Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 30, 1888, Page 9

‘Tmit THE OMAHA DaIlLy BEE ¢ " EIGHTEENTH YEAR. MORNING, OUTOBER 30, THE FAIR'S WELCOME TO ITS COUNCIL BLUFFS FRIENDS! A Most Sensational “All Over the House” Sale! Buy Three! tering of Good Values Now on the deis, in the This Sale is Unprecedented! of the Building. 28 Pieces 14 yds Wide Heavy Tricot. All colors. ( heap at .00, During ths sale, 41c. BlaqEEgflsfl@mere 22[: All 8l —————————————— aday’s price 18 Pieces 52-inch Wide 22 Pieces 50-inch Wide Extra fine. Al New Shades B 50 Pieces 40.inch . Fench Flame Plaids.750 40 Picees H4-inch Wide Freach Brozdcloth, lg In all colors, Regu During this r price & " | THE FAIR. SATINS ND— L) D el bt All Shades in FINE SiTing, 1§ Large Line of il Vvets, 49 Pattern Braid Sets, Corner 13:h and Howard Streets. Knit Goods, C. Jlc [ alc Ladics’ Superior White Merino VESTS and PANTS, Extra Good Yalue. Ladies’ Superfine Scarlet Lumb’s Wool VEST AND PANTS, Worth $1.50. Ladies’ Skirts, Go)d qualitys fall regular size. A bargain! Ladies’ Very Heavy Boucle Skirts, All colors. Grand value, 98¢ e _ L. Brandeis & Sons.THE FAIR, ™ ™ ™ st s It is a Forerunner of Road,Bought at aMarvelous Sacrifice by Eastern Markets! We have made Spec Crowd! Customers will Enter the Doors on the N LADIES’ 'Seal Plush Cloaks | 40 inches long, 4 seal loops, satin lined, with decp cuffs. . ————————————————————— Seal TFI;;;ieEioaks 3] ]'75 i 2 inches fong, finished with rich, heavy quilted satin, good seal ornaments, Sale price #1735, 100 Ladies® extra fine quali- ity London Dyed Seal Plush Cloaks With VLest quality seal brown sutin lining, wide plush with elegant sealskin oruaments. 40 MODJESKA Seal Plush Wraps Made of gunrantecd plush, riculy trimmed; an excellentagd stylisi garmen wortls #5005 for this sale onty $16; ~ Ladies’ Brown Newmarkets With cape and hood; strictly wool diagonal: si; 2 to 463 for this sale ouly 5.00 A variety of styles, black, blue and brown, rich plaids and faney striped CLOAKS. Worth from #i5 to Monday's price, § 20 Styles NEWMARKETS® Trimmed with real fur, bell 37.75 sleeves; imported diagonals new colors, 50 Styles of All Wool s ' flu JAGKETS Stripes, plaids, black, brown and navy. Best Wool Felt Hats. 48 2c Last year's styles will be found in the base- ment, at. OUR NEW FUR FELT HATS Tuelude the very latest shapes and colors. They arc finest goods made, A beautiful combination of silk plush and pinked edged FELT HAT, Entirely new: in all colors Extremely stylish. Our tire Stock of Untrimmed Silk Hats, 580 A New Era in Dry Goods Buying! One Dollar will ew Prices and an Actual Scat- our Mr. Emil Bran- ial Arrangements to Avoid the Accidents of a orth Corner and Leave by Way of the South End emely Lo CLOAKS! | Miley! it | BASEMENT! ———————————————— BEST Takle 0il Cloth, 5c TOILET SOAPS, Very good quality, highly per- fumed; four (4) good sized cakesin abox. Entire box, Strictly All Wool Shirting 5 c Flannel, Linsey - Wolsey, 7c Kentucky Jeans d checks, all per yard, In brown, grey and black. In s'ripes and plaids, All colors, THE RAGE OF THE IRON HORSE | Interesting Happenings in the Mod- | ern Railroad World. HUNTING FOR LOST FREIGHT Age of Locomotives—Failure of the Honeymoon Car — Courting Business—Mexican Na- tional Railway. Courting Business. Cleveland Leader: There is a great similarity between conducting the traftic of arailroad and operating an extensive mercantile business. There are a few railroads, like a few well es- tablished husiness houses, that enjoy an extensive trade without much effort, but with the at majority of both there is a compe n for business, so sharp that a wide field is opened up for shrewd measures to attract trade. The inter-state law has greatly contracted the freedom of railrond agents, but, nevertheless, a general freight or pas senger agent is rated now, as before, b the quality and quantity of the w performed in his departinent in the way of securing and holding profitable busi- ness. A local pussenger man mentioned the other day & plan successfully tri few years ago by u Texas line to s emigration business along its opened road. 1t chanced that a turer of considerable orator] ability, but who was also given to dissi- pation, became, through his unfortunate appetite for drink, hopelessly stranded in the west. He picked up by the general passenger agent of the Texas line, placed on his feet once more, and engaged at a salary of $100 per month and expenses to prepare a glowing de- seription of the grandeur and wealth of Texas resources, and deliver it as a lec- ture throughout southern Ohio and other eastern localities. Various church and other local societies were offered the full receipts of a nominal charge of admission for advertising the lecture. The glib-tongued orator made quite an impression wherever he lectured. He was followed several days later, purely by accident of course, by a passenger agent who distributed Texas railroad literature in the wake of the orator with a lavish hand. The results of this business venture were very gratify fto the general passenger agent “Toxas fe became epidemic Jocalities visited, and in consequence of thls sentiment a very perceptible emi gration movement set in which added argely tothe revenues of the rond. The orator continued his popular lectures on Pexas for several months, but prosg ity proved his bane. IHe fell into evil ways 2zain, and his star sank down into the sca of oblivion forever. The Mexican National Railway. Mexican Financier: The laying of the last rail required to complete the {main line of the Mexican National rail way is an important event in many aspects, as it gives to the country a not Apsignificant narrow-gauge system of . railways, comprising the National; the Interoceanic and some minor roads, to which probably will be added the Oax- aca & Pacific, which is now being sur- voyed. Whether the National will al- Wways remain a narrow-gauge. road is, of course, impossible to predict, but we regard it as likely that, within a few ,mln will be widened tg the standurd guage. At any rate the country ga another trunk line road to the frontier, and we hope that its management will be such as to make it an aid to the de- velopment of the countr Work on the gap in the main line has been vig- orously pushed, but whether the work has been done as well as it should have been, or as economically, is open to reasonable doubt; in fact one unpub- lished report from one of the most eminent civil engi in the United States everely critical of the methods which have obtained in the hurried construction of the main line. An amateurish method, costly in many ways, is averred to have been pursue when the interest of economy d manded the oversight of the work by men of long experience and proven ca- pacity in railway construction. But this is a matter (aslong as the road is built s0 as to insure the safety of pas- sengers) which concerns the neople who puy the bills; if they are satisfied the publie need not give heed to the dis putes of the railway engineering ex- perts. The concern of the government is, properly, the safety of its citizens who use the line, and the acceptance thereof by inspectors and by the depart- ment of public works will also settle that point. In the opening of the line for freight the public interests demand impartial treatment for all shippers, and the just consideration of the intevests of Mex can farme nd manufacturers. There are some matters, having a bearing on this point, which will bear more ful consideration, and more space than is at present at our command. The line, must perforce, as has been the with the Cent depend largely upon local business, 1f this business is developed, by leg nate methods, from the country tributary to the line, the prosperity of the region traversed by the road will be greatly advanced. We hope to see the National railway make large earnings, and pay the interests on its bonds, for thus will the credit of all other Mexican investments be helped in foreign markets. A Woman in White, Pittsburg Dispatch: A score of freight conductors, brakemen, en- neers and firemen on the Pittsburg & e Erie railroad are half frightened over an apparition which they can- didly allege almost nightly on the Pittsburg stern railroad track, i selton and alongside the ivmo:n\ of H ie trac The ap- ittsbure & La o parition is that of a woman robed in white. The railroad men say that the ghost has uppeared every night for two weeks past, sometime often as four times in a night, Mi!t Hickman, a freight conductor, called at the mayor’s office, Youngstown, and notified the authorities of the strange appearance. He said that he had seen the aj ition a number of times, and that each night it was within five yards of him, with outstretched arms, He had seen it as carly as 8 o'clock in the evening and as late as 4 o’clock in the morning. The phost, he says, moves about noiselessly and never utters u sound, The circumstances had made such an impression upon him that he had been upon the point, several times, of resign- ing. Tom MecLaughlin, a brakeman, accompanied Mr., Hickman and cor- roborated his story so far as the exist- ence of the ghost 1s concerned, A Missing Pound of Tobaeco. Cleveland Ledger: The chief clerk of one of the local raiiroad superintend- ents was seated at his desk yesterday alternoon enguged 1n logking through abulky mass of papers, fastened 30- gether, which seemed to refer to some very important railway affaiv. His ic brow was corrugated, and grave rn was depicted on every feature A remark was ventured ted the exclamatio It a pestiferous case. Railroad companies are as exacting in investigating the loss of a pound of freight as a bank bookkeeper is in finding n missing cent to balance his account. These papers on my desk refer to amissing one-pound hackige of tobacco. In a shipment rom New York to the west the con- signor reports that one box is one pacl age short. The loss is only 10" cent and the railroads Jmust bear it. As is usual in such cases, unless the point where the package was lost or stolen can be located, this loss will be pro- rated among the several lines over which the shipment passed. Our share will be two cents. But we must go through all the red tape. We must get the complaint of loss, the weighbill, learn on what trains and car the ship- ment was made, obtain the affidavits of all trainmen who had charge of the car, but of course we don’t expect to recover the property. It is merély a matter of form.” The interruption appeared to rest the weary cler| He had still a large bun- dle of papers before him to scanand re- fer to their proper pigeon-holes or de- partment, but he grew confident continued, *You would be surpr know the amount of freight that d pears mysteriously every year. Some articles are move liable to disappear than others. For instance, liquors have a strange way of losing themselve have hats and eaps, boots and she cigars. Soap is very seldom missed. must not be subnosed. howe ver, that all ticles reported lost have been stolen often actually lost and re again after a while. I remember an instance that happenod some time ago. A Cleveland lecturer, having an engagement at Akron, forwarded his scientific apparatus to that point in ample time but it never arrived. The lecture was not delivered and the rail- road company had to pay a big bill for actual and consequential damages. Months afterward the Canton agent of another road in cleaning up his ware- house found the missing box. How it got there nobody knew.,” “Here's anvther instance: Not long ago one of Cleveland’s large manufac- tories sent an ag iltural implement to a little town neur Cincinnati. It faiied toarrive. A lost freight agent was given the number of the car on which it had been shipped and told to find the missing property. He traced the car to its destination, thence through various courses up into northern Michigan, where he learned it had been loaded with lumber and sent south, The agent was about to abandon the search when, chancing to look about him in the lum- ber yard, he saw the missing machine on apile of lumber. It was simply neglect to unload at the proper station, Here is another of the same kind. Among a carload of iron castings shipped from Cieveland to Kentucky was oue peculiar and vaJuable casting which, for safety, was fastened to the ceiling of the car. Notice of non- delivery arrived in due time and the car tracers, after following the car through a dozen states, finally found the casting, still fastened to the car, ata Massachusetts cotton mill. What, haven’t time for any more instances to-day? Well, call againand I'll tell yousome more, Good day.” And the superintendont’s cleyk bewed his head which eli once more and resumed his tireless search for the missing pound of tobaces Age of Locomotives. motives is about twelve ye: 1 through proper habits of living, taking their meals regular and avoiding all in- toxicating beverages, attain quite a re- able old age. The oldest running ne in Germany has been on the road since 1845, and is consequently fo! three old—quite a Methuselah, in fact. With regard to its habits, it has always confined itself strictly to water, though it has been addicted to smoking all its life. It is sad to see a locomotive grown prematurely old by getting on trains and running all night, but they are often met with, in collisions. Ruilway Notes. Tt takes a pretty clever swindler to get ahead of railway ticket scaip but the Chicago speculators were recently taken in to the tune of $20,000. A well- dressed man made the rounds of the brokers’ offices and at each one disposed of from two to five tickets from New Or- leans to New York via Chicago, with the couvons from New Orl i- cago detached. The tickets were dis- covered to be clever forgeri A machine which ' lays r and trac reported to have been given asuccessful trials in Washington territory about a week ago. A queer accidont happened to a shift- ing engine in the Boston & Maine yards at Portland, Me. The engine perfectly straight pieee of trac! going slowly. All at once the forward wheels of the engine slipped off as easily as if the rails had been greased. The flanges were not broken,und there seemed no reason why the wheels should leave the track. No explanation of the occurrence could be given by the train men. No damage wis done. The directors of the Spanish railways may be excellent men of business, but they are certainly not students of hu- man nature, as is shofn by the follow- ing fact few moaths ago the model of a new way capriage wus put before them, divided into small elegant de- partments, each furpished with two seats and - small table, to be reserved for the special use off couples on their wedding tour. Inpopent of the well- known fact that pewly married couples are always nervously Buxious not to ap- they nra, the delighted di- dered “sqmd ‘honeymoon car- nd for seme time past one of them has been attached to every ox- press train, with phe result that nota single couple has ‘yet made useof the special accommodation. ——p— “We Polnt with Pride" 0od name a4 home,” won by Hood's Sarsaparilla. In Lowell, Mass., where it is prepaged, there is more of Hood's Sarsaparilla sold than all other medicines, and it has given the best of satisfaction since its introduction ten years ago. This eauld not be if the med icine did not possess merit. If you sutfer from impure bloed, try Hood’s Sarsapa- rilla um{] realize {u peculiar curative power, e Got What He Wanted. Philadelphia Record: Stranger— ‘*Have you u book giving the names and addresses of lhti elite of Chicago?” Bookseller—*We have aChicago blue book, sir.” “*That will do.”. ioing to settle there?” Ohb, no. I'm in the liquor business, and aw dremming up eutside trade,” Congressmen's Salaries. Chicago Times: Although fourths of the members of congress it impossible to live on the salarvics they receive, there a some members of the house who actually save as much 3.000 out of the 35,000 which they are puid for law-making. These lucky ones come from the south, where election expenses are a mero bagatelle compared with the drain that is put upon the western and northern members who live in districts having plenty of towns. Congressional salaries are so small that many of the ablest men in the present house are deelining re-elections. Their business interests are suffering and $5,000 a year is not enough inducement to remain in public life. A congre ’s expenses are all the time incre: s has been a year of unusual demands upon hoth sides. The sending out of campaign material has cost some of them thou- sands of dollars. The average member, no matter how poor in purse, has sent out hundreds of dollars” worth of tariff speeches. The people have an idea that these specches do not cost the con- gressman anything, Every speech or- dered costs something. The printing and binding is expensive, to say noth- iug of the clerk hire to direct the en- velopes, A congressman has no time to do this work. He is compelled to employ a clerk, He is not allowed a clerk by law as is the case with the sen- ators. The few congressmen who are known to be extremely close and who sa money are odd specimens, They live in the cheapest way imaginable. They are never seen at a place of amusement, seldom seen in the street cars, and they would drop dead if they w to be called upon to occasionally pay carriage I One of th vly statesmen recently felt under great obligations to a well known New Yorker, and so he got up courage enough to ask the N Yorker to tak lunch with him the House E taurant. The New Yorker is a man of means, and is in the habit of spending money freely. At lunch the host sai ‘*Mr. —, what will you take todrink Champagne,” said ‘the New Yorker, The entertainer came near fainting when he glanced at the wine card and saw that the brand of champagne called for was worth 85 per bottle. This thrifty member of congress, as a rule o picce of pie and dvinks a glass of rmilk for lunch, but it was observed that he didn’t even indulge in pie and milk for nearly a month. He had to even up. et Deserving of Confidence.—There is no article which 8o richly deserves the en- tire confidence of the community as Brown's Bronchial Troches, Those suffering from asthmatic and bronchial dise coughs and colds should try them. Price 25 cents, el Drug Clerks. People have no idea what a much abused class of workers the drug clerks are, They have to spend years study- ing chemistry and other branches con- nected with the pharmaceutical pro- fession, and after they go to work what do they get? The answer is—precious little. * Aside from the small compensa- tion allowed for their services, there are the long hours and Sunday work. “Irarely work,” says one of these hard ed and faithful servitors of the ing, *‘less thad thirteen hours a day, and am required to work even harder on the seventh day of the week than the first. Beside filling pre- scriptions and serving customers with other articles in the line carried by the trade, I am kept on the run to the soda fountain. The drug clerks have little time 10 enjoy the - good ihin‘l i this three- nd life, and after serving many years in the business I can truthfully “say that there is little in it. The sa s paid renrs e better than now, but rs year after They are being turned out of th leges of pharmacy in droves every y and when beginning, do not ot working for low wages. The conse- quence of this is that the salaries of the old timers have to come down, as the owners of the drug stores do not care about paying more than they can avoid.” . el Jarvis’ '77 will cure your cold. e Paris Fashions in Lingeres. Woman’s World: Autumn and spring are the favorite seasons for marriages. The wedding trosseaux of Mlle de Brissac, who last August married the Duc de Lorge, of Mlle. pe Mailte, who married the Comte de Fleury, and those of other high-born damsels entering the state of wedlock, occupied the at- tention of all fashionable Paris. Our celebrated lingeres were so busy making up fairy-like under-garments that they knew none of the dullness of the dead season. Every young betrothed dreams of her trossenu. These delicate chiffons impart a poetry and refincment to a woman’s personality. The modern syren owes not a liftle of her subtle seductiveness to the grace and finish of every detail of her attire. It is by the daintiness of her under- clothing that the truly elegant woman is distinguished. The care lavished upon hidden garments is the note of a delica 1f-respect. The Irench bour- , and also it must be admitted some other foreign women, are too often tly satisfied with their apparel if unt gowns laden with lace or gaudy with trimmings. As a rule, the Prenchwoman is careful of her lingerie, and in every grade of life the young fiancee is proud to display to her friends on the duy of her con- tract the pretty hravery of her lace- trimmed and embroidered under-linen. Diamonds are coveted only after the due supply has been obt of tex- tures fine 'us wrought cobwebs, white as carded wool, finished off with lace and coquettish knots of vibbon, 5 i hed with Brus- hemises bordered aboye and below with a wide insertion of Valenciennes and edged with a gathered flounce of lace; short petti- coats of cambric and surah silk; morn- ing wraps and pocket handkerchiefs, stockings and caps, all made exquisite with needle-work, sweet with perfume, gay with fastenings of ribbon, are tho choicest properties of the hride-elect, By sets of half dozens, the fashionable trousseau contains a vaviety of chem- ises. There is the full dress chemise of cambric, richly trimmed with Valenciennes; for “ordinary wear is of fine linen, edged Valenciennes; for country we colored cambric of pompadour design, striped or spotted, trimmed with fancy lace. Silk chemises are increasing in, favor every day; blue, pink, whitey cream, lilac and lemon, ripe corn and poppy-red, black even; they are of every shade and color, These silken under-garments are edged and richly trimmed with white or black lace. They are made in various shapes and pate terns, There is the Marie Antoinctte chemise, cut low in & point; the Tallien chemise, high in the neck, and the throat Quilined by an insertion of rib- bon, the shoulders trimmed with several rows of lace. 3 The newest fabric used for unders clothing is silk crepe. It has risen so greatly in popularity that its vogue threatens to supplant that of silk and silken gauze. The fashion for garments in this material is to make them very short, very full, v much gathered, y article of each sct of tha same exact shade of color. The chem- ise, cut round at the shoulders, dces not ch down to the knees; the wide knickerbockers are fustened above tha knees; the petticoat, ete., is scarce! longer. Ribbons fasten at the thront at the waist, and form the garters of this singular lingerie. It is made m delicate pink, blue, white, maize, red, and in black especially. The stay. of satin of the same shade. Mmes. Cely have made silk erepe the fashion for under-garments; these line geres hold with the Maison Mo Blossier, which has lately added a line gerie to its dressmaking establishment, Rue de la Paix, the first rank for the manufacture of feminine under-cloths ing. sike the day chemises the night gown is composed of cambric of thin foulard silk, trimmed with lace and ribe bon. For country and scaside wear, night gowns ave of colored fabr spotted foulard, the edge festooned d in silk thread of the same color, last fashion for night gowns is to make them flowing like a judge’s gown; the yoke is gathered; the deep coliar is turned buck with a festooned border; the sleeve is trimmed with double- gathered wrist bands; at the waist, cole Tar, and sleeves are placed flowing knots bbon. B err is human, but stake if you use Dr. Jone Tonic for " dyspeps breath, piles pimples, ngue and malaria, poor appetite, low spirits, or dise the kidneys, stomach and liver. cents. Goodnan Drug company. Monkeys' Aversion to Cruelty. Popular Science Monthly: In Hine dostan, where three varietics of sacred monkeys enjoy the freedom of every town, “those four-handed pensioners often assist the police in enforcing the riot laws by charging en masse for the scene of every dog-tight and school-boy scuflle. They will rescue worried cats, and, for greater security, deposit them on the next roof, or suppress rowdyism in general, the stout Rhesus baboon, for instance, heing physically as well ag morally qualified to quell the aggressivae digposition of the fiercest cur. On the platform of a publie warchouse the Brite ich residents of Agra, n fow years ago, witnessed a scene which put that chare acter-trait in even a stronger light, A little street-Arab had spread his palleg in the shade of a stack of country pro= duce, and had just dropped asleep, when the proprictor of the Planter's hotel strolled up with a petleopard that had learned to accompany him in all his rambl A troop of tramp monkeys had taken post on the opposi d of the shed, and, like the beggar boy, secmed to enjoy a comfortable siestag but at sight of the speckled intrudes the whole gang charged along the plate form like a squadron of spahis, and, ine stantly forming a semicircle about the little ‘sleeper, faced the leopard with bristling manes, evidently resolved tg defeat the suspected purpose of hig e to Mothers. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should als ways be used for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy l,l darrnoca, 25¢ a botuley