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Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-22

not so well as myself. An lrishman came
here same year. has raised eleven children
and schooled them. He has 1000 acres OF
land, good buildings as any in the country,
/ took the census Of the town in 1890 Many
farms mortgaged l could name several
wealthy farmers that have mortgages be-
cause they keep buying land, and others re-
tire from farming and sell to the boys or
let the boys take over the mortgages"
When Debt Is Il Blessing.
So it appears some OF these canny agri-
culturists agree with the British statesman
who found in the national debt a national
blessing. Still another view of mortgage in
debtedness is furnished by William f. Cox
of Ste. Genevive, Mo-, who writes: when
money is borrowed and a deed OF trust on
the land Is given, 1t Is recorded in the
circuit court clerks Office and the full
amount OF the loan is stated, but no account
OF the partial payments Is kept until the
whole amount is paid and the deed of trust
entirely satisfied by the trustee"
Mr.. Cox says further: About thirty per
cent OF farms in this coLnty are mortgaged
for perhaps 80 per cent of their
value, Partial payments are not taken into
consideration, still the amount of mortgage
Indebtedness is less than two years back"
Mr.. Cox is not himself farmer, but has
others this: Farmers who attend strictly
to their business and who do not spend too
much Of their time around saloons are, II not
making much money, doing moderately
we'll"
Grant De Witt of Convenience, o., baler
and shipper OF hay who knows many farm
ers, seems to share Mr.. Coxs view OF them.
THE farmers are a great class OF people TO
complain" he writes, "and few of them like
to admit OF their success True the price OF
grain is poor but the yield is greater,
the expense OF raising less. Nine
farmers in ten will argue that our lands and
climate are becoming better adapted to the
growing OF wheat. They forget that they
are improving the seed every year, and
that the modes OF sowing reaping and cul-
tivatlng their lands are quite different from
what they were a few years ago, In 1878
my father harvested a field OF wheat ave<-
aging fifteen bushels to the acre and 1t was
thought little less than miraculous. This
year my nearest neighbor harvested a field
averaging forty bushels per acre What
makes this great difference? 1t is the i'm
provement in seed. sowing and reaping. The
self binder does not waste five bushels TO
the acre, as was the case in the old way
OF handling wheat"
Titus Sudduth OF Sangamon county, Ill
inois, has this to say:
Central Illinois is an exceedingly fine
agricultural country. II wise national
measures could prevail We would have a
very prosperous people, / was brought here
a child from Mt. Sterling. KY started in
life poor boy, and by dlnt OF peTseyer-
ance have been enabled to accumulate a
property worth even at present depression in
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-22

result he was in the hospital for three
months. The defense OF the company is that
he only thought he was hurt constituting
himself at once the subject and the operation
in a feat of hypnOtism. The hospital ply
sicians, who have been called by the de-
fense, say that while Frankel showed all
the symptoms Of an electric shock, his body
was unmarked, and other doctors testify
that in their opinion as experts the illness
was the result of hypnotic suggestion.
Georgia is furnishing many ideal object
lessons. correspondent Of the Atlanta
Constitution has found a county in that
state, Union, way in the Blue Ridge, whose
people are all native born Americans. Sew
enty-fve out of every 100 farmers own their
own farms and raise everything they con-
sumo except coffee, sugar, salt and tea. In
the county seat, Blairsylle, there Is only
one family living in rented house There
Is not barroom in the county and hasn't
been for thirty years. The county has no
cotton, but there is no such corn as 1t
grows anywhere else In Georgia Its noun
tains are densely covered with oak and hick-
ory and it has gold, iron and marble, Its
people now are excited because railroad
running from Chattanooga to Walhala S.
c., will soon pass through their section.
Union county may not be so ideal when it
becomes part and parcel OF the outside
world
In Saybrook, six miles west OF Ashtabula,
o., wild eagle swooped down upon Mrs.
Arthur Stewart in her dooryard and when
her husband arrived she lay upon the
ground in a faint. Mrs. Stewart heard a
loud noise in the chicken yard and went i'm
mediately to the scene. The eagle left the
honnery and attacked Mrs Stewart. A
faithful dog belonging to the family tried
to protect his mistress, but was also at
tackled and soon worsted. Mrs. Stewards
injuries are not serious BY the time
Mr.. Stewart arrived the eagle had escaped
in the wood This is the second incident
of the kind in that region within a few
weeks. At Painesvlle, twenty miles west
Of there, a woman was attacked, but with
assistance finally killed the bird, which
proved to be an immense specimen. II is
said that there is a nest Of eagles near
Willoughby, o.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-22
RELIGIOUS.

The India college, under the auspices OF
the Lutheran general synod has forty
teachers and $50 students.
The Siamese have recently contributed
5000 ticals $4,000 for the purchase of a
new site for the Christian High school In
Bangkok.
Five of the nine legal holidays in the
Transvaal are religious holidays namely,
Christmas Good Friday, Easter, Ascen-
sion day and Whitmonday.
Ten more army chaplains have been or
dered to the Philippines. There are now
but eight there. which Is small number
for between 250O0 and 10000 soldiers, not to
speak of our 100000 fellow citizens. the
Fiipinos.
The Methodist church of South Africa
has started its twentieth century fund and
expects to raise s25OoO0 by December, lSoo'
tians will raise half a guinea each and the
English members three guineas.
The Chicago Theological seminary has
now in force the system Of merit scholar
ship. The same seminary has received its
first female student-Miss Florence Fen
sham, professor of Old Testament literature
in the American college for girls in Con-
stantinople.
Only a little more than half of the com.
municants of the Protestant churches or
Great Britain are members Of the Est Estab- b.
lished church give the number OF members
as 1920 l4O, while the rolls Of the Fedora
snow iHn 9 iTee the Sunday Schools of the
Established church have 2,4lO,2O9 children,
while those of the federation have 3,2SA-
yG3.
St Mary's Roman Catholic church at
Moorfelds, London. has been closed, the
site having been secured for commercial
purposes at the enormous sum OF sl.OO5OOO.
Before the church can be demolished about
800 bodies buried in the catacombs under
the church and schools will have to be re-
moved. The church Is one of the Oldest
Roman Catholic churches in London, Pope
Plus VII having presented 1t with superb
chalice and paten of gold valued at 5000
Roman crowns.
General Grant, when asked to write a
message to the Sunday school youth Of the
United States, wrote as follows: Hold
fast to the bible the sheet anchor OF
your liberties. Write Its precepts in your
hearts and practice them In your lives
The late John II. Sessions of Bristol,
Conn, bequeathed by his will $4,000 to the
and 10000 to Wesleyan academy at Will
braham, Mass, besides the $4,000 to Wes-
leyan college at Middletown. Conn.
The missionary income for last year in
Great Britain amounted to l2,775,OOO OF
this sum the Church Missionary society or
the evangelical low church organization
within the Church of England, received
eign Bible society, whose work is more for
foreign than for home fields, and 1t re-
ceived about $llOO,0OO The London Mis-
sionary society received about s75O0OO,
Members of the Roman Catholic church
will be interested in learning that Loretto.
has just been unveiled, IS to have "A new
church The building will be the gift of &.
NJ. Schwab of the Carnegie company and
his wife, and will be built at a cost of
about 10000 in accordance with plans pre-
pared about a year ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-22

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 1t occurred to me to start an in
quiry. How to do it was the problem. l
thought | would adopt the chain or snow
ball method. l knew few men of high in
telligence to whom | could send circulars OF
inquiry. l had a thousand circulars printed
l put them in packages. ! think Of twenty
each. l sont one of these packages to each
man of my acquaintance whom | thought
would be sufficiently Interested to dstrbut,
them among farmers who might reply. The
rest distributed in other ways. The replies
have remained in my hands. A trained OBJ
server capable of taking down what has
once been called the "egotistigraphy" OF
each man, might we'll be deega ell to deal
with this great subject. The center OF
power now rests in the Mississippi valley.
As these men think, so will be the future OF
this country. What more important ques-
ton than to realize more about them? Who
among us in the east-who even among the
men CT tho west, really knows the American
armer OF the present day.
Tho replies tell an interesting story
Geographically they range from Vermont to
Texas and Montana The farm holdings
run between ninety acres and 10000. Oddly
enough the largest farm represented is not
in Texas, but in Sangamon county Illinois,
and its owner is of Kentucky breed. OF
course only q small number are here given
Points of Likeness.
These are the points of likeness; Every
farmer either went in debt for his farm,
or where it was inherited, inherited debt
alcng with II. About half the debts were
secured by mortgage. The extremes OF in
terest paid are "a to per cent. The lowest
rate Is more exceptional than the highest.
A very small percentage cling to the one
crop system and farmers have found that
working with better tools give better re-
turns. Tools and machinery are reported
to cost from one half to one third less than
twenty five years ago, and by their better
ment to have reduced the labor cost of many
crops by nearly one-half. Farm wages have
fallen very little; in many cases not at
all In O few they have even risen slightly
"A fair year-around average is $50 a month,
without board but with house, harden
ground, fuel and cow pasturage or Sl3
month, with everything found. Day hands
In the stressful times OF harvest. threshng
etc, receive from $3.50 to s.. according to
the work and the correlation of demand and
supply.
But while labor has held its own, with
the products OF labor 1t is quite another
story. From 1878 to 1894 every sort OF
farm stuff declined in value one-fourth, one
half, even two-thrds. Orchard, pasture
meadow, arabic land have yielded abun-
dantly yet put little money In the purse
Living expenses meantime have not suffered
q corresponding fall. Clothes, necessary
clothes that is, are reported 20 per cent
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-22
CONNUBIALITIES.

Talk about the difficulty OF proposing (,
The average young mans difficulty when
he Is thrown continually into the society
of pretty girls is too keep from making
a proposal.
According to a romantic story man who
was married in Chicago last week got his
fortune in the KlOndke and his wife in
Ireland He will decide later as TO which
place furnished him the greater treasure
The resident physician of Queen Victoria
Sir James Reid, is just about to marry one
OF her maids of honor, namely, Susan
Barring. sister of Lord ReyelstOke and Of
Cecil Barring, who makes his home in New
York and who is in business in Wall street.
A New Jersey man who sued neighbor
for $4,000 damages for alienation of his
wife's affection has been given verdict Of
S25. OF course, the pa!ntiff Is disappointed,
but think of the feelings of the wife who's
affections are thus marked down! Is there
anybody he can sue for damages.
The young countess Of Cromartie whose
Engagement has Just been announced, is the
Oldest daughter of the duke of Sutherland 3
decease ed younger brother, who succeeded to
the titles Of his mother, heiress Of line Of
the great Scottish lawyer and antiquary
Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbat, created
earl OF Cromartie The queen by letters
patent in 1885 confirmed the youthful heir
ess I'm the title she bears, one her majesty
re-created In favor OF Anne, durhess OF
Sutherland. with Limitation to her second
son.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-22
WONDER TALES OF FARMERS
Series of Interesting Letters Collected BY
Edward Atkinson.
LOTS OF MONEY AND COMFORT
Nowhere Else i'm the world Hns the
Iillcr of the Soil such Oppor-
tuniics-works Hard hut
Lives Wen.

inc american Farmer-Thcre are now
ABOUT hve million Of him, the greater num-
Der dwelling on their own land in the great
grain growing states Of tho Mississippi val
Iey' Who 10 he? Where did he come from
What Is he doing? Yet more what is he
thinking? Who can answer these ques-
tions?
NO longer pioneer struggling with the
uinhculties OF the first settlers. he Is now
RAPIDLY developing intensive agriculture and
Is hndlng out that mental energy of farming
with brains Is prime factor in material
progress Tho true progress OF agriculture
IN thls country will date from the time
when the government had given away all
the good land within easy reach Of the rail-
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-22

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 niger in
the county. Made little money, bought
small stock Of goods, mixed merchandising
with farming"
James H. Camp, also an ex-confederate,
lives in Georgia on 500-acre farm bought
by hard work and economy. l have never
bought for my own use one pound of bacon,
one bushel Of corn or sack of -four. / found
out early that anything that could be raised
on farm was much cheaper raised than
bought, The negro is the best la
borer in the world easily controlled, reas-
enable. never will strike unless led by tur-
bulent whites. Thank God Georgia has but
little OF the foreign element. hope it may
never have it,"
Victor ]. Speor, Baintree Vt, has proved
by works the faith he thus states: Have
always contended that the man with brains
would find n way to succeed on the farm"
Mr.. Speor inherited some 700 acres along
with a debt OF SO, 900. 1t came to him in 1876.
Since then he has paid the debt, spent 50, 500
for additional land, the same amount for
repairs and betterments, doubled the FARMS
production of everything, and does not owe
a dollar, but is creditor for several thou
sand. MY income has been mainly from the
sale of orchard products" he writes. ZAP
pes, boiled cider, jelly and vinegar Have
also sold Merino sheep for breeding purposes
Have had trade for several years with the
ranchmen OF Montana. Also run a
cider mill and jelly mandatory in con-
nection with orchards This has been very
profitable"
Reclaimed "HOpeless Farm"
A. f. Noyes, born and bred in his home
town. Beaver Dam, Wis, knows all about
adopting.an abandoned farm. 1t was ''cov
cred with burdocks and stones, renter
had starved out. No fences worth naming,
but good house and barn. The neighbors
said: 1T would not raise white beans. My
father Boy, you will never pay for that
farm Only regret that he did not live to
see it done. Little by little we cleaned the
fields and roadsiGes. Very few stones now
in iields-they are sixty and eighty acres in
extent. besides pastures. Raise coach colts,
shorthorns, Shropshire and grade sheep,
Poland China pigs, barley, potatoes, corn,
oats, clover and timothy We never run
bills; make it rule to pay as We go. II
we needed things borrowed mohey and
bought where we chose. Also made it rule
70 borrow always in the same place.
Always paid the day a debt was due or
arranged for II, When We had money and
owed H. made IL our business to pay instead
OF waiting for dun. Farmers are to
blame in great measure for the slight put
on farm work We also grumbe too much
at dry weather, for instance, instead of re-
membering that It may raise prices"
David Wallace, Esq an excellent Cana
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-22
Thousand Tongues

Could not express the rapture of Annie Il.
Springer Of 1925 Howard street. Philadelphia
Pa, when she found that DIR. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption had completely
cured her of a hacking cough that for many
years had made life a burden. All other
remedies and doctors could give her no help
but she says OF this ROYAL Cure: 1T soon
removed the pain in nv chest and ! can
now sleep soundly, something can scarcely
remember doing before, feel like sounding
its praises throughout the universe" So will
every one who tries DR.. Kings New Dis
coyery for any trouble OF the Throat. Chest
or Lungs Price soc and sl.00 Trial bottles
free at Kuhn & Co.'s drug store: every
bottle guaranteed.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-22

hoppers. Owed $4,000 more than I
was worth; by SO had paid off
debts and accumulated $50 900. Began in sc
planting tree claims-Set 1000, ,OO0 trees on
contract and cleared $25 900. Ran nursery,
farm and orchard; put $47 900 in stock farm
in northwestern part of state. Weathered
'93 at such heavy loss and sacrifices in meet
ing obligations the dry winter and spring
of "a finished me. Banks wanted their
money and losses were heavy in realizing.
Had $4,000 of property and $4,000 of debt.
Owe now $4,000 to $4,000 more
than am worth; expect to dig out about
1907"
From the Lone Star State.
Texans are all loyal to the Lone Star
State. II came here thirty eight years ago
with two dollars and a half" writes r. F.
Butler; have raised a family OF eight chill
dren and now own home worth $5, 900 and
have paid out over $12 600 on homes for my
children. l can name hundreds who have
done as well or better"
1t is somewhat an achievement for a man
who came out Of the confederate ranks with
only a ragged gray uniform to own 1000
rich acres and raise On them 1000 odd bales
of cotton. That is the experience of B. w.
Martson, Bedford, La. after the surren-
der" he writes, Il began on my brother s
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-22

The Baltimore & Ohio railroad is pursuing
wise course in rewarding employees when
by quickness of thought or otherwise, avert
loss of life or destruction OF property. The
engineer OF a passenger train which had
just stopped at Connellsvlie Station the
.ther day heard another train coming and
Immediately sprang into his cab and started
his train at full speed. The engine Of the
other train struck the rear car, but without
serious results. A gold watch and chain,
suitably inscribed, was the engineers re-
ward.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-22

Christian Scientists are watching with in
terest the course of the trial of suit for
damages brought against the Edison Elec-
trio Illuminating company OF Paterson, n.
J., by Berthold Frankel, who alleges that
he was struck by a falling arc light wire
Of the company and seriously injured. AS
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-22

In the great New York March blizzard OF
1887 Henry O'Donnel had his feet frozen so
badly that both were amputated. Until a
few weeks ago he walked on crutches. Then
he had a pair of artificial feet made, but
his clumsiness with them caused his friends
to laugh. Mr. O'Donnell at once offered to
bet that he could walk 900 miles with them
A heavy wager was laid and O'Donnell is
now on his way, having reached Baltimore
40 bets he can walk to New Orleans, 1900
miles, in five months.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-22
You Cannot work

with a headache, Relieve it with Wrighta
Paragon Headache Remedy.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-22
QUAINT FEATURES OF LIFE.

Tom Gould, probably the most famous OF
New Yorks dive keepers is now arning
Sl.S0 a night as a night watchman at an
unfinished building, All the money he ever
earned, or, perhaps acquired" would be
the better word, is gone. There is care
worn look about his face, he looks old, and
has lost all his old-tim spirit.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-03-15

Horizon has a public library,
which was formally opened Monday
night.
MIR. and Mrs. Henry Bonner were
presented with a bouncing 10-pound
boy last evening. Both mother and
child are doing we'll.
"A. j. Scott nephew of Col D..
D. Scott, has been nominated for
president of the village of Hancock,
Mich. Archie is a progressive fellow,
and has got to the front with both feet.
List of unclaimed letters remain
ing in the postotfice March Is:
Borkenhagen Mrs. H. Hoppe Mrs. Henry
Brown Earl j Polzin Rev. r.
Dave Mrs. James Schroeder Anton
Heinrich Miss Cassie Worthington Roy E.
w. +. GRUETzMACHER, z. M.
Henry Fuermann, of this city, took
the first prize on six pictures of inter
ior views at the state convention of
photographers recently held In Mil
waukee. Mr. Fuermann is an artist
of considerable skill, and is gaining
very enviable reputation in his pro-
fessiOn.
M. Meier & Co. is the style of a
the purpose of engaging in the pigeon
business. Roomy quarters for raising
and keeping pigeons are being erected
on premises in the eastern portion of
the city, and the traffic of buying and
selling the birds will be carried on ex-
tensively.
Mayor Mulberger has taken occa-
sion to publicly notify his friends that
mayoralty nomination this spring. Not
only that, he could not accept the of
flee again owing to private business
affairs claiming his entire attention.
This will be disappointmentto a very
large number of our people, who have
learned to admire his plucky and in
telligent administration of the many
duties incumbent upon the office, and
who hoped he would consent to con-
tinue in office for at least another
term.
We are pleased to note the recent
marriage of our old friend, Harry a..
Curtis, of Fort Atkinson, and Miss
Mamie Wolf, Of the same place. Mr..
Curtis is one of those entertaining
and congenial spirits who contribute
much toward making the Fort such a
hospitable little town, and his friends
are only limited by the circle of his
acquaintance. He is a successful
young business man, being at the
head Of the extensive dairy supplies
firm, the Cornish, Curtis & Greene
company, of which his father, the
late Captain D. W. Curtis, was one
of the founders We wish Mr.. Curtis
and his fair bride much happiness.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-03-15
FOR SALE.

At a bargain and on favorable
terms the store lately occupied by
VIM. Weber, hardware. The same
has a frontage Of "a feet 2
inches; lot is 116 feet 4 inches
deep, with a right of way 9
feet wide to second street Also a
part of lot 3 adjoining this lot on
the east side. This IS one of the
most desirable business locations on
Main street The store has a good
brick-paved cellar, an elevator and
three floors. Most suitable for a
business where storage room is an
object. At the terms this property
is offered for sale the purchaser
will find it well-paying investment
to remodel the building and make
a fine modern store out of it. For
particulars apply to A. Tanck or the
owner. VIM. VOLCKMANN.