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BY J. V. KNIGHT B EINOULN, Neb. Aus How ‘ Bay ot LAneoln is tho world's howe donans ‘ let farming 2 ago with ipaey aod of wheat Approximate per acre Bistory of ' un won groatest bac! he adversity was waged by of thia big wester Row that v09 fe being bo draw care roughty ed this wheat mntry as Great Amer! " Now BB the great American cupboard Big « Business Pian dt H, W. CAMPBELL, feids are fat and the harvest fs on a big business plan poell, the bonanza farmer. Bted the process formerly cail “dry farming,” whieh made it ble for wheat to be grown on soll. He became a successful rmer some of his neigh rm, la t him, stayed poor. tur r to toll them the iret of his fertile acres; then be-| ®& manufacturer of the har ting appliances he Invented to with the peculiar problems of western wheat soll. | =. The story of Campbell is a lesson Wali farmers and to all men who ty “t , ore] Closing the season's stock o included. $10.00. atea, NOW § First Ave. and | University St. fa “dry In the spring of 188% Campbell, formerly railroad machine shop foreman in Vermont ight bis family out west, He settled on a toad in Brown territory, now North ¢e ta. He plowed his yr a team composed of an ox and a eared }mule. Hut he studied got it analysed, and in e of diseour agement around him found that the Dakota soll all renta in it to raise perfect wheat. The soil was kk and the motsture rains ¢ from making the and aped pantry country keeping the crops down His neighbors th The 1883-4 se gon, Cat his neighbors wrote for Campbell stuck He left his sod stable take a look at what wa whe Most of his stubble sparse, but the ruts made by his ight him oragy a drouwth sea d, ao did et and left © wan # crops fail The money cultivator and the heof prints of | be! SERRE ERR EERE Oe BiG heavily stubbied. mplew of bie nelgh-| Campbell decided, rightly, that | bors, and kept right on buying farm | vy) the ground nee to be packed In| lands where the soll was pronoune LE A | ( rs } ( “ee ; ‘ } in “DIN i" to hold the moisture and | ed worthle Those tracts now are ome to Kohler & Chase Your Eyes Will Convince You of tf SPLEEN gro Bod wheat t-printa | Bonanse fare NOW DID MONEY-SAVING Opportunities IN OUR of the ox and the ured mule} 5 are the farma Mr. Campbell blased the way for what [8 now the ‘ North Dakota, world's greate was the ing th the soll must m of the fw starts to No. “TiN IDEA FROM A MULE’S HOOFPRINT AND A FORTUNE FROM THAT IDEA THE CLATTER OF THE THRESHER IS NOW HEARD IN THE DAKOTAS. BUSINESS NEBRASKA FARM, | | the ox and the long-eared mule were | he boor country, It on in whe er learned st wheat fivret } 0 farmer ev at rale | 649 acres Lesson No. 2. | M . mpbell studied and found that} packed at the bot where the wheat That was lee mit firat wheat linplement ittle forge of t apring the a harrowlike ned out at and pf wae t Woodman & Foy inker county & D. To the amazement of other ta Campbell'a i that yea Waa phenomena The 4 beer tile rain and the Dakota ploneer new that it was the machine and t the climate that made Camp fortunate. From that time on i" only the @ * BIGGEST BONANZA FARMER cat : GIVES SUCCESS SECRETS abot : BY H. W. CAMPBELL. a a *. The successful iar & Imported livestock that respond to thelr kee m the & the greater per cent of meat demean the modern Ameri! # # fields in good condition by fertilization and proper care lem. 1 plant about a peck and a} & — He rotates hia « tile drains his lands, keeps good foncen quarter and they plant « bushel a THE MOST REMARKABLE BARGAINS IN PIANOS EVER OFFERED # and keeps them up all the time a half. For every sere of grain T) & "He must have a good gardon and must breed bia own draft # |sowod T got 4,040 pounds back, or| ANYWHERE AT ANY TIME. % horses, and do the farm work with growing cotta He bas a It mantfold of 202. The other fel} : : ; # brary with periodicals and standard works, and a musical tp }lows, planting 89 pounds, got only | $300 K hler & C bell (Used Upright Grand)—Most beau $6.00 #® = strument | manifold of about 11 Mine was/ 0 amp! tiful mahogany, You would have Monthly, * He will help his wife in the house when she needs it, has a jnearty 20 times as profitable ad difficulty in distinguishing it from new, # nice buggy for to go visiting in, and drives her to church thera, you see | (Used Upright Grand)—Think of it! It's a fane ing. And he chuckled as he thought of $ 5 Ba k y 0 « Hloweg: mbt Peers dade laugh to Uncle Sam, L 32 re caso, elegant condition, and quality usually sold 17. sal oy by other dealers for $325. . * Then there's another thing you | ; SERRE EERE EE ERE EEE EE EEE EERE EH | a $300 Will d (Used Upright Grand)-~The striking beauty of. the $5.00 | ilar rich malogany case enhantes fhe other good quall- 145 Monthly. - ity i pil tes of this big bargain. we ry Days of the Clearance Sale at Soil Expert, Wholesale Wheat Raiser, Editor and Manufacturer. mer isthe man who studies the sol; keepa ying, and that put ris; keeps his ne Seeeeeeeeeeeeeee ee eee ee _Shafer Bros,—Not Only Largest, But Best. _ the Shafer Store of display. f clothing for men at Ten Dollars. All the popular fancy fabrics in all sizes. The Clearance Sale at the Shafer Store is now approaching its conclusion. There is still ample choosing among the finer suits and the prices are remarkably low Men’s $25.00 and $30.00 Suits for .... All the Outing Suits, up to $25.00, are offered ace First Showing New Fall Stocks - In the Annex, First Avenue Side—Men’s Suits at $10.00 In this popular corner, on First Avenue and University Street, we offer the balance of Business and £ Juting Suits are both eee The Shafer Store is now showing a representative tion of Suits and Top Coats for men. House of Kuppenheimer and from Brokaw Bros. are now on The finest s Values up to $20, in the Boys’ Suits and College Clothes for Young Fellows, All Reduced for Final Clearance toys’ Suits of all-wool fabrics, in summer weights and styles; chambray and madras, in all styles and colors; approved styles and fabries, and in sizes from 30 to 38, chest measure AT A THIRD TO A HALF LESS THAN FORMER FAIR PRICES Men’s Oxfords--A Sale in the Arcade Annex SHOWING THE FALL STYLES IN STETSON HATS Boys’ Wast Young Men’s College Clot All are Men's Oxfords, of patent leather, gunmetal, calfskin and tan Russia calf; lace, ton styles: all widths and sizes; Oxfords that have sold freely at $3.50 and wee? 65 are . offered : peur ewes eros er ae SEEREREY Ce es. oe kX ' Me Heavy Calfskin Work One double soles, | Boys’ B tock ( “alf and Viei Kid / \ her or bal styles; worth $3.00, for. $1.65 $2.00 and $2.50; all sizes, at .... j Shoe Store—Arcade Annex—First Avenue Side SHAFER BROS. Arcade and Arcade Annex—Whole Block long acre ine Hat, Alberta, 640 acres. 1> S92 | hen those farmers back in the < : : . were for rain,” | DOWN We are | all records in quality, quantity and money-saving prices of our yen bere ot tonal 1¢ | 220" | Pianos. People have been quick t remarkable inducements we offer in or here told g to do wan to ; der to clear the vast accumulation of used, worn and new sample Pianos that hetr 4 PEK WEEK ‘ txtern under thelr ground] cern reaches its maxinium in midsummer. ‘This year we have made extraordinary efforts to ut a lid on it The clatern | " he natural motet the Md} et the ever growing demand for good I at low pr We have made our p. ‘Bave} price > tempting, that many ught they could not own a Piano now told them, have one. ery Piano is a big, positive saving to you ak at the typical definite > offering e mention here and you will understand wher« save you from $50 to sowing & bushel and my whe ou ever saw Grain Manifold Problem. | “Tha lors eall the S FOR MEN THE STAR—FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1909 lernor thinks in hundreds, The ain-| ‘avain, ing ure noe (3 tion. Kiet work || ‘THESE BLACK FELLOWS ARE SLAVES, BUT THEY ARE HAPPY AND LOVEABLE don't conatder about the grain man fold problem I've got a 100 heads of wheat from one grain “umting 40 grains to the head, (hat Bives a sveding manifold 8,000, and you oan bet | save that reed Campbell has a wellfitted office moves tratna, fixes the coat of liv ing and beings millions in gold from fore countries to western banks, | never to return jin thousands where the middle west! ty, and nine So that their chief SEEING IS BELIEVING 4 thousand pleasure of! traitan SCENE ON CAMPBELL'S ballt hie orten, WAS WES} county, Texas w, Tex, 3 ) acres Holdre ge Ne GREAT MIDSUMMER SALE I wow t to} experts are] @ half, When out it was the fin a ripp of my secrets pounds of whe the about 20 while ere 1 O Sends a Piano Home $10 at came eo One Price on Every Piano NO COMMISSIONS—OUR GUARANTEE OF LOWEST PRICES at brought up what we farm-| grain manifold prob ©) (tied Upright Gtdhd)-sHtéoke a goo, AO iso dependable Piano, in spleti@ld condition. $178 $300 D. S. Johnston thly. Only pss: $450 Fi h (Used Upright Grand)—There are qualities about $5.00 ISCHEPF tnis Piano that will Impress the real musieian. Monthly. Extra large size bass strings— (Used Upright Grand) jatest design, longest $325 Iverson & Son largest sounding board—is like new \. (Used)—Ita condition Is ike new; included, $10.00 $650 Player Piano $25 worth of muse free, Investigate this. $385 Monthly. 4 (Used)—This is a beautiful Instrument fn 12.00 $700 Player Piano every way; used only 60 days by prominent 15 ie Seattle family 7 s (Used Upright Grand)—Here’s a great bargain; 5.00 $300 Dennison only In use a few months; taken in exchange for 168 Beas oe. $14.45 & Fischer Player Piano, Finest possible condition, $10.00 $3 (Used Upright Grand)—A picturesque upright grand in severe . 6.00 50 Kayton mahogany, of Colonial design. Its tone and action are 165 brn eslle like new. You must see It to appreciate it rollec- , , Used Baby Grand)—This used Piano, a baby grand, 7 eX: $ \ 7 J 6.00 tyles from the L$ $0.98 | 900 Weber would be a pride and joy in the most luxuriously fur- 590 a DOWN nished musical home. Bargains of thia description are rare. (Used Upright Grand)—This walnut upright grand 8. sis . quistie in its sympathetic qualities; its action is a joy to trained fingers, 7 PFRWEEK See it! See It! a $11 i (Used)—Only tn nse a short time. $3.00 0 Kimball Organ $25, Simin » Annex, only $125 Estey Organ (Used)—Only In uve a short time. $3.00 P Monthly, Le STORE OPEN EVENINGS. | These are great days in our piano warerooms. People are picking pianos from a most remarkable line of b: . Th ed pianos from almost every well- known mak y are sure to find a‘piano to suit your ideas and pocketbook Don’t 1 Suits, of gal fail to come and learn how economically the long felt want can be filled hes, in all the now offered UNEQUALED NEW PIANO BARGAINS!!! DO WN We have decided to include in this great bargain sale 55 new pianos, the product MEce of one of the most dignified high-grade manufacturers of New York, a beautiful col lection, including fancy mahoganies, burled walnuts and golden oak cases, and a lim FR WEEK ited number of Art Designs. These pianos are accompanied by the unquestioned guarantec Here is a beautiful For a limited time { Kohler & Chase and must be exactly as represented. t, quality sold elsewhere for irom $375 to $400. Terms $6.00 IF YOU CAN’T CALL, WRITE Factory Distributers for the World-Renowned WEBER PIANOS, THE BEST PLACE TO BUY A PIANO & 1318 Second Ave. buckle or but piano in every only, y ur choice fc monthly Shoes, worth $1.45 Second Ave. | and University St. F. L., JORDAN, General Manager Established 1850 at $417 0 at. here, and transacta his » eames huge farming bustness from it. He of the mont. popular fetlon ry Gay, and an unfailing Pateot vonsful as he ts, and declares the . and oddly enoug ie | nas COls eumnee Berens tre nly way they ean become bon In ike as two poa—-in fact &)ern ay. a8 he does every morning, adopt his olen’ (fy United Preas) stranger can't tell other tre ) a& large and succulent long nda. | LINCOLN, Neb, Aug. 20.Fred.| which, Some people think they are aved cabbage, which he carefully He recently offered $2,000 prizen| “Mek Beott, an amateur aeronaut, | twin divides between the two, for the best grades of whoat grown,| 84 berbaps fatally Injured last) They are both very handsome King and County are the wo looks he has written have. been | Maht, He had made an ascent of|"cullud gemmen,” but they are not} beautiful black horses which draw translated into all languages, and | "bOut 500 feet when the balloon be-|emancipated, in fact they are tn | the water front chemical, and were Tachaikowsky, tho Ruwslan poittieat | 4&0 10 collapse, Beott walted until| bondage to the city of Beattie, ta| presented to the city by the county artacehr. ‘Stila (ath he was within 200 feet of the| which they belong, body, heart and|of King ibell’s book.on s ground and eut lode. The para-| soul And they regard Odin as thelr wan a prisoner in the fortress of| Shute did not have time to open| They work most every day, and | special friend Petor and Paul at St. Petersburg and he fell heavily, breaking his! when work they work I Machines which he devised are|*houlder and a leg and suffering | ellantommie CAR STRIKES AUTO now made at Odea, Arad, Hug | 'mtornal injurte They Eat Regularly gary wid Hyderabad, in the Indian And yet they are very happy,| Punjab country 1 RUSGOJAP BATTLE those two pals, and are well treated AND TWO KILLED Harriman, a8 he onee was (Hy United Brew.) by thelr bosses. Hvery day of their} peoting the wheat country along) BRUSSELS, A The Jour: lives they eat three square mea the Union Pacific raflroad, grasped |nal de Brusvols' Pekin correspon the actual weight atid quantity of| (Hy United Vrews Mr. Campbell's hand and exclaimed: |dent says that serious difficultios whieh would keep one ordinary| SAN JOSH, Cal, Aug. 20.--Heary If the Union Pacific had given you have arisen between the Japanese “oullud gemman” for about a week, | Lefranc, one of the leading vine 4 million dollars It would not have and Russians north Tehang nd drink! Well, one of their | yardiste of this valley, and his wife. paid you for what you've done for Choun, Manchuria, asd drinks would Jast an ordinary man | Were killed when thelr machine was the farming country and the road.” | side has mobilized troop: about three di nd they take|#truck by an Interurban car late These are only sidelight the about four da afternoon, Delmas,’ the varied activities of a man who n hong, But ab akfast. Th 1 daughter of Mr. and Mre has called himself anything but a think are a Witt i ike the rest |i was with them and was farmer G eee of'ug this warm weather, end the vsly injured. Mra. Lefranc Over millions of aeres bonanza! bus. prefer a little fruit or green food to| 48 4 niece of Dolphin M. Delmas, farmers like Campbell are harvert: |, “Khortoomings, my dear child? the ordinary meal the well known attorney ing thelr wheat crop, They think /)’ F lentebluhione my ot i Policeman Their Friend. russl tae ts le thave’p hae i} - — i