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THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE: LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, MAR. 22, 1890. The Government's Duty to Furnish Money on Proper Security. ( Editorial Correspondence San Francisco Argo naut. Intent upon the object of proselyting with the members of congress in the di rection of the free and unlimited coin age of silver, I approached our senior senator to ascertain his views. To my surprise, I ascertained that Senator Stan ford not only favored the free coinage of silver, but he left the impression on my mind that he entertained still more gen erous and comprehensive opinions in reference to increasing the circulating currency of the country. Senator Stanford said that it was the duty of government to issue currency upon the value of real property, or to authorize the establishment of national banks, with power to put legal tender notes in circulation upon such security, which should be guaranteed in their re demption by the treasury of the United States and why not? He says if a na tional bank purchases bonds issued by the general government, and, o the ex tent of 90 cents on the dollar, is author ised t put notes in circulation as currency, of which the general govern ment guarantees the payment, if bullion from the gold mines may be taken to the mint and have its value fixed by the impression of a die, if silver bullion may be accorded free coinage because of its standard and fineness, why may not a farm or a town property of established, fixed and certain value be used s.s the basis of a sound and healthful cur rency ? "I can see no reason," ne says, "wny II Mr 1 land or town property, having attained a permanent value as indicated by the assessor's estimate, or ascertained by im partial valuators, might not be used as security for currency with as much con fidence as the paper obligations of gov ernment or as the metals produced from mines. "I have seen the financial world twice driven from its prosperity, by the fear lest the excessive production of metals should prove valueless for use as money. "When the immense output of gold from the placers , of California and Australia reached their maximum, the financial world underwent a panic, lest gold should become too plentiful for safety, and when the large discoveries of silver in Nevada began to be felt, the same alarm pervaded financial circles, lest the white metal should become too plentiful for any other use than in the arts. The best money is that based upon the wealth of the nation and the pros perity and honor of all its people. Cur rency that has for its security the real property of the country is more surely guaranteed than by bullion produced from the mines and stamped at the national mints. The country owns no mines, and who shall say that the time is distant when private ownership shall hold in trusts all the mines and be en titled to all the royalties ? And of what value will be the constitutional provision that gives government the right to coin money, if it has neither gold nor silver to coin and stamp ? "To coin and issue money for circula-" tion is not the most important function of government. When it is considered that the congress of the United States, the legislatures of the several states, and the municipal bodies of incorporated cities are armed with the power of taxa tion and individual assessors clothed with the right of valuation, for purposes of taxation, and that for the non-payment of taxes the tax collector may sell, without judicial investigation or decree of a court, without reservations of the rights of minors, absent persons, or per sons of unsound mind, how much less significant seems the power to coin money a nd control its volume of circu lation. . "When it shall be understood that money is to be issued by government for the benefit of the great class of producers who demand it for industrial purposes, and that it is not created for the benefit of usurers to sweat it, and of gamblers to risk it, and of misers to hoard it, of mil ionaires to accumulate, and spendthrifts to distribute it in the gratification of their luxurious tastes, then some of the errors which nowpervade the whole financial system will have been dissipated and the uses of money will be much better un derstood.' Then the congress of the United States will not look to Wall street and national bankers, successful money kiDfis, and successful plutocrats alone for their advice as to what kind of money should be used or what volume should be put forth. When this reformation shall take place, then some successful manu facturer or merchant, some intelligent mechanic, some broad minded business man, some planter, farmer, fruit grower, or laborer, may be invited to hold the portfolio of treasurer, or, better than that, some wise economist who under stands and appreciates financial laws in their broader comprehension, may be asked to preside at the head of a depart ment and give an annual report, which states all the facts, and not suppress or misrepresent any economic truth in the interest of the money class. "There are two distinct classes in this government, and the division lines that mark them grow more well defined each revolving decade. They are the debtor and creditor class, the borrowers and the lenders. On the upper side of this divid ing line there is intelligence, wise and prudent calculations, immense deal of good luck, industry and patient waiting, economy and self denial, moral virtures of the kind that worship both God and mammon. On the other and lower side an industrial and producing multitude of toilers who, from adverse fate, hard luck, exacting appetites, cross roads that - lead to perplexing labyrinths where men are lost, ill-health, marriages not prudent atttended with ; large families, en gaging in legitimate employment indus triously pursued, sometimes leading to disastrous results. The farm indus triously tilled finds itself mortgaged to ' the usurer; mechanical employment in tellieently and faithfully pursued, leads oftimes throught toil to bankruptcy and ruin. '' "A civil war imposes $3,000,000,000 of burdens upon the north and visits $3, 000,000,000 of calamities ujton the south, to increase the population below the line and gives the class above it a profit of $3,000,000,000 to swell its fortunes. "It was a wise provision of the patri archial period that the recurring jubilee should afford the debtor class an allevia tion of its more insupportable burdens, and it would be well if in an huried race through the higher civilization of modern centuries there was at least once in a hun dred years a resting place where tired humanity could regain its spent forces and have a new start in the race of life." In conversation with Seator Stanford, I did not fail to urge all objections which suggested themselves to my mind in op position to the working of this benificent money plan. Of course I was not un mindful of the great bugbear of inflation, which is so distressing a possibility to the men of plethoric money bags. His reply was: , "I have never observed any calamity resulting from the circulation of too much money; I have known of no local ity or era when there was too great activ ity among the producing classes. 1 never knew or read of any country where there were too many houses , m process of erection, or too plentiful raiment, or too abundant food, nor where transpor tation of products were too cheap and rapid. I do not recognize high prices of labor as leading to disastrous results anvwhere. In those countries under conditions in which labor is inadequately compensated, countries of redundant population where money is scarce and industrial activities are not remuner ative, I have heard of poverty and dis tress, but where activities are pressing in the direction of productive industries, where money is plenty and labor well repaid; I recall no distress not arising from accidental causes, and I presume no one would question the fact that the system of finance suggested would not excite to abnormal activity all industrial employments. "Money is a force. It is the force that underlies our civilization and pushes it to the greatest possible activity. Money im pels the merchant to his most venture some daring, the mechanic to exploiting his most inventive genus, the scientist to the most exhaustive research, the artist to the most earnest and patient endeav ors, and the toiler in every direction to the accomplishment of the most earnest efforts for success. The power of money and the hope of its attainment are the in centive to nearly all humanities most earnest and most honorable exertions, and I presume no one will question the fact that cheap, safe and abundant money will contribute largely to the in dustrious activities of the country, and whatever other results may be accom plished, that the debter class would be largely and permanently benefited. "That a currency based upon real es tate values under limited estimates would increase activities in all indus trial employments, I have no manner of doubt, nor do I think such a volume of currency, properly limited by legislative restriction, would recall the days of George Law, reproduce the Mississippi bubble or the Dutch tulip speculation. Why should the man who has mortgaged for one-half or one-quarter its value the accumulations of his life, be more care less in the expenditure of his resources than he would if he had hypothecated his property under an interest bearing mortgage to a usurer for coin, the inter est upon which he must pay whether he uses his money or not ? The national cur rency I would thus provide should bear no interest and should the borrower retain it in his hand unused, it would be ready for return to the national treasury whenever called for. If, without bearing interest, this currency could be used for the re tiring of an "interest bearing mortgage, it would serve a useful purpose, nor would it operate as a hardship to the payee, because he could use lawful .money in the thousand active employ ments of which the money lender knows so well how to avail himself. "Such an issue of national currency to the extent of limited millions, properly distributed, would have for its first effect a quieting of all apprehensions of panic or financial disasters that are sometimes more hard to bear and more ruinous in their consequences than the resulting calamities. There would be no financial panic possible and all disastrous proba bilities be made avoidable. Business activity would have breathed into them new hfe. The danger of money panics ocks gold and silver, in coin or bullion, in the vaults of the banker and money ender, and while gold and silver coin is unusable, it is valueless no man is rich and no community prosperous with warded gold. Money, like any other property, is worthless until actively em ployed. The unused ax at the foot of the tree is but a shining blade of worth- ess steel till swung by the strong arm of abor. The plow, rusting by the unturned furrow , gives no promise of grain till driven. A mountain of gold might glitter in the sun's rays, valueless, useless, and unemployed, till, at its base the toiler swings his pick, plunges his drill, and explodes his blasting sulphur. "Wealth is timid, and in the presence of danger hides. Labor is always courag eous, works with cheery zeal when well paid. Labor is never dangerous except when desperate. Labor seldom riots when well fed, well housed, well clothed and well educated. God, in his benefi cence, has provided everything that is essential for the happiness of all man kind. The beneficience of nature denies none of the comforts of luxuries that the human family may require, and all that man does require is aepenaent upon abor. The gem lies worthless in the mine till dragged forth by discovery, and does not disclose its beauties till the lapi dary expends upon it his labor. The finest lace that covers the tairest form comes from unbroken flax through the hatchel, the spindle, and the dexterious manipulation of skillful fingers. The mausoleum that hides Napolean in his tomb, the sarcophagus where it is depos ited, are worthless slabs of porphyry and granite till subjected to the labor of the chisel and the architect, is either bread, nor meat, nor wine, nor raiment, comes without intelligence and well directed toil. Without education, the heavenly bodies revolve in abounding and myster ious terrors, agriculture tolas its arms and sleeps in idle ignorance upon the bosom of mother earth, whose breasts are throbbing with plenty. Barbarism never wakes to civilization, order never suc ceeds to chaos, and safety never comes to the human race till intelligence is in the process of complete development. Through paths of intelligent industry the benencience of Frovidenceis only attain able. "Our government and our civilization make labor work in gyves and manacles unless fully and generously paid. It is the duty of the congress of the United States to furnish its citizens with money when they shall furnish the security .for its issue that the government can safely guarantee. The constitution of the United States clothes its congress with this power, it concedes it to no one else, and it should be exercised for the fullest benefit of the industrious, temperate, economical, working class, for farmers, mecnanics, and manuiacturing produc r s. "I am not unmindful of the fact that there is distress and discontent abroad in the most promising and prosperous of an civilized countries; that willing la borers are sometimes unemployed: that mechanical, manufacturing, and mining industries, corporations and great capi talists are driven, from unavoidable necessities,' to withhold employment, when employment is ' essential to the lahnrin immunity. I am advised that farms are largely mortgaged; that in Kentucky old estates are being sold for taxes; that encumbrances are especially numerous and burdensome in the state of Iowa; that in New England old homes are passing away from families that in herited them; that in many parts there exists financial embarrassments, that are the causes of serious anxiety to the cot ton growers, and that wheat producing of our great west and northwest is not in as satisfactory a condition as the ad vance in agricultural machinery and improved methods would seem to jus tify. I hear of labor agitation, unrest and disquietude in directions where I cannot presume that they exist without cause, or result from other than extreme necessities, and if the system of finance shall produce even temporary relief from existing disquietudes and the alleviation of existing distress, I shall hope that period may be made available for the discovery of legitimate means of per manent relief . "I have great confidence in the future of this country, and abiding faith in the intelligence that is coming from our free common schools. I believe that educa tion properly distributed to all classes of our fellow citizens, to the children of native birth and foreign immigration, to the descendants of the "white and black race, will work out ultimately the most beneficial results to all the citizens of this commonwealth. "It is from this direction that I look for the dawning light which shall en circle our country with a halo of inex tinguishable glory. Common sense, resulting from education, will insure to every child born upon our soil the in heritance and protection of equal rights and the operation of equal laws for their preservation and maintenance. I am myself a workingman, my inter ests run in common with labor. I was born to the inheritance of industrial pursuits,, my sympathies are with the class from which I came, and if I have friends, as I hopte I have, in New York or Txndon, in Wall or Threadneedle, or Lombard streets, or associates among the great bankers or men of large af fairs, I trust I have not lost touch with the class from which I came, nor sym pathy for those who own the lands and are engaged in their cultivation, nor for the larger community of toilers whose burdens are only relievable by honor able and well paid labor." Frank M. Pixley. Washington, D. C, Feb. 12. Omaha Market. Members shipping stock to Bell, Shelly & McCoy, Omaha, will get all there is in it. Give the asrent notice when shiDned. W. ft. Bennett & Co. will sell groceries, etc., to the Alliance at jobbers' rates. Send all orders to Alleu Root. Shipments of vegetables, fruits or poultry, should be billed to Mr. Root, care ox uownwn, imams cc jttowe s, umana. Bntter 1216. Eggs 11. Poultry 911. Chickens, live $3 .50$ 4.00 doz. Potatoes, good 30635. Now 'is the time to sell old potatoes. There are no new ones on tne market yet. Hay, baled 5.5(X5,6.00. FOR SALE BY STATE AGENT. Wagons 3J and '6V Inch. $55. comnletewith brake. Two seated buggy, $65. Koaa carts $13 to $60. A full line of Agricultural imple ments n.t. 1nlihr'a nvio Ti-r-Vices on their grain to the Alliance Elevator Co., Chi- oa wuicn ti. ai. ijoucks, iresiaent or the National Ailianri is m n no nuttoo at eggs can be shipped to Allen Root, In care of jjcwjciu ,u., umaua. xxoining can Desavea on lumber in less than car load lots. Make out a Din witn tne price at borne, and the agent, can lay n aown at your station for less Blinds, windows and doors are rated as lum ber. ALLEN ROOT, State Agent. Wm. Daily & Co. LIVE STOCK Go is m Cattle, Hogs, Sheep and Horses. CASH ADVANCES ON CONSIGN MENTS. fiOOM 34, Exchange Building, Union Stock Yards, South Omaha. References; Ask your Bankers. 18tf EXPOSITION DINING HALL. i I2i N Street. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. S. J. 03DEIiHj, Prop'r. -o- Mr. Odell has newly repaired, refitted and steam-heated his Dining Hall, and is able to give better accdmmodations than any dining hall in Lincoln. Visitors to the city will find this a very convenient place to stop. MEALS 25 CENTS. FARM AND GARDEN SEEDS CROP OF 1890. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR Buying Farm & Garden Seeds AT WHOLESALE RATES Can be made by Alliances by addressing DELANO BROS. LEE PARK, CUSTER CO., NEB. Write at once. (3m31) REAL ESTATE LOANS On farms In eastern Nebraska and improved property in Lincoln for a term of years. Lowest Current Rates. R. E. & T. W. MOORE, RICHARDS BLOCK, Corner 11th & O Streets. Lincoln. XalTTCO-IVN- a &ttv mv OTtifnr rrrtf s"iTP PFWTi Vooni issionMe clmn Shorthand, and Typewriting, is the best and lareest College In the West. 600 Students In attendance last year. Students prepared for business In from 3 to 9 months. Experienced faculty. Personal Instruction Beautiful illustrated catalogue, college Journal- and specimens of penmanship, 6ent free by addressing LILUB1UDGE & ROOSE. Lincoln, Neb. Shipping Instructions. Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 20, 1890. We are now doinir considerable business with the various Fanners' Alliances through out the state, and are anxious to give you all the Information we can. When load- ing cars on the B. & M. R. remember they Insist on their care being loaded according to the marked capacity. ' Should you ioaa any cars to be shipped over their line it wm be important for you to load them as follows: Load In 30,000 capacity cars anywnere be tween 470 and 570 bushels of corn. Load in 40,000 capacity cars anywhere between 650 and 750 bushels. When we buy a car load of corn from you we mean 500 bushels, as all eastern and southern markets buy on that basis. So in case you should sell three cars of corn you could fill the same by loading three 30,000 pounds capacity cars with 500 bushels each, or by loading two 40,000 pounds capacity cars with 750 bushels each. Likewise a five car eale would mean 2,500 bushels and cauld be filled with five 30,000 cars, or three 40,000 cars and one 30,000 car. This will apply to all other lines of railroad In the state, although no other lines are as strict as the B. & M. We advise you to consult with your agent be fore loading, and never load any car on the B. & M. system with less than 26,000 pounds even if the car should be marked a less ca pacity. Always ask us for billing instruc tions Deiore you 6nip to u. wetaunomi time w make bids alwavs advise you where we will want the grain shipped to. If there is anything we can do to your interest please advise us as it will be a pleasure for us to an swer any questions and do you all the favors we can whether we deal with you or not. As for our responsibility I refer you to any bank in vour town. Thev can easily ascertain whether we are reliable or not through their correspondents. Kespecttuiiy, . T. W. Lowrey. GO TO THE Lincoln Book Emporium 139 South 10th St. under Y. M. C. A. For good and cheap Books and Stationery of all kinds. FAMILY, TEACHERS' and POCK ET BIBLES a specialty. PAPER TABLETS, SLATES &c. &c. 6m361 T. FAWELL. BIG APPLES are grown en our trees. The largest 6tock ef FOREST T REES for Timber Claims in the world. 350 acres in Nu-sery Stock. All kinds of new and old Fruit, Forest. Ornamental Trees and Shrubs. T k "DT7C! and Mnall Fruits at hard XXLA-L IliO times prices. VST A pnper devoted to Fruit-G rowing, 1 year TD tpl? to all who buy $1 worth of stock. J? It Hi Ej Our Nurseries are located within fifty miles of the center of the United States, and our shipping facilities are unexcelled. SPECIAL PRICES TO FARMERS' ALLIANCES.4 PBSend at once for Price List, to CARPENTER & GAGE, 8m30 Pairbury, Nebraska. HOME GROWN APPLE, PEAR, CHERRY, PLUM, GRAPE VINES, AND ALL SMALL FRUITS. As I am a member of the Farmers' Alliance I will make a discount of 20 per cent from list prices on all orders sent through Secretary or Business Agent. Address German Millet Seed For Sale, any quantity. Address, J. W. HOLLENBECK. Elmwood Neb. HENRY HARPHAM, MANUFACTURER OF Repairing Neatly and Promptly Done. 123 South 12th St, (3m37) LINCOLN, NEB. J.M.ROBINSON, Renesaw, Adams County, Nebb. Breeder and Shipper f Recorded Poland China Hogs. Choice Breeding Stock for sale. Write for wants. tMention The Alliance. IMPORTED STALLION FOR. S-A.UE3. English Shire; Seven years; kind temper; sure getter. Recorded in English Shire Herd Book. Can show a. splendid lot of colts. Will be sold cheap on good time. Address ALLIANCE OFFICE, Lincoln.' FRED SCHMIDT, DEALER IN- Dry Goods, Notions, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Groceries, Queensware, Etc. 9210 STREET, Opposite Post Office. m LINCOLN, NEB. J. C. McBRIDE H. S. BELL. McBRIDE & BELL DEALERS IN Real Estate, Lioan ELiici Insurance -A-OEHSTTS. Office,, 107 S. 11th St., Basement, lincoln, - - . nebraska. Agents for M. K. & Trust Co. "nouses Built on te.ii years time. Debt cancelled in case cC Death. . Anything to trade let us know of it. W. Jewett Henderson, J. D. Henderson, McCredie,Mo. Fulton, Mo. W. Jewett Henderson & Co., 1! BREEDERS AND SHIP PERS OF PURE BRED POLAND CHINAS of the most popular strains. Pigs furnished in pairs fin) irk& nnt falrin Trinfa the very lowest. Personal inspection invited and correspondence solicited. 2(5m3 Harness ani Mfllery C3-OOIDS. SILVER FRUIT FARII AND JOHNSON, NEMAHA CO., NEB. - t vppo on hand a full sudoIv of all kinds of enrlence In crowing Fruits In Nebraska enables me to make selections adapted to Ne braska climate and soils. Dispensing with agents entirely I deal directly with the people, thereby saving my patrons all agents commission. 8end for Price Lists for Spring of 1890. Correspondence solicited. 35t6 W.F.WRIGHT. TO PREPARE FOR A CHANGE IN MY BUSINESS, I will offer my 200 ' CMai Bar 3 and 5 years old, and 50 pure bred mares, AT GREATLY REDUCED I'lUUES. l&U DEM' MiL.ri.ijN MUST BE SOLD DURING An opportunity rarely offered to secure I am prepared to offer. Send for pamphlet GEO. E. BROWN, BEST BUTTER CATTLE. FOR SALE, SSff SaSAP ffffiff JERSEY CATTLE cows, heifers and calves, to suit purchasers. A few young bulls fit for service, and three 'A. j. c. C. Bulls at a bargain. A good working herd. First check gets them. Correspondence solicited Fbr.ryi5, 1890 c. B. BACHELDER, Cambridge, Neb. rp R.M.S SEEDS! OBTAIN CHICAGO The way to do this is to ship your Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Veal, Hay, Grain, Wool, pides, Reans, 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 ii'rket. We make a specialty of receiving ihipments direct from FARMERS AND PRODUCERS, and probably have the largest trade in -.his way of any house in this market. Whilst you are looking around for the cheapest mar ket in which to buy your goods and thus ecouomizirig in that way, it will certainly pay you to give some attention to the best and most profitable wcr 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 2harge our -daily market report, shipping directions and such Information as will be of ser rice to you If you contemplate shipping. Let us hear from you. SUMMERS, MORRISON & CO., COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 174 S. WATER, ST., CHICAGO. TtEFEREN JE . Metropolitan Nation Bank, A CURE for-hARD Tl IVIES VD6LQ. erlQ lowing etamptor . ... TATO, SlHCETnE AtMWsa Br-- A- a1 11 in r"T 1 jr rv- i?.- r !i-fca:- i.t ,- ii w - v: T.M-":L-i.U' s T -V " and as s Homes bright, U ir uinn " nU nrVr-rw- rTVt: bom 1 i ih5:irrif 1 1 1 m 111 11 GAr.VL WILSON Mechanicsville, ' Pa., ARTISTIC 1 PORTRAITS. Falters' Voice, A Weekly PublicatioTfor the Great Plain People. Interesting-, entertaininjj and instructive, with an aim and purpose to benefit mankind, The Farmers Voice furnishes to its readers more useful knowledge for one dollar than can be secured from any other source for three times that sum. Why do vou not in crease the price to two dollars per year? The answer is: We do not think two dollars for a paper within the means of all the people. All intelligent people are not wealthy, but intelligence is a glorious element with which The Farmers' Voice seeks universal connec tion. Fifty-two numbers for $1. Can you afford to do without it? For club rates and commissions address 37tf THE FARMERS' VOICE, 161 Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois. CIGARS FOR ALLIANCES. The product of organized, working Cigar makers. Buy from us and you will get rock bottom factory prices . 300 cigars consisting 2f. 2itr,ct.J)rands' ranging in price from $12 to $o0 per thousand, forwarded upon re ceipt of 53.00. Remit by P. o. or Express Money Order, Registered Letter, Bank Check ?.r T-UrrlP? agencies, terms, &c, address W. E. KRUM & CO, Cor. 9th and Douglass sts, 6ra39 Reading, Pa. The Iowa Steam Feed Cooker. The most practical, most con venient, most economical, and in every way the BEST STEAM FEED COOKER MADE. A glance at the construction of it is enough to convince any man that it is far superior to any other. For descriptive circu 1 lars and prices apply to U. S. Wind Enirine and Pnmn f!o . Omaha, Neb., or Martin Steam Feed Cooker Co., Manning, Iowa. 26m JONES, HE PAYS THE FREIGHT WACON SCALES, ?60. BEAM BOX SSASSim SEAX. Freight Paid. Warranted for S Tears Acenta Wanted. Send for Terms. - FARMERS Bam and Warehouse Scales. JONES OF BUTGHAMTON. Binghamton.N.T, Flax Seed Wanted for Seed. Address Aixen Root, Omaha. State Agt, 1. J. THOBP & Co., Manufacturers of Rubber Stamps, Seals, Stencils, Badges and Baggage Checks -2 Everv Description. Established 188a 322 S. Ilth St., LINCOLN, NEB. 71 5-TON W,. I 111! I 111 in 1SH - - W. F. WRIGHT. Proprietor. Fruit Trees and Small Fruits. Thirty years entire stock of oi Shire MM sound, vigorous and fully acclimated THE NEXT THREE WEEKS. such high class stock at the prices and terms giving f nil particulars. Aurora, Kane Co., 111. Send for lull Descriptive Catalogue for 1800. HE TIE EI' Trnmbull, Reynolds & Allen, 1426-1428 St Louis Avenue, 3m33 ' KANSAS CITY, MO. PRICES FOR YOUR Chicago. Mention The Alliance CCnC AT YIHJll 1IOOK AT WUUliJVOAliB )EEUO PRICES. Having grown a Urge quantity of thefol. lowins choice and valuable aeeda the put aeaaon, and In order to introduoa CM'KECEUENTEW OtxEltl or fl.UU In poetaga our WODUCnui uw rubAMJ, 1UW uvmiw) ww u.wa ui. tut mouer, we will send a box poat-paid. containing one packet each . - ! i II r 1 u ulj . k V C II tUTlTlkl) .ml l t or tne lOiiowmK n r- vv apu umTDi vni? mcmum. aired tuber of BOLE Y'H GKEAT KOKTME11N SPY 10. the greatest discover- einoe me advent I tne aAKLY K08K. Wllaon'a Korly Mlooa limp Jteet, earnest ana nut. Hsu. tlan'a llnll-Jvong; v inter uw iwon a isw. of All Pole lleunm good for inap-ihorU la winter. WlUon's Bent of All Bunch Beans, rich, tender, and bntterr. Karl v Advance Cubbaire. best and earliest. Wilson's Premium Flat lutch Cab bare, best late variety. Early Vrern Cluster Cueum:er, best for table use. wuon a 1.0110; U recti CucutuDer, best Tor picues. new jorj rurar Corn, the earliest in the world. VVllsou'. starve Ever Creon ISutrar Corn, xweet and delicious. California or t.oMEcn rop lorn, best variety, new Beu-uinncsmg Celery, extra quality, needs no banking up. Wllwjn'a Extra Early Lettue-e, heading sort. Jordan's Uray Monarch Watermelon very lorz. sweet, and sugary. Miller's Cream Katmeg Melon, best flavored In cul tivation. Improved Bound Yellow Won vers Onion. NEW SPAMS II KINO ONION', 8-pound onions from sped first year. Abbot's Improved fcucar Parsnip. Kuby Klaar Pepper, finest. larreH, sweetest pepperever seen. JU5I30, of OALlPOKMAthe lareest pumpkin lh the world; has weighed 400 lb. V.arly ltoay Uem Kadfeh. best and earliest. New Ch artier Badiah, best nuinim r variety. White Pineapple tSquaah, good forples, keens a'l winter. Early Summer Butter Sfluasb, Tur ner's Hybrid Tomato, heut and finest ever Introduced. NEW ZEALAND FI TOMATO, excellent for preserv ine: cured and dHmi. ential a thA hent flir. Murlcll traD Ix-uf Turnlo. tender, sweet. Golden Clobe ltuta lluga. beitft.r taMe use. VEKETABI.E PEACH, easilv grown from teed Brat vear: mukei nies or nreserves eanal to the bet peaches. Sample packet of WlUon's True Leonilnff Com, the earliest best field corn lu cultivation. New Mammoth Zinnia, double Dahlia, brisht as a rose. Waahlnoton Aatera. verv large, all beautiful oolnrs. CJInnt German Panalps, beat mixed, in all . 0 0KUIjL alzRt PACKKTS. with DIBRCTIONH VO& fi-4 sT0 05CULTIVATINO. and ONE whole POTATO for 3 I a W t400. TEN i?.nn .. A(MaM nlnlnlv Catalogue oa free to all. BEATRICE WORKS. CHA'S HEIDHART, Proprietor. 618 EAST COURT STBEET, N. E. OT POST OFFICE. EstaTolisliod 1S3S, MARBLE AND GRANITE MONUMENTS, HEAD-STONES, TABLETS, VAULTS, SARCOPHAGI, & CEMETERY WORK OF ALL KINDS. 20tf Branch Yards, Brownvllleand Rock Port, Mo. GEO. A. BELL. C. W. MCCOY. T. C. SHELLY. S. F. McCOY. Bell, Hy & McCoy (Successors to Bell & Co.) Live StoctCommission Merchants. Room 39 Exchange Building. Cash Advancsj on Consignments. references ask your bank. Union Stock Yards, South Omaha, Nebbaska. tX23 PAY RETAIL. PRICES WHEN YOU CAN BUY AT WHOLESALE WHATEVER YOU EAT. WEAR OR USE, TE HAVE NO AGENTS. Write for full Catalogue Bentrass. H. R. EAGLE & CO. Farmers' Wholesale Supply House, 68 WABASH AVE., CHICACO. H. C. STOLL, "w. BREEDER OF Sto. Mnst'Tmnroved Breeds of ir Tf :-r" Poland China, Chester White, Small Yorkshire and Essex Hogs. Satisfaction guaranteed in all cases. P. O. Address. BEATRICE- T' MIRBLEif MAPLE WOOD IHUIT FARM AND Covtnotok, Omo. Established 1887 GRAPE AND STRAWBERRY SPEClAr TIES 20 Apole Trees, 1 year, first class . Concord Grapes, per 100, Co a 00 2.00 MAiii uu jc-vi-jvr.na ti.il v.E. Fine descriptive catalogue and our whnlo. sale trade list to every fanner or f.irmera son who names this paper in ordering 8m33 MESH CASSBL, pr0p. 25 Million Nursery Grown Forest Tree SEEDLINGS. No agents. Deal direct with customers. Savo oommission middle-men. Send for price list. Also GENERAL NURSERY Stock. ROBERT W. FURNAS, 6m31 Brown ville, Nebraska. GENEVA NURSERIES. 40,000,000 FOREST TREES, ALL NURSERY GROWN. 200,000 Grape Vines. We have a complete Stock of everything in the Nursery Line, which wo offer to Nurse rymen, Dealers and Planters at Bed Rock Prices. 100 $1.00 Collections by Mail. 20 to 50 per ctnt discount on List Trice to Alliances. Bend for Price ListT Address (3m31) YOUNG ERS & CO,, Geneva, Neb. W. D. NICHOLS GENERAL DEALER IN IReeil Estate, BEATRICE, NE1J. Have somo Fine Bargains in Improved Farms. Lots For Salo in Every Addition in the City. OFFICE, 505 COURT ST. TELE. 82. ItHt Price-List of Oils to Alliances. l.V) test, medium white coal oil, imconts. 150 " prime, l'i " 175 Y. L, " " 13 74 " stove gasoline " ll'i " These oils in barrel lots. The best harness oil in either ono or Ave jcallon cans, 70 (ftiis per frallon. Pure Neat's foot oil in one to Hv Rallon cans, 60 cents per Rallon. In barrel lots, 50 cents per gallon. Axle grease, thirty six boxes in a casQ, f 1.85. Allen Root, State Agent. LIGHTNING WELL-SINXlK M AC'IIIft KItV. W null. I lyilraulic, Jcl'Jnir, Kvvolvlnir, Ar tesian and 1'ttatnoml ln.MH-ttnfr Tooln, I n Kines, lkillrrm Wind Mills nnH iuin wtd nn trial, y.t rts. Kir r.w) t-lupfia ot l,.' pisTvnrs 01 im's honing Karth s Mrats, ln.-i- iiiliintlnn r nnr. IIIMVII W Mrr, t litfht. rsrt.lx 1 Itc 111., S (5. A. AUCTIONEER. II. C. MARTIN, the Auctioneer, will conduct. STOCK AND ADMINISTRATOR'S SALES at Reasonable Rates. Dates can be made at this office. For particulars and terms Ad dress II. C. MARTIN, 35tf HIM O Street, Lincoln. Neb. T. W. LOWREY, DEALER, Lincoln, - - Neuuaska. Will bo pleased to quote prices for grain to members of the various Alliances, and all parties interested. Ho has been engaged in the grain trado in Lincoln for about eighteen years, and knows all the best markets. He will handle GRAIN ON COMMISSION, Will pay sight drafts for all reasonable amounts on consignments. 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