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Show mErfr S 1 Dr. Puihl First Homesteader 2 Cr. of thevNation... !P m m Frwni ft of Gn WtfWiilu. Still Living Oft (ho First Tim Which Oovo Awoy Under Uftd thm ftd Act. Ajr tlf .W SHE WOULDI'T Oar Unci Sam hu load nough to us oil a farm," waa the glad of tb lend less man thirty odd yurs Ago. Unde Bern hAa been buay aver niece 1863 giving away farma, and etlll baa a few left. In 1860 the population of the United Stataa waa leea than 31.600.00U; forty yeare later the eenaua takers counted over 75,000.-00- 0 people within the urns boundarlea. How much of tbla wonderful growth la due to Uncle Bam'a prodigality with hia farma can hardly be stated, but It U certain that during the nearly thirty-nine yearn since the homestead law went Into effect millions of tracts of 160 acres each bare been given to farmers under the homestead law or the other laws that aupplmeated liand timber culture the seta. Nearly all of these farms were Under the given to actual settlers. conditions of the homestead act actual settlement and continuous reeldeneo oa and cultivation of said land" tot eight years was a condition precedent to obtaining patent carrying with it the title to the land. gin rs-fr- pre-empti- Otfcae Legal law throe Under the residence and the payment of 91.86 per acre was required. The Umber culture act required the planting and cultlva-tfo- a of a designated number of trees for a specified length of Umo. Not law was long after the passed another was put Into effect, allowing the homesteader to commute his entry and make final proof at the pre-empti- V man has thus simply told the facts. Dr. Daniel Freeman of. Gage county, Nebraska, who was the first to take a homestead under the law Galusha A. Grow so vigorously and successfully contended for. Is still living on the farm of his selection. His home is on Cub Creek, about five miles west of Beatrice. His original entry of 16u acres has expanded until it is now a magnificent farm of 1,800 acme, well stocked and equipped with the best of buildings aad modern machinery. Dr. Freeman la hale and hearty and appears to enjoy life as much as he ever did. Dr. Freeman waa not exactly engaged on the tented field when he He bad made his homestead eatry. enlisted at the first call tor troops In an lUlnola regiment, but after a abort servtoe in the Infantry was transferred to the secret service department am served la this for nearly five years. seed no larger than a pa. Sown is a pot plunged in a tub of wanu water, the first apparance of the young plant offers little promise of a future, one or two slender stalks rising like pieces of thin string to the surface, surmounted by tiny laves, which ere not even round, but arrow-shape- d, being all that is to be seen. In the course of a few weeks, however, they increase in size and number, so that by the time the tank hu ban prepared tor its receptioa In May the lava are equal In slue to the ordinary white water Illy, and hare assumed the peltate shape. Cold retards Its growth, but no amount of hat aams to hurt It. When exposed to the fall glare of the sun In summer the water where it is growing ap-- p roaches 100 degrea, while the sir In so hot and uturated with moisture that very tow are able to stop Is the house, yet the plant only seems to grow more quickly. The discoverer of the Victoria la its native country vu A WINTERS WALICIN CANADA. the famoue botanical traveler. Husks, ImW Life Mead hi Bead who had been sat out by the Spanish Rosenberg To haf von oof der schmallat feet dot I baf efer seen VamlMekaMe CaltaMb government to tnvutigate the vegejore. Canada has of late been bulking table produetlono of Feru. He found Mia Irens Excuse mo to bein pusaonel, ah, but yo's a liah. large la the public eye, ays Arnold It growing la the marshu bordering Haul tain In Nineteenth Century. She oa the Rio Memo re, one of the grut LOVE DISAPPOINTED AGAIN. It was who first proved confederation trlbutaria of the A mason, somewhere I about the year 1801, hut began the young the whole feasible; she It was who gave practishaking so violently that be alcal shape to the Idea of Imperial nnlty of his collections were loot no notice most the chair. upset Ga of It reached Europe. Pall Mall by the Institution of a prefsrsntlal 1 "Hm!" Bette. the farmer. soliloquised with West she linked East tariff; by bet s come he has to around doughnut her Pacific railway; and it Is she who IRIDEB NEW FAD. ask me tor Mary Janes hand. Well, took the Initiative in imperial penny here is a chance to get rid of her at CMif postage. From the position of a hum- Bagsged Chat ad Fills II last" ble colonial dependency she has risen Giadaally. I I have to the rank, if not of a political and reputed the This seasons bride hu revived the fiscal exemplar, at all events of a po- popularity of the wedding chat caller. "Well, don't be bashful. You can litical aad fiscal experimenter. The Months before the marriage ceremony contrast is notable. I took the other the ugaged girl dulgns her own have her, my boy." day a long winter's walk la this coun- chat, hu it made and gradually fills My darter. Didn't you come to ask try of contrasts. For this, of truth, it with her dainty belongings. Theu Canada Is. Her climate, her scenery, chats are big and substantial, and my conant?. a I come to some her sentiments, her people, her poli- many are cedar-linewith the old-tiI've an quinine. got ague tics, all exhibit extremes the moot ex- and made silver padlock of key, s s' neutral. STANDING THE T1FFT. S u Bpaking about dreams, said the Boston lnsurana mas he rsllghtod the steh of hia cigar, I can't say that I do or do not believe is these. One night, during the pelaay days of the Louisiana lottery. I dreamed that a certain ticket hit the capital pries Two daya later a triad shewed see that very ticket and I gave him 88 toe a It" "And it hit the prise?" wu No, sir; didnt come within a of It" And have you any other inntonaT" I have. A year or two age I M In a hammock one day and ulap dreamt that I waa the blggasl am hi America tor draining that ritor dream." in And did it turn out as dreamed? Waal, I have my wife's weed 8to It every hour in the day, aad as I It did. Sha wanted that 3B fisr a spring hat, yon sh Did the tailor Charles measure? I think he did. He Algy have to pay in advance. Pd :ali. D(u ve o? N-n- Sr d, ill. breezy undertaking. Blinks r hear you are about to start a new paper. What are you going to call It? Jinks I had thought seriously of calling it the Bugle. Blinks Good! Just the thing If you have fully made up your mind to blow yourself. If UAftinw and of three years under the aame conditions as those prescribed by the preemption law. What a grand domain was nettled under the operations of these lawa! Nebraska, Kansas. Colorado, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Arisons, New Mexico, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon and Washington have received a vast Influx of population under the stimulus of lawa which made it possible tor any man with sufficient grit to become a landowner. In each of these states there are now thousands of men In easy, If not actually affluent circumstances, who began So as homesteaders or little time baa elapsed. Indeed, since those days of beginning that the sod house is still to be seen standing not flar from the handsome modern home of the thrifty and prosperous farmer, in which the homewhile the dug-osteader spent his first and often his second winter now serves to protect the potatoes and apples reserved tor family consumption. G row's Famou SpMrh. Nebraska, first in so many other things, has the distinction of being the home of the Brat homesteader of the United Staten, says a writer in the Omaha Bee. In a speech delivered Feb. 16, 1897, in the bouse of representatives on "Rightful Ownership of the 8oll, Congressman Oalusha A. Grow of Pennsylvania, father of the homestead Mn, said in part: On the 80th day of March, 1852, my Ant speech as a member of congress wss made in the old hall of the house of representatives, on Man's Right to the Soil.' From that time forth, la season and out of season, the policy of free homes for free men was kept constantly before Congress, until the 80th day of May, 1862 (to take effect Jan. 1. 1868), when it became the law of the land by the signature of the unlettered child of the prairies. Abraham Lincoln, after I hud signed the enrolled bill ns speaker of the house. There are two Interesting incidents connected with the final passage of the original free homestead bill. First, It took effect on the day of Lincolns aecona, proclamation; emancipation the first settler under the homestead MU. which provided free homes for free Daniel men, was named Freeman. Freeman, Gage county, Nebraska, was a Union soldier, home on a furlough, which would expire on the 2d or 3d day of January, 1863. TSe Pint Ketrj. "At a little past midnight on the 1st day of January, 1868, he made hie entry In the land office of his district and left his home the same day to take his place again in the ranks on the hated fields. His entry wss No. L hie proof at residence was No. 1, his patent was No. 1, recorded on page 1 of hook L of the land offlee of the United Matas. The first settler under this law was a Freeman, and, I trust, the last of its bmmflrlarles in the long coming yarn of the future wiU be a fret man." The venerable Pennsylvania states ut Our party," aid the politician, confidently, will swap the city. I'll vote for it then, replied the the city certainly needs citlsen; sweeping." ntognMti IN THE BOOK Ttastus Dinah STORE. Wont yo love D1 me h? Oh! Dlnah-mo- ? nah-mlt- e. V ON THE WAT HOME. Does our talk annoy you? askad one of the ladles, addressing the man who wu trying to rad his paper. . It wu in an elevated car where people sometimes sit facing one another very near together. m Ob, no, he answered, not at all I employ a lady stenographer, have got so I can go right along about my own busineu without listening, unleu there's something aid thats worth haring. $52 getting rid of traordlnary. A winter of arctlo severity Is followed by a tropical rammer. Within sight of luxuriant pastures glide stupendous glaciers. Flattest prairies spread to the feet of mountain ranges the rivals of the Alps: prim fields, orchards and vineyards encroach upon primeval forests. Along with the hardy apple and the No. 1 Manitoba what, this land produces strawberries, peach a, Constitutionally grapes and melons. content with British connection, her people are intimately influenced by Idas and manners American. Indeed, her people are as heterogeneous as harulf. The Maritime provinces of the extreme east hardly call themQuebec is French; selves Canadian; Ontario la Canadian to the core, so is Manitoba: In the northwut territories are settlers from almost etery nationality in Europe; British Columbia, in the extrema west, again, fights shy of Newfoundthe cognomen Canadian. land holds aloof altogether. A rude and toilsome social life goa hand in hand with patches of refinement and Canadian unmistakable. culture cheese took the prise at Chicago; Canadian poetry has been crowned by the academy. Lauding democratic Institutions to the skies, radical to the last degree, Canada neverthelas contains within herself cuta and cliquu in their horror of such principles almost rabid. With a political system the counterpart of the British, her politics are rife with personalities, aleo-tio- n protests, corruption trials. fur-fam- ed STORY OF A GREAT LILY. Oral Growth of the Victoria Begin from a SwcU SeeS. The great water lily at Kew having died, Victoria Regia, at the Regents Park botanic gardens, is the only one of the apecia left In London. A history of the remarkable plant is given In one of the numbers of the Royal Botanic societys Record. Like many another vegetable wonder, It Is a plant of very small beginnings Very few people would Imagine that thla enormous lily, with Its leaves of eight font in diameters and flowers eleven to fifteen Inches across, covering a spaa of over 400 square feet, had ban grown In the course of a few months from a or havy wroght Iron. A shining plate on the top Is Inscribed with the brides initials or they are cut In relief upon the iron or in the wood. Beneath a delicately scented cover are kept the various dainty hits of lingerie made by the bride-to-b- e. With the revival of the wedding chat, first made popular hy her is the tod among young women to fashion their own undergarments. The materials of linens with hand embroideries which she uses are more like the linens woven by the industrious girl of a hundred years ago, who at her own loom and spun the fabrics for her wedding clothes. Into the chat must go at last a dozen of each garment. The favorite color of the bride prevails In the decoration of her white underwear. Pale blue is a popular color, and this ribbon Is used in the greatest profusion. Corset covers made of ribbon and Insertion, with ribbon shoulder straps are among the revived favorites. When the bride is the daughter of a wealthy house her wedding chest is made of most expensive and beautiful wood. Rosewood is used for some, with gold locks and keys. Rich mahogany, highly polished, with brau trimming. mde one of great beauty. This one was lined with padded white atln. Inlaid woods make odd and attractive designs. The richest chats are carved in dap and bold relief designs, and are made from old, walnut, oak. mahogany and cherry. Those with the family and the girls name carved on the front are most the bautiful and expensive, and are highly prized family possessions. Mistress great-grandmoth-er, ut ed coat-of-ar- rartaaiK Chlmamaa. Thirty Chinamen, all of whom said to have amassed small fortunaaiw la Chicago, have left tor Baa Frandso. where they will take the stamer far fblna. They return to their aatlvw country to aprad the remainder of shale liva In luxury. Those who left Chicago will be mot In San Franolaeo hr others from Indianapolis. Boston and New York, who will also depart on the same stamer. Each man la said to have had at least 11,000 to 65,004 la his posseaion. He who knows how to govern mar command, but not argue. them. Mrs. Slubb "John, the ashman refuses to take theu old shoes. How: can we ever get rid of them?" Mr. Stubb Don't be unaey, Maria. There is going to be a couple married in the next houu and wa can throw the old shoes after thelf hack. Josh Wayback Gimme a lot of French novels I hear so much about. Mrs. Wayback What do you want tham tor. Josh? Josh Wayback Well, Mandy, we got a lot o space to fill in the new bookcase and they tell me them French novels Is very broad. HER GLAD SURPRISE. I have found out one thing about my husband, said the bride wbo bad baen married before, that surprises me greatly. Her friend moved up a little nearer, so that they could whisper, and' uked; What Is it? His alary Is Just as big as he told me It was. HIS FIRST HE GOT Now, remember, Bridget, the Jonens are coming tor dinner tonight." Cook Lave it to me, mum. Ill do me worst! They'll never trouble yes again." Any man who monkeys with n mule is apt to come to a bad end. HOARSE. COURSES. What were the first courses you took?" uked the benevolent old party. Soup and fish," responded the college student who had acted in capacity of waiter during the summer. Mlu Peachblow Did you enjoy yourself on your vacation? I can tell you better Kodak Idiot. after the films I exposed are If all the world loves a lover lt'a no wonder his best girl gets Jealous. SSEJlTMr much LET US HOPE SO Pari Hit IRKING. k " broncho. see where some philanOstend What is a horse laugh, thropist is going to run a few drug paw?" tora for the purpose of giving fra laugh the rural bora medicine to the poor." glva when ha sees an automoblla Gacloue! I wonder if they stalled In the mud, my son. Ruby will have a gratis soda counter pat "And how is the wife, Mike?" Mlke-- ure and I had the doctor last night. VERT APPROPRIATE. "I didnt know thot sha was Bill Bunko "I have chosen a good so sick thot. Mlks-- No. motto for my boy when ho growa up." and she didnt need him; but Iv she hod died, sure she would George Oreengoodo "What Is it?" Bill Bunko" Be up and doing.' always ov blamed me! Judea. 1 u with a bad not a cue of bronchitis. MIRACLE RITHRto Larry "Phwas thor Ivar lnythiag iny more wonderful thon th camel go log tro th eye of th nadlo?" Denny 0lve sane me onld woman go lst pocket, bedad." Stubb "Yi,. tro ORE CONSOLATION. "I. it model debatiag dub?" Penn "I guue so. They have rsvu brought up the 8ampton-8chle- y dla outs." |