Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 19, 1889, Page 14

THE YELLOW DRAWING ROOM. Mona Caird in St. Louts Post-Dispateh. 1 approach this episode in my life which presents iteelf to my memory thus entitled with dislike mingled with faccination. 1 hata the whole subject, but I ean't leave it alone. Those ac- cursed three weeks spent under the game roof with Vanora Hayden scem to have deprived me of myself, unhinged me, destroyed the balance of my char- acter. I feel asif I might perhaps throw off this absurd spell by calmly emoothing out the rufiled memoriesand studying them scientifically. Vanora’s aunt, Miss Clementina Thorne, was a nice, appreciative old maiden lady, who thought me the most estimable and charming of men. I had long regarded her with warm affection tempered only with a mild resentment of her perpetual attempts to get me mar- ried. In her pressing invitation to come once more to Fairfield, where the fresh air would be so good fer me after my dusty and dingy office, I read at sight that another matrimonial scheme was fermenting in tnut most hymeneal brain. I know that this time she had destined me for one of her own nieces, as she mentioned that they had no visitors at present, and that Vanora would be at home. Though I had hov- ered about Clara with vague admiration for over a y¢ her aunt mentioved in her much underlined epistle that her brother-in-law, since his dear wifo’s death, had let the girls have too much of theirown wa and that Vanora (who had re it prate and furnish the drawing room at Fairfield exactly us she pleased) had unworthily employed her Tber by produciug o room of brillinnt yellow. 1 had a prej against Vanora, and this last freak made me think none the better of her. Evidently she was rather a headstrong and probably uffected young person. Every one said that she iked to make herself conspicuous and that you never knew what she was go- ing to do next. I hate thatsortof a girl, The true woman is retiring, un- obtrusive, indistinguishable even until vou come to know her well, and then she is very much like what every other true woman would be under the same conditions. I had prononnced views in these matters. As for a yellow drawing-room! I felt a sort of scornful amusement in that drawing-room! 1 was anxious to see jusl how far Vanora’s mania to be out of the com- mon had carried her in this instance. Arrived at Fairfield I was at once shown inte the notorious drawing-room. It was yellow. The color had been washed out of the very daffodils, which looked green with the sun- shine was confronted” in a spivit of re- specuful independence, brotherhood he- ing ncknowledged, but the principle of equality uncompromisingly asserted, i horne sadly shook her head. “We want my brother-in-law to have the room done over again, Mp. St. Vin- cent, but he wont hear of it. We did all we could with Vanora— old her that nobody used such a brillinnt color, but she only said that she found no- body, when you come to talk to him seriously, wis . person quite open to areason. Dear Vanoru is so quaint.” ““Her taste seems to be rather quaint,” I said, Several visitors were passionately ad- miring the prospect, the pictures, the chairs and tables, anything to protect themselves against a threatening sumn- mons to say something about the gen- eral coloring. Miss Thorne seems to be piteously endeavoring, by her manners, her attire, her sentiments to atone for that vnpardonable drawing room. The sisters also, Mary and Clara, were doing theig best in the same direction. But nopeloss was their protest. The room was in a_glow of golden light; no lady- like antidote, however strong, could lead one to - ignore it. It was radiant, bold, unapologetic, unabashed. Lt was not the room that any ideal woman would have created. My ideal woman would unfailingly choose a nice tone of gray-blue for Her drawing-room. My suspicions that Clara Haydon was my ideul womun grew stronger as I watched her quiet FEuglish face bent over the tea-tray. 1 liked the straightforward look of the girl, her blue e, and fair complexion. If I was to give up my liberty the re should be huanded ovor to a k sensible younge woman like Cla who would hate to make herself vemarkable, I think the hot zfternoon sun und the unceasing sound of Aunt Clementina’s voice must have made me drowsy, I was think- ing mistily what a wonderfully and con- spicuously clean givl Clara Haydon w when the door opened and I found my self loundering (I cannot do more than describe these dreamy impressions) in an ocean of laughter. 1 wmy efforts to keep my head above water, I discovered rather sharply that I had ‘upset my ten, which Clara’s ex- ceedingly clean fingers had just poured out for me. This brought me to my senses, “I appear to be graduating for an idiot asylum.” I exclaimed, furious at ‘my clumsiness and stupidity. Vanora laughed in a friendly manner. *“*We have all been yearning to get rid of this cup,” she said, “and wo really fec- grateful to you for your opportune as istan ce.” In the few bewildering moments of apology und assurance, I found myself resented emphatically to Venora, und ightly by indication to a dark and lank young man who followed her ianto the room. Vanora herself was simply radi- ant. She had a mass of ghstening, golden hair, n color full, varying, emo- tional, eyes like the sea (I lose my tem- per when people ask me to deseribe their color), In figure she was robust, ercct, nliunt, firmly knit. Though her movements were 8o swift, there was nothing restless fabout her. A ground tone of pose sounded up through the surfuace scintillations, She was vital, not galyvanie, That was the revealing word—vital, In the human color-spectrum she took the place of the yellow ray. This was all out of keeping. According to my doctrines it wus even impossible, ‘Women ought to take the place of the blue or violet rays. In my scheme of the universe they always did so, except in the case of distinctly un\\'onmn‘y women. But this—in spite of offend- ing against every canon 1 had ever set up—Vanora certainly was not. She l\l))rulnuly. overpoweringly womanly. The womanhood of her sisters paled bvefore the exuberant feminine quulity which [ could not but acknowledge in Vanora, Iverything was wrong and contradictory. I seemed to be taking part in some comedy of errors, wherein Vanora played s sort of fantastic Col- umbine, nmf I---the part of fool, I began grimly to suspect. For c\lrvnd[v (0 ghrogged my shoulders ut myself in contemptuous despair) I found that I hated the lank young man who had been introduced as Me. George Inglis, simply and solely because I saw that he was head over ears in love with Vanora, and that she treated him with a sort of fudescribable good fellowship, mingled with a peculiar tenderness. (I never saw anything to equal Vanora's tonder- ness when she was moved that way.) 1 hear, Miss Vanora,” I said, “‘tha nd, the credit of this room is entirel yours,” The lank admirer looked round. Vanora glanced at me alertly. *You have every reason to be proud,” I continued, determined not to spare her; “you must have surprised more people” than you could easily count, though T have no wish to impugn arith: metic. They will all be grateful to you ensation.” me for disagreeing with he said, ‘It is so ensy to sur- prise people; they are all amiable: they keep themselv nstonishment; they are like a se plate which is ready at & moment’s no- tice to be surprised in a photograph. You come with yourdogma or your self- evident fact, or simply with your pot of yellow paint, and, behold, forth spring the various amazements. Oh, no! (thanking you all the same,) T am not proud of having startled a few people whose mission 1n life is to be startled.” “I raised my eyebrows witheringly My ideal woman would consider it al- most indelicate to play with words in this fantastic fashion. 1 glanced at my gray-blue godd How comfortably certain one felt with + of enjoying conversational repo Dear Claral! how admirably she carried out onc's cherished ideas: she fitted them like a glove. T complotely, ardently approve of Clara. To her I rather ostentatiously devoted myself for the rest of the after- noon, but 1 was furtively watchad by her sister And now T come to the disag and inexplicable part of my broker absurd episode. [ know not to vhis d why or wherefore, but Verona be me the most ext wion. 1f there were any would use 1t, but I cannot find or I fell into the strangest state of mind. Veroua’s personality scomed tocnwrap me s a garment; sho was like some great radiating center of light and warmth: | was penctrated with the glowing atmosphere, approved of the girl. T don’t that I then liked her. I knew t cften hated her,and yet I felt miserable out of her presen She became a ne- cessity to me. A feeling of misery describe assailed me in_her absence: a sick feeling of senseless despair. I used to pace the terrace among the pen- cocks (the boys impebtinently insi d that they were unable on such occa- sions to distinguish me from the con- ceited birds); and as I thus worked off some of my vestlessness, 1 used to try and understand what had happened to me. One morning before Vanora came out on to the terrace. Seeing me, she walked straight up to me and said, “Good morniug, I think you waunt to talk to me, don’t you?”” I looked at her in despair. If she lived and improved for a thousand years she would never be am ideal woman. “You disapprove of me,” Verona con- tinued calmly. “T wish you would teil me why.” **You really wish me to be frank,” I said, stopping and facing her. “I really do.”” she veplied, offering crumbs of bread to a haughty peacock, who eyed them superciliousl “Well, then, Mi Hayden, your blood be upon your own head (beautiful was that golden head in the morning light). You seem to have so many qualities and ideas that are not suited to you sex. No doubt I am old-fash- ioned ut those things, but I counfess ttat [ cannot rejoice when T see our beautiful ideal of womanhood set scorn- fully at naught.,” (BN aid Vanora. *Do go on.” I scarcely know how to approach a subjeet of which you do not seem to un- derstand the rudiments,” [ said other word which I cannot breakfast, interests me,” cried Vanora. g y desire to be awakened on this drowsy side of me. T can’t bear to be blind ana stupid. I want very much to be shown ut least the gates of realms that are forbidden to me.” @ ‘The sacred realms where woman is queen will soon be forbidden to you if istently continue to think and harmony with the feminine nature and genius. “Do you mean marry? she asked. ““No, I menn that if you do marry you will fail to fulfill you wife. You may have a br I rkable career, but the more bril- linnt the more complete will be your failure, the more I shall mourn the loss of a real woman from the spheres where she was intended to ereate and to main- tain those sucred ties and sentiments, without which this world would be a howling wildernesss.” Vanora tossed aunother crumb to the supercilious P rcock. **Do go on,” she repeated. “If women only realized where their true power lay,and how mighty was that power, they would never scek to snateh it in dire where they arve inevitably weak, and—if I must say it— inevitably ridiculou “*All these true feminine proclivities seem to have slept in me,” said Vanora. I was born to be ridiculous. My father never sought to arange a_‘sphére’ for me, and in my case instinet seems at fault. At oné tune I used to make any amount of antimaccassars and sofa cushions, and to this day my sisters do all that can possibly be required of a faynily as to being lady-like and having nice quiet tastes, and so on, and what 1s especially satisfactory, they think a by far more interest- ing thun a grown-up creature with a soul, or even than a child who can think and feel. They are keeping up the feminine traditions admirably. Don’t you think it would be a little mo- notonous if I were to go over exactly the same ground? It seems to me that that ground is getting rather trodden in.” *'1am y to hear you sneer at our good and charming sisters, and at the true instirets of the sex.” Vanora burst out laughing. **Oh! Mr. St. Vincent,you really ave a liitle stupid sometimes " she said She turned, and I saw a change come into her face us Gicorge Inglis uppeared from the wood at the far end of the ter- race und walk towards us, That filled me with unaccountable fury. My criti- cal mood which I had maintained with no little difficulty off me, and 1, was swaying s & wind-tossed reed with strange, uncontrollable emotion, **¥ou don’t know what it has cost me to speak to you thus,” I said, catching her hand. " *You interest me, you— yes, I must say it—you fascinate me, and it distresses me, maddens me to feel myself led uwny by qualities which ought to repel me—the attraction is morbid and unwholesome. [ am angry with myself for aven feeling it. Vanord, you must release me,” telease you,” she repeated, ‘‘what do yot mean’s” I mean I replied crazily, *‘that you must learn to love me and to be woman in the old sweet seuse, for my suke.” “You are very naif,” she said, s you seem just now to me e, egotistical child.” I turned abroptly away, that I shall not I knew that George Inglis joined her, and that they walked down ({m terrace togeth I suppose I must have been in love her, yet all the time 1 scemed to hate her. I'longed to make her yield to me to love me with an up-looking love. 1 bud & burning desire tosubdue her. ho scemed to evade me and my heoriesas if she were o cronture from another sphere. 1 cannot describe the irritation of mind which all thia caused me. I setabout my wooing as if I had been going to fight a duel, To my ih- tense disgust I found that George Inglis had discovered my accursed secret. 1 chanced to overhear him saying to Miss Thorne, *“The contest s a typical one; if one could imagine the eigh- teenth century as alover wooing the nincteenth century, that this is the sort of an angular labyrinth in court- ship we should hLave!” 1 wondered what the chattering fool meant by it! **She ghall love me, and she shall learn, through love, the sweet lesson of womanly subtnission,” 1 said to myself all the dominating instincts of my man- hood roused into activity by this strange and hatetul experience. I felt that she was utterly wrong, that she had mistaken her own powers and her own noblest impulses. It was for me, through the might of an overwhelming affection, to set alight the true wo- manly flame within her heart. I would make her proud of her subordination; I would turn the splendid stream of her powers of affection into the true’chan- nel. After a day or two of love-like devo- tion, I began to slacken in my pursuit and to transfer my attentions to Clara. Clara cecame a new dreature. Her ex- pr ion softened, her eyes brightened, but [ was tooabsorbed in my own little drama to consider what part Clara might be likely to play in it. i watched Vanora secrotly. She seemed depressed and restless; o woman after the old eternal pattern!—therefore to be won! Dear, erratic, foolish, brillinnt Vanora, you shall be brought back safe and tound to vour true destiny! I followed her to the garden, whither v she had gone to gather flowers. sly she looked in her white , with a bunck of daffodils in her I plunged hendlong. “Vanora, I love u: 1 want to know my fate,” *‘Me,” she said, with a gasp of ishment, **I thought it was Clara I clasped her hands, I protested, I told her how my love for her huad over- whelmed and shattered me. **And Clara?” she repeated in dismay. Did she not understand. Tt wasout of pique to make ber jealous— “When I become jealous of my si; ters,” said Vanora, “'you can come and preach me your doctrines. I shall un- derstand them then.” *“Vanoral™ At present they scem to me like EnDOBEIERET U br e GRAL ““But vou don’t understand— f@“True,” she returned, “they have never before assailed me in this stiff- backed fashion. 1 offended agai nst them unconsciously. My father never constrained me in any particular direc- tion because of my sex. He has per- haps spoiled me. I have hitherto had only u joycus se of drawing in what was outside, and radiating what was within me. When you describe your ideas I seem to see the doors of a dark prison opening out of the sunshine, and ange to say, I feel no divine, uner- ng instinet prompting me to walk in. ‘I offer vouonprison but a home,” I cried excitedly. *You would turn'all homes into pris- ons,” she returned. “Prisons whose bars are golden bars of love and duty.” “Yes, you take a woman’s love and duty and fashion out of them her prison bars. It is most ingenious. ButIdon’t like even golden bars, Mr. St. Vin- cent.” “You have evidently not a spark of love for me,” I cried passionately. Her face suddenly changed. “Ah, that’s the horrible absurdity of 1t!” she exclaimed, coloring painfully. *You enthrail one part of me and leave the other scornful and indifferent. We have not one thought in common, but I am miserable when you are absent— stop, don’t misunderstand me. Your gods and godessses are to me creatures of no moment; your world of belief seems to me like a realm fashioned of tissue paper. To live with you would be like living in a tomb; I And there is no sunshine within miles of you. Yet when I am not with you there is a sort of ache; your personalty secems to fas- cinate me—I wish to heaven you had never come he You have disturbed my happiness, destroyed my delight in life, left me miserably dependent on you; yet to theend of time I should continue to shock and distress and irr tate you, and you would stifle, depress and rhaps utterly unhinge me. I wish you would go—to-day, now."” She looked white and distraught. I pleaded like a lunatie, argued, urged; for one supreme moment my arms were round her, and I thought that she would vield. But whether or not she would have yielded I shall never know, for suddenly we both started with dis- may. Before us, pausing abruptly as she came round the band of the laurel shrubberies, stood Clara. I shall never forget the look on her face at that mo- ment. It was like that of some gentle animal mortally and wantonly wounded. Without a word Ciara turned away,and Vanora and Istood in dismayed and miserable silence. At last, slowly moving away, Vanora spoke. I can forgive you the injury you have done to me, but I can never forgive what you have done to Clara.” She passed out of sight. 1 left Fairfield immediately, and I heard that Vanora and her sister had gone abroad. I could not find out where they were, nor had 1 the temerity to think of following them. I knew that Fate had no reprieve for me. The episode remains in my mind as a haunting, incomprehensible dream. Ponder as I may, I cannot understand what impulses of our nature Vanora and I had power mutually to set at vari- ance; what irvresistible attraction we had for one another, combined with what inevitable antipathy. We could never have lived together; I see that now. Yet I think sometimes, when the memory of those ten days returns to torment me, thav neither can we live apart. 1 have never been the same wman since I met Vanora. [ am neither my former self, complete and comfort- able, nor um I thoroughly a new bei I am a sort of abortive cre ing between two centuries, The spirit of u coming age has brushed me with its wing, but I resent and resist the spirit, and 1 pluck off the tiny feather which he dropped from those great plowing pinions of his that shadow the firmament of the future. g Ll ROMANCE OF A SAILOR. Chicago Times: Whetoer afloat or ashore, drunk or sober, the sallor man can always be depended on to distin- guish himself in a mutter which, for pure and unadulterated idioey or wildly hilarious deviltry an not be equaled outside the violent ward of a detention hospital, This is hard on the maviner, in whose life joy and sorrow have much the same effect. It matters not if he had the making of an angel in him be- ere taking to the sea, or whether he follows sailing one year or thirty, some mysterious and demoralizing influence gets in its work, and the above char- acteristic at all times holas good, It is with a cualous commingling of pleusure and pain that I recall an inci- dent in the carcer'gf. ny boyhood chum and shipmate, Bob Bhivers. We were boys in the same town-Monmouth, TIl.— where we early aggfiired a reputation which would have landed us in the pen- itentiary had not we not left town when we did. Bob. was one of the roughest and toughost, but at the same time best-hearted fellows that ever trod the deck of a man-of-war till the ono great sorrow of his 1if6 forged across his bow and hove him b We lived 1n 1he game block, tortured the same school-mapm, hunted, fished and fought together, stole chickens and fruit from the same farmers, attended the same Sunday-school, harrassed the same cats and dogs, read the same books, and when the proper time came we set out together to circumnavigate the fm»o in quest of pirates without the knowledge or consent of our parents or guardians. We didn’t get any ates worth mentioning, but we got of other things equrlly useful, Among my private collegtion of cur- ios ie one from which noearthly induce- ment could tempt me to part, and which I will hold and cherish while life lasts, It is a penutiful, hand-painted India-ink portrait of a light-ved bullet girl, with blue logs, standing on one foot le engaged in a prolonged endeavor to kick a hole in etheral space with the other. This picture was committed on my person by a man whom I hired for thiat purpose, and was the cause of some premeditated agony and bloodshed on my part, followed by robust installments of intermittent remorse. Bui this feel- ing faded away in time, and my reward came when 1 returned and mingled again with my former associatos, who followed me arouud town and got olf the sidewalk to let me pass. ‘When we went to sea Bob left asweet- heart behind--Lulu Ideil McHaste--a tiny, delicate little maid, with a great weilth of wavy brown hair, large, moist eyes. and a plaintive, piping little voice, which, when itsaid, “Oh, Bob, now please don’t,” metaphorically laid that exceedingly tough and tormenting wdividual prostrate at her feet. Lulu loved Bob, doubtless, for the undevel- oped good that was in him, but he wouldn’t admit it. He said girls were no good, anyhow, and the night we made our exodus he sneaked away with- out bidding her good-by; for Hob was a long-headed youth and feared, so he said, that Lulu’s confidence would be disastrous to our plans. But we got away all right, to oursubsequent sorrow and in strict accordance with the rules laid down for our guidance in the last book we read,a handsomely bound and il- lustrated work entitled *The Mariner.” And in due time we became a couple of handsomely bound and illus- trated mariners ourselves—bound by the oath of allegiance for three yecars on board a United States lighi-ship and illustrated with India ink pictures of mermaids, anchors and oth of the same school which captivate the artistic eye of the sailor. At the beginning of the eruise we oc- casionally heard from home, but after a while our ship was ordered to the far- off South Pacifie, where for eighteen months we cruised among the islands, entirely cut off from all communica- tions with the rest of the world. For at that time there was several bad wash- outs in the regular mnil routes to and from that region. Bob and I were in the same watch, and often when stand- ing on our lonely trick deck, with the ship sailing along under easy canvas in the effulgent love-inspiring rays of a tropical moon. Bob would slop over and tell me how much he loved Lulu idell, and that when his cruise was ended he intended to settle down and marry her. He meant it, too. When we finally struck the const of South America, at Callao, Peru, the mail bag was sent aboard, end in it was a letter for Bob, which nearly broke his heart. I have forgotten the exact words of the letter, but its substance is still fresh in mem- ory. It x\pfixcm‘cd that over a year previous to the date of he latter Lulu’s father, who was o widower, had eloped with the wife of our resident horse doctor. The poor woman, it seems, had been driven to desperation; for, in addition to having enjoyed very poor health for some time back, her husband, who was on the road to wealth, insisted on treat- ing her himself. By his philanthropic act the great hearted Mr. McHaste lett his daughter Lulu, his only child, without home or protection,and though numerous kind friends and neighbors offered her a home she gently refused all assistance, and, like the high spirited givl she was, determined to shift for herself. She went 1o large city, and after many triais and tribulations obtained a position as cashier in a meat shop. But one ds and before sne had drawn her fi week’s pay, the butcher got into a d pute with an ice man who was full of words., The debate grew somewhat he: and was running along with no apparent advantage gained on either side when the butoher sought tolend emphasis to his remarks by enlisting the services of a large 15 cent soup bone, with an osseous lung on the end of it. The butcher’s delivery was powerful but faulty, and the unhappy result of it was that Lulu Idell caught the cold and clammy butt end of the argument on her neck. Her deam of life was o'er. Poor Lulu Idell McHaste. She had gone out into the wide, wide world in all the glad, winsome beauty of her young womanhood to make or lose a reputation for herself; but alas! Cruel fate and the uncertainties of metropoli- tan life had decreed otherwise. and she returned to the scenes of her childhood as perishuble goods on the front plat- form of a baggage car. The letter closed with the somewhat disheartening statement that Julu’s remains were lymg in a lonely, unmarked grave in an obseure corner of the village burial plot, forgotten alike by friend and foe, and that the butcher was still at large. The receivt of this doleful epistle dated a remarksble change in Bob's usual happy-go-lueky disposition. Ho ullowed his outh vocabulary to fall into a state of innocuous desuetude—a sure indication that the sailor is affected in- wardly somewhere; swore off on poker, paid some of his debts, held himself aloof from our little’ social ;:ntnx-rinma in the forecastle, and lost his appetite, which, when staked against govern- ment food, was an unconsidered trifle, He wus frequently seen in tears, or, as a grizzled old maintopman feelingly uxi;ressml it, “*he turned to on his for’- ard pumps an’ flooded his figger head.” But we respected his grief. When he went ashore, instead of carousing with the boys as had been his wont, he haunted grave-yards wherever he could find one and studied the designs on tombstones. In time, however, he re- covered his spirits in & measure, and, though he made a confident of no one, the light of a noble resolve shining in his eyes was apparent to all, For sev- eral hours a day for a week or two Bob was closeted in the hold with a sailor who was an adept with India ink and needles. But whatever was being done was kept to themselves. Well, the three years’ cruise came to an end at last. We were paid off, and turning our prows homeward we set sail for Monmouth. On the way Bob was fldgety and absent-minded by turns: evidently had something on his mind which Ithought he was several times on the point of unloading, but he held in and reached home with hissecret in- tact, Dur‘uu the ovation which was pir- ots tendered us by the boys Bob brightened nI) wonderfully and was apparently his old self againi butore morning he was missing, and my mind was filled with strange forevodings of something, I knew not what. Along in the afternoon I noticed a steady stream of people straggling off in the direction u’ the grave-yard, and as they seomed in no hurry to come back I took o trip out that way myself. As suspocted, Bob ~ Shivers was the attraction, and there he was, the center of an amused but orderly crowd, standing placidly drunk at the head of Lulu's grave, wearing on his face a pathetically blended expression, in which love, devotion, determination and defiance struggle for first place, but the contest ended in adraw. He was stripped to the wuist, exposing a monu- ment of the broken-shaft style of archi- tecture tatoned on his breast and stomach, and extending from the gun- wale of his trousers to his chin, The monument bore this pathetic in- scription in large red and blue letters: * Sncred to the Memrv of Lutu Iners M HoAsts, Whom Fate Overhauled on or About October 4, 188 In the 17th Year of Her Age. 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The Popular Route to the Pacific Coast. THROUGH PULLMAN And TOURIST SLEEPERS s City and SAN DIEGI, SAN FRANCISCO. Short Line Route to PORTLAND, Ore. gon. Double Daily Train Servie Between K as City and PUEBLO COLORADO SPRINGS and DEN- VER, Short Line 1o SALT LAKLE iy, Between The Direct Texas Route Solid Trains Between Kaonsas City and GALVESTON, The ShortLns Between Kansas City and GAINES- VILLE, FI. WORTH, DALLAS, AUSTIN, TEMPLE, SAN ANTONIA, HOUSTON aud all points in Texa The only Line Running Through the OKLAHOMA COUNTRY. The Ouly Dircet Line 10 the Texas Pan-Han dle. For Map and Time Tables und and Information Begarding Kates and Routes, Cail on or Address, E. L PALMER, Freight and Puss. Agent, 8. M, 08GOOD, General Agent. 1308 Fa m Street, Omaha, Nebraska, SANTAL-MIDY Arrests discharges from the urinary or-| gans 10 elther ex 1o 48 hours, 1t 18 superior to Copaiba, Cubebs, o injections, and free from all bad smell F OLLCE NCONYEIIEnces. SANTAL-MIDY s, cniaiped hich bear the name i: without w) none w | OMAHA Medical and Surgical Institute, N. W Cor. 13th and Dodge Sts., Omaha, Neb. THE LARCEST MEDICAL INSTITUTE IN THE WEST FOR THE TREATMENT OF ALL Chronic and Surgical Diseases and Diseasas of tha Eye and Ear, ATTENTION PAID TO DEFORMI DISFASES OF WOMEN RINARY AND SEXUAL ORGANS, PRIVATE DISEASES, DISEA RVOUS SYSTEM, LUNG AND THROAT DISEASES GICAL OPERATIONS, EPILEPSY OR FITS, PILES, CANCERS, TUMORS, Etfc. J. W. McMENAMY, M. D., President, And Consulting Physician and Surgeon. Organized with a ful staf of Skilled Physicians, Sugeous and Trained Nurses. This establishment is a permanent medical institution, conducted by thoroughly aducated 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 room containing our Medical, Surgical and Consultetion Rooms, Drug Store, Laborato: Offices, MannfaotorY of Surgical Appliances and braces, and the Boarding Depar ment for Patients, 1n charge of competent persons, constituting the largest and the most thoroughly equippwl Medicual 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 discases, performing surgical operations, boarding and nursing patients, which, combined with our acknowledged ability, experience, responsibility and repu ion, should make the Omaha Medical and Surgical Institute the first choice. You can come direct to the Institute, day or night, as we have hotel accommo- dations s good and as cheap as any in the city. R We make this explanation for the benefit of persons who may feel inclined to go further east for medical or surgical treatment and: do not appreciate the fact that Omaha po g the largest and most complete Medical and Surgical Insti- tute west of New York, witha capital of over 100,000, DISEASES ES DCFORMITIES OF THE HUMAN BODY. T, 3 G Best Facilities, Apparatus and Remedies for Successful Treatment ot every form of Dlueune';"?(hullzlrn z MEDICAL or SURGIC E In thie department we are especially successtui. Our elaims of superlority over all others are based upon the fact that this is the only medical establishment mans ufacturing surgical braces and appliances for each individual c 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 improveinents, the result of twenty years' experience. BEILECOTRICAT: TERIEATRIEINT. The treatment of dise: ses by electricity has undergone great changes within the past few years, and elect city isnow acknowledged by all schools of medicine asthe t remedy in all chronie, ianl and nerve d ysis, rheumatism, diseases of women, ete,, and is the most valuable of all remedi In order to obtain its full virtues, it is absolutely necess: itus. We have lately p: ses, for nervous debility, par- in many eye and ear diseases it ry to have the proper ed three of the largest and most complete teries 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 muny physicians. — Over 3,000 dollars invested in electrical apparatus. PRIVATE, S8PECIAL, NERVOUS AND BLOOD DISEASES. We claim to be the only reliable, responsible establishment in the west making a specialty of this class of diseases. Dr. Mc first thorough- ly educated physici. is methods and inventions have been adopte He is the inventor of the Clamp Comp! use. All othe: ypied after his invention, By simple operation, painless and safe, recently brought inte use, we y ci that have been given up as incurable by medical treatment. (ficad our book to men, sent free to any (Ld«lrcss.& ses, and | pecialists in Burope and Amex pensory, ncknowledged the best in DISEASES OF THE EYE AND EAR. o had wonderful success in this department in the nd have made many improvements in our ili rations, artificial eyes, ete. W4 Wo have greatly improved our fucilities’ and methods of b [V treating by correspondence, and are having better suceess in this department than ever before We are fully up to the times in all the 1 operations, appliances 1 instrument tion to @ persons, st inventions in medical and suyy Our institution is open for investiga wtients or physicia We invite all to correspond with or visit us before taking ewhere, believing that avisit or consultation will convince any intelligent person that it is to their advantage to place them- gelves under our care. 4 Since this advertisement first ur/mur. @, many boasting pretenders and frauds have come and gone and many more will come wivd go, remembered only by their unjortunate and foolish victims. A wise man investigates first and de A fool decides first, then stigates. The Omaha Medical and Surgical Institute is indovsed by the people and the press. More capital invested, more skilled physicians enployed, move modern appliances, instrus ments and apparatus in use, wore cases treated and cured, nore successful surgical operations performed, than in all other medical estublishnents tn the West combined., 144 PAGE BOOK (Illustrated) SENT FREE TO ANY ADDRESS (ssaien). COLITENTS: urt ¥irst—History, Buccess and Advantages of the Omaha M Pan A CHIONIC DISEANES Of the L Stomach, Liver, Kidnoys, Bkin, Piles, Cancer, Tnhalution, Tape Worm tricity Roinedies, et sof the Bpine, Club Feet, Hip Discascs, Paralygls, Wry ides afterwards, 1 and Surgleal Tnstitnte, Kid Catarrhy, Epllopsy, Rheumatisni Part Third-DeroiiTins, Curvatu Nock, How Legs. Hure Lip. u . Part Fourth -DISEASES OF 11 Cross Fyes, Plorygium, Grunuluted Flfth )ns wnd Versions, Tumors, Lacera Part Sixth-DIspASES OF MEN, Private, Spociul and Weakne Impotency, Varicocele, Stricture, Gl Urlnury Orgius, EN A B ALTY. Wi HAVE LATELY ADDED A LYING-IN DEFARTMENT DISEASES OF WOM YO WOMEN DURING CONFINEMENT, (Strictly Privite). Only Reliable Medical Institute Making a Specialty of PRIVATE DISEASES, All Blood Diseasos successfully treated. Syphilitlo folson mercury. Now Restorative Treatieont for Loss of Vital Power. Patlents unabie fo visit us wuy to treatea nt home by correspondonce. All communications confidentinl, Medicin ments sent by wall or oxpress socurely packed, no mirks to indicate conteats or sendo sousl IBtarvicw preferrcd | and coukult us or and wo will sei plaln wrappir, our BOOK B0 MEN, FEEE: | ous Dizeuses, (mpG pucy, By pbilis, Gleet uad Varleocele, with quc OMAHA MEDICAL & SURGICAL INSTITUTE, Wtk wnd Dodge Strects, Gmalia, Aok peritions. X B s, Disoases of tho Nerves, Caturact, Strabisimus oF Lids, Tnversion of tho Lids, Artificlal Bycs, DISEARES OF WOMEN, g Ul licoments, Prolupsus, Flex- inal nito 4, Bpormatorrhan (8o and ' all diseuses of 44 ryous Dise t, 8y phiil oved from the system without W or Instri S m— Gt =S e