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Editorial Notes and Clippings,
Clubbing Rates
To those of our readers who Bright
-wish to take a' Daily newspapesv-one
whose opinions are its own, fearless
and outspoken, we would say that we
have made arrangements witm the pub
lishers of the Daily Call, of this city,
whereby we can furnJsh their Daily
nd The Alliance at 6 per year.
Or, The Alliance and Weekly Call,
one year for $1,50. Tine weekly Call
is a 6 col. quarto well lied with good
family reading. This is an excellent
chance to get two papers for nearly the
price of one. Sample copies of Daily
or Weekly Call will be sent upon ap
plication. And still the good'work goes march
ing on. -
Any of -our subscribers receiving
extra copies of our paper from time to
time, will help the cause along as well
as the psjper by handing them to our
outside tfsiends.
We are 'under obligations again this
week to our many friends throughtout
the state who are so kindly aiding us
in circulating the paper. We appreci
ate tbair efforts.
Firom the tone of the hundreds of
letters received at this office, there is
going to be one grand forward march
all along the line as soon as the busy
season among the farmers is over.
It is the intention of this piper to
add various departments of interest to
our Teaders as fast as our patronage
will warrant it. In short we aim to
make it the leading family paper in
the -state.
The talk about good old times with
good crops &c, is the sheerest non
sense. There will never be good
times in this country until the money
of the country is taken out of the
hands of the trusts. Independent
American.
The .Messenger, of Clarks, Merrick
County, contains an excellent article
lis this week on the Farmers Alliance,
which will be appriciated by our peo
ple of that county. We are glad to
see the jpress taking right hold with
the farmers.
Many farmers consider themselves
entirely absolved from doing anything
because they hold themselves to be in
consequential nobodies", whose words,
work and influence amounts to noth
ing. The man does not live who is
so humble and poorly endowed that
he cannot: materially help on any re
form to which be gives his heart and
hand. Farmers Voice. .
President Burrows, of the National
Alliance, has written an article on the
money question which appears in the
last issue of the Farmers Voice, of
Chicago, that is grand. Captain Bur
rows is certainly master of his subject
on this question and has a faculty of
making his points so clear-cut and
distinct that any one can read and un
derstand. We shall try and find room
for it in an early issue of our paper.
Says a staid old Massachussetts far
mer in the Farmers Voice: Western
mortgage bonds are held by Savings
Banks, private individuals of all
grades and"conditions.. Taxes on the
farmers here have doubled, and trebled
since iS6o, and are getting to be as
uncertatn as the Irish tenants. I have
seen the statement that if we farmers
of Mass. were called on to pay our
debts, State, County, Tovn,'and mort
gages on our farms, we should bebank
. rupt.
Once in a while we hear of a far
mer who thinks the Alliance will not
amount to anything. If he thought
it would he would join it, etc. Did it
ever occur to him this is the only ob
stacle the Alliance has to overcome,
this lack of faith in their own ability
to do anything, which herefore has
been so prevalent a feeling among the
farmers? No, doubting farmer friend,
there is only one way to do a thing,
and that is to do it. Do your - part,
and the success of the Alliance'and its
principles is speedily assured.
We do not agree with this some
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wuu general notion mat "all men
have their price" and in positions of
public trust will sell the people out
whenever that price is offered. There
arethousands of good honest men in
.these United States to day, but the
irouDieis to elect that class to offirp
Party machinery is in the wrong hands
iu uegm with. Another thing, as far
merswehave been too negligent of
our uuiy towards the men who have
snown a disposition to bravely stand
up for the people in times past and al
lowed them to fall an easy prey to this
party machinery. Just so long as we
suffer this to be, just so long we need
not look for anything different . from
what we have got. Just so long will
the classes predominate over the
masses, and tbe farmers pay the taxes,
be forced to take whatever is offered
them for their products, and a helpless
prey to all these Trusts and combines
the legitimate -cmtgrowth of class laws,
which are now forming .all over our
broad land, ILctus be up and doing,
let us from mew on, each and every
one of us. Q-odk well to matters of a
political mature for therein lies the
root of all the evil oppressive systems
of the 5sy.
Down in the Old Hoosier state of
Indisunm, the monopoly gang have
got a mew wrinkle on filching the far
nxers. '-They come square at him and
steal -outright. It appears that the
railroad companies operate the grain
electors at all way stations, the agent
doing the buying. The scales, are
doctered with a concealed weight and
this is the way the gang steal from
four to six bushels of wheat out of
fifty. The station agent on penalty
of losing his job is compelled to do
tikis stealing. The Farmers Voice, f
Chicago, in commenting on this latter-day
piece of devilishness .says:
4lst is only one more expression of a.
universal rapacity that infects the re
lations of the railways with the people
from start to finish- If it would not
have the effect to scare people from
traveling, we firmly believe these rail
way manager brigands would go into
a silent partnership with professional
ta.inrobbersr and whenever the cars
were loaded with a prosperous looking
crowd of passingers "Lariatt Bill"
and his band would be notified by
telegraph to spring the train at some
dark iiurn of the road and proceed to
business.
A farmer writing to the Nonconfor
mist, Winfield, Kansas, says: "If
crops do as well as they promise, the
people will be in distress this fall,
with a complaint usually called over
production." Yes, this overproduction
is a soothing balm to be pasted all over
with every time we complain of
swindling, ifilching oppressive class
laws, and tbe wicked system of the
present interest high taxes high money
of the nation controlled by a few men.
who can expand and contract it at
will for speculative purposes. Farms
mortgaged and shrinking in value,
fires in furnaces gone out, thousands
of laboring people begging; cannot
buy enough even of the farmers "'over
production" to satisfy hunger. An
overproductio n?. Yes, an overproduc
tion of inability to consume brought
on by an overproduction of traitors
to our country's interest in Congress.
If we have cot to have an overpro
duction let's have it of good practical
business sense, and look well to whom
we delegate the law making powers.
When dollars are scarce labor and
produce are low. This can be, and is
brought about at any time the com
bination of National banks wills it.
The farmers all over the north-west
are in debt and cannot hold their
crops and these schemers know it. In
fact they ordained it so when they
got the National bank act passed.
Therefore they fell an easy victim to
this robber system and will continue
to until they make themselves heard
in the halls of congress. This idea
that the law of supply and demand
governs prices at the present time is
the worst kind of bosh.
Americans! Beware of these Trust
Brigands. They control thousands
of millions of dollars, and will gladly
buy chains to enslave the people.
The time is close at hand when yc u
must utterly crush their power, or
with deadly certainty they will crush
yours. This is an inevitable ' issue,
you cannot shirk it if you would. The
Trust banditti will force the battle on
you. Farmers Voice. " '
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A good many aspirants for public
honors in this state say they do not
understand what the farmers want,
why this organization, etc. If they
will just take a drive into the country
some pleasant afternoon and ask the
first Farmers' Alliance man they
chance to meet in the road, they
will probably be supplied with the in
formation sought. It is wonderful
how ignorant some of these fellows
are getting about now.
We are often asked why - farmers
are organizing? We reply, to at
tend to their own business; some
thing they have net been doing in
the past. Other people have been
attending to our business for us, and
just for a change we will swap bosses,
and try bossing ourselves awhile.
The Toiler.
Bro. Win, Hunt, an enthusiastic
worker and prominent reform writer,
of Ancora, N. J., sends us a copy of
American Liberty, a quarterly maga
zine published at Hampton, Va. In
it we find an able article of Bro. Hunt's
entitled, 'The Inpending Crisis,"
which we shall be glad to publish
soon as we can find space in our col
ums. .
Mr, D. Darnell, of Plum Creek
Alliance, :Butler County, called in to
see !s this week. He says they will
have acoo members inside'of 30 days.
That they, by their united efforts, got
their ibinding twine at their own fig
ures. Mr. Darnell is a resolute Alli
ance worker, and reports the woods
full of such people in Butler County.
It iis a pleasure to meet with men of
this'ltind who know just what they
are going to do and do it.
aCIie JEbPee tireat Struggles of Aerca.
This country is yet in its formative
period. We have passed through two I
.great struggles. First, the conflict '
'.ofthe Revolution, second, the conflict 1
of the Rebellion.
The :first conflict decided that this
country-should be independent. The
central principle of that struggle was
the right oof a people of a country to
govern themselves, and not to be
governed .by the people of another
country. This was its cardinal prin
ciple. The -second struggle decided that
this country should forever be one,
and all its people, white or black, be
free. Tfok was settled by the war.
That was atscardinal principle.
We are now passing through the
third struggle.
This third struggle is to decide
whether this country is to be governed
in fact, as well as in name by the peo
ple; or wether it is to be governed in
class interests, by the organized and
combined power of great corporations
and monopolies. Judge Hugh T-
Campbell before the Farmer's Alli
ance at Huron, Dak., June 17.
The farmers' and producers' conven
tion, recently held at Huron, Dakota,
passed the following resolution:
Resolved, That we will not support
any paper that is not in sympathy with
the Alliance movement and will not
give it its triendly support. We fur
ther resolve that we consider it an in
sult to every member of the Alliance
for any paper to speak of our officers
and leaders in a disgraceful manner.
We further declare that our motto
shall be, "An injury to one is the con
cern of all."
Now this hits the nail squarely on
the head, especially the last clause of
the resolution, and will give these
monopoly cohorts to understand that
the Alliance, to use a vulgar phrase,
"is dead onto their racket." You
never hear these fellows fron the
stump, or any of their newspapers, say
one word against the Alliance as an or
ganization. Oh no! they are too cun
ning for that. They will literally spew
taffy all over it, but the leaders Oh,
my! They are the embodiment of
everything that is disreputable and
vile as though this' was the class the
farmers specially put forward in their
organizations. But Dakota proposes
to forever spoil that little game, and,
in the future, taffy for the organiza
tion and abu se of the leaders, is a com
modity that don't go on the market.
. Dakota's wise example is well
worthy of imitation by the Alliances
all over the country.
THE CAMPAIGN D? IOWA.
It is welcome news to anti-monopoly
republicans that comes from
Iowa. In that state the canvas is on
for the fall election and nominations
for the legislature and the selections
of delegates to the' republican state
convention are being made in the dif
ferent counties. The results of these
conventions are an endorsement of
Governor Larabee's admirable admin
istration in every locality and the
nomination of candidates for the legis
lature who will stand by the Iowa rail
road law and its thorough adminis
tration. : For four yearsjthe anti-monopoly
republicans with Governor Lar-
abee at their head have shown the
good results of railroad control and
railroad legislation for the people in
stead of for the corporations. Today
in Iowa wholesale merchants, retail
merchants, farmers and shippers, . are
standing together r the present law,
which , has proved?! of such practical
benefit tothepeopli ofjthe state In
Iowa today , local freight tariffs are
fifty per cent lower than they are in
Nebraska. Through tariffs are so ad
justed that the state is not bled tor the
long haul and so that wholesale trade
is not all diverted from Iowa cities to
Chicago. Little ,'wonder that Iowa
stands by its railroad ; law". The
people in every wfrlk of life know its
justice and feel its"; good effects. At
the same time it is well to remember
that no railroad in that state has gone
out of business on account of the law
or become bankrupt.
In the meantime the people of
Nebraska. contintje to elect venal, cor
rupt and rotten legislators," who are
under absoforte control ofthe railroads.
Nebraska -elects such officials and con
tinues to foe held: up and robbed by
the railrorads. .: Fifty per cent higher
local freight rates are paid by the peo
iple 0T1 the west bank of the Missouri
river than 'by the people on the east
bank. The people elect legislators
that allow this to continue, and elect
state officers, from the governor down,
a majority of whom are in active sym
pathy with the corporations. Upon
the statue books today is the bastard
railroad commissioners' law that feeds
officials at the expense ofthe state and
drives nothing in the way of relief in
return. ;'. -. . ' '
When the people of this state profit
by the example of Iowa . republicans,
elect lawmakers who cannot be pur
chasedand a governor ofthe stamp of
William 'Larrabee, and remember that
there is mpre in politics than the main
tenance of a national Chinese wall of
protection for the benefit of eastern
monopolists, thers will be some hope
for relief in. this state. Lincoln
Daily Call.'
Is there another class of business
on earth today that would submit to
what the farmers h ave to? Absolutely
nothing to say as to prices they re
ceive on whafca they have to sell, or
wfcat they pay for what they have to
buy. Under this condition of things
they are slowly but surely sinking
They realize that "something must be
done." Therefore, business men of
other classes, do not blame them if in
their struggle to save themselves you
get scratched. Self preservation is the
first law of nature. i -
From an Enthusiastic Worker.
Brom field, Neb., July 7. Edi
tor Alliance: -Thinking for some
time past that I would send a few
lines to your valuable paper, and then
in locking over your columns I see so
many men that speak my mind that I
hardly know what to say.
The farmers, all know very well
that we are set back on every hand
and by all classes of men, and, by
some farmers. But they are getting
their eyes open. They are still" fall
ing into line as we go marching on.
Step by step we hear the steady
tread. The more they try to pull us
down the harder we must work and
the closer we must stick together.
Nearly every meeting night we wel
come seme new brother into our
number. Let the good work go on.
Step by step we shall mount .the lad
der until we shall reach the summit
of justice and equal rights to all.
We are going to start a rhutual in
surance company in Hamilton county
in the Alliance. Our headquarters
will be in Hamilton county, our offi
cers will be in this county, and we
will know just how it is carried on.
Now let other counties follow in this
direction and we will have less swin
dling and more money at home.
Now to the end,' let every brother
put his shoulder to the wheel and
boom our cause along. Let every
brother consider himself a committee
of one to talk to his neighbor and
get him to join the Alliance, f Hop
ing I have not taken too much of
your valuable paper,. I will close by
saying, Three cheers for the Alliance
cause. ,s H. L. D. !
Organization in Iowa.
The work of organizing in Iowa
goes bravely forward. We have now
about eleven hundred Alliances in
Iowa, as against about eight hundred
last September. The fight of : our
Alliances of the North against the
combine , in binder-twinq has been
successful to a great degree, though
the price of twine is not yet as low as
we had confidently expected. Our
hearts have been cheered, and our
faith in the power of organization up
held, by the success attendant upon
the battles of our brothers of the
South in the cotton-bagging conflict.
When we know our powers, and are
willing to employ them vigorously in
securing justice, then shall the refor
mation come, and happiness, the
child of righteousness, sit ruling the
land.
This is a very important year for us
here in ' Iowa. To the interests of
securing a legislature and governor
who will take no backward steps in
the measures ot railroad control is
added the securing the passage of a
law equalizing taxes so as to relieve
real estate of some of the burdens it
now bears, and especially relieving
the mortgaged class of taxes upon
their indebtedness. In affairs dis
tinctively Alliance comes the question
of consolidation with . oar Southern
brethern, the question of closer or
ganization, and .the qisestion.of organ
izing a centrjl butsiness organization.
In all these we hope for success. N.
B. Ashley in National Economist.
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
(Under this head -we solicit short articles
from the people vipon any and all subjects
of interest. We earenot undertake to be re
sponsible fcowTOr or any matter appearing:
under this lea tfhe design being- to allow
the greatest freedom to writer whereby
tbev can dteeues, and thus take an interest
in the great KjuestionB of the day which are
eo matesrtallyafFwtingthe people. Write plain
but nevermind your spelling, grammar, or
anything- of that sort, we'll attend to that.
8ijrn what jpou dhooee to your articles, but
end is your ntmie 1wayE.
Ed." Alliance: I notice in your
valuable paper of last week an ac
count of the adventure of Mr. Cole
man who is the foreman of your office,
with that rotten of all rotten corpor
ations known as the Burlington &
Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska,
and otherwise known as the "Great
Scab Route." I am glad to know he
has the nerve to stay with them and
he will have the hearty support of all
good citizens. If the case is as you
state in your, last issue Mr. C. has a
death grip on this monster John Bull
outfit, who evidently thinks no one
has any right to this earth but them,
and I just , hope he will stay right with
them and that he .will make them
squirm. Yours For The Right.
W. F. A.
Kenesaw, Neb., July 7. Mr. Ed
itor: I wish to say that I have just
returned from a trip through the coun
ties of Clay, Thayer, Jefferson, Gage,
Pawnee and Richardson. The
crops are the very best. Fruit is good,
and the health of the people never was
better. I have appointed many agents
in the Farmers? Union Insurance Co.
of Grand Island, and gave each one a
copy of The Alliance and requested
all to work for the Alliance as well as
insurance, for both are for the farmers
only, and not in favor of old capitalis
tic causes. I, with my business, was
well received by all men who are in
favor of the government by the people.
The best of all, I secured the services
of Ex-Gov. Butler as special agent for
the counties of Pawnee, Richardson,
Johnson and Nemaha; and he, in one
half hoar, got the services of the Mas
ter of the State Grange. With such
people as these, whose hearts, heads
and hands are in the work of reform,
we can't help but succeed.
Yours ever against monopoly and
always in favor of the people.
J. M. Sanford.
. Ed. Alliance: 1 am glad to note
the fact that the Farmers' Alliance is
again coming prominently forward in
this state. The Alliance did great
things for the farmers of the stae in
times past, and will do mote in the fu
ture. Wera it not for the fear that the
politicians, officials and corporations
of the state had of it in times past,
dear knows how far their superior gall
wouid.have carried them. I have no
ticed all along that when the farmers
of the state have taken an active inter
est in matters of public importr.such
as expenditures of public moneys, the
regulation of freight and passenger
charges by law, that great efforts have
been put forth apparently in their di
rection. But just as soon as the farm
ers think they have now got some
thing, and relapse back into their nor
mal condition, it is discovered that the
whole thing was a snare and a delu
sion, and the farmers can then come
up and foot the bills'of the grand farce.
I have in my mind the state board of
transportation, the bureau of labor sta
tistics, and several other farces of the
rip-roaiing persuasion about now.
But what the farmers must do is stay
right by this work of organization un
til they become strong enough to do
what they want done themselves, or be
absolute dictators as to now, it shall be
done. Then they can take a short
breathihg spell and know they have
established something real and not an
apparation. :: Success to the Farmers;
Allhuice. Rusticus.
HOUSEHOLD.
A word on
overwater.
plant culture. Dont
, Hang up the
brooms; they will
xust longer.
The be3t thing to clean tin-waro b
lomnion soda; rub on briskly with a
3amp cloth, after which wipe dry.
To protect children's clothing from
Bre; Add one ounse of alum to the
last water used in rinsing clothes.
This renders them uninflammable.
A simple remedy for a disordered
?tomach is salt and water. Allow a
teaspoonful of salt to a glass of wa
ter, and drink.
A little borax put in the water in
which scarlet napkins and red-bordered
towels are to be washed will
prevent thera from fading.
A peck of powdered charcoal in
3hallow dishes in a cellar will absorb
much of the bad smell, and a bushel
Df lime much of its dampness.
A tallow candle or piece of tallow
wrapped in tissue paper and laid
among furs or other garments will
prevent the ravages of moths.
Never treat superiors with servility
or inferiors with arrogance. Speak
is kindly to a day laborer as to one
occupying a high, position Good
Housekeeping.
Horse-radish cnt in tbiri stripes
.ength-wise and a dozen or more of
these stripes placed on the top of
1 1 !! 1 Al
;ucn Kes 01 piCKies wm Keep mem
Tom becoming stale or mouldy.
To clean porcelain saucepans fill
Miem half full of hob water, and put
n the water a tablespoonful pow
-iered borax and let it boil. If this
uopsnoii remove an the stains scour
well with a cloth rubbed with soap
inu uorax.
Never hang a picture so that It
will be necessary t to mount a step
ladder to view it. Hang it so that
the center will be about five feet and
a half from the floor, a little below
the line of vision of a person oi ave
age height.
A physician in tbe American Mag
azine, illustrating the evil custom ol
talking to an invalid about his
pains, says that once he requested a
mother to rcO'c a stroke upon a
paper each time that she asked a
sick daughter how she was. Tht
next day to her astonishment, she
made 109 strokes. A three-months'
visit away,frcm home was pre
scribed. Keep the Coffe-pot Clean. -Not
even milk-pans require more scrupu
lous care than the coffee-pot. It
may be rinsed after each time ol
using, and yet be far from clean.
There is an oily property about
coffee which adheres in spite of rins
ing out, and the pot must be daily
washed (not rinsed) scalded and
dried.
Analysis of steamed and boiled
potatoes have been published which
seem to establish the fact that the
former are more nutritious than the
latter. In the process of boiling, the
vegetables give up considerable por
tions of nutritious salt, while they
also take up more water than when
steamed, and become proportionally
weaker.
Here are a few points to bo con
sidered in cake-making. When you
paper a square tin. cover the end
first, then lay in a strip to papet
the bottom and sides, as using only
one piece makes too many wrinkles.
For a round tin, cut out a circle and
slash down the sides. This will be
found to lie more smoothly than
folding. Always turn a cake out on
to a cloth, as it is liable to stick
when hot to a board or a plate.
Angel cake should be baked in a mod
erate oven and handled about like
spongecake. When cake is mixed
run a knife around the edge of the
dish and mix in thoroughly all the
bits of dough. If they are scooped
into the baking tin without thorough
mixing, they will make a heavy streak
in the cake. When making anything
with sour milk, add the soda last or
put it in last, so as to save all the
effervescence.
Hend Yonr Offn Tinware.
Housekeepers may often find it con
venient to know how to keep their
tinware in order, besides it helps to
economize. For the benefit of such
we will say it is easier and just as
satisfactory to solder such things
yourself as to pay a traveling tinker
two prices for mending them, says an
exchange. Take a sharp knife and
scrape he tin around the leak until
it is bright, so that tlie solder will
tick, then sprinkle on a little pul
verized rosin, lay your solder onthe
hole and with your soldering iron
melt it on. Do not have the iron too
hot or the solder will not adhere to
that. After two or three trialsyou
can do a job that you will feel proud
of. If you do not own a soldering
iron, procure one by all means; when
hard pressed use a smooth piece ol
iron. Anything is better thap. stop
ping leaking pans with beeswax or
rags. Your pans should be perfectly
dry when you commence work. Try
it, young housekeeper.
Sot All Meat Ktr.
All the heavy work ofthe world f
not done by men who eat meat. Tha
Roman soldiers, who built such won-
derfnl roads and carried a weight of
armor and luggage mat would cru&a
the average farm hand, lived on
coarse brown bread and sour wine.
They were temperate in diet, regular
in exercise. The Spanish peftsnirt
works every day nnu dances half the
night, yet eats only his black bread,
onion and watermelon. The Smyrna
porter eats only a little fruit and
some olives, yet fce walks on witn ms
load of a hundred pounds. The
coolie, fed on rice, Is more active and
can endure more than the nogro lea
on fat, The Dietetic Gazette.
Fearftl Rspoltlllty or Prli.
How mindful parents should be of
the fact that nature decives ther
shall pass to their descendants, na
it were, themselves. Those children;
or some of those children's descend
ants, are sure to contain in their
very organisms tendencies, inherited
from you, that make it a foregone
conclusion that in some respects they
will resemble you, even if they never
see you. If, lor instance, you are the
jlave of drink, ofthe tobacco habit,
or of profanity, you may bo morally
certain that these vices will crop out
3omevhere among your descendants,
if you have any. The inevitablcs,tho
subtlety and the inflnitencssa ot a
man's or womnnVinfluenoe, regard
ed in this light are almost dazing.
Boston Jour, of Health.
Work bo Kardsklp.
There is no hardship in true work.
It is as far removed from drudgery
is is the free movement ot clouds in
theupper air from the cheap imita
tions of shy scenery on the stage of
a theater. True work has something
Dl)lay in it; it is the joyous over
low of a full nature, tho natural out
going of o full heart that cannot.
Contain its own life, but must find
speech for itself iu manifold activities,
It is only after we drive ourselves
after the nntural impulse is spent,
when Vo urge ourselves to the task
after the joy of it is gone, that work
becomes monotonous, and then
wearisome, and finally dangerous.
Working days are spent in dealing
with human adaptations and means
and in perfecting human skill. Vaca
tion days ought to Ih spent in un
broken fellowship with truth and
beauty. They are the recurring Sab
baths which leave an open road
Heavenward through our years of
toil. Christian Union.
Sheriff Steele's Fix.
From tbe Fit mini r Commercial-Gatett.
A remarkable case of mistaken,
identity occurred recently in the Cin
cinnati court. William J. Long wo
arrested during the centennial on a
charge of robbing Mrs. Comer'ord
$300 at the West Pen n depot. WhUo
incarcerated in jail Long allowed Wm
beard to grow, presumably with the
object of changing his appearance.
When placed in the dock Long sat
with his hand on his chin, concealing
his beard, and tho close resemblance
the prisoner bore to Deputy Sherifl
Steele, who by the way, is a remark
ably handsome man with a magnifi
cent mustache, was commented upon
by the court officials.
.The case was 'ca lied for trial, and
Long took a seat behind his counsel
at the table, while Sheriff Steele
busied himself about his duties in the
eourt-room. Mrs. Coinerford took
the stand and related the incident of
the theft. District Attorney Porter
asked the witness if she could recog
nize the thief. "Yes," nhe replied.
'why there goes the man now who
stole my money; he's leaving the
court-room," pointing to deputy
Sheriff Steele, who was making a
trip to the jail for a prisoner.
The deputy sheriff was surprised
to hear himself accused of such a
crime, but Mrs. Comerford was posi
tive that she was correct in her iden
tification. Mr. Steele thereupon
took the witness stand, and effectu
ally dispelled any belief that might
linger in the minds of the lobby that
ho was in the habit of varying
his official duties with raids upon
the pocket of ladies. Long was then
ordered to stand up where Mrs.
Comerford could see him, and, after
a close inspection, she decided that
she had been mistaken and that
Long was the man who had robbed
her.
The prisoner appeared to enjoy the
perplexity of Mrs. Coinerford, and
probably expected that it might re
sult favorably to him'lhut in this he
was mistaken, as he was convicted
and remanded to jail for sentence.
One of the Penalties of Curiosity.
From the New York Herald.
Curiosity has its penalties. Tho
other day, out West, a bright, hand
some auburn-haired youth saw a tin
can in the path. He kicked it, non
knowing that it contained nitro.
glycerine. That handsome youth
satisfied his curiosity entirely, com
pletly; to much so. lie left suddenly;
indeed, he left in several directions at
the sa me time, and it is rat her doubt
ful if he will ever be able to 4pull
himself together" again.
Ho Had No Fever,
Dr. Holmes relates the following
to illustrate tho significance of small
things in the sick room: "AVill you
have an orange or a fig?" 6aid Dr.
James Jackson to a fine little boy
now grown up to goodly stature. "A
fig," answered Master Theodore,
with alacrity. "Mo fever there," said
the good doctor, "or he would cer
tainly have said an orange." Her
ald of Health.
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