Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 14, 1902, Page 17

/ THE OMAHA DAILY B SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1 CHRISTMAS IN BYGONE DAYS v&v the Yoar's Great Holiday Was Ocle- brated “Befors the War," | "OBSERVANCE IN MORE PRIMITIVE TIMES Many Things New Nece: { Luxuries to Al ten Were Few— Memory of Times When Soet Equality Was Not a Myth, This {s the story of his first Christmas, A8 relat.d by a certaln well-placed citizen of today whose memory reaches back into the middle of the last century. It was a different world then. The ofvil WAF was yet to be fought. Barring its use on the telegraph wire, electricity was still untamed. There wero extensive stretches ot country now criss-crossed by rallroads Where the locomotive whistle had never been heard. Many of the things held to necessaries now by everyons were luxu- ‘rles to all but the unduly rich, | Humanity, its emotions and the eternal \Yerities, are the same today as thoy were on that mid-century Christmas, but in the loutward forms and observances that go to {make up the visible lite of the people—in ithe new world at least—there has been a |Tevolution so great since then that only those who have seen it can appseciate It ‘even vaguely. | The well-placed ecitizen was then of the @ge that delighted tn copper-toed boots— /unknown to boys of today—and he wore mittens on his hands and a knitted com- forter about his neck in cold weather. Hin |father was a Methodist circuit rider in one of the middle Atlantic states, who preached | ithree times on every Sunday—at 10 in the morning in a little church without a steeple, 4t 2 in the afternoon in the round school house in Bunker's Hollow, and at early candlelight in the stone school house at Nelson's Sottlement—driving some thirty- two miles weekly to make the circult. Joys of Anticipation. The day before that first Christmas was & day of the livellest anticipations, since the minister and his mily had been asked to eat the Christmas dinner at Brother Nelson's, and to come the night before, so that the boy could hang up kis stocking with the half-dozen young Nelsons. Just what th meant he didn't understand very clearly. In the community to which his father ministered—it had been trans- planted almost bodily from Puritan New England—the obseryance of Christmas was only beginning, and the children who had heard about Santa Claus were few. ‘The winter was severe that year, and the outlines of the hills and valleys were .softened by a two-foot covering of snow. Brother Nelson’s house was a good fifteen miles away from the story-and-a-half par- d the boy and his father and rted on thelr journey over the shining white roads soon after the sun be- &an its descent of the western sky. The alr was so crisp that it made the boy’s cheeks tingle. Before the three took their seats in the sleigh a flat marble ab had been well heated in the oven or them to rest their feet on so that ‘they shouldn't freeze. About them they .wrapped a great hairy buffalo robe, the 'Hke of which couldn’t be bought anywhere today, no matter how much money was of- fered for it. Primitive Traveling. The drive to Brother Nelsos was l!\nu[b narrow valleys where the air was #0 still that the cold was hardly moticed, and over steep hills on the tops of which /the wind piled the snow intq drifts which made the roads nearly impassable and al- most froze the boy's eyes shut, so keen rwas it. ‘This made the arrival at Brother Nelson's ‘80 late that the big camphene lamp which @faced the Nelson parlor was already lighted. Like the buffalo robe, the cam- phene lamp is now a thing of the past; no one in all that region boasted such a luxury but the Nelsons, and they mever lighted theirs save on festive occasions, Of the evenimg, the solld citizen remem- bers onlyithat the boy fell asleep soon after the meal of bread and butter, honey, pre- serves, cold ham and so on, called “tea,” to the accompaniment of a spirited discus- slon between his father and Brother Nelson as to whether there wi over the negro slaves, and that someone \vainly tried to wake him so that he might hang up his stocking. He was wide awake’ early the next morn- ing, though. He had slept in a trundle bed in the attic along with two of the Nelson boy! scrambled out of bed to find what “Sindy Clos” -had put in the stockings. Contents of the Stocking. Of the contents of his stocking the boy recalls only one thing—a globe-shaped fruit of & rich reddish yellow, which the Nelson boys sald was an “‘orange’—the first orange, in point of fact, that the minister's son had ever seen. It was of the most deliclous flavor, he found, later in the day when he ‘was allowed to eat {t, and he Il remem. bers the awe with which the statement wa: received that every one of the three dozen oranges which Brother Nelson had bought at the county seat the day before for the Christmas dinner had cost a dime, and that LIGNT AND DARK, Day and night, sunshine and shadow are not more different from each other than a healthful from a sickly woman, The bealthful woman carries Jight and sunshine with her wherever she The woman who suffers from ill-health casts a shadow on her own haj At & ness others. She cannot help it. Those who suf- fer caunot smile and sing. luenenlly trace- licate womanly Many women have been re- happiuness by the use of Dr. Favorite Prescription. It estab- larit; ,_dflnvuknnln&dm"n tion and ulceration lemale v:::e- It makes weak am not color in 0 pounds in weight and ome ihousand of com- Jort, for 1 am a new woman once more.* Ikely to be a war | and with them, in the gray dawn, he | LA Christmas Menus | Here are given four menus tions for Christmas dinners. None is in- expensive, but on Christmas it is one's duty to have the very best dinner of tho whole year. This is menu No. 1: Cream of Oysters Olives and Salted Almonds. Crab Flakes Au Gratin Roast Turkey, Cranberry Sauce, Mashed Potatoes. Bolled Onjons. Celery Salad. Toasted Wafers. Edam Ches se. Mince Pie. Ice Cream. Fruit Coffee. Get all your materials for this dinner the day before Christmas. Make the cran- berry jelly-the day before and prepare the turkey as already outlined. Make the mince ples three or four days before. Christmas; they are better for being kept. See that your husband puts the olives and salted almonds on the table, and when the time comes for ice cream let him take it out of the freezer. Crab flakes come in cans, and are sald to be very good, but if it is possible to do 80 get them fresh from a reliable fish dealer. One pound of crab flakes will make an entree for six persons. Put a pint of rich milk In a saucepan over the fire with two heaping teaspoonfuls of butter. Dissolve thoroughly two heaping table- spoontuls of flour in enough milk to make it have the consistency of thck’ cream. When the milk fn the saucepan begins to bubble, stir in the dissolved flour a little at a time, stirring briskly and constantly to keep it from lumping. When all is in and the cream sauce s very thick, stir in the crab flakes, season with a little red pepper, a teaspoonful of salt and a sug- gestion of powdered mace. Butter well the inside of a baking dish large enodgh to hold the creamed flakes, then turn the mixture into the baking dish, sprinkle tho surface with fine bread crumbs, put a few little pats of butter over the crumbs, stang the dish in a quick aven, and let it remain sugges- till the mixture s brown over the top. Then remove, garnish the dish round the edge with a fringe of parsley, put a few quarters of lemon over the top and serve. Menu No. 2 12 as follows: Cream of Celery. Salted Almonds. Stuffed Tomatoes. Roast Goose, Apple Bauce, Mashed Potatoes. Boiled Onfons. irape Fruit Salad Cream Taploca Pudding. Currant Jelly. Olives. Fruit Coftee 1t you cook your dinner from menu No. 2, prepare the tomatoes the day before, and at the same time stuff the goose. Also make the apple sauce and the pudding the day before. The pudding should be eaten cold with the jelly. This is a simple din- ner and requires little skill or extra work in its preparation. Menu No. 3: Cream of Tomatoes. Celery. Olives. Oyster Patties. Roast Chicken. Bolled Virginia Ham, Baked Sweet Potatoes. Caulifiower, Cream Sauce. Escarole Salad. Cream Cheese. Toasted Wafers, Apple Suet Pudding, Fruit Coftee, Boil the Virginta ham the day before Christmas. After it is boiled, remove the rind, score it across the fat, sprinkle with sugar, stand In the oven till brown over the top: then put it where it will get cool, for it is to be served cold. Have the oyster patties sent in from & caterer's. You can buy better than you can make and quite as cheap. Make the pud- ding the day before and stand it In a kettie of hot water on the fire as soon as you sit down to dinner, and it will be just hot enough when the time comes to serve it. Dress and stuff the chickens the day before. Game Not Protected | Mr. J. Fullerton of Red Lodge, Mont., has written a letter to President Roosevelt con- taining disclosures relative to the manage- ment of the Yellowstone National park and calling the attention of the executive and congress to the necessity of remedy- ing certain abuses. Mr. Fullerton, like Buffalo Jones and other western men, re- ports the Washington Post, is interested in the protection and preservation of the native game animals of North America, es- pecially the small and constantly dwindling remnant in the National park, and about a month ago came to Washington with a view to laying the matter before the proper au- thorities. He was unable at that time, how- ever, to galn what he desired, but at the president’s request wrote and forwarded the letter above mentioned, which, to say the least, Is an eye-opener as to the way things are being carried on In the nation's great game preserve. While in Washington Mr. Fullerton was seen by a Post reporter, {o whom he re- lated the following facts, which form the body of the letter to President Roosevelt, but which he at that time was unwilling to have published. Now, however, that he has inaugurated his crusade in behalf of e protection, the facts are ‘‘re- and are given in the following, just 'as stated by the captain, who proposes to sustain and defend all that he charges: He firet states that the latest report of Captain John Pitcher, the park guardian, is utterly misleading as to the number of animals in the park. Among other things this report states that there are now from 30,000 to 50,000 elk on the reserve, while Mr. Fullerton declares the actual number to be less than one-tenth of 30,000. He states that before coming to Washington he took a drive over two-thirds of the Yellowstone reservation, and that during this trip he tatled to dlscover tracks or any other evidences of elk. That number of elk, he claims, would soon exhaust the pasturage in the Yellowstone reserve. The truth In regard to the elk, he states, 1s just this: Owing to the growth and ex- pansion of the secret soclety known as the Order of Elks, a great demand has arisen of late years for the canine teeth of .elk, and this demand has extended into other quarters to such an extent that today elk teeth are almost as valuable as some ot the commoner varieties of preclous stones. As a result of this they are being slaught- ered by the thousand in the forest reserve to the south of the park, by unprincipled hunters, who kill them in season and out. These men, who, according to Mr. Fuller- ton, literally swarm around the borders ot the park, make no use of the carcass, ant- lers and hide of the animals which they thus wantonly slaughter, merely removing the teeth, and leaving the remains as a feast for the wolves and bears which infest this neighborhood. This, however, is only one phase of the question. The states bordering the park have each a law authorizing the payment of a liberal reward for the destruction of wolves, bears or other destructive carni- vores. These laws were enacted at the instance of the sheep ranchers, who hope by this means to protect thelr herds from the attacks of natural enemies. The people living in the immediate neighborhood of the park are, for the most part, engaged in shieep raising, which, he states, is becom- ing more burdensome and precarious year by year, by reason of the protection and en- couragement afforded by the Yellowstone park to this class of animals. Aside from the fact that the park management makes very little effort to keep down or to éx- terminate these animals, which are thriving and Increasing at the expense of all the others, the wanton destruction of elk to the south of the park for the sake of their teeth has attracted wolves, bears, pumas and lynxes from every direction, and when the elk becomes scarce and the beasts of prey can no longer thrive and fatten upon what the teeth hunters have destroyed they turn thelr attention to the sheep folds of the ranchmen. Then, when the lctter take arms against the carnivores all they have to do to escape destruction is to retreat within the national reserve. The buffalo, he states, are reduced to twenty-two head, and are driven about over the reserve in an aimless, addle- headed fashion by the park employes, oft- entimes resulting in thelr straying beyond bounds and being killed. The reservation, Seasonable Tips for Busy Housekeepers. For apple suet pudding, peel and cut In thin slices six large, sour apples. Chop fine half a pound of suet, removing all fiber from it. Then mix the suet thoroughly with & pint of flour, through which a fel spoonful of salt and two generous tea- spoonfuls of baking powder have been sifted. Beat three eggs and four table- spoonfuls of sugar to a cream and grate in a quarter of a nutmeg. Stir this mixture through the flour. Then gradually add enough milk to make a stiff batter. Butter the inside of & large pudding mold, put in a layer of butter, then a layer of the aliced apples, then the batter. Re- peat this process ustil all the material is used and have at least two inches of space at the top of the mold. Fasten the cover on securely and stand the mold in a kettle of boiling water. Let the pudding boil three hours; then take oft the cover and stand it fn & moderate oven for half an hour. Serve the pudding hot or cold, with cream and sugar. Menu N. 4: Chicken Soup. Scalloped_Oysters, French Pickles Roast Beef. Pigeon Ple. Potatoes Roasted In the Pan. Spinach Creamed. Lettuce Salad. Roquefort Cheese. Toasted Wafers. Plum Pudding. Celery. Olives. Fruit. Coftee. Make the chicken soup the day before and then all you have to do is to heat I/ for dinner. Save the chicken for a salad the day after Christmas, or for Christmas night, if you dine in the middle of the day. Make the pigeon ple the day betore, as it is to be eaten cold. By doing all that can be done the day, or several days, before Christmas, the mother of the family will save herselt much trouble, and will be able to enjoy the day. Charge of Abuses in Yellowstone National Park. ® he states, is only half patrolled by a hand- ful of guardsmen, when It should be fenced while the venality of these few in accepting bribes is so open, notorious and well known that westerners have long since ceased to express eurprise at it. Most any wealthy eastern man can afford to pay $100 for a buffalo head, and it is ridiculous to expect the few soldlers placed around the park to be incorruptible on $13 per month with temptations of this sort meeting them at every turn. Even with a strong fcnce sur- rounding it, four troops of cavalry, Mr. Fullerton insists, 1s no more than sufficient to guard the place against poachers. Mr. Fullerton cited a number of in- stances to show the insufficiency of the park guard. One man, he states, entered the park, bullt a cabin there, remained a whole year, trapped $600 worth of beaver and escaped without being detected, Oth- ers are busy at the same work, and the fact that game is being killed in the park every week s so notorious that even those in authority. hardly have the heart to deny it. One of the standing jokes at the Yel- lowstone concerns a certain sergeant who tor several years superintended the guard- ing of one section of the reserve, and who, at the end of that time, retired from the service a rich man, owning a fine cattle and sheep ranch in an adjoining state, the result, as he claimed, of rigid economy on $13 a month. A herd of 700 horses, owned and used by the Park Hotel company for transportation purposes, are allowed to monopolize the best range on the reserve, and to devour the herbage that by right belongs to the geme. Last season the company harvested 1,000 tons of hay from land in the park, for their stage horses and mules, and this, too, in the face of the fact that it left the game without sufficlent winter pasturage. To this is due the steady extermination of elk and buffalo beyond the park limits, where they have strayed in search of better herbage. Something In the nelghborhood of $95,000, Mr. Fullerton claims, has been wasted and frittered away In building useless roads, or in fooling away time on roads ordered by the government, but prejudicial to the interests of the company, and, therefore, never completed. it had been hard to get so many specimens of the prectous fruit at all. From this and other circumstances which the citizen remembers of that mid-century Christmas it s clear in his mind that Brother Nelson was the rich man of all that region. Indeed, the settlement had been named for him. He had a big farm, which kept himself and his three or four hired men busy all summer and fall, and be also owned a sawmill, the running of which occupled thelr time and attention in the winter. The pond which furnished the power to run the mill was the source of great sport that Christmas day for the young Nelsons and their guests. It was covered with ice a foot or more thick, with a surface as “glairy” as glass, and the bigger Nelson boys, the three or four mill hands and a lot of the neighbors spent the morning skating upon it, while the children made a slide at one side, which they enjoyed im- mensely. Some of the boys had sleds on which they ‘“rode down hill"—nobody #coasted” then in that nelghborhood—fin- ishing up thelr rides on the ice, each one striving with much screaming and laughter to make his sled go farthest over its level surface. Few of the women and girls ven- tured to skate, for that sport was gener- ally thought too boisterous for members of the fair sex, but many of them took part in the rides on the sleds. Fires of Other Days. It was quite as cold on that Christmas a8 it had been the day before, and someone bullt & great bonfire of pitch pine stumps and logs on the ice, exactly in the middle of the group of happy, red-cheeked young folks, who joked and laughed and told stories while they warmed their fingers and toes. Some of them brought apples, which they roasted In the fire and ate with much gusto. ' With all this the boy was pleased hugely, though mostly as an onlooker, for {hs cop~ per-toed boots a way of slipping out trom under him when he tried to slide, and he had no skates. He rode down hill on the sled & few times with the biggest Nel- son boy, and that was lots of fun and highly exciting. On the last trip the sled was overturned, and the boy had to be hurried 1@ the fire to be dried and warmed. . When the biggest Nelson boy was ready to take the youngster on another trip he shivered and said in his politest way, “No, I thank you," to the invitation. The great event of the day was the din- ner. Brother Nelson and his wife were hospitable souls and had invited half the settlement to sit round the board with them. So many accepted the ‘“invite” that there were four or five tablesful and the serving of the meal, which began in the big kitchen with the first tableful sharp 12, was not completed for the last table- ful till nearly 8 In the afternoon. The minister and his wife ate at the first table ful and the minister “ssked the blessing at each. The children ate last and would have been pretty hungry by the time their twa oame If Sister Nelson had not stayed their stomachs with liberal ‘“pleces” (mostly bread and butter and sugar) “be- tween meals.” All the tables but one were walted on by Mrs, Nelson's “hired girls,” but at one table they sat down the same as gues These girls were the daughters of well-to- do neighboring farmers, were quite as good soclally as Mrs. Nelson and ‘“helped” In her kitchen chiefly as an accommodation. Mrs. Nelson herself and the minister's wite waited on that table. The sun was low when the last table was swept clear of its holiday feast and then Brother Nelson called in as many as could get into the spare parlor and asked them to listen while he made a lit- tle speech. He stood up and hemmed and bawed a mdment, after which he sald he thought, having found out that Christmas day was the minister's birthday, that he deserving of a special present, and ended by presenting the astonished young preacher with a purse containing a gold dollar for each of his yea The minister then made a little talk which ‘he followed by a short and rev- ergnt prayer and the district schoolma'am, who boarded at Brother Nelson's, was asked to sit down at the melodeon—the only musical “instrument” in the settle- ment—and play hymns while all present sang. There was “Coronation” and “Green- land’s Icy Mountains”—and “Rock of Ages” —and then—the boy slipped away In a dreamless sleep, which was not broken till he and his father and mother were half way home. He woke in the bright moonlight of a clear cold winter night and listened without speaking for a long time to the rhythmic beat of the horse's hoofs on the snowpath to which the sleighbells jingled in perfect time, while the minister sang softly one of the hymns in which all had joined at Brother Nelson's. Then he snuggled up comfortably under the warm buffalo robe. “It's been a pretty good Christmas told his father before dropping to sleep again. She Remembered. Philadelphia Presa: “Rev. Mr. Stern's remarks over poor John were so sympa- thetle, I thought,” said the widow's friend. “Sympathetic!” replied the widow Gay- rake. “He said John ‘had gone to join the great majority.' " “Well?” “Well, in hi he declared th ple go below.’ sermon several Sundays ago the great majority of peo- Philosophically Com Washington Star: “Students of the sub- ject say that it is dangerous for a man to have too much meat,” remarked the beet trust promoter consolingly. “Yes," answered the consumer: “but vou can’t always go by what the students say They have also declared that it is some- times dangerous for & man to bave too much money."” [ l PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS. First Boy—We had thc miaister for din- ner today. Second Boy—We had a turkey. His Pop—Bobby, I merely punish you to show my love for you, my boy. Bobby—If I only bigger, pop, I'd re- turn your love. “Well, Freddie, how did you like your dinner?” asked the hostess of a amall guest. “Oh,"” replied the little fellow, “we don't have any better at home, but there is more " sald little Ethel, “I want to ask you a serious question.” “Well, what is it, dear?" queried mamma. “If I had been your sister’” continued the little one, “would I have been my own aunt?” Tommy—T've got 10 cents, have you got? Johnny—I've got 5 cents. do with it? Tommy—Let's go and organize a trust. How much ‘What shall we Uncle—Are you alw: man? Small Johnny—I should say not. But mamma promised me a quarter if I wouldn't say anything about your bald head and the Wart on your nose 60 quiet, my little Visitor—Can your baby brother talk? Little May—Yes, ma'am. He can say some ‘words real plain. Vielior—Indeed! What are they? Little May—I don't know. I never heard any of them before. A small girl who bas just begun to at- tend school recently brought home a pump- kin seed and told her mother that the teacher said that although the seed was white the pumpkin would be yellow “And what will the color of the vines be?" asked the mother. The little girl replied that the teacher had not taught her that But,” sald her mother, “you know, dear, for we have pumpkin vines in our garden.” “Of course I do, but we aln't expected to know anytbing until we are taught.” A Vi ble Health G The edition of 1903 of Hostetter's Ilus- trated Almanac Is now ready for free dis- tribution m your drugglst's. It contalns practical advice in regard to preserving your health, a large amount of interesting and amusing reading matter, both for the young and old, and numero timonials as to the eficacy of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters in cases of stomach, liver and kid- ney disorders. It will prove & valuable ad- dition to any household Be sure to obtain . copy. We invite you to come and make a Orchard & Wilhelm Qarpet Co. 1314-16 «18+20 Douglas Street, ©maha, few suggestions most suitable for Holiday _gifts. thorough inspection of our show room, where you are sure to find the proper gift to him—to'her—to them. — ** From the cheapest that's good to the best that's made.” Divans Pretty divans and odd chalrs are al- ways acceptable as a gift. Our new third floor annex is filled with sug- gestions in this line for Christmas. Divans finely finished from $12 up to $120 for the fine ones. Gold chairs, §5 to $120. Fancy chairs $4.50 to $100. Bookcases Make acceptable gifts to the literary inclin- ed. We have them in the regular bookcase or bookcase with desk combined, all finishes, all woods. Regular bookcase, $7.50 to $110. Combination book- cases and writing desks, $12.76 to $75. Taborettes . We call speclal attention to our importa- tion of new teak wood goods imported by us direct and prices quo- ted mean a saving of at least 25 per ct. Pretty teak wood pleces, taborettes, pedestals and chairs, ranging from $11 to $65. Taborettes in oak and mahogany, $1.25 to $15.00. Brass and Iron Beds 0 Are very often * given as gifts. Our as- sortment is very complete in iron U M;I from $2.26 to $50. SPECIAL~—Extra heavy brass bed, 2-inch posts, heavily mounted, good value, $35.00. Oriental Rugs Special Sale. We have put forth special efforts this season to procure the finest colleetion of antique and modern Ori- ental Rugs ever brought to a western city. These rugs were selected es- pecially for this holiday showing and consist of the rarest of rug gems that will interest the most critical con- noisseur, You cannot afford to allow such rare and choice pieces to be picked up without your inspection. We would consider it a spe- cial favor if you will allow ws to show you through this superb collection. Drapery Department Be wise, buy useful gifts, and what is more useful than a library table cover—a mew pair lace curtains—a pair of portieres to match the color- ings in your rooms. Speclal for next week: Table covers, $3.00 cover, 2 yards square, for $1.95. Table covers, $5.00 cover, 2 yards square, for $3.50. Portieres, new Persian bordered curtain, worth $7.50 per pair, speclal, $5.75. Extra heavy mercerized curtain cord edge or fringe top and bottom, all colors, worth $10.00, special, $7.50 Pillows, uncovered and covered, all prices, all styles, all sizes. Pillow Tops in abundance, Cords for pillows. Ask to see the new Pillow Girdle at 50c, 66c and 76¢ each, complete for the pillow. Wrought iron lanterns from $1.50 up to $25.00. Screens—We have just received a large shipment of screens, new mis- slon frames, large and small, all col- ors and prices. Special Notice Don't fall to see our mechanical toy window. It's a great treat to all. Bring the little ones to see the min- fature tunnel railway and,the running stream. Ladies’ Writing Desks ‘What lady would not appreci- ate one of these as a gift, 82 pat- terns to select from in all woods and all finishes ranging in price from $6.75 to $100. Some very fine pieces in home desks. China Closets Very appropriate as a gift. These pretty pleces come in gol- den, weathered and Flemish oak and solid mahogany. Pretty oak china cabinets, $12.75, $15.50, raising gradually in price up to $150.00 for the very fine ones. Morris Chairs What gentleman would not be pleased with one of these most comfortable chalrs? 64 pi terns to select from in all fin- 1shes of wood, all styles and colors of cushions, we start them at $6, grading them gradually up to $55.00. Rockers Always acceptable as a gift. No home can have too many of them. Ranging .in price from $1.85 to $76.00. Couches Something that any member of the family would enjoy. Pretty couches in velours at $7.50, and this week we offer a special at $9.00 that was our regular $12.50 couch., We grade these up in price to $50.00. Genuine leather couches, $20.00 to $85.00. CALIFORNIA ? No matter how you want to go, “Southern" or “Scenic' route, in a tourist sleeper or aboard the finest train in America, the Rock Island is the line to take. Don’t make any mistake about that. Thro’ tourist cars daily from Kansas City and once a week from Omaha to Los Angeles and San Francisco via El Paso. Tourist cars three times a week from Omaha to San Francisco and Los Angeles via the “Scenic” line through Colo- rado and Utah, Golden State limited leaves Kansas City daily and offers unrivalled service to all points in Southern California. Berths, tickets and full information at all Rock Island ticket offices, or addressing, C. A. RUTHERFORD, D. P, A 1323 Farnam St, Omaha, Neb, P. S. 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