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About The Wealth makers of the world. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1894-1896 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1895)
A MODKHX MARTHA BY MATE MA1TLASO. CHAPTER VIII. Mr. and Mrs. Regan are astir early this cold, bitter morning. They are mak ing preparations to visit the county agent's, office for bread. They have neither fire nor light by which to make their toilets, and as they hasten their aged hands are numb from the cold. At last they are ready and they start out in the cold, gray morning. The frost and the keen air sting their hands and laces. Their feet are but poorly clad; feet that have carried them for seventy years through all sorts of toil, anxiety and trouble, but neither they nor their own. era have ever encountered any trials equal to those they have met this win ter. Yesterday Mr. and Mrs. Regan took the same route they are taking this morning from their home on Deering street to the county agent's office, but, alas, they were too late! And they had to turn away not only empty-handed but hungry, to return home and await until the morrow should come. Mr. Re gan is weak from hunger and does not possess such a firm, determined nature as his wife, who urges him to hasten his lagging footsteps and tries to talk cheer fully so that the way may not seem so long, and holds out the hope that has " upheld them so much of the time that perhaps William, their grandson, may find some work today. But Mr. Regan has losf all hope that such good fortune is in store for them. But he arouses every energy to keep pace with the cour ageous old lady by his sido. "I don't see what keeps up your strength so, Kate," said he. "I am so very tired of this useless struggle to get something to eat; but you seem so hope ful and brave and even cheerful. I sup pose it is your grit that keeps you up, old woman, but I am sure I shouldn't care if I were done with this world. I have tried very hard to succeed in life and it almost breaks my heart to think that I cau't even provido bread for sucb a good and faithful wife as you alway have been. Times grow harder, and it seems to me thatthe winters are so much colder than they used to be. Ugh"! saia he, shivering, "it seems as if that cold northwest wind would freeze both body and soul." "Oh, well," said she, "you will feel bet ter when you get something to eat. Wu certaiuly shall be there early enough tliie morning. You don't think that the doors will be opened before we get there, do you"? inquired she, anxiously, whila there was a suspicious quaver in hei voice. Then he tried to turn comfortei and assured her many times that lie didn't think that the door could possi bly be opened so early, and pointed to the different buildings us landmarks to convince her that they were far on their journey. Thus they trudged on all that distance ' through the cold, frosty air, when they should have been at home in a comfortuble house, sitting before a bright, warm fire, cared for by loving children and grandchildren. What is wrong? They are certainly not to blame. It would have been hard to have found a more frugal, industrious and temper ate couple through ail these years than they have been. Their story is becoming a common every day recital by thou sands in this beautiful and bountiful land. . Yet these poor old people, bent with toil more than with age, have no bread to eat, and their lives are just as hard to live even though they be common-place. And how do wej who are struggling along with our burdens of debt and fight for existence, know but such a fate may await us or our children in the not distant future; unless we are awake, alert and in earnest in studying these many questions which determine our destiny, our weal or woe. A little delay and the money power, with its monopoly tentacles, will have us so firm ly in its grasp that we can do nothing to free ourselves. Ah! I see some of you do not fear such a fate, you are not in debt; you have some money of your own, enough to supply your wants and to give your children a good start on the road to fame or fortuue. But don't be too certain. How do you know, unless the conditions change, but your little en terprise in which you are so selfishly ex ulting may not be struck by adverse panic winds or some monopoly shark in the form of a bank swallow your small fortune; and you and your children may yet walk miles through piercing winds or a blinding storm to obtain a loaf of bread. Mr. and Mrs. Regan are on time this morning. They are among the first ones admitted to the large room where the long line are formed before the supply windows. Just as the Hues are forming Martha Potter and Miss Hunter enter and stand apart from the crowd. Near them Mr. Regan is standing. Mrs. Regan thought she was better able than he to take the chances of injury in the vast crowd which the county agent's assist ants and the police often find hard to manage. While she is standing in the line wait--4ng her turn she began to feel weak from her long walk and lack of food. She moved as the crowd moved. Those be-' fore her procured bread and moved out of the way until there Were only a few, less than a dozen, between her und her much coveted prize. She felt sick and faint. While she was waiting she lenned against an iron post. Just then the crowd took one of its wild, ungovern able rushes which the sight of food arouses in those poor, hungry, almost stafved human beings; with minds and souls, thought Martha, but hunger has reduced them to mere animals, not un like a lot of swine crowding and pushing to get something to eat. And as Martha looked at them in terror she thought that the hungry swine's countenance was the pleasanter of the two. However, her acqaintance with either species of ani mal was limited, yet she knew that Christ loved these poor, forlorn human beings and she was moved with an over mastering desire to better their condi tion and to make tne acquisition of something to eat so easy for them that they could have an opportunity to culti vate their minds and souls and make men whom God and man would delight to honor. But Martha shuddered at the thought that if many of the cultivat ed and favored ones whom dhe knew were to go with poor and insufficient food through many roM itnrt fr.eamg .i,.V that thry wouldn't Imve net- ilit lerHitly." While she Mudyiiig the -roul ii woman's sharp, hrill scream in h-Hr.l. Mr. Ilegsn 'n being crowded ngaiimt the iron pout ngainnt which h!ih iw lenii inn by many from behind. Shehafniiit-d but the crowd does not allow her to fall. The policemen come forward and drive the crowd back. The patrol wagon cur ries her a-nd her faithful husband home with a unpply of bread to last several days. It in doubtful if she can eat any more food. Martha procured her address and she and Miss Hunter made their way to the Regan home as fnstas their driver was willing to take them. They found upon arriving, that the patrol wagon and the physician were there in advance of them. Two of the poor old lady's ribs were torn loose and there seemed to be some internal injury, Martha looked around at the house in utter amazement. This was worse than the tenement that they had visited the day before. There had been an effort on Mrs. Regan's part to clean the rooms, but there was an almost unbearable and unnamnble stench from the alley or rooms adjoining. It was plain that the street commissioners hadn't discovered the condition of this locality. Martha sent Mrs. Regan's grandson, William, on numerous errands after food and fuel. To see bis grandmother lying so white and still seemed almost impossible to William. The bright fire burning in the stove and the appetizing odors of the dinner which the ladies were preparing seemed to him the work of fairies. To be sure Martha looked like a very tall and substantial fairy. Mrs. Regan revived a little and took some food. This, together with the de licious dinner which he ate, so encour aged Mr. Regan that he began to talk and to tell his life's story. It was a very simple one, full of hard work and dis couragements. "Kate was one of the handsomest women when she was young," he said, "that you could have found in all Ire land. But hard work, want and age have sadly marred her bonny face. When we were married we had no dowry except love and pride in each other; but there was such an abundance of this capital that we never missed those luxuries which wealth could buy. I always had work then, and we had plenty of plain but wholesome food; and coarse but warm clothing. The children, six in all, that came to our fireside, were the pret tiest, brightest and merriest ones that I ever saw. "By much careful hoarding Kate saved enough to pay our passage to America. Ellen, the oldest daughter, was then eighteen, and she, with tears and blushes, told us that she would take the money for her steamship i manage, and buy her wedding clothes. The wedding took place in September, and we sailed after. "Upon arriving in America I found work and was busy all the time until we had quite a sum saved; then the bank failed in which we had placed our small fortune. After that I continued to work and Kate to save; but sickness cams and our savings melted away again Then death visited us and we did not grieve much over the loss of the money, we only thought of keeping our children, our priceless treasures. I had to work hard all these years; but I was strong then, and I enjoyed the work. Only two of the children which came with us to America lived. They were married. Not long after her marriage one of these died and left us her baby boy. William, whom you see here. We saved a little money again and again, but we had to spend it when I was thrown out of work. William is old enough and willing to work and support himself and help take care of us. But he can find no work to do. Our small sum of money is gone. Kate has earned all there has been earned this winter by doing the odd pieces of work which William tound for her. But these failed, too, more than a month ago. And now mother is so sick, and we can't make her comfortable, when she has always done so much to make our lives happy and pleasant," said he ruefully. Martha offered him all the solace she could, and assured him that Mrs. Regan shouldn't lack for food, medicine or comforts. This seemed to console him some as be had just had substantial evidence that she was both capable and willing to provide those comforts for his sick wife which he could not secure. Martha and Miss Hunter lijft them with assurances that they would soon visit them again. Mar tha gave Mr. Regan their address and told him to send William to them if they needed anything. When Miss Hunter and Marthareached Mrs. Regan's they dismissed the hack man, and now, as they make their way to the street railway, they come to a woman sitting on the curbstone and crying bitterly as Bhe holds her sick baby tightly clasped in her arms while heaped up around her are a few broken and dilapidated household goods. She could hardly speak for the choking sobs when Martha accosted her. "Oh, Misses, he will die," said she, "and then what shall I do!" and then she was seized with another paroxysm of grief. "Poor baby is so sick and they turned me out in the cold street. I couldn't work when he was sick, and I fell behind with the retit. I have always paid promptly before, and now there is only a little over a month's rent due, and the landlord wouldn't let me stay any longer, and I don't knoiv where to go or what to do, and baby keeps breathing harder all the time." "Poor thing," said Martha, "what can we do with her?" "I don't think we had better send her to the hospital," said Miss Hunter, "it is so crowded. I think she had better come home with us." Martha looked, rather than spoke, her gratitude as she hnstily signalled a hack and hurried the woman in it, and they drove, rapidly towards Miss Hunter's home. They summoned a physician and worked all night with the poor little baby, and in the morning the doctor pronounced him out of danger. Thus Martha spent ber time in Chicago, visit ing the sick, the homeless, the friendless and the suffering ones. Ilackmen were kept busy carrying many, who seemed to have no place in this cold, wide world, to Miss Hunter's house. Very soon her city friends began to make remarks about Miss Hunter's strange ideas; but she only laughed good-naturedly at their intended sarcasm, and rejoiced that Mar tha was becoming so interested in the poor waifs of society that she was plan ning to form a retreat for the unem ployed. to be continued. Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer s, unquestionably, the best preservative of the hair. It is also curative of dan druff, tetter, and all scalp affections. TALK GF AN EXfRA SESSION. THE PRESIDENT MAY BE OBLIGED TO CALL ONE. TO MEET EARLY IN THE SPRING, Dill and Qnar Said to Be All Ready to Block the Income Tax Collection Ap propriation The Financial Meas ure Also in Peril Both Are Likely to Be Defeated at ThU Session. Washingtok, pec 31. The talk of an early extra session of the Fifty fourth congress has been revived at the capitol by the contingencies which may arise growing out of the failure of necessary legislation at the present session. Upon two pend ing bills, it is generally believed, hinges the question of whether Mr. Cleveland will convoke the new con gress soon after the death of the Fifty-third, March 4. These two are the urgent deficiency appropriation bill, which contains the appropriation for carrying the income tax into effect and which is pending in the senate, and the Carlisle currency bill, which is under debate in the house, and the fate of which will be decided soon after the house convenes Jan nary 3. The opponents of the income tax. led, it is understood, by Senators Hill and Quay, will make a "desperate fight in the senate and will exhaust every parliamentary expedient to defeat it. Mr. Quay, it is said', has added large ly to the accumulated speech with which he proposed talking the tariff bill to death at the last session, unless certain changes were made in the wool sched ule, and is prepared for a long siege. He has already enough manu script, it is said, to consume a month's time of the senate, and with proper support he believes the efforts of the supporters of the income tax will not be successful. The New York mem bers of the senate affect to believe in the ultimate defeat of the bill. CORRUPTION IN ST. JOSEPH. The Police Charged With Standing In With Gamblers and Bad Classes. St. Joseph, Mo., Dec. 31. City At torney James Mytton has made formal charges against the police force and the police judge that, if proved, will not only call for a public investiga tion, but may cause Governor Stone to haul Police Commissioners Van Natta, Ryan and Trice over the coals. He charges that gam bling houses run wide open all over the city; that the police visit them and watch the playing at the same time accepting drinks and cigars from the proprietors, and when com pelled to make arrests take into cus tody only the keeper, letting the players continue the game and re leasing the proprietor on his own re cognizance; that the police judge and captain of police hold star chamber sessions of the police court, admitting no one but arrested gamblers and keeping the city attorney in ignor ance of the trial and imposing the lowest possible fine on the gamblers, without compelling them to appear. NEW YORK FIREMEN KILLED. A Battalion Chief anil Another Man Borled Under Falling; Floors. New York, Dec, 31. While Batta lion Fire Chief John J. Breslin and Fireman John L. Rooney of truck 13 were working with other firemen on a fire which started this morning on the fifth floor of the gas and electric fix tures factory of Cassidy & Son manu facturing company, the two upper floors were carried down by the fall of a heavy water tank on the roof. The whole mass of blazing debris fell on the firemen, pinning Breslin and Rooney under the girders burning them to death. Rained by Grain Speculation. Toronto, Ontario, Dec. 3 1. W. H, Howland & Co., one of the largest firms of grain dealers in Canada, have decided to go into liquidation on ac count of heavy losses. Two years ago the firm had a surplus of over $200, 000. Now it is stated that it has nothing. Elevator and Grain Burned. Toledo, Ohio, Dec. 31. The Dayton and Michigan elevator "B" was burned in an hour at 9 o'clock this morning. About 625,000 bushels of wheat and 40,000 bushels of corn were in store, the loss on which will be $416,800. Chris. Dandelion, an em ploye, was "burned to death. Two Coloradoans Lose Their Feet. Denver, CoL Dec. 31. Frank Miller and William Mahler, two young men of this city, tramped to Sedalia this week in search of work. The feet of both were so badly frozen that their legs have been amputated as the only chance of saving their lives. 1 ewls Not Guilty. Kansas City, Ma, Dec. 31. The jury in the case of. Montgomery H. Lewis charged with obtaining $6,500 from the Lombard 'iaveotrar-n-fr crjwi- pany by forgery brought in a verdict of not guilty. The verdict was a sur prise. Bus Lacker In Jail. Muskogee, Ind. Ter., Dec. 31. Bus Luckey, the half-breed Creek Indian member of the Bill Cook gang, was brought into town by three of Mar shal McAlester's deputies and lodged in jaiL Lochren Booked for a Judgeship. Washington, Dec. 31. United States District Judge Nelson of Min nesota is soon to retire and it is said Pension Commissioner Lochren will be appointed to succeed him. Terrible Fall of Two Miners. Telluride, CoL, Dec. 31. Nicholas Gerrons and James Burns, miners, were killed to-day by falling 550 feet in the Union shaft. CARD FROM MISS POLLARD. Ponies a Nomlmr of Htatements That Hare Been Afloat Concerning tier. New York, Dec. 31. Miss Madeline Pollard has requested the press to give publicity to the following: "I have not wanted to make a state ment of any kind. I could not see that what I did was of interest to people generally, so I have tried to bear all that has been said of me as part of the punishment for my failure aj a woman. "Within the last few days the im pression has gone abroad thai I am under an assumed name; that I am friendless and not sufficiently pro vided for, and that I am in Washing ton to-day. If ever a woman had friends great and true men and women it is I. I will hot believe that men refuse to give my brother employment because of my broken life. Nearly half of America has wanted employment this year. "I am not going before the world in any capacity. I have no message to carry. I have asked a question with my life; it cannot be answered in a day. I have no theatrical friends. Their world is far removed from mine. I live quietly in a private house with my brother and Southern friends. "I do not believe there is a man or woman on earth who thinks there is money compensation for sorrow. I am sorry if, for any reason whatso ever, I am accused of realizing so lit tle the enormous sorrow that over shadows my life. "I am not under an assumed name. I have not been in any place where I was not well known. I do not mean to be while I live. I have stained my dear father's name, and with the Christ-power I shall fight from under the stain." TRADE SITUATION. The Holiday Business Did Not Come Up to Expectations. New York, Dec. 3L R. G. Dun & Cos.', Weekly Review of Trade says: Commercial failures in 1894 already reported number 14,292 against 15,212 last year, with liabilities of $163,238, 404 against $346,779,889 last year. Next week the final report for 1894 will probably include about 400 more failures, with liabilities of about $4,000,000. From these accounts .banks, bankers, financial and trans porting companies are excluded. Holiday trade has scarcely met ex pectations. Purchases have been numerous, but smaller than usual in amount and more confined to needful articles, thus anticipating ordinary trade. The volume of business repre sented by clearing house exchanges is 7.7 per cent larger than last year, but 21.8 per cent less than the year before, and the daily average for November has been 7.1 per cent more than last year, but 25. 2 less than the year before. NEWS BREVITIES. - A saw mill boiler exploded at Bona yer, Barron county, Ky., killing five men. The president has approved the act to establish a military park at the battlefield of Shiloh. Phallas, the celebrated stallion owned by J. I. Case, died Thursday night Phallas had a record of 2:13. In New Orleans Peter Murdock, a motorman on the Carrollton street car line, shot his wife and then blew out his own brains with a revolver. " The Norwegian ship Austriana, at anchor in Pensacola bay, loaded with 1,000,000 feet of timber, was destroyed by fire. Vessel and cargo will prove a total loss. Insured. Anthracite coal agents of the East ern and Western territories have de-' cided to limit their production in Jau uary to forty-five per cent of their capacity, which is equal to a produc tion of 2,300,000 tons. No change was made in prices. In Hot Springs, Ark., Miss Hattie Clay, a 14-year-old girl, while sitting near a fire in a room reading, suddenly found her dress on fire and was quickly enveloped in flames and before they could be quenched she was burned to a crisp. United States District Attorney of California states that he would shortly recommend to Attorney Gen eral Olney to dismiss the charges against at least three-fourths of the A. R. U. men now under arrest in his district charged with conspiracy growing out of the recent strike. HEART DISEASE. Fluttering, No Appetite, Could - net Slttf-f Wind &n Stimulate." """'CFtT lolis'TnLiti I liaJ 1 I'eTTibltS pain at my heart, which fluttered al most incessantly. I had no appetite and could not sleep. I would be compelled to sit up in bed and belch gas from my stomach until I thought every minute would be my last. There was a feeling of oppression about my heart, and I was afraid to draw a full breath. I could not sweep a room without resting. My husband induced me to try Dr. Miles' Heart Cure and am happy to say it has cured me. I now have a splendid appetite and sleep well. Its effect was truly mar velous." MKS. HARRY E. STARR, Pottsvllle, Pa. Dr. Miles Heart Cure Is sold on a positive guarantee that the first bottle will benefit. All druggists sell It at $1, 6 bottles for t3, or it will be sent, prepaid, on receipt of price by the Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. Ctopion k J. Corbctt. AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW WITH THE GREAT PUGILIST- What He 8aya of His Coming Fight with Fliztinimons. (From the St. Louis, Mo., Chronicle) Jas. J. Corbett's history as a ring hero will reach the end of the chapter when his battle with Bob Fitzsimmons is won and lost, for as the world knows, Corbett is matched to fight Fitzimmoiis before the Florida Athletie Club, within a year, for 61,00(); the largest amount in stake and purse ever hung up on a passage-at-arms affair since pugilism was promul gated in England 170 years ago. The Sporting World, yes the entire English speaking world knows Corbett's brilliant record as a fighter without even a re sume of it here. Corbett, attired in a frock coat of the period, his eternal plug hat for he always wears a tile of silk and shod in patent leathers, sat in his apartments in the Southern Hotel at St. Louis, the other day, and delivered him self of a few opinions regarding his com ing fight with Bob Fitzimnfons. "I am fully aware that Fits will give me perhaps the most scientific battle of my career," said the champion to a Chronicle man. He is an awkward shifty fellow, and a harder man to hit than the average pugilist who doesn't depend on his awkwardness. He is a hard hitter and cool headed. I saw him fight Demp gey and posted myself on his style. He is my equal almost in height and reach, though after carefully comparing his method of boxing with mine, I can't see where he has any advautage over me, as I am younger, stronger and shiftier, hit oftener and mix my blows more. Fitz simmons is foxey he was cute enough to feign gtogginess in several of his battles, thus throwing his opponents off their guard. He can't fool me by working the groggy dodge. I will take no chances ith him. I think I can whip him within dfteen rounds. After my fight with Fitz sinimotisl will devote my entire attention to my theatrical enterprises and retire permanently from the prize ring. I have $60,000 invested in the spectacular drama; "The Cotton King," one of the biggest successes on the road, "The New South," 13oby Gaylor's new farce comedy, "After Dark," and my play, "Gentleman Jack." My partner in these attractions ' W. A. Brady, who is also my manager. Of course I shall continue to act; I am in love with the stage." Corbett is now the picture of health, veighing 214 pounds, Prince Albert, plug hat, patent leathers, diamond and all. "I am bigger, better and stronger than ever before," replied the champion when asked about his health. "The rheumatic complaint that held me captive off and on some time ago has left me completely and I know I am cured of it." I con tracted rheumatism before training with Peter Jackson," continued Corbett "How I got it or where I got it is a mys tery to me, but that I had it is a fact that I am not likely to forget very soon. I suffered a good deal with rheumatism after that fight. Some days my arms, wrists and fingers would be so stiff and swollen that I could not use them at all. My legs also pained me, but to a less de gree. Theu again all this would leave without any apparent reason, and I would not be troubled again for weeks. Of course, I doctored for my complaint continuously, but the attacks seemed to come every few weeks just the same. A short time after my fight with Jackson I went east and met and defeated Domi nick McCaffrey, though I was handi capped by rheumatism in my right leg in my encounter with McCaffrey. These periodical attacks of rheumatism affected me until a few weeks before I began training for my fight with Mitchell. One day I sat in the Coleman House, New York, reading a newspaper. My eye chanced to cross an advertisement of Dr. Wiliiams' Pink Hills for Pale People. I had never heard of them before, and as an experiment purchased a box. I con sumed two boxes and was pleased with the results, for the pains began to leave my arms and legs. After taking four boxes, according to directions, I fouud myself greatly improved. The improve ment is permanent I am sure, for I haven't been troubled with rheumatism since. Before using thepillstherheumatic attack returned every month or so, es pecially if I caught cold. When I trained for my fight with Mitchell in Florida 1 suffered from malaria and used the pills as a tonic, with splendid results. I found that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills were efficacious in building up the system after a malarial attack." The above I attest as entirely correct. Signed, Jas. J. Cokbett. Seeing at Night. Nocturnal creatures assume night activity for some other reason than that they cannot see by day or that they see better by night The bat sees admirably in the brightest sun light, as any one knows who has ever tested one by poking a stick at it It will open its mouth and make an angry grab at the stick, when it is not near by several inches. Professor Bolles says it is the same with the owl. They see perfectly in bright sunlight and better at night than most creatures. Revenge in India. A prisoner in India recently, on be ing released, revenged himself on the assistant commissioner who had sen tenced him by cutting off one half of his mustache while he was sleeping out cf, . doors on a hot night It was then found that there was no way of punishing him under the penal code, for, while cutting the hair of a native is punishable as dishonoring the per son, there is no such provision for Englishmen, and the bodily harm done was too slight to be considered an offense. iue Same Thing. An anthropologist who makes a specialty of the habits of women ex presses surprise that so many of them should allow their pictures to be published in patent medicine adver tisements, but a philosopher ought to know that it amounts to the same thing in the long run whether you get your picture printed for being great or for bcjng cured of catarrh or liver complaint NEURALGIA cured bv Dr. Miles Paw Pills. "One cent a dose. At all druggist Send Us Two New Names With $. and your own subscription will be ex tended One Year Free of Cost. PCPUtilST CONFERENCE CALLED Leaders He quested to Meet at St, Louis in December St. Louis, Nov. 30. The following call has been issued: St. Louis, Mo., Nov., 30, 1894. By re quest of the national committee of the People's party, and at the suggestion oj the chairman of the state committees, I hereby call a meeting of the national committee of the national People's party to meet in the ladies auxiliary of the Lin dell hotel in the city of St Louis, Mo., December 28 and 29, 1894. In addition to the members of the national committee the chairmen of the state committees, members of the "Reform Press Associa tion," People's party senators and repre sentatives in the Fifty-third congress and those selected to the Fifty-fourth con gress, and all others. who have taken a prominent part in the organization of the party, and also those who are willing to work and vote with the People's party in the future for monetary reform are in vited. The object of this meeting is to map out a policy for an educational cam paign between now and the meeting of the next national convention, and any other business which may come before the committee. The committee will discuss and act upon every phase of the present Industrial condition of the country. This will be the most important meeting held since the Omaha convention. Senator Stewart, Lafe Pence, General J. B. Weaver, General J. G. Field, Marion Butler, Harry Skinner, M. W. Howard, J. H. McDowell, Hon. Miles Standish, ex Governor Pennoyer of Oregon, Thomas V. Cator, P. M. Wardell, J. M. Devine, J. L. Johnson, Colonel A. C. Fiske, Dr. A. Coleman, John P. Stelle, M. C. Rankin, J. N. Davia, Thomas Fletcher, H. L. Loucks, W. S. Morgan and many other leaders who are not members of the committee have promised to be present. Hon. J. B. Follette, Equitable building, St. Louis, Mo., has charge of arranging all the details of this meeting. H. Ek Taubeneck, Chairman of National Committee of the People's Party. The Burling ion's New Short Line. The Burlington Route is a notable ex ception to the general run of western railroads. During a period when railroad build ing in this country has been almost at a standstill, it has been steadily pushing forward its northwest extension and now takes much pleasure in announcing its completion to Billings, Mont.,838 miles from Lincoln. At Billings connection is made with ths Northern Pacific Railroad and, nnder a traffic agreement with that company, business of all classes is exchanged there, or, more properly speaking, rooted through that point to and from every station on or reached via the Northern Pacific and Burlington Systems. This New Short Line-for that is ex actly what it is reduces the distance be tween Lincoln, Kansas City, St. Louis aud the territory south and southeast of those cities, on the one hand, and Mon tana, Northern Idaho and Puget Sound points, on the other, all the way from 50 to 473 miles. It thus becomes an im portant factor in bringing the vast scope of country served by the Northern Pucific into closer relationship with the Missouri and Mississippi Valleys. Just to illustrate things: The New Short Line saves 294 miles between Lincoln, Omaha aud Helena, 224 miles between Lincoln, Omaha and Butte, 371 miles between Lincoln, Omaha and Spokane, 54 miles between Lincoln, Omaha and Tacoma, 49 miles between Lincoln, Omaha and Seattle. The New Line has been constructed ia a most substantial manner. Excellently ballasted, laid with the heaviest steel upon more than the nsual numberof ties, it equals the best and oldest portions of the Burlington" System. People whose opinion is worth having, pronounce it superior to any new track ever built in the western ptates. The train-service will consist of Pull man Palace Sleeping Cars, Reclining Chair Cars (seats free), and Standard Burlington Route Day Coaches, Omaha and Lincoln to Billings daily. As a Scenic Route the New Lin takes high rank. The rich farms of eastern and central Nebraska; the more sparsely settled country that lies between Ravenna and the boundary line separating Nebraska and South Dakota; the canons, peaks and swelling meadow-lands of the Black Hills, the wonderful "Devil's Tower" the irrigated districts of northern Wyoming; Custer Battlefield; the picturesque wind ings of the Little Big Horn; the glorious valleys of the great Crow Indian Reser vationall these are seen from the car window. Full information relative to the train service, rates or other features of the New Short Line will be gladly furnished upon application to J. Francis, G. P. A., Burlington Route, Omaha, Neb., or G. W. Bonnell, C, P. & T. A., Lincoln, Neb. The most skillful combination of alter atives known to pharmacy is Ayer's Sar saparilla. It yon want to trade a little money and a good horse for a good piano, gee or write to J. H. Dobson. 1120 M St., Lincoln, Neb. 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