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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-19
A GENIUS. DEAD.

A few days ago the death of Charles
F. Worth, the famous Paris dress
maker and fashion designer, was an
nounoed. He was a genius in his line.
Strange to say he began life as a.printer.
Born in England, of English parentage,
he first became connected with a Lon
don dry goods firm. Here began his
career. Later on he drifted to Paris
and became better known than many
potentates. Every intelligent person
in the world has heard Of Worth, the
Paris dressmaker. Oaher people could
make and design new fashions. But
they were comparatively worthless,
so far as the rich are concerned.
Worth not only made dresses for
the Queens of all foreign countries, but
for several hundred rich American
women. The daughters of millionaires
seldom marry without at least one
dress from the Worth establishment.
Such dresses cost from $500 to S., 900,
but this was no obstacle. Several rich
actresses were among his regular
patrons. It is not stated, but is pre-
stunned that Mr.. Worth was fairly we'll
eff when he died.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-19

A more united and reasonable front on
the part of the House, asserted from
the beginning, and maintained with
courage and spirit, would have fur
nlshed a more effective contrast with
the execrable incompetency ,disloyalty,
and corruption of the senate. If gen
eral dissolution had come to the body
that most deserved it, the Senate would
have died heretofore. But much of the
Senate that arrested the suspicious at
tention of the country IN the summer
of 1893, and AfterwaTd provoked it to
indignant denunciation In the winter
and summer of 1884, will .linger In the
public eye for several years, to suggest
with the mention of familiar names
the schemes of malignant political con-
spirators. and the efforts of disep-
pointed Democratic marplots to thWart
the administration that had committed
no greater ohense than that of secur-
ing the approval of the people who
had been solicited to put the Govern
ment in the hands of a wornout and
pliable practical politician" instead
of choosing a patriotic and trusted
leader who had been tried and found
competent to the great task.
"The Fifty-third Congress secured
the passage of a tariff bill, but it was
marred by being under the vehicle of
protectionists' jobs. To get the origi-
nal bill from the House was not diff
cult; to wrest it from the Senate, as
all will remember who recall the long
history of the measure, on it's way
through the clutches of the Sugar
Trust combination, was a prodigioue
task"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-19
AWAY WITH MILITARIsM.

Why this sudden and extraordinary
haste to convert the nation into an
armed camp! The recent proposal Of
a convention of State governors to in
troduce military training into the pub
lie schools is now followed by the in
PRODUCTION into the New York State
legislature alone of appropriations
amounting to more than one and a
quarter million dallars for armoriee,
says the New York Voice.
Small interior cities are to have their
frowning fortresses built by the money
of the State. Already a bloody street
fight has taken place in this city be-
tween some cor of young hood
lums'' and one of the new trained
guards" composed Of public school
children. What secret purpose is be
hind this sudden advent of militarim!
Does a foreign foe threaten! Or do the
representatives of our trusts and mo-
nopolies fear the uprising of an out
ragged people, that they r causing
forts to be built and innocent school
boys to be trained in the art of human
butcbery3 If the latter, we.warn those
interested that justice, not force, is the
way out of the difficulty.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-19
THE MoNAzIrR INDUSTRY.

MOn6zite is q valuable but compare
lively scarce mineral. So far as known,
the tier Of counties lying at the foot of
the South Mountains have a natural
monopoly. We have published a good
deal of matter descriptive Of the min
eral, a letter on the subject from
State GeologisS Holmes, among other
things. We clip the following from a
recent issue of Shelby AurOrG:
Several thousand pounds of mona
zite were sold here Monday at good
prices. Two parties on Tuesday
brought to Shelby over 5000 pounds
In four wagons and returned home with
nearly 800 in cash. Monazite CON
tinues to bring from 6 to 10 cents per
pound. Several parties sell by con-
tract every ton at $4,000 per ton. A
party sold here Monday for 1896 per
ton. Mr.. Ephriam White gets ten
cents per pound, or 5000 per ton for
all he mines from a poor hillside,
two miles northeast of Shelby.
There are five hundred laborers now
engaged in digging this yellow sand in
Cleveland county and some opera
tives have made contracts for the next
six months. The output increases each
month, as new mines are being
opened and the number of laborer
is increasing. At first monazite-a
composite mineral whose only valuable
metal is thoria, used in gas lighting
was found only in small streams and
bottom lands, now it is being found on
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-19

the side and top of hills. The mona
ute industry continues to grow.
Several parties have received from
$500 to 81, 900 for monazite dug from
their branches, and the large output to
date is small In amount to what will be
sold here this year. The supply in
Cleveland continues to increase and
three hundred farmers in this county
have valuable monazite deposits that
can be worked proftably. The mona
ute fever has struck Cleveland and
we are afraid some will forget to work
their farms In the more lucrative
search for yellow sand.
Several parties have found gold In
their monaXite. Mr.. N. A. Boggs
showed me some nice specimens to-
day.
In searching for monazite several
garnet mines have been found, and
the mineral outlook for Cleveland il
encouraging. This county's wealth
of minerals should invite miners and
metalurgiste."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-19
LATHAM AND CLEVELAND.

Editor II A. Latham, of Washing
ton, N. c., is so far superior to the chief
beer guzzler of this nation, that we
always mention him first. Our readers
will remember that Mr.. Latham and
his white duck suit excited the admira-
ton of the President while he was fish
ing, drinking and hunting On our
sounds last year. During the Presi-
dents recent trip to our State on the
lighthouse tender Violet, he stopped
over at Washington to get a glimpse of
Mr.. Latham. But the editor has re-
Gently married and no longer idolizes
the tyrant with the double chin. The
white duck suit was not forthcoming,
and Cleveland left for home much dis
appointed.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-19
IGNoBLB, IMPorENr, INFAMOUS.

Goa March 4th the New York Times,
leading so-called Democratic paper,
! contained a three column denunciation
of the recent Congress. When we
consider that Congress faithfully served
the goldbugs, bond, etealers, and trusts
for which the Times is a faithful ser
want, the only conclusion we can reach
is that the Times is simply playing a
farce to keep in touch with the people.
We make the following extract as a
fair sample Of the rawlings of this I'M
|s3rupulous newspaper:
Before the setting of the sun to night
the Flfty-third Congress will have
ceased to be. It's career has been of
much interest; it has accomplished a
few good things; IL has offered a few
men the opportunity to make records
credi5able to themselves and useful to
their country. Taken as g. whole, how
ever, the performance Of the Demo
cratic majority, coming for the first
time in thirty years into complete con-
troll of the Government. entrusted
with the power to embody in the laws,
the politics with which the party had
been identified, responsible for the
prudent management of affairs, has
been so lame and impotent that it may
be said without offending Democrats,
that nothing in the life of the Congress
became it so much as its taking off.
If the Congress is to be condemned
for it's short comings, there is no doubt
too much of what it has done badly or
failed to do, the Senate must be held
chiefly accountable. But both bodies
are responsible for the record of each.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-19

Constitution and UUhOse appointment,
are not otherwise provided for"
Only this, and nothing more. It 10
a matter of history that while tho
Democratic party was revising and
amending, cutting and slashing the
Republican Constitution of 1868. We
had in 1875 a Republican Governor
and the Democrats then g mendino
their own fences and trying to perpetu,
ate their own political power by con.
stitutional provisions, and establishing
party presidents which have now
come back to vex them. They were
ready and willing enough in 1875 to in.
fringe upon the Governors preroga.
tives, when the Governor was a Re.
publican. Prestol Change.
Chickens will come home to roost.n
Let the responsibility for the present
state of the Constitution be put where
it belongs-on the Democratic party,
They pulled down the fence the Repub-
licens erected on this subject in 1868.
Behold the result!
A farmer orce a pasture had,
Well fenced around and guarded,
And in said pasture kept mis- colts
From neighbors stock well w&Tded.
The colts grew fat, and sleek and proud
Upon the pasture grasses,
Until alas! that farmer said,
His fat colts changed to asses.
Those colts. as asses, lost their wits,
Despite that farmers care;
They Cpd the Rates, the fences kicked,
And laid the pasture bare.
When neiRhbors' stock had entered in
And all the grass was gone,
Those foolish asses neiRhed and brayed,
Let well enough alone"
MORAL.
When party fences you would mend,
Mind, changes may come soon;
If you put the bottom rail on top"
Old Epn may get the COON"
-CducGStdn.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-19
Il. r. P. A.
NOTES.

Legislatures come and legislatures
go, but the North Carolina editors who
write that Mr.. So and So happened
to an accident" go on forever.
Now that the legislature has ad
journed the citizens Of Wilmington
ought to take steps to put the foul
mouth of the editor of the Messenger in
q good sanitary condition.
A goldbug exchange claims that
drummers are unwilling to write IN.
c." after their names on hotel registers
nowadays. Hope it is 30. Eleven
hundred goldbugdrummers are enough
to ruin any State. Let them write
s'Wall street" as their place of resi-
dence hereafter.
We publish on frst page an interest
ing article on the disposal of cotton
seed by Prof. f. z. Emery, of the II.
@. Experiment Station. 1t was read
before the L. L Polk Alliance at the
last meeting by Bro. Emery. We sug-
gest that it be read in every Alliance
in the cotton belt, at least.
If the two members of the Arlington
legislative vestigating committee who
have been on a proctracted spree, one
a Populist and the other a Republican,
have any respect for themselves or one
iota of pride left, they will sober up,
reform and get to work, If they do
not, we advise their friends to send
after the remains.
Speaking of free coinage, the Rich
mond Times says: THE last thing the
South needs is a dollar that is worth
less than a dollar" Quite right. But
when have we had such dollars, or who
Is wanting them poW4 Weare content
with the present dollars and no one
wants better ones, simply more Of them
and the silver is lying in Washington
to make them.
The Atlanta journal and the Rich
mOnd Times have read all the silver
advocates out of the Democratic party.
They insist that they are glad to get
zEid of such cattle. This shows plain
enough that to be a true Democrat you
must be a goldbug. In the past the
Democratic party has posed as a friend
to silver and to the people. A wonder
kful change, this.
State Treasurer W W. Taylor, who
recently decamped with all the funds
belonging to North Dakota, about
$500, 600, has been arrested in Vera
Cruz and will soon be brought to this
country. AS our courts seem to be
largely made up Of defaulters and
friends of thieves, you may rest as
sured that Taylor will not only get
light punishment, if any, but viii be
Gonizad.
The last issue of the daily Caucasian
appeared In this city on last Thursday,
subscriptions were only taken for two
months, but it would have continued
II the business depression had not been
90 great. The paper was ably edited,
newsg. and contained full reports OF
the Legislature. Senator Butler and
family have gone to their Sampson
county farm to rest. Mr.. Hal w. Ave,
Hl nave editorial charge of the Weekla
S1%odstdn hereafter. He is O bright
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-19
THE A OF REST.

Our Seventh Day Adventist friends,
a religious organization with thirty
two conferences in the United States
and fifty thousand members in the
world, made up of sincere people, with
principles differing but slightly from
that of other protestant organizations,
claim that they do not have equal
religious liberties in North Carolina.
The Hebrews also believe that our
modern Saturday is really Sunday, but
they are not so particular as the Seventh
Day Adventists. In many States the
two sects are allowed to observe Sat-
urday as a day Of rest and to pursue
their various occupations on Sunday.
The Constitution and laws of North
Carolina declares that "All men have
a natural and unalienable right to
worship God according to the dictates
of their own conscienceg. and no human
authority should, in any case whatever,
control or interfere with the rights of
conscience" This declaration can
hardly be construed to mean that a
certain day mayor mag not be observed
as Sunday, however. But these peo-
pie who are so earnest in their belief
that our Saturday is really the seventh
day and should be observed instead of
the first day of the week, feel that they
ought not be e s~4 for laboring on the
day the law teiIs us to observe.
The time keepers and Almanac manu-
facturers doubtless think they have it
down right. But it is possible that
some smart Aleck has slipped a cog.
Certainly we ought to observe the
seUenh day as we are commanded,
and if our present Sunday is the first
day of the week, we ought to get
right.
Websters' dictionary is good au-
thority On all questions. Webster
says: The Sabbath is "a season or
day of rest; one day in seven appointed
for rest or worship, the observance of
which was enjoined upon the Jews in
the D~ecaloRue, and has been continued
by the Christian church with a trans
ferance of the day observed from the
last to the first day of the week, which
is called also Lords Dag"
We want it understood that we are
not a stickler on this subject. II a
man, woman, or an organization of
either or both, think that our Wednes-
day is Sunday, and observe it as such.
we have as much respect for them as
for the orthodox folks. We do not
contend that the Chris sian Church did
wrong when they transferred the
Sabbath from the last day of the week
to the first" but we claim that it
was a job that was uncalled for and
for which no satisfactory reason can
be given. We are satisfied with pres
emit arrangements, but our Hebrew
and Seventh Day Adventist friends
are entitled to a hearing and ought to
have a chance to observe the last day
OF the week as their Sabbath accord
ing to their Interpretation of the
Scriptures.
Write to CLr advertisers for cata-
logues.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-19
ORIGIN OF "UNCLE SAM" .

Not one person in a thousand can
yer the question: ."How did the
term Uncle SAM as applied to the
United States, originated"
In the war of 1912, between this
country and Great Britain, Ebert
Anderson, of New York, purchased in
Troy, N. Y. a large amount of pork
for the American army.
1t was inspected by Samuel Wilson,
who was popularity known as Uncle
Sam" The barrels of pork were
marked e. A. U. S." the lettering
being doneoby a facetious employe of
Mr.. Wilson.
When asked by fellow-workmen the
meaning of the mark Cor the letters
U. s. for United States, were then al
most entirely new to them).. said che
did not know, unless it meant Ebert
Anderson and Uncle SAM" alluding to
Uncle Sam Wilson.
The joke took among the workmen,
and passed currently, and ''Uncle
Sam" himself being present, was &C
casionally rallied on the increasing
extent of his possessions. Soon the in
cident appeared in print, and the joke
gained favor rapidly, till it penetrated
and was recognized in every part of
the country, and, says John Frost, the
Boston historian, will no doubt con
tinue so while the United States re-
mains q nation.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-19

81 am standing o Just behind the
curtain, and IN fun gLOtU Of the coming
sunset. Behind nee are the shadows on
the track, before me ICES the dark galley
and the rSUer. When I mGngLe Uith its
dark sUaters I WdMt to cast finger
Snq look upon q country UUhOse gOUern-
ment is Of the people, for the people,
and 6g the peopIe."-L. L. Polk, July
eth, 1890.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-19
HorsTED BY THEIR OWN PErARl
News and Observer Goes Back on Demo
cratic Principles.

News and Observer Goes Back on Demo-
cratic Principles.
"There ought to be an amendment to
the Constitution providing that no
member of the General Assembly shall
be eligible to election or appointment
to any Office created or filed by the
Legislature ."-NeoCs and Observer,
March 18th.
Our esteemed contemporary goes on
to illustrate the force of its position by
publishing a list of Senators and Rep,
resentatives elected by the General
Assembly at the session just closed to
sundry offices and places of trust. And
now comes also the Governor asserting,
as it is claimed, his ancient preroga-
tive of appointment to office which the
NeaUs and Observer heartily commends
and approves.
Let s look at the record of consSi-
tutional provisions on this subject.
Art. III, Sec. 10. of the old Republican
Oanby) Constitution Of 1868 provided
in clear cut terms just exactly what
the NeuU8 and Observer SO earnestly ad-
vocates now. 1t read az follows:
The Governor shall nominate, and,
By and with the advice and consent of
a majority of the Senators elect, ap
point ell officers whose offices are estab
lished by this Constitution, Or which
shall be created by law, and whose ap
pointments are not otherwise provided
for, and no such officer shall be 90
pointed or elected ty the GENERAL AS
SEMBLY."
But in 1875 the Democratic party
''held Robson" county, and thus get
ting control of the constitutional con,
vention of 1875 amended the above
quoted section by striking out that
clause ("and no such officer shall be
appointed or elected by the General
Assembly, which the Republicans had
put into the Constitution of 1858. So
we have o by grace Of the Demo
cratic blunder of 1875 the present con-
stitutional provision. Art, III, Sec. 10,
Constitution of 1875. THE Governor
shall nominate, and, by and with the
advice and consent of majority of the
Sen~stors-elect, appoint all officers,
whose offices + established by this
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OUR AIM is S $1,000 SUBSCRIBERS
BY 90.

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w Stallings, Franklin county,
sends a club of two.
Hon E G. Butler Vace county,
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VIM H Snowden, Currituck coun-
ty, sends a club Of three.
j N Goode, Cleveland county, n
of our active friends, sends a club Of
two.
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Paper, Charlotte, sends a club of
two.
O. B Butner, Forsyth county, re-
news and sends 81 for the Shoe Fac
tory.
Miss Matte S Perry, one of our
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The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1895-06-20
GUN AN4 SAFER.

GRAY horses are considered stronger
than brown ones, and hereafter only
gray ones are to be used for artillery
purposes in the Russian army.
LIEUT.. BERsIER, of the French navy,
has invented a compass which does
away with a steers1nan. as the compass
steers the vessel itself
BRIG. GEN. THOMAS L. Casey, just
retired from the regular army at the
age of sixty-four, has for the last seven
years had supervision of all the river
and harbor improvements in the United
States. 5.um
TIE sultan of Morocco likes to look
on the faces of his foes-when they are
dead. He lately received, at Fez, two
cart loads Of salted human heads, the
remains of Rahauma rebels. They are
to adorn the city walls.
COMMODORE POTTER, the ranking Off
Ger of his grade in the navy, has just
been placed on the retired list Of the
navy upon reaching the age limit of
sixty y-two years. He has been in the
navy since February, 1850, having been
appointed from Illinois, though a ma
tive Of New York.
GEN. JOHN 3. GORDON, who has been
delivering his famous lecture in Arkan-
sas and Texas, has had to content him
self with four hours sleep out Of the
twenty -four, owing to the inroads
made upon his time by old comrades,
who insisted on keeping him up half
the night to talk over the war.
MAJ. JED HorcHK1ss, of Virginia, in
a talk about the battle of Fredericks-
burg before the National Geographical
society the other evening, expressed
the opinion that the famous stone wall
where the southern ri1emen checked
the advance of the Irish brigade was
probably the scene of the greatest
slaughter during the civil war.