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appears, according to the statements
in the New York Times and Herald, to
have decided ''That the courts can con-
troll the actions and compel the services
of the employees Of a railroad corpora
ton because they are rendering a pub
lie service" This is true if there fol
lows inevitably that the courts can on
the same grounds of public necessity
and expediency control the &C ions"
of railway official and the officials of
all other public corporations and haul
them into court and into contempt
when they issue orders reducing wages
the result of which is to drive off the
hands that operate the business and
thereby damage trade and travel and
stop interstate commerce. The st.
Louis Republic says: "a few more
such performances as that of Kicks q
Taft and the government ownership OF
railroads will become the great issue
in our politics" The same principles
and reasons will embrace also tele-
graph, telephone, gas, WaCer anu all
other corporations exercising a public
function and holding franchises that
give exclusive privileges and exclude
competition. If the courts can inter
fere for the public welfare with the
liberty of a natural person God made
who has a soul, surely they can also SO
interfere with the liberty of an artif:
cial and man-made person that has no
soul nor body either but is a mere pig
ment Of legislation.
If there is authority to do the one
thing there is also authority to do the
other. If the courts can do it much
more is it in the power of legislatures
and Congress to regulate, control and
manage. Gov. Hogg is on the right
trail and in this the PopQlists are not
far astray. "She do move"
J. DENNIS WOLFE.
Pensacola Tia
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-06-27
CHEESE MAKING.

We were recently asked to describe
the method of cheese making on the
farm. This is the process describedby
an Oswego, N. Y, writer, in speaking
of the excellent dairy cheese in that
locality. In the first place they are
very particular that the milk is in per-
feet condition. This means that they
must take good care of stock, supply
them with pure water and see to it that
they have an abundance of good food.
In the spring when they make 'hay
cheese" they feed the COWS a nitrogen
Gus ration. Glover hay and malt sprouts
will make a cheese that is hard to tell
from a grass" cheese. Their nights
milk is thoroughly aerated, and the
milk room is a cool, breezy place,
sweet and clean. They seek for onlya
very moderate degree Of ripeness in
the milk, and so they have to use more
rennet. When they desire a cheese
that can be cut when it is 10 days old,
they use six or eight ounces of rennet
to 1000 pounds of milk.
1t is always necessary that spring
cheese shall cure up quickly to secure
the best prices. In their market there
is a great demand for what is called
''fresh cheese"-soft, rich, porous
cheese that a be eaten like bread.
With milk in proper condition they
make them somewhat in the following
manner: Mix the night and morning
milk and set at 80 or 81 degrees. Use
six ounces of rennet extract. When
coagulated cut into half inch cubes,
raise the temperature slowly to SO or
100 degrees. Stir as little as possible
and keep the temperature uniform and
the curd cubes separate. This is to
avoid useless waste of labor and OF
cheese.
Before acid is developed in the curd
the whey is drawn. If the curd IS
sufficiently cooked" it is Immediately
sailed and put to press. If the curd is
too soft when the whey is first drawn,
it is hand stirred until dry enough for
sailing and pressing. This cheese will
contain more moisture than would be
desirable in a shipping cheese. 1t
ripens very fast and is ready to cut
when 20 days old. It keeps its shape,
looks well and gives perfect satisfac.
ton to those ths6 like fresh cheese"
and is perhaps the most profitable
cheese o the farmer to make that has
a good home market.
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Fraternally,
S. J. GRAY,

The Secretary of Agriculture is in re-
ceipt of a communication from Mr..
Alfredo Solf, U. S. Consular Agent at
Chiclayo, Peru, stating that by request
Of several of his farmer friends in that
section he desires to obtain informa-
ton as to where in the United States
he can secure representative animals
of the best European breeds of cattle
and sheep. He inquiries particularly
for the Durham or Shorthorn, Holstein
and Swiss breeds Of cattle, and for the
best English sheep, uniting large pro.
duction of mutton with good quality of
wool.
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REFORMERS' E
9. THONpSo,,
MANNING, N. @

MANNING, NO
Mr.. EDITOR:-I believe in the rofo,.
movement, a movement of the naonI.
maker of good and honest laws: and
the reform movement, hepeople,aonI1
hope, which was conceived by ooo,
men like Polk; born of the industri.,
people, suffered under the Democrats,
party, was crucified, dead and burio5
$50 they said); but early in the morn
ing even of the first day it arose from
the dead and continueth to work f.,
the good of the people and stitch down
upon the legislature, the house of Iiv.
ing curiosities, and the whole proceed.
ings of the insane crowd, from tbenoo
it shall come to judge the election NJ
eighteen hundred and ninety-four and
two years hence. I believe in the ALI
ance and it's great workers, the onIv
thing that educates the laboring cIas.
of people and exposes evils of unjust
lawmakers and the forgiveness d
their corruption, provided they prom
Use to live a righteous and sober life II
the future; the resurrection of demo
cratic principles and unto them lt
everlasting. Amen.
T.. w CTr1o,z
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in the hands of a competent mon,
who takes up the questions ono
another and propounds them 70 altst
vidual members as to a class in ~, tuQ'
Satisfactory answers are thus oIioit Oa'
or discussions arise which result N :
general enlightenment of the menu .pe
ship. Some method of securing az
dance and INTEREST in Alliance msas
ings is greatly desired, and I am w
suaded the general adoption Of F r.!
plan very largely solves the nrobI.l
Fraternally yours,
@. THONpsor
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CONCEALED WEAPONS.
PENSACOLA, Fla.

PENSACOLA, Fla.
Mr.. EDIToR THE most dangerous
man that the farmers and the laboring
men of the United States have to en-
counter is John Sherman. He is dan
gerous not as an open enemy but as a
guerilla on ambuscade, a sapper and
miner, a place of dynamite and bombs
to be exploded at a fit time.
Tt was in this way that he demone
tized silver. And it is nov apparent
from a discussion in the United States
Senate on the 18th Of Aprilthat a clause
of what is called the ''anti trust plan"
is made the basis for the recent decis-
ions of the United States Courts taking
away the personal liberties of railroad
employees and reducing them to the
condition Of serfs, and in this the will
lingness and eagerness with which the
Federal courts construe laws in favor
of corporate power and against labor in
this country, is as clear al the purpose
of Sherman in introducing into the
''anti- trust law" the clause upon which
the courts base their decisions. In the
debatgfn the Senate on the 18th of this
month, Senator Cullom said: ST had
not the slightest conception that by the
interstate commerce act, or the bill,
6he Sherman anti trust bilD intro
duced by the distinguished Senator
from Ohio and afterwards passed as
reported from the judiciary committee,
was intended to give any such power
to the Federal Judiciary.
OF course he did not, neither did
ANYBODY else. Like the demonetiza-
ti,n of silver, it was another of John
Snerman's dynamite bombs injected
into and carefully concealed in the body
of the ELL, to be exploded at the proper
time.
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PRoGREss--"IT DOES MOVE"

Mr.. EDITOR Texas is an empire. It
is the real Empire State Of the Ameri
can Union. In no State has the effect
Of the campaign Of education made by
the Farmers Alliance, the Peoples
party, the tariff reformers, the free
traders and the tax reformers pro
duced more remarkable results than in
the State of Texas. Of this the mes
sage of Gov. Hogg to the State Legis-
Iature is conclusive evidence. Able,
honest, outspoken and exhaustive, it
has not received from the reform press
the attention it deserves.
To only two things is attention now
called although the whole message is
pregnant with valuable lessons and
suggestions. This message says in re.
ferring to
RAILROAD BONDS AND STOCKS
That all fictitious stock and false in
crease of stock and Indebtedness should
by law be declared void. That bonds
in excessive amounts and far beyond
actual values should be disallowed. To
remedy these evils there should be: LIST,
a railroad commission with ample
powers to fix actual values. I'd, that
no railroad bonds or shock shall be
issued except for a limited amount ex-
pressly stated in the charter. This
principle and these conditions the
reader will notice apply equally well
to all public corporations as well as to
railroads. Sd, that the bonds and
stock shall not be negotiated, sold nor
hypothecated until the commission
certifes that they are within the limits
and that they are duly registered by
the Secretary of State. 4th, That all
contracts made with construction and
improvement companies shall be fair
and reasonable and shall be approved
by the commission before any bonds
are issued. 18th, that all sales by re-
ceivers shall be actual sales to satisfy
debts and that the purchasers shall
take the property clear of all incum-
ORANGES. 9th, that any violation of the
law shall forfeit the charter. eth, that
the willful violation of the law by an
officer or agent of the corporation shall
be made a penal Office. 9Th, chat the
State shall have the right in any court
to intervene in any suit and challenge
and contest the validity of any bonds
or stocks.
Now this is all good sense and should
in every State be made good law. This
message of the Governor of Texas
bristles all over with sharp points. 1t
touches municipal debts, land, corpor-
atoms, railroad lands and land specu-
lators and these it may be useful to
examine more particularly hereafter.
Attention has been mainly directed
to one point in this message because
one of the Federal courts in the South
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THE REFORM E
Sharp, Pithy Clippings from Papers that
do Not Worship Mammon.

Su@ApV b A@GI
do Not Worship Mammon.
When banking institutions fail, what
chance has the farmer to keep his head
above water at the present prices of
his products9-MisSourt World.
Was it "over.production" or "lazi-
ness that brought about the failure
of ex- Secretary Fosters No dodging-
we want an answer.-Fdrm1ers Trt
bune.
The best banking system, etc., ETC.,
is somewhat twisted in North Dakota
just now, and there r a large num-
Der of States to hear from yet.-Na-
HonaL Waterman.
While the laborer is bearing the bur
dens of government he should arise
and inquire about these vast expendi-
lures of $500, OOO, 900 per annum and
ask where he comes in at.-PiOneer
EGpOnent.
@. Wood Davis, writing in the Arena,
shows plainly how the naturalization
of railroads would save the republic
1850, OOO, 900 a year, besides creating a
sinking fund of $50, OOO, 900 a year
Coming Crisis.
. 'To Rob-ber-boom 6ey aye tarif dey.
boom dey aye" is gone up across the
peach orchard and the ghouls are quar-.
reling over the carcass of public Office
and spoils. Just let the robbery go on.
Pioneer Exponent.
P~lutocrats, demagogues, and even
block-headed strife generators in the
Farmers Alliance, can't check the on,
ward march of the Order, because il
has virtue for it's foundation and truth
for it's end.-SOutbern Mercury.
The fifteen thousand business failures
In this country during the, past twelve
months are getting a class Of fellows tt
thinking who can be reached in nc
other way. Let the good work go on
Western Advocate.
Town merchants are beginning tc
feel very forcibly the effects of a con
tracted currency. Under present ten
denotes it will not take long for them
to become fully but sadly convinced
that there is not money enough in the
country to do its business. Our Home
We have often been told that you
cannot legislate men into prosperity,
but the daily papers for two or three
weeks past have devoted several col
umns to the ~chronicling of practica
living evidences that men can be legis
lated into bankruptcy Western Ad
U0cdte.
When the Kansas farmer loses hi
home by mortgage it is due to his shift
less habits and extravaganza living
When a bank fails it is because deposit
ors have Withdrawn their funds;
when a mandatory shuts down, it i
due to stringency in the money marke
in New York, general unrest and lac
of confidence. But after all we hav
to confess it's the tariff-on money
San Diego Vidette.
The Peoples Call, of Seattle, Wash
ington, estimates that nearly one hal
of the taxes Of that city will be delin
quent this year, the people really hav
no means, that is money, to pay thei
taxes. In the sown of Olympia the in
habitants are almost up in defiance O
the law. They can't pay the taxes tina
are laid upon them. a similar con
dition exists all over this State ant
men are becoming desperate.-Tb
Great West.
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FAYETTEVILLE, n. @.

FAYETTEVILLE, n. 4.
Mr.. EDIToR:-I am proud that I am
a member of the Alliance and in good
standing in old Cape Fear Lodge. She
is growing every meeting. New mem
bers are coming in. I am also proud
Of the good brethren in old Sampson.
I organized the first lodge in that good
old county. Cape Fear Lodge has the
money to pay to anybody who wants
to draw his fund from the Agency.
Brethren, stand by the best order the
farmers ever had, talk our demands,
vote for them, live by them, and if
need be die by them. Read The Pro
GREssIvE FARMER and get others to do
likewise.
~Fraternally,
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SOME FIGURES TO STUDY.

A statistical review of the markets
has been made by Clapp & Co., bank
ers, of New York city, based on the
government crop report of October 10,
in which appears the following com
parison with crops of last year:
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DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY.
Collision. n. G..

COLLISION, N. @.
Mr.. EDIToR:-Miss Sally Wilkie, a
consistent member of the Womble AL
lance, No. 495, and a member of Bear
Creek Church, died on the 31st of May,
aged 81 years. Our loss is her eternal
gain. is. GILMORE, Chaplain.
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Yield.
Oct. price,

Cotton, 1850, 600 bales. So 90
Wheat, $50, 600, 900 bushels. .824
Corn, 1,675, OCO, 900 bushels. $50
Oats, els, 000, 900 bushels. 1893
The overproduction theory hardly
obtains in this case. 1t might be well
to cut this out for future use.-Na-
tiOnaL Waterman.
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Yield.
Oct. price,

N t.
Cotton, 1000, 900 bales. $3.50
Wheat, 612, 600, 900 bushels. 100
Corn, 1000, 900, 600 bushels. .584
Oats, $50, 900, 900 bushels. 300
1892
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LETTER FROM CUMBERLAND.

Pensacola, Fla.
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1S91.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-08-16
LOOKING BACKWARD.

LOOKING BAChNAhb'
Twas all serene some months ago when Grover
took his seat,
And Democrats went marching round win
measured tread and beat;
OH how they prorNe ed good times" that
they declared were dawniug
But-somehow didn't calculate the difference
in the morning
and now. when Grover goes to FISH, the silver
And say, he's after goldfish with his little
hook and line;
Some time ago the sky was clear, but now lts
dark and strange,
And even in his pocket Grover Cleveland
feels the change
Philadelphia North american.
WHEN THE FACTORY WHISTLES SOUND
wyiat rejoicing there would be II the days we
could recall
When everything was booming, with work
enough for all
When the smoke from factory chimneys told
tale OF prosperous times
And pay day never passed without the usual
share of dimes.
But that is all memory thought OF days
gone by;
Not satisfied with good enough, we needed
tempter's cry
And voted for reform as Grover laid it down,
And it isn't like it was
When
the
whistles
sound
Before the great reformer, the portly Grover c.,
Backed us by Mugwump statements OF imam
cial heresee,
Fooled the poor deluded people into voting for
his band
There was money in their pockets and plenty
ance), cool land .a
= .to,;ai in city. town and village huH1reds stand
-, a, ocound and wait
sln @l'o' 'buliy good times" promised that are
% ana part little late.
,wn-town each day passes on the never ceasing
ocks. Pdnd it very different than
,et Tsla When
ort Way W tootorv
Ike 61st whistles
venue sound
Oin en- over. in his message, says the Silver bill
ro nd later on the tarin will be tlukered, "don't
,s yer know"
de "jollies" long the workingman' Ia most
i0@ gpileless way,
ape And tells them them they're the backbone OF
IA the country Of to-day.
visGow, all OF this is very nice, but it doSent fur
ami nlsh food
i'd whs half dozen hunssy ,s mouths "AO iO'-H
% Vi ol eyre looking for the soosters worn last
shlhg ailfaIl when marching round.
ld addres upon this winter
I. .HeaEere Til
Pott. d. .aaldiPe
whistles
UA sound
,;ne.r, ,e.nort Conn. F.. A. BARTLETT.
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run, and so when one Of the cavalry
fellows lost his cap in the charge and
was looking for it / told the dragon
that the pussy old man over by the fence
had stolen his cap. That was Pa. Then
| told Pa that the soldier on the horse
said he was a rebel, and he was going to
kill him The soldier started after Pa
with his saber drawn, and Pa started to
run, and it was funny, you bet. The sol
der galloped his horse and yelled, and
Pa put in his best licks and run up the
track to where there was board off the
fence and tried toget through, but he got
stuck, and the soldier put the point Of
his saber on PAS pants and pushed, and
Pa got through the fence, and l guess he
ran all the way home.
"At supper time Pa would not come
to the table, but stood up and ate off the
sideboard, and Ma said Pas shirt was all
bloody, and Pa said more'n 90 of them
cavalrymen charged on him, and he held
them at bay as long as he could and
then retired in good order. This morn
ing boy told him that set the cavalry
man onto him, and he made me wear
two mousetraps on my ears all the
forenoon, and he says he will kill me at
sunset. amt going TO be there at sun
set and don't you remember about it..
Well goodby. have got go down to
the morgue and see them bring in the
man that was found on the lake shore,
and see if the morgue keeper is drunk
/ this time"
] (To RE CoNTTNuED1
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aunscalPrloN RArEsI

the EvrEfEe HERALD has larger circula-
lion in shenRndoah than any other paper pup
i6shed, Books open 10 all,
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"What was the natter Didn't the
old soldiers treat him well2 Didn't they
seem to yearn for his society" asked the
grocery man as the boy was making a
lunch on some sweet crackers in tin
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wv nat was tn6 IudIJeIf Dluu U bue
old soldiers treat him well2 Didn't they
seem to yearn for his society" asked the
grocery man as the boy was making a
lunch on some sweet crackers in a tin
canister.
"Well, they were not very much
mashed on Pa. You see, Pa never gets
tired telling us about how he fit in the
army. For several years | didn't know
what sutler was, and when Pa would
tell about taking musllet that a dead
soldier had dropped and going into the
thickest of the fight and fairly moving
down the Coufederates in swaths the way
they cut hay thought he was the great
est man that ever was Until was II
years old thought Pa had killed men
enough to fill the Forest Home cemetery.
| thought sutler was something higher
than a general, and Pa used to talk about
i and Grant, and what Sheridan told
him. and how Sherman marched with
him to the sea, and all that kind of rot,
until 1 wondered why they DIDN'T have
pictures of Pa on a white horse, with
epaulets on and a sword. One day at
school / told a boy that my Pa killed
more men than Grant, and the boy said
he didn't doubt it, but he killed them
with commissa-y whisky,
"The boy said his Pa was in the same
regiment that my Pa was sutler of, and
his Pa said my Pa charged him 50 for a
canteen of peppersauce and alcohol and
called it whisky. Then | began to in
suire into it and found out that sutler
was a sort of liquid peanut stand, and
that his rank in the army was about
the same as a chestnut roaster on the
sidewalk here at home. 1t made me
sick, and | never had the same respect
for Pa after that. But Pa don't care,
He thinks he is a hero and tried to get Q
pension on account of losing piece OF
his thumb, but when the officers found
he was wounded by the explosion of q
can of baked beans they couldn't give
| it TO him. Pa was down town when the
veterans were here, and l was with him
and l saw lot of old soldiers looking al
Pa, and | told him they acted as though
they knew him, and he put on his glasses
and said to one of them, How are you
BillY The soldier looked at Pa an6
called the other soldiers, and one said
That's the old duffer that sold me the
bottle of brandy peaches at ChickamaugG
for SO, and they eat a hole through my
stummick.
"Another said He's the cuss that tool
$40 out of my pay for pickles that were
put up in aqua fortis. Look at the corpi
badges he has on. Another said; 'Tht
old wheipl He charged me 80 cents {
pound for onions when / had the scurvy
at Atlanta. Another said; He beat ms
out of my wages playing draw poke
with a cold deck and the aces up hi
sleeve. Let us hang him BY this TIM
Pas nerves got unsrung and began Il
hurt him, and he said he wanted to g
home, and when we got around the cor
ner he tore off his badges and threw then
in the sewer and said it was all man
life was worth TO be a veteran nowadays
He didn't go down town again till mex
day, and when he heard a band playing
he would go around the block. But a
the cham battle, where there wer
no veterans hardly, he was all righ
with the militia boys, and told then
how he did when he was in the army
tbrE-ht, -. N.1-j..,ss5 - lI2lr lIl tQ ,seSS0S1
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Ensered at the Postotice, at Shenandoah IA
for transmission through the mails
as second-clsss mail matter.
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CHAPTER VIII
MS pa AT TILE REuN1oN.


81 saw poor Pa wearing a red, white
and blue badge, and a round red badge,
and several other badges last week dur
ing the reunion, said the grocery man to
the bad boy as the youth asked for a
piece of Goldfish skin to settle coffee with.
''He looked like a hero with his old black
hat with a gold cord around it."
Eyes, he wore all the badges he could
get the first day, but after he blundered
into a place where there were a lot OF
fellows from his own regiment he tool
off the badges, and he wasn't very nu
merous around the boys the rest Of the
week But he was lightning on th'
sham battle, says the boy.
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THE TIMES IN VERSE.

Appropriate and Interesting TO Peruse IN
These Good (2) Times.
IRON forges where no fires burn.
From mills where wheels no longer turn,
From looms DER which no shuttles leap,
From merchants shops-which sherihs Keep
From banks gone up, from stocks gone down.
From Cod made airy, man-made town.
From Wall street men from sons OF toll
From the bronzed tillers Of the soil,
From North from South from East, from west
Business Is crying with zest-
Don't monkey with the tariff