Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 24, 1892, Page 15

THE FRUITAGEOF TOIL FROM POVERTY TO COMPARATIVE WEALTH A Favored Region Amply Rewards the Thrifty and Industrious, BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF THE BLESSED A Remarkablo Percentage of Well-to-do Tillers of the Soil. EARLY STRUGGLES AND LATER REWARDS Instructive Facts Gleaned From the Expe- rlence of N praska Farmers —Historical and Statistic y Wasl Review of a Poorles Co d by the Elkhorn. Madison county lies inland the fourth county from the river on tho eastand the third from the north line of the state. It is bounded on the east by Stanton county, on the north by Piorco, yest by Antelope and Boone, and south by Platte. Thoe Elkhorn river runs through the county from woest to onst, near tho northorn boundary, forming a valley which for fertility of soil, cannot be excelled. The higher prairio lands are of deep rich soil, weil adapted to a variety of crops and just rolling enough to mako farm ing easy and drainage perfect. Thore is,per- baps, no other county iu the state with so large a percentageof theeutire population of thrifiy, well-to-do and even wealthy farmers. The county is largely sottled with Germans whoso native thrift, industry and habits of economy are proveroial. Madison county was organized January 21, - | ? TN 1868, In that year the population was only 140: two years later, in 1570, it had increased t01,133, and 1n 1875, to 8,171, In 1880 it reached 5,557, and in ' 1890, 13,669, a_gain in ten yoars of 8,052, In area Madison county has 576 square miles, or ) acl of which, exclusiveof town lots, 177,721 acresare unproved, and 149,938 unimproved. The as- sessod valuation in 1501 wus$!,857,950 against 1,252,932 in 1550, The estimalod actual valuation fur 1891 was $13,211,000. The bank doposits per capita in 1891 was $50.85,and the total bank deposits §694,505. Adcording to the assessors’ returns there was raised in the county in 1801, acres of wheat, 11,801; barley, 982; flax, 3,02, and meadow, L By the same means w there weroin the county Biogs, 8,840 norses, 563 mule: D (Giood unimproved farm lands can be bought for from $12.50 to $20 per acro. Improved farms, such as are for sale, aro offered at $15 10 §25' per acre, according to improvements / and location. The best improved farms, ‘which constitutes the majority of the culti- ‘s vated lands of Madison county, cannot be bought at any prico. Poor, saudy lands, of which thore are but a small per cent can be bought for 8 to $12 per acre, and they aro find that in 1801 2 cattle, 26,036 not unproductive by any meuns. Thore is only a small belt of sand in the county and there are plenty of i prospoerous farmers making fortunes on these ’ same lands. Madison county is coming to the front in other lines as well as that of a farming community. She bhas within her borders seven important towns with an ag- gregato population of over 7,000. Norfolk in the northeastern portion of the coanty stands at the head with a popuiation of 4,500, Madi- won, the county seat, in tue southeastern portion, with 1,200, Battle Creek in the northern part near the center, east and west with 500, Burnett, on the west line, 500, Meadow Grove in'the northeast, with 200, Nowman’s Grove in the southwest corner, 500, and Warnerville, a fow miles south of Norfolk, with 3,000. There are in the coun- ty five flouring mills, six elevators with a storing capacity of 100,000 bushels. There aro sixty-seven miles 'of railroad in that county. Norfolk has the largest beet sugar factory in this county. The ssylum for the insane is also located there and the city has electric lignts, street railways and water works, The north Nebraska normal school is located at_Miadison, which 1s also the county seat. Norfolk is also laying the foun- dation for a £50,000 botel, the citizens aiding the enterpriso with a bonus of $10,000. Tho Fremont, Klkhorn & Missouri Valley and Union Pacific roads brings the population within easy distanco of Omaha and gives an outlet to the products of the farm and fac- oy, As for the cuances for homes and the success of those who are ulready tilling Madison county soil let the farmers speak for themselves. A Thrifty German, August Bittner isa ropresontative Ger- man farmer who has made himself rich by farming 1 Madison county. He landed 1n New York direct from Germany with one lonesowe ponny in bis pockot. ile worked six months to get money enough to continue i his journey west, bringing up in Madison county, fivo miles southwest of Madison, whero ho selocted a homestead on which ho now lives. Ho thon went to Columbus und worked & month toget the necessary $15 homostead fee. In spito of his poverty, grasshoppers and all the other drawbacks of those ourly day he prospered, and now owns 500 acres of lang, well improved, all fenced into fielas, and well stooked ond quarter section in 1877, for §300 cash and another eighty in 1884 for $350 cash and two yoars ago still another 160 for 2,000 cash. It required a good many years of toil and hard- ship to reach the point where auything more than a mere living could be made, but it came at | Mr, Bittner has a model rural Y home. His house cost 3,000 and one barn \ Bix04 foer $1,000, besides other houses and { buildings bringing the aggrogate amount spent in buildings up to #5,000. Ho has a large orcbard and all kinds of small fruit, He is o stockholder 1 oue of the Madison 8 banks and has plenty of monoy at interest. He raisos gramn and buys more and feeds \ stock, Kvery dollar he has hus been made on o farm: He maintains that a poor man can come here uow and make o start much easier than when he came, Besides thav the Q future of the country is now assured while Fr=e At that time no one kuew whether Nebraska would ever be a place fiv for white men or vot. He bought his sec- Martin Bittuer, In October, 1868, Martin Bittoer, a brother of August and Gottleib, whose names appear elsowhere, secured & homestead five miles west of Madison. After locating his claim ke went back to Columbus and worked three Jears 0 gat monoy encugh to pay bls fees and open up bis new place. He broke his land with oxon and rused crops of grain which he was forced to divide with the pesky grasshoppers for seven successive years. It1took him about twolve yesrs to begin to make monev, but ho stayed with it and now has a beautiful farm of 700 acres, highly improved. fn 1852 he bought a balf soction at §1 per acre, and Lwo years ago bought 220 acres moro at §15 an acre. His land is all fenced into fieids and 500 of it is under cultivation. The buildings are among tho best in the country, surrounded by ex- tensive groves, orcharas and other conven- iences equal 10 eastorn homes. Feeds about 100 head of cattle a yoar, using all the corn he can raise and buying more, Has 220 head of cattlo on the place now snd is feeding 100, Mr. Bittner hus made this bandscme little fortune by farming only, aud the farm does no: tell it all—he has pienty of money loaned out. - Bought a Claim, Joseph Woheukol is one of the smaller farmers of the county who came in a later day. In 1850 ho phid 150, all he had, for a bomestead owned by auother man, He then went to work choring around and husking coru in the winter to get sometbing Lo live on, Ho broko his laud aud then rented ground from his neighbors on which to raise some- thing to eat pending the rotting of his sod. ‘I'ho next year he had s good crop on his own land and began to live cowfortably. Five years ago bo reached out for another eighty #t 310 an acre. Elis threo forty's are well fmproved withifine buildings, orchard, fences and groves. o has put lots of woaey in 1m provements and owes every oent of it to his < THE OMAHA DAILY BE e L 9. SUNDAY, APRIL 24, [ taem. Although he was not among the first 0 settle in Madison county, and yet got _his land oheap, he thinks there botter show for & poor than hers now than when he came. George Bryant, (George Bryant is the owner of one of the nicest littlo farms 1n Madison eounty. He took a homestead six milos southwest of Madison in 1370, and worried through the grasshoppor years along with his neighbors. Ho has since added 160 acres to it, making a Lialf section. 1Tt is all under caltivation and woll improved in every way. Mr. Bryant hias & splendid_house and amplo barn and shed room. At first he sold some corn, but of late years feeds it all and buys more. Last YOAT's cOrn Crop was rather poor, averaging thirty-five to forty bushols per acre on his farm. Raises some wheat every year. He has met with somo l0sses, espectally hogs, of which he lost 3,000 worth at least. As an example of the hard times the early settiers encountorad and _the small amount of money they were permitted to hanale, Mr. Bryant states that at one timo for sixteen months at asteotch ho never handled ono cent. He bought his flour with butter and eggs and al- most went, naked. He lives in better style now, and dug his prosperity all out of the soll. ¥. W. Barnes, . W. Barnes is known among his nelgh- bors as the original propriotor of the site of tho city of Madison. He pro-empted the quartor section the center of which s now about the center of the oity, in the spring of 1867, never dreaming that some day a county 5 town would spring up on his pateb of wild land. But iv did, and Mr Barnes is now petter fixed than he was then, In fact, he had nothing but his ulaim thos days, noL even neighbors, He bouzut lum- ber 1 Omaha at §150 a thousand to build a shanty, and went to Columbus, forty-eight miles, for his mail. Mr. Barnes staved in Columbus a year before coming to Madison county, and then drove cattle through for other parties, He oroke his land with oxen and raised crops under the well known difii- culties of that period. But ho saved a littlo money and bought more land in later years, verhaps over a thousand acres in all, selling off some and buying more, but he always stuck to his first love. Ho now owns only 200 acres of land and pays no attention to farming, having established the IMirst Na- tional bank several years ago. The city of Madison has made Mr. Barnes woalthy, but it ail grow out of that pre-omption claim on which he braved pioneer lifo and oxpected to farm it while he lived. From that little ven- turo he has disposed of 50,000 worth of lots aund has some left. When Mr. Barnes began life in Madison county there was not a road or o bridge across & stream; the postofice was forty-eight miles away, the nearest gen- oral supply placo was Omahs, 120 miles, and the nearest grist mill on Logan creek, sev- enty-five miles distant. But the most dis- couraging thing was tho grasshopper, which troubled more or less overy vear and finally rounded up with a grand™ threo years' ban- quet, during which time, in 18 took everything. Gottlelh Bittner. Gottletb Bittner, who is now one of the largest farmers in’ Madison county, lives on Union creek, a few miles west of Madison. Ho settled there in 1860, in company with some brothers, brothers-in-law and his aged mother, all taking homesteads. He had s swall amount of means to start with, which was a big thing in thoso days, and has im- proved his opportuuities so well that he now owns a large number of farms bought from his neighbors who were less thrifty and could give his cneclk for $20,000. Ho is strictly a farmer, raises corn, hogs and cat- tlo and hauls the manu:e on to his fields. Sawed Wood, C. I, Haase resides on his splondid little farm of 320 acres, two and a half miles from Norfolk near the sugar factory. His history is sinular to that of many of the representa- tive farmers of Madison county Ho first took a homestead and settled on it, but had absolutely nothing to live on, and in early years, 157 used to walk to Norfolk with Ins saw aad buck on his back, no matter how sovero the weathor, and saw wood for some of tho six or eight _families who lived there. The 25 or 50 conts ho could make in that way was absolutely nocessary to keep his family from starving. He isnow worth at least 812,000, and has mado it all strictly on the farm. 'He has never spoculated, bought and rold, or anything of the kind, and might have been worth moro money 1f he could have kopt stock earlier in his farming history. W. H. Lowe. W. H. Lowe is one of the best known men in Mudison county, being identified with tho early sottlement of the county. He home- steaded land in Cuming_county 1n 1869, sotd his claim and camo to Norfolk i April, I Like many others he olaims ho allowed good opportunitios to go by and for that raason he has not prospered as he might have done. In the grasshopper yoars, 1874-5-6, he could nave bought quarter sections of choice lands almost anywhore from $150 to §200 which aro now worth $5,000. Can call to mind fifty men who were forced to remain on their clnims, because nobody would buy them, and are now compaaatively wealthy men, made sofrom the product of the” soil. In the twenty-thres years ho has beon herc has never known of u drought suflicient to af- fect crops to any extent. The grasshopper days wero the times .that tried men’s souls and stomachs too, but that is all past. Mr. Lows spoaks encouragingly of the beot sugar industry and says it cannot fail to become an important source of income to the farmer. True there are some discouraging features connected with the management of the business under present conditions, but a fow years will sufiica to place the manufactories 7o the hands of the people and in the mean- timo farmers will leurn all about raising ana marketing the plants. So far it is all ex- periment, but even tho first year with us was not altogether unsatisfactory. Mr. Lowe claims that beets assaying 14 to 16 per cent of saccharine against 9 to 11 per cent in the old countries, raised on land worth $25 or $30 per acre aganst §600 land in Germany, and yield about the sume number of tons por acre without fortilizing is bound to bo a pay- iug business, An Elghty-Acre Fu Thirteon years ago J. . Horr bought eighty acres of land near Norfolk for §600 and fa it in the usual manuer, raising corn, hogs and catile and never dreamod that is httlo farm wouid ever e of value for anything but farm land. Norfolk did not begin to grow for several yoar. ufier that, buv now it is crowding Mr. Horr off his land. He platted oue forty and sold it in acre lots at §150 a lot, and has been offered §200 an_acre for tho other forty. Muv. Horr is & well known slipper of live stock and for years paid $30 a car to Chicago. He can ow get a car to Omaha for §25. He tells of ouo of his neighbors wuo went 1o mill and had to wait three weeks for his grist, s0 he took Lis ox team and went to plowing near the mill and came home with more monoy in his* pooket tuan he had ever had before. In those days men were always willing to work, but they could not always gt the chuuco o work for woney. Started at the Bottom, (ieorge Williams is one of the successful Madison county farmers, who started at the bottom and came out on top. Twenty years ago he pre-empted 160 acres and later hoine- steaded suother quarter section. 1n his ef- forts to get @ footkold he underwent the usual privations common to Nebraska pion- cers. He had no monoy to work with but mauaged to exist until he raised something toliveon. Went to Sioux City to mill, eighty-five miles, and got bis family sup: plies us best he could, ~ When the grasshop- per years came on, instead of selling out for what he could get'as many did, he bought land as low as ¥ an acre and has since paid as high as $100 per acre. He now owns 800 acres all in Madison county, worth on an averago $30 10 £33 per acre, In_ apswer to questions Mr. Witliams saia: *No one but those who expemenced it can have an ade- quate idea of the dificulties undor which we pioneers wade our start. There were no roads and no bridges across the streaws and it sometimes took & month to go to town or to will and return. A man without a dollar cau como right bere now and go 1o work as we did then sud wake o start quicker and easier than we did. Most of these wealthy German farmers all around us worked hara aud nearly starved for & dozen long years be- foro thoy reached thu point where fortune vegan to smile on them. True, they had the land but what man and family would be williug now w0 barely = exist. uuder iucouveniences and exposures for twelve to fourteen years for 160 acres of laud even at prosent prices, whiloat the time we meution land was worth & mere nominal sum and we had no as- surance that it would ever we worth much more. Yes, sir, homes are easier and quick- er made pow under present conditions thau then, Struck It Rich. Ferdinand Pasewalk is one of the wealth- iest mea io Madison county snd he wade it all by takineg land under the pre-emption ana homestead acts. He came to Hamiliton county in 1867 in company with four other families from Wisonnsin and established his home on & pre-emption olaim near whore Norfolk now stands, He also homesteaded a quarter section, giving up for it B 5 team, a wagon to fit it and $200 in hard oash, for Mr. Pasewalk, unlike most of the early set- tlers, haa some money —$1,500 when he came nere. He also had threo teams of horses which he used in breaking his iands. When he first eame Norfolk consisted of one little general merohandiso store, kept by John Olney, who for two years hauled his goods from Omaho, wmilos away. Lator on, the Fremont, Elkbhorn and Missourl valley road was extended to Wisner, only twenty-sight miles distant. That was very convenient. Omaha was the nearest point where lum ber o general aupplies could bo bought and Lozan ‘reok, seventy-five miles away, was the nearest grist mill. The first_time Mr. Pase- walk went to mill he bought his wheat at West Point and drove to Logan creek to have it ground. Of courso ho asked the miller when he could have it ground, for that was an important question at that time. He was told that it would be about four woeoks if he waited for his regular turn, but thatif ne would pay 50 conts & bushel besides the toll, he could have it next morning. Mer, P. had the money and paid it, “For,” said he, “‘my noighbors wore out, of flour and I wanted to got back and loan them some. [ did not sell it. Men who haa money had to wait. I got along the best I could, raising corn, hogs and cattle untl conveniences finally camo. Then Norfolk began to grow, a thing we did not at first, nor for many years expect, until it 1s now quite a city, embracing within its corpo- rate lines some of my farm lands, 1 150 platted iots and forty acres not_platted with in tho city limits, I own 100 acres in Stanton county and 110 whore I live. Last year I paid 835 taxes and have $20,000 loaned out. Of course the growth of the city of Notfolk has made me most of my money, but 1 took my chances with others ‘on tho farm and would ba woll off now if Norfolk had never existed, as | mado money farming even when Omaha was tha nearest market.'” Mr, Pasewalk is estimatod to bs worth from §150,000 to §200 000, Lost it In Businoss, C. H. Snider, who lives at Tilden, was a homesteader, but afterward pre-smpted his land, borrowing the commutation feo from W. 11, Lowe of Norfolk, He prospored, ana four or five years ago sold his land for $1,500 cash and went into the mercantile business and lost his money. Made it all Farming. William Dommer lives near Mr. Haas and his history as a farmor is similar, Ho was obliged to choro around” for & liftle wionoy with which to buy bread for his family. But he stuck t0 it until ho conld raise something t0 eat, and continued to farm, and nothing else, until now ho owns 320 acrés of first class land, woll improved, aud is worth easy $15,000. James L, Grant, James . Grant ownsiono of the finest farms in Madison county, nineteen miles northwost of Madison. In November, 187, he securod a homostoad and timbor claim, and still owns both, with another half soc- tion aaded, making a_soction in all. Mr. Grant says: I have the entire section im- proved, 400 acres under plow and the balance pasture. The homostead quarter has two sots of by and walout trees. tho timber cloim is_considered the finest grove in northorn Nebraska, and I have wyator works on that quarler that cost me 000, We had protty tough times for tho first few years, but have come out all right. 1 Was oaten out by grasshoppers two soasons, but in the twenty years I have been here I havo made £20,00) worth of property, or an average of $1,000 a year. Corn with us averages about 45 bushels and oats 40, though plenty of it goes 60 or 70 bushels per acre, I think thata man can begin at tho bottom here now a great deai easier than when 1 came, becauso ho can always eot somothing to do and got_money for doing it. 1 have never complained, never been @ cal- amity howlor, ana I believe the people of this section of tho country have made more money thai any eastern wen in Uo same lenxth of et acres ad No Toam, N. L. Bryautis one of the oldest sottlers of Madison county, taking a homestead thrae and a half miles east of Madison, in 1869, In relating his experience he said: *‘I had no team, nothing but my two hands and a small kit of carpentor tocls. 1 worked at carpen- tering to got money to buy an ox team to break my land with, "I bult a house 12x12, and paid #5 a day for a team to haul the lum- ber from Columous, where I paid an enor- mous price forit. I paid & an acre for the first five acres of breaking, so as to havea patch on which to raise something to eat. o got our supplies, grooories and provis- ions from Columbus, and I paid 30 cents & pound for bacon. I worked along for thir- teen years beforo I bezan to mawe anything ahead. and then bought anothsr quarter sec- tion joining me. I still own it all and bave it well improved; good house, big barn, groves and 100 apple trees. 1 have besides o nice home in Madison and now rent my land for grain_rent. Year before last my share brought 8500 and I still have last year's crop on hand.” Renas Like Romance. In the fall of 1865 Herman Braasch and Fred Waggoner came to Madison county from Wisconsin, to look up a location for themselves and a number of their neighbors who desired to make homes in a new country wheore lands were cheap. They chose n loca- tion near where Norfolk now stands, and went back and made their rep "The next spring thirty-two families, with Herman Braasch at their head, arvived at the prom- ised land and prepared to take possession. At that time there was 10 other white per- 5005 in that part of tho country and Omana was the base of supplies. Madison county, which had been held back as an Indian reser- vation, had not been surveyed. Accordingly Mr. Braasch got Bill Sharp, a Cuming county settler, who was & surveyor, Lo come ov and survoy the portion upon which tho col ony desircd 10 squat. Surveyor Sharp had neither compass nor chain, but some of the boys in the immigrant company had pocket compnsses, ond the lines from the only “norso team"” in the outfit were mado to do service for a chain, A school section cor- ner on the line of Cuming county was taken for a starting point aud a survey made which answered for the establishment of squatters’ lines, and, iudeed, proved afterward to bo an approximately correct survey, In the fall of the same year Lhe governmeut surveyors camo, and each head of o family entored 160 acres under the homestead law, To avoild dispute as to cholce of farms, thicty-two numbered tickets were made corresponding with the numbers of the land & drawing had which satisfied all par- ties. “The entire company of homesteaders were workingmen who had saved enough to buy a yoke of cattle and some kind of a wagon, Mr. Braasch, who was the acknowl- edged leader and the moneyed man of the com- pany, bad a horse Leam and six cows, and but livtle else. Hehad no money. At tusi time common board lumber was worth $75 and flooring $100 per thousand in Omata, So lumber was out of the question. Kach fam- ily built a log bouse with clay floors and thatcbed roofs. The upper floors were also clay, 1aid on spht willows,and the “‘daubing"’ between the logs was protected from tho ele- ments with prairie bay uailed on tho logs in successive layers, shingle fashion. The men built their houses, made their hay, and then struck out for Omaha and worked through the winter on the Union Pacitic at $2 per day. Mr. Braasch says they never couid have got throughb if it had not been for this chance to work, as their mouey was all gone. He smiled when asked if & man could make a start here now at present pricos of land as easily us when 1and could be had for nothing. “Why," said he, “a yoke of cattle at that time was worth $150, and even #200, and was hard to get. We had to go fifty-six miles to mill, and sometimes had to wamt a week for our grist.. There were no bridges and it was sunply an awful trip to mill or to Omaha for supplies. Now, if a man has no teaw, he can work for good wages and buy one, and he can #0 in debt for bis land and pay for it, and all the ume can have every convenienoe aod comfort at his door. I mever feed much stock but raised and sold grain which I hauled to Sioux City, Omsha aud Fremont. Stock could not be had for a loog time after | came here. With the exception of grasshopper years we have always had good crops. The men who came bere with me all live around Norfolk and all bave done well-—sowme of them are rich. 1 have eleven children and they are all dowg weil. I bad a half section here, but had uot enough for all the children so0 Isold fifty-five aores at $150 per acre and 120 for §200 au acro and I have thirty acres bere whero 1 Live. Mr. Braasch has a pleasant home just out- side the corporation of Norfolk, where he first sottlied. He Is now past the age for act- £ ive farm work but is & fair type of the thrifty, trugal Germam=tarmars with which Madison county is lnfiely populated. Sattler Wros, Sattlor Bros. are Athong the largest land owners of Madlson cowity, and have made & success of farmingy»‘Mr. Sattlor says: ““We came 10 this coutity twelve years ago from Maryland withowk moans: saved a lit- tle money by working tard, and borrowed some from friends in %6 east. Our first ven- ture was the purchas@ 6f a timbor claim —160 acros—for $35 for the tract, and sold it within a year for $30% The same quarter soction sold recently fgr #2,500. We bought land along as we could, at prices varying from §300 & quarter to#9,200 & quarter sec- tion. I claim that if every good quarter sec- tion of land in this county was rented and at grain rent at the usual rate—one-third the orop—with the present price of grain, say 23 conts for corn, the samo for oats and 70 centy for wheat,it would pay a fair raic of intorest on a valuation of £0 per acre. Of course [ mean if it was reated to good working ten- ants. As an example, our S)-acre farm last yoar yioldea at the rate of £,20 por acro at grain rent, and anothor of eighty-five acres yielded $1.25 an acre on the same terms." “'ho Sattlor Bros. have met with one dis- couraging feature in thelr farming expori ence, which is thuy invested noavily in fine stock, especially horsas, and lost money in the oporation owing o tho fact that fine stock is pot at the present time appreciated as it should be in this part of tho state. William Zutz, William Zutz came direct from Germany to ‘Wisconsin in 1860, and one year later moved to Madison county, whero he has lived ever since. Ho landed here with money enough to buy an ox team and a cow, and homo steaded 160 acres two miles north of whero Norfolk now stauds. In 1579 ho bought an- other quarter section for §1,100, The place is well 1mproved and well ‘stocked, and is farmed by his son, Paul Zutz, Mr. Zutz has usually fod the cattio of his own ralsing, but usually sells grain, His son, . W. Zutz, was seen at the Norfolk National bank, in which institution the old gentloman is a shareliolder, and stated that his father would not sell his farm for less thau $0 an acre. There are no improved farms within a rea- sonable distance of town that can be bought for less than §30 por acre, and from that to $100. Of courso we all worked hard, but aro satisfied with our success. Wo have had sev oral grasshopper years which cleancu us out protty well, but aside from that we have nevor had a failure. Weo raise as high as sevonty-five busheis of cora per acre ana an averago of, say fifty-five, bushels. Thoro is no doubt but that industry and frugality will win success for any man on a Madison county farm. As for the beet suzar business, I am not so sure. There aro some featuros of 1t that does not commend it to farmers at present, but in time I think it will prove to be a good thing. So fur it is all exporiment and has not been entirely satisfactory. e Spectacles, Dr. Culiimore, Beo building. It 1s said that the Actors’ Fund fair in New York will in many respects excced anything of tho kind ever_given in Gotham, It will begin May 2. far amount to other than mone The cash contributions thus 45,000, Many valuable gifts 50 been received. Tho largest single subscription was Edwin Booth’. 0. Mrs. Kondal has ven $1,100. ecaipts of Danicl Doughorty’s lecture were §1,400. The Consolidated Gas company gave £1,000. IFourtosn subscriptions of $00 ench, eight of 30 each, and ve many of smaller sums_ranging from §00 down wero roceived. by mail. nfroe, JOKN H. WOODBURY, Dprmatological Institute, plew. otc., romoved. Conwul 125 West 42ad Strect, N: rk Ea Is it Madame Rupper$s blaach? No! but baby's mama‘s cheel Volumes to its praise doth speale! Cail for Mug, Ruppert's heok, U3Tow,L9 by Benutt £al” of Mrs. J. Benson. 216 S, 1; Neb, A Wissine Hao | In that great and exciting game which is ever being played between Health and Life on one side, and Disease and Death on the other, Abil- ity Is the Joker, Experience the Right Bower, and Skill the Left. And these are all held by America's unrivaled Specialists " DRS. BETTS & BETTS Whose maryelons success in eflecting speedy and permanent cures 1n all diseases of 4 private or delicate nature is the wouder of the age. Syphllis, Gonorrhoea, © spermatorrhcea, Stricture, Hydrocele, Varicocale, Plles, Lost Manhood, Seminal Woakness, Female Weakne: Sexual Diseases, Kldney Troubles, Bladder and Urinary Difficulties Al scientifeally, nently eured. safely, speedily and perma- Send Four Cents for 120 page Book, hand- somely illustrated. onsultation Free. ~Call upon, or address with stamp. [ L) DRS. BETTS& BETTS 119 South 14th St., N. E. Corner 14th and Douglas Sta. Omaha, Neb. Wo aend_tho marvoloms French Remedy CALTHOS free, and & Jegal guarantoo that CALT1(os will Use itand pay i/ satisfied. Atdress, VON MOHL CO.. A FINE SPECTACLES «a Fyg Blasses. for the corroction of all defects of viston MARHOFEI’S Removad o 1514 DOUGLAS St TRADE MARK. If you want the whiskey which wili noy scald the throat, burn the stomach® cause headache and nausea, but is smooth and pleasant to the taste, of exquisite bouquet and guaranteed to be positively pure, rich and wholesome, call for noi PURE RYE. and take no other. You may know it by the above qualities and the proprietary bot tle in which it is served. For sale at all first-class drinking plafis and drug stores 12 DALLEMAND & CO., Chicago S NERVE ASD BRAIN TREAL o for 1lyateriy, Dizzinoss, Fity, Nia. ralgis, Hoadsols, Nervous #rostration caused by al CoRol or Lobaovo, \Waketulagsks Mental Dopretsioa Boftening of the Brain, cadalng insaity, misers, aoeay, doa, Prouatirs Old g Lo i oF 1n olLhior aux, 1mpotancy, Leucorrhoss an i lnsoluninry 1o3aes, S0 ausyl by 0vor-axertion of tha brain bus, 0vor-1n401§80020; A month's 81,6 for 8, by wall We G 05 wel Guaranto o le agonts 5. b. cure. Kach ordar for 3 boxaswith i) will sani fund 1CA0Y curat. ten guarantes to od only by A. or. 1th and Farus Hewaro of lmitatio 1 813 mata, a1 consisting of also in 1 i & Positive Cura for Extoroal, lotor Blind or' Bleeding lwbing, Chronlo, Kecent Hereditary riles. This Kemedy has' never b kuown to fuil. #1 per Lox.6 for £ seat by mall, Why suffor from tils toreiblo disoass whoa 3 wrlt- 160 guaranteo 1s OsiUvely glven with 0 )xs) or refund the monvy If nok caral Benl stamp for froo Sample, Guarautos lssasi by Kuba & Co. Drugglats, Sole Ageats cornsr 16th mul Duugls: streels, Owaha. Neo. CONSUMPTION. & positive remedy for the above discase; by its use thoussnds of cases of the worst kind and of long standing have been eured, Indeed #o strong is my faith in its etficacy, that T will $and TWO BOTTLES FAEE, with # VALUABLE TREATISK on this disease o auy sufe fror whio will send me thewr Express aud P. O, address, T, A. Slocwm, M. C., 183 Pearl St., N. ¥, Solid Cold Spectacles From §.00 upward Fine Steel Spectacles From $1.00 upward 2rotectand improve your ey Your eyos testad tree by a practical Optician. MAX MEYER & BRO. CO FARNAM nnd 16th, Established 1 DR. J. E. McGREW, THE SPECIALIST IN THE TREATMENT OF ALL FORMS OFf PRIVATE DISEASES GONOR- RHOEA, STRICTURE, SYPHILIS, GLEET AND ALL WEAKNESS AND DISORDERS OF YOUTH AND MAN- HOOD., IMMEDIATE RELIEF WITH- OUT LOSS OF TIME FROM BUSINESS. Write for ¢ reulars. N. E Core Hith an | Farnam $ts., Omaha,Nob YOUR GRASS READY? If not, it soon will be and we would be glad to have you meet it half way, with one of our 188 LAWN MOWERS. GARDEN HOSE, WIRE NETTING,for poultry yards TRELLIS a8 Morton & SonCo 1511 Dodge St. {1GOR OF MEN Easily, Quickly, Permanently Restored. ‘Wenkness, Nervousness, Debility. and all the Lrain of eila {rom early erroraorlater e: the resulta of overwork, eickness, surenguh, developuent, and oue given o every organ and portion ol 'tho body. Bimple, methods. lmmediate Improvement swen, fmpossible” 2000 references, Book, explanations #ad proofs malled (seaied) froe, “Address ERIE MEDIOAL CO., BUFFALO, N.¥Y Fallure C. WEST'S NERVE AND BRAINTRE > pecitio for Hystorla, Dizziness, Fit ralgia, Headucho, Nervous Prostraton ‘caused by obacco, Wakofulness, Meatal Depres- s 0f the Brain, causing insanity, misery, th, Promature 011 Agg, Barrouess, Loy of Power In cithor sex, Twpotency, Leucorriion and Do caused by Ovor-xert Belf-abuse overindulgonce. A 16 for & Uy mall. Woguara ‘ach order for § Lo xes, wWith Kuarantee Lo refund If not cured by Goodwmaa Drug Co., 1110 ¥eras W treatment 00 81x LOX03 L0 CUro. will send writtea uaranloo lssued 5t maha MMENSELY, BLACKWELL'S Bull Durham SMOK'NG TOBACCO, Whether on the hills gaming ; in the place of busines it always fills that niche of com- a good smoke. handy package everywhere as a Pure af Tobacco of the higghest quati- it recommends itself to every Sold everywhere. L DURHAM Pure, sweet and clean, pl] LAR? EVERYWHERE. smoker's use. L ‘v.. Is always uniform in quality. THE IDEAL OF FINE TOBACCO. BLACKWELL'S DURHAM TOBACCO CoO., DURHAM, N. C. S ———— 29999999999 09999990939009009VVVVVVNW E RIPANS TABULES rcgulate the stomach, liver and re pleasant to take, safe and A reliable remedy for Biliousness, Blotches on the Face, Bright's Disease, Catarrh, Colic, Constipation, Chronic Diarrheea, Chronic Liver Trouble, Diabetes, Disordered Stomach, Dizziness, Dysentery, Dyspepsia, Eczema, Flatulence, Female Complaints, Foul Breath, Headache, Heartburn, Hives, Jaundice, Kidney Complaints, Livér Troubles, Lo: Mental Depre S Painful Digestion, Pim- the Head, Sallow Com- Scald Head, Scrofula, Diseases, Sour Stome Torpid Liver, Ulcers, other symptom or di purify the blood, a always effectual. of Appetite, , Nettle Rash, ples, Rush of Blood to plexion, Salt Rhcum, Sick Headache, Skin ach, Tired Feeling, ‘Water Bras ease that results from impure blood or a failure in the proper performance of their functions by the stomach, liver and intestines. to over-eating are benefited by taking one tabule after each A continued use of the Ripans Tabul cure for obstinate constipation. They contain nothing that can be injurious to the most delicate. Price: One gross§ ists, or sent by mail postage paid. HE RIPANS CHEMICAL COMPANY, New York. and every Persons given is the surest sample bottle For sale by Drugg Mme. A. Ruppert’s Face Bleach can be used a lifetime w effect though th the complexion has once been cleared by it, it remains so if proper care is taken. Freckles, Moth, Pimples, Blackheads, Ex- , and in fact all skin blemishes are quickly eradicated by it. s not take a month, but in a few days it will show wonderful improvement., Ono bottlo 2, or three bottles for $65. 3. A. RUPPERT, 6 For sale in Omaha by Mrs. J. Benson, 210 South 15th FOR 30 E thout harmful is not necessary, as when ive Redness or Oilines: Call for hook * How to be EAST 14TH STREET, Wishing to ntroduce our CRAYON PORTRAITS ut the same time ex: PAYS muke new customers, we RAVON PORTRAIT OF CHARGE, a you exhibit it ¢ your friends ns n s and use your influenco in securing us future ord ‘and addrees on back of picture and it will be roturned We make any change in picture you wish, not Interfering with the likeness, "Address all mail to CRESCENT CRAYON CO0., Opposite New German Theatre, CHICAGO, ILL. ding us photo and not receiving erayon pieture R in perfect order. ank in Chicago. v will forfeit $100.00 to anyon Lake Minnetonka, Minn.f3\ Senzon of 1892 bogine Ju cxt of tixhing and ¥ ins {0 and (rom St neapolis, address, X, The UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS that the Behr Bros. & Co’s. PIANOS Have attained, and the high praise they have elicited from the worll’s MOST. RE« from the press and fro NOWNED ARTIS Ider makes, it is safe to assume that th MAX MEYER & BRO. CO., Sole Agents, Omaha, Nebraska, diced in favor of ust be possessel of UNCOM 1 a pablic long instrument MON ATTRIBU Established 1866, CHIOHESTER'S ENGLICH, RED CROSS DIAMOND GRAND ENRYROYAL THE ORIGINAL AND CENUINE sk Drugeist for Chishester s nly Rafe, Bure, and red 1818 Douglas Street, Omaha, Neb. ahronie, private. blood, skin and unuary diacasce. A fogular and IR ereutost ve xht losses, tmpotency, sy plillis. stri soiiive of insira The eminent speclullst in neryow 4 graduate in i permatorrhocn, [ost mwanhood, s ents sout by mull | intorview preferred. Omos bours ¥ o At home by o packod, no marks Lo indicate coi ‘orrespondenco wisit me may bo b sianp for replr Dr, Bailay, Tho Leading Dentist Third Floor, Pixton Blod'e 16th and Farnam Sts, INTEREST PAID ONDEPOSITS a7 OMAHALOANETRUST 0. SAVINGS - BANK UGLASSTS. Telephone 1085, A full sct of o Teoth without pla the thing 105 slogs TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN. All Blllog at reasonable rates,all work warranled ui this out for or removaple bridgy work or public spoukers, never =0 g