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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-08-28

ment is taking a religious turn; their
meetings are like camp meetings. They
sing hymns, and they feel that the
cause of man is the cause of God, there
fore they will win. was only amused
once to day. 4 heard the story of the
educated tramp. It won't take long
for you or / to look like a tramp if we
lived their life. But this was an edu-
Gated tramp; Harvard man and all
that. He applies for something to eat.
Woman at the door says: IF you will
tackle that wood pile we have break
fast Madame says he, I have been
informed that the best physicians dis
countenance work before breakfast; if
you will kindly provide me with a
meal I shall be glad to assist you after
wards About two hours after break
fast the woman said to him: Did you
saw that wood4' Madame he replied,
Il am shocked at your outrageous
grammar The correct form is: Did
you see that wood9 I have seen it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-08-28

own row and we will try -
same God forbid that tho 70 DO the
seekers OF whatever political Office,
creeo they may claim to heIoppaFFyo Or
ever get our noble and pran us' shall
that our dead father, the e Eon cause
folk' labored so hard and hon.. L L
lnVo any more political hobbIou Tor
all Alllancemen be A~lliancemoaS Let
ior any party they may want Vote
It they are not satisfied with 70 and
any party, let all go rather thu men Of
single bubble inside our grand gsts
There is nothing in politics otaet.
looks to me like, but monev uOT, it
seems like 1T would be a w.. and it
plan now to adopt to sell tho good
offices to the highest bidder, R, 'stlOu'
what do you true Alliancemen %!
God bless and prosper our grand lung
is the earnest desire of cause,
I. M. FRzw1,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-08-28
DEMANDS ADOPTED
By the Farmers Alliance and Industfi'
Union at Topeka, Kan, Feb. 8, 1894

Union at Topeka, Kan, Feb. 8, 1884,
Finance-We demand a national
currency, safe, sound and flexible
issued by the. government only, q tl
legal tender for all debts, public OF
private, and that without the use o.
banking corporations; a just, eqqltaOls
and efficient means OF distributing
direct to the people at a tax not WgA
coed 2 per cent. as set forth by IV
Sub-Treasury plan or some better syy
tenn; also, by payments in dlscnarge~
its obligations and for public improve
ments. r-to3
O.. We demand the free and unllmiseJ
coinage of silver and gold at th0 i76"
ratio of Is to 1.
b. We demand that the amount "
the circulating medium be lncreasT yo, J
at least $50 per capita ~excluSlVeO Oh "6D
reserves. .ooroe
tax. Lion shall
d. That our national Legislation St1 n
be so framed in the future as nUs oo
build up one industry at the e4P0
e. We believe that the money o. ' as
country should be kept as m lLIo and
possible in the hands of the PeoPlg oS
hence we demand that all natloI "a tTe
State shall be limited 70 o ~
necessary expenses of the ea5nninis
economically and honestly
tered. savings
banks be established by the gan oSrn,
ment for the safe deposit OF gES e.
ings of the people and to taclu'""
changes. all the
natural resources OF Wea am5 should
heritage of all the people asLIo J
hot be monopolized for specu IF land
poses and alien ownership nov
should be prohibited. Al Ia coTpOrs
held bv railroads and other G% Led,
lions IN excess of their actua mould
ond d lands now owned by aliens, amsnt
now be reclaimed by the Cover
and sold for actual settle[s oE+afion BE-
TranspoFtation-TransPOn d ! public
ing q means of exchange anu oSonId own
necessity, the government w the h
and operate the RAILROADS
toc : % q The teis PSSPIs9, and telephone; 5FS
the n% od9 system, being stdgIfiieencs,
for the transmission dated BY tD0
should be owned and opeII The peG
government In the ntere
Dle.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-08-28
PLEA FOR HIGHER EDUCATION.
Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer
CEDAR CREEK. N. g.

ONOAAS ONAAAAy 4s ~
A short time ago the Biblical Re,
cOrder published a series of articles by
DR.. Taylor in opposition to State aid to
higher education. The articles, in my
judgment, were very injurious to the
cause of education in the State, and I
desire, if you will grant me space in
your valuable paper, to say a few
words on the other side of the question.
1 prefer your paper because it has the
largest circulation of any paper in the
State, and because it reaches the PEG
pie who need education most.
The doctor, as I understand, does
not oppose the University, but thinks
that it should be self sustaining and
that it should not be run in opposition
TO the denominational colleges Of the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-08-28
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NOTICE,

The Peoples party of tho O.
Senatorial district, comno % second
counties of Martin, BeanfOTTtHu OF the
Hyde, Dare, Pamlico and biyEreI,
is hereby called to meet in convagget9an
in the town of Plymouth, S Sent 7s0
1894, for the purpose of namino 13th,
candidates to represent said oog Two
in the next State Senate of North FIS% Ts
lima: 1t is also suggested tSatC a 10
Chairman of the Executive Co SnSS tae
of each of said counties be nraaoat ttee
the purpose of thorough organiZatioOo LOT
j. Q. SMITH, C6airm"u
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-20
Do People Marry Too Young?

Some humorous views on this subject
are expressed in a symposium of writers
in the Boston Post. The most humorous
utterances are those which are 80 with
out their authors suspecting it.
Do people marry too young? "Time
and divorce courts will tell" says Helen
NJ. Winslow. The answers are furnished
by four ladies and three men, the men
being respectively a preacher, a doctor
and the Boston city registrar. The doc
tor, the registrar and Miss Winslow
write of the subject from the standpoint
of keen, cool headed observers and logi-
clans. Two of the ladies (bless themy)
gush like a schoolgirl not yet past the
candy eating, novel reading stage. The
minister-Rev. A. j. Gordon of the Bap-
fist church-believes in early marriage,
because, he says, the wife can help make
the fortune and build the home. But
where two young people are 80 thriftless
and shiftless that they cannot make a
living apart he is opposed to their trying
it together.
Mrs. Mae D. Frazar wants a man and
woman to wed while they are young and
full of hope and enthusiasm to bear the
burdens which are sure to come to them.
Evidently Mrs. Frazar is under the i'm
preston that if they were to wait till
their hope and enthusiasm were gone,
and at the same time had any idea of
what they were going into, they would
not have the courage to undertake it.
Mrs. F. tells us, further, that at any Pc
Rod in life the husband or wife may be
attracted to another, and it is then that
the test of true affection begins. Does
not this statement tend to warn people
off, not only from marrying yorng, but
even from marrying at all?
The city registrar, Mr.. William II.
Whitmore, thinks foreigners who come
to America marry too young, but Amer
leans of long descent are not apt to.
Mrs. S. II. Marryfield, who is classed by
The Globe as a 'labor reformer," in
forms us that holiness consists in living
the all round life of our being. Quite so,
we are sure. But so few people, in Mrs.
Marryfield's judgment, live the all round
life of their being that marriage in most
cases is a frightful failure. Abby Nor
ton Diaz says the best qualities in man or
woman require a certain maturity for
development: therefore people should
not marry young. DR.. Noyes says the
scientific marriagei is not entered into too
young, but the unscientific marriage al
ways is.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-20
MEMORIES OF A FORMER LIFE.
Stories That Seem to support the Theory
of Reincarnation.

Stories That Seem to support the Theory
of Reincarnation.
81 have a number of friends who have
a shadowy recollection of a previous ex-
istence upon the earth" said a theoso-
phist, supporting the doctrine of rein
carnation.
"You doubtless have also had expert
ences with an indefinable vague remem-
brance of something, OF somebody came
to you, which puzzled You and made you
say, I'm sure I've seen that before
Yet you may know positively that al far
as this present existence is concerned it
was impossible for you to have received
even an idea of the place or person. /
have often met people with whom l be-
came intimate at first sight. 1t seems,
as l have often told them, that / had
known them for years. 1t was only the
other evening that l met a lady from
San Francisco whose face had been in
my mind for years. AS soon as WI met
there seemed to be something that drew
us together. We were as old friends.
"The most remarkable instance l ever
heard is that of the daughter of Isaac
Fulton. Twelve years ago he resided in
Efingham county, Ills. While there he
buried a daughter named Maria, who
was taken away just as she was budding
into womanhood. About a year later he
removed to Dakota, where he still re-
sides. About three years after his daugh-
ter's death he was blessed with another
little girl, who was christened Nellie,
1t being the favorite name of his wife.
When the little one became old enough
to talk, she persisted in calling herself
Maria. She became quite angry when
told her name was Nellie. She said the
name belonged to her, as her parents
used to call her Maria. A matter of
business took Mr.. Fulton back to Efing-
ham county, and for company he took
Nellie along. The father was surprised
at the intuitive knowledge the girl had
of the place. She not only recognized
the old home, but many people she had
never seen whom the first daughter had
been acquainted with. About a mile
from the home was a schoolhouse where
Maria had gone to school. Little Nellie
had never seen the place, yet she gave
al accurate description of it to her ia
ther and expressed a strong desire to
visit it. Accordingly her father took
her out to the schoolhouse. AS soon as
she was inside she marched straight up
to the desk her sister had occupied and
said, This is mine In telling the
story Mr.. Fulton said that it seemed as
If the dead had come back from the
grave, but her mother would not have
1t SO. She says, if that is true. she had
but M child, and God gave her two
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-20
The Situation.

As regards the present situation at
Great Falls the least that can be said is
that it is grave. The only railroad in
this section that handles our natural re-
sources is tied up. Our mammoth cop
per smelter, and the silver smelter, will
have to close down for want of supplies.
The Sand Coulee and Belt coal mines
must close for want Of transportation
and the Neihart mines for the same
reason. 1t is sincerely to be hoped that
an agreement can be reached today, that
will make it needlrss to close down these
industries, for there are very many
families in this city who have not yet
recovered from last years depression,
and who would not be able to undergo
another ~stagnation of business.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-20
A Loaded Farm.

For many years a sandy mound on the
Fl. A. Maize farm, just south of this
city, has been known as the hiding pl ICE
of the fox. This winter the animals have
been unusually numerous and created
havoc in the memories. The losses be-
came so great that the farmers held a
meeting and decided to blow up the
mound and rid themselves of the pests.
A large quantity Of dynamite was pur-
chased, and four large charges were put
into the ground. For some reason the
fuses failed to discharge the explosive,
and the stuff is now buried in the mound.
The mound is one of the most productive
spots on the farm, and as the farmer
does not know just where the dynamite
lies he is in q pickle to know what to do,
rs he is afraid to dig into the mound for
fear he may strike the stuff and send
himself to kingdom ONE. The owner
of the farm insists that the dynamite
must be found, as he realizes that the
fact Of it being buried on the farm is 60
ing to hurt the sale of the farm or for
ever render several acres of his best land
valueless (O.) Dispatch.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-20
Congressional Morality.

There is a popular notion that a polit-
ical life is c%orrupting to social as well as
commercial morals. One at all acquaint-
ed with Washington must have heard
the statement banded about commonly
that the official atmosphere of Washing
ton is morally the most corrupt in this
country. Sweeping assertions are con-
stantly made concerning the private lives
Of members of congress that would turn
their constituents hair gray if these con-
stituents could hear the tales just as they
are told at the capital.
Most of the stories of debauchery and
shame are false or exaggerated. Un-
doubtedly a majority of our national
representatives and senators are moral,
clean men, living above the plane of po-
litical and social corruption. Whatever
may be said to the contrary, this is Ger.
tainly true.
But while this is the case, and intelli-
gent people throughout America know
it to be the case, the appalling self con
fessed degradation of the congressman
on trial at Washington cannot help
tainting more or less the good name of
all members of that body. They owe it
to themselves and the American people
to cleanse and purify the moral reputa-
ton of the national legislature. They
W it to the outraged moral sense of
civilization to speak out in no uncertain
tones against this phase of Washington
morals. They owe it to the world to set
themselves right on this point, and moth
ing less will be accepted from them.
The private character of a congressman
is a matter that does concern his constit-
uents.
This nation is made up of respectable
people, who reverence morality and clean
living. The great majority themselves
live clean lives. They will not submit
to be represented in congress by those
who live otherwise. While they hang
their heads in shame at the awful dis
grace that has come upon the American
people at Washington, they are learning
fromNt a lesson. 1t Is that in the future
no man shall be elected to congress
whose life is not a clear and open page.
The world is not very good yet, but it
has advanced to that stage where fla
grant immortality and RIGHTEOUSNESS will
no longer be tolerated in the peoples rep
resentatives.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-20

The courses of lectures to teachers and
pupils given in the public schools are not
always 30 useful and so in touch with
practical things as they are in Philadel-
phia, where a course of laboratory lee
lures has this winter been given to teach
ers and school principals. One of the top
les recently was on buds and branches.
Many specimens of both were laid be-
fore the audience and dissected, and their
differing parts traced out with a master
hand. The teachers probably learned
more Of botany in IN hour than some of
them had found out in all the years of
their life before. 1t was a pity that all
the school children in the city could not
have heard the lecture. Whatever tends
TO make human beings become interested
in nature and to love the country makes
them happier and better as well as
healthier in their minds.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-20
A NEW SUN NOTION.
Professor Stevenson Has Completed q Won
derful Invention After Years of Labor. \

Professor Stevenson Has Completed q Won
derful Invention After Years of Labor. =
Professor E. E. Stevenson, a well
known educator and writer of Quincy,
Mass, announces the completion Of an
invention on which he has been laboring
for years, which, he says, will revolu-
tionize the present methods of obtaining
motive power. Professor Stevenson has
pursued his Investigations and expert
ments in Quincy all winter and has at
last brought his idea to q head. Profess
or Stevenson said: "The forces which
have thus far been utilized by the genius
Of man are the laws Of gravitation and
chemioi ii reaction. In the broad field of
research and investigation we find the
possibilities Of the future in molecular
attraction, musical vibration and the re-
fraction of light.
"To understand the theory on which /
have been laboring you must understand
the correlation of forces or the transmu-
tation Of energies. We use force to pro-
duce light. 1t is upon the reverse of
this theory that l have labored, and my
experiments are at last proving satisfac-
tory. have found that the heat Of an
ordinary kitchen stove generates energy
sufficient, if controlled, to drive the ma
chinery Of the Pillsbury mills, and the
flames Of a Bunson electric burner would
furnish power to light by electricity 1000
lights"
In Professor Stevenson's experimental
machine, however, the heat Of the sun
alone has been used. This machine CON
sists Of three brass cylinders connected
by means of tubes and valves with a
glass reflector behind the central cylin-
der. A piston moving laterally connect.
ing with a balance wheel gives the mo-
ton. The shaft on which the balance
wheel hangs passes through the end of
the machine and contains a drive pulley,
which makes the force available. This
machine is operated by the sun, working
with great rapidity .-Boston Journal.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-20
Remember ArbOr Day.

Nearly every state in the Union now
celebrates Arbor day. In the southern
section it comes early in April. In the
middle belt the school children turn out
and welcome it with music and parade
the last of April. In the far north, where
the sun does not coax out the leaves and
flowers till May, it is observed in that
beautiful month.
The effects Of the labors Of those dis
interested advocates of forest preserva-
ton who inaugurated Arbor day begin
already to be manifest. Instead of be-
ing a bare, desolate spot, the yard Of the
cases shaded with fine young trees. The
children have been taught to respect a
tree rs if it were a living thing. So it is.
Along the country roadside, too, "our
brothers of the field stand in stately
rows and give their refreshing shade to
the traveller on a hot day. In some parts
of the country the timber growth is &C
tually increasing from year to year.
Farmers learn from their experiment
stations what growths are best adapted
to t~reeless prairies, and without waste OF
time and labor in experimenting start
their young forests.
A great work. however, is still before
the forestry society, the school children,
their teachers and the governors of states.
1t is the preservation of the woods around
the headwaters Of every stream in this
country, and also the prevention Of the
destruction Of the few magnificent for
ests that still remain to us.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-20

The London Lancet has taken up the
matter of cooking and heating by gas,
with the view of doing away with
smoke, dust and ashes. The gain TO
the health and cleanliness of all large
cities would be incalculable. The Lancet
declares that if gas were generally used
as fuel it would even overcome the Lon
don fogs. What it would do for Ameri-
can cities has already been demonstrated
in the few instances in which natural
gas has blessed the inhabitants of a place.
The Lancet includes not only the adj
ditional cleanliness and increased purity
of the oxygen supply for the lungs in its
estimate of the advantages of gas fuel.
1t declares, further, that food cooked by
gas is actually superior in digestibility
to that prepared in the old way with
coal. There are a sharp heat and a plen-
tiful supply of air around the joint of
meat, which improve its flavor. Besides
that, The Lancet has discovered that gas
cooked meat is richer in gravy than that
roasted in the coal range. The fat is
fried out quickly and falls into the drip
ping pan below, leaving the joint to turn
tender in its own juices.
All this has a good sound. We are all
convinced. Mankind is certainly ready
to try gas fuel both for cooking and
warming. Only make gas cheap enough
for us to afford it. That is the only
thing in the way.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-20

The we"ther in Australia during the
antipodeaA summer has been unusually
hot and oppressive. In Adelaide during
January the thermometer several times
registered over 100 degrees in the shade.
and N day it climbed to 1O7 in the
shade and 1853 in the sun. In Melbourne
the 100 notch has been reached more than
once, and the scorching north winds have
made the atmosph, exceedingly op-
pressive. The forego ,g figures are from
weather ~observator. ,adings, and prob
ably do not represen, " several degrees
the temperature of the city streets
Melbourne Letter.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-20

hv Tho ro;lrooI oonpooy xporo m - ont
rsgs 70 raason W. wcess o 90 na,d Iu H.
1s6S ware nniv ,;v;no wocos onl as 70
49,. -. ~ n''Is ~as 90 70
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maros ~. oom,I;u,ant t,a Iva ~
tWha;r .o+;aUs .;nna H. ..r;t,o onwn,nnaod
os ha Tanr.cotaS onv nr ,au,
iessness Concentrofed naoIth ond nowe,
can ba maJa . nnhi;c hsnafoctor h,t X
ia 90 M lonoer whan starvat;on Wages
are Maid He wanted To ace a inst Al.
vision of tho e,rn;n~s omono thosa whc
made Them Ha honeS The mar wouId
be concentrate in thar efforts and "a.
sured tbem of b;s svmn.thv nc we'll or
otbers
W q Downin, m behalf NJ tbe com.
m;ttae nm resnlutions offarad tbe foIlow
inc.
ssWbereas. A strike has taken Mace on
the Great Vorthern roilwav.
SResolvsd> That the citizens NJ Great
Falls in mass Convention aasemhled, are
in avmnathv with Tho emnlovee ~ ea;d
companv in this their endeayor to have
their present scale of Wages Increased.
"Resolyed. That the present low scale
of wages il below what men can reason.
ablv live unon. and we earnestlv urge
the Great Northern Railway comnanv to
a speedy settlement upon a fair and rea.
sonable basis.
ar. &. FoRn.
JAMES Donovan.
"ANDRrw Jensen
"W. q. DowNINC.
"Committeen
The resolutions we're then accented
and fled. and a motion was carr;ed In
forward a copy TO every newspaper pub.
lished OF the line of TIE Great Northern
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-04-20
SOMETHING IN THIS NAME
But the Man Whose Property 1t Is Wishes
He Had Not Recalled 1t.

He Had Not Recalled 1t.
The mystery that has been surround
ing the identity of David Draughn has
been solved and in a way that is likely to
give David much trouble. Draughn was
several weeks ago dragged from the rail-
road tracks in the south end of the city
just in time to ave him from being
mangled. 1t was then discovered that
he had been beaten almost to death. He
was carried to the Grady hospital, and
when he recovered physically it was
found that his mind was a perfect blank
as to past events-so much so that he
even did not know his own name.
Finally under the care of the surgeons
there came back inklings of the past, and
one day last week he electrified every
body about the hospital by rushing about
and declaring he 'hadit." He had caught
what he sail was his last name. He was
taken by detectives up into North Caro-
lima, and at Culberson. near Murphy, he
found friends, but he was not nraushn-
at least not there. He had been known
there as DR.. F. D. Heath and had lived
there for several months last summer,
but Heath and Draughn are one and the
same man, and it developed that under
the former name he has three living
wives. One lives in Salem, No. 2 in
Asheville and No. 3 in Bryson City, Va.
His mother, Mrs. Frank Barr. the wife
of a printer, also lives near Salem. He
will be prosecuted for bigamy and is
very sorry he has found out who he is.
Atlanta Cor. st. Louis Republic.