The farmers' alliance. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1889-1892, January 10, 1891, Image 2
THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE, LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY. JAN. 10, 189L FARMER'S OPINIONS. The Money Sharks of Western Ne- Pruka. .' : We have a beautiful climate, second to none, here In the southwest part of this fine country called Nebraska, and more desirable this winter than usual, owing to the fact of the scarcity of food and clothing for the people and little or ' no feed for stock. If it was not for the . mildness of'tbl winter the suffering, both of man and beast, would beggar inscription. This season is without Itrillal in this part of the country. The bet winds burned up the entire crop, leaving thousands of families wholly destitute, many of wbcm might hare beea able to run through this crisis bad it not been for the galling yoke put on them by the money loaners and sharks not by charging 7 per cent, per annum, which is the lawful rate of interest, or even 10 per cent., but the unlawful and inhuman country destroying rate of per cent, a month, lomo going still farther and charging SO per cent per an num. We are cursed, many of us flnan dally, beyond redemption, not by the hot winds so much as by. the swindling games of the bankers and money loan era, who hare taken the money and tw are after tho property, leaving the farcer moneyless and homeless. To care this country the farmers must call tie bankers and money loaners to a halt and look after their own interests. I have borrowed for example 1,000. pcy 3 besides to the commission man I give my note and second mortgage of S per cent of the 11,000, which is snore. Then I pay 7 per cent, on the tl.COO to the actual loaner, Then be idea all this I pay for appraising the land, abstract, recording, etc, so when I hare secured my loan I am out the first year tl&. Tet I am told by the rent who loans me the money, he cant stand to loan at such low rates This is on the farm, but now comes the chattel loan. I must have 850 to save myself. I get the money; icy note is made payable in thirty or sixty days for f 55, secured by chattel of two horses, harness and wagon, about fire times the Talue of the note. The time comes to pay, I ask for a few days. No I can't wait; must have the money. If I cant get the : money, I have the extreme pleasure of seeing my property taken and sold by this iron handed money loaner while my family and I suffer, When the farmers plan, and work to their plans, they will be protected from these cold water scalds that sap their substance in a day, and bring them to bankruptcy. We hope the Farmers' Al llance movement will so thoroughly regulate these things that the farmer with other men may have a fair chance, nod in less than five years the farmers can own their own homes and walk with their heads up and feel that they are asaod as otser men. -' W. M. Tatloh. Cn Taxation. t Staxfoxd, Nib., Dec. 20, 1800. Subordinate alliance, No. 050, Furnas county, Nebraska. ; Retailed, That the personal property of each citizen be exempt from taxation to the amount of $300 in the county where he resides, providing he has per sonal property to that amount, if not the amount of deficiency to be deducted from the value of his real estate in same county. , Resetted, That unimproved land be as sessed the same as improved land of the same class. Resohed, That a copy of these rcsolu tions be sent to the Farmers Alli ance for publication, and that we in- ite through Us columns the expression of other subordinate alliances upon these subjects. J. V. Pace, B. V.Ellis, President. Secretary. . Peoria, Neb., Dec. 29; 1800. Ma. J. Bcrbows: The way the old party politicians explain recent defeats reminds one of the hunter's story about &ua wear. , ceing out once ne came upon a bear and some crows fighting over a carcass. Drawing near unob served he took a good aim and shot the bear dead. "And do you know," he would say, "that bear thinks to this day that those crows killed him." Tho re publican bear up north thinks that the Jim Crow, democrats killed him; and the democratic bear south, thinks that the "black" crow republicans killed him. Butjihe hunterrloads forbear' all the same. The trouble with the old pobticians and the old 'dyed-in-the-i wools1!, is that they don't learn anything. The democrats are still voting for An drew Jackson, and the republicans are putting down the rebellion. The march of progress has left them behind. ; But let us go forward, and let the tail-enders fall out of the procession if they must. N.H.B., Secretary Peoria Alliance, 1127. ' . Roeewater Condemned. Grbtna, Neb., Dec. 27, 1890. Mr. J. Burrows, Editor Farmers' Al liance Dear SirsAs I have not seen anything in the Alliance from Sarpy ' .county, I thought I would write a few y words for publication. The Alliance is not very well organized la this county as yet, but we hope to so increase our combers so as to be able to carry the county by the next election. I see by this week's Omaha Bet that Bosewater accuses you cz tending out secret eaicta to Alliance lodges having resolutions passed praising Burrows and branding the Bee as a traitor to the people. Now I want to inform Roscwate that I hare never seen any of these edicts. It is not necessary for Mr. Burrows to tell Bose water to tell the people he is a traitor to their cause. Anyone reading his pa per for number of years as I have done can see that he is not running his paper in the interests of the farmers like he was a few years sgo. He used to howl anti-monopo:y, and now when the tlmo came in the last campaign when he could have done the farmer' cause a great deal of serv ice, he was found opposing their every interest. The farmers gave him the circulation to the Bee and helped to build him up to what he is today. Now the farmers should show him their displeasure at his course by stopping their subscrip tiofts to the Bee. I for one propose to stop the Bee after my present subscrip tion expires. E, L. Hilexak. Against Usury. i Resolutions which were unanimously adopted by Progressive alliance, No 980, December 27, 1890. Whereat, Owing to the necessity for reform and the enactment of Just and equitable . laws for the relief of the masses together with the belief that to neither republican or democratic party could we look for relief, we, the Inde pendent voters of Progressive Alliance, No. 080, gate our unqualified sup.ort to the independent nominees in the late election In the belief that should success attend our efforts, we should see the re peal of fraudulent, aud enactment of just laws. And Whereas, Because of the success of our principles In the late campaign, the Bankers" and monied interests of the state and nation are already combined (to prevent any legislation except as they dictate) to bring ruin on us by re fusing to loan or extend the time on our maturing obligations; therefore be it Resolved, That we demand of the in coming legislature a strict adherence to our principles, and especially an iron clad usury law severe enough in its pro visions to totally prevent the loaning of money at more than present legal rates And be it further nesoiyeu, mat we denounce as . v re-i i j traitors to our cause, either those who oppose the enactment of a strict usury law from either selfish or other motives, and totally unfit to direct the policy of the legislators of Nebraska. . Resolved, That a copy of these reso utions be sent to the Alliance and Kearney Courier for publication. R. J. Wallace, Secretary. The Swiss Referendum. JStDITOR FARMERS ALLIANCE: As it is expected of the members of the next legislature to enact laws for the benefit of the people, I respectfully submit to the independent members the question of passing the necessary legislation to engraft upon the constitution of this state an amendment by which unpopu lar legislation will be impossible with out the consent of a majority of the citizens expressed at the ballot box. What is known in Switzerland as The .Viliaiire may be explained about as follows? Whenever 50,000 citizens of that country sigh a petition requesting that a certain act bo passed, the high est officers of that little republic are obliged by the constitution to submit the proposition made by the 50,000 citi-. zens to a general vote of the people, and if it be endorsed by a majority of the citizens, it thereby becomes a law mthout receiving any endorsement by their congressmen. That is pure democracy. The Referendum of Switzerland may be explained as follows r All acts passed by the Swiss congress must be submitted to the citizens at the election following their passage, and if the majority of the citizens favor any pro posed act, they vote for it, and it be comes a law. If thev do not favor a proposition they vote against it, and it cannot become a law. - Thus we see that the representatives of tho people of Switzerland can make no law without the expressed consent of the people; but the oeonle cm make aws without the consent of tho repre sentatives.' ' " ' At the last general election In tho re public of Switzerland , a ' proposition made by5O,0OO persons as provided by the yaitiative'' was endorsed by a .ma jority of all the citizens, notwithstand ing the fact that nearly all the people's representatives in the congress were pposed to it. The act thus passed pro vides that tho government shall insure its citizens against, sickness and death, and as the dear Swiss people's repre sentatives represented the insurance companies more than the people' they did not favor a law which will effect- ally destroy the insurance i business in that country, but gives the people re liable insurance at tost. Why can not we have a little of the real democ racy of Switzerland in Nebraska, Kan sas, and other live states? Wonder if such democracy would suit Boyd and his so-called "democrats?" -Yours for the Mitiative and referen dum. L. C. Hcck. Holdrcgc, Neb., Dee. 29, 1800. u Old Mr. Close "Hello, doctor! O. by tho war, what ought I to take for a bad cold?" Physician fwho know. Close) "You ought to take medical advice.';- Munsey't Weekly. A Frank Opinion and Quite Correct. Whereat, We sincerely believe that C. II. Van Wyck is a tool in the hands of the corporate ringleader of our state to create a disturbance and a di. vision in the independent rank and file, therefore be it Retohtd, By Sandstrom's Alliance, in regular session assembled on this, the 2Cth day of December, 1890, that we de mand that said C. H. Van Wyck shall be expelled from any and all rights in the State Alliance or Icdependent state conventions hereafter. C. E. STABEHG, E. SODEBMAW, , Sec'y. Pres't .Alliance No. 1288. Periodical Panics. Editor Alliance: A scarcity of cur rent money among the speculators of Wall street always leads to the word "panic," and at once the secretary of the treasury flies to their relief with, the pso. pie's money. In other words, stock gambling is encouraged by the adminis tration. If the financial future of the United States depends upon the pros perity of stock speculators, the country has indeed much degenerated, and as nation we have outlived our usefulness. But the real fact is that the word "pan Ic" is only used as a deceptive cry, cal eulated to create alarm and thus justify tho secretary of the treasury's assist ance. Why t we had one of those period ical panics a short two months ago. Jay Gould had squeezed some of tho lambs, and Uncle Sam was immediately bled without the least warrant of law. The people of the United States, the bone and sinew of the land, would deem it a providential blessing if the last of tho Wall street speculators, the whole lot of thorn, were gone under without hope of iinancial salvation. " Panic, indeed! The farmers of this and other slates bare for the last twenty years fought and fought against finan clal adversity, until three-fifths of their property has been mortgaged. This ad versify was brought about, not by reck' less specHlation and wild gambling on their part; it has been brought about in spite of labor and frugality the labor of the slave and the frugality of tho needy it was brought about by the atrocious eglslation which allowed, and still al lows,, monopolies to run riot with the labor of the land. Forsooth, it was brought about by the very hellish schemes of Wall street where the vast amount of capital which represents the wages of labor has been "corralled" to give value to a billion of dollars of stocks, the two-thirds of which are of fictitious value. But we have never as yet known the secretary of the treasury to give an assisting hand to the toilers of the soil when in distress, and he has never failed to rob them for the benefit of the Wall street clique who have near Lv ruined the agricultural nrosoeots of A j ... t i mis lair lanu oi ours Panic, indeed! Wait to SDeak the word until the farmers and laborers of the land are thoroughly united ' ana or ganized, as they are alieady thoroughly aroused, and then you, oh you specula tors of Wall street and grain exchange gentry of Chicago, you will learn to know what panic really is. You have as a rule no capital to live on except your whs; you nave never done an hou- est stroke of work in Tour live, and never done anything to advance the in terests oi tne country; ana yet you live on princely incomes. This infamous state of affairs is going to cease shortly. and then with bloated faces, eiuntv wal lets and poorly fed stomachs, you will begin to feel panicky indeed, and be obliged to labor honestly or starve. You have had no pity for the waee earners: you have held them in contempt. We will net say that they will have no pity upon you, dui labor you snail, ne oar asites have had their day. V. THE BURDENS OF LABOR. During the last half century more than twenty-live per cent, of all the machin ery now used has been introduced, and it is safe to say that its use has increased the power of production fourfold. Notwithstanding this fact there never was a time in modern history when labor and its produts were so largely mortgaged to capital as at present. If those debts are ever to be paid they must be paid by labor or the products of labor. ' Let us see from the best data obtain able what these debts are, now resting on labor's shoulders: Senator John P. Jones, in his official capacity, states the debts resting on labor as follows: national, two billions; state, three hundred and fifty millions; cities, towns, and counties, eight hundred and fifty millions; railroads, two billions four hundred and thirty-nine millions; canals, one hundred and forty-five mil; lions; banks, insurance companies, and individuals, thirteen billions two hun dred and forty-four millions; total, nine teen billions and twenty-eight millions.. While the material debt has some what decreased since the date of his fig ures, land and other debts have very largely increased. Labor and its products must pay the interest on this amount. At seven per cent, it would amount to more than one and one-third millions yearly. The average laborer does not receive more than two hundred and fifty dollars per year, Therefore it takes tho wages of nearly five and one half millions of able-bodied men to pay this interest, u; Is it anv wonder that the cry for relief is going up from farm and factory, mill and mine? .V- Commissioner Wells, in his report, page ten, states that the increase of wealth by production is not over three and one third per cent, per year. If this be true, and I have no means to say it is not so, then the result will be one of two thing, hopeless degradation or revolution, unless congress shall en act law that will make the dollar the servant of man and not bis master. The acts of congress for the past twenty-live 'years have been one con tinned conspiracy against labor. The party in power is helpless to re lieve the people from their bondage. The corporations created and syndicates permitted by them hare the party by the throat, and it must do their bidding or die. ' . - The question is, shall the party die. and the c .uutry live, or must people aud nation go down in common ruin The demonetizing of silver.was but a part of tb great conspiracy. But to the farmer that raises wheat and cotton to sell in the greatest of all markets Liverpool it was an act of cither the greatest stupidity or cupidity, If the act was one of stupidity, then the members of the house and senate who voted for it were toe stupid to be there If it was one of cupidity, and it looks like the latter, then instead of being in congress, they should have been behind prison bars. ' Five eights of the siver produced, we produce, aud any act to depreciate, its value is unwise legislation. But when that act hi passed by congress at the re quest of the agents of 'London gold- brokers, there must have been a motive for them to urge its demonetization. As me act was passeu, u is not unreason able to believe that cupidity and bribery did it. Why did England want it done? England wanted cheap wheat and cot ton. -...'....;.- Where was our chief market? It was England. England is raising both wheat and cotton in British India. .. Her cotton lands are in the regencies of Madras and Molmean. The wheat lands are on the table-lands of the Ganges. , To cheapen wheat and cotton in Liv erpool was the object. To get an outlet for her wheat from the uplauds of the Ganges was her. first consideration. This she did by the capture of Burmah, it being the shortest route to the waters of the bay of Bengal. V i The second act was to demonetize silver. .' England is a single standard gold na tion. British India, with her three hun dred millions of population, is a single standard silver nation, her money con sisting of rupees. Then if England could induce us to demonetize silver, it would fall in its commercial price. By depreciating our silver fifteen to twenty per cent, with her gold, she could buy our silver, coin it into rupees, thus cheapen the price of wheat and cotton in her marked apd thus compel the American raisers, of wheat to compete with her in her own market. The tool she used to rob the American farmer was the American congress. ; No wonder the tanners' Alliance made the political change they did, last fall. - ,. That was but the beginning. The end is not yet. R. F. Tbavellick. The Old Man. if Van,Wvck got some deluded Otoe county alliance to send him as a dele gate to the state alliance now in session in Lincoln. . He proceeded to raise a ruction. Mr. Van Wyck has it in for the farmers' movement. He is a sue cess at raising a rumpus. The prompt action of the executive committee last fall in "heading him off" from stump ing the second district against Mc Keighan still sticks in his crop and he is trying to get even. The state alli ance will do itself proud in excommuni cating the old fraud. The people of Ne DrasKa can s db DamDooziea oy any such piece of shoddy. He said during the convention last fall that the farm ers wouldn't hang together. He Is try ing to make his word good. Well, the New Era surmises that the only "split" he will be able to create will be to get himself split off from tho alliance. A hopeful people are praying for that split. Van Wyck had thousands of friends and admirers a year ago. They have vanished like population before a plague. Wahoo .Yew Era. A he umana it oria-iierald lias gone clean daft on Burrows and what it calls 'the Lincoln ling of dictators" -fif tne alliance. ; It commends the prttdent course adopted by the state convention and colls it a triumph over Burrows and that ring. It is curious that Bur rows counselled conservatism publicly and privately and was in perfect har mony with 95 per cent of the conven tion. It is also true, contrary to the as sertions of the World-Herald, that he never said a word to Van Wyck or had the slightest relation to the little scrim mage between the gentleman from Otoe and President Powers. The Omaha paper has so widely departed from its usual fair, impartial course that it can only be explained by supposing that Mr. Hitchcock's confidence has been be trayed and imposed upon by bis em ployee who was here to write up the convention. Our highly , esteemed Omaha contemporary cannot take a healthy and revivifying tumble any too soon. Lincoln Herald.: tW Now is the time to send in sub scriptions to the enlarged Alliance. $1,25 per year, or$l,00 in clubs of five. Nebraska and the Columbian Exposition. i Yr The Farmer' Alliance. Chicago is doing some clever work in this undertaking. Its chief merit, how ever, is in a fancied ability to mesmer ize the country. Already the press and the wires are airing the general interest in the scheme. California, it is an nounced, is to buiid a marble palace, the material to Ae brought from her own quarries. Minnesota is booked on a scale of magnitude. The mountain states are to have structures! thai lire to be imposing and appropriate f.r their pevliU prouuci. la m iui "ni- lion, or at least the town of Houston proposes it. Illinois is asked for a mil lion. These are the methods, but are not these methods rather worn and rather thin? It looks very much like a Same to work up public opinion and rive J he several legislatures to foot the bill, uutwaraiy an sounas very uig. But where is the money to come from? The people, of course. This phrase is just now a chestnut. Chicago so far has shown talent in all bcr aims. This plan of finance is, how ever, rather stale for the times, and will not inspire confidence. It has the flesh marks of the "trust." Money making and money getting are turned to other directions. Honest dealing is up for a neariug, and what is equally a fact, tne people have had enough of jobs. The bigger the job the more the distrust, so ii is uaeiy iew legislatures wui nave me rashness to tax their people to enrich Chicago. Then there is the presiden tial election of 1892, and the farmers and the wage workers with the trunch eon of reform. The country is n ot very amiaoie anynow. its temper Is some what soured, so this source of tribute might be as well dismissed as barren of results. Rivalry among the states to plant structures lor the exhibition of their folly and Chicago's gain is a bewitching proposition in the way it is put, but it costs millions to do thU. Of course a general co-operation would draw thither four or nve hundred thousand more peo pie to her permanent citizenship. In a three rears bound she would thna ha. come the first city in the nation. To be the first city is her privilege, but to be come so under the guise of patriotism that role is played. Bonds " and taxes have become familiar and bitter words to the average American household. .Nebraska refuses to become a partner to tnis ruse. Witn a heavy debt and short crops, an appropriation for the Chicago show is out of the question. Tho nay seeus" are on top with a little eaven of the Punt an. and lobbyists have a slim show to successfully put in their woric to Duiia up a lakir s paradise. Ane salaries oi tne onicers suggest a moral. They are as follows: Ben But terworth. secretary, $10,000; his clerk. $1,500; stenographer, $900; assistant secretary, $3,000; his clerk, $1,400; sten ographer. $900; messenger, $240; presi dent. $6,000; the lawyers of tho concern, $12,000; treasurer, $3,000; his cashier, $1,500; six book keepers, $4,390; and messenger, $200; printing committee secretary. $2,080; his stenographer, $720; messenger, 3:210; ways and means sec- retary$948; three canvassers, $1,290 each; secretary for grounds and build ings, $1,410; stenographer, $624: mes senger, $210; chief of construction. $12.- 000; traffic manager, $5,000; a pet of $100,000. The foregoing is one of the romances of romancing finance. , It is the irony of fate, nevertheless, that systems which reposo on human credulity con ceal within the causes of failure. Wall street lately is not without illustrations in : point. Credit Mobilier and Jay Cook have not escaped the public mem ory. - The pretense that such enterprises add to the nation's wealth does not hold. Taxes are really the sources wherein the exposition draws its hope. Nebraska is not enamored of this kind of business. It has nothing to say anent Chicago's honest endeavors. The world's fair is a very grand conception. It is, concluding from its salaried offi cer?, marvelous of purse or humbug. Chicago has it, and with 80,000 miles of rail conveying within its limits, and 81,000 tributary to her, if the Colum bian exposition has not merits to at tract the world, she should not have undertaken the job. New York was willing and able. Chicago got the ele phant and Nebraska does not pretend to the honors of a DartnershiD in keen ing him. Mat. 11 y The Hon. C. H. Van Wyck lingered around Lincoln a day or two after the Alliance convention adjourned. As he came out of the postoffice one day he met our Chief Liar on the steps. A pause and handshaking and conversa tion followed. As our C. L. was going into the sanctum of Postmaster Gere to pay our postage bill, which is the larg est in the city, he invited the Otoe statesman to accompany him and see Mr. Gere. Ho thought he would. The two gentlemen met with unrestrained cordiality thus proving anew that one touch of nature makes the whole world kin. The talk soon drifted to the Alli ance and its convention, and Burrows came up for discussion. The ex-senator "Vas very vigorous in his denuncia tion, of the Alliance editor, and as a climax he lifted , his . voice in its well Pa .it- .a a Known tremoio tin tne sash rattled, and cried, "I tell you Gere,: Burrows is a blankety blank sight meaner man than you are!". ; - . -:. .:ri. ' The listeners exploded. Mr. Gere smiled till the tears ploughed down his cheeks, the gentleman from Otoe blew his nose with a bang and the two statesmen stood solemnly up and gripped each other's hands and silently vowed friendship. No such solemn scene has been witnessed since Hasdru bal swore his son Hannibal to eternal enmity with Rome. Burrows will do well to lookout. When Gere and Van Wyck become reconciled and join forces in pursuit of one man there's going to be blood on the fair" face of many a harvest moon. Lincoln Herald. Mrs. Tangle (to hired girl) "See here, Bridget lot me bo hired girl for awhile, and you shall be the lady of the house." Bridget "AH right., ma'am; but what for? ' Mrs. Tnnle "VVIiy, I want io bo lioss for a little v.ii!e."' fitUburj C.'woiicfc. A STORY OF THE WAS. A" ieILnt of th D.y. Ai.og tha CUltfc ahoaaiajr. That Chickahominy was cr bad, bad place. I tell you. ""said Phirkett "It was in the days when there wai no peace between pickets. They didn't swap tobaeco for coffee, and 'say how are you. Yank, or how are you Johnny Reb. erlong tbem lines. A fellow had to keep behind something, and keep mighty close. Yoa could put your hat on your bayonet and stick it uut and three or four bullets would hiu it be fore you could say Jack Robinson. Sharpshooters were everywhere and it's of two of these that I want to toll yoa erbouL . , , , "For several days man after man was shot on the Confederate side, and the sharpshooters' place of conceal ment had not been spotted. At last one of the confeds decided that as soon as darkness come ergain he would ti v to make it to tsr Lie lnr th,,t i. .X tween the two lines, and so the next day he would have a better chance to observe up and down the line.. No sooner than dark come than the Con- federate started for his log. He gut there by crawling and Creeping and never cracking a stick. "At sunrise the next morning the Confederate was snugly planted be hind the big log, but he" was horror- stricken to discover that the fellow who had been doing the killing of his com rades for several days was just on the other side of the same log. They dis covered one another's presence at the same time and at the same time they . both lay mighty close to the ground and hugged the log. 'At last: the Confederate 'lowed to the Yankee: 'Hellow, Yank, you're in er mighty tight place, hain't yonr" , '"1 he same to yourself, Johnny Reb replied the Yankee. 'Well, darn you,' said the rebcL 'you daresent rais your head.' I he same to you,' said the Yank, "You make the first move.' "I'll let you do that.' "I hain't ergwyne to do it' "Nor I hain t ergwineto do IV "And so they talked for an hour or two, till at last they agreed to a truce between themselves, saying that it would be murder for them to shoot each otner under the circumstances. The agreement was that they should not molest each other but had the right to use every opportunity against any one else, and when night came they were to both retire from the log back Ui their comrades. "The day rolled on till awav nn in tho afternoon when a vournr fellow on the Confederate side tried to change - his position from one troo to another, when the Yankee behind the log pulled his irteger and the voun? fellow dropped dead. , An exclamation broke from the Confederate behind the loz and he 'lowed: "That tfas my brother! " 'Mv God. vou don't rbv n, K.iiil the Yankee. "Before a second could hate been counted, the Confederate's gun cracked and a younff soldier fell full lanrth from behind a tree. An exclamation hrnlrn from tiiA Yankee behind the log? and he Mowed: a hat was my brother! "'My God!" von don' lav nF .nid the Confederate. '"Yes .' said the Ynkp n1 h leaves a wife and three helpless chil dren back in York State.' "And my brother.' said the Confed erate, 'leaves a Door M fnthnr onr! ujotner wno Will grieve to riVafh nvr the loss of their youngest child.' -war sernad thing, er bad thiug." Atlanta Consttution. Encores. Encores have come to be a recog nized nuisance. The worst performer gets the loudest call. There is more of sympathy in the noise than compli ment. A veteran and accomplished teacher of music recently arranged a concert for her pupils, and on the tick ets she announced that no bouquets would be received and no encores re- onded to. This at once lifted an ex expensive burden from the friends of pupils, and a weight of expectant sor row from the minds of those who felt it a duty to attend the concert In the lowest plaoes of amusement where the patter of beer glasses joins the stamping of feet the encore is so com mon that the stage manager does not wait for it.- ; ; - He rings his bell and sends the per former on again for another turn, no matter how tough or undesirable the act just witnessed mav have been. John Stetson, the bluut-SDoken Hnd" eccentric Boston manager, when run ning a variety show, was persuaded to try a ham-fat actor who said he had a specialty in which, he could make a lut u he had a chance. The performer went on and went off, and there was not a sound of applause in the audi ence. , . That settles you," said the man ager: "get out!" . 4 I tell yon. governor," pleaded 'the poor actpr, made a big hit,'!. ; ," "Hit - be , banged!" said .. Stetson. There wasn't a baud!" "Of course not: of course not" snW , the actor. "I paralyzed 'em; the couldn't applaud." Detroit News. ' Has the San Moved? An East Machias lad v having nntinul in our , paper a Farraington man's -account of the sun's shining on a part of bis bouse that it never touched be fore, writes us of a similar phenom enon that has come within linr own observation. "My father's house, she says, "faces the southeast Exactly opposite the front windows in the sit ting room are two doors n tlhon uuui uuu u ciust-i noor. when l was a child, in the shortest day as the sun arose it came squarely into the room, shining ou the kitchen door from the window opposite that door. Now. in the shortest days, when the sun rises it shines from the wiudow opposite the kitchen door on the closet door, that is opposite the other window." The lady ffl positive as to this change, and thinks the "sua mnst have moved north" or the earth have chanced its relative position. Who will explaiuP Lewititon, Journal. A I .. l j