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OaU I Rational . . . y Wl BUSINESS COLLEGE, "RIALTO BLD'O.. NEXT TO POUT OFFICE," KAKSAS Citt, MO. - Moat Practical Baalneee M rn In the Went. Shorthand. Typewriting, liook keeping and Telegraphy. Shorthand bjMall, Three lesriona free. Send for our SPECIAL IsUMMEK OFFEK. you 1 iHajI'Iu Aetillir ! I.IK Olltttln pi-vit rrjjl I Lrint IiiMjrMi ii hHAr 1 v,m of .11 trull miir: . !. 4-im M'J lull U&tlH4 t iViM mi.milL.Qmncy.lli. J , CtritilW ti. XV THE KIRKWOOD Steel Wind Engine Hm been In line ulnce Tt ll the PIONEER 8TEEI MILL- It ha eMy?T, SlftENdTH. DURA. BILIir, POWER; H ll the bent; hence the rulil for you to buy. Thounauoa have them I Our Steel powers Dave 4 angle iteel corner ponta. itibatantlal atel iru and tiraoea; not fence wire. They re LIGHT, STRONG, SIMPLE IN CONSTRUCTION- WW cheaper UiR'i wood arid will lakt a life time I Our mill and tower are ALL STKEL and are FULLY GUARANTEED. Write for price and circular. Addren, Mentioning thl a paper. KIRKWOOD WINO EN6INE CO.. Arkansas City- Kansas. FURNAS COUNTY HERD r BIG BERK HOGS AND Holstein Cattle. Thirty-five bows bred for anrlng farrow, four mains of June farrow ana a few fall pig's at price, to suit the times, H.S WILLIAMSON, Beaver City, Neb Hog Cholera Cured Gretna, Neb., Nov. 18, '93. I here by certify that Henry Combs operated on my hogs in August last and since the operation I have nver had my hogs do so well. I believe it to be a good pre ventative against all diseases. I also believe it to be to the intrefit of every hog raiser to try it as the cost is very little. M. J. Gillespie. Address, Henry Comes, Utb, and Cuming St, Omaha, Neb. FREE SILVER PEERLESS fc. w av . y - m a mi jtaL. . 0 FEED eppressions of the usurers may all be GRINDERS108 slnt of- TbeT propose to sacrifice .WW make a Farmer Happ. Orlnda more Kruln to an; egree of ihieneHa than air V ntho milt t iwi.im u. . jr vain, eio, iuh) enotiKO ror We warrant the PKKItLKHS to he the ' HM "KST !W I I.I, ON EARTH I Write Uft At una tnr nnn Tbvr. is taomf in uii. mm. mil onl by th. JOLIET'STROWBRIDGE CO.. Jollet. III. DR. MCGREW la the only SPECIALIST WHOTBIATS ALL PRIVATE DISEASES and DEBILITIES of MEN ONLY. Woman deluded. 18 yeare experience 1'lrculara free. 14th and Farnam Sta. U31A8A, Ml TT F. M. WOODS. Fine Stock Auctioneer. 1203 oat., ktpeolpifieb Tourist from Utnneaots Feint. Commencing Ootohor 5th, a TourUt car leave MiunoajK)'! t v ry Thursday murtiliu' auJ run li l'uuhlo aoii via Albert I, trt Columhua Junction, ar rivlu,! at 11)? p. m. an t thuro cnKHSt with our C. R I. A l train No. 13 which will hold at that (mint fur ar rival of the li. C. It. A N. trla carry In f'al cr, and via Kau.aa City arrlv at I'ui bh at-tH'Sit moraine, llclolog Ov)Wib.r lOla, Tonrlat ctr will Uave Albert Ia every 't uUy mirt"s; and run via Mlnnanu!i A Ml Luui lly, thrwuirn Angus to Ik Moiiwt, arming al mtt, and In? tr and K) token wmtn H!g Five" rl day HfreUn', and run via Omaha, I.U iNiin and ltUvtll to I'uxbin Hark, C(4u.m A Ct, r ha4ttar Ui re U ,ku slew fer IMik Uarruai, Cultivator, H J A Ilok l!au4 I.U U ta Iiruaa liaatof. CaltlvaWtrt, & h'!h Cutter, ft g-aula GlMdwa barb wlr, fr. Iota a Hi, 5c ass. OC It NATIONAL PLATFORM. The Feople'a Party Platform Adopted at Omaha July 4, 1802. Assembled upon the 116th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the People's party of America, in their first national convention. Invoking upon their action the blessings of Almighty God, puts forth In the came and on be half of the people of this country the folloy ing preamble and declaration of principles: PREAMBLE. The conditions which surround us best justify our co-operation. We meat la the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material rnin. Corruption dominates the ballot box, the legislatures, the congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. The people are demoralized; most of the states have been compelled to Iso late the voters at the polling places to pre ventunlversal intimidation or brl bery. The newspapers are largely sub sidized or muzzled, publio opinion silenced; business prostrated; our homes covered with mortgages; labor Impover ished and the land concentrating in the hands of capitalists. The urban work men are denied the right of - organiza tion for self protection; Imported pau perlzed labor beats down their wages, a hireling standing army, unrecognized by our laws, Is established to shoot them down; and they are rapidly do- generating into European conditions. The fruits of the toll of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal for tunes for a few, unprecedented In the hostory of mankind; and the possessors of these, la turn, despise the republic and endanger liberty. From the same prollflo womb of governmental injustice we breed the two great classes tramps and millionaires. The national power to create money Is appropriated to en rich bondholders. A vast public debt, payable in legal tender currency, has been funded into gold-bearing bonds, thereby adding millions to the burdens of the people. Silver, which has been accepted as coin since the dawn of history has been demonetized to add to the purchasing power of gold by decreasing the value of all forms of property as well as hu man labor, and the supply of currency Is purposely abridged to fatten usurers, bankrupt enterprise and enslave indus tries. A vast conspiracy against man kind has been organized on two conti nents and It Is rapidly taking possession of the world. If not met and over thrown at once, It forebodes terrible social convulsions, the destruction of civilization or the establishment of an absolute despotism. We have witnessed for more than quarter of a century the struggles of the two great political parties for power aad plunder, while griev ous wrongs have been mnictea upon a sunering people, we onarge that the controlling Influences dominat ing both these parties have permitted the existing dreadful conditions to de velop, without serious efforts to prevent or restrain them. Neither 4o they now promise as any substantial reform. They have agreed together to ignore, n the coming campaign, every issue but one. They propose to drown the outcries of a plundered people with the uproar of a sham battle over the tariff, ao that capitalists, corporations, nation al banks, rings, trusts, watered stock, ths demonetization of silver and the our homes, lives and children on the altar of mammon; to dostroy the multi tude in order to secure corruption tunas from the millionaires. Assembled en the anniversary of the birthday of the nation and filled with the spirit of the grand generation which established our independence, we seek to restore the government of the republic to the hands of "the plain people," with whom it originated. a We assert our purposes to be identical with the purposes of the national con stitution: "To form a more perfect union, establish Justice, insure domes tlo tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and Bcsure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity." We declare that this republic can only sndure as a free government while built upon the love of the whole people for each other and for the nation; that it cannot be pinned together by bayonet; that the civil war is over and that every pasalon and resentment which gre ot it must die with it, and that we must be in fact as we are in same, the united brotherhood of free men. Our country find tUelf confronted by eondillon for which there I no prece dent In the history of the world; our annual agricultural productions amount to billion of dollar In value, which snuit within a few wei lta or months be exchanged for bililoniof dollar, of com aiodlllea mututned la tttelr firoducttoc; theeilating currency supply U wholly UadeuaU ta make thl thang; the mutt are falling prion, the furmatlun of coraola aad (lag and the lu ptmrtahiaoat of the proluulag ola. We tJrdg euraailve thai, tf glvon power, v wt!l Ulr tiwrvt t, vU by Ui atel rtui! U'w ally la o.KtM with tee Wru, I our 4alorm, W betUve that Ut pvr of gpvraat -la etber word, of tea pol-h(Kil4 U iand4 (a la U of the bottal service) as rapidly and as far as the! good sense of an intelligent people and I ll m t - . ... iuo vracuiarjs oi experience snail justiiy, to the end that oppression, injus tice and poverty shall eventually cease In the land. While our sj mpathles as a party of reform are nr.turally upon the side of every proposition which will tend to make men Intelligent, virtuous and temperate, we nevertheless regard these questions, important as they are, aa secondary to ue great issues now pressing for solution, and upon which not only our individual prosperity, but the very existence of free institutions depend; and we ask all men to first help us to determine whether we are to have a republic to administer, before we differ as to the conditions upon which It is to be administered. Believ ing that the forces of reform this day organized will never cease to more forward until every wroig is remedied, and equal rights and equal privileges securely established for all men and women of the country, therefore: WE DECLARE lrst That the union of the labor forces of the United States, this day consummated, shall be permanent and perpetual. May Its spirit enter Into all hearts for the salvation of the republic and the uplifting of mankind. Seoond Wealth belongs to him who creates it, and every dollar taken from industry without an equivalent is rob bery. "If any will not work, neither shall be eat." The Interests of rural and civic labor are the same; their eno mies identical. Third We believe that the time has come when tho railroad corporations will either own the people or the people mus own the railroads, aid should the government enter upon the work of owning and managing any or all rail roads, we should favor an amendment to the constitution by which all persons engaged la the government service shall be placed under a civil service regulation of the most rigid character; so as to prevent the increase of the power of the national administration by the use of such additional government employees. PLATFOR9I. We demand a national currency, safe, sound and flexible, issued by the gene ral government only, a full legal tender tor all debts, publio and private, and that without the use of banking corporations; that a just, equit able and efficient means of distribution direct to the people, at a tax not to ex ceed two per cent, per annum, to be provided, as set lorth in tbe subtreasury plan of the Farmers' Alliance, or some better system; also by payments in dis charge ef Its obligations for publio im provements. We demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1. We demand that the amount of circu lating medium be speedily increased to not less than $50 per capita. We demand a graduated Income tax. We believe that the moneys of the country should be kept as much as pos sible in the hands of the people, and hence we demand that all state and national revenues shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the govern ment, economically and honestly ad ministered. We demand that postal savings banks be established by the government, for the safe deposit of the earnings of the people,. and to facilitate exchange. Transportation being a means of ex change and a public necessity, the gov ernment should own, and operate the railroads in the interest of the people. The telegraph and telephone, like the postoffice system being a necessity for transmission of news, should be owned and operated by the government in the interest of tho people. The land, including all the natural resources of wealth, Is the heritage of all tbe people, and should not be mono polize d for speculative purposes, and alien ownership of land should be pro hibited. All land now held by rail roads and other corporations in excess of their actual needs, and all lands now owned by aliens, should be reclaimed by tho government and held for actual settlers only. If you want anything in tho Uc of garden seed you ar vry particular If you don't find it described la the large advertisement df The Alliance Soul Co. on page 8. It apouks for iUulf. Thl 1 a rwllublo company and you can get jut what they advertise by writing them stating whore you have avon. their ''ad." Their prices are a wonder, Unlike the Dutch Process rrn n Alkalis V Oilier ('liemleah Cf IV, ll VHKltJHU.-S fPreakfastCocoa ' o kitk U efi l 1,1 l, ! m4 er'., Mi tk..Mi.M iMrwiiwe ' 14. !.; uf M.l4 ", atvt l.r a. h.tttt. 1. (a m t wp, ll M del, tuua, H..i.tHg, e4 UU( IU4IIM att if tNi tita4., W. SAKfa 4 CO , Ik rchr.ur, H , T5 1 1 lift. rill ft I. Ill J T,M , r, Til L I1 LA bT OF IAI 0 S. A CUSTOM AS OLD AS CHRIS TIANITY. Inaugurated bv I In Exile The the Symbol i Noble Cointr.l While Eg"- Una More Keen of Beetored Ifappl Many hundred years ago there liveii a goou ana uouio woman wiioae name wart Frau Rosalinda von Lindenburg, In those days a cruel war was laylDg waste the land.and she had to fly from her home iu the dead of night, with her two children. At first bhe knew not where to go, but her old 6erving- niaa begged her to go with him to his own people, who lived In a little min ing village awny, hidden In the Harz mountains. No the noble countess put hei-Kelf in his care, and his broth era nnd felsters were very kind to the poor wanderers, tdok tliein in and gave them the best tliey had. Hut the best they had was very poor, and, at first, the dainty-reared woman ana children camo near starving. liiere was no meat, no fish, and uot even an egg; und this last for the good reason that there was not a fowl in the settlement These demestie fowls that seem so common to us, and that we see everywhere, at first came from the far east, and had at thnt time only lieen seen in large cities and towns. Ana mcho mountain folks liait never even heard of such "strange birds." no me countess decided to repay their kindness. Hhe secretly sent her old Hervaut down to their old home, lucre he found the castle almost wholly destroyed, but was lucky enough to gather up a large number of the chickens that still roosted about their old homo. lie brouirht thein up to the mountain and great was the surprise of all the peasants as they saw tiie queer liirus. Hut a few weeks afterward they were still more astonthhed and de lighted, for a young brood of chicks was shown to them by tho kind count ess, t), how the villuire children laughed and clapped tltcir hands at the sight of the ollttle, downy, bright- eyed creatures, who were so strong and spry, and who followed the old hen about to pick up their food ou the very day they came out of their shells. Huch a contrast to the blind, bald, ugly little fledglings that they saw iu the nest in the hedges. Now the countess saved up her eggs until she had enough for a feast, when she invited all the housewives to come to taste the new food, and learn how to prepare it At the close of the feast she gave each family a number of fowls to take home aud use for her family. , When Easter came, she was anxious to do something for the children, and ll occurreu to ner tuat as the egg was the sign of new life it would be a nice thing to have an egg festival for the children's Easter treat. Ho she took mosses and roots, and with them colored some of tho eirirs sayintr that "the earth laid aside her mantle of snow in the spring, and Uod himself made the fruit and berries not only good to eat, but pleasant to look upon.," On Easter Sunday, after the villag ers had met for their simple service, she called all the little ones, and after talking pleasantly to them for a while, she led them into a grove near by. There she told them to play about,and pretend they were little birdies, and make themselves some cute little nests. Then she called them to her house, or cottage, and gave them a little feast of the best she could prepare. It was only some nice milk-soup, with cooked eggs, and egg cakes. When they had finished their feast they heard a great whistling, and coo ing, and squeaking in the grove where they had left their nests. What could be the matter? The children ran back to see, and lo! in every nest there were live beautiful colored eggs, and on one of these a little rhyme was painted. Imagine the surprise and delight of these simple children. They talked among themselves and wondered where they came from. "What a strange hen it must be to lay eggs of so many colors!" said one. "Oh, I do not think that hens lay such hard eggs," said another. But a third one said: "I ua sure it was that dear little hare I saw jumping out from behind the bushes where I made my nest" This idea seemed to please the little ones uud they ull shouted together: "Yes, yes tlu little hare laid the colored e if U si" And they kept ou re peating it until they begun to be lieve it Not long afterward, a the countea i.t talking to tho children, who wax it that tho little daughter saw turning up the moutitain? It wn the dear father, the husband whom tltty all thought in u-t lileud. And nnlu eutim to them on tltia lintcr day It was an- other rvaM.ti why the euuiiW' hived the day and wUhe.t lo Imvo It ahvaya lelebrwL-t. i N-i win ii she went tin t v. itti her litikbaml and eliiMivu to r build their old hoiite ahi left a utt uf inuiiey U etpvu.iVtl iu giving the t hUtlrvn uu l.asl. r j,g-fiut pvery yvar, M alvi ktart'l tin- fuvhi.'ii uf tht) "rfe'tf -ft-aat" in U r own dutfhy, and ao it grw, and by dfgrvw Urn t unti iu irx-aU alt over the UmI, ami theegir. Wi at leu if Hi U im t uf ) uUil f reUtrUrt to hiiit and rvlrniititH frotn iu. The t'uliuii ha r. v ti oar tntti country, but I tbiit uune t it irruaa iMUIrvtt ttUv th.t! tlterg4 o fold by Ut t.mid tittle hrn M A. V trrMt, AM HUM lenallt- Utfriill .Mut htr lenu-rUiBStijf ti.iti - MI( tk.tllvf Why v Jrt'H jeltiiitf ttk a v. IM Ih.Iiui.1 and Ui I Ing yvir littin trt.theri l'Mttlia'itttnj (n t the Uihiv -nU t didn't kftu th v H'l Mil i a U e. la tb Dead Hand. They tell the tale unsmiling, Old men, their hour beguiling Aa they can; Each annual November They sadden who remernbor Inkermacn.1 Yet of that field one atory bbluee through tbe gloom and glory Of the flgbt; Over tbe cannona' roaring There linga a htrk-eoiig soaring Out of sight Aloof, a here men lay bleeding, In fatal pain whose pleading Made no cry, Khot pierced and aber-iuittea, A young and gallant Briton Crept to die. At sunset there tbey found bun With the red anow around blm, And bis baud Laid on tbe book who.e healing All hearts to heaven appealing Understand. And 'neatb bin f ror en finger Those word whoie hom outlinger Human strife Glowed like a star's ro.lectloa ' I am the Heeurrecllou And tbe Life." Comrade to burial bore him, But not death's rending tore blm From his prize, For to bl band careening , Btlll clung the leaf whose blowing Closed bla eyes. O Cbrlatian song supernal, Words sweetest love eternal ' Everaatdl Peace at your call cornea flying, Aud tbey wbo clonp you dying Ar not dead. Tuekqs BbowN. An Caater Hurprlae Tart jr. mm EASTER IN ATHENS. Tbe Story of tbe Reaarrection Told Amid a Illaze ef silver and Gold. For some time before Easter, says Mr. Rodd, in his "Customs and Lore of Modern Greece," the city of Athens wears a picturesque aspect This is due in great part to the number of shepherds who, with their flocks, have come down from the mountains, and are camped in every available open space, engaged in selling their lambs. There is no family so poor as not to break the long Lenten fast with aa Easter lamb, the value of which is about a dollar, and a veritable mas sacre of the innocents is going on. It is late on Saturday night that the real Easter celebration takes place. . An Immense crowd fills all the ap proaches to the cathedral, and such parts of the church as Bre not kept clear. Without, a raised platform has been ere jted, and decorated with ever greens. In the cathedral tho royal princes, the ministers of state and the high functionaries of the kingdom assem ble to attend the midnight service. As the hour of midnight approaches, the Metropolitan with his assistants, preceded by the cross and banners, advance with lighted tapers. The va rious notabilities light their tapers from that of the archbishop, and so the sacred fire is communicated to the crowd. IMA mm U'iV-'Ji! mm 7 J . mmigmmw tiik rnii ert riiKATiox. A the midnight hour sound, and Kaiti r MR-iwd the It day of l.utit, tti Metropolitan, a blaze of ailvrr and gold, with I-. I tiara, the silver gt.apcl, nnd thi epiwoiml crtwler, anoetnU the I'lbtform tiutiidti the rhureli, aud pro t'lalm to tlui a- M'Uiblrd in-iipli the tldingt, I'brUt lu riwu!" In a moment all the WiU are ring ing far ami near. ItamU uf luuaiii atrtkd up, gun r ilieli.irkf d, rivkvl a ' tut, IVn;l Brt ar, Lghted, and the ajmrkie of tpra spread from lioua lo Iioum. aud from itrwl ta trtl, till th whi t vhy I alive with .mi l and tirtitiA Th ehrgy rotura tith e bur. Is and tin ).ter ritual r,iit;inid luu if and tilmu. iHtrln1 thi. a'tii hihiiI of Kiit.r Nun ill tird U aniHfief 4rv,' fr l!nj wli i h.tv Ui-t Ihxi abtm 1, t.-i. tU 5 rvvl-' i;',!i- At h a.''.i.4 ' IS JHI U rxad Iu frxveral l iiiuiK Iu et !4 iei rwu!ibi t lb vtui4Uily of tl vuty orlUnl is (4itV mmml r