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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-04-30

SPRINGFIELD REGISTER: The Pull.
man Palace Car company has begun
serving notices upon tenants who are
behind in their rents that unless ten.
ants pay the amount due the CON-
pany, suit will be brought to forci.
bly, eject them from the houses they
now occupy. And yet the Illinois
legislature permits this monopoly to
continue to sandbag the public.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-04-30
Rheumatism Cured I'm . Day.

"Mystic Cure" for rheumatism and
neuralgia radically cures in one to
three days. Its action upon the sys-
tenn is remarkable and mysterious.
1t removes at once the cause and the
disease Immediately disappears. The
first dose greatly benefits-75 cents.
Sold by Otto Grotjan, druggist. Rock
Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-04-30
G. A. r, Attention.:

For the state encampment to be
held in Bloomington May II to 16,
the "Big Four Route" will sell round
trip let's at the rate of $l.15 from
Peori~. Nay Is and IA. good till 18th,
inclusive, for return. Trains leave
Peoria at 7:30 a. m, 1910 p. m and
7:25 p. m. All trains on the X. /. &
P. and c., B. & q. make direct con-
nections with the big Four" at PEG.
ria. For tickets. call on agents in
Rock Island and Moline, or at the
Union depot, Peoria.
c. S. LAFOLLErrE, T, p. A.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-04-30

JAMES r. GARFIELD is a candidate
for state senator from the Mentor
district. His distinguished father
started in political life as state sena-
tor from the same district.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-04-30
Doesn't Get Around In Time.

Tommy-Do you say your prayers ev.
cry nights
Jimmy-Yep.
And does your nav say hersl'
Yep"
And does your paw"
Nav. Paw don't need to. It's al
most daylight when he gifts to bed -
Cincinnati Tribune.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-04-30
A . Gentle Reninder.

Dimpleton-My father.in.law has .
birthday next week. and must give
him something.
Briggs-Have you decided what Il
shall be?
Dimpleton-YeA Think shall send
him motto with the words. The Lord
loveth . cheerful giver. New York
Herald
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-04-30

THE Sunday Star-Sayings. Of st.
Louis. has published an anniversary
number. highly illustrated and in
every way cretitable to the highest
art and most enterprising spirit Of
metropolitan journalism.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-04-30
TURKISH bath l0on!

Baths of all kinds. including
Turkish. plain. shampoo. cleo
trio, electro-thermal, ETC., may
b obtained at the Sanitarium
Bath Rooms, on the first floor Of
the Harper House.
ROOMS OPEN.
For Ladies-From .. m. to
II N. on week days For Gen.
tlemen-From 2 p. m. 70 10 pm.
on week days On Sundays the
rooms will be open from Z .. N.
to IL .. m. for Gentlemen only.
Electric and Electro-thermal
baths may be obtained ut any
time during business hours.
GyDnasium connected with bath
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-04-30

ATTORNEY GENERAL MoLoNEY has
given an opinion that q tax assessor
cannot delegate his duties of assess
ing to deputy. Here is a tip for
you, Mr.. Freeman.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-04-30

TIE ARGUs delivered every even
ing at your door at 10c week.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-04-30
Hoods Cured the Boila.

81 have used several boxes Of
Hoods pills, and several bottles Of
Hoods Sarsaparilla, and have found
that they are excellent. / wa
troubled with boils. and after l had
used two bottles of Hoods Sarsapa.
rilla l was cured."-wesley wilkins
Stonefort, Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-04-30

Hoods pills cure biliousness. indi.
gestion.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-27
HORTICULTURE
TO APPLE GROWERS.

The National Apple Shippers Asso
citation desires to acquaint apple grow
ers of the country with the aims of the
Association and to ask their aid in the
reforms proposed. Dealers, shippers
and growers mus5 prosper together or
not at all. In this view of mutual in
terest the following suggestions are
submitted to orchardists, representing
the result of careful thought and dis
cussiOn.
1st. 1t will be to the advantage of all
interested in apples, growers, dealers
and consumers. if there is a recognized
SIZE and quality of package as well as
for size and quality of fruit, both in
what is now known as No. and No 2
apples. A good size of package is easily
suggested, one that has been IN use for
some years by the best class of West
ern dealers and large orchardists. A
full size -four barrel that is barrel
with 171 inch diameter of head and 283
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-27
GREED VS.. OWNERSHIP.

The newspapers chronicle the fact
that the sugar planter of Mississippi
have 25.OOO,OOO gallons of molaeses
that must be dumped into the swamps
to breed foul smells and pestilenc'. On
account of the cost of barrelliDg and
transportation the molas5es cannot be
marketed except at a loss. Hence it
must be destroyed.
Our railroad system is certainly IN
nice shape when twenty five millions
of gallons of good home made molasses
has to he nolred into the swamps be-
cause the freight rates are 80 high:
Millions of melons rot In the fields
ovorv vear for the same reas N. Tons
~ frT1if are lost to mankind for the
oo,ldo VI - ~ reasoD. Wheat is fed to the hogs
;m the West for the same reason.
mi,ober IA her is destroyed by the mile, both
in the South and the Northwest, for
the same reason.
w Vet the persons who see the life
+o[ed out of their property by freight
Uofes are profoundly convinced that
an%o3Vernment ownership of the national
5iohWaya would never do, Paternal-
is6- YOU know. Bad thing, PaterDal-
ism is. Bite you before you know it.
T. E. W., in Peoples Party Paper.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-27
Gardnervilie, N. @.

If you have not yet made provision
for raising additional forage crops,
don't neglect a day in doing 80. The
hay crop throughout the North and
West is largely a failure. The Hay
Trade Journal says thatit will not be a
half crop. Hay is going to be worth
money. Dealers are even now asking
500 per ton for it in car load lots in this
city. Grow all the fodder, millet and
peas you can in order to be able to
spare your hay for the market. At
anything over $15 per ton it will pay
better than any crop you can market
when the cost of production and the
abstraction of fertility from the soil is
taken into account.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-27

It used alway S to he the practice of
farmers who kept sheep to turn the
buck into the corn field during the
summer months to keep him from the
ewes before the proper time for mating,
The sheep will not eat the leaves or
stalks of corn while growing, nor will
it eat potato leaves in the same field
The sheep will get good living by eat
ing down the small weeds which start
up after the corn has grown too big to
cultivate. These weeds exhaust the
moisture in the soil, and by chopping
them close to the ground the crop is
benefited.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-27
No. 20
PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTA-
TION.

correspondence of the Progressive Farmer,
Did you know it was possible for a
polltlcal party in the United States
having 81 per cent of the voters there
Oh 20 elect every member of the House
VI representatives, ard secure every
elecGoral vote which the Constitution
OF Cne United States provides for. pro-
Vloed Its voters are rightly situated
geographically Did you know that
it is possible for political party in the
United States having 49 per cent of
the voters thereof, if they have the
misfortune to be unfavorably situated
geographically, to fail to elect a single
Congressman or presidential elector,
even after they had done their best9
Such possibility is hardly credible to
to one who has not taken the trouble
to investigate. But such is the case,
as can be satisfactorily proven. If the
Republicans had 81 per can't. of the
voters in each State and in each Con-
gressiOnal district, and the Democrats
49 per cent, would not the Repu blicans
beat IN every instance and the Demo-
Gratis get defeated IN every instancea
If In each and every voting precinct in
the whole United States there were 81
Repu blicans to 49 Democrats, then the
Democrats with 49 per cent. of the
voters of the whole country would fail
to elect a single candidate, and the Re-
publicans would elect every single one
Of theirs Just think of single polit-
ical party having control of every Office
in this great country, extending more
than 5000 miles from the Atlantic to-
wards the setting sun. 1t the numeral
proportions of the two parties and
their advantages were reversed, the
result of an election would be reversed.
No political party in the United
States h IS ever reaped the full bene-
fits of such possibility as I have just
spoken of, but they have sometimes
gained undue advantages thereby.
In 1892 the Democrats, with less than
so per cent. of the voters of the United
States, gained an overwhelming ma
jority in the Hous of Representatives;
and in 1894 the Republicans, by in
creasing their number from 5,O3I, 800
(their number in 1892 to 5.461 2O3, an
increase of 529, ,842, succee ed9d in gain
ing their present poDderous majority
In the House of RepTes entatives.
If we had proportional representa-
tion, which could be attained in man
ner similar to the Butler cumulative
each and every party would
always have in every legislative body
and electoral college M em0ers in pro-
portion to it's me enbers.
Neither party would suffer in conse-
q q1ence of it either. Neither party
sometimes be invested with all power
and again trampled in the very dust.
The republicans would not have exclu-
sive control of Kansas, nor the Demo
Gratis of Alabama.
WALTER GARDNER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-27
TRTCULTURE.

currant comes into maI ket at a
ghen there is scarcely any substi-
II it, and it is one Of the best can
ruits that is grown. The current
tn more attention than it gener-
eceiyes.
,e is hardly any question but that
IS as much in the care Of the trees
planting, as in the selection be-
The best trees will not stand
T. while poor trees will respond
: to good treatment.
e IS no farmer favored with
who cannot fud hours of leisu ce
antto enclose a little space around
'elling. and if he can do no more,
such trees, shrubs and vines as
J find in the nearest valley.
)rts received from X ensas, Okla
and western Missouri regarding
n crop show an unusually bright
and indicate an extraordinary
yield. 1t promises to be the
year in Indian Territory in the
;t'on Of all kinds of grain. The
Aaaung is now cut Of all danger.
tobacco crop requires very rich
'ho II Is very exhaustive of fer
Many farmers who 90 to grow
"'c1 thinking thatic is all profit.
att takes most Of the manure
IN a large farm, with some min
sr'll z-r besides, to produce a
'op. Whether this manure used
IL, growing would not produce
prom. Is a question that tobacco
5 the last year or two have been
-ly asking.
I0rnlps get into the rough leaf
'e liable to be troubled with the
1icH eats the leaves and will
; ds-troy a specie while they are
The best remedy for this is fre
stirring of the soil while the
are dry. This dusts the leaves
Is the fly by filling up the aper
4 It's body through which i
IS. In wet time the plant
apldly and soon come into orougl
ut If the fly begins to becom
JUS, dusttng the leaves will
ashes or lime will kill the in
Zach of these will also act as
II for the young plants and in
eir more vigorous growth.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-27
WEEKLY WEATHER CROP Bull
LETIN
For the Week Ending Monday, Aug II,
1895.

For the Week Ending Monday, Aug II,
1895.
CENTRAL OFFICE, Raleigh, N. @.
The reports Of correspondents of the
Weekly Weather Crop Bulletin, issued
by the North Carolina State Weather
Service, for the week ending Saturday,
Aug. II, 1895, are generally favorable.
The week opened I'D ended very
warm, with MAXIMUM temperatures
above 80 degrees; the h and 10Th
were below the normal. The amount
of sunshine was slightly less than usual.
The drought prevailing at the begin
ming of the week in Central and Wts5-
ern districts was broken by the general
rains on the 165h and 17Ch, which prac
tically assures a splendid corn crop.
Too much rain occurred at a few
stations.
The mkt week will be dryer and
cooler.
Eastern District. The weather this
week has been generally favorable, ex
cept in southeast portion. The week
opened and ended very warm, with but
two days, the 18th and 16.h, below the
normal in temperature. General rains
prevailed on the 17Ch. In the southern
part of the district, where there has
been no drought, the rain fall this week
has been rather injurious, but in all
other portions it has broken the drought
prevailing and been highly beneficial
to all crops except tobacco. Special
reports as to corn indicate that as a
whole the crop in this district is not as
good as in others. and is generally be-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-27

| O'OAdS0; DuI as GQ0 aCE6dS0 Is
larger than usual big crop will be
gatnered. E1rly corn is now safe, and
the lat9 general rains will do much to-
"afo making late corn, which, how
ever WILL not be safe before from Sep
CeIhOer 1st to 18Th, Fodder pulling is
no" IN progress. Cotton is still grow
ing and blooming; has improved, but
IFutG sCllI scarce. There has been too
much rain for tobacco. Rains reported: /:
Fayetteville, "a inches; Wilmington,
. o6; Rocky Point, rs; Falkland, 8 70;
Mt Owe, 4 80; Nashville, 3 10: Jack
sonVllle, Is; Weldon, 80; Goldsboro,
W; Lumberton, SO; Newbern, / 81.
Central District. fine, gentle and
very beneficial general rain occurred
the latter part of the week. A few re
ports indicate too much rain for cotton
and lowland crops in the central and
south portions of the district. Some
damage was done to corn by high
winds on the 18Th, but only over very
limited areas. The week has been
generally most favorable. Special re
ports as to corn indicate a most flat
terlng outlook in this district; very
few unfavorable reports received. The
condition is fine and acreage above
average. Late rains assure the max
ing of most of the crop. Early planted
and upland corn is safe now, but the
fnY ho 81 IL,
ger from unfavorable weather con
ditiOns before September ! to Is ih.
Next week will see large portion of
the fodder pulled. Tobacco doing we'll;
cures going on generally with fair cue
cess. Some damage to tobacco by fl3a-
bugs is reported Cotton is getting
little grassy and some rust is reported;
this crop cannot yield more than half
an average. Rains enabled farmers to
plow fallow lands. Rains reported:
Moncure, 4 80 inches; Greensboro, 90;
Osborne, 1.8O; Selma, %; Pee Dee,
8 so; Worthwhile, 8 "A; Soapstone Mt,
1.72; Laurinburg, 275; Chapel Hill,
21; Raleigh, 12
Western District. Rains, which oc-
CURED on two or three days of the
week, were very beneficial. Corn had
suff red in many places for want of
rain bnt the showers of this week
greatly revived it. The present con
dition of corn is excellent; tEece will be
a fine crop. Some of the early planted
corn is safe now, but generally the crop
is not considered safe in this district
before about September 1Oah to 2Oth,
while in many places along streams
liable to over fl wv it is not safe until
gathered, in October. Toe rains were
just what was needed to put lands in
condition to break for wheat; this
work is now begun. Tobacco is gen
orally good; tobacco farmers are busy
with topping and drying. Some com
plants Of worms eating tobacco. Fruit
is plentiful, and large quantities of
vinegar are being made in Yadkin.
Rains reported: Charlotte, 2 26 inches;
Mt. Airy, 2 81; Conrads, 2 As; Salis
bury, IA; Davidson, 2 rs; Lynn, 68;
Rutherfordton, Is; Mt. Peasant, 2 38;
Mocksville, So; Hudson, 2 so; Ruther
ford College, 1 45; Cana, rs; Hender-
sonville, 2 so; Maiden, 2 50; Startown,
8 81
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-27

At no time of the year is the value
of the fruit evaporator better appre
ciated than hot weather. The early
fruit keeps poorly, and unless marketed
somewhat green cannot be disposed of
before it decays. But with an evapo-
rator on the farm the fruit can be evap
GRATED when it is at it's best, and it will
then be worth more than can be got for
it by sending to sell on commission in
the city. The cost of an evaporator can
easily be saved by the saving of fruit
in a single season that would be wasted
if it were not used.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-27
RALEIGH, N. c., AUGUST 27, 1895.

above the door on the next two tiers,
leave out stick or two. This enables
one to see how the tobacco is curing on
three tiers. And here let me say that
if the tobacco is curing right on the
three lower tiers the balance of the
barn will follow suit. The curer should
keep in the barn a small wand or stick
with which to open the leaves above
him. H lndIe or feel the tobacco but
little, and then only by catching the
edge of the leaf with thumb and fore
finger to test; if sweating use the back
of the hand by pushing it up gently
between the leaves. 1t is always best
to so steam barn as to be able to run
the heat and kill the leaf in the day
time. Then run the heat between 125
and 13O till the next morning. It will
not injure the tobacco at that stage for
the heat to fall or lower little. 1t is
difficult to properly judge of the color
of tobacco by lamp or torch light, but
of the two prefer torch of good pine,
as the tobacco shows more natural
When q curing is done draw out the
fire and cool the fues by throwing
water under them leave the door open,
and if the weather is damp the tobacco
will soon become soft enough to move
out Some slip two sticks onto third
so that in barn of six hundred sticks
there will be two hundred of rehung
tobacco. If the weather is dry, put
green bushes in the barn. or cover the
floor with straw, pine straw will do;
then wet with water. It the curing is
finished in wet weather, keep fire un-
der it till dry weather SETS in.
I have been asked my opini2n about
printing off and curing on wire sticks,
and in patent barns. My opinion then
was, and still is, the whole thing was
humbug. 1t took twelve hands to fill
a barn in a day. The tobacco, when
put on the market foor, had the ap
pearance of being pulled through an
augur hole. A person could not class,
sort and tie up one half as much as
when it was cured on the stalk The
practice has been abar d )ned in all this
section, and those who were loudest in
it's praises have gone back to curing on
the stalk. Five hands can fill two barns
when the tobacco is convenient to the
barn by cutting and putting on sticks.
Five hands can remove to the pack
house a curing and then refill the barn,
when the patch is a mile distant. So
anyone can readily see that in the
economy of labor the advantage is in
favor of the old way. Besides, tobacco
lefG on the stalk through the winter
is tougher, richer and better and
heavier. B. r. WHITE.
At no time of the year is the value
of the fruit evapOrator better appre
ciated than hot weather. The early
fruit keeps poorly, and unless marketed
somewhat green cannot be disposed of
before it decays. But with an evapo-
rator on the farm the fruit can be evap
grated when it is at it's best, and it will
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-27

The finely pulverized soil attracts
and holds the highest percentage of
moisture. The roots of plants seek
the moist places, therefore, to secure
deep roofing, the soil must first bemade
fine and thea turned under by deep
plowing. To secure shallow roofing
the fine soil should be retained near
the surface.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-27

h of the GbOUe-1lGnled papers are
ted TO keep the list standing ON
ct puge and add others, provided
re duly elected. Any paper fail
advocate the Ocdld platform tCtH
. pped from the list promptly. Oatr
. can rotU see tUhGt papers are
he'd in their i4Itere8t.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-27
vATIoNAL FARMERS ALL
. INcR AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.

,.,ident-J. F. Willetts, Topeka,
10 Presidential G. Snavely, Leb
a, Pa. Cd0pD,,a
, Columbia, s. @.
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
T. Loucks, Huron, s. D.; Mann
=, Brandon, Virginia; l. E. Dean,
sove Falls, New York; Fl. Q. Dem
- Secretary. Harrisburg, Pennsyl-
4: Marion Butler, Raleigh, N. &.
JUDICIARY.
g A. Southworth, Denver, Colo.
{ ". Beck, Alabama.
+ D. Davie, Kentucky.
2 CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALL
ANCE.
g.ssident-J. M. Mewborne, Kinston,
!, ,e- Presidential. G. 8huford, New
r fetary- -Troasurer-w. 8. Barnes,
gh, N. G.
;turer-Cyrus Thompson Rlch-
: {Tard-J. ar T. B. Hoover, Elm City,
\ G<snlain-Dr. T. T. speight, Lewis
= n. N T.k1e.eper-Geo. 1. T. Lane, Green's
=. jstant st. Door keeper-Jas. E. Lyon,
;. am, N. G.
rpsant-at s,ea Arms-J. R. Hancock,
~. isboro, n. @.
te p Business Agent-T. Ivey, Ral-
f +, aree business Agency Fund-W.
aham, Machpelah, N. @.
TIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH
NINA FARMERS STATE ALLIANCE.
n .ion Butler, Goldsboro, N. G.. ].
ng, Eoka, N. c.; A. T. Hileman,
ord, n c.
arg ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
Brady. Gatesville, N. c.; DR.. ].
arrell. Whiteville, N. c.; John
am, Ridgeway, N. @.
Carolina Reform Press Association.
r Ics,aooSs DSaoRSdI0Saf
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-27

Carolina Reform Press Association.
ers-J. L. Ramsey, President +;
IN Butler, ce-PrestdeT1t; w. 5.
r e. Secretary,
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-11-02
Women's Convention.

The State League OF Equal Suffrage
elerfed the following officers.
President, Mrs. J. r. Williamson of
Austin; First Vice President, Miss II 4.
X. tlapp OF Reno; Second Vice Presi-
dent, DR.. Eliza Cook of Sheridan; Re-
cording Secretary, Mrs. ?. Stanton Mar
shall OF Reno; Corresponding Secretary,
Mrs. Weller OF Austin; Treasurer, Mrs
Elda A. Orr OF Reno; Auditors, Mrs.
Martin of Genoa and Miss Alice Ede of
Winnemucca; Representative OF Nation
al Association, Mrs. Rinckel Carson !;
Superintendent of Press Work, Mrs.
Annie Warren of Virginia; State Super
intendent of Fair Work, Mrs. d. J..
Boyd of Reno Superintendent of Legis-
lative Work, the President, Mrs. Will
hanson, with power to appoint assist
apte from local clubs; Superintendent Of
Literary Work, Mrs. Blossom OF Genoa.
Mrs. j. r. Williamson OF Austin,
President OF the Women Suffragists of
Nevada, stopped here yesterday to look
over the ground and see ii League
could be organized. She met with
some encouragement.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-11-02

President Stubbs needs 5000 to com
plete the Girls Dormitory building and
is requesting subscriptions, subject to
the Legislature Senator Jones and A.
H. Manning put down $500 each and
then Mr.. Powning of the Water Co
offered to advance $500 if the banks
would each put up 5000, which would
make $500 of the $4,000 in about u
minute. So the Dornitory will be com
pleted, and thereby save the State con-
siderable money.-Journal.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-11-02

There is no newspaper of any account
in the United States that does not offend
somebody almost every week, says an
exchange. The statement has truth in
it, for paper can please part of the
people part of the time, but when it tries
to please all the people all the time it
makes a dismal failure of il. 1t is some
thing that no man has yet succeeded in
doing. At the same time the man who
swears at the paper is liable to attract
about as much attention as though he
was not on earth at all.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-11-02

Many mines could not pay the expen
ses OF mining and milling by means OF
the gold obtained by the batteries alone,
and existence was only rendered posi-
BILE to them, and heavy losses converted
into handsome profits, by cyaniding
process was thus not only credited to it,
but was also the indirect cause of at
least All equal amount being added to
the total amout.