Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 11, 1891, Page 12

IRRIGATION 1 Description of the Varions Enterprises Now Under Way in the State, MAPS SHOWING FIELD OF OPERATIONS. A Colossal Undertaking in Four West: ern Counties—Splendid Progress in the Southwest—A Hope- ful Showing. Second Article,) The legislature of 188, largely through the efforts of Hon, H v St. Rayner of Sidney, passed a signed to encourag tion enterprises in Nobraska. Although that law has defects which must be remedied, and al though its provisions must be widened in several directions in order to meet the needs of the subject, almost everything thus far ac complished is due to the logislation passed by the last session, 1t i the object of this ar ticle to describe what has been done under its provisions It will be the object of another to discuss vy must bo still further adapted, by revisionand amendment, to the needs of a growing n. 'y step thus far taken in the develop- t of irvigation entery in has been in the face of great dificulties projectors have had to contend with every obstacle that could be conceived of ex cept thelack of wator and sterility of soil They have had to convince a slow and skepti cal public. They have had to money for costly enterprises in districts sparsely set tled and with a people wiho gencrally poor. They have had to contend with the discouragement of successive crop failures, which more often drove sotilers away than nerved themto greater efforts, When they have saddled bonds upon procinets and counties to gain the financial aid not to be obtained from incredulous capitalists, they have sometimes been rovhed by boodling contractors, who have irrigated their arid banks accounts with money on from a struggling people. Iurthermore, they have been handicapped by the lack of expert knowledge in the con- struction of canals and ditches and hus banding of the water supply. In the face of these manifold diMcultios, and without pow- erful friends or ample financia the men who be in the destiny of the arid and semi-arid have kept stoadily and bravely They are today at the thresh, ‘When the have gone a littlo further and demonstrated the absolute feasibility of their vlas, prosperity will come with a rush, for the world has a gracious way of lifting its hat to the rising sun, sos The nearly aisc were sto a at w d of success. L—OPERATIONS OF T MENT cretary Rusk and his assistants in tve department of agriculture are doing all they van, within the limits of their power and the means at their disposal, to develop rrrigation Iiterests in Nebraska and various other western states, At the first session of the present congress $10,000 was appropriated for the purpose of making preliminary surveys and actual experiments in testing the under- flow and tho extent of the water: supply. Thisis all that settlers ask of the national government, except the passage of the Her- bort bill transferring the arid public lands to the control of the states, and the enactment of legislation to prevent the monopoly of water rights by corporations. M. Nettloton, chief engineer of the ivriga- don department, and Prof. Rohert Hay, chief neteorologist, arrived in Nebraska carly in October and began a serics of survoys and experiments, Their operations have been chiefly devoted to an investigation of the underflow in the beds of shallow streams and to.a study of the possibilities of the artesian system, with which Secr Rusl s much impressed. Prof. also visited tho Frenchman river, in Hiteheock county, and examined the large enterprises there nler. way. He oxpressed the opinion that tho underflow of the Republican conld be utilized and that tho governmentewould sink an cx- perimental well at that point. The work of the professor and of Chief Enginser Nettle- ton extended over a considerable portion of the arid region and will be resumed in tho spring. They were assisted by Prof. Lewis E. Hicks of the state university, who takes a warm interest in the subject. describing the progress of irriga- NATIONAL GOVERN- s Nebraska | NEBRASKA, | | men efforta began to crystalize in the form of great public enterprises, Ogalalla, the capital of Keith county, and once A& famous cattle point, has been for some time past the center of s lively irrigation spirit. It is one of the largest towns of the frontier and contains many vory enterprising After witnessing several private ex- periments a company was organized to at tempt a large undertaking, with a view to supplying water power as well as irrigation. The South Platte is tapped at a point in east ern Deuel county and the water conducted through a wide and shallow ditch to the bluffs overlooking the town. It is not under. stood that results commensurate with the labor and money expended have yot been re- alized, but theso will come, and thousands of ncres will be watered by this means. An in. ; feature of this enterprise s the it nas demonstrated boyond ques- tion that the derflow of the South Platte is perennial, and that it can be uscd for the purnose of irrigation or water powe During the past year between sixty and seventy-five miles of ditches have been com pleted in Keith cou alone, and the n will be cousiderably swellod by next spring. Wherever any of these Kave been in operation large crops have been raised ana the farm have realized big profits, On one ranch in the western part of Keth county a note- worthy expe bag been tried. The owners decided to be mdependent alike of rainfall and surface streams, and made use of an ivrigation pump having a capacity of 800 gallons per minute. The plan proved en- tively practicavle, and it is likely that several favmers will avail thomsolves of it next sea ment | son In Deuel county the farmers are at work | this winter on a large ditch designed to wate THE OMAHA DAIL B tion and ready to concentrate every dollar of her capital and every ounce of her energy upon the promotion of the splendid efforts now making to develop western Nebraska. While her main hope is based on the groat en- torprise of the Belmont-Frold company, she has numerous small ditches underway. One of them will be brought to completion next scason in time to get water for this year This comes out of the North Platte about four miles north of Camp Clarke and follows the foothills down the about forty miles, It will irrigate 60,000 acres. Perkins county has held numerous meets ings and appointad committees to conter with those in other localities, Citizens of Perkins are ospe intorested in & pro- posed ditch which will tap the South Platto t fourteon miles above Sterling Col., at Merino, and extond at least as far as range Perkins, a distance of 150 wiles, The large canals already completed at Kearney and Gothenburg, and the one under- way at Loup Clty, were primarily under- taken for w T powe ather th an irrigation but should be included n & list of such onterprises. They have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and all of them may be traced to the fertilo brain of Colonel W. W. Patterson, the ploncer of Kearney It was he who first saw tho feasivility of such undertakings, and who discovered and preachied the value of tho underflow in the Platte and other rivers when the idea was regarded as too visionary for serivus contem- plation. It would be useless to attempt an en- numeration of the many private ditches in various parts of the stato where irrigation is not generaliy known to existat all. Lincoln county is one of tnese localities, Among the steadfast friends of the irriga- tion iden who bave kept it alive and largely crops, rive ly o or R 00 PALisaoc o e S ¢ Dll"\.VflflD. areimmavs-ence-o - A CORNELG.. o5 IN SOUTHW ESTERN NEBRASKA. Showing the Culbertson Canal, 78 miles long, and other operations on Frenchman and Republican posed Great Divide ditches. the table lands vetween the North and South Platte rivers. 1tis i and will cover a territory from sixty to seventy-five miles in length when completed. The pioncers of Scott's Bluff county carly saw the need of irrigation, and have perhaps Leen the first people in Nobraska to enjoy the blessings of it. In that county, on the north side of the river, there is a canal ucarly forty miles long, constructed at a cost of about 800,000, It is nty-four foet wide and three fect deep and distributes a large body of water. Numerous smaller ditelies have also been built in the uppér North Platto valley, which is fortu- ly situated with rogard to its opportun- s forirrigation. The number and size of the streams reader it a much easier and less exponsive matter to solve the problem of prosperitv there than in other parts of the arid rogions, Farmers are at work thi winter on another large ditch in Seotts Bluff, on the south side of the river. The experience of one farmer in this county dur- ing the last scason furnishes a striking in- stauce of the valuo of ivrigation. He sowed 200 acres under the ditch and several acres above it to wheat., From tho irrigated land he harvested 50 bushels peracro. The crop on the land above the ditch tw n. 9BeaveRL SWAR LAXE w ‘IN WESTERN NEBRASKA. Showing water courses and irrigation enterprises. five counties. The Belmont and Froid Canal will be 230 miles long. tion in tho stato I tion to the work of the government because it is important 10 under stand how much and how little is to bo ex pected from this source. The government can contribute & great deal to the suceess of frrigation enterprises, but it canuot, as som people appear to thinik, construét reseryoirs and canals as it does internal improvemonts of o difforent mature. It hasa vast field to deal with. All It can possibly do Is to mark out gencral lines on which th plan can be made to succced. Private enter prise and capital must do the rest, This, howover, is & very usotulsorvice, The eroat difloulty has been to couvinco capitalists that money can be safely invested in these undertakings. The governmenthas attemptod 10 do this, not only iu & general way, but with reforenco to particular localities. If the ex- pert enginoer, sent out by the agricultural department, reports that o certain wmount of money will construct a diteh, water a certain number of acres and pay a certain per cent as dividends on the amount invested, the bat tle will bo more than half won, Uuder such circumstances ample means can be secured to promote the work. flrst men- national give ‘This is the important service that the gov- ernwent has undertaken in Nebraska, and all that is asked is that it will doit as rapidly sud oxtensively as the case aemands, IL—ACTIVITY IN THE WESTERN COUNTI It Is many years since it dawnod upon the people living all the way from Lincoln county west to the Colorado line that irrigation was indispensablo condition of prosperity. Bls 1t Baly n the past throe years that the detormination to securs it became firmly rooted,and It is even more recently that these ) under way in Was 50 poor that he did not cut it. Another instance, which is none the less striking bo- causo it is may be found in the fact that two years since soveral favmers in this locality wore made angy be reason of their lands being flooded by an overflow from tho first large diteh in the county. ‘They bezan suits against the com- pany for damages. Before they wero set- tled they disposed of the land to the company at & anacre. The next season the lauds “mined” by the flood produced phenomenal crops and earned a profit of § an acre. The result was that several of the aggrieved farmers bought back their farms and paid $15 an acre for them, Bauner is one of the most ‘enthusi- astio irrigation counties, and already has & few ditches, Kimball county waits patiently but hopefully for the great public improve- ment that shall turn her grazing grounds into fruitful farms. There the people desire to malkouse of the waters of the Lodge Polo and voted §20,000 bonds for he enterprise. They anticipated keeping their farmers busy with the work during the present wiater, and hav- Ing the caual ready for businessin the spring. But it is Kimball’s misfortune to be so well adapted to grazing that the catle companies 40 not want to loseit, and the result was that the Union Paciflc found an excuse to block the undertaking with an injunction. It 1ooks to au impartial observer like an aggra- vated caso of injustice, dictated by avarice and selfishuess. But this aifculty will be overcome in the course of time, and then there will be a jollification meeting in the village senate, over which Mine Host, Schooley presides, in the smoking room of the Hotel Martha. Cheyenne county is enthusiastic for irriga- ludicrous, constructed i rivers. Dotted lines indicate pro- accomplished what has been done are the ed itors of the western newspapers. Cary of the Sidney Telegraph, Morgan of the Chap- pell Register, Beard of the Kimball Ouseryer, Day of the Big Springs Journal, and others, are representatives of a class,. numerous all over the arid vegion, who have kept persist- ently at work in the face of difficulties that discourage men not deeply in earuest, THL-A COLOSSAL UNDERTAKING, If western Nebraska has hitherto confined its efforts at ivrigration to local enterprises, and erred on tho side of ~too much caution in the formation of its companies, it has at last embarked on an undertaking of the largest magnitude and sougnt to unite four great counties by a chain of prosperity, The Belmout and Froid canal, of which a map is furnished in this issue, will be, when completed, the lavgest irrigating ditch in the United Statos, if not in the world. It will cost $3,700,000. It will be the joint achievement of western- pioneers, Omaba capitalists and eastern in- vestors in irrigation bonds. It will be nearly two hundred and Afty miles long and will water 1,040 sq 1miles, or 635,000 acres. It will redeem an empive from the desert and make it fit to sustain thousands of prosper- ous farmers, where now the jack rabbit finds Iife hardly worth living, This spiendid dream of progress, now about to bo realized, is the child of agitation, Per- naps L. B. Cavy, cditorof the Siduey Tele- graph, and u restless and aggressive spirit o general principles, may fairly be called its father. He at least was onc of the carlicst and most untiring of its friends, To enumerate o list of the [friends that have now gathered in its train would be to republish the census of the localities it traverses. The oficers of the company are as follows: J. B. Andrews, presiden Gerhart, vico president; W. W. Sharpe, s rotary; Oscar Liddle, treasurer; the aud A. I, I'roid, D, C, Onstatt, P, I? John H. Abbott and N, Nickelson, The source of supply for this gre will bo the North Platie river, which the Wind mountaius in western Wyol and is fed by nuwerous springs and” tribu- taries throuxhout its course, The canal will tap the riverin_Laramie county, Wyoming, ten miles west of the Nebraska litie, run east along the valiey until the tablelands are reached, then teaverso Scott's Bluff, Bauner, Cheyentie and Denel coumtics, flowing back into the North Platte in the last named county. At its heud tho canal will be eight feet deep and 200 tect wide across the bottom aud will narrow down to sixty-five feet at thoond of the first five milcs. Numerous small diteres witl distribut e water ov a wider tield than could otherwise be veached. Tqe benefits of this great enterprise, when it is fully in operation, as it is expected to be within the next two years, will be in caleula. bio. Tho amount of encrgy and money al ready expended upon it ave suflicient to guurantec its success. The state us a whole has n larce stake in completion of the Belmont and Froid canal, More th other one thing the success of this enterprise would carry with it the com- plete triumph of irrigation in Nebraska, 1V, IN SOUTUWESTERN NEBRASKA, The tier of counties in_ southwestern Ne- braska hive gi atteution to the subject of irr th the triple oppor- tunities offered by the reliable surfuce fow in the Frenchman’s ri the well-ascer- tained underflow in the Républican, aud tho additional possibilities of = artesian wells, southwestern Nebraska has every assurance of suceessful irrigation on the largest scale, ‘The most important project now under way in ts scction of the state is tho Culbertson canal, -~ which taps the Frenchman at a point near Palisade, on the boundary between Hitcheock and Hayes counties, and runs through the form for a distance of seventy-fiy At Cul bertsou the overflow is utilized for a beauti- ful lake and a water power, as is also done at Kearney and at Gothenburg. The com, tion of this immense undertaking insures a splendid impetus to irvigation in a section that has the sorest negd of it. Doubtless Red Willow county on the east and Dundy the west will soon have similar enterprises snder wa, Hitcheock also has several other ditches, somo of thom large ones. The best possible presentation of them all is shown by the ac- companying map. The dotted lines indicate the projected great divide ditches, 1f any important irvigation enterprises now under way are omitted from this description it is an oversight and not intentional In next weel's article [ will trace the de- velopment of irrigation iu the adjoining state of Colorado and show how, in the past few years, our neighbors have' raised capital and supplled energy aud skill to overcome difii- culties similat to our own WitLiax E. Suytaz, EE, SUNDAY, JANUA RY 11, THE LOUNGER IN THE LOBBY, An O'er True Tala in Whioh Eouma Abbott Plays a Part, COMING ATTRACTIONS AT THE THEATRES. De Wolf Hopper Tatks Aboat His India Rubber Stomach—Local Mu- “sical Events of Note and Some- thing About Professionals. By way of reminiscence. And there wili he many such told of Emma, Abbott now that'she {s gone, but I feol sure none will show her bigness of heart and her genuine sympathy forthe poor and distressed, than the following o'er true talo told me | several years ago by astaunch lady friend of the dead singer It was just after Emma Abbott had ro- turned from hor successful debut at the Covent Garden theater Londen to New York, that the incident told below occurred, And 1 leaye its relation to the woman who was nstrumental in - bringing out & phase in Emma Abbott's character which endeared her to those who knew her,not as the actress, but as the warm-learted woman, “During the course of my relations with the poor of New York," said the narrator, “I CAME ACToss a poor woman living in an East side tenen whose only pleasure in lifo was to labor for a poor sickly daughter who | was slowly dying with consumption “Mother and daughter had toiled togeth for fifteeu years, and the only bit of sunshin falling into their dark lives was that shed by their living companionship. iradually a change came to the daughter, and under the heart-broken mother's ey she taded and wasted away, and at last tho day came when the wan face failed to answor its ghustly smile, the anxious, tear- s of the mothe “The poor young creature was dead. But just before the final summons came to the tired soul her grateful heart turned to the small number of friends sho possessed and she besourhit her mother to notify me of the day of her funcral and ask me to attend. | That summons reached me upon one of the wildest days preceding Christmas, A sleet that was ni nand arain that wa snow came pelting from all points of the com pass. A wind thot wailed in the chimneys and howled jn the street told how truly dreadful was the weather, “I had piled the grate high with coals; tho cheerful tea caddy was singing near at hand, and, closin the shutters and pulling down the blinds, I lighted the gas, devoutly thank ful that the weattier had no terrors” for me, situated us 1 was “But I had hardly got through with my con- gratulations when an installn t of the | storm burst iu upon me inthe shupe of Emma | Abbott, “She was glowing with the tussleshe had had with the_clemen Her cheeks w on and her turned-up nosc 1asif it had been rubbed by o wire brush, so gr did it glow. She threw herself into an chair and proclaimed the horrors of the oute world to be veyvond des ntion, “Ard even as we congratulated oursclves on the prospect of @ charming day together the summons came to xo to tho funeral of the poor sewing woman's daugh- ter. I turned the tear-blotted note over and groaned. “*“This Is terrible,! said I; 'it's just theone thing that could take me out today, but I mustgo! And I then told Emma the prob- able length of time I would bo away and jugested means of amuseinent until I came ack, ““‘But Iwill go with you, said the warm- hearted woman, *What of your voice and the concert at Chickoring hall(’ said I, ‘f T get auother froggy in my voico it don't wmatter wuch, I am as hoarse us a raven now, she returned. So she rewound ber throat with the long white comforter, pulled on her worsted gloves, aud we Went out into the storm to- gether. We climbed flight after flight of navrow, dark stuirs until our bodies could hardly hold out. But at last the top floor was reached, where tho widow dwelt m a miserable little room not more than a dozen fect square, *“There was the mother crazod with griof, bonding over the plain _cherry-wood cofliny lined with glazed muslin that stood out starcied and stiff from the bod The undertaker and nis ant stood without the doorway waiting for the minis- ter to put in an appearance, which he did but & momewt before the serviees were to b A whispered consultation ensued between tho undertaker andthe manof God and a word dropped now and then sounded much as 1f they were criticising the poov girl for laving died at such a timeas this and pull- ing them away from warm firesides and pleasant homes. ‘“TLe consultation ever, the minister en- tered the room and commenced as listless a reading of the burial service as I ever list- ened to. Closing the book with a snap he wade o fow romarks the burden of which was ‘as He cannot come to you, you must to Him.” *“Then with a very theatric air he took up his umbrella and started toward the door, happy 1o doubt in the thought, that his duty had been nobly done, “Upto this iime no word of consolation had been ‘spoken for the heart-broken mother there by the side of her dead one. No hope had beea hield out to the weary heart who longed no doubt to be with the daughter, past all suffering, “The undertaker screwdriver m the g0 s assistant waived his v ana was aboat to close the lid, when Emma_Abbott walked over to tho coflin and leaving her cloak fall liko mourning drapery about her, touched tho drawn, pinched forhead of the dead, and sha lifted up that voice of her's in the beautiful melody— bright and falr, O tuko her to your care," . “The screw-driver paused in its iry circle; tho minister stopped with his umbrella point: ing toward the door; the usdertaker leaned eagerly forward, while the listenors looked and wondered as the voice rose and swelled in the beauty of the hymn “It was a erandly impressive scene and the poor tired mother sank upon Ler knees by the side of the cherry-wood box, with the reali. zation that there was still a blessed hopo held out for her and for all such in tho same heart-broken condition “Never iu my life did Tseea more im- pressive funeral than that was.” De Wolf Hopper sat in_his dressing and patted the oom rubber air bag which gives obesity to his cmbodiment of the Judge in “Castles 1n the A, “What descoration ! observed the como- dian. “Think of it; this is the rubber bag that Hackett used whon be played *Falstaf? millions of years ugo. Patched! 1 should say so, and ‘seamed likewise, but very ser- viceable, “l've worn mauy rubber stomachs in my brief care of fooling, but not one of the others hus stood the wear and tear that this hardy old relic of untfquity is capable of en- during. Think, my boy! Right here is part of Huckett's ‘Palstafl”. The rest of him is only a memory.” W. J, Florence gave me the bag. Ak mie, %o what base uses we may return! " And this modern jester contemplated the remaning portion of Hackett's “Kalstaff” much in the same manner in which Mr, Booth regards the skull in the graveyard scen “Itis the most difficult thing in the world to get @ bag 10 keap its shape,” continued the comedian, *“When I commerced to play the Judge I used o very fine rubber bag, but found before the evening was over that it was loaking and my stomach was little like tha typical English justices’, Then | rememberdd this bag which Florence gave me, and rummaging through an old stage trunk discovered this relic of a great ‘Falstaft,, and so I have used it ever since, *But. be assured of this, the mext part I play will not boa *fat’ one.’ I will make it up with a ‘lean aud hungry look’ for the memory of this weighty paurch methinks will al- ways be green aturally opiniofis dilfer regarding the merits and dewmerits of the “‘Clemenceau Case.” How could it be otherwise when all of us look at things in relatively different ahy | wond lights The stage has a_vocation some people. Still to claim that any one believes that it fulfills that yocation is 160king at what would be well, rather than at what | is. Writers for the stage seek for success, ot for the elovation of thelr art. It is | the money they waut not the name in tho eyes of | stage of being a morallst or & purlst 1f it was in my power I would banish such plays aRebo ‘‘Clomenceau Case,” “Camillo, “Frou Fron,” “Article 4 As in a Looking Glass,” “Forgot-Me-Not,” from the stage They teach littlo or no losson ; thelr morality is at the lowest possinle ebb, and they tend to warp the finer feelings which at best have rd struggle for existen The lesson of the ‘‘Clemencean only legiblo to those who donot need it: it is only understood by those who have already learned it, Men who understand Tza have known her; they do not meet her now for the first time. To bo taught hor characteristics o the stago does not enable men to identify her, The femiziue nature is clever in dissimulation Unless perverse fate tears the mask from her face one cannot e such a woman since, even if her heart were torn out of her breast, it could not be read She is therefore on the stage a psychologi- cal study, not an example, She is interest- ing, but'to know her does not help one to recognize tho type in the future, But whatever the opinion of the public ve garding tho merits of the play, it is gonerally agreed that Miss Jolnstone's’ interpretation of the role of Iza is a study quite worthy of a place alongside the great creations of the Dast ton yours, i Lovso. To that portion of the public that are fond of laughter u treat is in store this evening when the famous Ferguson and Mack con: pany will present the above laughing sensi. tion' ut Boyd's opera house. The skit has been seen here before, and will be remem. bered as one of those peculiar plays with littlo plot, it any; - its only object 10 inake people laugh, and that ob ject is gainod, as from' tho rise of tho curtain Lo the 'finish it is one continuous round of merrimont, based on_tho Irishmen, who are always wetting into situations which | cause u disturbance of the risibilitios, Ine dental to the play a number of specialtios are | wtroduced consisting of the famous acts by Eerguson and Mack, known as the “Assault and Battery” and the * Burlesquo Citcus? Miss Lizie Daly and tho | child little Vinnie will iutroduce their very rful dancing. Miss Carrio Behr, May Monford and the Garden City quartotts r der selections from grand and comic ope medleys, ete. A dance is introduced by four pretty eirls, which is said to be a revelation in the terpsichorean art, and many others A largzo aud should’ greot this deserving company asa pleasing entertainment is as sured. The attracti will be Haverly pany, with Sallio Pa; littic ¥ & Case" is the Grand this evening cle Tom's Cabin com- ington as Topsy and rence Arlington as Eva. The en- omnent is at popula prices, reserved seats & 25,85 and 50 cents, Clara Morris is the acknowledged greatest tress yet produced by America. Her up pearanco sat the Bovd tomorrow evening should, and _unquestionably will, show that histrionte greatness is appreciated by Omuha theater-goers. In this era of farce-comed und sensation it is a positive relief for intel gent theater-goers to turn from sho froth and foolishnass of the harlequin to the move sub- stautial drama us portrayed by Clara Morris, “Tho career of this' famous actress has been a noted one. After she had made such a sensation in “Article 47, it was thought that this play would be the one in which the world would regard ner as unapproachable. 1t 5o often happen chauce, luck, or whatever one wants to call it, cute’such 'a prominent feature in the des- tny of man, so this same circumstance re vealed Clara Morris in a new role. Matilda Heron, ~ who had_ori translat “Camille” from the Frenc supposod to be the ouly one capable of i mille in any way worthy of the author's conc tion of the char Clara Morris the time referred to in the stock compan the Union Square theater, A big production was in rehearsal when ono day Mr, Palmer, the manager, was called . upon by some charitable institution to give a benefit. The call was so urgent that it could not be avoid- ed; 5o with two rehearsals “Camille” was produced at @ _motin perform- anco with Clara Morris in the title role. The effect of her performance was never forgotten. The new play was withdrawn, and the talk of New Vork wis It was placed on ac Clara Morrls iv “Camille.” a run and continued for sixty nights, av that time considered wonderful. “Heron, who had thought 1o oue clse could play the part, on secing a performance by Miss Morris, was so intercsted that she hastily seuther the fol- lowing note: “Miss Clara Morris—My Dear Youug Lady: Since I witnessed your gr and beauty of ‘the conception of “the unfor- tunate Camille, I have felt that 1t would have been a crime to deprive the public of so beautiful o gem as you nave contributed to our splendid art. God be with you, dea cl, © i the sincere prayer of vour professional sister.—Matilda *Heron," From that time forward Clara Morris began to be looked upon as the great Camille and she so elaborated her performance that at this time scarcoly an actress of noté sttempts the part. 1t was thought that Miss Morris would never secure another play wherein sho could find the material for a full develop- ment of her talent, but having secured “Odette” from Sardou, the author of “Fedora) “La Tosca,” “Cleopatra, “Theodore,” ete.,” she made her initial ap- pearance in it in San Francisco a few weoks ago. The result was a surprise even to her warmest admirers, There was not a dissent- ing voice as to the genuiness of her triumph, ono of the critics saying, “Sardou is no doubt satisfied with the present condition of his laural wreath, but in her rondering of ‘Odette’ Clara Morris has cortainly added a fresh loaf or two to his crown.” Ever delightful “Eyangeline,” sweet and welcome with its music, gorgeous with its costumes, and altogether the most popular of Il of 2. . Rices tuneful and lavish produe- tions, comes to the Boyd on Suturday and unday of next week. The great cast of ur. tists will present Miss Lillian Wallers, ¢ beautiful young lady from Rice and n Ages” company as Iy shapely and wiuse raldine from Dixey's “*Adonis" company, will apj as dashing Gabriel. All the us teatures of the play, with its wealth of costuines,stage full of the sportive 10, gaily dr tie lonely fishorman and’the march of the Amazons will be pre- sented. Rice's “Beautiful Evangeline” can well bo said 10 be the household and fayorito extravaganza of this country, and each year adds to its attractions and welcome, MeCuun, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Robert Downing will uso *“I'ho Saracen,” a new romantic drama, for the rest of his season, Mrs. Moeller Seward st January 19, Lawrence Barrett will scason but will mauage th Booth and of Julia Marlowe. Miller Kent, a good lookimg you who committed the grievous mistake of giv. fug bouquets to hiusclf over the footlights, | has goue to Europe [ Mrs. J. W. Cotton will give he | musical recital at the Lininger evening. January 20, She by her pupils Maurico Barrymore has rejoined th son Square theatre pany, His with J.'M. Hill is over. “Reckless was enough to breaks both their backs, Miss Loie Fuiler has retived from tho Gaiety burlesque company, wnd_her part of | Joun of Ave will fali to Mariov Hood,© Some disagrecment with the managemont caused Miss ruller t resign Marie Wilt, the famous dramatic soprano who retired tecently, has presented to the oity of Granz a fund of 100,000 florins, the income of which is to support poor' but ted students of music. °d Monday evening at Wash- Mr. ksrady to his | Mr. Buckley, who is at the | head of the “Clemenceau Caso,” aunounces | that the big spectacular production made a | large hit, Mme. Modjeska | rative of her dras ica, and desc tan city, mor ers thin Americans pleas bemg i too life, Mrs, James Brown Potter and Mr. Bellew will arrive in Loudon at _the January and open with the new lay and Leander. According to a leadiig ager, Mrs. Potter cely to bo a b cess in London, where shehas many in fluen tial social friends Ristori speaks in the most terms of Mme. Berubardt's work. She calls her Shakespear racters ‘grisottes The distiuguished critic divides her time be tween two palaces {n Rome, appoariug o the occasionally for charity, She b beautiful young daughter of rare accomp ments aud much soclal popularity will - give Methodist a concert at the church, Monday, not ouly act next | tours of Ldwin & actor second 't allery | witl be Madi- | carveer | cmple” | blishing a nar nces in Amer New York as & cosmopoli- under the coutrol of foreign- She eriticises the peo- chiof @ hurry to enjoy | | Kyrlo | | end of “Hero man- ntemptuous 1891-SIXTEEN P. | Neb. GESfI B ] [IN DEAD EARNEST. To the many in waiting, We now have the pleas- ure to announce that our great Annual Mark Down Sale Isnowon. “Tn general” no further mention would be necessary, but for the benefit of skeptios, transiont trade and strangers wo will simply quote a fow prio:s that will clear away the MIS IS FROM THE MINDS OF EVERY DOUBTING THOMAS. ——— Men's Suits. All $10.00 Suits, NOW $8.00 All $12.50 Suits, NOW $10.00 All $15 Suits, NOW $12.50 All $18 Suits NOW $15.00 All $20 Suits, NOW $16.50 to$18 Rll $25 Suits, NOW $20 Rll $30 8uits, NOW $25 Men's Ovepenats All $10 Overcoats, | NOW 88 | Al $12.50 Overcoats NOW $10 All $15 Overcoats NOW $12.50 Rll 18 & $20 Ou'T'ts NOW $15 All $25 Ovedcoats, NOW 820 Rll 828 & $30 Quegr- coats, o NOW $25 Keop it constantly hefore you that here you alwaye get a superior quality. a bendfit- ing all goods of Our Own Manufacture and bear no semblancs to the common makes, Whilo this mention is confined principrily to Men's Suits and Overcoats, the MARK DOWN PRICE reaches every corner of the store, and includes Boys' and Children's Clothing, Hats, Caps and Furoishing Goods, The exerciso of wisdom aud bettor judgment will bring us face to face with the general trade vorv early and very often MONEY CHEERFULLY REFUNDED IN ALL CASES WHERE G\)bDS A*:{[ NOT SATISFACTORY, BROWNING, KING & COMPANY, RELIABLLKE CLOTHIERS Open till 6:30; Saturday 10 P. M, S. W. COR, 15th and DOUG $50. T LOOK! MONTEKEY AND MEXTCAN GUL! @ tates of Couhnily, N Heneditoto the port of, AMPICO opt n Trade M. * R. R runs diagonally uero 0 Leon and Tamaulipas, Old Mexic tipico; LS known as the RoUTE 0 fro ark ncorpornting this title, And desires to ad —FIFTY DOLLARS — Will be paid for the best design 322 South Fifteenth St OMAHA, NEB. ral montha location and prac Diring his so: Owaha. D DI ministrations ¢ feried 10 15 pormanc pointed and most office and rocepu “ho siek wilt find 1 Dr. Dillings a_truo physle i sy mprthetie feend nnd adviser Fur the treatment of the toll Dr. Dillin nusunl DR. MCGREW, igd has e ble ¢ hundreds o ast ro-ort citizen nl 10 ization of nppliv to s Rk i1 spe long de o and ) ently 1 A Fooms 1n Oninhia the best ap Whysic tly disonses ALIST treatment of THRE SPEO in the all | forms of PRIVATE DISEASES Stricture, Syphills, Lost Minhood, Skin Dige euses and Fomule Discasos, Dr, MuGrow's uccess 10 the Lrentmentof the ahove Disonses D never beon equaled, A cure s gunrantoed without the loss of an hours tme. Write for ciroulars, LADIES. from % to 4 only. 15 unsurpassed tved by the undersigned during ¢ J. D. COPLAN, Ofoe, Cor. 14th und Farnam Sts, Owahi, Entrance ou elther street. s next thirty days, General Freight ana Pus: r Agt, MONTEREY, MEX1CO CATARRH Al diseases of throat and r tarth 1oy 100 and werves, produci:ig debility 1 dectin, DYSPES 1 all the ph tiver trout foct assiwl KID S S—Are most decelving a stduous. Symptoms hard 0 recognize by the often lead to fatal brights disense or dlabetos. NISKASES OF THE BLOOD — Blood pofsoning, scrofuln, eryaipelas, aud diseases mentioned hei afier, ALL SKIN DISEASE! oln, uicers, t) be O£ the skin, plm ured by br. Dillings. NERVOUS DISRASES Lows of vigor, loxt man oniment (hat NIEVER FAILS AN MVEISN AND NEURALGIA ~Aro curd by D Dl when all ot b (i 4R EMALE WEAKNESSES. The harsh, frentional L RECTALL TIROUBLES - pilos, 11s 03 of Indigostion, fon and nutrition in- fent Fezoma, salt Fheum, v ofula, lipus, muddy o d disenses of the.scalp u o aro quickly enred R sta stricture and all re-ultl tly nud forever without dtient Quickly, any me MORPHIN puiniossly earod TAPE WORM—Takea with I hour with one teaspooniul v p: fastin OTIE nlcers ALY positively and ad completa tn one aRBDL W No R DISEASES s 01d soros, mallgnant tumors troublés, nsthi epilepsy, St Vitus dance, m 1k lox, ehronlc constipa tom and elironic Al e oured THE COMPLEXION — The me wuddy complexion quickly freshene EOR OFVENSIVE BKEATH-A pormn LOW FEES! FREI CONSULTATION UIS: 0::00.m. o6 p. m. By Y5, 210 4 p. 1. htly and uthto v euro 9, 7 0 8:4) Patients Trartod By Cor Hndence, Medicine Sent Everywhore 822 South Fifteenth St. GROURD FLOOR. NO STAIF Dr. Dillinzs pr, and dispenses own mediecines, which are largely solec from nature's healing plants, barks, roo ums, shrubs, &te, No mineral drugs give J Richards M. D, Practics limited to Diseases of the LUNGS axp Nervous System are gl sy s 316 10 520, BEE BUILDING, OMAHA DON'T BE A Natureinten “ WORM! -+ 3 Tasen o) i [oUR NEW BOOK )10 " BGTRTo, oY, v ery O ng confident DON'T BE A FOOL! < BEAE’!@R‘O X e s eas or sail vi ¥, EIBOOK. 46 » 9