Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 16, 1889, Page 11

THE RAILROADS OF INDIA. Englishmen Have Ccvered Hindoe- tan With an Iron Network. BOME SUPERB EQUIPMENTS. The Lowest Farcs in the World and How They Pay—Secluded Cars ¥or Hindgo undirs— Queer Passengers. Magnificent Depots, : Copyrighted 159 by Frank G. Carpenter, Bomnay, India, 1880.—[Special Correspon- dence of Tnr B ~India has now 16,000 miles of railroad. It is as far from Calcutta to Bombay as it is from New York to Den- ver, and several trunk lines run across Hin- dostan fromone city to the other. There are branches from these which go up to the Himalaya montains almost to the borders of Thibet, and others which shoot off to the Khyber Pass at the entrance of Afghanistan and not a great distance from the new Rus- sian railway, which has been pushed on past Samarcand, - The day wiil come when we can travel from London to Calcutta by rail, though this pre-supposes the cutting of a tunnel under the English channel. South India has many long miles of railroads, and the whole of Hindostan, which is half the size of the United States, hus a railroad net covering it. The construction of these rail- roads has included enginecring works fully as grand as the railroad making of the United States, and the keeping of them in order is more difficuit. One of the great plagues of Indian railroad makers is the white ant. These insects eat every dead thing 1n wood form above ground. Tt a pile of wooden ties s left t over nlgm, an attack of ants will have carried it away by morning aud hrd. 18 no possible storage of wooden ties. S .ch ties as are in the roads are saved frop de- struction bp the vibration caused by the run- ning trains, which scares the ants away., It is the same with telegraph pc €3 and fences, and the result is that the tics of most of the railroads are made of iron. Thave traveled about three thousand miles over all kinds of railways in India. The telegraph poles on many of the lines are hollow tubes of gal vanized iron, about as big around as the av- erage man's calf, so made that they fit into one another and form a pole about ten feet high. To these poles the lines are strung and many of the roads use such poles throughout their entire length, On other lines the telegraph poles are T iron rails, the same as those on which tho car travels. Two of vhese rails are fastened together by bars about a foot wide and then this iron lattice work is set deep in the ground and the wire strung upon it. About some of the stations the fences are made of such iron rails, and through hundreds ot miles along one of the rajah’s railroads in western India I found fences of barbed wire with sandstone posts. These posts wero a foot wide and four inches thick, and they stood about three feet above the ground. The wires ran through holes in them and the railroad men tell me that they are much cheaper than wood. MILLION-DOLLAR DEPOTS, 1 am surprised at the magnificence of the depots in India. Here at Bombay there is a finer railroad station than any we have in the United States. It cost about £1,000,000, and architecturally it is the peer of any building at Washington, At Calcutta there are fine depots and even at the smallest of the towns you find well-made, stone build- ings surrounded by beautiful gardens in which bloom all kinds of tropical flowers. Nothing about these stations is made of wood. The platforms are of stone filled in with cement, and the cars run into the sta- tions ona plane about two feet below the floor and so that the floor of the cars is just even with that of the depot. Each station has its first, second and third-class waiting- room, and everything in India goes by classes. The cars are first, second, third and fourth-class and they are all on the English plan. They are about two-thirds the length of ourcars und a trifle wider. They are not 8o heavy as the American bus- senger conch and they look more like wide, long boxes than anything else. Each of these cars is divided into compartments. In the first and second-class there are only two compartments to the car, and the chief difference 1n these two classes is 1n the num- ber allowed in the compuartment. If you will {magine a littlo room about ten feet long by five fect wide, with a roof of seven feet high, in the center of which there is a glass globe for a light, you may have some idea of the Indian first-class car. You must, however, ut two long, leather-covered cushions nches along each side of this room. and at the ends of theso have doors with glass win- dows in them, opening inward. Over the cushioned backs of the benches there are windows which are let up and down like those of the American street car, and which are of the same size. The car has none of the figish of the American Pullman, and though you are expected to sleep within it there are no signs of bedding or curtains, At the back of it there is a lavatory without towels, scap or brushes, and there is barely room enough for you to turn around in it when you are washing, The second-class cars are much the same, and there may be one second-class car and one first in the same coach, PASSENGERS CARRY BEDDING, But how ubout the bedding? Every man carries his own bedding with him in India, and these Indian cars give you nothing else but a lounge on which to spread o cotton comforter, a shawl, or a rug. You parry your own pillows, and the bedding of balf o dozen passengerss would fill a car. Euch traveler of the first and second class brings the wostof his baggage into the train with him, and there is often as much as the contents of an American baggage car In one of these compartments. No one u dresses, but all lie down with their clothes on, pull thoir shawls over them, and sleep the best way they can. There are no porters to wake you up at the proper time and your boots remain unblacked. Wowmen traveling alone universally go into compartments re- served for women, and men traveling with their wives huve often trouble n keeping to- gether, A SEMVANT NECESSARY. This luggage being brought into tha cars and tho trouble about getting and holding scats leads to the neceswity, which oxists in India, of traveling with a servant. All English and Americans travelers carry one or more servants along with them, and n figuring up vour railroad fares you must add to the fare of the class by which you travel o third-class fare for your native servant, This servant speaks English. He manages your baggage, sees to the hiring and paymg of the cabs to and trom the stations and the hotels, and waits upon you at the hotels, In many of the hotels you t nothing to eat it you have no servant. e e AR R R R L g not blacked, there is no bell in the room, and you get no attendance whatever. If you have a servant hesleeps on the floor outside your door and fights for the best of everything for you. He wants but little wages, and on the whole, it is cheaper for you to take him with you than to get along without hum. T have tried both ways and T can testify to the fact. At Calcutta I had a black-skinned, turbaned Hindoo, who pre- tended to speak both ¥reuch and English, and who altogether aid net know more than @ dozen words of cither, Still he served his purpose, and on leaving Calcutta it seemed &u extravagance to take bim with me. The wresult was I went to Benares without him, At tho hotel there 1 had very r attend- ance and had to pay threo times his wages in fees and !midu got another man at Agra, who is still with me and who is now fighting for miy food at the hotel tables here. He is tall, fine-looking Arvan with @ costly tur- n, & fierce blick mustache and three tunes wuch stylo as myself, He watches my torests closely for thirty-five cents a day, Doards and sleeps himself, and considers biw- self well of CHEAPEST FAKES IN THE WORLD. Qaly rich natives travel second-cluss in India. The bulk of the first and second class trovel is made up of English and Amo’li‘ni. TIE natives, as & rule, go by the Inlérmediatd or third-class, and the thu—d-ul.? fares here a™s We cheapest in the world, They are, by ordilary® {raios, less than one-half cont per mile and by mali trains only one-sixteengh of 1 ?cnl. 8till, the third-class passengers at this low raid puy more to the roads than either tho first or the mi'c&n -class, aid railrond managers tell mo théy believe it will pay to reduce this rate much lower than it now is, Mr. Ells- worth,of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, is traveling with me, and he tolls me that we have not begun to touch bottom in our Amgrioag railrond fares, Ho thinks the 70205 Would make fwiee as much [T thelr rates were reduced one-half and says that the reduction is sure to come. The F. managers weil appreciate this and the class fares in England are the fares that fill the pockets of the stockholders, BIG THIRD CLASS TRAFFIO. Here in India there 18 a vast difference be- tween the prices of the various classes. First class is, orl the great Iudian peninsula rail- road, which is a fair type of the wholo, two and one-half cents per mile. Second-class is ust onc-half this rate and intermediate one- alf of second class, Third class is one-hall the intermediate and the third class pays. The third clasa cars carry thirty two pas- sengers, They are divided into compart- ments with benches uncushioned, running 80 ucross the car that the passengors faco cach other and the passengers are packed in as close as sardines. They are always full and these east Indians travel as much as do the citizens of the United States. 1have yet to find a train in which the third-class cars were not packed. aud many of those upon which I rode had three times a8 many third-class cars as first and sccond class. Each native carries a bundie with him _containing his bruss pot, out of which bie drinks, and often tho pans with which he cooks his food. Accustomed to the poorest of beds at home, a cotton blanket suftices for s traveling rug, and in waiting for the trains ut the stations he often puts his shoo under his head for a pillow, and wrapping up his turbaned head in the cotton cloth Which covered his bure should- eig, sleeps upon the ground until the train is called. THE S8EXES SEPARATE, The Hindoo women trayel_us lightly asthe men, but the two sexes ard never put Into the same cars, There arc closed cars on all of the trains for nigh caste Hindoo women and these nuvu(}vm\mwn of blue glass in the first and second classes, which permit the women to look ouy, but which preyent the men from looking in. These women como to the depot in closed chairs, and as they go to the train_ they pull tneir shawls close about their faces though their ankles and calves, covered with gold or' silver bracelets, often show. In some of the cars the windows of the women’s compart- ments are so fixed with shutters that there can be no looking out, und in the train whizh carried me to Darjeeling there was one ¢ar covered entirely with canvas as thick as that of a circus tent. This con- tained Hindoo women, who, us they rode up the Himalaya mountains through the finest scenery in the world, were thus shut in the stufty darkness of this tent-like car, and saw no more of the grandeur of the nature about them than they would have seen had they been tied in 5o many leather bags and sent along as mail. NOVEL INVESTMENT OF WAGES, One of the greatest roads in India is the East Indian railway. ‘Ihis railway has a curious method of investing a percentage of the wages which it pays its hands, which is found to work both to the advaniageof tho railway and the employes. Wages are very low in India, but through this wethod many of the employes have become rich. Allof the hands who receive over thirty rupees or £10 a month, have to pay 2 per cent of their earnings nto a certain fund. They can pay as much more than 2 per cent as they please. “The road receives the money, pays interest on it, and upon their leaving the service hon- orably, gives them back double the amount they have paid in with interest. This scems incredible, but I am assured it 18 80. An English clergyman told me that he knew a railroad employe who went in at §10 a month and who will" soon take out £5,000. This method was entered into at the time the railroad was built. The managers were hard uv for capital and _they wished to bind their hands to them. = The ‘company is now phos- perous and it keeps up the same system. WHAT RAILROAD MEN MAKE. Speaking of railroad wages in India, I find that section men work here for from 8 to 5 cents & day and that the roads can get all the men they want at these prices. Eogineers work on jtime and distance, and they arc about the highest paid of the railroad employes. They get about seventy dollars a month while running regularly, but they can increase this by extrarunning to eigiity-five and onc hundred dollars a month. The Indian railways have no conductors iz our sense of the word. The tickets ure col- lected and examined by men at the various stations and the guard who manages the traiu in other respects has nothing to do with the tickets. Such guards get about Lwenty- five dollars u mouth und on the smaller rail- roads they receive from seven to twenty dollurs a month. The most of the guards ave natives or hali-breed, while a majority of the engineers are English. 1 don’t think the Englsh engineers are as well posted as our American ones. I usked one of them the weight of his engine. He stammcred and replicd that that he did not kuow. The American engineer can tell you just what his engine weighs, how much steam she carries and ull about her. SOME PECULIARITIES. The engines here are lighter than ours and the whole equipment of the railroads 1s upon a smaller scale. Most of the freight cars are made of iron, and you could crowd three of them into one American caboose. ‘they carry on an average about six tons, have no trucks and only four wheels, Our freight curs will carry from forty to fifty tons, and some of our’ narrow-gauge curs carry forty tous. If these Indian traius had such cars they could carry from sevem to eight times the amount they now do, but the people have never been accustomed to lurge cars and they stick to the old ways. None of these freight cars are managed by brakes from the top and you seo no brakemen trotting along on the tops of the trains. Freight in India is measured by the mound or eighty pounds. Freizht trains are called goods trains, and I find somo curious rules In regard to freight. Return trip tickets are issued to horses, and ccamels cost twelve cents per mile per truck and four camels can be put on each truck. Elephunt calves are transported at the rate of six cents a wile, and as to the other animals, the cost of them is guarded at the rate for dogs. No dogs are to be taken in the cars and no return tickets are issued for dogs. Many of the baggage cars have dog compartments and cats, monkeys, rabbits and guinea pigs are sent along at dog rates. Not long ago o woman came to one of the stations with a turtle in her hund and was about to enter the car with it when the guard stopped her. She showed him the turtle and asked him whether she could take it inside. He re- plied: “Yes! Cats 18 dogs and monkeys is dogs, but turtles is fish, aud thero 18 no rule against fish.” UNDER GOVERNMENT CONTROL. Nearly all the railroads in India are under the government and wany of the roads were built by the government, guaranteeing five per cent to the stockholders on the condi- tion that the probits above five per cent, shall be equally divided between the gov- ernment and the stockholders. Over others of the roads the government has a sort of a control and the result is that the tenure of place ou: the railroad is much the same as that of the civil service of England. Men expect to stay a lifetime when they enter the railroad service and there is no danger of their discharge during good behavior, There ure no strikes in India and a position on the railroad is considered very desirable by the natives. The laws are, on the account of the gov- ernment owning the roads, almost altogether in favor of the road, und our farmers would rise in ndignation ot some of them. If an American has o cow killed on the track of a roud running through his farm the railroad company pays well for it. Iu India the owner of cattlo found Lrespassing on the railroad is liable to a chully of $3.50 for each animal oy map who drives oy animal woross an Iudian rallway except at certain npfmu\nu times and places is habie to a fine of §17, und any man who enters a car reserved for females can be fined §35. The mun who trivs to get on o trafn here after it is started will be fiued §7, and anyone wno attempts to defraud the railioad company in any manner is liable to a fine of §16. TUE POSTAL SEMVICE. ‘The postal cars aref in the middie of the tram here in Iudia, and the postal clerks are Datives. it takes about Lwice as wany clerks to manage the mail as with us, but the ser- vice is much chesper, The head clerk gots about 70 rupces a month, or less than §30, and the others reccive from $10 to #20 month. Letters are sorted on the trains an oxtra postage is charged for the posting of lettars at the traing just before the car NT FEATURE, One of the worst things about these In- dian trains is the lm{m sibility of passing from one car to another and the difficulty which one has to get at the quard o0 io stop the tram. You may be 10ckLy up in the same compartinent with & mad man or a robber, and it is impossitiy for you to help gograelf. In thg net; of one of ‘the western ndian roads tere is a little electric button, fegeed &iGund with a walnut frame, over ‘which is a pane of thick glass. Just around the button run the words: ‘‘To stop the train break the glass and touch the button ' On one of the trunk lines I was closeted in a first-class compartment in a train going at the rate of thirty miles an hour. Looking upward I saw that the glass globe containing the lamp was leaking, and that a fuil pint of oil had run out into it #hd that this was shak- ing with each sway of the car. There was nothing between it and the blaze, and I feared every moment that it would catch, the glass would break and a pint of burning oil would spread out upon the carpet of the little box-like room below, in which I was. 1 looked for a bell rove. ‘There was none, I went all around tho foor of the car, looked over tho walls and sought everywhero some means of stopping tho train. I could find none, and I had to wait until we arrived at the next station, a hulf an hour later. Luck- ily no aceident havpened and I was here able t0 call the guard and have the lamp removed. Had therd been an explosion my only salva: tion would bave been in putting out the flame or in jumping through the car window whilo the train was going at this hightning speed. Fuasx G. Canersren, Twenty To-day. Written for the Sunday Bee. Mabel is twenty to-day, And the syweet Juge hreezes are a-blowing, Mabel is twenty to-day, And the swift tile of life is out-flowing, Sweet, stutely Mabel, my ng! How the years hurry awa) Dear little Mubel—a woma, Mabel is twenty to-duy, She said farewell to childhood, . Aud_she smilod while its laughter was dying, Sho said farewell to girlhood, And she whispered 1t pensively sighing, , Fair, dreamy Mabe Tubel, . Standing in w way, Gathering the rea rose of love— Tweaty to-day. Oh, my bonny child, Mabel, In the attic your dolly is sleeping, You have forgotten, Mabel, Promises many made for her keeping, You said you'd never forsake her, But you have laid her away, Cruel, inconstant Mabel, Twenty to-duy. When you are forty, Mabel, And the glow of life's noontide is breaking Will you remember, Mabel, Tho vows that to-day you are making1 Will you be my true Mabel Till the shades of Life grow gray? My pure, my faithfui Mabel, Twenty to'day. Imyis Crow. Bluir, Neb. i RELIG1O S, Bishop Potte 's centennial sermon is being favored with a wide circulation, third edivion of 10,000 has just bien exhausted. It is estimated that the protestant churches of the United States contribate aunually £11,250,000 for foreign missions. mber of Catholic congresses were held ious points in Europe at the ciose of 1 and the beginning of y, und @ nota- ble} unanimity of fee Oporto, Madrid, Vienna and Malines, The Rev. Peter F mans, of Troy, Y., last week celet the sixtieth versary of his ordiuation as n pries length of service that 1s claimed to ou: any other in the Roman Catholic chul this country. Sam Jones recently preached a sermon at Danville, Va., to 8,00 people, during wh he called on oll who had not told a lie this year to stand up, und only four or five re- sponded. He called on thoge who didn’t love whisley to stand up, and less than twenty- five arose, Last year there were reported 47 Protest- ant Jewish societies, and spending nea £500,000 anuuully. In the last half-dozen years the work in this d has nearly doubled. The Jewish population of the earth is about 6,400,000, ‘I'nere is, then, one missionary to about 16,795 Jews. Rev. John Jusper, of “sun do move' fame, baptized 285 converts in the Jawes river re- cently. Rev. It d \Weils, pastor of the Bbeueezer chureh, baptized nearly five hun- dred. The baptizing took place in the river near the Free bridge, and Pastor Wells was continuously ut work immersing candidates from 11 a. . until 3:30 p. m. The Rev, Mr. Spurgeon, the great Baptist minister of England, lives on a magnificent estate, having parks, varied with lakes und streams and adorned with statuary, and con- servatories filled with rare plints. His stables are as fine in arrunzements and ap pointments as the royal estaolishment at Windsor, and his coachmnan sports a goi- geous livery. The statistics of the Unitel Presbyterian church were ready in advance of the meet- g of the assembly, They show that the body has ministers, of whom 243 are “withiout charge,” 9J3' congregations and 101,858 communicants, an_incroase of 2,563 for'the year, ‘There has been a gai in tho contributions for home und foreign wmissions, church extension, education aud ministerial relief, The total contributions for ail pur- poses is £1,110,858, an increase of about 00,000, e e AMPLETLE The first snake wassscon by a woman. Men have been seeing snakes ever since. A church in Pittsburgh is to be built by penny subscriptions. It should be called the Centennial church, An interesting sight Is to watch a minister try to open a car window. The dramatic effect comes from what he doesn’tsay. The Mormons are going to Canada, prob- ably because of baving embezzle d tha affec- tions of superfluous female members of the church, There is a Baptist base ball club in Bel Air. Md. It probably differs from other base ball clubs only in having a tank instead of o pitcher, In the course of a prayer a Scotch Presby- terian preacher recently said® “And bless the poor; aud bless the rich who after their funerals will be poor.” Which sounds like Bvangelist Wills, who is outdoing Sam Jones in his line of aphorisms. 1t is suggested that christian science treat- ment bo substitutea for other methods of inflicting capital punishment. ‘The 1an who made that broposition wouldn’t give the criminal any chance for Lis life. I have scen_u great deal of what thoy call fuith cure,” said & New York dentist, *'but I have yet to hear of 4 person who suc- ceeded in curing the jumping toothache in any such fashion.” Few people can get up faith enough for that. Parson—You are a total abstainer, 1 be- lieve, Mr. Ilint! Mr. Skinflint—Yes, sir, I 1 never tasted liquor but once, and that was to_the county fair vwenty-three years Hen Hawbuck treated me three tlimes ,and I got jest dizzy enough to let amp pass a lead nickel on me. When I founa that out I savs to myself, “Yeu've had enough,” and I 't tetched a drop sence, nor 1 ain't goin’ ter, Rl How to Grow Thin. One of the casiest ways to reduce weight 18 to wear a shirt fannel sweat- er and to ride a brisk trot. "It the horse trots roughly, and the rider bounces up and down in the saddle, so much the bettar. Ten pounds a week can be lost by this process. The best kind of a sweater is made by taking four, six or eight thicknesses of flannel and wrapping them around the loins and the lower part of the chest. i Angostura Bitters makes health, and heulth makes bright, rosy cheeks and happiness. Dr, J. G, B. Slegert & Sons, sole mannfucturers. Ask your druggist. DAILY BEE: SUND A&E 16 e ————— THRONGS AT THEEXPOSITION A Daily Average of 601000 for the First Webk. TH§ " ROBBERS. Rapaclons Restaunratosirs Limited as to Price—Two Califbrnia Girls Oreate a Sensation in the Operatic Line, REGULATING Notes From the Paria Exposition. PARIS, June 1.—[Special to Tnr BeE.] Although by no means complete, never before has an exposition proved so great a success. On Sunday the 12th of May the number of visitors was 160,704 who paid to enter, and there were 57,288 gratuitous admissions, making o totai of 218,227, without counting the numerous attendants. On the opening day there hud been 833,884 tickets col- lected at the door, but this represented only 112,204 paying tors. During the weck after the opening day the pay- ing admissions have been about 50,000 per day; the total for the first five days was about During the first ten days of the ur sal exhibition of 1878 there were entrances, so that 1n the first five days of the present exhibition thero has than at the 2 in its ficst ten day The total number of one franc admis sion tickets hered in by the exhibi- tion during the fivst week connting Sunday and the opening day amounted to T80 and if to this we add the atuitous entrances and the attendants, 1" is safe to con- clude that a itlion people have baen to the exhibition during the first week At fivst the culinary and sani- e quite i sitics of su tary arrangements we cient to meet the ne crowd. On the opening day after feod- ing about one hundred thou: a the rostaurants van short of provisions and a smail bit of bread brought easily two francs. The admini: ion have pow regulnted matters so that no extor- tion ean be practiced, si ench kind must be pluinly printed, and only a fixed amountcan be charged, and no one need go ahungered. Seventeen thousand extra seats have been pro- vided which can be hiredat 10 centimes each, und there are extra beuches free for 8,000 persons. TWO CALIFORNIA GIRLS MAKE A 8§ SATION. To be invited to a matinee musicale by Madame LaGrange is an honor much ht after. As o dFamatic soprano 1e has never been equalled and there are those yet lividg who remem- ber the tre dous hit she made in the Het*? To be her pupil is pa re: oun lady £ 1s0 been h in Omaha. has a voice of phenomenal strength and swectnoess, and eritics predict thit her debut in che listant fatuve, will' give & a ue position usthe ir day. She presence an admi he goes to the wost this sum v few con 1Ilam know if ke the ion among her country- men as she has made in'Europe. Miss Sunderson, in Mussenct’s new opera of ‘‘Esclarmonde,” has created a furore. She has a pure highly cultivated with a range. Not for yearsh oceupied with any unte, ond francisco may well be proud of her. nin, of Ohio, is a dy for her forithcoming debut'in Italy, and » vich, sympathetic contralto is sure I predict for t gir] ceptional future. They it too. The life of u student is not one of roses. The road to success isnot without its rough stones und its slough of despond. It takes patience—an abundance of it—and money in plenty. Only the other day an _American girl in Berlin, who wi udying the biano, found her: paraly in the left hand, and became hopelessly insane. Her ans of liv od were tuken away without warn KAMPONG, A VIL The Nett ing o AGE OF JA irous of ex ¢ of the manne nhabitants of forth the numerous nd, have built a planade des In- valides, containing . a population xty men and twenty women. One of the products the most indispensable of this Indian Archi- pelago, is bambon, and in Kampong one sees the many waysin which it is used. The women of Djokan, make out of it the Batik, which goes to fashion the I el of the people. Others are hats out of vice straw. The mu s form with iv the gamtlang, which is u scries of instru- ments combined in one, a concelt which has the merit of being unigue at all events. Then there are the representa- tious of the Wajung, in which, with wonderful dexterity, marionnettes ave made to represent the ancient legends and the prowers of their heros. The dancing girls from Djoginkarta are exiremely good, In a little hambon cottage, the Kokki, are enga, i cooking rice, to which many, thousands, of spectators are att . Kampong is one of the most 1nteresting bits of the exposition. THE BIFFEL TGWER, The Eiffel tower( has at last been thrown open to the publie. Thirty- six stories up, - that is on the second platform, the Figaro has opened its publishing) and printing office, with 785 steps.tomount, one must ir the poor devils ynd reporters. To build this tower 7,000,000 holes were pierced and 2,500,000 rivets used. In tracings the ervor of jthe tenth of a milli'metre in selecting the spot to pierce for the introducing of a rivet was a most serious matter. It has also been caleulated that, whepens, M. Eiffel him- self, when sitting in his arm-chair be- fore his desk, exercised, a pressure on the floor of equal to, four kilogrammes per square centimetre, the tower, though it is 208,30 metwes taller than M, Eiffel, weighs upon, the earth only two kilogrammes persquare centimetre, On the first Eiub!urm 18 the brassene and Restaurant Brebant, where fatigue is banished by the comforting attentions of comely maidens of all nations in short skirts, colored stockings and pretty slippers, and where the inner man is re- freshed for a considerable ‘considera- tion. H. R. B. il Says He Wrote “Monte Oristo.” A revelation through a Paris will case is the claim of the late Auguste Maquet that'he was the ckiel author of **Monte Cristo” and others of the most important worls of the elder Dumas. The administrators o(%\lnquet’u estate say that they have it in Dumas’ hand- writing that Maquet did the hon’sshare of Dumas’ work, They were left charged with the responsbility of see- us well as vies of the ge on the 1880.—SIXTEEN PAGES. ing that his reputation was maintained and defen ded MACTARKE & Sure Curesl} Grlcngo, tte. | Gla ot The Regular 01d-Establlshed PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON s il Troating with the Greatest ¢SKILL and SUCCESS G F: S & 1R, Nervous and Private Diseases. NERVOUS DEBILITY, Lott Manhood, failing Memory, Exhausting' Draios, Terrible Drenms, Head ahd Back Ache and all the sfiects e rly decuy and perhaps Consumption or Insacity, treated scicatifcally by new methods with never.fal g gccess. A SYPHILIS and oll bad Blood and Skin Dis« eases permanently, cured. A&~ KIDNEY and URINARY complaints, Gleet, Gonorrhoen, Stricture, Varicocele and all diseases mmg Genito-Urinary u Chroui, L o Organs cured promptly without to Stomach, Kidneys it No experiments. A Censuliation fr e m s cents (stamps). Consult ke old . Afriendly letter or call may save future suffers hame, and add golden years to life, &a~Hook Secret) Errors,'” socents (stamps). Medicing RS sent everywhere, secure from eXposures Hours, 8108, Surdays g to ia. Address F. D. CLARKE, M. D., 166 8o, Clark St GHICAQD, ILls Dallars Y h LIFORNI LW Sk JAS. MORTON & SON 1511 Dodge Street. DRS. BRITS & BRITS e L TR N Office hours, 9a. m, to 8p. m. Bundays, 198 m, to . TR, dpn‘vh?llstu in Cbronte, Nervous, Skin sud d Discases. B D hitation at offico or by mafl fres, Mealcines sent by mail oF express, securaly PacKed. Tee Tromm ODSCIYALION. - Guarantess to afely and permanently. ) N Epennatorthiea, semt DERILUTY b YotiarNiehs fimts. Veical Decuy, uristug from Indiscre- tion, or Iudalience, producing Sleep- leacness, Deksondency, Pimpics on the fac T to co.jety, eacily dircouraged. lack o Gl vt for stad ave a n y or bis i . Dermanenty ana Drs. Betts & Betts, ha, Neb. nany SYphills, & disease 1568363 most norrible in ita ely eradicated without the ald g Jtula, Erysipelus, Fover Sores, s, Ulcers, Pains in the Head and Honos, ore Throat, Mouth ana Tongue, Ca manently cured where others § privately cured. 405 Farnwn <t., O have fa! H and Bladder Complaints, Kidney, Urinaty incuts iden, foo tre- ant Burning or Bl Urind hign col ored or with milk on standing, Weak Jack, G Cystitis, Promptly andSafely e, Churges Reason: STRICT moval co) dilatation. Civ without & mome:: RN R £ L A A b s S e W N b 89 ; & . of TEETH for P A FULL SET of TEETH for_ FIVE DOLLARS. DR R. W. BAILE Y, - DENTIST. Paxton Block, 16th and Farnam Streets. ‘We wish to announce to the people of Omaha and vicinity that from this dater on we propose to make a FULL SET OF TEETH on rubber for 85, guaranteed ta be as well made as plates sent out from any dental offico in this city, and for which you would have to pay THREE TIMES AS MUCH. This offer 1s not made by us simply to get you into our office and charge yow more for a set of teeth than we advertise! Do not allow others to prejudice you spocimens of our skill, Besides rubber teeth we make teoth on the following bases: INUM, SILVER, CONTINUOUS GUM, ¢ before making us a call and examining GOLD, ALUM- JELLULOID, CAST METAL, ETC, Teeth without plates, Bridge-work, Gold and Porcelain faced crowns, eto. The best methed in the city for extracting teeth without pain and without he use of Chloroform, Ether, Gas or Electricity, the patient remaing porfectly conscious, but feeling no pain. GOLD, ALLOY, CEMENT and AMA TAKE ELEVATOR ON LGAM FILLINGS, one-half rates. SIXTEENTH STREET. . OFFICE 312 and 313 PAXTON BLOCK. Cut this out. Mention this paper. FISH HOSE + 250 POUNDS BUY the BEST, ltwil A hose which will do good t nant; e g the ¢ stand the presgare. Nob Oas £oot 0 For sale by all dealers, or e e e DU G 811 South 16th St g BRAND” HOSE| The ONLY Lawn or Garden Hose MADE which will stand k in most citiss, wil no high pr OMAHA RUBBER Co, 1008 Farnam-st,, Omaha, Neb. __SOLE AGENTS FOR—— PRESS LAST iir LONGEST not give satistaction in o.' While dealers complain of 150 it {3 not strong enough to ISH BRAND” has ever falled. Omaha, Neb. ST. LOUIS HYDRAULIC-PRESS BRICK. Terra Cotta work a1d Fire Proo g, Pecora Mortor colors, (all shades), ) Hard Wool Floors, (all and see samples, and get prices, Corraspoade: Sweony's Dumb Waiter, Venetian and Slidinz (inside) Blinls. 'Contractors and Bullder's wupplies nce solicited, " THE BUSINESS OF OMAHA MERGHANT TAILOR COMPANY, 114 SOUTH 15TH STRE fces, together wit; Havo oxceeded thelr expectations. The low (ntisfied_their customers thiat it {8 the cheapest tantly reiving new goods for the summer trade. UI'ES FROM §28 UPWARDS.} ETCHINGS, ENGRAVINGS, ARTIST SUPPLIES, MOULDINGS, FRAMES, 1513 Dingtas St ‘T fine work and perfect fit, nas plice to buy their garments, They uré conms FROM 87 UPWARDS EMERSON, HALLET & DAVIS, KIMBALL, PIANOS AND ORGANS SHEET MUSIO. Omaa, Nebraska Omaha Stove_Répair Works 808-810 NORTH SIXTEENTH STREET. ROBT. VHLIG, Repairs for all Stoves and R part payment. Prop. nges made, €. M. EA'TON, Manuger. Brilllant Gasoline Gasoline Burners made to ordes Telephone 960 oves, Stoves taken In exchange & and thoroughly repaired, §2"Telephone to us or send card and we will call and estimatoe work of any kind. Furniture To Yoz Mey anl Hiddi ASUBEEUBE i weukness, destro: allits drea 'x"n: DRS: BETTS & s by Impr cnces and folitary habitd, which v and mind, unfitting them for business, ¢ those entortng on that hap- physical debility, quickly as OUR SUCCESS (8 based upon facts. First—Practical Bxpe rience, Sccon ery case s espectally studied, thus starting arigh rd: ilcines are pre- pared in o 10 suit each on *hronie, Nervou Delio Thousands . §#7 A friendly letrer or cali inuy save you future snflering and shaimo, and add golden years to life, §#~No letters ane sywered unless accompamed by 4 cents in stups. Address or call on DES. BET 1S & BETTS, 1408 Farnam Srteet. Omaba, Nob. TR CASOLIN 1 STOVES “REFRIGERATORS Ice Cream Freezers, The most complete line in the city, WM. LYLE DICKEY & CO,, 1403 Douglas Street, AgaReisiipnt dfutingsd Unsng. Suece Wit e oMY BooR o PSP pre'd TUI Versatio Peck's Pat. W for wheteall other remedies 7a: DEWEY & STONE Company A mognificent display of everything usefwl and oraamezntal inthe furni- ture maker’s art at reasonable prices. Mch_isnn,Tupeka&Saa eeH.H ‘I'he Popular Route to the Pacific Const. LOS ANGELES and SAN FRANCISCO. Short Line Route to PORTLAND, Ore- Donble Daily Traiu Servic Between Kansas City and PUEBLO, OOLORADO SPRINGS and DK VER, Short Line to BALT LAKE ciry, The Direct Texas Route Solid Trains Between Kansas Oity and GALVESTON, The ShortLine Betwe Kansas City and GAINER- VILL Fr. WORTH, DALLAS, AUSTIN, TEMPLE, SAN ANTON1A, HOUSTON aud all points in Texas, The only Line Running Through the OKLAHOMA COUNTRY. The Ouly Dircct Line 1o the Texas Pan-Han dle, For Map and Time Tables and and Information Regsrding Rates Call on or Add Freight and Puss. A’uont. 8. M, OBGOOD, General Agent. 1308 Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska, 5 $5.00 A full et of teeth for #. Paluless extraction of teeth without chloroform, gus oF ether. Filling st half rates. DR. BAILEY, Dentist, 413 Paxton Block, 1004 wnd Faruawm Bts, Open ev euink COMPAGHIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE, Paris Universal Expostion 18 now open. Parties desiring good sccommodations on the new larke express steaters of the FAmOus FRENCH MAIL LINE, Which are noted for (helr regulurity, cqual to rail o traing, in making the trip Lo Huvre Parls in 0e week, wre advise | Lo Make Eurly Application for Berths, This 18 also necessary on m ount of the heay, travel during tie epring and su; % JULCF MOnths. McCAGUE BROS.. 105 South 156th €t., HARRY E. MOORES, 1502 Farnam St., H. L. HALL, 3 I'arnam St., J. H, GREEN, 1501 Farnawm St., Ageits, Omaha, Neb, MAURICE W. KOZMINSKL, DOCTOR (. M. Jordan Late of the Universits of New York Of 4 flowarduniversity vashe ington, D, C. U HAB OFrIcES No. 310 and 811 Ramge Building, rmer Fittenth and Hag jey sts, Omabn, Ni Watwhere all curable o “Yare treated with ~sug cess., 3, AgumuA, DYSPEPSIA, DEAF. ATISM, ALL NEKVOUS AND SKIMN CATAHKE (;um-;fi. CONSULTATION at oftice or by Office hours-#Hto 11 a.m., 2to4 to8p, w_, Bunday office hours from 9 4. m,, to 1 g. llb Manydiseases ure treated successtully iy bre Jordon througn the mulis.and it {s thus pogsiv] for those unable to make u')l:unle to_obl SEOCESSKUL HOSPITAL TREATMEN (M8 e e ot o Diseasos of Nose, T wrosly L R — M. M. Hamlii, . Co. B.A hard, Carpot Dealer, mail, 9L .