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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21
Heavy frost Saturday night.
Wright's grand opening today.

Wright's grand opening today.
Good weather for 'possum hunting.
Baxter was full Of strangers this
week.
DR.. Gregg's new store front is a
daisy.
G.. w. Wise has moved from Miami
to Baxter.
The backbone of summer is certain
ly broken.
Two of A. u. Tricks children have
been quite i'll.
G.. w. Daniels sold to Mrs. Mary L.
Savoy three lots on Lincoln street.
The small boy is slowly but surely
gathering in the walnut and hickory
nut crop.
The popular dentist, y. ID. Ashley,
will be at the National hotel next
Wednesday.
The persimmOn crop is a big one
this year and 'possums will be fat in
consequence.
Joplin expects to secure the shops
of the Kansas City, Pittsburg and
Gulf railroad.
J.J. Osborn has been on the sick
list during the past ten days, but is
improving now.
Call aud see f. ID. Ashley at the
National hotel next Wednesday il
your teeth need fixing.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21

New stock of clothing at Baldwin's
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21

A new line OF late style hats just
received at j. NJ. CooPER's.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21

We carry the largest and most com.
plete line OF Patent Medicines in Cher
okee county. McFADDEE & PRICE.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21

Go to Ohlen's old reliable restaurant
when you want q square meal, dish of
ice cream or q cool, refreshing drink.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21

Ice Cream and summer drinks at
II. OHLEN's.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21

Joplin Herald: For several months
past there have been reports in cir
culxtion to The effect that the Joplin
Electric Street Railway and Motor
company was about to dispose OF its
property in Joplin, but TO date moth
ing has come OF them. On the con-
trary it is proposed among the stock
holders TO increase the stock of the
company and extend the lire from
Blendeville TO Galena. This would be
a master stoke OF the company and it
would bring them a big revenue.
Capt. Boffinger aud Mr.. Powell, of
St. Louis, Mr.. Stewart, of Webb City,
aud Mr.. Newman, Of this city, are all
said TO be favorable to the Gaiena ex-
tension, and the company may pre-.
pairing TO steal march OH the Inter.
Urban people.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21

Buy your shoes of Baldwin and
save q quarter.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21
See Here!

Our stock is all new and
fresh, our prices sre right
and WE WILL NOT BE
UNDERSOLD. We mean just
what we say. Look to your
interest and patrOnize the
RACKET STORE.
BRUNER & REDDIN.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21

Overalls, Shirts " Pants at Osborn's.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21

GLOVES! GLOVES! GLOVES!
For Farmers, For Driving,
For Hay Men, For Everybody.
CHEAP AT OSBORN'S.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21

Mems suits at Baldwin's.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21

Young lady, young gentleman. in
all the vocations of life, competent
stenographers are in continual de.
n,and. Prepare yourself and take a
step higher in the worlds affairs. I'm.
prove your spare moments. That you
may he convinced that the Sloan-Du.
playan system Is what we claim for it,
I will give ANY young man or woman
Two FREE lessons, who will call al
the National hotel aud signify such
desire. PRoF, w. l.. ALDRIDGE.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21

For the best make OF Ladies' Shoes
20 TO Cooper's. All styles and prices
and the largest stock ever shown in
Raxfar
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21

We are right In the stationery busi-
ness and don't you never doubt IL.
Two thousand new tablets just re-
ceived. We can sell you these cheaper
than ever. MCFADDEN Il PRICE.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21

Hard times made easy by hard cash
al Baldwin's.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21

Meek's Pants made TO order at
CooPERs.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21

Highest cash prices
paid at all times by
j. A. SOUR,
The Popular Butcher.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21

j. j. Osborn has been on the sick
list during the past ten days, but is
| imnrOYing now.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21

Sheet Steel Stove Pipe at
MCKINNEY & Sons.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21

See McElhiney Il Son for Stoves
and Stove Pipe.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-21
Good weather for 'possum huntin

Joplin expects to secure the shops
of the Kansas City, Pittsburg and
Gulf railroad.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-04

tory. He can control all his surround
ings and make an No. 1 article every
day in the year.
1 believe n of the greatest draw
backs in making good butter is ignor-
ance of the business. We need a
higher educ alton in our dairymen, and
one of the chest places for the dairyman
to get knowledge is in the markets
there he will learn to know the wants
of the consumer. Is it not a fact that
consumers of butter have cultivated a
taste for high-favored, good butter,
and the average dairyman has not
kept pace with their tastes? l believe
if some of our dairymen were to go IN
the markets of our cities to buy butter
for their own tables, and they were
shown their own make, they would
not buy. Supposing the merchant
should say to them: This Is Jetfer-
son county butter, made by Mr.. A,
and it came from the farm last week,
and here is his name on the package?"
l think they would say: We do not
make that kind of butter"
We must make better butter; you do
not realize the vast amount of money
the dairymenlose in this State by max
ing poor butter; it would add nearly
one-third to the net receipts of the
State to have it good and merchant
able. One of the greatest trials people
have is to market their butter profit
ably after it is made, and until one gets
a reputation for having first class but
ter of uniform quality it is uphill
work. l have been through it all, and
it is absolutely necessary tomake your
butter of uniform quality and gilt edge
every time. To keep in this way | find
one is obliged to watch and work all
the time. We should not allow our
selves to become set in our ways of
making butter; times are changing
the tastes of the people are changing
and we must make what they want.
do not profess to know all there is
of this subject, but I do know that the
dairyman is brought in contact with
things about the dairy and farm that
ought to keep his mind bright and &C
tive, yet many neglect them.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-04
THOU R TAJEWEL.

The Wilmington Messenger of a
recent date had the following editorial
squib:
1t is beginning to be talked of already
hat the arbitrary and absurd ukase of
Cleveland as to keeping out all expert
enced officials and putting in new men
will have a disastrous effect upon the
future of the Democracy in the South.
This is none of our fight, but we
want to "adorn a tale and point a
moral" When farmers become dissat-
iefied with the wrong doing of their
party and go into new party or any
thing of that sort they are at once de,
nounced as traitors" and there is
nothing too mea to say about them.
But when Cleveland says ex office
holders have been honored and should
not stand in the front row for a second
term, these royal and loyal partisans
say cit will have a disastrous effect
upon the future of the party" mean
ing that eff we don't get office we will
vote with some other party" There is
loyalty for you. A man ought to be
loyal to his party as long as it is loyal
to him. But we have always advised
people to make voting a business, so to
speak. Vote only for the party that is
for your interest. That is the only wav
to have pure politics. AS long as you
vote for men and parties because you
did so before, or because your grand
father did, then you are not fit to vote
nor talk politics. AS a true citizen.
true to your country, you family, you
are exactly like a calf six hours old,
you wabble along and make everybody
nervous who are in sight.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-04
Miss CALLiE V. SUMMERL1N, Asst s
BEE NOTES.
w. A. JONES, Pres.
W. B. HERRING, Sec.

The artificial comb of Pastor Warn
stoff, with full-depth cells, it seems, is
made with cells on only one side. In
Germany it is sold for about forty five
cents per pound.
In looking over the colonies in the
spring, there are usually a few that
will be found q~ueenless. These can be
saved by a small investment in a
queen, and often prove to be the best
colonies.
1t is said a new artificial honey,
called sugar honey" bids fair to be-
come a formidable rival Of the natural
product. It consists of sugar, a small
proportion of mineral salts, water and
free acid. In taste and smell it very
closely resembles the genuine honey.
When a colony is set in a new place.
or brought from another apiary, 0
need to give it more protection against
robbing than another colony of equal
strength that has always been there.
Bees bent on mischief will give it a
thorough trial till they find what stuff
it is made of.
Combine Bookkeeping with fruit
growing, and you can more easily pro
cure two crops from the same land,
and the double cropping is not exhaus-
tive, requires no additional fertilizing.
no extra blowing or cultivating. There
are few crops which return so much
for so little outlay and labor as does
the honey crop.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-04
RESOLUTIONS.

Mr.. EDITOR:-The following pream-
BILE and resolutions were passed at a
regular meeting Of Aurelian Springs
Alliance, No. 1877:
WHEREAS, The legislature, in it's act
amending our State charter, leaving it
~optionary with disgruntled members
in violation of their obligation to with
draw their contributions from the B.
A. fund, thereby Gripping III agency
and trying to destroy Our trade, leav-
ing us to the mercy of middlemen and
sharpers; therefore be it
Resolved, That we denounce such
legislation as undemocratic, an out
rage upon a free people and q blot upon
the fair name of our State.
2. That we request all newspapers
that are friends of the people to publish
the anne Of the men who would thus
rob freemen Of their rights that we
may know Our enemies,
3. That a copy of these resolutions
be sent the Roanoke NeUs and The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER with a request to
publish. W. M. MARTIN, Sec'y.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-04
LET ALL THE PEOPLE SAY
MEN.

A man who does not read the paper
that fights for him and his interests
does not deserve sympathy from any
one. He is simply browsing around in
search of better pastures, but has not
got down yet to think for himself. An
assembly of such fellows may be held
together for a while, but the time is
short. The men who think and read
and uphold the labor press are the true
soldiers in the great labor fight. When
you find a man who claims to be fight
ing for the people at the same time he
reads the papers that are doing every
thing possible to sustain the money
oligarchy, you may set him down on
the side of the enemy.-Mjdland Me-
chanIc.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-04
SOWING CLOVER.

Editors Western RuraL:-I have no
ticed several articles on sowing clover
to insure a catch as the farmers call it.
[ think in giving advice on so impor-
tant a subject as sowing clover the
writer should be very careful to ex-
plain as to the soil he has experimental
on. Also the part of the country in
which he lives. In Indiana where 7
live we have a good many different
soils. The time to SOW on clay soil or
prairie is not the time to SOW on sandy
soil. In the first place clay soil is of a
cold nature and in the next place it
freezes and thaws and works the seed
into the ground. Clover starts very
slow on such land. Again as a rule the
wheat or rye has a much larger growth
at time of sowing. 1 know by expert
ence a great deal of clover is killed by
frost. To SOW clover in March on light
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-04

sive, brutal and tyrannical than it Is
in Ireland, Scotland or any part of Eu
rope. It is crushing the small farmers
and farm workers as we'll as other la
boring men. When a mandatory or
anv other industrial establishment Is
built it will be found, in the great ma
iority of cases that the proprietors
have secured all the surrounding or
contiguous land from which supplies
are obtainable or upon which houses
can be built and permanent homes
made. They refuse to sell and put up
shanties and small houses, then lease
them to their operatives who cannot
dispute the absolute will Of these land
lords without mourning, as the above
extract shows, the penalty Of evic-
ton" and the danger OF having their
household goods and their wives and
children turned out of doors and eX
posed to all the rigors of winter and OF
storm. 1t has been done, IS being done
to day and will be done until the PEG
pie who labor and are willing to labor
demand the free and reasonable use OF
the unused gifts that God gave to "all
the children of men," Perhaps it Is be
cause the way out of all this trouble
and turmoil seems so plain to some OF
us that we have not the patience and
forbearance we ought to have in deal
ing with the complicated conditions
that land laws through a long series OF
years have entailed on the present gen
Grafton. Yet there is hope, Mr.. Editor,
and reason for it as we'll as for hope.
The public and private discussion Of
the questions connected with the mo-
nopoly of especial public privileges by
individuals and corporations and the
question as to the monopoly of land,
inextricably interviewer Herewith,
must ere long bear rich fruit for "She
healing of the nations" and binding up
the wounds and bruises and stopping
the aches and means Of the laboring
men and women of the world.
J. DENNIS WOLFE.
Pensacola, Fla.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-04
THE ALLIANCE in ENGLAND

An organization something like the
Farmers Alliance in this country has
recently been perfected in England. It
is called the National Agricultural
Union" and it's leading spirit is the
Earl of Winchilsea.
The causes which brought about this
movement were set forth by the Earl
in a recent speech. They are very sim.
liar to those to which were attributed
the organization Of the Farmers ALI.
ance. The complaint of the English
farmers is that the burdens of taxation
are not fairly distributed and that they
have more than their share to bear.
They demand that they should be re.
lieved from a direct levy for the land
tax, the poor rae and the educational
tax and that these charges should be
paid out of the national treasury by
money raised from a tax on incomes
There is also a demand for stricter
regulation of railroads and a general
reduction of their charges.-AtIang
Journal,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-04
ALLIANCE NOTES.
Letters From the Brethren Boiled Down
for Lack of Space.

tor Lack OF space
BRO. J. @. Butner, of Forsyth
county, writes that it now looks as II
the acts of the last legislature are do,
ing the Alliance good in his section.
Bro. J.. A. Dawson, of Warren
county. writes that he has been buying
goods through the Alliance Business
Agency and has saved a great deal OF
money by doing so.
Bro. J. J. Irwin, of Iredell county,
writes: THE Alliance is here to stay.
7 enclose renewal for THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER, also one dollar to pay back
dues. have been lost ever since my
paper stopped and find that [ can't
keep house without THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER.
Bro. J. w. Pearce, writing from
Coleraine, says the merchants there
abouts speak very uncomplimentary Of
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER. If the
brother will look on the 9TH page of
this paper any week he will see the
secret of their spite at the paper. Bro.
Pearce, tell the merchants that The
PROGRESSIVE FARMER wishes them we'll
and that this is a free country and all
legitimate business is allowed.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-04
LETTER FROM CRAVEN COUNTY.
The Duty of Alliancemen and What Our
Correspondent Suggests.
THURMAN, N. @.

Consequence ~ASSSS
THURMAN, N. @.
Mr.. EDITOR:-I see you request IN
to-day's issue that some one from eacn
county give you the date of the meet
ing Of their respective County Ali
ances so that you may give notice of
the same in your next issue. Craven
County Alliance will meet in the court
house in New Berne on the second
Thursday in April Q3th) I am sor. y
| that politics has caused such a division
in our ranks, and I trust that ere long,
if not already, all partisan feeling and
enmity and backbiting will be allayed
and that we may all stand as a solid
phalanx on Alliance demands and prin-
ciples. We as brethren and co workers
for the welfare of our fellow country
men cannot afford to bo estranged by
partisan politics. | would to God that
every brother of our State Alliance
would adhere strictly to our declara
ton Of purposes and the eight princi-
pies as laid down in the first pages of
our State Constitution, especially the
seventh principle should be a heart
companion for every member, be he a
professed Christian or an infidel, and
the eighth principle should be placed
indellibly on the tablets of our memory.
If the last legislature had been com
posed of men with true hearts, hearts
that were full of love for the poor,
careworn laborers, they would have
adhered strictly to this eighth princi.
pie, and the idea Of repeating the ALI,
Gnce charter would have never crossed
their worthy CD brains. This act of our
worthy CD body OF law makers should
be condemned by all truehearted men,
publicans; and 1 really believe it is al
ready condemned in the hearts of all
true patriots who fully understand the
way in which this bill to repeal the
Alliance charter was manipulated and
stealthily pushed through the house.
Riverdale Alliance, No. 1903, still
lives, and though we have had a few
slices taken off by the heated cam
paign and by having a weak nan for
President, yet | think We are on gain
ing ground, The sea has claimed ard
I think ere long every member can
take the 23d Psalm for his or her chart
and go rejoicing on his way, forgetting
the past and look forward for a more
prosperous future in this life and for
an eternal inheritance in the world to
come.
With gooi will to all mankind of
every political faith, and hoping you
success, l am
Yours fraternally,
G.. L. HARRISON,
President Riverdale Alliance.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-04

soil I think as a rule is unwise. A,
soon as a few warn days come tbs
clover sprouts and rs a rule not a laros
growth of wheat to shield the Glove,
and the first hard freeze kills it.
If you will notice in your wheat field
about all the clover grows in the drill
where the wheat covered and protecta5
it from the frost. My theory is, in
sowing clover seed on gravelly q,
sandy soil, is to wait until the ground
settles in the spring, when the land is
dry enough to drag and not mat the
wheat down. Take a common harrow
and drag the ground and SOW the seed
right after the harrow, then roll ssoon
as you can see the clover. Sow plasta,
as much as you can afford, say from
fifty to two hundred pounds to thu
acre. I think I get enough more wheat
to pay for thu extra labor. The Glove,
is the crop of all crops. It is the farm.
er's friend. You can pasture it, cut i
for hay, cut it for seed and yet many
fertilizing elements are left.
VIM. GARDNER,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-04
President Riverdale Alliance
AND B

Mr.. EDIToR:-The laboring men do
not yet see what the monopolists and
employers have long since seen and
acted upon. The fact that the control
and possession of the land and it's mo-
nopoly over large areas under the laws
giving them private ownership thereof
with exclusive control is really the
| secret of their power and their ability
to dictate terms to the labOrers on their
domain. If the workers of Homestead
could have employed themselves in
digging coal and iron ore and in max
ing coke and charcoal on the unused
and ~unoccupied land i3 the Connells-
vile coal region they would not have
been at the mercy of Frick and Car
negie who, under our present land
laws, are able to act the part of the dog
in the manger and neither use these
bounties themselves o. allow others to
use them except on terms and condi-
tions they may dictate and enforce
under the penalty eviction if their
terms do not meet with full cOmpli-
ance.
How this is done is clearly seen if
you will read intelligentIy on the lines
and between the lines of the following
extract clipped from a daily paper of
this month:
COAL TROUBLES.
P%ITTSBURG, March Is The desperate
condition of the rival coal trade is evi-
denced in the fact that Colonel Sam
Brown is in Washington negotiating
with Alabama operators for 800, 900
tons for the Memphis and New Orleans
markets. Wholesale evictions of the
Monongahela Valley strikers are ex-
pected April 1. They have not paid
house rem for half a year.
Advertisements for new men are be-
ing published all over the country, and
the critical stageOf the big strike seems
to be fast approaching.
Charles lutte claims to have had his
mine, the Cincinnati, at MOnOngahela
City, running since December, and has
10 boats loaded with 25O, 600 bushels
ready for shipment OF the first rise.
He claims that nearly 1000, 900 bush
els are ready for shipment, including
about 100000 from W. H. Browns
Sons
The latter firm said they would ev1ct
all strikers from their houses. They
have already evicted the men at one
mine. But eight mines in the entire
valley are said to be working.
Hundreds of the strikers have secured
work in railroad mines, and are con- |
tributing money for the support of the |
idle ones.
Now this "evicting" process is con
stantly going on all over this country
n Is IN many respects more oppres-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-04-04

The New York Times, commentipp
upon the makeup of Mr.. CleveIands
Cabinet, says: This seems to be a
very strong cabinet for the accomplish.
ment of the task which Mr.. Cleveland
has set before himself. It is distinctly
not a partisan Cabinet, nor even a
party Cabinet such as those politicians
would have wished who think that the
distribution Of patronage is the chief
function of the executive departments
and the chief source of strength for
the party in power" The Times thinks
the appointment of Judge Gresham, a
Republican, to the first place is a de.
cided proof of the Presidents great DO.
litical sagacity. OF Bissell and Lamont
the Times says: "Neither one has been
aplace seeking politician. " mir. Morton
represents the sound money and tariff
reform sentiment of the Northwest. In
a community where sound money has
not always been popular, he has been
a faithful and aggressive advocate Of
that principle" MIR. Olney is a gen,
tleman not we'll known outside of his
own State, Massachusetts, and MT &C.
tive in politics there"