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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28
COUNTY ALLIANCE MEETINc
Under this Head will be Found Place IN
Date of Each County Meeting if
They are Sent at Once.

Wake county will meet in Raleig.
on the 18th of April.
Edgecombe county will meet at IA,
boro on the 18th of April.
Brunswick county will meet at NJ
Pisgah on the 18th Of April.
BERTHE county will meet with Brown.
Sub Alliance on the 18th Of April
Johnston county will meet viii
Black Creek Alliance, three miles frr
Smithfeld, on the 18th of April
MeckIenburg county meets at Pin
Grove Alliance, six miles northwest
Charlotte, on the 18th Of April.
Nash county will meet with OaElar
Alliance, at Pleasant Grove churf
five miles west Of Nashville, on the l3f
of April.
Cabarru8 county meets at Mt GlIesi
near Concord, on the goth and 2I,c d
April. President Butler will aIara
the meeting on the goth.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28
TIME FOR A CHANGE.

We r not opposed to evangelists.
No doubt some of them do good; but
we don't like to see their converts
make fools of themselves. An evan
gelist goes to a town; he gets big
crowds and works his audience up
pretty thoroughly, especially the
emotional" citizens. By the time he
stays a week or ten days a purse of
$500, 81, 900 or 50, 900 is made up for
the evangelist. The people who do
this are either men who practice extor-
ton or those who never pay their
debts. They may owe for their
groceries, owe the local preacher, owe
for three years subscription to their
paper, yet they pay the evangelist,
People ought to do more for their local
preachers and other institutions. But
If the home preacher tells them that
they are rogues, fools, jackasse8, etc,
as these evangelists do, they want
them discharged, but they listen to the
evangelist and pay him a big price for
doing so.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28
SAM AND THE EDITORS.

Sam Jones has been preaching in In
diana and the newspapers have been
hitting him hard, of course, Writing
of it he says:
These little flea bitten, NANCY editors
remind me of anincident when stayed
all night with an old countryman once
and his fee barked all night: l asked
him the next morning were there burg
lars around during the night and he
said, ono" and asked me "why| |
told him that his little dog barked all
night. "Oh!' he said, little jim is so
full of feas that he can't sleep and he
banks so as to wake others up that ne
may have company"
Some of the editors in North Carolina
must be afflicted the same way, for
they are continually barking at the
Alliance. 1t seems that they just wish
to attract a little attention.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28
NAME YOUR MAN.

Two weeks ago THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER asked the Windsor Ledger to
state who was making a living out Of
the Alliance fund without work. The
Ledger says it fully acquits the editor
of this paper, but lodges the issue. We
again demand, as a matter of Justice,
that the Ledger name the man or men
who are mismanaging the fund or
making a living without work. The
Ledger goes on to say that its editor is
a member Of the Alliance. Well, that
is news. We have read his paper for
quite a while and must admit that he
has kept the secret well. No one
would ever think its editor was a mem
Der.
The Ledger goes on to say that it
WlIl not enter a contest of bilIingsgate
with The PROGRESSIVE FARMER. We
have never asked you to do that. Name
those men or that man who you re-
ferred to two weeks ago, or else &C
cept the censure you deserve in case of
failure.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28
DEATHS.

Bro. Carl Willis, a highly es.e.mg
member Of Beaufort Alliance n.
1920, was drowned in Neuse river q
the Ash Of March. His Alliance passe
memorial resolutions at a recent luag
ing.
Bro. Charley B. Asbcraf5, Of Uao
county. died on the 18Th inst afr
BRIT lInes9, aged about "a year. 7
was - Gn@ tvaCher and jealous Al.ianc
man, and had done much for the "
form cause in his county.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28
TAKE WARNING AND PLANT
CORN.

We gather from The March Bulletin
of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
that there is q remarkable shortage of
hogs in the West, and this evidently
means high prices for Western meat.
There is also a shortage of corn in the
hands of producers, "only two-thirds
as much as in March, $780," and the
quantity is less than three-fourths as
much as remained i'll March last year"
" There are seven States which supply
the general commercial movement of
corn" in these States lit is seen that
the quantity is little mor than half as
much az in 1890"
THE estimated proportion Of wheat
OF hand is 26 2 per cent. Of the last
crop, the smallest percentage in ten
years.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28

in exposing corruption, together with
it's bright and newsy columns, going
every week into homes in nearly all
the States, makes it the pride OF re-
formers and a terror to the opposition.
Our Alliance (Olin) is still living, and
think we will add more good ma
tarialn
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28
QUESTION FOR AN ANSWER
Cor. State

N-0'
RALEIGH, N. @, March Let may
be an item of news to you that one Of
the banks Of Raleigh at least-the Gil
zen8' National Bank-refuses to pay
gold. 1 requested them to collect a
check for 81. 500 for me in gold, which
they said they could do in about five
days. At the expiration Of that time
payment in gold was refused. Is that
not lodging payment Of gold? Has the
bank a right to discriminate between
persons, giving some gold and refusing
it to other82 The bank cannot say it
had II } gold. for five days before they
said the CT. < could be collected in
gold. Yours very truly,
G. F Won HERMANN,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28

B.-"Say, Mr.. Editor, tell Alliance
ENQUIRER it is all up with us. The
legislature has fixed us partisans SO
we can't raise only half as many
chickens as the non-partisans, an we
have ter git a writ ov ho6us korpus
frum a notary publick every time we
take a chaw ov terbacker. Goodbye"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28
OF SUBJ
ANCES.

DEAR BRETHREN:-Blank quqrtarr
reports have been mailed to evpry
Sub Alliance with other imp0rtar,
matters for your considerable. IN
many instances blanks have failed Il
reach the Secretaries for the post tr.
quarters, but for what cause IS III
known to me as they were mailed from
this office. IF you have not the blank
when this reaches you drop me a posa
that l NAV send others. Give nance
Sub and County.
Fraternally,
W. S. BARNES.
Sec'y Treas. n. @. +. s. 4
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28
Total for these six roads. .S51 900 So

Total for these six roads. .$51, 900. So
AS the railroad companies are all
strictly ''non.parti8an" ca, and the
legislature was very anxious to
do every thing they asked, we are
left to presume that the high
salaried officers who were here, the
railroad attorneys who were here and
the other agent who were here, all in
force, didn't come here when the legis
lature was in session to pay their board
and other expenses out of their private
pockets for the fun of it. And as the
Alliance was the strong factor in bring
ing about the establishment of the Rail.
road Commission, a thing the railroads
didn't want, may it not reasonably he
supposed that they were actors behind
the scenes in the late anti Alliance leg
islation?
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28

The REGULAR meeting Of Edgccom5.
County Alliance will be held in Tarb0v
on the second Thursday III April. 4
full attendance is desired, as mater:
of great importance will be CONSIDERED
Fraternally,
JAMES B. LLOYD
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28
TAR DROPS

The issue has narrowed down Of late
to only o fl - between the q es and
the OH e scekers.-Hich0ry Mercury.
The Editor Ct this paper spent last
Friday IN Washington City. 1t would
have been impossible for him to have
thrown a rock without hitting o North
Carolinian in search Of an Office
WtbSter'S Weekly.
It is said that the bad roads in Ken
tuky are driving a good many people
out Of that State. They have also
driven a good many cut of this State.
and IN some portions Of the State there
are others who would go, but the roads
are SO bad '"ost # the year that they
can't get away Wilmington Stur.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28
RAILROAD

The late report of the Railroad Com
mission shows the accidents on rail
roads in North Carolina for the year
1900 ou fellows.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28

Who car inform us in what battles
of the war between the States there
were more killed and wounded than
this report shows to have been killed
and injured by railroads III the United
States last YEAR,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28

Two hundred bushels Sweet Pota-
toes for sale at IS cents per bushel f. O.
D, Grated at Lenoir, N. C.-Queen of
the South.
w. H. WORTH, S. B.. A.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28
Gross earnings less ope.

Total gross Operat s cX." 359, 1888, 661
Gross earnings less Ope.
rating expenses ........$ SIS, SCI ,035
Under the head operating expenses "
every item of expenses for keeping the
roads in order, keeping the rolling
stock in repair, salaries of officers and
all other employees, legal expenses and
all is included. So then it appears,
from this report, that for every dollar
of operating expenses" they collected
three dollars, twenty-seven cents and
six mills. Should you ask what goes
with the $2.27.6 profit On each dollar
of the cost of operating these roads, we
will answer; this goes in dividends on
stock, interest on bonds, etc. To come
home for an illustration we will take
the late report Of the W. & w. r. r.
to our Railroad Commission. They re-
port:
Gross earnings from opera
GlOuS. ....... $500. $l 40Z, OII.Z0
Income from other sources
(neD 1S4, 914 II
Total income. 81, CSC, 926 45
Deduct operating ex-
pensea" ................ 8C2 884 o.
Gross income less Ope. ex.$ 834, 042 43
Out of this was paid
Interest on fun
ded debt. 800. $413, 800 90
Interest on other
liabilities. $500. %, OBS II
Taxes.......... 81, 2S4 70 462. GO. So
Net profit for the years. 81. 39l 81
This paid an s per ct. divi-
deni on 81 SOC, 600 cap
ital stock ......... 200, 900. co
And left a surplus OFFS III, 391. 81
Some striking points in this report
are % the Operating expenses" very
nearly equal the appropriations voted
by our late billion dollar legislature"
~ The officers draw from the w. &
w. r. r. the nice little sum
From the w. c. & A. r. R. Is $50 20
From the P. 81 w. r. r .... 7,4O1.07
Total for 9 officers ....... $50, 035 Il
The same men with, perhaps, one or
two exceptions, are the salaried officers
Of these three roads, and draw salaries
averaging, for the 9 men S., $50 IS.
which is more than the salary Of O.
United States Senator. And still cke
late Legislature didn't pass a law pro
hibiting any railroad from increasing
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28

If you feel weak
and all worn out take
BROWN IRON BITTERS
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28

Subscribe now to THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER.
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While for the United States in the
same time the reports give the follow
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28
RAILROAD STATISTICS, ETC.

The report of the statistician to the
Interstate Commerce Commission for
the year ending June 80, 1890, shows
for the whole country as follows:
Total miles of railroad ..... .2O8, 612. SIS
Deduct side tracks, spurs, etc 1908, so
Total miles main lines ....... 1853, 579. O5
Upon these railroads were 1884 pas
senger engines, 16, 14O freight engines
and 5,4O4 shifting or yard engines,
making a total of 30, 928 engines. There
was an army of 749, 3o1 employees en-
gagged in operating these roads, not in
Guiding those in express or telegraph
service.
The people foot the bills to the whole
amount of "gross receipts from opera
ton, 49,. 81, O51, ST., 632
Reefs from other sources 1876, 767, O64
Total gross receipts. 81, 178, GA, 696
Total gross 'operat'g ex." 359,783, SCI
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28
EDGECoMBE COUNTY MEETING

" n. In M 70
Sec'y Treas. N. @. F. s. 4
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-03-28

Net profit for the years. 81. 39I 81
This paid an s per ct. divi-
deni on 81 500, 600 cap
ital stock ........ -. 200. 600. 90
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-14
Ono Eve and One Lung.

On l, a venerable New York Chinaman
who pronounces his name "One Eye, has
made vacancy in one of the best fam
lilies of Baltimore by complaining against
William Kuhn before United States
Commissioner Shields. Even first fam
lilies resort to laundries, it seems, and
when Mr.. Kuhn called for his goods at
90 Third avenue and failed to produce
the ticket which was supposed to be their
equivalent, there was considerable trou-
BILE, which he promptly pacifed with a
counterfeit IS bill.
The 81. 10 which he received in change
completely wrecked Mr.. On rs ex-
chequer and might have furnished Mr..
Kuhn with funds for prolonged racket
had not On l and his partner, One Lung,
chased him down the Bowery and had
him called up before Commissioner
Shields. On l may have some chance of
getting justice, as he was born on "Malch
II, 1889"
A man who would pass s. counter
felt on an inoffensive heather who had
helped him on the path to godliness by
administering to his cleanliness would
steal sheep and might even remove the
copper appendant from the eyes of de-
ceased African.-New York Recorder.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-14
Readiness to Help Germany,

We are happy to give assurance to
Germany that we shall be pleased to sup
ply her with all the breadstuffs she may
need this year. We shall ask only a fair
price for them. We can also supply her
with other kinds of agricultural prod
ucts, quantities of them. We have some
Indian meal to spare, and it can be fed
to the army horses, as the kaiser has
ordered. We have yet some hay left.
If Germany needs fruits or wines, we
have them for sale. We can supply her
with the best pork and bacon in the
world, besides other meats, fresh or salt,
in cold storage or otherwise. This is the
market to which Germany ought to
come whenever size needs anything,
whatever it may be.
We must trust that Russia will not
feel badly because we stand ready to
supply Germany with food for man and
beast. We stand thus ready at this time
and nearly always. When once the Ger
man people and their cattle get accus-
toned to American products, we are
sure that it will be hard to induce them
to feed upon anything else.-New York
SIM
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-14
An Alderman Was Referee,

You have read in the yellow covered
story book of the SOLITARY horseman
who might have been seen," etc. Well,
this wasn't a horseman. Last night
after the fire investigation had adjourned
a group of aldermen might have seen on
the sidewalk on Nicollet gathered around
bright spot under an arc light watch
ing prize fight between two beetles,
one of the big, vicious looking variety
that futters around the street lamps
every night and another of smaller
kind. One of the members of the coun-
Gil was acting as referee, and the others
occupied reserved seats on an area rail.
These aldermen must have relaxation
from their arduous duties in these days
of investigations and things.
lis Journal.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-14
ASSAULT MOST COWARDLY
A WOMAN CALLED TO HER DOOR AT
NIGHT AND SHOT.
She Recognized Her Assailsnt as a Neigh.
Dor Whom She Had Seen Murder
Negro and Thinks He Wanted to
Put Her Out of the Way.
Special to The Statesman.

Special to The Statesman.
TEXARKANA, Ark, Sept. Con
last Saturday night Mrs. Thompson,
who lives on her farm near DeKalb, in
this county 30 miles west of here, was
called to her door after nightfull and
shot by would-be assassin, who dis
charged both barrels of gun loaded
with birdshot into her face and breast,
inflicting 69 separate wounds, all of
which are very painful, but not dan
gerous.
Mrs. Thompson says she recognized
as her assailant neighbor, a young
man named M. N. Bailey, with whom
she had dispute few days before.
The latter was arrested and is now
having preliminary trial at Dekalb.
Mrs. Thompson says that about
six months ago she saw Bailey
kill a negro named Ben Collins and
afterwards bury him in his field and
she is of the opinion that the effort
upon her life was actuated by fear
that she would divulge the secret to
the officers. Collins was a we'll known
character about Dekalb and myster-
iously disappeared about the time
Mrs. Thompson says he was killed by
Bailey.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-14
The Lawyer In the Cnse.

One day when was in one of the noun.
tain county seats of Kentucky | dropped
into the courthouse to listen to case in
which one man was suing another for the
recovery of horse. A couple of hours aft
er the case had been decided met the de
PENDANT on the street.
"Well," | said to him, that fellow didn't
get your horse, did he?"
Not much, " he replied, but not as cheer
fully as / expected.
"There was time there" | went on,
'when thought you'd have to walk home,
sure"
YES" he said, ut did look that away,
but that lawyer ur mine waz too peart fer
him. Fine lawyer, he is"
Very good" affirmed. "How far do
you live from here?"
"Ten miles, the way I've got to CO."
THAT isn't so bad when man has horse
to ride"
But hain't," he said lugubriously.
"Why not? Didn't you just recover
him?"
"Ya-as," he hestated, "but had to give
him to that dern lawyer fer his fee. DE
troit Free Press,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-14
earning English In n Short Time.

For the benefit of boys and girls who are
struggling over "Omnis Gallia," or labor
ing with French and German, a correspond
ent sends an anecdote related by her friend,
DIR. T of Rome, who was lately sent to
Russia on business with letters that adj,
mitted him to an audience with the Grand
Duke Constantine. The doctor says:
You know what linguists the Russians
are. The grand duke himself speaks ex
cellent English, but there was with him
an Englishman who was so fluent in Rus.
sian that was amazed.
"Where did you learn Russian" asked.
"You know it so we'll"
Learn Russian? Why, here in St. Pc.
tersburg. am a Russian"
"What A Russian, and you talk such
EnglishS | have met great many Rus
SLAMS who knew it well, but never before
one who spoke it in absolute perfection,
with all the idioms and infections pre-
cisely like a native"
He nodded. Yes, it Is difficult tongue
1t was the hardest that ever acquired and
took me longest to learn. But | speak all
living languages" Then, seeing my look
Of astonishment he added, II am the court
Interpreter"
"How long were you in learning Eng
lish2"
How long?" he answered. "Well, to
speak it really perfectly, so that | under.
stood the idioms and felt that could criti-
else the best writers, it took newly, it
took me three monthsp'-Youth's Com
DaniOn
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-14
Ovation to Archbishop Corrigan.

CHICAGO, Sept. 6.-Archbishop Cor
rigan of New York walked quite I'M
expectedly into the Catholic congress
while it was in progress at the art in.
stitute today and received an ovation
from the large audience. In a few
words and with the manner of fin
ished orator he thanked his hearers
for the reception. The archbishop's
brief address was listened to amid
profoundest stiffness of the big audi
ence and it was literally applauded at
the conclusion. Contrary to the ex-
pectation of many, he made no refer.
ence to the school question or the
McGlynn affair.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-14
New Steamship Line Opened.

CINCINNATI, Sept. Sat 8 o'clock
this morning party of nearly 200 left
this city by special train over the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad for
Newport News to be present there to-
morrow at the inauguration of the
steamship line which is to run across
the Atlantic in connection with the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. The
party is made up of shippers and ex.
porters from all over the west and
northwest, including Nashville. Mem
phis, Kansas City, st. Louis, Mime
apolis, Chicago, Toledo and many
other points. The Inauguration cere-
monies MT Newport News include a
short run out to sea on the Rappahan'
mock.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-14
Train Robber Confesses,

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 7.-Pennock, the
train robber who was arrested at the
time of the robbery at Pacific, Mo,
Tuesday night, today under pressure
from the police confessed that he and
three others were guilty. The names
of his three pals were given the police
who are after them, but refuse to di-
vulge their names. 1t is known one of
them is Muncie Ray, a former employee
of the San Francisco road, and an
other is Pennock's brother. The name
of the third cannot be learned. The
police expect to soon have them all in
custody.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-14

The creme de la creme are at Newport.
| The nobility have established a new
bathing place called Bailey's beach, at
| the end of Bellevue avenue, in the heart
of the millionaires' quarter. 1t is only
about 300 yards in length, but that small
space the cottagers think they can hold
against the assaults of the common herd.
No buses or horse cars are allowed to
land passengers there during the morn
ing hours. A bathing house has been
built, with granite portico. In this are
little retreats 9 feet by ~, each of which
bears the initials of the gentleman who
owns it. A stranger could no more buy
or hire one Of these bathing houses than
lie could engage front seat in the bal
cony of heaven. Fifteen of the houses
belong to the Vanderbilt family; others
to the Astors, the Stuyvesant Fishes,
the De Forests and their clan.
The hours for bathing are from II in
the morning until 1. At II three guards
make their appearance; one patrols the
beach; two others in lifeboat cruise 100
yards out 1t is their business to rescue
swimmers who run danger of drowning.
Three young ladies, Miss Clews and the
two Misses Pierson, put their patience
sorely to the test. When Miss Clews'
head appears, the guards take out their
oars as matter of course and head for
the open sea. When the bathing begins,
if stranger makes his appearance on
the beach, men and matrons follow him
with such sad, reproachful glances that
he wonders what he has done now and
sneaks out Of the sacred preserve in
demoralized condition.-Cor San Fran
cisco Argonaut.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-09-14
FRANCE.
FRANCO sIAMEsE MATTER.

PARIS, Sept. 8.-Figaro this morning
says the dispute between France and
Siam is far from settled and intimates
that the Siamese and not the French
are to blame for the state of affairs.
According to Figaro the Slams not
only failed to evacuate the territory
coded to France, but failed even to
give orders to the officer commanding
the native force to evacuate their
posts on the left bank of the Mekong.
1t is rumored 1ere that negotiations
with Siam will be resumed where they
where suspended sometime ago. But
the rumor adds that the time accorded
by Siam for resumption Of their inter
estiug conference is three months
hence, when the water in the river is
too low too enable the French gun
boats to insist upon the execution of
Siamese pledges.