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yet such desolation is and doubtless
always will be, painted as well asscenes
in which human interest would seem
to overpower every other. One quail
ity, however, we feel, by a very little
| thought. to be essential to all forms OF
what we call landscape-painting in its
highest sense-namely, acertain strong
sympathy with natural forces and phe-
nomena, those of light and atmosphere
| especially, which insists on having its
! own expression at any cost, as against
all other elements of the picture. Fig
ures, perhaps masses and crowds OF
them, mans handiwOrk and things be-
tlonging to man, boats, buildings, cattle,
and the like, may almost fill up the
picture, but they will be seen to form,
as landscape materials, parts of a
scheme which shows them all embraced
in the mighty whole of nature, and all
dependent on great natural forces,
helped by them, overcome by them,
rejoicing in them, or struggling with
them, but escaping from them.
The drama of nature as a whole, in
Guiding man, is surely wide and varied
enough, and the scheme speak of will
have formed itself in the artists mind
according to the measure of his sym
pathies; but he will be no landscape
painter in the central meaning of the
word if it is not the life and power,
calm, beautiful, Or terrible, if nature
which he makes really paramount in
his work, and the strong affection
which can do this will give it's own life
to the likeness of widest glen or drear-
est shore. A landscape picture, most
properly sc called, is a representation
| of some passage of nature which makes
us feel that the painter has used all
means at his command to give form
and shape to the feeling of beauty, or
some other. quality which that passage
of nature has excited in him. Human
interest may have contributed much
or little to the power and character of
that impression. The artists shaping
faculty will have accepted, arranged,
or rejected, for the most and best part
by feeling alone, and though there are
cases in which the dividing line be-
tween pictures may be called land
scapes and others which will be de-
scribed and classed together as idyIlic
pictures, is almost lost, the hold which
large, all-embracing sympathy with
nature has kept in his mind, as ex-
pressed in the design o composition of
his picture, will show, if we care for
the distinction, to which class the pic
ture belongs.-A. ". Hunt, IN The
Nineteenth Century for February.
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TO LIVE.

Are we safe nowhere from bacteria,
some one inquiries, not even when we
are sealed up in a vacuum 1 a glass
c use? Not content with showing us
that hOrrid monsters claw and light
in every drop of water we drink, sclen-
tifc gentlemen have now been micro
scopicaIIy overhauling a hailstone and
find that an inf1nitesimal speck OF the
ice contains no less than 400 to 500
bacteria. They may be the germs OF
smallpox, scarlet fever, leprosy,. naugh,,
tiness and crime. Not even ice Will
kinthem, for they thaw out and wriggl!e
f~erociously. The invention of the mi
croscope revealed wonders to man, but
it has made life a burden to nervous
people. Nothing is free from microbes
any more, nothing is pure, except the
benevolent motive of one, says the
same inquirer, who lends a friend five
dollars when he never expects to get
it back again.
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Election that his predictions proved

lection that his predictions proved
true.
Works of fiction were not at that
day permitted a place under our Puri-
tan roof. Although [ had seen
Cooper's, Maryatt's, and Sir Walter
SCOTS novels, and the works OF
Washington Irving, in the houses of
friends, I had not yet learned the ma
ture of their contents. One morning,
however, I went off to school with a
strengthening, unbound book, hidden
in my satchel. I had surreptitiously
borrowed the volume from my
brothers table, where he had left it by
accident. 1t was '"The Scottish
Chiefs" by Miss Porter. I read the
book by stealth, ~concealing it under
my textbook during school hours,
when my quiet attitude led my teacher
and others to suppose I was absorbed
in study. Its narrative III gorgeous
rhetoric fascinated me, and / took the
whole tale for veritable history. The
DlCbuE6 III OH w 111IdIu w d1IoSCS 4OSo
than twenty-five years old, of gigantic
frame and great personal beauty,
made such an impression on my mind,
that I wanted some more information
about him. In exploring among my
fathers books I found on a top shelf,
two dilapidated volumes entitled 1.-THE
History of Scotland" which I read
from cover to cover. The book was in
tensely dull and commonplace, and
told me very little about Sir William
Wallace, for whom I was searching.
Yet this very disappointment caused
me to seek other historical books, and
I read all of that kind of literature I
could lay hands on. This taste for his
torical reading strengthened as I grew
older, until the time came when I
thought I should like to write history
myself. The result was my "History
of the City of New York." which I
worked at for fifteen years. -Martha
j. Lamb, IN Forum, NeW York, March.
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T
EDUCATION AT THE WORLDS FAIR.

EDUCATION AT THE WORLDS FAIR.
Commissioner Harris is DESTROYS that
a single building be furnished at the
Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Of
sufficient extent to contain and prop
erly display all the exhibits that belong
to education He says that at Phila-
delphia in 1875 not only the foreign
exhibits were separated and scattered,
but the exhibits of the several States
were isolated from one another. The
effect of the educational exhibit at
Philadelphia consequently was very
much weakened. But at the Cotton
Centennial at New Orleans, the educa-
tional exhibits of the United States
and of foreign nations, with a few
exceptions, were brought together In
the gallery of the government building.
Those who inspected it pronounce 1T
the best exhibit hitherto made of edu-
cation. Undoubtedly it derived half
its advantage from the fact that it
was disposed and arranged under one
supervision, and the whole of it's ma
teriaI brought together in n place.
DR.. Harris suggests there be organized
in each State, as soon as possible, a
committee with authority to take in
charge all matters Pertaining to educa-
tiOnal exhibits. Such a committee
may be provided for by the Legisla-
ture, or appointed by the Governor,
or, in the event that neither of these
arrangements is practicable, said COM
mittee may be organized by election
from local committees formed in cities
and towns, and in the educational in
situations of the State. In whatever
manner appointed, the committee
should be thoroughly representative
of all classes of schools and educational
institutions, whether public, private,
or UNCONVENTIONAL, and should include
State, county and city superintendent,
the officers of private schools and
academies, presidents of colleges and
universities, directors of institutions
for the defective classes, etc. This
proposition is most sensible, and should
meet with a hearty response from all
who wish to see our educational inter
ests properly presented at this great
exposition. Representatives from all
the world will visit this great exhibit,
and it is highly important that they
should see what we are doing toward
educating our children and youth
NeW York School Journal.
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ART.
TURNERIAN LANDSCAPE-AN ARRESTED
ART.

TURNERIAN LANDsCAPE-AN ARRESTED
ART.
Mr.. Ruskin has done many great
things. More than any other man, he
gave impulse, direction, and moral
value to the art revival of his younger
days, and his share in the influences
which have made the fine arts what
they are among us now, remains n
of the noblest and most enduring kind.
And yet, although he has assuredly
quickened our perception and love of
landscape beauty-althOugh he has
made all the world admit the genius
of one supremely great landscape
painter, it cannot be said that he has
made modern painters see nature as
that great artist did, or follow where
heled. Shakespeare, Verulam, Turner
by the last of this mighty triad Mr..
Ruskin declared that the aspect of ma
ture-her brightness, mystery, and in
finite abundance-had been for the first
time releaved to us. Surely we might
have looked for some great quickening
of landscape-art, and tleast have been
confident that the recognition of it's
poetical and spiritual power would not
be forgotten, whatever strength might
be spent in ardent study of the letter
of it's law. No such quickening did
follow. Whatever impulse was given
was merged in the general pre-Raph-
aelite one; whatever success was gained
bore little or no affinity with the special
quality of Turner's work. The progress
of landscape art as he understood it
has, in fact, been arrested since his
death. It would almost seem as if it
had been felt by his successors that
those shining fields of light of his had
never been really won, or that they
were but dreams, and that the solid
earth lever dissolved, under any magic
of light and air, into the "unsubstan-
tial fairy place" which he said it very
often did. Now a spirit of v~erifcation,
due to a shade of doubt whether the
genius of a great composer had not
yielded itself too u~nreservedly to its
own impulses, and so only just escaped
extravaganza, would have had much
to say for itself, but we have little
reason to believe that any such spirit
animated Turner's immediate success
sors. They admired, but they did not
study him, or believe in, or try to dis
oOvvor hiC n1sipoin1oc of 1yo,l- wo-
did not seek for light or allow natures
respleldent cOlors to dazzle and perplex
them. Time went on, and it became
apparent that landscape art as Turner,
and a band of less distinguished artists
both in oil and water-color of his date.
understood it bad somehow lost it's
power over us, and that that which
holds our affections now, however
powerful, brilliant, or accurate, is diff
ferent both in form and spirit. Ger
tainly man and his works enter largely
into pictures which we never think of
calling anything but landscapes. In
fact, nature without human interest is
apt to be dull, and grand scenes of life
less solitude are we'll known to be try
ing to any artists power of picture
making. The enchantment of
Airy tongues which syllable mems names
by sands and shores and desert wildernesses-
the wonderful scene of wizardry in
perfect loneliness which these lines con
vey is beyond the range of the greatest
painter of landscape desolation. And
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NOTICE TO ALLIANCE BRETH
rem.

In the future any brethren coming to
the office of the State Business Agent to
get Alliance prices, or to make an order
for goods, Will please bring their Trade
Cards with them, as it is annoying to
have to examine the brethren in order
to ascertain whether they are members
of the Alliance. You can secure Trade
Cards at this Office.
Themanufacturer of our F. A. Official
Guano requests all to bring their Trade
Cards when they come for guano.
F~raternally,
". Fl. WORTH, S. B. A.
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TO sUB-ALLIANCES WISHING TIC
=. TRADE DIRECT WITH THE
STATE AGENT.

The State Executive Committee
recommends that each Sub-Alliance
who wishes to trade direct with the
State Business Agent, make a deposit
of a sum of money with the State Bust
ness Agent, the money to be used for
such Sub-AIiance only, and to be with
drawn by the Sub-AIIiance at any time.
This will enable each Alliance at all
times to do business with State Bust
ness Agent without inconvenience to
either. Each Alliance will be entitled
to trade to the full amount of the de-
post. S. B. ALEXANDER,
J. M. MEWBORNE,
Executive Committee.
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LITERARY.
THE DRAMA AND THE NOVEL.

THE DRAMA AND THE NOVEL.
The novel and the drama differ so
widely in their respective methods
that it is strange their results should
be so closely comparable as they are;
for the impressions are really much
the same which come from reading a
well-written novel and from three
hours in a good theatre. Hence arises
the question whether theset two literary
forms have the same possibilities, or
whether the n car accomplish any
thing where the other fails. The an
swer to this is doubtful, but there is
one point on which assurance seems
warranted; it is the inferior adequacy
of the drama to deal with vastness, to
picture expanses of time and space.
For while the novelist, by appealing
to the minds eye alone, can make
prominent what he pleases, the
dramatist is restricted, in addressing
the bodily eye, to the resources of the
carpenter and cOstumer. The actors,
too, almost mOnOpOlize attention by
their physical presence, their gestures,
and the sound of their voices, and he
is, therefore, compelled to devote him
self exclusively to the mutual relations
of the drHn1dtiS persOnG, together
with the thought and action arising
therefrOm. The novelist, on the other
hand, with an amplitude of detail cum
ningly wrought into his story can re-
create an age and make a nation wear
the buskin as we'll as a man. To point
to historical plays and claim this
power for the drama is to forget that
England, France, or Rome, as the case
may be, appears almost only as a name
on the playful, and that it is Falstaf
and Henry, Bessus and Arbaces, who
live on the stage.
The difference, then, is n of per-
spective; and it is this which in a wide
sense distinguishes the Elizabethan
and the V~ictoriaR views of life, and
thence of art. A pictorial print of the
former period will show you, maybe.
a human figure or two, well enough
drawn as regards these, but indiffer-
entity as to surroundings and back
ground; while nowadays a broken tea
cup or distant hilltop is rendered al
most as faithfully as the centrepiece.
The fact is, man is now seen more
nearly in his own place in the order
of things. Darwin and Calico nave
combined to clog his self-assertiOn and
stimulate his wider interest, SO that he
now spreads a broader canvas for his
art, which questions the Pleiades while
paying full attention to street-lamps,
Ulysses is still Ulysses, but he is now
seen by Tennyson in place of Homer:
he Is "a part of all that he has met"
1t Is therefore the present rim of art
to throw on life all manner Of side
lights, such as the stage Gun hardly
contrlve, but which the novel processes
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OBITUARY..

Sister Lizzie Pulliam, of Valley
River Alliance, died January 80, 1891.
Sister D. A. Roberts, of Stices Shoals
Alliance, No. 932, died February I'd,
1891.
Brother William Calvin Thagard, of
Thagard's Alliance, No. 300, died Janu-
airy 81, 1891.
Brother w. M. BIaylock, of Fairfield
Alliance, No. $50, died February 25,
1891. He was a good man.
Brother Henry G. Pritchett, of Ali
ance No. 1,544, Guilford Co., N. c.,
died recently. Date not given.
Sister Flora L. Deal, of Petra Mills
Alliance, No. 1851, died March 3Oth,
1891, in the 23d year of her age.
Brother P. T. Evans, of Williams
boro Alliance, No. 225, died January
25th, 1891. A good and true man gone
to rest.
Brother J. M. Brown, of Friendship
Alliance, No. 545, died March %, 1891,
in the 74th year of his age. Agood
man gone home4
Brother w. H. Marshall, President
of Castalia Alliance, No. 454, died
March 90, 1891, aged74O years. Brother
Marshall was a good man:
The Rev. r. B. Windley, of Wood
ards Alliance, No. LIZA, died recently
(the date not given aged 81 years. His
Alliance passed touching resolutions of
respect.
Brother R. l.. Dunn, Chaplain of
Williamsboro Alliance, No. 225, died
January 18th, 1891. Brother Dunn was
a good and faithful Allianceman and
Christian.
Why the Horse Died.
If you had read the treatise on the
Horse" you could have saved his life.
Ignorance has cost you the price of the
horse. Buy the book and know how.
Sent for 10 cents. Stamps or silver.
Pioneer Buggy Company, Columbus,
Ohio.
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FORMATIVE INFLUENCES.

The child of Puritan parentage, bred
in awell- ordered family where educa-
tional, religious and political affairs
were familiar topics of conversation,
and trained in the schools of a COM
munity that frowned upon ignorance
and cherished a solid intellectual pur-
pose, must necessarily trace the first
1mpelling, if not determining, forma-
tive influences to such sources. | was
reared among older people in a house
hold where [ had no companions of my
own age, except occasional invited
guests, and I learned, almost as soon
as I could talk, to amuse and enter
tain myself, often by listening with
undivided attention to animated dis
cussiOns on a great variety of abstract
themes. | absorbed, uncOnsciOusly,
habits of thinking and of formulating
my own opinions, and frequently sur
prised my parents and their friends by
suddenly appearing before them, in
the midst of an exciting argument, to
explain and soften what | conceived to
be unnecessary differences of belief. In
such cases, I always had a polite and
attentive audience. My father was
very tender in his treatment of me
and from first to last encouraged the
full exercise of my reasoning powers.
/ was trained in excellent schools. I
had a natural prediction for mathe-
matics. | was propelled in the direc-
ton of mathematical requirements by
a teacher who afterwards became a
noted physician, George NJ. Burgess.
His own love for mathematics had
much to do with his methods of teach
ing, which with me were so thorough,
chiefly when [ was between nine and
thirteen years of age, that when later
on, | was put to school at WillistOn
Seminary, Easthampton, Massachu-
sets, | was assigned to the most adj
vanced classes in algebra and geom-
etry, and not only kept pace with
young men who were my seniors by
several years, but carri9 I'd of the prize
at the first commencement.
Mylove of nature was first awakened
by the poemsof William Cullen Bryant.
The poet was our neighbor, or, to be
exact, his birthplace was on a
picturesque hillside in sight of my own
birthplace, and he usually came to the
old homestead every summer. When
a boy he attended school with nv
father; and I had asked so many ques-
tiOns about how he looked inhis youth,
and what he said and did, that I al
most fancied I had actually seen him
write ''Thanatopsis."
Mr.. Burgess was fresh from college.
: and before long formed a small class
In Latin, of which I was a voluntary
member. He smiled when | asked
permission to join the class, and told
me how dry and tiresome I should find
the lessons. But I was resolut~ and
ne did not object; and I have no .recol-
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FARMERS ALLIANCE SONGS

Bye. o. Excel and DIR. D. Reid Parker.
A collection of industrial songs for
use In Alliance meetings, the home cir
Gle, &C. L have made arrangements
with the publishers to handle this book
IN North Carolina. Wholesale and re-
tai prices quoted on application.
W. Fl. WORTH, S. B. A,
$40 Raleigh, N. @.
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to manage for those who can read.
The round unvarnished tale of the
early novelist has been dead for over a
century, and in its place we have fic-
ton that seeks to be as complete as life
itself.-FrOm 1.-THE Elizabeth Drama
and the V1ctyr5an Novel," by I. ID.
Robb, IN April L~ippincotts.
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NOTICE OF F. S. BLAIR FOR THE
FIRST DISTRICT.

Having been summoned under pen
atty as an important witness In a muir
der case at the next term of the court
for Hartford county, very reluctantly
omit my appointment for Dare and
Hyde counties till Tuesday, May 9Th,
at Manteo and at Swan Quarter, Thurs
day, May 18th, 1891. F. S. BLAIR,
District Lecturer for First district.
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Sub-Alliance Business Agents are
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. II. WORTH. S. B. A
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Members who have received "S r.
s" catalogue (buggies, etc., instead
OF deductlng SO, $22 and $50, deduct
81 per cent. off catalogue price for spot
cash. W. II. WORTH, S. B. A.
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After a varied experience with many 80,
Ayers Pills give the most satisfactory results;
rely exclusively on these Pills. for the cure o. o.
LVer and stomach complaints. John b. Ben
Sr. Abilene, Texas.
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Rev. B. CADE, EDITOR, &c, RALEIGH,

I0II OADL, IDI1Oh, ~,
n. c.:
Dear SIR and BrOtber:-Will O
please request IN THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER the Secretaries of the County
Alliances (Which have appointed dele
gates to the Tobacco Convention called
by Bro. Carr to meet in Henderson on
the 28th inst.) to forward the names to
me at once, and oblige,
Yours f~raternallY,
J. Fl. DUNN,
Chm'n Com. Recept'n and Hospitality.
T. 81 see some of our local papers
have stated that the meeting was called
by MI. Julian S. Carr, instead of Elias
Carr, President N. @. F. A. Please
correct. j. H. D.
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Scrofula is transmitted from parent to child.
e~rations. 1t is, therefore, the duty of every
scrofulous person to cleanse his blood by a
thorough and persistent course of Ayers Sar-
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