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1 i ' ,t , - t ' ' ' " 1 'e VOL. II. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1890. NO. 8. - y -: ... . - W 4)w . 111 II III Ki ll I 1 3. v i u1 1 . 's Notice to Subscriber. EXPDHATIOIIS. Am tne easiest an cheapest ateafaa ef mac subscribers of tne date of their expira tions wo will mark this notion with a hluo or f4 pencil, o the dato at which their sun feripUon expiree. Wo will send the paper - wo weeks after expiration. If aet renewed hyhhattlaioHwUlhodlaooatlattoa. Written for Th Aixianck. Address to the Republican Party. Dedicated to tbe Honorable Bankers and Business Men's Association. Long: years hare passed since in your course You reached the zenith burning; Tour virtue gone, your manhood lost, ; All honor now you're spurning - You've tried fuM hard in eager race. To down the starring masses, And put a yoke upon their necks. Held down by wealthy classes. You're got the money in your hands, You spend it for your pla es, And when it fails to serve you well. You run your lying faces. With promises you bait the crowd, And plead with thera sincerely. But when you haTe them in your grip You make them pay full dearly. Some saints hare risen In your ranks , To wrangle for the masses; You're classed them with the country cranks, And branded them as asses. Bent on your course you go. Dishonesty pursuing, Ne'er caring for the warning roice That tells you trouble's brewing. Full oft good men hare tried To hold you to your former level ; How they're given up the hopeless task, And consigned you to the devil. N. O. Eastman. Another Interesting Letter from Bro. L. Henry. Waitsburg, Wash., July 26, 1890. Editor Alliance and Bros. Seeing that you were so kind as to give the few lines that I wrote you from Ogden a place in the columns of The Alli ance, I will send you a few more lines from this place. We left OgdenJ July 15th, at 7 p. m. f er Pendleton via. Pocatello. Arrived at Pendleton, July 16th at 8:45 p.m., and rested for the night. The country through which we passed was very rough and barren until we got into the Blue mountains, which were covered with pine and fir timber, which is be ing cut into lumber and railroad ties very fast. But the supply seems to be abundant, for it took us a long time to travel through the pine land. This - place is about 30 miles from Walla Walla in what they call the great Walla Walla valley, which is claimed to be ,the best wheat and fruit country in the United States. They claim that the present crop will make an average of So bushels per acre. Harvesting and threshing has commenced. Nearly all the wheat is headed and hauled to the threshing machine, threshed, sacked and piled up in big piles in the fields, or hauled to the R. R. where it is piled up to be shipped. The last rain they had was about the 1st of July, and they don.t expect any more until the last of September or the first of October. The dust now where there is a good deal of teaming done is about 5 inches deep, and they tell me that is nothing to what it will be when they get to hauling wheat. They call this a valley in . this country, but we would call it mountains. The hills are from 200 to 400 feet high. We took a trip to the mountaius the other day, which are about 12 miles distant from the town. Followed up a hollow nearly all the way, and only found two roads that led from the one we were travel ing. No such thing as following sec tion lines, or crossing the hills only as one winds around the sides. Saw a load of wheat come into town, two wagons coupled together and six horses hitched to the front one. I find that the Alliance is pretty strong in some sections of the state, and I learn that Sub. Alliances are being organized very fast Everything here is on the credit system, farmers just one and two years behind, promise to ' pay when they harvest. Have been un able to find out anything about mort gage indebtedness on the farms, but all complain of hard times and scarcity of money. Our health is improving. Will leave here about the 5th of August for Hood river, Oregon. I get all the papers and am glad to see the work that is being done by The Alliance. I wish that I could be there to help the good cause along, but I will be home in time to put in a vote for the best man, or rather for good men for office. I am glad to see that The Farmers' Alliance is ' getting better with each issue. I am handing the paper around for the people to read, ana they like the tone of it. Well I will close for I fear this will prove to be too long a communication for the columns of the best paper pub lished in Neb. Yours truly, L. Henry. Forty Thousand Rebels. As the details of the farmers' conven tion are more fully reported, j11 persons will be impressed with the important bearing it must have upon the politics of this state. There were nearly 900 farmers, every man of whom was in re volt. They were rebels against the parties to which they had given loyal obedience all their lives. There was no fanaticism which might vent it?elf in hot words and retire to inactivity, but a cry against an oppression which was driving them into poverty. Three hundred of these rebels by actual count were old soldiers. How intolerable this oppression must be to drive the men who voted for Lincoln and fought under Grant and Sherman and Sheri dan into open revolt The most saci'ed memories clustered around the partv of their youth and their manhood. Vet they stood np in that convention to be counted as rebels against that ?arty. What is the g. o. p. going to do about this revolt? Perhaps they may follow the manner of the old tory party of England, whom they resemble more than any other party, and appoint a grievance committee and 'Sthese 900 Tphl nnrl tiia 40 OOO nthot .hols in state whom they represerf A what they want. If they did, they Mild hear a cry that would be deafer so many are ine wrongs xaey suit n or Id Her aia. THE TERROR OF BATTLE. CxptaaaUea ef tne Caoees tisvt . FsOee Time mt Vfr. During the war we used to read ol ! companies falling back, regiments giv ing ground, and brigades becoming demoralized, and -he average reader took it for cowardice and openly ex pressed its contempt. No man ever went into battle twice alike. . No com pany, regiment or brigade were ever situated twice alike. A man may be -very brave in one battle and very timid in the next. His physical and mental conditions have much to do with it. A private soldier knows the position of his entire brigade in a fight. If the position is a strong one he is encouraged ; if the flanks are exposed or the defenses are weak he is nervous and appre hensive. It is a grand stake the soldier plavs for in a battle. If he wins be mav lire on until the next fight. If he loses be gets a headstone in a national , ceme tery. -'I cannot make you understand the situation better .than to, give you ftersonal experiences. The great ma ority of soldiers had the same feeling and passed through the same expe riences. ' At first Bull Run my brigade gained ground for several hours. This, with a small loss of men, kept us encouraged. Indeed, it was hard for the officers to restrain us. Every man was hopeful and determined, and any single com pany would have charged the regi ment. The panic had upset thousands before it touched us. Indeed, the re treat had been going on for two hours before we got word. We were well in hand and ready to advance when the news reached ' us. In five minutes every man was shaky. In ten minutes men whose faces were powder-stained were sneaking out of the ranks to gain the rear. In a quarter of an hour naif a company of Confederates could have driven the whole brigade like a flock of sheep. I saw men cry like children. I saw others tremble and sit down from weakness. Every fresh report added to the feeling of terror, and by and by pride and discipline gave away to a grand rush, and it was every man fr himself. No one cared whether his comrade was ahead or behind. This was called cowardice, but it was not. It was panic the -terror of battle a scneseless but powerful something which seizes the bravest men and makes children of them. In the streets of Fredericksburg I 3a w Federal soldiers discharge their muskets into the air, when the enemy was within point-blank range. I saw plenty of them drop on their faces, and tremble, and groan, and cry. This was a easo where every man saw the hopelessness of attack. He felt that he was pushed forward to be shot down. There was no way of retreat until the lines should fall back;- On the other hand, the Confederate troops posted behind the stone wall at the foot of Havre's Hill joked and smoked and were in the highest spirits, feeling themselves secure from bullets, and knowing they could beat back any force. One of them told me that after taking a dead aim on thirteen, different men and dropping every one of them he refrained from firing for the next quarter of an hour out of sheer pity for the human targets being shoved up to meet death. At Malvern Hill my regiment lay in the dry bed of a creek at the foot of the elevation. It was a natural rifle- Eit, and sheltered us so well that we ad only a slight loss in killed and wounded. As the Confederates charged across the field we felt to pity them. We poured in our volleys without fear , of danger in return, and out of five Confederates who rushed into our lines n their bewilderment three were cry ing and sobbing. It wasn't cowardice but terror. No coward could have been induced to march across those meadows in the face of that terrific tire from cannon and musketry. At Cold Harbor, after beating off sverything in our front, aud while most of the men were cheering, some sne started the report that the Confed erates had gained our rear. Two thousand men broke back like a lot of ooys, some even throwing their guns sway, and the jeers of other troops had 30 effect until the frenzy hai had time :o evaporate. At Getty burg my regiment had the cover of a stone "wall, and we knew that we were well supported. We hoped for a charge, ami when it came svery man was cool and calm and con fident. One band of prisoners number ing about thirty, was lea past us on their way to the rear, and I noticed that many were cryiue and alt were whitefaced. I have seen the best sol diers and the oldest lighters win their medals in one battle and show the white leather in tne next. 1 saw a second lieutenant almost crv for the privilege of leading a charge at An tietam. and yet at Chantilly he fell in to a ditch and pretended to be hit so us to drop behind in the charge. Cow ards never go to war. If they get into the ranks throngh the draft they desert or commit suicide. It is only the brave men who face the grim monster on a field of battle, and next to the foe his worst enemy is a terror which seizes him as a "chill or fever might come onfand tnere is no remedy ior it except to get away frcai the screaming missiles of death until one's nerve and sand returns. Detroit Free Press. A Huge Butterfly. One day when off the savage island - of Malaiti of the Solomon group, Mr. Woodford and others under the pro tection of sentries, went to bathe in s pool. While in the water he saw s huge butterfly coming slowly along the1 peacn, anu, nurrying ouc as ne was, n? seized his net, dashed off. fell over the stoues, rose again, and just in time to catch the fly. What a picture! I leave, it to my ardent entomol ogists," he says, "to imagine my feel ing." He had "rediscovered the" long lost Ornithoptera Victorifee." and why should he not feel like Alexander on the Granicus or Hannibal at Cannsee. These "bird-winged" butterflies are some nine inches across the wings. One is bine with a yellow body, an other . is velvety black and metallic green. They excel jn size,' but other ninds wear equally magnificent rai ment, and make glorious forest beauii luL London Spectator. People's County Tickets. j Below we give a list "of the county tinkers as far as received. UI course , the list is cmite incomplete, and we hope our friends will send reports of nomina- J tions in counties not named below as soon as possible. Please give P. O. ad dress of all candidates: Buffalo countu Representatives, J ohn Stebbins, D. Nichols; Co. attorney, J. E. Gillispie. Rlain cnuntuGo. attorney, M. B. Welch; Commissioner, Dr. Boaz; Supt. Pub. Inst.. Chas. Van West. Cass county Senator, C. LeMasters; Representatives, L. G., Todd, r. Hen shaw; Com., Jos. Cox. v Clav countu Representatives, an.. Elder, Logan McReynolds; Co. attorney; E. A. Mitchell. .... Dixon countu Representative, P. 1 . Roahn; Co. attorney, E. A. Eames; Co. clerk, Orvie Brice. . Dawes countu Co. attorney, l. jm. Harbaugh; Com., John Rucker. Fillmore county senator, j. a. w ar- . 1 1 1 ner; Kepresentatives, iwcnara uodsou. Dawes Stephens; Co. attorney, reter Eggenberger. , ; m Franklin county nepreseniaiive, x. J. Williams; Co. attorney, U. Whit- more. . Frontier county Co. attorney, L. M. Graham; Com., Chase DeChant. . Gosper county Co. attorney, b. A. Fisk; Com., J. B. Chase. Hall coun f yr-Kepresentati ves. a uook, E. S. Lee; Co. attorney, A. A. Edwards. Johnsm county Representative, A. A. Taylor; Co. Attorney, J. Hall Hitch cock, Com., Nathan Southerland. Kearnev county Kepresentative, Jbd. Kirck; Co. judge, J. N. Wolff. Loup county i-o. attorney, a. Gates; Com., E.-N. Gilbert, George Abbott. . ' Nemaha countu Senator, C. W. Will iams; Representatives, W. W. Johnson, John Storm. Albert Leper; Co. attor ney, G. B. Beverage; Com., M. Shurt- liff. KucTcolls county Representative, Geo . A. Felton: Co. attorney, R. Sutherland; Com., J. Diehl: Clerk, John Bird. Otoe county Senator, Geo. . uoinns; Representatives, Byron Taylor, Ihad- deus Williams, Jas. E. Hudson. Pierce county Co. Attorney, M. i. Kelley; Com., J. N. Burch. Platte cownv--Kepresentaiives, wm. Shelf s, Henry Stevens. Red milow county Kepresentative, a. C. Modie; Co. attorney, Sidney Dodge; Co. Treasurer, G. W. Burke; Com.; S. S. Graham, Isaiah Bennett. Richardson county Representatives, R. Williamson, G. A. Abbott, E.Beaver; Clerk, W. S. McGowan; Co. attorney, Julius Schoenheit. Sarpy county Representative, lu. G. Shall; Co. attorney, J. P. Gore; Com., C. W. Shobert. Stntnrd countu Representatives, D. D. Remington, John Roberts Jr., V. Good rich. ' - " .: ' Sherman county Representative, Al bert Dickerson; Co. attorney, Emerson Smith -i.., , .. ... . . vl' Valleu countu Representative, J. V. Johnson; Co, attorney, C. A. Mann. Webster countu Representative, Aus tin Riley; Co. attorney, H- L. Hopkins. York county Senator, unas. a. w ar ner; Representatives, J. M. Gunnett, J. B. Steward. - Signs of the Times. 1. When you find the leading jour nals of the state arrayed against those who champion our cause, it is the sign that we are on the right track. 2. When one of these leading journals in particular will give space to a prosti tuted Alliance man to throw mud at our officials, it is, a sign that their, respect for the farmer is prostrated. 3. When you see these leading jour nals minify a man's virtues because he is poor, it is a sign that they have beex vaccinated by the bankers, and that their sense of manhood has played the part of an absconder. 4. When you see calummiators from all sides focus their anathemas upon the editor of The Alliance, it is a sign that the center of putrid corruption has been struck. 5. When you see a republican conven tion vote down a resolution censuring the action of part of the late board of transportation, it is a sign that any one remaining in the party who has honor and pride of character will soon be voted out. W. G. Eastman, York, Neb. Special Correspondence. Greeley is one of the comparatively new counties, and as yet there is much complaint of the various difficulties al ways incident to pioneering. Yet, though so new as to be involved in a most perplexing counts-seat war, there are few flies found roosting on the Alli ance organization. Not long since a republican convention was held to nom inate 14 delegates to another convention, but a few proxies were found necessary when but V republicans good and true put in appearance. One hundred and ten voters assembled at Greeley Centre on Saturday the 26th to nominate dele gates to the people's convention, and all declare it one of the greatest county conventions ever held here. The dele gates declare one and all for Powers, and say they are going early and will stay late. All indications point to a strong independent vote from this and ad joining counties. Crop prospects are still somewhat un favorable here on account of dry weath er. There is ample time for good corn, however, and in most cases wheat is better than last year Oats were a fail ure. Farmers here are all hoping for good things from the Alliance, and the county is well organized - with an ever increasing membership. J. H. T. Clay County Independent Convention. Delegates to the Independent convention convened at Clay Center In the court house Saturday 26th ult., at 11 a. m presenting a bold front with ninety-nine delegates in the ranks. Logan McKeynolds was chosen chair man, and N. M. Graham secretary. Specta tors viewed the convention with admiration, though some with trepidity and awe. The warmest enthusiasm prevailed, yet harmony and good will was a notable char acteristic of the convention. E. A. Mitchell was nominated as county attorney; L. Mc Reynolds and S. M. Elder were nominated as representatives. . Many outsiders, including the best business men, are favorable to the people's ticket. N.M.Graham, Sec'y County Central Com. c.rmt or a:i iclamp. mm A&Sttoa T7es ZIle t the Toma Abont four and a half years ago th people on an island la the southern part of the Tonga gro-ia the Pacilie observed a terrible eoraotion far out t sea. It seemed t tbep that the waters were boiling d that smoke was rising from thi surface of the ocean. A little while bcf. j the waters near their shores bad s agitated in an unaeconntabie rrrxaner ana Dig waves rolled in. a!t:.3Hgh there was not much wind stirricj. A few of the bravest among the people launched one of their sailboats and started toward the scene of disturbance. They halted at a considerable distance from the center of the oorciuotion. but they were near enough te determine accur ately the nature of the phenomenon before tuem ' A new island was coming into view. One of the voleanic Tents at the bot tom f the sea . bad spread its molten rock and ashes over the ocean bed un til the growing mass reached the sur face. No longer impeded by the pond erous weight of water the volcanic de bris shot nigh into the air with a roar that was heard for many miles and was sifted over the growing mass. By far the larger part of it fell to one side of the crater through which the matter was finding vent. ; A very large part of the debris was nothing but ashes, and the prevailing wind carried nearly all of it to one side ot the or i tic. The eruption lasted for several days, and when it finally ceased a new island had been added to the Tonga group, and it now bears the name of Falcon island It was the old story, but one that has seldom bad eye-witnesses to record it. says the N. Y. Sun. : In a similar man ner the whole of Iceland was reared above the sea within a recent geological age by matter brought from the bowels of the earth - Hundreds of island along the line of volcanic action, stretching far across the Pacific, came to the light in exactly the same way as Falcon island. This latest of the vol canic islands " was the product of a very moderate eruption, and wo can imagine what gigantic convulsions of nature attended the birth of many an island that is a hundred-fold larger than the new little speck in the Tonga group., v .. Those islands, which were reared above the sea only by prodigious and probably long extended eruptions, are likely, even in these later days, to be the scene of the most stupendous vol canic activity. The great eruption of Skaptar a century ago is believed to have covered a part of Iceland and the adjoining seas with a larger mass of lava than has poured from Vesuvius and 2Etna combined since the burial of Pompeii. It killed one-tifth of the population, destroyed the arable lands, and frightened -the tish from the adja- ; cent waters, so' ihar for a long time the people were in danger of starvation. The volcanic vent tnat gave birth to little Falcon islaud is right in line with the great chain of volcanic islands in the Malay archipelago, where most of the stupendous eruptions of modern times have occurred. It was on Sim bow a, a little east of Java, that an ex plosion occurred sixty-eight years ago audible for nearly 1.000 miles, and so completely burying'a whole province that only twenty -six persons escaped in a population of 12,000. ; , In October of last -year J. J. Lister visited Falcon island, then four years old. aud he has just reported the results of his observations to the Royal Geographical society of London. The tine grained dust or ashes, greenish gray in color, of which the island is composed, is very friable, and the waves, dashing against the new ob struction in their way. have torn off the edges and considerably reduced the islaud's area. The largest amount of material is gathered on one side of the crater through which the tide of debris poured; and there a cliff, 150 feet high, fronts the sea. Inland the cliff slopes gently down until it reaches the level of the tongue of I.nd, about a mile in length and only ten to twelve feet above high tide, which forms the rest of the island. It is a bare, dark heap of ashes, which the ocean rollers are doing their best to bury out of sight beneath the sea. t As Mr. Lister walked over the hillside, there was a distinct odor of sulphur in the air, and the dist ant parts of the island were seen through a thin, blue haze. The explorer found that beneath the surface the mass was still very hot. At the surface the temperature was 77 de grees; two feet below the surface the thermometer registered 85 degrees; and six feet six inches below it reached 106 degrees. Notwithstanding these discouraging conditions nature was be ginning to put forth efforts to cover the unsightly heap with the luxuriant verdure of the South sea islands. Two eocoanut trees were struggling up ward, but they did not look prosperous. Specimens of grass and two other plants were found, and stranded fruits were found here and there, all ready to germinate if they had any encour agement. The only living things the visitor saw were a 'bird and a small moth, but hie found the burrowsof some creature. Unless the sea destroys Falcon island before it has a chance it is not difficult to foresee what will be its; future. On this volcanic debris a host of marine animals and plants will find a resting- place; coral reefs will spring from the 11 . - mm snanow waters arouna it and torm a breakwater against the" waves; the seeds of cocoannts and of many shore- loving plants will dritt there on the tide; decaying vegetation will mix with the volcanic ashes to form alluvium. and another verdant island fit for the abode of man will exist in the southern seas. Got tbe Doses Mixed. The wife of a Philadelphia veterin : A . : i ii wnu Muuiuuuiauv iuiacu ner own pre scription with one made out by hei husband for a horse, and sent the wrons one to the druggist. She was horrified when she found" that the druggist had tent her pills home in a cigar box, and frightened when she found each pill tt bo wigei mitu a pium. Cardinal Newman Is reported to be in better health than for several months past. Ti:e Cardinal is .now in the 88th year of 1:1a ,i , j The Way it Strikes the People. Shicklbt, Neb., August 1, lf0. Editor Alliance: It Is with satisfaction and pleasure I wish to say a few words through the columns of Thb Alxianch. The preliminaries are over with, the Inde pendent conventions have been held, and our men have been placed squarely before the people, and we as farmers, laborers, mer chants and mechanics will gx into a battle as fierce as ever before. But in the mid at of . this battle we have one consolation, and that is this, that at the convention held in Lincoln ' I Ju.y 9, clean, honest men were nominated j from head to foot of the ticket, and I will venture to cay that such all-around men have not been offered by either of the old parties for the past fifteen yean, in spite of all the Lincoln Journal, the rotten Bee et al. have to say about them. - I for one am ready to support every man who has received his nomination at the bands of the independents of this state. rom head to foot the ticket is a rood one. In this ( Fill mere) county the legislators nominated by the independents are sound to the core on all financial questions, and these men will carry this county with a cyclone, as will the state and congressional nominees. The question is sometimes raised by some men as to what party or parties the nominees havefermerly been affiliated with? I em phatically say this matters not, aad no true man will dare to raise this question. We have all united on one issue, and title issue Is the extension of the lease of our own and our families' existence for a few more years. As it is we scarcely exist. , It is a united and mutual battle for life we are fig-hUng, and not for "free trade" nor "protection." We as independents have adopted a platform, and when the nominees of the various independ ent conventions accepted their nominations they accepted the platform and pledged them selves to secure our wants asset forth by this platform. And it is the duty of every man in this state, who is not directly dependent on corporations and monopolies (and it is their auty but it is no use to ask it of thera) to use all honorable means to secure the election of these men who have been willing to sacrifice themselves as targets for the corporation tools and henchmen to fire at. Farmers, laborers, merchants and mechanics are atl equally interested in this conflict. In fact all who are not millionaires or millionares by half. This even behooves Kd Kosewater. He has ostensibly been of anti-monopoly senti ments for lo these many years ; but now he has financially arrived at a point of independ ency, and he has drifted over into the fold of monopoly and is fighting our grand cause with all his might, ft has been truly said 'consistency thou art a jewel," but there is ho consistency with Bose water, and this should receive the careful attention of every man who is true to our cause. In conclusion I will say I earnestly hope that every man who is burdened down with an incumbrance, and every man who is finan cially ground down to nothing, will persist ently fight for the cause in which we have en listed, i for one have enlisted to battle onward until victory is ours. Yours fraternally, Pbtkb Bkboquist, Sec'y 757. Homesteading. Chicago Express. ' A correspondent from western Kansas says: "It costs only $14 to homestead 160 acres of land.. This method of carv ing out a home from what was once called the jrreat American desert Is so full of trials and tribulations that it has passed into a proverb that Uncle Sam bets you 160 acres of land against $14 in money that you can't live here five years, and he generally wins." we Know a citizen of Illinois who now owns dOO acres of as rich land as the sun ever shown on. For a part of this he paid $1.25 per acre lonar before the homestead law was enacted. For a Eart he paid, in later years, $60 per acre. Le has lived sometimes almost died and learned. We once put to him the plain question: What is the dearest land you ever bought? His answer was prompt: "ne land lor which I paid $1.25 per acre when tbe country was new. If I had ten lives to live over I would never pay such a price again." x et plutocrats and politicians have for half a century spouted incessantly about the great generosity of the gov ernment in giving homesteads free. Neither plutocrats, politicians nor gov ernment created the land,, and the only sembance of liberality for which the government was ever entitled to credit is that it abandoned the abusive prac tice of charging a price for wild land. The writer, when editor of a pioneer journal in southern Minnesota, in 1856, necessarily became acquainted with the settlement of public lands. The con viction then formed, and ever- since strengthened by intimate acquaintance with the border country, was this: Ev ery family who consented to settle and help to build up a home and a country, ought to have been given as a reward, the land and not less than $1,000 in cash or annual installments. No question is so little understood except by those who have been the victims of the sys tem. These vtctims have as a rule kept silent because they did not want to own up to having been caught in a bad bar gain. ' B. & M. Passes and Clergymen. Whereas, We have been informed that the B. & M. R. R. have been in the habit of furnishing passes to the clergy as an incentive to work for them politi cally. That the Rev. Mr. Mastin was requested to deny the statements made about the mortgaged condition of the farmers. He refused to do so without examining the county records. After examining the records he was satisfied they would not justify him in such de nial and refused a railroad pass under sjich conditions. Resolved, by the Ft. Kearney Farmers' Alliance, No. 278, that we do appreciate and approve said action of Rev. Mr. Mastin and tender the thanks of this Alliance for his manly stand against the bribes of an oppressive and Godless cor poration. That a conv of these resolutions b sent to Rev. Mr. Mastin and The Farm ers' Alliance published at Lincoln, and spread upon the records of this Alliance. Daniel Hax. E. O. Smead, Mrs. J. A. Spink, . Committee. tTT . we present herewith an liUustration of the badge which is beinjr made in Chicago for the Nebraska Alliance. ' It is a very pretty thing, in Ihe form of a scari or bosom pm. Its color is gold and red, white and blue. It is about half an inch wide and six-eighths of an inch long, and is a very neat and orna mental pin. Secretary Thompson will furnish this badge to Alliances at the rate of $17.50 per 100. Single samples, sent by mail, w cents each. WITCHES IN THE SOUTH. Dire ff avoe Believed t Have Deem Cams by Them Amnnr th 'Geoa Dge. . In Wayne county. N. C. of whlel Goldsboro is the county seat, many ot the inhabitants believe in witchcraft at firmly as they ever believed in States rights, and are as willing to sacritict their lives on the altar of their supersti tion as they were to die on the plea ol a mistaken patriotism. 'The Carolina.' Georgia, Alabama, and other Southern v States abound in so called witch doctors," who will curt your ails and kill the witch that if troubling you. Some of these doctors actually oelleve in the personal exist ence of witches and in their supernat ural power, but many of them are frauds who make a living by imposinf ou the credulity of their neighbors. The negro race ia natnralfy supersti tious, but tbe poor, white "crackers' are also ignorant, and for believing ir spooks, spirits, hobgoblius, and othei natural phenomena they can give the colored man cards, spades, and aces, and then beat him. The cracker it worse than the colored man because hi fondly imagines that he is so mucfc shrewder, ami so he does not use what brains he has. nor does he try. to learn anything. . He has thousands"of signs, uuiens. cures, and beliefs that ; are s continual source of annoyance to him, and perpetually keep hii;i in a state ol dread. The simplest incident is one ol sinister and occult meaning to him, and he- is ever in a tremor lest ill luck and misfortune overtake him. " The evil influences manifest them selves in various ways, andeach on seems worse than the other. His guo occasionally hangs fir and' refuses tc go off" properly, and at times is so badly deranged that it cannot be dis charged at all. At other times hi; favorite coon dog is bewitched by some !t J I , evu-minueu anu envious person, ana then the woe of the cracker is some thing painful to witness. If his guo were not bewitched, why could he not kill a squirrel with it? And why should his dog refuse to hunt coons, when to hunt coons was his business? These are questions that he can answer only by assuming that a witch has boon in fiuencing him and his property. He employs a witch doctor, to whom he pours out his, tale of woe and yields up his hard earned cash. The doctor cares little for the woe, but,th cashrit grateful and exhilarating. The doctor is sanguine, and declares that he has a method of killing that is strictly orig inal, cop righted, and warranted to be effectual." In one case that I camr across the doctor learned that an old woman living several miles away was the suspected party, and he commenced a campaign against her. He told th victim to go to her house some night and stretch a white cotton ,. string around the building, and tie the endt together with a "weaver's knot." Then he was to walk around the house seven times each way, recite a given sentence in front of each door while, making mysterious marks ou it. and the cure would be completed. The dfrection.9 were followed, and I am happy to saj were effectual, as the next hunt result ed in the death' of three coons. Another time .a smallpowdtsr was given, which must be swallowed by the witch without her knowing it. The old lady was invited to dinner, the powder placed in her cup of coffee, and the cure was as complete as could be de sired. Philadelphia Times. , The Best Havana Clear The leaf of the Vuelta Aba jo district is much more valuable than the leaf ol the Partido district, and by experts and connoisseurs the former is" without pos sibility of dispute conceded the palm for flavor and aroma; yet fully 70 per cent of tbe cigars imported into th United States are made of Partido to bacco, and the national taste is un doubtedly for it. This is the mon curious, as in buying cigars at retail it simply . means that the bulk of out smokers pay the same price for the second grade of Havana tobacco at they would if they bought the first grade, the price of Partido cigars in nba being only a little more than halt that charged for the same sized cigat from a Vuelta factory. The fineVuelts cigars have a much larger sale in Europe than they have in the United States, and some of the special size sent to Russia command a price of $ 1, 000 per thousand in Havana. These, if shipped to this country, would retail at tbe fabulous price of $ 2.25 or $2.5C for each cigar. Among the curiou points not generally known regarding the Vuelta leaf is the peculiar fact that it fa the only tobacco in the world, so far as I know, of which a cigar caa be lit. allowed to go out, remain out for several hours, and then be relit witr no perceptible loss of. fragrance oi atlded rankness of flavor. It has been repeatedly asserted that this is the case with any fine cigar, but this is an error neither Partido. Remedies. Yara, Man ilia, nor our domestic leaf can be lit a second time without suffering a de crease of quality and an obnoxioui increase of flavor, which, to say th least of it, is not "pleasant. The reason for this is to be found in the compo sition of the leaf, as a rule, and thf Partido a brighter, glossier leaf and more elastic, these qualities making it more attractive to the eye, and being dne to an increased proportion of gum my matter and juice. Pittsburg Dis patch. A Hindoo Trick! Kellar the magician, saw a trick at Calcutta which, he confesses baffled him. He was in a Long, vacant room with four friends.' and thev were al lowed to examine it thoroughly. There were four fakirs present. The party took seats on a bench midway of the room. The fakirs lighted a ceusor, from which exuded a sicklv. sweetish smoke, filling the entire room. The fnlrlra than Imxt.-iii ji witil wMrlinr, M W..VM - " . , .... 11.1 aance. ail trie wnue cnanting and neat ing tom-toms, when suddenly the dancers appeared to increase in num ber until a full dozen were dancing and whirliug about. These then decreased until but one dancer remained, an old man with flowing: beard. What be cainn of the other dancers Kellar can not tell, though he tried, by another Be area of the room to discover the se cret. . . . ' ' ; Of a family of sixteen, near Taylors- town. .fa., tmneeu uiuu oi uipu.ueria. CHAPZaON3 DY THE DAY. Hr the Innocent Cenntr? Cntn B Lookml ATtfir le Mw York. There is a market for almost everr thing in New York, says the Sun. and the latest article advertisca ior saie ia chaperons. They are not exactly fot sale rather to rent or to hire and they can be obtained for a fair boors shopping or for a trip around the) world. Within sight of the Grand Central Depot Is a large sign reading -Chaperoa, Bureau." and here the country visitors can find a well-bred, intelligent an4 well-lookrng woman to escort he through the city and tell her where la go and where riot to go. The idea is uot a new one. wd cha erons who are ladies of refinement, it not of wealth, can be found in alsseel all of large - continental cities, espec ially in London, where the bureau al chaperons is enormously successful. The head of the new enterprise Is bright, self-reliant )oung woman. wh impresses oue as knowing more of bus. in ess and business methods than man) of her sex are supposed to know. She says the uew departure has been verj successful. The atudents from Vassal. College are some of its best patrons, aad one contract alone calls on them te supply guides aud chaperons to a party of 600 men and women who are conn ing from the South some time in June to visit the local branch of the society of which they are members, "There are a great many women at middle age in the city," said she, "whs are.not able to support themselves by any of the callings open to women, but who know the city thoroughly and whe can take care of themselves and any one in their charge. There are also a great manv single women who ooraa ta New York and who are fearful of g- inir around alone, and who would waste a great deal oi time i tney inea it independently which could be saveJ if they had some one to direct thera. "We bring inoae two classes oi pets pie together. We also supply mas who are linguists and who know the city's show places, who can take ears of foreigners unacquainted with the language." one also saia mat you a not apply for positions as escorts, as tt was against such young men that tk chaperons were intended to serve as n insurmountable barrier. CThat Mem Like tit tfotmrnm. There is a certain something, wh!e " , for want of a better name, is called " womanliness, and it is that wbtok makes woman attractive to men. A. great, many virtues go to make np this one great possession 1 and they arm what men like in women. Men like in the irst place, amiaouW ty in a woman. They like a pleasant appearance. .They like the doing of little thing that are pleasant to them. They like the courtesy of the fire side. They like women whose lives and faces are ahvnvs full o' the sunshine of a contented mind and a cheerful dis position. They like nn aMlity to talk msl and a knowledge of th virtue of science, Thev like a motherliness bi enough, to understand the wants of the older, as well as tho younger boys. They like a disposition to speak good, rather than evil of every human being. They like sympathy which means a willing ear for the tale of sorrow or gladness. They like knowledge of how to dre well, which, bye-the-bye. doesn't mean conspicuously. Men are mot at tracted by good material, plain dra De lies aud quiet colors; uot by showy colors or designs. They like intelligence, but they pre fer that tho heart should be stronger than the brain. They like a companion a woman, who has sufficient knowledge of tha world and its ways to talk well with thera, who is interested in their Uvea and their plans and in their hopes; who knows how to give a cheering word, or to listen quietly and by a render look exptess the grief which the heart is feeling. They mar sometimes say that chil dren are a bore and a nuisance, but a man shrinks from a woman who open ly declares ber dislike of them. A maa expects the maternal instinct In a wo man and is disappointed if he does not find it. They like women to be affectionate there never was a man yet, no matter how stern, no matter how cold, no matter how repressive as far as his own feelings were concerned, who did not like a loving squeeze of the hand, or a tender kiss from the woman near est to him. These are some of the things that men like in women. Ladies' Ilvm JournaL Mr. Langtry'a Business Ability. But by far the ablest woman we have ever seen in America is Mrs. Lily Lang try. She is the ouly woman who has ever succeeded in making every man she dealt with feel his compartivs weakness. They all admit that all her managers, her leading men, her agents in her speculations. On Pine street, among the real-estate men. she is looked upon as the ablest speculator, considering her muaus. who ever ram bled in New York real estate. Time and again she has carried off bargains that made the shrewdest men even the managers of the Astor estate bita their nails. Then, see the money she has made by a profession for which she has no talent, and in which she rose by force of will. See how she has hus bauded her beauty, working like a nailer with out-of-door exercise, and all the other self-deuying means that reserve a woman's leauty. I don't ike Mrs. Langtry I'm too old-fash, ioned and oonservativebut I can give you the names of the shrewdest men who write plays,, or manage theatres, or speculate, that they may confirm th assertion that she is tbe ablest woman New York has ever known. Chatter. She "Charlie, dear, what do yo suppose causes so many divorcesT Charlie (who has Just been accepted) "I haven't studied the question careful ly, but I should say it was wholly due to the prevalence of marriage." She "Then suppose wo stui ,ly slay engaged. Buxton Btacon.