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The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-05-03
1894 Will he a Noted Year.

Usually national questions receive
but little attention i'll the loft years,
as they are called, and the hustings
are made to ring with local or state
issues Such is not the case with this
off year" 1894. 1t promises to eclipse
in every respect the presidential
wears. 1t will to a large extent fore
shadow what will result in 1896, when
the next President of the United States
shall be selected. Congressman are
getting ''shaky," Senators are adjust
ing their horoscopes, while the smaller
''oracles' are preparing all the ammu-
milton possible for the impending
struggle soon to begin.
Local issues will be merged into
those created bv the leaders of the ma
ton, and as over twenty Senators are
to be chosen by the Legislatures which
are to be elected this year, and an en-
tirely new House of Representatives is
to be voted for, a change in the COM
plexion of the Legislative branch of the
country lies in the balance. In the
following summary no detailed men-
ton is made of the congres sional cleo
tons, but these take place in all the
states on Nov. 6. The Senators whose
terms of Office expire March +, 1895.
are John L. Morgan of Alabama;
James H. Berry of Arkansas; Edward
o. Wolcott of Colorado: Anthony Hig-
gins of Delaware: \. H. Colquitt de
ceased) of Georgia: George l.. Shoup
of Idaho; Shelby NJ. Cullom of Illi-
nois; James L. Wilson of Iowa: John
Martin of Kansas; William Lindsay of
Kentucky: Donelson Gallery of Lou
isiana; William p. Frye Of Maine;
George F. Hoar of Massachusetts;
James Mcmillan of Michigan; James
McLaurln of Mississippi; Thomas G.
Power of Montana; Charles +. Man
derson of Nebraska; William f.
Chandler of New Hampshire; John Il.
Mcpherson of New Jersey: NJ. W.
Ransom of North Carolina; Joseph n
Dolph of Oregon: Nathan +. Dixon
of Rhode Island; Matthew c. Butler
of South Carolina; Richard +. Petit
grew of South Dakota: Isham G.. Har-
ris of Tennessee; Richard Coke of
Texas; Eppa Hunton Of Virginia; J.
NJ. Camdet of West Virginia; JOS NJ.
Carey of Wyoming. In addition to
these, vacancies for the terms ending
in 1899 are to be filled by the Legisla-
lures of Wyoming, Montana. and
Washington. Iowa has already elected
Congressman Gear to succeed Senator
Wilson. Virginia has elected Col.
Martin to fill the place of Eppa Hun
ton. Kentucky has chosen Senator
Lindsay to succeed himself. The Leg
islature of Louisiana will also have the
naming of the successor of Judge
| White. Senator Walthall will resume
The senatorship in 1895. So, on the
whole, the sta Legislative contests
will perhaps be of the most import
ance.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-05-03
Color Sensations.

The three primary color sensations
are considered to be red. green, and
violet. Certain mixtures of violet
and green produced blue; red aud
green also give yellow. But it il
important to observe that these are
primary c0lors. though the expires.
sion flights of primary colors" is ad-
Missile. For it is commonly i'm.
agincd that the blue and yellow
mixed in certain proportions produce
various kinds OF green. II yellow
and blue pigments be mixed together
with water the green color produced
is any mixture of blue and yellow
colors. 1t Is the one color which is
not freely absorbed either by the yel-
low or by the blue pigment. The yell
low pigment removes the create,
part Of the blue, indigo and violet
rays; the blue pigment removes the
greater part of the red, orange, and
yellow. Thus the light that finally
escapes is mainly green.
1t is curious to notice, too, that
the sunlight passing through glass of
one color IS not only of that color.
What is called the ordinary solar
spectrum is produced by allowing: a
ray Of sunlight to enter a narrow slit
and piss through one or more prismA
II bit of red glass be held over the
slit the whole length o: the spectrum
is not redeemed; there is no color in
; the spectrum Of the glass when that
color does not exist in the ordinary
; rainbow spectrum. II the red glass
he pretty pure only red and a little
orange are visible in the Spectrum;
all the rest is cut away. Wonderful
is it also that the colors seen ia
natural objects are chiefly rcsiduals
left after internal absorption.
A tulip with green leaves can only
be seen in pure light or In the cor
responding colors of the spectrum.
Ii it Is placed in the red band OF the
spectrum the flower shines brilliantly
red. while the leaves shine dull red,
not green. II moved to any other
band OF the spectrum the red petals
. become black and the green alters
| much. --Longman's Magazine.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-05-03
Make Way For the L.elser.

What's the Masonic fraternity going
to do about Breckenridge? What's the
Presbyterian Church going to do about
Breckenridge? Finally. what is the
Democratic party of his district going
to do about breckenridge? If the
first two don't fire him out and if tho
other re-elects him to Congress they
will place themselves even below his
level, if there is Il depth that far, and
become more contemplate than the
self-confessed liar and libertine. Make
way for the leper!
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-05-03

trusts, the sole leather trust, and all
the nefariCus brood of II rs s, are each
and all of them safely sheltered under
the wings of this audacious cuckoo
bill.
Now. Messeurs Democrats! you fell
lows down in the ranks: you men who
threw your hats and shouted for JOY
when the Chicago Convention courage
ously drove the cuckoos Off the plat
form, and thanked God that at last
the platform expressed your sincere
convictions, what are you going to DO
about it? That is the question the
Republicans are asking with sneers on
their lips, and that is the question
which German. Hill. Murphy, Bricc
and that crowd of fellows are asking
Won with as cock-sure 4 brutality as
Tweed felt and showed when he asked
the same question of the citizens Of
New York City.
Are you going to sit s1lpinelv by and
see YOUR brave promises torn III tatters
and trampled in the dust by 4 few
traitorous Democrats: Are you going
to bear in silence the jibes OF our OPP
ponents? How do you like to have
them read with sneering lips yonr
bill is the redemption Of it? After all
these years of hearty and vigorous de-
nunciation of protection, are you going
to swallow in the hog-wash of Pennsyl-
vania protectionism merely because a
lot of corrupted Senators label the
wallow Democrats?
And you, gentlemen i'll the House,
what are you going to do about it
Will you eat your humble pie? Will
yon let this useless House Of Lords
usurp your provocative of framing rev.
enue bills, and force a protective bill
on you? Will you, with weak coward
ice, after the bill comes from confer
ence, say that it is the best YOU can
get, and swallow it? And if you do,
will you dare to face your constituents
and tell them that?
Will you dare to take the stump and
defend this miserable abortion? What
will you say to those thousands of Re-
publicans whom we led to believe that
we were sincere and trustworthy, and
who gave you their votes i'll tnat conf
dence, when they ask YOU If this bill
redeens the pledges which induced
their votes? How can You convince
them that vou will DO any more or bet
ter another time?
1t makes one sick ut heart, this COW
ardice, this betrayal of a great cause
the cause OF Il greater freedom for men
this cruel waste of all the efforts OF thu
wears; this shameful retreat from
great opportunity.-St. Paul Globe.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-05-03
Surprise at the Number.

In Lvnchburg. not long ago. q
house fell on General Jubal Early.
Something was wrong with a wall
that was being built and it fell in.
Early was under it Every one
thought he was dead, They began
to dig the bricks away TO secure the
mangled remains Finally his head
showed. He was swearing. He
pulled himself out ans walked away,
saying: s'DamMe, ( didn't kno~,
there were 50 many tricks In the
vorldna
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-05-03
4 DisyaSie1 Democrat.

The Senate Finance Committee has
reported to that body The tariff bill on
which it has. with much wet nursing
by the protectionists in and ont OF the
Senate. been incubating for weeks.
TIE free trade egg. laid at Chicago.
has been pushed out of the nest, ANA u
Democratic Congress has Matched u
full-hedgcd protec:ionist cuckoo. The
sugar :rust. the coM and ore AID steel
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-05-03
During the HONEYMOON.

Mr.. Pinks-~Mv wife has no SYM
ra,hy with this female emancipation
movement. She says woman's sphere
is thu, home
Mrs. S.rongmind-"When were you
married."
Mr.. Pinks-"Last week. Puck.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-05-03

The police all over the country are
obstructing the unemployed in their
march to Washington. The only
march these minlons can't stop is one
to the polls with the right kind Of
ballots next fall. Let the laborers,
both employed and unemployed, try
that method once and see if it won't
work better.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-05-03

The public debt statement for March
issue on April ; is forerunner of
prosperity. 1t shows the decrease in
the cash for the month of March to he
81, 172,3}?. The interest money debt
Is given at S634, O49. $50. an increase
during the month of $9,OG8,93 The
total debt on March l, 1894, was ST.
G3l ,O25, 13l, and the net increase for
the month is given by the Secretary at
S13, 7S6, 063. No one need hunt around
for any better evidence of the prosper
ity gold RECEPTION is bringing upon
the country. If the White House Au-
tocrat will be liberal with his vet
power he can increase this debt to
$15. 600, 900 in April.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-05-03
Cut Down Salaries.

We are glad to notice that move
ment is being made to reduce the sala-
ries of all public officers. This Is per-
feetly proper. Owing to the fall in
prices and contraction of the volume
of money, We are paving exorbitant
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-05-03

avn Hail.
II we obey Christ 1t is proof that
we know Him.
No MAN seeks his best who does
not seek God firSt.
THE labor OF unbelicf Is to make q
stone look like bread.
PRAYING at people is never prompt
ed by the Holy Spirit
NOTHING but the body of q so d
man can be put in a coffin.
TO SEEK God is every mans high.
est duty and greatest privilege.
Try to keep Gods law and you will
soon find out that He made it.
Ir keeps the devil busy to hold his
own against praying mother.
ALL God-given rights stop when
they touch those of q neighb0r.
EVERY good man makes rnwritten
laws that somebody has to follow.
WHENEVER you speak evil of an.
other you are sure to hurt yourself.
To SAY Our Father" with tho
heart is a prayer for the whole earth.
THERE are q great many people
who get religion who do not get
Christ
VIZ will never do much for Others
until we find out that God gave His
son to die for rs.
No MATTER what we claim, unless
we hIte vice with the whole heart we
do not love God.
BECAUSE Jesus Christ has been in
the grave, every man who will may
have eternal life.
''Ho, EVERY ono that thirsteth,"
is the call Of the Spirit to the man
who knows not God.
THE devil loves the man whose
mule has an easier time than his
wife. no matter whether he belongs
to church or not.
WHAT do you suppose angels think
Of the man who will say "llallOwed
be thy name" in church. and then
20 to the polls and help the dram
shop.
DURING the hundred and twenty
years that Noah was building the
ark, every time nail was driven il
meant that Judgment was coming,
but God was still willing to he
gracious.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-05-03

The Congressional committee APP
pointed to investigate Judge jenkins
have closed the work in Milwaukee
and returned to Washington. The
principal disclosure developed, was,
that the notorious decision was written
by ex-United States Senator John G.
Spooner, one of the receivers of the
Northern Pacific. and that Judge Jen-
kins had about four minutes possess
sion of the document. This, in one
particular, lines Jenkins up with
Breckenridge. for his sin consists large
ly in being found out. It furnishes,
however. big lead to where most of
our decisions and law eminate from.
Keep thinking.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-05-03

weak and even broken in many places,
but You have kept it tied together
with few official patronage whangs.
For long time it has only needed II
little shaking to make it fall off of
You.
But be easy. No new party will be
formed. AS the old CALLING harness
falls Off Of your sensible people. like
honest people released from q hateful
burden, they will lift their heads with
a degree of pride they have not known
for years. and step into the ranks of
the Peoples party with men no better
than themselves, perhaps, but who
saw the truth and acted upon it few
years sooner.
Gentlemen, we welcome You in adj
vance. Talk new party rs much as
YOU please. Kick Grover rs long as
it feels good, and knock the old ma
chine into smithereens. Well use its
splinters to light bonfire next No.
vember. -ProSressive Farmer.
Sense and Nonsense.
Is it common sense for the Govern
ment to sell bonds and create a debt
of 500, 900, 900 when there is 500, O0O:-
900 worth of silver bullion living idle
in the Treasury? Is it horse sense for
Uncle Sam to ask the bankers Of New
York to take $55,OOO,OOO in bonds.
which creates an interest bearing debt
to that amount to pay, when there is d
crying need for more currency and
$50, OOO,O 900 in greenbacks would be
absorbed by the country in jiffy and
answer the same purpose as this bond
sale. creating no debt and no interest ?
Is there any common homemade
sense in the Government creating q
debt, selling bonds and buying gold in
effort to create a gold reserve and at
tempting to maintain gold redemption
when for the last half a century tho
gold exports have been against us.
thereby making it impossible, practi-
cally, to sustain gold redemption? Is
it sense of any grade for the Govern
ment to uphold the bankers, money
boomers and money gamblers to the
detriment of the producers and masses
of the people? This is what Mr..
Cleveland is doing. Is it even lunatic
! asylum sense for Government to
contract its currency in the midst of {.
| panic caused 10y Il lack of circulation.
and under these conditions sell bonds
and create debt to meet the current
expenses of the Government? Are
the jackson Democrats expected 70
| sustain this criminal government pol
icy?
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-05-03


AGAIN..do the special dispatches an
nounce fear that the gold reserve
cannot be maintained. for it has got
down to $1O6, 100000 already. More
bonds, more bonds
WHAT's the matter with Waite? He's
all right. If men want to cross his
state enroute to Washington, they
will meet no interference from his
hands. On to Washington!
CoxEy is a brave man to be march
ing right on to Washington in the
face of a fool tariff debate. To have
to listen to that is worse than hunger,
cold and dreary tramps through the
mud.
Mrs. YERKEs. wife of the Chicago
Street Railroad Millionaire who paws
taxes on only $4,000 worth of prop
erty, has q bathroom in their new
mansion that cost $4,000. This
amount would pay for 6OO.O gallons
of soup, such as Chicago laborers are
now living on. Whoop her up for
Cleveland and Sherman.
CoxEY's petition with boots ON is
the John Brown crusade of the new
movement. John Brown was hanged
for trying to free the slaves and the
people who hanged him turned aroun,l
and freed the slave themselves. Coxey
will never be hanged for trying to free
80. 200. 900 of white industrial slaves.
The Pinkerton or Carnegie thug that
levels gun at his head will drop dead
the moment he tries 1.-THE Road.
A DAY OF retribution is coming: a
day OF reckoning is nigh at hand. The
people will smite their enemy. In
their wrath this great crime will be
avenged. Standing as I do. in the
night OF the nineteenth century, and
looking toward the dawn OF the TWEEN
tieii, see coming wave of fire and
blood. I pray God that it may spend
its force on the sea. Behind me is
Rome, and before me God alone, in his
infinite wisdom, knows.-W. 4. PETER
IN United States Senate.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-05-03

Good Times Coming is how the
big lailies head their commercial re-
ports late. and Dun's Agency sugars
up its statistics accordingly. Facts
are, the ring is singing another lullaby
to snare what gold is now safely locked
up by uneasy holders, into letting it
out where they can rope it in. Men
vino are clearly on the trail of what is
Ill the wind are converting every pos
sible security and evidence of indebt
edness into gold and sailing it down.
Some people may kick about this line
Of talk. but We happen to know of
some pretty astute tinanciers who are
doing this very thing to-day. and it is
more general than the press are will
ing to acknowledge. The truth is.
that two or four months from now
Washington bids fair TO be in the
hands OF provisional government at
instance OF the foreign creditors. whose
banker agents are laying their wires
right now to make run on the treas
ury. present legal tender and other Sc
curities to drain out the last dollar O.
gold, then appoint receiver, before
any steps can be taken TO prevent.
Tuck this suggestion away in youl
memorandum book for a few weeks.
ius: as a matter OF reference Chicago
EXPRESS.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-05-03
When These Things Happen.

Coxev IS on the march now. but the
grand III .rch comes off this fall.
When the people begin to march en-
masse to the polls plutocracy will
tremble.
When revolution opens up in earn
est, gold reserves won't be worth a
rush.
When the PEOPLE decide for once to
chop o fl this English Rothchild money
monster, the day for vetoes will have
passed.
When patience ceases to be q virtue
and necessity takes hold of the forces,
what will all your theories about a
sound and stable currency amount to :
When the present storm now gath
ering gets near enough for the rum
blings Of the thunder to be heard, plu-
tocracy will stop taking Sound and
stable currency" and take to the
woods.
Don't allow yourself to be deluded,
for as sure as night follows day so sure
will this prophecy come true. The
people are patient and long suffering
but the limit has been reached. Fol
days and weeks and years We have
been sounding the alarm and calling
on the patriots of our cou; ,ry to rail-,
to the rescue. Though the heed has
been slow, it is surely coming @Ameri
cans will never submit to slavery
They will wade in blood up to theil
wristbands. yea die in the bitches o
CORY battle, before they will yield tho
heritage bequeathed them by the faith
er of the republic. Whether the re
lief sought for shall come by thu
peaceful means of the ballot. OR b,
blood and carnage on the field Of bat
tie. rests with those now ut the helm
of state.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-05-03
TRUMPET CALLS.
Rams Horn Sounds Warning Note -
the Cnredeemed.

III III - tue
strength of God.
PREJUDICE il
blind from birth.
IT Lever helps
sin any to wash
Its face.
ALL offers Of
salvation are in
the pres c n t
tense.
A MODERATE
drinker is the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-15
A Word Picture OF Thackeray.


need scarcely say that when he was not
in a techy temper, caused by extreme phys
ical anguish. writes G. A. Sala, Thackeray
was one of the most delightful conversa-
tionists 1t was possible to imagine. There
were very few subjects indeed on which he
could not talk. and talk admirably. He was
as fluent in the French and in the German
az in the English language. He had.
should say, o fair knowledge Of Italian. He
was never tired Of discoursing about books
end bookmen, about pictures and painters,
about etchers and engravers and lftho-
graphers; and, moreover, he was u born Wit
and a brilliant eplgrammatist. So We walk
ed and talked. by hustling Knightsbridge in
to crowded Piccadilly; and, halting just op-
posite Morers the well-known Italian ware
house, Thackeray observed that he was
about to order some wine.
He made me a bow which, in its sweep
ing stateliness, would have done honor to
Sir Charles Grandson; concurrently giving
me his hand, which was cold enough to
have belonged to a professor Of swimming
who had just emerged from his tank, and
then he stalked over the way, leaving in
my mind a perplexed impression that he
had suddenly forgotten who / was, or that,
knowing me, he had arrived at the conciu-
sion that was a confounded bore, and that
the sooner he got rid Of me the better 1t
would be
When I came to know him intimately,
fully understood the reason for these sud-
"'standofisSness." Il was only his way.
He could not help that which probably was
due either to an acute epasm OF bodily pain,
or the sudden passing OF a black cloud
could be upon occasion full Of fun and
frolic. was not. should say. on the whole.
altogether a happy man. From Things I
Have Seen and People Have Known"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-15

A Scheme to Increase the Flow and
Pressure of Natural Gas.

A Scheme to Increase the Flow and
Pressure Of Natural Gas.
From the Pi,tsburg Dispatch.
what is known as the Heckert-Rowland
plan for generating natural gas in the bow
els of the earth is about to be given a
practical demonstration in Findlay, Ohio
The necessary pumps and engines are now
being erected on the site of the old wether-
aid rolling mills in the northeastern part Of
the city. This is in the vicinity of several
abandoned gas wells, which will be utilized
fer conducting the experiments. The theory,
which was evolved by William Heckert, q
well-known mechanical engineer, at present
a member Of the F'indlay city council. will
work a revolution in the natural gas region
II II proves practical
Heckert proposes, by means of powerful
pumps to force air down into the gas-bear-
ing rocks, which 1t will permeate, and
thereby become infused with the active
properties OF the gas itself. 1t is contended
that as now burned for fuel, the natural
gas requires an admixture of nine parts of
air to one part Of gas. and that this mixing
can as well be done In the earth as in the
stove or in the furnace where II is burned.
The great trouble in the gas region is not
so much the decrease In the volume OF gas
as the decrease In the pressure. This has
fallen or IN a large portion OF the Ohio
field, from 400 pounds. at which II started,
to ~ to 80 pourds and this is found to be
insufficient to convey the gas from the wells
through the system OF pipes to the point Of
consumption. The friction takes up all the
initial pressure.
By Heckert's process this lost pressure
will be re-established. His air pumps, con-
stantly at work, will force enough air down
one hole to create a pressure sufficient to
force the remaining gas, mixed with the
air, out OF several other holes, and give 1t a
strong initial pressure In the pipes. The gas
thus formed, or charged with air, will be
ready for burning with little additional
mixture of air at the point of combustion
1t is also claimed by Heckert that air thus
pumped down into the rock, and passing
over end through the pools Of oil which are
now almost universal in the Trenton rock
in this section. will take up the volatile gas
Of the oil and force II up the convenient
wells ready for use.
Inside of a month or two the preparations
for the trial OF this important theory Will
be made