Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 4, 1889, Page 12

SO ——— e —— e TR A T S A THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDMY, AUGUST 4, 1889~TWELVE PAGES. A JOURNALIST IN JERUSALEN, | Taking Notes on the Holy Oity From Mount Zion. THE BELLES OF BETHLEHEM, Girls Who Don't Ride Thelr Pretty Faces Under Vells Like the Turk- 1sh Women—Among the Caves and Catacombs. The Halls Where Pilate Sat. [Covyrighted 1689 by Frank 6. Carpenter.] Jewvsarew, July 10, 1880, —[Special to Tne ek |—1 write this letter on the house top ©of u bishop's residence, on thejtop of Mount Zion, in the center of Jerusalem. My American type writer stands within thirty feetof the great square tower of David, the base of which was undouttedly built before Christ. Atmy left, surrounded by the yel- low stone walls of houses, is the dark green pool which Hezekioh made to supply the holy city with water iu case of u seie, and beyond it out of the honeycomb of buildings, shines the great bronze douie, which stands over the spot on which Christ was crucified, and in which just now are worshipping pil- grims from every quarter of the Christian world. In front of me, not half a mile aw; on a great plateau covering thirty-five acres, is a big octagonal tower with a bulbous bronze dome. It is the Mosque of Omar and it stands on the very site of Solomon’s tem- ple, while at its left is the church built on the Roman mosaic floor of the house of Pontius Pilate. The horizon on all sides is bounded by hills, Jerusalem lies in nest in the mountains. It is built on an irregular plateau with valleys about it and steep hills running straight up from these to the city and to the higher hilis on the opnosite sides. Around the edge of this platean runs a wall about thirty feet high, and within this wall is THE JERUSALEM OF TO-DAY. 1t does not cover, all told, much more than the area of & three hundred acre farm, and a good walker can make the circuit of its walls in an hour. Sitting.sas [ am, upon the site of King Da- vid's palace, I see the whole ity spread out elow me. What a curious eity it is. Inmy tour of the world I have found no place so full of strange sights, of picturesque char- acters, and so different in every particiar from evory other partof the world. Aside from its wonderfully intoresting historical associations, Jerusalem to-day is @ eity of itself. Forty thousand people are packed within its narrew walls and it looks more likew great noneycomb thana city. The houses are piled one upon another in all sorts of irregularitics, and if you would takea half section of land and scatter over the whole great quantities of gigantic store boxes Just as you find them back of a large store, you might get somo idea of Jerusalem as it looke to me from Mount Zion. These houses have 1o chimneys and their stone roofs are in every almost flat. Masy of them HVE DOMES jutting out of their center and if the town were on a level these domes would look like the hay cocks of u great meadow at time of barvest. Yellow limestone is the materin! of Jerusalem. The wood used in the build- ingof the whole city wouid not last an Aumerican family a winter, and the roofs, walls and floors of these thousands of houses are of cold yellowish white lime stone. Even in the bishop's mansion, which is one of the tinest 1n the city, I get out of my bed on to a stone floor and I walk to my breakfast througn stone Lalls. down stone steps. There are no wells m this city of Jerusa- lem. Allof the water comes down in rain, and the trees ard gardens of the town can be numbered on your fingers. The hills about the city are almost as barren as those of New England, and the only foliage visi- ble is the dark silvery green of the olive orchards on the Mount of Olives and along the hills between Jaffa and Bethlehem, The only preen to be seen isin an acre or so of common inside the walls ot the temple pla- teav, and here and there a_house top, which by age has gathered a coating of dirt from the dus of the city, and on which the green gruss has sprouted. Here and there you sco ruined arches which are too dangerous to be inhabited by the bees of this human hive and on these the moss and grass grow. There is ong green bushy tree at the base ot Mount Calvary, and a solitary palm looks out over the city, beside the business street named after King David. It is not an attractive looking town, and its glariug cream white makes sore the eyes under the rays of this tropical sun. Tue walls of Jerusalem are clean and well cut, and they have not the dilapidated condi- tion of thoge of the cities of China. They are entered by gates which are closed at night, and at each of these gates Mohumme- dan soldiers stand, and exact & tax on all of the produce which comes into the city. The main business gate is that which leads out behind the tower of David toward Jaffa, through which TIE DETHLENEM GIRLS bring thelr vegotables each moraing to sell, and through which all of the imports which come by sea are brought in, This gate les atmy feet, and I can see tho curious vhrong which passes through 1t day in and day out. There are donkeys and camels with great loads on their bacds. There are pilgrims by the thousands, and all of the various charac- ters which make up this curious people. There goes a donkey led by a fat Turk in a ellow gown d” red turban; he is arefooted, and he is bringing wood into town to sell. The wood is the roots of olive trecs, and his donke load is worth just 35 cents, and he has had to pay 3 conts of & tax upon it at the gate. There is a Syrian beduin upon vray Arabian pony. He sits as straight as o telegraph pole and he looks with wondering glances out of his flerce black eyes at the crowd about him, He bas a black and white woolen blauket on his back, and his head is covered with a great ellow handkerchief which is bound about he crown with two strands of hair cord as big wrouna as your finger. Behind him come $hroe camels loaded with the oranges of Jaffa. Each carries a cart load in two crates which hang on each side of his back, and they grunt and grumble as their beduin driver drags them along by a string tied to their noses. Next comes u troop of Turkish soldiers in blue European uniforms and red fez caps THEY KNOCK ASIDE THE CHRISTIANS as they go along, and it makes one's blood boil to know that this land whnich is the holiest of ull to christian nations is in the hands of the Turks. The sound of the Turkish band is continuously heard in Jerusalem. The Turkish sword and gun is erywhere, and the boly sepulcher itself is g;nled by furks. here is a murket nside the Jaffa gates and I can see it just under me as 1 write, Great piles of oranges and lemouns lie upon the flag sidewalk and there are scores of women with baskets of vegetables before them. Mflng of these are from Bethlehem and the Hethlehem girls ure the prettiest you see in Jerusalem. They have straight well-rounaed forws, which they clothe in a long linen dress of white, beautifully em- broidered in silk so that a single fown re- quires many months of work. This dress is much like an American woman's night gown without the frills aund laces. It falls from the neck to the feet and is open at the front of the neck in a narrow slit as far down as & modest decollette fashionable dress. Over this they have sleeveless cloaks of dark red stripes and their heads are covered with loug shawls of linen beautifully embroi- dored, Just above her foreherd each girl carries her dowry in the shape ©of a wreath-like strip of silver coins which stand on end fastened to a string and orown the forehead with money. Some of the giris have several rows of these coins and some have crowns of wold, Not a few have coius of silver and gold the size of our twonty-dollar gold pieces hung to strings about their necks, and none of the women AIDE TARIR PRETTY PACES, as do those Mohammedan girls near by who in shapeless white gowns with flowery white and red veils covering the whole of their faces, look like girls piaying ghost in white sheets. Beside these are Russian girls in tho peasant costumes of modern Europe and Jewish maidens in gowns and flowered shawls, There are Greek priests with high, black caps, and mooks of all kinds such as you see under the Black Cowls of Europe. The Syrian, the Turk, the Beduin, the Afri- can, the Armenian and the Greek are all in that crowd below me, and among them all is the form of the ubiquitous American trav- eler, who in pith helmet hatand green sun umbrella has conquered the east as well as the west. What a Babel of sounds! T'hie noise of the city comes up to my house top like the buzzing of 40,000 swarms of bees and the city grows stranger and stranger as I tey to comprenend it all, It is now more than a week that I have been wandering through it, und 1 find it more interesting every duy of my stay. The streets of the city are 8o narrow that no wheeled vehicle can go through them, and Jerusalem is more LIKE A VAST CATACOMR than o town. Many of the strects are vaulted over and you will often pass for a half-mile through what might be called a subterranean cavern lighted by openings from the top and pierced at the sides with cave like stores. The smallest business s10ps in the.world are in Jerusalem, and a great many of the slores are no bigger than un ordinary dry gooas box. Tbey have no wind and the only light that they get comes in from the front. I stopped this afternoon before a shoe shop. and, out of cu- riosity, took its measurements. It was a hole in the wall cut ouv with a base four feet above the cobule stone street. A rude stone two feet high was the step by which the shoe- maker erawled into it, and 1t was just three feet wide, five feet hich and eight Teet deep. It was as dark as a pocket, and the shoo- maker squatted in the entrance with a board on his lap and he had filled it completely. He was working at a pair of rough Beduin shoes, and the owner of these squatted cross- legged in his bare feet while the cobbler waxed his thread and in pulling it was careful to move his hangs toward the street and back into the shop. ~ The shop was 80 small that had he puiled his thread in the ordinary way he would have barked his el- bows against the walls. There are hundreds of such shops in Jerusalem, and the average busicess place is more like a bank vault than anything else. Next to his shoe shop there was a_Jerusalem restaurant, It was an oval hole cut into the hill twelve feet high, eight feet wide and forty feet deep. At the front was the COOKING STOVE OF JERUSALEM, consieting of a rude slab of limestone with holes bored into the top as big around as a workman’s dinuer bucket, and with other holes piercing these from the sides. A few iuches from the top of each hole was a rude iron grating, and upon this the charcoal was lawd, and by the draft which came in from below the cooking was done. The slab was mounted on cord wood posts and it had five fire places. At the back a rough table with- out a cloth was set_for the guests, and the ouly chairs were little stools a foot high and about a foot square, the seats of which were of woven coras. I was much interested mn a Beduin nn, which I next visited, and I imagine that this inn was much the same as the s table IN WHICH JESUS CHRIST wus boru. It consisted of a series of vaulted chumbers, the walls and roof and_floors of which were of stone. These chambers, like the stores, hud no lights and they covered altogether about the area of a good-sized house. Eantering the narrow door | found four donkeys and two camels in oue vaulted compartment. Upon a ledge near by, with nothing but a dirty straw mat to separate them from the stones, three Heduin weu in their black and white gowns tuy dozing. In another cave-like compartment were several horses and the only sign of civilization was a Kurovean lamp, which was burning American coal oil in the back of another cave. Through my guide I chatted with the keeper “of the inn, aund he told me that his charge for feeding, keepiug and washing a donkey or & horse was 5 cents & day. As I chatted a long- haired gipsy-looking woman entered and I was ild that she was the wife of one of the sleeping Beduins. 1 looked at the food for the camels and was shown a chocolate brown cake which was made of the refuse from the making of olive oil, and uvon asking to see an oil mill I was taken to another cell-like cave near by where a Mohammedan and a negro were grinding outsome of the delicious fiuid which we mix with our salad At the side of the door to this was a stne ledge as high as a pavement, and in the center of this was a hole as big around as a flour barrel in which, with his clothes tied up about bis waist, with bare legs and bure feet, an Kthioplan—whose sweating face was as black as oiled ebony- was standing and TREADING THE OIL out of the ground and mushed olives. 1 peeped over into the well in which ho was stunding and I saw that he had a linen cloth Luid on the top of the mushy-like mixture, He trumped this cloth into the olives with his feet and taking it up wet, wrung the oil out into a red clay basin,from whence it was ponred into pots to be strained for the market. KFurther back in the cave stood a tall, un- gaivly camel and a very small, knotty' little donkey, who were munching away while the mill was not going. ‘These were the animals who grind up the olives, and in another cave opening into this I could see the mill itself, It was much like that of a threshing machine or the bark mill of a_country taunery, and the camel and donkey went round and round in a circle hitched to a bar which turned the mill. Four men slept in these caves, and there were a half dozen others looking on while I made my notes in the establish- ment. Nearly all of the business and manufac- turing establishments of Jerusalem are of this cave-like character. ‘Tnere is a nest in the city known as the bazaars, and this is made up of long streets vaulted over with these caves, opening out from the walls on both sides and with every sort of work going on in them. The tools are, I doubt not, the same as those which were used in the days of Herod and Christ, and the crowd of cus- tomers is much the same. Above these streets and above all of this under Jerusa- lem houses are built. The city has a half a dozen different levels and the Jerusalem of to-day 18 founded upon the remains of SEVERAL JERUSALEMS OF TIE PAST. Iu some places by excavation, other houses and temples have been found below the level of the present city, and there is perhaps no city in the world which 8o well vays excava- tion us this one. Just outside of the present city in building a new monastery, the monks have come upon some very fine mosaics, and they claim to have undoubted evidence that the spot on which their wonastery stands is the place upon which St. Stephen stood when he was stoned. You see Gireek and Romau capitals in many parts of Jersulaiem, und the whole of Palestine is honeycombed with ruins, If the fund, which is now talked of in America, for lmlking excayations at Del- phos in Greece were devoted tw Palestine there is no doubt but that under the proper explorers it could accomplish wonders It must be remembered that Jerusalem has been almost entirely destroyed a number of times, and that it has undergone two score of sieges. The walls which surround the city, and especially those which run up from Solomon’s temple, are from eighty to one hundred feet under ground, and these were undoubtedly at one time on a level with Jerusalem. 1 visited the church of St. Anne & few duys ago and was shown u marble pil- lar as large as any of those in the capitol at ‘Washington, which had been dug up a few days before, and there are vaults and tombs, houses and streets under the present eity of Jerusalem quite as interesting ss those which have been unearthed at Pompeiiin recent times. T have been takeu down to the orig- inal fioor and court in which PONTIUS PILATE EXAMINED CHRIST, and I have had hundreds of antigue silver and copper coins offered me which undoubt- edly date further back than the time of Christ, g These walls found underneath Jerusalem are many feet thick. They are built of great stones and some of them are so care- fully put together, that @ koife blade cannot be inserted between them. One who has not visited Palestine can have no idea of its wonderful ruins. The towmbs of the kings on the edge of the city are large enough to put & city house inside of the pit which, cut outof the solid rock, forms the entrance into them, and & recent excavation of the poolof Béthesda shows that it is eighty feet deep and that it covers nearly an acre. New streets are everywhere found and under the thirty-five acres which is now devoted to the Mosque of Omar and which the Turks will not allow to be ex: cavated, there are some of the MOAT WONDERFUL RUINA OF WISTORT. Just outside of this temple the earth has been excavated for 175 feet before the rock upon which the foundation walls rests has been found, and in one place alone there was found 600 feet of a gallery. The whole of the space under these fores is honey- combed with vast tanks and there is one here that will hold 2,000,000 gallons of water, It is supposed that there are a number of valuable old books under this territory, and the Jerusalem which is now covered with houses hns as many tiers of dwellings below it a8 above it. The upper city or the town of to-day is made up, as [ have said, of a series of stone boxes piled one on the top of the other. Each great stone box is a dwelling, and these dwellings are as curious as the vault like stores. Few of them have any windows and most of the rooms are of the same cave- like charactor. I have gone through the houses of Jews and of Greeks, and I find that multitudes live in a single nest of rooms, and the old story of the Psaim comes back to me: ‘“Jerusalem a city is, Compactly built together, Unto that place the tribes o up, The tribes of God go thither.” Tho town is us compact to-day as it was when DAVID THRUMBED UPON IS FARY, and the tribes not only of Palestine, but of all the world, came here to worship. There are magnificent monasteries scattered throughout the city, and on the very top of the Mount of Olives, a great Russian church, lifts its bulbous domes toward eaven, In the Gar- den of Gethsemane, where Christ spent the night before he was crucified, there is a resting vluce for pilgrims und the Roman Catholics have 1,500 brothers aud sis- ters in their monasteries and convents, while the old Armeniau church ias a big monas- tery near the guto of Zion, which contains 180 monks, and which can accommodate 92,000 pilgrims. There are Greek Christians here by the thousands, and thers ¢ Syrians and Copts by the hundreds, There aro Abyssinian priests with faces as black as your hat, and you may see every costumc and hear every language in the worshipers who gather arouna the holy scpuicher. 'Ihe Jerusalem of to-day is the mecca of millions of souls. It is to hundreds of millions the holiest spot on the face of tho earth. And among the others, whom I have met in Pal- estine, is the party of American KRowan Catholics,the first pilgrimage which has ever been made to the holy city by & band from the United States. It is above all a rengious ity, and, stranger than all, it is agun be- coming a city of the Jews, The Jews are fast coming back into Palestine, and the Jews of Jerusalem,who now muke up a large part of the city, are far different from their brothers in auy other part of the world. Their movement toward the holy land is strange, and their life here is 8o inters that I have made it the tigation, the results of whicl next Sunday, tiug ubject of inves- vill s g A Five-tout Venus. Samuel Minturn Peck, in Boston 1f weary of plodding a bachelor's way You long for connubial glee, Don’t linger in doubt till your tresses turn gray, But sue while still supple of knee. And when you rushforward on amorous eet, Like a brave knight to do or to die, Select a wee muid who is graceful and neat— A Venus just five feet high. Tall women look well on the tragedy stage, Majestic and stately; but yet You don't want a woman to raut and rage, But a dear httle creature to pet. You wish ono the size You can take on your nee, And kiss when your labors are by And that is the reason I say she should be A Venus just five feet high. A tall girl plore, Not even the belle of the town, *Twill take twenty yards or a half a score more To make the dear creature a gown. Then think of her gloves, and hor shawls. and her shoes— Large sizes are dearer to buy. A man of sound judgment will certainly choose A Venus just five feet high. Don’t wed her, dear boy, I im- If you walk with Miss Lofty and treat to ice cream, In summer refreshingly nice, "Tis exceedingly costly to win her esteem, Six suucers will haraly suflice. In winter when oysters are toothsome and ood, You'll never get off with a fry; When you foot. up the column yow'll wish you haud wooed A Venus just five feet high. ‘The Venus of Milo 1s lovely in art, But the Medic: give me instead, If you marry a woman as high as your heart She'll always look up to your head; And wanting & woman to love and to kiss, And cause all your sorrow to fly, Cnoose one who will give you perennial bliss— A Venus just five feet high, et ABANDONED AT SEA. Stowaways Thrashed and Then Left on a Barren Rock. Chief Officer Zollinger, of the Bra- zilian mail steamer Finance, now moored at Roberts’ Stores, Brooklyn, is charged by a number of the passengers with having shockingly ill-used several negroes on the high seas, and also with leaving three of them on a barren rock miles nway from land, says the New York Herald. Early in the evening of Sunday, July 7, after the vessel had left St. Thomas, four negroes were founa concealed in the coal bunkers. They were hauled up on deck by Acting Captian Zollin- ger, it is stated, and beaten with a stout board until their heads and faces were a mass of cuts and bruises. Zollinger, itisalleged, called for a belaying pin and continued the attack on the de- feuseless stowaways despite the pro- tests of some of the passcngers, who had been attracted to the deck by the piteous cries of the unfortunate men. The second mate was ordered to man a boat and take three of the stowaways to a rock in the sea a considerable distance away. The rock appeared to be about a half mile long and thirty miles from lana. The negroes were thrown overboard from the boat, and two of them finally reached shore by swimming, while the other would have drowned had he not been rescued and taken ashore. The fourth stowaway had managed to es- cape the further fury of the captain by hiding himself. A search was made for him, and he was found and again ill- treated, and several shots fired over his head with a pistol. All this was done in the presence of the lady passengers, who were in the cabin crying. A Balti- more physician approached the captain and asked him for the sake of the ladies to cease wrmri"f the negro. He then had the negro blindfolded and thrust over the side of the ship, where he was left for awhile. and then taken on board again, DAs the yessel neared port a young man named James Burke, whohmi been put in irons before the ship left Rio be- cause he had accidently dropped some rubbish that soiled the dress of some rusnuxoru who were coming aboard the ‘finance in a tender, was asked to sign in the log book the statement of the rea- sons for his punishment. He wrote that he had been drunk and disorderly, but as the ship landed he went toa lawyer and laid the matter before him, claim- ing that he was assaulted without provo- cation, and what he signed in V.Lu log book was forced by threats. Second Oficer Zollinger Evelyn is also accused by Burke with ill-treating him. Chief Officer Zollinger was not aboard bis ship when a yvisit was made there yesterday, and all that Officer Evelyn would say was that Burke was disor- dm{« and deserved his punishment. He would say nothing regarding the stow- aways, SKETCHES IN/A STREET CAR. Odd Bits of Life as We Sse Them Beery Day. SHE WAS A SWEET YOUNG THING, But the Ol1d Maid Scowled When She Jabbed Her With Her Long Parasol i~ A Modern Abraham. Street Oar Incidents. She boarded a green car out on North Eighteenth street and the young men with cigarettes on the rear platform shifted their positions to ones more favorable to a diligent study of the picture. The white-chokered bald-head on the op- posite seat twistod himself round and leered vast the edge of his morning paper with one wicked oid eye. The two young ladies with lunch baskets and a typewriter cast of countenance took a rapid but thorough mventory and looked ap- pealingly into each other's eyes with a mu- wal Did-you-ever! expression. Her curly blonde head was buried in a wilderness of white leghorn, illusion und flowers; her aunpled, pink-nailed number two hands were encased in biuck silk gmitts terminating somewhere near the shouider; the tips of two little russet brown shoes barely touched the floor: a tremendous sash enswathed her plump little firure from undee her arms to below her waist; her cheoks had the bloom of the peach and her bluc ey glanced nervously up under long dark lashes. On her left arm she carried a mar. velously-wrought shoppiug-bag, und with her right she engineered a parasol taller than her bewitching little self. She climbed into a seat near the front of the car, and began the inevitable hunt for a fare. [°rom the depths of her hand-bag she first fished up an eighteen-inch pocketbook, scattering over the floor a miscellancous as- sortment of chewing-gum, hair-pins, glove buttoners, caramels, scrans of paper aad handkerchiefs. Then she began the collec- tion of her scattered proverty, while the lofty parasol toppled for a moment and cane down with a crash on a shining silk hat in front. With a blushing apology she snatched it back, punching its huge handle into the fuce of 'a frowning spinster just behind. Gradually, with many a plunge and strug- gle with the' unruly parasol, order was re stored, and the exploration of the pocicet- ook begun. Its recesses were interminuble, and the amount of bric-a-brac in_each separ. ate and particular compartment would be diMcult to conceive. ~As the fruitiess scarch 1 the little fingers grew nervous and chy cheek grew crimson, interest w Ol Bald- head, in his absorption, had drop- ped his paper altogether, and leaned forward with his hauds on his knees; the cigarctie smokers werce almost breath- less in their attention: the typewriting oper- ators became sturtingly eloquent with their did-you-cver glances; even the driver al- most forgot his ‘brake as hestarea back through “the windew, when with u last despairing plunge the hittie hand went down into the shopping bug and drew forth a five- dollar gold piece. There was an audible sigh of relief us the passengers settled back in their seats to meditate over the mysteries of the fewinine pockethook. A case of love'syoung dream appropriated two seats of an avenue car at the corner of Fifteenth and Farnaw. Half a dozen other: entered at the smme'time. Two had changed their minds av the corner of Harney and steped off unobssrved by the driver and without depositing their nickles. The young man had paid his fare while the driver was performing a war-danze at the brake in anticipation of a-collision with the cable, The young man was bashful and nervous, his hands toyea incessantly with his watch- guard or his handkerchiof. He was hard bit, new at the business, nervous and mak- ing the supreme effort of his life. The case was s0 pulpable that befora the car had gone two blocks up Howard the passengers were all quietly but intensely interosted. At this juncture the driver began regarding tae ¢ ple with cursory but curious and inquiri Rlancos which gradually chanred toa cold, stony stare that apparently fascinated the youth. The handkerchiof and watel guard came into more constant and violent use. He shifted about in bis seat. like u victim of St. Vitus dance. Ho fiushed and paled and mopped the perspiration from his fuce, he plunged vi utly into svasms of conversa- tion but irresistably and invariably his ag nized gaze returned to the snakelike unwink- ing stare of the eye n the wmdow. Ivery eye in tl excopt two was glued upon him.” The exceptions had un amused twinile, and were fastened upon @ paper. The hands of the young man went aimie: through his pockets, and the ladies of the party grew sympathetically uncomportable. ‘Without removing his eye the driver jerk avagely at the fare bell, and the young man glanced wildly out the door. Evidently he was meditating flight, and the driver shoved his head through the door and buwled: “*Fare, here, young feller!” Then the owner of the twinkling eyes came to his relief with the information that the missing fares had escaped at Harney, and an audible smile went round the car, while with flaming cheeks the young man and his adored gotoff the car. i One ot the passengérs on the Dodge street cable, the other duy, was a fine looking old gentleman, dressed in & neatly-titting black suit with a white vest. Almost down to his waist flowed & carefully combed and trimmed snow-white beard, snd his hand rested on & silver-topped, silk umbrella, As he left the car with his erect and dignified carriage and vigorous step he might have been the personification of the eventide of a long life well spent. It was Dr. David Wilding, of Crescent, Ta., & patriarch who has passed his eighty- fifth milstone, und whose seed, like Abra- ham's, is as the dust of the earth. On an ordinary postal card, in a clear, firm hand with a fine pen, he had written: “I, David Wildiog, son of Henry and Jennet Wildig, born in Longton township, near Preston, Lancushire, Enyland, in the year of our Lord 1504, came to America in the spring of 181, In the fall of 1850 1 re- turned to England: In the spring of 1860 I once more came 0 America and located in the vicinity of Couneil Hluffs, ~Since then I have traveled wo Salt Lake City and back, I think, six times,ceach jourdey being 1,040 miles. My family is very great. My chil- dren are all living, ten in numoer, I cannot tell the number of my grandchildren, groat- grandchildren and ~ great-great-grandchil- dren. Years have gone by since one of my daughters-in-law wrote to me stating that she had had twenty of my great-grand- children to take dinner with her one day. 1 had s nephew who hved in Hutton, Lan- cashire, England. and & nephew, John Wild- ing, and my niece; Ann Wilditg. I would like them to sce this from their uncle. “Dayip WiLDING, M. D" Dr. Wilding ismow living with his young- est 80n in Crescent: Ta. — The Worl f's Tullest Chimney. The tallest chimney in this country is the new stuck of the Clark Thread company, at Kearney, near Newark, J., says the Philadelphia Record. It is a circular shatt 835 feet high and 28} feet in diameter at the base. This chim- ney cost 30,000 and contains 1,697,000 bricks. It was finished in September last, but its supremacy among Ameri- can chimneys will be brief, for one is now being erected for the Fall River Iron Works company, in Fall River, Mass., that will be 840 feet high and 80 feet 1n diameter at the base. Chicago's highest chimney is 830 feet tall. American chimneys, however, are mere pigmies beside some of the tall Scotch and English stacks, The great Town- send stack at Glasgow, the tallest in the world, 18 454 feet high and 82 feet in diameter at the base. Tennant & Co,, of Glasgow, huve a chimney 4354 feet by 40, and the mills of Dobson & Barlow, Bolton, England, have an octa 1 stack 367¢ feet high and 88 l(‘w(";";lfl inches in diameter at the bottom. rodad - Al The Kine's Diary—July (4, 1780, John W, Chadwiek in The e ntury, “Rien" he wrote, because it chauced that dny There was no hunt of fawn, or stag, or boar, S All else was nothing to the man who wore The crown which once the brows of Hugh Capet Had ached beneath, elght centuries aw, nce then what well-beloved and hated more Had worn it lightly, or with anguish sore. ome 8trong to rule and many but to slay. “Nothing!" And, while he wrote the senso less word, The tocsin rang in Paris; the human flood Poured onward, raging till it came where stood The bastiie, heard How prone it lay. Behold his aimless wit: He and his kingdom were as he hud writ. Peiger " BITTEN BY A SCORPION, Soon the foolish king had A Doceor's Horrible Experience in the Wilds of Mexico. Dr. George Maliett, of Brooklyn City, who is on his way to the mining camps of the interior of Mexico, writes from Las Yedras the following story of his journey and his experience with a seovpion: “1 started across country back with a dangerous looking guidoe, whom I feared might at any momeunt cut my throat while asleep for the little money 1 had. fortnnately, he did noth- ing of the kind, and turned out to be a very good man. The third night out I had an experience that I would not re- for all the wealth of Mexico. [t was just durk, about 7:30, when I dis- 1L alight ap the side of a moun- nd though 1t would bea good time to camp, us we had been in the saddlo almost constantly since 8 o’clock that morning, We made for 1t and found a little shanty inhabited by two horrible lookiug specimens of humanity in the most abbreviated of costume: “The guide told them we wanted to stop ail night, and the female prepared a corncake for me. As they, of course, had no chairs, I sat on a low stool in front of the fire toeatt, I was scarcely scated before [ felt something on my neck, and putting my hand up, felt an exceedingly severe sting on my left index finger \most made me howl. I immediately tied my handkerchief avound it and stopped the circulation and then sucked it, and the old woman parted with a chew of tobacco for it. [n about ten minutes the stinging ceased and T thought it was all over, when’ in- tense vertigo came on with much vom- iting and retching, then a sense of great weakness and collupse, accomuuniad b, aprofuse cold perspiration, then a sharp tingling began in the bitten finger, ex tending over the hand and up the arm, the other arm and hand, then both ot tingled and stung like an elec 1l current, and yet they were com- pletely dead to all external impressions, and 1 could scarcely move them; then my face began to feel the samo way. [ called for water and wasterrified to find that I had lost all sense of taste, and my W W getting stiff and I could scarcely articulate at ali. “Just imagine my feelings—no one near but those almost savages, and they upderstanding not a word [ said, and the horrible sense of impending death due to the depression caused by the poison. Itried toask if there was a doctor anywhere near, but conid not even speak English now, ana of course they could not understand me. It was simply horrible, and I thought surely [ was dying, for the dead fecling seemed to be extending, and I could scarcely move a muscle. With a great effort 1 made signs for a bottle of claret that I happened to have in my bag to use in case of bad water. Most of this I drank, and it braced me up some so that I made them understand that [ hot water, and it seemed almost o before they gotany. When it cume.al- though they could not bear their hapds init, [ put both hands and feet in it without feeling it. Then I made them rub hard, and this they did all night, and by morning I slept for about two hours, being perfectly exhuusted. On awakening I felt much better, my limbs tingled just as though they were asleep, but I could use them; by moving about the sensation began to return. **As soon as I could gev up I got into the saddie again, hoping to reach some civilization in case [ should get wor journey was just half over, pushed on for Yedras and soon found that the exercise was of benefit, the tingling ceased, and by that night I could taste the food. I ate the next morning and had no signs of the pre- vious night’s experience, except a loss of sensibility in my left arm and hand and a feeling of great weakness. Now. five duys after, T am entirely well e cept that T have no faeling at all in m left index finger and half of back fore- arm up to the elbow. I was told here that it was a scorpion that bit me and that I was lucky in getting out of it so easily. 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THE LARCEST MEDICAL INSTITUTE IN THE WEST FOR THE TREATMENT OF ALL Chronic and Surgical Diseases and Diseases of tha Eys and Ear, TTENTION PAID TO S, DISEASES OF WOMEN, DISEASES OF THE URINARY AND SEXUAL ORGANS, PRIVATE DISEASES, DISEASES 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 fall staf of Skilled Physicians, Surgeons and Trained Nurses. This establishment is a permanent medical institution, conducted bythorong}x[y educated physicians and surgeons of acknowledged skill and experience. he Institute buidings, situated on the northwest corner of Thirteenth and Dodge , is composed of two large three-story brick buidings of over ninety rooms, containing our Medical, Surgical and Consultation Rooms, Drug Store, Laboratory, Offices, Manufactory of Surgical Appliances and braces, and the Boarding Depar’ ment for Patients, in charge of competent persons, constituting the largest and the most thoroughly equipped Medical and Surgical Establishment in the West, 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 nursing patients, which, combined with our acknowledged ability, experience, responsibility 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 city, R We make this explanation for the benefit of persons who may feel inclined to 0 further east for medical or surgical treatment and do not appreciate the fact hat Omaha posses: rgest and most complete Medical and Surgical Insti- tute west of New York, with a capital of over $100,000. DCEFORMITIES OF THE HUMAN BODY. Best Facilities, Apparatus and Remedies forSuccessful Treatment ot every form of Dlseune{:{({fh%n MITI)ICAL or SURGICAL DEY . In this department we are especlally successrui. Our €laims of superlority over all others are based uronthe fact that this is the only medical establishment man- ufacturing sur races 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. BELEOTRICAL:, TREATMENT. The treatment of dis by electricity has undergone great changes within the past few years, and eleetricity isnow acknowledged by all schools of medicine as the great remedy in all chronie, special and nerve diseases, for nervous debility alysis, thewatism, diseases of women, ete., and in many eye and ear diset is the most valuable of all remedie: In order 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 ele i 0gNize at once the difference between our expensive and complete electrical apparatus and the common, cheap batieries, in use by many physicians. Over 3,000 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 thi 88 of d ses. 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, acknowledged 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 %}n "\’ as incurable by medical treatment. (Read our book to men, sent free to any ress. 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- ties for treatment, operations, artificial eyes, ete. We have greatly improved our facilifies and methods of 7 e tre “"fi cases by correspondence, and are having better success in this department than ever before, We are fully up to the times in all the latest inventions in medical and surgical operations, applianc nd instruments. Our institution 1s open for investiga- tion to any persons, patients or physicians. 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