here was a wel-authenticated case of
doppelgaDger. Had the apparition been
seen by Lily only it would have passed as
a simple but unusually successful Instance
of Authorization. But 1t had been seen q
moment after, and quite indiSputably, by
two other persons, who never entertained
doubt as to its identity, until
/ appeared in flesh and blood. They
saw the apparitiOn at the instant that Lily,
having passed 1t and addressed it on the
stairs, had come into the drawinS-room and
beheld me- 10 proprla persona, seated read
ing in the window.
How to account for this? Was Lily's
spiritual sight opened? If so, is it not sim
gular that the spiritual sight of the other
two ladies should have been opened at the
same time? And how came the spirit of
living aud healthy man to be stalking about
in that manner? | was not in trance.
was not even asleep or sleepy. | was alb
sorbed in my book, and whatever mental or
spiritual faculties L possessed were thereto
directed. By what right did | become thus
divorced from myself?
| have never found out about this, and
no one | have asked has been able TO en-
tighten me- Since then my double has
been seen twice-once in New York and
once in England and there have teen
rumors not fully confirmed of its appear
ance at other times and places. l am
totally destitute Of the nediumistic faculty.
There is nothing abnormal about me, physi-
caliy or mentally. | have never felt the
worse for the detachment of this shadow,
nor has it heralded any misfortune to me or
mine. There is no moral to the story. there
fore. But that does not make it any the less
ineXplicable. JULIAN HAWTHORNE.
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handled him for a year after that great
lover Of trOtters took him from the race
track forever. When | decided TO leave Mr..
Bonner's employ Mr.. Goldsmith telegraphed
me to come aud take mare of his. / ac-
cepted, and when she passed into my hands
she had not yet been named. gave her the
name of Goldsmith Maid, almost immedi-
atey, and for ten years we were never sep
arated. l took her all over the United
States, and she trOtted more hard heats
than any other horse Of her rank has ever
been called upon 10 do from that day 10 this,
and never failed in one. 1t is a cur Gus fact
that put her in the stud the fall she was
20 years OF age, and the spring she was 81
she took a stallion for the first time in her
life. and caught colt the first effort. She
died at 90, leaving the greatest record be-
hind her of any horse that has ever lived,
both so far as money and achievements can
furnish standard. You may perhaps re-
member that had special car built for
her and her stable-mate, Lucy in which
myself aud these animals travelled thou
sands upon thousands of miles to the Pacific
Coast and back and then all over the States.
The Maid endured long journeys wonder
fully well. No climate Of high or low tenn
perature seemed to affect her temper or
ability, and You may imagine that left her
with regret. l want to deny the absurd
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rumor that she was OF common stock or was
ever purchased out of a cart or team. She
was Splendidly bred animal and was never
harnessed until she was years Of age |
took her four years later and no one else
ever drew rein over her until she left the
turf for good. Her record of 2:14 rem aimed
untouched for several years until Maud
lowered it.
There is just as much difference In horses
as there is in men and women. What l
may call the intellectual quality in q horse
is all important, and the man driving him in
a race feels secure when he knows tina! bis
their heads and 60 all to pieces in the con-
fusion of scoring up. Others drop their
nerve in close finish, and often / have
seen horse with superior speed beaten
out by his rival simply because the one had
brains and the other had bad habits or
weakness in the head. 1t Is worth great
deal TO driver to have horse upon whose
brains you can rely In an emergency. All
these things one has to study and know
well before he can get the best
out of his horse. In fact driver must
study mis- animal just like a mechanic
studies his machinery, only the drivers
needs are far greater than the engineers be-
cause he has temper and caprice to deal
with rather than cold conditions. To do
well you must understand the disposition
of the horse you are behind. A good driver
must know the length of the stride of his
horse. In fact, a man, to be successful,
must be frst-class judge OF pace and know
when TO crowd his horse and when to ease
him off, Above all he must be thorough
master of himself. To lose his temper or
his head is to lose race niue times out of
ten. a man who drives a trotting horse
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Bud Doble, one of the most famous, if not
the most famous, driver of trotting horses
in the world spoke thus while beginning
most interesting conversation about his
experiences on the turf. Mr.. Doble is a
small man in stature, but big in power on
the track, not only for himself, but for other
people.
Mr.. Doble was in an exceedingly good
humor as he sat down to gossip about his
experiences on the turf in a sulky. "With
the exception of Maud S and Sunol, which
belong to Mr.. Bonner" he continued, Il
have drawn a rein over most of the great
horses that have made trotting famous the
world over. 1t may truly be said that was
raised on raee-track, for my father was
driver of trOtterS before | was born. |
drove my first race at little waysde place
on the Pennsylvania Railroad. called Wheat
Sheaf, just this side Of Philadelphia, and l
was so small that piece of plank had to be
nailed on the wagon for me to put my feet
against for | could not reach the dash
board. In other words, | began handling
horses when | was a child. The first great
animal that came into my hands was Dex-
ter. l was EN- Logged by Mr.. George Trus-
sell OF Chicago to handle him, and drove
him in all his famous achievements up to
the time Mr.. Bonner purchased him. l
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hearing it, tasting and smelling? Nor does
it belp much to say that it is your spiritual
eye that is opened. The impression Of sight
on the mind is the same; and if of sight,
then of the other senses also. The point is.
you perceive something; whether with the
physical or metaphysical class of perceptive
faculties may be interesting to philosophers,
but the results to you are practically the
same.
Three young American artists found them
selves in India the other day, and went to
see the performance of an Indian jugger,
who executed the wel-lln own 10 India Wis
itors) trick of producing, apparently from
nothing, boy who climbs rope and dis
appears and is followed by tie iuggler and
dismembered, the boy afterward emerging
from under piece of carpet uniniured.
Two of the artists made rapid sketches of
the performance. at successive stages; the
other Kept his Kodak camera diligently at
work, and look Il dozen or more instanta-
neous negatives. They retired to COM
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The sales of young horses this year
illustrates the fact that the present season
promises to be the most prosperous that the
trOtting turf has ever known. There are
plenty Of purses on the hanger worth from
5000 to 100000 for young horses. This tends
to attract the attention of breeders and to
advance the grade of animals. Bnt more
than all, it gives the old ones good place
and shows how substantial the tr0tters
are. Trotting grounds can be found
in almost every populous county of
the United States, and meetings are
held thereon every year, and some
times twice a year. AS a rule, the agr-
cultural interests prefer trotting to run
ming; while the sporting men hang to the
thOroughbreds. In other words, the running
interests represent a class, while the trotters
command the general public. not only in
few, but in many localities. That is another
prime reason why the trotting horse has so
rapidly developed the country over, even if
he does lose his hold in and about the great
cities. That is also why such big prices are
being paid for that class Of stock this year.
Il have often been asked the question
whether | think Maud SIS record will be
beaten. l certainly do. Trotters are being
better bred, better equipped and better
handled now than ever before, and the pres
ent season is liable to develop some remark
able horses. Sunol is probably the most
likely Of any that | can now think of to 90
faster mile than Maud has ever done:
but the limit of speed and endurance has by