THE FABLERS' ALLIANCE: LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY, NOV. 29, 1890.
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Notice.
The regular meeting of the Buffalo
County Farmers' Alliance will be held
at Kearney, Dec. 10th, 1890, at 10 o'clock
A. M. for the purpose of electing offi
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act such other business as may properly
come before said meeting. Visiting
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The Election at Neligh.
Neligh, Antelope Co., Neb.
Dear Sir: 1 think it right to tell you
of our election here in this township.
The ladies of the W. C. T. U. put up
some mottoes and the judges tore them
down. Oue of the clerks of election had
a bottle of whiskey and he and one of
the judges drank it, and when they
went to couut the votes they were not
tit to do any kind of work. I can prove
thia by ten different men.
Yours Truly,
L H. Suter.
November 15th. 1890.
Eureka Alliance No. 871, in regular
session assembled, by a unanimous vote
passed the following resolutions:
Whereas. A report is being circulated
that there was intimidatiou used at the
polls in several voting places, notably
Omaha, Beatrice, and that in many
places ballots cast for the independent
candidates were not counted, therefore,
be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the
Eureka Alliance that there should be a
thorough investigation made, and if the
charges are proved to be true, that steps
be taken immediately to contest the
election; and, be it further
Resolved, That we indorse the course
or air. isurrows during tne late cam
paign, and that we have full confidence
in his honesty and integrity.
Resolced, That a copy of these resolu
tions be sent to The Farmers' Alli
ance at Lincoln, and to the New Era of
Wahoo. G. S. Lambert,
P. S. Cullen,
L. K. Schoenleber,
Committee.
From Nemaha County.
Whereas, The political campaign
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Nemaha county and state of Nebraska
is now c osed aod the result of the battle
is known, and
Whereas, Some of our candidates
of the people's ticket or independent
party have beeu defeated by prejudice
and falsehood while others hive been
elected to the offices for which they
were nominated, therefore, be it
Resolved, By Grant Alliance, No. 963,
1st, that we as members of said Alii
ance, return our sincere thanks to our
eallant standard-bearers, whether de-
ieated or elected, for advocating our
cause and principles in town and coun
try, in church and schoolhouse, ant
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Uesohed, 2d, That we as members o
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States, and voters of the independent
party will not cease our efforts until we
establish, an independent uationa
union pirty that will know and give
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to every citizen of the state; a party
that will create national friendship in
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tect capital ad give labor its just re
wards; that shall blot out of our stat
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utes leeaiizeu robbery ana estabiisn in
its plase tonality a jus i e to all.
' W. W SCAMMON,
Secretary.
Meeting of Clay County Alliance.
The Clay County Alliance will meet
at Clay Center on Saturday, Dec.
A full attendance is requested.
J. B. Johnston,
. Co. Sec'y.
6th.
SUNDAY BEADING.
19 SOUK'S SERIOUS REFLECTION FOR
TlIEDlY OF REST.
The Othr glrleBiilldlna; Onr Eternal
Ila-ae Other Stutters for Bellgjauely
" Inclined rerwut.
The Other Side.
TI river, the rushing river.
Where I've wanuenru una wstcnea alone,
And thought ine how strange that ever
And forever it on lias flown:
And falling asleep and dreaming.
In vllons it form ilecried,
I've pictured io youthful seeming
iu umtcown on ibe otner stue.
Tbe bidden, the darksome river;
1 have sat ou lu banks and loucea
The good, the Almighty giver
To graut the wishes that thronged;
The wish to baffle its powers
lo buffet the sweeping tide.
And wander 'mid birds and flowers .
That live on the other side.
Chilled by tbe breath of tbe river.
As it Boats to the snore, l see
The hopes most cherished wither
And my loveu ones lost io ine.
I weep by the turbid waters.
O'er 1 he treasures the billows bide,
Yet would not recall them hither,
But cross to the other side.
Still by the mystic river
1 w under, and witn and areata.
And picture the bright forever -
Just over tbe sullen stream;
Nearer to me and nearer,
lis waters the land-marks hide,
And dearer to me and dearer,
Grows all on the other side.
Ball ding the Eternal House.
" In every human life there is an
eternal habitation not made with
Hands, says tne jsanner oj L.xgn.1. t
is the divine being, or the divinity,
within us. It is not yet finished, but
it is being built up day by day and
hour by hour by our spirit-
ual natures. This work of building is
performed by the suppression of the
selfishness of our natures. It is fash
ioned from every pure and perfect
wish, and every high aspiration. All
precious memories, of home and
friends, enter into the composition of
this structure, with which the hands
have nothing to do. Every sacred
longing and desire, every heartfelt
nraver. every aspiration, every effort
to make the life more pure and divine,
these all contribute to the building up
of that habitation not made with
hands, and the establishment of that
divine kingdom. All the hallowed
wishes for humanity are part of this
eternal structure.
No matter to what degree of per-
ection this earthly tabernacle is
brought; no matter how beautiful this
house of clay is made to become; it is
nevertheless the structure of which
wo must all be rid, earlier or later, in
order to occupy fully and entirely
that mansion of which sense alone can
give uo neither conception nor hint.
While we are here, tenants of this
clay abode, we are exiles from our na
tive land and home. Yet we wish to
prolong this physical life to the ut
most, to extend this period of exile
interminably if we can. How short
sighted is the effort and the wish.
So far as it tends to inculcate the
practice of a groater purity of living,
however, which is necessarily con
joined to a greater expansion of the
spiritual nature, it ia well, and to be
commended. - But that is all it will
do. We need not hope to be able to
make perpetual that which is tempor
al, and created for temporal purposes
only. Having served its turn, it
yields to the inevitable change which
heralds eternal progression.
But it was necessary for our spiri
tual development that we should first
inhabit this house of clay, or sin, and
feel forced to contend with the evils
with which it is beset. This physical
experience is but the necessary pre
lude to the expansion of the spirit
within. Physical victory first, in or
der that the spirit may be more com
pletely emancipated. We are thus
taught, too, that we are inspired with
something besides what we account
mere physical strength; that if we at
tempt physical conquest we must be
reinforced by another power. When
we find ourselves baffled by the ob
structions of our surroundings, then
tbe intellectual and moral nature ap
pears on the scene. The mind governs
and vanquishes when all else fails.
From this simple experience we learn
the truth that it is the higher, the
spiritual, the eternal, that is the only
real, and that the physical is only the
subordinate and the fleeting! Hence
we discover that the house we are to
inhabit is spiritual, and that only
spiritual forces are continually build
ing it
Tha Heart's Hattafalnesa.
Nothing truer ever came from Paul's
pen than when he wrote that "the
carnal mind is enmity against God."
Repeatedly does ho speak of theat
ural heart as being hateful. The fa
mous Tertullian well understood the
truth of Paul1 8 words, and this is what
he wrote: "Some are arrived to that
pitch of aversion to the very name of
Christian, that they seem to have en
tered into covenant with hatred and
bargained to gratify this passion, at
the expense of all the satisfactions of
human life, acquiescing in the gross
est of injuries, rather than the hated
thing of Christian should come within
their doors. The husband, now cured
of ail his foimer jealousy by his wife's
conversion to Christianity, turns her
and her new modesty out of doors to
gether, choosing to dwell with an
adulteress sooner than a Christian;
the father, so tender of the undutiful
son, in his gentile state disinherits him
now when he becomes obedient by
becoming a Christian; the master,
heretofore so good to his unfaithful
slsrve, discards him now upon his fidel
ity and his religion. So that the hus
band had rather have his wife false,
tbe father his son a rebel, the master
his servant a rogue, than to have them
Christians and good; so much is the
hatred of our name above all the ad
vantages of virtue flowing from it
Our heavenly Master and his heavenly
religion are both unknown and both
condemned without any other consid
eration but that of the bare name of
Christian." There is much force in
these words, an ibey apply to not a
few at the present day nd nothing
but tne love ol hd can cure the car
nal heart.
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- Sternal Xj fa.
Eternal life is not the mystical
thing we sometimes tllnk. The sun
is a far-off mystery. astronomer
cannot explain it. Bujhis morning
it came . to our doorrlrd has made
plain for us all the roaiKeX this day.
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So life U at onr door. It will not be
essenially different in heaven. How Im-
1 1 I 4 II 111. 1 1 '
pUI MUt UH WO DCJglU 9 UTO kUi
now. If it were going through a door
we might wait till death is In sight.
But it is getting into harmony with
God and developing a new set of fac
ulties that will make us feel at homo
in heaven, then the sooner we begin,
the better. We cannot get all the
benefits of heaven by just dying.
There will be some awfully stupid liv
ing in heaven. A sinner who just
slips in at the eleventh hour is not go
ing to be very comfortable talking
with Paul. He will be like an errand
boy In a company of sages. The only
really sure way to have a good time
with the saints in heaven is to be get
ting saint-like here. It will be worth,
a good deal to have some acquaint
ance with heaven before going there.
Going to heaven will be good only as -it
is going home. Not stupid novice
to be flung into its splendors, but like
a concert player, who has tuned his
instrument, and steps before the audi
ence with comfort and hope, thus to
find eternal life, not a novelty, but the
crown of life on earth, this is the
grandest conception of it, this is th
biblical idea. .
The Valae ef a Frieaft.
A blessed thing it is for any man er
woman to have a friend, one human
soul, whom we can trust utterly; who
knows the best and worst of us, and
who loves us in spite of all our faults;
who will speak the honest truth to us
while the world flatters us to our
faces and laughs at us behind our
backs; who will give us counsel and
reproof in the day of prosperity and
self-conceit, but who again will com
fort and encourage us in the days of
difficulty and sorrow, when the world
leaves us alone to fight our own battle
as we can. If we have had the good
fortune to win such a friend, let us do
anything rather than lose him. We
must give and forgive, live and let
live. If our friends have faults, we
must bear with them. We must hope
all things, believe all things, endurs
all things, rather than lose -that most
precious of all earthly possessions, a
trusty friend. And a friend once won
need never be lost, if we will be trusty
and true ourselves.
An Opportunity.
There is nothing in life that slips by
more stealthily than an opportunity.
The artist knows this when he hastens
to record with his pencil the impres
sion which is his for the moment, lest
intervening matters shall cause it to
be dimmed or effaced. The scientist
bears it in mind as he concentrates his
powers for a glance into the telescope,
or for a movement of the crucible.
And in all other spheres the fact is
recognized by him who avails himself
promptly of the time which is "for
every purpose," and of the fine fila
ment of circumstances which are ready,
to make his act efficient. If we real
ize that such seasons of advantage have
come to us and gone again unheeded,
we are saddened, whether our loss be
a temporal benefit to ourselves or a
never-returning occasion for doing
good for others. Yet, this pain will
be a blessing if It shall teach us that,
in order to have our deeds wrought
harmoniously into the swiftly-moving
web of life, we must be on the alert to
use God's proffered opportunities while
they are opportunities.
,
Repentance and Faith.
The uniform style of the Bible is,
"Repent and believe." Many like to
change this order by believe and re
pent. But God is wiser than men.
There is a general faith before re
pentance, and a view and sense of
alarm and of ruin, as in the case of
those who were pierced to the heart
on the day of Pentecost Then Peter
told them to "Repent and be bap
tized," baptism including faith as
essential to it In this as in all other
instances, repentance begins before
faith, or trust in Chist, and cordial
reception of him in all his offices as
both Lord and Christ ' The Apostle
had taught, "God hath made that
same Jesus whom ye crucified both
Lord and Christ." Still repentance
accompanies faun all tnrougn tne
Christian pilgrimage. God is much
pleased with the observance of His or
dinances. He cannot be pleased to
see any command swept out of the
Book.
Tha "Yellow rarer."
Young men dying. Old men dying.
Women, too, going down under the
scourge. It's in a worse form than
that which, in the past, swept over
Memphis, Jacksonville or New Or
leans, leaving desolation and death.
The fever rages at such a height
that the patients cannot be kept in
home or hospital. Their delirium
sends them out into the marts of trade,
into society, into stores, offices and
mills. It is spreading more rapidly
than the plague. Its ravages are
frightful. Its blight is more cursed
than cyclone or death. '
You ask me "Where?" I answer
everywhere.
You ask me "Who, who has HP" I
answer:
Behold! the yellow stuff called gold'
Watch the crowd in fever haste for its
possession and, with deep, sad irony
I say: "They have the yellow fever."
C. H. Tatman.
- Tha TVoria IsTall-tf Wander.
There are some people who never
see anything, if it is as plain as a hole
in a grindstone, until it is pointed out
to them; and some that can't see it
then, and won't believe that there is
any hole till they have passed their
linger through it I've got a great
many things to thank God for, but
perhaps most of all that l ean find
something to admire, to wonder at to
set my fancy going, and to wind up
my enthusiasm pretty much every
where. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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now complaining that it is almost im
possible to get' good firemeu on a man-of-war.
In the Italian navy a steamer
is kept constantly in commission for
the sole purpose of training stojrers
before they ate put upon the regular
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