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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-10
N. r. P. A.
EDITORIAL T

Bring us q club of new subscribers
when you come to the convention next
week. Send US q club If you don't
come. We send the paper three
months for 25 cents; six month for so
cents; one year for 800. We want g
club from your neighborhood at once.
Tt Southern Baptist Convention is
in session at Norfolk, Va. Seven hun
dred and nineteen delegates are pres
emit.
With Gen. q. s Grants grandson
fighting under Gen. R E. Lees nephew.
it begins to look as if all Southerners
should realiza that the days Of '61-65
are past. And they do.
1t is quite apparent that the gold and
silver elements in the Democratic party
will sooner or later separate. The real
silver men are small in number, how
ever, and they will have to vacate the
premises
If the yellow journals" are respon-
sible for the war with Spain, it follows
that it was quite appropriate that TIE
first battle should be fought at Manila,
and manila paper should be substituted
for white news in some newspaper
Offices.
We acknowledge the receipt of sew
eral excellent communications from
Bryan Tyson, Long Leaf, N. O., Geo.
e. Hunt. Lexington, NC, J. P. Tin
gen, J. R. Luther, Dial, N. O., and
others which in the press of matter
are crowded out this week.
It is limited that a new fashion in
letter writing is oon to be started by
some ultra patriotic people. The decree
is that all patriots who love our star
spangled banner must write on white,
blue lined paper with red ink and en-
yelopes must be Of Manila paper.
The slight illness of Associate Editor
Poe and the absence of business man
ageF Denmark have occasioned some
delay in answering letters, etc in this
Office but subscribers and correspond
ants may rest assured that all business
will be attended to as promptly as
possible.
Saturdays dailies represent that q
representative of Don Carlos in EGG
land says that in Spain it means Don
Carlos or a republic. THE issue of the
war;" he says, $50 far as it concerns
the present occupant Of the throne, is
already lost. In a very short time
either Don Carlos will be seated upon
the throne or q republic will be pro
claimed" 1t will be remembered that
Don Carlos is the gent who claims that
he, instead of Alphonso, is really en-
titled to the Spanish throne.
Bill Arp was once one of our shrewd
est and most entertaining writer's. But
he is getting old and child ish now and
he no longer tells the sprightly tales
that were so much enjoyed twenty
years ago. He is not recon structed
in the present crisis when everything
goes to prove that we are once more a
united people, he still enlarges upon
the wickedness of Northern soldiers
and the cruel acts Of the yankees y
Ia another letter he makes an attack
on the Alliance. It is evident that the
palmy days Of Bill Arp T past.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-10

pines and it has also been hoisted at
one point in Cuba. In q short time all
OF these fertile islands will be gone.
At this moment Spain proper lN In
the throes of a civil revolution. A di-
vided house cannot stand. The rebels
or Insurgents are as thick in Spain Gs
they are in the PHILIPPINES or Cuba.
With a large portion Of her soldi r in
the PHILIPPINES and Cuba tits difficult
TO maintain even a semblance Of order
in Spain. Her national debt is now too
large to enable her t6 purchase sup
plies for afIarge army and navey, and
if she had the supplies she could not
depend upon the patriotism of her PEG
pie. The officers Of her army are
naturally loyal because they r paid,
but the men are starved, sick, discour-
aged, and worse than all else, are
oftentimes in sympathy with the in
surgents. Hence she cannot hope to
hold together much longer. Il will be
we'll for all the earth when the final
crash comes. Doubt SO a republic will
supplant the monarchy, and this will
be welcomed by the people of all Span
ish possessions.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-10
soME FALsRaOODs EXPLODED

Certain Eo-called Populists, but who
are not entitled to the name, as they de
serted their party and went over to the
Democrats two years ago, and tried to
betray the Populist party into the lap
Of the Democratic party, r charging
that the editor of THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER is influenced by the fact that
he holds a position give1 him by viz
tue Of the fact that cooperative forces
carried the State the second time in
1896. II this were true it would be
more ccmmendable for the editor of
this paper to stand by those who re-
posed enough confidence in him to elect
him to a position than for him to desert
those those who elected him, as some
of those ofice holders referred to
above have done.
But as a matter of fact there are no
reasonable grounds for such a charge.
The editor Of this paper stands where
he did two years ago-a year before
we held any Office and when there was
not even a remote probability that we
would get a position from any party
or condition Of parties-in the breach
trying to prevent further, and, as we
believe, more dangerous entangling
alliances. Every reader Of this paper
will remember that this paper fought
the scheme to nominate Bryan or any
n%hnR Wni1H ord ni6nW nr~SSG~A4 a..
Bryan is neither a real Democrat nor
a Populist, as he only advocates one
ts 'entiAl measure-tree coinage. He
does not stand on the Populist plat
form, and the Chicago platform is ex.
plicit upon but one important plank
that of free coinage. The other fuan-
cial and reform planks being mere
buncombe.
But we can go further back to prove
that our course ia entirely consistent.
We have always been shy on fusion of
any kind. But in 1894 when it seemed
apparent that a combination could
whip the Democrats in this State and
give the State an honest election law,
political, social and business freedom,
we joined in and did what we could to
make it a ice We have heartily
approved the good work done and
boldly and uncee singly condemned the
bad
In brief, we are trying now to pre-
vent the destruction of the Peoples
party, and the putting to use of it's ma
terial for building up a party that has
no better record SO far as silver legisla-
ton is concerned than the Republican
party. We have no faith in Demo
cratic professions. We believe manv
members of that party are as honest.
as JEALOUS and as consistent in their
views as Populists, but they are doomed
to disappointment If they believe their
party leaders to keep faith, for
monopotists and goldbugs will manage
to control, at least enough of the party
to prevent any good legislation. We
believe we are correct in this.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-10

Ghs impressi IN seems to have one
abroad that the Peoples party is
divided in North Carolina. We see no
signs of it at all. A few Democrats
VINO have been scouting around in the
Peoples party are trying to reach the
outposts of their own party lines, and
have in this way created q false idea.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-10

We learn from the New Time that
the commissioner sent by the Secretary
of Agriculture to Russia has returned
and brought many valuable seeds of
plants that are suitable for the arid
regions. I'm Central ASIA" it says,
che found an alfalfa that resists
drought and heat, cherries that will
stand a temperature of 40 degrees be-
low zero, a melon, like musk melon,
that will keep all winter, a fodder
plant that will gro y. in sand and many
other valuable plants which the pater-
nalistic department will distribute free
TO farmers in those sections of this
country where their cultivation will
prove useful additions to the food
supply" This is encouraging, and it
seems to us that the entire Congress
ional seed appropriation could be used
better in this way than by sending out
seeds already we'll known here.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-10

If the Democratic party has really
r formed, why is it that gold monop-
Olists still manage to control the party
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-05-10

The Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South in Baltimore
last week commended Mckinley for
his IF 0rts to avert war.
The herald., 1898-04-16

June, 1888, still there. and standing above
the water like q dIorsal fin.
Last week, when Reul Butterfleld re-
turned In his boat from trip down river
after founders, he brought back a rusty
and badly worn pickaxe, which he said was
beyond doubt that one carried away by the
alligator sixty years before, because the
initials ''R. X" were plainly stamped upon
the swelling where the handle went
through. This set the people to talking.
Butterfield, who Is a truthful man, said he
found the pickaxe on the shore near the
base of Hragan's mountain, and around It
were great splay tracks, such as he had
never seen before, and such as no doubt
a gigantic saurian could make. Having
surrendered the pickaxe, which 1t had car
ried so long, the people believed that the
alligator was about to die, and would soon
come back. to its old. haunts IN the muddy
canal. In anticipation of this looked-for
event, the quarrymen md stopecutters who
work upon the two mountains have made
arrangements for a grand. banquet and
torchl!ght parade to be held next June, on
the sixtieth anniversary of the day when
Killman drove his pickaxe into a log which
turned out to be an aligator.-New York
Sun.
The herald., 1898-04-16
SENATOR WHITE

Senator White of California will not
stand for reelection. He says he is too
poor man for the senate, and that he is
going back to the practice of law and try
to make some money to lay up for a fainy
day in his old age. White is greatly
above the senatorial average. He would
be stronger man If he did not speak with
such ease and fiuency. He employs too
much language, and when he is once
started 1t is impossible to choke him off.
He does not know what the punctuation
mark called period is. He is said to be a
cousin OF Bourke Cochran, though he is a
native Of California, while Cochran was
born In Ireland. Both are Catholics.
White is the man who defeated the Ha-
waiian treaty of annexation. He led the
fight against the tariff bill last summer.
but took care to have everything in Cali.
fornia that tariff could protect in every
particular. He presided over the conveu-
tion that nominated Bryan, and like thu
other senators who went to Chicago to
run the show and got run over, he was dis
gusted with the nomination, but concealed
1t better than some Of his fellow senators
r White is bulky man, very heavy
muscled, and probably the equal of Allen
In physical strength. He wears a full
closely-cropped beard, and there is lux
urious growth of iron-gray hair on his
head. AS general thing. there is an ex-
preston ON his face OF mingled amuse-
ment and satire. Not even Vest has
keener sense of the ridiculous. Very fire..
quently Whites jokes meet with no re-
sponse, as he goes from senator to senator
calling attention to the absurd or ridicu-
ious proposition or dilemma of this, tha,
or the other senator. Not so in Vests
case, who can make even Gallinger merry
and drive Hoar to the cloak room to Keep
down an explosion. White gets a great
deal OF amusement out Of Stewart. Fro
quently when Stewart is on his legs White
'chimes In. and IN the most solemn manner
argues Stewards position to It's logical alb
-surdity The old fellow never sees the
object OF the joker, and is ready to swear
The herald., 1898-04-16
NOTES OF THE DAY

A Christian Scientist in New York has
committed suicide because she was in poor
health.
Many cases have been discovered in
which rich New York women hired prox-
les to go to Oklahoma to impersOnate them
in securing divorces.
1t is said that by 1899 every city of any
size in Wisconsin will be connected by
long distance telephone. The old ground
metallic circuits.
A charitable society recently organized
at Basie, Switzerland, announced in out
lining the score of its work: 1--WE escort
home the inebriates who are in conflict
with the perpendicular
Fanne an Lae-pronounced "fawn We in
lay" and meaning the Dawn of the Day"
lis the title of a new weekly printed In
Irish that appeared at Ath Cliath, the
original name of Dublin.
1t is estimated that of the Il, 1903 ,6O4 acres
of timber land In Tennessee, 1000 900 acres
retains its primeval virginity. The timber
in that state embraces about every variety
of American woods that can be men,
toned.
Paris is suffering from plague of rats
living in the sewers and in the cellars of
the Palais Royal, and the Halles Centrales
lie Gaulois suggests that the sewers be
men for rafting contests.
A rope seven miles long and four and
one-half inches in circumference, weighing
nearly siXty-one tons, has just been made
for use in district subway in Glasgow
Scotland 1t is said to be the biggest rope
ever made for haulage purposes.
Instead of importing, India is beginning
to export coal at the rate of about 100, 900
tons monthly. The principal collieries are
in Bengal, 1f0 miles from Calcutta, and
railway extensions now in progress will
do much to develop the industry.
The largest nugget ever discovered in
Western Australia is reported to have
been found near Lake Way, a sheet OF
water east of the Montagu range and
south of the Kimberly range. 1t has been
named 1.-THE Monarch" and weighs 463
ounces.
Traffic through the Suez canal fell off
greatly in 1897, the amount being the small
est in fifteen years; 1886 steamers of 1885,
9S1 tons register passed through, as COM
pared with 340S steamers of S,562, 1887 tons
in 1896 and about the same number in 1895,
An application for work as a designer
came to well known New York architect
recently, in which the applicant said his
experience lay chiefly in the direction of
ecclesiastical architecture, but that he
had done some ''profane" work also
The herald., 1898-04-16
ECCENTRIC GAME OF BILLIARDS
Maurice Daily Beaten in a Three
Handed Bout, One Shot Up

Wnat was PROBABLY the oldest game of
billiards ever seen In this city was played
at Daly's rooms on Tuesday night. DR..
A. A. Mial, the Knickerbocker A. C. ex-
pert, came in with ]. Byron Stork, the
Knickerbocker champion. Maurice Daily
was chatting with a man as they entered.
"Tll play a game for a BOTTLE" ex-
claimed Mial, suddenly.
MAKE 1t quick game" said Stark, i'm.
patiently.
..All right" retorted Mial, well make
1t three-handed, one shot to decide"
The proposition staggered Daily for mo-
ment but he said "All right; it's a CO."
and the men banked for the lead and came
out: Mial first, Stark second and Daily
last. The difficulty of the situation be-
came apparent the moment the balls were
spotted, and DR.. Mial began to aim with
greatest care. The shot from the spot is
always uncertain, but now triply So when
the stake depended on it's execution. All
the on-lookers were willing to wager that
he would miss, but he counted, and there
was hearty applause. Stark played SIM
pie ball-to-ball carrom, and, amid laugh
ter, DAILY goodna turedly acknowledged
that, like racer, he had been left at the
post. Both his opponents had scored be-
fore he got shot, and under the rule he
was beaten. The bottle of extra dry was
emptied amid general merrment.
seen such queer contest, and Daily was
asked IL 1t wasn't something brand new.
THE only other time I ever heard of
such thing" he said, was when Schae-
fer was in Chicago and was beaten at it.
1t happened this way: Jake had offered
to play anybody any style of game on the
table, and was boasting that he would win
at 1t. A stranger stepped up.
VIII you let me name the game IL I
take up your offer?
Certainly replied the Wizard.
Well, then,' instantly rejoined the
stranger, I'll play you one point up for a
double-V.'
It's done cried Jake, and the two
strung for the lead, and the stranger won
the bank, counted from the lay-eff and
collared Jake's bank note. The game is
old, of course, but. as you saw a few mo-
ments ago, there is plenty of excitement
and uncertainty and fun about it, If you
want to play for quick decision.'-N
York Sum-
The herald., 1898-04-16
Refused to Express the Baby

A South Slider yesterday afternoon called
up the American Express company by tele-
phone and wanted the agent to make a
contract to bring precious package from
Northern Michigan. When asked the char
acter Of the package, the man at the tele-
phone said 1t was 6-months- baby.
The person in whose care the child had
been left, the mother being dead. had
wired that she could no longer take care
of the little one. General Agent Nosler told
the anxious father that he could do nothing
for him. whereat the latter seemed greatly
disappointed. Mr.. Nosler said that twen-
ty years ago the company accepted charges
of that character, but the carriage of men.
women and children became risky and un-
desirable and finally had been abandoned
by all the express companies.-Chicaso
Tribune.
The herald., 1898-04-16
MELBA Is COMING
Arrangements Completed for Two
Nights of Grand Opera

Edward s. Holiday, representing the
Melba company, arrived in the city yester-
day, and any doubts that existed as to the
eventuation of the engagement are now
routed. The final arrangements were con-
summated yesterday and Los Angeles may
now look forward to two nights of bril-
liant opera on the 25th and 27th inst.
The management has wisely decided to
transfer the engagement from Hazards
pavilion to the Los Angeles theater. The
latter is infinitely superior as an audito-
rum and will provide greater comforts for
the audience, although 1t cannot seat as
many people.
1.-The Barber Of Seville" with Melba as
Rosina, her favorite part, will be pre-
sented the first night and double bill on
the second, consisting of two acts from
La Traviata" and the mad scene" from
Lucia di Lemmermoor."
The herald., 1898-04-16
The Southerner Of Today

No teacher who ha sheen brought into
contact with students drawn from most
Of the southern states can fail to conclude
that they are in the main a remarkably
fine body of young men. In essential
charm of manners they are not inferior
to their grandfathers; in morals they IRE
on an average, distinctly better in some
important respects, certain vices being
now more frowned upon than was the case
fifty years ago; in knowledge of the world
and in Intellectual curiosity they are
plainly superior; in sheer mental power
they are not inferior, at least: and in gen.
ial kindness and bonhomie, and in that
indefinable but supreme quality, manli-
The herald., 1898-04-16

that White is one of the most consummate
statesmen In the country. White is al
ways ready for debate. He is probably
the readiest man in the senate, for he can
speak as we'll offhand as he can after long
and laborIous preparation. His colleague.
Perkins, is the most precise man In the
senate. Though a sailor In his youth. he
looks more like clergyman than any man
IN either house. Re rarely addresses the
senate, and never without thorough prepa-
ration. He and White generally get what
ever California is after. and 1t Is mighty
worthless old thing that California is not
after in tax bill or an appropriation BILL
Washington Correspondence Louisville
Courier-Jourpal
The herald., 1898-04-16


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The herald., 1898-04-16
How Los Angeles Received Crawford

How Los Angeles Received Crawford
Considering the cordiality with which F.
Marion Crawford was received by the lit
erary clubs of Sacramento on the occa-
sion of his visit here Thursday last. and
considering, too, the popular compliment
which was paid him at the Metropolitan
theater on the evening of the day mention
ed. II will be interest ing to call attention
to the treatment given him by the people
of Los Angeles, which may be said to bear
to the southern part of the state the same
relation as Sacramento bears to the north
ern part.
AS soon as Mr.. Crawford stepped into the
southern city he was taken In hand by the
literary clubs, of which there are appar-
entity quite as many as we have here. Aa,
afternoon reception was given him at the
home of the Ebell club on Broadway, be-
tween Seventh and Eighth streets. The
Los Angeles Herald devotes couple of
columns to this reception. 1t says:
There were few men there, but the
women were in their glory, and glorious
they were in their brightness and brill
liancy of utterance and array. Mr..
Crawford was the center of a throng
and unbent most charmingly. He did
not make any speech, nor was the affair
marked by any tiresome formalities.
but he was given and regave compli-
ments with readiness and success
that were most effective and entertain
ing. The rooms were decorated with
an abundance Of flowers in most deli
cate designs and traceries.
Not only was the Ebell society repre-
sented in large numbers, but so The Her
aid tells us, there were present also the
Friday Morning women, the Ebells Of
Santa Monica and Long Beach, the Pasa-
dena Shakespeare club, the Ruskln Art
club, the Monday Musical club, the ST..
Cecilians and other literary and art or
ganizations. From 3 to o'clock there
was q stream of visitors. There were at
the reception some 200 persons and among
those present" were such well-krnown
people as State Superintendent of Public
Instruction s. r. Black and Mrs. Black
Senator and Mrs Stephen M. White, ex-
Governor and Mrs. H. H. Markham, Dr.
and Mrs. Martin H. Kellogg Of the state
university, Prof and Mrs. E. D. Starbuck
of Stanford university, DR.. and Mrs Ber-
nard Moses Of Berkeley Senator and Mrs
Cole, Prof. and Mrs. Edward A. Ross of
Stanford, and the list, as 1t proceeds, shows
that Los Angeles and the surrounding
towns were bent on making the novelist
feel welcome in the southland. The Her.
aid grows quite enthusiastic over the re-
ception: Crawford Lonized-A Notable
Entertainment" being a portion of the
headlines indicative of the remainder. That
night he lectured on "Pope Leo KILL" be-
fore a large and brilliant audience.
Mr.. Crawford should carry home with
him some very pleasant recollections Of his
visit to California
1t is so pleasant to get among people who
are ympathetic-people who have heard
of you before!
The suspicion can never find lodgment
in Mr.. Crawford's mind that the literary
cubs of Los Angeles had not heard of him
before!-Sacramento Bee.
The herald., 1898-04-16
Pasadena Financially

Pasadena's four banks had 81, ,4a6, ,426 or
deposit this morning. A News representa-
tive asked for and got statements from the
cashiers of the First National, San Gabriel
Valley, Pasadena National and Union Saw
ings banks. This shows that our financial
institutions are in first-class condition and
that the people also are, for these deposits
are from over 1000 depositors. Placing
Pasadena's population at 1900, this aver
ages $1,000 for every man, woman and child
in Pasadena Truly Pasadena is in splen-
did shape financially.-Pasaden News
April Z.