Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 23, 1889, Page 10

INDIA'S WONDERFUL WIZARDS They Perform Feats Which Ssem Supernatural in Their Nature. COBRAS FROM NOTHING. The Basket Trick and the Mango Tree—Chairs Lifted by the Eye- 1ads - Caste Prejudices of the Hindoos. Indinn Juggiers. LCopyriohted 1860 by Frank G. Carpenter, Bomnay, May 18, 1580—[Special corres- pondence of Tur Bee.]—India is the land of Madame Blavetsky, of Mr. Isaacs and of the “Light of Asin.”” Tt is here that the eso- teric Buddhists look for their instruction and many of the theosophical socicties of Amer- fca have Indian teachers, with whom they correspond and from whom they expect to get some of that wonderfhl sweetness and light, which is supposed to exist in its purest form in this land of mystical thought. Through them they would learn to aninilate space, to disembody their souls for the mo- ment and send them on erial errands to other parts of the world, They would mas- r that wonderful concentration of soul ‘which enables its possessor to dissolve mat- ter into the elements from which it is made by a word, and by another word *‘Presto!” to turn it back into the solid or liauid form, from which they decomposed it. One of them, who is now traveling in India and searching for the masters, tells ~mme he has heard of Indian theosophists who, by & wave of the hand, can change a glass of Water into the oxygen and hydrogen, of which it is formed, and by the same motion dissolve the glass particles into their origi- nal elements. Auother wave and the glass containing the water re-appears before your eyes, just as full and inexactly the samo condition as it was before. I asied this man ‘whethier he had scen such a miracle per- formed. He replied “no,” and upon further conversation I found that Lo had as yet seen nothing which could be called supernatural. “I have had several talks with his mas- ters,” said he, “‘and I nave been told that I would receive a manifestation. It may come within a few days and it may not come for a week, and I hope there will be no natural law that will prevent it. I will wait in India until I receive iv.” “This was three weeks ago and at last ac- counts the wan was waiting yet. I have received séveral letters from Amer- foa asking me to look into THIS WONDEEFUL INDIAN PHILOSOPHY. I have looked, but it may be that I lack faith. I have tallked with several of the mas- ters. They are bright, intallectual acrobats, snd some of the greater of them are more 88 than spirituelle. I have also discussed mdume DBlavetsky with the English resi- dents of India, nmong whom she has lived, and I have yet to find one who thinks her anything else than o very clever fraud. may be the case of a prophetess being not save in her own country, but I give you her reputation as I find it here. I Bm told that an expose has lately been made of her manifestations, and those tricks of hers which she is reported as performing are £0 me no more wonderful than the jugglery which Isee here on the streets every day. Might it not be that her study of Indian hilosophy was accompanied with the teach- g of Inaian jugglers? I know not, but Ido ow that the street jugglers of thesc Indian lowns could, by mixing mystical philosophy with their sleight-of-hand performances, gasily humbug the cyes of that large class of people in America who are ever praying for Bome new thing in religion and in psycholog- ical thought. Letme give you a picture of an Indian uggler! Ono stands outside my hotel window as I write. He is performmg his fricks in the dusty roud without u table, eabinet, putent boxes, or any of the accom- niments of the American wizard. le possessions consist of three sm ets, ranging in size from balf a peck to & shel, a couple of cloths and a tripod made of three sticks, each two feet long and eld together by a string at the top. Three ittle wooden dolls with red clothes tied nd their necks, and each not over a foot ng are the gods which enable him to do onderful things. He has a flute in his outh and a little drum in Lis hand. He 8 black faced and black pearded, and his shirt sieeves are pulied up above his elbows. His only assistant is a little turbaned boy, ho sits beside him, whom bhe will shortiy ut into a basket not more than two feet square, and with him will perform the noted basket trick of India. 'Whe trick is one of he wonderful juggling tricks of the world. he boy’s hands are tied and ho is put into R net, which is tied over his head and which encloses his whole body so that he appar- ently can not move. He is now crowded into this basket, The lid is put down and 1ight straps ure buckled over it. The jugaler now takes a sword and with a few passes of theze little Hindoo doll babies over it and the muttering of incantations as a limi- ary, thrusts the sword ayuin and again into e basket, There is a crying as though pomeone was in terrible pain. It is the voico of a child and the sword comes out bloody. YOU HOLD YOUR BREATIH, and did you not kuow it to be a trick you would feel hke pouncing upon the man. After o moment the basket becomes still, the luzgler makes a few more passes, unbuckles ho straps and shows you that there is noth- ang within it. He culls, “baba! baba!” and in the distance you hear the child's voice. How the boy got out of the basketor escaped being killed by the sword and where the blood cawe from I do not know. I only know it was o ulnu{hl-n!»hnnd performance and wonderfully well done, The mango trick is performed with the three sticks in the shape of a tripod. The Juggler takes a pot of water and pours it over a little pot of earth, He then holds up & mango bulb about the s1ze of a walnut, and plltllug this into tho earth he throws a cloth over the tripod, He now blows upon his horn, makes mystorious passes, and after a few moments raises the cloth, and you see the mango trce sprouting forth from the soil, Morer sses and more music follow, and the eloth is pulled down again. After o few mo- ments, during which the showing of minor . tricks goes on, he pulls out the pot and the plant hoes grown about a foot above it There is more watering and more in- eantation, aud his final triumph comes in showing you a bush nearly a yard hi;fh. con. taining great hmyy This he will pull up by the root and showeyou the seed at the vot- tom. It is & wonderful trick aud how the man is able to manipulate the different plonts with nothing else but a thin cotton floth to help him, which, by the way, he lows you o examine, is hard to conceive, o has & dozen other sleight-of-hand per- ances equally as wonderful. He puts a ttle shell into his mouth sud uppears to @8 ho draws out coin ofter o aud of stono as big around as your fist, Ho spits fire, as does the Awmerican wizard miles of string from his stomach, ks pins through his tongue without hurt- g bimself, and ends the performance with muu Arick, which is to mo ‘the most won- ul of all. In doing this snalke trick he asks fora ol‘yupcr und asks you to hold out your ou do so and he places the paper n it, He then begins to play upon his and to dart out his eyes as if he saw ::mln. near your hand. His whole @ becowes transformed and he cos around you like a wizard, playing the time and keeping his eyes on youd Now he starts back aud points at it, 'ou look and see nothing and he begius to louder and dance wilder than ever, ber his arms ure bare to the elbow both of s hands are upon his pipe. nly ne drops the pipe apd continues dance with lu;n\mlq ous. Ho yolsta o papor again and w you look wud see be claps Lis hand down upox it and PULLS UP THEEE GREAT COMRAS, hich raise their booded houds and durt out in_ aifforent dircetious, and viggle as he holds them up be p banck, for the bito of and 1 aw told thut fangs drawn. A juggler was killed a waek ago in Benares by the bite of & cobra, which he was using in_this way, and they are the most terriblo snakes I have ever seen. At another performance of this same kind 1 was present with a party of four and we all decided to nmrtnln. if we could, how this trick was doné, 1 stood upon a chair and overlooked the man as he snatched up the snakes, but I could not tell where thev came from, and I only know that he bad them, and they were 8o big that he crowded them with diffeulty into a little round basket the 8lzo of a peck measure. These 1Il‘fp(|(!l'l are wonderful snanke charmers. They make the snakes do as they please, and tho snakes they use are of the most deadly kind. 1 was told by an English- man at Benares of an incident which hap- pened there a short time ago. ler was performing with snakes, and a Hindoo standing by said that tho fangs of the snakes had been drawn, and that any man could do the tricks he was doing. The jug- gler replicd that they were not. The Hindoo protested, and in spite of tho warnings of the jugglor, seized one of the snakes, It was a cobra, and it sunk its fangs into his arm, A moment later the man dropped to tho ground, saying he was_poisoned, and in two hours ho was dead. 1 am told that the cobra will not bite unless he is angry and that it is only when he is n this condition that his mouth fills with venom. The jug- glers rely upon this fact, and by petting the cobras make them so docile that they can work with them without great danger. 1 AW TWO WOMEN JUGGLERS atJeypore, They were bright, intelligent looking girls, one of whom appeared almost old enough to be the mother of the other, They aid many wonderful things, one of which was mixing up sand in water and then putting the hand into the discolored fluid, they Lrought a handful of sand, which they filtered through their fingers as dry as be- fore it wentin, The youngest of these mirls was perhaps fifteen, ~She was tall, well- formed and fine-looking. She had bracelets on arms and feet, and her eyes were as beau- tifal as those of a gazelle. One of her tricks was the lifting of a heavy chair by her eyo- 1ids, the thought of which almost malkes my cyes sore, Tho chair was a heavy mahogany one, which belonged to the room in which I was staying. She tied two strong strings to tne top of this and affixed the ends of these strings to her eyes by littie round metal cups, each about the size of a nickle. These fitted over the eye-balls and under tho lids and she bent over while they were so fastened. Raising herself she pulled up tho chair with these strings, with the muscles of her eye-lids, and carried it from one_side of the room_ to the other. Itwasa horrible sight, and as she took the mezal cup from her eyes they filled with water and she al- most sank to the floor. I told her that the trick was disgusting and that she ought never to try it again. Still, for this and the rest of the shows these girls were well satis- fied with two rupies or about seventy cents. Theso women jugglers come from Jeypore and they are a fair type of the grls of west- ern India. I am surprised at the variety of races you find herea in Indi and thero are more people in Hindostan than in all Burope. The costumes of the women differ in _differ- ent provincesand in the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, ‘where the great prisons of the Knelish are located, the native women are clad in fig leaves and a bustle of wicker. These people have only names for common gender, which are applicable to either sex and they use a noise like crying to express friendship or joy. Some of the hill tribes of India look very much liko negroes, and there are in India tribes which are little more than sav- ages. In central India only seventeen years ago there was a tribe of about ten tbousand whose women wore no ciothes. Toe sole covering of the females consisted of a_few be2ads “uround the waist with a bunch of leaves tied before and behind, and they were clothed finally by the order of the English government. An English ofiicer gave strips of cotton to the women and they put them bdn. Since then many of them have gone back to their beads and leaves. On the slopes of the Himalayas there are many_curious tribes. Some of the tribes near Darjecling reckon a jourfiey by the number of quids of tobacco which they chew npon the way, and some of the most gorgeous specimens of Hindoo jewelry I have seen I saw on tho women of the Hima- layas. I remember one mountain pink who had fifty rupees strung around her neck and whose limbs were loaded down with silyer. She had gold plates twice the diameter of a silver dollar upon her earsand her mouth was covered by a flat, gold nose ring. Some of these Himalaya tribes have ONE WIFE T0 FOUR MEN and polyandry is common. Here at Bombay are the prettiest women of India. They are the parsecs. With delicate, olive-brown skins, they are tall and well shaped, have eautiful eyes and fine, intellectual faces. hey dress in silks of the most delicate col- ors ond the dress seems to con of one large pjece of silk, which' is wound around the waist and carried up over the body to the top of the heed 80 that the face loc out and the whole bangs in a Dbeautiful drapery. Many of them, I note. have silk stockings and slippers to match the color of their dress, and they are the brightest and prettiest women I have seen. The sees are sun worshipers. There are only about seventy thousand of them in Indie, and fifty thousand of these are here in Bombay. The men dress in long, preacher-likc clothes of black, with hats shaped like coil scuttles and they are very fine looking. Their dress, when not in business, is often of the whitest of linen coats and snirts. They are the best business men in the world. "I'hey own mil- lions of dollars worth of property here in Bombay and are largely interested in the trade of India. They are more akin to the ) ins than the Hindoos in their methods They believe in svending their money, dwell in good houses and drive about in fine carriuges. They are itable as well as rich and some of the finest of the public buildings of Bombay have been buily by them. They are of Persian d: nt and have temples in whieh burus the sacred fire of Zoroaster. Speaking of Bombay and business, one of the most prosperous institutions of the city is its tramway, maneged by two Americans, ‘who ure, I think, from Boston. Their names are Clark and Kittridge and they have an excellent property. Bomousy is now over a million in population, and there street cars, on the same plan as_those of America, are driven by turbaned Mohammedans and the fares are collected by dark-skinued Hindoos, All races ride on them, and the natives of India patronizo them by the thousands daily. Looking at them, it is a wonder to see that some means of cheap locomotion nbas not been introduced into the cities of China. It is true that many of the streets of some cit- ies are too narrow for street cars, but those of Pekiog are wide and the street travel there is the worst in the world. There are very few Americans in business in India. Here in Bombay, which is the biggesu city of the country, there isonly one firm of American merchants, Farnham & Co., and the other Amcricans are chiefly missionarics. The Waterbury watch und the Singer sewing machine have Bombay agencies, but theso are managed by the Enpglish, and 1 am told that the New York Life Insurance company bas also an agency here. A Chicago firni is preparing to come to India to build elevators over the countr; for tho storage of the immense wheat yield, which is now at the mercy cf the weather, aud which has none of the conveniences of shipment of our American wheat. I flad AMERICAN PATENT MEDICINES in overy drug store, aud I see that Harpor's Magazine is for salé in the Bombay book- stores. At all the railroad stations there are news- stands, aud the wost popular selling books furnished by these are clheap, pirated editions ht Lew Wal- lace's for fifteen cents, and “Ben Hnr'' is sold for the sama price. ‘There is an English edition of Anul- atharine Green's Leavenworth case an twelve cents a copy, and the works of Uncle Remus are for sale in paper covers. All of Bret Harte's books ure pirated by the Eng- lish, and Mark Twalu's books are sold here for a song. You can get Longfellow’s poewns for a dime, and Kmerson's essays are sold in cloth for twenty cents & copy. Frauc Hodgeson Burnett's novels are also sold at one-fifteenth the price they bring in Amer- m‘ and the lack of an international copy- right law works against the profits of our IY':','"" @8 it does aguinst those of the Eug- sh, 1 had a cvrious illustration of the pre- judices of the Hindoos in regard to caste this afternoon. The native sweet-meats of India are by no means by eating, and I had stopped before an itinerant swect-meat merchant and was bargaining with him for some candy. As I did so I happened to touch some of the stock on his basket-like table, and he begged me to be careful as the Hindoos would not buy anything a loreigner bappened to touch. Neary every Hindoo cooks for himself while travoling, as he would Tose ocasto if he ate anything cooked by aman of a different casto #om 'Nnu". and on some of the boats 1 saw Indian rajahs, who ate nothing from the beginming to the end of a voyage on this account. In the jails of India, which are managed by the :ufillnh. the cook is always a Brahmin or of the highest of the Hindoo castes. The lower castes will eat after his cooking and are not thus defiied. If a cook was chosen of n lower caste many of them would starve ra her than eat. I am told that prisoners have been flogged and TAVE STARVED TO DEATH rather than eat from the hands of a man of o lower caste. This caste prejudice enters into every- thing in India, It foroes the foreigner to keep a dozen servants to do the work of the household, and I am told that it 1s almost 1m- possible for a family to glm along with less than thirteen servants, met last week an Inglish preacher, who had an income of §1,500 a year, and he told me it was absolutely im- possible for him to live in India without thir- teen servants, Said he: “They aro paid but low wages, but there are so many of them that the sum total is large. You have 10 have a man for everything you want done and he will do nothing else but that one thing. The man who washes the dishes will not muke up the beds, and the cook will not attond to the washing of the dish If you keep horses you must have @ groom for every horse, &nd for every two horses you have to keep a man fo cut grass for them. The woman servent who waits upon your wife does not consider it her business to wait upon you, and the servants who do the other work about the house expect you to huve a body servaut tc do your own errands. If you ask a man to do anything out of his regular business, he says 1t is contrary to his caste and you then know that you have to submit. ‘'here are hundreds of castes in India. They are based on religious differcnces, on trade arrange- ments and social distinctions. There is a caste of barbers, of beggurs, of thieves and water carriers. There are the Bralmins, the Sudras, the cow-skinners, thecorpse-bearcrs and dozens of others, divided and sub- divided until only the Hindoo can teil you their numbers and differences.’” I'axk G, CARPENTER. ————— Vespers, Ellen Burroughs, The robius call me sweot and shrill: “Come out and fare atield; The sun ras neared tho western hill, The shadows sliv down sure and still, But in our meadow wide and wet There’s half an bhour of sunse! Jome down, come down not yield ¢ Across the roud and through the lane Where buttercups grow tall and bright, With daisies washed in last night's rain— Beyond the open bars I gain An angle of the rude rail fence, A perfect coigne of vantage, whence Wheat field and pasturs stretch in sight. h stumbling tread and slow, one come straggling by, And many a yellow bead fulls low, And muny a daisy’s scattered snow, Where the unheeding footsteps pi 1Is crushed and blackened in the ‘With brier and rue that trampled lie. Sweet sounds with sweeter blend and strive— 1n its white prime of blossowming. Fach wayside berrybush, alive With myrind bees, hums like o hive; The frogs are loud in ditch and pool, And songs unlearned of court or s June's troubadeurs ail around Somewhere beneath the meadow’s The pewee's broodiag notes begin: The sparrows Above the bick Or skim the g With plaintive cry A cricket tunes its mandolin. High-perched, a master minstrel pr The red-winged bluckbird pipes and calls, One moment jubilns and loud, The next, to sudden s e vowed, Seeks cover in the marsh below, Soft winds aloug the rushes biotw, And like a whisper twilight fulls, S Ladies are greatly benefitted by the use of Angostura Bitters, the South Americen tonic of Dr. J. G, I, siegert & Sons. Ask your druggist. HONEY FOR THE t yets Who would LAm extremes in fashionuble gowning this scason, on for out-door itioa to the skir empire gowns, shapiug, draping and hang- ing them with great care. There is a gr n the matter of nodiste claims as her own—tl nuwmer of ofore the gr Although there is lit variety of beautiful;sum and, although havingmuny very lovely rivals in the fleld, the beauty and deiic still keeps. 1t in the height of fashionable favor. Princesse dre satin are favor : dress fabrics, At white s of ‘“‘oyster-shell” vealihy dowa. ROV also in oyster-sbell white, which new shaae has a gleaming siivery-gray tint with no cream whatever in its reflections, Very ladylike and dainty cos summer are shown, made of a quality of Benguiiic or surab, figured with small devices over grounds of gray, amber, terracotla, strawbesry, reseds, pale olive, and old rose. Greut ingi mes for handsome uscd in and bent at v The rew faucy straw head cove arcangod in Yrow and row” braids, what is known u very chic ana pretuy offects 1 these showin, color and duvi Flower toilets are very populer abroad. A poppy is illustrated by ome just brought over. The top of the skirt, und the whole of the front, is covered with very large poppy petals, simulated in ) leated erinckled red silk of the exact tint of the flower. Tao full back is of poppy colored tulle, A rose gown is very lovely, showing a combination of res- cda voiver and pink silk tulle, Mre, Alma-Tadema, it is said, took the palm ut the recent drawing room in the art and science of the devising of a really novel and beautiful court gown, Her dress was a golden color, with empire feature, the petti- coat of white vrepe de Chine, embroidered most exquisitiveiy. Instead of the usual jewelled ornaments sho wore a beautiful necklage of fine gold, many yards in iength, wound round and round heér fair, stately throat, The neat French twist with three-eights coiled about it is still scen in fashionzble hair dressing. The style proved too graceful and becoming to be abundoned. The Cato- gan braid is not dressy nor Is it complimen- tary to many faces, and the attempt 1o brush the hair divectly off the forehead was not a fashionable success, for the reason tiat is rare that so trying a style is an umprovement., Soft rings of hair failing over the brow, waves, curly bangs falling naturally, und flufty halos all adorn the crown of tho head. The' “best style,” we still insist, in hair- dressing, to adopt ana to cling to, in spite of the caprices of the hair-dresser,is the one best suited to your own featu those of the president's wife or young ueighbor, Nearly all the bouquets carried this season are in loose clusters and sprays most artistic- ally arranged. Among the popular fioral combinations are white carnations with mignonette, a delight to two senses. An- other fragrant union is that of houeysuckle with lemon verbena, and no less delicious is the mumllu§ of heliotrope with Gloire de Dijon and Marechal Niel roses. Gold and lilac orchids with greea foliage form a lovel, and expensive bouquet; these tied witl reseda ribbons, Brown orchids, with fine pink and grecu leaves surrounding them, are tied with pale-yellow satin ribbons, and large ellow roses with buds and maidenhair fern ave Joug loops and streamers of moss-green moire ribbon, Debutantes nearly all carry pure white blossoms, and their evening drosses iu many cases are & mass of white roses and leaves. R Children who are troubled with worms may be (}uickly relieved by giv- ing jthem Dr. J, H." McLean’s Liquid Vermifuge. It kills and expels worms, THE -l0VES :OF GREAT MEN ) All Remind us: We May Make Our Lgv? Sublime. HOW WHITNEY WON HIS BRIDE. Ho Was so),Well Ploascd With His Friend's/ Swoetheart That he Took #Her Himsolf—Cupld Ap'-oll!; Notables. 0 § se— Whitneys Wily Wavs. The wife of ‘Hdn. William C. Whit- ney, recently'sdcretary of the navy, has proved a veritable mascot to him, And the manner in which he became a close ally of Standard Oil is indicative of the good “fortune which has attended this astute politician and financier through- out his career. ‘When young Whitney was at Yale he had a chum in a confiding classmate, who is now Rev. Leander Chamberlain, a brother of ex-Governor Daniel H. Chamberlain, Young Chamberlain, so the story goes, had won the heart of Miss Payne, daughter of Henry B. Payne, of Cleve- land, Ohio, and he gave his classmate glowing accounts of the charm of man- ner, conversational powers and other good qualifications of the lady to young Whitney. On one of his vacations young Chamberlain invited his chum to po to Cleveland with him and make the acquaintance of Miss Payne. The future corporation counsel and secretary of the navy accepted the in- vitation; he made the lady's acquaint- ance and mavnaged so skillfully to be stricken by Cupid’s oleaginous bow that moons had passed young lain’s friend. chum and bosoin companion walked away with the fair prize. Owing to the devotion of Colonel Oliver Payno to his_sister, she has proved a boon to Mv. Whitney, and the splendid house on Fifty-seventh street and Fifth avenue, and a large gift, said to be 8500,000, when the s and his wife set out to startle Washington with magnificent entertainments, are generally set down among the good things which young Whitney’s chum lost through that confiding introduc- tion. A romantic story is told about the first meeling of August Belmont with the lady who 1s now his wife. As be- came her brave blood, the daughter of hero of Lake Baltimore intense admiration for rile ho was on a visit to some this ‘eity t couhg Germe the place in me dua the had at on politan of the j came iny £ L the theater ooe evenir of ' young n of tho purty u of the beauty of it in the boxes, among A noted by, who avoided as a made some re- irtue of women whom Georgin * wis bully fellow, to aced the bully liberate tone: “The dog who could utter such a timent insults the memory of his own mother and s uniit for tho company of decent men!” White with “*You shall he It w belc times, and a duc snid in distinet, de- follow ave him 1 the smo the two nd that the his b in his left 1 buily had a and Belmont below the knee. e became the hero of the hour, and soon after he was able to got at proposed to the heautiful epted. He af her noble i a ball s painfully, of his distigure- ment. The story of George Gould of Miss Edith Kingdon is k of its main featu and yet phases of it of a lively int selves and ) fully the outside worl ol raveled swith Miss Kingdon when on the road in the west previous to ! by Augustine Daly rec afew friends with a re e story of g to this nay Mr. Gould first see eyo on Miss Kingdon ov the foutlights at Dn s theatre, She was playing a dashing part, in which her natural bouyancy. nerve and chic had full play, and these made a deep impression on the young financier. He determined to have an iniroduction. He sought it through a well known dramatic manager and dealer in plays, and by him the desired event was brought about. The admiration proved mutual and the devotion pronounced on either side. There was one obstacle in the way of unalloyed happiness during the engage- ment that followed. And that was Miss Kingdon’s mother. The lady is the shrewdest kind of a woman, and the story told of her generally is that she kept a regular major-domo eye on her daughter throughout her career upon the stage. Shealways chaperoned Miss Edith, and “always found it con- venient to join her daughter whenever she received callers, especially male ones, ik The cunsu:}uqncu was thut young Mr. Gould longed for, a short engagement and a swift marriage. How he suc- ceeded in gratifyingchis desires in that line is now o ratter of history. He makes a devotellhusband, and she a de- voted wife. They hiive two children. There was a of romancoe in the wooing and wo of Major William A. Pond, the c and lecture mana~- ger. No stran, o sees the lant major strolling plopg Broadway with a pretty, delitatedogking youns v on his arm would iagine that I 5 ne- companied by Mrs- Pond. Thoy might think his charming companion was a daughter or neice, or related to him in any way other than marriage. R’lrs. Pond, before her marringe, was a typewriter in the mayor's office under the L}\'eren house. The manager was struck with her rare besuty and mod- est demeanor the day she answered his advertisement for a typewriter, and these qualitics impressed him more and more forcible each week that she remained in his employ. He began to love the blithesome girl, who dispelled the dullness of a musty office, ana made the weary houvs of iabor brighter than they ever were before, * She, too, grad- ually became attached to the gray- haired, kindly employer, and every- thing was ripe for the last touch of Cu- pid’s wand, when n sad accident befell the young lady, hile hurrying to the office along Fourth avenue one day she passed un- der aline of telegraph pofes, where some work was going on. A hnomnn lost his balance and fell upon her, crushing her to_the sidewalk and se- verely injuring her. The young lady was hurr edly carried into a drug store next to Mr. Pond’s office, and was after- wards conveyed home. She didn’t lack for attention. Besides the care of kindly parents, she was carefully watched over by the major. Hisa iety for her welfare betrayed his secrot, Iff it had not already been betrayed be- ore. It was shortly after this incident that they became engaged. After thisthe courtship not long. One day. a secretly as possible, the major stole away from his office without telling his friends where he was going, and, after arraying himself in wedding costume, was driven to the home of his bride’s parents in Hoboken, where he was quietly married. As o young man Grover Cleveland was extremely fond of children. In the bachelor apartments over his law offices in Buffalo the walls were covered with photographs of bright and beautiful babes. He was particalarly interested in the pretty little daughter of his part- ner and closest friend, Oscar Foisom, and it is said that aportrait of the lovely child at fi years old, arr white dress with a big blue sash, he.d the place of honor in his collection . When Oscar Folsom died he made Cleveland co-trustee with Mrs. Iolsom of their only child, and true to his trust, Cleveland watched over the rearing and education of the girl with the tenderest solicitude. As the child grew to womanhood the Is of affection drew the girl and her guardian closer, and finally strength- ened into the bonds of love. An old tells tho Whon little Cleveland » of Cleveland’s proposal, ances was eight years old 4 Unele Grover's” lap him with childish prattle of what she should do when she grew up into “a big lady.” It wasabout the timoe of Ne ant's marvingo in the white ho which had formed a topic of famil e a nice white satin get married in the white " she lisped. you were going to I should wait for you,” “Of course it will be you, for you will grow up to be president then,” said the child, knowingly. When Cleveland was elocted Mrs. Folsom and ber daughter were prepar- ing to go to Europe, and on calling to say good-bye Mr. Cleveland claimed from Mi rlsom the fulfilment, on her return, of the promise made when a child. He had performed his part of rgain, and she had only to fulfil and become a white house bride. loalth_Is Waallh] T's Nenve a spoc Fits, Nervous MENT, 8 8 it ness, Convulsions, Head u: HEN purchasing & i Shoa it is natural to se lect that which is pleasing to the eye in siyle and finish; the material must be of the finest ture, and when on the foot the shoe must combine beauty and comfort. The Ludiow Shoe Possesses this Featire. IF YOU TRY ONE PAIR You Wi Sold by over 10 trade thr cGREW % iy ONE_OF THE MOST SUCORSSFUL 157 SPECIALISTS & In the Treatment of All Chronic, Nervous aad Private Disease: Spermatorheea, lmpotency and Falling Manhood absolutely ¢ Aloure guarantoed in all forms of Privite Dis Buricturos, Gloet, &e. hiront, Lungs, and Teart Disossed, Tieun Spinal and Fomule Diseases, Blood and Skin 1 reatod successully. o' and genticmen's waltng rooms separate cntirely pry pnsuliaion end for Private Diseases of Man, 8130 Womun &11er Disoases, le ench (stamps). 'Treatment by correspondence; send sLamp for roviy, OFFICE: 167H_AND DOUGLAS STREETS, OMAHA, NEB. b, books, Secret and OMAHA Medical and Surgical Institute, N. W. Cor. 13th and Dodge Sts, Omaha, Neb. THE LARCEST MEDICAL INSTITUTE IN THE WEST FOR THE TREATMENT OF ALL Chronic and Surgical Diseases and Diseases of tha Eye and Ear. "‘, e Ko LR LIk %3 Lfi! " DEFORMITIES, DISEASES OF WOMEN, DISEASES OF THE UR EXUAL ORGANS, PRIVATE DISEASES, DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, LUNG AND THROAT DISEASES, RGICAL OPERATIONS, EPILEPSY OR FITS, PILES, CANCERS, TUMORS, Etc. J. W. McMENATIY, M. D., President, And Consulting Physician and Surgeon. Organized with a full stal of Skilled Physicians, Surgeons and Trained Nurses, This establishment is a permanent medical institution, conducted by thorouglhly educated physicians and surgeons of acknowledged skill and experience. Ch Institute buidings, situated on the northwest corner of Thirteenth and Dodge streets, is composed of two large three-story brick Imidiu%: of over ninety rooms, containing our Medical, Surgical and Consultation Rooms, Drug Store, Laboratory, Offices. Manufactox? of Surgical Appliances and braces, and the Boarding De] ment for Patients, in charge of competent persons, curmuumug the ln‘{gcs and the most thoroughly equipped Medical and Surgical Establishment in the est, one of the three largest in the United States, and second to none. We have superior advantages and facilities for treating diseases, performing surgical operations, boarding and numiu% ‘muuuts, which, combined with our acknowledged ability, experience, rosgonsi ility and reputation, should make the Omaha Medical and Surgical Institute the first choice. You can come direct to the Institute, day or night, as we have hotel accommo- dations as good and as cheap as any in the eity. ‘\'« mi % this explan 'x!itlv)n for the benefit (?I' persons who may feel inclined to go further east for medical or surgical treatment and do not appreciate the fact that Omaha pos the largest and most complete Medical and Surgical Insti- tute west of New York, with a capital of over $100,000. DCFORMITIES OF THE HUMAN BODY. ’l’LIANCES FOR DEFORMI- > TIES AND TRUSSES. S Best Facilities, Apparatus and Remedies for Successful Treatment of every form of Disease requiring MiZDICAL or SURGICAL TREATMENT, In this department we are especially successtui. Our elaims of superiority over all others are based upon the fact that this is the only medical establishment mans ufacturing surgical braces and appliances for each individual case. We have three skilled instrument makers in our employ, with improved machinery, and have all the latest inventions, as well as our own patents and improvements, the result of twenty years’ experience. BELECTIRICAT:, TREATMENT. - The treatment of discases by electricity has undergone great changes within the past few yed icity isnow acknowledged by all schools of medicine as the great remedy in all chronie, special and nerve diseases, for nervous debility, par- alysis, rheumatism, diseases of women, etc., and in many eye and ear diseases it is the most valuable of all remedies. In order to obtain its full virtues, it is absolutely necessary to have the proper itus, We have lately puvchased three of the largest and most complete manufactured, so constructed as to give the most gentle as well as the powerful eurrent. Persons treated at this Institute by electricity recognize at once the difference between our expensive and complete electrieal apparatus and the common, cheap batteries, in use by many physicians. Over 8,000 dollarg invested in electrical apparatus. PRIVATE, EPECIAL, NERVOUS AND BLOCD DISEASES. We claim to be the only reliable, responsible establishment in the west making a speeialty of this class of diseases. Dr. McMenamy was one of the first thorough- ly educated physicians to 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, nowledged the best in use. All others are copied after his invention. By means of a simple operation, painless and safe, recently brought into use, we cure many cases that have been gzl\"len up as incurable by medical treatment. (IZead our book to men, sent free to any address.) DISEASES OF THE EYE AND EAR. ‘We have had wonderful success in this de[mrtmrnt in the past year, and have made many improvements in our facili- ties for treatment, operations, artificial eyes, ete. =5 We have greatly improved our facilifies and methods of g treating cases by correspondence, wnd are having better success in this department than ever before, We are fully np to the times in all the latest inventions in medical and surgical 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 {t is to their advantage to place them- gelves under our care. . 5 Since this advertisement first alvprunxl, many boasting ugrmmlerl and frauds have come and fom and many more will com: @i go, remembered only by their unfortunate and foolish victims. A s “ A wise man investigates first and decides afterwards, . A fool decides first, then tnvestigates.” The Omaha Medical and zyical Institute is indoysed by the_people and the press, More capital invested, more skilled physicians employed, more modern appliances, instru- ments and apparatus in use, more cases treated and cured, more successful surgical pperations pen) ormed, than in all other medical establishments inthe West combined, 144 PAGE BOOK (Xllustrated) SENT FREE TO ANY ADDRESS (saso). COLTTENTS: t i —History, Buccess und Advan s of the Omahs Medical and Sury ;::I Second —;'ll:":ifll‘\r DiseAses of the Lungs, Btomach, Liver, Kidnoys, itz Fylopay, ihouatiam, Tubaiation, Taps Worts, Blectilolty: Kw Rotmedies. oto ware Shtrd Bavbidimiie, Clrviturs of (e pldo, Ol ool, Hip Dissados, Paralysls, Wry , 1 4 , p, Burgloe: erations. Pare Hourth Biseases oF THE EYE AND EAN, Disouses of the Norves, Cataraot, Strablsmus o ous Kyas, Plorysium, Granuiated Rye Lids, [oversion of tho Lids, Ariificial Eyes, ofo. Pat Pl Disnasss O WOMEN, Loucorrhins, Ulcoration, Displucemonts, Prouipeus. Flox- 1ous and V!ill‘dlun Tumuhlr. 'A“gefll\‘(:nls lnt! (llllln;-l"qof lhe“]v')‘l)wum ey Moy 4 SIxth-Disgases or MEN, Private, Spocial and Nervous N , B el otion o, Variboale, Striotare, "Glost, Bypullls, and’ all alseases Of fuo Genito Urinary Organs. A SrroiAvzy. DISEASES OF WOMEN W P AppEnd A Lyixaax VO WOMEN DURING CONFINEMENT, (Strictly Pri Only Reliable Medical Institute Making a Specialty of PRIVATE DISEASES, All Blood Diseases successfully treated. Syphilitic Polson remuved from the system without meroury, Now Hestorative Trestmont for Loss of Vital Power, Patientsupwl visit us may te treated at home by correspondence, All communications configent lal, Medicines or instru- ments sent by mall or oxpress securcly packed, no marks to fudicate coateats o . "One 9 sonal iatorview preferred. Oull und cousult us or send history of your case, nud we will sond plals wrappir, our BOOK 0 MEN, FREE: Upou Privite. Speolal or Nervous Dissases, Impo acy, Sy pbills, Gleet and Varlcocele, with question st Address, OMAHA MEDICAL & SURGICAL INSTITUTE, 181k wnd Dodge $iroess Omulin, Noke cal Institnte, kin, Plios, Cancer, LA’ Vi ELY DEraniaes?