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WANTED--ADDRESSES.

w AN ILD-NLIIILOL
TNTANTED-By Mrs. B. $. White, COldwater POST
w office Province OF Ontario, Canada-AnY COM
rade who remembers John Carse who was suppoSet 10
be cooking nc Fifth Corps headquarters for te clerk
and comm~sa and wagon eamseFS; SuppoSet % hay9
died in Fall 1864, altsr the raid down Weldon Il Ru-
road. ft--s
UTANrED-By A. Wright, Red Wing Mnn.-Ih9
w name. present address OF all soldiers VINO were
students at Iamline University, with rank, company,
regiment aud state. Anyone knowing OF any who are
dead please information time and place of death
20 assis. in forming complete roster
VETANTED-By John IT, Martindale, Co. +, ii2 N.Y.
w Murray, IOwa--to hear from those Of his regi-
ment who were members of the color guard with hln
in July, 1858. --s
ANTED-Bv George L. Lemon. Washington. ID. G.
w The present address of Mrs. susan COuitermans
widow of Henry COunterman, late OF blaitstoWh y j.
NKTANTED-By A. w. Adams-rhe address Of James
w Murphy. who in the rebel hospital az Selma
Ala In February. 1865.
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RELIEF CORPS NEWS.
GleaningS from National Headquar-
terS---NOteS from the Departments

MARY SEARS MC1IENRY. National President
HANNAH T. PLIMFTOH, National Secretary.
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MIssOuRI.

THE new hall 81 Ransom Post, ST. louis Is not
owned By the comrades of the Post ns has been
nle general impression, but is rented The hall h
known oar HowHrus, and b. al thc corner OF Olive
street aud Garrison avenue, about three blocks
ir0m bcn. SheruHH'H old residence. IL IA in "A
newly erected building, and very nicely finished
nid Furnished, and carpeted, and with two SETS of
ante rooms, hs well as rear hall. quite commo.
dlous. There De- stntuptte Of Grant aud one Of
Gen. John stark, of Revolutionary fame aud
something like - ar so pictures war scenes mans
etc ID holds Post that gets about as much square
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%. 40. Lewis Post o. Carlisle, las passed resolu
toHs CuHdensniuE lhe action of the County onion
D. a J.. H. which 90 recent resolutions adopted de-
clAIed tiHl subsidies, bouuiies, protective tariffs
and reciprocity belong 90 crime aud corruption
and Anve expressed themselves ar opposed 70 said
bOuHties, subsidies, etc., etc,
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MICHIGAN.

Fairbanks Post 81 Detroit has passed uunui-
muuHy resolution expressive 80 Tie wish of tI,e
Post tihl tC Legislature grHut $4,000 to assist in
deiHylug the expenses oi thc National Isncamp-
mcuL o,hgr l'osis la tIe city viii follow the
example oi Fairbanks.
thhrics Summer Post, ~ sumner has a relic al
ihc wnf which uuy Post may well be- proud 20 have
in lit possession. ~ be- te marker 81 Miuty's Bri-
Ehdc, Hud % Jed thc brigade luto l0s engagements
The flag wHs carried during the Inst part Of tie
WAr by Charles Button, OF the 4th Mich Cav wbo
brought b. home with him and alierward placed il
iu the Posiro0m al Sumner
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:. D. Teer. Los Angeles, Cal, writes thnt several
members Of thc l7th lll. met al she residence 81
ComrHde J. Stone In that city recently, aud parook
81 delightful dinner lie hopes that members Of
the regiment viii send their addresses.
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ran Post elections received al TINS Once WHICH
l,a,.e r,t brop alrpady published will appear as
ronu ~ space can be found for them u any arc
sent which do NOT appear in the course Of month
ID will be understood that they were puollsheu pe
fore
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PENNSYLVANIA,

The pamphlet account of th'
Tlst Ohio. held al BrOokviiIe,
trlbuiiOn, Address the Secret
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MICHIGAN,
NEW YORK.

ID. g.. Henderson, Allcgan. Micl
Reunion Of iiu 81 Mich. Cav. Wi
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Phil Sheridan Post, Clay Center, will present the
name ~ Commander Loader az one emiHcnuy
proper 90 be elected % the honorable position
of Senior Vice Commander, GAR Broughton
Pos Hs Hlso swung into lime with her seven repre-
scuiulye-. which gives Loader hallcrlug little
home Nucleus 10 start on.
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and wrong in another. They have
always charged that such action on the
part of workmen were conspiracies,
but they have tried to make the public
believe that a trust was only prudent
business methods of self-protection.
The underlying principle of the decision
referred to is that trusts are cOnspira-
cies against the interests of the public.
The reason the decision meets with
such hearty approval is that the peo-
pie have felt them to be so. 1t has
been supposed that as a corporation
has no soul, the principles of right and
wrong as to individuals did not apply
tothem. Common sense and the golden
rule affirm the natural and inherent
right of any one to work for his or her
living as they please. The denial of
this has been held up, and rightly, as
the mistake and wrong of the work
man. Then why should the principle
be different in the case of an associa-
ton of individuals who want to do
business-or work-for themselves ?
That is what common sense and the
rule of common right say, and it is
what this decision Of Judge Thayer
means.-KanSds City Journal.
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TO THE

The statement published by some of
the daily papers that the Alliance Off
cial gIanO was seized at Mebane because
the Durham Fertilizer Company. who
are the manufacturers, were trying to
evade the tax, is incorrect. This Com
pany did ship several hundred bags up
there for the Alliance, and as they did
not have tags enough to put on all Of
the bags when shipped, they sent at
once to the Agricultural Department
and got the tags and sent to the rail
road agent at Mebane to put Oh the
bags. The Agricultural Department
did not seize the goods, but instructed
the railroad agent to hold eighty-five
bags until he heard from them. This
was done on the Both of May, and the
balance of the tags we're in the hands of
the railroad agent. Mr. Morgan Presi-
dent of the Durham Fertilizer Com
pany, and myself, went to see the Com
missioner of Agriculture on June I'd,
as soon as we knew of the matter. Mr..
Morgan explained to the Commissioner,
who at once said the matter was en-
tirely satisfactory, and ordered the
railroad agent at once to deliver the
goods as per telegram here copied:
"RailrOad Agent, Meb0ne, N. c.:
Proceed with the delivery Of the
Durham fertilizer detained by inspec-
tor. The matter has been explained.
JOHN ROBINSON, Commissioner"
We caution the Alliance to believe
no statement, either verbal or news
paper, detrimental to this brand of fer
tilizer until they have communicated
with me and found that said statements
are correct. The Durham Fertilizer
Company pay about one seventh of all
the fertilizer tax paid in the State.
They can't afford to do anything
crooked. The books show that they
have paid the largest tax, and have
done it willingly and cheerfully. Tax
on IS bags is $2.12!. The railroad
agent had these tags the day the goods
were detained.
w. i. WORTH. S. B. a.
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found it difficult to obtain, once 1t
was recognized that it was really
genius that was being bought. The
result of the great possibilities OF
French fiction is e in a very curious
wav. For the first time in the history
of literature France is developing a
wealthy a~ristocracy based upon let
tiers. Great literary families are being
founded, richer than some OF the Old
missionaries. more refined and more
interesting than that form of arlstoc-
racy which has been evolved from
mere ~plutocracy. There have been
many great English writer's who have
made large fortunes by their pens;
but where are those fortunes now?
Even Scott built a house rather than
founded a family. 1t would be almost
impossible to put ones finger upon
what we may call an English literary
family which has been, or is, rich IN
the second generation, whatever may
have been the personal circumstances
of the man who made the name illus
trious. Yet in France there are, or
soon will be, many such instances.
The names of Hugo, Daudet, lola, and
Dumas occur at once. The present NJ.
Alexandra Dumas is not strictly a case
in point, since, although he is the
second of his name, he is the first to
possess wealth. There seem to be two
explanations of this state of thing:
there is more money to be made by
letters in France; and the French
writer of the first rank has a good deal
Of the heavy father in his composition.
Whatever he may be in his books, he
is bourgeois at home, and rarely for
gets that his first duty is to leave his
family comfortably, not to say richly,
provided for. His advantage it is to
receive his gains as income and not as
a series of windfalls. The English
author receives 81, 900 down for a
novel, and perhaps $3.50 for the serial
rights, and there is the end of it. In
France something quite different hap
pens. The abundance of daily feuil-
letons causes sharp competition among
newspapers for the successful mans
frst-fruits, and he consequently OBJ
tains a much larger sum for his serial
rights than is possible here. Then
when the volume is published there is
a large dividend every six months for
a couple Of years or so, after which
there is always a steady sale which
should mean a few thousand francs
every year-since every copy sold
means a coin for the author.-LOndOm
st. james Gazette.
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Attention is called to the advertise
ment for the sale of lots at Winston, N.
c.. on July list. THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER tries to be very careful in it's
endorsement of what appears in the
advertising columns. Very often adj
vertisers mislead without intention to
deceive, but because they are infatuated
with their own plans; this is specially
so in speaking about lands that are to
be developed, and for which prospects
sometimes seem very bright. There is
10 mistaking the genuineness, how
ever, of the value of land in and about
Winston. It is certainly one of the
best towns in the South; it is a self
made town; it has not been built up by
Northern capital, but it has been built
up by the brains and hard work and
savings Of the country boys who went
to Winston to make their way in the
world. The country round about it is
one of the very finest and the people
are honest, industrious and very saw
ing. The railroads that are c~entering
there I making it a great town for
getting in material to work up and for
sending it out after it has been worked
up, and great numbers of people are
coming in to work in the factories, etc.
These people must have homes, and
consequently there is a great demand
for houses and places to build them on.
One hundred houses, we are reliably
informed, could be rented in Winston
tomorrow There has never been any
excitement, or what you might call
boom; most OF the lots have been
bought by home people or people who
trade and belong to Winston in that
way, and who propose to build houses
either to live in or to rent. If a man
wants to buy a lot as an investment.
he will do well to read the notice of
the West End Company in this issue of
our DaDer.
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LITERARY.
A LITERARY ~ARISTOCRACY.


In France writing leads to every
thing-even to fortune. If it were
possible for anybody to doubt it, he
would find conviction in reading of the
lOrdly incidents of the marriage of
young M. Daudet and Mademoiselle
Jeanne Hugo. The list of wedding
presents is the kind of document
which in England would be issued
upon the marriage of the daughter Of
a duke. 1t scintillates with diamonds,
necklaces, and bracelets-all the gifts
of writing people or Of people who
have inherited copy money" Victor
Hugo was a rich man, and his grand
daughter is understood to bring a for
tune to her husband. With M. Alphonse
Daudet, too, leaves of manuscript have
been transformed into bank notes. All
things considered and all deductions
made, it would appear that the profess
sion of letters is to-day much more
profitable in France than anywhere
else in the world. When we say the
profession of letters we Of course mean
the business of writing fiction. There
are some kinds of books-biographies
and startling narratives of travel
which r much more splendidly paid
for in England and America than in
France. But the value of such books
depends upon their information, and
the writer is paid, not for a piece of
writing more or less literary, but for
the knowledge which he possesses and
other people do not. It is for the note
books and the letters of a celebrity. or
the diary of strange adventures in un-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-16
DRIFT OF SENTIMENT IN GEORGIA.

We clip the following extracts from
the Southern Alliance Farmer, the
Georgia State Alliance organ:
"The men who predict that there is
no danger of the third party movement
finding a foOt-hold in Georgia don't
know what they are talking about.
We are in daily communication with
the farmers, and know that this new
party idea has taken deep root In their
minds. It is spreading and gaining
recruits with great rapidity, and it is
going to take hard work and ~cOnserva-
tism on the part of the Democratic
leaders to keep Georgia from going for
the new party candidates, if such a
ticket is nominated. The people living
in the towns and cities do not under
stand or appreciate the situation. ALI
ancemen don't confide in them, and
therefore they have no idea of the
recent changes in public sentiment.
With all of his influence and popularity
with Alliancemen, Col. Livingston
can't stop this stampede into the new
party if it once starts.
"Our Western brethren have shown
their faith by their works, and South
ern Alliancemen should now meet
them half way. We do not propose
by that we should repudiate the gal
liant patriotic men who followed the
banner of the Lost Cause, for every
true and royal Southerner will ever
honor these old heroes. But we do
say, that they should rely, for political
recognition, on the issues of to-day, in
stead of the old issues that persisted
with the surrender of Lee at Appomat-
tox. With what consistency can Ali
ancemen in the South ask their breth-
rem of the North to throw the mantle
of oblivion over the dead past, and still
keep afame the old war feeling them
selves? Our Alliance friends in the
West are extending a fraternal hand
across the bloody chasm, and we must
give it that hearty grasp ever charac-
t~eristic of our warm-hearted people.
In every contest where the Alliance
candidate was attacked, the politicians,
both Democratic and Republican,
united against the farmer. Farmers
are not a set of fools, and they will not
be longer deceived. When they see a
set of scheming and INSCRIPTIONS
politicians elevated to Office by appeals
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known lands, that he receives his
thousands. But during the last twenty
years the emoluments of fiction have
in England fallen very considerably,
whereas in France, where the royalty
system prevails, they are constantly
increasing. A French novel which
really hits the public in the eye"
and runs through scores of editions in
in a year Or two produces a small
fortune for it's author. Such sales
are possible becausethe French buy
their books instead of borrowing them.
In England books are usually pub
lished ON a different system, and that
is n reason, perhaps why the British
novelist makes hundreds where the
Frenchman makes thousands. Still,
all our great novelists have written
under that system, and neither Dickens
nor Thackery, nor, in his balmy days,
Harrison Ainsworth, found that it
stinted their profits. The main rea-
son why the rewards of fiction are SO
much smaller in. England now than
they were a generation ago is that our
best living novelists all belong to the
second class. We have no first class,
and that undeniable fact is quite sufi-
cient to account for the comparatively
low prices that are paid for novels.
We should be very much surprised to
hear that any living English novelist
had received for any work of fiction
anything approaching the 97, 900 paid
to George Eliot for one novel and the
91O, 600 for another. We have a great
many clever writer's who draw the
wages of ~cleverness; but not q single
genius to receive the thousands which
for two generations genius has never
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-16

After long work and energy, we have
at last completed a task which we are
confident is going to greatly benefit
you. We have now started to manu-
facture, in immense quantities and
classes, all kinds of goods suitable to
your wants and desires, including i'm
mense varieties of clothing, hats and
caps, ladies' wear Of all kinds and
descriptions, and all at the lowest
wholesale prices, for the exclusive
benefit of the Farmers Alliance. All
orders received shall have our most
prompt and careful attention, and we
hope to look for a favorable share of
your patronage. We are indeed,
Fr~aternally yours,
A. r. HAND & Bro,
liz and 119 North 8th St., Philadel-
phia, Pa.
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COUNTY PRESIDENTS, ATtEN
TON.

Lines fourth, fifth and sixth.kn Ar
ticle LIST, Section 9th, of State tonsti
tuition OF 1890, reads thus: "Eounty
Alliances shall meet on the sectnd Fri
day in January, April. July Ind Oc-
tober." There is no authoriH in Jul
Constitution for anyonet to chaIge these
quarterly meetings. When Necessary,
other meetings for the county can be
called. Respectfully,
w. S. BIRNEs,
Sec'y n. CF. S. A.
Raleigh, N. O., May 5, ISL.
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Sunny South.
AN ANTITRUST DECISION

AN ANTITRUST DECISION.
That was a good decision of Judge
Thayer, of st. Louis, in regard to trusts.
That is, In effect, that an agreement or
contract not to do business without
consent Of other parties, or a combina-
ton of parties. is unlawful-that it
cannot be enforced against a party
who breaks it. Modern law is prac-
tically court-made law, and popular
opinion generally takes a decision of
our courts to be good Or bad law as it's
effect is good or otherwise. 1t is out
of the possible for the inexpert masses
to understand law in any other way
for the courts themselves and the bar
are very little in advance. We have
our justices courts and common
pleas courts as the beginnings, and our
courts of appeal and supreme court, to
which may be added the courts of the
United States to the ultimate tribunal
sitting at the capital. These various
tribunals are a little like our metal
smelters-each one being a sort of
separating or reduction process by
which in the very last process the pure
metal of legal principle is attained.
That illustration may be far-fetched,
but it is not SO very much mixed as a
symbol. This decision as to trusts is in
another sense sauce for the gander.
The sauce for the goose that these great
corporations composing the trusts have
contended for was that their employees
had no right to break contracts, express
or implied, with them-such as quit
ting work, going on strikes and other
acts-that in the Judgment of those
concerned were proper and justifable.
The idea could not be right in one case
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-06-16
OFFICE OF
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OFFICE OF
J. II. TURNER,
Secy-Treas,r National Farmers Alliance and Iudustr ri Union,
239 North Capitol ST., Washington, D. c., May -, 1891.
j ". Denmark, Business Manager Progressive Farmer:
DEAR SIR AND BROTHER:-YOurso of the 18th inst. to hand,
also the picture of the officers Of the N. F.. A. & l. U. has
reached me. ALLOW me, sir, to thank you for this beautiful
picture. | will say further that it is a fine specimen of art,
and think I'll one of the best pictures of the kind that Ihave
ever seen gotten up, and would grace the library of anyone. I
have had mine nicely framed and prize it very highly.
Yours fraternally.
J. Il. TURNER, Secy N. T. A. & 1. u.
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ers are to accept such risks! How
greatful the farmers should be that
their rich neighbors are so willing to
protect them from the evils and dan
gers of wealth! This is paternalism
with a vengeance!-VjelC, Fairbanks,
LOWd.
Our ancestors have bequeathed unto
us a discomfort against certain existing
conditions that is growing and spread
ing like a cloud over this and other
lands. 1t is IN the air. It's ominous
signs confront us on every hand. It is
not local, not transient, not spasmodic,
not riotous or disorderly. 1t is the
steady evolution of a great principle,
the growth of a great germinal idea,
the intelligent protest of an intelligent
generation, the awakening of nations
to the doctrine of human rights. 1t is
a many-millioned cry for justice. The
cry is heard across the trampled cen
turtles. 1t has caught up the voices of
the wronged and oppressed. 1t swells
with the heaving of humanity. To
deny it, to stop our ears against it and
refuse to listen, is folly, and worse
than folly. It is a stentor that will
thunder with more than Htna'smouth,
to mark an epoch of eruption.-T. Nc
Can't Stewart, IN A.. NJ E.. Church Re
UieU.
"It is difficult" says the New York
Times, "to discern any substantial
difference in principle between the
boycott used as an instrument of coer-
cion by organizations of workingmen
and the same weapon employed by
associations of dealers" If a firm
Of lumber dealers has a disagreement
with it's workmen about wages or
about anything else, by what right does
a combination of lumber dealers put an
embargo upon building operations by
refusing to sell lumber, thus interior
ing with the business and the contracts
of builders and the employment of car
penters and other wOrkmen, who have
no sort of connection with the original
quarrel? In the brick boycott of last
year, and in the recent lumber boycott,
it was the dealers and employers Of
labor who combined to interfere with
the business of others as a means of
-cOercing wOrkmen into submission. 1t
is a serious question whether such COM
binations are lawful, even when the
primary object aimed at is just"
A very prominent Alliance leader
from the South advised the Cincinnati
conference against the formation of a
third party at this time. He was asked
for his reason by Northern delegates,
and his prudential ans yer may be
boiled down into one word-Nigger!
Fatal word!
Why for thirty years before the war
did the North and South hate each
other? Niger.
What brought disunion and war?
Niger.
With what did Abraham Lincoln
break the OF the COnt0dGraCy!
Niger.
What impeded reconstruction? Mig
ger
How did the Republicans rule the
South for years after Appomattox?
Niger.
What keeps the South in a castiron
o4,o1oI4 ;ool-O4o N;o~rO-
What will vex our children's children
until Gabriel blows his horn? Niger.
Pious people dread death more than
ever now. They fear that when they
knock at the pearly gates of the New
Jerusalem St. Peter will peep through
the key-hole and say:
"You can't come in"
"Why?">
- N1o.~op IS T7Lo Cona4o1I Co,,fb
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What He Did with L.

He bought the Buggy of the Pioneer
Buggy Co., and then took Maud for a
drive. But he kept on the good side
OF the father by presenting him with a
copy, OF the Complete Horse Book, .
which we send free for 10 cents In
stamps or silver. Pioneer Buggy Co.,
Columbus, O.
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RALEIGH, N. c.. Jan. 9. 1889.

bALEIGH, N. q, Jan. 3, I6oJ.
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