The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-20

abolished and primitive customs TO
prevail. New York city has more
fools and more rascals to the square
inch than any other spot on the globe
~ The editor of the Alamance
Cleaner and several large business
firms made assignments at Graham a
few days ago. The Cleaner speaking
of it says: "They are all young men
and will come again." That is a brave
way to put it, but gentlemen you will
never come" very much until there
is a big change in this country,
Five weeks have gone by and
less than one third Of the papers that
have published damaging reports about
the Alliance have had the fairness to
publish the denial issued by the Execu-
tive Committee and other officers OF
the Alliance. That makes it plain that
they will not hesitate to let false reports
go without repairing the wrong.
~ We were right when we said Ct,
B. Afford meant his article for the
Alliance, though he only referred to
"secret~ societies" He says he has re
ceived ''slips wi h Odd Fellow works
on them" has got frightened, and
writes the same religious paper in this
city that he didn't mean the Odd Eel
lows or the Masons. Afford is daisy,
but the bees don't know it.
~ The Durham Recorder says:
Another slice of administration cake
comes to North Carolina Col. W. H. S.
Burgwyn, Of Henderson, has been
appointed National Bank examine n
by the comptroller Of the currency"
Whoopee! We are getting rich. An
other slice Of cake! But dear friends
remember that there are 1, 800, 900 peo-
pie in North Carolina and only dozen
or so are getting these big slices Of
cake.
Father McKenna, a Catholi,
priest, and his cousin, a married lady,
were drowned at New York Thursday.
The lady fell out of a boat and the priest
tried to researcher, but the current car
ried both under. In the priests valise
were found two beer bottles, a soda
water bottle, and an empty whiskey
bottle. They had been taking a pleas
ure ride on the river. Rather queer
ammunition to be found in a priests
valise, we think.
~ Bro. B. G. Thompson, of Moore
county, enc Of the most enthusiastic
and energetic young Alliance workers
in the State, was in the city Friday.
He spent a short while with US and
left for Buffalo Lithia Springs-not for
his health exactly but to visit his sweet
heart. He told us that after the cleo
ton only about IL of his Alliance were
considered members, the others having
quit. Now they have 115 members in
good standing and two new candidates
to initiate. That shows which way the
wind is blowing.
~ Every day for years the New
York papers have been telling Us that
money is plenty everywhere, especially
in New York, But on Thursday last
the officers of sixty leading banks
there met and decided that in this
time of grave financial difficulty" they
will Issue pod many millions amount
not yet KNOWN of loan certificates, )"
to help out the business men and
smaller bankers. That shows that
there isn't money enough and that
they have misrepregented the VIII Die
matter. THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
was Fright again"
~ The Worlds Fair will not be per
mitted to live only in the memories of
those who saw it, and in the files Of
newspapers. The Bancroft Company,
Auditorium Building, Chicago, have
in preparation what they call The
Book Of The Fair, which will be a
permanent and illustrated chronicle of
the exhibits. The Text is by Hubert
Howe Bancroft, and the Illustrations
profuse. AS pointed out in the preface,
the exhibition Of 1851 was contained in
a single edifice Of one million square
feet, while the space occupied at the
Worlds Fair Of today is eight Or nine
times as great.
The Lincolnton Courier remarks
that the Gastonia Gazette has got
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER square by
the horns" Not if the court knows
herself. The Gazette man is a milk
and cider Prohibitionist and has been
trying to drink all the whiskey in Gas
ton county for the good Of the public
morals. The Legislature is to blame
for stockholders only getting IS cents
ON the dollar L aid sl lnsaas and