Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 5, 1885, Page 7

= = o > = M SPINAL &= INILE0dNS . ™ & it 8houlder Brace, $1,5 Shoulder Brace, ¢ ) oublestitched 3,00 houlder Brace, 1.75 y oy 2.00 0 14 years, , 50 few, 14 to 18 Years 2100 High ommended by the le Modistes, the Fashionable Dissonalkeeeons the most eminent Physicians in t! United States and rope, ~Circulars free, LEWIS SCHIELE & CO., Sole Owners of Patent a 390 BROADWAY, FOR SALE DY CHARLES H. PATGH 1517 Douglas Street, Omaha, And leading houses evorywhere, GEN. CUSTER'S MONUMENT. West Poiot No Longer Disfigured by Its Presence, Mrs, Unster's Efforts Orowned with Nuccess—A Story of the Kl ciency of Art Committees, New York Commercial Advertiser, For some time the picturesque bluffs of West Polnt have beon disfigured by a cu- rious combination of absurdities popular- ly known as the Caster monument. It was placed in s prominent porition through respect for the gallant general by his brother officers in the army. It has been visited by hundreds of his for- mer companions; bat, with perhaps the slngle exception of the aculptor who did the deed, they have regretted the pres— ence of such an uusightly memorisl to such a noble career, Now, however, the monument is no longer there. It has been removed, boxed up, and plac:d among & lot of other rubblsh in a storage bullding. Mrs. Custer and the friends of the dead general have every reason to congratulate themselves. A curlous hlstory attaches to this un- fortunate statue, A fund was begun by the New York Herald soon after Gen. Custer lost his life in the massacre of the Little Big Horn. The fund was sub- ‘Iscribad to by all classes of the dead sol- dier’s countrymen, toldie ailors, even newsboye, contrib. ated, 11y about $8,000 was ralsed. This was to form the nucleus of a Jarger amount. It was the Intention of the persons who subscrlbed to make the sufficlently large to en- able some competent and famous Actors, journalists, A PERFECT SHOE FOR LADIES, MISSZS & CHILDREN. OUR PRODUCTIONS REPRESENT THE. PERFECTION OF SHOE-MAKING. IN THEM EVERY OBJECTION FOUND IN READY-MADE SHOES IS REMOVED. THE SUCCESS AT ONGE ATTAINED BY OUR GOODS WHEREVER INTRODUCED 15 OWING TO THE FACT THATTHEY ARE GLOVE-FITTING, ELEGANT IN STYLE AND FINISH, OF THE FINEST MATERIALS AND WORKMANSHIP, AND MODERATE IN PRICE. THE HORRORS OF BREAKING-IN ARE AVOIDED: THEY ARE COMFORTABLE FROM THE VERY FIRST. WE MAKE 15 S1ZES ! IN 14 WIDTHS ! AND 6 SHAPES OF TOES AND MEELS. Zook for our Name on the Soles. J. & T, COUSINS, NEW YORK, ;iIICII ANTS NATIONAL BANK OF OMAHA, Pard up Capitol, . . .£100,000 Sarplus Fund, .. 100,000 N. W, Cor. Farnam and 13th. FraNk MUrpRY, President. Sayu B, Roaers, Vice President. BeN B, Woob, Cashier, LurHer DRrAKE, Ass't Cashier. Acceunt3 solicit.d and prompt attention given to all business infrusted to our care. Pays 6 Per Cent on Time Deposits NOBT. L. GARLICHS, ¥. B, JOHNSON GARLICHS & JOHNSON, BANKERS, b per cent Inferest Allowedon time Deposits Securities, L oans, Losns Negctiated on Cily Property and Improved Farms. Tnvestment Mortgage Fashionable Hatter A. KALISH, Merchant Tailor 810 South 13th Btreet, 3 DOORS SOUTH OF FARNAM, Firat-class tailoring in all its branches. ALMA E.KEITH. Omaha'sPopularMilingr —AND— HAIR DRESSER, 111 8, 16th street, - - - Opp. Postoftie GRAND PICNIG: OF THE Omakia Maennerghor On Sunday June 7, At Spoerl’s Soutr Omaha Park. Admission 25 cents. MRS. L.J. DUNCAN, FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKER! Pertect Work Guaranteed Room 183, Crounse Block. Resldence, 100 South 20th Btreet. Imported Beer IN BOTTLES. Erlanger Pilsner ~Baars |bronze, of buffilo hunts aritst to {reat his subject Ina worthy manner, The fund wes placed In the caro of Mr. A. 8. Sallivan, Mr. Thur- low Weed and Gen, Hancock. They were to decide upon the artis: and upon the prellminaries of construction andun- veiling. The almost universal character of the movement gave much pleasure to Mra. Custer. Meanwhile a sculptor in this city, whose name is J. Wilson MacDonald, concelved the idea that It would add somothing to his fame to have his name on the base of the Custer monument. He went to work. He made a model of what he thought the monument should be. Although Mrs. Custer was in town at the time, McDonald took no pains to zee her, and 8o dlsregarded the important detalls which she could have given him, She was anxlous to place the general's uniform, arms and photographs In the hands of the chosen artist, but McDon- ald, with a suopreme rellance on his Imaglnation, set to work without any of these things and finished his model to his satiefaction. By dint of unmitigated perseverance, MacDonald succeeded in tormenting the gentlemen who compased the trust committee Into placing the $7.000 at his disposal. Then, for the first time, Mrs, Custer was Informed of what had beén done. One day she broke the real of a letter addreseed to her, and found that it con- tained an fnvitation to the unveiling of the statue of her husband at West Point. She was both astonished and pleased that the culmination of her wishes had come 80 soon. But what was her horror when, upon opening an illustrated journsl, she saw the statue in all its catch-penny de- tall. It showed Gen. Custer in the midst of his last fight, with a sword in one handand a revolver in the other, clad n along-tail dress uniform coat and a common troopers' top boots, and in the position so welt known to every reader of dime novels, as particularly character- istlc of Kit Carson or “Wild Bill.” The artist had avolded the most widely known of thesoldlers’ habits. He had given a man of thirty-seven years the face of a decrepit, jabbering rain of seventy. He had taken all the romance out of the general's pereonality, and left him a brawling c>wboy. While engaged In hls work McDonald went to Washington and succeeded in getting a bill through congress, authorfzing the appropriation of $10,000 worth of government cannon to be used In the statue, The aspect of the statute almest brke Mrs. Custer’s spirit. But In splte of her endeavors, the work was finallay placed in the military reservation at West Polnt ¥rom that time on she heard nothing of frionds, or through the newspipers, sive urqualified condemnations of the per- formance. She was uiterly disheartened and for a tlme relihguished all hopes that her husband’s memory would ever be properly honcred. Some timo after the statute was un- velled, a number of the general's brother officers wroto to Mra. Custer asking her why she made no effort to bave the Insult to her husband removed from West Point, She then determined to make an effort, and sppealed to Mr, Lincoln, who was then Secretary of war. Upon an ex- amination of the act of congress it was found that it did not say definitely where P . R et - S I S - THE DAILY BEE-FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1885, ing that the same course might bs follow- od with goneral benefit in the oase of the Seott, Barns, Halleck, and several other statutes in Central Park. “‘The only reason,” he added, *‘that there is little hope for this being done s that Lady Seatt, Mra. Burns and Mrs, Halleck are dead. Tholong sufferlng publle s too weaty at present to make any effort to realst It. — They Oall Him an Amateur Soldier. St. Louis Republican, The woeful incapacity of the English people toarrivs at a true appreclation of things military is shown by the London prees in characterizing Capt. Howard, the Gatling gunner of the Oanadian cam- paign, as an ‘‘amateur soldier.” Capt. Howard is nothing of the sort. Ho is simply & commerolal traveller, employed by the gun menufacturer to rell his wares, Like all other enterprising American commercial travelers be is al- ways ready to show his samples and ex. plafn their practionl qualities. The fact that ho sells Gatling guns does not make him a warrlor. That he went across the line and jolned Gen. Middloton’s army was not due to any belligerent propensity but to the unerring fInstlnct of trade which always secks a market| where thera s a demand for Its wares At the battle of Batouche, we are told, the rebols, taking ad- vantaga of a thioket, crept up unobser- ved to within a few yards of Gen. Mid- dleton’s pet battery, and having shot down a los of artillerymen, made & rueh for their guns which they already re- garded as their certain trophies. But Oapt. Howard was just at that moment exhiblting Lis samples. He pushed the Gatling quickly forward on the flank and “Yiterally mowed the rebasls down.” What for? He would doubtlees have preferred to be far away from the whistle of bullets. He had no feellng of ani. mosity against the ineurgents, but he slew them. He mowed them down sim- ply to show how his gun would work. No doubt hs had, after the manner of commerolal travellers, extolled his wares In somewhat extravagent terms which may even have excited expressions of in. credulity from the artillerymen of the Toronto battery. When that battery was in peril he sew his oppor- tunlty to show his gun was all he had clalmed for it. And so he slew the rebels, saved the battery and in the blood of his vlctlms establizhed hia In- delible record as the veracious agent for the sale of a valuable military Imple- ment. Thera wers divers wnd various guns on trial. He had regularly entered for the competition. The Canadlan drummers were sounding the charge and the Yankee drummer would have been falss to the interests of his employer had he omitted any possible maans to demon- strate the superiority of his weapon, He went to the Saskatchewan slmply ss a peaceful commerclal traveller. He will retarn with a certificate from the party that buried the slaln, setting forth that the mangling was scicatlfically done and that his machine Is to others as » modern reaper to an ancient slckle. Therefore it is wrong to call him an amateur soldler. He probably had no idea that he was soldering. He re nounced all claim to the title of soldler when he left the United States army years ago. ———— The Root ot the Evil, To thoroughly curs scrofula it ls necessary to strike directly at the root of the evil. Thls {s exactly what Hood’s Sarsaparilla dces, by acting upon the b'ood, thoroughly cleansing it ofall im- purities, and leaving not even a talnt of ecrofula in the vital flald. Thousands who bave been cared of scrofula by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, testify to its wonder- fal blood-purifying (uaalities. Sold by all dragglsts. ——— [Sam Patch’s Last Leap. A correspondent of the Oincinnati Commercial-Gazatte, who describes hi) soif as an eye witness of Sam Patch’s last two jumps, writes as follows: *‘Sam Patch, the famous cataract leapsr, who aeszrted that ‘some things could be done ay well as other,’ took his ‘Final, eternal and lfe’s fatal leap,’ as a local poet ex- preseed it at the time, ona gloomy day in November in the year 1829. He had ‘jumped’ the Geneseo falls at Rochester, thelr natural helght, one week before, and was induced by the gamblers and roughs who were grooming and manag- ing and living off him to repeat the feat on the fatal occasion. They erected a sort of ecaffold on the jutting rock whenco he hed taken bis departure on the previ- ous occaslon, makiog It twenty-five feet above the rock, or 120 feot in all from the scaffold floor to the surface of the river at the foot of the fal's. Ascending to the scaffold with some difficulty, considerably ineorlated and by asteep ladder, the unfrriunate demonstrator straightened up with a jerk, bowed awkwardly on all sides to the wit- uessing thousande, thon pushed a pet bear off he had with him, and_instantly leaped forward himself. His person ‘oanted over’ on the left side aud strack the statute ahould be placed, save that its slte should be chosen on the milltary reservation at West Poiat. Mr. L'ncoln, in replying to Mrs. Coster, rald that h3 ogreed with her that the insult to Gen. Custer’s memory should be removed, and promised that it ehould be dono, Satls- fied that she would find, upon her return, that the strtue had been removed, Mrs Custer went to Europe. There she met one of the most famous of our American lculptfll"l who told her that if she suc: e would acocmplish more than a simpie success. Such a removal was an unheard of thing; In fact it was much easler to have & monument, eracted than to have it removed. When Mrs. Custer returned from Eu- rope, she was told that the unsightly work of MacDonald still oocupled its prominent position at West Polnt. She sgein applled to the secretary of war, who fnformed her that if she secured the consent of the chlef subscribers to the fund for Its erectlon, he would g'adly give orders for its removal. This she dld. she met with ready and thankful scquiescence to her proposition, and last February the statue was boxed up and put In storsge. When taken from Its base, Mrs. Coster endeavored to have it sent to the battlefield and erected as a memorial of her hushand there, with the fond hope that relio-hunters would carry it away plece. meal and so destroy it forever, But this was not to be, for Mr, Lincoln observed: *‘If the monument /s not suitable for West Polnt, it would be even less de- sirable where your husband died.” The gentleman who formed the orlgin- sl commitiee of award never made aoy explauation of thelr conduct to Mre. Custer. They slmply kept silent. The base of the statute s now at the head of the General's grave at West Polnt, It has some respectabls basso-rellevos in and Indian g, fights, Milwaukes | Schlitz 1 lssier Ml aw Khine Wines. «| Thislsthe first time that a public ...Omaha | Ale, Purter, Domesticand Jatatue has ever been voluntarily taken A ED MAURER, 1218 Farnam 8t | well known citizen remarked thls mora- from its positlon and hidden away. the water forsibly, no doubt bruising him and forclng the breath from his body. Nothing more was seen of him untll the next March when his corpee was discovered among some bushes a% the mouth of the river, soven miles below, very much mutilated, but recognizible by a handkerchief tled around the body. = Patch, beginning on the schooner yardarms at Paterson, N. J, was a speclal leaper for 20 years or more, jumped from awmazing heights at Niagara thrice before he trled the Geno- see rapldr, and challenged the inspaction of admiring thousands to the reslitles of his feats. If yet living he would be about 90 years of age, but who knows If he had not tackled John Alcohol, his bear, and a great leap at oneand the sam time he might not be jumplng yet?" —— Nearly all the London newspapers buy their print paper in Germany. e —— The Silyer Colnage, The great questlon is as to what shall be done with the standard silver dollars, which are sccumulativg more rapldly than the public seems to have any use for them. It should be remembered by congressmen and all others that each of these standard dollars will buy a bottle of Broww's Iron Bitters, and that this prloe of iron tonfcs will xight most wrongs of the physical system. Any good dru;‘- ?ln will give you a bottle of Brown's ron Bitters for & standard silver dollar. i A large buslness in old hats ls done be- twasn this 01untry and. the Nicobars.. The savages there cousider it » mark of affinencs to possess as old & hat as possible, and & good tuil whito bat, with & broad black’ band, will fetch from fif¢y-five to sixty-five cscoanats, e ——— Moses Dow, the founder of fthe Waverly Magazine, is still liviog, thovgh old and very fesble. He is genial man but_greatly infat- usted with spiritualism, Hardly any of the watter printed in the magazine is paid for, and the profits are said to be 830,000 year, The Favorite Washing Compound of the day is JAMES PYLE'S PEARLINE, It cleanses fabrics without injury, and_without the laborious scrubbing necossary with ordi nary soap, For sale by grocers, e | lowed |AN OIL SCOUT'S TALE, A Perilons Expedition pose of Solving & Pittsburg Diepatch, “The sight of those derricks oarries my mind back to some stirring scenes in the oil business,” said Peter Wilson, of Braddock, to a Dispatch reporter yester. day sfternoon, s & Walls accommodation traln, coming to the city, pulled up at Homewood. “Tell me about them,” put in the re- porter, on the lookout for an item. “Iam not in the buslness now,” con- tinued Mr, Wilson. For the past ten years I have been engaged In mercantile purauite, on a small scale. I travel con- siderably, and every two or three months tako a trip to the oil country, partly on businees, but chiefly to see such of my old comrades as are still alive, and to re- visit the scenes of some of my adven- tures.” *‘What branch of the business did yon pursue?! Were you producer, speculator, broker, or what?” “I was producer for a while, until my territorles gave out. Then I engaged as a scout, working at difterent timea for men in Pittsburg, Oil City and Bradford. I should, perhaps explaln as I go along that a scout is expected to find out all the secrets of the reglon in which he operates; and eepeclally Is ho expected to keep his employers posted on such wells a8 aro termed ‘mysterlons,” which are used to manipulate the market, and are as carefully guarded as are the crowa jowels of Great Britain. “Ono day I recelved a dispatch, In cipher from my Bradford employer tell- ing me to drop down on a well about wh'ch there was a great deal of talk, gome holding that It was a stunner, while others maintained it amounted to noth- Ing. It was & ‘mystery’ at all evente, and as such was kept, as 1 may sy, under lock and key. Nearly all of my work had to be done at night to avold observation, and even then I dld no% al- ways ezcapo dotectlon by the lynx-eyed guardians of the oleagineous secrets. ““I started about the middle of the afternoon, 80 as to reach the ncene of operations by nightfall. It was in June, and the weather was very warm, Clouds began togather. Heavy thunder and lightning succeeded. I couldn’t mee a tree or a log a yard ahead of me. This was just whatI wanted. I thought the storm would drive the guardians of the well under cover, and glve me a good chance to unravel the ‘mystery.” I was well armed, as I always was on thess oc- casions, “I slipped along as cautfously as I could in tho darkness untll within about fifty yards of the well, when a flish of lightning revealed the form of a man standing directly in my path, and not mora than twenty steps from me. He had heard me moving through the brush, and suspecting I was a scout, made ready to give me a warm reception. I dodged Mystery.” behind a eapling just as he pulled the |1 trigger of hia repeating rifls, He didn’t hit me, but I felt about as bad as if he had. Shot sfier shot followed in quick succetslon, rome of the bullets striking the tree behind which I was standing. By the aid of anotber flash of lightning I saw that he wrs reloading his plece, and thinking that was a favorable opportuni- ty to escape, I broke for a thicket near by. Hedid not follow me, and I soon placed myself beyond danger. 1 did not return his fire, for I did not wish to splil blood. Scouts never fought back as long a8 they had a chance to escape by run- ning. The Bradford papers of the next day contalned s long and graphic account of the affair, describing it as a regular duel, with thunder and lightning accom- paniments, They didn’t know the name of the scout, and” do not know 1t to this dsy. Of courssI falled in my under- taking, but I was too glad to have es- caped being made food for crows to care for anything else just then. I got $50 for the night's work, fallure though it was, but I wouldn't run the same risk again for the best well that ever broke sand. “‘I had another exclting adventure—at leatt it was exciting to me—a year or two Iater, not far from Oil City. As usual, I was trying to probe a ‘mystery,’ which was situated not far from a creek. 1 ap- proached the wellat night. Seelng no one I walked boldly up to the inclosure, and was scribbling” down a few notes when a heavy hand was lald upon my shoulder, Tarning around I confronted aman of huge proportions. He knew what Iwas up to. We clinched cach other slmultaneously, Ho was larger and stcuter than I was, and, selzing me around the wsist, ho soon had me flat on the ground, ‘* *No shootlng,’ eald he. ‘1 won's hurt you very much. I'll just heave you into the cresk and let you go, but you must never come back here as a spy, or it wili go nard with you ' *“With this he picked me up in spite of my resistence and, partly carrying, and partly dragglog me to the creek, tossed me Into the stream, which was several feet deep at that point. I had left my rifle at the woll, and my pistols were rendered useless by the water, so I was practically defenseless. All I could do was to scramble out and break for ur the Par-|preity well if be kesps his feet, but I rallrond man jomps from a traln when It is making twenty miles an hour he does ured to jump off the limited express on the New York Central when it was mak ing fifty miles an hour. Did this tlme and sgaln, and often with & basket of peanuts in my hand, never spllling a poa- nut.” “‘Gio and tell that t> some greenhorn,” remarked the brakeman, as he sneaked sn orange into his overcoat pocket; “don't tell me any such lies; I know better,” *‘Bat it's the honest truth,” insis‘ed the traln boy, “‘and Il tell you how did it. You are not too old to learn a thing or two, and now just keep your mouth shat and your ears open. I had a run on a special Chicago oxpress, KEvery Saturday I wanted to stop off at the town where my glrl lived, but the express made no stop there, So 1 had to go up to Spra: oute and there take the local traln back. One day it occurred to mo that, by a littlo strategy, 1 might got off the limited ot the station and eave all that time, I home, The weather was cold, and I noarly frozs bafora Igot to a fira, 1 afterward madeup with the watchman and recovered my gun, I received only $20 for this job, It was dearly eeraed money, ‘‘You were not always unsuccessful, were youn?” “No, On several oc:aslons I suc- ceeded in galning all the information I sought. One night I set fire to a plle of rapbish situated a short distance from a ‘mystery,’ and in the excitement that fol- I galned access to the well, and found out .nongh to lower the market several point: the next day. There were good many scouts employed about that time, and all of them had adventures similar to mine, I never heard of any of them belng killed, but several were wounded, Sometlmes they would fight back when attacked, and then it was very Interestlog—to the spectators, If auy were about, “‘The pay was very small, consldering the dangers encountered, and ssouts qult the business whenever anything better offered, Some of these men became heavy operators, and & of them grew rich, One of the princ'pal operators on the Pittsbarg Ol exchange was once a tcont One or two of the richest men in Oll City commenced business as bush- whackers. As 8002 as I had saved a few hundred dollars I withdrew and went into other b ar, Things are changed now, and while there s still conslderable scoutiog, 1t Is not so dangerous as for- merly, nor is it attended with the same degree of physical misery.” e ——— The Newsboy's Olever Thought, Buffalo Times, “Practice makes perfect,” observed the newsboy as he folded snd smootoed the newepapers he had gathered from the , gettiog them ready to be sold agaln, Practlce makes perfect, noticed that just bafore we got to the station where my girl livad we always passed a local traln running in the same directlon we were and on the next track tous. Usually our train was golng just a littlo faster than the local. So one day I locked up my box, put some candy in my pocket, and got down on tho lower stepy. Just as we caught up with the rear ond of the local I stepped acroes to the lower step of the last csr of the other train. It was just s easy a8 stepping from one frofght car to another on the same train, even If we were m king fifty miles an hour. In five minutes the local slacked up and stopped at the station, and there Iwar, Think about that a minute or tws, you thick-headed stove- stoker, and don’t be no fresh in telling your betters they lle, Ten cents for that orange pl:ase.” L ——— An Indlan Fighter to an Indian Boy, The following note from Gen. Crook to Lorenz» Bonlto, the eon of one of the Apache cniefs captured by him in old Mexico two years ago, we publish with- out his knowledge. Wa conld not resist the desira to let our readers seo some- thing of the kindly nature of the great Indian fighter. Prescorr, Arlzons, March 30, 1885 — Dear LoreNzo: 1 am vary glad to get your letter this morning, and to know that you gre getling alongso well. 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Proy stab, 1877 . Louis, Mo, 4,00, in the short time you have been at tchool, and feel satisfied that all of you Apache children will come up to my ex- pectations of you, and that when you re- turn to your homes your people will feel proud of you. You will also be of mer- vica to your people in teaching them the ways of the whito man. I take great Interest in you childran, and often think of you and hope to hear good reports of you. lremembar you on the march ont of Mexlco, also many other Chiricahua boys, whose Indian names I don’t know, wish more of them wero with yon, o they can get an edusation. 1 saw your father last October at Fort Apache. He was well and had ralsed a good crop of corn, but the frost killed much of it. They all hope to raiso a blg crop thls year. 1 told your father I had seen you. He was much pleased to hear rom you and to kaow from me how you were doing. Tell all of the rest of the Apache children tha I visited all the Apaches lass October, that they were all well and dolng well, that they are get- ting rich. Yonrs, sincerely, GEORGE CROOK, The Bush Telegraph, Chamber's Journal, The *‘bush telegraph” Is the term by which news is conveyed by human agency over hundreds of miles of countiy and it really is wonderful how news is disseminated throughout tke length and breadth of the unsettled districts by means cf these wanderers, passed from one to the other at casual meetlngs on dusty maln roads, In sbady comps by gum-tree-bordered river or lagoon, or out back on ecarcely die- cornible bridle {racks; espectally the kind ot newsthat fs of iIntercstto the fraternity. Does, for Instance, ¢ld Sam Johnson, of Bundelgoble, want a lot of hands for ring barking, fencing, or what not—then, in sn incredibly short space of time, all unemployed workers within 8 radius of 200 or 300 miles are steadily marching toward Bundalgobie, in hopes, as they would ecxpress It, of getting ‘“put on and knock- ing out a hit of a check, Has Bill Thompion, who lives eut in the Barcoo, bappened to Icsa the run of his mate, whom he last heard of 800 mifes away on the back blocks of the Lachlan—then straightasy the cry for *Bill Thompson’s mate,” is passed along from one to the other down the lengths of the land; and the missing men must have got intoa very obecurs corner fndecd, if sooner or later, the mestage does nov reach him — [Chamber's Journal, ————— $500 sieward, The former proprietor of Dr. Sage's Oatarrh Remedy, for years made aletand- leg public offer in all American news- papers of §500 reward for a case of ca- tarrh that ke could not cure. The present proprietors have renewed this offer, All the druggists sell this remedy. together with the ‘‘Douchs,” and all other appliances advised to be used in connection with No catarrh patlent islonger able to say *“I cannot be cured.” You get $500 in case of fallure. ustralia, —— A Book Agent's Cheek 8t. Paul Herald, A Minueapolls book sgent strolled into 0. 0. & D.’s sawmlll lately and tried to work the proprietor to subscribe for his uparalleled work, In the midst| £ bis gees ticulations he stumbled and dropped face downward on a whizzing buzzsaw, Next day he went to see his girl, What makes you look so sad, George?" George related his adventure, *‘Oh, how it muat have hurt you,” said Dollie. *‘Not a hurt.” “Then why so sad?" “‘Because the confounded fool has threatened to sue me for wearlng the teeth off the saw. It would make any- body sad to have a lawsuit hanging over ———— Deather wheels ase made in France for railroad and other cass, Untanned buffalo bidea ao cut into strips, and theso aro bullt up into solid disce, which are strongly held together by two iron rings after they have been subjected to hydrulic pressure, DT Earlp one mornipg lately the carcwss of a huge whale was discovered on the banks of the Severn, It measured soventy feet, and is estimated to weigh over forty tous. It is the largest that has been stranded on the English shore within living memory, o ——— It is now dofiaitely settled that the oldest old mason in the world is John Tressid f Flamouth, England, initiated August 6, 1805, while the oldest in America is Captaln Sylva nus Hatch, of Port Levaces, Texas, who O Hundred aad Three Millioas of Dollars W. F. ALLEN, MERRILL & FERGUSON, General Agent for. Gen,_ Agta, for Nebraska, Dakots, Colorado, Wyoming and | Michigan, Indians, Illinois, Wisconsin, Towa Ulah. and Minnesota, Offica Cor,Farnam and 13th St.Over 1st Nat'l, Detroit, Michigan, Bank, Omaha, Nob M. F. ROHRER, Special Agent for Towa, Council Bluffs, Towa WONTERFULOPPORTONITY Ladies and Misses’ Shoes, Commencing June 6th, Saturday, at We will offer womens’, misses’ and childrens’ shoes very low; all tick- eted and marked in plain figures. We bought a large ‘lot of shoes of that New Hampshire firm which failed, at iess than'the cost of making them, and now we offer to close them out and give the people such pri- ces in shoes as they never have heard of. THESE ARE FACTS.— Come into our store early Saturday and have the first choice, and see what we have. No. 1512, Douglas st. Liadies’ Shoes. Kid Button, 90c; worth Kid Batton, 1 25 worth, Kid Button, 1 50 worth . Goat ¢ 17 worth. Misses’ Shoes. Pebble Grain,.... 75; worth.... Bray’s Shoe House Kid Batton......1 75; worth .. Pebble Goat .....1 50; worth H. C. Kid .2 00; worth .. Childrons’ Shoes. An endless variety and sll sold very cheap. We want to give bargiine; come and see at Bray’s Shoe House MPING & BOLTE, [ Manufacturers of Ornamental GALVANLZED IRON CORNICES, FINIALS Dormer Windows, Window Caps, Metallic Sky-Lights, &o, 810 South 12th Street, Omaha, Neb. Tin, Tron and slate Roofers, Work done in any parto the country, THE RECENTLY IMPROVED REMINGTON STANDARD TYPE WRITER Is the Highest Achicvement in Writing Machines in the World, With only 80 koys, to learn an operate, It prints 70 characters includivg caps and small lotsers, ,l\lnclllntlunn, figures, signs ractions, It §the simplest and most rapid writing machine mado as well ast a0 most durable E=ZSend for free illustrated pamphlet, Wyckoff, Secmans & Benedict, Uhicago, Ill,, Sole Agents, H, SHOLES, Council Bluff Agent for Western Towa J. L. DzBEVOISE, 0 Ticket Agent [ No. 607 Broadway Councll Bluffa, [ Railway Time Table, OOUNOIL BLUFFS, llowing aro the timos of the arrival and dq .fi.mg,. I:ntr:l'“" lfinda;d tlme, a4 the vo or . d arrive ten minutes hfi:‘:‘ e 0, Mail and Ex Accommoda Expross CHIOAGO AND ROOK ISLAND, Mall and Expross Accommodation Exproes GHIOAGO, MILWAUKNE AXD WY, PAUL, Ma'l and Expross Express CHICAGO, BURLINGTON AND QUINCY. Mall and Express Accommnodation Exprose WABASH, BY. LOUIS AND PACINIO, Local 8t. Louls l’.lplul Local Transfer ** * Traoster Looal Chlcago & 8t L Exp Looal Transtor 47 ¢ ity ~THE MILD POWER CURES..- e e e UMPHREYS’ [0 use 30 3 sa:8.—5pec ‘roscriptions of wesinent Phyticlaa: Bimpie, Sato aod Sure, ST O FRINCIEAL O, VOV RES “nkestion, Infiammations orceed, Weba Lovor, Worm Cole, OMEOPATHIC 7 BIOUX OITY AND PACIVIO, wipelas, Eruptious 1o Pe Mall for Sloux City Expross for 8t Paul UNION PAGIF: Donver Express Lincoln Pass O'a &R V. Overland Express DUMMY TRAINS 70 OMANA, Loave Council Bluff 140 & 1:80 1146 p.m. —iL15 w ~11:10 v, m. ONLY HOTEL Lo Coune Bluffy having FIRE ESCAPH., And all modern improvements, call bells, fire alarm bells, eto., is'the =) ot > Fiedrt, alpitation 100 PECIFICS. Rold by Droge: ¢ Eatte s Hant) joined the order ia 1500, —e— There are 700 Chinese ¢cholars in twentys 1£} a | nive New York sunday schools. CRESTON HOUSE Nos, 215, 217 and 219, Main Street, MAX MDOHN, PROPRIETOR causing Premature Decay, Nervous Debility, Lost | e i Vain every }.m., Wieansof sif-oare, o1 Tollow.sufigzers: f Addross, J L REEVIG, €3 Clsiban SlaNoW