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ALLIANCE AND GRANGE. farmers and knights. Joint Convention in the Sixth Conirrea ulonnl District of Knman. The Alliance and Knights of Labor convention for the nomination of a can (Pldate for Congress from the Sixth Dis trict of Kansas met in Hill City recent ly with fifty-six Alliance men and two Knights of Labor present. Every coun ty in the district was represented. At the preliminary meeting it was decided to hold the convention with closed doors. Frank McGrath, of Mitchell County, was chosen permanent chairman, and Mr. Wheeler, of Gove County, secre tary. The St. Louis Alliance and Union Labor platform was adopted, with some amendments. After the preliminary business was disposed of, the nomina tion of a candidate was begun. The first ballot showed eight candidates in the field: C. W. McKee, of Mitchell County, a minister of the United Breth ren church and a farmer; Elder Sellers, of Jewell County, also a farmer; Rev. Ben Baker, of Lincoln County, also a farmer; Dr. Holcomb, of Norton County; E. T. Ellis, president of the Osborne County Alliance; Rev. Os borne, of Osborne County, a Congrega tional minister and a farmer; Rev. Banta, of Cheyenne County, and A. B. Montgomery, of Sherman County, a farmer. On the first ballot Mr.. McKee received one-fourth of the votes cast, the balance being scattered among the others. All are members of the Al liance except Montgomery, who is a Knight of Labor and re-submissionist. After the informal ballot the several candidates were called on for ten-min ute speeches, which occupied the time until the supper adjournment. After supper balloting at once began, and on the sixth ballot William Baker, of Lincoln County, was selected as the nominee by 41 votes of 57 cast. Mr. Baker is fifty-nine years of age, a native of Pennsylvania. He is a farmer, resid ing near Orworth post-office, in Lincoln County. Montgomery, the defeated Knight of Labor candidate, refused to indorse the nomination, and will fight the nominee. The platform adopted is as follows: We indorse as our National policy the agreement and platform adopted by the Na tional Alliance and Industrial Union and Knights of Labor held at St. Louis, Decem ber 6, 1889. We demand a service pension to all hon orably discharged Union soldiers and sailors who served in the late war of the rebelion. We demand a law making bribery a crime, and making the person who offers the bribe equally guilty with the one who accepts. We advocate free sugar,with a reasonable bounty on home production; free lumber and free coal. We demand that Congress make appro priation sufficient to construct deep-water harbors on the Gulf of Mexico, for the pur pose of opening more direct communica tion and trade with Central and South Amer ica. We demand of the press a recognition of the principles of right and justice during the present campaign, and the failure to ac cord fair treatment shall be sufficient cause for the withdrawal of our patronage. We demand that every candidate passed in nomination in this convention pledge himself to support this platform, and the nominee, it elected, shall not go into the Republican or Democratic caucuses in Con gress. Resolved, That the Farmers’ Advance, pub lished by J. E. Garner, at Norton, Kas., be made the official organ of the F. A. and I. U. of the Sixth Congressional District. After appointing a joint Alliance and Knight of Labor Congressional central committee of one from each county the .convent ion adjourned. ' >■ A TALK TO FARMERS. How Colonel Hallowell Talked to the Farmers of Barton County, Kas. Colonel J. R. Hallowell, of Wichita, accepting an invitation from the farm ers of Barton County to address them, spoke to a gathering at Great Bend re cently. There were present, as various ly estimated, from three to four thou sand people. The speaker said that in Kansas, and, in fact, in all the broad plains of the West, the people are direct ly interested in agriculture. The farm ers had organized to protect themselves and their own interests, which was highly proper, and the organization all over the country would certainly result in much good. The speaker took up questions of the day, having something to say of the fluctuations of the market fcr agricult ural products, and reaching the money question, observed that there is in cir culation at present per capita 612.70 — less than at any time in the last twenty Tears. He took the position that more money was needed to do the business of the country, and a law directing the is sue of 6200,000,000 of treasury legal ten der notes to take the place of National bank notes should be passed. Referring to the silver question, he said silver is the poor man’s money, and he had always been in favor of free coinage and the placing of gold and sil ver on the same basis. The adoption of a liberal service as well as disability pension law, to his mind, was right. It could be provided ■for by allowing a tax of luxuries to be increased, and the tax on necessaries absolutely removed. The (transportation question was handled in away that seemed to meet the acceptance of the crowd. The speaker favored reasonable income to transportation lines on the amount of ■money actually invested, excluding fictitious stock. The formation of trusts and combines was referred to as making capital an engine of oppression, and prompt action should be taken to prevent injurious results. The business of the country should be allowed to conform to the law of supply and demand, being in fluenced as little as possible by efforts to control the markets. On this line the dealing in “futures” was referred to as injurious to the farmers and coun try in general, and any legislation cal culated to prevent it was highly praise worthy. Referring to the tariff question, the speaker claimed that each State should handle this question according to its best interests. The needs and demands of the West in this particular were as varied and distinct as in the East. An Eastern tariff sheet would not suit the West in any particular, nor vice versa, but Kansas should look after her own interests, and through her Con gressional delegation press her claims for the msot favorable disposition of the tariff question.—Topeka Capital. A NEW PARTY. The Farmer*' Alliance and Knights of Labor of South Dakota. The Farmers’ Alliance and Knights of Labor held a three days’ session at Huron, S. D., recently. The most impor tant action was the decision to organ ize a new party,the resolution providing for such movement being carried by a vote of 413 to 83.Immediatelj’ after the announcement of the vote the Alliance adjourned amid the wildest excitement, and the convention, to take political action, was at once organized with I. W. Cosand, of Potter County, as chair man. A committee on resolutions re ported in favor of woman suffrage, a graded service pension, prohibition of the liquor traffic, a tariff for revenue only, denounced the acceptance of passes by legislators and other public officials. The report was adopted. On the suggestion of President Louick, of the Alliance, the new party was named “Independent party.” A platform was adopted, which in cluded the State, National and interna tional, declaration of principles of the Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union and Knights of Labor, and demands that: 1. Currency to be issued by the General Government to be full legal tender, to in crease in volume with the increase of busi ness, and to be issued directly to product ive industries without the intervention of banks of issue. 2. Railway transportation, telegraph and telephone service at actual cost, and that ths Government shall own and operate the same. ' 3. The free and unlimited coinage of sil ver. 4. The adoption of an absolutely secret voting system, both State and National. 5. The most rigid economy, consistent with the safety of our State and Nation, in the administration of every branch of our Gov ernment. 6. The passage of laws prohibiting the alien ownership of land, and that Congress take steps to obtain lands owned by aliens and foreign syndicates, and that lands now held by corporations in excess of such as is actually used and needed by them be re claimed by tlie Government and held for actual settlers only. The committee on manifesto reported an address to the people of South Da kota, setting forth the grievances and demands of the new party, the motto of which shall be: “In the Spirit of Love and Justice, the People Rule.” A State central committee was ap pointed, and a State convention for the nomination of officers called to meet at Huron July 9. CUTTING LOOSE. The Alliance in Kansas Cutting Loose from the Old Parties. A secret meeting of representives of the Farmers’ Alliance from fifty-two counties of Kansas was held recently in Wichita, which was attended by B. P. Clover, president of the organizers, and it is learned on good authority that one of the leading questions considered was the advisability of nominating a State ticket. It is said that it was thought best to hold two meetings in this State on this and other questions, thinking it would, be the best plan to get a cor rect opinion from the organization. Clover and most of the State workers urged strongly in favor of a State ticket. The question finally coming to a vote, there were 81 in favor of the State ticket and 17 against it. It is said the negative will abide the result. The question of Congressional can didates was disposed of by favoring a candidate ir. every district, and the meeting determined that there will be Alliance candidates in two districts. It was also decided to work earn estly for a county ticket in each county in the State, as well as a candidate for the Legislature in evbry Representative district. It is claimed that President Clover and the leading men of the or ganization will attend a meeting in the eastern part of the State, to be called within a few days, to take action on the same question. Clover addressed a secret meeting of the Alliance and Industrial Union, there being about 600 present. Great enthu siasm was shown when in the course of his speech he told what had been done by the meeting of the Alliance dele gates in the afternoon. Combining for the General Good. A State delegate convention of Farm ers’ Alliance men and Knights of Labor was held recently at Northwood, la. The purpose of the meeting was to ar range for a combination whereby the different organizations might give their entire patronage to the party or parties selling to them the cheapest. It is un derstood that in some localities the grocery men are making big discounts to Knights of Labor where they get the entire patronage of a lodge. Knights are provided -with cards, and in this way make themselves known to dealers. The movement is full of significance tc retail dealers throughout the State. HOUSEHOLD BREVITIES. —Cherry Catsup.—One quart of sour cherry juice, one pound of sugar, two teaspoonfuls of cloves, two of cinnamon and a very little cayenne pepper. Boil until thick, bottle and seal. —Carrot Chops.—Mash finely some boiled carrots with butter, pepper and ■alt; add a beaten egg and mix well; shape with the hands like a chop; dip in an egg and bread crumbs and fry brown in butter; serve with gravy or melted butter. —When cutting bread for the table, ■ave all the crumbs, which in the course of a year amount to considerable, and are useful for stuffing, puddings, etc. You can put a handful into your rice puddings occasionally and no one be any the wiser. —Some persons like strawberries sug ared and set away on ice a little while before serving, and when they are not very ripe or a little tart it is a good way; but they do not look so pretty, and, un less all the family like it so, it is better to let each one add cream and sugar ac cording to taste. —Demorest. —For a summer sitting-room nothing can be cleaner, sweeter, or more whole some in every way than furnishings of rattan or willow ware. Tables, chairs, and a variety of other articles, such as work-tables and baskets, as well as bureaus and escritoires, can be found in this ware in the shops of our prominent dealers.—Christian at Work. —Let a person, not overstrong, sub ject to frequent colds from the slightest exposure, the victim of chronic catarrh, sore throats, etc., begin the practice of taking a sponge bath every morning, commencing with tepid water in a warm room (not hot), and following the spong ing with friction that will produce a warm glow over the skin, and then take a five minutes brisk walk in the open air.—The Household. —Pie-plant Pudding. Slice as for pies, spread slices of bread on both sides with butter, remove the crust. Put a layer of bread in the bottom of a pudding dish, then a layer of pie-plant, abundantly sweetened, a few bits of butter, and a very slight sprinkling of flour. Fill the dish with alternate lay ers of pie-plant and bread, cover while baking. After thirty minutes remove cover and brown the top, serve with a sweet sauce.—The Housekeeper. —Broiled Steak with Mushrooms. — Broil your steak over a clear fire. Be fore you put it on, open a can of mush rooms, take out half of them, and cut each mushroom in two. Saute them in a frying-pan with a little butter, unless you have a cup of bouillon or clear beef soup or gravy at hand. Let them sim mer in this for ten minutes, and when you dish your steak, pour gravy and mushrooms over it. Leave it covered in the oven five minutes before sending to table. —Harper’s Bazar. SAVE THE SCRAPS. How to He Economical in Practice as Well as in Theory. There are a great many persons who are economical enough in theory but who waste a great deal in practice. It requires patience to separate the bits of fat from a cold roast, to try them out and lay them aside for use in the store room. For this reason many house keepers throw away the remnants of a roast after it has been served up twice. A woman who will sew industriously for many hours to save paying a seamstress half a day’s work will sometimes thoughtlessly throw away more than the equivalent of the seamstress’ wages in these scraps. The fat of beef nicely tried out is equivalent to butter and equally valuable for frying. Try the experiment of saving every scrap of beef, veal and chicken fat, strain and it weigh it, and its value will be a cause of genuine astonishment if you have never undertaken the experiment be fore. Save every scrap of mutton and other strong-flavored fats and try them out for soap. It takes only a few moments to prepare good home-made soft soap, and the saving from this source alone will be found nearly equal to the saving of butter from making use cf the scraps of fat suitable for cooking. No scrap of meat or vegetables should ever be wasted. Bits of meat, however inconsiderable in quantity, can be com bined with some other, put in an omel ette, made into croquettes by addition of rice or some other meat and re-served in many ways that will leave no hint that it has previously appeared for per haps a third time. It is a little more difficult to know what to do with vege tables that are left over. The most ap petizing method of disposing of such as can be used in this way is in a salad. Spinach, string beans, beets, bits of turnip and potatoes can be used in this way. The next method is an omelette. Cold asparagus, peas, bits of fried egg plant, oyster plant and other vegetables are delicious served in this way. Most mashed vegetables, like parsnips or mashed potatoes, are delightful served in balls. In preparing all rechauffes it should be remembered that the food is already cooked, and any further contin uation of the cooking will impair its flavor. It should therefore be heated to the point of cooking, but not beyond it. A little boiling-hot sauce is a great advantage to these dishes where it can be suitably used. Steaming is one of the best ways of heating food which is re-served. Not one crumb of bread in a household need be w r asted. Each week after baking, all stale bread should be collected, dried and sifted to serve for breading meats, for croquettes, pudding, stuffing to fowl, or many ether dishes.— Ji, Y. Tribune. SINGLE TAX DEPARTMENT. THE LIGHT OF CONTRAST. African Slave Trade and The Convict Mine* of Kara. Some of the most important lessons of life are learned in the light of contrast. We know the sweet joy of health, as we never did before, after days of pain and Buffering. We paint our pictures on a dark background, and appreciate the beautiful only so far as seen in contrast with the deformity, and the good as re vealed by the shadowy form of evil ready to touch us with its gaunt fingers. A succession of pictures will help to focus the thought now in our mind. The first is taken from a sketch of the African slave trade, as recently seen by Mr. H. F. Moir, of New York. We give it as nearly in his words as space will per mit. When slaves are captured, a yoke is placed upon their necks and is allow ed to remain day and njght. The yoke is the forked branch of a young tree, and is generally about five or six feet long and weighs about 28 pounds. Re fractory slaves are often placed in yokes of more than 50 pounds. The end of the yoke is lashed to the corresponding end of another yoke that holds another slave. They are then started to the East coast traders, marching all day and all night, and the slaves that fail to keep up are dealt a terrible blow on the nape of the necks that ends their life. Children are often torn from the arms of their parents at the slightest sign of fatigue and their brains dashed out against a tree. The second picture is taken from Mr. George Kennan’s description of the Con vict Mines of Kara, in a recent number of the Century. Speaking of the place where the Czar works his State prison ers, he says: “A person who has once in haled that odor can never forget it; it is so unlike any other bad smell in the world, that I hardly know with what to compare it. I can ask you to imagine cellar air, every atom of which has been half a dozen times through human lungs, and is heavy with carbonic acid; to imagine that air still further vitiated by foul, pungent, slightly ammoniacal exhalations from long unwashed human bodies; to imagine that it has a sugges tion of damp, decaying wood, and more than a suggestion of human excrement ■ —and still you have no adequate idea of it.” In this black hole, in the cold Si berian winter, men and women are com pelled to live and sleep on rough benches without blankets or fire, packed in rows and fed on the coarsest food. The first picture is a glimpse of an industry now carried on in the wilds of Africa, and the second, a peep into a Russian State prison. Well, of what value can such a vision of woe and wretchedness be to us? No such evils would be tolerated for a day in our happy land. Walt a moment. It is true these pic tures are taken from a region far away and from a social system now happily fast becoming obsolete, but there are other pictures that show what is taking place under our social system, that con sidering our relative position are quite as painful to contemplate. Here is one: A little ragged urchin is timidly watch ing a number of well-dressed boys play ing ball. A kind gentleman approaches and says: “You seem to be enjoying the fun; would you not like to take a part?” “They won’t have me, sir. The good man what preaches in the little old church behind the livery stable, said last Sunday, we are all brethren. See, sir, these boys have nice clothes and 1 am in rags; they have plenty to eat and lam always hungry. It don’t look like it, sir, it don’t look like it.” And yet there are thousands of boys in all our large cities that are being educated in that school of poverty and wretchedness. If they grow up atheists in religion and anarchists in politics, would it be strange? Here is another. The scene is laid in New York, but may be duplicated any where. A workingwoman tells us how she and her daughter manage to live en gaged in making clothes: How do we live? It’s all in this little book. It’s foolish to put it down, and yet I always liked to see how the money went, even when I had plenty, and it’s second nature to put down every cent. Take last month. It had 27 working days—s22.9s. Out of that we took first the 810 for rent. I’ve been here 11 years, and they’ve raised a dollar on me twice. That leaves $12.95 a month for provisions and coal and light and clothes. ’Tisn’t much for two people, is it? You wouldn’t think it could be done, would you? Well, it is, and here’s the expense for one week and for what we eat: Sugar, 23; tomatoes, 7; potatoes, 5 JO 35 Tea, 15; butter, 30: bread, 12 0 57 Coal, 12; milk, 15; clams, 10 0 37 Oil, 15; paper, I; clams. IO; potatoes, 5- 0 31 Cabbage, 5; bread, 7; flour, 15; rolls, 3.... 0 30 Total *1 «> You see there’s no meat. We like it, but we only get a bit on Sundays some times. The coal ought not to be in with the food, ought it, unless it stays be cause I have to use it in cooking; we oughtn’t to spend so much on food, but I can’t seem to make it less. Really, when you take out the coal and oil and the paper —and we do want to see a pa per sometimes—it is only $1.62 for us both, 81 cents apiece, almost 12 cents a day. If it weren’t for Emmy’s missing me it would be better for me to die, for I’m no use, you site, and times get no better, but worse. But I can’t, and we must get along somehow. Lord help us! Now what are we to say of an indus trial system that permits women to work 14 hours and live on 12 cents per day? Do not tell us these are excep tional cases, that the average is far bet- ter. God help us all if this were not »». But that is a pitiable philosophy that consoles itself with averages. These extremes are possible because wo have a system that says “get all you can and pay as little as you can for it,” a speck of Obe old brutality that still clings to our civilization in spite of our splendid progress—a state of things that that the gray dawn of the millennium is not yet on the sky and can not be paint ed there by any leveling process of pa ternalism of government, but only so far as we all come into earnest fellow ship with the idea that all are children of one common Father and bound to one common destiny.—Pacific Rural Press. THE TAX FOR THE WORKER. How Every Laborer May Learn What It la. To every man interested in the sub ject of taxation, and in these hard times there are but few who are not so pressed by the pinch of poverty as to find any taxes a heavy burden, I have a word or two to say. You may be a regular sub scriber to and attentive reader of this paper, or it may have fallen into your hands casually. If the first, let me urge you to read the “Single Tax Depart ment” attentively every week, and if the system of imposing taxes advocated therein meets with your approval, write to the editor about it, calling his atten tion to the way unimproved land in your neighborhood escapes its proper share of the public burdens, thus making heavier the load that the improved land has to bear. You will find plenty of striking instances all around you, and maybe your paper will stir up the tax assessor to do his duty. If you are not fully sat isfied about the single tax from what you see in your paper, write to me and I will send you some tracts explaining the whole subject. If you have merely happened to pick up this paper and become interested in knowing more about the single tax, and if your own paper is not publishing a Single Tax Department, write to your editor and request him to do it. The Memphis Single Tax Association has made arrangements whereby all papers published in the West and Northwest can get their articles from the houses that supply “patent outsides,” and at no extra cost to the paper. The editor of your home paper is not only willing, but anxious to print what his subscribers want, and if you write to him that you and others want to know what the Sin gle Tax means and how it will affect you, you may depend on it that he will supply the demand. If he don’t, then subscribe for a paper that will. Wo have sent out circulars to nearly all the country papers published in the West and Northwest offering our articles to them, and the “Single Tax De partment” is now being pub lished in about seven hundred' of them. If the readers want informa tion on this topic, which is the burning question of the day all over the civilized world, if they want to know the true re lations between land, labor and capital, if they are interested in the question why it is, that in the midst of greatly increasing wealth throughout the United States, there is so much poverty and suffering among the people, and why it is Hiat the lot of the toiler is so much harder than it was in former years, then the remedy is in their own hands. We think we have solved the problem; we think we have discovered the seat of the trouble to be the monop oly of the land by the few, thereby compelling the many to labor for a bare sustenance; and we are satisfied that we have found the remedy in the single tax. which wilt force all holders of land, mineral, forest, ore and agricultural land, to use it or to let it be used by other men. The single tax will not be a burden upon any man who uses land; but it would make all the land grabbers, syndicates and “in vestors holding for a rise,” let go their holdings. In short it would kill specu lation in land, give a farm to every farmer’s boy, 4nd homes to the millions of homeless men, who can not now lay claim to a place to lay their heads. The following letter, written to the New York Standard, shows how ready the papers are to give space to our articles, and if the readers of the rural press want to know about the Single Tax: and will take the trouble to write te their local journals, the Single Tax De partment can in a short time be found, in seven thousand papers. H. C. Niles, Denver. —After the article by R. G. Brown, of Memphis, Tenn., ap peared in the Standard, explaining their method of supplying country newspa pers with single tax matter, our club here got the Memphis club to circular ize the State of Colorado and adjacent Territories. I called a few days ago at the office oC the Western Newspaper Union to learn as to the successor failure of our efforts. The replies they had received were* twenty-four, twenty-one asking for sin gle tax matter and three declineing to have any thing of the kind published, in. their papers. N. D. Dresser, Independent, Rock Springs, Wyo., wrote: “Am glad to learn you have taken up this, matter, and hope you will get numerous orders.” Miss Carrie Byrd, Journal, Lyons, Col., says: “I shall be pleased to have single tax matter published in <*ir Journal.” The Dillon Enterprise (?) said: “I don’t want any of this truck in my paper.” The State Herald, Holyoke: “Don’t want it. Want your republicanism in my paper.” The papers already taking the matter are well distributed all over the State, and we are much 'encouraged with the result and expect to see an evidence of a change of in our “pagans” to ward the Singly tax. Write to your paper. R. G. BnoVY-N.