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r, CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1890 . iii n Attraction -& ! Bxtraordinary EDWIN BOOTH NI MODJESKA Ami Photon o( nil Other Great Stage Stars Now on k1c nt the Courier olliee, 1 1 3 1 N street. S5T This line o( Photo I not to he roiupnreil with the cheap picture Hint Hood the market. The;' lire the Uncut work of Falk. America' greatest artist BERT E. BETTS, f f iand TYPEWRITER Huslne Correspondence 11 Hpci'litlly. 1134 N 8t. Tol. 303 J. S. EATON, Physician and Surgeon Office: nfiS. Eleventh St. Telephone: Office 685. Residence 561. LINCOLN, NEH. DR. LEONHARDT, SPECIALIST. Diseases of the Nervous System, lli:.VHT AND lll.OOD. 12SJ O Htreet, LINCOLN, N1211UABKA. II our 1 II to 12 A. M. S to ft I'. M. Just Added o WE IIAVK JUST RECEIVED A I1EAUTIPUL LINE OF Card Cases In nil the very lntcst hnpe nml fin ishes, These good were bought per sonally by our Mr. Wcucl while In New York, and Include everything desirable from a Genuine Seal Skin, OOZE CALF And the best down to the cheapest. Call mid see us, WESSEL PRINTING CO. ERED, E. THOMAS, UNDERTAKER -AND- hmeral Director. 121 S. 12th St. Lincoln, Neb WESTERFIELDS Palace Bath Shaving PARLORS. Ladles and - Children's - Hair Cutting A S -... A STY. COR 1? & O STS., NEW HURR UL'K S7 STENOGRAPHER Fill'. KINCS CORN (illOWKII. On. WOLFE, OF CINCINNATI, AND HIS WONDERFUL GOLDEN EAR. He Mmln .Irrry lln.k, Nrrrrliiry of Aisrl rntliirt'. ArliMiiH liiln IIU NowrxlBiily. 1ln l)'tir' i:prrlim.iiU 1111 IIU Muni mot It WnMrrit Ititnrli. HkvI(iI CVmwitiilfiiet ) Wahiii.noton, April a I. Ono day Inst week 11 hIioiI, robust old man, who worn 1 slouch hut and carried a largo grip sack hi lilt hand, called at tl ilip.'irtiiuut of igrleultiiieatid wilt hlscnrd to Secretary Itllnli. Ho wiih hIiowii in. "You nro Jerry Husk?" ho asked, put tine down his grip suck. "Yen; and you?" "I am tho King Corn Clrowur of America." Hlit'HKTAKY UUHK IIKATKN. "Oliul to meet you, Mr. King Corn Grower. Iltivc you houio Bpeelini'iiH of your skill with you? If ho, trot 'em out." Tho visitor opened IiIh big cnrot bag nud t(Kk out an r,ttonlshlng number of llttlo tin Imixch, llko a prostidigntoiir pro ltichiu flowers: from tho inner recesses: of 11 silk lint. I to removed tho sliding lids of these boxen, of which thero wore thirty, nml Hpread thoni out 011 tho Kocrotury'H desk. Thero wero thirty Hinall masses of corn, a ohrouintlo hciiIu In nml.o. Ilox No. 1 wiim full of kernels almost an whito an iH-rlwlnklofl, whllo Ixix No. .10 wuh iw black iih darkness. All tho tint and shade known to tho chemist were to bo found in thin product of 11 corn Held lab oratory. "And hero aro houio of tho oinblomnof my royalty," nald tho victor, diving deep down into IiIh carpet nook and Itrlni; lug forth two or three long yellow wands, not with rowH of golden drop. "You think that a klnglv ear of corn, do you?" exclaimed tho Heoretary of agri culture. "You think it can't bo beat? Well, wait hero ono minute nud I'll take tho conceit out of you." Undo Jerry touched his olectrio ImjII button, and in a couple of minutes he held in his hand a long ear of corn. "Now, h!.o up hero with 1110," ho ex claimed, merrily; "now wo'll hoo if you are tho King Corn Grower of America, Measure up, now!" Hut lo and behold! tho ear of yellow corn which for many moutliH had Ihhmi tho pride of the department of agricul ture wuh shorter by an Inch or more than the ear which tho visitor held aloft in triumph. "I acknowledge tho corn," wild the "ooretary; "you aro king; but now give 111 an account of yourself." The visitor needed no second Invitation. "My name is Wolfo-I)r. N. H. Wolfe -of Cincinnati," said ho. "I practiced medicine for thirty-live years. Now I have retired and Ihxsoiiio a farmer." "Heing a millionaire, you can alTortl to till tho soil," interjected tho secretary. "Yes, and let mo tell you what I havo done with tho soil. Let mo talk corn to you. Some years ago I purchased four sections of laud, 2,500 acres, In Reno county, Kansas, intending to havo a cat tlo range Mr. Secretary, you never huw a prettier piece of laud, A Btream runs through it, and it lies as u great basin, from tho rim of which every other spot of its surface can bo seen. In May, I8S8. I gavo orders to havo ono of the sections put under plow. To do this, tho season being late, thirty breakers wero set to work turning over tho thick turf. Our furrows were a mile long. How long do you think it took us to break and plant a square mile of ground? Just twenty-two days. In tho history of farming in Kan sas never has so much been done iu so short a timo. Forty men and 123 horses ilid tho work. Of course that year's crop of 'sod' corn didn't amount to much. It was not expected to. "Last spring wo began preparations for raising a real crop of corn. I had some Ideas of my own about corn planting, and I put them into oKration. The soil had not boon touched for a year, but now we put tho listers in, plowing out fur rows ten tnchoa deep, with a two inch sulwoller following to pulverize a soft boil in which to plant and bury tho beod. Again, our furrows wero a milo long, and by tho timo tho three or four horses at tached to each plow had dragged a heavy lister sixteen times across tho Held they wero tired enough to quit for tho day. Plowing and planting wero dono nt the snmo time. When wo had finished our field it looked like n lakoon a breezy day, Thero was a succession of littlo ridges alxmt three feet apart, and their crests rising a foot above tho furrows which ran between them. In tho bottoms of theso furrows tho corn grow, and whou It had attained a height of four or live inches tho crests of tho furrows wero harrowed oft and tho earth thus disturb ed fell Into tho furrows and covered tho plant completely, Tho surface of the Held was now perfectly lovol again, and no corn could be seen. In a short timo tho bright green blades renpiioared, and when they had grown up six or eight inches tho cultivators wero set to work shoveling tho earth toward the plant. Twice afterward tho cultivators went through the Held, and when tho corn was up IS or 18 inches, and again when it .vat. about 80 inches. Then the crop was laid by to make itself." "And how did tho crop do?" asked the w t Iff Mil secretary of agriculture, now thoroughly Interested, "How did It do? Just wait till you hear tho figures. Every grain of Heed loomed to havo fruetilied. Every stalk boro a good oar, many two ears. When wo can to harvest wo found a great deal of corn. It wemed as if tho heaps never would stop growing In my cribs. It was a iierfoct mountain of corn, Why, from tho 500 acres devoted to this crop B8,500 bushels of Hrst class corn wero gathered, shelled, measured and weighed, From M0 acres of oats, the icmnindcr of the section, tho yield wiih 5,1100 bushels, giving iih a total of 11,000 bushels of grain tho largest nop ever gathered from ono section of hind In America, "Just think what a quantity of grain that is, Mr. .Secretary," continued Dr. Wolfe, with tho genuine eiiMnisiasni of a farmer, a statistician and an economist combined in one, "It would load nearly 11 thousand wagons and would 111! three freight trains, each composed of thirty live cars. It Is a greater quantity of grain than was impoited by tho United States iu tho last Hscnl year. What would tho farmers of Germany, of Hol land or England think of a crop like that? And this must the more amaze us when wo rollout that my farm Is right in the midst of what was once known as the "Great Amoilcan" desert tho region of which tho authoritative Ilumlioldt, whose word no one over dared dispute, wroto 'It Is as sterile iih Sahara.'" "I havo hecu out In that country," said Secretary Rusk, "iyul I saw no desert there. Do you think it over was a des ert?" "I do not. While it is true that vege table life has never manifested Itself luxuriantly iu this region, and that it wiih apparently barren, I have my own theory as to the causes. The laud was always rich, was always waiting to Imj tickled with the plow and smile In return with a Isimitlful crop, but it was for an unknown period of timo tho runway for millions of bulTalo which traveled north every spring and south every fall. Tho hoofa of tho bulTal j destroyed the grass roots, and gavo to geography that Immense llctlon, 'The Great American DosorL' Iu 1870 tho herds of butTalo be came sensibly reduced iu nuuiler, and in tiio fall of 1874 the bison disappeared from the plains of Kansas, never more to ruturu. Coincident with his dlsnpiKar anco tho grass began to grow on tho hitherto dusty plains, and now it carets tho earth richly with green. Some say tho buffalo enriched tho soil and made it Hsslblu for tho grass to grow, but I do not lielleve tho fertility of tho earth de ponds on top dressing. Hy planting tho seed deep in tho ground the germ reaches tho electricity of tho earth, and from this relation is nourished Into llfo and stimulated into development. My crop of corn, twice or three times as great as that harvested by my nelghlnirs, who plant iu the old way, near tho surface attests the correctness of this theory. I did not make any money on my crop no one can mako money raising corn at present prices but I succeeded In ac complishing what I Hturtod out to do, and that was to give tho American farmer an object lesson in tho value of going IhjIow tho surface of tho ground with seed wliich is to mako his crops." "I guess wo shall havo to confirm your title as tho King Corn Grower of Amer ica," said Secretary Rusk. "Thanks for that. I confess I am an enthusiast on tho 'subject of corn. All my life, though engaged In tho practice of medicine, I havo kept close watch of tho agricultural interests of our country. See how corn has entered into our na tional life. It is tho one distinctively American product of tho farm. It is a plant of American origin. Iu tho uni versality of its uses, and itsdntrinsic im iK)rtanco to mankind, no other grain can bo comimrcd with it. Readily adapting itself to every variety of clinmto and soli, it is grown from the warmest regions of tho torrid 7.0110 to tho land of short sum mers iu northern Canada. Tho Hrst settlers learned from the Indians how to grow it, and a distinguished historian once told mo tho Hrst larceny committed in America was when a party of Puritans stole fho horde of corn from an Indian village iu Massachusetts. Tho James river settlers, taught tho art of corn rais ing by tho Indians, had thirty acres un der cultivation within threo years after their arrival. It Is n curious circum fctanco that the James river Indians and & Ss?3gC&3 5ftii ir3 TII1KTY l'LOWS TOaKTHr.lt. tho New England Indians had precisely the same method of planting. They dug llttlo holes in tho ground and put small Hshos in along with tho seed. At Plym outh in 1025 a writer said: 'You may boo in one township a hundred acres to gether set with these small herrings or shads, every acre taking a thousand of them; and an aero thus dressed will pro duce so much corn as threo acres with out Hsh.' Ah, Mr. Secretary, if they had only had my deep planting along with tho herring in each 1)111! "Undoubtedly corn saved the early settlements in America, lint for maizo tho Hrst colonists would have perished, and this continent would now be a cen tury or two behind the present mark. Corn saved tho day for our forefathers when they struggled for iude)oudonco. Without corn thero would havo loen no revolution no great republic- to lead th world Into now paths of government. In the struggle between north and south in the late war It wus corn aaainst cot fliitK-gS flu yd ?yfcijPiJiw-.w. .ArsfZM tontwo agricultural kings In mortal combat- and corn was tho victor. Why should I not love this loautlful plant? "Moreover," continued the doctor, placing his hand 011 the shoulder of tho secretary of agriculture, "corn is today used for food, directly and Indirectly, by a greater iiiiiiiIkt of tho earth's inhabit ants than any other article. Mr. Martin, of the New York Produce Exchange, whom I mot only this morning at the hotel, told mo corn was never so popular in Europe iih it In today. The demand for It over there is mi groat that tho ex port Is limited only by the vessel room avMlablo. Yet it is within my recollec tion and yours, Mr. Secretary, when the cxportH wero a mere trllle. I remember reaJlng as latons IHI7 an ofllclal report which stated iu ollVct that the value of Indian corn had Imcii heightened by the recent Introduction of It into Great Brit ain, and that while It ImmI not at once re ceived universal approbation there was reason to Udlovo It would win more fa vor there when nioro pains wero taken to prepare It for a foreign market. When you and I wero boys, Mr. Secretary, a few ships could hold all tho corn that was oxHrted from our shores. Now whole Heets sail with their holds full of tlieyellowgriiinnud coiuo back lor more. Corn lias literally conquered the earth, and yet wo of the prairies burn it in our stoves." "Why?" "There is too much com. Much as I lovo this royal grain, my eyes are not Minded. Com is king, but wo do not need to mako it a tyrant. We must de throne it. Thirty years ago the good people of a section of our country thought cotton was king, that it ruled tho land. One day a 'mudsill' rose in his place In congress, armed with olllcial documents, and made tho astounding statement that the hay crop of thecountry quite doubled the value of tho crop of cotton. This hitherto undiscovered fact distorted tho stability of the Union. It recast tliecon stitution, freed slaves, made a new na tion. We do not want kings on our farms. Kings aro un-American. We must dethrone com, and in his place set a republic of diversified crops. We need more wheat, oats, rye, barley, sorghum, beans, jwas, boots, goolwrs, hemp and tobacco. Our bins and barns nro literally bursting with com, for which thero is 110 market at n prico that will repay first cost. Corn absorbs too much of our energies, exacts too much of his subjects." And when the shades of evening fell, and tho typewriter girls, and tho seed girlB, and the clerks and every ono was gone, thero sat short Dr. Wolfo and tall Secretary Rusk, still talking corn. WaIjTKh Vy'em,man. A NEW SWINDLE. How Ortiiln Nmv Vuikorn llitvn llrn "Donn Up" of LHto. 8cUil Corresnmdei)ei). Nkw Youk, April 2-L Tho ingenuity of tho Now York sharper Ih proverbial, but the latest swindling scliemo that has liocn doveloped really soars Into tho realms of high urL It is lclng worked by a very clever couple a medium Bized, rather nlcu looking man, and a delicato, modest appearing woman. How many times they have been successful is not known, for tho jkiIIco havo not, as yet, leon Informed of their oiiorntions. I only heard of it by accident. While at lunch with some friends ono day this week an old friend of initio joined tho party. For tho bettor appre ciation of the story, I may lo ermitted to remark that he is n solid and prosper ous looking citizen of bcuovolcnt appear ance. "When I was coming from my house to the elevated station," ho began, with the air of a man who has a story to tell, "there caino round tho corner, just in front of me, a prettj , modest looking lit tlo woman trying to lead a very drunken man. Tho fellow was well dressed and not bad looking, but he was horriblv drunk. Ho would lurch over against her every fow steps and nearly knocked her over several times. Through it all he was good natured, even drunkenly alTcctiountc. "As I passed them ho lurched against meaiid the woman, who naturally seemed much distressed, spoke: 'Would you bo so kind as to help me take my husband home,' she said. 'It is only around the corner, hut I'm afraid ho will push me down: he's U-en out all night and I must get him home.' The appeal wan mi sim ple and pathetic that I of course took hold of his other arm and steadied him around the corner and saw him safe in the hallway of one of the big Hats. I noticed that he lurched up against me onco or twice, but I thought nothing of it until I reached tho City hall station, when I went to look at my watch. It was gone, and my ockctbook had evi dently departed to keep It company. Ho certainly could not have picked my pocket if ho had loen as drunk as he seemed to be," concluded tho old gentle man sagaciously. "That was this morning?" queried a member of tho irty. who had listened to tho recital with much interest. "Yec." "Well, I guess it must be the samo couple who played exactly the same game on mo one day last week. They took $180 in cash and a $200 watch from me." "Well, they only got fifty odd dollars from 1110, but my watch was worth $200," said the Hrst speaker. "I went to inquire alsnit them at the Hat, but no such peo ple lived there. They probably onlj stood in tho hallway until I got out of sight." "Why don't you apply to the iwlleo?" I inquired. "rd rather bear the loss than have the story with my name iu the papers," they chorused iu answer. And so this ingenious couple nro prob ably going on reaping a rich harvest among kindly disposed people. There aro two middle aged gentlemen iu Nuu York, however, who, if they see a man zigzagging down tho street under the guidance of a quiet llttlo woman, will let him zigzag, philanthropy lu'lng, iu their opinions, too expensive. AU-A.N I'OUMAN. Steam unci I lot Water Heating. Iff JL F. A. Telephone Most Popular Resort in the City. 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