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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-18

DRCGS-Opium and qunine we're frner. Menufac-
tuners have given notice OF rise In price
and the bulk price has been advanced accord
fngiy. nothing OF particular Interest In es
sen.ial Prices follows Opium
CAGES 35as2 obbing 81 40 powdered 81 25qs3 80
morphine bulk 81 70aSi 50. yias 81 1881 30
eishths 81 a5<2 TO- Qunine. domesc bulk &c foreign
FLOUR AND MEA1<-There was only a small tobbng
trade in flour day lower range OF prices in
fuenced by the wheat Spring patents quoted
at IS Se<e$5 75 winter straights. 9oq$o winter pat.
ents IS 360t5 20: spring clears 81 5o$+ s. No
winter So JOGSS So No winter. s. 3oQS3 40: no
grade 81 5lp<i co. ..... RYE FI/OCR-Du sales. 400
bhIs S3 Ssd&3 20. .CORNMEAl-Qu!et quoted: Kiln
dried 81 sO6S2 brand .BA0MEAl.-Quiet: fine
white sS9rsOc: yellow. sSc coarse IlH74c. 80.
FEEI-Stsady 30 and 50 70 winter in hulk. G51I0o
spring bulk DC. fOo-o middlins. bulk I5c feed
62nf6oc: city feed. 70n 75c hominy chop zoe omeal
s.29&23 screening 10000 in bulk. buck wheat grain
hNd5Sc.
GRAIN sHEAT-The whea; market weak FOR the
greater part OF the day and closed iTal.c lower than
last night As The yesterday liquidation formed
largely Of foreign news against the home situation
ing prices experienced sharp advance 70 91'c for De
oenber the unexpected nrrnness Of Liverpool which
market was understood TO have been affected by less
from Argentine Opening prices proved
the highest day however liquidation being
stimulated by heavy receipts OF spring wheat in tho
Northwest indications that the visible euppy would
increase 10000 bush seaboard shipments Of wheat
this been about 8000 900 bush smaller than
lat while the interior movement h.. increased seS.,
is<aly been above the average. suggesting that the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-18
ALL coffee In as follows:

Rio-CofYee market steady No Rio. $3.50 Exchange.
I4OOO bags. cl"red for the United Sates
cleared for Europe. 1000 bags stock 1913 900
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-18

average santos $500; receipts. 1900 bags stock.
lH3T bags Hamburg-t'onee market opened 4. pfen
ming lower closed unchang"i i.uis pf-nrng lower.
sales 10000 bsgs Havre-Cofee market opened quiet.
unchanged franc lower. II ,. franc lover
Q o. "a unchanged !. franc higher. closed duh al
mel Of !, franc: total salrs. 5000 bags
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-18
NETWORK PRICES.

Receipts Of brcsdstu. interior points IN thousands,
last three cphers 600, omitted Flour ibis grain bush
az follnna.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-18

THE GENERAL LIST.
RAILROAD STOCKS.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-24
WANTED A BOSS.

West Virginia, the Mountain State,
is full Of interesting characters. Back
of the rather a~ristocratic little town of
Phillip are Businesses not yet disturbed
by the ownward march of civilization.
A we'll known politician was canvassing
through that section for votes, when
he came to q cabin where a young
woman was holding a man on the
ground by his ears.
"Done got enough9" she asked.
81 give it up" he said. Then the
girl released the man, who went away,
looking very much abashed.
whats the troubles" inquired the
politician.
"Thar want no trouble" replied the
girl. HE jes' axed me ter marry i'm,
an I've allus said 1 wouldn't marry
any man I could whop. Kinder looks
like 1 couldn't find one. I've tried
mos of EN- round hyar, an none of
'em amt any good. I toll i'm all about
it, an I didn't want ter whop this I'm
much, but he JUS went down soon as l
tackled i'm. 1 reckon I'll hev ter be an
ole maid. l KANT abide havin' no
man that amt mo- of a man than me-"
Washington Star.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-24
A MATTER OF SALT.

Recently DR.. 81. M, Wilder, of Char
lotte, gave a barbecue at his home in
that city. OF course it was a
recherche affair" The Observer re
ported that ''corn bread without salt
was served, and added that this was
according to the eastern formula
This statement has been challenged by
a person signing himself IAN East
ern Carolinian," and writing from
Raleigh. He makes a wholesale de-
NAL, says he has always lived in east
ern Carolina up to a few years ago,
and never heard Of corn bread being
made without salt. This writer came
from Western North Carolina and
never heard of corn bread baked with
out salt until he arrived in Raleigh,
and has eve eaten sailed corn bread
here and has found the same condition
existing in other parts of Eastern Caro-
lima. We believe that q majority of
the people eat COR bread without salt
in Eastern Carolina. Eastern Caro-
linian" doesn't know as much about
his section as he imagines. In fact he
is away off. Why this condition exists
when people r 80 intelligent other
wise will always be q mystery. Some
say that the negroes introduced the
idea, but why they should have such q
taste, or rather lack of taste, has not
been made plain. But the fact remains
that the quality" nearly all eat their
''dodger" without salt. The hotels and
boarding houses follow suit. II East,
ern CaroliniRn" ever ate dinner at any
Eastern Carolina hotels he doubtless
found saltless bread, but overlooked
the fact.
Now we assert positively for the
twentieth time that the no salt craze
has long been prevalent in this section,
and we call upon Dr.. Caldwell, of
the Charlotte Observer, and any assis
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-24
TaE PICNIC.

The farmers of Wake county and
their friends had a very pleasant pic
mic at the A. 6 M. College, Friday,
August goth. Quite a crowd was pres
ent and the best of order prevailed.
From ten O'Clock till noon an adjourned
meeting of the County Alliance was
held. This having adjourned, dinner
was served and quite a fine one it was.
When the cravings of the inner man
had been satisfied, the crowd repaired
to the chapel where they were treated
to q most excellent address by Gov.
Russell. This appears elsewhere in this
issue and we ask all OF our readers 20
give it a careful perusal.
In his address of welcome. President
Holiday referred to the great and IN,
valuable influence which the Alliance
exerted for the founding of the A. &
M. College. This was a just and fitting
tribute to the Order. DR.. Cyrus Thomp-
son came next, and, after a few timely
and forcible remarks, introduced Gov.
Daniel L. Russell. In doing this DR..
Thompson mentioned the fact that this
was the first time a Governor OF our
State had ever while, in Office addressed
a body of Alliancemen, and thereby
recognized this, the only farmers or
g~anization in a great agricultural
State.
AS for the speech, it needs no com
ments.. It is unlike the speech of a
politician; first, in that it takes an open
and unmistakable position on the ques
lions discussed; and, second, in that it
shows no love for the corporations,
The views of Wake county's farmers
on the matters discussed by the Gov
ernor found expression in frequent
and long continued applause.
After the Governor had concluded
has remarks, Commissioner of Agri
culture Mewboorne made a short,
pointed speech.
Altogether it was a most pleasant
occasion and we hope that Wake
county AlHancemen will make this q
permanent feature of their organiza
ton. Those who failed to attend Fri
day missed a treat, and don't you for
get it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-24
SHALL THEY Do IT\AdA1N7

In glancing owe an old issle of the
Journal Of Commerce and Commercial
Bulletin Of June 24th, 1895, we found a
clipping which makes interesting read.
ing when considered in connection with
the results of last years national cleo
ton. We intended publishing the ar
ticle verbatim, and very much regret
that it has been lost.
It was taken from the Financial
Chronicle, a bankers journal, and dis
cussed free silver and the methods Of
defeating it. 1t announced that talking
and writing had proven Intellectual.
Something more must be done. It said
the gold s~tandardmen must ''go down
into their pocketsI" They must defeat
free silver-they must thwart the will
of the people-by corrupting voters
and leaders with money!
Should not this fiat of a brazen faced
monopoly organ bring the blush of
shame to the cheek of any true patriot
What would our Revolutionary ances
tors have said, could they have seen
this cool and shameless statement Of q
bankers organ9 What does any man,
rich or poor, high or low, think of a
country in which money, and not men,
rules2
Nor was the Financial Chronicle
alone in making this statement. The
paper which clipped this was not a hos
tile one. It made no comments, and,
doubtless Joined the servile and plant
tools OF Wall street in a chorus of ap-
proval. r
No wonder they were compelled to
''go down into their pockets" Dis.
cussion had failed, because discussion
only made the truth more plain. Pre-
~varication and evasion had failed be-
cause the people were aroused.
The efficacy of money had to be tested
and they appealed to the baser ele-
ments Of human nature.
Since then the election of 1895 has
been held. The moneyed men haze
gone down into their pockets" and
the world knows the result! Silver
has been defeated and Labor is Capitals
captive.
That decision cannot be nuIlifed. It
has been done and cannot be undone.
But we can prevent it's recurrence.
Will you,-the question ia personal
will you ever again follow the leader
ship of the bribed minions of wall
street, Will you not open your evesG
You. perhaps, received none of the
money, but what of your goldbue
leedersf Let American freemen rise
and declare that never again shall AN.
italists thWart the will Of the people BY
'going down into their pocketsi"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-24
GOOD TIMRs, No 60,

The prosperity howlers have just
made their sixty. third semi-frequent
announcement. They now claim that
the price of all staple crops and many
other things, including trust goods, is
steadily advancing. Mills are starting
up with big orders ahead, and the
transportation lines report a large in
crease in passenger and freight bust.
ness. Money is 'easy." In fact,
judging from what the prosperity
shriekers IRE talking, money is going
around begging for employment, so to
speak. The prosperity howlers have
gone at it with so much energy this
time that they have gotten the New
York Journal to admit that it must
be so.
Up to this time we have not seen
much evidence of the existence Of the
boom, but we have our right hand ex
tended and will give it a glorious wei
come at any hour of the day or night.
However, this all sounds strange,
coming as it does right upon the heels
of the assertion by the National
Bankers Association a few weeks ago,
that good times cannot come. and will
not until the government gives the
bankers a complete monopoly of the
issuing of money, and the first step
necessary being the retiring of the
greenbacks. Judging from this, the
prosperity howlers have gotten di-
vided, one faction declaring that good
times are here another declaring they
are not here, and cannot come under ex
listing conditions. Take the case, gen.
tIemen.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-24
ONE OF BILL NYE'S LAST LET
TERS.

T. G.. Carpenter, in Atlanta Constitu
ton, says:
Like a fresh breath from the past is
q personal letter which I found to-day
in looking rel some of my old CORE
spondence. It was written to me by
Bill Nye shortly before his death. An
extract from it is az follows:
"You may already know that Paul
NJ. Potter and I are just putting the
last coat Of shellac on a new play for
Mr.. Palmer's garden theater. I need
hardly say that this play combines the
mastery architectural strength and
the heaven born genius of the two au-
thors in the way that will yield the
most joyous and instructive results. It
is called The Stag Party" and will be
enlivened by melodious music on the
harp, sacbut and bull fiddle. Fair
young people of both sexes will frolic
over the stage, and good clothes in
limited quantities will be permitted be
tween the music.
II am spending the summer on the
farm surrounded by loving friends and
colored people who desire to dispose of
their blackberries.
II have discharged my old farm
superintendent and secured one in his
stead who can play a better game of
golf. Farmers must keep abreast of
the time or fall behind it.
Crops are looking well. Ihad quite
an experience last week with a new
hive Of bees, which I bought at Hen,
Jacksonville, this State. They are called
the long wasted or tailor made bees. I
brought the hive home by the train
this afternoon. The Pullman parlor
car conductor was going to put me off,
but thought better of it when I set my
Queen Ann bees on him. I always
hated Pullman, anyhow, and only pat
ronize his old slumber tanks when I
need q new cake Of soap or a set of
hand towels for the home nest.
1.-THE only people who have succeeded
in making anything Of farming in this
country are two men who have worked
for me and Vanderbilt over five years
on salary, and who now own a feed
store where Mr.. Vanderbilt and I are
enabled to run an account.
1.-THE joys Of farm life keep one
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-24
RESTRAINING FRRE sPERCHAND
FREE ASSEMBLAGEAI

Of recent events the two which are
just now attracting most attention are
the enforced resignation of President
Andrews of Brown University and the
Injunction granted by a West Virginia
judge, restraining free American citi-
zens from assembling peaceably to de,
mand their rights Of the soulless cor
porations for which they had worked.
It seems strange that such tyrannical
and entirely un-American measures
should find men to uphold them any
where in this broad land, and yet they
have. Men-persons who claim to be
loyal and patriotic citizens of free
America" shamelessly and openly en-
dorse these acts. The Injunction
granted by Judge jackson restraining
the miners from persuading the work,
ing miners to join them, is almost un-
paralleled for tyranny. The miners
had been law-abiding and peaceable,
but what Of that's With the Federal
j judiciary on the side of corporations.
1t made no difference. These miners
had a right to discuss their grievances.
they had a right to endeavor peaceably
to induce others to assist them in their
battle for better prices, they had a
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-24
GENERAL WEYLER WILL sue.
GELD.

For some time we have been uneasy
about Gen. Weyler, commander Of the
Spanish army in Cuba. For more than
q year the General has imperiled the
the lives of his 200, 900 brave Spanish
soldiers in his efforts to keep them out
of the way of less than forty thousand
insurgents. In reality he hasn't had
much time to give his personal atten-
ton to the safety of bis troops owing to
the fact that he is kept busy debating
victories to his stenographer. While
the trouble has had all the attending
horrors and cost of war, as a matter of
fact there has been no war at all. 1t is
simply a question of endurance. II
Spain can beg or borrow meney enough
to keep Weyler and his army in
Havana indefinitely, the war will
never end. His army occupies that
city and a small amount of adjacent
territory, while the insurgents have
most of the best farming lands in Cuba
and are getting along finely with their
a LA5s OOL4C E44kA1 SA444 4ASGCS A1WO
occurred and Weyler's men have de-
stroyed a few sugar plantations and
butchered some defenceless people. In
the meantime the insurgents send lit
tie bands right up to the outskirts Of
the city and pick eff a few sentinels
now and then.
But Weyler has solved the problem.
He is now building a high barbed wire
fence around the city and will station
his braves on top of the fence and live
in security-unless the insurgents pro
vide ladders and climb over and dis
turb his peace of mind. This goes to
prove that Weyler has something in
him after all. He is a diplomat,
strategeian and inventor at one and
the same time. He is a progressive
fellow. With his entire army and
navy combined he might be able to
capture q North Carolina moonshine
youtit, provided the "mash" stands
didn't escape, or anything else that
would stand still long enough.
This latest move by Weyler is on
par with the building Of the Great
Wall Of China, which required several
hundred years to complete, and was
intended to keep out the Tartars,
though the Chinese out numbered them
ten thousand to one. Three cheers for
Weyler.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-24
N. r. P. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The first bale of North Carolina new
crop cotton was sold at Morven, Aug.
21st. Price, 81 cents per ID.
Terence V. Powderly succeeds Her
man Stump, Commissioner of Immi,
grafton, at Washington. Powderly is
winning quite a reputation as a stump
xpuller.
The passage of the Dingley bill may
not restore prosperity to as great an
extent as some people think, but it has
fully restored a great many dormant
prosperity howlers.
A religious exchange says: When
aEnen look to the Lord, there is no lack
Of work" Those who clamor for ahigh
tariff for the benefit of the ''laboring
people" don't look with favor upon
such a theory.
The average wage of labor in North
Carolina is 60 cents a day, and out Of
that sum laborers must lodge and
board themselves. There seems to be
an undertow of poverty in connection
with that Wave of Prosperity"
Gov. Russell said a great deal in his
speech last Friday. The Governor
has one popularity: he never asks the
bosses what he must say before he
starts out to talk, The people Of North
Carolina will like this if they ever get
used to it it.
Between q Bourbon Democrat who
grinds the faces of the producers and
laborers on q small scale, and such as
Mark Hanna who do the same on a
large scale, there is no difference save
that of opportunity. North Carolina
has many embryo Hannas, who call
themselves Democrats. The only real
Jefferson ian Democrat is a Populist.
The President of the American (sic)
Bankers Association, in his address
delivered to that body in convention
assembled at Detroit, said that the dis,
coveries of gold in Africa, Venezuela
and Alaska were proofs that Provi-
dence commended the stand taken by
the bankers in behalf of the single gold
SSoAN0AA' HO4uyS SAO NONA O0h 4OOSO
Holy writ when it suits his purpose.
The Congressman differ. Some of
the Democratic brethren claim that
this Congress is dominated by the
Sugar Trust. Senator Enry, Democrat,
of Louisiana, comes forward with the
assertion that the sugar clause in the
Wilson bill was dictated by the Sugar
Trust, and claims that the trust didn't
get halt it wanted in the Dingley bill.
If we aver find out which is the smaller
OF the two evils, we will choose the lit
tie one.
Foor Old News and Observer Gov
grnor Russell tried to encourage it to
continue on the right track by SAYING
in his speech last Friday that the News
and Observer is the only daily paper
in the State that is on the side of the
people. Twenty-four hours later the
News aud Observer was preaching the
''nigger racket" and other things that
delights the heart of pl~utocracy. That
paper a change oftener and easier
@nan any sheet in the country.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-24

right to ask others not TO take their
places. But what is right against
might
Speaking of the strike the Hon.
Wharton Barker truthtully says:
''The strike, now completing its
seventh week, is quite unparalleled in
several ways. First, we have the ap,
pearance of the courts in the struggle
on the eide of the operators to an ex-
tent that is quite unparalleled second,
we have an absence of violence on the
part Of the strikers, a quiet submis-
sion to the law even when the law is
twisted into becoming the third arm of
the operators and made odious. that
has never before been approached IN
any strike, and in the third place, we
have a discipline and obedience to
leaders in the ranks of the strikers that
has been the occasion Of endless won
derment."
At any rate the great common PEG
pie are on their side, and right will
eventually triumph.
In the case of President Andrews, we
are surprised to find a paper in old
Virginia, 1.-The mother of Presidents, u
and the birthplace of that advocate OF
freedom, Thomas Jefferson, openly
endorsing the course of the faculty in
asking President Andrews to resign.
This paper is the Richmond Times. 1t
gives and endorses the statement OF
one of the faculty:
''It is the unanimous opinion of the
corporation of Brown University that
the question upon which DR.. Andrews
is at variance with it is far more vital
to the well being of the country than
were the questions upon which the
civil var was fought; in fact, that this
question is fundamental to the con
tinued prosperity of Christian civiliza
ton"
This is the opinion of the plutocrsts
as to the Importance of the financial
question. Very well; the college has
chosen to discharge its president be
cause he dared to express his convic
tiops, It must suffer the conse quences.
If the people are wise, they will rise
and fight for their liberties. What
they do, they must do quickly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-24

young and fresh all the tino
to romp with the bull and fooi b
bounding over the fence tr,a
vance Of him. I bought him :. .
ored brother who called tho "so
'I-shi.' Afterward Learned thai ' =
shire was what he was trvin~ a
ulate. wei
"'I,shi' seems appropriate. h..
and I still use that name, A. a0S'O
near being ehy of a couple of tsl
on his account. '~N
Sincerely yours,
IN
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-24

Elsewhere in this issue ProL
late of the A. & N. College, ng 4
important announcement Dc
a seed and machine store ID 4
on September LIST. Farmers
the State will read this with
for there is not, so far as we CO.
another store of the kind III ~.
Prof. Irby is a well and - ~
known, and we believe he WIZ
customers honestly and WltnP
We wish him much success