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K5 Portieres,
Entire Stock of a Great Eastern Department Store
Couch Covers, Lace Curtains
and
Tapestries
This will be beyond all question the greatest sale of Curtains, Couch tovers and Tapestry
Goods ever held in the West. This sale is the result of another of our wonderful spot cash
purchases, which has made Brandeis' reputation for cash buying almost world wide.
A large eastern department store decided to discontinue the drapery business on account of lack of space. Our New York buyer made a low cash offer
and, on condition that the firm's name should not be used, lie secured
THE ENTIRE STOCK AT A TREMENDOUS SACRIFICE
Nearly our whole basement devoted to this big sale. Plenty of room no unpleasant crowding no delays in being waited on. Sixty-five clerks.
$20 Portieres at $1.98 and $2.50 Each.
All the finest portieres are in this group, such as silk tapestry, damask,
brocades, mercerized curtains, border portieres, Qn $
nil now irrnr1 -!inrl ti-rrli iit ti 3i'1C (M n i-nir I "
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All the $1.25
yard
Tapestry
Ooea at yard
25c
BRANDEIS
All tha
Tapestry
worth up to
$1.50 yard, goes
at yard
39c
$10 Couch Covers S2.98-S3.98
All the couch covers from the big purchase that
were made to sell up to $7.50 and $10.00 ori
ental, Kashgar and Kelim patterns from GO
to 72-inches wide
two wonderful bar
gain lots at. . . .
S2.eo-So.sc
S5 Lacs Curtains, at pair, S2.50
All the fine lace curtains from the depart
ment store stock that sold as high as $3 a
pair cable net, Brussels, cluny, SQ50
Nottingham, etc., very fine qual
ity, at, pair
$2.50 Lace Curtains for 59c Each
All the laceurtains that sold up to CQn
$2.50 a pair go in one lot for, -each. . . .Ouu
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$5 Portieres and Couch Covers at $1.59 Each.
In this lot is an immense assortment of all kinds of portieres and couch
covers, in new designs many couch covers in rich sd RCI
oriental patterns these are worth un to $3.00 a pair M
sit on el i U
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S5 Portieres at 69c and 98c
All the high grade portieres from the eastern
department store, also all the fine chenille cur-
. tains and drummers' samples of couch covers;
were made to sell up to ff f
Sit::: 69c-98c
All the Tapestry worth up
to $5 a yard CI Dp
goes at, yard wOl
All the Furniture Fringe
and Border, worth up to
50c a yard, at,
per yard UC
All the Silk Cord
Guimpe, worth up
to 10c yd., at, yd. . . .
and
1c
All the squares of Tapes
try, worth up to 1 fin
23c, go at, each. ... I Uw
Full Size Washable
tieres, worth up to
$2 )r., go at, each. . .
Por-
25c
All the Drum
mer's 8(lUV.)leB tit
MADRAS
worth up to $1 a
yard, at, each
Oc
All the $4.00
Couch
Covers
at, 'jach
SI.98
BRANDEIS
LOOKING BACK FORTY, YEARS
A Visitor's Impressions of Omaha and
Nebraska in 1868
HOPES OF THE EARLY HUSTLERS
Primitive I. He Glided with I.oftr
l-ro.prrt llallrond Balldlagt
Am Instructive Spotlight OK
the I.vbc Ave.
Miss Clara B. Hunt of Oneida. N. Y.,
enda to The Bee a part of the New York
Tribune of September 22, 18, containing: a
letter from a correspondent detailing- a
visit to Omaha and the railroad Journey
throuah Nebraska and Wyoming forty
yeara ago thla fall. The letter of tha cor
respondent la Interesting to those who lived
In ,th times described, and to the late
corners It recounts the spirit animating the
pioneers tn making Omaha and Nebraska
what they are.
Tha letter Is dated "Omaha. Neb., Au
gust, lfw," and reads as follows:
"Just returning from a trip from New
York to what was at the time the end of
the track of the Union Paclflo railroad. I
note, some of the Impressions which are
made upon the traveler who thus Journeys
two-thirds of the way across the continent.
"One fact 1s so persistently urged upon
the traveler by rail that ha could not for
got nor Ignore It if he would; that Is, that
the west Is far ahead of the east In mak
ing railroad travel not only comfortable,
but luxurious. The stage of our Journey
from Chicago to Omaha was made In cars
supplied with every comfort of a hotel,
except the dining room. The car was a
spacious parlor, with sofas, easy chairs,
ample dressing rooms, plate-glass windows
and a parlor organ of excellent tone and
power. At night this parlor was trans
formed Into a series of bedrooms as su
perior to the so-called "sleeping cars" of
snme of our eastern roads as they are to
a tenement house "shake-down." These
cars run tfom Chicago to Omaha, a dis
tance of &u miles. Ktoih Omaha westward
we had all these appliances of a hotel, with
the addition of a during room, where well
cooked meals, embracing a widely varied
bill of fare, were served up hot from the
kitchen car in advance, while the train was
punning thirty miles per hour. I am aware
that the Idea of dining cars is neither en
tirely new nor peculiar to this road, but no
eastern road has yet carried it out so at
tractively and successfully as has been
done here.
Pleasant Impressions.
"Tha traveler's first impressions of Ne
braska, and of its principal city, are pleas
ant. After his long ride across Iowa to
Missouri Valley Junction, about twenty-five
miles from Omaha (and the branchlng-off
point for Sioux City), the road which has,
up to this point, followed nearly a due west
course, bends to the southward, and runs
betwetm the Missouri river and Us eastern
bluffs. Long before reaching Council Bluffs
the capltol building at Omaha haa been
prominently visible, und while yet half a
dozen miles away, the whole city is clearly
In view, rising from the river bottom to the
crown of the western bluffs. Closer inspec
tion Is not disappointing. The city has a
superb site for a handsome and growing
town. It lias a population of about 17.01,
mostly gained within the last three years.
The streets are regularly laid out, with a
view to the future growth of the place.
Upon Farnam and Douglas streets there aru
brick business blocks that would adorn any
city, and mercantile houses occupying- them
whose annual sales exceed Sl.000.0u9. Para
graphs conceived In malice or utter Ignor
ance have been floating through eastern
Journals in ellect that Omaha Is dead. It
business all gone, its merchants falling. Its
stores closed, and d-Jecllon visible through
out all its limits. There is no truth In such
reports. This place, like all other new west
ern towns which have manifest advantages
of position and of communication, has suf
fered by the speculation fever, and by over
stocking the market with clerks, bookkeep
ers and professional men. Thus. I am told
that fifty-four lawyers are seeking their
fortunes In the courts of Omaha a number
absurdly disproportionate to requirements.
JSme of these men who find no support in
their professional railing may declare that
Omaha is In a decline, but the fault Is their
own, not its. . So the land agents and real
estate speculators, who reaped rich har
vests last year and the year before, may
now deplore the fact that property does not
PERFECT
Cleanses beautifies and preserves the teeth and
imparts purity and fragrance to the breath
Used by people of refinement since 1 866
double In price every twenty-four hours,
and assert that the city's glory has de
parted. But every substantial fact disproves
their assertions. The solid, legitimate busi
ness of Omaha Is steadily increasing and
must do bo by the very nature of its posi
tion and surroundings. This Is and must
continue to be the commercial city of Ne
braska, and the outlet for the immense har
vests which are to be gathered from Ne
braska's valleys and uplands. At this point
will center the eastern connections of the.
Union Pacific, and here will freights from
the west bo transferred to bouts for St.
Louis, 1,000 miles below, or Fort Benton,
2,000 miles above. The machine and car
shops of the Pacific railroad are here, and
will be extended as the necessities of the
road shall require. I see no reason to doubt
the steady and satisfactory rrowth of
Omaha until it shull be one of the most
infportant of our inland cities.
Features of Omaha Life. y
Two large, well printed and spirited dally
newspapers represont the two political par
ties, each very sensibly striving to take
the lead in the amount of Its correspond
ence from, all parts of the state, respect
ing crops, local improvements, political
movements, etc. I notice .that particular
attention has been given here to planting
trees, both for shade and timber. Ne
braska haa but few trees, and yet In no
section of our country do thpy grow more
rapidly and surely when properly planted
and cared for than here. Nearly every
dwelling In the city off from the main
ousiness streets is surrounded by a little
grove of cotton wood, elm, locust, walnut,
or maple. All of these flourish well upon
Nebraska soil. The subject of tree-planting
haa been strongly urged upon the people
by Dr. Miller, editor of the Herald, who
haa made the subject one of specl-.il study
and careful exierlment. He asserts that
timber of the best kind can be more cltcaply
raised here than It can be brought from
abroad, the young trees needing only the
same attention that the farmer would give
to any other crop. Tree-planting clubs
have been formed In several of the coun
ties of the state, which are experimentipg
upon a large scale, and hopes 'are enter
tained of obtaining a liberal appropriation
from congress for the purpose of planting
large parts of the public lands with those
tives which will be most useful.
Manafart arlag laterest.
The railroad company's manufacturing
and repair shops at this point are very
ooropjete. They now cover about eight
acres of ground of the forty acres held by
the company for depot and mechanical pur
poses. The buildings are of brick and very
substsntially t onstrurted. The machinery
is vt uw best, as Indeed It mutt be in a
place so far away from other great manu
facturing points that the breaking of one
machine might delay all operations for
days. The energy shown In constructing
these works deserves recognition. It was
essential that these repair shops should
be In operation as soon as the construction
of the road from this point westward was
begun. At that lime there was no eastern
railroad communication with Omaha, and
the steam engine which drives all tills ma
chinery was hauled 120 miles by mules from
Des Moines. The brick of which the build
ings are constructed was made in Omaha,
and Is of excellent quality. All kinds ot
cars are made here, the passenger cars
bearing the Imprint of their shops, equaling
any which I have ever seen In beauty of
finish. About l.OuO men are employed in the
foundry, planing mills, car shops, paint
ing shop, and repair shops, every species
of equipment except the , locomotives be
ing made upon the spot. The locomotives
are obtained from Taunton, Providence,
Paterson, Trenton and other points at pres
ent, but ultimately they will be manufac
tured hi re. The engines are all adapted to
burn coal, but some of them now use wood
upon the eastern divisions. The company
have 111 locomotives, and we passed ten or
a dozen more on a side track at Council
Bluffs, wailing until tho river which is
very high, should fall sufficiently to, let
them be brought across. There Is great
need of the bridge which the railroad com
pany will build here, the contr ict for which
has recently been entered Into with Chi
cago builders.
A Great Future.
"Nebraska has a Brent future. Agri
culturally, no state in the union can show
greater capacity. For 200 mileH west from
the eastern line of .the state, the soli is sr
rich and deep that harvests unknown else
v here are here the rule rather thun the
exception. Years ago, whetj those who arr
now "old settlers" came Into this Isolated
legion say sixteen to eighteen years uo
11 ey built their cabins only in the rivet
tottms ml rated the uplands worthlei
Yet todav Nebraska untamN :ire producinu
forty bushels of wheat to the acre, will -I.
brings 10 cents a bushel premium in tin
St. Louis market over that of Wisconsin
or Iowa growth. The oiricial statistic,
show th&t the avciugu yield of wh.'al
throughout the state In IMii was twenty
kix and one-half buxheht to the uciv, more
than that of any rther stale. Cuts grow
astonishingly. I b&ve before n e u sample
burch -f RuFslun o-tts grown by V 11
Stewart at his farm, about thren iiilh-s
from th! v Ity, and which Ihis ycur aver
age ninety bushels to lie aire, after being
cor.sMerably damaged by toe graihoppei a.
Such corn fields as may be oen .ilon the
line of the railroad, for fifty miles west of
this point, I have seen nowhere else in tin
ride from New Ycrk bay to the Missoutl.
Not much attention lias yet been given to
the raising f fruit, but where it has beeti
tried the exiienmeiit of the stale has been
too recent to uljow of many bearing or
chards, but I have seen some very thrifty
ones near this city which glve abundant
promise for t!e fotpve.
Alone; the Hallruad Htskwar,
"Upon Waving the Missouri at Omaha
the railroad passes through the Paplllkm
valley to that of the Platte, the former
being a small tributary of the Missouri.
About thirty miles out the road crosses
the Kikhorn. one of the main northern
tributaries of the Platte, and whose valley
exleud fur buudrcds i miles to tho north
west. At Fremont, forty-seven miles from
Omaha, the Platte is reached, and thence
forward, for more than 300 miles, the river
is almost constantly In sight from the car
windows. Til' Platte is pleasant to look
at, with lis many islands and Its broad,
glistening surface, but It is worthless for
navigation, being extremely shallow and
having a shifting, s-indy bottom, like the
Missouri, which makes a bar today where
was the main channel yesterday. Twenty
miles to the right rise the bluffs which
bound the valley on the north; twenty
miles to the south the southern bluffs
bound the vision on that side; between
them lies a sea of verdure and of ripening
crops, while to the westward this same
valley, with scarce a tree and not a knoll
to break the surface, stretches to the
Ilorky mountains, BOO miles away. It Is th
natural pathway hcioss the pla'ns; none
easier could be Imagined. Through this
magnificent country the railroad hits an
Imperlul grant of one-half the land for
twenty miles on either side, or, to put it
compactly, a broad track twenty miles wide
across the continent. These railroad lands
have not yet been put Into market, and, as
the measurement for the company's grant
mus' being at the railroad track. It has
likewise been impossible to offer for sale
the adjoining lands which belong to the
government. This disability Is being re
moved as the definite location of the road
becomes fixed, and we shall see a steady
emigration toward the occupation of tbes
lands, the price of which bas already been
'Ixedat not less than $2.50 per acre. Of
nurse. In the occupation nnd improvement
if these lsnds, the Interests of the govem
nent nnd tho railroad company are Identi
cal, the sale of every additional acre by
either tending to enhance th- value of all
lie remal"-'nir lands.
, Fertility of the Soil
"l have spoken or the fertility for 2i
miles west from the Missouri. As you go
west beyond that point you miss the lux
uriance which lias been our wonder and ad
miration, but you see no-ie of the sterility
which you have lieen led to expect in 'the
American Desert.' There is a natural grmbi
in the vallev from east to west of about
ten feet to the mile. At 200 miles out you
are 2.20't feet above the sea; at Cheyenne,
517 miles from Omaha, you are 5ti feet
higher than '.lie latter clly. The ascent Is
lmpercfpl!ble to the eye as you run gaily
along, but you see the change In the vege
tation. You still see black soil but it is
not the same as that upon the lower levels.
Here Is as fine guxin ountry as you will
find in the world. Te gisss is abundant
und nutritious. Cattl - ai 1 horsts fatten
upon It and as It dries upon the gnund In
the r. ll It itiiMi a natural buy, which re-lul-i
Its f ivor through the winter seu.ioii.
Nothing here is wanted to insure satisfac
tory crops except such Intelligent irriga
tion as has made the valley of Salt lake to
burst with fatness and generous growth.
Hot Tlaies la Voudi Ton a a.
"Of the cities of the railroad line 1 need
say but little. They have been so often de
scribed b letter writers that there are few
newspaper reader who do not know that
North Platte. Julesburg, Cheyenne and
Laramie have successively merited the pun
gent title of 'Hell on Wheels,' which has
been aptly applied to them during their
state of ruffianism. Wherever the nominal
end of the track may be thut Is, where
regular trains stop and goods are trans
ferred to wagons for further transporta
tionthere the thieves, gamblers and pros
titutes swarm for their prey. There is no
attempt to conceal vice. The faro table Is
as public as the workman's bench and
more frequently seen, and the current say
ing that there Is not a virtuous woman
west of Cheyenne is fearfully near the
truth, the few noble exemptions who have
left all the luxuries and privileges of civili
zation behind them that they may be with
their husbands and brothers who are sub
duing the wilderness and building the rail
road proving the rule. l aw In these new
'owns Is represented by the vigilance com
mittee, and If any man doubts the neces
sity and effectiveness of this style of ex
ecutive a week's stay at Kenton at the
present time will effectually convert him
Into an earnest advocate of the V. C.
Second tiro-nth of Towns.
"The 'second growth' of these towns is
far more pleasant than tha first. Certain
of them have sunk Into Insignificance since
their 'lively' days, of which class Julehburg
Is an example. One year ago no place in
the land was bo often quoted as the syn
onym of all that was evil as this, but today
the passenger sees only a hamlet of scarcely
half a dozen houses and the conductor calls
its name. Others have promise of a healthy
and vigorous growth. At North Platte the
railroad company has excellent repair
shops, round houses, etc., and a really su
perior hotel gives the traveler the best mal
to be had between Chicago and the "end of
the track.' A brisk and thriving village
has grown up hero which has an air of
stability and homeliness about It. At Chey
enne there Is the foundation of a large
town and extensive trade. There are many
sound merchants there with large stocks of
excellent gooils; the branch railroad to I) n
ver will probably have the main line hefc;
the railroa I company has extensive sh.,p
at this eastern terminus of the mountain
division, and Fort D. A. Russell, the largest
of the frontier posts, is located but three
miles away, and will make this the point
for transhipment of its large supplies of
government freight. Society here contains
many eastern families, the Western Reserve
having contributed largely to the educated
and intelligent population. Cheyenne has
three daily .papers, and the man who puts
Into one of them a dash of metropolitan
energy and vim will have made a fair start
toward an exceedingly prosperous business.
Another fact having an Important bearing
upon the future of Cheyenne is that It will
undoubtedly be the capital of the new terri
tory of Wyoming. I look upon Cheyenne M
one of the most promising points In til
west for young men of brains and nerve.
"Laramie, fifty-eight miles west of Chey
enne, and on the other side of the summit
(8.2ii2 feet above tide water, and the highest
railroad pass In t lie world), Is the western
end of the mountain division and has, In
consequence, car. engine and repair shops,
all well built of stone. It has also con
siderable trade, and hopes for a develop
ment of tho Iron mines thirty miles to the
north, which will warrant extensive manu
factories here. The running of regular
trains has Just been extended from Laramie
to Kenton, 1- miles west, and the former
Is therefore Just getting partially purged of
the dance-houses and gambling tents which
have 'made It lively' for three months
past. "S. D. P."
Made Htm Shorter.
A certain member of the fashionable
Metropolitan and Chevy Chase clubs at the
national capital has all his life borne many
quips by reason of his exceedingly dimin
utive stature.
Last sprlu-; the diminutive clubman took
unto h'.mself a wife, the daughter of a
well known federal official, who Is said to
be as witty as her father.
"Mrs. Blank," said a friend one day re
cently, "I have Just seen your husband
for the first lime since his marriage. Do
you know he seems shorter than ever."
"Why not," answered the wife, with a
smile; "he s married and settled down."
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