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POETRY.

DEA'fB OF THE OLD YEAR.

'Tis DOOD of night, and the hungry wind Howls like I' wolf thf(~ugh the empty streels­Starving-and seeking whllte'er it can find, Biting and killing whoever it meets,

Cold, cold the night I The congealed stars Like icicles hang from the roof o'er head; The street light, crossing in fiery bars, Like thin imaged orbs their chill lustre shed.

Daylight and darkneos blended in one! They from each other some element prog; Nor night nor daylight; nor noon nor sun; But mingled are ellch in a golden fog.

Awful the houl' in 'ts ghastly hush-Hushed save the voice of its cold winter blllsts; And whispers deep through the purple flush Revelll the conclave of the sacred vasts.

An old man, bent 'neath his load of years, His long locks whiter than the drifted snow, H is wan cheek stiffened with tho frozen tears, His thin hands clutched lind his head bowed low,

Alone with the nigh l cringes close to the ground, Alone with the night where huge shadows tread; A lone with tho night and its majostic sound­Alone with his God--for the old man is (lead!

H, D. ESTABROOK. St. Louis, Jan. 7th '75.

EDUCATION-AP ART FROM STUDY.

Our daily life is the great avenue through which ponr the vehicles of information for the mind. It is there that the careful ob-servcr sees human nature as it is, not cov­ereq with the courteous ~ask of the (lrawing room, nor with the sacreligious­when assumed-livery of religion, but l,:eenly following some object, the meaus of obtaining which unconsciously betray the character of the individual. Thoughts are suggested by associations. It is well then that such associations be of a pure c11arac­tcr. It is very easy to do that which is evil, and equally hard to do that which is good. The life of a good man is a pel'pet­ual struggle, a hard but an ennobling one difHcult at first, but always growing easie; as the mind gains strength from the toil of battle, and gradually molding itself into the pedect end. It is a weak and dependent mind which gains no original inspiration from what transpires around it., and it is a barren and unproductive brain whose only ideas are the creations of another. The human mind is so constituted as to be sus­ceptible to the influence of either good or evil. The workings of right are based on solidity. It operates from a given starting poinl1to a pre-determined end. It is strong in the consciousness of virtuous and authen­tic authority. It derives its inspiration from faith which is a divine element, and converts, without the aid of reason, though to a ripe and well balanced intelligence these elements never conflict.

When we cultivate the mind we cultivate the manners. Dickens said" No man can be a gentleman in manners until he is a gentleman at heart." The difference l.helJ in fashionable life between the gentleman and the dandy is, the one acts from an in­nate se llse of courtesy and consideration, the other wears only au assumed polish which can be rewoved at the option of the wearer, and as circumstances dictate., The one is a gentleman always and every­where, the other, only a figure of such, as occasion r~'quires . Communion with ex­perience is a happy medium in the diffusion of knowledge. Wisdom is the perfection of ex.perience. The most trivial object is of some value, the daily occurrences in our life will teach us important lessons if prop­erly considered, serving either as guides or warnings for the future. Dryden has said "Genius must be born and cannot be taught," Samncl J ohnson however, to the contrary, "Genius is but persistent effort well dil'ected." The latter is a more agree­able and fully as rational a supposition ati the former. J ohn50n's life is an exemplifi­cation of its correctness. Even as small hodi es physically envy a great and com­manding presence, so mentally small minds envy great intelle '}ts, and this envy, though oue of the baser passions, is thns through emulation often convel'ted into a stepping­stone to fame. The seeds of an intuitive wisdom are continually bursting into bloom

L egendo, Oogitando, at que SC1'ibendo vere docii jiemus .

OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FEBRUARY, 1875.

around us, between the different kinds of edu­cation - that of study and that of observation there is the widest differ­e.nce. This is perhaps more evident in oratory than anything else. We may often listen in vain to the polished scholar for evidence of that touchstone of oratory­heart. While the stu­dent of nature will pres­ent truths to you in such words as burn with the originality of individual conception, and with that feeling which is to orato­ry its laurel and its crown. Let us not be content with the princi­ples of things as laid down in books, if they will not bear practical demonstration they are worthless. The world is full of theories, the earth shakes with their explosions.­There are hosts of characters worthy of reflection and imitation. The "sands of tim~" are yellow with the gold of genius. The words of those men who wrote with a purpose, stand out in the ocean of surrep­tious literature of to-day like light-houses to warn the aspirant for fame, that it re­quires a will and a purpose as well as a genius to successfully weather the storms of disappointment. They did not pen their inspirations for the mere need of a fleeting fame, and to the most of them the com­mendation of man wa.s nothing. Upon the literature of to-day there is the stamp of an undeniable depravity, there is an utter want of purpose and a servile catering to the taste of a mixed public which is itself un­worthy of genius. We note with disfavor the tendency toward sensationalism, and wonld gladly welcome a return to the en­nobling example of our forefathers. The tact that we still have their sentiments on record makes the present style of literature the more distasteful, but. among the think­ing class, Shakespeare, Johnson, Dickens and otLe-rs, are more heartily appreciated to-day than ever before. Their books were the offspring of an original observance and a lofty motive, and will stand the wear and tear of time. In reHecting upon the glory and genius of the past we may well strain our memories with anxiety and reverence to catch the sound of the mighty words of those men,

vn:w OF TUE OMAHA HIG H SCHOOL nun~DINO .

most American minds with those elements of evil which are found only in the lives of the most depraved. It has been a misfor­tune to the memory of tb,is man, that his life has been the subject of harsh, unchristian criticism, rather than his works. His life has been represented as devoid of those pleasures which the happy and virtuous only can enjoy; as one brooding melan­choly, and that he lacked those · essential qualiti~s of mind and feeling that go to make up the perfect man. Anecdotes purely imaginative, and destructive of his honor, have been made matters of history against him. His life has been singularly and fearfully treated by unskillful biog­raphers and vindictive calumniators. F or a number of years indeed, since the Poet's death, the standard edition of his life has been Griswold's, and fi'om this work iljlnu­mcrable opinions have been formed to the discredit of the poet. So untrue, unrelia­ble, and vindictive is this work, that before the death of Dr. Griswold, it called forth the condemnation of our greatest poet. Mr. G. R. Graham, publisher of the Mag9.­zine of which Poe ' was long time editor, speaks of Griswold's" Life" as the" faucy sketch of a jaundiced vision," and an " im­mortal infamy." ' This, with fietiGious an­ecdotes, repeated anachronisms, and many other inconsistencies, forms the standard biography of him, whose works have shed an eternal lustre upon our literature, and whose name will ever stand high as a poet,

" Whose distant footsteps echo l' . Through the corridors 01 tIDle." as ong as It IS ~n the nature of man to ap-

J. M. R. pre0iate true genius. So common has been ... • • the custom of critic moralists to penetrate

EDGAR A. POE. the personal character of Poe, that to most

"Whoover think. a faulU .. s piece to .ee youthful minds, the defects of the poets life ThInk. what ne'or was, nor Is, nor e'er sbaU bo." are known before such works as "::I'he

The literature of a nation is the written Bells,"" Annabel L ee," or "The R aven" evidence of its civilization, and the crite- have-been read. His private actions have rion of its equality with, or superiority over been held up to the sCl'utiny of a never len­other nations. As the progressive tenden- ient 'public, and the weaknesseR of the cies of a nation assert themselves in the human will are made to vitiate h is works. development of their country's resources, This is an injustice that posterity will yet literature, in harmony with art and science, correct. Were his crimes so heinous, his expands into a broader field of action and a defects so appalling, that the brilliant higher plane of thought, and as the people emanations of his pen, or the miseries of become. intelligent and of liberal views, some parts of his life, shall not mitigate the literature becomes liberal, comprehen- them? Poe was not the cold, insensate, sive and instructive. So marked indeed is and ungentlemanly person of current biog­the influence of letters, that there is a dis- raphers. N. P. Willis, with wllom Poe position with modern historians to rank was associated in conducting" The Mirror" nations according to their Belles Lettres, in 1844, speaks of him, giving the opinion rather than by any other feature of excel- of six years friendship, "we had seen but enee. America, with its distinct national one presentment of the man, aquiet, patient, character, has its own school of poetry and industrious and most gentlemanly pet'son." prose, a position attained since the close of Again, II invariably the same sad-mannered, the eighteenth century. winning and refined gentleman, the same as

In the galaxy of bright American authors we had always known him." who have made for thi country its distinct- We live in thc bope that time will C01'­ive literature, the subject of this ~ ketch rect these things in the poet's life, and that deserves a prominent and honorable posi- many events now laid agains~ his reputa­tion. Edgar Allan Poe, was born in 1809, tion, will be obscured in the contemplation and after forty years of fitful and restless of his peculiar merit, and in the correct ap­existence, died in 1849. Reaohing through preciation of his talents. The writings of this period of time, his life presen~ one of Poe are perhaps the most original that have thc saddest biographies ever w jtten, and graced onr literature, and now after the not as bas been accepted, one of the most lapse of many years, in compat'ison with vicious. The name of Poe is associated in the works of our best writers, present a

force and vigor that en­hance[:;, with the increase of years. In their pe­culiarities and beauties they constitute a distinct class of com posi tion ; the style so weird, so mysterious, and withal so sad, has never been weakened by succes'lful plagiarism. Plagiarists have read Poe, and in vain, for his works, in­viting imit,ation, baffle it. The mysterious ele­ment in his writings, the marked feature of Poe's style, is .hut the outgrowth of a weary and melancholy mind. A life so fitful, a nature so delicate and sensitive, must of necessity leave its reflex upon its crea­tions.

Exquisite analysis of sentim.ent and emotion, communion with the

hidden mysteries of man's supernatural being, beautiful imagery, a lofty appre­ciation of beauty, and a marked and original ideal, are the elements con­spicuously displayed in all his works. The purview of this brief article prevents review of any of Poe's works. As poet and author he was eminently successful, but as a critic, a. position he was naturally endowed to fill, he was not successful. Possessing to a rare degree those analytical powers of mind so necessary to the true critic, he laeke~ the essentiality of justice. As specimens of acute and logical diRsec­tion of rhetoric, his critical essays are well worthy of careful perusal, indicating as they do, a ripe culture in all schools of composition, but all through these essays there appears a caviling and fault-finding disposition whicb removes them from the plane of criticism and places them on the lower and less intellectual level of personal detraction. In conjunction with his merci­less critiques, we find a stolid indifference on his part as to the popular sentiment, either for or against him. So marked waR the disregard of publio opinion, that we find in the lives of the poets only an inverse parallel in Goldsmith's insatiate longing for the commendation of his fellows.

In viewiug the life of P oe, we have adopted the sentiment of Pope as set forth in the admirable c01'lplet which heads this article) and in so doing, we are not sur­prised with our review: H e was far from beiug a faultless mal'l, yet we find that with the dark shades in his life there are many brilliant hued rays of light. A man of mi fortune, he was yet the favorite child of fortune in being naturally entlowed for the position he occupied. The petted charge of an adopted and indulgent father, we find a matured mau with a wayward and capri­cious disposition. In all this we discern but a reasonable degree of human nature, but in the dignified and cuLtivated produc­tions of his mind there appears the genius of ' the intellectual man, and as we peruse th e strange outpourings of his stranger spirit, the conviction comes over us that his like we shall see

" Never more." F. R. MCCONNELL.

• •• -Reports fl'om uiffe:rent astronomical

parties have been received. The observa- , tions of the transit of Venus were very successful at points in India, China, Japan and Egypt. At Shanghai the weather was unfavorable and the astronomers were dis­appointed. The American party at IIo­bartstown were only partially successful. At Nagasaki the chief astronomer, Profes-01' Davidson, reports cloudy weather dur­

ing a portion of the transit, but seme ex­cellent results . . " .

-A man in New J ersey had not been to church for twenty year. Last Sunday he went, had his pocket picked of $35, and he is now a pronounced heathen.

No. 12

THOUGHT.

Thought is the illuminator of the soul, the essence of spirituality, the monitor of reason; it is at once tbe motive force and controlling power of the intellect; it directs the flight of imagination and sits in judg­ment on the appetites and passions i its action is universal, it.s power unlimited, it is the solver of all problems, the key to all mysteries, the elucidation of all principles; it gives shape and substance to the aerial images of fancy, and enables man to deduct conclusions from the evidences of his sense.!:' ; it is the creator of ideas, the main­s~ring of all mental actions, it guides, dlrects and controls the varied faculties of the human mind and lays bare to the eye of the understanding the mysteries of nature.

Without thought the reason of man would be the instinct of the brute he , would know no God for he could have no cQnception ef cause and effect; he would have no original experience for he could know nothing spiritual, the deeper truths of nature would be hidden from him for there would be no power to explain its action. Truly is thought the most import­ant of mental functions, the instrument that shall guide man upward step by step from the darkness of ignorance into the pure light of perfect wisdom.

J.D. S. • ••

How DID SHE Do IT? A Lincoln chambermaid is said to have got twelve State Senators into eleven bedroom8, and yet to have given each a separate room. Here W6 have the eleven bedrooms:

1 I 2 I 3 I 4 I 5 I 6 I 7 I 8 I 9 I 10 I 11

"Now," said she, "if two of you gent­lemen will go into No.1 bedroom and wait a few minutes, I will find a spare room for one of you as soon as I 've shown the others to their rooms." Well, now, having thus bestowed two gentleman in No.1, she puts the third in No.2, the fourth in No.3, the fifth in No.4, the sixth in No.5, the seventh in No.6) the eight in No.7, the ninth in No.8, the tenth in No.9, ancJ. the eleventh in No. 10. She then came back to No.1, where, you will remember, she had left the twelfth gentleman along with the first, and said: "I've now accommodated all the rest, and have still a room to sp!oL"e ; so if one of you will please step into No. 11, you will find it empty." Thus the twelfth man got his bedroom. Of course there is a hole in the saucepan somewhere; but we leave the reader to determine exactly where the fallacy is, with just a warning to think twice before deciding as to which, if any of the travellers, was the "odd man out."

..... -An undergraduate at Cambridge, who

found among the questions on his examina­tion paper this, "Why will not a pin stand upon its point?" elaboratelyexplain­ed the point thus: "1. A pin will not stand on its head, much less is it possible tl at it !"hould stand on its point. 2. A point, according to Euclid, is that which has no parts and no magnitude. A. pin cannot stand on that which has no parts and no magnitude, and therefore n :> pin can stand on its point. 3. It will if you stick it in."-Yale Lit.

-A young lady who is studying French, wrote home to her parents that she wa invited out to n dejenue1' the day before, and was going out to a jete charnp ft-re the next day. The professor of the college was surprised to receive a dispatch from the "old man" a day Ot' two afterwards, sayiug, "If you cant keep my daughter from them blasted ide-shows and menao--

'=' erics, I will come down and see what ails her."-&.

_Ii Did I not give you a flogging the other day ?" said a school-master to a trembling boy. "Yes, sir," he auswered. Ie Well what do the Scriptures say on the subj ect?" (C I don't know sir," said the other, "except it is that pa age which says, it is more blessed to give thau to receive."-Ex.

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YOUNG MEN INSURING THEIR LIVES.

Our attention was called not long since, to a young man, just entering the prime of life, who was making preparations to have his life insured. We immediately advised him to discard the idea. Our advice to all young men, were it worthy of a hear­ing, would be to never grant an insurance company a life lease on their pocket-books. Of all the foolish things a young man could do, the most foolish would be to take out an insurance policy on his life. You ask, why? In the first place every young man naturally hopes to live to a good old age, and if he commences to pay insura.nce on his life, while young, he will be just so much out of pocket when he grows up. His only chance to win anything at such a game would be to die before he had invest­ed much, but we can't see any advantage in a game where you have to die to beat it. H ere we are told that after so long a time, generally ten years, the money paid in can be drawn out by the person insuring. This is a very fair loo~ing proposition and well calculated to deceive young mell. A young man who can assure himself that he will always be able to pay the premium on his policy when due for a period of ten years, can safely drop the insurance policy in the beginning if he has got one-the best way is not to commence at all-and .'lave the money with the rest that will accumulate, if he is steady and industrious enough to keep making and saving all that time, and at the end of the ten years he will have the money in his own hands, and not in the hands of some one else. He will not have to risk the snspension of the insurance company. will not have to trouble himself 'about get~ t ing it back, or await the convenience of an agent ; will not have to run the risk of loosing it all, shoulU he in that great lapse of time ever lack the necessary amount to meet his obligation, and in short, he will be his own master and not the driven slave of an insurance company that is continually growing rich on the hard earned money of such misguided young men.

A young man wishing to provide for his mother or father ill ca e of his death can , go to a good bank and there deposit in their names the money tbat would otllerwise have gOlle into the coffers of the insurance company.

... -- T hrough the courtesy of' Prof. Smith

we were shown the workings of the new sciopticon that he recently purchased for use in the class room. The objects viewed were painted on glass by several accom­plished artists, prominent among whom are Miss Coates, Mr. C. J. Emery, Prof. Smith and N. J. Neilson, the latter gentleman being by far the best draughtsman in the building. Some time ago Prof. Smith asked of the Board of EducatiQn a small appropriation for the purchase of this in­strument and the necessary photographs to be us~d for illustrating lessons in Botany, P hYSIology &c. The appropriation was refused. H e subsequently proposed to ~:cure the instru ment at his own expense, It the Board would vote a hundred dollars for the purchase of the necessary photo­graphs. No definite action was taken on this proposition and he sent for the instru­ment at his own expense. It has been shown to several members of the Board who admitted that it would be of grea~ benefit in the class room, and accordingly they have ordered a room prepared for its ~Ise . P.rof. Smith displays a commendable Il1terest III the welfaro of his class by secur-

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ing this useful article at his own expense, and we have no doubt that the Board will purchase the neoessary photographs, and, perhapR, reimburse him for his outlay. ....

THE NEW YORK COMPULSORY EDU­CATION ACT, which oompels the attendance of all children between eight and fourteen years of age, became operative Jan. 1,1875. The Board of Education intend to enforce the act mildly and thoroughly, and in order to ensure its establishment, each city ward will be divided int.o as many districts as there are schoolhouses, and to each district one truant agent will be appointed., whose first duty will be to ascertain accurately the number and residence ef all the childrE'n in his district. The facts, as thus aseertained, will be the basis upon which the law will be invoked whenever parents cannot be otherwise induced to send their children to school. A strict enforoement of the act will necessarily result in considerable ex­pense to the city; for, as the schoolhouses are already full, adtlitional accomodations will have to be provided for those children whom the act affects, and who have net hitherto attended school. Vagrant child­ren, moreover, will have to be sent to the farm for young children, under the charge of the Commissioners of Charity and Cor­recticm, and there their food and clothing, as well as their teaching, must be provided for. The act, it may be added~ provides that not only the pareats who allow their children to stay away from school, but also all persons who employ them 'in any way, are liable to a fine. Although this exper­iment is not yet fairly commenced, enough is already known to convince New York school officers that a strict execution of the law will require a great deal of exertion on their parts. .. . .

EDITORIAL NOTES.

There is considerable difference between the battles of Bull's Hill and Bunker Run , so we are informed by modern historians.

The F aculty of the Nebraska State Nor­mal School consists of nine professors and assistants, and the institution accomodates two hundred and ten students.

The next annual meeting of the Nebraska Teaohers' Association will take place in this city, about the latter part of March. Prot Smith will deliver an address before the association.

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King Kalakaua said to one of the accom­panying gentlemen, that the High School contained several handsome young ladies, and intelligent young men. As far as the ladies are concerned, he was "eminently correct," but we fail to see how he discov­ered intelligence in the motley crew of numskulls that new compose a majority of the male students of that institution.

The long talked of inter-collegiate con­test was held in New York Oity, on the 7th inst , J. O. Tomlinson of the University of New York, received the first prize in ora­tory, and Mr. Edmunds of Williams College the second. For essay writing, Chas. F. Cluck and Geo. H. Fitch, both of Comell, receive,d respectively first and second prizes. Their subjects were fountted on parts of Shakespeare.

An Omaha bank clerk, acoompanied by a school ma'am, paid a visit recently to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum near Council Bluffs. Not knowing where the proper entrance was, they approached a basement window and oommenced making signs at the inmates who were supposed to be "dum­mies." Their feelings oan be imagined when they heard the following:

"Who is it, N aney ? " "0 't' 1 , I S on y a couple of mutes trying to

get in the window."

-' . -The New England college Presidents

and Professors met in Hanover New H ampshire, recently, and discussed 'among other matters, that of boating and students' regattas. The weight of opinion was in favor of encouraging the sport. Some thought t~at tho~e who did the rowing were lowered III theIr class standing through oonE\equeat neglect of study, but the im­portance of physical oulture was generally deemed to greatly overbalance the draw­back. I t was re olved not to interfere in aay way with the college regattas next season.-Ex,

THE HIGH SCHOOL.

PREPARATION FOR COLLEGE.

The proportion of students preparing for college in academies and high schools in the U. S. respectively is given in the recent report of Gen. Eaton, U. S. Com. Educa· tion. The whole number preparing for cla.ssical colleges (1873) was 38,875. Of these only 2,965 were in public high schools, and 35,910 were in academies and preparatory departments of colleges (of the same rank with academies.) The whole number preparing for scientific col­leges was 6,477. Of these 1,233 were in public high schools and 5,244 in academies and colleges. In the West most of the preparatory work is done by the colleges themselves i in the East by the academies; in neither section is it dono to any extent by high schools. Then New England academies send 83 out of every 100 students to the Eastern classical colleges; but 77l out of every 100 entering Western colleges are prepared by the colleges themselves, as the statistics in the five oldest Western states show.-Yale Lit.

., .. COLORED CHILDREN IN THE PUBLIC

SCHOOLS OF INDIANA.-Under a recent decision of the Supreme Oourt of Indiana, thirty-five ' colored children were. ejected from the public 5cht>0ls of Brazil, Clay county, by order of the local trustees. This practical application of the decision was made with indecent haste and inex- ' cusable hard-heartedness. Weare glad to know that no unkindness is chargeable to the Superintendent or teachers of Brazil. On the contrary the expulsion took place against the protestations of the Superin­tendent and the expressed wishes of the teachers. The children begged piteously to' be aUowed to remain. But the privilege was unrelentingly refueed. Mixed schools had been decided unconstitutional in Indiana.-Co1·nell Era. _. -

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February, 1875.

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O. R. BURCHARD, FREDONIA, N. Y. Many a farmer and housekeeper wonder

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parson gets comfortably into the second er . finest turnouts in the city, and prices mod-third head of his discourse and the congre- erato. gation have settled into the easiest pos'tion to listen, gentle sleep begins to steal over their faculties, and the good man is sur­prised at finding his argument less cogent than it seemed when prepared in the soli­tude of his study. At home the busy mat­ron never thinks of napping at eleven o'clock in the morning, and the man of business would consider his sanity or com-mon sense sadly called in question should a friend propose a half-hour's nap at that hour of the day. Nevertheless, they both sleep ~ike kittens in their .pews, and 10gio, rhetorIC, eloquence, are alIke wasted in the vain at.te~pt to rouse their sluggish souls. The questIOn of the poet, so often sung in our assemblies, .

00 lly drow8Y pewers, why Bleep ye 80 I "

is exactly in point, and we propose an answer: "because we are breathing carbonic acid gas-deadly poison; because the sex­ton did n~t let the foul ail' of last Sunday's congregatIOn out of the doors and windows and the fresh, pure ail' of heaven in." , . Look around at the audience; that fever­Ish flush on tbe face isn't heat; it is poison. The lady nodding over there her nose and face like a scarlet rose, is not'too warm for the thermometer doesn't stand over sev~nty dogrees; she is partially suffocated' what she wants is fresh air. The hard-w~rking mechanio or farmer doesn't sleep because he watched with a sick child last night but simply for. the want of oxygen to keep the flames of mtellectual and physical activity brightly burning. . ~obody can rise on wings of faith in a.

l~o~sonous atmosphere. Oxygen and .re­lIgIOn cannot be separated in this unright­eous manner. We cannot live in conform­ity to spiritual laws while iu open violation of the physical.

R~asonable reductions made on orders

from clubs and parties.

Best accomodatio.Q in the city for board­ing horses.

FRANK SWEESEY,

Manager.

G. W. MITCHELL,

Odd Fellows Block,

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Brokerage, Real Estate and Employment Bureau, Colleotions made, Taxes paid, Money loaned on all kinds of personal se­c~rity, Employment fnrnisheg, Help fur­lllshed, Notes and Mortgages bought and sold, Bonds negotiated, Farms and City Property for sa.le, Houses to rent.

CLOSING OUT SALES!!! -II

We mean business, and propose from this time onward to offer all Winter Goods at such prices as shall insure their ready sale.

FURS. FURS.

FURS.

LADIES' MINK SETS Closing out at Less than Cost.

Children's Furs-

Are now offered at a Great Sacrifice.

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~s your sexton a man of intelligence suf­fiCient to understand the necessity and rea­son of ample ventilation? Does he know' that every human being vitiates at the le~st estima~e, four cubic feet of ~ir every mmute? Lmger when the congregation le~ves, a~d see if he shuts every door and ,,:mdow tI~ht to keep in the heat till eve­lllng servICe.. Then. ~ee how dimly the lamps burn m the vItIated air' how bard t?e minister tries to raise him;elf and his listeners to the height of some great ar~u­ment, and how stupid they are--nothmg but bad air.

BOYS SCHOOL CAPS, ONLY 50 Cts. ArU"f.8' Decorators' sud Wa Flower Material,

Now for the remedy, which oosts labor and money both, for ventilation is a question · of dollars and oents. Saturday the sexton should be instructed to open all the doors and windows, to let out all the dead and foul air, and let in all that is fresh. It takes no more coal on Sunday morning to heat the church to seventy degrees because of it:s purification. Sunday noon let the oJ?Bnmgs of the church be again thrown WIde-warmth and bad air will alike disap­pear, .and though extra ooal may be required to ra!se the temperature, the minister will preacu so mu~h b.etter i~ consequence, and the. hearers WIll hsten With suoh increased relIsh to the sacred word, that the loss of the po~ket will be infinitely compensated by the gam .f the soul.-Educational Monthly.

Good Heavy Caps, only 90 Cta.

Gloves and Mittens at low figures.

What we say we mean and will do.

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FURS! The L~fie are invited to call and examine my

we assorted tock of Furs, which is noW ready for inspection.

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LOCAL NEWS.

Local Adl'l!1·tisements, twenty cents per line.

THE HIGH SCHOOL DEBATING SOCIETY.

At the regular mee ting held January 21st, the society passed a resolution pro­viding that at next regular meeting it would convcne M the house of Representa­tives of the State of N ebraska and go through the regular forms of such a body, the obj ect being to familiarize the members with the parliamentary rules and proceed­ings of such assemblages.

By general consent the following mem­bers will rcprcsent the counties preceding their name, and will be regarded as regu­larly elected members of the housc, viz:

Richardson-P. A. Gusherest. Nemaha-W. H. Potter. Cass-W. A. Redick. Otoe-J. F. McCracken. Douglas-F. B. Stout, F. R. McConnell. 'Washington and Burt-J. M. Ross. Dakota, Dixon, Cedar-Eo W. Simeral. Knox, Pierce, 'Vayne, Cuming, Stanton

lind Harlan-G. W. Shields. Platte, Colfax, Merrick-W. F. Hawes. Hall, Buffalo, Dawson, Chcyenne, Lin ..

coIn, Howard, Sherman, Greeley, Valley, Boone and Antelope-F. Streitz.

Johnson, Pawnee-B. F. Walker. Lancaster, Seward-Chas. R. Redick. Saline, Gage, Jefferson-C. J. Emery. Fillmore, Clay, York, W ebster, Polk,

Hamilton, Nuckolls, Adams, Kearney and Franklin-W. H. Frost. .

Sergeant-at-arms-D. Keyes. Cushing's manual will be the authority in

casc of any. disputed points on parliamenta­ry usages. The Speaker and Clerk will be elccted by the assembly. Several bills are in course of preparation and will be intro­duced early in the session. This is a very good plan and will undoubtedly prove itself useful and instruotive, all well as highly entertaining to the young men who compose the Society. It will continue about four or five weeks after which the

resolve itself back into the

••• A ROYAL VISITOR.

The High School of Omaha was favored with a visit from King Kalakaua, Thurs­day, .Tanuary 21st, the day he spent in Omaha. This compliment to the Omaha High School is one that many eastern schools cannot boast of, and on this account it was regarded as quite a favor.

He arrived during recess in the forenoon and immediately upon his appearance the noisy tumult of recess was changed into perfect quiet.

The King was shown through several of the rooms and introduced to the various teachers by Supt. Beals, Mr. Howard Ken­nedy and Mr. C. K. Coutant. The last room visited was the High School depart­ment and here the King made the follow­ing neat little speech in response to the marked courtesy shown him by the Rtudents.

Y oung Gentlemen and Ladies : I am much delighted to see you. I came

here to see your schools and to observe your methods of obtaining an education, and it affords me great pleasure to see that you are endeavoring to fit yourselves to become useful citizens. By obtaining an cducation you not only qualify yourselves for the duties in Hfe which will hereafter devolve upon you, 'but you gra~ify your fathers and mothers, who !ire dehghted to see you improve. I shall carry back to my country the most pleasant recollections of' my visit to the Omaha High School.

H e asked numerous questions regarding the courses of study, discipline, &c., &c., after which he departed. -..

-A few meetings ago the Board of Education organized a Library, a Labora­tory and a Museum and set apart rooms for each. The library which already contains a large collection of books, is free to all. Valuable additions are constantly being made to the already large collection of geological spccitnens, and the laboratory, which is under the charge of Prof. Smith, will soon be furnished with all the articles necessary to illustrate the lessons in chemistry.

-January 8th ,vas a very cold day and it will long be remembered on account of the many pitiful scenes witncssed by the students of the High School. It appears that a great many parents did not really believe it was cold and sent their little children to school as regular. The conse­quence was that several little boys and girls came very nrar losing their lives, and were it not for the heroic efforts of several High School boys on that occasion, the death of more than one little creature wonld have been added to the history of the day.

The Thermometer in the centre of the City indicated 17° below zero, while that at the High School was at 25° and the wi.nd blew very hard. Little girls would reach the gates of the enclosure, when they would become exbausted, and perfectly benumbed, give up in despair. It was here the young heroes of the High School, bravely faced the terrible storm and brought the little ones in their arms into the schoolrooms. The ears and fingers of nearly everyone of the boys were frozen in carrying the helpless little children up the hill, but, actuated by that nobler spirit, they worked an bour with a zeal that was truly commendable, and saved in that time the lives of a half dozen of small children, while at least five times tbat number would have been badly frozen) without this timely assistance.

The young man entitled to credit are: Wm. Wilbur, Wm. Champlin, Placidus. Ord, Wiley Clegg, Will H. Redick and some others, whose names we could not learn. .. ...

Peter's Musical Monthly has suspended publication.

-Omaha is raising a large crop of young lawyers this year.

-A great many new students have lately entered the city schools.

" Little Thaddie" awoke the other morn­ing and found himeelf famous.

-We will pay 25 ets. for copy No, 2 of this paper. We want it to complete a file.

THE HIGH SCHOOL.

-A course 0f lectures has been arranged by the High School Debating Society, to be given by different members of that organ­ization. The first lecture will be delivered by F. R. McConnell, the second by Chas. R. Redick, and others will follow.

-The first and fourth pages of this issue were gotten up under the supervision of Mr. J. M. Ross, and reflect credit on that young gentleman for his first attempt. He is the author of thc original articles under the heading "Ourselves" and if anyone laughs himself to death the blame will attach to Mr. Ross.

At a special meeting of the Board of Education, held Saturday, Jan'y 23d, the committee on buildings and prl>perty was instructed to provide a cabinet for the reception of the collection of mineralogical specimens tbat were offered by Prof. Thompson of St. Louis some time ago. The collection consists of 2,000 different specimens, and is valued at $2,000. Prof. Thompson is entitled to the thanks of the public for this valuable donation, and his name will be remembered as the founder of the High Sehool museum.

-The Catalogues of SEEDS AND PLANTS for ]875, of PETER HENDERSON & Co., 35 COR'rLANDT ST., NEW YORK, are just received-they number about 180 pages, are finely illustrated, and in addition con­tain 5 beautiful colored plates of the fol­lowing:

A Group of Roses. . " " Verbenas. " (( Pinks. (( " Lobelias.

And a new Vegetable. These Catalogues, with all the plates, are

mailed to all applicants by Peter Hender­son & Co., on receipt of 50 cents. Also, to all purchasers of their books, "Garden­ing for Profit" and "Practical Floricult­ure" (the cost of which is $1.50 each, pre­paid by mail,) they will annually send both copies without charge.

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ELECTIC COPY-BOOK COVERS. -One poem this month is from the pen High School. Twenty Cents per dozen for first introduction

into schools. of the former Editor-in-Chief of the HIGH SCHOOL.

-The Omaha Debating Society is now numbered among the things that "might have been."

-Another examination of teachers occured on Saturday, the 30th of January, at the office of Supt. Beals.

The Deaf atld Dumb Institute of this state contains thirty six pupils, and the ex­penses of conducting it are $9,600 per year.

-According to the report of State Supt. McKenzie, Douglas county has 5410 school-children and receives $13,760 of the State School money.

Nebraska now contains 1,345 school­houses, valued at $700,000, the total number of pupils in the state is 72,991, and 2,200 school teachers draw salaries.

-Through error the miscellaneous clip­pings and original witticisms of our funny man got mixed on the fourth page of last issue. This mistake will not occur again.

-The new schoolhousc built in North Omaha has been running successfully for some time, and is under the charge of Miss Lucy Hoel, a former studeut of the High Sohool.

-Hitchcock's Anatomy and Physiology, Davies' Geology and Hart's Rhet-oric are the new studies that were taken up at the Qommencement of the present term of the High School.

. -With this issue the subscriptions of a great many of our readers will expire. They can be renewed by sending money direct to publisher, or handing to any ' of our authorized agents.

-Chas. R. R edick has been elected Secretary of the Merchants' Club of this city. Charles is well qualified to perform the duties of that office and the compli­ment he received was well merited.

-During the terribly cold snap last month, "Pickwick" desperately struck out to help a small boy up the hill but was so overcome that ne sank down and would have perished had not the small boy brought him back.

-Prof. W. H. Smith will deliver a scientific lecture on Wednesday, tbe 15th of February at the Baptist Chur.ch, the same being in the regular course arranged by the "Young Men's Christian Associ­ation" for the benefit of the poor.

-Hereafter we will deliver the HIGH SCHOOL by carrier.

-Mrs. R. C. Clowrey of St ,Louis is now in this city visiting friends.

-Pr<5f. Aughey, of the State University, called at the High School last month.

Educational Series.

WARREN'S GEOGRAPHEIS.

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- awrence runner, ormerly 0 the New Common School Geography, - - - 1.88 " If the1'e has been an educational need in

America m07'e pressing than another, it has

been the want oj a text-book of convenient

size and scope, upon tlte subject of Morals

State University, has entered the High New Physiclli Geography, 1.88 School. Brief Couroe in Geography, - 1.150

-Fred. B. Lowe has commenced the study of law in the office of Col. E. F. Smythe.

-Miss Mary Manning, of the junior class, i~ now teaching school in Douglas County.

-Chas. R. Redick has left the High School, and commenced the study of law in his father's office.

-Miss Ella SPOOl', a former student of the eighth grade, is now attending an acad­emy at Cohasset, Mass.

-Will McMillan, well known as a for­mer High School student, is now running a telegraph office in Chicago.

-Fred Millard and Cassius Gise sented their cards to several young ladies of New York City last New Years.

-Miss Alice Saul' wine, for a long time teacher of English Literature at Brownell Hall, has gone to hcr home in Boston, Mass.

-Prof. Geo. W. Boyden has been elected to fill the newly created office of Writing Teacher at the High and Central Schools.

-Miss Jennie Allan, of this city, is now visiting friends at Texarkana, Texas) and will return home about the first of next May.

-Miss Sarah McShane has gone to Bloomington, Ill's, where sh'e will spend about a year and a half at a seminary in that city.

-Misses Minnie Hawes, Nancy McLain, Jennie Byers and Goorgie Seymour, and Master Ed. Sutphen, have entered the Eighth Grade this term.

-Mr. H. D. Estabrook, of the St. Louis University, has been elected Secretary of the Debating Society composed of the law students in that institution.

-George H. Fitch, the young gentleman who was awarded the prize for the best es­say read at the inter-collegiate contest, is a cousin to Mr. Chns. H. Needham of this city.

GREENE'S GRAMMARS.

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POETRY. I

-New Years has n ot been unproductive RICH FARMING LANDS, M HELLMAN & CO.,

• Dealers in

AFTER THE BURIAL.

in its variou inciden ts. We were return­

ing from a prayer meeting about the first

one o'clock in 1875, when w e observed a

ii'iend of ours encir ling a hitching post in the most confiding warmer. He was gaz­

ing reflectively at the moon and in a gen­

eral apostrophie to the sky, was making revelations concerning the planets hitherto entirely unknown to scientists. H e also

wi ·hed to r emove his shoes, being impressed

with the sacred character of the ground

FOR SALE VERY CHEAP. Clothing and Gents' Furnishing Goods,

BY JA.MES RU SELL LOWELL.

Yes, faith is a goodly anchor; When skies are sweet as a psalm,

At t1 e bows it lolls so stalwart, In bluff, broad-shouldered calm.

And when over breakerR to leeward The tattered sur/1:es are hurled,

It Dll\y keep our head te the tem pest, With its grip on the base of the world I

But after the shipwreck, tell me What help in its iron throws,

-Still true to the broken hawser, Deep down among sea-weed and ooze!

In the breaking gulfs of sorrow, When the helpless feet stretch out

And find in t.he deeps of darkness No footing 80 solid as doubt.

Then better one star of Memory, One broken plank of the Past,

That our human heart may cling to, Thllugh hopeless of shore at last I

To the spirit its splendid conjectures, To the flesh its sweet despair,

Its tears o'er thE' thin worn lo ;:ket With its anguish of deathless hair I

Immortal ? I feel it and know it Who doubts it of such as she?

But that is the pangs very secret­Immortal away from me.

There's a narrow ridge in the graveyard Would ~carce stay a child in his race,

But to me and my thought it is wider Than the star-sown va/1:ue of Space.

Your logic, my friend, is perfect, Your morals most dreadfully true;

But, since the earth clashed on her coffin, I keep hearing that, and not you.

Console if you will, I can hear it j 'Tis a well-meant alms o f breath j

But not all the preaching since Adam Has made Death other than Death.

It is Pagan; but wait till you feel it­The jar of the earth. that dull shock

When the plow share of deep passion Tears down to our primitive rock.

Communion in spirit I Forgive me, But I, who am earthy and weak,

Would give all my income from dreamland For a touch of her hand on my cheek.

That little shoe in the corner, So worn and wrinkled and brown,

With its emptiness confutes you, And argues your wisdom down.

OURSELVES.

-A friend indeed is one who is not in

need.

-The last time Charlie Ross turned up,

it was his mother who did it.

-Why is the N ew Deal a very unreli-able paper? Because its proprietor IS

always Ouming but never comes.

-The Danb'lwy Man's wit is getting so

thin now as to suggest the wish that he will soon become the « Dam-buried man."

-We think we have sufficient of the

manuscripts of New Years Poems to light the fire till that anniversary comes around

again.

-A young man of this City who spent

Christmas in Council Bluffs, says the

liveliest thing he saw over there was a funeral.

-One of our exchanges exclaims wildly

" Brains, Brains is what w e want." We should judge so from a perusal of its

columns.

THE BEST INl[ESTMENT!

No FLUCTUATIONS I

ALWAYS IMPROVING IN VALUE I

where he stood, but was for obvious reasons Tho wealth of the couutry Is made by the advance .in Real di suaded. We deposited him at home as Estate.

NOW IS THE TIME I quietly as possible, but from the fact that

we heard him quoting scripture with undue 'd't t d h 1.1 MUlIons of acres 01 tile finest Land. on tke Continent, in

rapl I y as we urne away, we s ou U Easlern Nebraska, now for sale-many of th~1ll never b':IOl'e imagine t hat his wife was wishing him a In llll\rket-at prices that defy competition.

happy N ew Y ear.

••• MISCELLANEOUS.

-A m other-in-law is not a heavenly

body, but she has been known to eclipse a

honeYluoon.

-Carl Schurz is lecturing on "Educa­

tional Problems," but it is not generally known that Grant is writing a poem on

King Kalakaua.

-A girl in Cairo has just finished a farm b!tllad containing 2,100 verses. It reaches clear across the street and wOhld

rrtake foul' bustles.

-When a Philadelphia critic wishes to

be very expressive, he compliments a dra­

matic star by saying that she shines like a brass 'tack in an old hail' trunk.

-The man out West who put mucilage

into his empty hail' oil bottle, is r egarded

with hatred by the servant ~irl, whose locks

are in such a state of stiffness that she can­

not shut her mouth.

-It is related of a certain minister, who

was noted for his long sermons with many

divisions, that one day, when he was advanc­ing among his teens, he reached at length a kind of resting-place in his discourse, when

pausing to take breath, he asked the ques­tion, "And what shall T say more ?" A

voice from the congregation earnestly

responded, "Say Amen !"

-A Scotsman writes :-"There is a

mystery about the effect of the weather on piety. Sabbath heat seems hottel', Sabbath

cold colder, and Sabbath rain wetter than

that of any other day. We need a Sabbath almanac, cQ.lculated for churches, that will

show by its weather scale when it will be

safe for a vigorous Christian to expose himself on the Sabbath by going to the

housc of God."

-Have all the pleasures you can-make merry and b e glad-during this j ovial

winter season . There is no harm, but great

good in innocent enjoyment. At the same time do not forget c r neglect fol' a single

d ay, y onr hours of study. The winter

should b e made a season of improvement

as 'well as of festivity 311d pleasure. It need not be v ery much time that you devote to rcading aud study, but the rule

sh ould be infalliblc-~tfew hours every day.

Business Directory,

A TTORNEYS.

E. F. SMYTHE, Odd Fellows' Block.

CRACKER FACTORY.

FrVE AND TEN YEARS CREDIT GIVEN

WITH INTEREST AT t:!IX PER CENT.

The Land Grant Bonds or the Company taken at par lor Lands. They can now po purchased at lL Il\rge discount.

Full particulars givon. new GuiLle with new Maps mailed h'oo by acldressiu g

O. F. D.A VIS, Lund Commissioner U. P. R. R.

OMAHA, NEB

FRANK J. RAMGE,

DRAPER AND 1. AIL OR,

Keeps a fnll assortmcnt of Imported Woolens lor Genlle­men'. use. Wedding Outfits a specialty.

232 FARNHAM STREET.

R & J. WILBUR,

BOOKS AND STATION,ERY,

Wholesale and Retail.

FOURTEENTH STREET, OMAHA, NEB.

General Agents for all

SCHOOL BOOKS.

CHARLES SHIVERICK,

FURNITURE,

BEDDING,

MIRRORS,

And everythIng pertaining to the

FURNITURE AND UPHOLSTERING TRA.DE,

203 Farnham Street, Omaha, Neb.

PUNDT, MEYER & RAAPKE,

Dealers in

GROOERIES, TEAS AND SPIOES,

212 FARNHAM~STREET,

UMAHA, NEBRASKA.

Established 1856.

A. B. HUBERMAN & CO.,

J E '"W' E L E R S, -An Omaha Sunday School scholar McCLURE &S ~nTH. Harney St., between Elev-

enth and Twelfth. horrified his teacher who asked him.

"What is the chief end of man" by reply­

ing "his feet."

-Council Bluff's 110W puts in a claim as the geographical cent.re of the St.ate of

Iowa. No wonder the centre could never b e found before.

-A friend of ours who has signed the

pledge 99 times completed his hundredth on New Years day and then went out and took a drink to ratify the promise.

-One of the girls of the High School

says, she knows that Bacon did not write

tho'se plays that Shak peare wrote, which

opinion we hope will settle all discussion in the matter.

-When we view some of the long haired, short brain ed individuals, who stand up in prayer meetlng aud elsewhere

. ' and mform us that "heaven is their home"

we begin to feel a ye:.lrning for the lower region!.

-Scene in Wilbur's book store:

1st Boy :-" Say, Jim, which of these b ooks ~hall I take, the blue one or the red one ?"

2d Boy :-"Why, the blue one of course you can take it home and read it and th ' . . en It Will be read."

GUNS AMD AMUNITION.

D. C. SUTPHEN, 211 Farnham St.

DEllTIST.

DR. A. S. BILLINGS, 234 F arnham St.

DRY GOODS AND N01·IONS.

TOOTLE &MAUL, 226 Farnham St.

RETAIL DRY GOODS.

W. M. BUSHMAN, 265 Douglas Stree t.

JOE PRINTERS.

OMAHA DAILY BEE, 138 Farnham Street 9f1icial ~ape~ of the City, and bes t advertis: lDg MedIUm In the State.

MEAT MARKET.

&. A. HARRIS, 537 Fourteenth St.

MERCHANT TAILOR.

JEAN LIEBERT, clothe~ made to order, 284 Thirteen th St.

PHYSICIAN.

DR. EMLEN LE WIS, Odd Fellow~' Block.

Sl'OVES AND TIN WARE.

WM. McF ADDE ,185 Farnham St.

BOOKS AND S TATIONERY.

J. U. FRUEHAUF & 00 .• 125 Farnham St.

IOWA GOAL COMPANY.

Office, 515 Thirteentu Street Omaha GEO 0 TOWLE, Agent. ' , "

MENS AND EO Y'S CLOTHING.

A. POLAOK, 238 Farnham Street, near 14th.

Cor. Thil'teenth and Dcuglas Sts.

TAMES K. ISH, .

WHOLESALE DRUGGIST , 241 F ARNHAlII :::iTREET,

Retail Stores, corner Twelfth and Douglas Ninth and Howard Streets. '

and

MAX MEYER & BRO., Whole •• le and Retail Deniers ill

MUSICAL MEROHANDISE, 229 Farnham St., (Central Block.)

OMAHA. NEBRASKA. Large and selcct stock of Watches, Jowelry nnd Fancy Goods

constantly on hand.

JOHN O'KEEFFE, FASHIONABLE

MERCHANT TAILOR Koepsalways on hand a Inrgeand

.elect Stock of

Imported Woollens,

A Perfect Fit Guaranteea . il~ all caSe8.

FINE DBE . AND WEDDING • SUITS A. PECllLTY.

168 FARNHAM ST., bet 11th and 12th.

221, 223 Farnha;n St. , cor. 13th St., OMAnA-. NEB.

JOHN MORELL, Successor to MORELL & RAMSEY,

lIfaruoctul'er of the f elcbrated Bmnd.,

L X Land OLIVE Soaps. GRAND CEN!~!.~ HOTEL,

I X L Soap Manufactory Omaha, N eb.

\vM. STEPHENS. W . P. WILCOX.

STEPHENS & WILCOX,

Dealers in

STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS,

CARPETS, NOTIONS,

INDIAN GOODS. ROBES AND FURS,

239 Farnham Street, Omaha.

OMAHA NATIONAL BANK,

UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY,

OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

Capital ................ .............. ........ : ......................... .. ...... 5200.000 Surplus and Pr. fi! •................... ·.. ....... .......................... 30,000

EZRA MILLARD, P,·esident. J . H. MILLARD, Cashier. W. WALLACE, Ass't. Caallier.

---------------------------------lNO. S· JOHNSON & CO.,

GROOERS,

260 Dodge Street.

Pre-eminently the leading lIotel of Nebraska.

GEO. THRALL, Prop.

UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY.

First Na.tional Bank of Omaha.. CA pital Paid up .... .. ................ ............................. ·· ..... · 8200,000 ( Undivided Profits, including Premlum8 on Bonds .... 100,000 A verage Deposits over .................................................. 1•OOO ,000

EDWARD CREIGHTON President. HERMAN KOUNTZE. Vice Pr.sident . AUGU TUS KOUNTZE, Casbler. H. W. YATES. A8S·t. CU8hler. A. J. POPPLETON. Attorney.

COUTANT & PAL~ER.

FIRE AND LIFE IlvSURANCE AGENTS.

512 Thlrtcenth Street_, West side, between_D. uglas and Farnham, Omaha, Nebraska.

S AM'L Bt;~!~~ and Dealer In

Crockery, China, Glass and Plated Ware, LOOKING-GLASSES AND GAS FIXTURES,

137 }'nrnllam Street, Central Block, Omaha, Neb. Kcep" eonstRnily ou hand a large stock of &bool Fuml­

ture, such "" Chandellers. Brackets, L.~mps. CaU Bells, 5! it· tOODS. 'Vuter CooI~rs. Ink Stands. etc.

S PECIAL PmCES AND TERMS TO SCHOOLS.

FOR SALE, On long time. from one to ten ) ears.

20,000 ACRES OF LAND,

Between Omaha and Columbus. on the Platte Vallcy. aud adjacent to the Union Pacific Railroad.

JOHN I. REDICK.

ONL r FIRST,CLASS RELIABLE GOODS DEWEY & STONE,

Sold. and we sell them at prices which

CANNOT BE B EAT,

All assertions or other s to the contrary , notwit~s t.anding.

We are not Undersold in the City.

The only prool of this [act is to

GIVE US A TRIAL.

JNO. S. J08NSON & Co.,

260 Dodge Street.

A HURM, • Dealer in nil kinds of

BOOTS .AN'D S~OES.

557 Sixteenth St., bet. Dodge St. and Capital Ave.,

OMARA. NEB.

Custom Work Made to Order. R epairing neatly done.

WM. GENTLEMAN. E. FEARON

GENTLEMAN & FEARON,

GENERAL GROCERS , Provision and Produce Me1'chants ,

Cor. Dodge and Twelfth Streets, Omaha. Neb, A Choice Line of Teas always on hand.

FURN1TURE DEALERS, -

187, 189, and 191 Farnham Street,

OMAHA.

TAILOR ~~j) -AN"D--

#~/ l' Clothier, Bet. 13th aud 14th Street8. -<~R .;;

Farnham Street,

OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

SILKS!

SILK, CASHMERE. AND ALPACA SUITS STEELE & JOHNSON,

FOR SALE AND MADE TO ORDER.

P. M. FALLON, 263 Dodge, between 14th and 15th Streets,

G L. ."1' •

mIAIIA. NEBRASKA.

BOWERS,

BUTCHER. ALL KINDS OF FRESH and SALT MEATS

Constantly on hand. Vegetable8 in their Season.

No. 584 Oor. 10th and Dodge Streets.

WHOLESALE GROOERS ,

536 and 538 Fourteenth St., Simpson's Block,

• OMAHA.

D. M. STEELE. S. R. JOIINSON. St. JOijeph. Mo. Omaha, Neb

two Three Cent t £ 0 I amps or rnamenta Penmanship and Oollege Journal