Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 1, 1892, Page 10

BIG, BUSTLING BOOXE Bpirited Sketch of one of the Progressive Counties of Nebraska. JUST TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE An Instructive Story of Growth Told in Plain, Unvarnished Figures. EARLY STRUGGLES AND PRESENT POSITION Fertile Uplands and Beantiful Valleys Washed With Living Streams, THE HARVEST AND THE HARVESTERS Mrlef Blographies of the Men Who Tickled the Soil and Reaped a Full Mensure of Prosperity—Educational, Social and Ot Advantages, Boone was organized in 1571, when only a baker's dozen of frontiersmen occupied the land. It is bounded on the west by Greeley and Whoolor counties, north by Antelope, east by Platte and Madison, south by Nanco, and is 100 miles wost of tho Missouri river. In 1530 the population wvas 4,170 aud in 1560 8,054, an increase of 4,613 in ten years, In area it has 634 square miles or 437,100 acres, y in the Ihere are sixty-tive milcs of ratly county. ‘T'he Fremont, kilkhorn & Missouri Valley enters the county at the center of tho east lino, making a devious courso to Albion and then ruus north, crossiug the liue of the county about the conter. Tue Union Pacific has two branch lines, one ev.tering about tho contor of tho sonth iine of the county ana torminating at Cedar Rapids, the other outer- ing the county at its southwest coruer, run- ning directly” northwest, terminating at Al- pion, near tho center. Thus the Fremont, Elkhorn& Missouri Valley furnishes an outlet for the rich and fertilo eaver vuliey, which stroam runs diagonally across the county, entering the county exactly at its northwest coruer aud leaving it at the southeast cor- nor. This is one of the most beautiful ana fertilo valleys in the state. The shorter branch of the Union Pacific taps tho Cedar viver valley at Cedar Rapids. For beauty and fortility tho Cedar valley cannot be ex celled. Theve are other smallor streams Shall creck in the northeast und Plum croel botween tne Beaver and Cedar, so that every portion of the county1s well watered. Tho Cedar, which cuts across the southwest cor- ner, is the iargest stream, and the Beaver is next. The latier is aswift running, c ana spariiing stream audis the most im- portant, as it runs disgonally across the country. ‘Cho valleys are rich und wide and aro flankod by rolling upland praitie, adapted 1o the growth of all crops &nown to tomperato’ climates. The country is well adopted to the raising and feeding of stovl,and mainy of the most successful farmers never sell their grain, but raiso all they cau, and buy moro to feed to stock which nuds a good and convenient market at Omaha, There were raised in the couuty in 18}, acres of wheat, 12.500; corn, 67,2503 oats, 19,200; bar- ley, 900; rye, 1,700; flax, 1,500; millet, 1,200; tame grass meadow, 2,500. Wheat in' 1391 averaged 21 bushels per acre, corn 42, oats b4, barley 25, rye 19, flax 17. Those are av- crages, tot highest yields, as many fields of corn and oats went 75 or more bushels per acre, and it was not uncommon for wheat to make 30 bushels per acre. Boone county has seyeuteen postoflices, sixty-nine organized school districts, 120’ teachers. Tho high school building at Albion cost $25,000, and the district schools all over tho county com- vare favorably with the high standard set up at Albion. ‘The assossed valuation 1n 1801 was §1,425, 000. The estimated real valuation was about $9,000,000. ‘Potal bank deposits in 1301 was $271,000, showing $31.22 per capita. There aro six bauks in the county with an aggre- gato capital of §175,000, and deposits of twice that amount, most of which is held by farm- ors, somo of whom came to tho county early, with nothing, and have become tudependent. In 1891 the assessors returned stock as follows: Cattle, 18,765 hoaa; hogs, 25,972; horses, 7,135; sheep, 1,015 mules, 856, 1t is well known that farmers and feeders all over the country make it a poiut to reduce their stock to the minimum efore April 1, the dato set by law from Wwhich 1o date assessmonts, consequently tho number of head of stock roturned by te ns- sessor for taxation is always below tho ac- tual number at other portions of W year. ‘The principal 1owns in the county are Al- bion, the county seat, near the center, with a population of 1,200; Cedar Rapids, in the southwest, population 700; St. Kdwards, in the southeast, population 700; Petersburg, in the north, popuiation 300. Theso are all railroad towns. Albion has three news pavers, threo bauks, five churches, ana ono of the tinest high school builaings in north- ern Nebrasks. St. Edwards has a flouring mill of soveuty-five barrels capacity, four churcbes, a costly high school building and two grain elevators. Petersburg has one bank, two nowspapers, three churches and school building which cost §7,000. The town is locatod 1n the well known Rae vallay, ‘which opens in the Beaver valley. Codur Rapids has four churches, aschool building which cost 811,000, two banks and two els- vator: There are niucteen townships in the county, all of which are good, ouly *' & small portion of the Land belng too rough for farmiug purposes, add a portion of two townships 1 the north- west corner of the county bordering on the sana hills, There are in tho county 130,502 acres of improved lands and 244,52 acres of unimproved Jands. Tho avorage price of farm lands is 20 to 825 per acre. . Wild land can bo bought from § 1o §15 per acre, ac cording to quality and 1ocation, and culti- vated and improved farms from $15 to #40 por acro, Nearly 2,000 quarter-sections of &ood land are lying 1dle in Boons county awaiting homeseekors, The following inter- views with representative farmers will show what actual practical farmers have asoccom- plisied in Boone county : J. E. Gree ‘The first homestead 1n Boone county was filed in April, 1571, and in May following J, £, Greon filod on 160 acres two miles west of Albton, and still lives on it, Mr. Green says: “Yos, sir, 1 was one of tho fivst bere and bogan at tho bottom. I first built a sod house, with dirt floor and roof, which cost me $10 in moncy besides my work, 1 bad a team of horses, but could get no feed for thom, s0 I went to KFremont ana traded them for oxen. Corn was 70 couts per bushel aud would tave to bo houled from Fromont and besides I had 1o money to buy with, Worked tiard for fourteen years before 1 goi ahead enough to think of buying more land, then 1 bought & forty of raw land for $250. Later still T bought another quarter section of pasture and hsy land_down on the river bottom for which i paid 2,000 My place is well improved, a8 you soe. I bave a good bouse and barns, fifty bearing apple trees and 150 more planted. ~ I bave a row of forest roos olear around the home vlace and have fifteen acres of grove which furnishes ull the fuel and fonco posts I want, Ounly raised forty acres of corn last season. It averaged fifty-five bushels per acro by weight. 1 hired it busked s0 I kuow exa 1 had forty acres of oats that made 2,500 bushels or soventy bushels por acre, uni twelve acres of rye that made 330 bushels, 1 foed all my grain and buy wore. 1 nuve never sold but one crop of grain, The Omaha market gives us & conveutent outlet for the product of our farma. Sowmo man think that because we old fellows got our land for nothing, as they call it, that we bad the advantage, but I want to teli you thata man can come hero now with land at present prices and make & bome n great deal easior and quicker than we did. Cvery ono of us who began with uothing, sud we uearly all did, had 10 work burd and undergo | privation and exposure which no one would be willing t0 submit to now, for twelve to fourteen ears beforo we began to exist. That is a oug time for a man to work for 100 scres of raw land. There is ouly ove class of men hore who are not conteated and bappy, and that is the men who are paying interest on | big mortgages. 1he lulerest seciis Lo ot up | most of thotr incoms, but many of them are alowly and suraly paying out. Farm land is looking up now and there are plenty of in- quiries, More land has changad hands hero n the last ninoty days than in the past five yoars, e Is Postmaster Now., Donnis Tracy was once a renter in_Illinois and afterwards a ronter 1n lowa, but is now a freenoider in Nebraska. He camo to Boone county in February, 1570, pre-empted A quar- ter section nine miles southwost of Cedar Rapids, in the Timver creek country, and had 65 cents lett after paying the pro-emption fee. To give it in his own words, ‘U first built & sod house with clay floor and roof and lived in it three yoars, then built a better sod tiouse with throe rooms. a sningle roof and piank floor, which still stands. When the timo came 1 mortgaged. my place, paid it out and took a homestead adjoining. 1 still own the 820 a have barn sheds aud sixty-five acres fenced. 1 raisc corn and hogs, making & spocialty of hogs. I have made money every vesr since I came here, and nesides my land I have as fine a homo as Cedar Rapids affords and have businoss pro perty besides. I have a fine orchard of 4)) trees, small fruit of all kinds and fivo acres of grove. 1 was appointed postmaster at Cedar Rapids nearly tnree years ago aud loft tho farm but rent it, and this year my sharo of the proceeds amounted to $400, In my judgment this country boats Illinois or lown for a farming country. o give you au idea of how wn were forced to live at first and to show how poor wo wero 1 will state that the first year my wife went to Columbus and worked out by the week and then went to St. Paul and cooked in a hotel. I have boen assessor of my precinct six terms and am, perhaps, as well acquainted with the finan cial condition of tho farmors as any man in the precinet and I don't know of a single one who nas farmed and attended to his business with nalf the attention @ business wan is forced to pay bis affairs, but_what has be como independent. ‘I'ie only class of farm er<1n this country who have ot dono well ure those who stand around on tho stroet corners or sit on « goods voxes talking polities or complainitie of Lard times to the noglect of their business at home. [ could give vou individual cases to prove what I say but 1t is not necessary. Goorge A, Fenton, George A. Fenton came from Connecticut to tho Cedar valiey tairteen years ago and securad a homestoad and tree elaim near Co- dar Rapids. Sald he: “After I paid tho foo of 814 cach on my two pieces of land. I had just n §100 bill loft. Then 1 hought 16) acres of railroad land of Adam Smith for which i ngreed to pay 40 with interest on long time. I paid $10 intorost in advance and tho 8100 and then worked for onough more to vay for a toam, which took the last cont, So 1 liad threo quarters of a section of land and nota centof money and owed 340, 1 built a sod house on tho homesioad with a dirt roof and broke ten acres and improved tho troe claim as required by law, and then traded both quarters for the same number of acres adjoining and got §1,000 in cash to boot. 1 then traded one quarter of that for another and ot $600 to boot. 1 now own 320 ncres with bottor than the averago buildings, and bave from $1,500 to $2,000 worth of stock out I owo somo on it. And right hero let mo say that the bigh rato of interest us farmers ar compelied to pay is the worst and ouly baa featuro about farming in Nevraska. Tho country is ali right, in fact there is no placo in tho world where tho natural advantagoes are cqual to those of Nebraska. 1 have boen in twenty-one states of the union and I never saw anyihing bettor than Nebraska, but wo have thoone drawback named. 1f eapitalists could only bo nduced to lower the rates of interest on thoso old obligations, especially sinco money has becomo cheaper it would give poor farmers who are in debt a chanco to pay out and would be better for the capi- talists in the long run. This country would outgrow any ‘one in the world if this was dome. Last season I had 40 acres of corn that averaged 50 bushels per acro and 33 acros that went a littlo iess. I do o general farming business, raise corn and hogs, but havo from the start tricd to ostablish myself in the dairy busi- ness. 1 have read with much interest tho interviows publisned in T Ber, but have not soen any one’s experience in the dairy business. Tk Bz is_acquainted with my brand of huttor aud iam now shipping to Council Bluffs. If 1 could sell the quarter section which has no buildings at 310 an acre, | could pay overy dollar I owe and have all the rest, stock and all left. You can say that iy interest has, some years, cost me moro than my. living, and that is the only thing I have to complain of, but I am making it less every year. Has It Leased. A. L. Sterling, formerly from near Avoca, Ia., has 350 acres of Sam Allerton’s land rented four miles north of Cedar Rapias. Allerton gwns eight or ten sactions there in ono body. and about twelve sectious ten miles farther west, all in Boons county. Mr. Sterling raised last season 200 acres of corn, avoraging 40 bushels per acre; 100 of oat averaging something over 50 bushels per acre. He fed in ail about 125 steers. Mr. Sterhing gives one-third the grain for the us of the farm, Allerton buys the other two- thirds and pays his tenant for feeding it to tae cattle, Mr. Sterling simply farms tho land, gives one-third of all he raises, has o market on the place for what he has to sell and gets paid tor feeding cattle besides. Ho claims that be can make more money in that way than he could if he owned the land. One of tho First, Michael Trafz is oue of a quartette of homescokers who came 1o Codar Valloy in May, 1572, being the first settler in Boone county. The entire party are still neighbors and all are in good circumstances, although there was but litdo money in the crowd when thoy squatted. Mr Trafz kindly related bis farming exporienco to Tie Bui” man the other day. Hesaid: *lcame hera with a tecm, s1x cows, eight sheep, and §800 and took & homestead a short distance west of wuero Cedur Rapids now stands. Noarly all my §00 weat for farming tools and a fev things to hve on. 1 lived in a tont tho first summer and then built alog house covered with soil. 1 mude some money the first win- tor trapping which helped meout vory much. ‘Ihere was plenty of decr and antelope 1o kill for meat and I got my sharo of thom. 1o bo brief, I prosperad aftor the first fow vears and mado the best improved place in tho val- ley nad it still holds its position, 1 lived in tho log house until 1554 und then built a frame house costing 1,200 bosides a good barn. The following ycar, 1855, I sola the place for 16 per acro cash, but think now that I had better koptit. I wentto Wash- ington, Orezon and California, but finally came back here and bought an’ eighty acro favin noar my old farm which [ still own and on which I live. Havo put lots of mozoy in improvements, have two suts of builuings, 200 apple treas and small fruits of all kinds. My corn last yuar averaged fifty bushols per acre una 0ats sixty-eight bushels, Land is raising in price hero now. I think a man can make a stary in life heronow much easier than when came, j whother be hias money or not, bocause ho van got work at good ~wages, thing we could not do. Good unimproved farm land can bo bought for from $12 to §15 per acre, and improved farms for $2 to 30, according to location. Laud is comparatively chean and this is as good farming country as thera is in the United States, We havo the Union Pacific road which gives us an outlet to tho Omaba markots and have all the conveniences enjoved by oldor states. Tho soil 1s rich and casily worked. There is no sticky soil and the latest improved farm wachivery can bo used on any of our farms, kven the vacant praivie luud is improving every year, as we can cut huy on laud now which a fow years ago was bare. Lf thoso oastorn follows will cOme here they can farm easy, A Number of Others. ‘Phe sttewpt to give in detail the experi- enco of even a tithe of the successful farmers of Boone county would fill a paper moch largor than Tik Bre A fow more exuumplos in brief and wo will close the list. William Dobson was one of the first mon in bis precinct, five miles west of Ceaar Rapias, He owns a fine farm of 320 ucres, is worth $15,000, has lots of stock and his farm well iniproved, and had not & dollar to stavt with. Jobn Maxwell lives in the same section with Dobson, came at the samo time, has the same amount of land, a Lalf section, began with the same amount of money, viz, noth- ing, is worth about the same amount of money, $15,00), and Lis place vicely im proved. Hubort Reid coruers with Maxwell, owns a section of laud highly improved, heavily stocked and is worth at least §18,000. Ho be- gau with §250, wsper lives 1 the same neighbor- hood, has 320 amores well improved and stocked and is worth about $10,000. He began with §500, David Primrose came at the same time with all the above mentioned wmen, had noth- 10g 10 start with, now has 520 ucres higbly imoroved and is Worth §10,000, lsaac N. Swith cawe o0 Booue in 1579 aud | treos this season. THE OMAHA DAILY homesteaded in the Timber creek county, s1x miles southwest of Cedar Rapids. His littie farm is handsomely improved, good build- 1ngs, orchard, groves, etc , is worth at least $6.000.aud don't owe a nickel. Samuel McWilliams, living near Smith, came in 1877, has 160 mores which ho keeps in & high state of cultivation, is worth $,000 and is out of dobt. The above mon all homo- steaded and all began without meaus uuioss otherwise statea, A Boone County Narsery. B. A. Roberts, the pioneer nurseryman of Boono county, was visited at his home a half milo west of Albion, Ho was very busy with a number of hands, filling ordors for trees, but stole time 1o siate the following facts, which will go to show that the day for swindling Boone county farmers with nurs- ory stock has gone by. Mr. Roberts said “I'came hero from southwestern lowa nine years ago and vegan breeding fino stock, cattlo and hogs. 1 bought an eighty just west of Albion. Six yoars ago 1 closod most of my stock. but still keep a ‘ow. re tered hogs. 1 saw that the timo had come whon fruit raising would becomo goneral in this partof tho state, 8o I laid the founda- tion for a nursery. It took soveral years of ard labor to cot started, but this vear I havo sold 27,000 apple trees alone, besides cherries, plume, pears, small froits aud or- namental stocks, including 400,000 forest trees. [ fitted out one fifteen-acre orcnard in Greeley county this year. Groeeley 13 planting sixty-cighit acres of orchard from this nursery this spring. What varioties do I rocommend for this soil and chmate! Well, in applos tho Jonathan, Ben Davis, Wine Sap,Jonneting, Missouri Pippin Wallbridge Mann, (. G. Pippin and some othors, Poars do finc here and we consider tho Keifer, Bartiowt and_Idaho tho best varieties for this country. Plums, Pottawat- tamio Miuer and Wila Goose, This is a groat cherry country. I have sold $,000 cherry The English Morrello and Early Richmond are tuo surest. 1 have acres of orchard and am planting twolve more now. T'o give you some ided of the extent of our plant I will state that I ani planting this 150,000 grafts. Last spring 0600, Have now a bed of 4,700 two years old. 'I'hose are all apples. My trado extends to adjoining counties, nlthough | havo barely made i start, T know this 1s a good frutt country and as tarmers find that they can get heallhy treos, true to name, there will be hundrods of acres of orchiara planted in thissectionjof the state. Hon. Loran Clark, While Mr. Clark is not a_farmer now, ho was a year ago, and besides Lo and Mrs, Clark together homesteaded the land a por- tion of which is now occupied by tho county seat, Albion. Mr. Clark camo to Boono in 1871'and secured n half section, as stated above, and 1n 1873 laid out the wown of Al- bion. ' He has since beon identified with al- most every enterpriso conuected with the growth of the city and in _fact has reached out over the couuty and adjoining counties, For the first nine years Albion had no rail- road and Mr. Clark lived on his farm and cultivated it for ten years. He recently sold out nis lumver yard, but owns elevators and coutinues in the grain business. Ho isa stockholder in the Albion National bauk, and while the growth of Albion has made Somo of his wealth, it was ull built up on the homostead foundation by. hard work and close economy when &l men were poor alike in this portion of Nebraska. Mr. Clark is not an enthusiast, but ho prodicts great progress for Boous county 1n the near future aud thinks it is 8 good placo for homeseokers to come, First Man in the County, Albert Dresser was to first man to settlo in Boone county, except two or three who came with him. In spaaking of his experience he says: | came here in 1871, from northeast- ern Iowa, aud located a homestead a haif unle east of the present site of Albion. Of course thern was nothing here then, and it did oot look as if there ever would be. [ have never bought any more land, but I have made a good living off of my farm besides improving it. Have a good houseand barn, an orchard and a grove of bearing walout trees. 1 had but little to start with and never had any boys to belp me. The grasshoppers were the worst thing we ever had to contend with. Last season a year ago was the lightest crop wo over had, but 1t was fair, That is the only season that drouth seriously hurt the crops since I have boen here. Tame grass doos weil. We have not made much of a success at raising orchards, but I am convinced it is more the fault of nurserymon thau of soil or climate. ‘Traveling agents could always sell us a dozou or moro varieties out of the same buuch, snd sometimes the root and stalk of tho tree was dried through when delivered. Weo now have a good nursery at_home, and a great many young orchards are being planted. Smail Truit yields abundantly and is oasily raised. ‘This is a good country to live in. The country roads are the best natural roads I have ever seen. Our schools and churches compare favorably with older counties. The climate 1s honlthy, and adapted to farming and feeding operations. While lands are no longer cheap, gooa 1mproved farm land can bo lad reasonuoly. Bought Rallroad 1. 7. A. Williaws is one of tho rustlers who nas fought his way from poverty to afluence on a Nebraska farm. He came to Hoono county in 1851 wichout a second suit to his back and went in devt for 16) acres of rail- road land, for which bie promised to pay 84 an acre on ten years’ time, and he paid it, too. Hesays: I wentin dobt for my first horses and wagon as well as land, and ss soon as 1 got fairly started was takon sick and my wife was also taken sick ana died. 1 paid out hundreds of dollars for doctors’ sorvices, but I never cot discouraged, 1 sold my quarter section of railroad land and in- vosted the money in draft horses. which I still deal in. Bought a stallion today woigh- ing 1,500 pounds and paid 31 & pound for him, I bave on hand twenty head of horses, all as good as can be found. I built a sod house on my first farm anod lived in it five vears, 1 ouly own eighty acres now, but [ farm my father's place of 160 acres. I havetwonty nead of eattle, among them a Durbham bull which is considered the best in the county. The poorest erop of grain I ever raised was tweuty-five busbals of corn peracro and samo ot oats, which we call a failuro here. 1 nave uever seen tho Lime after tho first threo or four years that 1 could ot pay cash for what 1 got, and 1 know thut an actiyo man ocan come hero toduy without a rag and go rigot to muking monoy—not a mere living, but luy up money. 1 know this, beeause I have gone through it all when the conditions wero not as favoravble as they are now, and I never uad any windfalls exeept adverse one: It is known by s few persons that Mr, Willlams has rocently put about $2,000 of cash into sccurities which he failed to meu- tion. W. H. Stout, One of tho men who came to_Boone in 1 with Mr. Drosser was W. H. Stout, who securcd a bomestead, which 15 now sbout nalf covered with the town of Albion. Mr. Siout’s residence stands justoutside the line of thoe incorporation. Ho has sinco acquired a hulf section three miles east of town, Tho town has never drove him from his favorite purstit of farming and fooding stock, which has made him plonty of mouey. He is onoof the hard working, succossful farmers who thinks that farming pays in Nebraska, ——— ¢ FOR THE LADIES, HON No one ever saw o pericct man, but every man who is really 1 love kuows oue perfoct woman, Watteau, ploats are seen everywhere, but with somettung of au improvement in their arraugement. The man who tries to make bis homo happy seidom bas 10 go Lo the club to tiud & hitle happiness himsolf, One of the new F'rench bonnets 1n blask is morely a very lurge butterfly of real lace, o pair of spreading lace wings lying flat upon the waves of hair, ‘Pho man who is perfectly satisfiod with the first proof of bis pictura that the pho- tographer sends home is tho man whom it is safo for the iandiady (o take to board. 1'rom Paris comes the rumor that shorter sleeves aro to be worn 1 day drosses, fin- ished with flowing rufiles of lace, and shorter skirts are mado for walking gewns. Dotted Siiss muslins with florel printings are among the summer novolties, und are made up over colored silicia or Chmese silk Linings. Lace and moire ribbous are the trimmings most used. New cashmeres are shown with printed designs in colors, sometbing decioedly new. Soft shades of gray or dove color with quaint uttle markings in dull blue or black muke charming house dresses. The princesse gowas open at one side to sbow an underskirt of different color, and the bodices and sleoves are slashed with pufiings of the same color, or opened in some odd fashion and laced across with cord. New pins are iu the form of smail bunches lM viclets tied with an euswmelled baby rib- BEL: UNDAY, MAY bon. This ribbom Jeweiry is shown fn charm- ing littie bows ang kaots for the hair, collar, watch aad fan oh; ‘el.inm. ana girdles ted in a bow. i1y Somo very ohfe round hats in Galosbor. ough style ars my#de of a soft erinkly fibre which many sup} fih. be manufactured of limp palm leaves; but they are in reality the unirpo cover to the maize, Recent patents fidantod to women include a grass-catching ‘i{achment for lawn mow ors, a floxible fira esgape lnddor, a_rein sup- port, a machine ‘far hanging wall paper, a foot support for talegranh poles and a stroet sweoper. A velvet bodice wado slightly open at the throat, with elbow/sloeves also slightly op is a most useful addition to a woman’s ward- robe. Not or Ince siceves sot in tull below the velvet sleeve can bo chacged at will to match various styies and tluts of neck-dress- ing. Sllk organdies, gauzes and _crinkled crepe, fleocy as @ sumimer otoud, with dots and lozenges of flowerettes or pin poiat spangles are shown in o profusion and variety which is bewildering and makes ono long to be a fashionable buttertly sud have forly summer frocks, 3 The protty capes to be worn at tho seaside and in the Mountains this summor uro as & rulo mado of French camel’s huir, very light and $oft to the touch, but slightly rough in appearance. Tho handsomest of these capes arc lined with shov silk ana trimmed with silk cord passementorios. Large rovors are still appearing on every kind of costume. Tne sketch shows a prot way to make a summor silk or crepon aress, with large revors faced back with whito silk, a chemisotto and cravar of white gauzo or silk and o wide velt of tho dress goods wrinkled around the waist. Dasques aro qaite passo and coats of tho samo_matwrial us the dross little wora, but tall and stately womon are wearing black satin coats with Wattau designs over plain black skirts, The coats have no cross seams At tho hips, but aro cutin princesso style, and s0 long as to roach quite to tho knees, 5hoo buckles and garter bucklos aro in- cluded 1n the dressy outiit of the little beaux, buckled susponders aco worn over hor pic- turesquo dress by the stylish littlo lassio, and the belt and “bounot of overy fair lady aro resplondent with buckles of gold and silver, even of dinmonds and other precious stones, Most of the bodices for slonaer, youthful women ure sharply pomted, and’ aro still made to fasten under the aru or elso at the back. —On other corsages, passementerio trimmings cover tho darts, or else the bodice lining alono has darts, with tho outside lnd w closo surplico ploats. Tho slooves aro very full, but ot excessively high. Thoro is @ sort of witeh air to most of tho new hats. The peakod and *“Wetsh’ round crowns, combined with the *‘poke’’ brims and noading plumes and feathors which ac- company them, have much moro snap than tho little crowned hats with their wreaths of oscs, lst vear, which were moro suxgostiy of ballads ana shepherdesses thau of Mephis- tos and witches, Thero is a practical value in the millinery this season. "fivery one may be her own mil- liner if she would be economical, Tho straws are 50 handsome 1n themsclves that thoy ro quir vimming, and the shupes aro almost no 80 varied and 50 ornnmental that a fow bows and soms pretty bunet of the myriads of silic blossows in tho showeases and a lthinestone buckle 1s ull the trimming necessary. The jacket with donble revers is a vory baudsomo coat. Tho body of tho coat is of light beige colored cloth, The effect of an under coat aud a top coat aro simulatod by baving the under rivers of beigs, while the second ones turn back over them and are of a solt, harmonizing shaco of terra cotta, The effect'of an under éoat s cut down tho front also by a socond fla} of beigo cloth showing beneath. Large voluted gauntlots trim the slooves to correspond with the nock. ST DeWitl's Sarsapariin aestroys such poi- sons us scrofuln, skju, disease, ¢czoma, rheus SHORTHAND LESSON. By FUW, Mosher', | Al s 8) o 1 - LESSON T, 5 s Gy W& R | “ kl LN AL ST ! Koy to writing exercise in Lesson 0. '3 CIRCT ATTACHED TO N-HOOK." When the N-hook is attached to straight characters, tho S-circle may bo added by closing the hpok so as to form a circle. When the N-hook is attached to curved characters, the wele may be written on the iuside of the hook. (See line 4.) HWORD-$1GNS," Y¥JILlZsbLNs LN ~¢ NI SN NS e~ ot Nieall S Solco A P N S e ) Line 1.—Obsorve—oration—fashion--what- ever —w hichever — condition — compassion— difforent—objoction—mention—generation. 2. — Poverty — representative — constitution — man—upon —taken—come—general—phonog- raphy. Whera—with him—well—special — next — defendant — henco — necossary known, 4.—Duns-— loans—canes—turns—up- on his—genorals—feigns—rains —Haines, Cara should bo used to thoroughly master the word-sizns. They should bo reviewed ovory day until they ara so thoroughly mas- tered that they can be written without a narticle of mental effort. - Beautify Kural Homes, May is proverbially the month in which to adorn and beautify country and suburbun homes,not only by the plant- ing of trees, shrubs and flowers, but in the making of other improvements, A few flowers, plantsand shrubs will often do more toward rendering a homo and utt o than many vimes tl cost expended in any other wi the building of new or repair puintin gof old fences, trellises, arbovs, ote., adds greatly to the surroundings of adwelling, especially if it be a rural or suburtun residence. And surely most peoplo have littlevexause for living in rough-looking, cheeeloss homes, when they can s0 easily, ayd cheaply be mado pleasant and enj eyable to both oceu- pants and visitors/as” woll as beautiful in the eyes of p:m:z?x,-; strangers. A small outlay, with a litdlo judicious planting and fixing, would #ooa travsform many an ovdinary zm|n',z{y'1¢r; country, subur- ban or villuge homestead into one which would be noted by.udl observers for its loveliness—and thikfs the most favor- ablo souson 1o maks such a dosivrblo transformation. @nby few tastefully ar ranged llowers, s&dhs, creeping vinos, and trees, with naa palings and the like, would so ingpenve and ornament ny a repulsive) lgpking place as to ive it a chavming appearance, There- foro, while not nézfecting such import- ant permanent imfrfemcnts us may be roquired on your farm—such as botter outhuildings and fences, u new orchard planted or an old one grafted, drainage, the conveying of water (through pipes or logs) to barn and house, and the ar; rangiug of convenient watering pla for stock—do not omit to make your dwelling and its surroundings pleasant and attractive for yoursell, family and visiting acquaintanies, WOODBURY'S FAGIAL SOAP For the £k, Scalp and Comploxion T rosul 08 5 Vi ugginty oF Boe. FELLTI A Bk on Durim it rutod ; ou ani Biood ment. sent soalod e th, Bieth Marks. 3 Tk Wi Fowler Marks, e Tediioss of Nixe. Superiious ples, 5ic , romoved. Consultatlon frue, ut ol y d or by Al JOHN H. WOODBURY, Dermatological Institute, 183 West d20d Birect, New Kork Clty, 1892 -TWE GRAND MAY FESTIVAL . Commencing Monday morning, May 2, and continuing throughout entire month, at CORNER FARNAM AND 16TH STREETS. Admission Free to All. REFRESHMENTS, This is to be a FEAST OIF BARGAINS, such as the Omaha public has never indulged in. DIAMONDS will be served on STERLING SILVER PLATES, with a SOUVENIR SPOON thrown in. DIAMOND FINGER RINGS, solid gold mountings, from $2.50 up to $1.000.00 each. DIAMOND STUDS, solid gold mountings, from $3.00 up to $1,200.00 cach. DIAMOND LACE PINS, solid gold mountings, from $7.50 up to $1,500.00 cach. DIAMOND EAR RINGS, solid gold mountings, from $10.00 up to $5,000.00. Our superh stock of Diamonds and other precious stones must be seen to be appreciated. Visitors are always welcome whether wishing to purchase or uot, One Thousand FFine Watches TO BE SLAUGHTERED FOR THIS FEAST. TY PAGE the Ladies’ or gents' finesolid gold American stem-winding jeweled watches, warranted, at §25, $30, $35, $40, $50 and upward to £500. Ladies” or gents' fine gold filled American watches, from g1o upwards, Silver watches, all kinds, from g5. Big cut in the prices of Clocks for this sale. are too numerous to mention in detail. 30, Styles Latest spring novelties in rich jewelry, gold and silver headed canes, umbrellas, fine stationery. ete, ctc. Our Optical Departiment Is one of the (eye) sights of the city. Practical optician in charge, EYES TESTED SCIENTIFICALLY FREE. 1% NOTE PRICES. . Solid gold spectacles or eyeglasses, from §3 up. Finest steel spectacles or cyeglasses from g1 up. Colored gl s for shading the eyes from soc up. Opera and ficld glasses, and all other optical goods. 1866 Farnam and 16th Stressts, Omaha, Nab. ESTABLISHED 1866, I CURE FITS! Whon I say curo I do not mean merely to stop them for a timo and then havo them return again. 1 radicaleure. 1 have mado tho disoaso of FITS LEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS a Ife-long stud warrant my remedy to enro the worst cases, Because others bavo failed i no rsason for not now receiving a curo. Sond at orce for a treatise aud a Froo Buttle of my infalliblo remedy. Give Expross and Post Offico. #l. G. ROOT, M. C., 183 Pearl St., N. Y. S! | GRIPPLE CREEK MINING STOCKS CREEK § — =Eome 1 handlo the CRIPPLE i.' ——=meree 777\ | MINING STOCKS, and can flll tole- [ 4 <[] )1cent( | graphic orders on short notice. My list comprises the reek stocks. following Cripple | FOUR & A ‘ énfl‘c'tzpda, Eull N;t{;x.n:ain, i D) S o in euna Vista | CENTS N | Blue Bl Work, i cent( |4 4 | )1 cent( | Alamo, Washington. = Sl And all other relialyo stocks, of these mines, ot ( ~ ) iy Ten Thousand Dollars Worth of rare, valuable information sent ] 10 any address 3 3 4 ) N J. S. CIBSON FOR FOUR (4) CENTS 19 ik Fouk Avghic, This wealth of knowledge, this golden | Colorado Springs, - - Colorado treasure of helps to health i3 'contamed in — — — 4 new, ably written and bhandsomely illus- trated BOOK OF 120 PAGES oo/ as well ns many stocks of the Leadville, As- pen and Creed inines. Many of the Cr plo Creek stocks have more than doubled within three months. The Ana- conda stock sold tour months 1o at 1 cents, and selis now for over 31 per sharc. Other new mines arcopening every fow days with just as £00d prospects. A 1emean of Council Blufts ho it some Qe stock ue g eonts, o Tatier part THE SPECIALIST March, o a8 sine cfused # or it vontr How rates. All'correspon- | IN THE TREATMENT OF ALLFORMS R OF 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 cireulars. N. E Cor. l4th and Farnam St,, Omaha. dence promptly answored. al Wo sond_thn_ marselo Ttemedy CALTHOS hicl has just been, issued for tho Lensit o of suffering humanity, by those eminently G ot Vigor.” successful_and _populer physicians and L itand fou f salisfd. surgeons,those KINGS OF SPECIALLISTS, M VON MOML CO.. FAT FOLKS REDUGED DR. SNYDER, THE SUCCESSFUL OBESITY SPECIALIST This i8 the Johet Liznt Roadster which sells ACE00 Wo will soll them for sixty diys ut I8 has 24 ineh cushion tres,is full” bull ng and ali drop forgings. Seut . 0. D, eipt of $110. - We also s the Columbia, Hartford und Victor, Catils free. A.H. PERRIGO & CO., | 1106 DODGI STRIZIT, Mrs. Béta Mlullican, o and aficr treatinout by D Knydor. as the followlug st vory g1 it 1y lng resuits, omant ro and after i Drs. 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W. their malady has assumed, whether it be i) “.’..f:":',‘.'f'."f 40 sursar all lotiors of loagles Syphitis, Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Stricture, wloro s1aLEp Hydroccle, Varieocele, ‘l‘m.«, l't!'_wl ml- Skin Discases, Liver, Kidney or Urinary - “Trouble, or oty of the thousaud 115 of PATIENTS TREATED BY MAIL DR. O. W. F. SNYDER, MCVICKER'S THEATRE BLOG., CHIGAGO A FAR IN ADVANCE OF ORDINARY POROUS AND OTHER PLASTERS Sold b rywhere Kindred hature; e Kyery man and every woman should read this book, which o the aflicted i3 worth its weight in gold, and sent to any address for FOUR CF & Be Call upon or address N E Drs. Betts 14th St 15, YOURSELF! Ask your Druggist for & bottlo of g €. The only non poisonous remedy for all the unnutural discharges and privite discescs of men aud debilitating weakness peculis to women. It cures in & (W days without the aid oF publieity of a dac 3 "The I'niversal American Cure Matufactured L The Evans Ohemical 0o, NATI, O. v.e.a 19 South Corner b | _ and Douglas Sts. Omaha, Nebh. want U Freque®i, IDEA IN ADVERTISING. Address suddenly, without nc Omaha Advertising Bureau, N. TRADE MARK, ntly ice, Y. Life. DR. J. E. McGREW, -~ -