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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-25
ROWAN COUNTY MEETING.

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
Rowan County Alliance met with
Elm Grove Sab Alliance on the 75h and
9Th of August.
TIE subs were largely represented
and much interest manifested.
Bro. SJssaman was present with his
usual lively and entertaining manner.
He gave us an insight into the shoe fac
tory, such as makes US all proud and
feel wealthy. We believe the shoe
factory is a success, aud every alliance
man should ~pa5ronize it. We ere now
getting in shape to be Of ~perceptible
help TO each other.
Considerable business was transacted,
and the work of che Alliance discussed
with enthusiasm. 1t would be we'll Cor
all to understand the work of the ALI
auce.
Saturday by 10 o'clock a large con
course of people had assembled. An
interesting essay was read by Miss
Lille Peeler, subj CT, Our Flag"
which goes to The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
for publication.
Bro. a. Q. Stafford was present and
held the attention of the audience for
one hour and three gu rters. The peo
pie seem to be hungering and thirst
ing after righteousness. Other talks
were made and much good done.
The pleasant people, the sweet and
well performed music, with the abun
dant, sumptuous provisions added
much to the enjoyment of the occasion.
EN- Grove is always a desirable
place for county meetings.
r L BROWN
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-25

secured from loss, preventing panics
resulting from the present banking
system.
4 We demand home rule, that PEG
ple shall not be taxed without their
consent, honest elections and a fair
count.
5 We demand a better system of
education, 80 the citizenship will be
elevated and the morals of the country
purified.
6 We demand that the off ;ials shall
be honest, sober men, who will fill
Offices of trust with credit to them
selves and honor to their country.
Z. We demand of the next Legisla-
lature hat they pass a law that will
perfect land titles in North Carolina,
and thereby induce emigration and the
investment of capital.
On motion adjourned to meet in the
court house in Bryson City at II o'clock
a. m, August Is, 1896
W. II QUEEN, Chm'n.
II S. BAKER, Sec'y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-25
SWAIN COUNTY MAss-MEETlNC

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
The Peoples party met IN a
meeting. The meetiUg vas c llled to
order by W. Fl Queen, chairman.
J. E T. Welsh and II S Baker were
appointed a committee of arrange
ments to put in nomination names for
county executive committeeman. Re
organized by electing w. H. Q 1een,
Ocon8 Lufty, permanent chairman
G. ". Nc Cracker, Bryson City Jno.
Constant, Nantahala; R L Thomer
son, Bushnell, and s. L. Monteith,
Ooona Luty, as to wnship chairman.
Three delegates we're appointed to the
Congressional convention to be held at
Waynesville on the 25th of August,
to wit, r.. 81 Hyde, N L Earls and
J. II Crane.
A motion carried to call a mass
meeting on the Is b of August for the
purpose Of nominating a county ticket
and to transact other business.
II. S Baker was then elected perma,
nent secretary, after which the meet
ing passed the following resolutions:
Resolved, That we, the Peoples
party Of Swain county assembled, en-
dorse the action of the National PEG
pies party convention, held at St.
Louis, in the nomination Of w. J.
Bryan for President and Thos E. Wat
son for Vice President, and will hear.
tily support the ticket if the Demo
cratic party will withdra Y SewalI.
DEMANDS
As political economy is the science
of government, and that government
is the best that promotes the highest
standard of m )rals, we demand that
the coming compaign be conducted n
high moral grounds, free from the
dominating Influence of money and
Whiskey, and we ask the ministers OF
the gospel to lend their powerful iDfu.
ence to secure this result.
2. We demand that the government
Issue all money at cost direct to the
people without the intervention OF
bank corporations, in sufficient q1an.
tity to transact the business Of the
country on q cash : sis, 80 the farmers
and other classes can hold and see their
surplus, as there is a demand at the
price fixed by each class.
8. We demand the establishment OF
postal banks, when ~depositors will be
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-25
Turnips and Potatoes.

Southern P ize Turnip Sect. prepaid by mail,
so cts per pound This i tho'be-t fail and win
ter turnIp known. Stands in ground all wirter
without protection and furnishes more salad
than Seven Top, besides being Il very large
turntp.
Extra Early Cardinal Turntp. rel al over,
very early and extra tender tops; prepaid IL CT .
per ounce; 81 per loud.
White Bliss Potatoes for sec nd crop plant
Ing, warranted to s. r)ut and grow, So 70 per
barrel, f. o. b.
Two barrels Maule's Extra Early Thorough
br d Potatoes. very prof fc and valuable. l
z eW Sc ha, reIs from one; SIS Per barrel.
Berkshire Pigs and Italian Bees
ABBO 7 l.. SWINSON,
1878 Box g., Gold brrO, n. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-08-25
w. II. & R. S. TUCKER & co.
Sale Of Lan5-

Sale Of Land.
NORTH CAROLINA Before D. H F.~vu
WaEe County. CIeik suprrtoa oggr,
Lizzie Pearson; J. J. Maynard, Guara..9 40. s,s
others, eX parte. 01
By virtue of autHo1 ity conferred On ~a o..
G ,mmissi0ner in the above entitled Special P-"|
Ce~di Is | will on NJ rndat, the 18th ia. If >'
tember A. D., 1896 expO g for sale and ~-H y.
pubic outer. t. the highest bidder for ASH,
the court hou>e door j. fanieigh, \. g, al, t@,
in Whi,tOak rowI ship adding the land. ~
l. Il. Upchur h R. Johnson j P. Pearson F p
Maynard Sidney ~Seagraves an J.J NN18rl
being the same owned and occupit d by 1Lgl .z.
James Pearson. up TO the time of his death. a-f
Altogether containing ore hundred and >fyfr
acres more ct less. and more fully de-rrfEaI!
the Petition il said Special Proceeding.
w. j. PEELE, COmm.~~tr~er
PEELE q MAYNARD, Attorneys for Petitioners
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-29
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Justin s. Morrill,, of STAFFORD, was
reelected United States senator from
Vermont for the fifth time.
John IL. McNeely, proprietor of she
Evansville (lnd.) Journal. died sud-
denly.
Henry Tibbe, the inventor and pat
::ntee Of the now world-fanous corn
cob pipe. died in Washington. Mo-. aged
u years.
Rev. George Dunbar, aged so years.
and his wife, aged 70 years. died within
one day Of each other in Brooklyn, n.
Y, after having been married over 50
years.
Gable Stnndifer, aged 1O1, died near
Pound, Ky. He leaves seven living
wives in Kentucky and Virginia and GO
children. He made his own coffin 10
years ago.
Hon. Charles F. Baldwin, editor AMI
owner Of the Mount Vernon co., Repub-
lican, died at the age of GO years.
Rev. DR.. N. A. Reed. idely-known
Baptist minister, died at the residence
of his son-in-law, Rev. j. Il. Murc!l, in
Minneapolis, aged 81 years.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-29
THE FATHER ALONE SAVED.

A Denver Grocer Loses His Entire Family
of Six Persons While Boating.
Denver, COL, Oct. 2G.-By the over
turning Of a pleasure boat on Smiths
AXE at five o'clock Sunday afternoon
A. j. Smute lost his entire family, con-
sisting of his wife and five children.
Their names are Hilda, the mother, aged
50; Evan. aged 10, Carl, aged eight;
Edith, aged six, and Esther and Ruth.
IL months old. twins. He had them out
for the afternoon on the water and the
boat was capsized and the entire family
Tell into the water. The lake is filled
with weeds which grow up from the
bottom. a horrible fungus growth that
1astens about the body like the ten
'acles of an octopus and into this the
unfortunates fell and struggled in vain.
Only the father, who fought to FREQ
himself, arose to the surface and when
he came up he had the child Ruth under
his arm, but she was dead when a boat
reached him from the shore, he having
held it under water all the time, he not
knowing in his excitement that he was
browning it.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-29

,terS.
The free street fair and trade carnival
OF Knoxville. Tenn. opened with inn
pressive ceremonies.
The flibuster steamer Dauntless was
captured by the United States cruiser
Raleigh off the east coast of Flord:,
after an exciting chase, during which
the cruiser used her guns.
The corner stone of the hall Of his
tory, the first to be erected Of the group
Of buildings to comprise the American
university, was laid in Washington.
The safe in the bank ut Cassville, Mo-,
vas blown open by robbers and con.
siderable sum of money was secured.
Almost the entire business portion IT
the village of Lancaster, N. Y. was
burned.
The striking miners in several of the
larger mines in the Hooking valley in
Ohio voted to return to work at the re-
:duced wages of As cents per ton.
The First Baptist church and the Ma
sonic temple at Laurel. Md.,were burned
'by incendiaries.
Rich finds of gold are reported six
miles northeast of Hot Springs, Ark,
and the district is full of prospcctors.
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Placed Under Arrest.

Covington. Ky, Oct. 26.-John Fagin.
who threw cigar in Secretary Car
isles face Thursday night, was arrest
ed Sunday night and released on bond
signed by Anthony Monkedieck.
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Pr,ce Of Bread RAISED in Lond,

London, Oct. 2G.-There has been
marked excitement in Lincolnshire
over rise in wheat of ten shillings,
with holders disinclined to sell. At
meeting of the master bakers of Lon-
don the price of bread was raised a
half-penny per loaf.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-29
EDWIN WILLIS DEAD.

Ex-Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Ex-
pires at Washington.
Washington, Oct. 2G.-The flag OIL
the agricultural building was at half
mast Saturday on account of the death
of Edwin Willis, who was assistant
secretary of agriculture during The al.
minlstraticn of President Harrison. NJ.
Willis died suddenly al mis- home in this
city Friday evening. He became i'll at
his office about four o'clock. He was
taken home in a carriage, a physicians
having been summoned to meet him
there The doctor found that Mr.. VIII
Its had been stricken with a form Of
kidney trouble from which he had SUI
fered at different times for several
years. Every effort was made to restore
him, but he gradually sank into state
If coma and died in a few hours.
Made Archbishop of Canterbury.
London, Oct. 26.-laight Hon. and
Right Rev. Frederick Temple, D. d..
bishop of London, provincial dean of
Canterbury and dean of the chapels
royal, has been appointed archbishop Of
Canterbury and primate OF all England,
to succeed Right Hon. and Most Rev.
Edward White Benson, who died sud-
denly at Hawarden October II.
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Mrs. Juliana Bedunah died at Niles.


Mrs. Juliana Bedunah died at Niles.
Mich, aged lQ2 years. ss ssss K.
Columbus Delan no; s. cretary Of the In
terror under President Grant and q
memberSof the Twenty-ninth congress,
died. Of heart disease while sitting in
his, chair at Lake Howe, his suburban
home, near. Mount Vernon. Q. He was
81 years old. 81, ss,:i IS .Ss.,
Mrs: Emily Jackson Luckey, well
knoWnsns painter Of animal ubjects,
died suddenly at her home in Crawford.
N. =, aged CO. years. 1.ss.
Hon. Charles, Frederick Crisp, speaker
OF the Fifty-frst and Fifty-second con-
crosses, died At Atlanta, Ga, aged 81
years.
Q. W. Peabody: Of the well-lsnown.
Boston banking firm of Kidder, Pea
body q Co.. died inSthat city.
Bishop Henry 2B.s}Whipple, OF Mime
sofa, was married in New York to Mrs.
Evangeline Simpson, widow of
wealthy cotton manufacturer of Massa-
chusetts. The bishop is "a years old
and his bride IS.
The populist, state committee of Geor-
gia has withdrawn the Bryan and Wat
son electors.
The Van Buren press., 1896-05-30
QUAINT ARCTIC LEGEND.
Russian Tradition About the Lost Tribes
of Israel.

Years and years ago, so the story
runs, an exiled Jew on the bleak wilds
of northern Siberia, in an effort TO reach
an overhanging branch of a tree, placed
his foot upon log floating on the water
No sooner had his foot touched the log
when it seemed inspired with life and
moved rapidly off, bearing the exile
away toward the vast ice fields which
were plainly visible and plentiful to-
ward the north. Rapidly the current
swept the log northward, bearing with
it the unfortunate Jew, who was so be-
numbed with fear and cold that he was
unable to formulate a plan of escape
from his perilous position.
For three consecutive days and nights
the prisoner chung to the log, passing
through towering fields of icebergs and
dashing under arches cut by the current
through the sky-scraping fields of ice
Out into beautiful sunshine our traveller
eventually emerged. The grass was
green and the trees were CARRIED in the
splendor of nature, and birds made
merry music on every branch. People,
Ei0dt III llulllbtiH, htlt pl1
either bank of the stream, all dressed in
holiday raiment of the finest texture,
but similar in character to the clothing
worn by our ancestors 1000 years ago.
The current of the stream ceased to
flow the log drifted to the bank and the
almostfamished and thoroughly fright
ened traveller repeated for the hun
dredth time the Hebrew words "shama
Israel" and in uncertain manner dis
mounted from the log.
The inhabitants crowded about, and
speaking in Hebrew with which lam
guage he was thoroughly conversant)
learned of his need of food and rest, and
supplied those wants, after which they
inquired whence he came and whittier
he was going. Numerous inquiries
were made regarding the people who
lived beyond their cireumscribed world,
who in reciprocity informed him of
themselves and their mode of living,
which had in nowise changed since the
advent of the Christian era.
They worked and worshiped, even as
did the Jew in ancient times, when Pal.
estine was garden and Jerusalem the
center of civilization. The traveller
learned that these people were the lost
tribe of Isreal, who had migrated to this
goodly country, led by the descendant
of Aaron named Joseph-who had
passed away without leaving any de-
scendants. With them they had
brought many of the vessels and much
of the paraphernalia of Solomon's tenn
pie and patterned their house of wor-
ship after this famous temple of Jeru
salem.
The traveller was told that the
streams current was active six days in
the week and on the seventh became
quiet and did not move, but as he was
member of different tribe to them
selves he would not be allowed to re-
main in the country. So he was placed
in boat, which was pushed out into the
current and was born by circutous
route back to Siberia. Afterward he
was pardoned, returned to Russia and
told his Observation-Disclosures Constitu-
ton
The Van Buren press., 1896-05-30
TENNESSEE'S CENTENNIAL,
Preparations for the Big Show of Next
Year.

Tennessee's centennial exposition,
which will open May !, 1897, and con-
tinue six months, promises to be not
only a credit to the state, but one of the
most complete expositions ever held in
the south. 1t is being built with money
given directly by the people of Tennes-
see, and the officers and directors in
charge serve without any salary what
ever. There will be more trees and flour
ishing grass and exquisite flowers
about the building than any exposition
has presented. The exposition build
ing will be erected in 200-acre blue
grass park. A bulletin has been issued
showing the progress made on six of
the exposition buildings up to March
is. These buildings, some of which
are ready for roofing, are: The Fine
Arts building, which is an exact re-
production of the Parthenon; the Com
merce building, sol by 256; the Ma
chinery building, 500 by 124 feet; the
Transportation building, exactly 125
ieet; the Auditorium, 800 by 1875 feet,
and the Woman's building, 165 byV10D
feet.
A seventh building to be erected is
the Agricultural building, 300 by 200
feet, which will be one of the most
beautiful structures of the exposition
The History building will be unique,
with one of the most complete displays
of colonial, early Tennessee, and civil
war relics ever made. The children's
building, where will be only such
things as will amuse and instruct chill
dren, with its well-filled deer park,
will attract much attention, particular
! iy in that it will be built entirely with
money raised by children. When the
centennial inaugural ceremonies take
place, on June 1, 1896, the Auditorium
building will have been finished, and
the elaborate programme arranged for
celebrating the centennial of Ten
nessee's admission into the union by
the proclamation of George Washing
ton will occur within its walls.-Balti-
more Sun.
The Van Buren press., 1896-05-30
A VICTIM OF cANpoR.
He Lost Money ON the Man Who Told
the Truth.


the Truth.
"Theres such thing" ne said, coll
templatively, ''as gettin' too much fur
yer money. | knowed little boy oncet
that got 50 many peanuts fur five cents
that he liked ter died, when eff the
dealer he'd only held out fur little
more profit, he wouldn't of got only
whut was good fur i'm
"Have you been embarrassed by too
much liberality?"
"Thet's whut ] have"
'What Lave you been buying"
"Hoss-ilesh There never was time
thet bosses wus so cheap ez now, an
made up my mind to take advantage o.
the market. | didn't see anythin thet
struck my fancy excep' one an he WIS
so sleek tibet didn't hardly dare ter ask
the price of i'm. But / braced up my
nerve an when the man said one hum
dred dollars,' / closed the bargain.
we've got good thing he says. That
there is genuine raee-hess, that is.
The only reason I'm sellin' I'M is that
he's been ruled off the track. | never
could tell when he was gointeI do his
best. Sometimes he would sullS and
again he would come in weth bust o
speed on the homstretch tibet paralyzed
the multitude and aroused the sus-
picions of the judges. Finally they got
tired of is lightning changes in form
an trumped an excuse ter rule i'm Off.
So I'm jes discouraged an anxious ter
clear out of the business an do some
thin thet's plain an respectable fur u
Twin"
'You didn't believe all that rigama-
role, did your"
Course ! didn't I'd been ter town
before | asked the Teller whether they
wus any green in my eye an fol' i'm tibet
CT he'd look twice mebbe he'd see some
golden hair bangin' down my back. |
bought the boss on nv own Judgment,
though, an TUX i'm along. got home
little before noon an thought I might
ez well start right in ter break i'm ter
the pillow. I got i'm hitched In ies ez
luck 'ud hev it the old lady rang the din
ner bell. seen the boss ears twitch an
when | said giddep' he lit out like all
possessed. Furst thing he did wus ter
break the harness. | hung onter the
lines ez long ez | could an then laid
down in Il furrow an let events take
their course. He KEEP ez elus ter the
fence ez he could an ez | peeked over
hunk of sod an seen m goin' lickety-
split made up my mind tibet he wasn't
goin' ter stop. But ez soon ez he got
past the place where he started from,
lie slowed up an trotted back an
rubbed his nose agin the hired mans
shoulder, ez much ez to say: How WIS
thet-purty goodY"
What are you goin' to do with the
animal?"
I'm blessed If | know. He means
well, but Id like nightly ter trade i'm
in fur yoke of oxen, 1t beats ALL" he
concluded, with a sigh. Eve lodged
bunco-steerers an KEEP my pocketbook
outen the hands O. the confidence men
without the slightest trouble. The fust
city Teller tibet come right out an toll
Inc the straightforrud truth is the only
one ever lost money detroit Free
Press.
The Van Buren press., 1896-05-30

The manufacture of charcoal of an
important commercial value, from
common leather waste or scrap, that is,
as charcoal produced from leather has
been found to be of such peculiar value
in certain processes of tempering, 4
plan has been brought forward for util-
izing the waste leather which accumu-
lates in shoe shops, etc, by converting
1t into charcoal. The plant for manu.
featuring this kind of charcoal con-
sists essentially of metal retort,
something like those for the production
of Illuminating gas. ard the cost of
such an equipment is calculated not to
much exceed 5000. while one man I'M
aided can easily operate the whole.
The shrinlzage of the leather scrap in
thus becoming charcoal is said TO be
not more than 30 per cent.-ChieHgo
Chronicle.
The Van Buren press., 1896-05-30
jim M'CuE AND THE RAM,
He Masqueraded as a Woman, with I'm
pleasant Results.

pleasant Results.
Jim McCue, rancher, politician, phil
osopher and horse doctor, walked on
the ferryboat with a crutch the other
day. He also had one arm in a sling and
his head bandaged
What's the matter, Jim?" inquired
two or three acquaintance.
III bet any man in the crowd $40 he
can butt harder and longer than any
ram or billygoat in the state" re-
sponded jim, somewhat irreverently.
"But guess I've broken him of it,
"You look as if you had been
broken some yourself" suggested SOME
one.
"Well, to tell the truth, | did get
jammed around little. I've been
breaking ram of the butting habit.
This ram was raised pet, and that's
what makes him SO sassy. He knows
who to tackle, too. He won't touch
man, because he knows he'd get fence
rail frazzled out over his head; but
woman he will butt clear over into the
next pasture.
THE other morning this ram jolted
a lady friend of mine clear across Il
field and through picket fence, and
thought it was about time to cure him
of the habit. | put ON an old calico
dress, tied on an old sunbonnet, and,
concealing a sledge hammer under my
apron, sauntered down through the
field. The minute the ram saw me he
dropped all the business he had on hand
and came over to have some fun with
me. He squared off, shook his head
and made run for me. When l stepped
to one side to get good swing at him
with the sledge hammer the blamed
old dress tripped me and | fell down.
] started to get up, hut that ram was
behind me, and | turned two somer-
saults before | hit the ground again.
didn't stand any chance at all. He Just
kept. lifting me till he got me ove-
against the fence and then he lit into
me. He jammed me down against the
fence, then backed off and hit me an
other crack. and then another and an
other, till | thought he'd broken every
rib in my body. Finally he iammed me
clear through under the bottom rail,
and | managed TO crawl 10 the house.
''But / got even this morning. l had
the hired man take green oak log,
dress 1t up in women's clothes and set
it TO swinging from limb. That buck
lost a horn the first time he hit it, and
it wasn't long till the second went the
same way. When I left him he was
meeting it half way every time it
swung back at him, and wouldn't won
der if he is worn down pretty close to
the tail by this time. San Francisco
Post