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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-06-10

Chas. Pease of Augusta, ILL.,, half
brother OF Roy Workings is in the
city. He is house painter by trade,
and. is also a elaronet player. His
purpose is to stay here all summer if
he can get sufficient work at his trade
to keep him busy. Any assistance Of
fered him in his line will also be an
assistance to the band here of which
he is member.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-06-10

1t is now Postmaster John Kolb.
The Office and paraphanalia was
turned over to his successor by retir-
ing Postmaster Koenigs on Tuesday
last. The Office will remain in its
present quarters and Mat Koenigs.
VINO was the Efficient deputy under his
father, will continue for the present in
that position. Mr.. Koenig's admins
tration was a good one and highly
satisfactory, both TO Uncle Sam and
the patrons of the office. He retires
with the best wishes of all. -Melrose
Beacon.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-06-10

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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-20
WANTS PHI.

Col. Joseph Pie Caldwell reproduces
an extract from u personal defense
and comments on it in a late edition of
his spring poems. He is sorry that
this writer cannot "be induced to I'M
fold himself further"
We have tried to believe otherwise
up to this time, but the circumstantial
evidence is now too strong. We are
convinced that Col. Joseph Pie Celd
we'll has camped on our trail and is try.
ing to hold US up for a slice of that pie.
Jealousy has gotten the better of him
and he is willing to adopt ~bulldoEing
tactics, if necessary, to get enough pie
to quench his Unsuitable appetite. His
scheme will fall fat. Col. Joseph Pie
will have to wait. If he can't get rid
of his pie thirst, he will have to take
his place at the pie counter along with
his distinguished fellow townsman,
and double, Col. Walter Repudistem
Henry and flag down the pie train
every time she goes by. It does seem
that the single standard good times
ought to give Col. Joseph Pie all the
fun he wants, but as that has failed he
should pursue the tactics outlined above
and trust to luck and Mckinley.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-20
THE EDITOR.

The following reply was made to the
toast of The Editor" at the meeting OF
the New York State Democratic editors
recently held in New York City:
Fellow toilers in the journalistic
vineyard: The life of the editor is not
one OF unalIoyed happiness. 1t has its
lights and shadows, it's ups and downs,
with downs in a hopeless majority.
The present occasion is an oasis on the
journalistic Sahara.
occasionally you hear of a rich
country, editor. An editor forty year
ego who started out without a cent ia
worth now 500, 600. His fortune is all
owing to his own energy, industry and
frugality, and the fact that a rich IN
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-20
r. UP.

We know as well as any subscriber
can tell us that our agricultural de
pRrtment needs working up. We have
an agricultural editor at a salary of Sc
per week, and he has full swing to put
in what he pleases, but the trouble is
to find the agriculture. There is a
mountain to the east of us, another to
the west, and the land to the north and
south grows nothing but j~ackrabbits
and r~attlesnakes. Here and there, at
the proper season, our ambitious editor
a discover a bunch of grass or a new
species of wild onion, but as for straight
agriculture there is so little to report
on that he has to run in alligator
stories and original poetry to pad out.
II some Eastern man will come here
and SOW a few turnips or establish a
cucumber bed, we a promise him at
least half q column write up every
week. Any subscriber who may find
anything in the wayof agriculture grow
ing down in the bottoms of the canons
or on top of the mountains, will put US
under everlasting obligations by for
warding a full account to this Office.
Having established a department. and
imported a tenderfoot from New Eng
land to conduct it, we naturally want
to make a success out of it. Therefore
send in your items and help us out.
Even if it is only a brief account of q
man being found hanging to a limb of
tree, we will work it over somehow
into Agriculture. -Arizona Kicker.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-20
ma FRRE SILVER COUNTRY.
90 Cent Dollar Worth Practically
100 Cents at Home.


70. +. Lummis. in Harpers' Magazine
It must be remembered that a Mexi-
can dollar In Mexico buys as much (of
everything but imported goods, now
that it is worth 81 cents gold, as it did
when it was worth practically 100.
This fact somewhat explains the cpl
demic of new industries. The gold
country manufacturer removing to
Mexico nearly doubles his capital by
the mere act of crossing the border.
For his every five dollar gold piece ne
gets 50 80. He more than trebles 1t
again on his pay-roll-a matter not
more significant to him than it should
be to such workingmen as would adopt
the Mexican finances without the
Mexican remedies. = To those
who produce, the Mexican dollar is "a
sweet boom" It ia the unit OF the
country. 1t is worth outside only half
what it used to be-but they do not
send it 80 much outside. At home it is
as good as ever, and they get two OF it
where they onceg got one, since nominal
prices are not much changed.
A pretty penny in United States gold
comes down annually to square the
account; for while Mexico sells US IS
per cent. of her exports, she gets only
Is per cent. of her imports from US,
p~referring to do most Of her buying
from nations that think it worth while
to cultivate her trade. She is not only
able to keep reducing her foreign gold
debt (about $3.50, 900, OOO) at two dollars
for one, but has spare change to build
two million dollar prisons and eighteen
million dollar canals and twenty mil
lion dollar harbore. The enormous
port improvements at Tampico ($7,-
600, OOO, C-oatzacoalcos 81, 600, O0O), and
Vera Cruz $50, OOO, OOU the railroad de-
velopment, in substituting which the
Diaz administration has already ex.
pended $11O, 5000, 900 these and their
like activities indicate the financial
condition Of the government.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-20
U THR

Everybody should study up the
nature and principles of the ALI
ance. Not only does it benefit it's mem
bers in a financial way, but by bring
ing them together it is to them as it
were a school whereby much good is
learned. The discussions which natur-
ally arises on such occasions are of
more benefit than an expensive lecture.
This may be accounted for from the
fact that generally the most ordinary
language is used and all the hearers
can more fully comprehend what is
spoken than if so learnedly expressed.
Again farmers feel more ''at home"
when surrounded by their brothers
and sisters and questions are asked and
answered that would hardly be given
to the professor or answered inteIli-
gently by him.-Pa. Alliance Advo-
cate.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-20
Sec'y. Treas. N. @. F. s. A.
Hillsboro, N. O., April 13 1897.


Here is n written by a lady whose
husband died suddenly: MIR. Editor:
I desire to thank the friends and neigh
bors most heartily in this manner for
their united aid and co operation dur
ing the illness and death of my late
husband, who escaped from me by the
hand of death on last Friday while
eating breakfast. To my friends and
all who contributed 80 willingly TO-
wards making the last moments and
the funeral Of my husband a success, I
desire to remember most kindly,
hoping these lines will find them en-
joying the same blessings. 1 have also
a good mich COW and roam gelding
horse, 8years old, which I will sell
cheap. God moves in a mysterious
way, his wonders to perform. He
plants his footsteps on the sea and
rides upon the Storm also a black and
white shoat very low"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-20

Gle died and left him COS, 800 80 o.
course there is q mint Of money in
journalism. There must be, for so lit
tie has been gotten out OF it. In Bur
NAH editors receive elephants in pay,
ment for subscriptions. In this coun,
try the paper itself is about all the ele.
plant the editor cares to keep IN stock.
I read the other day that q man had
gone twenty eight days without eating.
The name of the paper he was editor OF
was not stated.
I'VE are all democratic editors here
tonight, but looking at it one way 1t
does not make much difference wheth
er congress is democratic or republi'
can. In either event the editor gets
the usual quantity of public document
with which to light the fire in the
sanctum stove.
Eyes, editors have much to bother
them, but Nh. Talmage is right when
he says al editors are not miserable,
Some of them are dead. Occasionally
there is a good deal of competition in
our business. / have noticed several
instances where a newspaper in a small
town had a hard time making a living,
another is started to help it starve to
death.
cit has been charged that there are
a great many old jokes in the newspa,
pers, but that can't be helped. News
paper men are good and die young, and
the newcomers in the business done
know what has already been pub
lished."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-20
FAMOUS FARMER BOYS.

There are some people foolish enough
to laugh at the homely virtues of a
farm life. They are, fortunately, few,
and they are, fortunately, growing
fewer. But is we'll sometimes to look
at the list of great men who came up
from the tarm-not all of them, for
that would fill a thousand volumes,
but some of the most notable ones that
fash into a MUD in q moment.
Nearly three fourths of the men who
have been chosen by the people for the
great offices Of the nation are men
who early familiar with wooded
hills and cultivated fields, says the
Kansas City Times. For example,
Washington, Lincoln, Grant, Garfield,
Hamlin, Greeley, Tilden, Hayes, Blaine,
Harrison, and many others almost
equally conspicuous in current events
of living memory. Among journalists,
Henry W~atterson, spent his early life
in rural Kentucky; and Murat Halstead
was born and lived on a farm in Ohio.
W. B. Vanderbilt was born in a small
New Jersey town, and early engaged
in the business of shipping chandlery.
Russell Sage was born in a New York
village. Jay Gould spent his early
years on his fathers farm in New York
State. Whittier and Howells spent
their youth in villages, the former di.
viding his time between farm employ
ment and his studies. Follow the list
out yourself, and see how long it will
become.-Young Mems Era.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-20

Columbus News: COunterfeiting
seem to be very prevalent these days.
We have heard of counterfeiting coon
skins when they were legal tender by
sewing the tail of a coon to a 'possum
hide, but the most ingenious piece Of
this kind of work we have yet heard of
was called to our attention a few days
ago. Some enterprising p~oultrymRn,
before marketing his chickens here,
trimmed the tails of his feminine look
ing ROSTERS and passed them of as
hens because they fetch about 2 cents
more than ROSTERS.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-20
DID YOU EVRRl

Just think of it'll J. Pierpont Morgan
investing his sound money" in that
barbarous free silver country, Mexico.
We were assured by the gold bugs if
this country adopted free silver that J..
Pierpont Morgan and other men like
him would place their gold in their
stockings and fly away with it. Now
we find Mr.. Morgan establishing a beef
canning plant in free silver Mexico, to
compete with single standard Illinois
and Missouri. Truly the ways of the
gold bugs are devious and past finding
out-Richmond State.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-20
TO sHER1FFs OF NORTH CARO-.
LIMA.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Treasury Department.
Raleigh. n. O.. April 4. 1897

Raleigh, n. O., April 4, 1897.
DEAR eIR:-Nearly every profession.
trade and craft, has an association and
holds conventions for the consideration
OF matters pertaining to their own in
terest and the public welfare. Such
gatherings have proven very beneficial
and at the same time been occasions of
delightful recreation. Why, then.
should not sheriff5 have an insti-
tute, or hold a convention3 Would not
an EXCHANGE of experiences and meth.
DDS and a discussion of the revenue
and machinery acts tend towards a
better understanding and an easier
execution OF the duties imposed by said
acts7 The State Treasurer, State Au-
ditor, the Attorney General and per-
perhaps the Governor, and others in
~terested in the proper and prompt exc
cution of the laws, could meet the
sherifs and much useful information
imported and received by the whole
body. The sherlf5 could also take their
families and spend a most pleasant and
profitable week at some attractive
point. Summer railroad excursion
rates are low, and reduced rates at
hotels and boarding houses can M
doubt be secured. Tnen will you not
kindly consider, and as coon as possible
the following questions:
1. Do YOU favor HOLDING a Shor;Hs,
Convention or Instituted
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-20
PREPOSTERoUS CLAIMS.

Do the soothsayers, megicians and
necromancers of the Committee on
Ways and Means sincerely believe that
the duties OF imports are paid by the
foreign producers, as they proclaimed
in the House of Representatives last
weekG Or do they regard this merely
as "a useful superstition" to be con-
stantly inculcated in the minds of the
vulgar lest the masses should grow
weary at last of the grievous protec,
tive tariff burden and fling it eff for
ever9
The belief that American consumers
do not pay the duties on imports. but
that by some h~ocuspocus they are
shouldered upon the foreigners who
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-20
HONEST N MEN.

The failure of the Globe Savings
Bank at Chicago has furnished a batch
of fresh evidence of the criminal man,
ner in which many Of those fellows
who clamor for honest money ~ land
sound money" handle the funds in.
trusted to their care by individuals,
firms and companies. They furnish
convincing proof of their Enfitness to
manage their own business, and hence
their inability to run the affairs of the
government. Perhaps they have the
capacity, but are lacking in the moral
qualities, and are frequently totally
dishonest and untruthful.
In the case of the Globe Savings
Bank it seems that President Spalding
was the sole manager, the other off
GERS and directors being mere dunn
mics, and yet the institution was
supposed to be n of the strongest
banks in the city. Besides deposits of
all kinds 1923, 600 belonging to the Uni
versity OF Illinois and $500, 900 worth
of school bonds were tied up in the
wreck. 1t is said that things were got
ten in such a shape before the collapse
that even the bonds of the officials may
not be worth anything to the losers.
Another charge is that deposits were
received some time after the officers
knew that the bank was insOlyent.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-20
SUGGESTIONS TO COUNTY PREST.
DENTS.

DEAR BRETHREN :-Fearing the reso
lutions of the Farmville Sub Alliance
of Pitt county, pe%titioning County ALI
ances to pass resolutions asking Presi-
dent John Graham to call q special
meeting of the State Alliance on or
about May Sd, 1897, for the purpose of
devising means for starting the shoe
factory, were not published in time
to reach all the counties, l am induced
to write this public letter suggesting to
County Presidents in which no discus
sion of this matter was taken, the i'm.
portance of calling a special meeting of
their County Alliances as early as pos
sible to take up this matter and act on
it. 1t is very important to the success
of the shoe factory and the Alliance
that this factory begin at an early day,
at least by the middle of the year, in
order that our shoes may be put on the
fall and winter market and our breth-
rem may know what to expect. Delays
r dangerous. The delay Of starting
this enterprise for 90 long a time, has
already damaged our organizations
many thousands of dollars and mem
bers. Can we afford to wait longerG
Let US be up and doing. Remember
the last public ~utterance Of Col. L. L.
Polk, beloved leader, on the 17Gh
of May, 1892, and let US dare to follow
hismandate: Brethren, do your duty"
Fraternally,
w. 8. BARNES,
Sec'y-Treas. N. @. F. s. A.
Hilsboro, N. O., April 13 1897.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-20
z OF TaE &
Hard Hits. Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs From Reform Papers.

E4@fQ E4CSs bOlQ Sayings anu E@GE40SiC
Paragraphs From Reform Papers.
We must distinguish between those
who got caught in the ''union of silver
forces" trap and those who fused with
old Grover Democracy. - Missouri
World.
The most vital feature of the money
question is a rational method of distri.
button and government banks is the
only solution of that problem.-Ohi.
cago Express.
Some Of the small fry who made so
much noise in the last campaign are
over Whelmed with establishment to
learn the president never heard OF
them.-Advance Guard.
The railroads get about twice as
much for hauling corn from Kansas to
the seaboard as the farmer receives for
his grain. Yet people think freight
rates are not too high.-K. O. Star.
To effect genuine and permanent re-
form more than mere patchwork in
legislation will be necessary. The
causes that produce the evils COM
planned Of must be CONGRATULATIONS
Monitor.
The Toledo Bee advises the people Of
that place to put detectives upon the
trail of the aldermen and follow them
wherever they go, night and day"
But who is to follow the detectivesG-
Kings Mountain Reformer.
Very few editors have suffered by
the breaking of the banks throughout
the country. Most of them have their
money slowed away in baby stockings
about one stocking to every twenty
editors. Chattanooga News.
Some people are born to ill luck. An
old lady who has pasted nearly i've
thousand medical recipes in a book
during the past forty years has Y
been i'll a day in her life, and she is
growing discouraged.-Grange Adyo-
cate.
England wants the gold standard be-
cause it enables her to buy our cotton
and wheat cheap. We pay England
many million dollars every year in in.
terest. The lower wheat goes the
more bread she gets for the money.
SeeG-Advance Courier.
The people should have q vote on
legislation affecting their interests,
when such action is desired. The mi
tiative and referendum would permit
this action, thus placing the W to
approve or veto in the hands of all the
voters. Missouri World.
The republican policy is for a high
tariff to maintain prices. And a fewer
number of redemption dollars to pull
down prices. Thirty years trial with
constantly. falling prices has shown
the absurdity and duplicity of this re-
publican paradox.-PeopIe's Advo-
cate.
Breathes there a man with soul SO
dead, who neve to himself hath said.
"I1lspay before I go to bed, the debt /
owe the printer9" There are some. we
know full well, who never such a tale
can tell, but they, We fear, will go to
we'll, the place where there's no winter.
Springfield Leader.
Down in Chicago, a Mckinley town,
a messenger was beaten and robbed in
daylight. Perhaps it was by some n
who became tired of waiting for that
promised prosperity. Ee remembered
that Mckinley promised it and be was
bound to have the revelation come
rue.-Councl Grove Courier.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-20

produce them, is about az consonant
with reason as is the superstitlous
dread of thirteen sitting at q table, OF
beginning a voyage on Friday, OF spill
ing the salt or of seeing the new moon
over the left shoulder. It is as silly az
the belief that an old crone can evolve
the destiny of the future from a greasy
pack of cards or from the reslduary
grounds in a coffee cup. But as the
great body of Protectionist doctors,
prophets, soothsayers and maglclans
are too intelligent to believe a thing so
oalpably absurd as the theory that the
consumers do not pay the taxes levied
upon imports, there is only one alterna-
tive-these teachers and b~enef1ciaries
of Protection are arrant impoeters
and humbugs, and they are endeavor-
ing to deceive the people to their own
undoing. If they entertain the belief
that the foreigners pay the duties on
imports, why do they not take coffee
and tea and hides off the free list and
make the duties on all imports high
enough not only to support the govern
ment, but to give every man In the
country a pension out OF the residue of
revenues levied upon the foreign ex-
Observation-Disclosures Record.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.
N. r. p. A.

Inc price or wheat ana Obn0r L6rul
products is up anddoWn-mostly down.
Brother Hoover has an excellent let
ter in this issue. Don't fail to read it.
The judgeship of the eastern district
OF the State is bringing about much
talk, but not much Idge.
William jennings Bryan passed
through this State again n night last
week. out still times get no better.
Congress is talking tariff some and
indulging in various other amusements.
Another case of fddling while Rome
burns.
The row between Greece and Turkey
is all Greek to US, BUT it begins to look
like sure enough war.
There is but little change in the Miss
issippi river food. It is ell Cvsr q vast
amour of fine farming land and there
is no chance TO raise a crop this season.
One of the great evils attending the
the manufacturers of getting the to
baccO at considerably below it's value.
The Bennett & Columbia Mill Cor
poratioD, New Bedford, Mass, is short
10 the tune of 50, 800, 600 by the dishon-
esty of some of its officers. A receiver
has been asked for.
The Indiana legislature passed a
three cent street a fare during the
late session. 1t seems that there is a
general disposition to stop the manu-
facture of millionaires. 1t is well.
The Charlotte newspapers ought to
pay for all the damage done in the
Harrisburg collision on the 18th, for it
enabled them to issue extras and do
several thousand dollars worth Of
Dragging.
It is rumored that the sale of one
fourth interest In the Atlanta Constitu
ton by Clark Howell, ST., has enabled
the goldbugs to get control of that
paper. II 80, it Will be crushed as soon
as it is found out. No goIdbug paper
can enjoy much prosperity in the
South.
The goldbugs say that people who
are not successful in their private bust.
ness enterprises, are not f6 to manage
the affairs Of government. But no
longer ago than 1898 President McKin.
ley failed in business, owing large
amounts.
The last legislature properly reduced
the rates of fire insurance. Bat the
bill to reduce the more outrageous rates
Of freight and passenger charges was
defeated by one vote in each House, the
excuse given being that the Railroad
Commission would make reduction.
But no reduction so far has been made,
1t is well, indeed, to be an honorable
and honored horny handed son of
toll" yet there is knowledge which
does not come 90 us by nature, but by
careful study. A successful man must
discover upon what foods his own plants
feed, and what degree of supply he has
for them. He must waken up TO the
Facts which surround him.