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.
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