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THE OMAHA DAILY BER SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5 , 1800--TWENT'Y PAG 1L CYOLO Joaquin Miller in Frank Lestic's Monthly, *And bahold thelr came a great win dfrom d smote the four eorners o Tob, The burly Wind walked forth to find me pleasant play, some place to sing, o, to play, to laughing bind in gold for harvesting, ¥lo heard a maiden sing: he laughed and sang The while be wrought till all the corn-felds rang. And then he, laughine. turned about T'o seck the woods where Forcons past, Butlo! a shout Burst from his lips, He, shrieking, lald §iis two hands forth, like Samson, when he died, And const. and Death his bride. The bomeless Wind! The Wind unhoused ! T'his Wind that brought us corn and wine, The Wind was as alion roused ws Samson and the Philistines. . . . o build again. But when ye build, I pray Build ye a bouse wherein the Wind can play. ation was; Give me the Wind, the glorious Wi The wide winged, wondrous Winds of God That go or s or loose or bind, Or walk the seas, or rend the But he Wind that gives us wineand o Bomepla ce to bide wherein his strength was born, Mavie Miner in Detroit Free Pres. The bravest are the tenderest, The loving are the daring, yard Taylor. “Ifanybody thinks it's an easy job to elimb the hights’ let him try it.” gnid Ernest Kenan, the older of two tired huntsmen who wero toiling up a mountain in Western Carolina, 1 Bwitzerl of America. The speaker looked anxiously at his companion, a tall, slender youth, whose diticult preathing and unusual pallor indicated more than mere fatigue. “*You should have let rifle for you, as I wished said he. Not a bit of it,” replicd the youth as he leaned against a forest tree and closed his oyes a moment in evident exhaus tion. While crossing a narrow ravine on a fallon treen few days before the loosened park had broken and slipped off, causing him to fall. The distance was not great, perhaps twelve or fifteen fect, but he fell Upon a broken, splintered stump, from which the trunk had been wrenched in n wind storm, and in some way bruised me carry that Herbert,” his lungs, from which a orrhage had followed. Tt pnd they were some miles from camp and anxious tofind shelter for the night. “I wonder if that barefoot boy, ‘with turncd-up pantaloons and merry whis- tled tunes,” was fooling us when he said we'd find comfort; s up here; peems to me these haven'’t been Invaded since the ark’stranded on Ara rat.” LIl answeor for him,” said Herbert; ¥those clenr eyes under that torn hat prim’s jaunty grace were as honest as punshine, The house is not far off, unless we have missed the way.” Ina few moments more they came upona man sitting upon a log, his arms crossed on the top of a gnarled walking ptick, his hoad bowed upon them. Be- side him lay a beautiful grayhound, an unusual sight in that wild region. The creature’s bright eyes were fixed on the huntsmen, but he made no sound till they were within a few steps, then a qu short bark caused his master to raise his head and respond to the greet- ing of the strangers. When they asked of hecould direct them he replied in a voice singularly sweet and musical, giv- ing some brief directions, and assuring them of a welcome, then called to his dog “Max,” and spenking gruvely but gently to him, sent him on ahead o8 a guide. “*Did you observe that man specially?’”’ nsked Herbert when they had walked some distance in silence. id,and a more remarkable face or scen. He presents an odd > of youth and age, of gentleness of strength and decrepitude, That man has lived theough a soul-trag- edy and has o history,an uncommon one, or I am greatly mistaken. He must have posscssed onco great personal with unusual strength of character and of rn\mla‘ A Hercules 1is might,” **[ was surprised to see a dainty gray- hound at home in these wilds, where one finds, as a rule, only the ugliest of curs, but still more surprised when the man looked up and spoke us he did. T would like to have known him in his youth; but, in fuct: he must be still young in Bpite of that bowed figure, T feel that I can never can forget him,” said the sen- pitive Herbert. Their guide had suddenly disappeared but little further on a turn brings them out on a beautiful natural lawn where stood a simple but roomy and tasteful house. On the long, low porch wero two children bestowing delighted car- esses on Max, forgetful of the lapfuls of yellow jasmine bells they were dropping on the o A delicious supper and tempting bed failed torestore Herbert Grey, and the morning found him unable to proceed without great risk, 8o it was agreed that he should remain a_day or two with their kind hostess, Mrs, Emrick, while Mr, Kenan returned to the camp to join therestof the party on a deer hunt, The youth chafed at this enforced inac fon and found the first day a long one. In the evening he saton the poreh talk- ing in subdued tones with Mrs, Emrick, ‘who was soothing to sleep an ullmg child You have chosen a wcndrnus]y beau- tiful spot for your home,” said he, *'in such a place as this one could nlmust for- get the lower world and its cares.’ “It wus a fancy of Jim’s, my husband’s ‘broth: he who sent the dog with you here; he chose tho place, and insisted on a large house, bearing nearly all the ex- pense. He loved this wild scenery, and hose flashing waterfalls, and used fo say he would bring his pretiy wife back up here out of the dust of tne town in sum- mer.” “His wife! Was he married?” asked Herbert, roused from his listless attitude and anxious to hear something of the man who had so strangely and so deeply {nterested him, “No,” replied she, “I will tell you tho story, if you like, it is not long; just Yot me put this baby down; perhaps she will sleop a little while.” ‘God never made a finer man than Jim Emrick,” said she, us she stood leaning, her "head back ' against a post, that upheld the roof of the poreh; the long sprays of the fragrant yellow old- fashioned jasmine lulliu'[ ugainst ber smooth halr, her eyes fixed upon the scene before her, valleys and mountains ptrotehing away into illimitable dis- tance, u scene whose sublimity no words pould convey. The man she described was cast in na- ture’s finest mold. 'Good and brave, Ilmn{ and pure; to know him was to trust him. 'he faith which little chil- dren, lacod'in him was not wmore com- ?hle han that folt by men. He was a lo- mmm anflmr..nd a botter one never @ cab. More than once that bo had played | ¢ head and fearlees spirit had Imnr- voned between men and death, It has been truly Mled the silliest article in our social creed that & man is not a gentleman who works with his hands, “He who would be a better gentleman n the carpenter of Nazareth is not hy of him. Emrick well deserved st he had won and the love of the the beautiful woman he adored. Jeannie Cameron was Mrs. Emrick’s half sister; her mother, a Virginian of mind and educ had done & noble her step-dnughter, who, in re- turn, had taken to her heart tho little | step sigier and cherished her tenderly, teaching her with and throwing avound her mother] of u perfe »ss youth the shelter Jim'had always said that \ sweet young wife awaited him, and when he eame home after ce wnd found his brother Will marriedand Jeannie there, he said: 'his is she,” but no word of love spoke he for years, With the girl the feeling was a growth, For a long time he was to her only a tall, handsome man, whose haz eyes, sometimes capablo of intense fire, “udden lightning, smiled down upon »r, while the soft brow mustache failod to hide the joy and mischief play- pout his mouth, T davs when as off duty and came up here to the moun tains, the wee Nora perched upon his shoulder, Jeannie and the other children running like deer over hills and valleys, were days brim full of delight to them all. For the great hureying world far below them they little cared, The little Donald and Lenette were wading one day, in a stream, and leap- ing from stone tsstone acr its fluted s while Jeannie stood on abluffabove singing a wild, joyous song and watching the motions of the birds that scemed beside themselvesas they darted swre and there among the branches, sudden bursts of rival melody r quivering throats. It was no that lhu songsters of the woods it, forthe girl’s cy was #uch as is & had studiously voice in its brll rarely heard. Emric cultivated his own rich voice in order to h Jeannie to develop her wonderful ft. Today bright spots burned on her ahieeitaT RAY! heavy drops hung on her lashes, called forth by some inexplica- ble emotion. She started, but did not pause, when she found Jim with little ora. on his shoulder close beside her. He did not now join his rich, mellow tones with her lighter treble, but stood silent till she sed, when he said softlv: “You ov the birds, have sung away my heart:” moment, he added: wife then the waorld holds nothing for me.” She stood alone in thought, then turned slowly and laid her cheek upon the strong hand that clasped the child, oll from the dark and the bright drops lashes Thus upon the flower and ‘‘harvest s"as upon the bridal s a dew drop, or a no word till she ealled the children and turned homeward, as “I'he sunset gloy in the hills grew pale,”? The spirit of evil ever watches near the happiest spols on earth. and it was not long ere his black wing swept over this sun-loved place; trailing its shadow across the blue heavens. Mrs, Emrick saw with regret that Mr. Lacy scemed to be acquiring o sort of influcnce with Jeannie; the girl was in the mist. With intuitive perception the elder sister read this man, but she knew Jeannie’s heart better than Jeannie herself did, and for- bore to speak, trusting to love to bring her back to a clearer atmosphere. The idyllic summer was passing. Mr. Lacy came often and sat onthe lawn with Jeannie, who laughed at his witti- cisms and read thenovels he brought her, but would mever sing for him thongh he tried every art of persuasion, The smiles came rarely into Jim's eyes now, and the soft moustache concealed 'th on the evening when he mbed up the mountain, not bounding e a chamois, us of old, his heart burn- nw at the thought of some boastful words of Lacy’s; words for which he would have strangled him but for the s0ft, restraining touch of the good angel on his arm. To such souls as Jim mrick’s the angel mos- senger keeps close. He found Jeannie under u tree, whose low, sproad- ing branches screened her bare head from the sun. Her soft, simple white dress revealed the grace of her form, and thret into relief the long, trailing vine with its dark green leave which the children, who worshipped her, had wound around her waist. She rose with a flush when Emrick took up the book that lay on her lup, glanced over its pages and dropped it on the ground. With an eloquence born of a deathless love ho urged her to see Lacy no more. He knew the mun to be unworthy of her lightest regard, yet he did notdwell upon this; he might have told her that which would have shocked the delicate flbers of her nature, but he simply pealed to her without bringing char against the other, *It is not for myself I plead,” ho cried at last, when she opposed only a haughty silenco to his |Jurnmg words. “T entreat you to believe it is of you I think. I am your lover no move, if you will have it so, but _your protector, your ap- friend, your watchful guard T must always be while we both do live. Noth- ing but sorrow and suffering could come 10 you us the wife of that man. I would rather see you dead.” His face was white, his voice sharp with pain, but without raising her eyes from the ground she turned 'to leave him. He started forward to dotain her, but with a gesture, she turned suddenly, and, lglunt'c— for she could not nto his eyes and said it—she cried: hate you. He stood like one stunned, then stag- gored forward and sank upon the “Iolll!d burying his face in the folds of her dress. A moment she bent over him, her hands hovering above his head, her bosom panting, her red lips forming the word “Jamie.” Ifhe had seen her face with its halo of luw So near, 0 near are two infinities, and pain, The glow faded, and \\n.x firm hands she drew her dvess from his grasp and fled up the mountain, Far out of sight and hearing she threw herself down upon the grass in a wild burst of weeping. There in the dewy dark her grey- hound found her, and” jumping upon her in his delight, tried to lick her tear-wet face. Sitting up, she put her arms around him, ~ “Max never doubts his friends. Max trusts me always!” He kept close to her side on the way home, The great, silent, listening mountains liftod their heads about hor, the stars shone out in the purpling dusk, with high meanings in" their mystic tracery, oiceless rebukings of her pride. Thoughts born of the “heaven and the earth and the fountains of water” sprang up in her soul; before them the mist that had envapted her lifted wnd rolled away. Standing nlone on that high-sloping mountain-side, her face uplified, her hand on the dnn. there came to her a baptism of humility and love. Autumn hed com The alr was In- toxicating. 'he lulhf ripened by the light and heal, was glowing with color and splendor, ‘Wh\ royally had that ‘old artist king, \be sun,’‘done his work. The pleasure ers had departed, with averted have looked W1 loaving the grand old mountains to the solitudo they seemed to love. But laugh, gleeful and_sweet, rippled over tho bosom of the silence and & bright, childish figure came rolling over and over down the long grassy slope that swept like a smooth green river down the steep hillside, Reaching the bottom, a tangle of blue and white skirts, yellow hair and leaves, she picked herself up and shaking her- sell into order when she was joined by her more sober com panion, and together they strolled on, “Tt isa joy to be alive on sucha day as this,” said tho impulsive child, a lovely, r-like creature of thirteen years; “hut Tam tred of laughing; sit” hero and sing for me, Miss Cameron. 1f ever, ever have to leave this beautiful world Iw-mt you to sing to me the very Vil \(Hu]u itp” u|y will if 1 can Amelia,’ said annie, brushing the from tho child’s bright hair. shail Tsing?” nd o' the Leal,’ “It makes me cry. vos “What 9 roplied y but 1 I she promptl like to be sad sometimes. believo you used to sing that for somebody you loved very, very much. Did you ever love anybody very, very much, Miss Cameron?” “Yes' siid Jeannie, softl sang. the brook at herfeetund waterfull giving a tender und. Luow must bid adieu Toall below and yon, And visit worlds anew in the Hand o'the Loal. “Phere’s nae sorrow there, There’s neither caul nor care, The days aye fair Inthe Land o' the Leal, wl g e . nd she istant We'll meet to part nae mair In the Land o' the Leal.’ The child dropped her head, sobbing on Jennie's shoulder, but presently, with quick change of mood, sprang up and ¢ have arunacross the long trestle and home to mamma,” and_she danced away like apuffof down. Tho wlhole carth toheran open, unlimited festival of love, and life themusic of an wmolian harp through which the breath of love breathed; a creature rather for the spring and bloom of the ideal than the melancholy autumn of the real, Into her bright home Jeannie had come s her teacher soon after that lonely watch on the mountiin. They had reached the further end of the trestleand were stand- ing there watching the sun at the head of the gorge as he sank rapidly into his grave between heaped-upsodsof crimson and gold; and wild and sweet was the darleening wind blowing downthe gorge. But the airvibrated with another sound, the ominous rumble of a trainclose upon them, Jeannio would have jumped off down the embankment, and called to Amclin todo so, but the terificd child had turned and was fleeing bae 038 the long streteh of trestle above the ravine, Jeannie followed her, and so fleet were they that they would have got- ten over but that the child turned her lead to look back, tripped and fell, Jeannie had passed her, butcame back and with leroic efforts tried tosave hm In vain! The hot of the fic monster was on her cheek! She ro: ~'nul stood upright,looked into the pallid face of the engineer, then flung out her arms with the joyful ery could not hurt her. One instant, looking into each other’ , they stood soul to soul; then the love-lit face went down be- neath the cruel wheels, whilea wail that scemed to spend hislife went up from that man’s heart. Watchful always, he had seen the Hying figures as he made a sharp turnaround a bend near the trestle and had done all that could be done, but in vain, The child’s attempt to recross the tres- tle was a fatal mistake. She was thrown 1o the rocks below 4nd expired a few hoursafterin her mother'sarms, having told her the story of her last walk with ler sweet friend and of their last song. With a face like death, but a hand strong and stady, BEmrick, when all was over, took the train on to the end of his run; but who shall tell of the agony of those terrible miles, when each revolution of the giant’ wheels seemed to hisquivering nerves to crush again through that form that was the flower of the earth to him. journey ended and his duty done, he to step down from his place, but ad fell upon the ground like one O, that awa Strong men reeled ¢ pt; they could led ho had died in that hour of unconsciousness, He was a wreck in body—the shock had shattered his nerves, The doctors said little, but muttering something about railroad spine, ordered him to be talcen up to his mountain home, far from sight and noise of the engines, whose sounds were now tevrible to him. The seasons assed. Broken and bowed and aged, he wandered alone amid the places whero memory lent its hue to every leaf (AT rAn s A A the dew-wet grass beside that lonely grave far up the mountain. When, a few wecks after their first visit, Herbert and Mr. Kenan, about to return home, went to say good-by to their kind friend, Mrs. Emri were two graves beneath the whispering trees, watched over by the solemn, stening mountadins, They had met— ‘T'o part nae mair In the Land o’ the Leal - Dr. Birmey, nose and throat, Bee bldg - Apprentices In the Elizabethan Age. If the young man’s talent lay in the direct- fon of comedy, Kempmightaddress him aftor this manner: “Methinks you should belong to my tuition, aud your face, methinks, would be good fora foolish Mayor or afoolish Jus- tice of Peace,”” says the National Review. Not scldom the efforts of novices to copy na- ture excited the derision of experts. Kemp, achametorin a play, “Tho Roturne from Peruassus,” published in 1601, says to Bur- bage: *‘Itis a good sport in & part to see therm never schk butat the end of the stage justas thou gh in walking with a fellow, we should fnever speak but atastyle, a gate, ora ch, whero & man can go no further. = Be sided’ possessing o good memory, an actor needed to have “a_quick study.”’. It is not geuenlly kiown thatt the expression 1o sleep still in use among ac- current in _ Shakes- T of an’ actor whose memory has failed him while acting his part, quickly transfor- ring the responsibility to the stage keeper. “It is all along of you, I could not get my parto nignt or two before to sleep upon it he promptor, or “bookholder,* as he wis more often called, was not an unmnecessary 0 on a *‘new day," the first performance of anew play. He would have received many a warning, *‘to hold the book well, that we benot non plus in the latter end of the lay." And Ben Jobuson has giyen an amus- g deseription of an additional description on tho part of the author that was not of the actor's seeking, “to have his presence in the tiring house, 10 prompt us aloud, stampat the bookholder, swear for our propertics, curso the poor tireman, rail the music out of tune, and sweat for every venal trespass we commit.” The members of a theatrical company being limited in number, it wus often_necessary for the impersonators of Kings and herves to represent very in- ferior characters in the same play, & civcum- stance to the advantage of the Emlmnlfl who could thus obtaln capable exponents for the parts of messengers und attendants, and was able, therefore, to ‘“write up" these parts without fear of the author's lines bei g man- rlud by incompetence or made ridiculous by [alse pretension, Actors who doubled their parts wore the double cloak, a cloak that might be worn om either side. A turned cloak, with @ faise beard and a black or yel- !fl‘: |»e£ku, supplied a ready and cffectual Dr Birney cures unt..m h, Bee bldg “k and then we'll go| __.__.__.__-________.__ ONAHA'S RANSHACKLESQUARE Tottering Relio of Wretchedness and Filth Bought by Uncle Sam. GOVERNMENT TOLERATION OF A SHAME. The Disgraceful Practices and Lines of Business of Those Who Occupy the Future Postofce Site. the “How long will the government suffer these to remain " € The question is aslced by nearly every one who views the unsightly shells on the gov- ernment block, which was purchased about a year agoas asito for the newpostofice, and thesame question, with scatlet-tinted and sulphurous varintions, is daily propounded by the occupants of the surounding prop- erty when the wind happens to blow in their direction, It is not surprising that this isso. The variegated and exaggerated odors that oma- nate from the tambledown rookerics on block S0 baffle description, and it is no won- der that sensitive olfaclories are constantly oftnded by the noxions fumes and gases that reto beencounteral at almost any timo in that neighborhood. Numerous demands have been made upon the board of health, swiitary commissioner and the health officers, but no reliefl has been fortheoming, for the reason that the site is government proper and the local authorities have no jurisdiction over it. Collector Alexander, as the government custodian of the property, can give but little lllfflrnl.llluuuhu\”. the situation other than that it is proposed to _ultimately remove the I t bui ngs and crect a federal struc- in their place. Even if matters are ox- pedited us pitoh a8 may onably be hoped for it will bea vearbefore tho work of tea ing down will 3 “And is this" stench to continue for another twelve-month!” is the des; public wail. It .-.-rmml\ 100ks 50, less the auth o pit y in thevicinity of \|\hw|l!l and Dodge streets and order the n abated, They evidently take little pi the appearance of the plice_us long tinues to by monthly rental present of al )0, and the only reli pears 1o be in the chance of conv of that condensed malaria into the territory contigruous to the oMicial organs of smel An oxternal survey of tho property gives avery incomplete and madeqiate conception of “what is to bo _found within The Planters’ house, located on the corc of Sixteenth and T o, is mor s. It might have been quite struoturo in its prime, and its thied stox might havo been regarded as something of -scruper thirty years ago, in what v-as then afrontier town, ‘but “things hev chunged since Hannerdied,” and theold Planters is now monnmental only an eyesore to the present generation. U its appeavance was the worst thing aguinst it would probably be tolerated without exciting more than an occasional murmur of remonstrance. Its painfully ill- proportioned outlines could be forgiven; its staring windows, leaky Ino[ umu\mv’ wiys, little tuck v o AT (ot ecrrid o it perhaps be forgotten; those aisfiguring pock-m which bear silent testimony to the pow the tempest over paint, might be noted with- out a gronn. Allthese would be as nothing; but when it comes to thatvociferousand multitudinous stench—0! That particular smellis possessed of an up- ward and onward tendency, its onward char- acteristic being especially’ apparent, and that iswhat causes trouble, It is penetrating, and persistent, and like the industrious Eli,it ets there every time, Its origin—and right there is something scarcely less than remari- able— its origin isina 8x10 brick addition to the hotel proper, 1t goos without sayingthat this 1ittle room generates more offensive ef- a t0 the square inch than any other na tor in Omata, altowing the distilleries, g works and Jones and Davenport streot dumps to bethirown in a bunch. Despite all this, the wife of the highly indignant when the reporter asked whether none of the boarders objected to it, She first disabused his mind of the 1den that there were any boarders there. They wore “roomers,”” and they were all *‘nice, réspectable puoph‘ = Th wouldn't have anybody but respectable | ple there, and “thereare . coupleof disr utable wornen serving out their fines in jail now because they rented ro here and tried to carry on their busi our noses. ? They had *em arvested Monday afternoou. S The woman was certain (hat the reporfer wanted to get a leaso of the property and took pains to tell him that there wasn't a man on earth that could get her leaseaway from ber. Mr. Alexander bad told her that she could have the property just ie wanted it, so far as he was con and that nobody clse stood any ehance at She vouch: i was paving §25 amonth for tho property, but confidentially informed the reporter that he couldn't rent it for less than §55 a month, and she kunew it, because M lexander told her that there couldn't anybody else have it at the figure she was puying. 'l‘hu[lr‘flsp\'\'h was not good for securing a favorable lease, and the reporter was ponder- iug over the situation, when the woman offered to sell her leaso for $75. She said the llmsu held good until the building was pulled down, “It's only a verbal lease sho declared, “out then that's as good a oue as I coula get, because you can’t get written leases of the L’u\'('l'ulll(‘uL‘ but I had wituesses, and the lease will hold till doomsday, if thehouse stands that long. A “That water closet has given me some trouble, because I can't stand it to carry up water, and the house don't pay enough to hire aman to doit. There ave ouly fifty-six [ in the house counting v, and the place pays about §90 amonth, I carricd up water for o whiloand kept il there ina bar- rel, but the roomers got to stealing it to was with, 50 that L had to giveit up. 1 conldn! begin to keep enough there. We used to dump somo of it into the bowls when they got stuffed up, and sometimes folks weren't vory careful and would run them over, That would make the floor wet and it would run down into the room below. They noedu't kick about the smell, It all corues from that little pile of garbage that a man is paid tocart away every day. There ain't any big smell heve,” Just nt that momant a littlo mphyr by pened to zeph from the divection of the little brick excwscence. 0, no, thereare no big smells there, and it is well there are none, for if thoy were asstrong in proportion as 'the little on thoy would pull all the neighbor- ing tel @ 03 potes out of &ho ground. AlL this happens because sonebody isn't paid 818 a yoar and have the water turuod on, The government refuses to do it, bocauso when the property was vacated some en prising thiof stole & lot of the pips and neavl all the fixtures, The tenauts refuse to do it because they can't afford it. The flat has gone forth that the closet must be abandoned. ~ Tne door is to bo nailed up, and _a lotof outhouses in the rear of the building utlized heredfter. As the lesser of the two evils, the closet is entitled to careful constderation. A little ecsspool fn the yurd tries hard to its end up, 5o _to speak, and has proven lmu[’hwonh, rival of the nfovesaid closet, 1t will undoubtedly attract attentioa itself in the near future. Tho other buildings on the Sixtecnth street sido of the block ave, fore the most part, still rishing sheltor of 4 meagre chisracter to a oceupants who seem toexpect to ba or- dered out on short notice. Next to the Plant- or's house is a story aud @ half frame struce tare, the lower floge of which s occupled on one side by a barber ‘shop, and & rbeumatic sign on the other side proclaims to the pass- {ng throug that Singdee prosides over the New York laundrys within. The dilapidated outer stairway has(fallen prosiate from thoot cxbuustlon, gnil on oo side of tho Dullding, torm Loosd Trom its rotten studding, leans comfortably aginst the side of tho uelghboring structdre, waiting until the frlendly order shatf come for 1t to bo talken in_outof the wet, Next door is & blacksmith shop, where Denuls Cusningham, the iulustrious emith, has 1o put in 50 mugh of his time na his nhuu\?' toguther that he ean spare \uy ittle of it for any other work. Adjoining is a livery stable aunex, sud be- yondit a fish market. Noxt comes a frult llnl\fl and after that a barber lhtT. All of hem are little 2x4 apariments, in which thn proprietor stands with his hand on the door knob ready to make a jump for sfetyif the shaking roof gives a louder oreak thin usual. A news stand and laundry office intervene between the barber shop and shooting gallery, where every discharge of the little 3caliber target riflosets the quivering wilts o shak- ing ominously. A carpenter shop 13 the last evidinee of civilization on that side of the block as the room on the corner is vacant, and its charrod and blackened walls tell grimly of the fire that was doubtless intended fo sweop the whole strlnr of fire traps from the faco of the earth, but failed so limentably. Such is the tout ensemble of one side of the government block, for embelishing which congress hus appropriated §800,00, and work on which has been delay ed and when it will be commenced no one may tell, —— Dr. Birey cures catarrh, Beo bldg, - Ansiousto Ploase, Stroet, & Smith's Good Ne keepor—Have you any red raspberrics New Clerk—N-0, mum, but we hove some rather red blackberrios. Dr. Birney, House- Il - , nose and throat, Bee bldg. FIGUIE The figure © inour dates will makon long stay, No man or woman now living will ever date s Jocument without using the fguro 0. It stands I the third place in 180, where it will remain ten years and then move up tosecond place In 1900, where it will rest for one hundred years. “There isanother 9 whioli s nlocomsto stay, 1t is unlike the figure 0in our dates in thorespect that it has already moved upto fiest placs, whete it will permanently remain. It is called tho ** 9" lligh Arm Wheeler & Wilson Scving Machine. "The *“No. 0" wis endorsed for first placo by the experts of Burcpent the Parls Ex position of 188, where, afler & severo contest with the leading my chines of the world, it wus awarded the only Grand Prize given to family sswing machines, all others on exhibit having reccived lower nwarls of gold medais, ote. The French Government Mmreuqxx;/ox its superiorityby thedecorstion ot Mr. Nathaniel Wheeler, President of the oom pany, withthe Cross of the Legion of 1Xonor. b0 *“No. 9" s not en okl machine improved upon, but 1s an entirly nev machine, and the Grand Prize st Paris was awarded itas the grand: estadvance in sewing machie mechanisn of the age, Those wlo buy it can rest sssured, thers tore, of baving the very latest and bect. WHEIELER & WILSON N'F'G CO., 85 and 167 Wabash Ave., Chicago B F. PLOI Y, 220 North Sixteenth Street. A bull in a china-shop could not create more stir than the prices on Job-Printing now being quoted by Chase & Eddy, 113 S, 16th. “INVENTED AT LAST. A GODSEND TO THE FAMILY, TIE WOMAN'S DOUCHE will absolutely remoy all impuritios 1188 all foretn deposits by the #1mple use of warm water. The Inyigorating action 0ed upon the mucous membrane prevents andcuresall thoso barussing diseises s0 common IRVE perfoct, | h every night befo alth and e om- clir aflc rable and_cons t to nny addio: Warranted as alvert Dr. Haugharout. 19; Neb. Sollby all leading d SPECIAL SALE MOCKING BIRDS, tra fine birds, guaranteed, $4.5 IMPORTED HARTZ MOUN- TAIN CANARIES. Extra fine singers, 83 cach RED VRGINA GIRDIMLS d, Vo be wiih- pient under all it singers each MARACMBO YELLOW HEAD- ED PARROTS, Youngund tame, $2.50 cach, MAX GEISLER, 4)7 S. 18th St. Omaha THE LATEST MINGD COLLAR INCANDESCENE ELECTRIC LIGHTING. Are Lights and Motors. | Light b mall Eleotr! ns forsores, fac « i and Consulting Ihllhlhr.:. Omiha.Neb. he traa dy GOODMAN DRUG € 0., 110 Farnaw Street, « = Omaba, Neb, MAX MEYER & BRO, The Popular Jewelers, Are receiving dslly from the leading manufaoturers of thia country and Burope, ull the JEWHLRY, SILVERW ARE, MENTS, LAMPS, FIELD GLASSES, 10080, for ladies and gentlomen. tham, %mhwfleld. B o, OUR PRICES ARE LOWER THAN HVER, and ALL GOO0ODS are WARRANTED. Space willnot allow usto QUOTHE PRICE 3 a3 our stcokis too L?RGE and VARIED, but come It will Visitorsare always WELOOME, and should you WISH to buy, wo will mako it an objsct tor you to DEAL WITH US. W are chownz HUNDREDS of artioles suitabl and otheor GIFTS, at prices ranging from 81 up $1,000, ANl our customers ave TRE ATED ALIKE, whother tholr purchases bs SMALL or GR BAT. and oo for yourao ves. MAX MEBY Sixteenth and Farnam § BESTABLISHED 1866, NV and PAINLESS METHOD of EXTRACTING TEST i Dr. Bailey isfasttaking the lead. the use of this method. SILK UMBRFLLAS, OANES3 OPERA AND ANEROID BAROMETERS, THERMO ME- THRE, SPECTACLES and EYE GLASSES, Bio, Bto, DIAMONDS and a'l other prosious GOLD, SILVER and NIOKEL WATCHES, in all gralos, HOWARD WATCHES A SPEC- IALTY, but we carry all other flrst-class makos—Llgin, Wal- LATEST NOVELTIES in FINR OLOOKS, BRONZE ORNA- 8:ones, mountod and ©o8t you nothing to LO OK. ER & BRO,, Streats, Omaha. Neb. = No injurlous after effects follovw IT IS NOT COCAINE, as has heen reproe- sented by some people, but acts much better without the danger at- tending it. the above, and it only requires a Gold and Silver Fillings at W ork of the most recent invention, sented. Rememberthelocation, Dyr. Bailey, Dentist, Hundreds have already been convineced of thetrruth of trial to convince lowest prices. all, Crown and Eridga All work guaranteed as repre- Paxton Block Take Elevator at 18th Street Entrance. NO CURBR! DrDOWNS NO PAY. 1816 Douglas Street, Omaha, Neb. Seventeon years' experience, the grontestsuccess all Nervous, Spermatorhea, Lost Munhood, Weikne: ais eases of the Biood, Skin and Uriniry Organs. to cure, Consuizaton free. 0a. m'to 12 tar graduate in medicl and Private disease: Nl L B. g Hook (Ayaeriss OF Life) soat Lrob e, as diplomas A permanont cu Twpotency, S %0) forovory Instilloatteine with Satarci anl ani £al Suilay 1 case Tun ik s Oflce Lours— 93 m. W § p. m. MAHA STOVE Have Removed to 1207 Douglus St., REPAIR WORKS, Opposite Millard Hotel toveS Repairs for 1, 500 Different Stoves, Ranges and Furnaces Water Attachment Fitted and Connected, ROBERT UHLIG, PROPRIETOR. Gasollne and Gas Stoves Repaired, Telephone 964 C. M. EATON, MANAGER. N ARE YOU BUILDING ? If so call and examine our fine line of art aoods, comprising Locks. Knobs, Escutchecns and Hinges, 1 allfinishes and designs HIMEBAUGH & TAYLOR, 1408 Douglas St., Ol‘naha ~ DEWEY & STONE FURNITURE A maguificent display of ov maker & !\ILRRILL ything DRS. MERRILL SPECIAL (‘hmnlt\ Norvrrul Blood and Surglal Diseases and of tho Kye, Kar, Noss, Throat ani Chest BUILI.II Attention to Diseasos of Wo men and Childran. The doctors have had yenrs of expsriance in the hospitals of Brooklyn and New Yorkand are among ihe most successful and widoly krown speoinl thocountry, To Youne and Middle-Azed Men. T.ost Manhood, Nervous Debllity. Spermatorehms, Beminal Lossas, Physical Deeay, nrlsing from indis cretion, prod Shdency, pini: ples on tno fa. easily disoours Cudy or st ! Dernaneily Gendto-Urinary Surgery. Gleet, Syphills. Hydrocoln, A oy enral w Al "Sexaal - painor d astully Tormit remove A | dinensos aifoly and pernananily oured Sunda 3ot winlk us dence. Pictbemah AOnE by 6 XD, Hend 4 cents 10 Atamps Lo 1nsure reply COMPANY vseful and ornamental in the furuiture onable prices. E ()\L’\H\"’ Medical and Streieal hstiufe Coumer 9th and lhnwy Streets, Om'ha. FOR THE TREATMENT OF ALL Chronic Diseases and Deformitics DR. A T.McLAUGHLIN, President Founded by Dr.J. W, McMenamy. DR. J E. McGREW The gpoculh ! I.lmh’ rod 108 Lo % ikt i reldving the i Inatry wnt ouly. lars gEving ach Of (he and whuwing many of oSt Femarkable thi aros. Of N. 18 Cor. SRerirees Omats Nov 1ith wad Farnan Sts, entrance on CHIZHESTER'S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PILI.S 218 Fifteonth St., Opposite Boyd's 250 94080 DUAMOND BRAND. Ope lluun. Omana, Neb. : .Ill.::-i.n- uu;:\: L :usiu. e » Q WEA M N R ' muterTiy rrom o offeta b foathpl ormn oo kg Irn ll!l‘ . 1 wil m- :u u n.. tu (13 e L lovdus,Conn, Prof. . C.¥0 I'm = I | i it Vi T eat A»‘.% I YIRS AR Y Baory. et i B q