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
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Springer of 1125 Howard street Philadelphia.
Pa . whan she found that Dr KltiK'n Now
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removed the pain In mv chest and I can
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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 . .
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golden or PIcmUh oak or Imltatloa mahogany-polM. lln- to 45tnchC "ldJ M 7rd > < -
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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
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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
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> O O J.irds long -
JL spo-lal value at enl } / O
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$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
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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.
Von I'liiiniit Work
with a headache Itcllevo It with \\rlgbta
1'nragon Hendacho Hemcdy
It will soon
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ilow is your office ? Are you beginning to
shiver already , thinking how you will keep
your overcoat on to keep warm ?
The Bee Building
is the best heated building in Omaha , as
well as the best kept building. You can
get oilices there from § 10 up.
MOVE WHILE IT IS WARM ,
C. PETERS GROUND FLOOR ,
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Windy weather and dangcrom occupations
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