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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-10-10
FOTR LIyES FOR 4 STEER.
Thieves Oyertaken Give Battle With Fatal
Results.


LAREDO. TEN, oct a shooting af-
fray over a stolen steer Sunday near
Twobig station. resulted I'm the death Of
j. II. Shaw, an American rauchman, two
Mexican men. a Mexican child, and the
wourGing Of a Mexican woman.
Shaw had lost yearing steer, ana
with Deputy Sheriff Swing trailed the
thieves They came upon them, together
with a womaL and child. in cart, in
which was the meat Of the animal. Re
sistance was offered and the shooting
followed.
The two Mexicans and Shaw were
killed outright. The child dice Monday.
The woman is badly wounded. but will
probably survive.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-10-10
SUaTTLEED 4 POPULAR IDOL.
Experts on Hypnotism say Trilby CoaId
Not Have Been Made IL Sing.


Not Have Been Made 10 Sing.
The members Of the Social Culture
Club, who met to talk about what they
knew about hypnotism, shattered a pop
ular idol last night at 30. 81 east Twcn-
ty-second street. The speakers, among
whom were Dr. Drayica, Or. Bcai, ana
Dr. Fischer, experts on mcsmersm and
hypnotism, said that it was impossible
for a young woman. Ike Trilby. TO sing
as she did under the influence of SVEN
gall
They said sho hal no voice, no ear for
music, and no brains, and even II she
had all these things, IL would have been
improbable that Syengali could have In
nucnccd her as he aid. Or. Drayton
said that he was thoroughly convinced
that Du Maurier knew little or nothing
about hypnotsm, and that the hypno-
thing incident in his book was mere TO
mancing New York Herald.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-10-10

by and with the support of the people
OF Virginia. Every citizen can atoru u
join this Association or contribute some
thing TO It's support in order to ald III
the accomplishment Of the ends that IL
has in Wow.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-10-10
Ten DAYS for Porkefing n Snool.

PARKERSBURG. W. Va, Oct 9.-John
G. Hector. a tailor. employed by Joseph
Keller quarrelled with his employer and
was discharged. Hector. when ne left
pocketed a spool Of thread. He was ar
rested for the theft. and Justice H"rv-
with sent him TO jail for ten days. -Balti-
more American.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-10-10

Advices from Seoul. the capital Of Co
rea. reports quiet restored there. The
palace t. being guarded by the japanese.
and the Queen. whose life was menaced.
IL entirely safe.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-10-10
sunday E1cul sionS on James River DiNis-
inn g. and .. RAILWAY.

The Sunday Excursion rates on the
Jares River Division Chesapeake ana
! Ohio railway. between Richmond anu
! Scottsviile. have been withdrawn.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-10-10
There is More Style,
More NeatleSS,
and More Tone

about the garments We make and
sell thau those Of any 9th r house
In town We guarantee every gar
ment for reliability and honesty.
We know they Wear as well, M ass
well. look as woll-ln fact. give the
same satisfaction as custom gar
ments which cost double the price.
Being the makers OF the Clothes
We sell. we are IN position 20 sell
them cheaper than garments Or tine
same value can be bought else
where.
One OF the best bargains Ne or
any other house ever offered are
those SO SUITS and ONERCOATS
we hayc been talking 10 you about;
You can buy ,.sem and feel assured
that you are getting goods whifh
will wear well and give satisiac.
ton. We've got all shlpcs and
shades. and all kinds OF materials,
single and double-brcasted.
Won't hurt 10 look.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-10-10

The Star and Herald. Panama, says:
Trustworthy information has been re-
ceivei here that a revolution has broken
out In the interior OF Venezuela"
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-10-10

THINK or THIS. Hoods Sarsaparll,a
is the only true blood purifier prominently
I'M tie public eye to-day. II cures disease
when all others fail, because II makes
pure blood.
HOODS PILLS cure jaundice. bilious
ness. sick headache. constipation. ana all
liver us.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-25

enter a large tube, stretching its ugly
length across the continent, take a seat
in a p~roiectile a and be shot from
here TO San Francisco in ten minutesG
these and countless other mechanical
changes are limited by only two things:
First. mans continued power to dis
cover the forces Of nature; second, his
skill in making mechanical appliances
hat will rest on these laws and cause
them TO serve him. To these two fac
tors of progress there seems no limita.
tions. Hence, it is safe to predict that
the industrial age has only fairly SGT in.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-25
HARNETT COUNTY MEETING
CHANGED.

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
DUNN, N, 9.
We wish you to give notice in your
next issue that Harnett County Farm
ers Alliance will change it's time of
meeting from the 18th of July to 6sh,
for the purpose of having DR.. Cyrus
Thompson with us. We will meet
with Westville Sub Alliance Saturday
the 9Th of July at 10 o'clock sharp, so
as to give the doctor the afternoon.
All are invited to come and bring well
filled baskets. ALI who have heard the
doctor know what is in store for US.
The Caucasian will please copy.
D. S. WILLIAMS, Pres.
W. G. BYRD, SC.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-25
DEMANDS ADOPTED
By the Farmers Alliance and industrial
Union at Raleigh, N. C., Feb
ruary 8, 1905.

Finance-We demand a nationd
currency, safe, sound and fezibA
issued by the government only, full
legal tender for all debts, public o.
private, and that without the use d
banking corporations a just, equis@
and efficient means of distribufp
direct to the people at a tax notbG:
coed 2 per cent. as set forth N&
Sub-Treasury plan or some betterWs
tenn; also, by payments in discharged
its obligations and for public improve
ments.
o.. We demand the free and unlimiN
coinage of silver and gold at the Legal
ratio of Is to 1.
b. We demand that the amount d
the circulating medium be increased
at least $50 per capita exclusive Of Legal
reserves.
C. We demand a graduated inconI
tax.
d. That our national legislation shall
be so framed in the future as not y
build up one industry at the expens8d
another.
e. We believe that the money 9TH
country should be kept as much q
possible in the hands of the people and
hence we demand that all Nationalist
State revenue shall be limited to ta
necessary expenses of the government
economically and honestly adnIm
tered.
+. We demand that postal saving
banks be established by the govern
ment for the safe deposit Of the cam
ings of the people and to facilitated
changes. 49,,
Land-The land, including all u
natural resources of wealth, Is Wy
heritage of all the people and Snola
hot be mOnopolized for speCulatlVePI
poses and alien ownership OF S|
should be prohibited. All lands no'
held by railroads and other corPoIs,
tons In excess of their actual neoI
and lands now owned by aliens, Sno%
now be reclaimed by the governD'D
and sold for actual settlers only.
Y,
ing a means of exchange and a pun
necessity, the government should WV
and operate Just enough OF the wv
petlng ra lroad lines of the coun.l 1
efectually give the Governmen. ~
control of the regulation Of paS88DS'
fares and freight rates. M
q. The telegraph and telephone, 4
the postofnce system, being a nega@cs
TOR the transmission Of mteiiigoDtf
should be owned and operated .! ~
government in the interest OF 'n' ?
pie.
ELECTION OF UNITED STATES sENIAI''
We demand the election Of Op1
States Senators by a direct vote W y.
people, That each State shall w
vlded into two districts Of nearjy es
voting population, and that a PIN ir
from each shall be elected by q
vote OF the people of the dlsErlcI
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-25
ON THE INCOME TAX DRC,@S

The July number of the qru,
Tarer will contain a pair ~ "a
criticisms upon the ecent doo, aUFaba
the o. s. Supreme court unoD q
come Tax law, one being fro '~' b
pungent pen of R. A. Sankev ~ Se
at law, of Wichita, Kansas rSS OrA
with the subject from a Legal us&
point, and the other being bv S'Sa&
Norcutt, of Villiska, lowe, wbo {
up in a vigorous manner the nv 0
of vast wealth to tax-free itsaIf
expense of the general public Tte
Dean, ex President of the F, *
U. in New York, and H. B, GU
of Tulare, California, have sonnaS!
to say about the graduated ppoosaS
tax as a preventive of land monas'
etc. These articles should be roy
every one who believes in laviu v
larger tax upon wealth. Send
to Berlin, Pennsylvania, and o %Vs
copy of the July number of the G =" .
Gted Tarer or, Is cents and pat ~ ''
per for a year. '%
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-25

1t is one of the DISADVANTAGES 4,
turing that it ~necessitates getin.S
COWS at night in a yard for MIL: a'
where they are usually left until
ing without feed. If COWS couId 'a
their way they would do most of t ras'
grazing at night, while the air !. o~S
only lying down when they had sM,,
themselves. It will pay to cpt o,as
grass for the COWS put up in the vs, 1'
and when this is done the effect ~
creased yield will induce the farms, ~
stable his COWS during the heat NJ -.
day, and provide green food for them
At night the COWS might be allowed >,
run in some pasture near the barn NM
ting them up in the morning, Or,
a feed at noon and night would then. i,
required.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-25
CORRECT.

Zone hundred pension clerks at
Washington r to be dismissed. Now
if they could dismiss about one half
the pensioners it would be getting
down to business - ~GIna6nqtOn Star
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-25
WHAT OUR ADVERTISERS 5
OFFICE OF
BARNES Bros.
Electric Power Job PrlntettoSa I'd

Raleigh, n. c., July 20,
Mr. Denmark, Business ManGg',a D
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
vertising medium. Besides a ~ hsd
received from North Carolina, gST
received them from Mississippi %
Hampshire and Pennsylvania, d tbr
advertisement was only lnserVgPSp os
times. BARNES DN
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-22
The SrDcrstitious Tnrk.

There is no land on earth where more superstitions prevail than that of the unspcalablo Turk. Some of them are interesting. Jfby any chance 3 sparrow or swallow flies in the window and cir cles thrco times around the room 1t is a sign that blood relation of some one present is about to die. There arc many signs and happenings that are supposed to predict marriage. For in stance, if a horse sneezes when young girl passes in the street she is positive that her time is nearly come. If her hair becomes unfastened she knows that she will soon be sought for. and if she goes to cat q peach and finds it's skernel split she is equally certain that she will soon be Wedded.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-22
vARIAnons la LITERATURE.
Present Day Literary Limitations of aEusieal ComEosi. ions i:nIs,innn Years iCo.

Present Day Literary Limitations of Musical
 Compositions Common Years ASo.
 Some twenty-five years ago there was a style of musical cen position much in vogue known as variations" says a writer in the Atlantic Monthly. Ii ap peared in dozen page sheets entitled "Home Sweet Home-with variations" f'Coming Through the Rye with varia- tions;" 'Uet Me Kiss Him for His Mother (also with variations). The distinctive plan of these composition. and, whatever their individual char acteristic. they were, as whole, with out ariation-consisted, first, in a brace or two of banging prelude, close ly followed by a simple little air that somebody else had written. This definitely announced the theme to be ''variated, which was next heard be- hind thin screen of artfully arranged arpeggios. Then it donned deep dis guise in the bass, to become barely recognizable in the treble with trills. ditto in bass, in the treble with runs ditto in bass, and finally lost itself in company Of crashing chords so over towering that one could not be certain whether the original air had beer Coming Through the Rye" or "Let Me Kiss Him for His Mother''
 4 similar sort of treatment has now invaded the art of letters: that is tc say, it has affected the entire twenty. six, as well as the select seven to Dc found upon the piano keyboard. Ii doesn't nowadays satisfy a writer tc say, merely: ''One summer morning fine and early, was walking through the woods" He immediately goes on (talking the word "early" as his key note): ''The sun had not been long above the horizon and the air was yet fragrant with last nights dew" Then, with fine" and summer" as texts, he tells us: Everywhere were the green and luxuriant footprints of light-step- ping summer" Starting next from CD 'I," @ walking" and (3) woods" he informs us: ''As my feet pressed the soft moss faint forest odors filled the air, the cracllle of dry stick was heard and a startled gray squirrel scampcred up the giant oak on my left" Da capo: ''On such glorious morning l was glad simply to be alive, as were we all-young-rlsen sun, trees, flowers, moss and little gray squirrel"
 And so, diluting and further diluting an idea, it is hard to tell just what degree of strength it may originally have possessed. The strength of the writer, 1t is, however, more easy to de- Lernine.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-22
FACTS ABOUT JUPITER.
Wonderful Figures Fall to Express Enough
 Concerning the Great Planet.

Concerning the Great Planet.
 Our most eminent astronomers do not pretend to give us exact reckon ings on the great floating worlds out side of our own solar system, but with in that monstrous aggregation every thing has been reduced to certainty. The lIingrin of the solar system is Jupiter, mighty Jupiter, the colossal giant of all the sun-kisse,l worlds. :" His diameter is about SS,000 of cur miles, being about eleven times that of our own globe: the circumference 215000 miles at the equator, which would give the giant a volume exceed ing that of the earth by 1,aS4 times. Were it possible to bring the earth and Jupiter so close together that the dis tance separating them would be no greater than that which now separates tbc earth from the moon-about 240,- 900 miles-what wondrous sight would be in store for the residents Of our lit tie globe The world Of Jupiter would appear to us to have a diameter forty times larger than that of our usual mighty attendant, and the surface of his disk would occupy space greater than that of 1900 full moons. And this giant of the planets is re- moved from the sun by distance of 496, 100000 miles; has an orbit of more than 1000, ,0G5, 600 miles in extent, and makes circuit of its celestial track once every 4,S$2 days. Thus it will be seen that a year on Jupiter is equal to eleven years, ten months and seven teen days on our globe. The immensi- ty of the world of Jupiter and it's orbit may be approximately measured by this comparison: h order to complete it's orbit in the time given above, it must speed around the sun with ve- locity of 700, ,O00 miles aday, ol 3 little more than eight miles per second.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-22
THE AUTHOR sPARTAcus."
Composed by Elijah Kellogg When q Stu
 dent at Andoyer.

Composed by Elijah Kellogg When Stu
 dent at Andoyer.
 Talking with a correspondent of the Boston Herald Rev Elijah Kellogg, of liarpswell Me, thus described how he wrote that favorite Reclamation of school boys: .'Spartacus to the Gladia tors":
 s'It was while I was at Andover, :" said he, smiling as the remembrance of the event came back to hlm. We were required to prepare speeches for our rhetorical exercises, and after each man had spoken he was subjected to criticisms by his fellowS-and their comments weren't always so compli- mentary as they were pointed. Then the professor would follow with seri- ous criticism, and he always found faults that needed correcting.
 ''So these speeches came to be looked upon with dread, and at last I made up my mind that I'd try to get something so different from anything we had had and so interesting that it would hold their attention too closely for them to Iu1dh dOOlG pcIutS On WHICH, GO CA1O1- else me, and so would get off free.
 Well, 1 wrote 'Spartacus.' When began it worked just as I had ex- pected. They were so taken by sur prise that they never thought of any thing but the speech. You could have heard pin drop at any time while I was speaking, and they did not recover until had finished and had come down to ask for criticism.
 ''Then when Prof. Payne turned to the students and inquired: What criticism have you to offer, young gen tiemen?' there wasn't one of them had word to say, for they were all think ing of the piece and hadn't noticed anything else.
 'Gentlemen,' said the professor, i've are not here for theological dis quisitions nor for learned arguments, but these exercises are purely rhetor- ical, and, gentlemen, that is rhetoric.'
 ''Then, turning to me, he remarked; T could criticise you, Kellogg, but l don't know whether it would do you more good or harm, and so, on the whole, think I will say nothing
 "So," added the old gentleman, with chuclSle ''I eScaDed criticism
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-22
TREES AND THEIR AGES.
They Are tIie Only Forms of Nature Which
 Accurat ately Record the Years.

liccnT2teiJ llScoTd the Tears.
 Elm, 800 years; ivy, 3S5 years; maple, 51o years; larch, 576 years; orange, $50 years; cypress, 800 years; olive, 500 years; walnut, 800 years; Oriental plane, 1000 years: lime, 1,100 years: spruce, 1900 years; oak, 1.590 years; cedar, 5000 years; yew, 3,20O years. The way in which the ages of these trees have been ascertained leaves no doubt of it's correceness. In some few cases the data have been furnished by historical records and by traditions, but the botanical archeologists have a resource independent of either, and, when carefully used, infallible.
 Of all the forms of nature, trees alone disclose their ages candidly and freely. In the stems of trees which have branches and leaves with netted veins-ln all exogens, as the botanist would say-the increase takes place by means of an annual deposit of wood, spread in an even layer upon the sur face of the preceding one.
 In the earlier periods of life trees in- crease much faster than when adult the oak, for instance, grows more rap- idly between the twentieth and thir- tieth years-and when old the annual deposits considerably diminish, so that the strata are thinner and the rings proportionably closer. Some trees slacl1en in rate of growth at very early period Of life, and layers of oak become thinner after 70, those of the elm after 50, those of the yew after GO.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-22
COST Or CUP RACES.
Lord Dunraven Has Spent Fortune Try.
 ing to Beat the visilant.

Lord DuIr1ven Has Spent a Fortune Try
 ing to Beat the Vigiiant.
 Yachting costs great deal of money, especially such yachting as is ildulged in to capture and defend the America's cup, remarks the New York Tribune. 4 friend of Lord Dunraven said recently that the earl told him that the total cost to him to build. equip and run the Valzyrie, together with his travelling expenses to win tine Americas cup, would be fully one hun dred and fifty thousand dollars, The syndicate which built the Vigilant subscribed one hundred thousand dol lars originally, and has been called upon for m assessment besides, so that the total outlay upon the cup de- fender is not far from the amount ex- pended on the Valkyrie. Add to these sums the money which the Jubilee, Colonia and Pilgrim cost their owners, and the total cost of the latest strug- gle for the Americas cup amounts to almost five hundred thousand dollars.
 The honor of holding the America s cup, however, cannot be reckoned by dollars and cents, and American yacht men would not have been willing to part with the trophy at any cost. The practical benefit to boat building and the pleasure and profit to be derived from pure and manly sport must be added to the credit account.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-22
New Use for Rubber.

Good results are obtained by using rubber in connection with an anchor rope in equalizing and relieving strain in dredging, and in measuring the depth and swiftness of currents. For merly a severe strain was caused by a sudden jerking in a pitching vessel. This is now overcome by what is called a rubber accumulation, which consists of seventy rubber discs or buffers on a middle rod, so arranged that by com pression they act as q spring. The buyers are cylindrical in shape, two and one-quarter inches in thickness, and separated from one another by metal discs one-eighth of an inch thick, and two inches larger in diameter than the rubbers, which on expansion do not overlap the metal surfaces. In this device it is found that compres- sion can be had of five feet, which is sufficient to distribute the strain along the entire length of the ship, The ap- plication is made by running the rope from reel located aft to the middle of the foremast, and then passing it through the rubber accurnulatcr to the end of the anchoring boom, which is spar thirty feet long. From this the rope with two hundred-pound weight attached is dropped vertically into the
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-22
FLOWERS OF THE NIGHT.
Peculiarly Adapted to Attract Winged
 Insects.

As we all know, there are day-bloom- ing and night-blooming flowers, says the Cornhill Magazine. The former lay themselves out for the fertilizing visits of bees and butterflies; they are generally declzed in red, blue, vel low purple, and have often lines, spots or markings on their petals which point to the nectaries and So act as honey guides. The nigl<-bloonling flowers, on the other hanh, lay them selves out for the visits of mAths S., other crepuscular insects and therefore have recourse to something like the tactics of the frelics and the glow-worms. They are usually pure white and the petals arc often of such peculiar tex turc that they seem to glow with in ternal light in the dim shades of even ing. At times one might almost fancy they were stained by nature with some curious forerunncr of luminous paint, so strongly do they reflect every invisible ray of tEe faint twilight. They thus succeed in catching the eyes of moths, which, of course, are es- pecially modified for receiving and per ceiving the slender stimulus of dusk and the gloaning.
 But the nocturnal flowers have no lines or spots, because these last could never be perceived in the gray gloom of evening. They make up for it, how ever, by being heavily scented; indeed, almost all the strong white flowers, like jessa mine, tuberose, gardenia, 5tephanotis, ccreus and syringa, which Ire such favoritcs with florists, belong to night-blooming plants, specially adapted to attract the eyes and noses of night-fying insects.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-22
Indian Salics in pslauars.

Interesting relies of deatl and gone Indian tribes arc the great mounds of oyster shells formed along the seashore in southern Delaware. According to local tradition, the Nanticokes of Pennsylvania were in the habit of win tering along the sea shore in lower Delaware and of eating numerous quantities of oysters. The shells tes- tify 70 the capacities of the Nanticol1es, and rnary lnd.aD implements are found in the mounds.
The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-22

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The St. Johns herald., 1895-08-22

Inc secretary of t1a Eikhart Carriage .nd Harness Mig. Co., or Elkhart, Ind. nforn,s us that tbe'r prices will be lower for IS94 than ever. lie wishes us to ask our readers not to purchase anything ia the line of carriages. wagons, bicycles CT harness until they nave sent cents ii1 stamps to pay poSta ee on their 112 page We adVise the readers of this 2aper to remember Lis suggestion.