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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-07-15

Not long ago a child was brought 70
me far baptism, aud when l asked the
father for the desired name be replied
that IL was Bathsheba, writes Or. Tai
mage in the Ladies Home Journal.
Now, why any parent should wish TO
give TO child the name OF that imam
Gus creature of Scripture times, passes
bevnnd my understanding. l have Of
ten felt al the baptismal altar when
names are announced to me like saying,
as did the Rev DR.. Richards, Of Nor
ristown, when q child was presented to
him for Sprinkling aud the name given,
Hadn't YOU better call il something
s.se?" There Is no excuse for an assault
and battery on the cradle when our
language Is ODulent with names lhuSi-
cal 10 sound and suggestive in meaning,
such as John, meaning 1.-The gracious
gift OF Cod or Henry, meaning the
chief Of the households" or Alfred,
meaning good counsellor" or Joshua,
meaning "GOd our Salvation;" or Mich
oIaS, meaning victory Of tie peoples"
or Ambrose, meaning "immortal;" or
Andrew, meaning manly" or Esther,
meaning "a STAR" or Abigail, meaning
my Iat0er IOys OF anna, meaning
grace" or Victoria, meaning vic
tory" or Resale, meaning beautiful
as a rose;" or Margaret, meaning "a
pearl;" or Ida, meaning "Godlike;' or
Clara, meaning "fllustrlous;" or Amelia,
meaning busy" or Bertha, meaning
beautiful" and hundrens Of other
names Just as good that are help
rather than = hiudrance.
Teacher (to boy whose father keeps
a corner grocery)-JOhnuy, if your
father has hundred eggs and twenty
OF them are bad, how many Of them does
be loose?
Johnny-He doesn't lose any OF them.
He sells the bad ones TO the restaurant
keeper TO make omlets OF.
Jonnnie-Say, Mamma, what does
s'V0x Popull" means?
Mamma-It means the voice OF the
people.
Johnnie-Then II YOU want to speak
Of the voice OF only one man, would you
say "vox Popuiiar?"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-07-15
Buckhannon River Lumber Company's
Finances.
Ssse.a. to n, Rs1n~

BUcKHASNoN, W. Va, July l5.-At
a special session OF the Circuit Court
held today Judge Bennett decided the
attachment case against the Buckhan-
non Lumber Company 10 favor OF the
attaching creditors against the Michi-
gan claimants. The decision will give
the funds OF the sale OF the companYs
property made at Wheeling 20 Colonel
John T. McGraw. TO the Bucknanuon,
Grafton. Elkins, Morgantown- and Wes-
ton banks The decision Is universally
commended as being not only right but
eninently Just and fair TO all interests.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-07-15

II you wish TO have the best local and
tsIsgraphie paper In the city LETT at yOu
door regularly every morning, subscribe
or the Daily and Sunday sdItIsns Of tAs
Register. is cents per week.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-07-15

o.. e. c. VESTS Nerve and nrss Tgestaeat
e sod zncsr positive Written Rzara1tes ~ author
lied agents Only, % cure Weak Memory: Loss Of
Brain snd Eerye Power. Loo. Manhood; or1icknsss;
GiZnt Dossss; wi Dreams; isck q Co7ddsncs;
beryoasoes; Ihstitlfo; al Drains; Los Of Power
o. ne onoeratvs Organs IN either ssx, caused BY
oTer-exsTeor, 1ouihin Errors, o. Excesslvo Ugs q
Tobacco, Opium OF Liquor, which soon LEAD %
Alfer(, Consumption, Jnranity and Death. Py mail,
boz fcr VI With written gcarnntee % core or
refund Ioorey. WEsI'S COUGH SYRUP. certain
cure for Coughs, Coitt, lsthzla- Bronckifs Cr01p,
Ehoopiag Cough, Sore Throat. Pieas4ut 10 taks.
FINAL s.zs disooztn sed: cd. &c. size rsE l5c Cd
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Through G. r. GOETHE. Sole Agent. southwest
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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-07-15
THE LANE BILL.
TIE INTENTION IS TO MAKE ALL KINDS OF
MONEY EQUAL,

And the Measure Provides 70. the Discharge Of
All Contracts BY ANY Legal Tender Currency.
Tbs Bill Is In Line VII Laws Now IN
yorcs IN Both France ard England Which
Provide Penalties for Discrsiiing Any Kind
Of Legal Monsy-SOns Opposition to A'
Plan.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-07-15
BY FATHER NILE.
TIE COIFFURs GAS CONE TO Us FROM
AFRlCS SHORE.
TIE Styles il Medieval and Modern Times
Grotssqgs French Arrangsmsns-GOlisn and
Pearl FillsS.

Wfktsp 10 tts Rsg,Ssi COPYRIGHTED
Surely, it was in Egypt, where the
women were free as the men and had
no need TO carefully cover their faces,
that the fair sex commenced TO take
pride IL their tresses. They sat them
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-24
H TWIN

After the money power has used the
Democratic administration to complete
the characterization of silver and after
the public condemnation caused by the
effects have made it apparent that the
people will never more entrust their
destiny to the Democrats, the goldbug
efforts will be bent to elevate the Re-
publican party to supremacy and
thereby extend the rule of the golden
calf, says the Industrial NeUs.
The panic of last year and the sue
ceeding business stagnation will be
charged to the party in power alone
despite the fact that it's primal origin
was the characterization of silver, &C.
complished under Republican rule, and
that nearly all the conditions which
have Frustrated the country and given
soulless corporations and grasping
money changers the whip hand over
labor and traffic are the results of Re-
publican legislation. The people will
be urged 20 support the Republican
"O0 IL OAO A0G0 VI GAO 1dSV year 3
record, which proves beyond a perad-
venture that the Republican party is
owned bodily by organized wealth and
a syndicate of corporations of it's own
creation. Every vote in the present
Congress will verify this beyond equivo-
cation. It is a monstrous wrong to
longer present the claims ofthat party
as other than a mouthpiece of money
owners who have risen upon the ruin
of producers. Whether the adopts of
Wall and Bond street will again sue
ceed in fooling the people will be seen
by the result of the next Congressional
elections. The Peoples party alone re-
| fleets the right.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-24
ANOTHER CANARD.

The Washington Post, a mouthpiece
of ~plutocracy, is doing its best to head
off government ownership. The Will
mington Messenger joins in the melee
and puts up a piteous appeal to the
people to give such ''paternalism" the
go by,
In 1870 England took charge of the
telegraph lines by purchase. The Post
claims that they have been operated at
a total loss of $22, 500, 900. This is an
absurd and, we believe, false state
ment. England has a smaller popula-
ton than the United States, but the
area of the country is much smaller,
hence is densely populated. The ex-
pense of putting up the telegraph lines,
therefore, is much less and the bust
ness done correspondingly larger in
proportion to mileage. For that reason
we contend that there has been no such
loss. English ~plutocrats cannot mo-
! nopolize the railroads and telegraph
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-24
DIsPENsARY LAW UNCoNSTITU.
TIONAL.

On last Wednesday the Supreme
Court of South Carolina, composed of
three Judges, rendered a decision de-
claring the State ~dispensary law IN
constitutional. Chief Justice McIver
and Associate Justice MCGOWAN agree
ing and Associate Justice Pope dissent
ing. The two Justices contend that it
is a revenue and not a police measure
to regulate the sale of liquor, and
therefore unconstitutional,
Without going into the merits or de-
merits of the law itself and knowing
but little about the constitution of the
State, we will say that the decision is
not a surprise. The time has come for
adverse decisions. The United States
Supreme Court and the courts of the
various States are not, as a rule,
fountains of justice. Some or all of
them consist of honest men, but it is
not an unusual thing to hear Of out
rageous decisions, not in harmony with
the law nor the interests of the people.
Monopolies and vast private corpora
tions name the men who are appointed
or elected, and they get decisions
favorable to themselves whenever they
desire them.
We do not assert that the South
Carolina Supreme Court is composed
Of corrupt men, as a whole, or in part.
Their decision may may be a proper
one. But the whiskey trust is power
full, and would not hesitate to spend
hundreds of thousands of dollars, if
necessary, to get a decision that suits
their purpose. Unless the two Justices
can satisfy the public that their de-
cision was the proper one, they will be
numbered among the suspects" who
arc ~disgracing the so called temples of
justice in this country to day. It is
strange that a law which has been so
thoroughly ventilated should be in
force SO long without their finding out
that it was Unconstitutional"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-24
AN OBJECT LESSON.

That brilliant combination of states,
men and fnanciers known as the Presi
dent and his Secretary of the Treasury,
have had an object lesson jabbed into
them so that they begin to see what we
saw in 1864, when we saw and said,
that with greenback money issued as
full legal tender, the government could
forever do without gold money, and
could discharge every monetary obliga-
ton of the government and the people
who form the government of the United
States of America could discharge ali
their debts to corporations, firms and
individuals or to their government with
the government issue of legal tender,
once they had legal tender to thus use.
Also thatso long as there was one dollar
of greenback legal tender, it could be
presented to the governmental for any tax
or favor or privilege Or bond, the same
as though it were a veritable gold dol
lar, as the dollar is a dollar, as the Gre
alton of law, and this without the least
regard for the material of which the
dollar was made, as a citizen of the
United States is a citizen, entirely re-
gardless of nativity, color, age, sex or
any previous condition of mental or
physical service, says POmeTOy'SAd
Uance Thought.
On the Sd of February, 1894, there
were deposited in the Sub-Treasury in
the city of New York, seven million
seven hundred and twenty-nine thou
sand dollars, placed there by those who
subscribed for United States bonds
offered in exchange for gold with which
to swell the reserve of the gold in the
Treasury. Of this sum paid in, to the
purchase of interest-drawing bonds,
three million dollars werein greenback,
legal tender, paper money. The turn
ing in of greenbacks to apply on sub
scriptions to the bonds as offered for
gold was not at all pleasing to the off
Gals. Secretary Carlisle was tele-
graphed to and informed that subscrip.
tions were being paid in paper money,
that is the greenback money, as ma
tional bank notes are not money. they
not being legal tender. The Secretary
protested against receiving paper
money when gold money was called
for and expected. He called post haste
on the President for instructions. The
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-24
THE MYER sE1GN1oRAGE BILL

Congressman Myer, of Louisiana,
has introduced a new seigniorage bill
in the House. 1t contains a clause
authorizing an unlimited issue of bonds,
and is said to have the approval of the
President and Secretary Carlisle.
Myer asserts that he has the assurance
of the President that the bill will not
be vetoed if passed.
If we were not familiar with such
outrageous doings, this would be abso
lutely shocking. The Sherman law
was repealed Ito restore confidence; -
the seigniorage bill was vetoed because
it would disturb the tranquility of our
financial system" and create o. ne1U
Want of confidence, and because we
couldn't ''coin a vacuum" But be-
hold! The gang of boodlers at Wash
ington, from Cleveland down, have
discovered that they went too far in
this bond issuing and contraction bust
ness and are lacking. They are trying
to sugar coat their intamy by mixing
seigniorage in with it to deceive the
people if they can.
If silver coinage destroyed conf,
dence(0 six months ago it will now. If
we couldn't coin a vacuum a month
ago, or if it was wrong to coin more
silver, be it seigniorage or otherwise,
how can an issue of bonds in connec-
ton with the coinage now make every
thing right. Don't you see that the
rascals have been lying all the time,
and that they are just changing their
style of lying now7 Such villainy ought
not to be allowed in a civilized country.
Impeach every n of them.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-24

&
A letter from Hon. Clarence =. Bate
state President of the kentucky ALL
ance, says:
Won see it often asserted that the
main cause of the present hard times
is .soverproduction." Now, you know,
and I know that assertion to be all
stuffn-the purest nonsense. NotWlth-
standing it's a~bsurdity, it is published
far and wide in our great dailies. Dun
and Bradstreet lay it down as an eco
nomieal axiom and the great masses OF
our neighbors and brethren, instead OF
investigating for themselves, accept
the pronunciatio as a fact. Such being
thecase. we are advised toproduce less
wheat. corn, cotton and tobacco. Two
ago the wheat crop of the United
States. according to Sterling B. Proc
tors circular, now before me, was Gill;
$50 600 bushels; in 1892 it was 515, 949,-
Coo bushels; last year 396, 132, 600 bush
els. In the spring of 1892 I sold the
product of 1891 at 90 cents a bushel.
This year, that is 1893, with the product
Ole. 448, 900 less than that of 1891, Isold
my wheat crop at so cents per bushel.
Clearly the overproduction of 1891 had
nothing to do with the price of 1893. 1
saw the statement that overproduction
ia the cause of hard times and low
prices is a great fallacy. The best illus
tration of the part, however, is this:
In 1898 the whole wheat crop of the
world amounted to 1888, 1914, 900 bush
els. The price in 1893 was 80 per cent.
lower than in 1891. But let us take
the wheat product of the world in 1898
at 1859, 636, 900 bushels. There r
400, 900, 900 people in the world. Give
each inhabitant it's pro rata of wheat
and it's production, in round numbers,
one bushel and a half of wheat per an
mum, or when converted into -four,
thirty pounds of -four per annum, or
one and a quarter ounces for a days
rations-not enough to feed the most
dyspeptic baby in Kentucky. Then I
ask what becomes of the overproduc-
ton theory9
"Gone glimmering through the dream of things
that were
A schoOlboy's tale-the wonder of tt Q hour"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-24

1t is seldom that a week goes by that
we do not get inquiries about where to
get blooded stock, horses, cattle, sheep
or chickens of various kinds. People
who have such things lose many dol
lars because they do not advertise in
our columns. Keep your business be-
fore the world, or quit. Our readers
are requested to watch our advertising
columns closely, and maybe you will
find what YOU want,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-24
n. r. 2. A.
EDITORIAL T

Now that Coxey is travelling by
water, it should be called ''Coxey's
navy"
Wehad the pleasure of a brief visit
from the popular sheriff of Chatham
county, Bro. J. J. Jenkins, last Friday.
If the gentleman at Kenly, N. c.,
who wrote to one of advertisers
who has a farm for sale, will send his
name, his letter will be answered.
Next Saturday 285h is Memorial day.
Take your families and your neighbors
all out and make it a day of social
pleasure as well as for the performance
of other duties.
On the plantation of Mrs. Hanna
Whitaker, st. Mary's township this
county, onlastlast Friday, John Atkins,
colored, was killed by the falling Of a
tree which was cut down by his son.
If the Washington police will enforce
the vagrant act and arrest all the idle
Congressman and Senators there all
will be forgiven. An idle Congressman
is as much a vagrant as the idle me
chanic.
Since Coxey's army left the public
roads to travel on canal boats, we have
been waiting, but not one newspaper
has been bold enough to give advice, so
here goes: They ought to keep Tin the
middle of the road"
The union meeting of the Western
section of the Raleigh Baptist Associa-
tion will meet at Inwood church on
next Saturday and Sunday. Churches
and Sunday-schools in the said juris-
diction will please send delegates.
When Speaker Reed adopted a strict
rule to get a quorum, he was a tyrant,
he became "Czar Reed" Last week
Speaker Crisp did the same thing and
he is a patriot. All Democrats are
patriots. Everybody else are rascals;
that is, if you believe Democratic
papers.
Your cousin Walter Henry claims
that Curacao is a sickly country, so
much so that insurance companies will
not write policies for people going
there. That is too bad, Walter; but,
by the way, your party will kill or
starve you here before go, and you
have as good chance in Curacao as you
possibly can have here.
A new Odd Fellow Lodge was insti-
tuted at Louisburg last week. The
three Raleigh Lodges Capitol a ma
jority of them) furnished the team of
sixteen who assisted the Deputy Or
ganizer. Visitors from Wake Forest
and Youngsville Lodges were present
and invited to take a part. Louisburg
starts off with a membership of % of
the best men in the town, and excellent
officers.
after all, Governor Waite, of Colo,
RADIO, was acting according to law
when he deposed certain city officials
in Denver and was forced to call out
troops to assist in getting out the men,
who attempted to hold their places by
force. The Supreme Court has rem
dered a decision sustaining him. Waite
and Tillman are "wheel horses" in
t'blood up &c the bride Bit"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-24
SENATOR JARVIS.

The appointment of Jarvis as United
States Senator does not destroy Sena-
5or Ransom's chances for reelection,
because he was already politically
dead. His vote on the silver question
efectually cooked his goose.
Jarvis processes to be in favor of4ree
silver, a graduated income tax, low
tariff and financial reform. AS he has
been herding with many politicians in
his party whose positions on these
questions are doubtful, he must o do
something to make his own position
thoroughly understood. Every speech
he makes and vote he casts for free
silver, financial reform, and a gradu-
ated income tax. will drive a new nail
in Ransom's coffin.
We have always re garded Jarvis as
a machine politician, but reform is get
ting so strong that all sorts of poll
ticians, except Ransom, are forced to
take a stand in advocacy of at least a
part of it. But no matter what Jarvis
is, we will watch his career, and give
him credit for all he does In the interest
of the people of North Carolina. Jarvis
belongs to ''the party" and so does
Wall street, though advocatinga differ
emit set of principles. If there is a
fusion between them it will be under
'the party" name.
Ransom has lived in Washington
among u enemies so long that it is
natural that he should have forgotten
us. We are sorry that a few months
in Washington have been sufficient to
convert Josephus Daniels into the most
pronounced appologist Cleveland ever
had in this State. We hold him up as
a warning to Senator Jarvis.
Mr.. Jarvis wrote a letter recently.
It started off very nicely for reform,
but before he got through, he drifted
away and began to jabber about his
party" in the old machine way. This
makes us doubt the soundness of his
conversion, and leaves a back door
open between him and Wall street.
Mr.. Cleveland spoke lovingly of his
party" just before betraying the PEG
pie into the hands of the plutocrats.
Mr.. Jarvis is appointed and sworn to
represent the people of North Carolina,
not his party" faction.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-24

The Hon. James G.. Mcguire has in
PRODUCED in Congress a bill which will
be endorsed by evey one outside the
telegraph monopoly and the daily
newspaper news monopoly. It pro-
vides for the construction of telegraph
lines between the principal cities of
the States, to be operated by the gov
eminent and gradually extended, if
successful, to other cities and towns,
making it CO extensive with the postal
system if found consistent with the
cost Of operation. A uniform rate of
tolls is to be fixed, regardless of dis
lance. The maximum rate for COM
mercial, personal and other messages
is to be 10 cents for the first ten words,
and 5 cents for every subsequent ten
words. Press news to be rated at 20
cents for one hundred words, or less,
at the discretion of the Postmaster,
General. The postmasters of the vari-
GUS cities and towns are to be local
agents. Exchange.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-24

two looked at the law declaring paper
money to be legal tender, and decided
thata new giant had risen in their path,
and that it was the ~..greenback dollar
That it being a legal tender, under and
by virtue of the law, and by virtue of
the Supreme Court of the United States
declaring it's issue constitutional and
within the creative power of Congress
as the government, and that having
advertised for bids for bonds, the Sec
rotary must deliver the bonds on a ten
der of paper legal tender therefor, to
those to whom bonds were awarded
under the bid.
Out of $50, 229, 900 subscribed for
bonds that are issued and drawing five
per cent. interest, the interest payable
in gold, to date of three o'clock Satur.
day, February 8, 1894 81, 100000 were
paid for in paper legal tender, exactly
as every dollar of this or any other
bonded debt can be paid in legal tender
paper money issued as such by the PEG
pie of the United States, the issue of
such money being authorized by Cor
gress as the law-making power.
The greenback money thus paid out
at one time by the Unites States comes
back to the treasury when gold coin is
called for and cannot be refused. Thus
gold-bearing bonds are given out so
that the people are robbed of the bene-
fits to them resulting from utilizing the
power of the government to create
money and sell it or pay it into circula-
ton. The paper money thus taken in
when gold is called for, simply because
it is a part of the government that can
not be excluded from it's place, is the
next day paid out to various persons
who have claims against the govern
ment, and the next day as gathered
up, is presented in payment for bonds
subscribed for. Thus it goes round
and round, in this instance becoming
an engine of disaster to taxpayers who
are robbed of the widespread use of
money, and who are pledged to meet
the interest obligations thus incurred
in anything that is legal tender. So it
is that the government can pay every
dollar that it owes, no matter who the
claimant or what the nature of the
claim, in it's legal tender paper money.
Now as the government holds by the
circumstances out of which grew the
government, the monopoly of creating
money, that is legal tender, and there
is no limit to it's power to select what
ever substance it will, to carry the fat
if you please, it stands to reason as it
does to the law, the constitutional law
of the land, that all government debts
can be paid in full legal tender paper
money, and thus there is no need and
no excuse for ever issuing an interest
drawing government bond, or for the
government paying interest on a ma
tional debt. This interest of course has
to be paid in something taken by power
of the law from the people, o created
as an addition to the money volume of
the country.
If the people of this country would
only study just a little bit into this
matter, they would see clearly the way
to prevent the panics that are made by
money-changers.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-04-24
A FULL INVENTORY.

Ex-C Congressman J. B. Clark, of Ken
lucky, has been taking a full inventory
of Grover Cleveland from 1884 up to
date and he finds that the man whom
he surely though was the Joshua of
Democracy has turned out to be a
Jonah, such as which no whale could
swallow and live. -Independent, St.
Charles, Mich.