Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 14, 1891, Page 15

- e + -~ MEXICAN WATERING PLACE. bxrl\mn of the Life and Business of a Mexi- can Resort, CENES ~ ABOUT AQUA CALIENTES, Place Where Men and Women Bathe Together—What it Costs to Dress a Mexican Dude. Copyrighted by Frank G. Carpenter.) Actas Caviextres, June 10.—(Special Cor- Yespondenceof Tnk Bre.|—I am at Aguas Cilwentos, the famous hot springs of Mex | Xt i altogethor different from an American Yealth or summer resort and it might be | bodily transplanted to the soil of western India and not seem out of piace, I am sitting 1 iy long, high-ceilinged room in the Hotel del I'laza, Tt is like all tha rest of the rooms | of the hotel, on the ground floor, and I call my Loy chamberman to make up my bed by clapring my hands, It has no windows and A Jooks out on a little garden full of most beautiful flowors. The hote is built around this rarden. It 1s of one story and it makes e think of a hotel at which I stopped in one of tho native states of Hindoostan, Jeypore, there I had my own servant and he st all uight In front of my door. Aguas Calientes contains about forty thou- ®and people and nine-tenths of the houses of one st hey all have flat roofs the water is drained off through pipes of which jut out abouta foot from the ed:o of the walls. These walls are very thick. They are built of stone or sun-dried brick ana aro stuccoed where they face the stroet, and this piastering-like stucco has becn painted in delicato blues or pinks or yellows, making tho whole town one mass of rauoow colors which, strange to say, does not lrois out of place under this bright Mexi- cun xun. None of these houses have gardens n front of them, They are built close up to he cobble stone sidewalks, so that in going through the town you seem to bo passing be- tween walls of gaily colored bill boards for the posters, each of which kas a ie in its center for a door. The poorer houses have doors very roughly made, and in the galloping mule street car takes you from the depot to the center he town, you see few houses with wi and many of these doors are filled with ooking dark-iaced people. The men in their red and gayly colored blankets look pic uresque, apd the women, with their durk mahogony faces, their long black hair str aming down their backs freshly wev e m their last bath in the hot waters, are in sonie cases very protty and in others as ugly as the Witeh of Budor after an attack of thoe smallpox. 8 mall Investments Noticeable. As you leave the station you pass the pub- ath houses — low Spanish buildings, whiere you can get for from 20 to 50 cents a bati of any kind you want, and go up a long thoroughfare under wide-spreading i trees 1nto the business part of the city. business of this city of 40,000 peopie is a mple of that of the interior Mexican It is big onlv in the prices asked for ticlos sold. Mexico 15 not a great busi- ‘Dho most of the firms uro run capital and there are hundreds of which _have not more than 8200 of stock. Many of these here ave oven less, and the storekeeper, in the majority of instances, has a little cave of a store without any windows opening out on the street, and he stands be- hind a counter which runs right across the tore in front of the door and offers his goods or sule for three times what he expects. to & In tho case of the smaller businesses tho trader is generally a Moxican and there are moroe peddlers in one city in this country than you will find in ten cities of the samo sizo in'tho United States. I huve just come frow the market. Imagine a long tior of stalls around two hollow squares which cover the: areu of a city block. These stalls are occu- ,piad by the butchers and bakers and candle- Btivk mukers, who have the biggest and the squares are filled with tted men in white cotton clothes and 3 skirted, women in white waists and xod skirts, who sit under white umbrellas as {bi as the top of & small camping tent, with itric piles of vegotable and fruit around hers. { Easked as to prices and found that Things Were Sold in Piles d ot by measures. So many little notatoes Ao up o pilo, and [ was asked 2 cents for our potatoes, each of which was as big as o uckeye. A 'plla of eggs cost hore 3 conts, nd a little pilo of tomatoes and peppers were Bmong the things sold. Peppers both green ‘and red were sold everywhere, and I saw that some of the bigger market men haa great bins of them. They form a part of ‘every Mexican dish and ave eaten ln great Quantitie Tlo average Mexican, however, oats very ‘ittlo in comparison with us. 'His market bills are not_ half as heavy as those of his Amcrican brother, and a sewing basket would, ‘contnin the daily supply for a large family, The cheapest thing sold seems to be fruit which grows in the shape of oranges, bananas nd lomons vory abundantly about here, and § G0t Splonaia Granges for 1 cant apieces i he Market in Aguas Calientes. Atout this market, the Mexican peddiers had collected themselves by the dozens. Here was a woman with two great jars of what looked like very thin buttermilk before er. She was sellingitin glasses which held rom a half pint to a pint, to the passers by, t 1 and 2 conts a glass, I asked what it was, and wus told it was pulque, the Mexican beer, which comes from a species of cactus, nd Wwhich is drunk by the barrel every day hroughout Moxico. At the corner boside her, betore o case which looked like & book- caso, stood ashoe peddler. His stock was made up of sharp toed gaiters, and by actual ount Lo had only twenty paits to sell. A itelo further on, a yellow-faced woman in ber bare feet, sat with ten pairs of baby Bhwes beside her, This made up her wholo establishment, and round the corner [ founda very pratty Aztec maiden sitting on & stool and rolling black to- acco into cigavettes, The papershe used was hicker than the nowspaper in which this Jotter will be printed, and she doubled tho paper over the cigurrettes at both ends to make it stay together. Before she did so, however, she moistened tho paper with her - gherry 1ips, and when 1 smoked a package of Nar wires at the cost of 2 cents, it seemed to mo that scont of the cherries lingered there still. It was about 10 o'clock at the time I visited the market, and found but few buy. fng. The weil-to-do' Mexican ladies dressed in black, passed through giving directions to their ants as to what to buy, But I am tolit thut this was contrary to etiquette, and that tho ladies of Mexico seldom do their owu muarkcting, but leave it entirely to the sery- auts, The Stores Very Ordinary. Near the market I found a few very fair ptores, but they would bo small affairs in a town of 40,000'ln Now York or Obio, and a ywestern city of 10,000 could show many fine A'he countors here ran across the whole front of the store, ana only the biggest of them had show windows. Tho dry goods stores con €ained chiefly Pronch goods, and the me; chants werd in most cases’ French or G man, though I found some of them Mexican stopped in. front of a hat storo which had a most gorgeous display in its windows and priced some sombreross, U'hoy ranged from 1 up to §75 apieee, and I am told that some of iheso Mexican dudes wear hats that cost more thay 8100, ome of the hats wore trimmed with gold mud silver cord, and I looked at & $0 one hich weighed ubout ten pounds, and which measured eighteen fuches from one side of the brim to the other. It haa a crown a foot high, and thero was a cord of gold rope as biz around us my wrist about it. Many of tho hats bad gold and silver letters upon them and I see many worn which bave the monograins of their owners cut out of silver and sewed on to the sides, They are of many colors-—a delieata cream, a drab and a black ug very common, and thoy are beautifully ude and aresaid to bo just the thing for this ol sun and the high winds. The same firm old ladies' bats. Most of these came from Paris. Thoy were very bigh-priced and not 8t all protty What it Costs to Dress a Dude. Newr by 1stopped at & Mexican clothiug Btores worth OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. JUNE 14, 18M1—SIXTEEN PAGES. stors and looked at some Mexican panta- loons. 1 hero again found that the dude of our sister republic has to pay for his styls, Many of the pantaloons were made of buck- siin, and the nicest pairs which wers lined with solid silver buttons down the sides cost as high as £50 and §75, and_coats were like- wise high, It ls not hard for & Maxican country gentleman to spend from $300 to $100 on his clothes, and when you take into con- sideration that he has to sport a saddle,spurs and revolver of like gorgeous character, you seo that if one of these big farmers has a crowd of grown up boys, his_clothing bills amount to something. This, however, is the case of only the rich. The Poor Are Very Poor Indecd. The poor here are so poor that they don't know how poor they are, and their clothes cost practically nothing. A pair of these cast-off buckskin pantaloons will last a long time, and the ordinary cotton suits worn by the poor, though high _ considering their eharacter, cost but little. A blanket costs from a dolar or two up, and the leather sandals which are worn almost universally by the Indinus, are uothing more than two pieces of solo leather us big as vour band tied to the top aud bot- tom of the fect with leather strings. These cost 25 conts apicee and last a.long time. The dress of the poorer women is even cheaper than that of the men, and Mexico's 9,000,000 of peasants will have'to mnke more money and have greater needs before the land can become a great consumer of the goods of any nation. Their houses are hovels of mud, and their diet 18 simpler than their clothes, con- sisting of little moro than corn cakes and red peppers. Gardel The only poor thing, howev part of Mexico is the people. here is as biack as your in comng to Aguas Calientes on the n Central railrond, you ride for miles through fields which will vie with their crops with tho vaileys of the Nile or the Ganges, and I am told it is called the garden xico. It certainly 18 a wonderfully rich garden, and crovs of all kinds grow here in all the luxuriance of the guano beds along the coust. It is more than a mile above the sea, and the aj nd so that it produces two crops a year without :anure, I"rom here aimost to the City of Mexico, a full da on the cars, you go through a farmer's paraaise, and plains of rich crops suretch away from cach side of the road until their green fades out into the hazy blue of the mountains in the distance, This region of Mexico has a good rainfall during the wet season, but this is also aided by irrigation, and 1 see tho method of raising tho water from one levei to another is tho same as that used about Osaka in western Japan, It is by a long polo with a weight on one end and with a bucket attached toa rope on the other which worls on n second pole fastened upright into the grounds. You see peons working this crude well everywhere, and the spariding water flows like bands of silver through the green, Spot of Mexico. r, about this The land hat, and A Great Wheat Region. This is a great wheat rbgion and I sce corn- stalks in many of the flelds. Maize is one of the great crops of Mexico. It can be raised in every part of the country, and it consti- tutes 80 per cent of the entire agricultural product of the land, More than $100,000,000 worth of it is raised every year, and it forms the food of tho common people who pound or grind it up and make it intd the thin flat eriddle-liko cakes known as_tortillas. Tho ri s always sold in a shelled stato and such as I have scon has been white in color and large in grain. Great Lack of Water. Up to the presont time_every Mexican city I have visited has been suffering from lack of water. The ereater part of the country noth of here onthe lne of the Mexican Cen- wrat road is a desert and the big mining towns of Zacutecas and Guanahuato have hundreds of men who mako water-peddling. thoir pro- fession. In Zacatecas the water, with the exception of a littlo stream that flows into a big fountain in the plaza, comes from a spring away up on the sido of the mountain and 1t is brought down on_the backs of Littlo donkeys in red clay jars. These jars are tied on by ropes and thie water man peddles them from house to liouse as our dairywen do their milk. In Guanahuato the people are more entor- prising and they have a system of water- works which, however, by no moans supplies the demands of the city. The water peddlers here carry the water about on their backs in im- mense Jars.of red pottery about four feet long and a foot in diameter, and thoy ult these aver when they want to serve a cus- tomer. In Zacatocas I saw soldiers guard. ing tho only working fountain of the city and allowing only so many men and women to dip up water out of 1t'at a time, and back of these, under tha blaze of the Lot ‘sun, other men and women squaited with gourds and crocks oroil cans waiting their turn. Tho water from the fountain was scooped up by these people ns fast as it flowed out of the half dozen mouths of the fountain, and men and women_bent themsolves double in reach- ing over and catching drops in _their gourds a8 1t came or in scooping it up from the edge of tha fountain Where Humanity Mcets on a Level Aguas Calientes means “hot water,” and the ot spriyes horo aro among the fiost, in the world. There are a number of them, and tho people come here by the thousands to bathein their health-giving waters, There isa big bath house kept up, I was told, by the town which has cxcellent bath ing arrangements and in which thero is o vav of hot water about fifty feet squaro which 1s used as @ swimming bath. This is near the depot on the edge of the town, but I prefarred to go to the old baths at the springs about a mle ot in the country. Lheroad to these baths is one of tho finest in Moxico, and the sights along it you will see no where else in tho world, Picture to yourself a long avenue of great cypress troes which almost meet far above vour head and shut out tho glare of the Mexican sun and the silver of tho clear siy. Let these trees be very near togothor, and let them go on and on until thoy seom to almost como together in the distance. Aloniy the sides of the roud let thero bo the groon- est of grass, and on the right of you as you walle towards the bath, place a stream of steel blue water from which tho steum rises as 1t flows on towards you. Let this steel blue stream flow through a littie aqueduct of white stono and let this be about three feet wide and about four feot doep. Here you have the background of the picture. Now for the show itself. his stream is the waste of tho hot springs. It is also the bathing place and the washing place of tho common peoplo of tho Aztecs of Aguas Calientes. They ure here by the hundreds—men and women, girls and bo; lovers and sweethearts—all bathing together in the warm, refreshing.and health: giving waters. Many of thom have washed their clothes whilo in the water and these they have spread out on the green banks to dry. Under theso groat trees as far as your eyo'can seo, thero are white waists skirts and the other bright bits of color mado by many colored sorapes and the gay rebosus which lie on the groen banks while their owners are splashing and playing and scrub- bug themselves in the little trench below. Here is o man bathing, while bis wife sits on tha bank and watches bim, and tho sun croeps through the trees and paints his dark skin a rich mabogany. Here therois a half- nude Veuus, naked almost to the wuist, scrub- bing away washing some clothes by rubbing- them on @ rough stone, and there undera tree lies an Indian half' dressed but sound asicop. I point my camera at him and his wife springs up from the stone whore she is washing and stands over him as though sho foarod tho camera wus some new fanglod gun. Ipress the button, however, and the lens and tho shutter do tho rest. Modesty & Mattor of Custon 1 walk along the stream and amuse myself by taking note of the bathers, They see nothing wrong in their actions, and I noto that there is nothing really immodest, hold or indecent about them, They think nothing \g in fawmilies and_frionds bathing to- r, and after ali I havo again forcod uvon me the feeling that modesty and im- desty are matters of custom and fashion, and am remirded of a little maiden in Egypt who, upon seeing me approach, covered her face' with her skirt that sho might modestly hide it from the oyes of & man, The Jupanese ure in many ways more mod ost than wo are. They ar3 in most things wove polite aud refined. Still, until lately, tho sexes bath together in the very capital itself, and virtuo was not injured, nor did prudery raise her voico until the westorn world taught ber to do so, It is simply.a mat- ter of opinion, and the old French saw fits the case well! “‘Honi solt qui maly pense.” To the admirer of an extra dey wine,Cool Sparkliog Imperial recommends itself. boquet is fue; Vs naturally fermented. s FROM THE VALLEY OF DEATH Our Boys Oharged to Viotory up the Sides of Missionary Ridge. THIRTY-SIX BRIGADES IN CONFLICT. How the Federal Centre Broke Through the Rebel Line aud Swept Its Oppo- n t From the Field, PART IL Written for The Bee. Before looking at Missionary Ridge as it appears today, let us fivst Jook at it through battle smoke on that day when it was the sceno of the grandest military spectacle ever spread before the eyes of man. Our point of view will bo the summit of Lookout mountain, and the date November 25, 1863, Following the battle of Lookout Mountain, ourtroops bivouacked on the rocky slope under the palisades, the top of the mountain and part of the tern slope still being in the hands of the enemy. On the morning of the 2th those of us who lay under Lookout Point were up by break of day, or ev earlier. Our beds were not so soft or warm as to invite lengthened repose; and, If the enomy still held possession of the rocks above us, our situation was decidedly precarious. The timber on that part of the mountain had been entirely cut away, and there was now no friendly fog to shelter us from hostilo vis- itation of lead and iron. We were right under the eaves of Lookout, and we were ap- prehonsive that tho hail of battle would soon bein to drop fromthem into our ranks. Why even @ small force of slingers could stone us out of our cawnp from those rocks of vautage., But as tho light incroases and we see no signs of attack, and hear not so much as the snap ofa cap on the near summit from which Mars had sent his loudest shouts rolling down the surrounding valloys only a fow hours before, it began to dawn on us that the mountain was wholly ours, and all that we had to do was to climb to the crest and claim it under the flag. And_ 1t was soon accomplished. Fifteen men of the Eighth Kentucky climbed up to Lookout Point~ through clefts in the rocks and waved tho stars and the stripes over tho mountain which we had so gallantly won. As soon as our army saw Lookout under the proper flag they raised such a shout as those highlands aud valley had never haard before, After circling for a time around tho crest of the mountain it swept down to Hooker's right in Lookout valley: then it re- mounted and climbed the mountain with the speed of sound; down the eastern slope it sped, gathering increasing volume from thousands of yelling throats; it leaped the “Tennessee at a bound, and it was as though Moceasin Porut were a huge tongue, and the gorge of the ‘Suck” wero the sonorous throat of a mighty earth giant; then the shout ran around our en- tre line in front of Chattanooga. and off to the extremo left where Sherman was preparing to begin the movement against the northorn end of Missionary ridge, from whence it came racing back along the same line on the double quick,and played leap-frog over the back of Lookout with a boyish abandon which made yelling seem the great- est luxury imaginable. O, what a shout! [t was the gallant cry of victory, and Mission- ary Ridge lstened, and was silent. As the Nincty-sixth Illinots, of which the writer was a member, fought on the extreme right during the battle of the 24th, passing over the highest and roughest ground, we were accorded the honor, with the Kighth Kentucky, of holding the mountain during the battle’of the 23th. This gave us the priviloge of viewing from the top of the monntain, that magnificent movemant which carried our lines over the crest of Missionary Ridge and completely delivered Chattanooga from the presence of the euewy. The readors of Tur Brr are invited to stand on Prospect Pomt and view the grand spectacle with us. Look eastward over the back of Mission- ary Ridge, over the Chichamauga woods,over sixty miles of lesser hills and mountains,and the norizon ends in a blue wall which rises 6,000 feet above the sea level. That is the Blue Kidge of North Carolina. in other directions the prospect is not quite so extensive, but vour horizon rings in considerable portions of five states, and includes a wonderful varicty of beautiful sconery. Towards the west lies Sand Moun- tain, inferior only to Lookout in size; towards the northwest lié the Raccoon mountains, and at your foet winds the clear Tennessce in grrceful loops, the longest of which_encloses Moccasin Point with bead-woris of silver. But our attention is arawn eastward by something more attractive just now than the loveliest scenery on the globe. There, two great armies face cach other, ours in Chat- tanooga valley and that of our antagonists on Missionary Ridge. It is about four miles from tho point where wo stand to Bragg's headquarters on the Ridge, but the atmosphere is so clear that we can distinctly sco the entire field of battie from Rossville Gap on our right to the north- orn end of Missionary Ridge on Sherman’s loft. Hooker with seven. brigades, is on the right, preparing to strike the encmy’s line at Rossville Gap: Sherman, his corps consid- erably strengthened by supporting divisions and brigades from other commands, is on the left, and Thomas, with his Army of the Cum- berland. is in the'center. General Grant's first plan is to crush tne confederate right with our loft, and Sher- man's men ave already “up and at them.” ‘The distance is so great that we cannot dis- tinctly see the movements of the troops: but from tho sound of the battle wevknow that the two armies have grappled yonder among the hilis north of the tunnel and are locked ina Herculo-Antwan wrestle, the issue of which is doubtful for hours. It Is noon, and, with occasional pauses, the storm of battle on our left still rages. It is do'elock and the confederate line is still un- broken, except at Rossville, where Geneval Hooker has taken the gap and is preparing to sweep Missionary Ridge lengthwise, “The army of tho Cumberland in the valley bolow us 18 restloss in spirit. Thero is “olo- gant fighting anywhers aloug the wholo line,” and they have not yot fired a shot. But.tighten your belts, boys,” and get ready, for in ten minutes your opportunity will come. The hiero of Vicksburg stands over yonder on Orchard Knob, and by his side ‘stauds Thomas, the “Rock of Chickamauga.) Grant smokes his_ cigar and says very littlo; but his thoughts fall'into line like battalions and Providence favors them. He is about to give an order which will crowd more stirring events into au bour than could be fully told in a volume. He is about to ~ hurl nis _conter against the enemy’s works on Missionary Ridge. Six guns fired from Orchard Knob at twenty minutes to four, was the sigu for the beginning of the movement; and, 4s the guns sound at intervals of two seconds, like the the tolling of a mighty clock, we, Who view the battle from Lookout, seo a maryelous transformation take place in the valley below us. It gives birth to an armed force, who forsake their sheltering breastworks and form in line in the open valley, leaving no reserves benind. What a maguificent line! Eloven brigades ave in line of battle right before us and soven more are with Hooker on the right and eight divisions ave with Sherman on the loft. For a fow moments il scems like & veview. Our lino is so regular and hoir movements are so precise that they seem to be playiug soldie But Missionary Ridge ovidently is in dead earnost, for it leaps iuto volcanic action along its entire crest, Fifty pieces of artil- lery over youder begin to play a stern battle hymo, and it is as though Vulean wers smit- ing the keys with his sledge, and the vault of tho sky were hollow Aitna filled with the reverberaut thunaer of his mighty blows, Shells come circling across the valley, trail- ing after them that poculiar wabbling shriek ta which the nerves mever become scous- tomed; and the air over the heads of our ad vanelng line is dotted with white, eircular clouds, telling where exploded shells have bocome down-rusning streams of jagged thunderbolt, dealing doath and mutilaiion in our rauks. But our artillery is not silent Orchard Knab confrouts its huge autagonist with miraculous audacity, and slings sholls #s though it were little David standing in the valloy of Elab and youder wrathful riage ware Goliath of Gath. Forts Wood and Neg- loy smoke und flamé-é voleano craters in hot eruption: Kort King apeaks wish a royal voice; Fort Palmer belity' its peaceful name and becomes a pugilist fl:mn fron-knuekled blows go straight frouyshe shoulder with tell- ing effect; and even Moccasin Point, almost out of the fight on Weosunt of distance, reaches the rdge mon:‘?rah parabolas which seem to know just wh 1o curve to earth, Hero is A panoramaof war four miles in length, a panorama whero the guns paint their own smoke as i'rolls in_billowing clouds from their bellbWig moaths; where the five is not red streaks of pigment on cau- but leaps and flashes like the live light- nings of heaven; where lines of men ad- vance, and opposing lines resist, and battle- flags flutter, and the O of the battlo—ah, how could paint that {—fflling the whole valiey with increasing roar, and enlisting every echo lurking in_surrounding hill and mou tain to add their voices to the as toundingut- mult. Here is horoism indeed. Our men are not sustained by tho excitement_of close contest, but “stormed at by shot and sheil,” without firing a shot in reply, they are wading breast deep through tho valley of death, seaking to gain a fighting foothold at the base of the ridge, Yes, and they have reached flghting ground at last; for steadying themselves for a moment, they roll down on that first line of works at tho further side of the vall the waves of the wind swept Atlant! down on a low lying reef, and over it the, in a surge of victory, scattering their antago- nists like flying foam far up the side of the ridge. Who can tell what followed. A breathing spell of a few minutes; then yield- ing to & common heroic impulse, withoat or- ders, contrary to orders in fact, our men faco toat flaming “roof and. resolvd to climb it. Some of the leaders try to halt the line, knowing that they are excecding orders, but who can halt that which is to be, for God commands the line now, not General Girant. Up, up they struggie; notone of those trim lines of battle such as you seo in pictures, but irregular, scattering, bent down here and up there, a sigzag lino drawn across & very rough pago, hardly alinoatall in placos—a confusea’ scramble of struggling men, each man for himself, each man for the flag which flutters o'er’ —an altogether unmilitary line exc will go forward. They are now wi y range of musketry, and a_tempest of lead 1s sweeping down tho slope. The marvel is that any of our men dared to face it, or lived through it, for every man will have to pass scores of bullets on his way to the crest. The sun is now oalanving lovel rays over the back of Lookout, and what pur men do to win the day they must do quickly. Yes, and they are doing it! “Fighting Phil" scoms to bo a little in the iead, but other commands are nearing the works at the samo time. Our men are now breasting waves of fire within a few rods of the works. Bragg and Breckenridge are striviag to rally their wav- ering line; they are hurling rocks on the heads of our men oniy a few feet below them, and shouting *‘Chickamauga” as a term of reproach. But they could not give our brave boys a more inspiring battle cry. The grand old Army of the Cumberland ave bent on taking a look over towards Chickamauga from the crest of Missionary Ridge, and Bragg and ail of his army cannot longer’ hold them back. Yonder is a flag at the works—it is on them ! and another there! and another there! and at almost the same moment our victorious army sweep their foes from the crest of the ridgo, capturing fifty pieces of artillery and many prisoners. 3 We are too glad too give in detail the sub- stantial results of that $pfendid victory: but as long as battles are nurrated the siory of Missionary Ridgo will have power to stir the blood to quickened pulsations. Pl e After La Grippe. 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If sultering try =~ WODD'S PLASTER, 1t Ponetrates, ltes KIDD'S QUICK TOOTIHL & HEADACIE CACHETS 13 the only remody that rellaves toohuche, head- acheand neuraigiu, It is the cheapest, 24 doses for Neither powdor, lquid, i nor los Lis the most agteeablat take. = We war- rant this romedy to g1ve satist, Can be malle Hetall of 1 & Loalio and Gooduin Drug Co., € "MARRIED LADIES. 1bt no Just introducy Worey and d 0 those who use oue lasts a lifotimo; ln- o Inkroduce, prapsid Stamps takes. WESEEHRN AGHNCY, Kansas City, Mo. OMAHA, NEB, AFTERNOON AND NIGHT, WA = FRIDAY, JULY 24. Adam Forepaugh Shows THE ONLY BIG SHOW COMING THIS SEASON. The Oldest, Largest, Richest, Grandest Exhibition in the World THE ONLY BIG CITY SHOW TOURING WEST THIS YEAR. 1,20 M, 4 Great Rallway c in the -Rtin 200 Rare ring Tonts * paviilons! A Acres of cloud berenth the tromend Millions nyeste | thonsands 3018, AOFOS, Tho country’s gnla prevontation of the thrilling aad Inepiring oxh LIONS ALLi LERT LOOSK od steol-barrod ofrons ring. You will see in your lves llons tiding a trieyole! s co-snw! Lions dan nids ! You will so0 b Toaping ATl Froo s thno under canvas, the unt famed HANLON-VOLTER S 0 kroeatest of Iving norlnlists In the -dotying Leap for Co0ssal 3-Ring Gircu ) Monster ~ lof Menagerios i & and Aviary vir TRAINED Atan b WILD BEASTS for tho first Wit e ors. Athlotes, Gymuasts and Sp Porf - Inlty tul ot ors, Ineluding the Won Stud Tra g that tme i Hions of overy nal Known o oxist e, I8 gront hord of Wor ainod Llephants. Horscs, Dogs. Mon- nus, tneluding t Horso Ko Rope-Walking Equine “Blondi With SE YOU THE HAGNIFICENT ahd'vro.ifisr PARIS RIPPODROME aitsiiss st | other anlmals ovor a full 4 mile. ontatlon fanatical and Incldents of thi exsiah oraze,” 15) savuges GREAT WILD WEST Inst rally, Virginla reel on horseback, border life In in town in LEAMIN PARADR —— Which takes place at abont 10 o'clock, on the forenoon of show day. It starts from the exhi ground. Al the par- ades in the world, rolled {nto one, would not equ th part of this THREE "LAY! All the Wild als, all the circ deous, wlittord aes. superbly costumed rid features space won't permit to enun stituto OST TREMEN SHO AINS ON ALL RAILROADS, s For the accommodation of the public who wo ho crowds on the grounds reserved numbered seats (at the regulur pricos) and admission tickots § at the usual sliht advance, can be secured at Opera House Pharmacy on the day of Exhibition only. 28th Year---James E. Gooper, Sole Owner.—The Only Big Show Coming, WAIT--FOR ADAM FOREPAUGH SHOWS--WAIT, P, BARGAINS, Urans We Offerthe Following Special Bar- gains at Prices Less than half Value. One - Steinway Square Piang,........ i 312500 One Haines Bros. Square Piano .......c.cccceee. 100.00 One Knabe Grand Square Piano.. . 200.00 One Chicago Cottage Organ, 13 Stops........coee. 50.00 Ome Estey Oraan, 9 SOPS. ... o) 5000 One Shoninger Organ, 11 stops, “Fomictmard 70,00 One Sterling Organ, 11 stops............. 50.00 One Sterling Organ, 7 StOpS........cc. ... 30.00 One Palace Organ, 9 stops 45.00 One Newman Bros. Orean, 10 stops,...... 40.00 25.00 Une Niehiolson Oream 8 SIOPS .0 e dinisin Several of these organs are nearly new, having been taken in exchange and we warrant them to be fully as represented. Payments may be made in monthly installments if desired. Our stock of first class pianos and organs is the largest and most complete ever seen in Omaha, and at prices, quality considered, below Vo LR CRA Y and use your influence in se Cor, 16th and Farnam Sts, and at the same time extend our business and make new customers uring us futureorders, Place name and addréss on back of picture and it will be r I E we havedecided to make this special of Send us a Cabinet Pie- fect ord ‘We make any change in picture you wish, not interfering with the likeness. Refer to any bank in Chi all competition. Be sure and sce what we offer before purchasing. From date of this paper. Wishing to introduce our Ambrotype or Daj 'm.-rutxgu of yourself or any member of i our family, living or dead,and we willmake ‘Address all mail to PACIFIC PORTRAIT HOUSE, 108 & 110 Randolph St., Ghicago, vils Max Meyer & Bro. 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