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A MODERN MARTHA
BY MATE MAITLArTD.
CHAPTER IX.
John Austin's work for Farmer Free
man, who lived near Mapleton, was al
most completed, and he was rejoicing
that he would soon be able to take
enough money to Maria to make her and
the children comfortable nntil he could
go to Olnev and secure work. Much that
ha bad suspected true about the hard
hips of his farmer friends was confirmed.
Bethought that they were even more
badly situated than the class of labor
ers to which be belonged, as they nearly ,all
werevery heavily encumbered with debts,
and when tbe crop was a failure the in
terest kept accumulating until some oi
them were even compelled to borrow
money with which to pay their interest,
And a lens mathematical mind than Aus
tin's could easily calculate what the re
sults of such equations would be. He
asked himself the question that has been
asked many times before: "Why can't
the government loan money to the farm
ers, who are its chief support, at as low
a rate of Interest as it does to the bank
ers?" The reason was obvious: they
failed to vote in their own interest, for
many of them, even at the last election,
voted a man into office who by favoring
the bankers and other mouied corpora
tions had made a fortune of six million
dollars.
While he was rejoicing over the pros
pect of seeing his family and smiling to
think how fast Beth would talk when
she saw papa, and wondering what new
words Baby Rob had learned, a convers
ation was being carried on between Sher
iff Mill of Mapleton and Cyrus Benham,
who was a director in the Buuk of Maple
ton. Benham was devising means to
keep Austin in Mapleton until after elec
tion. He had called on Sheriff Mill to
help him carry out his plans. He was
engaged in impressing upon Mill's mind
the necessity of his help, and as a last
means to enlist his co-operation he
threatened a foreclosure of Mill's mort
gage, which the Mupleton bank held.
Benham'splan was to have a pretended
robbery of the store in Mapleton which
was owned and conducted by Mill and
his son. Benham wished all the tracks
and traces to point to Austin, whom he
wished to see arrested and held for a day
or two; and then they could release him
if they thought best. Mill demurred, and
said that he hadn't time to complete
such plans, and that Justice Coran would
be out of town most of the day looking
after election interests, and that he prob
ably couldn't find 'him and procure a
warrant before Austin would leave,
"You have another night." said Ben
ham. "That is all the time you need.
Tou can have Justice Coran issue a war
rant In blank, some or tne justices have
issued them that way in Chicago, and
you can get your man when he starts
home." Mill still hesitated and said that
he was afraid that it would be found out
and hurt him politically, Benham in
sisted and commanded, and then gave
his oath that he would see Mill through
all difficulties if he would only consent to
do as he dictated.
"This fellow," said Benham, "not only
tries to injure me, but also the bank, and
he has been trying to interfere with our
political plans. I want to break up the
ring of which he is the leader. It is get
ting stronger and stronger. It isn't his
vote so much as his iuflueuce that I
want to dispense with."
"What if he should sue us for false im
prisonment?" said Mill.
"Oh, he will not do that," said Ben
ham. "He has no money to waste on a
suit, nor any influential friends to es
pouse his cause, or if he has, i don't see
why they haven't presented themselves
before this time. However, if he should
try to turn the tables we could soon
make him see that it would be a useless
. l 1 T :n i . 1. 1 -
VWUl.K.d tlD "111 lltVKITU UCT nill IIUUUID
I. a i n t a
Jtly. "But be sure that you do not
) nun iluuw uirtb x am at an mn?rew;u
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the matter. It is to be a cleverly exe-
id plot. So cleverly that he will not,
In instant, imagine that there is any
far-It about it. Work cautiously, as he
is gttfrng to be a pretty shrewd and far
sigtnljj person to deal with. I shall soon
be ba to Mspletoii. If my namo should
bemeiVoned in his presence, you must
not kn.lp me."
The nt morning the robbery was the
general )ic for discussion and specula
tion in am parts of the small town of
21ap!ctoft,gJohn Aut-in paid but little
attention i the rumors. He was count
ing the van lj)s home expenses and won
dering if he lught to spend any. of the
money which we had earned for presents
for those at j Wine. He had some little
gifts for Beth w ml Rob which he had
manufactured, wnself ; but he wanted to
take them somfclbing else. He had about
decided to buy lpein when Sheriff Mill
tapped him on tblplioulder and said
"I want you, sit
"Me." said John.mmazed. "VV hat for;
kmazed.
what have
know."
I should
like to
"That will be provW later," said Mill
"I have been workinflr since duvliirht on
Miis robbery case and Very thing points
Wyou. The shoe prin are your size. 1
tik the precaution measure your
tracks while you were w pre-occupied.
Besides, you were the las.lone whom the
nijjhtN police saw about lira. And the
tracks are of a person goiitin the direc
tion oi jhe house where yew were stay
ing." v
"I am T not guilty," said Thn. "If I
were jruilty why didn't I gliaway at
oncer inquired John.
vn, saiv'd Mill, trying to jifphasize
his statements with his die. ttreeable
laugh, "then wo should haveluected
yon at once nhoi captured youVpthis,
Detore spending so much time inn IfciKat-
tag the matter. V There is no nun tr.
ignorance, or inncWnce. I have tht
rant for your arrtbst. Do you wai
see it?" said he, shoy wing John the
runt, rne Desc wi,y will be to die
with me at once pr.nd make no tron
about it." e
John turned reluctantly and sorrov
fnlly from the depot townrds the jail
When I heard the rlii-k of tbe key in the
Iwk which deprived him of his hlerty,
which he had altars enjoyed, and when
be looked about him at the stone walls
and iron bars be felt in a very despond
ent mood at this sudden and deeply hu
miliating calamity. Then he was seized
with consternation hs be asked himself
the question: "What if they convict him
when the trial came?" He studied the
matter over many times and tried to
find some cause for such treatment.
"I am only acquainted with one man
who seems to me wicked enough and
who would dare to do such a thing;
doubtless there are others; but I cau't
see what would be any person s desire In
Mapleton of placing me in jail, or who
would wish to see me become an object
of scorn." said Austin.
He prayed a great deal, and decided
that the wisest plan, since be was com
pelled to do so, would be to await devel
opments. He wrote to Maria, also to
bis cousin Martha, thinking she could
help him. Mill, according to the custom
of sheriffs, read both the letters. He
found nothing objectionable in tbem.but
be thought that he would keep tnem nn
til he saw Benham. The next day Ben
ham came exultant and rejoicing. His
side had won in yesterday's election, and
he was very much pleased with the world
in Keneral and Cyrus lien ham In particu
lar. Mill gave John's letters to Benham
to read. He paid no attention to the
one to Maria, but when be examined the
other he seemed very much surprised
and disturbed, too; and told Mill that
he wished he had known that Austin was
a relative of Miss Potter's.
"I have played a great game," said he.
"I have been unconsciously laying plans
to defeat myself in one of the most prom
ising ventures that I have ever had in
view. A mutual friend of Miss Potter's
and mine has been trying to negotiate
terms for tne to take charge of bervast
amount of property. He thinks 1 could
double the amount she has in a short
time, and bo I could, and procure as
much, or more revenue for myself than I
get from all other sources. If she is on
as friendly terms with John Austin as his
letter would indicate, you can easily im
agine what bis advice would be if his
opinion were asked, And I know him
well enough to be certain that he will give
his advice unasked if he learns that I am
thinking of controlling her mdney. I
can't see why she hasn't helped him here
tofore, but he writes as though he were
going to Olney, and J erhaps she intends
to help him there. I must make him feel
indebted to me some way and overcome
his antagonism, if I can. Let me see. I
will help release him or better still, I
will go his bail."
"Sir," said Mill, "the goods which were
stolen can all be easily found secreted in
some straw on the farm where Austin
was working. And as he was going home
without them he can be dismissed, if you
so desire."
"I think," said Benham, "that he
would feel under more obligations to me
if I were to go his bail first. I must go
to work and undo and practically unsay
all that I have done and said in the past
to Austin, and make bim my friend. I
know it is humiliating; but I must pur
sue that course. Miss Potter has it in
her power to ruin both David and me,
and if 1 fail, so do you and several others
besides me. I don't know whether she
realizes her power, but that contempt
ible rascal of an Austin will, and he will
not hesitate to reduce Mosely, Dorden
and me to the verge of starvation and
think he is doing the Lord a great ser
vice in bo doing. Ah, he isn t half so
stupid as he pretends to be. I shouldn't
wonder if he were laying nis plans for me
all the time. Several insinuating re
marks he has made seem clear to me
now. Oh, how I detest the scampi"
"Why not leave him here, then, said
Mill, "he can't do much to injure you
while he is behind these bars."
"Yes he can," said Benham. "That
wealthy cousin of his will be here look
ing for him if she, or his wife, doesn't
hear anything from him, and then there
will be an investigation that will not be
very pleasant for you. And of course
you will draw me into the trouble," said
Benham in an injured tone as though he
had been assisting Mill in a plan which
had been exposed, while Mill was playing
the traitor by revealing his part of the
scheme.
"I rather think I should," said Mill,
with one of his most significant laughs.
"I think we had better let the matter
drop and hush it up," said Benham.
Then he affected the role of one unaccus
tomed with the place and asked Mill to
show him about the jail like one visiting
it for the first time. He talked to Mill
like he Were a perfect stranger and sug
gested several changes and improve
ments in the jail, which he thought would
be very advantageous for both the Jailer
and prisoners. He walked by Austin.not
seeming to see him and when he came
back again, he paused near him to ex
amine a radiator and make some queries
and suggestions about the heating ap
paratus, and when he chanced to loojc
up and see Austin, he stood for a mo
ment like one who thought that nis eyes
were deceiving him.
'What are you here for, 1 should like
to know? said Benham.
"That's what I should like to know,
too," said Austin, bitterly. "Ask him,"
added John, looking towards Mill.
Benham and Mill walked a little far
ther down the room and engaged in a
low conversation for a few minutes.
Then Benham returned and Said (laugh
ingly and in a hearty manner);
".Now look here. Austin, i nave a grana
opportunity to 'heap coals of fire upon
your head,' and prove to you that I am
not half so bad a fellow as you nave al
ways tried to make me appear. I am
going to bail you out of jail, and then
we will see what we can ao aooui mis
matter.
John was mvstified but not convinced
that he had ever underestimated Ben
ham's good qualities. John looked at
him searchmgly and thanked him lor nis
extreme kindness and said:
"I have written two letters, and if they
were mailed, one will bring me the deep-
est nl kindest sympathy, while the
other will secure me the bf st ana wisest
counsel that money can procure. I er
linps you have heard of Attorney Welch.
I am not auite able to understand all
that has transpired in the past two days
in regard to this case. But Lawyer
Welch, with the aid of the expert detect
ive whom he often employs, can fathom
the mvsterv." Benham's face turned
from a livid color to an ashen hue while
John was talking, a fact which did not
escape John's sharp eyes.
"Then vou will not accept my proffered
help? It seems to me that you might
have taken an intended kindness in the
snirit in which it was given," said Ben
ham in the injured tone aud mHiiner
which he could assume so skillfully.
However, I shall not pay any attention
to the affront I presume you are angry
with every one for being thus falsely ac
cused and imprisoned. I don't, Tor an
instant doubt your integrity. I presume
1 should talk as bitterly myself under
such circumstances," said be soothingly.
"I shall go and argue with the sheriff,
perhaps he will release you. There cer
tainly isn't much proof against you.
Why," said he, laughing heartily, "you
are not tbe only man in Mapleton who
wears a number eight shoe. But your
being a stranger here; and making prep
erations to leave, and what few traces
they fonnd seemed to point in the direc
tion you lived, 1 suppose, were the rea
sons that they acted so hastily."
As Ben bam left the jail he seemed to be
remonstrating with Mill. In the course
of a couple of hours Mill came and re
leased John. He went to the hotel and
passed tbe night as it was too late to
take the train for Camden. He wrote
Maria all that had transpired and told
her that as it was too late for him to
vote be thought that it would be best
for him to go on to Olney. And that be
would send for them as soon as be found
work and a house to live in.,
to be continued.
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The Labor Movent nttn England
Tbe congress of the English traces
unions, at which all the unions, even the
most conservative, were represented, held
its first session at Norwich the week in
September. The following is an extract
from the opening address of the presi
dent of the congress, Mr. Frank Delves:
There is one kind of propaganda de
spised by all representatives of organized
labor, to wit: the propaganda of the
knife, the revolver or dynamite. Strikes
will soon be a prehistoric weapon; we
want to get everything by independent
political action and the concentration of
all our forces.
Our motto is now: "By means of legis
lation." It gave us already the eight
hour labor day at the docks, in the gov
ernment arsenals, and minimum wages
in these institutions. "And this is all
the more significant, because the indus
trial barometer is lowering toward
losses.
"It looks as if the industrial machine
could only produce too much or too lit
tle; it is never working normal. This is
because it is too big, too powerful. Pro
duction is constantly balancing between
over-production, which causes falling
prices and lockouts, which starves the
laborers. '
"The cause of these troubles consist in
the workingmen being, controlled by the
markets, instead of the workers controll
ing the markets.
"Ihis last condition is what we want.
The conditions under which men must
live should be established first, and the
markets can then regulate themselves ac
cordingly.
"All our immediate efforts must there
fore tend to diminish child labor, to pay
the labor of women as well as men, and
regulate the hours of labor so as to do
away with idleness."
EIGHT-HOUR LABOR DAY.
The congress voted, for the eigbt-hour
day, with 205 votes agaiust 5.
The parliamentary committee of tbe
trades unions was ordered to lodge a bill
for the legal introduction in all trades of
the eight-hour day.
A resolution has been accepted, with
219 votes agafnst 61, asking the nation
alization of the soil and the means ol
production and distribution.
the miners complained subsequently
because the number of hours being fixed
to forty-eight a week, their number of
hours would be increased instead of de
creased, whereupon it was decided that
the vote was not applicable to miners.
American laborers, such is the change
of front of the conservative English
trades unions, until a little over a
year ago, scorned the idea of government
interference and thought themselves all
powerful to bring the millionaire em
ployers to terms, liut the last gigantic
strikes bus shown them their weakness
against the power of concentrated
wealth, although they have partially
been successful, and instead of despising
any longer, as they did the continental
workers for their international socialistic
propaganda, they now become a gigantic
factor in helping to abolish wage slavery
aud establish international co-operation.
Americans, how much longer will you
prefer wage slavery and degradation,
above plenty and national co-operation?
Right Arm Paralyzed
Saved from St. Vitus Dance.
"Our daughter, Blanche, now fif
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afflicted with nervousness, and had
lost the entire use of her right arm.
"We feared St. Vitus dance, and tried
the best physicians, with no benefit.
She has taken three bottles of Dr.
Miles' Nervine and has gained 31
pounds. Her nervousness and symp
toms of St. Vitus dance are entirely
gone, 6he attends school regularly,
and has recovered complete use of
her arm, her appetite is splendid."
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Tbe Problem of Irrigation
concluded.
Paper read before the Irrigation con
vention at Kearney, Dec. 19, 1894, by
Hon. John H. Powers.
3. The tree belts (for trees will always
flourish along the banks of streams)
would bo obstruct the force of the wind
that hot winds would be impossible, and
our climate would become the most pleas
ant and equable in the world.
i. Millions of permanent and happy
homes would be established on soil of
unsurpassed fertility and brought in close
proximity to cheap and regular water
transportation so that the industry of
the inhabitants would be well requited.
5. Cheap transportation of the vast
mineral deposits of the mountains would
be secured.
But I know it will be objected to by
some that such apian is chimerical and
would never be adopted by the govern
ment or sanctioned by a majority of the
people.
It is also true that the education and
traditions of our people have been such
as to prejudice them against dependence
on irrigation for successful agriculture.
The original settlements of the United
States having been exclusively from
those portions of Enrope where there is
abundant rainfall, and the eastern part
of our country, where the same condi
tions prevail, having been settled first,
it is but natural that the opinion should
prevail that where there is not sufficient
rainfall to produce good crops farming
is necessarily unprofitable.
Two courses of action seem necessary
at the present time to fully develop the
highest state of prosperity in our conn
try, and they should be followed simul
taneously. The one is to educate the
people to the advantages of a general
and comprehensive system of irrigation
which is under the direction of the gov
ernment, thereby producing such a pub
lic sentiment as will insure the adoption
of such a plan by the government.
And the other, to adopt as far as pos
sible the best private and partial plans
that are attainable under the present
circumstances. .
And first in the line of education: The
first fact that should be taught is that
application of water to the soil is usually
very wasteful of its fertility. This is
proved by the fact that so large a part
of the rainfal every season runs off into
the streams and carries with it those
properties and ingredients of the soil
which are most necessary for the growth
of vegetation. And even in those parts
where the surface incline is not sufficient
to carry off the surplus water, tbe land is
not available for agricultural purposes
nntil by a system of drainage the same
waste of fertility is secured. Any one who
doubts this conclusion should be referred
to the rich and superfluous alluvial de
posits in such valleys as those of the
lower Mississippi and the Nile, and be
shown the fact that these vast deposits
are but a moiety of what is plundered
from the fertile uplands, plains and val
leys which form the watersheds for these
rivers. This great water waste is often
overlooked in calculations for artificial
irrigation, forcetting that where there
are thirty-two inches of rainfall in a year,
that probablynot more than eight inches
on an average are absorbed by the soil,
the rest carrying away a portion of it
best constituents.
Then again the fact should be empha
sized that by general artificial irrigation
tbe land will support a far greater popu
lation, thus removing the inconvenience
so prevalent in farming communities
which always accompany a sparse and
scattered settlement. The influence of
such a condition of uniform and regular
returns for labor, in encouraging the m-
d ustry of the people, fostering their equal
rights (which can only be fully realized
by equal prosperity), improving their
morals and giving them time and en
couragement to improve their intellect
ual nnd spiritual natures, should all be
assiduously taught and inculcated until
tbe people shall be led to appreciate the
truth and put it to practical application.
In the way ol irrigation immediately
available much may be accomplished by
wisely directed efforts.
And first let me give a wora of warn
ing against relying on ditches owned by
corporations who rely on water rents for ,
their profits. The testimony ol the larm-
erswho till lands thus watered by ditches
long established, is general, that as soon
as the actual profits can be ascertained
tbe corporations put up the water rent
so as, on an average, to absorb the whole ,
profit.
I think our legislature should enact, a
law permitting and encouraging the con
struction of irrigation canals along all
the streams in the state which are avail
able for the purpose, and providing for
the expenses of the same by taxation on
all the land which can be fully irrigated
by such canals.
But irrigation of streams can never be
relied on by the great majority of tbe
farmers of Nebraska, for the lollowisg
reasons:
1. The streams which have their rise
in Nebraska can only be niadu available
to water a small portion of the land, and
that in their immediate vicinity. The
Loup, Elkhorn and Blue rivers being the
only ones oi any importance, xuobb
streams which rise outside the state will
always be sources of vexation from the
fact that tbe people of the states wherein
they rise have the first right to use and
control the water.
2. As a rule the reservoir system on a
small scale for catching the rainfall, such
as is being very extensively resorted to
in eastern Kansas, though it may some
what mitigate the hot winds and slightly
increase the humidity of the air, can nev
er be relied on for irrigation to any great
extent, from the fact that they are usu
ally only practicable on the lowest part
of tbe farms on which they are situated
and can only be utilized by forcing by
pumps to the higher parts, or by water
irrigating the farm of some neighbor.
The only method of irrigation which
can be made geuerally available, aside
from a comprehensive reservoir system
supplied by the sources of the rivers, con
structed and owned by the government,
is by wells.
On most of the land of Webster county
and central Nebraska a continuous sup
ply of water can be obtained from wells
at a depth not exceeding 250 feet.
Wherever such supply can be reached
let a reservoir be constructed on the
highest part of the farm (no farm should
exceed 160 acres), such reservoir to be in
area not less than the ratio of one acre
to the 160-acre farm, and a depth of
six feet. As the surface of the uplands is
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the least pervious 10 wain iuu .u.uu..k
ment should be made mostly by scraping
from tbe outsider
The seepage can be mostly prevented
by pumping in enough water to create a
mortar and then turninar in a drove of
cattle or hogs and driving them around
until the porous soil is completely
clogged.
Supposing the water to be 100 feet
from the surface. Four wells distributed
arouud the reservoir, each with a four-
inch cylinder pump of six-inch stroke and
run by a twelve-foot windmill. With the
average wind in southwestern Nebraska
mills would fill the reservoir in four
weeks, or thirteen times a year.
Allowing for the necessary waste by
evaporation, the reservoir full of water
would apply three inches to twenty acres
of land. Two such applications a year is
all that ever would be necessary. But
there is seldom a year in south western
Nebraska when so much as six inches
would be required. Much of the land
near Greeley, injColorado, has been injured
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It has been conclusively proved that
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Of course, such an arrangement would
not be sufficient to fully irrigate a quar
ter section of land at once, but for rea
sons mentioned they could be so man
aged as to furnish the whole farm with
sufficient water.
We are told by some that water can
not be profitably applied to growing
crops. But as a proper preparation of
the land before sowing is all that is nec
essary for spring grain, and water is
very easily applied to fall grain which is
sowed with the press drill, this objection
is groundless.
As to thecost. Thereservoircan becon-
Btructed without the outlay of any mon
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and Kates and the mills and pumps, and
if purchased at wholesale prices, would be
not to exceed $200 each. About $1,000
would be a safe estimate for such an ar
rangement, besides constructing the res
ervoir. This would amount to $6.25 per
acre and would give our fertilo lands
every advantage of irrigation possessed
by the gravelly soils of the valleys of Col
orado, California and the other moun
tainous states, while avoiding their end
less contentions and litigations about
water rents and equitable distribution. I
know objections will be raised by some
to these conclusions, but I believe they
are, in the main, correct. And I hope to
live to see a system inaugurated which
shall eventually result in settling each
section of fertile farm land in the state
with at leaRt eight prosperous families,
the reward of whose industry, so far as
it depends on water supply, shall no
longer be determined by the rain from
above or the natural overflow of the
rivers.
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dies. The accomDanvinor orescrintion is oflered
as a certain AM Bi'EF.OY oitrr, hundreds ot
cases having been restored to perfect health by its
UK mier ail uuicr remciim mum. ithct uj uuic
ingredients must be used in the preparation of th is
prescription.
R Krythroxylon cora, J drachm.
Jembebin, 1 drachm.
Helonias Dioica, i drachm,
(ielsemin, 6 grains.
Ext ignatite mine (alcoholic), ! grains.
Ext. leptandra, it scruples.
Glycerine, q. s. Mix.
Make 80 nills. Take 1 nill at 8 p.m.. and another
on going to bed. This remedy is adapted to every
weakness in either sex, and especially in those
case resulting from imprudence. The recuperative
powers OI WIS restorative are huiiibh.i.h, anu us
km pnntiniied for m. short time changes the languid.
debilitated, nerveless condition to one of renewed
ute ana vigor. ....
To those who wonld prefer to obtain it of uit by
carefully compounded, will be sent by mail from
Mtnttttnv sna sn narKiire cuihkiiik uu di is.
our private lanoraiory or we win iunmu u-
ages, which will cure moat cases, for $5. AU ktteri
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