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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1899)
SUNDAY , OCTOUEll 22 , 1800. 19 WOKDEB TALES OF FARJIERS Series of Interesting Lattera Collected by Edward Atkinson , LOTS OF MONEY AND COMFORT nine In ( lie World linn Hie 'IJIIor of UKs , , | | Such OHIHII- "illlle-AVorU * Ifnril Hut l.lMWell. . The American Partner There are now about five million of him , the Rroator num ber duelling on their ov\n land In the Rrc.it Krnln crowing states or llio MlsHsilppl val- Icy. Who In he ? Where did ho come from ? What li ho doing ? Yet more , what Is ho thinking ? Who can answer these ques tions ? No longer n pioneer , struggling with the dimcultlcs or the Hrst settlers , ho Is now raolilly developing Intenilvo agrlculturo an4 Is finding out that mental energy of farming with liralno Is a prlmo factor In material progress. The true progress of agrlculturo In this country will date fro n the tlmo When the Kovernmrnu had Riven away all the good land within easy rencli of the rail- roads. Whether or not that Gift of land will in the end have proved to be a permanent benefit is an open question. ' In 1894 It occurred to mo to start an In quiry. How to do It was the problem. I thought. I would adopt tne chain or snow ball method. I knew a few men of high In telligence to whom I could send circulars of Inquiry. I had , i thousand cliculars printed. I put thorn In packages , I think of twenty each. I sent ono of these puchagea to each man ot niy acquaintancev.horn I thought would bo suniclontly Interested to dlstrlbuti them among farmer" , who might reply. The rest f distributed In other ways. The replies have rnmaln d In my hands. A trained ob server , capaLlo of taking down what has been called the " " once "cgotlstlgraphy" of each iman , might well ba dolega'el to deal with this great subject The center of power now rests In the Mississippi valley. As these men think , so will bo the future of this country. What moro Important ques tion than to realize more about them ? Who among us In the east who even among the men cf the west , reall } knows the American Vvrmer of the present day. The replies tell an Interestingstory. . Geographically they range fiom Vermont to Texas and Montana. The farm holdings run between ninety acres and 10,000. Oddly enough the largest farm isprescnted Is not In Texas , but in Sangamon count } , Illinois , and its owner Is of Kentucky breed. Of course enl } a small number me hero given. 1'ullltH lit l.lUoiM'Kfl. Thcso are the points of likenessHvcry farmer cither went In debt for his farm , or where It was inherited , inherited a debt along with It. About halt the debts were secure-1 by mortgage. The extremes of In terest paid are 2-1 to 5 per cent. The lowest rate l'i moro exceptional than the highest. A very small percentage cling to the one- crop flystem and farmers have found that working with better tools give better re- turnn. Tools nnd machinery are reported to cost from one-half to ono-thlrd less than twcinty-flvo } cars ago , and by their better ment to have reduced the labor cost of many crops by nearly one-half Palm wages hnvo fallen very little , In many cases not at nil ; In a tow they have even risen slightly. A fair ycar-around average Is $20 a month , without 'board ' , but with house , harden ground , fuel and cow pasturage , or $13 a month , with overthing found. Day hands , In the stressful times ot harvest , threshing , otc. , receive from $1.CO to $5 , according to the work and the correlation of demand and upply. But while labor has held its own , with the products of labor It is quite another ! story. I'rom 1873 to 1S04 every sort of farm stuff declined In value one-fourth , ono- half. even two-thirds. Orchard , pasture , meadow , arable land , have yielded abun dantly , yet put little money In the puree Living expenses meantime have not suffered a ooriosponding fall. Clothes , necessary clotbcc , that U , are reported 20 per cent JUST DRAGGING AROUND. " How ninny thousands of women understand the sad nnd pitiful I meaning of that simple phrase : " Just draining Around. " I Wemen everywhere - where who . feel that they have n work , and a mission of vv o in u n hood to ac complish in . thin world will np- 9 predate instantly the disheartened ' spirit of Mrs. DInttie Venlmtis , of Tioga , Hancock County , Illinois. " I h d bten slct for sevtn years. " she ay j "not in bed , but jiwl dragging uisclf around. At last I took three bottles of Ir I'iercc's ' I'a. vorltc Prescription aud fivcof'Oolden Medical Discovery,1 , and U U \ > npoi blt la < describe in wardi the good these medicines did me. My Imsbaud says ' Golden Medical Discovery is the best medicine he ever tried for a cough. No praise Is too high for Dr Pierce' * medicines " Auotherlidy.MM K I' Moufoit , of Lebanon. Warren Co. Ohio , says , "I tliiuk Dr. I'ierce's Oolden Medical DUcovery the finest medicine on record I have UVen a uiimber of bottles and U Is the only medicine that relieved my terrible tieidsches " Women who suffer should write to Dr. R V. Pierce , of Buffalo. N. V He will send them the best professional advice that can ' be had anywhere in America and entirely y' without charge Neither the "Golden Medical Discovery" nor the "Favorite Prescription " contain ! any alcohol to in ebriate or create a morbid craving : for Btiuiulauts , . Rvery woman should own o copy of ms splendid book "The Common Sense Medi cal Adviser. " U is the grandest medical book for popular reading- ever written It contains a fund of knowledge of precious value to women. It has over a thousand , pages elaborately illustrated with engrav ings und colored plates , The first great edition of more than half-a-niilllon copies woo sold at f i 50 each. The profit from this induced Dr. Pierce to carry out his cher- i hed intention of issuing a free edition one copy of which in paper-covers will be sew for the barf cott of mailinff , n one-cent stamp * , or a heavier cloth-bound copy foi 31 ttampi. cheaper The rising s'andard of living , however - ever makes a greater outlay Imperative Small wonder then that to the question as to whether the decrease lii the prices of what he bought dl.l not offset the fall In prices ot what he sold , the answer la No , emphatic as it Is unanimous. Another negative , llkowlso unanimous , Is full of hopeful human Interest. Theae farmers do not work 10 hard as of old. Some give as a reason , falling strength , or Increas ing affluence- , but on the whole there Is an undcr-rocognltlon of new was better than the old. In line Is the recognition of the work of agricultural eollc-ges and experiment stations , also of the fact that given a good brain It can bo turned Into competence , nnd consequence among men , as readily In the fields aa In the market , or the forum. I'lMin KiiriuoiI'rofommr. . On the quail ion cf farm mortgages hero In now light. iugcno Davenport of Wood land , Mich , sometime * a farmer pure and simple , non an agricultural profwsor aa well , writes. "You are right In holding that farm mort gages do not represent by that mud' n IMS of frtrm property.Vc have had nil over the country nn era of building upon our farm lands , mich ns I have not seen , or known , in any other country , Whether wise polk1 } or not , this ono outlay rep- rcucnls millions of dollars , and our farmers are better housed than nny farmers on earth. Times now are close , and the shift less farmers must go to the wall. Hut closu times and narrow margins will compel better stock and better methods. Our farmers are poor just now , not from failure of crops , but rather from overabundance. " Dollar wheat may po'ulbly have Induced Mr. Davenport to icvlao that last sentence. | II. I ) Ilattle , director of a North Carolina agricultur.il experiment station , writes. "Our people are raising very largely their homo supplies , and with the lest ot their j land ralso a money crop. Thus they can llvo In lomfort though there Is but little i money In hand. Farming is becoming to bo n learned profession. Those that tom- bino headnork with handwoik , and are properly equipped , find results successful. Diversification and brain work are essentials for success. " Agalust these officials hoar a plan | farmer , D. B. Walker , who came from Taunton , ! Mass. , to ECttle In his present habitat , Ocloll , | 111. Ho had a wife , a buby and $400 when ho came west In 1866. Now he owns 240 I acres worth $75 an acre , nnd still rising. Ho has brought up nine children "who take kindly to farming. " "I have never seen hard times , " ho writes , "but worked hard until I got a start. At present have mort- gngo of $3,000 on farm. Loaned my faon $5,000. I have grain , cattle- , horses , sheep and hogs. Three with growing crops will moro than pay my moitgage , besides notes and accounts. Many have done bsttcr , hoppers. * * Owed $ S.OOO more than I was worth , * * by ' 89 had paid oft debts and accumulated $50,000. llcgan In 'SG j planting trco claims set 7,000,000 trees on conlract nnd cleared $23,000. Ran nunsorv , farm nnd orchard , pul $47,000 In stock farm in northwestern part of state Wcathcicd ' 9J nl finch liLavv IOES and sacrifices In meet ing obllgallons the dry winter and spring of ' 04 finished me. Hanks wanted their money and losses \vero heavy In leallzlng. Hud $50,000 of propertj and $41,000 of debt. * * * Ovvu now flO.onu to $12,000 moro than am worth ; e.\poct to dig out about 100. . " i i I'rom tinLUIII * Stnr MiiU * . | Texnrs ate all loyal to the Lone Star | State "I came hero thirty-eight jeara ngo I with two dollars and a half , " writes It. I' . Butler ; "havo raised a family of eight chil dren nnd now own a homo worth $5,000 and havu paid out over $12.000 on homes for my children. I can name hundreds who have done ns well or better. " It Is eimewhat an achievement for a man who came out of the confcdeiate ranks with only a ragged gray uniform lo own 7.000 rkh ncies and lalso en them 2,000 odd bales i of cotton. That is the experience of D. \ \ ' . Miiruson , Bedford , La. "After the surrcn- ' dor , " no writes , "I began on my brother's TYPICAL IMMIGRATION SCENE IN WEST EIIN" NEBRASKA. not so well as injaelf. An Irishman came here same year , has raised eleven children nnd Hdiooled them. He has 1,000 ncres of Innd , good hulldlugs as any In the country. I took the census of the lown In 1890 Many farms mortgaged. I could narno several wcnllhy farmers that have mortgagee he- cause they keep bus Ing Innd , and others retire - tire frc'in ' fanning and sell to the bojs or let the hojs take over the When Di'lit lit it So It appears bomu of Ihest canny agrl- culturlsts agree vUth the IJrltlsh statesman who found In the national debt a national hleselng. Still another vlow of mortgage In- dehtedne ? < j Is furnished by William K Cox of Ste. Oenovlvo , Mo. , who writes : "When money In harrowed and n deed of trust on the land Is given , U Is recorded In tbo circuit court clcrk'o office and the full amount of the loan Is stated , hut no account of the partial paymcntB U kcpl until thu vsholo amount Is paid and the deed of trust entirely mtlsllcd hy the trustee " Mr. Cox SBVH further "About thirty per cent of f.irms In tills co.inty are mortgaged * * for perhaps 3.1 per cent of their value. Partial pnjnientu are not taken Into consideration , still the amount of mortgage Indebtednebs Is less than two vcars back. " Mr. Cox la not himself a farmer , but ha n heap of opinions icgardlng them. Ainony othcro this : "Farmers who attend fitrlctly to theJr business and \\lio do not spend too much of their time around saloons arc , If not making much money , doing moderately \i ell. " Grant Do Witt of Convenience , O , n baler nnd shipper of hay , who knows many farm ers , seems to share Mr. Cox's view of them. "Tho farmers are a great class of people to complain , " ho w rites , "and few of them like to admit of their success. True the prlco of grain Is poor , but the jlcld Is greater , the expense of raising Ices. Nlim farmers In ten will argue that our lands and cllmato nro becoming better adapted to the growing of wheat. They forget that the } are Improving the seed every year , and that the modes of sowing , reaping and cul tivating their lands are quite different from what t'aey were a few jears ago In 1S7S my father harvested a field of wheat ave nging fifteen bushels to the acre and It was thought little les. ) than miraculous This yeaVmy nearest neighbor harvested a field averaging forty buehela per acre. What makes this great difference ? It U the im provement in seed , sowing and reaping. The sell-blndcr does not v\asto five bushels to the acre , as was the case In the old way of handling wheat " Tltua Sudduth of Sangamon county , Ill inois , has this to sa > "Central Illinois Is an exceedingly fine agricultural countrj. If wise , national measures could prevail wo would have a very prosperous pooplo. I wag brought here n child from Ml Starling , Kj , started In life a poor boy , and hy dint ot persever ance , have bwn enabled to accumulate a property worth oven at present depression la prl ( es $ SM > 000. but I do not know of n > others -Rho have equaled It There nrp but few mortpagM , not ono In ten , on the > farms ot this cectlon KIrst-class men have I ' 110 trouble to get all the money they need at 6 per cent without any securlt ) what- | ever. Second rate names borrow at 7 per cent on security. There Is plenty ot money , or nearly so , for all practical purposes , t have given no security for ban\ funds In the last thirty-flvo jears , and hive always got nit the funds 1 needed. " Ezra P. Stephens , bnrn In Maine and eol- lego-brcd. went to Crete , Neb , In 1&71 with $1,300 $ to help him start In life. In 1891 > io had not very much more. In between , how ever , ho ha 1 rated hi me pit nnd been rated uy others high up In the ihousanda. This Is his nlory In detail , a story so wholly Amcrlran as to make H epic : " ' 71. Taught school while Inching for land. Tcok up pre emption also , llought 240 acres 1J & M. land near Crete $ S per acre rough land , supposed to bo all right for orcharding. Spent J26.000 on it In planting nnd Improv ing It. ( Mortgage , U per cent , took It In the collapse- last May ) " ' 72. Subsollcd 187 acres for n. & M. railroad and planted next spring , on con tract , 750,000 tiotB , In wind-breaks on north sldo of track. Cultivated that contract three > tars , cultivated wheat and corn to open and lit land for nursery nnd orchard. ' "I , ' 75 , ' 7fl nnd ' 77 grasshoppers ate my nursery stock fed out nil the money 1 had and all my friends vvcro willing to lend the grass- & , & A. OLD AND THE NC\V HOME OK A FARMER WHO DEVELOPED THIS SPOT OX 'A nSTKRN NEBRASKA PRAIRIE , HAVING SET OUT THE TREES III MSULK. place , cutting cord-wood for a living. Next year , borrowed a thousand dollars on my good name and went to planting cotton , working harder than any 'free nigger' In the countj. Made a little money , bought a small stock of gooda , mixed merchandising with farming. " James II. Camp , also an ex-confederate , lives In Georgia on a 500-aoro farm bought "by hard work and economy. I have never bought for luy own use ono pound pf bacon , ono bushel of corn or sack of flour. I found out early that anything that could be rntoed on a farm was much cheaper rained than bought * * The negto Is the best la borer In the worlJ , easily controlled , reasonable enable , novar will strike unless led by tur bulent whites. Thank God Georgia has but little of the foreign clement. I hope It may never have It. " Victor J. Speor , Dalntrce , Vt. , ban proved by works the faith ho thus states"Havo always contended that the man with brains would find a way to succeed on the farm" Mr. Speor Inherited earae 700 acres along with a debt of $6,000. It came to him In 187C Since then ho has paid the debt , spent $2,500 for additional land , the sanm amount for repairs and betterments , doubled the farm's production of everything , and docs not owe n dollar , but Is a creditor for several thou sand. "My Income has been mainly from the sale of orchard products , " hu w riles. "Ap plet ) , boiled elder , Jelly and vinegar. Have also sold Merino sheep for breeding purposes Have had a trade for several years with the rancnmen of Montana * * Also run a elder mill and Jelly manvifnetory In con nection with orchards. This has been very profitable. " HrcluliiK-il H "llopclCHH riirni , " A r Nojes , born and bred In his home town. Heaver Dam , WIs. , knows all about ndoptlng'nn abandoned form. It was "cov ered with burdocks and stones , A renter had starved out. No fences worth naming , but good bouse and barn. The neighbors said' 'It would not raise white beans.1 My father. 'Hoy , you will never pay for that farm. ' Only regret that he did not live to see It done. Little by little wu cleaned the fields and roadsides. Very few etcnes now in fields they are sixty and eighty acres In extent , besides postures. Kaleo coac'j colts , 1'horthornn , Shropshire nnd grade sheep , Poland China.plga. barley , potatots , corn , oats , clo\cr and timothy We ntver mil bills , make It a rule to pay as vvb go If wo needed thlngn , borrowed money nnd bought where we chose Also made it a rule to borrow nlwnjs In the came place. * Alwajt ? paid the day a debt was due , or arranged for It When we. hid money and owed It , made It our business to pa > Inttral of waiting for a dun 1'armeii * are to blame In great measure for the sUght put on farn work We also grumble too much at dr > weather for Inbtance Instead of re membering that It may raise prlcct , " David Wallace , Esq. an' excellent Cana dian after he hud reclaimed a neglected farm In his own country , felt stirrings of ambl tton for a llfp In the state * Po about l fi ho soup his household Rodi In what was then the territory of Dakota Drouth made his first wheat crop a failure The second waJ something miraculous as to jleld but i did not much more than pay pretty heavy expenses Two more failure * from dry i springs brought him to 1S90 , when a mag nificent crop on 500 acres put him ahead , although "the high wages ami general neglect of everything but having a jollj good time made It difficult to get It taken care of and thus the not profit was small " In 1 01 he sowed but 300 acres to wheat nnd planted potatoes , which grew magnificently , I but could not be sold for enough to pay the i freight. The grain jleld was fine , but a ' cold nnd early fall set the threshing for llio most part over Into next summer , making the larger part of It a total loss In 1S92 160 acres of wheat gave line profit. The next harvest on 4DO acres encountered such heavy weather , hall storms , frosta and so on It did not pay expenses. To the lay mind that appears to bo an oxperlence to warrant the least hit of ca lamity howllnR. Mr. Wallace Is another sort. "Such Is the experience of nearly every farmer here , " he sajs. "Vet I do not think wo have any great reason to com plain. * With all the natural drawbacks ! doubt If there Is another country on the face of Ood's earth where farmers can llvo with so little work , such a reckless sjstem ot farming and money. With a few > ears of the Industrj of our fathers practiced forty years ago wo may all bo Independent of the loan agency or the banks. " So the tale runs through scores of mouths. Finance Is evident ! } as vital among those who llvo by the land ns In Wall street It self In the matter of land values and fluc tuations there arc notable differences. West ern lands on the whole , it appears , arc ris ing , eastern lands either stationary or fall ing , mlddle-wfst acres steady at high prices and lands down Eouth stationary or very slowly rising Local causes , however , de termine values much morn than gcogiaphlc. nDWARD ATKINSON. OK i.u-u. Tom Gould , probably the most famous of New York's dive Keepers , Is now .irnlng $1 SO a night as a night watchman at an unfinished building All the money lie ever earned , or , perhaps "acquired" would be the better word , la gone. Thcie Is a care worn look about his fa"c , he looks old , and has lost nil his old-tlmo spirit. In the great Now York March blizzard of 1SS7 Henry O'Donnell had his feet frozen so badly that both were amputated. Until a few weeks ago he walked on crutches. Then ho had a pair of aitillclal feet made , but his clumslncsa with them caused his friends to laugh. Mr. O'Donnell at once olfcrcd to bet that ho could walk 1,000 miles with them A heavy w.igcr was laid nnd O'Donnell IB now on his way , havingrciched Baltimore. : lo bets he can walk to New Orleans , 1,200 miles , In five months. The Baltimore & Ohio rallroid is pursuing a wise course in rewarding employes when by quickness of thought or otherwise , avert loss of liteor destruction of property. The engineer of a passenger train wlflch had Just stopped at Connellsvlllir Sfatlon the vthcr day heard another train coming nnd Immediately sprang Into hUs cab nnd started his train at full speol. The engine of the other train struck the rear car , but without serious results. A gold watch and chain , suitably Inscribed , was the engineer's re ward. Christian Sclentlstn are watching with In terest the course ot the trial of a suit for damages brought against the Edison Elec- trio Illuminating company ot Paterson , N. J. , by Berthold Frankel , who _ allegcs that he was * truck by a falling arc light wire of the company and seriously Injured. As a result ho was in the hospital for three months. The defense of the company IB that ho only thought he was hurt , constituting himself at once the subject and the operation In a feat of hypnotism. The hospital phj- slclane , who have been called by the defense - fonso , say that while Frankol bhowed all the symptoms of an electric chock , his body wa unmarked , and other doitore testify that In their opinion as experts the illness was the result of hypnotic suggestion. Georgia is furnishing many Ideal object lessons. A coneapondont of tbo Atlanta Constitution has found a county in that atato , Union , way In the Blue Ridge , whose people are nil imtHo born Americans Sev enty-five out of every 100 farmers own their own fauns nnd raise everything they consume - sumo except coffee , sugar , salt and tea. In the county seat , lilalrsvllle , there Is only one family living In a rented house There li not a barroom In the county and hasn't been for thirty years. The county has no cotton , but there Is no such corn ns It grows anywhere clfce In Georgia. Its moun tains are densely covered with oak and hick ory , and it has gold , iron and marble. Ha puoplo now aie excited because a railroad running fiom Chattanooga to Walhulln , S. C , will soon piss through their section. Union county may not bo so Ideal when It becomes part and parcel of the outside world , In Saybrook , six miles wr t of Ashtabula , 0. , a wild caglu swooped down upon Mra. Arthur Stewart lu her dooryard and when her husband arrived she lay upon the ground In n faint. Mrs. Stcnait heard a loud noise In the chicken } ard and went Im- medl.itily to tbo bccnc. The eagle left the hennery and attacked Mrs. Stewart. A faithful dog belonging to the family tried to protect Ilia mistress , but was also at tacked and won worsted. Mru Stewart's Injuries nro not berlous B > the tlmo Mr Stewart arrived the caglo had escaped 111 the wood This Is the second Incident of the Kind In that region within a few weeks. At Palr.efivllle , twenty miles west of there , a woman was attacked , but with assistance finally Killed the bird , which proved to bo an Immense apcclmcn It la said that thcro Is a ncH of eagles near Wllloughby , 0 Could not express the rapture of Annie K. Springer of 1125 Howard street Philadelphia. Pa . whan she found that Dr KltiK'n Now Discovery for Cnniumptlon had completely cured her of a hacking cough that for many voars had made life a , burden. All other remedies nnd doctors cpuld clvo her no help , but she nays of this Hoval Cure1 "It soon removed the pain In mv chest and I can now sleep soundly , nomctblnc I can scaicoly remember doing before. I fc l like founding It * praises throughout ibe unlverte " So will every one v\ho tries Dr Klne' * Now Dis covery for uny trouble of the Throal Chester or Lungs. Price 60c and $1 00. Trial bottles free at Kuhn & Co.'a dru store : every bottle guaranteed. Orchard & Wilhelm Carpet Co. The economic and artistically inclined home furnisher Avill find there never was quite so good a time as now , "or place , " to cor rectly furnish the home as on this occasion. $1 ! 00 Dining Table nude of select o < k highly polished with heavy fluted nnd tuftied legs heavy , rich o O/A design 42x42 Inch top a most rematkfiblo valtio at only O v/Vf $1650 Dining Table made of select quartor-sawed oak highly polished ha * heavy grooved rim nnd heavy , massive turned and fluted legs mounted on ball bearing castors Inrgo 44\ll Inch lop nn unmatchable < O K f\ bargain at our price only , , 1 J , O1 W $125 Dining Chairs made of solid oak well braced and embossed cnno- sent full tlzo chalre / \ ( Tall \ all nicely finished five patterns for this special offering they arc only , each l V/v/ $2 HO Leather Seat and Hack Solid Oak Dining Chair nicely beaded and finished well braced ntid extra good -4 f\f\ value at our price only l V v/ $1000 Sideboard made of select oak nlcoly figured double serpentine top nnd top drawee rich carving .iiul -i 4 rr \ nicely finished has largo Kiench bevel mirror good quality and our price cxtrcmoly low nt ll Ol/ $2300 Sideboard highly hand polished nnd carved 24xlS-lnch top In everj way a ( list-class nillele swell top nnd lop drawers ono drawer llneil has large 18x32 bevel mirror un unmatchablp Sideboard at 4 t . rf our price-only I V U U Plnte Racks nnd Hanging .China Shelves and Cabinets a very Dr.inPriPS anrl UlUaill finnilc . large and cholco 8elecllon-A _ - very eholco Plate Rack-In . . " " FP ° tS nM' ' ! fn"C ' "KUr > ll-3G golden or PIcmUh oak or Imltatloa mahogany-polM. lln- to 45tnchC "ldJ M 7rd > < - ' Hh-wo offer > ou at sy * CT\ 12r , iBc atid . . . ! . . . . . . . . . ! Knncy Plgurcd Stripe , In diilnlv colors 45 $10.00 Morris Chair fr.imo made of select onk or Imlta- Inches wide , price , per > nrd , enl > lion mahoganv full size. has reversible cushions covered Pine Shirr Swlm-ilt-nred and stilped In high grade vcloiir or corduroy u most comfortable and per > anl , nt 32 : and < popular chair which we offer at n Klsh Net-extra S f\ - good valuc-IS Inches A r- m * ' J..O\J wide , at 40c mil 4OC $ SOO Couch made with good springs has button tufted top rroneh Gauze and Madras Cloth vur > natty f\Cl covered In high grade vclour choice ot color * ) full spring designs 50 and 72 Inches wide , at loc and lt\JvF c-dgi. and end n great bargain T S ! [ 20 ° | ialrs p'nl" ' MuIln Hulled ( "urtnlnw-30 Indus vide , UVi ' on' ' > O O J.irds long - JL spo-lal value at enl } / O I1" l > alr O JC . $27.CO Davenport Sofa-full size G-a. long-mahogany finish frame hand polished very choice dcalcn overcd In h st 30 pa s cf Co " Sl' ° l Bml rK"1Cl1 | stlro | Muslin 40 inches 3 > ard * " " "B-prr pair- velour-the greatest Davenport value e 1 1 ft offered at our price 17.50 HI/ 100 pairs Plain Muslin Runic Cm tains 10 f f $1 00 Colonial Divan choice upholstering hand polished , Inches wldo by 3 jards long onlj pair OVC /.Tn / cS'Sy111 ' lnlftl" back-artlstl ° 11 Afh < " 0 pairs Coin Spot and Figured and Stripe Swhs Mu lln HUHJ uulllo Curtains at per pnlr-l. 10. /-j f\f\ . " ' ? 1 5 ° n"A UU $45.00 largo Turkish Leather Rocker the bcbt make we of- ' ' JW fer jou special tlilu 35 ° 1 > alrs T"Illsr5r ! { 1'ortleret IS Inihos wide- i j ds IOIIK O TT < ff \ week only OOO finished with fringed top and bottom 12 coloi.s to belect from extra value at onlj / y f\f\ $1300 Genuine Leather Couch one that wo can guarantee Per pair 3 \ > V7 extra well mads cholco of colors tf leather plcltol 75 pair * , extra heivy Portieres heavy fringe top nnd bottom tufled < m.ihogany finish frame OT df\ f'O ' inches w Ida 3 yards long icgular $ G 50 A Z\ price cJ iiOvr goods exira value al pair Ti c5vP 200 pairs llngdad Stripe 15 dlffercnl stjlcs regular $000 Carpets , Linoleums and Oil Cloth lleadaiiarters.nni1 ? 70 ° curtnina gicat bpccini A . offering al pair , \\o i an supply your wants at remarkably low figures auaHty gu.aiiu , , , xove , before have we shown such a % % % , . . . large assoitmtnt of really choice floor coverings as now fro , , , the chenpc. , rug to the rich or.ental . , wlth delicate. ° ol lfK. handsome and as Ing colors-from the Inexpensive Ingrain To close out Saah WJro rodflMUl brachol8ljr ( , . to the nnest Wlllons. Ours you'll nnd the mot complete ure ) we offer them at vu" mcas and best assorted stock In the west , at money-saving prices. only i Orchard & Wilhelm Carpet 1414-1416-1418 Douglas Street. The India college , under the auspices of the Lutheran gener.il siiod , has forty teachers nnd SSJ students. The Slainesp have iLi'ontly contributed 15,000 ticalh ( $ J.OVO ) for the imiolmsu of a new bite for the Christian High school in Bangkok. Five of the nine legal holidays in the Transvaal are rcllttlous holidays , nnmel } , Christmas , Good Friday , Easier , Ascen sion day nnd Whltmonday. Ten moro nrmy chaplains have been or dered to the Philippines. There nro now lint eight there , which Is a small number for between 25,000 nnd 50,000 soldiers , not to spe.ik of our 10,000,000 fellow citizens , the Filipinos. The MctbodlBl church of South Africa has started Its twentieth century fund and expects to raise $250.000 by December , WOO. It Is expected th.it all the native Chris tians will ralto half a guinea each und the , English members three guineas. | The Chicago Theological Hemlnary has now In torco the system of mm It M'holar- | ship. The bame seminary has received Ha , llrst female student Miss Florence Ten- I sham , professor of Old Testament literature , In the Ameilcan college for elris in Conj j staiitinopk1 | Only a little more than half of the com municants of the Protestant churches of Great Britain are members of the Estab lished church The reports , of the Kstnb- lished church give the number of members aw lfU0.140. while the rolls of the Federa tion of Free ( nonconformist. ) churches bhow 1,697,175. The Sunday schools of the Established church have 2,410,209 children , while these of the federation have 3,21 > l- tiC. ! . St. Mary's Roman Catholic church at MoorlleldB. Lqndon , has been closed , the blto having been s < cured for commercial purposes ut the enormous sum of tl.UOB.OOO. lieforo the church can bo demolished about 5DW bodies burled in the catacombs under the church and schools will have to bo re moved The c'hureh Is one of the oldest Homun Catholic churches in London , 1'ope 1'lus Vll having presented It with a supuib chnlltu and puten o gold valued nt 6,00i Uomuii crowns. General Grant , when asked to write a met-miKO to the Sunday i chool youth of the United Stales , vvrolo as tollows. Mlulil fast to the bible ns the bheet anchor ot vour liberties Write ltn iirreeplH In your h < > .uls and practice them In } our liven. " The late John II. Sessions of UrlHtol , Conn. , bequeathed by his will $10,000 to this Methodist Missionary society of this clly nnd $10,000 to WcBloynn ncademv til Wll- brahnni , Mass. , be-ldcs iho $25,000 to Wis- leyan college at Allddlctown , Conn. The inlisloiiury Income for hint year In Great Britain amounted to 512,775,000. Of this sum the Church Mlsslomuy society , or the evangelical low church organisation within the Church of England , received $1 , 900,000 Next comes the Diltlsh nnd For eign lilhlo Hiieleiy , whoHo work Is moro lor forulun than for home lleldo , und It re ceived about Jl,100,0i)0 , ) , Tim London Mis sionary society itrc'lvod about $750.000 Members of the Honiaii Catholic church will ho IntcroHted In leainlnK thai Lorclto , I'.i , where the . Ulue lo 1'ilncc Gallltzln has Jusl been unvulli'd , Is to have u new church. The bulldliiK will bo Iho glfl of L' . M Schwab of the Carneglo company und hlH wife , nnd will be built at a cost of about f O.OOO In accordance with plans pre pared about a yrar ago. CON VI IIIALITIKS. Talk about the dllllculty of proposing ! Th ? average } oiing man's dllllcully when he Is thrown continually Into the society of pretty gills is too Keep from making a proposal According to a romantic ptory n man who wax married In Chicago last week got his fortune In the Klondike and h's ' wife In Ireland , lie will decide later ns to vvhch place furnished him the greater treasure The jesldcnt phslclan of Queen Victoria. Sir .lamrs Held , Is Just about to marry one of her maids of honor , nurnoly , Hunan Baring , sister of Lord Itevelstoke and of ( 'pell Baring who makes his home In New York and who H In business lu Wall street. ; A Nfw Jersey man who sued a neighbor for $10.000 damages fur alienation of liU wife's affection bus been given a verdict of $ i > Of course , the plaintiff Is disappointed , but think of the feelings of the wlf ( whos' , afftctlons arc thus murkc-d down ! lu them ' unhody 'he can sue for damages The } oung c-oun'css of Croinurtlc whoso engagement has jitHt been announced , Is the oldext daughter of the duke of Sutherland's UceiiiHdl younger brother , who succeedud to till ) title * of his mother , heiress of line of i tlu > gient SonttlBh lawer and antliiuar } I Sir George Miukt-nzlf of Tarbut , rmitcd | 1 farl of C'romartle The fiuo'ii by Inters patent in 1 * & lontlrmeil the youthful heir- 1 c s In the title she hears , one her majost } i re-created in favor of Anne , du- hens f Sutherland , with llm'tutton to her tiucond j 011. 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