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JJU.K.l;.-.1.--T.,,. i LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, 1890. VOL. II. NO. 15. yM - Notice to Subscribers. EXPIRATIONS. As the easiest and cheapest means of notl- Sringr subscribers of the date of their erpira ons we will mark this notice with a blue or red peneil.on the date at which their subscrip tion expires. We will send the paper two weeks after explratian. If not renewed by that time it will be discontinued. POETRY. Written for The Farmebs Alliance by C. D. Wilson. Spread theoNews. Air Sweet Memorie Oh, the farmers have united. And their actions will be cited, When the next election comes; It is men we want for work, Men who won't their duty shirk. Fire the politicians and the bums . Chorus. ft Then give us ritcheous farmer men, For they'll help us when they can, And ignore the pocketbook and bottle; They know the wily schemer's game, And they beat him just the same. For they work for right and not for boodle. So we'll stand by them steadfast, 'Twill be victory at the last. And will prove that we are true; Then our rights will be respected, And our men will be elected, While we bear the banner blue. We want railroad legislation, Our children must have education, Therefore, we should share the pocket book; The railroads then will lose their grip, And the "pass" no more will Slip, But mnst travel on his own hook. Then to your work, oh, men, And train your hand to use the nen, That all the world may know. That while we labor for the right. We do the work with all our might, And fear no politician foe. Chorus. Oh, come ye jolly farmers, And join our fgixl band; That ye may share the profit, Of the labor of your hand. Written for The Farmers' Alliance by Mrs. J. T. KELtilE. Dear Prairie Home. Tune Nellie Gray. There's a dear old homestead on Ne braska's fertile plain, Where I toiled my manhood's strength away; All that labor now is lost to me, but it is Shy lock's gain, For that dear old home he claims to day. Chorus. Oh mv dear prairie home! Nevermore in years to come, Can I call what I made by toil my own; The railroads and banks combined the lawyers paid to find Out a way to rob me of my home. When lirst I took that prairie home my heart was free and light. And 1 sang as I turned the prairie sod; My hair that then was thick and brown to-day is thin and white, And I've lost all faith in man or God. It was many years ago that I first saw through this scheme, And I struggled from their meshes to get free; But my neighbors all around me then were in a party dream, And they voted to rob my home from me. Now their homes are gone as well as, mine, and they're awake at last, And they see now the great injustice done; While some few their homes may save, yet the greater part, alas! Must be homeless for all time to come. We must now the robbers pay for a chance to till the soil, And when God calls us over the great range, All Heaven will be owned, I s'pose, by men who never toil, So I doubt if we notice the exchange. Written for The Alliance by Mrs. J. T. Kellie The Independent Man. Tune: The Gin I Left Behind Me. I was a party man one time, The party would not mind me, So now I'm working for myself, The party's left behind me. Ciiouus. An older, sadder, poorer man Sure every year did find me That's all for which I have to thank The party left behind me. I asked that from the railroad's clutch A Avay out they should find me; One party answered me, "not much," The other would not mind me. . -1 was to monied men a slave They said it wras a fable; One party would not try to save, The other was not able. A true and independent man You e ver more shall find me . I work and vote, and ne'er regret The party left behind me. A Terrible Tragedy. . Portsmouth, N. II., Sept. 18. Fred Hein.a cooper,killed his three daughters, fatally shot Charted W. Taylor, a lead ing business man, and then kilted him self. One of the girls had become way ward, and Hein it is said decided to re move the three from temptation. Jailed for Tapping the Telegraph. Washington, Sept. 24. The three -anen Bernard McGorty, Frank G. Ed munds and William Wade arrested for tapping Western Union wires Sept. 17, for the purpose of swindling pool rooms, were Bent to jail to await the action of the grand jury NEBRASKA NEWS Miscellaneous Items from AH ; Over the State. Matter of Moment from All Sections and on All Subjects, Presenting: a Conden sation of the Events of the Week .Just Ended. The Burlington and Missouri hat commenced laying the track on the La Platte and South Omaha stockyards belt line. Papers have been served on the coun ty commissioners in another injunction suit brought against issuing the $70,000 bonds votea by the Nebraska City pre cinct for a highway bridge. The packing companies and stockyards are the plaintiffs. A society has been organized at Dor chester, with a membership of about sixty, under the name of the Dorchester Protective association, having as its ob ject the recovery of stolen property, and the detection, capture and prosecu tion of thieves. Its members are most ly substantial farmers and leading busi ness men. William Neill, a Beatrice crook, en tered the residence of A. Sedories and tearing up the carpet from the floor, carried it away. A hay car was broken into at the Wyandotte depot and twenty bales of hay stolen therefrom. There are about 1,000,000 acres of government land still open to entry at the Chadran land office 328,350 in Sheridan county, 2,v40 in Box Butte, 15,380 in Dawes, and 5S0,000 in Sioux. George Pearson, a pioneer settler of Clinton county, living west of Low more, 'fell backwards down stairs, breaking his collar-bone aud fatally in juring himself internally. A scarlet fever epidemic is raging in Auburn. R. A. Eaton, formerly with The World-Herald, assumed editorial con trol of The Nebraska Press. Prairie fires started by a spark from a locomotive burned a quantity of hay in Sioux county, doing $S00 worth of damage. For a time the town of Har rison was threatened. Policeman Graham is in jail at Oma ha, charged with shooting a girl with intent to kill. The Republican convention of the Fortv-ninth representative Fdistrict nominated J. M. Kilpatrick of Wheeler county. The Nebraska Telephone company at Omaha contemplates putting its wires under ground. Seventeen construction men in the employ of the Thompson-Houston Elec- iric Jjignc company, at yjuiaua, quiu work on account of the discharge of a i -r i i -j. r i- -i. foreman and a report that their wages were to be reduced. Fire partially destroyed the Union hotel at Superior. The people of Bradshaw are dissatis fied over the manner in which the committee disposed of the money sent to the cyclone sufferers. Joseph Frazler, editor of the Filmore Chronicle, has been taken to the insane asylum. Three gentlemen, representing .Tur ner, Frazer & Co. of St. -Joseph, have bought an option on the Falls City can ning factory, and will operate it for two months, when they will decide whether the institution will prove a paying investment. Mrs. Marguardtson, a widow who has been partly supported by the county for the lasfyear or two, lately gave birth .to a baby and will give the name of its paternal relations to the county attorney, when he takes her depositions. It is said that several men have taken sudden vacations to remain away for indefinite periods of time. Tom Newcomb of Wellfleet, while passing behind a stallion, was kicked in the breast and death resulted in fifteen minutes after the occurrence. The Omaha Sisters of Mercy have laid the corner stone tor a new orphan asy lum to cost $100,000. R. T. Lee of the firm of Lee & Wil liams of North Platte is among the missing. He left North Platte some time Friday and is supposed to have taken $,000 of the firm's money with him. At Kearney Miss Lizzie Sawyer ad ministered a sound rawhiding to a voung man named A. J. . Freeze. The whipping was the result of scandalous stories circulated by Freese about the young lady. A little boy playing with matches de stroyed F. A. Marsh's barn, north of Central City. Nebraska contained in 1880 a popula tion of 55y,402. The 1890 census places the number at l,10o,ouo, or an increase of over 100 per cent in ten years. The North Platte current is coming out daily now. Andrew Ott, a grand Island brewer, has been declared insane. Hastings has 2,'i00 children of school age. The Democrats of Waye and Stanton counties have nominated John G. Matheson of Pilger for representative. A proposition to establish an exten sive carriage factory in coenection with the works of Marshall Collin gs has been laid before the board of trade of York. Rudolph Claussen, a Beatrice shoe dealer, was victimized bv means of a bogus check to the tune of $25. Albert Banker of Hastings was ar rested at Harvard for attempting to wreck the morning flyer by putting an obstruction on the track. He was sent to jail to await the fall term of court. The new Masonic temple at Genoa will be dedicated October 8. Glanders prevail among the horses near Madison. . The Transit hotel, at Lincoln, has been closed under a chattel mortgage. A fire started by an incendiary de stroyed four buildings at Blue Springs. The body of an unknown woman was found beside the railroad track three miles of west Weston Thursday. She had probably been killed during the night by a freight train. A prairie fire near Stuart destroyed about two thousand tons of hay. Theodore Hall, living near Table Rock, was badly cut with a knife in the hands of Court Fellows, a neighbor. uipntneria is prevalent at Beatrice. The City National bank of Hastings, suspended some three weeks ago by reason of a run on the same, will be opened by consent of the comptroller of 4.1 jt . ,. . mo currency lur me purpose Ol liqol dating the indebtedness. CLEAR AND POWERFUL. THE ARGUMENTS CONTAINED IN THE ARTICLE OF D. C. FORNEY. ; Senator Stanford's Loan Bill Would Re lieve the Farmers of Their Crush-' ing Load of Mortgagesr Editor of the National View. The issne of August 23, of you pro gressive and valuable paper, has just reached me, and I wish to endorse, and, from my standpoint, emphasize the clear and powerful arguments contained in the, article of D. C. Eorney. In the dis cussion of the great question of the rela tion of capital to labor, especially as it affects the farming class of the country, every additional argument and local view of the subject helps, and I shall be pleased if anything 1 can say furthers the good cause. 1 presume that a few will contest the proposition that the industrial classes need a change of the relation of capital to label '.. and that compromises, the out come o strikes on the one side and ill eoncead id reliefs on the other side, are sorry makeshifts in an issue that con stantly presents itself in increasing de mand for permanent settlersent. It is the superficial healing applied to a deep sore on the bodv politic, aecrravatiner the wound and bidding fair to viviate the whole system. lhe time seems near, it it was not already come, when relief in a radical, a far-reaching form, can alone produce a reaction and givo to the body politic its former health and vigor. But it is es pecially the grievances of the farming community that I desire briefly to dis cuss. The wide spread dissatisfaction of this class, the most important perhaps of the nation, has lately been fully heard in the discussions leading to the forma tion of the Farmers' Alliances, and that this dissatisfaction was not the grumbl ing of a few sore heads, not a matter to be put aside with a shrug or some spe cious promise, many of the now-retnrned politicians of the country have found out to their cost. ' Their disregard for the signs of the times has cost them the coveted places of their ambition and prominenc. The hand-writing on the wall Was as much a matter of increduli ty to them as it was to Belshazer of old. But to the farmers, to the alliances, also, a word of warning ought not to come amiss. Heated with recent victory, the tendency -would readily be to ascribed that victorv to the wrong cause, and to seek, in doubtful measures, a perma nency of success. Such I would think the adherence to the sub-treasury bill policy to be. That the establishment of government warehouses for the storage of farm products, with notes to be issued on suce stores, could ever become a practical measure, I sincerely doubt, and consider this scheme as an ignis fatuns to lead the farmers astray, not to show them the right road to a better time. . The Leland Stanford bill, in my opin ion, is open to no such criticism, lianv security is valid for government ad vances to lhe farming class, surely it is the security of the farming lands of the country. In vane have the farmers asked the moneyed interests of the coun try for lower rates of interest, greater facilities in theloan of funds for farm ing operations.. Ten, twelve, fifteen, and a greater per cent has been the an swerto such a demand. The govern ment alone can, with its strong hand, remedy this evil which has burdened the farms of this country with a crush ing load of mortgags. Here, then, is a field for the exertions of the Alliance, and the day that should dawn upon an establishment of the Stanford govern mental land loan bureau would be the herald of a new era of prosperity to the farming interests or the country. Monev at a lower rate ol interest is the absolute need of the farmers, and without this the thistle and thorn wil increase their sway over abandoned farms. That any journals can hold aloof Irom urging this vital measure shows the powerful influence capital exerts over the press of the country; but with right on the farmer's side, the concerted action of the Alliances and the help of the independent papers like the National lieic, and others that are falling into line, the outlook is bright, brighter than I ever expected to see it, and I yet hope to see the " In God we trust ' or the re habilitated silver dollar stamed upon the land issue of the money of the gov ernment furnished to the farmer. A Farmeis. FOR WHOM SHALL WE FARMERS AND LABORING MEN VOTE. Central City, Sept. 10, 1890. ivik. editor. it may be well tor us to ask the above question of those who labor, and to those who toil not nor spin we will say that it may be well for them to heed the Avarning Avhich Ave Avill pro nounce in November. Common sense readies manmnu mat seu protection is the first law of nature. The farm ers and laboring men have reversed this laAV in the past, and have protected the other fellOAV first. Civilization is of sIoav growth, but it is groAving every year, ana Ave are siOAViy nearing the point Avhere riant is mm hi. instead of the re Aerse. Hoav will you vote this fall, brother laborer? You haA'o four roads to the ballot box. Which road Avill you travel One road is Avell graded and protected from accidents, lhe leader is a nation al banker, therefore you need not fear that you Avill meet the skeleton "poverty on that route, it any of you clod hop pers wish to ride on this coach it Avil cost you three and four per cent per month, it stops at the stations pros perity and plenty, and Avhen it steams out of these statious the names are changed by the wand of progress to poA-erty ana Avant. lhe next road is run. and controlled by a railroad contractor, a speculator Tit At - . . 1 ii you go tnis route to your home, l am afraid that you will find home a boarding house, and the boarding house run by the county. ine sign over the door o the station house is "Rule or Ruin "He who enters here leaves hope be hind." The third on the list is a new road Ave never saw one like it before. It is a plain old farmer's road, corduroyed with hard work and poor returns for labor. The sun has scorched it and the rains have warped and chilled it. The eyes of the conductor are not as bright as oi yore, ana the hand not so steady He has fought with the same men we laboring men have contended with, and if we help him up the hill we won't re gret it. lhe fourth road is run by a physician and no matter whomay assist the build ers of this road, they will not assist oth ers. - No matter how many of us on the other roads may assist them to win the race, they will not lend a helping hand to us. Now brother laborer think well of this until election day, and then vote or your lest friend, vote lor the one that has been in the furrow with you, one that has stood the heat of the sum mer, and the chill of winter, one who has seen the old miser, the sun, changr a blooming field where plenty was seen in every stalk of grain, to a desert where want with its hungry eyes glared at him. Are you satisfied, brothers? Are you happy? Do you have enough at home. so that you may have a picnic every day? Does the wife have enough to wear, and the children enough to eat? Are all of your debts paid? Can you go to Mexico or Europe' on an excursion whenever you choose? If you can answer "yes" to these pertinent questions, we will pass you by and say that you are not one of us. ',- You have the remedy for all the ills that we complain of in our government, and if you will not use the proper medi cine you must blame yourself. V ote lor self this time and see if Ave cannot better things. The other fellow won t vote for you we are sure, lrv lim and see. . "Turn about is fair play." Take nothing less thau three or four per cent per month tor your vote. You pay your money and may get your choice; but in years past you paid your money and the other fellow took the choice. How will you vote? Fraternally, M. M. xlALLECK. WHAT RECIPROCITY IS. The Herald is under many obligations to the Chicago Tribune for the informa tion that "reciprocity is' a policy, not a principle," but it begs leave to suggest an amendment. Reciprocity, as at present and as usually advocated, is neither a principle nor a policy. It is a makeshift, a trick, a dodge, a humbug. All this talk about reciprocity and commercial treaties is a confession of the utter failure and the complete iniquity of protection. The tariff Avails may be raised ever so high around a great producing nation like this, the monopolists may obtain ever so firm a grip upon industry, and the political quacks and frauds may divide the peo ple ever so effectually, but there will come a time inevitably when produc tion Avill break through the artificial bearers and when even blind men will see that chains and shackles are not the proper means to promote prosperity. This time has now arrived in this coun try, and the quacks, the monopolists, and the trimmers are trying here and there to provide by treaty for a few little outlets while striving Avith might and main to sustain the bursting bar riers that are most seriously threatened. That is what reciprocity is. It is "how not to do it." When protectionists begin to talk about reciprocity and commercial treat ies they admit that there is a disease, but they refuse to go" to-the cause of it. lhey are like a man Avith a house full of diphtheria patients made ill by a foul cesspool, who would insist upon hanging new curtains in his windows but Avould refuse to clean out the rot ten deposits that have generated the in fection. The demand for reciprocity and for commercial treaties is a confes sion that tariffs have "wrought their per fect Avork of obstruction and injustice. Let the tariff taxes be removed and there will be no need of negotiation, no need of threats, no need of high-priced diplomatists, and no need of Avar ships to enforce their decisions. Trade will spring up spontaneously and extend naturally, unvexed by monopoly and unfettered by taxation. ine people of the United states are entirely capable of managing their own affairs. James G. Blaine knoAvs as lit tle about foreign commerce as he does of law or hnance. lie is a demagogue with accurate information on no sub ject Avhatever. Is he the man to tell merchants who have grown gray in trade where and hoAv to sell goods? Is Matt Quay better qualified to pass upon the needs of the wholesaler or the ex porter or the manufacturers of this country than they are themselves? Is the average congressman endowed with sufficient knowledge to direct the mighty commercial energies of this country? Is it not a fact that many of these men cannot go to Washington and get home again Avithout disgracing themselves in some particular? Yet Ave are taught that our business must for ever be at their mercy, and that Ave are never to be free from their clumsy in terference. Reciprocity is a tub to the tariff re form whale. It is adArocated by two classes, the tricksters who . serve the monopolists and the dupes who are plundered by monopolists. The Tribune knows that this country is pillaged by the tariff for it says so. It is therefore a dupe. Chicago Herald, THE TRUTH FROM WESTEN NE- BRASKA. " Cambridge, Neb., Sept. 17, 1890. Editor Alliance: In your last is sue of The Alliance you made men tion of the exhibits of this, Frontier and other western counties, at the state .fair." A greater mistake was never made than for men to take grain to a fair this year from southwestern Nebraska. The man who will do it is either a knave or a fool. This is strong lan guage but it is true. I tell you Mr. Editor there is not one family out of ten Avho can go through till another crop is raised without aid unless he mortgages his personal property at a ruinous rate of interest. I hadMO acres in corn and Avill not get a bushel. Neither did I cut the Avheat. I do not think this county will average one bushel to the acre. Some are trying to make it appear that this is not as bad as it has been years before. I took a homestead 19 years ago to-day 50 miles northwest of Lincoln. Went through grasshopper raids and .drouth, but this beats them all. Some tried to think that -they would have corn but now they have given up all hope. One man sold seven nice pigs for $1. Some gave their hogs away, some killed some of their pigs, and some in the face ot all this will pretend we are going to have good crops. Crops from Holdrege west are nearly entirely burned up. No corn at all and but very little wheat. If you deem this worth note please publish it. C. P. Wetzel. Washington Park a Part of the Slt. Chicago, Sept. 2L The national commission formally accepted Wash ington park as a portion of the site for the world's fair. WOMAN'S WORLD. MARGARET SIDNEY'S RECEPTION IN HONOR OF MRS. JOHN X LOGAN. A Deliglitlul Woman She Wasn't Afraid. New York's Girl 'Cyclists The Question of Bed bugs and Other Bugs A Woman with a History. Mrs. John A. Logan was the recipient of most distinguished courtesies during the recent G. A. R. encampment in Bos ton, but the reception given in her honor by "Margaret Sidney" (Mrs. D. Lothrop) eclipsed all other entertainments in mag nificence. The summer home of the Lothrops is at Wayside, Concord, where they occupy the old historic house of the Hawthornes. The two hundred guests rambled at will through the nar row gabled doorways, lost themselves in the queer winding passages, peered into the curious wall cupboards, and as cended to the tower room, where the desk, at which Hawthorne stood and wrote, remains intact. The company then assembled on the spacious lawn, with its beautiful back ground of pine woods, and were present ed to Mrs. Logan, at whose right stood the little 6-year-old daughter of the host and hostess, arrayed in the quaintest of costumes. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Logan. Jr.. Mrs. R. A. Alger and her two charm ing daughters, and Miss Ellen Emerson, a sister of the poet, were also in the re cei Ari ng party. Refreshments were served on the lawn, while an orchestra played national airs, after which there Avere in teresting literary exercises, conducted by ex -Governor Long. The author of "America," Dr. S. F. Smith, related the history of the hymn; Mrs, Julia Ward Howe came from her Newport home to recite the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," and letters and, poems were read from Whittier. Holmes. Lowell, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Mrs. E. S. Phelps Ward and other celebrities. The venerable Dr. A. P. Peabody made felicitous remarks, and selections were read from Margaret Sidney's "Minute Man." Harper's Bazar. A Delightful Woman. The most delightful person at a sum mer resort is the woman with a Sunday husband. She is always to be found in some of the quieter resorts near the large cities; she is always pretty, usually young and the most devoted wife in all the world on Sundays. During the week, while her husband is down in the city, she is the leader in all the gayeties that are going on. She plays tennis with the college boys like the oest of them; 6he flirts with the elderly men, who quite understand her, and she turns the' heads of all the quite young men, who don't understand her. , All this during weekdays. But on Saturday night every thing is changed. When at dusk the big stages come rumbling up to the little hostelry, with their long seats filled with tired, dusty looking men. she stands, the best dressed, the most eager eyed, affectionate little woman in fell the assembled crowd of guests, and when Tom comes stepping up to the piazza she gives one Avild little cry and settles dovirn on his coat collar, as if she had done nothing all the week but mourn for his absence. r And Tom pats her fluffy head and feels sure that he has the dearest little wife in all the world, and they walk off, she clinging fondly to his arm quite like a pair of lov ers, while all the men who have been her slaves all the week look foolish and would like to punch Tom's empty head. But they don't know, poor souls and neither does Tom that the whole thing was gotten up for their benefit. For a woman always likes to show a man the endearments that may be in store for some man, even though she has no wish or purpose that they should be for him. New York Evening Sun. She Wasn't Afraid. Mrs. .O. E. Draper, the dressmaker, is receiving many compliments on her bravery in throwing an exploded kero sene oil stove from the window on Sat urday. Mrs. Draper was in her sitting room at work, while the kerosene oil 6tove had been lighted and was burning on a table in the shed some distance away. Mr. Handy's family, who live over the Draper flat, smelled smoke, and went down stairs to see what the matter was. Opening the 6hed door they were met by a dense smoke which nearly overcame them. Mrs. Draper was called, and she at once, surmising the cause, went through the smoke, grabbed the ex ploded oil stove and threw it out of the window, thus averting what might have been a lively fire. Members of the family are modest about relating the facts in the case, but the bravery of Mrs. Draper is the subject of much comment. It is said that as soon as the oil stove was thrown from the window it exploded with great fury in the air. and actually went off bike a sky rocket. Flames caught shavings in the yard and made quite a little blaze. Lewiston Journal. Girl 'Cyclists. The unusual spectacle of four girls on bicycles coming down Madison avenue in the wake of ten or a dozen male 'cy clists, at the rate of about a mile in two minutes, rather startled the conservative residents and quiet pedestrians on that fashionable thoroughfare the other even ing, or a j'ear or two past bicycling has been recognized as one of the outdoor recreations in which young ladies are entitled to join the young men. but it was something of a novelty to see a quartet of fair maids, with divided skirts and regulation 'cycling costumes, actually in a race with their masculine rivals a novelty which even now some women find it hard to become recon ciled to. , Two years ago nobody dreamed that bicycling would become a pastime of the ladies. If any one had presumed to predict that; the wife or sister of a re spectable and respected member of the four hundred" would be seen on the road, mounted on such a masculine in vention as the "bike," the proper prune- and-prisms matron would have been horrified, and the rest of mankind and womankind would have sneered and said: "The bleached haired, music hall type, if you please, but not our friends and OUrSeiVeS." Ti day, however, every woman whose taste runs in that direction "has a bicycle, i and she is not at all afraid to be seen on the most fashionable street or in Central park, riding her hobby to her heart's content Of course the ladies bicycle is an improvement upon the one used by the men. It never takes a header, for it isn't built that way. It is a sOrt of combination between the ordinary bi cycle and the velocipede, with the beauty and speed of the former and the comfort and safety of the latter. Elton Leigh in New York Star. A Woman with a History. Mrs. Charlotte Abadie Bournonville, almost a nonagenarian, and widow of Dr. Anthony Bournonville, of Philadel phia, was recently injured by falling down stairs at Asbury Park. She was taken to 153 Lexington avenue, the home of her son-in-law. Hugh B. MacCanley. and died there. Mrs. Bournonville was born in France. Her father was a civil officer under Na poleon L In 1816. when 6he was just in her teens, she came to Philadel phia with her brother, Eugene H. Abadie, who became a United States army officer in 1836, and was a bre vet colonel when he was retired in 1867. His sister married Dr. Bournon Arille before she was of age. He was of French lineage, and an uncle, the Count de Bournonville, was a "Warrior states man' whose portrait is in the. Louvre gallery. His name is inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe. Dr. Bournonville spoke seven lan guages, was a litterateur, and held the office of master of the grand lodge of Pennsylvania for two terms. His wife shared his literary enjoyments, and when Gettysburg was fought was an officer of the sanitary commission. She went to the front and cared for the wounded for sev eral months. She was a Roman Catho lic and her husband a Protestant, but they settled all questions of faith for their children by allowing the girls to choose their mother's religion, while the bovs became Protestants. New York Tunes. , The Bedbug Question. I will try and help on the buffalo bug question. Every year I buy two pounds or more of a mixture of "powdered bo rax, camphor and saltpeter" equal quan tities and apply dry in liberal handfuls under the edges of carpet, in drawers, chests anywhere, everywhere. It is the most effective agent known to ma One year 1 was in a house where, knowing the "bug" had been very troublesome and wishing to make assurance doubly sure, I painted the closet floors all over, and chamber floors a foot deep all round, with corrosive sublimate, in addition to the mixture. Corrosive sublimate is a poison. Pour into an old saucer or odd cover: a five cent brush will do After ward throw both away. By daily watching through the sum mer less than two dozen were found, and they were so sluggish that none es caped. If they abound in closet the clothing must be taken down every other day and shook over a shet spread on the floor, and the "pesky varmint" will drop the only good thing I knoAV about them. , "A Reader" desires a remedy for "bed bugs and water bugs." The latter 1 know nothing of, but a ne-er failing remedy for bedbugs is: Take mercury, or quicksilver, and the white of an egg, well shaken together. Apply with a feather to every crack and crevice, and persist in it. I have not seen a bedbug for years, and this is the only remedy ever used. S. J. B. in Good Housekeep ing. Girls Playing: Ball. What was it that the reporter looked in upon, or rather down upon, from the walk leading to the Old Orchard House Saturday afternoon? A game of ball. And great heavens! what would Ward McAllister and his troop of pampered puppets say if they could have seen it? Young ladies figured on either side. Young ladies lining .'em out, sliding sec ond, doubling up on third, stealing home and having the most elegant time in the world generally. And they plaj'ed real ball. too. It was no "play e.asy" game. There were nine on a side, and they kicked at 'the umpire and threatened mob violence just like real, live profes sionals. And oh, myl What a pretty sight it was, tool Cheeks aglow with health and beauty, eyes sparkling like diamonds With excitement, and all this set off with the jaunty Tarn o' Shanters and gay costumes of the fair tossers. Old Orchard Sea Shell. Ill, but Not Crushed. Mm Sarah Bernhardt, when at home in her house on the Boulevard Pereire, Paris, copies with sdme exactness the levee receptions as held by monarchs and other great persons in a former age. She receives authors, artists, newspaper reporters and friends in her bedroom, which is hung Avith mauve silk, on which are brocaded flowers in cream and gold. The painted ceiling has quantities, of gilding about it. The actress reclines on a huge four poster, with hangings like those on 'the Avails. She wears a white satin dressing gown with high sleeves, and converses by turns with her callers, the favored among whom occupy consecutively a chair by the bedside. Books, flowers and a chessboard lie on a small table within easy distance. Paris Letter "Wanted Board for a Voung Couple." So begin many advertisements in the large urb;in dailies. What a mistake that a young couple should enter conju gal life iu so unnatural a manner. What a mistake that they should not, in the 8acredness of a home of their own, con secrate their life long promise to walk hand in hand for weal or for woe. What a mistake that the sweet home cares, which sit so gracefully on the young wife aud housekeeper, should be thrust aside for the flippant conversation of a public table or the meaningless etiquette of a boarding house parlor. What a mistake that the husband should not have a "home to return to when the daily duties of office or store are brer instead of a "room," made up by the chambermaid, without the touches of dearer feminine fingers. "Be it ever so humble there's no place like home." New York Ledger. A Heroin Rescues Her, Father. Miss Morey, by her courageous con duct, has. in all probability saved the fife of her father, a well known planter and sportsman in Bengal. Mr. Morey was hunting, attended. by his daughter, on horseback, when a boar suddenly sprang from the jungle, and making for Mr. Morey, threw over both horse and rider .with a severe crash. The brute was on the point of tearing his victims with his formidable tusks, when thj heroic young lady sprang to the ground and placed herself between the boar and her insensible father. Miss Morey wae whollj- unarmed, and, therefore, power less to protect herself, but fortunately 6he had with her a large greyhound, who, making straight for tho boar, at tracted his attention and drew . him away. Running thereupon to the near est pool. Miss Morey filled her topee with water, by the aid of which she finally succeeded in bringing her father round. Exchange. An Old Woman Who Gets Mad. What hope is there for the rest of us if a woman 115 years old cannot control her temper? Mrs. Eliza Stanton lives at the foot of Muncy mountain, ten miles west of Belief on te. Pa., arid it is pretty well authenticated that her age is 115 years. When asked the other day if she killed snakes she replied: "Oh, yes: lots of them. They bite me and that makes me mad and then I goes for them with sticks and stones." Mrs. Stanton's father was a half Indian and her mother a country born American. She is believe 1 to be the oldest woman in Pennsylvania. Exchange. " Mrs. Annie A. De Barr has received a license as mechanical engineer from the Chicago board of engineers. For eight een months she has had full charge of the engine and machinery of a large steam laundry. Her engine room is a model of neatness, her natty uniform is spotless, and she does not put on a look of Bunsby like wisdom, and shake her head mysteriously when a question is asked her about the mysteries of rods and cylinders as some of the , United Brotherhood do. The London Queen tells a romantio story of Capt. Mayne Reid's courtship. As it is told by Mrs. Reid it is doubly interesting.- He fell , in love with her when she was only 13, and though he loved at first sight, she was such a child that he made little impression on her. He lent her his romance, "The Scalp Hunters." and that aroused her interest, and when she met him two, years after, his courtship foegan on the instant, and his speedy proposal was met by a happy accept anco. Another American heiress is about to become one of the English "upper ten. Miss. Garner, the cousin of Lady Vernon, a daughter of the ill fated gentleman who was drowned in New York harbor some years . ago, will shortly be Ludy Qordon-Cumming. Sir William is a colonel in the Scots Guards and very good looking. 4 Blouses, Josephine corsages and French supper jackets of Chantilly lace, both black and white, pre worn with skirts of striped foulard, veiling, or satin, with pretty falling ribbons at the belt match ing one of tho colors in the striped skirt. A like color in plain silk is placed be neath the lace cuffs and deep Stuart collar.. . Miss Abigail Dodge, better known as Gail Hamilton, conducts a "Bible talk" in Secretary Blaine's , drawing room at Washington on Sunday afternoons. Her audience is usually composed of mem bers of the so called "American court," Mrs. Harrison t not infrequently being present. Olive Logan, for many years a popu lar writer and newspaper correspondent, has received quite a distinguished liter ary honor. She has been elected a mem ber of the Incorporated Society of Au thors, of which Lord Tennyson Is the president and Walter Besant the Becre tary. . A SAvedish woman, Mrs. C. Milon, has won the prize of 150 offered by Dr. Oatison, of Chicago, for the best biog raphy of a distinguished woman. Mrs. Milon chose for her subject her country woman, the novelist Fredrika Bremer.' and she certainly made a happy choice. 1 fhe latest matrimonial engagement announced from England is that of Miss Garner, daughter of the late William T. Garner, to Sir William Gordon Cum ming. Miss Garner's parents were drowned in the yaclit Mohawk fourteen years ago. She has a great fortune. In the life of "Carmen Sylva," the queen of Roumania, recently translated from the Baroness Stackelberg's work, there are glimpses of the gifted queen's youth which seem to show that her tem perament was as ardent and her fancy as vivid as Marie Bashkirtseffs. Among the notably natty novelties are Stanley jackets for autumn wear over stylish tailor made visiting gowns. They are of fawn colored Venetian cloth, with kid trimmings, pointed and dotted with real silver ornaments Vernon Lee, otherwise Miss Violet Pa get, author of "Euphorion," "Haunt ings" and other works, has lived in Flor ence for many years, and is the devoted companion of her half brother, who is a chronic invalid. . , Some of the handsome black Spanish lace dinner toilets are enriched with girdles, mousquetaire collars ' and deep cuffs of fine gold lace. . 1 V 1 f if