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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-22
IN MEMORIAM.

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
WHEREAS God In HII Providence
saw lit to remove by death, es
teemed friend and Brother j. A. L.
Thompson.
Re8olUed 1, That in the death of Bro.
Thompson, Salem Alliance No. GA has
lost a most worthy brother, the church
a Useful member, the community a
good citizen and the family a kind
hearted and faithful brother.
2. That a copy of these resolutions
be sent to the family Of the deceased
and also to The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
with request to publish.
T. A. MORROW,
JOHNSTON PARIS,
NOpo 0oitkoo
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-22
truly.
ABOUT THAT SHOE FACTORY.
LEVIN WATSON.

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
1t Is of the curious things in hu
man nature as to why, when a bust
ness is depending upon a number Of
men, it often fails, not for lack of cap
ital or ability on the part of any one,
but through negligence, when if it
q private enterprise of any one of
the men, no labor or money would be
spared, if success was certain.
Our shoe factory stands to day with
closed doors, simply because of our
~negIecting to provide funds to run it.
1t would be inst as sensible for the
Alliancemen OF North Carolina, after
they plant their corn crop next spring,
after they provide the utensils, the
horses, etc for it's cultivation to fail
to provide hands to work it. That is
precisely what we are doing with our
shoe factory.
At HlIsboro we have magnificent
buildings, the best of machinery and a
good supply Of leather, with several
hundred pairs of unfinished shoes, and
we have the money in our pockets to
start the factory, we want just such
shoes as we can make, but we have
been too slow in responding to Bro.
Lvey's calls, 50 our factory stands,
when winter is almost here.
Let each of US respond to Brott er
Ivey's call for a dollar, and in the next
ten days send him $40, 600, and have
the factory start at once.
I p ssed the factory with an Irish
man last week, and told him what the
building was, and that it was closed
for lack Of fumes Said he, An faith
an why should ye be after closin' of
her when yell all be wantin' Of shoes
fer yerselves an yer families fer the
winter" Let each of US ask himself
the Irlshman's question.
The factory belongs to us, the Al
liaGcemen of North Carolina, and on
Us alone depends its success or failure.
II we will 8 the same Judgement in
this as in our everyday business, we
will have the factory start in a few
days. Fraternally,
FL. N. GATES.
S~Wepsonville, N. Q.
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Sale Of Land to Make Assets

BY virtue of a Judgment of the Superior Cow.
90 Wake 20 \ G., IN Special Pr2ceedincs H..
7 OF AZ Fd "aTd7, deceased, ct ais VS.. ". {.
Edwards and other defendants. will. on ~ IL
cay, the 18th da of October, 1895. at 12 -
m. at the court house , OOr of Wake comm
pose TO public ale, to the highest bid5Gr
cash, a tract of land in Cedar Fork towns
Woke county, ado ming tie lands of G.. f
church b. H. Marc m and others a. d desrri5 Pc
a. follows: BEGINNING at a hickory, {, +. TT.
cu4rcn {. rntr; and unning thence north VIII
in said Up huIch's line; thence nearly wesf ~ y
his line about 81 poles to a hickory in B r NJ
CONS line; thence southwest with hs line ah"|r+
so poles to a post oak corner; thence west Nh
said MarcOm's line about 10 poles 10 = r;.,.
thence sou1hWard with the HerDdOn line aIha-[1f
" poi t. a I~ightwoOd knot coruer; thence eaIt
with Henry Maynard S Inc IS poles 10 a nos+ 49,
come 0n4 10 HENCE zen south with 5 il ,MayraTds, itae
ner; theLce east with his line G6 poles TO the L u
ginning cont lining ia acres, more or less u
he above described tract Of land is siimatl-
aO )ut two MILE northwest Of the town of No
rloV1lle. and about half mile from The GoIt2b1
efh ECaIIIOad' j. &. MAR ON
Admins .atOr.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-09-22
THE POLITICAL STATUS.

WILSON, N. @.
know of no better way to COM
municate with the farmers than
through and by your very excellent
paper, The PROGRESSIVE FARMER l
think that I a readily see and feel
with them in the peculiar condition in
which they have been pla ced, politi
cally.
The farmers as a general thing have
but little time to attend to political
matters and but very few of them are
able if they had the time to pay their
expenses from home in political con
ventions. While the farmers have
been engaged in trying to raise more
grain, cotton ard tobacco, the politi-
clans have been engaged trying to Sc
cure more votes for the Office hunters.
We know that our country is in a de
pIorable condition, and we know this
condition has been brought on us by
the two old political parties.
The Populist party was organized
four years ago with the Alliance de
mands as it's platform, because no
other party would do anything for US,
and because the great Grover was
made the test of Democracy.
We have the satisfaction of knowing
that the Populjs5 party is a unit on sill
yer while the old parties are divided.
As a general thing the farmers are op-
posed to mixing up and fusing with the
two old political parties. The political
preachers tell US that a little leaven
will leaven the whole lump, but we
would like to know which party is 60
ing t. be the lump. The doctors say
they will give US q small dose of these
two old wrong parties sugar coated
with Populis5 doctrine. Now the
farmers are getting tired of all this
trading, bartering, mixing, and tusing
for a few politicians to get office. We
know that such a course will have a
tendency to disorganizo US and when
we are disorganiz9d the two old parties
will defy us. | hope to see all the
friends of silver vote for Bryan and
Watson, whether Sewall is taken down
or not, for this is the only chance for
us under present conditions. If the
Democrats of this State thought as
much of silver as the Demo rats of
New York think of gold, they would
help US to elect Bryan and Watson. If
they are not careful as to how they
conduct this campaign they will drive
thousands OF Populists from Bryan.
Since the goldbug Democratic conven.
ton has sat down on them, called them
repudiators andrevolutionists and that
they are no better than Populis5s, it
looks as if they ought to know where
they stand They have acknowledged
mat the Populists were right four
years ago, but that party name is go
sweet they cannot give it up. We
want to know which is the Democratic
party the goldbugs or the silverbugs,
they both claim it, who is going to de
eide the matter?
Yours truly,
TTUTN w ATCON
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STEWARDS CREEK ALLIANCE.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Progressive Farmer.
- DIAL. N. @.

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
DIAL, n. Q.
Not having g anything from
Stewards Creek Alliance, l thought l
would let the readers of THE PROGRESS
s1vE FARMER know that we are still in
existence, though numerically small,
we are strong in the faith.
Stewards Creek Alliance was organ
lied in 1888, and for the first year or
two it numbered from thirty to forty
members, but when the Alliance went
into politics it fell eff some in numbers
but is as active as ever in business.
Within the last six months we have
Initiated four members who know that
the Alliance stands just where it did
before it went into politics, though we
have lost two very useful members
recently by death. We are still at the
old stand doing all we can for the
Order. 1 endorse the stand you take
in politics and I think the most of the
Populists in this section do also. THE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER has always be-
fore pointed out the right direction to
pursue and 1 and many others think
it points the right curse for 1896
Long live The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
and the reforms it advocates.
Fl. M. FILLYAW.
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Committee,
TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE
RATES.

From The t. biographical Journal.
L. appears from the United States
Consular Reports for July, 1896, that
in Switzerland where Gas in all other
countries than oure) the telegraph and
telephones belong to the postofce, the
government has reduced the rental of
telephones to IS per year 10 each sub
scriber. The government in Sweden
charges S. per year for use Of tele
phone. The usual charge for a tele,
gram in all other countries than ours
is 10 cents. Just think of the enormous
difference to the people of q postal tele-
graph and telephones, with 10 cents
for a telegram between any two points
in the Union, and telephones renting
at So or So per year. Why should not
the people of the United States have
the advantage of these rates like the
people under governments less avow-
eddy conducted in the interest OF the
people.
The present monopoly is making
millionaires. L9ss than $500, 600 in
cash altogether has eV6r been paid in
by the Western Union stockholders.
The capital stock now is over 500,
600, coo and it is all either water or net
earnings, I'VE and above the large an
nUal dividends to stockholders. The
telegraph in this country originally be
loDged to the p0stofice. 1t was illegal
~ turned I'VE to q private corporation
The act of Congress of 1867 gives the
United States the option to take back
the telegraph at any time, and every
mile built since then has been con
structed with knowledge Of that option
on the part of the government. TIE
Western Union is making millions an.
nually out Of high rates and poor &C.
commodations, while the people are
operating the antiquated, non-paying
part of the postoh ce-the non electric
mail-at q heavy annual loss. In all
countries in which the electric mail, i
e., the telegraph and telephone, is a
part of the postal service the postoffce
pays a prCfE. In Italy, the postomce
has lately reduced kilograms &C 5 cente.
G:eat Britain was the latest great
government to make the telegraph a
part of the postal service, yet even
there it vas done in 1870 twenty six
years ago-and Immediately private
kilograms multiplied tenfoId quot mere
ly ten per cent. but a thousand per
cent and newspaper dispatches null
tiplied thirty fold.
What stands between US and this
great retorm7 Answer: Toe control
OF the daily press by the telegraph
monopoly and the control of Congress
and other eff ce holders at Washing
ton by a powerful lobby and telegraph
franks issued to all Congressman and
Senators who will accept them. All
the il lential Office holders around
the departments in Washington CITY
are also literally supplied with tele,
graph Enthusiastically in the cost.
Office department.
When shall the people come to their
rights in this matter7 Answer: When
they will It. "Who would be free
themselves must strike the blow"
WALTER CLARK.
D.IoSoh NJ ~
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

I, s. D. Griffin. having this day qualified as
Administrator of Dolphin Griffin. dtceassd. do
hereby request all persons indebted to the estate
to call anO pay the amOu is of their iLd5bted-
ness, either to me or my Attorneys Peele &
Maynard at Raleigh. n. G and ali persons hav-
ing claims against the estate will present their
C aims to me or my said attorneys Cd or before
the l2ih day Of September. 1897 or this lot-ce
will &c lead in bar OF their recovery.
S. ID GRIFFIN,
Eagle Rock, n. @.
Peale & MAYNARD. At Orneys.
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:BrOSnan Bros.
land SO South Illinois Street a. &c. SO West Maryland Street
. . . .

years later than the date OF the previous
extract she wrote TO q friend concerning an
other card party: 'I lost Is guineas, though
the Princess"-Ameiia-' taken away the
virtue. for she unfoided the paper took il
out, and called II an old tooth, which de
for from that time lost. At cards ann
superstitious, and as II is only at play tits
pardonable." Lady Mary was candid. al
Two centuries earlier Reginald Scott. the
famous authority on witchcraft, had written
that "a bone taken out of a carp's head
nection between this piece of superstition
and Lady Mary Cokes absurd fetch, but.
in folklore luck, like other. mysterious vir-
tues, Is apt TO be transferable. and an OBJ
ject which Is considered good for some
particular purpose gradually acquires a char
acter for. virtue. Of general application.
liable TO be treated the way Lady Mary
treated the treacherous carp bone. Ed
ward Fitzgerald. the translator OF Omar
customs Of the SUFFOLK coast folk. and in
some notes on their words and phrases
which he wrote many years ago he remarks
board their boats by the fishermen 10 pass
away the time at 'ali-fours, don or SIR
wiser"-games unknown TO the Londy
card rooms-yet they were regarded with
some suspicion when business did not go
right. "A friend OF mine" ne says. vowed
that If his luck continued, over the cards
should go; and over they went" Once
more the fetish paid the penalty-
Gard sayings or proverbs are few. Every
one is familiar with "One two. three. four.
IL the cards are not played in succession
kiss the dealer" To cut an honor for the
trump card Is unlucky. for, says a country
there is poverty behind" Cornish folk say
that good luck turks under black duce"
1T should be touched by the cutter. An
other proverb in Lyonesse SAYS. Good luck
in cards, bad luck in a husoand-or wife"
But this Is monstrous and may be rele-
gated 10 the limbo If those 1ery numer-
Gus proverbs which Inhy not unfairly DO
defined az condensed foosishness.
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All houses wherein men have lived and died
Are haunted houses. Through the open
doors
The harmless phantcms on their errands
glide,
With feet that make no sound upon the
floors.
Along the passages they come and go.
Impalpabde impressions on the air,
sense of something moving to and fro.
There are more guests at table than the
Invited; the illuminated hall
Is thronged with quiet, inoffensve ghosts,
AS silent as the pictures on the wall.
The stranger at my fireside cannot see
The forms / see, nor hear the sounds I
He but perceives what is. while unto me
All that has been is visible and clear.
owpers and occupants Of earlier dates
From graves forgotten stretch their dusty
And hold in mortmain still their old es-
The spirit world around this world of sense
Floats like atmosphere. and every
where
Watts through these earthly mists and va
vital breath of more ethereal air.
Our little lives are kept in equipoise
BY opposite attractions and desires;
The struggle of the instinct that enjoys,
And the more noble instinct that aspires.
These perturbations, this perpetual Jar
OF earthly wants, and aspirations nigh:
Come from the influence OF an unseen star,
An undiscovered planet in our sky.
And as the moon, from some dark gate of
cloud
Throws DER the sea floating bridge of
light,
Across whose trembling planks our fancies
crowd
Into the realm of mystery and night
So from the world of spirits there descends
a bridge of light connecting Ii with this,
Ger whose unsteady Moor, that sways ana
bends,
Wander our thoughts above the dark
abyss
-Longfelow.
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WHAT THEY DRINK.
Miss willard Being Away q Change I'm
Triples Takes Place.
Chicago Post

Chicago Post
In the absence of Miss Frances Willard.
who has Joined Lady Somerset across the
water, and who, we understand, lis 10 ac-
company Mrs. Coonley on a bicycle tour IN
to Scotland later IN the summer, we feel
by q New York paper. The very reputable
and reliable journal in point authorizes the
statement that champagne Is rapidly going
out of favor as a dinner drink in refined cir
cies and that Scotch whisky and water IN
palatable proportions has taken its place.
According to our Eastern contemporary the
change is merely fad. and II Is believed
that though the ladies have fallen In with IL
they will eventually 20 back TO champagne.
because champagne leaves an enect which
Medical mel on the other hand cordially APP
prove he substitution. and this nay or may
not be point in its favor. We do not pre-
tend to say what peculiar effect the ladies
derive from campagne. but we believe that
IL they give Scotch whisky fair trial at
their next dinner party they Will get an ef-
1t is proper to say that in epicurean circles
OF Chicago Scotch whisky and water has
been for a long time the favorite ttpple dur
ing dinner and for some hours thereafter
We are told by those who have made a con-
scientiOsss and patient study OF this delight
full mixture that IL puts a rosy hue on the
OF care with a facility unknown 10 sleep.
and renovates the liver with a neatness that
would make the fortune OF dozen Beech
ans. Better than this, we are informed by
the same industrious and trustworthy stu
dents. the diner-out who sticks 10 Scotch
whisky and water. occasionally splitting q
bottle OF club soda 10 add TO the general
merriment. arises the next day with .
cioudless brain and the sunniest OF teulpers-
We again assert that we do not commit cur
selves TO a personal and defiant opinion un-
I'll we hear from Miss Willard. but We SIM
cerely trust the lady will deliver decision
at an early day. for the water supply IN chr
cago Is not what Il should be and heaven
has blessed Us with fierce thirst wttha1-
We fancy We can already hear her opinion
for well has the poet said:
Caledonia. stern and wild.
Meet nurse for mary thirsty child
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Eight Years This Man Has Avoided
the Father of the Man He Killed.

Eight Years This Man Has Avoided
the Father of the Man He Killed.
Washington Post.
There are some people OF such unrelent-
ing purpose that when they once register
VOW to do certain thing no human agency
can cause them to alter their resolution"
said George Rice. of Arkansas. Here Is
little Story taken from life, every incident
of which came under my own observation.
The facts are truly stated and can be easily
verified. About ten years ago, in little
Southern town, two friends of mine. a young
Guilty. and the former fell dead. pierced
through the heart with bullet from re-
volver. The blame all rested With the de- e,
family, but ne had fallen into convivial hab-
its. and when drinking was very ugly. Time
and again he had made threats against the
man who had killed him. Friends OF the
latter told him of the threats. and begged
him to avoid a meeting. which he did when
ever possible. AT last 1t came to be a ques-
obeyed natures first law.
"A jury would have cleared him beyond
all doubt If the case had ever come to
his bond OF 5000, and the cash was paid
over by my hands. The man VINO did the
killing left for parts unknown and has ney,
Simply because the father Of the deceased
solemnly declared in the presence OF his
townsmen that II John - was acquitted of
ayenger He would kill his sons slayer. The
old man was never known TO break his
word. His courage was of that desperate
kind which feared nothing. NOBODY doubt
ed that he would do just what he said. so
/ advised John - to clear out. and as
there had been enough killing he went. Ten
years have gone by and the old father has
make good his OATH Argument and per-
suas.on are useless. and good man Is
forced into Punishment as long as the other
lives He is getting very old now, and his
health Is feeble. HIS stay on earth is short
but until he goes the sentence OF exile
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nix Scars Left ny One Bullet Upon the
Body OF an ex-SIave.

New York Sun.
There Is a negro man now living in
Fauquier county. Virginia. who bears the
one CT the old mimic balls was capable of
INJECTING. He was. prior TO the civil war,
the butler in a fine Old mansion where he
could be. He was unusually intelligent and
had been taught TO read by the children of
the family. The boy of the house was hap
piest when he was allowed to be with Jim.
When, however. the Federal army ap-
preached within a days march of the cd
homestead Jim ran of one night to free
dom.
About year afterward he returned un-
especially and resumed his old duties. He
would say little of his life as free man
servant by an officer Not for a long time
afterward was 1t discovered that he had
been In serious trouble. and the discovery
plain the presence of six scars that had
evidently been bullet wounds
One summer morning he was sent with
m assistant and his young master to draw
q seine through the deep HOES in the
stream that ran through the plantation, in
order to secure fish as course for an ap-
preaching war dinner. The seine was made
q coffee bag that had been picked up on
= camp field The bag was ripped open
and fastened at the two ends TO long poles.
that Ii might be showed under overhang-
ing banks. Clad only I'm trousers. the men
prepared TO drag the first hole. and then
the young boy saw that his pet. Jim. had
been injured. After much coaxing jim con-
senfed to explain that the six scars were
the marks Of one bullet and TO tell how it
happened.
Jim had in some way aroused the enmity
Of one OF the Qlards attached TO neadquar-
fers One Afternoon he had gone on a for
aging expedition alone before the counter
sign had been selected. Returning about
dusk. he was unlucky enough TO be halted
on his approach to camp by his enemy
His story was that he wished TO avoid a
discussion. and so. when he found that
there would be difficulty In passing the
guard. he turned. saying that he would go
elsewhere for the night. and that the guard
shot him without more ado. The ball from
the mustxet struck him in the muscles Of
the back. behind the arm, passing through
them and into the under part Of the arm
II was detected by the bone and passed
cut OF the arm about an inch forward OF It's
entry. entered the heshy part Of the chest.
and out again at about the same spot In
front from which II wculd have emerged
had Il gone directly through his body from
its first point of impact. The soldier was
tried, but exonerafed on the ground that he
had reason TO believe that Jim had turned
a order TO draw a pistol.
His old master suspected that Jim had
returned only 10 prepare his family for an
other flight and told him that he was will
ing that they should go on one condition.
and that was that the departure should be
made at night, and so 1t happened. Jim was
old plantation had been sold to pay security
debts. AT the close OF Virginia October
day Jim led away one OF the old horses
that he had bought TO use on a little farm
he had rented days journey from the old
home.
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Refreshing Gossip.


Did you ever notice how. at a luncheon or
''tea." or. for that matter. almost any
place where two or three women are gath
cred together. there is nothing so enlivening
and leavening to the atmosphere as a bit of
gossip? For hour after hour women will
yawn over. or at best take languid interest
in the conversation so long as IL concerns
the latest novel. the opera. or even the new
style OF dress skirt or cookery. But just let
somebody start TO say: did you know thar
Bertha A. Is going 10 -" or. Have you
heard that Ethel Il. has gone -" or is II
true that Bessie c. says. and everybody
Is at once on the qui vive II Is like pinch
OF salt or a whiff OF fresh air. 1t is a light
ming change. and no less sure or sudden
than IL Is universal. Every eye brightens.
every face beams and every tongue is quick
70 respond with NO, what is it?' or a
Tets hear" or Us that So" The wisest
and the wiftiest the most sagacious and the
most substantial women are not free frem
The sp1il There - no getting away from It.
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taffeta spotted with black has slashed bod
ice finished on the edges with box plating
of narrow black Valenciennes lace, which
also trims the ruffle on the skirt The I'M
der bodice is of black silk net over white
SATIN the neck is cut out In a high square,
leaving the net to cover the throat, with
deep yellow velvet collar for finish.