Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 27, 1891, Page 13

PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRIES Retail Dealers Should Puah Nebraska (0ols, the fale of ANY ONE CAN SELL WHAT PEOPLE WANT, ks of the maha— Best Ki ade in he Manufacture of Corf pressed Yoist Resumed—Elec trical Appliances, Consumers have b asking for Omahu €003 10 such an oxtent that the majority of the dealers of tha city have been compelled to put in a line of home made goods. 'This has accomplished considerablo good in the way of stimulating the manufasturing in dustries and giving employment to labor. The umount of gooa accomplished, howeve bas been small to what it might be if the dealers would take a different course. True, they have put i home made goods and they hand them out when the consumer dowands 1t, but they do not all of them push the sale of such goods Said_one aealer in speaking of his small sales of a certain home made article, My customer not ask for Omaha goods This dealer has been selliug groceties in Omaha for eight or nine vears, and during all these yeurs hos been educating his customers to use eastern ¢oods, Now ho complains that he can’t sell them anything else and that he Goes not think it his place to urge them to take home made goods, 1t is 0 strange thing that dealers who have been advocating the superiority of eastern goods for years suddenly discover, when asked to push home goods, that itis not good form totry toinfluence a cnstomer's choice, “The complaint “I ¢ sell that brand customed to use whicn any ashamed of, w't sell this or T can't because the people are ac- some other'’ is an excuso business man ought to be Any oue can sell what people ask for, aud the only man who is worthy of being called a salesman is the man who can soll wnat people do not ask for. A salesman is @ mau who can introduce a new article to tho public, he is a man who can sell an ar- ticle made in Omaha as well as ono mads 1u some castern city, even if his customers aro better acquainted with the name aud mako of tho eastern goods. ““We do not sell more Omaha goods be- cnuse more people do not ask for them” will not be accepted as an excuse coming from business mon. Dealers must admit either that they are not salesmen, and henco ought uot to be in business, or cise that they do not caro to bielp build up the industries of the city that are giving them a living. ‘Thero are excoptions, of course, and some dealers have uot only 'put in full tines of howe mude goods, but they are selling them, and, best of all, their customers are pleased with the change. It is said that the majority of Omaha retail dealers bave put in a line of home made goods sinco the home patronage movement was started, but some of these lines are very menger. Take cigars for example, A good many dealers say, “O, yos, we bave Omahamade cigars, ' but on oser inquiry it frequently traus- pires that their stock consists of one hox of Owaba cigars and ten or twenty boxes of eastern make. That 1s not all, the one box of Omaha make is frequently a very cheap 5 cent cigar. Imagine the result when @ man, who has been smoking eastern cigars that_retail at 10.cents or three for 25 cent determiues to patronize home industry and is given one of these cheap cigars " Dealers who hancle home made goods in this way do the cause of home patronage a great deal of harm. Makine Trunks in Omaha, A branch of manufacturing which is car- ricd on to a considerable extont in Omuba, aud of which litule mention has been wade, Is the manufacture of trunks and sample cases. There aro two manufacturers engaged in this work, C. H. Forby at 1406 Douglas stroet and H, H. Marhoff in the Millard hotel block. Xight men are employea at present and s trunk making is a requiring ex- pericuced labor, the wages are high. At usy seasons more men are employed and thetrunk manufacturers distrioute in wages uot less than $5,000 in the course of a yea: The average citizen, though he may have travelod quito extensively, and in such c veen compelled to pack his belongings in a trunk, has very little knowledge of trunks or the method of their munutacture. As 15 the case with many other articles in common use, there arc truuks mado to seil and trunks made to wear. In the cheap salo trunks pine lumber is used, and pine thut is noue the best quality. When papered on the inside and vound with tin on the outside, the purchaser can hardly distinguish them by appearance from those of better make. These cheap trunks aro mostly manufac- tured in or near the lumber rogions, as at cine or Milwaukee. The use of machin- . cheap lavor and poor materials roduces 7 materially, and though thev aro retailed at very low price thero is sufti- cient margin for thie dealer to mako a very handsome profit. Such trunks usually break up after one or two trips, much to the diseust of tho purchaser, who is aptto lay the blame on the wicked bag gago smashers employed vy the railroads. Tho cheap trunks are really nothing more than pine boxes covered with tin, or some otber material, and the mothod of manu ture1s in wany respects stmilar to that em- ployed in an Omahu packing box factory. Wuen it comes to.the manufacture of tho bettor grades of trunks, such as are made in Omabe, basswood is used in place of pine. It 18 o tongher wood, notsa_ liablo to check and split out_and 18 free from knots and cracks. Instead of machine work, experionced teunk makers aro employed who cut out each pieco oy kand and fit it into the proper placo. Ono of these Omaha hand made trunks will lust for years whero a cheap sulo trunk would break upafter a very littie rough nandling, Styles in trunks have changed very ma- terially during the past fow years. Tho split her covored truuks so common & few yeurs ago have boen replaced by those hav- {ug a tin or sheet iron covering. Tho spliv leather used on those old trunks 'was so thin thut a very little bruise would break it ana war the beauty of the trunk . Leather is still used to some extent on ex- pensive trunks, but it is very strong and thick and is known as case leather, The tin or sheet iron covering has many ndvantages over the old spht leather cover ing, as it imparts additional strength to the trunk and is not easily torn off. " ‘I'he metal used for this purposo is often made to imi- to somo other material, as loather of somo <ind or cauvas, and ata littlo distanco the mitation is perfect. It is said that there are only two factories u this country which turn out trunik trim- miugs, that 1s the irou corners, stays, ete., and that they even. supply the Amorican unk manufacturers of London. The Owaba factories make a spocialty of the wanufacture of the sample trunks and cases used by traveling salesmon. At the same time Omaha jobbers sometimes go o to buy theso trunks, although they can save wothing in price and the trunks are no more {urable. Owaba trunk mwanufacturers can compete iu their line in price and quality with the manufacturers of auy other city. They do not attempt to compete with tho cheap sale trunks, as they cannot afford to lower the standard of their goods by turniug out anything so cheap and fims: The mujority of people when they buy a trunk want a'good one and if they would patronize the bome mauufncturdrs they would 1ot ouly get what they want but thoy would also be mding 1 the building up of bome factories. All jobpers and manufac- turers who employ travelling men should not think of going out of Omana to buy th sample trunks, at least so long as prices aro us Jow here as elsowhere, Both trunk man ufacturers have joined the associntion to help along the home patronage movement It might be aaded that there has beon quite a change in the truok trade. Many people will remember when the would-bo purchaser of s trunk went in search of one {1 a harness or saddlery store, but dealors in this line no longer handle trunks, The sell- Ing of trunks has become @ business by {tself und most every largo city has trunk ores, Mauy large department stores also carry & liug of trunks. It 13 said that i Baltimore the harness wmen still retain the truuk business and the same is true to a great extent in Washington, D, C. There ro perhups some other citics in which the rade still remaius iu the old channels. Yorst Men Ko ume Wo The Omaba Compressed Yeast cowpauy, whose factos on Sonth Tenth street was burned out 80me_thres or four weeks ago, has started up again, Their new plant is located at Thirty-fourth and Richardson streets, and is in évery respect suporior to the one burned out. While the company was idlo the eastern manufacturers advancod tho price of comprossed yeastin Omaha b conts per dozen, thinking perhaps that the Omaha company would never start up again As has been " pointed out before, the cot- poution in this line of manufacture is very sharp. One or two laree eastern concerns have a monopoly of tho business and they have followed the policy of cutting prices below the cost of prodiction and by that menns Ariving out all would-be competitors, A firm tried to maks compressod yeast in Lincoln, but was soon crushed out. That was, howaver, bofore the home patronage movement was started and before the peoplo learned that manufacturing industrios must beancouraged for the benotit of the city. About 150 pounds of compressed yeast aro sold in Omaha ev day. Is there any roason why this shouid unot be made hera! It can bé made here if the consumers and dealors of the city wiil buy the home made articlo in preferenco to that made in the east. ‘'he bikers of this city depend upon the patronage of tha civizens of Omaha for a living. Why should they not return the compliment and patronizo Omaha citizens by purchasing home made yeast! The samo auestion could be asked of the grocers with equal proprioty, The grocers and bakers will remember that Omaha compressed yeast is sold in New York city and delivered to customers in wagons bearing the inscription, “Omaha Compressed Yeast.”” If this yeast is good enough to meet tho requirements of bakers and grocers in New York thero can be no question as 1o its quality, and it ought to find its way iuto general use 1n Omaha. If tho bakors and grocers allow eastern competition to kill toe home fuctory, no one will sympathize with them when the eastern manufacturers put up the prico again and compel consumers to pay it. A New Factory. The Omaha Consolidated Electrical com- pany is the title of a firm doing business at 1112 Howard street and that hus been organ- 1z¢a for the purpose of eugaging extensively in manu'acturing m Omana. As indicated by tha title, the company will devoto its energios to the production of electrical specinitics and appliances and electric light and power supplies. Tho manager, Mr. Kin- nev, does not velicve that there is ‘any good reason why copper from the Omaha smelting works should be shipped east and there made up into electrical supplies and then shipped back to Omaha for use in this eity. He pro posés to buy the copper at tho swmelling works and manufacture it into the different electrical appliances in Omaha, If bis plan succeeds, s it must, this branch of manufacture will be an important addition to the iudustries of Omaha, In Chicago there are several establishments of this kivd, und they are giving employment to & large number of men NEBRASKA STARCIL It is understood that the Beatrice Starch Co. will put a man in Omaha before very long to bring their goods to the attention of tho rerail dealers of this city. Tho factory is located at Beatrice. Neb., and has a ca- pacity of 10,000 pounds of starch per day. ‘The manufacturo of starch is an industry that is peculiarly fitted to a state liko Ne- braska, which produces the raw material in such abundan In that rospect it resem- bles the beet sugar industry which promises to utilize so much of the farm lands of tno stafe, Tho people of Omaha are very much interosted in beet sugar aud aro using almost entirely the product of tho Grand Island and Norfolk factories. Now let them extend their interest to Nebraska starch. If Beatrico sends a man up bere, lot every dealer receive him courteously and let him o back impressed with the gencr- osity of Omaha business men. Let every dealer wive him an order; a small order is better than no order. Place the goods up in frout and do not allow any custower to leave tho store without calling her attention to the Nebraska starch, and urge oty a package. Outof curiosity, if for no other reasou, people will try it, and, finding it first-class article, thoy will use it from that timo on. Beatrico is a large consumer of Omaha goods. Heturn the cowpliment and let Omatia become a large consumer of Beatrice goods, Omaha is seuding thousands of dol- lurs cvery year to eastern citics for starch, aud the money once sent thero is lost to tho state. This money should be kept in the state, whera it will aid in developing the re sources of Nebraska, Money sent to Beatrico will ba paid out to the farmers and laboring mon, and will oventually ud its way back to Omaha in exchange for some other kind of goods pro- duced here, and both cities will bo bone- tited by tho oxchango. g R THINGS IN JEWELRY. NEW Ladiex' Home Journal, A gold pencil-case, representing a_quill, with dinmonds and ravies studded in the ceuter in tue form of a clover. is umong the uovelties. A rich appearing pendant and laco pin con- sists of a heart of pearls circled with small conch_poarls, and having in the center a beautiful diamond. An odd couception for a ring is a bright garuot, set in the head of an oxydized silver lizard, 'Which is coiled so that its tail is held between the teeth, Among bracelots six different colored pearls, each divided by a small ruby and a diamond, and the wholo circled with™ minuto emoralds in skeleton setting, form an exceed- ingly rieh combination, A'small_diamond heart, naving a_pigeon- blood ruby in the center, and surmounted by u corouet of diamouds and sapphires, forms the mounting of & ring that cannot fail to pleaso those arustically inclined. An elongated odd-shaped pearl, that was recontly imported, bas, by taking advantage of its unique torm, beon transformed into a very pretty fish laco pin, by having a wold head and diamond tail attached to each end, resuectively. Watches are now worn suspended from chatelaine brooches attached to tho breast, and some exquisite designs are seon for this purpose. Ono of the most attractive is formed by a uumber of artistically curved feathers, in whicn small diamonds and sap. phires aro intermingled, In jewelry it often happens tnat whea two old and time-worn designs are shown cotu- bined thoy form a very pretty combinatio Thus it is that a crescont brooch, having a daisy in tho center, the whols boini of pure white, smail diamonds, make u very exquisite aud aftractive ornament. Two moonstone cupids, with diamond- tipped gold hows and quivers swinging from their shoulders, and holding on high between them a beart of diamonds, from which is ap- parently dropping three small rubics, consti- tutes alaco pin that shows much thought and skill in workmansip. - LABOK NOTES, ashivillo coloved barbers organiz Author Stockton was an eugraver New York has 12,000 telograph boys, Cincinnati carpenters won 30 cents hour. The average cost of raising a boy is osti mated at §,150. ow York building workers against nonunion men. New York architectural struck for nine hours. The Denver clerks are fiued 50 cents for swoking nonunion cigars. Oue of the biggest of the insuranco com panies in this country pays toa woman man- ager §10,000a your, The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen paid £5,000 last month for death beuefits, ho receipts amounted to &k, 50, The uext union to be organized in Sacra- mento will be the laborers', and its membec- ship will include all unorganized labor. Tho American Federation of Luvor, in anpun! couvention, passed a resolution favor. fng & wouran suffrage amendment 1o the con sutution, A ro an won a strike iron workers 1t report on the rates of wages in the mining Industry abroad shows that about 55 per cent of the total valuo of the coal and iron ore mined in Groat Hritain in 1590 was received by labor, the total wages amounting Lo over 820,000,000, or an average of &30 per miver Tho San Fri cided that its m wuy cooper doing busic ers who import kogs. All but dealers who have been buying tho east baye agreed o patronize dustry, and the coopors will try 1o mak practice general wion has de. not work for liquor deal two of the their kegs in in the weisco Coopers mbers shall 5% with Dr, Cullimore adjusts glasses, B bidg | Bee, who went out to “'see OMAHA DAILY BEE: BILL OF FARE FOR PAUPERS, Manner in Which Douglas Connty's Oharges are Fed and Kept. SCENES AROUND THE BANQUET BOARD, Idiocy, Ignorance and Indigence Eat the Provender Provided by tho People and are Merry as Princes. An even hundred paupers might be sup- posed to form an unintoresting nd even ro- pulsivo crowd, but when gathered together inside tho walls of the Douglas county poor nouse and under the rules and regulations of that institution they constitute an as somblage, somewhat motley, of course, 1 character and appearauce, but vastly differ- ent from what the popular idea makes them out, based upon observations in ihe more wretched quarters of the city. The five score county charges were in speoted the other day by a reporter of Tuk the animals” of the county menagerie at the Yeediug hour. An elegant dinner with tho official stafl of the institution in the superintendent's dining room paved the way for what was to follow, and thus fortified the visitor started on bis tour of the wards to se0 the little army of unfortunates who had become discouraged by the supe cilious glances of the fickie goddess, and nad given up the fight against adverse fortune. To the citizens of Omaha and Douglas county thair poorhouse is known as the “county hospital,” though there is no state law that recognizes the existence of any such county mstitution, ‘The name, however, is in this case, fully as appropriate as any other could be, as of the 100 inmates now there, thirty-five are uuder the care of tho physi- cian and thirty are insano. The remaining thirty-flve are paupers pure and simple with no additional ageravations or alleviations or outside complications of any kind, I'ne building itselt has had more notorioty than any halt dozen structures in the county. combined, but leaving ull the charges of job- bery aud boodlerism to slumber in the vault of ‘the clerk of the district court with the thousands ot pages of typewritten manu- script adduced in proof “thereof, there is no getting around the fact that the plan of ‘tne ouilding is first class It is constructed with especial reference to hospital work, and it would probaoly be dif- ficult to erect s structuro in- which the samo number of nmates could be cared for more eusily or in bettor shape. ‘There are accom- modations for 250 inmates, so that there is littlo probability that tho other bwldings contemplated in the originat plan and nearly doubling the present capacity will be ron derea necessury for some years to come, Th great north wing is as yet unused, the south wing and the ceuter furnishing ail the room that has thus far been needed. Each floor of a wing constitutes a ward,and it was intended to have tho men on tho first floor and the women on the secoud, but Douglas county statistics domoustrato that malound female paupers are to each other numerically as two to one, and _in this case theory fails to pan. out 1n prac- tice ~except to a certain extent. It has been found necessary to put a couple of aozon men in the upstairs or women's ward, aud still there is foom to spare, as a large Toow iu the center 15 sct apart for the very old and infirm women, and the lying-in depurtment is also located in tho maiu por- tion of the instution. There are uow out half a dozen women in this ward, and somo of thom will remain in tho institution but a snort time, as they are not county charges aad under ordinary circumstances aro able to support them- selves, Of the insane patients tho majority are in- curables who have been under treatment at tho state asylum at Lincoln und have been sent buck Lero to make room for others whose cases may not be s hopeless. ey aro for the most part harmiess and aro quartered with the other inmates, sick, i- sane and fndigent occupying the same corri- dor, but care being taken as to their occlpying separate roows at night. T'his plan aumits of the utilization of the well ones to care for tho sick and insane, and saves unnecessary expense for attendauts, Oneof the insane patients, an old man named Koyser, was observed with his arm in @ plaster cast, and inquiry eiicited the 1 Tormation that since his return from Lincolu ho bad evinced a decided mania for running away and escapes periodically, only o bo followed into the city and taken back. His lust escapade was to smash out the glass and jump from u secoud story window, broaking hiis arm. At the time of the reporter's visit ho was industriously pufling a very black cigar, which ho saia bad just beon sent out to him by relatives in the city, and ho glee- fully enimerated the other articies contained in the package, which had apparently given him s much joy asa child would derive from a box of building blocks. Among the nmates wsre a half dozen or 80 idiois, who are of mero trouble to the attendants than double that number of any other class. One of them, a gibberiug fomale of unknown ace, hovered' for some lime around tho re porter and his guide_ and finally tho long, bony arms encircled the neck of the scribe and’ constricted with a vigor that squeozed tho breath from his body and threatoned serious mishap to his internal economy. With what soemed an_almost superhuman offort and with littlo deference to the feel- ings of the unconventional creature, the cm- braceo disengaged himself from tho ani- mated ropes that bound him aud turncd to the superintendent with the remark that ludies wero not in the habit of greeting him thus warmly “Ob, the poor girl is an idiot or sno wouldi’t have thought of such a thing,” was the soothing reply, and with this rathor questionablo comfort the reporter was forced to be coatent. Anothor cheerful creataro, whose grinning countenance was as imuocent of expression as a now born baby’s mouth is of teoth, dis- played a curiosity ns to the contents of tho visitor's pockets that was truly appalling. The superintendent's log bock credited her with twenty-five vears of life, *but,’ he nddea apologetically after giving this bit of information, “she hasn't used her time to good ndvantage, or she would as soon think of finding the proceedings of the city council in the ol testament ns of looking for any of this world’s goods in the pockets of & nows- paper man.” The revorter called it a horso and passed on, The serving of the afternoon meal was futl ot interest, not only to the regular voarders but to the Visitor whose uppetite had been setisfied some time befor The dining rooms wore two in number, and were In & Lwo-story sub-wing, extending back from the center of the wing prope thus affording a couvenient hali for e ward “T'wo loug tables oxtended lengthwise of the room, and on them were placed tho pl: and cups of tin and the iron knives and fo that the couuty furnishes for its guests food was sent up from the basement kitchen on small elevators, and was taken in chargo hy employes, who dealt it out with an impar- tinl hand. ‘Fhe umount wtended for cach in- dividual was placed upon his plate and all wore thus served bofore a single ono of the huungry but orderly crowd was admitted to the room. Tee attendaut iu ohurge of the ward dispensary was getting in his work meanwhile, and whatever ordor had been given by the physician werb now carried cut in doctoring the food iustead of the patient in somo instances, and in mixing up more or loss disagrecable doses iu others to bo taken before tho commencement of the moal When all ready tho signal was given, aud after fow mivutes of orderly confusion the seats were fillod and the warfare on the edibles bogan, There wis (oss noise than would ordinavily be oxpected under such clreumstanc each oue had bis whole meal rignt uud n0se and there was no waiting or passing aishes to delay matters, Huge cubs of sirup were about tho only pleces of tatle ware that traveled around very much, and the watehful eyeol tho ut tondaut say that ¢ ‘moved along | without i hiteh, ane folks had o looked after in their rooms At this timo of vear, but two aro served. The first'atd o'clock, on the idiot ch hus of everyt ne i which DECEMBER [ GROWTH OF THE LOCOMOTIVE, farly as thefimates can be gotten aut, and the socond AGRE S o'elock in (a6 at. ternoon The county's chargos get meat six day the week and fish on Friday It takes about uinety, pounds of meat, & bushel and a half of potatoes and sevon gatlons of eoffeo at o meal, and tho institution also manages to gei away with 1,700 loaves of bread every month Many of those who, apply to the county for aid raiso thoir handé fm holy hovror if it is suggested that thoy had botter go to the noor house, but its torrors seem greater in appre- hension than in reality; The fara 1s bettor, in the majority of ingtances, than the pauper has been accustomod to, and even if there are those who have net with gr reverses thoy are not the oues who complain, The kickers aro invariavly those to whom the fare is princoly compared with what they have put up with the greater part of their lives. in - CALIFORNTA L Los Axcrres, Dec. 9.—[Special to Tue B, |—The pending decision of the supreme courton the leyitimacy of tho grand jury now sitting in San Francisco, 18 axciting great interest throughout the state. The case hinges on the doubt whetnher, at the time Judge Wallace apoointed an olisor to traw the names of the grand jury, any dis- ability restea on the sheriff, to whom primavily belonged this duty, Meanwhile that body, strongly upheld by the reputablo press of the state and by the best public opinion, continues its work of purification. Having found ‘“true bills” against the “thieving political bossos, and legislative boodlers,” it has now turned its attention to municipal affairs, beginning with the asses sor's offfico. It is cluimed t not only has the property of wealthy owners been system- matically undoervalued, but that Assessor Siebe and City and County Attorney Duvet have daringly tampered with tho assessment roll itself. Ior these practices or kindred ones the history of the oftico would appear to offer many precodents, Assessor after asses- sor has entered it poor and gone out of it rich, Tho dear public has atlowed itself to be robbed with a compliance comparable to th of Iagin when he ‘‘made a little play for Oliver.”! Ior many years it has carefully refrained frow turning its head, much less laying ® detaining grasp upon the nunds busy with its pockets. That a body of men has at last been found ~courageous enougn wnd honest eoough to bring these official thieves to justice is a matter of siuccro thanktulness and at the sawe time an apoull ivg commentary on the geueral state of morals, Thanksgiving day some colonists arrived in San Fraucisco whose advent was hailed with feclings suitable to the unuiversary by orauge growers turoughout the state. These colonists took up very little room and were exceodingly quict. Fheir prosence, i fact, would uover have been suspected by fellow passeugers on the ship which brought them rom Australia. ‘Thoy represented five now species of lady bug “and aro warranted to clear off the red scalo cffectually as the ve. dalia cardinalis did the less deadly white, or cottony cushion scale, a few years ago. Un fortunately, out of a' consignment of 2,000, ouly tweaty-cight reached San Irancisco alive. I have often heard accounts of the marvelous rapidity of the deliverance from the whito scale effected by the vedalia cardi- nulis. *You never saw trees look as ours did,” said a near neighvor. “Every leaf, every bit of bark was covered—the white, tuzzy growth even reached out upon the ground. John brought a fow of thelady bugs in an envelope and pat them on the trces. [n threo duys uot a bit of scale wos found, and it has nover returned since. It was liko magie. 1t scemed as if the lady bugs must lhuve scared it awn, v seemed incrediblo that these few small croatures could have oaten it up. Having accomplisied its work the vedalia cardinalis quietly disappeared from public life, You rurely see ouo more. But they have pro- served and propagated them at thoe state farm, roady ou any recurrence of tho past tolei loose an army of these wingea d stroyers upon it. ‘I'hey can also furnish them for foreign service. An agentof the Orange Ireo Siate, South Alrica, is even now here to procure colonies of them for tho orchards of the Uransy . au Francisco having lost the re convention, is now waking oyes att cratic. Saturday's Examinor says : dovs not offor very promismz ground Chicago, Indianapolis or St. Paul and San Prancisco are the pluces poiuted out by the political sitaation.” Disvosing summarily of the claims of the others it continues: *3an IPrancisco remains alone with the solo ovjec- tion of distanco to be urged against i, A spusm of tonesty has seized the railroad ticket awents on Montgomery and Market ts. On no account would any of them 4 rate eastward and thero is no prospect of a return to their normal state ol worais until the modest ageut of the Inter-state Commerco commission, who bas been contont 1o circulate incognito among them, shail be known to have shaken the dust of this coust u his immaculate feot, The Friday Morning club of Los Angel having a membership of 250 ladies, has lately received somewhat vigorous handling from the Times, which fears now mau “‘nor woman noitner.”’ ' The ciub is a most democratic one 1n theory, attaching uo restriction to admis 5100 1010 it, suve a geographical one, “Any woman of 'Los Augeles or viemity” s eligi- ble to membership. Actually, 1t is composed of theo Hower of Lhe sex, either bicause only such women cared to seok admission into u ab of avowedly sorious and iutelloctual aims, or because such women naturally oc- curred to the highly cultivatod ladios who tormed the nucleus of the socioty, and who nad the right to propose new names for momborsh Some months ago soveral ladies were summanily dropped from the rotl of public school teachers, Tne Iriday Mora- ing ciub, feehng thav these ladies ought at least to kuow why thov wero dis- missod, decided to stand by them and ae cordingly 4 strong committeo - bearded tuo Board of Bducation in its den to inquire why this was thus, In many of the cases the board, having no valid com plaint to prefer, yielded gracefully to the quict_eloguence of tho committee, and the teachers were reinstated, The papecs good bumorediy, 1f with thut uote of condescen sion which characterizes nearly all masculine apolause of feminine achiovements, approved tho action of the club. Some months later, the club—which is willing to “‘prove all things —invited William Q. Judge, the apos- tlo of Theosopity, Lo nddress it. Although a majority of 1ts members dia not regard his utterances as either weighty or convincing, a kindly report—descriptiv not critical-- Wits sunt to the papers, Sovoral woeks lator a fow words in tho Times brought out a se vere and rather tastoless attack on Mrv Judge's talk beforo tho , coupled with tho warning chat if the mansgers of the cluo wishod to *'run it {uto the ground, the surest way was to persist in inviting such charla- tans to address it,” or words to that effect The club was naturaily indiguant, con sideriug not only its right of freo inquiry assailod, but its guest—whose weakenesses even should have beon hidden by the mantle of hospitality —nsulted, To be sure, the fuct that the \writer of the re port was not a momber of the ciub relieved it of all suspicion of complicity i the affrout, but it held that its procendings no more to be subjected to rude re torial buffetings than the . goufidentinl talk 1 its ndividual membors’ own purlors. Tho ‘Pimes stood by its reporter —a- lady belong- ing to 1ts regular staff -advised the club that it could not auccapt publicity when it was praised, and decline it when it was blamed - -that it L perfoct right to keep its doings as secrat as those of the Leasons ana kindrod orgauizitions, u right to cutrench itself behind ‘its privato charactor and the present “‘cooked’’ reports to the pub- lic priuts. For itself tua Times would have none of them. Purough noarly two columns it poured out a flood of hulf good humored, half arrogant banter, now closely approuch- tirade, now vailing the pervading sucor u der a fatherly tone, aud proffering advice | which all women clubd members or otherwise, ght well ponder daily — How to Broak Up a s evers € old Fromtre Virginia City (Mont.) Madis nian, When we find a medicine we know to pos sass cenuine merit, we cousider it a duty and we take pl » in telling the public what it 15, Such a medicine we fo Chamber s Cough Remedy, We have lieved in a fow hours severs ¢ di urse of two or threo days ¢ friends 1o whi Itis all it is r tacturors, If you t, Chambor 1o the work T TER. ublican dewmo- *Omal Dr. Birney cures catareh, | Mr. | Grana [ THEN Major Barrows' Tnterasting Story of a Osn- tury's Railrond Evolution. FIRST ENGINE BUILT IN MERICA. Samples of the Tron Horses that As- tonished the Natives When the N tion Was an Infant—Some Modern Specimens. The prolificness and versatility of Mr.B.H Barrows, the advertising agent of the Union Pacific, i a source of coustant wonder, Not only has ho n litorary finish of high order as a writer, but ho nns a genius for planning publications that will attract and interest all classos. A long procession of valuuble pam- phlots owe their being to his creative effort, and among the latest is one of special inter- 'st. It 1s entitlea *“I'he Evolution of the Lo comotive,'" and tho passenger department has taken particular pains to enbanco its value with numerous speciul cuts to 1llus- trate tho subjects mentionod in the text, This book fixes the date of the first loco- wotive engine of commercial benefit at 1813 It was operated Ly steam and used flat wheels, depending on friction for adhesion to the rails. This was constructed by Will fum Hedley in England, It had a cast iron bollor, with a singlo nter flue, o single cyiinder efght fucnes fn dinmeter, and a fy wheel. Tho boiler was deficient in steam! or evaporating power, and much incoaven fence was felt for the want of a second eylin It was called tho “Pufing Billy and arance was something like the modern farm engine uvsed in threshing. “Phio Rocket' was one of the famous early engines, It was the resultot an offer of a prize vf £2,500 mude by the Liverpool & Manchester vailway in 18520, It ran on four whieols aud its general outlines suggest a moa- ern steam fire engine roversed war T'ho firat locomotive run in America was the i Lion It lookea evon mo en v engine than tho Putting Bill It was built in England for tho Delaware & Hudson Canal company and reachea New York in May, 1520, The first locomotive constructed country wos built in the summer by Petor Coopor, and was called Friend.” In alecturo delivered morve in 1568, the Hon., John H. B. gencral counsel of tho Baltimore railway, gave somo very iute connectod with this first Amey tive Mr. Latrobe said: o the beginuing no one dreamed of steam upon the road: horses were to do the work; and even after the hne was completed to Froderick, relays of horses trotted the cars from place to place. K'rom tns the Relay House, ut the junction of Washinglon branch obtumod its name. ““\When stoam made its appearance on the Liverpocl & Manchester railroad it attrastod wcreat atteution heve. But thero was this dificuity about introducing an Euglish en- gine on an American road. An Buglish road was virtually a straight road. An American road hind cuvyes sometimes of as small rudius as 200 feet. There was not capital enough in the United States applicable to railrond pur- poses 10 justify engineers in setting nature defiance. For a briel seasou it was believed that this featnre of the early American roads would provent the use of locomotive cugines. The contrary was demonstrated by Poter Cooper. He was satisfied that steam might adapted to the curved ronds which he saw would bo built in the United States, und tio came to Baltimore, waich then posséssed the only one on which ho could experiment, t vindicate bis belief. fe had auother idea, which was that the crank could be dispensed with in the change from a reciprocating to a rotary motion; and he built an engino to demonstrate both articles of his faith. The machiue was noc much larger than the nand- ts used by workmen to transfor the ives from bplace to place; and, 8s the speaker now recalls its appearance, the only wonder i that so_appareatly insiznificant contrivance should cver have been regarde as competeat 10 the smallest vesults. Bu Cooper was wiser than mauy of tho wisestaround bim. Tbis engine could not bhave weighed a ton, but ho saw 1n it a prin- ciple which the 40-ton enginos of today have but served to deveio and demonstrate, o boiler of Mr. Cooper's engine was not us large as tho kitchen boiler attached 1o mnau range in modern mansions. It was of about tha same diameter, but not much wore than hatf as high. It stood upright i the car and was fillsd above the furnace, which occupied tho lower section, with vertical tubes. Tho cylinder was but thrc and one-balf inches in” dismeter_aud speed was golten up by gearing. No natural ught coulid bave been sufliciont to keep up steam in so small a boer, and M. Cooper used, therefore, a blowing upparatus driven by a drum sttached to one of the car whecls, over which passed a cord that in its turn worked o pulloy ou tho shaft of tho blower, “And this was the first locomotive for rai road purposes ever built in America, and this was tho first transportation of persons by steam that had ever taken placo on this sido of the Atlantic. “Mr, Conper’s success was such as o ia- duce uim to try a wip to Etlicott's Mills, and an open car, the first used upon the road al- veady mentioned, having been attached to bis engine and filled with the directors and somo fricnds, the speaker among tho rest, the first journey by steam in America was commenced, Tho trip was most intoresting, Tho curves were passod without dificlty at w rate of fifteen miles an hour: tho grades wore a: cended with comparative ease; tho day was fine, tho company in the higtest of spirits, and’ somo oxcited wentlemen of the party pulled out memorandum books, sud when at the lghest speed, which was cigitecn miles an hour, wrote their names and somo con ueeted sentences o prove that even at that freat volocily it was possiblo to do so. Tho vetura teip from the wills, a distance of thir- teen miles, was mude in 57 minutes. This was in the sumwer of 1840, Mr. Latrobo omits to say that in this trip it becamo necessury for Mr. Cooper, who acted as enginoer, to bold down the safoty- valve of his augine in oraer to accomplish all tho results which lie desired In 1531 the Dewitt Clinton was built at Mr. Cooper's foundry for tho Mohawk & Hudson railrond. The engine weighed four tons and couid run forty milos an hour. In that samo year the ‘“John Bull'' was imported for the Camden & Amboy railroud. It was the first locomotive resembling tha modern machine in goueral appoaran It continued in service until 1 3 Locomotives soon came into goneral use Baldwin commenced building them i 1433 and Morrison soon after. Then came tho Lowoll shops in_ 1535, Rogers, Ketchem & Grosvenor of New Jorsey in 1837, Then Winans, Misn, Hinekly | Drary, aud tho “Tauuton, South’ Boston, Manchoster, Mon treal, Lawrence, East Bridgewater und numérous other' w all of which wore busily occupied w furnishing gines for our rapidly extendir g railroad systom, The first locomotive west of the Mississippi was brought west by the Missouri IPacific in 1532, It was called “Pacific No. 8" and came from Taunton, Mass, It was carriod by sea to New Orleans and thence up the Mississippl to St. Louis. 1t was hauled by horso pow from tho river up Choestnut’ street to tho company’s machino shops. 1t is stated the Fontaing engine has drawn wain on the Pennsylvunia ralway at tho rate of ninoty wiles an hour. The lifo of locomotive 15 about thirty years, Some of the smaller parts require rénewal every six months. Tho boiler tubes last ' five years, cravk axles six years, tires, boilers and fire boxos seven 1o ten ye tho sido frames, xlos, and othoer parts twenty-five to thirty years Ou Juno 18, 183, tho Pennsylvania com- pany built a' full'sized authracito burning locomotive at the Altoona shops in 16 hours and 53 minutes, I'ne locomotives of the United States burn about 23,000,000 tons of coal per vear, There aro 10 the United States, 40,305 loco motives, 21,425 passenger curs, 6,527 bageage, manl and express cars, 1,005,116 freignt cars There were 1 operation in the United States in 1530, 25 miles of railways, in 1500, 105:2,476, Iingine 827 of tho Unfon Pacific, built at Omaha shops in 1500, made the run from ad to Council Bluffs in 2 hours and in this of 1830 'he Bust in Balti- Latrobe, & Ohio ting facts an locoumo- rossings, the distaned limensions avo 52 Irivers and 18x24 bein vlind He He c 1give ter ire Cough S, wantod ho Tored candy A bottlo of rup. 8 suld 1 ho was 7 to marey tim nd nuts. by od, v hand in bis and il death, PAGE SPECIAL ¢ The Reason The continued warm weather has be trade, and wa should have reduced as low as possiblo L igurated this Beginning Saturday, Decembor understood that this is the most ever wade: ¥ is ind ourselves with b this time of the year sfore o i Gih, It YOI Why bad for the clothing of thin S0 in order to get this stock v uen larger stoek suits inventory, wo havo in- \Special Sale on Suits to hava sulo is desired tfully have Not a Sale of Certain Kinds of Suits, Nor of a Certain Number of Suits. The entire stock has bee rone over and the prices on all sui ed down to a price that will got the piles down to where we they ought to be. This knif On Mon’s Suit On Boys’ r has been dono Suits. On Childron’s Suits. We have ne lic to help themselves to any su Such Ridiculously Every one knows t of quoting all the prices in a newspaper. L 18 The pric marked down yof every suit in our Fancy Cheviots in stripes and checks Black Cheviots, Plain and Fancy Cass r before thrown down the har inour at our stock is too large store ind invited the pub- ) stock at Low Prices. 1to it 1y worsteds) b and var pormit again: repoat (oxcept « These suits consist of imere, Unfinished Worsteds, Homespuns Meltons, Scoteh Tweeds, Ete., Ete., and they well known m. are, in every ufacture, [t will Pay Every Man in Omaha To Investigate This Sale, wily el muke and fini own i L . . 7 i ) Brownmg, Kime & Co, RELIABLE CLOTHIERS, Southwest Corner 15th and Douglas. Store clo 1818 Douglas Street, The eminent spectalist In norvois, ehroate, priv rad geaduato | nmedieino, ws diplomas and ¢ catarrh, speruntorthoea, iost manhe konorrlinen, gleet, variaocalo, oo, No i e (o v1sit me muy ba treatod athom, Cxproas sueurely pucked. 1o marks sultatlon free. Corrnaponcunce st © p.m. Sunday, 10a m, to 12 m ty private TALIS OF 1THE TODDERS. is learned at home comes out at school, as in this case reported by the New York Tribunoe: Tu the infant class the lesson disobedience and its penalties : te childron have to mind or thoy aro not nice,” said tho toachor. “Older puoplo have to obey laws or be punished. Do any of you know how older people pupished 1 ©0h, yos, I know,” auswered ono little girl. “Tho husobands scold their wives and the wives scold their husbands.” was abou Governor Campbell tells a good story on himsolf, says the Cleveland Loader. Toward the close of the campaign, he tad au engage- ment to speak at Westoruvillo i this coun ty and thought it would bo n nice opvortunity 10 @ive a day's outing to his bright little son Jim, an enterprising block house builder ai Miss Phelps’ school. Jim didwt know whether he wanted to go or not. *Whuat are you golg to do up there?’ ho asked his papa. “I'm going to make aspoech,” was the answer, “Then [ guess I shau't go, suid Jim. “I've heard you mako & speceh.” o was tryine to amise Clara’s small sis ter, says tho Washington Star, and ploas- antly remarked “Yes, Noah built the ark,” “Mr,'Van Giggle,” the little ono earnestly, *were you trying then Why-er-ab--what do'you mean “Nothing much, ouly 3ister said sho didn't tutak you could tell thie truth if you tried. askel Teachars are oblized 10 know many things by intuition, says the Dotroit Ired Pross, Mrs, C——, the toacher of n_primary schiool, looked up from her desk aud saw her voung: est pupil standing before her in a spick-and span now suit of clothes, Without any ure- liminaries, ho smd ; hey cost just as much as our big bible,” A mother was calling the attention of he little boy to the moon, which was to be se clearly, but pallidly, {n the early afteznoon, says ~Bubyhood, “Way, yon can't tiie moon in tho daytimet” ‘replied the youn ster, “'Oh, yes you can—there it is over tl trees!” The little rellow looked, and had to admit the fact that he saw it, but he added “Tain’t hghted, auyhow.” atos tho and bo cull- littlo Wast Philadeiphia girl, re rd, got her languago mixed up came tangled on word ‘‘hiccough,” ing it **she-cups.’ I'he child was corrected vepeatedly, but with httlosuceess. “Mamua, Iv'a got them again,” she said ono day. “Got what, my dear” *Why, the who-cups." It You know that little tene- ment house boy, Mamma! | took the pack ago of candy I got for Curistmas around to him today, and gave him half, Mamua (fondiy)—That was a good Willie. What did the little tenement boy any to that! Willie (proudly Littio Witlie boy, house He let me hek him, ow, Lucy,” said Uncle William in a casual manoer, “if 1 were going o buy a doil for a littie girl, what kina of a one do you think sho would like ' 0, Uncle William, undisguissd intorest, “there is twing ! answered Lucy, with nothing like Toacher —What tense'is fooa t Boy-~resent tense Teach What tense is fed? | | | | I?ast tense Corroct (ive an examnle Boy-—After the man fecd the waiter he got fed 1 mother, 1 u homas Yoessiv Is she mendin Mendin't N €0 without ¢ other durned stitch dérstand, lias beon vory 1, I coula SOW 4l she said 05 b would 1mes a tived mother th 1o bed when bed Uwe comes, 1ks of heaven vill want Lo go el 1, serinal « by correspon Ience o ladieats content s Book Mystorias of | Hond stamp for reply. es at 6:30 p. m,, except Saturday Omaha, Neb. ) want e, Ol hoars, 9 & o ragnlar ant o 4o FORTY DOLLARS FREE, ow many words cin you wake, ising only the lottors In the words CHAT IDENTIFIKIR Tal prizo-Twenty-iive dolines: 20 pelee - Ton dolines: prizn Five dolines, (th prize-One dion il for Sond a dime (or Fules governing ¢ nteaan g swmple “Ldantifioe’ o ILLINOIS METAL ¢ Wosal Ins. 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