THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ; SUNDAY , JUJSTB 2. 1889-SIXTEEN PAGES. 13
Has been the advance we have made in the confidence of tile Omaha pullicand ) , now we stand UNDENIABLY at the head of
the clothing trade of this city. Upright Methods and Unapproachable Values are the keynotes to our phenomenal success.
WE ask $10 for Cheviot and Cassixnere Suits , worth $10.
WE ask $12 for Cheviot and Cassimere Suits , worth $1S.
WE ask $15 for Cheviot Cassimere and Worsted Suitsworth $15.
WE ask $18 for Cheviot Gassimere and Worsted Suitsworth , $18.
WE ask $20 for Cheviot Gassimere and Worsted Suitsworth $20.
The above consist of Sacks , Cutaways and Prince Alberts , all new , fresh and reliable. You have but to look into our 15th street window to be con
vinced of this fact.
WE HAVE KEPT THE BEST FOR THE LAST.
And now call your attention to the unapproachable values inlight summer clothing for men & youths.
On Monday , June 3 , we will place on sale the GREATEST BARGAIN we have ever offered.
AT THE REMARKABLE PRICE OF
This price is far below that which our would be competitors are obliged Up pay for them. See them and acknowledge the trtvthof this statement.
Iii looking over our mammoth stock , do not forget for an instant that ouil FURNISHINGS and HAT DEPABTMENTSare as ever replete with all the novel
ties of the season. |
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S. W. Corner 15tli alia Douglas Streets , Omaha ,
BLUFFS DWELLERS IN TENTS ,
Itinerant Laborers and Their Man
ner of Living.
THEIR PRECARIOUS EXISTENCE'
Cheerfulness Untlor Difficulties
Hardships of the Winter The
Team was Tired As Happy as
Anyone Hordes orChilclren.
The Nomads of a City.
Within the aureola of light that
flashes from the several electric light
towers in Council Bluffs , there are
Eonio strange scenes besides the varied
landscape of hill and dale and river
levels , clothed with the beautiful verdure
duro of summer and dotted with mag
nificent palncus and cozy cottages.
Within this expanse that covers nearly
thirty square miles , there is as great a
diversity of homes as can bo found on
any spot of the same dimensions on the
uurfaco of the globo.
Council BlutTs is pro-ominontly a city
of homes. Ninety per cent of the domi
ciles in which her 40,000 people live arc
the castles in fee simple of the men and
women who live in them. The pnlaco
of the millionaire and the cottage of
the laboring man are alike inviolable to
the sacrilege of the rent day ovictor.
The palncos and cottages whore thrift ,
happiness and contentment are en
throned are familiar to the world and
are open to the daily visits of Tine Bine ,
but there is another class of castles to
whoso Interiors the general public is a
stranger , and which are open to the
visits of almost anything that may come
along , including the vagrant broc/.es
mill all other kind of vagrants , down to
the homeless cur dog. They are castles
of which their owners are just as proud
mid in which they are just as contented
DS the millionaires are in theirs ,
although they are not worth as many
contsas ttie humblest workingmnn'acot-
tago is worth dollars.
They are the tents , wickeo-upa. tee
pees and dug-outs of a class of nomada
th at have no connection and no follow
Binu with the genius tramp , but are a
dt stinct , and in their own way. a thrifty
o lenient and product of the punt and
[ present civilization. There are several
hundred of them in the corporate
tf Units of the city at the present time ,
end the number * varies but little from
no Benson of the year to another. Can-
ass and dirt walls form the only barrier -
rior against the weather in the hottest
day in the summer or the bitterest cold
in winter. Their owners are like thu
hardy English spurrows have but one
homo and ono suit of clothes for every
day in the year , for storm ami sunshine ,
for hot days and bitter nights , and al
ways curry that with them.
A. Bic 12 reporter has spent u few hours
< va an intruder among this class ol
homos whore a tax-collector is an un
known quantity and where u newspaper
never goes unlens the winds carry it.
I'horo is a score ol "settlementa" ol
those nomads along the river and the
northwestern part of the city , aa well
_ . aa many isolated parties hidden in the
mont visited was ono not far from the
Broadvtay bridge. There wuro a dozan
tents constructed of various mutorlalt
ranging from unbleached muslin , grimy
canvas and boards to huge sections of
old tin roofs that had been carted from
the city and dumped as garbage. The
great desideratum of the 'architects
seems to have boon to repel the water ,
and the eonoral appearance of the in
teriors confirmed the opinion that
water was the most unwelcome visitor
to the occupants. A reporter accosted
a woman who was bonding over a smok
ing fire stirring the contents of a black
pot.
pot."HappyV Well , I don't know why wo
shouldn't ' bo as happy here as anybody
else in the world. We've got plenty to
eat and all wo want to wear and no need
to worry about anything. Besides its
comin' summer now , and there 'halnt
boon much rain or nuthin' else to
plague us and them's enough things to
bo happy over , bo'ant thoyV" And the
woman returned to the work of stirring
the pot which had begun to boil over
and put out the smoking fire.
On the sandy iloor of the tent there
wore a few boxes and bundles , and on
each box and bundle a little bogrimmed
elf was perched watching the stranger
with just enough curiosity to make its
eyes snap and twinkle.
"What do wo do for a livin' ? Well ,
ivo don't do much of anything ; mostly
nothin' . The old man an' mo an' the
youngun's fishes a little , ketches drift
wood and picks up things around town.
My boy that's livin with his woman in
that big tent there teams a little in the
summer time when there's grass for his
bosses , but ho can't do much with his
losses in winter for they don't git no
stron'th from dead grass and wilier
twigs. How much money do wo spend
for our Hvin' ? 'Deed I don't know ; pre
cious little , I reckon. There's bushel
of cawn that didn't ' cost much , and
when I get through bilin' it with ash-
water it will niako two bushels of good
hominy , and with the flub wo git and
what wo pick up , that will keep us all
fat for a month. Wo don't bother no
body and nobody don't bother us , an11
reckon we're us happy as it's best lot us
to bo.
"When cold weather comes wo find n
place whore the water won't como in ,
mostly on a hillside , lookin' to the south
and wo'dig out a square and put a tent
or something ever it , an'wo git along
all right , but some times it's pretty
hard to git enough to oat. But takin'
it all around wo'ro as happy as the most
of them.
The woman turned with a sound
that suggested a sigh and resumed the
work of stirring the contents of the
black pot , while the reporter dropped a
quarter in the hand of a chubby little
urchin anil continued his wall ; through
tlio odd village. In the "big" tent ,
where the woman's boy was living with
"his woman. " and bringing into the
world the third generation of those
unambitious nomads , there were a few
more of the comforts of a homo than
were found in the parental abodo.
There were alow loss children and n
larger number of bundles .and heaps of
nondescript stulT. A woman , appar
ently but little younger than her
mother-in-law , was sitting on a box in
front of the abode , doing nothing , and
apparently neither enjoying it nor regretting -
grotting the necessity that enforced
her idle and vacant life.
"No , wo haven't lived hero long.
Wo'vo been comln' up the river for the
past three years , and I reckon we'll go
on as fur as it goes. Yes , onct I would
liked to have lived another sort of life ,
but I reckon it's all right , and I'm jest
as well off 'f ' I had silks instead of cul-
ikor. Did 'xpoct to git or claim &omo
day , hut Polo's bosses don't appear ta
have strenth to git thoro. It s all fer
the host , though , for they couldn't plow
it if they was there. We'll live hero
till they git the willers out of thorn
and then wo'li uiovo on. Willora U
awful woakonin' to bosses , and it''pears
like the grass don't have no strength to
it neither. Wo got hero in Aprileand
I reckon if Pete's bosses frit more
strength he'll do a little teaming _ and
dirt haul in' . Ho can git the hnulin' if
ho wants it. Yss , and work , too , if he
wants it , but Pete ain't no great snakes
at work. Reckon bo's like the bosses
eats too many willers and hain't got the
strength to work. "
There is an aristocracy among the
squatters that is just as imperious in its
demand for deferential considoratfon as
, in the ranks of life many degrees re
moved above them. There are those
who have considerably loss than the
best of them , who have so nearly noth
ing , and there is the same sycophancy
and condescension between them that
you will notice between the parvonue
and his servant. Many of them do a
thrifty junk and scavenger business in
the city , and although they are squat
ters in the full moaning of the term ,
they have a nice bank account laid up
for a rainy day. Many of them are un
married men , who are engaged in
public works , grading and street build
ing , and live under canvas for the fun
of the thing as well as for the cheap
ness of the mode.
There is another class that number
perhaps two hundred , and have strong ,
commodious tents that look like the
acme of picturesque comfort. Every
thing is fresh and clean about themand
their domiciles comprise two or three
tents , including u canvas stable whore
well fed and well groomed horses are
housed. Those arc men who have lived
in comfortable cottages during the win
ter and when spring comes pitch their
tents on some vacant spot and remain
there until the weather gets too cold in
the autumn , and save by the deal six
months rent , and often when a stable is
included this amounts to from $10 to $18
per month. Many of them are engaged
on street work with two or throe teams ,
and others have sub-contracts that in
volve thousands of dollars. Their wives
and families accompany them and on joy
the summer camp-out wlnlo saving
$150 rent and getting new physical
vigor.
Those are the highest aristocrats
among the squatters , t > o far above these
previously described that there is not
oven a thought in common between
themunless it bo in the vain envy their
superior outfits excites among their less
ambitious brethren. But many of them
are true nomads , half of whoso adult
lives have boon spent in canvass bouses.
They Hit from city to city whore pub
lic improvement are going on , or
follow the line of some new railroad
from the start to the finish. They are
shrewd , thrifty and wideawake , send
their children to the nearest school , at
tend churches on Sundays and gener
ally deport themselves as good citizens
of thu locality they happen to bo in.
The women dress neatly and comfort
ably and keep their canvas homos
scrupulously clean and do their culinnr.v
work as systematically and ns gener
ously as if they wore in a homo thai
cost thousands.
Another class of nomads that are al
most always within the borders of the
city are the real children of the fields *
the gypsies. At the present time there
wro three or four camps of them hero
But they avoid the bottoms and are
found in some beautifully wooded del
as near the city as they can got. They
are a race of traders and bargainers
and carry on an notivo commerce wltl
the people wherever they may bo. The
men are born horse-traders and every
old woman is a fortune-teller. The
older , swarthier and more haggisli
aho IB the profounder astrologer bho
is accounted to bo , and more than $100
weekly goes Into her possession con
tributed by the jejune young men ant
omunUc inaidons who arc anxious to
nerco the veil Of futurity. Tiioy have
) oen wandering ever the world for the
) .ist sixteen hundred years , and have
orovor boon , and perhaps forever will
> 3 , without a country and without a
lome. Civili'/ation seems to be impo-
ont to break up their tribal and noma
dic character , and as long as supersti
tion exists , and young men and women
omain under eighteen years of ago
and continue to fall in love their avoea-
, ion will not bo gone. They could not
trade a horse or tell a fortune if they
remained a month in one place , and
necessity as well as disposition drives
them forever onward. Liito the sombre
night birds , whoso prototype they
are among the human kind , they Hit
only in the night time. A morning
jnds them in your vicinity , and after a ,
'ew days have passed a night comes ,
and if it is n wild and stormy one so
nuch the better , they vanish , leaving
nothing but some scattered embers and
some victims among the jejune people
ind horse-traders whoso professional
skill has not boon sufilciont to protect
; hem from the snares that have been
so deftly set.
HONEY FOR TI1I3 LADIES.
Soft silk is most used for tea gowns.
The princess gown , either snort or trained ,
is the robe of the dny in Paris.
Umbrellas of moro tlmn all the colors of
the rainbow uro among the throats of tUo
near futuro.
The handsomest of now spring costumes
are muilo of plain line wool sparing/ !
trimmed with tno richest poaaiblo garni
tures.
A magnificent now silk is called damask
nmtlasso , and Uns the flowers In high relief
us though heavily embroidered upon it.
Sashes , thouch exhibited in every fabrics ,
are now very generally of the softest stilts ,
and frequently of the same silk as the dress.
There ia a throat that full-draped skirts
are to reappear , when muslin and cambric
and'gauze shall bo the only midsummer wear.
Big turned down collarettes of white lace ,
with turned back cults to match , will grace
beauty's tnrout and wrists in the near sum
tnor.
tnor.Some now rich gowns for afternoon or re
ception wear have trained .skirts under
trained polonaises that open all down the
front. (6
New sun umbrellas are perceptibly smaller ,
but what Is lost In size is gained in stick , us
many of tho'nai ulos are so huge as to make
the carrying \lheoinfortable.
Ilack ! gj > .wn $ ara generally relieved vith
touches orcolor'beru and there. Embroidery
in soft , dull c.islnnero tints Is the bust thing
wnarowitti to ( brighten thorn.
The hanJHojh'o trained rcdlngotos , tnado to
wear with1 skins of diffornnt color-ana stuff ,
must bo lined'cither to match tbo skirt or
else with i'color in harmony with It.
Apple-groom.and primrose-yellow aroused
In combination for evening gowns. Another
favorite ujlx uro that Rounds impossible and
looks moixs than well Is deep cream with
clear , gllsenlfi } ( ; white.
'
Among jho ( 'newest new colors are "soap
blue , " a soft'Hull , , gray-bluo ; "oak heart , "
a pink , wltn'liints ' of rod and yellow , nnc
"dried roseldbf , " which reproduces faithfully -
fully tbo fulut yellow cream of the ( load
petals.
la passementeries of every device am
shade , veritable marvels have been creaUu
this season. Nothing can equal the grace
and beauty of the designs , the fineness o
the work , end ttio richness and elaborate
ness of the effects.
Ttio plafdod and striped French ginghams
at fifty cents n yard , exhibited at leading lia
porting IIOUKOS , show eomo of the most beau
tllul combinations of color that ever came
from the dyers' hands. The pink , tiollotropo
Iliac , palo blue and old-roso shades are par
tlculurly exquisite.
Surprising Is tbo number and variety o
black bonnets , toques and capotes which are
worn Just now. Elegant Jot bonnets , in
wholly DOW devices , laoe , tulle and straw
variously for ordinary wear , though fashion
ctlll greatly favors head-gear which matches
tbo gowu or wrap ia color ,
Paul Deroulido and the League of
Patriots.
JOURNALIST , SOLDIER AND POET.
Itcmnrknblo Career of Ono or tbo
Most Dangerous of BoulniiKcr's
Supporters A Standard Bearer
the Socialists.
Prrnoh Journalists an Politicians.
PAHIS , May 20. [ Special to TIIK
BKK. ] French lawyers and doctors are
rarely engaged in politics. On the
contrary the chamber of deputies is
mode up largely of journalists. Among
the republicans are Jules Perry , the ox-
editor of the Temps , Floquot , Spullor ,
the present minister of the intorioi-j
and Cumillo Pollctan , one of the found
ers of the Ropubliquo Francaiso , Cle-
monceau , who long ago threw his doc
tor's hat under thu mills of Montmartro
to nssumo the editorship of Justice.
Then there is Emmanuel Arono , the
deputy of Corse , who delights us with
his caustic crit'cisms in the Matin , or
with short idyls of great poetic beauty.
Ho is refined and elegant , the very typo
of a true Parisian. Quito the reverse
is Pichon of La Justice , a silent , self-
contained man , whoso articles are of
the first order. On the other side of
the chamber that is on the right are
the irrepressible Paul do Cassagnac , n
terrible polemist , a perfect swordsman ,
and withal a man of ability , Paul Dola-
fosse , ono of the founders of the Jour
nal du Paris , and now connected with
Lo Matin , who confines himself to
French politics in their varied relations
to foreign countries. Cuneo d'Ornano ,
who loft Paris to start a paper in Cha-
ronto and camcjbackas deputy. Among
the Boulangists , Laguorro stands out
prominently. Jlo botran journalism on
La Justice and is now the dictator of La
Probso. Then como Alfred Moquot ,
who preaches divorce , Laisant and Lu-
porto , directors or editors of La Coeardo
and La Prosso.
Next to Boulangor no man IB exciting
more attention to-day than Paul Derou-
llde. Ho was born in Paris on Septem
ber U , 1840. Ho studied at the college
of Vanvos , at Louis-lo-Grand. at the
lyceo Bonnparto and at Versailles. His
professor , ono Chappe , who was guilty
of a poem called Vorcingotorix , created
u similar taste in his yountr pupil. In
18(13 ( , having finished his studies , Der
oulido begun the publication of some of
his versos in the Itevua Nutlonale , un
der the pseudonym of Joan Rebel ; and
in 180'J wo find him assisting at the in
auguration of the Suecanal. . On Juno
0 of the sttino year the Comodio-Frun-
caiso produced a play of his ,
"Juan Strennes , " which wan written inverse
verso and was in live acts. It mot with
only medium success. In 1870 he en
listed in the Third Zouaves. Ono day
his mother loading her young BOH
Andio visited Paul in camp and said :
"Your brother will fight with you. I
have brought him hero. "
After the march upon Sedan , hid
regiment endeavored to force the Gor
man lines Andio fell. His brother
lifted him , carried him to a sufo place
under a tree and returned to the com
bat. Ho was made prisoner aud con
fined at Brosluu , believing all the while
his brother to bo dead. Escaping from
Br , slau he reached Bohemia and re
turned to Franco to recommence the
fitrht. After the _ attack upon the Cha
teau do Montveliurd ho was mentioned
with distinction. During this time his
brother , having recovered from his
wound , was fighting the Arabs in Al
geria. The day upon which the French
academy crowned the Chants
du Soldat , the two brothers
sat side by side , the oldest in
the uniform of a second lieutenant of
footwith the cross of the legion of honor
and the younger in the uniform of a
etudont of the polyteohnique , decorated
with the military medal. Peace once
signedDerouHdo marched with his reg
iment against the commune at Belle
ville. .Ho was shot in the arm. This
proved to bo exceedingly troublesome ,
and in the Chan tsdu Soldat ho dedicated
a poem to Dr. Dolbeau who treated him
with such signal success. Some time
after this at Angoumois ho composed
his book , Chants du Soldat , which ho
dedicated "To these wto taught mo to
love my country to rny father and
mother. " Upon the request of his
colonel , Landes , Dorouliuo remained
six years with the regiment. Ho was
made lieutenant , but a tumble from his
horse broke his leg and sent him back
to literature. During this convales
cence ho wrote "Nouvoaux Chants du
Soldat" and "I'llotman. " Then fol
lowed "Los Marches et Sonnerios. "
"Hetman , " a drama in five acts , the
scone of which is laid in Poland. The
latter mot with great success at the
Odcon in 1877. It was intended to
deepen a love for fatherland , and intro
duced the struggles of the Cossacks
who were oppressed by Vladimir IV.
"Lo Moabito , " u , drama In five acts in
vorbo , was played at the odcon und at
the Theater Francais , but for soma
reason it had only a few representa
tions. Do Girurdin thought the public
presentation of such a work dangerous ,
although Claiotlo had spoken strongly
in favor of it. Ho then commenced
work upon a Russia drama , Pierre lo
Grand when , in January , 1882 , ho saw in
1'Oniciol that both ho and his friend ,
Dotnlllo , had been placed upon a com
mission of military education by the
minister of instruction. He accepted
at once and was soon actively engaged.
After a stormy interview with Jules
Ferry , however , ho BOOH after resigned.
Some of his friends then proposed
founding a society for patriotic educa
tion upon the views of Doroulide , and a
month after the League of Patriots was
Htorted. that is on May 18,18S2. They
adopted as a motto : "Qul vivol
Franco ? " The wiser among the people
thought , und still think , that the fiery
impassioned appeals of the president ,
Doroulido , could only result in upset
ting the general welfare , but the
younger mon and these who revel in
strife and disorder enrolled themselves
under his direction. Ho started Le
I
j. Drupoau as the organ of the league ,
j Out of his own purse ho re-established
, the shooting contests at Vinconnes.
. To-day ho IB under indictment and will
in all probability bo brought before the
higher courts in April for trial. Ho is
also a Boulangiot candidate for
one of the ad joining districts which will
be voted upon in October. Deroullde's
acknowledged aHlity , Ills poetic enthu
siasm and Ills power of inciting the
Passions of young men and dissatisfied
'uriaiari loafers , make him a very dan
gerous element in French politics. Start
ing out with lofty m'lnciples.tlio League
of Patriots degenerated into a band of
agitators , anarchistssocialists and van
dals , The true Parisian lives upon ex
citement , and to this Doroulido pan
dered. Ho became so involved in the
vortex of French politics that ho
thought to BHVO himself by arousing
the people to internecine warfare , Ho
hart 200,000 people , so trained as to bo
ready for instant mobilization. Hia
point d'appui was modified Blanquistn
"No God , no government , no order. "
Fortunately for Franco , Constans came
into DO wet * when mos't needed. He has
had the courage to strike at the root ,
and if the cabinet will only sustain
him by legislating against the fiery ,
badly organized men and women vho
are now allowed to spend their vonora
as they will , wo may yet hope for a sea
son of trunquihty and prosperity.
PEPPERMINT DROPS.
Cool and bracing the bunco stoarer.
Now wheat never ruined as many men as , ;
ii
old ryo. 4jf
The night rolls on until stopped by tha . i
brake of day. |
The doctor is a man who speaks ill of . I
good many people.
A cent's worth of authority frequently
puffs a man up 25 cents' worth.
In ancient times everybody played tha
yorl ; now the liar plays everybody.
The crylncr need of tills country Is a back
gate that nobody can bung u 1oko on.
Strange but true : "Tho quiet marriage' *
makes the most noise when it gets out.
. Few aicn like to HOU a woinun smoke , yet
tlioy are always ready to liolp bor to alight.
The crab may think ho has a "soft snap"
on the fat of your foot , but you novcr thinlc
so.
Some men have blossomed out in now
spring suits , whila others still remain
needy.
Chicago wants "a machine for deodorizing
divorce suits. " Chloroforming the witnesses
might do.
The announcement that there Is an over
production of onions couios direct from trade
scoiitors.
Buffalo Bill is doing Paris , nnd Paris Is BO
happy with the newcomer that Honlanger U
scarcely missed.
What this country really needs ia losi
scrambling for office and moro strawberries
in the Bliortcako.
It was a drunken gymnast of whom the
policeman remarked he was celling a tumb
ler full of whisky.
A Chicago paper beads an account of a .
wedding : "Tho TIe That Binds. " Must bo
it mistake somowhcro.
Humanity much resembles the succulent
and seductive strawberry. The green ODOS
generally go to the bottom.
"Prof. Wiggins lives away off In Canada , "
says an exchange ; and Canada Is not the
only thing Wiggln * is away off in.
It la when u landlord creeps through ttio
barb wlro fence of a delinquent tenant that
ho is aln oat sura to got his back rent.
Speaking of the weather , n warm' spring
may bo anticipated when a man sits on a hot
flat-iron placed on a chair by his wife.
Mining speculators salt their mines to
catch the fresh chaps who arc always ready
to go In and win a fortune on nothing ,
"I'm an O-clcar-liomer , " growled the din
appointed boomer , as ho sadly plodded his
way ever the ties toward civilization.
Colonel Ktllott V. Ktiopard Is npokon of in
Washington for minister to IlUHsln. What a
vast field for foreign missionary world
Iho most appropriate costume that can bo
worn to u summer concert is an accordion
waist with tlutcd rufllcs. The effect Is always
noted ,
A professional thief Is also an arithmetical
paradox ho works out all his essays la
addition and multiplication by moans of sub
traction.
Kx-Bonator Hiddleborgor is said to bo
writing a novel , It will be called "Only a
Jng ; or the Komar.ce of u heavy t0ad , in til
chapters and a pocket llnslr. "
"Count Herbert , UUmarok Is to receive thai ; .
Japanese decoration of the Order of the Uis- ' . ;
Ing Sun , " says the 1'ittsburg Chronicle. It
strikes us that the stove polish business Is
being run Into the ground.
It Is announced that Nat C. Goodwin will
have a shiiro of the management of tbo Stan
dard thoutro next season , and will bare a
stock company to support him in bis dlfforoup
plays. '
