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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
DOING JUST RIGHT.

The editor of the Warrenton Record
takes off his old straw hat, which he
has worn during all the winter, and
makes his best bow to a young lady in
that community for a beautiful loaf of
bread, which was baked by the fair
one herself and presented to the worthy
editor.
That is business. There is yet hope
for the profession. We trust that we
are about to enter upon a new era, one
that will be fraught with untold and
unnumbered blessings, a large portion
of them coming in the shape Of loaves
of bread.
There is something substantial about
such gifts. They make better men of
US, and, for a time, at least, the whole
world seems brighter. The Record
nan already exhibits more snap and
ability. Every line in his paper last
week was stronger and there was a
much better makeup noticeable.
Editors have been the recipients of
various things for hundreds of years,
but not the kinds that conquer hunger.
They write handsome notices about
weddings, but never get any of the
cake. They ritsobituaries that fire.
quently cause other prominent citizens
to hasten their departure in order to
get a hattering death notice. But when
the estate is divided no property goes
to the poor editor. We publish miles
OF matter about six hundred pound
hogs, but nary ham do we get. We
publish the biography of COWS said to
give five gallons of milk per day, but
drink coffee without cream Sunday
morning and Adams ale the balance of
the week. After writing tons of mat
ter about twin calves we find it neces-
sary to horsehide shoes and eat
steak which may or may not be beef. We
We get permission to write up all the
fifteen pound turnips and potatoes in
the community and have to eat poke
salad every spring. In short, we must
run a free show and pay the band and
keep the tent repaired. Let US rise up
as nj man and call the Warrenton
girl blessed, for she is truly a benefac-
tor, a second Florence Nightingale.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
THE ARBITRATION TREATY.
RALEIGH. N. G.. MAY Z. 1897

RALEIGH, n. T., May z, 1897.
Mr.. EDITOR:-Enclosed I send you
an editorial taken from the New York
Journal on the late proposed arbitra-
ton which has been killed since the ed
itorial was written.
The treaty was conceived in Gin by
Cleveland and others. backed up by a
morbid and misinformed yankee re-
ligious sentiment, which was excited
by designing spectators, and, if
passed, would have been a permanent
foreign ENHANCEMENT.
W. J. PEELE.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
CREAM OF THB PRESS,
Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patra
Paragraphs From Reform Papers.

lar Hits, Bold Sayings n PGtrat
Paragraphs From Reform Papera.
Yes, we expect to be ''caIemi7
howIers' as long as there are caIamh
producers.-Farmville (Ls) Herald.
Experience is a dear school, but
fools will learn in no other" But Old
party fools don't seem to learn evenh
that.-Alliance Plowboy.
A letter addressed "To any resDet
able attorney" of a Missouri town va
returned to the postmaster inscria
mot known here. "-Upson Pilot.
From all over the country conner
ports of cuts in wages. As the dollar
gets dearer (soundeI) men and women
are becoming cheaper. - Advance
Guard.
If any nation wants to kill Christiau
with impunity it has only to put $%.
600, 900 of it's bonds in the hands ot&
European money power.-Atlanta ON
stitution.
A little less dictation from The
washington contingent" would be
palatable just now. We want no more
Senatorial combines" or disgraceN
surrenders. -Morgans' Buzz Saw.
Hard times2 Who voted for thenI
The people voted for them and are now
enjoying the results of their votes
Who said anything about Throwing
votes away ?-American Enterprise.
Judging from the large Numbered
people in idleness, either from choice,
or enforced, the poor houses of The
future will be sky. scrapers and cover
a very large area of territory.-Amen
can Enterprise.
The spectacle of the senate feeling
bad because the house is fIibusterings
the most pathetic event in modern biz
tory that has happened since Marx
Twain wept over the grave of his a.
cestor, Adam.-Mobile Register.
The man who does more injury to
his country than any other is he who
teaches reform and stays in the old
monopoly parties. Such men hold the
people in the old organizations when
others could ot.-Missouri World.
Coin all the silver and gold at tho
ratio of 16 to 1 and supplement that
coinage with an issue of legal tender
paper money direct to the people with,
out the intervention of banks and hard
times will disappear.-CIebur Herald
Grover Cleveland made a speech be-
fore the New York Reform CLUB the
other day and said many things, but
did not say how he became 90 rlcn
while serving the dear people only
years as president.-COuncl
Grove Courier.
1t may yet become necessary to
adopt the PopUlist idea in our dealing
armor plate manufacturers, ana
build a factory of our own. We haVe
already paid out enough in over prices
build two establishments as good@
Carnegie's:-Top6ka Advocate.
Jerry Simpson made one of those
home thrusts for which he is famous
the house the other day. IF the
foreigner pays the tax" he said, why
not make the taxes so high they vii
support us and make every deg Sun
lay over heEG2'- Peoples Advocate.
Corn in Nebragka now brings the
producer ten cents per bushel, and tho
anne corn costs vhe consumer in Louis
ana forty five cents per bushel; this
would indicate that the middle man
nd the transportation companies we're
he fellows that were getting the cream
While the farmer who produces the
orn gets the whey.-People's AdvG
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n. r. ?. A.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The prosperity shriekers are not hon
est, but they are thoroughly re lie able.
Col. Frederick A1naniss Odds says
he saw the airship again Friday night.
He says it is run by horse power.
A Yorkshire farmer named Gibson
has just died at the age OF 1O1 years.
He shaved himself, drank his glass of
beer and his nightcap of whiskey, and
smoked his pipe till a few days before
his death. His father lived to be
ninetysix.
President Mckinley set 'em up to
cigars that cost g each at a Cabinet
dinner the other day. We guess the
wave Of prosperity has struck Nc at
last. But if he keeps this thing up
Mark Hanna will W see the Sis, 900
Nc I'VE him.
Congressman Bailey, Of Texas, re-
recently astonished the denizens of
Washington by refusing to wear a full
dress suit at a Presidential reception.
It is generally conceded that a Con
gresham can do a great many things
worse than donning a dress suit.
The State Alliance Executive Com,
mittee met at Hillaboro Friday and
Saturday. We understand that it will
be only a short time until the shoe fac
tory will be started. Nearly enough
funds are in sight. Send in your funds,
if you have not already done so. There
will be but little delay now.
The commercial agencies are trying
to launch another boom. They report
better business, more of it, and a de-
crease in the number Of failures. 1t is
barely possible that they got instruc
tions, for it seems rather strange that
business should make such remarkable
strides in M week, and nobody be
aware of it, either.
A couple of m~illionaires from New
York, aaVemeyer and Chapman, the
former President of the Sugar Trust,
and the latter a broker, have been SEN
fenced to jail for contempt of court in
refusing to tell the Senate Investigate
ing Committee how much the Sugar
Trust gave TO the political campaign
fund last year. The Senate had better
go slow. First thing you know Have
meyer will buy the United States and
abolish the Senate.
The Nebraska legislature has Just
passed an oct which requires that any
ordinance, contract, II agreement by
the authorities Of any town or city,
shall De submitted to a vote Of the PEG.
pie whenever petitioned for by Is per
cent. of the qualified voters. On the
same perc cent. Of petitioners, any propo
sition affecting the city or town shall
be submitted to the voters, whether the
town authorities have adopted it not. |
This will be a check upon ring rule, |
and doubtless the day is not far off
when tire same procedure will be
adopted for State matters elsewhere. !
If proposition for 2 cents per mile
railroad fares and lower freight charges
could in this ann be now submitted
TO the people of North Carolina it would
90 through like a prairie fire.
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The Progressive Farmer 10 the Official
Organ Of the N. c. Farmers State Alliance
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
MORE GoLDBUG STUPIDITY.

The cartoonist plays an important
part in the affairs of this country.
When the work is we'll done it probably
does quite as much to shape public
opinion as the best editorials. But the
goldbugs often make fearful blunders
in getting out their killing illustrated
matter. Recently we noticed a picture
in which men to represent nations were
riding bicycles. The double standard
countries were represented as riding
wheels of silver and gold, and the sign
board read: "To Adversely" The
gold standard countries were repre-
sented by men riding bicycles and the
sign read: ITO Prosperity" But you
never saw a bicycle with only one
wheel. The machines in the picture
each had two wheels. SO the absurdity
Of the illustration is apparent at once.
Bicycles must have two~wheels; q r
porous country must have the double
standard 50 long as business is done so
largely with 4 metallic currency. The
lack of prosperity in this country and
England at present is due to the fact
we are trying to do a dollars worth of
business with about 80 cents, or less,
a single wheel, and a small one, too.
Grover C~leveland's speech at the
banquetot twelve dollar-a plate demo
Gratis, at the Waldorf, in New York,
Saturday night, was characteristic.
His small collection Of little ideas he
again exhibited in all the pomp of poly
syllable rhetoric, and his own fat selfish
ness he once more paraded as patriot,
sm.-Cleveland Recorder.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-05

there are considerable changes in the bank
statement this week, bearing out the facts
of a continued business improvement.
Loans increased SS.416, 200, and deposits 81
763, CO., while the excess in reserve shows
a decrease of s. 763. coo. Currency shipments
to the interior were between four and five
millions of dollars, and the statement re-
fleets this in a decrease Of legal tenders to
the amount of Si005, Co., while specie is
500, 700 lower. 1t is probable that next
week will see a much larger demand for
currency from the interior banks.
Compared with the statement of the cor
responding period of last year, there are
the following changes:
Loans have increased sl18, 221, 100, or about
% per cent; net deposits. -, 6S7. 500, or
about As per cent, and the total reserve
has increased s73,557, 500. That prosperity
is here and likely to remain can no longer
be doubted. Chicago and st. Louis are
TO a considerable extent supplying the
present demand for crop movements, but
the demand from these centers is pretty
sure to be felt soon by the New York
banks. The strength of foreign exchange,
which is over the gold exporting figure,
would indicate that the large trade bal
anoes due us from the other side are be-
ing utilized to purchase our own securities,
or being lent at better rates than can be
obtained in New York.
THEORY REGARDING INDIA.
New York, Sept 4.-The Evening Posts
London correspondent cables today as fol-
lows:
The action of the Indian government In
purchasing drafts on India is the one topic
in the city. Opinions as to the precise
policy of the government differ widely, Of
course. There is no doubt that the reason
for the action is. as previously cabled, the
low condition Of the government balan-
ces IN India, but the situation at the mo-
ment, told as briefly as possible, is this:
Indian banks will scarcely offer their
drafts to the government, except on the
exchange basis, which is 16 pence, or there
abouts. That is to say, they will want,
cover the drafts, under a regulation which
the Indian mint will deliver rupees for COW
erings al 10 rupees to a sovereign. There
fore, the market says that If exchange is
TO be driven TO the gold point, why should
not the Indian government export gold
itself? But, again, India is expected soon
to raise large loan here, so why, by tax
ing gold, force the market conditions here
against the success of the issue?
These, together with the rise of s. in sill
yer, has given credence to It's theory The
government requires an excuse to buy sill
yer and coin II for resent requirements
Hence, the move to buy drafts, SO that
when 1t is found that bills are offered only
on a gold basis, the government can say
that 1t is impossible to buy bills and so Il
must coin silver. These are the views
IN the stock markets at the moment but
the best opinions favor the sending Of gold
10 India
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WICHITA COMMERCIAL COLLEGE
Notes md Dot. Made OF ne Weak. Tran
.Srftou.

Miss Cara Rsa3sI q recent rrasua;e
IN Ire shorthand Department. maze .as
college a 2lesssnt yl@lt On her return
from Buffalo. y. z. during ne wssk.
Mss Spruce Ta-te-. a former 7z2u. ac-
copied position as s,ssoRrzDhsr a ~
.zE ofic= c: Aess-s. AznEoa & Couley
t1ls week
~. E5e-y- sTisher scespts3 posi-
tn az 51osk-spsr an1 s.raoxTspasr -
the Aes4 Cycle company las: E~sk
~. Lea Hils-. a. experienced
operator from Great Bend. Esn. hss
ben sa1gi3ys3 - take cssrge . To-
tsisE-s9s Department: ard VII assume
Is dz-l@< - Monday.
yr. Hu-4. 4 5zaksr f.on Au:ao-T.
Ksn-. -aaca arrangements q Friday r.
nis eau95-s- % tzks saE CONNER n
c-arss- ose = a.s 9zsgafsrs Ill ea.s-
Cur r.sy Han se1os.. segserz b<r y.
T1s c5Leg- sas :o1- years 81 s<.,sz-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-05

Chicago. Sept. 4.-Butter-Steady; cream
cries 1eQ11c; diaries sG1ec
Eggs-Ste2dy; fresh, 1Scl
Live poultry-Firn; turkeys a61Oc: chick
ems 1i2c; spring &c; ducks. 7G7lzc.
KANSAS CITY.
Kansas City. Sept 4-Rather sluggish
about steady; No. > hard SGSsc; No 3, sgi-
QSic: No. t. 7SlzQslc; No. soft, s1Ge2c
No. 5. ssaao; No. 4. Sc; No. spring, Si9
sc: No s, 75GSNr
Corn-About steady; fairly active: No. 9
mixed 27d27i..
Oats-About steady. fairly active; No :
white lSG22l2c.
Rye-weak; No. .. isc.
Hay-Active: steady; choice timothy.
$50; choice prairie SIS.
Butter-About steady: creamery l5is1is:
dairy. l0Q12c.
Eggs-Lower on heavy receipts: M:ssou-
ri and Kansas 10izc.
NEW YORK
New York, Sept. 4.-Flour-Receip.s. is-
~ barrels; exports 1e,522 Duh, but nonli-
ents S.40d5. 50; Minnesota bakers 81 4e74 70:
winter patents s535G5sS; winter stra.ghts
81 $3.50: winter extras S-5eISe1; winter
lew grades s.. S5dS50.
Wheat-Receipts. 154.tS bushels; exports
els.+sS Spot firm: No. red sl.C2S.. Options
opened stronger on firm cavles and eno--
nous weekly wheat and -four shipments.
afterwards dull. by realizing sales. closed
N0S+c net higher; May 9sssc: September
Sl00: December g7lc
Corn-ReceipJs 3)S. 400 bushels exports.
17s.ilS. Spot steady. No. ?. S57sc. Options
opened stronger or cables and heavy
clearances. but eased OF later owing 20
realizing and closed unchanere 10 &c net
advance; September Soc: December S7ssc
Oats-Receipts. S2oco busels: exports
e76,@a Spot quiet; No. . esl-G2ss.c Op-
tons inactive and nominally stead.er, at
1sc net advance: September 24c
California dried fruits-Steaiv on aopiss.
other dried fruits quiet and steady: evan
GRATED apples. prime wire tray SC: wood
dried prime &c; choice 6;sc: fancy 6s.G7c:
Prunes 3i@E1izc; as 10 size and quality. Ap-
roots. Royal. 1QSc; Moor Park. s<!1Ic
Peaches. unpeele6, 7dloc: peeled IiGl3c.
Bu;ter-Receipts. 4.704. Market firm: wes-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-05
COTTON.

New Orleans, Sept. 4-Cotton-Easy
sales AS bales: ordinary. S 1-I6c: good orr
nary, s 7-l6c; low middl.ns, sac; middli1g
: 1-lsc: good middling. 5-l6c; midiEng
fair 9-I6c.
New York. Sept 4.-The cotton ma-se.
opened steady at a decline OF 10 points,
following favorable crop reports and small
Ter gains in the English market than look
ed for in view Of our sharp rally late yes
terday. Following the cali was extremely
dull even for a Saturday half-holidsy. Prl-
ces improved slightly on Eight local cover
ing and about u O'Clock. while dull. was
steady at a net decline OF 1 10 . points.
Sales 70 that hour reached but I. 600 bales.
Liverpool bought the late months and sold
the near; New Orleans sold the near posi-
tons and purchased the winter deliveries
in a small way. Closing quotations: Spot,
quiet; m:dtiing uplanis TIC: January.
S6Si: February. ss-A: March. SsSs: April.
s6sl: May. sS.s5; September. SIP: October
Sass; November, $50; December, ST..
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Kansas CRY HORSE snow
Some Right Pretty Faces and stSssIsE
Costumes Eshfbifs.n-

Eansas CITY. Sept. "a grand psrais
- horse hes1. drawing stylish sqglDsg-s
o; every description ana driven 81 de-
votes Q. ne animal from ten Different
s.aiss. o. carrying suartiy Egwnsg I'd
ers0s both sexes. vas ne primo pal at
traction q; Fairm71nt PARK the ss.sr-
noon Saen ne third annual 5orss saow
opened a. s'ci5ck TIE parade proc
ably composed t1s bes; display % fancy
hor.es and cssiiy .urp9g;s ever yitn@ss-
- IN this cars = re county. ~hiis 80
g-s1f sand mad bgxes contained
wealth Il beauty and fz-b.1n ff1m rs
as VEL ss many o.5er cities. FEefsrss
Benson = SeT ok. X sfsn.1n Ei.los.
@ Mex YORK. g. r Q1.a.gs % Trench.
y. =. sa3 ". T1rnogiI - F'Alss-syAis
we're aG5nE ;he 5lsgeE zbo decided -
5aia.s IN re sigA. cases q 80 pro-
gan - ias szy A Ss.s-asnsai o. cav
a. y fraus YoTf Riley. Esnsas. gave an
sxafbitl1n q. ski n Flfsax. sasossnx sni
,s.s.sc sIg-cl-sa n5 Slx7o. L.szTafi.
re co-1eslE-. Frz.1egs3 s<sers1 naz.osrs.
] - $50 ~ .@sr a = ESD ard t5s heavy
aiFanos see Q, sssts insisztss Esa. !,
NJ prove ssecszzs1i 5eya13 .se 5-o.se-
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BONES TO EXHIBIT
Continued from First Page.)
was an innocent and prosecuted man.
AN HISTORICAL WITNESS.


The next witness was little Guttiieke
Schrimpke. She is IA years Old, and her
testimony is that on The night OF May
1, Shortly after IL o'clock, she and her
, sister Annie. returning from a dance on
Belmont avenue, passed the Luetger.
house. Her own home is opposite the
Tasch saloon and is close 20 the sausage
factory. The girl said she saw Luetger;
and his wife walk around the corner ot
the factory into the alley m the rear OF
the factory. This evidence sustains me
theory OF the state that Luetgerc took
his wife into the factory by way ot the
furnace room in the absence OF the
Waterman, whom ne had cen. 20 the
drug store. While being cross-exanin-
ed the girl became hys:erical and had to
be removed from the witness chair.
after her composure had been restored
the cross examination proceeded and she
said she was taken away from her home
and locked up by the police az wit
ness. She pointed out Police Captain
Schluttler as the officer who told her she
would be paid money II she remained
with the police. This was when she cri-
ed and wanted to go home TO her moth
e.. On the cross examination the girl
said she knew nothing about the Luet-
CERT case except what the officers told
her. Then the court took her in hand
and she said she did not swear that she
did not see Luetgert and his wife.
Subsequently she said i. was her sis
ter 20 years old who saw Mr.. and Mrs.
Lue.ger: that nigh. and told her mother
about II.
The state put in evidence Statement;
in writing purpor,ing 10 have been made
by the girl Another document, an agree.
ment by which the girl bound herself 70
remain With Mrs. Emma Kar,h as ser
want for 81 per week and not return 10
her home, was also put in evidence.
At the conclusion OF the cross exam
ination. Justice Bonnesoi OF Lakeview
testified that he had made TRANSACTIONS
OF the letters and tina. the transla;ions
were correct. The court then adjourned.
10 next Tuesday morning.
Judge Turhill said that Monday being |
d legal holiday he would not hold court.
The letters OF Lue;gert 10 Mrs Feldt |
were not read % the jury, but this viii |
be done Tuesday morning.
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DRY GOODS MARKETS.

New York. Sept. 1.-The week closed with
quieter conditions prevailing in all grades,
though the tone is well sustained in both
cotton and wooden goods. The reaction com
ing after the first rush of early orders Is
responsible for the retrogression In gener-
al interest. The quality of the recorders
being already registered shows that the
general run OF later needs Will be of a lib
eral character. Staple cottons are quiet
but firm. print cloths showing real
strength and both al Fail River and Prov
idence the sales have been quite heavy
at a market well sustained at 2ssc. Prints
are strong and active. G.nghams were
well sustained at advanced prices. WeeI-
en- goods await the recorder demand.
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LIVE STOCK Markets.
CHICAGO


Chicago Sept 4.-Cattle-There was the
usual Saturday demand in cattle. On ac-
count of the small receipts, quota atoms
were largely nominal; yesterdays prices
prevailing in the majority of cases. Re-
ceipts of native cattle have fallen off this
week and the proportion of choice matured
beeves has decreased, there being a great
many thin stockers and half fat cattle, ma
ny OF which are forced on the market by
drought in different sections.
Hogs-BuSiness in hogs was fairly active
but yesterdays top prices could not be OBJ
tanned and light weights were decidedly
lower. Sales were at 50. S0d4.0O for heavy
packing lots, up TO $i.35 for choice butchers
and mixed lots, with choice assorted light
at S4.40d4.i5. The bulk of the hogs sold
for $.15G430
Sheep-The market for sheep and lambs
wa steady, a good share of the receipts be-
ing consigned TO city slaughterers. Sheep
sold at on extreme range of s2.G6i.25 for
cullS TO prime natives, western rangers com
prisng the bulk of the offerings and SELL
ing at S3.35G3S5; lambs sold at si.5065. Is
for westerns and al S5.20d5.90 for good to
extra natives. culls bringing s3.65q4.O0.
Larger receipts of sheep and lambs are
expected next week.
Receipts-Cattle COO; hogs 1900; sheep.
1900
KANSAS CITY.
Kansas City, Sept. 4.-Cattle-Receipts.
100 Market steady. unchanged; only retail
trade.
Hogs+Receipts, 4.5oo Market about
steady; bulk OF sales $410di,17la; heavies
S4.05a4. 20; packers $OOd4.15; mixed s4.109
42O; lights s4O0a4.20; workers Si.1712d42O;
pigs, s3.5G6I410.
Sheep-Receipts 400. Market firm; lambs
s2.75Q3.O0; muttons s2.2593.65.
ST. LOUIS.
st. Louis, Sept. 4-Cattle-Receipts 200.
Market steady. but trading very small ow-
ing to extremely light supply. Quotations
entirely unchanged.
Hogs-Receipts, $500. Market cents
lower. Light, s4.5Q4.35; mixed, S4.00d4.20;
heavy, S4O0G4.35.
Sheep-Receipts 800. Market steady and
only retail trade.