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The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-06-22
lutte,
SPOKANE,
TACOMA,
SEATTLE,
PORTLAND
Pullman Sleeping Cars
Elegant Dining Cars
Tourist Sleeping Cars

TRAINS ARRIVE:
No. Z. From St. Paul Chicago. and all
Eastern points. arrive Sapplng- &c NJ
ton daily ~ ~
Whitehall daily at. ......-.... I 10 d. III
NJ. U. No. 2. From Spokane, Tacoma.
Seattle. Portland, aud all COAST
noipts. arrives Montana Union
RRoenoi' dailv 10 A p. m.
TR AIMS DEPART:
NJ. U. No. 1. For Spokane, Tacoma.
Seattle, Portland, and all coast
and California points,. leaves
Montana Union Depot daily at..: :4oa M.
No. s. For St. Paul. Chicago, and
sil Eastern. Southern ana Ca .
madam peints. leaves whitehall. .i5 US d m
~Sappington . :.
Through leepine:oarsfrom Butte ! pr"lstefea
Turist Sieepers elegant day coaches ana dInlne
car az, vice on ail through trains.
For information. time cards. maps ano ! cAeE
cali On or write ". r, TOUHY. Gen. AZ :, y
CHARLES 8. FEE.
1 General Passenger Agent.
! Ct. Paul. Kim.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-12-06

A traveller justreturning from Mexico
tells an amusing tale of the attempts OF
a peddler to sell precious stones at an
exorbitant price, who in the end con-
sented to dispose Of his wares for a mere
song. II was at Queretaro, an import
ant city on the line Of the Mexican
Central Railroad.
when the train pulled in at the de-
pot said he. 1T was Immediately sur
rounded by a score or more Of poems
trying to sell opals TO the passengers.
One tall, rather fins-lcoking Indian ex-
tended toward me his hand containing
ten or a dozen glittering stones.
How much?" / asked.
Twelve dollars" replied he. Cheap.
very cheap. only S12."
mo, mol" replied, in an emphatic
way. "Muy caro-" very dear.
Five dollars!" then quoted the
vender. turning the stones over In his
hand. that 1 might see that they were
all there.
mo, 81" said 1.
Yes. yes!" cried the vender. eagerly
zone dollar; yes, yes, you can have them
for 81. Take them."-New York Her.
aid
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-12-06
UNENDING.

There is an end to kisses and to sighs;
There Is an end to laughter and to tears.
An end TO fair things that delight our eyes
An endto pleasant sounds that charm
our ears,
An end TO enmity's foul libeling
And to the gracious praise of tender
friend;
There is an end to all but one sweet
thing
To love there is no end.
That warrior carved the empire with his
sword;
The empire now is but like him-a name,
word
Klndled a nations heart into flame;
Now naught is left but ashes and we bring
Our homage to new men; to them we
bend,
THERE'S an end to ali but one sweet
thing
To love there Is no end. 4
All beauty fades away, or else, alas,
Mems eyes grow DIM and they no beau
ty see;
The glorious show Of nature pass and
pass;
Quickly they come, as quickly do they
flee,
And he who hears the voice of welcome
Hears the next slow, sad, farewell of his
friend.
There is an end to all but one sweet
thing
To love there is no end |
ALI the Year Round. !
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-12-06
Public Health In New York.

Some conception of the constant dam
ger to the public health Of New York
may be had by reading the last quar-
terly report Of the Board of Health,
The sanitary inspectors. who are kept
more steadily at work now than ever
before since the organization OF the
Department Of Health. in addition tc
their other labor. destroyed 6O0.O0t
pounds Of vegetables unfit for food
800. 900 pounds OF meat. $4,000 pounds OF
fish, and $4,000 pounds of confection
cry. so called-the poisoned sugar STUFF
sold to children at the penny shops al
over town. -
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-12-06

did not know that should fancy bring
ing my luggage there. said It was
rather a dangerous proceeding for a
lady to go out and leave a house to
take care Of itself. And what do you
think she answered.
II cannot guess, Lambsworthy."
"She said 1t was good deal more
dangerous to take a lodger without a
reference / told her II she dared to
hint at her Internal suspicious to her
neighbors I'd have her held up for
slander. and so I will! / never heard
of such a thing"
He was in a state of great excitement
all day, recounting the affair over and
over again to Seymour and Miss Car
donnel and myself. / am bound to say
that l got a Nttle tired of 1t, but Fey
mour roared with laughter every time.
and / caught look in Norah Carbon
nel's eyes that auguered badly for him
in consequence. II nobody else was
sympathetic the young lady was.
Harry Seymour disappeared during
the afternoon-went for a long tramp
he said-and l had the indignant
Lembsworthy all to myself until he re.
turned.
When he did come back he said he
had noticed card with Apartments
to Let" on 1t in a window Just around
the corner. and suggested to Stepher
obtaining a room in the house.
This looks a good substantial kind
CT domicile." he said: "one not likely
to De burglarized! Wouldn't do for tn,
rext place you choose to be broken into
YOU know, Lambsworthy; that woult
lie really damning!"
Lambsworthy, who shuddered at th'
fa"e Idea. thanked him. and salliet
firth to see II he could arrange.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-07
A VAIN EFFORT.

A Louisiana editor has written a re-
ply to Coins Financial School, enti-
tied, Cash vs.. Coin" It is now pub
lished in book form. In the first half
of the book he presents some right
shreWd goldbug literature, for to their
credit be it said that they are as smart
as the dive mean Bob Ingorsoll him
self. Bob can get up such a pretty
story that he actually has a large num-
Der of cranks at his heels who do not
believe in a Creator or a future state.
But very existence and the dozens
of evidences we see around us daily
assure us that Bob is merely talking
through his stovepipe hat. The gold
bugs get up some smart literature, but
it comes no nearer knocking out the
friends of silver than Ingorsoll's books
came to a complete Generalization of
Christianity.
This Louisiana man kills his whole
argument at the start by declaring
that he accidentally discovered that
Coin (Harvey) is a 'hypnotist." He
admits that Harvey made everything
clear just as the book states, and that
no man in Chicago could answer him,
but declares that Harvey had the thou.
sands who attended his "School" hyp-
Noticed. It is known that a few mag
netic men can control weaker minded
persons, n at a time, but to say that
a man can hypnotic thousands at the
same time is simply absurd, and the
300, 900 copies of Coins Financial
School sold in the past six months,
which have made converts of nearly
every reader, ought TO be proof posi-
tive that no occult power was the cause
of the sensation described and created
by the author. But we mention this
to show that goldbugs cannotdiscuss the
question on it's merits, and to show
what desperate plans they adopt to
confuse the people.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-07
/ L ARP.

Your Uncle Bill Arp will soon burn
the bridges behind him. He has re-
Gently read "Coin's Financial School,
and Harvey's more recent book up
to Date" and seems to be thoroughly
converted. He says he was somewhat
prejudiced at first, because he thought
Harvey was a Yankee (Bill is a very
strong Southerner) but learns that he
is a son of a one-armed Confederate
veteran, and that settles it with Bill.
In a recent letter Mr.. Arp says:
This silver and gold question is fast
disintegrating the old parties. New
alignments are forming every day.
Mr.. Lowry, the Atlanta banker, is just
as pronounced on one side as Nh. In
man the millionaire is on the other.
Mr.. Inman's manly, patriotic philan-
thropic letter in favor of silver was
the best that I have seen in a news
paper. All honor to him for it. 1t
was hardly to be expected from a man
who holds so much of other peoples
obligations. So let the ball roll on and
break up the old parties, if need be;
we can't be worsted."
Bill has never been a bad man, but
he was unconsciously, perhaps, help
ing the goldbugs all the while. But
his gray hairs r not going to a grave
that shall hold the dust of a traitor to
his people. At the eleventh hour he
comes around to a rational view of the
situation. This ought to be a strong
incentive to induce retormers to place
reform papers and literature in the
hands of other people who only need
education to bring them over on the
right side. Bestir yourself; get sub
scribers to reform papers, and the
battle is fought
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-07
BOTH FEET ON 1T.

One of our leading republican jour-
nails declares that its party is committed
squarely and unequivocally to bi-
metalism, that the next national plat
form will be more pronounced in favor
of silver than the last one and that no
man who does not stand squarely for
both money metals can be nominated,
This sounds very pretty, says the
Farmers Voice, Chicago.
It may be true. We should not be
at all surprised if it was, for the way
farer though a fool cannot help discern
the will of the American people on this
subject. But there has been so much
juggling with terms, so much treachery
and so much down right lying by the
politicians with respect to silver, that
the people may be pardoned for taking
any such assertions by the partisan
press, as above quoted, with consider
able allowance. The danger is that the
candidate and party will stand on bi-
metalism with both feet and stamp the
life out of it. The last democratic
platform was all that the bi metalist
could desire, but Mr.. Cleveland took
his stand on it and he has been stand
ing on it ever since. He has had 800
pounds of weight on it, and the poor
thing has been crushed to death.
There is an everlasting talk in favor of
hi metallism by people who when asked
to do something practical in the way
of remonitizing silver, say that we
must first devise a plan for making
both metals equal in value, and when
asked for a plan, say that we must get
the nations of the world to agree upon
a ratio. AS Great Britain will not
make an agreement as long as she can
help it, of course all such professed
friendship for silver is rot. What we
need and want is the free coinage of
silver at the old ratio, believing that
that will drive the world to adopt it.
But will the politicians honestly con-
sent to favor this only present, prac-
tical plan of putting silver into the
position in which it belOngs9 Doubt
full.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-07
ALLIANCE NOTES.

A letter from Beaufort county brings
the information that a defunct Alliance
is ready to re-organize. Twenty old
members have given notice that they
are ready to start anew.
Bro. Nathan HollomOn, Secretary OF
Apex Alliance, No. %, Wake county,
informs us that his Alliance passed
resolutions recently |. thanking the late
legislature for repeating the obnoxious
amendments to the State charter,
passed in 1898. He says they rein
stated five old members at the last
meeting, and expect to take in some
more at the next meeting. Hurrah!
for Apex.
At tie last meeting of the L. L. ALI
ance in this city, it was agreed that
each member would bring in a question
for discussion by the next meeting, and
some member would then be requested
to deliver a lecture on each one Of the
subjects or write an essay. These ques
tions. etc., will be published in THE
PRoeRrss1vR FARMER. Other Alliances
may look out for something good.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-07

match question are sound. Great jee-
wbTikins. What is the matter with
Governor Carr for PresidentS He car
riod North Carolina two years ago and
.ho has said himself that he knows how
to guperintend a farm and vote the
Democratic ticket. Who cares any
thing about a man who can carry Cali
formal We have idiots in our county
DOOR houses who can do that if backed
bv the Pacific Railroad System, and
these same idiots know nor about the
potato patch question than
,Tosephus knows about a high standard
political morals, and capacity and
fitness for office. Josephus would pro
nounce a man the greatest surgeon in
the world if he had no claims greater
than that he could amputate a wooden
leg without drawing blood, provided
it suited Josephus to say so.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-07
MONEY" MEN Puo,,
GRAPHED. Nv

The Merchants National Banh
Rome, Ga capital 5000, 900, liabiis%.
unknown, has debased the "son,,
money" idea by closing its doors,
The ''sound money" county treasn,.
of Powesheik county, Iowa, has dis.,
peared. About $45, 900 disappes,5
simultaneously.
s. @. Dickson, of Greenville. 8 q
a Sound money" man from the soIo%%
his feet to the crown of his head, =,
is in jail for forgery and fraud, r.
plan was to copy genuine or imaginar
mortgages and float them; has BEEN
it for years. The President of fl
Greenville National Bank caught hi,
five years ago and he caught the BAN
for SIC, 1000. But the crime was kem
quiet on condition that he pay III
amount. He has paid part of it, bn
his other schemes have leaked out,
Toe bank at Beaver City, Neb.. bs
made an assignment. The State Barb
ing Board has charge of it. No stan
ment of liabilities has been made.
The First National Bank at Ocsh
Fla, a ''sound money" institution. 4
course, has closed doors. 1t is though
that creditors will get a small per cent
Edgar A. Cohen, Chief Counsel forth
Southern Pacific Railroad Company. ,
Sound money" man, has failed, OWN
1891, 900 to many creditors.
The Commercial Bank at Steven,
Point, Wis, has closed doors. Liabl:
ties sec, 900 Sound" dollars.
The Plankington Bank, Milwaukee
Wis, closed some time ago. The a.
signee announces that it owes $1,OS1
O48. IS cold, hard, sound" gold dollars
and he has found assets so far sufficient
to pay about one tenth of the amount
J. R. Hollands shortage in the Mer
chants National Bank Sound at Char
lotte, has grown to a little over $780, N
Holland has surrendered TO the BAN
officials and went to jail. He onI
spent a day and night in Jail. A $15
600 bond was required and his admirel
who evidently think it a great explo
to steal $50, 900, gave a justified bon
for 1910 and he was released.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-07
COLD NOT SOUND N

Secretary Carlisle's address to the
Memphis Sound Money Convention
will be a mastery effort. In lucid
statement and logical arrangement of
facts, the Secretary of the Treasury is
at the head of American speakers, says
the st. Louis Republic.
It is always a pleasure to hear him,
whether he makes a legal argument or
a political appeal. The more disciplined
the intellect of the listener the greater
the qualification of listening.
Call him the most accomplished
reasoner among American statesmen
and pronounce the Memphis speech
the effort of his life, and yet he will not
stem the tide of silver recommendation
if he attempts to do it with gold mono
metallism.
In the West and South there may be
variations of opinion upon the mode by
which the free coinage of silver should
be reached, but there is something very
much like unanimity in demanding
that gold and silver shall be coined on
equal terms. In fact, since all the po-
litical parties have nationally conceded
the principle of bimetallism, it may be
said that all the people contend for the
money use of both metals.
In the West and South certainly the
belief is settled that the gold standard
is not sound money. Nothing is sound
money which is not fair and equitable
money; and the West and South have
learned from the most eminent econom-
lists of the world that the gold standard
has dislocated exchanges and intensi-
fed if it has not produced trade depres-
sions. The West and South see a serious
inter national trouble in progress on
the N~icaraguan coast rs a result of a
debtor who USE silver being compelled
to pay obligations in gold.
Sound money is not gold monometal-
lism nor silver monometallism, but
both metals coined on equal terms and
with relation to values. The greater
part of the world has been accustomed
to the use of such money and regards
such money as the sound measure of
prices and standard of payments.
At a New York banquet nearly two
years ago, Secretary Carlisle intimated
a preference for the gold standard. We
hope that what he then seemed to say
was a transient fancy and that when
he speaks for sound money at the
Memphis Convention he will propose a
plan for the restoration of Democratic
and constitutional coinage-for gold
and silver as a basis Of convertible
notes and as a permanent money
standard.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-07
SHOWING.

In the past three months the subscrip-
ton list Of The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
has grown larger. We think this is
worthy of particular mention. True,
the growth has not been anything like
a boom. But when we consider that
several thousand papers have been sus-
pended in the past year; that many
others have reduced their size, and
nearly all have lost subscribers, we
feel proud of the record. The u
ness depression has been harder on
newspapers than any other business
We notice that a number OF large
papers which publish their CIRCULATION
in each issue, have lost from ten TO
fifteen per cent. of their subscribers
while we have made gains. Just 1ol'
lowing q campaign it was natural 20
expect that subscribers would Iack IN
terest. This result shows that the
paper is appreciated; that it is not a
campaign sheet; that the people reallze
that it wears no party callar; that 1t Is
the ~mouthpiece of no man or no ring.
We are greatly indebted to our
friends, and especially our lady agents
for this small but substantial growth.
It is not a ladies' journal, but they
that it is fighting their battles;
that it is true to the cause so near the
heart of every truly patriotic man or
woman.
All this goes to show that subscrib-
ers can be secured for a good paper in
luIl times. If our friends would oil
oestir themselves as some have, they
could double list in a month.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-07
A BIG SCHEME.

The late highly respected and dearly
beloved cashier of the Farmers and
Merchants National Bank at Charlotte,
who is short with the bank for over
800, 900, owns a farm On the Oatawba
river: 1t is said that he lost about $12,-
900 on this farm in the past few years.
That accounts, in part, for what dispo-
sItion was made of the money.
Now what we want to do is TO get all
the bankers to buy farms. That will
break up the money monopoly quicker
than anything else, and tend to convert
them to the doctrine that before farm
ing can be made to pay there must be
more money in circulation. It would
create g fellow feeling" as it were.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-07

condition to which they have been sub
iected? Has all wisdom forsaken the
people? Well can the Reform Club ar
range to spend millions to perpetrate
this condition of affairs. Before another
twelve months shall have elapsed the
people Of Virginia will have paid more
than Sc, 1000, 900 for the support of the
British single gold standard. New
York, Philadelphia and Boston will
have divided over S., 900, 900 of this
among their citizens who hold the gold
OF the country. Gold has appreciated
to more than double it's value meas
ured by the lands and labor of the
farmer and the mechanic.
We call upon the people of the coun-
ties and towns and cities to call meet
ings through the length and breadth of
Virginia and denounce the thieves who
are thus robbing them of their patri-
mony and swear by all they hold sacred
that they will overturn the tables of
the gold gamblers and drive them forth
from the temples of their liberties
which these money sharks are despoil-
inc
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-07
WHAT 1T HAS DONE FOR THE
PEOPLEI

The Atlanta Constitution has secured
the official figures of the increase and
decrease of wealth of forty-three States
and Territories from 1893 to 1894, says
the Richmond Star.
The man whe cannot understand
these figures is indeed a dullard. The
decrease in the States and Territories
named was $500, 1876, 700. The increase
in the twelve States was 1897, 800, 753.
The State of New York gained $685.
983, 492. OF the $500, 1876, 700 of the
values lost to the other States New
York gained nearly one-half. Thus
have nearly all of the other States and
Territories been compelled to be tribu-
tary to the State of New York. Vir-
ginia in 1893 returned 1896, 945, 118 and
in 1894 $464, OBS, 922. a decrease of nearly
So, 600, 900. New York has an increase
of nearly 70 per cent. of the property
of the entire country for the year 1894.
We have shown time and again that
the concentrated wealth of New York
was drawing into its rapacious NAV
the entire prosperity of the govern
ment. The argument we have used
and endeavored to accentuate is that
the many were the slaves of the few,
and that this condition would continue
to increase as long as silver was taken
out of the ranks of money metals.
But we confess that ven Jul worst
forebodings have been exceeded.
Think of it! OF forty-three States
the valuation of property has decreased
over $500, 600, 900 and in twelve States
valuations have increased 1897, 800, 753.
Three States, New York, Pennsylva-
MIA and Massachuse tts, gain 1906, 978,-
Gel, leaving to the nine other States
that have increased $50, 1922, O92.
These figures are 80 plain that only
the wilfully blind a fail to see and
understand the significance of the con-
ditions which are presented. These
three States are the money centres of
the country. The gold of the country
is heaped in the vaults of these three
States.
The contraction of the currency and
the depreciation of the values in the
other States caused panic and idleness.
Extension Of notes was refused, mort
cages YER foreclosed. The boarded
money of these money centres bought
this property at one-half and o~ne-fourth
it's value. One thousand gold dollars
bought two thousand and four thou
sand dollars worth of property.
"Honest Money! No such infamous
rogueFy was YER before perpetrated
upon q people. VIII these facts awaken
the people to q consciousness Of the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-07
SHOE FACTORY FUND.

Stokes County Alliance comes for
ward with $50 for the shoe factory
fund. The fund is growing slowly but
surely. Bethren, be up and doing. This
enterprise is badly needed. The leather
trust is cutting a wide swath. In the
past few days the shoe trust has in
creased the price of shoes to the retail
trade about IL per cent. 1t may not
be right to fight a trust with a trust,
but it is perfectly legitimate to start a
factory and tannery, tan the leather
and make the shoes independent of the
trusts. It a be done, it must be done.