The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-10-19

Do not eXDPc5 n phpoE eAo SlAo VI
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER for less than
one dollar per year Go serve your inter
eat. It costs that much to make it
therefore if on got it for less some
body who hopes for gain thereby is
footing the bill in his interest not in
yours. You may mark this.
Mt seems that there is something new
under the sun. The members of the
Kentucky Bankers Association, at
their recent session in Frankfort, re
fused to drink wine or any intoxicants
whatever. The next thing to do Ia to
prove that these gents were real Ken
tuckians.
Awe regret that Secretary Hoover's
letter on Guilford County Alliance
reached US too late to get in this weeks
issue. We understand tha5 the meet
ing vas a very good one, in
spite of the temptation Of many to
harvest crops during the splendid
weather which we have been eDjos-
ing.
To our good brethren who r kind
enough to send us communications, we
beg OF you to get them here before Sat
urday. We have to work all the week
to get up the paper and after having 1t
about finished to have several long but
interesting and important articles come
"a and insist upon going In. Well
we will not say how it makes the editor
feel-but leave you to imagine. Please
get them in before Saturday O. do not
cuss il you do not see them in the nexE
paper. We do ali we can to serve you,
but must have time.
The Nav York World estimates that
she cotton crop Is 2, coo, 600 bales short
Many ore advising farmers to hold
their cotton FJr Instance The Atlanta
Journal says: IE IS often outside the
province of a daily ne ~spaper TO ADVISE
! the farmers Glitter to hold or sell their
/ crop of cotton, ouC In the present In
stance we feel certain that tue price
must shortly go higher. For several
weeks professional bears have ruled
the market. Phls cl que cannot long
keep control of the 81 uation, for the
plain and eventually controlling facts
| are adverse TO their domination.
fifty five years Connecticut has
had a constitutional provision that
every person shall be able TO read any
article of the Constitution or any sec
ton of the statutes Of this State before
being admitted an elector." This, how
ever, has been construed to mean that
anyone who ear read any article of
the Constitution in any language is en-
titled to vote. The last session of the
Legislature submitted TO the people az
amendment to the Constitution, dis
franchising all those who cannot read
any article of the Constitution in Eng
lish. T6s~aeeti5n 0ccIFFgS- recently
and the amendment was adopted by a
majority of nearly twenty to one This
means that thousands of men in Con
necticut must give up the pleasure of
voting.
The Oldest ''old maid" in the world
is~Betty Do~ling, OF Indiana, she is
1O1 years old. SIe says she never
KEEP company with but two ~fellers,"
and as they didn't have epunk enough
to pop the question, she became dis
gusted with folks OF the sterner sex
A certain Pennsylvania woman has
more courage than these two fellers. -
Toe other night her spouse, as he had
frequently done before, came home,
warmed up by fire water" and went
to bed. While he was thus in O state
Of dizzy repose, in the pleasant com
pany of snakes and cross eyed dragons,
she proceeded to inclose him in the
sheet, and soon warmed him up still
more, not with strong drink, but with
a strong whip. When she was through
with the h~agellation, she released him.
The next day, he had her arrested, but
the judge sent the man insteed of the
woman to jail.
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