Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 12, 1889, Page 10

1 10 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE S ——— SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1889—SIXTEEN PAGES. - | THEGAUDY GIRLS OF BURNAH Their Bright Costumes and Their Immense Far Rings. THEM SMOKE CIGARS The Burmese Women Have More Rights Than the Men and Do a 3 Large Share of the : Business. ALL OF Among the Belles of Burmah, [Copyrighted 1859 by Frank G. Carpenter.| RANGOON, Burmah, March 8.—|Special Correspondence of Trr Brr,|—~The women of Burmah are the most advanced women of 1 the cast. Tho Japancse wife is addressed a8 alave by her husband and she never ap- pears to help him entertain his guests. The Korean madame has no right to go on the strects except after dark and the small footea Chinese girl is the slave of ner mother-in-law. She has no rights that her husband is bound to respect and he can sell her when ho is tired of her. The Siameso i girl, though a step higher in the order of 1 human rights, has to support the family and she is, according to the law, the property of the king. The Malay woman is secluded in the hareni of her husbund and the millons of women in India, Egypt and Turkey, are never seen upon the streets, The Burmese ! girls are the brightest characters of the - country and their gay silks, bright eyes and 1 graceful figures fill every place with color and beauty. They mix with the men and THEY HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS 4 in property and social standing with themw 4 husbands. During the first years of the b . marriage the man must. live with and help 8 support his mother-in-law, and he is by no means the master of the house. ‘Ihe woman holds thepurse. She is the business man of the family and though at times, it is said, that wife beating takes place in Burmah, such fnstances are fow and far between, I heard of one to-day in which a man enraged by a shrewish wifo attempted to striko her. A crowd gathered around and she taunted him, saying, “Beat me! beat me!!” The man raised his stigk and brought it down again and ogain within an inch of the i woman’s back, but did not dare to strike f her, The business of Burmah Is managed by the women as much as is the busiess of France. The city of Rangoon has about 140,000 people, and it is the center of trade of lower Burmah. Much of the native business is done in immense bazaars, cover- ing many acres, These bazaars are roofed ‘with heavy wood or iron to keep outthe sun, and some of them cover several biocks. Their interiors are divided up into streets, which cut one another at right angles. These streots are walled with cases of goods of all kinds, which rise from the back of a ledge five fect wide and as high as a chair ¥ seat. Upon these ledges tho bazaar’s sellers sit with their goods piled around and behind them, and m these bazaars the Burmese women compete with merchants from all over the east, They are as sharp at a bar- ain as the Parsee ‘merchants and the tur- aned Mohammedans who have stalls adja- cent to them, and the Burmese manufac- tures of all kinds are sold by them. With- out education in arithmetic and without knowing how to read and write, they can count profit and loss like 8o many lightning calcutators. 1 bought some silk of one of them to-day. The price first usked was three times what I finally gave, and the girl who sold me made, I doubt not, 25 per cent profit. She was VA TYPICAL BURMESE BEAUTY, «spnd she sat with her lcgs crossed flat on the traw mat of her booth with shelves of silks behind her and with gay colored clothes on the floor all around her. In her mouth was 8 Pplrmne cigar at least a foot long and a full inch in thickness. She offered mea whift when I looked at her goods, but upon my rofusing she handed the cigar over to her ihmr and fhttended to business. Pulling own one piece of bright silk after another, she spread them out on the mat before ma and chatted and laughed while sho sold. Giris mature here at thirteen and fourteen, and this bazaar dasy was perbaps sixteen years old. She was as straight as a post and 88 plump os a partridge, and her rich Bur- meso dress was well fitted to show out her benuties, The Burmese women are clad in two gurments. One of these is a jucket of silk or cotton which reaches to the hips, and the other is the tamenn. This is a wido stri of bright silk about_five feet square, whic 48 wrapped around the waist and tho limbs and fastened with a twist at the front, It has the effect of a tight American pullback without the bustle, put on without un: skirts. The opening of the skirt is at the front, but the women wall with a throw- ing out of the bare heels, which prevents the folds opening to an immodest de- rco. Tho wealthier lndies wear these resses 80 long that they trail upon the ground. The colors are those of the rainbow and the most delicato of yellows, of pinks and of blucs are used. My fair merchant worea shirt of bright green and gold, and her silk vest was a rich cream yeliow. = She had several strands of pearls about her olive- brown neck, and her ears had great buttons 4n them of clusters of diamonds,each as large as cuff buttons. She had bracslets on her arms, and thore was a gold ring on one of dhor toes, and in bor -hair_was a bunch of ight artificial flowers. She was, 1 judge, #lve feet high. Her oyes were large, nnd brown, and above "these were da d but not heavy brows. avealth of rich, glossy, black hair rollea up in ® pyramidal crown on the very top of her head, and was fastened by a silver comb d on tho scalp at the base of the She was a fair type of a thousand tty Burmese girls, whom 1 have seen here uring the past week, and her costume was that ot the country.’ The PASHIONS DO NOT CHANGE * fn Burmuh, and it ought not to take a Bur- meso lady long to make her toilet. This tamehn is worn by all classes and in all parts of Burman. The village girls and the women of Mandalay do not silk vest, and in ity swead they ® strip ' of oloth which s tightly around the bust under the arms, leaving the neck and the shoulders bare in much the same way as tho women of Siam. There is a scarf which is sometimes thrown over one shoulder, and this, falling ffder the other arm, s caugnt and is so ar- Fanged that it can cover both shoulders if the girl should desire it. One meets many ‘women, however, who do not use this scarf 4 snd tho ordinary'dress of tho interiof village Pello is ubout as decollette as that of our fashionablo society ladies, The village girls wear us bright colers as do the ladies of the tor classes, but their tamohn of ot o, They are in: plaid patterns,! and a fastenod with a simple knot at the wflfin 2 All Burmese women wear car plugs. MThese are as costly as the purse of the ‘womon can purchase, and they are like no r-rings vou will find in Amer, he bes of their ears have holes in thom, each of which is from a Lalf inon to an inch and half ju diameter, and I have seon los through which a mun's thrust and not bruise the siin. In some ©ases wowen carry these Lig Burmese CIGAKS IN THEIR EAMS, g’i'l suw & woman's ear yesterday in which re were gold rlnln Wwhich would have made good sized napkin rings. It seems in- ::dlhln that the flesh can stretoh s 1t doos, it 5omo of the poor women's ears are so ®nlargod cos hat by this P string of flesh whick hangs down in olace of the love s | aluiost as uround as the ear itself. Tho high ludy has a hole in her ear about as big d as her index fiuger and tho ear plugs, loh ure about half an inch lozg, aro often with clusters of aiamonds. They are somotimes of gold and in the cases o \gwell-to-do peol i o rest women wear plu, mfimn or yellow. The kold rings are Qften hoops of gold of about same shape slze of an open-endod thimble. ese ear-rings or plugs are the Burmese of womsunhood, A waiden is not sup- 10 bo & woman until her eurs are , and the mnmogy is quite as lmport. It to her as that of the first trall dress to e American girl. It takes place when she weaches the age of twelve or thirteen. The faully wn:fu » fortune teller fur a goud day and hour, and a big feast is prepared. All the sisters, cousins and aunts are invited And theso squat down on the floor about the room, while the girl, with her nearest reia- tives about her, lies down on a mat at the back. A professional ear-borer does the business. Hoe has necedles of pure gold for the-use of the rich and of silver for the poor. The fortune teller keeps his eye on the sun and tells tho party when the propitious mo- mount has arrived. The girl is frizhtened half to death. She sceeches, but her rela- tives hold her down while the ear-borer thrusts the gold needle through hor ear and catching it at the back, twists it around so that it forms a gold ring and this he leaves in the ear, he other ear is like- wise treated and all the time a band of music plays outside the house. It takes the ear some time to heal, and after this the process of enlarging the hole begins. The needle 18 turned around and passed backward and forward during the heoling and then a finely-rolled gold plate is pressed through the hole. This is rrmhmlly opened from woeek to week until the hole has been strotched into the proper size. Tho poor who can not afford gold put the stems of oclephant glass in their ears, inserting one stem after the other until they have a bunch s big around as your thumb in each car. When the ears are well healed the ear plugs or hollow pives are inserted. The Burmese men also pierce their ears ana wear earrings, but the coremony with thern is not important and their ear-rings are not of the gorgeous character of those of the women. Speaking of cigars, I bought two to-day of & woman in the bazaar. They are each a foot long and one looks for all the world like « poorly-daveloped ear of corn with the husk on. are very mild and have little tobacco in them, being made of owher leaves in_connection with the tobacco. All of the Burmese people smoke—men, women and children. I have not yet seon any babies leave the breast for a whiff of a cigarette, as tho books on Burmah state they do, but I sco many threo and four year old children smoking and tho Burmese mafden learns to smoke as soon as she can walk. Allof the irls are adepts in rolling cherroots aud in 3urmese courting the girl gives her lover cherroots rolled with her own hands and the two take, [ doubt not, whiffs about in the smoking of them. Tt is commen o pass the cigar from one friend to to auother and m a group of three girls, whom I watched having their fortunes told under the shadow of the great golden pago- da, I saw that one cigar did for the trio, ' Burmese do not court in the day time. Love making goes on during the evenmg and the lover nover calls until the old folks have gone tobed. Ho always brings a friond with him and the maiden _drosses herself in her best and paints and powders for_the oc- casion. Elopements are common and the LOVERS ARE S0 ROMANTIC that they undertake them many times whon there is no_opposition on tho part of the varents. After remaining awuy for several weeks thoy come back and ask for forgive- ness and_then the marriage is ofton cele- brated, though not befor The Burmese_marriage is a vory simplo affair, It consists ordinarily of the eating rice together in the presence of friends and of saying thattho two probose to live to- gethor as man and wife. The .matches aro sometimes made by the parents and some- times by professional match makers. The most common method, however, is by tho young people fixing the arrangement for themselves and carrying on their billing and cooing the sameas we do at home. The Burmese groom furnishes the wedding breakfast and he carries it to the house of thebride, After the marriage rice is thrown after_tho couple as thoy g0t the bridal chamber and they are expectod to pass seven days in seciusion, though this is not com- mon. The newly married par live with the bride's parents for several years at least, and in case that one of theso parcnts dies 'the otler becomes an inmate of the family for a lifetime. It is presumptuous for a young man to set up_ houscke mediately after marriage, and he is to work for a cortain timo for his wif Poligamy 1s_pormitted in Buri King Thebaw had fifty-threa wive of the Burmese, however, have but one wife at a time, and to have moro is not respect- abie. The favorite time for marrying is in April and May, and most of tho Burmese are married before they are_twonty. As to property rights the woman’s monoy is kept apart from that of the man's aud she has an equal right with hor-husband in the property earned during married life, In case of a divorco she gets back all of the money she brought into the family and half of the carnings, She hus a right to her own earn- ings, and the laws of divorce are more in favor of her than her husvband. She can get a divorce if her husband is poor and unable to support her, or if ne is idle and tazy. If hes always ailing or if he becomes 8 cripple after marriage she may be di- voreed, and on the other hand the man may get a divorce for three reasons. The first is if his wife has no sons. The sccond is she does not love him, and the third is if she persists in going whero he forbids her. In addition to this divorces are permissible by mutual agreement. They are not common, however, nor reputable, and it is a Burmeso suying that a divorced 'woman needs small wooing. Another Burmesesaying is that: “Monls are beautiful when thoy are loan, four-footed animals when they are fat, men when they aro learned, and women wWhon they are married.” Burmesc women are treated well family and chey are THE EQUALS OF THE MEN in family affairs. They have their say in all business matters, and the only place in which their_inferiority is noticeable is in_religion The Burmeso are Buddhists and a Buddhist wowman has no chance to go to heaven, save by her soul at death passing into the body of aman, If shos wonderfully pious during this life such a transmivration may take place, and T noto that the chief worshippers at the pagodas here are women. Buddhist teachiors put woman much lower in the seale of morality than man and they maintain that the sins of one woman are equal to the sins of 3,000 0f the worst men that ever lived. There are about two hundred million Budd- hist women in the world and none of these navo any hope of immortality than this. Nevertheless I am told thav the Burmese women are more honest than the men and their busiuess promises are more trusted. in the Thoy are not educawd, as a rule, und it is only lately that thore have been schools in Burmah for women, The Baptist missionaries are doing & great deal in this direction and I visited a female seminary which contained about one hundred girls. ‘They were very bright looking girls, 100, and the president of the school told me thut many of them could speak three lan- guagos and that they were fully as bright as the average American girl. During my lla¥ an English spelling match was gotten up for my entertainment, and a class of thirty girls were spelled down. They were all clad in the Burmese costumes, and bare- footed, bare-headed, aud with these tight dresses about their limbs they stood and spelled the' words almost as rapidly as the teacher could utter them. ‘They had a queer pronunciation and accent, but they did re- markably well and two of the girls remained on the floor for a full half hour, going almost through the spelling book in that time. As the girls missed they one by one went back 0 their seats, s010e laughing and s0me pout- ing. But the two who remained to the last gired out their teacher, and as she “enough” thoy wal off proudly kieking out their bare heels as they lifted them from the floor in this “approved Burmese fashion, }Nllk{h seryes to keep the dress closed in ront. ‘The Burmese woman has few of the troubles and pleasures of & New England housewife. All of her cooking is done out of doors at this time of year, and Ler range never gets out of order. She builds her fire on the ground and her cooking utensils con- sist of two or three earthen pots. These and @ jar of water with a cocoanut ladle make up the kitohen furniture, and our Burmese house is not tronbied with table spreading nor dish washing., She is never worrie about her flour nor her baking powder. The Burmese use neither knives nor forks. ‘Their staple food is rice and & huge platter of this is cooked for the family and d upon the floor. In addition there is & bowl of curry, a knd of wur,nlrlvylike mixture, which asoned with fish and popper, and whioh is very hot. The family squat around the rice dish and each his own little bowl for curry ana a larger one for rice. Everyone helps himself, putting bis fingers into the rice platter and taking as much as he can squecze up in his hands.” The food Is couveyed from the bow! to the mouth with the hand, aud at the close of the meal every- one is expected to wush his own dishes, No drinking is done during the weal, and 3 end each goes Lo the water Ji his mouth, 1 have s weals, and in no case h or koives and forks. is thus o 1 seen chop The Burmese dibner A PRUPRTUAL PIONIC. livig s tuey do, the Buruese cauno® bave much of home lite. The bouses of the groat majority are more like tents than gnything else, They are made of plaited bamboo walls thatcbed with palm leaves, which are pinned to rafters of bamboo the size of fish- ing poles. The most of the houscs are of ono story, and this is built upon piles above the ground thut you can walk under the floor without stooping. Under the. house the live stoek of the family is kept, and there is sometimes & work room inside tifls lower foundation. The houso has no furniture in an American sense; tho family sleep upon mats, and they keep their heads off the floor Dby resting them above bamboo pillows, Still they are wonderfully olvilized considering tholr surronndmgs. They are the kindest and most manly people T have met sinco leav- ing Japan, and their women are bright, in- teiligent, and in the cases of thé younger ones, beautiful. FrARK G, CARPENTRER. PRS- o STORIES OF THE SEA. Reminiscences of tho Veteran Trans- Atlantic Traveler. ““That man has crossed the Atlantic ocean eighty-six times.” It was Mr. Thomas Swobe who made the romark, yesterday, in a conversaton having roference to Imil Haas, a guest at the Mil- lard hotel. *‘And he travels without being compelled to buy his way through. You know,” continued Mr. Swobe, “that it Is customary with the Cunard steamship com- pany to award prizes in the shape of 'life passes on the fiftieth voyage made by any person. Mr. Haas earned his prize several years ago. He travels so much that they extended exceptional courtesics to him.” The occasion for so much travel between the old and new world on his part is due to the fact that Mr. Haas represcnts a very large Parisian wine house which, through lis efforts, has an immonse trade ampng hotels and large wholesale concerns in this country. He is a German considerably Americanized, but French in mannerisms, very intelligent and a great talker. Nothing delights him so much as to sit down with four or five friends and en- tertain them with stories of his extensive ox- perience on the high séas. Yesterday he re- lated two_or three very interesting” occur- rences. One exceedingly amusing incident happoned in 1863, while coming to New York from Liverpool on the Algiers. Billy Flor- ce and Dion Boucicault were among tho sengers, *About that time,” said he, “the hospital for sick and disabled sailors—a very worthy charitable institution—had been completed. It was maintained then, and is yet, largely by collections taken from passengers aboard both the outgoing and incoming vessels, There was an old man on our vessel doing the col- lecting. Florence, Bouccicaultand I woro plunged deeply in the vi ating run of no- limit poker, when he solicited our subscrip- tions. I proposed at once that all the win- nings of the game be given to the hospit fund, but Florence protested, and suggeste as a better scheme that we got up an’ enter- tawment of some kind and charge the pas- sengers (there were about throe hundred of them) $1 admission and turn over the pro- ceeds. *‘Boucicault and I readily consented and entered heartily into the enterprise. There wero two_well dressed, fine looking Irish- men on board who persisted in wearing plug hats, and unusual thing atsea. 1t is customary for men to wear scull caps. Every day these fellows strutted around, much to the annoyance of everybody. “After discussing the kind of performance best caleulated to prod: the most fun, Florance finally exclaimed: ‘I have it. We will hold a mock court and try those two Irishmen for wearing their silk tiles and thus incurring the wrath of the gods to visit us on our journey with these ill-winds and angry waves’ The suggestion struck us favorably and we procecded to carry it out. Bouccicault was uppointed to ‘act as the judge. They selected me for sheriff and we got a Cincinnati lawyer, who was extremely bright, ana drunk half the time, to prepare and file an information agsinst the two offenders. They erected a dais in the cabin for the judge to sit on, empanneled a jury, and when overy- thing was ready, his honor orderod me to go on deck, arrest tho ucoused &nd:bring them in. ks “‘Well, you ought to have scen me. Some ladies had tied a blue ribbon around my neck and decked me with the insignia of oftice. strutted forth as proud as any bantam, went on deck, and there spied the objects of my search leisurly prominading and having a quiet chat. [boldly approached, tapped each one on the shoulder, and exclaimed ‘gontlemen, you are my prisoner.” From that day to this I have been profoundly im- pressed with vhe conviction that they were not the sort of men so constituted as to take joke, for no sooner had the words left my lips than one of them knocked me down. Then I got up the other imitated his exam- ple, and they gave me an unmerciful pound- ing. ‘*As a result of my efforts, I went back to the cabin a badly used up individual ‘This so disappointed the court and lawyers Z_Florence was representing the prisonors— that they arraigoned and tried me. I was convicted and sentenced to treat judge, jury and everybody else to champaign the next aay. 1t Cost Ine my summer’s wages. ‘“The second notable event came off in 1885, Wo sailed from New York Junc 12 on the Gallis, but instead of landing five days later on English soil, we wore adrift in the middle of the ocean with a broken shaft, and stayed five weeks, That time ex-Attornoy-General Benjamin F. Brewster and Hon. Roscoe Conkling were on board. We celebrated the Fourth of July a thousand miles from land." Believe me, or not, but it was the greatest day 1 ever saw. Brewster and Conkling both entered into the spirit of the occasion, and_such speeches as they made I don’t think were ever equaled on’ land. We had processions, lots of siuging, a big dinner, and more fun thun you cun imagine. “But the real sport of that trip was tur- nished by a mnister, who was all the time arguing and preaching prohibition, We made him the butt of our jokes. He devoted much of his time inducing the pussengers and boat hands to sign a temperauce pledgo. One day the old fellow announced ‘that he had succeeded in getting all the sail- join his army and take that never agam would tho flowing bowl. I then to post a wager that I could go among the orew, with proffers of boer and cigars, letting each man select which he would have, and that one-half of them would break their pledges and take beer. He hooted at the proposition, thought it absurd and declared it impossible for men to thus violate their oath. **The next day was Sunday. [ weut into the steerage room, called in all the sailors and offered them the treat. Thirty-five out of the thiruy-six took beer. - AT THE CANNON'S MOUTH. A Brilliant Military Wedding at Old Fortress Monroe. The Church of the Centurion, which. is located in a grove of live oaks inside the walls of the fortress, presented a beautiful appearance on' Wednesday last, when 1t was crowded with the offi- cers and ladies of the garrison in full dress to witness the marriage of Lieu- tenant Stephen M. Foote, Fourth United States artillerv, and Miss Sara Brooke, only daughter of Major John B¥ooke, post surgeon, says a dispatch from Fopt- ress Monroe to the New York World. There were four groomsmen—Lisu- ténant W. R. Homer, Fifth urtillery; Lieutenant J. N. A. Darrow, Fourth artillery; Lieutenant G. W, S. Stevens, Fifth ‘artillery, and Dr. Benjamin Brooke, brother of the bride, who marched up the aisle, two abreast. The bridesmaids were Miss. Bessié Brooke, of Philadelphia, cousin of the biide; Miss Alice Frank, duughter of the post communder; Miss Burty daughter of Colonel Burt, Seventh in- fantry, and Miss Cozzens, of New York, who advanced up the aisle singly and about ten feet apart, followed by the bride leaning upon the arm of her father., She wore a handsome empress gown of white faille Francais, trimmed with duchess lace, orange blossoms and bride roses. She was completely envel- oped in a long veil of white tulle, and carried a bouguet of white violets, The §ruoln. with his best man, Lieutenant ohn C. W. Brooke, Fourth artillery, met the bride at the altar rail, where they knelt for & short time uutil the soft notes of the organ died away. Rev. Osgood E. Herrick, post chaplain, then stepped forward and performed the Episcopal service, THE WILD WEST ON THE SEA. 1o Indians, Oowboys, Vaqueros and Buffals |Off for Paris. — SAYING FAREWEELL IN THE RAIN. I Buffalo Bill's Bufopean Route and What Ho Wil Exhibit to the Forelghprs—ited Shirt is ,Disgusted. [ Off For the Exposition. The cowboy band thumped away vig- orously at “‘A Life on the Ocoan Wave” when the steamship Persian Monarch backed out into the stream yesterday afternoon with the whole “Wild West” on board, says the New York Herald. Colonel Cody himself stood on the bridge, his big hat in his hand and his long hair glistening with the rain. The band played, the cowboys yelled, the Indians ki-yied, and the dripping crowds cheered. Buffalo Bill waved his hat in a comprefiensive farewell to everybody, and the steamer started for Havre. Many of Colonel Cody’s friends came down to the pier to see him off on his two years’ trip and try to dispel the gloom of the dreary day. It was a melantholy start. The rain came down in floods and everybody was soaking wet. The Indians looked the picture of despair walking up aud down the deck with rivalets running from their soggy blankets and rain drops trickling down their faces. The old Deadwood coach on the forward deck was leaking a pool of water down upon its seats, The in- dian dogs looked dismal and half drowned. About the only things that were not visibly affected by the sloppi- ness were Buffalo Bill’s spirits and the stoamer’s old stewardess. RED SHIRT IS DISGUSTED. Mr, Red Shirt, the pampered favorite of Buropean sovereigns, sought the se- clusion of the squaws’ cabin early in the day and denied himself to reporters while he relieved his feelings copiously in the vigorous dialect of the. Redbud agency. Besides him there were on board 102, more or less, untutored sons of the forest, four squaws and five papooses, Of these, Black Heart, Lit- tle Chief and Kills Plenty, had accom- panied Red Shirt on his former trip abroad. The others had never before been away from their agencies. They are all Sioux, mostly from the Ogallala and Redbud agencies, selected by the government agent fromthe Indian aris- tocracy, as it were. John M. Burke,who is the manager o{ the show, says they are.a much better lopking lot of red- skins than he tgok aljroad in 1887, and the best specimeny of American Indians he has ever seen together. The names, as bitered, on the ship’s passengre , 4re more striking than euphonious. Among them are Messrs. Yellow Eye, Juiaping Crow, Wooden Face, Meaicine, Jlorse; No Neck, Raw Meat, Sick Antelope, Dog’s Ghost and other members pf the Indian four hun- dred, said to be. well known on the agencies. L The Indians-are quartered in the steerage of the Monarch. Just below them on the twd decks, are the 190 In- dian ponies, as ugly'ds sin, and in the forward hold arbiwenty head of buffalo. Bight Indian:do@s bccupy a’coop on the quarter d fajor -Burke repelled with emphasis the;suggestion that the dogs were to furnish the Indiuns with their favorite soups and ragouts on the way over. Judging from his expe- rience'on the former trip the Indians would probably have little occasion to eat anything after they passed Sandy Hook. INDIAN DOGS GO ALONG THIS TIME. There are two teams of the dogs, and as a matter of fact they are intended to give the Parisians an idea of Indian methods of travel. They are under the charge of two Canadian trappers. Am- brose Lepine and Maxime Goulet, who, by the way, were cngaged in Riel’s rebellion in Manitoba, and only es- caped hanging by flight to this country General Dumas, who was Riel’s licu- tenant, is also with the party. s, buffalo and dogs were r the ship's side yesterday morning in slings worked with a tackle. The horses made a tremendous fuss about it and it took all the skill of their cowboy riders to get them on board. The buffalo went over without a murmur, though almost scared to death. The people who watched the transfer from the shore made the inter- esting discovery that a horned buffalo being yanked over a ship’s side in a sling, hanging up by .the middle with head and heels together, is a much more comical sight than anything in the show itself, and they laughed until their sides ached, though the buffalo didn’t seem to find it at 21l amusing. In the company are thres young women riders; two young women rifle shooters—Miss Annie Oakley and Miss Lillhie Smith—thirty-two cowboys, seven Mexican vaqueros and a big staff of property and camp men. There are 218 persons ull told. They go first to Paris for several months, then to Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg and to other cities on the ntinent; then to England, and here in 1891. @GOODBY AND GOOD LUCK. Albert Bierstadt, the artist; Marshall P. Wilder, the funny man; Colonel John 8. Bell, chief of the United States secret service; Dr. H. C. Bullock, of Hartford; Erastus Wiman, John Dos Pussos, George G- Ames, of Boston, and John W. Hamilton were among those who stood in the rain and gave the party cheer aftercteer as it went away. Mr.” Wilder cheered, the loudest, be- Ccause Colonel Cody hgd just made him a present of a littlp Indian pony, which, being conspieuously ugly, is named Juliet. Lol a Just as the steamer was starting it wath discovered ‘that' one of the party was missing, Mrs. Thompson, a young woman hired as pssisgnt to Mrs. %th- taker, the camp magron, had slipped away and left tlie pier. She didn’t want to go very much in the first place. and at the last minuth the idea of .two years away from home was too much for er courage and she fled Mothers ' give Angostura Bitters to their children to stop colic and loose- ness of the bowels) Dt J. G. B. Biegert & Sons, sole mduufacturers. 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Trackage Property For sale or lease from Union Pacifle bridge north to Grace street, among which are two or three choice bargains Money Loaned On improved or gilt edged unimproved real estate. ALL TITLES Are examined by us and must be per- fect before we will recommend purchase of property. JohnT. Dillon R. B, &L, Co. Room 49 Barker Block. 'W‘HEN 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 tlre foot the shoe must combine beauty and comfort. The Ludlow Shoe Possesses this Feature, IF YOU TRY ONE PAIR " You Will Wear No Other Make.™' S0l by, ovor 100 dealers In Chicago; and the best trade throughout the United States. Sce That They Arc Stamped “LUDLOW.” Health_is_Wealth! WEST'S NERVE AND BRAIN TREAT- ‘guaranteed specific for Hysteria, Diszi- ness,’ Convulsions, Fits, Nervous Netra Healache, Nervous Proytration caused by the use of alcohol or tobacco, Waketuiness, Montal Depression, Sofcening of the Hrain, resulting in Insanity and leading to misery, and death, Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Loss of Power in either sex, luvoluntary Lossss and Spermat orhaa caused by over-exertion of the brain,self- abuse or overindulgence. Each box contains one month's treatment. $1.00 & hox, ot s1x boxe for 5.0),sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price, ‘WB GUARANTEE SIX BOXHS To cure any case. With each order received b us for six boxes, accompanied with 8,00, we wil #ond the purchaser our writton guarantée to ro- fund the money if Lue treatment does not efet cure, Guarantees issued only by Goodman rug Go.. Drugglats, Sole” Agonts, (110 ¥arnam street, Omahs Nob, - DOCTOR (. M. Jordan Late of_the University of New York City and HowardUniversity, Wash- ington, D. HAB OFFICES No. 310 and 311 Ramge Building, Corner Fitteenth and Har noy s, Omaha, Neb, Ps%where all curablo case #7 'ure treated with suy cens, ASTHMA, DYSPEPSIA, DEA¥- US AND SKIN BHONOHITL nEss, RUEUMATISN, ALL NEK Disk\sks. CATANIH CURED. CONSULTATION at office or by mail, 81, Ofice hours—% 0 1} a. m., $to4 7' 8p, m,; Bunday oftice houra froi 0 & m. 161 p. i 'Manydiseases ure treated successtully by Dr. ardon thougn the mais.and it 1s thus possl vle le tn make a journey to o HOSPITAL TREATMENT AT Send Lungs #nd Earsy 1 R lFPILIKI:UKt'!' Bhelby, Gro e oun Kush, City Treasurer WHEN YOU BUY A CIGAR! & ¢ SEE THAT THE ¢ ¢ “REDLABEL"”’ OMAHA ; Medical and Surgical Institute, - N. W. Cor. 13th and Dodge Sts, Omaha, Neb. THE LARCEST MEDICAL INSTITUTE IN THE WEST FOR THE TREATMENT OF ALL Chronic and Surgical Diseases and Diseases of the Eye and Ear, 1D TO DEFORMITIES, DISEASES OF WOMEN , DISEASES SEXUAL ORGANS, PRIVATE DISEASES, DISEASES VOUS SYSTEM, LUNG' AND THROAT DISEASES, AL OPERATIONS, EPILEPSY OR FITS, PILES, CANCERS, TUMORS, Etc. J. W.McMENAMY, M. D, President, And Consulting Physician and Surgeon. Organized with a full staf of Skilled Physicians, Surgeons and Trained Nurses, This establishment is a permanent medical institution, conducted by thorouglily educated physicians and surgeons of acknowledged skill and experience. ho Institute buidings, situated on the northwest corner of Thirteenth and Dodge stroets, is composed of two large three-story brick buidings of over ninety rooms, contail ugourluodiunl, Surgical and Consultation Rooms, Drug Store, Laboratory, Offices, Manufactory of Surgical Appliances and braces, and the Boarding Depart- ment far Patients, in charge of competent por: n-nunm§.n|u largest and the most thoroughly equipped Medical and Surgic tablishment in the West, one of the three largest in the United States, and second to none. We have superior advantages and facilities for treating diseases, performing surgical operations, boarding and nursing patients, wh combined with our acknowledged ability, experience, responsibility and repu lnn, should make the Omaha Medical and Surgical Institute the first choice. 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. W ‘We make this explanation for the benefit of persons who may feel inclined to go further east for medieal or surgical treatment and do not approciate the fact that Omaha possesses the largest and most complete Medical und Surgical Insti- tute west of New York, witha capital of over $100,000. ATTENTI HE URINAR F THE NER & DEFORMITIES OF THE HUNAN BODY. ANCES FOR DEFORMI- ES AND TRUSSES. Best Facilities, Apparatus and Remedies for Successful Treatment ot every form of Disease requiring MEDICAL or SURGICAL 0 TREATMENT. In this department we are espec a1l Our elaims of superiority over all others are based upon the fact tl he 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 improvenients, the result of twenty years’ expericnce. ELECTRICATL:, TREATMENT. The treatment of diseases by electricity has undergone great changes within the past few years, and el sity 1snow acknowledged hy all schools of medicine as the great remedy in all chronic, special and nerve diseases, for nervous debility, par- alysis, rheumatism, diseases of women, etc,, and in many eye-and ear diseases it is the most valuable of all remedies. In order to obtain its full virtues, it is absolutely necessary 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 electrical apparatus. PRIVATE, S8PECIAL, NERVOUS AND ; BLOOD DISEASES. im to be the only reliable, responsible establishment in the west making 1ty of this class of diseases. Dr. McMenamy was one of the first thorough- sated physicians to m: Al study of this class of diseases, and his ted by specialists in Europe and America. Suspensory, acknowledged the best in his invention. By means of a simple operation, painless and safe y brought into use, we cure many cases that have been g':l\:lml uSl a8 incurable by medical treatment. (Iead our book to men, sent free to any wddress. DISEASES OF THE EYE AND EAR. We have had wonderful success in this department in the past year, and have made many lmpmvamenL in our facili- ties for treatment, operations, artificial eyes, ete, We have greatly improved our hwmzles and methods of treating cases by correspondence, and are having better guceess in this department than e: before, We are fully up to the times in all the latest inventions in medical and surgical operations, appliances and ins Our institution is open for invesfigae tE(m to any persons, pati ‘We invite all to correspond with or visit us before taking t , believing that a visit or consultation will convince any intelligent person that it is to their advantage to place them- gelves under our care, Since this advertisement first urprurcll. many boasting pretenders and frauds have come and gone and many more will come und go, remembered only by their unfortunats and foolish victima. bl “A wise man investigates first and decides afterwards, A fool decides first, then investigates.” The Omaha Medical and Surgrical Instituts is indovsed by the people and the press, More capital invested, more skilled physiciana employed, more modern appliances, instrue ments _and appuratus in use, more cases treated and cured, more successful surgical operations perfornied, than in all other medical estublishments {nthe West combined. 144 PAGE BOOK (Illustrated) SENT FREE TO ANY ADDRES Luo). COTTENTS: Pars First—History, Buecess and Advlntnfiu of the Omahs Medlcal and Burgical Institnte, Part Socond. CHIONLC DISEARES of Lho Tungs, Stomuch, Liver, Kidneys, Bkin, Piles, Canoer, » C‘:'lillllr‘)i, Epllepsy, lull'lll:\l“!l b 'nhll'hl‘l.lln B"‘rfl (“vlfiamlf'h' fllflli‘ w u.lfl.d“lbl. eto, - rd - DeronMirTigs, Curvature of o ne, C .'Nnuvl. Jiow Tags Hiuro £l Surgloa! om’.‘unnfi;.n "“ ':""" P Diasnsch, Farmyns Wry “Blaancs 0 TR EYR AND Hal, Disoases of the Norves, Florygluim, Granuiated Ko Lids, 1 version of the Ligs, Arifcnl Byes aie ™ " & 3 v W ow ks, Leoorriiion, Ulooration, Dispiscemsonte Broisrusi, ¥lex- Tuwors. Lacerations and Qunoorf the ‘1')?"' . “ n ervous Discasos, Bpormatorrhas (Bemin Gl disousys of 4ho Genllo 8 b, Byphills, and Urluary Orgaos. R\BEASES OF, A Brroravry. We Have Larecy ADDED A LYINGIN DEPAUTMENT Only Reliable Medical Institute Making a Speclalty of PRIVATE DISEASES. & ¥ i ully tre: Byphilitic Pol poved from Alogg Do el rss, ApbNLEos Srogoat s he e vt Tl o B Attt Kl Jummsaliions gomtiatial Hdine o e Sonallorviow proforved. gy L i AN DAL b RS OMAHA MEDICAL & BURCICAL INSTITUTE, 13tk aud Dodge Firests, Ominhs, Nebe