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SB. COLLIXS ASKED TO BESMiX. Resolutions of Gage County Alliance ' Condemning O. F. Collins. Fhe following resolutions were pa?vd ly the Gage County Alliance with but two ui.euiiu2 votes: Kkatimck. Neb.. Feb. 21. 1S91. Wheekas, It is a fact patent to all thatG. F. Collins by bis votes bus proven himself a traitor to ineumie pendent party; and j Whekka.4, The Farmers' Alliance comprises a largo majority of that par ty; therefore be it J Resolved, That G. F. Collins Ife re quested to resign his position as sena tor frnm Gncrt c-ouutv iinniMliatelr. and Mep down from the place he no lunger deserves to occupy; and be it further Resolved, That this Alliance does brand toe said Collins a traitor no longer entitled to the respect of his country men, no longer deserving to live in a country of freemen, a hen by his votes he lias shown himself a traitor to a free ballot and a fair count, aud we further hone he will see fit to leave the comity and state where he is no longer entitled u eitutnship; ana it ts iurinrr Resolved, That a copy of these resolu tions be forwarded to G. F. Collins and to The Fauhkiw' Alliance forpubli catiou with the request that all inde pendent papers throughout the state publish the sttne. W. L. KiKiEKS. . (1. li. Reynold. W. J. Ankeny. J. Lewis. J. M. MlLLBOLLAM. Couituittee. The above resolutions were parsed with but two dissenting vetes. (J. H. Reynolds, Sec. Fro tern. Why he Withdraws From the Democratic Party. A correHpondent of the World-Herald of Omaha, has the following able letter: Tkcumheii. Neb., Feb. 18. To the Kditor of the Wrld Herald. J What re lation do I bear to the whole body poli tic? Are there any special ' privileges obtained through class legislation? i'o what extent is the government respon sible for existing conditions? Have 'hard times" been the result of natural or ar tificial causes? Has tariff anything to do with hard times? Has the volume of money anything to do with prosperi ty, etc? When liie Individual begins to senomly ask questions like these, we can give him credit for opinions aud convictions. Otherwise, he has no opinion, is neither republican, demo crat or independent, but accepts his politics dogmatically. He is nothing more than a parrot using to many meauiogless pliraHes: I voted for Cleve land, not because tariff was my hobby, but more because I believed Cleveland's position on the tariff would turu the whole country into a debating school instead of au army of bloody shirt wavers. Every campaign for twenty live years hail oeeuan appeal totbespir it ot haired aud actual dissension. The people were dragged through the tragic sceues of the rebellion every four years, and until Cleveland'selectiou were made to believe that the ascendancy of the democratic party was the enthronement of the soulhren confederacy. They were made iuert to thought on any public -question. Therefore I am confident that the greatest blessing that has hap pened these people since the war, was the election of Cleveland. (treat crimes have been perpetrated upon the people while their attention was drawn to the bloady shirt. They passed laws directly in tlio interest of a tew money sharks, credit strengthening, national banking, contraction, demone tization of silver, power to increase or decrease our volume of curiency given to the banks: the unnecessary (perpetua tion of the bonded debt in order to per petuate the national banks are all in the interest of one of the vilest conspira cies the world has everltuown. I firmly believed all along that when the democratic party got sufficiently strong it would assert itself on these questions and again return to the house of its fathei s. Jefferson said: "Bank paper must be suppressed aud the circulation restored to the government, to whom it belongs; if a people have not control of their money, neither have they control of their lilierties." Mr. Cleveland's recent expression on the silver question, with the backing he is receiving by the eastern democracy, the recent action of the republicans and democrats, backed by the supreme court, in preventing the constitutional right of contest in this state, no matter how unjustifiable; the senseless tirade on Burrows, Powers and every man oc cupying prominence by virtue of the Independent movement, have been a Htiflicient causo or tuy withdrawal from the ranks of the democracy to join the new democratic party with Jelltrsonian doctrines the Independent party. "A Jepkeksoman Demockat." TIid Ilaraialtaii or t lllirrln Wiinl. The uams of harmattan bus beer given a p rioiliual wind which blows fro.n tho Interior of Africa toward the Atlantic Ocean during tho threo months of lecembi January ud February. It seta In with u Cos or dry hn.e which sometimts ooiicoul the sun for whole wcoU toothor. F.tery plant, bltof gr;i and leaf In its eotir U withered as llt-nigh U had bent wiivred by heat from a furnace; often within nn hour nfier It bgln to blow irreoii er.m U drv (hhlIi to burn Uku pajMr. Uvot the hatsleiied native' Ioho all of the skin on imKiMt.l. part' during the prevalence of tlii wilder liij; wind. . t rii ii, Yti"n tmi m britjftnl thnt nnjy one p tbl e xvtiUoii bud tikn pi r.i In Turkey in flvn year, an nt;IUu man liivetliti I n.d tMtt-otvrV'l tiiat nil culprit wlio o A I rt.i ! n to brltxniM'i iuL bwd ..AVrv.l tlrn'lt ilir Intf tho Ul .1, yv Iiti U uIwh a jf rfmw fkir auvtbinjf t'lrtt In !'!'"' t T 'irbtv, 1 C)lUf CUtW. K'lurtio oftoa runiplltuent ru ll Mr. Tr '! wa tigr my view atai.t thing U trvu.tr 1 ottidajf then Urn .iid I pu him In tub, J of a pottitt h b ii r 4 tin ti . Hi, It m li't)fio.i tMi,' " WMi,;ton J'wiV THE FARMEKS' ALLIANCE, LINCOLN, NEB., SATURDAY MAR. 7, 1891. e3.L'" TWO DREAMS. fed On aigfat 1 wrat to fairrlaml, rty favi and rives attended. With winsome sprites on every hand Ah Die. the sc?qv was spleuUid. Aud I was no itt when 1 woke, And fouud tb dream was ended. ff Another niflit I drove amain Through fleUls that were not sunny, ' Willi imp and th-uiouu in tuy traiu Intent on Mng funny ; And I wouldn't drf-nin that lreuoj -niu Fur any amount of money . Jiwephiue 1'oHard, in Han-rs Young People. COL BEXTHAM'SIlKVEXfi E C'4j1. Bentham had been pernlexcfl. He had not fell quite sure whetiier he was in love or not Ha bud had an idea that be was not in love, but was only obeying tho motive which had made hl.n adopt Eva Tibuldi, educate her in Europe, give her that trainicg of her voice which had equipped her (in case opportunity were given) for success on the itagre) and bring her finally to live in his homo in New York. Tills motive had been revenge. Tho colonel is now in his sanctum, his library and smoking-room. Im agine a tall, fashionably dressed man, not yet 40. His hair Is blonde, but the pale, mussive foatures of his face are neither effeminate nor coarse. The deep-net eyes of very pale blue are piercing, and the jaw a little srjuare. There seems a wunt of emotion in tho tnin lip?. Certainly the colonel wears tho stamp of a strong, passionate tis ttt re (for passion and emotion are not one), with a spirit of rage bordering on cruelty us its substratum. A name less refinement, almost fastidiousness, an ease of maimer, a power of courte ous words, are among the colonel's most obvious traits. The men he meets ut his club think him pleasant, the women whom he sometimes chats with und compliments say he is de lightful. How then can the ruling epirlt of his life bo revenge? It is pretty late to-nlcht and yet the colonel never seemed more wide awoke, more alert. He is waiting for a ring at tho door. Eva had gone to the Metropolitan opera-house under churgo of his sister his dour, silver haired Penelope. They are to hear tho famous singers of the your, some of whom Eva met ut Florence in her old musical days.' Tho colonel detests opea, us he detests tho whole sluglnjr. profession. Yet It is only carrying out his plan und purpose that Eva should delight in music, in order that she may resemble her sister all the more and be made passionate and im pressible as was her sister. He Is thinkinsr of her sister at this moment. He rises from the soft, ioather-covored eaay chair where he has been sitting, und draws aside a curtain which looks like a narrow portiere. It discloses an easol, nnd set upon it ts a full-reti;lh picture of a lady in pink a lady whose skin eclipses in clearness tho tint so often fatal to beauty, and whose eyes are at once shadowy, profound, and penetrat ingeyes too dangerpus to look upon for long. It is not, however, a long time since the colonel has looked upon them. Yet he has never fceu them for the last fifteen ycaty without feeling a tightness at the heart, as if ho had received a blow which not only pained him, but which some 6trunge bar rier prevented him from returning. And mingled with this bitterest of bitter mental pangs there has boon a kind of regret, or sorrow, bordering on tenderness, which might 6ome day, Ions, long ago, have been love. The colonel had loved the woman of that portrait. And she well, she had gone the WHy of many women. A singer, gifted as herself, had enticed her from her intended husband and had married her. Two years later the woman had died of a broken heart, leaving her little sister without a home. Then tho colonel did two things. First of all he went to the painter to whom tho dead diva in her palmy days of luxury hud given many sittings, tnd ordered a full-length portrait of Marietta Tibuldi. This picture bo had set up, on tho very caxel on which it hud been painted, in his own privalo room. Then a curtain was hung over It, as he had seen d.iuo with some European nllar-pioces, I.Ike a prion bjfoio a shrino would he stand and ga.o upon this rudiaut, laughlug, and triumphant linage of virginal loveli ness and pourer. Tho second thing ho did was to obtain from the drunken tenor the legal tight ot au adoptive father over the child Eva. The Indulgence of any great passion, veil envy hatred, or rogrel, uecomoa i eventually a source of inumsu delight, j and the more so the more this ludulg- suiti Is Imaginative and Intellectual, j ('ok BeitthiuH. up U the present time, after gassing upon this portraii, would : lir mt and grow pain, Mshmw would j gathwr I aemO, hi" hand would be come clliu'hwd. But thU e M'itmmt had timing m.t from love but from hati'etl; tils had Ihwu n worship t-oin posed of riijjwtwd vJMitT.it Ion voitsv'ioi of their impoUtiiiHs )vt feeding o.i a t Intuit f a future -utiio. Thai" mii) knock at ilm dime of th t obsiieCti rooiii. Hit limur ouV'il. II if f urturlmd ut .-iaer tti'ilrUt'tl with tli l iiUit, Mis!titf air of r.cr hrothur, IV.Kdvl seviued to Imv 'u ciy Vmu nsi!"l mbi.l t,hj pu'ttir ttni.'tit, Kioto!-,'' I lU'iilliam miitS laly. '(J ft' l-j it hi r vjo M wf turned to the portrait 'I an new man, and can look upon it with indifference now." "What do you mean, brother?" nsked Penelope, disengaging from her shoulder the black lace shawl, and nervously drawing off her glove.-, a if to delav the uisihargo of some unpleasant duty. I mean thut I have exchunged hatred for forgiveness. These many years I have planned n deliberate re venge for a cruel" wrou? that had been done me. For this purpose 1 kept Eva ignorant of her own history. It was my wish to make tho sister of Marietta love me, and feel that only in me could she live and be happy. I educated her in reflnement.and luxury, and in the most emotional form of art; I met her every wish, gratified her Idlest whim. Then, when her love for me should be rije, when she should have consented to bo my wife, and looked forward to being cherished, honored, and protected by me, 1 intended bringing her face to fuce with this picture, enchantress with enchantress, the Innocent with tho guilty, and telling that I hated her be cause of the treachery of her sister whom she so marvelously resembled. I purposed after this turning her out of my house with a bare pittance to live upon." Penelope shuddered, but not at the words of the colonel. 8ho looked curi ously at his face, which was radiant with fresh and tender light "I have relented," said tho colonel. "Eust night her beauty broke down my resolve and she triumphed over mo by admitting with happy tears that sho loved me. And now, Penelope, 1 wish to see her before she retires to night so that in your presence " Penelope grew white whiter and more haggard than she was when she entered the room. Sho rose and laid her hand upon his arm. 'Brother,'' sho said in a sort of a whisper, "Eva is not at home." The colonel turned quickly and his eyes widened with surprise, "Knrdy she is not out alone?" ho gasped almost emphatically, "She bus left us! This note was givcu to me nt tho cut Hugo door; she must have slipped off as we parsed tli rough the foyer." Bcnthum with a hasty movement took tho fragment of paper. "Soldlgno, the tenor I know liiui," he said calmly, dropping tho note to the ground, "and every capital in Europo knows him. Well, Fortune is a woman and a perverse one. I asked for revenge and she sent me a dream of love and peace; and now that 1 uc cept it as my destiny, she snatches it away and gives me my revenge instead. I will not ftiarret with her; for if there Is a hell on earth," und here his facd changed with a gleam of almost exultation, "Soldlgno will provide it for the woman that loves him." . -Epi-pbanius Wilson In the Epoch. PROGRESS OF MINISTERS. Thime with Large Con err gal Ion Kin ml Mill liitellt-efually. 'Farmton" snys In tho Advance: I like to study tho development of ministers, or the failure of ministers to develop. A good many ministers I meet not, oftencr than once u yeur. Such Infrequoncy of meeting gives better ground for teslirg the progress of ministers thuti a frequent meeting. I have been ruck by wht seems to me to be the failure of ministers to develop in mind and heart. I find that several of them do not now speak as well as they spoke five or eight years ago. This decline, I think, is more common among ministers of largo churches than of small; more common among ministers thut have large relations with tho public than among those who live more private lives. I infer, therefore, thut the minister whoso services are dUcrso and frequent has a much harder task to develop himself than tho minister whose labor Is more secluded. If were to utter n word of warning to liny of tho popular preachers of tho time, it would be, 'Your intellect will go to pieces upon the rock of popularity. At fifty-five, when you ought to be in your prime tmd still growing, you will be in your decline, if you donot give heed to yourself. ' " Learning the Hiinlneu, Dealer Vat hupjmu to die bat? Small soii--I vus snpjlu' it vlf my vlngcrs, like you do, to xtiow a gu tomer vat good stun it vns, and It proke. 'Mine Cootness! You l.avn't got praius enough to elt beniiuK Yen jousnsp a bat to rhow It can't ' prvke, you uiut keep vun hand lnldr, so it not break." New York Weekly, The Arklm AtHtrtutw alien," said Mi. Tenderfoot, thrill, ingly, d'!i'lbiiig hi wetr ml vritUitvs, "Hie Indian stole i'ih.u mV -And whut did th.ly do?" .r,Uli. ly aaiivnl a friend. "Then tlmy ki hily stole mery, thing el a!'' - Ntiw ork ll'nii.l, ' - - .- Wade t !.(!. t. ""I'liftl ak lU ! tni had U m V' ipir was the fiti alti t U ii 1 nt tviid," c(4 al;tr tdtm otitur I ni glad to bear )ou i.y so. Oli, nut at nil. It Mud id uikU tU'j Id 114 U. I UivurfM tiutuid mil, Id spit bU sUloc"--Aeksit Tr a 1 ;U,, A GETTYSBURG HEROINE. kbe Baked Bread for the Soldier While the Battle Was ' In his rerainiscense of Gettysburg, fien. Henry W. Slocum narrates this interesting Incident: "Wo called at tho bouse which has always bevn an object of interest to all who visit this Held. Near the line occupied by tho brigade under com mand ottien. J.B. Carr. of Troy, X. Y., stands a little one-story house, which at the time of the buttle was occupied by a Mrs. Uogcrs nnd her daughter. On the morning of July 2, (ten. Carr stopped at tho houso und found the daughter, a girl about lH years of age, alone busily engaged In baking bread. He informed her that a great, battle wus inevitable, and ad vised 1ier to seek a place of safety at once. Sho said she hud a batch of bread beking In the oven, and sho would remain until It wus' baked and then lo tvo. When her bread wus baked, it was given to our soldier, and devoured so eagerly that sho con cluded to remain aud bake another batch. And so she co-itinuod until the end of the buttle, baking and giv ing her bread to all who came. The great artillery duel which shook tho earth for miles around did not drive her from her oven. Pickett's men who charged past her houso found her quietly bukliig her bread and dis tributing it to the hungry. When tho battle was over her house w.is found to be riddled with shot and shell, and seventeen deud bod Ins were taken from the house nnd cellar; the bodies of wounded men who had crawled to tho littlo dwelling for sludter. Twenty years after tho close of the war (leu. Carr's men and other held u grand reunion nt Gettysburg; and learning thut Josephine Hogors was still living, but hud married and taken up her residence in Ohio, they sent for her, paid her passage from hor home to Gettysburg and buck, and hod her go to her old homo nnd tell thorn the story which they all knew so well. They decorated her with u score of army badges, and sont her buck a happy woman. Why should not tho poet lmiiiorlalizo Josephine Bogors 1:1 lie did Barbara FrlotchloP" The Hon-f That Iteai hed Their Hearts, A gentleman who was recently ut 11 small-hour banquet relates: "It is astonishing how inuny business men are good singers. You will find more men who can ting than you will find women. At tho affair of which I spouk thore were representative from nearly every foreign country, our own couu trymen, of course, predominating. And most of those present wero sing ers, A young student from Heidel berg gave us In its native tonguo, Olie Watch on tho Hhlne,' for which, of course, he received the customary recognition. An Englishman tang 'Annie Laurie,' an Irishman 'The Harp ihnt Once Jhro luru 9 Hull,,' und a Frenchman the 'Marseillaise.' Euch oneof these songs was a well rendered as 1 ever heard it, and I know they wero till appreciated. Then some one gave us 'America.' It didn't quite hit, in some way. A young man with one of those ringing tenor voices started the 'Stur-Spunglod Banner.' Before he reached tho chorus every man was on his feet, and each one was waving ids napkin, and each 0110 was tinging with ail bis might. They went over it again and again, and I never heard such singing In my life. That was the song that reached their hearts." Philadelphia Press. Jay Gould's Pointer on Nlo km. I A. Towne, a wealthy man of Austin, Tex., tells this littlo Niory: "I got my start in life through Jay Gould. I was a porter in a hotel at Greenood lake where Jay Gould used to stop, and the financier took 11 fancy to mo somehow. One day just us ho was starting to New York I said to him: 'Mr. Gould, I have saved up $.'00 and I would like to increase it In the next few mouths and go West and invest It' Gould lookod at mo sharp ly u moment and then whispered in my ear, 'Buy Erie.' I bought Erie and cleared over f 1,000 on the, invest ment The next timo Gould came V the lake be asked me If 1 hud followed hi instruction. I told hi in that I hud. 'Soli It at once und keep your promise about going West, ld Mr, Gould. That night I telegraphed an order for the sale of my slock and thu next time Jay Gould visited Green wood lake his favorite porter was miming. He had gone Went, bought a ranch and ho has grown up lth the country."--X. Y. Tribune, Whf "he Keep Mill, That woman at the corner of the table I trry silent, in I she?" She h a good n to be. Any m 010411 under her rlrcuintniv would au the Mine." v "Oh, what 1 It. Jitu; fthst' the r-Mou?'' pUitdd Mx Bottieu. who dually loved a andaL "Why, V deaf and dumb,''- Phil adtpUU '1 lute. IMilM't IM MiM M t,wd, A.--VH sSiOt'Ui iM.ttM), Vii!itn irt a lvtmlnif in '' tut maii, t. n tia- l U II ,rw iir",'l- M, j.-, IHo H IturrUut I want) )" "H'lijr lid i a' I jf l )wur w,f. U "en U,'f ifcvUff a!l t'iw jv4 "I'M At VUiHjJ, j , ..I Crete, Saline Co., Nebraska. I'M I hare at One a roiled Ion of Ihia nol4 breed as there la In the west, both italllon and mare, all tot Ibem Imported by invmlf In person. Am from two jrears upward. The f are dnenod antt front the beet lrln of blond ibat Eng-land ha produced. All snarantend breeders. Ti.hu rot'ti. rt anv: . Will a half an inter t to r-HHiHile nan If. Have taken more nx at lite Ntthraaaa Mate r air. and Omaha than an other Khirw exhibit fur (be amouut ut stuck bown. Cuiiie and aeeibcm. , t7-& HIGHLAND STOCK FARM TOPEKA, KAN8AO. V "English Shire, Percheronand Frencli DRAFT HORSED. Maryvlllo Nodaway Oo. Mo. W. kv M hone ot the bov breed whlah for fee la l14ol and tohole hroMtlf hot bo Okoelled. A eertlflnat of roflstry aa auaraatr aoooaipanlo oaoh tor. If t4 waat a oooo u.irei. stalliom, woava Moaar, ooao to our bare with wo r aaaABb raraa aad w will surprise yow wltS oat eeoo auasa m wf paiea, tm-U BARN AT WABASH PASSENGER WILLIAM ERNST, GRAF, JOHNSON COUNTY, NEC3ASXA Fercneron and French Coach Horcc3. Vrard.v,HWM American and Prouoh Htud Hook an oertlNvale f urnlabod at aio. I fev the beat blond In aslstonoo la mf lud ami sail horse oa a terras. If I don't off fou better horses for less mono than aor other Importer or brooder, I will par rour oapo ea of 00 ml lie to air place, aud fou (hall b tbs Judy. Mr farm, known a lb Wolf re I pieoa rsrm, i inuaiea on me u. n. 01 v T- oeiween Teeum.o ana noorasa t;njr. wiism khroo-fourtb of a mil of railroad .Uiloii oalled Oraf. WnuforoataJoiuooroout see we. laiun ....I ln.nl.n lr DEAL WITH THE GROWER AND Seivo Middle E?rofLta! . B0TABLUUIO mm. too ACRES CHOICE TREES AND PLANTO Suited to Ncbruki, Rcadf te mU. stock Trui to Name. PACKED TO t Beodlian at rush of dourer, Larf Btooh of Fnrert MsatToa raaMia' Auuioi when wrMaf Addrea CRETE NURSERIES, T NON EXCELLED i . fnw 1 1 J. .W HARTLEY, State Affcnt. ELITE STUDIO. The fmrst ground floor rhc!ogrh CHry in the State, AH Work in tht finest finWh. Sjtufattion (tiurantccd. i6j nth itrrt. T. W, TOWNilESI), frrietof, The Latest Improved and Best End-gato Seeder. ! lS4l - ii WM. BURGESS, Blue Vallev Stock Farm. Importer of Englishshires. P. B. BIX & Co. Propr'o, I sorter aad Breeder et SHIRE, PERCHERON, CLYDESDALE AKH COACH HORSES. upertAr bnrse, lea tfae. lew lam derate prtoea. No other trm la Asrl4 ell to stoAk oonpsnlet under tho mm sir a rateia that w id, whlah insura to nnwnaoto Sqiiar aeaunf , suooostrui oreeaers aao lute suooaes. wo kav at present ataoiea ta winaero 01 iv7 ynaoo ropo and Aaeriea Our ird Uat fall at Mtsonurl Btato Fk Kansas Bute Pair aad Atehlsoa AvHoelterel fair was tant-to prUos, fouruoa 4 prise and all (woopstake. JTWrlte Inr lllnatratad eatalnouo. fAWM A NT) KTABLSS TwossUotoae et illsblaod Park TOtUKX, MJkM. l T. OXJTHIER&S01T, ntPOkTiu or DXrOT. Wh writlat Boatloa thl llfPOBTIK AND IDKKOf BMaa 1 hav tho largeat and boat Int of Prohron Ctalllon of serrloahea M waat of the Mississippi. I hav over tweotjr ietd ana aolla44 lalllon, whloh, tf other with if this faar laiporUrton. aiakooo of tbs nsttoolloatloo ef hor evrn atone man' barn, I naof alto a tlna lot of fount l ported and home bred mare, and a few oholoe Kranuk Ooaob stallions. All mr horses are reoorded la Ike OHIO HERD OF POLAND CHINA SWK.E, niADsn r Jumbo 11809, the Iowa First Prize mal 1S00. Tb larf est herd and tho larest Individual owned br ooo aa Asstorweet. j bav tilire of aliases and either ms for sale, f rota i.b farmer liuir to the moat valuahl (bow animal, and of all the raialllr known to Poland Ohlna horn. The following male la aoo forimil. Humb llsus; Doctor Will Orient 12167 Youaf Jaasb Vol IS A P. (1. II'. In.pectlon Invited. Kree llrerr to drive to farm en appltoattoa te O. W. Baldwin, Uvorynian, CatuWue and nrloe on applWaUoav tmU T.MAMIUb, Wast Liberty. Iowa. Sttlsftetlsn Guartnttsa CARRY SAFELY. Low Rata aad la rMso!! part M MrMh load for Cataif' i E. r, STEPHENS, CRETE, NT3. DISC HARROW LAWRENCE IUPLEHEHT CO., Wholctalo and Retail Dealer la Mil FARM MACHINERY. Best in tho market. No Farmer should be without ono For Sale by Wo can make you special prices on a uiucu uurauor ox '"'v"-5 thcao. P flend in your order y- at owco. i " , ' ; J. W. HAKTIeEY. it Lincoln, Nob,