Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 28, 1889, Page 11

THIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 1889,~SIXTEEN PAGES. THE GREAT RULER OF JOHORE How a Noted Malay Rajah Lives and Governs. A STRONG ADMIRER OF AMERICA, Mis Government Conducted on En- lightened Principles — Singapore Women and Their Wonderful Ear Kings—In the Troplcs. Among the Malays, [Copyrighted 1889 by Frank G. Carpenter.] Sixaarone, Feb, 27.—[Special Correspon. dence of 1 3ie. | —Singapore is just eighty miles north of the equator. Its climate is the same the year round, its sun rises and sots at the same hours each day the year torough, and its flowers ever bloom and its trees are always greer. Now, at the last of February, I am surrounded by the verdure of the tropies. 1irds by the thousands sing in the trees and the air is that of a hot, moist July. The natives in many cases wear nothing but waist cloths, and all Euro- peans are dressed in white duck coats and white pantaioons, They wear hats of pith or cork, the rims of which are as big around a8 a dish pan and which rise in two stories 10 protect the head from the sun. I attended church at the Euglish cathedral last night, and listened to a service under forty great punkahs or fans, which were pulled to and fro by men stationed on the outside of the church. This cathedral had an audience about one hundred and twenty feet long, and it was, I judge, seventy-five feet from the floor to, the roof. Below the ceiling there was anet work of iron rods, and to these, by ropes, were fastened these huge fans, each of which was about four feet wide and elghtecn feet long. They consisted of strips of wide cotton cloth, weighted and hung from black walnut poles, and it was by ropes attached to these poles and stretehed overtpulleys in the windows of the church, that the natives outside kept them wowng and cooled those engaged in devotion. The dining tables in the hotels have these punkah fans over them, and upon the steam- ersthere are punkahs iu the cabin, which are pulled during the meals. Some of the wealthier European residents have servants who do nothing but pull punkahs, and not a have fans over their beds, which are kept going all night by manual labor. Just in front of the hotel, and along the shore of the sea, there is a tennis and cricket ground comprising several acres of lawn. Every afternoon these Kuropean nabobs of the east may be seen here by the scores. Each player has his servant with him, who runs after the balls and hands them to him. No one does any more than he can help, and the business hours are from 10 to THE ISLAND OF SINGAPORE. Singapore is an island fourteen miles wide and twenty-seven miles long? It lies just hatf way around the world from New York, and it 1s the half way station between the Pacific and Indian ocoan, If you will take your map of Asia and look up the straits of Meiacca you will find this little island. Lying at their entrance, just north of Sumatra and south of Indo-Chia, a little over to the left you will see Ceylon, and further still the Gulf of Aden and the Red S To the right and north are China and Japan, Singapore is the center of the trade routes poing via Ceylon and the Rea sea to Europe, and all of the great ships trading with China and Japan stop here. More than six thous- and ships visit this port every year, and all of the great isiands of this nicinity send their freight here for trans-shipment. 1t is four days and 500 miles from hereto Bang- kok, the capitai of Siam, Thero are weekly steamers to Batavia; the cabital of Java, 500 miles to the south, and you can in two days reach this great coffee island, which com- prises o territory about eighty mules wide, and longer than the distance botween New York city and Cleveland. Horneo is an- other great island at the eastward, and it is thirteen days from here to Calcutta by way of Burmah. The resuit is that the popula- tion of Singapore is made up of the natives of all these countries and you will find here a mixture of yellows and blacks, of Hindoo turbaus and Chinese pigtails; of coffee-col- ored Malays and of pale, white Caucassians from Europe. The costumes are us strange as the skins, and all the queer outfits of southern Asiz jostle each other upon the strects and tramp upon one another’s heels upon the highways. VARIETIES OF PEMININE BEAUTY. ‘Uhie women of Singapore are of a dozen difteront_types, ranging from the rosy- checked English girl, in a suit made by Red- fern or Wortn, to the half naked beauty from Borneo, whose sole costume is a strip of cloth about the whaist, which reaches to her knees und which is fastened by kuotat the pit of her stomach. 1saw a black woman to-day who had holes i the lobes of cach ear a8 big around as my thumb, and I noted that another woman used nerears as bouguet hoiders. Both of these women were Klings and they came from southern India. They were straight, graceful, und by no means bad looking, but their chief dress consisted of jewelry. They had great bracelets of gold on'their wrists and ankles. ‘Their ears were riveted with gold and above these great ring-like lobes, littlo gold nuts and bolts were put through the ears so that thoy were Bound with pins of gold from 1obe G0 in. One of the muidens nad each of her nostrils iveted with these scrow rings and a great +ring of gold hanging down from the center of the nose. The goid shone out all the brighter against the blackness of the skin and the jowolry was the more promi- nent from the scantiness of their costumes. ‘These were a single skict fastened tightly around the hips and thighs and coming to the knees, and a sort of a scarf of cotton which wan strotched aronnd the shoulder and under one urm and tied in a knot at the side. Four yards of cloth would have made the whole Buit and they wore neither hats nor bonnets, 1 noticed another of those wowmen who had a “ large pear-shaped pearl fustened toa rivet and hanging down from one nostril almost 0 her unper lip. ‘Mhe Malay women, so far as I have seen, are not as good looking as the Indians, though this country was originally populated by them and there are more Malays than any other Asiatics except the Chinese. The Malays live, as a rule, in the poorest of one- story thutched huts and there is a Malay vil- Jage within three miles of this village which in passed on the way to the steamers. 1t is MUE PICTURE O POVERTY AND DESOLATION, ‘Tho Malays will not work, and_they liva like savages, Slowly but surely the Chinese wre crowding them out of their'own country, and there are now 86,000 Chinamen here in Singapore. The ponulation of the city is 159,000, and the Chinese, the Indians and the Kuropeans do the business, Everywhere I £o I fiud that John Chinuman is pushing his way to the front. Within the past years the Chinese have begun to emigrate, and the horde that came to America had its counter- parts in those who went to Australia, and Who ure now pushing themseives into the va- rious countries and ‘islands of the Pacific, They gain a foothold wherever they go, and they make money where others starvo. ' One of the worst elements of their emigration the United States has not yet folt, and that is their inter-marriage with the women of the countries to which they go. Siam is already naf Chinese, and the Chinese are slowly swallowing up the Siamese. It is the same here, and it is the same ever: re. There have already been - iuter-marilages of Chinese and’ Americans, and with the ability of the Chinawen to make money there, I havo no doubt that in case they are freely adwilted to the United States we would in time have & ciass of squinteycd Awericans. The Chiucse here are rich, They have large estates on the island and one of the finest carvinges I bave scen in Singepore was that of & Chinaman. A MONGIEL RACE. There are already a uumber of these half- Chinese, bulf-Caucassians in Asia, but this is due to the of Kuropeaus rather than Asiztic fathers. There are over two thous- and white mer o Singapore and there are only about five hundred white women. These are the figures of the last census. The result s the Eurasiacs or the offspring of (Euro- pean fathers and Asiatic mothers, The name 18 compounded from Europe and Asia. These people dress in Earopean clothes and they despise the Asiatics. It is easy to tell them, however, by their features and the European residents despise them. Singapore 18 now the property of England. Tt has a governor sent out by the queen and it is practically a free trade colony. The difference between it and_the native Asiatic states is seen in magnificent roads, fine buildings, gas, street rairoads, aud all the civilized accompani- ments. Comfort goes with the white man, Ignorance and barbarism, and non-im- provement of every kind seem seem to be associated with™ the yellow and the black. England is slowly, but surely, ewallowing up these countries of southern Asia. She has the lion's share already and she is adding to her possessions cvery’ year, There 18 no doubt but that the change is good for the peoplo_and wherever you find an Enelish protoctorate you find good court safoty of property and life, public improve- ments of all kinds and a good school aystem. England has aiready a strong hold upon the Maluy peninsula, but among the tribes of Malacca, which are not subject to her,is that of Johore. Johore is BIGGER THAN MASSACTUSETTS, and it is gavernea by a suitan, who has anso- lute power and who is one of ‘the few inde- vendent, Malay rajahs still living. 1 made an excursion to Johore lst week: visited the pital, and there met this most noted Malay ruler. Leaving Singapore at sunrise, our carriage was_ driven' by & Malay coachman, * and ~ we ~ had a gray-whiskered, bare-footed, East Indian inared gown and turban s a guide. We drove for miles on a road as level as the floor and as well keptas o race track, through plantations of cocoanuts and coffee. ' We first passed great estates with beautiful grounds and wide drives, and then on out into the jungl he greev cocoanuts hung by the bushels in great bunches from the top of tall palm trees, each of which was from fifty to one hundred feet high, and with a trank of from six to twelve inches in diameter. The bark was grayish white und there were no leavs until the very top,upon which the cocoauuts grew. Some of these groves had thousands of trees and they all looked as though they were drunken on their own milk. They leaned in every direction and tops of * some secred to embrace those of others n maudlin jollity, The cofice estates consisted of green bushes about eight fect high with many branches, and the cof- fee grows close to the branch aud the yellow fruit is the size of small damson plums; each plum contains two seeds, surrounded by pulp, and these sceds are the coffee grains, They are cultivated, and the estates showed that they had been but lately ploughed. ‘his road ucross the island of Singapore was lined with jungle, which was at times so thick that you could not see more than two feet beyond the roadway, and when it is re- membered that about three hundred people are KILLED EVERY YEAR HERE BY TIGERS, and that the lower part of the Malay penin- sula is the home of the wild beast, it wiil be seen that the possibilities were both numer- ous and unpleasant. We passed through a number of Malay Chinese villages, and we saw many black-skinned natives of Java with nothing but breech-clouts upon them, work- ing upon the roadway. Now and then we would meet a cart drawn by heavy Indian bullocks ~with great humps of fat six inches high above their shoul- ders and with their black-skinned driver in a turban sitting or standing upon the heavy cart tongue. These bullocks push the cart along with. the front of their shoulders. 2heir yokes do not come around the neck as do those of our oxen and they get over the ground three times as fast. They are the beasts of burden of this part of the world. They do all the carting and hauling and they are among the most pic- turesque sights of this picturesque country., Their drivers are straight, leau, wirey men, who scowl at you as you pass and who, with all their black skins, have features as rogu- 1 snapped my camera upon oue of them as he assed and the black-skinned driver swore at n Hindostanee as I did so. Hulf way across the island our driver stopped and changed the horses of our car- riage for a relay which had been scnt on ahead. Then the Malay Jehu whipped up_ and wo rodé on through more villages and more jungle until we came to the straits of Singapore, on the opposite side of which was the main land and Johore. A Chinese boat carried us across these and we were landed av the WILARF OF 1 ULTAN'S PALACE, A beuutiful lawn of many ucres slopes by half a dozen torraces to the water’s edgo. Above this lies the palace, whicn is reached by winding drives, and away to the right shine the blue and yellow buildings of the city of Johore, which the sultan has built within the last few years for his capitol, and which he laid out inthe original jungle.’ The paluce is a large gray and white, two-story building with wide porticos and many large windows looking out upon the water. It i perhaps, two hundred fect long and at least half that depth. Soldiers, in a costume half can, keep guard in_front of it, and others in turbans march up and down through its various corridors. Sowe of these soldiers aro olive-brown ~ Malays, others are as black as ebony and the officer who received my letters and took them in to the sultan was dressed in European clothes with o Malay surong or skirt shining out under his coat. After waitiug a_moment the sultan himsell appoared—a tall, fine looking, broad shouldered, light yellow man with gray hair, black eyes and mustache. He wore u suit of white duck with laven- der skirt reaching to his knees, and with bracelets of solid gold rope as thick ns your finzer around each of his wrists, There were diamond rings on his fingers and he had a seal brown plush turban cap on his head. He spoke English perfectly, shook hands with me cordially, and gave me a seat in an American rocking-chair in his audience chamber while ho took another for himself at my side. He talked of the decadence of the Malay people und said thut the Chinese made much better workers. He needed them for the developmert of his kingdom and he was glad to have their immigration. Ho taiked of his travels and tola me he neaded only to visit America to compicte his tour of the world, He had visited in_ Kng- land and had been so well entertainad that he was always glad to give Juropcans a welcomo when they came to his kisgdom. He had visited China and Japan, and while in England be had gone one day to Liver pool to see a lady friend off for America. T went down to the ship,” said he, “and I put my friend on board. "It was only seven days to New York and had I remained I might have visited your country. 1 am very sorry 1 did not do so, for 1TIINK AMERICA 1S GREAT and your people are a great and kind people, They give us the telegraph, the electrio light, ata ghey are at the front in invention. I like them and I have many friends in America.” 'he conversation here turned to Johore and his majesty told me 1t was he who hud introduced coffeo into Singapore and that he was anxious to seo Lis own kingdom become one vast plantation. “We havea coffen," smd he, *'that will grow here, and many for- eigners are buying estates. 1 belleve in getung “all you can off of the top of the ground rather than digging up the mineral wealth t¢ ¢ lies under it. The whole Malay peninsula has minos of tin and Great Britain took from this region nearly $8,000,000 worth of tin ore last year. We raise pepper here, coco- nuts, and gambler, & kind of leaf wh made into & tanning mixture, and w ship to all parts of the world. 1 have much tine tmber in my kingdom and 1 send ship loads of 1t to Calcutta, Australia and Furcpe, The sultan then asked me a question or two about General Harvisowand thon showed us his pal It contains many large roows all furnished in European style, and bung with paintings in oll of the royal ily of England. At the head of the stairs leading te the ball yoom there is a fine, full-length portrait of Gladstone, end the drawing room contains some finc pieces of statuary. After an hour's chat his niajesty told me that he bad an engagement to go in his yacht about forty miles up one of his riyers to show some foreigners a colfee plantation, and he ave we a cordial invitation to go with him. Upon my asking to be excused e aaid he was sorry he could mot postpone the appoint- ment, but asked me to take titin with him Al tho patace. aud to aecept the use of his carriage in driviug about the cupital, He then called a servant and spoke to him in Malay. A fow moments later 8 fine-looks English gentleman of (ifty appeared, aud I was introduced to Dato James Meldrum, who is one of his majesty's English advisors aud oversecrs. Dato Is & title. and it means & little wore thau sir does in Kugland, and I found the dato a very pleasant companion. With liveried coschman and footman we were driven, with a spanking team, through the roads ' in and about this little tropical «ty of Johore, and I had a chance to learn considerable about the kingdom. We visited a saw mill which would do credit to the pine regions of Michi- gan, and which was steaming away cutting great logs into boards on short notice, *‘The sultan," said the dato, “'is the most advanced man of his race. He 18 administering his GOVERNMENT ON EUROPEAN PRINCIPLES He has a council of state, a department of public works, of; the treasury, of prisons, of medicine and of immigration under him. He has a postmaster general, asystem of schools, of police and a_governinent printing office. Ho believes in the development of his coun- try, ana his extensive travels and education, together with his natural ability, make him a very good rulor. In religion he is liveral Mohammedan, but in_everything else he is a European. He has a residence at Singapore as well as here, and he is always travel ing." Aftor along drive and a visit at the dato's, aftor tifin_wowere taken to his majesty’s steam launch and thus rode in state across the straits and thence in our carrriage back through the jungle to Singapore. FRANK (. CARPENTER, Love's Probler Frances Rawlins, Why am Ialways glad when thou art near, Why seems the breeze so soft, the sky 8o clear What 18 it makes my pulses leap, and thrill My swolling hoart with joy 80 deep und stilly Why should the warm blood mount and tint my cheek And flood my soul—with ecstacy so sweet Whenever thou art near ! am I aiways sad when thou art gono, s0bs the soughing winds like those who mourn; Why should all nature look so gray and cold. So .\rmflry, cheerless, like fair youth grown old Why shoilld my eyes b filled with tears un- shed, Why shouid my leart lie still, and cold, and dead, Whenever thou art gonel ———— TWO HUNDRED GIRLS, A Kansas Skeleton's Fourth Matri- monial Attempt. Two hundred husbandless women, the greater number of whom reside in New York and its suburbs, have been busy for ten days writings loving letters to J. W. Coffey, who for three weeks has been living at the residence of Richard Van- sciver, No. 1,504 Vine street, and who is in search of a wife, says a Phila- delphia special to the New York Jou nal: In case Mr. Coffey sacceeds in his efforts it will be his fourth mar- riage. a skeleton fop, his weight being v pounds. In order to secure o nserted an advertisement in a New York paper, representing himself as a Pennsylvania farmer with a gold mine. Mr. Coffey placed his case in the hands of Superintendent .\lln{wnn, of Castle Garden, and he referved all ap- plicants to Mr. Coffey 1n this city. Up to last evening over 200 lettors from women of all races, colors, nation- alities, creeds and es have been re One young women in Utica, N. Y., rote that she was used to driving tho ws from fields to the old red barn,and milked them all. She added that she could put the pigs in clover in ten seconds. A Diamond street girl of sixteen wrote, "I am out of money,out of friends, out of work, out of a_husban heaven’s sake marry me Mary Warner, of Springfield, M said that she had been in the country only ten days and could wait only ten more for a husband. Mr. Coffey was seen last evening and said: ‘‘I want a wife. I have heen married three times and am willing to to make a fourth venture. I want a girl who'smiles. I have no farm, but I have money and that's what American women want,” Mr. Coffey, who is thirty years old, says that his home is in Fort Scott.Kan. Mr. Coffey will leave for New York to-night, where he will endeavor to select a bride from the 200 applicants. — - Plants in Witcheraft. Occasionally when the dairy maid churned for a long time without making butter, she would stir the cream with a twig of mountain ash, and beat the cow with another, thus breaking the witch’s spell, says a writer in the Popular Science Monthly. But, to prevent ac- cidents of this kind, it has long been customary in the northern counties to make the churn-staff of ash. For the son herd boys employ an ash- driving cattie, and one may see o mountain ash growing near a house. On the continent the tree is in equal repute,and in Norway and Denmark rowan-branches are usually put over stable doors to keep out witches, a similar notion prevailing in Germany. No tree, perhaps, holds such a prominent place in witch-craft as the mountain ash, its mystic power having rarely failed to render fruitless the evil influence of these enemies of mankind. To counteract the spell of the evil eye, from which many innocent persons were believed to suffer in the witcheraft period, many flowers have been in requisition among the numerous charms used. Thus the Russian maiden still hang round the stem of the birch tree red ribbon, the Brahmans gather rice, and in Italy rue is in demand. The Scotch peasantry pluck twigs of the ash, the Highland women the ground- sel, and the German folk wear the rad- ish. In early times the ringwort was recommended by Apuleius, and later on the fern was regarded as a preservative against this neful influence. The Chinese put faith in the garlic; and in short, every country has its own special plants. It would seem too, that after a witch was dead and buried, precaution- ary measures were taken to fustrate her baneful influence. Thus, in Russia, aspen is laid on a witches grave, the dead sorceress being then prevented from riding abroad. ——— The use of Angostura Bitters excites the appetite and keeps the digestive organs in order. Dr. J. G. B. Siegert & Sons, sole mauufacturers, At all druggists. e How to Remain Young. True Flag: Take frequent cecreation. Preserve the feeclings and habits of youth. Keep free of intense excitement. Keep a clear conscience and lead a life void of offense. Insist upon an ub.ldnuuu of regular sleep. Avoid excesses of all kinds whether of work, pleasure, eating or drinking. A man cannot keep young who gives up all the active, health giving exer- cises of youth. it is the intense excitement, the ex- citement of social life, the ball room, the theater and the various forms of social dissipation that make our Ameri- can girls fade so rapidly. A An Ungallant Kentuckian. New York World: Police justice (to man from Kentucky who has offered bail for a friend)—Have you an incum- brance on your farm? “Yeg." - Dizziness, nausea, drowsiness, dis- tress after eating, can be cured and pri vented by taking Dr.J. H. McLean’s Liver Kiduey Pillets (little pills.) \ A MOTRER CRUELLY MOCKED She Receives a'SKeleton Dressed in Her Lost, Boy's Olothes. TURNING GRAY BEFORE HER TIME A Nebraska Woman's Pathetic Letter o a Wyoming Sheriff-Still Hopes Alter Searching Vainly Five Long Years. Sent Her a Box of Bones. Sheriff Martin, says the Cheyenne Leader, has received this remarkable letter: “CRAWFORD, Neb.—Sir: 1 take the liberty of addressing you this letter for information about a matter that con- cerns me very much. About five years ago I separated from my husband and went to Sidney, Neb. While enroute there my boy was lost or stolen. I have every reason to believe that the latter was the case, as I have lately heard that he was in Cheyenne and going to school there. *Soon after my boy's disappearance I received a skeleton represented to he his remaing, It was accompanied by an unsigned communication which set forth that the hody was that of my son, and had been found on the prairvie near Cheyenne. W *The skeleton was clothed with the suit worn by my hoy when he was stolen from me, but the bones were much larger than could have becn those of my son, who was but seven years old. Here is a deseription of the boy: ““Age, twelve, complexion, fair; eyes, brown; hair dar hud a scar on the forehead almost exactly between the eyes and extending downward toward the nos His name is Albert Conly. “Isincerely hope that you will do all you can to discover whether he is in Cheyenue or* not and thereby assist a mother in learning the fate of a lost child. The anxiety and worry is nearly ling me and I am becoming old and ay before my time. I will answer all questions and give you all the informa- tion you desire if you will write am, Sir, yours very respectfully an hope. Mus, Lizzie CONLY There is a tale of ghastly romance and intense human interest for you. Family jars, separation, abduction, grave rob- bing and continued silent deceit to the misery of an unprotected woman all enterinto this strange story. Woven into a crude letter by aloving and heart- 8 but uneducated mother, these in- gredients make a wierd novel, vivaling line from master pens. Who can imag- ine the agony of this distressed woman, robbed of the light of her life. Who can devise a punishment sutficiently vere for the crtiel author of her mi —a hardened wreteh who robs a grave to add to the dup of bitterness of her whom he has estranged by violation of the holiestfof contracts. Sheriff Martin has acted nobly in the matter. He has séarched high and low for the missing boy, and has made ex- tensive inquiries for the inhuman hu band, but has gaimed no trace of eithe! No reply has heen received to an offi- cial letter of inquiry, but the failure to answer is readity éxplained by the min- uscript printed ‘above. The penman- ship of the hody of the narrative is pretty bad, but the signature of the poor mother is' simply an awkward scrawl. She could not write the letter, but managed to sign it after a fashion, The letter is exceedingly ambiguous and a finished plot must include matter between the lines. To form a connected story it is necessary to sur mise. Here is a vast field for specul tion. The people quarrelled—presum- ably at Crawford. Mrs. Conly took her boy and started for Sidne Conly knew she loved the child. He also had a fonaness for the boy and determined to recover him. To board the train, secure the child and leave at some station was not difti- cult. The mother would be frantie, but she must be punished for leaving him. In her great affection for her boy the mother would search for him. She r turns to Crawford, where she has ac- quaintan Now the cruel cunning of the wicked and revengeful father comes into play. He resolves to con- vince his wife that their son was dead. He will forcibly imy the fact upon her mind, and she will cease searching. A fiendish scheme is hatched. A akfi- eton dressed in the boy’s clothing shall be sent with the information that the remains were found on the prairie near Cheyenne, Walks are taker to the cemetery in the day time and the rest- ing place of some mother’s darling se- lected. At night the grave yard is stealthily approached. = A deésperate companion has been enlisted and the pair nervously dig, each blow seeming many times louder than necessary. The pick strikes a box. A fow more shovelfuls of earth are thrown out, the outside case removed, coffin opened and body thrust into a sack. This is carried to some vacant house or rendezous selected for the oc- casion. A receptacle as much uniike a coffin as possible has been secured. The skeleton was thrust into the clothes of the living boy, the box sealed and the terrible night’s work completed. Next day the box was bodily carried to the express office and billed to the anxious mother., Mrs, Conly’s unimpassioned reecital is a revelation of woman’s character. How she must have started back in horror after seeing the contents of the mys- terious box. Then she wept hysterically and refused to be comforted. 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Modicines or instruments sent by mail or express, : no marks to Indicate contents of raonal interview preferred. Call and nd Bistory of your case, and we will per, our BOOK TO MEN, FREE! Upon Private, Special or Norvous Disen {amcy, Sypbills, Glest and Varicocsle, wit Hat.” Address G Oraaha Medical and Surgical Institute, or DR. McMENAMY, Osr. 198 and Dodge 5ts., - - OMAHA, NEB, KIDNEY aaluxinary eoubles eastly, quick 1y and safely cured by DOCTURA Cap sules. Several cases cured in seven duys. Sold 8130 per box, all drugglats, or by mail eon Doc- ura MfgCo. 112 White' St. Full direct fons od , ete. 1 wi freatedy 'OWLER, Moodus, Conn. PATRONIZE HOME * INDUSTRY BY SMOKINGC “Red Labei” Cigars. “FISH HOSE BRAND” The ONLY Lawn or Garden Ifose MADE which will stand 250 POUNDS PRESSURE. BUY the BEST, It will LAST the LONGEST A hose which will do fos, will not give satistaction in Omaha, on ac While dealers complain of es becauso it §s not strotug enough to FISH BRAND' has ever failed. For sale by all deaie OMAHA RUBBER Co. 1008 Farnam-st.,, Omaha, Neb. W holesale or Retail. NEW ENGLAND Furniture Gompany 718 and 720 N. 16th Street. Are Sole Owners and Manutacturers of “THE HOUSEKEEPER’S FRIEND. able Flonr Chest, Meal Chest, Bxtracts, Ralt Baking Powder, Pepper, Cinnamon ng Doard, ns, Cake Cutters, Rolw, othor utensils Bread and Coke, Linens an ’ Sugar, Diried Fruits, Oatmeal, The greatest labor saving article ever known to the housekeeper. Descriptive circulars mailed on_application. Special attention given to mail orders. Art Metal Work, LARGEST STOCK, Prompt attention. Skillful mechanics. always reasonable 1 cal experience. ar Mower,” A Full Line of Regular Size Mowers. EVERY MOWER WARRANTED. MORTOIT & SOIT, 1511 Dodge Street, West of Postoffice. HOSPE 161 Dougls §t, - - - TLS. ETCHINGS, ENGRAVINGS, ARTIST SUPPLIES, MOULDINGS, FRAMES, The HUSSEY & DAY COMPANY Sanitary Plumbing! Steam and Hot Water Heating! Gas and Electric Chandeliers! ble Fittings, Fountains, Vases, Etc. EST SHOWROOMS WEST OF CHHCAGO §5 We make a specialty of repair work on Plumbing, Gas or Heating Appar- sonal supervision, and charges s first-class work will allow..#8 Twenty-fiyve years' practi itors to our showrooms alwa THE HUSSEY & DAY COMPANY 409-411 South 15th Street. HIGH GRASS LAWN MOWE ticularly adapted for large Inaw srhe Popu ys welcome. gh grass. EMERSON, HALLET & DAVIS, KIMBALL, PIANOS AND ORGANS, SHEET MUSIO. - - - - Onaba, Nebraska HIMEBAUGH & TAYLOR, Hardware and Cutlery, Mechanics’ 1ools, Fine Bronzo Buildars’ Goods and Bujfalo Soaless 1405 Douglas St., Omaha. DEWEY & STONE Furniture Company | A mognificent display of everything uscful and or. wmnental in the furné ture malker’s art at reasonable pri DR A OWEN'S EL.FECTRIC BEL:,T SPINAL APPLIAN ATTACHES, P atented August 16G,'87. Dr. OWEN'S Electro- ing dibease Selatica, Disease, P and all oth Paralysis, lepsy, Spinal Diseascs enscs, Lumbago, Ge tiveness, Kidney Discases Q0= Norvousness, Arembiin ases caused from In- “\ig?\ discretion in' Youth or laints, in fact all nervous dise o, female Com- 1 o I Bl b N tiat wibl compa b wants the best, and this he will find the Owen to be, others. It 18 a Hafte: 5 Gugpantes Halt:w ns Tywo Batteries wanty (a e, Vit 2 upantes Halt Thich, Gontains Teal pi? ..?: Danydsser Fflflx‘“ Rl e alt o by R 0: flwo-nonly)lmminu lfl;,ll hours day or lle . A.Nrr examining T 8 ‘0 show the Ent lemce We have in our Electro-Galvanio Belt and Ap Gaye! rikl; and 171 doos not Brove i ie Jophdence. Phiysicians endorse the Owen Bl h imonials in & sealed envel h will cure you of Go 1 who call oF write us can rest assu; 2 before it is applied to the body, A T o show'the Entire Ce of 133 pagos writien by & physiclanof over 40 witheu! waste your money 0B belts patented years ago. and if the belt is not adapted to their case they o Wh mmrF"il?,‘\?im??" You €an return it o us will be so advised. Open at all timos, Tmproved February 1, neral and Nery- s Vi of the Rody, all tration, Personal Weakneis or to Male or Fema w L control of the wearer and trong 0 AUl Auy complajnt the Electyioity can bo carricd to auy part of I Greate rdvement ever made in applying Flectricify to tho Frout View, FElectro-Galvanic Body Belt haa just been patented ey o 0 adjusted that b e Hody er Wicrever the disease 15 for the cure of x40 or 68 a remedialagen improved Febr 1st, 189, Every buyer of a belt 1ls with 100 dej dve current, an Itauce, we will send our F Wil be sent you with our bock of he aid of & pliysician or the use of madicine. Send for & pair of Dr. Owen's Electric Insoles, Price 8100, whi We have private consullation rooms for ludies as well &8 gonts, and LADIES' . shNaL No. 4 APPLIANGE ATTAGHED, Back View, t our No, 4 y.'u Powi the current can Lo l’l’\(.'l’h‘fi? Thiy Electric e ..‘ud 0 otler us it s lightand easily worn and coporior to wl GHicrs Belt complete’ o rarpoveil 5ts postago 10¥ our freo il d pamphles how to treat yourself with electrieily tor Legs. or Cold Feet, 1o nob will yecorve un hocst opinion, Consultation at ofilee, or by wail tree. For information how to obtain trind belt see 128-page prmphilet, artics on thirty s} The OWEN ELECTRIC BELT & APPLIANCE (0., 306 North Broadway, St. Louis, 1o,