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FOR RENT-HOU SES.

FOR RENT HOUSES.
To the Patrons of the Times
Real Estate Bureau:-
The real estate firm of Heron
& Ramey, Room 56, Ohio Ma
tional Bank Building, having
purchased the interest Gf the
Real Estate. Renting and Sales
Business, heretofore conducted
under the style of the Times
Real Estate Bureau, will be glad
to meet all persons interested.
The business will be continued
by them with improved facilities
and very much wider cOnnec-
tions.
HEBRON & RAMEY,
Ohio NATL Bank Building.
If you want to rent gilt-edge house, fur
nished or unfurni>h shed, apply to
HERON & RAMEY.
If you want to rent house from s. to 500
HERRoN & RAMEY.
Houses for rent in all sections of the city.
HEBRON & RAMEY.
Real Estate, Loans. Insurance, Rents and
some bargain investments.
HERON & RAMEY.
Ohio National Bank Building.
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ROOMS AND BOARD.

WANTED-Two table boarders, by pri-
Tate family; good Northern cooking; loca-
tion central. Address ID. this office. Item
FUR RENT-Board and 2 unfurnished
rooms, for parent with child) in office;
x2s per month In private family. 1415
Md. ave. ne. Ja14-2t-em
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STOLEN.

FOR SALE-IOTS.
FOR SALE-Without cash, to response
bic builder, beautiful building front north
east; will take second trust. Address
CARRIER NO. 10, City Postoffice.
ja1 ,em
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HELP wANTED-FEMALE.

WANTED-A woman for general house,
work. washing and ironing. Apply laAo
Pa. ave. NV 1tstln
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MNNIEU-o SOOIIieTH NIItt WVIIlSII,
eopd homes: fair wages; domestics. 3O6 q
st NY Item
The evening times., 1897-01-14

WANTED ColOreu women Tor fvlE-
svlNania: cook ana cnainherDsiu' az ciiOe'
refs 7O9 L NV. DUNDORE'S. Item
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HELP wANrEp-MALE.

WANTED-A good bread baker, immedi-
etely. 1908 1-2 St sw Item
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(schedule in effect December 1. 1850
All trains arrive and leave Pennsylvania
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Total. S274,042.5S
c. w HOWARD,
Secretary.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
l1th day of January, 1897.
II. p. HOWARD,
(Seal.) Notary Public.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-25
VIII. &R. S. TUCKER & CO., Raleigh, N C..
.rHR INHERITANCE TAX.

Very strong efforts are being made
to induce Governor Black, OF New
York, to veto the bill which imposes a
special tax on large estates. But just
as the fight against it is the strongest,
two examples have shown the practical
benefits of the plan. If the bill were
now a law, the estate of Mr. Have
meyer would yield to the State Treas
ury the sum of 81. 400, 600. AS it is,
only a small part of that amount will
be paid over. 1t will be recalled that
when Jay Gould died it was found that
he had been paying taxes on only
$500, 600. and his estate, as returned by
the courts, exceeded $50, 900, 600, and,
although his may have been an extreme
case of tax lodging, he very compe-
tently represents the very rich man.
The present bill in New York contains
provisions for taxes as high as ten per
cent, while the New English death
duties claim as much ss eighteen per
cent of large estates which pass to dis
tant relatives or by will to strangers in
blood.
Mi. Max West, in the North Ameri
can Review for this month, gives a most
satisfactory account of the progress of
this tax. THE inheritance tax, in n
form or another, has come to stay"
be says, ''and new States are being
added every year to the list of those
which have adopted it. Five years
ago it was found in only nine States in
the Unlon-Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Delaware, New York, West Virginia,
Connecticut, Massachusetts,, Tennes-
see and New Jersey" Since then
eleven States have adopted the tax in
one form or another. The others will,
doubtless, follow. The taxes are light,
never. exceeding five or six per cant.
In the countries of Europe this tax is
an important source of revenue. Il is
one of the taxes which will o be
universal.
The opposition places its cause one
point-that if the Legislatures impose
taxes of this kind they will drive the
rich men away. 1t is very easily dis
posed of by the fact that the general
adoption of the tax will make the con.
dititions equal, and the rich men will
stay where they are. The Maryland
tax is only two and a half per cent,
and it ought to be more.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-25
A FEW "IFS."

If you favor more money, you are
considered a crank.
If you contend for honest politics
you are pronounced a fool.
IL you care to suggest that the bond
grabbers should be paid in the same
money that the private debtor is forced
to receive you ere a repudiator.
If you assert that the government
can ''coin money and regulate the value
thereof" as the constitution declares,
you r crazy.
II you intimate that the govern
ment ia designing to promote the pub
licgood you are denounced as an empty
headed crank.
If you dare to state, even in a low
whisper, that the thieves and scoun-
drels who are plundering the people
and loading the masses with debt and
poverty ought to be driven from the
temples, you are an anarchist.
II you notice that thousands r
starving in the face Of the feet that
farmers cannot realize enough from
their abundant crops to pay taxes and
interest and live, you are a calamity
bowler.
II you point to the fact that the three
banks Of this county owe some S25,
COO in back taxes, sou ought to be
driven out Of the country.
II you say a word against the powers
that be, and show up in naked truth
how they are skinning the farmers and
taxpayers, right and left, then your
business must be ruined Oy boycott and
your mife and babies must be starved
to death.-Advance Guard.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-25

A colored gentleman who occupies
the proud position of janitor in a public
building has as his guest an uncle, who
is a Baptist minister in a Georgia
town.
"Uncle Nose" said the nephew, ode
reason why I hab done got ter de top
OBJ de wurlis dat / dom talk no stock
in de foolishness 6at I used ter hab
down in Georgy. Now all dem signs
an superstitionistic notions am done
gone"
81 dunno, Dave" said the reverend
uncle. 81 hope yo' ain done los none
ob yo' qigion, while disquisitioning wild
de white folks. Oh co'se, / dom be-
lebe in no signs dat ain 'cordin ter
Scriptur, but dey is sumin bout dem.
Now, dar am de Ief' hin foot OBJ de
grabeya'd rabbit"
81 didn' mean no SIGH ting as dat,
Uncle Nose" interrupted the nephew.
Il mean dem signs an supersti5ions.
Oh co'se, de Ief' hin foot OBJ de grabe-
ya'd rabbit brings luck. Everybody
knows dat, but ain no sign, jess a fac,
laik if a dog crosses yo' path some one
gwine do yo' wrong, or anything dat
cherry man knows am So"
"G!ed ter heah yo' say dat, Dave. I
was sure 'fraid yo' got ter be one O.
dem agnostics," replied the uncle
Washington Star.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-25

At the April meeting of the Bruins
wick County Alliance the following
preamble and resolutions were unani-
moualy adopted:
WHEREAS, Our worthy brother, W.
W. Drew, during the last session of the
legislature of North Carolina did faith
fully perform his duties as q servant
of the people; therefore
Resolved, That we as the Brunswick
County Alliance, in session, do heart.
lily endorse the action of Bro. Drew
while in the legislature and pledge
ourselves to sustain him so long as he
continues to 50 faithfully carry out the
principles of the Order as a servant of
the people.
2. That a copy of these resolutions
be sent to The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
with request to publish.
JOHN JENRETTE, Pres't.
ISAAC JENRETTE, Sec'y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-25
FOUR FAMOUS CHARACTERS IN
FICTION.

Charles Dana Gibson has made a
great hit with his Dickens illustrations
in the Ladies' Home Journal. In the
June number. we have a rare oppor-
tunity of seeing what a great illustra-
tor can do in one picture with four
famous characters in fiction. Mr. Glib
son presents Mr.. and Mrs. Micawber,
David Copperfeld and Traddles. The
long, quaint curls Of Mrs. Micawber,
and the characteristic Of her gloved
hands as she lays the case" before
David Copper1eld, have been admir-
ably caught by the artist. Mr.. Micaw-
Der, self-poised, ear a calm judicial
expression as he balances, his glass in
his hand.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-25

reseutetive bodies of the church It
ought to be as free from scandal, as
| free from the faint Of mere w~orldiness,
as free from sordid greed, as free from
that kind of society influence which
swsys against class, as are the courts
and conversations of the church. And
vet a woman here, as in many another
circumstance in life, steps to the front
as a controlling factor in the future
composition of the court Of highest re-
sort of this country.
Justice Field is in his S1st year. He
is getting too old for active work on
the bench. He felt this himself, and it
led him to inform some of his friends
that he would probably retire in July
next.
Since that announcement was made
the venerable justice has apparently
changed his mind, and it is understood
that the cause was the influence of
Mrs. Field herself. She desires the
Justice not to relinquish his high Office
for a year or two, and her reasons are
understood to be purely social ones.
She is fond of entertaining, and is q
pronounced favorite in all social circles.
AS the wife of an active Justica Of the
Supreme Court, she has the very high
est rank Ia official life in Washington,
q rank which she would be compelled
to abandon If the Justice went on the
retired list. It is generally understood
that Mrs. Field is more than'a score of
years the junior of the distinguished
jurist, and is not yet three score. Her
hair is still dark, and her face shows
but few evidences of her increasing
years. It is said to be Mrs. Fields de-
sire to spend sometime yet in active
society before the retirement of her
husband, and the Justice has virtually
decided to accede to his wife's request
to postpone his departure from the
bench.
The decision of Justice Field, due en-
tirely to Mrs. Fields personal wish, has
upset many Combinations which had
been formed dependent upon changes
in the Mckinley Cabinet, for if ne
agrees to stay q year or two, there is
no telling but that he may decide to
remain on the bench during the whole
of the present administration.
This is the old, old story of Adam
and Eve, but in a form adapted to
modern civilization and modern soci,
ETY.. There can be no such far-reach-
ing lesson drawn from the nineteenth
century incident, as all the minor
courts do not inherit the particular
original sin of the higher court. They
do inherit some of the sins. but these
come only through original opinions
preserved in the reports of the courts.
OTTAWA Journal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-25
MERELY AN OVERSIGHT.

A correspondent for a gold bug
paper, in writing up the Senatorial
contest in Florida, expresses surprise
that two Populists should be found in
the State Legislature. How they got
there nobody knows" We venture
the suggestion that it was an oversight
on the part of the professional ballot
box stufsr, who should Immediately
deposed and stigmatized as an enemy
to the g. o. P's in Florida.-Salisbury
Waterman.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-25
HOW TO MAKE WHIrEwAsH.

Dissolve n half bushel new I'M
Stacked lime in a covered barrel, let
stand for three days, stirring thor
oughly once a day. On third day, dis
solve fifteen pounds Of salt in water
add one gallon thick molasses, home
made sorghum is the best. Mix ten
pounds Spanish whiting in water, add
to the lime eighteen gallons of water
and mix the ingredients thoroughly
with lime mixture.
To make a cream color add pound
and half Of yellow Ochre. Brown
color, two pounds of burnt lumber, one
half pound lamp black, and one half
pound Indian Red.
Gray or Some color, add two pounds
raw lumber and one pound lamp black.
Other colors can be made by adding
different colors Of the dry paints that
will dissolve in water.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-25
oFFIcR AND MAN.
Square Hopkins Was Modest, But His
Friends Were Very Ingenious.

Friends Were Very Ingenious.
AS I rode into Bisbee's Corners I met
the pcstoffce coming up the main
street. 1t was a second. class postofice,
and it did not belle its class in the least.
1t was a ftmsy frame structure, and it's
eccentric conduct was accounted for
by the fact that it was mounted on
rollers and was dragged along at snail's
pace by windless. the moving spirit
of which was a doleful looking mule.
"What building is that's" I inquired
of a group of loungers who watch
ing the exciting proceedings and con-
currently exuding large quantities of
advice and tobacco juice.
That's the Bisbee's Corners post
Office" replied a one ey ed man who
was whiting a shingle. ''She's got a
great old moye on, hain't sheT"
Iagreed that she had, and then made
inquiry as to the destination Of the di-
lapidated structure.
"Waal, I'll tell ye," replied the one
eyed man as he borrowed a plug Of to-
becco from another lounger and cut
off a huge slice. ''The most enterpris-
ing citizen in this town (present com
pany being always excepted, of %course)
is Square Hopkins, the long headed
justice of the peace. He's jas the man
to serve the town in an official capac,
ity; but, unlike most of these here poll
ticiana, he's the modestest man in four
counties. We've been workin with
him here for months trying to git him
to stand asa candidate fer postmaster,
but he's so blamed modest he won't do
it fer love ner money"
"Dumdest modest man you ever seeI"
cried another of the crowd.
THE only thing We could git out OF
him after begging and pleading fer
weeks, continued the one-eyed citizen,
Twas that, in his opinion, the office
should seek the man, and, acting on
that suggestion, we are a-moving her
up on to his lot as fast as that old mule
kin hump her along New York Sun
day Journal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-25
THE NEW CALRNDARo OF SAINTS

ST. Carnegie: Patron saint of organ
less churches.
st. Rockefeller: Patron. saint of the
Chicago University. .
st. Wanamaker: Patron saint of fire
sales.
st. Heinz: Patron saint of good Sun.
day school boys.
st. Hanna: Patron saint of labor.
81. Huntington: Patron saint Of Cali
fornia.
St. Armour: Patron saint of the
hungry.
st. Rothschild: Patron saint of
liberty.
st. Aston: Patron saint of the home
less.
St. Car.Rock, Wanna Ham Morg-
Arm Asto Havemeyer: Patron saint
of the trusts.
st. Cleveland: Patron saint of Hades.
From Knights OF Labor Journal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-25

Professor R, o. Becker, Jr., a music
teacher in Marion, Ohio, receiving a
letter last week from his father, R O..
Becker, Sr., of Dresden, Saxony, noti-
tying him that the military court at
Lopsic demands his return to Germany
and his appearance before military
court to show cause why he left the
German military service, and that a
levy has been made upon his father by
the German government of s., 600
yearly for his absence.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-25
ISAAC JENRETTE, Sec'y.
ALLIANCE AND OTHER MATTERS
IN BEAUFORT.

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
1t is quite an undertaking for a coun-
try man to make up his mind to write
q communication for publication set
ting forth the facts as they exist in the
country, for the country people have
been, and the drift now is to teach them
exactly contrary to what really exists
among them.
In the first place, I was talking with
a ''big, fat" man a short while ago and
he said the first thing that got him to
thinking about this modern agitation
that was taking place in this country
was when he saw one of modern
Solomons, i. g., kid glove gentry get up
to make one of the fowery, deceptive
discourses he would probably begin by
telling that over production was c8us
ing all the unrest and misery that was
in the United States, and before one
hardly had time to draw a long breath
he would say that laziness was what
was the matter; that too many work
ing people sat or goods boxes and
talked politics, etc.
Now, Mr.. Editor, to my mind, over
production and laziness, being the op-
posite of each other, they don't go to-
gether, and 1 am happy to say that
lots of US who in times past would have
taken just such as that if it happened TO
emenate from u political boss and
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-25

Able-bodied men are begging for an
opportunity to earn a living at hard
labor, while multiplied thousands are
starving or supported by charity-this,
too, in a land of abundance, where
famine pestilence or plaques are un-
known. It would appear that civiliza-
ton needs to be civiliz9d.-People's
Advocate.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-25
YANK AND JOHNNY REB.
One of the Pathetic Incidents Of the
Time of Bloody Strife.

One of the Pathetic Incidents Of the
Time of Bloody Strife.
William Wlkerson, who was for
many years jailer of Fayette county
and who was noted for his fidelity TO
truth. related the following pathetic
incident of heroism which he witnessed
shortly after the battle OF Richmond
Kentucky, in 1862:
"a son of my friend, CassIus M
Clay, was killed in the fight at BIC
mond, and it was my duty TO visit tne
battlefield and identify the body and
take it to his fathers home. While
riding slowly over the scene OF the bat
tie I heard groans, which l was sure
came from g corn-feld near at hand.
Looking down the corn rows / soon
discovered two wounded soldiers lying
about forty yards apart. One was a
Federal and the other q Confederate.
A cannon ball had broken and terri.
bly, mangled both of the Contederate's
legs, while the Federal was shot
through the body and thigh.
al am dying for WATER I heard the
Federal say just as 1 discovered them.
His words sounded as if they came
from a parched mouth.
"'I have some water in my canteen.
You are welcome to drink If you'll
come here said the Confederate, who
had teebly raised his head from the
ground TO look at his late enemy when
he heard his pitiful cry for water.
"'I couldn't nov to save my life,
groaned the Federal, as he dropped his
head to the ground, while his whole
body quivered with agony.
"Then 1 beheld an act Of heroism
which held me- spell-bound until it was
too late for me TO give the assistance
should have rendered. The Confeder
ate lifted his head again and took
another look at his wounded foe, and ]
saw an expression of tender pity come
over his pain distorted face IS he said
"'Hold out a little longer, Yank, and
I'll try to come to you
'FThen the brave fellow, by. digging
his fingers into the ground and holding
on to the c~ornstalks, painfully dragged
himself to the Federal's side, the blood
from his mangled legs making q red
trail the entire distance. The tearf
ran down my cheeks like rain, and out
of sympathy for him I groaned every
time he moved, but was lost to every
thing except the fellows heroism, and
did not once think of helping him.
"When the painful journey was I'm
ished he offered his canteen to the Fed
eral, who took it and drank eagerly,
the water seeming to sizz!e as it passed
down his parched throat. Then, with
a deep sigh of relief, he reached out tc
the Confederate, and il was plain to SEE
as they clasped hands and looked into
each others eyes that whatever Of
hate may have ranked once in the
hearts OF these men had now giver
place to mutual sympathy and love,
Even while l watched them I saW
the Confederate's body culver as if in
a spAsm OF pain, and when his head
dropped to the ground I knew that q
hero had crossed the dark river. The
Federal kissed the dead hero's hand
repeatedly and cried like a child until
had him removed to the hospital,
where ne, too, died the next day.
Lexington Leader.
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-25

think it was shot stuff" are quite diff
ferent now. Lots of US now are doing
our W thinking, and it looks like it
is getting time for us all to begin to
think or all will be lost.
To my mind the Alliance has been
the greatest educator In this country,
and when we look back and see the
good that it has done it is strange that
every man who is eligible to member
/ ship does not belong to it simply for its
educational advantages, for the coun
try is about ruined because the class
of our citizens who are eligible to mem
bership in the Alliance has been stay
ing at home working and letting the
affairs of State alone till it has got In
such q fix that it is distressing almost
to think about. There are very few
counties in the State that are not badly
in debt. Almost every town OF any
size is in debt, and the Nation, every
body knows, is terribly in debt, and all
paying tribute to the money power In
Gno q OF hG0C6SG.
This county already $21, 600 in debt,
the two Commissioners that the Demo
cratic Judge appointed over US that
nearly 400 majority Of the voters said
they did not want as Commissioners, to-
gether with q Democratic Attorney to
said Board, with their influence had a
bill passed through the Legislature OF
1897 allowing them TO issue $4,000 In
bonds and put a tax Of 8 cents on the
hundred dollars property valuation
and Is cents on the poll for two years
to build fre-proof vaults in the court
house, and because the County ALI
ance passed a resolution condemning
said bond iesue, and asked the Commits
| sioners not to issue same, and requested
everybody who felt an in interest in the
welfare of Beaufort county to be at
the court house on the 14th of April to
help US defeat same, which, through
the manhood of our elected Commits
sioHers, we were able to defeat. Then
see the howl that went up from the
mouth pieces of the money lenders.
The Evening Messenger. edited by
J. A. Arthur, went so far as to say that
all the property holders of the county
favored it. I'll say right here that he has
had more to say aboutit than anything
L have seen, and Investigation proves
that he only pays poll tax. lam here
to say that / DONE think if the taxes of
this county had been collected as they
might have been that I don't think the
county would be at all in debt, and,
therefore, know no need to issue bonds
for any purpose, judging from what /
have seen. Sheriff Hodges sent a bill,
drawn by Judge Brown, to H. e.
Hodges, representative from this
county, for him to have passed by the
Legislature to let him go back to and
include 1885 to collect arrears of taxes
for his benefit, such authority to cease
on January 1, 1900; even asked for au-
thority to go two years longer than he
was elected for.
Some of us are getting anxious to
know what becomes of this tax money
that is collected.
A few more words now and I am
doae. At our last county meeting in
April it was the unanimous sentiment
to start the shoe factory if it took all
this couuty's B. A Fnnd, We want it
started if it takes a special meeting of
the State Alliance to do it.
Fraternally, etc,
r. II. LANE,
Pres. Beaufort Co. Alliance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-25

At Louisville a man was held for
perjury for swearing in q bail case that
he owned a $40O lot when it was found
that the lot was in q cemetery.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-25
A CONTINGENCY.

Even the highest court of the cum
try is subject to very ordinary and
very undignihed vicissitudes. We look
upon the Supreme Court, are supposed
upon it, with something of the
reverence we accord to the highest rep
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-25

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