Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 17, 1882, Page 3

ST ey THE GmAuA DAILY Blk: MONDAY APRIL 17, 1882, THE DAILY BEE LMAHA PUBLISHING 00., PROPRIETORS. —_— 918 Farnham, bet. Oth and 10th Streets. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, 0Ose 1 year, in advance (postpald) ¢ monthe -4 - month N " RAILWAY TIME TABLH, CARD EHIOAGO, WT. PAUL, WINNRAPOLIS AND 1OMATIA RATLROAD, Leave Omaba—Pasmenger No, , 6:80n. m., Ao wmodation No, ¢, 1:0 Cp. m. Afrive Omaha—Passonger No, 1, 6:20 p. m, Asci e = sdation No, 8, 10:60 a, m, ATING OMAHA RAST OR BOUTH BOUND, Bk g 1108, m—840p. m. &N . m.—8:40 p. m. oo = g & 49 W., St L. & P, leaves at§ &, m. and 1 Arrives » Bt. Lou's at6:40 &, m, and 7:80 ™ WSt OR SOUTHWRTS. B. & M. In Neh., Through Express, m, B. & M. Lincoln Ex; f P frelght No. Pt reight No, | P. freight No, 18, . P frolght Ko, 7, P. Denver expross, treleht No 11, Denver freight, anafea; (%= as CB& am C &N am, C. B, L &P 645 a, m. i C., 8t Joe &0 ABRRIVING FROM THR WES AND SOUTHWASY. 0. & R. V. from Lincoln—1:08 p. m. P, Pacific Exprees—8:26 p. m. & M. In Neb,, Through Express—4:16 p m. & M. Lincoln fxpross—g:40a m. ¢ P, . Denver express, 7:36 a. . Freight 14—2:50 Ig aot. .\ I, Denver freight, . & L. V. mixed, ar, DOMMY YRAIND RATWEKN OMAHA AWD COURGIL BLOPPH. | [ ‘ and 11:00 . m. and 6:00 p. 1. Leaves 2:95, 4:36 00, 4:00 :00 . Conncll Plutts st 0:35 and 11:26 a. m. and 6:26 p. m. agh and local passenger tralns botween ve Omaha—6:16, m. Arrive 7:06, 7 Omaba and Council Bluffs, 4 , 6:46, 0:00 p. , 11:46 a. m.; 6:40, 16, 3 H m, p. m. & Ohlcago & K, W. 9:00 Shioszo, & 1. & 810 Chicago, B. & Q.. B Wabash ' 12:80 Bloux City 9:00 Unlon Paci 00 Ouwaba & 00 ¥.& M. in Nel 4:00 Omahs & Sjoux Cit; 6:00 B. & M. Lincoln, 10:39 . P. Lincoin, 8u 1:30 J. P, Denver Ex :00 0., Sloux City & St P...11:00 4 Locsl maila for State of lowa leave but once s day, e 6300 1 imce open Sundays trom 12m. fo 1 p. m. ' THOS. F HALL P M. . | Pbiliip Tan 1820 Farnham at._bet. 13th & 14th, o 40 | &c.. bought and sold on na Olgars and Tobacco. d n.lmx Deatere o Tobaccos, ”Y.%&"m.u.' an olesale Dealersi n To! 1 . LA r._mwsxm mlnnhgtlrillgfl r:l:!!hm Flocist. A. Donagh: cut flowers, seeds, coquete ot RO aor, Foth wha Dourins sbrests OWvIl Englneers and Burveyors. ANDREW ROSEWATER, Crelghton Block, ro-nu:umy-. Grade and Sewerage Systems & Spocialty. Vommission Merchants. JOHN G. WIL LIS, 1414 Dodge Strest. D B, BEEMER. For detalls see large advertise: ment In Dally and Weekly, Cornlos Works. W stex: Oornlce Work Manufacturers Iron Co,nics, Tin, Iron and Roofling. Orders trons saly locity promptly exscuted In the best mannor. Factory and Office 1918 Harney St ©. SPECHT, Proprietor. g | Galvanised Iron Cornices, Window Cape, etc., manufactured and put up in any of the country, T.SINHOLD 416 Thirteenth street Orockery. J. BONNER 1800 Douglas street. _Good line. Clothing and Furnishing Goor GRO. If, PETERSON. _Also Hats, Caps, Boots, 8hoos Notions and Catlery, 804 S. 10th treet. 8how Oase Manufactory. 0. J. WILDE, Manufacturer and Dealer in all kinda of Show Casea, Upright Cases, & ~., 1817 Oase Bt. FRANK L. GERIARD, proprietor Omaba Show Case manufactory, 818 South 10th street, between Leavenworth and Marcy. All goods warranted Sret-class. Htoves ana inware. A. BURMESTER, Doalor In toves and Tinware, and Manutacturer of Tin Roots and all kinds' of Bullding Work, 0dd Fellows’ Block. J. RONNFR, 1800 Nanglan B4 ond and_Cheap. Teva J. EVANS, Wholesale and Rotal Seed Drills and Cultivators Odd Fellows Hall} Physiclans and Burgeons. W. 8, GIDBS, M. D, Room No 4, Orelghton Block, 16th Street. it ata it P. &. LEISENRING, M., D. Masonc Block. ©. L. MIART, M. D A Rar, opp. postofice DR, L, B. GRADDY, Oratist and Avrl 1hth and Farnham Sbs Fhotograpners. GEO. HEYN, PROP. Grand Central Gallety, 212 Siktoenth Street. near Useonic Hall, Firat-class Work snd Prompb- nesa guarantoen Plumbing, Uas ana Bteam FItting. P. W. TARPY & CO., 216 12th 8t., bet, Farnbam and Douglaa. Work promptly attended to. D. FITZPATRICK, 1409 Douglns Streot. AInting #n__ apor &nging. HENRY A. KOSTKRS, 141_Dodgo Street. 8hoe Btores. Becond Hand Store. PERKINB & LEAR, 1618 Douglas St., New and Second Hand Furniture, House Furnishlng Goods, w_marving. Baioo HENRY KEAUFMANK, Ta tae now brick, biock on Douglas Stroct, bas Just opened a most elogant Boea Hall. ‘Hot Lunch from 10 0 13 every day. “ Caledonta ¥ I FALCONER 679 16th Btreet. Undertakers. CHAS. RIEWE, 101¢ Farnham bot. 68 Oent Btores. 0th & 11ed. Business_Directary. USLE;HER’S W. R. BARTLETT 817 South 15th Streed. Architec DUFRENE & MENDELSSOHN, ARCHITECTS Room 14, Crelghton Rlock. JAMES NE & CO0., Fine Boots and Shoes. A good assortmeny fome work on hand, corner 1th and Earney. THOS, ERICKSON, §. E. cor. 16th and Douglas. JOHN FORTUNATUS, 805 10th street, manutacturea to order good work 4 talr prices, 'Revatring dove. foaTerce Bed Bprings. LARRIMER Manufncturer, 1617 Dooelss st. Books, News and 8tatlonery. J. L. FRUEHAUF 1016 Farobam Stroet. Butter and Eggs. MGSHANE & SCHROEDER, the oldest B, and E. Bouse in Nebraska establiatied 1876 Owaha. VEN TRAL RESTAURANT, MRS A. RYAN, # :uthwest corner 16thand Dodge, Best Eoard for the Monay. Batistaction Guaranteed. the Day, Week or Month. Good Terws for Cash. Renms Supplied Uarrlages and Road Wagons. BNYDER, 14:h aud Harney Streots. Olothing Eought. J. HARRIS will pay highest Cagh prico for socond Band clothing, Gorner 10th snd Farnbam, For a quarter of a century or more Hostetter Stomach niug specific for Indigestion,dyspepsis, fever and agne, loas of sical stawnn liver complaint and other disor dere,'and has been most omphatically indorsed by medical men 68 o health aed strength restor 1t counteracts a tendency to premature and sustaius and comforts the aged and in Forfeale by all druggists and dealers generally L] al to ml GRAY'S SPECIFIC MELDICINE TRADE MARit The GrestTIi/ DE MAR English rem- edy. Anun- falling cure for Seminal Jowe el JOHN BAUMER 1814 Faruham Streel. Junk. H. BERTHOLD, Rage snd Metal, Lumber Lime and Gement. FOSTER & GRAY comner 6th and Donglas Sts. Lamps and Glassware. J. BONNER 1809 Douglas St. Good Varloty. Merchant Tallors, G. 4, LINDQUEST, One of our most popular Merchant Tatlors 1a re- celving the lawst desigus for Spring and Summer Goods for geatlemen's wear. - Btylish, durable, snd prices low as ever 215 18th bet. Doug.& Farn, Millinery. MRS, 0. A. RINGER, Wholesale and Retall, Fan Goods In great variety, Zephy! Gloves, Coraots, &c. - O Purchasers save 80 por cent. L 116 Fitteenth Street. Founary. OHN WEARNE & BONS cor. 14th & Jackson ste Flour and Feed. OMAHA CITY MILLS, 8th and Farubam Sts., Welehans Eros., proprietors, Qrocers. £. STEVENS, Slst botween Cuming and Izar 7. A, MoSHIANE, Corn, 28d and Cuming Btreets. Hardwaie, Ifon ana Gteel, OLAN & LANGWORTHY, Wholesale, 110 ané 12 16th street A. HOLMES corne 16th and Californis, Hariicss, Badales, &c. B. WEIST 20 18th 8t. bet Faro- & Harney, BLAVEN'S HOTEL, F. Slaven, 10th 8¢, Sonthern Hotel Gus. Hamel 9th & Leavenworth Orugs, Faints and Oiis. KUHN & CO, Pharmaciste, Fino ¥anc Goode, Cor. 15th and Dougles strects. W.J. WHITEHOUPE, Wholesale & Rotall, 16th st. 0. FIELD, 2022 North 8ide Cuming Street. PARR, Druggist. 10th and Howsrd Btreets. Dentists. DR. PAUL Willlams' Block Oor. 16th & Dodg Ury Goods Notlons, & JOHN H, F. LEUMANN & 0., York Dry Goods Siore, 1910 and 1815 Farn- bam street. Enewold also boots ard shoos Furamure. GROSS, Now and Bevond Hand Faraitare oves, 1114 Dougiss. Highost cash price 7 second bena koo, EER 1800 Dougia st Fine goods &c. Perce Works. OMAEA FENCE 00, ES & CO 1218 Earney 8t,, Improve Irce aci Wood Feuces, Office poters 2ine aud Walnut. " Pawnbrokers. D 106 8k bet far. & Har Patent. A Pacific. Weakness, Spermator- thea, Impot- ency, andall Discasesthat follow as a ~Soeen BEFGRE TAKING. sequence of AFTER TAKING, Sell-Abuse; a8 Loss of Memory, Universal Lassi- tude, Pain in the Back, Dimncss of Vision, Pre: matiire Old Age, and tany other Diseases that lead to Insanity 'or Consumption and s Prema- ture Grave, 4@ Full ‘particulars in our pamvhlet, which wo_desire to send freo tv mail to every one. £aThe Bpecific Medicine I8 vold by al] druggists at 81 per package, or G packges for 86, or will be sent free by mail on rece p tof the money, by JAPANESE SKETCHES. The Landscape Teeselated by Patches of Garden. An Ancient Altar in a Cave by the Sea. Steep Mountain Sides Won for Agri- culture — A Picturesque Harvest Field — Qurious Food. Cortespondence of the 8an Francisco Chronicle. Yoxouama, February 256.—-It is said that God made the country and that men have made the cities. It is just as true that the Creator made the hills in Japan and that men have made tho valleys. In rambling over the country one is struck with the mani- fent fact that the many narrow and contracted spots devoted to agrioul- ture have been fashioned, and, in realty, been made by the labor of men; that the hillsides have been utilized in filling up what could have been only narrow ravines, formed by tho escaping raiufalls, I fancy that all the wider areas of level spots have ‘been formed by the gradual accumula- tion at the deltas of the rivers as they entered thesea. Tokio is a city coy- ering a large level spot, intersected by a river that has during the long ages been depositing the wash from the wator-shed of all the thousand hills surrounding it. Yokohama is mostly made land, and the valley running out from it has evidently been formed by the wash from the hills that have offered their sides to the wearing action of the fierce storms of wind and rain that have assaulted them during the thousands of years that the induetry of men has been their aid and ally. The valley of Kamakura, which was at one time the residence of the Shogons, was evident- ly formed by the action of the sea as it deposited its treasures of sand and shells in what must have been an in- dentation in the const line of hills And probably such was largely the case with the valley running out from Yokohama. I have been led ic these conclusions after having taken partic- ular notice of the appearance of the adjacent country. Ihave taken many tramps over the hills and through the valleys, and it has always struck me that Japan at one time must have been, at least this part of it, one mass of hills and without valleys of any width or length. Thelast trip I made was to Enoshima, by the way of Kanasawa. The road to Kanasawa is one that has many attractions. A fine view of land and_sea is to bo had from the hills overlooking that village. One noted point is known as Nokando, in the vernacular, the literal meaning of the word being fine view: and cer- tainly the hill is well named, for the character of the scenery is unsurpassed in this quarter of Japan, and equals any that I have ever seen anywherein other lands. VIEW FROM NOKANDO HILL, Nokando hill is at least 1,000 feet above the sea, and for some distance along its crest the road 1s not over six feet in width, Like many of the hills, its sidds have been cut into until the descent is at a very sharp angle—so sharp that if a misstep was made there would be no stopping until the bottom was reached. hen one looks off from this elevation—over the land- scape—it is not at all difficult to ap- preciate why the dragon, as repre- sented by Japanese carvings and orna- mentations, 18 so lavishly utilized. I have often wondered how such a beast could have been invented; it is all clear to me now. A bird’s-eye view of tne narrow, tortuous, level reaches— that have been carved from the hills —suggest the dragon in all its in- tensity. The rice flacs, as one looks down upon them, resemble the scales of an immense serpent, and more especially do they now, when they are glistening under the sun as they lay coyered with water and the short-cut stubble showing itself above it. The sinuosities of the reptile’s body and the legs and claws are to be seen wherever one can have a clear look from the elevated spots., Dragons are carved in endless variety among the hills; and as these spots furnish sustenance for the people, it is not at all strange that the dragon is the symbol of the empire and made an object of worship. It is not a hand- some bird, but it might be worse looking than it is. The marine view from Nokando is most charming. The day was bright and lovely; the sea was at peace with itself and with the land. The white, addressing THEGRA 1EDICINE CO., Buffalo, N. 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The chap I saw at work put his brand or stamp upon the end of every piece of wood they put into the pile, probably that there should be no cheating in the count when pay- time came around. But the strangest part of the business was to see them sitting down, or, at least, on their knoes, at this wood sawing and split- ting. Strange as it may appear to your readers, such was the case; and, in fact, there s very little labor done here, except in the fields, that is not done while the laborer is upon his knees. Coopers, blacksmiths, carpenters, stone-cutters, in fact, it may said, all squat to their work. From Kanasawa the road to Enoshima is over the hills via Kamakura, and is about five miles long. Some portions of ic are mar- gined by contracted rice fields, where it winds between hills, but the longer portion is cut through the hills that offer no space for cultivated areas. The plain of Kamakura ls under cul- tivation, and in crossing it, leaving the wide circlo of hills on the right with the sea apon the left hand, there were numbers of men and women en- oountered as well as youths of both sexes, occupied in tilling the fields of wheat and barley, which had attained the growth of some five ivches, They wero ¥uuing seaweed between the rows of growing grain, and covering it with eoil as it was carefully put in place by the workers, All the sea- weed put upon this wide plain—that is, wide for Japan—is brought from the shore in baskets, much of it be- ing 8o carried a distance of three or four miles. Upon entering the road continuing through the hills on the further side of Kamakura Dia Butsu is left to his dignified contemplation on the left hnnf\—thc rond entering the hills near whero he sits. For about a mile it runs along the side of what is almost a mountain, which is cut through on its crest, the width of the cut not being over ten feet, and the perpendicular sides appear to be at least 100 feet high—they may be higher. A PICTURQUE ISLAND, The distance trom Kamakura to Enoshima is some four miles, much of the way being a tedious travel. Enos- hima is one of the celebrities of Japan, It is called an island, and is about 1,000 yards from the mainland. There is a deposit of sand, however, that is entirely bare at low tide, between it and the coast. At high tide the water flows acroes this sand neck, at ita low- eat depression, to the depth of three or four feet; but there is a rude foot bride placed over this part for the ac- commodation of visitors. Enoshima stands sheer and abrupt about 300 feet high; has a small collection of houses clustered upon an ascending area that has been cut from the cliffs. It has but one street, which divides the vil- lage. Itis paved with large blocks of sandstone, and is a succession of as- cending terraces. All the houses are either tor the accommodation of the traveling public or devoted to the sale of shellwork peculiar to the island. There are a large number of fishermen who dive for and bring to the surface such shells as they encounter on the bottom of the sea. They diye for cus- tomers as well, As the sun was setting when I ar- rived, I sought mine inn and ordered dinner. It was brought me in Japa- nese style, and was Emdignl as to quality—no end of fish fixings and sances aud vegetables, prepared in some mysterious way to make them palatable and acceptable to the native taste. I did not gorge myself, so went to bed feeling not any way op- pressed by an overloaded stomach. The hotel was firat-class and every- thing was scrupulously neat. My bed was made on the matting, and consisted of two thick quilted cotton arrangements, with the same numoer for covering. As I did not affect the wooden head-rest, I was accommodat- ed with a cotton quilt doubled and folded into pillow shape. A large square paper lamp or lantern was placed in the room. It contained a vessel filled with some vegetable oil, in which was laid a cotton wick, which gave forth a subdued and teeble light, und I was left to my slumbers, or con- templations, as they might visit me in the hours of silence which followed. Islep well. The morning sun was bright and warm, and after breakfast- ing I sailed out to see the sights of the sacred place. OBSEQUIOUS SER ANTS, There is no place in the world where one receives more obsequious attention from his host than in Japan. Everything is done that the condi- tions allow—attendance is nov lag- gard—-and there is no necessity for electric bells, Some one is within the sound of the clap of hands and re- sponse is instantly made. Everything is extended by the attendants while they are upon their knees. Never do the beauty of color and form in which it glories. The waters of the Japan e been prevontoc bys vimely Hep% | & Toronto, Out, To Nervous Sutterers THE QREAT EUROPEAN REMEDY, Dr, J. B, Bimpron's Specific \Weoknons, Ty from Bolf oty, and diseasos that lead to Consumpticn Lnsanity an. |, early grave 7% (The Bpecific 80 |Modicine i being used with wonder- ful succese. scat tros 80 al,~ Wrile 10 Vheia and e okl yors ages, Nos. 104 anid 108 Kol Bold In Guaha by O, ¥, Good J,K. Isb, and all sea as clear as crystal, and mirror as faithfully as a photographic plate, Kanasawa, like most of the villages on the coast, is shoved and crowded down to the shore by hills, There is a temple there that has stood manya pelting storm, judging from its looks and the size of the enviable trees sur- rounding it. The place where it stands is cut from the hill, and isa semicircle of sandstone cliff that is as perpendicular in its integrity to-da; a8 when the hand of the devout laid 1t bare. I noticed in it what I have not seen elsewhere, Oan either side of the shrine sit two grim old chaps, and above them are the pictures of elabo- rately caparisoned horses, pawing with impatience tu be off and away, and on the right-hand side, as you fook in, stands the carved figure of a horse, purely and spotlessly white. It may have deen dedicated to horse opera for all T know, MOW ARTISANS WORK. The road had been fairly alive with wood-carriers of all sorts; women weighted down with loads placed in a sort of hamper, strapped to their backs, that made them bend to the task as they wearily wended their way; horses and bulls loaded up with all they could stagger along under; men with their cargo carried upon the ends of their poles, Chinese ipl:hiun. It seemed that every one was in the wood business just then. In the re- gion of Nokando hill I found num- bers of wood choppers—they would have been xg’where else, but here they were wood sawyers and splitters. Y | By this method they follow a man they bring anything and offer it to you while they are in standing posi- tion, They kneel and bow the head very low while they request you to recelve what you have ordered or which they offer. One practice I ob- served at this house which upon in- quiry I find is the ordered custom to facilitate police surveillasnce: Every native guest stopping over night at a Japanese hotel must, before he leaves, register his occupation, in all detail. Refusal to do this places the person in the custody of the poiice tmmediately. wherever he travels, if he stops at a ublic house. Probably it is a bene- cial arrangement, There are three temples wt Enos- hima, all dedicated to Beu Ten, one of the seven guardian gods of Japan; but the most noteworthy feature of the place is its cave, which has been considered holy from the dim and un- chronicled past. Enoshima is a sort of Mecca for the devout of Japan, and the cave is the holy of holies, get to this cave the breadth of the island must be traversed. The journey is not the easiest, by any means, to go over, for it is up flights of steps and down other flights, until the muscles of the limbs are weary with the lifting and eustaining processes through which they are put. The road, how- ever, is made very picturesque from its wild surroundings and the intens depth of the emerald foliage of the wooded sides of the abrupt depressions and elevations, as well as the brilliant hues of the flowers and blossoms that are in rare beauty and profgsion, A HOLY CAVE, A descent is made down the preci- tous side of the wave-washed island, that offers an opportunity to cut steps in its broken projections, All other portions are sheer precipices, from top to bottom. After descending to the base of the cliff one steps out upon a tide-washed projection, reaching some forty or fifty yards into the sea, and which reminded me of the rocky bot- tom that lay bare at low tide at the foot of the old rampart walls of Pana- ma. The distance to the cave from tliere 18 not far, though to reach it a projection must be rounded which abuts into the sea, where is provided a temporary footpath of poles tied to- gother. The tide ebbs and flows into the mouth of the cave, where it has worn a deep channel for itself. Evi- dently the hand of man has partly fashioned this cave, and has not made much of success at cave-making after all. Tt s forty-four paces from the entrance to where the first temple or oratory or shrine is situated; for this distance the width of the floor is about twelve feet, the height of the entrance may be forty feet, decreasing to about twenty feet at the position of the place where prayers are offered. The top has been fashioned somewhat in the shape of the Moorish arch. The place of prayer is rudely made, it be- ing a platform ten feet wide and five fect deep. At the back is placed, against the rough board: sheet of white paper, say 5x3 feet; front of this there are two rows of candles, seven in each row, one row being high- or up than the other. At either side is a piece of bamboo doing duty as vases, both holding green branches freshly placod there. On the left of the platform is a box-stand, before which is placed a candle. From the support of the structure placed at the ends thero falls a drapery of bleached cotton, gathered up and tied in festoon shape in the centre; there isalso a lantern suspended from each of these supports. The attendant priest has his accommodations on the right of the passageway and just in front of the shrine, There is a re- ceptacle for holy water, the water be- ing brought through bamboo pipes from the further portion of the cave, where it percolates through the roof in a stream about the volume of one- fourth of an inch. Here the holy lave their hands. Such is the sacred cave of the sacred island of Enoshima. The good natured priest, with whom I talked, told me that about thirty was the average number of visitors daily throughout the year, so I was satisfied that he had a good enough thing of it, if he was not unusually unlucky in being the victim of old Neptune's ruge, as he assured me that at least twice a year the waves wero dashed into the cave with such force and depth that everything was swept away except the cave itaelf. TOMB OF THE SHOGOUS, " As T had to return through Kama- kura I devoted some hours to visiting the historical spots made famous by connection with the history of the celebrated Shogous. At one of these, the tomb of the first Shogou (Yorito- mo), I had the spirit of vandalism take possession of me, and I fliched from the rocky base a piece of beauti- fully delicate moss that was interlaced with an ivy, the tiniest leaved I have ever seen, Yoritomo has been planted over 600 years. He was the Napoleon of Japan. He it was who arrogated and held imperial power in the name of the Mikado, whom he secluded from the people. All around the valley of akura the hillsides have been cut away, leavin, a perpendicular face to them, an theéy have been utilized as the strong storehouses of their lordly occupiers. Openings are seen in great numbers, and they disclose excavations of large dimensions, They were used by the Damios, who erected their dwellings at their bases, as receptables for their treasures of all kinds. In the olden time the famous pieces of artis- tic skill, either in bronze or porcelain, were all kept in some securc place, protected from fire. These everlasting hills afforded the desired places. Absolute security was here compassed; and there could be no question regarding their being fire-proof. Good dungeons they made also. In one of these places they kept confined a near relative of one of the emperors, who was_implicated in a conspiracy. His tomb now stands just at the entrance of the place where he was confined, Somebody erected a tomb to his memory and now he is worshipped, If the ro- mance connected with these hillside excavations were legends to be told, they, no doubt, would be full of in- terest. THE UNPLEASANT SIDE OF TRAVELING, The only drawback to a trip in Ja- pan is the character of the food from which one must select, There is no hope of meat—coffee is not a staple in household articles either; Irish pota- toes are not thought of, nor, in fact, are sweet potatoes for that matter— and what is to be had is so differently cooked, and o much of it salted and pickled and raw, that one is apt to find himself going to bed dissntisfied with the bill of fure fromwhich kv has been: served. Nothing in the shape of bregd of any sort have I scen in & native” eating-house in the coun- try, but you shall find all sorts of vile compounds in the way of foreign wines and liquors, on ‘ull routes that foreigners frequent, wluc_h tells me strongly that ye foreigner is more given to drinking than he is to eating, or that the native has misun- derstood the situation. Knives and forks or spoons are not yet intro- duced, so if one orders eggs in any shape they must be cooked hard, or chop-sticks made to do duty as spoons, which is rather a difficult operation. The foreign traveler in this country will not grow fat unless he learns to relish the native dishes, There are some who are too old to do that. — The Greatest Blessing: A simple, harmless remedy, that cures every time, and prevents disease by keeping the blood pure, stomach regular, kidneys and liver active, is the greatest blessing ever conferred upon man, Hop Bitters is that reme- dy, and its proprietors are being blessed by thousands who have been saved and eured by it. Will you try it? We are rur\ud to furnish sand of the very best quality for bulldiug purposes Lo ny pari of Ui clby, a4 renuauable prioee, oF at the pit. 1o quiriat'the pib 86th and California Sts, Cook & Isaacson|S B X X NIGr W.B. MILLARD, ¥, B. 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