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The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-03-23

That the farmer might WELD
powerful influence in the political
machinery of this country will hardly
be denied. writes Cecil &. Hunting
ton, of Wyoming, but where there is
one who takes an intelligent view of
politics AMI seriously investigates the
cause of existing evils, we find hunl-
reds who in blissful ignorance of the
chicancry and wire llling being prac-
:iced in their midst. cast their votes
TO, their favorites by vo:ing straight
ticket" according to their party be-
lief. Lack of confidence, it seems. is
one of the principal causes of this apa-
thy on the part of the majority.
Out here in Wyoming, will, land of
sagc-brush and cactus, we have an en-
tirely different state of affairs rs re-
CARDS politics. When but new ter
ritory. struggling for existence, onr
Legislators passed the famous bill
granting equal rights to women, and
they "builded better than they knew
for to-day woman who has not exer-
cised her privilege is as rare us m
honest politician. The numerous ar,i-
cles written on this subject. some of
them l'y women, are highly amusing
to a resident of this State. Never
since the bill" passed has there been
an effort made toward its repeal, which
is an unanswerable argument in its
favor. Whenever the other states
shall follow the glorious example set
by young Wyoming and give the
women the same rights and privileges
accorded to the immigrants from all
..ions under the sun,-to the negro,
the murderous Italian, the Anarchist
and every outcast of Europe then
will the farmer of the United States
learn to think for himself. and lose his
respect for the ring rule politicians
that iufest every community
If the farmer would only believe
that "in the people lies the power"
and that the primaries are the founda-
ton stones OF the structure to be rear
ed, then would he realize his power
Let the primaries be well attended, see
that men are selected who are noted
more for their honesty and irmness,
then their gift of gab," and who are
unterrificl in the presence OF the ring
Bosses"
Blu. some will say. "Therc is no use
in trying: money is bound to win. Now,
if every farmer was of this opinion !
have no doubt it would be correct
one, but remember nothing ventured.
nothing gained and that in union
there is strength,
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-03-23

tssima, al ex-champion, with a record
of 947 pounds of butter in a year. This
animal is owned by d. F. Appleton, of
the Waltham Watch Company.
Islip Lonx, with record of 200
pounds, ranks next. She is wned by
Judge Foster, of Minnesota. Little
Goldy. belonging to Mr.. Matthews, of
Huntsville, Ala, has a record OF 81
pounds II oun ,es Of butter in one week.
Alteration, of the same herl, has
record of ~ pounds and ! an ounce for
the same period. Taking the past
re ords Of the forty-four COWS, their
average, PER head, is - orcunds of but
ter each week.
Separated rom the cows in little pens
ar, four calves, The Oldest but thrs G
weeks old, and yet it was chewing hay.
wi N your correspcn lent made his visit.
with the gravity of pine-wcods OK. As
a general thing kind hearted people who
They are of beautiful fawn color,
slender in limb. and out o: their great
black eyes is look of innocence that
might we'll make butcher falter How
ever, veal outlets are seldom made ont
Of these animals. Assistant Super.n-
tendent Goodell estimates that an aver
age outlet from one of these calves
Dreaded, of course, with potatoes on the
side-would come to about $3.50.
The first of tho calves born on the
Exposition grounds is the property Of
Frederick bronson, president of the
New York Coaching Club. Chief Bu-
chanan has asked the privilege of nam
in, the little aristOcrat, but while he is
searching for a title. John, the co!ored
attendant, has dubbed her Baby Bron-
SON." John watches over the baby in
her Grated b'x as solicitously as a
nurse would watch a princess, and he
declares his ward has as much sense as
most babies.
The whole herd of Jerseys is in charge
Of V. E. Fuller. Superintendent for the
American Jersey Cattle Club, which
makes the exhibit. They we,o u selected
from 3a.0o0 standardized cows. The
roster Of the exhibitors includes the
three Vanderbi!ts, John D, Rockefeller,
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-03-23
CurrPncieS Condensed,

THE Missouri Senate killed the anti
pool selling bill.
The Ann Arbor railway strike is pra--
tically ended.
THE free .old in the United States
Treasury now amounts to over 5000,
OG0.
THE Whisky Trust passed its divi-
dcnd. 1t is said none will be declared
for a year.
WARDEN BROWN, OF Sing Sing pris-
on. has rendered his resignation. which
will be accepted.
IT is said ex-Congressman Blount, of
Georgia, will head the commission to be
sent to Hawaii.
BURGLARS secured $4,000 in a raid on
the Farmers & Traders Bank at Mont
somery City, Mo.
The Maryland courts have decided
that the Hcnr, George s:ngle-tax scheme
Is unconstitutional.
THE National Convention of Republi-
can Clubs will be held ut ouisville,
KY, May 10 and IL.
GEORGE WYNN, a vagran: negro, was
sold under the Missouri vaSrancy law
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-03-23

scrubbed daily with a solut on Of lime
and water, the drains are purified with
dilute sulphuric acid, and their diet is
as hygienic as if they were patients in
q hospital.
Milk from the Jerseys is sold to peo-
pie who call for it, and the demand is
much greater than the supply There
are not less than ten babies, said As
s:stant Superintendent Goodell, whose
lives depend on these cows. Physi-
clans had given them up to die, pre-
scribing as a last resort the milk of
these Jerseys. You can imagin with
what eagerness the parents of these
children applied for the privilege of
purchasing. In nearly every case the
babes improved from the first"
A shipment OF Guernsey cows was re-
ce.ved the o:her day and the animals
installed in she'd 2. There are twelve
Of these cows from the States of Mas
sachusetts and Connecticut, but keep
ers in charge are under instructions not
to give out information. The shipment
is til, first sent out by the American
Guernsey Cattle Club. with headquar-
tiers at Pennington, Conn. Other ship
ments are expected in few days.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-03-23
HOW A HERD is ROUNDED UT.
1t is Effected by Means of Long Days
Of Hard Riding.

The general roundup of district re-
q,.ires from sixty to one h1n red cow
BOYS and from three hundred to five
hundred COW ponies. Two or three big
wagons, filled with bedding and cooking
and camp utensils accompany the round
up over mountains and across valleys and
bad lands
The entire district is ridden over thor
oughly by the cowboys. Clutches, cam
yons, draws, sagebrush, bottoms, cotton
wood groves, bad lands, in fact every
foot of the district is explored and every
head Of stock driven to the daily camp Of
the roundup. Viewed from the hills
fringing some vast valley roundup,
with its circling cowboy riders, big
herds of noisy cattle, bands of led horses
for the riders and the wild Western
landscape of far-strctching plain and dis
tant mountain, combine to make thrill
ling and picturesque scene.
Fifty or .'xty miles of hard riding
day is the av, age distance covered by a
cowboy during roundup. Five to
seven horses are in his string. Tough
and wjry as they are, the fierce chasing
over broken, rough and stony country
uses them up, and for time takes the
spirit out OF them. No days riding
is too hard, however, to keep a cowboy
out of a race if one is proposed. No
cavalry charge could bc u more spirited
sight than that of race Of cowboys,
every man yelling like an Indian and
very horse doing his best in a half-mile
ace across some level stretch of soft
prairie. There is quick work to be done
when some mother and calf too weak to
,c driven with herd are found. A cou
Die of ropes thrown around the head and
| cgs of the lnsty young calf hold it to the
tround. 4 fire Of sage brush or drift
rood heats the branding irons to dull
| ed, and the cabalistic signs which mark
radically into the animals quivering
! ide.
There are but two meals day on the
ound-up. Breakfast is long before sun
~, and dinner when the days work is
wer. After dinner is period Of enjoy
ncnt. The appetitcs, sharpened by fifty
sixty miles hard riding, have been ap-
'cased with bacon, potatoes, hot biscuit
nd coffee. Unlucky candidates for the
lu,ies OF night herd have gone swearing
nd grumbling from the camp to their
onesomc duties, and there is nothing to
| 10 but talk over the days adventures.
moke and tell stories. The anticipated
outing out at 4 o'clock the next morn
ng cuts short the evenings pleasures,
nd by the time dusk changes into the
arIy darkness of the spring night beds
.re pulled from the baggage wagon and
he camp is asleep.-IChicago Tribune.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-03-23
Bidding For Doodle.

In recent number Of the Chicago
Daily Newx the editor of that paper
speaks of the Kansas Populists as
mostly illiterate and of dull under
standing" He never told bigger
lie in so few words, and he knows it.;
but he had to say something to please
the millionaire advertisers of Chicago
lest they cease to patronize his paper
which, like other daily papers of Chi
cage, is run for revenue only. Anyone
who knows anything about Kansas
knows that it's inhabitants are among
the most intelligent and cnterprislng
people to be found on this green earth.
Particularly is this true of the farmers
and others who make up the Peoples
Party Of Kansas. They are kickers to
he sure; but it takes smart man to
find out what ais him and have some
thing to kick about. The Kansas Pop
ulists were not so dull of understand
ing" but that they readily ascertained
The cause of their hard times and pro-
ceeded to apply the proper remedy.
They were not SO ''i]litera.e" but that
they knew how to overcome GO, 600 Re-
publican majority at the polls, and set
y Reform wave rolling that has spread
.'ismay throughout the ranks of the
gold bug plutocracy and their lying,
snivelling newspaper heirlings and
threatens to cngulf tho whole land.
They are not SO ''lull of understand
ing" but that they comp rehend to the
fullest extent the real aims and objects
of the Republican party Of Kansas and
it's Wall Street hackers. And we'll bel
four cents against pin fshhook that
every one out Of 80 in every 100 Popu
lists of Kansas can tell the editor o
the Ne,rs more facts about the money
question in ten minutes than he evel
knew before. When the editor of tht
News calls kansas Popu!isS fools b.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-03-23
Protect the Producer.

Without we'll paid producers coun-
try soon grows up to thorns and briers,
cites are ,lis,nan.led. and universal
ruin is everywhere. It is the duty of
a nation to see that its producers are
prosperous. When the law-making
power goes into the hands of men who
live by absorption the producers are
soon forgotten in their mad race for
wealth. Money is the God of our law
m skers everything is measured by the
amount of money there is in it. The
more money the greater the pressure
and the less show of securing justice
to the people. 1t is high time to enter
vigorous opposition to any man seek
ing position who is the rossessor of
large wealth. The realm in which
such men are educated and live hrlugs
them out of sympathy with the Or
Iinary mortal. 1t is impossible for
such men to listen to the appeals of
wealth producers, for. they have always
been ut sword points with them. The
capital class lave been engaged in
making law to enable them to absorb
the lions share of all production and
no man who has investigated the re-
snlt OF legislation can doubt but what
there has been method in the making
of law to accomplish the res Il S that
have been attained, and viii, Ii to-day
is calling forth the vigorous protests
Of organized labor. Topeka Advocate
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Telegr0phlc Clicks.

THOMAS KANE was burned to death In
dwelling house at Ronesdale, Pa.
IF. BAILEY 4 Sons, dealers In iron
at Philadelphia, have assigned.
L. l.. DosrER, a rich lumber dealer Of
Philadelphia, suicidcd by hanging.
THE long-standinR Chilli Bolivian
boundary dispute has been settled.
MRs. MARY MILLER, of Cold Spring,
n. Y, has given birth to her third set OF
triplets.
The pontocn bridge across the Mis-
eouri at Sioux City was carried out by
the moving ice.
THE liabilities Of Sutt 4 Co.. wooden
goods. who failed at Philadelphia, arc
placed at 81 ,250, 900.
THE Burlington Railway bridge over
the Platte River, at Ashland, Neb., was
partly carried away by q flood.
THE body of an unknown Toy was
seen floating on a cake OF ice at Hen
derson, Mich, but was not recovered.
THE steamer City of Rochester was
dashed against the piers OF bridge at
Charlotte, n. Y, and demolished.
HARVEY LEVY. a drunken cook Of
Lcadville, Colo, shot and killed Dan
Cameron and fatally wounded Jack
Stuart.
JAMES L. HAMILTON, 0entenced to
die by electricity at Sing Sing. has been
granted respite Of one week ty Gov.
Flower.
L. ]. HINTzE, street commissioner Of
New York, died from cold contracted
at the Presidential Inauguration in
Washington.
Canada, sailed for Paris to attend the
International conference on the Behring
Sea seal fisheries case.
NJ. CHEvAL1ER, Of the department OF
public debt at Cairo, has been chosen to
succe ed Charles de Lesseps as director
OF the Suez Canal Company.
THE booms at Grand Rapids. Mich.
under the pressure of flow, which con-
fined the logs at the Mich gan Barrel
Company'e works, gave way, and ,OOO,-
COO feet Of logs started for Lake Micht-
gan.
The California Legislature has
adopted joint resolution for . con-
stitutional amendment to remove the
State capital from Sacramento to San
Joso.
JOHN G.. HARrINGs, Of Port Gibson,
Miss. committed suicide at Birmingham,
Ala, with q revolver. He was organ
izer of that district for the Knights OF
Honor.
FIFTY members of the congregation
Of st. Joseph's Church 1t Swedesboro,
n. J., have decided to cast their lot with
Father Treacy, the priest ex-communf-
sated by order OF Mgr. Satolli.
NEWS OF Q murder followed by swift
vengeance comes from Nitta Yuma.
Mics, q small town on the Illinois Gen.
trail Railroad. Rufus Haywood. . col
ored planter, was assaasinated by Lee
Walton, . notorious negro desperate.
Walton was captured and hanged by .
mos OF 800 blacks.
SHERIFF EWING, Of Mercer County,
Mo-, attempted to arrest three prison.
ers who had escaped from tho Prince
ton TAIL. They were ]. L. Morrison, v.
g. Edwards, and John Hodge. When
the Sheriff and posse attempted to ar
rest them, they hred on the o.ncers. and
q. tempted to escape. Morrison was
shc. dead. and Edwards badly wounded.
ue will die. Fo5gc YES captured,
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is talking through his Tat, and few of
his readerss are so ''illiterate and dull
of understanding" That they will not
see eit.--Chicago Express.
Clcvclnnll's Dilemma.

At the very outset it is eviden. that
Mr.. Cleveland is "between the devil
and the deep sea" He himself is a
mere tool of Wall Street gold bugs.
The Democratic Congress was elected
as silver Congress. Therefore, the
new president must either go back on
his Wall Street friends, or he must
gain converts enough in Congress to
support his gold-bug IDEAS. His Sc
lection of Carlisle of Kentucky as tho
head of the Treasury Department, is
pretty good evidence of an expectation
on Cleveland's part that the las. Ken
work among his Southern brethren
against the silver interests. But in
case there is failure to secure the
requisite number of converts to carry
out the gold-bug policy. then there
will be war between the president
and Congress-and the devil will be
to pay" or Cleveland will be over his
head in the "deep sea-
Discussing the situation from the
standpoint of gold bugerv, the Chi
cago News Record says:
mir. Cleveland Is apparently afraid OF
the Democratic Congress that was elected
with him ia November lat. The first dis
closure OF this apprehension was when tha
prcs!d intellect anta.0azcd the special Sc .
sion proposition. 1t seemed rcaso,,ab bic to
sui pose that the president and t.: new
Congress wruid readily clasp hands on the
details OF the general issue that mad. them
But the incoming president evidently mis-
trusts his Congress; the pressing demand
tor tariff reform must wait: he will not call
Congress together for tarifF legislation. 1t
may be that Mr.. Cleveland believes the
new Congress too radical to take hold OF
the tariff question so soon after election.
But now Comes the silver question and leg
islaton is needed to bring about Il more
wholesome relation between the two money
metals. The etfiux OF gold aud the easily
wrought fears OF sccurty-holders threaten
widespread disturbance in the nominal
value OF stocks and bonds not payabe in
gold. 1t appears that while tho new Com
grcss leans toward silver the incoming
president is set down as Il gold :te.and upon
this issue there opens up !. rhasm that is
not easily briagcd, II, indeed, it lc possible
to bridge at all.
Congress and Mr.. Cleveland mi-ht set
around the issue as to silver by mutually
ignorin; 1t ii 1t were not for the financial
situation; that mu>t be met and possible
disaster averted. Mr.. Cleveland hns his
IDEAS of what should be done, and his fell
low Democrats in Congress have their
ideas. not always In harmony. An extra
session to deal with the situation would be
Il call to arms OF the opposing departments
OF the Government. AS thin-s now stand
1t is difficult to fOrsee any promise OF har-
inony on the silver question between the
new Congress and the new president
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-03-23

upon the shirkers are heaped its hon
ors? Will it still continue to be true
that claws grind the poor and rich
M n make the laws? Will the work
crs continue to allow themselves to be
marshaled into hostile camps, by trad
ing politicians, and humbugged by
false issues and misleading cries
while the laws are framed which make
the results of their industry the prey
of the mon whose tools these politi-
clans are? Will the crumbs that fall
from the table of Dives continue to be
accepted with thankfulness by Laza-
rus? Wacn the year ends the solution
of the labor problem will he nearer,
but will the progress have been made
in the direction of a Constitutional OF
a Revolutionary settlement Of it?-
Journal of the X. of L.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-03-23
Costly Cows.

Chicago correspondence:
Trudging away down in the southeast
corner OF Jackson Iark, visitors 10 the
grounds occasionally meet a man in top
boots, with milk spattcred On them, and
with a milkra!l of ,reater or less
capacity in one hand. There is Il sug
gestiveness Of the country al out him
not In keeping with the Worlds
Columbian Exposition, Visitors who
have drunk Chicago milk downtown
can't reconcile the man to the scheme
of metropolitan life. 1t looks like a
mistake. 1t is not, however. Down in
cattle house No are the most famous
Of Americas Jersey milch cows and
every morning the milkman sIueezcs
the udder of a COW valued at SIS ,anO.
There are forty-four of these animals
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An Unfortunate Corporation.

The Southern Pacific of kentucky
has struck n great streak of bad luck.
The water front of Oakland gone
800, 900, 900. The Atlantic and Pacific
Land Grant gonc-$l5, 100000. A tax
suit Judgment for $l,l00,O0O just Gu
terel in San Francisco. The Legisla-
turc is looking after delinquent taxes
in the sum of over s3.O0O,O0O. The
California and Oregon Land Grant is
forfeited and will return to the pcopl !:
-s3. 100000. The pathway of tho
transgressor is rocky.-Weekly Popu-
list
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-03-23

s; Iowa, 3; Illinois, 2: Kentucky, G.;
New York, Z; New Jersey, 4; Massa-
chusetts. 3: Michigan, l; Minnesota, /;
Ohio, l; Missouri. .: Wisconsin. 2:
Pennsylvania, 3; Vermont. /. Alabama
leads with the champion butter-makcr
of America. This COW is Signals Lily
Flag, with a record of l,047 pounds of
butter in one year She is the property
Of W. T. Matthews, OF Huntsville. Ala,
and she is valued at $4,000. Maesa-
chusetts comes next in order with Euro
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-03-23
Is there Hope.

Will the story of 1893 be better for
humanity than the one told of the
years gone by. Will the many con-
tinue,a as in the past, to allow the prod
ucts of their toll to go to enrich the
non-producing few? Will the make
ever ythings continue contentedly or
uncomplainingly to have nothing,
while the make-nothings possess all !?
Will the worlds workers gather to
themselves the Worlds seprn, while
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-03-23

at Fayette. Mo-, to Charles McCamp-
bell. OF Glen Eden Springs, for $50.
Two INDIANS We're killed in a row
with soldiers at the Mount Vernon Bar
racks, near Mobile, Ala.
BARON FAvA, Italian Minister at
Washington, gave dinner in honor OF
King Humbert's birthday.
THE Union Loan & Trust Company s
luilding at Ogden, Utah, burned. Loss,
S125, ,0pu; 1ns urance. ,5,C0a.
THE pressure OF rising water in the
Mississippi Eiver caused the levec
whit Ii protects the lands of the Illinois
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-03-23

A PROMINENT business man who has
made careful estimate says that tho
900. 600. 600, year for the last five
years ON account of the depressing in
tluences Of the dealers in wind pro-
duct
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-03-23

gathered by the American Jersey Cat
tie Club, of New York, from TWEEN y-two
States. They are entered in the great
dairy competition, by which is to lie
determined the best grade of dairy
cows. Halterrd by twos in double rows
OF stalls separated by a passageway
twenty feet wide. these animals ENJOY
. uniform temperature of co degrees.
They are bedded lnee deep in straw,
and an air of tidiness prevails quite
In keeping with animals valued at SIS a
pound.
Among the States representa- d in this
stable are: Alabama, J; Connecticut,
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-03-23

bottoms in Lime Lake district, opposite
Canton, Mo-, to break, and the lands
are being overiiowed.
A CEMETERY vault at Denver was
b:oAen open and two collins demol-
ishci. The body of an infant was
stolen, rings and other jewelry were
taken from the body OF q woman, and
the silver hand es and plate OF a
casket were broken oT and carried
away.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-03-23
BOY FIRE-BUC CAUGHT.
Lewis a. Wright ConfesSes to Starting the
IfOStOn BlazcS.

Lewis a. Wright ConfesSes to Starting the
Boston Blazcs.
Lewis A. Wright, 17-year old youth.
was arrested by Pinkerton authorities
for lighting five successive fires in the
business district of Boston. Although
young in years. he has shown himself
a master-hand in hiding the evidences
Of his guilty work. On being confronted
with the evidence he broke down an6
made a full confession. Within two
months there lave been more than a
dozen fires in tn. business district one
ent:iling loss OF enc life and $3,00O,-
00,,, another the loss Of five lives and
s.. 900 Of property. In each case
there was q susPtsion of ince1diaElesn.
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The I,conlc Will Win.

You Republicans have seen the las.
president of your party in the White
House; and upon Cleveland's retire
ment in 1897, it will be the last Of his
kind for thirty years. All the reform
elements, no matter what party at,ilia-
ton, will be gathered under one ban
ner in 1896, the great banner. of re-
form. Yes. sir, it is coming to tina. as
sure as fate. The people are weary of
being lied to and blcd by two old par
ties. They have given up all hopes Of
ever getting their rights at the hands
of either of them. We are preparing
to for the great battle of 1896, when
the wealth and monopolies and hypoc-
racy and crime of the country will be
op; osed by the honest masses, and
there is no doubt of the outcome of
the fight; the people will win Martin
Van Buren Bennett in the Vanguard.