Show A REAL ROMANCE an is millionaire til lax an fust et erm the steady mac rise in alie value of property of tit kinds hut but more especially ally of real estate in this city has s enriched many a man nian to a princely degree daring during the past two years the boom ha been unprecedented ce it its strength and from the corner iota lots on V a juliam and douglas streets bad back to the property on oil the extreme western limits oi oj capitol hill every inch of space is worth big money and it requires the ownership of but a few parcels to make a man or woman worth their tens of thousands with this much by way of explaining pla that omaha millionaires flome homemade made and warranted are not scarce the ike bee is permitted by a arn prominent nent real estate firm ol 01 this city ity to tell the public what a bravo brave woman has done quietly in in speculating in cori corner I lota ota and who lias hns g one of the most roni romantic antie stories possible coun connoted eted with her ventures and the misfortune of other her husband the latter although lie is worth near nearly a quarter cr of ft a million dollars and is is young ali and d able bodied not having been cen near i j car this city for several year yeara it tip appears pears that an eastern lady who some ten years ago was ha left al a widow with a small family of children after much tribulation succeeded in bringing up to manhood one son who proved roved himself able and willin willing tae to be not only to her but bult to his younger brothers and sisters about a year after becoming of age he was offered a lucrative position in the west and he lie emigrated thither and settled there permanent ly and ind soon married new ties however did not absorb old affect eions and as he prospered in business busness lie sent regularly to his mother the me means ans necessary fl for or her support art and that of lier her family tho the years passed on and brought many changes but still regularly as the quarter C came ame so also did the ample remittance of this model son and brother when the tide of emigration turned to the far west this son was carried with it to omaha where he invested his earnings in in property which speedily rese rise in value value and made him a man of wealth at least this was tho the intelligence lie sent his mother lately visiting auburn ills his parent was invited to make the tour of the state prison and whilst through the various wards the hc accidentally encountered encounter ei el one ehos so presence caused her checks to palo and her beart heart to temporarily stop its beat it etwas was her son her lier good g and well belo beloved joy alio for years had bad been glicr er pride and s support U aport for a moment she elite was speechless but at length bursting a torrent of oft te earsin arsin which the prisoner joined she said my SO son I how came you here his story being told developed the fact that lie had by trading with strangers str a como come into the possession of a largo large quantity of counterfeit money and that in ignorance of its char character eter he bein being on oil a visit to new york had tad attim attempted ted to pass it had been arrested as the chief of a gang of counterfeiters counterfeit ers and having been identified as having havin endeavored to circulate it was il in spite of all evidence of previous good conduct offered convicted and ad sentenced to serve out a term in state prison his wife with whom he lie was in constant bant correspondence had aided him in in keeping his incarceration a secret from his big mother and had regularly remitted the quarterly torl y allowance together with letters forwarded to hr her from the prison by him but for this unfortunate visit the mother would have remained forever nn aware that lier her eon son was servia serving out a penal sent sentence enoe for a crime crime never cot committed n bitted by him she ever that by the rise of property i in I omaha he lie had lad been in ado a NY wealthy ea t thy man and when ho he vill will come out of prisons bith which will be in a few months he lie through the skilful stewardship of his wife will find awaiting awai t ing him no less than two hundred thousand dollars in United states bonds bands and considerable real estate in n the best part of the city omaha ike bee |