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"THERE IS NOTHING WHICH IS HUMAN THAT IS ALIEN TO ME." Terence.
LINCOLN, NEBKASKA, SATUEDAY, JULY 26, 1890.
NO. (.
VOL. II.
Notice to Subscribers.
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Ai the easiest an4 cheapest neftai weti
frinr subscribers ol the date of their rplra
Uons we will mark this notice with w toue or
rd pencil, cn t4re date at which therr sub
eription expiree. We will send the paper
two weeks after expiration. If not renewed
T that time It will be dinoontinued.
The 'Landlord's Prayer.
"William Allan in Dundee. Scotlane, People's
Journal.
Lord, keep us rich and free fromrtdil,
For we
Are honored holders of Thy soil,
"Which democrats would fain dispel
With glee;
O, Lord, our fathers got the land
For serving men whom 'thy right hand
Had chosen to be great anU grand
As kings.
Tho ra'en by stealth, we're not'to blame,
Thou know'st, O, Lord ! it is a shame
Tosaydf us, of titled name,
Such things.
'Lord, let us live in Wealth's content,
And peace;
Lord, we are by Tby mercy meant
To rule mankind, and mnke our rent
Incrense;
The birds that haunt the moors and hills,
The fish that swim in streams and rills,
The beasts'that roam as Nature wills,
We own;
E'en, Lord, the minerals'that lie
Beneath the earth's periphery,
Belong to us Thou 4cnowest why
Alone.
'Lord, on the-ragged rabble frown,
For they
Are foes to us, Thy Church, and Crown;
Lord, bare' thine-arm and frrind them down
To clay! , .
O Lord our God, we make their laws.
Which-they reject with wild applause,
'Be Thou a buckler to our cause
And caste;
They scorn our love. Thy Name and Word,
They reverence now nor Squire nor Lord, "i
'Lord, them consume with fire and sword
At last!
Lord, they are poor and Ignorant,
And worse.
Compared with us I how different
In manner, garb and lineament,
And purse!
Lord, never let them get or see
The power whichjles in unity;
Keep us apart from them for we
Are men!
Protect us from their greedy hands !
Protect us from their vile demands!
Protect us in our wealth and lands!
Amen! Amen!
"None ol Our Business."
London Christian Commonwealth.
I A little srirl was heard to finish her evening
prayer with these words: "And Isawapor
little girl on the street to-day. cold and bare
footed ; but it's none of our business, is it,
God?" ;,. ,. . -
"None" of our business !" Wandering and sin
ful, All through the streets of the city they go,
Hungry and homeless in the wild weather
" None of our business ! " Dare we say so?
"None of our business Children's wan faces,
Haggard and old with their suffering and
sin;
Hold fast your darlings on tender, warm
bdsoras,
Sorrow without. but the home light within
What does it matter that some other woman -
Soue common mother in bitter despair.
Wails in a garret, or sits in a cellar,
Too broken-hearted for weeping or prayer?
'Nneof our business!" Sinful and fallen,
How they may jostle us close on the street!
iiom duck your garment: scorn they are
used to It;
Pass on the other side, lest you should meet
"None of our business!" On, then, the music;
- On with the feasting, though hearts break
forlorn ;
Somebody's hungry, somebody's freezing,
Somebod7!s soul will be lost ere the morn.
Somebody's dying (on with the dancing! )
One for earth's pottage is selling his soul;
One for a bauble has bartered his birthright.
Selling his all for a pitiful dole.
Ah! but One goeth abroad on the mountains,
Over lone deserts with burning deep sands!
Seeking the lost ones (it is His business!)
Bruised though His feet are, and torn tho
His hands.
Thorn-crowned His head and His soul sorrow-
stricken,
( Saving men's souls at such infinite cost).
Broken His heart for the grief of the nations!
it is nis Dusiness saving the lost !
The Holt County People's Ticket.
From the Alliance Tribune.
lhe candidates for representatives
,n the legislature selected by the Farm
ers' Alliance, give general satisfaction
to all except a few of the old party
leaders. Mr. J. P. Mullins has been a
prominent figure among the farmers
and working people since" his arrival
in the county in 1882. Everybody
knows him only to respect him. His
sterling manhood and high sense of
honor is starxped upon his countenance
so plain that any one seeing him knows
just what he is, one of God's noblest
works, an honest man. Mr. Mullin is a
farmer, engaged in no other business,
consequently his sympathy is with the
farmers and working men. There is
nothing one sided or cranky about the
man, keeping himself well informed
upon all the questions of the day, and
with -cool judgment able to take in the
entire situation. Mr. Mullin will make
us a good representative. With Mr.
Henry he is now serving in the county
legislature, where they are both known
as working members. The verdict of
the people next November will surely
oe " wen aone gooa and iaithtui serv
ants, come up higher." Mr. H. R. Hen
ry, Mr. Mullen's associate on the Alli
ance tieket, is perhaps better known,
, having been identified more with local
politics in the county and engaged in
the publication of one of the local news
papers. Mr. Henry's service as chair
man of the board of supervisors has
given the people a chance to see the
quality of the man, and his selection by
the Farmers' Alliance as their candi
date and his endorsement by the demo
cratic party of Holt county is the best
assurance we can possibly have that he
is worthy and well qualified to fill the
position to which he is about to be
elected. ,
From the Phelps County Herald.
John H. Powers will probably be the
next governer of Nebraska. He will be
elected by the people.
'Midst all the
boasting of the various
and factions, it is well
mind.
parties, cliques
to bear this in
SOCIETY NOTES.
Compiled by tfee?T. Y. Standard.
Under whatever incentive, feminine
toilets in England have reached a
hitherto unheard-of luxury of costliness.
Natural flowers have been entirely dis
carded for imitation blossoms made of
jewels. At a state ball last evening
Lady Brooke had a Mile green satin
dress, veiled with transparent white
silk muslin, all sewn over with scatter
ed diamonds, and having on the shoul
ders epaulets consisting of two big fish
il i.i i ji' j
maue entirely 01 large tuamonus, wiui
sprays pi smaller brilliants gushing
from their mouths down over her beau
tiful arms. The duchess of Leinster had
serpents of diamonds coiled all over her
bodice, and others erect rampant on
her shoulders, and chains upon chains
of these precions stones were about her
throat and arms. Naturally
enough all this fantastic magnificence
in the female half of the aristocracy is
the mere symbol of the worse things
among the men. London Truth.
Poverty and death are the erruesome
visitors that have made the family of
Mrs. Mary Sheperd objects of sympathy
among even the poorest of their neigh-;
bors in the big tenement flat at No. 241
Eldridge street. On Friday last Mrs.
bheperd spent the day weeping over the
uncoflined body of her dead son, who
died last Tuesday. TwentyJfive cents
was all the money she had to pay for
the interment, and there 'was not an,
article of furniture or clothimj in the
house that could be sold. The body
would probably still be unhurried if the
- l i i i e Ai . a 4. 1 1
poor innaoitants oi me lenemeui iiau
not come to the rescue and subscribed
some money to help the poor woman.
A reporter visited Mrs. Sheperd yester
day and , amid the squalid surround
ings heard from Mrs. Sheperd the tale
of her sunerings. She has three daugh
ters, aged twentv-two, fifteen and thir
teen years, respectively, and none of
them had a decent article of dress.
"My son," said the old woman, "was
my chiet support, but my two eider
girls were working until he became
sick. He was bed-ridden for six months,
and I was compelled to sell all I had to
keep the house and supply his necessi
ties. About two months ago I was also
laid up with rheumatism, and I have
not been able to go out since. My eld
est girl had to give up her work to at
tend us, and gradually she disposed
of all she had, even her clothing, to
keep us in food. Now that she can go
back to work, she is prevented by want
of clothing:. My second eldest girl
works in a drug store, at $2 a week, and
that is the only income we have. The
neighbors have been very kind to us in
bringing in little articles of food. If it
hadn't been for their assistance I do
not know what would have become of
us." Mrs. Sheperd sobbed bitterly while
relating: her misfortunes. New xork
World... -v.-y- y. . ' -
One day last week a well known Mur
ray lull beauty came into a shop, and
after glancing about cautiously, ap
proached one of the clerks. "Do you
makeup card cases from any material?"
she asked. "Yes Miss," was the reply.
"Very well, then ; I have brought it with
me," she said, producing a small parcel.
The clerk was about to open it, when
he was interrupted by the request:
riease don't look at it until 1 am gone
You will find the w ritten directions in
side." Then, with a light blush, she
hurried out of the shop. Here was a
mystery! The young man unrolled the
paper which wrapped it. What s this?
A loner glove of lavender kid, and
pinned it to a slip of paper, marked "for
cover." lie smiled, then looked-surprised,
as he discovered a red silk stock-
2 1 1 11 1 i , P , i
ing, laueueu ior lining: out
his astonishment reached its climax
when there tumbled out a dainty little
yellow garter, perfumed, and bearing
unmistakable evidences of having been
in use. This last was marked "binding
By this time the other boys had gather
ed around to view these sacred trophies
of a feminine toilet, and may were the
comments and conjectures. N e w York
Truth.
Mary Gillis, sixty years old. was found
dead in her room at 2 Texas court this
morning at 8:15 o'clock by the agent of
I the premises. Dr. Williams pronounced
the cause of death to be apoplexy
Mary was one of that class of mendi
.cants wno go from door to door m
search of food and money. Boston
uiooe.
Thirty thousand pounds for a clock
has just been paid by one of the Roths
childs. The clock was a beautiful spe
cimin of the Louis XV period, which
had been given as a wedding present to
a countess -titzwiiiiam many genera
tions ago, and had been kept as an
heirloom at one of the family seats,
Milton hall, Northamptonshire. Bos
ton Globe.
The Courier, the other day took con
siderable pride in stating that our pub
lic debt was only $l,000,000,000,and that
we had paid off more than a billion dot
lars, and that we could easily pay off the
billion due.
This was the truth only half told
which is sometimes the worst kind of a
J 1 1J1 T" f it. - a -
iaisenooo. n tne courier had said it
will take more of the products of labor
now to pay ott the $1,000,000,000 due
than it would have taken to pay off the
whole debt after the war it would have
told the whole truth.
At the close of the war when the debt
was the greatest, 50 bushels of wheat
would have paid off $100, but now it
would take about 133 bushels to pay the
same amount, ine same ratio holds
;ood with many other products of la
ior; and yet the Courier comes up
smilingly ana says a billion dollars isn't
much to pay.
If it had said further that this burden
upon labor was put there by the con
traction of currency by the republican
ana democratic parties principally the
former another truth would have been
told.
But the people will not find such un-
comfortable truths as these in old party
papers. They get such facts only mthe
vv ona ana otner independent labor pa-
: pers which are printed for no other pur
I pose but to deal out such facts, some
times to unwilling, unappreciative read
ers, but facts all the same.
JVlore than that, the old nartv naners
don't dare to open their mouths to con
tradict such truths when we tell them.
but preserve a "dignified silence" like
i benator yuay when accused of stealing
1 J Jl 11-.. - o
a iew nunareu tnousana aoiiars from
the state of Pennsylvania. But a thief
1 is a thief all the same. Ottumua World
The Following Should be the Platform of
the People's Independent Convention.
We the undersigned, citizens of the State of Nebraska, hereby declare our adhesion to the following fundamen-,
tal principles, and dema-nd that they be
Our financial system should be reformed by the restoration of silver to its old time place in our currency and its
free and unlimited coinage on an equality, with gold, and by the increase of our money circulation until it reaches the
sum of $50 per capita; and all paper issues necessary tcp secure that amount should be made by the government alone,
and be full legal tender for all debts public and private. ' '
That land monopoly should be abolished either py limitation of ownership or graduated taxation of excessive
holdings, so that all the competent should have an opportunity to labor, secure homes and become good citizens and
alien ownership should be prohibited.
That the railroad system, as at present managed,fis a system of spoliation and robbery, and that its enormous
bonded debt at fictitious valuations is absorbing the substance of the people in the interest of millionaires; that the
general government should -own and operate the railroads and telegraph, and furnish transportation at cost, the same
as mail facilities are now furnished; and that our legislature shall enact a freight rate law which shall fix rates no
higher than those now in force in Iowa.
We demand that our -state and national systems of taxation shall be so adjusted that our laboring interests will
be fostered, and wealth bear its just burdens, instead of our farmers, laborers, merchants and mechanics being com
pelled to pay, as at present, lay far the largest portion of public expense.
We further declare that the political machinery in this state has been controlled by the corporate power for the
plunder of the people an& the enrichment of itself, and we have entirely lost confidence in the efficacy of that ma
chinery for the enactment of just and the repeal of unjust laws. ; s
We therefore hereby give our voice for the call of a People's Independent State Convention, to nominate pure
and honorable men for the different state offices on the principles named above; and we hereby pledge ourselves, if
pure and honorable men are o selected, to vote and work for their election. -
And we hereby invite all men, without regard to past or present political affiliations, to join us in this our effort
for pure government, for relief from the shackles of party politics and the domination of corporate power in our public
affairs. ' " : x
The Arborville Celepration.
Akborville, Neb., July 7th, 1890.
.'Editor Alliance: I thought I
would send you a few items from this
corner. We just held one of the finest
celebrations that it has. been my pleas
ure to attend for many years. It was a
union of Polk, Hamilton and York
counties combined. The orators wefre
Hon. W. A. McKeighan of Red Cloud,
and Judge Scoville of Aurora; McKei
ghan on the "Political situation of the
day,', and Scoville on the " amendment
to the constitution," and both were able
men for the tasks. The singing, princi
pally rendered by the Woods Bi-os. of
. r m i it , rri
Aurora, was very nne. ine w . x.
U. also had a part in the exercises. The
Arborville quartett gave some fine mu
sic. '
In the afternoon the Demorest gold
medal contest took place under the
management of Mr. McCastel of Cen
tral City, with nine contestants lor the
medal, which was won by Miss Shafer
of Seward county. The second prize,
a stand of Italian bees by K. Kyan, was
awarded to Miss Lila Overstreet of
Arborville, Neb., she only being one be
hind, in fact all the pieces were ren
dered in fine style, while the anxious
throng of over 1,500 sat and stood,
crowding closer and closer as each
speaker stepped forward, which lasted
for about two hours. Lverything
passed off very pleasantly, with no
drunken brawls, and not a jar of any
kind, but quiet and good order pre
vailed all round.
The Alliance work is moving steadily
m-w-r .1 Y JI .1 A.
on. VV e are ior uie anaepenueni move
ment nearly unanimous. . Our Alliance
now has enrolled about sixty members,
and still they come. I will send you
more new names for the paper from
time to time. The Alliance is the
best andjsolidist paper in the state in
the interest of the farmers and laboring
class.
Let the spirit of progress move on and
on until we have a full crop of legisla
tors that know no fear, and that will
sweep pollution and dishonesty from
our land, when a trusted people may
rule with justice to all mankind, and
when our statute books may and will be
purged from unvirtuous laws and all
the rubbish cleared away, and new seed
sown that shall be just and equal for
all men, and not for the oppression of
the poor. When salaries shall be ad
justed so that the producer shall have
his just and equal share of the products
of his labor, for justice says that the
"Husbandman shall first be partaker
of the fruits of his labor," but Nebraska
farmers are nearly all, or nearly so,
obliged to sell all the corn and eonsume
what he has left. When his hogs are
fat the best are sold to raise the money
to pay interest, and so with his cattle.
His flax is also controlled .by the oil
syndicate in connection with the rail
road magnates, taking all or more than
the profit after the expense of harvest-
mg. W hy take for instance the raiiroacis
that are so reasonable in freight mat
ter, they charge $206.90 as freight on a
car load of wagons from Fort Wayne,
Ind., to Bradshaw, Neb., when said car
load should not exceed in the aggregate
over $7o.00. The motto of the railroads
has been, and is in Nebraska to charge
all that the traffic will possibly bear and
then they claim that they only make a
reasonable dividend, when it is known
that they have a larger dividend on
their stock that is watered to three or
four times its actual cost. We claim
they must and shall be controlled by
laws in the interest of the people, as
their charters are granted for a pnblic
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thorougniare ior the people s use at a
reasonable rate of compensation. The
law shall also be made to protect the
poor from unjust usury, and make it a
criminal offense for a man to loan mon
ey for more than the legal rate of inter
est, and 6hall forfeit both principal and
interest. We are rtmreservedly in fa
vor of justice to all and partality to
none.
Long may the doctrine of the Farm
ers' Alliance prevail and finally be
heralded from shore to shore.
' . Respectfully,
( R.R. Ryan,
Purchasing Agt. Alliance No. 833.
Grand Harvest Home Basket Picnia.
At Scott's Park, two miles south of
Sartoria. Buffalo county, Nebraska, on
the 12th day of August, 1890. at ten
o'clock sharp, under the auspices of the
xarmers' Alliance.
Distinguished speakers will be pres
ent to entertain us, and with music and
cheerfullness let us assemble to enjoy
this harvest home. Come, one come
all. All are invited.
W. S. SrooNER. Sec.
E. W. Thomas.
" JosEPn Friend.
Henry Berkner'
Dan Cluster.
S. L. Patterson.
Committee,
enacted into law, viz:
' ;
Strike of the London Police and Postmen.
The strike of the police in the Bow
Street Station took place at 11 o'clock
on Monday night, being preceeded by
riotous proceedings in the streets, and,
as a result, the people of London are
panic-stricken. ? Merchants and the
bank men have barricaded their prop
erty.' i t;:.:"';-,r
The vicinity of the Bow Street Po
lice Court presented a remarkable scene.
Thousands of the criminal classes
helped to swell the excited crowd. The
spectators seemed to sympathize with
the police.. The thoroughfare was com
pletely blockaded; and at 9 o'clock af
fairs became so threatening that a
squadron of Life Guards were hastily
summoned and arrived on a trot, and
simultaneously the mounted police
dashed upon the scene and charged the
crowd. There was a stampede in every
direction. Hundreds of people were
knocked down and trampled on. The
Life Guards followed the police, dash
ing right and left into the surging
throng. f4
At 11 o'clock the mob still kept up the
rioting and pelted their pursuers with
stones, bottles and bags of flour, hissing
and hooting the, police officers.
No men had as yet gone Out, but it
was not long after 11 o'clock before the
initiative was taken and the great strike
inaugurated. The force of E Division
went into the station at the usual time,
but refused to parade for duty. Assist
ant Commissioner Howard and Colonel
Moused were in charge and vainly tried
to induce the men to alter their deter
mination, which they absolutely refused
to do. The superior officers then tried
to exert their authority, but without
avail,' and a disturbance ensued.
In the wild disorder outside men were
trampled upon in large numbers. Every
moment the crowd grew larger, more
dense and more turbulent. Cheers
were mingled with hisses. Some jeered
the poliee and others hissed the officials
of the Home Secretary.
The mob sang the "Marseillaise,"
Rule Britannia," and other popular
songs.
At midnight the thoroughfares were
blocked, and two-thirds of the police
force were not on duty, and the old
hands were weak in assisting to pre
serve order.
The mounted police acted with great
brutality, many people being injured,
and several were reported killed. The
mob, angered beyond endurance, be
came revolutionary; groans were utter
ed for the Queen. Railings were torn
off frem shops and laid in the streets to
obstruct, and if possible, upset the cav
alry. The policemen cried "Anarchy"
and shouted like madmen. More Life
Guards came to the rescue, but a heavy
rain-storm that had just set in did what
the police and cavalry had failed to do
dispersed the mob. On Tuesday
morning the thoroughfares were much
quieter.
The striking postmen passed through
the crowd and were loudly cheered.
Several hundred postmen went out on
Monday night, and the rest will strike
before the close of the week. The
strikers held a meeting in which the
outbreak was loudly cheered.
. With the policemen and postmen on
a strike and signs of mutiny among the
soldiers, the situation is not a pleasant
one, and uneasiness is felt everywhere.
Crop Reports.
FURNAS COUNTY.
Editor Alliance: Half of small
grain, wheat and oats, is an entire fail
ure. About o.ne-half will make from
one-third to half a crop.
Corn in much the same fix. Early
corn is dried up and past help. Late
corn still has a chance. Should there
be plenty of rain soon there will be
plenty of corn.
Potatoes small but plenty in the hill.
Gardens a failure.
Late frosts used up the fruit.
Respectfully,
E. A. Wyatt.
Spring Green, Neb., July 17, 1890.
Ravenna, July 14, 1890.
I see in your last paper you ask for
crop reports, so I will try and send you
a letter fron the northeast part of Buf
falo county. Harvest is under good
headway now, with a fair wheat crop;
oats are thin and short, hardly half a
crop. Corn looks good now, but mnst
have rain soon. Pasture is burning up
fast, and no prairie grass for hay Can't
see where farmers are going to get
their hay for the coming winter.
Yours truly,
; Ed. Bachmann.
sheridan county.
Hay Sr-RiNGS, Neb., July 20, 1890.
The crop outlook in this section is
really discouraging, notwithstanding
newspaper and real estate men are try
ing to make it appear that we aro bet
ter off than our neighbors. The drouth
has been severe. Small grain is the
poorest it has been since the county
was settled. Hundreds of acres cannot
be bound and many fields will not be
cut. There is but few good pieces of
grain in Sheridan county. Corn is
fair but acreage small. L. Jacobs.
PERKINS COUNTY.
E: E. Boesewetter writes us from
Brandon that wheat is half a crop, and
oats nearly a total failure. Corn is
suffering for rain. Heat very oppres
sive, 100 in the shade. . In the north
ern part of the county small grain is a
total failure.
i
FRONTIER COUNTY".
Wheat is about half a crop in this
county, oats a failure, Corn is being
burned by hot winds,
W. A. Bradburry,
Sec'y No. 512.
HARLAN COUNTY.
Cannonville, July 21, 1890.
Wheat and oats not more than one
fourth crop. Barley a total failure.
Corn is in the east half very good; west
half damaged by drought.. Yet we can
still have a good crop of corn if we have
rains from now on.
Yours sincerely,
P.S.Anderson.
Call for a People's Independent Cass Co.
Convention.
In pursuance of the duty devolved up
on us by appointment of People's State
Committee we hereby, announce that
a People's Independent County Conven
tion will be held at Weeping Water Sat
urday July 26, 1890, at 1 o'clock p. m.
for the purpose of choosing 12 delegates
to the First Congressional district to be
held immediately on the adjournment
of State Convention; also for placing
in nomination candidates lor the follow
ing state and county offices, viz: 1
state senator, 2 representatives, 1 coun
ty attorney; and the transaction of such
other business as may properly come
before , the convention. The several
precincts and wards will be entitled to
representation as follows, based upon
the industrial organizations in said pre
cincts ana warns:
Plattsmouth City, 1st ward. ......
" 2d
" 3d "
" 4th "
" 5th "
" precinct...
Rock Bluffs " io
Liberty . " io
Avoca " 10
Mt. Pleasant " . . . .. 10
Eight-Mile Grove precinct. .......... 10
W eeping Water '
Centre "
.10
.10
.10
. 5
.10
.12
Louisville '
South Bend "
Elmwood " .......
Stove Creek " . ..
Tipton "
Greenwood "
Salt Creek " ...
.10
.10
.10
All persons who accept the declara
tion of principles published by the Peo
ple's Committee are hereby invited to
participate m the selection of delegates
to this People's Convention, regardless
r 1 : a: i
ui (jasb puiiticai ituiuaiions.
x ne people in the ditterent precincts
and wards will meet at their resrular
polling places to choose delegates to the
county convention on Saturday July
19th, at 1 o'clock p.
m.
A. T. HenshAw,
Jos. Chapman,
L. G. Todd
Committee.
Getting Ready for November.
Greenwood, Neb., July 19, 1890
a . mi
xiiUixoK alliance: xue was a very
enthusiastic independent primary held
to day at our usual voting place, with
with about fifty voters present, to elect
delegates td county convention to be
held at Weeping Water. Jul v 26. Ten
delegates were elected, and an assessor
nominated.
The feeling seemed to be unanimous
that the time has arrived to strike straiaht
and hard at monopolies, combines and
extortions of all kinds, and if we are
not very much mistaken the time is
oaawing near aoout .November we
think that the politicians of Nebraska
A. 1 ... A I1 . 1
at least win wake up some morning
witn a very large surprise party on
hand. Yours for success,
G. W. Curyea, Sec.
Alliance Picnic.
An Alliance picnic will be held at Ar
apahoe, Furnas County, Neb., August
12th, 1890.g Mr. Venier Voldo will de
liver an address, and other prominen
speakers are expected. The Alliances
of that locality should attend at that
time, as the Local Alliance expects to
make it a pleasant gathering for all.
Seward County Peoples' Ticket.
Seward County Star.
D. D. Remington.
This gentleman, one of the candi
dates for representative, is well and
most favorably known throughout tho
county. He is the present chairman
of the board of supervisors, and no man
in Seward county stands higher in the
estimation of the people than he. His
unswerving devotion to right, instead
of to party, has made him a few ene
mies among the politicians, but the
masses will stand by him and triumph
antly elect him. He has a clean record,
has ever been free from rings and boss
ism, and better than all, he stands
squarely ou the best and most progress
ive platform ever presented to the peo
ple of Seward county. Mr. Remington
will look carefully to the best interests
of the people in all his acts as a legisla
tor, and will make a reconl that our
county will be proud of. When the
votes are counted this fall it will sur
prise some of the doubters to note his
endorsement by the people,
John Roberts, Jr.
John N. Roberts, Jr., of G town, came
to Seward county in 1865 and has resid
ed here ver since. He is a careful, in
dustrious farmer, who by energy and
economy has earned for himself and
family a home, wrought out by hard
and honest toil. Mr. Roberts was nom
inated last Saturday by the Alliance
and K. of L. as a candidate for the legis
lature, and his good common sense, ex
cellent judgment and undoubted integ
rity will gain for him enough honest
votes to entitle him to a seat , in the
next legislature. Merit will win in this
case as it should ever do. As the cam
paign progresses more will be said in
regard to our candidates. These short
sketches are written hurriedly and
are merely introductory.
V. W, Goodrich.
This gentleman was .nominated last
Saturday by th6 convention as a candi
date for Register of Deeds. He has
been engaged for several years in the
nursery business and farming, and is
ullv Qualihed by education and busi
ness ability to creditably conduct the
office for which he has been nominated.
OR FARMERS ONLY TO READ.
f This Don't Show Them the Iniquity of
Protection, Nothing will.
The Buffalo Courier' savs that some
time ago Senator James K. Jones asked
C. K. P. Jsreckenridge of the house
ways and means committee to prepare
or w. L. Terry of Liittle Kock a state
ment of the amount of tariff duties on a
bill of goods bought by a representative
armer. lnrepiy Mr; lireckentlucrc
furnished an exhibit based on actual
transactions between R. M. Knox, a
merchant of Pine Bluff, Ark., and I).
W. Branch, a farmer who bought the
goods. Mr. Breckenridge explains that
" this is calculated upon a basis of copy
from the books of Mr. Knox and upon
the rate or taxes actually paid upon
competing articles at the ports as pro
vided by law." The bill as it appears in
Mr. Knox's books is sub.ioined
1899. Articles.
Cost.
.$11 00
A 30
l no
70
1 25
Tariff.
Jan. 28 To cashmere suit
f 00
75
75
16
2tt
'
1 W
2 pair brag-ana, $1
.65
Feb.
51 bel. collar
2 pair plow lines. ... ,
1 pair boy's brojrana
17. 1 box axle irrease . . .
10
21. 1 Avery plow .... 3 50
z duck boards, 50c; 9
lbs nails at 6c. 55 o. . .
1 bu salt, 75c; 1 pair of
misses' shoes. 1.25..
81 pair shoes, f 1.75; 1
pair hinges, 25c
1 yard of water-proof
2, lpair brorans
2 yards of calico 10 c.
1 water bucket, 25c ;
1 05
2 00
2 00
75
1 60
20
30
66
1 Ktt
2 30
1 40
1 50
40
3 00
76
75
4 (X)
75
1 23
16 50
80
1 00
16
2 15
29
Mar.
50
30
37
9
1 spool tiireaa. 5c. .
911 pounds nails, fic
22 2 hats, 65c ;1 yd lawn50
20 yd's stripe, 12 c.
14 yd's calico, 10c
. 3 yd's jeans, 50c
4 dozen thread. . .....
12 yd's ticking-, 25c. . .
1 set cups and saucers
7 1 knife
8 2 pair men's shoes. . . .
1 pair suspenpers.. .
24 10 yd's bleached do
mestic, 1 l-4i
25 2 suits of clothes.f7.50
f9
2 yards of oil cloth,40c
10 yd's g-lngham. 10c..
1 currycomb brnsh..
19 35 yd's bagfrinjr. 9c. . .
1 bundle ties, f 1.50; 12
lbs. nails. 5c 60c
814 pounds nails 5c
1 box A grease, 10 lbs.
soda 10c.
1635 yd's bag-glngr, 7-S
pound, 8c
1 bundle ties
10 yd's Osnaburgs, 11c
23 1 suit jeans clothes. . .
2 wool hats. 1 1. tl-50
1 boy's wool hat
10 yards wyrsted, 20c
13 worsted, 17o
1 set plates
I set goblets
1 Set knives and tiorks
2 dishes. 40c and 60c. .
35 yd's bagging-. 8c
9
14
April
51
1
06
60
70
13
25
29
25
47
May
June
20
54
75
July
l:
35
5
05
Aug1.
1
Sept.
70
20
80
21
6
95
30
10
39
H4
2 67
l
Oct.
7 50
2 50
78
2 00
2 30
65
65
2 75
1 00
1 W
2H
87
95
24
21
81
m
m
2 81)
1 bundle ties 3 43
. 95
Cent at American Affairs.
9
New York, July 23. Private dlspafcben
received here yesterday, aooordlotr to the
Herald, announce that war between O iate
mala and Ban Salvador was precipitated by
the final refusal of the latter to con ent to
the onion of the five states, long talked of.
A reply to this effect was the signal for
Guatemala to invade San Salvador with
armed troops. The provisional president
of San Salvador, General Ezeta, took com.
mand of his troops and routed the lnva-
derr. So far aa known only foity were
killed.
Prompted by tils defeat 2.000 Quote
malon are advancing to reinforce the
routed ranks. Honduras, aa the alley of
unawmai, is hurrylnjr troops forward
Nicaragua and Costa Bica. for prudenU!
reasons, have allied themselves with San
Salvador.
Mexico, although repes tally appealed to
Dy Han Salvador, both for recognition and
assistance, has not until now shown her
hand. She has concentrated troops on the
Guatemalan frontier in the state of
Chiaplap. Orders have been
Mexican minister of war to these troops to
'u'w vruavenjjuiai terricorv in oaee
Guatemala should invade tbat f Salvador.
Guatemala will appeal to the Uoited 8 Sates
ior tne iat;er proteatloa aa again3t Maxl
can
inuerierencr.
lnieves made a raid on a number of
binders in north Dodge county and
carried off all the twine that could be
found about them. l J , i T
Howells, the novelist, lives in a
Boston flat, yet his novels deal with
the most quiet and uneventful phases
of society and reflect none of the con
fusion, turmoil and vicissitudes of life
la a city flat. .- .
Taxes in Turkey are 40 per con!
higher than in any other country on
the face of the earth, and it is estimat
ed that the average population lives
50 per ceat poorer. The only improve
ment a Turkish official hopes for is an
improvement in the way of robbing
foreigners, and his ignorance in re
gard to other pow'ers is called patriot
ism. , ,
Give the dovil his due," is. a an
old and much worn phrase waien is
universally endorsed; but soraehowr
there are thousands of things which
seem to keep out of the clutches of his
patanic majesty which can hardly be
accounted for if everybody who uses
the expression mean what they say.
Trusts and combines still flourish un
smothered by brimstone fumes.
The Pennsylvania Experimental Sta
tion has been testing seeds, with the
soraowhat unexpected result to the
experimenters that those bought from
reputable growers were better than
those procured on their own grounds.
We are not surprised at this. The
growing of the best seeds is on urt
which requires experience and skill.
which professional seedsmen gala
while others cannot. ,
Harvard has adopted a strango
course in relation to the time required
for preparation to enter the collfgo
and that which has to be spent them
io order to receive a degree. It hns
raised the standard of admission so
that it requires from four to live years
for a young man to complete tho
studies necessary to pass the examina
tions. Formerly a young man eould
fit himself to enter Harvard in three
years alter no naa leu tno common
schools.
The merchant who advertises In
his local paper not only increases hi
own business by nttractincr custom.
but he holps his town by showing to
non-resident readers of tho paper that
there is such a thing as enterprise in
the place. , .The first thing an inquir
ing reader of a county paper looks for
in its columns Is its local advertising.
If ho finds the various branches of
busincsi belonging to a place of its
size represented there he knows it i
a live and prosperous placo; other
wise ho knows it U not tho town ho
wants to locate in.
During tho pist few years therohu
been a decline in the barbanous cus
tom of hazing in most colleges. In,
some of them freshmen are no longer
subjected to tho horrors of initiation.
The suspension of this practice causod;
many people to believe that collecrq
students were at length yielding to
civilizing influences. Some were hope
ful and sanguine enough to express
the opinion that college students
would in future behave as wcl asl cow
boys. But with the decline in hazing
there has been a marked Increase in
miscellaneous rowdyism.
All stock dealings are not gambling.
The man who buys stocks and pay too
them believing that they will euhanc
in value or sells them believing that
they will decline, is doing a legitimate
business; but stock-buying or stock
selling is not gambling on margin k.
The man who buys or sells stocks o;
margins, as a rule, is exceeding hU
ability to pay. He plays to pay if ho
vrins; to default with somebody if ho
loses, and he would be more honest
and manly if he bet his money on tho
sards of the professional gambler, who
must be honest to maintain his trade.
Industrial labor is one of the par
ents, and science is the child: but as
we often see in the commercial
world, the son becomes richer than tho
father and raises his position. Man is
the ward of science, and from his
necessities spring the industrial arts;
the mole can mine and tunnel under
the ground; the tailor-bird can sew;
the fishing frog can throw out a lino
and bait that nature, gives him; tho
beaver can plaster his house; the
spider can spin and weave; but neither
in his hands nor feet has man the tools
for such work as he must perform in
order to live.
At a recent meeting of n scieatlQo
society In London a now Paroumter
was exhibited, which, says the Loudon
Times, will on a slip of paper not? tho
beginning, variation in intensity And
termination of rain audi hail, tho in
stant of each lightning flash and the
beginning and duration of a thunder
clap. The instrument can bo read for
periods of time down to a fifteenth
part of a second. An arrangement
was also nchibited to show, either by
projection or by photography, the
oscillatory nature of an electrio
spark." The barometer may some
time be brought to such perfection
that with it one may even measure
the rapidity of the protean changes of
he OVcago weather.
The Benkelman Republican is respon
sible for the statement that Tascott,
the murderer of Millionaire Snell, is
located on a claim in Dundy county.