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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-12-13

TO AGENTS.
RALEIGH, N. c., Dec. 10, 1892.
OUR PRICE LIST.

Always give plain shipping direc-
lions, giving the line on which your
station is located, unless it is a we'll
known point, and if a pre- pay station,
so state.
All Sub-Business Agents who wish to
get the 80 days time on their bills, will
execute bonds now in the hands of the
Secretary of each Sub-Alliance in the
State. to whom said bonds have been
sent for the Business Agents of Sub
Alliances. The following prices are
subject to market fluctuations:
We call special attention to tha. 81
higher on fertilizer less than load
lots. w. Fl. WORTH.
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THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER DECEMBER Is 1899

you have no choice, try as far as prac-
ticable to order brands coming from
the same point. All packages of less
than a hundred pounds weight when
shipped alone are charged for by trans
portation companies as a hundred
pounds.
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ADVANCE IN PRICE OF COFFEE.

Coffee has advanced and is still ad
vancing in price. The quotations in
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER are subject
to the change of price, as all other quo
tations are. Your orders are filed at
the lowest price on the day the order
is received by the wholesale dealer or
manufacturer.
w. II. WORTH, s. B. A.
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STATE AGENCY DEPARTMENT.
Jnder this Head Will be Found Every
thing Relating to the Agency.

This page is devoted o the Business
Agency and co-opera i've trade. Com
m~unications from all interested will be
accepted. No long Einded, theoretical
papers wanted, but IDEAS solicited. We
want your best thoughts and can't
publish, as a rule, more than about
one quarter column articles.
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DIED.

At his home, in Macon county, re-
Gently, DR.. J. M. Lyleand, a prominent
physician and useful citizen. He was
a consistent and esteemed member of
the Alliance,
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The prosperity of a farmer to-day de-
ponds more on the methodist he EMPLOYS
than on governmental rule. Take seeds
for an example: Many farmers who
are alive to their own interests in other
things are careless in buying seeds.
They to think that a seed is a
seed and there it ends. If there was
more knowledge about seeds and
greater care exercised in their selection
the would be richer crops and better
returns.
Realizing this, D. M. Ferry & Co.,
the famous seed firm of Detroit, Mich. >
have embodied in their Illustrated An.
nual for 1893, much valuable informa.
ton about seeds and their selection. II
contains the knowledge cleaned from
many years practical experience in
the seed business, and the newest and
best things about gardens and garden.
ing. Such a book issued by a firm O
unquestioned reliability is of the high
est value to every one who plants &
seed. Although the cost of printing
and embellishing it with beautiful
illustrations has been great, it is sen
free to any n making application tt
the above firm.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-12-13
GOODS.

I wish to call the attention Cf the
brethren to placing their orders for
Christmas goods at an early day, so
that their orders can be filed and goods
be delivered in good time. I wish to
call attention to prices:
Pain candy, from Raleigh, IS
lbs. to 100 lbs, aG............7 cts.
Plain candy, from Raleigh, in
bills, 200 lbs, .............6 90 cts.
French mixed candy, in 80 Id.
pals, at. ........... ........9 cts.
Jap cocoa, 5 ID. boxes, .........1 10 cts.
Penny goods, zoos. per box So cts.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Valentine, per 10. cts.
% ID. boxes. .....8 cts.
" IA ......8b "
Nuts and other goods at wholesale
market prices.
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National bankers claim that it don't
pay them to buy bonds and take ninety
per cent. back in national bank notes,
in compliance with the National Bank
Act. If it don't pay them, who does it
pay? 1t is an expense to the govern
ment and a detriment to the people.
If it benefits n o one it should be repealed
at once.-COuncI GrOUe Courier.
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EDWARD BANKS
THE GREAT REFORMATION.

Those who get discouraged AMI com
plain at the slowness of the progress of
this movement, do not comprehend its
magnitude and the tremendous posi-
bilities with which it is fraught.
Economic justice means the abolish
ment of poverty and crime. It means
a realization among men of a Christian
civilization. Under its benign influence
the spirit of ~avarice, which is the king
of ali evils, would be bred out of the
race in a few generations.
A spirited and enterprising people
like those of America, possessing civil
and religious liberty and economic
Justice, with the vast and inexhaust-
able resources of a continent like this,
would soon producea typeof manhood
and a state Of society of which God
Himself would be proud. It is each
mans duty and the t~ranscendent pleas
ure of each patriot to strive during his
day and generation for the consumma
ton of this end.-MOpitOT.
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JAM q 1893,
viii be a most excellent time for you to enter
Fa1rVtew Institute. Board $3.50 to Sl.75 per
week. Tuition low. Both sexes. Every adj
vantage Students from all over the Sontb
Write to
w. 7. WHITSETT, A. NJ,
96g G~ibsonville, N. G.
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TdJ0TndllNs
W. Fl. WORTH, S. B. 4

CHINA GROVE, N. c., Dec. 1, 1892.
Mr.. w. II. Worth, Raleigh, ~ c.:
DEAR SIR AND BROTHER:-I am glad
to note at our first meeting after the
political storm we had a very enthusi
astic and business like meeting, and
the order I send with these few lines
will verify my statement, although we
faith fF8 veal" Te nH the 6rethP DaS t to rail IN and md
not forget the great principles we
cherish and those noble aims we would
achieve. We should certainly be en-
couraged since the little we have done
is full Of promise. Believe me to be
Your true friend,
M. A. STIREwALT.
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BARBED WIRE.

bAhbED W1hEs
Galvanized barbed fencing wire. 500
and upward, +. o 3. factory, Sc 10.
100 and less than 500, 81. From stock
Raleigh at Nc advance.
Tobacco hues, Raleigh, &c per Id.
Greensboro, N. O.
Iowa Barbed Wire in 1000 Id. lots.... $50
Il" " less. ,, 8Sc
From factory &c per Id. less.
Seed rice, per l36
Plain wire, not galvanized, No. 8, 1928
per lou lbs. at factory, not less than
400 tbs.
CANE SEED.
Early Amber or Early Orage, both
choice stock, p0c. per bushel, f. o. b.
cars at St. Louis, Mo.
Seed wheat f. o, b Morgonton, Jsaked
per busbel 1.05
Seed oats f. o. b. Morganton, sacked,
per bushel SO
DRUGS.
Epsoms salts in bbls. per Id. advance, 1kc
=" in kegs 1910
CoppeTas in hbls., hsgher, nc
in kegs, 1Mc
Spanish brown in bbls. 1c
in kegs, 1AC
Blue stone in bbIs, 44c
= in kegs, 4a4c
Sulphur, in Dbl. 31sc
IN kegs, &C
Alum in hbls. 2Mc
: il kegs, cost of kegs extra, 8He
Lewis lead, nc
North State lead, SIC
Yours fraternaIIy,
w. Fl. WORTH, 8. B. A.
H-seals delivered for s1.50. Trade cards, &c
per 100.
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2 ID whole bags, 800 in bundle each 5<
#. 0. B. n rfOlF. Va.
PIP good smoo. h tute bqgging 10 ys'ds, 7d9
24lb 500
New Arrow ties, per bundle. ..... Ito
LEGS prepared lime, in car lots r. o..
p. tS1cnmond, ..."".......... 49
T. U. b. Richmond, Va.
Best ground bone, 2.5O
BAUGH's PURE RAW BONE MEAL.
Carload lots of 10 tons, cash. ..,.... 1900
LESS Imam car % so
SUI p poBe 4nedy ground, carload. :, ROD
LANE PLASTER.
Best Nova Scotia, FOB. Norfolk. per
ton car load 67h
less than car load lOts........., 676
fluctuations.
In ordering be careful to state what depot
goods are to be shipped to and be sure to g1ye
name of your postOfice as 1t Is VERY important.
Please cOndense your correspondence. Pleass
have orders and letters on different paper.
All persons expecting to get goods at spot C&sh
prices, cash must accompany order.
SPRING BEDS.
Goppered springs. ........."......... %
FARM IMPLEMENTS.
McTyeire Manure Distributor com
plete f. o. b Bessemer ...,.... 5000
10 pr ct. off to AlIiancemen.
Two loop plow cleyises, 75c. per doz.
Repair links SIC. gross.
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Mr.. EDITOR:-I encllse letter from
Bro. S. A. Stirewalt. It is very pleas
ant to receive such letters. His letter
has the true ring of an Allianceman,
and I am glad to see a disposition upon
the part of the brethren to come to
gether and work to put the Alliance in
a better condition to serve the brethren
than ever before. We ask ali to come
in and do whatever they can, and we
will yet do our farmers much good.
See his letter below.
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THE FARMER AND POLITICS.

u" ~ DONNs
Sec'y-Treas. Wake Co. T. A.
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war. participating In all the battles of the
Army of the Cumberland.
In October, 1864, while at the front with
his command. Captain Ellis was elected on
the Republican ticket as treasurer Of Della
ware county. He did not leave until the
close of the war, however, when he re-
turned to bis home and took charge of the
county treasurers Office. He was unani-
mously renominated and reelected in 1866.
lie has served two successive terms as a
mem Der of the Muncie Common Council
and four successive terms as Mayor of the
city.
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
Nicholas Fiibeck, the member of tho
State committee from the Eighth district,
10 native of Germany. having first seen
the light of day at Viernheim, Hesse- Darn
stad.. Lee. Is. 1919. He came to this country
with his parents in 1s47. where they first
located at Indianapolis. In 1853 the elder
Filbeck became a resident of Terre Haute.
The ubject of this sketch was then u boy
of ten years. from which time until the
breaking out of the war he made his way
in life by his own exertions. He was but
a little over seventeen years of age when.
in August. 1861. he enlisted in the Thirty
second Indiana. known as the German regi-
ment under Colonel Which. When he
came TO Indianapolis TO enlist his father
followed HIM for the purpose of taking him
back home. Mr.. Filbeck did succeed in
getting his son away, and took him to his
hotel from which the young soldier soon
escaped and fed back to his regiment,
whereupon the father reluctantly gave his
consent to the enlistment Mr. Filbeck
was with his regiment at the first Ken.
lucky fight ut Rowlett's Station, was with
Buelfs army in the second days fight at
Shiloh, was at the siege of C0rinth, and all
the sklrmishes and engagements which fol-
lowed. and at the battle of Stone River In
December, 1862. received wound which
rendered him q cripple for life. He was for
twelve days in the hands of Dick McCain's
rebel cavalry. who did all they could for
him, although they were not able to give
his wound the proper attention. They
eventually helped him to get to the
Union hospital at Nashville. where he re-
manned over month. de was then trans
there to New Albany. and then to the Sol
diers' Home in Indianapolis. While still
on crutches, he secured au order to Join his
regiment, having refused disc barge which
was pressed upon HIM. He was totally I'M
fit for duty, and in order that he might
ride was temporarily assigned to the quar-
ter!nasrer's department.. He joined his
regiment on the eve of the Chickamauga
campaign. and was on detached service in
the brigade quarteImasters department;
was mustered out with his command Sept.
2, 1864, a veteran of three years service,
crippled for life. and oil before he had at
tanned his legal majority. Returning to
Terre Haute he engaged in the hotel bust
ness with success, and in 1873 was appoin ted
postmaster by President Grant, which of
flee he held for eight years. making q record
for efficiency and thoroughness in that pO-
sItion which has never been excelled.
MIR. Filbeck has reputation for practical,
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on the Republican ticket. and will be re-
lieved of the instrumentation II has been
compelled to endure on the floor OF Con-
gress since the Hon. L. Voorhees, Brookshire
has had m. c." tackled on to his name.
ELEVENTH DISTRICT.
George A. Osborn. committeeman from
the Eleventh district. was born in Grant
county. Indiana. in January. 1850. and spent
his boy hood upon his fathers farm. work
ing upon the farm in the summer and at
tending the district school IN the winter.
By his own efforts be secured good COM
mon-sehool education. which was supple
mented by course in hlgh-school and
normal training. He commenced teaching
school in the fall of 1887. He has filled all
positions in the public schools from q
teacher in the district school To that of the
city high-school. He has also been largely
interested IN normal school work.
When quite young man Mr. Osborn
was elected township trustee. to which
position he was reelected By an increased
majority. This position he resigned TO &C
cept that OF the county superintendency OF
the public schools of Grant county. which
he filled for four terms. giving universal
satisfaction. Before tho expiration of his
term be was chosen q member OF the City
Council and served two years.
In 1890 he was nominated for county
auditor and elected by a handsome ma
jority over the combined opposition of the
Democratic, Peoples party, and PrOhibi-
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Field officers of the Republican Hosts
in HOOsierdOm for This Years Fight.
Strong Body Of Intelligent, Active and Up
right Men Well Posted in the POlit-
ical Affairs Of Indiana
Biographical Sketches Of the Members
of the State Central Committee.
Chairman Gowdy's Good Work Since lie Was
Given COntrol-Excellent Chance
for Republican Victory.

The Journal to-day presents the por-
traits of q number of gentlemen with
whom lies the responsibility of the politi-
cal campaign of 1892. so far IS the Repub-
hcan party is concerned. The only faces
missing in this gallery CT the Republican
State central committee are those of Mr
Hess. of this, the Seventh district, and or
Mr.. Harley. of the Tenth. The excessive
mOdesty of these members alone prevents
the Journal from reproducing their faces.
The Journal hastens to assure it's readers
that the same diffidence in facing the de-
FAINT Democracy Will not, it is hoped. DO
manifested by these gentlemen. OF those
pictured the suggestion is not necessary.
The party interests in Indiana are in the
hands of thoroughly capable. upright and
energetic men. The party is full of cour-
age with the present State central COM
mittee directing the campaign. John x.
Gowdy. chairman. is q man of great tact
IN dealing with factions. and never quails
in the presence OF the enemy. He is o
mingler with the multitude, and full Of
sympathy In manner with all kinds of peo-
pie. but says little. Therein lies the evil
dence OF his sincerity. His management
executive ability. and has inspired q
greater courage for the conflict that was
ever before wsrrantable. he Is ably sec
onded by his secretary, +. NJ. Millikan,
whose quiet. easy way makes every visitor
TO the committees Headquarters In tho
DenIson House feel at Home.
CHAIRMAN.
John X. Gowdy was born in Burlington,
now Arlington. Rush county. Indiana,
forty-seyen years ago last August He
moved with his father to Jasper county,
Indiana, In March. 1913. His father. A. NJ.
c. Gowdy. died at their home. seven miles
west of Rensselaer,. Feb. %. 1851. Young
Gowdy lived with his mother at the old
summer season. and in November of each
year returned TO Arlington and attended
school during the winter months making
his home with his sister, Mrs. j. w. Green,
now q resident of Shelbyville. He re-
turned to the farm in Jasper county late
in March of each year, so as to enter upon
cropping season. He received in this
way but a common school ed ueation.
On the first day of September. 1862, be ran
away from home and joined Company l.,
Fifth Indiana Cavalry, ut Lafayette, serv-
ing In that company until the 5th of Octo-
Der. 1865 period of three years and one
month. At the close of the war he re-
turned to Rush county. attending school
hve months. He went TO Jasper county IN
the spring of 1866. and in September began
a five months term of school near his
home. On the 9th day of the following
January he was married to Miss Eve +.
Gordon. of Arlington. He has made his
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home IN Rush county from that date to the
present. living on q farm near Arlington
until October. 1879. when he moved 10
Nashville, where be now resides. He was
elected sheriff of Rush county in October.
$50. and entered upon the duties of his
Office Aug. %, ISL. In 1872 he was renom-
mated By reclamation at mass
Republican convention. and was re-
elected by largely increased
county. In February. 1850, in a Republican
mass convention held in Nashville Mr..
Gowdy was chosen chairman of the Rush
county central committee. serving In that
capacity for ten years. Not q single Re-
publican candidate was ever defeated by
the Democracy at the county during his
term as chairman OF the county committee.
he turned the county over TO his successor
with the largest Republican majority ever
given TO any presidential candidate. Presl-
dent Harrison having received In 1855 a
majority of s2l. In 1852 he was nominated
by reclamation as the Republican candi-
date for county auditor. was triumph
antly elected and entered upon his duties
Nov. ]. 1855. In June. 1856. he was renom-
mated by reclamation as his own success
jOrIty. He vacated the office of auditor
Nov. !. 1891, having served the full term of
eight wears. On the 9th dayJanuary. 1901,
at n meeting held By the Republican State
central committee hn was elected chairman
of the State committee to FIJI the unex-
pired term of Hon. L. L. Kitchener. who.
alter moving To Washington. ID. c.. ten
dered his resignation as chairman. On an.
p. 1897, after having served one year In
that capacity, he was reelected by ac-
clamatIon for the ensuing two years.
VEGETARIAN.
c. c. Shirley was born in Howard coun-
ty thirtytwo years ago. was educated in
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to his party. an inspiration to and q wise
counselor of the county committee. While
he is q practical politician he believes thor
ouRhly in moral forces in politics. and.
while never neglecting organization as
means to an end. no one relies more on the
Justice of the cause he espouses.
He was a member of the State executive
committee in 1884 and again IN 1885. In
tary of the Republican State committee at
the resignation of Mr.. Ollie and elected to
said position In 1890. a position he 80 ac-
ceptably filled that he was unanimously
ganlZatIon of the present committee.
Mr. MllllkaD mas been successful in bus
mess. his greatest interests being in real
estate and IN agricultural pursuits He is
an indefatigable worker. urbane In man.
ners and easily approachable. yet man
who permits DO undue familiarity and
violates no condolences.
TREASURER.
The subject of this sketch, Mr.. Horace
Mckay. traces his descent from purely
Scotch ancestry. In the last century. from
the Clan MacKaye. IN Scotland. his great
grandfather came to Virginia. coming into
George-the yellow parchment. with the
roy al seal. being an heirloom in the family.
Early In 1900 his grandfather left Virginia,
and moved to Ohio. unwilling to bring up
family in Q slave State. On this farm of
five hundred acres, in the most fertile part
of southern Ohio. his grandson grew to
manhood. Born in 1871. be was but nine
teen at the beginning of our civil war. In
college. with the expec tation of choosing
the law for q profession. he, like
thousands Of other young men In the
North, left all and entered the army as
private in the Seventy seventh Ohio.
When peace was declared he became the
soldier citizen. ReupvIng to Indianapolis
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lin College. and now bears the honorary
degree of a. NJ, conferred by his alma ma
ter
At the close of his college course he en-
te;ei u.on the study of law under the
gulaancr of his father. the Hon. q. NJ.
OV.rstrrer and Mr.. A. u. Hunter, who con-
s,itgted the well-known law firm of Over
street * Hunter. MIR. Oyerstreet was early
connected with this firm, and upon the
death of Mr. Hunter, in August. 1891. he
entered into full partnership with his
father under the firm name Of Overstreet
q Overstreet.
Mr.. Overstreet is we'll educated, of stu
dious habits and with natural aptitude for
the law and public affairs. He has given
careful attention TO politics as q study. is
we'll informed, enjoys an extended &C.
quaintance, and is active, judiclous and
careful in his work. In March. 1885, he
was made assistant United States marshal
under Hon. w. l.. Dunlap and occupied
that position with credit until January
1891. when he resigned to continue his pro-
fessiOnal labors.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Frank Ellis. Sixth district committee
man. is senior member of the law firm of
Ellis & Watterhouse. of Muncie He was
born forty -nine years ago. and has been q
lifelong resident of Delaware county.
During the war he served three years as q
member of the Elghty-fourth Indiana Reg
iment. At the battle of Chickamauga all
the officers of Company B were killed and
Governor Morton commissioned Sergeant
Ellis to the captaincy. He commanded the
company thereafter until the close of tho
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effectual political work that renders him a
tower of strength 10 his party. and dread
ed opponent TO his political adversaries.
He was secretary of the NigO county Re-
publican committee In 1867, 1865 and 1869.
It's chairman IN 1872. 1874. 1876 anc 1854, and
in 1883 worked SO hard for the election of
the Republican ticket that it was
said OF him that he scarcely
closed his eyes In sleep from the
time of the Chicago convention until the
result was known as q certainty on the day
following the election In Move mber. He
was also manager of the Lincoln League
for the Eighth district In that campaign.
Mr.. Filbeck's great forte is in organization,
and it is safe to cay, without disparage-
Inent 10 those who have preceded HIM. that
the Eighth district has never had the per-
feet organization it will present to the en-
emy i'll this campaign. He is discreet, alert
and aggressive and with the hearty sup
port he is sure to enlist In the different
counties composing his district he will TO
able. next November. TO render an account
of his STEWARDSHIP that will be emIncntly
satisfactory to every Republican through
ont the State. He is hustler" In all
which that term implies: his knowledge of
men and politics Is unsurpassed, amt the
unanimous support no received In the dis
trIct cnvention-and which was altogether
unsolicited by him-was tTIb ute 10 his
worth and abilities as highly pleasing 10
him "a il as gratifying TO his friends. He
will in every way justify the confidence re-
posed in him. and 10 ~ safe 10 assert that in
November the Eighth district will roll up
handsome majority Tor every candidate
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The Universal Report
from Every Section:

letter Just received from St Paul merchant says:
"The~sales of DR.. Prices Delicious Flavoring Ex-
tracts have doubled within the past three months and
the demand is constantly increasing" This is account
ed for by the fact that Dr. Prices havors just
Representatives, from poisonous oils and ethers are
nature, made from the finest fruits of delicate
taste, and Of the greatest strength attainabe The
housewife who uses them once will never purchase
the cheap substitutes