Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 18, 1889, Page 3

JACOB GONE UP THE LADDER! | 12 vos 0 An Obituary Headline Which Groat- 1y Shocked Max O'Rell. PALL MAL L GAZETTES the ican L3 porter French Oritic Newspapers terprise—How One Scooped the Tow Bays, Are Journal- Re- Max on the Pres By lns discovery of America Chri pher Coiumbus has furnished the world with an inexhaustible source amusing novelties. You pass from the curious to the marvelous, from the mar velous to the incredible, from the in- eredible to the impossible realized. But it is to American journalism that the palm must be awarded. Ishall gpenk later on the Sunday papers, those phenomenal productions \irly take your breath away. the daily pap ght sometimes twelve pages, each consist g of eight or nine of print, the whole for two or three cents. So much for the gnantity. The first thing that attr tention is the titlesof the T'he small bits of news cannot es your notice, thanks to these wond head-lines, It requires a specinl for the work to be able to hit upon such eye-tickler Here New Y wwns. The death of Mrs. Garfield, mother of the late president, was announced with the heading: SDeath of Grandma (¢ The marringe of M. N hard ato- old of ke ten, columns tine s your. wiicles, ninsg few that T noted down in sk, Chicago and other 1 field,” wrice Bern- s Boy Leads his Bride to the Alte The exceution of a criminal was an- nounced by a Chicago paper under the heading: “yerked 10 Jesu The reports of two divoree cases at Chivago were entitled respectively “Tired of William, Mrs, Carter Finds Fault With Her Hus- band’s Kissing. ’ An article on Prince Bismarck was headed in letters **Bismarck Withd lerneath in v Resignation ds of the German I The marviage of young F who had been betrothed soveral times was announced to the American ladies thus: Chancy rmoyle Canght at Last.” Mr. Arthur Balfour, having refused toreply to some i tionalists, & prominent New York paper thus announced the Balfour Docsn’t Care @ —— his last v America, Mr. s invited by the W Youk elub to -a din- ner given in his honor. At the clev- enth’bour, the right honorable gentle- man, heing detained in- Washington on state business, was obliged to send and exeuse himself. Next day I read mn the New York Herald One Dinuer Less For Joe. While [ ®asin the United States the papers were constantly speaking of a cortain financier named Jacob Sharp. Aceused of frandulent dealings, this gentleman had been arrested, but sub- sequently d untried. The press lmlulg.nl in much comment on the mut- “All mortals Du Joscph ¢ members ol and such remarks as: hnv their trials except financiers One morning the newspapers were obliged to desist from their attacks: poor Jacob had passed away from oarth. une day, I met the editor of one lurge daily papers. “Well,” I said, “*here is a fine occa sion fora grand head-line to-morrow you are not going o let it slip, I sup- pose.” *What do you mean?” “How can you ask? W up the ladder, of cours “Splendid!? fhe exclaimed *shame ont hee! my dear editor, thou didst not findth at one.” “I must have it. How much wiil you talke for it?” I’ll make you a present of it,” T said, Next morning, the death of the finan- cier was told in two columns, headed: ‘“Jacob Gone Up the Ladder!” If ever I wanted to apply for a juornal- istic post in America, this would be my most weighty recommendation in tho eyes of my futnre chief, LIVE SADING. know i y, Jacob gone 1 did not ding was until 1 per. American journalism is above all a sensational journalism, If the facts re- ported are ¢xact, so much the better for the paper; 1 not,so much the worse for the facts. But the papers are always lively leadin Picture to yourself a country where the pape are all Pall Mall Gazettes, with this difference,that he articles, instead of being always by One Who Knows,” are somctimes by *One who doesn’t. od as o journalist, it is not necessary to be a man of letters, to be able to write leading articlesin lite style; the only qualification necessary b hle to amuse and interest the this must be done at any cost; all styles are admissible excépt the heavy, 2 I'he accounts of trials in orat the courts of assizes novels of M. du Boisgob I,who never read teibunal reports in the English nawspapers, was more than once sur- prisod in America to find myselt deeply interested in the account of a trial for murder, following all the details of the case, and unwilling to miss a word, Alternately moved and horrified, I would read to the end; then pussing my hand across my forehead, I would suy to myself, **How silly! it 18 mostly fiction, after all.” The American journalist must be spicy, lively, bright, He muyst know how to, not report, but relate an acei- dent, a trial, a conflagration, and at a push make up an article of one or two columns in length upon the most insig- nificant incident. Ho must be inter- esting, readable. His eyes and ears must be always open, every sense on the alert, for, before ali und “above all, he must keep ahead in this race for news; if he should once let himself be outdone by a coufrere his reputation would be blasted: But you will perhaps exclaim: *What is the oor fellow to do when there isno news?” What is he todo? And his imagination, 1s it given him for no pur- pose? If he has no imagination he had better give up the idea of being a jour- alist in America, as he will soon " tind out, This is how one American reporter made a reputation ata bound. The Chicago people are still proud to tell the story. The young fellow was taking a walk one evening in a retired part of the town on the lookout for what adventure history does not say. All atonce, a hu- man form lying motionless on the round attr the sight of our hero. le drew near to it,stoped down and found it toJoe a corpse, His first im- the police aclipse the “oftic ok & police But s to immediately him of the discovery. {ine; it was more § lopted it. a socond iden tical and he s out at 2in the after- straight tothe making the furnishing His 1oon police s matte per corr that by vunning would public and brother veporters with a column or two for their morning papers, [t is a cateh, this corpse,and not to be lightly given hat to do? Simply this.” Our the body into an empty buildir it hand, and capefully hides it 11 next morning b dis- covers™ it by chance, goes ns fast as possible to make his de ation to the and then hustens away of wapaper with two col- f description written ov o'clock the paper announces terions murder in Chicago: dis- the victim by of our re- tion he he oiice, his n umy At SNy covery of porters! he morning the other ever This is th have in ere outdone, owhere. alent you must n chance of mak- ing ye y in American journalism. Crimes, divorces, elopements, mesal- linnces, gossip of all kinds furnish the papers with three-guarters of their con- tents A mysterious affaic skilfu handled will mas the fortune of newspaper. For several weeks, during the months of Febraary and Mavch, 1888, the jcan papers were talking about a young lady of good family in Washington who, t appeared, had become engaged to a young Indian named Chaskn, brave of the Sioux tribe. descriptions of theavil tions of the festivities which we held in his honor at the camp of the great chief Swift Bird, descriptions of the gorgeous orn nts with which the members of the be would be or- nothing was wanting; d ay fresh details were added Then the despur of the young lady’s family was pictured. The threats of un indignant father, the tears of a dis- tressed mother, nothing, it seems could touch the heart of the faiv one but the piercing eyes of Chaska. At last the marrvinge takes place, only in broad day, but in church. 1t 1s not Swift Bira who blesses the young people, it is the parish pr . Ro- mance gives place to verity with- out the slightest sign of their being dis- concerted the papers aunounce—in a few lines this time oniy—that the young lady has marrvied a clevk in the Indian affairs office. papers Ny ones not VIEWER AT IS BE as nothing. It is when minal case to handle that journalism becomes simply The criminal is no sooner arrested than the veporters hurry to his ecll and get him to undergo the curious op- eration. now known throughout the world as interviewing. He is treated with all the consideration due to a man in his position. **Mr. So and So, of the Earthquake, presents his compliments to Mr. Blank, charged with murder, and requests the p of o few min- utes’ conversation weeused of an importans crime g cer- tain standing in The more atrocious the erime, the move 1nterest- ing the aceused, and columns upon col- umns of print supply the public with his slightest sayings and doings. He is the hero of the day. From the prison, the reporters go 1o hunt up the wit- uesses, whom they also inte in their turn. Regular examinations, these interview I know of several pupers having quito detective Ameriean news- a stafl of detect- If a criminal es- capes justice, oran affair remains sur- rounded by wmystery, these new-fash- ioned journalists are let loose every morning on w search for the criminal, or to try and pick up threads of infor- mation that may lead to the clearing-up of the mystery. These detectives are ed not only in cases of crime, just as hard over a divorce or it is journalism turned priv detective agene A news- paper that can boast of having brought aerimal to justice, discovered the hiding-place of “an unfaithful wife, or run a ravisher to earth, is rewarded by an increased sale forthwith. If thore is any_love story mixed in with the [ there are a few piquant details, you may easily imagine that the public gets the worth of its 2 cents. The American is gallant, and when the vietim is of the feminine gender, T can assure you the accused g L pretty drubbing in the p JOURNALISTIC DETECTIVE Amevican journalism car spirit of enterprise still furthe content with trying criminals, it hunts them out and brings them to justic Policeman, m: e, pubhe” pros cutor, judge—the journalist is all these, Tho slightest thing that can make the paper attraetive is seized upon with avidity. The headings, which I have spoken of ave ealled into requisition on all oceasions, and there is nothing down to the mere announcements, that will not suggest to a wide-awake editor one of these wonderful eye-tickl Thus the Saturday list of = preache for the morrow is headed in the New York Heral sSalvation for AL, or SGuiding Sinners Heavenward,” Another pupe v heads the list: ‘DodAng the Devil,”? In some pape: ou will see the list of Dbivths, n and deaths headed respectively: I'he Cradle,” *The Altar” and *“The Grave;” 'in some others more fucetious Iatches,” “Matchies * and “*Dispatel Compared with the Ir English papers, the American dailies have neither the lit value of the former nor the authority of the latter in the matter of political foreign news. The French newspapers are most of them literary productions of incontest- able worth, but, with the exception of one or two leading avticles and the lit- erary, music id dramatic eriticisins, nothing very s in the way of information is to be found in them. The foreign intelligence is of the most meager, and usually consists of lines furnished by the Havas Age iperor of Germany isa little better,” or *‘Queen Victoria . hus turned to Windsor Castle from Scot- land,” &e. George Augustus Sala once said wittily that the French papers beur the date of to-morrow and the news of yesterduy., The satire is a lit- tle severe, butit is not unmerited, He might, however, bave taken that Gppor- tunity for reminding his numerous readérs that, if the Pavisian papers are inferior to the London ones in the mat- ter of news, thoy ure greatly their s perior in the mautter of articles, It true we have no longer among oa» jour- nalists, Roqueplan, Karre, Mery, Jinin, Prevost-Paradol, Girardin, Taine and About; but we have still John Lemoinne, Weies, Surcey, Rochefort, Wolfl, Lock- roy, Vacquerie, Scholl, Eouquier, Bor- gevatand many others, who offer to the public overy day articles stamped with genius, or'at the least sparkling with “wit. Yes, we have still a goodly group of such, For the intelligent, serious man, the English daily papers bave only the at- traction of the correctness of their coi vespondence, home and foreign, It consists of facts in all their aridity, but still facts. As for the articles, few persous, I fancy, read those productions nch and 15 his | | ossip to the | THE written, with dry, thready, fected by low often deserving the of the late M Lycee Charlemagne diluted in v An American glomeration of ne artistie, scientific veports of trials, of of all kinds, ()\U\H A DAIL !'-\v n\.-nlvnmm in the dagogic style muck m_school-boys, favorite pre “Heavy and comment or of the sticky maire, cuum newspaper is a con- ws, political, literary, and fashionable nusing anecdotes interviews, jokes, seandal, the whole written in a style which sometimes ®shocks the ma taste, hue which often interests, anc WAYS Amuses, I'must say that, if you waut to heay America and_everything Amevican se- vercly criticized, you have only to to ston, There you will hear Boston and En i ised, and America once New Ameviean?” 1 I met in an gentleman he said, after some hesita- I'm from Boston. y! heing born in obliged to be an American! hard. The Am Boston and That's an public is not composed merely of the refined socicty of Boston and New York, and the press s oblived to cater to the public taste. When the pubiic taste is improved the newspapers will veform, and perhaps one day the London Times will cense to be the most prosy sheet in the world, NEWS BY CABLE. political news, sent over from one needs to allow a little mar- gin on what one v s in the Ameri papers; but it is impossible not to y the activity which animates the v Thus, for instan [ was in New York on the day that M. Victorien Sardou brought out “La ' the Por St. Martin theater in I aris. The fiv representation took place on S The next morning my newspaper gave me a most vtical deseription of the performance in two columns tele- graphed from | In other words, the Americans w ble to read St Bernhavdt's latest triumph earlier than the inhabitants of Lyonsahd Marseilles, who had to wait for the Paris papers. Thanks to their journ Ame ns have at what ing on in every part orld: they know our new play ad our new books, they keep informed event, just as if they were neighbors. And ‘how is it possible, [ not to say a good word of | v journalism, which knows how excite, as well as satisfy, the curiosity of a great people Go and ask the first hundred French- men you meet in the streets of Paris what is the name of the president of the United Stat you will find nine of them unable 1o tell you. The I men is exclusive to the point of stupid- ity, and that which is not French possesses 1no_interest for him. dog run over in Paris is, in his eye more interesting event than a pre ntial clection in Americ Enveloped in his exclusiveness, he knows nothing:in the matter of toreign questions, he the most ignorant being in the world, and French journalism, obliged to study his te ves him with nothing but French dishes, You must visi As for Europe, the offices of the great New York daiiles in the eveuing, if you would get an idea of th enterpris There you see about fifty reporters with their news all ready for print in their hands. nturn passes before the heads purtments, political, matic, et W the first report “An interview hardt. “Very good. what have you? ond. A report of John Smith, the banker’s have yo! e who pr with Half o column. And lie says, turning to the case “Right. One column. And you?” ‘I have an aceount of the president’s forthecoming journey to the south.” When all the reporters have passed, they go to another room to reduce the riicles to the required length. Over hundred correspondents, scattered all over the globe, scnd in their tel grams, many of them by special wir and the conversation which we have just_overheard in the office begins again, this time with W h‘lll\"llnl. Boston, Philadelph Ancisco, London, “What have you forus thisevening s the editor 1o his correspondent in ismarck threatens to send in his resignation,” *One column.™ ‘Boulanger has just received an o tion at Lille. A riot is feared in Paris, wires the Pavis corvespondent.” apital. Send two columns, seandal in Rome. The marchion- . has run away with her hus- retar, Whe lnow ess 0! band’s HGood. N0 one No matter. Send column all the samc American papers, of 2,000 and even ts o word. “*What's his name, made off,” ti Inlh‘ A colwnn. nt of the [ When th e are they gone?” a good sti Ihave scen, in vopean telograms 3,000 word At 12 the financier, has wire from Chicago. portand start on egraph has ceased tick- ing and the reporters have de- parted the chief edito a =hip's captain, the last to | the deck, works on, He veads over everything, sifts, corrects, euts down, adds 1o, puts all in order,and towards ock in the morning gives the order to print and goes home. But once move all this is nothing, Tt is in the Sunday’s issue that you have crowning featof journalistic ehterprise; thirty or thirty-two pages of telegrams. articles, essays on polities, the na, literature, pictures, the fashions; anec- dotes, bon mots, interviews, stories for children, poetry, bidgraphies, ehats on ionce, the whole illustrated with por- tr Sketches of intevesting places mentionedin the text, cavicatures, ete. All this for thesum of three cents. e A HUMAN STATUE, The New York \h cury prints the following wonderful story from a Padua correspondent: An American gentleman staying at one of the prominent hotels here recently met with perhaps the most peculiar phenomenon of nature that it was ever the lot of any one to behold. Subjoined is the true version of his story in his own words: “I was stand- ing on the steps of my hotel one even- ing towards the close of the year when a person approached me with whom I was slightly acquainted, having known him only since coming to Padua, There was a rather distinguished air about the man which quite carried out the idea suggested by his name, Count Orsina, nam that he was probably of the old patrician stock he claimed to repre- sent. What attracted my attention most foreibly, however, was the marble pallor of his complexion, which seemed positively deathly in its appearance, although his black 25 shone in an unusually lustrous manner, betokening exceptional vitality in one direction of | Y BEE: MONDAY, A few « conversation, yes fixed in such a manner cquaintance that he could ot ant of the fact. With thought, he re- at loast. mmdn place remarks opened our | Tkept my upon my help being cogni a rather sad., smile, 1 | marked upon my curiosity, and putting out his hand bade me give him my own. ‘Tosay that [ was surprised when I felt the almost nerveless clasp of that fr nd would inadequately deseribe my feclings, but my vis-a-vis continued to_smile in his melancholly manner, and, sceing that [ was inte ested, he said: “Give me your hand Idid so almost reluctantly, and he touched it to his cheek, which, like his hand, presented only a cold, stony sub- wnee to my touch. You would doubtless like me to ex- plain this strange phenomena,” he s wided., *In the first place, | nnm request you to say as little to possible, on no account do anything \vlm-ll will startle me, as [ am suffering from u _peculinr s which might prove fatal should sudden move- ment of my body take pl Treat n with exactly the same msideration, he said, if 1 were a patient suffer ing with acute heart disease “Would you prefer to be seatea?” I asked, motioning as [ did so to some seats on the veranda, but my myster- ious companion shook his head. I prefer to stand if monsicur has no objection,” he answered. Pointing to himself he said: *“*You here one of the most remarkable that chemistry has ever been led on to investigate 1Tam the vie- tim of as peculiar a fate as it was ever mortal lot to endure. I am a living, breathing organism, and yet were it not for this a 10 conv o with vou, and in_ a manner move about from place as 1 dosiv might | of those wonderful ere s of Phi disentombed to de nd instraet the world by their marvelous perfection of seulptuve. “Yes,” he added with his melancho smile, observing my ineredulous look. seem strange to you that you W conversing with a marble statue, but such is a fact as surely as you are sharing the beautiful, balmy atmosphere and heavenly scenery with me at this instant. SYEARS AGO.T B CONTINUED, “1 became addicted to the use of o tain drag whose fatal effect 1 discovere aQ mu late to resist its \\umluhll nee The only way in which- 1 w l.\l'll’l ed from using Omore nl’ il its effect began to be pe wa® by my souree of supply being effee- tually cut off [used to obtain it in small quantities from a tiveck sailor who ran into Leghorn from some small port in the lonian archipelago, but could never succeedin inducing him to let me have more than a certain amount of it at one time. It wus a compound and he claimed that it was put up by a sorceress who was believed to have had the preparvation handed down to her through. various gencrations of hor family from a remote age. Ido not of course know if her story be true, but if s0 it might es plain to modern seulptors the reason why they are un- able 10 equal the work of the IIEN for 1( ||~ use was known to Phidias and 5 it is more than produced their ons of living models was by~ simply selecting the most beautiful specimens among them- selves aud by the use of this drug grad- nally transforming them into marble.but as ['said, my supply was cut off, which accounts for my presence here this evening and my ability to narrate this strange expericnee i propia persona otherwise I would now be existing only as a geolc 1 curiosi: The sailor was shipwrecked —at t, so I heard. Atany vate he never une to Leghorn, and I had to dispense with my eestasy-producing poison and sacrifice the heavenly dreams its use would plunge me into sometimes for and weeks at a time. There had begun to be noticeable a peculiar dryn and hardness of the skin, at fivst in special places, and then rradually extending all over my body, which I could not understa n mor than the physicians to whom I applied. Personally I felt no inconvenience, and so determined to ignore the matter. Instead of this feeling passing away, however, 1 gradually began to feel the outer skin of mybody tightening and hardening until I seemed to be entire incased in a plaster of pax rust. Thi. feeling inereased continually, alway from the outside, which pecul enabled me to preserve in so vemark a manner the faculties necessary to my prolonged existence. You will observe, “that the very bost judges would fail to iscover any’ difference now between flesh and the purest Parian marble, The blood coagulating gradually during the process of petrifaction has left the dark sty ins in exact reproduc- tion of the quarried article, and did you behold me in pueris naturalibus nothing but my open c 1d my fa lty of speech ‘would induce you to be lieve you were not standing be o ordinary stone statue.” He remo 4is hat as he said this, showing that he was e bald and not a hair was visible anywhere on his fuce, “And yet youenre to live?” | hazard- ed som i clumsily and cruelly. “I have a daughter,” he replied,treat- ing my question as quite & n Wl one, “otherwise I must confess life is little more than o burden to me now. My only regret is that I was not permitted to continue the of the drug and demonstrate what I belicve to be the wuth of my theory with regard to the Phidian masterpieces, but,” he added somewhat sorrowfu *the world is so skeptical, unless you ecan vrove that things are actually so it is impossible to convince them, and perhaps the sccret i hidden from man to prevent the perpetuation of & eruel andinhuman practice At this moment my attention 5 - rested by arunaway team which was at that moment dashing towards the hotel at frantic speed, Favin completely alyzed the efforts of the frightened chman, and di wding the warn- ing which'my steango friend had given me, 1 turied suddenly round and guve vent to an exclamation of surprise. Little did I think what effect my ill- advised deed would have upon my com- }mniun. Unable to resist the impulse to ollow my example;the count turned his head suddenly. T hanrd a snap like the the cracking of a bit of delf pottery .| and turned in time to cateh the severed head of my unfortunate companion in my arms, The despairing look visible in his eyes as they caught mine for u briefl moment haunts me to this moment, and their voiceless appeal meant u request, I conjecture, whicn [ at once hastened to comply with. But alas I placed the severed portion upon the figure still standing erect by my side the eyes closed and the porten- tousness of death were apparent in the portions of the organism which had rvetained thuir specific powe I held in my hand only the marbled form of a man from which the spirit had flown, The body wns taken to Rome, but the strange story concerning it was scarcely credited, as it was easy with those who had not witne: the strange phenom- enon in life to assume that some trick of fhe embalmers had produced the re- sult. Petrifaction In_\n‘., only partial, owing to a cessation of the use of the drug, it was impossible to use the speci- \gain?” disc )y \ses vepresentat he continued, use FFBRI ARY 1 during which | 1839 [ men for purnoses of exhibition, as o re- move the parts <till remaining in a na tural condition it would have been necessary to remove the shell, which dly have been done without breaking it, as the with which the head had become detached showed the very brittle condition it was in. In addition there were the ions of the daughter to such a course, which were insuperable er there- fore, at the present moment, only one or two persons actually acquainted with the mystery of the Count Orsina - The Best in the Wo Senator Henry C. Nelson, of New writes SSENATE CravmEen, ALsasy, N Y., April 4, 1883, On the 2ith of Pebruary,1883, 1 was taken wwith a violent pain in the region of the kidueys, 1 suffered such agony that I could hardly stand up. 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D No g bR Ned SHICACO, MILWAUKEE & 81, N 40 4, A N OSEPH & COUNCIL B> > Em>> OMAHA &8I, No, 8. 4:% p.m, A A daily; B daily except Saturday; sunday; D except sonday; + tuat inail, The tine glvon above iy f ansfer, tnora Delng from five Lo ten minutes betiveen I'idui- fex und local dop ots SOUTH OMARA, AL C ANCH, “BALMER, RICHMAN & CO., Live Stock Commission Merchauts, oftice~Boom 24, Opposite Exehango Builiing, Uaion c N CORIMER,WE RFIELD & MALES Live Stock C[]h]]l]lSSl(]ll. Woom 16, Exchanye Bul Ymion Swok ¥ar uth 0 UNION STOCH YARDS €2, 0f Omeha, Limited, doha ¥ Dol Saperiuicodent OMAHAJOBBERS DIRECTORY _ Agricuitura: implements. CHURCHILL PARKER, Dealer in Agricultura! Imploments, Wagons, Carringes and Rugel 100, ¢ Jones Street, n. Nelraskh. LININGER & METUCALF CC Agricultural [mplements, Wagons, Carriages Ruggies, Ete. Whaldsale. PARLIN, ORENDORF & MARTIN, Aot et Wigons & Buggis B MARTE OO, Manafacturers of Buckeye Drills, Seedrs, Cultivators. Hay Rakes Cider Milis and Luban Pul Veriters. Cor. Mth and Nicholas Streets WINONA lMPl.l-ZMl-_’NT co., Aaricalare o e, Wagons & Buggis "OMATIA BRANCH, J. F. SEIBERLING & CO., Hervesting Machine 7 and Binder Twine, Omahn MOLINE,MILBURN& STODDARD Co Manufacturers and Joubers i Wagors, Buggies, Rakes, Plows Elc. it and Paciie streets, Omaha, Ne Omiaba, Nebraska envenworth st Artiste’ Materials. Es A HOSPE, Jr., Artists' Matcrials, Pianos and Organs, 1615 Douglas Stroet, Omakin, Nebraskn, Booksellers and Stationers. H. M, & S. W. JONES, Successorsto A, T. Kenyon & Co., Wholesale & Retall Booksellers and Stationers. Fine Wedig Stsioners, Commercial Stationery Jouglas Streot. Ouaha, Boots and Shos. KIRKENDALL, JONES, ossors (0 eed, Jones & Wholesale Manufacturers of Boots and Shoes Agents for Boston Ruber Shoe Co. 1102 1104 & 1K Jinruey St Omaka. Nebraoka. W. V. MORSE & CO.. Jobbers of Boots and Shoes, 1101, 13631105 Douglas 8¢, Omaha Manufactory, Sum mer N Buston & CO., Co.y Toa!, Coke “and time. OMAHA COAL, COKE & LIME CO., Jobbers of Hard &nd Soft Coal, 29 South 13th Street, Omaha, Nebra NEBRASKA FUEL CO,, Shmuel‘s uf Uaal and Cofa, Mflllllf'lC[[lI‘El‘a l]f Lll]]fl na_shippers of Coal Coment, Phistor, Lime srain T and Sewer J Omice, 218 S, 1ith St, Omal Tulepliont S Neb. Nev. Coffees, Spices, Etc. ‘CLARKE COFFEE CO., Gimalix Coffee and Spice Mils Teas, Cofiecs, Spices, Baking Powder, Finvoridg Extracth, Leundey Dlue. Inks, te. 11t 1416 1arney Btreet, Omahn, 3 ki ~_Crockery and Glassware. W. L. WRIGHT, Agent for the Manufacturers und Importers of Crockery, Glassware, Lamps, Chimneys, to. O ce. 317 8. 15th St., Omaba, Nebras "~ PERKINS, GATCH & LAUMAN, Tmoorters and Jobbers of ,Crwmy, Glassvare Lamns, Silverwars Paxton Building RIDDELL - Storage and Con Speciaities— Butter, ¥, & RIDDELL, Inission Mfirchanls, . Cheese. Ponltry, Game ect, Omaha, Neb, OECER & (.U . cShane & Schroed: 0 and Cold Slnragv, Produce Cfll]]flllss Oma: _Dry Goode N M. E SMITH & CO Dry Goods, Furuishing Goods and Notions. 1102 and 1104 Douglas, Cor. 11th St., Omaha, Neb, KILPATRICK-KOCH DRY GOODS Co Tmporters and Jobbers in Dry Goods, Notions Gents' Furnishing Goods. Corner 11th and Hainoy Sts., Omnha, Nebraskn. T HELIN, THOMPSON & CO. pporters und Jobbers of Woolens aad Tailos’ Teimnings, South 1th St Furniture. DEWEY & STONE, Wholesale Dealers in Furnitare. Faruam Strect, Omahin N Hraska. CHARLES SHIVERICK, il 8, Nebraske. Craceries. PAXTON, GALLAGHER & CG Whnlesale Groceries and Provisions, U7, 700 and i1 8. 100h S, Omabin, Neb. ~ McCORD, BRADY & CO., Wholesale Grocers, Leaveaworth 8t ebraskn, Omaba, Mr-avy Hardware. +J. BROATCHi, By i, i Siel, Spring, Wagon Stork, Tlaiwa T2 Tharnoy Berast, Do HIMEBAUGH & TAYLOR, Builders’ Hardware and Scale Repair $hop. Mocbuics’ Toola and Buftalo Sch 105 Douging Blrcet, Omahs, RECTOR, WILHELMY & CO Wholesale Hal‘flWfllC and Harney Sts., Omal for Austin Powdér Co Fulrbanks St LEE, CLARKE. ANDRI: ARE (,UMPAI\:Vl HAHD: yllu}tsg]e ledwars Cutlery, Tin Pld'p nts fm 'Howe Minmi Powder and Lyman Bavbed w Omalia, } raskia, Nuile, Hardware. BROS. SADDLER Whoiesalo Manufacturers of Ty & Jobiers of Saddlery Hamwarc 140, 1406 and 1407 inrmey BL, Omabe, Nebrasks. Saddl And Leatber. ‘Hate, Caps, Eto. W. L. PARROTTE & CO., salo Mats, Caps aud Shaw Goods ; 5 N i Lumbor. : UMAI.‘A.LUMULI.’L’L’, nde of Building Material at i ler fn Lumber, Lath, Lii by ufl s, Doors, Ktc. ¥aids-Corndt Tth i Wb and Diuglup Haliiday Wi OMAHAJOBBERS DIREUTUHY LUMBER, FREL W, Gnny, Lumber, Lime, Cement, Efc,, B Corner fth and Douglns Sta. Omaha. C.N. DIk Dealer in All Kinds of Lamber, 15th and California Stroets, Omaha, Nobraska. DARVEY LUMBRN oo To Dealers Only. __OMce. 1401 Faroam Street. Omaha JOHN A. WAKEFIELD, Wholesale LllIIthI‘ Etfl Imported and Amer, AReat 10r Milwau _Quin CHAS. R. LEE, Dealer in Hardwood Lumber, Wood Carpets and Parquet Flooring. 9th and Douglas Millinery and Notions. I. OBERFELDER & CO., [tporters & Jobbersin Millinery & Notions AR 200 and At 11t Streat - Notions. J. T. ROBINSON NOTION CO., Wholesale Notions and Furnishing Goods A6 A AN RCuth 1000 St Omha " VINYARD & SCHNEIDER, Notions and Gent's I FII]SHI[]E (toods, 1 Harner Strost O ... Overana. _ iy . ANFIELD MANUFACTURING CO., Man! f?rlmvrs of Gveralis, Teans Pants. Shirts, 108 Douglns Stroet, Siaane Office Fixtures. THE SIMMONDS MANUFACTURING 0O, & Manefctures of Bank, Office and Saloon Fixtures. Mantlos, Sidet 8. Drug Fixtures Wall Cases. Pt it Neerand fice, 14 nnd 15 ‘CONSOLIDATED TANK LINE CO., Wholsale Refined and Ludricating Oils. Axle Grease, Ete., Omaha. A H. Bis Paints and Olls. CUMMINGS & NEILSON, Wholesnlo Denters in Paints, 0ils, Window Glass, Ete. 1118 Farnam Stroct, Omaha, Neb. 00 Managar -3 e Paper. CARPENTER PAPER T Whalesale Paner Dealers. Carry anice stock of Printing. Wrapping and Writ L ar Sneeinl attenti o i Hd Storage, Fnrwardlng & commlsslon ARMSTRONG. PETTIS & CO., Storage, Forwarding and Commission, Uranch houdo of the THonncy Bugsy Co. Hisgies ab WhOIusKIe B retait, Lam T10and 112 L2ard Sirest, Omnha elcnhone No 7 Toys. H. HARDY & CO,, Jobbers ot Toys, Dolls, Mhums PH‘ILY Goods, House b \nmnh{n; e et STORZ & ILER, Lager Beer Brewers, 1321 North Eigthtoenth Streot, Omuhn, Nch. Cornioce. EAGLE CORNICE WORKS. Manufacturers of GfllVfllllZBfl Tron Cfll licg Window-cap Jou 18 i 10 South Prlntera Materlals. WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNIUN. Auxiliary Publishers, Duniers in Type, Prowes and Printors’ Supplien. Soith T Stroet, O, o0 e% 4 Paper Boxes. JOHN L. WILKIE, Proprictor Omaha Paper Box Factory., 17 and 119 Douglas St, Omaha, Neb. Rubber Coods. OMAHA RUBEER CO.y Man Wfacturers and Dealers in Rmhul' (i00ds lothing and Lest i Btroet. ERol b, ORTY _8ash, Doors, Etc. A. DISBROV. ¢ Wholessle Mann: cturors ]]uolrs, Blinds and M Mice A Lzard Stroots, Saslk Dranc BOHN MANUFACTURI P‘.flllll acturers of Sash, Do 15, Blmfls Interior Tl Woo ! Firk 1 Lenyenworth Streets, Noo, s, Stair Work K, Corner Kih i Quia) uldin B0 Steam Fittings, Pumpi A. L. STRANG CO., PlleS Pinns and Engings, stoam, w ey Mining Supplics, Sireet, Omulin. Ete. CHUHCHILL PUMP CO Whnlmfim Hulus Pipe, Filtings, 1GuATia fur Hant, U. S, WIND (VE o & PUMT i dnd Water Supplics, A Mille. 918 and 920 Furnam 8, Omnhs, G TGS, Acting Manuger. BROWNELL & CO., 83, Boilers and General Marlmmry, Iran Work Stenm Punips, Saw i 2 Lenveaworin S1e e Ot an nizip co., fngin shiet Iron Works, A STEAM BOJL WORKS, Carter & son, Proj facturors of il kinds Stean Boilers, Tons Waorks South 20th and B, & M. Crossh PAXTON & VIERLING 1 ik gt and Cast Tron Builing o, s, Brass Work 1y, Maghino and Bluckswith Wor ks, wad 17l . i iy, OMAHA WIRE & IRON WORKS, Manufacturers of Wire &l Lron Railings Desk Bails, Signs, Kt 2HA SAFE and IRON WORKS, 'ivs of Fire & Barglar Proof Saf Vaults, Tl Work, Tron an Wirs A, NI Ge Androen, oo Cor L i CHAMPION IRON and WIRE WORKS Iron aud Wll‘[} FEI'CES Railings, (uards and Wi, Linrted Awnings: 0 Lnery and Blien Voik . & Wl MEACHTER and Bir gldr Praol g3, Tims Log for el aio Wl | ATl Wire (0 e DR. ALFRED SHIPMAN, Physician and Surgeon PLATISMOUTL, NEBRASKA Peerless Dyes ARG THE BEST iy all Diugginie