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t K L I I S1.00. PER TEAK IN ADVANCE. OFFICIAL ORGAN HEBQASKA 7 STATE FAOPi' ALLIANCE. : I I NO. 2. VOL.1. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1889. k i V ft mi u5 if? Editorial Notes and Clippings. Partizan political zeal is the grave yard of common sense. Harry" Tracy. The three great emancipators of the white slaves of America Agita tion, Education and Co-operation. -With steady tread, and under the banner of "In things essential, unity, in all things charity," the Farmers' Alliance goes grandly marching on. . It is not so much of a question at the r resent time with the farmer of what kind of a crop to raise, but to get something for the crop after pit is raise'"' ' :"' Let it be remembered that the pion eer subscriber to The Alliance will be Charles K. Dutcher, Secretary 608, Indianola, Neb., as his subscription was the first to reach the office. Our office is located on second floor in the Bohannon Block, on roth St. between Land N, just a block south of the postoffice, where we shall al ways be pleased to meet our friends when they are in the city. The Farmers'. Alliance of Dakota liave elected to the constitutional con .vention seventy-five of its members. The farmers will have complete con trol. Three cheers for Dakota. 1 Nonconformist, Winfield, Kan. Organized labor is to be recognized in Lincoln on America's great day the coming Fourth of July by mak ing the great labor reformer, Richard Trevelick, the orator of the day. Score a big one for organized" labor. Last fall we threw up our hats for one or the other of the grand old parties, and some of us carried ban ners and torches and howled our throats hoarse. And what have we got for it? Got poorer and wiser my friend. The B. & M. R. R. have raised the price of shipping eggs from here to. .Cheyenne from 6o '-cts-to $1.30.- -if he local dealer will be compelled to pay that much less for eggs, making the - burden fall directly upon the farmer. ' Venango Argus.' False systems and principles in the great laws of nature cannot exist without producing discord and con vulsions and must give way : to the true. So it is with the body- politic. We see on every hand today the evil effects of evil laws and systems. They must and will go down. Wheat is going down, down, down, as the harvest approaches. The men who corner the wheat market, always force-down prices until the farmer is forced to sell, and then up goes wheat and the consumer pays what would be a fair remuneration as a reward for our labor, but we don't get it. Ex. We have1 been twenty years get ting into the almost helpless and hopeless condition of the present. We cannot Expect to change this or der of things at once. Great changes cannot be brought about in a day. Therefore let us not grow impatient and undertake too much at once, but what ground we do take hold it. Bro. Richmqnd, of the Venango Argus is putting in good licks for the Farmers' Alliance in that part of the state. We need a great lot more of just such papers as the Argus in the field, and if the farmers will make it a point to sustain and support that class there will soon be no other. We feel assured the farmers of Per- kins county appreciate Bro. Rich mond's work and will give his paper their earnest support. ' The signs of the times are auspi cious. From all over our country's domain comes up the cheering shout, "The farmers are organizing!" It means that class legislation has got to cease. It means that the great trusts and combines of the day have at last woke up the only power on earth that can sweep their nefarious sys tems from off the face of the earth. It means the dawn of a new era. It means better days for the whole peo ple. Hail mighty day! Whenever we hear a farmer mak ing light of his brother farmers be cause they have joined an organized movement to better their conditions, our feeling toward that farmer is one of pity, pity for him that he doesn't know any bet ler. Pity 'for him that unless a change in his anatomy is ef fected he is doomed to be a hewer of wood and a drawer of water all his days, for a man without mind suffi cient to see tbe only way out of white slavery , bondage, is nothing more nor less than a chattel, his movements governed and operated by some one elses mind. Come, my disposed-to-be-smart friend, get a lit tle sense into your head and make an effort to free yourself along with the rest of your toiling brothers. To preach economy as, a remedy for existing evils to an American farmer is to insult his manhood, be cause they now produce more per capita "than any others under the sun. They also practice economy to abso lute stinginess, yet they, as a class, are rapidly approaching pauperism. Whv is this? Because the power of speculation is unlimited, and if the farmers produced four bales of cotton to where they now produce one, or ten bushels of wheat or com, or fif teen hogs to where they now raise one, in ten years they would be as poor as they are now, because the money power's ability to take is only limited by the producer's ability to spare and live. Harry Tracy in Na tional Economist. The Alliance acknowledges a good social visit from I. D. Cham berlain of the Stromsburg Headlight, this week. He reports a unanimity of feeling among the farmers of Polk countv. and a determination to make themselves heard and felt in the fu ture on all questions of import to them politically and otherwise. They feel greatly encouraged at the rapid progress the work is making in other parts of the state and are al ways ready to lend a helping hand in pushing it forward. Word from Polk county is always good word we long ago found out. The rapid spread of the Farmers' Alliance throughout the country and the practical work being done by it is giving; the farmers great courage. Therstrongernh fio rga ni zatrorr - b comes the more speedily can matters of lasting benefits to the farmer be brought about. .Let each and every one of us renew our zeal and on with the work. Starved for Land. The land legislation of this coun try for the past twenty-five years forms a sad commentary upon our boasted government "of the people, by the people, for the people." About 27 years ago the first land grant was made Dy the U. b, to a corporation, though grants had be fore been made to states for specific purposes. At that time the people of this country were rich in land, and the accepted theory in regard to it was that it belonged to all the peo ple in common. By the homestead law it set apart to be parcelled in small lots to those who would make homes upon and till it. This law rendered it possible for every man and woman who desired a farm to procure one at a merely nominal price. Then the precedent was set of granting land direct to corpora tions, for improving navigation or building railroads. Navigation im provement companies were formed. They navigated sloughs by drawing a flatboat with oxen through the mud, filling the requirements of special laws lobbied through by their agents, and obtained a grant of land. Rail road companies were formed solely to obtain a grant of land. In many in stances a section of land, with a block of railroad stock thrown in, was the price of a vote in congress. Thus in corruption and venality was laid the basis of great fortunes and of a land ed aristocracy; thus by corruption was swept away the fundamental prin ciple underlying our land system,, by which the public domain had been set apart for the benefit of the people. Said the Brahmins ages ago: 10 wnomsoever tne sou at any "time belongs, to him belong the "fruits of it. White parasols and ele- "phants mad with pride are the flow- "ers of a grant of land." And now began an era of land rob bery and plunder unparalleled in the history of any nation. Our people had become familiar with the thought . 0 large areas and prodigious numbers, and they heard day by day of the grant of millions of acres without re alizing what was actually going on. The day will come, if it has not al ready," when men will look back with amazement at this horrible saturnalia of thievery. Congress actually granted tar corporations 220,000,000 acres of the fairest lands of this con tinent, and the state ot Texas granted about 38,000,000 more. This makes an area two-thirds greater than the "total extent of Great Britain. It is greater by 55,000,000 acres than the thirteen original states of the Union. It is a greater extent of territory than the five largest states of , the Union. It represented a cash value ot one thousand millions of dollars. If there were restrictions as to its price they were afterwards removed by the same influence mat ODtainea ine -1 .1. 1 .i grants, and prices of these lands have always moved upward a little faster than other lands. Think of it! A handful of irresponsible men in Wash ington deliberately taking this wealth out of the pockets of the people and handing it over to a few private indi viduals, disguised under corporation masks, "with no soul to damn and no body to kick." The ages present no instance of such wholesale and shame less despoliation. ; And now what now? Only a lit tie while ago the people owned this princely domain. Now they are starving for land starving for an opportunity to labor starving for the right to create from the soil subsistance for their wives and little ones. ' ..; . A The mad rush to Oklahoma proves this. . These men want fee land. They would gladly buy land if they could But the merciless contraction of mon- ey and fearful shrinkage of values and prices have put it out of their power to buy land, even though it may be offered at reduced prices. They want free land the land that con gress squandered on the men- who could organize a lobby the land that should have formed the sacred patrimony of unborn generations. Anxious longing eyes" are turned toward the Sioux reservation to ward the Cherokee strip toward the barren deserts of Colorado. And still the contraction j?oeson.3nd v.!ue shrink, and prices fall. To the man who. sells the products of his labor the ability to buy land grows smaller day by day. Has Mr. Harrison's election im proved the times? Is the financial policy of the government under re publican rule changed a particle from what it was tinder democratic rule? A Shot From lirant. r Grant, Neb., June 15, '89. Editor Alliance: I received a copy of the first issue of The Alliance. It has the right ring to k and deserves the hearty support of the producing classes. Give them a paper that will reverse the idea taught by corporation papers that trusts are private affairs and cannot be interfered with, but all abor organizations to boycott or re sist them as criminal conspirators and should be punished as such. And the reason the western farmer only gets half price for what he sells, and pays two prices for what he buys, is because he is so far from New York. And the reason he has to pay a third more for the coal 'that nature has stowed away in the mountains for this tree less blizzard swept country than 4hey do five hundred miles farther east, "is the difference between the long and the short haul. T. B. Osler. Vice-President Howe of the Mis souri Pacific is authority for stating that his road will not do anv build ing in Nebraska this year. As a rea- son, he says, eastern capitalists are fighting shy of western railroad se curities on account of the threatening attitude of the western legislatures. Kearney Enterprise. Yes, this last Nebraska legislature was a "Joe." Its attitude toward the poor tax-ridden railroads was ab solutely frightful. Vice-President Howe of the Missouri Pacific, presi- aent 01 tne senate, ana still got a bad attitude toward the railroads? Howe's that? Olmstead, chairman of the house committee on railroads, and a ward politician of Hastings clerk of the committee, and still the poor railroads quaking in their boots? Oh no, gentlemen, go right on with your railroad building. : The professional politician, he who waxes eloquent over the dead past but is dumb to the living" issues of the present, is j, becoming alarmed, and goodness knows he has every reason to be. The farmers are stampeding and the partylash fails to round them up." Let's keep right on running. THE ALLIANCE. A PAPER FOB THE PEOPLE. The Only State Paper Whose Special Mission is to Fight Hard for the Farmer. It Believes That the Time has Arrived For the Farmers to Protest Against the False Systems of the day in Every Honorable way That They can Score a Point. The Alliance believes the time is here when the "I c-a-n-t-s" should promptly get out of the way and make room for the farmers to get to the front who "will try." To this j class The Alliance proposes to throw all ike power it possesses to their support, and together make a grand charge in the battle for human rights. Stand from under all ye of little faith who make no effort to free yourselves. The Farmers' Alliance of Nebraska is coming thirty -thousand strong. Take to the woods! i Climb a tree! Get out of the .way. "Nancy will kill the bear!" ' The Alliance will gather about it the best writers upon the questions of the day, and whose' hearts and souls are in this work that can be pro cured, and before the year is out the causes will be shown to every farmer who reads th.e paper, just why his farm is mortgaged, just why his pro ducts fail to lift hisl burden, just why each succeeding year finds him worse off than the year before. . The remedies will also be prescribed and made so plain that it will not re quire an expert to; analyze the pre scription. 1 Now, we want every farmer in the state who wants something practical said and something practical done in his behalf, to subscribe for this, his paper. We have placed the subscrip tion price as low as we can possbly offer it for. If you do not feel like trying us a year, try us six months for 50 cents, and if this does not suit you, why then try us three months read the paper. Awaiting an early response we are Sincerely yours, The Alliance Pub. Co. - ; , Lincoln, Neb. The.Great Issue. WThat is the primary object in pur suit of which nearly all men devote their energies daily? The acquisition of money. What is the prime factor of civiliza tion, enabling men 10 acquire educa tion, culture and refinement, and with out which the human race would re lapse toward barbarism? '. ::; Money.. A.''-'- ""--'-' What determines the prices of com modities, the prices of real property and consequently rent, and modifies and controls more than any other agency the laws of supply ajid de mand? Money. Is money a natural or an artificial product? Purely an artificial product. How is it created? It is created by law, and in no other way, By whom is it created? , It is created by the sovereign au thority of the state, and the right to create It is always a government mon opoly. - What share has the citizen in its creation? '" -:";. v? . . . The citizen is taxed to buy the mate rial of which it is made and to pay the expense of coining or printing it. How is it obtained by-the citizen? -The citizen exchanges labor for it with actual labor, or labor in the form of commodities, or conserved labor in more or less permanent forms. .What is money? Money is the legal agency furnished by the sovereign power of the state to facilitate exchanges and liquidate debts. It is the highest commercial expression of the power of the. law, and the most powerful agency through which a government can; effect the welfare of the citizen. Is money wealth? .aioney is not wealth, it is only a representative ofwealth. nai are tne 1 unctions and powers of money?. ; It effects exchanges, measures val ue or fixes price, liquidates tlebts and accumulates by interest. A XI . Are uiese natural powers, or are they conferred by law? -lis power 10 iiquiaate aebt is con f erred by law, and the power to accum ulate by interest is derived from this power, and from the fact that it is representative of wealth. Its. power to measure value or fix price is a natural power, inherent in its nature as creat ed by its conferred or legal powers and cannot be directly controlled or modified by statute law. The action of the power to measure values or fix prices depends solely upon its volume relative to to the exchangeable pro ducts, population, extent of territory and facilities for exchanges of the country issuing it. Its power to accu mulate by interest is modified by the method and volume of its issue. ' Is money national or international? It is national, and has no forced cir culation or legal tender quality out side of the country issuing it. It may be made international by treaty, as in the case of the Latin Union. ;'. Which of its functions or powers most directly influence the welfare of the people? Its power to measure value or accu mulate by interest. : Of these two powers which i3 the most important? Tbe power to measure value We will leave the above monetary catechism at this point, and devote the balance of this article to a few remarks about the last named power of money. Tbe power of money to measure val ues is of vital importance to the peo pie, and even man ought to study it until ifcjs perfectly understood. If the people of this country understood the full bearing of that power upon "their wealth and prosperity, the shy- locks would no longer be able, by con tracting the volume ofmoney and the depression of values . and prices, to gather into their coffers the largest share of the wealth of the people. An increase ol the volume ol money raises values and increases prices. A de crease in the volume of monpy de creases values and lowers prices. This is a financial law, accepted by all finan cial authorities no matter to what school of finance they belong. The law applies to all kinds of money which has the sanction of law, but doef? not apply to substitutes for mon ey, such as drafts, checks, bills of ex change, & Every fall in the value of property or wealth is directly in the interest of the ; man who handles money capital, and whose income is in the form of interest, and against the man who sells labor directly, or con served labor in the form of products or any of the creations of labor. To illus- rate, suppose farmer A to have a farm worth $4,000.00 and . money-lender B fcaAjfcMjrtracA-fnr. $1,000.00 On the same at 10 per cent. In this case A owns three-fpurths of the farm and B one-fourth. No w a shrinkage in the volume of the currency occurs, either absolutely by a withdrawal of money, or relatively by an increase of popula tion and business, and the value of A's and shrinks to $ 3,000.00. Now ' A owns only $2,000.00, while B still owns $1,000.00. A further shrink of one- burth occurs, and A only owns $1,000 while B owns $1,000. Suppose' another shrinkage of the same amount occurs and B would ovn the farm and A owns nothing. But the same shrink age of money that causes the decline in the value of the farm causes a de cline in the price of commodities. .Let us see how that effects A and B as mortgagor and mortgagee. A, we will suppose, produces wheat to sell to pro cure money to pay his interest 10 per cent on $1,000. With wheat at $1 per bushel it takes 100 bushels of wheat, or the Ubor required to produce that amount to pay the interest. Now the shrinkage comes and whea falls to 50 cents per bushel. It now takes 200 bushels of wheat, or the labor required to produce 200 bushels, to pay the in terest, though that remains nominally at the same rate, viz: 10 per cent. Thus, it is plain that by this decline in price, A's burden has bee'i doubled and the value of his labor halved. while the value of Bs mortgage and the amount of wealth produced by A which it will command has been doubled. This process has been going on for the past twenty years, and is go ing on today with an accelerated pace. Values have been and are going down, downn while the incomes of money lender have as steadily mounted, until today all the production of the country above a mere, subsistence is required to pay interest on the accumulated debt, and today, at . this very time, the bankers of our eastern cities are trying to make a general combine to make all mortgages payable in gold. Wake up, people! Unless you take up this great issue and force a change in tne nnanciai policy 01 the govern ment, uu i versal bankruptcy will be your lot. we will m ruture numbers answer questions on all points relating to the nature of money. The Limitation of Wealth. The enormous accumulation of wealth in single families which mod ern agencies have made possible is - " ----- cause ior serious aiarm. tiiven a thousand millions under the control of one man of great ability and an ambi tion directed toward empire, and the subjugation of the government to his domination would seem to be inevitable. The appearance of such a man at any time is quite possible. Is it not likely that the mere accumulation of money for the sake of money may palk the ap petite of some Napoleon of Finance, and that he may substitute therefore political domination and empire? As for the thousand millions, let us con sider it. When old Commodore Van derbiltdied in 1877, his fortune was said fo be $80,000,000. In 1885 it had reached $250,000,000. This was only six years. At the same rate of in crease only a few years more are need ed to have one family, controlling a billion of dollars and this family ac knowledging a head, and ejtablishing the principle of solidarity in the man agement of their wealth. Here are elements we have named, minus only the intellectual power. The tendency to this tearful increase of wealth in private hands is still go ing on with accelerated pace, and un doubtedly constitutes a serious menace to society, entirely apart from the une qual distribution involved, and the in evitable poverty resulting to thous ands of wealth creators. To ail thinking men it must be ap parent that this tendency must be checked that some form of actual limitation must be applied, to prevent the growth of these unnatural and un natural and unnecessary financial mon sters. At the same time it will be seen that any limitation which would check individual enterprise or hamper individual energy might produce quite a 4 much harm as good. In seeking for the points at wLich restrictions may properly be applied we may find light in inquiring how such enormous ac cumulations are" made possible. En tering this field of inquiry it is at once manifest that no human powers exerted in any line of productive industry that is in the creation of wealth by la bor are at all equal to the task. It will be found that these accumulations are only made possible by the exercise of quasi public powers by the appli cation over large areas and to great populations of the principles of taxa tion and of the accumulative power of interest. The right of eminent domain shared by the government with private individuals,, and applied to the con struction of 'railroads, the taxing pow er involved in the exercise of the privi lege of issuing stocks and bonds with out tne actual investment or money with the right to hx rates to secure a revenue upon mese securities," ttiiu xnc- conferring upon individuals, natural or artificial, the right to exercise the supreme government function of issu ing money and fixing the interest thereon, thus bringing into play in the case of bonds and mon ey, the enormous accumulat ing power of interest, and in the case of rates, the unlimited power to tax on fictitious secureties, are the potent and fertile causes of our first billionaire. These causes are going forward un checked, and if they can make one billionaire they can make many. It is evident from the above brief statement, the truth of which no think ing man can deny, that limitations of wealth should be applied in the direc tion of limiting special privileges con ferred by law. The incentive to issue watered stocks is derived from .the power to fix rates. The exercise of these two powers involve all the cor ruption and fraud and deviltry con nected with cur l railroads. Take away the latter power and the former falls. The right of the people to take it away, as well as its expediency, is incontrovertible. The right to issueincney is an in herent government power. No gov ernment can divest itself of it without relinquishing its sovereignity. In all cases where governments have dele gated this right, the recipients have become government agents, as are to day our national banks. But it is also a pregnant and instructive fact that that they have never long exercised the right without acquiring a power which threatened that of their princi- pal. This Is the case today with our j national banks and sociations. their national, as- In the direction then of limiting the quasi public powers which have been granted to artificial persons will be found the only just as well as the oaly necessary limitation of wealth. This is in the direction of equality of privi lege and equality of opportunity in other words in the direction of natur al justice. We have no sympathy with socialistic levelers, and are no believ ers in equality of intellect or equality of powers. tBut the government which by special grants or special laws de stroys equality of privilege and oppor tunity is on the certain road to decay. It will be seen from the above that we would not limit the accumulation of wealth by industry and labor. In those channels which all men share alike enterprise should be untram meled and its rewards unlimited. As land itself is absolutely limited, and as it belongs to the community. limitation of its ownership properly belongs to this discussion, and we may refer to it hereafter. AMERICAN FABLES. . Til Drammcr and th Monquttto A commercial Traveler awoko from a sound Slumber to Had a Mosquito Buzzingabouthb" lleo.l In the Darknos. He at once Arose, lighted the pas, und seizing the Bolrtor from the Bol ha struck Vigorously at the little lasoct. exclainiin: Ah! you rest, hut 1 11 have tku Life!" 4Y6u are a very Inconsistent man. upon my Word!"" replied the Mosquito from his perch on tho Ceiling. 'How?" Why, you have been Bitten in twenty places by the Bugs, and yet you pay them no Heed." Yes, but every Man has a Rlarht t chooso what Nulsanco he will put u With. Take that, you Rascal P MORAL. If a Citizen chooses to Excuse tha Piano Pounding on the right, and Poison the Barking Dog on tha Left, no one can gainsay him. Th Froy and th I-amU, A Lamb Who lay down beshio C ; 1 5 rona iomestiuia ieep, lounu ,1 mi possible to closo his Kyes on aecoui 01 tho Uroaking or a kroz. Uut Patience at last with the Interruption.,! 1 . , ue sprang up anuuemanuoa: 'ln Heaven s name, why do you keep ft 1 that Noiso going?" W "It's the only Noise I can make," waa tho Humble Reply. "Yes. But why do you make It at all?" "If I kept Quiet, Who Would know that I was on earth?" mokal: Men of Blab are excused on tho stim grounds. The Thief and the IWaultcr. A Thief who had boon Arrest jd 'tor' Stealing an Overcoat had hardly bocrt Locked up when a Defaulter iu thi Amount of $5,000 was brought In. "Ah! but we aro in Sad LuckP salu ted the Thief. "Allow me to s.iy that I Feel for you." "Sir! I want none of your Sympathy," replied the Defaulter. I don't even want your Acqu i!:itaaco. "But wo are both Theive," "Are wc? I beg to Differ. You run oJT with nnother man's property and was Pursued by a Patrol matt. I luA rowed money from tho Ban' fund 4 to Speculate in Wheat and wa Unfortu nate . enough to lose every d dlnr, uctectivo kindly asxoa ma to vid over in his carriage." "But we both Appropriated whit be longed to another without hisCo.iv'nt," persisted tho thi ?f. "While that b 'IVue, it mu'te a Dif ference whether we vv,mt3l t." biv Wheat or WhUUy. PUae ko.i yuiu Distance." , mokai.: The TMcf went up and tb 2 Defaul ter's friend Kctt'ed Uu e:v h- Refun ding forty cent 01 the dollar. Detroit Jrrco Press. Tearful lltinnr. "There is a kin.l of half sad humor whero two earnest people mi.?o'i$tmt each other's thought," said Kli iVrklrn In a recent Jectui-o. "I one 3 heard of a dialogue between a sweet. d.ir old clergyman in Arkansas an a:i ill iter ate parishioner, which illu4t.at. this ides: "Your children here all t ime 1 out well,' I reckon," said the clervm n, a ho sat down to dinner with t' t parish ioner he had not seen in church for sev eral years. "Well, yea, all but Bill, ore feller. "Drunk liekcr, I reckon," said tho clergyman, sorrowfully. "Oh, no, never drunk ni lieker. but hain't amounted to nothin'. Bill waj deceived, an' it ruint him." "Love affair? Married out of tho church, may bo?" "Yes, an a mighty bad love alTair. "She docolved hira, eh?" "Terribly, terribly." "Ruined his spiritual life and h married a scoffer?" "O, no, she married him; married him? I guess she did!" "But, confidentially, whnt was tho cause of your son's grief and ruin? "Well, you sec. Brother Mmion, sho was a widder, an' let on she wuz well off, but she wan't. W'y she want nb!o to get Bill a decent suit o' clothe tho week arter they wuz married. Poor Bill ha gono ragged-ever since tho weddin'. Poor boy, he's lo?t all contl dence in wimmen. Bill has." Tex.!j Siftiugs. - A Fasti Hons Horse. There is a famous? h ); in the town cf Sprague that ha to h i put to bed tolx shod. As blacksmiths h; rot have bcrii in their shops for the ucoo;:i:nola.tiori of such eccentric aninnla, Mr. Wil liams has to carry a mattress and pil lows to the shop where his horso ia shod. The hoisa doei not like to go to bed, and as it takes gooJ management, to throw him down on tho mattress and get him into a mood and a position to have the shoe? put on his hoofj, few blacksmiths like to undertake the job. A Norwich man hai done tha job re peatedly, and almost always the horso is driven to this cty to hve tns new shoes put upon him. The horse la thrown down and held on the mattre by straps across the body, and tha own er insists on having the horse'a head bolstered up in a comfortable posit iuV with two pillows while the work U be ing done. Thei'e is not probably an other hore in New England that re quires a mattress and pillows to ho shod upon. Norwich (Con.) Bulletin. No Room Left. There is reasoning and reasoning. A little chap residing irk this city, whoso lose of Bible history is indulged in a itU times and in all place., was recent ly reproved by his mother for hU lack of order. "You must get in tho habit of putting away your rubbers and over coat,? eaid she, "and not leave it for others to do." "Well, mamma," replied the. young reasoner, "don't you know that a j r son's head can ouly contain juat o much? Now, if I put rubber and over coats and such things into E2lne, thcr Moses and the Kings and the Prophcti will have to bo crowded out." KU-s-ton Freeman. I 1 1 A U A 1 ! i - t ) ci; 1