Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 18, 1895, Page 2

2 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1895, braska? young American in Burope thought of Ame fca. He thought that there was no place like America. When shown the capital of a for- elgn state he would say, ‘That is beautiful, grand, but If you would see something worthy of your highest admiration you should see our American capital at Washington.' ‘When shown the great rivers of Europe, he would compliment them and then add that they were dwarfs compared to the great Misstssippl and the Missouri over yonder. When shown Buropean factories with their thousands of operatives he would answer that they were no comparison to tha American factories, set to music by the thousands of well fed and well educated American citizens. This, of course, beeame monotonous to the | other fellows and they concluded that they would put him in a condition where he would acknowledge himeelf and his country beaten so they got him drunk; out I might add hero that this American did not come from Nebraska. He surely came from lowa over there or from down in Kausas. Any- way they got him drunk, put him in a coffin, and laid hin away on one of the shelves in the catacombs at Rome, The other fellows were watching resuits, and finally our Ameri- can, overcoming the stupor of sleep and of his drunk, awoke. He knew not what it meant. Bewildered, he said, ‘Am 1 crazy, sick, or druck? Where am 17 What am 1, and who am 1?7 Then looking up and see- ing thousands of human skulls looking down upon him, he exclaimed, Ah, I understand it all. This'is the grand morning of the resur- rection of the dead and I, an American, am its first fruits. Hurrah for America.’ “And #o I say today, that Nebraska spring- ing, thirty years ago, from the bosom of the Great American Desert, “the product of pa- triotism, toil and hardship, is the object of just pride to overy Nebraskan. No young Nebraskan would be loyal to his state, to the men who made her what she is, to himself or to his future, did he not kay, ‘Hurrah for Nebraska.’ STATE FAIR AND PIONEER DAY. “Today at the commencernent of my talk o you I would congratulate Nebraska upon having a state fair. Not a county fair, not a local horse show, but a great, big, efficient Board of Agriculture, embracing all the in- dustrial interests of the state, interesting all our people and which for years has been an able and useful factor in building up the state. A= I have gone to this state fair from year to year, as I have scen It grow with the state and become better each succeeding year, an experiment at first, a success at last, as I come on the grounds of this state falr at Omaba, quickened with a new en- vironment and a new interest, as I see the arrangements which this management has made for the entertainment and instruction of the puogle, as I see all the diversified In- terests 0f our state gathered here, and Ne- braska greater and grander than ever before, I continually think of that phrase familiar to you all, ‘Get there, Eli,’ only my mind re- verts to the fact that this state fair, this management and old Nebraska herself have gotten there long ago and that Eli has not yet come up. But more than all I would congratulate this state fair management for giving Nebraska a day which more than all others belongs to her—the Ploneer day at this state fair. It took this state fair man- agement years to wake up to the fact that Nebraska had her ploneers, but at last they begin to realize that their own hairs are becoming silvered, that their forms are be- coming bent and that the eye no longer has the twinkle of its youth. Year by year they miss the old faces and the familiar volces of the men who a quarter of a century ago started with themselves the work of building a state. “And, my friends, nothing is more appro- priate than setting aside this day, which the ploneers of this western country can call their own. Henceforth they can lay down their work for a_moment, make their yearly pligrimages to this, the Mecca, which they have built themselves, tell the old stories, quicken the old friendships, form new ones and live the old life over again. No state can afford to neglect her pioneers. The history of Nebraska will never bs written and well written untll the individual history of her early characters is placed on its pages. The history of Nebraska should be an enco- mium on her pioneers. OF HISTORICAL VALUE. “Assoclations like this are being formed all over this country, not only for the pur- pose of arousing emotion, fecling and re- spect, which truly enough cluster around them, but also for the purpose of perpetuat- ing history. A hunared years ago, when the suryivors of our great revolutionary struggle still lived, how Important would have been an organization similar to this. Great batties and their details would not have been left to chance or the memory of the historian, nor today would there be a dispute going on down east as to whether General Putnam or General Prescott commanded the forces at Bunker Hill. No, that question would have been settled by the actors then upon the stage, who knew from personal knowledge the events as they transpired. Could these men but speak old Massachusetts would have another monument of glory from the luster it would give to Bunker Hill, “So, too, this Ploncer day at the state fair will d5 as much as any other agency to perpetuate the carly history of Nebraska. And, my friends, this 17th day of September, 1895, the Pioreer day of this fair, should be an_ auspicious day for several reatons. Not only from the fact tkat it is the first day of its kind in the history of our fair, not only from the fact that we meet here as pioneers and citizens of a great state, and of a still greater nation, but after the great drouth of 1894, general all over the state, and leaving in lis path only depression, discouragement and stagnation of trade, it is especially fitting that the people of this state should meet here today, and with the conditions so different from a year ago, with granaries full from the harvest past, with magnificent fields of maturing corn, with the products which you see here, tokens of a bountiful harvest, and above all conscious from these things, that God has not forgotten us nor our countiy, to rejoice in the successes of the past and the hope of the future. “Who questions the providence of Al- mighty God? I believe it was the provi- dence of Almighty God which directed the lone voyager across the pathless sea, and when the mutiny of a crew would have sub- verted the spirit of discovery and lost this continent to the world for centuries, I believe 1t was that same providence which answered opes of Columbus by a new continent and a new epoch in history. I believe It was God's providence that landed the Puritan on Plymouth Rock, and the Cavalier at Jamestown, and I believe it was that same providence which afterwards mingled these two bloods on the battlefields of the great clvil war, and out of them forged the great American union and the still greater Ameri- can people. And today, ladies and gentlemen, I believe it was the providence of Almighty God which has rewarded ‘the patience and long-suffering’ of the people of western Ne- brakka with the abundant harvest of 1895. PAST PROPHETIC OF THE FUTURE. “But there are thoughts other than the prosperity of the present which cluster around this day. Thoughts of the bardships of the past as well as the successes of the present; thoughts of the ploneer as well as of the stranger, and I have been asked to talk to you today of the ploneer and the ploneer days, and, my friends, I want to say to you that the name of this day, these pioneers, their gray hairs and bent forms, old Ne- braska herself, a monument to the patience and labor of these men, all epochs of his- tory, are far more eloquent of this oceasion and of the early history of Nebraska than anything which 1 can say to you today. ““The history of any country Is wrapped up the men who made it. Part of the terri- Jal history of Nebraska was forever lost with the men who sleep in southern graves and where the fortunes of war have left them. Part of her history as a state and as a part of the civilized world la gone and is going H by year to the grave and part of it is re today. and this part will be unappre- eclated until it 1s gone and history is lost with it. This thing of homoring & man only when he is dead is & sad commentary on the Anglo-Saxon race. *““We must not forget the ploneer. We have established this day at our fair for the pur- s of teaching our young men and women hat what we now enjoy as cltizens of the atate, our wealth, our education, onr se- eurity, our happiness and our progress did not come from the air or sky, beautiful as are, did not come from the soll, ferille a8 it is, but from the brain and brawn and heart of our pioneers. We should come here for the purpose of learning history; wi come bere to see all the countles of our on dress parade; we should come here to see their products and thelr displays and to read from these progress of our state; we ml:mmlonloml py faces and hear volces and from them to learn the :-uruv of our pecple. and from all this ge the future us Patrick Henry of Vir- sald we alone ean, by the past. “Nebraska means more to us than any They think of Nebraska as lh.' other | her history, What do. we care for the rocks | and woods of Maine? What do we care for the snow capped peaks of Vermont and her ' quarries of marble? What do we care for all New England and the traditions of ~her people, unless we are assoclated with them? What do we care for the sunny south or the | romantic name of ‘Old Virginia,' unless our | history bas been a part of these? No! owr | | inspirations and traditions are here beeause | our homes are here. Our prairies and muddy | streams in which we have bathed and fished | are as dear to us as the mountains and | streams of New England are to the New Englander. GLORIES OF THE GREAT WEST. “The New Englander builds a dam on the | mountain stream; erects a factory and ex- hanges Its products for wealth and ,pros- | perity. The great morth cuts her magnifi- | cent timber and floats it down her great rivers to the agricultural west and to the new and industrial south, And the new south, new in the language of Henry W.| Grady, because of new Ideas and new condi- tions, ‘plants her great flelds in cotton and under the inspiration and spur of free labor commands the market and respect of the world, But the great agricultural west, greater than them all, plants her miilions of acres In wheat and corn and becomes the beacon of the impoverished world. The great west from the drouth of 1894 has demon- strated that she is able to take care of her own poor and she has demonstrated also from the time thaf her virgin sod was first turned and planted in wheat and corn that her cars of grain are free the world over where- ever there is human want and human pov- erty. “If T were to choose a portion of the United States whose future would be greater than any other, because of physical conditions, because of political position. I should choose the spot on which we stand today. I know it Is true that people of all ages have over- estimated their country and their age Greece believed in the fabled labors of Her- cules, the siege of Troy and the Golden Fleece. She glorfed in the Helenle name and thought that Zeus was supreme. Today her gods are only names. The Roman toga, that emblem of Roman citizenship, was the passport to wealth and power and ‘I am a Roman’ was the proudest boast of them all. Two centuries later the barbaric peoples of the north swept down upon Rome, and where the pulse and the heart of the world once beat there is only ruin and decay. “England, that wave-bound island of the sea, encircles the world with her military outposts, and her morning drum beat follows the course of the sun, but, thank God, that that line of military outposts and the martial music of her war drums Is interrupted by 3,000 miles of American soil, and by the great throbbing life of the American people. God Almighty never intended that this coun- try should be anything but a barrier to royal aggresssion. He intended it to be the highway for human progress and a great asylum where the common people of this world could live and love and labor. Do 1 overestimate the country in which we live? I answer that there is no further west. This old world has transferred to us her forces of good and evil and here the final epoch of her history must be written: here the fi~al drama will bs played; here the cycles of the years will begin and end. As the Un'ted States from physical conditions, from political posi- tion and from the great ethnical charactsr of her people is the greatest and controll ng force among the nations of the world, so the western part of the United S'a‘es Is th greatest of its sections, and as the Un'ted States has interests peculiar to itself, in- Qustrial and financial interests, which the world 1s bound to respact, so the west ha interests peculiar to itself, indusirial and financial interests, interests In the great money ques'fon, if you ple-se, whch the nor h and which the south and, above all, which the east must respect. The great west has brains enough to know what she wants anl she has the manhood to demand it. NEBRASKA, TERRITORY AND STATE. “But what of Nebraska and her history? The formation of the Nebraska territory was the outgrowth of the ambition of Stephen A. Douglass to becomo president of the United States. But before Nebraska bad sorved her territorlal probation Stephen A. Dovg'ass. th t ‘Little Glant,’ that born leader, the originator of the Kansas and Nebraska bill and ‘the high priest of squatter sovereignty,’ was in his grave and his political ambitions buried forever and those of his party for years to come. “Nebraska has been for twenty-eight years a state; back of that, twelve years a territory; back of that, a part of the Loulsiana Pur- chase; back of that, a part of the territorial possessions of France; back of that, all this western country belonged to Spain, from the time Coronado, that Spanish cavaller, cen- turles ago, unfurled the banner of Spanish conquest, leading his little band up the “Great River” Into the territory which we oecupy today. Twenty-elght yecars as a state and twelve years as a territory covers the civil- 1zed history of Nebraska, and this assemblage here is composed of the pioneers and builders of our state. This day commemorates the settlement of Nebraska and from the stand- point of thirty years to look back upon the reverses as well as the successes of the past, and from them to contemplate what the future holds, “The human heart by natural impulse bursts the barriers of selfish interest, of prejudice and of localism, and does homage to those who have lightened and lessened the labors of men, whether in the domain of in- ventfon, the field of philantropy, or the science’ of government; and today, friends, we are lero to participate in casion which does honor to those whose patriotism gave us free soil and free men, and whose labor afterward gave us all that we have today. And well might wo honor the men who years ago turned their backs to the old homes in the east and thelr faces to the new, who left the old mountain home with its trees a century old, under whose shade they had prattled thelr chilahoud y and which had been the inspiration of their youth, for the prairie home, with no shade except the shadows of darkness by night or the clouds by day. They came to bulld for themselves homes and in building homes to state. Then the geographies of the time and the map of the world branded all this country as the Great American Desert. Today our geographies and our maps know it no longer as the Great American Desert, but as Kansas and Colorado and Nebraska, and as a part of the great sisterhood of states. They came to build homes and to make a state. Today those homes are bullt; that state is made and the American Desert is but a name. No such change has ever been recorded in the history of the world. Thirty years ago we had only earth and air and sky; today a great state, with instit tions worthy of her older sisters, with a free ballot and free schools, with thousands of frea school houses, a permanent school fund, sufficient school lands to insure a great sys- tem of free education to our state, and above all a million and a balf of as intelligent and patriotio citizens as can be found anywhere on the face of the globe. In a word, we have harnessed our free soil and our free men to the great chariot of progress and under the nurturing care af absolute liberty have be- come great. But, after all, I want to tell you that it is the people of Nebraska, with @ less percentage of illiteracy than the people of any other state, which constitutes her wealth. It is the manhood, which in the great drouth of 1894 rose up and sald that Nebraska was able to take care of her own poor, which keeps her bonds above par, “It is written somewhere in the literature of the world that ‘Men, high minded men, constitute a state.” No other class of men in the face of the natural elements, in the face of the Kansas and Nebraska bill and the squatter soverelgnty which it brought could have bullt suck a state as we have today. “While riding through the state some time ago I passed a farm which had upon it three houses. There was the old log house, bullt forty years ago, the corner stone of a family. There that young man and that young woman, the fairest and best in all the world, had started life together, and there the first child was born. Then came the little board house, bullt from the first lumber that had been ‘sent info the western country. Un painted and plain as it was, it was the pride and boast of all that section and was pro- phetic *of thie palmier days to come. My friends, would you know more of this little log cabin and this plain board house? Then you must go with me lato the back yard and examine more closely the wood house, the wagon shed, or perhaps the chicken house, which they are today, obscured as it were by the spacious, well painted, typical farm house of the present. There is local history, my friends, there Is evolution, there is prog- ress for less favored peoples to ponder. NO PLACE FOR POLITICS. “Al this state fair and upon this Ploneer day where men of all parties gather together, not as partisans, but as citizens and plo- neers, all discussion of pelitics should be | avolded, but as some one Las said, what was ate In the union and we should know | politics thirty years ago Is history today and every Nebraskan is interested in knowing how, and under what auspices Nebraska be- o territory and the incldents of its settloment. “In 1800 Thomas Jelerson became presi- dent of the Unit:d States. 1n 1803, repudiat- Ing the tenets of his party and unwarranted by the constitution of the United States, in which there is no provisien for the holding or acquisition of forelgn terrtory, Thomas Jefferson, 1 say, breaking party faith and violating’ the constitution of his country, made the Loulsiana purchase and started that acquisition of territory which gave us Kansas, Nebraska and all the northwest, and which afterward, under the same policy, gave us California, Florida and Texas. This purchase was a stroke of diplomacy which ed this western country not only from e, but from England as well. England waitzd an opportunity to sail across the sea, and when Napoleon was busy with his European wars, to wrest half a continent from France and set up an empire of her own. “Misgouri was a part of the Louisiana pur- chase, und when admitted as a slave state in 1820, after one of the greatest debates in the history of congress, it was enacted that slavery’ and involuntary servitude, otherwise than In punishment for crime, should be forever probibited in all the Louislana purchase north of 36-30. This law was the famous Missouri compromise, the compromise of Henry Clay, and standing as a_law, protected Kansas, Nebraska and all the northwest from the curse of human slavery. Now it was that the great north, her whigs and democrats, thought that slavery was forever confined to the limits mentioned in that bill. Heie was an act of congress in the form of a compromise. The slave power had Missour and all the south as its territorygand the northwest was dedi- cated to freedom. This was the contract entered into by the representatives of the north and the representatives of the south in the congress of 1820, and the provisions of this contract, like any otner, should have besn sacred. We shall see the falth of the two parties to the contract thirty years later ¥ AS AND NEBRASKA BILL. “In 1852 Henry Clay died at Washington and in the same year Daniel Webster d at his home in Massachuseus. Nearly dead already, th: great whig party now became extinct. The same year the democratic party had carried the north, the south and the west and Winfleld Scott, running as the whig candidate for president, out of 296 elec- toral votes received but furty-two. Every state on the North American continent ex- cepting Massachusetts, Vermont, Kentucky and Tenne:see was democratic. In the lan- guage of Colonel Forn:y of Pennsylvania, a democrat himself, ‘Both houses of congress the supreme court of the United States, the army and the pavy, the press, the social aristocracy and in a large degree the church itselt were dependents, tributaries, echoes and defenders of slavery and the democratic party.’ Two years later, in 1854, the Kan- sas and Nebraska bill was passed. Kansas and Nebraska were formed as territories un- der the doctrine of equatter sovereignty. The Missouri compromise had be:n repu- diated and the great slavery struggle was transferred from congress to the people Washington was deserted aud the war tents were pitched on the plains of Kansas. The north, hitherto divided and in honor bound to maintain the Missourl compromise, was now aroused to union and a determination that the south should not open the west to very. ‘The north was set free. Her democracy and her whigs were united and she accepted the challenge of the south to settle the question of human slavery or human freedom on the prairies of Kansas and Nebraska. The south expected, Jeffer- son Davis expected, Senator Atchison of Missouri expected, to send all Missouri \cross the river in a night and stamp slavery on Kansas soil forever, and when Kansas was once opened to slavery, then Nebraska would have been made a slave state also But the great and splendid north was equal to the emergency. The first scttiers were to decide the question and the people of New England and the north said: ‘We will be the first settlers.’ Th2 young manhood and the young womanhood of the north sprang at the call of liberty when the hand- cuffs of the Missourl compromise were broken, not by themselves, but by the south, in th> repudiation of her contract. “Kansas was populated in the twinkle of an eye. The great Sumner of Massichusetts spoke of her settlements as follow ‘A few short months only have passed sines this mediterranean country was open ouly to the savage, who ran wild in its woods and prairies, and now it has already drawn to its bosom & population of freemen, larger than Athens, crowded within her historic gates, when her sons, under Miltiades, won liberty for mankind on the fleld of Marathon; more than Sparta contained when she ruled Greece and sent forth her devoted children, quick- ened with a mother’s benediction, to return with their shields on them; more than Rome, gathered on her seven hills, when under her kings she commenced that soverelgn sway which afterward embraced the whole earth; more than London held when on the fields of Crecy and Agincourt the Bnglish banner was carried victoriously over the chivalrous hosts of Francs.’ “This is the way Kansas was settled. She became a vast military camp. Here the first gun of the rebellion was fired iIn 1855. That attack was the knell of human slavery. “I need not go into the details of that great contest in Kansas, and when I speak of Kan- sas 1 speak of Nebraska also, for all of th's territory was included in the Kansas and Nebraska bill, and the fate of Kansas would have been the fate of Nebraska. The world knows this history by heart. It began when slavery was the controlling force in the gov- ernmént of this country; it enled, my friends, when the Lecompton constitution went down amid the groans and curses of the slave power; it ended when the sweat and blood and votes of the people of Kansas, under the doctrine of squatter sovereignty, pa'd the price of free Institutions and set up that rock of human liberty which finally wreck:d the confederacy and the slave power. “My friends, you have read of ths 300 Spartans who beat bick the impatuous march of Xerxes at the pass of Thermorolae; you have read of the old guard of Napoieon; you have read of the charge of the ‘Six Hundred, noble Six Hundred,’ but in the logic of even's far grester was the struggle in Kansas again t Buchanan and the Lecompton constitution where free soll men, where whigs, where democrats, where men of all parties stood in the Thermopolae of freedom and beat tack southern aggres:lon In a recistance wh'ch finally broke 4,000,000 of shackies and which gave a new meaning to the American consti- tution and the American nation. And today well may we congratulate ourseivis that such was the course of history in Kansas, for the institiutions of Kansas are the Inst'tu- tlons of Nebracka, and had slavery predomi- nated in Kan it would have pr-dominated in Nebraska also, and, slavery fastzned upon her institutions, our history would have been a repetition of the history of Virginia. No- where greater than in old Virgnla had God Almighty placed the elements of wealth and greatness, He had plac:d in her rock- ribbed mountains the materials which build the world and the forces which propel its machineey; he had given her an Egyptian soil; he had given her seasons which were all rain and sunshine, and above all he set- tled her with a great people, and ro sta'e played such a part in the early history of this country as did Virzin'a. Yet sl.very :nd slave labor were fast:n:d on her for centurics. They paralyzed her industries, they finally destroyed her commerce, and today she thirty years bebind her northern sisters. “At the close of the clvil war this country had what patriotism had given her—free soil and free men. Upon that free soil and with those free men we have bullt a mag- nificent commonwealth. The sweat of labor has been coined into a thousand evidences of wealth and today we are here to celebrate the ‘victories of peace, greater than those of war.' A thousand agencies and sources have contributed to our growth. First of all is the ploneer. Those who are dead have Ne- braska for thelr monument, those who still live will have a greater monument, for Ne- braska will continue to grow. Then comes the younger generation, children of the ploneers, whose names will be interwoven in the future history of the state as the names of their fathers are in its past. But of all the agercies which have bullt up Nebraska there is one without which all others would have labored in—the pioneer pr It has been the defender of our institutions, of our soll and of our people. Some one has sald that wherever there were two or three stores and a blacksmith shop there the newe- er man went also, and he went to stay. fhow me editor’'s town that is not the best In the conntry. His business is to boom the town and to paiut pletures of what it does not contain. He leads the county seat t and makes negotiations with the new railroad. If it goes to the other town it fs only & jerkwater line anyway, the trunk iine will be slong presently. No reverse of fortune eou! bridle his impetuosity or rdor, He was never known Lo | €0 Into the Wands of a receiver. ploneer sheet gnd you will see weekly affidavits that| our climate ranks first and Italy's second.” \Whoever heard of an editor being frozen tc death? Years vottom suddenly dropped out of the, ther mometer In wintaf) and people were lost and frozen in blizzards, he could not be sparcd and was kept 'bfisy denying the absurd rumors that people were frozen to death. | Here is an editorial on the new geography which brands;ghis country as the Amcrican desert and ah ' aMdavit attached that Ne- braska is a flell-of flowers. As he was ul then so is he useful today. With the Ef#th of Nebraska our state press has grawh also and today we have a press whose cirewlation and influence are not confined to the porders of a single state. The Nebraske state fair is the creature of our state, and county papers as much as of anything else. IFrom the inception of this State Board of Agriculture as an Institution of our state, from the time when it was an experiment up to its present magnificent suc- cess, our newspapers have always given it loyal and friendly support. This day, there- fore, should have a speclal significance to our state press as one of the agencies contribut- ing most to a state which has given birth to our state fair and to a fair which has given birth to this Pioneer day of Nebraska. FROM ALL THE OLD STATES. “Our &tate is made up of all states. We might eulozize many states here today, which hava contributed their talent and their wealth to us. We might eulogize New York, for she has given us two senators and J. Sterling Morton; we might culogize New England, for Massachusetts has given us a senator and a governor; we might eulogize Pennsylvania for the same reason and for the still greater reason that sic has glven us thousands of her best citizens; we might eulogize the south, for Kentucky bas given us a governor; we might eulogize Ohlo, for Ohio has given Nebraska that promoter of agricultural and educational interests, that friend of the common people of our state Robert W. Furnas; we might eulogize the pine regions of the north, for Wisconsin has given us that peerless senator from Ne braska, John M. Thurston. “But my friends in honoring these men as wo do we honor the states which bore them. We need only eulogize Nebraska and we have eulogized them all and Nebraska needs no eulogy. We can say of her as Danlel Webster said of the history of Massachusetts ‘“The world knows it by heart, and there let it stand. The bones of her sons falling in the revolutfon lie mingled with the soil of cvery state from Maine to Georgla.' And so I say of the history of Nebraska. ‘The world knows it by heart and there let it stand. The past i3 s , the future is what we make it. The pioneer dies, but the work goes on. ‘Equality before the law,’ the motto of the infant state, continues to be the motto of our great commonwealth. “Let us perpetuate that motto and be just; let us practice it and oppress no man; let us remember the pioneer and the early struggles which made it possible. That motto, my friends, has besn our star and the old star which has led us from the wilderness should be followed still."” OF INTEREST TO VISITORS, Reed Collec nt Public One of the Best. Visitors to Omaha are invited to make a thorough inspection of the public library, and especially the Byron Reed collection. In ad- dition, to an exhibition of curios in this line, unexcelled in any part of the west, will be found a death’ mask of Napoleon the Great. Only five of itg like are in existence. The Byron Reed collection, including books, autograph, cdins dnd paper money, ranks third in the Unjted States. Of the colns there are 6,869 pieces, of which 474 are pat- terns. The patterns, as they show the selec- tions made by. the government or rulers, are quite necessary to a complete collection, The medals of the United States and for countries numbr 1,280 and include many beautiful specimens in gold, silver and bronze. It is a difficult matter to speak briefly of the rare or (icresting pieces among the coing. Beginning with the colonial serics of the United States one can find the northeast shilling, the pine tree and oak tree shilling, 6d and '3d of Massaehusetts, the Lord Balti- more pieczs, Mark Newby penny and at least ten varietles of the Washington cent, the Washington disme and the Martha Washing- ton half disme. Then follows the coins first issued by government authority. beginning in 1793 with the cent and half cent, the rare 1804 dollar, the $50 goid piece, the Mormon gold coits, etc. Among the interest- ing patterns are seven trade dollars of 1873, one of which was adopted, a dozen designs for the 20-cent plece, which circulated for but a short time. The $4 gold plece is another rare and curious pattern. The United States coins In th2 collection extend down to a proof set of 1890, and considering the trifling expense it is thought that they will be kept up each year, embracing at least the regular issues. It is stated on good authority that ths ancient series in the Reed collection ranks first in the United States. It begins with the carliest coins, the drachma of Aegina, 700 to 500 years B. C., bearing the emblem of the turtle. About the third gold coin extant is the Persian darics, 521 to 485 B. C. It is at this period that' coins became artistic, those that are considered standards of art even today. Among them are coins of Macedon, Lysimachus and Alexander; in sil- ver and’ gold of Augustus, Julius Caesai Nero, Titus, Trajan and Hadrian, each with a perfectly executed portrait of these rulers. The collection in this regard is full. The coins of the Ptolemys are very like those of the ancient Greeks and extend from 323 B. C. to a coin of Cleopatra 50 B. C. In the col- lection of Jewish colns there is to be seen the shekel, one-half shekel, the widow's mite, Caesar's tribute penny, pieces of Pontlus Pliate and Hercd the Great. Among the tarly English are found the James I farthings, the firsc copper coin of England, the rose noble of Eaward 1V, the early siiver pennies and what was called Peter's pence. Here also are found very good pieces of Cromwell's time and the com- monwealth coins. Later on came Victoria's jubilee sat. In the French series there is the gold angel of the Thirteenth century, pieces of Louis X1V, and a five-franc picce of Napoleon, struck during the first 100 days, in 1815, The Ilibrary has the earliest ducats of Austria, a complete set of the medals of Lud- wig I of Bavaria, said to be the only perfect set in the United States, gold, silver and cop- per colns of Ferdinand ard Isabella and coins issued by papal authority. The most curious money is that of the Oriental countries, namely the bullet money of Siam, the copper money of Morocco, the silver money of Persia, Hindoostan and the Congo free states, The awtographs In the collection number 1,029 with cnly twenty-one facsimiles. Of this large assortment only 197 are exhibited. The others are placed on file &nd can be brought out for examination. To Americans the auto- graph letters of, the signers of the Declaration of Independence and those of the various presidents are most interesting. Many of Library them are very rarey especially thoss of the | signers of the declaration. Although this set is a very good one, Mr. Reed had not quite completed it _and (ihere is still lacking five signatures. Theee it is hoped to add as soon as the library appropriations will allow such an expenditure. The presidential letters ex- tend in an unbroken line to Grover Cleve- land. v . Of the rovally. dilpgraphs of England the collection begins with Henry VIII. From James I to Vigtoria there lacks only three. French rulers are rgpresented from Charles VII—1422 and 144140 Napoleon 1. There are no other sets.of monarchs, but a good miscellaneous “68I1E8tion and the same of famous compos W musicians. Of the Stof I of generals and_ noted characters of the Revolution and rebellion there is an ellent showing. American statesmen_and fans, authors, the gov- ernors of Nebra d mayors of Omaha, all are well representéd in Mr. Reed’s collection. People are already showing a disposition to ald the library in perfecting the various ser- fes and with their help and good will the collection will be greatly increased. Through the kindness of Hon. J. M. Wool- worth the library is enabled to exhibit for a week a death mask of Napoleon. This was taken by Dr. Antomarchi, who was Napol- eon’s last physiclan, and’ with him at the time of his death. in 1836, Dr. Antomarchi was at Matamoras, and remained thero through the winter, a guest of a Mexican nobleman. In the spring he and the noble- man started for Cuba by way of Yucatan. As the journey had (o be made on mule back the doctor left a large chest at the house of his friends. The Mexican had not proceeded far on this trip before he was taken i1l and was obliged to return. Dr. Antomarchi continued his journey and took ship to Cuba. He died on shipboard. The chest he had lef: 3t Matamoras was opened after his death and found to contain a mask, a case of surgical lnsirumeuis and several Take up l, g0, when the | medieal works. Dr. McManus, the son-in-law of the Mexican nobleman, and an American physfelan now living in Matamoras,, pre- sented the mask to Captain Guy Howard while he was on avisit to Matamoras with his father, General Howard, who was on a tour of inspection of the southern forts, about three years ago. Dr. McManus says he has allowed plaster casts to be taken by several American officers, but there arc but five of the original bronze masks. One in the Brit- ish, two in the Louvre, one in New York and the I}Md collection contains the fifth, THE FARMER'S of Agriculturnl Tmple- ts for I . Although the State Board of Agriculture has offered no premiums for the exhibition of farming implements the display of agricul- tural machinery is the most extensive and one of the most instructive exhibits on the falr grounds. At former state fairs this feature of the exhibition has been carried out in a perfunctory manner as a necessary ac- companiment of a big exposition, but never beforo has such interest and activity been manifested on the part of the deale The Omaha and Couricil Bluffs dealers have cele- brated the location of the stae fair at their doors by outdoing themselves in a rivalry as to whom should belong the honor of con- tributing the most attractive and Interesting display. Added to these are the exhibits of nearly every outside firm of first importance, and the aggregate result of their efforts is a surprise to every visitor to the fair. The implement district is located on the slope immediately west of the Mercantile building, and covers several acres with its magnificent display. Many of the exhibitors bave erected vulldings which compare favor- ably with the more pretentious architecture of ie main buildings and these are filled to overflowing with every imaginable accessory to the labor of the farm. Rising in the rear of the buildings is a veritable forest of wind- mills, whose variegated sails are swiftly whirling under the impulse of the September breeze. Nearly every patent of windmill that is known to the Nebraska farmer Is bere,in operation, and the comparison of their merits affords the thrifty farmer a valuable opportunity to inform himself before adding one of these labor-saving devices to the para- phernalia of his farm. The display of wagons and carrfages is one of the most important teatures of this branch of the exposition. It would be diffi- cult to imagine a make of vehicle that is not here in evidence, and all the newest and most popular patterns in carriages are displayed for the edification of the crowd. In farm wagons @ number of new and useful devices have been introduced during the last year or two, and they are ail to be seen. Large family carriages are not generally exhibited, the preference being given to single rigs and the regulation two-seated wagon that is the apple of every good farmer's eye. ATTRACTS THE FARMERS. Crossing the creek and into the extreme northwest rn corner of the grounds the visitor arrives at the level stretch of gre.n sward, where the bulkier pleces of farm machinery are displayed. Here is an array that holds the attention ot the practical farmer and arouses that inherent ambition to the owner of a threshing machine, which ‘s said to sooner or later disturb the dreams of ry young farmer and some of the old ones. Traction engines by the dozen are moving back and forth and exhibiting their power of turning sharp corners, while an equal number of threshing machines in full tilt are showing their comparative ability to turn out the Kernels of wheat without wasting even a shred of straw. The display of pumps deserves considera- tion. They are fhere in all patterns and most of them in operat'on. Obiiging attendants ara ready to explain their operation to all comers and the visitor can find out more about pumps in five minutes than he would learn in a lifetime under any other circumstances. There is a tremendous array of the smaller corts of implements. All possible kinds of sulky plows, harrows, potato diggers and scores of implements of comparatively recent invention are among the exhibits. Power for the operation of machinery and every other necessary or desirable facility for dis- play are provided upon the grounds. The fact that this immense display was complete before the gates were opened yesterday re- flects great credit on Superintendent E. S. Hawley and the exhibltors, and in this re- spect the department has excelled most of the others, PLENTY BYRE, OF ROOM FOR ALL. Thousands of Rooms Prepared for Guests and Yet Unoceupled. Cots were brought Into use in some of the principal hotels in the city last night. Yester- day was a fair sample of what Nebraska's great show could do as an opener in the way of attracting large crowds, but today's number of visitors in the city will far distance yester- day's registering. The applicants for rooms started In at an early hour yesterday morning and the regis- ters at the various hostelries at noon showed from one to three pages of names. As soun as rooms were assigned the visitors in most instances left for the fair grounds, so that the rotundas of the larger houses at no time presented a crowded appearance. No one hus been turned away from any hotel as yet, and no great demand has been made upon the boarding houses. The fair visitors have bean well handled by the hotel men of the city and the service has been uniformly good, and no expense that could add to the com- fort of the guests had been spared. Tne report circulated in portions of the state that accommodations in this line in Omaha would prove inadequate has thus far proved untrue. At no time since the open- ing of the fair have any of the hotels been crowded to their utmost capacity, and though some of the rooms have been “‘doubled up,” as Is ordinarily expected at such times, the supply has been greater than the demand. In addition to the large number of family hotels tiat have made arrangements to enter- tain strangers in the city the Young Men's Christian association has a list of 2,500 rooms in private residences that have as yet re- celved no applicants. The fact that the majority of sightseers are transitory in character and stay in the city but a short time, explains in part why no demand has been made upon Omaha's reserve accommo- dations. SEEN THE FISHERIES. Members of Allve and Dead. It was a happy thought that prompted Sup- erintendent May of the Fishery building to erect railings and keep the visitors to this popular resort moving to the right ail the time. Yesterday the building was erowded with gchool boys and girls as well as their elders. The children were there before Mr. May, who was out shortly after 8 o'clock, and it seemed as though some of the little ones would never move away from the turtles, the large bull frogs, and the other exhibits which held their rapt attention. Eleven years ago, when Commissioner May attempted the first fishery exhibit within the state, at Lincoln, the amount of floor space given to the display was thirty-five feet. To- day over 5,000 square feet of space 13 crowded with exhibits illustrating not only the In- dustry itself, but giving an excellent idea of the methods of fish culture as practiced at the State hatcheries. It is no idle boast to say that only the Columbian exposition has had a more extensive fishery exhibit. Cer- tainly no state ever made such an exhibii, or one that would compare favorabl® with the one arranged by the Nebraska Fish com- mission. As the display bas increased In the last eleven years, so it Is bound to progress in the future, and it is not unreasonable to expect many improvements next year, al- though it would take a fine critic to point out where these improvements could be made. For an exhibit where no premiums are awarded, the results already attained, and the popular _interest manifested daily speak vol- umes of praise for the authorities in charge. The State commission exhibit a display of many varieties of live fish in tanks north end of the building. This Is in charge of Commissioners R. H. Oakley, J. B. Mei- kle and M. E. O'Brien, the latier the super- intendent of the State hatcheries at South Bend. The commission has succeeded in making an exhibit that fully illustrates the work at South Bend, and the good results there. THE FISHERMAN'S DELIGHT. The numerous aquarlums are filled with in- numerable varleties of fish, big and little. Among those seed swimming about in the water artificially cooled, are carp, rainbow and brook trout, Japanese fantails, eels, turtles, bullheads. croppies. gold and pearl fish, catfish, pickerel, s ck bass, pereh, pike, sunfish, redhorse, blackhorse and suckers, There I8 no more enthuslastic exhibitor in this building, or probably in any other de- partment, than Major 1. H. Cryer, who spent a_ great deal of time yesterday telling the children all about his bull frogs, which he raises at the Cremona farm, near Omaha In a large tank he has three 2-year-old, and one d-year-old frog. These appeared to be the especial delight of the small boy, and lit- tle wonder, for they were as large as spring chickens, ' Yesterday the major brought a young frog, aged 8 month, and placed it in a separate jar. se are very musical frogs, and their owner declares that their musical scale_contains five distinct notes. The old- est of the frog family has a deep bass voice, and late in the cvenings is said to cry out: “I want more rum, more r-u-m.” A number of fish growers who obtained their fish from Commissioner Mav have inter- esting exhibits. Max Geisler of Omaha has a pretty display of imported Japanese gold | fish, pearl fish, comets and fantails. Superin- tendent Adams of Hanscom park, who com- menced fish eulture about two years ago, has by all odds the best exhibit of gold and pearl fish, and minnows from the park. This exhibit is on the east side of the building and throughout the morning a crowd of chil- dren stood In front of it, gazing at the bril- liantly _colored fish. Henry Rolf of Doug- las county makes a good display of carp. Colonel W. L. Wilson of Nebraska City has !'a fine lot of gold fish on the west side of the building. Across the alsle are some more gold fish exhibited by James Cain of South Bend. James Bloom of Douglas county has a good lot of carp on the cast side of the hall. The best exhibit of carp, however, is made by Henry Eicke of this county. Henry Stumpf, also of this county, has some more of the fish that in Europe are known as “royal fish." SOME FISH PRODUCTS Among the exhibits of fish products by wholesale and retail houses that made by Booth at the south end of the hall deserves especial mention. It is in charge of Joseph Glenn. There are shell oysters, fish, and canned goods. This large display is tastefully arranged, and the decorations in national and Ak-Sar-Hen colors add to the attractive ap- peirance. A large sea turtle, caught in the At lantic ocean not far fronaBoston, attracts con- siderable attention. “Is it alive?’ is the question &ll the children, and many of their parents, asked as they stood before the mon- ster. They did not have to wait long, as a rule, beiore they would have an opportunity to see the turtle make some move and con- vince the incredulous on-lookers that he really did possess life. McCord-Brady company of Omaha makes a good display just south of the entrance. It is elaborately decorated with the Ar-Sar-Ben colors. Herring, cod, lobster, salmon, shrimp, sardines, and other canned fish are exhibited. Then there are numerous jars of domestic and imported fish. David Cole & Co. of Omaha make a large exhibit, mainly of oysters. There are a goodly number of jars of fish, as well as salt fish and canned fish, put in place yesterday by Paxton, Gallagher & Co. In the recess in the southwest corner John Pew & Co. of Bos- ton have just set up an exhibit of fish of all kinds. The Cross Gun company of this city has a large assortment of fishing tackle, rods, lines, hooks, and everything else that the most’ devoted follower of Izaak Walton could desire. C. L. Benson of Chicago displays many varfeties of Norwegian fish canned. A large_exhibit of fish for table use is made by the local firm, the Steele-Smith Gro- cery company. KENNEL cuun INCH SHOW. Will Open This Morning with arge Number of Dogws. Creighton hall begins to assume a lively appearance, the occasion being the second annual bench show of thoroughbred dogs by the Omaha Kennel club, which will open this morning at 9 o'clock and continuc four days and nights. The management has been very busy for a few days and has every- thing in readiness for the reception of the dogs, some of which came in on this morn- ing's trains. One of the first to arrive C. A. Prart of Little Rock with his $10,000 rough-coated St. Hern: “Le Prince Next comes a lone exhibit from the Pa coast, Dr. D' Evelyn's fox terrier, “Langtry from San Francisco. Then Mr. Bowersock Scotch terrier, the “‘Colored Preacher' fron Lawrence, Kan. Among those from abroad which arrived this morning was John H Naylor, representing the American Field o Chicago. . Although there are four bench shows being held in the United States this week, the Omaha Kennel club has succeeded in getting the largest entry, and in polnt of the quality of dogs on exhibition It will rank far above the others. The hall Is a commodious one, fine lighted and ventilated, and exquisitely appointed for the display of the canines. The benches are all of the regulation size, spacious, cleanly and perfect in the smallest detail. The scores and scores of royal dogs from all parts of the country will be catered to with all the scrupulousness that is shown to the nobility of mankind, and visitors of the fair will miss onz of the best treats of the whole festive week 1f they fail to attend the ex its. Last evening many ¢ the dogs were assigned to thel apartments, and this morning the de. bass of the hlooded mas=tiff, St. Bernird Great Dane and bloodhound may be expected to make hall and corridor resound as it mingles with the strident yelp cof the fox ter- rier and the falsetto of the pug. There will be a great array of the barkers, embracing wpecimens from the finest and costliest lineage of the age, and all those Interested in the welfare of man's best friend should attest to their good intentlons by visiting the show. a STADLES OF FINE HORSES. Several of the Noted Prize Winners Placed on Exhibition. The horse stables at the fair grounds cover some of the finest specimens of draft and coach horses that can be seen anywhere, and there is official authority for the statement because many of the animals on exhibition were prize winners at the World's fair and at a number of western horse shows. The saddle horses as a rule are neat and hand- some, some of them as graceful as anything in the form of a quadruped could be imag- ined to be, though the collection in this class is not large. A fair showing of roadsters is made, and Mr. Hendershot gf Hebron has brought down a little group of Shetland ponies as cute as any that ever appeared in a circus parade. He, in common with several other exhibitors, has also in the stalls a few bead of mules and jacks. All told, there are in this department 100 animals and though the exhibit is not exten- sive, its quality is cholce. The owners and breeders are Alonzo Haney of Douglas county, Frank Iams of St. Paul, Neb., O. P. Hel dershot of Hebron, E. F. Kleinmeyer of Wil- ton Junction, Ia., Mark M. Coad of Fremont L. Banks Wilson of Creston, la., C. T. Ga iehon of Washington county, Kred Mohle of Omaha, F. N. Mulerts and J. F. Delis of Douglas county, B. N. Sherrill of Lexin ton, R. M. Wolcott of Richardson county, k. W. Worthern of Tecumseh, L. W. Prouty of Tacumseh, J. B. Brackman, C. L. Pitman and W. D. Overstreet The best stock among the draft and coach horses Is imported or sired by imported stal- lions. Mark M. Coad’s streamer marks the barn in which he has placed some of his celebrated | stock. King in here is his imported black ' Ton « ure, 9 years old and welghing 2,050 pounds. In the same part of the barn are a number of stallions of his ke boed by Cead, orc of the ciief of which is Monarch, quite as proud as his father, and welghing 1,800, 1u s-year-old stallions Coad has Platto who took second premium for yearlings at lthe World's fair. Another World's fair win- ner in the stable is a saddle borse sired by Montrose. This horse 1s as preity as a ga galle, has nine gaits, and bueides taking third prize at the Columbian ex osition has won thirty or forty others. PREMIUMS BEING AWARDED. Frank lams has thirty head in thy stable: Jack Core, an imported black Percheron, & year-old, welghs just 100 pounds more than @ ton, and won sweepstakes at the staie fair last year in his class. Another horse s McCammon Stamp, an imported Cly'e s al lion, welghing 2,150 pounds. e has taken two swee,stakes prizes in succession at Ne braska state fairs. lams has a mare from bim which was a first prize winner at S Louls in 1894, and took sweepstakes in Ne braska last year. His pet }s a big one. It is Iris, which he cals the greatest wace bi the world, She is an loported dapple gray 7 years old, and weighs 2,300 pounds. ~She won first twice at St. Louis, walking over even Rosa Bonheur, who came out bosi al the Paris show in 1589. In 1883 sh> rled off the sweepstakes at the Nebras At Chleago. Other lordly beauties in this barn are lams' 3-year-olds, Hom Ton, 1,900 pounds, and Bouquet. One of the best road- sters in the exhibit is Iams' Major, entered as both single and double driver. Mr. Klelnnieyer says that his best horse out of the ten he has brought to the show is Colored Gentleman, a stallion welghing 2,000 and glossy black, as his name Indicates. Ho wore on his bridle the first premium for 5-yeir-olds and over, French draft horses, at the World's fair. 1vy King, sired by him; is a magnificent looking specimen from Klelns meyer's stud. Mr. Hendershot never falls to come to the fair with rondsters and Kentucky bred and Znited saddlers, No ono can walk through the stables with- out at once appreclating the fact that inex- celled stock is beforo his eyes and the cross beams are indeed trimmed with vari-cclored premium ribbons which it has won, Judges in_this department are Colonel Slattery of Tllinois, one of the draft horse Judges at the World's fair, and Mr. Burgess of Crete. Awarding of premiums was begun vesterday, the 4-year-old or over stallions being the first led into the ring. Winners were: First, Coad's Turc; second, lams’ Jack” Core; third, Coad's Monarch. Next came the 3-year-old stailions, the following being the winners: First, Coad's Platt second, Tams' Bon Ton; third, lams' Bouquet. In spite of the blistering hot wind and the dust, the grand stand at the ring was full, while the proud horses were prancing and’ trotting about under inspection. On account of the wind and dust Superin- tendent Stewart decided to have no more horses brousht out, and deferred further Judgment until_today, WHERE No L) KICKS CAME 1IN, Attempt by nir Manngers fo Keep Down the Dust. Tt Is impossible to pass over the fact that there were some features of the fair yester- day which were exasperating to the patrons and doubly so to the Omaha business men who had expended nearly $100,000 in prepar- ing the grounds for its reception. In one case the managers of the fair are severely criticised. They started out with two sprink- lers to keep the dust laid on 160 acres of fair grounds, when it was apparent at the outset that twenty would be nearer the num- ber needed. Toward noon there was considerable com- plaint on account of the fact that the water barrels which were distributed about the grounds to slake the thirst of the multitude were more often emply than otherwise. Ou of the sprinklers was kept busy hauling water to the barrels, and the dust was left to ac- cumulate. As the wind came up about noon there was a veritable simoon. The dust was driven down the avenues until it was im- vossible to see twenty paces ahead, and it weat through the open doors of the buildings and deposited itself all over the exhibits. It was impossible to escape the blast, and many visitors joined with the exhibitors in con- demning the managers for neglecting to pro- vide the proper facilities for sprinkling the grounds. At the office of the Board of Managers It was stated that additional sprinklers had been ordered, but that they had not yet arrived. The almost absolute failure of the Omaha Street Rallway company to operate its line to the grounds was also a deplorable feature, Just before noon when the rush earnest it became apparent that some! was wrong. There were cars enough, but they moved at a snail's pace and it was found necessary to run them ten or fifteen minutes apart in order to save enough current to enable them to climb the grades at all. On the long Leavenworth strect hill the trains barely moved and as each train was com- pelled to wait until the one ahead had reached the top of the incline there was a partial blockade, and at one time in the alternoon eighteen trains were waiting for thelr turn to mount the hill. The result wi that hundreds of psople syent nearly two hours in reaching the grounds and the re- turn trip was no better. At 4 o'clock there was a long string of trains at the falr grounds end, but they started fifteen minutes apart and even then they moved no faster than a man could walk. There were hun- dreds waiting to ride, while even tho roofs of the cars were occupied. The heat and dust made the waiting all the more exasper- ating. A lot of teamsters fmproved the opportunity and drove out with carryalls, in which they carted passengers back to the city at a querter a head and had more than they could carry. At last every one got home some way and the street railway officials promise that the same difficulty will not occur again. They admit that the current was_entirely Inadequate to the tremendous traffie, but linemen were hard at work dur- ing the afternoon and night «nd an additional feed wire was strung and connected. They assert that with this additional current they will be able to run their trains in good order hereafter and take care of their share of the traffic. There was considerabls complaint yester- day en account of the failure of the manage- ment to indicate the time of the departure of rafiroad trains on the bul- letin on the grounls. For the information of those who may visit the fair during the remainder of the week, The Bee gives the following Missourl Pacific time table which is corrent Trains leave Omaha. 8:20 a. m., 8:40 a. m., 9:40 2. m,, 10 a.m., 10:49 a. m,. 1:20 p. m., 1:40 p. m., 2:20 p m., 2:40 p. m., 3:20 p. m., 3:40 p. m., 4:40 p. m., 6:20 p. m., 6:45 p. m., 6: Leave fair grounds: 8:56 a. mi 9:65 a.m., 10:15 a. ., 10:65 a.m., 3 . 15 p. m., 4:56 p. m, 5:16 p. m., p. m., 6:20 p. m., 7:00 p. . Trains leaving Omaha at 10:40 a. m. and 1:20 p. m., and trains leaving fair grounds at 4:55 p. m., 6:15 p. m., 5:556 p. m. and 7:00 p. m. will stop at Belt 'Line stations. Crowded for Space. An unexpected demand for space in floral hall caused trouble among the florists Mon- day. Every inch of space In the bullding proper and In the adjoining tent was utilized, and then the plants were crowded so closely together, according to the statement of the superintendent, that the effect was spoiled. The general excellence of the exhibit Is noteworthy, but it is to be regretted that a nunber of displays havo been crowded out. A large exhibit was to have been made by H. J. Hasser of Plattsmouth, but he h withdrawn on account of the crowded condi- tion of the floral department. A Few Prize Winners. Like the horse display, the cattle collection is not motabla for its extensiveness, but it contains guperb stock. Breeders from a nume ber of central western states have brought the pick of their herds and the best speci- mens of beef and dairy stock is on exnibi- tion. A singular thing in this department ls that with respect to many classes there is no competition. In shorthorns there is absolutely none, T. R. Westrope of Harlan, Ia., havinj the only lot, but he evidently came prepare to match his cattle with any other breeder, He has a bull that is fast packing the ground (Continued on Third Page.) This is the secret of the cures by Hood's Sarsapurilla. Iead this: “Tamsoglad to write that I am now in per- fect healthand it isall becau Hood’s Bars parilla made my blood pure. My health broke down with troubles peenliar te women, my nerv 8y {(Jtem was shat- . tered and 1 had to take my bed. The physiclan said was little hope for me. A nelghbor of wonderful cures by Hood's Barsa- rilla and I decided to try it. When I 1 “14 taken 3 bottles, I could sit upand now Iam perfectly well and strong. Hood’s Sarsaparilla has done all this for me.” Mazs, C. F, FADE:LE, La Platta City, Colorado cure habitual constipas fair over the winners from the state fa e e Hood's Pills 52 it {4t