Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 27, 1881, Page 3

vow Ay, MARRIAGE INSURANCE. Preminms Paid on Matrimonye-s How it Works«-Effects in the Rural Districts of Pennsylvania. Correspondence N. ¥, Sun. Marriage insurance is becoming as contagious in Pennsylvania and ad- joining states as death-bed insuranc there is likely to be as much criti cism of it. In somo countics the judges refuse to grant charters to the marriage insurance companie but the parties who are refused apply in a nuiu‘llmrinz jurisdiction and are suc- cessful. They readily procure a char- tor or license to go into the business of guaranteeing single young men and women $1000, more or less, when they marry. Soliciting agents find it very plain sailing in the country districts, and do considerable business among young women by assuring them that young men seeking wives invariably select a young woman who has had sufficient business and judgment about her to get herself insured in time. The consequence is that the young women pay over their hard-carned dollars anc then revel in the hope that very soon a young man will come along hunting a wife; that he will select her; that she will get 81000 soon after her wed- ding-day from the company, and that little fortune will be so very handy to have in the house to buy a parlor and bedroom set, carpets, a horse, a few cows, and many odds and ends to start married life with. These concerns, more properly, should be called guarantee con.panies. They do business with unmarried peo- ple. No capital is required to start a company more than is necessary to pay for a charter, furnish an office, pay for the printing of alot of blanks, circulars and letter-heads, and start out a lot of agents. A few hundred dollars is sufficient. Agents scour the country, scatter the splendidly- worded circulars broadcast, and ina few months 1,000 young people have joined class A and paid $4 each to be- come px\rtiui‘imting members. Some companies do not charge as much. Out of this $4,000 paid in the agents receive their very large percentage for commissions, say $1,000, and the balance goes to the directors. When- ever any one member of class A is married, he or she sends in the certi- ficate of marriage, duly witnessed by the local agent, and the company at once proceeds to collect $1 from each of the 999 other ;members of that class. They promptly respond, and the directors, after deducting 20 per cent. of the $999 so collected, send the balance to the member who is mar- ried. The company is expected to do this if it is governed by honest grinciplcs of business. Hence the irectors receive mnearly $200 from every member who marries, as their charge for collecting the assessments. Some companies withless brass,charge but ten per cent. for collecting assess- ments, and return about $900 to the beneficiary. The better kind of com- pany charges b per cent. The person marrying drops out of this class and as fast as marriages occur new mem- bers are substituted to keep the class of 1,000 full. Some successful com- panies keep three full classes going. Children 13 years of age are received as members and assessed so much, The younger the person is theless the rate, and the older the higher. The officials pretend to have a system, based upon careful calculation, as to marriage probabilities, just the same as the old line life companies have as to death probabilities. Hence it will be seen that a yeung woman engaged to be married a year from date may join a company, pay her initiation fee, run the chances of half a dozen assessments, and when she is married she will receive, if she is fairly dealt with, about $900. If her intended is smart, he, too, will join a company, and he, too, will recei $000 sixty or ninety days after suffi- cient proofs have been vived of his m rriage. Thus far the experience of some young men and young women are in- teresting, A Schuylkill county young lady left her home because she could not bear to be ridiculed about her misfortune with her intended. She thought she was to be married last month, but the young man ran away and left her, Now she has neither the $900 that she would have received nor a husband. The details of her bad luck leaked out, and she went to Philadelphia to escape the taunts and Jjibes of Ecr ruder acquaintances, Across in the next county, Lehigh, two young people were married. They belonged to different companies, In less than thirty days they fought and separated, but the proofs of their mar- riage had been sent in to the home office and in due course of time each received the amount of money due, and they are now separately enjoying it. The young woman is off on a trip to Europe, and the young man started a harness-making shop. There are many who now ol that the young woman just married to got her money and never intended to live as a wife to that man. Some say that she boasted of the trick she was going to play to get money to seo Paris, A young womun of Lehigh county was compelled to withdraw from her class membership because, she said, she had 103 ssmentsin two months and to pa for each was a tax heay- ier than she could bear. “Why, it seems to me,” said s} members of our class were married at once, y father to help me any furthér, so L w selled to drop out of the class after 1 fad paid $83.” 3 An industrious young mechanic, working in the shops in this borough, joined a company sixteen months ago. Thee months ago he was married, and on yesterday be receive )0, which he s using to improve his home. He said: T am about $730 ahead of the investment, and 1 consider myself getting fused lucky., It's all right for a young man togoin. If his girl ‘goes back on him' he can very easily get another, and he will do 8o rather than continue to pay the heavy drain of the assess- ments. But a modest young woman can't ‘go courting’ and choose a hus- bard asa man can a wife: If she has a fall-out with her intended, or he de- serts her, she has got to wait until an- other man offers.” A gentleman who is largely inter- ested in the business made this state- ment: “The business is perfectly le- gitimate. A thousand unmarried ople agree to pay $1 to each mem- {;:r of the class as soon as they are matried. We simply do the organiz ing and collecting, and chargo a small percentage for it. No bad resultsare at all likely to happen, as in the wild- cat death-bed insurance, so-called Some companies have it g0 a ged that if persons do not get married in a certain number of years, they will be entitled to quite a nice sum in time, which the company will pay. There may be some companies that may have been imposed upon, as we hear of, and which you say you also have heard about, but nearly all the com panies are very strict, and do not take people without any character or who have no respect for the marriage vow. The companies hereabouts are all honest and trustworthy,” | there 0, ‘‘that all the| THE YELLOWSTONE, Explorations of That Wonderful Country-A Relio of the Custor Fight. Sioux City Journal, b _Judge Akin comes back from tho Yellowstone country laden with infor- mation about this new part of the new northwest. A reporter who was fa- vored with an interview yesterd enabled to give the following points: Glondive, the present terminus of THIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNTESDAY, JULY 27 French Prairie, near St Louis, Marion county,Ore,, and remained on the same place for for! ars, The Spoopendykes A-Fishing Brooklyn Eagle. p ‘‘Say, my dear,” said Mr. Spoopen- d{k y with a social sort of a grin, “how would you Iike to go fishing?” “Wouldn't that be perfectly love- ly!” squealed Mrs, Spoopendyke. *1 never was fishing in my life, and I always wanted to try it. Where can we go!” “Well, there are lots of places around Brooklyn. Last summer I saw boys eatch & good many fish off the dock at the foot of Stato street. We might go there.” “Just the pla conceded Mrs, Spoopendyke. “Perhaps we can catch some sardines, T'll bet a spool of thread I get the first shad!” and in her glee Mrs, Spoopendyke waltzed across the room and back again, Mr., Spoopendyke smiled pleasantly upon his wife and started out into the yard to get some worms, while Mrs, Spoopendyke rigged herself up for the pending excursion, “‘Got any fish-sacks?” she asked, as Mr. Spoopendyke returned, rather warm from his exercise. Bradford, Pa, Thomas Fitehan, Bra I'a., writes 1 enclose money for STRING Brossow, as 1 said 1 would if it cured 1 +in has yanished, with all it 1 shall neve My dy symptoms, Many thank ll » withoat it in the how: Price 50 cents, trial hottles 10 cents, 241w — A FOOL ONCE MORE ‘For ten years my wife was confin- od to her bed with such acomplication of ailments that no doctor could tell what was the matter or cure her, and T used up a small fortune in humbue stuff. Six months ago T sawa U, 8 flag with Hop Bitters on 1t, and 1 thought T would be a fool once more I tried it, but my folly jroved to be wisdom, Two bottles cured her, she is now as well and strc Any man's wife, and it cost me only two dollars Such folly pays.—H. W.| Detroit, Mich. —Free Pross. “I've got some tishing-rods, if that's the Northern Pacific on the Yellow- stone, is lively. There are already fourteen graves in the cemetery, and the deceased, excepting two children, all died with their boots on. Besides the railroad buildings there are thirty houses in the town at twenty-six of which whisky straight is sold. The route of the railroad above Glendive follows the valley on the south side of the river, The river 1s not crossed until Huntly is reached. In some places the bluffs run down steep to the river, and n places the engineers were seen trom the steamer hung over the blufisidle by a rope around their waists while they located aline. 'whis bluff soil is sliding and treacherous, and it will be difficult to maintain a road after it is built. The valley is from five to fifteen miles wide, and the soil proves excel- lent for crops. The Crow Indians are not friendly to the railroad that is being built over their reservation, and there is talk about an Indian war by the disap- pointed settlers on the north side who expected the road to be built on their side of the stream. The judge went up on the steamer Terry to Fort Custer on the Big Horn river, within fifteen miles of the Custer battle-field. The country there is rugged and forbidding, and the cli- mate subject to sudden changes. One day atter sweltering through a tem- perature of 110° in the sun there was a frost at night, The monument to the men that died in ‘the fight with Custer is being put in place on the battle-field. A soldier who had been there assisting in the work brought back a ghastly relic of the fight which he gave to the judge. It was a portion of the upper jaw, with the teeth in place, of a man who had fallen in that last hand to hand struggle when Custer and his few re- maining men, surrounded and over- powered, died fighting. The monu- ment rises where the ‘‘long-haired chief” was found by the troops of what you mean,” replied Mr. Spoop- endyke, ‘“‘but I could only find four worms,” “‘Can’t wo break 'em in two?” in- quired Mrs, Spoopendyke, anxious- 1y. ) “Could if we had a buzz-saw,” grunted Mr Spoopendyke, ‘‘Come along if you're coming;” and thor- oughly equipped for the expedition, Mr. and Llu. Spoopendyke set out for the State street pier. “How long before they bite?” ask- od Mrs. Spoopendyke, hoisting her hook out of the water, and examin- ing the point of a worm her husband had impaled thereon. “‘They’ll probably bite at that as soon as they can borrow a _step-lad- der,” retorted Mr. Spoopendyke, eye- ing the dangling hook. ~“‘If you cal- culate to get any fish, you'd better let that thing down in the water.” “Oh!” said Mrs. Spoopendyke, dropping the hook. ‘Do you think could catch a gold-fish?’ she inquired, after a pause. *“Hi! hold on!” There, T lost him!” ejaculated Mr Spoopendyke, firing his hook toward the Hights. So did I'” chimed Mrs, Spoopen- dyke, asshe fell over backward and shot her sinker in Mr. Spoopendyke's ear; ‘‘I declare we both lost him?” “What ye doing?” demanded Mr. Spoopendyke. ‘“What did you lose? When I'm pulling in fish, you just sit still, will ye? Think my head’s a fish- pond? Drop it, Itell ye! drop itin water. There? Now sit stilland fish. Another time I'm pulling in a Spanish mackerel, you let them alone. You made me lose that fish.” *“You ought to have caught him,” said Mrs. Spoopendyke, soothingly; “‘you fished splendidly for him.” “T understand the business,” re- joined Mr. Spoopendyke, somewhat molified. “Yousee he didn’t even get the bait, big as he was.” “I'm glad of that because we've only got three worms left. How I'd like to catch an oysterl Do you knew ” Miles’ command, piled in the same|I—— heap with the horses and men thathad died with him en that terrible July day. More pleasant mementoes of his trip to the Yellowstone are brought back by the judge in the way of min- eral specimens from that strange country. There are moss agates as large as a brick-bat, beautiful speci- mens of petrified wood; an agate with a black center that glistens like a frost of diamonds; agate and crystals of quartz blended together. The gem of the collection is a part of a fish, petri- fied. The sides are covered with soizething iike mica, that glows with all the colors of the rainbow. Oregon’s Oldest Pioneer. Portland Oregouian. Andra Lashapelle, without doubt the oldest pioneer of Oregon, died at St. Vincent hospital, in this city, on the 11th inst. At the time of his death Lashapelle had resided sixty- four years in Oregon and forty years on the the French Prairie. He was born in Montreal, Canada, Aug. 14, 1781, He left his home in Montreal in March, 1817, having hired to the Hudson Bay Company for a term of three years, He came to Oregon the same year, arriving at the point where Astoria now stands. The place was then known as “Fort George.” Lashapelle was first put into a black- smith shop a few days after his arrival and worked for two years very steadiy ly. In 1819 he was ordered to go up with a boat to act as guide with six others, to bring up the express as far as the boat encampment (now called Big Bend) and wait until the voyagers could come from the other side of the Rocky Mountains, and take them down the Columbia to Fort George. That year, as *hey came down the Columbia, it was the highest freshet cyer known to whites or Indians in Oregon. There were very fow places where they could find "o camping- gromnd, When they passed the praivic(where Vancouver now stands) vas ten feet of water all over the prairie. Ho reached Fort George safe and sound and remained there until 1 That year Dr. John Me- Loughlin came as chief factor of the Hudson Bay Company and gave order to remove all goods and mova- ble property to the place ealled Van- couver, Lashapelle remained at that place until the year 1833, That spring he crossed the Rocky Mountains and went as far as Hud- son Bay, partly with the intention of going home to Canada; but he hired again, and came back to V. couver thesame year, and remained until 1836, His thoughts were still of home, and he again left with the intention of reaching his parental roof, this time without fail. But his hopes were not realized. He went up the Coluimbia for the second time, and went down to a Hudson Bay fort, and remained several days, when word was sent by Dr. McLoughlin, the chief factor of the Hudson Bay Company, to hire Lashapelle and send him back. Lashapelle got better wages and went back to Vancouver, and remained thereuntil the year 1841, In the spring of that year Lasha. lle was loft ‘at liberty to go where e pleased. So he came to the Willamette Valley and was married, He then settled down on a farm on “Hist! Sh-h-h-! Quiet now! T've got him! See me play him! Now,T'll fetch him!” and Mr. Spoopendyke reeled in until he landed an old boot. “I didn’t know that fish had burrs on, like a chestnut,” said Mrs. Spoop- endyke, quivering with excitement. *‘Crack him, and let's see what he is.”” ‘“‘Crack your grandmother!” snorted Mr. Spoopendyke, shieing the boot up the pier. ‘‘He wasn’t good to eat, any- way. T'll get something”— ““What's the matter with my stick? Let go, you nasty thing! Here is an- other one! Quick!” “‘Pull him in, can’t ye? You've got a bite. Haul up!” cried Mr. Spoopen- dyke, trying to untangle himself from | & his line and help his wife, “‘Lift him out of the water!” + “He won’t let me,” squeaked Mrs, Spoopendyke, holding both arms out full length. ““Take him off! Scat! Go ’'way you monster!” “Lift your pole straight up in the air!” shouted Mr, Spoopendyke. ‘‘Hoist the dodgasted thing right up!” ““Mrs. Spoopendyke exerted herself and disclosed an eel, dangling, “It’s a rattlesnake!” she yelled. “‘Don’t go near him! fire! fire! murder! polico! police-o-0?" “‘Hold your yawp, will yer?” “‘Get him over the dock so I can catch him! What ye holding him out there for? Waiting for him to dry? Stick that pole straight up in the air, I tell ye!” Mrs. Spoopendyke threw the pole over her shoulder, and flopped the eel into Mr. Spoopendyke’s coun- tenance. “Dod-gast the measly eel!” he howled, as he spit it out. *Stop waving that slam-basted lightning-rod like a flag, will ye? Hold it still, T say! Think you're o tree?” “Don’t touch him! Throw him overboard! He'll sting you to death?” gurgled Mrs, Spoopendyke, and, for- wetting that the pole still exercised an influence over the eel, she gave it a jerk, and it slipped throu Bpoopendyke's fingers, That gentle- man made a spring for it; and swashed into the water. “Hou! blab! baa! waggle, hic, ga, ! sputtered Mr, Spoopendyke, gaggle! as some lighter-men fished him out. “Did you catch cold, dear?” in- quired Ms, Spoopendyke, with solic- | 4 itude, as they made their way home, “If T did T landed it,” growled Mr, Spoopendyke, blowing mud like the exhaust of a tug. 4 ay, I caught an eel, didn’t 177 asked Mrs. Spoopendyke, carrying out the woman’s idea of comforting a mar. with the only thing he don’t want to hear about, “Oh, you caught Mr, Spoopendyke. “You're a fish- woman, you are, All you want now is some glass sides and some bubbles running through you to be an aquari- um! Another time we both go fishing, you stay at home. You hear?’ And with this novel suggestion Mr, Spoopendyke hunted himself to his domicile and took a rum sweat, it!” ripped out BYRON RERD LEWLS REXD BYRON REED & CO. LoLDsET EsTABLISHED Real Estate Agency IN NEBRASKAY to abstract of title to all Real #ud Douglas county. wmayy Keep 8 com Estate in Oy DISEASES, like rivers, «pring from small causes. The roaring Fiver nay not he easily di verted from its course, nor the neglocted disease from its destructive work. Taken in time, disoa: which is merely an interrupicd function, may averted by the useof naturc s ronedy, Tarrant’s Seltzor Aspoerient. 1881, ~ iy is, MAN “rond Rook lland Routa!” West for beng the most direct quickest, and safest lin, annceting the great Metropolis, CHI ) tho EAstrns, Nowrit-EASTRRN, Sovtit And SOrTiI-FASTRRN LiNRS, which terminate there, WIth KANAAS Criy, LEAVENWORTH, ATCHISON, CouNcit, Buures and OMAWA, the COMMKRCIAL CRXTERS from which radiate VERY LINE OF ROAD that penetrates the Continent from the Missovtl River to the Pacific Sloy CHICAGO ROCK ISLAND & PA- CIFIC RATLWAY 18 the only line from Chicago owning track Into Kansas, or which, by its own road, reaches the [oints whove nanied. No TRANSPKRA 1Y CARRIAGK ! No missixa coxxkcrions! No huddling in il ventil OF unclean cars, as overy passenger s and ventilated conches, DAY CARS of unrivaled magnificonce, PULLMAY PAJACK SLERFING CARS, and our own world-famous Dixixa CArg, upon which meals are served of un. surpassed oveellence, at the low Tate of SKVENTY FIxk CrxTs RAcH, with ample timo for healthful enjoyment. Mrough Car between Chicago, Pooria, Mil waukee and Missourd River Points; and close con- It combines the modicinal projertios of the best_mincral waters in the wor SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTR T.AXE TELE No Changing Cars OMAHA & CHICAGO, Where direct connections are mado with Through SLEEPING CAR LINES for NEW YGRK, BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE, WASHINGTON AND ALL EASTERN ITIES, The Short Line via. Peoria Eor INDIANAPOLIS, CINCINNATI, LOUIS- VILLE, and all points in the SOUTH-HAST. THR BAST LINE For ST. LOUIS, Where direct connections are made in the Union Depot with the Through Sleeping Car Lines for ALL POIN' SOUTE. NEW LINE*o-DES MOINES THE FAVORITE ROUTE FOR Rock Island. The uneqvaled in to trayelors and tou ements offcred by this line # are as follows: AN (10-wheel) PALACE 1" only on thisline 0, B, AWING ROOM CARS, with ng Chairs. No extra charge for seats in Reclining Chairs. The famous C., B. & Q. Palace Dining Cars. Gorgeous Smokini Cars fiited with elegant high-backed rattan revolving chairs, for the cxclusive use of first-class passen gors. Steel Track and superior equipment combined with their gacat through car arran t, makes this, above all others, the fay oute to the Easf, South and Southcast. Try it, and you will find traveling a kaxury in- stead of n discon fort, . Through tickets vio this calobrated line at all oftices in the United States and Cax All informaticn sbout rates of fare, & Car accomu i, Time Tablcs, o cheerfully given by applying to mathematical | we PERCEVAL LOW General Passanger Agent, Chicigo, 7, 3, POTT! Genoral Manuver Chioago. 1880. SHORT LINE. 1880. KANSAS CITY, St. Joe & Council Bluffs RAILIROAI 18 THE ONLY Direct Line to ST. LOUIS AND THE EAST From Omahaand the West, No change of cars between Omaha and bu. wouis, and but one between OMAHA and N YORK, g = ; Daily PassengerTrains wnacimG ALL EASTERN AND WESTERN CITIES with LESS CHARGES ani ADVANCE of ALL OTHER LIN. © I8 equipped with P This entire Palaco Slecy 4, Pulace Day Coaches Safety Platic d’ Coupler, and the celebrated brake, your ticket reads VIA nANSAS EPH & COUNCIL BLUFFS Kail Bt. Joseph and St. Louis, Tickets for sale at all cor Westingho stations in the Gen. Sup J Ticket Agt., 5t. Joseph, Mo, W. C. Skacukps, Ticket Agent, ANDY BORDRN, A, L, BARNAKD WISE'S Axle Grease NEVER CUMS! Used onlWagons, Buggios, Reapers, Threshers and Mill Machinery, 16 is INVALUABLE T0 PARN ks AND TEANSTEiS. It curcs horatches and all kiuds of sorco on Horses and Stock, as well & on " CLARK & WISE, Manuf's, 886 lllinols Street, Chicago. £ SEND FOR PRIC _ Jo2U-bmbe Geo. P. Bemis Rea. Estate Acency, I6th and Dodge Sts., Omaha, Neb. This agency does sTRIOTLY & brokerage business, Does not spoculate, and therefore any bargaing on its books wre insured to its patrons, lustead of belng gobbled up by the ayent noctions at all points of intérsection with other roads, We ticket (d0 not forgot this) directly to every |\hm- of importance in Kansas, Nebraka, Black ills, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Callfornia, Oregon, Washington Territory, and New Mexico. As liberal arrangoments regarding baggage s any other line, and rates of faro always s ow as gompetitors, who furnish but a tithe of the com ort. Doga and tackle of sportamen froe. Tickets, maps and folders at all principal ticket offices in the United States and Canada. R. k. CABLE, E. ST, JONN, Vico Prov't & Gen, Gen. Tkt and Pase'r Agt. Manager, Chicago Chic: Sioux City & Pagific —AND—— St. Paul & Sioux City RAILROADS. TIE OLD RELIABLE SIOUX CITY ROUTE A MILES SHORTER ROUTE 1 QO YROM COUNCIL BLUFFS TO ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS, DULUTH OR PISMARCK, and all points in Northern lowa, Minnesota and Dakota. This line i3 equipped waih the improved Westinghouse Automatic Air-brake and Miller Platform Couplet and Buffer; and for SPEED, SAFETY AND COMFORT {s unsurpassed. Elogant Drawing Room and Sleeping Cars, owned and controlls y the com- pany, run through WITHOUT CHANGE between Union Pacific Transter uepot at Council Bluffs, and 8t. Paul, Trains leave Union Pacific Transter depot at Council Bluffs at 6:16 p. m., reaching Sioux City at 10:20 . m. and 8t. Paul at 11:06 a. m. making TEN HOURS IN ADVANCE OF ANY OTHER ROUTE. Roturning, leave St. Paul at 8:30 p. m., arriving Sioux City 4:46 a. m., and Union I cific Trans. r depot, Council Bluils, at 9:60 a. m. Be sure t a$ your tickets road via 'S, &P R R” F. C. HILLS, perintendent, T. E. ROBINSON, ssouri Valloy, In, Asst. Gery Pass, Agent. J. 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Sold by drug- gists everywhere, 1t imparts the most brilliant and life-like tints, and the clo- sest serutiny cannot detect its nse. All mnsightly discolora- tions, eruptions, ring marks under the eyes,sallowness,red- ness, roughness, and the flush of fatigue and excitement are at once dispelled by the Mag. nolia Balm, It is the oue incomparable Cosmetic, BOEE,000,000 APPROPRIATED For Pensions I have made an arrangement with particshe which all clains sains! tho Government coming from Nebras ka and lowa will receive prompt and SPECIAL ATTENTION. If purtios wanting new dischargo papers or claiming pensions, (nerease of pensions, bounty, buck § transportation money, comi f lands, patents, ete,, will send their elulng addressed to me, 1 will soe that their interests aro cared for. Letters asking information should have stamp enclosed for re: JAMES al Correspondent) 1804 G St Washi SEALED PROPOSALS, ¥or the Constiuction of Sidewalks. SEALED proposals will be received by the o until August Ist, at 12 o'clock no struction of sidéwalks in fre adjoining the following described premises to- wit Lots 26, 27 and 80in block 54 on west side of 17th street., kLots 1, 4,5,20 and 21 in block 8, west sideot 17th street Lot 1 in block 8, Sweezey's addition. Lot 1 in block 5, Reed's 15t addition, Lots 1 and 16 in block 7, Reed's 1st addition. Lot 16 and scuth § of 1ot 1, block 6, Reed's 1st sdditiou. Lots on the south side of Cass in block 863, Lots 1, 2, 8 and 4 on south side of Cass in block 7, Bweezey's addition. 3.4, L ©. JEWETT, Jy 32084 THIS NIGW AND CORRECT Proves seyond any reasonable question that tha CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN. R'Y Ts by all odds the best road for you to take when iravoling In cither direction between ¥ Chicago and all of the Principal Points In the West, North and Northwest, 4 on this rond, Junction points. Kearary I B AN A O0 oM. Aralns. It ist! THE CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN R Qver all affts prinelpal lines, runs ench way dafly from t 1 G0l rond week 0f Chichge Lhak e i £ 10 four or moro | ILWAY, PULLMAN HOTEL DINING CARS (»., onrly %00 ouneil Blufts, Denver i it o Denver & Callfornia “Nor. Ilinols ne Nebraska & Yankton 1 Cagadas, HARRY P. DUEL, Ticket A; It 1s the only rond that runs Pullman Sleep! N n YO0 MILIES OF ROAD, uf?flr'h'f e ol Ty he.' . Freeport & Dubuqne Line, ckets over this road are sold by all Coupon. lie following Trunk Lines : lll"f\flli St, Paul and Minneapolls Line. 1lwan) N 14th and Faznham stroota, D. E. KIMBALL, Ausistant Ticket Agent C. & N, W. Railway, 14th and Farnhain stre J. BELL, Ticket Agent C. & N, W. Railway, U, P, R. R. Depot. ek SAMES T. CLARK' General Agent. Boston Store ! 616 TENTH STREET. GREAT BARGAINS FOR A EEW IDAYS ONILY Alterations Now Commenced | STOCK MUST BE SOLD ! P. G. IMLAH, Manager, Leader of Popular Prices. MAX MEYER & BRO, the Oldest Wholesaleand Retail Jewelry House in Omaha. Visitors can here find all novelties in 8ilver Ware, Clocks, Rich and Stylish Jewelry, the La- test, Most Artistic, and Choicest Selections in Precious Stones, and all descriptions of Fine ‘Watches, at as Low Pri- ces a8 is compatible with honorable dealers. Call and see our Elegant New Store, Tower Building, corner 11th and Farn- ham Streets MAX MEYER & BRO. MAX MEYER & BRO., O DK A EL A . THE LEADING MUSIC HOUSE IN THE WEST! General Agents for the Finest and Best Pianos and Organs manufactured. ur prices are as Low as any Eastern Manufacturer and Dealer. Pianos and Organs sold for cash or installments at Bottom Prices, A SPLENDID stock of HSteinway Pianos, Knabe Pianos, Vose & Son’s Pi- anog, and other makes. Algo Clough & Warreu, Sterling, Imperial, Smith American Organs, &c. Do not fail to see us before pnr- chaging. M’DONALD AND HARRISON, 1208 FARNELAWM STEIEET,| ARE NOW OFFERING FOR ONE MONTH ONLY DECIDED BARGAINS — XN — .| Ladies' Suits, Cloaks, Ulsters, Circulars, Etc., AT COSYT. 200 Handsome Suits, at $5.00; 300 Stéloish Suits, $10,00; 76 Black Silk Buits, $17, We have several lots of staple goods which will be offered at SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS ON THE DOLLAR, All ladics should avail themselves of this great sale of] CORSETS AND UNDERWEAR, ‘LINEN AND MOHAIR ULSTERS, SILK AND LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, LAWN SUITS AND BACQUES, 20-v0d U McDONALD & HARRISON, warefully examine this Map, The Principal Citles of the West and North Rta t Ixpress thwest of Chlcago, 1t bag Vinona, Minnesota & Central Dakata Llnu." Kee, Green By & Lake Superior Line Tickét Agouts T tho United Stages nod! Remember to nsk for Tickets via this rond, be sure they read over it,and take nono nlhor‘ MARVIN HUGHITT, Gen’l Manager, Chicago. 4 W. 11, STENNETT, Gen'l Pass, Agent, Clicagos nt C. & N, W. Raily