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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-22
DoCTORING NEWsPAPERsA

The Wipston Republican wants to
know what is to be done with all the
young men who have just been licensed
u practice medicine. We can't tell,
unless some of them commence doc
toring newspapers.
For instance, there's the News and
Observer. It's editor came home to
save the State, but the State didn't
seem to be very anxious for his assist
ance. That fretted it. Now it is very
seriously injured. We don't know
whether it was suicide or not. At any
rate it shot off a big gun last week,
and strange to say it. knew it was
loaded. The gun proved to be of a
boomerang variety. We don't know
whether it knew that or did not know
it. Strange to say the boomerang re
turned again with greater force than
that with which it was sent, the object
it struck having been encased in armor
sufficiently strong to accelerate it's
speed on its return journey.
Now, we surmise the News and %,
server will not shoot again till Inde-
pendence day.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-22
A QUEER ANIMAL.

NWhen Dun and Bradstreet say pros
perity is coming, it's time to tremble.
Better curtan expenses and wear your
old clothes. Mortgages, you know, are
a aign ofprosperity. and when Dun &
Co. say prosperity is coming, you may
know that mortgages, foreclosures and
debts are near at hand. The nearer
they say it is. the faster you must
squeeze the eagle on the dollar. And
when at last they say prosperity has
really arrived, If the eagle doesn't
squeal, you must hold it faster still
300 miles a minute is none to fast. Ac.
cording to them, prosperity has been
almost upon us for the last ten years.
The carer she comes the tighter times
get. She must be a queer anomalous
animal. When she finally arrives at
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-22
/THR G U

The Sugar Trust fares Eurnptuously
every year. During campaigns it gen
erously contributes to the campaign
FUNDS OF the respective parties, then
takes a back seal and watches them
make hash of each other, and then, be
the administration Republican or Demo
cratic, it gets what it desires. This
statement is based upon the old maxim:
The past guarantees the future" It
is getting about tima, however, for the
common~people to enter the political
arena, and when they do so, sugar trust
and sugar trust parties will find them,
selves in the position of a soldier at
Gettysburg-the next thing they'll
know, they won't know nothin'."
Now comes news that this trust in
tends to increase profits from $12, OOO,-
900 to SIS. 100000 per year. OF course
Uncle Sam will pay this sum like a lit
tie man and continue to talk about
1.-The freedom of America, which has
cost the blood of the noblest patriots
the world has ever known" Ratsl
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-22

with Queen Lii protesting against
the Hawaiian treaty, Wanamaker ex
posing the most treasured secrets, and
the whole people angry because he has
let the p~lutocrats into the Nationalhen
house to steal Prosperity, that bird
of beautiful. plumege," Mckinley, has
about enough to do without shooting
ducks. He knows a good thing when
he sees it, however. he would not
enter Bltmore Mansion unless the
newspaper men were admitted with
him. Now ye poor country editor nnts
on his glasses, reads that paragraph
and proceeds at once to call the name
of Mckinley blessed,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-22

your esteemed friend, the Rev. DR..
Col. T. B. Kingsbury, LII. D., after in
dulging in the exalting exercise OF writ
ing religious editorials, pens the follow
ing: 1.-The New Berne people are
aroused and indignant over the course
of Mr.. James T. Clark, who, elected a
Democratic alderman. went over to
the enemy. He has made humble con
fession and will do go no more. Let
him be pardoned and let it be a warn
ing to others" "a warning to others9"
Must a man obey the dictates of his
own conscience in political mattersS'
would make a fine subject for one of
the Rev. Doctors religious editorials
next Sunday.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-22
THE INITIATIVE AND RRFRREN-
DUN,

One of the proposed reforms, which
is not attracting the attention it de-
serves is the movement favoring direct
legislation in matters of great national
Importance.
People need not fear this reform be-
cause Of it's foreign like name. 1t is
not a physicians prescription for the
cure of the govt, but a practical re-
form, which would, if enacted into law,
give the people greater power and priv
leges than they have hitherto enjoyed.
"Greater power and privileges"-for
the peopleI That's just why the gold
bugs and monopolies oppose it.
Under it's provisions any great poll
tical question which is thought to be OF
sufficient Importance is transferred to
the people and settled directly by HEM.
There are no evasions and lodgings.
Principles can't be bought and bribed.
Under it's provisions the voter is
brought face to face with problems
presented in a plain, straightforward
way. This is a great improve
ment over the present system of vot
ing for double.fac3d candidates on am
biguous platforms.
Instead Of voting for a man who
says he favors free silver, provided So
and so, and if the party so and so, and
if Elgland will-er-do something else,
you vote Eyes" or mo- to a direct pro,
posal: Twill you have free silver at
the ratio of 16 to 1T' Dr. do you favor
a graduated income tax, imposing GER
tain rates Of taxation" or ''Shall more
bonds be issued9' Party prejudice and
fence straddlers would Cut no figure in
such N. election. The people would
eventually regain the full control of
the government. But that of course
would injure the rich bondholders and
~plutocrats. We poor slaves must not
disturb them. :'Servants, obey your
masters"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-22

.Our highly respected contemporary,
the News and Observer announces that
President Cleveland is to write a
book entitled Eight Years in the
White House." There's a splendid
chance for the News and Observers
editor to get ahead of Grover. If he
would write a book Just How I Saved
the State" we believe he could sell
more copies of it in this State alone
than Grover could sell of his book in
the whole United States. "Trilby'' and
Robinson Crue@" would be left far in
the rear, and all other books would
sink into inocuous desuetude,
Just How ISaved the State" standing
a brilliant example Of the survival
Of the fttest.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-22
BIG TRADE.

The doctors up in a Kennebec town
recommended e water for1an old far
mer's wife who was suffering from
some ailment, and the farmer started
for the seashore with a jug.
The farmer had never seen the ocean
and must have had an idea that it was
private property. Else he decided that
doctors never prescribe anything that
is free. At any rate, he walked into Q
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-22

NMayor Harrison, of Chicago. was
almost stifed by the crowd of chce
seekers who gathered around. We
rise to suggest that the Mayor and
Mckinley procure one of the modern
bicycle ap~pendages by which you can
turn a gentle stream of ammonia upon
any object you wish, if it is sum GENTLY
near. Pie, of course, is good, but when
it has to be favored with ammonia, we
presume that some of the Office seekers
would postpone their calls-until g
more convenient season.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-22
N. R. 2. a.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The world moves. Capt. W. d.
Kitchen, of Scotland Neck, has lately
returned from Claremont, Va, where
he delivered the Commencement Ad-
dress to a ''nigger" school.
IThe word ''tax payer" seems to be
obsolete-at least, some Congressman
seem to think it is. We advise them
to purchase a new dictionary, or they
may learn some unpleasant facts about
November, 1898.
i The remnants of the Arbitration
Treaty have been ratified. They have
cut it into so many pieces that it would
take g skilIfuI combination of the x
rays and the most powerful microscope
to find a resemblance OF the original
document.
1t didn't take that young gent who
tried to smuggle 10, 900 glass eyes into
this country long to discover that the
customs house officers didn't need any
of his wares. Their eyes were sharp
enough to discover that the duties on
them had not been paid.
Man Eoglish syndicate intends build
ing q SO story Office and studio in New
York City. The building will be about
700 feet In air and will cost about $12
OCO, 600. Some big monopolist will
probably have his cf3e in the top, and
that will be about as nea heaven as
he'll eve get.
1--WE think the wisest course for
Whitelaw Reid to pursue would be to
'give the grand old man." VIM E.
Gladstone, the heartfelt compliments
of the American people, and refuse to
participate in the jubilee which has
ignored the greatest and poblest man
in all England.
(fThe editor of the Christian Sun can
make a wicked wish occasionally. For
instance, he wants to exchange Judge
Simonton for the Car or the Sultan of
Turkey. Now while this might be all
right for America, we should not wish
to impose on the Turks; and then again,
there's Judge Simonton himself; he'd
have absolute power and he might kill
himself by writing too many injunc-
tions. That seems to be his favorite
amusement.
u Billy Shakespeare made q bad mis-
take when he intimated that there was
nothing IN a name. Why, you might
give the News and Observer the most
bitter political pill on earth, and If it
was called Democratic, it would simply
grin from a to a r If you, however,
subsequently, informed that journal
that you had made q mistake, that the
pill was Republican it would give one
long yaWn and be as dead as a mack.
erel in ten minutes.
y Little Johnny Wsnamaker continues
to disturb the repose Of the heads of
the Republican family. He's telling
secrets on father Mckinley and your
uncle Johnny Sherman. Right wrathy
do they seem as they threaten to spank
him, but Johnny continues to tell things
that working people should never think
about. We rather believe a big, fat,
piece of pie would fall to Johnny's
lot if be would only behave like q little
man and hush up,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-22

in the gift of the people OF this or any
other country, large enough, or profit
able enough to change our views in re.
gard to the ever growing need of fnan.
clal and other important reforms in
our government.
There ara many Offices to be filled.
These who fill them should never for.
get that they are public servants, and
while the salaries, which have been
fixed by law, or by legislative or other
custom, may be sufficient to keep the
wolf from the door, yet we do not for
get that but a small percentage of the
people can hold such Offices, hence we
will, if possible, be more persistent
than ever before, in calling attention to
the fact that national lawmakers
are not carrying out, even in q small
degree, their prediction promises.
In accepting a government Office we
did not agree to take ''hush money"
We would not be true to those who
ylaced us in the position, nor to the
general public were we to abandon the
reform harvest field. 1t is our duty to
expose those who are deceiving the
public, and it will be we'll for the edi,
tor of the Republican to change his
course and become what every editor
ought to be, a champion of justice,
truth and honesty. No. this is not a
time to keep quiet.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-22

Some Of our exchanges seem to have
fallen into an regarding the in
spection of fertilizers. There is no
such an Cff3e as that of 'Chief In
s~pector." The Commissioner and Sec
rotary of the Board of Agriculture
supervise the inspection and registra-
ton, map out territory, and during the
spring put on special inspectors as they
are needed. Two inspectors are en-
ployed all the time. They file monthly
reports and do other Cfice work dur
ing the summer and one of them goes
on the road during the fall. The Sec
rotary is charged with the duty Of
registering the different brands of
goods and seeing that the law is car,
ried out in every particular.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-22

VEditor Robinson, of the Durham
Sun, Uses the remark that he can't
please everybody. We didn't think
anyone could be an editor ten minutes
without learning that. If you con
dense the news, subscribers say
you should have given all the par
ticulars; if you give it in full they
say you should have condensed it. If
you write about politics, they say they
want the news; il you write the news.
they say you haven't any ideas on poll
tics or you would write more on that
subject. If you write a religious edi,
torial, they say you do it for effect; if
a humorous one, you are told to be
more serious. And so all the Door
editor Can do is to continue to read and
write about six legged COWS and three.
headed chickens and eat his corn bread
and peas. But there's one consolation
about it, the editor can blame the
printers for all that goes wrong and
they pass the blame down the line to
the devil.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09
The Disturbances In India.

The immediate cause of the outrages in
the Bombay presidency, including the as
sassination of Lieut.. Ayerst and Commits
soner Rand, and of the outburst of anti
English feeling in the native news-sheets,
both in Bengal and Bombay, has been
traced to the brutal energy with which the
local authorities tried to stamp out the
bubonic plague, interfering unnecessarily
with the social relations, customs and ira
ditious of the natives. At Chitpur the
demolition of mud hut, a so-called
mosque, built on land seized by Mahom-
etans, and demolished because they refused
to pay rent for the same, started the out
break, which soon became a bloody riot
Europeans have since been stoned at Chit
pur, and it is not safe for them to 20 about
the streets in certain parts of Calcutta.
The disattection is kept up by the activity
and accusations of malicious agitators who
would only be too glad to recnact the scenes
of 1851 There are -, 900 white troops in
India, and these would be sufficient to sup
press any local uprising against British
rule. Should a general revolt break out
and especially if the Mahometans are in
cited by agents sent by the Sultan, the crisis
would be a serious one.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09

Joseph Bedour, -, committed suicide
by shooting in the head at Springfield,
Mass. yesterday. He was employed by
REM Gavin as a driver, and was married
to Emma La Valley Of Agawam last sat
urday. His home was in North Williston,
Vt, where his father and mother live.
The sultan summoned Monday a coun-
Gil Of ministers for an extraordinary Sit
ting with the result that a report was
drawn up in favor Of reSuming hostilities
if peace should not be concluded within a
week. The Turks are strengthening their
positions in Thessaly.
The result of Russia's first census, taken
with some system and care, will attract
the attention OF the world. The total mum
Der of inhabitants announced, 129 PILL
shows that estimates made in years past
were not much in error. 1t has been well
known that the population was increasing
enormously.
A college professor in Cleveland, Ohio,
has discovered the presence in a tenement
house in that city of termites, or white
ants, the African pest So far AS is known
termites have never before been seen alive
in this part of the world, They are in
digenous TO Africa, where they build great
earth structures as high as trees. They
have been found In some European coun-
tries. Il is supposed that an immigrant
came from some one of these countries
with a nest Of termitps in his trunk.
\ unique experiment in municipal econ
Omy was inaugurated in ShOredtch, Eng.
on the 2Sth ult., when Lord Kelvin for
mally opened the combined electricity and
dissatisfaction works established by the
Ia ii. a ~
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09

As the villagers were reported to have
relapsed into sin, the clergyman deter
mined TO give them a good shaking up, and
enlarged eloquently on the horrible tor
mells awaiting the wicked. Wishing to
test the effect he had produced, he called
upon Il toOlhless old gossip. Now, my
good woman said he, Il hope my sermon
has borne good fruit in your mind. You
heard what | said alb ut hell tire-that
place where there shall he wailing and
crashing of teeth?" "Well," said the
hardened old dame, ''if as anything to
say, it be this Let them gnash EN- as as
'em. Spare Moments.
\ travelling circus recently paid a visit
to ClitherOe, and, as an attraction, offered
prize to the man who could, as the Ian.
casterians term it, pull tn ugliest mug"
The rules laid down were that each per-
son should have three tries. Consequently,
competition ran high, some of the contor-
tions being horrible to behold. After all
had done their level best to win the prize,
the clown, who acted as Judge for the
competitors, eoOlly confronted a man sit.
ting in the audience, who was noted for his
ueliness, and said:
"Tha's won tn prize, ovid mon."
"Ae" said the astonished individual
"wha, aw worn't trying for't!"
"Th'd noa need to try; tha's won it vii
out."-London Daily Telegraph,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09
STATIONS RIVER.


Mrs. Chaplin and Alice are at Nahant,
Mass.
Henry Lane of Keene is visiting at DR..
PeJtengilrs.
Prof. W. Smith is spending his summer
vacation at home.
Geo. Pettengill is home from New
York city for a brief vacation.
Mr.. Cutler OF Boston, a friend of Walter
Smith, is the guest of X, Smith.
Prof, RouX in his summer school will
have the aid of his son, Prof. Louis Roux.
Frank Scofeld and family, after a stay
of some months in Washington, d. c.,
are home again.
Mrs. billiard and Miss Fanny Pettengill
left home Friday last for Milwaukee, Wis.
Miss Pettengill plans to extend her trip to
Minneapolis.
This evening at Sturtevant House the
Baptist and Congregational people of
the village unite in giving a reception to
Rev. F. P. Boughton, the new Baptist
pastor.
The pastor of the Congregational church
celebrated with his people the Lords sup
per last Sunday for the saith time. One
young man was received into the church
on confession,
The Wrights and Cobbs united in a
picnic Saturday afternoon. The tables
were spread upon the lawn at William
Wright's. Parents and children and grand
children had (W)right happy time.
Our village band gave concert Thurs
day evening from the band stand. The
frequent clapping of hands on all sides tes-
titled to the hearty appreciation of their
efforts to entertain. Other band concerts
are in anticipation.
The heat of Sunday and Monday up
TO Tuesday noon was something unusual.
Monday in the shade one thermometer
stood a p. NJ at 1902 One reported 1924
in the sun" The beautiful shower of
Tuesday afternoon brought grateful relief
Considering the extreme heat of Sunday
evening there was a good attendance at
the meeting of the Rockingham Sunday
school association at the Baptist church.
The church was handsomely decorated,
the singing inspiring and the various parts
well sustained.
The Sunday schools of the village unit
ed on the academy grounds in a picnic
and general good time Monday afternoon.
Notwithstanding the fearful heat there
were exciting games and a good social
time. Ice cream and cold lemonade, with
abundant lunches were in eager demand.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09
GRAFTON.


We hear OF but few cases of measles in
town.
Jno. Greene of Mechancsville, n. Y,
is still boarder at the hotel.
j. b. Clapp of Boston has beehspending
few days with his family here.
John B. Taylor Of St, Adams has re-
Gently visited w. II. Cambridge.
w. II. Cambridge came from Chelsea
Vt) last Friday, where he had been visit
ing his aunt, Mrs Hall.
Late arrivals at the hotel from Bridge
port Conn, are Miss Helen Bassett, Mr..
Bassett, Miss Townsend and Charlie Greg
DRY.
Henry Blodgett has broken limb which
will keep him quiet some time. His
friends and neighbors have kindly assisted
him in the care of his farm.
Mrs. Hattie Deane Tufts and two daugh-
tiers of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and
Mrs. Chaplin Howard and son Chaplin are
with Mrs. J. L. Clarke for the summer,
There will be an ice cream sale on the
lawn at Mrs. NJ f, Walkers Tuesday,
July Is, from to S y. NJ, where ice cream
may be bought in any quantity desired.
Jas. Duncan has recently spent a few
days with his family at Phelps's hotel. He
returned to Boston last Tuesday, but left
his wife and daughter for a few weeks
longer.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09
Bad NAM. s,tnn,tnn at ,lnrcmont.

Another general clamor for the return
from Europe of j. L. Farwell, formerly
president Of the Claremout savings bank,
has arisen among the residents of that
town, whose money was placed in the bank
and who have been patiently waiting for
some sort of an announcement from the
receivers. This has not come, and the on
~ information concerning The situation IS
given by Mr. Faulkner Of Keeue, one OF
the receivers, who says the bank is in as
bad a condition as bank could possibly
be, and he cannot even make a hopeful
prediction concerning any payment 20 Doe
made TO the depostors
The Claremout national bank, in
which the Farwells were heavy owners.
has cancelled, within the last few months,
$1,000 Of the $50 900 surplus which it re-
ported some time ago. This reduces the
nominal surplus to So 600 on the capital
of $50, 1000. Receiver Faulkner is being
urged to take summary measures to re-
alize on the savings bank assets and di-
vide the proceeds among the depositors
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09
CHESTER.

Loyal f. Tarbell, e., died at his home in North
Brookteld, Mass, Sunday after a brief illness
He was born in Mt. Holly, and began his railroad
ing career as brakeman on the Rutland and Bur
lington road when only IS. Three Years later he
went from this town 10 Texas, where he was an
engineer on the Galveston and Houston railroad
periences, narrowly escaping with his life He
was employed for time on the New York Cen
trail and Boston Maine railroads In July, 1873
Mr. Tarbell began running the gravel train in
connection with laying the road bed for the
North Brookfied railroad Upon It's completion
Mr. Iarbell became the engineer and ran the first
regular train. He continued in that position until
his death, period Of more than 90 wears He
was one Of the Oldest engineers in point of service
on the Boston q Albany system. Mr. Tarbell
North Brookheld, and man of sterling character
He leaves wife and six children. His mother
Mrs. Alpheas Atwood is a resident of this town,
and Mrs. r. NJ. Sherwin the school teacher is
his sister. Another sister, Mrs. Susan Rowel,
lives in PeRseville.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-07-09
Drowned in the Connections.

An extremely sad drowning accident oc-
CURED at Westminster yesterday about q
p. NJ, when Roger Rice, the clerk of the
city government at Kurn latin Home,
lost his life in the river. In company with
a number of the boys he went to the river
under the care of James Maynard, their
teacher. to see the logs passing, and Mr..
Maynard went in bathing with Roger and
another named Robert Goodwin. The
boys got too far into the stream and be
You'd their depth. Mr. Maynard went out
after them and was successful in getting
Robert to the shore but before he could
return for Roger he had gone down for
the last time. The body was recovered
later in the evening He was ii years old
and has a mother living in s.. Johnsbury
He had a younger brother in the home
with him. The body was taken to St.
Johnsbury this noon for burial. The &C
cident has cast a deep sorrow over the in
stituton and the village, as Roger was an
unusually bright and promising boy, popu-
lar with all. Mr.. Maynard naturally feels
very sad over the matter, but no blame
whatever is attached to him. He worked
nobly to save both, but the time was too
short for him to do so.