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ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OP THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest to Alliance
men Everywhere.
The Texas State Alliance, the mother
of them all, has held a most harmonious
•ession. There was no division, and
everything went off smoothly and amid
enthusiasm.
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It is not because the Allianee does not
know v. hat it wants, but because it does
know, that ia bringing out such a tirade
of abuse from the cess-pool of corruption
against it. — Western Call.
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The Alliance .... Vindicator (Sulphur _ ,
Springs, Tex.) says: “Alliancemen questions every- about
where are learning to ask
the stewardship of public servants that
are simply paralyzing to a lot of bosses
who constitute the court-house rings of
our county beats.
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The Arkansas Farmer, (Little Rock,)
puts it thus: “If this government muse
back depend upon wheat and cotton to and bring
our gold from Europe, keep
the balance of trade in its favor, cannot
these hold same gold products be and depended on the to
the at home keep up
balance of trade between our own people?
The farmer hiuk so.
The subtreasury column grows. Since
our last issue several other states have
wheeled into line and declared solid for
the Ocala demands. The list up to the
present is as follows:
North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina,
Maryland, Alabama, West, Virginia,
North, Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
Texas. Georgia and Arkansas.
In all these thirteen conventions there
w.*re but three votes against the sub
tre tsury plan.
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The Democrat, (McKinney, Ter.) notes: birth
“The Alliance movement had its
in the South and has spread over the
Union, and has broken down sectional¬
ism and united the farmers North and
South in one grand patriotic Union to
stand by their rights; the North has
taken the lead in declaring their inde¬
pendence of the old political parties,
and all that now remains is for the
Southern brotherhood to go and do like¬
wise. We have faith that they will be
with us in ’92. The people are coming
to save the nation.”
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Following are datis and loca'ions of
State Alliance meetings-yet t < be held:
California, Los Annies, October 20.
Colorud >, October 20.
Flo--.da, Da ie City, October 20.
Illinois, Indiana, Springfield, November October 27.
17.
Iowa, October 13.
Kansas, Sallina, October 21.
Kentucky, Elizabethtown, N^v. 10.
Michigan, Lansing, October 0.
New York, November 4.
Pennsylvania, Haribburg, Nov. 10.
South Dakota, Huron, date not fixed.
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The Rural Home (Wilson, N. C.) says:
“This meeting of the State Alliance just
ended was a most remarkable one.
Though the partisan press and their allies
wou d have been glad to have learned
that partisan politics had been pleased discussed
in this meeting, yet we are to
tell happen, them but that nothing of the unanimity kind did
that there was a
ol feeling, a clasping of hands, a touch¬
ing of elbows without one single break.
The sub and county Alliance organiza¬
tions did their work well in sending such
men to this body to represent them.
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Tho West Virginia State Alliance in
its recent convention elected the follow
Vice-President, iug officers: President, T. A. Houston;
J. R. Thayer; secretary
and treasurer, B. J. Parks; lecture’-,
Joel Johnson; business agent, J. M.
Sidentstrykcr; repiesentative to National
Alliance, M. Fish. The Secretary’s
report showed thirty-eight county or
ganizations, within an increase of eighteen
the year, while there are 800
local Alliance-*, with 18,000 members,
Resolutions were adopted reaffirming the
Ocala platform; leaviug the question of
a third party open; favoring lemperance
and urging the importance of a farmers’
exchange and appointing a committee to
work to that end.
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MUST BE ALLIANCEMEN. '
It is reported that the committee on
legislation in the session International Labor Con¬
gress in recent at Brussels, Ger¬
many, favored the pledging of working¬
men in all countries not to support nny
candidates for public positions unless
they are prepared to advocate reforms in
the interest of labor and to support legis¬ It”
lation demanded by workingmen. is
evident that the delegates to this con
vention are in fuil sympathy with the
ideas advanced by the Alliance, it be¬
comes more evident every day that these
ideas are gaining ground and crystallizing.
The time will soon come when the
working people in every line,
including many business and professional
men, will be arrayed on one side and
money lords and smart Alecks on the
other. It is a great pity, but if it must
be let it come world in a deliberate, peaceable
way and the will not be otherwise. deluge d
with blood, as it is sure to be
—Progressive Farmer.
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ALMO-T AS OLD AS THE HILLS.
Tho Progressive Farmer (Raleigh. N
1 the of
C.)says: still that opposers it is dm
sub treasury argue a new,
I wild unheard-of thing. Again they say
I to us that the sub-treesury plan is im¬
practicable, yet this same p an has been
tried with abundant success in this
country before these young Solomons hud
existence. Turn back a few pages of
your country’s history and read about the
land loan and scheme tobacco of the Pennsylvania
colony, the warehouse sys¬
tem of Virginia, which at the time saved
colonists from utter ruin; then read a
little French history and see how this
same warehouse plan in 1858
extremity brought France out of an
of dire necessity and made her
practical people prosperous 1 and happy. Not
and here we have the “proof
of the the puddin’.” and We admit that it don’t
suit ragtag bobtail j. oliticians,
buti t does suit the great ma-s of pro
ducers in this country, and they are
going to have it. But even if it was un
tried, common sense ought to point it out
many good points. The eurplus is now
warehoused until consumers cull for it
and at a vast expense. During the pres
j ent century France came out of a war
| owing hundreds of millions of dollars,
Her people are noted for their patriot¬
ism. What did thev deposited do fo r their a rirculatin- surplus
m-ulum? They borrowed and
cr > s in warehouses, short money time,
i 1 off the indebtedness in a
Even yet this sub-treasury plan for the
issue of money is used in France instead
of bonds.
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WHENCE COMES THE OPPOSITION?
From whence comes this opposition money? to
an expansion of the volume of
From men in Wall street and from the
corporations running great daily Wall news¬
papers in which these men in rtreet
own a controlling interest. The men in
Wall street are agents of the great capi¬
talists in Lombard street, London, who
buy all the surplus food products of the
world. These men in Lombard street
own our farm mortgages, our bank, rail¬
road, telegraph, mining and manufact¬
uring stocks, and they desire that the
interest and dividends upon
these iovr ntments, running into the
hundred of millions every year, shall
be paid in cheap corn, cheap wheat,
cheap pork and cheap beef. So they put
thtir agents in Wall street “on.” And
in turn the agents in Wall Then street put our
great newspapers “on.” the news¬
papers begin their piping against silver
c linage, against the sub-treasury plan,
the land loan scheme. The entire con¬
spiracy emanates from the holders of the
worl i’s securities and its cons ant pur¬
pose is to buy the labor and products of
the world for as low a figure as possible.
This can be done by the use of a con¬
tracted volume of money. The London
Jews found this out several years in ad¬
vance of the farmers and have been
taking advantage of their knowledge
for nearly two hundred years. We es¬
caped their rapacity during the war,
temporarily, but as soon as the war
was over they began planning for
the control of our finances, which
they easily accomplished by the most
villainous pieces of legislation ever nation. placed
upon the statutes of a civilized
The only question which now confronts
the producers of this country is this:
Will you pay your debts to the Jews in
Lombard street with $7 pork, $0 beef,
50 cent corn, and $1 wheat, or will pay
th a m in $3 pork, $2.50 beef, 15 cent corn
and 50 cent wheat? That is the only
question there is to be settled. That is
always the question every year and al¬
ways will be the question so long as these
foreign bankers have investments in this
country, and certainly so long as they
continue to own a controlling interest,
as at present in all our great banking,
transportation and manufacturing enter¬
prises. The picture is perfectly plain.
The commonest min ought to be able to
see ir. A narrow and constantly narrow
in/ volume of money based on gold
which is controlled entire y by a few men
in London is bound to give the farmers
of this country low prices for their pro
duce. By the adoption of the sub-treas
ury plan farmers would not be compelled
to sell the crops just when the buyers get
ready to buy. The active volume of
money would be increased and with it the
price ot all pro luce would take a rise.
But the face value of the stocks, bonds
and mortgages owned by the foreign
bankers c»uld not go up. They could
not be made higher to compare with the
rise in the value of the produce in which
they are paid. The result would be that
iustead of paying our obliga
t ons in a large quantities would be of
the fruits of our toil we
able to pay them in a small amount,
Of course the rest would be ours. And
that would represent the profit on desires our
earnings. Of course if the faimer
to contribute the lion's share of all he
raises on his farm to the foreign owners
of American railroad, bank and manu¬
facturing stocks and American farm
mortg iges he wants to keep right on be
lieviug what is told him in the corpora¬
tion newspapers, vote the straight and Re¬
publican or Democratic ticket seal
his eyes and open his pocket he forever. be
If the farmer is not a silly ass can giv¬
made to see the difference between
ing all to pay his debts and giving only
what it i« jmt and right that he should
give. Will he see it? We think he
must and will.— Plain Talk (Vermillion,
S. D).
Lady Managers Meet.
The national board of lady managers
of the Columbian exposition met at
Chicago Wednesday morning and pro¬
ceeded to the election of a secretary as
the first business of the session. It was
supposed that there woald be something
of a struggle to replace Pbcebe Couzins
in that position, but, without opposition
to speak of Ml's. Gale Cooke, who has
been occupying the place since Mbs
Couzins was deposed, was duly chosen.
SCAVENGERS OF NATURE.
PX'EDACIOtrS ANIMALS TO -WHICH
MAN IS VERY UNGRATEFUL.
Instead ot Kiliincr, He Should Pro¬
tect Coyotes, Owls, Wolves and
Hawks—They Are His Friends.
There is a diversity of opinion, says
the San Francisco (Cal.) Chronicle , on
the subject of the value of the coyote. A
friend who has recently lost fifteen or
twenty hens, another who deplores the
loss of a fine turkey, another neighbor
who entered his coop one morning and
found twenty-five or more pullets simply
murdered and lying in heaps—they can¬
not be convinced that the coyote has
any relation whatever to the agricultural
resources of the State and consequently
rejoice jn the new law. Despite these
experiences, which are repeated in many
towns and ranches, I believe that the un¬
restricted destruction of the coyote is a
mistake, and that, while the animal may
be a pest and detrimental to individual
ranches, to the ranch interests of the
State it is a practical benefit.
The coyote may be termed a native
dog and is one of the charateristic 'and
common animals of the State—a good
natured, happy-go-lucky fellow, living
by his wits and legs, and generally de¬
spised, when he should be appreciated.
The natural home of the animal is the
foothills of the ranges, and especially the
low hills that form the offshoots of the
Sierra Madre and Sierra Nevada. On the
slopes they lie during the daytime, if
near towns and villages, venturing
out at night, while in unfrequented dis
tricts they prowl about the plains in open
daylight. The tendency of the animal
ls to go in small bauds, though in some
localities they join forces and hunt in
large companies. In the San Gabriel
Valley I have found them on the slopes
of the hillsides, lying on some projecting
rock, safe and almost concealed by their
resemblance to their surroundings. In
one instance I saw a coyote not 100 yards
away. I came upon it so suddenly that
it did not move, simply crouching lower.
Wishing to see if it would take advan¬
tage of my pretending not fo see it, I
passed by, keeping my face to the front.
The wily creature did not move, and
only started off when I turned and it
knew I had observed it.
The coyote is a hunter; its game con
sists of any liviug creature smaller than
itself that it can run down. First comes
the jack rabbit or bare, which it can
capture with comparative ease. I have
on various occasions tested the speed of
the coyote on horseback with a pack of
fast gray and stag hounds, and more than
once have been distanced by the fleet
runner. In localities where jack rab¬
bits abound r coyotes wage eternal war¬
fare against them, combining forces, so
that from ten to twenty will join in the
chase that is often conducted with
great skill and generalship. In one chase,
observed carefully from the top of a
hill, a dozen or more were in the habit
of meeting every day to chase rabbits.
When a jack was singled out the coyotes
formed into two lines, two of the ani¬
mals leading, the lines being abou f fifty
feet apart, the idea evidently being to
surround the flying game, When the
leaders were tired they would drop to
the rear, their places being taken by two
others, and so on uutil the game was
run down.
The coyote is a pe3t principally in
two directions: It preys upon the ranch¬
er’s chickens and turkeys and his sheep.
If the value of chickens destroyed and
young sheep killed during the year by
coyotes on a ranch in a new country
where rabbits abound be compared to
the damage caused by the latter animals
to vines and young trees, I venture to
assert that the rancher will prefer to
take his chances with the coyote, as he
can at small expense make his henhouse
secure against the ravages of the mid¬
night prowler, while it is often imprac¬
ticable to attempt or impossible to pre¬
vent the inroads of the rabbits, that gir¬
dle trees, oat them down when young
and play havoc generally.
The “cottontail” may also be included
among the enemies of the rancher, and
the damage done by them in some locali¬
ties is enormous. Their increase is rapid,
and were it not for their enemies—hawks
and coyotes—they would prove more of
a detriment to the agriculturist than they
arc. How the rabbit can increase when
there is a minimum supply oi natural
enemies is exemplified in Australia, where
agricultural industries which cover a
large area are paralyzed by the plague.
Years ago seven rabbits were introduced
from England, and now they exist in
countless numbers, overrunning every¬
thing and literally holding back the agri¬
cultural advancement of the country.
The ground squirrel is a serious de¬
triment to the rancher ia this State. This
little animal is occasionally seen in the
centre of town aud all the fields in the
outskirts are infested by it, and the
amount of damage it does is not incon¬
siderable. The ground squirrel occasion¬
ally falls a victim to large snakes, but its
natural enemy i3 the ooyote, that consid¬
ers it a delicious tidbit.
In this brief review of the animal it
will be seen that it is essentially an im¬
portant factor in the perfect adjustment
of nature that is always found. The ani¬
mal has a definite work to perform. It
preys upon certain animals that are de¬
trimental to man’s interests and prevents
too great increase. To sum up, the
coyote preys upon three animals—jack
rabbits, “cottontails” and ground squir¬
rels—that are the particular bane of the
rancher, ap 'qn the other hand it is a
chicken thief, about the only valid claim
that can be made against it, though it
will make away with young lambs if oc¬
casion offers, which should not, as a herd¬
er is always with the sheep.
California is well supplied with go¬
phers and various small mammals particu¬
larly active at night. The former is a
pest in many ways; yet nature balances
the account by providing a large variety
of owls which prey upon them with eter¬
nal vigilance. The latter are perfectly
harmless and allies of the agriculturist in
every sense; yet in almost every town or
village in the State there are from one to
five collectors waging indiscriminate war
against these animals, which are stuffed
and arranged in various ways and sold
to the unoffending tourist. The monkey
faced and larger owls are shot wherever
found, and hundreds of boys arc engaged
in collecting them. The duty of the
Legislature in this respect is plain—owls
should be killed for purposes of science
only and not without permission from lo¬
cal authorities, while a fine sufficient to
intimidate law-breakers should be at¬
tached.
At present the abundance of birds of
all kinds is one of the charms and de¬
lights of the country, bui the dealer and
collector, the pot-hunter and the profes¬
sional killer have turned their eyes in
this direction. The white herons that
haunt the swamps and shores are being
hunted to the death that we may have
stuffed birds, and our little gulls are be¬
coming less and less to supply the exac¬
tions of trade. On a certain beach near
Los Angeles there is the resting place of
a beautiful little tern. I knew they laid
there,and often visited the spot to watch
them. One season I found the eggs
were rare, and soon discovered the rea¬
son. I met a boy one day with his
handkerchief full, who explained that
he visited the place every day and took
all the eggs, which he sold to a collector
at five cents apiece. A few seasons of
this and the tern will be a stranger here,
especially as the birds bring ten cents.
At one of the islands off shore brown
pelicans formerly frequented the little
harbor, adding to the attractiveness of
the surroundings, but as they made a
good target for novices with the gun
they were speedily diminished and scat¬
tered. The economic value of animals
should be emphatically dwelt upon in
the schools or wherever natural history
is taught, which would result in the
children being able to make a careful
discrimination in later years. In point
of fact it is believed (.hat every living
thing has its avocation, its work to do
in preserving a perfect adjustment of
life. It might be difficult to explain to
a child the exact benefit derived by the
human race by fleas, yet I might add
that trained fleas have afforded a direct
living to a number of persons. Someone
has suggeste l that if it were not for
fleas, dogs and cats would become so
lazy that their use would be limited and
rats and mice be on the increase.
Tlie Origin of Seals.
The ancient Assyrians nearly 0000 years
ago put in moist clay their seals” en
graved in intaglio upon precious stones,
on chests and doors, in order to prevent
their being opened. There were no
locks or keys in those days. If they
wished to send a private letter, they
would often seal it with a hippogriff,
which fabulous-winged horses was re
garded as the emblem of secrecy. Cen
turies later the Greeks and Romans
adopted similar devices for the same
purpose, and it is an historical fact that
curious women and other prying persons
with an itch to find out what was none
of their business used to have skilled
workmen make forged seals for them, so
that they might investigate without de¬
tection the private affairs of their lords
or neighbors. It is curious to observe
at this day the complicated geometrical
patterns in which some of the ancient
Roman seals are designed, unmistakably
for the purpose of defeating the ingeni¬
ous counterfeiter, just as the engravers
at the bureau of engraving and printing
try by similar meaus to multiply the
forger’s difficulties.
One of the most ancient and beautiful
of engraved gems that have been dis¬
covered is a cameo representing the
pharaoh Ptolamy Philalelphus and his
lovely Queen Arsinoe, who reigned in
Egypt 150 years before Christ was born.
It is as perfect to-day as when it was first
carved, and one can, scarce imagine that
the portraits are not taken from persons
living at this moment, so life-like are
they. A prettier woman than Arsinoe
must have been rare even among the
Greeks, to which race she and her hus¬
band belonged. The Ptolamises were a
dynasty of Greek emperors, and Cleo¬
patra was no African beauty, as is com¬
monly imagined. There were several
Cleopatras, all of whom were celebrated
for their comeliness, but that is neither
here nor there.— Washington Star.
Slaughter of the Pilgrims.
The Times of India gives figures ii
support of its startling statement that ol
the Indian pilgrims leaving Bombay foi
Mecca and Medina more than one-third
never return. It appears that out ot
04,000 pilgrims who left Bombay be¬
tween 1884-90, 22,000 have never been
accounted for. The awful mortality is
ascribed to overcrowding on shipboard,
cholera, murder and hardships of all de¬
scription. The British Government has
been asked again and again to investigate
the treatment of pilgrims on the voyage
from Bombay to Jeddah. Tile unfortu¬
nate wretches are packed together liter¬
ally like sardines.
Within the Law.
Wild-eyed-Man-—“I want a lot of
|>oison right oil.”
Drug clerk—“It’s against who look the law if they to
s 11 poisons to people suicide:'but as I’ll let
wanted to commit
\ ou have a bottle of Dr. Black-Sequet’s
Elixir of Life, That seems to be a very
sure death.—Streets and Smith’s Good
News.
Economical Pleasuring.
City C usin—“I see the farm-house
next to this one is closed. Why is
that?”
Rural Relative—.“Mrs. Hayfork, who
lives there, has gone to the sea side for
the summer. She says it’s cheaper thao
staying on the farm and feedin’ city re¬
lations.”-New York Week'y.
Those Beautiful Antlers.
Eastern Sportsman (with full assort¬
ment of di gs, guns, etc.)—“I hear that
over a thousand elk are killed in this re¬
gion i very year. What do you do wii'ra
the antlers?”
Western Hunter—“Sell ’em to eastern
hunters on their way homo ”— Street and
Smith's Good Fetes Y
Confirmed.
The favorable impression produced on the
first, appearance of the agreeable liquid fruit
remedy Syrup of Figs a few years ago has been
more than confirmed by the pleasant expe¬
rience of all who have used it, end the success
of the proprietors and manufactures the Cali'
fornia Fig Syrup Company.
A man’s idea of being good to a woman is to
give her opportunities to he good to him.
Fon impure or thin Blood, Weakness, Ma¬
laria, Neuralgia, Indigestion, and Biliousness, strength,
take Brown’s Iron Bitters—it gives
making old persons foil young—and take. young
persons strong; pleasant to
The coffee palaces of Mel bourne are said to
be the finest in the world.
J. C. SIMPSON, Marquess. W. Va., says:
“Hall’s Catarrh Cure cured me of a very bad
case of catarrh.’’ Druggists sell it, 75c.
Cold moats are generally found more easy
of digestion than warm ones.
My Liver
Has for a year caused me a great deal of trouble.
Had soreness In the back, tittle appetite, a bittei
taste in the mouth and a general bad feeling all
over, that I could not locate. Have been taking
Hood's SarsaporlUa for the past three months with
great benefit 1 feel better, the
Bad Taste In the Mouth
Is gone and my general health Is again quite good
No longer feel those tired speUs come over me as t
formerly did.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Is certatmy a most excellent medicine. MRS. I. 3
Chase, Fall River, Mass.
N. B. Be sore to get Hood's Sarsaparilla.
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J. C. Davis, Rector of St. James*
Episcopal Church, Eufaula, Ala.:
“ My son has been badly afflicted
with a fearful and threatening cough
for several months, and after trying
several prescriptions from physicians
which failed to relieve him, he has
been perfectly restored by the use oi
two bottles of Bo
An Episcopal schee’s German Syr¬
up. I can recom¬
Rector. mend it without
hesitation.” Chronic
severe, deep-seated coughs like this
are as severe tests as a remedy can
be subjected to. It is for these long¬
standing cases that Boschee’s Ger¬
man Syrup is made a specialty. lad
Many others afflicted as this
was, will do well to make a note of
this.
J. F. Arnold, Montevideo, Minn.,
writes: I always use German Syrup
for a Cold on the Lungs. I have
never found an equal to it—far less
a superior.
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