Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 24, 1889, Page 16

830, —SIXTEEN PAGES. RS s o S8 After reading these prices it would be absurd for you to think whether you could do any better---the only question would be whether you could doas well. We always lead, others follow. The secret of our success has been this: We buy in carload lots only, for spot cash, and can therefore almost dictate prices to manufacturers. We trade with no middlemen, but buy direct from the maker. e actually sell a great many goods for what the small dealer pays for them. We are jobbers in furniture. You are invited to inspect our goods, terms and prices. = This Is What Tells the Tale! CHAMBER SUITS BEDSTEADS.... EXTENSION TABL WALNUT MARBLE TOF BREAKFAST LEAF TABLE: BED LOUNGES. WINDOW SHADE DOOR MATS BOOK CASES SIDEBOARDS LOUNGES.... TABI worth $2: worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth 5.00, worth 7.00, 18.00, DOUBLE DOUBLE WIRE WOOD SEAT CHA KITCHEN SAFE: COOKING STOVES HEATING STOVES MATTRE! 10.00 6.00 18.00 1.00 1.00 12.00 35.00 10.00 MATTING...... STAIR CARPETS S SPRINGS IRS INGRAIN CARPETS. BRUSSELS CARPETS. $4.00 5.00 .65 6.00 15.00 7.50 65 1.00 worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth ROCKERS. . coiviiiviianniiiiie veees LACE CURTAINS. covvetssasiivossone . HAT RACKS PILLOWS COMFORT WASH BOILERS. HANGING . DECORATED TEA SET DECORAT DECORATED LAMPS LAMP D DINNER $1.50, 1.00, 5.00, worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth worth NOTE OUR PRICES ON PARLOR FURNITURE! Plush Suits, $30; worth $50. Plush Suits, $35; worth $60. Plush Suits, $40; worth $75. Plush Suits, $50; worth $100. ALl SOLD ON EASY WEEKLY OR MONTHLY PAYMENTS. Peoples TERMS. $10 worth of Goods, $1 a week, $4 a month. $28 worth of Goods, $1.B0 a week, $6 a month. $80 worth of Goods, $2 a week, $8 a month. Mammoth Plush Rockers, $9.50; worth $16. Plush Rockers, $11; worth 820, Plush Lounges, $10; worth $17.50. Plush Lounges, Instalment H Popular, Reliable Easy Payment House Furnishers. 613 and 615 North Sixteenth Street, Between California and Wehster, OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. TELEHONE 727 TELEPHONE 727. $12.50; worth $20. use, TERMS. $75 worth of Goods, $2.80 a week, $10 a month. $100 worth of Goods, $3 a week, $1£ a month. $200 worth of Goods, $8 a week, $20 a month. RANPARTS OF MAIL SACES. Andrew Rosewater's Account of Barly Western Experiences. ROUGHING ITON THE RED DESERT Becond Chapter of the First Survey of the Union Pacific—Providen- tial Supply of Water—Gam- bling in Cheyenne. “Ronghing It." Through the courtesy of Mr. Andrew Rosewater we are enabled to present sent another chapter of his intercsting reminiscences: “‘Let me see, I left off at the death of Mr. Brown and the serious embarrass- ment of his men. It was a week before the straggling rempants of his advance party, worn out and discouraged, re- turned to our camp. Shortly afterwards ‘we moved south to the stage road where ‘we built up a fortification of mail sacks filled with second class matter, tons of which had been abandoned by the Cali- fornia mail coaches. The Indian war was ragingso fiercely that only letter mail was carried through and that class not always with certainty. “We remained in camp on this road two weeks untiL orders were received for the resumption of work. Whilo ly- ing at this place the spirts of the men revived wonderfully and the rest afford- ed was not the only contributor to that end for powerful auxiliaries were at hand in the shape of abundant water, grass and froesh meat. The sporting element of the party, including the mil- itary escort, bagged over one hundred of the elk and antelope that abounded in the vicinity. Those of the party not engaged 1n hunting or map work found entertaimment in reading every variety of literature, from magazines to daily and weekly papers, to be had gratis in the mail sacks of our barvicade. Once again upon the field steady prog- 1ess was made across the barren coun- try-beyond the main divide. While we were camping on Separation creek, so named from the fact that Brown and his party separated on its banks never 10 meet again,a compuny of 100 cavalry- men came upon us. In this troop were Gevneral Dodge, chief engineer of the road; General Rawlings, chief of Gen- eral Grant’s staff, and Mr. Blickensder- fer, who succeeded General Dodge as rllill engineer. This command went nto camp several miles above us, and esn imagine how scant was the sup- ly of water when I state it to be a fact * = #hit the presence of these men on the ‘ ks of the stream above absolutely de- yed us of the ::’pply of water we had lore en joy gonsultation with General Dodge it srrangod that Mr. Appleton, next b engineer under Brown, was to ue the surveys and exvlorations Green river. , Blickensderfor at this time was a commissioner appointed by the ment to dotermine the limits of miles of what was termoed by act Songross the mwountaiu division of the Union Pacitc road. For every mile of road constructed upon the plains the government had made the company a loan of $16,000 in addition to the land subsidy and upon the 300 miles of moun- tain work a loan of $48,000 a mile. It is needless to say that with the excep- tion of afew mountain range pieces of construction the building of the rail- way, in the intervening valleys, was not such an extraordinary undertaking us was generally supposed. To the ex- ploring surveyors, of course, obstacles were presented not encountered by the coustructionists., The crossing of the Red desert, this side of Bitter creek, in the absence of maps or any other knowledge of the location of water, or adequate means of travel, was difficult itated the carrying of water sfor weelts at a time. Another source of annoyance and labor was the inevitable stationing of camps at points inconvenieut to the surveyors following the lines most suited to railway pur- 0ses. “On this Red Desert we began vork at daylight, and kept on till dark, often vajking from ten to fifteen miles to our beds after knocking off for the day. This unavoidable state of affairsled many of our men astray in their efforts to reach camp after dark, and it was not infrequent that they were not dis- covered by searcning parties before the next morning. 1 remember that on one occasion, supposing camp to be near at hand, we worked into the dusk, and dispelled the delusion only in essaying to reach home. Realizing that we were some distance from our tents, and not finding the trail, we separated into squads and moved in various directions, with the understanding that the squad coming upon the trail shoutd fire & gun signal. The trail was found and guns were fired, but several of the surveyors ot in hearing wereleft upon the desert without much prospect of sleeping under cover. Near midnight the oth- ers gained cump, ter vefreshiients were had a signal fire was lit on one of tho high peaks adjoining for the ben- efit of the missing ones. It seems that the signal was observed by the ub- sentees, who, mistaking that it was of Indian origin, turned their backs on the beacon, F *It was 9 o’clock the next morning that the lost wembers of our purty were overtaken. They had carried their in- struments and weapons all nizht, con- stantly dreading an encounter with some savage band. Thisis but one of numerous similar incidents of our de- sert experienze. One soldier of the escort, crazed with thirst, slipped away from us insearch of water, He was noxt seen by our party in passing a mil- itary post about three months later. At that time he could give no satisfactory account of his wun&m»ings. although he must have crossed the North Platte river, a very deep and swift stream. All that could be gleaned from him was that he had carried his gun, lived on wild rosoherries, and was picked up by a detachment of troops crossing his path. Another occasion after being without water an entire day with the hot sun aggravating our toil' we camped inadry ravine. Not able to satisfy t)mivfirunt thirst the men disdained much food, spread beds in the open air, and sought in sleep strength 1o resist another dry day. But in the middle of the night torrific thunder awakened them, and & severe rain storm set in, (\llinf the dry depression with a swift runniug mountain torrent. The crea- tion of this Hood was almost as rapid as the action of our men in placing the bagguge on high ground. Our barrels were at once refiilod, and cur jousuney to Bit ter Creek was made without fur- ther oceurren ce worthy of note. “*About the middle of November. our surveys completed, we turned our faces to the east and retraced our steps. The return was tedious and retarde extreme cold, supple mented with an un- usually early fall of snow. The appear- ance of Fort Saunders, the terminus of the road at that time, near where Lar: mie station now is, greatly relieved us. Crossing the ranges about fifty miles back we had come across active con? structien gangs. 'To our surprise trains were running into Cheyenne, a place that six months before waslaid out by our partyin the midst of desolatio The most remarkable feature in conne tion with the change that half year had wrought was the population of 5,000 people. Gambling dens_infested the greater part of the city and their busi- ness was followed by more people than were similarly employed in any other city of the United States. The rapid transfers of property involved were not unattended by danger, and no man thought of promenading the streets at night without a revolver. “When you call again,” concluded Mr. Rosewater, I will relate the in- téresting anecdotes and incidents of the construction days of the Pacific railway that may occur to meinthe meantime.” 8 L Railery For Railroaders. New York World, “Through by Daylight”—Night. “Danger Signals”—Red noses. **On the Down Grade”—An incipient moustache. *On the Up Grade”--Balloonists, HCoweatchers”’—Milkmaids, “Stalled”—Lucky cattle, **All A-bourd”—A plank. “In the Frog”—His croak. *‘At the Throttle Valve”—Garroters. “‘Fast Feight”—Car load of rave horses. **Stops on Signa)s Only”'—A horse car. **In the Sleepers’—Snores. *“On the Broad Gauge”—The man who laughs. “Takes the Flying Switch”—Bad boys. *The Nickel Plate”—At any church, “The Grand Trunk”—The Saratoga belle’s, “L. I R. R.” is heard daily by Austin Corbin, yet he never represents it. *‘Union Pacific”—Peuce after a d-o mestic brawl, S gl e A Cool Little Head, Chicago Herald: Myself and wife left the house care of our two little daughter twelve, and Gusta nine years old—one evening not long ago. ‘During our absence some one rang the bell. Gnsta opened the door. There she found a rather unpre- possessing fellow offering stoveblackin, or sale. Like a flash it passed through her mind that if he knew their lonely position he might take advantage of if. She suid: “Wait until I ask mamma first,” and walking into the room, asked loud enough for him to hear it: **Mamma, do you want any stoveblack- ing?” She then told him, ‘‘Mamma don’t want any.” - A Practica) Application. New York World: Amy Williams— Ruth, dear, won’t you walk up W the corner with me? 1 don’t like to go alone. IRuth Ward—I'm never alone, The Lord is always with me. Amy—Well, Ruth, you walk up to the corper with me, and then you will have company back, Amy, A MENACE T0 THE REPUBLIC. An TUnrecognized Source From ‘Which Destruction May Come. A TRUMPET UF ALARM SOUNDED. The Consequences to Which Great Wealth and Its Increase in tne Hands of a Few May Lead. Wealth and 1ts Consequenc-s. Belford’s Magazine for March: When the government established by our fore- fathers became a recognized fact both at home and abroad, and for three- quarters of a century thereafter, no one dreamed that the greatest danger which threatened its existence was the wealth which might accumulate within its realm; indeed. no one ever dreamed of thepossibilities which lay in that di- rection. It is_only during the past twenty years that the accumulation of wealth has entered into the problem. Down to the period of 1861, the only disturbing elclne:!fi of any mug;nitu(le“ was sl:\vcr Vo There is a question now of far greater magnitude than that which was settled by the sword, and that is the question of the enormous wealth,and its increase in the hands of the few. No reference is now matle to the owners of thousands or the hundreds of thousands—1o the i dustrious and prosperous people sea all over the land; for moderate salth, universally diffused, is the prime safe guard of a nation; but I refer to the millions, the tens of millions,and the hundreds ot millions owned and controlled by the few. The ignorant poor and the no less ignorant rich may ridicule or sneer at the expression of fear that harm may come to the republic on account of great wealth; but ridicule never settled any question. Ridicule is always the weapon of the ignorantand the vicious. None but the ignorantawill ridicule the subject, for the history-of the world re- vuuis the destruction of nations on a count of wealth—never from poverty What if a min does bave millions—is it any of the people’s business? is the query of the ignoramt. This is the question that is to be selved. is in fact, the supreme guestion. government is & goverament of the pes ple and for the people, under the peo- ple’s constitution the, peeple have a right to protect themselves, If th possession of millions by any person a menace to the libertiesof the peoy and to the permanence of their gov ment,the people have the rightto legis- late upon the matter and protect them- selves. ‘That this republic belongs to the people no one can doubt. That it was established, by their blood and treasure, as an asylum for the oppressed of all nations the perpetual o of free men, ever, pse of Ameri history attests. The protest of forefathers to British tyranny, the Declaration of Iudependance, the war which followed, the steps taken for the adoption of a constitution, the bill of rights, and the constitution all declare, in terms not to be mistaken, the rights of the peonle to protect themselves against foes from within and foes from without. How this menace will be met I have no means of knowing: but that it must be met, or svouer or later the | | manu republic will be destroyed, no intelli- gent man can doubt As matters now stand,bad as they are, it might perhaps be endurable; but wealth accumulates, and the man with ten millions to-day may have a hundred millions in ten years, and the man with a hundred millions may have a thou- sand. There is not a king or an emperor on a throne to-day that would be safe a single moment with a subject possessing a thousand million dollars; and can it be expected that a republic would be safer? The wealth of the Rothschilds was for a long time the wonder of the world. They held the purse-strings of nearly all Europe; kings, emperors and principalities were and are yet at their But the wealth of the Roth: 5, the accumulatio a- tions, pales into insignificance before the wealth of the Vanderbilis, the Goulds, the Astors, the Lelands. the Carnegies, and the Spreckels, when the period of accumulation is taken into ac- count. History fails to d any ac- cumulation of wealth so rapid and so colossal as that which has taken place in this country, and during a period of from five to twonty-five years. The wealth of the Rothschilds has been the marvel of generations until within the past decade; but their wealth ceases to dazzle and hewilder even the youths of America in this generation. Their wealth, however, has been ' the accumulation of 125 years, with all Europe for their field of operations. Their accumulations do not represent the robbery of the masse They never levied a tax upon or de. manded a toll upon the necessities of life. Their operations were mainly confined to the negotiation of loans, the placing of investments for the wealthy men of Europe, and to the le- gitimate sphere of banking. They hud a bank 1n the capitals of Fr Aus trin, 1taly, England and Pru neither of those nations ever gave them authority to issue money. The toiling millions’of Europe are taxea to maintain armies and support dynasties; but vhey were never subjects of money tocracy, or vietims to their cupidity, in the sense that Ameri toilers are. Em rs and kings did indeed muke their burdens heavy, and oft-times in- tolerable, but they " taxed to maintain governments. They were the sole des- pots or robbers; and theve is this differ- ence between the robbers of ope and those of America: thut Luropean despots maintained a government,while the American despots rob the people,by the aid of the govern: for purely personal profit. e, the Rothschilds’ power was great. They could probably make or unmake kings; but their power was never used®o buiid up towns and cities in one section of the country und tear them down in anoth to build up cturing establishments and great monopolies in ou sdom or state and destr never attempted to control lines of transportation, rner the price of meat, bread, coffee, sugar. light, fuel, and other necessities of life No such operations were av attempted by them., and no king or emperor would have been safe a duy upon his throne who would have permitted such eri as have been and ure openly pe trated by the milliona of our coun- try in their operations with beef, pork, coffee, oil, conl, sugar, wheat and al’ most every other unccessary of * life, Under an absolu or even a limited hy, these evils can be prevented been discovered to renied) them under our form of governm Events of great magnitude erowd | the roc upon ench other in New ques! w rapidly growing ons of great im- poi and new phases of old ques- tions have arisen and assume huge pro- {ml'li(ms i a briefl period, requiring the highest virtu ntelligence and patriot- ism to deal with; and, while yet there may appear no constitutional means for proteetion against the 1llegitimate use of wealth under the operation of trusts and syndicates,without infringing upon the constitutional rights of citizens, it is absolutely certain that a way must be found to do so, or this great republic, which promised somuch for humanity, will cease to exist, and the hope of a “government of the people. for the peo- ple, and by the ,..m..\ from out the hearts of men. G. PARKER. - A QUEER HUMAN ROCKET. How You May.Take a Flight Into the Clouds. " Pizz! Bang! Boom! Ah! Imagine a man taking a fight into the clouds on a rocket! The limit of human ingenuity has by no means been reached and we muy see an elel projectile railroad, with cars speeding across the continent at the rate of 850 or 400 miles an hour, but even a credulous public which has in- vested millions in an electric sugar re- finery, may draw the line at a human rockot. Yet, now there appearsa man, one “Professor D. Edselle,” who delving in the field of explosives and studying the principles governing the parachute, has evolved what he pleases to call ahu et, which ne hopes to make p ticable in taking observations great heights and at the same time avoid the muny dungers that continu- ally surround the balloon. . is the story told by the ausen of the Minveapolis bune, who assuringly states: ‘Professor Fdselle is an Ameri and for v has been connected with the Unitéd States navy, making expers- ments with rockets and different explo- sives. “It was while in the United States service, on board the war steamer Paw- tucket, that he conccived the iden which has resuited in his strange and most wonderful invention. A trial of this ‘rocket’ was recently made in Cal- 100, Peru, and proved a splendid suc- cess. “Oinmediately after the trial the pro- fessor wrote a letter describing inei- ats of the tral to a brother of his, a mg astist, who recently came to linneapolis expecting to lc ‘I'he letter contained also drawin filed in the patent office, together with a description of the machine and an in- stantazeous photograph of the rocket during the ascent taken by Signor Camarara, “As sugee o machine is a rocket, or rather a combination of four rockets, of immense power and has a parachute attachment. *Cut No. 1 of the accompanying draw- ings shows its general features. The portion marked ‘A’in the drawing is the parachute folded over the apex of ot. ‘B’ is the network of ropes connecting the rocket, with the para- chute in the descent. 'C' represents four tubes containing the explosive used in making the as ' is the piat- which Professor Edselle stands, rings used to insure a perpen ¢ will be crushed | | square about three feet apart. tubesare round and light, but ar P ble of great resistunce and are firmly bound together. “Phe platform, parachute and gear attach ed ns shown in the drawing, whole. In th periment at Calluo thes: charged with the explosive compound which is the great and unexplained se- cret of the invention. “Professor Idselle calls thi pound *dyno-nsc ni d its pecu- liar property is that it isnotdetonating. A smail volume of the solid makes an immense volume of vapor, und this rushing out from the four tubes and pressing with such for inst the atmosphere lifts the maching with al- most lightning vapidity intothe higher regions. Sprofessor for sev com= elle has been in Peru vhere he is interest= ed in nd been working on his invi and having muny friends, succeeded in intoresting government officials in his scheme, and it was before them that the first sue- cessful trial was made. This took place arly in December and was made from n near Callao. “The day was a beautiful one, the sky heing without a cloud, and there was no wind. ‘The invention has been the talk of the city and the surrounding country for weeks pastand on the day fully 15,000 people gathered to see the 1. The machine stood on four pillars sufficiently high to raise the gearing clear off the ground, Government troops kept the wd back and prepar- ations went on very quictly. “When everything ve the professor*took his position on the plat= form, and by means of straps fastened himself in the car. Then by means of an electric current the explosive matter in the tubes was lighted at the same ay instant. in o rush out, and slowly i n with greater rapidity the rocket shot up. “The great multitude stood hushed, and with all its eyes gazing into the blue vault abov There was not a sound or o movement, except by those Is of the government. who, with telescopes, were watching the ascent, until one of them announced that the explosion hud expended itself.the vachute had oxpunded and the essor had begun his descent. **He landed about one and two-thirds leagues from where he started up and seemed no worse for the tr I rogistering barometer at machine showed that he had gone 4,788 metres. Cut view pro- 2 shows an instantancous cen as the rocket started up- I'he bottoms of the tube; shaped, and thus give a g of pressure for the escaping achute was fifty feet in diam- ut No. 3 shows how it looked ment Lo the gearing app | Dot shown in the drawings, “This gearing is so fastened to the cur thay as soon as the explosive is ex- 1 it is loosensd and falls, the ute preventing it from doing any injury by fallivg upon people or dwells ings. Slovof. ldeelle says n his letter that ascent, and ‘[ s the steering AppAratus. “The main framgw are the four tubes k of the machine areanged in government oftficials were greatly ased with the test, and have offcred u govern ment aid to perfect his dia IVOIF.