The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-14

weighs" The Star might have added
70 that the weighs of such people passeth
all understanding.
* Our North Carolina exchanges
are getting off the same annual chest,
nuts about cleaning up backyards and
washing pig pens. We also notice that
the New York papers are wanting the
pig pens cleaned up there.
~ Col. J.. P. Cook of the Concord
Standard, has only been married a
year. He says: Its hard to make
money in the newspaper business when
a man has to buy shoes for six young
children and seven bill collectors"
~ Bro. J. 7. Wyatt, Of Faith,
Rowan county, has been awarded the
premium for the best m~illstones ex-
hibited at our last State Fair. Rowan
granite makes good m~illstones, and
Bro. Wyatt is q first class workman in
that line.
~ A few Of our mon partisan State
exchanges sand off and sheer at THE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER. Gentlemen, dogs
have .barked at the moon for many
years but it is still doing business at
the old stand. Your sneers does the
paper good.
~ The PROGRESSIVE FARMER has a
constituency to be proud of, not only
in this State but in many other States.
They overlook III faults and magnify
our virtues, This is because it is the
best paper in the Southeast. Long live
our constituents.
* The State Agri cultural Depart
ment has issued a new Hand Book of
the State, which is very we'll illustrated
and contains many facts about North
Carolina. 1t will be distributed at the
Worlds Fair and doubtless will prove
very interesting to strangers.
* A party of female cranks who
have played baseball in most Ameri-
can cities, were attacked by a mob in
Cuba a few days ago. They played
badly and the audience demanded the |
gate fees. The Cuban baseball club
defended the American females as best
they could until a force Of police ar
rived. Served them right.
- Sterling Morton, the new Secre
tary Of Agriculture, is telling it around
Washington that he raised /, 575 bushels
Of corn on 20 acres last season and
made so campaign speeches besides.
Well, he ought to have had something
ID do with the fish commission, for he
can tell whoppers. He may or NAV
not make a better Secretary than Jerry
Rusk. He is a bigger liar if nothing
else.
~ An exchange says President Har-
spent much Of his time playing
with his grandson, Baby Mckee; -
also that he has retired now and will
put III several weeks playing with the
baby. We thought so. When the
people Of this country demand that
the President spend some Of his time
at work there will be better manage
ment at Washington. No country can
run itself.
~ Those Of Our readers who are in
terested in bees or honey should send
A. I. Root, Medina, Ohio, for his
catalogue and sample copy Of Clean
in Bee Culture-a semi-monthly
magazine Of Sc pages, beautifully illus
trated with half-tone engravings. 1t
has also a home and garden depart
men5, making it of value to many not
Interested in bees. Samples sent free
for the asking.
~ "ESSe guam Uideri" is the new
State motto that was chartered by the
asst session Of the legislature. One of
members of the lower House
sound it on a bottle in a drug store and !
t was adopted without any of them .
moving what it was. Members of 1
he Alliance will refrain from using it l
Is it may turn them out to be partisan. {
t is only intended for the -four hun l
any way. {
~ Murat Halstead, in the New York 7
arraigns the Rocky Mountain v
Ve1Cs, the Atlanta Constitution and -
General Weaver as ~"disturbers of the U
ublic welfare" Halstead is the man Il
Tho, during the war, wrote to Lincoln n
trough the Cincinnati Commercial q
hat Sherman was crazy, Grant a Il
runken imbecile, the war for the
.nion a failure and that President
lincoln needed his head thumped
the wall to put some sense in it.
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Senator Jones, Of For=yth, said ju
a speech in the State Senate th