The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-23

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gain his seat in Congress from the
Tenth district-the one that was stolen
from him.
~ There are sos, 256 children of
school age in North Carolina. Ofthese
there is an average attendance in our
public schools of 1913, 747 for 81 days IN
the year. If less than one third OF u
children only attend school and they
attend less than o%ne-fourth of the time
on an average, how long will it take all
the children to get an ~education9 Bro
A~Ilianceman, are you giving your Chill
dren a chance?
~ We notice that the State press
are still carting around misrepresenta-
tions about the Alliance. A few are
too honest to do it, but a majority are
ever ready to publish a false alarm,
though they ''buck" when the truth is
called for. The truth hurts some PEG
pie mighty bad.
~ The railroads are excited because
so few people are going to the Worlds
Fair. We have been telling you all
the time that the drain was too heavy.
The m]illionaires can go, but not one
person in five thousand, who live a
great distance from Chicago, will be
able to make the trip.
~ The Concord Standard says:
ga New York dispatch credits Presi-
dent Cleveland with having made a
million dollars during the last Congress
by being let into the deals in Wall
street." Of course, he is always ION
the inside" He is taking care of
Grover at the rate of a mile a minute.
The Ca81ceU Nears is grooming be-
cause alliance lecturers are going
over the State at an expense of S. per
day" We don't know what expense
the lecturers are as most Of them are
paid by Sub and County Alliances vol
UNFAIRLY. But if it does cost S. per day
the people will learn more for the S.
than they would by reading the Cas-
aceU NeiCS five hundred years, which
would cost $500.
For some time the spirits of By
ron and Whittier have found no rest,
This was all caused by the poetry Col.
G. F. King pu5 in the "Kodak Kollum"
of the Atlanta Journal. But after
losing a great deal of sleep and hair,
Col. Dana, of the New York San, has
induced King to desist. We are glad
the dead poets can now sleep nine
hours every night. The only thing
that troubles US is that a tarheel boy
has shown Dana the white feather.
~ The Gastonia Gazette, whose
editor has been slightly rewarded for
being venomous, recently started an
absurd story about a letter written by
Maj. Graham in response to a party
who wanted a little dollar back that
he had put in the Business Agency
fund The public were notified through
the columns of this paper that it would
take until the first of June to get things
in shape to disburse the funds. There
is nothing wrong about that and the
Gazette knows it.
~ The Mecklenburg Times doesn't
likeit because we exposed it's big scheme
to ''soft soap" the farmers. The Times
will remember that we said it's advice
was good, but the object in giving it
was contemplate. We wish good
feeling and kind acts to be the rule in
and bet tween all classes, but when the
object of such advice is to attempt to
delude the farmers and persuade them
that they are not being robbed, we pro
pose to expose all such ''fank move
ments."
~ Funk & Wagnalls, New York,
have favored us with prospectus and
specimen pages of a new standard die
tionary of the English language they
are getting out. 1t is said that the
scholars getting it up alone have been
paid 81, 900, 900. 1t will probably be
the most voluminous and complete
dictionary eve published though it
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'old reliable" However, there will be
new words, new pronunciation, new
illustrations, and perhaps some de
cided advantages.
~ The Cincinnati Tribune says:
1.-THE only way for Southern farmers
to get out of the clutches of the money
sharks is to raise more hogs" Very
good advice if you mean four-Iegged
hogs, but if you mean two-legged ones,
there is already an overproduction of
them all over the United States. By
the way, the Tribune is published in
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