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if I I OFFICIAL ORGAH HEDRaSKA $1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. 1. LLIANCE III STATE FARIIERS'ALLIAllCR n t I I NO.10. VOL.1. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 21, 1889. .1 c t3v ) A- 4 1 ' n ! Editorial Notes and Clippings. CluVbTm? Rates. 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 Ai.uanck at $6 per year. Or, The Alliance and Weekly Call, one year for $1,50. The weekly Call re a '6 col. quarto well tilled with good familv 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. THIS TIME IT IS YOU. Your subHcription has expired, and unless re newed within the-W-1 "V" next nfteetl da;8' or satisfactory ar ranjrementt made with the editor, i your name will be removed from our books and the paper discontin M tied. We' trust you will feel it your duty to send us vour subftrip tion and continue with us. Should- -this paragraph be marked with a blue cross it means you. A letter from Bro. Root of Omaha, one from Bro. Stebbins of North Platte, one from Bro. Petersen of Big Springes, and one from Illinois are crowded out this week. They will appear in our next. We learn that at tKe coming meet ing of the Alliance, of Adams county that measures will be adopted looking to a thorough organization of the county. The field is ripe, and an old time awakening is looked for. The Farmers Alliance is a practical organization for the farmers and mean business. It invites all. farmers who have not as yet become members to thoroughly investigate and study its principles. Write to the state secre tary, J. M. Thompson, , Lincoln, for all information, who will cheerfully respond. . Retiuution has at lait overtaken t'K -Judge David S. Terry, the noto rious bully who killed Senator Bro derick in a duel t'uirty years ago, and has so iong terrorized the Pacific coasf. There is little doubt hut that ' the prompt action of Marshall Nagle, bo'was tuardirg Justice Field, pre vented the desperado, and his equally notorious wife, Sirah Altbea IliW, from aiding another victim to his list of innocent men w hom he has murdered. No Ikmefan he attach ed to the marshall as he was acting nuder orders from Attorney General Miller and if an inquest must he held it is lit iter ibat Terry should be the subject than another innocen. man should be sacrificed, to this murderer Terrv's insatiate h'e. Among the many aspirants for con gressional honors in the second dis trict, made vacant by the death of Congressman Laird, Ave note the fol lowing: Hon. N. V. Harlan, John M. Franse, Judge Post and Captain Scott of York county; Ex-governor Dawes, Judge Morris and ' George H. Hastings of Saline county; John Jan sen, of Fillmore county; Judge Nor val, of Seward county; Smith Cald well, of Nuckolls county; J. B. Pins more, of Clay county; Gen. C.J. Dilworth, H. Bostwick, E. N. Crane and F. P. Olmstead, of Adams county; -Secretary of State Laws; Judge Gaslin and McKinney, of Webster county. There are a large number of back precincts to hoar from yet before this list is complete. Nebraska's corn crop is receiving a large flure of fiee advertising and there is perhaps no doubt it will be the greatest yuld ever grown in the State. But sometimes in these. wicked days of tiusta and combines, it does not look lilce good policy to keep the outside world so well posted in regard to hew or what; the farmeisare doing for fear of a combine asairst them when selling dai come?. In all other branches of industry and trade there is always more or less secrecy as to scock on hand and cost of production. But in the case of the faimer, he is figured up and down and out some times on kis own reports, every newspaper- heralds his business the amount of corn h9 raises his hogs and hii cattle are numbered .and there is no doubt that all trie infor mation is used to his disadvantage by carabines against hitn on market day, so that sometimes we think the farmer and newspaper tell many things about the crops tbatshouldle kept a profound secret or as much so as possible for the farmers benefit and profit. ' And now comes the wily politi cian and the capitalistic press of the country and tills us that the indebt edness of the country being in excess ot the money in circulation is msig- nificant. That one dollar is capable of liquidating thousands of dollars of debts. s an illustration they cite us to the twelve men who were sitting; around a table, all owing each other a dollar. The man at the head of tht table takes out a dollar and .pass es it to the person next to him to whom he owes it. He passes it to the next whom he owes, and so on around the table the dollar goes, coming back to the man who started it and twelve collars of debts PAID WITH A SINGLE DOLLAR. Well, that might do as an illustration of the powers of the "Almighty Dollar" but it will not pass muster under, the exegencies of the present. If all the millions of indebtedness of the peo ple were to each other if farmer A held a mortgage on farmer B's farm, and farmer B on farmer C's farm and soon, the amount of farmer B's mortgage payed to farmer A, if cor responding with the amount held against A by B, and payed to B by A and so on, a million of mortgages could be lifted with $500. But this is not the case, as every school boy in Nebraska knows. This great mountain of mortgaged indebtedness is held by the great monied centers of this country and Europe, and if farm er A by some lucky combination of circumstances is able to pay off the mortgage on his farm, away it floats to the money center, and this class being the creditor class, owing no body else, stays there unless bor rowed out. So, under these circumstances, how can the great debtor, class of this country ever hope to get out from under the galling yoke of debt when there is not sufficient money in cir culation to pay their debts. There is only one way the inevitable under our present system and that is to turn over all they have got to the creditor class and be a mere chattel. WILL THE SHYLOCK LOOSEN HIS GRIP. The money power of the nation is becoming so arrogant and dictatorial that party leaders are becoming alarmed.. They see a sentiment rap idly rising against any further en croachments of this power, which, , if not heeded, will wreck their parties. On the other hand, the money power has had its sway so long that it, too, is a menacing danger to the party that dares to ignore its demands. Therefore, a crisis is approaching. A compromise must either ie effected or a political revolution is imminent. Which will it be? This money pow er has been stealthily working for the past twenty-five years to bring about the condition of things where we find ourselves today. Will they consent to lay aside the sickle when the har vest is ripe? This is the question. They may consent to congress doing something temporary for the relief of the people in order to ward off for the time being the pending crisis, but as for interfering with the system which they have for so long been gradually bringing about, they will never con sent to to that. Without a complete eradification of this ' system the peo ple cannnot for once hope for relief of a permanent character. Just so long as a few national bankers con trol the money of the nation, just so long will the indebtedness of the peo ple exceed the amount of money in circulation, and the fruits of their in dustry their homes pass into the hands ot an idle aristocracy. There fore, be not deceived if something should be done by the coming con gress for our relief outside of interfer ing with the millionaire and pauper system, the national bank act, as it will only be a sup, a morsel to quiet us. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." The money gods of Wall street were a secret skulking foe in the rear while our soldiers were fighting the enemy in front. They got an "ex ception" clause placed in the honest dollar of Abraham Lincoln, and made it dishonest -only worth 43 cents, in this depreciated money the soldier was paid. He sold it to these moor ish pirates for the 43 cents, who in turn, invested it in government bonds at face value. With these bonds they established the robber system called national banks. With this system they control the money of the nation, contracting and expanding it at will for speculative purposes. They want to do a little extra at contrac tion now and want the government to help them, so they again make a stab at the soldier by objecting to the liber al policy of Corporal Tanner in the allowing of these veterans claims. At their first fire the machinery of the government backed them up, and Dr. Carpenter, the liberal examiner of the pension department, Tanner's main support, falls. A warning to Tanner to be careful how he trifles with the powers that be and controls the poli- cyot trie government Wall street. It would never do to allow a liberal payment of the soldiers claims as mil lions of dollars would be put in circu lation and thus interfere with a sys tem of free robbery. But the soldier has at last discovered this masked bat tery which has been firing into him from the rear ever since the guns of Sumpter shook the Continent, and if we discern things correctly, there is "blood in the moon." In their grap plhigs with this well fortified band of freebooters they will have the undivid ed support of the people of the na tion. While at Hastings, this week, we had the pleasure of meeting with Bro. H. B. McGaw, a former secretary of of the County Alliance of Adams ccnty, We found that our worthy brother had not lost a bit of his old time enthuiasm, in fact had taken on an extra head of steam, and was forg ing ahead at a rate as never before. He is sanguine that by a careful apd consistant course from now on, the success of the Alliance is assured'. We mention Bro. McGaw as an in dex to the fact that the old guard still lives. THIS TIME IT IS YOU. In another column will be found a short paragraph with the above head over it. It is our intention to make The Alliance the best farm journal in the state, and in order to do this we must have your hearty support. At present our expenses are heavy and our income small, but we hope by a diligent effort on our own part, and a little push once in a while from those who are interested in this great ' re form movement, to be able in the near future to increase our office force and enlarge the paper. Now it each and everyone of our subscribers will send us the name of a neighbor ac companied with the price of subscrip tion we shall in a very short time be able to do this. In regard to the par agraph spoken of above, we would say that this is done not only to pro tect ourselves but also you, as we are aware that people are getting tired of having papers thrust upon them with out their consent. We therefore take this method of letting you know when your subscription expires. We hope, however, that we shall not be obliged to discontinue sending the paper to any of our present subscribers on this account, for if hard work will do it we shall make it one that you cannot afford to be without.- 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 te re sponsible however for any matter appearing under this head the design being to allow the greatest freedom to writers whereby they can discuss, and thus take an interest in the great questions of the day which are. so materially aifeetingthe people. Writeplain but nevermind your spelling, grammar.,, or anything of that sort, we'll attend to that. Sign what you choose to your articles, but send ub your name always. 1 Mason City, Aug. 16. Editor Al liance: In reading Bro. Meeham's letter in No. 8 1 feel like saing a word in regard to the papers we read. The Alliances of Algernon township have resolved not to support any paper that will not work for our interest. The two papers in Mason City, viz: The Transcript and the Advocate, one a democratic and one a republican paper, were requested to publish the memorial to congress, which wras published in No. 1 of The Alliance. They first agreed to pub lish it, but afterward changed their minds, and now. will not publish it. Now, brother farmers, this goes to prove that both old parties are trying to keep us ignorant on financial ques tions. They think, we . dont need to know anything only how to raise grain and live hard. If the papers ol this country had done their duty we -would have heard of , the Farmers' Alliance sooner. As it is, it is right in our midst before we hear of it. Old Harry. Elwood, Aug. 14. Editor Alli ance: Yes, I am w illing to give your paper a trial,and here is one dollar for subscription. According to my way of thinking, every farmer who is a lover of truth, and especially those who are members of the Alliance, if thev are not willing to give their support to such papers as yours they are not very reliable members. It is a fact that manv of us farmers are really too smart for any use, so that it is a hard matter for anybody to learn us any thing. But it ought not to make any difference, we ought to stand by the truth, we ought to protect the truth, because it is an article that is very scarce in this world. It can be fonnd in your paper, but in few others; yes in few others. The sample copies you have sent me are divided out among neighbors, and if you feel like sending me more I shall be glad to distribute them. I am not a member or the Alli ances but I know my duty is to join tlxm if T ovov rot n nhnnrfi nlthoiicrh I have heard so-called smart farmers claim that we have got no business to buck against rings, trusts, railroad corporations, or any kind of public grabbers and pickpockets, and why not? Because they have got the mon ey, you know. Yours very truly, John P. Anderson. Hansen, Neb., 1889. Editor Alliance: It seems queer that it takes a great many people so long to see their situation. I see by quite a number who write to the "Al liance that they still think that the Al liance should take to one or the other of the old "parties." I suppose it is be cause we have trained in the old "par ties" so long that it has become second nature with some of us. The old "par ties" were all right, for the purpose which brought them into exi stence, but they have passed their days of useful ness and seem to simply strive to re tain some fat office and legislate to their own and corporation benefit, ig noring the people who placed them there to represent them. Brother farmers we have 110 use for any party, all we need is simply to perfect our organiza tion, then after that is acomplished, select men from amongt ourselves to represent our interests and v elect them to do business for the farmer and labor ing class of our state instead of rail roads and monopolies. I would ask, how can we eyer expect to reap any benefit so longas we send some lawyer, doctor or professional man to repre sent us? Again, how can we expect any help from a few of our own class when the majority is professional, it would be like playing a "sheep among wolves" and expect the sheep to win the game. Some will say the farmer is not educated and their occupation is different, and they would sell out just as quick 'asanyTStie". GtKwsTwe might send the poorest one among us to the legislature and they could not do any worse than some we have there, as it is the farmers and laborers are looked upon as a class but a little above the brutes, all we are fit for is to toil and support the whole business. Our business men seem to be very good men and take an interest in the far mer as long as there is no move among us to better our condition, when that is done it is a different thing, as I will show by one little transaction which transpired at this place. There was formed over a year ago a corporation of Allicnce farmers, to do a general, business at Hansen, Neb., in due time a store was started, as is customary the whole trade is represented by runners, in May a runner came and took an or der from the farmers store, in due time the manager of the store received this reply.. Omaha, Neb., May 11, 89. Farmers alliance, Hansen, Neb. Gentlemen: We have your order to our Mr. Ver phol and regret that we cannot fill same as it would interfere seriously with our other trade in Adams county, were wre to sell to you. Truly yours, Paxton & Gallacher. , Now you can see the "hand writing on the wall" very plain, the merchants of Adams county have refused to pat ronize the Omaha house if they sold to the Alliance. They might as well say to the farmers, you have no right to do anything but farm and come to us with your produce and we will fix the price for you, J and then charge you what we please for our goods. They seem to lose sight of the fact that the pros perity of the farmer and laborer means prosperity to all branches of busines. .Now brother farmers let us take more interest In perfecting our organi zation, talk to your neighbor who does not belong and show him that we need him and he needs us, do not let your local Alliances go down, if there is only a dozen of you stick together and wait until we are organized, then in due time Ave will receive information from the proper source. We can all work together and) accomplish our purpose and see if we cannot get together a legislature that will treat us with re spect if nothing more, and not do as our late senators did: Resolve that the Alliance missrepresents facts and have no right to open our mouths. Xours sincerely, L. 8. Orcutt. Phillips, Neb., Aug., 13. Edi tor Alliance: I enclose order for one year's subscription to your vala- able paper. I send you a short com-1 munication from the Phillips Farm ers' Alliance Business Association, in corporated with $15,000 capital. It is our aim to. transact a general busi ness such as we may profitably han dle. The'prime object is to ship our produce and thereby receive all that the railroads leave us, which, by the way, is not a great deal. We have about 150 members composed from three Alliances, Munroe Center, Prairie Center and the St. Joe Farm ers' Alliance. We commenced busi- ness Aug. 5 tn Since starting the monops have been paying closer foi grain than they ever have before. 1 think their aim is to detract from the farmers move, thereby holding out the impression that our institution is a failure. With regard to prices it may have its effect with some, but the majority will not be deceived by such a move for well they know that if we allow them to hold sway they will soon put down prices to, the old basis, and the same with regard to weights. They promise to make it interesting for us, yet we know from their actions that they are already sick. They desire to sell ' their buildings at actual cost, thereby showing that they are aware the move is not portentious of good to them. We hope to see the time soon come when farmers everywhere will own buildings through which to ship our producs. We think it would be grand work for our state officers and state paper to promulgate such a move throughout the state and United States. , E. H. Ball, Sec. and Agt. F. A. B. A., Phillips, Neb. . Nelson, Neb., Aug. s 13. Editor Alliance: The sample copies sent me I read over with great pleasure to hear of a great many of the thick htaded farmers and other working men are beginning to feel the shoe pinch, so they are now partly open ing their eyes before the storm cloud bursts to entomb them in the worst despotism ever known. The farmers and producers convention recently held at Huron, Dakota, had the right ring with" it. You have thoughtfully said Dakota's wise ex ample is well worthy of imitation by the Alliances all over, the country. Yer, and I should say by every man and woman who have the interest and welfare of their country at heart. I greatly admire the manhood in passing the following resolution: Resolved. That we will not sup port any paper that is not in sym pathy with the Alliance movement and will not give it its friendly sup port. This is the principle I have advocated and upheld for years. Drop all the lying, shamming, capi talistic papers, patronize alone those papers fighting your battles, then you send an entering wedge to the down fall of both the corrupt old parties. John H. Hunt. Spannuth Pre., Lincoln Co. Neb:, Aug. 1 2th," 89. Editor Alliance; Your paper is a welcome weekly visitor to our home and we hope it will continue to visit, not only to us but many more. Our community is hew as yet and we are all new and poor homesteaders, but with the help of providence and the Alliance we hope to gain an earthly and education al wealth in the future. It is high time that the farmers of this state unite and see that laws are made to benefit them and the labor ing classes. If things should keep on goiifg the way they have been for the last twenty years, there w-ould soon be no class in this country but million airs and paupers. Now a few words to the members of the Alliances throughout the state. We are now approaching the time1 when caucuses for the conventions to be held, and the ward politicians are laying their bait to catch the "horny handed granger" to send the delegate to the convention who will favor their schemes, it is at this caucus that we farmers ought to be present and see that the right man is sent to'the county convention, and the founda tion to a pure government is formed: but nine times out of ten the men that ought to see to the caucus will stay at home and afterwards kick him self, for the man he wanted to go" to the convention did not go, atld the ward politician got his man to repre resent him in the convention. Now brother farmers see that good and faithful men be sent to the conven- tions, and the corner stone to a pure government is laid. Some of our, members are in favor of a third party. Let us try the old party once more and see that good men are put up.for office, as both old parties have very good principles if they do not get into the hands of shylocks politically; if we cannot purify them in the way described we will and must form a third party. C. F. Preitauer. Ganeiy, Neb., Aug. 3. Editor Alliance. Enclosed please find draft tor two dollars, subscriptions forthenaner The farmers of Lo- lor tne paper, ine tarmers ot l,o- gan county and vicinity are waking up to the needs of the hour. And , . . . , ,. , well they might, for I do not think there is a more oppressed people in . . r xt u 1 u i the state of Nebraska than in vthis county. Scarcely a quarter section u: j- v u- FluCUurilWum uatC uut some eastern corporation has a death grip on it to the occupant (cannot call him an owner for he is not), and the railroads, grain and stock mer chants, the same death hold on the products of the soil. For Heaven's sake what is the outlook? Anything but encouraging. But the workers of this great state have made a move all along the line, the clouds of darkness are breaking, and so will monopoly if every farmer and me chanic will put his( shoulder to the wheel and push to the final. It cer tainly is oncouraging to see how .the farmers and mechanics are taking hold of this mighty work in this part of the field, and, erelong we hope to send you a report of such a work here that our foes cannot gainsay or treat it lightly. Yours heart and soul for the right. Chas. S. Wells, Sr. Chaplain of Alliance 468. Sulliran Changes His Mind. Suppose John L. Sullivan should change his mind from his present pugilistic way of thinking and swear by all power of Heaven and" earth that under no circumstances could he be induced to lay his hands on any mortal man, (quite a change) and he had $1,000 in each pocket, and, would meet in a lonely spot one of his old acquaintances who knew of both of these circumstances, and said friend was somewhat ahead of his friends in the line of coaxing money out of people. Now you may imag ine the following dialogue: ' "John, I want your money." 'You cant have it." "I will have it." "No, you won't." "You can't help yourself, because you will not fight nor lay hands on me, although you could whip as many such men as I as could get around you." "You shall not," says John, but Mr. Thief walks up and takes the money out of John's pocket. All the time John is growling about such treatment, and the thief goes into another pocket, and John says it is naughty, but thief does not stop un til John's pockets are all cleaned out and he is a beggar. Now the thief will laugh at John for his foolishness and his weakness. And yet. this thief was a very small man, but he took advantage of the foolishness and silliness of John, who could have de fended himself nnd his property it he had but made a slight effort. Now, gentle readers, let us make an application. John L. is the many thousand farmers of these great United States, all standing aloof from each other and opposing any and all organizations of the farmer on the ground that they can't do anything by uniting, and the little thief is the many trusts, pools, com bines and corporations that are. or ganized to filch the farmer and then laugh when the farmer says it is naughty to steal. . Now for application No. 2: .John L. is the man who does net believe in secret societies. The thief does believe in any and all things that will give him money that he does not earn, regardless of from whom it comes. John will not or ganize under any circumstances, but the thief does organize and the result is the same as it always is, the anti secret man has his enemies for his counsel, for his friends, and the fact that he 1 does not believe in dis criminating keeps him still in the clutches of this very class all the time. ' J. Y. M. S. XOTICi: TO SUBSCRIBERS. Subscribers not receiving their pa per regularly will please report the fact promptly to us. Superstitions About Eire. - "To hang an egg on Ascentlon Day in' the roof of a house," said Reginald Scott, in 1854, "prose rve the same from all hurt." Probably this was written with an eye to tho "hurts" arising from witchcraft, with which eggs are supposed to possasa certain mysterious powers. In north Germany, if you. have a desire to neo the ladies of tho broomstick on May Day, their festi val, you must take an egg laid on Maundy Thursday and stand where two roads meet; or else you must go to church 011 Good Friday, but coruo out before the blessing. It was for merly quite an article of domestic bo- lief that the shells must be broken nfter eating, eggs lest the witches should Bail out to 6Crt in them; or. aa Sir Thomas Browue declared, lest they ."should draw or prick their name therein, and venlliciously mischief" the person who had partaken of tho North Germans, ignoring thi side of the question, say: 4,Brealc the 8hell8 or ou wlll get the. ague," . and Netherlanders advise you to securo : yourselves against the attacks of thta -dtaameablo visitor by oatlnff on Ka ter Day a couple of eggs which wero laid ou Good Friday. Scotch fishes, who may be reckoned among the most superstitious of folks.believe that con trary winds and much vexation of spirit will result of having eggs on board with them, while in tho west of England it is considered very unlucky to bring birds' eggs into the house, although they may be hang up with impunity on the outside. Mr. George, in his "Folklore of the Northeast of Scotland," gives us some curious par--' ticulars concerning chickens and tho-. best method of securing a satisfactory brood. Tho hen, it scorns," should tx set on an odd number of eg. or the cnances are tnat most, 11 rot all. win be addled a mournful prospect for tho hen wife j also, they must be placed under the mother bird att3r sunset or the chickens will be blinl. If tho -woman who performs this otilca car ries the egjs wrapped up in her chemies the result will be hen blttls; if she wears a man's hat, cocks. Furthermore, it is well for her t re peat a story charm, 'A' in the.jo.'th's A' oot thoegoethir." There are many farmer's wives, even in tho present day, who would never dream of allow ing eggs to be brought into tha house or taken out alter dark, this being extremely unlucky. Cuthbert lledo mentions the case of a farmer's wife in Rutland who received a sitting of ducks' eggs Trom a noighbor, at nine o'clock at night. "I cannot imagine how she CDvild have been so foolish." said he good woman, much dUtrassad ; and her visitor, upon inquiry, was to'ul that ducks' eggs brourht into a homo after sunset would never' ba hatched. A Lincolnshire superstition declares that if eggs are carried over r.mmng water they will be useless for settiug purposes; vhi(ein Ahorde?n there is an idea prevalent among the country folks that should it thuudo; a short time before chickens aro hatched thoy will die in the shell. The same wise acres may bo credited witli the notion that the year tho farmer's gooJ wifo presents him witty an ddition to hi family is a bad season for the poultry yard. "Raima and' chuckens," say they, 'dinna thrive in ae yer," tho probable explanation being that tho good wife, taken up with the care of her biirn, has less time Lo attend to tho rearing of the chuckens. Reside) tho divination practiced with the white of an egg, which certainly appears of a, vague and .unsatisfactory character, another species Of fortune-telling' with eggs is in vosrue in Northumberland on tho eve of St. Agnes. A maiden desirous of knowing what her future lord is like is enjoined to boil an egg, after having spent the wholo day fast ing and in silenee. thon to extract tho yolk, fill the cavity with h U and eat tho whole, including the sheli. This highly unpalatable supper finished, the heroic maid must walk backward, uttering the invo; - tion to the saint: Sweet St Ajrrcs. work thv fast, If ever I be jo marry man Or man to marry me, I hope this nigbt t) sco. If all necessary rites and ceremonies have been duly performed, the girl may confidently count upon seeing her future husband in her dreams dreams which we would presume, as our Yankee friends say, would bear a strong resemblance to nightmare. Ex. The West Point Jacket. It 1b said that the mnln reason for the movement to change the uniform of tho men in the first class at West Point is that they change their syotems with the present gray jackets. These jackets are cut almost to a corset tightness in the first place, nnd since they don't wear out as f st as tho ca dets grow they naturally gettighter and tighter each few months. Tho women have taught the boys to bo very proud of tho s'im waists that dis tinguish tho corps, so that each follow hangs on to his jae!c?t as long as ho cn. It Is s lid tha o:vs day whouaca-1 det fell Into tho water his commanding officer ordared him to take oft hi jacket and wrinx it The youth did so and displayed beneath it noth ing but an undershirt, with cutTs and collars pinned to it. An investigation followed and showed that whereas, most of tho bijrger boys had been com pelled to discard their shirts, them were even some who had to cut away the lower halves of their undershirt in order to button their juckets around their waists. This will not surprise soldiers. In every country th;re aro swell regiment? that achieve good looks more or less in tho same way. There are oven talcs of the sort about some of the dandies in our Seventh. Mew York Sun. 4 . ft Was Largely Force of Habit. Tapa," said tho fiir girl, with a touch of snduess in her tones, MI have received a noto from William saying you kicked, him as ho lort tho house last night' "Yes." replied papa. "I have always paid your expenses, nnd I footed thl Rill merely to ba coaslstont." Draco' Magazine. ' ''How did yoa lilr tha sjram t,cUv.Mt 'Well, St was sura n tsckl discourse t-hat 1 Hlept through tie wao'.o of it.'Rtiua f 51 " I "I f i V ( ! I,' W r