Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 1, 1893, Page 10

PAGES THE_OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1893—TW SECURE A HOME. = In Clarke County, Washington, The Garden of the Continent. e —— Homes sold on in- stallments planted in fruit, and the trees brought to bearing age Results guarauteed, and half the cost pay- able when results ara Number I in sight, | AFFIDAVIT OF FRUIT CROWERS. | STATE OF WASHINGTON, | oo County of Clarke. | Wo, the undersigned prune growars, boing on his onth says that I am & frooholder in Clarke county, Stats of Washington, and that I am the owner of a prune orchard standing thorein; that the fige ures sot 0pposito my namo roprosent the number of neres in my prune orchard, tho ago of tho troes, the averago yearly yiold nad solling value' of tho crop per acre, the value of orchard per acre from my exporionce inand with said orchard: first duly sworn, each for himself Present valua of orchard |Present of trooes, of acres ownod. NAME. 300| 800/ 110 10 15 yoars| $ 12 voars, 11 years 5 yonrs| 10 yonrs| 5 years A. W. Hfddon | L B Clough 11C. C Shaw. G. Shaw ; 1 $1,000 1,000 1,000 600 1,000 8 to 1to 6 to 110 C. Fletcher R . Flotcher. (Signed) A. W, HibpeN, L. B. CrLovan, Co G Staw, H. FLercuer, Subscribed and sworn to bofore me this 26th day of July, 1802, [ ] oA WISEWALL Notary Public for the State of Washington,, Residing ut Vancouver, No irrigation is required in Clarke county, Washington. The soilis a rich, black, gravelly loam, charged with tons of ash from tho wonderful growth of timber which has to be burned off before fruit trees are planted in 1t A well driven to the depth of thirty feet any- where produces an abundant supply of the purest water, containing no lime or B031. S0ALE 1N tePaiLe The Stearns Fruit Land Company owns 500 acres of the best fruit land on earth, in Clarke County, Washington, within sight of the city of Portland, Oregon, Pop. 100,000. Direotlons for Securing a Preparod Home, Deposit $20 per acre for the num- por of acres you want in sny bank and send certificate to The Stearns Fruit Land company, Portlana. Oregon, and Indicate how you wish to pay tho bal- anco of the first half of the cost, and contract duly executed by the company will be forwarded to you or to the bank subject to your inspection and accept- ance before they place the money to our oredit. Contracts terminable at the willof the holder on 90 days rotice after two years. Asa furming country Clarke county, ‘Washington, produces 40 to 50 bushels of wheat to the acroe, 80 to 100 of oats, 200 0400 of potatoes and for borries and small fruits is unequaled anywhere on the continent. STEARNS FRUIT Call for a few duys at Room 1, First National Bank building, Omaha, or ad- dress Stearns Fruit Land Co., Portland, Oregon, This is a case of co-operation. We find the land, you find the money to vlant it in trees and take care of it till in bearing, then you buy the land or take your money back with 7 per cent intorest, as you choose. Your money and the time makes the land worth a thousand dollars an acre; you get it for a total cost of 8300 per acre and it will give you an income of #300 per acre per annum us long as you live, LAND (0, 107 Ilow We Can Afford to Return the Money und Interest on Cancelled Contracts, Immediately on first payment the money is used to plant the land in prune trees. Two years growth of these trees mukes the land worth and saloablo for the full price you have agreod to pay for it, viz., $320 per acre. We can thus well afford to pay you seven per cent for tho money which has made our land valuable. Land bonded under our contracts is within 12 miles of the heart of ths great and growing city of Portland, Oregon, and will be in the natural course of events more than double in value in the next five years. FIRST STREET alkali. suceess in fruit growing, perfect d The two greatest requisites for n- ageand sub-irrigation, are everywhere presont. WORTH $20.00. Cut this | advertisement out and bring it to Oregon with you. Keep it in your pocket till you have made your trade. It will then be taken from yowu in lien of 820 in cash. Besides that. we will show you the best land and give you the bost deal to be had in all the Oregon or Washinton country. The contract guarantees the land to be of best quality in good location, and fives you the right of selection and occupation at any time during its con- tinuance. T have dealt in Clarke county, Wash- ington, lands for ten years, have sold thousands of acres of it on time to men of small means. Have never foreclosed a mortgage or taken the forfeit on a bond, and refer to the twelve thousand people who live in that county. D. H. STEARNS, President Stearns Fruit Land Co. Stroest cars from Portland will run through this land within the time these home contracts ran. PURTLAND, OREGON FIRST NATIONAL BANK. VANCOUVER, Wash., September 12, 1 To Whom it May Concer This is to tify that I"letcher, whose names a timable and reliable citizens of Clar whose jurat is attached thereto, i FIR: CHAS. BROWN, President, The largest creameryin the United States is lecated at Vancouver, Clarke county, Washington. Torms. 830 per acre the first year, $20 per acre each yoar for fivo years and $150 per acre attheend of five years and ninety days. No interest, no taxes. No forfeitures or fines. If for any rea- son you notify tho company that you can or will pay no more your mozey is all returned with seven per cent inter est, contract receivable at its faco in payment for any land. MAKING SUGAR FROM BEETS Areas Whoro the Sugar Best May Be Raised and Diffioulties of Produotion. GENERAL PROGRESS OF THE INDUSTRY Vast Nums that Would HBe Distributed Among FProducers—From Seed to Full Grown Boet, Sept. 20.—To the Editor of 1 was surprised last evening to hear Mr. Henry T. Oxnard of Nebraska, who has just appeared before the ways and means committee in behalf either of duty on imported sugar for the benefit of American producers, or else & bounty to the American vroducers, sny that the production of tne sugar beet can be made a most profitable thing for the small farmer as well as the big one and that it can be produced in almost any quarter of *he country, He claimed, in- deed, that on five acres in Now England as much profit could be made on the production of the sugar beet as upon 150 acros in corn, We, of course, continued our conversation, and it developed facts somewhat as follows: While a great impetus has been given to the production of cane sugar in the south and to beot sugar in the west by the MeKin- ley tariff of 1590, the uncertainty as to what the coutinued policy of the government would be has preveuted the consummation of wmuch of the development that was expected, It is claimed by the Louisiana Sugar Planters associatior, however, that the ar crop in that stute for 1883 was about ,000 tons, und for Texas 10,000 tons, and that the new area of land opened has been about 10 per cent per annum. or 20 per cent since Novomber, 1800; that if the bounty or its equivalent is maintained the area of lands for sugar will ucrease 16 per cent an- nually wn the future, and that this protection and the improved methods of manufacture mise a 20 or 2 per cent increase yearly of m sugar product, which would double Loulslana’s erop in four or five years, It is also understood that §,000,000 of additional ‘capital has been putin the sugar industry in Louisiana and Texas since the passage of the act of 1860. The Chamber of Commuerce of Spokanc, Wash., is organizing a company for the munufacture of beet sugar and efforts havo been made to secure the plant- dng of at least 1,000 acres in beets. O, Taphaw & Co. of Stauuton, Va., established o sugar factory last year and ran it until all the L6 in Lhe neighborhood were used up. Uncertainty as o the federal policy causes the interest im the beet sugar industry to languish in New York state, though progress is makieg toward the formation of the Bect wamullve Community with a ecapital of $030, Wha$ Beet alsing Means. Judecd, very few of us realize the stride United In 1892 we had in beet sugar fuctories by way of costand production the following: Locatton, 000/ 00,000 750,000 400,000, 430,000 4001000/ 400000/ 100,000/ . 00,000 705 Stauiiton. Spokane, Total . These fizures are exclusive of arge land area, and no account is taken of the enor- mous capital invested in the soutt sugar production, China paid the farmers for beets last year $111,010, an average of #1.25 per ton for beets on'a basis of a 15 per cent saccharine test. The product of thav factory alone would make a tram of 200 loaded cars of sugar, or ten trains of twenty cars oach, It weans the distribution of 50,000 in that small town alone for labor. The factory employed 170 men and between 450 and 600 men in the beet fields, and the beet farmers vealizod from 255 to 300 per acre for th product on six months of work. This is so because of the extra in- ducements offerod to induce agriculturists to turn their attention to & new crop in which there is considerable work indespensably necessary, because ou that yer unsolyed problem of procuring sufficicnt beets for profitable run” depends whother capital uvested is to survive or perish, Where leots Aro Being Ralsed, According to Prof. Wiley of the Dopart- meut of Agriculture, California is the most promusing state for the growth of tne sugar boots. Colorado shows great interest among the farmers i this culture; Kuansas is ye ry favorable, and Michigan is peculiarly well suited for tho production of rich sugar boots, 80 also is northern Missouri, while Nevada shows o pheuo, g That is true of New Yors. in New Mexico the sugar beet under proper agricul- tura! conditions can be wade to produce vhenomenal ri Ohio and North Da kota show fair results, and in Obio especially there is great interest in the question. Or gon shares with the rest of the o advantages. South Dakota most s favorably situated Nebraska, wh nks next California. Virginia shows a fair sugar ¢ tate of Washiugion a very consin has great capabilities; Wyomiug is extremely rich, and avid Utah is well situated for beet culture. Senstor Stewart of Nevada claimed that we could save §100,000,000 annually by spending it amongst our labor at howe if this sugar beet industry were suficiently encouraged. Prof }vm- , Just quoted, says 1n one of his bulle- i “Eight years ago, when tue department commenced its experiments in improving the methods of culture of sugar-producing plants and the manufacture of sugar therefrom, the actual cost of the production of every pouand of sugar in tne United States was about b ceats In eight years the accual Cost of production has” been reducel g @ B s pound and every year @alag to the anwroduction of uew methods, better agr culture aud wore scicutiic treatment iv the the cost of production is diminished. difficult to foresee that in from ten 1o fifteen years, the tima appointed by law for the continuation of the bounty form of protection, the cost of sugar production in this country would b so reduced as to ren- der possible the manufacture of sugar at o profit without any protection whatever," Prof. Wiley has' argued before tho ways and means committee that a duty is better than a bounty, as it would bo likely to bo more continuous and even, and production would soon bo stimulated’ so that it could finally be removod altogathor, roblem of Cuitivation, Wiley sugzests caution to the farmors in considering this question. The great problem in this co s, 08 the agricultural ono; the solection suitable soil, the finding of the propor climatic conditions and_instructions in tho n nod of planting, cultivating and harvest- ing beets, are all of vital impor The rop within the whole r. more dificult wo produc of beets suitable for the su Al He ‘koes on to show that skilled labor is required at specific intervals; that iv will not pay to keep this labor the year round, making it troublesome to obtain it; contracts must be made in_advance with each farmer cultivating a certain number of acres; tho quantity is v vtaln in quality. atry.” he than a crop manufacture of Mr. Oxnard und his fricuds who haye in- ves tea th noney in beet sugar factories in various parts of the try dwell upon the dificulty of establishing thoir plants. As is tho caso with wheat and corn farming, apital is required to make it possible W produce even the first pound. Being in the north a new industry great exertion and the farmors to boet, for in- stance. The grand it seed s sown and its product, or the “mother bees," is care- fully siloed or stored away in the ground secure from frost until spring, when it is planted and allowed to bloom and oear seed, and this new sced is sown and, if the pro- duct warvants, itis 1 tura stloed sud planted, and from this comes the seed for the sugar beet. So that it is only after four summors seed—ihe very basis of this great ins to play its part in this great economic agricultural indust: The seed, too, must be acclimated, as were, adapted to the soil and the cilmmte whore sown. The founder of one of_the great seed houses in I'r for instance, las devoted his whole life to the improvement breeding up of beef seed, to obtain x product which would ve productive of a beebrich in saccharine matter. It requires also four times the labor to prepare the ground for o beet crop thutit does for weain, Fall and deep plowing and spring subsoiling aud thor ough harrowing are uisite, whis ground being sown to wheat or oats or other rotation of crops, renderiug o lurge area of land necessary 1o give a sugar fuc- tory a sufticiont “run” to mike the busiuess pay atall. Shallow plowing would result i deformed beets or in their growingso far abave the ground as to impregaate the uppar portion with salts that would destroy the product for sugar.” Proof of the Pudding, The beet sugar men are full of courage apd hope, however. They claiw'that they maae sullicient pro; in going ah steam if conditions are ged, and that where thoy have established themselves they have b of the greatest advantage to the tarmer, as they have made a ready cash market for him and he is not _robbed by the middlemen or therailroads. They huve invested $150,- 000,000 in their enterprise at any rate, and that would seem to indicate that they hrve the courage of their convictions, but, of course, they want to know what the present congress s going to do in the way of duties and bounties, Upon thut question, however, 1 have no argument to make. MARSUALL CUSHING. e THE METROPOLITAN MUSEU L, New Yomx, Sept. 0. Beg.]-During the last ten years the Metro- politan museum has made rapid strides, Though its permanent endowment is small, 80 that the truste have every year to make up a considerable deficit out of their own pockets, it has been constantly in receipt of handsowe gifts, and the city has furnished 4 suitablo building to contain them, which is now for the saeond time in prosass of en- largement. Somo years ugo the museum seemed to contain hardly anything but the Cesuola collection of antiquities from Cyprus, othor things being comparatively so few and inconspicupys, But this dispropor- tion no longer exists. ,The antiquities from Ezypt, tho unrivaled Icollections of ancient glass, the Japouesd ‘Pottery and carving, the tapestries, lage’ and embroiderles, ancient und modery, the iron, gold and silver work, and the specislgollections, such as the Moore collection, and the memerials of Franklio and Washitigton ave equally con- spicuous and imporidnt. Soven or o galleries contain pictlkes, many of whicn aro famous mastorpiccey, und remarkably few of which are of inferior quality, while ‘the col- lections of casts of ‘architectural dotails is one of the largest, Wost carefully selocted and bost arranged () existence, and tho models of the tomplp it Kirnak, the Pan- the non, the Parthéal and the Cathedral of Notre Dame ure thy'dajly ones of their kind, Tho new wing is 10 sghlain a coiection of casts of ancient anll mediwval sculpture which will give the museum o this resp ial to Tue or ! followsd by | also o foremost place among the muscums of tho world, Meauwhile the t that & museum is 1 for diversion, and have 80U ou foot classes 1n drawing, modelling, bronze and iron work, ture, and ornsmental design. It | howover, no longer nocessary museum Lo give elomentary and pi teaching. rhis is as plsewhere. I'he trustees rocoguize, as the | prospectus they have lately issued pro claims, that their maindaty o the matter of education is to muke their collectious in telligible and soryvicesbio Lo the public aud W students of urt. To this end they propose, us the meaus at disposal may permit, L arranze paintiog, architec: is now, for the paratory well or better doue special study of different coliections, Al wheir | s | In the sixteenth contury as thesame time the elementar; ses in drawing and painting, from the antique-and from the life, which arealready established, will b continued, at least for tho present, in the hope that they miy become self-sup’ porting. Then the funds at prescut con- sumed by them can be devoted to other uses more germane o the museum'’s proper work. But the most important and interesting class is an advanced class in painting, estab. lished under Mr. Lafurge's care, for the study of thecollections of paintings. 1t con- sists of young artists, both men and women, who have gov through with their prelimina studies, and most of whom have studios of their own. To these will this sear bo joined students from the National tStudents’ league, of « 0 on the recommendation of their instructors. Prize stadents will also this year bo present from Buffalo and Detroit, and efforts are making 0 sond young men also from Chicago, St Louis and Baltimore This is tho most advanced step taken this country in the way of artistic edu :ation, it is the mosu generously endowed. 1t 1 under the ‘advice of many of our best artists, and the effort to extend its advantages to students outside of New York has met with the coraial co-operation of tho schools and of the friends of art in other cities. If it 1s followed., us will prob- ably be tho case, by similar clisses for the study of other collections, the Metropolitan muséum will take a leading place smong our places of*higher education. e e QUEE¢ MARKIAGE CUSTOM, ken in At Roman marriages tho wedding ring was placed upon the thumb, In Spain water in which a wedding ring has been dipped is €ood for sore eyes. In Java as a part of the marriage core mony- the bride washes the feet of the groom. In Servia the bride a shoe, I'he wedding riug has at one time or an- other been worn on the thumb and y finger. A hundred years ago, w a fortune the newspuj and gave also the amount. Amoug the Tartars & ma attended by sham fight be of the groom and the bride. Martin Luther and Catharine von Bora were marcied with a ring which bore all the ewbloms of the erucitixion When the hairof a Roman bride was dressed for the wedding it was always parted wilh the point of a spear. The Grook cities all kept maty in the public oftices, open to the any interested person In Samos the bride wears a wreath of flowers, a dress of cocos mattiug and has her fac od with turmeric { In Huogary the father of the bride takes | off he and bunds it o her husband, | thus nally turaing over allhis authority 1o the groou and Bulgaria tap, with the groom gives the heel of her own en the bride had stated that fact riage is always ween the friends monial rolls uspection of ding ring: ashionable iu device being the noroscopes of Lhe iug parties. i wel the coniract a A couple of hundred years ago Buglish and German people, in order est possiblo publicity, church door. Among the Tllyrians a tub is placed in front of the house where a wedding oceurs, and cvery guest on departing throws his gift of money into the tut In ancient Chaldea when a marriage was celobrated the priest lighted a fire which should be kept burning in the new home until the death of one of the y The o ring of Pld Trojan, is in the British museun four ounces and bears the head the empress in bold relief, the w It wei and bust In, France, Germany and Ttaly du middle ages notice of the botr posted on the door of the parish chu all the parish might be informed When Frederies 1 andSophia Charlotto were married the iing broke his w ring auring the festivities and the WS 1 rded as foretelling the mi: the union. g the hal was that lo consisted of plo fringe and wreath ana shoes ke b with pu 1 girdle, i ight yellow The costume of alg white rol ribbons, & wool beua leaves, u by to mateh, The Loan fnshionable brepares | romony by paint g her face a wedding carment of the waist w0 the knces. bride in The Albanian girl puts all her fortune into wold and silver coins and mounts theso on hor high cap, that uot only the groom, but all the assembled company can discern her glan “dow purse” in England is a v German morgengabe custom, tho worldly goods with ndows the brid re symbolized psent of a sou and de The white ribbons and favors dings today are ewblematic of when the bride’s garters were cut up iuto bits and distributed among the young men and women present for good luck ] Mme. Modjesks's Rocltailin, Mme. Modjoska, the act bright woman who doesn't play practical jokes in an inno justifisble way. She was recently a visitor at & mansion and was asked for a brief rvecitation, But, thou she | cked her brain, nothing apropos r curred to her, and finally she begged 1 at wel ess, 15 & to nd hesi . W. Hidden, attached to the foregoing, ure among tho most ese ce county, W the present circuit juc NATIONAL BANK, Vancouve of ver- | socioty | the time | L. B. Clough, C. Shaw 1L and J. shington, and 13, A, Wisewall, re of this district r, Wash, Wao contract for and guarantee prune trees only, as for them the crop is cer- tain and the market sure. The produc- tion of prunes on the Pacific const hus grown in the last 20 years from nothing o nearly 50,000,000 pounds anuually, yet all this immense output has not kept pace with the Inerease of consumption in the United States. As a nation we still import about 80,000,000 pounds of prunes annually, which puy a duty of two cents per pound. Clarke county, Washington, prunes of tho low grades cqual the highest grades of im- ported French prunes, and were never sola for less than 8 cents por pound.An acre of well kept trees in Clarke county will produce from four to six thousand pounds of dried prunes per annum, and the beauty of the businessisan ordinar, family can take care of the land, har vest the crop and dry the fruit on ten acres with but a few dollars of cost for extra labor during the hurveet season, eited the numbers from one to two hune dred and thir n Polish," ——— Sho Was Sus There is in Washington a young woman, says the Star, who, while not conspicuous beauty, is by no means us homely as she affects tobeliove, A young man been devoting much of his time to her, and she has given him rowson to think that his sceioty pleased her, Tho other evening he said: Do you believe t to care for him?" She ¢ sw it you could learn anybody well énough to marry ught her breath, and then an- in alow tone; Yos; | am sure ['eould.” “Have you—have you unybody in your mind now for whom you think you could care in this way?" Tell m | She openc closed them without | looked at him nar and then said: % st answe What is it HAre you doing this on a hot?" - An Irfepressible Prisoner, vin I that porso) her lips tospeak, and then wking. She »wly for a moment, me one quostion,” sorder (Lo prisoner)—How do you I ain't oyster said when tl ho'd bo rousted or fri Recorder—We don't what the oyster said particn askod as the whother want o hear What do you fol- by i low? Prisoner—Anything that comos in my way, as the locomotive said when it van Over 4 mun, Recorder s cure nothing about the locomotive, U is your business? risoner—That's various, as the vat said when she stole the chicken, Recorder—That comes nearer line, [ suppose? Prisoncr-Altogether in my lin the rope said when choking the pi Rec 111 hear any more absurd comparison, I will give you twelve months, Prisone I'm done, as the beclstealk suld to the cook. to the ) ud vd to be let off with a short selection in her native tongue, The sug; on was ap plauded and madame began. Althougzh her listene not understand h words her jestures and some thrilling tones held them enchanted until the final syllable, when sl overs whelmed with * plaudits. 5 wis preparing to depart her s could s hostoss asked her for the title of the seloction she had iven, and much to her surprise madame went into a smail sm of laugh “Lam sorry to decelyé you, " she said, smiling, “but my recitation hasn't name. My ory failed we 50 that as & lust resort 1 re- sized parox batt.y | wize Com I Looks. It has been proved that in a patent lock, with an aver ized key having six “steps,” each capable of heing re duced in height twenty times, the num- ber of changes will be 86,400; further, that us the drill-pins and the pipes of the keys may be made of threo different sizes, the totul number of changes would be 2,502,600, In keys of the smallest the total number would be G48.000, while in those of extraordingry size it could be incre A tonot Jess than 7,776, 000 different chunges,