Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 4, 1888, Page 16

nreITH . much th OMAHA DAILY BEE ‘SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 4. 1858—-SIXTEEN PAGES. NEWEST COUNTRY OF ASIA. The Yankees of Aela and How They Are Adopting Civilization. . BIZE OF JAPAN.--ITS BIG CITIES. A Loek at the Ainos and the Alaska of Japan--Japanese Enrthquakes and Volcanoes—Modern Japan, Carp's Letter. Toxro, Japan, - Oct. 17.—[Specias Correspondence of Tue: Bee.]—I write this letter in-Tokio, the capi- talof the new Japan. No better place could'be chosen for the study of this, the newest country of Asia. The agze of Japan s less than the life of ‘o man.” Thirty-three years ago the Japan of to-day did not ex- ist. - Twenty years ago it was a Jand governed by customs ‘much like those of Eurove during: the middle ages. Feudal Japan ha just died, und the Jupan of modern times, with its wonderful adoption of the christian civilization was born within its cofin. As a civil- ized nation the people are still in their: swaddling clothes, but the aldmon-cyed bables are tugging tard at the breasts of their adopted mother, and they grow at telegraphic speed. How v grown only those who have Jived under the two civilizations can tell. Let me give you i few facts ubout this coun- try as it is to-day. AREA AND POPULATION, Japan is of Asia and still not Asia. Five thousand miles and fourteen days from San Francisco. Itis )00 miles by ship from Liverpool through the Suez canal. It is five days from Yokohama to Hong Kong and yet some parts of Japan are 8o near the Asiatic continent that you can cross in a few hours inacanoe. Two days' sail will bring you into Coreaand Kamschatha is within a * few hours’ journey of the northern borders of Japan. It is aland of islands and the chain whi¢h constitutes it extends, says one au- thority, a distance of 2,000 miles. Most of these islands are small, but the country all told has enough -territory fora big nation and several of its islands are larger than many of our Amcrican states. The island of Hondo, which is the main part of the conn- try, and the one i which the 'big cities are Jocated, has 25,000,000 population, and the area of Japan, ull told, is bigger than Italy, and you could lose Prussia iuside of it. All the territory of Great Britain and Ireland is not equal to Jupan, and the state of New York is only one-third its size. The countr; has to-day more people than we had ‘in 1870, and its population is about equal to that of Great Britain and Ireland. JAPANESE ESQUIMAUX, These islands run like acrescent, the horns of which are pointed towards Asia. There are 3,8000f them and the topmost horn is formed by the island of Yezo. Yezo is in the Alaska of Japan, It contains one-fifth of the whole territory and it is peopled by savages who are hardly more advanced in civilization than the Esquimaux. Theso are the Amnos, who are supposed by some' to be the primi- tive Jupanese. There are only 17,000 of them. They live in huts, wear long hair and beards and have an entirely different civili- zation from the rest of the country. They are small like the Japanese, but broader- shouldered, and they ave as dirty as the Japancse are clean. The ugliest sex of the Ainos is the women who tattoo their upper lips and think that frowsy hair is a sign of beauty. With the modern Japan Yezo and the Ainos has little to do. They are governed by the mikado and he appoints a ruler for their island. They furnish much of the lum- ber for Japan and their rocky island is said to be full of minerals. As a political factor, however, they are nothing. THE BIO CITIES of Japan are in the island of Hondo, which lies south of the Yezo and which is several hundreds of miles long and at places 200 miles wide. Here are the chief agricultural regions, the manufacturing districts, and in snort Japan, Tokio itself has a million in- habitants and it lies in the center of the em- prre. Its distances are more magnificent than Washington and its size is about that of Philadeiphia. Three hundred miles west of Tokio is Osaka, which has about as many in- habitants as Chicago, and a very few miles off from this is Kiots, which. was fomerly the capital of the empire and which boasts of as many. people as Washington, Kansas City or Cleveland. Osaka is now the New York of Japan, and Kiota, with its temples may be called the Mecca of the empire. Nagoya and Kanazawa ave cites each having over one hundred thousand population, and and a dozen other cities in Japan each of which contain from 40.000 to 80,000 people. There are countless villages and many small cities, and the land of Japan has been a semi- civilized country for centuries, Japan is a land of mountains and yalleys and 1t has as many DIFFERENT CLIMATES as the United States. You may find your Minnessota in Zezo, your Florida about Na- «&asaki, and over all you will find the green of old Ireland. Surrounded by the sea the airis ever full of moisture, and even in winter the land is green. It is a land of flowers. I saw Camelia hedges like trees near Yokohama. There are acres and quarter sections of water about Tokio covered with lotus flowers as big as a round 5-cent loaf of American bread, and surrounded by green discs, each of which is as big as a paln leaf fan, The wis- teria here grows wild, and Japan is the land of the chrysanthemum. ~ This flower forms the crest of the Mikado and the poetic na- ture of the Japanese people is shown in their love for flowers. They have thew flower shows three times a month, and when the trees blossom the whole nation goes wild Flower peddiers are everywhere, and Tokio is a city of gardens. THE BIGGEST MOUNTAIN in Japan is Fugiyama, an extinot volcanu, ‘whose summit is over 12,000 feet above the sea. Its snowy peak looks down upon me as 1 write this letter, and the story of the vol- ‘eano at Bandisan till new. There are mow over twenty active and hun- dreds of dormant volcanos in Jupan, sod the land 18 one of earth- quakes, Some persons state that Tokio has an earthquake every day of the year, but if 80, they are imperceptible, for I have been here a month and have noticed but one which ‘was only a slight smiver of the earth which passed away in a minute, The Japanese of olden tames belicved that the earthquakes came from a gigantic fish which, living in 4ho sea, bunfped its nose or struek its tail against the coast in 1ts anger. This shook the earth and caused it to erack and tremble. One bundred and eighty-five years ago an earthquake destroyed the whole of this city, and it is said that in it 200,000 people los their lives. Tokie had AN BARTHQUUKR @8 far back as 1855, which cost the capital the lives of 104,000, and within five years of Scientific observation between 1572 and 1877 eighty-six eartbquakes were noticed at To- kio. Still the Japanese country in this part of the island looks anything but volcanic, 1t is made of beautiful patches of hili and Bollow, cut iuto telds like a crazy quilt, and ¢ with the yurious crops -covering areas, each of which is not much lafger than the flogr of a good-sized room. . Agriculturally, the peo pleseem o) work their ground as though it was all garden, and I doubt whether there is moré thorough cultivation anywhere. Still Tam told that only two-tenths' of the area of the empire is cultivated and that much- of the remainder contains. valuable land. Colonization js now going on in Yezo and the experimental farms which the gov- ernment has instituted will show that somie lands which are not good for rice or tea can be planted. in other crops. THE OLD AND THE NEW. The Japan of the past was made up of far- mers and warriors and in the Japan of the present the farmer has materially changea, The advances. have all been made by the warrior class and Japan is governed by the former solgiers. The merchants who for- merly ranked below the farmer are rising in rank and the almighty dollar is beginning to have the same power here that it has in America, The old Japan divided the popula- tion into five classes, At the top was the mikado who was supposed to be déscended from thegods and who ruled supreme. Under him came the shogun or commander-in-¢hiet of the imperial army, who for.generations before the revolution had usurped the power. of the mikado and who held ‘his court here in Tokio while he kept the mikado, as a fig- urehead 300 miles away at Kioto. Under the shogun served the army which was made up of Daimois and Samurai. DUKES AND RETAINE The Daimios dukes and the § their retainers. » style here at Tokio and in eve and had low, one and two-story palaces with black and white checker board walled houses, with heavy roofs running around them in which lived their soldi Under them were 80,000 families of Sumarai, and the Sumarai a rule, as dictatorial as the bad man were, a from Bitter creek. Each of “them carried w0 big swor er he went out to walk, and they v not at all baciwvard in using them. The emmon people were afraid of them, and the farmers, tradesmen and the mechinics trembled before them. When the revolution came the shogun. was put down, the Mikado was made the real ruler of the country, and the dukes and sol- diers were forced to give up their swords and their habitations. Many of them were taken into the new government and many of them are now engaged in trade. Most of the Daimios were paid pensions in_licu of their lands, and some of them haying sold their rights are among the poorest of the poor in’Japan to-day. The new Japan aims to establish itself on the basis of our and the European civili 1t is rapidly advane- ing, and it is now a land of postofiices, tele- graphs and schools. TIE POSTAL SYSTE. Japan has to-day as good a postal s; as any vcountry of o, and the nator of its system was an Americ name was Bryan. department at Washington, and if I formed correctly, lost his through a change in administration concluded to come to Japan. He offel government his services in the or of the postal system.. They after much trouble he succeeded The Japanese postoftice carried letters, more than 40,000,000 postal ca over 15,000,000 newspapers, Its during this time was ne penses, and there are now about and postoftices in the_cmpire of Japan, At the bureau of engraving and printing I saw tem origi- n. His He was in_the postofiice am in- position there He Japanese men dressed in European clothies who were engraving the postaze stamps which are used throughout the empire and in another department of the samo building. 1saw 100 Japanese girls in white night_gowns who were bundling up Japanese postal cards for distribution to the various offices as fast as they were printed. I saw school books being printed in_English for the use of the scholars of the high schools, and there are those who believe the Euglish language will be the Japanese lan- guage of the far future. 400 MILES OF RAILWAY Japan has now over four hundred miles of railway, and 400 more miles are being con- structed. All of the important citics. and towns are connected with lines of telegraph, and i 15 more th 2,500,000 dispatches were sent. The tc graph system here is under the control of the government and its rectipts very nearly meet its expenditures. The telegraphing is done in J apanese, and an extra charge is made when telegrams are sent in a foreign language. THE AMERICAN IDEA. The Japanese call themselves the Ameri- cans of Asia and they are to a vertain extent right. They are like the -Americans in their ready adoption of new things and in their bewng ready to risk the present for the future. They are quick ted and thoy want to be up 1o tho times. They lack, however, T am prone to believe, the Awmerican desirs of ac- cumulation, his industry and persevi:cnce, and above all, his vonderful creative faculty. You will find a patent oftice at Tokio, but you can number the noted Japanese inventions upon your fiugers. Up to this - stage 1 their carcer the Japanese have been an ' imitative rathor than @& creative nation, What they have had mn the past has been adopted from other nations. 'he civilization which pre- ceeded the one now coming in was largeiy Chinese. The chief religion of the Chincsa to-day is Buddhisn aud it came from India, Corea bousts of being the author of many of the schools of Japan: art, and Japanese literuture is -largé based on Chimese characters. As to the present civilization Japan is trying to choose the best from all nations, and it hopes to make up a whole better than any, Its la- itation is not blind imitation. The Jupanese have always prided themselves on being a reasonable people, and they are using their reason now. Their code of laws come from France. They are chosing their models for army discipline from Germany, but their geneéral cuiture will be like their language, English, POt TRICKS TIAT ARE VAL N." Speaking of the Japanese as copyist, they learn so easily that manufactur ers coming to Japan are very careful that the secred® of their arts are not given to the people. T asked yesterday, a man who has established a large factory for the making of photographic ma- terials, why he employed only women in his works, and was told that it ‘was because he ach other by feared the jmen. ‘“These Japancse,” said he, “arc as sharp as lightning, and they will start branch establish- ments as soon as they have mastered the processes aud will undersell me. I keep all my formulas in cipher and I allow no Japanese man to work at important parts of the business. As for the women they are more steady than the men and they never look beyond their work., We have as good photographers here as you will find uny- where and there is a Japanese who is munu- facturing ary plates.” AMERICAN INVENTIONS, I have visited auring the past few days many of the government departments of the empire and I find they are using many American inventions. In visiting the army [ saw troops dressed exactly like the soldiers of Germany going through the military maneu- just as they ave laid down in the tactics of our military schools and in the arsenal where Japan makes her rifles, her cartridges and vers her gunpowder, the machinery was alto- fie‘her like ours. The factories, barring the rown faces, tho crack eyes and the bare feet of the employes might as well have been in Pittsburg us in Tokio, and this is much the same with all the government institutions. The work, however, aud tho management is all under the control of the Japunese, and the number of foreigners employed by the government decrouscs e y year, The Japanese hire foreigners merely as teachers, They study hard under thom, aud when they have learned their specialties they are very ready 10 dismiss thei At present ) all the employes of the government wear European clothes aud this is required in many cases. The clothes. worn are well-fitting, and as a rule, of good cut, but they m ke the little Japanese forms look smaller than ever, and the people ure more handsome in their loose flowing gowns belted in with a girdle at the hips. The de- partments of the government are built on TUE EUKOPEAN STALE, and the state department is not much differ- ent in its interior appointment frem our de partment at Washington. It has a messen or in livery at the door who bows low as you enter and mwotions you into a papered reception room which has & Brussels carpe: upon the floor and an electric button in the wall. It is the hionable thing here now for the Japanese nobleman to live in a European house, and . there are wmany bouses here which would mot look oub of . place in \\'uuhin(imn city. ‘Somié of the young men wha like European ways kvep up @stablishments of both kinds, and their fath- ers‘and mothers, who do not. take kindly to the new ways, are housed- a'la Japgnose The niuiberof Japanese traveling abroad steadily - increases, - and there were in 159, 11,55 Japanese living outside of Japan, O these more ‘than a thousand weré in the United States,and the purpose for which most. of them went was for study. These men come They they advocate ' the also a number of for- his nuriber il told is The most of these are merchants, and not a few' are missionaties, The missionarios claim to have 40,000 Jap. anese christaius in thelr churchds, and this"] wids greatly in the work of civilization, BDUCATION, As to Japanese education the mission: largely teach through the aid. of the govern ment, and English is taught in many of the schools. - Education is now compulsory in Japan, but statistics show that only about half of the children go to school. school age is from six to. fourteen y Japanese boys and girls go ove back filled with the new civilization. and lears English. chaniges, There eigners in Japan. about two thousand, heir lessons in . sing song _tones in barc - feet and gowns, There . are ‘three lion of them in the’ regular schools, the technical shools have 8,500 pupils. J has 20,000 common &chools, presided over 92,000 men teachers and 4,610 women teach- ers, There are more than thousane high school teachers, and the professors in the Imperial university of Tokio number 104, This university is kept up by the ment. It has 1,8%) studeuts, and it ing out scores of almond-eyed doctors, yers and government oficials every ye is better than the average Ames Tts. preparatory course includes mathematics; geography, physics, hist political economy, philosophy, and: it c three years, 1t takes f s to graduate, and the Japanese have hers an opportu govern is turo law- glish, to ket a goad education without. going from he Fraxg G, CARveNT, An Ab . lute The ORIGINAL A1 is only.put up in la and is an_absoli L sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands. sud all skin erapy tions. Will positivety cure a1} Rinds of pi NTMENT tin boxes, Ask for the ORIGINAL, ABIETINE Of MENT: Soid by Go n Drug Co, at cents per box—by mail nts, IDUCATL N [ which is being built 1t is expected th ford universit fornia, will be ready” to than six months, Kuma Olshi rtion of the Stan- in Cali- occupancy in less of Tokio, Japan, has been clected orator for class duy next June by the seniors of Rutgers college. Kuuma is said to be a remarkably clever. Jap. E1ght text books have been -published by the state of California for use 1 her public schools and it i8 designed in a fow' years to private supplant all the books published by coucerns, church of Washington Territory od its university at ‘Tacoma. nds have been secured and _quite a lib ral building fund is also available, the gift largely of Tacoma public spivit. The cost is o be £50,000. About 100 men par cal organizations, wi ‘ale Glee club, the Apolio Iniversity and the Apollo hmen ¢ Lub, th Yaule's mu- 3 Tho lub, the club, the sity orches- Glee Baujo Uni; tra and the Coilege choir. Arthur 1 of Marlboro, master of the state is 0 become professor of an 4 L coll ieuity in Jupan. He has by mun in the state to pusi of Husbandry, and the farmers d will iniss him. done as much as the >t i The. proposition of the university southern California to erect a . mons! tele scope on Wilson's Peak or- some oth adjacent to 1 s An s is taking shape. Referring to the (iibity which he favors for the site of 11 ated * ob- servato Dr. Bovard, dent - of the university, says: * At osphere is. so clear that from the top of \Wilson's Peak I have distinctly scon Miverside and distin- guished different - buliinc. there, ~The: dis. tance between the v miles.” ‘The Milan Instituté of Scien Arts and Litérature offers the followmg prizes for con- tributions o medical ‘and: physiologica science, which.are open to - foreizn as well as native competitors: A prize of 1,500 live (be- sides a meaal of the value of 500 lire) for the best critical_dissertation on hypnoti a prize of 2,500 lire (with a medal of the value of 50 lire) ‘for the discovery of a cure for pellagra (a disease endemic in' the rural dis- tricts of northern Italy) or for the deter- mination of the nature of miasms and con- tagious: & prizs of 4,000 lire for the best points is about sixty cssiy o tho embryogeny of the mammalian nerv 5 systew. = o CONNUBIALITIES, A Yuma squaw and a Chinaman have been married in San Bernardino, Cal. A German officer cannot marry an Ameri- can woman without Bismarck's consent. Miss Daisy Evill fizures in the society col- umns of the St. Louis pape Taking her unfortunate name into account, she will not e likely to consider marriage & failure. A Georgia lover, when refused by his adored, whipped out a razor and sliced off one of her ecays. After this little evidence 0{ affection she concluded she would have Vim Ci upid has been making captures on the vall field. Among professionals who navo recentl, own that they do not believe that marriage is & failure are Grumbling, Cleveland, Thompson, Krock and Van Hal- tren. Arminta Miles, who was married in Wi fleld, Kan., on the 17th of October, lacked one 'day of being ten years old. The knot was tied by Judge Tansey, and, according to the local papers, he issued the license with- out the usual consent being filed, because the bride was an orphan and without a home. Colorado papers announce that t band of Helen Hunt Jackson has married again, The grave of the famous poet, at Colorado Springs, is visited by hundreas of tourists and literally covered by the visiting cards they drop on'the lust resting place: of the lamented **H. H.” Down in Maryland the other day when Dr, Fulton married Miss White, the ring used was made of a gold button that was on_tho wedding gown of the b hom's wother, and a marvelously tattered sio. wus sent by an old darky along with the information that it was one of the pair that *“mars bought for him in he wanted it flung ure bier good osse, the supposed rich young Saxon who wus wedded with such eclat to Miss Verries, of Philadelphia, and whose bridal tour misadventure Las such wide advertisement, has just diss from Philadelphia under decidedly y conditions, ana the friends of his beautiful young wife are beginning to fear that not- withstanding_his fascinating prescuce, s title and the fact that his father is chamber- Iain to the king of Saxony, the young woman has, in homely parlance, “driven her ducis to a bad market,” LN SINGULARITIES, A dairyman at Clayton, Mo, Las a dog that can milk cows. David Haley, of Dedham, Mass., hasa brindle dog that can climb a tree. He can get a piece of paper pinned on the trunk of a large tree at the height of twenty feet. The Alta,of San Francisco, mentions that a watermelon weighing eighty pounds was awmong a cousignment of fruit received in that city from San Diego for exhibition pur- poses. An onion sent from San Luis Obispo Weighied almost four and one-half pounds. An 0ld negro at Dalton, Ga., “ta half chicken half dutk.” is six morths old, and has “the head and Dreast of a hen.while its back,tal and legs are formed like those of @ duck.” It is not web- footed, cackles like a hen, and walking wad- dles like u duck. Mrs. Schreiber, who keeps the lighthouse at Point Isabel, near Brownsville, Tex., is in a “stato of mind.” Her residence was. for several nights bombarded with a hail of shiugle nails, oystor_shiells, clods of dirt and chunks of copper. Neighbors gathered and tried to solve the mystery, but failed to do 0. Old sailors have uncarthed a story of a wrecked sghooner, and they declare that the ghosts of drowned tars are making the dis- turbance to express their disapproval of the absence of & desired beacon. Some weeks ago Mrs. Warren Searls, of Battle Creek, Mich., had occasion to rise eariier in the worning thau ber husband. As sad to own he curiosity Smokers, watch this space to find where you can get a CLEAR HAVANA CIGAR for D Cents. PEYCKE BROS. (0., SOLE AGENTS, O AETIAL., ITED. she did'so 1 a hurry’ she stepped on one of his le He screamed, and jokingly. pro tested that his wife might as w have given him warning if she had intended to maim him for hfe. But nothing more was thoueht of the matter until rec pre started on the foot had_pressed 1w From this blood-pois decided that ampu operation was porformed will probably get well One day longing to township, 0! unto death. H without benefic ot wnd wande another in the ne and M old mare mul N. P. Watt, of Cool Sp orth Caroiing, was taken sick owner doctored her, but alts, She was turned in from onc house to 0od. Nobody he strayed down 004 around the dams d as if for treatmen' She got no treatment, however, and finaliyin despair old Sal sought the-ereek below Turner's mill, threw I If into it and was drowned. Mules are not sonse than tu deliberately her misery. 1 1 tohave an ys, but it looks like committed suicide to g Wor iis one ot out of - 10US. RE Mr. Moody will svend _the winter iu evan- gelistic work on the Pacitic coast. The king of Siam recently donated £25),- 000 to Baptist missions, About £25,000,000 has been contributed to the American board in the last seventy-eight years. ‘The bitter fight of the Southern Presby- terans over the evolution question has becn renewed. In South Africa there are said to be Presbyterian congregitions and 54,000 churcia members, Tho Rey. Mr. Spurgeon is again reported seriously ill, One of his hands und both feet are uscless, and he suffers great pain. Cardinul Howard, the insane uncle of the duke of Noriolk, is growing better, and there are hopes of his return to reason. Last Sunday the first Sunday lecture in a Jewish temple in Boston was delivered by Rabbi Solomon Schindler in the temple Adath Israel. Mrs. Rutherfora B. Hay the annua Women's Home Mission S > Methodist Epit pal church at Boston early this month. Twenty-nine years ugo the Presbyterian mission in Brazil was begun. There is now apresbytery of fifty churches and thirty- two ministers. Twelve of the latter are natives. Colonel Joseph M. Bennett, owner of the Chestnut Street Opera house in Philadel- phia, has given 000 to the Methodist Epis- copal Orphenage. He had previously do- nated property to the same institution va ued at 100,000, es_will preside at —— A Story of Nilsson. Capleson’s Memoirs in American Mu- sic Mr. Mapleson’s operatic season of 1873 opened at Drury Lane, and in the course of it he was deighted to learn that the Shah of Persia would visit the theater. A specinl perform- ance was at once organized. It wus to consist of the third act of *La Favorita, ith Mme, Titiens us Leonora, the first et of a Traviata,” and after a_short hallet, the first act of **Mignon,” with Mme. Nilsson in the title le of the two latter oj *Mme son had ordered atconsid- erable expense one of the most sumptu- ous dresses [ have ever seen from Worth in Paris in order to portray Violetta in the most appropriate style. On the e jing of the performance his highness the Prince of Wales ai punctually at half past eight to assist in receiving the shan, who did not put in an appearance: and it was ten minutes to nine when Sir Michael Cesta led off the opera. 1 sha er forget the look the fair Swede cast upon the empty royal box, and 1t was not until half-pas nine, when the act of ‘La Favorita’ had commenced, that his ma, He was particularly ple ballet I hud introduced in rita.’ The Prinece of with his usual consideration and fore- sight, suggested to me that it might smooth over the diffieulty in which he saw clearly I should be placed on the morrow in connection with Mme. Nilsson if she were presented to the shah prior to his departure, I there- upon crossed the stage and went to Mme. Nilsson’s room, informing her of this. She at once objected, having already removed her magnificent. “Tra- viata' toilet, and attired herself for the character of Mignon, which consists of a torn old dress almost in rags, with her hair hanging disheveled down the back and naked feet. _ After explaining that it was a command with which she must comply, I persuaded her to puta bold face on the matter and follow me.. 1 accompanied her: to the ante-room of the royal box, and before I could notify her arrlval to his royal highness, to th astonishment of all had walked straight to the further end of the room, wliere His Majesty was then busily em- ployed eating peaches out of the palms of 'his bands. The look of astonish- d with the the ‘Favo- i | ment ¥ eastern f worthy of the well-known picture on the Nubob picklc Without a mement’s delay Mme. Nilsson made straight for Iis josty. snyin J ctes un tres mauvais Shah,” ting with her right nd. heure jetais tres rviche, avee des costumes superbs, expres pour votre Majeste: w.pres trouve tres pativee 6u sans souliers,’ at the same | | time raising it foot within half an ineh of esty’s nose. who, with his sp ws looking to sce wha W pointing to. He was so struck w prima do h the originality of the un that he at fair ouce notified his attendants that he would not go to the Goldsmiths’ for the present. but would remsin to see this extraordinary flis Majesty’ did not econ: quently rench the Goldsmith hail until past midnight. 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Neb. No delays. La Platte Land Co. OFFICE, Chamber of Commerce Building. CAPITAL, $300,000. JOHN R. CLARK, President Lincoln, Neb, CHARLES'A. HANNA, Treasurer fncoln, FRANCIS C. GRABLE, Secrctary, Omaha, b, Laucs in the desirable Counties In Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and Wyome ing bou zht and solds KIDNEY e aiturinary troubles easily, quick- Iy und safely cured by DOG Cape sules, Sever ured in_seven d Sold E1.30ver box, all druggists, or by mail from Do- cutaMfg. Co. 112 White St N, Y. Full Directions. DYSPEPSIA, SICK HEADACHE. Not only relleved ilke by most medicines, but cured permanently with Hahn's Golden Dyspep- sla Cure. Price 50¢ a box. All druggists, * KEEP_WARM. % RADIANT HOME STOVES, GARLAND STOVES, OAK STOVES. The LARGEST STOCK OF HEATING STOVES EVER SHOWN IN THE CITY. Call and see our goods and get prices be- fore you buy a stove of any kind. E WILL save you money. MILTON ROGERS & SONS, 14th and Farnam Streets. DEWEY & STONE, FURNITURE. A magnificent display of everything useful and ornamentak in'the furniture maker’s art, at reasonable prices.