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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-14

and no part of it used for monetary
purposes. Practically, therefore, 1t Is
as useless as if it had no existence.
The estimated amount Of gold coln
and bullion in the United States Is
$500, 600, 600; this is all available, or
nearly all for monetary purposes, and
exceeds by only $12s, 600, 600 the
amount of gold locked up in Russia.
Suppose the gold in this country, or
$472, OOO, 900, should be similarly locked
up, that would indicate the effect that
the Russian hoard has upon the fnan-
ces of commercial nations. Austria is
also boarding gold; so is France and
Germany, also England. There is a
general scramble for the yellow metal
this is because it is the most precious of
the two metals used as cOins of ulti-
mate redemption. There are conclu-
sions of great value to be drawn from
these facts in considering the general
establishment of an exclusively gold
standard. 1t must be concluded that
there is not in the world gold enough
available for commercial purposes, and
if the United States should follow the
example of England, France and Ger
many, is it not apparent that the pur-
chasing power of gold would continue
to advance, thus crippling general in
dustry?
The motive of Russia in accumulat-
ing so much gold is variously guessed
at, but not known. 1t is generally be-
lieved, however, that it is held to guard
against war emergencies. Be this as it
may, it is so much withdrawn from
other countries and from the channels
of commerce.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-14
WHY WE NRRD MORE MONEY

A few people continue to claim tn0U
we have more money in circulation
than at any other period in our III
tory. Political economists on the gol
bug side pretend to show figures prov
ing this, and some people are toollsn
enough to believe it.
In 1867 we had a population OF 3S'-
600, 600 and had 81, 800, OOO, 900 in cir
culation. In 1895 we have, according
to report of the Secretary OF the Treas
ury, about 81, $40, 600, 900 in circulation
and a population of nearly $1,000, 900.
So. if we count every dollar made
since the war as in circulation the IN
crease in population has reduced Gne
ner capita circulation one half. But
during that period the work OF con
traction has gone on. GreenoacKs
have been redeemed and destroyed.
More money has been destroy ed tnan
has been coined. Therefore we have
considerably less than a billion dollars
in circulation. Multiply this by two
it reduces the circulation one half.
Multiply the population by two and we
find it has nearly doubled since the
a Hence the actual circulation Is
only one, fourth what it was just after
the war. No sane man will deny
this.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-14
Mr.. r. A
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Executive Committee of the
State Alliance will meet in this city on
or about the 10th inst.
The present National Administration
consists of sixteen jackasses to one
statesman. That accounts for the Bit
terness toward the proper ratio Of silver
to gold. ,'. 'fsl '."'
After reading the financial views of
Sterling Morton, u. S. Secretary of
Agriculture, we have concluded that
he was only making his monthly NOR
tuary report.
An exchange comments upon the
general scarcity of swine. Really we
hadn't noticed that delinquent news
paper subscribers were paying up
much better than usual.
EckIes, the Democratic Comptroller
of the Currency, has been offered a
large salary to edit the Chicago Times
Herald, a Republican paper. That
goes to show that the goldbug Repub,
licans and the goldbug Democrats are
in perfect accord.
Senator Cameron and Congressman
Sibley have ordered one million copies
of "Coin's Financial School" to use in
Pennsylvania. Both are millionaires,
and they seem determined to bring
that State out of the goldbug column.
That book will do it.
We have given notice time and again
that memorial resolutions and long
obituary notices cannot be and will not
be published in this paper. Yet the
brethren continue to send them in
Once more we give notice that it is
waste of time to send them.
The ST.. Louis Republic the leading
daily in that city, says: 1--WE can
see how any good Democrat can doub
the practicability of free coinage o
silver" None Of them doubt it, brother
1T is the bad Democrats and bad Re
publicans that refuse to vote for it i
Congress who are kicking up all tn
trouble.
It is reported that Mr. Hearst, tn
millionaire owner of the San Francisc
Examiner is coming to Chicago to il
vest a million in a free coinage paper
Also that the Inter Ocean is to becom
a silver paper. The leaven is working
By the way, the metropolitan paper
are not all gold papers. The New Yor
Recorder, Denver NeICs, st. Louis r,
public, New Orleans Democrat and A
lanta Constitution T all for free coir
age. Many other dailies are gettin
right, also. The business depressio
has struck the cities. Seer
DR.. Carr, a son of the Governor, he
been elected Druggist at the Mort
Carolina Insane Asylum, located 6
Raleigh. Mr.. Augustus Bradley, {
the State Pharmaceutical Association
on behalf of the Association, takes th
ground that DR.. Carr is not eligible
not being a member of the Druggist,
Association; that DIR. Carr should r,
slgnand letsome registered pharmacis
take the place. We shall probabl
have more to say on this subject. Rr
win add now. that liz seems has a re0i
tered druggist ought to hold the nos
tiOn. -
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-14

The Standard Oil trust made $40,
900. 900, it is said, in a recent oil deal.
Cleveland and his Congress ought to
share in the spoils, and will, we guess.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-14
THE MILITIA TO THE RESCUE

A subscriber writes to the Farmers
Voice, Chicago, as follows:
1.-The book Coins Financial School is
being circulated as thick as chaff here
by one Andrew ELiason, of Concord,
Neb., the result being that the people
are leaving the two old parties by the
hundreds. Now can I not stop said
Andrew Eliason from further circulat,
ing this book on the ground that it
excites the people also that it gives
them the idea that all the editorial
pages pertaining to finance of the vast
majority of the old party papers have
been telling falsehood for the last 10 or
20 years."
The Voice promptly advises the
writer to call out the militia and sup
press EIiason,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-14
wears named:

1t Is thus seen that in 1898 the Gov
ernment of Russia held $472, 367, 600.
This enormous amount was drawn
almost wholly from other countries,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-05-14
THE WORM SWALLOWED.

Some time ago we received from the
George P. Rowell Co., Publishers of
Printers Ink, the American Newspaper
Directory, etc., sending us the proof of
a puff they had written and had set in
type, which proof stated positively
that The PROGRESSIVE FARMER had the
largest circulation of any paper pub
lished in North Carolina, and propos,
ing to insert the compliment in Printers
Ink for a certain amount. We did not
bite at this worm. because we don't pay
for such compliments. But imagine
our surprise when a few weeks later
we saw the indentical puff from the
same source with the name of another
North Carolina paper instead of The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER copied into said
North Carolina paper from said
Printers Ink. This might have de
ceived somebody. But we knew at
once that RowelI's worm had dropped
over there and the editor of said paper
had swallowed it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04
POSTAL SUB-STATI0NS.
Outlying Districts-Scope of
Their Functions.

cat last the department has conceded
what San Francisco has much needed for
long time past" said Secretary Richard
son, referring to the dispatch from Wash
ington which announced that seven sub
stations OF the Postoffice are to be estab-
lished in this city, as follows:
1882 Kentucky street. northwest corner Of
Railroad and Eleventh avenues, 1880 Point
Lobos avenue, 1900 Union street; 1888 Castro
street, 1919 Mission street, 359 DeyisadeTo
street.
cat these sub-stations money orders
will be issued, letters registered and stamps
sold he continued. mo carriers will Be
attached to them, nor will money orders
be cashed at any of them. Their mail will
he collected the same as it is from letter
boxes. but they will nevertheless prove of
treat benefit to the outside districts. They
are on an entirely different basis from the
branch stations, which have all the facili-
ties that are found at the main Office ex-
cent the functions of general delivery.
This is not given the stations SO as to pre-
vent them being used for clandestine cor
respondence by romantic young people
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04
SURVEYORS CORPS READY.
Work Will Surely Begin on
the Valley Road by
Next Week.
Figures VIII Soon Be Asked For
on the Locomotives for
the Road.

Stockton appears to be the main point OF
interest to the officials of the valley road
these days and the general offices of the
company are Uttered with maps, proposed
rights of way and other descriptive matter
relating to the route out of that city.
P. A. Buell., who has been one of the
most ardent and effective workers in that
city who favored the road, was in this city
yesterday. He says that they are making
rapid progress with their arrangements
and that everything is progressing in good
shape. A meeting of farmers of San
Joaquin County has been called for next
Saturday, to be held in Stockton, at which
it is expected good work will be done in
the matter of securing rights of way
through the county. Mr.. Buell. says the
element mentioned is enthusiastically in
favor of the road.
Engineer Storey has his hands full in
preparing for the seasons work.
I'VE are getting our outfit ready" said
he yesterday, sin the way of men, instru-
ments and camping utensils, so that no
delay will be experienced when the work
actually begins. l expect we will take the
field the latter part of this week or the first
of next. We may run three or four lines
out of Stockton before we have secured
route which suits u.s."
Regarding the published rumor that the
Santa Fe officials, who are now in the city,
would probably meet the officers of the
valley road, Mr.. Storey said that he did
not see what the road could do to aid the
new project outside of little indirect as
sistance.
''They are in possession of maps and pro-
files of surveys out of this city and State,'
said he, (which they might offer to permit
us to use, but the only benefit they would
be to us would probably be saving of a
few dollars in the matter of preliminary
examinations"
]. D. Spreckels and Captain Payson are
now engaged in looking into the merits of
the different classes of locomotives manu-
featured. They were appointed commit
tee for this purpose and are now perfecting
their plans. 1t is the opinion of Engineer
Storey that about 50-ton locomotive will
be used, either of the 10-wheel or mogul
type.
1--WE will probably order three or four at
first" said he, ito be used in track-laying
and preliminary work. Figures will be
called for soon from the manufacturers.
Another plan under consideration is to buy
one locomotive from each of several differ
ent firms and then decide which gives the
best satisfaction"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04
Is BLUsHING A VIRTUE2
Some Men Evidently Inclined to Regard
1t as Such.

1t as Such.
Some time ago well-known New York
clubman took it upon himself to assert
that the modern woman has forgotten how
to blush. This imputation was launched
at femininity in general with such bitter
ness and asperity that one might gather
therefrom that blushing is virtue, and
that not to blush is facultative and Grim
inal. Whatever the connection between
this sudden heightening of colorand inno-
cence in the case of women, however, it
seems little strange that the blush should
be considered sign of grace by men.
Cynics have always maintained that
women can cry about anything, and at a
moments notice, and it is indeed pretty
well known that many actresses can
squeeze out real tears nightly, at the
proper moment; but blushing is more diff
cult to acquire as an art, and it seems I'M
just that a woman should be supposed to
be utterly brazen because she does not turn
crimson on the slightest proyocation.
Bushes, nevertheless, are evidently con-
sidered ail-important by the generality of
men. For instance, to call man an ssun-
blushing scoundreln is a distinct slur on
his character, and to tell another that you
blush for him used at one time to be
pretty common form of insult. Even now
The phrase 1--WE blush to relate" is to be
found in our daily. newspapers. The poet
Young lays it down in his "Night
Thoughts that 1.-THE man who bushes
is not quite brute" but this is open to
doubt"
1t is true, however, that Darwin's OBJ
servations determined the fact that blush
ing is confined to the human species,
though dogs certainly grin when happy
and monkeys redden in the face when
angry.-New York Tribune.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

and for confidence schemes of all kinds.
We force that to come to the main Office in
order to have it concentrated where close
watch can be kept upon it with view to
stopping it.
'fThere are ten of these stations and fifty
four stamp agencies. At the latter only
stamps are sold, and the remuneration is
but $24 per anDum, but the applications
are always in excess of the demand. While
there is not much money in handling the
stamp business, places that serve as stamp
agencies, which are generally drug and
stationery stores, find that they secure con-
siderable trade by reason of selling stamps.
1.-The remuneration for those who are
appointed to the sub-stations is only 500
per year, but the applications for these
have been nearly 100, the same reasons
governing as in the case of stamp agencies,
but to more marked extent. This 500
includes rent, services, fixtures, and in fact
everything except the stationery needed
for the transaction of postal business.
Zone applicant for sub-station-a lady
sent in petition signed by several hun
dred persons, but she was too late, as the
selection had already been made. The APP
pointments are made by the First Assist
ant Postmaster-General at Washington on
the recommendation of the local Postmas-
ter and Postoffice Inspectors.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04
WITH CAMERA AND TRIPOD.
The Local Club Reported in Flourish
ing Condition.

The Local Club Reported in a Flourish
ing Condition.
The members of the California Camera
Club held their annual meeting on Tues
day evening. The report of the treasurer
was read and showed that in spite of large
expenditures during the past year there
remains balance in the treasury of
$518 80. Most of the money expended dur
ing the last season was used for the pur-
pose of identifying and charging the
clubrooms, putting in new backgrounds,
erecting studio, etc.
In his address to the members President
Charles Adams said that it must be mat
ter of congratulation to all that. notwith-
standing the wave of commercial depres-
sion which swept over the country and
which affected all societies to greater or
less degree, the club was in such good
condition financially.
The retiring president thanked the men,
bers for the uniform courtesy he had al
ways received at their hands, and said that
the desire of the officers has always been
to provide the best apparatus that could
be HAD and so afford every facility. for the
convenience and comfort of the club mem
bers in their Photographic work.
Mr.. Adams concluded his speech with a
word of thanks to the press for fayors ex-
tended in noting the doings of the club.
The election of officers was then pro-
ceeded with, the following being chosen:
A. G. Mcfarland, president; A. A. Martin,
first vice-president; II. G. Tibbitts, second vice
president; G. F. Cormaek, secretary; Z. g.
Eisen, treasurer; G. s. Close, corresponding
secretary; II. c. Owens librarian; directors
w. E. Goodrum, /. E. Thayer, Z. J. Mott, w. b.
Webster.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04
FUNERAL OF A PRIEST.
Remains of Father Fitzpatrick Laid to
Rest at Calvary.


The funeral of Rev. Father Timothy
Fitzpatrick, the announcement of whose
death created much sorrow among the
Catholic people in general and his parish
eners in particular, was attended by all
the local clergy of the church and vast
concourse of people. The late priest was
very much beloved by the people of All
Hallows Church, South San Francisco,
among whom he had Iabored for quarter
of century.
When Father Fitzpatrick, who came here
from Ireland at the solicitation of the late
Archbishop Alemany, went down to South
San Francisco to do missionary work
among his people over twenty years
ago it was far out of the city and there
were but few families to attend his serv-
ices. But he worked on, the city spread
southwark. and in the course of years the
jealous priest built up one of the most
fourishing parishes in the city.
A solemn requiem mass was celebrated
at 10 o'clock A. NJ. and besides Archbishop
Riordan, in full pontihcal robes, the clergy
of the archdiocese was well represented.
The church choir rendered the musical
services. There was large attendance of
the people of the parish and friends of the
deceased from various parts of the city.
The interment was at Mount Calvary
Cemetery. There was also brief service
at the grave.
Father Casey of st. Peters Church
preached the sermon at All Hallows
Church. He paid glowing tribute to the
viewed his splendid parish work and re-
ferred to the great loss that his death had
caused.
Father Fitzpatrick was native of Ross
Carbarey, County Cork, Ireland, and was
in his fifty-third year.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04
GRAIN FOR NEBRASKANS.
Farmers Will Be Asked to
Contribute From Their
Stores.
Barley, Oats and Wheat Are Much
Needed for the Spring
Seeding.

The drought-stricken districts of Nebraska
have sent in an appeal to California for seed
principally barley and oats-with which
to again make an effort to place themselves
beyond the pale of charity.
This appeal comes to the State Board of
Trade, and yesterday Secretary Fletcher
held a consultation with William III: Mills
as to what would be the best course to
pursue.
1t was determined to make an appeal to
the farmers of this State to aid their st1f-
fering brethren in Nebraska, and a circular
will be prepared and sent out to all the
papers in the interior asking the co-opera-
tion of every one interested.
The plan proposed is to have each farmer
give whatever he feels he can spare, no
matter If it be one sack or a carload. Ar
engagements will be made to receive and
store this grain at some point in this city
until all that can be secured is in hand,
when it will be forwarded to its destina-
ton.
1t is probable that the Southern Pacific
will consent to forward the grain free Of
all freight charges, at least one of the Of
fcialS OF the road expressed that as his
opinion yesterday. II these charges can
be Topped off 1t will materially aid the sue.
cess of the undertaking.
Nebraska and Kansas have both stood
well to the front when aid'was required by
other States which had met with mis-
fortune, and now that the people of the
former State are in deplorable condition
in many instances, it is but slight recog-
milton of their past deeds of charity that
aid should begiven them.
The relief committee which makes the
request only asks for two carloads of grain,
but few of the gentlemen who are taking
an interest in the matter believe that a
trainload can be secured.
They say that no better REPUTATION of the
belief that CALIFORNIA; resources were
taxed by the drought of last year could be
given than to send a number of cars of
grain to the Nebraska sufferers One en-
thusiast suggests that the train be deco
rated with California violets and appro-
PIRATE notices to let the people along the
route know that this State still retains its
reputation for generous hospitality and
charity in a time of need.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-04

ton, Western counsel of the same company;
and @. G. Beaman, counsel of the reorgan-
ization committee of the Santa Fe, accom-
panied by ladies, arrived in San Francisco
yesterday afternoon. The trip through the
San Joaquin Valley was made at high
speed. The special train carrying the
party which left Bakersfield at 6 o'clock in
the morning arrived at the Oakland mole
at 2 40 P. NJ. The Santa Fe party was met
at Oakland by General Manager A. N.
Towne of the Southern Pacific and escorted
to the Palace Hotel.
Receivers Aldace F. Walker and Colonel
McCook left the party at Los Angeles. The
purpose of the visit is to give the receivers
and the lawyers representing the trust
company and the reorganization commit
tee an opportunity to inspect the Atlantic
and Pacific, the Colorado Midland and the
San Francisco and st. Louis roads by day
light. These roads are so intimately con-
nected with the Santa Fe system that it
became necessary to study their actual
condition.
All doubt of the ability of the Santa Fe
to reorganize and further extend its range
of operations has vanished. Obstacles
which confronted the committee have been
removed and confidence has taken the
place of distrust. In the next era of devel-
opment the extension of lines in Califor-
MIA will receive early consideration. The
prospective value of the San Joaquin Val
ley road from San Francisco to Bakers
field via Stockton and San Jose is appre-
ciated:
George r. Peck, the general solicitor of
the company, said last evening that the
visit to San Francisco at this time had no
significance. Only two members of the
party-himself and Mr.. Rossington-had
ever visited San Francisco before, and the
chief object of the trip was to afford others
that pleasure. They will remain until
next Saturday, and during the sojourn
visit Palo Alto and Del Monte.