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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-10
AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION.

The un-American editor Of the Rich
mond Times gets off the following:
THE result of the inquiry made by
the New York Association for Improv-
ing the Condition of the Poor, with the
causes of agricultural depression in
New York State, strongly confirms the
very general view that such depression
does exist upon a very large scale. The
inquiry was made partly by CORE
spondence and in part by sending a
practical farmer about the country to
talk with the farmers Land is found
to have deprecated in New Y ork since
1870 about so per cent, though the
population has increased by ], $40, 389
persons, and the assessed valuation of
real property by 81, $50, 643. 9O8 The
association ascribes the depreciation to
low prices of products, higher price of
labor, loss of fertility, and unjust taxa
ton. The tendency to leave the farm
for the city is said to be due to unproft-
able farming, poor schools, want of So
ciety, better wages and profits in cities,
and difficulty in getting good labor.
Tenant farming is increasing. Some
IS per cent. of New York farmers are
losing money, while 81 per cent. keep
no accounts, and so do not know
whether they are making or losing.
The schools are poorly attended and
unprci5able to students. Agricultural
schools have done good, and more are
wanted. To consolidate the existing
schools 80 as to get more high schools
would attract many families to the
country. Education in farming, fruit
culture, g., is the great need. Grape
growing has arrested the decline of the
rural population in some districts.
Better r0ads and less whiskey are rec
commended.
This is a most sensible report by
this association, though our Populists
would say the association is a fool and
all the trouble comes from want of
cheap silver money. Now, we will ask
the Populists this question: Suppose a
blight should destroy the wheat cron
OF Argentina, of Russia, of India, Of
Germany, and France, and England
for the next ten years. Does he not
think the value Of our wheat growing
lands would immensely Increases And
if so, are not the conclusions of this as
ISOLATION correct, and would free coin
age affect the matter one way or the
otherG"
1t is said that any fool can ask CUES
tions, but it takes wise men to answer
them. We do not mean to say tina
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-10
ENORMOUS SWINDLING "CAPI-
TALIZATION."

The following, from the New York
World of recent date, has a bearing
ing on many trusts which the World
itself supports or refuses to expose and
oppose:
Mayor Pingree, of Detroit, may or
may not be as eccentric as some people
think he is. He has ideas at any rate,
and n of them is that in New York
Philadelphia and other Eastern cities
we are paying out a deal OF unneces-
sary money in street-car fare.
He points out that the people ol
Philadelphia pay 5 per cent. DIVIDENDS
an 500. 900, 900 of street-car stocA'
which, according to expert calcula
ton, has no more than SIS. 900, OOO OF
real value behind it. Our own Ne"
York roads are capitalized for $lz9'
600, 900, and on that enormous sum we
nav dividends of 5 to 10 per CENT
though Mayor Pingree feels quite sure
hat there is not more than $2O,OOO,
900 of actual investment in them.
'sIn view of the heavy profits or the
street railroads, and more especially
in view of the all-important fact that
they owe everything to the privilege
of doing an exclusive business on the
streets, Mr.. Pingree is eccentric enough
to think that we ought to have a three
cent fare in New York, at least for
short rides-say of less than twenty
blocks.
perhaps such eccentricity will not
be popular with holders of large blocks
of street car stock, but there is likely
to be a great deal more of it in the not
distant future. Three cent fares are
coming"
This exposure and plea for cheaper
street railroad fares is worthy of all
notice, and presents an unansWerable
argument in favor of a reduction of
local fare; but we cannot refrain from
remarking, in this connection, that the
dailies-the World among them-that
parade such figures, refuse to print the
statement of the facts that the Wes
tern Union Telegraph Co. is capital
lied" for nearly 800, 600, 900, while its
actual property value does not exceed
SIS. 600, coo. Nor will the truth appear
in it's columns in these words: The
charge of n dollar for a n-word
dispatch between the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts is ten timss as great as
it should be. The twin telegraph mo.
nopoly controls nearly every daily
paper in the United States, at the
present time.
Our offer to those who r behind is
as favorable to our subscribers this
month as it vas last, but a little more
advantageous to U.s.. Read it and send
in the caah before it ia too late.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-10
N. R. p. A.


Read the excellent article, Care of
Bees in Winter, " by Mr. j. W. Hunter,
of the State Experiment Station.
TIE Alliance Advocate is the name
of a new reform paper just started at
Jamestown, Penn. It has the right
ring.
Business failures footed up 324 last
week against 288 the weekbefore. Boys,
business is getting better at a rapid
rate. Throw up your hats.
As usual, our correspondents con
tribute a great deal to the get-up of
this paper. The ladies and young folks
did very we'll this week. Read the 5th
page.
Less cotton was sold during Novem-
Der than for any November since 1881
Yet the price is far below the prices
for several other years. Will the gold
standard people stand up and explain
this.
In the recent elections the Demo
Gratis lost 187, 600 votes in P%ennsylva-
MIA, 153. 600 In New York and Sc. 900
in New Jersey. The loss in the other
States was about in the same proper
ton. That is a queer way to endorse
the administration.
We reproduce the first Of Judge
Shenck's able articles against the un
timely lease of the North Carolina Rail
road. 1t is found on page eight. An
other will be published next week
The friends of fairness and justice
should raise a fund to test the legality
Of the lease.
The Alliance is the great balance of
power that will serve to swing the peo-
pie into line and save this Republic, if
it is ever saved. Let every member
and every ex member go to work and
help put the Order in first class shape.
II the officers, National, State, County
andSub will take the lead, it can easily
be done. Otherwise the chance is linn
tied.
a preacher at Hoboken, N. Y, quit
preaching the other day because his
congregation could only pay him 5000
per year, which he said was not
enough TO feed and clothe his wife and
five children. He has opened a bar
room and is now selling wet goods
over the counter. Hundreds of North
Carolina ministers would consider
$500 a princely salary, We hope it
will not become fashionable for
preachers to quit and open saloons.
Business failures have jumped uu
from 26O to 324 a week. They are large
ones, too. During the past three years
the failures Weremainly small concerns
with now and then a large one. Blu.
now big mercantile, manufacturing
and banking concerns r going to tn
wall, and the liabilities are nearly twic
as large as they were Yet, in the fac
of a panic lasting three years, am
growing wors every day, some peopl
and some papers are declaring tina
times are growing better, and the Pres
dent OF the United States recommend
continuance OF the trouble i'm his ar
ba@ message to Congress! II he
~ broke loose in America. w
'U'O like to know why.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-10
GOOD ADVICE TO ALL1ANCRMEN.

The Peoples Paper, of Charlotte,
says:
The Farmers Alliance could not
have possibly devised more beneficial
business methods than its plan to manu-
facture the raw material at home. This
will save the enormous transportation
charges in sending produces to Nor tn
r. factories to have manufactured.
By manufacturing at home we save
freight charges both ways, and the
Alliance being a f~raternal organization
it's members can have their goods man
ufactured of their own material at
actual cost, thus saving the profits now
gobbled in by spectators. The State
Executive Committee made a good
trade when they bought the building
and grounds at Hillsboro for the fac
tory site. With 40 acres of land they
have ample room to enlarge as the
volume of business grows. 1t is the in
tention to start with a tannery and
shoe factory first and extend the bust
ness to include other articles of manu-
facture later on as the stock increases.
Old Alliances should be re-organiz9d at
once and rally to the support of the
factory"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-10
THE NATIONS sOLoNs
What They are Doing and not Do;-
Told Briefly and Concislev

What They are Doing and not Do;..
Told Briefly and Concislev '"g
Both branches Of Conorosz
promptly at noon on the 2od inst No
chief event of the day was the uS
Pearance of Thomas B. Reed. of NJ ~,
as Speaker of the House. Mr. Dc,
won the title of Gear" Reed whon
was speaker before, but Sneaker o.; ~
had to adopt equally strinaaTp
methods to keep the Congrasoio0u'
machine running hence Demoona@
have very little to say. OF conr's
Reed is a goldbug and monopolist
The Democrats nominated
speaker Crisp and the Populists ma
mated Congressman Bell, of CoIoro5a
but both were beaten in the vote ~
Speaker.
The first bill introduced wo.
Congressman Linton, of MICHIGAN
was in the interest of railway noot.I
clerks.
A brief session of the House vo,
held on Thursday. The nomin,
tlons of Mr.. OIney as Secretary ~
State and Mr. Harmon as Attornon
General, we're confirmed. The nom,o.
tion of Rufus ". Peckham, as Justco
of the Supreme Court, was referr,d
to the Judiciary committee.
In the Senate 272 bills and IA 70.
solutions we're introduced, MANY n
them bills that failed to pass durinp
the last session. Among the import.
ant ones were silver bills by Senators
Stewart and Squire. Senator Vest r.
introduced his anti-monopoly bill, also
one for compulsory education of Indian
children.
On Wednesday hePopulist Senators
Informed the old party Senators that
they would stand aloof in organizing
the Senate. That leaves both old
pasties unable to organize and places
them at a disadvantage, as neither bss
a MAJ ority. The Republicans made
efforts to get Senator Jones to return
to the fold, but he positively refused
informing them that he has affiliated
with the Popullsts and will not act
with the Republicans.
On Thursday Senator Mills, Dem.
introduced a coinage bill, which, how.
ever, wRs loaded down with bond is.
sues and other Objectionable features
OF course a free coinage bill coming
from a goldbug is the last thing the
people want. Senator Chandler, Rep,
also introduced a free coinage bill pro
viding for the coinage of silver at the
ratio of 151 to /. He made a speech in
favor of it.
Senator Call introdu ;ed a resolution
asking the United States to recognize
the Cubans as b~elligerents. He read
long petitions from Florida peoba
~favoring the idea. The Senate I'D.
journed till Monday.
Friday both houses spent most Of
the day in routine work, very few
bills being introduced-none of much
Importance.
Men have Laid in wait to be sentD
Congress AID other Offices by the Farm
ers' Alliance. Some, after obtaining
the coveted prize, abused the Alliance
for going into politics, and others have
grown Indifferent toward it since re-
ceiving their bit of ''pie." This does
not put shoes on little Alliance feet
but a shoe factory will. MeWbOorDe'
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-10

Our offer to those who are behind is
as favorable to our subscribers this
month as it was last, but a little more
advantageous to U.S.. Read it and send
in the cash before it is too late.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-10

Hog and hominy" made at home is
the watch-word of our opponents, and
why not hats, clothing and shoes,
made at our own factories, and if there
is anything in a protective tariff
why not we become benefciaries by
having them, as we'll as others.
MowhOOrno.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-12-10

Some say that the Alliance Los .bs
filed it's mission in the advent Of u.
PEOPLES party. May be so in come .55
things, but a party ls not likely 1oOa n
factories, aud if the Alliance Is u
the little Alliances, it will buIa nl"D,
before the party will gain tul ~
in this country Mewb0orDa
There is some excuse for D a,
who has received little or no OSpI ia
from the Alliance to stop payiDb
dues, since the man whom the Anl atten
has exalted seems to have forg0'Vccoo
that such an order ever exlsIeu. "a,
better look as we'll to our pre5en' oil
terial interest, or little AH'anoeS
go b~aresooted. me"O
The herald., 1895-05-12

beautifully and effectively com bined IN
fashionable bandcauX, outspread WINGS;
crown bands, ETC., Tor evening toques anu
hats.
Pongee is selling this season at remark,
ably low prices. This is an ideal materi"i
for q cool SUNNI petticoat.
A lovely petticoat silk imported from
England shows a seaweed pattern on q
glace ground. The skirt is trimmed with
a deep scalloped rutfie of the material.
a number of soft gray shades are no,
ticed in the new assortment OF printed
and brocaded silks. Old-rose shades are
also prominent.
An exquisite French satin shows de-
sign of mstlctoc berries and leaves on
shotereen and white ground.
Among odd combinations in vogue tins
season are lavender and very faint green !
blue and yellow; green and pink; corn
color and old-rose; Nile and wisteria
PINK.
The black and white com bination is
very fashionable this year. striped and
checked materials in this blending com
ing in for much favor. At Il recent sale
a splendid quality of black and white
checked wash silk twenty-three inches in
width sold for - cents yard.
A prominent feature of the hats made
OF fancy colored straw is the facing OF
plain black crepe dc chine, or the plated
facing of black silk net In many cases
it is finished off at the edge of the brlm
with narrow Jet cord.
Every other hat or toque OF eauzy ma
terial is trimmed with some sort of large
let ornament. This takes the shape OF
a jetted wing, dragon fly or butterfly.
The herald., 1895-05-12
ing called the brainest woman in New

ing called the brainest woman in New
York.
'Dr. Jacobs record rpeaKs for itself"
she said. She is professor of materia
medica in the Womans college. New
York. She is the daughter of the famous
publisher of that name. She early con-
ceived the IDEA of making her own way
i n the world. and. in order to pay for
her medical education, taught school
and wrote for the newspapers. She went
abroad and studied in the Ecole de Med
icine in France. She was at first refused
admittance on account of her sex, but
finally it opened it's doors to women.
She lived in an attic while abroad, that
she might spend all her money on educa-
tional advantages. She is a favorite
writer. and even took the Boylston prize
for the best essay at Harvard
Miss Maud Harrison, the actress, said
her favorite was Mrs. Frank Leslie.
Mrs. Leslie began life poor girl. and
look at her now? 1t is certainly COM
pliment to any woman to be chosen for
wife by two snch gifted men AS MIR.
Squres and Frank Leslie. Mrs. Leslie's
first husband was one of the best writer's
OF his day. The companionship of such
scholar would have been an advantage
to any woman. The great lady publish
er. perhaps, owes much of her success to
his early training. Her later marriage
with Frank Leslie of course gave her an
insight into the publishing world, but
there is probably not another woman in
New York who could have taken his busi-
The herald., 1895-05-12
social life of our national capital. She
thus presents her views:

social life of our national capital. She
thus presents her views
81 should think the happiest time in
woman's life must be when she achieves
her greatest desire or am oition, whatever
it may be. AS women's desires and ambi
tions, like those of men, are constantly
changing, and as, when gratiiied. they
are mediatey replaced by others, all
seemingly much more worthy and much
more ciaved than their predecessors, it
seems highly probable that if my view
of the matter is correct no woman can
tell what is the happiest time in her life.
She can tell what is the happiest time she
has experienced thus far. but she knows
not how much happier she may be upon
the achievement of some new desire or
ambition which perhaps has not yet en-
tered her mind. Real, true happiness III
the highest, grandest sense of that word
is not many times vouchsafed TO most OF
us in this life. Pleasure and JOY we may
often feel, but happiness in its highest,
most blessed form, seldom. Still, we can
always look forward hopefully TO the
future. remembering that as poor Ophella
says in Hamlet We know what we are,
but we know not what we may be.
MRS. CUSHMAN X. DAVIS.
Most people will agree with the very
sensible answer given by Mrs Grover
Cleveland. the charming young wife of
our presidents
Replies to your query must depend
lrgely upon each individual woman. She
who is great artist and whose whole
The herald., 1895-05-12
A Glimpse of Mrs. Jordan's Studio

The studio of Mrs. S. Howells Jordan
on North Main street is one of the most
attractive and cosy in town. 1t is full OF
odd and artistic curios sketches and
studies are everywhere, and the doorway,
of which a glimpse 10 given in the cut,
has a portiere that is the envy of her
friends and sister artists. 1t is made of
ropes, which arr in turn woven of cocoa
fiber; above is some rare Tappa cloth.
and the effect of the whole is unique and
pretty. Miss O'Kane shares the studio
with Mrs. Jordan and they have classes
two days in the week. During the spring
season they are off sketching, either alonr
or with classes, nearly every day, and
this summer they will go to some one of
The herald., 1895-05-12
For the Women

The princess of Wales has a tea service
consisting OF sixty pieces and every piece
has upon 1t photograph taken by the
princess in Scotland.
Mrs. Scott the widow OF Judge Lucien
Scott OF Leavenworth, Kan. manages her
own ranch in Tex, where she owns 20. 900
acres of land. all 1enced in. over which
6000'or 1000 cattle are browsing.
Lady Florence Dixie is the president of
The British Ladies' Football club, ="
which was founded last year oy its pres
ent secretary and captain, Miss Nettie
Honeyball. The members were divided
skirts of blue serge, resembling knicker-
bockers. and the teams are distingui shed
by wearing blouses of pale blue or car
dinal red
Marie de Medicis her patrician face set
in the huge. starchedlace collar OF her
time, is an admirable portrait by Francois
Porbus So is the Angelo Bronzino, the
subject of which is Blanca Capello, the
noted adventures OF the Italian Renais-
sance. in this piece of portraiture there
is much to admire in the detail work. A
really lovely Sir Joshua Reynolds is the
The herald., 1895-05-12

portrait of Lady Hervey, with it's opu
lence of color, its accordance of tone and
its thorough individuality. With Gains
borough painted in the most power II.
manner and two exceptionally good stuu-
les by Sir Thomas Lawrence. the old
English art OF portraiture may be said to
be fully repres ehted in this collection.
Mrs. Losan's hobby is to collect souve-
Mrs of her Ilustrious husband, and at
her home on Calumet place she has built
u small hall IN which are gathered hui =
dreds of things presented to the genera.
There are number!ess. portraits, flags
given by different societies, busts. swords,
guns. papcrweights made OF logan in
marble and enough memorials in the
shape of medals to stock Il museum.
These are carefully treasured by Mrs.
Logan, who has also the old china that
belonged to her husband S family, some
OF it being very old and OF rare and de j.
cate beauty tipped with gold ana en-
graved with his coat vi arms in colors.-
Washington Post.
The herald., 1895-05-12
WHEN is WOMAN HApPIEST ?
Marian Harland Says at Motherhood
Mrs. BOttOme at Conservation
Ada Rehan, Mrs. Grover Cleveland, Mrs.
Cushman X. Davis and Others
Express Their Views

Happiness, like charity. extravaganza,
parsimony aud many other qualities or
states of being. is purely relative. The
question has often been asked: Which is
happier, little girl with her first doll or
great general who has Just achie, ed
brilliant victory? Boswell IN his life of
DIR. Johnson tells us that this was a favor
lite subject for consideration with the
great ltterateur and photographer, and
that he used to say. probably the child
and the general were happy in an equal
degree, but that each did not experience
an equal amount of happiness"
He delighted to compare them to a
very large and a very small vessel fillea
with water; each vessel was equally full.
but one contained a much greater guam
tity than the other.
AS with the general and the child so
with all individuals. Everyone is capa-
BILE OF experiencing a certain amount of
happiness, but some have much greater
power of feeling it than Others 1t is
generally believed that women feel hap
piness and all other emotions much more
Xeenly than men.
Some great physiologist has said that
while woman, as compared with man,
has an ounce or two less in her brain, she
has fiber or two h.ore in her heart. Yet
even among women, capacity for happi-
ness must vary greatly. Nevertheless
each is capable of being as happy as she
can feel, no matter how small her capac-
ity for happiness may be i'll comparison
| with that of others, and every woman has
| her own views of what situation, circum-
| stances or surroundings in life would in
| spire the greatest amount of happiness
| in her sex.
If the question What is the happiest
time in woman's life'' were put to one
| thousand women, probably no two would
respond alike. The following observations
| from distinguished ladies in widely differ
ent spheres of life probably present as
satisfactory group of answers as can
| be obtained:
Marian HsrIand Says, Hothertood
| Literary women are seldom home god
| desses The woman who can write gooo
novel or brilliant crtique. or scholarly
essay, is not usually good pie baker
skillfu sock darner. or an accomplished
child nurse. A notable exception to this
rule is Marian Harland, who, though thu
authoress of some of the purest mos
hcalthful, helpful and in every way bes
novels in American literature, is com
plete nj stress OF all that tends to mak'
home most comfortable and attractive
and who, by her clear and forceful writ
ings on subjects connected with th