Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 18, 1889, Page 12

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1880~TWELVE PAGES. THE POPE OE THE ORIENT. How the Patrlarch of Jerusalem Looks and Lives. MORE THAN ROYAL SPLENDOR. This Potentate Fairly Sparkies With Diamonds, Emeralds and Rubies on State Oocaslons—An Audi- ence With His Blesscdness. Excellent Coffee, Superb Wine. 1Copyrighted 1859 by Frdnk G. Carpenter.] Jenrusanem, July 14, 1800.—Special Corre- spondence to Te Ber. j—I havo just had an audience with ono of the highost religlous _functionaries of the oriental world, ‘The patriarch of Jerusalem has charge of the church of the Eoly sepulcher, and as the head of the Greek church in Syria, Palestine and Arabia, he is | to his people the pope of the east, The Groek church contains about sixty-two million members i Russia—a number equal to the population of the United Staves. It has about five miltions in Greece and Turkey, and it is in Jerusalem' the most powerful and the righest church of all the denominations rep: resented there There 18 NO KING IN THE WORLD who appears in such splendor on state oc- casions as the patriarch of Jerusalem. He wears oloth of gold and his great hat is covered with magnificent diamonds, emer- alds und rubies, His bishops who march with him have crosses of diamonds hanging to their necks and their dresses are of gold and of silver bro- cade, and the mitro and other church implements are of solid gold and silver, In the treasury of the Greck church here there are jewels which would make the treasury of many & palace commonplace, and the rich meh and kings of the world have for gener- ations been giving to this collection, think- ing that in so doing they have been buying their way into heaven, The Greelk church has a score of monas- teries aud convents in the holy city, and it can accommodate piigrims by the thousands, Its believers come here from the borders of Siberia, from the isles of Greece and from the wilds of Arabia to worship, and as I write there are thousands of Rassian pil- grims paying their devotions in the gor- geous Greek chapel of the church of the holy sepulcher. The Greek church has a faith which might be called a cross between Roman Catholicism and protestantism. It differs from Catholicism, chiefly in deny- ing the spiritual supremacy of the pope, in its not enjoining the celibacy of the clergy, and 1n its authorizing all of its people to read the scriptures, It claime to be the original Christian church, and says that the Roman Catholics broke away from it. The troubles between the two branches of the church began three or four hundred years after Christ. It was a question as to what should be the rank of the patriarch of Constantinople, and as the pope would not give in the trouble began. It continuded off and on untid about 1000 A. D., when the two churches broke apart, and the Greek church from that time has existed on its own footing. The church has five heads to govern aifferent parts of its territories. Ono of these is THE CZAR OF RUSBIA, and he appoints all ofticials in the church in Russia. The other heads are the patriarchs of Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch and Con- stantinople. These patriarchs are elected by theclergy and the laiyy. They have limited terms of office, but the patriarch’s power over the people is here in Jerusalem, to a latge extent, that of a judgeas wellas of a pope. He settles the disputes of his people, &nd he has much the same power a8 had the patriarchs in the days of the past. The patriarch of Jerusalem lives in one of the biggest and best mansions of the holy city. 'the American consul and myself in going to it wound in and out through narrow 'vaulted streets. We passed throuzh arcades, and with the aid of the consular cavasses pushed our ways through the dense crowds of pilgrims, Beduins and Syrians which are filling the holy city during this holy week. ‘We went of course in oriental stato, dressed in our black morning suits, aud preceded by the cavasses, The cavasses are the guard of the consul on state oocasions. Tney are tall Syrians who stand as straight as West Point cadets, and who walk with the pompous airs of drum majors. They wear gorgeous Turkish uniforms embroidered with gold thread. and their short round-about vests were to-day covered with enough gold to have made the EPAULETTES FOR AN ARMY. Each had on full blue Turkish trousers, which were gathered in zouave folds at the ankies, and the silver-hundled scimeter-like sword of each clanked as we marched solomnly aong. They wore red caps with long tassels on their beads, and- each had an iron shod ebony staff in his right hand, the silver head of which, as he rested it on the ground was on a level with his oyes. These stafls ‘were as big around as your wrist and the silver heads were the size of a man’s fist, They were very heavy and as we marched slong the men warned the crowd to keep out of the way of the two ““American princes,” by dropping them down on the stone flags ‘with a noise like that of a sledge hammer on granite. The wmasses rushed up to the wall a8 wo went by and not a few of the women crossed themselves and some of the Beduins scowled, At the patriarch's mansion, whizh indeed is only a big, plain, stone house of two stories, wo were met' by several priests in loug black gowns, which fell in fuil folds from their necks to their feet, and in tall, round, black caps, with capes falling down upon their bucks, ‘I'hese put their hands to their foreheads as we entered and motioned us t come . We then ascended a wide stalrway at the sides on which were brass railings, and at the top of which stood more priests sunilarly attired, Here we were taken into a great hall where the por- traits of the patriarchs of the past looked down upon us out of gold frames and then on ivto a second grand salon in which were s number of Turkish soldiers and of church dignitaries, and at the back of which ina chair of state sat the patriarch himself, He 7088 us he saw us and moved towards us, "Tall, broad shouldered and well formed, he Is one of the finest looking public men 1 huve ever scen. He Mus a maguificent head, well set on a pair of broad shoulders; large, intel- lectual eyes, @ big straight nose, and a long PATKIARCIAL BEARD OF SABLE SILVER, His bhigh forehead was vordered with a black eap of flue cloth, which rose for full six inches above it and from the buck of which fell » cape of the same color, forming a strik- ang background to his strong, intelligent face. He wore @ long, full gown of some fine black cloth and had had two gorgeous fild medals about his neck, each as big as qpalm of your hand and between these Iuns @ cross of diawonds. He met us in the middle of the salon, shook hauds with and conducted us to @ digan the of his chair state. then chatted through the interpreter, the legation ud- dressing him, according to etiquette, as “your blessedness.” He was pleased when Itold bim that 1 had come as an Awmerican to sng’ him my Easter greetings, and when I told hum that I was the correspondent of this newspaper, and that I intended to tell the American people of my visit to him, he smiled LIKE A POLITIOAL CANDIDATE who has a chance to be interviewed on the eve of election, and he sent one of his ser- vants to bring me his photograph and told i that I might publish it with the article if E:whhut Consul Gilman here made @ ppy remark, complimenting his blessed- ou s handsowe face and stating that supposed he got his beauty from his Armenian-Greek ancestry. There was then some talk about the Greek church us to its extont aud doctrines, and while this was go- ing on a liveried servant brought in a silver tray containing a goldon bowl filled with sil- ver spoons, several glasses of water, and two cut glass dishes, one of which contained & brown mixture and the other wus filled with reserved oranges cut 1n small slices and nnnflng‘ in a molassos-like ayrup. Luckil, the tray was first passed to the consul and followed suit in partaking of its delicacies. Lifting one of the silver spoons out of the gold holder I dippedt into the orange pre- serves, conveyed some to my mouth and then dropping the spoon into another dish reserved for it, took a sip of the water. . The preserves were delicious and the water was 00d. 5 Then there was a little more talk about the Greex church and a second servant came in with another tray more gorgeous than the one preceding. Upon this vare wine glasses fliled with a liquor the color of the dark moss rose, It was flavored with peppermint and had the rich, oily strength of age. Though scarcely more than threo thimbles full, it brought a pleasing warmth 10 the whole frame five minutes after it was drunken, and the doctrines of the Greek church fell on my ear POETRY OF MOORE. This | followed a few minutes later by vaiter, who brought in Turkish coffes, served in little cups of fine china, each the size of the smallest egg cup. The coffce was as thick as Vermont molas- t and delicious and was Coffee in Jerusalem is the same a8 _champagno in China. After the coffec is served the caller can politely terminate his visit. Weo sipped the aromatic liguid, and then, telling the patriarch that we doubted not but that he was fatigued with his labors of holy week, we arose to say good-by.® Hefore we did so tho Turkish generals bade their adieux, and to each of these he handed an Baster egg fromn a basket which sat on the table beside his chair, The Turks grasped his hand before he could let go and, bending low, imprinted a kiss They then, with many crossings bowed themselves out. We suid good-by in American style, shaking hands with **his blessedness” and receiving from him & present of a Bethichem ogg. My egg lies before me as I write, Its ground is the same red as the colorea eggs of the American Easter, but this red is covered with etchings and on one sida thero is a rough picture of Christ ascending to heaven, with the cross in the background and the Virgin Mary holding her hands in adoration. On the other side in & wreath of Olive branches are the figures 1889, and around the top are etched the letters: B-0-C-K-P-E-C. X-P-H-C-T-O C-Z. 1 have made a number of excur through the different parts of Palestine, in e vicinity of Jerusalem during the past two weeks. The land is so barren that it is a wonder that a city of the present size can exist within it, The hills on every side are covered with limestone rocks, and standiny on the Mount of Olives and looking towars the east, you see the silvery Dead sea shin, ing on the edye of a great desert, The land between Jerusalem and the Jordan is made up of rough sterile hills, They are good for little but pasture and there are po roads but bridle puths, which are so rough that only sure-footed horsemen can travel on them. Palestine is perhaps the best known coun- try for its size on the face of the earth. It is only fourteen miles from Jerusalem to the Jorden, and it is avout thirty-five miles from Jerusalem to the sea. Palestine, ail told, is NOT BIGGER THAN A TEXAS COUNTY, and if it had railroads you could c) it in an hour. It is not more than three times as long as it is broad, and the distances and numbers, which are so large in the script- ures, are very small when viewed with the naked eye. Bethlehem is, in reality, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and it can not be more than two miles from the site of Sol- omon’s tewple to the tov of the Mount of Olives. The valley of Jehosophat is little more than a ravine and the valley of Khe- dron runs into it. The villages of Palestine are quite as curious as Jerusalem in their acchitectural structure. There is one just above the pool of Siloam, on the edge of the Mount of Olives, which 18 a fair type of the whole. It consists of houses of one and two stories, built half of stone and half cut out of the rocks against which they stand. There is no chance of any man going around to the back of his house in Siloam and’it is a villuge without back yards. 1t makes one think more of the cave dawell- ers, or of the Pueblo Indians than of a people ‘whose history is as old as time. In riding about Palestine one is forcibly reminded of the scriptures. You meet BIDLE CHARACTERS EVERY WHERE and Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, with their patriarchal faces and their long white beards, look out at you from every hiliside. You see the Bethlehem shepherd on the hills and on the plain, and the plowman with his crooked stick of a plow in one hand and with his goad in the vther, drives his bullock or ass in the furrow now as he did 1 _the days of Christ. Isaw yesterday a camel plowing on a plain that once belonged to the Phili tines and I see wowen gathering the harvest as they did in the time of Ruth. These Beduins 100k not unlike Ishmael might have appeared when his hand was agaiust every man and every man’s haud was against him, and you sce in the gentle, refined, olive-hued faces of these rough Syriuns the same sweet- ness that painters love to put into that of our Savior. Palestine has more and more pilgrims every year. During the present Easter the first pilgrimage from Spain has come to Jerusalem, and I am told that a thousand Bulgarian Jews will be here within the next few months. Our own American pilgrims have celebrated holy week with all the ac- cessories, and they have worked harder in sightseemng and worshipiug here than they have ever done at_home, There are a hun- dred of them in all, and amoug these are a number of ladies. During the days before Easter they rose at 4 in the morning, had mass and went through a series of devotions before breakfast. All day they were busy in going from one holy place to another, and at many of these places they held services, When I called upon them at the monastery the other night I found them all, from the Bishop of Gennesee to the women, tired out, and not & few of them were longing for home. Many of them will carry pres- ents of rosaries to their friends, and many of the Catholic pastors are buying enough rosaries give one to each member of his flock, They buy them by the pound and by the bushel, and they have shipped Kreat cases of them to America. ‘These rosuries have, in most cases, been rubbed over the holiest of the holy spots of Jerusalem. They have been taken to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and placed on the stone which covers the spot WJIERE CIUIST WAS ANOINTED, They have been carried nto the very sepulcher itself and rlucud upon Christ's tomb, and they will bring happiness to many a devout Catholic heart. I'he rosary busiuess Is one of the great industries of Jerusalem. Theie are hun- dreds of stores here which 'sell nothing else, and some of the keepers of these are as big rascals as you will find on the face of the globe. One of them will not soon forget a Jesuit friend of mine whom he tried w cheat. Some of the finest of the rosaries are made of mother of pearl beads, which are ground out at Bethlehem, and which are so polished that they look like beautiful pearls. The beads uré of different sizes, and there is a great difference in the quality. This Jesuit father, who, by the way, is from America, entered the shop in his black hat and long black gown, and picked out & hulf dozen very fine rosuries. He was told the price, and paid for them., 'The storekeeper, in wrap- ping them up, change1 the rosaries and put ounes of a cheaper quality in their place, ‘The Jesuit, whose eyes are sharp, saw the fraud, but said nothing. His purchase amounted, all told, to about §2, and as he took it he picked up some beautiful shell carvings representing the crucifixion and as- ceusion, each of which was worth about 83, Handing these to the man he told him to wrap them up, and when thia was done he took the purce! and started out of the store. The Arab merchant rau after him and told him be bad not paid for his Jast purchase. He replied, “'my friend I take this as A JUDGMENT OF GOD upon you for cheating. I saw you change those rosaries and give me cheaper ones, I will not return these carvings, and if you do not immediately go back to your store and let me alone I will report your action to the Butuorities.” The man saw he was caught, and rather than aliow the affair to be known he let the priest go, One of these rosary merchants told me that the American pllgriml {rom the United States had bought a thousand dollars worth of beads from him and 1 saw other merchants selling olive wood to them in great quanti- i A curlous feature of this church trade rusalem is the candle selling. There are scores of stores which sell only candles for the burning about the holy sepulcher, and for use on the day when the m:racle of the holy fireis porformed by the Greeks. At this time all the pilgrims of the Greek ohuroh buy great bunches of candles and going to the holy sepulcher stand about it praying and singing. 1 he priests march around and the patriarch himself takes part. The night be- ore there are sermons in seyen different tongues, ropresenting the day of Pentocost, and at ' certain timp a miraculous fire springs into existence 1n the holy sepulcher, The candles are thrust into holes to the official who waits within_and he lights them and passes them out. From these others light their candles and so it comes that the whole of the Grek pilgrims get their candles lighted with this holy fire. After they have been once ignited they blow them out and onrry them howe. Their superstition is such that they believe the flame really comes from heaven and that the candles reignited will burn before their altars and will preserve them from harm, ‘The candle sellers do their business even in the church of the sepuloher itself and the court in front of the churchis filled with rosary peddlers, The church of the holy sepulcher is of vast extent. A half dozen de- nominations and more worship within it and Christ's tomb stands in a marble, oblong building in its rotundaunder a dome not quite 80 big as that of vhe capitolat Washington. The scenes in and about it have been #o often described that I will not attempt them here, FraNk G. CARPENTER. PR i Never uive Up. If you suffer with asthma, bronchitis, or any other disease of the throat or lungs, nothing can surprise you more than the rapid improvement that will follow the use of SANTA ABIE. If you are troubled with* catarrh, and have tried other medicines, you will be inable to express your amazement at the marvelous aud instantancous curative powers of CALIFORNIA CAT-R-CURE. Those remedies are not secret compounds, but natural productions of Californin. Sold at 81 a package; three for $2,50, and guaran- teed by Goodman Drug Co. — The National Qu:stion. Kearney Enterprise, I see it on the street car, “Tis written on the wall; Four blocks away the letters show, The're posted high, they’re osted low, You'll see them now where ere you'll o, « Product of modern gall. I go to'sce the ball game, And there upon the ferca The letters white, loom up in sight, Quite plain they are in broad daylight, Suggestive of a fearful plight And Agony intense. Far up the Eiffel tower, In land across the sea, The Frenchman’s pride, the Frenchman's Joy; There, too, is asked the question coy That present bliss will soon destroy And bring you misery. Then let us seek protection That freedom grants So when at last Life's woes are o'er, And we have reached the peaceful shore, "There, no one in our ear will roar, Do YOU WEAR PANTS! et HONEY FOR THE LADIES, The very wide turn-over collars of pure white linen are not becoming to many women who affect them. Stylish coat basques for dinner wear and other demi-toilet uses are being made by fashionable modistes. Dresses and wraps modeled after those 1n- cluded in the trousseau of Princess Louiso have already appeared. One of the most sumptuous tea-gowns sent over this season 18 of white and gold bro- caded silk, made with a demi-trained prin- cess back. Long-waisted bodices and straight full skirts, simply caught up with a clasp, chato- laine, or silk cord at the left side, will pre- dominate in elegant dress toilets ths fall. There are 80 many new and beautiful fabrics now that a dress may be simple yet most charming. The silk muglins so much in use are attractive, both for drapery and trim- ming, Toilets of Quaker gray, dove color and sil- ver peau de soie, Bengaline and failie Fran- caise are imported. They are made in artis- tic simolicity, with dem-trains unadoraed, the only garniture being a Marie Autoinette fichu and frills at the wriats of rare design. Plastrons covered with rich passementeries in gold and cashmere colors are set into bodices that are variously decorated with tiny folds of silk nev and wider ones of silk, or with velvet revers as 4 finish. This gives the still popular effect of an jnner and outer Waistcoat, . Dark Roman red and primrose yellow clai- rette dresses are made with wide insertions of black Spanish lace. Others have a deep Spanish lace flounce, and there is an addi- tional garniture of very narrow black moire ribbon. Other dresses are richly decorated with bands of black silk applique, laid over cream color. A novel fete which occurred in the Botanic Gurdens, Regent's Park, London, was that of the ‘“‘foral parade aud feast of roses.” The chief feature of the entertainment was the originality of the decoration of the yehi- cles, which were driven round and round the gardens to the admiration of the great throng of spectators. Some of the new empire tailor gowns are made with neglige vests of soft sitk, with pointed girdles, trimmed with costly “jewel” passementerie. There are rows of this gar- niture down the fronts of the corsage and upon the panels and colar and cufts, Many of the skirts are box-pleated on the front aud sides, with straight full drapery at the ack. The beautitul soft sheer clairette is much used in stylish gowns for autumn wear. Pic- turesque bodices and sleeves will be adopted for these dresses. A lovely toilet of cream- white clalrette is made in’ Empire_fashion, with garnitures of white and gold silk bands, and caught down at intervals with bands of passementerie. The bodice has a white lace vest with the white azd gold trimmings set at each side, Black and white toilets are decidedly the rage again, and will prevml for months to come. Semi-diaphanous silk and wool facrics, imitating China crepes, show lovely and novel desigus in this combination. Harred, flowered and stripped black and white surahs, India milks sprinkled with black sprays and foilage, and China silks with white grounds showing arabesque devices, geometrical and purely fanciful patterns, are also in great use. SINGULARICIES, A tree was cut down at Orting, W. T., that measured 310 feet long. A mastodon’s tooth measuring fourteen inches in circumference, and weighing one pound fourtoen ounces, was uncarttied near ouisville a day or two ago. An eastern paper saysCharles Zinc has an amorphophallus plant, the only one of the kind in that scction. * The odor of the flower hl“im of stale raw meat,but its color is beau- tiful, A hailstorm in Villafranca, Piedmont, was of such_enormous stones that more than one hundred persons were badly hurt, and a, boy and a girl had their skulls fractured. The weight of sume hailstones was estimated at two pounds. There is & stone elephant in Inyo county, California. The rock that has taken the form of an elephunt is & dark gray granite that is slmost the color of the skin of an ele- po ‘The first travelers in California, it s suid, on catching sight of it, thought that they had found a vetrified mastodon, On the top of White mountan in North Carolina are three trees of the cachoin spe- cies, about fifteen feet high, growing close together, Whoso tops are interwoven so com- pletely and so flat that a number of persons can walk on them with ease. The tops are about twenty feet in diameter, Henry McMullin, a weli-to-do-farmer liv- ing hirteen miles south of Carwi, 1il., has & daughter less than nineteen years old, who, until recently, was a puny, sickly chiid,small of her age, though perfect {n her dwarfish form, and of well-developed intellect. Yeu her llfe was despaired of, and malaria was supposed to have caused her emaciuted form wnd sallow complexion until within the last month, when her cheeks became rosy and her form symetrically developed, to the as- tonishment of her family and friends, Her changed condition has been the gossip of the neighborbood, because from & puny child, one month ago, she now weighs 285 pounds of well-developed womanhood, and is & perfect plcture of health, - Au Expert Steno grapher. Sylvanus Jones, of Richmond, Va., is reported to have written 86,764 words 1n shorthand on a postal card, IN ORIO'S "WTTLE OXFORD, The Charming Mown Where Presi- dent HarrisowWent to Oollege. A LONG ROLL(OF GREAT NAMES, Secretary Nobley'Odlvin Brice and a Number of Semators, Governors, Congressmem, Undges and Some Foretgn Ministers Graduaesil There. The Atmospheve is Olassic. It was my pleasure to while away a few of the long summer days in one of nature’s garden spots in southwestern Ohio. One point of particular interest was the charming little town of Oxford, the seat of Miami university, where President Harrison was educated. There isalways a halo of romantic interest surrounding the youthful daysof any man who attains more than ordinary prominence, and considerable interest has of late been shown in this old col- lege because of the president’s connec- tion therewith, The village of Oxford is beautiful for situation—the crown of a hill overlook- ing two magnificent valleys; wide, smooth streets; great overhanging shade trees; neat, well-kept lawns---all combine to make it a desirable place of residence. Once it was a literary center of some re- pute. That was in Miami’s glowing youth. Two female seminaries---the Oxford female college and the Western female seminary are two institutions contributing to this literary reputation. Miami university was founded long enough ago, 1787, to have made her easily the equal of Yale, Princeton, Cornell, or any of the well-known and well-endowed eastern colleges. Poor financeerin g, however, was her doom, and in 1878 he doors were closed 1o wait for an accumulation of the income or for a state appropriation. Back 1n the '50’s were the palmiest days of “‘Old Miami,” as she is affec- tionately called by her old atumni. These were the years of men now well known—President Harrison, Secretary Noble, Hon. Calvin Brice and others too numerous to mention. Miami has fathered many men prominent in polit- ical life, among them senators, govern- ors—three of them being war govern- ers—congressmen, judges and a few foreign ministers. The recent presi- dential campaign was of more than or- dinary interest to “‘the oldest inhabi- tant’ of this old college town. The man without a reminiscence of Harrison in his coliege days was a man not to be relied upon. There are no very mischievous tricks atuributed to young Ben; neither was he so brilliant | as to be remarkable. But of Calvin Brice, who was a student at this time, it is said he was green, in fact so unso- | phisticated that some of the boys'de- | termined to take him snipe-hunting. The embryo rainbow chaser agreed very willingly ‘to such an expedition. The time was set and ‘everything in readi- ness, except a lantern, which Brice re- fused to furnish, 8o the boys ‘‘chipped in” and bought a good lantern. There are some very wild and lonely pluces near Oxford, and tin one ot theé wildest of these Calvin was lelt with his lant- ern. The boys returned to town in high glee, chuckling geeatly over the joke they had on Brice. Entering one of the students’ popular: resorts to enjoy the joke with some wefreshntents, whom should they encounter but Brice and several of his cronies imbibing at Brice’s expense. He had pawned the lantern for the drinks, It was within these classic precincts, somewhere on these shaded walks or under these grand old campus trees that Ben Harrison wooed and won his wife. She was a student of the Oxford female college when he was astudent of Miami. How full of romance was the air of the old town. Here you have a town full of young men and women beyond paren- tal control and who believed all re- straint from professors to be irksome. In those days Kentucky and the south were great patrons of Minmi. Having then this southern chivalry, rorthern life and several hundred young ladies who were forbidden to speak to the young men as they passed by, can you wonder that there were the liveliest of flirtations, the most vehement love- making or the wildest of escapades? What a field is here for the story writer. Had I the facile pen of the modern novelist I might venture a tale to unfold, a story founded on fact, but fast becoming a legend—one of the *0ld Wives’ Tales,” After remaining closed a number of years Miami was again opened not many years since. But it is difficult to build up an institution which has almost gone to decay. With a magnifi- cent campus, good buildings, surround- ed by a prosperous country, it seems that it should prosper. A small appro- priation in 78 would have tided the un- 1versity over its financial difficulty, but depending now as then, on politics for a livelihood, with strong competition from other colleges close at hand, it seems likely never to recover its pris- tine glory. At the late June commence- ment Mr. Brice offered to duplicate from his own pocket any appropriation the state might make, "I feel safe in saying that Mr. Brice will keep his money in his pocket, for if a republican legislature is elected, the republican Jew will have no dealings with the democratic Samaritan. An institution which has sent out such men as I have mentioned, and such as Governor Denison of Ohio, Morton of Indiana, Yates of Illinois, or Rev, Dr. Swhlfi of Chicago, Whitelaw Reia of the New York Tribune, and many others of literary and political renown, is worthy of someiattention and care. In aland of corn and wine, a land flow- ing with milk and honey as does the great commonweslth ©of Ohio, easy of access from Cincinnati, Indianapolis or Dayton, it has a fiéld for a great future. The shadows of night are closing over the town. The modern electric light is robbing the moon of her glory and the town of her romance, but the ittle city, pretty by day is beautiful by night. | Looking back as we pass down the long hill leading out of town, we see but a light spot on the haze above, Such is Miami university—a bright reminis- cence instead of a shining light, R. B. WALLACE, ——— His Feet Ave Not Mates. Henry Sturdivant is a negro farmer, who works on the farm of K. W, Berry- hill, three miles out from Rome, Ga., on the Alabama road, Sturdivant has always beon aceuswomed to huving his shoes made to order. One of his feet is larger than the other. It takes a No, 20 shoe to enclose his right foot and a No. 14 to house the other. The largest shoe in the world is worn by a youn, lady in Kentucky, who sports a No, 24, —— uestrian Lion. In the Paris circus a trained lon is at present being exhbibited, who rides on %ormbu.ck. jumps through hoops and over bars, fires off pistols and performs @ vumber of similar tricks, | Biotches | Kidney, Urinary | [RCLARKE Bure Curs1} Ghicago, e, { Grar st 'Tho Regular 01d-Established PHYSICIAN AND SURCEON o1l Troating with the Gretost Sl i TGS Chronic, Nervons and Private Diseases. NERVOUS DRBILITY, Lost Manhoos aillag Memory, Bxh B kading to 1y rhaps Consumption or Tonanfiy, reated Siniically vy oew iethods wich Dever-| lNuum. -8y LI8 and oll bad Blood and Skin Dise o Y eured: a URINARY complaints, Gleet, ture, Varicocele and all diseases rinary Ofgans cured grompaly without Pney$ of o-her Organs, e Age and experience ime p"n.g;“cfll Itation "NQ lm; Send g conts postage for Chronie, "II_VHIII -nd‘i)en: ose contemplating M celebrated guide Mal both 25 cents (nl.mrn . Consult tor." A friendly letter o callmay save future suffer: infand thame, snd'ndd golden yearttolife, &3 Book . rrors,” socents (stamps). Medicine §d writings sant everywhere, securs from exposiire. lours, 81 8. Sundays 9 to 1a. F. D. CLARKE, M. Duy .. 100 80, Qisit i < oA O e BR§; Address 'BEITS & BETTS Office hours, 9s. m, to 8 p. m. Sundays, 10 . m. 3 Spectalists in Chronic, Nervous Skin and Blood Diseases. % -Oonsultaiion at office or by mail free. Medicines sent by mail or express, securely ®acked, free from observation. Guarantees to cure quickly, safely and permanentiy. RVOUS DEBIiITY permatorrhcea, nal Lossex, Niglt #ions, Physical Decay. arising from In. tion, Excess or Indulgence, producin ness, Despondency, Pimip'es on the face, aver- 8ion o society, easily discouraged, Jack of confl dence, dull, unfit for study or busiriess, and finds life w' burden. - Eafely, pormanently’ and pel. vately cured. Consult Drs. Betts & Betts, 1408 Farnam t., Omaha, Neb. Syphills, & di Blood and Skin DiSeases ar cors i results, completely cradicated without the aid of Mercury, Scrofula, Erysipelas, Fever Sores, , Ulcers, Pains i the Head and B Byphiiitic Sore Throat, Mouth and Tongue, Ca! T, etc. permanently cured where others have faile and ' Bladder Complants, Patntul, Difficult, too fro- mi- Emls isor Sleepl quent Burning or Bloody Urine, Urine high col- ored or with milky sediment on standing, Weak ck, Gobnorrha:a, Gleet, Cystitis. etc., Prouiptly and Eafely Cured,’ Charges Heasona- ble. 3 STRICTURE! o moval complete, without cutting, caustic or dillation. Cures’ effected at home by patient without a mozents pain or annoyance, To_Youue Men and Middle-Aged Men, s[]RE UR The awful effects of early Vice. which brin, organioc ‘weakness, destroying both mind and body, with &l] its dreaded ills, permanently cured, Adress those who have impaired themselves by improper indul- e:nt'es and solitary habits, which ruin both dy and mind, unfitting them ror business, study or marriage. MARRIED MEN, or those entering on that hap mme. aware of physical debility, quickly as ted. OUR SUCCESSy is based upon faets, 'First—Practical Rxpe rience. Second—Every case is especially studied- thus starting aright.” Third—Medicines are pre, pared in our inbatory exactly to sult each case, hus affecting cures without injury #8end 6 cents postage for celebrated works on Chronic, Nervous and Delicate Diseases. Thousands cured. P~ A friendly letter or call may save you future suffering and shame, and dd golden yoars to lito. (e No'letters an- swered unless accompanied by 4 cents in stamps, Xadress er call on DRS, BETTS & BETTS, 1408 Farnam Street. Omaha. Neb. Health is Wealfh! C. WEST'S NERVE AND BRAIN a guaranteed specific for Hysterl Convulsions, Fits, Nervous Neiralgia, adache, Nervous Prostration caused by the use of aleohol or tobaceo, Wakefulness, Mental Depression, Softening of the Bra.n, resilting {n insanivy and leading to misery, deciy and death, Premature O1d Age, Barrenness, Loss of Power in eithor sex, Involuntary Losses and Spermat- orrhee caused by over-exertion of the brain self- abuse or overindulgence. Each box coniains one month's treatment. 81.00 & box, or 8ix boxes for #.00,8ent by mail prepaid onreceiptof price, WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES To cure any case. With each order receyed b us for six boxes, accompanied with £.0), we wi send the purchaser our written guarantes to re fund the money if the treatment does not effec Guarantees fssucd ouly by Goodman ‘0., Drugzists, Sole Agents, 1110 Farnam ot, Oiaha, N St. Mary's Academy MENT, n (One Mile West from Notre Dame Uriversity.) Theth Academic term will open Monday, Sept. 2. SCHOOL of ART and DESIGN. CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC. cndomic Courso iy KmuE and all urinary woubles annlll/ X"‘”" v and safely cured by DOUTURA Ca sules. B ural cases cured 1 seven days, Bold BLBLOO per box, all drugyists, or by mall from Doctuis ¥ o, 114 While s " N. ¥, Fall dirger OMAHA Wedical and Surgical Ingtifute, N. W. Cor. 13th and Dodge Sts, Omaha, Neb. THE LARCGCEST MEDICAL INSTITUTE IN THE WEST FOR THE TREATMENT OF ALL Chronio and Surgical Diseases and Diseases of the Eys and Ear, ity SRl S £ PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO DEFORMITIES, MEN gf THE URINARY AND SEXUAL ORGANS, PRIVATE DISEASES, DISEASES THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, LUNG AND THROAT DISEASES, S AL OPERATIONS, EPILEPSY OR FITS, PILES, CANCERS, TUMORS, Etc. J. W. McMENAMY, M. D,, President, And Consulting Physician and Surgeon. Organized with a full sta of Skilled Physiciaus, Surgeons and Trained Narses This establishment is a permanent medical institution, conducted by thoroughly educated physicians and surgeons of acknowledged skill and experience. he 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, eontaining our Medical, Surgical and Consultation Rooms, Drug Store, Laboratory, Offices, Manufactory of Burgical Appliances and braces, and the Boarding Dep: ment for Patients, in charge of cofnpetent persons, coi 1s'L|lul|ni: 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 |||||'siu{‘ ‘muenls, which, combined with our acknowledged ability, experience, responsibility and 1':-|mmdon, should make the Omaha Medical and Surgical Institute the first choice. You can come direct ui the Institute, (tli‘ly cg night, as we have hotel accommo- i heap as any in the city, : dnt\%}’::r:?k%“?&:“&g?afi:\(itgl for the benefit uyl‘ persons who may feel inclined to 0 further east for medical or surgical treatment and do not appreciate the fact ghut Omaha possesses the largest and most complete Medical and Surgical Insti- tute west of New York, with a capital of over $100,000. DISEASES OF WOM L SEASES DEFORMITIES OF THE HUMAN BODY. APPLIANCES FOR DEFORMI- TIES AND TRUSSES. = % Best Facilities, Apparatus and Re dies for Successful Treatment ot every form of Disease requiring MEDICAL or SURGICAL TREATMENT. In this department we are especlally su(cessrui. Our elaims of superlority over all others are based upon the fact that this is the only medical establishment mane« ufncturinf{ surgical Lraces 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. BLEOTRICAL TREATMENT. The treatment of diseases by electricity has undergone great changes within the past few years, and electricity isnow acknowledged by all schools of medicine as the great remedy in all chronie, special and nerve diseases, for nervous debility, par- alysis, rheumatism, diseases of women, ete,, and in many eye and ear diseases it is the most valuable of all remedies. In order to obtain its full virtues, itis ubsoluu']{ 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 elec ty recognize at once the difference between our expensive and complete” electrical apparatus and the common, cheap batteries, in use by many physicians. Over 8,000 dollars fnvested 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 class of diseases. Dr. McMenamy was one of the first thorough- ly educated physicians to make a special study of this class of diseases, and his methods and inventions have been adopted by specialists in Europe and America, He is the inventor of the Clamp Compress Suspensory, 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 hive been given up as incurable by medical treatment. (Iead our book to men, sent free to any 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 trealiufi cases by correspondence, and are having better success in this departm han ever before, A 4 ‘We are fully up to the times in all the latest inventions in medical and operations, appliances and instruments, Our institution is open for tion to any persons, patients or physicians. ~ We invite all to correspond v visit us before tuking treatment elsewhere, believing that a v ronsulty will convince any intelligent person that it is to their advantage to place them- under our care. mlvgninre this advertisement first appeared, many boasting pretenders and frouds have tome and gone and many more wilf come wii go, remembered only by their unfortunate foolish victima. i/ A wise man investigates first and decides afterwards, A fool deciden first, then investigates.” The Oma ha Medical and Surqieal Institute is ind ’ Y HMore capital invested, more skilled ph; ns employed, more modern appliances, instrue ments and apparatus in use, more cases treated and cured, more successful surgicab operations performed, than in all other medical establishments in the West combined, 144 PAGE BOOK (Illustrated) SENT FREE TO ANY ADDRESS (seaieo). COLTTENTS: urt First—History, Buccess and Advantages of the Omaha Med 'art Second RONIC DisEAsEs of the Lungs, Btomach, Live Catarrh, Epllepsy, Rheumatism, Inhalation, Tape Worn Part rd - DerORMITIES, Curvature of the Spine, Club Neck, HBow Lej L rglenl Operations. wart Fourth-Dis AND T od by the_people and the press. Al and Surgleal Institnto Kidneys, Skin, P i oity, Now lies, eto, Voot Hip Disoasos, Paralysls, Wry of the Nerves, Caturact, Etrabisious o Lids, Artiticlal Eyes, cto, AS 3 Cross B, toryglum, Grunulsted ¢ ¥l Ty someits, Prolupsus, Flex- Pare FIth DISEALES OF WOMKN, 10ns and Versions, Tumors, Laceratious and Canc Part S1xth—-DisEAsEs OF MEN, Privite, Speciul and N Weakness), Impotency, Varicocele, Stricture, Gleet, Syphilis, and " ul DISEASES OF WOMEN ¥OR WOMEN DURING CONFINEMENT. (Strictly Private) Only Reliable Medical Institute Making a Specialty of PRIVATE DISEASES, All Blood D cessfully treated. Syphilitie Polson remioved from the syste.r withont mercury. Now Hestorative Treatmont for Loss of Vital Power. Patients unable o VIait s iy Lo treated at bome by correspondence. All communications confidentlal, Medlcines or Instri- ments sent by muil or express seourely packed, no marks to indicate contouts or sender, One 9er sonsl Lnteryiow preforred. Oall and consult us or send history of your case, und we will seud - pluin wrapper our BOOIK 0 FEN, Fitki: Upon Privato Speoful or Nervous Disoascs, Iiapo- ooy, Byphills, Gleet und Varicocele, With question list. Addross, OMAHA MEDICAL & SURCICAL INSTITUTE, A8tk und Dodge Sircets, Oumukn, Neks adorrhea (Sl VOUR m,..u'iw, 8pc nal 1 dikcuses of o Gentto it A Brecialry. We HAvE LATELY ADDED A LYING-IN DEFAKTARNT