Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 16, 1885, Page 7

o )| ¢ X il GERMINAL, Or, the Story of a Creat Minors Strike. BY EMILE ZOLA. anstated from the Freneh. . | HUSNMARY OF PRECEDING CHARTERS | Anton Lantier, a mechanic, unable to find emplorment at trade in Paris, drifts into the inicrior of Franee and brings up at the Mont=on coal minin in carly spring, | Being without md vork | in the Valtore i s an | expert workman, min- ers, i constunt striegle against hunger, and the' miserable condition of oid and youn cites in im a lively interest and Te being the study of methiods tending to il their condition. Gradually he imparts his Kecnres the sup- r, struggling | tarted to which thus ob- fdeas to others and readily port and co-operation of the workmen, A aving fund is s ench miner contribmted, the mon tained {0 be used 1o support the men in caso | of trouble with the coal companies. By the er the fund amonnted to a con- wm, and the miners, dencd aet, determined to new thod of payment introduced hy a majority lie companics, which was to co inio ef | on the first of December, of nics was to divide the pafd Tor each car of coal, one Ko ’u\\,unl paying tor lnuw.mu in the drifts of the mis Hiie. workinen, to fortify their position in ease of revolt, worked nfteen days | under the new systemn of payment, and found | that it wn indirect but eifeetive method of reduc heir wages. To strike wis the only alternative Mectines were held and a dele- i appointed o wait upon th anaging cfor of the mines and iy be hinm the demands of the men—the abolition of tho new | system of payment and an inerense of bve entimes per car. Anton’s ability agi- | ade him at onee the leader in the strike fee the com) nterview of the miners with the mana- | ger was without result, and the men, witl | very little ope of ultfimate suceess, settled | down toa long and bitter strugile—the strug. gle of poverty azainst unlimited wealth, CHAPTER X111 t the Plan-des-Dames, a large clearing i been made by the felling of trees A smooth slope,” inclosed b, high hedgoe, extended for some distance. Through the whole forest of Vandame were seattered superb heach trees, while anumber of giant stumps wo from | the dead grass. and toward the lefta heap of eut timber was arranged in reg- | ular order. As night came on the cold | sedy the frozen mo; wekod nnder | the footste) It was very dark; the | higgh branches reached far up in the pale | sky,shutting out from view the full moon and little twinkling stars. Almost three thousand people we the rendezvous; o swarming er men, women and childven gradually tili- Ing the elearing, stand ng in g der the distant trees, whild comers, still arviving, added to the line | of shudows spreading out as faras the hedge. In that still and frozen forest, a dull; rumbling sound went up like the wind of an approaching thunder-storm Anton, Rasseneur and Jouvarine were | standing on the hill overlooking the slopo. A quarrel arose, to which tho men standing ne were attentively listening: Mahion in gloomy silence, Le vaque with his hands closed. Peters turn- ing his buck in despair at being no longer able to simulate a fever; and there was also Bonnemort and Moque seated side side upon a stump, engaged in med- ting. In the backeround we ch- nrio, Moquet and some others, who were there only for sport, while on the other n oumk of women were gathered, looking us solemn as though they wers nt ohurch; Mahons wife, a8 quict as 1 shaking her head at the oaths uttered by Levague. Philomene was coughing, having been troubl 1 winter with bronehitis. Mo- uctto was laughing, showing hor beau- tiful teeth, amused at the manner which the Brule treated her danghter, 1 sent the an unnatural child who hs mother away while she stuffed herself with rabbit and who had a coward for a husband. Johnnie had pushed Lydie upon the top of the woodpile, leaving Robert to follow them, and these three three children high up in the air looked down upon the people beneath them. The quarrel was comme 1 by Ras- sencur, who wished to proceed regular- 1y by the election of a bureau. His over- throw at the Bon-Joyeux had enraged him and he swore to” be revenged, ilat- tering himself his old authority wounld return when he was before the wholo mining people. Anton rebelled, think- Inga burcan foolish in that forest, 1t Wis ne to aet like savages when they dealt with blockheads, See end to the dispute, the young man denly took possession of the crowd by springing on the trunk of a trec and cry- ing out: Comraaes! comradest” The confused n of those people ended in a long sigh, while Jony stopped the protestations of I Anton continued in a low voice “Comrades, when they forbid us to sponk, when they send the gendarmos | after us as if we were robbers, it is neces- gary for us to sustain each other: Hero | we'nre free, we are at hor nono can | | | compel us to be silent, they can hush the song of birds or the noise of beasts. " Thundermgly they replied, with eries | and exclamatior “Yos, yes! tho forest is ours, we can speak here! hen Anton paused & moment, stand- | Ing motionl upon the trunk of thoe | tree. The moon, low in the horizon, shone only upon the high branches, and the spot where he stood was envelopod in dar s. He at the top of the hill stood out a bluck bar in the shadows. Slowly extending his arms he com- neneed; but his voiee no longer trembled, he had tuken the cold tone of a simple mundatory of the people giving his ac- | counts e began his speech where they bad loft off at the Bon-Joyeux, and ho arted a rapid history of the strik speaking first of his repugnance against this fight: the miners had not wished it, the company had brought it on by v.hluir Hed now tarifl l‘prufirping. I'hen he rec the first visit of the delegates to the di tor, the bad treatment by the (~n||||l:l||‘V, and, luter on, the sccond visit, its tardy voncession, the two centimes returnod which it had tried to steal from them, Noxt, the saving fund was spoken of: with hasty calculations he showed how | fit, und also the aid sent from London, had boen used up. In a few sentences be excused the lluu-ruunmml, Pluchart, and the others who, in trying to conquer the world, had forgotten ‘the The sit- uation was becoming more und more de porate; the company threatened to dis charge them and tike some workmen from Belgium; besides, it had been inti- mated that there were some cowards among them,—men who had decided to back to wor In u monotonous voice 0 spoke of their hunger, of the hopo destroyed, while conrage was fast disip- earing in that terrible fight. And sud- enly bo began his closing remarks with- out one ing his voice. “Under these circumstances, comrades You should come to a decision this ev, ning. Do you wish the continuation tho strike?” And in that case, what do you counton doing to triumph over the sompany?" A profound silence fell from the starred »l In the chness, that evowd 1 mained silent under these words which | bhad come from his almost bursting heart, angd bengath the trees nothing was-heard save the painful breathing of tho! p«nrln, : | ‘‘hen Anton continned in a changed 0.06. It was no longer the seeretary of | he associntion who spoki wis the ehief of their band; the apostle bringing Buth, Wore they cowards to break their | word? What! afier su or 1 month would they return to the mine with heads bowed down, and allow that cternal hisery to commence once more? Was It not better at once, trying to shake olf | seeking to reform that tyranny from which the workmen were sterving? Was it not foolish to yield before that hunger which, in tho first place, had thrown the calmest of them into & revolt? And ho pointed out that the miners alone were compelled to suffer from the htrd times, withont food, hough the strike had necessarily low: ered the price of everything, No, the | new tarifl for wood was™ not neceptable; it was only adisguised economy; the company wished 1y steal from each man an hour of work perd It was too much. The time had arrived whe the n hed to an extrem ity would have justice Mo temained standing with oute streteliod arms. At the word justic the threng way el tly and then bt out into thundering applause, while voices eried “Yes! It is timo for justice.” Little by Littlo Anton” had warmed up. He did not have the easy flow of speech of Rassencur, He was often ata loss for words, his aentences coming out with an cffort. Only he was so en ergetic and so much in earnest th he won his andience; his elbows we turnad ing then doubling up and throw his fist forward, his jaw was exten cd and his words rang out. ‘They all sa he w at, but he made them lis- ! few form wagres 18 only “The d hein alond vol “This pay of lubor,” mine should belong to the miners as the sea does to ths fisherman, as the ground 1o the farmer. Do you hear? The min belongs to yoir who over a contury ago I blood any misery od some obsciire ques tions of vight, the special laws of the mine, in which b me lost. "The rround below as well asabove should be ?nn;: to the nation; it was wrong for the state to e the monopoly to compani es, as to Montson, for instance. But the mining people must conquer this estat and with outstretehed hands he indieatec | the entire conntry beyond the forest. At that moment tho rising moon, peeping | the high branchics, 1it up the spot lich he stood. When the erowd, kness, perecived him standin 1o broad light, distributing for- in up- still in thns us, tune with his open hinds, they s planded “Yes, yes, | right, br: At this point Anton vorite hobhy, the pro ments of labor by co repeated in a phrase whose roughness ited harshly upon him. At home the slution complete; leaving the softened fr y of the eatechimens, the pay department, he ended in the politic_idea of suppress: ing it. Since the rennion at Bon-Joyeux, s collectivity, still humanitarian and without formula, halehrystalizslinto a complicated p nmé. of which he scientifically d each article. In the first place, he held that Tiberty could only be obtained by the destruetion of vo!' unted his fa- iive of instru- tivit which he wils the state. Then, when the people had the reins in their hands, reforms would commenct They would return to a primitive community; sy would sub- stitnte family equality for family immor- ality, and instead of oppression;ubsolute, civil, polit nd ceonomic cquality they would ntee individual inde penden to the possession and the ecutire propuctions of the instru- ments of labor; and finally, professional education would bo gratuit »aid for out of the common fund. This involved an entire reconstruction of the old rotten marriago and the society; he attacked vight of making a will; ho regulated the fortunes of each: re-razed to the ground the iniquitons monumeuts of the dyrk ages, with & grand gesture of his arm always the sam osture of the mow- er who swe down the ripe rvest; and then, other hand, he recon- stencted, he built up the humanity of the future, the editica of trush and " justice rising in the dawn of the twentieth con- . The excitoment of his brain was at that reason wavered, and there ned only the fixed idea of the ex- The' seruples of fecling and ood sense vanished; nothing could be il ization ot this new had provided for everything; orld, he he spoke of it as of a machine which fie would bring out in two hours,and neither o five nor blood were worth a thonght. “Our turn has come," shouted he in a final outhuist. “‘Power and wealth are coming to us at Iast, From the depths of the forest an accla- mation reached him. The moon, now sidvering all the glade, defined in sharp outlines mass of heads, s far as the dim underwood afar off, between the gray tranks. And below were furious faces, sparkling eyes, opon mouths, i crowd of people, nien, women and_children, fam- ished and ready to regain by force the rights of which they had been dispos- sesed, Cold was félt no longer; th burning words had warmed them through and through. A religious exaltation raised them above the eurth; the fever of hope known to the carly Christians of the chureh, awaiting the coming reien of justice. Many obscure phrases had es wped them; they understood but little of those technical and abstract reasonings; but even the obscurity, the abstraction, onlarged the field of promises, duzzling the imagination. What a dream! to to be masters! to cease to sulfer; at last to enjov “That's right; we're with you., D to the peoplt who leave us to starve The women were cspecially exeite Mrs. Mahon lost_her usunl calmness siek from hunger,Mrs. Levaque sereamed I her with all her might; old Brale wavi witch-like arms, and Philomene was overcome with fit of coughing while Moquette beeame so aroused that sh erivd tender words to the orator. Amo the men, Mahon was frantic with rag at Petors, who was trembling, and L vaque, who had cried out too soon terrupting the speaker; whilo and Moquet, though ill at case, with astonishment that their comr had been able to speak 80 long without adrink. But Johnisie, on the woodpilo mado the most noise, sercaming at Kob. ertand Lydie, shuking the basket in which lay Po ogne. The upronr could not be_calmed. - An- ton rejoiced at his popul It was ay it he old his power thore matorialized in these threo thousand breasts, whoso henrts he could move with a single word. Noar him, Jouvarine had appluaded his own ideas us soon as he reeognized th contented with his comrado’s progress toward anarchy; sufliciently pleasodwith the programme, exeept the articls on ed- the remains of sentimental for holy and salutary ignoranco, onght to he the bath for reinvigorating wen. But Rassoncur shrugged his shoulders with disdain and Will you allow mo to spe to Auton, k suid he The latter jumped from the tree trunk. “Speak; wo'll ‘seo if they'll listen to you." ady taken his place, and, with a gesture, called for silence. The' noise did not diminish. His name ran rvound among the foremost ranks, who had ognized him, as far as the lust, lost under the beeches; and they fused to hear him. He was an over- thrown idol, and tho sight of it alone was enough new to mike his old wor shippers ungry. His ensy style, his tlow ing words und his good himor, which had charmed so long, became at this hour only lukewarm, ly useful in putting cowards to sl.;\-{r. In vain he spoke in the noise; he wished to vesume the soothing process, to show the impos- sibility of changing the world by blows of the law; the neeessity of leaving to work Rasseneur had al; sociul evolution tine to They made fun of him; they mocked him; his defeat at Bon-Joyeux wis worse now, and becoming irremodiablo. They ended by throwing handfuls of frozen moss b him. A womn orivd, shrilly “Down with the traitor!” He explained that the mine could not itself out, | | fitsg THE OMAHA DAILY BEE; FRIDAY. e e e become the property of ghould prefer to partic i the workman then of the house the miner; they ate in the ne seeame the ehild “Down with tha traitor!” repeated a hundred voices, while stones commeneed to fly Then he grew pale, and d r filled all, twenty years of am) ship had given way und of the muss. He stopped the end of sitions comrade r the ingratitude 1 from the stump S wa with beating heart, unable to ¢ nue. “That mak m laugh,” he stam mered, addressing Anton who had “Very well trinmphed happen to you too. .kn-l 18 if casting off' a in the unh wl with ent gesture, he alone s silen try. As they were hootin were surprised to see Be ing upon the stump, tryi the midst of the tumult he and Moque had been apot whi ly be ore them. Then with one of the sudden which at times stirred violently as to cause hour A great silence fell, the old mun, pale ns aspe light, and when e talk not pertaining to the dis bling talk which they stand, the deep impri Next he spoke of his you two uncles crushed in th I and I brought the past up so vi up , T hope this will | 11 responsibility hich he forsaw, started off all white coun fter him, ynnemort ng to sp Uy to that timo rellecting in that ivid- hoe was taken fits of loguacity the past so to talk for they im istened to this , in the moon- edon of things cussion, a ramb. did not under- ion increased ath, the death of o Vulture, then of the consumption; which carried off he ul his wife. IHoweve his tivst idea; the Progress, nor ne all met in this forest r should. be did not abandon not made much They had | + when the King did not wish to diminish the hours of work. Then, though out of breath, he commenced the recital of other strikes, for he had seen many sueh. They had all met under these trees, either here at the n-des-Dames, th at the Charbonnicre, or still lower dow the Jant-du-Loup. Somctimes they iroze, wh le at other times it was waim, and once it had rained so hard they retirned home without boing abl while another night the hud arvived and driven their guns SWe've raised our har sworn not to go dow swore, T swore to say a word, King's soldicrs them back with Tliket 0 agai The' people were hecoming weary, when Anton, who had been watehir them, again Jeaped upon the stump, I i ol man at his side. He had ju yrnized ¢ | among the first row. T'he thouzht that Cathevine n be there filled him with new ardor and o wish to speak b “Comr one of our old ment [iX und whiat our ¢ si we do not end t tortures.” He was terrible: never so violently. Withonea heavd; here is neus what he has hildren will also hese thefts and had he spoken ri hesupported old Bonnemort. showing him as an ex- ample of misery and 7o, erying ven- gence. In rapid sentences he went back to the first Mahons, pointing out that en- tire family, devoured by the company, in Weumstanees after having worked a hundred years. Then w them he compared the owners, who for century had bheen nursed in lu . Was it not trightful for men to st bottom, from futher to sc minister’s wine ladies and gentlemen? miners; disease, tis, the and the rheamatism, from which end the were | le we 2 beasts, the ubdued them little ing to form them all millions of arms Gizhting of a thousand idle ones was no longer an under the cartn, They were a crowd of seed had taken root and and bring forth in a day ise. Aftcr forty years of red to offer toan old m of one hundred and forty 5 whose dust and the, water of rippled from Yes, work account from the e nipotent God, unknoswn who was crouched some ce of his tabernac! sisted in starving those wou nd the fetes of the o to pay for the rich bronchi- ed them, n the reat. companics by little, threat- into regiments, for thu foriune But the miner it brute crushed ) \ army pushis ward in the profoundness z on- of the night. citizens whose would spring up of great prom- service they had - the pension francs, a man lungs were whose limbs in the Id demand some tal, from that om- to the workma swhere in the re- le, where he as who worshipped him. ‘They would do well to sec his face in tho ligit of incendiary fires; they would have the blood of ‘that impure hog, that monstrous idol min flesh gorged with hu- Ho became silent, but his arms were still extended, their enemy s This tme the noi great that the w son_ heard of it their windows, un some terrible wore flyi the now d, “Con desighatin mewhere v of th lihy nd” wi sy, i ciden moon. e what is Do vou vote fo of the str “Yos yes “And what me: Onr deteat is su seend Lo-morrow. ‘T'he voices resumed wit blist: “Death tothe cowards. “Youdecide then tor, to their sworn faith, I wish to do; we will prese the mine presence, show the com) all in accord, and that w thun vield,” d it SuTY That's it, to the mines! to the mine, While wo were spea been looking for Cathe heads before him. She w idedly. But ho suw ( Inughing and shrogging his shouldc devourcd with jealou bhimself for a Little popi HAnd," continued Antc e the home of in the distanc e crowd was so peoplo of Mont- ent to listen & 1gd with fe: t. Nigl your decision? T continuation ' sereamed the many voices. o 1 Proposc e comrades do- ha trumpet-like Al them to duty, hat is what you ent ourselves at bring back the traitors by our any that wo are ¢ will die sooner ng Anton had © among the s not therd, d wvel, who was ready to sc larity. m, “if there re any spics umong us, comrades, any men whom we mistrast, we ki 1sco the coal men of have notdeft their mine. ‘I8 that meant for n how them.” Yes, Vandame, who met" demanded Chaval, with an air of bravado. or 'you or any other, have spoken you should who plenty to e nothing to do with hungry. You are workin A'voice interrupted hir “Him work! no, he works for him Chuval swore “Good God! is it for theny or the good of al ALLYONE L0 £0 OVEr o If the strike would hate been mastors this, Is it right for a sii dame to go down whon stood stilly The great struck if work was to st of the country to the oth lin's mines, as well as A Fhere are traito Jean-Bart. You urc Around Chavul the cr z thre broke forth: *“V'o tl death!™ eommenced to had grown pale with f anxiety to trivmph oy came to himand he ¢ “Liston to me, ne Bart to-morrow and seq ure with you; they hav 80. kvent machiner stop, for even the mach iod and his fs when the comrades toning; (ists wer r Anton, But since you know that those at should have those who ar 2 atJean-Bar m has o wife who 10 reddoened, bidden to work, re enduring 1, it is forbidden 1 tho side of the was general we long before zlo man of Van- all Montson has blow wo op from one s or, at M. Dencu- her e in the drifts of il traitors, " owd wis grows while the He his sod, s death! to spring up w. But lm an id 1 ina loud voice Como to Jean- ML owe ‘o sent me will “liave to ists nre going to say "0 *S1n07 1S “p0OQ “OD [EDINOIN XeWH|D BU L ssaxppy (2281 qmse. | to join the strike ter'if th will bug thing." He Anton wis o pu stin Ps Ar the u becamo ugjonsly excite topp T will bo n 1; th the bet. ho water ine, and ruin every- applauded, oven Speakers fol lowed cach other, gesticulating in the noike, making wild propositions a moment of blind madness, the blood thirsty which, weary of waiting for an miracle, gt last determined to v event. ger, ¥ dreamt rose uni cosis of that mu for ery of sla crackled the del dy fee close to their go aspe ved nor he: who were ¢ impatiencs of a fa Their senses dist victured sangui of fi pnd glory. . The silv Ttitude In pe rhtor 1 under icate As they pushed crowd, Mr . M her od sens hon their trees, standing up in th tracery It was 1 sect, xpocted face the by hun- visions, blood, from which ach r stron of their b rainst the white sky, neither per- rd the mise ting themselves inan moon hithed ceful light; the deep st absorbed its profound silen: Only the frozen moss apoth that whilo the able cre other the zain found hersolf husband; and both, losing Laway by the ex: ion to which they had heen slowly wrought up for months, applanded Lo- no one v Is' of « stood . mde e, who repeatedly the engineers, Bonnemort and Mogue at the sama time, uttering wild and violent thoughts wh In derision Zach demanded the destruction of the chureh, ded the Peters had while Moguet. who had kept his mallet, beat the gr The wou Mrs, Loy und nen were aque Lo iner e the noise. mad with excitement, pecially, who, with her hands on her bips, was trying to quarrel with Philomene, whom Innghing while ol any: poreeiving | she box out curs Moquette 1 Brule sere +d her e she Wi 10 nee I¢ of sused also excited, the die without her basket and continued to pour upon the absent mast: mdest of Johnnie was frightencd for an instant, Robx ing learned from another oy that Madame Rassencur had seen them steal Pologne, and that they were search- ing for them; but when Kobert desired to return and sceretly lny the rabbit at the door I'Avantage, Johnnie howled Joudly and opencd his new knife, brand- threatening man- ishing tl ner smile. “Com ton in momen s, traitors, i filled the light of arnving « he blade in of the n The wild clamor still continned, winle the thin lips of Jouvari the midst I comrades turmoil, par shouted ©, calm in d in o An- hoarse voice, trying to obtain a yes, at Jean the moon. (10 BE CONTINU e 1 and Returned. Robb Gottfried Schmidt, s b sold off’ at the an to see fri and_rot certifica that for letters s lived his propefty estog honsc 1 left. iends he wis v sbed pf his eash) tes, fov near this 1 avas s days there were'fe the result. He has sufticient y recove % art. a however, to travel, and h com fe h which h ing from tho eft and is now stoppi i Lt e back here 4 veralingd ve not iealed, and morning i r this eity fo , conclhded, to go back’ to the old 1d pmtgng most of his money of «<erdlit; he took the restin On stopping over in Ohio 1id one n but not of his ously hurt, so i Swounds on his b sti Personal Paragraphs. Mrs. J. M. Ward and her for the purpose of something definite. w listened to him. to-morr grec at Death to the thunder of three thonsand voices ic and died away in the pure in.] who for recentyl ling somo 18 10 d his mind about going to the old country, 11 suftc two daugh- skuk, are visiting with Mrs. J. Rodefer, who is a sister of Murs. 1. W. Burnham has_been spending a few days' hunting at Modale. spending a we o indiscretions \ce business in Topeka, is tew days’ stay. e S Victims of youthful ing from n fidence, Tax or colleetion niusie. 'l perpeit melody BOWE]L vented by DUgey nniended b by drugsists and Roes Sir Ch prominent quite con dead sure tha 501 OV her next imoni Medical sung by im) illustr s Green, artistic and of negro son old-f at [ the ol o 4 COM wles I!Z[]u in politi et {! to P wmonth, L - All the Coneord Emerso 1 memory ymptoms,should send 10°cents in stamps ted Address World's Dispen- Association, 663 N. Y e tre of At o 1 musie is com hioned darki the strange mtation. T and -~ J. W. Borger, who is now in her nd, California house is kon his farm near Mo- insur- for a suf- ous debility, lack of self- kindred tise, griving Mo, Main ‘ladies of are making a tting th A5 Lo ongs 1 will and wierd the cured and pre- i MALT WHISK ting physici ns. Sold i himself But he is I' h can take the Widow Patti- where Lie proposes to niarty ns will sojourn this week at Plymouth, where Mrs. Rulph Waldo e Cunni sly ure t inl the stagnant ponds or _worl up thro unwholesome vietims bornand wi brato the fiftieth anniversary of her marria to the poet-philosophier, - On th ng, deceitful, he attacks of zh impe dr mili of ee 8. sit eshe will S trencherons and malarin. It lurks S its way t plumbing from Many mis down ile m their grief, thinking nothing can be done for them. Brown's Ir Dr.J. L. Myers, of them, n Bitters can restore 1d, I, says, “Brown’s Iron Bitfers is the 'best iron preparation I have known in my thirty ye 5 of prutetic 401 943 put 9) 4 puw Sjouiy oxjs pre “mammwan sareanaran o ife 30 NI " I\"h‘sas.e B3IMOd syl pug oym ywam 218 One TSR SKO T N 10d Fupiepns A%N Papial VG0N o i v 405 M oum Admod ER) _OCTOBER 16, 1885 COUNCIL BLUFFS. ADDITIONAL CITY NEWS One of the busiest places in the house furnishing store of just A. J. Mandel, on chilly weather warns peopleof apy in mi Getting Rteady for Winter. now is th Bro: adway. y As the onch winter, there is a rush to get chunges lo in the farnishings and ar ange- ments of the home, and the oftice, and of all places in the city this scoms to be just tho one for such to go to, for he not only has eve ything for completely furnishing # house from basement to garret, but the cust: omer has th chance to pick out good second-hand furniturue, stoves, carpets, ailmost as good as new, and many times just as good, and save great sums, Mr, Mandel also sclls entircly new goods, ete. and these he puts at very low pric 3 wood sires to scll, and he aly cash pr than those canp; also dealing with him can make wintor ing M near ing, known poliey of transaction whet m Tie confiden i his | T'hi even whenothers a trad joined m mat thel presence by Rev. T, J. Mackey, rector of St. Paul’s church, C ratulations w hearty, and presents numerous, muny elegant. - Mr, Cook i the headquarters of the Union tifie in O nd is a ) g man who has | many friendsin busiy well as social eircles. The bride is a yonng lady who has lived here for years, and who has all the needed aecomplishments and womanly qualities to make so_worthy a young man w worthy wife. The happy couple started on an tern trip, ex- peeting to visit friends in Hlinois, and on t idel has been buys such » for good s s of trade, intitting up for th in rly ten year: by popu tking atisfactory t the ntation of his goods prices honest, and h rcounts for the ru Al s a8 P ho have a ched a business , and he has by fair d v prices, and by his_well y business | o his being iy dea sh at Cupid’s Captives, Yesterday afternoon Mr. Alva B. Cook and Miss Lillian Jackson were happily ride heir return w mony at the brother, on Vine street parlors were well filled with f the ceremony was performed in the I make Counceil 1 reat’ s He de- 08, one nd_ goods per % Mr. here for Al yhody ustomers, at a personal loss to himself or | not, put himself in_ the front rank of | rehants here, and has gained the pub- | 80 that all rely on his fair 1 souar Mandc complaining of dull idence of Il ends *and nily their home, where they will meet with a hear tion. SI)ECIAIAA NOTICES. NOTICE.—Speciul Lost, Found, To Loan, For §; advertl mont. s, such ng 0, To Ront, Wants Boarding, ete., will bo fngortod in this column at the low rato of first cuch mentsat our oftice, No. Broa W WIANTED. 0 RENT—A now sevon-room Liouso, B Ffm RENT—A eix- walk rooms. FOR SALE, insortion and F1V subsequent insertion. ANT No. iz Washington av ol p Office. ront chei et N PER LI IS PER LIN or the 3 for Leave ndvortiso- . work; No. 108 Bancroft streot. Pearl stroot, near irl to do_gencral housowork. A mood girl for general houso- | Enq 4 Doy R RENT or om houge, ten minutes , city water, woll and cis- up. B3 Harrison stroot, throo MCMAHON & CO., arl streot. 0. 53—For sule or rent, on very liboral torms. The Council Bluffs Papor Mill, comploto, with tho lurgo boarding house and three acres of Eround nero: towri ill cum uni for Iands. No. Leuan county, 111 A business Valuo, about $4.00), ines: residence propert tern linds, ange for w s in ) of Spirit Lake. Pric Kinsus, at n big buvys nudise A two story | tlocations in Coun, zoord unineun Value, §1 M), proporty in oo county, Tows, will trado fc Nebi property mn in th ow down for cash or will s town for u Wanis t K rosidonco. Therokoo, westorn utiful home in the town of Hast- county, lown, for raska lund. lso n nvo, splondid farm, well improved, 40 kinson county, Tows, Joining tho Khort timo, ) 187—Are four Inproved farms in ips count rian fl ch with a smudl in- uitds will ho exchangod for d wild land in Nehraska 440 neres in Holt county, Neb., urtly o oxehingo onn s will ton 1 Knnsas or Nobrasku anid Ti—Ave two othor beautiful homes in Council Blutts, which cash paymenss will buy nt brinin, No. fi—A benutiful suburban location in lowa for westorn ks, City, Town, will exchango Valuoe, £5,000. ating, or W writ 0 trade for lunds. o ibove 11 you'y unt o xell uny e s s, Wo hive soveru ¢ Cou only s few of onr gpec ot wny hine o trade or s 1 ostuto or morchundis 01l = BWAN & WALK ks s 1iis, Towa. AMUSEMENTS. Dohany’s Opera House ONE NIGHT ONLY. Tuesday October 20. THE TWO JOHNS COMEDY COMPANY. Tho largest, funniest and most suecessful CoMEDY BOOM in ¢ ce, apporing beforo 1ull louses everywhere Cour Oma Platsmouth, Oct CAY ROUTE : woll Blufts, Oct. 20. Lincoln, 2 hut, Oct. 21, Nobruska City, Oct Bt Josepli, Oct. 3 R. RICE, M. D. CER or other tumors tho knite or drawls CHROKIC DISEASES or i xinas a s OOV of b | expori Blufts, ol widhout lood. sity. snco. Ot JACOB SIMS, ATTORNEY AT LAW COUNCIL BLUFFS. tices In State and 5 7 aud 8, 3 Lugart Fo Re o court Wock. THE GED. ne Nutfonal Bank, Oi n. Will puy custorors’ draft A. TULHOCK, Eng. and Supt. Missouri Dridgo commissioners. corn. who uso it, chargo for sucks. , can tostify o its morits, Addross TO MY CUSTOMERS: ry Ist, t eve Passongor elevator to nll floors. One of the Best and Largest Stock. M. BURKE & LIVE STOCK COMMISSION MERCHANTS, BURKE, Managor, —~Morehants and Farmers' Bank, David C Stuto Baak, Columbus, Nob, Plonso sond us word of all bridie work to lot. HOME SEEKERS 2 or Full Particulars about Froe and Cheap Lands in Western Nebraska. Address PATTERSOM & WHITE, Real Estate Agents, North Pluite, Nebraska. SPECIAL NTOTICE TO Growers of Live Stock and Others. Tt is tho bost and choanest food for tock of any kind. Stock fod with Ground Oil Cake ih the Fall and Winter, instoad of running doyn, will Ins cronse in weizht and bo in good marketablo condiiion in the spri “Iry it and Judgo for your: WOODMAN LIN:F <> ELGUTTER <> CHARLES SHIVERICK, FURNITURE, UFHOLSTERY AND DRAPERIES, CHEAPEST PLACE IN OMAHA TO BUY FURNITURE B AT Dewey & Stone’s in the U. S, to Select from. No Stairs to Climb. Elegant Passenger Elevator. SONS, UNION STOCK YARDS, OMAHA, NEB. y, Nob.i Kearnoy Natlonal Bank,Koae feDonald's Bank, North Platio, Nob.; Omaha wWith bill of Inding sttnchod, for two-thirds valuo of stock. G, P N.SADDLER, Asst. Bng. 1. W. DTAMOND, Asst. Socy. Valley Bridge and Iron OFFICE AND WORKS LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS. works, MANUFACTURERS AND BUIDERS OF Wrought Iron, Steel, Howa Truss and Combiuntion DBDRIDGES For Railvon and Highronda, Turn Tables, Draw Spans, Rock Trusses, Piers and Sub- . str u tures, i “‘ INSLEY, SHIRE & TULLOCK Proprictors W A MOLOUTH, & 1T 4 Azonts, ospondonce sollelol from enginoors an WISE Cor TTLNTION. WE CALL YOUR ATTENTION T Qur Ground QOil Cake. One pound s oqual to throo pounds of Dairymon ns well a3 others, . Prico por ton. No D OIL WORKS, Omuha, Nebrasks. Commencing to give away Waterburry Watehes, from October 15t until Januae 'y purchaser of §15 worth of ELGUTTER'S MAMMOTH CLOTHING HOUSE, oorls. 1001 Farnam Street, Corner of 10th. 203 und 1210 T 1 m Stroct. ORTH- o WESTERN 7oz CHICAGO Ao Council Blufls And Chicago. G (1o tako for Des Moinos, Mur- ehullt wr Rupids, Clinton, Dixie, Chicayo, ilwnukeo and nll points onst. To the people of «do, Wyoming, Utah, Linho, Washington and Colitornin it Ldvantiges not possibie by any rous points of #1po- ¥ enjoyed by tho putrons of this rond be- Juniviin, und Chicgo, e its two trains a tw duy of DAY COACE Bumun urt nnd ingenuity ean crote, s PAL: ACK ING CARS, which are models of eomforf and elegarice. Tts PARLOK DRAWING { ROOM CARS, tnsurpnssod by ur ly celobrated PALATIAL DINING CARS, tho equal of which eaniot bo found eiNow i At Council BIutts the trains of the Union Pacl- fie Ry. conneet in ion Depot with thoso of the Chicago & Northwestorn Ity In Chicago the truing of this lne muko eloso conneetion with those of all eastern lines, For_Dotroit, Columbus, Indinnap sine N Alls, Butlitlo, Pittsburs, Toronto, Boston, New York, Philudolphia, Bl Washington and all points in the eust, wsk for tickets via th NORTH-WESTERN f you wish the best wecommoduations. Al ticket kots Vi this line. R 8. HATR, 1. i, Agont, BABCOCK Omnha, § rionce, S ity wido- i, Monire: timors tho ticket uy T, General Munngor. CHICAL Gen. / HAMBURG - AMERICAN Packet Company. A DIRECT LINE FOR | England, France & Germany, Tl stewmships of this woll Known line are il ot iron, in walor tight compi s, and ro- Turnisiied with everything to ke (o pussigo both sate and agrecuble. They earey the Unoed Stutes and Euvopess mails, und lonve New York Thursdays wnd Baturdays 1or Flywouth, (LON. DON), Cherboug, (PA KIS and HAMBU G y Ntis=First caibin, §00-81, Blverago to Ned ork P. BOYER & CO, Hali’sSafes:fiuiH.Timenacks and Jail Work, 1020 Farnaw Street, Omalia, Nob which ure the finost that . PLATTSMOUTH, NEB. ) Broedor of Thoroughbrod and High Grade Kereford and Jersey Cattic! And Duroo und Jorsoy Kea Swinoe, Milwaukez & St Paul Chicag, RAITL R AT, ‘The Short Line and Best Route From Omaha to the East. TWOTRAINS DAILY HEPWEEN OMAHA AND Chicugo, Minncapolis, Milwaiikoo, 8t Paul, Codur Kapids, Duvenport, Clinion, Dubiio, Rockford, ok Islund, Frooport, Junoiylle, Elygin, Mudison, < L Crosso, Jseloif, Winonn, And ull othor important pofats Bast i Bouhost. orthoast Ticket offico at 1401 Fu by and ue L 0 acitie Do) Pullmsn sloopors und ino I 10 16 WOk aie vun on tho wnin lines of the CHICAGOMILWAUKLE & BT, PAUL ALLWAY, and CVOry BUOHLON s Pild 10 pussonggers by GoUrue Ous I Ploy es OF LLO compiny. p I MiLLeg, Generad Mun . 9K UK ki, Assistunt Gonoral Manager, A VAL CAREaN PRI, Goaort Pusieigor and ickot Auoi. Gro. b HEARFOID, Assistant Genoval Pusson: BOE R0 RO AgOLL, i slroot, (In Paxton . <t Dining Cars