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Alliance Department. Adopted as the County Organ by the Coun ty Alliance July 5th, 1880. M. J. PATE, Associatb Editob, To whom all Communication* on Alliance Matters should be addressed. 0 Officer* ef the Ceaetf AUlaace. W. II. I>uncan, President. L. B. Took), Vice President >V. 8. Bamberg, Secretary. A. F. Free, Treasurer. . Vi. O Britton, Chaplain. T. 8. Weeks, County Lecturer. Vi. A. All, Steward or A'ssistant Lecturer. Vi. E. Sadler, Door Keeper. R. K. Harley, Assistant Door Keeper. D W. BodKord, Sergeant-at Arm*. F. H. Creech, Business Agent. _ F.xecuilxAJDoia»l«ee--C. B."FWirW7 VT. W. A.Tanst. Trade Committee—O. M. Hunter, K. H. Dowling, J. M. Clmer, W.*A. AIL Committee on Good of the Order—J. C. Mc Millan, C. M. Edcnfleld, W. T. Care, J. K ftnelllpg, E. B. Goes*. A dUMMER SHOWER, Patter, patter on tba Hear the melancholy ram. As It (alia with aad refrain! Hnture's face la bathed ta K*aa our own full sad appears Vet to Heaven** will we bow, Though we’re weather-bound pwt Patter, patter on the pane— Hear the melancholy rata. Patter, patter on the penc ilearths soft, refreshing rata, A* it Tails with glad refrain! Mature’s creatures, one and aU, Seem the gladder for its fall Bee the daisies how they smlld, • Though so sad and parched erewbHel Patter, patter on the pane— Tin a soft, refreshing rata. J Patter, patter on the pone— L m&rron like they allays do, aa’ mor’n likely fall i^foul of you. If you d i your scalp’ll dangle from some red nig ger’s belt before momln'.*' •Tm not skeort,” replied he, settling himself in the saddle, “and, besides,; j the folks at Wabash and at the Crick ought bo be warned. And you know the mail has to go aa long aa it’s any ways possible. M The spur touched Dolly's dank more often than banal, but the kept up brave ly, and Danny clattered into Wabash ahead of time. Imparting the alarm ing intelligence to old man Beck, the postmaster, and cautioning him to get the family ready and start for the poet withput further delflj. be rode on te- Lol the ■ unships reappears; God Is stphtag through the teeiu. Thus, though life may have lie shower, Tto directed by His power. Though ft patter oa the pane, l Though it tall with aad refrain, God Is smiling through the rata —Bov. F. 8. Corbett, ta Golden Days. President M. L. Donaldseo writes as to the Cotton Plant: Mow that the primaries are over I de sire to call the attention of Allianoemen to the necessity and Importance of going to work earnestly to build up the organ isation In Its every department. I have begun the work of visiting the illlanees In person and feel much encouraged by the outlook. Cheering words from the brethren in various parts of the 8tats, and altogether there seems to he a spirit of renewed Interest and revival among the Beb—AlllaDosa everywhere. DeHmet. Alltnnees are reorgantalng, and Individual members art waking up to doty and it At ao time in Uss history af As Order gran lev need lev natty eld astlvlty than as the iff ap ha revs us and inviting na to Oruafi I ml fie the pewdotlag pesoootlof themaelvee fee la very large ef the right attleasemt ef a> the snnnti y open the Parmsre AIM* ON ward Crooked Creek. . “Jcwhiilakersl** exclaimed one of the watchers. “What’s Danny ridin’ so all- fired fast about? Must be suthln’ up.” • They toon knew, and scattered for their respective claims to prepare for flight ere the storm burst. tWmy rlinrhnd filtS saddle tljjlter The Fate and looked to his weapon ere he mountr THE 8DN8ET TRAJLh ed for the home ride. He was not ■ afraid. Had he been a coward he woul<1 bare remained safely at the That Bo foil U Faithful 1or ^ p tlt ^ om i n rros dread fell upon Mali Carrier. him os he thought of the dork C\m- 0 ) matron. He arrived at Wabash and Danny Redmond was the moil carrier looked in at the open door of the Berk on the Sunset trail, and he fully and'Lnrtan households. Everything realised the Impovtaaee of his pnsitton. topsy-turvy as left in the burry of TruflU might stagnate, otvilisatiou departure. might polk but the United must go right ahead. As for WHEN When I am dead, ~ , > The years will come and gqj, As^hey do now, And words I’ve said- . ... *! When cares have vexed me ^ Not tUnktag how Words cling aad cling to xlfh— TVIU still live on. When I am dead. • When 1 am gone. The little universe Which now revolves round UMt Will still roll om Its order none the worso That there must be New center found, Whenlamgona^ ‘T'. i. Life is so Short! the good . * ... I plan to do. Hut long, I’ve thought . t When backward-looking stood ^5 Calls in review The hours I’ve wasted A . ._ Ao<J the misdeeds dona .t Bo thoughtlessly. , | While 1 am here, 1 Tw^-iMlIv. -w.-u the lit* I cannot keep, That ta the years W han I have teased the strife And sweetly sleep, Borne good will live .» Tve been, > . . Though I ms dead. jj 4 And ta the day ea that dear prayer, •Thy ktagde I these obstacles without arousing hit re by being too active. Tn a few thinutee be bad reached a part of the woods entirely unfamiliar o me. It kx>ked aa if It bad oocd been the eeena of on earthtjbake or eome violent behavior of some sort on the part of nature, for the ground wag torn np in some spots as If by a giant plow, and in others rose heaps of rock that peeped out of a gash in the earth. Here the lion seemed to have its den, though it did not take me to it, bat dropped the frotn sheer fatigue and fell tome feet from me to rest, without, however, taking its eyes off me. I About me tai hopeu, nf easing home escape from my captor, or in search of an idea for a weapon, but the only object* that I saw, with the en- ceptloa of eome thorny shrubs, ware heaps of sharp-pointed rocks varying In sis* from bowlders to the stse of turkey eggs. M ft lit thciaft Mmirc fttfd the hou, evidently wearied unto death, began to yawn. As he turned to mt his oopaeioes lawa, blinking iaaQy ag he stretched theta, I seised the idea ta which I will always believe I owed my life. The one aeeomplkhmeht that t eould lay eialm to wns that of throwing. I was the emek thrower ef the regtmewA ^**4 had often killed bird to stand me In HE spectaole Amerri<fk presents inis day is with out precedent in history. From ocean to ocean— j in dty, village and countryside —the children of. the states are marshaled and marching under the banner of the nation, and with them the people are gathering around tho school house. _ nldfig lodsv the mod trapreeslve anniversary since Rome oela brated her thousand Ui year—the 400th anniversary of the stepping of a hemi sphere into the world’s life; four ca plated OMturim of a new social order, the celebration of liberty aad ealighteo- meut organised into a otriliaatloa. And while during them hours I federal goverumeat of these Unified I States strikes the keynote ef this gri I a fey that gives honor to t master force which tinder Qod informing each of our the peculiar truths of America therefore gathers around the school house today as the j sti tution closest to the acteristic of the beople sad fullest of » HE spectaole 1 foe thepeopfe. Today America's fifth century beghIA the world’s twentieth century will sodfi 1 be herd. To th^ thidsen millions now In :hoob thg oomtnand of the Americafl eel the coming years belongs. We, the youth of America, who today tu os one army under ths that the flag shall thsk Amerioa shall tunity and brotherhood for not THE OFFICIAL PabMe SI. •up 1 or the snltmusan. wu | 14 M fioo, may exalt the gaiWt kodke th eeOMWwesm- i ■fvsrsnry ef As llssevory ef ▲ mavlaa* m - >adluf IP It II ke W eeed eu Old Wurid for the fen of 1 hwus 0mm la th Wevkl Ussy with a mighty for C ' a an itahsgtveu la kui . Magk of the Ttaa mm u never • Yea \mSmm tm the MM i me out far then I liusjeuajm mi I Os awmev US*f g»4 eras Mr breed- etefie, yuu eon ese wberuue are earslug mm eer Aside, »hreefing ids bei ■ eeey eu eeaearu ps "*Alf this Muds ms be my,** sold Mr. lemee la merleefiee, M theS we have Ihr la ths eer id, aad ihat J remedy la le rut dee a the tedsea seep, fie put lAet vstra seargy l««e rolalag ear ewa breedetefiv and Hve eseeh aad le lake the •ISBjaajaw ebteb we are aew rnadiag era* ehd oat I a relay day Thir I# rock-ribbad truth, and tells ealy half the story of Beethrru felly and want of thrift. Il leave* out of ike areeeu* the “e»*e»t‘ve* uillllees,** as the Chreulclr mid, that the Sooth has gam bled sway In stork* sad cotton future* since the war, muck to Urn benril of the Inman brother*. Some of ear poll- Uclana Ignore Umae truth*, and dreeirr our (Kwplrby hoerling agslnsl the tariff. ThU proceed* either from prejudloe, Ig norance or downright sellUhne** In of fice seeking. We need public men who will tell our people the truth, end bid them become self sustaining. If wc cornet our own fault*. It uill be much easier to compel other people to come to terms.—Augusta Bvening Mews. Allltaee and Alliance. Fanners are Justifiable tn forming Faniiers 1 Alliances, for notwithstand ing “the profit of the earth is for *)t,*n<! that tho king himself Is served by the field,” how very few of the educated young men, and others less than “edu cated” take to the farm. They look In every direction for a place except the Held. To be t lawyer, or a doctor, or a preacher, or a teacher, or a merchant, or a clerk, or a drummer, or an ag^nt to sell any of a score of different wares are all gone over before they look at the farm. And as for office with a fat sal ary there are lifty eager for office where oily one can get It. Anything to keep (•ff the farm. All these and others that are not fanners consulate an alliance to draw their living out of the farmer*. True they do not formally organise In to an alliance, yet together they consti tute, though without concert, s form id- •Me alliance to get their living out of * the farmer*! ttek*, Yet there will praise the farming business sad s’ the tbuly Aflfel vfieee ‘•YVtVtV’ * Arnpek—e Tbs m m. If* ha a r» <4 the kerb g lew aver fibs i egfiauty be V TeuVe t—lee iMa wag mi I If yew'll rety key—lash ewt Am bA*> SbeS'b a g—d burea. Wbesv* Mi •nK. Dully Well ef a AevOe yfit Oa, hell lamsmber. we've • he gut fib* melt, eed *1 meet he eaveA Here’S fibe treli Mew ere buw teufi fee ( (kerb! Ob, Gad. I'm eH. and Md bad bU bums e* tbaA Us tbal aU I kail 7 M'S all wMb pern* Aad be rleag fie tbe aa«btM free rate. liurae araee: wv brer tfi olledrd fie In tf fie ee- a y+m'mr way |Hd I* -iy rva «r that la bee fieri tart ley ber mosier's oely ty tbnae aelrel WmT | iklnk e\ fee may eab • Irttare He* ebr raa liar a fn^bteea*! aefirlope, they bardly eermleg to fioeeb Urn groeetl, espeHlag a lefiBev. ttblie - waslv—rfieers? avrv Ml etek eetfl the ' eleeebrd trrth rieeg to the aedile away. . | with tbe drrprret’oa of dreth. a maQ weeldbe Varfif bA ■ » bleb, tog be* 1 strapped woeM re time regard It as something don’t chime In with their incllns- aad aspiration.—ChrisusoNeigh- tbe woeld vault late tbs large Mrs lean amp * as large as be or Dotty— tth tbe all-pofirat mall eecarely to tbe flrdlre oe rach side, be \ wmeamce his long ride, never as be txfird a flying shot at i unwieldy rattlrenake that had dragged Ke asoU’ed fora oat on the 1 rail to loH la tbe sun. and who would not be able to wiggle into the tall grass the United States mall was upon him. Along the route the settlers w ould eome out of their shanties half bent aod wave their sombreros and cheer tbe buoyant rider. Wabash was the only stop. It was of the same importance or Crooked Creek, only there were two booses Instead of one, or rather, a double house; for the owners of the claims that joined up there occupied a shanty of two com: pertinent*, one on each claim. Some how or other the scamp would sit “Halt, wboeoesre there'*"'challenged tbe guard aa a bore* aad rider came lounging into the fork “Tbe Tatted (Hates mall.** came the faiat reply, and lV»My galloped up with blood In her nostrils, and blood oa her flanks, quivering like an aspen. “Dan, are you hurt?" queried the sol dier, lifting him from the saddle. “TpV'dead." he replied, with a m .n Tncy carried him Into the bar- fnck-room and the surgeon was sum moned, but there wan no hope, he said. It was a wonder he had lived aa long an he had. Soon the news spread to the camp and tbe rough soldiers and fugi tive settlers gathered around him, watching with breathless interest for the end to come. A girl came pushing her way through the crowd—a scared- faced girl, wringing her hands in agony. She bent down and took the sufferer's hand. “Ilonie,*’ said ho, with a pained smile, I’m a goner, I gu^ss. GOod-by, Rosie; ntralghter in the saddle and pdll DolIy*a yotrean havoJDolly, and take good care head up higher when they approached Wabash, and a pretty little peach of a girl would come out and chat with the carrier while her spectacled father’s attention was riveted on the letter package. Dolly would probably think that Danny was getting rather weighty on one side as he bent low in the sad dle, dangerously close to that pink sun, bonnet. And the scoffing gopher that sat up conveniently close to his burrow would wonder for what reason a fellow' would want to bite a pretty girl like ber. But Rosie didn't seem to mind tbe punishment a bit Ah, 1 fear Danny would feign have lingered longer at the nnprepomeeeing poet of Wabash, but— the United States mail must be carried MM - • on. One day a eowboy came into the fori with a jaded mustang and a slash across hie cheek and reported that he bad chased by a band of Arapaboea. children of nature had grown to- wtth wail feeding and IHUe They often bream* thus at tr» Intervals, and breaking from tbe rrasr ration swept north apon tbe the era its rad aettlrra of tba ptohM. eon- stdrrgbly depopaladag tboae sparsely Inhabited district*. Their grant father In WpAlMtim. they raixniy, n of her, for shc^dMLall she could to save me. Good-by, boys " Yonder’s the Cimmarron. That’s a good horse, Dolly.’’ “Delirium," said the surgeon. “Get out of tho way of. tho United States mail —^ The end oamo. Another daring spirit had passed along that unknown trail that leads through tho dark, dreary debort of death.—Charles Maurice Cray ton, in Chicago Inter Ocean. Th® Microbe of KrO. Dr. Lombroso has written a paper in which he demonstrates that there is a peculiar magnetism in crowds, which renders them open to suggestions of crime and violence, and explains most revolutionary crimes as committed by people In a more or Wee hypnotic state. This explains why some of the worst horrors have not been tbe work of hab itual criminals. He quotes soother au thority to prove that "a crowd le a soil in whmh the microbe of evil develops easily, and the microbe of good dies almost always for want of favorable conditions,** end that In a crowd tbe good element* are r Dm Ins ted and tbs bad multiplied by a finsibo- » **• *r j s year, an get lived of tbe lag 1 la every letter from whether 1 had yet killed new I veeateod fie kill rsssna why. Me* day affier want further and further tatn gW wit bout meetly any we thought worth pursuing We 1 netlrs wfith us earned Rom HeU. w osetnwallj ermog qneated post of the eouutry which, banter a* be wua, be imUd. but tbta was the very wasted, ee pmehrd on, thinking we must eurely run serous a tiger room. One day, a very hot one, that even In the forest nearly prostrated ns, wu were oamped oa the bank of a little river 11 all called the Mu, and toward tbe afternoon my friends proposed to take a swim In tbe stream. I was feel ing rather unwell, so did not join them, but remained lying beneath tbe tree* and dosing at intervals Ram Ilatl went with the others, and ao I wa* left alone. I had dosed longer than usual when I was awakened by feeling something warm and damp touch my hand, that wa* thrown out beside me. _ ■ “Opening my eyes, to my astonish- j ment I naw a huge beast standing over me, snuffing at my clothes and Umbo. TIere is my tiger at last,* I said. Bat . one glance at the creature's tawny skin, and at the splendid mane that 1 swept the ground, told me that my ▼taltor was not a tiger, but a lion, and a mn^mlflccnt male at that. Ho waa evidently trying to *cc If I was dead, for he kept sticking his nose In my face in a way that I might have found comical but for the gravity of j the situation. I continued to eye him through my half-shut lids and , hoped that he would presently decide to go away. But just here I heard the 1 voices of rav companion* returning | from their bath, and one—a light- ' headed subaltern—was singing some 1 camp ballad at the top of his voice. The lion paused and listened, and then. tYakfltanftjr. fiuwu pwHttsnl iiMNflH ■ ck fbr growth of tittW ksglaaiagn- duraUi wol eyM—. Kfta orprase B gnawing n. *71 fin SM Mart" A laUPVBVn Al a rfipMi ISs Is Ifis i Off A of a tn MB bo to a We ere ksrAy mna with tfraggltug. eftvu nuke, and scene iim tfisr tbe Mew World always Wr esa •sttlrasrafie fiatt lufio a anltan with MagW- W® nofin tho bfrfh of ■ of ®JL~ A* Mr rards *hs no i Wei Ills Weddell bora Anally traded a tram of hi then took tho jeweler and The It aU. and ^4 Ha keen opinion. Tba jeweler ami led as be looked at tbs stone, took a little fiooi out and dn» inched the emerald from tbe Miring. It proved to be two pi* ore of glass cemented together with n piece of green paper between. Tba man who owned the pin wee mad. He woe also flush, so he told the jeweler fio put in an emerald to match tbe glass in siae and color aod It was done at an an> penes of seven hundred dollars. The partner who had cheated bis friend liked to bet on a euro thing, aod fixed It np with a pal fio bet fibo owner of tbe pin that It was false. They all met ih a barroom at San Francisco, and the pal said fio tbe f opposed dupet “Jim, yon like that pin yon got tn a trade with Aba, hoi ni bet IPs no good." Jim aefa&d the indignant, sold Ms own partner would not cheat him, aod of fered a modest bet. "Taint ’nuff,” said the pat -"Make It an even 8500 and I’ll go yon." “Oh," said Jim, carelessly, “if yotf want a big bet make it a clean 81,000 and put up tbe dost." Tbe money woe staked and tbe whole crowd went oat to a jewelry store up the street The pin was presented end was pronounced one of tbe finest em- -1 ne non pausea ana nsu-nea, ana vnen, rrm ^ ^ ^ B i QP ^ Abe neerlr in a sudden panic, sprang toward, the drappe 4 ln hU trae<s, tbr be fbnEEd jangle, and I was congratulating my- ^ ^ mtermilj\o his poL aad the self on this swift and pleasant termination of my adventure when the royal beast glaacod bmek And our eyes met "He gave a roar and then leaped to ward me, as tf.be meant fio have me In defiance of the approaching enemy. I closed my eyra at once, but H was fioo lata, and tbe next moment tbe Hoo bad fastened hie teeth la Mm slesve ef my cost aad was di ragtag me affier hha Into tbe UUrkrt with money secreUyHo his pal, other poor fellow who made the bet was paralysed. l ->*There must be eome mistake," be sold; “let’s try another jeweler." They did, aad tbe verdict of tbe second ex pert was that tbe stooe wee grnxtoe. Jim pocketed hie Iboueand and said quietly to his partaer "Abe, I’m jrafi 8M0 abeed oa tbal HfiCSe deal Of I'm ffotng fia coaid sever Mod. Aad uadsr through It oil, we fasSsa « priartplss svsr operating aad tbs leadership of man hood i eq for every soul; universal enlightenment tbe source of progress, these last > the principles that have shaped America; these principles are tbe true Americanism. We look forward We are conscious wu are tn a period of transirion. Idee* In education. In political economy, In Bficial science are undergoing revisions There is a large uncertainty about the outcome. But faith in the underlying principles of Americanism and in God’s destiny for the republic makes a firm ground of hope The coming century promises to be more than ever the age of the people—on age that shall develop a greater care for the rights of tho weak and make a more solid provision for the development of each individual by the education that meets his need. As no prophet among oar fathers on the 300th anniversary of America could have pictured what the new century would do, so no man can this day reach out and grasp tbe 100 years upon which tbe nation Is now entering. On the vic torious results of tbe completed centuries the principles of Americanism will buildf our fifth century. Its material progress is beyond our conception, but we may be sure that iu the social relations of men with men the most triumphant gains are to be expected. America’s fourth century bos been glorious; Amer lea’s fifth century must be made happy One institution more than another has wrought out the achievement of the post, and is today most trusted for tbe future. Oar fathers in their wisdom knew that tbe foundations of liberty, fraternity and equality must be univer sal edocorioo. The free school there to** was conceived the corneratone of tbe rtpabtfa. Washington and Jrfihr- sna recognised that the edocottoa of dttsera le ool tbs prerogsrire of chnroh or of Other private Affier A Utile Girts First Utter. Dbsb Fsmxa—W# Ira sTT vJi happy. Tba baby he* gr •rash and has afreet Aral Inan be raaA fiu r evv Nefiag Iraraslnrara ee ■siieeljj sarmag law . Thfis t» portly ] Araks ihwl ngr fri id. 4ra to the wqet u/efcjyqi vwifra* ■— vraSl ra onra ns mrnm Dsv. mj leadl *11 b*ll IK® g**4 4«r i Sn* Is thr rural lira® »®*m®4 •*r. n*M him wko tfirs' Sevfierss Bra taltsra j -a at ikes. SFUST. of Ueoger Thetlsiwfi D®*r Coen try, tks Mer sf < Thy stiUsolsr sra < No Sr LI® Sf ths Kortk s* ( Ne sir brsalha* mmek t Ultra Hamenltr'sheuMl thy Gives w*loaSsri Pel® cblldrSn Wron* Find Ilfs ta thy Th® fetrsst esteta tbs Iswly Way hoM* Thy poor mm grow gras*, thy fesfiis par# bold. For worth Is ths watchword *o oOfits isgrss. And msnbuod b nighty wbsrs nsalned Is , free. | .»» , 0 union of States rad ealen ef .aoSM Thy promise*wsit*. thy future unfolds. And earth from her twilight b hailing the sea That rbeo whore people and refers «f* ora Tunion Drawn. AL THE Address. “The Moaning of the Foqr Centuries." A declamation sf the sptvfal Sddreea pro. pared fur th* occasion by The Youth's Casa pan Lm. _ - — 7. Tin Ode. “Colombia's Banner." A reading of the posse written far ffce oetg- eioo by Edna Dean Proctor. - Hers should follow whatever additional so* erciaee, patrfe o recitation®, historic reprr ssntatlons or reorub Wag b* drUfesA fi Addresses- rt cmztNs and • Ma- ticwal Bonos. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEM. FranCia BsUxmy, < tug The Tomb's • John W. Die tine**} Maraachusetta board of Thomas of Bh°*H taland pa Mis i W. IL VkrrtsR. fUslLi He tustractioa ef sp bra Mil* on all I