Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 28, 1891, Page 8

PROFITS IN SUGAR BEETS Address of H. @. Leavitt at the Lincoln Beet £uzar Convention, ADVANTAGES OF NEBRASKA FARMERS. Adaptation of the Soil to the Success: ful Culture Sugar Bect,— What Careful Work Will Acc iplish. One of the important addrosses delivered a. the recent beet sugar convention at Lin coln was thav of Mr. Heywara G. Leavity of Grand Island on the subject, “Profits in Raising Leets for Sugar,” Mr. Leavitt's ad- dress was ns follows When your committee kindly in adaress tho couvention, gatbe every part of Ncbraska to discuss and pro mote the new industry that has so recentiy found u home in our state, and assigned mo the subject “P’rofits in Raising Beets for Sugar,” 1 um certain they did not vealize its full meaning and extent. Eise, would they have chiosen some ono Whose expericice here bud been supplauted carlior by ears of ex per abroad, and notu merc apprentice in_beet raising The entire question, as it presents itself to us today, of the successtul establishment and developr sugar indusiry in Ivebraska, is un ¢ | problem, puro and simple, ‘aud the solution of this problem willalono open the way to tuo erection and profitable operation of new factorics in this state, and secure to us the many and fncal culavle benefits that accorpany this indus- try wherever successfully introduced, beo efits 50 great aud far reaching that they wonld be folt from cne end of the Unit States to thej oth Experience of T tod mo to ed from rec Years, Tho experience of the past three years has demonstrated beyond the question of a doubt that we have a climate excellently adupted t the growth of the sugar boct at all stages of its develogment, and a soil still better adapted to the samo and requiring no expensive fertilizers, as in Europe, to make it productive; that this soil and_climate produce, when the land has been properly selected and prepared, and the beets cultivated with proper care and siill, & beet as rich in sugar, and giving as largo a yield per acro as 1s obtained anywbere in the world; that r usually long and dry autumns furnish o particularly favorable season for harvesting and preserving the beets: and, finally, that the sugar manu tured from theso beéets (at Grand Norfolk) is of the very finest quality brings the same ~ prico in maricet s the standard sugars an tern refineries. Ono question, question remains in doubt, and that 18 us 1o our ability to raise at a profit and in suflicicnt quantities tho bects required to keep our present factories employed and to supply the many new factories we hope to build, ata prico which thesa factories can afford to pay. If we cannot do this, and do it very quickly, we must surrender the lead wo have so bravely won to some other state whoso farmurs aro moro industrious, cner- getic and intelligent, and who can measure the future of tk:is great industry and see the muny and far reaching benelits and profits it has in storo for them aud the whole com- munity in which they live. Broder Vision Demande 1. The determination of this question, how- ever, or even tho formation of an intelligent opinion upon the same, requires the employ. of “a broader field of vision than that iich the ordinary farmer usunlly accords consideration of such subjuc ‘o him It is sufticient to know that he has spant a certain amount of time and, possibly, money also, 1n preparing and sowing s land and iu cultivating and harvesting tho beets ard de- livering them ut the factory.” Then if the amount be has recoived for the crop is not in atself suflicient to reimburse him for the time and woney expendea, togetber with what, i his judgment, ho considers an_ade- quatc proflt on the same, he condemns the industry at once, calls it a fraud, stops grow- ing beets and probably tries to influence his neighbors to do tie same. In determining the cost of raising tho beets ho has tigured in evory item of labor and expense connected therewith, including his own time and that of his family and teams, at the prico of labor, without making nay allowance the improved condition of his land, from the very labor the beet enabled bim tc put on it. The adverse aitions under which tho test has been mode arelikewise lost sight of and no allowance mado therefor; no account is taken of the fact that the lands on which the beets wero grown, instead of veing plowed deep previous fall, received but a lizht plowing in the spring, and that thesubsoil was probably not even thought of as a substitute for fail plowing. In ninety-nine cases out of a nun dred the soil six, of even fivo iuches below the surface has nover been disturbod and the beet had, therefore, but a thin stratum of soil from which 10 drawts moisturo and nourishment aud derive its growth, while the ground being thorough ded with every variety of weeds could impart but a portion of 1ts strength to the beets, Farmoers who think. ‘With the profit or loss, as thus determined, upon his beots, he compares the profits of his coru and smull grain crops, 1 arriving ut which he has taken no account of bis own time and that of Lis fawily but merely, prob- abiy, of what labor e has had to bire, The conclusion thus drawn he publishes broad- cast by saying “there is no money in beets,” and every farmer who hears believes tho statement, except those that belong to that class of farmors who think for themselves, who havo the intelligenco to carry on the experiment fairly, with u view to thoir own enlightenmoent, and with an adequate appro- ciation of all its modifving condit ana who are not satistied with tho results and conclusions of a siugle year, and bave the encrgy und pluck to continue their exper meats until ull doubt in- their own minds is removed, and they aro ready to embark in the new enterprise or renounce it altogether. Happily for us, such a class of faraiors as 1 have just doscribed does not exist in Ne braska, though their number is far too small and it is tho good judgment, pluck and energy of such men us theso that are laying tho foundation stones upon which this grand industry @8 to be rearad, und it should be the pleasuro and duty of each member of this convention to do all in its power to ussist_andencouraga these men, and to remove the projudico against the beot’ sugar industry existing in the winds to- day of the 1oss enlightened und industrious portion of our farming community. ofits in Beet Cnluar But I have already taken up much of your valuablo time and kavo barely touched on the subject proper of my ¢ lon “Profits in Ruising Beets for Sugar.’ I shall tako tho term “profits” 1 its broad sease, and ask you to loos for & moment at the lition of ariculture, as it exists Surope, where tho boet sugar industry has grown from a tiny thing at the time” of Napoleon the First, to the most profitable and important of all its vast inaustries, while the revenues derived thero- from furnished the chief support of the Freuch, Austrian and German wriojes, The scarcity and consequent high pricos of laad buve for muny years necessitated in_ conti- uental Europo the most systematic and scien- titio study of every department of agricul- ture, in order thut'the best possiblo rosults might bo obtain and the land mado to yield its utmost. o this end, governmental and private experimental stations have evorywhero been established, in the differ ent countries, where every variety of sood of every kind has been tested in relation to their different soils aud climates, the best modo of preparing, cultiva ing and fertilizing the land determined and the best forms of lmplements ascertained for accomplishiug this purpose with the greatest economy, The records of those stations, most accurately kept, have been given wide cireu lation, aud even the smullest farmer has been alded’ and guided by their instructions “heap and abundant labor hus bean a most mportant factor, as likewlise the high prices of horses and oxen, in determining the modo of farming best suited to the country, while many labor-saving machiues, lnventod hers and abroad, which we see employed with ad ntage and economy on every well equivped farm {u the United States, have been tried and discarded in Europe, as the work could be done better and more economically by band, As the result of the inteiligent motbod of farming carried on for years in Europe, the leud is io @ most perfoct state of cullivation and the of the and one for resulting crop has and free and cloan from woeds, and what the soil lacks in richness is supplied to it, though at tremendous cost, by the use of fertilizers. The large amount nl haud labor required by the beet crop can thero be cheaply obtained at whatever moment it is requirea in or 0 produce the bost results Beet Crops Enr ch the Soil. In apite, however, of the advanced methods of farming aiready in use on the continent, when the beet sugar industry first camo into prominence, and the good resuits obtained a that timo n other crops, the still better metbods of farm- ing and moro thorough cultivation of the sofl, which the requirements of the suear beot demanded, have peen of divect and in- calculable venefit even in Kurope. In all districts where the beot Lias been grown the 1d of other crops succceding the beots has thereby been mer 1 from 30 to 50 per cout, while land on which no beets have been grown shows v much smaller percoutage of increase. Tho large gross price received per ucre for sugar beets allows of mueli incrensed oxpenditure for fertilizers, lubor, ote., which the crop itself puys for on’ tho alternate years wh wlhieat or somo otk succe: (beets being pla erally year on th amucn larger yieid is obtained without the slightest additional expense. As & consequonce, where formerly forty acres were required to support u fam- ily, now twenty acres, planted every third r in beets, sufice, and the vulue tho land, ' wherever beet factories nave been established, has increased in like provortion, At tho same time, tho industry has furnished remunera employment for thousands of men, en and children, both in the factory and ho field, and stimulated in a wonderfu! dogreo overy other industry in Iurope. When we consider that Burope produces, in good scasons, about 5,500,000 thousand- kilokrammes, or long tons, of beet sugar, the of which is over 300,000,000, a large on of which is ye bought by the ed States, can any one wonder that we wishh to produce our own sugar, or be sur prised that Furope views with alarm tho ant strides wo are making omplishing this rosult. We have seen some of the advantages which Europe possesses in raisiog beets for sugar, perhaps the greatest of which lies in her fifty years of experience; let us sco whnat disadvaninges, us compared’ with us, she has to contond with, T'hese are, briefly, an oxhausted soil, bigh price of nds, high price of all vor dono by horses or catue, und excessive axation, for the beet i Iurope is taxed from the cradlo to the grave, to replenish the empty coffers of her impoverished and iopoverishing standing armies. of Nebraska's Pecrless Soil. In this country, on tho other hand, and in Nebraska, — espe we have & soil that acknowledges no peer, that is almost untouched in its virgin vichness, & soil that under intolligent 1 systomatic farming can bo relied upon for many years to produce beets rich in suar lirgo in yield per acre, without the aul of artificial manures. Our land is cheap, 5o cheap in fact that the profits ot a singlo beet crop, 1n & favorablo season,would be sufticient to pay for the land on which the beets were grown. Horses and mules are also cheap, and the work of these we must loarn to use to revlac as possible, the chieap hand labor of Lurope Dangers of Wasteful Methods. As against these advantagos must be offset our almost entire inexperienco in raising beets, aud careless and wasteful methods of farming and habits of work, brought about doubtless by the great fertility of the soil and the casc with whbich a living can bo guined therefrom, us also by the attempt to farm too mnch land, the consequent pocr state of cultivation of tho ground, and the fact that the whole country is overrun V\Il!l weeds, and lastly but, perhaps portint as any, the high cost and scareity of field labor and its largely incMcient, lazy and indifferent quality, To the grower of brcts on a large scalo who is ovliged 0 prepare and cultivate, in the thorouzh manner the beet requires, & consid- crable area of land and to hirea large number of men, these disadvantages present a far more serious aspect than to the farmer who, raising but five or ten acres of beeis sclect a clean picce of ground for this pur- pose, and with the aid of Lis family, 1 the {utervals of his other worlk, bestow upon it all the work and care that it requires. To him, if he be an industrious, observant and intelligent man, the raising of beets will present no difliculties beyond the first or two, while his crop each year will bring him & certain aud handsome profit, varying somewhat with the nature of the season’ yet always assured, and commen- surato with the deiree of skill and care he bestows upon it. The experience of the past two vears at Grand Islagd has shown that such a farmec can preparc and plant hbis land, care for bis erop aud bring it to harvest time at atotal average cost per acre of thir- teen dollars and seveu-five conts (313.73), which amount includes the cost of the seed and rental of a suitable secder, and fail com- pensation to the farmer for his own time and that of his family and team. To theso fizures must be added one_dollar (31.00) per ton for the costof harvesting the beets and dolivering them at the factory, which figura allows the payment of 30 conts per toa for freight. 1t will thus bo seen that the entire average cost to the farmer of raising and deliverig at the factory the product of one nc beets, 1a ylold of twelvo tous bo obt is 820, Taking 14 per cent as the ave sugar content of tho beets, which was th average per cent obtaincd this vear, the value of twelve tons would be at this year's scale of prices $12; deducting theftotal cost of the erop there is a not profit left of 816,25 per acre, Fora yield of fifteen tons to the acro tho cost of the crop would be 828.75, while the gross price received for tho same would bo £ id tho net profit would be $21.75 por acre, 1f the beets had contained this year, as they did 1ast, 16 per cont. iastead of 14 per cent. of sugar, the net profit would in the first in- oo huve been §22.25 per acre, and 1 tho second instunce 841,25 per acre, Better Proflis Another Year. The factory, however, have adonted a new seale of pri for next vear und at this scale, with twelve tons of beets to the acre and T4 per cent. of sugar, the farmer would realize, another a net profit of & per acre as aguinst 10 this year, and with 16 per cent of sugar £34.25 per acre, as against $22.25 this year. Should he obtan fifteen tons per acre und 14 por cent of sugar bis profit next vear would be §31.25 per acre, as against § this year, and for 16 per cent of sugat and fiftecn tons $46.25 por acre, as agaiust §1.25 this year, Costof an Acre Crop. ‘The differont items of expenso wkich make up tho #13.75, which I havo stated was what the industrious and intelligent farmer had found to be the average cost of raising an acre of beets, are as follows: Plowing ten to twelve inch Harrowing and rolly Secding, in Fwenty pounds of seed I'hinning out the beets Hoelng o Lwice Cultivating same four times. Total cost per nere.. ....0 To which must be addoa 8100 per ton for harvosting, rental of harvester, hauling, load- ing of buet’ on cars, and freight on same at 30 cents per ton to the factory (The conclusion of Mr. LeavitVs address will oe published in a subsequent issue of Tue Bre with horse «'nlllv.dlll e e ‘Choy bad lots of wedding vre most pracious was tralian salve Sto said thoughtfully, it's so nice for littlo chaps ou my hands. He said, we buves,t got any “little chaps’ yet. She sald, Why ! John, and John was squelched. Nt _adh Sotid Trains Krom O Vestibuled, electric lighted heuted, with the finest dining, sleeping and rechining chair car service in tha world, via the ' Chicago & Omaha Short Lane” of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. Double daily train sorvice, leaving Omaha at 1 p m. and 6:20 p. m., with no transtor at Coun- cil Bluffs ns heretofore. Apply 1501 Farnam street for ticketsand further in: formation or anadress F. A, NasH, . . LINCOLN. Gen. Agt City Pass. Agt onts, but tho a box of Huller's Aus- the nahy and steam - or Rents Due Jan. 1, Payablo at company’s office, E ing. ~ Five per cent discount a paid on or before January 1. F receive bill will nov entitle cousumer discount, build- owed if ailure to to THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: [ DEAR T0 CHRISTIAN HEARTS. Bishop Newma: Eloquently Tells the 8tory that is Ever New, CHRIST AND HIS L'F THE BISHOP'S THEME. Beautiful Worl Paintinzs Hold En- thralled His Aundience—One Sub- Jectin Which Interest has Never Ceased to Grow. Bishop Newman preached at the First Methodist church yesteraay morning. Iis theme was ‘‘Josus Christ, the Same Yesterday, Today and Iorover.” Tho dis- course was dearly un hour in length, but there was not the slightest flagging of inter- Cst or attention on the part of the audionce from beginning to end, The venerable divine said at the outset that he should ask the indulgence of the audience on account or the fact that he was suffering from the effects of the influenza, so prevalent over the country. 'T'ne apology, however, was unnecessary, for the discourse was a masterpiece, and in many places tho supurb eloquence of the bishop's word paint- ing caused the audience to forgot that any- toing bad been said about influenza. ‘Ine following is a brief synopsis of the sermon Ever since the days of Pontius Pilato the question ‘has been, ‘‘What Shall Do With Christe” Pilate was tho judge, He said: 1 find no fault with this man,” and sent him to Herod, The king sent him back to Pilate saying, 1 find no fault in nim.” Pllate had the authority to liberate the prisoner but ho yielded to the clamor of the people and Christ was crucified, Wi isperings of an Angel. In allages woman has interceded for suffer- ing and porsecuted innocence. Pilate’s wife nad a dream. It was the whispering of an_avgel, and sho told that dream to her husbard.' But the warning was not heeded and the meb prevailed 1n the clamor for the deatk of Christ upon the cross. Jenturies have rolled away and the question still comes to every human heart: “Whatare wo going to do with Christ? Liko tho fabled ghost, Christ W not down. His altars bave been thrown down and the sitence of many a Sabbath day has been dis- turbed by the clumor of His foos, and yet He stands today the most prodigious character known to men. His fame is carried around tho world by the chime of church bells, and from the lips of countless orators we hear of His glory. ako to sav that Christmas is the v of the beginuing of Christianity. st hung on the cross he grasped the cternity of tho past iu oue hand and the cternity of the futuve in tho other, while He looked down on the present at his feet. "I'he speaker said hie could not_believe that God hud neglected His childron from tho day of creation until the advent of Christ. He could not worship a God wio could treat His creators that way. Stch a God would bo a neartless m ter. The pre-cxistence of Christ is plainly taught in the scriptures. He was before the world began, Why was he not incacnatea sooner! ‘limeisan essential cloment in the disponsation of providence, and Christ camo when the time was ripe for his appear- ance. His incarnation was only an ncident. Heis thosame Christin the old tostament as in tho new, but not incarnate. Christ was the only mat who ever came to carth for the purpose of dying. Other peo- ple como to live, When His worle was doue, He seemed to have u longing to roturn to His celostinl avode, and Ho welcomed calvary. nciples of Christianity. ‘The bishop said he would have bean disap- pointed in studyiug the great religions of the world if ho had not found that they ch contained some of the fundumental principles of Christiamty. * All religions sprang from a common ~ Source, as all ruces of men cawo forth from. the one stock that loft the gardon of I3den. But Chris- tianity contained a combination of all tho great principles of salvation and eivilization for the raco. Other religions aro worthy of respeet, and aro accomplishing good for humanity in proportion to tueir resemblance in principle to Christianity. Christianity is not to be superseded. There is no other n that can supplant it What fundamental principle of Chvistianit could we dispense with? Could we reject tbe doctri of atonement? Is it not a fundamental peincile in_eivil goveriment that those who ccmmit crime shall suffer for it or their sureties or bondsmer shall suffer or recompense the government or the state for the offense! Shall we dispense with that principle of government? That is one of the fundamental principies of Christianity — suffering and atonement for sin, Shall we destroy tho Bibie!—that old book that siceptics have ridiculed and damoed for hundreds of years and yet there it is today a fountain for ths healing of the nations., Lighted Earth's Dark Piaces. Somo peopla say that ‘Christianity was good enough in the childhood of the race but we need something different now, The samo sun that lighted up the plains of Amnon for Moses and tho children o? Israol gilds the peaks of the Sicrras and Rockies today and nobody asks forn new sun. Let the same old sun_shino ou and Christianity will go with it into the dark corners of the earth, ‘The bishop drew a vivid pieture of the deaths of Socrates, Julius Cicsar and Abra- ham Lincoln. And then asked why it was that neither or all of these aramatic deaths of great men had impressed tho world like tho death of Jesus Christ, although he died on the cross between two thieves. Thean- swer was found in_the personalty of Christ. Jesus Gorist had trod thesummits of all ages. In conclusion the bishop said that every one must must meet Christ t. When the soul bozan to quiver between lifes fitful fever and its eternal destiny and the thin veil began to purt that shuts out the spirit world, then tho face of Christ would appear and the soul would be fitled with joy or remorse ac- cording to its preparatioi, No ouo could afford to reject Christ. He should be accepted joy fully and promptly by all, N IN SIN. Rev. M vidge Thinks Omaha has Grown Morilly worse. “In The Last Ten Yeurs Has Omana Grown Morally Botter or Worse!" was the subject discussed by special request last ove: ning by Rev. Chas. W. Savidge of the Peo- ple’s church. In the opinion of the reverend gentleman there was no question but that morals bad retrograded terribly in ade Just ended, and ho declared that tho condition of things is indeed desperate, He admitted that there wore hundreds of noble men and women who were not Chl tiaus and gave them credit for domng n great deal of good, but he was satisficd that the moral conscience of tho city as & Whole was growing deader and deader. Ho cited the Sun- day theater andSunday base ball in proof of his assertion, stating that oven three years ago the opening of a theater on Sunday would have shockea the community, ‘Even the churches seemed 1o give no héed to what is going on. Only a short time ago Rev, Mr. Lamur preacted ono evening atthe Kirst Baptist church 1o sixty peoplo, whilo tha Sunday theater next door was preaching to 1,500, The speaker did_not wonder that Mr. Lamar feitdiscouraged ana wanted to leave the city. ‘The men in high positions reflected 1o eral setiment of the city and the pupers have been fullof the stories of drun k- cuness wud bribery on the part of city officials, It is only & few years sincen mayor of the city was in jail, ana it i now a question whethor several more of tho city’s officers should not be there. In five years, the young men of the city have wade terrible ‘strides in sin. They have changed for the worse to an alarming dogree, and their condition is certainly desperato und astonishivg, This tendency to the worse is not confined to the young wen, for the old men, those who bLave reached or passed their ‘fiftios, spem vieing with the youtbs iu their race along the downward “road, und they are going at s terrific paco, Some of the most wicked men who ever lived are here today, yet side by side with them are some of the best aud most wodly men and women that the world has ever seeu. The church has become indifferent or is leaning in the wrong direction, sud today it [ uas cowo to such @ pass thata preachor | must oither breakwith bis ehureh or fall in with the churoh. * fllere sconied 10 06 & ten dencyeven in the simrch to fine dress and ungodliness, and vl church aod the world #0 hand in hand, It is a godloss agewand a desperately wicked city, und it is gottiti worse simply = vecauso the churches havo geuo to sieep. 1f tho tor rible tide is to bo #wemmel preachers must not be afraid to tellitheir hearers that 1f they #0 on in sin they will bedamned aud damned forover, and théu wodt then only can thero be reasonablo hope foF a bettering of public morals. Dr. Cullimore, ocuiist, AMUSEMENTS, Beo building “Dr. Bi French fun, as developed in farce comedy, has a suggestivenoss peculiar to itself, and Dr. Bill" affords another illustration of its charucteristic flavo Dr. Brown has come into a legacy, married and settled down. Before his mar- riage he was a very ®aly man about town, going by the name of Dr. Bill. His Jfuthers in-law {nsists on his resuming practice, hangs out a sien and mails business cards right and left. Dr. Brown reccives a note from a lady desiring his services, but refuses to call on herand a friend imporsouates him. By asories of complications which cannot be eéxplained briefiy the doctor, his wife and her father . all visit tho house of the ient, who 1s not sick, but merely wanted 10 test Brown's constancy, aud sho Las an exchting time shooing her 'callers into dark rooms and mixing them up. ‘Then her jeal ous husband comes in to cap the climax. Old female friends of Dr. Bill turn up at iuter vals to still further harrow tho virtuous Brown, ‘The humor of the thing depends wholly upon its action aud its situations, and, as may be fuferred, there are many funny com- plications. ‘lhe company is somewbat un- usual in having no stars, but it is made up of capable actors who are evenly balanced in morit, Ernest Bavtram presents a finished bit of comedy in the role of tha father-in-law. William Wilson is a dashing doctor, Leigh ton Baker does the London chappie with quiet eflectiveness, and Miss Belle Stokes’ gaiety girl is free und cusy. “Dr. Bill” was preceded by minute curtain raiser entitled “Sunset, which the loves of two sisters beconi tangled, to be unraveled by the sacrifico of the olacr girl, “ihe Pulss of New York." Molodrama is a popular form of entrtain- ment with o large class of theater goers, and got a twenty ' n of New York” at the Farnam Street theater vesterday vrould indicate that it has not yet lost its hiold on puvlic favor. Some smart ‘gentlemen of the press havo ridiculed melodrama as hammer and saw art, but it has its advantages. For example, ii has 1o subtleties, and an auditor doesn't havo to think. Its villany is very wicked and its viture very nois implest comprohen- sion can recoguize them without a tag. On the other hand, melodrama s seldom cious, and genera s a wholesomo le: sou. While it may be crude as art, its moral effect is commendablo, Ihe Pulse of Now York” is a regulation play of 1ts class with a few added sensu- tional effects. It has special scenery show- ing well known spots in the American metro- polis, and the struggle of virtue to escape villany’s wiles are exciting and keep_tho audience in suspeuso to the end. Miss Gracio Emmett does some clever work, im- personating six characters, Thoy are a rollicking young heircss, an Irish washer- womau, a down east Yankee widow, a green German girl, o live newsvoy and an oid apple woman “Vamievil 1t would be hard to disc of any one of the artists conaccted with the Boston Howard Atheneum Star Specialty company whic played to two very large au- diences” at tho Grand yesterday, Tastes ditfer and whero you would - find cne. person lauding Miss Ena Bartolai, who is the queen of equilibrists, another with equal justice might champiofi'the cause ot Fulgora, Kara, or tho Braatz brothers, who in thew several specialty turns are uncqualled on the stage. “There are other just as - clover specialty neo- ple connected with the company as those mentioned and it was the unanimous verdict of the people yesterday that theater goers in Omaha have never seen a stronger vitle performanco than that given by modern performers, either in_dunciug, sing- 1ng, balancing, juggling or the staruling feats of [ara, who 1s the most_marvelous contor- tionist of these latter century duys, tion Hall. audience greeted at Iixposition hall, minate in favor Only o small the “Flashes” aggrogation last night. The entortainment was principally d to spiritualistic perform- Lester and Dr. A. A. Waite. The doctor also gave some iuteresting experi ments in mesmerism. Master Hermann, the boy prestidigatator, amused and mystified the audienco by bis clever siight-of-hand work Tho performanco de: audience. erved a better s de S g FELL WITH LAMP, Which Overtook a Lady List Night, Box 84 was pulled m at 9 o'clock last night and called the department to tho corner of Eighteenth and Daveaport streots. ‘Phe fire was in tho residence of Mrs. Dr. . J. Davis. Mus. Davis was coming down the stairs with a lamp in her hand when sho tripped and fell clear to the bottom. The lamp fell from her hands and broke. As tho cll spread and commenced to burn an inmato of the house threw a quilt over tho flames which were soon extinguished. Mvs. Davis was so-badiy shaken up and bruised by ber fall that a physician was summoned. Whoile unswering the alarm Chemical En- gine No. 1 met with an_accident whici will kecp the mackine in the shops fora few days. As the engino rounded the corner at Seven- teanth and Cnicago streets the rear wheols slipped on tho frozen pavemont and struck some obstruction. Oue of the heavy wheels was dished besides breaking aspoko or two. Twenty-tive dollars will cover the entiro loss of the fire, Serious Mishap - Howe scales, trucis, cofea mills, car- ters, Harrisor. conveyor. Catalogues of Borden & Selleck Co., ugents, Chicago 111 Dr. McGrew, pvt diseases, 14th & I ——— IN JALL AGAIN, Gearze Sh:lby. Locked Hard Strusg bmetime Saturaay night burglars entered McGargle's haraware store, 410 North Six teenth street, and stole two Remington revolvers and a couple of dollars in cash from the till. When an investigation was mado Suuday morning after tho robbery had been discovored a tomm photograph of George Shelby was found 4n the aoorway. About 0 o'clock last nlght OMcer Sebeck suw Shelby and a friend at Fourteenth and Jackson streets dfinking out of a bottle, The oficer attempted to arrest Shelby and cawe very nearly getting the clothes torn off his bacls Shely sailed in and the pair had a and tumble fight tor a few minut Oficer Sullivan vam up in respons whistle und helped Sebeck out lemma. In the molee Shelby received four bad cuts on bis hemd, whicn necessitated the calling of Dr. Lord to sew him up Samuel Kidd, a elevk for I'airbanks, Morse & Co,, was als aken lato custody for vefus ing to assist tho officers whon called upon Kidd was afterwards releasea ou bail up After a rough Finaily to a polico of his di am — MONDAY, DECEMBER the large audiences attracted by “The Pulso | - D?PRICE'S Used in Millions of Homes—40 Years the Staudard, 28, 1801. T T 2 Next Thur’sduy niaht we close our big front doors s business we have ever experienced. a financial standpoint, because we've made some money; successful in ause we've never made so many before; successful from a business standpoint, because our stock is in the best shape we ever found it after Chris sucecessful year’s gaining friends, be house in this end of the tion than ours today. ment”’ caters to the wants of it pos want to begin right. Remember our photograph_contest closes New Year's photograph of a boy anywher. running up to $10 in gold. think you've got a good loo SOUTH OMAHL. Died From Lead Poisonina. William Wyatt died yesterday from tho effects of iead poison. Wyatt was for somo time employed at the Omaha lead works, but his blood became so badly poisoned from the 1ead that bie was forced to quit work. Tho case defied the skill of the best physicians and Wyatt sank lower and lower until yes- terday morning, wheu ue died. Letter Onrriers’ Ball. On New Yerr's ove will occur the second annual ball of the South Om letter riers. Messrs. Mark Boukal, M. A. Martin, E. . Rozzelle, C. W. Millor and William J. Munges compose the committee on whoso shouldBrs rests the responsioility of making the event a success, and the offorts put forth by these gentlemen show that they ‘ntend to celipse last year's bull. The geatlemen who have promised to seo that the hall is properly decorated ure Mo W. Miller, "I'homus Duwyer, Id La Page, M. C. Tracy and D, W. “Tillottson. Magic € Margavet Cassiday day, who died of diphther: was buried yesterday forenoon in St. cemetery. Jame time 15 reported to bo in o dangerous ty Miniatures tho daughter of Mrs, Saturdy: Mary's 3ogloy, who has been sick for some condi- his, was Kick received by James Begley on head from « horse is niore serious than at tivst supposed, Mrs. W. J. Chicago, % * 7. Cuddington 1s back froni Dixon. James Wandro is under arrest for whip- ping John People. Al b Kecleyites Organize. A couple of dozen graduates of the Keeley wloride of gold institutes @met in Louis sts barber shop, Continental block, yesterdny afternoon to form a permancnt Bichiorido of Gold club, Mr. Pat O. Huwes was chosen chairman and M. D. Roche acted as_secretary. It wus decided to form a ¢lub of ox-Keeley patients for social purposes and also to assist worth subjects sceking treatment at Dr. Kecloy Temple has returnea from by appointed a_committeo _consist- ing Messrs. Rutherford, McCranry, Webber, Duffy, Woodward and Rocae to correspond with similar clubs elsewhere and draft a stitation and by-laws. oting will be held at the samo place next Sunday to hear the report of the committee and to effect & permauent organ- ization, WINTER TOURS To Summer Lands via the Wabash Rou The Wabash arve now selling round trip tickets good returning Juue I, 11892, to ull the winter resorts in Ten- nessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgim, Florida, North and South Carolina, Louisiana, Arkunsus and Toexas, The quickest and best route to tho Hot Springs of Arkansas. Foe tickots and full information in regard to ro ites east or south call at Wabash oftice, 1502 Farnam streat, or write G. N. Clayton, N. W. Pass. Agt. e Every one should have a savings ae- count. ~ Now is the time to make a start for 1892, The German Suvings bunk will s00n move into their new banking room on 1ith street between Farnmm and Douglas, a very convenient location. They pay & per cent interest and appre= clute now aceounts, Baking Powder: over thousand towns and cities in the west. sible for us to build up our bu: portions, we can simply bow our THANKS. Next year we intend to do still better; On January 1st we In order to still further reduce our stock (we have found it much easier to count money than goods) we intend to Cut the Prices on Suits, Overcoats, Hats, Shoes and Furnishing Goods ar- ! tmas; s earth is Not only has our crease in Omaha and immediate vicinit; has nearly doubled its ten uccessiul bette “advertisically, r known or b rade shown a wonderful in= but our “Mail Order Depart= business during the past year, and now on the most Successful from because no s a better reputa- thousand regular customers in over a To our ine to its take New Years as you never saw prices cut before YOU KNOW US: we are never satis eve. friends who have made present mammoth pro= fied. We our annual Jnventory. from now tilk That if you send us a cabinet e from 4 to 18 years ol age you are liable to get one of_five prizes That you get the photograph back after New Years, (ing boy you’re a ‘“‘chump” if you don’t try it. That 1f you 13818 Douqlas Street, Omaha, Neb. The eminent specinllst In nervous, chronle, regtsterad gradun: coss. catarli, sp ture, konorriioea, unable to v expii8s secu tatlon froe. ¢ o p HOW TO GURE LA GRIPPE, Go right abou! For the splittin alonz the spine matism of mus usen mifd disi take thrce or fo Dr. Schenck's Mandrake Pills and after thata sufelent num- t night to Insure u d bowels. chills and fover onable doses, en free,th cleanse th normal scerotio Then, to ald ¢ and lussituac, as leave die us | to your system, fulot Schene the fi I ston hefore feel ik lungs. Gri puins or new i Beware congh once by a tablespoonful ¢ Schenc's Pulmanic Syrup taken threo tim enerifthe congh thus surround Grippe and. dr And yow'll do It Ask your Druzg dics, DR, SCHENC Live: Compliin DR. J.H.8 HENK& “ON, Philade!n'ia .I’;\ Gono rilioea cured tn 2 days by the French 1 Jed tho KING sorbed into the money If it does Gentlomen, her e 2 for Bick & CUBEB {00UGH CURE One Minute Remedy Lor all affections of the Throat, Lungs EXCI 20 For JOSEPH GILLOTT'S STE GOLD MEDAL, THE MOST PERFECT OF PENS. | T0 WEAK MEN i fariy decy. watln Wl son: toflvart A'sple e 1 fiodieal DOCUTA & Gonorrliea and dlsch Bevoivst cares Sunday, 10a. m, Lo 12 m Keep this up for some tin nlaftern e toward P Lund, Oma AND 50 OF Prof ¥, C, FOWLE to 1 nmedicly diplom s and cort orthoca, lost kleot, varleocelo, ate. No mor cked. no oitosponcence strictly private tit g I and in es und Joi nelination ur of Doi't waste a minute. whes, racking pains and loins, rheu- (s, ehills and fover for food, you st tally un it free action of and wh s are stubborn.quinine in roas- nbe used to advantage with hese pills set your gorgod lver wach and bowels, and start up s, You've scored a big point. izestion, crash the w ive off the feeling that you'd ive.and give tone ind stronzth ou must tike a tablespo k's Seaweed Tonic Already you Loginto person. But don't forget your of the terrible tendency of L neamonia! 1t you have chest 1\, better settle the matter the akness between menls—oft- blesome. You can worst case of La surrender s diy is tro o into right iy ist for the Dr th ve it speedy £ you aroe Schenck R Wist K'S hoo't on Chnsump® tand Dys epsia;s nt fr 01, . Gleetand Jecurernea wody ontite It dissolves nainst i i abe inflamod purts. Wil refund not cure, or cases strioturo o 15 a reliablo artiolo, 81 o il propidd i MeCor 18 A and Bronchial Tubes, PT CONSUMPTION sule by Diu EL PENS. PARIS EXPOSITION, 1889, Suftering from 1. sauinal woiknoss. 1y ned. iy bo treated At home by COPFespOR A0 i 10 Indleato contents or sendor. Book (Myaterias of Life) sent froo. 1 atamup for reply “tisoasss. A rogular ana 01t su0w. 18 Ll troating with the Kroatest s uge ight loaser, Lipotancy, ayphills. stel Now treatment for [0sy of vital powor. Partisg Mo fiolns or lnsiromants sont by mall 019 porsonal Intorvlew proterred. Cone Oitico hours, § - blood skin and urin MOORE'S .TREE OF L Monmouth, IIL,Feb. 11, ’8). Dr. J. B. Mooro,—While suffering from severe cold, T 'was induced to try Maora's Tree of Life Catarrh Cure. It aflorded almost immediate relief; and while [ have been u sufforer for yoars from catareh, sinee using this remedy I nave not been affocted in any way with this decidely annoying diseaso PAN< L posiuve eure for Kide nd Liver Compiaint and all blood dise Does it puy Lo suffer when you can be 3 Troo of Lifo, the Grea Moore.s Treo of L' fo ney cured by using Moore Life Remedy? AR ADELINA ATT {(czEmq (¢ Is The Best n the market. Try it and vinced TURNER-FRAZER MERCANTILE c0 Sole Western St be cons Agonts Joseph, M o, W%Ur. Bailey XY Tio Leading Third F.oor 1" houts cure, KH Kb of ¢ 1 work ; sl Ty read by ¢ i 1 A Moodus, Coun: JALWOOD CAUBULES ar ¥ capiulos presciibad yalolans for' the cure 4 trom the Urin vy org dars. 0L per buk Al deu ikl DENTISI, Telepone 1085, 16th and Farnam Ste, ixton Blosk, A full 8ot of teoth, ou rubber, for 8 Portegd Ot Teeth w.thout uvlates OF removable Dridgo work, ust. Lho thing for slnjers ad speniors, nover drop dow. 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