Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 5, 1889, Page 11

e et o . . "i | [ l | . you English fear to attempt.” THE POINT NEAREST HEAVEN Among the Cloud Capped Peaks of the Himalayas. A LAND OF FEMALE SAMSONS. One of Tham Carrfed a Cottage Piano For Twelve Miles Up a Moun- in—The Wonders of India. Mountain Climbing in Asia. [Copyrighted 1859 by Frank G. Carpenter.] DavsgeLiNe, March 21, |Speeial Corres- pondence of Tue Ber.]—In the heart of the Himalayas, in the midst of mountains whose perpetual snows glisten like diamonds under the rays of the tropical sun, with occans of clouds below me, 7,000 feet above the jungle where the ticer hides, and almost within the scund of the cun of the English troops, who are fighting on the borders of Thibet, I write this letter for my American readers, From my window T can see the snow on Kanchan- Janga, 25,000 wbove the sea, and upon a Thibitan pony I galloped this morning twelve miles higher up the mountain to Tiger Hill, and saw the sun gild the snowy summit of Mount Everest, which is a full thousand feet higher. The top of Mount Everest is,of all the world, the nearest point towards heaven. Fugiyama, tho sacred, snow-capped mountain of Japan, is not half as high as Mount Everest and, if my memory serves me, the snows of Mount Ilanc are at least, 10,000 feet lower. Go to the top of Mount Blanc, ascend in a bailoon straight up about for two ‘miles, and you have about veached tne altitude of this highest of the Himalaya mountains. It dwarfs every- thing in the Andes and the Alps, and it is a fitting king to this nobl range of mountains in the worl Hima means the abode of snow and thousands of the peaks are crowned with eternal frost If you could, by rub the miracle lamp of nature, have her genii construct a mountain range from New York to Deuver, Col,, and make this range as wide as the distance be- tween New York and Washington, extending it points to double that width, you would have a base somewhat like that of the Hima- layas. On this base must be built two high ranges 0f mountains with vast valleys be tween them making a double wall between the north and the south. You must through- out the distance have the mean elevation of your hills about as high as Mount Blanc, and forty of them must extend more than one mile higher. Every ona of these forty will kiss the sky above any summit of the Andes and in many of these vast valleys you could DROP THE WHOLE OF THE ALPINE RANGE, and at a distance of ten miles from the place where they fell there would be no percepti- ble change in the faceof nature. Talk about the glaciers of Switzerland! There are gla- ciers in the Himalayas which are from thirty to sixty miles in léngth and there is one thirty-three miles long which is flanked on sither side by two giant peaks over twenty- seven thousana feet high. Has any one ever reached the top of the highest of these mountains? 1 should say not. An American attempted it a few months ago and he left Davjeeling with a staff as long as himself and enough provisions to last him a month. He came back four weeks later and claimed that he had spent the night on Kanchanjanga, It was as easy,” said he, “as falling off a log. Tt takes an American to do a thiug that And he then /'tvent pn to describe the glaciers in spread- . until they have now the rich copper of the eagle colors. He toid of mountain bears and polar wolves and discoursed for hours in the language of Jules Verne. The English resi dents of Darjeeling cocked their one-eye glasses at him, and some believed and some did not.. About a week after he had left the Himalayas a wealthy English tea planter came to the station and asked the people there if they had heard anything ofan American nawed Jones. They replied that Jones was the wonderful man who had nscended Kanchanjanga and they described his tour. Upon comparison it was found that the date of Jones' starting up the mountain was the day before he came to visit this tea planter. The planter said, ““He talked nothing of the mountains to me, but 1 found him a good fellow and he stayed with me full four weeks. We pluyed poker three-fourths of the time, drank whisky and soda during the intervals of the game and the remainder of the days Jones spent in reading up my library of mountain literature. He was at this time doubtless thinking how he would take in Darjeeling and was making up the Mun- chauvsen story which he told you.” Most Americans are satisfled with Dar- jecling. It is one mile and a half STRAIGHT UP IN AR above the sea, and if you could pile seven towers like the one just built at Paris, one on top of the other, or fasten thirteen Washing- ton monuments into one long, iron cage and run an elevator through the whole you would just about reach this altitude. [ doubt Wwhether there is a village in Switzerland 80 high as Darjeeling, and I am certain there is nothing in the Alps to compare with the grandeur of its surroundings, The plains of India send up moisture to the Hiamalayas which gives them & thousand clouds where the Alps _have one, and here you sce clouds of all lkinds and shapes chasing each other over the hills below you. You see them crawling up the steep sides of the valleys and climbing to your very feet when they envelope you and for ton minutes the mist is 8o thick that you caunot see the horse on which you are rid- ing. A moment later the cloud" has passed and it floats onward toward the snows above. At times there are clouds above and below you. You sce ghostly mnsees of vapor resting in little hollows in the sides of the mountains us tbhough they had squatted down there for a sicsta. At times they take the form of men or beasts and in single file seem to chase one another through tho air, In the morning the sun gilds them so that thoy wre masses of fire and at night the am- orous moon throws ner bright tropical rays around them. The cloud effects and the suow offec®™ of the Himalaya mountaius are indescribably grand. They are difforent from anything I have seen in travels of hun- dreds of miles through the Alps and they are I many respects more interesting. Krom where 1 write the mountains form a semi-circle about me and there are twelve mighty peaks of snow, each of which is more than twenty tnousand feet high. As for mountains of two miles and more in height I can see dozens of them. 1 am in the very midst of the Himalayas and at wnat the world says is the best point to view them, Manu here is fully as interesting as nature and we have servants and guides who are moro like the people of ‘T'hibet than India. There is no scclusiou of women here and GMEAT STRAFPING GLRLS dressed in the gauaicst of colors go about with flat plates of gold hanging to their cars, ench of which is as big as a trade dollar. ‘They huve gold on their ankles and bracelets of silver running all the way from their wrists to their elbows. Their complexions, originally as yellow as those of the China: men, are bronzed by the crisp mountain air Americau Indian, Both men and women look not unlike our Indians. They have the same high cheok bones, the same semi-flat noses and long, straight, black hair. If you will take the prettiest squaw you have ever scon you may have afair type of the average belle of the mountains.” She wears two | pounds of jewelry to the ouuce of the uaw, however, ana her eyes are brighter, and she is far more intellizent. She works ) hard and the woman of the Himalayas does much of the work of the mountains. 1 seoavomen dhfl(m in the flelds, workingon the roads, end carrying immense baskets,each of whyoh Holds trom two to threo bustéla, full of dirt On their back. ust above the hotel the road is Meing repaired, and @ side of the mountain is being cut away. The dirt is oarried for about @ quarter of a mile ana used iv filling up & Lole in tue biliaide. It is l ! now all done by women. Two women are dl{- s‘n[ down the dirt with pick-axes, and a half jozen are shoveling this into the baskets of the girls who carry it from one place to the other. These basket rests upou the back and shouiders of the girl, and they are held there by a wide strap which comes from the basket around and over the girl's forehead. They stand with the baskets on their backs while they are loaded, and one of the women who is doing the shoveling hias a baby a year old tied tight to her back, and it bob up and down as she throws the dirt from the ground into the basket. These girls carry easily 160 pounds, and I was told that one had carried A cottage piano a distance of twelve miles up the mountain upon her back. This is hard to believe, but after seeing the mighty shoul- ders, the well-knit frames, and the great calves and ankles of the strongest of them, I can believe it. The men are fully as strong as the women. They are not so tall as the American Indian and they are very flercelooking. Each wears a great scymeter-like knife in his belt and they are just like the Thibetans whom 1 sAW y are notorious as wife: beaters and the woman of the Himalayas has, us a rule, a very hard time. Many of the men wear ear-rings and the women, both be- fore and after marriage, carry their fortunes upon their persons, They wear strings of sil- ver coing of the size of 50 and 10 cents silver picces in rows a®out their necks so that often the whole front of a woman's bust 18 covered with then: and THE POOREST WORKING GIRL has her ear-rings of gold and her anklets of silver. It looks strange to sco a woman whose whole waist is covered with rupees and who has enough jewelry upon her to keep her for at least three years breaking stone upon roads, and I have, during the past week, seen at least a thousand bare feet and half ‘bare calves around which were silver and _gold bands which would not form un- handsome bracelets for our American girls, Many of them are fond of stone jewelry and W great many torquoises are brought from Thibet and sold bere. One of these girls carried my trunk for a 5-cent consideration upon her back from the station to the hotel and I see them plodding up the mountains with great baskets of wood upon their backs, two of which wouid form a good load for a muld work all day for what would be the price of a drink in America, and their moun- tain huts would be considered hard lines for the establisnment of an American pig. Little low huts thatched with straw and not bizger than store boxes. They do most of their cooking out of doors, sicep upon the floor, cat with their finpers, and worship Buddha 'in a hulf-civilized way. Someof them use the prayer wheel and this scems to bo the only invention they he The prayer wheel con- sists of n metal box about as big around as one which holds boot blacking and about twice as deep. Through it a wire is stuck and this 1s fastened into a handlo a foot long. Inside the box there is a roll of pray- ers written in Thibatan characters atd the worshipper rattles off prayers at the rate of a hundred a minute by giving the handie a twvist and setting the box _to_ rolling. Each roll records a prayer. Every prayer does away with one or more sins and puts a brick in the pavement which leads toward heaven, 1 wish T could give you this ride UP THROUGH THE CLOUDS from Calcutta to Darjeeiing. The trip to the foot of the Himalayas, takes half a day and the whole of a night and the remainder of the journey is like a carriage drive fifty miles up the mountain. You are pulled by steam and a dainty little engine not more than ten feet long hauls open cars, no higher above the road than a street car, over a two- foot narrow gauge in and out among the trees in cork-screw curves up the mountains. You rise at the rate of sixtecn feet a minuto and go more than u thousand feot upward every hour. The train winds in and out like a snake, and the cars are so small that they look like the links of a chain, Now the engine and the tail of the train scem to Thero are a dozen_horse-shoe curves mile and_you make_figure eights in climoing the hills_three times durihg the journey. As you rise you see the little road in terraces on the hills below, and you now shoot under a hill and come 'out in a loop aud cross your own track by a_bridge over- head. The Y system of going up one hill to rise Lo a higher is used, and there are a num- ber of double Y's which elevate yoa from one plain to_another. You skirt precipices covered with green, down which you can and float out,on the to the broad plams of Bengaly Tuis rail along a wagon road which led up to Darjeeling, and thespeed made upon it is 80 slow that you can see as well as though you were riding in u carriage, There are many villages on tho way and the train stops and gives you timo to pick flowers and ferns. In rising you pass through the torr temperate and land at last in the frigid zone. At the bottom is the jungle into which you dash out of rice fields and which, With its thick bamboo, its banyan trees, and ite in- terwoven masses of foliage, forms the home of thetiger. As you go through you canf almost see the bright eyes of this noble Bengal beast shining_outof the darkness. and the old residents of India who are with you will tell you storics of the tiger hunts they have had, and of accidents that have happened to lone travelers. They will tell you that the tiger is only found .where lives the deer and the wild hog; that if he once has a taste of human blood he is sntis- flod with no other. A single one of these tigers is s KNOWN TO HAVE KILLED 108 people in three years, and another killed eighty persons perannum. One of the agents of the Indian forest department tells me that about two thousand tigers are killed in India every year, and in 1852, 845 men were killed by tigers. 'The English government gives a reward for tiger killing, and during that year $7,000 was paid for the killing of 1,700 tizers, Iu'g fow weeks there will be an_immense tigdr hunt in India. ‘The viceroy will proba- bly attend it. The party will go out upon elephants, and will spend some weeks in the jungle. As you go up the Himalays this jungle gives “way to huge forest trecs, but the branches have long roots and creepers shoot- ing from them down to the ground, and the treos are often from one to two hundred feet high. These trees are clothed with a luxuriant growth of mosses and ferns and you seo many varieties of orchids fastened to trunks and hanging o their branches. As you go up you note the tree fern, a tail, round trunk from ten to twenty fcet high with fern leaves jutting out frous its top like those of a palm. ‘The underbrush becomes more sparse and as you rise the color of the moss on the trees changes from green to silver. This bangs from the brauches in clusters, clings to their limbs like u coat, and makes them look at a distance like s forest of green dusted with silver. As you near Darjoeling d mavy of the hara woods of our ican mountains; the rose begins to and there ape tea plantations by the hundreds of acres, THE TEA OF THE HIMALAYAS is the best in the world and I would advise American housekeepers to try Indian tea. There is a tea in Thibet which has the flavor of milk to such a degree that when used it has all the propertics of a good tea mixed with the most delicious of Jersey cream, This Himalaya tea has the flavor of flowers. 1t 18 pure and clear and it is supplanting the Chincse tea in the Knglish markets, The tea plant grows wild through these Himalaya hills and in some of the regions near here it ottains the dimensions of @ large tree. It was probably introduced from nere into Chin Still it is now only about half a cen- tury since tea culture was commenced in India, and now there are many Indian tea men who prophesy that [ndia tea will even- tually push Chineso tea out of the markets of the world. Just ten years ago the exports of Indian tea smounted to 83,000,000 pounds, Five years later they had risen to 55,000,000 pounds, and u tea planter whom I met here at Darjeeling, tells me that they are making 100,000,000 pounds of tea # year o India. The exports of Indian tea to the United States have steadily increased and we now take over a half a millon pounds of Indian tea every year. The lower ilis of these Himalayas are covered with these tea plantations. The plants look not uniike well-trimmed box-wood hedges, and | they rise in terraces up the sides of the hills, Here and there you may see a gaily-dressed woman picking their leaves, and now and u shed in which the firing is done. ‘e seeds are sown in nurseries in Decers- ber and Januarvy and they are transplanted betwoen April and July, The ground has to be well drained aud I am told that the best tea soil is virgin forest land, which in India is very rich. The plauts begin to bear about the third year and they are at their best when they are ten years old. The Indian tea plauters get about five pickings a year and often seven. In China and Japan three pickings is considercd good old Hima'ay: Many of the rude huts, Avhich areof the same style as thoy have been for a thousand years or more,are roofed with galvanized iron and the sides ot some of them Are shoeted over with eqnare pieces of tin. viis tin comos from Pailadelphia oil cans. and some of the mountain huts are ijghted by the Standard Oil company's oil. Calico from England is coming into use among the natives and many of the idols upon being in vorted are found to have sunken into their brass bottoms the trade marks of the Bir- mingham manufactories. FRANK G. CARPENTER. PRS- i el THE SLAVE MARCH, Terrible Trials of Oaptives in the African East Const Trade, “Yes, T have seen the terrible slave march,” said Mr. H. F. Moir, who for many years has traveled abrond, spend- ing more or less time in Africa. il was speaking of the sufferings of thu captives whocarry great burdens acro: the deserts in the African coast trade. Mr. Moir is a resident of New York atate, and last night in the lobby at the Grand hotel entertained a few friends h a recital of some of hisadventures. “‘When the slaves are ecaptured,” he said, *‘they are taken to the headquar- rs of the east coast trac There a > is placed about their neck, and is allowed to remain night and day with- out being once taken off, The constant rubbing upon the neck chafes the skin, and gradually ugly wounds begin to fester under the burning African sun- shine. The men who appear the strong- st, and whose escape is feared, have their hands tied, and sometimes their feet, in such fashion that walking be- comes a torture to them. And on their necks are placed the terrible goree or taming-sticks. The yoke is a young t tree with forked ~ branches. i generally ahout five or feet long, and from three to four inches in diameter. One which I examined not long ago was about twenty-eight pounds in weight,but T was told that refractory slaves ure often placed in yokes weighing fifty pounds or more. Through each prong of the fork a hole is bored for the reception of an iron pin, which, after the neck of the slave has been placed in the fork is secure by o blacksmith. The opposite end is lashed to the corresponding end of another yoke, in the fork of which another slave is held, and thus the poor creatures have to march, carrying be- sides this intolerable weight, a load of provisions or ivory slung across the cen- ter of the pole. Other slaves are in gangs of about a dozen each, with an iron collar let into a long iron chain. *‘Are males alone of these captives?” asked a Cincinnati Inquirer reporter, who was one of the party. “No,indeed,” said Mr. Moir. “Women slaves are plentiful. A man with any spirit can scarcely trust himself to look at the starting of one of the caravans. I accompanied one which conteined many women. They are all fastened to chains or thick bark ropes. Very many of the women in the caravan to which I refer, in addition to their heavy weight of grain or ivory, enrried their little brown babies. The double weight was almost too much, and still they struggled wearily on, knowing too weil that when .they showed signs of fa- tigue, not the slaver’s ivory, but the living child, would be torn from them and thrown aside to die. One poor old woman I could not help noticing. She was carrying ababy boy who should have been walking, but whose thin, weuk legs had evidently given way; she was tottering already; it was the su- preme effort of a mother’s love—and all in vain, for the child, easily recogniz- able, was brought into camp a couple o’ hours later by one of our hunters, who had found him on the path. We had him caved for, but his poor mother would never know. During three days journey out from Liendwe death freed of the captives. It was well for 3 still we could not help shudder- ing asn the darkness we heard the howl of the hyenas along the track.and realized only too fully the reason why. The attachment of the children to their mothers and ‘the mothers’ determina- tion not to be parted from their chil- dren,” continued the traveler, ‘‘com- bine to carry them along with the slave caravan—that is, so long as their poor little legs can bear them.” ““How can the slaves keep up under their burdens?” was asked. “They do not do it long,” was the answer. ‘‘They march all day, and at night, when they stop, a few handfuls of raw ‘sorgho’ are distributed among them, and this is all their food. Assoon as any begin to fail, their conductors approach those who appear to be most exhausted and deal them a terrible blow on the nape of the neck. A single cry, and the victims fall to the ground in the convulsions of death. Terror for a time 1nspires the weakest with new strength, but each time one breaks down the terrible scene is repeated. A friend of mine told me that once when traveling in Central Africa ho was ob- liged to attach himself to an Arabslave gang, and that the drivers deliberately cut the throats of those who could not march. I have also been informed,” said Mr. Moir, *‘that in Central Africa these slave-drivers have been known to cut off an arm or any limb with one blow from their swords.” Use Angostura Bitters to stimulate the appetite and keep the digestive organs in order. Dr. J G. B. Siegert & Sons, sole manufacturers. At all drug- gists. e O Fijian Houses. The ordinary Fijian house looks out- side like a great oblong hay stack, standing on & mound raised some few feet above the surrounding level, with a long ridge-pole extending beyond the roof at either gable, its ends sometimes ornamented with shells, says a writer in the Popular Science Monthly. The haystack has a doorway or two, with a mat suspended in it. Houses with greater pretensions, however, have the walls prettily latticed with reeds, and distinct from the roof, which 1s elabor- ately thatched, with 'great projecting eaves. Inside immense posts, usually of vesi-wood, and & very ingenious framework, support the roof. The in- terior decorations of sinnett (cocoanut fiber), always in rectangular patterns— for they do not affect curves—are some- times pretty. The black, squared lin- tels of the doors are the stems of tree- ferns, On a great shelf overhead is stored the family lau, a convenient l*'lijmn word equivalent to the Italian roba, Here it comprises their fishing gear, huge rolls of tappa’ or native cloth, mats, immense pottery vessels, and the like. The shelves were also handy in war time as a point of vantage whence you could conveniently spear your neighbor as he enteren, and before his eyes became used to the subdued light. The floor is strewed with mats, on which you re- cline, and is usually raised a foot or so toward oue end, which enables you to take a graceful attitude,leaning on your elbow. Cooking is doné in a little” hut outside, or sometines there is & great fireplace on the floor, confined by four logs, the smoke finding its way out thiough the, lofty roof. "As you enter the house, you find the mats being swept, or fresh ones unrolled and laid down. Your traps are brought up from the boat, and, if this happens to have grounded balf a mile from the shore, you have perhaps yourself been carried to land by these willing giants. A few 1 note some curious uuoialics here fu these | words ure exchunged with the villuge or your host forthetime being—far too few, to my ming, even for politeness. I am told they dg not expect it. CRIME |N BRAZIL. The Lax View ‘;Alu-n of 1t by the Masses of the People. It will throw some light upon the character of the inhabitants of Fer- nando de Noronpha' to know how crime is looked upon by:the common people in Brazil, 4004 aNRnotL better show thls than by relating a bit of personal ex- perience, says & writer in the Popular Science Monthly. 1 had the misfqutune at one time to wound n Brazilign laborer—in his dig- nity. He thereupon threatened to take my life, and was by no means careful to keep his resolutions to himself. As the carrying out of such a determination upon his part would have caused me much inconvenience I called upon him in person, with the purpose, if possible, of dissuading him. 1 found that he did not look upon the condition of a crim- inal with dread at all. He told me frankly that if he should succeed in car- rying out his designs he knew perfectiy well what his career would be. ‘At wesent,” said he. **T am obliged to work For o ligings it Tim sent to jailmy live ing will be furnished me and I shall have nothing to do. If you are dead there will be no one to appear against me in the courts as my accuser, and in the course of a y or less I shall be set free, well rested, and v reputa- tion in the community of being a man of courage. In this case I saw to it that he had the opportunity of enjoying the coveted otium cum dignitate in jail without having to commit a crime. Butina country where wrong-doing sets lightly upon the conscience, and where it so frequently goes altogether unpun- ished, the eriminal class is large, as we should expect. Many of the vrisoners on the convict island were known among themselves by what scemed to be very odd names, and I learned that th vere nicknames taken from some nce con- nected with the cr ¥ Were ex- piating. Sometimes there was a ghastly sort of humor about these names. One, who had murdered a priest, was called 0 Padre,” the priest: another,who had murdered a man for his money and had found but half a pataca upon him, was called **Meia Pataca,” half a pataca, about sixteen cents; another, for a simi- lar veason, was called “‘Quatro Vin- tens.” four cents. These are simply instance of how the minds of these people dwelt, constantly upon erime, how they admired crime, and consequently gravitated toward it. About their work in shop or field, the daily bread of their minds was to think and talk of crime in every shape that isensed minds and perverted natures conjure it up. One would enter- tain his companions by detailing to them the story of some crime commit- ted by himself,or,gf which he had knowl- edge, while ewery one listened atten- tively, like so many: experts. The story ended, criticism -ended, and each one would indicate what he considered the wealk points in- the plan and its execu- tion, and would suggest improvements here and there. One story led to an- other, and, as might be expected,minds accustomed to this highly seasoned food soon rejected all ather. T BROAD A CLUBS. One Formed by E_mllcs in “an Intel- lectually Inclined Cirty." In an intellectually inclined city (not in the northeast)a club of ladies has been formed: fbr fige cultivation of the broad ‘‘a” in sbeecl, 5 -Charles Dud- lay Warner'in the “*Editor’s Drawer’ of Harper’s Magazine. Sporadic efforts have hitherto been made for the proper treatment of this letter of the alphabet with individual success, especially with those who have been' in England have known English men women of the broad-gauge iety. Discerning travelers have made the American pronunciation of the letter a a reprouch tothe republic— that is to say, a means of distinguishing a native of this countr The true American aspires mopolitan, not want to be ‘‘spotted”—if that word may be used—in society by any peculiarity of speec that is, by any American peculiarity. Why, at the pottom of the matter, a narrow a should be a disgrace, it is not easy to see, but 1t needs'no reason if fashion or authority condemns it. This country is s0 spread out, without any social or lit- erary center universally recognized as such, and the narrow o has be- revalent that even fashion 1t to reform it. The best people who are determined to broaden all their a’s will forget in moments of excitement and fall back into old habits. It requires constant vigilance to keep the letter a flattened out. It is in vain that scholars have pointed out that in_ the use of this letter lies the main difference between the English and the American speech; either Americans generally do not care if this is the fact, or fashion can only work a reform in & limited number of people. 1t seems therefore necessary that there should be an organized effort to deal with this pronunciation, and clubs will no doubt be formed all over the country in imitation of the one mentioned until the broad a will become as common as flies in summer. When this result is attained it will be time to attack the sound of u with clubs and make uni- versal the French sound. In time the American pronunciation will become as superior to all pthers as are the Ameri- can sewing machines and reapers. In the Broad A club every member who misbehaves—that is, mispronunces—is fined a nickel for each offense. 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You can come direct to the Institute, day or night, as we have hotel accommo- dations as good and as cheap as any in the city. e We make this explanation for the benefit of persons who may feel inclined to o further east for medical or surgical treatment and do not appreciate the fact g)mt Omaha pos the largest and most complete Medical and Surgical Insti- tute west of N York, with a capital of over $100,000. PARTICU 0 DCEORMITIES OF THE HUMAN BODY. g A:l’l‘LlAN(‘,liS FOR DEFORMI- TIES AND TRUSSES. Best Facilities, Apparatus and Remedies for Successful Treatment ot every form of Disease requiring MEDICAL or SURGICAL TREATME In this department we are especially successtul. Our claims of superiority over all others are based upon the fact that this is the only medical establishment man- ufacturing surgical braces and appliances for each individual case. We have three skilled instrument makers in our employ, with improved machinery, and have all the latest inventions, as well as our own patents and improvements, the result of twenty years’ experience. ELECOCTRICAL: TRBEATMENT. The treatment of dis s by electricity has undergone great changes within the past few years, and electricity is now acknowledged by all schools of medicine as the great remedy in all chronic, special and nerve diseases, for nervous debility, par- alysis, rheumatism, diseases of women, ete,, and in many eye and ear diseases it is the most valuable of all remedies. In order to obtain its full virtues, itis absolutely ne ry to have the proper apparatus. 'We have lately purchased three of the largest and most complete batteries manufactured, so constructed as to give the most gentle as well as the most powerful current. Persons treated at this Institute by electricity recognize at once the difference between our expensive and complete” electrical apparatus and the common, cheap batteries, in use by many physicians. Over 8,000 dollars invested in eleétrical apparatus, PRIVATE, SPECIAL, NERVOUS AND BLOOD DISEASES. ‘We claim to be the only reliable, responsible establishment in the west making a specialty of this class of diseases. Dr. McMenamy was one Jf the first thorough- ly e(lucntedJ)hysicmnsm make a special study of this class of diseases, and his methods and inventions have been adopted by specialists in Hurflm 1d America. He is the inventor of the Clamp Compress Suspensory, acknowledged the best in use. All others are copied after his invention. By means of a simple operation, painless and safe, recently brought into use, we cure many cases that have been gizleu up as incurable by medical treatment. (Read owr book to men, sent free to any address. DISEASES OF THE EYE AND EAR. ‘We have had wonderful success in this department in the past year, and have made 1y improvements in our fac ties for treatment, operations, artificial eyes, ete. We have greatly improved our facilifies and methods of treating cases by correspondence, and are having belter success in this department than ever before. ‘We are fully up to the times in all the latest inventions in medical and operations, appliances and instruments, Our institution is open for inv tion to any persons, patients or physician: ‘We invite all to correspond with or visit us before taking treatment elsewhere, believing that a visit or consultati will convince any intelligent person that it is to their advantage to place them- selves under our care, Since this advertisement first urpr-u.»wl, many boasting pretenders and frauds have come und;[mu and many more will come and go, remembered only by their unfortunate and foolish victims. A wise man investigates first and decides afterwards, A fool decides first, then investigates.’ The Omaha Medical and N:gtq cal Institute is indorsed by the people and the press. More capital invesled, more skilled physicians employed, more modern appliances, instru- ments and apparatus in use, more cases treated and cured, more successful surgical operations performed, than in all other medical establishments in the West combined. 144 PAGE BOOK (Illustrated) SENT FREE TO ANY ADDRESS (ssaLsn). COLTTEITTS: Part First—History, Success and Advantages of the Omaha Medicul and Surgleal Institnte. Part Socond-CHIONLO DISEABES of the Lungs, Stomach, Liver, Kilneys, Skin, Piles, Cancer, Catarrh, Epllepsy, Rheumatism, Inbalation, Tape Worm, Blectricity, Now e medies, ¢te. Part Third-Devoruirivs, Gurvature of the Spiae, Club ieet, Hip Discascs, Paralysis, Wry k. low Legs, Haro Lip. Surglcal Operations, Part Fourth -DISEASES O¥ THE EYE AND EAR, Diseasos of the Nerves, Cutaract, Strabismus or Croas Eyos, Ptcryglum, Granulatod Eyo Lids, Tuversion of tho Lids, Artifiolal Eyas, oto Part Fifth—DiseAgEs or WOMEN, Leucorrhiea, Ulceration, Displicements, Prolapsus, Flex- Tumors, Lacerations and Cancer of the Womb. ions and Versiof Part SIxth—-DISEASES OF MEN, Private, Speclal and Nervous Discases, Spermatorrhes (Seminal Weakibss), Impotency, Varicocele, Stricture, Gleet, Syphilis, and 'all diseases of the Genito Urinary Organs. I A BrrciALTY. W ADDED A LyING- HAVE LATELY DEPANTMENT DISEASES OF WOME Yo WOMEN DURING CONFINEMENT. (Btrictly Private). Only Reliable Medical Institute Making a Specialty of PRIVATE DISEASES, All Blood Diseases successfully treated. Syphilitic Polson removed from the system without mercury. New Hestorative Treatment for Loss of Vital Power. Patients unable (o visit us may be treated at home by correspondence. All communications confident ul. Medicines or instri- ments sent by mall or express securely packed, 1o murks to indlcate contents or sender. One 9 er sonal Iaiarviow preforsed, Call and cousnit us OF send Istory of your oaso, kid wo will send 1. plain wrapper, our BOOK 0 MEN, FREE: Upon Privito Spoofal or Nervous Discases, 1mpo- ency, Syphili, Gleet and Varicocele, 'with quest! Address, OMAHA MEDICAL & SURCICAL INSTITUTE, 18th and Dodge Streets, Gmulin, Nob, lon 1ist. ‘The Regular 0ld-Bstabllshod PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON o sl Troating with the Greatest S i i £~ NERVOUS DEBILITY, Lost Mani Beiling Memery, Exhausting Draina Dreame, Head s \che an fects « my and perhaps Consumption o8 1n :fllfi. Treared scieniifchlly by mew methods with never-falling success. SYPHILIS and all bad Blood and Skin Dise » petmanently cured. &~ KIDNEY and URINARY complaints, Gleet, Gonorrhoen, Stricture, Varicocele and all discases of the Genito. i 'nd 4 cents pos Chronie, Nervous and Delicate Discases. Hose contemplating Maiviage send for DE. celebrated guide Male and Female, each 18 cents, both a¢ cents (stampn). Consult the old Doctor.” A friendly letter or call may save future suffers hame, and add golden years tolife m sent everywhere, from Hnun.l’nl:‘n. Sund:;lgmn Address F. D. CLARKE, M. D \ _186 So. Clark 8t.. CHICAQO, (L35 WHEN purchasing a fine Shoe it is natural to se- lect that which is pleasing to the eye in style and finish; the material must be of the finest texture, and when on the foot the shoe must combine beauty and comfort. ) The Ludlow Shoe Possesses this Feature, : IF YOU TRY ONE PAIR xposure. You Will Wear Sold by over 100 trado thre See That Other Make. 8 Chieago, and the bost. d States, \ DOCTOR (. M. Jordan Late of thie University of New York City and HowardUniversity,\Washe ington, . C. 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