Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 27, 1892, Page 9

\ 9 i PART TWO. | S B TWENTY—FIRST YEA THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. wew{ R. OMAH A, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 27, 1892- — | NUMBER 284 HAYDEN BROTHERS, Our Low Prices are Drawing Crowds of Economica e Colored Dress Goods. SPECIAL SALE FOR MONDAY. 46-inch shades, $1.10. 40.inch bedford cords in fancy de- signs, beautiful patterns, $1.19. 88-inch bedford cords, in plain stripes and delieate shades, 88c 42-inch diagonal stripe, novelties in all colors,, 81.19. 50-inch all wool surah twill, in all col- ors, only . 46-inch silk finish German Henrietta, the best nnd finest goods made, usually sold at $1 a yard, Monday only 60-inch Inglish tweed, splendid traveling suit, $1.88. 18.inch herring bono stripes, all wool, very desirable styles, Monday only 65c. #0-inch all wool German challies, 58c. 36-inch part wool suitings, #6-inch fancy plaids, only 25e, 86-inch half wool hearietta, all col- ors, Monday only 2c. 25-inch mohair goods, only 85c. Black Dress Goods. SPECIAL PRICES FOR MONDAY. Bedford cords full 48 inch, designed especially for spring jackets and wr and sold everywhere at $1.85, will be on sale Monday at $1.50. This is the very heaviest and best quality. ‘Wo shall also have on special sale o very beautiful quality of 48inch Bedford cord at $1.25, which has never been #oid for less than $1.55 48 inch Bedford cords at $1.10, ncver gold before for less than $1.40. Very J Bodford cords at makes a D8, 93¢, fine Bedford cord, warranted , T8¢y worth 81, A new and beautiful tine of crepe de Leon, an elegant fabric for summer dressos, will bo on sale Monday at 83e: real value $1. Corduretts in spring mer weighte, 79¢, worth Yac. Very handsome diagonal weaves, 20c, worth 4Cc Imported cashmere, 33¢, worth 50c. Tmported cashmere, 25¢, worth 374e. A good cashmere, 12¢c, worth 20c. Handkerchiefs. 100 dozen fancy bordered handker- chiels only 8¢, worth 5e. 50 dozen fancy scolloped haundier- chiefs, to close, 5c each. 3 150 dozen nice embrordered handicer- chiefs only 10¢, we!l worth 15¢. 200 dozen fine embroidered handker- fihiels, Monday only 15¢, regular price 25¢. 100 dozen elegantly handkerchiefs at 25c, ench. and sum- embroidered well worth 50c bodford cords, in the newes® | Dreés Goods On Monday we offer 2 cases full stan dard dress calico at 3ic yavd, fast colors, 8 cases Indigo blue calico, 5c yard. 1,000 yards of yard wide Dutch blue calico, worth 15¢ yard, in short ends, only e yard. The best bleached or unbleached muslin in Omaha only 5c yard. 200 fancy chenile tablo covers, fringed, at $1.25 each; worth $2. Large square horss blankets, each, pecial bargain in 36 inch double fold goods at 74, 10 ane 15¢ yard: at wash dress goods department where you find all the lutest styles and novel- ties. A full line of black sateens. Dress Trimmings. Beaded Trimmings e, 10c, 15¢, 17c, 202, 25¢, 85c and 50¢ per yard Cut jot trimmings 19¢, 25c, 3¢, 50¢ and up to $3 per yard. nge 81, $1.25, £1.80, per yard. raid trimmings in new designs. Buttons, in all the ne colors, new shapes and sizes, from 5c per dozen to 2 per dozen. 65¢ and SPEC! Embroidery THIS WEEK. AL SALE ON 5000 yards narrow but neat cmbroid- ery at lc per yard. 10,000 ds Hamburg embroidery, medium width, only 3¢, worth be. 10,000 yords fine Hamburg and Swiss embroidery, to close out, at &¢ per yard, well worth 10c. 25,000 yaras fine and wide Hamburg, s8 and cambric ombroidery. only 10¢ , well worth 15¢ to 20¢ per yard. special value in fine tuckings at 50c, 03¢, 69¢, 70c, S7c, 81 and $1.25 ;)er yard. Chiffon, in all the latest shades, at 25¢, 85¢, 43¢ and 49¢ per yard. 50,000 yards fine hand made torchon, 10c ana 12ic, Sw per lace at 15c, to $2 per yard. Ladies’ Wrappers and Skirts. 1 lot lacties’ wrappers 87c, worth from $1.25 to $1.50, all size 1 lot ladies’ wrappers, outing flannel, all new patterns, $1.37, worth $2, all sizes. 1 lot ladies’ skirts, in all styles, 49c, worth from 75¢ to $1.50. , 25¢, 3dc, 43, 50c and up Reduction in Silk Dept. 10 preces printed Chinas, duced from $1.10 to 88c. 15 picces printed Chinas, new, ro- duced from 60c to dc. 5 pieces gros grain, warranted, duced from $1.25 to $1. 5 pieces faille francaise, reduced from $1.25 to 90¢, 6 pieces crepe silk, blue, pink,” ete., reduced from $1.35 to $1.10. 5 pileces bengaline, reduced $1.50 to 81.25, Good black surahs from 60c to $1, worth 75c to $1.35 Lining silks at 85 new, re- re- from Towel Sale On Monday morning we place on sale the biggest drive on towels ever offered in Omaha. 1lotof all linen huck towels, sizo 22x44 fancy woven borders, only 10c each, 1 lot of large sizo unbleached Turkish towels, 10c each 1 1ot of fancy striped Turkish towels, 10c each. 1lot bleached Turkish towels, only 10c each. 1 lot of silver bleached German dam- ask towels, tied fringes, red, white, brown or blue borders, only 10¢ each. 1lotof all linen twilled towels, 10c cach, 1 1ot of large glass checked towels, 10¢ each. 1 lot of Scotch damask each. We are prepared and expect to sell 500 dozen of these towels on Monday. You will find these towels the bast val- ue ever offered in Omaha. Iixamine our towelsat e, 15¢, 19¢ and 25¢ each. towels at 10c Our Art Department. 100 dozen fine all linen momie doylies, stamped and fringed, only 2¢ each. 50 dozen fine linen dresser scaafs, stamped, oxtra large size, only 25 25 dozen drawn thread and stamped momie dresser scarfs at 49¢, regular price 65c and 75¢ 25 dozen momie tray cloths, stamped, ounly 15¢ each, 100 dozen all silk Iflush balls, in all shades, only 8c per dozen. 1,000 fine silk plush ornaments at 20c, 25¢, 85¢ and 5lc per dozen. We give the finest embroidery silk in the country for 5¢ per dozen spools. | Buyers to Our Sale of New 0\'}’1!£STU('I(EI) IN THE Cloak Department. Being overstocked with our spring wraps, we will make an early sac- rifice, making a special reduction in this department, the goods being of the new- est and latest styles and best manufac- ture, Tadies’ recfors, in all tho newest fab- rics and latesy styles, ranging from $15, $18 and $20, will bo sold at $10.50, 80 and 82 inches long, satin lined. Ladies’ Marguerite capes, in black, 40 inches long, $4.50, reduced from $8. Ladies’ Marguerite capes in tan and gray, 40 inches long, 87, reduced from $10. Our Marguerite capes, ranging from 820 to $25, reduced to 815, Ladies’ and misses’ military capo ulsters, made of all wool herringbone cloth in tan or gray $8.50, reduced from $12 and $15, Our ladies’ and misses’ recefers, all ne:’ and very stylish, reduced from $10 to $7. Ladies’ reefers in all the latest and most popular styles, 85, reduced from 8. Wo are showing the largest line of children’s recfersand Jackets in Omaha, and at the lowest prices, new Buttons. The latest novelties just in, and will be sold at surprisingly low prices. Cut jet bended goods at 5c, 7e, 10e,12¢, 17¢, 25¢, usual prices 15¢ up to 50¢ vard. Silk gimps in blackand new shades at lese than import coste Exquisite novelties in fine and me- dium priced dress buttons, ranging in price from 2¢ dozen. Dressmakers’ supplies: of ali kinds at special low prices. Embroideries: and La;es. Hamburg cmbroidaries at lc, 2c, 3c, 5e, 7c, 10¢, 12c apd 15¢, actual .value 5¢ up to 50c yard. Fine Swiss emtroideries at equally low prices.’ Chantilly laces'in fiew patterns, fine silk goods, at 10c, 12¢, 15¢, 17¢, 25¢ up to 85¢; positively less than import cost. Chantiily lace, demi flouncing, at 57ic, 50c, 63c and 75¢, worth &5c to 8$1.25. All other laces ab eq low prices. Special sale on veilings, handker:hicfs, ribbons and notions, W;tches, Watches, Watches. The greatest barzains ever offered in watches, No nced to be without a watch at these prices. Gents’ silverine st watches, $1.75, jewel prices $5. Gents’ American stem wind and set j Watches in dust proof cases, $3.25, jew- elers’ prices $8 to $10, Genlts’ gold filled American watches, hunting case, stem wind and set, $5.95, | _Gents’ solid gold hunting case stem wind watch with Blgin spring or Wal- ;l;um movement, $18.65, jewelers’ prices wind and set 5. Ladies’ solid silver hunting case stem wind and set watches, $4.45, jewelers’ prices 810 to §15. Ladies’ gold filled hunting case stem wind and set watches $0.75, jewelors’ prices 815 to 825, Lndies’ boss filled satin finished hunt- ing case watches, set with jowels, Elgin, Springfield or Waltham movements, 13.50, jewelers prices to §10, Solid goid babLy rings 9. 14-karat solid gold wedding rings 95¢, Solid silver thimbles 13 Nickel alarm clock 55¢. Rogers’ knives or forks $1 Rogers’ A. A. ten £poons 850, All goods warran Why pay fancy p 25 25 per set. d ns reprosented. 28 1o jewelers? Furniture Department. A visit to this department wiil con- vinee you that wecarry u first class line of furniture made by the best manufa turies in the county, and we can com- vete with any house in price, finish and style of goods. Full line of bed room suits irom $10.50 to 845. Extension tables $3.45 up to 816, Sideboards from $15 to §30. Lounges from $5.5) up to $23. all styles, single and double. Elegant line of chairs and bookeases and desks. Easels 50c and 75e, Fine line of pictures. rockers, Trunks and Bags, Spring sale on trunks and bags now in full blast. We can save you money. Trunks from $1 up to $38, Bags from 85¢ up to $8. Baby Carriages 100 styles of the “‘Heywood” carriage, the best made, to choose from, prices from $1.65 up to $25. Groceries. Pail jelly, 40c. Strawberry preservo in eugar syrup, 124c Raspberry preserves, 124c. California pitted plums, 124c. vaporated apples, 10c, ornin ovaporated peaches, 10c. At Lake peaches, S, Pitted cherries. Evaporated raspberrics, 1740, Imported French prunes, 10 Common Turkish prunes, Californin apricots, 124c. Raisins, 2ic, 8c, $ic Soda crackers, 5c. Oyster erackers, 5e. Imported chow-chew, por quart, 15c. Mixed pickles, por quart, 15c, Potted ham per can, be. Potted ox tongue, 5c. Devilled ham, 5¢. Picnic ham, e, Sugar cured ham, 9o Boneless ham, Bologna sausage, 5. Liver sausage, 5¢. Ilead cheese, e, Sapoliv, Ge. 8ic, 10¢, 124, Harness Department. We are showing the largest and most e of singie and double har- and gents’ saddles, bridle: whips, cu ry combs, brushes, straps of all kinds, buggy cushions, collars, sw pads, halters and numerous other arti- cles belonging to the harness line, and our prices tio lowest. It will pay you to examine our stock before buying else- where. The demand is increasing for our harness and saddles, and we are re- ceiving new goods dail Don’t fail to give us a cull and secure some of the gpecial bargains this week. Butter. Country butter, 16 per pound. Nebraska creamery for 19¢ per pound. ‘We received 100 tubs of this butter from oar Dodge crenmery and will sell you finer butter for 19¢ than you would ps 25¢ and 80c for, Don’t miss this sule for Saturday and Monday. Wisconsin full cream cheese 15¢ per pound; brick cheese, 15¢; bost imported Swiss chieese, 15¢; Messinia lemons, 12ic per dozen. Remember we areleaders in first class goods at lowest prices, THE FARMER OF THE FUTURE Secretary Rusk Talks of the Extraordinary Advancement of American Agriculture, FARMING HAS BEEN REDUCED TO ASCIENCE How We Will Feed 200,000,000 People Sixty Years He ements In Stock Breeding—Low Lands to Be Reelaimed —Reclprocity and Agriculture, co—~Impro: WasmNGTON, March 24.~|Special Corre- spondence of Tie Bes,]—I spent an evening this week with Secretury Rusk at his house on Massachusetts avenue. The home of Uncle Jerry is one of tho pleasantest at tho capital. It isjustoft Thomas Circle about four squares away from the White House and next to where General Bob Schenck used to live. Arounda tho corner from itis the home of Scerotary Foster and just across the way Is the white brick in which Senator Al- lison lives. Secretary Rusk’s house is a big brick painted drab and it contaius, I judge, somewhere between fifteen and twenty rooms. It hastwo stories and a mansard and you enter it by a wide front doorthrough & vestibule so large that rustic chairs are soated on either side of 1t. The house 1s well but plainly furnished but there is an air of everyday comfort about it and visitors al- ways feel at home in it. Secvotary Rusk spends most of his evenings at home, He bas a domostic nature allhied to his sociable quali- ties and he talks best around his own fire- side. Heis oneof the best conversational- 13ts in public lite. His head is packed full of good stories and he 1s like Abe Lincoln in that he illustrates his poluts by anecdotes. He is like Lincoln also in that he 1s a man of the people, There is notan ouncs of snob- bery in bis 230 pounds of Amarican flesh and he s as democratic in his mauners today as wheo he began life 1n Ohio us a stago-driver more than forty vears ago, Seore Rusk's Boyhood, Ho 15 not ashamed of his stage driving,and he 18 not one of those snobs who think it 13 a disgrace to have worked for their living. 1 asked him during nis talk about his boyhood, and he told me he was brought up on a farm, and that his father had a half section of land in Morgan county, Ohio, “1was fourteen years old,” said Ganeral Rusk,” when my father died and left mo to mavage the farm. I had been used to horses since I was a baby, and I kaew how to drive long before I became conuected with the stage. Atthat time the chief travel from the cast to the west was by stage, and £ was given a coach which ran from Zunes- ville to Newark. It was a big Coacord coach with four horses, and I sat on the box sud drove & four-in-hand. I afterwards owned about 140 miles of stage lices in Wis- ©onsin,and 1 ran these lines for sowe years.’’ “It was as 8 stage driver that you Mrst met James A. Garfield, was it not” *‘Yes, Garfiold was drivicg & mule on the cansl. Hecame down as far as Newark with bis canal boat and we et s number of times. Iwasa good deal of a boy in those days, and was very fond of wrestling. This 'was the chief amusement of the boys of my time, and Gartield himself had some reputa- tion as & wrestier. Well, wheuever we met we wrestled together, and in this way got to be friends. You don’t force) & man after you bave wrestled with him, and nelther | Gartield nor myselt forgot each other. When | was still driving on the stage, he left the canal to go to school. He entered college at Hiram, and then went east to Wil- iiams, But I did not see him after I left him there on the canal until we met in the army. It was av Chatta- nooga. He was on the staff with General Thomas and I had command of a regiment. During our stay here we met and recalled old trmes. Shortly after this Garfield was home on a furlough and_during this thoy clected hin to congress. I did not sce him again until I camo to congress myself, and wo served there for some years together, 1 knéw him very well from that time on till his death, [ was at the convention that nomi- nated him and had something to do with get- ting him the sixteen Wisconsin votes which started the boom which brought about his nomination.” “How did you come to go to Wisconsin, general " It was, I suppose,” said Secretary Rusk, “largely due to Lhat spirit of Young America which teaches all our boys to strike out for u new country, 1 wanted to get n farm and I wauted to make my fortune, After my stage driving experience I tried railroading for a time aud helped to build a road near my home. As soon as I got to Wisconsin 1 bought a farm and I own the same farm to- day. It contains about 4)0 acres and I can got mora fun out of iv in u week than I can out of my life here at Washington in six months,” I havo secn it stated, goneral, that you learnod the cooper trado when' you werea boy. Could you make o barrel today " “Yes, 1 could,” rephied Uncle Jerry, 1 think I could make avy kind of a barrel or cask you might want, " But 1t is a mustake to think I was apprenticed to a cooper. All of the farmers in our rogion made barrels when I was a boy. It was our winter's work and I gotso that I conld mako six gooa bar- rols any day. I have mado s high as ten in o day and, as wo got from 25 cents to 80 cents 25 & barrel, you 00 tho Work was quite profita- 0.7 Our Farms of the Future, The conversation hera turned to the farmer and his progress and I referred to our great increaso in population and askod Secretary Rusk whether the farmers would always be nlfil:dv.o supply food for our people. Ho re- plied: “Always is a long time, But I think Ican speak for a good many years to come. Wo have hardly begun to tup the grsat_agricul- tural wealtn of tue United States. 1t is true that the day must soon come when all the good public lands will be taken up. The best are gone now, obut after that, modern in- vention will turn te d our vast areas of desert and swamp. The first will be irri- gated and the latter will bo drained. The swamp lands of the south will be reclaimed and diked, We will have a second Holiana along some parts of the Gulf of Mexico and the golden uge of farming will be at hand, As this goos on farms will steadily iucrease in value. 'l‘ue( are now a large part of the aggregate wealth of the country., Twelve years ago our 5,000,000 farms were worth $10,000,000,000 and tioy produce yearly crops worth more than $14,000,000,000. ~ We talk of the poverty of the farmer, but by the census of 1850 the stock on the farms alone was worth over $1,500,000,000 and by statistics which we have over at my department today our live stock is worth nearly twice as much now. We know how to prevent dis- eases of stock, and we have guined also in better breeding and better feeding, Today our best beef is d at two years old. It was not many {:;n sinco that beef wis not thought to bs f unless the animal was at least four years old, and yet the meat of the 2-year-old beeves of today is of the finest a\‘muu' aod l‘l nurpfice; n w”ollm that of 0 average 4-year-old of twenty years Vhere beeves can be turned off aie "the time, & man can raise twice as many off the same land, and the early maturity of our mutton und swine is today as marked as that of our beef. . It Is the same 1o all branches of farming, and 1 balieve that the prosperous era of a farmer is just begioniog. The psople of this world huvo got to be fed, and their food mus come frow she soil. We have 65,000,000 peo- ple here today. c Twenty years from now wo will have 1 000,000, aud in less than two generations 200,000,000 Americans will wake up every morning in this United States and cry to tho farmers for breakfasts. The Crops Will Be Bigger. “The land will produce more in tho future, will it not ¢ ‘*Yes,” replied Secretary Rusk. ‘“Wo could gev 50 per cent more off our lands if we farmed them in the right way, and if we did not _add another acre to the area now under cultivation we could make our agricul- tural production half again as large as 1t is, Take the matter of wheat alone. It wo were to bring our lands by means of fertilization and cul- tivation up to the staudard of the wheat lands iu England or even those of Belgium, we would double our average annual wheat crop without increasing the whoat area of a single acre, It is so with other things, and as the country grows older and our popula- tion increases, we will have better farming. Farming is fast becoming a science in the United States. The farmers are studying more and they kuow more today than ever before, They have better advantages for study, We ave sending out a vast amount of good information from the Agricultural de- partment and wo reach through our reports and the newspapers fully 1,000,000 families every month, The country is full of agricul- tural books and newspapers and our experi- ment stations are doing wonders, My iden is that Uncle Sam should do the experiment- ing for the farmer, Lo should test new grams, should show' how to bring up soils and should prove to him by experiments whother certain kinds of farmiog are profit- able or not. We are doing this thing at our experimont stations and the results are closely watched.” Farming a Profession, Is not farming more of & profession than ever before “Yos, indeed,” replied the secretary, ‘‘and the farmers coasider it so, In the past, when o man failed in any other business, he went %o farming, and the soil was so rich that if you scratctied 1t and sowed seed it gave good returns to the worst treatment. Thav day has passed, the cream has been skimmed off of the top of the soil and it you want to get crops now you have got to learn how to fer- tilizo and cultivaie them. You.have got to know the soil and to put back every year in- (,redunts that will supply what wus lost. ou have v treat it like a man and keep it up to its work by good foods and tomics. It requires brains and study to do this and in fact I know of no place or profession where b 8 Day 80 well in & modest way as in g, Farmers' Boys and City Life, *‘How about our farmers’ boysi Will they continue to 1aaye the farms for the city “I think not,” replied Uncle Jerry. ‘The boys of the country will soon see that they can make more by staying at home than by runuing off Lo town, The farm is a far bet- tor place than the city aud the farm of the future will ba coveted by the people of the cities. As it is, our farmers’ boys, if they will use the sumo study, brains and energy which enable them fo live from hand to mouth, as it were, 1n the city,on & farm, they can mike & succoss of it and can grow up into a 1%e of independent manhood that they can have nowhere else. The farmer of today has most of the advantages of the city, He lives botter than bis oity brother aud with his books and his papers he has the leisuro to live an inteliectual life which his city brother cannot have. Farmers In Politles. ““The new organizations of the farmers,” coutinued Secretary Rusk, *'are an 1indica- tion of the growth of their intellectual life. They are tbinking for themselves and their ideas show that they areawake and that tn ave studying their own interests, I am glad to see it. I think the country is to ba con- gratulated upon the awakening ioterest which they have in poli airs and I be- lieve that they are by thelr numbers and thier peculiar position, especially well-fitted to serve as a balance-wheel in politicul matters. Extremists may be found in their ranks as in the rauks of all other classes, but in our future the capitalist will leara 1o trust the farmer as a man who owns property and can never be a communist: and on the hand, the | laborer will have a econfidence ir him as a working man who will never become a mo- nopolist. I do not apprebend that tho farm- ers will ever bea political party of them- selves in the United States. Their interosts are wrapped up in thoso of the rest of the country aund their success forms the founda- tion of the success of all classes and all in- dustrios. They will continue to support such groat ideas and public questions as come be- fore the country and the difterences of opinion will be as greay among them asamong the members of the other classes. They aro the most conservative element of the United States. They do more honest thinking than the people of the towns. They generate pub- lic sentiment and the majority of them aro seldom wrong.” Our Forelgn Markets, “How about our foreign markets, tary Rusk? continue?’’ *Qur foraign markets are one of my hob- bles,” said General k. “I don’t know that 1 can say anything about them that I have not already” said, I bolicye that the Agricultural dopartment should study the markets of all the countries of the world,and that it should shoty just what each country raises and what it is obhiged to import. Tt should let the farmers know just what prices thoy can get for the things they send abroad, and it stiould keep thom posted as to g Secre- Are they growing and will they 000,000 of coffeo and ‘when wo dropped the duty, Brazl ouletly put on an export duty ana tho result was thatwe just gave §17,060,000 to that country. It is the same with hides, Now in these things we might every year American flour and American meats. Yes, 1 think reciprocity 1s o good thing if it is rightly managed.’” “Whuo are ovr chief competitors in the wheat markets” I asked. f suppose you mean with Europe, India is raising a great deal of wheat and it is slowly increasing its wheat avea, though the indications are it will soon reach its limit. Australia raises a great deal and we have somo cowipetition from New Zealand.' “How about stock farming in the United States, Mr. Secretary ¢ “Our stock improves right along,” replied Secretary Iusk, “‘and there has been a won- derful mdvance in the last ten years, You will now tind the finest of breeding cattle from Maine to California and tho best of im- ported stock is used. Farmers are learning what kind of stock is best for tho dairy and meat markets and thedairy interest is oue of the biggest farm Industries today. There are now botween sixteen and twenty million cows in the United States und wo produca now in the neighborhood of a billion and a balf of pounds of butter & vear, We send away a large amount of cheese and we turn out nearly half a million pounds of this every year. There are great tracts of land in tho how to'ship them, I believe we should study the wants of foreign -countries, ana we are experimenting all the time to increase the variety of our products, not ouly with the view to the foreign markets but to supplying our homo markets with everything that can be raisea on our soil. As to the foreign trade this year, the market for grain 18, you know, exceilent, and our shipments wiil steadily in~ crease. I don't think wo oxport by “any means as much as we should to other coun- tries. We have, until lately, not paid sufi- clent attention to. our foreign trade. Our home demand has been go.large that we have not needed it, and as itis wo waste onough right along to feed one of tho other good sized nations. Look at it. Our 65,000,000 cat mora than any 100,000,000 in avy other part of the globe, and you could, I venture, feod the whole 800,000,000 of India on what our farms produce in “lnfle year. It you could take the producsd of last ‘year and pile them up mountain hi; and gather all the men, women and 0 in the United States around them have a grand divis- lon, 6very man, womapand child would get fifty-three bushels grain, Everyone of them would have 200 nds of meat, ana they coald spread U bread with sixteen ounds of butter apieeg.. Our foreign market " s nothing to our + market, and still it ought to be quiter a3 Jmportant and it can be made to grow. 1 #ensi man to Germany last year to introduee our 0 meal. The Ger- mans were surprised; thfind that it made ex cellent bread, Thay/ere now considering the advisability of it 10 the German srmy 1o conuection: with other flour, and it is being sold the baker &hops of Berlin, They mix threo parts of corn meal with two parts ef#ye and other flour aud five pounds of thmuxed bread can be sold for the same pricy ms three pounds of rye bread, They call it “Murphy Brodt' after the name of the man I sent over to in- troduce it, Aud then as to the matter of pork and our meats, = The Germans know that they are all righg pnd through the iuspec- tions that we have instituted our meat ship- meats to all parts of Burope have increased and the result is that pork is worth at least 8 cent more & pound than it was before the inspection began,” . Reciprocity and Agriculture. **‘How about reeiprocity, geyerali Is it go- 1ng t help the farmeri” - HOf course it will,’' peplied Secretary Rusk. *“The trouble with us in the pasy has been that we haye not Aoy sttention tc eetting all wagouly for what we gave to otner nations, " Wo have been about the only nation in theworld who has not run its busi- Business principles, 1 don’t believe procity that will beuefit th largest part of our poople. . Think what we might have had from Brazl. We gave up to ber the duty on coffes. We lmport about | United States which will always ba devoted to dairy farming and some of the unused Iands of the United States will i the future be uscd for grazing.” The South and Its Worn-out Lands, *‘How about the south, Mr. Rusk? What is its future?” The southern states will eventually con- tain us fine ferms as any part of the country, Thore is a great area of land in the south which is well adapted to farming and which needs only proper cultivation tu make it pro- duce great crops. As fo the worn-out lands, thoy will, T believe, by study and the use of proper fertilizers, bo reclaimed. ''he south ought to diversify its crops and iv ought to produce more of the necossarios of life upon 1ts own lands, This would reduce the cotton area and it would keep at home the money which it now sends to other sections of the country for products which it coula just as well produce itself. The southern states should grow all their own corn and raiso their own hogs. Mauy sections of the south are admirably adapted for mutton-raising and I believe that good horses can be raised inalmost all the southern states, Dawrying and beof-raising would be attended with some difiiculty in some parts of the south, but even in these lines some of the land would do very well.” Tarmers' Villages, “Will our farmers ever live in villages as they do in Europe, General Ruski” 1 uasked, “I think notand 1 don't believe it would be as well for our farming if they did so. The best manure for lands s the foot of the owner and they would not attend to their fields so closely if they were far away from them. I believe that the average sizeof our farms will, however, be less in the future thao thoy are now, but we will never get down to the insignificant patches which are common 1o many of the sections of contiuen- tal Europe. Tehreis no reason for the vil. lage systom witb the social facilities offered by modern invention. The application of elecuricity to locowotion and to all means of communication will briug the farmers nearer together., The day will come when every farmer will have his telephone and when he can discuss matters with nis neighbors with- out going out of his parlor, His advauntages 1u the way of keeping pace with the times and with the other classes will increase from year 1o yi and our farmers of tho future Wwill be a sturdy, intelligont and independent comaury and they will never degenerato 0to @ mere peasantry.” The Ideal Furmer of the Future, *Give me a picture of the ideal farmer of the future, Geveral Rusk,” I asked. *‘What must he do to succead 1" “T'ho only hope of the American farmer will be io bls brains.” repliea General 1tusk, “The crop competition between sections and have gotten a trade to the advantage of | rountries which will be induced by increased facilities for transportation will stir the ag- riculturalist up to his best efforts. His chances of fortune muking will bo great but he will have to be prepared to fight the battle | of competition for them. ciently well educatod in scienco as far as it is adplicable to agriculture, and he must be intelligont enough to to study his surround- ngs and to apply his knowlodge to the con- ditions about him. He will be able to meet his fellow citizens on ar. equal footing, and his brain will command from3his class in tho industry which he represents, the rospect and consideration which be deserves and he will give other classes and other industries due respect in return. Tho farmer of the future will bea business man, ablo not oniy to compel his soil to do its best in the matter of production, but to study the markets and know what will sell thoe best and what will command the higbest price. Tho farmer will kept his accounts liko any other busi- ness mon so that he map know exactly whero bis protits are and where have boen his lossos, These aro strong qualitications, but they are essential to the farmer who would do his business on a broad plan and who would succeed. As to the question of his ed- ucation when you consider that he must have a knowledge of all tho principles of ani- mal and plant life, that he must understand the constituent elements of soils and feru- lizers and that he must have some knowledge of meterology, chemistry and the other sciences closely connected with erop raising, you will ses that the idesl farmer of the fu- ture will have to be not only a brainy, buta well educated man.” FraNk —_— SOLOMON SI CARPENTER. Annie L. Brakanridy: To his mother, falrBath-sheba, $Solomon the Wise * said he: “Adonijab, Hagrith's son, Hath done evil unto me: r as wo wero playing now Just outsido the city wall, Lo, he knocked me down, and did Me a sneuking rascal el *DId you give him blow for blow!" Bath-shieba tho Fair, said sho, “You just bet your lifo I aid; He'll not lord it over mo! ““When be bit me, called me names, 1 stopped not to make reply ; From tne shoulder deep I hit out, Giving bim a black eye!” Very grave was then Bath-sheba, As she sadly shook uer head; “Ouly brutes r:sort to blows, Solowon, my s0a,"” she said. “When again he ptriketh thee, Bo vot hasty, chock thine ire: Thus, on his unruly head Shalt thou heap up coals of fire,” Solomon the Wise but smiled; “Guess 1'd better go and so0 1f he'll give those marblos back That he won {rom nie,” said be, “Maroles! DId vou play for keops!? Criog Bath-sheba, shriek on shriok, Aud she caught her re ut son Ere ho bad & chance to $peak; From her foot her sandal drow, Took him there across her knes, And the way she flogged the lad Was a sight for men to sse, Solomon the Wise was mute, Till be was well out of veach, “Theo ho said: “Ob, mother, why Dou't you practico what you preach 1" s il Try Cook's £xtra Dey Imperial Champagne, There 1s no foreign wine tuat has its bouguet or any that is as pure. e e A minister's opinions 4o not necessarily haye weight because Lo makes his seraous beavy, Ho must be sufti- ' | pring Goods. House Furnishing Goods. Flint tumblors, 1e each, Can opene S w Driv Tea strainers, 1c each, Teaspoons, 2 for 1c. ‘Pooth picks, 1¢ per box. Goblets, 2¢ cach, Mucilage. 2¢ per bottle, Carpet Tacks, 1e per box. Wax Matches, lo per box. Paring knives, 2c ench, Potz pomade, 2¢ per box. Door scrapers, 2 each, Copper bottom Iron fiame wringers, The Western washe Cups and saucers, Dinnor plates, 24 Salts and peppors, 2} Solid stee! axe, sle, Solid stecl hatehet, £3c. 1 o handles, tho latest novelty, 10e, Wash bow! und vitcher, t9ic each. Chamber. e cach. h boards, Y¢ each, All colors of fancy shelve paper, 24 sheets, 5e. A new line of dinner sets just pie including 2 covered Iy in, 100 dishes, Toilet sets, biu variety of decorations and colors, $1.95, Wooden bowls, 8¢ cach. Folding ironing tables, 95c. 6-foot, iron bound, hard wood step- ladders, 7ac. y Scrub brushes, £ Sqguare 2nd round shoulder shovels and spades, 8%, Hand saws, 35c. Heavy hammers, 10c and 15¢ each, Hoir curlers, 5c. ) Inter-locking tumbler jail padlocks, with 2 keys, 5c. ck pullers, 5e. Best sperm machine oil, 5¢ bottle. Rochester jr., night lamps, 75¢, reg=- ular price $1.50, TRIALS OF BAX The Difficulty of Dis ing Between Frauds and ext. Ex-Congressman Henry Clay Iivans of Chattanooga. Tenn., tells of the smooth man- ner in which an expert bank crook at Cin- cinnati raised a draft from $i3 to $1,800 znd bad it cashed at a bank in Porkopolis, and then ropeated the operation for otheramounts till he had a small fortu; in his pockets, after which he slipped away. Mr. Evans is an old banker, a man of large means and business experionce, **You can pretty generally, but not always, tell a fraud stranger who asks to have a pieco of paper cashed by bis munner,” said Mr, Evans. *I donot think there was any- thing 1o either tho manuer or looks of the draft raiser at Cincinnati which would have nut u teller or cisuier on his guard. The names of the officers of the bank upon wtich the drafts” were drawn, his own namo also across the back of the drafts, and the cool manner 10 which’ he &tood and counted tho money over after it was handed out to bim, all tended to confirm the good judgment of tho officer who had cashod the paper. I had an oxperience at New Orleaus many years ago, involving my own identification, whicn I shall never forget. I had been in Santiago. on a trip to closo out an account with one of the largest commission merchants. As I was about to go aboard the ship upon iy res turn the merchant said he would give me his check on Now Orleans for the balance duo. It was §500. He wrote out the check very hurriedly, banded itto me, extended his band for a good bye, and bade me hurry avoard. T pushed the check into my pocket and ald not look at it ull & day or two afterwards, when, having nothing better to do on the guish " ship, | began to look over the accounts which I had just settled in Bantiago, When I took out that cheek 1 suw that it was o blank check, addressed to no one, put properly filled out as to date and awmount. It simply said ‘Pay ta Honry Clay Evans §00, 1 was ‘up a stump, as we say when puzzled as to what to do, 1t would take a long time to send the check back to be properly ad- dressed. I mentioned the mistake to the purser of the ship, who said he know the werchaut very well, ‘Heis as good as old wheust,’ said the purser, ‘anlif yon cap be properly identified at New Orieuns I have no doubt one of his bankers will cash the check, Ho has accounts at two of the banks at New Orleans, naming them, “I knew nuono in New Orleans at that time,” contiuued Mr. Kvans, “but I thought 1 would eall upou one of tho bankers where my friend did business and get his advice as Lo what I shoilld do in the premises. When 1 approached the cashier he simply smiled at my prodicament and referred me to the )1rus\dunl011hb bank, in his private room. The old geatioman recelved mo cordially. He was unperturbed whea I told him my busl- ness —that of buving cashed & check upon & man far away, whom he probably did not kuoow, and acheck not addressed to that bauk., The president took the check, read it hastily, and at once dropped into & conversa- tion avout the drawer of the paper, his business and Santlago. 1 talked freely, and the conversation 102k a wide range, Not & siugle reference was made to the check or my busiuess. We talked mostly about banking and geveral al*s, Fioally the old banker saw that | was growing vervou ard Lo my surbrise he touched a bell wh summoned the casbier. Whon that oficer appeared the president simply threw him 1wy check and told him to give mo the cash forit. I was amazed. Only my name -FA peared 01 the buck of the cheok, and 1 could not see bow the bank could take the risk, While I was thanking the president for hav- ing saved me wuch delay and troublo he simply said, ‘It is & common mistake for that man to make,' " P W, Sprague Smitn, Pepvidence, R. I, writes: ©I tind Bradycrotine slways cures beadache,”