Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 7, 1889, Page 10

i\ & A b | { \ OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JULY 1880~SIXTEEN PAGES A TELEPHONE T0 THE SPRINX Rapid Strides of Oivilization in the Land of Bgypt. THE SOIL WHICH MOSES TROD. It is Now Enjoying a Big Boom— Ground By Shylocks—Grenks Grow Wealthy at Six Per Oent. a Month, The Egypt of To-day. OConyrighted 1889 by Frank 6. Carpenter.] CAno, Egypt, June 12,—[Special to Tnn Bee, |—~Modern civillzation is making rapid strides in the land of Egypt. whe young glant of the west whose itching palm is reaching out towards Japan, China, Korea and the lands ot south Asin, has already a strong grip on this birthplace of history, and the Egypt of the past has days that are num- bered. Alexandria has long since arison from the ashes ot the bombardment of soven years ago, and it is now the size of Cleveland or Wasuington. Its buildings are European rather than Arabic, and 1ts streets have French names. Cairo, the city of the Ara- bian nights, is fast becoming a city of Pari sun nights, and the Mohammedan call to prayer is mingled with the bacchanalian songs of the cafe chant- ants. Modern sclence is pulling the mum- mies from the pyramids. A telephone line runs almost to the very ear of the Sphynx and the old lady1s being pulled trom the sand by modern iron cars made in Bu- rope. There is an hotel at the base of the Pyramid of Cheops, in which English men and women drink brandy and soda and the pirit of tne ninotcenth century With some of its virtues and all of its vices is breathing new life into the land of the Pharoahs, BEgypt had more than two thou- gand American visitors this winter, and tho amount left here by Cook's tourists alone is now, I am told, about §2,500,000 & gear. Cairo is becoming a winter residenco @ity, aad it has hunareds of mausions which 'wrow!a do credivto New York or Paris. Real estato has rapidly risen in value and the 1ae2 spon which THE BADY MOSES LAY #x the bullrushes is now worth a big price per @yuare foot. When I visited Cairo about eight years ago the donkey was the chief backney cab of the foreigner, and men, women and children went sight-seeing on fong-earod beasts with donkey boys in blue gowns, following behind and punching up the animals by poking sharp sticks into patches of bare flesh as big as a dollar, each of which had been denuded of skin for the purpose. The hotels had Egyptian servants in tur- bans and gowns and you called your boy to your room by clapping your hands. Now the Ishmaelitish hack driver has taken the town and though he wears a foz cap, his dress 18 European and his cheek is as hard as that of an American cabby. The donkey boys, though they arc as bright as ever, have lost their monopoly and their customers are con- \fined to foreign men and to the natives. In- ‘\iflu the walls of Shepneard’s hotel, where I ug, you are as far away from old Eiyp you would be in the Grand hotel at Paris. The servants are French, speaking Swiss, in black, swallow-tail coats. The chambers have electric bells, and the $4 a day | which you pay for your board does not in- ":‘3 { | ) ) s W b | and short sleoves: ‘clude either candles or soap. The house is packed full and there are couhts by the score and lords by the dozen. At dinuer you see half the men in steel pen eoats and the women in trails, low necks There is: a, babel of English, French and German/and the only | evidénce, that you are in the land of the Pharoahs is the tall palm trees which look Wonderingly in at the windows. ‘Fhe duhibeye or sail boat, which was form- erly the only means of going up the Nile, has been superseded by steamers as comfortablo ns those which cross the Atlantic, and the i:mrnay from Cairo to the interior of Nubia one of the easiest and pleasantest in the world. There are now more than a thousand miles of railroad track in Egypt, and I tray- eled to Cairo from Suez in an express train which made as good speed as that of our trunk lines, The steam engine screeched as we passed through the lund of Goshen, and at one of the stations, whilo telegraphing to Cuiro, I nsked the price of land in this country, WIHICH JOSEPH GAVE TO WIS FATHER, and was told that it was worth at least $150 an acre. Our steamboat (in coming up the Red len; crossed the path over which Moses led the Israclites, and in which Pharoah was drowned, and I drove out this afternoon in an American buggy ,to the site of Heliopolis, where Plato _studied, and hear which stands the old treo in whose hotlow trunk the Virgin Mary hid herself with the child Jesus during the flizht o Egvpt. In passing through the streets of Cairo I saw she troops of the Khedive clad An'a uniform like that of the soldi Europe, and among them were officers and the red coats of the army of occupation, Thegreat governments of Kurope now control Egypt. Eugland dictates the actions of the Khedive, and foreign influence permeates every part of the government. - The European boud-hold- ors _vractically own the country, and the Junds of the Nile, if sold out ak auction, would bardly bring the value of the mort- gages which the Kothschilds und others hold upon them. The people are ground down by taxation now, as they have been under tho most extravagant of their rulers in the past, and the Egyptian improvements above men- tioned, which are mainly for the benefit of the foreigners have come out of the peasants. ‘Whatever Egypt may be in the futurcit is terribly ovpressed to-day, and THE STORY OF IRELAND is nothing in_comparison with the present condition of Egypt. Tho Egyptians should be the richest in- ptoad of the poorest people of the world. ‘What a wonderful country they have! It is u valley of guano in the midst of a desert. The land is as black as your hat, and it now teems with crops as green as Kansus in June.. 1t produces from two to three crops every year, and its soil gives out through the bounteous erops with no other fertiizer Ahian this water of tho Nile, Egypt is tho uft of the Nile, and a wondorful 4 fu it is. he country under the khedive to-day 1s tho west kingdom of the world, Extending eon eight and nine huudred miles above Cairo ita ouitivable soil is nowhere more than nine miles wide, and below bero it spreads out in a great, green fan, the ribs of which are each a little more than one hun- dvred miles long, and the top of which does measure much more than the This fan 1s the famed Delta of Nile, and with this long, narrow valley above it, it wmakes the Egypt of to-day. On the sides of this valloy are great tracts of desert of sand of a glaring ellow silver, more sterilo than the plains of Lolorado or the alkaill plains of the Rockios. The Egyptian dosert is absolutely bare. The rich fields of Egypt come to its edge on either side and you can stev from the groen- st grass to the dryest of sand, and standing on the green with your face toward the desert, far as the eye can reach, see nothing but blcak, bare sand. The whole of the soil of Egypt has been brought down from the mountains of Abyssinia by the Nile. It is nowhere more than fifty foet deep and its average depth 13 about thirty-five foet. Under this soil is 'ound the sand. ‘The Nilo wators it as well as fertilizes it, for there is no rain to speak of Bgypt. The country is flut. Hore at Cairo you can see for miles in every di- fection, und standing on the great pyramid, the valley of the Nile is spread out below you in & great patehwork of different shades of green, ‘here are no fences and few trees, here and there a grove of tall wlm raise wheir fanlike heads high up in nw clear blue ulmolrherc, snd near them you seo & village of mua huts made of e samo sun-dried sticks that Pharoah ground out of the CNILDEEN OF ISRAEL. This groat plain is cut up by canals, roads | yun bere and there through it, aud along these mbves caravan of cawels of Egyp Mans in gowns upon donkeys, and of droves of donkeys Inden with grass or grain. There are cattlo and sheep by the tho sands upon the flolds and their fat sides glisten under the tropical sun as they munch the sweetest and juciest of elover. The air just now is as pure as that of Den- ver. All nature seems to smile and the only poor thing upon the scene is man. Out of the 6,500,000 people of Egynt, fully 6,000,000 are poasants. They are known as “fellahs.”” They are the tillers of the soil, and they are tho peoplo who do the work, and make the money which pays tho im= mense yearly debt of Egypt. These “follahs’ are the ancient Egyptians. They have been oppressed throughout the —ages until have no spirit in_ them, theK are happy they can got enough to keep thomselves alive. You see their mud villages everywhere and they siave from morning until night in the fields. Thelr houses are rarely mors than ten teot high and _often not more than eight foet square. In an Egyptian village the houses are built close together. There are no pave- ments, s lampa nor modern improvements of any kind. The furniture of each house consiats of a few mats, a sheep skin, a cop- per kettle and some _carthonwaro ots. Tho bed of the family is a edgo of mud built in the side of the room. There are no windows and the cook- ing s usually done out of doors in a little earthen, pot-like stove, The fuel is of dried cow, camol or buffalo manure, and the FOOD OF THE FAMILY is a mixture of sorgum seed, millet and beans ground up into a flour and baked into a sort of ‘n big, round, flat cake. A large part of the food of the fellah consists of greens, and I watchod one eating & turnin yesterday. He began at the tip of the root and ate the raw indigestible vegetable to the very end of the groen, leaving not o vestage of it. I have con them eating clover, and I am told that hey seldom have any ' meat. Out of the milk of the buffalo and* cow they malke a sort, of curd-like cheese, which 1s extensively used. They use no knives, forks nor snoons and at subper they have, in addition to their vegetables, a sauce of onions and butter, into which they dip pieces of bread and eat it. These Hgyptian peasants wear little or no clothing while working in the flelds, and here in Cairo the apparel of the men consists of & long blue gown which comes to bolow the knees and a brown skull cap of wool, The women have gowns of blue cotton and the better classes of them cover up their faces with a long veil, which is fastened just undor the eyes 80 as to hide the lower part of the features, Between this veil and the cloth-hecad dress there is- brass spool about throe inches long, on each side of which the eyes show out. Some of the girls are beauti- ful, but I imagine that many of them look better with their veils on than off. Thoe Egytian eye is large, black and _ sensuous. The oyelashes ~aro very long on both lids and the edges of the eye-lids are often blackened with kohl. The oye-brows are straight and smooth and nover bushy, The check bones are hig the forehead is receding and the nose som what inclined to flatness, In tho country you find much darker women than you do in Cairo. and I soe scores of them working n ths fields without veils. Theso follahin are Mohammedans, and they believe that CIRISTIAYS WILT B ETERNALLY DAMNED. Very fow of them attain_riches and but few rise to power. Arabi Pasha was a “fellal”? andhe was one of the few excep- cions to this rule. It 18 no wonder they remain poor. They have been taxed for ages to such an extent that they could barcly live. Ismail Pasha, the last knedive, would, I am told, often taxes twice a year, coming down upon the farmers for a sccond sum_ after he had demanded the regular amount. If they were not able to supply it the tax gatherers sold their stock at uction, and ho had the right us he pleased work for ing. At present there are about five million acres of land under culti- vation 1n Egypt and there is an_agricuitural population of more than four millions. This gives less than one and one-fifth ucre a per- son and ; the taxes amount to from 4 10 89 an acre and this is only one form of Egyptian Just outside of Cairo there is a government ofiice, throuxh which every piece of produce brought into the city for saie must pass, and every article is tuxed. The farmer who'brings a donkey load of grass to the city for sale must pay & percentage on its value before he can go in with it. 1t is the same with a chicken or a pigeon, a basket of vegetables or anything that the farmer raises. . Then there is a tax upon date trecs amounting to $200,000 a year, upon salt. of more than a million, upon tobacco and slaugh- tor houses, and in fact upon everything under the Egyptian sun. The donkoy boy here pays n tax, the storekeoper is taxed, and thero is in addition to this n gencral tariff of about 8 per cent on all imports. There are taxes on sheep and goats. which are paid whether the animals are sold or not. There are taxes on wells, taxes on - fisheries, and taxes pald. for lands which Egypt once owned, but which she gave up with the loss of Soudan, It is no wonder that the Egyptian people are poor. 1t s & wonder that they can exist at all, Tho bulic of this money goes out of the country, and the natives of Egypt are grow- ng poorer instead of -richer, ~ *Such taxa- tion,” said our consul-general to mo to-day, Gwould create @ revolution in tho United States, and_thera is bardly a country in the world which would stand'it. Not a dollar of all the money which 18 thus _collected is ex- pended in public or private improvements among the hard-worked, overtaxed people, {rom whom it has been wrung.”’ Egzypt pays every year more than THREE MILLION DOLLARS TO TURKEY. Why sne continues to do this is not _well understood the world over. 1f England and Earope would _shake their heads she could throw off the Turkish yoke, but the sultan of Turkey owes some large sums to the European bankers. The European baukers want this three million dollars, and it comes to them through the sultan, This is one way in which the Kothschilds grind the feilahin. The total revenue colleoted last year was nearly fifty million dollars, and of this more than twenty millions went to pay interests upon debts,which were entered into by the Egyptian government in the past. New Yori contains about four times as much farming land as Egypt. Suppose the farmers of New York, irrespective of the capitalists and town people, haa to pay a tax of two hundred and twenty-tive million dollars a year, they would be as heavily op- pressed, io proportion to their lands, as aro the Egyptians, 1f they had to pay simply the tax of from four to nine dollars an acre they would have to mortgage tbeir crops, and 1f, in addition to this, they had to pay import and export tuxes, and taxes ou their sales, the result would be an almost immediate bavkruptey. Egypt is not much bigger in reality than Massachusetts. [t is only about the sizo of Maryland. Suppose that Maryland had @ population of of 6,000,000 to live off her farmiug lands and should tax them at the above rato, aud get the condition of the pound of flesh of the & was not_more rigidly enacted than is now being cut off THE POUND OF FLESK of the Egyptian peasants by the English and othor European creditors, “Tnese creditors watch the conditions of their debtors, and they seo that all of tha proceeds go into thew pookets, Each of the cabinet ofiicers of the khodive has & sub- winister under him who is s forel tho proposition for nearly everyt! through thoe hands of this sub-minister be- fore thoy got w tho Kgyptian who is the Khedhive's counsellor. The most of these sub-ministers are English, and the Egyptians are now practically controlled by England, England dictates the ministers the khedive shull take 1nto his cabiet. It dictates tho rate of taxation, and in fact it_is the con- troller of ull state matters in Egypt. The khedive, I am told, would do much for the people if he could, but he has to submit. The English officors receive large salaries and though they are numerically, and 1 the mat- ter of owning property in Egypt, fewer than cither tho French, the Italians or tho Greeks. They are in influence and dicta- torial power the loading European nation of Egyot. 1 am surprised to fiad bow man Italians are coming to Egypt. 'Througl the Italian cousul at Alexandria, T find that there are tweuty thousand Italians in that city alone and many of the best stores on the Mooskl of Cuiro, are now kept by Ital- faus, French is the chiet languago in uso by foreigners in Cairo. You find French- men in all kinds of business. Freach offi- cers manage the Suez canal and the French own many fino houses hore, Among the wealtbiest of the foreigners, however, are the Greeks. thoy are the Jrocers of the country andThoy constitute o ARTSTOCRACY OF AUE XANDRIA. They live in European style here in Cairo,, drive fiue turn outs and own maguificent mansions, Many of them are bankers and nearly all the money changers on the streets each of whom bas @ little glass eovered coun, ter filled with the various kinds of coin on & stand besida him are Greeks. These Grecks own a great part of the lands of Eq&. The Egyptiau peasant knows nothing of the ph 1soophy of mortgages and interost. When he gets into difficulty he will pay any rate of interest to got out for the time and these Greeks have gone over the country and lent money At usurious ra taking mortgagzes on the land. Iam told they own now about one-fifth of the land of Egypt and that they often get as much as 6 per cent n month on good security. The legal rate is loss than this, the limit being 12 per cent per annum, but by the aliaving of the notes they increase this amount 50 per cent and more at times, They dress in Kuropean clothes with the excoption of tho fez cap, which nearly all foreigners in Egypt wear, and some of them are well educated. They are the worst as well as the richest people of Egypt. The poorer among them being often disreputable, and constantly mixed up in thefts and stabbing affrays. They look not unlike the English and they are almost al- ways good linguists, There are many wealthy yews in Cairo and it is a curious thing that most of them are red headed. In addition to all these classes there is the population of the old part of the city which may be called Oriental Cairo. It is filled with bazaars owned by Turks, Persians, Si)'rhmn and Mohammedans from other parts of the world. In it you forget that the Ku- ropeanized Cairo oxists and you live over agein the scenes of the Arabian knights. FraNg G. CARPENTER. Keep Coolt New York Sun. Now that tho bears in tho shado of the Pole Look peaked and put their tongues out and roll; Now that the mercury’s high and goes higner, Now that the air is a curtain of fire; Now that the trolls and the gnomes do stoke Ilarth’s Yoiling boilers with coal and coke; Now that Pop Neptune under the scas s Complains that the water is ninety deerees: Now that the tank-drama maidens, his kids, The bright-haired brood of Oceanids, Have had to camp out in a deep sea dell Under the shade of an umbarell: Now that Humidity's hnvm%fl.s day, Don the flannel and put the biled shirt away ! 0, to live in refrigerator cars, O, to be an icehouse somewhere in Mars; O, to have a sottage on the Greenland shore, (o {‘nr a chalet on Mount Blanc's summip rore: O, for Nova Zembla or some Antarctic peak, O, to have a M\Ifiw\lmp’s cold, hard cheek; O, mls:]m“ down lco banks on an Esquimaux sled, o, ".’0 Ll‘mve a curicloud for hammock and od| 0, to be a bullfrog in a shady pool, Singing bass, and running & taapole swim- ming school; O, to roll in snowdrifts and to swim in cham- pagne punch, To have cold rain for breakfast and fresh- caught hail for lunch; But these are dreams, the only means to keep you cool and gay, Don tho flannel and put the biled shirtaway! CAPTURING ;VL—EPER. Anl ident lllustrating a Feature in Hawaiian Lite, A conrespondent writing on May 11 from Napoopoo, North Kona, to the Honolulu Gazette, says: Here is the latest Napoopoo sensation: Lot, an able bodied lever, residing at Napoopoo, had for a_long time bid de- fiance to the authorities to arrest him. On Tuesday, the 7th inst., he was cap- tured by the deputy sheriff, assisted by a policeman. The urrest was effected ¢ meaus of a well arranged plan of siego laid down by John Antone of Keulakekua, It seems that Lot had caused the impounding of a number of cattle in the proprictorship of which Mr. Antone was interested and de- manded damages at the rate of $2.25 per head. Mr. Antone couldn’t see it, but started for Hookena to interview the district judge and obtain some process for the relcase of the impounded stock. The magistrate happened to be up on the mountain engaged in agricul- tural pursuits. Mr. Antone did not care to wait the judicial convenience, but somehow or other got into commu- nication with the deputy sheriff, after which this official and two policemen started with Antone for Napoopoo, but on sighting that pretty sequestered vil- lage, the citizen and officers parted com- pany, & code of signals having been agreed upon. The officers took the road by way of the mountain and the citizens continued along shore. Mr. Antone called on Mr. Lot, informed him that he had not succeeded in finding the magistrate at Hookena, but that he wanted the cattle released all the same, engaging the leper in a parley to secure better terms. In the course of the conference the leper was drawn away a distance of about four paces from the sixteen-repeating rifle with which he had up to that successfully guarded his castle. The officers were in position outside the wall. The sig- nal having been given, they rushed in, in opposite directions, and affected the arrest, though not till they had some pretty rough handling from the pris- oner. In addition to the rifle, the pris- oner was armed with a pocket pistol, with which, it is said, he intended, if taken, to kill his captor and then kill himself. The rifle and pistol wers both seculed and put out of reach of mis- chief. The unfortunate prisoner was then taken to Hookena. Musings. Harry B. Smith in Amerieca, At night, when moonbeams gild the fence, I grasy an eagie's quill, And with a forvor most intense T work my poet will. 1 woo sweet Fancy in a way That sho caunnot refuse, And grind out cantos grave an d gay, As I invoke the muse. Anon there comes a grewsome sound From out the moonlit yard; 1 grind my teeth with ire profound And use expressions hard ; I rise, I seize all missiles nigh To give those cats their dues; Then fur of every hue doth fly, As I invoke the mews. R Philosophy of the Day. New York Sun. The degrees of luck are so various that they can be applied to all-circum- stances. Wisdom iwaits to be asked for advice. Truths differ, Sometimes they are told to a man’s face, and sometimes be- hind his back. The truth about some men is not told until after they are dead. Vanity produces corns and vexations of spiyit. Trusts are combinations of men and corporations that cannot trust one an- other. If avery man could have his way, the world would be almost depopulated. Some men discipline themselves to deavh. Lxperience gets there every time, Worry kills more men than wars. A woman tired of hearing of love is tired of living. Men would be less wicked if they would hunt for fewer opportunities. Great men ean outgrow nicknames. Sometimes it _is wiser to beg pardon than to fight. The other fellow may be bigger, and a black eye is a cloud. The man that never knows the time of rii:y is alwaya too late or too early to wait, The man that guesses at probabilities often overreaches the man that waits for the truth. Many a man lives on the veputation others make for him. ot~ When you are constipated, have head- ache, or loss of appetite, take Dr. J. H. McLean’s Liver and Kidney Pillets; they are pleasant to take and will cure you. HE DWELLS UNDER GROUND. The Strange ¥4fe of a Oharaoter in Thursten County. ATONING FOR' YOUTHFUL FOLLY. Within a Gloomy Oave Where the Sun's Rays iNever Fenetrate Mr. Ebeslis Sighing a Lost Love's Requiem, Buried From the World. PENDER, Neb., July 5.—[Special to TAE Bee.]—Thurston county — was doubtless entitled to the distinction of being the home of a more mysterious character than half the so-called myste- ries that are daily chronicled in ‘the press throughout the world. He lives in ahole in the ground about five miles east of town, and he has never been known to do a day’s work, always dresses in the height of fashion and never runs in debt. Accompanied by Howling Wolf, an Omaha Indian, who has passed and repassed the dismal spot thousands of times within the past five yeurs, T visited this strange character the other day. Driving about five miles east of this place wo left the main traveled road leading to the Omaha agency, and turning to the north,drove perhaps three quarters of a mile down a cooley or ravine. Here Howling Wolf stopped the team and beckoned me to alight. Iasked him what he was going to do, as there was nothing visible to indicate that we were within a mile of the abode of mortal man. He pointed to the ground a few feet ahead of the team, and Whon closely scrutinizing the earth at a point to which my attention had been directed by my Indian friehd, I could see what appeared to be a board about two feetsquare. Bidding Howling Wolf to take careof our team, I stepped to the spot and tapped a couple of times with the butt of my whip on what soon proved to be a door leading to the habitation of a man who is, in every sense of the word, a mystery. The promptness with which my sum- mons was answered almost startled me. 1 had scarcely drawn my whip from the door after tapping the second time when up came the door, and two large grey eyes PEERED UP TOWARD ME from the strange cave below. “‘Hello! there,” he said, as he beck- oned me to come dowu with his right hand. in which he held a dim light. I followed him dowu a ladder into a narrow passage-way, which led toa door about eight feat from the entrance. Opening the door, which was made of rough lumber,hg bade me *‘walk right in sirl” 1 did as directed, and he followed me, closing the door behind him. Be- fore I had time to offer any excuse or reason for my presénce, I w Po- litely invited to take a seat and make myself at home, when the gentleman of the decidedly stravge abode struck out in a lightning speed of conversation, as follows: Lo ® “Colonel, it may'scem strange to you that a man of My build could content himseif away dow of sight of \;\'cry‘l)ot y, but I tell you I AM HAPPIER RIGHT HMERE with my pets (menning a couple of bad- gers, which were Kept in a box in ono corner) than I cquld -possibly be else- where on earth.”’ I acknowledged my, surprise at this declaration, and_asked him if he had any particular objection to giving me some explanation as to his extremely odd and unusual preference. 3 I drew a hall-pint flask of brandy from my pocket and offered it to him. *‘Perhaps that will assist you in calling to mind many incidents of carly aays,” I said. “Thank you, sir; ) don’t use it. That's the stuff that is responsible for my be- ing where I am to-da _He frowned, as if the sight of the liquor fairly angered him,and he con- tinued: *In 1862 I was working at my trade (coopering) at Vincennes, Ind, Near which place resided a young lady to whom I was engaged. 1In April of that year her parents removed to Mennesota and settled on a a farm near New (Jlm. Soonafter her remoyal tothe west she be- came dissatisfied with the new and country and longed to return to the SCENES OF HER GIRLHOOD DAYS. This she made known to me in the second letter I received from her, and I determined to save up some money and goand take her back to Indiana. At that time I was twenty-two years old, and was what you might call pretty wild, in the ground, out | but I succesded insaving up my wag and selling a young horso I owned, all of which nfim-e atod a littlo over $200. On the 10th of July I wrote hera letter telling her that on the following Mon- day Twould start for Minnesota, and that I would take her back with me.” Here the story was temporarily inter- rupted by the badgers in the box engag- ing in a furious fight. While the fight was in progross, Kbes, for that is the only name he would give, was right in his element. He jumped about in his oave,and olapping his hands together, shouted: “‘Get there, boys! Got there, boys!” And after the fight was over he winked ut me and asked: ‘‘What do you think of my family?” “‘But to go back to my story,” he con- tinued, ‘‘the night before T was to have started for Minnesota I got with the ‘boys’ and blew in overy dollar I had on earth, and I was compelled to write to my intended and pone my visit until September, is I did, and the next letter I received from her was fillel with expressions of disap- pointment at the postponement. Poor girll Had I known the fate that awaited her, I would have walked to Minnesota, for within a few short weeks from that time, she was MURDERED BY THE SAVAGE SIOUX.” Here he became much excited, and with clinched fists he paced back and forth on his earthern floor. “Hare you over read the histol that masacre, Mr, Ebes?” T inquired. “Yes, sir,” he replied. “‘ have it committed to memory,” and going to a largo trunk at the foot of his bed, he asked me to hold the light for him, Opening the trunk, which contained histories, novels, poems, Webstor’s dic- tionary and books of every description, he commenced to remove volume after volume until he came to the one he wanted. It was a historv of the massa- cro of 62, written by Charles S, Bryant, of St. Peter, Minn. ““T'his book does not contain an ac- count of her murder,” he said, und he cagerly scanued its pages ns if he be- lieved it possible that he had overlooked a page referring thereto. Finally plac- ing the books back in the trunlk, he pro- coeded: ““Aftor receiving intelligence of Min- nie’s—there!—well, I may as well tell you now. Her first name was Minnie, and, as I was going to say, 43 soon as learned of hor tragic death, 1 began to roam about the countvy, going from Vincense, Ind., to Covington, Ky., then to Cleveland, Milwaukee, and hundreds of other towns and cities. I have walked over every foot of the ground for miles in either direction from N Ulm, where the dastardly d W committed that has erable. In ’69 y of when I received word from Memphis that an uncle had d and securing m v, L v phis and again ‘started for tho west. spent about $3,000 of my money ram- bling about, but finding it impossible to draw any consolation from a roaming life, I aetermined to try this w: in Iinvested most of my bonds, and for ten years L_liv liouse something like this in Wis but my health seemed to fail me left Wisconsin and went to Minnesota and remained a time. From there 1 came here in 83, ¢ remain until my “The Indians bring me whatever T order, and I pay them for their trouble I huve alittle meansin a bank at Sioux City, and when 1 run out, I walk over (it is forty miles from here) and make a little draw, purchase a supply of provis- jons, and che Indians bring it to me by team.” "The main part of the house or dugort occupied by this strange man is about ten feot square and perhaps it is fifteen foet from the surface of the earth to ghe *‘floor.” The furniture consists of a black walnut bedstead with springs, two chairs and a bench, an oil stove, cooking utensils, a tin water pail, and a clock. The place is as dark as mid- night, but a light is kept burning day and night. One side retreat is hoarded up with rough pine lumber, with nails driven 1n across the entire width of the room. On these nails hangs Mr. Ebes’ rdrobe, which is anything but a scanty one. Mr. Ebes is six feet tall, and wears a full dark beard. His forehead, which isas fair_as that of a woman, projects out over his eyesto a very noticeable degree. He is a very ready and easy talker, using good language, and tho only opinion one can form of him after visiting his lonely place, is that he is voluntarily punishing himself for folly indulged 1 during his youth, by im- griwning himself in the dismal dirt en that he to-day calls home. 35 A FULL SET OF TEETH FOR $5 FIVvE DOLLARS. DR.R. W. BAILEY, - DENTIST. Paxton Block, 16th and Farnam Streets. ‘We wish to announce to the people of Omaha and vicinity that from this date on we propose to make a FULL SET OI' TEETH on rubber for 85, guaranteed to be as well made as plates sent out from any dental office in this city, and for which you would have to pay THREE TIMES AS MUCH. This offer 18 npt made by us simply to got you into our office and charge you more for a set of teejh than we advertise! Do not allow:others to prejudice you hefore making us a call and examining specimens of our 3kill, Besides rubbgr tecth we make teeth on the following bases: GOLD, ALUM- INUM, SILVER, CONTINUCUS G , CELLULOID, CAST METAL, ETC, Teeth without plates, Bridge-work, Gold and Porcelain faced crowns, ete. The best mathodl in the city for extracting teeth without pain and without the use of Chloralpiip, Ether, Gus or Electricity, the patient romaing perfectly conscious, but fegling no pain. GOLD, ALLOYy CEMENT and AMALGAM FILLINGS, one-half rates. TAKE !ELEVATOR ON SIXTEENTH STREET. OFFICE;312 and 313 PAXTON BLOCK. Cut this out,o/Mention this paper, X7, T. W ELSIT.A 811 South 16th St - - - " —SOLE AGENTS FOR— - Omaha, Neb. ST. LOUIS HYDRAULIC-PRESS BRICK. Terra Cotta work and Fire Proofing, Pecora Mortor colors, (all shades), Sweeny's Dump Walter, Hard Wood ¥loors, Venetian and Sliding (inside) Blinds, Contractors and Uullder's @upplies Call and see samples, and get prices. Correspondence solicited. THE BUSINESS OF THE OMAHA MERCHANT TAILOR COMPANY, SOUTAH 15TH STREET, ded their expectations. The low prices, togetuer with fine work and perfect fit, nave iy v TS FROM %28 UPWARDS, elr customers that itis the cheapest place to buy ving new goods for the summer trade. their garments, Tuey uré con: PANTS FROM 87 UPWARDS OMAHA dical and Surgical Institute, N. W. Cor. 13th and Dodge Sts, Omaha, Neb. THE LARCEST MEDICAL INSTITUTE IN THE WEST FOR THR TREATMENT OF ALL Chronic and Surgical Diseases and Diseases of tha Eyo and Ear, DEFORMITIES, DISEASES OF WOMEN, DISEASES AL ORGANS, PRIVATE DISEASES, DISEASES SYSTEM, LUNG AND THROAT DISEASES, CAL OPERATIONS, EPILEPSY OR FITS, PILES, CANCERS, TUMORS, Etc. J. W. McMENAMY, M. D., President, And Consulting Physician and Surgeon. Organized with a full staf of Skilled Physicians, Surgeons aud Trained Nurses. This establishment is a permanent medical institution, conducted by thoroughly sducated physicians and surgeons of acknowledged skill and experience. 'he Institute buidings, situated on the northwest corner of Thirteenth and Dodgo stroets, is composed of two large three-story brick buidings of over ninety rooms, eontaining our Medical, Surgical and Consultation Rooms, Drug Store, Laborato: Offices, Mannfactnr¥ of Surgical Appliances and braces, and the Boarding Depart- ment for Patients, in charge of conepetent persons, constituting the larges and the most thoroughly equipped Medical and Surgical Establishment in the West, one of the three largest in the United States, and second to non We have superior advantages and facili ing di s, performing surgical operations, boarding and nursm$‘§ ch, combined with onr acknowledged ability, experience, responsibi 1d reputation, should make the Omaha Medical and Surgical Institute the first choice. You can coms direct to the Institute, day or night, as we have hotel accommo dations as good and as cheap as any in the city. il We make this explanation for the benefit of persons who may feel inclined to go further cast for medical or surgical treatment and do not appreciate the fact that Omaha possesses the largest and most complete Medical und Surgical Insti- tute west of New York, with a capital of over 8100,000. DCEORMITIES OF THE HUMAN BODY. APPLIANCES FOR DEI'ORME- TIES AND TRUSSES. Best Facilities, Apparatus and Remedies for Successful Treatment of every form of Disease requiring MEDICAL or SURGICAL TREAT) NT. Tn this department we are especiaily successrui. Our claims of superifority over all others are based upon the fact that this is the only medical establishment man« ufacturing surgical braces and appliances for each individual case. We have three skilled instrument makers in our employ, with improved machinery, and have all the latest inventions, as well as our own patents and improvements, the result of twenty years’ experience. HLECOTRICATL: TREATMENT. The treatment of diseases by electricity bas undergone great changes within the past few years, and electricity isnow acknowledged by all schools of medicine as the great remedy in all chronic, special and nerve diseases, for nervous debility, par- alysis, rhemnatism, diseases of women, ete,, and in many eye and ear diseases it is the most valuable of all remedies. In oxder to obtain its full virtues, it is absolutely necessary to have the proper apparatus. We have lately purchased three of the largest and most complete batteries manufactured, so constructed as to give the most gentle as well as the most powerful current. Persons treated at this Institute by electricity recognize at once the difference between our expeusive and complete electrical appuaratus and the common, cheap batteries, in use by many physicians. Over 8,000 dollars invested in electrical apparatus, PRIVATE, SPECIAL, NERVOUS AND BLOOD" DISEASES. ‘We claim to be the only reliable, responsible establishment in the west making a specialty of this 5 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 ,nu{ inventions have been adopted by specialists in Europe and America. He is the inventor of the Clamp Compress Suspensory, acknowledged the best in use. All otl e copied after his invention. By means of a simple operation, painless and safe, recently brought into use, cure many cases that have been gb}'flu up as incurable by medical treatment. (Iead our book to men, sent free to any address.) DISEASES OF THE EYE AND EAR. ‘We have had wonderful success in this department in the past year, and have made many improvements in our facili- ies for treatment, operations, artificial eyes, ete. We have greatly improved our facilities and methods of treating cases by correspondence, and are having better success in this department than ever befor We are fully up to the times in all the latest inventions in medical and nun{lon.l operations, appliances and instruments, Our institution is open for investiga- tion to any persons, patients or physician 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 1t is to their advartage to place them- selyes under our care, 3 Since this advertisement first arpwml, many boasting pretenders and frauds have come and gone and many more will come aid go, remembered only by their unfortunats and foolish victims. 5 . A wise man investigates first and decides afterwards, .}vr: 1 decides first, then investigates.” The Omaha Medical and Surgical Institute s indovsod by the people and the press, More capital invésted, more skilled physicians employed, more rvodern appliances, nstrus Tonts. dnd apparatils in use, move cases treated and cured, more successful surgical operations pmfimwd, than in all other medical establishments inthe West combined. 144 PAGE BOOK (Illustrated) SENT FREE TO ANY ADDRESS (ssaLepn), COLTTENTS: Purt First—History, Buccess and Advantagos of the Omiba Medical and Surgloal Institnte. Part Socond—CHRONIC DisEASES of the Lungs Stomnch, Liver, Kidneys, 8kin, Piles, Cancer, at pilopsy, Rhoumatisin Tahitation, Tapo’ Worii, Eleotrlclty, Now Homedios, eto, Wart TIird DEyOIMITIRS Curvatnre of the Spine, Club Veot, Hip Disouses, Paralyils, Wry Neck, Bow Logs, Haro Lip, Burgical Operations. Part Fourth—DIsEAsks OF THE EYE AND BAR, Diseases of the Nerves, Cataraot, Strabismus or Cross Eyes, Prorygium, Granulated Bye Lids, Tnversion of tho Lids, Artificial Eyes, ote. Part FUOL DiSEASES OF WONEN, Lousorrhia, Ulceration, D plicoments, Prolapeus, Flex- ions and Versions, Tumors, Laccrations and Ua) of the Womb, Part Sixth—DiseAsEs 0¥ M, Private. Special and Nervous Disouses, Spermatorrhma (Seminal Weakness), Impotency, Varicooele, Stricture, Gleet, Syphilis, aud ' all discasos of the Genlto Urlnary Orgaas. DISEASES OF WOM VO WOMEN DUNING CONFINEMENT, (Strictly Private). Only Reliable Medical Institute Making a Specialty of PRIVATE DISEASES, All Blood Diseases sucoossfully treated. Byphllitie Polron removed from the system without meroury. Now Kestorative Treatmont for Loss of Vital Power, Patients unnbie (o visit us mi o at bomo by correspondence. All communications confidentinl, “Mediolnes or i ments sent by mall or'‘express securely packed, no marks to lodicate contents or sender. One @ er Sonal Intarviow proferred. Call and conanit s Gr sond histary of your caso. snd we will sond ln- plain wrapprr, our BOOK 0 MEN, FREE: Upon Private, 8pecfal or Nervous D) Lmpo- toncy, Byphiiis, Gleot and Varloocole, with question list, Addross, < OMAHA MEDICAL & SURGICAL INSTITUTE, 151k aud Dodge Streeis, Omaka, Nolp A Seronaury. We HAVE LateLy AUDED A LYINGIN DEFARTMENT