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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-01
New York, Ontario and Western.

Effect June q. 1887.
Trains leave Scranton for Carbondale
and Cadosia (Hancock Junction., at lO65
1875 connects with main line trains
north and south.
Trains leave Cadosia for Scranton al
610 a. m. and 2.6 p. M.
7.34 a. m. and 3.34 p. m.
T. FLITCROFT ID. p. A.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-01
CARBONDALE,

tReaders will please note that adver-
tisements, orders for job work, and
items for publication left at the estab-
lishment OF Shannon & Co, newsdealers,
North Main street. will receive prompt at
tention; office open from s a. m. to 10
y. MI
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-01
Erie and Wyoming Valley,

Erect Monday, May 3Ist IbVT
Trains leave Scranton as follows: For
New York and intermediate points on
Erie railroad, also for Hawley' Lake
2.28 p. m.
Additional trains for Lake Ariel and
points intermediate at $40 a. m. and $40
y. m.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-01

Now Is the time to purify your blood,
and Hoods Sarsaparilla is the best
medicine for the purpose. Thousands
of great cures prove that 1t is the one
True Blood Purifier.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-01

To Cure n Cold in One Day.
Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money II II
fails to cure. 25 cents.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-01

Hoods Pills are the favorite family
cathartic and liver medicine. Price
25c ~
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-01
RAILROAD THE TABLES.
RAILROAD TIMETABLES
RAILROAD.

Schedule In Effect November IS, 1895.
Trains Leave Wilkes Barre as Follows
7.3O a. M, week days, for Sunburv,
Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Balti.
more, Washington. and for Pitts.
burg and the West.
iO.I5 a. M, week days, for Hazleton,
Pottsviile. Reading, Norristown.
and Philadelphia; and for Sun.
bury, Harrisburg, Philadelphia.
Baltimore, Washington and Pitts.
burg and the West.
3.i5 o. M, week days, for Sunbury.
Harris Irg, Philadelphia, Balti-
more, Washington and Pittsburg
and the West.
3.I5 %. M, Sundays only, for Sun
bury, Harrisburg. Philadelphi a,
and Pittsburg and the West.
600 p. M, week days. for Hazleton
and Pottsviile.
J. r. WOOD. Oen'1 Pass. Agent.
J. b. HUTCHINSON, General Manager.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.

i Calamity criers this year are keep
ing away from facts and fgues.-Yad-
kin Ripple. As a proof that the Ripple
likes facts and figures, will it kindly
compare the price OF cotton with the
price before silver was demonetiz9d3
I Replying to criticisms by numerous
persons regarding the failure of small
farmers to secure premiums at the
State Fair, the Fair officers say that,
were they to depend on the small farm
ers for exhibits, they would not get a
wagon load. They DO not say whether
or not this failure to get a wagon load
was caused by the fear of the "Dig
farmers" But if the farmers OF the
State care no more for the Fair than
this, we rise to suggest that it's time to
give such an enormous farce the ''go
by"
We regret that we cannot yet an.
nounce the starting of the shoe factory.
The Superintendent has not vet re
turned from his trip north to exchange
machinery and arrange for materials.
He will return this week, and as soon
as the machinery arrives it will be
placed in position and begin work in
earnest. Let the brethren be patient,
and be ready. The Executive Com
mittee have been wasting no time, but
making all possible haste and the delay
is no fault of theirs. They have found
unlocked for obstacles which they
have had to overcome, and it has re
CURED the exercise of much patience
and no little study on their part to de
eide what was the best course to pur-
sue. The Superintendent is quite sure
ne can begin work before Decem-
Der 1st,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16
WHAT DOES THIS MRANi

In one Of our exchanges, the Wau-
tauga Democrat, we believe, we find
the following item from The News and
Observer just before the late fair:
Rev. DR.. Kingsbury says several
reputable Populists Of this State have
suffered a change of heart and gone
over to the Democrats. 1t appears to
us that the learned Doctor might get
out his Calling gun and capture one of
these '~'cristers." There is some vacant
space in the State Museum, and such e
curiosity would be a great attraction.
IL the Doctor will capture a specimen,
have him Theoretically sealed up,
marked fright side up with care" and
shipped to Secretary john Nichols, it
might be the means of bringing many
people to the Fair next week. We've
heard of these critters before, but they
seem as hard to capture as an ordinary
ghost"
That's the way the Savior of the
State can save the State. If he him
self, instead Of DR.. Kingsbuy, will CAP
ture lone of these critters" the pur-
porse for which he left Washington
will be accomplished.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16
AMEN.

"a bill which the State treasurer
was called on to pay last week was one
of $50 for q write up of the peniten
tlary in a Raleigh paper, with pictures
OF the penltentiary building Superin.
Gendent John r Smith, and Chairman
Claudius Dockery, of the Board of di
rectors, This is a very small sf sir,
compared with some other penitenCiarv
matters; but should the State be called
on to pay even so small a bill as this
contracted for the qualification Of pgr3
sonal vanity 9-StatesvilIe Landmark
Echo answers, Why's"
After all it's not SO much the money
as the principle involved. II the State
pays for write ups in one paper, whv
should it not pay for write-ups in all9
Why use favoritism3
Besides, we didn't know before that
the penitentiary needed advertising.
but w now learn that people fare go
well there, and the State so much de.
sires to board people free that the man.
ayers have decided to test the efficacy
Of advertising to increase the number
Of convicts. Bahl
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16
HOW IS FTP

THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER does not
approve of the course of Superintend
emit Jno. r. Smith and Chairman
Claudius Dockery in taking $50 of the
PeDitentiary funds with which to pay
for the illustrated write up of these two
men, which appeared in the Far week
Extra edition of the Evening Press
Visitor of this city. Such conduct is
unbecoming the dignity Of an official
But the other side of this question is
the one we will notice nOW-the side
which shows equally as badly a. the
one which ia receiving sc much de
served airing, that is, the side Of the
newspaper which received that $50,
knowing that it was coming from the
public funds.
II our memory is not at fault, for
months previous to the said Write.up
the Evening Press Visitor was one of
the most bitter papers in the State In
It's ~denunciation of the superintendent
ond management of the State Peniten
tiary, and tng QtiasalaItGopId
not find epithets 100 v le and nause
Gus to express it's contempt for them
But strange to say while this insinuat
ing f,nging at some still is being kept
up along the old line, not n Of those
VINO paid for the write.ups is being re-
ferred to in an ungentlemanly sugges
ton even. This is evidence which
shows plainly that the State admins
tration might procure the vaIuable(O
assistance of the Evening Press Visitor
if they would make up a small amount,
SO to $25 apiece-and turn it to the
credit of the bank account of said paper.
Pie,or Doodle, seems to be the height of
It's ambition, whence and how it comes
is not to be considered.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16
"rHE BEAM IN rH1NRowN zYa

The State Fair fares badly. The
press has joined the people, and the
pulpit the press, in protesting against
the use of any more Of the States
money for such purposes as those for
which the last appropriation was used.
The Biblical Recorder, organ of the
Baptists of this State, says: "The Fair
and the State must separate, since it
(the FaiT) has separated from decency."
When the newspapers first began to
show something of the nature of the
fair, it's managers made some terrible
threats about exposing 1.-The can't and
hypocrisy Of the press"t It strikes Us
as being rather strange that they
should have waited so long to expose
the evil deeds of others There was
abundant timber for such work on the
fair grounds from October 18Th to "a
Worse things than even ''cant and
hypocrisy" could have been found right
under their noses, so to speak, but they
were not in an exposing hUm9r just
then-no, not at all! Wonder Why's
Al fair that seeks to bring together
the rabble of the S5ate-the ignorant
and vicious, and those who can prey
upon them rather than the real farm,
ers-farmeIs of the middle class-does
not deserve the name OF agricultural
fair, nor yet "S5ate Fair" We do not
say the management intended this, but
nevertheless extra inducements for
bringing together the lower class of
people acre given this year by keeping
bar rooms open all night. This in itself
was an insult to the honest and self, re
speeding farmers Of the State. It was
a good thing ito catch 'em a,comin'
and a,gwine," for by making this bid
for the patronage of the lower class,
the fakirs and gamblers seeing the op-
portunity of hoodwinking the ignorant,
doubtless secured more a in the
fair grounds.
We repeat: Reformation or ruin
seems the only alternative-which will
the managers choose9"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16
ARR WE NOT ABOUT THRRRa

From q speech delivered in Congress
in February, 1881, by the Hon. Daniel
L Russell, then the N. @. Representa-
tive from the Wilmington district. We
take the following extract, which
sounds like words of prophecy
now that we see every word of
1t has about come to pass. He said:
n man can be so blind as not to
see that the issue of the future is bs.
tween the people on the one hand and
untaxed and lawless capital on the
other. Ten or fifteen years more of
submission by the people to the en-
croachments of monopolists and the
demands of capital will see the Ameri
can ~aristOcracy enthroned and the peo-
pie powerlees. The monopoly class
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16
LANDS WANTED.

North Carolina farmers having Is,s
for sale will do well to advertise a
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER Npmbs,
Of persons In other States re w.nrr,
to buy land in this State. Put and
in this paper describing your land and
get ahead Of your less progreatn
neighbors. The last bulletin saws ta
the following persons, residing il Oag
States, wish to buy farming lands NJ
North Carolina: A. N. Day witt, Franz
fort, Ind, (any kind; L P. Claua
Hamilton, Ohio, Gland suitable for st
tie raising); @. A, Dean, spriDgRAI
Vermont, (any kind; John W. Hugha
1903 Adams street, Toledo, OHIO, GnaI
and general farming); +. J. Humping
Mansfield, Ohio, (truit gro sine);LL
Weiss, Clrcleville, Ohio, (gratn cd
grass growing; DR.. s. E. Campa
1907 Broadway, Bay City, Mich, d
general farming, in a healthy locaiT
George F. Veitt, SCI Main street, N
folk, Va, (poultry and gardening
s. Jackson, 525 N. J. Av., N. ",
Washington, D. @ ; James F. Campa
Reading, Mich, (any kind; JObnV
Woodruff, Somerton, Pa, (suitabbia
a colony }; f. E Simon, YouDgsOT
(any kind Dr.. F L Avery, Hust5us
Tenn. !; A. D. Braden, 928 " 8jn stNa
Canton, Ohio; Leonard street, BesVs
Falls. Pa. I; Frank W. Smyth, Fo1bnl
M ASS. 4; Anthony Baumon, 6crantl
Pa. G9orge E. Morey, Reading, Met
GRAIN and stock FARM
If these names have been gathers
without advertising, how many Ha'
would be heard from if every fIfaS
in the State would tell Of bis saFH1
lands in our ad. columns9 ITyd~
see.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16
A WORD roodR suBscRles'

In writing our advertiser
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER ~! a
favor we always ask OF subscriha
readers. We are enabled -
paper of the siz9 and charecte, s@l
PROGRESSIVE FARMER for one dan 70
year only by means of the lho.1A
ronage of subscribers and advo,t,&
We take great pains to keen bn1,
ads. out of the paper. OF co1sa1
lose money by this, in one wav t3@
save it to our subscribers and
they will give those who do advs,S Sa
liberal patronage. And iust E.'
will adapt a sensible item rom III.
cellent periodical, Farm and Hon..
THE more literally O nst.s'.
our advertisers, the more Tberarv~ ~
will patronize US and the laroo,
better we can make this paper ~
advertisers will never know n. 0'
saw their lad" in The Ppoonn.W
FARMER unless you say go when
ing to them. The more orders W %'
get stating that their ed" was CIV
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER tba
advertisers will see that it psvoS
to advertise in our paper. If taal
fore, you see the same ''ad" in of5e
papers, please mention The PRooDHs
I'VE FARMER only when writing r. y
advertisers, SO that your order NAV.
credited to this journal. As Wa m.S'
every effort to admit only relisbs :,
vertisers, all orders from Il reoa,I
get the best attention"
Thus it's to our mutual advaD,.,
that you patronize our advertisers ~
patronize them literally.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16

have now their hands upon the throat
OF the Constitution. They have ceased
to work to accumulate money except as
a means for obtaining political power.
They dominate courts and Legislatures.
They have their representatives by the
score in this House. They are fast cap
turing the Senate. They are today ex-
ercising more actual power than the
Congress itself. They can by a stroke
of e pen fix the price Of bread in
every Atlantic city, and pinch with
hunger the toiling millions. The press
they have already bought and paid for.
With only a few exceptions they carry
in their pockets a bill of sale for all the
leading newspapers of the country.
Even the great channel Of speedy COM
munication and thought, the telegraph,
is theirs. Vanderbilt and Gould are
our masters. You cannot speak to q
friend at 8 distance, or send a quick
order for a dozen shirts, without pay
ing tribute to them. Their grip is fast
closing upon the entire railway system
of the country. This colossal interest,
embracing seven or eight thousand
million dollars in capital and bonded
debts, employing an army of coo, OOO
servants, is rapidly falling into their
hands. They, with a few other kings
with whom they are combining, handle
double the revenue of the government,
and stand menacingly at the gates OF
commerce. And yet when we attempt
to pass an interstate commerce bill
that shall in some degree put a curb
upon their power and afford some little
protection to the people, we find that it
receives less than a hundred votes in
the popular house. When we try to
establish a postal telegraph for the pro
lection of the people, we cannot even
bring it to a vote in this House."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16
N. r. F.. A.
Il n for 81,

We want 90, 900 paid up subscribers
by Jan. /, '98 A paper of the size,
cbaracs er and price of THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER should have them, and will
have them if every reader will chow
his gratitude by working for the paper
10 he can. In order to make it easy
~7Oosubscribers to double our sub
luz Jul - once, we offer:
llS' -~o'U o. subscriber
To anyone not mUe44ah a.. Eor,,, o,
ae ,ciU send The PrOgre8siUe 80,
every Ueek until Jan. 1, 1899, for O1sttH
one dollar.
This is dirt cheap and we ought to
have 10, 900 new subscribers at once
Unlike some other papers, we have no
campaign fund at our backs to enable
us to hire a travelling agent. There
fore We ask our readers, every one OF
them and yOu, dear reader, especially
to get US up a club.
The paper has stood by you and your
interest. It managers have made sac
rifces to keep the paper going to some
of the readers. And now if you ap
preciate these kind acts. if you are
grateful for them, prove it by this
little action. We will thank you for
this little work in your own interest.
Shall we hear from you9
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMERR
Raleigh, n. Q.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16
THE oNR.cRoP sYsrRM

Sow some wheat. Be an all round
farmer. The all cotton farmer is pretty
blue now, and the evil effects OF the
one crop system are daily becoming
more apparent. Diversified farming
is the hope of the South. The Monroe
Advertiser may tell the truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the truth,
but neither the Advertiser nor any
other paper seldom says a truer thing
than this:
"When our farmers fill their smoke
houses with meat, their corncribs with
corn and their barns with ~provender,
then can they hold their surplus cotton
crop until it brings a price fixed by
them and not by the spectators in the
feecy staple. Then, oh, then, what an
industry farming will be-"
If you are a farmer, you can readily
find proof Of the value of diversified
farming. Take your neighbors for in
stance. In nine cases out of ten the
more prosperous ones are those who
raise small ~crops-crops which they
sell to their one crop brethren. Atany
rate, the experience we have had war
rants us in making the statement.
There's a lesson here, and tuition fees
have already been paid by the sadder
and, let US hope, wiser one crop farmer.
Do you, too take in therIessonl
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16
WHITTIER ARB WE DREFfMG

Speaking of the colored fair recently
held at Raleigh, the Chatham Record
says:
while this fair is creditable to our
colored fellow citizens il is also a proof,
or product, of the kind treatment of
the colored people of North Carolina
by the Democratic party while in
power in this State. And yet the Demo
cratic party receives no credit nor
thanks for it's kind and just treatment
of the colored people-for educating
their children, for building asylums for
their afflicted, and placing them in
better condition than the negroes in
any other StateI'
Great ScottR How the mighty have
falIenl If some Populist paper had
claimed credit for kind treatment of
the negroes, the Record would have
gone into the calamity bowling bust
ness in a fly. "Nigger traders, social
equality, niger rule" and kindred
words would have followed in quick
succession until the whole vocabulary
of such terms became exhausted. Other
Democratic papers would have chimed
in. But here-oh, the degrading spec
taclel-a Democratic paper bidding
for ''nigger" votesl What are we
coming to when a Democratic paper
does this and no other paper of the
great and only white mans party"
%protests9
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16
FILLS A ~LONG-FELT WANT

Our thanks are due Mr.. W. D.
of the Raleigh bar, for advance 'D =,
of "Lives of Distinguished Nor'p =
olinians," which is collected aD0
piled by him ,.ml
We have long felt the need Of o
of this kind, and are glad 70 ~
we are at last to have one w.
have-and we predict it Will pJ ;
large and steady sale. Il IS pun
by the North Carolina PuOlcJ
CT ty, Raleigh, N, G., and hf1esp
Old North States most dlselnS SSs
sons are the subjects OF 'n'
chapters. ,.Jk6
We're simply the dry historicoo
TO the lives OF men ~
known given, the book |ouI ss9
then be interesting, but WnVn ,os
slider that the authors are suog
known and entertaining al
Judge Clark, W. a. GfanSb BIZ
Cox, etc, and the addresses Q ,nr6be
prominent men as 7. d Pie 10 ~
2. B. Vance, some idea OF W sdb
and interest of the book can rnso
We regret that We are at tnn 10
able tGgive this valuable w"
extended notice. the y
The fifteen men of whom W gg
treats are as follows: DsvsV So
Murphey, CASTOR, BaGs1r,
Ruffn, Bragg, Graham, mGrimes
grew, Fender, Ramseur'
Hell. Ling prs
Hustling young men sIhonld
BILE employment as agent SD
at once to the publishers
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16

Some interesting farmers bullSI
have Just been issued by the D3pso
ment of Agriculture. Bee keeping
No. So will interest all those who -
the busy, busy little insects, El
there is scarcely a farmer in N@s
Carolina who cannot fndsom Valaa
facts in No. 60, which is entitled
keting Farm Produce" If any Oh J
readers wish any of these OuLSI.
they caa obtain them by writing W.
Secretary of Agriculture, WS'DT
ton, D. c."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16
THE STATE FAKrR SHOW.

The State sppropriates from the Pub
lie Funds 81, 500 per year to the State
Agricultural Society, or, in other words,
to the State Fair. There is scarcely a
farmer who would raise his voice in
opposition to the appropriation if they
could see an agricultural fair as it
should be, but when the farmer comes
to the grounds and finds it a Fakir
Show, pure and simple, and that it has
been SO arranged that it is impossible
to pass from n end of the grounds to
the other without being compelled to
elbow his way thI ough a mixed multi
tudes Of all shades, grades, classes,
~colors, conditions and professions of
beings, jammed in by fakirs, pick
pockets, IeWd women and vulgar men,
he fiuds that he has paid his money for
that which satisfeth not. Then he opens
his eyes and begins to think that his
representative to the next general as
sembly ought to look into the matter,
and pay no more money out Of the pub
lie treasury for the encouragent of any
such disgusting and ~disgraceful Fakir
Shows.
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER will do
anything in reason to encourage a State
Fair that will be a credit to our CON
moral Christian population,
III -poefers no fair to such as was
49, Ioo+0ctober fakir eff4ic. Cali us
80 we shall oppose all such
frRnda.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16

Mr.. Walter L. Wombley who has
written many interesting and enter
tanning stories for this paper, gives US
this week a soul stirring elegy which is
enough to draw tears from a delin
quenG's marble statue.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16

The Trans Mississippi and Interna.
tional Exposition of 1898 promises to be
a great success.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16

On page 1, the statement that there
is no other North Carolina paper as
large as THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, lex
cept those re mashed from d~ailies)
should be there is no other weekly"
ORC
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16

81 am standing noII Just behind the
CsGrtaGn, and in ftIH glOtg Of the coming
sssnset. Behind ne are the shadows on
gae track, before me lies the dGrk GALLEY
and the riUer. When mtagLe tGttb cts
dark wGters I UdRt to cast one hngeT-
(p0 look upon q country whose govern
Bsent is Of the people, for the people,
and by the people. "-L. L. Polk, JNLy
sch, 1890.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16

Samuel Archer's articles on "Politi
cal Chaos have elected much favor
able comment. We hope Mr.. Archer
will write US often. His articles enter
tain, as we'll as instruct. Besides the
favorable comment received from
North Carolina, we have received re-
guests for papers containing his ar
tlcles from Pennsylvania and this week
Mr. L.C. Batman, from far away Maine,
pays a just tribute to Mr.. Archer's skill
as a writer. .