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THE SOUTH WANTS 1T, The Ohairmanship of the House Oommittee on Elections. OFFICE-SEEKING COSTS MONEY. What a Western Republican Senator Has to Say About It.—Fair Areatment of Applicants, Col. Wilson's Clgars. Their Eyes on the Chairmanship. WasnminatoN, June 8.—Special to Tue Bre.]—There is going to be a great deal of contention when the Fifty-first congress con- venes over the organization of the house com- mittee on elections, It has already been an- nounced that the south intends to combine and demand the chairmanship of this commit- tee. A majority has undoubtedly selected Colonel Houk, of Knoxville, Tenn., who has been a member of the house for five or six terms and during most of that period one of the committee on elections. The south will furnish more contested olections than any other section of country, and each contestant has his friends in the house. There is one peculiarity in the southern contestants over those from the north: they would like to know in advance how the juryis made up ‘which will hear their cases. Before the speaker is elected some of the southern members will not only demand the chairmanship of the committee on electious for their favorite, but they will demand of that favorite an expression as to what he thinks of certain contests. Judge Houk isa man of good judicial mind, and eminent fair- mess, and it is probable that he will refuse to say what his opinion of a case1s before he has made a judicial examination of it. This 18 very likely to result in the south dividing on the subject of recommending a chairman, and in this cvent the soutn may get left. Alrcady there is a_ good deal of talk on the Bubject, and considerable feeling 15 being shown, It is claimed that more than any- thing else decisions in favor of certain con- testants in the south will help break up the solidity of democratic majorities which have been secured by fruud. They want some example, and are determined to begin at this ime. . e “Office secking costs lots of money,” said & western republican senator this morning. “Hundreds of men have been hanging around Washington ever since the 4th of March, seeking places either for themselves er somebody else. 1 presume there has been an average of 1,000 men here daily from va- rious varts of the country during the past tep weeks, and they are either at their own expoase or that of those they represent. About half of the men who come here scek- ing places for others bave theiwr expenses paid by (he appli=sute. These men will aver- age a Cost of at '2ast $5a day. and that means not less than §5,000 daily for office seeking. You can see that already”a half million dol- lars have been expended. I doubt very much if all the offices secured pay salaries worth 500,000 for four yeurs. “I'have encountered & good many mon- strosities and & great wany peculiar situa- tions in connection with office-secking. know a father and son wko are both seeking Dositions in the same branch of the govern- ment service. The success of one means the defeat of the other. There are two brothers here seeking place in the treasury department. Each knows full well, and ac- knowledges it, that if the other is given a place ne will be left out. Neither the futher nor son, nor either of the brothers, will be given a place. 1 advised them repeatedly to get together, and- one withdraw in favor of the other, but they were unwillingto do this.” There is a good deal of superstition in con- nection with ofilce sceking. One of the most. energetic and strongly endorsed office seek- ers carries @ real rabbit foot in his pocket. ‘He calls it *‘a graveyard rabbit foot.” It 18 an ordinary *cotton tail's” foot, of light grey color, and around it is tied a pretuy little pink ribbon. This man is strong of mind, and young of years, yet he declares that if he was 10 lose this rabbit foot he would not achieve success in his ambition. + *'e 1t is refreshing to know that those who are compolled to meet charges against their char- acter, intended to defeat applications for pen- sions and _claims for money, are given a fair showing now. ‘The administratson of Presi- dent Cleveland inaugurated a system of sec- recy which was very reprohensible, 1 that while a man could ascertain that charges had been preferred againsthim which were likely to defeat his application, he was not permit- ted to see them, and could not, therefore, meet them. Strange as it may appear, such informa- tion as the names of bondsmen for federal ofticers was refused everybody who applied au the depurtments. ‘Lhe date of issuance of commissions was kept a scoret as frequently 88 possible, The time when a change was 10 be made in an office was a profound sceret, much to the disgust of those who were inter- ested in securing changes. The ereatest harm and the most flagrant injustices were perpe- trated in the pension ofiico by this systom of secrecy. 1f a soldier should apply for a pension, or if the widow or orphan of a sol- dier should make application, anyone could file charges, defeat the application, and the applicant would vever know why he or she failed of success. It was like a man being tried for his life having an opportunity to resent his evidence in rebuttal without nowing what he was rebutting. 1t was hearing one side openly for tho purpose of meeting the side which was secret, There is only one case on record where an applicant for favor at the hands of tho gov- ernment defeated this outrageous scheme. ‘The man in question unlliud for a pension. He lived in Indiana. His case was hung up indefinitely, and he was for many months unabie to ascertain what was the reason of the delay. Fimnally ho learned thut charges had been preferred against him, and he was smart enough to get the ‘address of those who had testified in opposition to his claim. He learncd this much in Washington, and immediately put out to his home with the determination to out-Herod Herod. When he arrived at home he immediately prepared and had printed a fac-simile circular representing himself to be a_ special agent of the pension ofiice. He addressed one of these to each man who had testified against him, and over an assumed » name asked these witiesses to repeat to him the testimony given in the case. Kvery wit- ness fell into the trap, and by that means he was enabled to got & duplication of the testi- mony filed at the pension office agaiust him- self. That man is now pushing his claim for 8 pension before Commissioner Tanner, and the fact that this secret bvidence weighed beavy @gainst him, aud operated unfairly under the last administration, 18 regarded as a strong element in bis favor. It is not on record, in written or unwritten annals, that & person or administration ganed anything by dullnv unfuirly, or that there was ever any gain by pecretiveness when justice was 8t stake. . o Assistant Attorney General Wilson, of West Virgiuia, is an inveterate smoker, ' Go- . Ing up to his floor in the department of jus- tico the other morning he was accompanied by an old fricnd. Colonel Wilson was with- out a ciwar, and he wanted one very much, “What kind of cigars are you carry this worning!” inquired Colonel Wilson, serr ously. “I haven't got any to-day, colonel.” was the reply: ‘bt if 1 had one I should be very glad to give it to you." “Ob,"" atammered the colonel, “I was not asking for a cigar. 1 merely had a curiosity 1o know what brand you were carrying to- any." SM¥ba lawyers o the department say Col- inel Wilson does not always meet with such #ll success, and they have a number of in- stances to relate where he worked this ob- oervation scheme on strangers with bumor- us effect. - Reminiscences relating to the filibustering expedition which sailed from Key West, 'la., to Havana, Cuba, and the agitation over the subject durivg the years 188384, have been revived by the application of Col- onel Fenn Wicker for appointm >ut as collec- tor of customs at Key West. It will be re- membered that Colonel Wicker was removed bi' the Arthur administration on the charge of dereliction of duty in permitting a filli- busteriug expedition to leave Key West for Cuba after bo had been warned that such a ject was on foot, . bl!.r‘ulh is Colonel er‘;slktr firocel\’bd no official instructions reearding filibusterers, snd had uo ofticial 1nformation on the subject i 8he Hme the expedition actually left the hores of Florida. The instructions were issued for a reyenue cutter, and the ex- pedition started and reaohed its desti- nation owing to the carclessness of officers on ard the gofernment ves- sel. Somebody had to be however. It would not do to dismiss the commander of the rcvonus cutter, and 80 & lesser officer was selected for official decapl- tation. Secretary Folger subsequently ac- knowledged the wrong worked upon Colonel Wicker, and _afterwards offered to appoint him as a special agent of the troasury de- partment, stating, as ho did €0, that it would a offense against the Spanish government under the circumstances, to_restore Wicker to his old position at Key West.” 'The ex. pedition, it will be remembered, consisted of alittle salling yacht with fourteen cigar- makers on board. They perpetrated no wrong against tho Spanish government, and the alleged infractions of ‘Ko revenue laws were not affected one way or another. Perny 8. Heatn, - THE GHOST'S WAY. I am leader of the orchestra in the Bijou theater at Pittsburg,says a writer in the New York Herald. I am nothing but aplain musician, yet I was once considered a great one. That was when Ilived on Third street,in a suite of rooms so small that my piano and bird cages left hardly room for me to turn around. They called my rooms ““The Aviary” then., Now Iam well-to-do— rich in fact, for a bachelor—and I owe my richesto the strangestcircumstances that ever befel a man of my prosaic na- ture. Iam a diffident, shy man—have very few friends. TIvans, the drummer 1n the orchestra (Tommy, as he is usually called). and Skab, the manager of the theater, are my only intimate friends. How they came to be this little story will tell you. I had been leading the orchestra for two years, and it wason the night of October 21, 188—, that I experienced a sensation which gives existence to this narrative. I did not often use the open piano before me. but this particular night we were one or two men short and needed the noise. The piano and I supplied the lack in that porticular. We were playing a waltz in the inter- val between the fourth and fifth acts of a lurid melodrama, and I was banging away in terpo di valse steadily as you please, playing almost mechanically as one is apt to play fashionable waitz music. All of a sudden something—it was something, and yet T cannot say what it was—took hold of my hands and dashed them violently down on the keys. It was just as if some one had reached long arms around me, and seized my hards and banged them on the key- board. My hands felt numb and ch and I verily belicve 1 should have thought myself paralyzed but for the actual sense of strong hands grasping my own, overpowering them and cast- ing them with a great crash of sound upon the piano. Amid the profoundest silence, my hands, guided by this unseen agency, played this waltz with a perfection of time, an exquisiteness of touch, a thorough appreciation of its beauty, and brought out in the most subtile; way meanings I never dreamed lay hidden in thescore. It was as beautiful as it was awful, and even in my terror—wh something to feel, not to describe—I felt that the music was rendered by something which had once been a mas- ter’s soul. The bell tinkled for the customary slow music for the curtain, but the cur- tain was up and the villain of the piece on the stage ere my hands ceased play- ing. The last two bars were indeed soft and sweet and low, dying awake like the ghost of music, and as the last note ceased Ifell from the stool bathed in a cold, clammy sweat, too insensible to heed the wild and tumultuous ap- plause that came from pit, boxes and gallery, the loud shouts of encore and the sharp clapping of the hands of my own musicians. : I never closed my eyes during the entire night. That week was the most feverish of my existence. Skab’s willingness to risk money on me, and my desire to prevent him los- ing anything reconciied me more than anything else to the ordeal Ihad to un- dergo, but I suffered tortures in the in- tervals between the day I signed the contract and the night of the 12th of November. I will not attempt to describe that night, My success was phenominal. Encore after encore, wild applause and unbounded enthusiasm greeted the performance, and I woke up next morn- ing to find myself famous and the pos- sessor of $650 net proceeds of my ghost’s handiwork. : Just here I will explain a want the papers complained of—namely, that I gave out no programme of my perform- ance and the audience had to guess at what I played. Leaving out of view the fact that the vast majority of audiences do not know any more about what you play with a programme than they do without it I will say that I could not help it. Now, I am not going to attempt to de- scribe_my six months' tour or my won- derful” success. If I mentioned the name under which I played you could yourself write out the history of my en- gagement. Suffice 1t to say that the morning after my first concert in New York Richard Grant White pronounced me the finest pianist America had ever heard, and 1 do believe he was right, only he ought to have written “my hands” instead of my name. I played steadily on—starring, as they call it, through half a dozen states, and by the end of next May had invested #10,000 in United States bonds and had $10,000 more in the bunk. Tommy Ivans was o gorgeous oun a salary of $100 a week and had echewed gin, never drinking any other tipple less expensive than Roedener’ At a hittle city in Massachusetts the first incident of any note occurred, and it was the beginning of the end. About midway in the concert a very excellent performance of one of Spohr’s symphonies was encored and I at- tempted to repeat it. Of course I failed, and my hands glided into an arrange- ment which I thought at first was the adante in A flat in Beethoven’s sym- hony. Butere | had played two bars found I was mistaken and that it was one of my ‘‘unknowns,” What possessed me to do so I cannot tell, but I whispered to Tommy, *‘Origi- nal arrangement: Love’s Question,” and he shouted it out. The picce was listened to in the pro- foundest silence and well did it merit attention. As I say, it commenced like the andante in A flat, then it danced off into a kind of scherzo and then glided the most pathetic music I have ever heard. My name was an inspiration. The whole arrangement was one grand ?uonlun, and the anxious, timid, hope- ul, half’ despairing way in which the chords groped about in the doubt, now feeling their way, now rejoicing’ at a little fighl, now besecching an answer, now putting it of as if afraid of what it might be, has never, to my knowledge, been equalled in music. It was the cug of a soul to a soul, Do you love me? Can you love me? I am not worthy even of a thought, but, Oh! think of me tenderly.” Iuvsald, in music, what Shelley only sacrificed, | I i could say 1n words, ‘“The desire of the moth for the star” was the undertone of every note, and so strangely did it af- fect me that tears trickled down my cheeks as I played. All of asudden T was conscious of a human eye P!crcing mq through and threvgh, 1 155ked in the dress circlo and on the front row of seats a dark eyed, gray bearded man was contem- plating me with a look in which wonder and fear were 80 blended that I caught something of each. In the midst of the most delicate and tender movement of the piece my hands were violently lifted up at my throat and then dashed down so violently on the keys that I heard tho strings of the pianosnap,and heard and saw nothing more until | awoke to consciousness in the green room on Ivans’ knee, Skab standing over me wringing his hands and swear- inglike a.trooper. Finding that I had only been out a moment I insiated on woing back, for to tell the truth I was in an agony, fearing that my power had left me. Such, however, was not the case. The ghostly hands still exercised their sway and I finished the concert. Once [ lifted my_eyes to the dress circle, but the man I nad seen had left his seat. It n|vgcnrml to me—it may have been faney, but it certainly seemed to me— that the cold fingers on mine trembled, and that the execution was notas vigor- ous as usual. Next morning, about 10, a visitor to see me was announced. I told the bell boy to usher him into my avartment, and so fully convinced was I of who the visitor was that my pulse did not beat one whit the faster, and I was cool and collected when the man whose glance had terrified me so the night before came into my room. After the usual civilities, a kind in- quiry after my health and a few compli- ments on my matchless playing, as he styled it, the stranger, begging my par- don for what might seem an imperti- nent query, asked me if I had ever taken lessons from or known Rudolph Aronsonheim. I answered promptly and truthfully that notonly had Inever known him, but that I then for the first time heard the name “Strange, sir,” said my visitor, half musingly, “‘strange. Your touch, your execution, everything about your play- ing, even down to your rather peculiar fingering, is Aronsonheim’s in every respect. And stranger still, that beau- tiful concert piece you played was writ- ten by him. I never knew that anyone but myself had even so much as seen the score. I have it with me, It isun- finished and ends in a confused seratch- ing of pencil marks just where you were 80 unfortunate as to faint last night.” As he spoke he drew several stained pieces of music paper from his pocket and extendea his hand, holding them toward me. *You must excuse the dirty appear- ance of the sheots,” sai id he in the same musing tone of voice. “The poor fel- Jow cut his throat just before he finished the score, and that is his life blood on the paper.” **Gracious God!" I exclaimed, starting from my seat and wavin% back the ac: cursed music. *I tell you I never heard of him before. Where I learned that’ horrible music I do not know. I said it was original only because I could not locate it. Take it away from me.” “Pardon me,” said the stranger, rising, “I fear I have becn impertin- ent,” and he started as if to go. Iinterrupted him. “Pardon me,” T replied, ‘‘or rather my vehemence, I shall not, I cannot, permit you to leave without giving me at least some information as to this un- fortunate man, whose music I seem un- wittingly to have appropriated.” **With pleasure, sir,” he replied, “if it can be a pleasure to rehearse even in a fow words so melancholy a history.” Seating himself he went on:— ‘“‘Aronsonheim was born in Bavaria, educated in Munich. Before he was sixteen he was considered one of the finest pianists in Germany. Allured by flattering hopes held out to him by relatives in this country, he came to New York and gave a few concerts. He was very unfortunate in his selections; for he had an insane admiration for early Italian and German masters and would play their compositions. Grand as they are to the true musician they were caviare to the general. “Aronsonheim earned applause and admiration from urtists, but the public only came to hear him onee or twice. Chagrined and heartsick he came to my native town with letters to me and boarded in my house. In a month’s time he was desperately in love with the most beautiful and bewitching girl in our village, the daughter of a wealthy manulacturer there. An hon- est, open-hearted gentleman, he de- clined to tell his love to the girl until he had the parent’s permission, and with o frank manliness that deserved at least recognition he went to her futher asking leave to address the daughter, who he believed was not in- ifferent to him, *'The usual result followed. Cursed asa beggarly ‘Dutchman,’ he was or- dered out of the house, forbidden to speak to the woman he loved, and in- sulted as only a snob can insult a seusi- tive soul. “Imet him at the door, was so pale it frightened me. His face He rushed by me into his room, locked himsslf up there for a day and then came out a broken man. “‘He tried for a week to get a single word with his love. He was denied ad- mittance. The letters he wrote were returned unopened. He believed, I know not why, that the young woman loved him and would leap all barriers and fly with him, could he only tell her of his love; but no opportunity was af- forded him to see her. ‘*At last he confided tome his scheme: —‘I will give a concert. I know she will come. I will play her. Gluck’s **Orfeo.” I will play her some of Play- ford’s music, and then [ will ask her in music to be mine. Ach, Gott! I know she will come.’ *‘Nothing could dissuade him from his scheme, His concert was advertised far and wide for the 22d day of October, two years gone. He sat up from half- past ten the night of the 21st”---1 gave o convulsive start as the stranger said this, the reader can guess why--‘to daybreak the next morning. Just be- fore breakfast I entered his room and found him wild-eyed and haggard, writing the score I now hold in my hand. **He would not come to breakfast nor dinner despite my entreaties, I went up to his room about four in the even- ing, and just as I put my hand on the door knob I heard him give a despair- ‘I cannot do it. It will not come to me.” I threw the door open, but too late. He had cut his throat from ear to ear, and his life blood ran out on this score, which I have kept by me eyer since, but never heard ren- dered until you played it last night. May I beg you to accept it?” As the stranger left me he made oue request. “'I beg of you, sir, to visit my town (here he gave me the name, which need not be repeated here), and if you do please play this score.” 1 made up my mind to comply with ihis request, and though Skab stormed and swore, and llnuhy made me pay #1,000 forfelt, 1 earried my point. und on & lovely June day found myself in e ing cry. village of its neat iittle mugid hall, The stranger visited me at my hotel, but I declined his-invitation to return the visit, and with;some petulance, T G’ch for a concort in i fear, begged to be excused from golnfi' to see Aronsonheim’s grave, as he urge me to do. - “My dear sir,”,I sard, “what in the world is the man to me?"” I gave a little shudder as I said it, but do not think he notieed it. He left me again roponlinfi'. his rvequest that I would play the dead man’s last compo- sition that night. T promised to do so ~—*4I I can”—an@t T¥must confess 1 did not like the curious way in which the gentleman looked at me as I spoke these words. And now I did a very curious thing, which Skab never understood and never will understand unless he reads this narrative. I sent for him and ordered him to call in our advance agent, and cancel every future engagement. My six months’ contract had expired about a month be- fore, but I had gone on with my per- formances on the same terms. The reader can imagine the scene that followed. I do not care to dwell on it. 1 walked to the ball that night with a feeling of relief so great that it almost overcame the usual feeling of horror and reluctance with which fnpproachml a performance. found the hall packed and _jammed, and the applause that greeted my ap- pearance was, T think, the heartiest I ever received. The usual cold chill took hold of me as I seated myself at the instrument; the phantom fingers grasped my own an I played on just asusual. I suppose I had exccuted over two-thirds of the number of pieces I usually gave and retired for a rest bebind the winge when Skab came around and spoke to me. “You are not playing in your usual style,” said he, “What is the matter?” told him that I was unaware of any difference. Iwas conscious I was not exactly candid in the statement, for there was a ‘nervousness apparent (o myself and a strange tremulousness in the fingers that grasped my own. I returned on the stage and took my seat. Just before I stretched my arms out to the keyboard 1 happened to raise my eyes and saw in the box just in front of me the most gloriously benutiful girl T ever looked upon. She was not exactly a blonde, yet not a brunette, with rich chestnut hair, an exquisite complexion, and eyes, the like of which, no Italian sky ever equalled; blue they might have been, for black they were not, but if blue it was like the azure of the illim- itable sky reflected in the blue depths of the unfathomable ocean, You lost yourself looking in them. 1 saw that this beautiful creature was watching me intently. Her rich red lips were parted, so_that a gleam of her snow white teeth could be seen between them. She was léaning slightly for- ward, and before I touched a key I felt that I could not .withdraw my eyes from the strange light that gleamed in hers. And yet I was conscious that she, while watching, me, was looking beyond me, over my shoulder, and if I could have done so I would have turned my head. But before I could stir a muscle the hands seized me with a grip—this time so hard [ gave an involuntary cry —and I heard, as if in a dream, the opeuning strains of Schubert’s serenade. Never have T heard anything play this witching music as I then heard it.” But for once my sense of hearing was dimmed, so completely had the sense of sight taken possession of me, so entirely was I lost in the gaze of the magnificent eyes that looked through and beyond me, that I only knew when the music ended by the applause of the audience. An encore was demanded. Still watching the beautiful girl, who seemed now for the first time to be aware of my gaze, my hands touched the keys, and ere a single note was sounded 1 knew what was coming. ‘“‘Love’s Questfon,” I heard Ivan shout, and I saw the beau- tiful face above me redden and then grow as white as sea foam. Oh! how that music sounded. My flesh grew cold, my eyes were flooded with tears, my heart beat against my Dbosom as if it would burst through my flesh. On and on, in a strain whose ravishing sweetness no earthly melody over equalled, I hoard Aronsonheim at last tell to the bride of his soul the love earth had forbidden him to speak. She heard it. I saw her rise from her seat, push back with a magnificent ges- ture the hair that rippled over her tore- head and lean across the brass rod that encircled her box. Her bosom was heaving like a tempest tossed billow; her breath, I could see, was coming fast and short. Her lips were wider apart and her eyes looked as the half opened gates of paradise must look to a condemned soul, I partook of her agitation. Swaying from side to side I felt that the climax was approaching. The discord at the awfui ending of the written score was coming. I, too, breathed sharp and hard, but clenched my teeth in terrible fear. . Would those hands clutch my throat? Those cold, clammy fingers tear me as the despairing soul felt that music could not tell its anguish? The last bar was reached, but instead of the crash of dis- cordant notes, pure and sweet as an angel’s song a sublime symphony crept from the keys and made the warm blood leap in my heart. It was no questioning music any longer; it was a joyous knowiedge that filled ‘she soul and overran the senses with a silvery flood of harmony. “Thou art mine!” it said; *‘mine for- ever and ever! No more despair, no more doubt, no more fear! Joy, joy, joy! even as the angels feel in the pres- ence of God, Mine! mine! mine!” My head swam; reason reeled; but above the music I heard a voice cry, “Rudolph!” *Rudolph!” In a mist I saw white arms stretched out toward, but not at me, and as I saw the love?ty woman’s head fall on her bosom and her form sink back, the arms still stretched out as if to clasp and hold & beloved one, Ifelt the cold fingers loosen their gripiupon my hands, and with a light caress leave them forever. ‘When I recovered from an attack of brain fever I found myself in Pittsburg; faithful Tommy lvans, my nurse, and Skab, my general body guard and watcher. For a long time I asked no questions, but one day as I sat in an easy chair on the balcony of my room I mustered courage: to ask [vans a ques- tion. ¢ “That girl——p? He interrupted’ me, his face white and troubled, ‘‘Dead,” he- replied, and from that day to this I have never mentioned the subject. 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Curéseffected at homo bv patient 'Tvm?ut a mmfiems rmfln ongfiaiwnncu.fl M DSU %U The awful em-;Ang of earl; A Vice, which brings organio weakness, destroylng both mind and bodv, with allits areaded flls, permanently cured. “Adress those who by impatred A themsclves by improper indul- ences and solitary habitd, which ruin both Body and mind, unacting them for business, study or marriage. MARRIED MEN, or those entering on that hi life, aware of physical debility, quickly as wa. OUR ' SUCCESS 1s based upon facts, First—Practical Expe- rlence, Becond—Every case is espectally studied, thus starting aright. Third—Medicines are pre- pared in our Inboratory exactly to suit esch case. thus affecting cures without injury, §0~Send 6 cents postage for celobrated works on Chronic, Nervous and Delioate Diseases. Thousands cured, §#~A friendly letter or cali may save you future suffering and shawme, and ud(f' golden years to life, 'No letters an- swered unless accompanied by 4 cents {n stampa. ess or call on DRS. BETTS & BETTS, 1408 Farnem frtaet. Omaha, Ne GASOLINE STOVES REFRIGERATORS Ice Cream Freezers. The most complete line in the clty. WM. LYLE DICKEY & CO., 1408 Douglas Btreet, er: COMPAGIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE, Paris Universal Exposition 18 now open. Parties desiring £00d accommodations on the new large express steamers of the Fumous FRENCH MAIL LINE, Which are noted for their regularity, equal to rall- road trains, in muking the trip 10 HivreParis in one week, ure ndvised to Make Early Application for Berths, This 18 also neceamary on aceo travel during the spring and s McCAGUE BROS., 105 South 15th St., HARRY E. MOORES, 1502 Farnam 8t., H. L. HALL, 1223 Farnam St., J. H. GREEN, 1501 Farnam St., Agents, Omuha, Neb. MAURICE W. KOZMINSKL Gen'l Western Agt, 170 Washington St., Chicago. H. B. IREY, TO LOAN, On City and Farm Proverty! CASH ON HAND. Mortgage Paper Bought. Frenzer Block, opp, P.O. ccount of the heavy mmer months. $5 TS e $5 FIVE DOLLARS. DR R. W. BAILEY, - DENTIST. Paxton Block, 16th and Farnam Streets. We wish to announce to the people of Omaha and vicinity that from this date on we propose to make a FULL SET OF TEETH on rubber for #5, guaranteed to be as well made as plates sent out from any dental office in this city, and for which you would have to pay THREE TIMES AS MUCH. This offer 1s not made by us simply to get you into our office and charge you more for a set of teeth than we advertise! Do not allow others to prejudice you before making us a call and examining specimens of our skill. Besides rubber teeth we make teeth on the following bases: GOLD, ALUMs INUM, SILVER, CONTINUOUS GUM, CELLULOID, CAST METAL, ETC, Teeth without plates, Bridge-work, Gold and Porcelain faced crowns, ete. The best method in the city for extracting teeth without pain and withoud the use of Chloroform, Ether, Gas or Electricity, the patient remaing perfectly conscious, but feeling no pain. GOLD, ALLOY, CEMENT and AMALGAM FILLINGS, one-half rates. TAKE ELEVATOR ON SIXTEENTH STREET. OFFICE 312 and 313 PAXTON BLOCK. Cut this out. Mention this paper. The ONLY Lawn or Garden Hose MADE which will stand 250 POUNDS PRESSURE. BUY th: 83T, [t wil LAT the LONGEST - - Ahoso which will do good work in most cities, wil not give satistaction ln Omaha, on aczount of the extreme high pressuze.’ While dealers complain of other hose bolng returned fn large guant] ccauso it 3 not, strong enough to stand the pressure. of e For salo Dy ail deaters, or OMAHA RUBBER CoO, 1008 Farnam-st,, Omaha, Neb. Wholesale or Retail. HAND-MADE SINGLE TRACK HARNESS Imitation rubber, heavy Stock, No. O, for $15. Genuine Rubber, single strap, hand made, No, 1, for $20, C. 0. D. with privilege cf returning the same, if not entirely satisfactory. ‘We keep all grades of Hurness, but the above are our best sellers and retail at $25.00 and §30.00. 2 LANDROCK & WOODWORTH, 15612 Douglas Street, Omaha, Neb. Omaha Stove Repair Works 808-810 NORTH SIXTEENTH STREET, ROET. UHLIG, Prop. C. M. EATON, Manager. ‘Teiephone 960, Repairs for all Sto rilliant Gasoline Stove L in exchango &4 ed. part paym 2 :pat ard and we will call and estimate work of any phone to us or send kind, " THE BUSINESS OF THE OMAHA MERCHANT TAILOR COMPANY, 114 SOUTH 15TH STREET, ¥ Has far exceeded their expectations. The low prices, togetier with filie work and perfect fit, nave convinced their customers that it {8 the cheapest plico to buy their garments, They wré col stantly receiving new goods for the summer trade. SULTS FROM %28 UPWARDS. PANTS FROS 87 UPWARDS EMERSON, HALLET & DAVIS, KIMBALL, . PIANOS AND ORGANS SHEET MUSIO. 1613 Donglas St - Omaha. Nebraska DEWEY & STONE Furniture Company A mognificent display of everything usesul and orawmental in the furnte ture maker’s art at reasonable prices. - ETOHING! ENGRAVINGS, ARTIST SUPPLIES, MOULDINGS, FRAMES, B MURT SUCCE: 1 SPECIALISTS _z In the Treatment of All Chronic, Nervous and Private Discases. Bpermatorrh Impotency and Fai abtolutely cured: A cure kuaranteed Strictures, Gleet, &o. and Heart Disonses, Rheu i, uale Diseusos, 51008 and Skin Discuscs a5 fully. Catarrh, en's walting rooms separate Bend for books. Eecret and "8140" Womin &1Ter Disea Livn Sprinkes “’.‘ :l'r’éir.m-m iy coreipondencel | JAS MORTON & SON ICE: 10TH AND DOUGLAS STREETS, OMAHA, NEB. 1511 Dodge Street. A full net of teckh for 8. Palnloss oxtraction teeth without chlorcforrs, gas or ether, ¥illing balf rates. R. BAILEY, Denti X103 BIock, 10k uud Farnsm Ste. uuunuv‘d vatsno KIDNEY o syt usinary toubles castly, quick- ly and safely cured by DOCTURA Cap- sules. Bovoral cases cured 1 seven days, Bold at#L60 pex box, wll druglsts, or by mail from Doctus M''g Cb, 11 While s, N. Y. ¥ull direc- ol