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Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05
SECOND EDITION.
YESTERDAYS TEMPERATURE.

As especially recorded hourly for the AGE-HRRALD On the standard thermometer at Hughes drug store, corner Nineteenth street and Second avenue. The figures given are in all instances for temperature accorded in the shade and on a northern sheltered exposure: +.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05

T. 0. King is selling ladies low shoes at most any price. Canister $6 and $7 shoes now S4 50. Please see that $3 calf skin shoe, now $1.95.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05

Not just out, but all the rage-browny pins, at Gluck & Blacks iewelry store.
 10 6-2t fri&sun
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05

Dr.. Prices Cream Baking Powder Worlds Fair Highest Award.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05
WANTED.

Any and all kinds Of electrical work.
 8. M. HANBY & Co.,, Phone 612. 216 Nineteenth street. Oc4 If
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05
GERMA N.

Private class on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at o'clock p. m. For terms, etc., apply to Miss EMILE voN GERIcHTEN,
 10-5.4t 423 18th street.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05

Hope. Tho old man was very chilly when tho prodigal son burst upon him in the con- ventional fresh veal style. "You're bad egg, he observed. He pondered.
 Bad eggs''- His features softened from their stern- ness as he thus communed. -"often mako their mark on the stage"
 Thereupon he advised the boy according ly.-Detroit Tribune.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05

Buy your browny pins, to be strictly in it, at 0luck & Blacks. 2029 First avenue.
 10.5-2t fri&sun
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05
THE IWEATHER.9

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.-Ferecast ot weather for the succeeding twenty four hours: Fair; north winds. ~
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05

An elegantly served dinner, 30 cents, at Parlor cafe, Selma, Ala. 9-21-if
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05

Galveston handles every year 700, GOO bales of cotton.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05

A car load of horses and mules for sale cheap at Gaf- ford's stable, 2d avenue and 22d street. Se20T
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05

Heidt-Nelson Coal and Lum- Der COmpany---Corona and Carbon Hill coal and lumber. Telephone 943. Avenue A, be- tween 2Oth and 2lst streets.
 sep9 3m 2p
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05

Lump coal cheap. Walker Coal and Lime Company. Tel ephone 426. wao-7t
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05
NOTICE.

For Friday and Saturday only we will sell for SPOT CASH:
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05

Wagner had a clearly nodded, classical face, with thin, cynical lips, which seem- ed to wear perpetual sncer. He was ex- ceedingly vain and greatly dislilcd to hoar { words of praise given to any other com poser.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05
If you feel weak and all worn out take BROWNS IRON BITTERS
IRON AXLE PLANT BURNED.

HUN AALE PLANI BURNED.
 RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 4.-The iron axle plant of J. R. Johnson & Co.,, in Manches- ter, just across the river from Richmond, was destroyed bysfire early this morning. Loss, $100, ,000; insurance, $20, ,000. The firm will probably rebuild. s
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05

BURGLARS. You may have call any night from them. Protect yourself with electric bur- glar alarm. We put them up.
 s. M. HANBY 6 Co.,, 'Phone 512. 215 Nineteenth street. oc4 tf
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05
TIE CAMPAIGN.

Hon. Oscar w. Underwood, the demo- cratic nominee for congress from the Ninth dress the people of the district and discuss the issues of the present campaign at the following places:
 Royal, Blount county, Wednesday, Oc- tober s, Il o'clock a. m.
 Blountville, Blount county, Thursday, October 4, Il o'clock a. m.
 Hanceville. Blount county, Friday, Oc- tober 5, II o'clock a. m.
 Appointments for other counties will be hereafter published.
 E. K. CAMPBELL, Chairman Democratic Congressional Con- mittee. 9-23- -d&wt
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05

TROOPS ORDERED TO CHINA TO PROTECT HER CITIZENs-coNDITIoN OF THE ARMIES.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13
PENSION FRAUDS CONTINUE.

Last May Secretary Hoke Smith sus'
nended a number of pensioners until
their claims could be investigated, and
the party organs declared that the Chi
cago platform had been carried out in
that particular. We warned the peo-
ple to be on guard, for we plainly saw
that some scheme was Matching, 1t is
out now. The New York Times says:
'sYielding to the appeals of dema-
pog11es and the influences exerted by
the pension claim agents, Congress has
passed a law that will compel the Com
missioner of Pensions to pay about
$500, 900 to persons who are not entitled
to the money, persons whose names
have been put on the pension rolls by
fraud. This fact is brought out clear
ly in the reply of the Commissioner to
a House resolution of inquiry. The law
in question is contained in a paragraph
attached to the Urgent Deficiency act
of Dec. 81, and was passed in response
to the partisan and demagogical cutlery
against the Commissioners suspension
ofpayments to pensioners whose claims,
the Pension Bureau had good reason
to believe, had been granted either
through an erroneous Interpretation of
the pension laws or through fraud
practiced by themselves or their
agents"
Now you have it. The Democratic
House and Senate put another fraudu-
lent provision in that urgent de-
fciency" bill passed in December, and
it provides that $500, 600 back pensions
be paid to these same fraudulent pen
sioners" that the Chicago platform de
nounced, and that were suspended by
Secretary Smith. The other part of
the urgent deficiency bilP' vas to pay
the $175, OCO extra mileage to Congress
men for the extra session of Congress,
about which we told our readers some
time ago. Now don't you think you
are getting Cleveland and Chicago
platform reform IN a hurry2
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13
NINE.TENTHsA ARE BIMETALIsTs

Recently a meeting of prominent
Boston citizens, regardless of party,
was held and they declared themselves
in favor of using both gold and silver
equally. Gen. Francis A. Walker,
speaking for the committee of gentle,
men. declared that nine tenths of the
people of Boston are bimetalists. Com
menting on this the Wilmington Star
says:
"We have not the slightest doubt
that this is true and we believe that
proportion would more than hold for
the United States, for the mass of the
people always have been and are now
in favor of the use of both gold and
silver as money metals of equal dignity.
The mono-metallists proper constitute
but a very small fraction of the popu-
lation, but unfortunately it is this
fraction which has been shaping and
debating Jul financial legislation for
the past twenty-five years"
Weagree with Gen. Walker and the
Star as to the number of people favor
ing bimetalism, but what are they 60
ing to do about it, In 1873, the Re-
publican party being in power, with
the assistance of dishonest Democrats,
demonetized silver. Since that both
parties have held the reins of govern
ment, sometimes one, again the other,
and both have been hostile to silver.
The only bills favorable to silver that
have been passed were cowardly make
shifts. Now what are mine tenths" OF
the people going to do about it7 If you
continue to support the class of men
and parties most of you have been vot'
ing for, you will have another twenty
years of hard times, deprecated values
and periodical panics. Have you got
enough of it. or do you want to vote
contrary to your own better Judgment
a few more times9 This is the most i'm
portant question you can ask yourself.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13
L E AND

A "a column evening paper will
make its appearance in this city about
March 28th.
The will of the late Col. J. M. Heck
has been probated. His property is
estimated at $3.50, 900.
The Loberdell a works, of Will
mington, Del, are building a branch
establishment at Raleigh. 1t will en-
ploy City skilled mechanics, mostly
home men.
DR.. J. W. Carter, the able and elo-
quent pastor of the First Baptist
Church, is preaching a series of Q r
mons On "The Mysteries of the Bible"
DR.. William R. Wood, Superinten-
dent of the North Carolina Insane
Asylum at Raleigh, has resigned, ard
DR.. Geo. L. Kirby, of Goldsboro, has
been appointed to fill the vacancy.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13

applause.) Eve tUGU ran a North Caro-
lima campaign" (Sensation in the gall
leries.
We are not a politician. But we are
a citizen and wish to show the people
of North Carolina just what game is on
foot. It is a cold blooded scheme. A
diabolical confidence game, that, if
carried out, will deliver the State into
the hands of the gold bugs from town
ship constable to United States Senator.
In plain English the Observer proposes
to fool the people into voting a ticket
claiming to be hostile to Wall street
Cleveland Democracy. 1t is a scheme
that goes further around than any
heretofore tried, but which eventually
lands North Carolina in the gold bug
column. The spider invites the fly (the
voter into his parlor. They can't
separate State and National politics.
If one is dishonest the other is bound
to be. Those holding Office under the
Cleveland gold bugocracy with all it's
horrors, are about all that is left of the
machine. They, of course, will vote
for anything. But will the people of
North Carolina swallow this badly-dis-
guised bait and deliver this fair land
into the clutches of the most heartless
tyrant that ever disgraced the Presi-
Dental chair, and his tools again9 We
don't believe they will.
It is like unto a family affair. The
old man says: "Old lady, you and I
must steal for a living" John, you
and Joe may adopt train robbery for
a living; Sam can be a pick-pocket;
Henry may run a gambling den, but
Tommy must be honest; he must be
North Carolina in this business and
convince the neighbors that ours is one
of the best families in the country. We
will all be rascals while the youngest
boy keeps up appearances" Diabolical
is not strong enough to characterize
such political depravity. Surely the Oh
serUer will reconsider that proposition.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13

We have received an account of the
meeting of Onslow County Alliance,
held on the 25th of January. 1t con-
tanned the appointments for lecturers
and other matter, all out of date. We
are not always able to publish matter
that tUiU q q promptly, but always
publish appointments, &c, as o as
possible. However, in this instance
the matter was not received until it
was a month old. Secretaries should
be more prompt.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13
A NORTH CAROLINA CAMPAIGN.

Strange, startling, sensational!'
Not one of the words will fit the case.
The dictionary men must get a hump
on them. The Charlotte Observer has
made it necessary.
Some weeks ago that paper announced
in stentorian tones that it would soon
outline a plan for the campaign this
year, a plan that meant success for the
party that the Observer represents.
Peanut politicians and the light fin
gered gentry who carried the State
in 1892 looked relieved. Some of them
had heard of the fate McKane met
recently. For days and days every
thing grew still. Merchants who were
making assignments couldn't quit and
their bursting broke the monotony
ever and anon. The sharp click of the
railroads as they passed into the hands
of receivers could be heard more dis
tinctly. The shouting hosts in New
York kept right or getting religion,
though they knew that the Observer
had spoken. Col. DR., Kingsbury quit
writing religious editorials for Sun
day, and the American eagle screamed
once and died. Capt. Sam Ashe run
up the flag on his newspaper building
and declared peace for the whole world.
The Mecklenburg Declaration of In
dependence was read and the riot act
repealed. The President concluded that
his presence was no longer needed in
Washington and put out for North
Carolina in a ferryboat. Col. OIds
wanted to give up the newspaper bust
and evangelize the whole earth.
DR.. Blacknall didn't wait to see what
would turn up, but jumping into a
buggy, drove rapidly through the
country until he spied a turpentine
still, which he captured. The editor
of this paper couldn't catch on, but
knowing something was on foot, rushed
home. and put on his yaller shoes, some
thing he new does except when a
crisis arises. In the meantime the peo-
pie generally held their breath and
waited.
At last the monster came, not like a
blizzard, but as quietly as the falling
the leaves in October. 1t was the
plan to carry the State. Briefly it is:
can't endorse the Cleveland ad-
ministration." (Applause.) If the
leading newspapers and members of
the party had gone on and endorsed
the administration, it would be all
to run the campaign with endorse
ment attached" daughter in the
galleries.) But many of us do not en-
dorse CIeveland's policy nor the action
of Congress" feeble applause,) The
head of the party is not in sympathy
with the tail end down in North Caro-
(Applause.) Therefore we
will wash our hands of the head and
take care of the tail" Great %applause.)
I'VE will nominate men for Congress
who endorse the national platform, but
we will keep Cleveland's personality
out of the campaign" CThundering
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13
LAST NOTICE.

In a few days we will begin to cut
off all subscribers in arrears. We have
give due notice. We hope that the
number will be small. If you have
not sent in your renewal rush it in at
once before the knife falls. Every
paper in the country that has been 8
success has been forced to adopt the
cash system. 1t is more satisfactory
to the subscriber and the publisher.
Don't wait a day now for we mean
business.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13
DON'T BECOME EXCITED.

The Charlotte Observer is getting
nervous again. Three days after sub
hitting a plan to carry the State for
eggocracy, it gives 8. Ohio Wilson a
broadside of editorial satire half a col
umn long. The sum and substance is
that Mr.. Wilson is doing the admins
tration great injury when he goes
around to explain how our farmers can
save money by shipping eggs. Calm
your fears, doctor. After shipping all
the surplus sound eggs to Northern
markets there will be enough rotten
ones left to keep your handful of eggo-
Gratis busy all summer. Surely you
have learned that your egg throwing
party has diminished greatly in num-
Der since your party got a chance and
didn't know what to do with it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13

For twelve months the New York
Herald has had nothing but unetinted
praise for the Cleveland Administra-
ton. True, it said some hard things
about the free coinage advocates, but
it approved everything done. One
day last week it had an editorial
headed "What Have the Democrats
Done for the Country9" Everybody
has been asking the same question.
But what has the Herald changed tao
tics for9 If the party did nothing, why
so much fulsome praises Why criticize
it for doing what the Herald said was
right all the time? Evidently this
powerful mouthpiece of his Satanic
Majesty has a scheme on foot.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13
RAISE SOME BROOM CORN.

Every farm product is low in price
and underconsumption, caused by
want Of money, will keep down the
price until the government gets out of
Shylock's tolls. Then we ought to
diversity and do the very best we can
under such unfavorable circumstances.
Try a small crop of broom corn. It
grows we'll in North Carolina. 1t is
now selling at from $50 to $50 per ton,
and frequently runs as high as 1925.
At the figures above it will pay better
than cotton or tobacco at present
prices. A bushel of seed, costing about
So, will plant twelve acres. Tennessee
seed are the best. The brush, of course,
is the only part that is sold. The seed
can be fed to chickens or sold for plant
ing. We extract the following from
an agricultural exchange:
Cutting should be done before the
corn is bleached out, as color is essen
tial, and when green the brush DOS
sesses advantages both in attractive
ness and for working. When cut, corn
should be. as soon as possible, hauled
under cover, and have the seeds re-
moved by running through the scraper.
This done, in should be placed on
shelves so arranged as to admit of a
free circulation of air. In about ten
days, if the weather is dry and all CON
ditions are favorable, the corn will be
ready to bale. 1t should be thorough
ly examined, however, to see that it is
dry and cured.
after the broom corn is thoroughly
dry the next step is to bale, and this
operation should receive great care and
attention. There are too many shaky
and lop sided bales received annually,
and it bothers those who handle them
to keep them from falling apart. It
being of great Importance to keep the
ends of the bales square and smooth,
the brush should be handed to the
packer in small lots, the butts of which,
having been evened by striking them
down upon a table or other smooth
surface, and the who places the
brush in the box of the press should
take care to keep the butts up close
against the ends of the box and the
brush properly Tapped in the interior.
Use No. 9 fence wire, five wires to the
bale, and it is not a bad idea to have a
good, compact, tight bale which will
endure the long journey and the hand
ling. No matter how carefully and sue
cessfully every step in the production
of the brush has been performed, the
profit of the crop will depend, other
things being equal, upon proper bal
ing. Great care and attention should
be given to having the seeds removed.
there is too much fraud practiced bv
balng up trash, seeds and crooked
corn IN the bales with straight brush.
Bale the crooked by itself.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13
LAST WORDS OF GREAT MEN

"Let's take a drink. Col. Jonn IL
Webster.
"Iam the People" Capt. Sam ASIs,
ST would rather be President ID u"
right. "-Grover Cleveland.
"We must have a North CarOnD'
campaign."-J. P. Caldwell. ,us
UNITED we stand; divided We l"A
John WILDER Jenkins.
I'm going to be an honest m'n
fore 1 die, Col K~ingsbury.
81 believe they'll down me ""
Collector Simmons.
81 want to be Senator. "-0ai,I
Kitchen, Waddell and two 'nOu'"D'
others in chorus.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13
THE UNIVERSITY

We take pleasure in puoLSn.4 or's
few extracts from President whistler .Har
report on the University. 1t Is 4ntiop
for State rejoicing that the ins5l ~ OBJ,
is so prosperous. We are GLAD 6.,~ 70 ~
serve the establishment OF a It
will help many a poor teacher ros.ions.
unable to attend the regular swim Win.
We are informed that PreS!aSn' com.
ston contempIates establishing I .
o %O @ot hn,i Go cost eat to poor students. This
is a move in the right dlrecr'
seeannual statement OF the ns seven.
Life Assurance Society on pug
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13
N. r. P. A.
EDITORIAL T

Buncombe county Superior Court
will have eleven divorce suits to dispose
of at the next session. What a sad
fact!
Dun & Co. report 248 failures for
the week ending March 10th, against
1913 for the same week last year. The
good times are yet "out of sight"
The Rattler, Whitaker, N. c., has
been movedto Aulander, BERTHE county.
Mr.. P. S. Fender is editor and will give
the people of that section good reform
doctrine.
The Carthage Free Press, edited by
Mr.. 81. F. Seawell, a rising young
lawyer who has worked and voted for
reform since the movement started, is
on our table. It is an excellent little
paper.
Race war in Mississippi" is no longer
fashionable head lines in Northern
newspapers. They had a race war in
New Jersey last week. Race wars,
like family rows, are not confined to
any one S6CElOu,
William R. Jenkins, 851-853, Sixth
Avenue, New York, has published a
and valuable book: How to Judge
a Horse" 1t gives much information
about horses, how to treat and train.
Price, in cloth, 81.
The New York Board of Trade and
Transportation held a meeting last
Wednesday and declared themselves
in favor of the city owning the new
elevated railroads. That is a long
stride toward Government ownership
of all railroads. 1t is bound to come.
The Alliance is improving. Recent
falsehoods started on the rounds by
the p~lutocratic organs and the brutal
attacks on certain Alliancemen is but
a forerunner of what you may expect.
P~lutocracy is alarmed again and moth
ing is too low for carrying out the
schemes.
The new Deniston cotton mill at
Deniston, Texas, erected recently at a
cost of $500, 600, and the largest mill in
the South, was sold at public auction
last Wednesday for $50, ZOO. Of course
"a gold bug got it. Isn't such transac-
&ions enough to bring all the people to
their senses3
1t is stated that a number Of Sena-
tors have been dealing in Sugar Trust
stock during the past few weeks. The
price went up from SO to 100 one day
last week. 1t is presumed that the
Senators unloaded at the latter figure,
and, of course, made fortunes. That
accounts for the tariff being put back
on sugar. Seer
The Columbia Cotton Plant says:
The news we receive from all parts of
the State indicate that there has been
q pronounced revival in Alliance work.
Farmers are becoming more alive to
the absolute necessity of maintaining
a live organization for education and
self protection. The faithful work done
by earnest and intelligent Alliancemen
is bearing fruit and we predict that
from now on the Order will show a
constant growth n members and effec-
tive influence.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13

Exports exceed imports 1915, 227, O27
So it appears from the official re-
ports that in 1892 the interest paid
abroad on the co~llaterals, etc., held
against our countrymen was $216, 1877
O27. If this is the interest, at an aver
age rate of 5 per cent, then the princi-
pal is 20 times that amount, or 81, 324,-
$40, $40. This is not our national debt.
The largest amount the government
ever was in debt at one time was 81
$40, 9O7, 626, August 81, 1865, when the
war debt was at it's highest, and in 1892
the total interest bearing debt of the
nation had been reduced to $685., O29, $50,
nearly all of which can be traced to
national bank vaults, State ~treasurers'
vaults and the vaults of savings banks,
State banks, private banks and Ioanand
trust companies and insurance compan-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13

The Farmers Alliance have perfected
arrangements for the establishment of
a tobacco factory at S~toneville, Rock
ingham county. There is also talk of
a cigarette factory at Lexington, says
the Winston Sentinel. A tobacco fac
tory will be all right, but we hope they
will not start a cigarette factory.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13

liam standing nOtU Just behind the
curtain, and IN full gIOU0 Of the coming
sunset. Behind me are the shadows on
the track, before me lies the dark GALLEY
and the riUer. When I mingLe tCtth ats
dark aCGters 7 UCdnt to cast One Hnger-
ing look upon o. country 1CbOse govern
ment is Of the people, for the people,
and By the people. u. L. Polk, July
18th, 1890.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13

kV Our friends in writing to any of
our advertisers will favor us by men
tioning the fact that they saw the
advertisement in TIE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13

In writing to anybody, always be
sure to give the name OF your postotHce,
and sign your Owl name plainly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13

Do you want your paper changed to
another Office State the one at which
you have been getting it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13

~ The tate on your label tells yol
when your time is out.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13

The Progressive Farmer is the Official
Organ Of the NJ. c. Farmers State Alliance