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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29
THoMPSoN'S SCHOOL COM.
M-ENCEMENT.

Correspondence Of the Progressive Farmer.
The closing exercises at siler City,
June4st, were among the most pleas
ant and successful in the history of the
school, and there was less luminosity
shown between the members of the
two literary societies than ever before.
The sermon was preached by Rev.
w. A. Bunch, Of Greensboro, and
the address before the literary societies
was delivered by Hon. O. H.. Mebane,
State Superintendent of Public In,
s~truction.
W. B. Harris won the DISCLAIMERS
medal, J. Q Smith the Debater's med
al and A III. Moore the Orators medal.
It is well for those who have children
to educate to look at the record made
by Thompson School. It numbered
only AZ students the first year, but has
averaged 100 for seventeen years, rep.
resenting 2 diff 5rent States and nearly
all of the counties in North Carolina.
Thompson's students have won first
honors at the University of North Car
olina, Vanderbilt University, Roanoke
College, Va, Wake Forest College,
Trinity College; and the following
have won medals: Rev. @. J. r. Ander.
son and A B. Canady at Wake Forest
College; Rev: E W. Fox, two medals
at Trinity College; Rev. 9. E Hodgin
and J. e. Ward, at Davidson College;
r. R Harwell, at Randolph Macon Col.
lege, Va, two Of the most progressive
young teachers in the State, Prof.
W. T. Whitsett and Rev. J. A. Camp
bell were prepared for college at Thomp,
sons school, besides several of the lead
ing lawyers and physicians Of this and
other States.
The Summer Business School, in
charge of Prof. N. e. Cox, is starting
off well, and several new students are
expected soon. This is a fine oppor
tunity TO take q short course in Book.
keeping and Pennmanship.
The Fall Term will begin August 4ih.
The writer is personally acquainted
with the faculty for next year, and
knows it to be a strong one.
BLACKSTONE.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29
THE LADIES ARE RIGHT.

Fully a score of manageable girls
of Denote, Jasper county, Ind, have
against the young men OF
that town. They have just met in a
body and passed the following resolu-
tion:
s.Be it resolved that the ladies Of
Denote, Ind, will not hereafter marry
a young man who is not a patron of
his home newspaper. for it is strong
evidence Of want of intelligence, and
that he will prove too stingy to pro-
vide for a family, educate his children
and encourage institutions Of learning
in the community"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29

out upon the stone and floor. In.
stantly every man in the Office, fore
man included, bolted for the door. The
odor from that bottle was simply be-
yond compare. The air was thick
with the vilest smells that ever greeted
mortal nostrils. A couple of hours
later the foreman opened the door, but
the stencil nearly knocked him down.
Finally he paid a man 81 to scrub off
the stone and floor and open the win
dows, and shortly after the force got
to work. The druggist had filed the
bottle with q decoction Of decayed
angleworms and was never called upon
for a second prescription. Chicago
Times-Herald.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29
FACTS ABOUT GREATER
NRW YORK.

New York, to be the second city of
the world on January I, 1898, has 712
newspapers, a debt of 500 per capita,
drinks ten million gallons OF ale, beer
and porter annually, uses 400 million
gallons of water daily, has one family
subsisting on charity for every 300
that support themselves, has a birth
every nine minutes, and~a death every
1O3 minutes. The real estate of the
city is said to be worth five billion dol
lars; that is, it would sell for that
While second in these matters New
York is first in facilities for commerce.
and is the greatest manufacturing city
on the globe; has a greater area of pub
lie parks, more Office buildings. and
more railways than any other citv
anywhere. Last year it expended $64.
OOO, 900 for local government, and per-
haps got the worth of nine-tenths of
that sum.
New York ir also the most pulled up
city in existence, and, commercially,
it ia an open question il it be not living
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29
THE MILLIONAIRE AND HIS
CLERK.

Girard, the infidel millionaire of
Philadelphia, one Saturday ordered all
his clerks to come on the morrow to
his wharf and help unload a newly ar
rived ship. One young nan replied
quietly:
"Mr. Girard, I can't work on Sun
days"
You know our rules9"
Eyes, I know. I have a mother to
support, but I can't work on Sunday"
"Well step up to the desk, and the
cashier will settle with you"
For three weeks the young man
could find no work, but one day a
banker came to Girard to ask if he
could recommend a man for cashier in
a new bank. This discharged young
man was at once named as a suitable
person.
But" said the banker, ''you dis
missed him."
Yes, because he would not work on
Sundays. A man who would lose his
place for conscience sake would make
a trustworthy cashier" And he was
appointed.-T Pearl of Days.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29

now on its past reputation. Chicago
owns more shipping that flies our flag,
and, by water, receives and
clears more tonnage of freight than
New York. The Southern seaboard
cities will cut into its foreign trade
more and more yearly. As q shipping
point into the interior it will probably
never again see it's trade grow as fast
proportionalIy as it has in the past.
New York is largely q foreign city.
It's public spirit is not great, and it
apes many foreign customs. It is hardly
a typical American city.
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The ALLIANCEMRN OF BLA.
DIN COUNTY.

RALEIGH, June oath. 1892.
DEAR BRETHREN AND FRIENDs:-As the
time is approaching for the July meet
ings of our order, I make this appeal
to you, not let your County Alliance
90 down, but meet together and send
up your delegates and revive our Order
and let all Bladen stand as she has once
stood, in the front ranks Of reform.
So rally and once again cheer the hearts
of your brethren of other counties by
the presence of your delegates in our
State meeting.
Don't forget to meet on the Pad
Thursday in July. And to White Oak
Sub, I make a special appeal to keep
up our meetings. Let every member
of the Sub, both male and female, be
on hand at your next meeting and see
that your Sub. is represented in our
next county meeting.
@. MEG. DUNN, President.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29
rHRY MAY BE HAPPY YET.

The Atlanta Journal says: "a mar
riage will shortly take place in Atlanta
under the most novel circumstances.
The lady in the case is now a widow,
but the mar who will wed her loved
her before she married. She loved the
other fellow and married him. Her
persistent friend also married. Time
wrought changes in the affairs OF both,
although both little dreamed else than
that they had been separated for all
time. The husband of the lady died.
The wife of the persistent n died.
When the proper time after ward came
for a communication on the subject he
wrote her he still loved her. She hest
tated, however, and said she did not
believe she cared for him yet. In de-
spair, and being a marrying sort of a
man. he won the affections of a certain
young woman and the day was set for
the nuptials. He wrote the long time
obirct of his heart of the event, and she
changed her mind, as women some
times do. She said, now that he seemed
to go out of her life, she really thought
she might love him. Forthwith he
backed out Of the other engagement,
fastened to the foot of the lady, and
now, after all these vicissitudes, after
two marriages and almost a third, they
will become man and wife,"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29
a PSALM oFyTEE sANcrUM.


Tell us not i'm merry numbers
That cuttings O gentle dream,
Tor the soul is dead that slumbers
And things are not what they SEEM
Editors must work in earnest;
Sunset must not be their goal.
And lie they want any supper
Disappointment to their sou
I'm the worlds broad field Of battle,
In the bivouac OF life,
They must narrate all the tattle,
All the quarrels and all the strife.
Trust no future howe'er pleasant;
Let the dead past bury the dead.
Write, write, in the living present,
Living on poor stale cornbread.
Lives of editors all remind us
That we have a rouslng time,
And, departing leave behind as
Nc subscriptions paid in time.
And we think perhaps another,
Sailing over LIES stormy main
Some poor worn out, Tar Heel editor,
May be caught by these again.
Let US then be up and writing,
With q heart for any fate;
Maybe therem be no delinquents
When we reach the pearly gate.
CLARENCE Il. Poe.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29
CURRENT ITEMS.
Sport in Maryland

Mr.. Sylvester schilling, at Mount
Nebo, killed a RATHER that measured
FIVE feet six inches and seven rattles
and a button.
W. L. Cuttings, of Brownville, cap.
tured in a steel trap an owl that
weighed four pounds, and measured
four feet nine inches from tip to tip Of
wings.
George D. Jones captured on his
farm near Eaton, a white mole, the
exact counterpart of the every day
ground mole, except that it was pure
white sven to the tail.
Madam Rumor says that a United
States marshal sold a lot of moonshine
whiskey at auction at Beloit, Kansas,
last weekG Is this altogether in &C.
cordance with the LAVE
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29
OBITUARY..
BLACKSTONE

Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Once more, by the death OF one of our
brightest and most promising young
women, Miss Geneva Padgett, we are
impressed with the solemn thought
that God calls the young, as we'll as
the old, to cross the turbid stream of
death. The Racepath Sunday-school,
of which she was q member, and the
community, in submitting humbly to
the mysterious providence of the ALI
wise Creator, wishing to express their
deepest regret because of the vacancy
in the Sunday school and the loss to
the community and to the bereaved
parents, made by her death, offer the
following resolutions:
Resolved, That in the untimely death
of our beloved friend, Miss Geneva
Padgett, from US has been plucked the
brightest flower of WON anhood; that
many bright expectations were elimi-
mated from the hearts of many friends
who knew her; that in her death many
fond hopes conferred in her by loving
parents and friends were as flowers
never to bloom.
2 That while We greatly deplore her
death, we entertain the blissful hope
that it was an entrance to a life of
peace and joy to her.
3. That we all join with the parents
and relatives in the hours of bereave
ment and share alike u sympathy.
4 That a copy Of these resolutions
be sent to the bereaved family, to the
Cleveland Star and THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER for publication. and a copy be
spread On our Sunday school records
J. d. HULL,
T. @. sPURLIN,
- J. w. SELF,
Committee.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29

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NOTICE.
MCLEANsvILLE. n. G,

M "
June 81, 1897.
DEAR BRETHREN :-Guilford County
Alliance will meet with Buffalo Sub.
Alliance on Thursday, July 9Th, at
their lodge room, four miles east of
Greensboro. Any delegates who wish
60 go by rail to Greensboro, should no.
tify W. P. McL9an, President of Coun-
ty Alliance, by card at once, and he
viii have c~onveyances there to take
you out.
Now, brethren, this meeting will be
IN a very convenient place for all the
subs in the county to reach, and we
would very respectfully urge every
Sub. to send q full set of delegates to
this meeting. There is much business
OF prime Importance to the Alliance
to be done on that day, among which
rs the Annual election of county off
Gers, election Of delegates to State
Alliance, etc. We earnestly request
that every brother and sister in the
county that have a grain of Alliance
grit in them TO attend this county
meeting. and show by their presence,
afnot by words, that they are interested
in the welfare of this great labor or,
ganiz alton. Let members of all de.
funct Alliances who want their Subs.
reorganized be at this meeting, and we
will make arrangements to them reor
ganiE9d at once.
Now, brethren there never was q
time when the farmers in GuiIford had
their crops in better shape than they
now have, and let us all try and have
CUR work in such shape by that day
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29
MILLIONS OF PINS.
Little Known as to What Becomes Of
Most of the Useful Articles

Little known as 20 WnSC Becomes OF
Most Of the Useful Articles
Who has not heard the question:
@What becomes of pinsG" Millions Of
them are made in q year; millions are
sold, and yet the supply no more than
keeps pace with the demand, which
seems enormous all the time, says the
New York Sun. By a computation
made inLondon, ten years ago, it was
shown that the weekly production of
pins in Great Britain was $50, 900, 900,
of which $50. 600, 900, or considerably
more than half, were MAIDEN Birming-
ham. Then 100, 0O0, 600 were made in
France, and 100, 600, 900 in Germany,
Holland and Belgium. Since that
time the production of pins has in
creased largely.
The biggest pin manufacturing city
in the world is Birmingham, where
81, coo, 600 pins on the average are man.
ufactured every working day. The
other pin factories in England together
turn out about 10. 900, 900 pins daily.
The daily output of pins in France ex-
ceeds 30, coo, 900, and Germany and
other countries in Europe manufac-
ture about 10, 600, 600 more daily, the
total production Of pins being sc, 00O,-
900 every day, or 602, OOO. 900 a week in
Europe. This is, of course, exclusive
of the pin factories in the United
States, which number forty, five, hav-
ing a capital of 90, 600, 600, giving en-
ployment to 1,6 0 persons, and turn
ing out in a year pins to the value Of
about 81, 600 600. 1t is calculated that
only one per cent. of the pins manufac-
tured are worn out or broken. The
other SO per cent. are lost, but what be
comes of them, where they go and
who gets them, or why some Of them
are not afterwards discovered and
again put to use, are mysteries. At
the rate at which they III manufac-
tured and the rate at which they are
lost every third person in Europe and
North America must lose a pin a day,
and it is to be inferred, though the
statisticians take no account of this,
that there is some pin losing going on,
too, in South America, Asia and Afri
ca, though tourists in the Dark Cont
nent ave. that the garniture there is
such that the use of pins is indispensa.
BILE.
Pins r made of copper and zinc
wire. The metal is cast into ingots,
which r rolled into sheets after hav
ing been annealed several times. At
forwards the sheets are cut into strips
so fine as to resemble wire, and then by
machinery the wires are cut and after
wards the pins are pointed and headed.
After the completion of this process
the impurities are worn off in a re
volving iron barrel filled with sawdust,
and then the pins are put in a prepare
tion of tin and polished by the friction
of sawdust to the point of resemblance
to the pins of commerce. The process
is by no NEAR complicated, but much
ingenuity is required, for the competi
ton Of pin-making is considerable, and
the margin Of profit from pin manufac
ture is, therefore, not SO large as to per
NIT the successful operation of any fac
tory not utilizing the most recent inn.
provement.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29

An important and very interesting
historical paper is the leading article in
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for
July. 1t is entitled Heroes of the
Neutral Ground" and treats of the
little. known history of the patriots who
protected the homes and people of the
Saw Mill Valley, N. Y, from the raids
of the British during the Revolution.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29
LOOKING FOR A GOOD THING.

"Little boy, you r getting your
feet very wet"
"Yes'm, I know it,"
But you will get a dreadful cold. ="
"Yes'm, I know it. Just as soon as
I get it, mamma will give me all the
hot m'lasses with whisky in it that I
can drink Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29

The written language Of China is not
written and the written language is
not spoken.
They dress in white at funerals and
in black at weddings. while old women
always serve as bridesmaids.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29
oouLD Buy HTM HEA

Daughter-"Fath er, I wish to mar
ry the Count"
Father-"But, from the reports I
hear, the fellow isn't worth much"
Daughter-''Then, father, if he isn't
worth much. you certainly could at.
ford to buy him for me. "-Pack.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29
NOTICE.

Farmville Alliance Union will meet
with Farmville Alliance at Moye's
School House on July 7Gh.
Commissioner I'M. Mewborne will
hattie chief speaker.
.as Spublic is cordially invited to at
tend. baskets expected.
A. J. MOVE.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29
AN EXPERIMENT sUGGEsTED.

"They say people who live together
get to look alike
SIS that so9 Well, just in the inter
est of science, let's try it."-Chicago
Record.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29

First Veteran-''So you fought all
through the war did you9"
Second Veteran-"Yes."
First Veteran-'I didn't know you
were in the war"
Second Veteran-"Nor WasI. Twas
at home with my wife,"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29
THE PARTIES RESPONSIBLE.

Jessie-"I wonder why small men
nearly always marry large womenG''
Nutte-"Better ask the large women;
they probably know all about it,
Truth.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29
JOHNSTON COUNTY ALLIANCE
MEETING.

Johnston County Alliance will meet
at the court house in Smithfield Thurs
day July 9Th, 1892. We hope to see
eachSub, Alliance represented, as there
will be some business of Importance to
attend to
GIBSON GERALD, Pres.
E D SNEAD, Sec'y Treas.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29

that we can all turn out and spend the
day socially and, we trust, proftably
together. D. A. MONTGOMERY,
sec'y Treas. G. @. +. A.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29
MARRIED, OR NEARLY so.

TAKING NO CHANCES.
ats very strange he committed sui.
eide because I refused him." 3.
Perhaps he was afraid you might
change your mind. Life.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29
Bargains in Pedigreed Stock
SUMMER CLERING SALE

0CNANAEAO CLEESlNU OALH
Having larger stack Of Of P Psd cared Red JERSEY Pigs and BLACK ES-
jOOA rigs drought The summer. we Wnlo offer fra days-o
RED JERSEYS 10 TO is WEEKS OLD AT 81 80. REDUCED FROM $500
BLACK ESSEX IL TO 16 WEEKS OLD AT SIS 80 REDUCED FROM $1,000
These Pigs ar guaranteed of the FINEST and BEST STRAINS
WE ALSO OFFER 10 REGISTERED JERSEY BULLS FROM 8 TO 10
MON rHs OLD AT$1S 9 EACH, REDUCED FROM $50 OO.
Now is your opportunity, if you care for imported stock at cut prices
OCCONEECHEE FARM, Durham. n. {.
Member American Jersey Cattle Club, Duroc Jersey Swine Club and Essex
Swine Club.
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CAUGHT ON THE FLY.

Jack-"rhe Woman I marry must
be beautiful, accomplished and anna
BILE; in short, feultless."
MaFie-"Oh, Jackl This is so sud
dem"
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Classification Of Hides.

No, l. This class must have no cut, score, OF
or grub hole. Must not be hair slipped, moth
eaten. or otherwise damaged.
No. 2. This class may have one or two cuts
scores. or grub hOles-may be partially hair
slipped or moth eaten.
No. 8. This class embraces all inferior to No,
2, and are paid for according to extent Of dam.
age.
"A Flint hide is dried without salt.
A. d. D. dry salt hide is sailed fresh remains
in salt for 10 days, when the loose salt is shaken
or rubbed off.
upon g. floor in a cool place, leaving no folds, OF
creases, and cover them well with salt, It Is
better to use salt li~berally-what the hide does
not absorb may be used again.
To ship G. S. b des.. put two or three ina
bundle. hair side out. roll and tie with a strong
Irvine.
Flint and dry salt hides may be put in bales
flesh side out-200 or 300 pounds to the bale.
If hides belonging to different parties are
shipped in same bundle or bale, each hide should
be marked plainly with owners name and post
Office.
Address the package to 7. Ivey, s. B, A, Hills
borO. y. e., and notify III of shipment, sending
bill of lading.
The prices we pay will be as much as the saIe
class of hides will net youin the New York mar
ket. We charge no commissions.
Quotations tO-day-subject to market fuctu&
ons-fOr hides delivered at Alliance tannerY
No. l Flint, 20 pounds and up, per pounds
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Hides will be taken in exchange for leather Of
HilIsboro. NJ,
The herald., 1897-06-11
SOLDIERS HOME

SOLDIERS HOME. June 10.-(Regular
Correspondence )Thc barracks and grounds
of the home are now nightly brilliantly
illuminated with electric lights. Electric
ian Ellsworth has, with his assistants, for
the last week been busy in putting the arc
lights in the grounds in order and adding
lights in the company quarters. The COM
plants of the old boys that they could not
read of an evening are removed.
Yesterday was pay day at the home for
work done in the month of May by extra
duty men and civilian employees:
Joe Boob, who has for long time been
foreman timer. has through a spell of
sickness been obliged to resign his posi-
ton, and is succeeded by Mr.. Payne.
An excursion to Mount Lowe and its
vicinity Is being organized at the home to
take place about the end of the month.
The furniture for the new barracks is
arriving. and it is hoped that it will be
ready for full occupation about the end
of the month";
A large delegation of the comrades of
the Uncle Sam post, G. A. r., of the home
proceeded to Los Angeles last evening to
attend the Inauguration of the auxiliary
w. r. c. corps of Los Angeles, attached
to the Uncle Sam post OF the home.