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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-29
Brazilian Cruiser Wrecked,

Rio JANEIRO, Nov. 29.-The Brazilian
cruiser Uranus has been wrecked, tho
commander and five of the crew being
drowned
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-29
Gen. Harri.on starts for Home.

NEW YORK, Nov. 2o.-Ex-Presidcn Ben
jamin Harrison left this city yesterday
afseenoon for his home In Indianapolis.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-29

GRAIN, ETC.
Corn-New, %
Oats-New, 16cG13Oc.
Hay-Timothy. e1e1sI3: upland, 31l; wild, 81
OSLO; slough, $70$S; bale 4, $11.
VEGETABLES.
Potatoes -90c.
PRODUCE
Butter-Fair to choice, 49,; fresh cream
cry. 22c.
Eggs-Fresh, IS.
fouitry-'hickens, SC.
Turkeys-6.
G.ess-Tc.
Ducks-1c.
LIVE STOCK
Cettle-Butchers pay for corn fed steers
3hc@4c; cows and heifers, 3kcx. SIC; calves.
3xc1ic
HOy,-3c0tSRc.
Shee,-3cGS31Sc.
spring lamb, &c pound.
FUEL.
Coal-Sof:, 10c
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-29
THE LANDLORD WHO WOULDN'T.
Eeprives = Large Crowd Of Children OF
Thanksgiving Good Things.

Eeprfves . Large Crowd OF Children OF
Thanksgiving Good Things.
CHICAGO, Nov. 29.-Thanksgiving day
was generally observed in this city. The
customary dinner with turkey was given
at all the public NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
orphan asylums, etc. Only one instance OF
the commercial spirit interfering with the
Programme is known. This was in the
case OF the Women's Suburban club, which
had arranged to give a dinner to the cash
girls. A large number OF them gathered
in front of the building where the club has
rooms, while the members were upstairs
getting everything in readiness. The agent
of the building, William H Hoops, how
ever, had received instructions from the
landlord not to run the elevators.
As the children could not walk up seven
Or eight flights of stairs they had to be
sent away without anything to eat. 1t
seems that the landlord had a claim of
fl'.5o for back rent, and this may have in
fiuenced him in declining to incur the al
ditional expense of 70 cents for running
the elevator for the accommodation of the
clubs guests. 1t is understood that the
landlord lives somewhere in the east.
The day was very generally celebrated
in the good old way, although at New
York it was quieter than usual owing to
the absence of the college foot ball game
that generally takes piece there. Fifteen
hundred newsboys were fed with turkey,
ETC., by William Waldorf Aastor, pro-
prietor of The Pail Mall Gazette, London,
rs memorial of his wife who died in
England, and it is said asked for this OF
her husband as Il dying request.
THOUSANDS OF PRAYERS FOR BOB.
The Great Agnostic the Subject of Petitions
to tie Almighty.
CLEVELAND, Nov 90. - Many fcrvcnt
prayers were doubtless offered in'this city
yesterday for the conversion of Colonel
Robert G. Ingcrso!l, the noted aSnostic.
Last week at the quarterly meeting of the
Christian Endeavor unions OF Cleveland
it was suggested that such prayers be Of
fered, and the prcsidented appointed noon
Is the time and request that the 5000
members of the society here engage in
prayer at that time. The president of the
Epworth League, who was present said
he would make IL similar request to tho
members of his organization. The prayers
We're to be delivered in private, and how
many persons complied with the request
will probably lever be known.
Public prayers for Colonel Ingersoll
were offered at a. mass-mceting of the Sal
Walton Army and at Olivet Congrega-
tional church by the pastor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-29
CaStoria.

"Castoria Is IN excellent medicine for chill
dren. Mothers havc repeatedly told me Of its
good effect upon their children"
Dr.. G. G. OsGoop,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-29

Not Worried About Torpedoes.

AS to the system of mines and torpedoes
about the Dardanelles they do not cause
much apprehension among foreign Off
GERS here. They believe that few torpe-
do-catohers could cut the shore-connect-
ing wires in short order and that little
countcrmining would do the rest.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-29

"Cas:oria is the best remedy for children Of
which am acquainted. hope the day is not
far distant when mothers will consider the real
interest Of their children, and use Castoria ill.,
stead of the variousquack nostrums whic, ars
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium.
morphine, soothing, syrup and other hurfful
agents down their ti.roa::, thereby seI,iin;::
them to premature graves
DI. J. F. kIScnELoE,
Conway, Ark.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-29
THE TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

HICAGO, ROCK ISLAND . PACIFIC
- Railway Tickets can he purchased or bag
gare checked At X ! &P Twentieth street de pot
or RI n depot corner Fifth Avenue aId
Thirty arr street Frank n. Piummer. Agent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-29
CaStoria.

Tho Centaur Company u Murray Street. YorkC City
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-16
TROOPS WERE NOT NEEDED.

For some time the Virginia militia
have been stationed at Pocahontas, va ,
the scene of the great strike by coal
miners. On this question the VIr-
ginia papers were divided, the goldbug
or p~lutocratic papers warmly endorsing
Gov. O'Ferrall, while the honest papers
strongly denounced his arbitrary &C
ton. It has cost the State probably a
hundred thousand dollars and has ben
Gifted nobody
Now the Board of Trade of Pocahon
tas has been heard from. Four Of the
members of the Board are interested in
the coal mine, and refused to join in
the address, but the other member con-
sisting of reputable business and pro-
fessional men, denounce the Governor
for his -unwarranted action. They
claim that no county nor city official
asked for troops, and, therefore, the
Governor must have responded to a
request made by the plutocratic owners
of the coal mines. The Board of Trade
say UL6V gHO UOOpS AoN .
been more riotous and have violated
the laws oftener than the strikers.
They further say that about May 9TH
one of the mining companies brought
$50 men from Eastern cities, mostly all
foreigners, to take the place of the
strikers. When these men arrived
they found that the situation had been
misrepresented to them and refused to
begin work. The troops were already
on the ground and were brought into
use. On the day after the men
arrived at Pocahontas, and after get
ting the true inwardness of things, they
started out of town in a body. Their
progress was stopped by soldiers who
arrested them and placed them in a
stockade, keeping them there from
Friday until the following Tuesday,
telling them that they would be starved
unless they took the places Of the
striking miners. Other outrages are
detailed
This all happened in Virginia, the
Mother of Presidents" and SO called
land of liberty. A few incidents like
the Pullman strike at Chicago and at
Pocahontas, and a few more plutocratic
outrages, and the fuse of revolution
will be fired and ~plutocracy, oh where
will it be.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-16
CLASSIFICATION OF RAILROADS.

The total number of railway corpora
tions on June 80, 1894, was 1924, an
increase during the year Of Of this
number 745 we're independent operat-
ing companies, and 945 maintained sep
arete operating accounts. The number
of companies maintaining financial
accounts only was 8O4, of which 334
were operated under lease for a fixed
money rental, and 100 for a contingent
money rental; 243 were controlled
through the the ownership of stock by
the operating company; the remaining
81 returned no information as to the
form of control. The number of roads
not in operation was u, of which so
we're independent roads; 10 were sub
sidiary roads, parts of systems, and z
we're private roads. In addition to the
road already referred to there were 90
private roads operated in connection
with logging, milling, and mining in
dustries. The movement of consolida-
ton during the year on the basis of
mileage involved has been greater than
for the year previous; Is roads, repre-
senting 1874 "a miles have been
merged; % roads, representing 2 351 80
miles have been consolidated. A clas-
sification of railways on the basis of
operated mileage shows that A roads,
each with a mileage of over 1000
miles, operate 100, SAP. 30 miles of line,
or Sc 80 per cent. of the total mileage
of the country; % roads, each with a
mileage of over 600 and less than 1000
miles, operate II, 918 35 miles of line,
or 10. O3 per cent. of the total mileage;
% roads, each with a mileage of 400
and less than 600 miles, operate H.
724.O 90 miles of line or 6.57 per cent. of
the total mileage; 40 roads, with a
mileage of over $50 and less than 400
miles, operate Is. sos 80 miles of line,
or z IS per cent. of the total mileage;
and 9O7 roads, each with a mileage of
less than $50 miles, operate the remain
der of the mileage, "a. 91O 26 miles or
10 81 per cent. of the total mileage.
From this it will be een that 80 roads,
representing the first three classes, op-
crate 70 80 per cent. of the entire mile
age of the country.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-16
HIGH AUTHORITY.

M. Alphonse Allard, who was one of
the Belgian delegates to the Interna
tional Monetary Conference held in
Brussels in 1892, read a notable eco
nomic paper before the Brussels Con
sentative Union on the 18th inst. In
conclusion, he said the only remedy for
the existing depression of trade was the
rehabilitation of silver and a return to
bi metallism, a movement toward
which had made progress in every
country in the world.
From the above you will see that the
free silver advocates have within their
ranks some of the brainiest men on
earth-the Charlotte Observer to the
contrary Notwithstanding. You will
also note that the silver ''fad" is not
confined to America alone, but that
other countries are awakening to the
fact that the death of silver as a stand
ard of money means the stagnation and
death of business among the masses.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-16
CAPTAIN MASON ON THE OLD
PARTY SHIP.

Captain Thomas w. Mason, in his
grafton at the Wake Forest commence
ment, warned the boys against a
'turn- coat"
Some people thought he referred to
Mr.. Cleveland, who has changed his
principles several times for Office.
Some thought he was covertly assail-
ing the Democratic party for having
frequently changed and modified it's
principles in the pursuit of the Offices.
Some said he referred more especially
to the Chicago platform, which had a
silver lining and was worn with the
lining outside by all the Democratic
candidates in the South and West.
But those who know Mr.. Mason best
said he was slyly trying to slyly de
nounce the members of the peoples
party who had left the "old ship" with
so small a crew the last trip that she
missed the haven and the rewards of
the faithful" Some bitterness was
added by the reflection that he too had
made the mistake of remaining on the
old ship and had also lost his reward. "
Perhaps he was misled by Col. Green's
letter, Except these abide in the ship
ye shall all perish" But if the Colonel
had read the scripture a little further
he would have found out that Paul and
all the others left the ship when she
was parted" The trouble about it is
that ship Captains Green and Mason
do not know that their old ship is
parted in the middIe"-one part drift
ing toward Wall street. Capt. Mason
was asleep when Chief Captain Cleve-
land betrayed and scuttled it.
He does not know even yet that the
ship was run aground where 1.-TWO seas
met" and that the ''hinder part"-the
tail end-the part on which he is float
ing, has been broken off"
Let him wake up and not turn his
coat, but put it off and strike for the
shore, or for a sounder ship. His party
collar, too, he must pull that off or it
will sink him.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-16
MILLIONAIRE REFoRMRR.

A year or two ago every real re-
former was denounced as an agitator
or poverty-stricken chronic grumbler.
Hon. Joseph Q. SibIey, of Pennsylva-
mia, is neither. He is reported to be
worth several million dollars, mostly
in real estate and manufacturing enter
prises. But he is not an usury shark
and will not join in with that class.
He is a sincere reformer and was one of
the very few Congressman from the
Northeastern States who worked with
almost superhuman energy, and
voted as he worked, against the IN
conditional repeal of the Sherman law,
and for the free coinage of silver. He
was elected to Congress as Democrat,
but also had the endorsement of the
POpulist Congressional Convention in
his district, and received a very large
majority of the votes cast. In
his speech at the Memphis sill
yer convention a few days ago.
Mr.. SibIey said: 1--WE must win this
fight in 1896. If we do not win it, then
it will be too late. There will be two
avenues open to the people after 1896
One will be Reputation and the other
revolution"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-16
SILVER CRAZE DYING ON

The above is a common head =.
over editorials or descriptive disnatoI.'
in the daily goldbug papers. Tbav ~
ways adopt such tactics when thar
badly frightened. The "silver cro Wv
is not dying out, and it never 1ir
From 1873 to 1878 the silver erazo u
epidemic, though in a milder form n
pacify the people, the Bland law w..
passed. 1t vas repealed and then tbas
cowardly makeshift, the Sherman low
was passed. Both were pacific. bur -,
satisfactory. The work of CONTRACT
has gone on until now the craze j.
cyclonic in it's intensity because Fl,
people feel it more than ever beforo
Poverty is rampant and values bsr.
decreased so rapidly.
The story about the Irish soldier vb.
captured a prisoner and attempted n
take him into camp, illustrates ths
''dying out" very we'll. I've Captured
a prisoner" cried the Irishman to an
officer some distance away. "Wa1
bring him in" said the officer. "Faith
1 can't" said the Irishman, hes takjp'
me with him." Probably a still bette,
illustration is a story told by Congress
man W. J. Bryan in one of his silve,
speeches. Said Mr.. Bryan:
1.-The silver question has been called
a craze and you have been told that il
will blow over. Out West, where fire.
quent windstorms occur, fences are
blown over and houses are blown over.
One farmer out there began to build
him a fence of stone and mortar. A
neighbor came along and stopped
Don't you know thatu blow overFh be
inquired. Maybe So was the reply.
it is now five feet wide and four feet
high, so if it blows over it will be one
foot taller than before"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-16
DEMOCRATIC CLERICAL ERRORS

Public Document No. 2, 1893. Page
4, reads as follows:
Il feel it my duty to call attention to
the evils following from the enrolment
of the bills passed by the Legislature.
These bills, in many cases, are so dis.
figured by erasures and blots as to
make them almost illegible. Omissions
of one Dr. more words in other bills
have lost, in one case, considerable
revenue to the State, and in others
have destroyed the real purpose of the
statute and impaired the rights of in
dividuals."
Just think oft. Would you believe it,
This is from Secretary Coke's report,
sent in by the Governor to the Gen
eral Assembly of 1898, dated Dec. 1st,
1892 and refers to the Democratic legis-
lature previous to that. 1t reads like
this trouble with enrolling clerks is
nothing new under the sun, " although
some, yea, nearly all our democratic %
dailies, r trying to make it so az
pear.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-16

ganized within its fold is not accessible
to the c%orrupting influence of money.
There is a moralizing influence con
nected with the Alliance that is salu-
tary. The Alliance is not only an edu-
Gator, but it is a shield and a lance to
all who are within it's folds. The union
formed adds strength; the association
and conferences give wisdom and un-
derstanding. Exchange of ideas re-
duces ~crudeness to purity and on every
hand benefits flow out from the ALI
ance. 1t is the only hope of the labor
ing and producing classes, and II It's
Importance was once understood there
would be n 70 cessation of Alliance work.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-16
THE RECORD BROKEN.

1t was left for Comptroller Of the
Currency, Mr.. E:kles, to cap the climax
with the boldest and most colossal lie
yet told about money. In a recent ar
ticle he says:
1.-THE volume of the country's cur
rency is of very little Importance if
that currency is sound. The soundness
of it is the vital point"
Cleveland, Sherman, Carlisle and the
other sound money prevaricators have
been trying this on the people for some
time in a roundabout way. but Eckles
comes out f2tfooted.
Now in order to demonstrate this,
Eckles' salary should be reduced to say
800 per annum, payable in gold, and
let him show the public that he can live
on 800 a year just as well as on 81, 900,
which, we believe is his salary. If his
statement is true as regards the coun-
try's finances, it will hold good in his
case also.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-16
SOME MORE SOUND MONEY"
MEN.

One of the largest dry goods houses
in Chicago closed its door on the 10th.
Honest dollars" don't go far in sus-
tanning business.
z. 7. Lewis, President of a bank at
Ansonia, Ohio, is forger and defaulter.
He has forged and sold about 800, 900
worth of county bonds, and is now a
fugitive from justice. He is a fair
sample of the tribe who are clamoring
for Sound money" Reader, don't you
see that you are foolish for being mis-.
led by such men, that is if you are
leaning that way. Honest bankers are
not goldbugs, but a majority of the
bankers r goldbugs.
The Adams Express Company has
brought suit against the Fourth Ma
tional Bank, Philadelphia, for $2,O 900.
which the express company claims the
1ank has defrauded them out of. Both
are ''sound money" concerns.
j. A. Cawson, a sound money"
drummer from Rhode Island, was ar
rested at Richmond recently charged
with purloining a horse and buggy.
The Goldsboro Argus was a sound
money" daily up to a few weeks ago.
when it was announced that MI. Walter
A. Bonitz had purchased it. Now comes
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-16

yer. Then we have others almost as
able-Senators Stewart, Pop Cam
eron, Rep; Daniel, Dem ; Jones of
Arkansas, Dem. Turpie, Harris, Call,
Pasco, Butler of South Carolina, Butler
of North Carolina, Bate, Walthall,
PETER and others. Among the Con-
gressmen, we have Crisp, Speaker of
the House; Bryan, Sibley, Benton,
Black and dozens Of others. Go to
Asheville and %resurrect the bones of
the lamented Vance, and you will find
a skull that contained more pure
brains than can be found in the head
of any goldbug, living or dead. Up to
the hour of his death, he never lost an
opportunity to raise his voice in behalf
of silver. Senator Ransom, the o.
serUer's pet, was a silver man until he
sold out, though his ability was not of
''the first order" he being better fitted
for a confidence man or professional
gambler than a statesman, all of which
he practiced along with his cuff shot
ting, "mashing" and alleged statesman
ship. A man of the first order of
ability" ought to know better than to
make such an assertion as the Observer
made.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-16

the news that the Argus is in tboI
Of a receiver on account of d oSu
the Bank of Wayne, and thet 1Qe
Bonitz may lose what he has inv.. Nj
in the paper. vested
A. s. Reinach, dealer in MILL.
goods, Peter bury, Va, a aaaa!
ment. sQ'
An expert accountant has forn,
shortage of $685. 56 20 in the boop uu a
the City'Gas Works, Richmond Of
and two of the officials will h. "a
charged. Steps will be taken to rpco w,
the shortage from the bondsmen ~ "
late Superintendent. All are ,sa,' aus
money" men. '"4u
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-07-16
N. r. p. A.
AGRICULTURE IN ENGLAND.

We have claimed time and again
that the agricultural depression is more
alarming in England than it is in this
country, and that a single standard is
largely responsible. We also maintain
that our country has not seen the
worst yet, unless we speedily get free
coinage and other financial reform.
With our many superior advantages,
we r able to Withstand the single
standard blight, though we have but
little gold, and may be able to hold out
yet a little longer longer, but it is only
a question of time.
Recently we received a copy of the
Farmer and Stack Breeder, published
at London, the paper was established
in 1843, and evidently has a large pat
ronage. Therefore, we regard it as a
reliable journal. Speaking of the
agricultural situation in England, it
says editorially:
THAT agricultural depression in an
acute form prevails throughout the
length and breadth of the land is obvi-
GUS to all. There are no two opinions
on the point. The very fact that no
individual farmer has been entirely
exempt from its evil influences com
mands unanimity regarding the exist
enc of emphatic decline and chronic
disorder"
Now England is a small but thickly
populated country. Her territory is
dotted ver with great manufacturing
cities and commercial towns. The ag
ricultural portion of the country is one
vast garden, truck farm, orchard and
vineyard combined. She has a vast
standing army to maintain. Hence, so
great a portion of her people being con-
sumers and non-produceIs, farming
ought to be more profitable there than
anywhere in the world. But the above
quotation from the Farmer and Stock
Breeder is unimpeachable evidence to
the contrary. Instead of a prosperous,
happy agricultural population, it is a
mass of struggling farmers eking out a
miserable existence, while the Roths
chiIds are filling their already overflow
ing Golfers, blighting not only the great
masses of England, but of Germany,
India, America and every other coun-
try that has bowed the knee and allow
ed corrupt rulers like Cleveland, Sher-
man & Co. to sell them out. And yet
some people are impudent enough to
ask you and to insist on your voting
for continuance Of this state of affairs.
VII you do it, Are you sane9 Are
you humane Do you love your chill
dren9 Will you not throw off the old
party collar and slavery shackles and
be a freeman once more4 Reader in
yestigate. See if we are not telling
you the truth.