Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 26, 1889, Page 10

.- ON FIFTY CENTS PER WEEK Mien and Women Marry and Raise Families in India. AMID MUD HUTS AND SQUALOR. How the Masses Live and Work in the Land of the Hindoos~The Most Beantifal Tomb in the World. Poverty in India. [Copyrighted 18%9 by Frank G. Ca rpenter. Acra, March 20.—[Special Correspond- ence of Tie Ber.]—Povery! poverty! pov- ertyl I find written all over India. Its oharacters shine out in the shrunken legs ana flat stomach of the people. The blaz- Ing sun paints the word on the huts ot every village and the squalid want, which fills every part of the cities I have seen, is 8o vlain that he who runs may read. The condition of the Kast Indian people is far worse than that of the Chinese. The Koreans are fat and the Japanese are wealthy in comparison with the people around me. The Maiays, the Siamese and tho Burmese have plenty to eat and leisurb for loafing. Theso people work from morn until night and ge to bed huagry. They are not more than half clothed. The masses wear two strips of thin cotton cloth, and of the 250,000,000 of people in India, four out of five g0 bare-footed. Just below hero about the city of Patna is the great opium producing distriot of India, aud I am told by one of the lending oplum officers of the government that the people of this region invariably foed their children small quantites of opium daily, in order that they may by this means ‘ward off the cold and reduce their appetites. There are in the province of Bengal alone anore people than in the whole United States. The majority of these are farmers and their holdings are one-half acreto the person. The most densely populated of our Unlted States arc Rhode Island and Massachu- setts, whose small territories and large cities give them respectively 254 and 221 people per square mile. A square mile is equal to four farws of 100 acres eaoh, and the average of the wifole United States is SIX PEOPLE TO EACH SUCH PARM. *Thero are in Bengall 520 peonle to each cul- tivated 160 acres, or two people per acre. Our states have largely a city population, and wherever we have a large averagoe per square mile a great part of vhe population lives in cities and make their living off of manufacturing and trade. Here the people live almost altozether by farming, aud if you will put 320 people on the richest quarter sec- tion you can find in America and expect them to make their living by raising ordin- ary crops you get the condition of this part of India. Even with our cities Ohio has only twenty peoplo to the quarter section. Oregon has a little over two, Nebraska two, Ken- tucky ten, Kansas three, and Pennsyivania, teeming with mines and manufacturers, has not quite twenty-five, Speaking of the town population of India only one man in twenty lives in a town of over twenty thousand inhabitants. The other nineteen persons live in villages and these little collections of mud huts are scat- tered all over the ceuntry. No one lives on the land he cultivates, and the farms are without fences and are in large tracts divided up into little fields, the extent of which can be seen by the low irrigating walls and by the difference in the colors of the crops. "These villages are built entirely of mud. The huts are from six to fifteen feot square. Their roofs are thatched with straw or with thin brick tiles and there are no chimneys. Sometimes there isa mud wall around the hut and this wall and the sides of the hut are now covered with round cakes of cow man- ure, each the size of & buckwheat cake and each bearing the imprint of a woman’s hand. You see these cakes by the thousand” in the cities and villages all over India and they form the fuel by which the rice is cooked and the people aro warmed. It is the duty of the women and girls to gather this man- ure. They pick it up with their hands and fo frontor behind thelr huts mix it with straw aud mud and then, moulding the filthy mass between their palms to the thickness of an iuch, they take it and plaster iton the sides of the hutto dry. Wood 18 too dear for them, and by such fuel through tho raw, wintry mornings the family huddies over the livle cooking fire and attempts to koep warm. ‘The babies in many cases wear 1o clothing, and the dress of the romainder of the family of five could be made out of three ordinary sheets. The smoke gets out of the hut as best it can, and thero is abso- lutely nothing cheering about the house. The floor is of mud aud the walls are un- plastered. The family e no chairs and they squat on the ground at their moals. The is exther the floor or & net-work of ropes on a frame of wood with legs which raise it two feet from the floor. It is usually about four feet long and three feet ‘wide, and the man who sleeps upon it must ejther bang his legs over the end or lie doubled up. During the daytime the beds are stood ‘out of doors, because there is no room for them in the hut, and some of the family usually sleep under the over- hanging roof in front of the door. Going through Benares in the early morning I saw }mrhpa five hundred people thus sleeping in ront of as many huts. They had no bed clothes under them and none over them, Women and men were lying with their Knees up to thoir chins wrapped in the same cotton garments they had worn during the day time. Others were crawling from their beds and stooping over the smouldering coals ‘which their wives had just lighted. ualor ‘Was everywhere and DIRT WAS KING, Wages are torrioly low and millions of muen in India live, marry and raise children on an income of fifty cents a week. This Is & good facome for a family and women work 4n the fields for three cents a day, and many Borvants wet little more than a dollar @ month. The emoroidery of India i the world over and there is as muoh the making of patterns and doing this work on cloth with gold and silver throad as there 48 in the art work of the western world. A aood embroiderer ets from two to threo ollars a month, and men working on the rpilroads i minor tions get about the same. An American or & German would starve on such an alowanoe but the Indians who get this much grow fat. Among the workingmen of the world they have reduced themselvesto thie least number wants. ‘They no millinery bills and ey never huve a tailor. They need neither Deedles or thread snd it in against their re- ligion to drink. ~The Hindoo eats no meat nor any avimal fat and he lives on the cheap- estof rice and miliet. These with veget- ables and milk make up his_diet, and as & lo he hus not enough to fill his stomach, henever the orops fail there isa famine for he has not enough income to enable him Lo save, and about ten years ago the Eng- Lish government spent 55,000,000 in reliev- ln;st 0 wants of Lhe people. In some parts of India, such us Allahabad, which I visited t weels, the population is so dense that it does not Increase from year to year. In twenty vears in this district thore was only 8n annual increase of six persons in every 20,000, and at the present time the Increase is not much greater. ‘The people are so under- fed that di and death keeps down the tural fucrease which goes over the rest of world, and you see them apparently starving before your eyes. ‘This condition of {adia has been the same for ages. The people seew to have always been poor and the . FABULOUS WEALTH O¥ INDIA bas alwas beco in the hands of the few. The ?tt" have their powerful grip on it now, uu l‘r palaces und luxdrious residences Aok the fuce of the country. They squeeze out OF the land just about the same amounts that the mogul kiugs did in times gone by, and Bero uv Agra sro thoe rulns which show bhow Jidia was ground down in the past. Here is the Taj the most bourl.r:l and the WM-: architecture ever designed or Uy waa, which was erected e sev- nteenth contury by o 0 mogy nge a8 a tomb for his wife It Ties on the banks of the great Jumna river. Built upon & mo- | saic r atform of stars of black and white marble, covering fully two acres, it rises a beautiful tower upwards for 114 feet. Here it ends in turrets,and from its conter springs & great bubble-like dome of white marble, in- sido of which a_ four-story house of fifty feet front could be lost, but which is so regularly cut that it might have been the work of a Grecian sculptor, and the propor- tions of which are such that it seems in per- fect harmony with the great octagonal tower below. The whole is a mass of fine stones and white marbie 8o /nlaid aad carved that it is more like a jewel of mosaic than an architec: tural structure, Its doors are lace work of the purest white marble. In 1ts interior there is enough of this marble lace to fence in & city block. The whole structure s a marvel of workmanship, and Bishop Hober has well described it in saying that its artists “*designed like Titans aud finished like jew- elers. It would be as easy to tell how the birds sing and tae lilacs smell as to describe the Taj " 1 have visited it again and again and I feel with the Russian artist who said, ‘‘tho Taj is like a lovely woman, Abuse her as much a8 you please, but the moment you come into her presence you submit to her fascination.' This tomb is almost as perfect to<lay as it was when it was built. It took 20,000 men seventecn years to build it. Theaverage life of man in Indiais a fraction over thirty years, Istimating this life at thirty-four years instead of thirty the work upon the Taj embraces just 10,000 lives, These 20,000 workmen gotonly THEIR ¥OOD FOR THEIR LABORS. An allowance of corn was given to them and thelr overseers cheated them in the de- livery of it. It was the same with the other grand structures of the time. Within a milo of the T'aj, in very goud preservution, there now stands an immense fort, the walls of which are seventy feet high and of red sand stone carved 8o beautifully that they would honor any Fifth avenue residence, enclosed in a square cqual to four farms of 640 ucres each. This fort was bullt by the Emperor Akbar and its interior is filled with grand palaces in which the ladies of his harem revelled in cloth of gold and shone in price- less diamonds. The Taj costabout $15,000,- 000, which in the vurchasing power of the time of Queen Elizabeth in India must have been worth ten times as much as it is to-day. This fort cost countless miilions more. Its palaces had 1interiors walled with diamonds and emeralds, and the king who built the Taj had a peacock throne which blazed with rubies, sapphires and emeralds at the back in the form of a peacock’s tail, and with stones so- set that they resembled the natural colors of the bird’s teathers, This throne alone represented a value of over thirty-two millions of dollars and his land revenues amounted to $100,000,000 year. The kings of his time took one-third of the produce of the land and the total rev- enue of she father of this man were $250,- 000,000 per annum. The uxtravagancies of these times are unrivalled in history, but it was only the kings who were rich. T'ho peo- ple were as poor then as they are to-day and the curse of poverty seems to have ever hung over the Indian peasant. This condition of affairs exists in southern as well s in northern India, and I found at Singapore and in Burmah cmirranu from Madras who looked quite as thin and who had come there to better their wages. Many of these were xlings. Lean, black men, halt naked, with loag hair hanging down upon their shoulders—they do the work of Ceylon and of many of the islands of the In- dian ocean. They are bright and hardy, and are among the most picturesque peo- ple of India. The most of them act as coolies, but there is one caste which devotes itself entirely to the lending of money, and this caste, by bank- ing, has grown' rich. Its members aro known as_chittjes, and they have their money-lending establishments in every town of southern India. They control the capital of Burmah, and one street of Ran- goon is lined with their banks, An Indian bank is far different from the money-lending ostablishment in the United States, Take a low, narrow, celllike room six feot high and about one hundred feet long and put in the center of this twenty-five young men as black as the aceof spades. Let each have his head shaved. Let none of them wear more than a white cotton cloth about the loins. Make them squat upon the dirt floor and in front of each put a flat table a foot and a half high, upon which lies a ledger, the pages of which are filled with Indian characters. Behind each of these naked figures put a chest about the size of the average trunk, with a heavy lock upon it, and let all be working away as though their lives depended upon their caiculations. On the outside of the door, under a sort of portico, the chief of the bank sits counting out silver coins to a farmer who hus come to borrow. He counts very rapidly, and lets each coin strike another as it fails into his hand. By the sound he tells whether they are good or not. He exacts big rates of in- terest, and 5 per cent a month is nothing to him, ir he can get it. The whole rice crop of Burmah is OWNED DY THESE CHITTIES before it is harvested, and they own millions of valuable property in the east. They live most abstemiously, and it is their business to accumulate money. They bring up their sons to follow their business, and they are a caste of money lenders. The wives of these chitties are gorgeous in jewelry, aud though they wear no clothing except the two strips of cotton, some of their ear-rings aro so heavy that they pull down the ears, and not o few wear nose-rings four inches in di- awmeter. As I came out of the Taj Mahal to-day I took a ride on an Indian cab. It was drawn by two great white bullocks with humps over their shoulders, each of which was six inches high. The driver sat in front, his legs resting upon the tongue of the cart behind him, ina sulky-like affair made of bumboo and covered with red cloth, 1 took my seat cross-iegged. These carts are used throughout India and thev are single and double. They are rudely put together with ropes, and when completed they conslst of a structure made of fisbing rods and clothes- lines swung upon wheels with a seat resting high above them and so made that they are as easy a8 any spring vehicie you will find in America, y driver wore nothing but a waist cloth and turban, and he took me a mile for 2 cents. He twisted the tails of the bullocks to make them go, and I noted that the borns of his bulls were coveroed with gold paper. ~Theso bullocks are the sacred beasts of India, and they form in con- nection with the water buffalo, tho beasts of burden of the country., They plough the land and haul the carts, and at Bonures 1 visited a tomple where there were at least a hundred of thum in stalls around a court yard, and men and women were feeding them with flowers and praying before them as they did so. They are the most beaunful I have yet seen in cattle. With smoth,dove- coloped skins they have all the delicate out- lines of the Jersey cow added to a majest; of acticn and @ grandeur of sze, which makes them nobly beautiful. They have ears twice as large as our cows, and they walk as thougn they contained, as the Indian doubt- loss suppose, some of the noblest human spirits of the past. In contrast with them the water buffulo becomes uglier than ever. lier than the hippopotumus, and fs & cow with wide, flat, curving horns, a neck which comes ht out from the shouldel & belly which is bloated and ill-shapen, .fli a thin, black hair, which looks es of a hog than the hair of a cow. They delight in wallowing 1n the dirt, and they seem to have more of the pl; DAturo than the cow naturo. Liko the sacred cows they are milked and worked, and the butter ot both is a white. cheesey-like mix- ture, which has none or the flavor of the Jer- eam article, ‘The tea merchants of India are becoming alive to the possibilities of an American trade, and I see that the planters in Ceylon are concocting a scheme by which they hope for a gratuito ADVERTISEMENT IN THE AMERICAN NEWSPA- PERS, This scheme 18 proposed by the Planters’ association of Ceyrnn. and 1s fully discussed in the Indian Planters’' Gazette of this week. 1 take pleasure zlvl:g it eirculation. ‘I'he sctieme is that boxes Ceylon of five gmmd- eaoh e sent 10 the editors of the in- uential newspapers of Americs, for which they are supposed to puff the article to the extent of a column or s0_from time to time, and the advisability of shis move and the way in which it shall be made, form the sub- Ject of the discussion. One leading man says 8 ll'rerlnlv- pamphlet should be seut aloi with the &ud that this must, by :fl means, be iliustrated. ‘“The x-flmn." wl he, “‘are vut poor readers d the ly -ew. They are altogether too lazy rough & long treatise on any however interesting, und only pic- ng tea and r- lights onn'o‘b- will s W catoh oyes. T r up New York and Philadelph| take from ten t fifteon thousand pamphlets, and they should be distributed among the best families, and we must also send along a man to interview the people after we have made those presents to the editors, ‘This 18 rofreshing, and even more 8o 18 & paragraph further on which states that “it is not always the editcrs who command the news columns, and that a luncheon given to the reporters in the various leading cities might be productive of good."” The idea is that there are in the United States 1,200 edi- tors who ought to have caddies of tea, and that as usual the givers will receive ton dol- lars worth of advertising for ten cents worth of presents. In the meantime America leaves a it deal of money in India every year. | have met a number of American travelers, and there are a half-dozen Americans at present here in Agra. One of these is Mr. L. C. Ellsworth, of the Rio Grande railroad, whose home 18 at Denver, and who is now traveling for his health, Another is a doctor from New Hampshire, and a third party is a Mr. Cox and wife, of Boston, Mr. Flint, Asiatic manager of the Water- bury Watch company, is here with his wife, who is a Washington lady, and I met at Cal- cutta a number of Americans. Our consul general, Mr, Charl ", Bonman, is an Ore- gon man, and he h his family, consistin of a bright wife, a young lady daughter, an one of the liveliest boys of ten in India, with him. Mr. Bonham has just taken a short r1p to South India, aud he proposes to visit Burmah before his return to Calcutta. Mr, William J. Nead, a railroad contractor of PPhiladelphia, who his spent several years in travel and who is, as he*says, going around the world like a watch spring, is in India. He has been around the world once and is 7oing around again, narrowing his circle, e will spend the winter in India and will to Peking as soon as the weather permits n the spring. Leaving there ho will pay his third visit to Japan, and thence coming to Australia, will sail for South America, go down one coast and up tho other, and reach home in about two years from this date. Mr. Woolworth, an Ohio man from San- dusky, I find on the hotel rogister here. He is going to Kurope with his family to spend @ year or 80 in the education of his daughter. Nr. Aultman, the big dry goods merchant of New York, has just passed through India, and there are American travelers on every Indian railroad train. They buy costly goods of the natives and I firid their orders wmong the highest of those on the books of the merchants who call upon me. IRANK G. CARPENTER. —— STORY OF AN UNSOLD BONNET. A Sample of What Happens Every Day in Old London. Pall Mall Gazette: It was evening in Oxford street just bofore the hour of lamplighting. The daylight colors had faded and the twilight softness had not yet begun, so that the street picture was printed in unsoitened white and black. Gas was beginning to twinkle, however, in some of the shop windows, and up stairs in the millinery show room of Mr. X—— a boy had just come in with a taper and had left a brilliant 1llumination behind him. The light fell upon two figures—a customer, doubtful and dissatistied, and a young woman in black who stood before her, displaying bonnet after bonnet. “Yes,” said the customer, ingly. **Would you not try thison, ma’am? 1 am sure it would suit you.’* “Idon’t like a straw bonnet for the winter.” *‘We could make you one in velvet, ma’am.” - “Velvet spoils so with the rain. Are you quite sure those are all the felts you have that you showed me?” “All in brown, ma’'am. We could get you one made any shade you like to order.” “‘Oh, no; I could not order one with- out seeing it,” said the lady. Then she took up one which she had looked at airoady, poised and examined it, and finally tried it on, and decided for the second time that it would notdo. *‘It really is extraordinary that you should not have one in brown.” she said in a tone of annoyance. For a moment the girl did not answer; she had grown paler, and her eyebrows were drawn together with an expression of anxiety and apprehension. Mr. X—, walking up and down his range of show-rooms, had again come into sight,and had paused, looking in. “erd get you one, ma’'am, I’m sure, 1n two or three days,” she repeated. Now it was the customer who did not answer. She began turning over the pile of untrimmed bonnets, while her pale attendant hovered about her, throwing in propitiatory remarks. Mr. X—— stood and looked in from the wide doorway. She could sco the scowl on his face. At last the customer, finally refusing to take any other in place of the bonnet which she really wanted, departed dissatisfied. The girl began tremblingly 10 Put togetber the bon- nets. Tears came to her eyes. She had tried her best to sell, and she dreaded the wrath of her master. He had been in a bad tewper all day; why, O why, must this thing have happened just to- day. Mr. X—— moved away; she saw him go to the cashier’s desk in the next room. He came back with a paper and a few shillings, which he threw down angrily before her. “You'll just sign that, if you please, miss,” it was an account of the wages due her. She looked up at him in mute appeal; the angry and overbearing face was answer enough. She put her name to the paver, and a tear fell down upon it. ‘‘Now you can just pack up your Lhin%s and go this minute,” said he, roughly. ve no place for a young lady that can’t sell a bonunet.” She gathered up the money and went meekly. She was a timid girl, with no gift either for complaints or excuses; and for girls of that kind the tyrants of this world have no mercy. She went up-stairs to the bedroom, which she shared with two others. It was bare, clean, aepressing; about as homelike ns a prison cell, She looked round it, half blinded by her tears, and wrung her hands, murmuring, *What shall I do? Where shall I gu?” The 100m was quite brightly lighted now by the glare of the many lamps in the street. She stood as for a minute, then wiped away her tears and began packing and arranging her few proper- ties in her box. When this was done she must go forth in the evening aud find herself a shelter for the night and for the morrow. To-morrow would begin again the familiar heart-break- g search for work, to continue, who could guess, for how long? And who could tell what character Mr. X——— would give of her? And she had thirt: shillings with which to face the world. Her tears began to fall again as she locked her trunk and rose from her knees. She was glad to hide her face with her veil and to steal away secretly, feuring to meet any one, lest the fare- well should break down her courage. So she passed out into the eveing and into Oxford strect—the stony-hearted stepmother.” r. X——— meanwhile was going home, serene of conscience, to his wrh and daughters at Brixton, giving no secoud thought to the incident of the afternoon, 4 It is a story that happens every day; and 100 often the stones of London, it they could speak, the pavements of Piccadilly, the balustrades of the bridges, could tell you how it ends. e Sick headache is the bane of many lives. This aunoying complaint may be cured and prevented by the occa- sional use of Dr, J. H, MeLean’s Liver and Kidney Pillets (litule pills.) hesitat- vor Admire 850 to Ohristen Oklahoma's First-Born. ADVENT OF TRE INFANT BOOMER. He Arrived in a Wagon Box and tho Twinkling Stars Were the First to Welcome Guthric's Youngest Visitor. An Ingenious Woman's Bcheme. A reporter for the Oklahoma Daily Capital, published at Guthrie, met Hon. J. V. Admire, receiver ot the land of- fice of the western district of Oklahoma at Kingfisher, and had the satisfaction of afew moment’s conversation with him. “By the way, how’s the baby?” in- quired the reporter. Now everybody knows who ‘‘the baby” is, for the news of the advent on Oklahom asoil and of the franchise for naming it, to Mr. Admire, has been tel- graphed all over the United States, and of course there is somo anxioty as to its health. Mr. Admire was able to give the latest news concerning Oklahoma’s infant, and very ready to do so, for he looks upon it almost as if it were his own. He said there had been a good many erroneous statements in regard to the boy, which he would like to correct. In the frst place the baby’s mother is a Kansas girl. She was born 1n that state twenly years ago, and was raised at Fredonin, where she was married a year ago next June, her husband’s name being Lewis.. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis were two of the 10,000 people attacked by the Oklahoma fever last week. They waited with the throng that gathered on the borders of the promised land and joined in the mad race across the country to ingfisher, April 22. This was on Mon- They succeeded in getting a lot, vhich was about all they had until 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, when they found themselves in possession of a boy, the first child born in the newly opened territory. The event was lookea upon as a very important one, and was forth- with wired to the world. ‘When Receiver Admire heard of it he lost no time in going tosee the youthful home-seoker. He found the mother lying in & wagon bed, without cover or protection from the elements. That night he took his own tent and spread it right above the wagon bed, while he slept soundly with the stars for com- pany. There was in the population of the town one day an old woman who was in some way connected with the G. A. R. and the facts coming to her ears, she at once started around to take up a collection for the benctit of the ‘‘child of the settlement.” . She succeeded in getting about $17, and this sum she took to Mr. Admire,desiring to put the funds 1 the care of the .government’s own representativo., \He. offercd to add 8 to the sum on condition that he be permitted to name the boy. This, proved an inspir- action to the woman, and she promptly declined the offersaying that she would nuc{.]ion off the privilege on Wednesday night. 'Ijl.‘he news was circnlated throughout the camp next day and took precedence in point of interest above all else. ‘When evening came a thousand men as- sembled to bid on the baby’s name and there was for the time more excitement over the prospective contest than there was over corper lots in KRingfisher. There were some who had mone?' to lfmre and the bidding was lively from the start. Mr. Admire sent two or three agents into the crowd to bid for him, knowing thatif he bid himself they would run the price up on him to more than the profits of the office of receiver came to. After a spirited contest one of the agents had the satisfac curing the prize at a cost of $52, which was paid over for the boy’s benefit. The crowd insisted that Mr. Admire name the child on the spot, but he de- clined, promising, however, that ghould have an ‘‘Admire-able” name. He postvoned the christening until the mother should be well enough to take part in-it, and it will probably come off in afew days. Meantime heé went up home, and soon had Mvs. Admire as un- thusiastic over his protege as himsolf, and he declares he would not take $500 for his interest. His wife gathered a large quantity of supplies, the nature of which parents can surmise without de- scription, packed a valise full of soft flanne!s and other cunning goods, and Mr. Admire returned to Kinglfisher loaded, not for bear, but forbaby. Mrs. A’s maiden name was Lewis, which by a coincidence is the baby’s family name, though they are not related by ties of consangunity. 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D., 186 S0, Clark 8t CHICAQD, 1L On and after February 22d the Band on the STRAITON & STORM'S BOUQUET SEGARS Will be as per Fac-Simile above. This change became necessary in order to protect the public from be- ing imposed upon by unscrupulous parties, who so closely imitated the former band on these Segars, thatit required a careful serutinyto discov. er the deception. To guard against a repetition of this, we have made our Trade Mark (* THE OWL”) a prominent feature of the new band. Health_is Wealth ) T sterla, Dizal euralgia usad by the noss, Mental MENT, & guaran ness, ' Convulsions, Headache, Ner7ons Pr useof alcohol «.r tobac> Dopression, Softening of the 13 Insanity and leading 10 m death, Premature Old Age, I} 3 Power 1n eiirer sex, lnvoluntary Losses al Spermatorrheea caused by over-exertion of tlle brain, saifabuse or over ndulgence, box contains one_moath's treatment, $1 4 box, or six boxes for 85, sent by mafl prepatd on ra: cefpt of price, WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES To curcuny cass, With ench order rocorved by us for six boxes, accompanied with 35, we will send the purchaser our written guarantee to ro- fund the money if the treatment. does not effect acure. Guarantees fssued only by Goodman Drug Co., Druggists, Sole Agenta. 1110 Farnam Street Omaba eb. Wf-’l‘EN‘pu?‘cflasmg 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 P er 100 dealers in Chioago, nd the best tthe Unitod States. See That They A 0 LOTS IN THE BEST TOWN IN SOUTE AKOTA [ AT BOTTOM P.LICES, A Sure Investment. For Maps, Prices and Information, call oa or address C. E. SIMMONS, Land Commissioner C, & N.W. Ry, 2 Fifth ave,, Chicago, 111 Dr. J. E. McGREW ONE OF TILE MOST 5UCCESSVUL ¥~ SPECIALISTS _zt In the Treatment of All Chironic, Nervous d Private D Tiourt , Riieumtl |’ iseases, Blood sad Bkin Dised safully. “OWFICE: 1071 AND DOUGLAS STREETS, ; K o’ .. oy OMARA NEp: OMAHA Medical and Surgical Institute, N. W. Cor. 13th and Dodge Sts, Omaha, Neb. THE LARCEST MEDICAL INSTITUTE IN THE WEST FOR THRE TREATMENT OF ALL Bhronic and Surgical Diseases and Diseases of the Eye and Ear. DISEASES OF WOMEN , DISEASES \VATE DISEASES, DISEASES S AND THROAT DISEASES, AL OPERATIO! OR PILES, CANCERS, TUMORS, Elcs 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 thoroughly educated phys! nd surgeons of acknowledged skill and experience. Tho Institute buidings, situated on the northwest corner of Thirteenth and Dodge streets, is composed of two large three-story brick buidings of over ninety rooms, containing our Medical, Surgical and Consultation Rooms, Drug Store, Laboratory, Offices, Manuf:ctory of Surgical Appliances and braces, and the Boarding Depar ment for Patients, in charge of competent persons, constituting the largest and the most thoroughly equipped Medical and Surgical Establishmentin 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 ]mtlruis, which, combined with our acknowledged ability, experience, responsibility and reputation, should make the Omaha Medical ane Sm'{lc:\l Institute the first choice. ‘You can come direct to the Institute, day or night, as we have hotel accommo- ions a8 good and as cheap as any in the city. - PR da“;\%lmn!g) this axp]mmti}))u for LYIK‘ benefit (z' persons who may feel inclined to o further east for medical or surgical treatment and do not appreciate the fact 5]'mt Omaha possesses the largest and most complete Medical and Surgical Insti- tute west of New York, with pital of over $100,000. y P TS, A ¢ DCFORMITIES OF THE HUMAN BODY. 5.2 L APPLIANCES FOR DEFORMI- TIES AND TRUSSES. Best Facilities, Apparatus and Remedioes for Successful Treatment ot every form of Disease requiring MEDICAL or SURGICAL TREATMENT. In this department we are especially su sstul. ull others are based upon the fact that this is the only med 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. BELECTRICAIL:, TREATMENT. The treatment of diseases by electricity has undergone great changes within the past few years, and electricity isnow acknowledged by all schools of medicine as the great remedy in all chronie, special and ner iseases, for nervous debility, par- alysis, rheumatism, diseases of women, ete,, and in many eye and ear diseases it is the most valuable of all edies. In order to obtain its full virtues, it is ahsnlntel{ 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. Qver 8,000 dollars invested in electrical apparatus. PRIVATE, SPECIAL, NERVOUS AND BLOOD DISEASES. ‘We claim to be the only reliable, responsible establishment in the west making a specialty of this Dr. McMenamy was one Jf the first thorough- ly educated physicia recial study of this class of diseases, and his methods and inventions have been adopted by specialists in Europe and America. He is the inventor of the Clainp Compri 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 given up asincurable by medical treatment. (Read our book to men, sent free to any address.) Our claims of superfority over DISEASES OF THE EYE AND EAR. We have had wonderful success in this department in the hast year, and have made many improvements in our facilis li(es for treatment, operations, artificial eyes, ete. ‘We have greatly improved our facilifies and methods of treating cases by correspondence, and are having better gucecess in this department than ever before. - ‘We are fully up to the times in all the latest inventions in medical and surgical Our institution is open for investiga- We invite all to correspond with or believing that a visit or consultation t is to their advantage to place them- operations, appliances and instruments. tion to any persons, patients or physicians, yisit us before taking treatment elsewhere, will convinee uny intelligent person that § | selves under our care. Since this advertisement first appeared, many boasting nders and frauds have come and ,(llrme and many more un'll come and go, rammber%y by their unfortunaté nd foolish victims. s "4 wise man investigates first and decides afteroards, A fool decides first, then investigates.” The Omaha Medical and Surgical Institute is indorsed by the people and the press, More capital invested, more skilled physicians employed, more modern appliances, instru- nents and apparatus in use, more cases treated and cured, more successful surgical operations perfornied, than in all other medical establishments inthe West combined. 144 PAGE BOOK (Illustrated) SENT FREE TO ANY ADDRESS (ssaLsp), COTTEITTS: Part First-History, SBuccess and Advan % of the Omaha Medical and Burgical In Wart Second -CHRONIC DIKEABES of tho Lungs, Stomach, Liver, Kidneys, Bkin, Pile h, Epilepsy, Rhoumatisin, Inhalation, Tape Worm, I!Iuotrlnlt{i ow Ite medies, eto, (- DeromN1TIRS, Curvature of the Bpine, Club Kect, Hip Discases, Puraly: ; b, Buriloal Oporations. Pars Wourth ik ines 0f THREYE AkD Ak, Disoasos of tho Norves, Catarst, Strablsmus or Eyes, Ptorygium, Granulated Bye Lids, Taversion of the Lids, Artificlal Eyes, oto, ke aaxs Or WOMEN, Lencorrhios, U Displucoments, Prolupsus, Flex- ons nd Versions Fumors. Lageratony tnd Cinsoror tie tomb." -l OB MR rt ] ks or Men, Privi ul wnd Nervous Diseases, rmatorrhea (8emin "g;‘k’ficn&). impotancy, Varioocelo, Btrloture, Gloet, Byphills, und’ Al divenses of tho Gobito DISEASES OF WOM MEN DURING CONVINEMENT. (Birictly Private), Only Reliable Medical Institute Making a Specialty of PRIVATE DISEASES, 3 litio Pol meroury. roated at home by correspondence. All communications confident fal, - Medioiaos oF Inatry. rcn unt‘ry mall m:a‘?nu urely packed, no marks to indicate contents or sender. One @er intorview proferred. Cal kil i or send history of Your e, uid'wh il s i o BOOK i 5 or Nervous 4 L':L",."-';:lm."n t and Varloocele, 'with ques seuses, Linpo o lst. Addross, OMAHA MEDICAL & SURGICAL INSTITUTE, 131k and Dodge Sirects, Omaha, N unoes, A BreorAury. We Have LATELY ADDED A LYING-IN DEPARTMENT