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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-03

with its great weight and modern ap-
pliances, is the most difficult thing in
the world to construct, particularly
when there is so much red tape, as
there always is in government work,
connected with it.
Congress appropriates and designates
in general terms the type, displace-
ment, cost and probable speed of the
crafts; and on the bureau of construc-
tion falls the burden of meeting those
eXactions successfully. The approxi-
mate speed, size, number of guns being
determined, the lines or underwater
form settled, series of complex COM
putations establishes the amount of
power necessary to drive the vessel
through the water at the desired speed.
The weight of boilers, engines and
appurtenances necessary to develop
that speed being found, each contrib
utive bureau in turn is required to
state just what proportion of the whole
ship is needed within its particular
province. The result is rough draft
of the proposed ship, which the bureau
of construction begins to modify, ma
ture and develop along those lines
where n margin of unassigned weight
admits. More coal room, thicker armor,
larger or more numerous guns and
possibly a greater speed results. As
regards strength, seaworthiness and
stability the chief constructor must
hold himself responsible. This single
ness of responsibility and uniform
adherence to the design so formulated
is good thing.
England and France, whom we fol-
low in many things connected with the
construction of our ships, have been
taught a wholesome and expensive les
son in that no number of men of equal
authority of varying experience and
purpose can design a successful ship of
war; particularly if their efforts be
narrowed down to the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
of their own department, oblivious to
the advantages of compromise.
Chief Constructor Philip Hichborn
considers our present navy, commits
stoned and constructing, merely us u
nucleus of Il service many times great
er, which the ever-spreading CONNER
cial interests of the country, as well as
the protection of our own COASTS, will
llc LIluJ IllC
of our future ships must be regulated
to meet such needs as the time sug-
gests; but that battlcships first and
foremost must always constitute the
true measurement of nations naval
dignity and strength, and that the
maintenance of an effective lighting
force must be considered as factor
aside from that proportion undergoing
repair ut all times.
Commodore IIichborn has passed
through three distinct stages OF ship
building practice, namely, wood, iron
nnd steel, and he thinks it most prob
able that metal, and very likely nm al
10y, win be the material for future con-
struction, particularly if an exfoliating
surface can be secured that will pre-
vent the accumulation of marine
growth on the bottom Of ships.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-03
The Free sIlyer DIsense.

This free silver craze in its develop
ment was very much like to an epidemic
of the inhuenza-it spread in every di-
rection, and appeared in the most un-
expected places, no man knew why, no
man knew how. Starting in those
western states whose chief industry is
the mining of silver, it spread over
most of the western states, manifest
ing itself in most malignant form in
sections that he'd everything to lose
and nothing to gain by debasement
of the currency. Pessimistic thinkers
came soon to believe that the majority
of the western and southern people
must be either knaves or fools to ad-
vocate n measure that was opposed to
reason, to honesty, and to the teach
ings of history. But day by day we
are learning more and more that the
western and southern people arc
neither knaves nor fools, but that for
a season or so they We're the victims OF
demagogues who inoculated them with
political virus which made them
mad. A little of the sunlight of reason
has had a wonderful effect, and, as
was shown in recent article in this
paper the disease is losing its viru,
lence and is rapidly passing away
Leslie's Weekly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-03
FREE SILVER FALsEAooDs.
Some sample Faiiacies OF the white Metal
Propagandists.

Propagandists.
'tCoin" Harvey's inability to state
the exact truth is well illustrated in
the following passage from one of his
speeches: "a studied misrepresenta-
tion has gone before the people of the
United States that there was only
Ss,O0O,0OO of silver coined by the
United States government prior to
1873. Now, meeting face TO face with
n representative of the other side of
the question, this debate carries to the
people of the United States the admit
ted fact that there was $143, 900, 900 of
silver coined prior to 1878"
This statement is incorrect in more
than one respect. In the first place
there has been no Studied misrepre-
sentation" that there was only
$S,000,o00 of silver coined by
the United States government
prior to 1S72". 1t has been
said repeatedly, and it is true, that
only about 5000, 900 silver dollars were
coined prior to 1879. A great deal of
stress was laid upon this fact in 1877
and 1878, because the Harveys of that
time were declaiming Justify about
the dollar of the fathers" and assert
ing, as Harvey still asserts with char
acteristic disregard of truth, that sill
yer was "surreptitiously" assassinated
in 1873. 1t was the sacred dollar of
the fathers" for which the Harveys
were mourning in those days, and it
was quite in order to answer their
defamation by pointing out the fact
that "the fathers" never had any con-
siderable number of those dollars, and
that only about 5000, 900 of them were
coined during the eighty-one years
from the blishment of the mint
down to the crime of 1873"
Nobody has attempted to conceal the
fact that the fractional coins to con-
siderable amount were struck at our
mints prior to 1873, or that prior to
1853 such coins were legal tender with
out limit. These facts are not only ad.
mitted but plainly stated by the oppo-
nents of free silver coinage, and no
person of any sense has sought to con-
ceal them from the people of the United
States.
In the next place, Harvey's state
ment that it is an admitted fact that
there was Sl43, 000o of silver coined
prior to 1873 contains falsehood by
suggestion. 1t implies that ST standard,
or full legal tender, coins TO that
amount We're struck, which is not true.
The coinage of gold and silver during
different periods as shown by the mint
reports was as follows:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-03

BONNEVILLE, Mo-, July 31.-The worst
storm of wind and rain in the memory
of the oldest inhabitant passed over
this city Monday evening. No fatali-
ties are reported, but the destruction
to property is great. Two warehouses
and an old packing house we're blown
down on the river front. Sambart' S
mill was unroofed and partly blown
down. The state reform school for
boys was unroofed. The cupola of the
court house was unroofed and the
spires of the Catholic and Baptist
churches were damaged. Shade trees
were blown down in every direction and
at some places entirely blockaded the
street
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-03

totals. sIbl,boi.o4l SSi 102 30
In addition to the full legal tender
silver there was coined from 1854 to
1873 S57 443, 769 of subsidiary silver
There was no free coinage of this sub
sidiary silver. The silver was bought
by the government and coined on its
account, precisely as it is now. The
coins contained nearly : per cent. less
silver than the fractionals previously
coined, and were legal tender for no
more than 50 in any one payment.
They were "demonetized" precisely as
both the fractional coins and silver
dollars are "demonetized" to-day.
In the third place, as the above table
shows, Harvey insinuates falsehood
by suppressing the truth. He not only
asserts that the coinage of silver
amounted to Sl43. 900. 900 from 1892 to
1873, when, in fact, the coinage of full
legal tender silver was less than $751;
100000, but he tries TO suppress the
fact that the gold coinage was more
than nine times the full tender silver
coinage during that period. He utter
ly ignores these facts: First that from
1892 to 1884, when the legal ratio was
Az w II AiG lull al SllNGT
coinage was more than three times the
gold coinage. Second, that from 1884
to 1858, after the legal ratio was
changed to about l6 to l, the coinage
of gold was more than five times the
coinage of silver. Third. that from
1853 TO 1873, after the "demonetiza-
ton of fractional silver, the coinage
of gold was not much less than 100
times the coinage of full legal tender
silver.
Harvey suppresses these facts, be-
cause they tend to prove what is
known to every intelligent American
who has reached the age of seventy six
years, and what was repeatedly stated
in debate in congress in 1894 and 1858,
and not contradicted by anybody, that
there was, in fact, no gold coin in cir
culation in the former year, and no
silver coin, not even fractionals, in the
latter. He suppresses these ia cts be-
cause they prove that silver was the
standard when it was overvalued at
our mints, and that gold became the
standard when it, in turn, was over
valued. and has been the standard ever
since.
These falsitications of history would
not claim attention for moment if
Harvey alone were guilty of them.
They call for exposure because every
mining camp economist has been com
mitting them and others like them,
without intermission, ever since the
fall in the price of silver began to
make the silver dollar a convenient in
strument of public and private repudi-
ation.-Chicago Chronicle.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-03
.A count inst taken SHOW

IA count just taken shows that
there are now stored in the vaults of
the United States mint in this city 40,-
500, 467-in round numbers, $4,000, ooo-
of silver dollars. They are packed
away just as they were coined, and all
efforts to get them into circulation
have been futile. The people do not
want them. They are willing to take
the paper certificates issued to repre-
sent them, because these are inter
changeable with greenbacks and
greenbacks are redeemable in gold;
but the silver dollars themselves the
government has to keep, issuing in
their stead what is practically gold
currency of twice their value.-Phila-
delphia Times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-03
Cannot Locate tha Buri I'll Treasure.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 31.-According
to dispatch from Sacramento, Brady,
the bandit, has confessed to having
been one of the men who held up a
train Mt Sheep Camp last October. He
says that neither he nor Browning had
any idea they had secured $4,000.
They thought the coin was principally
silver. They took about $1,000 with
them and buried the rest. He canpot
locate the buried treasure now.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-03
(copyrlght lseb, by Azel u. IIutch.l

CHICAGO, July S0.-The Horr-Harvey
silver debate came to an end yester-
day. Every seat in the art gallery was
occupied when time was called for the
closing session of the great war of
words and the walls were lined with
listeners, eager to catch the closing re-
marks of the contestants.
MIR. Horr led with the sweeping asser-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-03
rCopyright 1905, by Azel F.. Hatch. r

CHIcAGo, July 29.-The last day but
one of the Harvey-Horr silver conten-
tion began Saturday afternoon. Mr..
Horr opened the days talk with com
parison of the wages and the cost of
products during the years from 1860 to
1890, as shown in a table prepared by
Statistician Carroll d. Wright. With
wages and prices in 1860 taken as the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-03

-. There are not enough lunatics in
eithernational party to make the nomi-
nation of free silver lunatic a posi-
bility. An Independent free silver
nomination would be treated as jest.
Chicago Times-Herald.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-03
Casting PRAYERS ON tho Waters.

A Chinese custom is the throwing into
the ocean OF thousands of pieces of
paper when friends are about to sail
Each piece bears written on it q prayer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-17
REFORM LITERATURE FREE.

Circulate all the reform literature
possible. Education is the watch.
word. We have the goldbugs on
the run. For ten cents (1O-cts. in
silver or stamps your name will be
placed on the Reform Press Circula-
tor List and the leading reform pa
pers of the United States will send
you sample copies free for distribu.
ton among your neighbors. Get on
the list at once; you will receive lots
of good literature and are sure to be
more than satisfied with the invest.
ment. Write your name and address
plainly. Address your letters to
Box A, FARMERS TRIBUNE,
Des Mcines, Iowa
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-17
DON'T WORRY ANY MORE ABOUT
THAT BOND.

I have made arrangements to accom-
modate you. If you wish to make a
Surety Bond of any kind, write me and
get the particulars. Don't worry your
friends, who like you very well, but do
not desire TO sign your bond, but write
me. I am prepared. for a small fee, to
furnish surety bonds of any kind and
for any amount, such as Administra-
tors, Executors, Trustees. Receivers,
Assigneee, Contractors, Lodge Officers
County or State Officers, and all un'
der6akings in judicial proceedings
Correspondence solicited
AMERICAN TRUST AND BANKING Co.,
OF BALTIMORE CITY.
j. W. DENMARK S'a'e Agent.
Ra'eIgh. N, @,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-17
LIVE STOCK.
LIVE o ITEMS.

It has been wired from Raleigh, N
G., that Mr.. L. Banks Holt, proprietor
of the Alamance Stock Farm, Graham
N. G.. and owner of John r. Gentry,
theceIebrated PAGER, 2 :O34 and Baronet,
the trotter 200, says that both these
stations, which are now at the Stock
Farm, have been permanently retired
from the turf. Joe Patchen and his
driver, Curry, are at the Alamance
Farm also, and the statement has been
made by those in a position to know,
that negotiations are pending for the
nurchase of Patchen by the Alamance
Stock Farm. If Mr.. Holt becomes his
owner, Patchen will also be retired
from the track.
Col, Benehan Cameron, of Farintosh
Stud Farm, Stagville, N. c., has been
elected President of the North Carolina
Agricultural Fair Association. Col.
Cameron is owner of one of the finest
estates in North Carolina, and takes
great interest in everything pertaining
to the agricultural interests of the
State. He has a large stud of horses,
comprising t~rotters, thoroughbred and
coachers. Amongst the trotters are
Maggie Campbell, 2:224; Choctaw,
$50; and the get of such sires as Baro
net. Kremlin, E1lus, and Sensation.
He has also a fine herd of Jerseys. We
look to see the society prosper under
his management.
Here is what a well known Kentucky
horse dealer thinks of the situation. 1t
is given in his own words: what do
I think of the horse situations Why,
l think we are going to see a great
revolution within the next two years."
remarked J. B. Doerr, the Louisville
horse buyer, the other day, to a news
paper man, land I'll tell you why.
There has been a great falling off in
breeding throughout the West, and as
a~consequence horsesare getting scarcer
every day, and prices West r ad-
vancing correspondingly. We have to
pay from $40 to $50 more for them this
year than last, and there will be a
sharp advance before long, and within
two years I expect to g ordinary
horses higher than ever before. How
do I account for it9 Why, the question
is easily solved. Expectation, increased
population, aud other changes will
make the demand more active, and
this, coupled with the decrease in
breeding, is bound to have a marked
effect. Then, too, most of the scrub
stock has been picked up, and a better
class of horses is bound to follow, and,
of course, the public will have to stand
the result. "-Kentucky Stock Farm.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-17
KINDNESS TO THE MARE.

a live stock writer thinks that one
of the greatest detriments to horse
breeding is that farmers, as a rule, do
not realize the Importance of kind and
gentle treatment Of the mares in foal.
He firmly believes that the destiny of
the future horse is, to a great extent.
determined while In the mothers
womb. A great deal is said abont
stunning the colt the first year Of his
life: he believes there is more at stako
while the foetus is being formed and
developed than at any time afterward.
He saws that it is a well-known fact
that the colt takes its constitution and
disposition mainly from the mother
and thus it follows that it Is OF thu
greatest Importance to give careful at
tention to the brood mare in every re
spect. A slight chill or other mlshap
even if it does not aus a miscarriage
ia liable to check the growth OF tn
foetus. 1t is all the better to r
brood mare till within a few weeks G
her time, but the practice or putin
her through all sorts of work. Weatne
and conditions, is very foolish ano III
Just. It should always be seen to the
they are provided with dry, comtor
able quarters, and supplied with gooS
n~ouFishing food. Unless careful after
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-17

the United States than does the Gov
ernor of New Island. Every Repub-
Iican in the South might have stayed
at home at the Presidential election of
1888, and Harrison would have re-
ceived just as many electoral votes as
he did for the whole seven Oh eight
hundred thousand Southern Republi-
FANS turning out and voting for him.
And the Democrats in the Republican
States could have stayed home on cleo.
ton day in 1890 and have done Cleve-
land just as much good as they did by
voting for him. They did not add a
single electoral vote to Cleveland's sup
porters in the electoral college by vot-
ing for him.
This same reform should, Of course,
as I have said in former articles, be ap-
piled to the election of Congressman.
The needs of the reform a no more
forcibly be illustrated than by the fol.
lowing u~tterance of Gen. Garfield in
a speech before the House of Repre-
sentatives in 1870: I'm my Judgment,
it is the weak point in the theory of
representative government, as now or
gained and administered, that a large
part of the people are permanently dis
franchised. There are about 10000
Democratic voters in my district, and
they have been voting there for the
last forty years without any more hope
of having a representative on this floor
than in having one in the Commons of
Great Britain"
Twenty-Five years have been added
to the forty and still the Democrats of
that district are disfranchised so far as
having it in their power to help to aCd
one Congressman to the list of law
makers at Washington, processing the
Democratic faith. But those Demo
Gratis are not exempted from paying
tax So taxation without representa-
ton has not been abolished.
With proportional representation all
parties would have the assurance that
all the votes cast for them would be
effective. And no party could ever de
pend on being given more electors or
Congressman by dividing other par
ties. The only way to add strength
to itself would be to merit it by good
works.
Then the Prohibitionists. Woman
suffragists, Singletaxers, and Socialists
could all get representation in Con-
gress and in the electoral college. Even
the very Anarchists could secure rep,
sentation if they were numerous
enough in any State to secure the re-
Quisite fraction of votes.
WALTER GARDNER
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-17
THE VALUE OF GOOD BLOOD.

One fact stands out clearly in all the
letters we have published the last few
months from feeders who have topped
the market at the stock yards-n2mely,
the practical value of good blood in the
feed-lot. theoretically, of course good
breeding is desirable in a meat making
animal. The professors in the agricul
tural colleges teach it-and some men
sneer at the professors and their teach
ings. The journals of the agricultural
industry preach it-and many scott at
the newspaper farmers" But when
the figures of the feed lot and market
place affirm the statement every man
who is honest with himself must give
heed. Theories may be scoffed at;
journalistic demonstrations may be
laughed aside, but the argument of
pounds gained and dollars commanded
on the market drives its way deeply
home.
It is a significant fact that no mar
who has topped the market and sold
close to the top figures has stated that
his cattle, sheep O swine were scrubs .
They have been either pure-breds OF
grades of some established breed. Men
have mixed their feed with good blood
and made money.-Breeders' Gazette.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-17

ton is given the animal that has double
work to do, there will be a draining of
the vitalizing powers and each organ
cannot properly perform it's duty.
Mares are oftentimes allowed to become
thin in flesh towards spring; this is the
time when special attention is needed
in order to give the mare full strength
to prevent a set back at foaling time,
and also to start the young colt on a
healthy career. Ohio Farmer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-17

PASSENGERS LEAVING RALEIGH Atm
am make close connection at Greens
bOrO for all points North and South.
also for all Western North CarolinS
points, arriving in Asheville 352
M, and Charlotte I1:4O g.. m. Douh6
lOtte and Atlanta.
No. IL, leaving Greensboro at 1893 a, Ii. Az.
irving at Raleigh at 1870 a. m, carries q sieeTnine
car. No. 35, Leaving Raleigh at AIN p. m, sls6
carries a sleeping car. All trains leaving RAJ.
e1gh for Greensboro Onnect there with fast
thu ough trains for the North and South. In.
GLIDING two limited vestibules each way.
Through tickets on sale at principal stations
to all points,. For rates or information, apply
TO any agent Of the Ompany, or to
j. s. B. THOMPSON. Supt. First Division. Dan.
w. b. RYDER, Supt. Second Division, Char.
w. II GREEN, W. A. TURK.
Gen1M ang'r E'st'n Sys'm), GenI Pass. AT
u. y. Washington. D.C.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-17

Senator Mills, of Texas, has been in
terviewed and favors Morrison for
president in 1896, on the Democratic
ticket. Morrison would be acceptable
to the single standard men, as he is a
Western nan with Eastern views
Miss uri World.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-17
EXECUTORS NOTICE,

Having duly qualified as Executor Of Gilbert
Upchurch, deceased | hereby d. tify all persons
having claims against the estate to present
same for payment on or before the 18th day o.
December, 1896 or this notice may be plead ID
bar of their recovery. All PEI sODs iDdebtedts
the estate will llease come forward and pay
W. B. UPCHURCH..
Q7SS' Executor of Gilbert Upchurch, decd
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-17
Long Life

to leather Vacuum Leather Oil. Get
a a at a harness or shoe-store, CSC a
f no! TPEe C. Ss S5'e Of 4 L gst5on; 09 and " sHoT
both free use enough to find out if
you don't like it, take the can back and
get the whole of your money.
Sold only in cans, to make sure of fair dealing
everywhere-handy cans. Best oil for farm ma
chinery also. Ifyou can't find it, write to
VACUUM OIL COMPANY, Rochester, NY.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-17
A New Southern Journal.

Every number of the SOOthrrp Real Estot,
G0zttte. published monthly OF 128 Main street.
Norfolk, Va. contains mucI' i. f rmation OF
value to the prospective Southern investor. II
publishes letters from Northernq~s who have
9 titled In the southern country. Every person
interested In Southern Investments or sec1rifjee
or who is con- empIatinR a visit south sboEld
suhscrihe, the low price, Is cents a year, placing
It In easv reach of all.