The alliance. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1889-1889, August 14, 1889, Image 1
I OFFICIAL ORGAN NEBRASKA si.oo FEK IEAB I ADVANCE, 7 LIANCE J STATE FABIEBS' ALLIANCE. n I I LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 14, 1889. NO. 1). VOL. I. l V) A: 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. . NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Subscribers not receiving their pa per regularly will please .report tbe 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 ' 1 a 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. Lewiston Me. (i.:r.tt. ,. x.'4-. ,