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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-16
WHAT THY WERE.

gentleman walking along Licking
avenue n day encountered two
DoSS who looked so much alike that he
r~i Ppe them and asked, Are you
little boys twins2"
1ney looked up at him for q moment
though they did not understand,
'Uen n said, meekly:
NO. SIR; We are Methodists. .
norper's Magazine.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-16
n SILVER PARTY.
Bro. Gill in Favor of staTding by the
Alliance Demands.

bTO. GlI IN &VoT OF SCaE4E6 ~ wan
Alliance Demands.
Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
HENDERSON, N. O.,
April 12, 1895.
/ see the Caucasian is advocating
going off with the Free Silver Party"
which will virtually side track our de-
mands, after we have been been trying
to educate the people for years up to
them.
Ihearn no. lliancemen advocating such
SO, and our people are positively
opposed to such a course. We do not
propose to follow the lead of the CGu
cast0n or anybody else into the gold
bug camp, or silverbug camp either.
Our county Alliance passed a resoIu-
ton in opposition to giving up our de.
mands.
We are going to need all the strength
of the Alliance now to prevent our de-
s~truction. Ihave no objection to max
ing the financial question as prominent
as possible, but when we begin to COM
promise it means defeat. / wrote
Senator Butler q letter on this sub
iect, but he answered it by nomi-
mating a square Democrat for Presi
dent.
am trying to say just as little as
possible On this question. but cannot
keep still and s3e two thirds of the
fight given up in this way. I am glad
to SEQ that the Western papers are
against the 80 called Free Silver Party,
gotten up, l believe, by the enemy to
destroy Us. Ihad ae soon follow Satan
as the Free Silver leaders that were in
Congress. Yours truly,
D 81. GILL.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-16
CLEvELAND's GREAT o. DENIAL.
It Is Rather a "NOlO CentendsEysShn


WASHINGTON, April S.-When the
report of a speech made In q Methodist
Conference. at Salem, Mass, by Rev.
DR.. Lansing, and his subse quent pub
lished interview accusing the President
of intemperance, was shown Mr.. Ceve
land yesterday evening, he said, with
considerable warmth:
This is simply an outrage, though
it is not the first time q thing of this
kind has been attempted. / cannot
avoid a feeling of indignation that any
who makes claim to decency, and
especially one who ass umes the role Of
a Christian minister, should permit
himself to become a dissemination Of
wholesale lies and calumnies not less
stupid than they are cruel and wicked
II easily recall other occasions when
those more or less entitled to be called
ministers of the Gospel have g IN
strumental in putting into circulation
the most scaDdalOus taIsehocds con-
corning my conduct and character.
The elements or factors OF the most
annroved outfit for placing q false and
barefaced accusation before the public
annesr to be, first, some one with base
neaa and motive sufficient to invent it;
second. a minister, with more gullibil-
itV and love Of notoriety than piety,
oreediIv willing to listen to it and COB.
Bic it: and, third, newspaper anxious
" willing to publish it. For the sake
the Christian religion, I am thank
ful that these scandal mOngering minis
ters are few, and on every account I
am glad that the American people love
fair play and justice, and that, in spite
Of all effort to mislead them, they r
apt to form a correct estimate of the
character and laboTs of their public
JerVants."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-16
wy FARMER.

There is = farmer who is wy
Enough to take his Gee,
I'd st1dy nature with his Ill
And thfRk of what he ccc.
He hears the chatter Of the jill
As they each other TIT,
And Gee that when = tree X
A woke of OXEN he win uuu
Vim many haws and egg,
And their mistakes ne will xqq
When blowing for his ppp.
ia little buys, but much he Sells
And therefore little Ooo,,
And when he hoes his soil by speIs'
lie A-sO eoA Selected.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-16

Charlotte News: MI. Baxter Shem
well, the slayer of DR.. Payne, will be
an inmate of Charlotte Jail until July.
The special term of court to try his
case has been set the first Monday in
July and Judge Boykin will preside. 1t
is not believed that there viii be a con
tinuance or a transfer, but that the
will be pushed through to a con-
clus1on- Both sides say that they are
ready.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-16
v E ALL GULL"
The Hudson, Mohawk and Delaware in
an Ugly Mood.

EAsTON, Pa April 1O.-The Delaware
is twenty seven feet above low water
mark the highest since 1879. The cleo
trio cars are suspended and all the in
dustries at Odenweildertown are closed
down. The people on Front street
have moved to the second stories.
Many frame buildings have been car
ried off. The water is still rising.
TROY, N. Y, April 1O.-The Hudson
river is fourteen feet above low. water
mark. All docks below the State dam
are submerged. All ferries are sus
pended and a great amount OF drift
wood is coming down.
SCHENECTADY, April 1O.-The Mo-
hawk is higher than for several years.
The entire valley is flooded n the
losses are heavy
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-16
A SILVER LOVE A
Denverians, Male and Female, Preparing
to Greet Sibley & Co.

DENVER, April 1O.-CitiEens have ap-
pointed a committee of a hundred and
fifty p1ominent men and women to ar
range for a reception to ex-COngress-
man Sibley, Senators Jones and Stewart
and General Warner, the silver cham
pione, who are expected to arrive Mon
0aV.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-07-25
1nereaslnr charges at colleres.

According to the Yale senior class
book, the average cost per student for
years instruction at that college Is S912
for the freshman year up to 81, 032 for the
senior. AS the school year contains but
nine months or thereabouts, this rate Of
about ST. 900 per year amounts to Sill
per month or $50 per day. In an era
when dollar buys nearly twice what 1t
would a quarter century ago, these fig
ures will cause considerable amazement
and also in many quarters feeling of In
dignation that one Of the two leading In
stitutions of learning in this country has
practically closed its doors to the poor
youth of the land, however much talent
may be associated with their poverty.
Why has this condition developed? Be-
cause the tendency throughout the coun-
try each year is toward greater and
greater extravaganza in money expendi-
ture more luxurious living and more
offensive displays of wealth. Artificial
wants are catered to nowadays as though
they were necessities, and the extrava-
ganoe of the gilded youth of the day would
have amazed our forefathers. The evo-
ution of this social condition has fol :
lowed naturally on the rapid growth of the
wealth of the country, which, as a rule, is
greatly underestimated by those who do
not have special information on the SUBJ
ject
OF course there are many colleges where
an education comes much cheaper. But
these Eastern institutions have the
finest facilities, the most desirable social
atmosphere and an intellectual status
that cannot be had in the West. If a
Western boy wants to get away from his
old surroundings and, by going East of
the Hudson, strike a people and civil
ization that. in considerable measure,
will be new to him, he should not have
erected against him this barrier Of ex-
pense. There is no reason why Yale
should not maintain system whereby,
for 5000, If man so desires, all the ex-
penses of a collegiate year can be met.
That she does not do 1t is probably tan
tamount to saying that she does not need
to do it, having sufficient patronage
under present conditions. But neverthe-
less she is very far from real greatness a
the leading American university when
she does not do it.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-07-25
Growth of a Grent Charity.

We notice in the Philadelphia Press a
large picture of Stephen Girard and a
long account of the way the trust fund
which he left to the city of Philadelphia,
for the use of Girard College and for other
purposes, has grown. Although 1t esti-
mates the present value of this trust at
the enormous amount of S25, 900, 900, II
of the bequest in the beginning From
other sources we ascertain, however, that
the amount was something over SO, 000,
900. That was in 1880. So now, after
the lapse of sixty -four year from the time
of his DEATH we have the SO, 600, 900 mul.
tiplied into s25, 600, 600. In the iuterven.
ing years, much of the earnings have gone
to the education annually of about SOC
orphans who are not only educated, but
inducted into some useful calling where.
by they will be enabled to help themselves
get q start in life. 1t is fitting that such
a noble charity is housed in what is con.
sideled the finest piece of Grecian archi-
lecture of modern times and known by
the name of Girard College. 1t will thus
be seen that this great merchant and ship
owner not only had the industry and
sagacity to build up large estate but tc
stamp its distribution with such wisdom
that it has already been more than mul H.
piled by four Who can estimate. the ulti
mate value of such bequest or weigh in
the balance the total good it will finally
accomplish?
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-07-25

Big Real Estate VaIues.

The tall building craze has broken out
afresh in New York. Five or six enorm-
Gus structures are either under way or
projected in the neighborhood of lower
Broadway. For instance, one of these
sky-scraping office structures goes up on
the site of the old Herald building at the
corner of New York and Ann streets. It
will be built by H. o. Havemyer, of sugar
trust fame, who has borrowed million
and quarter dollars at Az per cent
with which to construct it. Another
goes up on small lot at the southeast
corner of Wall and Broadway, which has
long been considered the most valuable
tract of land in New York, although its
frontage is but thirty mine feet on Wall
street and twenty-nine on Broadway-but
sixty eight in ALL counting both fronts,
whereas but one front can be used as
such, probably the twenty-nine feet on
Broadway. On this small area the bank
ing firm which has bought it has bor-
rowed one and quarter million dollars
at AZ per cent. interest, and will proceed
to build, to the extent of some twenty or
more stories, another banking house and
office structure. AS the number of square
feet in this piece of ground is but 1, 031,
the loan per square foot amounts to over
Sl,2l2. Such prices, of course, are en-
tirely with out precedent In this country,
and are probably six or eight times as
high as any business property ever
brought in Chicago. We base this opin-
ion on the fact that in 1890, the "Major
Block" at the corner of Clark and Ran.
dolph streets, well within the business
center of Chicago, sold, with fairly good
building on it, at about s55 per square
foot.
AS to New York, the prediction is freely
made that SO many new Office buildings
means lower rents which, many think,
have already come.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-07-25
The CarerniIIar Pest.

The many people in this country who
believe the best way to fight caterpillars,
which are now so rapidly defoliating
many trees especially in the eastern
cities is to tie great bandages of cotton
or wool around the trunks will be some
what surprised to learn that their ugly
tree appendages are of very little good
The leading entomologist of this country
is Prof. q. V. Riley, late chief of the
division of entomology of the department
of agriculture. He writes to the Phila-
delpiha Ledger on this subject:
mot all the caterpillars spin down
from the trees when fully grown and "A
remount the trees, but prefer to form their
cocoons under lodges of palings, houses,
walls, ourbings, etc. Many make their
cocoons upon the trees without descend
ing. Bandages or troughs around the
trees are, therefore, but imperfect estop-
pers at BEST and but partial preventives
Of future injury only after the trees have
been despoiled Of their foliage.
Spraying with some of the arsenical
mixtures II properly done in accordance
with the instructions which have been SC
repeatedly published by the department
of agriculture, will, on the whole, prove
the most satisfactory preventive measure
against this and other oaterpillars. Pure
Paris green, one pound to barrel Of
water, with little well-slaked lime tC
aid suspension and adhesion to the leaves
and sprayed intelligently by means of al
improved vermorel nozzle at the season
when the bulk of the eggs have hatchet
and the worms are yet small, will destro,
these last effectually before they hay'
done material harm. 1t may be uset
with perfect safety, is superior in iti
wholesale effect to all other methods com
bined, and has the advantage that 1t als'
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-07-25
Criticising Mrs. Stanford.

Pending the settlement of the govern
ment suit against the Stanford estate,
Mrs. Stanford has been compelled to sell
1000, 900 gallons of brandy from her
Southern California ranch for the benefit
of Leland Stanford University, which is
short of funds. Thereupon some of the
clergy of Chicago in a meeting held
Mitchell, of Calvary Presbyterian church.
observed:
A nice college, indeed, to send young
men to! Do you think any professor
would dare advocate temperance there?
most certainly would oppose sending any
Christian youth to college supported by
the sale of liquor"
The meeting took Mr.. Mitchells view
of the case and passed resolutions in criti-
cism of the generous Mrs. Sanford.
AS brandy is used very largely in
legitimate way especially by invalids
as the majority of the people are
not prohibitionists; as much of Mr.. Stan
ford S money heretofore accepted without
question was made by the sale of such
products of his ranch as the Leland Stan
ford University is noble private enter
prise which the church has not contrib
uted; as Mrs Stanford is left almost un-
aided to struggle with the problem of
keeping the university supplied with a
working capital, we think the Chicago
ministers might have shown little more
diffidence in their condemnation of this
brave little woman.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-07-25

DR.. Paul Brisson, of Paris, claims to
have discovered the microbe of old age
He says that 1t exists only in the blood of
old and decrepit men, and when injected
into the circulation of young and
healthy individual it produces all the
signs of advanced age. DR.. Brisson fur
ther announces that by the injection of a
certain serum into the blood these mi.
crobes can be destroyed, and he says that
man may live indefinitely, provided the
propagation of the microbe be prevented
and accident be avoided.
If this scientist-run- mad had really
made such a discovery, the demand fol
his serum would exceed anything ever
seen upon the earth. The millionaires
and pleasure chasers would be especially
anxious for a short interview with NJ
Brisson, in the hope that he would turn
back the hands of the clock for them O
century or so. They would then hold the
whip haud on Death and eliminate one
very potent drop of bitter from their cup
of sweet Ali If 1t were only So
But as the inirmities of age are not
peculiar to man but affiict alikeStht
organic as well as the inorganic world
the insect, the animal, the oak, the planet
itself-we are afraid the Frenchman Il
not giving his genius wide enough 6
range when he confines his alleged dis
covery to man.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-07-25
"Dryu sundays in New York.

In the municipal warfare that is raging
in New York just now over Sunday
saloons, very singifcalt fact is the ac-
tion of the liquor dealers themselves in
support of Sunday closing. Another in
teresting point is raised by the New York
Evening Post which doubts If open Sun
day saloons can carry in New York on a
popular vote. The Post thinks not and
bases this opinion on the fact that the
sentiment against the Sunday saloon has
been growing very rapidly of late espec-
tally since the demonstration that they
can be closed and kept closed on Sunday
If the police administration so desires.
John McLean's paper, the journal,
which he is editing just now, as might be
expected, comes out for Sunday liquor
selling using the old argument that all
obsolete and unenforced laws should be
rigidly enfocred if the selling of liquor on
Sunday is prohibited. But the difference
between obsolete laws and the New York
law against liquor selling on Sunday is
that in the one case the laws are out
grown and simply linger on the statute
book because nobody moves to have them
repealed, but in the other they are mod
ern enactment and are supposed to be an
expression of the sentiment of today. We
believe this advocate of lawlessnes in
New York is democratic candidate for the
United States senate from Ohio.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-07-25

ner the New York congressman, stands
alone in urging that we should suppress
the jingo spirit and devote ourselves to the
development of o country that is already
large enough; that the annexation of a
mongrel foreign population which must
be governed by satrap or consul will
simply be borrowing trouble, of which we
already have more than enough
The modern craze for bigness Is ac-
countable for this annexation fever. We
want the biggest cities, the biggest coun-
try, the biggest population. While we
endorse the establishment of proper naval
stations, both in the Pacific and in the
South we feel certain that the people are
far from sure of the wisdom at this time
of going beyond the annexation of posi-
bly, Hawaii We now have the trade of
Cuba without the trouble and expense of
governing her.
But the heart of the American people
will always go out to those who are strug-
Cling for liberty and the day may soon be
here when we will be justified on moral
grounds of taking firm stand for Cuban
independence which, in turn, would prob
ably be followed by peaceable and friendly
annexation When annexation comes by
this evolutionary method, the country
will be ready for it.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-07-25
Voice of the American woman,

The Forum has an article on the nasal
tones in the voices of AmerioanpWomen
The writer's conclusions are: First the
majority of our women's voices are weak
Again, our women's voices are, on the
whole, ungentle; that is to say, they are
pitched unpleasantly high and hardened
by throat contractions into an habitual
"quacky" or metallic quality. This un-
gentleness is the one attribute of our
women's voices that seems to have at
tracted most attention abroad 1t is the
most striking American defect Nasality
has held that place in popular estimation,
but true nasality is not very common to-
day in America; 1t seems to be dying out
"Quackiness" and shrillness prevail less
in the southern states than in the north
ern and western, but even southern
women are not free from it.
About all there is of it seems to be that
the human voice in dry climate seems
to deteriorate in quality. This is proba-
bly, due to a construction of the vocal
chords owing to the relative absence of
moisture from the atmosphere The
writer's own statement that the women
breathing the moist air of the south have
pleasanter voices than those of the dry
northwest bears out this explanation.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-07-25

The news of the reforms accomplished
by the South Carolina dispensary law-an
enactment that was much buffeted in the
courts and derided by politicians of the
old parties-is certainly very cheering.
Here is DR.. Albert Shaw, the editor of the
Review of Reviews, probably the best
authority in this country on questions of
municipal control, giving to the National
Reform Conference, in response to re-
Lquest, letter in which the fact is set
forth about as plainly as 1t well can be,
that the law is probably a great success.
DIR. Shaw has just returned from South
Carolina. Among other thing, he says,
while distinctly disclaiming any advocacy
of the law;
found the dispensaries conducted by
the State) to be conducted in q most or
derly and business-like way, being opened
very early In the morning and closed at
sundown. Perhaps the most interesting
testimony of all was that which was borne
by practical lien, not connected with
politics, but largely concerned with the
emPloymen of labor. recall particularly
the opinions of railway roadmaster in
whose company l crossed the State of
South Carolina and who pointed out to
me, at station after station, bar rooms
which were gling to decay, with windows
ands doors boarded up. In his capacity as
employer of labor for the maintenance OF
the road-bed of extensive lines, he was
able to testify to a remarkable transfer.
nation in the habits OF the men. He alsI
told me the story Of the transformation
of the little town in which he himself
lives, through the substitution of ore dis.
pensary, closed at sundown, for several
groy-shops Of the most Objectionable sort
which were formerly open all night with
the result of much drukenness and dis
order In the streets.
1t is not so much my own opinion o
the workings of the South Carolina sys
tenn that / should regard as possessing
Importance. The only thing in my ex
perienoe that consider to have any sig
nifcanoe whatever is the fact that men O
standing in South Carolina, supposed Il
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-07-25

be hostile to the trainers and promoters of
this dispensary system, were entirely
ready in private conversation with me to
say that they had now come to the con-
clusion that the dispensary system Is a
highly beneficial one, which ought TO be
maintained for the well-being of the COM
munity, and which might with advantage
be adopted by neighboring states.
If South Carolina has stumbled on the
best solution thus far of the liquor ques-
tion, or, rather, the saloon question, we
may possibly be on the edge of reform
in this matter that will sweep the ooun-
try-knocking out local option as well as
the Ohio idel embalmed In the Dow law.
What is this South Carolina innovationi
Simply that the state should be the dis
penser of all liquor thereby effeotually
controlling the traffic and incidentally
reaping all the profits.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-07-25
Senator Brice,s New Railroad Dea

A dispatch from Lima says in regard
to deal which Senator Brice is supposed
on what is considered good authority, to
be behind;
Senator Brice Is behind big scheme to
buy in the Ohio Southern railroad from
the receiver, and build an extension from
Lima to Detroit Mich, there to parallel
the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton,
which he failed to secure control of year
or so ago. The line will only be ten
miles longer than the present route 1t
is understood that the right of way
through this city has been secured.
This Ohio Southern railroad is a little line
that starts at Wellstown, down in Jackson
county, near the Ohio river, and runs 11S
miles northwest to Springfield in direct
line for Lima. If it Is extended to De-
trot the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
ton will hardly be mortally hurt as its
heavy travel is down the Miami valley,
past Dayton to Cincinnati
The mention Of this deal recalls the sem
ator's first venture in railroad building,
the construction of the "Nickle Plate, "
which, as parallel line to the Lake
Shore, the Brice syndicate forced the
Vanderbilt interest to buy. There was no
particlar need for the Nickle Plate and
today there is not an express train on the
road. But the Vanderbilts were vulnera-
bic at this point and the Brice syndicate
did not hesitate to make the attack. The
new venture, If the telegraphic report be
,curate, is venture along the same line.