Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 2, 1890, Page 15

JURISTS OFF THE BENCH Pen Pictures of the Unitod States Bupreme Judges. FULLER FOND OF BOOKS. The Livrary and Library Tastes of the Chief Justicr—Brewer and Field in Asia Miner— Lamar's Healt Our Highest Tribunal, (Conyriaht 1590, by Frank G. Carpenter.) Supreme Judges O the Bench. WasiiNeroy, Jan. pecial to Tne Bee. | One hundred years ago next Tuesday the supreme court of the United States held its first meeting, and on Monday next all of the justices leave Washington to celebrate its centennisl at New York. The supreme court is now the most dignified body of men in our government, It ranks with congreas and the presidentin its importance ana the chief justiceship, lasting as it does for life, is more desirable than the offico of chief ex ecutive of tho United States. The business of tho court shows better than anything elso the growth of our coun- try during the past century. For the first thirty years the suprome court had practi- cally nothing to do, Now it is 1000 cases be- hindhand, and justice Miller tells me thay the judges work all day and far into the night. During the first half century of the court’s history the record of admissions to the court were recorded in a book not much thicker nor longer than a copy of Harper's Magazine. Now 200 lawyers come before the var and kiss the lttle old bible upon which they swear to practico honestly be- fore it, every session, and not infrequeutly a dozen lawyers are admitted in u single day. WHAT IT COSTS, The supreme court of the United States holds its meetings in a room not as large as many a country court room. There are din- ing rooms in many of the houses of Wash- ington which have more floor space, and tho city councils of towns of 10,000 people de- mand a bigger hall, It is sitnated midway between the house and the senate, just off the busy corridor which runs between them. An old negro, as solemn as Erebus, goards the door. You usk for admission. He pulls the string and the door flies noiselessly open. As it does 80 another door ovens on the in- side, and a moment later you staod in the presence of the supreme court of the United States, ‘I'ne whole court wears a comfortable look and the majority of the judges correspond with Shakespeare's definition of the justice: ‘‘Whose fat round belly is with good capon lined,” warrant you there are no wrinkles in the stomachs of these men. Those faces shine with good living and upon each you see the writing that the owner ias not a sin- gle care and that he has for life $10,000 a year. Judge Miiler there b received $250,000 in sularies froni U m and Jus- tice Field has carried in his inside pocket Uncle Sam’s good drafts for $270,000. Bradley has received $200,000 - from _the government, Harlan 000, Gray §00,000, and Blatch- ford" pts have amounted to 0,000 in cold cu Each will receive $10,000 more for each year that he lives, and he will get this whother ho remains upon the bonch or not. If he leaves it the government will have to get a new 810,000 man to tako his piaco, and Uncle Sam will be out $20,000 instead of $10,000 as long as he lives. There is no doub’ that any one of these men can make more than this amount at the law, and each is well worth the salary paid him. All have made big fees before thoy came here, and every one is a man of reputation. THE CHIEP JUSTICE. Chief Justice Fuller had an income of $30,- 000 & year in Chicago when President Clove- land asked him to leave it for asalary of 810,000 for hfe. He is a rich man outside of his salary und through his firat wife inherit- ed.a property which rents for $20,000 a year. His second wife is wealthy and he has noth- ing to fear from a falling off of the surplus in the national treasury. Chief Justice Fuller is the shortest man on the supreme be: Ho 18 not over five feet seven inches high and he does not weigh over 150 pounds. He has, however, a dignified bearing end when he sits iun his gown upon the beuch be looks a8 big as Justice Gray who 18 six feet five and kicks the beam at 800. Judge Fuller has a remar, kuble fine face. His forencad is high and full, his nose large and straicht, his eyes are blue and his complexion is of a coiorless white. He has a great mane of silver white hair which is combed well up from his clase sic brow, which balf covers his ears, and which falls upon the collar of his gown at the back. He will be fifty-seven years old on the 7th of Feburary, and like most of our great men he inheriis his most promment quality of brain through his mother. She was the daughter of the Chief Justice of Maine, Nathan Weston. Fuller 18 a graduate of Bowdoin college and he is 4 man of culture. He studied law at the Harvard law school and after a short practice in Maine removed to Chicago. He is a fine orator as well a8 o good lawyer and his oration on Washington was a surprise to many of his senatorial friends who had rather under- rated him, Chicf Justice Fuller lives hero in one of the finest houses of the capital.* 1t 18 the vig double brick of Senator Van Wyck d the interior,by the way, is much changed by Justice Iuller’s furnmiture. The chief ustice has turned one of the parlors into a ibrary and the walls are now lined with a bie collection of well-thumbed books. I noved thut the rman and Irench classics had a lnce beside the best of our Engl author- ties, and that the works of English aud American science were many. Chiof J tice Fuller is a man of broad reading, and he has a family of a wife and seven or eight duughters who are possessed of considerable lterary tastes, T'wo of his_daughters are now in Germany at school. Ho 18 o fine af- ter dinner talker, and Senator Cockerill calls him the Chauncy Depew. UNCLE AND NEPLEW, Justice Brewer is a nephew o1 Justice Fiela, and this is the first time in our his- tory that an unclefand nephew bave ever been on the supreme bench at the same time. An extraordinary vein of legal brain must have existed among the ancostors of ‘the Fiold family. Hore is David Dudley Field, for years one of the reatest lawyers in New York, Stephen J, field, is on the supreme bench, aud has been & judge for more than a generation, Brewer, the son of Field's sister, makes a reputation in Kansas as a lawyer and cownes to the su- premwe bench ou his merits, Justice Brower was born in Smyrna, and 1t is u curious fact that Justice Stephea J, Flield spent a part of his boyhood in Smyrna, His sister married & missionary. and at thir: teen years of age she took her brother with her to Asia Minor. Brewer did not remain in Asia long enough to have his skin tanned by the tropical suns, aud when he was a squawking baby of eleven months he was brought back to America Both he and Jusuce Field studied law with David Dudley r‘ eld in New York, und went west to prac- ce. The two men have no features in common, Justice Field is one of the finest looking men in public life, and Brewer is also fine look- lnf but of a different type. Justice Field might pose for a Venctian doge us he he sits with & olack velvet oap upon his head upon the bench, He has a high forehead, a full beard of sable silver, and his face is one of the most classiv on the bench. He is six feet tall and his great frame is symmetri- cally developed. He nas, I think, grown + older in appearance sinco the late Torey epi. fode in Caiifornia and 1t must have been a srrible wonoyance to him. Judge Field is also a ‘highly cultured man. He is well read in almost every vranch of literature, and he talks most entertainingly He bas broad ideas as to the future of this couutry, keeps himself abreast of public questions and is fond of society. His wifeis ©one of the noted eutortainers of Washington, and the two live together in a finn old house Across the park from and facing the capitol, I don't know much as to Judge Field's wealth. His brothers are millionaires, but the justice once told me that bis salary ' was not - sutliciest to pay his expenses, sud he referred in this to the immense cos. of the traveling THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY expenses of & supreme justice. Judge Field crosses the continent once or twice a year, and ho always pays his fare. Justice Brewer is the youngest man on the bench, He came to Smyrna o vaby, after Ficld left as a boy, and he was born at just about the time that justice graduated at Co- lumbia college, New York. He is only for- ty-three years old, Ho is, T judge, about six feev high, and has a slight stoop in his broad shoulders, and his face s dark. He has a broad, full forehead, black bair grow inz thin at the tov, a noso slightly inclined e Roman and a moustache and chin ol glossy biack. He is a gradnato e iind & man of culture. He is living now at the Arno flats, JUSTICE MILLER. The oldest justice on the bench in point of service and one of the ablest jurists in pudlic life is Justice Miller. He is six feet tall, weighs at loast 22) pounds and every mole cule of his anatomy 18 vacked with good wense, good nature and judicial ability. ~He thrives on hard work and us he sits with a velvet cap on his head at the right of Chief Justice Fuller he forms one of the classic features of tho court. He could have re- tired s ago, for he 18 over seventy. He likes bis work, however, and . not in tend to become a nonentity. Juage Miller was appointed by Lancoln in 1862 and when Salmon P. Chase died 1t was thoushit that he would be made chief justice. Grant, how ever, appointed Waite and Justice Miller has outiived him and seen a_new man take his place upon the bench, Justice Miller 18 said to be wollto-do. He is worth a hundred thousand or so. He lives very nicely on Massachusetts avenue, and his brick fiouse is on a high terrace just op- e Lamar. Judee Miller iy n good talker. He has as many roeminiscences as you will find in Ben : Perley Poore's books, and his good sayings frequently go the rounds of the capitol. Not long ago, in speaking of one of the wost upright senators, o sw- 1: “*My dear sir, I like you, and I want to say that vou are owe of the few politicians who in my onion stind a chance of being saved. But the zood wor'd won't be crowded with them,” he udded as he shook his sober old head, It won't be crowded.” Justice Millor was born in Kentucky sev- enty-four years ago. He was educated at an academy, and he was especially strong dur- sohooling in mathematics and gram- He 18 probubly the only man on the beuch who is not a college graduate, but he 18 notwithstanding this a fine Latin scholar and he mastered this language himself. He began life as a druge clerk and studied medi- cine and practiced eight years before he de cided to become a layw. Ho was thirty years oid before he admitted to the bar, and when ho was appointed on the suprem beach he was unanimously_ coufivmed by the senate without his name being referred to any committee. He is a self-made 1 all over, and he ought to bo proud of his job. JUSTICE BRADLEY, Justioe Bradley is another self-made man. His father was a poor farmor in the interior of New York and young Bradley’'s earliest schooling was that of a country teacher. He worlked in the summer and went to school 1n the winter until he was sixteen, and after this he taught country school and practised surveying. His ambition to be great sprouted with - his -~ being, and a story is told at Albuny how a citizens of that piace, when young Bradley was doing some rather menial work. for him, asked what he in- tended to do in life. The future justice was then hardly in his tesns. He was backward with bis answer and said _he hadn’t quite mode up his mind whether he would be presi- dent of the United State or justice of the supreme court. This interested his employer and be talked further with the boy. He found him wonderfully well informed and he urged him by all meaus to get u college edu- cation if possivle. Judge Bradley saved enough from his conntry school teaching to send himself to college and he graduated at Rutger in 1533 at the age of twenty-three, He practiced law ut Newark, N. J., for thirty years before he went upon tho bencb and he has been serv- ing us a supreme court justice for twenty years. His decisions appear in forty vol- umes of the supreme court and he has a most wonderful knowledge of English and Ameri- can decisions, Justice Bradley has a re- markably analitical mind and he is one of the most skillful mathematicians of the present day. He umuses himself in working out geomotric problems for recreation und he delights 1n getting up calendars showing at what hour the moon will rise on January or February 2, 3000. He likes to figuro out the day of the week on which the June 1, for instance, will occur for a thousand-odd years or 8o, and he thinks in figures. The oriein of his mathematical tastes came from his father's library, Though the old man was 8 poor charcoal burner on a scauty farm he bad alotof historicaland mathematical books and young Bradley conquered algebra with- out o teacher in the intervals of charcoal burning. His mecbanical and mathematical knowledge comes in excellently well now. It makes him especially strong in patent cases, which constitute about one-fifth of the suprcme court business, and his fifty years of working at the law had made him sble to know by intuition what the law ought to be. Judge Bradloy is rich. He lives auietly at Washington, and he has one of the finest libraries of the capital. He is a little dried up anatomy of a man not much over 5 feev 61n height. He has a big nosc, sharp bright littlo eyes, iron gray bair anda par of tightly-closed lips. Eis skin hangs in wrin- and all of Lus fat has long since gone to es and judicial decisions. He is seventy- seven years old, but there 18 a fair chance for his lasting at least twenty-three years longer. There is not much of him to die, and when his soul is disembodied it will not be much freer than it is now. JUSTICE GRAY. It is different with Justice Gray who 1s over six feet, and who hardly dares to go into n Washington parlor which is not dou- ble-floored. Gray is broad shouldered, big- boned avd rather good looking. He dresses in good taste and when he weut down the river the other day with President Harrison he wore an Enghsh hunting outfit. He has been recently married to a dauehter of the late Justice Matthews and he looks so good- natured that 1 doubt not his wife calls him Horace. Judge Gray comes from one of the old families of Massu- chusetts and his grandfather was a Lynn man who died the richest man in all New England, One of the sons of this man, but whether it was Gray's uncle or not I donot know, left 3,000 rare engravings to Harvard college and left $16,000 to keep them in order, He left also 815000 to found a zoological museum at Harvard and Gray's hatl of Harvard is named after him. Gray graduated at Harvard at the age of sixteen. He was appointed after the death of the late Justice Clifford by Pr lent Artbur. George Boutwell was a candidate for the place at the same time, but Arthur is said to have chosen Gray on_ the account of the statement of Senator Hoar, who claimed that Garfleld intended to have appointed him, George C. Goreham, 1n com- menting upon the uppointment, said thav “it was made on a forged will of the late James A. Garfiold presented for probate by George ¥, Hoar.” Justico Gray lives very nicely Washington. He bas a big house with a cave-like entrance on the corner of Six- teenth and I streets, There is probably a Foad slice of his grandfather's wealth still n the family and this added to the accumu- lations of his own practice and his $10,000 a year ought to keep the wolf from his door. JUSTICE HARLAN, Justice Harlan is almost as big a man as Gray. He comes of a noted Kentucky family and his father was the attorney general of thut state. Harlan was & graduate of a Kentucky college, was a colonel in the union ariny and he was a member of the Louisiana commission that was appointed by President Hayes. He succeeded David Davis as a Justice of the supreme court and his health is 80 good that he promises to be on the bench for many years to come. He ova of the finest looking men in public life. Over six foet in height, he has a great dome of a head, a Websterian nose and he walks with the digmty of a king, His wife is also fine look- ug and the two are marksd figures wherever they appear together, Justice Hurlan has a fine brick villa on the heights above Four- teentn strect and from his windows he can overlook the whole of Washington and the winding valley of the Potomac. JUSTICE BLATCHFORD, Justice Blatehford comes of a race of law yors. His father was for years the American counsel for the Bank of Eungland and later for the Bank of the United States. He was & warm personal friend of Daniel and was one of the executors of Webstor's wiil. Justice Blatchford hunself was the rivate secretary of Wilham H. S, e was afterwards one of Seward's law part- ners. He had made a foitune before he came here to Washington, snd now at seventy ho 18 rich and occupies a dignitied position with ® $10,000 salary, Heis an example of the fact that greatness does not go by pounds and feet. e is under medium height and weighs in the neighborhood of 150 pounds, He has rather a flat face, without much color in it. His white whiskors fringe his throat and inch their way up to his cheeks 10 a line ending with the base of his chin, where they are cut short by the razor. His hair is of frosted silver and he is on the whole u rather fine looking man, He has a big brick house on the corner of Farragut square and K streot. just above the big brown stono of Senator Palmer and not rar from Vinnie Ream's artistic home. JUSTICE LAMAR. Justice Lamar takes to the gow ana he bas become reconciled to the immenso viles of work which the court has before it At first ho gorged himself with case like an anaconda gorges itself with a_carcass, he has n ovten down to laboring about ten hours a day and devoting the remainder of his time to other matters. Lamar is & curious intellectuality. Irrogularity 1s the order with him. He cats at all sorts of hours and he can, I am told, work for twenty-four hours at a strotch and then go to bed and sleep for twenty-four hours more with the innocent, recuperating siumbers of a He thinks as irregularly as he eats, in the midst of a patent caso his mind will sometimes fly off into abstruse calculations “upon the ~limitations of the infinite,” questions of the Trinity or the Shakespeare - vs Bacon controversy. It comes back, however, all rizht within a fow moments and takes up the thread of the vase 80 easily that the other judges do not Know that it has been away. Justice Lamar is a great newspaper reader, Ho has the curious faculty of rememburiug bits of newspaper poetry and he can quote ridiculous little pieces gathered from the daiiies of the last balf contury. He is a man of great scholars ship and the record of his life is more that of a scholar than that of a politician, He was a professor of law at the university of Oxford, Miss, in 1871, and his stock of classical learning is very great. He is an admirer of Plato and can quote from Thuy- cidides, Herodotus and Livy. His favorite poe @ Shelley and KKeats and ho is very fond of quoting poetry in private conversation with lovers of the poots. He was married again about three years ago and his last wife was well to-do, Justice Lamar hunselt is worth less tnan §50,000. He has a farm in Mississippi upon which there are many fine Jersey cattle, and up to bis appointment as justico he liked notbing better than his Mississippi home. Now, however, he finds it impossible to pay much attention to 1t, and [ understand that he would sell it if ho could, He is alreudy sixty-five vears of age His place upon the beanh gives ‘him a r dence at Washington for a number of yea v ero on Massachusetts ay and the §10,000 which he gets from the ament moves him further away from Mississippi than h ever been before. MANK G. Can - CONNUBIALITLES. naturally When the sun comes out these days, tho daughters are certain to follow. Little Angel (sent down to the parlor to entertain a caller)—0O, yes, my sister will be down 1n o minute, She is gotting overa cry- g spell because Ler other beau didn't come. Wife—John, I do think you have the best memory in town. John—Why so, dar- ling? *‘Because you never forget to forget the articles I tell you to bring home trom down town; never,” Parisian ladies have very odd and dainty fancies concerning underwear, upon hich they spend fabulous sums of money. Ona lady wears nothing but silk underwear of ‘the finest quality, trimmed with frills of aclicate lace and always in the most out-of- the-way colors, like willow green, gobelin blue, vieux rose and other equally wthetic shades. Another lady recently ordered a set of night dresses made exactly like a baby’s first slips. . Scena—A bridal chamber. Sne—Now that we are married, darling, I must make a con- fession. My teeth are artificial and I am obliged to wear a wiz. Tell e it wont make any difference in your love, dear. He—Re- assure yourself, dearest, and watch me, [Tukes out a glass eye and unscrows b leg.] Roferring to the return from their honey- moon of & couple living in the vicinity, a West Grove, Pa., paper says they were given aserenade that was “hilarious if not unbe- ::laming. Much cider was drunk and damage one." The Rev. Robert Collyer said recently: “Not many men know how to behave when they give a minister his fee for marrying them, It seems to embarrass them for some reason. Iremember once out in Indiana that a man whom I had just united in marriage 10 a very comely young woman gave mo $10 for the fee. As he did so he biushed and stammered. Then he said with perfect can- dor, *I would like to give you more, doctor, and—and 1 will next time.’ His bride over- heard him, and looked at him 1n a queer way. but he evidently didn’t realize what he bad said o bis embarrassment.” Penelope—All right, Jack; you may put that ring on my fiuger and we'll call iv en- Rage: ut it must be definitely understood that you are to have butone kiss a day and one dance at each hop, for you dance hor- ribly, and I don’t like to kiss a man without amustache. I am to go boating, riding, or walking with any fellow I please, and flirt with whom I picase. You are to give up moking, card playing and wine, and finally, you are not to tag around after me all the time, for I am not going to have my enjoy- ment spoiled just because I am engazed. Jack (her humble slave) —Well, but tzll me what [ can do? Penclope—You can read Tennyson and think of me. “What do women love best in men?” was asked vy a noted gentleman of a woll versed lady in whose family he was enjoying his New Year's dinner, *'Sir,” said she, ‘‘they like forre. Giveme a man with courtesy apd polish, without force, and hois a Linen coliar without starch. The texture may be firm put it needs stiffening. Women tire of forceless men, and would prefer a hearty, vigorous yeoman, to a scented, nervous dude of the drawing room.” “Don’'t you like to see u man dance!” was queried. ‘I would rather see him digging a trench or hewing a troe or driving a team,” said she, “To mec a danciog man, a lion lapping milk or an_ele- phant playing a guitar, are all alike. Men, lions and elephants were meant to be strong and masteriul. When they fail of their des- tiny they become caricatures.” — e IMPIETIES, “‘Why should the spirit of mortal be proudi” sounds like a philosophical, ratioral question; but the man who nsked it never succeeded in holding the baby the first time be tried. Whauknll the world has passed from angels' en, And all of earth’s fair ladies Havye goue to heaven, the hapless men Can “‘stag” it duwn the ages. Severe Adorer (about to onter the minis- try)—I trust you find a great deal of comfort in thinking of scripture verscs. Interestin, Invalid—Yes, indeed! That text “‘Grin an bear it,”’ does me a heap of good. Little Edith;—Mumma, did you say that we should all know each other in heaveni Mamma:—Yes, my child, Litue lkdithi— You can play that you're out, though, can’t you, mamma, when people call that you don’t want 1o seol Teacher—Relate an incident i1n the life of Moses, Tommy Jersey—One duy he saw an Egyptian striving with a Hebrew, and he said unto the Egyptian, “Render unto Cenar the things that are Cwesar's,” and thereupon smota him and cut off his e Fashionable Pastor-~I trust, madem, that while you are suffering from this influenza our conscienco is at rest! KFashionable Pletist—Entirely. I have rigorously per~ formed all my religious duties, and was just executing the lust wheo you came, Fash- ionable tor—A! What was thatl Fash- ionable Pietist—I bought a box for the Cnar- ity ball, The Rev. Mr, Osgood was some yea a colebrated preacher in Boston, wh mation of himself was fully as high as that of his parishioners. 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Bets run high as to the outcome of the election on February 10, and real estate speculation is largely basea on the catimate each one puts on the probubility that this or that sido may win. Tu spite of the streaming rain an_1mmense number of the people turned out to witness the grand parade of the people’s party last might. The upper part of Main streot was brilliantly illuminated by red lights and Roman ndies and other fireworks gave variety and beauty to the views. 1 noticed in the paraling hosts muny fine specimens of Utah's youne manhood, tall, stalwart men of admirable physique, presenting in their totality a splendid sample of the o pacity of the country in the matter of this, its most imvortant crop. The excitement precoeding the election and the condition of the roads in consequence of the uausual suow fall this season, ac count for a slight falling off of sales of real estate. On Friday 1, the recorded sales amounted to ¢ This figure was considerably exceeded on tho other days of the we As a sample of the sales made 1 quoe the sale of W. M. Carter to F. Dick ertof TAXI56% feot in lot 5, vlock 16, plat A, for §10,000 and . Dooly to J. G. Michell of 400 square rods, lots 5 and 0. block 15, plat A, for $18,000, 'A great deai of buving is goiLz on, ana the market is firm and slightly in advance of last week in the mat ter of prices, A new jowelry firm 1s about to open in the new Daft building on Main street. It is said to be a magnificent _establishment, with ap- pointments as complote s thoy can be made. Its show manufactured in Cincinnati, are especially rich and tasteful, ¥xpert workmen from New York City and Chicago will be busy in a large work room in the rear. and all will be doue to make the establishment worthy of a largo city., The United electric company of ~ this city 13 a pushing, promising business coterpriss, This company has just put a valuable elec- trical mactune into the Waiker opera house, which lizhts the as burners all through the house in the neatest, quickest and surest manuor imaginable, Our soven principal hotels ar with guests from east and west. and, to judge from the many inquiries received here from parties east, the influx of tourists and others will assume enormous proportions in the spring. The life on the stroets and the activity in the numerous storss are in strong contrast with the mary low and insignificant houses on the best streets. The many magnificent buildings already orected only make one realize the more strongly how absolutely necessary is the building of many more, and that these will be built this year thero is every reason to belidve. a, drowsiness,distress can be cured and prevent- ed by taking Dr. J. H. McLean’s Liver and Kidney Pilletts (little pills.) oty i It Wasn’t Angein He Heard. San Francisco Chronicl. It was a sad scene. The old man luy on his bed and by him sat the faithful wife, hold- ing his worn hand in hers and forcing back the tears to greet his wandering look with a smile. She spokg words of comfert and hope, But he felt the cold hand falling on him and he turned his weary eyes up to the pale, wan fuce. “Jennie, dear wife, [ am going. "’ *0 no, John; not yet; not yet.” “Yes, dear wife,” and he closed his eyes; ‘‘the end is near. The world grows dark about me. There is a mist around me gawnering thicker and thicker, and there. as through a cloud, I hear the music of angels—sweet and sad,” *“No, no, John, dear; that isn’t angels; that’s the brass band on the corner.” “What!” said the dying man; “have those scoundrels dared to come around here when they know I'm dying? Give me my bootjack. I'll let ’em see.” And in a towering rage the old man jumped from his bed,and before his wife could think he had opened the zin:}ow and shied the bootjack at the an well filled e hit that Dutch leader, any- And he went back to bed and got well. i An. Absolute Cure. The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINTMEN I is only put up in larae two-ounce tin boxes, and is an absolute curo for all sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands and all skin erup' tions. Will positively cure all kinds of piles. Ask for the ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINT- MENT. Sold by Goodman Drugz company at 25 conts per box—by mail &) cents, OMAHA MEDICE). 2 SURGICAL LN ST ONTA IR, e M. W, Gon, 1374 & Dook 518, OMAHA, NE! FOR THX TREATMENT OF ALL CERGAIGaad STRGICAL DISEASES BI.ACOKS, APPLIANCES FOR DEFORMITIES AND TRUSSES, Bt MEDICAL or SURGIOAL TnA‘l’!‘éflT..‘ w‘l}“!.ngsmi FOR PATIENTS, Biat Aceo on in Wes A R ek T A e marsy Giastrs 8 Yron ’ifi b4 latiort R Y and Bisod 2ad i burgicar per DISEASES OF WOMEN o.senervocovs TEEATRL Y A B o ALYINO X B URING CONPINRMRNT. L (uly Reliable Modiow! Tnstocte Sabian l':;u by ot PRIVATE DISEASES e Dichiss Bpsbiills Felssn Trom b torative Omaha, poups « SPENCER OTIS, °Ri nical Eogineer and Draftsman, Complete tons and B endurice, 10 ., buctiried or Sfocial Machinory, &s. and Bluo Prints furnishe ATENT OFFICE WOKK A SPECIALTY. Dr. JOHN C, JONES, PRACTICE LIMITED TO DISEASES OF WOMEN, Office, 8. E.Cor. 13h and Doudlas Sts., Owaha Ne EBRUARY 2 DRS. BETTS & BETTS 1408 FARYAM STREET, OMANA, NEB. (Upposite Paston Hotel) OmMoe hours,va. m., to§ p. m. Sundays. 10s. m., % P.m. Specialists in Chronle, Nervous, Skin and Blood Di+ o S#"Consultation at ofMice or by mall free. Med\ cines sent by mall or express, curely packed, free from observation. Guaranteos to caro quickly, safe- Iy and permanently. 8p NERVOUS TEBILITY ieis Elons. Physieal deciy, arising from {ndiscrotion, ox- cesa or indulgence. producing sleeplesness. despon. dency, pln; @ face, Kversion to soclaty, easily dall unfte for arden. Safoly, po nsuit Drs. Betis & . Neb. matorrhaa, semt «ges, Night Emis aiscourag busiiiess, and finds Ii sniigand privately o 1408 Farnam Streot, Oy Blood and Skin Disgases outs, Syphills, & disense most terrible tn 1ts . completely eradic thont tho ald of y. 'Serofala. ery DAing in the hen nes, syphilitio throat, mouth and tongue. catarh, et cured where others have Kldnflv. Uringry ood, Bladder compiatats, Puintul, Difficult, teo fre- auent burninz or bigody urine, irine hich at on stan fing, weak bac gloet, cystitls, ete, Promptly and safely cured chiaries reasonsble, STRICTURE! jumnt moval complote without cutiing. canstic or diiistion. Cures effocted at home Ly patient without a moments pain o ABnoyance. To Young Men and Middle-Azed Men, A SURB GURE The awful effects of early Vice, which brings organic weakness, destroying bothi mind and body, with all tadreaded 1lls, pirmanentiy cared. DRS, BETES Addrass those who have im. paired themselves by inproper indul % and and solitary habits, which ruin both body and iniad, unficcing them for Suslness, study o rringe. MARIIED MEN, or those entering on that happy 1ife, awaro of physicin debiiity. quickly assisted. OUR SUCCESS. Ia based upon facts, first -practical exzorien ond-every case is ospacially studled, thus aright, third—medicines in onr own Ia- batory exactly to suit eact affecting cures without Injury. FE-Nend f conts postage for colebrated_works on chronic, nervous and delicate disoxses. Thousands cured. §@A friendly lettor or call may save you fu- ture suffe ha anid yenrs to life unlcss accompnnied by 4 s oreall on DRS. BETTS & BETTS, 1413 Farnam street, Omaha. Neb. Guaranteed per- Positively refuses any longer to wear baby dresses. Kilts are what he longs for and must have. | MOTHERS of like minded children would | |do well to make the desired | |echange at this time. In our| large line of KILT SUITS W hich we are selling at Grealy Reduced Prices, |We are sure you will find something to your liking. |ONE SPECIAL BARGAIN Is our line of Jersey Kilt Suits, Formerly sold at $7, $8, and $9, now selling at B5. Dr. ].E.McGREW The Well Known Speclallst, 18unsurpassedin the treatment of all forms of Pl VATE DINEAXKS Gleetn o Socrot, or Woina quickly apd per aneatly. 3 ment by i ALakis for roply: CONSULTATION FREE, Office S.E. Cor. 18th & Jackson Sts Omaha, Neb, eatire) \ ford T [{ f enatd, NESS_ GURED, IO WEAK MEN deca, Lk weakness, lost manhood, ete., § wi Ek0f churge. & plendid medical work (T an who is nervou d_debilitated. Iddn-. rof, ¥, C, FOWLER, Moodus,Conts SIXTEEN PAGES, FINAL CLOSING SALE To wind up our Retail Jewelry Department. All Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Silver~ ware, Clocks, etc., remaining unsold at this date, must go for what they will bring, We offer, until store tion prices Nowhere. s rented, L ) Bargain. Look at our Cheap Windows. No use quoting figures. Article at a Auc- No ery reasonable offer refused on Art Goods; Bric-a- brac, ctc. tacles and e Spe and fit guaranteed. “Price ,em and take ‘em.” low prices on Optical Goods, still prevail. Glasses, Steel Spectacles, 75¢ up, worth double. Our extreme Gold Fine (Eyes tested and upward. B. An extra force of salesmen has been engaged for this Special Sale, so all promptly. can be waited on Store for Rent, Fixtures for Sale. MAX MEYER & BRO., JEWELERS AND OPTICIANS, - COR. 16TH AND FARNAM SIS, SET OF TEETH ON RUBBER For Five Dollars. DR.R. W.BAILEY, Dentist, Paxton Block, 16th and Farnam Streets. We Are Here to Stay office room, are and having within the past two months largely increased our now ketter preoared to turn outthe best class of work, and much more rapidly than heretofore. ‘We make a full set ofteeth on rubber for FIVE DOLLARS, guaranteed to be as wel made as plates sent out of any dental office in this country. Do not let others influence you not to come, but make us a cail aid see for yourself. Teeth extracted WITHOUT PAIN, and without using chloroform gas, ether or electricity. cation. Cut this out. Mention this paper . Filling at lowest rates. DR. BAILEY, Dentist, Paxton Block. Open evenings until § o'clock _Take clevator on 16th streot. Remember the lo- 16th and Farnam, . A. EINNEY ELECTRICAL ENGINEER AND Clm'l‘ll.\f:’roll, REPRESENTING CHICAGO OFFICE Brush Electric Company. Estimates and plans furnished, Correspondence solicited. 882-833 N. Y. Life Building, Omaha. 'DEWEY & STONE, Furniture Company A magnificent display of everything useful and ornamental in the furniture maker’s art at reasonable prices. BUILDERS' FINE BRONZE GOODS Of Every Design and Finish. HIMEBAUGH & TAYLOR, 1405 Dougias St. ETCHINGS ENGRAVINGS, fi ARTIST SUPPLIES 28 MOULDINGS, ] FRAMES, 1 15613 Douglas Street, " " PIANOS & ORGANS S SHEET MUSIC. — S EMERSON, S HALLET & DAVIS G KIMBALL, Omaha, Nebraska Exeelsior §}Jrifigs: Mo. NATURE'S GREAT SANITARIUM. The Most Elegant, Restful and Beneficial of Health Resorts, 'I'HE ELMS' One of the Fine Hotels of the World. Replete with every com fort, pleasure and convenience, Unapproachuble in its altractiveness, furnisbings and culsie, San- itary conditions perfect. All charges reasonabl THE BATHS, it he hotel, super, con s plete and of great medicinal yirtue, Salt-Sulphur Water, Tub, Tarkish, Llec- ule, u-..-'fi Marble Planj THE MINERAL WATERS, for Rtheumatism, and Nature's su- preme remedy Gout, Dropsy, Kidney, Bladder er Troubles, Dyspepss, Blood Diseascs, ebility and other’ derangements of ' The most astouishing and marvelons ulte apecdily follow their use, The waters pos- scas properties and combinations unknown to any other known spring in the world, They contaii Tron in that most rare and valuable form Tor ready absorption and rapid medication; name tion of the Protoxide in Carbonic Acid. ent and diuretic, they are suprémely and us 8 tonic i upbuilding the worn and de tated system, thoy have no cqual, A g one pound a'dny usually follows thelr use, The; have' restorcd thousandy from the brink of death o perfect heallh, Ty them. They will prolong your life, Climate mild and healthful, Surroundinge beautl- Twenty-five miles from Kansas City on the & St PR, THE BOTTLED WATERS shipped on or- der to all points, I 1 ous, DAl For full jnformation and llustrated pamphlets, sddress; " EXCELSIOR SPRINGS €0, Excelsior Springs, Mo, Now is the time to get you a good talking parrot 10ffer Young Mexican Double-Yellow-Head Farrots, which are known as tho best taikers in the world | and never were sold less than %22, to #$25. for $18,50 cachi, This week MAX GEISLER, 417 South 15th St., Omaha, Neb. only, CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PILLS ExposITION——= ————UNIVERSELLE, PARIS, 1889, The Highest Possible Premium, THE * ONLY « GRAND « PRIZE FOR CLWING MAGHINES, WAS AWARDED TO WHLELER & WILSON MFG, CO. AND THE— #CROSS OF THEW LEGION OF HONOR, WAS CONFERRED UPON NATHANIEL WHEELER, The President of the Company, . IWHIEELER & WILSON MFG, Cor 185-187 Wabash Ave., O] ago. SOLD BY | P. E. FLODMAN & CO 220 N. 10th 8t,, Omaha, Neh. o RENERY Furk. A victins ol oprudence lervous Debilty, Lost tried {n valn every kil me- imple enns of SeIf Cure, hich PG o suTerinn, VS, .0, la 550, Now York Ciegs gstae Pampiurs it e Manhoo!