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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-31

ceeded to the bottom, locked the ele-
vators, and editors. reporters, printers,
and everybody else climbed up and
down six flights while the kid went to
the show.
Grady loved to tease people-to slip
in a little joke sideways.
Persons who used to visit the Cha
tauqua at Lithia Springs will appreci-
ate the following:
The night of the opening of the Sec
ond years Chatauqua Mr.. Grady
walked into the beautiful grounds. It
was like fairy land. The big light
shone from Rose Mound. The thou
sands of little lights lined the walks.
The stars twinkled overhead. Soft
strains of music came to the ears. But
the crowd-it wasn't there.
Grady walked on in silence till he
came to Hon. Joseph S.. James, who
had been one of the leading spirits in
the enterprise. He looked at the scene
about him the beggarly rows of empty
benches, and then said meditatively
and with mock solemnity:
THE same little ~Chautauqua; the
same little crowd; the same little band;
the same little blue lights, and'-break-
ing into a ringing laugh-"the same
little Joe Sames."
Before the New England dinner
speech which made him famous Mr..
Grady would never allow me to print
his speeches. He made many very
pretty ones, and I knew they would
make good reading" but he would
always come to me and say:
Don't print what I said. Simply
say I spoke"
And so I would sorrowfully cast my
shorthand notes away. After the New
England speech he never made any OBJ
lection to the publication of his
speeches.
On the day the news came Of the
death of Hon. Jefferson Davis Mr..
Grady was in the Gate City Guard
armory, and asked if the boys were
going to the funeral.
Eyes, we leave to morrow" said one
of the boys, jokingly.
Grady went home. Walter Taylor
remarked:
81 believe if we go out and see Mr..
Grady he will raise the money to send
us to New Orleans"
The suggestion was acted on. Mr..
Grady gave $50 and raised the rest. The
company was at the lain that after
noon as he vas leaving for Boston and
gave him three rousing cheers-the
last Atlanta cheers that ever thrilled
his noble soul, for when he came home
the hand of death was resting upon
him.
I did not believe that Grady would
die. I knew he was very i'll, but it was
impossible to think of his dying. On
that sad Sunday morning, about 4
o'clock, I got out of bed and called up
the Constitution, office:
How is Mr.. GradyY" I asked. The
phone worked badly, and I could hard
~ make myself understood.
I caught the reply:
"Mr. Grady is dead"
"Surely that cannot be true!" I e
claimed.
II don't know what you say" was
the answer, "but Henry Grady is dead"
Josiah Carter IN the Atlantic Herald.
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and your Sabbath schools, and your
Bibles, and your family affairs.
Warned by the doom of other cities
that have persisted for their ruf1anism,
or their cruelty, or their idolatry, or
their dissoluteness, let all our Ameri'
can cities lead the right way. Our
only dependence is on God and Chris
tian influences. Politics will do moth
ing but make things worse. Send poll
tics to moralize and save a city and
you send small pox to heal leprosy, or
a carcass to relieve the air of malodor.
For what politics will do I refer you
to the eight weeks OF qualification en-
acted at Washington by our American
Senate. American politics will become
a reformatory power IN the same day
that pandemonium becomes a church.
But there are, I am glad to say, benign
and salutary and gracious influences
organized in all our cities which will
' ct take them for God and righteous
ness. Let us ply the Gospel machinery
to it's utmost speed and power. City
evangelization is the thought. Accus-
toned as are religious pessimists to
dwell upon statistics of evil and delor-
Gus facts we want some with sane
titled heart and good digestion to put
in long line the statistics of natures
transformed, and profigacies baked,
and souls ransomed, and cities re-
deemed. Give us pictures of churches,
of schools, of reformatory associations,
of asylums of mercy. Break in upon
the Misereres of complaint and de-
spondency with TIE Deums and Jubilates
of moral and religious victory. Show
that the day is coming when a great
tidal wave of salvation will roll over
all our cities. Show how Pompeii
buried will become Pompeii resur-
rected. Demonstrate the fact that
there are millions Of good men and
women who will give themselves no
rest day nor night until cities that n
now of the type of the buried cities of
Italy shall take type from the New
Jerusalem coming down from God out
of Heaven. 1 hail the advancing morn.
I make the same proclamation to-day
that Gideon made to the shivering
towards of his army: "Whosoever is
fearful and afraid, let him return and
depart early from Mount GiIead." Close
up the ranks. Lift the Gospel standard.
Forward into this Armageddon that is
now opening and let the word run all
along the line: Brooklyn for God! All
cities for God! America for God
The whole world for GodI The most
of us here gathered, though born in the
country, will die in town. Shall our
last walk be through the streets where
sobriety and good order dominate, or
grog shops stencil the air? Shall u
last look be upon city halls where jus
tice reigns, or demagogues plot for the
tuffing of ballot boxes? Shall we sit
n the last time in some church where
God is worshipped with the contrite
heart, or where cold Journalism goes
through ~unmeaning genufexions. God
save the cities! Righteousness is life,
iniquity is death. Remember pictures
que, terraced, tempted, sculptured,
boastful, God defying and entombed
Pompeii!
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TT-NT-~v
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H DEAD CITIES.
Rev. DR.. Talmage Sounds a Shrill Note
of Warning

TOOK FOHepetE n OtheT GTedE ana
Wicked Cities.
The following interesting discourse
on the dead and gone cities was dellV-
cred recently by Rev. 7. Dewitt Tai
mage in the Brooklyn tabernacle, being
based on the text:
Thou hast made of a defenced city a rum
Isaiah XIV 2
A flash on the night sky greeted us as
we left the rail train at Naples, Italy.
What was the strange illumination7
1t was the wrath of many centuries
Vesuvius. Giant son of an earthquake.
Intoxicated mountain of Italy. Father
of many considerations. A volcano,
burning SO long, and yet to keep on
burning until, perhaps, it may by the
very torch that will kindle the last con-
fagration and set all the world on fire.
It e~clipses in violence of behavior Coto-
paxi and H5na and Stromboli and
Krakatoa. Awful mystery. Funeral
pvre of dead cities. Everlasting parox-
ysm Of mountains. 1t seems like a
chimney Of hell. 1t roars with fiery
"Reminiscences of what it has done, and
with threats of worse that it may yet
do. I would not live in n of the vii
lagos at it's base for a present of all
Italy. On a day in December, 1881, it
threw up ashes that foated away hun
dreds and hundreds of miles, and
dropped in Constantinople and in the
Adriatic sea and in the Apennies, as
we'll as trampling out at it's own foot
the lives OF eighteen thousand people.
Biologists have tried to fathom its
mysteries, but the heat consumed the
iron instruments and drove back the
scorched and blistered explorers from
the cindery and crumbling brick. It
seems like the asylum Of maniac ele-
ments. At one time far back its top
had been a fortress, where Spartacus
had fought and was surrounded, and
would have been destroyed had it not
been for the grape vines which clothed
the mountain side from top to base,
and laying hold of them he climbed
hand under hand to safety in the val
lev. But for centuries it has kept it's
furnace burning as we saw it thai
night on our arrival in November of
1889.
ooo 5000 - 49, 90 w,.o,,obt b1 tbot
$3.50 mo,,Dtoin al ct Gov Pew
-, - / ooaduotou
And now we stand by the corpse of
that dead city. AS we entered the gate
o~J~oaao5 Io+u-oon : Ill, 80
-
go - N0
ooS0
. Lna0 Guy hao o0ell d. oHo Uinle
a@caplVal OF Dea"'' 81 H-'@. *
1-. ANU .,.s '''v1''''o 1A'"N-@
paA2.-. a~A~Aaat,aS scripture "IF~
SVIal17- ~-@! and ral1 aaasmoLaS".
1.<- wan ~ '2'lE 'nise
@51rge5 ~ III 7-. -"i0' enclrcIeo Che
city. On those walls at q Instance OF
only one hunoreo yaroS from each
oGner' lowers rose Ior arineu nen VINO
WaVcneo u Guy Inc sUreeUs a al
rlgh5 angles ana wall 70 wall, |
n street excepted. In the days or
the clVys prosperity, us towers gilt
tered IN the sun; elght strong gates for
1ngress and egress; gate OF the Sea
Shore, gate OF Herculaneum' gate OF
being perhaps the most m
portant. Yonder STOOD the temple OF
jupiter holsted at an imposing eleVa-
tlon, n with IFS SIX Corlnthlan col
umns OF immense glrth, which stood
like carved icebergs, shimmering in
the Iioht Thnrn stands tho tonpIn Of |
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K IN WILSON.

Mr.. EDIToR:-I will address the All
ance and public generally at the lof
lowing times and places:
Humford's K Roads, Nov. Ill., +
r. m.
Lucama, Nov. 4th, Z p. m.
The public invited.
JNo. D. MEARS,
Lect'r Wilson Co. Alliance
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see the deep ruts in the basaltic pave
ments worn there by the wheels of the
chariots of the first century. There,
over the doorways and in the porticos,
are works of art immortalizing the de
bauchery of a city, which notwith-
standing all its s~plendors, was a vesti-
bule of perdition. Those cutters ran
with the blood of the gladiators who
were the prize fighters of those ancient
times. and it was sword parrying
sword. unit, with one skillful and
stout plunge of the sharp edge, the
mauled and gashed combatant reeled
over dead, to be carried out amid the
huzzas Of enraptured spectators. We
staid among those suggestive scenes
after the hour that visitors are usually
allowed there, and staid until there
was not a football to be heard within
all that city, except our own. 10 this
silent street and down that silent street
we wandered. Into that windowless
and roofess home we went and came
out again on the pavements that now
forsaken, were once thronged with life.
And can it be that all up and down
these solemn sOlitudes, hearts, more
than eighteen hundred years ago, ached
and rejoiced, and feet shuf1ed with
the gait of old age or danced with
childish glee, and overtasked workmen
carried their burdens, and drunkards
staggered9 On that mosaic fiber did
glowing youth clasp hands in marriage
VOW, and across that threshold did
pallbearers carry the beloved dead,
and gay groups one mount these now
skeletons of staircases9 While 1 walked
and contemplated the city seemed sud
denly to be thronged with all the pop,
ulatiOn that had ever inhabited it, and
I heard it's laughter and groan and
blasphemy and uncleanliness, and in
fernal boast, as it was on the 23d of
August, 70. And Vesuvius, from the
mild light with which it flushed the
sky that summer evening as I stood in
disentombed Pompeii, seemed suddenly
again to heave and flame and rock with
the lava and darkness and desolation
and woe, with which, more than
eighteen centuries ago, it submerged
Pompeii as with the liturgy of fire and
storm, the mountain proclaimed at the
burial: "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. "
My frienis, 1 cannot tell what prac
tical suggestion comes to your mind
from this walk through uncovered
Pompeii, but the first thought that alb
serbs me is that, while art and culture
are important, they cannot save the
morals or the life of a great town.
Much of tho painting and sculpture of
Pompeii was SO exquisite that, while
some is kept on the walls where it was
first penciled, to be admired by those
who go there. Which, 'o.gen loads az.
no. co...- .ui II 3. a- as H..l f.aa-.
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uEra E-J q roi-ES Vnag though their
paintings were buried in ashes and
scorie for seventeen hundred years,
and since they were uncovered many
of them have remained there exposed
to the rains and winds and winters and
winters and summers of one hundred
and thirty years, the color is as fresh,
and vivid, and true as though yester-
day it had passed from the easel.
Which Of u modern paintings could
stand all that? And yet many of the
specimens of Pompeiian art show that
the city was sunk to such a depth of
abomination that there was nothing
deeper. Sculptured and petrifed and
embalmed abomination. There was a
state Of public morals worse than be
longs to any city now standing under
the sun. Yet how many think that all
that is necessary is to cultivate the
mind and advance the knowledge and
improve the arts. Have you the i'm
preston that eloquence will do the
elevating work9 Why, Pompeii had
Cicero half of every year for it's citizen.
Have you the idea that literature is all
that is necessary to keep the city
right9 Why, Sallust, with a pen that
was the boast of Roman literature, had
a mansion in that doomed city. Do
you think that sculpture and art are
quite sufficient for the production of
good morals9 Then correct your delu-
sion by examining the statues in the
temple of Mercury at Pompeii, or the
winged figures of its Parthenon, and
and the colonades and arches of this
house of Diomed. By all e have
schools and Dusseldorf and Dore ex-
hibitions, and galleries where the
genius of all the centuries car bank
itself up in snowy sculpture, and all
brio a-brac, and all pure art, but moth
ing save the religion of Jesus Christ,
can make a city moral. In proportion
as churches and Bibles and Christian
printing presses and revivals of religion
abound is a city clean and pure. What
has Buddhism or Confucianism or Mo
hammedanism done in all the hundreds
of years of their progress for the eleva-
ton of society9 Absolutely nothing.
Pekin and Madras and Cairo are just
what they were ages ago, except as
Christianity has modified their condi-
ton. What is the difference between
our Brooklyn and their Pompeii3 No
difference, except that which Chris
tianity has wrought. Favor all good
art, but take care of your churches,
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changed. Good to extra shipping sheep.
s2.50Q2.75; fair to good, s2.25E2.50; extra
lambs, SS65a3.75; fair to good. $520a5.So
ST. LOUIS. Oct. 27.-Cattle-Receipts, p
600; shipments. l,SlO. The market was quiet
all receipts Texans and Indian steers. s. 40
0325: cows and heifers. $l.S0Q2.s5; calves.
si05.25.
Hogs-Receipts, 5000; shipments. Lsoo
The market was dragging and l0c lower;
choice heavy, s6loQ6.4o: mixed. s5.75ae.2o;
Sheep-Receipts. 500: shipments. 400. The
market was barely steady; fair native NUT
tons. S.4043.15.
NEW YORK. Oct. 2s-Beeves-Receipts
2Sl7. including 40 cars on sale; market dull
and a shade lower; native steers, s3.SSQi9o;
Texans and Colorados, S. 45Q4:9O.
Calves-Receipts; 81 Trade quiet but
steady; veals, s59S: grassers, A-l5n22o
Sheep-Receipts. 3.65i Sheep dull, lambs
active and shade stronger; sheep, s2ooQ
$50
Hogs-Receipts. 1859, including ears on
sale; market weak at S5.5947.
BUFFALO, Oct 27-Cattle dull with
three loads on sale; no trading; prospects
Hogs very dull and lower: Workers. light
TO choice, S6.50I665; good mixed, S6.60a6 100:
medium and heavy. s6.65q6.1O; pigs. $3.50
Sheep firmer to a shade higher; good
sheep. S3G3.25: fair, $2.5Olt2S5; good lambs.
SiGf450; few fancy higher fair, $5-50Q3s5.
EAST LIBERTY. Oct. H.-Cattle-Re-
ceipts, $50. shipments. 500 Market nothing
doing al through consignments. No cattle
shipped to New York to-day.
Hogs-Receipts. 1900: shipments. 2.6O.
Market dull: fair Workers TO prime tops,
s6.40Q670. Five cars Of hogs shipped TO
Sheep0Receipts. 600: shipments, 500. Re-
ceipts light and market very bad
KANSAS CITY. Oct. 27-Cattle-Receipts,
1000; shipments. $500. Native COWS steady;
others 5110c lower Texans and shipping
steers. S2.2545. .25: butcher stock, $.ooQ4l5;
stockers and feeders, 50 25Gi3.75-
Hogs-Receipts, 500; shipments, 1000. Mar
L H.
all grades, 525Q610
Sheep-Receipts, 800; shipments, 1000. Mar
ket slow
CINCINNATI, Oct. 27.-Cattle steady at
$2M425. Receipts, $50; shipments, 600.
Sheep firmer at 81. .25GI350. Receipts. 500;
shipments, 500. Lambs stronger at S2.50Q4.25.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-10-28
WHEAT ADVANCED 3-4C
Biggest Market Of the Month in
the Last Hour at Chicago.
The Leading Cereal Carried the Other
Grains Up with 1t, and Provisions
Also Made Gains.

CHICAGO. Oct. 27.-The biggest market
of the month in wheat was during the last
hour of the session to-day. There are sur
misses 1t was due to guesses that voting
would begin this afternoon in the Senate
Rumors were also current that Northwest
ern receipts have begun to fall off. Wheat
closed strong at an advance for the day of
&c. Corn had to thank the strength in
wheat for 1lc advance. Oats and provisions
likewise appeared to lean up against wheat
for support, but both closed a little higher
than on the day before. Wheat, at the
opening, was about the same as yesterdays
closing, followed by an easier feeling, and
prices declined about 15c, then became
strong and advanced 12c, eased off trifie,
held steady, and the closing was within &c
of the top. The market was partly influ-
enced by the firmer cables. There is a
large shortage in the market, and the firm
ness induced rather free covering. New
York parties were reported as large buyers.
The receipts in the Northwest hold up
pretty well, and some adviceS state that
three weeks more at about present figures.
But the arrivals to-day at Minneapolis and
Duluth were only about 20 per cent. of the
receipts of year ago. 1t was also re-
ported that gold imports would start in
again, and s5O0,000 was reported to be
shipped from Liverpool to New York to-
morrow.
Trading in corn was light The market
was influenced chiefly by the firmneSS in
wheat. Opinion is very much divided as to
the amount of old corn back in the country,
but leans to the side of small reserves.
Fluctuations were confined to 12c range.
The close was 1sc from the top figures.
Oats were very dull The range was sc,
and the close near the top, with net gain
of &c.
Provisions started rather weak at some
decline from yesterdays closing prices on
account of the hog receipts having over
run the estimate by 1900 head. They re-
covered the receipt of a few scattering
buying orders and in sympathy with the
firmnesS of the grain markets. The last
bulge in wheat taken advantage of TO
unload some early purchases, and the clos
ing prices were not quite the highest of the
day. Compared with last night Jonuary
pork is up zoe, January lard, .O2l2c and jan
uary ribs, .05c.
lac for corn to Buffalo. Estimated re-
ceipts tomorrow are: Wheat, % cars; corn
$50 cars; oats, 1S5 cars; hogs 1900 head
Leading futures ranged as follows.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-10-28
TRADE IN GENERAL.
Quotations nt st. Louis, Phiiadeiphia,
Baltimore and Other Points.

ST. LOUIS. Oct. 27.-Flour very quiet;
holders firmer; prices unchanged. Wheat
opened unsettled. though nc higher, eased
off 3sc, and then on sharp demand gained
rapidly closing with a gain OF 161lsc, Sc
cured principally through reports of
drought conditions In winter wheat Sec
tions and firrner cables; No. red, cash
closed at 60c; October, 60%c bid; Novem-
ber. 6lAc, nominal; December 61s. .sI6sc
closing at CSC asked May. c93sG170lac bid
Corn was duh but firm. gaining &c only;
No. mixed, cash. closed at 37SsGt3Sc; Oc-
tober. S724c, nominal; November, 3ls.c, nom-
inal: December. 24ssc bid; year. Si3sc asked !:
January. 3+Ac. nominal: May. Csc bid. Oats
nominal: No. ,. cash, CLOSED at 26c bid; Oc-
tober. 26Ac. nominal: November. 2ss4c, NOM
inal; May, 31lzc bid. Rye-No. . f2c bid
this SIDE. Barley dull: sales OF Iowa at soc
and Minnesota at Sic. Bran higher: east
track Gle. Flaxseed lower at 9sIac. Glover
seed steady at ss.50Q6.70. Timothy. sSI3e0
Hay feeling depressed: prices unchanged.
Butter and eggs unchanged. Lead higher
and firm at s.S5c; spelter better at 3.s2isc
Corn meal steady. at slSoal.ss. Whisky
si.l4 Bagging. 5q6isc Cotton ties s5c6fSl
Provisions quiet and unchanged. except
lard. at slsc, and dry-salt meats shorts. at
s5Oc. Receipts-Flour. 5000 brls; wheat. 55.-
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-10-28
Value of the Co.ored peo,,c

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Please allow me space in your paper to
offer a few thoughts for the consideration
of your colored readers. j would say 10
them that our last city election was a great
victory in a two-fold sense 1t was In COM
mon n victory for all for law and order
against lawlessness and disorder. and IL
was a great victory for the grand old
party that took the yoke OF bondage off OF
our necks and enlightened our minds SO we
can understand what is just ana what is
unjust. both morally and financially Now.
the negro as slave was worth so much to
his master that when he was refused the
right to enter certain territories with his
slave property it caused a division of the
white men in this country Now. we will
notice briefly what they were worth accord
ing to the estimate put upon them by their
owners about 1856, when the United States
Scotts case against the shareholders. who
were trying to get the territory North TO
work their slaves in. Judge Catron. OF
Tennessee. told what they were worth.
Read report .. page 527. in which he said
among other things. that IL they were de-
prived Of taking their slaves into the terri
tory, the slaves at that time being con-
sidered a part OF his family. the estimated
loss would reach thousand million dollars
Eighth district. which included Kentucky.
Tennessee and Missouri. Accepting this es-
tiinate correct running from 1857 TO
1888. IL would be nearly five times that
amount and upon that basis IL would give
every colored person about $500 leave this
oOen for any correction that any one is
able TO make upon II. this claim 10 be made
upon the shareholders and their posterity
or heirs. We never expect to get IL, but
we would have them know that we know
what is just. and this piece OF history
should be handed down TO the coming gen.
GRAFTON In indelibe letters that they might
read and learn l am now old man.
nearly eichty-fOur years OF age hut I shall
always remember the mark OF the Repub-
lican party from 1861 10 1866.
PETER W. II. JOHNSON.
Indianapola@ Oct q.