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Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-09-30

BIN the larger citiee of the B sst women have very appropriately taken to piano tuning. Ie IS business that might be exclusively thelra.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-09-30
CANNOT HAVE HAWAII.
Japan Landing Soldiers on the
 Islands.
The American Flag Will Be HOisted Should Trouble
 Occur.

NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-Nsvsl officials lave no doubt, from official sources, that Japan is sending soldiers to Hs- vail aud only swsits an opportunity to attempt to overthrow the Dole govern ment. Instructions to Rear Admiral Miller, on She Baltimore, are to land American sailors and marines an6 hoist the American flag if such a thing oc- ours
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-09-30

THE Klond7ke Fushers gre coming back now in quantities. Tbelast boat to reach Seattle brought 219 from Ska quay.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-09-30

THERE is growing sentiment among Republicans that Repu oli caD1AS5as and fishes are liable to create dyspepsls in Democratic consumers.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-09-30
na Fortuna Never Looked Better.

Those wise ones who have "hoped it wouldn't, but were positive the mines 50 Fortuna would not go down, but would soon pincb out" cen find little in She present. condition of the bonanza property to assist them in the gaining o. converts to their theory. While, iD the strica senee of the word, it is true that La Fortuna hss not as yet proven that she will go down, still the fact thst at five hundred feet the largest body of ere yet seen is in sight, and ore of great value, is & frab-clAss indication, ard one not st all discoureging to she own ees.
 Last months output was almost $40.- GOO, which, considering the fact that the company carries but about seventy men on she payroll, is remerke ble. Two or three greater monthly cleaG- ups hava been made than tbie, but S4O,O0O is somewhat above the average.
 I5 is sincersly boped that La Fortuna will never grow less. for Yuma County has no mine which is of more benefit at homs than this one e-YunaG Sun
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-09-30
Money Markets

NEw YORK, Saps. 2s-Silver OCT tificatee, GOO flunoss at 565s; bar silver, 541a; Mexican dollars, 4215.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-09-30

YELLOW JACK has appeared at both Galveston and Houston, Texss, she farthest west that it has advanced, up to date.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-09-30

DOn'r Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your
 Life Away.
 If you want to quit tobacco using easily and forever, be made well, strong, magnetic, full of new life and vigo-, take NoTo-Bsc, the wonder-worker that makes weak men strong. Many gain ten pound in ten days. Over 400, ,00O cured. Buy No-To-Bac from your own druggist, who will guarantee 8 cure. Booklet and samples mailed free. Ad- dress Sterling Remedy Oo., Chicago or New York.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-09-30
LETTER LIST.

Unclaimed Letters in the Post Ofice
 ct Phoenix, Arizona, Sept.
 2Sd, 1897 Amsden, l. s Armstrong, Mrs Bell, B D Blaine, WP Branch, D l. Cnassine, Chas Dennis, Samuel Hines, JC Holmes, Miss Ella Johnson, O Johnson, Mrs B A McDowell, Hugh McGirFis, J " Mslony, Thos Nerve, Mrs Chas Rsndon, Andrew Reynolds, Belle Those, J Simmons, Willie Susdeker, J Snedeker, l. SpFague, F O May, Lso Undsrhill, J A Venssss, J D Whitman, Earle A Wilcox, Jennie A Williams, Jessie Williams. Miss May Work, Ds WE
 Wood, A B
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-09-30

"MoURNFUL resign ation" is the usual sequel to misguided enthusiasm.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-09-30

THE Colorado canal continuss 50 ysarn for prison labor.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-09-30

THE increase of hoodlumism in the city hss been large and fsgrsnt lately. church services, are inteFfered with by this public nuisance. Will ouE city cfficials do their duty in ias sup nrassinn2
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-09-30

THE lower Mississippi and gulf States are engaged h terrible contest with the yellow fever, which seems to be gradually gaining hesdwsy, in spite of every precautior. The only check that can now be boped for IS cold weather.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-09-30

THE publication oc sensational ar ticle concerning She rise in the GilA river by the Denver Republican sent from Phoenix by somebody with more desire for his pay than for the srubb, is not only misleading but pure ros. The Gila has been up but is has probably nos done S2OO of damage in it's entire course and nobody is suffering nor have had their farms washed away.
 Now THAT better times are st hand, why shouldn's the people of this valley flock together and do something that will place them beyond 6 chance of be- ing pinchsd when the next hard time comes along, as it sursly will, come time? Now IS the time to strike out and secure practical public immunity from the experience we have had for the past tbrse or four years
 THE gule cities a1d towns from Mobile to Galveston, together with the Missis- sippi river towns se far Up aa Tenr essee are iD ststs of quarantine against the attacks of yellow fever. The business of that vast region is psrelyzed and travel stopped as much ss possib bic. Should this condition Of affsirs prevail for any length of time it will be severe blow to the business of that great and wealthy region.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-09-30

THE HERALD agrees with the sug- gestions of it's contemporaries of this morning that libel suit or two might tend to cleaner journalism hereaboute, and the HERALD thinks it knows of couple of places where such suits would stick hard and fast.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-09-30
CARTAs RsPANoLAs.

Jose Ma Boiorquez Rafael Bsrreto Teresa Billslobos Alfonso Brscsmont TsodoFa Martinez Manuel Miranda Aristes Montana Bellie Varrios A. A. de Sslcido Gabrielito UFrua J ose Villa Roberto Balencia Mariana de Ybsrrs Ma Vllleuuebo Leodides Bsge Julian NJ Yanes Call foE advertised letters.
 w. k. THOMAS, P. M.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-09-30

WHILE newspaper stories have bsen somewhat exaggerated, it is sn absolute fact thet the Western farmers financial condition is wonderfully improved. During the laet shree years he practiced such economy tbst with a slight i'm provement of wheat prices lget fall and fair vslnes of cattle, sheep and hogs, the thrifty farmer gradually reduced his debt. With good prices this fall, he is indeed paying eff the mortgage. The fall in the interest rate Is as re- marksble as bhe o:heF features of the rising tide.-E rom American AgricuI- f7IriSt
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-09-30

THERE Is DO better test of business conditions than the state of tae bank ing business of the country. When bank "clearI gs" are heavy it is uer- tam evidence of prosperity. Brad streets latees reports show the clear anceR for the week ending Septem ber Is, 1897, to bs the largest of any week since January, 1893, end one of tbe largest ever reported The increase over the corresponding week in 1896 is more than fifty per cent, nnd is fully eeventy-fve per cent. above the corres- bonding week of the first year of Cleve- lands last term.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16
ELECTION OF RAILROAD COM.
MISSIONRRS.

There is no better bill before this leg
islature, nor one more in the public in
terest, than Mr.. Hauser's bill, provid-
ing for the election of these officers by
the people. The Railroad Commission
was established to protect the people
against corporation high rates and ex-
tortions. It's members should be
Tribunes of the People and should be
elected by the people themselves and
not by legislatures in which corpora
tons can acquire a majority by manip-
ulation, free passes and intrigue.
That the corporations are bitterly
fighting this measure shows that they
know what mode of election liz to their
interest.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16
SUICIDES IN 1896.

The suicide statistics of the year 1896
make a gloomy picture for the contem-
plation of humanitarian and economist.
The number Of suicides in proportion
to the population is increasing every
year with terrible rapidity, and the
time is come when it should receive the
earnest attention of the people. In the
year 1896 the number of suicides in the
United States reached the appalling
total of 6. 500, acc )rding to statistics
carefully compiled by the Chicago
Tribune. The totals for the years since
1890 and including that year are as fol
lows: In 1890, 2,O4O; 1891, 8 531; 1892,
1850; 1894, 4,912; 1895, $3.50. Thus
year by year the number increases in
proportion to the population. The
number of suicides in 1895 shows an in
crease of 1877 per cent. relative to the
population since 1890. Calculated upon
the initial rate this is an average yearly
increase of 81 per cent. o. the suicides
in 1895 5 O76 we're men and /, 442 were
women.
There may be many plausible reasons
given for the preponderance of males
who commit suicide. Among them
may be the one that business cares
which fall most heavily upon males,
and another that disappointments in
business dealings come oftener to men
because men are more actively engaged
in business. But there are moral les
SONS to draw from these grewsome sta
tistics. Just why conditions that drive
men and women to suicide should exist
is a question hard to answer satisfac
torily. Is suicide a maniac Does a
country suffer from suicide waves, just
as it suffers from waves of business de-
pre- ssion3 Is there a hitherto undiscov-
cred sense that is affected By the sui
cides of others to the extent that its
possessor feels an uncomfortable desire
to follow the example of q distant man
or woman who has tired of life or was
too cowardly to face the future of an
earthly career9
TIE startling increase in the mum
Der Of suicides plainly shows that
we are not yet within grasping distance
of the observation-disclosures World
Herald.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16

would cost $15 90 before anyone be-
comes a member. All three statements
are entiI ely inaccurate. The Station
has urged that the people of the State
should stop paying for all such formu-
las, as it is ready and willing to specify
any mixture using materials which
can be best procured. In fact, a new
publication of the Station will shortly
be issued dealing especially with com
posts and home made mixtures and
telling how they car be made. 1t will
be sent free to parties in North Caro-
lima who apply for it. Write to the
Station at Raleigh if you wish it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16
NO REPUTATION IN THIS.

The heartless goldbug papers relieve
themselves frequently by referring to
the reputation of silver by the Ameri-
a people last fall. 1t was not repudia
ton. Mckinley won because his cleo
ton was brought about by money and
absolute force. But had there been nc
dissatisfaction existing in the silver
ranks, brought by bad management,
all the money and coercion would have
come to naught. Bryan only lacked
&c. 900 votes in a few close States. AS
it was, he got 6 221, 552 votes. No re.
pudiation in that. Cleveland get only
5, $50, 562 votes in 1892 and was elected.
Bryan got about zoo. 900 more votes
than Cleveland and was defeated. That
is all there is to it. We care nothing
about Bryan. The point VT make is
that the American people did not re-
pudiate silver. The race is not always
to the swift; there is defeat in victory.
Unless the incoming administration
does something to relieve the business
of the country, it will be repudiated
before it has gotten fairly under way.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16
COMMENT.

Local causes" continue to get in
their work with the banks. -Atlanta
Constitution.
The people are not dead, but sleep
ing. Twenty six thousand free passes
given to one legislature to control it
may help to awaken them. Nashville
Sun.
The Springfield Republican refers to
the South as the land of the lyncher. "
If we were equally generous We might
speak Of New England as the land of
the Pharisee and hypocrite.-Atlanta
Journal.
Fifteen newspapers failed in the
United States the first week in Janu,
airy, and most of them were of the
goldbug persuasion. They simply
took a dose of their own medicine
Courier, Council Grove, Kan.
The way to stop crime in this OF any
other State is not TO implore the people
ito be good" The laws and legal ma
chinery must be made 80 plain and
simple that no guilty man can escape
by t~echnicalities and dilatory methods
or packed juries. Houston Post.
There is a sensational pulpit as we'll
as a sensational press. Any n who
cares to keep a tally of sensations will
observe that the producers Of the new
journalism and the scavengering pull
piteers gather thtir dirt from like
sources. -Philadelphia Record.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16
WARNING AGAINST PRDDLERs

The North Carolina Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station in Bulletin No. 1877,
details the plan of the champion
Chemical Process Company" capital
stock $50, 900, with Offices at Dunn.
Fayetteville, and brownsville, N. @.
This company has been practicing in
North Carolina by soliciting member
ships at 81 90 each, the advantag 8 of
which consists in ability to purchase
certain chemicals, together with
formula for making composts. The
chemicals are supplied to members for
additional 81 90 and the actual cash
fertilizing value contained in them is
only SO cents. Not only this, but the
combination of materials is bad and
phosphoric acid is omitted entirely
from the mixture. Perfect satisfac-
ton" is guaranteed, and the statement
is made that it will make as good a
crop as commercial fertilizers. It is
also stated that the same chemicals
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16
STATE ADOPTION OF SCHOOL
TEXTBOOKS.

Mr. Crumpler's bill to revise the pub
lie school laws creates the State Board
of Education out of the Governor,
President of the University, President
State Normal and Industrial school
aed three professional teachers to be
elected b~iennially by the other mem
bers of the board; the board to recon-
mend a course of study in the public
schools, and a course of reading in pro
fessional study for teachers; to grant
frst-grade life certiic ates to meet in
r leigh, at the Governors call, not
over two days in each year; the
[ fiji e of county examiner is abolished
after the 1st Monday in next July, the
county commissioners, clerk and regis
ter shall biennially elect three men of
good business qualifications as county
board OF education; and the latter
board, clerk and registers shall bienni
ally elect a county supervisor of
schools; the county boards to elect a
district board of s; apportion school
fund, establish schools; third grade
teachers certificates to be abolished;
county supervisors to be paid not over
81 for each day actually at work.
1t is we'll to be careful with such
bills. All the work done by the last
legislature may be undone at one
strOko
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16

railroad should issue free passes to all
public officers. AS railroads cannot
turn a wheel or move a car except with
money collected from the public, every
man carried free has his way paid by
higher prices on tickets that are paid
for. Mr. Rays proposition, therefore,
is that the people shall pay for the free
riding of an Office holding ~aristocracy,
though the members of the legislature
get 10 cents a mile (three times its cost
for every mile travelled coming here
and going home. The State pays each
session $40, 900 to members for their
mileage, and Mr.. Rays bill was to add
to that by giving the members free
riding at the cost of the public. His
proposition received only 16 votes, but
the next day the bill to prohibit free
passes waspostponed till February 27Gh,
thus killing it by delay by the votes OF
men who did not dare to go on record
as voting against it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16
CREAM OF raE z
Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriot. {
Paragraphs From Reform Papers.

Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriot. c
Paragraphs From Reform Papers.
There is no difference between the
Cleveland hard times and the Mckinley
prosperity B~rockton, Mass. Dia
mond
McKinley's appointments so far show
that he intends to serve his master
the money power-well. - Advance
Guard, Defiance, Ohio.
At last accounts, confidence had not
struck these lonely and unfriendly
shores. But the duped are still expect
ing it.-Luray, Va, Union.
The fight over post Offices in the
country is growing so warm that it
came very near furnishing the ice crop.
Council Grove, Kan, Courier.
During last year, in the United
States, 125 people were legally executed
and 131 were lynched. The courts will
have to get move on them to catch
up.-Courier, Cedartown, Ga.
A man who studies his Bible so dill
gently that he can't e the suffering of
humanity, and that it is caused by pc
litical conditions, is too blind to ever go
to heaven.-Morgan's Buzz Saw.
The Republican party is rapidly re-
storing conf dence in Wall street by
placing all the millionaires and op
pressors of labor at the head of the
government Advance Guard, Def
ance, OHIO.
Why ioin a farm organization which
simply wants to build up a strong
treasury from high admission fees
when you car join the very best one,
the Alliance for fifty cents9-Pa,, ALI
ance Advocate.
The gang at Sherry's on the night of
Little Egypt's" self abasement are
types of decaylng civilization. If this
country is ever destroyed it will be
from Within-not from Without
Grange Advocate.
A large number of men who marched
in Hartford for Sound money" and to
preserve the nations credit in the
late campaign, are now out on dress
parade seeking work and asking for
credit for themselves until they get a
slice of McKinley's long promised pros
perity. COxey could marshal quite an
army from ranks of the late sound
money paraders at this time, whose
lot and present conditions prove that
they were imposed upon.-American
Enterprise, Windsor, Conn.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16
THE ANTI-FRRE PASS BILL.

The bill to prohibit free passes to
public officials passed it's second read
ing in the Senate February 18th, by
the following vote:
Ayes-Alexander, P; Butler, P.
Clark, P; Earnhardt, P; Early, P.
Geddie, P; Hardison, P; Lyon, P ;
Maultsby, R ; Mitchell, P; Moye, P. ;
Merritt, P; McCaskie, p; Parker, of
Randolph, P; Patterson, F. Robertson,
P; Shaw, P; Smathers, R. Walker,
P; and Wakefield, P ;21.
Noes-Anderson, R !; Anthony, D
Ashburn, R &; Cannon, P; Grant, R. :
Henderson, R; Hyatt, R; McNeil,
R. Newsom, P; Parker, of Alamance,
D.; Person, R /; Ray, D.. Rollins, r
Sharp, of Wilson, R. Shore, R ;Whed.
bee, P. and Yeager, r. 10.
Mr.. Ray offered a substitute that the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16
H COTTON TRUST.

The Manufacturers Record, of Balti-
more, is highly in favor of the proposed
change in the manner of baling cotton,
and thinks THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER
is unnecessarily alarmed The Record
says those who oppose the trust are op,
post d to progress, are opposed to any
Innovation for the improvement of hu
mainly.
There it goes again. The same old
claptrap about a trust rescuing human
ity from eternal destruction. Did you
ever know a combination formed for
any other purpose9 Every trust has
orphan asylums, homes for widows
and certain plans to lift up the condi
ton of humanity in general, attached.
No, we r not opposed to improve
ments nor to the right kind of progress,
but when we see the formation of a
vast scheme to rob the farmers of the
land, the ginners, the public generally,
and such we believe the cotton trust to
be, we draw the line That is progress
in the wrong direction. 1t is danger.
GUS progress. If somebody has discov
cred a better way to bale cotton than
we now have, let him manufacture the
machinery and sell it to the public in
a legitimate way. There will be no
objections offered to anything of that
kind.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16
SMALLEST PARTY ON EARTH.

Mr.. Pritchard calls his Populist (bet-
ter named Repoplicane) middle, of-the-
road Populist." He has selected Mr.
Skinner for their leader. This is a new
organization in North Carolina and has
no connection whatever with the Peo-
pies party. It's membership 80 far as
known numbers between 90 and 80
voters. This is the smallest political
party on the face of the earth. 1t is
fed and nourished by the Republican
party, being the adopted child of that
party. 1t is not known how long it
will be before it will assume the name
of it's fond parent. For the present it
is known as the "~pie-oneer Populist
party" Their creed middle of the
road" is a misnomer and is calculated
to mislead. 1t implies that they are
in the middle of but one road and that
only to the Republican p~ie-counter.
The Republicans have b~equeathed to
this adopted child one half the spoils
of the State and are nourishing it in
many ways with the fond hope that it
will grow and increase and multiply
the family, but as yet it is a puny little
thing and there seems to be no pros
pect that it can live longer than the
~presesent legislature is in session. Our
Home, Marshville, N. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-16
N. R.. 2. a.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Only a few more days of Grover and
then we'll be in clover-perhaps.
The Charlotte Observer is respect
fully informed that this writer would
rather eat cherry and lemon pie than
to be president-of q road congress.
OF course it is easy to see signs of re
turning prosperity. We have the peo,
pie the farms, the factories, the stores
every thing necessary. Yes, nothing
is lacking but the prosperity itself.
Mr.. F. G.. Blood is the recognized
leader of the Populists in the Illinois
legislature. We guess the Democrats
and Republicans will draw Blood every
time there is a skirmish in that boCy.
If any locks are picked outside of the
Capitol we hope suspicion will not fall
upon the legislature, for the officials
who break locks there are merely actu-
ated by patriotism and a burning de
sire to put in motion the wave of pros.
perity.
They never get too old to marry in
Kentucky. Recently a bashful swain
1O3 years old took unto himself a blush
ing bride 1O1. If they married in haste
they will have to repent pretty rapidly,
for their leisure" will hardly amount
to much.
The State taxes Of New York amount
to $40, 600, 900. and that is considered
high. Cuba, with about the same ter
ritory and a smaller population, has to
pay Spain from $40, 900, 900 to $50, OOO,-
600 to support a tottering throne. No
wonder Cuba is fighting for freedom.
A Western exchange says Col. XII
Gudger is in Raleigh to see that the
boiling Populists are not ignored. We
guess there is something in this, for
this writer heard Mr. Gudger ask one
of them what he wanted, the other
night. Yes, he will take care of them.
Same old story Of the fox guarding the
poultry pen.
Let the investigation of the charges
Of bribery by promises of patronage
and money to influence votes for
PrItchsrd, proceed. Pritchard's friends
say the charges are untrue. We be,
lieve that some of the charges are true.
If the investigation is not held, that
will be evidence that they are afraid
to uncover the Hanna pie basket. No
more foolishness now. Investigate or
stand convicted.
There must be fraud practiced in the
building of American warships for
they are constantly hung up for re.
pairs, though peace reigns supreme.
What would become of them in case of
war9 Recently the Texas went to the
bottom Of New York harbor. The
Raleigh is only two years old and has
been repaired two or three times. The
Brooklyn is in the Marine hospital with
q break in the bottom of the boat 200
feet long. Others are equally unfor-
tunate. 1t is a pity that gunboats cost
ing two and three million dollars can't
steam across q mill pond on aspiring
day without going to the bottom.