Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 3, 1893, Page 16

OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDA ES. DECEMBER 3, 1893-TWE NTY PAG APTER THIS WEEK OUR G00DS WILL GO BACK TO0 OLD PRICES AND THERE WILL BE NO MORE CUTTING. ANNUAL INVENTORY SALIK Furniture, Carpets and Stoves at Half Price-~-Come and Get First Choice. We will place on sale beginning tomorrow, our eatire stock at about 01e half our usua! price. We have as good and as well selected a stock as can be found anywhere, and consisting of bed room suits, patlor suits, folding beds, bed lounges, couches, rattan rockcrs_, leather rockers, and .\||AI\|mlf~ of fancy polished chair extension tables of all l\‘m«lx, dining \.IL\ll‘s Qf all Itm«l\ an elecant line of sideboards, and our line of combination book s and desks is large and elegant, china closets, ladies’ desks, bras beds, white enameled iron bads, springs of all kinds, mattresses from hair down to excelsior, pillows and comforts, blankets, dinner sets, tea sets, toilet s, lamps, clocks, pictures, carpets of all kinds, lace curtains, draperies, center tables, chef- fonieres, wardrobes, fancy cabinets, ladies’ dress ng tables, pedestals, ‘and ‘P.verything.cls thas goe s to make a fine selected stock of house furnishing goods. If you miss this sale you miss the greatest opportunity of your life, Look at some of our pricss below, Terms during this sale will be either all cash or on our usual easy payment plan, g 50.00 Parlor Suits for (0.00 Parlor Suits fo 00 Parlor Suits for. $45.00 Parlor Suits for. $150.00 Bedroom Suits for. $100.00 Bedroom Suits for. .00 Bedroom Suits for $50.00 Bedroom Suits for. $40.00 Bed Lounges for. .00 Bed Lounges for. ... $15.00 1 Lounges for.... £40.00 Cou ches for..... #30.00 Couches for 420,00 Couches for . $20.00 Rocking Cha $15.00 Rocking Chairs for 75.00 | $3.00 50.00 | $20.00 H 37.50 L 27.50 75.00 50.00 7.50 29.50 15.00 10.00 .00 1.75 1.50 2.50 2.00 Mattresses for ... Ceerean air Mattresses for 5,00 Wool Mattrosses for $3.50 Wool Top Mattresses for $2.50 Excelsior Mattresses for, %00 Bed Springs for $1.00 Bed Springs for $3.00 Bed Springs for $2.00 Bed Springs for 30.00 White Enameled Iron Beds for. 20,00 White Enameled Iron Beds for. )0 White tinameled Iron Beds for $3.00 Reed Rocicers for .. #6.00 Reed Rockers for §8.00 Rattan Rockers for $10.00 Rattan Rockers for. $10.00 Rocking Chairs for. $15.00 Rattan Rockers for $5.00 Rocking Chaivs fe #20.00 Rattan Rockers for. 2,50 Rocking Chairs for. 3 3 $1.50 Wilton Carpets for $75.00 China Closets for. 37.50 $1.50 Bedy Brussels fo $50.00 China Closets for 25,00 | £1.00 Brussels Carpets $30.00 China Closets for 15.00 e Ingraans .. £40.00 Wardrobes for . 20.00 $30.00 Wardrobes for . 15.00 | $350.00 Hall Rack for.... “ . $20.00 Wardrobes for 10.00 ) Hall Rack for . . 815,00 Wardrobes for 7.50 { . $5.00 Pair Lace Curtains for...... $8.00 Pair Lace Curtains for. $1.50 Pair Laco Curtain for $0.00 Heating Stoves for. . $8.00 Hoating Stoves for. $10.00 Heating Stoves for. $20,00 Heating Stove 830.00 Heating Stovi $50,00 Ranges for. $40.00 Ranges for.. $25.00 Ranges for. . $14.00 Ranges for. .. $75.00 Dinner Sets for $100.00 Dinner Sets for. $45.00 Dinner Sets for. $40.00 Dinner Sets for. $80.00 Dinner Sets for. $20.00 Dinner Sets for $100.00 Sideboards for. $125.00 FFolding Beds for. 100,00 Folding Beds for $75.00 'olding Beds for.... $50.00 Folding Beds for. ... $40.00 Folding Beds for $30.00 Folding Beds for. 10.00 | $20.C0 Folding Beds for. 15.00 | $15.00 Folding Beds for $40.00 Lxtension Tables for $30.00 Exteasiou Tubles for $20.00 I 2.05 1.50 75¢ 3.00 4,00 5.00 62.50 50,00 37.50 25.00 20,00 15.00 10.00 7.50 $40.00 Chiffoniers for. ... Cresieee wee 20000 £30.00 Chiffoaiers for . ceee 15,00 $20.00 Chiffor.1ers for 10.00 $15.00 Chiffoniers for. . 7.50 $40.00 Ladies' Desk for. 20,00 $30.00 Ladies’ Desk for. 15.00 $20.00 Ladies’ Desk for, 10.00 $15.00 Ladics’ Desi fo: £100.00 Brass Beds for .00 Bras; £60 00 Bre 8 $ 50.00 37.50 30. 00 25.00 7.50 5.00 15.00 10.00 7.50 1.50 3.00 4.00 5.00 7.50 10.00§ c 93¢ 50 405 5.00 25.00 12.50 7 Beds for. Beds for 00 Brass Beds for tension Tables for. . 7.00 | $10.00 tension Tables for. 37.50 | $7.50 Extension Tables for .00 Odd Beds for. . 50,00 $3.00 Dining Cnairs for....oovuuin. $10.00 Odd Beds for AV, 5.00 | $2.00 Dining Chairs for. % Ay £5.00 0dd Reds for. . 20,00 | $1.50 Dinin g Chairs for $3.00 Odd Beds for 15.00 | $1.09 Dining Chairs for. " $2.50 0dd Bods for 10,00 % $15,00 Tie 50.00 $10,00 Hy $75.00 Sideboards for 37.50 $5.00 Hanging 50.00 Sideboards for theen e 25100 Hanging Lamps for. 00 Sideboards for. % e 12,50 $1.20 Wash Bolle:s for .00 Office Desics for 125,00 ¢ Tea Keottles for, | #40.00 Ofice Desks tor. 2000 Potts Ironsfor. .00 Oftice Desks for 15.00 $1.00 Tubs for )l $20.00 Office Desks for. 10.00 10¢ Rolling T 10.00 20.00 15.00 10.00 10.00 7.50 ging Lamps for Lamps for. Lawmps for bles for .00 Center Tables for, §3 00 Canter Table: $2.00 Cente fng 75.00 Book Cuse and Desk for 40. 0 Boolk Case and Desk for. . ).00 Book Casa and Desk fo ).00 Book Case and Desk fo. & The above quotations will just give you an idea of some of our prices FOR THIS WEEK ONLY. It is impossible to quote them all, but this will give you a good idea of what we intend to do. Come and we will show you some of the greatest bargains you ever saw, out of town customers we will pack goods and put them on board cars: free of charge and pay freight 00 miles. TWO DOLLARS’ WORTH OF GOODS. PLE'S MAMNOTH INSTALLI 1315-1317/ Farnam Stroece village, leaving not a spare foot between For ONE DOLLAR WILL BUY boat battles and all the elemental struggles 'NORWAY'SEAGLE NEST FARMS Primitive Lives of Content at the Head of Great Glacier Fields. AURIOUS PEASANT CUSTOMS REVEALED A Native Guide and a Night ln a Weird Fiord- Side Hospice— and Plenty and Whero the Tax Gutherer 18 Unknown, [Copyrighted 1823 by Edgar L. Wakeman.] Loxvoy, Nov. 16.—[Correspondence of I Bee.)—Travelers in Norway who have w ten of Norway and its people lave invavi- ably spoken of two characteristic subjects, but in so brief & manner as always to pigue and never to satisfy the reader's natural terest, These are what have been termed for a better name the ‘“eagle nest farms,” and tho ‘‘sacters” or mountain dairies, So far as I know no traveler writing in our language has ever visited the former, and while a few have actually seen a saeter, its environment ard the sirange and lonely life at the same have never been adequately de- scribed, In sailing along the Norwegi Bevgen to the Lofoden island closely observant of the mainland scene and particularly it a powerful field glass is used, will be surprised at the number of utterly lonely ana isolated habitations, s ingly perghed against the gray crags at g altitudes midway between sea and sky. The larger number of these are at least 2,000 feot above the sea. Mo the oye it seems incon- ceivable that place even for thew founda- tions could be secured. The picture isalways thesame. A line of black wail thousands of feet high; o dent of purple or a depression of misty blue where the speck of o home is built, and then ck and somber crags be- hind and above; and above and beyoud theso tho ghostly glaciew flelds, Because from a distance their eerie loca- cation, and the ragged, huddled structuves, which often surround the main nabitation, recall the nest of the eagle at the edge of beetling crags, they have come to be called vengle nest farms.” Sometimes the eye will follow & black line of fissure descending from these habitations to a cavernous rock-gorged gap beside the water. In this case a little boat house may be seen upon the rocks; and somewhero 4 windin, puce-like lne witl trail upwards aud into the darkening depths. This tells that the eaglo nest farmer is o tisherman, 0o, or hus this means of communieation with the outer world; but how he reaches bis home-perch above, how ho subsists in his desolate hab. itation, aud what manuer of folk these are, who fiud contentment in lives of such end: less solitude, danger and nature-grudged sustenunce, were conjectures which haunted me until [ found means to know. They Are Certulnly 'Way Up Farmag, Above the cliff walls of the larger and steruer fords which penetrate the maiuland from the coust the eagle nest farwms are cven more nuwerous than along the outer coast ‘This is particularly truc of portions of the Hardanger, Sogne and I'rondhjem fiords. 1o the lordly Nwro flord, a branch of the Aur- lands branch of the Sogue, and in a few in- stauces in the Trondbjem, thoy are at such lofty altitudes that they appear like specks of snow or ice, or like poising birds upon edges of the cliff. I had noticed a fow located at prodigious heights betwéen Styve aud Holmenas, on the northern wall crest of this flord, which, all the way beyond Dyrsdal to the waterfall of the Ytre Baaken that tumbles 8,000 fecr, is like some tlack Exd terrible waterway to the realms of blis; and on landing at the picturesque station of Bakke, where snow-capped moun- 4alus rise thousands of foet sheer above the ve summer n coast from ,.one who is habitations and the towering walls of stone, I determined that even if the endeavor should epd ina broken neck 1 would first have seen a Norwegian eagle nest farm. Four days passed at Bakke, four days of contemplation of scenery so somber and awful that it continually suggested the in- fornal, before T found any one either compe- tent or willing to act as guide. Then good fortune came to mo in the person of a strap- ping young. fellow, & native of Grindedal, who ‘had been lured away from his own mountain home to Austraiia, and tived of a roving life in the des, was returning as best he could, with 4 look of eager home- siciness in his eyes #lmost savage in its intensit, The little he was to receive as boatman, guide and_interpreter, would on our retun pay his passago on the fiord steamers around through Aurlands fiord to Fejes, and still leave him as many dollars as a peasant’s hard labor fora whole year will give for saving in Norway, So we were o happy pair as we rowed in our small boat, hired av Bakke, to the northeast toward Styve and Dyroal’s ice-flelds above the clouds. Congenial Comp 1 could not have found more fitting companion dventure. Not 8o very long ago the old method of stages by row boat along many of these fiords was still v vogne, Travelers wero then taken from one station to another in cumberous sharp-pointed boats. The crew of each would return with other pas- ngers to its home station; and frequently these crows, froni s of 'travelors' haste, or when hired by the weelk or month, would malke voyages the entire length of a fiord and its various lesser branches, “I'his often brought the real vilings of our generation, that is, the dwellers on viks, or creeks, along the floras, into_acquaintance with the peasant foli of another fiord. and the father of my guide, whose name was Peter son, was the master of such a boat, when Pefer was a lad. Those who dwelt at Fejes lad como to not only know the lowly of Bakke, but many had. acquired the alwost unconscious cunning of the Indians' wooderaft, or the coast sailors’ unexplain- able eighth sense of instinctive precon- ousness of location iu fair weather or wade clearer totheso boatmen lonship. in all Norway a for this particu'ar A upon the cr whom we had et out to visit in the days before the steamer's whistle awoke the sleeping cchoes of the sombe 0 fiord, one of the crew of Peter's s well we had provided food and The enthrallment of the savagely majestic scenery of the fiord, the loiterings at chasms, gorges and narrow valley open- ings, where odd and fantastic hamlets and half hanging clusters of farm buildings top- plea at the odges of precipices or seemed trombling from. the furies of roaring tor- vents, and above all, the meetings and part- ings with quaint peasant groups, to whom the shudowy flord was the only highway ever known, and who always shook hands with us as though we wero old and dear bad not seen for a decade and ted to see again, shouting and 3 uvels” to us as long as w o in sight—brought us only to the real begiu- ning ot U journey when it was already the bottom of the neve waving * fairly night down there uarrow walls of the fiord, Dark aed Forbidding, The place into which Peter dox guided our boat was the most forbidding and gruesome place I ever had the fortune to enter. From the middle of the stream the opening wus wholly unobservable, but my guide informed me that hundreds more like it could be found among the tremendo: 4 Norwegian fiords. It was prac- 0 feet high, and perhups as decp below the water's surface. Oue edge was almost as smooth and rounded as a Hewn pillar for all’ {ts mighty height. | I'he other, correspondingly hollowed, would | have closed aguiust it bad the same’ ne on- ceivable nuture force which separated it set itugain io place, with perf lamination and withoutan inch of variance or waste space. The two edges of these formations, reaching above the clouds, were not fifteen | feet apart at the entrance, but away in | there wero weird and awful depths, for whilesight could not penetrate them, the whispers, murmurs, plaintive songs and ously | sides, | larger accumulated volumes. hoarser threnodies of falling waters told the woudrous story of erosions, displacements, which the dead centuries had known. Not fifty fect from the entrance ovr boat grated against a_sheltering rock. It was almost as levelas o floor, and but a few inches above the water. Beyond this the rock had perhaps centuries before been eaten away or had given away, forming o covered hollow like half of a truncated cone. This spot, resembling a_section of the pre- historic bee hive huts of Treland, was to be our resting place for the night—a place which probably sheltered more human be- ings before me than the greatest and oldost hotel in Norway; and I thus learned of an- other interesting custom of Norwegian peas- antry. As I.have before pointed out, the tiords are their real highways. Jour- neys of hundreds of miles are still made by entire families or parties too poor, or too thrifty, to seck their shelter and food at the flordside hamlets. They have for ceatu used these natural-built stations. Their food, fuel, and shecpsking for covering are brought with them in their boats: and water, the sweetest, purest, coldest water in the world, is leaping or trickling from every rock. A Qunint Hgsploe. Peter had no sooner built a cheery fire— for each halting party from immemorial cus- tom contributes to the public supply, and there is always fuel at hand—than he ex- plained, torch in hand, some of the curious characteristics of this quaintest hospice I had ever beheld. A genuine Norwegian irn without a landlord, station without master, hotel without host. On the same rocky level, but just around a projection of the fissure wall, was & tiny paddock with little alls, knee high, built of loose stones. The source of certain unaccountable sounds I had already heara with dire foreboaings were now made clear. Three tiny Norwegian cows were munching een fodder, and twoof the tiniest calves 1 had ever stood gravely them, These mizht belong to the we were about to visit, Peter told any event, hero the peasintry, who often changed the grazing pl of thew little herds, penned the animals atuight; and the wise little things, conscious as their masters of the danger of night roaming or misstop, never budged from their few square yards of rock to which they were meckly led from the boats. Where we built our f fires had been lighted siuce the time of Harold Haarfagre, 1n a bole or little chamber in the rock were a few rude iron utensils which had po; been used for centurjes by these flord way- farers; and another little indention 1n the wall served as a sort of toll box, wh those who felt able or willing to do so de posited u (‘Hy ore, neatly the smallest coin in the wofTd, in tribute to the eagle nest farmer, thousands of feet above, to whose ssessions this strauge place was a sort of and outer lodge. Having drawn our boat upon- the rock we slept within it. It was a wakeful night for me. The soughing of the wind through the narrow fissure was full of ghostly plaiuts and voices; while the falling of near yet unseen waters of diffor- ing volumes from varying heights, sesmed almost articulate with wild speech and song; as if the mighty mythologic heroes of Norse- land in concolrse within this mysterious asm were returned for a night Lo chant their sugas there of love, of the chase and of wa beside gsmen me, In Miniature 1t was late when we had mysteriously disap| Peter was then sure they were I'rederickson’s on the cuiff top above. Their owner had come with a companion, and without disturbing us had slung the little animals over their shoulders and were now scaling the heights with them Peler said we must make haste, as the cows were to follow, and we should overtake the cragsmen at home before they began an- other descent. With a bitof food in our hands we started, Peter in the van. The way led, for a fow hundred feet, past the cragman's boat house, wlong the edge of what was, on three sides, an almost v hollow cube cut by nature from hollow stone. More than a score of waterfalls could be seen. Some scemed no larger than a white ribbou of lace waving down the black rock Others poured from cups and hollows And still others issued like spouting tunnels from cavernious holes fo the rocks. All fell in an immense pool of such great depth that the discharge of the waters from the black caularon was without ripple where they mingled with those of the flord. ‘T'he other side of the mighty hollow cube agaras, The calves was broken inte irregular masses of rock, some ploy s smooth as though polished by a tapidary, and between these tremendous displacements were powdered stone and detrius of sand, so I knew that some- time, thousands of years ago,a parcel of glacioys had tilted into the chasm and thus provided a not_altogether perilous way for our ascent. g path, forming al- together a di of perhaps two miles, led up the broken chasm side; and at three places huge timbers had been rmgeed for raising and lowering, with rude windlasses, animals, with huge leather bands fastened around their bodigs, and all things tl could not climb or be carried on these sturdy men’s backs. Here then was half the mystery of these famous eagle nest Norwe- gian farms removed. Peter said they were all equall ssible both upon the coasts and the flords. They have simply scemed inaccessible to those ' travelers who make books from steamer's decks, and have been put among the eagles, the clouds and the glaciers, in the pictures, without as much as a rope and swinging wicker basket toaid the reader’s imigination in safe ascent. Agreeably Disappointed. We met the head farmer and his son on their way back to #he fiord-side paddock, near the upper edge of the chasm. I was much more of a curiosity fo these good folk than they Lo me; for | was the first foreigner that had ever visited this, or, so far as I can learn, any othier eagle nest farm in Norway. Peter made them know easily enough who he was, and the greetings at the farm house, or houses, for several brauches of one family were huddled in great roomy houses along plate o rather an ovation than a welcome. 1 was altogether aisappointed; for I had looked forward to knowing in this experience the uttermost desolation in which human beings can sustain life. 1 was glad to find one of the cheeriest places I had Come upon anywhere in Norw The eagle nest farm compi 200 or 300 acres of partially tillable and grazing land, A mountain strcam ran through 1t. The cliff-edge above the flord was protected by low walls of timber and stone "The entire tract might be called a “swail,” or little corrie o ped depression such as you will find in the Scottish high- lands, In front was a misty line above the flord; then a mighty panorama of mountain, and waterfall us far as the eye could Behind, lay first a fjeld of shapeless “Then came i seemingly impenetrable ir. Above this was another line A gray masses of jagged stone, its upper edge serrated with streaks and gullies of snow, and_then the glittering range of ice upon the Dyrdal fjeld boyond. The light at this altitude, with white peaks every- where along the eircling horizon line, was painful and bhinding, after a week passed in the shadowy depths of the flord region belo There ed altogether o fine low, wide. stout timber- built homes; perhaps a hall score of out- buildings for flocks and hord: rranged s0as Lo protect as much as possible both humans and animals from the awful winter winds; & hugo sworchouse as big #s o village church for common uso, and & curious old mill forgrinding grain, where the stream tumbled into the chasm in which w passed the night. The larger farm or sort of pateiarch to them had a wide outer enclosed hall, this were bestowed on selyes, hung from pegs or stoed in corners, a strange col- lection of oars, fishing gear, rude farm im- plements, game' tiups, tremendous fur coats and rawhide boots, stags’ heads and antlers, Lusks of wild boars, powder horns and shot pouches and firearns of strange and antique pattern. The living rooms were four in number, nd square, leading from one h square openings, and in ach was an open fireplace us largo as I huve ever scen. Every article of furniture —long, low tables, uncouth but comfortable chuirs, cumberols chests, bunk beds built into and againss the walls, leavy snelves upon great pegs driven into th house timbers, and even the gaily painted bureaus with the housewives' names and dates of their marriage upon them—were ot home manufactur Peace and house, all, In Plonty, h all these evidences of ample content, it thin primitive environwent, 1 felt abashed at my own constautly recurring pre dencies Lo construct sociul and stures of meagerness and desola- tion where no such conditions existed. At middagsmad, or dinuer, which consisted of a sort of vegelable soup seasoued with bits of dried fish, the universal fladbrod, something like the Scottish bannoclk, black bread, in- ordinate quantitics of checse, butter, créam and mille, with great basins of tiny, but wondrously sweet jordbaeret or stratwber- vies, these things wero frankly spoken of, causing the greatest merriment among the family of ww host. What lacked thoy? Here were comforta- ble homes and their land, which had re mained_unquestioned in the one family since Norway was Norway. The women spun the yarn, wove the cloth, made the clothing they all wore and besidés attended to the cattle and worked much in the fields, The men felled timber in winter, hunted reindeer, trapped and shot game, sometimes went on long fishing and whaling enter- prises, and the land produced enough grain for food and grass for fooder, besides fur- nishing grazing for the animals of 1oss for- tunate peasants, who often brought their cows here for tho summer months, and which explained tho presonce of the three walting In the gorge beside the flord All these folk could read, though none had ever attended school. cauca- tion seems almost heredit and books, from the musty sagas prose poems of Anderson,” were piled upon the rude sholves above the fireplaces. Two or three times a year they went to church at Bakke. 'lheso wero great occasions and all went in boats together. In the long winter months the fires of the groat chimneys roared as loud as the mountain tempests ; with snow- shoes they visited other cagle nest homes and enjoyed much simple merry-making ; and from year in until yoar out, indeed from ono generation to another, they knew no in tricable exigency and experienced no need or loaging beyond their own mutual provis- ion and requitcment. More surprising than all, after we had de- parted—the entira “caglo nest” community accompanying us to the edgo of the chasm and sending many a he: y “Favel us, even when tho cliff had hidden th from sight—and whilo descending to the flord with the head farmer tnd his son, we learned that theso folk had never scen or kunown any ofiier of the law; aud that there was not even a tradition in the numerous family above our heads of a title to their lands being essential, or of any attempt ever naving been made for the collection of taxes upon any of these cglan_cagle nest farms. At L. WAKEMAN, e CONNUBIALLLLL Baby ribbon is much affected by orides- maids Mollie~That old man Hattie is going to isn't worth a dollar. Sarah—Of 2 not; he's only a remnant, Wifey—Have you still unkind thoughts of that old rival of yours? Hubby—Yes; 1 hate him because you jilted him “You ought 1o be very proud of your fant talker.” “You're vy 1 could listen to night. ofien do.” Miss New lived with her father in London, looked over the decaying stock of frayed nobility, came back to Indiana and married a Hoosier gentleman Matrimonial troubles Sibe When a couple country the bride must | dinner with her own hands, It is reported av Newport that Mrs ward Parker Deacon is 5000 to be married toa well known Frenchman, Count de Lur. enne of PParis, who is spoken of iu high terms by those who have met bim One of the most notable of the New York De v uuptial ovents will be that of Miss Katheriue Sands and Mr. ¢Iheodore Hav er, jr. which is slated to t place Décember 14. It will be & big wedding. The wedding W. Rt son of W. R. M president of th Elizabeth Maria John . New, oct vember Matrimony is evidently regarded as a dan experiment by the clerks of the lnte or department at Washington. A woman clerk, with the fear of the displeasure of her ofiicial superiors before her, recently asked the conseut of her department chief 10 be permitted Lo mar 3 sition, It was given, together with blessings of the department—but with the condition that the chief clerk and the secr vife, right her all begin early in re married in that pare Lthe weading Vandalia lines, and’ Miss New, daughter of Hon rred at Iudianapolis, No. tary should receive an iuvitation to th wedding and be permitied o kiss the brige. ¢ POPULATING NEBRASKA LANDS Immigration the Past Year May Not Have Exozeded 30,000 People, LAND AGENTS DI3CUSS THE SUBJECT Harvest Excursions Have Been a Disap- pointment—A Comparatively Smail Ac age of Land Settled—A Brighter Prospect for the Coming Xear, The year just ending has not given to Ne- brasku the number of enmigrants that previ- {ded to the population of > has been a considerable celers and the harvest most if not total railvoad standpoint, at ate. The falling off in home excursions of 1803 w s, from @ “The long period of financ and the World's fuir are large for the decrease in emigration, according to o well knowu railroad man who has made the emigration question u study for the past fifteen While the general al dopression y accountuble passenger agonts in this section have been active in setting forth itages of Nebraska for the home . the manufacturer and laborer ther been so many conditions work that less than 50,000 pe up their residence in this agere monwealth during the past year, a numbe that scems startlingly small, considered in the light of past y Land Commissioner MeAllister Union Pacific speaking of the lunas sofd along the system during the year suid: “There has been little done in the land bus- iness this year, but from ndications we hopeful of a good trade in the spring. Af secding time lasy fall the western and cen- tral parts of the state were subjectad to severe drouth cly ever paralleled in the history of the state. Notwithstanding this unfortunate circumstance our sales during the winterand spring months greatly ox- ceeded those of similiar period during tho past eight years, This activity continued up to about the middle of June, when the financiul stringency made itself 'folt among tho farmers, and sales dropped to a mini- mum, “There now appears to be a turn in the tide of affairs,and many inquiries are being re ceived from the middle and castern stutes as well as from Europ: from Chill, indicating that ou will snow ' considerable activity, am ot sanguine of 4 complete rel ¢ prosperous times until next sei op is harvested. Our agents inform e that from recent raius and appearances of the sprouting in, itwcations wi never more favorable for an excellent crop, “The sales of land on th pion Pacific in Nebraska during vhe past year are as fol- lows Connties, Colf Washington Merriek foward Hall HufTaio of the though 1 10 for Acres 60 A0 1,020 10,560 2.060 16,160 1,120 ay KKiniby '640 4,000 {ands," convinued eastern portion of Total ) bulk of our best Me, MeAllistor, “ir. the the state has long since been selected, yev the uusold lands would provide homes “for thousands of settlers as tollows Countles. Acres. Howard KOO Av. Price 00 5 00 00 5 00 00 00 8175 00 00 50 00 s scattered through ll‘mu'l Cheyenng +Aund about 2,500 the viirious counties adjoining the line of the roud in the castern portion of the state, incipal purchasers are from lowa, id Iilinois. We have disposed of some land to foreizuers, but not 'ze quantitic emigrants arviving within the state, from gur ovservation, are u worthy, intelli- gent class, possessed of some means, and will ultim: wove a credit to the lund of songor Burlington, when emigration for 18¢ been the poorest Agent IPrancis of the sked as to Nebraska's id: “The present has rin the lust ten for emigration to Nebraska. Our Iarvest exe cursions were very poorly patronized, the World's fair no doubt materially interfering with the move.ent of large boiics of home sceliers. ‘Then the s ion in all avenues. of busines: upon th country during the of July completely put a slop to 1 from the castto western ived quite u number of tern Illinois during the ho settied along the line of 1some of the middle tier of cossions to the population I thile will not reach 50,000 during 1893, Phelps county has veceived a great many settlers, as well as Gosper and Buffalo, but i number does not o pare by 50 per cent with the emigration of Then there hus been moro trading inland than outright purehase, live stock being the priveipal feature of these trading deals. Inquivies for land have not been acs and fhe best that can be said of the that so far as cmizration is cons it dedly off for 1 nother reason for the falling off in emis tion may be found in th luxed efforts on the part of land dealers Lo induce settlers to come into the state. Tiicse men have felo the stressful comdition of the times and have been compelled to all their agents throughout the ca states, contenting hemselves with irculation of pam= phlets and books by the mails. But emigra= tion is only obtafncd by porsonal soliciation in great part and here is found one of the causes for the deerease noted.’ J. It Buchunan, general passenger agent the Elkhorn, toid tne same story of the falling off 'in actual settlers from preceding years. Mo was hopeful, owevor, of a diffevent condit in 184, *Tne lklkhorn has v A number of uew scttlers along its northern line, the counties of Duwes, Cherry, Sheridan, Rocic, Hoit and Brown receivin the bulk of those who ha availea thems of the Elkhorn Valley systom to ao: from e ¢ summer, the Burlington counties,but th of pmes, ‘The Klikhorn has livtle land pul we are anxious to induce emis gration and help butid up the northern tier of countics, We are always striving, by letters in the weekly papers in the east, by pamphlets aud other printed matter, to bring Nebraska to tho attention of castern people, and we feel measuvably satisficd with the work done, The IElkhorn valley is the richs in the state, and Tik even in the November sun - - MOTHER'S WAY, Father Ry Jur little cottage ows gently full 1izh( touches softly faco upon the will Do we suthier elose tozother And in hushod and tender’ tone Ask eucn other full forgivene For the wroug that cach hus done, Oft withir As the sl Whilo th Do you we u AT thie ¢ Eye and volco would quic 1t was once our mother's Wiy, 1f our home be hright and cheery, 121t hold & weleome true, Opening wide its door of groeting To tho wany, 1ot the few, If wo share our Father's hounty) With the necdy, day Ly day "Tis because our hoarts ren Thiis wits our mother's wiy tou iswert wher Bometimes when our Learts grow wearg, Orour tasks xeon vory long When our burdens look too ldavy, Aud e deen) the right all wr Then we fresh courage As wo rl: itly say; “Lt us do our duty bravely, This wus our mother's wiy Thus we keep he Mark th i of the day-— They iy fnd us walting calily, T6 g0 Liowe our 1other's ways