Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 28, 1889, Page 12

THE ORIGINAL OF OUR BOB. An Bgyptian Mummy the Countor- part of the Genial Skeptic. THE GREAT MUSEUM OF BOULAE. Delioncies of Antediluvian Epicures— The Vanity of the Sphynx—The American Congnlate—-Som Curiosities of the Harem, Hob Bifore the Flood. Covyrighted 1969 by Frank G, Carpenter Comop Eeypt, July 8.—[Special Corre- -mu?(‘rfm-n to Tux Bi have made to-day neof the greatest discoveries of modern times. 1 have unearthed the genesis of Robert G. Ingersoll, and I am able to prove that in the veins of “Infidel Bob" flows the most aristocratic blood on the American continent. In the wonderful museum of at Cairo, I find a statue of wood, which s the perfect likeness of him, and the records show vhut this statue is at least 6,000 years old. It T of life size and its plump proportions, its smiling face and bright eyes form & photographic resemblance to the In- gersoll 6f to-aay, and there can be no doubt that in tho transmigrations of souls the man who to-day lecturcs on the mistakes of Moses, knows whereof he speaks and that his duta were gathered on the ground, for he wis here in Egypt more than two thousand years bofore Moses was born, Ho knows all about Abraham and Jacob, for they came pt nearly twenty centuries be- d tho building of the pyramids. ‘This Bov Ingersoll of the past lived at the time that the greatest of pyramids was being built, and he was such a prominent man at that _time that tho artists of the day consid- ered 1t worth while to copy his form in wood. They did it well, too, and the work will com- pare with that of our best sculptors. The clder Hob has astaff in bis hand and his brignt eyes of rock crystal have tho same honest 1ook of his zreat descendant. He has short bairand his fat, roand bead seems to be verging on baldness, His mouth is as pleasant as that which utters orations against the doctrine of brimstone damuation, and Lis attire is that of his illustrious great gre of his one hundred und eightioth great i son, when having read a chapier in his Shakesperiau Bible aud sung one of 1surns’ poenss for & hymn, be disrobes his portly form, and clad in his innoconse and nightie he get ready for bed. The statue was found in the tombs ut Sakahra orold Memphis near Cairo, ‘dind it stands in company with some odd hundreds of mummies in this greatest musenm of Egyptian antiquitiss. The museum of Boulac, has been greatly increased iu size within a few years, and there is no place like it in which to study the Egypt of the past. There is room after roou walled with the coffins of these mon- archis of thousands’of years ago, and in other mummy caskets the bodies embalmed are exposed to view, T looked a long time to-day upon the face of King Ramases, who, it is supposed, WENT 70 SOHOOL WITIL MOSES. The face, though bluck, was wonderfully Lifo-like, aud the teeth shone out as white a8 When he brushed them after his morning tub, something like four four thousand years ngo. Inoted the silky, fuzzy hawr over his black ears, and longed for a lock of it for my collection of relics. The dead past became wonderfully seal: in looking at unother box in which & mummied priocess of about this time lay with the mummy of her Rttle baby, who was not many days old, n the cofiin beside her, and when I saw the jew- eiry of gold bracciets of the same pat- terns which our belies now wear in Wash- ington and New York, and of the ear-rings which arc quite as beautiful as those made by Tiftauy, the dry bones began to move and the pickled flesh resumed its tints and I could see that humun nature “was the same 7,000 years ago as it is now and that these peoplo of the past Lad the loves and hates, the troyblesnd the vapities of the worid to™ day. The food shown in another case as taiten from these tombs brought their very stomachs back to life and [ wondered what Ramases took for the colic and wheher Queen Akhotupu, who lived before X es, and who now lics' hove, haa the hysterics 1 noted the flowers which were put in another mummy case beside a king and I could not reconcile the boautiful teeth and the fiue intellectual face of King Seti, whose daugh- tor is supposcd to have found Moses in the bullrushes with the fat, bloated fingers, which show that he 'had the gout. There was as good living in the days of the Isruelites in Egypt as there is _to-day, but 1t was then as now, only the rich had the fancy cooks und the poor ate the scraps. In the towb of T near Memphis 1 saw | after wall in climinbers of granite away down under the sands of the desert. These walis wero covered with painted pictures of the 1ifa of the time when the tomb was made, thousouds of years before Christ, and Buong these petures 1 saw that pate de fois ras was one of the dainties of that time. 'he foeding of the geese by stuffing them with Tood to enlarge the liver is there faith- fully pictured, and the eggs, mummied chickens and othier dear departed delicacics which are found i the pyramids snd tombs show us that the people of the past have not suffered, and that they knew HOW 1O ENJOY LIFE quite as well as wo do. 1 have’ pail my second visit to the pyra- mids during the past week and I find these great piles of stone unchanged. The same gang of Beduins surround them to-day us preyed upon me when I paid my first call on the Sphynx, cight years ugo, and the eternal ery of biicksheesh | backsheesh ! bucksheesh | till sounds out upon tue air of the desert in which they are located. I climbed on the top,assisted by three Arabs, and I penetrated the gloomy reocsses of the interior and at- tempted to take photographs of the king and queon chumbers by flash lights. The pyra- mid which I climbed covers thirteen acres of ground, und it was at ono time higher than the Wushington monument. It has in the past_been it quarry from which Cairo has drawn the stones for much of its building and there is still enough left to make over eight hundred Washington monuments, The Sphynx 18 now well pulled out of the sand and there are iron curts at its buse ready to ~/be used for further excavatious. It has put On 6 uew aspect within the last few years and it seems bigger, more sombre and. more wonderful 'than ever. Its fage is that of a remarkably ecod- looking regro” givl, and it is said that its comploxion was originally of a beautiful pink. Al of this pink has fow been ground awuy by the sands of the desert, which have fov more than six thousand years boen show- ering their amorous kisses upon 1t, and all that s loft is o little red paint just under the left eye. The Sphynx s the oldest woman in the world, sud it is painful to think that even she is ADDICTED TO ROUGE, Bhe ainly big enough to know better, Her head alone 15 80 big that if you would build u vanlt the size of a parlor fourteen fogl,sguare, and run 1t up to the height o threostory. house it would be just lar eneujh 10 contain it, and if even though you measuro six feot in your stockings aud hud arws as long as thoso of Abralam Lincoln, stood on the tp of this old lady's ear, you could hardly touch the crown of her hoad. Trodoon o camels auarter of @ mile tweon' hor and the pyramids, and the Bedouin who owned 4ho beast grew quite confidential in telling me of his property and bis fumily affairs. Ho said he lived tho pyramids, and that he had just iod & new wife who was as beautiful as the sun and as graceful as a camel. He iu- vited e Lo go und see him at his home near by and Isaw & Leduin girl who may have been his wife, as I weot through this village onmy way back to Cairo. She was & mug- nificent lookng maiden of perhaps twenty years of age, with o gorgeous head dress of White and gold and with four wreat silver rings, a8 biz around as the bottom ef a tin cup, hangliug 10 8 string on each side of h Her complexion was that of Eth blackness, bub her uose was 88 strul that of & Greek and her eyos—Iu THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: and lustrous—were fringed with long eye- iashes. She had a beautiful mouth and her picturesquo head was well poised on shapely shoulders, Her gown, of dark blue, fell in graceful folds from sioulder to ankies and her fees were bare. She was A NOBLE LOOKING GIRL and the Bedumns are the noblest in appear ance of the people of Egypt. You see them in the bazaars and_on the deserts, and they have a mouopoly of the care of the pyramid They are very proud and they are the de- scondents of the Arabs of the sands. The most of them are Mohammedans. and they make the best of soldiers. It was under their forefathers that the foligwers of Mahamet, made such great conauests in North Africa, and during the rebellion of Arabi Pasha the bravest of the Egyptians were these men, 1find our consul reneral very popuiar in Cairo, and that he is on the best of terms with the khedive aud with the leading of- ficials of the Egytiun governmnnt. His mujesty spoke very highly of him auring the audience I had with him a fow days ago, and during this conversation the con- trast was drawn between him and sevoral of the other consul_generals who have rep- resented America here in the past. One consul general, who is dead now, and who served during’ the reign of Ismail, the father of the present kdehive, was a no- torious drunkard, and duriug his sprees ho wont at times 'to Khedive Ismail and whined about the poor salary kis govern- ment gave him, “The United States,” said ho, *doss not. give me enough to support me, and I wish your highness who hag 8uch a vast treasury could add @ trifle to Yhe amount as & present. Khedive Ismail did this again and again, and the American government never knew how it was being disgraced. Another consul general of the United. States at Cairo was mixed up i the rebeilion of Arabi Pasha and when T mentioned to the khedive the re- port [ had heard here to that effect and said that the satement had been made that this 1. who is still living in America, had coin- bined with Arabi against the khedive, and that the understanding between Arabi and him was that in case of Arabian success, he, the American, might have a place ' his cabinet, his_highness nodded his head in the aftirmative of its truth, THE AMERICAN CONSULATE, Our consulate at Cairo is now in the most fashionable part of the city. It 1s a large two-story, flat-raofed house, situated m a beautiful jrarden in whict the roses bloom and the orange flowers grow. The front gate bears a large oval shield on which is painted the Awmcrican eagle and over the front door our great American bird looks down on the visitors as he waves the flag in his talons, Passing under this you enter a wide nall at one end of which there 18 a pair of porticrs formed of American flags, and at the right in the reeeption or waiting room of the legation. Entering this you are reurinded of our national capital. Pic- tures of the great’bmldings at Washington iang_upon the walls, There is the capitol, ouc of the finest buildings in the world, the state, war and navy buildiogs, which has not itspeer in sizo among the granite buildings on the face of the globe, and the pension building, which is the biggest thing that now exists in brick. Thero is the somber treasury looking wmore tomb-like than ever aud wonderfully at home in this land of surogphagi, and “there among them all is the stern of old George Washington himself with two little American flags pecping out over it frame. The flag looks betler here than it has ever looked to.me before. There is nothing like travel to develop one’s patriot- ism and 1 think one needs it to get away from our petty political fights in order to ap- preciate our country in its national beauty and greatness. ‘The consni-general, ut this writing, is a Texas editor; his name'is John Cardwell and he is an accomplished man of about forty years of age. His wite and fam- ily are with him and his home, which is in the building occupied by the legation, is elegantly fitted up with rare Persian rugs, with fine carvings and with many beautifal Turkish emoroideries of satin and gold. Among the paintings of the house are a num- ber in oils which show more than_ordinary skill. These are the work of Mr. Cardwell's daughter who is still in her teens, but who promises to make an_artist. Her mother in- tends to take her to Italy upon her departure from Egypt and. sho will there study under the Italian masters of to-day. Consul Ceneral Cardwellhas some striking ideas about the harem as it exists in Bgypt to-duy. He pronounces the word as though it were spelt hareem and this 18 the pronun- ciation everywhere, in the land of the Mo- hammedans, Colonel Cardwell says the harem is not the vicions institucion that it is painted. “It means,” says he, “simply the womun’s apartments of the household in Exypt, and I believe it is a great cleemosy- nary institution. Its members are often MERELY THE SERVANTS of the true wife of the husband. They are taken into it us children and raised there and are better cared for than they could possib 1 be elsewhere. They are not neces sarily the mistress of tho man and the khedive, though his wife has a larce harem, is true to her. The harem is here in Egypt, managed by the women. The hus- band has very limiled rights within it, and there was an instanco here in Cairo not long ago of a princess who was displeased with the actions of her husband who, by the wa; was also of royal blood; ordering her ser- vants to . WHIP RO IN THE HAREM, They obeyed her, too, and the man was soundly flogged. Another case was that of a lady of high rank, who net long ago brought a divorce suit agaiust her husband and got a divorce from him. This fact will be surpris- ing to the people of America, who largely be- licve that the rights are here altogether on the husband’s side. This woman when di vor: took the harem,with her and she is now living with 'the ‘rest of her establish- ment here in Cnito. '*Monogamy,” con- tinued Colonel QGardwell, ‘'is in fact growing in favor in Caigg, Jhe khedive hus sottho example and t \l‘pu teidom shows a dis- position to follow it. One of the princesses suid the other day thata good moslem could, according to the Koran, huve but one wife.” “:And how is that?" she was asked. *The Kkoran states that he may have four and Mo- hammet himself said, there are two things in this world which delight me, these are women and perfumes.. These t\vo things re- joice my vyes and render me more fervent in devotion. ~ The great prophet had something like a dozen wives, nud he especially gives all devout men the bt to four.” 1 assort, however, sald the princess, “that the koran iotends that man should have only one wife. And this is because he cannot be good and have more. The koran Says that you must not~ leve one wife more thin wnother, and this is impossible if you huye more than one. Hence you should take drove out this afternoon past @ royal palace, which was for yaars occupied by one of the widows of Mehamet Ak, who, it is whispe t Cuiro, was one of the bt has ever known, includ: ing in the list the lurge number of bad, beau- tiful dumes, extending even back to Cleopa- tra horself, This woman had o large in- come, and she kept up & grand establishment hero in Cairo, with hor eunuchs by the acore and her servants by the dozens, Her palace was on the banks of the Nile, un many secroi chambers. From U such men as this royal lady fanc vitod by this lady’s' slaves to come into_the harem, aud it is stated here that such as went il were never seen to cowe out, Her ladyship received their ttentious until she gottired of thow, wnd Wen got rid of thewm v HAVING THEM QUIE TRANGLED and thrown nto the Nile, There was & dark pussage leadiug down from the palace to the river aund the lover awoke from elisiumn dreams to fnnd o silken cord around his throat being twisted by two black-faced eunuchs and a force standing around large mmlum. to make bim subwmit if he struggled uudu Tho father of the present Khodivo is Ismail Pasha, who is now living in Constantinople and who » ives a peosion from ypt of 200,000 a year. He holds a aifferent theory from his son 1 regard 10 monogamy and his harewm is a large one, He toc it with him when he went to Napies to live, but a young Italian, i 1 remewmber correctly, ran away with one of his prettiest wives aud he moved his ¢ blishment to Constantigple, where his h - would be more sacred® and and where he can, if he chooses, drop a faith- less wife into the Hosphorus without com- ment or courts. Mehameoet Al had also a number of wives and I went out this afternoon to Shoubra palace, in which the old man spent some of the last days of his life. The guides Lere show you & beautiful garden and in o sum- mer palaco u lake about four feot deep, with a marble resting plago i the center. 1t was upon this seat- that the Napolcon of Egypt usod 10 it with his ladies o boats o the water about him. Tho boatmen were posted by him and at _the crook of his finger they would overturn the Circassians into the pool and Mebamot would laugh 1n his old cracked voice as ho watched their terrified struggles in teying to get ont. Year by year, however, the keeping up of @ harem in the Mohammedan countrics be. comes more expensive, The introduction of the western civilization is inspiring new wants in the minds of the hous, and the noblest of them want Erench kid slippers and their dresses from Worth. They want aiamonds and modern jewelry and if they have children they must have French and English governesses for them. The major- ity of the Mohammedans of Egypt are t0o POOF 10 keep more than one wife under the new customs and this number Is being ro- duced by the increased cost of living. Even the ordinary wealthy women of Cario now have some European dresses in their ward- robes and the veils which they wear when out driving grow thinner and thinner each year. ‘The wife of the khedivo wears a veil of thin gauze through which her features can be olainly seen when she goes out driving, for the windows of her carriage are open and an_ American tells me he could see the sparkle of her magnificent diamonds through this veil when he passed her a few days ago. FRANK G, CARPENTER, i i Beranger's a Vocation” Eugene Field's Translation, v is my lot, and pain— 111 was I begot, 11l must I remain! Yet the wrotched days One swoet comfort bring — When God, whispering, says: ing, O singer, sing 1" Chariots rumble by, Splashing me with mud— Insolence 8o Fawn to royal bloods Solace have I then From each galling sting, In that voico again-— “Sing, O singer, sing " Cowardly at heart, Tam forced to play A degraded part, For its paltry pay; Freedom is a prize For no starving thing. Yet that small voice cries: “Sing, O, singer, sing!"” 1 was young, but now, When I am old and gray, Love—I know not how Or why—hath sped away; Still, in winter days As in hours of spring— Still a whisper says: “Sing, O singer, sing!" Ah, too well T know Song's my only friend— Putiently I'll go Singing to the end, Comrades, to your wine! Let your glasses ring— Lo, that voice divine Whispers #°Sing, oh, sing - MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO. The theatrical season in London came to an end earlier than usual this year. Miss Rose Coghlan will bogin work again on the 5th of Augustin San Francisco, with “Jocelyn.” The tour of the Daly company has been ex- traordinarily prosperous, accoraing to all current reports. There is a published rumor that A. M. Palmer will try “A Doll's House” at the Madison Square theater. The London Gaity burlesque. “Faust Up to Date”” will be scen at the Broadway theater, New York, next December. A most_elaborate revival of Moliere's “Bourgeois Gentilhomme" is in course of preparation at the Theater Francais in Pari Mrs, E. S. Willard has written a_one-ac farce called *“Tommy,” which will be played in this city by Victoria Vokes next seasol. Eben Plympton will support Julia Mar- lowe next season, and if that young woman can divide the hobors wih Liin, she will do well. The Kendalls succeeded 1n getting a “fare- well” banquet in London after all, although cold water was thrown upon the scheme when it was first projected. “Ferncliff,” a “comedy-drama’’ by William Haworth, will be played in the Union Square theater 1n September, with E. H. Vanderfelt in_the principal charicter. Richard Mansfleld has engaged Ada Dyas, wio _has been absent wo long from the New York stuge, to play the part of Queen Elizabott in his revival of Kichard 1L Kate Forsyth's experiment_with “The Ti- gress” in London apbears to have been alto- gether disastrous. The critics were 80 ex- asperated by the badness of the play that they were unable to discern much merit in the actress. Stately Agnes Huntington and handsome Zelie de Lussan are both in London and both suceesses,the first as a dashing officer in the opera of “Paul Jones,” und the latter as sen- timental Marguerite or wicked Carmen in Colonel Mapleson’s company. The performance of Mrs. Frances Hodg- son Burnets play, “Phyllis,” in London, was a failure. It tells the story of a heart- less, scheming father, who uses his duughter a8 bait to cateh _an_heir. The young people fall in love with cach other and ire made havpy after innumerable trials and misun- derstandings. “Forgotten,” the play which F. F. Moore has written for Genevieve Ward to take the place of “Forget-Me-Not,” was played for the first time in_ Islington, and attracted, therefore, little attention, although it has in it the elements of an interesting, if highly improbable story. The bill forbidding the employmentof child- ren under ten years of age in English thea- ters passed its secona reading in the house of commons by o large majority, in spite of clever speeches made against it 'by Mr. Jen- nings and Mr. Labouchere, and thiere seems to be no doubt that it will go into force, In s customary spcech on the last night of the London lyceum season, Mr. Henry Irviog anuounced that the withdrawal of “Macbeth” was only temporary, and that the tragedy would be revived, hé hoped, be- fore long. It was impossible, he said, for “Macbeth” w go on murdering people in cold blood through July. It is announced that Mr. Edwin Varrey will tuke the place of the late lamented Joh n Gilbert in the Jefferson-Florence combina- tion next scason. This was nlmost a fore- goue conclusion, as there was practically no one else to enguge., This fact shows the slenderness of the thread upon which the ex- istence of the older comedy, us & present theatrical fact, depends. Louis James is now rusticating with his children at the summer villa of his friend, Stuare Robson, at Cohasset, which is nearly opposito the home of Lawrence arrett. Although “tney do not speak as they pass by, Louis always praises Lawrence's good qualities, and their mutual friends are trying to bring sbout a reconciliation, The Madison Squure theater company will be composed of the fotlowing members next season: Maurico Barrymore, J..H. Stod- dard, Frederic Kobioson, E. M. Holland, Walden Ramsey, Louis ' Massen, Edward Bell, Maude Harrison, Marie Burroughs, Agnes Hooth, Annie Russell and Kuatherine Rodgers, —— Me Ctos» to Thee.” ston News and Courier, “ieep close to me, my God, Keep close to me'l The storm is beating on me flerce and wild, “Thy face is hidden from Thy weary child, On me the billows heavily do roll, And threaten to ingulf my faioting soul! Oh, be Thine arm my sure support and stay, Or else the flood will sweep me far away ! Keep close to me, my God, O! close to me! s “I hide me close to Thee, wy God, Aye, close to Thee! None else can know my bitterness of grief, Nor any heart save Thiue can bring relief, I fear my hands may slip from off their hoid, ‘Phe winds are keea, the storm is very cold, Iut if Thou hold me I can still endure Tils night 1s past and morniug breaketh sure 0! keep me close to Thee, my God! Aye, close to Thee!" e e M When nature falters and requires help rocruit her enfeebled energies with Dr. J. 1. McLean’s Strengthening Cordial and Hlood Purifier. #100 per bottle. SUNDAY, | WILL BENEFIT THE PRINTER. Oonsideration of the Bffect of Intro- ducivg Typesetting Machines. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRESSES. A Practical Statement hy a Practical Man—Review of O1d Time Meth- ols-—~Wages of Pressmen Past and Present. Do Machines'Hurt a Tradc? Theodore L. Do Vinne: There seems 10 be an uneasy feslling among composi- tors about type-setting macuines. 1t is true that only theee of the many re- cently invented are at practical work, but all of them give promise of useful- ness, if not in all fiklds, at least in some fields of composition. It is certain that the machines havercome to stay. Com- positors fear thatthey will reduce the price of labor, nné will indirectly drive them out of busimoss. Much of this disquietude is unneces- sary. That typessetting machines may or will reduce theeost of the work of reprints and cheap books and papers is probable. That it will ever drive any large body of good workmen out of business is absurd. The machines will surely make work for workmen. So far from deereasing the standard of work- manship, they will elevate 1t. This conclusion is warranted by a review of the changes in the trade made by in- ventions in another deparment—that of presswork. Fifty yeurs ago the advantages of ma- chinery in press work were recognized in this country, but they were not fairly tried. Stereotype, composition rollers, cylinder presses, and Adams presses hud then been invented, but were little used. The New York Sun and the New York Herald were trying to print growing editions of their then petty sheets on hand pres: Harper ros. und other book printers in New were doing their press work on hand presses. Books were cheap and editions were smail; pressmen were abundant and wages wore low. Jour- neymen piece compositors were paid on an” average of twenyy-four cents per thousand ems, and earned $7 a week with difficulty. Weekly wages for time compositors were $9, but this sum was earned only by the more active and ex- pert. ‘The average wages of piece compositors, and oceasional time hands was not_over $7 a week. Hand pres men paid almost entirely by the piece, had to do an amount of hard labor to earn $9 a week which the'modern power pressmen would regard as excessive and unreasonable. Although work was hard and wages small, there was even then a dislike to machinery—-a dislike which seems to have been imported from abroad. John- son, an eminent printer from London, had alrcady denounced the printing machine, then in use in Londou, as the destroyer of the living of pressmen, and called upon parliament to impose a tux on machine presswork, so that ma- chines could not work for a lower price than hand presses. In 1840, and even as late as 1848, the journeymen printers of Paris destroyed printing machines in the royal printing office of that city as well as in other offices, because they said that these machines were taking the bread out of i their mouths: Stereo- typing, ‘invented:-by Ged-in the last century, had been delayed-more than fifty years by the opposition of hand ressmen, who -secretly battered plates in the supposed inserest of compositors. Master printers were afraid to use the new process. Composition rollers were opposed by pressmen, because they enabled a” boy:to do the work of the extia man, who wielded the old-fashioned &mking balls. The fist inking machine attachment was found more objeetionable, because it enabled the muster printer to dispense with this extra roller boy, or this extra man, who had been regarded as neces ary to the working of the hand pre Every invention: or process that in creased production was regarded by workingmen as an evil agenc In this countr any active hostility to new mac in'the printing business. Th, been no mobs or strikes against inven tions, but_workingmen look on all new devices with suspicion and unfriendli- ness. They do not see that the inven- tion which temporarily throws one man out of work, ultimately, makes work for two or more men. What would have been the state of the trade if we bad no stereotype or electrotype, no composition rollers, and no printing machines? The daily news- paper, a8 we- now have it would be an 1mpossibility, An edition of two thou- sand or twenty-five hundred copies of a small sheet would, be the highest per- formance of the hand-press, and what severe work this paltry performance would impose on the wretched hand pressman who had to print this edition in a hurry! The illustrated magazine of large edition and low price, filled with fine wood cuts, could not exist at all in duys of hand presses. One could go on and show how hand presses would curtail the production not only of the popular but of the artistic forms of typography. Processes and machines that were once dreaded wre now used by every printer, and they are welcomed as much by journeymen as master. No one will pretend that they have reduced the number of workmen. Where there was one printer fifty years ago, there are at least twenty printers now. Instend of driving hand pressmen out of the trude, the printing machines have really brought more pressmen in it, and have enabled an employer to pay them bet- ter wages. The machines have not even driven good hand pressmen out. In all our large cities the expert hand presman ky inactive demand. He does ut one-half the labor of his predecessor, yet he is paid twice as much and has steadier work., For some forms of print- ing the hand press is more economical than any machine, and if there were more men who could use them skillfully, they would be more generally b They are not used because 1t is ditlicult for an employer to get a boy to | this branch of presswork. He obje because the work is hard, Not for double or treble the old pay will a pressman in 1889 wndertake todoon a fang press the work done by all press- men in_ 1540, The journeyman book compositor of New York, who works by the piece,now carns an advanee of 75 percent on the rates of fifty yenrs ago. The time hand gets twice as mueh. pert machine pressmen in the larger New York book offices are paid 320 and they are specially skilled or active,the are cheerfuily pad a good deal mor They have steoawemployment and com- paratively easy/work, It should be d that the bighest wagesare ulways paid in those oflees that have the most and best machinesy. Low wages are the rule almostiwithout exception in all offices that have little or no machin- Instead of throwing men out of work, machinery has made » dawaond JULY 23, 880.~TWELVE for more work. Tnstead of lowering the price of labor,machinory has raised Tt will be noticed that the prices of composition have not increased as much a8 those of presswork. The composi- tor’s advance is 75 per cent or loss; the pressmen’s is 100 per cent or more. The reason is plain. Composition has mnot as yet received any approciable benefit from the type-setting machinery, Nearly all of our composition is done by hand, as it was done fifty yoars ago, but the piece compositor who works in an office that has many printing ma- chines earns more than he does in an office that has few machines. Indirect- 1y he obtains advantages from machin- ery, which he personally does not manage. As a rule, the average piece composi- tor is abetter educated man than the average pressman. Under equal con- digjons he should and would earn higher es, but his superior intelligence and education do not increase his produc- tion. This production is limited by the slowness of his hands, which is now as it was fifty yoaes ago. If the compos tor was employed on & type-sotting - m chine, he would get some of the benefits of the increased production. With more machines there would necessarily be more composition; there would be moroe compositors, and they would be better paid. One reason why the modern preesman is better paid than the old pressman 1§ because he is a better workman. Tho machine is more complex that the hand- ,and it comples the pressman to e more forethought and inteili- He has to keep it in order and got a fixed quantity of work from it within a limited time. To accomplish this he not have the hard stretching of the muscles that was called for by the hand press, but he does have to do twice s much work with his brains. It is this work with the brain more than that of the hands that earns him higher wages, but it is the machine that spurs him up to this increased mental activity. As a rule, the mecharics who most bitterly decry machines are those who have been found incompetent to handle them. The men who refuse to rn the theory or the practice of new proces —who are content to do work as it was done when they were boys—who “don’t want to be bothered” by the study of pew problems in handicraft—who evade or shrink responsibilities—aro the ve men that employers do not want to em ploy upon their machines. That th may and probably will suffer for thei persistent refusal to adapt themselves to changed conditions is much to be re- gretted; but are they blameless? s it the fault of the master, or the machine, or the workman himsel Augustora Bitters is known all over the world as the great regulator of di- gestive organs, Dr. Siegert’s is the ouly genui At all druggists. zence. to NOSWIS T 'Y Side Spring Attachment; no Horse Mot fon. MANUFACTURER. First Class Carriages on hand also built to ordér. Repairs Promptly Executed. 1409-1411Dodge St., Oni ha, Neb ‘MHICAGOFEMALE COLLEGE™ MorganParknearChicagol School catulogue address G. THAY KR, LI Morgan Purk, LIl., or COMPAGHIE GENERAL ETRANSATLANTIOUE. o Paris: Universal Bxposition FRENCH MAIL LINE h are noted for th r regulurit This 18 also necessary on ccou of the Leavy travel during the spring and » months. McCAGUE BROS., 105 South 15th St., HARRY E. MOORES, 1502 Parnam St.. H. L, HALL, 1223 Farnam St., J. H. GREEN, 1501 F am St., 1ts, Omaha, Neb, MAURICE W. KOZ H B. IREY. LOANED » On (st and 2nd Mortgages At Lowest Rates, Mortgage Paper Bought, Frenzer Block Opp. P. O. A NESS CU v TUBULAR (AR CUSHIONS { A o 2 By ik Now Faris Dit. E. 0. WEST'S NERVE AND BRAIN ‘IRt cAT MENT, & guarantecd spociflc for Hysterfu, Dizzi- ness, ' Convusions, Fits, Nervous Neuralgie, Headache, Nervous Prostration caused by the use of alcohol or tobiacco, Wakefulness, Mental Dapression. Softening of the Hra.o, resulting in insanivy and lead lociy and dea mature Old A Loss of Power [uvoluntary 04 Spermat- Caused by over-exertion of the brain,self: abuse or overindu Fach box coniain one month's tre #1.00 4 box, or six boxes for 4. 00, sent by fepiid on recoipt of price WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES With each order re A by o wil To cure any case s for six hoxes, uec PAG does | ES. OMAHA edical 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, NG T T e = S8 S PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO DEFORMITIES, DISEASES OF WOMEN OF THE URINARY AND SEXUAL ORGANS, PRIVATE DISFASES, DISEAS! DISEASES ES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, LUNG AND THROAT DISEASES, SURGICAL 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, Surgcons aud Trained Nursee, This establighrent is pormanentmedical fustitution, condneted by thoroughly sducated pt s and surgeons of acknowledged skill and experience. The send the purchuser fund the money if the treaime @ curo. Guarantees issusd ouly Drug Co.. Dmgists, Sole Agents, 110 Farnam street, Olnaha. Neb. Institute buidings, situated on the northwest corner of Thirteenth and Dodge streets, is composed of two large three-story brick buidings of over ninety rooms, containing our Medical, Surgical and Consultation Rooms, Drug Store, Laborato; Offices, Manufactory of Surgical Appliances and Qraces, and the Boarding Depar ment for Patients, ¥u charge of competent persons, constituting the largest and the most llwruu;,vlflyf\qui]n\n-d Medienl and Surgi Establishment in the West, one of the three largest in the United Statc 1d_second to none. We have superior advantages and facilities for treating diseases, performing surggical operations, bonrding and nursing patients, which, combined with our acknowledged ubility, ence, responsibility and reputation, should make the Omaha Medical and Surgi 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 city. B We make this explanation for the benefit of persons who may feel inclined to o further east for medical or surgical treatment and do not appreciate the fact ‘hat Omaha possesses the largest and most complete Medical wind Surgical Insti tute west of New York, with a capital of over $100,000. DCFEORMITIES OF THE HUMAN BODY. FOR DEFORMI- ND TRUSSE Best Facilities, Apparatus and Remedies for Successful Treatment ot every form of Disease requiring MEDICAL or SURGICAL TREATMENT. In this department we are especiaily suc cessrui. Our (1aims of su all others are based upon the fact that this is the only medical establ uf:lcturmr surgical braces and appliances for each individual o three skilled instrument makers in our employ, with improved x have all the latest inventions, as well as our own patents and the result of twenty years' experience. ELECTRICAL: TREATMENT. The treatment of diseases b eriority over hment n We have shinery, and mprovements, electricity has undergone great changes within the past few years, and dleetricity is now aeknowledged by all sehools of medicine as the t remedy in all chronie, special and nerve diseases, for nervous debility, par- sis, theumatism, diseases of women, etc,, and in many eye and ear diseases it the most valuable of all remedie . In order to obtain its full virtue: absolutely necessary to have the proper appuratus. We liave lately purehiased three of the largest and most complete batteries manufactured, so constructed as to give the most gentle as well as the most powerful gurrent.” Persons treated at this Institute by electricity recognize at once the diffégelce between our expensive and complete” electrical apparatus and the common, eheap batieries, in use by many physicians. Over 8,000 do invested in electrionl apparatus. PRIVATE, SPECIAL, NERVOUS AND BLOOD DISEASES. sponsible estiblishment in the west making 8 r. McMenamy was one of the first thorough- ly edu A special study of (his class of d! 3 methods anc ave heen adopted by specialists in Europe and Amer He is the inventor of the Clamp Compress Suspensory, B AT use. All others are copied after his invention. By means of a simple operation, ainless and safe, recently hrought into use, we cure miny cases that hive been given up as incurable by medi patment. (Lcad owr book to men, sent free to any wddress.) DISEASES OF THE EYE AND EAR. ful success in this department in the ade many improvemonts in our facili- ations, artificial eyes, ete. and methods of having better ‘We have had wond st year, and have n treatment, ope have greatly improved our facilitie treating cases by corresponden ar success in this department than ever hefof We are fully up to the times iu all the latest inventions in medi and surgical operations, appliances and instruments. Our instivution is open for investigas tion to ar ong, patients or physicians. We invite orespond with or visit us before taking treatment elsewhere, believing that t or consultation will convinee any intelligent person that it is to their advantage to place them- pel under our care. Since this advertisement first appeared, many boasting pretenders dand frauds have come and gone and many more will come wid go, remenhered only by their. unfortunate and foolish victims. A wise man investigates first end decides afterwards, A fool decides first e 1 The Omaha Medical and Surgical Instit i od by the people and the press. More capital invested, more skilled physicians enployed, more rodern appliances, inst- ments and apparatus i use, morc cases treated and cured, wmove suceessful surgical operations perjormned, than in all other medical establisiments in the West combined, 144 PAGE BOOK (Illustrated) SENT FREE TO ANY ADDRESS ALED). COLTTRITTS: t—ITistory, Buccoss and Advantages of the DISEASES of tho ], th 1 drries, Our Lip, Burgleal Oporations. 0¥ DE BV A uit, Dise: o Lis, Ty Medical and Surgloal Tas(itnto. Cidnoys, tkin, Piled, Cup Oicity, Now Iofaedlas, of . Hip Discases, Puralysls, Wry blsmus or How Legs, i DISEAS! 08 of tho Nerves, Cutaraot, 8t Preryglum, Granu!sted slon of the 1 Artificial K L it DISEANES OF WOMEN, I Vleeration Piolupsus, Flex- lous and Verslons, Tumors, Lecerations and « Wamb Part Sixih Dicea N, Priv vous Disessos, Sperm Weakncss), Impotency, Varicoc Glect, Sy philis, wnd " ull' discuses of th Urinary Orggans DISEASES OF WOME YOI WONES DURING CONpINERENT, (Blricty Privite). Only Reliable Medical Institute Making a Specialty of PRIVATE DISEASES, All Blood Diseases successfully treated, Syphilitic Polson removed from tho mercury. New Restorative Treatment for Loss of Vital Power atly 9 unubie Lo tre dut howo by correspondend All communicutions confidontinl, M wents sent by mall or szpress securely pucked, nurka to lndlesto contents or se or. Que Jop sonal lzterview p 11 ousult us or sond history of your caso, snd wo will 1 L plain wrappsr, our BOOK T Ny FREE: Upon Urivide, Spocial or Nervous Dissses, 1mpo- Yoney, Syphiue, Givet and Varicooole, with question list. Address, OMAHA MEDICAL & SURCICAL INSTITUTE, 13t end Bodge Streets, Omaks, Nebe A BrroiALTY AbDE Wr HAVE LATELY A LYINGAN DEPAWTMANE stom withous o vioit us Loy dicines or ingteis /