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THE FA KMXES' ALLIANCE: LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, FEB. 8, 1890. ALLIANCE DIRECTORY. NATIONAL FARMERS' ALLIANCE. P resident. II. L. Loucks, Dakota. ice-President, John H. Powers, Nebraska. Secretary, August PoBt, Iowa. Treasurer, J. J. Furlong, Minnesota. Lecturer, N. B. Ashby, Iowa. NEBRASKA STATE ALLIANCE. President, John H. Powers, Cornell. Vice President, Valentine Horn. Aurora. Secretary-Treasurer, J. M. Thompson, Lincoln. Lecturer, W. F. Wright, Johnson county. Af8t. lecturer, Logan McReynolds, Fairfield. Chaplain. Rev. J. S. Kdwards, Waboo. Boor keeper, D. W. Barr, Clay county. Asst. door keeper, James Underbill, Syracuse. Seargeant-at-arms, J. Billingsly, Shelton. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. J, Burrows, chairman; B. F. Allen. Wabash; J. W. Williams. Filley; Albert Dickenson, LJtchfleld; Frank H. Young, Custer. Post Office at Lincoln, Neb., June 18, 1889. I hereby certify that The Alliance, a week ly newspaper published at this place, has been determined by the Third Assistant Post Mas ter General to be a publication entitled to admission in the mails at the pound rate of postage, and entry of it as such is accordingly made upon the books of this office. Valid while the character of the publication re mains unchanged. Albeht watkins. Postmaster. THE VOICE OF THE"PEOPLE. This department is conducted by the Secre tary of the State Alliance to whom all com munications in relation to Alliance work, short articles upon various subjects of inter est to the Alliance etc., should be addressed. W rite plain and only on one side of the paper. Sign wnat you choose to your articles but send us your name always.! Mad U. S. Senators. Editor Alliance-. I find the follow ing in the news items of our different papers: "Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, says, "take those western farmers, for whom I have a profound respect, and every man of them has grown rich by borrowing money and running in debt." If, as Senator Blair says, the western farmers have "grown rich running in debt," why does he extend to us his "profound sympathy?" If debt is an evidence of prosperity, the farmers of Nebraska are so prosperous they do not need his sympathy. When the senator asserts that debt is an evidence of prosperity and in the same breath extends his profound sym pathy to the poor debtor, he gives him self away, lie shows he does not be lieve in the kind of prosperity he is talking about. But the sympathy he extends eases his conscience and he is willing the western farmers should be come rich paying 1 and 2 per cent in terest a month, payable quarterly in advance. Senator Blair asked Senator Paddock, of Nebraska, the following question: "Would it not then follow that in your state and in other states situated in the same way, that the larger the mortgage indebtedness appears to be the greater the prosperity of the state?" Senator Paddock replied: "I have substantially stated that it does show a prosperous condition of affairs in my state." We ask those honorables why it is that here in Buffalo county, Nebraska, where a failure of crops is almost un known, dealers say they cannot make collections,.; and are adopting the cash system because many of them have al ready got more farms on mortgage foreclosures than they want? If debt is an evidence of the farmer's prosperi ty why is land concentrating in the hands of the few? Why are many of the old men who took up and improved homesteads years ago now becoming tenants? Why is it that here where land is worth only eight to thirty dol lars per acre it has not advanced any in the last two years. The farmers and laborers of Nebras ka know that the prosperity the honor able "senators are talking about is the prosperity of less than ten per cent of our people. A continuation of this kind of prosperity means loss of prop erty and slavery for the other ninety per cent of the people. These senators congratulate them selves on the prosperity of the ten per cent of the people; congratulate them selves on the concentration of capital in the hands of the few, and extend their profound sympathy to those who are too poor to properly clothe and ed ucate their children. The idea of doing justice to the masses of doing the great ft good to the greatest number does tA)t seem to have penetrated their obdurate skulls. John Stebbins, Shelton, Neb. The Windom Bill Condemned. Union, Jan. 31, 1890. Editor Alliance: It is evident now that the administration, through Secre tary Windom and others, is framing the silyer bill with a view of stopping the coinage of silver dollars and forever de monetize the same, and in the twist and turn of financial affairs perhaps make a .basis of silver for bank circulation. If this is not a sufficient bank basis, the government will be requested to place in the hands of the bank a sufficient amount of bonds to make a substantial bottom on which to base the banks. These bonds are to be created out of the supposed lost national currency, which was to be for the benefit of the government or people, and donated to the national banks. These banks will then be profitable institutions sure. You may sum up the whole matter as you will, the total of the matter is that the national banks are and will be the favored institutions that will hereafter furnish, fix and regulate the money of the country. I see no power on earth to prevent it. My experience is that those persons who are the hardest pushed for money, and an; in debt under mortgage, are the last men who will cast a vote to release themselves, or to emancipate mankind. The fact is fne normal condition of man is that of a fool; and the under-strata will always remain so. In the course of time this system will become so oppressive as to create either- anarchy or revolution, or both. Neither can it be avoided. The chains were forged when the national bond funding acts and credit strength ening acts were passed. It is now too late to raise a feeble protest. We have no reliable man in congress competent and Avilling to place himself in the breach. Our brave Weaver was retired by the. same Itallian or Dago system practiced by Plattsmouth in our county seat and bond elections. The cause of just government looks to me hopeless. My ideas on the financial question are that the government should coin all the money, or all the bullion presented for coinage that is gold and silver and also add to that amount treasury notes (greenbacks), and pay the same out on government current expenses, pensions and all other purposes for which the government has occasion to pay out money, until the volume shall reach a stated per capita of, say $50, and then keep and maintain the same forever. Or establish the circulation on some sure principle that will make the volume steady and sure, not under the . control of individuals or corporations. We do not ask favors of government, but justice for all. L. U. Todd. SAUNDERS COUNTY ALLIANCE. Ithaca, Neb. ,-2-2-1 890. Please announce throueh the columns of The Alliance that the next county Alliance of Saunders county will be held at Ithaca, Feb. 15. - Good speakers will oe in attendance ana a rousing time expected. w. a. j. racy, secy. the Burden of Interest. Ithaca, Jan. 28, 1890. Ed. Alliance: There 'is one point upon which it seems the great army of toilers is becoming agreed, viz: that there is an unequal distribution of the wealth produced by them. I affirm that the true cause of this unequal dis tribution is our unjust monetary sys tem, and the means is interest. A man saves one dollar a day or three hundred dollars a year for forty years and four months, and loans the money every six months at 7 per cent interest payable half yearly. He would accu mulate by his savings $12,000, while the iterest in the same time would earn $52,775.33, or over four times the amount of his labor. This proves that interest accumulates faster than labor, and will concentrate property in the hands of the few, as the few deal in money and the many in production. Another man saves the same amount and loans it at one per cent. WThile the man saves $ 12,000.00 The interst only earns 2,759.06 Total saving of earnings and interest $ 14,759.06 Total saving of earnings and interest at 7 per cent $ 64,775.33 Add ten years and one month more of interest at 7 per cent and it doubles it self without labor to the enormous sum of $128,750.00. This shows the power of interest, and must convince a think ing man that there is a terrible injus tice in the laws governing money. $100 at 1 per cent for sixty years ac cumulates an interest of only $824. At 6 per cent $37,671.58; at 7 per cent $70, 898.92; at 8 per cent $134,107.05; at 12 percent $1,677,481.45; at 30 per cent $294,936,059.37. A wealth producer earns $1.00 a day. He works every day rain and shine 313 days. It costs him $313 to support him self and family. Another man is more favered by circumstances. He earns $2.00 a day. He lives on the same as the first man and saves the $100 with the above described result. Another man has favoritism shown, and he earns $2,000, $5,000, $20,000, $50,000 a year. They live on a great deal less than those earnings and invest with above results as from 6, 10, 15, and high as 40 per cent. It will be but a short time when the interest will be as much as the one dollar a day man can earn in producing wealth. The fact is the man has produced a slave, and with the pow er that produced him creates another in less time, who again helps to create another automaton. The man in fact has a demon factory. Every mortgage, every obligation accumulating interest at the fearful rate I have shown, is a life-destroying demon. These demons do not eat, they wear no clothes, they need no education, no doctor; they are not given in marriage. Yet they suck the life-blood out of the toiler. They tear into tatters the clothing of himself and family; they tear down the cottage and drive him into a hovel, and there they tear the cover from the shivering occupants of the bed; they destroy his books, and bar the school house door against his children. They put out the fires in the furnaces, and stop the thous and spindles of the factory; they quiet the clang of the forge, the buzz of the saw, the sound of the hammer, and mu sic of the merry laughter of innocent children. They drive the business man from his counter and home a beggar, his wife to the asylum and his daughter a victim to the lust of the owners of these imps of darkness. They transfer the corn, wheat, rye, swine, cattle, horses, machinery and farm into the possession of their owner, and make the farmer and his family his serfs. They fill the cities with vagrants and the high ways and byways with tramps. They warp the judgment of jurists, wrest falsehood from the jurort and make the witness a perjurer. They drive the just from position, and place the gam bler on humanity's happiness in power. They slay thousands of innocents to shield a few guilty from merited pun ishment. They bring strife and discord in the family, community, state and na tion. They are the parents of intem perance, murder, theft, lust and war the carriers of famine and pestilence from one nation to the other. They feast on the sacred bodies of thousands of the starving daughters of the land. They revel in crime, misery and blood shed. They are deaf to the moans and sighs of grief. They are blind to scenes of misery and woe. More than this, through the laws of heredity they pro duce lust, greed, malice, revenge, mur der, and tyranny. And yet with the truth of this hellish picture undeniable, we find ministers of the gospel, pillars of the church, men in high places through the land, en dorsing, encouraging and even owning these devil producing institutions. No wonder the man Christ platted a whip of cords and drove the money changers out of the temple, that being the only place where He ever used force, and never sanctioned it on any other occasion. W. H. Dech. A Word From Bro. Orcutt. Hansen, Neb., Jan. 31, 1890. Editor Alliance: It does me good to see how the farmers are waking up. I hope we can get to the front before long. We have taken a back seat long enough. You might send me a few ex tra copies of The Alliance, as most every one l speaK to about the paper wants to see a copy. I am going to do all I can to help make a state paper of it that will "take the cake." Stir them up. . I see other papers begin to take notice of it. lhat is just what we want. Success to the Alliance.. L. S. Orcutt. NOTICE. The annual' meeting of the Scandi navian Mutual Insurance Co: will be held at Marquette, Neb., on . February 22, 1890. All members are requested to be present. Members of Hamilton County Mutual Insurance of the Farm era' Alliance are also invited to attend, Oscar Gunarson, Jan. 27, 1890. . Marquette, Neb Our Unjust Monetary System, and Interesting Letter From S. B. Binfield, of Adams County. Editor Alliance; With your per mission I cannot resist the impulse to utter a few thoughts through your peo ple's column that force themselves upon me in the reading of your last two num bers. As you well know" I am in hearty sympathy with you, though not at pres ent in active membership. If it is ever possible to reorganize this township you may reckon on any help it is in my power to render. But I realize deeply the onerous task we have set ourselves, and I confess to many misgivings as to the possibility of reaching a plane from which we can act compactly for the cor rection of any of the wrongs from which, as a class, we are suffering. Social and political wrongs are not always, perhaps not often, set right by the means putf in operation by the suf ferers to that end; and it may be that, as farmers, our ills, if remedied at all, will be cured by others rather than our selves. Be that as it may, our duty still remains to , " be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait," with full honesty of purpose, and the best light and knowledge that we can attain to, "For truth shall conquer at the last, As 'round and 'round we run, And ever the right conies uppermost, And ever Is justice done," when 'The demons of our sires become The saints that we adore." It is a matter for congratulation that the leaders of our Nebraska State Alli ance are very considerably in advance of some other states. It is painful to read some of the meaningless and floundering utterances of the Iowa and Wisconsin State Alliances, and some others, narrowing their visions to their own selfish class interests, and clinging to the notion that we can tax ourselves into prosperity, with not a solid eco nomic law or principle laid down as a foundation. Think of the meaningless talk of protection to fanners. Think of demanding free necessaries and clam orous in the next breath for a bounty on sugar. Had we not better be taking some thorough lessons in political econ omy before we talk much about repre sentation in congress? Legislation has been based too largely on expediency instead of principle, and by it nature's laws have been wantonly Aiolated. Our welfare will often be served as cer tainly our wool-growers' interests would by our looking not only on our own things, but "also on the things of others." Politico-economic ques tions are the most pressing and practical things that farmers can en quire into, study, and discuss, in spite of the declaration of our farm journals as to their unprofitableness. There are two articles in your issue of January 25 that really demand some criticism. One copied from the Chicago Tribune, "More Land-owners than Landless," on which I just now only wish to remark without disputing the figures, which may be easily done that the writer takes no account of the farms that are irredeemably mortgaged, and badly gives his case away when speaking of the single tax abolishing all other taxation. He say: "But they pay little (in taxes) now that they know of." Truly we ought to know what we do pay, and as truly the writer knows that it the people did know all indirect tariff taxes would be swept away in six months. , In the other article, referring to the correspondence between Rev. H. New ton and Henry George allow me just to remark that Irom the days oi libenus Gracchus down to J. S. Mill and Spencer there have been numbers of men who have seen and admitted the "abstract theory" that all men have an equal right to the earth; but no man who has devised a plan so simple, natu ral and just that without any subver sion, or the least disturbance of our modern constitutional customs, will give that theory practical effect. Those who doubt its efficiency should hasten to offer a more practicable plan. Mr. George does full justice to the difficul ties under which Mr. Newton and thousands of others labor in their desire to deal with social problems. He well understands how real, and yet how ut terly unconscious is the mental bias and prejudice which the environments, the education and the material interests that surround so many of us have cre ated. We can make all sympathetic allowances. But what, after all, are the two suggestions with which Mr. Newton concludes but two small branches of Mr. George's tree, and seem to show clearly the struggling of a con science to satisfy itself by doing some thing, however small and unsatisfac tory. As the thin end of the wedge, they could be heartily supported; but the disease is too desperate to be reme died by such weak palliatives. But the most surprising thing of all is your concluding i-emarks that both Heber Newton and Henry George "fail to advocate the taxation of franchises to their full value." Surely the writer has never seen Mr. George's writings, and can have only just come accross the Standard, in which number, for a won der, that point does not happen to ap- Eear. So strongly and so continuously as this point been urged that I will hunt up an extract at leisure. S. B. Binfield. Our friend seems to forget that Mr. George advocates the "single tax," ab solutely rejecting all other taxation. He cannot reject the "abstract theory" that the value of franchises is as entirely the creation of community as land values, but to advocate their confiscation by the community, as he does that of land, would interfere with a pet theory; and our friend will not be able to find the extracts he alludes to. Abstract theo ries as to land ownership have little to do with the question. The question is: Will the single tax accomplish what Mr. G. claims for it?" Will it lighten the burdens of taxation, or transfer them to men better able to bear them? These questions must be answered in the af firmative, or the single tax must fall. They have not been and cannot be so answered. Ed. Alliance. Good Words for The Alliance. We heartily endorse all The Alli ance is doing for the Nebraska farm ers, and hepe it may continue to hit hard and often in the fight against mo nopoly and oppression. Think I can send additional subscriptions soon. Fraternally &c, C. A. Hutchings, Sec'y. Special Notice to Buffalo County Alliance. St. Michael. Neb.. Jan. 29. 1890. Buffalo County Alliance will meet at Haven Chapel, eight miles north of Kearney, Feb. 12, 1890, at 10 a. m Special business of importance. ' J. Y. M. Swig art, Pres. Jos. Billing sley, Sec. Flax Seed Wanted for Seed. Address Aixen Boot, Omaha, state Agt. W.C. T. U.-COLUMN. Edited by Mrs. S. C. O. Upton, of Lincoln, Neb., of the Nebraska Woman's Christian Temperance Union. - The editor of The Am-iance places the re sponsibility of this column in the care of the above editor. - The Plea of Nebraska Homes. WRITTEN FOB THE ALLIANCE. Over the wind-swept prairie's breast A voice is borne from out the west. 'Tis hot the voice of hunter bold, Nor sound of pick in mires of gold, Nor plowman's song, whose furrow rows Make deserts "blossom like the rose." 'Tis not the locomotive's scream, Whose eye of fire and breath of steam Go rushing down the river side, Past huts of sod and homes of pride, Past cities sprung, like Jonah's gourd. From plains by Nature's riches stored. Nor vet the whirr of factory wheel, Hammer or saw or clang of steel. Such music clangors far and near, But gentler undertones appear They voice the plea of mother hearts, Like this: O, men, are all the arts Not secondary, for the sake Of sacred homes that mothers make? The furrow is turned, the wheels go 'round, While axes, saws, and hammers sound, Only to build that sheltering nest That men call home, and make it blest. Roads are laid for human feet, Grain is grown that men may eat; All art should serve some human need, Some want of soul or sense should feed. Why then, O ye who rule our state, Permit a traffic born of hate To deal out poison to our sons? Danger, as dire as swords or guns In foemen's hands, confronts our flock; Hence, at the door of power we knock And ask you, men and voters, for Your help In this, the mightiest war Of modern times. O, not alone Build railroads that shall belt the zone ; Build up a legal wall to keep Your children from the foes that sweep Thousands yearly to the tomb, Thousands to a drunkard's doom. Take from our streets the legal snare. Rise in your might and nobly swear, By all the power God gives to thee, Nebraska may and shall be free From licensed crime. A waiting land Watches to see you take that stand. Children lift their pleading eyes, Mothers look through tears and sighs, And fathers, too, grief-stricken moan, "O, Absalom, my son, my son.' All plead with you, in honor's name, To stp rum's devastating name, Fire guards to set, as pioneers Set them, and sleep devoid of fears. A Are 8 threatening to sweep O'er homes where helpless children sleep. O, make this guard so safe and sure That they may slumber on secure, A legal guard to shield and t ever Nebraska's homes from rum for ever. New Hampshire's Governor. By Marion Douglas. No sound of music on the air, No fluttering of banners fair, No cheering loud, no restless crowd To throng his way, and press him But everywhere one low, glad prayer The Governor, God bless him I From fearless hearts at war with wrong, From sad hearts that have suffered long, From pure hearts that to Christ belong, And would with deeds confess Him, It rises upward like a song, The Governor, God bless him! A great metropolitan daily in a lead ing editorial declares whisky to be the chief cause of poverty. o With charac teristic consistency the same paper ad vocates a scheme by which the govern ment not only grants a permit to the business of pauper-making, but shares in the questionable prohts. Signal. "Sunday closing" has now been in effect in Minneapolis for n ine months. The number of Sunday arrests during that time has been 408. During the same period previous to the enactment of this law there were 720 Sunday ar rests. By the simplest rules of logic week day and every day closing would effect a much greater and proportion ate abridgement of the police court docket. County conventions oi prohibition ists are being held in many counties of the state, both for the purpose of elect ing delegates to the State Convention to be held in JLincoln on the 19th and 20th inst.f and to stir up enthusiasm for the prohibition amendment in the coun ties where they are held. This is as it should be. A rousing meeting here, with Gov. St. John and other national lights to sound the key-note of the cam paign ought to set a mighty wave in motion that will gather force , ana strength until, in the election next fall, it dasnes its fury against the legal props of the liquor traffic and washes them away among the debris of the past. Liberty. The personal liberty that liquor men clamor for claims the right of each man to do as he pleases. Civil liberty guar antees the right of a man to do as he pleases, if his pleasure does not tres pass upon the equal right of any other man . Civil liberty, theref ore, does not give a man the right to make himself runk; for, being so, he endangers the welfare of the community. Civil lib erty does not involve the right of a man to set up a saloon and poison his neighbors at five cents a glass. Civil liberty does not involve the right to set a man's house on fire in order to enjoy the results of its warmth; nor does it involve the right to set the man himself on fire, with alcohol, and live in luxury on the dimes plundered from the victim. Objection is often made to woman suffrage on the plea that law needs force behind it to secure its execution. The physical ability to command obe dience is said to be necessary. The fol lowing item from South Dakota indi cates that if the home needs protection, there are cases in which mothers exhibit some force, and if it should appear that the strong right arm of the American man is powerless before the liquor monster, it may rouse the tigress spirit in our womanhood, beiore which the traffic shall be crushed: "A Maysville (S. D.) special reports that a farmer's wife, having learned that the proceeds of a mortgage on her husband's farm had t gone to defray a whisky bill at one ' of the numerous "blind pigs," as illicit drinking places are termed there, collected seven more women, and the eight sallied forth armed with pick-axes, hatchets and other offensive weapons. Before noon the determined dames had broken up several "blind pigs" and utterly de stroyed their ; fixtures and furniture. The proprietors offered but a feeble re sistance, being taken by surprise. A large mob attended the women and cheered them on." Notice. The next meeting of the Furnas Co. Alliance will be held in Hendley on the first Saturday in March at 10 o'clock a. m. It is hoped that a full delegation will attend. . C. B. Bacheldeb, Sec. February 1st, 1890. The Big Fish and Little Fish. Long Island, Kansas, Jan. 28, 1890. Editor Alliance: I feel impressed to write a line to your paper as fol lows: At times while conversing with people of various ideas I frequently ask "Well, what do you think of the Alli ance?" Yesterday I received in reply by a minister of the gospel: "Oh, the big fish are after the little ones, by which to suffice the gnawings of their depraved stomachs." I then replied, "What is the matter with the little fish pinching the big fish tails just once, and thereby rescue them from a down grade to eternity?" This same minister said, "The organizer wants $3 to come and organize." I said, "What is the matter with giving a poor man two or three or four dollars for traveling twenty, thirty or forty miles to preach the so-called gospel?" The preaeher, after gather ing his wits, said, "God's work must be done, pay or no pay." "Yes," replied I, "that is right, provided that the peo ple are too poor to 'contribute toward sustaining it; - and the Alliance goes on the same principle. Our organizer, Mr. Stephenson, received, as I remem ber, $4.50 for fourteen successive nights in the work (all of which was free-will offering.) I should be pleased to occupy just a trifling space in your columns at fre quent intervals, but fearing 1 may be wearisome I will only say my heart goes out after those little fish that are so perfectly reconciled to the will of the big fish. Let us pray for them. J. H. Good Words From Harlan County. Alma, Neb., Jan. 25, 1890. Editor Farmers' Alliance: I have received a copy of "Capital and Labor," and will say that it is the most com plete and concise work on the subjects treated that I have ever had the pleas ure of reading, and to read is to be con vinced. While Horace Greely tacitly endorsed every line of this book he did not have the moral courage to utter it through the Tribune. Can it be that the great truths set forth in this book were ever in advance of the public mind? My opinion is that the public was as ready to receive them in '57 as they are in 1890. As long as "dishonorable suc cess outranks honest effort," this book is ever readable, and could ifebe placed in the homes of all producers, fabulous fortunes and extremes poverty would be, unknown. I am glad to learn of the extended circulation The Alliance is Saining. Farmers in this locality are iscontinuing their old party papers and becoming patrons of the paper that knows no party, and neither bows nor cringes before the silver or golden im ages. , Fraternally yours, W. J. HlCKOX, Members shipping stock to Allen Root, care of Bell & Co., Omaha, will get all there is in it. Give the agent notice when shipped. Mr. Root is state agent for the Alliance. W. R. Bennett & Co. will sell groceries, etc., to the Alliance at jobber's rates.Send all orders to Allen Root. Shipments of vegetables, fruits or poultry, should be billed to Mr. Root, care of Bowman, Williams & Howe's, Omaha. Price List of Oils to Allances. 150 test, medium white coal oil, 11V4 cents. 150 " prime " " " IWt Yin " Y.L. " " " 13 " 74 6tove gasoline " 11V4 " These oils in barrel lots. The best harness oil in either 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, $1.85. Allen Root, State Agent. W. Jewett Henderson, McCredie, Mo. J. D. Henderson, Fulton, Mo. W. Jewett Henderson & Co. BREEDERS AND SHIP PERS OF PURE BRED POLAND CHINAS of the most popular strains. Pigs furnished in pairs and trios not akin. Prices the very lowest. Personal inspection invited and correspondence solicited. 20m3 W D. NICHOLS GENERAL DEALER IN BEATRICE, NEB. Have some Fine Bargains in Improved Farms. Lots For Sale in Every Addition in the City. OFFICE, 505 COURT ST. TELE. 82. iCtt GREAT-WESTERN'FCEO -STEAM E Great Western Feed Steamer AND TANK HEATER Cooks one to three barrels feed at one filling. Fire box surrounded with water on top and sides. Any kind of fuel. Easi ly managed and cleaned as a box stove. Send for Circulars. Agents wanted. BOVEE H. M. CO., amid Tama, Iowa. BEATRICE T q j i g. CHA'S KEIDHART, Proprietor. 618 EAST COURT STBEET, N. E. OV POST OFFICE. EstaTolisliod. 1868. MARBLE AND GRANITE MONUMENTS, HEAD-STONES, TABLETS, VAULTS, SARCOPHAGI, & CEMETERY WORK OF ALL KINDS. 20tf Branch Yards, Brownville and Rock Port, Mo. JOHN M. STEWART, H. F. ROSE. Ass't Att'y Gen'l. STEWART & ROSE, ATTORNEYS & COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Rooms 15 & 18, Montgomery Block, Lincoln 8pecial attention given to Railroad, Insur ance and Corporation Law. We attend personally to litigation In any county In the state, if desired. Correspond ence Solicited. Reference: Judges of the Si preme Court, Attorney Gen. Leese. 31tf I i LARGE 4 , Fl R E- BOX ' 3 FEET LONG ;, J TOPSIDEjff til ' A CURE for HARD TIMES nciRTsv- SEEDS c obotiM tbvra, with towing tlun'a ': ? a v I. Sample nd beat Homes ft bright, la nnxnaetra ITWUAnArrV FTVE baxea A' ;aa!B-aTTiTY", fcfe iiinr -r..i- A rVrst(l"i"Ml'5v 4 tStST;-:ii iVi??n .CV7 1 -r-'iXV Vf en. JI MHU, SV-'Vliyil"ll-w:W.WiJ!H fttcv;?ir U-aih. boat and 1 111- lllllAllLII If 4 I jr u GAr.l'L 17ILGON, r.lechanlCGvHIe, .W Pa.,?:.1 T 1.1 A SEEDS! THIS QUAKER IS THE IMPROVED DURING 1889. Grinds finer, runs lighter, is Also Manufacturers of Hand ShPllPr PoBt-Hole Diggers. Send for catalogue Derore Duying. Agents wanted in unoccu pied Territory. 3ml8J BPBINOFIEU IMPLEMENT Co., Bprlngfleld, O. 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Profusely Illustrated. Beautiful muslin and gilt binding. 687 pages. This is a book of absorbing interest, and no one will regret its purchase even at much more than our price. RETAIL PRICE $2,75. We will send this book, post-paid, and The Alliance one year for $2,7 Or, we will send the book for twelve new names at one dollar. We are enabled to make these unparatieiea oilers because of wholesale contract made with jobbers. Laborand Capital, by Edward Kellogg. This work should be read by every man who is Interested In the financial problem. We will send a copy, post-paid, to every subscriber for Thb Alliance at $1.00 per year. if Money sent by bank draft, Express or Post Office order, or Registered Letters at our risk. Stamps and Postal Alliance Publishing Co., Lincoln, Neb. TO PREPARE FOR A CHANGE IN MY BUSINESS, I will offer my entire stock of Cleveland Bay 3 and 5 years old; and 50 pure bred mares, AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, 150 DEEP MILKING HOIjSTEIIT FIFtlESS-AJSrS MUST BE SOLD DURING THE NEXT THREE WEEKS. An opportunity rarely offered to secure such high class stock at the prices and terms I am prepared to offer. Send for pamphlet GEO. E. BROWN, OBTAIN CHICAGO The way to do this is to ship vourButter. Eggs. PRODUCE Means, Breom Corn, Green and Dried Fruits, Vegetables, or anything you have, to us. The tact that you may have been selling these articles at home for years is no reason that you should continue to do so if you can find a better irrket. We make a specialty of recelvlnif hipments direct from FARMERS AND PRODUCEttS, and probably have the largcBt trade in -.his way of any house in this market. Whilst you are looking around for the cheannnt nir. ket in which to buy your goods and thus ccouomizirg in that way, it will certainly pay you to give some attention to the best and most profitable wc- of disposing of your produce We Invite correspondence from INDIVIDUALS, ALLIANCES, CLUBS, and all organizations who desire to ship their produce to this market. If requested, we will send you free of charge our dailv market report, shipping directions and suh information an will i nf . eice to you if you contemplate shipping. Let SUMMERS, MORRISON & CO., COMMISSION MERCHANTS, REFERENCE: Metropolitan Nation Bank, J. THORP & Co., Manufacturers of Rubber Stamps, Seals, Stencils, Badges and Baggage Checks Kvei v Description. Established 1880. 323 S. ilth St., LINCOLN, NEB. 25 Million Nursery Grown Forest Tree SEEDLINGS. No agents. Deal direct with customers. Save commission middle-men. Send for price list. Also GENERAL NURSERY Stock. ROBERT W. FURNAS, 6m31 Brownville, Nebraska. H. C. STOLL, BREEDER OF The Most Improved Breeds of Poland China, Chester White, Small Yorkshire and Essex Hogs. Satisfaction guaranteed in all oases. P. O. Address. BEATRICE JONES. HE PAYS THE FREIGHT. TON WAGON 6kt9t ajow. SCALES, BXAX B0Z SSASSTA5X BXA1L Freight Paid. Warranted for S Tears AjteaU Wait. fa Ti i d FARMERS 07 BIXrOSAIXTOlf . Biaguavmtoa,Ia'.Y, t V I i AT YOUR DOOR AT WIIOlB8AL,R 11MI;KH. Httlua mfwm ft Urc avaalitr Uw M. ul vmlukht Meda ib put mm, ftaii In ordar la iaCmdaag onr wondrrful new Potato, Into liio.OuO bomoi, ak Mm loi. li.lKblbvr.nii - u ui i Kill ror is pmtaga uuulMor Biouej, wo win itihi m ri"wu, muiiuiu wuv paciri vacs r ih. following NKW AND IMKKOVKU HK.KKrt. and n anllaw. Ktzrd tnber mT UULK nuiiinr.u.i m- imp. T TO, tho ertatat dtaoow ainoa tbe adreai of th k'AKLT iK KK. i VViln'. t-.-iw UlnnA TarnlB) Ueet. earlleat and Iml M ifftlf.Lonir IV Inter lloct, Im! tarietr. U IlaWa U of All I'ole Kcubm, good for ao.p aboru la wlotor. M IImm's Ilo.t or All Hunch Ueena, ricn, unaar, and fcuttcrr. :arly A! vttnre (Vbbuffr. beat and aarlieat. U llaon'a IVmlaM liiit Oatrli Cnbbaco. beil I'M arlatr. Karlr Urata t'luatcr Cucnmbvr, beat tot table uaa. Wllaon'a U( lrwn t;ucuribcr, ban for ici. ipw lorjr Pvffitr Vrn, tto cirtt-'ii la ma world, wiimmt. I.arare r.rr gm'aHuirarOorH, twaat ul dellcioua. Cnllrornla mr Ualden l'op Corn, bast Tariotjr. w SwIf.lJInnrlilmai a.'iry, extra nuiJlty. naoda no canmoj up. liaana'at KxtraTKrtr Lettuce, beadinc Jordftw'a ray Monarch WMterwtolun, Tory I area, eweel. and eafarr. 13 tiler's Cream Nutmeg Melon, beat flavored ta aal. tirntion. Imnrnred Hound Yellow Unnrera Oaloav M;V M'ANISII KINU ONION, S pound onlooarnms fKd Brat Tear. Abbot' Improved Safor 1'anmlaw Kuby Klnr Pepper, tnr., Hrcpt, twertt prrr OI UALirvllllA.int lrR-. puiuv.w wolghcd 4IO lba. Farlr ltotr Ueea enrlluat. Nmiw l b art ler iftidUni, oaae Vtt Plnojinnl tMiuAph. roud for plea. kepa a'l winter. Early Hatmntr Hatter Hqunalu Tar tier-a tBTDria Toronto, ht and nni tr iui. ln: r.nrrtA and dried, equal to the beat tf. Munich Ptrao Leaf Tannin, terdrr. twret. Coldon tilobe Itaitft liutfw beat for table um. VE ETAIILti 1K AC1I, eaallv grnmm ham aaed Brat Tear : m.ka nlaa or nraaarvaa anal ta the beat neaeboa. packet of W llaon'a Trno Leamlnc Corn, the earltaaa Said earn la cultlatin. New Mammoth Zlnnlaw double) Dahlia, orient aa a roae. Wnahlnvton Aatera. vera larra. au beautiful onlnra. Olant German Hanalr. beat mixed, la all 0 0"ULL KIZKD PACKETS, with DIKKOTIONH FOB ffa QOCULTIVATINQ, and ONE whole POTATO for O I a WW aVft.00. TEN hMir.AA. .ld. Adrlfa.. nlalnlw Cfttaloa-u ml to ftlU m Send (or (all Descriptive Catalogue for 1890. M TI BEST! Trnmbull. Reynolds & Allen, 14201428 St Louis Avenue, 3m33 KANSAS CITY, MO. CITY GRINDIMG MILL For Corn and Codb, Foed and Table Meal. It more durable than any mill on the market. & Self-Dump Hay Rakes, Cultivators, Corn Notes at risk of sender. and Sbire Stallions, sound, vigorous and fully acclimated giving fnll particulars. Aurora, Kane Co., 111. PRICES FOR YOUR Poultry. Veal. Har. Oraln. Wool. flMaa. us hear from you. 174 S. WATER, ST., CHICAGO. Chicago. Mention The Alliaac GEO. A BELL. C. W. MCCOY. T. C. SHELLY. 8. P. McCUV. (Successors to Bell & Co.) Live Stock Commission Merchants. Room 39 Exchange Building. Cash Advance on Consignments. references ask your bank. Union Stock Yards, South Omaha, Nebbabka. XXSZ GENEVA MISERIES. 40,000,000 FOREST TREES, ALL NURSERY GROWN. 200,000 Grape Vines. We have a complete Stock of everything in the Nursery Line, which we offer to Nurse rymen, Dealers and Planters at Bed Rock Prices. 100 tl.OO Collections by Mail. 20 to 50 per cent discount on List Prico to Alliances. Send for Price List. Address (3m31) YOUNQERS CO., Geneva, Neb Hy & McCoy nP ASUll