The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-09-06

HA4O SOAS1SGLAS VI d WAuOW Iduy III
moderate circumstances who let me
a small hall bedroom at the time. So
the thief got the worst of it. If he got
the money on the order it was more
than I could do.
Quite a fraud has been unearthed in
st. Paul in the past summer by the
timely report of a Scandinavian, who
wrote the following letter to the mayor
and thus brought the parties to justice.
1t is a curiosity to those who have not
made a study of the Scandinavian
dialect:
Dear Sir-I am wondering if you
have any naledges of that satse svind-
ling is going on on Savent St, and l
will now tally you voth it is. Thar is
som dad bit that have gat a colored
man in a kedge, and sho hem for
money. Shargs Is cents for admi sion
and than tri to max people blive the
have caugthh hem in arisona, as a
Wild man.
Idonot blive in such a robbery from
por peopel, that don't low of any
batter and to go in thar and pay fifteen
cents for to Sc a negro that is as tam
as the rast. Do you blive it is rigth to
lat than do so. I like sport bout /
like to Sc it in a far play.
YOUR FRIEND TOT AVER.
Very few people here would pay
fifteen cents to see a negro "that is as
tam as the rast."
Politics is active here. Much talk is
heard regarding the late Congress.
Here in North Carolina and elsewhere
the opinion prevails that Congress has
had too many men in it who have been
so busy watching the "home paper"
that they have had no time to devote to
legislation, and thus they claim indo-
lence and timidity have been the chief
characteristics of the session.
In 1879 Gabe Bouck, of Wisconsin,
e pacing up and down the
foyer, or whatever it is called, which
surrounds the desk where the primary
department of Congress sits. He was
a member of the House, and seemed to
have stepped out into the entry to
a little over the arrears of pen
sions bill, which was evidently about
to pass. "A set Of id towards
contemplate, ID towards" he was
heard to calculate ever and anon.
But why don't you stop it," said
an ex-member who came in just then.
"Stop itr' he replied. Chow can I
stop it when I'm one of the id
towards myself"
Congress, however, is hardly to
blame, for it is too large a body to
act wisely or well. Just as our presi
Dental conventions are lately, and if
we continue at the same rate, the great
national fight hereafter will not be to
see who will be elected president, but
what town will have the convention.
Those who have not read the open
letter witten this summer by Andrew
D. White, a Republican, to Patrick A.
Collins, a Democrat, of Boston, ought
to get it and read it.
Do we hold presidential conventions
for the purpose of nominating the best
man or for the purpose of farming out
the lemonade privileges to a herd OF
yaps and yahoos who can yell down
the wisest sentiments, and applaud
and expectorate and delay the con
vention, and then go back to the
asylum again to wait for another con
vention2 B
Four or five pure minded men, with
no political principles, should get to-
gether and talk this matter over. 1
could get away during the month of
October. Prior to that I shall be busy
here on the place.
Alabama has just had a very heated
fight over the governorship, and the
following, printed during the campaign
in the Birmingham Age Herald, shows
that a man in Alabama without a line
age has no business to run for gov
ernOr:
ACTIVITY, Monroe County, Ala.
l am a Jones man, but having heard
our uODl0 governor was Gn0 ISSUE OF a
German railroad engineer and an Italian
fruit woman of Charleston, and being
unable to answer such an argument,
weak as it is, for God knows such an
issue could be as honorable as any
other, provided it was legitimate, 1
write you to give me the facts in the
case.
So please give us full and complete a
CEotOh of GnuoPnnr TnDnc I'M t0 his
thirtieth year as possible, stating an
tecedent of both his father and his
mother in full, who they were and
where they come from. Some say
they came from the mountains of
tennessee: l am ans gong TO Try TO MAKE
column of Governor Us ~genealogy