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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-31

* y CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALLI-
ANCE.
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T;oe-P e-President-T. 3. Long, Ashe-
lie, n. Q.
Sacratary-T -Treasurer-W. 5. Barnes,
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Lecturer-C. w. Thompson, Rich
lands. n c..
Chaplain-Rev. Jno. Ammons, Madi-
son Go. \. {.
cr-Keeper-R A. Henry, Ellijay,
NC.
assistant Door-Keeper--H, Z. King,
';sanut, n. g.
SsrSeans- at-Arms-J. S. Holt, Chalk
state Business Agent-W. H. Worth,
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Trustee Business Agency Fund-W.
90 Graham, Machpelah, II. 9.
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~.e0LlNA FARMERS sTATE ALLIANCE.
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hairrnan: J. NJ. MewbOrne, Kinston,
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FATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
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o-e5h, IL. @. Gregory, VIM. Z. ConnelL
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requested to keep the list standing on
he FIRST Duge and odd others, TTOUlded
gse0 are duly elected. Any T)Uper .faiL-
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-31

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Lively Competition.

A man recently offered to carry the
mails between Boonsborough and
Keedysville, Nd, daily, except Sun.
day, free of charge. The distance
between the two towns is about
three miles, and the bidder thought
that he bid low enough to secure the
contract. 1t was not awarded to
him, however, for another man Offer ed
to do the work for an annual COM
pensation of one cent, and to him tho
contract was awarded. The man
who ,offered to deliver the mail free
of charge is now wondering why no
was not permitted to do so.
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attached has been thrown. The result
Is that IL has grown TO cumbersome pro-
portions. Ii is unwieldy, and move
ment is on foot to take many of its
bureaus and organize them into new
department to be called the Department
of Commerce. This would mean a new
Cabinet officer, and when the Office is
created and filed its incumbent Will
find plenty to do.
The Secretary OF the Interior has un-
der his direction so many huge Govern
ment concerns that he can give little or
no attention to any OF them Each.
therefore, becomes q sort OF independ-
ent bureau, nominally controlled by
the Secretary, but actually running
wild" The tradition and organization
OF the department are such that the
nominal head becomes little else than o
chief clerk. He must attend TO so much
routine business in order to fulfill the
law, must sign go many letters and
nominally pass upon so many reports
and documents, that his energies are
spent in labor almost entirely clerical.
Under such circumstances it is newt
able that more important duties will DO
more or less neglected. While other
employees finish their work at 4 o'clock
sharp and hurry homeward, the Secre-
tary remains till orr and then takes
home with him for examination and
study matters which he should have at
tended to during the day, but which it
was physically impossible to reach.
Imagine Cabinet officer sitting down
to his desk. as the Secretary of the In
terror does every morning, with pigeon
holes opening before him with such
marks as pensions, railroads, pub
lie lands, Indians, census, pat
ents, education. Each OF these
titles signifies that a vast department
of the government demands his atten-
ton. The Pension Office pays out
money to a million pensioners. in all
S140, 900. 900 year; the land aided
railroads in particular and all railroads
in general are under the inspection of
the railroad Office; the millions Of acres
OF public lands, agricultural and min
eral, with their surveys, settlements
and litigation, form responsibility
delicate from the human and vast from
every other point Of view; $1,000, 900
year is the sum spent upon the Indians,
. and theoretically all the survivors of
the aboriginal American race are under
the fostering care OF the Secretary Of
the Interior. The Patent Office Is q
great department in itself, and so is the
Census ONCE. But this is not all.
The Secretary OF the Interior has
charge of the Geological Survey OF the
great national parks, Of irrigation Of
arid lands, of distribution OF funds to ag-
ricultural and mechanical colleges in the
States and Territories, OF public docu-
ments, and of certain hospitals and
eleemosynary institutions. He also ex-
ercises certain powers and duties in
/ N a 4. lii n
States. And the Secretary of the In
| terror is mere humanl
AS the Government expands 1t is evil
! dent we must increase the number OF
our departments and of their response
BILE heads or Cabinet officers. Every
one of the present Secretaries is
sadly overworked. A crowd of people
is always waiting to see him. A Cesk
full of letters and documents remains
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the native household guards companies
of volunteer citizens occupy the bar
racks.
From Monday, Jan. 16, 800 marines
and sailors from the United States
cruiser Boston have been ashore under
arms to protect the United States Lega-
ton and Consulate and the lives and
property of American citizens.
Five Commissioners were dispatched
Wednesday to the United States to ask
this government to annex Hawaii. The
Commissioners are: Lorrin A. Thurs
ton, Chairman, who was Premier OF the
first Revolutionary Cabinet of Hawaii
in 1888; William G.. Wilder, head Of the
Wilder Steamship Company, which does
a transportation business among the
islands; William r. Castle, a lawyer
who is largely interested in real estate
in the islands, Joseph Marsden, sugar
planter; Charles /. Carter the son Of a
former Hawaiian Minister 20 Washing
ton.
How the Revolution Began,
The Queen attempted Saturday, JAN
IA, to promulgate new constitution,
depriving foreigners OF the right of
franchise and abrogating the existing
House of Mobiles, and at the same time
giving her the power OF appointing a new
House. This was resisted by the for
eign element OF the community, which
at once appointed Committee of Safety
of thirteen members, who called mass
meeting of their class, at which 200 to
l,500 were present. That meeting adopt
ed resolutions condemning the action of
the Queen, and authorizing the commit
tee to take into further consideration
whatever was necessary to protect the
public safety.
Monday the Committee of Public
Safety issued q proclamation to the
Hawaiian people recounting the history
of the islands and calling attention to
the misrule of the native line of mon
archs. The Queen, in an address from
an upper balcony to crowds outside the
palace, denounced what she called the
perfidy of the ministry. Representa-
tive White, from the steps OF the palace,
told the crowd that the Queen had be-
trayed them, and demanded her death.
1t was at this iuncture that the Com
mittee OF Public Safety was formed,
and shortly afterward troops were
landed from the United States steamer
Boston. The armed uprising OF citi-
zens and the proclamation OF a
provisional government followed. The
ex-Queen, seeing resistance was hope
less, retired to her private residence,
where a guard was stationed by the new
government.
There was no bloodshed. Annexa-
tion TO the United StaJes as a territory
is desired, not as a state. The Boston
Is the only warship the United States
has at present on tho Pacific Ocean but
a late dispatch from San Francisco lays
that the United States flagship Moh,c-
an is now on her way to Honolulu anS
the Ranger and Adams are expected TO
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-09
HAWAI- THE CROSSROADS OF THE PACIFIC.

piano to a slow dirge, and the scene
was an impressive one. DR.. Ham,
lin returned thanks to God that by
his power this life was ended only that
the life of immortality might be begun.
He besought the Almighty that comfort
might come TO every member of the
stricken household, because the one
that had gone out OF this life had gone
to immortality. Let the consolation
that came from above fall tenderly and
sweetly upon them. Speak to them
words OF comfort such "a Thou alone
can teach. This we ask in the name Of
our Saviour, amen"
This completed the brief and impress
sive services, and the casket was closed
and tenderly borne to the hearse. Sol
emnly and in silence the family and the
mourning guests left the house which
has been so frequently invaded by the
angel OF death, and the procession
wended its way slowly to the church.
Outside the house the street was
thronged with spectators, who rever-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-09

emily doffed their hats as the pail bear
ers deposited their sacred burden in the
hearse, and while the attendants tom
porarily buried IL under as many fowers
as could be placed therein. Tie cor
tege then started for the church.
At the Church,
The interior OF the church was appro-
priately draped; oil about the pulpit and
chair rail were banked huge masses OF
flowers, below which the casket rested.
The services, which were brief, were
delayed somewhat by the rush OF
the people in the street prevent
ing the mourners from getting into their
seats on time. At 1880 the funeral pro-
cession took up its march to Cak Hill
Cemetery, in Georgetown. where the
body was inferred beside those Of the
deei man's son Walker and his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Co?pinger
Mr.. Blaine left will bestowing all OF
his property upon Mrs. Blaine, and
making her sole ekeedtrix without
bonds. The t,tal value OF the estate is
estimated at 100000.
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as the years go by. Not only is the
country growing at a prodigious rate,
but the functions OF government are be-
ing extended to folds unheard and un-
thought OF few years ago.
Here is a city of 250,000 souls built
up wholly by government Take away
from Washington the public employ
ment and there would be little left.
Every third family in town draws its
Airport from the Government payroll
and the other two live by supplying the
wants of the first. Stand on one OF the
main thoroughfares of the capital at 645
in the morning and you fail to see the
thrQngs OF people rushing to their work
which are present at that hour on the
streets Of other cities. But Just two
hours later every sidewalk will be trav-
ersed by crowds of men and women
moving toward the doors of the great
Government departments. Five min
utes after 8 the streets are almost de-
serted twenty-five hundred people
have gone TO their desks in the Treas
ury Department, nearly two thousand
in the Pension office, two thousand in
the big War. State and Navy Building,
a thousand in the Interior Department,
another thousand in the Government
Printing OfIice, and thousands more in
the other departments and bureaus.
The visitor TO Washington finds con-
vincing object lesson in the immensity
OF his Government. for after he has
made tour of the well-known depart
ments and institutions, traversed their
long corridors and seen literal acres OF
desks and square rods Of open ledgers
and records, he stumbles upon many
other Governments bureaus in unex-
pected places. All over the city he finds
big buildings rented by Uncle Sam and
converted into hives for the transaction
of his almost infinite business. Scat
tered about each of the principal de-
partments are from three to a dozen
rented buildings into which the business
of the bureau has overHown after filling
the 81 ace originally set apart for 1t from
cellar to garrett.
To tell the truth, the Government is
rapidly outgrowing all OF its quarters
and many of it's methods. The Capitol
isn't big enough, Notwithstanding the
recent building Of q million-dolla addi-
ton in the shape OF terrace, and ada
cent buildings are bought or rented by
Congress. The Census ONCE, which
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untouched. Stenographers and secre-
taries await the moment when their
chief may have opportunity to dictate
letters to them. Department assistants
have important matters to consult with
him about, and as he talks and tries to
think the overworked official must per-
form the drudgery of signing the mail,
so that the wheels may be kept in mo-
tion. An assistant passes the sheets
and manipulates the blotter, thus saving
the Secretary little manual toll. But
what is needed is a subdivision Of ever
increasing work and responsibility OF
Government, so that the men who are
supposed TO lead and direct may have
time to think.
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machinery OF the 0oNerhhohts
Washington correspondence:
In a very short while the firm OF
Uncle Sam & Rep. will be dissolved.
The business will still be conducted at
the old stand, but new managers will
come in and take the places OF those
now in control. This is the mightiest
business transfer the world has ever
seen. No other nation has such vast
interests, measured by the amount OF
money or number OF people involved.
Great Britain would be an exception to
this il all the operations of that empire
were managed from the central seat OF
government in London, but they are
not Three-fourths OF the empire Is
colonial, under home rule, except in
certain matters. This is the only nation
which does business" every year Of
$500, 200 900. Fix an adequate conception
of sum of money like this in your
mind, IL you can. The chances are you
can't. The greatest business house in
the world, that of the Armours, OF Chi
cago, handles million dollars a week;
the greatest railway system, the Penn
sylvania, including all lines, $4,000, 600
a week. Uncle Sans transactions in
actual expenditures reach the astonish-
ing total of about SO, 900, 900 a week.
This amount must necessarily increase
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has had at times 5000 employees in this
city, has occupied half dozen build
ings, scattered all about. The White
House isn't big enough and will have to
be enlarged.
The Treasury, which was big enough
for oil the Offices under it's control
twenty-five years ago Is now dreadfully
crowded. though bureau after bureau
has moved out and found quarters else
where. The Congressional or National
Library, now housed in the Capitol, is
one OF the strangest jumbles OF liter
ature and rubbish you ever saw, with
books piled all over the floors and filing
every nook and Granny. The finest
library building in the world will soon
be ready for its occupancy.
To describe for you even in the most
general and rapid way the great variety
OF functions slled by Government would
take pages instead of columns OF type.
Take, for example, the Department OF
the Interior. 1t has become one Of the
most prodigious OF all the Government
bureaus. For quarter OF a century II
has been the dump-heap into which
everything that could not be else where
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-09

Mr.. CLEVELAND has sent his ulti-
matum to Congress- on the silver ques-
ton. It is that the silver-purchasinQ
act must be repealed or there will be an
extra session. Speaker Crisp was given
this information by Don. NJ. Dickinson
In his private office. The two men were
closeted for an hour. during which Mr..
Crisp was told that the wiping out OF
the present silver-purchase law was the
fret business to which Mr.. Cleveland
desired to give his attention.
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Monarchy Abrogated.

Little Hawaii's turbulent history has
come to climax. Queen Liliuokalani
has been deposed and four citizens, two
of them Hawaiians OF American parent
age, one an American, and one Scotch
man, are In charge OF the provisional
government which has replaced the
island monarchy. The overthrow OF
the government was accomplished with
out bloodshed or violence, and was the
work of few hours. The crisis came
as a bolt from the blue sky, though
those who knew and feared the dusky
Queens intrigues we're not wholly sur
prised.
Mail advices via the steamship Claud-
inc to San Francisco say that the revolt
began on the forenoon OF Saturday,
Jan. IA, and by the following Tuesday
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-09
How,n Your Proportion?

There are two fixed rules for pro-
portioning the human form; just two.
They are that eight heads Chat is,
skull lengths), make the total height
of the figure and that the invariable
center OF the total length Of the
whole figure should be the front ter
mination of the lowest part of the
nalvia
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-09

afternoon 1t was ended. The four men
who rule the islands are: Sanford b.
Dole, in charge Of the Department Of
Foreign Affairs; P. G. Jones, Finance;
James A. King, Department Of the In
terror; William G.. Smith, Attorney
General. They were appointed by a
citizens committee of thirteen, to which
the people gave entire control OF the
government.
The deposed Queen at last accounts
was in her:private residence in HOnololu,
and at her own request was under an
honorary guard of sixteen men. The
palace stands empty, and in place OF
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Hlue O-ass in GeorRIa.

Senator Don Cameron has seeded
100 acres OF his Donegal farm, near
Marietta. with Kentucky bluegrass,
which he believes will do as well on
his ground as II does on the historic
soil where it is indigenous. He In
tends to put the nutritious pasturage
to the use of fancy blooded stock.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-09
Uniucky Engine.

The Erie's old broad gauge No. "a
was regarded as the most unlucky en-
gine that ever ran on the road. II
was used in the Susquehanna yards
and is said to have killed thirty-ninc
persons, including four women and
three children. In addition TO this
seventy men were crippled by this
pnufna
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Thnrrton Is Cho,en.

At Lincoln, Neb., on the thirty-sev-
enth ballot John Nj. Thurston was made
the Republican caucus nominee for
United States Senator. This in. ures
him sixty-two votes in the Legislature,
five less than is necessary to elect.
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A CHANGE IN THE FIRM
1T WILL SOON BE JUNGLE SAM
& DEM."

Immense Interests Involved in the shit
Of Observation-Disclosures Expenditures
Amount to Zen Millions "a Week, Which
ever Political Party Is '1n the Concern"
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SOCIETY MEETINGS.
NJ. E. cHURCH-Rev. s. @. Taylor, Pastor.
Services at 10 30 o'clock am. and 71s pm. Sun
day school at IL M Prayer meeting every
Thursday evening at 7,6 o'clock. All are cor
daily invited to attend.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH--Rsv N. J. Geyer,
Pastor Services every Sunday morning and
evening at the usual hour. Sunday school fol-
lowing morning service. Prayer meeting every
Wednesday evening.
GgAYLING LODGE, No. $50. =. & A. NJ.
meets in regular communication on Thursday
evening on CT before the full Of the moon
F. F. THATCHER, W. NJ
W.T.. BRNKELMAN, Secretary.
MARVIN POST, No. $40, G. A. r.. meets tho
second and fourth Saturdays in each month.
WIN. 8. CHALKER, Post Com.
J. c. HANSON, Adjutant.
woMENs RELIEF CORPS. No 1G3, meets on
the I'd and 4th Saturdays at o'clock in the af-
ternoon. ISABEL JONES, President.
REsEccA wIoHT. Sec.
GRAYLING CHAPTER, II. A. NJ, No. l9J.-
Meets every third Tuesday in each month.
WILLIAM PRINoLE, ID. +.
ARTHUR cADY, Sec.
CRAWLING LODGE. I. o. o. F.. No. 1s7. =
neets every Tuesday evening.
WILLIAM MCCULLOUGH, N. g.
WILLIAM GIpDINes, Sec.
CRAWLING ENCAMPMENT, L. o. o. f., No.
llC.-Meets alternate Friday evenings.
CHARLEs NJ. JACKSON, c. p.
c. HANSON, Secretary.
CRAWFORD TENT, X. o. T. NJ. No. lJ2. -
Meets every Saturday evening.
L. j. PATTERSON, Com.
G. H. BoNNELL II. K.
CRAWLING CHAPTER, ORDER OF EAST
ERN STAR, 10. 50, meets Monday evening on
or before the full Of the moon
MARY L. STALEY, W. M.
ADA M. GRoULEFF. Sec.
PORTAGE LODGE, X. Of p, No. 14l.-Meets
nrst and third Wednesday of each month.
M. GATES, G. G.
J. HAnrwIcK, X. of r. and S.
COURT CRAWLING, 1. o. F., No. 7OO.-Meets
second and last Wednesday Of each month.
w. +. BENKELMAN, c. r.
@. E. SMITH. r. s.
WAGNER CAMP, s. OF ". No. l4s.-Meets
fret aud third Saturday OF each month.
s. @. TAYLOR, Captain.
L. J. PATTERSON, lst sergeant.
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REBELLION In HAWAII.
THE KANAKA GOVERNMENT is
OVERTHROWN.

The Queen Deposed Without Bloodshed
and Foreigners Are in Control--A Dele
CATION Comes to the United States to
Ask for Annexation.
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PLEASANT dreams are the sunshine Of
the night.
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Immediately leave the Mare Island Navy
Yard for the scene OF revolt.
BURIAL OF MR.. BLAINE.
Thousands Pay Homage to the Memor
of the Dead Statesman.

Thousands Fay Homage 20 the memory
of the Dead Statesman.
America through its highest dignita-
rles has paid the last tribute of respect
to the remains OF James G.. Blaine, says
Washington correspondent. Every
effort was made to comply with the wish
of the dead and his family and make
the funeral private one, but the
surglng wave OF public interest
swept over the barriers imposed
and made his private funeral
one of the most impressive OF public
demonstrations in honor OF the dead.
The most eminent men in the nation
stood around his bier. All business in
the nations capital was suspended
while the funeral services were in
progress. The presence OF the Presi-
dent and his Cabinet and Supreme
Judges and high officials of Congress
and of the diplomatic corps was not
more significant than the homage of the
waiting crowds who in respectful
silence lined the streets through which
the funeral cortege passed.
The body of the late ex- Secretary was
removed Sunday evening at 5 O'clock
and placed in the parlor on the north
side OF the second floor OF the Blaine
residence. The windows of this room
open out upon Lafayette Square, one Of
most delightful spots in Washington.
Across this plat OF ground stands the
State, War and Navy Building, whore
the dead man achieved his latest tri-
umphs in statecraft and diplomacy.
During the afternoon and evening a
number of Mr.. Blaine's friends called
at the house and took last look upon
the face Of the departed. The express
sion Of the face was peaceful, and the
lineaments of that well-known counte-
nance showed but few traces of the
ravages Of the disease that carried him
off.
Services at the House.
The ceremonies inside the house were
impreesively simple. Before the hour
of 10 the invited guests began to arrive
and take their seats in the front part OF
the mansion. There were no chairs re-
served, except for the President and for
the immediate family of the deceased.
Eleven o'clock was the hour named for
the simple service of prayer which was
to precede the removal of the body to
the church for the more public rites. 1t
was only few minutes after that hour
when the mourners entered, and the
President and all the distinguished con-
course rose to pay fitting honor and
sympathy to the sorrow OF the deceased
statesman's 8 relatives. The family was
followed by Rev. DR.. Hamlin OF the
Church of the Covenant, who, standing
beside the casket, In a low tone deliv-
cred the Presbyterian service for the
departed soul. AS he did so, Walter
Damrosch touched the keys of the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-09

BEWARE of beauty, lest it krock out
your brains.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-09

woMENs RELIEF CORPS. No 1G3, meets on
the 2d and 4th Saturdays at o'clock in the af-
ternoon. ISABEL JONES, President.
REBRccA wIoHT, Sec.