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THE ALLIANCE. ;r::Lii3 eqy avec-esday iizpzi ii co: BOHAIiNAN BLOCK, Lincoln, . -U . -o-: Nebraska. 'All communictions for the paper should . te addressed to THE ALLIANCE VUBLISH . ING CO.. aud all matters pertaining to the Farmers' Alliance, ineluditg- subscriptions to the pape, to the Secretary- . , . II; G? ARMITAGE, Editor, ALLIANCE DIRECTORY. NATIONAL ALLIANCE. President, J. Burrows, Filley, Neb. ' V Vice President, Hi L. Loucks, Clear Creek, Dakota. - Secretary, August Post Moulton, Iowa. ' Treasurer, Hon. J. J. Furlonjr, Austin Minn. Lecturer, A. D. Chase Watertown, Dak. NEBKAjdZA STATE ALLIANCE. President, John H. Powers, Cornell. Vice President, James Clark, Wabash. Secretary-Treasurer, J. M. Thompson.Lincoln. Lecturer, M. M. C!ge, Creiarhton. Executive Committee: J. Burrows Filley; - B. F. Allen, -Wabash; Allen Hoot, Omaha; L. Henry, Hansen; W. M. Gray, North Loup. Deputy Organiers: Bobert. Gray,;inman; Alva Tompkius, Hansen; James A. Butler, Ewingr; Wm.Ctark," Banner; John A. Hogg, Shelton; J. W. Hartley, West Union; P. J. Reese, LexinjrtonrC. J. Mecham, Cambridge, W.J. Holly, Cam&idjre; L. C. Floyd, Brom fleld; Charles Rooster, Silver Creek: Herbert O. Miller, Cambridge; Thomas Sinclair, Fuller, ton ; W. A. Mansfield. Gandy ; F. J. Frederici, North Platte: Ji F. Black, Indianola; J. 8. " Kiddle, Arcadia: J. FHarrison, York; Sher 1 man StevensonTAima; G. W. Norman, La mar; J. Y. M. Swig-art, Fremont; E. M. Har rison, Venango: Geo. W. Felton, Angus; Louis McKeynoV'airfleld; Jas. C. Hether i ngton, BeatrieeF'T Dakota Territory: President, H. L. Loucks, Clear Lake: ' ".''-''' Secretary, C. A. Soderburg-, Hartford. Minnesota :--fesident, George W. Sprague, Prosper; Secretary. George W, Haigh, Mankato. IowA:-President, A. L. Stuntz, State Centre; Secretary. AugustPflst, Moulton. ' IixtsoiR: PresiAnt, ; Secretary, Da vid Ward Wood, 158 Clark St., Chicago. Wisconsin: President, N. E. Moody Viro qua; Secretary, A. F. Sands, Fairfield. . - Kansas: President, J. M. Morris, White City; Secretary, TJ J.McLain, Peabody, Washington Territory: President, J. M. Iteed, Oaksdale ; Secretary, J. W. Ar rowsmith, Colfax. ; : Ohio: President, a M. Smith, Climax; Vice-President, W. H.Likins, Caledonia; Sec retary. A. T. Goorley Iberia; Treasurer, N. C Bader, Marits. Executive Committee: eo.C.Gruber, Marits f Wm. Brocklesby, Ca -.cdonia; D.N.Auld. Maactell; Enoch Dunham, Harwood; J.D.Armstrong, Mt. Gilead. DECLARATION fF PURPOSES. Profoundly impressea that we, the Farm ers' Alliance, united by the strong and faith ful ties of financial and home interests, should set forth our declarations, we. there fore resolve :Tte t,.' ''" M To strive to secure, the establishment of right and justice to ourselves and our pos terity. t-:- ' '" To labor for the edufttlon of the agricul tural classes in the science of economical government in a strictly non-partisan spirit. To endorse the motto, "In things essential, unity; in all things tbarity." To secure purity of Jpe elective franchise, and to induce all vote to intelligently exer " eiff. :t for the enactment and execution of laws which will express the most advanced public sentiment upoll questions involving J tne interests or iHoorere auu inruicre. To develop a better 6tate mentally, morally, coeiaily and financially. . To constantly 6trive o secure entire har mony and good-wiH-mong all mankind, and brotherly love amoiig ourselves. To suppress personal, local, sectional and national prejudices; all unhealthful rivalry, and all selfish ambition. To assuage the sufferings of a brother and sister, bury the dead, care for the widows and educate the orphans; to exercise charity to ward offenders f to construe words and pur purposes in their mtfct favorable light, grant ing honesty of purpbt? and good intentions to others, and to protect the principles of the Allianee unto death. , : Post Office at LifsrcdtN, Neb., June 18, 1889. I hereby certify that The Alliance, a week ly newspaper published at this place, has been determined by the Third Assistant Post Mas ter General to be .-publication entitled to . admission in the mails at the pound rate of postage, and entry of it as such is accordingly inad&jjpon theJtooSs of this office. Valid while the character, of the. publication re mains unchanged."" Albert Watkiks, , . Postmaster, v. ; '. i AL0NGTKE LINE. This department is conducted by the Secre tary of the State Alliance to whom all com munications in relation to Alliance work, short articles upo various subjects of inter est to the Alliance etc should be addressed. Write plain and only ou-tme side of the paper. Sign wnat you choose to your articles but send us your name always. Charters granted since last issue of the paper: Xo. 657, J. BI Carnes, secretary. " 658, E. F. Winter, 44 659, J. X. MeRoberts, " u 660, Miss Adda McCallnin, " 44 661, Geo. M.nyder, u ' 44 662, Robert' Hesselgesser, " 44 663, II. W. Kessler, 44 44 664, John F: "Kyle, 44 44 665, A. W: Hunt, 44 " Secretary HenryCrandall, ol Plain view, sends us two subscriptions from his place this week. Bro. John C. Spencer,- of Mason City, Neb., sends a club of . six sub scribers to the patjerv Bro. John H.v Brown, of Cumro, sends a list of ' fiveubscribers along with quarterly report of their Alli ance. The Alliances of Frontier county have formed a buiness association, with Bro. L. H. FitcH, of Curtis, as agent. I,.. i ... r V" 'Bro. Chas. A. Price, of Adams, re ports that they are all very busy with their harvest and threshing, and that crops are good. Bro.' J. II. . Kk)tz president of Coughman AllianceV Memphis, Neb., reports an addition of four new mem bers at last meeting - Bro. Ii. S. Orcutt; of Hansen, sends two subscriptions to .the paper, and says we can look for more soon. Thanks to Bro. Orcutt. ; . . ..... v . Bro. Evans, organizer for Loup county, sends application for a charter for an Alliance in thatcounty to be called.Gracie Creek Alliance. ' Mr. Niels C. Sorenson, of Minden, writes for the necessary flanks for or ganizing an Alliance in his locality. They have eleven fanners ready to becpme charter members.. " Secretary C; F. Hue efeld, of tne newly organized Alliance of Harmony, i.urora,says:We have a membership of enty-ight, and a nuffber of others ' P8 their wishes to Join, for every feels the heavjburdens that .an trusts are placing upon fractureav. Surely it is time farm- xs passed into the ts. Bro.. W. P. Filbert, of Stratton, writes and encloses a subscription to the paper. Our friends are doing well by the paper and we appreciate their favors. Bro. John S. Leis, of Atkinson, Neb., sends four subscriptions to the paper and says he will do all he can for it. We are- certainly under obliga tions to Bro. Lies. Bro. W. A. McDonald, of Homestead Alliance, Cambridge, reports that they are going to work with a will and ex pect to accomplish something. A good will and strong determination never fails. Organizer Sam'l ' J. Plymesser, of Pierce county, is getting ready to take the field and sends for all necessary blanks, constitutions, etc. The secre tary forwards them and.' we bid Bro. Plymesser god speed in the work. Unity Alliance, of Frontier county, has at last "swarmed" just as we ex pected, and have added another new hive which will be known as Lincoln Alliance No. 661. Talk about the busy bees, you will find them in the Frontier county hives. Bro. J. J. Baker, of Orafino, reports their Alliance progressing finely. Their quarterly report shows an addition of seventeen new members during last quarter. Bro. Baker also says that tliey have received copies of Tiie Al liance and are all pleased with it, and are getting up a club for it. Thanks brothers. ? , Organizer John A- Hogg, of Buffalo county, sends names of officers of Elm Island Alliance as follows: " President, James JF. Lippincott; Secretary, Harry Kessler; Treasurer, Frank Griffers; Lecturer, Joseph Switzer; Chaplain, Jerre Miller; Doorkeeper, Harry Peck. Bro. Hogg also reports the Alliances of Buffalo county progressing nicely. They contemplate organizing a County Alliance. H. W. Kisler, secretary of a new Alliance called Elm Island Alliance, located in Kearney county, sends ap plication for charter with eight charter members to start ' with. This Alliance is northwest of Kenesawi which is opening up a new field in the work. Bro. John. A. Hogg, of Shelton, was the organizer. We tender this Alli ance our best wishes y for its utmost success. ' , Organizer W. J. Holly, of Cam bridge, reports the organization of North Ridge Alliance ; with the follow ing officers: President, C. S. Corwin; Vice-President, Geo. M. Cady; Sec retary, J. L. McRoberts; Treasurer, E. M. Pratt; Lecturer, Geo. M. Cady; Doorkeeper, R. Williams; Assistant Doorkeeper, E. M. Pratt; Sargeant-at-arms, C. C. D. Maulsby; Chaplain, John Donovan. Executive committee, C. C. D. Maulsby, R. Williams. President Towers made a trip into Hayes county last week where he or ganized Antelope Alliance No. 660 and appointed Mr. E. D. Glaze as dep uty organizer for that county. . Ex cessive wet weather hindered him from meeting many of the farmers, but he reports that county as ready for complete organization this fall. The entire western half of the state will soon be supplied with organizers and ready for a vigorous forward move. Ansley, Neb., Aug. 4. Editor Alliance: Please find enclosed three subscriptions to Tiie Alliance. I will send more soon, as several have said they want the paper as soon as they could raise the money, and some of our members subscribed with other parties. Our Alliance is in a good condition and increasing. At last re port we had twenty-one members. Have not heard from state secretary in reply to report yet. Your paper is just what we a? farmers want, and I think every farmer should help the wheel roll. Yours fraternally, J. C. Zimmerman, Sec'y 520. W. C. Clifford, secretary of Garfield Centre Alliance, sends application for charter for an Alliance in Holt county to be called Deloit Alliance, and says: 44I think this Alliance will be a strong one. The people are fast awakening to a sense of their duty to themselves and their families. They have been squeezed by the iron hand of the mon ey power so hard that at last they have to cry out and own up that they were on the wrong track and call on us for help.: It is like the cry from Macedo nia, and we gladly help. Send this Alliance a good supply of 'the neces sary papers. Also, I would like if you could, send them a few copies of The Alliance , for I find it .to be a great eye opener to the people. Every body likes it. Old republicans and democrats alike are beginning to think that there is some other way to be opened up for their relief, and it is strange how fast they are turning. Men who once ridiculed the Alliance are now its strongest supporters. . - Let the grand work go on." This is a good letter from Bro. Clifton, and we take the liberty to publish it. We'll do as he requests, and .cheerfully send our brethren of Deloit Alliance sample copies of our paper this week. Broken Bow, Neb., July 27, 1889. J. M. Thompson: Will you please send me some supplies such as consti tutions, applications for charters etc., as we are sadly in need of them; also send me a few sample copies of our pa per for distribution o various Sub-Alliances. We are progressing aai'cely as an organization and expect to have one hundred SuKAIliances in the county by January 1st." "Not only is the first work of organization ioing on, but ed ucation on the objects and aims and grand purposes of the Alliances. The camp fires of liberty are being kindled on every hilltop and great ) interest is being manifested by the "plowholder," and they are seeking the truth and delving deeper and deeper into the sciences of economic and civil govern ment, and are trying to solve some of the problems that confront them, and effect the perpetuity of civilized society. I am, at present making a tour among the various subordinate Alliances of the county, and find them all in good working order so far, with perfect har mony and unity of purposes and senti ment which is very encouraging. ' Open meetings are being held which is an important factor in educating public opinion and has resulted in an increase of membership almost in every instance. We as an Alliance in Custer county, have adorned anew the armor of cur cause, and, are determined, to never lay it down oh the field of human rights until every unjust law that disgraces our statute books is righted; high freight rates, high interest, high taxa tion. Combines and trusts, high pri ces for what we consume, and low pri ces for what we produce. Until this is accomplished in a measure that will be the greatest good to the greatest number the Alliance will have a grand mission to perform. . John G. Painter. THE PRDtARIES. The Laborer Gives a Suggestion-Think It Over. Fix the Delegations to there can be no Prox ies f 1 Sale Tne Ring are Belying on lay ing up Pn xtes as the Only Meant of Getting Some of Tneir Big Onns in the Convention Their Wards and Precincts Wilt Not Elect Th9m The War is On. - S JThe Laborer gives its friends in the different wards and precincts in Lan caster county the following timely warning, viz : Proxies ire to be bought right and left, so if you make no pro visions against this crying evil, all your' hard work in the primaries may 'serve for naught. The honest, unsus pecting farmer may have some hay down, or some business to attend and think it all right to give his proxy to some person who has more tima to attend the convention and Ood knows that the Lincoln rin;; .has any supply .ot this crawlinc rotten set on hand thinking that his place will be filled all right "maby it will,' and maby it won't," but, maby's won't do in Lancaster county conventions. The remedy i3, elect your number of dele gates, at the same time (having already chosen them) elect alternates with a distinct understanding that in case the delegate or alternate fail to attend the convention, that the balance of the delegation have power to cast his or their'a the absent delegate or his al ternate's vote. This is the only way of keeping the State Journal, railroad influence and the Clark crowd out of he covention. It is said that if one of them gets there, it will be through a proxy. It is a well kxown fact that politics have decended so low in Lan caster county that we are cursed with a "sleek eioment" in the different wards and precinsts who have not the manhood to have an opinion of their own, but who are frequently elected as delegates to our conven tion but invariably sell their right for which there is good demand. Save all this annoyance ; anything that is worth doing is worth doing well. Do not work hard in the primaries without you protect that work by this safe guard no proxies. GRAXT PRECINCT will require to watch its delegation closely. Labormen and farmers are determined to have something to say in this county. They are about the only ones that pay honest, personal prop erty tax ; they are the majority in this county, and they intend to have some thing to say in it. Bead the Laborer ; send for it ; read it; hand it to your neighbor. The Scientific American of a re cent issue sayp, an act passed by the Nef York legislature to go into ef fect Jan. 1. 1892, which makes it necessary for all R. R., corporations to provide their engines and coaches with patent self adjustable couplings, under a penalty of from $500 to $1000 fine for evtry offense. This is a most hum ane and charitable law that will prove a blessing to roil road em ploye s and will saye hundreds of lives end a multitude of physical wrecks that the present I arbarously constructed cars are every year caus ing to.. te recorded. Let the other states now follow the lead. Read the article in regard to Lin coln assessments which we take from the Nebraska Laborer. The Laborer is fearless and outspoken in this mat ter and commends itself to the sup port of all fair -minded people of the city and 'county. OBTAIN CHICAGO cj PRODUCTS! j The way to do this is to ship your Butter, 'Eggs, Poultry, Veal, Hay, 'Grain, Wool, Hides, Beans, Broom Corn, Green and Driett Fruits, Vegetables, or anything you nave, to us. The fact that you may have been selling these articles at home for years n no reason that you should continue to do so if you can ilnd a better market. We make a specialty of "receiving shipment direct from FARMERS AND PRODUCEHS. and probably have the largest trade in this way of any house in this market. Whilst you 'are looking around for the cheapest mar ket in which to buy your goods and thus economizing in that way, it will certainly pay you to give some attention to the best and most profitable wcj of disposing of your 'produce. We invite correspondence fro INDIVIDUALS, ALLIANCES, CLUBS, and all organizations who desire to ship their produce to this market. If -requested, we will send you free of charge our daily market report, shipping directions.and such information as will be of ser vice to you if you contemplate shipping. Let us hear from you. COMMISSION teRCHANTS, 174 S. WATER, ST., CHICAGO. 'REFERENCE :-:MetropoUtin Nation Barfk, Jlitlm, Some of the Property Anesssisats of Xincolns Big Guns as Compared with Other that are Honestly Struggling. Ho Wonder the City is Chort of Honey- No Wonder . Our Peer Clerks, Eaok Keepers and , Labor men are Called upon to Fay a Poll Tax- Ho wonder the Dog has to Wear a Collar with a City Tax Card Thereon. H. T. CLARK & CO , Compared with Herman Keonig.Sarah T Donnelly and Zlary Bliss, all . In Block 31 and 32 this City. . H T CLARK & CO. Assessment on Personal Property an Compared with Mrs. J. H.Blair, Milliner, on the Equalization Of Lincoln. Incidental to the changes made Ibis week in our office, this co'umn mu-t necessarily be cut down. How ever, we have selected the First ard for our camping ground and no less personage than that of II. T. Clark : & Co., the druggist. To commence with we find that out Lincoln equali zation board gives II. T. C ark & Co. reductions on four lots, amounting to $5,200. The lots and property up on which this immense " wholesale house stands, are reduced by the equalization board as follows: Lot 11, from $5,000 to 3,500; lot 12, from $7,000 to $4,000. Just think of it, on that , immense building and property on Q street, $4,500 in as sessments struck off by the equaliza tion board with one scratch of the pen. But . that is not all. Then comes lots No. 10. 11 and 12, block 31. The first fronts Q street and is known as the Daily property, for which H. T Clark & Co paid 36.C00 some time ago, and upon which' stand two houses. This is assessed at $700.00. Then come lots 11 and 12 upon which stand large foundry,! these wpre assessed respectively, $1,300 and $1,600 but the Lincoln equalization board cut them down to $1000 and $1200. Another slice for II. T.Clark&Co.of $700 making in all, on four lots, a reduction of assessments as against the other tat payers of this city of $5,400. Labormen and far mers of Lancaster county what do you think? In the same block we will take poor Mrs. Bliss who has strug gled hard to hold her property on Eigl th and S streets. She has three apologies for shanties on her lot in this blot k, the three not worth $100. Mark it! facing S street she is assessed 900. and must take it. Again there is Sarah Donnelly, Mr. Keonig and Con Bresnahan in this bloik 31. The two former are assess ed 2or their shanties $600 etch, while M r. Bresnahan that of $900. The Laborer conteuds that as between the location, improvements etc., H. T. Clark & Co. is not paying his just portion of tax to the city and county. It' Mrs. Bliss, Mr. Keonig, Douneliy and Bresnahau'd assessments are cot rect it is then patent that the reduc. tion made ia.those of II. T. CI irk & Co., by the Lincoln asseisaient board is wrong, in Other words, as the same assessor assessed both parties we hold that. $5,200 should not be taken off of 1J. T. Clark & Co., without taking the sitne proportion off of these poor people above mentioned. anT in the same block. Some sav II. T. Clark & Go's private secretaiy's political influence secures favors from the powers that be. The write.' denies that but informs those who make these charges, that instead of following every wire puller in the ward, if they would attend the council meet ings, attend the ward meeting, fleet their own delegates, in short attend to their own business, not hand it over to Tom, Dick an7. Harry their eve teeth would soon be cut. The same ring tJiat caused all this are to la tryinir to iret the hon-si men of this ward to vote for a "rotten rine candidate" for county treasurer assisted we are sorry to eay by honest but mislead men, we mean Maxey Cobb. In the personal property assessment .of H. T. Clark & Co., we fiud on this immense wholesale drug business with their thousands of dollars worth of spirits, wines and brandies, (and their private secretary one of the license commissioners of this city) not to speak of their sundries, drugs etc., that they are assessed for per sonal property only $4000., while honest Mrs. J. H. Blair (milliner) is assessed for $1000. Is it not patent to every man that if this wrong of Mrs Blairs is correct, and we doubt it, then H.T.Clark & Co's should at least be ten times as much. Or on the other hand if Clark &Co's is cor. i ect, Mrs. Blairs should bo reduced. The Laborer will go on publishing the assessment, only asking in re-, turn that our friends will pass the information trained therefrom to their neighbor. Feeling as we do, that it is our duty to wain the poor men about his chances of getting justice, next week we will take another ward. Is it any wonder that the city council pasred the poll tax and - the dog tax by-law? Coupled with the above and the late white-washing of themselves the end is evidently ap proaching. Bead this paptr, sub' scribe for it and hand it to your oeighboc PRICES FOR YOUR 'Chicago. 3IentAn The Alliance. TWO LOTESS. Two lovers once a m&iden.wooe One was prosaic, one Byronic; Oao in a bnsineaa manner sued. The othar'a suit was hietrioiua Orlando to her sonnets made. And tore Ida passion into tattersf Silas discnased the state of trade. Consulting her in money matters. When e'er in maiden won't, she frownd Their too great ardor to repress meant, Orlando wished that he were drowned. And Suae named some new investment O. swore he would a pistol take, And give bin nee thing pamioa a rent-hole, While 8. invited her to make ,' . . Inspection of bis yearly rent-roll Long time the baluner hung between One lover's purse, the other's passion; At last the poems "kicked the beam," As Silas coolly poured the cash on. Her indecision don't deride, Orlando's vein qnite fine she thought, or . She really feared nis suicide, And Silas' ready money bought her. A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW BY MATTIE DYER BRITT3. Oh, come now. Nancy! if I was you I wouldn't take on ! May bo itll all turn out right," said the sociable neighbor, who had dropped in to take a dish of tea, as Mother Haw tins wiped her eyes with her apron. "Wal, mebbe 'twill 1" sighed the good lady. "But it don't seem so now. Sit up, Mis' Jones; the cream biscuit'll spile with waitin'. Poor Will ! he was so fond o' them biscuits! I'll bet she can't make 'em ! 'Taint his marry in' I mind so much," she went on, as she poured the fragrant tea into the thin, old, china cups. "If he'd a-married a decent country gal, an.' let her come here to live long o nie, I wouldn't a-cared. But no ! he must go taggin after one o' them fin ified city gals! Nothin else 'ud do him! Mis' Jones, do have another lump o' sugar in your tea?" . ; "No, Mis, Hawkinf, the tea is jest right now." "Wal, take a slice more o' this brilcd ham, then 1 It's oar own home-cured pork." "Thankye, I don't care ef I do tako a bite more. I don't eat much in general; but your vittles is so good, they kind a' give one an appetite. " ' "Wal, ye 3," said Mother Hawkins. with another sigh. "Will always lowed I was a fair cook. And he was that fond o' good eatin'J And I 'low he'll git none o' it now." "Mebbe ho will, Mis' Hawkins. I've knowed some o' them city folks what was fust-raie cooks, an' liked the country, too." "Oh, yes! they all like to come out fur a week or .so while the berries is ripe. But you fetch 'era out an set 'em to cookin fur harvest hands when it's right hot, an' you'd see !" "Will's wife may not be one o' that kind, Nancy." "Bet she is I He found her boardin' in one of them big hotels, Z.iere they go to bed at midnight, and eat break fast next day after decent folks has cleared up dinner. I know 'em. An', ain't going to have nn'v thing to do with Vai, that's flat! And I told Will so, when he writ for me to come and tee 'em married." "La. Mis' Hawkins! didn't you go?" "No, I didn't. Here, have another spoonful o' this honey, Mis Jones do 1 It's made o' white clover, and as clear as can be. There ! No, I didn't go, and I writ to Will he needn't fetch her here, neither." "Now Mis' Hawkins! vou didn,t really?" "Yes,' I did, said the old lady dog gedly. "I know the hull lot o' them city gats a-switchin' an' c-dragglin' their long-tailed gowns, an, a-ban gin' their hair when they ought to have their heads banged, an' -bum pin' themselves up with bustles, to look like a camel, an' the Lord knows what all fur I don't. But I cet my face agin 'em! Will is a-makin' money there, and there he'll stay till she spends it all. Then he'll want to come back to his old mammy. But he can't doit. He left his mother an' took up with her, an' now he may jest stick to her, an' make the best o'his bad bargain ! 'Tain't any use to talk to me!" Mrs. Jones knew the stubborn old lady well enough to believe that. So she said no more. But after she got home she said to her own family : "If I, hod as likely a son as Will Hawkins, I wouldn't go back on him fur no gal that ever drawed breath ; and IH bet a pretty penny Nancy Hawkins lives to wish she hadn't 1" Meantime, in hit cosy home m the city, Will had been gloomily reading his old mother ,8 last curt letter. "Don't let it worry you, Will," said his bride, soothingly. "I can't help it, Lily," was his reply. "She has always been such a good moth er to me that it hurts me to have her. be so wrong and obstinate." "Go out and see her, and talk it over," suggested Lily. "Never!" answered Will, firmly. "Unless business takes me, I shall never enter my old home, unless you go, too. If my mother cannot receive .my wife, she cannot receive me. It is no us 9 talking to me about it." There was a touch of the old lady's stubborn soirit in the son. von see! Mother Hawkins was a stout, fleshy old lady ; but she did all her own work, except for a few weeks in summer, when haying and harvesting came on. This season, right in the midst of haying, Mary Jane, the hired girl, fell out of the haymow, where she was hunting for eggs, and broke her arm. Of course, she had to go home. Not enother girl could, be got for love or money, and so Mother Hawkins had to do all herself . The two hired men eould get the wood, and do the milking and churning. But Mrs. Hawkins bad to sweat over the store, and the weather growing hotter every day. And ene morning Mother Hawkins couldn't get up. The hired men got the best breakfast they could, and then Mrs. Hawkins sent one of them after the doctor, bidding him stop on the way home and see if Lucy Jones wouldn't come and stay until she could find a girl. Now it so happened that important business brought Will Hawkins out to Downport that very morning. He did not intend to visit his mother; but he saw John coming out of the doctors office, and he stopped him and learned how sick his mother was. Then he felt in duty bound to call on her. He went, and tho old lady was greatly surprised, and, ai he could see. somewhat pleased to see him. But not once did she ask for or even allude to his wife. "Mother, you orght to have a girl," said Will. ' "Well, goodness, so I oughtl" groaned the old lady. "I told John to get Lucy Jones a few days, if he could. But she, ain't no manner o 'count, if she comes. And where to get anybody the mercy knows 1 don't ! I've tried everywhere." "I think perhaps I could send you out one" said Will. "Good girls can Bometimes be found in town." "Well, for pity's sake, do it, then ! mpay her well if she's werth her salt." "I'll try it," said William. "I may not succeed, but if I . can find one,. I'll send her out on the noon train. If you don't like her, you needn't keep her, you know." "Oh, 111 be glad to get anybody !" groaned the sick old lady, tossing rest lessly. ' John came back just then, saying Lucy Jones was away on a visit, "and could not be hired; 60 Will, who must leave at once ro catch the up-train, promised again to do hla best to find a girl. "I reckon I'd orter asked after her," said the sick woman to herself, after he was gone, and she had not even asked him to come back. "But I couldn't get the consent of my own mind to do it, no how." John scraped up what he could for dinner, and about one o'clock he came up-stairs, and said: "There is a lady down-stairs to see you, mum." "A ladv ? Good gracious ! and me in this fix ! Who is it, John ?" "I-hain't an idea who, mum." "Well, fetch her up, since it's got to be ; there's no help for it. But I hope 'tain't no company come to stay, for I can't keep her if 'tis." John departed, presently returning with a tall, handsome lady, in a stylish black cashmere. "Good -morning," said Mother Haw kins, seeing she did not know the lady. . "Good morning," "said the lady pleas antly, advancing toward the bed. "I suppose vou are Mrs. Hawkins ?" "Yes, t be." And the sick woman wondered what was coming next. "I hear you are in need of a girl," said the stcanger. "Lord kno vs I am 1" groaned Mother Hawkins. "Well, your son, Mr. Hawkins, . sent me out from the city to see if I would suit you." "You!" Mother Hawkins sat up in bed, in her surprise at this elegant woman asking for the place of a servant J "Look at your hands," she said. "They are not very black, I know. But they are used to doinpr housework, madam, I assure you. Will you try me "Yon came from the' city," said Mother Hawkins, without, answering the question. "Do you live there?" "Yes, madam !" ' "Then what do you know about farm work?" "Everything," answered the stranger, confidently. "I was brought up on a farm, and have only lived in l.ho city three years." "But them fine clothes!" sighed Mother Hawkins. "I have plain calico ones in my satch el," said this odd girl. ."What wages do you want?" "Whatever you usually pay." "I generally give two dollars and a half." "Very well, that will suit me." "What would you do first, if you staid?" "The first thing, I would make you a cup of tea and a bit of toast. Then I would change my dress, go down-stairs, aud get to work." . . "For pity's sake, do it, then 1" said Mother Hawkins, as, with a sigh of in tense relief, she dropped back upon her pillows. The stranger left the room. And in a short time she was back with the tea and toast temptingly arranged on a waiter, and as nice as hands could make them. After they were disposed of, she brought fresh water and towels, bathed Mother Hawkin's hot face and hands, and brushed her hair back neatly under her cap. "There, that's better, .isn't it?" she asked. ' "Yes. indeed." sished the sick woman. "V hat's y our name, child?" "Mary Sherman." "Well, Mary, if you do as well for the rest us you have for roe, I shall think it was the Lord's massy that sent you here!" "I shall try to be uaeful, but it will take me a few days to learn about things in the house." "Mebbe I'll be down by that time!" sighed Mother Hawkins, as she settled herself for a nap. But she was not down in a day or two. It was four weeks before she could be helped down to the sitting room. But everything had gone on as orderly under Mary's hands, as if Mother Hawkins had been mistress her self. And no sister or mother ever had more untiring care than she gave to the sick woman, who felt that she had in deed found a treasure, and could not bear to think of the time when Mary must go away. William had written twice to ask how his mother was, but he had not been down again. The day that Mother Hawkins went to the table for the first time since her sickness, a note came, savin e that he was coming to see Her by 4he evening train. Not a word about his wife did he write. And Mother Hawkins, as she looked at Mary moving about with trach a bright face, though that if Will had married a girl like that, they conld have been so happy 1 But her sickness had softened her hard old heart toward her only eon. And she wanted to see him very much indeed. . She heard the whistle of the train which brought him down. It was only a half-mile from the station to the farm house, and she waited, listening to every sound, until see heard his step upon the porch. I "That's him! that's my boy, Mary, come to see his old mother !" she said, eagerly, "Open the doer and let him ! Mary opened the door and what ? Mother Hawkins couldn't believe her eyes! Was Will, a married man, kiss ing and hugging her hired girl, with all 'his might, right before her face? The scandalized old lady sprang right up in her chair, crvingout : "Why, Willi William! stop that! Ton, a married man! For shame! That's my Mary!" "Yes, mother," answered William, brightly, "and she is my Mary, too." And he took the new rir! with his arm around her waist. ."Moth er, this 23 in wife!" . ""Your wife !" And the old lady sank back in her chair, overcome with sur prise. 'But your wife's name is Lily."" Yesj to is this lady's. Lily Mary Sherman Hawkins. I sent her to take care of you. so you would learn to love her. You have learned, haven't yon, mother?" "Well, that stubborn old lady, who had vowed she never would have any thing to do with her daughter-in-law, just put her arms up around Lily's neck, and cried like a baby ! And now, when Mrs. Jones goes over to take tea, Mother Hawkins caa talk of nothing half so much as the per fections of her daughter-in-law. Bowie and His Knife, Henry Clay once -told me," said Mr. Davis, with a smile, "of his first meeting with Bowie. It was in the early days, and Gay was traveling in a stage coach, where the only other passengers were a pretty girl, a big, rough looking countryman, and a limp littlo figure in a greatcoat. With the consciousness of his own perfect physique, Clay said he was congratu lating himself on not being the limp figure bundled up in the corner, w lien he became conscious that the pretty girl was begging the rough country man not to smoke, as it made her ill. The fellow replied with a savage oath, that he had paid his fare and would smoke when he pleased. Mr. Clay said he was just trying to screw his courage up to the point of rei raonstating with the country giant when the limp little figure undo ubled itself like magic, and, with a quick movement, reached down its collar.. -brough out a knife that in the ex citement of the moment looked a yard long, and with unother cat-like-movement seized the fellow by the throat. 'Throw that pipe out of the window, or by, I'll' A compre- hensive sweep of the murderous-looking blade finished the sentence and sent the pipe shattering on the ground. In another minute the knife had again disappeared down the ca- Eacious collar, and the limp figure ad resumed its former verterbraless condition, 'but the rest of the jour ney,' said Mr. Clay, 'I spent wishing 1 was the little man in the great coat, who was none other than Bowie, with his famous knife.' "St. Louis Republic. It Is a "Zymotic" "The disease called rabies in the lower animals, and which is known as hydrophobia when communicated to a man, is a zymotic," said Dr. Lansing. "It differs from others of its own class chiefly by the long period during which the virus remains latent. To the characteristic it owes most of its terrors, for, nlthouslulog bites are common, hydrophobia, at least in this country, is exceedingly rare. Furthermore, a person who has been bitten by a dog scarcely knows when he may venture to con sider himself safe. Thee anine malady differs much in severity in different cases, and there is reason to believe that many di'gs recover from its milder forms. Of persons who have been bitten by unquestionably rabid dogs, many have escaped hydro phia, but there are authentic iri stances in which the disease has re mained dormant lormanyyears.and there is no authentic instance of the recovery of a human subject in whom it has once appeared. "The result is that every one who has been bitten by a dog has hang ing over him the possibility of a hor rible death. Upon receiving a Bite, the wound should be immediately laid wide open and all the surplus blood extracted and the flesh thor oughly cauterized. By so doing the life of the victim can be saved al most to a certainty." Smooth-Faced Statesmen. In the reception-room at the state department hang pictures in tfrayon of the different secretaries of state from the beginning ot the govern ment to the present day. Look'ng at them tho other day 1 was struck with a curious feature. Of the entire list Mr. Blaine is the only man who wears a mustache or Ix-ard. Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Frelinghuy sen wore, a deep fringe of hair about their throats, by t nothing on their chins or upper lips. " Hamilton Fish and Martin Van Buren wore side whiskers, but no beards. It was only a few years ago that the beard began to be regarded as at all tolerable. Our forefathers wore clean faces, and many of them regarded a hairv cheek as an evidence ofsavagly. The first president to wear a beard wns Abraham Lincoln. No president be- fore his time wore either beard - or mustache, and most ot them were smooth of face. After Lincoln, Grant at times wore full beards and the present chief executive has hair all over his face. Mr. Harrison's grandfather shaved his face clean every morning. Washington Letter to Pittsburg Dispatch. The Moon's Influence on Sleep, New York fcun. "The most singular case of insom nia of which I ever heard," said n. physician, "is that of a friend of mine in a neighboring town, a lady of middle age. With the exception of her peculiar insomnia, she is in robust health. She is an uncom monly sound sleeper in the. dark ol. the moon, but as the new moon ap proaches its first quarter she is at- ' tacked with wakefulness. She can slefep only at long intervals during the night, and only a few minutes at. a time. The sleeplessness increases with the railing of the moon, and br the time that stage in the moon's course is reached, she is unable to ob tain even the slightest slumber. She remains in a state of utter wakeful ness until the moon begins to wane, when she gradually grows sleepy again, and is able to sleep longer and sounder as themoon disappears. When the period of dark moon has arrived, she resumes her unbroken slumber. This condition has pre vailed for more than ten years."