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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1899)
Unparalleled Offerings - Furniture-Carpets- Buying before the advance controlling products of tbe strongest makers quoting lower prices and giving better values than have ever been known before for oods with quality. We quote but a few from scores of equally tempting offers MOItltlS III MIIS Thi ffar } < lie , 'innIR n < vi1' > fr. iril- ' < > > " = o > i-'i > httr ill ma p tn POPoik in tmitiiiliMi m.i.ioK- m ftr > ! h - ' 'IP be ? : vuluo * is ofTrt : nl "iir I'lf-r ' . . . pini.nn T.vni.n DIMXO cttAin t of uloct oak dresser has full swell quarter sawed front brass handlr---hr $ < < M d ? of yelect oak , quarter i < a.w d and Made of st-lrc' osk golden finih Bed Room Suit 30x24 inch bevel mirror suit ! hsn-1 polished In the * * * h d. In the ' popular / % / ft f \ poll . ito'den oak o / C ? oanp . tst choice 4 oak finish suit that will than please at the with < . S. S ! 60 lfith- : --.i k-nice , > Iianrtforn * ' pa.iern top , % .7 golden a more price Compare It the > j : .00 kind ) rich design cheap I . tlnii ; \1 imitation . . . \Jf \ f * * * * * * * * * ! ' \ in price onlj at our pries * and note the saving at our price only ma'if . > c.im or oak 2.75 pr.i e Rugs Carpets Beautiful Moquette Kugs , 3 feet by H , Carpet wools ; liave advanced 40 per ooni best quality of moqnette , never sold less than $1.00 ; while the present lot lasts we will sell th manufacturers have advanced the price of them at 75c each. This is less than they can carpets about 10 per cent.Ve have not ad inox 111:11 : be bought for at wholesale in any quantity. vanced our prices , but continue to sell Full bow foot lirn trimmed top ralK splndlP : > . nnps and knob1nil ( m ' 4 ! " * p - niM.vc TAIILIJ A lot of best quality Smyrna Rugs sam 10 wire b3 t gc.i 1 j Bru jU ab 73 . Dl ( nches htph bi-st white /I / Vfc of with pelcet heavy quartered fluted and oak highly polished ple lot , 3 ft. by G ft. , some 2 ft. 6 in. by 5 ft. , IJAVKXrOIlT SOKA A good line of .Moquettes and Axnunsters only enamel tlnlsti Cj ) . SI VJ price-6-foot turned | PKS5lnch top- all at one price you take your choice of Kugs Hand pol'shed mahogany flni ' .i fr.imr at Sue. that sell at § 3.75 to entire lot at . each. nicely mrved-upholMered In best veluur 10-50 $5 $2.58 . - ; corduroy scat 5 ft. samp1 9 In long ? * sent price on only request tufted Genuine Velvet Carpets at $1.00 and § 1.25. Imperial Mats All wool 2-ply Ingrain Carpets , 65c qual 18x36 in. and 21x45 in. altogether they ity , 50c yard. sell at none less than § 1.35 to § 1.75 each all Union Ingrain Carpets , 45c quality , 25c. at 98c each. New and Artistic Fiber Mattings Salvage Smyrna Rugs , all wool , with \ in small neat checks and Persian . This matched 6 and 7 ft. figures. fringe , . long by 3 ft. wide ; for service equal to almost any rug made ; fin lot is priced at 50c yard , loc less than ever ished rough in imitation of Turkish goods ; before. these all go in one lot at 82.58. COt CUES Carpet Sweepers Large size 4x6-6 § 4.50. This handsome man-sany llnieh f , , Couch. 30 in. wide 6fi 6 In ions . overed 15.00 We are making a special offer of a quantity Closing out some German Saxony Rugs Pxll feet usual , in best velour tuft l opi ing edge and nd . price . wonderful value at tity of good , adjustable Sweepers that have J3S.OO , close at J24.00 these cannot be Imported under present duty and be sold for less than $60.00. sold heretofore at § 2.50 each. They are adjusted MDEHOAIID Th ? best Sideboard value offered made of FIBER MATTING RUGS very desirable for the summer season Illustrated Catalogue justed to soft pile or hard carpets : easy run not KIH select mirror oak , 32xlS swell inches top drawers , " French bevel In three sizes 75c , .11.15 , 12.00. Mailed Free to Out-of-Towti ning and with modern improvements at $1.25 Ilich ba.k n.hly r-ar\c < l nu tlv fl'iUhed - top 2"ix < 8 inches GRASS MATTING RUGS . . ' 'm inff a larse and serviceable rug at a small rna < 1. > In fM o k f.r richly in KOlden carved oak-the and polished best price 17x54 in. $1-00 30x60 in. J1.25 36x72 In. $1 50. Customers for the Asking. each. emu I no Ir-itV- J"HR - , it - 4.90 value at the b < > ? ! rni k > ral'i < > . offered only Mail Orders Receive We are the Largest Mail Order House Prompt Attention in the West. 1414-1416-1418 Douglas Street , Omaha , Neb. WORK FOR WILLING HANDS Jobs in Abundance Await Industrious Men in ths Northwesti IDLENESS A MATTER OF CHOICE Condition * that Hmrt Mnnnccr * of nntlroniln in the AVmt rrcnlilent lllll'ii Vlriv on tlic I.nlior nnd ICIndreil ( leiiKtloim. James J. Hill , president of the Great Northern system oj railroads ivhlch crosses the territory between St. Paul and the Pa- clflo and covers part or it with a veritable network of tracks , Is short and broad in per son ; In New England they would call him "stubbed , " making two syllables of the word. Y In .complexion he Is dark , almost to twarthlness , and his face is full of rugged lines Inscribed by the strenuous hand ot ( xpprience. His eyes are dark brown , pos sibly black ; sometimes they glow like twc coals. His Jaws and lips are covered with a rough growth of whiskers. Hla hair , slightly pray nnd thlnoed at the top , is almon long enough to brush his coat coflar. His dress it unobtrusive , a rough business cult , the coat ofntilch is a short Back , being , his fa vorltc. Hla bat Is toft and has a broad brim. Hn emokes with enthusiasm when he talks , and he tnlks well on any topic you are likely to broach , avoiding himself If potslblc , but always ready to discourse about his rail- PREMATURELY OLD. A man ought not lo/rrl old , or to be old until well up towards the nineties , but now-a-days you don't 5ec many such men. Instead , you hear people no older than 40 or 45 who begin to complain of tired backs nd brains , of stomachs giving out , of shattered nervc , of lost energy , of aversion to work. These men have thought more of dollars than of health. They forget that money is almost worthless without health to enjoy It , If men and women will take Dr. Tierce's Golden Medical Discovery , they needn't worry much about old age. The years will go by , but they won't show it. This medi cine makes dige tion perfect , and changes a disordered ftoraach into a healthy one that work * as Nature intended. It regulates the li\cr , enriches the blood and tones the nctvcf. It prevents consumption by curing bronchitis , lingering coughs and bleeding1 lungs. The "Discover- " contains no al cohol ; no fal * < e or uncertain stimulus : the power it gives is the power of Nature : deep , \ 'genuine and lafting. It does not create a craving for stimulants. In serious cases of sickness , Dr R V. Pierce , Buffalo , N. Y. , will give free advice and counsel to those who write him. "The reason I delayed writing w because I wtntrd to watt out irar after 1 lind tafccn the rafdldut It fore giving my Matcrarut , and now I can end a goal , conscientious t ? tiraoniat. " vrrlle * Chat. II. Sergeant , ofriain City. Madison Co , , Ohio. " During the summer and fall of iS 6 I became all 'rim-down. ' nrrvrs and ttomach were out of order I r-rate to IT Heice for cd- vice. He Mid I had general debility , anil aitrited Dr. Pierce' * Golden Medical pitrovrry- My appetite it good. I ran eat three Kju re raeatt a day. and I do not feel that miserable burning In the tiomach cfler citing.1 roads and the northwest. He believes in hard work , mixed with thought , good company in 'I ' business and luck. These three things have helped him , who began life a poor 'boy ' on a fterile Canadian farm , to become one of the four or five greater developers and railway monarchs of the age. Sitting In his St. Paul office the other day , Mr. 11117 dlsc'vssed with tne writer the future of the country , present chances for young men. and other topics of current lh- tercst. Incidentally his talk threw much light upon his own life and personality. Hilt is an optimist , as you would expect a man of his typo and achievements to be , though he Isn't blind to the fact that many new and difficult problems have been brought into existence by modern business and social developments. In spite of these , however , he says there are still Innumerable oppor tunities for young men to win financial suc cess in the United States. The development of the country has only begun , so to speak , and there'll be plenty of chances as long as development is going on. Rut the man who desires to get his chance must work and persevere In bis work. Slemlj- Worker * In Domnnil. "Tho crying need of the northwest to day , " said Mr. Hill , "Is men who have the gift of continuance. We have sent 15,000 track laborers out In the past twelve months , and yet we have not had more than 2,500 at work at any one time. The majority of the laborers now atwork in the Dakotas anJ Minnesota are Italians and Poles. The Italians are highly unsatisfactory. As a rule their object In coming here is solely to get enough money together to support them In idleness at home , and they hoard their earnings to the last possible degree. For this reason , and because they come from a land wbero food Is not abundant , they rarely eat enough or well enough , and so have not sufficient physical strength to stand fae strain of long continued labor. The Poles are much more satisfactory. They are strong , hardy and willing ; more over , they are anxious to leave off working for wagea as soon as passible. Conditions of political and personal freedom In Poland are not to their liking and consequently they do not desire to return to the old world as the Italians do , but are prone to settle down on land In this country as soon as they set money enough to do so. "West of the Dakotas we use more Japs than men of any other nationality. We aid no ; begin the employment of the little brown men from the Orient from tholes , but becaute wewere obliged to ; we couldn't depend on men a' any other nationality. It Is only right to say that having tried the Japs we find them the roost satisfactory laborers we have. They are willing , cheer ful and strong ; they work a little cheaper and that Is a point , of course , but tbo great advantage of the labor of the Japj over any other labor now available In the northwett is their reliability. It comes mainly from their temperance and their personal clean liness. " .Most white laborers , and ctpeclally Ital ians , simply will not keep thnmtelves and the plactfi they live In clean. The result Is dUcase. We have great trouble to keep typholj fever out of the camp.i , exactly as It was hard to keep it out of the volunteer army camps last year. Disease and Intem perance Incapacitate a large proportion of white laborers much of the time and few of them are busy more than four days In the week the year through.Ve \ have been at our wits' end to remedy thU trciEtndous drawback to the development of the country. They will work along steadily for a week , perbapi , accomplishing more and better work than can be done oy the same number of men In the same time anywhere e'se in the -world. Then comes Sunilsy , tbe day thry should rest , clean up an I accumulate utrenglh for tbe next week's work , but they tlou't clean up , and Instead of resting they make love to the flask. The result Is dis astrous , both to themselves and to ui.'for nothing wilt break men down more quickly than dirt and drunkenness combined. We have tried the plan of keeping our white I laborers busy throughout the entire week , seven days at a stretch , without , giving them | any time to get drunk , hoping in that way to preserve their health , .but they can't stand the strain. Many of ihcm become tramps , dirty , disreputable and lazy , living from hand to mouth , moving about from place to place , stealing railroad rides when ever they get an opportunity and frequently losing their lives under the wheeU' or be tween tbe cars. There isn't a week in a j year that sonic of them are not killed on our lines , through no one's fault but their own. With the Japs it is different. When Sun day comes they make things clean and take their rest like sensible fellows. Perhaps they can't do as much work , man for man , as the whites , and so a large force may be . required , but they are always cheerful , al- a broad view throws a different light upon it. To offset the army of Idle , vicious men for idleness breeds viclousness there is a great body of busy , prosperous farmerr , business men , professional men and em ployes in Minnesota , in the DaUotas , in Montana and away out to the coast. "U may be true that the willfully Idle are now 'multiplying : if true , this might betaking taking for n disquieting sign by the faint hearted. But there Is a remedy , and it is self-acting ; the doctrine of the survival of ihe fittest Is eternally true , and those who will not work cannot eat. Wortln to Yonnc Mn. . "Were I asked to give definite advUe tea a young man of Intelligence and health , but without capital or the training of the schools , I should say , first of all , that he POrtTHAIT OF J. J. HILL. ways healthy , always ready to work. They never become tramps. In Thrrr Work for All ? "There Is much talk that men cannot get work to do In this country. It Is not to. Every healthy man who ! > id ) 3 In the United States today ls so from choice. 1 do not say that every carpenter can get carpenter work to do , or that eiery plumber can find a job at hU trade , but if he will take what be can set , every idle man In tbe country can go to work as soon as be Is ready to. At this moment there are jobs ranging In pay from fl.:5 to } 3 and M a day for 100.000 men In the north west. There are , no doubt , enough Idie men In this region to fill all these jobs but they are tr.en who have dropped out of healthy , active life Into the life of the loafer In the manner I have described. In a tense this condition of things is enough to make an observant man DeeslmUtlc , but must remember that opportunity lias much to do with success in any place , and in I any circumstance In other wordB , , there IB i i something In luck. At the same time luck I and laziness don't go together and oppor- ' tunitles wl < l not bunt him up. He must ! ' look for them and work for them and , after ! all , the measure of success depends a good I i I deal upon the man. Such a young man as | you suggest could not win If he were bent ' on living as if he had an Income of thou sands , 'while yet bis Income were not more than from MOO to ( GOO a year. But let him j j I work steadily , live prudently and give signs j of intelligence and enterprise and help will eventually coino to him. In truth , help for I euch young rora is . .onstantly looking for I ' them to take It ; hep to bu > farms , help to j j take charge of enterprises , small at first. but in this period of rapid evolution sure to grow into somrtbing well worth while ; help of greatly diversified eons. No cue ! who reflects a bit can fail to see the falsity of the notion that the day of rapid devel opment of big enterprises has past. It is ! true , for Instance , that mere miles of long j distance steam rallroad-s have teen built than are yet to be constructed , bit the de velopment of urban and intorurbJn electric railroads is still comparatively In its In fancy. The same Is true o muiy other forms of deve.'opment. They all ic.juire cap ital ; but when of the right gort a young man need have no dlfllculty in attaching himeelf advantageously to those who can command It. One of oui * most serious trou- blesl at the present ti-ne. Is the scarcity of proper men to place In posts of trust and responsibility as foremen , superintendents and the like. We simply . ? an't find them fan enough. There an > plenty among the worklngmen , probably , with sufficient abil ity to assume such posts , tout most of them Insist upon Joining la short-sighted move ments that shut them out of promotion and often deprive them of the work they al ready have to do. I will give you an exam ple of this : "Until a comparatively recent date we employed hundreds of coal lieavcrs to re plenish the tenders of our engines. They had to work in the dark as well as in the light , for people wish to travel by night as nell as by day In these busy times , and freight bound from the west to the east cannot be stopped when the sun goes down. So , although our coal heavers were unem ployed a good portion of each day while waiting for engines , and did not work more ttan from four to six hours In each twenty- four , they were obliged to be 'on watch' all the time. Our bystem was to divide the day Into twelve-hour shifts , thus keeping two full forces of men at each point where our engines took coal. We paid the men 145 a month. After a while someone came along and persuaded them that tney nere not hav ing a fair show ; that no matter how short the actual time of work each day , no man ought to be on watch more than eight hours at a time. Accordingly they demanded three shifts a day with no reduction of pay. This meant adding one-half to the oost of coalIng - Ing our engines. Down to that time it had cost us 12'/4 cents a ton to replenish our locomotive tenders ; under the new a. . . ; " ment it would cost us nearly 10 cents. "Well , we bad to keep the trains running and ' e accepted the terms of the men ; but we were not please-d , for this was an increase of running expenses whlrh brought no Increase of business , if we were to increase expenses 50 per cent aloug the line without Increasing the volume of business wewould have either to fctop our trains or increase our freight and passenger rates enormously. Naturally , wo sought a remedy for the new situation. It was by no means difficult to find. We have many men of mechanical expertness among our employes , and In a short time we were coaling our engines by machinery , employing only two men at each coaling place , one by day and onp by night , at a coil of Jl'O a month , In stead of eight or ten men at a oost of from | 3CO to J100 a month. Now each man flmply tends a mac-bine , which Is operated by a small engine , run at a nominal uxpense. Now , when an engine has to be coaled It , runs alcagbidr- irtvMle , the fireman pulls a lever , and < the coal is chutod into the tender. There is not only a great saving I | of expense , but also of time , oai this latter I ' is one of the moat dotlrable features of the present system. Per ton , the cott of coal- ' I ing our engines now averages between 3 and ' 4 rents. That U all right fcr in. though nn ! I j very pleasant for tbe men , since nearly 100 ) j of them who had ttoady work hard , per- ! i hape , while It lasted , but with plenty of | j rests between whiles , have had to seek other employment : but It should bo remembered - I ' ' membered that it is their own fault If they are Idle. Eventually < te might have come to the present method of coaling In any event , but we hadn't contemplated It when the demand for eight-hour tbifu was made. " Personally , Jatnci J. Hill prscthes the gospel of work as persistently as he preaches it. His friends tay he is never Idle except' ' when asleep. My call upon him was madu late on Saturday afternoon. Nearly every part cf the big Great Northern building was deserted except the president's offices. ' It was occupied by tbe president and tha j c.'erks who work under his personal dlrcc- j tion. All were as busy as bcce. In spile j cf their generally longer hours nnd their j infrequent half holidays as compared with the other clerks , all Great Northern em ployes court places close to the president. When he takes a young maa Into his office It means that he has some faith in that ; young man , and If the faith is justified by his works promotion is as sure as the sun rise after the night. Some years ago a rather diffident , serioiis- faced young St. Paul lad , named Frank E. Ward , went to work for Hill as his personal stenographer. Times had never been easy with the boy and this led bim to approach his duties with terrible earnestness. From the first Hil/ was interested. He noticed in particular that the boy always had a book handy , which he pred : over whenever there was a minute j respite. One day the president picked up the book. It was not a work of fiction but an algebra , and no objection was made to its continued study. It is Hill's custom whenever traveling over bis road to sit at the rear of the train and make a flying Inspection of the tracks and tbe right of way. Till Frank B. Ward's time Hill had always insisted that whoever was with him on a trip of Inspection i-hojld also watch the tracks , but he made au ex ception in the i-aso of tbe young stenog rapher. Ho was allowed and eneouragcd to study when making trips. All the same , the boy kept a pretty close watch on everything pertaining to the road and its operaii'ii , as Hill found out from time to time by turks with him. One day the stenographer was promoted to the president's assistant. Later , when Hill saw that the lad. now- grown to be a man , was competent to work alone , he was promoted again , and he now writes "genera ) superintendent" after his signature. Tbo story that Oreat Northern clerks ha\e taken up the study of algebra extensively since Ward's promotion U probably - , ably not true , but. It ls certain that his rise ' has been an excellent object lesson all along j tbo line. I Though circumstances fcMlmes been against Hill , It is true that luck has generally been with him. Thus , while the ; St. Paul & Pacific , the link of the Great Northern chain , did little business tbe year j i before ho acquired Its control. Its business increased several fold the year afterward. This Increase was a piece of luck and not of management , due to the first big Mani toba boom. The business it engendered had to go over Hill's road , for there was no other thoroughfare for It. Six months be fore Hill got tbo road one or two trains a _ day wore counted good buJlncs ; six months | afterward tbe line was choked with trains , from terminus to terminus and I > g gang' of men were kept busy building sidings over which the trains might pass one another. .Shorter Wii ) of lloliic TliliiUK. i From the beginning of his active life Hill . has constantly sought for t-horter way * of doing things , for scheme * to save labor and fo make transportation rates cheaper. His first warehouse , built on the St. Paul levee , more than thirty years ago , long before j i he owned an Inch of rail. Is a case It ) point. I ' All previously built warehouse * In St. Paul stood so far ba.k from the river that go'ds , , unloaded from the steamers bad to be de- i i posited on the -wharves In the open ar | till they could bo carried into the warehouse , . > thus being handled twice. Hlll'fc * warehouse was built at the water's edge , u > that goods 'could be unloaded into It dlrextly from the steamers. * Me.n laughed at tre warehouse ' while it wa being built , exactly at they did at Hill's announcement later that he was going into the railroad business Eventually they ttopped laughing ajid took to jmltatlng himfonfldfnce In the ountrr. push , pcr- ftn eranco and tbe sort of common I , Strong wink is BeaKi DR. CHAtfCOT'S TONIC TABLETS rrelbnonli positively cuorantred rcmerty i < > r tin i : , Nenousiieuana M . rorti locurf flurc.i'-iijihnilo5lt\ | Him c r- niil" ' or ( rluiH th < < lanney. a' < 1 to flejtroj th P ( or Inuuirsllne llqunrc TtiE TABLETS CN EF GIVCV WITIIOITT K.SOWLEflOE OP THfi PATIENT. . UnlllNan.l UraiU. L'H.n | rfoslpt wf nlllniill ) nn Joiirf1 boienn - ! POM- UTO \\'r'lrii ii\rntilr ! * * tu cure 01 retucd ro'ir ii'inc.lisa l oT r0" SlycTN , Dillon I'ruur Co. , Solo AB nt t Kith mid Knriinm. Ouinliu , .Veil. CalMer CASCADE WHISKEY 1 I VKAH Ol.ll .SOt It MAOHVIIISKISV \ < JF-i ) IX 1VCIOI1 Don't let them palm off other goods on you. See "C'&Kcade" brand on bet tle. Dealers order through Fllii ) T. C I MMIVS , ( iCIKTIlV ! < ' t < TIIUIMlt , Phone 17K1. 'lOII Karliiic-li lllock. shown In thn location of this warehouse have been great factors in the building up of the Great Northern railroail tjstcni. -Mr. Hill told the writer the other day that he found out lone ago that transporta tion is nothing more nor le than over coming the law of gravitation. Wcro it not so a carrier pigeon could move us much as a locomotive. This explains why be haste to invariably sought for low grades , hla Idea being to make his road as nearly level us possible. He has personally examined every Icot cf territory through which every Great Northern Tine lias been built , both as to the resources of tbe country and tha engineering possibilities. Confidence In his judgment is to unlvereal among the people who dwell in tbe regions his railroads fervo that a line of nakcs across an unoccupied territory driven by Great Northern sur veyors , and Indicating that a new line will eventually be built there , invariably attracts settlers in advance of the line , f.o that when the rails are laid there. Is generally almost enough buslnteb at the very beginning make the f.nc pay its way by itt-elf , cer tainly enough to Injure its profitable opera tion ah a part of the entire eyrlcm and a feeder to the main Hue. Mr. Hill's beautiful residence , his gallery of painting , his 4.000-acre fann. where ha carries on all korla of agricultural opera- lions suitable to the northwctil and where a noteworthy herd of liuflalo is kept , have often been described. Ho has given careful thought to ttll tbniu things a * well as to the construction und operation of bis roads and the development of the northwest , butte to nothing has be devoted more- cam than tbe education and training of his sons. On of them. W. L. ( known familiarly to every one in St. I'aul at Ixiuisi , Is now amittant to bis father. The otber , James N . i tic * piftBldent of tbe Kailern railway of Mlune- kota. Samuel Hiirjj.fcon-in-lmi , is president of one of tbe { Treat Northern branches.