Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The farmers' alliance. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1889-1892 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1890)
... W Mm A Y ft LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, NOV. 22, 1890. VOL. II. NO. 2:. I f . VI III err Notice to Subscribers. ExrntJLTioxs. AJ tb easiest and cheapest mean of notl- Srlnjr subscribers of the date of their exnira ons we will mark this notice with a blue or ed pencil.oa the date at wbicb their subscrip tion expires. We will send the paper two weeke after expiratin. If not renewed by taatthne it will be dibcontinued. POETRY. A FAIRY LAND TALC A Beaatlfal Pietare of the ClltnmU af Saathera Winter as wo understand it east of the Rockies does not exisi. I scarcely know how to divide the seasons. There are at most, but threa. Spring' may be said to begin with December and end in April; summer, with May (whose days, however, areoTten cooler than those of January), and end with September; while October an! Novem ber are a mild autumn, whan nature takes a partial ret, and the leaves of the deciduous trees are gons. But bo?7 shall we classify a climita in which the strawberry (none yat in my experience equal to the Eastera berry) uiaybe eaten in every month of the year, and ripe fijs may be pic eel from July to March? What shall I say of a frost (an aSfair of only an hour just' before sunrise) which is hardly any where ssvere enough to disturb the delicate helitropa, and even in the deepest valleys whare it in ty chill ths orange, will respact the bio jm of that fruit on contiguous grouid fifty or a hundred feet higher? We boast about many things in the United States, about our blizzards and our cyclones, our inundation and our areas of low pressure, our hottest aud our coldest places in the world, but what can we say for this little corner which is practically frostlois, and yet never had a sunstroke, knows nothing of thunder-storms and lightning, never experienced a cyclone, which is 60 warm that the year round one is tempted to live out-of-doors, and so cold that wooleu garments are never ancomfortable? Nature here, in this protected :md petted area, has the knack of being genial without being enervating, of being stimulating with out ''bracing:1' a person into the tomb. I think it conducive to equanimity of spirit and to longevity to sit in an eransre grove and eat the fruit and inhale the fragrance of it while gazing upon a sn.w mountain. C.Tarle Dad ley Warner, in Harpsrs's Magazine. Thj Ear. No oily substance, poultice or lini ment should be put into the ear, be cause great injury is liable to be done. Warm water is the best possible and about the only safe wash. Do not scratch the oars with any metal; pin heads, hairpins or ear picks should be tabooed. Do not sere m if an insect enters the ear; warm water will drown it and wash out the remains. The ear is not ne rly so liable to injury from the intruder as from frantic offorts to dislodge it. Do not put anything cold into the ear; even cold water should.be avoided, especially if there is any af fection of the hearing. Do not put cotton in the ears if there is any dis charge of pus from them. Use warm water as frequently as may be neces sary to keep them cle m. but do not force the foul matter back into the delicate machinery. If ny small hard substance falls into the ear, do not attempt to "dig it out." If not readily removable, allow it to remain in quiet, and have a physician take care of it when convenient it is not likely to do any serious barm unlets tampered with. Anything which is soluble may bo washed out, with a little patience, by the use of a syringe and warm water; if not soluble it is harmless. Deafness may sometimes bo caused by an excess of ear-wax, which has become hardened and ob structs the action of the membrane. Either havo careful hand apply warm water through a proper syringe, or a piece of cotton wadding wet with essence of peppermint may ba intro duced, which will dissolve and absorb the hardened wax in a few hours. Hail's Journal of Health, Kuih Is Musi. Tbe struggle of childhood with synonymous terms is illustrated in the ease of a five-year old Tioga hoy, who was recently visiting an ;iunt in the country. "Jack, take this mug into the dining room and put it on the buffet' said his aunt one afternoon. J..ck m irebed bravely off, though evidently mystified. "J know what buffet is, auntie," he remarked as ho came back; "why, it's the sideboard." The next morning at tbe breakfast table fried mush was served. "Auntie, what is mush? asicei Ja"kt "Mush? Why, mush is mush," was the reply. "Oh!" Then a moment later ho murmured: "Buffet is sideboard, mush is mush; wonder what h tm is?" Philadelphia Press. " It Tnnn the "World. The ballot is the greatest thing " That man within his gift controls, For if it's looked at fair and square ' The whole earth turns upon the poles. K;t In It "Well.' said Jonah, as he stood on the shore and watched the whale swim away, "for once I'm fflud I'm not in it.' Brooklyn Life. You can do no better service to a good cause than to get up a club for The Alliance We want to enlarge by Jan. 1, and will if well supported. It My Wire Taught School. TlThml a nlfV'nt hmri.t i.ui t nnM 1 o fur away c nrtries. J'j .i from tiie P in a jray pnooiifr an the r"ab o m v oar would bo lit-ard by the native around Singa pore. If my wife tmis-'it r cbool I wcuhr. wouldn't you? Er wou'dii't yiih? Enny way what would you do? ff I hnd a vife at Urn-Jit bcoo1 T wou'd jret Something- fiae in the shape of a furniture set: If I c u d pay my boi.rd and siio could pay her n; Tuer e a good many nice little things I eould earn. If my wife tnveht fcliooL 1 would, wouldn t you? Er wouldn't yuh? Anyway what would you do? If my w ife taug-ht school you can net I would fly like a condor. I'd roost pretty mlddlln' high: I'd wear a Bik tl'e un1 own bosses. I vow, Asd do lots o' thing II at ain't doia' now. If tny wife tnuu-ht FciiooL 1 would, wi iii!u'fe jou? Er wouldn't yuh? Anyway what would yen do? If my wife taiifrht school like rome women do And I could earn quiie enouprli for us two. I'd go in the barnyard, without any fuss. 1 would blew out my bra; us witii a big bios derbtiss. If my wife taught school. . 1 would, w u'dn'tyou? Er wouldn't yuh? Anyway what would rou do? ttow Hwckley. JOE ROGER'S MOTHER. If yon have never been in the valley of the Tennessee I mean that part of the famous valley that stretches south westward from the 'great Sand Mount ain to the picturesque table lands of Mount Sauo you have missed a scene fairest of all iu that country of fair scenes." I will not attempt to describe J it. I can not do it justice. No one can. It is the paradise of North Ala bama, and in the heart of that far Southern district, devastated by war, and yet, thanks to its protecting bul wark of mountains, its pleasant homes and well tilled lands, escaped almost unscathed. Not many mile to the north is Look out Mountain and the battle-fields of Mission Ridge and Chickamauga. Fur ther to the south and west, ou tne same great trunk line that passes within the shadow of the heights ou which Hooker fought the "battle in the clouds," is that already famous young city of phenomenal growth. Decatur, and be yond that the new Sheffield and war scarred Corinth. But while this corner of the great Talley saw little of either blue coats or gray except, perhaps, an occasional foraging party that chance led away from the railroad and into the garde u laud between the big hills the valley gave its best blood for the cause of the Confederacy, and sons and brothers left the cotton unpicked in the field to join . Brarg and his gathering hosts across the border line of Tennessee, or to follow the fortunes of Morgan or Stuart on their cavalry raids to the North. Back from the Tennessee, in a cove Erotected from the northers by the road back of Monte Sano, a hardy mountaiu farmer had built a house of uncut stone a poor place at best, but a home for the sake of what was in it. It was not a tyuical Southern home. for the good wife and mother was housekeeper, dairymaid and gardener all in otto, while, the two strapping boys, with their father, did the work which on other plantations fell to the task of the negro slaves. At the near est store, at Maysville. old John Rogers was. with indiscriminate courtesy, dubbed "Colonel." Why, he never knew. Perhaps no one else did. Even before the war military titles were popular in Dixie. Now they are all colonels. So few privates escaped the war. "Among the negroes "Colonel" John was looked upon with some disdain. A man who "worked" his farm with out a single black "boy" was not likely to win the respect of "the quarters" at the big plantations on the river. Farm ers who worked were uoor-ah white trash" in those days of easy indolence. But "Colonel" John thrived for all that, and never a home in all the broad valley was happier in the iittle cove under the shadow of Monte Sano. News travels slowly in the country. In those days few newspapers found their way into the Tanuessee "Valley of Alabama, and the first shock of war at Fort Sumter was too far away to affect the tranquility of the people by the great river. Then came the frantic call for troops by the government at Montgomery, and the great valloy was at last awakened to the horrors of war. A recruiting office was opened at Ilttntsville, ten miles away, on tho other side of Monte Sano, and hus bands and fathers and sons left their homes and people went away to the war. The valley of the Tennessee was desolate. The negroes went flocking northward in search of the army of. emancipation, and the cotton was left in the bolls to spoil. There came a time when even food was scarce, and beef was worth its weight in the strange new scrip the Confederate government had issued. Colonel" John fared worse than man-, although for months after the boys of tho lower valley had gone away into Tennessee his sons yielded to the wish of the old folks and stayed at home. The time came, however, when honor compelled them to go, and they went; but the eyes of the nged mother were wet with tears and the face of the white-haired "00101161" John was strangely old when they bade their boys good"-by. There are brave hearts here at home who remember those sad farewells, when the boys in blue went far away to light and die on these Southern battlefields. There were the same sad partings in many a Southern home. and tho war left hundreds of decimateu families in that fair valley. Months passed, and then years. Occasionally letters from the absent soldier boys came to the old folks in the cove, but they were few and very far between. They had gone north and enlisted in tho "Army of Virginia. They had been at Bull Run. anil had been on the Peninsula iu the checker board operat ions of , McClellan's cam paign! The latest letter, scribbled in pencil and wjitten in haste, aud read in that little home with aching vet thankful hearts, told of good health and Con federate success. Side by snie the brothers had foti ;ln. as yet unhurt.. Nw they wern n - aU Lee iuto the land of promise the rich, corn-growing valleys of Pennsylvania. Gettysburg came, and the Army of Virginia, rudely awakened from iU victorious security, was hurled back across Maryland and into Virginia again by &w military genius of Meade. In the carnage of the first day tho older brother was" killed. The younger, while retreating , with his decimated regiment from au unsuccessful charge, was taken prisoner. In company with several other Alabama soldier, young Rogers, even then a mere boy, was brought to Philadelphia, and fnra there sent to Fort Delaware as a pris oner of war. There he remained un til the surrender of Lee at Appomattox Conrt House. The sad news of the battle of Gettys burg was slow in reaching the little home by Monte Sano. but when it did come it broke thepiritof "Colonel" John and turned still whiter tho head of the sweet-faced mother: for it was said that in the battle both boys had falleu under the shower of Federal balls. It was not long before there was a "burying" from the house in the cove, and tho body of "Colonel" John was laid to rest among the pines he loved so well. And the mother? She too would gladly have died, but nature was too strong. The time came, moreover, when she was glad that death had spared her. for there came to her from far away Fort Delaware a letter from her surviving boy, telling of tho oltler brother's death and thevyounger one's imprisonment. S!ie read the letter many times, and as the te;rs rolled down her sunkeu cheeks she fell on her knees and thanked God that oue son at least had been spared to her. A sudden resolution possessed her. She would leave the little home in the cove and go away to the North. She would go to Fort Delaware, and they would not refuse to let a mother see her son even a 'Confederate" mother. Once she had looked upon his face again she would have courage to wait for his release. Traveling was slow. Weeks passed before she was enabled to get through the opposing lines and into Washing ton. At last, dying from want, sorrow and fatigue, she stood in the command ant's rooms at Fort Delaware with written permission to see and speak with the boy she loved so well.' Tney tell" sad stories of Fort Dela ware in the South. They call it the Libby Prison of the North. I don't like to believe .it. Neither do you. They say that after a certain engage ment the Northern generals accused the Confederates of outrageous cruelty, and in retaliation a score or more prisoners were taken from the fort and ignominiously hanged. Perhaps they were mistaken, and that there. were better grounds for hanging than that. - liy some means a rumor had gained credence in the prisoner's barracks that something of the kind was to take place, while, the impression prevailed that special vengeance was to be meted out to the soldiers of Alabama, because of alleged outrages committed by regi ments from that state. Young Rogers was not a coward, but he had no desire to meet so unsoldierly a death. With that inventive genius which develops so rapidly among those held in con finement, the prisoners in Rogers' "gang" dug out the stonework and earth under one of the banks, and thus secured not only a comparatively safe hiding place for pilfered provisions, but also for one or more of their num ber when occasion demanded that they should keep under cover for a time. The rumor that retaliatory measures were in order struck consternation to many a brave heart, and when, for any reason, a Federal orderly came to the prisoners' barracks and called the name of "Johnny Reb." there was a general feeling of misgiving, and an effort made, when possible, to discover for what purpose the prisoner was wanted before answering to his name. So that when one day the barracks were excited to a fever point by the calling of a dozen names or more, and the name of "Joe Rogers" rang with startling distinctness in the ears of that young Alabamiau. he did not wait to be seen, but hurriedly crawled into the "grub" hole and held his brea h for fear of discovery aud the conse quences that would follow. Three times the orderly called. "Joe Rogers! Joe Rogers! Joe Rog ers!" rang through the long corridor. Tiien the prisoners crowded around, and the orderly seemed to be unaware that Rogers had failed to answer to bis name. He went away, anil on the rec ords it was writteu that Joe Rogers had been transferred as even the officers thought to he hanged. A sad look came over the face of the commanding officer when the white haired woman gave him the slip of paper that to her meant so much. "Rogers is not here now." he said finally. She looked at him, dazed by the in telligence. "Not here?" "No; he has been transferred." "Where?" The ollicer had a heart. "I I do not know," he said. He could not tell the sad-eyed woman what he believed to be the truth. . But he could not deceive her. "He is dead!" she cried, wildly, and tottering forward she clasped her hands across her breast and sank into a chair. "My poor boy!" sho sobbed. "I loved you too. and yet I was too later' The parched lips closed over the sad grey eyes; the tired head fell forward; the nervous fingers relaxed their hold. Come," said the officer "kindly, "you must go now. 1 can not permit you to remain here." There was no answer. "I am waiting" he began, and then he pa use1 abruptly. Something strange in her appearance startled him. and li6 stooped down and peered into her face. As he did so tears came into his eyes. The sweet-faced mother would never see the valley of the Tennessee again. She was dead. News flies in jails as it flies else where. In his hiding-place that flight young Rogers was told the story of hi mother's death. Strong man 'though he was. the shock was almost more, than he eould bear, and he grieved bitterly at the thought that. 8ven dead, he might not look upon hr face, but he waa jjlad for on-. tMnjjf. There were fcfnci nenrts among the boys In blue, and they took the body of the dead mother across to New Castle, and there in the old church yard reveren tially laid it to rest. Rogers managed to esrape detection for the few weeks remaining before the c ose of the war. After the surrender he was liberated and returned to Ala bama. There he lives aud there I met him. He told me this story, and I repeat it because it comes so near home. It interested me and I think it will you. tliiliulclphia Neves. STARTING A PIPE LIME.' Exeltlnjr. Phenomnni Attending: thm ICeW Flan for th Triimaportation f Oil. When the first pipe line waa started in its work of convejing oil from the vicinity of tho wells in Pennsylvania to the seaboard some peculiar phenom ena were noted. The prospect that oil may soon be transported ltt a sim ilar manner to Denver, not oniy from Morrison, but also from the Florence oil fields, will add interest to the recital of these phenomena. Tbe story is told by John Ward, one of the watchmen on duty aloug the new pipe line. He was cautioned to Watch a certain hollow where the pipe.; coming over one emineuce. passed "down through it and up over a mountain to the eastward. f H tells how ho heard the oil gur gling past, and as all seemed safe he followed the line two miles before turning back into this hollow. He says: 1 "Imagine my astonishment when I saw the place 1 had left a short time before so tame now hissing at ten thousand points. Jets of oil were fly ing twenty feet high and hundreds of barrels were flowing downHiner's Run. uever to see a market. I "I thought the pipe was gone up, sure. At first I was afraid to approach it. but soon grew valiant, ana with, a calking chisel I set to work to stop the leaks. I made poor headway; it was a dark night and I dared have no light. 1 had taken off my coat, the whizzing oil carried a way my hat, and I very soon became drenched with oil. My pockets, my hair and my eyes were full, and if I was not then an oil man I would like to knovr what constitutes one. I at length grew sick, and sup posed I would have to give up and all would be lost, and instead of an out pressure I could hear an in-drawing, a suction of air. "I now realized the fact that the oil bad been climbing the np-grde. but .vas now on the descent for Pjne Bot :om Run. This caused a suction and relieved the hollow at the springs. "I again waited sovne time, when I received word to hasten to Haneyville. that the pipe was bursting.; When I arrived there the people were greatly excited. The pipe was throbbing and wheezing at every pore.",rMcClure Spring was nowhere. The. oil was spouting from the pipe for miles. I knew from experience that the oil bad reached and was climbing another high mountain, and the pressure was so great that 1 feared every moment the pipe would burst. "Wo all stood still and looked on. Suddenly, as quick as thought, all motion ceased except a sucking in of air, and I heard the oil passing rapidly along the pipe. I knew that it had crossed the last mountain and that the oil line was an established fact." Tbe Coming Ocean Steamer. Here is a verv clever picture from the Pall Mall 'OazeUez She will be over a quarter of a mile in longth. and will do the passage from Sandy Hook to Liverpool in thirty-six hours, being oue night out. She will be driven by electricity and in such a fashion as to keep railway time despite storm or fog. Passage can be secured by flash photo Edison's patent and the ticket will include an opera stall or a concert ticket or a seat in a church pew. the opera house, concert hall and church being all on board. A covered ring for horse exercise will be provided and a racing track for fast trotters. A base ball ground and tennis courts will also form a portion of the attractions. For business men a stock exchange will be operated, the quotations being posted from the tickers every two minutes, on the vibration system. The leading papers of all countries will be reprinted each morning by the electrio reflection system. A spacious conservatory, containing the choicest flowers of all climates, will afford an agreeable lounging place, and bouquets will be provided gratis. As at Monaco and Monte Carlo, a suite of apartments will be laid out for play, to be kept open all night a sumptuous supper with the costliest wines free. English tailors and shoemakers will be in attendance, and clothes will be made and finished during the passage. The millinery department will con tain the French fashions of tbe previous day, and costumes will be confectoned while the ship is en route and delivered complete on arrival at dock. Accom modation will be furnished for 10.000 passengers. . . . A. Story or Josh Billing. A few years ago. riding up town in a Madison Avenue car, I was seated opposite the gentleman who is best re membered as Josh Billings. The rear platform was .somewhat crowded, and iu the course of' our ' ride one of the passengers stepped off and on several times, in order toassltt the lady passen gers. Finally, when the car was just comfortably tilled, and the courteous gentleman had taken his seat inside. Josh "ngs, seeing an opportunity for a joke, beckoned to the conductor, and pointing to the stranger, said. -Don't vou charge for every ride on this car?"" "Yes, sir." answered he. "Well. I've seen that fellow get or this car six times, and you have col lected only one fare from him." Har per's Magazine. Walldorf and tbe Astora. The little town of Walldorf, near Heidelberg, where John Jacob As tor, tiio first, was born, has received, ac cording to the German papers. 50,000 m irks from Wiliiam Walldorf Astor. The mouey is to be applied the Astor memorial in the memory of Mr. As tor's father. William Walldorf Astor has 'been eloeted an honorary citizen of the MINORITY REPRESENTATION. by Thomas C Brofht. The law-making body of the nation or state should !e a portraiture of the pop ular body the people; or, as Mirabeau once said in a speech before the Constit uent Assembly, it should be to the na tion what a chart is for the physical con-1 figuration of its soil, presenting a re duced picture of the people, their opin-; iOus.aspirations and wishes, -and bearing . . A. I , tne relative proportions to tne original, precisely as a map brings before us mountains and dales. The problem be fore us is to displace old and worn-out . i i . i macmnery witn mat wiucu is new aim better, aud to discover how to consti tute popular representative assemblies in a form and on a basis that will make them an aid to civilization instead ofa clog to humau advancement. I or this object a number of schemes have been proposed and, to a limited ex tent, put into practice in this country and Europe. The point is to provide a method of suffrage by which, to alj classes of opinious aud to all material in terests, shall be secured, in some pro portion, a voice in legislative councils The plans proposed undertake to do away with the , absurdity of permitting 10,001 votes to' over-ride 9.999 and mo nopolize the political power of 20,000. As is obvious, where representatives for legislative bodies are chosen in any constituency, a majority of one can elect the representatives and leave the minority utterly without representation. This is a manifest injustice and a posi tive political evil, and all the more un justifiable as it is seen to be unnecessary. To obtain a fair view of the situation it is essential to form a correct estimate of the powers of voters. It has been thoughtlessly assumed that any one qualified to "cast a ballot has but one vote. This is an error. The voter is entitled to give as many votes as there are candidates to be elected. If there are four candidates, and one voluntari ly votes for onlv three, the full power of suffrage is not exercised. We must therefore acknowledge that a voter has five votes, or ten, or fifteen; as many as there are offices to be filled It is on this indisputable fact that all plans thus far suggested for reforming the process of elections have been bascu. It is seen to be possible and feasible so to regulate matters that the citizen can mass or dis tribute as he pleases the entire number of votes to which he is entitled. Give each voter this right, and a minority of voters, if it amounts to a fourth part of the whole number, can have it always in its power to secure a representative. It is not intimated of course that by any just system a minority of the popular vote could become a majority of a de liberative body; but it would not be con demned to everlasting silence. Its voice would be heard in the halls of legisla tion, where it is assumed in theory, and sometimes happens in practice, that "good reasons must preforce give place to better." - It is to he remembered that political conditions are continnually changing. Old issues die out and new questions come to the front. The hope of pro gress iu any generation is founded iu the newer and later thought. And this thought is always found with the minori ty. A majority is never seen in the van of human advancement. And the higher interests of humanity demand nothing more urgently than that the re generating idea be early proclaimed in the halls where the representatives of the people meet to deliberate for the good of the whole, both for legislative and educational purposes. This is the fittest arena for the conflict of opinion and for "the victory by the better rea son." So that in the idea of minority or proportional representation are in volved the best aspirations and hopes of the race. The following are some of the plans proposed: 1. The Preferential Vote. By this it is proposed that each voter signify his first, second, and third choice, aud so on, of the candidates for whom he votes. 2. The Limited Vote. By this method the citizen votes for a less number of candidates than there are representa tives to be elected; so that the minority can always be sure of electing at least one. The objection to this plan seems to be that it deprives the voter of a part of the votes to weich he is entitled. 3. The Free or Cumulative Vote. This secures to the voter his full number of votes, but permits him to cast them as he sees fit. either to distribute them among the whole number of candidates to be chosen, to divide them among a part, or to concentrate them on one. Under this system, in any district where three representatives are to be chosen, a minority of one-fourth the whole can al ways elect a candidate. Before this sys tem was tried in this country it was ob jected (1) that it would make no differ ence in the general result, because throughout a state the party that gained a minority member in one district would lose one in another district where it hap pened to be in the majority; and. there fore, the gains and losses" would equal each other; and (2) that a party might lose by knowing its strength. All objections are best answered by results. In Illinois the members of the house of representatives are chosen un der the operation of the cumulative vote, in fifty-one districts ot which every one elects three members. The details of the first trial of the system in 1872 were carefully collected and analyzed, and all the conclusions were entirely in fa vor of the new method. Of the 51 dis tricts 34 had a republican majority. Under the old system the republicans would have naturally elected 102 repre sentatives and tbe democrats 51: but, as a matter of fact, the former elected 85 and the democrats G6. There was a small number throughout the state who did not vote with either of these parties and who, under the old system, would have been left entirely unrepresented, but by the operation of the cumulative vote they were able to elect two repre sentatives. Massing the vote of the sec tions respectively throughout the state it was found that the republicans elected three more than their proportion, and the democrats one more, and the independ ents four fewer. The results were not secured with mathematical exactness; but what election under the old system has not shown results immensely more inequitable than these? Taking I he vote of the state as a whole, it appears that under the old system 247.573 voters wonld have been represented, and the vast number of 184,733 would have been left utterly without representation; but. as it turned out in this election, 407,844 voters were represented and only the comparatively small number of 19,257 were left unrepresented. . A system which comes so near securing a just representation cannot fail to com mand the attention and approbation of intelligent and fair-minded citizens The objection most commonly urge! is that the idea of "minority .representa tion" is opposed to the fundamental doctrines of a republic that the "ma jority must rule." If there ever was any iertinency in this objection, it has no force whatever to-day. We long ago abandoned the majority doctrine when we ordained by law the plurality custom which prevails at present nearly every- t . i i rri ! wncre in tne country, xm; minority idea is now established by law, but it must be affirmed in its most offensive form. The issue is not between a ma jority and a minority system, for the minority system already obtains, it is whether it is or not more decent ami just that three groups of people, each witn preferences uiMiuct iiuui uuy oiucr should each be represented than that a minority of one-third plus one should override the convictions of almost two thirds of the district. The subject of just representation was more generally agitated fifteen years ago than it has been in later years In every age men of generous instincts have sought to reform abuses in the civic or social system, and of late the evils have appealed so strongly to the friends of progress for redress that the iniquities in the matter of popular representation have temporarily dropped out of sight. But the revolving wheel brings them again into view. Ballot reform now challenges the attention of the oonntry, and it is leginning to be preceived that this will be ineffective if not accompa nied by its twin representative reform. It will" be of little avail to secure to the citizen a secret ballot and an independ ent vote if a vicious system of represen tation cempels him to vote iniquitously at best. We must not only give him the right of the ballot freed from the acts of the politicians and the touch of the briber, but we must also secure to him the opportunity of giving the utmost offect to his individual choice. Ballot reform is unavailing without a system of just representation. PETITION. To Whomsoever this mat Concern. In the matter of one A. H. Bush, census enumerator, aud Coliu McCrea, accused, both of Farmers' Township, Franklin Cconty, Nebraska: . K'hereas, Said enumerator has reported and caused said Colin McCrea to be ar rested as a criminal for refusing to an swer the questions as asked by said enumerator. Resulted, That we, the neighbors and voters, after thorough investigation in the case, do find that said enumerator entered into controversy with said C. McCrea and utterly failed to do his duty in asking the questions as enumerator and officer, therefore, we do condemn the action of said enumerator in his re porting C. McCrea, as we further know of said enumerator - calling on others three times for report and still others that be never called on, and we further know C. McCrea to be a good, law-abiding citizen. Robert Dow. Jos. II. Quinn. Geo. W. Clapp. J- L. Ryckman. C. P. Utter. Wm. M. Gilmore. Geo. Vnce. W. R. Robinson. . William Ruhl. A. R. Almonrode. C. D. Rowland. D. S. Heath. John Bates. D. H. Utter. Thos. Magirl. Wilson Johnson. Isaac Croley, O. H. Blamka. Casper Y Boswell. R. F. Walker. G. H. Bashford. J. A. Smith. M. Hart. O. O. Reed. D. F. Billings. George Mitchell. Geo. S. Gillard. Jacob Wohleb. J. M. Ray. John Schwilke. George liirsch. E. S. Luke. W. E. Mitchell. E S. Rosa. Jacob Graft. Wm. H. Marsh. Henry Boswell, M. Graft. , Henry Bennett. W. D. Madison. R. G. Douglas. Leonard Miller. J. A Wistrand. Thomas Walker. L. E. Johnson. B. Gschwendtner. W. F. Ryckman. Math Frieden. II. Q. Walters. T. Bond. J. Toman. S. F. Kelly. STATE OF NEBRASKA., CouNTr of Franklin, C ss. Isaac Croley, being first dulv sworn, says that he is a resident of Franklin County, Nebraska, and that the forego ing is a true copy now in my possession. Isaac Croley. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th day of November, 1890. John S. Ray. seal. Notary Public. AT ITS OLD TRICKS. The Bee now that the election is over and its preferred candidate Boyd does not need any more assistance, is return ing to its old trade of trickery and du plicity. In the daily edition of that paper that is read in cities and towns and especially in Omaha where demo crats most abound, editorials denounc ing the independents, damning Burrows, reeking with abuse of the farmer move ment and denouncing every decent man who would not bow to the saloons, ap pear with due regularity from dav to day. But it is not so in the weekly edition of the Omaha Bee. In the week ly edition all these denunciatingjartieles are suppressed. They are not published where farmers can see them, but in place of them Rosewater fawns at the farrier like a whipped puppy aud tells them in editorials that appear only in the weekly edition of the Bee, that he is with them in their struggle, that he has been greatly in sympathy all through the fight, but owing to the fact that his time was taken up by the amendment campaign he could not do all that he desired. Thus the slimy and treacherous editor of the Bee attempts to curry favor with the farmers and get in their confidence by declaring that the Bee agrees with them for what they are fighting, and that it proposes now to be found in the line of battle with them for their work iu the legislature. All this shows that the organ of the saloon hxsiness in the state, the orgtn of treachery to the republican party and the organ that in its daily editiou de nounces the farmers and their work, is trying to sneak in under the tent through editorials in its weekly and get in position to sell them out or be tray them. ane iarmers, however, as well as decent people all over the state have learned Rosewater and his paper as nver belore; nis scheming deceit and shal'ow pretenses are thoroughly understood and they have no more use for him. It has taken the people of the state a good while to thorougly under stand the Bee, its motives and its treach ery, but the day is past in which they will agaiu be hoodwinked by it and its two-faced pretences. Daily CM. FATE COULD NOT HARM. Cta Fellc "f Security rt M VfT Lira Waa Iniared Fw IO. They are tearing down old houses all over the city to make room for tbe more modern house. While these nouses are being demolished there It usually a class of people who crowd around, eager to pick up all stray pieces of wood which come in their direction. Colored people generally fired o in iu ate in this class, aud many a antily is thus supplied with lueL While tearing down a bonne in the northwest section of the city recently the worknieu were very much bothered by these "wood hustlers." as they terra them. The "wood hustlers" In the case were composed, with but one except ion of small negroes. This exc"'io was an old negro who had one .eg shorter than the other, and was nearly bent double, but whether with ago or not no one knew. . He looked as if he had worked hard a 1 his life, but ap pearances are deceitful. The workmen became so incensed al the "wood bustlers" that they drove them all away excepting the old man. After a while'lho old man became more bold, and endangered himself ia try ing to get pieces of wood. One of the workmen spoke to him about it telling him be would be hurt if he persisted la getting in rie way. The old maa mumbled out something but paid no attention to tho naming. Finally he got close to the wall and stooped to pick up a piece of a beam. Just as he was stooping a brick fell la front of him, and he narrowly, escaped being hit. Seeing this, a workman yelled. "Look oat, ole man, or you'll be killed." j "I doan't kare,H replied the old man.) and he continued to confiscate all the1 wood that came within his reach. Again he barely escaped being hit with another brick, and again the workman shouted: "1 done tole yer onst to git away from dere. The fust thing you knovr you won't know nothing." j "I doan't kare," reiterated the old man, looking around for more wood( and, seeing some ia the interior of the building, he went for it. He had hard ly passed the door when a heavy beam fell in the place he had just vacated,' enveloping him in a cloud of dust.! Several workmen, thiuking that the heavy beam had pinioued the old man' to the ground, jumped down to render, all the assistance possible. Imagine Ihoir surprise when, ed reachiug the' place, they found the old man gather ing the wood as unconcernedly at thongh nothing had happened. The workmen were speechless for a while, aad then one said: "Look a' bar. ole man, you'll hare to get out o' this. We don't care 'bout losin' time er carryln' yer korpua through the street." The old maa looked contemptuously at the speaker, and then said in a dou't-give-a-conti cental tone: "G'war. niggers, I don't cans. I list had my life 'surod fo' foty dollars." Wa$iiiitgton PosL To Escape From Tornadoes. When trying to escape from a tor nado never run to the northeast, east, dt southeast. Never take refuge in a forest or a grove of trees, or near any object that may be overturned by tbe wiud. A frame building is safer thaa one' built of brick or stone. The form, er is more elastic and holds together longer; the Utter goes down in the first craah, and the debris is whirled into a heap in center of tbe foundation. In a frame structure the cellar is the safest place, but in a brick or stone building it is the most perilous. In the former case the debris is carried away from the foundation, while in the latter instance tbe cellar is tilled with iL : The tornado cave offers absolute security to life and limb, and do means of protection can replace it for thai purpose. As regards protection to property, no buiMing can be made sufficiently large, strong, high, or low to resist the force of the tornado's vor tex. There is no changing the path of the tornado by the employment of ex plosives or by any artificial barrier. To contemplate tbe 'disprion of the cloud by tbe use of any electrical con trivaece is also idle. All buildings should be constructed as would be done without tbe knowledge of the tornado, and then protected by legiti mate insurance. Protection must be accomplished by organized capital, the safety of one being assured by the legitimate and successful ce-operatioa of many. . The writer strongly advocated this method of protection during his tor nado investigations in tbe West in 1879, end now several million dollars' worth of property are thus iusured ever year. Forum. Joe Jefferson's Joke. General Sherman relates an Inter estitig story about Joseph Jefferson. He says: Joe came to my room in the Fifth Avenue hotel. New York, recently, and he chatted at the window there one summer afternoon. He had with him a light, thin overcoat which he threw over a chair. After he had gone I found under the chair a roll of papei tied with it piece of red tape tho old red tape that I know sowed. I picked it up. inspected it, and then I said, "Tii is is uot mine." and ran out to catch Joe. I ran to the elevator, shouting. Joe, Joe!" I saw him two stairs below, but mj voice wouldn't go down, it would only go up. so I had to run down, and I finally overtook him. "Joe.did you drop this roll of paper? He turned to me with a look full o! joy. "My God, Sherman, you have saved my I ife I" "What do you mean, how have 1 aved your life?" , "Why." replied Jefferson, with that familiar twinkle in his eye. "I ani publishing my life, and that is the first chapter." pet doe at a Missouri penitentiary pire birth soveral days ago to twins, This is said by those u ho are up In natural history to be of -very rare oo eurraaos. -