Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 13, 1887, Page 3

THE IMMMORALITY OF OUIDA. Flla Wheeler Discusses the Famous Novelist's Works. THE EFFECT OF HER WRITINGS. No Writer Hasa Right to Paint False or Illusive Picturers of Sin— “Ouida"” a Master Workman But a Poor Theorist. Written for the Bee—Copyrighted. In the August number of Lippincott's Magazine Mr. Edgar Fawcett published an admirable article entitled ‘‘The Truth About Ouida.” It contained the following sentences: The decried immorality of Ouida I have never been at all able to perceive ‘While re- vealing what she believes to be low and con- temptible in society of to-day, she employs merely the weapons Juvenal made use of. She is never sympathetic with wrong-doing. She lays bare alike the sensual and the sor- id aim, but how cordially she seems to de- test each mauvais sujet she describes.” While all this is strictly true, I differ frem Mr. Fawcett, in being able to per- ceive and fully comprehend the precise kind of immoral effect produced upon the impressionable mind by “‘Ouida’s” novels. Nowhere in any of her books, so far as Iean recall them, is she guilty of describing with undue warmth or un- detail any amorous scene or she does not sweep us into lstrom of furious passion with o whirlwind of sublime words, like Gau- tier or Swinburne. She does not initi- ate us into the unique vices of the ut- terly depraved like Zola or Daudet. She does not charm us against our will in the relation of unlawful amours, like Balzac. But with all the strength of her wonderful brain, and with the persis- of a determined purpose, she ds her bullets of wit and sarcasm . = sugh the highest 1d8ak and the noblest impulses of human nature; while she paints with false colors a halo which never existed about the shallow and the insincere. Iread “Strathmore” during an un- formed and romantic period of my life. “Lady Vavasour” was described as being—1ike so many of *‘Ouida’s” hero- ines, un extremely refined, thoroughly charming and irresistable creaty worshipped and sought after, beloved and respected up to the very climax of her adventurous and wicked career. Idonot think my natural impulses are exceptionally vicious or immoral, yet T must confess that the whole career of Lady Vavasour, as depicted in “Strathmore,” wonderfully fascin- ating to me. 1t left a glamour and in- fluence which was long in being dis- pelled. As I look upon the character now, I realize that it was miserably un- true to life, “Lady Vavasour™ was an adventures: —a mistress of many men who masque aded as the wife of one—and revelled in all manner of delight and success until her final downfall, Since I read the book, I have come to know in detail the careers of three ad- venturesses in real life. Each had— and perhaps still has—a measure of suc- cess in deceiving respectable people, in being received into pure homes, in winning favors and admiration from in- o, fluential men. But in all these cases they lived in terror of detection and in nfever of unrest with their own un- happy hearts. In each case the woman's name was used lightly by men who, if they Yitiul\ her too much to expose, de- spised her accordingly. In cach case there were clean souled women who sus- ected and avoided her. There are no lowery paths of unalloyed delight for Lady Vavasours out of Ouida’s novels. sven more ridiculously untrue to life, and more subtly poisonous to the young mind, is Ouida’s delineation of the im- possible character of ‘‘Princess Nap- raxine” and “‘Countess Othmar.” This woman figures as the heroine in two long romances. She was,according to Ouida’s descrip- tion, a sorceress whom all men adored, a married coquette with battalions of lovers who fought over and died for her; yet she retained the worshipping love and respect of both her husbands, bore a spotless reputation to the end, where we leave her with her last de- voted and doting spouse. Certainly an attractive character and career to the romantic, power-loving girl of the day! But outside of Ouida's works, the married flirt with a retinue of lovers who fight duels for her favors is scan- dalized by society, her name is spoken gnecringly by men about town, and the husband whose pride and self-respect is trampled upon usually ends the matter by seeking a divorce, Over and over in all her novels Ouida ives utterance to sentiments like this vom the lips of Countess Othmar, as she muses about her husband: **It is no good for him tobe jealous and irritated. It keeps his admiration and his affection alive. If a man be not made jealous by his wife he drifts into indifference.” There was never worse philosophy of- ferd to the world than this, Never were more erroneous and untruthful precepts sent forth to poison ignorant young minds. Nothing could be more destructive to happiness than for man or woman to im- bibe these ideas and attempt to practice them. The affection which must be kept alive by jealousy is not worth the effort. The husband who is only inter- ested when irritated is but a blank in the lottery of marriage. Any man who is as tender, noble- hearted, and true as Count Othmar was described would grow to despise the shallow woman who kept him “irritated and jealous.” That sort of breeze may gerve to fan the flames of courtship, but it invariably extinguishes the fires of conjugal love,and leaves only the black- ened embers of disgust and the pale ashes of perished pride. It is this low ideal of love and mar- riage, this false halo which she throws about the career of an adventuress, the triumph of injustice and emptiness over lusth'c and worth, which constitutes the mmorality of Ouida's works, to my thinking. . Iinvariably close her books with a be- littled estimate of human nature and a sense of exasperation toward the whole universe. In her novels it is the shallow, immoral, insincere, and un- worthy women whoalwayswin the prizes and pleasures of life. 1If she punishes and unmasks them at the end, it is not until they have enjoyed along career of success, unmarred by disaster. The noble. pure, fathful, and devoted woman, although endowed with greater physical charms, she invariably gives a very hard time. Nufleut and indiffer- ence are their lot. After I read ‘“‘Folle Farine” I wondered what use there was in being good and wretched, when sin and prosperity were so much pleasanter, In a somewhat close study of human nature, I have found nothing to justify theso false pictures which Ouida has awn., There is mothing fascinating, and everything revolting, in the career of & real adventuress. A beautiful and noble woman wins ten times the admiration and love which falls to the lot of a beau- tiful bad woman, Ifany man neglects a good and worthy woman for an unworthy one, as we know men often do, he invar! nhl{ suffers from the opinion of the world, from his own conscience, if he has one, and almost always finds nothing but misery in his infatuation. The romantic and ignorant of the world young girl cannot read the ma- jority of Onida's novels (I can think of one only which I exempt from this cate- gory, and that is “V anda’) without gaining the impression that noble women and true wives suffer neglect and misery, while the immoral adven- turessor blasse flirt revels inall the good things of life. It is not true. The success of vicious and immoral women is only spasmodic, and always un- satisfactory, and & doubtful reputation follows them werever they go. If virtue and worth sometimes suffer and rebt under a cloud, these qualities are cer- tain to bring their reward in the long run. Thereis no society so frivolous or base that a true and pure woman is not respected and admired more than a clever demi-mondaire. Out of Ouida’s novels, the married woman whose lovers are always pre- ferred to her husband, however free from sin she may be, inevitably finds her reputation tarnished by the speech of a cynical world. And the true and lngnl husbands and wives are not those who are kept in a state of irritated jealousy. No man gflnm«scd of good sense or any strength of character would respect a wife who attempted to irritate him, and no woman with the brains of a grasshopper would try to irritate a kind and devoted lover-husband. Genius has the right to depict vice and sin in all their hideousness, but it has no right to give false or illusive pictures, or to drag down and belittle what is noble and grand. Again this is what Ouida does over and over again. She is a poet in her use of words, an artist in her coloring of scenes and situ- ations, a master workman in her con- struction of plots, but her philosophy is hitter and bad, and her theories of life love ana marriagé false and un- true. LLLA Wn R WILCOX. ——~— MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Mme. Janauschek will soon start on the road again. Sir Arthur Sullivan has completed a grand opera to be called “Mary Stuart.” Meech Brothers of Buffalo, contemplate sending two ‘“‘Anarchy” companies on the road. Marie Van Zandt, the American prima donna, will be heard in this country next senson, The Place Vendome, the new theater in Nashville, is a remarkably handsome place of amusement. Miss Nina Sharp, of Hartford, Conn., is said to be the most’ accomplished amatéur violinist in the United States. Fanny Dayenport will not dou’s new play until she can sccure a New York the 1 which to present it fora run. Mr. Richurd C. White, the dramatist of the production, | ooks after details in the performances of “She.” Joe Jefferson has an_almost entirely new company this season, and there appears to be no diminution in his wonderful popularity. Mary Anderson is now worth nearly one million dollars in her own right—more money than any other actress has ever made. The New York Academy of Music has been purchased by Eugene Tompkins, of the Boston theater,” and E. G. Gilmore, of Niblo's Garden, for 365,000, Henry Irving has brought over ninety people ‘for “Faust,” in addition to an_elec- trician, gas-man, calcium light man and mas- ter carpenter. The group of the seven condemned an- archists as they appeared while in consulta- tion in the Arbeiter Zeitung office is now on exhibition at the Eden Musee, New York. Miss Julia Marlowe has signed a contract with Henry E. Abbey whereby that gentle- men becones her manager for a number of years. Her scason will begin at the Star theatre on December 12, A prominent manuger who saw Creston Clarke's debut as *Hamlet” has this to say SIf young Clarke is truc to his_opportunitics, he will within five years be the accepted ideal “Hamlet” of the American stage.” Patti's first concert tour will commence at Manchester in the middle of November. She will visit_Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds, Not- tingham, Birmingham, Brighton and Bristol, and say farewell in London in December. The duel in the last act of “Monbars,” Mantell's new play, was arranged by Mons. Senac, the celebrated swordsman, and was by Mr. Mantell and Mr. Mason for hours a day, under the supervision'of M. Senac. The Roumania opera house was opencd in New York recently. The walls and ceiling are frescoed, the proscenium arch is gilded, and the auditorium is lighted by electrici Tho ‘programmes aro nearly all couched 1 retroactive Hebrew. The Cincinnati Music Festival association has engaged the English tenor, Lloyd, for the centennial May musical festival there in May next. Mr. Lloyd comes under a con- tract which provides_ he shall sing nowhere else in the United States or Canada during his absence from Engla Mrs, Walter S. Andre by birth, with just sufficient aceent to give a piquancy to her efforts, She has a_ perfect command of the stage, and in the first pro- duction of “The Russian Honeymoon” in New York her baroness was so favorably re- ceived that the Messrs. Mallory made her a most excellent professional offer. A novel feature in *“The Golden Giant" is the appearance of the only English-speaking Chinese actor on the American stage in tho part of a California Chinese servant—a char- acter which, it is needless to say, he plays to the life. The fact is, too, that he has made an artistic success, and comes in regularly for his share of applause. His name is Ah Wung Sing. Arrangements have been virtually com- pleted for the production offVerdi's “Othello" in New York about the middle of next April under the direction of Signor Campanini, who is negotiating for the Metropolitan opera house. Campanini will sing “*Othello;" Galassi, *Iago;” Mme. Tetrazzini, of the Madrid' Opera house, will be the '“‘Desde- mona,” while in_all probability the conduc- tor will be Signor Muzio. Edwin Booth and Lawre; the Warder opera house in Kansas City under extraordinary circumstances. The rooof of the new theater was not on and *‘Othello” was played in one scene boxed to keep out the wind. A natural moon was used_instead of the usual “fake.”” The audience, which crowded every part of the theater, wore their hats, wraps and_heavy overcoats, but were good-natured and received.the perform- ance with great enthusiasm. i sbi e OLD PEOPLE. produce Sar- vs is a Hungarian ce Barrett opened Josiah Graston is the pride of Belton, Tex., because he is 109 years old. Edmund Montgomery of Georgia, lived to be 102 years of age without ever taking a dose of medicine. David Clement of Hudson, N. H. aged ninety-two, the eldest of eight twing In one family, died recently. In the Canadian village of L.’ Assomption on Thursday of last week twenty venerable mu‘\les Joined in @ celebration of their golden wedding. For 103 years Mrs. Lucy Luther of Had- lyme, Conn., who died on Wednesday, had been a stranger to disease, and had all her mental facult John Godwin Yokum of Randolph county, W. Va.,, who died last week is supposed to have been the oldest man in the state. He was 106 years old. Although ninety years old, William Gam- ble, of East New Brunswick, N. J., recently drove thirty miles in & wagon in one trip without fatigne. He has 84 grandchildren and 104 great-grandohildren, _ _ The mother of Major King, of l{'u‘Tlxu ™ Canada, is ninety-four years of age. t the recent election she walked to the polls, marked - her ballot without glasses, then :ll}(ud home and resumed her household utics. FUNNY THINGS BY FUNNY MEN, ‘When the Frost ison the Pumpkin— ‘Weather Predictions. ISAAC'S PESSIMISTIC VIEW. Executsd With Pen—A Clear Concep- tion—A Universal Wish— When Women Kiss, When the Frost Is on the Pankin. James Whitcomb Riley. ‘When the frost is on the punkin and the fod- der’s in the shock, And you hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin’ turkey cock, And the clackin’ of the guineys and the cluckin of the hens, And the rooster's hallylooler as he tiptoes on the fence; O, it's then the times a feller is a-feelin’ at his best, With a rising sun to greet him from a night of peaceful rest, As he leaves the house bareheaded and goes out to feed the stook, ‘When the frost is on the punkin and the fod- der's in the shock. They's something kindo harty-like about the atmosphere, When the heat of summer's over and the coolin’ fall are here Of course we miss the flowers and the blos- soms on the trees, And the mumble of the hummin'-birds an’ buzzin of the bees; But the air's so appetizin’, and the landscape through the haze Of a crisp an2 sunny morning of he early autumn days Is a pictur’ that no painter has the colorin’ t0 mock— ‘When the frost is on the punkin and the fod- der’s in the shock. Thehusky, rusty rustle of the tassels of the corn, And the raspin’ of the tangled leaves, as olden as the morn, The stubble in the furries—kindo’ like, but still A-preachin sermons to us of the barns they growed to fill: The straw-stack in the medder, reaper in the shed; ‘The hosses in their stalls below overhead— 0, it set mv heart a-clickin’ like the (I‘l‘t a clock, ‘When the frost is on the punkin and the fod- der’s in the shocl lonsome- and the the clover Weather Predictions, When your coal gives out beware of a spell of frigid weather. ‘When you cannot see the sun, make up your mind that it will be cloudy. When there is ice in your piteher in the morning you may be sure that it has been cold. When a man carries an umbrella to business with him, it is a sign that it will not rain. Abbreviated Rhymes. A party who signed himself Mr. Alphonzo da Bardes had a Sr., And he got on his ear As T happened to hear, When another fellow jumped up and Kr. A lady who came from Ky. Was noted because she was ply; She'd walk in the rain ‘And she'd never complain, Though the weather was. stifling and my. Prof. Isancs' Virginia (Nev.) cou dreamlng about? Aid an ac- aintance, addressing Prof. Isaacs, while the latter was leaning against an awning post at daybreak this morning, gazing solemnly at the sidewalk. *Things ain’t shapin’ right and I've vightful fit of the blues,” replied the professor. “Brace up, old man; there’s just as good fish in cu as ever were caught,” continued the comforter. “I know it, but don’t they bite like they used to,” replied the professor, mournfully. “Don't get despondent; every dog has his day,” consolingly remarked the first speaker. “Yes, but there's more dogs than days,” was the sorrowful answer, which in the chill morning air sounded like a wail from the tomb. Executed With a Pen. Robert J. Burdette. “What riter is greater than the sword.” Who swored, my lord" Cardi “The man who received the type-writer lettery s The printer who set up the cop Whole words spelled in the sy small m With a1l the letters piled on top of one an- other, Like to a Chinese sentence standing on its head. scnse is there in this—Rgw! G s dww d’ And_yet I know it mean ‘The horse fell dead. In all the lexicons we use there's no such word As ‘kbfitma) 1247 " yet full well T know 1t stands in this man’s note for ‘informa- tion; T have so learned the tangled language of the thing, That all its Jargon is write pla But sorely do I fear that le I had made hopeless speech, And lost 1 g ce of one ‘What H 0 for me; ning it ck of temperate ‘front pew standing in the syn- und this line of consonants Scarred with lost capitals, the proof reader has drawn His awful circl Stand off! w head ith the pencil blue: on this correspondent’s (The cuss.) Dog gone the billy be dog goned man of thumbs, The diddiedy dog goned chalky fingered oon ; gaul; odd rabbit: jemminy pelt! : odd boddikins: by Venus’ glove; rs his gauntlet; by the river side; Sweet by and by, and by oh, baby by (At this point the caitiff slowly withers away.) A Clear Conception, Merchant Traveler: Do you know the nature of an oath?” asked the judge of a Chinaman who was on the witness stand. “*iNo sabe,” said John with a puzzled air. *“He means do you understand what it means when you swear to what you are going to say?” explained the counsel. #Oh, me sabe swear. Glo dlamme, alle samee hellee.” A Universal Wish. Oh for a gun That would e Or a sabre keen That would cut shingles clean, To smite for once and forever more that terrible conscieneless midnight bore who ruthlessly breaks on a placid snore with airs that were popular years })«l —the man who is always Wflibll- ng, rry a ton, He starts at morn With his tune forlorn, And he'll never stop Though his hearers drop. His neighbors for mercy vainly sue; he'll m whistle “‘Mikado"" clear through, will turn back to “‘Patience’ and “Pinafore,” too, avoiding with care all the music sheets new—the man who is always whistling. When Women Kiss. ‘When women kiss, too vague the bli Too sentimental, too ethereal : Ana when they've kissed, what else, pray, 5 But shameful waste of the raw material? A Sign of Adolescence. St. Paul'Globe: St. Paul mother to her thirteen year old daughter-'‘Claude what are you getting on your wraps for?” (’lnudo—}'l’m ing out this eve for & drive with Charlgy Smart.” *‘But, my dear, you haven’t asked my consen yot.” “I'know that.” ‘Don’t you know that you are not old emough to choose your own company and go out evenings without consulting me? You must re- member that you are not out of short dln-:,scu yet.” "I know, but I wear a bus- tle. Two Ancient Families. My family is very ancient,” remarked an English tourist in_Ohio, ‘it dates back to the crusades,” ‘‘So does mine,” replied the Buckeye. “My mother was a crusader herself. And what a noble stand they made against the liquor traflic, too.” “Aw,” mid the English- man, considerably mystitied. — - PEPPERMINT DROPS. The turkeys are said to be organizing cranberry trust. Fancy pen-wipers are nice until they are used for wiping pens. It won't be long before the national air will be ‘‘Yankee Boodle."” It is said that drummers who travel with rubher goods are always stretching the truth, The measles will be a fashionable discase this winter, now that the prince of Wales' daughters have had it. ““My cup of joy is very full,”’ sings a poet. Well, let it be, gentle one, Don't try to change places with the cup. , George Francis Train says. A lady’s bustle and a pig's tail are evidently utilized for the same purpose—to stick out behind. Cowardice is usually to be abhorred, but an amateur musician who is afraid to touch a violin would be universally respected. “‘How little the world knows of our inner lives(" exclaims a writer, Right you are— especially if we happen to be dyspeptics, The way to boom a river is to dam it, and then break the dam. The way to boom a town is to boom it and then bréak the boom. When you hear of a railroad pool being or- ganized, you may expect to read something about stock being watered shortly afterward. If there is anything that strikes home to the human soul with a sense of forlorn in- congruity, it is a white plug hat in a flurry of SHOW. When you pay for a ton of coal, and only fret 1,500 pounds, the law allows you to shute 1’)\4-1". I, though you dare not shoot. the deuler. 1t is easicr for some editors to write a te dollar article with a five-cent pen than for others to write a five cent article with a ten- dollar pen. Occasionally practical jokers’ do a witty thing—as when some students in a western city took down a sign,"“Stamping done here,” and putit over the entrance to a varicty theater. An Irishman sceingan undertaker carrying a very small coffin, exclaimed in the utmost surprife, *'By the saint o' Sligo! is it possible that that cofiin can be intended for any livin' creature!” Reports continue to come in of men who have had their nose cut off by sncezing while People will learn after while s, that a sharp razor is something that 18 not to be sneezed at. A young woman applied for Austin not long si the following the onl charity in ce with a paper containing ‘This unfortunate woman is daghter of an_ old and childless ind she supports several youny broth- her work.” i interstate commission has decided that the commercial drummer is not a i leged person. There must be some mis about the d The commission is new yet. When it has traveled a httle more its opinions will be changed. The Zulus worship a fetish; bow down to graven images; the Chiny the Persis worships fire_on bended knee, but if you aman get right down_in abject it's an Omaha man at 12 o'clock howling for his wife to uncork the keyhole of the front door, A Texas editor having charged that the father of a rival joutnalist had been in the penitentiary was told that he must retract or His retraction read us follows, “We e mistaken last week in stating that the > editor had been in the peniten- he efforts of his friends to have his tiary. sentence commuted to imprisonment for life failed and the wretch was hanged.” No doubt the apology was satisfactory. pecialist of wan: I ool i URE d wit far in ad this country. Those who o Springs 10F the tren alsense can Private Disp years' experi- iccods, all LUNG, emp ment of any Priv for one-third the st at our By hix treatment . Pure, plexion, free from sallown binckhends, erapt eyes and perfect un be | PThat “tired Lovely Come- s, freckles, ete.,’ brilliant male weaknesse 3, Neryous | 1 Blo De siess, Dopression ek, Infimmution and inul, weuk- fe, Consult n, OvArin alling and Disp complaints and EYE AND EAR Inversion of the Lids, Sc Acute or Chronle Inflamma- u elids or Globe ar S one of ot eyes, and Inftimmath Internal or K or Roaring noiscs, Thickened Drum, ete. Debility, Loss of Vital Power, Sleep: lexsness, “Despondency, Loss - of Memory, Confusion of 1dear, Blurs Lassittde, Lung min pirite, Aversion to umors of 1 on of the Tleeration or Catarrh, roul Deafness, or Paralysis, Singing before the Depression of K : couraged, Lack of Confidence, Dull, “Listlest, for Study or Business, and finds life ' burden, Sa Permanently and l'rlvnwli Cur BLOOD AND SKIN 33 Erysipe Blotchy cors, Pains In_ the Fead and, B Throat, Mouth and of the Iy Cured Whe Consultati Medic ey, Ensy niiftic Sore r Mnlurgemont ¢, Permanent of the prompt attention. o accompantod by four cents n stamps, Send ten cents ih stumps for pamphict. and st of ques tions upon private, special and nervous dis- eases, Terms strictly cash. Call on or address, DR. POWELL REEVES, No. 314 South 15th 8t., Omaha, Neb- UNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1887, « able aid to their chic A NOTED ESTABLISHMENT. Something About the Omaha Medi- cal and Surgical Institute. DR. M'MENAMY'S SUCCESS. One of the Finest Institutions in the Counug—Able Physi- clans Constitute the Staff. Never, perhaps, in the history of this or any other state, has a medical estab- lishment of any kind met with such re- markable success as the Omaha Medical and Surgical Institute. Its remarkable popularity in Omaha is not only what would be expected,but its patronage from all parts of the western country proves the splendid reputation Dr. McMen- amy has built up for himself and the in- stitution over which he presides. The institute ia now located in the mag- nificent new four-story brick block at the corner of Thirteenth and Dodge streets. The institute was originally located at the corner of Twelfth and Howard streets, but the rapid growth of Omaha and of Dr. McMenamy’s practice made a change to more exten- sive quarters an _absolute necessity. From this site the large building at the corner of Thirteenth street and Capitol avenue was selected, and for three years the building was filled with pa- tients from all parts of the country. At the end of that time it became evident that a larger and more centrally lo- cated building was needed, and this fall the institute was removed to its present site. The building is a most commodious one and is eminently fitted for the needs of Dr. McMenamy and his corps of able assistants. Connected with the establishment, and a very important part of it is the surgical brace and instrument manu- factory over which the physician exer- cises = his personal supervision. A number of expert workmen are are manufdctured w sieel 0 meet the require- ments of all classes of deformities, All kinds of fine surgieal instruments are made, and it is a fact that their equal in finish and usefulness is unknown in this country. On the ground floor is located a fine yreseription drug store in which the Rnost proparations are compounded under the charge of one of the most competent druggists in the city The offices of the ph nected with the drug store by a Fri- vate staircase, There are seven offices on the second floor, five of which are used for reception and consultation rooms and the other two for operating rooms. Forty elegantly fitted apart- ments comprise the accommodation for boarding patients. Fully one-half of the > occupied at present by patients, many of whom have traveled hundreds of miles to place themsclves under the treatment of Dr. McMenamy. The rooms are properly furnisheéd and on the same floor are the lavatorys, and other necessary —conveniences. \at attention has been given to the ventilation and sanitary arrangements and they are more perfect that can be found in any private hospital. The advantages of such an institu- tion as this over the usual hospital are marked and of very great importance from the fact that a patient is under th constant care and faithful watchfulness of competent physicians. In the usual hospital young and inexperienced, and often incompetent ones, are given posi- tions, but in Dr. McMenamy's establish- ment only physicians of extensive prac- tice and ‘profound knowledge are em- ployed. Among the most noted physi- cians on the staff are Drs. Coe and Sin- clair, he former is a most learned physician, formerly conneeted with the Chicago hospital. The latter is also a noted doctor, and was formerly in charge of the C. & A. hospital of Mis- sour] Both of these gentlemen are regular practitioners and render valu- re con- The reputation of Dr. McMenamy is due to many natural reasons, the main success in affecting cures has been phe- nomenal, Dr. McMenamy goes to the root of the disease and his treatment is uniformally successful. He,by the most careful of methods has built up o mag- nificent practice in Omaha and thou- sands of suffering humanity have ex- pressed in the strongest of terms their gratitude for the relief and cures he gave them. His long experience en- ables him to handle the most difficult cases with skill and success, Dr. Mc- Menamy has founded a lasting reputation in Omaha as a skilfful, honorable and competent surgeon and physician. His assistants are like himself, compe- tent and honorable, and supply patients with the very best of treatment, :;lL‘h only as & first-clas institu- on can afford. Food of the Fmpor kind is supplied to the patients in the building, and this department is under the charge of an experienced peson. Dur- ing the past two years over eighteen hun- dred people from Towa,Missouri,I1linois, Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming, Kansas and Nebraska who had never seen Omaha before have been successfully treated in this institute. The vast num- ber does not include the people of Omaha who patronize the doctor eox- clusively., It is also worthy of mention that the best and wealthiest people of Omuha patronize Dr. McMenamy’s Insti- tute. Omaha should be proud of this estab- lishment. It not only insures to the sick the best of treatment, and a cure if cure be possible,but thousands of per- sons from abroad are brought here, “All other establishments of the kind sink into insignificance compared with the Omaha — Medical Institute, The BEE most heartily endorses Dr. Me- Menamy and his institution. Asa gen- tleman, physician, surgeon and scholar he is the peer of any man in the world. His methods are direct, and his great success is but the reward of many years of patient study and both natural and acquired skill, * The location of the in- stitute at the northwest corner of Thir- teenth and Dodge is the most central in the city and is peculiarly adapted for the business, and Dy, McMenamy has shown his usual good judgment 18 tne selection made. —_——— EDUCATIONAL. Dakota has 5,000,000 acres of school lands available for free schools. Almost 1,000,000 is invested in college gymnasiums in the United States. The enrolled school population of the south has increased 300 per cent since 1870, Professor Henry Drummond,of the Univer- sitv of Edinburg, is traveling in this country- ‘The question of teaching German in the public schools is under discusssion in St. Louis. The dedication of the Gustavus Adolphus lege at St. Peter, Minn., took place on No- mber 3. There are more students from farmers families in the Ann_Arbor university than from those of any other occupation. The public schools at Leadville, Colo. have been closed a year for lack of funds.’ The public find they can’t support 1,100 saloons and public schools, too. There are 400 school districts in Vermont which have less than a dozen regular _schol. ars upicce, and the average pay of teachers i smaller than in any other northern stato. Robert Treat Paine has founded a_social science scholarship at Harvard, having an annual income of £00. The scholarship is to be held by a graduate who desires to study social problems. A movement is on foot, started by the stu- dents of the Elmira college, and whicheit is intended to carry out by 'aid of the alumni and others, to arise 850,000 to endow & pro- fessorship for Dr. Cowles. It is not generally known that the co-edu cation of the sexes is carried on without lim- itations in the university of Texas. The young men and_young women are admitted to the same classes in every department, and are eligible to degrees and honors without exception. A dairy school has just been opened on th Houghton farm, Orange county, New York. which gives prac instruction in dairy farming for a nominal sum. Mr. Valentine, who owns the farm, which is conducted by @ competent manager, has done much for agriculture, The strange spectacle of children carryin bottles of boiled drinking water to schoo with them is an every day sight in Cincin- nati, 0. Typhoid fever prevails, and has v nmll which is }éh hoflel-t of purpose y:fl;tml?:m'le. {"om‘wgmen o b 0t A.0n¢ o l‘:%tl = m?o“en wlslncnn' °m53 I\kom":: but to the wealthier quarters as well. tablished his Institute in Omaha his —_———— Some of the New Jersey flannels for M 4y viceable house wrappers, notwithstandis thelr gres ul(dumr price, are very tem] ing to look at, and much improved in textul Two distinct colors, or two shades of color, are usually the patterns in those nels.’ The princesse shapeis by far the for these, and by allowing the two which come next the back to be cut from onl breadth of the goods of the wrapper can be :uulu lol seven sand one-half yards of the annel | IR 1618 and 1520 Farnam 8L Costumes, Jackets, Sealskin and Fur Lined Garments. . UurFurMamacturing} Department Is in Charge of Mrs. Hube* man. ¢ i Our Dressmaking De-,‘n‘ | partment, ‘Presided Over by Madam Sugnet, of Paris. HEYMAN & DEICHES; 1518 and 1520 Farmam §L. \Gloaks, Wraps, FIVE HUNDRED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS Are now held by the Life Insurance Compani of the United States as banki ng or investment portion of premiul paid by the policy holders of these institutions. A large part of which sum, says Commissioner Tarbox, of Mass chusetts, in report for 1884, “has no just relations to life insurance,” and further says, “if insurance and investment are the object, each can better be got ini's separate place than by a combination which impoverishes the investme and does not IMPROVE or CHEAPEN the insurance. THE PROVIDENT SAVINGS LIFE INSURANCE CO., OF NEW YORK. SHEPARD HOMANS, President. (Eightcen Years Actuary of the Mutual Life Insurance Co., of New York.) 4 Is the only regularly incorporated company in the United States that does a strictly life insurance business unmixe with investment features; it is thus enab'ed and does furnish life insurance at more than 50 per cent less than it competitors. The security is unequalled, no company in the world showing as large ratio of assets to liabilities. Th,( company is endorsed by the leading actuaries in the country, and its popularity is attested by the fact that only for of its competitors wrote as large a business in 1886, three of these do not confine their business to the United States} For further particulars eall on or address, E. B. HALL, General Agent, 12 A few good agents wanted for city and country work. thereof. South Omana Is To The Front The child we always backed with our voice and money, is getting there, Remember that we are the pioneers in Sout] ¥ Omaha; that we have been with her ever since she was a cornfield! We have the largest list of choice BUSINESS AND RESIDENCE LOTS DON'T FAIL TO GET AN INTEREST IN Arlington Block, Omaha, Nebraska. " We know every foot of her soil and the valu SOUTEL OMAIFIA Aloug with the men that represent the Hundred Millions. Call at our office and let us give you some pointers l Get prices and then come to us, and we will sell you lots in the vicinity at from 10 to 25 per cent lowd J han you can get them elsewhere. M- A TUPTON & CO.. 309 S. 16th St. Opp, Chamber of Commerce. Telephone 854, :