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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1913)
The Omaha Sunday PART TWO EDITORIAL PAGES ONE TO TWELVE PART TWO SOCIETY PAGES ONE TO TWELVE VOL. XLII-NO. 31. OMAHA, SUN PAY MOKX1NG, JANUARY t!U.'5. S1NC1L10 COPY FIVE CKNTS. Nebraska's Apples Lead World in Quality and Quantity Hi 1 M MM I? 1 A. iimclz cfSZTfiwt- Tlc Leo Cider and Vinegar Co. - Falls Cftfjr, JVc&r. S3? " 'jfiT iiilr A load of Wi'jaesjtf apples Z:r ft if 4 mm mm r r mii 1 Hy P. JJAltROWS. A WA-Y; back in 1S69, ;vlien Nobraska had ' hardly outlived tho namq of .tho "Groat American Dusort," Itobort W. Furnas at ono timo eovcrnor of Nobraska, won the first medal given tho etato at a fruit show in Massachusetts. Since that timo tho state has been slowly but surely advancing until now it stands at the top as the state which grows apples that are In demand at top prices, even in the old world. After winning the silver medal at the Massa chusetts fruit show, Nebraska took another silver medal in New Jersey In 1371 and another the same yoar given by the American Poniological society. In 1876 at the centennial exposition in Philadelphia, Nebraska fruit took one bronze, one gold and five jellver medals. In 1893 Nebraska again captured two bronze modals at tho Columbian exposition in Chi cago and at the Omaha TransmiBsisslppf exposition i took two moro bronze medals. These medals are on exhibition in tho rooms of the Nebraska Horticul tural society, and are only a part of tho many honors captured by Nebraska fruit in a competition ngalnst the whole country, for in the last few years no state has been able to successfully compete against this state in the apple Industry. Not coutent with capturing honors in our own country, Nebraska reached out. a.nd at tho Paris ex position a few years ago Marshal Brothers of Arling ton, in a competition against the world, captured two gold medals on Nebraska apples. At the Na tional Horticultural congress in 1909, Nebraska apple growers entered thirty plates in the single i plate competition, competing with thirty-one' other tBtates and won twnty-elght premiums which in cluded ten firsts, eleven seconds and eight thirds. In 1912 tho apple crop of the state amounted to $7,376,899, and equaled tho combined crops of spring wheat, barley, spelts and rye and was only exceeded by the crops of. corn, winter wheat, oats hay and alfalfa. The crop for that year, if shipped out of the state would have taken 15,000 cars to transport it, while s It waB twenty-one growers shipped out 78,805 barrels from southeastern Ne braska, two carloads ojrthesQ,o'ta. little over 1(000 -bushels gong direct to London? England. Just to show what some of tho growers of Ne braska apples aro doing in furnishing the country wjtu the best apples grown, the following will demonstrate: One of theso growers has 10,000 bushels of fancy winesnps in cold storage in Chicago selling In competition with Now York, Michigan and western fruit. Hundreds of carloads were bought by eastern buyers while yet on the trees and are being sold In the east In competition with fruit raised in that section. Shubert Brbtf. of Richardson county shipped 120 cars, 60,000 bushels, from .350 acres. Tho Henry C. Smith orchard near Barada, consisting of sixty five acres, shippod forty-fivfe carloads wheu lfi yearB old; this laud was bought twenty years ago for $10 per acre; it is now paying 10 per cent on a valuation of $3,00.0 per acre. Georgo A. Marshall of Arlington has an elght acro orchard which produced 21,050 bushels of apples in twelve years; theso sold for $15,787.50; the expense of planting and maintaining the orchard was met by raising crops between the trees while young so that the. $15,000 is net profit. Peter Youngers of Geneva has harvested 10,500 bushels of applos from an orchard of twenty acres containing 922 17-year-old trees; the net profits are $170 per acre. The not profits from orchards in the famous Yakima valley for the last ten years, according to a recent bulletin issued by tho govern ment aro but $108 per acre. Nebraska now haB about 8,000,000 applo trees on 160,000 acres; those are the most productive acres In tho United States, mensured. by the valuo of the land and the net returns In per centage of profit. In fifteen counties in eastern Nobraska there aro not less than 4,000,000 acres of land as good for fruit growing which1 can be bought for one fourth the prlco which is asked for western fruit it ' t 5. Clean GuJljrah'ozLlhys Orchard a Weeping Water land and with no expense for irrigation; moreover, it is 1,500 miles nearer market. Six Nebraska counties, Butler, Gage, Nemaha, Otoe, Johnson und Richardson, produced 3,332,690 bushels of apples last year, equivalent to 6,665 car loads. Those six counties also raised grain crops, hay and potatoes to the value of $16,488,389. IJhis Is equivalent to one-third of tho value of tho grain, hay and potato crops of tho atato of Washington; It Is oqual to one-half of the valuo of tho same crops for the states of Oregon or Idaho and one-fourth tho value of that produced by California. Theso counties havo one-half as many swine as Idaho, Washington or Oregon and nearly one-fourth as many as California. Nebraska grows apples 'and other things too. The shipments from Nemaha county alone more thnn twico covered tho shipments from the famous Hood River Valley orchards of Oregon and accord ing to official figures furnished by tho Northwest ern Fruit GroworB' association at Portland, Oro., amounted to 1,209,483 bushels or over 2,422 car loads. Nebraska has several largo factories for manu facturing products from the prolific orchards of tho stato, the largest, howover, which happens to be tho largest in the world, 1b sltuntod at Falls City, while another largo cldor vinegar factory Is located at Pawnee City. Beginning Monday-, January 20, 1913, will occur tho forty-fourth annual meotlng of tho Nobraska State Horticultural Eocloty and fruit show at Lin coln. This show will probably bo one of tho great est exhibitions of .the kind over held in tho wost Spxa.yn$ gasoline sprayer VLxnxler2S0lh.pressvt.Te: -CzSs Co. and In connection with tho box show will bo an af fair of much importance. Already two carloads of thu host apples of the country have been received to competo for the liboral prizes offered. The plato show will compose over 2,000 plates of five apples ouch, and It Is estMnitc' tuatahoro will be on ex hibition over 2,000,000 Apple!.- ' An Interesting fenturo of tho show will bo Uio demonstration In applo cooking In charge of tho young womon students of tho stato university farm in tho domestic sclonco clasB. It is said that theso young women aro ablo to prepare applos In over 200 different styles, and In order to show that they can do It, will demonstrate that fact before the eyes of tho public. i In addition to all of tho other interesting things thero will bo a froilt Judging contest between tho agricultural colleges of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. Every Indication points to the biggest Bhow of. tho kind over hold between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and will, doubtless bring hundrods of vleltora from other states. A pleasing feature of tho fruit show will be an oxhibitlon ty- tho stato florists, while Wednesday afternoon will bo given over entirely to this society; and many interesting addresses will bo given. Every day an apple packing demonstration will be gjven for tho bonoflt of those who desire to learn this very desirable qualification which is so useful to tho npple grower. Addresses will be delivered by O. H. Van Houton of Lennox, Inr, J. P. Hobs o Courfcll Bluffs, la.; E. II. Favor, editor of tho Fruit Grower of St. Joseph, Mo.; Prof. S. A. Beach of Ames college, Iowa; Prof. Lauronz Green of tho same collego and others. Tho aadrcss of Mr. Favor will bo made Interesting by tho usd of lantorn slides. A banquet will bo held Tuesday evening In the Llndell hotol which will be hoadquartorB for the association, while the hIiow will be lipid across the street In tho city auditorium. Outside of the ban quet where tho plates will be sold for $1 each the show will bo free to overybody. In connection with -tho other shows, tho Ne braska corn show will nlso bo In session, giving tho visitor some ideas on Nebraska corn. Whatever the Religion, the Goal is the Same V y KLLA WIIEKIjKH AVILCOX. Copy-right. 1313, "by the Star Publishing Company. ClirUIImi Uiiil)'. "Let's establish a .religion?:' "All right, let's." Ktrat we must have a God." 'Then wo must kneel to JItm on the right knee." - "No, no, on the left." , "I tell you on the rlBliC "And I tell you on thu Ml. 'Formalist!" "Pharisee!" ' 1'anatlc! ' " "Fool!" "Heretic!" "ttnbelluvor!" "Infidel!" "Ulaphemer!" "Spawn ot perdition!" Uo to blatoa!" "To the devil with you!" "I II brat your beau off! Take that!" "I'll oave jour face lnf Take that!" lllng! Hang! llltf'. ltoy Wllhelm. Mr. Koyul Wllhelm, an earnest student or Uu bunutlUil pliiloiophy of the Halm. int me the above clipping, but with no s gnature. I may "bo presuming to give bis name an the originator of the nar castlc bit or dialogue. It Is an excellert representation ot the prevailing uplrlt of many, many religious organltatlons. Yet the world Is more tolerant, and all religions are broader than ever be fore since man evolved. Our own Chris tian creed has been tho most Inelastic and iron-bound of nil creeds until during the last decade and a half. Tho coming to us ol such a great noul and brilliant oiator 'as Vlvakananda during the world exposition aV. Chicago shook us from our Ignorant egotism and helped us to un derstand that alj who had been reared In other faiths and other lands were not heathens or Ignoramuses. Here Is a portion of a lecture given by Vlvaka nanda on "The Great Teachers of tho World": "Behold another messenger. He of Nazareth. Ho teaches: 'He ready, for tho kingdom of. heaven Is nt hand.' I have pondered over the message of Krishna,. and am trying to work without attachment-, but sometimes I forget; then, suddenly, comes to me the messagu of Huddha: 'Take cure for everything In the world Is evanescent, and there is al ways misery in this life.' I listen to that, and I am uncertain which to accept. Then again comes, like a thunderbolt, the message; Ho'yead)', for tho kingdom of heaven Is at hand,' LK not delay a mo ment. Leavo nothing for tomorrow. Get ready for tho final event which may overtake you immediately, even now. That mesjage also has, a place, "and we acknowledge It; we salute the Messenger; we saluto the Lord. "Will other niid greater prophets cOmo? Certainly they will some In thli world. Hut do not look forward to that. I should better like that each ono of you become a prophet of this real New ' J V la ment, which In made up ot tho old testa ments. Tako all the old messages, sup plement them with your own realizations, and become a prophet unto others. Each one of theso teachers has been great; each has left something for us; they have been our Gods, wo salute them, we aro their servants; and, all tho same, we salute ourselves; for f they have been prophets and children ot God, we also are the same. They reached perfection, and w- are going to attain ours now. Re member tho words of Jesus: 'the kingdom of heaven le at hand.' This very moment let every one of us make a stuunch reso lution: 'I will becomo a prophot. I will beoomo a messenger of light, I will be-1 come a olilld of God, nay, I will becomo u God.'" Tlds is a good resolution with which iH t?5'n. Ui2 2i!f JEST o11 eoul onj earth today, no matter how humble the station or how limited the mental capac ity. Is on tho road toward goodness, to ward portectlon. Krishna, Huddha, our own Christ, went all perfected souls; and in their late earth form, they were passing on to oneshlp with God the Father. We are far from that complete condi tion; yet every thought we give to spirit ual things, every wish we send forth for tho betterment of -humanity, every loving Impulse toward our fellow man and overy selfish and unworthy Impulse driven from our hearts,- Is a step forward toward the ultimate aim of all beings perfec tion. Christ sold, "Ho yo perfect even as your Father In heuvon is perfect. That Is tho purpose of all life. Begin to coriect the small faults in your nature boforo you attempt to bo a great teacher or a great master. Bo absolutely truth ful. Ho silent, often 'whon you feel like speaking: but when you do speak, be exact, and make your wordik reliable, to every ono' who heurs them. Verry few persons aro rellabl In their statements. Exaggerations and mis-statements and garbled facts mar the conversation of a vast majority of human beings who be hove thomselvea to be truthful. Practice truthfulnuHi from now on. Control your temper. It Is dlffloult to bo always unlia ble and good nutured; so many things oeour to rouse our righteous Indignation. And to ruffle our tempers. But to con trol ourselvos under these Irritation con ditions Is a sure, way to growth, f The Passing of the Proposal Ily IDA I'ATTISUSO.V. The fortunate bachelor who will soon marry Helen Gould when asked by a zealous, Impertinent youth of the pre: "How did you propose to her?" aimv "I didn't. ' To which tho reporter . terenV'Dld sho ask youT" and hpi LFInloy Sheppard responded: "No." Benedlct-to-Be Sheppard, being a sou of a minister and a man ot excellent repu tation in his own right, we may nut not doubt his word. Nor may we assume that ha was Joking, for he and his fiance look upon life with serious oyes. It -Is nearer the truth to assume that there is a new fashion In matchmaking. We have a good deal of authority for behoving that the age of masculine bend ing the knee haH passed, that the pro posal as Hilch is passing. Kim friendship, then comradeship, then oloser comradeship, then by natural graduation, marriage, seems to be tho new order ot courtship. "I never proposed to you, you know?" teased u successful playwright, "Upon tnv word, I think lie's right," admitted his plump and pleasing wife." j "How did it happen, Blllyt" "I met you when you were calling on 4Iary Grimes." "You walked horn with me without even asking." "You dldnt make any fuss about It. hen. Why begin now?" he demanded. 'I was trying to write stories and he nos acting," stio continued. "I wan ter ribly discouraged. He said to mo one evening after we'd known each other for a couplo of years: " 'Glvo up this writing game and we'll get married now. What's tho uso of put ting It off any longr?' That's thu tlrst I'd heard him say anything about gottlntt married and I gasped and began to talk about wedding tlxingH, but he laughed and led nut off to a street cornor and caught a oar that went to a mlnlkter's. I don't consider that a proposal." Certainly neither Miss Jane Austin and Misses Charlotte und Hmlly Bronte, Mrs. E. D. K. N. ITouthworth, Mrs. Mary J. Holmes nor Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bur nett, would have inscribed It on their burning pages. Ixidlng up to the proposal Is half tho plot of novelt. and the novel ists may now go out of bushiest. A bachelor who has reached the cross roads of life, 15 years, said he had never proposed to a girl and never would. If tho girl of his heart signified by any ot the Innumerable sLgns ot womanhood that his society was agreeable to her he would, when It was quite convenient for him, ask her to put on her hat, throw a scare over hur shoulders they don't wear hats In summer In Washington, D. C, where, he llvee, and he being romantic, prefers a summer wedding and drive to the min ister's. "Why ask a woman to marry you, oii'-e you seo the 'I'm willing,' look In her eye" ho bald, "Just help her tu decide on whether it shall be 8 o'clock or 10," ho Insisted. And since he took unto iilmselt lutu list summur a dark-eyed young; woman with a pleasing mouth, I doubt nut that the program worked, A woman whose husband is a figure in national politics and who Is herself an lllumlnant of national society, told mo shq had no engagement ring until sh had been married nlno years. Than ber husband bought her one of the largest and most brilliant stones in South Africa and Barney Harnato supervised Its set ting. "The ohlldren admired It very much," sho observed. Satisfactory and businesslike. It has but one drawback. The light-headed and thu hysterical-hearted and they ot flut taring pulses may take too much for granted. In tho business of matchmaking, like any other business, better not take anything for