Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 17, 1884, Page 7

THE DAILY BEE COUNCIL BLUFFS ADDITIONAL LOCAL WA, e e o e e e e | THE PEOPLE'S PROTEST. lowa's Representalives to be Unged to Oppose the Extension of the Union Pacific Charter, N The Document to be Circulated The following la the protest prepared for cirenlation among the people of Towa against the proposed extension of the charter of the Unton Pacific: To the lowa Delegation in Congress— Gextiemes: We the undersigned resi- dents of the state of Iowa do moat earnestly protest against the passage of a bill providing for an extenslon of the chartered privileges of the Union Pacific rallroad for the period of sixty years, or for any other period, for the following reasons: The management of the Union Pacific company is now and has always been antagonistic to the interests of the publio in general, and of the state of Iowa in porticalar. This abuse the people of [owa resented many years ago by bring- ing an actton in the Federal court, ask- ing for a writ of mandamus to compel the Union Paclfic company to operate its 7 road in the interest of the public and in compliance with the provisions of its charter. The cause waa triad on its merits and the writ of mandamus was issued and made perpetual. This order has never been fully com- plied with, The Union Pacific company at great expense 8o oporates its lines as to build up Nebraska interests and retard the growth and development of lowa in- teresta. This, in part, arises from a disposition on behali of the Union Pacific to cater to the prejudice and passton existing in Nebraska, and from a desire to apponse the people of Omaha and to avert hostile legislation in that state. A renewal or extension of the chartor priv- leges of the Unlon Pacific would only re- salt in perpetuating this evil. It gives .special rates to Omaha merchants, and theroby discriminates against rival and competing points, among which we might enumerate St. Louls, Kansas Clty, St. Joseph, Des Motnes, Council Blaffs, Lin- coln, Fremont, Columbus, Chicago and all intermediate puints. It charges ex- tortionate bridge-tolls under the privi- for goods. As a result of sach enter prise they are Corning money. reporter shows forty-three saloons ran- ning in the strongest towns. passed an_ordinence *‘setting down’ on street fakirs and swindlers, and will here- aftor refuse to grant the license. The Dubuque Trade-Journal has fig- ured up that Dubuque has expended £903,600 in building Improvements this year, but the Telegraph says this ia un- doubtedly an overestimate, A new town is to be located in the Maple valloy, Monana county, with a view of making it the fature county seat. The people of Onawa are anxious about the outcome of the project. I. T, Gilbert, a member of the Y. M. O. A. at Lomars, accused another mem- ber, J. C. Kelley, of dishonesty, at a recent meeting of the association, where- upon Kelley sued him for $5,000 dam- ages. Alta boasts of leading all the other towns of Buena Vista county in regard to the amount of shipments of grain and stock. She also claims the largest eleva- tor and most extensive roller mills, Protessors of the *‘manly art” and gate money are congregating at Sioux City, and slugging matches are multiplying. The Journal thinks it is a melancholy re- fnction on the vaunted morals of the city. One of the amendments adopted at the election providing for the abolition of the grand jury, is'ia conflict with the constitution of the United States, and is therefore considered null and vold. Some detestable villaln eatered the barn of Dennla Dixon, ten miles north of Manson, set fire to the hay and then went out, closing and fastening the door, leaving a span of valuable horses to be roaated in the flames. It appears that prohibition does not strictly prohibit even in the moral town of Cherokee. The Enterprise says it is pretty generally un@erstood that those who are known to bo no equealers can got as atrong a drink as they want av the corner saloon. The Slonx City board of trade has fired a sories of resolutlons at congress in_ fa- vor o the proposed Sioux City branch of the Unlon Pacific. The pushing metrop- olis of northwestern Towa is strongly in favor of the *‘oid flag and a railroad sub- sidy.” Creston young ladies are making a crusade against young men who are in the habit of using “‘swear words,” and a local paper suggests that eternal silence will bo the price of a yoong man’s solid- leges of the gsupplemental bridge act, and thero is ground for a snspicion that yard expenses and the needless switching of trains between Council Bluffs and Omaha, at great oxpenso is also charged to the “‘bridge account in order to justify these excossive tolls. Permit me to suggest in this connection that this question might properly bocome a subject for future in- vestigation by congress, The rond was built and is being operated under anthorlty of an act of congress, which was violated in Its construction and is disregarded in its operatton. Is it not time for congress to ascertain whether the copital stock does not exceed the actual coat of the road! Is it not the duty of congress to relieve the burdens of tho public by revising the tariff schedules of this road, and reducing them 0 & reasonable figure, as cougress reserv- to itself the right to do? Has not the bridge fund, by the excessive toll hereto- fore levied upon commerce, been suffi- cient to have paid for the bridge twice over, if it had been applied? And, if this is trus, ought not the bridge hereafter be operated the same as any other portlon of the Union Pacific line? These are questions of fact and ought to be explained fully and sat- 1sfactorily before the Union Pacific com- ' pany is granted the priviloge of an ex: tension of its charter. We hold that it is ot operated in the interest of the pub- iic and the government,” as the law spec- ifies and requires, but is operated in the interest of speculators, stock-jobbers and plunderers of the public treasury. If this be true, it would be a betrayal fof the people and the government to renew or extond the charter of the Union Pacific, for any period, short or long. We therefore most earnestly protest against such a measure, and most respect- fully ask that thorough investigation be made in order that the public may be botter served and the government treas- ury better protected in tho future. All of which is very respectfully submitted. - —— UPSET SALE AT METCALF BROS. BAGGAGE BURGLARS, 2 i P Tho Chicago & Noj estern Depot ity with the fair sex hereafter. At Oskaloosa there 1s a spring of water which will tan gkins, either with the fur on or of, in from twenty-four to forty-eight hours, according to tho size of the hides. The spring of a mother’s arm can beat that record before break- fast. Surveys have been made for an iron bridge acroes the Mississippi river at Prairie du Chien, to take the place of the pontoon structure. The latter has paid from $35,000 to §50,000 per annum, The new bridge will be built by a stock company at a cost of $80,000 or more and will be nearly a mile in length, Tip. Owen, an old settler living some five miles uorth of Glenwood, about 3 o'clock Menday morning last, went to his sisters, about half s mile distant from his own home, went in, and was told to turn the damper in the stove and he would soon have a fire. He did so, and im- mediately blew the top of his head oft with a heavily charged shot-gun which he carrled. At Rose HIl], in ' Washington county, A. F. Hockett, aged twenty-three, shot James Fowler for seducing his married sister and breaking up the family. The guilty couple had spent the previous night in an Oskaloosa hotel. Hockett weont the next day to her house, and when Fowler came around shot him three times, after having first made him con- fess his guilt. Jonathan Bunker and Marion Hollings- worth, of Henry county, have quarreled over a piece of road for some time, On Tuesday their quarrel came to a focus in the shape of a bloody encounter. Hol- lingsworth used a clubbed gun on Bunk- er, who took an ax and cut a fearful gash on Holllngsworth’s head, literally sever- ing one of lis ears. Bunker escaped with slight tnjuries. The Burlington Hawkeye says: ‘‘Mem- bers of the brotherhood of locomotive engineers in this city has received a cir- cular letter from Tom Monaham, a fow yoars ago a popular (). engineer, who is at present confined in a miserable Mexi- can jail where he is compelled to endure all the tortures of Mexicon brutality, Mr, Monahan was arrested for an acci- Broken Open, It was discovered yesterdsy morning that sometime during the provious night thioves had broken open the baggage room of the Chicago & Northwestern de- pot and got away with three valises, Just what the grips held is of course un- - known, thoy being the property of pas- dent with which he is In no way con- nected, and the letter requests the mem- bera of the brotherhood to bring about his release,” The tramp nuisance is getting to be serious In Burlington and it suburbs, and the police are deing all in their pow- er to keep the vagabonds from running the town to sult themeelves. A fow evenings ago the town jail was (illed with sengers, The police were yesterday the lazy gents of leisure, but during the temporary absence of the officers the ?vurk_ing on the case with suspiclon point- | locks were broken from the outside and ing in a certain direction, but not very | tho whole gang made good their 'escape satisfactorily, R 1OWA NOTE Slonx county claims 12,000 population, to prey upon the law-abiding, industrious citizens of the town, The town of Glenwood was recently in- vaded by a gang of eighteen tramps, who, armed with revolvers, coolly entered a Newton will brighten up with elec- [ number of stores and helped themselves tricity, t2 goodefand money amounting to $400, A sonp man lathered the cltizens of | The business men finally closed their Mapleton for several dollars, The indebtednes of Dubuque county is $90,000, and its bonds are gilt'edge, lce boats run a mile a minute cn Storm Lake, Sports are naturally fast, stores, and about fifty armed themse[ves aud proceeded after the enemy, who then vacated the town, leaving a couple of their number in the hands of the officers, after four shots had been exchanged on each side, without effect, Sioux City's postoflice oflicials will | some tali of lynchlug the vagranta. receive in new and elegant quurters Jan- uary lst. The Koeokuk Stoye company have mace a reduction in molders’ wages of from 10 to 12 per cent. The gencral fund of Des Molnes clty fs [ New overdrawa §17,000, and the treasurer nas shut down on warrants, The board of trustees of the Agrl- cultural collega have signed a treaty of They are now singing low in har- e Many Have Reason for Thanksgiving This year, but none more so than thefortun winners in the 174(h ( An investigation made by a Des Moines of prohibition The town council of Tndependence has There was ate aud Monthly Drawiog THE FRONTIER TRANP. How Stranded Graduaies Live Withoa! Money. “Give Mo ’l‘w-: l\l‘u" : Poverty = Mot ogress and Greeley's Cheap Lavor—Xhe Want of Capital, Horace - Mexican El Paso (Texas) Correspondence of the St Louis (ilobe. Democrat, ~*‘Beg your pardon, sir, can you let me have two bital 1 want to get a night's lodging.” 1t was outside the door of a brightly lit all-night saloon on San Antonio street that your correspondent was stopp:d by this abrupt salutation, The moonlight effalgence of the numerous electric lights would have made a pin on the sidewalk visible, and gave him ample time to take stock of the applicant. A slightly built man of about 30, dressed in an old and glossy suit of black, that, to use the com- monplace, ‘“‘had seon better days.” A face that spoke of culture and refine- ment, albeit bratalized by piggish bristles andrendered coarse by over-indulgence WEDNESDAY, DE with red peppers, and is a great stimul ant to the weak ctomach. The common eat kind of meat is nsed in making it stuff tnat sells in the butcher's stall about G cents a pound. A bowl of stuff costs 10 cents, can take another bowl for supper. some lrieh stow instead of the chili carne, 1t costs 15 conts, “‘How about beds?” are always empty box cars lylng on the railroad track, into which I creep and sleep until morning. The last fow nighta, though, it has been so cold that I couldn’t do it, and that's the reason 1 atruck you to-night.” “Ihe American laborer has not much stow here!’ queried the writer, after a pause, *‘No. He was too close to old Mexico and Mexican cheap labor affects him just a8 Chinese cheap labor affected him in California. No white man can work for Mexican wages, and as the supply of Moxican labor right at their doors is al. most inexhaustible, contractors naturally give it the vreference; hence the vast number of idle men you see hanging around the street corners. To give you an idea how cheap Mexlcan labor s, the Mexican Central railroad found ltactually in strong drink. The old black diago- nal coat was buttoned close up to the chin, as though to hide the dirty linen beneath, and a worn slouch hat formed his headgear. It was in such a state of dilapidation as to recall the ballad of Paddy McFadden, who was —greasy and fat, And the hair of his head It stuck out through his hat, Such was the eusemble of the man who came weat to the boundary of two repub- lics, to hold out his hand to the passing stranger and beg two bita for his night's Jodging. Drowning men, wdo have been rescued, tell us thatin the few moments that elapae between the surcease of pain and absolute oblivion, their whole lives seem to pass in reviow beforo thom, and asmy fingers sought the coveted 25 cents 80 seemed to pass through my mind sad thoughts of the Increase of misery and poverty the wide world over. THE TRUE COSMOPOLITE, Poverty, 1 think, is the greatest cos mopolite. I have seen it chased asa crime from the strects of our great cities in the United States; 1 have aeen it goll- ing its miserable match boxes (containing matches that never would or could ignite) ag an excuse to eecapo police persecution in the London streets; I have seen it picking up the garbage around the Halles Central in Paris; sunning its brass badge ou the Piazza de Spagna at Rome, and yot more recently blocking the entrance to theCathedral of Chihuahua. But surely I thought this southwest that is always asking for immigrants ought not to have healthy men standing round the streets of her towns asking for alme. In this con- nection I should remark thst this applica- tion for ‘‘two bits” was only one of a dozen to which the visitor to El Paso is subjected nightly, and that the only cure the authorities seem to have for the evil is to round-up the poor devils _like cattle and drive them out of town with a force of mounted officers, I thought 1 would interview the man who wanted two bits for a bed, and 8o dropping half a dollar into his out- strotched palm [ asked himto take a drink. Seated beside a warm stove and under the inflaence of a “‘hot Scotch,” my tramp became quite communicative and required little urging on the part of the interviewer to unlimber his tongue. +] supposo you're going to commence with the usual cant about why don’t I go to work and the rest of it,” he com- menced. *“To hear you fellows talk about industry and energy, one would imagine that all a fellow had to do was to go right into the first store and ask for a job to get it. Well, you just try it, and you'll find that your industry is not wanted and your energy is wasted on the desert air.” “Bat I'd imagine,” broke in your cor- respondent, ‘‘thata man of some cul- ture, education and address would sooner or later drop into something good and keep it without much trouble. You seem to be that kind of a man.” “‘Well, sir, if instead of being a college graduate I had been a graduate from a carpenter’s bench or a blacksmith’s shop, I would not have been begging to-night. The only man that has any solid guaran- toe ayainst starvation to-day is the me- chanic. The land is overcrowded with colleges and universities of all kinds grad- uating young men who are absolutely worthless at best and precious little use anywhere. There are so many young men that can do nothing but clerk that there are 500 for every one vacancy, and wages have sunk to starvation point. In mining districts the business of assayer used to be a good one. Now every state university is turning out things by the hundreds that paes s mining engineers and assayers, and their pay is less than any good miner can earn. This holds true of the professions generally, all of which are full to overtlowing. About two years ago I had a good sitnation in a store at Tucson, but owing to dull times I got let out. I hadn't much money, but 1 startedyfor Silver City, bat found noth- ing. I trled Deming with the same re- sult, and then Lake Valley. My money had glven out and | was glad of any job, I tried to get on urfaca laborer at the Sierra Grande mines, but there were hundreds of strong, able laborers who, of course, cut me out. Men who em- ploy laborers always select the strongest more profiaable to employ Mexicans by the thousanas thanto use labor saving machinery in making the road bed south of Chihuahua, Twenty cents a day was big pay for them, and they actually car- ried the dirt in baskets on thelr heads to construct the dumps. Flrst class Mexi- can minera only get 75 cents a day and ordinary miners 50 cents. That is what the Corralltos mining company which is for this fn the evening you Days when I make a little more money T take con “Well, I've got a blanket, and there CEMBER 17 1884 neatly and decorate with colors or outline embroidery. Tiny cord and tassels may by added, by which to suspond, if deeired, of the silk for the aticks., An ingenion Christmas gifts, AN UMBRELLA HOLDER, umbrella holder. have sufticient welght. wide at the bottom and five at the top. This may be lined with the same or any lighter material. Put a piece of heavy cardboard or pasteboard, samo slze, be- tween the two—If this Is not done, the pockets will sag when filled with um- brellas and canes, The outside piece for pockets should be twenty-six inches long, four Inches wide at the lower end, and ten and » half at the upper. Have stamped any pretty design or appropriate mottoes, and work them in outline stitch with scarlet, Mandonna cotton, or silk, or wool if de- sired; but the cotton stands the wear of the laundry and long usage botter than the more fancy colors, A design of folded umbrella or a cane will do for one pocket, with another for a rudden shower, with people hurrying and skurrying between the drops for the other. *‘Sunshine cometh after rain,” *‘Fast bind, fast find,” and “Laid by fora considered a liberal outfit, is paying, No, sir; the southwest frontier is no place for a poor man, and the republic of Mexico is still worse. Mexlco is one of the best countries in the world tolive out of and don’t you forget it."” TWELVE HUNDRED MILES AWAY, ““Another curse of that placs is,” con- tinued the frontier tramp. “You're 1,- 200 miles away from anywhere—! mean from any large city. It is about that distance from St. Louls, Chicago, San Fraacisco or the City of Mexico. You are at the extremely small hub of a mighty blg wheel. and you're forever crying, with Sterne's starling, ‘I can't get out! I can't get out!” Nov that Kl Paso is a bad place, if a man is & genuine bum, devold of shame or the remnant of self-reepect. Such men can pick up their grab all the time and get some old corral to sleep in; and the climate is splendid; but men like myself, sir, who have seen better days and can hardly see worae, it is we who sufler. Drop into the all- night ealoons on El Paso street and see the poor fellows who sleep on chairs, hugging the stove to keep their feeble blood in circulation, and if you won't think it must have been in a vein of irony that old Greeley exclaimed ‘Go west, young man, go west,’ I shall be greatly mistaken.” “*What do you think is the reason that the west and sonthwest is]getting as bad as the old worn-out east?” ‘‘Railroads, sir, railroads. They bring in 100 poor men for the one man with capital, In the old days when it took a small fortune to croas the plains, though all were not rich, every man was com- fortable. What the southwest wants, eir, is less labor and more capital.” Here an incursion on the part of a freight ““crew” on the Y. and P. brought the interview to anabrupt close. e e— PILES! PILES! PILES! A SURE CURE FOUND AT LAST! NO ONE NEED SUFFER, A sure cure for Blind, Bleeding, Itching and Ulcerated Piles has been discovered by Dr. Willioms (a0 Indign Remedy,) called Dr William's Indian Pile Ointment, A single box has cured the worst chronic cases of 25 or 30 years standing. No_one need suffer five minuted aftor applying thia wondorful sooth- ing medicine, Lotions, instruments and elac- tuaries do more harm than good. William’s Indian Pile Ointment absorbs the tumers, al* lays tho intense itching, (particularly at night after getting warm in bod,) acts s & poultico, fives instant relief, and 1 propared only fof Piles, itching of ‘the private parts, and for nothine else, Read what the Hon, J, M. Coffinbe.ry, of Cleveland, says about Dr, William's Indian Pilo Oointment: *‘I havo used scores of Pile Cures, and it affords me pleasnre to say that I have never found anything which gave such immediate and permanent relief us Dr. Wil- linm's Indian Ointment, For sale by all drug- ta and mailed on receipt of price. 50¢ and §1." Sold'at rotall by Kuhn & Co. C. F. Goonyay, Wholesale Age s CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, Scasonable Hints on the Absorbing Question, Dorcas Megazine, The annually recurring and torment- ing, tantalizing (uestion what to buy or make for Christmas, is one easy of sola- tion to the helder of Fortunatus’ purse, but the women who must, by her own skill and labor, make up for the lack of means, has a more difticult task. The one may buy whatever her fancy dic- tates, with ovly the thought *‘there’s one more off my list,” while the other ro- members not only her own means, but the state and condttion of the recipient. Many give 8o little thought to thelr gifts that while they may be very handsome in themselves, they are entirely unsuited to the person for whom they are fntended. Happy is she who has the faculty of making, with her own deft fingers, use men they can get, a fact that the fellows who, parrot-like repeat Horace (ireeley's cry ‘Go West, young man, (io West," seem to entirely lgnore. ¥From Lake Valley to here I beat my way over the Santa Fe line, and I have now been in El Paso about three weeks."” *‘How have you managed to live!” CHEAP LIVING, “‘Oh, it's wonderful how littlo a man can live on when he's forced to it. Look at these fellows up inthe Arctic, how they gotalongontheirsealskinpsnts for months before they took to canniballsm, 1 don’t suppose I sufferéd as badly as these men did, but I know what it 18 to be without food for two days. Bul 1'll tell you how of '“"" "ll“::‘i"'““‘“ L ‘EI!"’ ll“"-"‘"’yl at| I have managed to live. I peddle pencils oans, o uesday, vay . on " Tussday), November 11th, ' Tiket | 2r0und the saoons, and young fallows No. 68,930 drew the Virst Capital Prize of 76,000, It was sold in fifths, at of which was held by Frank C I neer of No, 12 ngine, in the Fire 1) Bauk of California-—another fifth was held by John M. Moberley, Assistant Cashier of the Tho records show that there were 425 | Mercer National Bank of Harrodsburg, Ky, marriages, 709 births and 317 deaths in Dibuque county in the past eleven months, The state of Towa has certified to the Dubuque and Sioux City railroad a sec tion of land in Franklin' county rontain ing 16,151 aorcs, _The number of hogs slaughtered in the Keokuk packing house this season up t the present time is 22,000, against 19,000 | an for the same period last year, The merchants of Corning have estab lished an exchange and take corn ln trade another by Mr, Thos, Mulbearn, liuor dealer No. 2020} Washiogton st , Boston, Mass., and thoe balance elsewhere, N0, 18,023 drew Sec: ond Capital held by Louis . No. 18, Wild, Donaldscnville, La. another fifsh by Master Frank K. Duity, an eight year-old son of Mr. Thos, Duffy, No 47 d another by No, 2541 Christian st., Washington st., Hartford, Conn, Mr, Robert Richtar, Phila,, a. No b tal D. 9 drew the Third Capl L Oer, of Stephenvill is., and the bal se elsewhere. Nos, 75 80,000, scattered in fractional varts in St fouis, Mo.; Vietorla, Texs; Iadianapolis lud ; Cincinuati jO, 000; two-fifths of which were orize of 510,000; sold also in fifths, one to and 47,185 drew #ach one of the Foarth Capital Prizes of often give me 10 cents and refuse to take a pencil, in which they are eensible, as - | they are the poorest and cheapest I can r of No, 12 partment of San Fraucisco, and collected through the get in the town, Then they very often ful as we)l ornaments| gifts, weaving in with the soft wocls and bright silks, loving thoughts and kind wishes; such gifts have a price far beyond the intrinsic value of them. A plece of china or silver is but a piece of china or silver; any one may buy it; avy one may owa it; but a dainty gar- ment, whichis never used without a thought of the fair worker, is something which all n ay not have, SERVICEAILE LETTER CASE, A pretty and serviceable letter-case, to suspend over one’s desk, may be made by cutung two pleces of card board into squares, measuring six inches each way, Cover each side of both pieces with eilk or satin, taklng care to finlsh the edges very neatly. Paint or embroider any convenient design on the outside piece, and then lay the two together and over- hand two sides together, begiuning at one corner and working half-way round to the opposite diagonal corner. Cover ask me to have a drink. I euppose I'm often asked to take a drink a dozen times inadsy, Itnevers'ruck you, perhaps, but it has often struck me as strange that a dozen men will ask you to have a drink and not one will ask you to have a square meal, though starvation looks out of your very eyes, With the pencil racket a fel- low may make two bitsor perhaps 30 centa a day, and this is how he lives on it. He buys a loaf of bread for 5 cents in the morning and eats half of it. He then goes into one of those cheap chop snde, of which there are three in El Paso, aud gets a Bowl of chili con carne. CHILI CON CVRNE is & Mexioan dish, » kind of meat stewed 1 the edges with a card and suspend with loovs of ribbon from the two points or corners not fastened together. hang diamond.wise, that the letters may be alipped in each side of the ribbon by |dot tarff for brotection a whole week A handsomo tassel or | already, und you vos de only gustomer Vot you haf— which it is hung, ornament fastened to, the lower point adds to the beauty and finish, POCKET PIN CUSHION, Novelties in the way of pocket pin- cushions for gentlemen may be 1aade in the shape of fans, round or oval, like the Japanese and palm-leaf, or like open or shut fan, rainy day" are approiate sentiments with which to adorn the pocket. Having finished the design paste the two together, lengthwise, exactly in the middle; over thia stitch a strip of scarlet braid; now fasten the other edges to- gother and bind neatly with tho same braid; stitch a loop of the braid across the top, to hang up by. If one has not plenty of room, the inside or tho outside of a wardrobe or closet door may be used for hanging. RETICULES, Now that a revival of the reticules of the days of our grandmothers seems to bo expected, those made in rich materials would be very acceptable by and by as Christmas presents, The most conven- ient shape la simply a square bag of vel- vet, lined with colored sllkc. A running to hold a ribbon or cord, and tassels to draw it together with, must be made about three inchos from the top of the bag. This is the simplist form and the easiest to make, but more elaborate ones may bo mado if proforred, Tho bottom corners may be rounded, or the bag made envelope shape with a handle at the top. One of the prottiest is that made by tak- ing a ploce of velvet or brocade (and happy are those who have old scraps of brocade laid by) the size the bag is to be, and by cutting the lower edge into large vandykes, which must be sewn together, 80 that the bag ends in a point finlshed off with a tassel. I have seensome more useful, but not such ornamental recepta- cles in the shape of a Brobdignagian long purse with large rings and tassols. These cases made of brown holland trimmed with braid and closed with ivo- ry rings, will prove very acceptable to travelers for holding boots and shoes, and many other etesteras. Night-dress cases and comb-bags look very well made in cretonne or sateen with the outline of the pattern worked round in outline stitch, or if a large design, in chain- stitch. HANGING PIN: CUSHION, Very elegant pin-cushions for hanging up at the side of a looking-glass are made just now in the shape of a slipper. They are made in three pleces, First, a piece of cardboard must be cut in the form of the sole of a shoe, about six inches long, and then the toe—which In those I saw was made in two pieces, but may be contrived in one piece if preferred. These three pleces of cardboard must be hrst covered with satin, and a small apray embroidered on each of them-—at the heel end of the shoe and in the middle of the other pleces. The back of the shoe should be neatly lined. When the three pieces are all covered and sewn together, a litths pincushion covered wich the same satin and stuffed with bran must be tighily wedged in tho toe of the shoe. When this is 81l donea cord should be run slong to hide all the etitches made by joining the pieces, not forgetting the edge of thescle, and a twist of three foops made at the heel to hang it up by. TOLLET PIN-CUSHION, Very nsoful tollet pin-cushions may be made of round cardboard collar boxes or of the round white boxes that rolled tongues or brawn has been packed in. Thoy must, however, bo nicely padded and lined and the lid stuffed with bran to hold the pins. A frill of the material used must be placed around the bottom part of the box and a ruching of the same around the lid, These wiil be found most useful if the Iid is altogether mcva- ble, not fixed to the bottom a3 in the or- ainary pin-cvchions, which have an awk- ward habit of tilting up directly the lid is opened. C—— A Protective Tarvifl of His Own, Chicago Herald, Out on Milwaukee avenue, in Chicago, is a beer saloon and restaurant with a sign, *‘Five Cents Admission” on its door, After handing over his nickel to the Teutonic gentleman who stood behind the door ready to receive it, the investigator inquired: *1s this a museum /" “Naw, 1t vos a lagerpeer saloon."” “*‘Why do you charge five cents admis- sion, “Vell, you see, 1 haf droubled so mooch been mit dem match-beddlers, wafllo-beddlers, eandyich-poddlers, wie- ner-wurst beddlers und dem fellers dot I doan’d like it pooty much. Da sell dem tings in here to my gustomers, und git deir money und gombete mit mine own drade, So 1 myselluf says to von da, ‘I'm no high danfl republicans for noddings. I fix you fellers. So I put owit dot sign. I make eferybody vot gooms into my lagerpeer saloon pay me funf cents, si- ready. Dot is to bring me in un refenue und be my brotective tariff against dem forelgn gompeditors vot has no peesiness The cpen fan may be decorated with two colors of silk, to represent the foldings, and long stitches porson will, with the ald of a few pieces of silk, satin, ete, be able to add quite & varioty of these usefal articles for her Another vory usefal and ornamental gift, for either lady or gentleman, is an These may be made of heavy brown linen or any of the fancy cloths used for embroldery, if they [ The back should be one yard long, three and a half inches brush and d GRAND GLOSING OUT SALE YOUNGS ART EMPORIOM 1513 DOUGLAS ST:, OMAHA: Commencing Monday, November s 24th — ( Oonsisting of Picture Frame | | Mouldings, Picture Frames, Ergravings, Paintings, Water Colors, Photographs, Station- ory, Pocket Books, Purses, Ladies’ Shopping Bags, Scrap Books, Alhums, Statuary, Ar- | tists' Materials, Gold, Bronze, j Plush and Veivet Cabinet Frames, Brackets, Comb and Biush Sets, Jewel Cases, Work Boxes, Glove and Handkerchief Boxes. Oder Sets, Birthday, Christmas and New Year Cards, and a Great Varlety of Fancy Goods and Novelties Adapt- ed to the Holiday ‘I'rade. Have You Pictures | | to Frame If so, this is an opportunity of a life-time to get them done in the best of style, and ab prices detyi all competition, I have the large and finest stock of the above goud in the cily, having made my eutire Holidav Purchases before de.iding to retire from the business. Failing health comwpels we to maks a | change and in order to elose oub | my stock abt once, I offer without reserve, bargaing m every line such | as will insure a speedy sale. This is the Gr-atest Opportunity ever f- fered to the citizens of Omaha and surroundmg towns t: seleet their Ho"day Goods. Come at once and ve convinced that every articlo of- fered is a bargain. ! YOUNG'S ART EMPORIUM ! 1513 DOUGLAS STREET. MAX MEYER&BRO JEWELERS and SILVERSMITHS Rich Jewelry, B Bronze Statuary, Fine Diamonds, French Clocks, English Silver Plate,Antique Brass Ware, European Holiday Novelties. arg 1 AX MEYER & BRO. Leadiug Music Dealersinthe Wes CARRY IN STOCK ALL THE CELEBRATED MAKES ——0F—— Pianos and Organs! Lower Prices and Tevms this Month than ever offered before, solicited. A visit to owi wareroomns Orange Blossom Flour 1013 Jones Btreet 1} { OMAHA NEB ABK FOR RED CROSS, ?Hggflyngyc%flgfi Horiheast Nebraska ALONG THE LINE OF THE f“.’.‘i»::.;. oyt © | woolGhDER COMPANY, (hicago, b Paul, Minneapolls and it work (" “Dot's de drubble—dot's de drubble. 1t should | Noddings seems to go right in dis goon- try except in de nowsbabers, I've dried I've had in all dot time. ¢in pee!” e —— A Plucky Womau, Huxter's Poist, December 16 from livckville Center states that a tramp en spread | tered the house of Mrs. Seaby Sprague last t _Cut a patter of paper|night and demanded her money, the elze desired. like this, cut two pieces | to the bureau aud got & pocketbook in one |60 8. Tenth Bteech of cardboard, each overlaid with pretty | hand and a revolver in the other, and while eIk or satin; overhand them together § banding him the pocketbook shot him down. -\ report ~he went OMAKA RAILWAY. “‘:'n! Bow extonsicn of bl line from Wakefleld up BEAUTIFUL VALLEY of the GAN Shrough Concord and Colerldge TO EHARTINGTON, slies the bust portion of the Btate, Special lon rates for land eockers over this liney Wayne, Norloli and Hartiugion, snd via Blair boa arinelpal potute on the 310UX OITY & PACIFIO RAILROAD Tralng ;nel tht ., 8t P, M. 0. Rellway %0 Cov - Slgux Uiky, Fonca, Hardlugton, ‘syne snd Korfolk, . ¥ The most extensive manulacturers Billiard & Pool Tables IN THE WORLD, John Hocketrassor Genersl Agent or Nebraska su Wostern [ows. Connect at Blaixr + + + + OMAHA, NEB | % Fivauus, Uskie o, Nolich, nd theough 40 Vaie 1 datiou Billiard snd Pool Tables and ioaberls atlse . I 8 ! watiuab