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CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1889,
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THE PENSION OFFICE.
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MOW UNCLE 8AM PAY3 HI9 VET
ERAN PROTECTOnS.
A Wonderful Miichliia Willed SnuU Money
Qinirlrily In -nn.OOO I'nuloiioni Thirty
Wliti Itruw Ch m Account of tho llnv
01111111111117 War.
IHtvcUl Convpoml?nuo.
Wapiiinoton, Auk. 1. Now tlmt the
pension tillU'o U intruding m tutioli nt
tcntlon In tlie prows of tho country, nnd
an Investigation Ih liehjr nuule of charges
BRnlnst tho iniiniiijoincnt, It mny ho In.
torcstliiK to lii(iilro what the lietiBlon of
flco In, nnd to titlco a look nt Its great (Ha
trlbutioii hcIhmuo In operation. It In not
msjr to comprehend tho nmgnltmla of
tho proctKnes curried on In the lingo rod
bulldlnjrfynil unloMS wo putoumelveri In
tho linmli of 0110 who known tho bureau
in nil ItAceinploxltlcR nnd nullifications,
wo dhnll imiko but norry work of our ef
fort to leant, (tomr-tlilng about tho mys
teries of, pension paying, Luckily wo
fall bitfTti hands of such n good Sninnrl
tan, wtfe".tkefl us a walk of n inllo or
tnoro rwfiid thtf'long, corridors, showing
us wliero applications for pomlona couio
in, wliero tiioy nro filed nnd indexed,
where they nro assigned to various divi
sions for examination nnd rovlow, first
by Inw officers nnd then by medical ex
aminers, whoro nppenls nro honrd nnd
tho nsalstnnce of tho board of ro-roviow
called In by disappointed nppllcants,
whoro tho reports of tho 5,000 local ex
aminers scattered throughout tho coun
try nro received nnd filed, whoro hun
dreds of clerks sit day nftor day doing
nothing but writing lottors to pension
ers, applicants nnd Inquirers; nnd nftcr
wo havo comploted tho long circuit and
token this miporflcltil look nt tho urn
chlno wo nppreclato better than over be
fore its wonderful capacity nnd tho mag
Bitudo of tho vnr which loft such n no
eeselty lohlnd ltd pages of blood nnd de
struction. "This Is tho hardest working depart
ment of tho government," says ourguido.
'We nro now paying out money to pen
sioners nt tho rnto of $1,500,000 n week,
but this is tho smallest part of our trou
bio, for tho Kiymcnts nro tnado nt tho
local iwnslon ofllces, located nt eighteen
cities. Tho pension ngency nt Columbus,
O., is tho largest ono in tho country,
paying out moro than 3,000,000 n year.
Next to that Is tho ono nt lndlanapollB,
Chicago being third nnd Topckn, Knn.,
fourth. Topekn it n small city, nnd Knn
as is by no menus ono of our most popu
lous states, but so many old soldiers havo
gono out thcro to mako homes for thorn
wives on tho pralrlo that our pension
payment nro very largo nt tlmt oflloo,
six and n half millions yonrly. It mny
urprlso you to leurn that tho agent nt
Knoxvillo, Tenn., payB out nearly four
millions a year, and tho ono nt Louis
Tille, Ky two nnd a half millions, So
youoe a good deal of our rnonoy goes to
tbe southern nnd border states.
'A now senator from ono of tho north
ern states was in hero ono day, and ho
Midi Well, there is ono thing I ata glad
Of we don't havo to pay any pensions to
tta southern states.' 'That is where you
two mistaken,' I replied 'wo pay a great
Biany pensions in tho southorn states.
Wo havo now on our rolla T3.000 pen
loners in Kentucky, 8,000 in Tennessee,
4,000 in Texas, and about a thousand in
each df tho other gulf states. In tho
Borthcrn states thcro Is not a county
without nil tho way from half a dozen to
flvo or six thousand pensioners Of tho
states Now York has tho greatest num
ber, 45,000, Ohio coming second with
nearly 44,000, and Pennsylvania third
with 43,000. Indiana has 4,000 moro
pensioners than Illinois, though tho
population of tho latter stato is much
greater, Why this In so I can't tell. Into
each of theso five states tho pension ofllco
ends mora than a million dollars a quar
ter, in sums ranging from 93 to $300 to
ch individual.'
"Ono of tho curiosities of tho pension
Jaws is tho large number of dlfforcut
rates that havo been allowed, Between
the rates of $1 a month nnd $160.00
A month, tho highest nnd lowest rates,
there aro 140 different rates on tho
rolls. It seems odd a pay JU.UO per
month to sorao pensioners and, $2.00 to
others, or $13.33 to Bomo and $13.83 to
others. Vet this is dono under tho various
Jaws passed by congress. Twel vo dollaxi
month is the pension drawn by 23,000
invalids and 85,000 widows, minors nnd
dependents, a larger number than nt any
other rate. All but 8,000 of tho widows
draw this sum per month. So vonty thou
sand Invalids draw $1 a month, 50,000
6. 03,000 S3 20,000 $10, 12,000 $10, 14,000
$34, 12,000 $30, 3,000 $30, 3,500 $15, 1,500
$50. and 1,000 $73. Threo widows nnd
orphans draw $100 a month, nnd four
$100.00 n month. Moro than 83,000 of
the pensioners get from tho government
the plttanco of $3 a month or less, sev
eral hundred of theso getting only $1 a
month.
"It has been said that all tho veterans
of tho lato war, or nearly all, are on tho
pension rolls. This U not true. For of
3,800,000 men who wont Into tho war of
the rebellion, only 423,000 penaionors are
sow carried on tho rolls. So you see
that there is but ono pension for overy
even soldiers. Tho rolla show 20,000
pensioners of tho war with Mexico; 13,000
of them survivors. Tliere are more than
10,000 pensioners of tho war of 1812,
about 700 of them being survivors. Not
a single survivor remains of the Revo
lutionary war, though SO pensioners on
account of that war are still on tho rolls,
all of thoai ,' widows. This is rather
strange, considering that tho lost battle
of the Revolution was fought about 108
years ago, but toine of the survivors of
tliat war were lusty old chaps, who mar
ried late In lire and left young widows
to draw their pensions for thorn. Say a
youth of 10 served In tho Revolution. At
(IS years of age ho married a girl of 20:
tint girl would be only 80 years old now.
Rathw odd 'that a century of time, full
of no much history, can bo so easily
panned by the liven of man and wife,
isa't iff
"1 wippofie," continued the guide, nr
-we pawed by room after room filled with
young women working typewriters,
"that this is tho greatest Institution for
letter writing in tho world. In a year
tho commissioner of pensions receives
nearly threo millions of communications,
nbout two millions of which nro an
swered Immediately. Just think of n
mall of ten thousand letters n day, tho
answers to innuy of theso requiring hours
of Investigation nnd research and tho
writing of letters varying In length from
n slnglo pago to ten pages of typo writ
ton sheets. Without tho typewriter wo
should have to hnvo in this oMco 0,000
clerks, nnd now wo do tho work with
less than 1,400. Hut do you wonder that
wo need them nil? Why, In ono year
tho commissioner receives nbout 100,000
loiters from congressmen making in
quiries nbout tho ikjiihIoiu of their con
stituents. Of oourso theso must bo
promptly nnd carefully nnswered, or
thoro will lw n row somewhere,
"Somo very queer lottors como hero.
KTory onco In a while somo poor woman
writes, Inclosing nn old dagucrrcotypo of
her missing husband, nnd nsklng tho
pension olllce to eearoh tho world for
lilin. Ono woman wroto Commissioner
Dlaok nskhlft to havo the school houso In
her nelghlxrhood placed Ih iho enter of
tup tustrict, saying It took hcr'bov.BO
long to go to nnd from tho school' that1
ho wnsn't of much uso to hor nbout tlfd'
house. Of courso sho needed him, as
ills father Is n crippled soldier. Letters
of ndvlco concerning tho conduct of tho
pension ofllco pour In by tho thousand,
nnd it Is n dull mail that docs not bring
n curso upon tho bend of tho commis
sioner becnuso somebody's pension has
been refused. Peoplo think tho pension
ofllco enn do anything, grant them big
pensions without form or ovldcnco, loan
them money, mako holiday gifts, nnd so
on. Ono of tho saddost letters I over
rend was from n woman out in Ohio
who had lost a loy In tho war. Ho had
been shot In tho swamps nenr Baton
Kongo, Lit., nnd his body was never re
covered. Sho Implored tho pension com
missioner to send men down there to
hunt tho swnmps for his bones, nnd de
clared sho would dlo happy if sho could
recover the remains of her boy nnd havo
thorn burled bcsldo herself.
"Tho chief disabilities for which pen
sions nro granted? That is n question
everybody nsks. Thoro npponru to bo n
general curiosity concerning tho Injuries
men receive In battle nnd army life.
Well, in round numbers 120,000 pension
ers sulTored gunshot wounds. Elovcn
or twclvo thousand of theso were hit in
tho face, 2,300 in tho neck, 0,000 in the
chest, 0,500 In tho bnok, 11,000 in tho
shoulder, 14,000 in tho hand, 21,000 in
tho thigh, 10,000 In tho leg and 7,000 In
tho foot. Of tho nmputntions 3,000 wore
of tho arm, 1,400 of a part of tho hand,
nnd only 4 of tho hand Itself, Whllo
2,800 legs wero tnkon otT nnd 1,400 parts
of foot, only 4 amputations of tho foot
alono are on tho records. Moro than 40,
000 cases of disability aro charged to
rheumatism, and moro than 65,000 to
chrenlo diarrhea, Thoro aro about 800
cases of total blindness, tho samo num
ber of loss of sight of ono oyo, 150 cases
of oilo oyo lost, 10,000 diseases of tho
eyes, 1,500 of total deafness nnd 0,000 of
partial deafness.
"Of courso tho pension offico carries
gladness to many thousands of homes.
But at tho samo tlmo it docs a groat deal
of harm, as you would boo If you could
look Into tho thousands of cases of
fraudulent pensions with which tho of
fico has hod to deal. Many thousands of
men havo committed perjury In order to
got a pension of $3 or $10 a month, nnd,
moro than that, luivo Induced their
friends to commit perjury for their bono-
lit. l often wonder at tho good nature 1
or physicians nnd surgeons In helping
poor dovils to got pensions to which they
nro notentltlod. Doctors sometimes hnvo
wonderfully rctcntivo memories, ns in a
caso which was put through tho other
day. Tho surgeon hod seen tho claimant
but onco in ills llfo. nnd that moro than
a quarter of a century ago. Yet ho pre
sumed to remember tho condition of tho
man's lungs nt that time, though ho had
passed but flvo minutes in Ids company
whllo on his rounds of vaccination. We
hnvo had applications como In hero for
pensions on nccount of decayed teeth,
falling hair, bunions and corns that wero
brought on by tho long marches of tho
war, for falling eyes that wero porft tly
good till tho claimants had reached tho
ngo of 00 or moro, for frostbites nnd bad
teeth. Ono man wan tod n pension for
obesity. IIo persisted in his declaration
that it was on accoynt of his lifo in tho
army that ho aftcrvard grow so fat ho
couldn't seo his knees or do a day's work.
IIo didn't get a pension, howover, nor
did the man who complained that his
army experiences had bo demoralised his
morals that ho could no longer follow his
profession of preaching tho GosjhjI.
"Thoro was a queer Caso out west, now
nearly forgotten, In which a young man
who taught school during tho war, and
who hurt himself whllo out huntincr lust
as his twin brother returned homo from
tho soiith.j managed to get a pension for
amputation of tho leg. It happened that
tho brother who was in tho army had
been discharged from tho' hospital short
ly beforo leaving tho service, with a
alight wound in tho leg, and as this wound
cbaftced'fb bo in tho samo place and of
much tho samo character as that which
his brother had suffered, tho, latter on
losing his leg personated the soldier and
drew ponttlori for nearly a dozen years.
Tho wound In tho leg of tho soldier
quickly healed, and tho twins exchanged
Identities.
"Tho soldiers of tho late war aro now
scattered all over tho world," conclud
ed tho guide. "Every quarter pension
money orders or checks aro sent to Mex
ico, Alaska, Central and South America,
China, India and oven to Greenland and
Iceland. All told there are nearly 2,500
pensioners who reside in foreign coun
tries, many of them tho widows of sol
diers who havo returned to their natlvo
lands to pass their declining years with
tho old folks at home."
Walteu Wkllman.
Apache county, In Arizona, is larger
than the stato of Massachusetts, yet it
has not a single doctor within Its borders.
ABOUT DAVID SWING.
A CHICAGO PHILOSOPHER AND THE
OLOGIAN OF NOTE.
IIo U'n Tint Simla I itmtiiu Uy lilt Op
pimllliin l( Ortliir'itt Doctrine unit Bali
c(llMt i:tiultlon from Iho Clmroli Tlia
fiitlirr of MUoUtlppI Vnllcy'. I.llrrnturn.
(Special Cormpondcnce.)
Chicago, Aug. 1, When I opened tho
book of Do Tocquovlllo on "Tho American
Democracy" It was with n natural thrill
of satisfaction that I read his prophecy
concerning our Mississippi valley, "It
is," ho said, "tho most magnificent dwell
ing placo prepared by God for man's
alKxlo." Out of that home, Do Tocquo
vlllo thought, n dominant raco of men
should spring. As I nui hut n scribe I
can best touch upon thoio Influences of
this soil that havo become aspirations
within scribes. Aaour architects hnvo
already breathed their hopes, I ns n
tradesman In lottors mny whisper of
tuouguis which l attrlDiito to tho black
loam of tho Mississippi valloy. As tho
builders toll you of tho vast structures nt
Chicago, I must bog nttcntlon with my
.homely tnlo of western philosophy nnd
learning. Whntls literature In tho west?
What spirit animates Its brotherhood? In
what way nnd how soon Is tho library of
tho Mississippi valloy to bo added to tho
richest treasures of n world?
If I study my own organism with any
any profit, I behold n restless hopo of
npplnuso, or perhaps of fruition, al
though I nui not cnpablo of grasping tho
idea of fruition merely for itself. If I
look on nature, I Tin impelled to bellovo
tlmt tho desire for notice Is In nil things.
A cowboy might cnll It "tho hunch to
yawp," and as thnt expression comes
from tho soil. I look on it with favor.
If I behold myself publishing a book,
why Bhould I not also tako notico of tho
mental phenomena nccompnnying that
vain net? Tho reviewer of tho enst re
gards that IkxiI: ns tho challcngo of nn
enemy, mid I nt onco sw6ftr a wnrfnro
against him. If I seo a school of bull
head minnows close to tho shores of n
lako, in two Inches of water, shall I not
also discern tho shadowy presenco of n
formidable fathor fish In tho deep, with
eyes of fury for all prey hunters'?
Why should I not preserve my book
nftor it is in print? What is It in me,
doing this thing, Irrespective of my
sciiso of merit for I know now, exactly,
that I can nover bo as Gibbon. I am not
liko Shnkcsitcaro. Look on us, then, O
render, ns flowers In tho field. Tho great
sunflower spreads to heaven. Ills am
bition is undeniable. His cflloresccnco
Is mighty patent victorious. Bcsldo
lilin, with equal variety and equal strain
ing, pushes a daisy out of tho earth. Ita
rivalry of tho gigantic Btalk is ovidont to
my oyes. And over there Is a white rose,
which hopes to outdo nil othor bloom In
tho field. Everywhere, in all these burst
ings out of tho soli, there is private am
bition, disquieting to many, grateful to
few.
Relying on nature, and tho over living
God of nature, 1 havo looked, too, upon
our field of letters. Tho weeds aro full
In flower. Tho roses nro fow. Tho sun
flowers nro Bplcndld In their disdain, nnd
fnt. Wo who aro walking weeds nro
social, liko bunch grass. As I hnvo be
come Independent In thought that Is,
truo to tho soil
that feeds mo in
every breath and
overy breaking of
my fast I find
thnt I owe somo
thing of nllegl
unco to othor
stalks in this re
gion. Has any
man led nic to
hopo eminence
may como to my
valley nnd
restVc?
sons? X
Is a
on ono of ita sous?
Yes. There
man named Da- david swino.
vid Swing, who sits In his lonely homo,
"as sad iw Plato," nnd nlxmt his person
thcro gathers tho aroma of greatness.
Wo approach him with respect. His
nnmo adorns Chicago, city of a million.
I thought so ten years ngo. I am surer
of it now. Who is David Swing, thnt
his oxistenco should glvo mo theso
thoughts nnd this nlleglance?
When ho was young ho was n profes
sor of dead languages nt a school in Ox
ford, O. When ho had been translated
to Cldcago ho impressed our busy peoplo
with tho qualities of his mind. At thnt
tlmo tho orthodox hell was falling out of
fashion, and Professor Swing, turned to
minister, boftcned it, in order to adjust
John Calvin to Georgo Peabody. Thoro
was n llttlo fellow, bound In old calf that
rubbed off, dry, musty and marvelously
ncutoin theology. His nnmo was Patton.
IIo is now n great light in London, I guess.
IIo assayed this hell of tho young profes
sor, and served notico on David Swing
to tako himself and his mitigated hell, or
no hell, out of tho church.
I asked Professor Swlngyestcrday how
that hit him. Did ho want to go? Does
tho dart of tho persecutor hurt ita vic
tim? IIo said no, and finally ho said yes.
Uo said his wife griovod. And thon,
perhaps, he wiped n tear out of his eye.
But ho assured mo that the wicked doc
trines of the orthodox church wero pass
ing away, and quoted tho lost assembly
and its trials. IIo dwelt on tho word
"universal," thinking many things which
i could not irrns! about all believers
coming together, as in tho early centu
ries.
1 was a very young man when Patton
triumphed over David Swing. I read
the proceedings in the Presbytery and
blamed David Swing for not getting out.
Yesterday lie said ho got out willingly
ho intended to leave. I believe the
"churching" made David Swing famous
over a good part of the world. Presby
terians of the Hudlhras tvpu held him
up for Kabm. but only aided In distill-
,'uUliins him. At last ho waled in n
Iioiim near the l.itte on the went side
and lcnuic eminent.
I nL(d liliu how it felt to te eminent
V s
- was he eminent? was there a boom
hi May ami a dull season In August?
U bother or not his learned mind In
forms him on thoso matters I can not say.
Hi hlirtitik from thlnkingon tho subject.
He said the callers were not many. Ho
saw all of them. Men, I believe, aro af raid
of him, lie Is u wise man, and docs not
reply to argument. Ills sllenco repels,
lie said there was ono lottcr a day from
total strangers to which ho always re
plied When the Central church was formed
It uns believed the propaganda w otild
snon die out. Poor David Swing would
soon be loft without supjiort. A theatre
m rented, to the scandal of many
In Christendom, It has come, of late
years, that this theatrical Idea this au
ildent has put David Swing forward as
tho pope of Chicago. Strangers visit
LYntra! Music hall out of gentlo defer
nice to religion and urgent responso to
jurloslty. I reckon that a good part of
iho worldly "cmlnenco" has spread forth
from this.
In town thcro Is a resentment ngnlnst
David Swing. The Philistine declares
that Swing preaches to millionaires. I
blamed him for It yesterday. Ho snld it
was "a IIo." IIo preaches to 1,500 poor
men each Sundny. Ho told mo thnt
over n thousand did not pay n cent. IIo
did not regret tho IIo. no merely ob
served that it was a lie, as ho would no
tico thnt tho electric lights of tho res
taurant wero n.part of tho architecture.
I would lovo him If I could get near
to him. In tolling him this I learned ho
uau never had nn intlmntc man asso
ciate ho said "chum." Wo talked of
RolMTtMcIntyro.and tho great man said
Mclntyre was delighting tho people.
Mclntyro wns not bogus. I told the
great man that Robert and! had debated
coming over to 403 Superior street. "I
feol,'' Bald David Swing of tho stranger,
"that I am as well acquainted with Mc
Intyro as with you." Truo, overy word.
Wero I to live ten thousand years 1
should nover bo nearer to this thinking
man a man of solitudo, hurt by almost
overy word ho hears, yot not onco com
plaining not learning stabbing with
his own words, ns ho is stabbed. If
there wero a woman who constantly
retreated from men who had read nil
the books that all her circle together had
read this woman would bo a David
Swing.
Thero havo existed tentatively on tho
outsicirta or journalism in Chicago a
number of weekly nnd monthly maga
zines. Theso flowers havo In no single
Instance gono beyond n demonstration of
their own vnnlty. Tho almighty dollar,
creator of tho heavens nnd the earth
hereabouts, has refused them his "ad."
or his other patronage, nnd they have
expired. Their withered memories strew
these luirts. For every ono of them David
Swing wrote. Ho wrote as a man rarely
refuses to act for pallbearor. IIo was
tho head nnd front of literature, nnd
literature was to dlo cutting its teeth.
Wo spoko yesterday of the envious, and
their glee nt all theso obsequies. Both of
us noted tho naturalness of events. But
ho would not hopo for a literature. Ho
lives, liko Socrates, in the testimony of
his disciples, and 1 must doubt that
David Swing will over speak, except
through our memorabilia. Lalsscz-fnlre
Is written on his fnco. "There is nothing
to write," ho Bays.
And I, who am buckled with the
harness nnd hopo to writo until tho day
of my denth and always writo of this
valloy I strive to understand the forces
thnt hold him ho truo to solitudo and
Inlssez-falre. Sometimes I nttributo his
indifference to tho environment of the
ology. I told him I discovered the
preacher In him. Ho Bald it narrowed
his thoughts to tho moral. Uo must put
only certain stuff over tho signature
"David Swing." I nnswered him that
learning wns nil moral and severe. IIo
nt onco ndmlttcd It. Ho could not
bo Aristophanes. Yet I bellovo tho
man would bo glad If ho had been a
votco of tho soil, like Walt Whitman.
Great Is tho man who writes ns Whit
man wroto, though fato has happily
saved mo from habiting tho tenement
of tho gray poet.
David Swing has a written somo of tho
wisest nnd stilklngc'st things I havo seen
on paper. Ills "I Havo Forgotten," in
tho celebrated Easter Current of 1880,
gavo mo hojio. His latest scripturo 1
havo in a recent paper, "Of courso,"
ho says, "wo can live nnd raovo and
finally dlo, without having any now
forms or new hopes for tho western In
tellect. Wo can havo our thinking and
creating dono in New York. Boston or
London, but but it is difficult to avoid
tho wish that tho Mississippi valley
might ceaso to lw a literary lioggar and
might asphe to a personal Independ
ence." It is difficult, but David Swing is
ready to do it. It is his disciples, not
he, who have declared that they sepa
rately exist. Ho said ho had been up
lato at a dinner. 1 found it to bo a lit
erary club. I asked If thero woro any
other scribo In tho lot except himself.
Ho named Frank Gilbert, Thero aro 150
men In tho society. But he said all men
wero literary men. Uo Buid Guusaulus
could edit Tho Herald or Tribune.
In tho eyes of this master his disciples
could do so llttlo, what was tho senso of
ono pretending to bo a better scribo than
tho others? I find him in himself well
wedded to the statu quo. The literati of
Chicago not a ono of whom can write,
I fear this suits him. His own English
is careless. What odds?
IIo kindly went with mo to our Press
club. Tho fellows received him with
distinction, such as I havo not seen thorn
accord to another Chicagoan. Opio
Read took Ills pipe out of his mouth and
talked liko n father. Tho guest sate
slirinkingly, Irresponsive ready to go.
Tho young men came forward and ox
pressed felicitously their deep sense of
respect for him nnd hlsnttnlnments. At
the billiard tnblo on tho way out he took
a cuo mid observed that ho should have
played billiards but for tho fact that in
most things bavo writing he w s left
handed. To hear peoplo remark the
fact chastised him. At the foot of the
stairs his faco was flushed. Uo had
passed through a sceno that tried his
nerves. Joun McGoveum.
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Including main linos, brancbos and extensions Eaat and West of th
Missouri Blvor. Tno TJlrect Route to and from Chicago, Jollet? Ottawa.
fcSSS'WV Mo"n. K?ck Island, In ILIiINOI8-Davon'port Musoatlnel
Hutchinson. Wlohlla. Bollovlllo, Abllenb, CaldwTnTtn
yree, itinamsner. iron Keno. In tho
opnngB, Denver, Pueblo, In COLORADO. FREE Recflnlnir Chair Cara to
and from Chicago, Caldwell, Hutchinson, and Dodgo OltyVand Palace TBleep
Jt.!&SS& SSiS80' Wichita, and, Hutchinson. Traverses now and
vast aroaB of rich terming and grazing lands, affording the best facilities
. ww w. uiuwaDBuurwuuuigu rttllBUCDBmC OCapOriS.
MAGNIFICENT VESTIBULE EXPRESS TRAINS,
& ifi?.aUi!O,?P0y?ra Inspiondor of equipment, cool, well ventilated, and
RSi "m dUBf, 11lr2Rn Ooachea, Pullman Sloopera, FREE RocUnlng
Chalr Care, and (oaat of Missouri River) Dining Cars Dally betwoon Chicago;
and Pueblo, via 8U Josei
Jo r! te'NS", nd botwoen Chicago and Colorado Springs,
h. or Kansas
xiotoiB (rurnismng
California ExcurBlc
Hotols (furnishlm
rornia Excursions dally;
e. Ofirdnn. PnrtUirfHl T
,,itl iBlcl ff PUco- Poak,Taanltou, Garden of tho Oods, tho Sanltarl
urns, and Scenlo Orandouxa of Colorado. -j
siAngeios;
VIA THE ALBERT LEA ROUTE,
1CV. Throncrh C
ana bloux Falls, via Boole Island. The
na -Pl0J?i.PaJl8'iJM,d " Summer Resorts and Hunting and Fishing
Qrounds of the Northwest.
.THE SHORT LINE VIA SENECA AND KANKAKEE offers facilities to
travel between Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Lafayette, and Council Bluffs, Bt.
JosepbjAtcbfsoB, Leavenworth, Kansas City, Minneapolis, and St Paul.
rtm0.0JteT9PJ!lPo,aeu.oaoBlroamromtlon &PPly to y Ticket
Offlco In the United States or Canada, or address
E. ST. JOHN, JOHN SEBASTfAN,
Osneral Manager. OHIOAQO, ILL. Oea'l Ticket ft Pais. Apir;,
WEDDING INVITATIONS
BHLL PROGRAMS, M8NUS
Wessel Printing Co., New Burr Block.
c'remont, Blkhorn ft Mo. Valley
OfOperntcs nnd coik
trols lt own service-
between
LINCOLN, NEB., and
OMAHA, CHICAGO,
MILWAUKEE, SIOUX CITY"
MINNEAPOLIS anii ST. PAUL.
tV ThrmiKli Tickets and Hakbiiko Chocked to'
ill polntu In United States nnd Canada.
Vestlbulo BIceiK-iK, 1'nlatlal Dlnlnjr Cars and.
Union tlejiots.
CITY TICKKT OFFICE :
IS South 10th street, - - . Lincoln'
OKO. N. F011E8MAN, ARent.
II. O. IlvnT, J. K. IllCItANAH,
General Jt'ser, Qen'l 1'aiw. Ag't
OMAHA, NKB.
PRINCIPAL POINTS
EAST, WEST,
NORTH and SOUTH
-AT-
1044 O STREET.
'flffcm
'MILWAUKEE!
'tPMJl
&OA
t n nnd operated 5.500 miles of tliormiRtily"
inlppetl roml In Illinois. Wm-onsin, Iownr
HlHhourl, Minnesota and llnkota.
It Is thn llcst Direct Itnute beluun nil tuc
Principal Points In tho NortJicit, Southwest
nd Far West
For ninnx, tlmo tnlilcs, rates of nnssnRO nml
ffvlKUt, etc.. npply lo nuiriKt stutfon ntcnt ol
CltlCAOO, MlLWAUKKK A. HT. 1'AUL ItAIL-
wav, or to nny ltnllrond Agent anywhere, tir
the world.
U. MILLEIt, A. V. II. OAKI'ENTEIt,
ttfneral M'lj'r. Gen'l I'uhh. AT'kt Agt.
F.TUCKKIt, GEO. II. HKAFFOUD,
Vs. Gen' Mur. Asit. G. 1". A T. Agt.
Milwaukee. Wisconsin.
Ilf"I'o: Information In reference to !and
uid Towns owned by tho Chicago1, Milwau
kee & Ht. I'nul Hallway Conipnny.wrto to II.
U. ItAUOAM.Uind Coiimilidoncr,MtMwnHker
Vs Isconnln.
FROM A STUDY Or THIS MAP Or
la
Horton, Topolca,
KANSAS-Pond
INDIAN TERRlTORY-and noirirt
City and Topeka. Brjlondld Dlnlncr
nnnvni
M Tickets
BjIflPOi 0N SALE
LipjrpJ TO -AJJXj
niku A'tuu iHJUiuiiiiK uiinii uni
meala at seasonable noura) west of Missouri River.
seasonable noura) west of Missouri
dolly; wltft" CHOICE OF ROUTE8 to and from Salt
ana Ban FranclBOo. The DIRECT
Favorlto Lino to Plrjoatono. Watori
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