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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-10
LEGISLATURE z

At some time OF other we have beard
that the Republicans and Populists OF
this State are pretty good pie chasers.
But they have never yet equalled the
grand and mighty rush for pie that
accompanied the meeting of the Demo.
cratic legislature last week. The null
titude comprised old politicians, young
politicians, business men, farmers,
old soldiers, new soldiers, able bodied
men, the lame and the halt. They
came on trains, on foot and by private
conveyances. The failure of the latest
discovery of q flying machine prevent
ed any travelling in that manner.
Raleigh people know more about pie
hunters than anybody else, and they
unanimously areed that they never
saw any thing like the rush last week.
Il is noticed, that the lone gaIlus''
fellows didn't cut much figure in the
roundup. Nest OF the old soldiers,
failed, 100.
The talk Of the great number of pie
hunters is not established solely by
fusion testimony. The News and %
server said:
care there any o~fice,seekers here
asked a gentleman on Tuesday after
noon. DR.. Dixon (D3m), answered
That reminds me of an incident thai
occurred at the close of the war. One
day after thousands of soldiers with
guns on their shoulders had passed
along the road, a fellow came by and
said, Have you seen a man pass along
here with a gun on his shoulberF'"
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NOTICE.

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business manager, he has been unable
to have our mailing list corrected this
week. This for information OF sub
scribers who have just renewed and
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WAKE COUNTY, WAKE UPI

Our subscribers in other counties
are doing no0ly and new subscrip
tions and renewals are coming in quite
an encouraging manner. Why does
Wake lag behind7 Wake county,
wake mi
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A OF DIR. HoGE.

Rev. DR.. Moses D. Hoge, Virginia'e
most distinguished citizen and the
leading preacher in the Southern pull
pit, died at his residence in Richmond,
Va, Friday morning at 2:2O o'clock.
This announcement will carry grief
to hundreds of homes, and especially
to the hearts of Southern Presb7te
rians. DR.. Hoge was born in Virginia IN
1918, and had been pastor OF the Sec
ond Presbyterian Church of Richmond
for 81 years.
Dr.. Hoge threw himself heart and
soul into the Confederate cause, and
during the war the blockade to
England, where he secured from the
British Bible Society a large grant Of
Bibles and Testaments for the Conted.
crate army. He had taken part in
nearly every great function and dem
onstration occurring in Richmond since
the close of the civil war, such as the
unvelling Of the Jackson statue and
the laying of the corner stone Of the
Lee statue and the soldiers and sail
ors' monument. He took an important
part In the ceremonies incident to the
reinterment of the remains of Mr..
Davis, and one Of his lasG appearances
in public was as one Of the officiating
clergymen at Miss Winnie Davis fun
eral. He was also selected to preach
the funeral of Senator Vance.
The Alabama House of Representa-
tives by an almost unanimous vote
passed a bill exempting from taxation
for ten years ali factories or manutac
tories established in Alabama from
1898 to 1904. It is believed the bill will
direct the attention Of capitalists to
Alabama, and while this may do good,
to US the law seems to conflict with the
doctrine of equal rights to all and
cps cal privileges to none. TIE capital,
lists dollar does no more to build up q
State than the farmers dollar or the
capenter's dollar, and it is, to say the
least, unfair to tax the men who for g
bare living work in the factory, while
the factory owners go scot free.
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LITERARY MOTIFS.

The prettiest Christmas edition is-
sued by any American weekly, was, we
think that of Golfers Weekly.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-10

Current Literature for January i
on our desk, and is. it is unnecessary
to state, filed to the brim with gooC
things.
The evening times., 1899-02-17
NO RAWs, PANS OR FRIES.
Oysters Arc Scarcer in New York
Than Ever BEFORE

oysters arc Sc1rcer IN New Ork
Than Ever Before.
New York, Feb. 11.-New York city is
threatened with an oyster famine. Their
scarcity began to be felt yesterday, and
dealers said it would last for three weeks
or a month. Up jumped prices of some
oysters % per cent, of others 100 per cent,
of still Others 400 per cent. The ruling
market price for box oysters, or counts"
as they are known in the trade, is S. a
thousand Offers of $11 and $12 thou
sand for counts were freely made yester-
day. Smaller sized oysters advanced from
80 to s. a thousand, and the very small
oysters. usually sold by the bushel at the
rate of u cents hundred were being
culled out for "half-shells'' and sod for
SO cents a hundred.
The first cause of the scarcity is the
formation of heavy ice over the oyster
beds. But even if it were possible to
dredge the oysters could not be got to
market-the oyster boats could not make
their way through the ice which is the
heaviest ever known in the Roekaway
district and all along the coast
There was but a small reserve stock of
oysters when the blizzard struck this part
of the country. Big reserve stocks were
laid in last November and December to
meet just such an occasion, but as the
emergency did not arise dealers drew on
their reserve and did not buy the oysters
The evening times., 1899-02-17
ONCE MORE THE CIGARETTE.
Thomas Pierson. OF New York. II Y IL
tim of Excessive Smoking.

tim OF EsNceSStNe ShO>ihS.
New York, Feb. 17.-Another victim OF
excessive cigarette smoking was sent TO
the insane pavilion III Bellevue Hospital
yesterday.
The young man whose mental collapse
has been brought about by smoking from
twelve TO fifteen packs of cigarettes a day
is Thomas w Pierson, of 67 East One
Hundred and Twenty y-second Street He
is twenty three years old, a graduate OF
ST. Johns College, in Fordham, and for
the past two years an employe OF Naugh-
ton & Co. contractors, of 25S Broadway.
The firm speaks we'll OF the young mans
work They always found him bright and
capable, and his future promised much.
On Tuesday night young Pierson went
home late. His mother noticed that he
acted queerly. Finally he began to break
furniture and pictures. She succeeded in
queting him, but Wednesday morning
there was another outbreak and Mrs Pier
son appealed to the police.
When the young man was taken before
Magistrate Wentworth in the Harlem court
yesterday he could not recall his strange
actions of the previous day. His manner
was nervous, and his answers TO the mag
istrates questions clearly showed that his
mind was unbalanced. He was sent TO
Bellevue for examination.
Mrs Pierson says her son has smoked
cigarettes for more than ten years. OF
late he has never been seen without one.
His actions for several months have led
his friends to fear the habit would bring
about his collapse
The evening times., 1899-02-17
TRADE WITH GERMANY.
Relations Growing De.
spite Certain Existing Conditions.

Commercial Relations Growing De-
spite Certain Existing Conditions.
A good deal of. unnecessary anxiety
seems to be exhibited in Germany and in
the United States about the trade rela-
tions between the two countries Some
figures just prepared by the Treasury Bu-
reau of Statistics show that the SUPPOSE
tion that American trade in Germany or
German trade in America is being disturb
ed or depressed by existing conditions
seems to be unfounded. Certainly the
United States is giving to Germany a larg-
er percentage of her import trade than
ever before and is selling to Germany
larger percentage of her exports than ever
before.
American exports to Germany increased
over II per cent in the past six months
compared with the corresponding six
months of the preceding year. which of
themselves were phenomenally large and
the imports from Germany into the United
States in the past six months We're nearly
% per cent greater than those of the cor
responding six months of last year. The
share of American import trade given to
Germany has steadily increased during the
past decade, as has also the share which
she takes of American exports. A decade
ago 10 per cent of American imports was
taken from Germany, while now 13 per cent
comes from that country; a decade ago
per cent of American exports went to Ger
many, now over 13 goes to that country
and in the last half of the calendar year,
1897, American exports to Germany were
$S2, ,632, ,122 and in the last half of the
calendar year 1896 We're O,615,7 TO, an in
crease of nearly % per cent. United States
exports to Germany in the last half of the
heavy export year 1897 were $77,132, ,053.
and in the last half Of 1898 were 1903. .12O.
Even in meats and provisions the ex-
ports to Germany in 1898 show a marked
The evening times., 1899-02-17
WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.
The House Adopts Resolution for
Night Sessions.

Night Sessions.
Charleston, w. Va, Feb. 1.-THE atten-
dance of legislators was small, owing 10
many of the members being absent On
junketing trips to State institutions.
The resolution providing for an amend
ment to the constitution for the incorpo-
ration of missionary societies has been ad-
vanced to its third reading and it now ap-
pears that it Will be adopted.
Senate bill to establish hospitals 10 be
known as miners hospitals was passed in
the senate. The committee on the ju
dietary reported adversely on the bill pre-
venting unnaturalized persons from being
employed on any work for the State.
The committee on education in the house
reported favorably on bill providing for
the support of free schools by State tax
and for an increase in taxation for that
purpose. A minority report was made, pro-
testing against the passage of the bill.
resolution was offered in the house
and adopted for night sessions.
But a few more days remain OF the
session, and as the general appropriation
bill remains to be passed there will have
to be night sessions or an extension OF
the session, which will not likely be.
Governor Atkinson submitted the testi
mony and the correspondence in the Rob-
ert Mcdowell pardon case from Berkeley
county, in accordance with a resolution
adopted yesterday by the house
The West Virginia Brewing Company,
of Central City has been incorporated by
James Clark, John Heating, and others,
of Cumberland, Md.
The evening times., 1899-02-17
nine F[REMEN UNDER
WRECKED BUILDINGS
Lives Sacrificed at the Phila-
delphia Fire.
Three Taken Out Dead From the
Structures Ruins.
Additional Losses by the Blaze
Starting i'm the Market Street
Laundry Works.

Philadelphia FeH 1.-THE fire which
started last night in the Market Street
laundry. at 1896 Market Street and gut
ted Nos. 1226-122S, occupied by William R.
Warner & Son, druggists; 1924 occupied
by the Emerson Shoe Company, and par
TALLY destroyed 1880, occupied by Fern
berger & Son. liquor merchants, and 1892,
occupied by Bradley, engraver, was ac
companied with fatal results.
The loss is estimated at $750,C00. It
was after the fire was under control that
a frightful accident took place.
Nine fremen were on the ground floor
of the Emerson building when suddenly
the west wall fell in and the men were
buried in the debris. The other firemen
Immediately started to the rescue. Three
men were gotten out after few minutes
hard work. They were Michael McClus-
key. who was frightfully injured; James
Dolan, horseman, head crushed, condition
critical James Bennett, injured Eody,
legs, and shoulders.
Under a heavy beam was found the dead
bodies of three firemen. They were VIII
liam Chance. George W. Stinle, and Hugh
Duffy, all OF Engine Company 81.
The fire broke out afresh this morning
in st. Johns Roman Catholic Church, on
Thirteenth Street, behind the burned struc-
lures. This blaze was started by sparks
that had lodged in the yentilator of the
church. The interior of the edifice was
Quilted. This will add $4,000 to the total
loss. The individual losses are as follows:
W. r. Warner K Co., drugs, 1928 Market
Street, $4,000; Wanamaker's laundry and
carpet designing rooms, 1926 Market Street,
$4,000; Wilson's Dental College, 1924
Market Street, $4,000; Emerson Shoe
Company, 1924 Market Street, $50. 900:
WINS, DietZ & Magee, carpets, 122022 Mar
ket Street, $50, 000 Henry Fernberger.
liquors, 1890 Market Street, $4,000; F. a.
Bradley, engrayer, 1892 Market Street, $40
600; Charles Mullen, shoes, 1892 Market
Street, $1,000; Security Bank Note Com
pany, 1899 Market Street, 81 900; Warner
Building, leaps Market Street, owned by
John Wanamaker, 100000 Parish House
of ST. Johns Catholic Church. sl5 600; st.
Johns Church, $4,000; Blackburn estate,
1890 Market Street S25, 900
The evening times., 1899-02-17
DEAcoNs HELD FOR ASSAULT.
Court Filled with Contending Mem
bers of a baptist Church.

New York, Feb. 1.-THE troubles of the
Mount Olivet Baptist Church came up for
a further hearing in the West Side court
yesterday. Three hundred members of the
congregation attended. There were not
seats for all, and so the coored undertaken
and sexton attached to the church sent a
wagon load of funeral chairs to the court
room.
The question at issue was whether the
deacons exceeded the rights of persons in
attendance at public meeting when they
upset the pulpit over the pastor, DR.. Wish
er, and tried to make him prisoner
Moderator jeffrey Harrison claimed that
at the disturbed meeting the deaeons pull
ed and pushed him about very roughly and
though he had been moderating public
gatherings for years he was unable TO
moderate them. Magistrate Flammer dis
missed the charge against all except Deac-
ons w. H. Moore and W. Fl. Holloway,
whom he held in 500 each for trial in
special sessions on the charge of beating
the clergyman
The evening times., 1899-02-17
ABANDONED ON THE OCEAN.
Loss of the ROssmOre and Rescue OF
Her Passengers.

New York, Feb. 1.-THE Johnston line
steamer Rossmore, Captain Duncanson,
bound from Liverpool for Baltimore with
a small cargo of salt and china clay, has
been abandoned at sea, and is probaby Y
new at the bottom of the ocean. There
were fifty-on persons aboard, all of whom
were saved. The Dutch oil tank steamer
Rotterdam rescued forty-two persons and
brought them to this port today, the other
nine being saved by the steamer Trojan,
bound for Glasgow.
The rescues were made during big
storm and in the face of violent seas 1t
took nearly sixty hours to make the res
cues.
The Rossmore left Liverpool January %.
and from the start met severe weather
Eight days after the start the steering
gear gave way, leaving the vessel at the
mercy of wind and waves. The pounding
so strained the vessel that it was decided
to abandon her. February 6 the Trojan
and Rotterdam hove in sight and by Feb
ruary 8 had succeeded in taking off the
imperiled men. The Rossmore was fast
settling when abandoned.
The evening times., 1899-02-17
GREAT BRITAIN's CHALLENGE.
Dcfies the World With America on
Her Side.

London, Feb. 17.-"As from 80 to 60 per
cent of the grain exports of the United
States enter Great Britain, it is not to be
supposed for a moment that the United
States would remain quiescent II our enc
my declared grain TO be contraband Of
war"
This was the climax of the argument of
the president of the British Board of
Trade, Mr.. Richie. in combating in the
House of Commons yesterday an amend
ment to the address in reply TO the speech
from the throne. The amendment, moved
by Mr.. Seton-karr, touched upon Great
Britain's dependence on foreign imports
for food and the danger therefrom in case
of war.
Mr.. Ritchie apparently regarded IL as
self-evdent that the United States and
Britain could whip the world. for, after
having pointed out that danger of losing
the British grain trade would arouse Amer
lea, he went on:
Therefore, there is no chance of star
vation as long as grain can be introduced
as freely in war times as in peace"
He explained that the British govern
ment has fully enquired into existing con-
ditions and does not believe the fears ex-
pressed in some quarters are justified.
The government would be glad, he
added If some arrangement could be
made by which a larger supply of food
from the colonies might be received. But
if anything in the nature of protection is
necessary to obtain this desired end fear
it is not likely to be fulfilled.
THE system OF bounties on home grown
grain is not within the range of practical
politics.
The practical difficulties in the way of
establishing national marine insurance or
national granaries were shown and Mr.
Ritchie closed by saying that if the navy
kept sufficiently strong to protect the trade
routes and prevent a blockade of the Brit
ish coast, there is not the remotest dan
ger of starvation, though possibly there
might be temporary high prices.
Mr.. Seton -Karr's amendment was de-
fnated Nrit dirriS
The evening times., 1899-02-17

being produced. Orders for oysters were
pouring in from other cities yesterday,
and of course, could not be filed. ThIes
thousand barrels are ordinarily shipped
from this city each day and, besides, 1000
barrels from Long Island pass through
this market. The only relief in sight is
that e. c. Strong G. Co. yesterday sent out
the steamer Mabel Stevens to get a boat
load of Shinneeocks. and a Perth Amboy
dealer is trying to get a boatload OF
Sounds" to market and began dredging
yesterday. These are not high-grade oys-
ters, but they will partially serve to sup
ply the deficiency.
So those who want brain food or sea
food must eat fish. There is no shortage
of fish, There was certain scarcity dur
ing the cold weather, and prices ruled
from Is to 20 per cent higher than ordi-
nariy, but this was occasioned mainly by
the increased difficulty in shipping and
handling. The week practically c-osed
yesterday at the Fulton fish market. yet
late in the afternoon there were many
tons of first quality fish still in hand.
Prices have also steadily declined from
the advance of last week, and all the deal
ers expect to see normal prices and nor
nal supply next week.
The evening times., 1899-02-17
EASEMENTS.
The Halls of the Ancients.

Nos. 1872, 1914, 1916, and 1915 NEW YORK AVE
Constructed TO Promote
NATIONAL GALLERIES OF HISTORY AND ART
They illustrate the art. architecture. religion
and life OF the Egyptian. Assyrian, Graeco-Ro,
man, and Saracenic nationalities.
The Egyptian Portal Is entrance to the HAIL
OF COLUMNS, more grand in dimensions than
that built by Lepsius at Berlin.
The upper EGYPTIAN HALL contains tb.
interior OF Egyptian house by Racinet- The
larger section illustrates Egyptian Arts and
Crafts. Copies 10xT feet OF Richter's Building
OF the Pyramids and Longs Egyptian Feast.
The ASSYRIAN THRONE ROOM i. gorgeous +,
blue and gold, according 10 Place. section
is walled with casts from the British Museum,
The portal is between four colossal human headed
bulls, from the Palace OF Sennacherib.
The THRONE OF XERXES is set u from the
cast in the Louvre. King SennscheTib is modelled
in costume from the bas-relief.
The decorations of the Roman House cover
1900 square feet
The LECTURE HALL. in Persian STYLE con.
tains the painting of the Grandeur OF Rome in
the time of Constantine, so # 9 IT.
The SARACENIC HALL is a counterpart of the
interior of the house OF Benzaquin, in Tangiers
The ART GALLERY is devoted TO illustrations
of Roman History.
Visitors will be attended BY ex7ositors, and
Mr.. Franklin W Smith, curator, VIII speak in
explanation at intervals
Open from 0 a. na to 10 n H.
ADMISSION N-.-------.--..--.......50 CENTS
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The evening times., 1899-02-17
Lansburgh&Bro.
40, 422, 424, 426 7th St.
Mothers Bread.
Trademark Registered.

Beware of limitations of our Gel
ebrated Mothers Bread.
Some unscrupulous bakers are
trying to palm off an inferior bread
for our celebrated Mothers Bread.
None is genuine unless it has the
words, Mothers Bread. Just as
Mother made it," and Made by
Corby's," on every loaf.
Anything else is simply coun-
terfeit, and is much inferior in
quality. Our Bread is just like
cake. We use cream, sugar and
milk in our dough.
Mothers Bread is only made by
Corby Brothers, 1855 Brightwood
Avenue.
Ask your grocer for it. If he
doesn't keep it, drop us a postal
card and one of our wagons will
serve you. Telephone I44o.
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