THE FAKMEKS' ALLIANCE, LINCOLN, NEB., THURSDAY . OCT. 22, 1891.
T tbt CitlMH Votcrt of Nebrask.
Tbeekction U at hand. You arefain
"brought face to face with the money
yower of Wall ftreet and London, m
repnainted by the two old parties. Let
m all vote for Edgerton and the people's
ticket, for oar home and freedom, and
akake oil Snylock'a fetters. I It possi
Ue there are any who would forget the
mered memories that crowd around the
glorious names of Washington and
JJacoln, and allow these rem pint to
Irs them and their cnildren down to
the level of Ferrt and Ireland?
The platforms of the old parties say
than is great prosperity in Nebraska.
If olunderins- is prosperity then that is
tree of the money power, for they will
soon hare plundered the people of all
Smt own, except weir souisana ooaina,
nless we elect men like Edgerton. We
lave no use for a Fo.it; be would only
be a sign post for the B. & M. if elected.
Let Editor Gere plant bin outside bis
office for a Sign Post to show where
the 8. 4 M. Journal is printed.
Oar numbers have vastly increased,
the Grand Army veterans are nearly
all with us. and let ui all work and
vote for Edgerton and the people's
ticket and we shall come out with flying
colors.
Thra eomradf turn oat on election day,
We will vlve tbnee old ehjlocke a ilauchter,
tX ui alwayi remember toe Newberry bill
And boodle sad Bojrd sod Hosewater.
Yours for freedom,
C. E. Bullock.
Cybcs, Nob., Oct. 15, 1891.
" Editor Alliance : The indepen
dent at their convention at Sidney,
Keb., nominated a straight Independent
ticket. The leopard tried to lie down
with the kid, but it found the kid had
grown to be a full sized goat and could
Sack like a buck of old. We had ' sev-
ncy, but it would not work. So we
pot a full ticket in the field. We also
hare a full precinct ticket of Indepen
dents. James F. Townson, J. P.
Judge Bryant Prophesies.
Hartihotom, Neb., Oct. 12, 1891.
Editor Alliance-: This county will
give Edgerton 1,000 out of 1,500 votes.
We an making a house to house cam
paign. Letthlsbedoneineverycounty.
More good can be done that way than
by oratory, though both have their
place. You can catch the farmer at
Lome, though he ifl too busy to come
oat.
The appointment of Mercer as chair
man of the republican state central
committee means boodle, and lots of it.
Look for ft in the closing days of the
campaign. Stand firm, boys; if you
waver you're gone.
Wilbur F. Bryant.
Cherry County to the Front.
Valentine, Neb , Oct. 14, 1891.
Editor Alliance: The Cherry
county Independents are up in arms
lighting for principle and the cause of
.the people. They have placed a full
tioket in the field. Deoh and Edger
ton's speech did a great deal of good
and created an immense amount of
enthusiasm. The following candidates
were nominated at the county conven
tion on August 15. 1891:
O. W. Hahn, clerk; Walter Lumbv,
treasurer; John Riley, sheriff; 8. E.
Uolsclow, county judge; C. H. Dety,
superintendent of schools; T. Hulbert,
surveyor; commissioner Mrst district,
V. P. Sterling; Second district, J.
Mogle. Liberty. '
: Tabitha Home.
? Our readers may not generally know
that we have In the city of Lincoln,
noted for its public institutions, a home
for nrnhan plilklrnn annnnrlaH nntirnlv
by private benevolence. Such, how
ever, is the case, and the Tabitha Ger
man Orphans' Home, situated in the
southeastern suburbs of the city is
worthy the support of Nobraska's phil
anthropists and all those interested in
her unfortunate and destitute little
ones. Bro. D. H. Doeden, tho secretary
of the board of trusteeii, has just com
pleted his annual report whlth is full of
intcret and from which we take the
folio win g statistics :
There were 39 orphans in the home at
the beginning of the year. 45 made
application and were admitted the
WUAIlt T QDI1 TlBA Bnuu nnn. n I n.
hurst seminary to be educated there and
nn mnrfl trill an unnn Torn Haatha
occurred during the year, 13 were taken
. out and adopted by good families, leav
: ing 07 children in the home at this time.
The home has a hospital in connection
. where 40 patients were treated the past
: year, 4 of these died and 7 are now fre-
ing cared for.
The total receipts from September 30,
1890, to October 1, 18U1, Including hos
pital receipts, were 18 421.54.
The expenditures for same time were
' tS.CO'i 49, leaving a small deficiency to
. be made up by the friends of tho home
' the coming year. The result of the year's
work is very gratifying and reflects
' great credit on the trustees, and we
' hope all our readers wiii remember the
work of this institution and assist as
ability permits in extending its useful
ness and efficiency. You can tret anv
- information desired by writing to the
secretary, air. V. tt. Doeden, Cook,
Nebraska.
Resolutions of Condolence.
North Loup, Neb., Sept. 29, 1891.
Resolutions of condolence adopted by
Davis Creek Alliance, No. 307.
Whereas. Our Heavenly Father in
, His wisdom has called one of our dearly
beloved members, brother Theodore P.
Weed, unto Himself, therefore be it
Resolved, That in his death the order
has lost an esteemed brother, and the
community a man of the highest moral
.worth.
Resolted, That we, his brothers and
' sisters in council assembled, tender our
heartfelt sympathy to his widow, sister
Sarah Weed, and his bereaved children,
- raster Myra Thrasher and his two sons,
Hubert and l nuriow; ana runner
Resolved, That a copy of these resolu
- tions be sent to the family and published
in the county papers and tho t armeks
Alliance of Lincoln, Neb., and be
' spread tpon the records of thio Alliance,
Samcel Thompson,
Joseph H. Clark.
v Anna Tappair,
Committee.
The Oregon Alliance: Excessive
'treat is eating the lifo out of the
business enterprises not under the fds
taring care if monopoly in almost
.every city. . Tho percentage of our
people living In tenement houses
Is yearly increasing. The mortgage
foreclosures are daily wrenching from
bard-working, honest farmers the
"homes they love. There are 1,500,
400 tenement farmers lb the United
Hates, There's occasion for alarm.
mipiEN.
AN EXCEEDINGLY INTERESTING
LETTER
From an Alliance Sister Who Interests
Herself in all Questions.
Bloomfifld, Neb., Oct. 11, Ml.
Editor Alliakce: I am glad to see
that now and then a sister f-nds courage
to remind your readers that women are
in our ranks, but I believe many really
interested refrain from an exhibition of
their knowledge and hopes of future
justice when the new, more liberal
party of the people shall have gained
possession of the political field, simply
because of the old hoe and cry against
" woman suffrage." I wish the wives of
Alliance rren all over this land would
and could read just this paper ind the
Xoneonormist of Indiana. (Formerly
of Kansas.) Every womanly woman
among them would soon be enlisted in
this great work, to the extent of her
time and opportunity. I am hoping
many silent ones are exerting a home
influence which will tell at the polls in
November. Why may not this same
influence be used against those members
of the late legislature who voted down
the bill granting the franchise to our
sisters of the city where It would bo
their weapon against the liquor power?
Let us not forget that our noses were not
counted when prohibition was "snowed
under" last fall, and when, as a corres
pondent said, " the willol the people was
expressed at the polls." You see the
interpretation of the word people by an
egotistical class Is voters, which leaves
os out. Without the privilege of a
forceful, public expression of our na
tional wants, we appear to have no
rights which man is bound to respect,
except a sort of lordly protection, indi
vidually. I dislike to think that inde
pendents, pledged to such grand princi
ples as those of the Alliance, would
make such manly, efforts to secure the
rights In full which a generous constitu
tion guarantees all its cithtns and then
at the first opportunity deny oppressed
women the entire and complete rights
of citizenship. However it appears to
be a fact; probably because we did not
organize in suflkleut numbers and
march In solid phalanx to the state
house and demand it. I expected of
such men the ready acquiesence to this
measure, broadened to the admission of
our sex in the country districts as well.
The few legislators of our party who
allowed themselves to be controlled by
selfishness, prudish noss or prejudlce.on
iuu iirsi iriai, may yei nna " woman in
politics "greatly to their dUoomfiture.
I had
not intended to make this a
woman
suirrage harangue, and will
leave it here.
1 am content to see that women every
where are putting their shoulder to the
reform wheel and deserving all the
woman's share of praise and approba
tion for good thorough work accom
plished. m Why cannot every Alliance have a
Mrs. Kelly to euthuse and cheer them
in the cause of down-trodden humanity f
Our box generally is always Interested
in the expenditure of dollars and cents,
why should we not be equally so in the
cause which make them plenty or
soarce? For myself, I am surprised to
tir.d what an Interesting subject our
financial bj stem really is.
In our own state the transportation
problem really takes precedence of all
others, especially since the disgraceful
proceedings of last winter at the capital.
I wonder how many of our sisters
read that tine poem, "Ibe Sung of the
Cob." Such beautiful products of talont
and human sympathy are not to bo
compared with the meaningless rhymes
which adorns tho columns of so many
papers. I most heamllv aorren with
Sister Emily Burton that the coal mines
should be worked in the interest of all
the people: but that can never he till
they are nationalized, and then it weuld
avail us nothing without irovernnifint
ownership and oeralion of the robber
railroads, i his latter must come soon
No sensible, honest person fails to an
preciate the benefits this reform would
oostow upon each and every class alike
I think, as a corrcsuondent of this r,
per said some time since, that the trans
portation plant, as it now stands in our
people's platform, Is tho weakeet of all,
and should be amended at the Wash
ington convention. Let it ue shortened
to a Hat, plain declaration for govern
ment ownership and operation, as
rapidly as ways and means ran hn nm.
vided. And yet I dare say, thousands
line lujsuu never even inougnt Ot such
a grand thing as this will prove two or
three years ago; while the most un
learned hay-seed says, the moment it is
explained to him, "why not, sure
enough! the postal system is a perfect
success." Did you ever think, brothers
and sisters in the Alliance, how very
absurd it is for the irovernraent each
year te pay the railroads of the United
States the sum of nine millions for carry
ing mail, when at the same time gov
ernment aid built or helped build and
equip them, and most of them still in
debted for this and interest thereon. It
would seem that in common deoenrv
they would carry mails to balance in
terest on the bonds they reap such ben
efits from. "
I must say before coin further that
Sister Belle can secure the paper she
desires by addressing the Farmer's Fife.
Topcka, Kan. It is a fifty cent Alliance
monthly, especially lor women, and no
doubt should have a laree circulation.
Two neighbor ladies could club together
and secure choice reform literature
cheaply. It is quite surprising to find
now many Alliance members tako the
same old partisan papers, which have
amused and fooled ua while we wore
being robbed and enslaved, and yet
they fail to perceive they nourish vipers.
ith earnest wishes for success of
our paper and ticket.
Mhs. Lccas.
The Return of gold.
So gold is coming back from Europe,
is it? Yes, but why did it go? And
why does it return? Let us see. Under
the guidance of the money power acting
through the two old parties, our country
has needlessly become indebted to mon
archial Europe to the extent of hundreds
of millions of dollars, and the interest
on the vast sum is pledged in gold. So
the gold, oub gold, for all the gold
money in this country belongs to the
people, was sent abroad to pay needless
indebtedness to the money lords of the
old world. But as soon as our gold is
paid to, English lords to liquidate in
debtedness, It became the money of
foreigners. Now it returns but how?
It comes for investment by foreign syn
dicates. In this way England is rap
idly acquiring the ownership of our
country Let us put on the brakes and
stop the whole concern. Labor Wave.
The Issuance and Distribution of Money,
The Slate, of Sept 10th. invites discus
sion of the most important question in
American politics, viz: Issuance and
distribution of money. Ia the ou'.set
the Slate ignores the most important
part of our financial system. All na
tions have tied down their people in the
transactions of their commerce to the
use of metal as a medium of exchange.
and through this plan the wealth pro
ducing classes of all nations have en'
joyed less of the frails of their otcn labor
than those who were more fortunately
born and labored not at all. - We pro
pose to discuss this question from the
light and lessons of the past. And we
believe that any system of coinage or
distribution which we may institute will
fail of our object unless we first strike
down the barbaric and foolish plan of
buying high priced metal to print our
law crested medium of exchange upon.
In thirty years interest for the use of
money and gambling in the same, has
builded up the most colossal fortunes
ever known, and left behind on the
shoulders of the producers the most gi
gantic load of debt known to history.
We are struggling to evolve a plan not
only to get from under this load of law
created debt but also to prevent a repe
tition of the same.
As long as gold and silver are used
for money just so long will the people
pay interest for their use. They are the
basis of money gambling audhavbg ex
clusive monetary functions they are
easily cornered and labor forever com
pelled to pay a tribute for its use. These
are facts already established by history;
any it is not necessary to enter into any
lengthy argument in their support. '
The editor says we must be brief, but
this is a big question. Let us then sup
pose that gold and silver are the same
as wheat or corn, simply commodities
for sale to those who want to buy. Now
let me briefly give our position on the
question of distribution. The law should
fix a certain tract or number of acres of
land as a homestead, free from taxation
or execution, then a graduated land tax
on all holdings above this, then that
these homestead holdings be available
as security to government for govern
ment loans and that the laborers lot of
land in the city should be also good for
a government loan. But the State says
in regard to this and the sub-treasury
plan: "No argument has yet been pre
sented, Indeed, no argument could be
presented, which would justify such a
limitation." l will then venture to
tread upon ground yet untrod. We
suppose that it is admitted that ficm the
sou and the toller s labor comes the
wealth of tho world. The wealth which
keeps the Hour mills grinding and gives
employment and wages to those who la
bor but do not till the sol!; which fills the
railroad train and gives wages and em
p'oyment to thousands; and that fur
nishes the material for factories and
wages for tons of thousands thus em
ployed. And then, besides what these farmers
of earth directly consume of iron and
steel and fabrics of the loom, they indi
rectly support the other thousands who
help to make up the errand total of our
eating, wearing and consuming family.
Now then, the prosperity of the
farmer will fix the prosperity
of all other classes. A brief
and fleeting business prosperity can be
enjoyed by sacrificing the producer, in
other words by killing the goose which
lays tin golden eggs, the killer may have
some short-lived and immediate pros
perity but his producer is gone. This is
our present governmental system; for
thirty years we have been killing the
producers of our wealth, the support
of all other industries the farmer. He
has striven against a combination of un
just laws, unjust commercial systems,
ana human greed organized into inhu
man corporations. Slice by slice have
these combinations which enslave labor
and feed on the fanner, taken frot i next
the heart, until tho brink of the abyss is
now readied, moso who have been
fattened would now destroy the empty
forms of a people's government. And
the farmer, staggering with his load of
legal but unjust debt, if salvation comes,
must be the savior. (Jan our friend the
State see nothing in this which would
justify making used and useful soil the
basisot our circulating medium of trade?
All other business and employment is
incidental, the tiller of the toil is the
foundation. Our present systems are
to favor incidental business and ignore
the foundation. Do you want further
proof? Look at the results of a policy
which favors incidental business, who
was it that thirty years ago owned a
large per cent of the wealth of this na
tion, and who that new carries a load of
debt beyond the comprehension of man
in ueu oi the wealth be owned. To
make the foundation of all business and
employment sound and stablo is not in
justice to those who rest upon it.
Ibe second part of the State s propos
itions we will reply to next week.
fraternally,
K. G. Stewart.
14,000,000 Starving Peasants,
l ate dispatches to the Daily Telegraph
from St. Petersburg says that a revolu
tionary society at Kieff is endeavoring
to take advantage of the prevailing
famine to excite a revolt. Exiles from
Switzerland and France have guided
the movement
The authorities have broken up their
secret literary clubs, prohibited all
their meetings called for discussions
and scattered their books to the winds.
There was a reunion of the students
convened to petition the authorities tor
the release of such of their number as
had been arrested, but the governor, In
stead of acceding to their request,
threatened to surround the university
with Cossacks.
The government is negotiating for
the purchase 01 large quantities ot
breadstuffs in the United States. The
Chronicle has a dispatch from Paris say.
ins that the Hebrew bankers there are
combining to render nugatory all efforts
to noat a Kussian loan.
St. Petersburg. Oct. 14. Medical
councils have been summoned in the
distressed provinces of the emnire
Scurvy and typhus are raging in the
wsko 01 me iatuine.
Tho Jfovosti says that the famine pre
vails in thirteen different governments
qi the country ana that 14,000,000 per
sons aro in urgent need of succor.
The government is purchasing corn
for the puvpose of feeding the famishing
peasants of the stricken districts during
the winter months. The sufferers in
the Volga districts will be the first to
receive assistance, as it is considered
absolutely necessary to succor them be
fore tho Volga is frozen over. Twenty
pounds of wheat will be given each
1 person.
THE FABM AND FIELD.
MATTERS TO INTEREST RURAL
READERS.
About PlowingAbsorbent Power
Of Straw Making the Moat of
It Are Lara Barns Best?
Does Dairying
Pav.
About Plowing.
Whether it m best to plow deep or
shallow is not one of the things "no
fellow can find out," for experiment
will generally show wbkb is preferable.
It would seem, on general principles,
that deep plowing, with siibsoiling,
would yield the best results in every
case, and scientists hare usually so
taught. But many farmers who have
followed their advice has learned by
sad experience that a good rule some
times haa important exceptions. For,
as a matter o' fact, it depends a good
deal on the character of the soil and
of the crop and of the season whether
deep plowing is advantageous or not;
and this scientists are (beginning , to
find out, as well as practical farmers.
An interesting experiment is on re
iord which throws much licht on this
subject. A farmer who bad been ac
customed to plow deeply, determined
to try lor a prize olfered by the local
agricultural society for the best half
acre of corn; He manured his half
acre heavily, turned up a nine-inch
furrow, stirred the soil seven inches
deeper with a subsoil plow, harrowed
thoroughly, and thought he had an
ideally prepared cornfield. The re
mainder of the field was manuied
heavily, plowed two inches deep and
well harrowed. The corn started sat
isfactorily on both plots, and for the
first month no difference between tbem
was apparent. But then a severe
drought set in, and at the end of July
the shallowed-plowed field was far
ahead. August proved dry, and at
the close of the month the corn on the
deeply plowed field was suffering
severely, the leaves turning yellow
nearly isp to the ears, while
the other plot suffered but
little. It trrew ranidlv and mail a thn
best crop of corn m the neighborhood,
notwithstanding the fact that it was
not hoed at all, while the well-prepared
half acre, which did not yield
over half as much, waa hoed twice.
Examination showed that the moist
ure had dried out to the bottom of the
deeply plowed furrow, while in the
bottom of the two-inch furrow moist
ure was plentiful. The surface soil
thus treated, it should be added, was
a light loam, quite rolling, with a sub
soil of yellow clay, thirty feet deep,
jointed and well adapted for draining.
it is hardly safe to generalize from a
single experience, but this experiment,
vuKuii iu connection witn otners,
seems to support the plan often ad
vocated of plowing deeply in the fall
for Bpring crops, and thoroughly pul
verizing the surface in the spring with
the harrow. By tryina the two sys
tems side by sido, as in the case above
citea, larmers may easily learn which
will yield the beet results for them.
The Farmer's "Better Half."
Not the least important factor in
the success of farming operations, by
any manner of means, is the farmer's
wife. If she is a capable woman," like
her of whom the Biblical proverb
maker wrote, she can do much to
make farming pay." The success of
many farmers is keeping their heads
above water in bad years, such as
have lately been experienced, is quite
as often due to the energy, skili and
thrift of his life partner aa to himself.
Indeed, the cases are not rare in which
the wife is "the better nian," and
really does more to keep things going
than the other half of the firm.
But too often this fact is sadly over
looked by him who should be the first
to recognizo it. American larmers do
not make beasts of burden of their
wives in the way that is common
abroad. But they have a way of
their own of dome it, which is not
quite so openly brutal, but is none
tho less hard and cruel. A faith
ful farmer's wife has a routine of
labor quite as exacting as her hus
bandmore so, in fact, for "man's
workisTrom sun to sun, but woman's
work is. never done." But while he
will hire all the help 1 needs, thereby
!argely increasing his wife's labor, and
will procure the best labor-saving
appliances for carrying on the farm
work, she must get along without
help for the sako of economy, and do
the best she can with the rudest and
simplest implements and a "bountiful
ack of conveniences. And hor
reward is too frequently scant
courtesy, a scanter supply of "pin
money, and an early grave or prema-
ure and melancholy old age.
A farmer's wife should undoubtedly
bear her fair share of the trials and
otirdens of life; but site should enjoy
her share of its successes, too, and
the man is not half a man who will
let his wife carry burdens beyond her
strength, for the ake ot enabling him
to add a few move dollars tc his bank
account. The rule of "share and
share alike" between husband and
wife would result in a good many
changes in farmhouse life. .It is a
good rule there and everywhere.
Are Large Barns Best?
There are somo reasons why a large,
roomy barn is better than two or
more small ones. It is more conven
ient, ot course, to have everything
hay, grain, cattle, horses, wagons and
farm tools under one roof. But, on
the other hand, there are seme
advantages in having smaller barns.
, In the first place, they need not be
as expensive in construction as the
large barn. Lighter timbers may be
used and the cost of erection is much
less. Then, incase of fire,' which is
more dreaded by the farmer than by
another class in the community,
owing to his isolated situation, the
loss may by good management be
confined to one building, having the
others intact. 1ms is a very import
ant consideration. Most of the lossig of
horses and other livestock at firesare
the result of suffocation by smoke, not
by the fire itself. It is not wise to put all
one's eggs in the same basket. If the
material and livstock are in two or
three or fivebuildings instead of one it
ia not probable that the fire will sweep
all away before aid can be obtained.
It is also worth thinking of that the
coot of insurance is usually greater on
a large barn, and on the etork, grains,
hay and implements stored in it than
on a number of small barns in which
these thing are distributed.
J or these and other reasons that
might be named it seems advisable for
all farmers of moderate means to
build small barns. Men who have
abundance of means can. of course.
indulge themselves in such luxuries as
large and expensive barns, with all
the risks pertaining thereto; but even
for them a series of smaller structures,
wisely planned and placed, would b
better.
Absorbent Power of Straw.
Some interesting experiments have
been made to determine the absorb
ent power of wheat and other varie
ties of straw.
In one of these experiments small,
compact bundles of wheat, rye, oat
an. pea straw were put to soak in
water so as to be completely covered
After soaking for twenty-four hours
they were taken from the water, set
in an upwright position, and allowed
to drain for half an hour. They were
then left lying for an hour and a half,
in order that the excess of water
might drain off from them. They
were then weighed and at intervals
afterward during a period of forty
four hours.
Hie experiment showed that the
wheat straw absorbed in the twenty
four hours 225.8 per cent, of water,
the rye straw 241.4, the oat straw
213.6, the pea straw 280.9. In tne
forty-four hours they lost respectively
55, 67,7, and 40 and 92.2 per cent, of
water leaving the per centage retained
in each as follows: Wheat. 170.8;
rye, 173.7; oat, 173.C; pea. 188.7.
A bundle of wheat straw left to soak
for forty-eight hours took up nearly
22 per cent, more water, or 247.6 per
cent. At the end of twenty-four hours
46.7 per cent was given off leaving
200.9 per cent of water after twenty-
four hours' exposure to the air.
Does Dairying Pay.
Does dairying pay? What a ques
tion. If by pay you mean netting an
income, it certainly will unless grossly
mismanaged and neglected, but when
you come to the amount of that in
come the question is instantly remov
ed from the dairy to the man. Each
owner of a dairy will succeed with it
to the limit of his ability and he must
govern his expenditures for family
comforts by that ability. If -he has
not much enterprise or judgment
then he must live very frugally ,but if he
is a young Napoleon in the dairy field
then he and his family may spread
themselves. There is an abundance
of room in the dairy business for any
sized genius, from the man who milks
two cows and peddles his milk by hand
and afoot, to the man who owns and
runs twenty to thirty factories. When
we come, though, to consider the pay
ing part of it, in ten years you would
probably find that the two cow man
has more money than the man with
thirtyr actones, at least such seems to
have been the fate of such large enter
prises. A littlo success in the dairy
has its temptations like any other
business to induce men to over crop
themselves, while the man who starts
on a small scale generally climbs to
the top. American Dairyman.
Making the Most of It.
There are some wiseacres who still
maintain that it is easier and more
profitable to grow two tons of hay on
two acres than on one acre, or toraisa
forty bushels of corn on four acreg
than the same amount from one acre.
It is safe to say that such persons
keep no account with their farms. It
is all guess work and theory. Practi
cal experience has shown just the re
verse. The land of which the most is
made, on which the proverbial two
blades of grass is grown where onegrew
before has been proyed to be by far.
the most economically worked, be-
cause the additional labor and fertiliz.
ing material put upon it cost a good
deal less than required for the larger
and less highly cultivated area. Such
higher cultivation has "become a neces
sity in these days of sharp competi
tion. e lizard a successful business
man say recently that his business
had to be run very close nowadays,
the margin of profit was so small.
1 lie same thing is true m agriculture.
Whatever can be saved in labor, wages
and fertilizing material is needed to
make ends meet and leave a little
balance at the end of the year.
Farm Notes.
The broken down mare will not foal
tiptop colts, no marker how good the
sire may be.
Pucks should always have dry
quart ere at night if they are to be kept
thrifty and healthy.
It is useless to attempt to start a
herd of thoroughbred stock on a
foundation of dollar pigs.
Lack of gravel or gritty material is
nearly always the cause of the fowls
getting crop bound.
Lucky the man whose herd comes
into fresh milking from now to Christ
mas. Winter dairying pays.
It is bad policy to milk a cow while
she is eating. After a while she will
not be disposed to stand to be milked
unless she has something to eat.
Rheumatism is a prevalent disease
in hogs during fall and early winter.
Prevent it by giving them dry quart
ers. Some pens have dry floors, but
wet filthy sloughs beneath them.
Store hogs keep in health with lit
tle trouble if they be given right
quarters and conditions. This is
easier than to doctor them because
they get off their feed or are otherwise
ailing.
For tape worms in hogs, give no
food for 24-hours, then give half an
ounce to an ounce of spirits of turpen
tine, according to the size of the ani
mal. Dilate the dose with a half pint
of milk, and give no food for 12 hours
following
RELIABLE BUSINESS HOUSES.
MUSICAL
S. B. NESBIT'S
NEW SHOE STORE FOR BARGAINS
IN
BOOTS and SHOES
THE BEST LINE OF SCHOOL SHOES IN THE CITY.
1015 O STREET. 1015.
WYATT-BULLARD LUMBER Co.
Wolesale Lumber Merchants.
20tli and Izard. Sts., Omaha, ITeto.
Farmers and Consumers trade solicited. Write us for prices delivered at your
station. 14 4t
j. o. 3vcok:hit,il.
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0 street between 7th and 6th. L-lnooln, 1t
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Special Rates to Farmers'
Rooms 17 and 18 Montgomery
Corner 11th and N
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. Has Fairly Earned a
Good meals served in a quiet
prices cannot
138 South 12th St
CINCINNATI
We carry the best Boots and
we can suit you and fit your feet. We also make the best shoes
in the city. Give us a call. We think we can satisfy you by giv
ing you good honest Boots and Shoes.
1228 0 St.Lincoln, Neb.
LENDELL HOTEL.
INDEPENDENT
CORNER 13TH AND M
Three blocks from Capitol building.
town hotel. Eighty new rooms just completed, Including large committee rooms,
making 125 rooms in ajl. tf A. L. HOOVER & SON, Prop'rs.
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Cut shown style A.
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ALLIANCE STATE
THE STATE AGENT OFFERS
AT BEDROCK
Granulated sugar per 100 lbs. . . .$5 00
Extra O ' "$4 25-4 75
& Fine Young Hysen Tea per lb. 25
English Breaifast " " ". 25
Fine Unaolored Japan Tea " " . 80
B lbs Bed Gross 0 jflee 1 00
Fiaest Moca and Java 2 lbs 60
Finest 8 lb cans Tomatoes per dcz 1 00
" " Sweet corn " 1 00
" Pie peaches ' 1 50
" Table " " 1 75
" " O. Q. plums " 1 75
" " Salmon " 1 50
A cood smoking tobacco per lb 15
Oatlins smoking tobiooo " 20
WHITE FOR ANYTHING YOU WANT. I BUY DSY GOODS, CLOTHING,
ETC., AT CHEAPEST POSSIBLE PRICE AS PER ORDER.
CASH MUST ACCOMPANY ALL ORDERS.
ar.TOT. HARTLEY,
REAL
at T Bar eent Interest. Land is gooa.
chance to get a bargain. Finely improved farms in
eastern Nebraska for sale. Writ me and tell me
what yon want. Exchanges made. Exchaogea
made for lands, goods and city property.
O. XI.. TTACT aD"0""X"3J", Xil2a.oolxx, 1 CTeto.
I MEKCHANDIPK. Ouritnc to rlrt with ewrythlns in U
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THE
is BAOOsW LUMBBK M.
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Alliance In Car Lots.
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Bl'k. Write for Prices
St., Lincoln, Neb.
First-class Patronage.
home - like manner with moderate
fail to please.
LINCOLN, NEB.
SHOE STORE.
Shoes in the city. We think
Warner & Wolfanger.
HEADQUABTER&
STS., LINCOLN, NEB,
Lincoln's newest, neatest and best un-
W e also make
R t y 1 es E and A
Vln are fore e d
from Pteel, strapped
with best grade of
goi't tough leather.
Are perfectly easy
and adjustable to
any hand.
Covered with four
patents.
Guaranteed to be
S. 11th St., Lincoln, Neb.
12tf
BUSINESS AGENCY.
THIS WEEK A FULL LIKE OF
P SICE 3.
Sappho Flour per sack $ 75
White Rose " " 1 10
Pio Nio 1 20
Snow Flake " 1 80
Horse Shoe tobacco per lb 40
Star and Climax " 40
Let Go, ' a good tobacco, per lb 20
Horse Shoe fcoap, 40 cakes 1 00
As gaod as White Russian, 28 baia 1 00
Finest toilet soap per oake 5
Coco nut oil soap, two cakes .... 5
A splendid high arm aewing ma
chine (20 00
Singer 0 15 00
Both warranted for five years.
I have ome improved farms in Red Willow, Frontier,
Hitchcock and Dundy counties, Nebraska, that have been
taken on debt, that I w.41 aell ehaap. Frnm 7 60 t
112.50 per aom Thif n be ps.mkui wbfc mall cash
payment, torn Jvim. sm iong Uiion part of it
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