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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 14, 1889.
NO. 1).
VOL. I.
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Editorial Notes and Clippings.
Clubbing Kates.
To those of our readers who might
wish to take a Daily newspaper one
whose opinions are its own, fearless
and outspoken, we would say that we
have made arrangements witn the pub
lishers of the Daily Call, of this city,
whereby we can furnish their Daily
and The Alliance at $6 per year.
Or, The Alliance and Weekly Call,
one year for $1,50. The weekly Call
is a 6 col. quarto well tilled with good
amilv 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. .
Editor Armitage and his aids
are making a great S-ate paper of
T he Alliance and wilt no doubt
enl.ghten the people as to best way
"for farmer to get tl.eir share of
what they produce. State Demo
crat. Tne two Alliances north of Ven
ango are in a flourishing condition,
mcnbers hve been initiated every
! evening since they orgamxed. Prej
udice is dying out, and sympathy
for the Alliance at the present rate
will' soon be universal. Venango
Argus.
Geo1 V. Helton, of Angus, has
been npVnnted organizer of Farm
ers' Alliances for this county, to
whom applications should be made
for siitli woik. ?1r. Feiton is one
of the county's oldest and -most suc
cessful farmers, and seeing the
, pressing necessity on the part of
the farmers for the speedy protec-
Ition of their interests, has accepted
the, posit ion he now holds in hops
of helping his fellow citizens.
Nuckol s Co. Herald.
Government loans to the people
a,' cost of issue. This will lighten
the great burden of debt upon the
shoulders of the farmers to tie ex
ten, of being two thirds extinguish
ed to start with. With such an in
creased vo urae of money put in
circulation the wheels of industry
will begin to hum, thereby furnish
ing emp'oyment to the now vast
army of unemployed workmen all
over the land. Thus will labor be
afforded some of the fat of the land,
arid thus will the farmer begin to
realize what a home market is in
deed and in truth
The ring press of Dakota are at
present great ly ezereised over the
a la pcjsonale of the tanners com
prising the constitutional onv.en
t;on. Because these farmers are
not dressed in hickory shires and
overalls, and scatter hay seed over
the carpels, the aforesaid press is
raising a crv of warning to the dear
people to Icok out for "fa se proph
ets." Ths last desperate act of a
drowning man is to grab at straws,
and this flimsy wail of the Dakota
press is indicative that the waves of
popu'ar sovereignity in the territor
es are about to sweep them under.
On Tuesday the News contained
an item stating that Conductor Ed
Lyman was enjoying a lay off. The
real truth of the mattei has leaked
out, that Conductor Lyman has
been relieved permanently from
duty by Sup'. D. E. Tnompson, but
for what reason he refusts to state.
However, in railroad circles it is
fully understood that he has been
relieved for the awful crime of be
ing one of the chief- officers of the
Order of Railroad Conductors of
this state. Since the strike of the
engineers Supt. Thompson has kept
an eye on the boys, and quietly let
out all employes who join any o -
der that in any way regulates the
wages or hours of employment of
any of the company's employes.
Supt. Calvert has promised Con
ductor Lyman's friends that he
jhall have a full hearing before the
board and if he has been wrongly
discharged, he will at once be rein
stated. Neb. City News.
ON THE DEATH BED.
. . If there is a farmer in Indiana
who is willing to do anything except
gramble at the hard time, let him
put his shoulder to the wheel and
help push the crushing load off the
backs of the people. .
The trouble has been with the ma
jority" of the farm ers, they have paid
; too much attention-to the interests
of tbe politicians and not enough to
their own.
If that class of fellows had to do
all the suffering we would not object
tp it so mucb, but the fact is, the
re mass of people are innocent,
yet ate made tOriffer equally with
tbose who are guilty.
The Leader proposes to do all it
an to knock the scales from t'te
eyes of the farmers so that they can
see the sad predicament into which
the countrv has fa'len. We shall
endeavor to give them the causes
and we opine they knew the effect
We shall also ihave a remedy for the
disease, and if, after a thorough an
alyzation of the remedy, they prefer
the disease to the reraedv , we shall
duiet'y prepare for the funeral -for
there will be a tremendous funeral
the nation will die. Is is exceeding
ly sit;k now; it is on the death bed,
and, if tbe remedy be not hastily ap
plied, the Uepufolic must go out it
must die.
Farmer friends, it is for you to
decide this great question of life or
death with youT country.
Waujd you ha?e it live and it-s
people again become piosparous and
happy, in the name of the Supreme
Ruler, throw aside your politics and
work with al. possible energy for
yourself, your fatntly and your coun
try. Indianapolis Leader.
It pays farmers to deal through the
Farmers' Alliance as illustrated in the
following example. Mr. Wm. John
son, living three miles southeast of
town ordered a bill of lumber from
the Alliance to build a house on his
farm and he says he has made a sav
ing of $40 or $50 besides getting a
great deal better lumber than he
could get by dealing elsewhere. $40
or $50 is as good to the farmer, who
has to sell his corn and oats at 15 cts.
a bushel, as to any one else. Tren
torTorpedo. Push on the Wheel.
Let each and every one of us from
now 011 renew our zeal in the cause we
are so vitally interested in and push
the organization of the Farmers' Alli
ance as we never pushed before. Let
us begin at the base and work up. In
other words, let us attend to matters
of serious concern to .us right at home
first. From that ascend to the state,
then take higher ground and "on to
Washington. In the first place, the
matter of assessments and taxation
must be looked into. Those who have
the wealth and "inflooence" are not
paying their proportion of the taxes by
,a long ways. In fact, their ways of
shirking and -shouldering the burden
on those who are the least able to bear
it, is bordering on the criminal, and
would be if justice ruled today. For
the time being, or until the legislature
meets again, a good plan would be for
tlie Alliances in each township, where
the counties are under township or
ganization, to hare a committee ap
pointed to meet with the township
board oi equalization and see to it that
equality of rights, privileges and as
sessments are meted to all alike. A
good many are under the impression
that when the board sits as a board of
equalization that that is the proper
place to adjust all differences in the
matter of assessments. This is a mis
take where counties are under town
ship organization. All the eounty
board can do in this case is to equalize
assessments of townships. They can
not touch individual cases in a town
ship. As we said before, you must go
to your township board for that. A
year from this fall we elect members
to the 26th session of the legislature,
and then is the time for us to do our
work. We must see to it that a law is
passed that will forever put a stop to
bankers and rich "influential" men
shirking their share of taxation. In
the first place, in order to enact a law
of this kind, we want to know that the
men we send to make our laws are m
zealous sympathy with our movements,
1 and if thev are not' don't vote fok
tiiem if they are the best republicans
or democrats that ever lived. This is.
not official, but the editor's own pri
vate say in the matter. We want to
send thieves to jail, not to the legis
lature. A good many suggestions are
now being advanced by our people as
to hovv a law should be constructed to
thoroughly cover the ground in this as
sessment matter, but the simplest and
most effectual, Bro. Root of Omaha,
advances. His plan is to provide every
assessor with u seal, and all notes and
other negotiable instruments falling
due after the first of April be made
non-collectable unless they bear the
seal of the assessor. This would bring
them to light with a flutter when the
assessor came around.
Another thing we want, and must
riAVE, is cheaper freight rates in Ne
braska. How the rates in this state
compare with those of Iowa we
hope to be able to show right down to
a cent in an early issue of our paper.
ve do not care particularly about
passenger rates. Maybe when the
railroad companies once get through
taxing up every ward political bum
mer's pass to the farmers on freight
rates, they will make them iay fare
when they ride in orker to keep up the
annual dividend on watered stock.
My, but wont these little brass colared
fistes yelp and snarl, though, at the
"hayseeds" wheu free rides are no
more? It will be a red letter day in
Xebraska when that time comes to
calmly observe the" frenzical gyrations
of the little sleek-haired poodles.
There are other matters of great
importance to be brought up at the
next session of the legislature, which
we will not touch upon this time.
This article is long enough. .
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Subscribers not receiving their pa
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fact promptly to us.
SO TILE EXECUTIVE BOARD.
A meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the Nebraska State Farm
ers' Alliance will be held at the office
of The Alliance, in Lincoln, on
Tuesday, Sept. 10, 1SS9, at 1 p. m.
By order of J. Burrows, Chm.
J. M. Thompson, Sec.
ALLIANCE MEETING.
The Alliances of Adams county
are requested to meet at Juniata,
Aug. 31 for the purpose ot organiz
ing a County Alliance. It is very
essential that this meeting be well
attended. Let every farmer in the
county attend if possible.
A. (J. Tompkins, Organizer.
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
Under this head we solicit short articles
from the people upon any and all subjects
of interest. We Cannot undertake to t.e re
sponsible however for any matter appearing
umler this head the design beius? to allow
the greatest freedom to writers whereby
thev can discuss, and thus take -mi interest
ran the great questions of the day' which are
so materially atrecTingtne people. v rirepiain
but never mind your spelling, grammar, or
anything of that sort, we'll attend to that,
fign what you choose to your articles, but
send us your name always.!
Flax Straw Tor Twine.
Editor Alliance: There seems
to be an immense amount of work to
do all along the line, and there is no
way the farmers can turn to avoid the
inevitable serfdom into which they
are being drawn, only to keep con
stantly alert and active.
That the combined action of the
Alliance has held the price of binding
twine this year from going away up
higher, and making'it a little, lower
than it was last year, is quite certain.
But that they have not yet conqeured
the foe only gained a battle is
equally certain. A call for cheaper
twine and suggestion that jute and
tow could be used has stirred up the
trust, and a lot of worthless jute and
tow twine has been thrown on the
market to show the farmers that
there is nothing but manilla and sisil
that will make good binding twine.
But there are some parties outside ot
the trust who have demonstrated to
all who would take the trouble to get
and try it, that good twine could
just as well be made of jute and tow
as to be made of minilla. I pro
cured a sample ball of this twine and
tried it on three different machines,
viz; Deering, Buckeye and New Mc
CormicU, and no manilla could work
any better than did this sample of
jute twine.. This trial dispels all the
doubts that remained in the minds of
the men I got to try it. Some of
them had previously tried the trust
jute twine. Again, we are informed
that the same machinery with which
jute twine is made will make .tow
twine just as well, and much cheaper,
.nd the twine is just as good, every
ball warranted.
Now, farmers, you are burning;
every year in Nebraska flax straw
enough to supply the state, and per
haps the United states, with material
not only for all the twine they want
but an immense amount of other uses
to which it can .profitably be put.
Will you in the near future start this,
to you, new industry, or continue to
burn up your . valuable property to
get it out of the way. More anon,
S. E.. Spaulding, Neligh, Neb.
Alma, Neb., Aug. 13. Editor
Alliance: In your issue of July 31
I notice an article from Georgia by
R. M. Brown. He asks about the
condition of the agriculturist in this
state, and cites several supposed rea
sons. He asks if it is caused by lazi
ness and extravagance? I would say
that while there may be a few who
are of a dronish disposition, . there
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are many more wno are not. As a
rule I 'think the farmers of Nebraska
are as hard-working and energetic
class of farmers as can be found any
where in the United States. But, on
the other hand, I am compelled to
say,' that they are quite extravagant.
If, while you are traveling over the
state, you see a farmer that places his
machine under shelter, you will see
that nine-tenths of them, when they
are through with them for the season,
pile them out doors exposed to the
sun, wind and rain, and consequently
next season they are obliged to pur
chase new implements or get repair
ing done to such an extent that
would more than nay for lumber to
build shelter. .. . ' ,
The banking system is also a great
curse as well as the high rates we are
compelled to pay for shipping, caused
by the freight rates on watered rail
road stocks "and R. R. pools. The
trusts and combinations of capital by
their villianous schemes are draining
the purse of the people. But in re
gard to a too high tariff. It is not
high enough on some commodities;
on otners it is too:mgn. xiign tann
as a rule tends to benefit the farmer.
You say the price the farmer gets for
his produce is small and wages of the
laborer is insufficient. Do you not
know that a tariff Ion your produce
tends to keep out the produce that is
raised in foregin countries, and evi
dently in such cases the demand is
greater and prices are higher, where
if you install a free trade system and
allow foreign coun
ries to flood our
surplus produce,
markets with their,
the demand for ouf produce will di
minish and prices will decrease as
the amount of produce is increased.
In foreign countries wages of laborers
are small compared with the wages of
our laborers, consequently we are not
able to compete with foreign prices.
For these reasons we need a high tar
iff. On the other hand sugar may be
taken for example. As there is a
sugar trust, it then should be on the
free list if the Farmers' Alliance does
not take in hand the sugar industry
and manufacture sugar. But a better
way would be to place sugar on the
protection list and instigate the farm
ers to raise sugar cane and beets as
understand it can. be produced in any
Dart of the U. S. By this means it
seems that we could jbe able to re
move the foundation! from the suga:
trust.. Previous years -have demon
strated that an absolute free trade
system would be disastrous to", the
welfare of the nation. A high pro
tective system should be installed and
if the surplus becomes dangerous for
congress to authorize the ; surplus to
be distributed among the counties of
the different states, estimating it , ac
cording to the population of the last
census. In return the taxes would be
less on our homes. Alvjn.
, Bromfield, Neb., Aug.. 10. Edi
tor Alliance: Farmers in Hamil
ton are, and have been, so busy har
vesting, &c.,'and will be threshing
and haying for at least six weeks yet,
that but little work has been done
toward organizing. When farmers
turn out Saturday evenings to their
club meetings, and number from ten
to twenty regular, you may depend
that quite an interest is taken. Grove
Alliance has some of. the pluckiest. la
dies that ever dwelt in this land of
the free. We take a few copies of
The Alliance, and it is read by ev
ery man, woman and child, and all
praise it. I see in its columns sev
eral good things from old friends,
and those with whom I associated in
the Alliance nine and eight years
ago,, and many others of later date
have enlisted in the cause of freedom,
and it is encouraging to follow their
thoughts and know that the princi
ples advocated by the old veterans of
the Grange and Alliance have taken
root in the minds of younger men,
and now appear "like trees walking,"
I would say to all, keep a cool
biain, face the foe and fight as never
before, and victory is sure to perch
upon the banner of labor. Let all
classes of labor unite and work to
each other's interst. Some say this
cannot be done, but it is a fool's no
tion. If laboring men who work at
manufacturing, and all other labor is
not paid good wages, how can farm
ers expeet to sell their produce?
Again, if farmers are not well paid
for grain, etc., how can they buy any
thing they need that is made by the
hand of those who attend the forge,
loom, mines, and many other useful
occupations.
Again, if farm produce is low, men
and boys throng ... the work shops,
railroads and mines and make the
supply of labor greater -than the de
mand, and thus wages are' reduced,
and, if wages are too low to support
them in comfort, they again turn to
the farms and cause an overproduc
tion. This is what corporations and
so-called capitalist's want and the
manper by which they manage to
control labor. I will use the sewing
machine as an example as most men
and women know more of its work
ings. If we twist the under tention
too tight it draws the upper thread
below and makes an imperfect seam.
Likewise, twist the upper thread too
hard and you have the same result.
Now, it is easy to strike the medium,
that both threads lock in the center
of the cloth and perfection is the re
sult. Now we have only too classes of
labor farmers on one side and all
day laborers on the other. "But what
of the thread? Is it not money? And
thb garment to be made the govern
ment that is to cloth, feed and pro
tect her mighty millions on a basis of
equality and justice.
Now let us all go to work like men
and improve our monetary system
make it good and strong, and do not
allow it to be controlled by a few
selfish and greedy lords who are try
ing to resurrect the old master and
slave system of the south not only
the colored race, but make it white
slaves as well. I hope to see the day
that all who practice industry and
economy, will De retired at tne age
of fifty years with a sufficiency of this
world's goods to keep him
the remainder of his life in com
fort. Beware of false leaders, but
when you find men 'good and- true
stand bv them throusrh thick and
thin,' and dont let party have any
thing to do with principle, but let it
be principle first, last and all the
time, and if we get a man oiim our
ticket who does not stand on such
principles as we advocate, be hedem
ocrat, republican, or any other,
scratch him . off and put in place
thereof some one from other parties
who will represent our wishes.
We have a scripture like this
"Smite the leader and the flocks will
scatter." Look sharp at this. They
have already begun to cry out "Office
seekerl or- call some too lazy ' to
work, or some slander, "slang or
slush thrown at our leaders all done
to scatter the flocks of labor that they
may feast a little longer, and dwell
in luxury and comfort drawn from
honest toilers by class legislation or
trusts.
Down with the robbers end tyrants
and let us have a government marked
out by the most noble American citi
zen, Hon. Abraham Lincoln, viz:
"Of, by, and for the people.".
. L. C. Floyd.
Mr. Editor: I do not agree with
Bro. Wooster politically, for we must
have the united effort of the laboring
class of the two old parties or monop
oly will control us as it does today,
for as long as we remain in the two
old parties they will keep us fighting
over the bloody shirt, or tariff and
free trade, and whip us in with the old
lash that they have wielded so effectu
ally in the past. Monopoly wants us
in the old parties, for there they , can
control us, but just as soon as we step
out into a new party then they cannot
control us, and a new party is the only
place that the laboring class can be
united, for the laboring class of the re
publican party will not go into the
democratic party, and vice verse. And
when either of the 6ld parties make
such a proposition to the other they
are asking their neighbor to do that
which they are not willing to do them
selves. So let us as brothers come out
from among our enemies and meet
them face to face, lest while we be
fighting side by side with them they
smite us under the fifth rib and we
fall to rise no more. I think the Bro.
means all right, but he is like a great
many others, he has not got all the
moss off yet. Joiij Lon'g.
Kenesaw, Neb. The heaviest
thunder storm of. the season visited
this locality last Thursday evening.
During the storm lightning struck the
barn of John Trueman, a mile, south
w.st of this place, and killed eight
horses all the horses on the farm.
As Mr. Trueman had no insurance on
his stock the loss falls heavily upon
him. Kind friends and neighbors,
however, circulated a subscription
paper and obtained quite a neat sum
for him. - '
So much wet weather is retarding
the threshing contemplated by the
farmers and not much threshing has
thus far been done. Wheat will
probably run from .12 to 20 bushels
per acre and a fair quality. Oats
have been somewhat damaged, but
this is confined to pieces cut a little
too green and weedy. What flax
has been threshed has turned out
from 10 to 12 bushels per acre. The
prospects for a good crop of com was
never betjer, and if the B. & M.
persists, in giving the "long haul
preference over the short haul, and"
polio tvocfprn trn r-tpnrsr t hp farihcr i
east they Haul it, there will be thous-1
ands of bushels of the golden product
of Nebraska consumed for fuel in this
locality this winter. The Farmers'
Alliances are progressing flourishingly
and all say !hat as soon as the present
rush of work is over that the work ot
organization will be pushed as never
before.
In the matter of G. D. Coleman,
formerly of this place, vs. the B. &
M. R. R., it is generally understood
around here that the company are go
ingto try and prove that Mr. C. at
tempted to do bodily injnry to the
conductor during the "scrimmage"
incident to putting him off the train,
with a car link. As passenger coach
es do not happen to be provided
with car links, and as the putting off
process took place on the prairie
away from blacksmith or machine
shops, - where Mr. Coleman could
have got hold of a dangerous car link,
the B. or M. will have to say. Per
haps they will undertake to prove
that he is a duplicate of "the coon
wot carried a razzor."
We notice the Nonpareil is advocat
ing the Henry George theory of taxes
on land alone. .However plausable
such a scheme might be with the mul
titudes who populate, the eastern cit
ies, liyina in tenements or occupying
rooms on the floors of the various stor
ies of houses thronged with the poor
class of people who never owned a foot
of land, or expect so to do, the great
plausable plan falls to the ground and
becomes all bosh long ere it crosses the
father of waters. The pioneer of the
west the'homesteader, the man who
left the comforts of eastern homes,
endured tne hardships of the early set
tler, opens out new and unexplored
states and territories- should anyone
escape taxation on his little home, that
is the man who ought to go free,, not
the manufacturer, '-merchant, bank or
speculator. Our candid opinion is that
by far the fairest system of taxation
would be "a graded income tax." Tax
the landed speculator pro ratio with
the farmer, that is, less improvements,
otherwise as the lands compare, so tax
the lord of the uncultivated manor.
No one for a moment doubts, nor
questions, the detriment that these
larges wastes of idle, uncultivated
lands, are to our country. Tax the
farmer on his income. Tax the money
lender on his income. Tax the rail
road companies on their income. The
merchant, the mechanic, the doctor,
the newspaper; in fact, tax the human
family according to the return of
wealth as it comes rolling in each year,
allowing the assessor a wide range in
making his assessments or rendering
his returns. Is it not a fact that the
property of the farmer is returned for
taxation much nearer 'its full value
that the property of corporations, man
ufacturer, banker or merchant? Hence
the farmer pays more than his share of
the public expense.
For instance (and the following is a
true and correct statement): A farm
er's real, actual worth land, stock, im
provements, etc., is 5,000. Upon
that he pays a tax of $50. Now, the
farmer's income from that farm-
worth ill told in dollars and cents,
$5,000 in no case exceeds SI, 000, and
that is a liberal estimate. Out of the
$1,000 ' income he pays hired help,
threshing bills, wear and tare of ma
chinery, loss of stock, &c, and pays on
nis income 01 ?i,uuu a tax or live per
cent. What other man in the land
pays one half of that amount?
Is it not a fact that legion of other
men who receive a salary of from
$1,000 to $2,000 a year escape without
paying a dollar of direct tax, save the
poll tax? ;
What per cent does the money lender
pay on his income?
Is it not a fact that a direct tax of
five per cent on income would stag
nate, mire and destroy . all business?
Yet, the poor farmer endures the bur
den, and struggles on in hardship 'and
poverty to the end of the chapter.
Let us have a graden income tax.
II. B.
Price List of Oils to Alliances.
150 test, medium white coal oil, UVS cents.
,-150 " prime " " V)
14 stove gasoline " 11 '
' These oils in barrel lots. The best
harness oil in eithev one or five gallon
cans, 70 cents per gallon. Pure Neat's
foot oil in one to five, gallon cans, 60
cents per gallon. In barrel lots, 50
cents per gallon. Axle grease, thirty
six boxes in case, $1. So.
Allen Root, State Agent.
Dead In the Harem.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
A story that reads like a romance
of the "Arabian Nights" series cornea
from the land of the mystic crescent.
It tells ot the murder pf fourteen
Komen, one of them at one time weft
known in this city as a promising
young soprano on theconeert stage,
Tho information of her terrible lato
comes through friends in Miian,where
she was known as "la bella prima
donna." '
Laura Schlrmer is tho only ono of
the fourteen inmates of the harem ot
tho sultan of Turkey, in Constanti
nople, whose mysterious death oc-
cured recently, whose identity is
known on this side of the Atlantic.
The matter hut been kept secret, but
friends of the unhappy cantatrico in
Milan claim tt have undoubted evi
dence of the crime.
According to the story, tho sultan
is believed to have been incensed at
the attempts of the American minis
ter, working on behalf of Laura's
friends, to get the woman out of her
gilded captivity, and so one night
noison was placed in the ice cream
furnished to tho occupants of the im
perial seraglio, una fourteen poop
women,- including the American girl,
were found dead in the morning. Of
course there was no inquest, no cor
oner's inquiry, no verdict. Thv
bodies of the victims were hurrhl
away to nameless graves and the
curtain dro'pped.
Ten years ngo, whtn she was only
18, Laura Schirmer Ind already won
a proud placo nmou Philadelphia
concert singers, and a bright future
seemed to beckon her'to a yet higher
place. She was known then as tho
"beautiful Laura Schirmer." Sho
had a handsome f:tce and a fascinat
ing manner, and her vok-o, a light
soprano, wasot nn exquisite quality.
Her mother, a Boston weanm, was
well-to-do, and tho daughter was
reared in luxury, and had tho best
musical training that Boston
afforded. -
The mother even boasted iimon
her friends that "Meino licbe t aura'
was nobly born, she being connected
with the Dutch nobility. Bofoie he r
20th year Laura had iuad ho
marked u success on the "concert
stage that her friends nil urged her
to study lor the operatic stage, nml
after a year's study she sang at the'
theatre with Chavies K. Adam m
"La Juive" and "Tho frown Dia
monds." t Later on ahe travelled
through "the United States under
Strnkosch, sinking in "Homnaru-
bula," "Lucia di Lammernippr'ajj
other well known operas.
It was then she met her evil genius,
the English tenor, -Myron. She fell
in love with him, went to Kuropo
with him. Her friends, say ho mar
ried her. At nnv rate they went t
Milan to sing and study, and sho
made .her Italian debut there.
But it was not long before tho
American colony there U-gan to talk
about her unhappy life. Her hus
band's greatest joy, they said, ap
peared to be to degrade the lovely
woman who had linked her fortunes
with his. He made her perform tho
most menial offices, black his boots,
cook his food and other things far
worse.
She grew coarse and reckless in
speech and action, her vc iee lost
tne flexibility and her face and form
showed the effects of her degraded
life. She and liyron took a tlieatm
and tried management, but made a
failure of it. Then they went to Con
stantinople and tried it again, and
under the favoring smiles of tho sul
tan they succeeded letter.
Last winter tho. American colony
at Milan heard that Laura had bo
come a member of the sultan's harem.
Some said she had leen abductel
thither, but others who knew her
tastes and tendencies, believed that
she had gone willingly into captivity.
And now comes this latent story, and
all Milan holds up its hands in hor
ror. Wolves and Deer,
Maine historians pay that over a
hundred years ago wolves came down
from the north and devoured almost
all the deer in the colony. Some of
the deer swam to the islands along
the coast and a remnant was saved.
The wolves having no deer to eat,
turned to the - domestic animals of
the country, and gave the settlers
great " trouble. The Indians, too,
robbed of their meat supply by the
wolves, were for a longtime inn
starving condition, and often thoso
in tho interior went miles to tho sea
shore for food. The wolves at length
J .went northward, and little by littlo
ii . .1 ; i a:i let ...i.
tne ueer jnereaseu uiuu icw, uiua
there was another wolf raid, and for
two years played havoc with deer
and cattle. Then they disappeared,
and have nob since been seen much
in the State. Deer are again Increas
ing, both because of the absence of
wolves and beeau.se of the stringent
game laws of Maine.
Saved. His Umbrella
Some one took an umbrella from
the hallway of a Lewiston man's
J house, and about the snmo time the
dog was missed. A search was nude
and the dog was at last, found in a
Lisbon street store, 'htnndir.g near
the missing umbrella. ; A stranjrer
had come into tk'? jt oris, followed by
tho dog. When he e:r? out he Lit
the umbrella, vliiih the- dog care fully
guarded until his owner appeared.
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