Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 1, 1890, Page 16

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A 11, if this herc’s one of them new fangled fold beds and book cases, combined, as my dear Sally sez it be, I'll be gosh darned if I don’t think I'll have to be born agin afore I'll fit into it. She bought it of the Nebras- ka Furniture Co. for ¢—, and she sez it air the cutest, neat- est, and most comfortable foldin’ bed she ever did see. I'll allow it looks mighty peerty and shiny, but folks is gettin’ to have queer ideas of comfort now days, and how on earth I am going to sleep in this 'ere esky thing I dunno. I guess Il hev to go down to the Ne- braska Furniture Co. and find out if they haven’t got some thing more in my line in th(‘lr lnr;; and elegant stock, “or I'll have a creck in my back if I stay any longer in this pesky foldin’ bed. We furnish houses and homes at spot cash pric If parties desire credit, we add 5 per cent for the occommodation. This is fair and just to each. We have everything you want, and it is a pleasure to show goods Visitors and customers alike welcome. NEBRASKA FURNITURE CO. 520 and 522 Ner:h 16th St. AMONG THE TOILING MASSES An Omahan Wants Powderly's Views on an Interesting Question, LETTER CARRIERS AND THEIR WAGES An Interesting Review of the Labor W, din all its Aspects Both at Home and in Other Places. Owamy, N AQuetions I find the following expression: “In the party of the future the man who tills the soil will own it, and not the man who deals in mortgages How do grand desideratum? Have you a plan? 1f so, gve it tous. If you have no plan permit me tooffer one for your calm consideration and deliberate reflection, I think I havedeveloped nd needy of y become frecholders—having s own with a scheme by which all the poc this nation m good comfortable homes of the land enough to make a good accomplish this nothi neither shall any one contribute one cent. Moreover the inauguration of the scheme, will give cmployment to ail secking it, fc millions of money into eivculation, raise the Il kinds of produce and tout of debt develope the resources of the country and add billions to That you shall have el 1 1508 price of labor and ¢ enable the pecple t its taxable prope the whole plan before you in a nut shall formulate it ina few short whe und resolutions Whereas, All men are cr vights and have, by v in this world, un inali and, Whereas, Governments are ordained to se. cure to men their inalienable rizhts; and, , Agriculture is the base of all tion of individual, urity and s —the found stato und national prosperity, s happiness: Resolve this that are fit for f; s and parcel them ou in homesteads of suituble size. She ¢ purchase lands of partics who hav who desire them and need them Under the right of eminent dowmain, she can, when it becomes necessar seize upon lands aud thus use them by cornt pensating the owners. Ived, To carry out the foregol Iution the government shall issue an amount of logul tende © paper curver shall be refunded to her by home these lands, who shall be required to atleast 1 per cent per annum on the ¢ their homesteads, until the government is re imbursed for fitting up the same. to pay the annual installment due steader’s claim, but shall taking oue clsewhero whe forfeited cleim are paid up. Resolved, That th transferable, but 1o | at any ono time of life, There you haye the scheme outlined hold that the man who has no hor means to purchase one is, from ne sity, forced to wotk ' for what others seo fit to gi The right to live carriés with it the ri means to support life—land s indispens , bog, steal or starve. erty and con that curses equent v to the soil. Furm’i % man w you furnish him with cverything needful, or ihe easy means of getting everything If the goyernment is —TInone of yourlate pro- ou propose to bring about such a ated with equal 1 the land that is ncedful for a good living and no , That the government of the United States proceed to furnish improved homes for all her citizens who desive_them and wish to live by cultivating the soil, To ud she can improve all her public lands n also them for sale and make homes for her citizens st of A failuro 3 lio govern- shall work a forfeiture of the home- lebar him from all dues on the 0 homesteads shall be it~ ted to own more than 160 acres of these lands » nor the it of tolife. Nineteen-twenticths of all the pov- and wretcheduess ar cou today is the result of withholding from m . s inalienable right b a home 1ed millions of “flat” SIXTEEN PAGES THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, SUN To Cash Customers WE SAY SHOP around And get the Very Best Figures you can . and then come and see us We Want : Your Money but will aive you large returns for it. Nebraska FURNITURE CO 520-522 N. 16th St. tear up homes during the wa issue millions of “fiat” m to build up homes fo 1f thers was o ne nece now, for 1o ority of its cit ) tin'its perpetuity. the p > the bulwarks of the you like this p vernment vocate it for you, If it be possibl of their to be dot No man need be sorely oppres: monopolists or trusts if the gove nient stands v the terms heveiu proposed If the alliance will adopt a measure so full of proffered blessing as that set fourth in the ve_resolutions, millions would flock to ard. It has in it something t wants of human nature—the de for u home. Some clear, v scheme that the mass adapt to their sorest ne bring about a unity of action. To those who this question for them to answe you propose to do with that L people who are depe ' compreheénd is necessi Jacos Brek. The Letter Ca ' Request. The letter carriers of Omaha, as W those of other cities of the country where th free delivery system is in ve decided interest in a bill which is now befor congress, giving them $1,200 a year saly after three years of service, ‘Phe men here believe the bill should pass, , have petitioned their s and, with this ides congressmen to not only vote for the me ure, but to use their influence with members, Taking everythil bill is regarded o held that a letter carri h position to fill as maeny men who rc who put in three handu cach year working for the government, which the late Senator Cox had i his mind and intended to present to_con and push—pensioning of carriers years of service, As it is noy nail thivty you h day and handliy a Hm\- hospital, unl tolive saved 1,000 a y for him to doif he has g upon him for support Millions upon millions pass throu hands of these faithful, but poor servants cach year and the'least co; do it is urged s to give them some in. to their toil and reward to their honesty s he has be ortunat Few people realize, they claim, what the and s ssed ve that such a life is one of case. But such is life of a lotter-carvicr is, the latter pass the door day afsc in their neat grey suits, one is led o' belic far from the case, The carvier rises at 5 o'clock, eats his s in the nth and breakfast at ¢ stone buildin Dodge stre to nd, an hour late it the corner of 1ifte , busily engaged in sorting ud papers that g I'his work performed, with a pack, we at least twenty-five pe 1ddy street row stairways, down into ba; of the way places, until the delivery is mad But this does not conclude his wor cept in the heart of the city, the carrier by the t on his urn trip, his load in the moruin After reachin, of the same story trip must be work thing in shape f; a fow hours lat This continue :d in order to have eve home, tired and_exhausted, Tk repeated the dollurs to employ men to fight und kill aud THIS 1S A CUT OF OUR WAREROOMS. The Neatest and Brightest Line of Goods in the \1sttors&CustomershlikeWelcome Home! Sweet Home, where’er we roam, Cach voice its praises swell; No place so sweet, so bright and neat, If home is furnished well. ‘W hich will necessarily follow if buy your goods at the Nebraska Furniture Company, Ease, Elegance and Economy are the characteristics of their household Furniture 820 and B22 North 16th street. CREDIT CUSTOMERS We say: We will sell you at cash prices, add- ing 5 per cent for the ac- commodation, and give you any length of time you wish [within rea- son] to pay for your goods. The dealer who says he will scllon time as cheap as for cash is simply a very poor busi- ness man, and places a very low estimate on amount of sense you possess. he can now ¥ to employ men those who need them. sity then there is_also a is safe op- the shelf to make way fora youn brick block with env people contemplate the ton and the Hayde: stove. BIGHTY MILES 0¥ A RAIL I constitute a Clerks and § hing tiken into con- by the clerks to brix ¢ s think they of the stores in the city is sometly ars' Ride on the Street Lines of wtion. 1 1 advoeate ity if you do not fike it get up something better and' T will ad- gles up the Farnam appre 1wl reaches the board nI rade corner Bill I gets on er extinguishing his big pipe. typewrit catch the unber almost 1,000 with others comin behind them and there steps llll 'y have taken SOME FEATURES ON TWO OF THEM. (and T hold it is) to help all the poor and needy of the nation to homes n and tax no one to do it, it oug ml iation in Ch 5 sent to work 400 that, the ladies Scenes Where Crime Has Been Com- mitted, Accidents Happened and Happy Ho in Numbers, i setion of men from places them in a position whe : 3 ve the support of the united labor clement of the city when the ti making their de f . nploy of the old b eneral opionion p wits not deferred: Sixteenth street is reached, was caleined followed so shortly brutal murder of Poor, who' so n to furnish him a home on «.n.p\\ uot intruded, da; Spo him beneath Jug; Union Labor Conve mhm Chamberlain, earn their daily bread selling goods over the counters of the Omaha storc across the lower tracks on South Tenth with musketry and Union Pacific unlike a volley glides up the hill to the north with the dig- nity of o major on dr > upon many of the old-time rook h the viaduet is soon to relegate Jim Stephenson i hall crowd into the mind, a block still further south, But the ' | the Central L ¢ to Labor cenvention, plished, have earried the war merehants and not only propo; ject this scheme T have do v will be held at Lineoln on June 2 come swe but, their than blocks of brick or halls of art, remains in puart devoted to ignoble purpc lent on others for work D them from sturving and nobody wants n the Assemblies, tion a state tick an Omaha Kuight of Labor onal letter to Grand wce to his cquine A fow days @ r, and the boys of No, 2 are washing up, d and sleepy after last night's fi on to Dodge and is pleasurd which can ne counties whe il as desig furth of bricl be found in this city. our ussembly meet- ue, are taking be entitled to ch um voters aud more than fifty voters, answer which is of unusual inter but to all othe reply is as follows: ht to be given to make tl bly mectings of our order i Much has been of Jack Pay the wmlmm southware turns on L il past Ge one a hacl to be tre dead in_the vehic mounted to help his Leavenworth school, the y rs mutual ben 10 is s00n to celel rate the sixtieth an- idal, with difficulty gots on puuse at the postofiice, said from tim as to the duty resentation to be by counties and shall be entitled t warbled with a into consideration, the good one, because it is as responsible a diffieult to blume e The cigar make astrike that promi s of New York ci in breasts the steepy hilland to the round murmer turus | ni alo puaniment of an north on Twentieth st "Phe high school st beautiful of their train the forward move- double the amount of salary paid these men ud sixty-five duys ty boy out the fence. Right botween high walls ~of earth, the cutting of which caused —so much ind bitter fecling, the train rushes union men th tall Here W what must ¢ and which ke beauty of th exclaim my my Lomé out in bad w 15 established. past the form itiful homes of Rev, of labor bodies, and espécially those jor Balcombe with an tion of cigir ¢ that n.“w \\hn. have to make c the old schedule is that, residenco and its gl ful repo; century ago seems to dis What “a baven of z lettors with the wer houses are apulous care and honesty; but, when or old age comes on, as it will in must go to the almshouse or the Lougch mething from his pittance of v, which it i next to impossible faminy dependant passed, the re: eud of the present wee lo cottages which the cretary Roche. embly meetin, , o little flivtation, , would accept tafl of the v view of the fact that every one of Sec Roche’s appointees so far, Tim Hurst and been the rawest But sec, how rudely scarred is that wall of carth which fc is an evidence of the push and progress of Omaha, which, for thirty years, has been driving priva to be determined by bap-hazard, s grace u veranda in the vicinity There should’ be tern associati street the voyageur obeys the i with the exception Hardy Henderson, have retion which rin obtain a thorough nsight into our lhl en Hn original inhabitants of the woods and plains. That wall v and that ne of the pr city. Mr. Hamilton oppo Omaba man 1y discussions ove volving no matter of 1 IRocho to induce system glow frittered away how to advance given to the cons , and until Mayo , and & man thoroughly ¢ labor-reform and impartial, quicl isions, and the very is in need of, of Blogg was a mist skould have had the place and ‘speakers, or men who might orth Sido scoret fratorni to speak and take part in the programm Don't place too wuch munually fight 0 to residents along l\h h s, Lo stirts out, up dark and nar ments and out always well n it can’ be mang xpenditure of ttled and at last, jiners have return policy to put ull’ your strength into a spe effort to hold & grand public de: t the enthusiusm aroused gradually and the cause languish for want of p the intevest in the a bly meetings and continuing the educati g the newly made recruits.” v and handed tc nues the force of detect tako up the mail along his route, so that, he is ready to start is qually as great as when he left the postofice to ex-tovern , went to Cokedale and The Carpenters’ Success, The Brotherhood of Cs in this city is rejoicing over the result of the elght-hour movement. the office, it Is a repetition as tho mail for the next rpenters aud Joiners | §1.10 for hard coal & mond's bower; which has been waltzed | board of educ or the delivery which comes Twenty-seven cities penters—haye secured Nine cities still prolong the fight and six have compromised on & uiue- dence, another we da ' onnell's until 7 o’clock in the even- ing, when the letter carrier returns to his must be woxt day and the next and until sickness or old age cause bim 0 be placed | the cight-our day. pany claim, have by Of the strike, lu seventy-two cities and towas a nlne-bour George Leslie coutemplates Judg: worth strect. Mr, Connell wa while a_ hund argains of the Bos- and the Benison's ‘T'he horse seems a little tired as he str wductor’s ¢ the train waits, tly to the satisfaction of the young malé who make the most of the fact t on speaking terms with the T'he fated sonthwest corner of Howardand ve poor Dr ter b ped destruction as 10 his luundry on th One block further south is passed the where Loencisen’s carele threw naut, wheel South i nell ha motor. Recol have all gone, the glovions, happy, pretty girls, the rare and it iaidens, have all_gone, but some of Id buildings remain. The girls have be- hearts and wives and mother: Ima mater, which was once dearer nd but e und ufully vecalling scenes of innoce v die. buildin in the ex- on of the and still is an aggregation lmost s any to er south there of which there of that of T south th nd mo The motor eviden re to continue 58 the viaduet, but at length snworth strect, pumps up the Parr’s Dr. Jensen’s,whither ht John Frank was carried in «d and where he was found when rimy n alight., Past Wl of which nd and a resolute as- g daggers at a ds a letter in- her | istant is look s the plain but comfortuble home of C. Humilton whose good taste has preserved > to hiim the forest primevid, always before him the natural hich first caused him to “Here will I build senger narks 500 you ith its_antependium of tices ded lawns, Observe how the bliss of the woodlund of a_quarter of i wuish the plice not this have many year Apropos, a pas thie en to the ow the southern line, That esidences of the lar lass even_as civilization has s made by a cut scavenworth strect hfarves in the d the cut. H that it was coming, und onc {ted with those who favored the about these words w, don't tter Your time ill com on > along a little furth nain. 1 have walked over years, I won't ov can't vy much longer. But I do 1 when 1 cuan no lo why let them b s mad, ising the howe ¥ expos on still walks over of them, His has been ie hills—all f retivement assailed, still retains of ti with which modern cannot crfe 1 which may not bo deprived ceven though it be encompassed rush of traftic on every side On the next corner, poor Sam Donnelly of The Herald, lived and thence b 0 Omaha when he left for N re he subsequently fell beueath 1 to devotion ut the shrine of en there is Milton Roj 1-preserved s a view of Cc ence, which | Mury's uveu m both S SWhere does your fathe a | of brass in flowers with rhine stone drops, glistening in their hearts, “Let me out and 1\11 build the fire.” v Mr. Jones has just boughf one of these new folding bedg at the Nebraska I° mm(m‘é Co, and likes it so well ll).lf it's next to impossible for M Jones to get him upto breakfast) finds it works so easily she cafy shut it with a broom, and \ln§ cut shows how she doesit. By the way, the Joneses furl, nished their entire house 11}} Nebraska Furniture Co." from the hat rack where ]nnc j hangs up his boots on “‘Lodg Nights” to the pretty, chea chamber suit, way up in thi garret chamber. Go and sce the S 8 Nebraska Furniture COMPANY. the grade. He preached it and night, it, down went his terraces and up wenf nworth strect stock as i waln avenue o is s of which St. Mary's aven o uwly Nt oM (O e v bt strechd Onthe next bloc nds St. Peter's churehy the pastor of which, Father Boyle, so recently went to his reward. 1 md ex-C neilma Lee and J h\ seck ducats in the liver) further stands the resig dy, which he thought 0 would remain in the country - Then around the corner and the train is on Park aven On cither side the happy homes of Il known citizens, survounded with every grace and beauty of luwu und terrace, The park is reached but not visited becansa the man who is travelio hty miles on thd street cars i day has not time for such did version. The next car is taken on the retury the South Omaha motor is reached and thysfe follows a succession of rides which te Mt only after n it full when the tour of the city, has been mi cry line been vidden over and the voyager reduced to the condition which promises a good night's slecp s and relieion are accepted second hind Mudge tells me that he does 10t believe the Bible, Wickwire—Oh, well, you couldn’t expeet him o, He diduw't wiito ity you se The mills of the g but they keep up a continual grind Elderly and Dienified T What Kind of dress should a superannuated minister assume! Clerk -Might 1 suggest retiving robest He was a little fellow, and what he_remembered abont the plied: “Not very much, but it wi thil hout Paul ‘sending pistols for ped@ pens One day the organ softly play “Erom Greenland's 16y me 1 all the people humbly prayed v shelter in the cooling shade v Siloam’s famous fountain When Johnny Frecze thus roused bis sivey A monopolist in icc i SWhen other folks are in the fire s rind slowly cnongh, 1 The cost of ice will go_ much higher Tor won't we raise the price Parson —This brokerago business of yourd is nothing but gambling, deacon You hould give it up. Doeucon -No more tharn you do, Parson—What! you moean that [ gambled Deacon—Well, you deal in futures. Rev. Mr. Grimes (to Juc and when you have a parti you ask himi Judge Tort—1 preach ® who his deeds in sin has planncd \d dieth empty handed Will when hie seelgs the golden In Jordau's waves bo stranded Chicago Ever Holworthy (entering late)—How long 0 IO ) alarly bad boy ro you what is the first question i Dr. Vox been preachingd Sexton-—T two years sir. Holworthy—1 guess 1 g0 ini, then Pho meek shall inherit the earth," quoted the minister to a parishioner not noto iig meckness, Yes," veplied tho la bt the hustler is contesting the will 0 rous R Longnecker—Dear, T wish T could think of sowo way jake the coi tion Little T y uu 3 right bebind the pulpit “N dc was t \ man 8 chool . fiee yelled o e wered and profune vhat mixed So your son is inthe ho is an humble follower, Mr. Willets—1 should suy 1 Iy he s makiog 1o less than $#4,500 th good prospects of un wds - Very dainty and_elegant is a photo hold tic patiern enameled in cole I'he frame is twined with exquisitely tinted like great dews,

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