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artist.

It is said that an engineer on a loco
motive breads a moonlight night more
than any other because Of the be-
wildering shadows. As he guides the
engine round a curve what seems to be
a huge obstruction upon the track, al
most paraly zing his energies, proves to
be only a shadow cast by some rock,
Only by his Intense weariness after he
has passed the dreaded spot does he
realize how great the strain has been.
So through life many are constantly
dreading future evils, which, when the
time comes for meeting, prove to be
only shadows How much nervous
force is wasted day by day in antici-
pRting evil which will never have any
existence save in the imagination.
Too much planning to avoid possible
future evil is al bad as too little. The
old maxim, not to cross a bridge until
you come to it, contains a deal of good
advice. They who are constantly
nerving themselves to fight with shad
ows find they have very little strength
to meet real trouble. Elk.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17
ARRESTED FOR COUNTERPART.
ING.
Peculiar Crimes Which Attack The Pub,
lie Health And P~oCketbook.

Peculiar Crimes Which Attack The Pub.
lie Health And Pocketbook.
Isaac Platt and Otto Doerlam are at
present held to bail at Chicago, ILL.,, in
the unusually high sum of $40, 500,
after staying for some time in jail in
default of sureties, on a charge Of
counterfeiting DR.. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People, The sum in which the
District Attorney demanded bail shows
the Importance which the tribunals at
tach to the offence of counterfeiting
the medicine of the people. The con
demnation at Syracuse, NJ. Y, re
Gently, of the counterfeiter DE-. Mar
quisee. to a term in States Prison, is
another instance Of the same view.
The courts in these cases held that a
medicine having the confidence of the
people to an extent which can tempt
to dishonest imitation has attained an
Importance which renders the substitu-
ton for it of unreliable and unauthor.
ICED compounds an offence of q very
serious nature, against which the PEG
pie have q right to be protected. The
proceedings in court suggested that the
people would not have gotten into the
way of relying upon a definite medi-
Gina for the cure of their ailments
without good cause. Therefore, coun-
tereeiting such q remedy ia not an
offence against the manufacturers Of
the genuine goods alone, but against
the public. 1t is an IF nee against the
manufacturers because it rObs them of
the fruit Of their enterprise in making
known the merit of their product and
their expenditures in advertising them,
for which large sums r paid to the
newspapers daily. But it is an offence
also against the people-a public Of
fence, for unless the confidence of the
public in q genuine product has been
Justly earned, it would be folly adver-
Using it. Hence the substitution Of
counterfeits ia an offence against the
Commonwealth, and las the courts
have held), ~righteously punishable by
imprisonment and heavy fine.
1t was shown that il is the impor-
lance of q medicine that creates temp
tation to this crime; no one counter.
teits a poor medicine. It ia q crafty
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17
OUR COUNTRY.
Then And Now.
By REV. JOHN r. FOARD.

Ia SSNN YAM
The best blood that ever flowed
through the veins Of American citizens
was that brought across the Atlantic
hundreds Of years ago and that which
flows through the veins of their pos
terity. Brave men and noble women
who were unwilling to continue to
wear longer the yoke Of political tyrany
and endure the fortunes Of religious
persecution, which were then inflicted
on the yeomanry of ali monarchial
government of the Old World. And
who resisted taxation without repre-
sentation and q religion that deprived
the individual of freedom Of thought,
speech and action. The men who
threw the tea overheard in Boston har-
Dor rather than drink it of the cost of
personal liberty, and paid their church
assessment in tobacco, without the ben
eft of the rise in prices, and won, by
the solitary efforts of the youthful, yet
daring Patrick Henry against a united
clergy and their able attorney-men
who determined to be free-Ieft their
homes, families and the few comforts
they were enjoying, took their lives i'm
their hands, marched for seven long
perllous years, often barefooted Over
frozen ground, on half rations, poorly
paid, clad and equipped to fight an enc.
my vastly superior in numbers, equip
ment, drill and supplies, paid literally
with British gold, in order to establish
a government Of the people, for the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17

now owned by aliens should bo
voting population, and that Seno.dr1'
from each shall be elected b T
people of the district. Ns
DISTRICT LEGISLATION.
Relying upon the good, cor,r..
sense Of the American people, and ~
lieving that a majority of them, Vb W.
uninfuenced by party prejudice wy" u;0
vote right on all questions s1bmitt'sSS y
them On their merit; and. furtRer v y
efectually annihilate the pernicior@s
lobby in legislation, we demand diroas
legislation by means of the initiatiSsS
and referendum. ''s
r. A. SoUTHwoRTE
/. Sec'y-Treas. N. F. A. and n
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lOFFICIALl
(OTFICIAL)
NATIONAL ALLIANCE DEMANDS.
Adopted at Washington, D. c., February
8, 1906.

Adopted at Washington, D. c., February
6, 1896.
WHEREAS, The Declaration of Indes
pendence, as a basis for a Republican
form of Government that might be
progressive and perpetual, states:
tHThat all men are created equal;
that they r endowed with certain ~.
alienable rights; that among these are
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness; that to secure these rights, gov
ernments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the
governed"
We hold, therefore, that to restore
and preserve these rights under q
Republican form of government, pri-
vate monopolies of public necessities
for speculative purposes, whether of
the means of production, distribution
or exchange, should be prohibited, and
whenever any such public necessity or
utility becomes a monopoly in private
hands, the people of the municipality,
state or union, as the case may be,
shall appropriate the same by right Of
eminent domain, paying a just value
therefor, and operate them for, and in
the interest OF, the whole people.
FINANCE.
We demand a national currency,
safe, sound and flexible; issued by the
general government only; a full legal
tender for all debts and receivable for
all dues, and an equitable and efficient
means of distribution of this currency,
directly to the people, at the minimum
of expense and without the interven-
ton Of banking corporations and in
sufficient volume to transact the bust.
ness Of the country on q cash basis.
6G) We demand the free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver and gold at the
legal ratio Of Is to 1.
O We demand a graduated income
tax.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17

people and by the people. All the
while their unselfsh and heroic wives
and daughters willingly shared in a
wonderful degree the tolls, dangers,
prosecutions and privations OF their
husbands, fathers and brothsrs. And
by those steady, persistent and deter
mined efforts, threw eff those yokes OF
religion and political prosecutions, Won
for themselves and their posterity i'm
mortal glory, while those of their coun-
trymen who took sides with the mother
country received the scorn, derision
and contempt Of all patriots Of both
countries, and their posterity suffered
the same for a hundred years. And
Benedict Arnold, one of Washington's
right hand officers, who attempted to
sell West Point for SO, 900 in gold, had
to take shelter under the flag of the
enemy, leave his country forever, and
live and die a disgraced man; and
according to his own testimony in after
years, was the only citizs IN in Europe
or America who had not a single friend
ia either country. Though those grand
old sires and mRtrons grOught 40 nobly
and achieved such grand results-yet,
their old and heartless enemies we're
not destroyed. They changed their
tactics. What they failed to do for our
foretathers with the sword and gold
combined, they have accomplished
with sophistry, treachery and avarice,
backed by the yellow metal in the hands
of corrupt men-Snd our betrayers now
are honored for their financial shrewd.
ness and political ability.
To buy an official, a candidate, an
editor, an employee or all, is now in
order, and to black mail others is legiti-
mate warfare. And the enslavement
thus brought upon a free people and
prosperity of those grand old Revolu-
tionary sires is now far greater than
that of the Northern country then,
g~reaterthan the African slavery, which
was also forced upon the Colonies by
England to obtain revenue, trade and
shipping to satiate the greedy man of
Eoglish avaricel Yes, the present sys-
tenn Of monopolistic and financial
slavery Of the United States of America
is greater than that attempted by taxa
ton and that of African slavery com.
bined.
What is the remedy7 We cannot
afford to resort to arms, as did our
forefathers. The people must take
matters of public interest in their own
hands. Demand the election of all
officers, from the highest to the lowest
by a fair election by the people and the
submission of all laws to them for
ratification, and the giving or taking Of
brides by officials as felonious actions
and punishable as such. Protect the
weak and helpless against the oppres
sion of the strong and influential, es-
pecially combinations, and more espe-
ciRlly when under foreign powers.
Make official positions more difficult to
obtain and hold the officials to strict
and unsullied probity.
Statesville, N. O.,
Aug. 6, 1897.
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RALEIGH. N. Q.

(c) That our national legislation shall
be 80 framed in the future as not TO
build up one industry at the expense
of another.
(h We believe that the money of the
country should be kept as much as
possible in the hands Of the people,
and hence we demand that all National
and State revenues shall be limited to
the necessary expenses OF the govern
ment economically and honestly ad-
ministered.
Ce9 We demand that postal savings
banks be established by the govern
ment for the safe deposit Of savings
of the people, and to facilitate ex-
change.
f) We are ~unalterably opposed to
the issue, by the United States, Of in
terest- bearing bonds, and demand the
payment Of all coin obligations of the
United States, as provided by existing
laws, in either gold or silver coin, at
the option of the government and not
at the option Of the creditor.
TRANSPORTATION.
(G) The government shall purchase
or construct and operate a sufficient
mileage of railroads to efectually con
troll all rates of transportation on a
just and equitable basis.
(O The telegraph and telephone,
like the ~pOstofice system, being q ne
cessity for the transmission of intelli
gence, should be owned and operated
by the government in the interest Of
the people.
land.
We demand that no land shall be
held by corporations for speculative
purposes or by railroads in excess of
their needs as carriers, and all lands
claimed by the government and held
for actual settlers only.
EXECTTON OF UNITED STATES SENATORS.
We demand the election of United
States Senators by a direct vote of the
people. That each State shall be di
vided into two districts of nearly equal
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-28
EXCURSION RATES
Via Burlington Route

If you are going from home during
the summer. cut this out for future
reference. These excursions from Min
neapol1s and st. Paul run via BurIing-
ton Route-which has the finest train
on earth.
Annual meeting National Educa-
tlonal Association, Milwaukee.
Wis, July 8, 4 and 5, round-trip
Tdte 49,: ........ ........... $11 20
Christian Endeavor Annual Con-
vention, San Francisco, Cal,
June 20 to July 8, one-way trip .S26. rs
National Convention Baptist
Young People of America, Chat
tanooga, Tenn, July u, IS and
IA, Round-trip rate. $25. SIS
international Convention Ep-
worth League, Toronto, Ont,
July IL and 13, Round-trip rate .S23. 90
National Young Peoples Chris
tan Union, Detroit, Mich, July
3, 4, and 6, Round-trip rate :. .$1S. rs
Republican League of United
States, Detroit, Mich, July 10,
IL and II, Round-trip rate. SIS. rs
The dates given are those on which
tickets will be on sale from Minneap-
oils and st. Paul to these points and
return. For information as to return
limits. tickets and sleeping car accom-
modations, call at 306 Nicollet avenue,
Minneapolis; 400 Robert street (HoteI
Ryan), st. Paul, or address George P.
Lyman, General Passenger Agent, ST.
Paul, MINI.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-28
Water FeteS the Latest Fad.
New York Promises to Gain for Herself the Title of The
American Venice"
special Correspondence Of the Globe.

Special Correspondence OF the Globe.
NEW YORK, June 24.-Society and
pleasure have Joined hands with the
water gods, and the combination prom
Uses TO result in the most unique series
of entertainments which has charac-
terized any summer season. They will
be called water fetes, and even now
hosts of busy men and women are pre-
pairing to execute the plans already
made which it is believed will result
In delightful success.
What with the late spring and all, the
fashionables and others who devote
thetf brains - finding new ways for
people to enjoy themselves have had
plenty of time to think matters over
and the water fetes, planned on a scale
of gorgeousness that will surely make
people open their eyes, have resulted
or will result when time and the wealth
er permit. The beauty of this idea
is that every section Of the country
which possesses a navigable stream can
benefit by it, It has often been said
that too much thought was given to
the seashore crowd and too little to the
inland. but now that complaint must
fall fiat
1t really looks as if we were going
back to the days Of the Venetian carni-
val We even have the gondolas, for
the fashion set by the worlds fair has
been quietly followed by a number Of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-28

shore water fetes If anything they can
do will bring 1t about. Several Of the
leading hotels along the Jersey coast
have stated In their advertisements
that zone of the attractions Of this
house will be series Of magnificent
water fetes."
There is no limit to the styles of
water craft which can be used.
everything from a steamboat to a
wherry is In fashion. One very charm
ing plan Is for a series of naptha
launches IN the center of which is to
be e floating platform. The launches
will be arranged around this platform
so that it will be possible to step from
the launches directly thereon. The
platform is to be 60 by 120 feet In size,
and 1t is declared by those who have
planned the enterprise that twelve
naptha launches will move it at any
desired rate Of speed within reasonable
limits, and will also be possessed of
sufficient power to resist any unpleas-
ant action Of the current or the tides
On this platform the members Of the
party may dance, take luncheon or
promenade. The flooring will be four
feet above the surface Of the water
and a rail which will support heavy
steel netting will act as guard
against anyone falling overheard
This netting will consist OF a series OF
doors which can be opened and admit
the passage Of persons from the boats
to the platform. The platform will
rest on a bargelike foundation and will
be In no danger of cOllapsing or sink
ing.
Where the water fete idea originated
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persons. and the result is that we can
produce a very respectable Venetian
imitation. There will be all the gor-
geousness of costume, enhanced by the
attractions Of countless pretty girls
fully as beautiful as any Of which Ven
ice could ever boast. In point Of cos
tune the Roman and Grecian styles
will be preferred, as a rule, but there
will be the usual sprinkling OF the same
sort of gowns and furbelows that have
dawned on the world in succeeding CEN
turtles.
The first of these fads announced will
take place on the Hudson river, and
the vehicle Of marine sort which will
carry the gay party Of society folk is
one of the Pennsylvania ferry boats
which ordinarily performs the prosaic
task Of conveying passengers to and
fro between New York and Jersey City.
This ferry boat is known as a double
decker; that is, it has a hurricane deck
which is a very pleasant place to be
when the boat is out in the river and
the weather is warm.
This fete will take place the first
week in July, and 250 invitations have
been issued. The reason for issuing
them so far in advance is that it is TO
be a costume affair, and the host and
hostess of the occasion have given the
guests every opportunity to prepare
themselves in elaborate degree. Al
though on ferry boat and necessarily
on the water as well, this will be one
of the most notable costume affairs
New York society has ever witnessed
A number of orders have been given
the costumers by persons who propose
to attend, and in the majority of in
stances the orders have been Of the
carte blanche variety, meaning that
elegance and good taste will be combin-
ed regardless of cost.
If half the talk one hears is true, New
York will have earned for itself the
title Of 1.-The American Venice" by the
time the season is over. Plans are be-
ing talked over for water fetes on the
Hudson, the East river and the Har-
lem. These are all the rivers, except
the little Bronx, to which New Workers
have easy access, and so it looks as if
every one had fallen down and Wor-
SHIPPED this newest Of fads. Each year
the stay-at-home population of New
York has grown greater, until now the
contingent has a decided social impor-
lance. So the water fetes in this city
the coming summer will not be second
rate affairs.
Weather permitting, and always by
the advice and consent of Father Nep-
tune, the seashOre resorts will take
part in the new variety of festivities
The hotel managers see in the fad a
possibility Of helping out what has
promised to be a ruinous season.
Therefore there will be a boom in sea-
fg.r.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-28
IN THE IRVINGTON-MILLBU
G. "A. SOden, Novice, Takes the
Race, and Alexander the Time

Young c. A. Soden, of Newark. N. J.,
who won this years Irvington- Mill
burn race, made a great performance
of it, considering all the bad conditions.
The course was heavy with mud and a
stiff wind was blowing, yet he made
the five circuits of five miles each be-
tween Irvington and Millburn in / :21 :04
ahead of a field of fifty-One riders. This
is considered remarkable riding, con-
sidering the fact that Soden was a
novice.
The time prize went to r. M. Alex
ander, Of New York, who was award
ed the place prize last year after Had
field who finished first had been dis
qualified. Alexander's time was 1:17:09,
and his race is much praised. He COW
cred the first five miles in 1913 the
ten miles in 29:4O, the fifteen miles in
1921, the twenty miles in 1:00:40 and
the twenty-five miles in 1:17:09, one of
the most remarkable records ever
made, considering the condition of the
course. Monte Scott holds the time
record of 1:0S:21. made last year, but
the course was in almost perfect con-
dition then.
There were a good many bad falls
in the race, twenty riders being dump
ed at the start. Nearly all of them
continued in the race, however. The
contest was between Soden and two
other riders up to the last five miles,
when Soden pulled ahead a little and
won by thirty yards.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-28

severe reprimand, promising to recon-
mend his dismissal to the trustees.
Shortly afterward she observed him
bending over some pursuit at his desk.
His eyes were lighted with an express
sion that seemed inspiration. Anxious
to know the cause of this almost mirac-
uleus transformation from sloth that
was sluggish to activity that was
life, she passed down the aisle by his
desk on some pretext that would not
disturb him, and found the cause OF
his glowing study to be the examina-
ton of fly, which he had caught and
was examining, having dissected 1t
into parts. The truth dawned upon the
teacher, The boys mind ran to erlto-
mology. He was born naturalist.
1.-THE teacher said nothing, but that
afternoon called up the entire class for
general recitation. The boys appear
aEce WAS as dull as ever. Boys said
the teacher, addressing the entire
school, I want to see how far your
general powers OF observation on triV-
ial subjects 60. For instance, you have
all seen thousands Of HES. NOW, l
want each one Of you to tell me his
impression Of a fly Beyond the fact
that q fly was fly and had two wings,
not one Of the school could say any
thing further. At the first mention Of
the subject the dull boy was all aglow.
He held up his hanQ ana snapped MS
fingers. He realized his superiority.
It was his day. He told Of the fly from
q general and analytical standpoint. It's
interior and exterior construction, its
habits. it's food, its generation and It's
propensities. The rest Of the school
sat astonished. The boy went on and
launched into q, general description Of
bugs and insects he had caught in the
woods.
From that day the teacher encour-
aged his peculiar aptitude and troubled
him no more with the rules Of gram
mar and arithmetic. She went into the
woods with him and helped in his
studies Of nature. She brought the at
tention of the school trustees to his
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-28
Not What She Seemed.

The young woman with an eccentricity
orltted into the range of my vision a few
nights ago, but her eccentricity was such
charming thing that 1 quite forgave her
It, She wore an empire gown, not the awk-
ward travesty the dress reform people in
hlct upon US, but gown that her great
grandmother might have danced in. 1t was
of white China crepe. very, very scant. with
an underdress of palest pink. She carried
a tiny fan of the kind Josephine used in the
Her pale gold hair was piled high on her
head. and a soft silky scarf lay over her
arm She foated into the room and sat on a.
sofa that might have dropped out Of por-
that | listened to overhear her speech. 1t was
about century not the nineteenth, but the
first, her first, and she said she made it on
a drop frame 97 model. She was not a lady
of the empire. She was fraud.-Washing-
ton Post
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-28
COULD TALK ABOUT FLIES.
Dull Pupil Who Proved That He Was
Not Feel.

One of the speakers at a banquet
given here recently, says the Washing
ton Post, dwelt at some length upon a
mans natural aptitude to the vocation
in life he pursued, and attributed as a
cause of SO many failures the fact
that a majority Of mankind were fol-
lowing vocations not in bent with their
natural inclinations. He told an in
teresting story illustrating his mean
ing from one of his schoolboy recol-
lections, as follows:
'At my first school there was a boy
to whom the teacher could not succeed
in imparting the simplest rules of ele-
mentary knowledge. Try as she might
her efforts were failures. Her patience,
after eXhaustless trials, turned to de-
spair. One day. when he seemed dull
er than usual, she sent him from the
recitation bench to his seat with a
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-28
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Proposals Will be received by the Joint City
Hall and Court House Committee until Friday
July 2nd 1897, at o'clock p M, for the
heating and lighting Of the City Hall and
Court House for the term of three years. be-
ginning January 1, 1898. Bids VIII be re-
celved contemplating the use of the plant
also from parties having private plants
bidders bond in the sum of 20 per cent
must accompany each bid The committee re-
serves the right to reject any and all bids
All bids to be sealed and marked IBID for
Heating and Lighting" and addressed to
D. M. SULLIVAN
County Auditor.