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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1904)
OrtoVr W lrXH. TIIE OMAnA ILLUSTRATED BEE. WEST SEES BY EASTERN EYES Obiemtion of a Tra?elr from the East Who Looked Orer the Oonatry. ' PEOPLE AND INSTITUTIONS ARE KlFE tonrfltlens ! Life la th Wnl k Vnat COBtraatd Natafcle Trlbata la tha Prodaetlv Force f tho West. The current Issue ot the New Tork In dependent contain two notable article written from opposite viewpoint, yet In which tha writer reach strlKlngly similar conclusions. 'Ttie West Through Eastern Kyes," bv Stephen M. Dale, an eastern Journalist, crewnts In perspective the busi ness and social characteristic of the went a they appeared to an open minded ob server who traveled about the country for the purpose Indicated in the paper. In a companion paper, "The East Through Western Eyes," Dr. E. E. Blosson of New York City, a former resident of Wyoming, contrast th characteristic of the eastern and western people, decidedly to tha ad vantage of the latter. Leaving tha east to the tender care of the former Wyoming doctor, the west will find much that la agreeable, much to soothe Its prMe, much gratification In a pen pic ture drawn by an appreciative and truthful artist. Mr. Dale's Itinerary covered the coun try along the traveled route from the lake to the Pacific coast, going out over the northern route and returning on the central route to the Missouri river. By the west the writer wished to be understood a meaning "the big west" that stretching from Chicago to the Pacific ocean. Con cerning tha physical and merhanical fea tures of the country, the people and thrlr characteristics and Institutions compared with those of tha east, tha writer draw these contrasts: Merhaalcal Features and Iantltatlona. In such an attempt there come first In any such a aerie of contrast those of mere mechanical equipment; and of these, first of all, because simplest of all and most noticeable of all, are the railroads of the west. Both in their appearance and their operation the western are In marked contrast to the eastern railroads. As every one knows, yet perhaps not everyone, they are all single-truck roads. How nearly uni versal Is this characteristic I shown by the fact that one road advertises a its claim to patronage "The only double-track road between Chicago and the Missouri river." Beyond the Missouri there is none. Again, their construction was a more sim ple tusk than was that of railroads In the east. For hundreds of miles the coun try will be found so leve.1 that not a cut or fill or grade Is needed; consequently the task of building such a road consisted merely In surveying the route, running u ditch on either side to drain tho roadbed and ballasting up a row of ties to hold a pair of rails. The building of many of them was done In many cases too soon, perhaps; there were probably too many competing parallel lines built In that sin gularly unique period of general railway construction a quarter of a century ago, but they have "arrived" at last. It Is a far try from Jay Goulds "two streak of rust through an uninhabited plain" to the condition of that same one of these great trunk line today. And tha whole idea of railroading, the very ralaon d'etre of railroad In the west, is wholly different from that In the east. The two method of operation are differ ent, the ends to b gained are different. Th aim of these transcontinental lines is almost exactly the aim of the trans oceanic steamship lines. Their object is to connect point far removed from one an other and separated from each other by land which 1 Itself in large part worth ies and in large part consequently unin habited. Out of this fact there grows an other, as a corollary would out of a propo sition In geometry, vis., that of railroad In tha west, both the officials and employe are conspicuously mora' courteous than In the east. This might be ascribed to the custom of the country; it might be be cause that competition there 1 greater, more lines connecting the same points and hence more chance for travelers to choose; but It I more probably, because of the pe culiarity cited above, the "long hauls." Many of the road have only two through .passenger train a day, but these two train are longer, the car are larger, th scats are mora comfortable than on eastern roads, and in every way local trafflo I subordinated to through trafflo. Tho same train conductor 1 with a party all Day and the ama Pullman conductor for three' or four days, ao that their relation to the passenger become almost that of th captain of an ocean ateamer to thosa In his charge. Contrast In Clttea. Secondly, there is a striking contrast between th cltlea of the east and west in their publlo buildings, their publlo works, their heating, lighting and water supply system, and, chiefeat of all. In their street car. Rates for us of all these thing are lower and aocommodatlons better, the climax of all atreet railway systems, for example, being reached In that system the Twin City Rapid Transit which con nects Bt. Paul and Minneapolis and which is conceded on all hand to be the stand ard system of tha world. Th hotels, stores, theaters and publlo buildings, too, are finer by far than tho of cltle of correspond ing sis in th aat, th uaa of electricity for both light and power having become general thara earlier than her. All of whloh ia du no doubt to several very slmpl oaueee. On 1 that such sys tem In each city have all been organised at on tlm by on corporation under ona management This was because the period of tha construction of thee things tell within the range of that modern era domi nated by th spirit of combination. What othera have had to bring about elsewhere by mean of deals and consolidations these were able to do at th atart; nor did they have to wait until on system still partly efficient was wholly worn out or until the period of Its franchise had wholly elapsed. There was no economic waste to be con sidered; they could build on clear ground and build well early. Doing all this, too, so long after their eastern neighbors hud done similar things, they eould profit by those neighbors' mistakes; they did not have to experiment; they simply adopted that which had proven itself to be ot valua elsewhere, Pnblle Behoof "-stent. Next alter this pair of so-called me chanical features there may be considered a pair of institutions. He was right who said that "The American people are the most widely newspaper-read and the most thoroughly public-schooled of any people In th world." Ha would further have been right if he hud gone farther and suld that this la mora true in the west than It is iq th east. Indeed, one of the thing that most of all surprises one Is the ef ficiency of Its working In the public achool system In tha west and the dignified place t'.iat Institution holds In tha opinion ot th people. It has always been and still is In cities of tha second, third and fourth class that tha public school system of the Country I en at it best. Th teaching force, on the one hand, is better, aud the patronage of the best people, on the other hand, la more hearty. The teacher are better. In part because thy are better paid and In part because that there th "teacher" lias a higher social status, an the profession therefore attracts more com petent and more ambitious men n women. The schools themselves are bet ter, both ward and high schools, because that in these cities they are practically the only schools. The best people of the city, therefore, stand back of them: then- Interest la keen In the work that these do for their children, and that because pri vate schools have not aa yet divided with tha publlo school these people Interest, The Press. The second of this cair of "institutions' Is the press. This Is a delicate point, for th east ia especially rroud of its dally press. The unabridged, unvarnished truth, however, ts that the dally paper of th big cltle of the west and far west are ahead of those in the east and far eas and In that their Interests are more gen and In that time they have a better sense of perspective. Contrast the front pages of th New York City dallies, for ex ample, with those of Chicago, Denver, Bt Louis, Salt Lake City or San Francisco, and what I have In mind becomes apparent Here Interests are much more local; pride la more provincial. Three column of front pag will be given up to a yacht race, merely because It occurs in New York harbor; while the great thing of the country. It crop, Its Irrigation problems even Its legislation, are aubordinated and localised. New from those quarters merely because from there Is likely to be reduced In space by city editors here to single sticks and relegated In position to mere footnotes, unless It be some so-called "shocking" thing a murder, a strike, or a lynching which In reality Is usually an unimportant one. In the larger newspapers of the greater west the opposite policy Is more nearly pursued. There news ia more likely to be considered of Importance and to be given prominence commensurate, not with Its bearing upon local or provincial .life, but according as It Is considered "news" from the larger point of view of general or national interest. Reliction and Patriotism. And there are still two other things This pair may be called institutions, but only In the highest sense; they might be more accurately called, perhaps, traits of na tional life. I am thinking of the church and the state, of the religion and the pa' trlotlsm of the west and the eaBt. There Is an old saying that "There Is no God west of the Missouri river." The fact Is, however, what I was surprised at most was not the absence of churches, but their presence; not their scarcity, but their abundance. In little towns which stand all dotted through the west, looking like troops of Falstaff's soldiers with their dozen private members toeing each one with exact precision the straight line of a single street, and facing the railway as though drawn up to present arms on a dress parade, one will see Invariably one store, ono postofflce, one school house, a "Palace hotel" and always a church. The practice seems to prevail of having such an edifice, no matter how small the community or how Isolated from other communities. In size they range from tiny chapels all the way up to those magnificent ecclesiastical struc tures of many of the great cities, buildings which, as mere edifices alone, would do credit to Fifth avenue. Churches Ready. How many people are In themT I do not know. I do know, however, that in Just the same way that railroads and other In stitutions are, they, too, are on the ground in time, ready, waiting to receive and serve the coming growth of population. Even though they may be subsidised by eastern capital In the form of "home mis sion" appropriations, they differ hot at all in this respect from other things. There are railroads, for example, on which there is only a weekly, bl-weekly or trl-weekly service, Just as there are, I suppose, churches In which there is but one service a month and one pastor to three congrega tions. On one of those very roads, In sight of some of those very churches, I rode one day for four hours, one of only three pas sengers in a whole Pullman coach. That coach did not pay for its carrying over that section, and yet it was carried, and it will be carried until the traffic on that road will All It. And it will have paid to do It. So of the churches. , Secondly, their patriotism. .The patriot Ism of the west may not be greater in amount than that of tha east; it may not be even of a better type if put to the test of dying for one' country; but th prin ciple which prompt It exhibition are more nearly basal principle. Tha difference Is simply this: In the west the great ques tions of national polloy, national defense and national honor are considered on their own merits solely, not always apart from passion, to be sure, but always apart from secondary conditions. The consideration of them is less mercenary, less selfish, thin It I likely to be in the east; it takes into ac count fewer commercial, financial or busi ness considerations; It does not see the na tional capital through the vista of Wall street. This may be for two reasons. It may be due first to tha fact that the westerner I more likely than the easterner to be him self a landowner, to live on his own estate, to own the ground under hi feet and to gain hi subsistence from the soil at first hand. This being the case, cataclysms and catastrophe of state are likely to effect his Income only slightly; whereas, In the east, fewer men are property holder and more men derive their Income from, a well as have their money Invested In, business enterprise which would be the first to suf fer. Secondly, men In the west, living fur ther Inland, far away from tha seaboard, feel in less danger, Indeed In no danger at all, of attack; they know that their busi ness and their positions could never suffer from Invasion, and consequently hove that sense ot security which goes along with Isolation and which In Its turn breeds Inde pendence. Contrasts la Men and Manners. First of all, tha thing that strikes one about the people of the west i their big ness. This ha already struck him regard ing th land Itself. H decide that the very practice ot living in light of such stupendous things ts enough to mnke men broad and generous in their thoughts and sympathies as well as big in stature. It Is an old theory that the conditions of life, of climate and of nourishment In th west conduce to largeness of physical stature among those who live there; but one also come to realise that the outlook on such broad expanses of prairie, plain and moun tain slope have of themselves bred great ldeaa and begotten great enthusiasms; that they have of themselves conduced to strength in terms ot mentat vigor and to generosity and charity in terms of broad outlook. The very terms in which men In the west appear to think of things and the very language In which they express them selves are larger than in the east. For ex ample, If one there apeaka of direction It will always be In terms of north, south, east or west; things seemingly have no re lation to each other subordinated, but are all determined In direction by relation rather to the atara. If the portere and the brakemen on tha trains are asked how fur away a thing la or how long wa will be reaching It. they reply, "Oh, Just a little way." or "Just a little while." which In the east would mean ten mile or ten minute, there a like as not will mean 100 miles or two hours' time. The very names the peo. pie give things, too, are Interesting: the wsy they give a email name to a hue ob ject: a mountain la alwaya a "hill," a cyclone Is only a "blow." a eanal Is a "ditch," cattle roam in "bunchea," sheep la "bands" and farms ara measured, not In acres, but In "sections." Indnetry of the People. As a second general thing It Is Interesting to compare the Industry of the average man east and went. One of the first things that struck me there was the abounding in dustry of the people. Every man seems willing to work, and. so far aa I could ob serve, ev-ry man has the chance. They have little patience with the man who Idles, so little, Indeed, that they revert to that very primitive, very simple method of the bee of the hive the drone may simply starve for all they car. At a consequence he must either never have arrived or else he must have starved literally; for I cer tainly did not see him. In all the two months that I moved about the railroads, ranches and mining camps and walked the streets of those cities I was not one ac costed by a single man on the atreet who told the story so famlllsr on the streets of eastern cities told by those who try to bor row 10 cent for a sandwich or a" night's lodging. This fact Is most significant. A man moving about the streets of New York for the same length of time would have been approached In this way by fully 1,000 people. To be sure, there In also a striking ab sence of very well dressed or very wealthy looking people. This simply means that, In their process of social stratification, they have not yet reached either extreme. There Is no very wealthy class? there is no very poor class. The great body of the popula tion belongs to that greater, even though It should be less pretentious, middle class be tween these two extreme. But that middle class there, it I plain. Is a better class than the same class east. Perhaps only better appearing, and that, perhaps, only because better dressed, and this, once sgaln. perhaps, because the prevailing rates of wages are upon the average higher. Jnst Wlmt They Seem, Ther i a third general trait, the nature of which It is difficult to make clear and the Importance of which It Is still more dif ficult to make impressive, yet It Is import ant. As nearly as I can phrase t, It Is tho genuineness, of the people. One ha all his life heard of the "frankly natural, unre pressed people of the west." This simply means that they are what they seem and have not learned how to seem what they are not. There is noticeable an absence of pretense, a willingness to be thought poor If they are poor and an equal willingness to be known as rich when rich. Nor Is a man there reckoned great certainly not as here because of what he has, any more than because of what he is or what he knows. I Ilu fellows argue, and that logically, that his fortune may disappear, as mnybe It ap peared, over night. They likewlso reason that what he was before he came west does not count; this would be a case of the cackling of the geese that saved Rome. The only thing they take account of nnd the only process which Is ever applied In the reckoning of a man's Importance Is, not what he was and not what he has, but what he can do. The supposition Is that he may suddenly "go broke," but that if so, If he can do something, of this he need have not much dread, and for having had this experience only slight regret. If his worth Is In himself, the opportunities He all about him to begin over again and, Inasmuch as his chief asset Is his labor, he has equal banco again with every other man. Straightforward Honesty. And not only did I notice this, which seemed to be straightforward honesty In the giving of Impressions, but, as well great honesty in dealings. There is a marked ab- hence, certainly among the wage-earning class, among clerks and employes of that temper and spirit of "smartness" and flip pancy so noticeable In the east. The pre vailing feeling on the part of these folk seems to be that they are getting rich fast enough honestly, and that to trifle, cheat or He would simply be a waste ot time. They seem to have learned that one cannot get rich honestly and dishonestly at the samo time, and they seem to have chosen out of sheer policy to take the former course. There Is one other trait which It Is equally hard to define, but which Is equally noticeable in the west: It Is what, if ona might coin a word, might be called the np proachableness of the average man in the average position of responsibility or serv ice. I think it goes without saying that In the east the underlying temper In determin ing any attitude toward any stranger Is the temper of suspicion; men take It for granted that the other man Is trying to do" them, that he must be checkmated and that the person .Interviewed must be on his guard against the Interviewer. In the west the very opposite of this seems to be the temper. Every man who approaches a stranger Is taken to be honest until ho proves himself to be otherwise. This proof may come, of course, but the othor thing Is given a chance to come first. There M a trlklng willingness to take up any matter on Us own ground, to pass Judgment -n a thing for Its own sake, and for a man to consider It on Its own merits according to his own Judgment, to pass quickly m It and decide regarding It upon this ground. Dally Life More Happy. As a result in part, perhaps, of all these traits one other fact evolves Itself that ts, the people of the west are in their daily li'e more happy than those of the cast. This is due In part most likely to tholr reater self-reliance; they are moro Inde pendentIndependent In action, In thought, In social custom, even In dress. Anywhere west of the Missouri river It Is strikingly noticeable that there Is absolutely no at tempt to ape eastern customs or manners even fashions or styles. The people nre sufficient unto themselves. They know little about New York and care less; Its f.tds and foibles, Its prevailing modes and manners, are no factor In their lives at all. The very stores of such towns are better supplied than the stores of towns of corresponding size far east; for. Just because the people are so far off that they must be a law unto themselves, so those who dress and furnish them must be ao well equipped In stock that they can supply necessities nnd even , luxuries at first hand. Another reason for this which I conceive to be th greater happiness of the people est than east may be the small number of social grade or of degrees of social status. No one ha yet learned either to took up to look down upon one another; oonee- uently all are happier. Th man In some lcrlcal position who in th east would he nobody, who would be looked down on by those above Mm and In turn look down on those below him, her ha eoclal rtnk nor nearly equal to tho both below him and bove him. Insofar a that- hi suoh a thing aa aa "inner circle" In weatern so ciety any man who la a man hae entree to it. In one of those western cities, for ex ample, the man who stood all day behind the desk aa clerk at the hotel where I was staying I discovered later passing the plate In the stale, a vestryman, of ths'Rplaoonal church where the same evening I attended service. All ot which 1 due simply to th absence ot extreme In th aoola! order, I remember some on complaining that the thing h had moat noticed in th west em cltlea was that he "never aaw a ntngle gentleman on the atreet"; th thing that I most noticed wa that every man I aaw on the street was a gentleman. Tha difference. I suppose, mutt all be In the way one look The Chicago Oreat Wtrn railway will sell ticket to Chicago at only 120.00 for th round trip. Tlckt on sale to November :th. Oood returning to December lath. For further Information apply to S. D. Park hurst, general agent, IfiU Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. rdiard & WISheliM arpet (So Special Nov. Furniture Sale Furniture Savings of Vital Importance To make room for Holiday goods which we will have on display December 1st, we must clear 7,500 feet of floor space. In ordtr to do this we have inaugurated a General Special November Sale and have sacrificed the price in order to move the goods and obtain room. Furniture for the parlor, Hbrary, d'.ninj room, bid noit art J fancy fjnilun pieces at reduced prices an excellent purchasing opportunity. As a criterion we quote the following articles selected promiscuously throughout the department. We mole it an object to buy furniture this month Parlor Furniture $no two-piece Solid Mahogany 8ult ta fin Special November Bxle u vv fcfti.OO five-piece Mahogany Suit Special 1 7 Cn November Sale Price 1 0 JU 170(10 three-piece Mahogany Suit Special AQ nil November Sale Price v w tflj.oo three-piece Mahogany Colonial Suit cc f)fj -Special November Hale Price v" 122.50 Mahogany Divan November Sule 1 C 75 Price 0 $30.00 Mahogany Divan November Sulo 05 QQ Price $16.00 Mahogany Side Chair-November in ()f) Bale Price xv vw $1X 00 Mahogany Side Chair November o fin Sale Price i" uw $11. no Gold Chair November Bale 7 fc Price ' u" $26.00 Gold Divan November Sale 1 A 75 Price ' U N Gold Chair November Sale Q Oft Price " $20. Gold Divan November Sale- 13 75 Price ' T $12.00 Gold Corner Chair November Bale y fjQ Price Couches November Jtj QQ 10 50 $19 00 Velour Couch Special November 10 7K Sale Price 1" ' 0 $21 00 Velour Couch Special November 1 n rn Rale nrloe I O 0J $18.09 Velour Couch Special Bale Price $16.00 Velour Couch Speclul November Sale Price $12.60 Velour Couch Special November Sale Price .. $15. W Pantasot Couch Special Novembor Bale Price .. $16.60 Psntasote Couch Special November Sale Price $28.00 Imitation Spanish Leather Couch Special November Sale Price $S8.00 Genuine Leather Couch Special November Sale 1'rlce $42.60 Genuine Leather Couch Special November Sale Price $47."0 Genuine Leather Couch Special November Sale Price 8 11 12 21 34 37 50 75 75 00 50 00 Dining Room Furniture $1PU Golden Oak Polished, Pillar Exten sion Tat'le Special Nov. 81 Price $18 60 Golden Oak Extension Table Spe cial November Sale Price $M 60 Antwerp Table Special November Sale Price $00 Golden Oak Table Special Novem ber Sale Price $:!00 Antwerp Table Special November Sale Price '. $37 00 set of six Weathered Dining Chairs Special November Sale Price $Xno eet of six Mahogany Dining Chairs Speclal November Sale Trice $r,4.00 set of Oak Dining Chairs-Special November Sale Price $8.50 Oak Dining Chairs leather seat cla feet Special. November Sale Price 12 25 24 r 25 00 75 23 50 41 50 30 00 84 50 4 75 $160.00 Golden Oak Sideboard Special 1 OO f)0 sate iTlce " November Sal Prlc $100 Golden Oak Sideboard Special November Sale Price All i 39 00 Bed Room Furniture .87 (38 44 $llo.O0 Bird's-eye Maple Chiffonier Spe cial November Sale Price $90.00 Bird's-eye Maple Dressing Tables Special November Sale Price tiS.uo Ulrd's-eye Maple Dresser Speclnl November Sale Price $:)Vo.i0 three-piece Hitd's-eye Maple Suit, jresser, 1 tnnonier nnd I iresKlng Table ciOi Special November Sole Price - d 1:5.00 Mahogany Colonial Dressing Table 1 7 Special November Sale Price 14 $37.00 Mahogany Colonial Chevcl Glass or. Special November Salo Price $46.00 Golden Onk Dressing Table Spe- 07 clal November Sale Price "I $05 00 Solid Mahogany Dressing Table r. r. Speclul November Sale Price 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 50 00 kk W " f LXff November 8a $100 00 Golden Oak Sideboard-Special 7K nrt 130 00 $S0.00 Mahogany Huflet-Speclal Novem- K flfl ber Sale Price WJ w $140.00 Mahogany Huffet Sped il Novem-infl fifl ber Bale Price AUU uvi $32.00 Oak Buffet-Speclnl November Sale 07 K( price 1 $28.00 Oak Buffet Special November Sale 99 715 price $:S00 Oak Buffet-Special November Bale 00 nrt price vw $33.50 Oak BufTet Special November Sal 9Q fJK price ' ' u Tables November Bale $8 60 Oak Table Special Price Dressers i't e-i 11m - 13.75 Dresser, like cut, comes In genuine mahogany, bird's eye maple or golden, quiirter-suwed oak, full serpen tine swell front, swell ends, curved feat, shaped top Zl'xlu Inches, drawers llnlsaed insinn, reni n nevei nur ror 24x4 inches, regular selling price $2.U0, choice of the three woods Special Novem ber Sa'e Price, each Dresser, same as nlfive, except that it has sweep top drawers only, the two iai'Ke lower drawers are straight front. In genolno muhonany, bird's-eye ma ple or golden onK, regular selling price ilS.OO Special November Sale Price 7 25 $M.O0 Oak Table Special November Bale JQ 5 $18.00 Oak Table-Special November Sale 1 o Kf) Price $20.01 Oak Table Special November Sale 17 RQ Price $33.00 Solid Mahogany Table Special No- Oft nf) vember Sale Trice $11 00, Mahoganv Finish Table Special c 7f? November Sale Price " $14 00 Mahogany Finish Table Special n 75 November Sale Price $21.00 Solid Mahogany Table-Special No- 15 f5 vember Sale Price $23.00 Solid Mahogany Table Special No- 1 fi RQ vember Sale Price .'... $1.)0 Solid Mahogany Table 8pvclal No- in 5Q vember Sulo Price $24.00 Solid Mahogany Table Special No- J) QQ VVII1ULT pniu into Kitchen Cabinet Jrtf.O Kitchen Tnhlo Cabinet, top 86x40 fated with cutting board, 3 Hour bins, etc. 8i (Sarpets $1.25 and $1.35 Hxminster Carpets, 80c Yd. Beautiful Axminster Carpets. Being large jobbers in ear pets, we are among the flrst to Lave an opportunity to choose from Alex. Smith & Sons Carpet Co.'s overstock, end-of-the-season sale. As a consequence we secured a most superb selection of desirable fall pattern;. This is not a sale of a few odd lengths and remnants. We show more patterns of the desirable kind for you to choose from all of which are full roll goods, Hegular selling price $1.25 and $1.35; special price, per yard, with or Without borders 12.50 Lace Curtains Monday will be the 4th day of our great lace curtain sale and close the sale. If you are a prospective purchaser of lace curtains you cannot well afford to miss this oppor tunity to buy new and first-class curtains at the saving wa are offering them. Arabian Curtains 6.75 0C Brussels Curtains Brussels, $5.00 75 value, per pair... u Brussels, $7.60 A 71 value, per palr...' 1 " Brussels, $10.00 7 Kn vcilna rr nnlr Brussels, $15.00 value, per pair Brussels, value, cr 9.75 Monday positively the last day of the sale. these curtain bargains. Arabian, $10.00 value, per pair.. Arabian, $15.00 f o e vlna. ner nlr. . . Vm 6 Arabian, $22.50 1 ft fin Cluny, $6.75 value, per pair.1"" value, per pair.. i,.hidn trr s,1 in en Clunv. 110.00 " ' ' ' ' I J Illl . " - , value, rer Mt'""v value, per pair.. pair."- 17 sn value, per pair.""' You'll want your share of M 17 fn Arabian. $36.00 oo Kf) Cluny, 16.W naJr " value. rr nair. vaiue, it Cluny Curtains 2.75 .3.75 4.95 6.75 Clunv. 13.50 value, per pair. Cluny. $5.00 value, per pair. 17.50 Artt!"n Brussels. $35.00 OO KCl Arablun, $50.00 on Kll Cluny, $25.00 value, per pair4""" value, per pair."""" "J HjJsrfJb uwaiuakOtaUa 1Z MsBSBSsftHltJ HiN'. VfW Hll Vv-JV I. IYV3 IP 1 V v JayT' gfJtaUL-I Ik ill , r H i 1 1 " SS) ., , -W NTACl 1 MHV T H. l laW WABA LANDS YOU AT NO OTHER WORLD'S FAIR. LINE CAN. lissVi ilWTTHW TffTMIhlTff'ilsaMI 0 a i i Round Trip. Rates: $8.50 ONLY EXCEPT FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, $13.80 Sold Dally READ DOWN FAST TRAINS DAILY READ jUP 7:45 A. M. 6:30 P. M. Lv. Omaha Arr. 8:20 A. M. 9:00 P. M. 8:00 A. M. 6:45 P. M. Lv. Council Bluffs Arr. 7:05 A. M. 8:45 P. M. 7:35 P. M. 7:00 A. M. Arr. World's Fair Station Lv. 7:45 P. M. 0:15 A; M. 7:50 P. M. 7U5 A. M. Arr. St. Louis Lv. 7:30 P. M. 9:00 A. M. Compare This Tlmo With Other Lines. We have others. Call at Wabash City Office, 1601 Farnam, or address HARRY E. M00RES, G. A. P. D., Omaha, Neb. 1Z 4: