Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 21, 1892, Page 9

PART TWO. TWENTY-FI l(%l THE OMAHA UNDAY MORNING YEAR. FEBRUARY 21, UNDAY BEE. 1892- HAYDEN BRO PRGES 9-16. ~ NUMBER 24%. Home Industry. Linen Department. ‘We will place on snle Monday, 1 bale # of 16 inch gluss toweling, plain or fancy che ks, at Geyard. 1 oale of 18 inch glass toweling, plain or fancy checks, ut 8¢ yard. 1 bale of 20 inch ginss towe (ng, plain or fancy checks, at 10¢ ya. 2 vales of extra heavy « toweling at 124¢ yard. We call your attentior o this glass /owvlinz, as it is our own impor- tation and are extra g.od value for the money. 2 bales of 20 inch wide Heyden Bros brown crash, made expressly for us at 10¢ yard; cheap at 15¢ yard. 1 case of Windsor cotton crash,twilled eckod glass Our prices on table linens on_compar ing, you will find tho lowest half bleach- ed damask, 45¢, H5c and 65¢ yard Silver bleached damask 50¢, © and 8ic yard. 82 inch wide bleached damask, 31.50 ard. 72 inch wide bleached damask, 5S¢ yard. Remnants of table linen at less than cost. * Special barga bed spreads, et Mill remnants of whita victoria lnwn and India linens at 5 and 10c yard. Wo buy these direct from the mills in case lots and ave selling them at less than half their value, Mondny we place on sale one case (100) white Marseilles bed spreads at $1 each, they are choap at $1.50. Wash Dress Goods. This department is loaded and crowd- ed forroom. Nover in the history of Omaha has there been such a display of wash dress goods. Al the latest styles in the markets are here displayed. Printed henrietta, double fold, just out, at 10¢ yard, Bedford cords, 7c, 10¢, 12ic, 15c and 19¢ yard. Black satine, 10¢, 12ic, 1s¢, 17¢, 19c, 20c. 25¢, 80e, 85¢, 874c and 40¢ yard. Pine apple tissue, Shantong pongee, Canton cloth, Brandenburg cloth, Sun- nyside suiting, Delvhi cloth, teaslo cloth, angola twills, Arabian, Lyons and Armenian serge, Columbia sui ings, wash silks, Avyron suitings, in the greatest variety, We can suit th most particular taste in style, quality and price. Over 3000 pieces of ginghams to se- lect from at 5¢, 6ic, 74c, 8c, 8ie, ¢, 10¢, 12i¢, 15¢, 17¢, 19¢, 20¢ and 23c. This in- cludes also the finest novelties in Scotch zephyrs at 25¢ yard. A visit to our wash dress goods department will repay you for vour time, whether you desire to purchase or not. Muslins and Sheetings ‘This department saves you money, no matter what you may hear. We carry all the leading brands and guarantee the lowest prices or money cheerfully refunded. ins in napkins, towels, Closing Out Sale. Commencing Mondny we will dispose of everything in iadies’ and gents’ fur- nishing goods that we do not wish to carry over, at less than cost. Gents’ ull wool underwenr, old by us all this season at $1, reduced to 50c. T(:cntn' wool drawers, worth 75¢, go at 85c. 1cnse of gents’ dark colored flannel .r‘“‘;'wr:chirts, made with yoke, reduced to 89c. 110t of gents’ jersey knit overshirts, 50c, worth Our celebrated New York Mills un- laundered shirts,double back and front. worth 75¢ each, go in this sale at 50c¢ ench. 2 100 dozen gents’ night shirts, worth 75¢ and $1, reduced 1o 50c each 100 dozen gents’ fuil regular made British half hose, only 15¢ per pair, worth 25¢, 1 caso of gents’ fast black half hose, 17c per pair, 8 pair for 50c. A bargain, 100 dozen corsets to be slaughtered on Monday, odds and ends to be closed out at 23c, 35c, 50¢ and 75¢; worth double. Ladies’ Night Gowns Immonse sale on ladies' night gowns on Monday. 1 case of children’s Oxford dirby rib- bed hose only 15¢ per pair, worth 25c, Lades’two thread40 guage fast black cotton hose only 23¢ per pair, worth 40c. Have You a Baby? If you have you must be happy, and to keep the baby happy you must get him or her a carriage. Having decided to make baby happy, the next question is, Where can I get the best i carriage at the lowest pos T and naturally as a bird seeks its nest, you will go to Hayden Bros.” furniture department for your carriage. The largest assortment from and the price made with the sole obj to keep them moving. The fact that we sell between 6 and 9a day in Feb- ruary tellsu grander story than any- thing we can tell. Furniture Dept. From the very smallest beginning, this department has spread and grown until it has reached its present splendid proportions, The secret of our succes: in this line is that we give f ass furniture at a moderato price. Bed room sui $10.50, $15, $18.50, $19, $19.50, 8 7, All our suits are first-class. A 1 goods. Call and examine. Fine line of parlor suits. Elegant assortment of bed lounges at $8.50, $10.50, 812.50, 813, $14, $15. These all have the woven wire springs and are upholstered in carpet, wool plush and silk plush. Complete line of chairs, tables, side- boards, choffoniers, center tables, rock- ers, book cases, fine easy chairs, etc., ete. |ing $1.255 extant to select | readily in Chicago or New Silks. Will place on sale Monday gros grain, faille, armure and royals dress silks in blacks, warranted, at the uniform lurluu of $1. These goods are cheap at §1 1k crepes in extra width. now and desirable shadings at $1,10, worth $1.85. Silks in brocades, st:iyusu &e., worth up to $2, Monday 1 and $1, Surahs in stripes and plaids, worth $1, Monday 6ic Our silk velvets usually sold at $1.25, Monday #1. Remnunts in silks less than half price. Colored Dress Goods. SPECIAL SALIl FOR MONDAY, 86-inch Bedford coffs, 20c. 36-inch whipcord, 30c. 86-inch de beige mixtures, 25¢. 40-inch all wool plaids 40-inch all wool Indina twill, 5%. 88-inch all wool henrictta, 874c. nch German plaids, H8e. 40-inch all wool novelty stripe 40-inch all wool novelty spots, 42-inch cashmere stripes, 8 nch dig { dingonal stripes, $1. 42-inch camel’s ha'r novelties, $1.: 40-inch Scotch weave novelties $1. Black Dress Goods SPECTAL PRICES FOR MONDAY. All wool serges in very handsome stripe effects and something quite new, on sale Monday at 50c. worth Sic. ‘We have just received 25 pieces of Lupin’s very best quality 4S-inch thibet cloths in a vich satin finish, su- perior to any silk warp henrietta and makes a very much better dress. We shall have them on sale Monday morn- i at remember they sell York for 31, Lupin’s very best henrietta, fine satin finish, Monday at 93c; sold everywhere at $1.30. Fine imported cashmere, 35¢, worth 50c. Fine imported cashmere, 23c. 8Tie. A good cashmere at 124e, worth 20c. Our very best 48-inch serges will go on Monday for 75¢, worth $1. Antonette cloths, real worth double rings, pol very beautiful det Monday at 85¢, 97 for less than $1.10, $1.25 and $1 Henrietta cloths, 38c, worth 55 Sicilian crepe cloths, 75¢, worth $1.10. Remember that all of the above goods are genuine bargains and can be had eitherin raven, jet or blue blacks, to suit. Trunks and Valises, The sale still goes on. We can suit you in any style. We have the stock, and the prices are all O. K. Just Arrived. One more carlond of new carpets; the latest designs fresh from the mills, and the prices are still lowor. Wa are now prepared to give the bénefit of the very arge purchase. Prices from 17¢ up. A good Uaion carpet for 30c, Better grades for 85¢ 10 43c. We have a few left of those extra super all wool at 53¢, 4 Brussels carpets are going rapidly at 7e to fise New lace curtains, New silk and silkaline, fringes, poles and shades, A Big Bargain. ‘We have the finest chenille curtain for the price ever shown in tho city, only 75¢ pair; to be sold this week ut the price. Call and see them before it is too late The largest stock of rugs ever put on sale in a retail house west of Chicago. Fur rugs to be closed out regardless of co. Smyrna rugs, 7 Moquet rv Wool rugs, Door mats, 50c¢ tu $1. LEEmbroideries. AT THROWN AWAY PRICES. 5,000 yards narroy but neat embroid- eries av le, 5,000 yards medium width in Hamburg embroideries, Swiss embroideries and cambric embroideries only 5c yard, worth 10c. 5,000 yards nice wide embroideries at 10¢, nctually worth 15¢. 200 yards 45>-inch embroidered flounc- ing, Monday at 83c per yard, worth 75c ver ya'd. draperies, Something in LLaces. Something that puts hs at the head, flnlll our thrown away prices tell the tale. 50,000 yards all linen torchon laces at 3¢, Ac, Te, 10c, 124e, worth 8e to 25c. 5,000 yards fine all silk chantilly lace at 10c, Isc, 19¢, 25¢, 83c, 89, worth 15¢ to 60c per yard. SOMETHING DIFFERENT AT THROWN AWAY PRICES. Hurt Handkerchiefs. GREATLY HURT IN PRICES. And slightly hurt in appearance. Hurt by the dust. Hurt by handling. - White embroidered handkerchiefs, hurt. 5 & E " Fancy embroidered handkerchiefs, urt. White hemstitched handkerchiefs, hurt. Fancy bordered hemstitched handker- chiefs hurt. Reduced from 85e, 25c, 19¢ to 10c to close them out. | Notions. Notions. For Monday, prices that talk, All silk seam binding. 10¢ per bolt. Whalebone casing, 10¢ por bolt. Hooks and eyes at le per card. Pins, full count, at 1e per papor. 200 yards- King’s cotton at lic 8pool. Stock net shiolds at 5o por pair. The very best silk shicids at 25c per pair. Belting in all colors at 15¢ por bolt. Fine skirt braid, 3¢ per voll. Velveteen skirt binding at 10¢ per per piece. ‘Whalebone, 86 inches long, at 15¢ per strip. varisty we and our price Triple tuxedo veils, ols not veils, Chenille dot veils, Jet spangled veils, Hair net veils, Crystal spotted veils, Honey comb veils, in single or double widths, at 10c, 15c, 20¢ and 25¢ per veil. Book Dep't. The new uniform edition of Dores books, from the original plates, full size, with all the illustrations from tho original designs by Gustave Dore: The Dove BibleGallers, Dante’s Inferno, Dante’s Purgatory and Para- dise, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Dore Mas- terpieces, Bible Scenes and Stories, Atala, La Fontaine Fables; elegantly bound in cloth and gilt, 1+ Just received l_]cwc]ry Department. Gents' watch chains, plated on Ger- man silver, 49¢, wordh $1.25 14-kt solid gold wedding rings, $1.25, worth $3, Children’s gold filled rings, 25c. Gonuine Bohemian gavnet ear drops, in solid gold settings, 50c worth $1.50, Real Rhine stone ear drops, in best rolled plated sottings , worth $1. Latest novelties in silver and gilt hair ornamonts, 25¢, worth 75e, Spocial sale on ladies’ bracolets, per pair, worth 81, s knives or forks, $1.25 vary bost quality, 1 ol alarm clocks, se. Gold filled hunting ease stom wind watches, with American movements, $8.75 up. st-clags watch and clock repairing at half jewelers’ prices. All work guaranteed. 25¢ per Butter. We sell country butter for 15¢, 17¢ and 19¢ per pound, made by Nebraska farmers. Creamery we sell at 20c, mnde at Dodge; Nebraska. Remember our butter is shipped us evory day and is nlways fresh, our prices sure to bo the lowest. 50 boxes of fancy im- They will sell for dc por 22¢ and 2de, ported dates. pound. Mixed nuts, 2 pounds for 252. Cape Cod cranberries, 4¢ per quart. ooty o8a; aeanty wornas e oneey| House Furnishing Webster’s Unabridged nicely bound in cloth, 90c; price $3.50. Drug Dept. Wright's Sarsaparilla, 59c. Primley’s Sarsaparilla, 59¢. Hood’s Sarsaparilla, 750, Harter’s Iron Tonie, 75c. Brown’s Iron Tonie, 75c. Maltine plain and Cod Liver Oil, 75c. Malt Extract plain and Cod Liver Oil, Dictionary, publisher’s 75¢. Cuticura Resolvent, 75c. Scott’s Kmulsion, 75, Peter Moller’s Pure Cod Liver Oil, 650, Dr. Stmmons’ Liver Regulator, 75c. Dr. Bane's Rheumatic Cure, 75: Allcock’s Porous Plaster, 2 for 25¢. Strengthening Plaster, 5e. Gar Tea, 20c. Lane’s Family Medicine, 40c. Sanford’s Catarrk Cure, 75¢. Indian Sagwa, 75¢. Indian Oil, 20c. Shandon Bells Soap, 80c per Monday only. Liebig’s Beef, Iron and Wine, Ammonia, large bottle 10c. Beef Extract, 29c. Fig Syrup, Lavge size, 20c. Fig Syrup, small size, 15c. Syrup of Tar and Wild Cherr; box on 43c. Goods. GLASS, CHINAWARLDE, CROCKERY, LIGHT AND HEAVY HARDWARE DEPARTMENT. Tomorrow the biggest drive in hatch- ets 1t has ever been your good fortuno to behold. A solid cast steel hatchet, war- ranted, that sells for $1 everywhero, to- morrow 23c. White wash brushes, 10c each. a fine line of kalsomining by The West Peerles our price Wooden bewls, 8¢ each, Wash boards, 9c each. Dinner sets, $7.63, worth 325, Copper bottom wash boilers, 59¢. Milk and butter crocks, 5¢ por gallon. Cups and saucers, per set. Dinner plates 15¢ per set. Folding ironing tables 93¢ each. Ciothes baskets, 50c. Clothes hampers, 80c. Madame Streeter flat irons, 3 irons, 1 handle and stand, 90c. Solid copper tea kettles, $1.15, regu- lar price $2.50. Scrub brushes, 5¢ each. All colors fancy sheaf paper, 24 sheets Also e, , 5e. Metal top syrup pitchor 8 ring clothes bars, 5 The Leaders and Introducers of Popular Prices. Patronize oe— ] Gr;:{t Meat Sale. Dried salt pork 6ie pound. Sugar cured breakfast bacon, Tie pep pound. Bonoless rump heol Bic pep pound. J Sugar cured No. 1 hams, 9ic,104c and 124 por pound. Sugar cured California hams 5ic peg pound. Dried beef Tie, 10¢, 124c per pound. Boneless ham Se per pound. Bologna sausage 5¢ per pound. Liver sausagt 5¢ per pound. Frankforts 74e per pound. Head cheeso 5¢ per pound, Brick cheese 15¢ per pound, Croam cheese 15¢ per poun d. 5 cheese 15c. Bust Holland herrving in k Domestic herring in kogs, Best cape cod fish 124c, -pound brick cod fish 15¢ each. Imon 10¢ per pound. White fish 10¢ per pound. Mackerol 124¢ por pound. len-pound pail Norwegian per pail. Dried Fruit. 5 prnia, domostic and d driea fruit. rnin loose museatel raisins, 240, . 4ie, 54c and Ge per pound. California raisins, cured apricots, 71o. Lvaporated peachies, Tie, Culifornia pitted plums, Ye. California pitted cherries, Blackberries, 4e. Raspberries, 174c. corn sardines Now Turkish prunes, bie. Date N 3 Now ovaporated apples, vory nice, Go. Tea and Colffee Dept. Low prices continue to bhe our motto. Momf“y we sell a choice green Japan, tea for 19¢ Sun dried Japan, 19¢, 25¢, and 85c. Basket fired Japan, 35¢ and 40c, Formosa Oolong, 50¢, 60c and 70c. Gunpowder, 35¢, 48¢ and 58c. Fresh coffees received daily from roaster. Rio coffee, 20¢, 22¢ and Golden Rio, 25¢; choice Combination Jav Old Government Java and Mocha 3310 Great Trunk and Bag Sale. Just recoived—zarload of trunks and 34-inch trunis 81,85, 2.50, 95, worth #3; 25, worth $3.50; 49-inch #: worth $4. Fine zinc trunk, well made,shect iron bottom, $2 each; never sold for less than 50. Another fine zine trunk $2.503 never sold for less than $4, and so on up. We can save you money. Black rubber bags, never sold for less than & smallest size. wo give you 39c onch. Other bags at #1.25 and up. —————————————————————————————— ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— (IGAR MAKING 1IN OMAHA _ The ‘Manufacturers Have Increased the Number of Their Employes. STILL TOO SMALL TO BE ANY CREDIT Business Men Allow Clgar Manufacturing to Languish While the Ladles Have Doubled the Output of Factorles Making Household Goods, Early last fall Tue Bee called attention to the fact that thirty cigarmakers were em- ployed in Omaha ad that the people of this city were sending thousands of dollars to eastern cities for cigars that could be made just as well at home. It also pointed out the fact that only the very best cigarmakers were employed here, all of them being union men, and that the quality of the goods turned out was equal to anything made n this country. As a result of the offorts put forth by Tur Bee the number of cigarmakers has in- creased from thirty until now there are sixty men working in Omaha cigar factories, As the winter months comprise the dull season In cigar manufacturiog and as some mon fire usually laid off at that time, this increase has peen very gratifying both to the manu- facturers and to those citizons who aro working 1n conjunction with Tuee Lee to stimulate manafacturing in Omaha. A Disgrace to Omaha, At the same timo it is a disgrace to Omah a and to westorn entorprise that only sixty olgarmakers should be employed in a city of 140,000 Inhabitants, In order to show \/hat other cities are doing in this direction official figures have been obtained from the secretaries of tho unions, giving the exact number of men employed: Clgar- Polmln- makers, U T on, Omaha 140,452 aul 18,156 Minneapolis .73 Denvor., 245 106070 Milwaukee. . . 800 204,150 Omaha and Denver are the only cities the above list which donot employ some oonunion cigarmakers, At St. Paul there are Lwo very extensive factories which em- ploy & large number of children which are notncluded in the number of cigarmakers credited to that city. Tuose poople, mauy of them citizens and property owners of Omaha, who have been striviog to belittle the manufucturing indus- tries of this city sud prevent their growth through the howe patronage movement, have been claiming that cigars cannot be made in western cities, From the above figures it would appear that cigars ave bewg made on an extensive scale in all the large western citles, Omaba alone excepted, Denver is 500 miles further west and with & population smaller than Omana employs four times as many cigarmakers, St. Paul with a population smaller than most four times as many lwaukee employs one clgar- y 255 people, On the same “Jasis Omaha should employ 551 cigarmakers, It is very evident that the enemies of Omaba will’ bave to invent some other ex- guse for opposing the growth of cigar man- lull‘urln( in this city than its western on, It is presumed that they will fall back on %he assertion that Omaha cigars are not as those wade ip other cities. Even is excuse will not hold on close examina- Owmala cigars have been pronounced tion. e and again by recogmized aulhorities as fi, equal in qut{ny 10 those of any other city, and there is no reason why they should not be. Omaha manufacturers employ none but the best makers and it is nonsense to assume that they caunot got on to the mar- ket and buy as good tobacco as the manufac- wurers of Denver, St. Paul, or any other wostern city. The objection which dealers usually raise agamnst Omaha cigars and one that they bave repoated so often as to almost boliove it, is that the Omaha factories being small are unable to buy enough tobacco at once to keep them going any length of time, and for that reasou they cannot make an_even brand of cigars, The fallacy of such a claim is very evident. A manufacturer with capital enough to employ five men can spare money to buy tobacco enough to keep those five men going for a certain length of time as well as a manufacturer who employs 100 men. A small manufacturer can buy in ad- vance as well as a larger manufacturer, as he is only compelled to buy a quantity in pro- portion to the size of his business. Why Forelgn Clgars Are Bought. There is only one reason why Omaha smokers do not buy Omaha made cigars, and that is because they do not take enough in- terest in the prosperity of the city to keep their money at homo, They have formed tho habit'of buying cigars made outside of the city and cannot got outof the rut. It has always been the Dboast of western men that thoy aro progres- sive, thatthey are not so wedded to any theory or custom that they cannot change at the same money as those made by union labor. Tho consumor, however, gets no beneflt, as tho stuck used in them is no bot- ter, but in purchasing them ho is encoprag- ing a business that is blighting the lives of thousands of children. The Tenement House Cigars are even more popular with dealers, as they cost stll less by the wholesale, and for tha reason tho majority of all the cigars sold n Nebraska are of this sort, It is very amusing to hear smokers spoak in high terms of the goods made by certain manufacturers when the truth is that the manufacturers mentioned have no factories at all but suoply tobacco to the denizens of tenemont houses and pay them a stated price for making up the cigars, The names of some of these houses become <0 familiar to tho smoking public that it would be a surprise to them to learn of their true character. As _in the case of the cigars made by child labor the consumer gots no benefit, as the money saved in the labor goes to the manu- facturer, the jobber and* the retail dealer. ‘I'he consumer, however, does get more than he bargains for; he gets the vilest article imaginable. There is no use in poo-pooing or making light of the filthiness of tenement house cigab factories, as the man who does 80 only makes a display of his own 1gnor- ance, Dealors, as a matter of course, always try to discredit these stories, as it is to their interest to do so. A local news reporter in New York, ac- any moment, and yet it 1ooks very much as if the smokers of Omaha were about as slow 10 “catch onto" the procession as any class of men could be. Ladies Patronize Home Industrl The home patronage movement has been & grand success in all lines of goods which go into the housenhold., When the home patron- age movement was iirst started by Tue Bee & prominent business man said that there would be no trouble in influencing business men, but that one might as well try to make water run up hill as to _attempt to iuduce a housekeeper to buy a differet kind of soap or flour from what she had been using, T'ho results have been just the opposite. companying a health officer to one of these tenement houses found in aroom there a man D the last stages of smallpox. In the same room three membors of the family were making cigars, The filth and stench was nauseating and how these peoble can live is a mystery, but they do live and make cigars and Omaha business men smoke them. If the smokers of Omaha could have seen that room the cigar factories of this city would have more business than they could attend to. The New York Sun, under tne feaption of *“The Cigars of Death,” published the fol- lowing: ‘“I'he tenement house inspectors, now making their ronnds, huve fouud nothing in any quarter of New York more dangerous to public healtn, family virtue, and common ‘The ladies of the city have come to the front grandly, and by insisting upon bewmg sup- plicd with Nebraska goods they huve forced the grocers to handle such goods, aud have givea manufacturing in those lines an 1npotus neyer before experienced 1n this state. Manufacturers turning out household goods have given employment to batween 200 and 800 additional men “through the efforts put forth b{ housekeepers, Meanwhilo the business men who prate about finances and political economy and who know so wuch about how a city should be governed and how 1t should be built u bave added a paltry thirty men to the cigar- making force of the city. % 1f the ladies had been buying the cigars every cigar dealer in the city would have been handling lome made goods before this time, and at least 200 cigarmakers would have been at work in the ull{A The ?uuslion naturally suggests itself as to what kind of cigars are smoksd in Omaha, and, in fucl, in Nebraska, as the whole state is vory much alike in tuis particular, Kind of Clgars Smoked, A careful investigation shows that one- balf of the cigars sold in this city come from the tenement house factories. The balance, excepting the few made in Omaha, come mostly from small towns located in lilinois, lowa and other western states, It is estimated by cigar men thut Daven- Port. Ia., keeps fifty men employed in wal ng oigars for the Nebraska trade. The ma. jority of the cigars made in these small western towns and clues outside of Ne- braska are from nonunion shops which em- ploy boys and girls and the cheapest and poorest Iabor that can be had. Little chil- dren that ought to be at play are worked from daylight until dark for a mere pittance, There is one town in lilinois of 6,000 to 8,000 population that bas been built up eatirely by these baby-killing shops. These cigars can be sold by the manufac- turers for less money than Omaha cigars. which are made by men who ave pald good living wages. Hence the retail dealer pre- fers to bandle baby cigars, as they retail for deconcy, than the hugeé tenement house cigar factories which have frequently, during the past few years, been forced upon the notice of the Board of Health, but which, for some reasons, through some meaus, ave still allowed to exist.” Dr, Tyler of the Board of Health of New York City, made the following statem an oficial report: ‘It cannot be clal with certainty that the cigars so maae will spread contagious disease, and it cannot be denied either; so the best thing will be not to smoke them." Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, representing the “Brownstone district” of New York City in the legislature, stated as follows: *‘[ have visited these pest holes persoually, and I can assure you if smokers could ounly see how these cigars ure made, we would not need sy logislative action against this system at all,” Commissioner Enos says: Chinese cigal and use thei here better, Still the Omaha business man who goos home with a tenement-Louse-cigar breath thinks his wife unreasonable if she asks him as & special favor o stop smoking. Such a breath is a nice thiug for a reputa- ble business man to take home to the wife who 1s building up the industries of Ne- braska by purchasiug only home wade §004: 1 also saw the nakers bite off the cigar ends saliva to make the Lobacco ad- Number of Cigars Smoked, The Cigar Makers union of St. Paul has been to the trouble of compiling figures on the subject, and according to that authority the cigars smoked in that city would keep 1,042 men employed the year through., As Omaha has several thousand more popula- tion than St. Paul it1s cortainly safe to say that fully as many cigars are consumed here. However, to avoid the charge of exaggera- tion, cut this number in two in the middle and say that Omaha could support 800 cigar- makers. These men would earn §9,600 per week, orin round numbers a half mnlr:n dollars snnually, The employment of that uumber of eivar men would furnish work for 200 additional men as packers, strippers, foremen, clerks, ete., who would adda another hundred thousand cr more to the pay roll. There would also be a large increase in the number of men employed in the cigar box factories and in other lines of business which would be affected by the cigar making inaustry. {f the business men of the city would lay aside their foolish prejudices an industry could be placed on its feet that would do Omaha an incalculable amoupt of goed. The laboring men of the city, ‘many of them, smoke only goods bearing, the blue label. They should go one step fu%fihar and require that the box also bear the Nabraska label. Tobacco Kaising in Nebraska, There is another object 1n mcrensinf manufacture of cigars in Nebraskn. Wide- awake men are experimenting on the raising of tobacco in Nebraska. 1t has been proven that tho plant will do well aud that all that 1s required 1s to properly understand the curing of it. An associatiou has been formed for this purpose in the state, and unless all signs fail 1t will not be long before tobacco growing will bo a success, | When it is considerea that an acre of to bacco is valued at about ten times as much as an acre of corn it can be readily seen that it will mean much for Nebraska. A firm at Schuyler has made a few cigars out of Nebreska tobacco ana will try the ex- periment on a still larger scale next season, Nebraska in tne past year or two has be- como a great sugar-producing state, and it would not be at all surprising if she were to become a great tobacco state, ‘Che question is, will the business men of Omaha develop the manufadturing branch of the business while the farmers are experi- menting with the growing of tobacco, or will they let the business lauguish while the ladies are doubling the product of factories turning out goods in their Line. kit b s IN THE LABOK WORLD, Denvor will hold a typesotling contest. Lowell spinners average $9 and $10 a woek. Auderson, Ind., is to have an aluminum plant that will employ 1,000 persons, A national association hag been organized in Now York to extend the ibdustrial scheme of profit-shariug, . Madagascar people worle. twenty-five days in a year, and mako enoughithen to support them In idleness the rest of the year, ‘The average daily wages ©f railroad em- ployes on sixty of the I railroads in the United States are: gagemasters, #1.78; baggagemen, 81.67; smiths, $2.46; brakemep, $1.U5; carpen| §2.14: con- engineers, 1$3.24; firemen, ll.s‘n unp fl‘.' $2.93; la- machimsts, '§2.25; masons, $2.01; switéhimen, $1.78, and telegraphers, $1,42, i General George W. Jonel af Dubuque, one of the first United States sepators froin Iowa, and now 90 years of age, wds admitted 10 the bar of the state supreme eourt lust week. Probably it was the naind of the thing, not the substance, he wanted, General Jones was & democrat before tha war, and early in revellion days was impri: "at Fort Wayne on suspicion of treason, The most noted member of the Creek na- tion 1s General Porter of ,Muscogee, I. T\, who has represonted his ple as agent the national capital for many years. Hoisa very picture of Iudign wanhood and vigor, for he is tall, st nd swarthy, His eve glistens like an His titie of gen- oral arose from the skiil with whish he put an end to the Lhnafln# insurrections in 1872, 1870 and 1884, household expenses Sir Morell Muklnl!’nl were very great. He Kept sixteen servants, or himself and an- flagmon, bl besides a private coach other for his wife, and spent every cent of hus $80,000 yearly tncome. Both the distin- guished doctor and wifg were very fond of society, and thel we iw London was the resort of brillian ple, It was a rare thing for a caller to flnd them slone iu the evening, and even then they were in full eveulng dress, Mrs, Mackedzie blazing with diamonds. The d three daughters are said w be very handsome girls and all as fond of society as Lhewr parents were, FREDNYE TALKS OF THE STAGE Modjeska’s Brilliant Engagement Broke the Chicago Theatrical Record, A DISCUSSION OF STAGE MORALITY An Actress Who Thinks There Is Some Room for Improvement — A New Electrical Fun- eral Fad, Cn10AGo, 11l., Feb. 19.—[Special Corra- spondence of T Bee.|—Modjeska has been the strongest theatrical card here of late and that sign of S, R. O., so gratifying to the box oftice, but so discourag- ing to those who have braved the street car perils of this unfortunate city and reached the theater ticketless a half hour late, has been exhibited every night of her engage- ment. Her ropertoire has been far too large, exhibiting certain weaknesses for which even her versatility bas not afforded an ade- quate compensation, There has never been and there never will boa womau who can play both Beatrice and Lady Macbeth. But Modjeska does not stop with this amazing ef- fort to represent antagonisuic types; she fills 1 the space between with Rosalind, Mary Stuart and, one might almost say, with whatover else comes handy. Her mouve doubtiess Is to suit an erratic public taste, but there are enougn persons with artistic sense. even in Chicago, to support a continuous artistic presentatiou of one play in preference to a mosaic, many of the components of which are distast8ful, Modjeska’'s accent is a trifle less objection- able than 1t used to be, but it still loans itself to Shakespearean uses with harrowing dif- culty. As a matter of sober truth barring affectation, shoddy and all Lhat sort of thing —most of us in these days do not understand the language of the immortal bard, fie was too much & poet and a philosopher to adopt a homely garb of words, and, besides, the dic- tion of his time was strangely differ ent from that of today. In order to hear Shakespeare as he is, we ougnt to read him thoroughly with especial attention to the play which we are to hear, and then we should patronize exclusively those actors and actresses who, in porvraying his churaoters, speak the En- glish language clearly, distinctly, Englishly, A mao who has not assimilated the Shakes- peare vocabulary, sitting under Modjeska’s Rosalind; writhes in double agouy, his head hot, his feet cold, his nerves twisting them- selves into a thousand quivering kunots. One can understand how a woman who has glanced @ French lexicon, or who has spent sufficient time in Paris to be able to order a dinner table d’hote, can be foolish encugh to imagine that she enjoys Bern- hardt’s nasal Camille, but how the average American suditor manages to tolerage Shakespeare in s tongue which is just native enough to hold the promise of understanding to the ear while breaking it to the hope passes comprehension, Is the Stage Moral? The other evening at Weber's & party of actors, actresses and new: er men fell to discussing that much abused question, “Is the stuge moral?” An actress who is too prominent to be quoted in such a connection said: *I do not find so much fault with the pulpit for denouncing the stage as I used to. The deterioration which the stage Las suffered during the past decade in art fluds a reflex in the influence whicl has been exerted upon stage morality. T'wo things have condu 0 the lowering of the morall leyel of ithe atage,namely the'| amazing growth of travoling companics and tho invasion of the field of the socalled logit- imato drama by the playsiwhich in former times were relegated to the variety hall or the dance house, Thoro is no question but that the dramatic life is the correct one for those who desire to live within the limits of conventionality. In the old days of stock companies this was possibie to an extent at least which rendored the attacks of strait- laced persons upon the stage unwarranted. But Times Have Changed, The home oven of a first class company may be anywhere between New York and San Francisco or New Orleans and Duluth—that is to say, it is nowhore. I have no patience with those who coutond that the intimate association between the sexes on the stage—for instance, the protracted acting of what may be called the lover roles—is demor- alizing. It 1s much more likely that Juliev learns to hate Romeo than that she learns to love him. H21s not Romeo to her, but a vul- gar sort of fellow whose very assumption of the 1deal heroism of Romeo is disgusting from contrast with his own personality. But remove a man or woman from the nnrecog- nized restraints of home—from the influence of children—and a thousand outside tempta- tions creeds in to lower ,their standard of so- cial values, Maybe She Is and Maybe She 1sn't, *The farce comedy and thespectacular play with the ballet contingent have not perhaps 1 fected the morals 80 much as they have de- pleted the pocketbooks of the legitimate, but they have necessarily reached out for and placed upon the stago a class of people whoin a moral way are notthe most rofined. I do not wish to be construed as spoaking in an individual mannor; my meuning is general, A ballet girl, or the girl who appears night after night in a variety performange n tights and induiges in the antics peculiar to her class may be above reproach. In many cases she is, but in many more sheisn’t, If she preserves her purily in fact she learns casily and l'umdlx a freedom in the treat- ment of the male habitues of the green room which sociely would unkesitatingly dis- countenance. She meets these unprinciplod gentlemen exclusively--they consutute in fact the only male sociery, outside of her company, to which she is subjected—and if she does not fall a victim to their blandish- monts she learns at least to esvimate man- hood by the number of carriages which it can hire and the number of hats, bonnets or costumes which it is disposed to buy. The ranks of the bailet, the variety and the farce comedy are fille from a lower social order than those of Lhe real drama, and the experience of the former is necessarily more demoraliziug than that of the lattor. Removed as the life of the legiui mate actress is from the happivess and the bealth of the home, it is far preferable o that of the participator in the half musical, balf nude, half modest and wholly nonsensi- cal entertainment whicn is threatening to take the place of the legitiniate on the Ameri- can stage.” A New Funeral Fud, Chicago has not invented anything of late in the way of accessories to weddings, recop- tions or other festivities connected with the living, but it bas tuken a few strides in tho matter of celebrating the death of the dead which deserves more than & passing notice. Not long 8go it was discovered that oertaln enterprising gentlemen were watching the obituary columns of the newspaper, the scarlet fever and diphtheria signs and the white or black crepe on the doors and soliciting orders for funeral flowers before the date of burial could be com- veniently arranged, Chicago has a flower trusg, The trust came together in an agony of propriety and solemnly resolved that the praoctis of the post morwml‘)urva‘nn of tlowers spould be condemned. This afforded an opportunity for the undertakers, who have now come o the front with a wreath of arti- ticial flowers’ to encircle the oval opening in the coffin, and an electric light attachment by which a flood of lignt is shed from various points in the wreath upon the face of the departed. It costs only §10 apiece to exhivit your lamented friends in tbis novel and flat- tering hight, Fuep Nyg, EDUCATIO) Chicago will spend nearly 6,000,000 fow school purposes this year. ) ‘I'he noted Jefferson Medical college and hosmital of Philadelphia is to be moved toa new location on South Broad street, between Christian and Caslerine strects. Much regret is feit at Yale that Prof. Wille jam I. Knapp-has resigned his professorshig thero to come to the new Chicago university, He has been at the head of the department of modern languages at Yale sinco 1570, The oldest school teacher in Oregon now living 1s said to ba Prof. John D. Wood, who, at the age of 16, began teaching in Benton county in 1855, He has taught 258 monthg on public money and several terms of “‘subx iption schools.” Seth Lowe, the youthful president of Coc lumbia college, is & man of somewhat, portly figure, with the gencra! appearance of a prosc porous merchant or bauker. His face if swmoothly shaven, except for a short wus< tache, and a correspondent says there nevexy was a stern or surly expression on it. Extensive preparations aro being made by the faculty and students of the University of Michigan for the reception of ex-President Cleveland, who will make an address there in University ball on Washington’s birthday. The democratic and republican clubs, ‘‘co eds” and all, will turn out in full force. The financial support of the New York Metropolitan museutn has fallon away owing to the influence of those opposed to Sunaay opening. A public appropriation of 0,000 18 necessary to make up the deficiency, and unless the money Is provided Sunday open- ing will be aoandonea. The trustees of the Museum of Natural History will open it on Sundays if the city authoritios grant an ap+ propriation of 0,000, There is no end of a row out in Oakland, Cal., over the suspension of & woman teacher for persisting in using as a text book Vietor Hugo's “*Hernani.”” Some of the parents of the pupils objected to the book on the ground that it was immoral, but Mme, Ferrier said her national pride nad been insulted, and kepton using it. It now devolves upon board of education to sit in solemn judgmeny on Hugo's play. ) Carefully collected statistics as to the growth of the number of students in our collgges are presented by Mr. Arthur M. Comey in the last numbor of the Educational Revie! They relate to 232 of these institu= tions, include male students only, and exs clude tho purely scientific schools, though students pursuing scientific courses within the colleges proper are enumerated. The aggroguto number of students tabulated was at the periods named : 1850, 8,847 18060, 13,e 4437 1870, 16,3393 1880, 20,6503 1890, 51,350, | Flans for the new public library cago have been adopted. The design repre massive building of ihe Roman It will have a frontage of 400 higau avenue and 140 on the Washingtou and itaudolph street sides. The height is ninety feet. The grand entrance will bo on Washington streot and forms an imposing arch, having a depth of eight feot. It was suggested by tbe arch of Titus. The Randolph street entrance is more severely classic, with massive columns and entabla= ture, which forms the roof of the portico, ‘T'be exterior will be built of blue Bedford stone, finely dressed, excepting the ter table, which will be of granite. Ionic cols umns will form the colonnade, surmounted by a fricze on which will be chiseled the numes of nistoric writers. The floor of the entrance hall avd corridors will be of marble mosaic and the wain staircases, the walls of the two entrauce vestibules ana cf the cors ridors leading from them will be marble, The decorated ceiling will be of a light cream colored terra cotta, The subordinate staircases will be made of iron, The cost is estimated at §1,200,000, " Chicago has a w u's “‘bucket shop,"* where women teh the blackboards with grim, anxious faces and get sharp little lines drawn about eyes that are feverishly bright at times and hopelessly dull when the ex- citement is over. The women who waste their lives in walting for a favorable wurn in tho warket are mostly elderly maidens sod widows, with an occasional married wowan who dabbles 1n stocks witkout the knowledye of apy oue but her brokel of Chls