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14 THE ALLIANCE-IND kfENDENT. The LlttU Life. O lost delight! How chill and gray The breath and bloom of summer day. In robin's Bong there lurks a moan, The breeze takes on a sobb)n? tone, Since baby died. O vanished Joy! The hours thrice blessed When closely to my bosom pressed The flaxen head. And now the smart Of lightened arms, and weighted heart Slnco baby died. O mother love! To dream, to wait, To hope, to bear, to bless my fate, Then death. Of what avail to rave? There still remains the little grave, Since baby died. O pure, sweet life! Thy fragrance rare Still lingers in the silent air. Like voiceless prayer it lulls my pain, And frozen grief drops down in rain. Since baby died. Russian Fatalism. The Russian peasant is like a child, ignorant of the practical bearings of events and utterly unable to cope with them. Yet he never loses his faith in God. During the famine, when the peasantry were living, or rather dying, ori bread niade of pigweed, chaff, and other equally nutritious and more noisome articles, they endured in sub mission. "God's will is at the bottom of it," said they. "He gave and He takes away." A writer in Temple Bar gives the following illustration of their fatalism, and the excuses they invaria bly find for inaction. One day, a Russian village official was riding with me in search of some strayed horses. The black soil was like dust, and he sighed heavily as his mare sank in the light stuff. "Ah," he said, "what land is this? It is like a woman broken with sorrow. How can she find loxf for her child?" "Has it been so all summer?" I asked. "Not so, indeed. There was frost fci the spring, and men said 'Frost and fair weather. But then came the dry ness, and though mass was said in fields, it went to nothing. And then we dug up the drunkards " "The what?" "The drunkards, your honor. Often it is, that when the' drunkards are pulled out of their graves, and flung into pools of water, that rain will come; we know not why. But not only rain came, but hail and fierce storm and fire, and withered the little that was grown. Then after that, dryness again, and now," he shrugged his shoulders, "the famine." i "Must there be a famine?" I asked. "Surely," he said with a smile, "the grain wo have is soon eaten, and then what?" "Will no provision be made for the future?" "Who should make provision? Now we can buy much and eat mnch; after wards, well, the little father will not see us die?" So depending on the Czar and pub lic charity, they rest content in making no provision for, the future. Slavery In Kentucky. In the Shelbys of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" we may find, as we are told by the author of "The Blue Grass Region," types of Kentucky's most kindly slave ijoiaeriv Tbeit. Here Jvmw tadjsg uals who lamented what they felt to be ihe destiny of the negro, and en deavered to make their rule over him a sort of paternal government. As a general thing the field hands were al lowed to work leisurely, and are de scribed by an observer as "loitering in the fields." On one occasion, a gang of them dropped work entirely to run after a rabbit the dogs had startled, and a passer-by indignantly reported the fact to the master. "Sir," replied the old gentleman, hotly, "I'd have whipped the last ras cal of 'em if they hadn't run 'im!" It often happened that the negro head-servant on the farm was a sterner censor of public morals than his mas ter. Such an "Uncle Tom" once told his master that a keg of lard had been stolen, and named the thief and hiding place. "Don't say a word about it," said the master. Next day, he rode into the field where the culprit was plowing, got down from his horse and walked along beside the man. "What's the matter, William?" he asked after a time. "You can't look me in the face as usual." Then William began to cry and con fessed his theft. "Come to-night," said the master, "and I will arrange so that you can put the lard back. Nobody shall know that you took it." So, somewhat to tho disapproval of the zealous head-servant, tho culprit was shielded from punishment. Discovered. The other passengers in the street car looked at Helen Martin with open approval. She saw the pleasant glances, and did not guess that they were called out by her own sweet smile and merry eyes. She was thinking as she glanced dovm at a neat brown paper bundle that she carried, "How mortified, how awfully mortified I should be, if all these people, who think how elegant I look in my new spring gown with my hat and gloves and parasol to match, could tell from the appearance of this bundle that it is a pound of cold ham!" There is no denying that Helen was a little rain in her pretty clothes, and that she hated to carry queer-looking bundles, but it must be said for her that she had offered cheerfully to bring home that cold ham for supper. Suddenly she was dismayed to see that the neat package was neat no longer. Great grease spots had ap peared all over it. She signaled to a newsboy, and in a moment had the teltale spots covered under an evening paper. S'ic stared out of the window with a haughty air, which she hoped would counteract the inelegant effect of the newspaper bundle. Then she heard "Wough! Wough!" and realized that every one was looking at her with an amused smile. What could it mean? There in front of her, sniffing wistfully at her care fully disguised bundle, was a little dog, standing on his hind feet, and "beg ging" as prettily as possible. Her cold meat secret was discovered. Only one passenger in the car failed to join in the general laughter, and that was the hungry little dog, not Helen. lie Was Born. Prof. Tinkitunk You told me your son was a born musician. Why, if he had a hand-organ tuned lo play Old Hundred he couldn't get more than 66 1 out of it Old Man John Of course he is a born musician. Did you think he was hatche or grew on a tree? At the firand Central Depot. , Young Lady Mister Conductor, will 1 have time to say good-bye to my friends? Conductor Guess not; miss, this train leaves in two hours and a half. Twas Sifting. 4 A" Grade $35. ALLIANCE LEAGUE. "A" Have You Sean Our Hew Catalogue for 1892 ? It contains more valuable in formation to the page than any catalogue you ever saw. We can't begin to tell you about it in this small space. Send your GRANGE. name and p- - address and get one iree. iuu win ue sur prised and pleased at what you get. We're Headquarters for everything on Wheel : BUGGIES, WAGONS. SURRIES, ROAp CARTS HARNESS, SADDLES. SALESROOMS AND FACTORY : Sycamore and Canal Sts., A" Grade $40. UNION. PATRONS. F. M. B.A. Grade 846. M A" Grade S72.50 ALLIANCE CARRIAGE CO., CINCINNATI, OHIO. HY THE QLcOBE IS WQ. w AjjA THB GLOBE TSvj t TBS USES NO OIL HAS ROLLER BEARINGS. HAS CHILLED IRON BOXES. REQUIRES NO ATTENTION. HAS A SOLID WHEEL. THE GLOBE IS AN ALL STEEL ANDIRON MILL, AND HAS THE LEAST NUMBER OF WEARING PARTS. THE GLOBE HAS MORE POWER THAN ANY WHEEL OF ITS SIZE IN THE MARKET, AND CAN BE BUILT ON A SOLID TOWER, AND WILL ALWAYS BE FOUND WHERE PLACED. THE GLOBE IS THE LIGHEST, SAFEST AND EASIEST RUNNING MILL WHEEL IN THE MARKET, AND DOES NOT MAKE THREE REVO LUTIONS TO GET ONE STROKE OF THE PUMP. THE GOLBE IS THE IDEAL MILL FOR THE FARMER, THE STOCKMAN AND THE IRRIGATOR. BUY ONLY THB GLOBE. GEO. W. HOFFSrADT State Agent, 707 O Street, Lincoln. KTe"b. Please Mention This Paper. 1886 1892. Farm ers Supply & Grain Co. OFFICE 511 CHAMBER COMMERCE BUILDING. D. M. FULWILER, Bus. Act. F. A. A I. U. General Manager, CHICAGO, III. General Mercantile and Grain Husiaess, OFDER GOODS FPOVl FEADQUtFTEFS- WHY NOT SHIP YOUR OWN GRAIN. We have successfully demonstrated that the farmer can do his own shipping and save money. He pays the same freight as the local grain dealer, is at the same expense in selling, ge s the same prices and saves the dealers profit. Load a car, bill to us and we will do the rest and make prompt returns. Should you desire you can draw on us for three-fourths the home value, and attching draft to bill of lading. We send market reports on application. . Many farmers are now shipping grain to us-why not make a trial shipment of a car and find out if direct shipment will benefit your . . Cppsign tho Cftr find mail bill of lading to our address. T