Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 2, 1889, Page 10

st et § 3 S ALONG INDIA'S HOLY RIVER The Mighty Ganges and Its Thous- ands of Worshipers. WITH THE BATHERS AT BENARES. A ReMgion Which Teaches Cleank ness—~A Million Years of Heaven For a Hair—The Wheat Plains of India, A Wonderful Stream. [Copyrighted 159 by Frank G. Carpenter. “Brxanes, April 3, 1880, —During the past three weeks I have traveled six hundred miles around the holy Ganges river and the click of my typewriter now falls upon the air in unison with the prayers ‘and the eplashing of the thousands of pilgrims who are bathing in its waters. Benares is the Mecea of the Hindoos and the Ganges is to the Indian more than the Jordan is to the Christian. On the top of a house boat with six red-turbanned, black-faced, and bare- legged rowoers, I slowly drifted past the bathing ghats this morming. The sun was just rising and over fields ot green extending for milés away on the left of the river its rays came to gild the brass jars which each pilgrim carried. It turned the semi-bare brown skins of the men women and children to a rich mahogany and brought out the shadows in the fort-like walls of the temples lining the other side of the river. It was a scene for a painter. The wonder- ful colors of oriental humanity mixed with the glorious red of nature filled one almost with a feeling of worship, and the muttering of the prayers of thousands with their strange incantations and mysterious postures threw-an indescribable wierdness over the scene. Fantastic and foolish as some of the actions seemed, I could not forget that this 8ot 18 to one-sixth of the human race the holiest place on the surface of the whole world, that out of every six men, women and children on God’s good earth one believes that if he washes here IS SINS FLOAT AWAY on these waters to the sea, and that if his aches are here burned his soul goes straight to heaven. If the Hindoo n accents of prayer utters the name of this river within one hundred miles of its banks the act atones for the sins of three previous lives, and if he has his head shaved at a point which lics two hours ride by tran from wheroe T am now writing, and the hairs fall into the stream, for every hair that floats away he will have a million years in paradise. This place is at Allahabad, where the river Jumna flowes into the Ganges, and here at certain times of the year thousands of Hindoos may be seen on the banks of the river holding their heads over the water and allowing barbers to shave them, as it were, into heaven. And do the people really believe thist I assure you they do, und their belief is a practical one, too. It is not a faith without works by any means. This town of Benares has a population as big as that of Cloveland, Cincinnati or Washington. Just now the mornings are cold and the air is raw and plercing. It is the duty of every one of these people to come before their breakfasts and bathe in tho Ganges. I found the banks of the'river filled with them this morning. The city lics close to the river and for three miles along its banks are great temples, from the walls of which stone steps lead down into the Ganges, going under the water and out into the bed of the stream. Each or these temples has perhaps one hun- dred of these steps from its base to the water, and thiese three miles of such steps ‘were fllled with worshipers. All were Hin- doos, and none were clothed in anything but the thinest of cottons. There were shriveled old men and women wrapped around in the single breadth of dirty white cotton, stand- ing up to their waists in water and holding their long, thin, bony arms upwards while with chattering teeth they muttered prayers to the gods Siva and Vishnu. Now and then they ducked down into the water and @s they came up they gasped and looked colder than ever. There were plump girls, whose nut-brown skins glistened as the water trickled down them and whose bright eyes flashed a half rougish GLANCE AT ME DETWEEN THEIR PRAYERS. As they raised their arms I noted that each had gold and silver bracelets upon them and some of the country maidens had bracelets one after another from the wrist to the el- bow and from thence on to the shoulders. Many wore great nose rings, aund as they threw bacl their heads I could see that their ears were punctured with many holes and that each hole contained a bit of gold or sil- wver. Most of them, howover, hid their faces mnd not a few were higch caste Hindoo maidens. As they stepped out of the water their bare limbs shone under the sunlight Bod against the dark brown buck ground flashed heavy silver anklets. They did not bathe with the men and as a rule they hud- @led up in little groups by themselves. At many of the temples thero were ledges built out over the river and here men gathered up water fn their bands and mutter prayers over it. Each man and woman had a brass jar, and 88 they left their bathing they carried some of the holy water to aid them in their wor- phip in the temples. There were thousands of maid servants carrying great bowls of Ganges water on their heads and steadying the burden with one brown,bare arm as they tvalked up the steps. The costume of the Hindoo is a picturesque one. It is ono long strip of cloth wound about the person so that the logs and arms are bare. Sometimes bright colored shawls are added by the wealthier and a bright turban or cap covers the head. Mixed with this gaudy, splashing, sputter- ngthrong just above the water were square nches covered with umbrellas as largo as the top of a summer house and under these ®at wrinkled old priests with boxes of red int beside them. Each worshiper came these priests he finished his bath pod the priest, dipping his tinger into the paint box, made one, two or three marks upon his forehead. These marks tvere to remain on until the next day’s bath- dng and they were the signs of the gods. Among the bathers were peddlers of Ganges water. These carry the holy fluid in jars to willages far out in the country and each pil- rim who comes takes a load home to his latives, Butitis not alone at Benares that the anges is holy. From its source in the Him- layas, where it is sunposed to flow from the BIG TOE OF VISHNU, pll along the winding fifteen hundred miles f’ its course, its waters are sacred and puri- ying. 1 found thousands bathing at Cal- putta and muny Hindoos make a six years' llurluur from the source of the river to its mouth. There are hundreds of places upon its banks which, like Benares, are es- Eeolully sacred, and there is an island at the outh which is annually visited by a large umber of pilgrims, This is known as the land of sugar. At Allababad the Hindoos Pay there are three rivers which come to- One of these is the Jumna, the ‘e'«her. - Bther isthe Ganges, and the third comes di- from heaven and is invisible to mortal 08, It is a wonderful river, and how wonder- L it is, it is impossible to_knew without un- erstaudiog the goography of this semi- sontineut of Iudia. If you will take your ap of Asia‘'you witl find that India is much @ shape of an muuuwnl triangle, the base which is the Himalaya mountains aud the Which rests in the Indiau ocean, side of this triangle is nearly two thou- miles lonfi and two sides of it are al- L bounded by water. It is & couatry of gnificent aistances. From Calcutta to Bombay is as far as as from Fondon to Na- ples, or about the distance that New York is from Denver. The aistance between Iceland and Spain is_just about as far as a straight line from the Himalayas to the apex of the triangle and 'the area of tho whole is equal to the size of KEurope without Russia, or nearly one-half of the United States, "It is a country of mountains and valleys. The lower part and the greator part of the center is an immense table land and _ botween this table land and the Himalaya mountains there is a wide strip of vast plains Ihrmlfih which the mighty Ganges runs and the bulk of which has beon made by the rich fertilizing earth which she has brought down from the mountains. There is no doubt but that in the far distant nst the greator part of India was an sland, and if you could sink these Ganges plains five hundred feet downward the sea would rush in and the Himalavas would be divided from_the plateau of South aud Cen- tral India. 7'hese plains are the richest part of India. Thoy are the most thickly popu- lated and it is from them thata great bulk of the rice and wheat of India comes. The wheat area of India increns- ing year by year. Tt is now about equal to the W aren of the United States and its product competes with the America whoat in the markets of London. For this reason these plains ure doubly interesting to Amer- icans and tho influence of the Ganges is felt more and more eve car in the stock ex- change of Chicago. The Ganges not only made but she nour- ishes these ) She is called by the Hin- d00s ““Mothor ga.’ From her source in the Himalayas to her mouth in the Bay of Bengal, she has a fall of more than two and one-half miles, and as a fertilizing bearer SIE SURPASSES ANY RIVER on the face of the elobe. Egypt 1s the gift of the Nile. You can lose gypt in theso plains, which are the gift of the Gung The mighty Nile, with 1ts unknown source, does not carry down as much water as this holy river of the Hindoos and her maximum discharge at adistance of 400 miles from the sea, with many of her tributaries yet' to hear from, s one-third greater than thatof the Mississipni, Whero the Gangoes rises bursting forth from a Hima- layain glacier it is twenty-seven feet wiue. Tt falls 3,500 feet in the first ten miles of its course, and it has an average depth of thirty foet 500 miles from its mouth, Its delta isas wide as the distance from New York to ‘Washington, and hundreds of mouths run from this width back in a sort of a parallello- gram for 200 miles more, where they unite. The water of the Bay of Beugal is discol- ored for miles by the mud brought down by the Gangvs, and the whole country is fertil- ized by it. The water is the color and thickness of pea soup, and the silt or mud is so rich that these vast piains use no other fertilizer. The crops are harvested by pulling the stalks out of the ground. No cows or horses are allowed to pasture in the flelds and their droppings are mixed with straw and mud and then dried and used as fuel. In this Ganges valley nawure is always giving, but never getting. Every atom of natural fer- tilizer, suve this Ganges silt, 1s taken from the soil. Still the land is as rich as guano, and it produces from TWO TO FOUR CROPS EVERY YEAR. About Calcutta the alluvial deposit 18 400 feet deep, and an experiment was lately made to get to the end ot it. A wellwas sunk, but at the distance of 281 feet the au- ger broke. At this point the end of this rich 80il had not been reached. The amount ot fertiiizing material brought down by the Ganges has been lately estimated, and scien- tific investigation shows that some aistance above the point where it unites with the Brahmaputra its vearly burden is the enor- mous amount of 355,000,000 tons. A thous- and-ton ship is by no means small, and a flect of 850,000 such ships could not carty this burden. The average freight car is thirty-four feet long and it takes a strong car to carry fifty tons. Suppose our freight cars to be sixteen feet longer than they are. Load upon each car fifty tons cof this ferti- lizing mud and it would take a train of more than seven million such cars to carry the yearly fertilizing output ot this great river. If these cars were on asingle track tho track would have to be 67,400 miles long. It would reach twice around the earth and leave enough cars to run two continuous trains through the center. The most of this silt comes down during four months of the year and if there were daily fleets of 2,000 ships each containing 1,400 tons of mud during these four months they would just carry it. But this is the work of the Ganges alone. It 18 five times a8 much as is carried by the Mississippi to the gulf and further down the river, where the great Brahmaputra joins it and flows out into its hundred mouths the silt output is still greater. During the rainy season alone the river here carries out enough silt to load 13,000 ships with 1,400 tons each every day for four mouths. During the rainy season this whole delta of the Ganges is cove with water to the extent of about thirty feet. You see obly the topsof the trees and villages which are buils upon the hills and the river turther up the country is diverted by canals from its course to every part of th vast plains. The best of the wheat is irrigated and the water being al- lowed to lie upon the land drops the fertilizer and enriches it. All over India, or through the part I have traveled, I sce this irrigation even now going on. Much of itis done in the most primitive way. Two half-naked men stand just above the river with a basket hung by long ropes between them. This basket is water-tight and by a swinging mo- tion they scoop it down into the river and lift the water up into a canal above,from whence it runs off into other canals over the flelds. Here at Benares bullocks are Jargely used. T'he water s stored in great wells and it is drawn from them in_skin bowls, each of which holds about a bushel of water. The bowl is a pig’s skin kept open with a hoop of wood and 1o its top by four strings is fasten- ed a rope. Tnis rope runs over a rude pulley at the top of the well and at a distunce of tweunty feet from it, it is tied to the yoke of a bullock, which, led by a man, raises the bucket to the top of the well. Here it is pulled over into a trough, I am told that this mode of irrigation 1s faster and cheaper than any of the machine methods employed and I see it cverywhere. Of late years the Eng- lish have been spending immense sums in irrigating India, and millions ot acres of new {l::\ have been brought under irrigation. In R4 MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLARS was spent in Bengal alone, and the wheat lands are found to produce best in those provinces which can be irrigated. I do not remamber the average wheat produc- tion of the United States per ucre, but I think it 18 larger thau that of India. Here it only thirteen bushels per ucre and the wheat is not more than a foot high, The heads of the grain, however, are well filled out though it is not worth as much in Mark Lane as the better classes of Australian or California wheat. 1 had always looked upon India as a rice- eoting country. I find that u great number of the people here cat wheat and gramn. In northwestern Tndia only about 10 per cent of the peoplo cat rice and in the prison at Aera T found that the prisoners were fod upon grain. Kverywhere the mass of the people seem to be underfed and the leanest, scrag- flust specimens of humanity I have ever seen find in tls rich valley of the Ganges. Where nature has done mmv{llunw, the peo- ple are starving and you can have no idea of the sicin and bone men and boys, whom I sce daily by the thousands. The costume of the people is such that the arms and legs and often the breasts aud waists are bare. There seems to be nothing buv skin, bones and sinews, and the average thigh is not bigwer than a muscular American biceps. There are no calves whatever and the joints at the knees and the ankles are extra- ordivarily large, -Nearly every man you meet, if he be poor, has wrinkles in' his belly and at every railroad station you find gaunt, dark-faced, piteous, lean men, who SLAP THEIR DARE STOMACHS to show that they are hollow and ask for a backshish. Wagos are miserably low, Farm laborers get from 6 to 8 cents a day and masons 10 cents a day. fven trave lers, Wwho have to pay the highest wages, can get good English speaking servants who will travel with them and feed themselyes for 33 cents a day and less than that if taken by the month, This valley of the Ganges has more people than it can support. and T is robably tho most densely populated part o¥ the world, ‘The people five in villages, and the average town consisis of oue-story mud huts too poor sud illy ventilated for American pig pens. You would not think of having such out- houses as the residences of the majority of this vast population would inake, and & large purt of Iudia, and especially in the be s of this Ganges country the holdings av from two three acres At four to the family, ~ this represents s balf ‘acre per peron or over twelve huandred persons | er square wile. When it is remembered that these rag? apiece, pooplelive by agricultaro it will be soen th & this condition is far worse than that of China or any partof Burope. And still thé peoplo aro bright. They are brainy,too,and you will find few sharper business men, better cut faces and more polite peovle than these peo- ple of Indin. Their faces in this part of India have much the same characteristics as those of the Anglo Saxon, Those of the higher castes are more like those of the Greek and 1 see faces overy day which, 1f tho skin were white, any Amorican might bo proua to own, They belong to the same race germ that we do and under the same training and ohristian influences they would be strong competitors with us, But what can a man do on six cents a day, or how can a man learn whon hio has to struggle to exist! The population of India is continually increasing. England eats the lion’s share of tho products of the country and though the people are porhaps better off under her government than they have been sin the past, it is the same old story of hor wealth going to the rulers and the people working their flesh off their bones to support them. The governor general of Indin, who by the way, is the rich Marquis of Lansdown, gots $100,000 & year, Quite a contrast with the wages of the masses at six cents a day. Isn't it! FRrANK G, CARPEN, il BRAVE GIRLS WERE THEY. Killing Two Big Rattleanakes That Attacked Them in the Woods. Two young ladies residing near Web- ster, a fow miles south of this city, in Hancock conuty, met with a terrible while hunting wild blossoms in the deep timber which sur- rounds that locality, writes a LaHarpe, 1ll., correspondent. The girls—for they are not more than eighteen or nineteen years old—set out oarly this morning, hoping to gather many” wild blossoms to be used in decorating a school house. They chose to go deep into the timber, and close to the local- ity known as‘‘Crooked Creek Bottoms,” which in the early spring is prolific with wild blossoms and flowers, not to say hideous and deadly reptiles. The young misses, however, had lit- tle feur of snakes, as they had been told vhat the season was too early. So they flitted about from one pateh of posies to another, gathering the pretty ferns and blossoms, and now and then a deli- cate wild flower in some hidden nook. Thus were they busily engaged when Alice, who had preceded her companion alittle way, uttered a series of screams. “‘Maud! a snake! a horrid big snake!” Strange to say, Maud did not run and scream. She hurriedly grasped a heavy dead limb lying close by and hurried to where her companion was holding her skirts and screaming in terror. There, within ten feet of thenm lay a huge rat- tlesnake coiled to strike. The creature darted out its deadly fangs again and again, while its ratties gave incessant warning. “Stay right where you are, Alice,” whispered Maud. *“i’ll slip around and kill it with this club. Pick up that Mg stick there, so as to be ready if I fail.” Quictly and bravely did this young miss creep around behind his snake- ship. Then a well-directed blow, ac- companied by a little scream, was deliv- ored upon_the head of the venomous rattler. But it was not sulficient to cuuse death, and Maud was aiming an- other blow when the horrified screams of Alice claimed her attention. “*Maud! Maud! here is another one—a monster. Come, quick!” But'Maud was now_battling with the first snake, whsch had turned upon her. In the meantime Alice made a furious onslaughter upon the second rattler, beating the huge snake to the ground as it roso up time and again. Both girls fought heroically for a full half-hour, finally killing both snakes. Onerattler mensured ten feet in length and the other seven. The girls are now the herolnes of this Kars of Hancock- county. -1t was not nown that snuakes of this size were numerons Hhereabouts, but it is now thought that Crooked Creek bottoms are full of them. Sowme of the farmers talk of organizing a snake-hunting ex- pedition to clean out the reptiles, as it 1s considered dangerous for any one to visit the bottoms when the snake season arrives. The young ladies who are the heroines of the adventure begged so hard that their names be suppressed that tho wish is granted, It is believed that many men would have fled from these two snakes, but the brave giris stood their ground. ————— Benjamin Franklin's Maxims. Keep thy shop,and thy shop will keep thee. Creditors have better memories than debtors. *, Foolish men make feasts and wise men eat them. When the well is dry they know the worth of water. ‘What maintainsone vice will bring up two children. If you would have your business done, go; if not, send. Silks and satins, silks and velvets put out the kitchen fire. Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open. ‘Want of cave does us more damage than want of knowle If you would know IA‘{ to borrow some. By diligence and perseverence the mouse eats the cable in two. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. Now I have a sheep and & cow, every- body bids me good morrow. Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. For age and want save while you may, no morning sun lasts all the day. Work to-day, for you know not how much you may be hindered to-morrow. Fly pleasure and it will follow you. The diligent spinner has a large shift. Diligence is the mother of good luck; and God gives all things to industry. Industry needs not wish, and he thut lives upon hope will die fasting. There are no gains without pains; then help hands, for T have no lands, Lying rides upon debt’s back; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries. He that by the plow would thrive, himself must either (both) hold or drive. Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small and the want great. At a great pennyworth pause awhile; many are ruined by buying bargains. 1f you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself. For want of a nail the shoe was lost, ;unl for want of a shoe the horse was 081, Plow deep while sluggards sleep; and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. ge. he value of money Who dainties love shall beggars prove. Fools lay out money and buy repentance, Always taking out of the meal tub and never putting in soon comes to the bottom. Drive thy business, let not that drive thee. Sloth makes all things difficult, mdustry all easy. e ———— If you feel unable todo your work, and have that tived feeling, take Dr, J. H. McLean’s Sarsuparilla; it will make you bright, actiye and vigorous, Thore wili be o spectacular production of “The Great Metropolis,” & melodrama by George Jessop and Ben Teale, in Proctor's Twenty-tLird street theatre, New Yorg, next autumo, with o view to a long run. Lol Ladies never have any dyspepsia after & wine glass of Angostura Bitters, the genuine of Dr. J, G. B, Biegert & Sons. Ask your druggist, MADRID STREETS AT NIGHT. The Dons Do ’l}helr Sleeping In the " ' DAy Time. BEAUTIFUL LADIES OF SPAIN, They Are Seonat Their Best on the Lovely Prdmenades of the Prado—Living in the Past, Like a Poet's Dream. I know of few more picturesque situ ations for a city than that of Madrd, says tho correspondent of a New York paper. Lying at an elevation of about twenty-five hundred feet above the level of the sea and in the neighborhood of a range of mountaing which,even in sum- mer, are crowned with snow, the capital of Spain is partly encircled by the ro- mantic Manzanares, which flows close to the city walls. Madrid is rapidly divesting itself of its Moorish character and three-fourths of the city have already assumed an essentially modern aspect. This is especially trug of the heart of the “‘cindad,” the square known as ‘‘Puerta deSol,” where ton streets and all the tramway lines meet, and whence they diverge in different directions like so many arteries. The importance of this square lies in the fact that it is the heart of Madrid and the center of its traffic. Here are situated the principal government buildings, hotels, restau- rants and cafes. It 15 here that Mad- rilenians and extranjeras rendezvous to gossiv, and politicians congregate to discuss nnd settle the affairs of the na- tion. The restaurants and cafes are very large. but uot so elegant as those of oithor Paris, Berlin, Wien or Roma, nor is the coffee as good, but the chocolate and sherbet are most delicious. There are no newspapers at the disposal of the customers of these different places of resort, but any one can buy the local sheetsat the door, where there is gen- erally a small newstand. Most of the Spanish dailes sell at 1 cent, but they contain very little of interest to for- eigners. All classes meet in these res- taurantsand cafes on equal terms. The peasant, the shoeblack and the scaven- ger think they have as much claim to the title of caballeros as the politician, the dude and the officer. In these places of public resort prevails a curious cus- tom, which may be an old relic of Moor- ish duys in Spain—guests call the atten- tion of the waiters by clapping their hands or whistling, as one does when calling a dog. But the "50(\8” have more than one peculiarity, and old habits have taken such o strong hold of the people that itis next to'impossible to eradicate them. Indeédyit’seems to me that the Pyrences are to ‘the Spaniards what the great walls of China are to the Chi- nese, a bulwark behind which people entrench themselves and resist innova- tions. Spain is fully 100 years behind any other European country. Worse than Russia, where the eighteenth cen- tury belougs itself; for Spain’s 100 years of backwardness ate grafted in three dark centuries. Three-fourths of the people can néither rend nor write as yet, but are well satisfied so long as bull fights and other barbarous institu- tions are kept ups | Genevally _speédking Madrilenians sleep in the day time and move about at night. Indeed, the streets of the city are well-nigh deserted from 10 a. m. till 6 or 7 o'clock in the evening, when every one hastens to the Prado, the great public promenade of Mad- rid, to enjoy the cool and fragrant breezes and stroll about through the spacious park and ilovely gardens. The procession to the Prado is a bit of gen- uine Spanish local color in cosmopolitan Madrid. Many either ride or drive, and no other city in the world can turn out s0 many tesins of Andalusian horses as proud and as graceful as their mas- ters and mistresses. The Prado, at full promenade time, and especially the evenings of Sundays and holy days, pre- sents an animated and most interesting scene. How gracefully the senors and senoritas flutter along the gay parterre, where mauny colored uniforms and diversified costumes sprout out in every direction to divert and do homage to them. Here assemble the beauties of overy part of Spain, and in no other country in the world can there be seen a brighter display of female lovlines than of the Prado of Madrid. Althougn the French fashionable bonnets ave gradually invading Spain and becoming much in vogue among the Spanish belles, the elegant national cos- tume, the mantilla, is still predominat- ing. It is worn and arranged witha natural grace which enchants the be- holder. ~ A Spanish lady scems always to have some little watter to adjust which sets off to advantage the quiet elegance of herdeportment. The man- tilla is dvawn a little more forward or gently moved a litule less; 1t is crossed in front or uncrossed, and through its transparent network of blonde lace are seen the lovely head and beautiful throat rising from a bust of most ele- gant contour. These mantillas are both white and black, but the latter are, to my taste, the most becoming. And the abanico! the fan! Oh, what magic there is in that httle zephyr- conxing telegraph! Folded and un- folded with a careless ease which none but Spanish women can display. moved quickly in recognition of a passing riend, elevated, opened over the head to frame it, so to spenk, the fan plays an important and most attractive part in the hand of a Spanish lady. During the delightful summer nights, when the woon sheds her pure light around, the Prado presents 'the most romantic pic- ture. Canopied by the blue vault of heaven, willl dll ‘1ts bright spangles, many a love tale is there told and ~ listened ~to - with favor. In the Prado ' inssembled nightly the cream siof § the soclety of Mudrid, and it may be said with™ truth that there 1s u sociability on this beau- tiful promenadd that does not exist in places of analagous resorts in largor metropolitan eities. Individuals and families are knownto each other, there is a succession. of swlutations and greet- ings, and to a leoker-on it secms as if the promenaders iwere vast lines of family or friemdly connections. The botanic and’ public gardens, called **las delicias,” whieb adjoin the Prado, add greatly to the beauty of this lovely promenade. The royal palace, whieh is one of the most magnificent eastles in Kurope,rises dazzling white against the sky on the opposite side of the city to a height of 100 feet. It is built on the site of thean- cient Moorish Aleazar and occupies an area of 221,000 square feet. —_—— Ups and Down London Pick-Me-Up: First Citizen.— I hear that young Algernon Fitz-Deuce- ace is going to marry and settle down. Second Citizen.—It would be more to the point if he were to marry and settle u First Citizen.—What do you mean? 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THE LARCEST MEDICAL INSTITUTE IN THE WEST FOR THE TREATMENT OF ALL Chronic and Surgical Diseases and Diseases of the Eye and Ear, AT i 2 Jrmy 3 2 > R R N e i T = RS PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO DEFORMITIES, DISEASES OF WOMEN, DISEASES OF THE URINARY ARD SEXUAL ORGANS, Pfil\lATE DISEASES, DISEASES OF THE NE| AND THROAT DISEASES, RVOUS SYSTEM, LUNG ICAL OPERATIONS, EPILEPSY OR FITS, PILES, CANCERS, TUMORS, Etc. J. W. McMENAMY, M. D., President, And Consulting Physician and Surgeon. Organized with a ful staff of Skilled Physicians, Surgeons and Traincd Nursee, This establishment is a permanent medical institution, conducted by flmm\\ghly educated physicians and surgeons of acknowledged skill and experience. The 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, Laborator; Offices, Manufactory of Surgical Appliances and braces, and the Boarding De for Patients, in charge of competent persons, constituting the largest and the most thoroughly equipped Medical and Surgical Establishment in the West, one of the three largest in the United States, and second to none. We have superior adviantages and fac s for treating diseases, performing surgical operations, boarding and nursing patients, which, combined with our acknowledged ability, experience, responsibility and reputation, should make the Omaha Medical and Surgical Institute the first choice. You can come direct to the Iustitute, day or night, as we have hotel accommo- dations as good and as cheap as any in the city. We make this explanation for the benetit of persons who may feel inclined to o further east for medical or surgical treatment and _do not appr to the fact hat Omaha possesses the largest and most complete Medical and Surgical Insti- tute west of New York, witha capital of over $100,000. DCFORMITIES OF THE HUMAN BODY. APPLIANCES FOR DEFORMI- TIES AND TRUSSES. SN Best Facilities, Apparatus and Remedies for Successful Treatment ot every form of Disease requiring MEDICAL or SURGICAL TREATME . In thie department we are especially Bug rul. Our claims of superlority 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 improve chinery, and have all the latest inventions, as well as our own patents and improvements, the result of twenty years® experience. ELECTRICAIL 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 chronic, special and nerve diseases, for nervous debility, par- alysis, rhenmatism, digeases 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 ahsolutely necessary to have the proper apparatus. We have lately pur ed 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. ‘We claim to be the only rel responsible establishment in the west making a specialty of this class of di Dr. McMenamy was one Of the first thorough- ly educated th,\u 18 Lo make a special 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 Clamp Compress Suspensory, acknowledged the best in use. All others are copied after his invention. By megns of a simple operation, painless and safe, recently brought into use, we cure many cases that have been z,r‘ii\"iun us) as incurable by medical treatment. (Read our book to men, sent free to any ress. able, jes DISEASES OF THE EYE AND EAR. ‘We have had wonderful success in this department in the past year, and have made many improvements in our facili- ties for treatment, operations, artificial eyes, ete. ‘We have greatly improved our facilifies and methods of R treating cases by correspondence, and are having better ccess in this department than ever before. We are fully up to the times in all the latest inventions in medical and surflcal operations, appliances and instruments. Our institution is open for investiga- tion to any persons, patients or physicians. We invite all to correspond with or visit us before taking treatment elsewhere, believing that a visit or consultation will convince any intelligent person that it is to their advantage to place them- selves under our care. ; Since this advertisement first nlrpcaml, many boasting regrelnuien and frauds have come and gone and many more will come and go, remembe; only by their unfortunate tims, “A wise man investigates first and decides afterwards, 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- ments and apparatus fn use, more cases treated and oured, more successful surgical operations performed, than in all other medical establishments in the West combined, 144 PAGE BOOK (Illustrated) SENT FREE TO ANY ADDRESS (ssarsn). COWTTENTS: tory, Succoss and Advantages of the Omahs Medical and Surgioal Institnte, DHKONIC DI4EABES of the Lungs, Stomach, Liver, Kidnoys, Skin, Piles, Part First—H Part Socond - \uoer, Jatarrh, Epilepsy, Rhoumatism, Inbalation, Tape Worw, Electricity, New Ro medies, eto. Part Third- Berbnuities, Curvaturs of tha Spiae, Glub koot Hip Diseasor Pacsipsls Wry Neok, Bow Hare Lip, Burgicul Operations. Part Fourth ri k8 OF THN EYE AND EAn, Diseases of the Nerves, Cataract, Strablsmus or "Croas Hyos, Plerygiun, ranulated Bye Lids, Lovorsion of the TAds, Artifolal I6yes, ot rumnin»-‘muun 0¥ WOMEN, Leucorrh®a, Ulgeration, Dlluluowunu, Prolapsus, Flex- a2 800 Versions, Tumors \gerstions and Guncor of tho ngm e St s 't Sixth-DISEASES OF My, vate. Specl d Nervous Diseuses, rmatorrhosa (Sem! "i]v:‘u ), Tmpotoncy, Varicooele, Btrioture, Gloot, Byphilis, and all divenses Of tho Goniio nary Organs. DISEASES OF WOME ¥OR WOMEN DURING CONFINEMENT, (Strictly Private). Only Reliable Medical Institute Making & Specialty of PRIVATE DISEASES, A BreciaLTY. Wi HAve LaTELY ADDED A LYING-IN DEPARTMENT Bl Diseases successfully treated. Syphllitio Folson removed from the system wit! ey oy i ratTve, o Tciont for Loah Of VAl Bower P atiera nralte e, mithous b0 tronted at nome by correspondence. All sommunications confidentinl: - Medioiies oF {nsten. wnen(a sent by mall or oxpress a=ourely pucked, no marks to 1ndicate cONtents or sender, Oue S or lah‘m‘, atarviow pulermf‘ s conile s orseon bisory of ele s wid o il S 1o in wrapper, our OO ; \ orvous Diseases, 1ipo- oy, B7 phills. Gloet nd Varicocele, ‘with guestion lst. - Addiess, o OMAHA MEDICAL & SURCICAL INSTITUTE, s 151k aud Dodge Sireets, Omaks, Nebe -z L~