Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 23, 1893, Page 8

— e ——————— THE OMAH DAILY BEE: MONDAY' OCTOBER 23. 1893. PREACHERS AND POLITICS Pulpits as a Purifying Power in the Political Pool. REV. PATTERSON'S PRONOUNCED VIEWS Position of the Clergy in Civil Affairs De- fined—Ministerial Robes Not an Ab- dication of Citizenship—ellel in Politionl Religion. Rev. J. M. Patterson delivered a sermon last evening at the First Presbyterian church, iz which he spoke upon the subject of “The Parson ana Politi His rem were as follows: There secms to be confusion in the minds of some people as to the relation of parson and pulpit to politics and civil affairs in general. The position of the minister in these mat- ters ought to be ciearly understood. For one 1 claim the devino right to “meddle in pol- ftics” whenever in my judgment the oc sion demands it. As a man, I claim and will ex oas I may see fit all the rights and privileges of a citizen, Tam not aware of having abdicatea my manhood in becoming a minister. It would be very difficult to convince me that when I received ordination 1 _lost citizenship. 1am not one of those who believe there are three sexes—men, women and preachers, I still claim to belong to the manly sex. Any inti- mution that a well-brea,inteiligent,tax ing preacher is not and must not be interested Bs deeply and practically in the affairs of government as any other man is inexcusable fgnorance or an insufferable impevtinence. 1am aman and everything that interests bumanity interests me. Puipit and Politics. As o minister I proclaim my right to speak pon every question that is of common pub- ic interest. I know men will ery *‘political religion.” But I knos, 0o, there is a sense in which political religion is a very gond thing. Itisa thing to be hated and ban- fshed when the pulpit is made the tool of any litical party. It is a thing to be hated and anished when the church interfercs with public affairs merely with a_view of strengthening its own position. But when & church or a pulpit is independent of political parties—when there are no strings upon it, when it can speak impartially—then political religion means only the purifying of politics by connecting it with duty, honor and piety. There is a legitunate application of preaching to politics. When so applied the pulpit strives to secure the recognition of four principies: First—An acknowledgement of God as the moral governor of nations. Second—A recognition of the universal brotherhood and equality of man dn civil affairs. Third—The fnculcation of the moral law of God as the suprome gnidedf all legisla- tive, judicial, and executive business of pub- lic officers and in all political action of private citizens. Fourth—The historic proof of absolute certainty of retribution for national and municipal corruntion. On these subjects the minister nas no alternative. He must speak or be basely derelict to duty. Iknow men will cry “‘union of church and state.” Strange that the men who see so much danger from interference of ministers with politics can’t seo any danger from holding political caucuses in saloons! Unlon of Church and State. For myself, I believe a union of church and state unnatural and unholy and preju- dicial alike to bosh. But as between a union of saloon and state, as a union of church and state, it would not take me a moment to choose. \What the pulpit wants and what it v;nl worlk for is'a“dnifon of morals and poli- tics. 1 know the church ond the- politician are both liable to object to any practical partici- pation m things political. The church be- cause few Christians realize the true mis- sion of Christianity. Preachers who have dared try to preach a little “applied Chris- tlanity” have sometimes heard from their officers. Sentiment even in religious circles 1s hardly up to this point as yet. There is not a pulpit in this broad land but that will permit a man to preach about the awful iniguities of the poor, dirty, greasy South sea islanders. 1ve him a collection; too—if times are not {oo hard. All Christians agree that these little ebony urchins must be saved, and 8o they must. I fully accord with them. But if a man gets up in the pulpit and uses the same plain English to describe the iniquities jhat pervade our national and municipal fe. lie takes his professional life in his bands and endangers his reputation asa gospel preacher, ‘When will Christfans the gospel the most sensational and at the same time most prac- tical system of truth in the world? ‘When will they learn that Christ came not only to regenerate. individual men, but so- ciety and the statet Then the politician ob jects because it interferes with his r ue. ‘And his first charge against the parson is in- cm‘npelcm'y. And to this charge we plead uiity. g “In the ways thataredark and the tricks that are vain,” all of which are at the finger tips of the politician, the parson is ever a novice. He can't compete with the politi- elan when it comes to wire pulling or ‘rounding up" the voters. But let me tell you there is a vast difference between the Politician’s and the parson’s citizenship, What the Church Should Be. The old custom was 1o have the church in the midst of the graveyard—as if its only mission was to prepare men to die. Tho churcl’s truo place is in the palpitating heart of the great city, 8o it can teach- men how w live. For one, T believe in a practical puloit— not a police pulpit, but a pulpit that shall speak aloud and spare not the workers of iniquity and that shall touch truth, not only &t the center, but also at the circumference. God forbid that the pulpit should be the pro- mulgator of an inoffensive, sentimental gospel that touches human life nowhere, BUTLER ANSW learn that is S INGERSOLL. Mirncle ns Viewed ionul Puipit, At St. Mary’'s Avenue Congregational church yesterday morning, Dr. 8. Wright Butler took lcobert Ingersoll's lecture on “Myth and Miracle” as the basis of his ser- mon. In thecourse of an impassioned talk of forty-five minutes he ridiculed the colonel as effectually as did Ingersoll on Wednesday Iust ridiculo the so-called “spivitual” people, For the scripture lesson Dr. Butler read the story of Doub! Thomas. and ke took s the text for his sermon Christ's words, Thomas, because thou hast seen thou hast believed ; but blessed are they which have mot seen and yet have believed.” his, he explained, was meant as no com- liment to Thomas. It was no credit to him, ko the dead salmon that floated down the river with the current, it was no exertion, n» y 10 believe what one had seen. They he drones of the world who did no more thau this. The honeymakers were those whose prophetic hope, whose logie, whose enterprise, whose spirit of veunture and ploneer led them to investigate the un- seen. Myth s n 8 Congre- Tilusirations from Life, Dr. Butler then gave soveral historical fllustrations of this idea. The inert could see the marble, that 1t was hard; but it took a Michael Angelo to see the angel in it ‘The mountain's height was apparent to all, but it was not everybody who could see the site for the observatory tower. The light- ning flash sy one could: see, but it required & Franiiin 1 cateh it, and thon the lazy, those who believea but what they saw, asked him what was the good of it. “Let me alone,” says Sloth, *I believe in the now aud in happiness as the only good.” This was the first time that the reverend doctor had referred in terms at all direct to Robert Ingersoll and his heavers all opened their ears to catch anything he said, sympa- thetlc or w criticism, of the apostle of aguosticism, All tle benefits the world received, he sald, came from restless, believing, tenta- not frow those who lived for hap- mcu . And he went on to show how lack of contentment, the inability to find happiness iv 1hings as th e had woved the world forward. The savage had lived {n u cave. Not satisfled with that he had bullt him & cabin, and as he developed with Bl gostiyes spirlt 18 bim, bis habitation had become a cottage, chateau and castle. The raftof the primitive man was soon too unwieldy, too awkward, and he hollowed out the oanoe. In course of time the caravel was buil’, the Cunarder, the Campania. Queen dsnbelin's Faith, Was it not_Tsabella’s religious faithina western continent that made her pledge her crown jewels to send Columbus on his voy- age of discover; What h the “spiritual” people to show at the World's fair? Robert Ingersoll had asked, Heasserted that they had itall to show, as their triumpn and trophy. The convent of La Rabida was not an infidel club. Just one department, the spiritual people did not show. That was the Midway plaisance. For this the worldly people were ful ntitled to all the credit they could get from it. There were scen the South Sea islanders, the inhabitants of Java and Samon, native to their waists and naked to their limbs; the dancing Soudanese, the Egypiian donkey boy, the tom tom beaters The spiritual people did not wish to claim any 1t for showing this ¢ Dr. Butler asked his hearers to give hope the benefit ot the doubt. It could do noharm 1o expect desirably. Unbelief never did any good. The blatant teacher of distrust was a matricide, a 1o suicide, selfish, cruel And he told the story of Dr. Henry Ward Beecher and Robert Ingersoll. The eminent divine had listened to Ingersoll declaiming against Christinnity on the railroad car and had sawd not a word ; but when Ingersoll con- cluded Dr. Beecher ‘told that he had that morning crossed Broadway near Park Place, and he saw a_one-legged man attempting to reach the other side of the crowded thor- oughfare with the aid of one crutch. He was getting along well, when a big, burly thoughtless man came by and knocked th crutch from under him. Ingersoll immed ately expressed a wish that he had been there, and asserted that he would have broken the man's head. ‘‘Thou art the man!’ said Dr. Beecher. “Humanmty is struggling along on life's rough way, and you come by and knock from under him the one crutch of faith, of hope, of belief that something better and higher is to come, and you leave him with no support.” ferred 1ce Cream to Conl, d the spiritual people to show in world of music? had Robert Ingersoll ? In reply Dr. Butler pointed to Haydn, Handel, Mozart. and as an offset to Ingersoll's ridicule of creeds, that he would rather hear Haydn's Six Symphonies than the Presbyterian creed, he retorted that he would prefer to eat ice cream than to shovel coal. - There was no connection be- tween the two, no parallel, no comparison. He considered that a man ought to charge 1 a scat to stand up and contradicy the evi- dence of the centuries. Emerson stood out &8 witness of what the world owed to those for whom Ingersoll had nothing but ridicule, and in answer to Ingersoll's slur on the spiritual people, that they had produced no poetry, the roverenod speaker recited the opening passage of Tennyson's ‘In Me- moriam,"” commencine: Strong Son of God, fnimortal Loye, Whom, we that have not seen Thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Betloving Whore we cannot prove. And added that in 1892, forty-four years later, the same poet had written: Sunset and e Aud one cl And may the When'I put out to sea. For_though from out our bourne of time and place The flood may bear me far, 1 hope to see niy Pllot face to face When I have crossed the bar. Tlis he considered a sufficient answer to Ingersoll's question, and he left his hearers with an impassioned peroration to araw their own conclusions of the remainder of the Jecture of the “blatant, burly, boyish Bob,” as he denominated him. — —— Cure indigestion and biliousness with De Witt's Little Early Risers. —— PUT CHICAGO IN YOUR POCKET. You Can Do 80 by Purohasing a Copy of Moran's Dictlonary of Chicag This valuable little guide book, known as ““Moran’s Dictionary of Chicago,” has received the endorsement of the “World’s Columbian exposition.” It contains a handsome *‘map"” of Chicago, and is the only recognized and standard ‘‘guide” to the World's fair city. Every person contemplating a trip to Chi- cago during the World’s fair should avail himself of this opportunity to secure a copy of this valuable work, and, by doing o, will be able to thoroughly post himselt regarding Chicago and the great Columbian exposition before leav- ing home. For sale by George E. 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MUCH FIELD LABOR PERFORMED BY WOMEN Universal Fear Annu: Felt Regarding the Weltare of the Vines—Curing the Plumy Fruitage—A Vasc and Viclous Army of Plokers, \Copyrighted, 1893, by Edgar L. Wakeman.] Marpstose, Eogland, Sept. 80.--[Corre- spondence of Tk Bee.)—A traveler journe; ing through the magnificent garden shire of Kent cannot fail to be impressed with the amplitude and snugness of most of its coun- try homesteads. They are very ancient, stone-built and exceedingly large; low, but wide, with outspreading wings and “lean- ws.” Centuries-old ash, lime or onk trees clustér about them. Fine old walls enclose shaded lanes leading two and from them. The outbuildings are large and substantial. Great orchards areset about them, The groupings are pictures of rustic ovulence, thrift and good husbandry. They almost cause the wanderer to long to know them ana tarry within them. But stranger no understanding ene of the sources of the great wealth of Kent will curiously regard certain strange looking stractures standing near every farm house in many districts. They are round and tall and white. Some have red painted cones and these are in turn surmounted by white cowls, shaped like an arched fan, their mouths always opening in the direction opposite that from which the wind blows. Against gray and wintry horizons theso odd structures form weird silhouettes. But wherever you sce them you may know, at any time of the year, that you are in the long-famous hop country of Kent. It is to these quaint and always picturesque old kilns, or ‘“oast houses,” as they are lere called, that the hops are brought for drying, or curing, after the picked by the motley throngs in the odorous gardens and fields, In all of England perhaps 80,000 acros are plantea in hops. Nearly one-half of the entire area is within the shire of Kent. The system of hop raising, picking and drying is simple and interesting. The plants, which are perrennial, are set in hills one foot high, six feet apart and ‘in rows,as we plant Indian corn in America. These hills from being rounded are called ‘crowns.” There are about 1,200 to the acre and each one re- quires from two to four poles from ten to sixteen feet in length, according to the variety of tho hops planted. These poles are of larch, alder, ash, chestnut and occasionally of oak, and owing to the scarcity of woods in Bngland, in themselves represent a very large outlay. Part That Women Play, Early in April the ‘‘crowns” are opened and trimmed of the last year's shoots wnich have been cut close to the ground, and these tisets” are used for propagation in nursery beds. The new bine or stem now springs from the bottom of the permanent setting. In the open winter months the hop-garden has been dug to a depth of eight inches with flat-tined forks. Shortly after the opening of the “‘crowns” and trimming of the old bines “polling” is begun. This is done by the acre, or by the hundred poles, The laborer’s wife and children lay out the poles while he makes the holes with an iron *‘hop- pitcher.” Women are solely employed in the next process, called hop-tying. The puny shoots must be trimmed away, and two or three of the hardy ones tied to the poles. This is done by the acre, and whatever por- tion of the hop-garden is thus attended to by one woman is called a taking.” For sccur- 1ng the shoots to the pbles without injury. rushes are exclusively used, and these are harvested from marshes, haughs beside streams or wet meadows, and driea in a manner to render them tough, by children, The women must go over their “takings” many times, cutting out sickly or broken biaes ana tying in newer and healthier ones until the work is beyond their reach. Then tho men resume the work. They go over the “takings” as the women have done, stanaing upon short rough step-ladders, until they reach the top of the poles. Then *‘nig- geting” season begins and unly ends when the hop gardens are in full bloom. The nig- Ret is an implement with iron tines, some- thing like a huge hoeslitinto several narrow divisions. With this the “alleys” betwecen the rows are kept as clean of weeds as a ew plowed field, and the soil is constantly broken and pulverized about the ‘‘crowns’ that the roots may derive all possible nutri- tion, air and free moisture. These comprise all the necessities of cultivation; but the alarms, vexations and anxicties of the hop- rower are only fairly begun as his heaviest abors ure ending. Fenry that Are Annually Felt. No one over knew of an American peach crop, good or bad, that was not a half dozen times menaced by this or that, or ruined by something else altogether, So it is with the hop vines and hops in Kent. For nearly two months before they ave secure from danger every true Briton who quaffs his “four ale’ or “bitter” is subjected toqualms and starts and pangs through announcements of suc- cessive impending calamities to the braw bantling of Kent, and every hop district of that shire is in perturbation and turmoil in- describable. The ‘‘mildew” has rotted the hop, the wet weather has drowned 1t, the drouth has scorched 1t, the blight has taken the very life out of it, the smut has smoth- ered it, the flics, from which 1t can only be rescued by millions of mysteriously arriving “ladybirds,” are eating 1ts head off; innu- merablo insects are preying upon its tendrils and body, and even the pestiferous fleas have made deadly assault upon 1ts very stem and roots! Bulletins are posted at every ale house in Kent. Nothing else is talked about in every parish of the shire. The ILondon market is ‘‘feverish” while the hop is in its throes. In fact, all southern England is sglemn and serious until the hop has passed from bine to bud and bloom and is ready for the tens of thousands of nands that are ting- ling to wring its neck for gain, Picking and curing are the final processes, Perhaps from 80,000 to 100,000 souls could at one time be found in the hop gardens of Kent, Half of these are from London and comprise the most indiscriminate lot of “human warious” ever drawn together by a common interest in all the world. If a field of twenty acres is to te picked there will be from six to ten ‘‘sets” of pickers, with from kalf a dozen to a score of pickers in each set. These, rmmhlxuluur{ the entiré length of the field, are each supplied with & *'bin.” The bip is a rude. low framework of old poles, built after the fashion of an American set- tler's log cabin, about three feet wide and six feet long, with elevated cross stakes at each and supporting u stout pole above the pickers’ Leads, like the ‘‘rider” rail of an old-fashioned ‘‘stake-and-rider” American rail fence, against which the hop poles and thewr feathery, odorous burdens are rested while the hops are being picked and fiung into the sack depending from the bin's corners below, How Hop Pickers Work, The pickers are supplied with poles of hops by ‘‘pole-pullers,” employed by the hop-raiser. There will' be one 1o a set, if the set comprises a lavge number of pickers, and often one man will supply two or three. He is provided with an implement called & ' ‘hop-dog.”” WFItN this he not only cuts the bines or vinemtlowe above thoground but also pries (“vrizesfihe will call it) the pole out of the ground, asd: carries it and its downy fruitage to the Wusy mcers near. Woman follow the pullers and stack the discarded vines for usaiby the compost-makers or tho mills whera #he cheaper grades of paper are made, and staok the poles into tidy piles against the n#xtseason’s use. 1n this way a hop garden 18- clenncd up as closely as if swept by an smmy of grasshoppers or an all- consuming fire; In the meantime huj and wagons are gnthering up the hops for the “oasts" ofikiins, The ‘‘master” usually measures theshops from the bins. Pickers are paid on the basis of & certaln agreed upon number of bushels to the shilling— four, five, six or oven eight, according to the leanness or fatness of the erops. Precedent old as hops in Kent demands that he shall not have a “heavy hand,” that is, that he shall not press together the hops taken from the bin; an equally unimpeachable custom will not permit him to pack or heap the al- most weightless atuff in the measurcs. Scores of keen and almost savage eyes are upon his every movement. “Th' ops must *hover' " in the bushel, or be dropped in it as lightly as can be; and_were the bushels heaped an jota above their rims the master knows that instead of hops a series of strikes and riots would instantly be on his hands. Following him is always the tally- man who credits the measurement to each “‘set” in the *‘tally-book: and the custom is that the pickers may at any time draw in cash to the amount of three-fourths of what is due, the remaining one-fourth to be fo feited should the pickers leave the master before his erop is gathered. four-wheeled carts All sorts of signals are used to bring the pickers together in the morning and after- noon. Some of the old farm houses have belfries and belis, At others hand-bells are rung in and about the pickers’ quarters and camps. Tin horns are common, and_the conch-shell horn is not infrequent. Work begins shortly after dawn. The midday rest as well as quitting time at night are’ indi- cated by the master or the tally man enter- ing the fleld and shouting “No more poles!” This in turn is shouted by the pole-pullers; and at once scores, and often hundreds, of pickers’ voices will echo, frequently deri gively, and always in mimicry, the order for temporary release from toil. ~ In many fields the pickers wed their cry to improvised doc- gerel rhymes fitted to the air of the latest popular London music hall ballads, and make much melodious clamor as they are leaving the fields, Most experienced men are employed in the oasts or kilns, They get no rest during the season of hop-gathering, except from Sunday morning until Monday morning. From six to eight small brick stoves are constantly burn- ing in each kiln. Charcoal and smokeless Welsh'conl are solely used, and a dash of sulphur is occasionally added, which gives the drying hops a slightly yellow tinge. About eight feet above the cement chambers enclosing the stoves is an open floor con- structed of strips like lathe. On this is laid a loosely woven covering of horsehair; and, upon horsehair cloth the hops are piled to abont the depth of twelye inches. They are frequently gently turned, and remain in the kiln for eleven hours, an hour being allowed for the change from a dry to a green ‘‘shift” of hops, each of which consists of about 500 bushels. The dry hops are then spread on the floor of the oast, not only long enough to cool, but also to regain a_certain amount of atmospheric moisture, without which they would remain brittie and break into slivers and dust. They are now. packed in “‘pockets” or long, stronw bags holding a few pounds above 100 weight, and are ready for the Lon- don market. Composition of the Hop Fickers. Of the 80,000 to 100,000 souls who secure nearly a month’s lucrative employment in the hop gardens of Kent, perhaps one-third are Kentish cottagers and villagers. The remainder are from the lowliest, and one might say the most hopeless classes of Lon- don and its immediate suburbs, although a sprinkling of respectability ieavens the latter in a few broken-down folks who haye seen bettar daye, and invalids with lung and throat troubles who have been told that the country air and: 8 long “smell o' the ‘ops” would relieve theirailments Butthis great army of vickors whichreach year takes pos- session of Kent divides instantly and sharply into three geand divisions. The first comprises the Kentish rural and village folk. These are the favorites with thé masters. They include the entire fami- lies of the farm Juborers, the hedgzebuilders, the drainlayers, the hopdryers and all cour tryside folk; while from the viillage comes the painter, the shoemaker, tho saddler, the carpenter, the bricklayer and stonemason and all their families, while I have seen the family of the schoolmaster and the poor country curate not ashamed to thus add to their yearly dole. Separate fields are nearly always given to theso folk. Among them you will fiud most interesting groups, lusty youths, handsome lassics, fine and rugged old men and women, and some of the peachiest and prettiest children in all Eng- ad. To these the hop-gathering days have a bright, genial, almost social aspec When the day’s work is over, as they trail along the lanes and highways to their vills homes, they form wonderfully pastoral groupings, fitting so_characterfully into the mellow and reposeful Kentish autumnal lacdscape, that it is a pity the near world's metropolis has no artist heart and hand to transter tocanvas their marvelous simplicity and winsomeness. Another ciass, numbering all told from 8,000 to 5,000 souls, whose guestI have al- ways been whenever visiting the hop ga dens of Kent, are the London and subur Gypsy van dwellers, T have previously writ- ten extendedly of this class. Its member: living in vans or house wagons of every con ceivable aescription, ecircle around and around the outer edges of the great city. hovering like birds of prey near race-tracks, outing resorts and all places where crowds of the lowly may gather. 1 am glad to that while any dukkering and dicke among the hop garden throngs is never ov looked by them, that they always come here for honest work. They travel in their creaking vans which contain all that may be required for food and cooking; pitch their hooded tents or ‘‘whummel” their single carts for additional housing; are adepts at all thelittle shifts and exigencies of out- door living; are really the best conditioned of all the ‘‘foreigners” who sweep in upon Kent; and as to wmorality and common decency, which are generally utterly aban- doned in the hoppers' camps, they aro in- finitely superior to all others who come. They are quick, deft, silent. They arc the fastest, cleanest pickers in Kent, and I have frequently known & single large family re- turn from their season’s work with as much as £20 with which to assist them in tiding over the to them bitter winter months, ~ That Awful Mob from London, But oh, that other mob that comes dpown from the purlieus of London! Sometime I hall write a story about the vestilen lot, T'o truly tell of its awful hordes without the tender lights of romance with which to soarch out and reveal redeeming traits, would be to commit an_unforgivably revoit: ing literary erime. Bestial women, men more brutal than brutes, with few excej.tions, are these, Among the exceptions Il have come upon the most interesting phases of character met in all my years of wandering. In all the others no waunderer since the world began ever found more hopelessly sodden or desperately wicked animals is human frame No wonder the mas- ters herd them in thedeserted sheds of thelr cattle, in straw buts behind the hille, or in tented camps that may subsequently be burned, by theroadside” as far as possible from the peaceful old Kentish country homes. Thelr aid is necessary. Their preseuce is a blight and curse. While such are here, 1t is only when yeu can shut them outof mind and sight thav you can realize that the air is ull of odorous khyme, that the musk of the fen thousands of hop-gardens brings tho D*PRICE'S (P Ponder The ouly Pure Cregm f Tartay Powder.—No Ammonis; Mo Alyy. Used in Milligag of Homstw4o Years the Staidar sweetest of all repose, and that in no other land beneath the stars does labor and night invite the tired one to such wondrously life- giving and ever dreamless sleep as Among the beauteous hop-gardens of ancient Kent. Evoar L. WARKEMAN, —_——— REGISTER! REGISTER! LAST YEAR'S REGISTRATION I8 YOIV EVERY VOTER MUST REGISTER, Following Are Remaining Dates for Registration, ursday, Ootober 26, Friday, November 3. Baturday, November 4. Registrars will sit at the polling hooths in each voting distriot until 0 p. m. on the duye above named, Last year's Registration is void. If you want your name on the voters' list you must rogister. S - LOW RATE Vin the Missourl Pacifie, The following reduced rates will be in effect via the Missouri Pacific railway: Omaha to Kansas City Omaha to ¢ Louis. e Omaha to St Louis and return..... 9.20 Double daily service between above }mima, The above rates will be in eof- ect until and including October 3lst. Limit for return passage November 15, For further information address or call agent at 15th and Webster or company’s offices, northeast corner 13th and Pari THOMAS I Pass. and T J. A PHILLAY Asst. Gen, Freight and Pass. pRAEA: Sk bepitey Chleago and Return Ten dollars, $10.00. Ten dollars, $10.00. Ten dollars, $10.00. ‘en dollars, $10.00. Ten dollars, $10.00. 1 dollars, $10.00. Via the & NORTHWE RAILWAY. Ten dollars, $10.00, Ten dollars, $10.00. Len dollars, $10.00. CITY TICKETOFFICE, 1401 FAR STREET. Ten dollars, $10,00. n dollars, $10.00. Ten dollars, $10.00, Oct. 15 to Oct. 31. Good returning till Nov.15. —_— ket Agt. Agt. CHICAGO TERN M Are You Planning a World's Fair Trip? Bear in mind the decided advantages of the Chicago & Northwestern Four daily eastern express trains, new and special equipment, unexcelled west of Chicago, Low rates, Baggage checked from your home. Choice of quick, sufe and comfortabie methods of transfer direct to the World's fair grounds. Call, or send your addvess to the city ticket office, No. 1401 Farnam st. R. R. RIrCHIE, . W 3 General Agent. C.P & — Chieago and Return, $10.00. October 15 till October 31 the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railway will sell round trip tickets to Chicagoand return at the low rate of $10.00. The tickots are good on all trains, Passengers tak- ing the Rock Island can change at Englewood, take electric line to the fair grounds and save time and expense of transfer through the city. Secure your sleeping car accommodations early and avold the vush, at 1602 Farnam street. CHARLES KENNEDY, Chlougo and Return $10, From Oct. 15 to and including Oct. 31, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. will sell round trip tickets to Chi- cago for $10.00. These tickets ave first class and are good roturning any time before Nov. 15, 1501 Farnam st. e it it ** $10.00, Chicago and Return, $10.00. Via the Chicago & Northwestern rail- way. Ticketsare full first-class. You know what ‘‘first-class” means on the “Northwesterr CITY TICKETOFFICE, 1401 FARNAM STREET, OMAHA. di Transients, he Chicago. Daniel Muench, who has been employed a: a waiter in the restaurants, was founc ing in a queer manner yesterday, and he was locked up for safekeeping. RIME IN HIGH PLACES! It is not strange that some people do wrong through ignorance, others from a failure to investigate as tothe right or wrong of a matter, But it is strange, that individuals and firms, who are fully aware of the rights of others, will per- sist in perpetrating frauds upon them. High-toned, wealthy manufreturing firms will offer and sell to retail mer- chants, articles which they know to be infringements on the rights of proprie- tors, and imitations of well known goods. We want tosound a note of warning to the retailers to beware of such imita- tions aud simulations of “CARTER’S LIT- TLE LIVER PILLS.” When they are of- fered to you, refuse them; you do not want to do wrong, and you don’t want to lay yourself liable to a lawsuit. Ben Franklin said ‘*Honesty is the best poli- ey’ it is justas true that “Honesty is Searles & Surgica! Disvensary. AND PRIVATE D WE CU BOWELSaud L1V PEPSIA, BLOOD, Sk FEMALE HYDROCELE AND VARICOCELE permanontly and successfully curod. Motlio 1 now and unfalliog TREATMENT BY MALL & speciatty. PILES, FISTULA. FISSULE, permanently cursl without the use of Kulf ustio. All maladies of & Jo or delicate nature, of efther sox, positively cured. Call on 'or addross, with stamp, for Clreulars Free Book, Recipes aid 8ymptomn Hlanis, First stairway south of postofice, room 7. Dr. SWIQE& sflll’!ei. 118 South 156th St Omana, N ob- The Mercer. Omaha’s Newest Hot2!, Cor. 12th and Howard Sureets Brooms Wrooms with bath at¥ *till they hear of the Neoraska 8hoos you buy. man’s $1 27 82,50 ehoo; ns sure as guarantee, is worth $4.00. gress, button, London, Pa your foot suffers, alf- you St , but as 8 it so Nebraska quarters, that Goodyear welt flnish. N shoes for dress, Here is Our word of honor, iron-clad shoe—equally protecting overy wearer, wear Louis, Sar: Every pair a Goody Shoe Catalogue, pages 36-7-8. Posta card us for one. TRAMP a philosopher will take a good shoe faster than an ording citizen— provided there are no dogs about the premises—we presume. The major- ity of citizens, wo ackunowledge, will take a bad shoe as fast us o good one, guaranteo branded on every THAT I¥ OUR SHOES PROVE DEFECTIVE, WEAR OUT TOO QUICK OR DON’TGIVE REASONABLE SATISFACTION WE'LL GIVE YOU A NEW PAIR FREE OR OUR MONEY BACK. Besides this polley of protection. we fatten your purse on every pair of Might as well begin at our wi a standard screw bottom; sell at $1.00; save vou at least H0c——Our work tor-defying g‘m'w shoe with shoe is too well known—a bit finer this year—wae use full stock leather and uul:. soles—a superior stock than some folks can show in a 82,00 shoo—Again. where wo help to fatten your bank account, on our shoes, every pair,s without a You ought to see an outlay of styles, lace, con- ogn und Box toos; any width car welt and first class American —IIyou are subject to cold feet try a cork solo shoe; they're only good as any $4.50 shoe in the market; have 'em in every last known to the shoemalor, with grain or calf uppers —Wo refer to our hoe that thousands wear; it’s the same shoo they call a celebrated $8.00 article, and it’s the word celebrated that cost you $1.15, if you have At last comes the shoe which crowds the shoe department of the an calfand le by competent shoemukers who turn out also the styles worth mentioning—Bluchers, shape. When your $5.00 and 86.00 shoe fails to give satisfaction try a pair—they’s overy bit as good— When you write use good stationary. gramed and wedding stationery is the best. to order and guarantee satisfaction, Your name enzraved on 10) visiting eards. $1.5% RAYMOND, Coruer 13th and Douglas Strasts. Our mono- We engrave New York Hospital TREATMENT, For all Chronic, Nervous, Surgical, Private ani Special DIs eases of both MEN AND WOMEN Stricture, Hydrocales. Variosoeels, And all other troubjestea<ed atreasonablo charges. CONSULLATION F Cali on or address. DR, SEYMOUR PUTNAM DOUGLAS BLOCK. 16th AND DODQE 8TS., OMAHA, NEB, Opposite Hayden Bro's. NEBRASKA NATIONAL BANK. U. 8. Depository, Omaha, Neb. $400,000 $65.000 ’ CAPITAL, -~ g ol SURPLUS, Officers and DI dent, R\ Ousiiing. W. V. Morse, John 8 Lewls 8. Reod, cashier. THE IRON BANK. 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