Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 9, 1892, Page 13

ARVELOUS MOS 0ld-Time Oapital 8till the Oenter | Rossin's Political and Corumercial Life. uf’ ml[ SUMPTUOUS CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOR L’un"unds of Millions of Dollars Expended ou Exterior and Interior Adornment. JORIENTAL EXTRAVAGANCE OF ORNAMENT * Religion the Life of the Russian Peasant, Iuflnencing His Every Act. AMUSEMENTS OF THE MERRY MOSCOVIANS an Ermitage Gardens—The Park and the ng at the Peopl Inevitable V rloty Theater—At the Races—Rus slans Inveterate Gamblers, Moscow, Sept, 25.—[Svecial Correspond- Bnoe of Tie Ber.]—Moscow is atill the capi- tal of Russia. The czar lives at St. Phters- burg during a part of the year, but the cen- er of Russian political and religious thought 18 Moscotw, and it 1s now the center of com- meorcial Russia as well. I'he greatest rail- xoads of the empire come to 1t, the biggest of 6 Russian factories send their smoke 1to he blue sky above it and its business blooks &re among the largest in the world. It has the fimest churches of Russia, and the prople ©onsidor it so holy that they make pilgrim- #ges oven from the borders of the Black sea d from the edges of Siberia to pray at its ‘$hrives. The mightiest citadel in the world 1s the LKremiin, which stands 1u its cevter, ana the treasures of its churches are unsurpassed by the cathedrals of Rome or the mosques of Constantinople. We hear but little of the Greok Catholic church, but it has one of the most lively relizions iu the world today, and the holy synod of Russia has a capital of 'f*:-,ow,nw Which it can use as it pleases, and its income 15 something like $6,000,000 a year. I visited this morning the Church of Our avior which was completed only a few years 0 and which surpasses in beauty any ohurch of modern times. It was buiit to ‘pommemorate the deliverance of Moscow Xrom the Kronch andhas eost about $40,000 goo. or threo times as much all told as we Jhave spent onthe capitol at Washiugtoa. IThis church stands on the banks of the Mos- Qow river just outside the Kremlin and its great gold dome may be scen blazing out under the sun from any part of Moscow. &t covers almost two acres and 1t is built of a lear, white stone ir the shape of a Greek ross. It has golden oupolas at its corners ‘snd a Russian dome 1n its center, and these pupolas and this dome are covered with copper and plated with polished gold. 1t Yook Y00 pounds ot gold to plate this dome &na there is moro than §1,000,000 worth of @old upon it. This dome is in the shape of an nvorted Bermuda onion and1f you can jmagine an onion of gold the top of which is Just 100 feut in diameter you may get some adea of this million-dotlar golden onion which orowns this temple of the Savior. The eupolas cost $300,000 to gild and there are Dbells withiu this church which have cost nearly §1,000,000. The biggest one here ‘wost $J00,000 and it weighs justthirteen tons. Treasures Lald Up in Churchey I have visited the temples of India and the futerior of this new Russian chiurch reminds me of the wonderful architecture which you find at Delbi. It is finished like a jewekand it1s a b autiful mosaic of marble, gold aud wonderful frescoes, Its altar1s as delicate In its combination of precious stones and marble carvings as a laay’s breastpin and this altas, before it was enriched by its golden icous, silver ornaments and sacred pictures, cost nearly 00,000. The marblo n the building cost almost §2,000,000 and tho oor and walls are of wonderful marbles of malachite and of lapis lazuli. From the floor, ¥unning around the entire church, thers is first a dudo of jasper. Above this runs a panel of white alabaster and marbles of dif- ferent colors succeed one another until they ose themselves in & groat frieze of carvings pnd frescoes by the mostnoted of the Russian painters, Everywhere there 1s gold ana gola oarving. Golden pictures hang upon the walls. Twelve hundred golden candelabra Dold as many candles under the cupolas, and all the vessels used by the priests are of solid gold. Uron the walls are golden texts from the scriptures shining out of the white , marble aud the church is lighted by thirty-six windows of stained giass, each of which is ninety feet high. This ehurch will accommodate 10,000 peopte and when 1 eatered it this Sunday morning it was packed to bursting. Upon its steps Avare the usual number of dirty begwars, and I found that of the 10,000 worshipers 9,000 were pensauts. T'he pricsts who conducted the service wore clotues of gold aua silver cloth and the chief priest had on a tiara set with diamonds. The service was very im- pressive aud nearly every one in the church participated in it, * The priest droned out a sentence and these 10,000 heads vowed in unison. He uttered anothor aud the thou- sands kne.t upon the floor and pressed their heads against the marble. As thn service went on 10,000 hands crossed 10, _ breasts &t the samo lime and of the 10,000 faces I did 0Ot 866 one that was not sober and reverent. Duriug it the music of a great choir of men and boys swelled up through the vaaited Archos, and I could not but foel the impres- sivencss of the ceremony nor wonder why {ts gorgeousness so appeals to these people. Religion is the life of the Kussian peasant. It enters into his every act, and though it may be to u large exteut a matter of form he devotes tho greater part of his life to it, and it cannot but have an influence upon his sharacter. “Catherine the Great's Palnce, Russia 1s more a land of the orieat than of the occident. These people ave as fond of fou.l and precious stones us are the rajahs of ndia or the priests of Hiam. There are 400 churches in Moscow, and nearly every onoe of them has u golden dome, T'he’ holy Buildings of the Kremlin uro crowned with 1d, aud there 1s enough gold plating in Russia to carpet Broadway or to gild the ublic buildiugs of Washwgton, The czar a palace just outside of St Petersburg knowu as Tsurskoe-Selo, which was built by Catherine the Great. 1t is of vast extent and it was plated with gold. It took nearly & million dollars worth of bullion to do tho ‘work, aud wheu owing to the dampness of the climate it began to peel off Catherine ordered it 1o Le painted over. Some lus- slan speculators wanted 1o serape off the old ld and melt it over agein, sud they offercd ‘atherine $300,000 for the job. She sent them to prison’ for insulting her with tho Proposition, and covered the palace with yellow paint, This palace has rocws walled With amber. It hus o parlor covered with Aapis luzull, and the walis aud ceiliugs of one draning room are of the fiuest tortoisesboll. ‘There are 50 apartments in the palace, and the bull room covers nearly half an acre. Ats floor is of wooden mosaic, nud there are other rooms in which the finishing 18 in dvory, tamboo wnd in brovze, The pi MUt bavo cost millious, sud it 1s only ©f & dozen which beloug Lo Lhe czar. I have written you of the wonderful cathe- dArals of St. Petérsburg and of the riches stored away within them. St Isaac's oathedral cost §16,000,000, and there is $500,- 000 worth of wold upon its dome. Single colamus within it cost §50,000, and the chenp- @8t euudlesticks in tho cathedral of Kuzw are of soild silver. The richest churches, however, ure those of Moscow, and 1 have wandered about tirough golden oroaments Bere auriog the past woek uulil my eyes aro tared of tbo yellow wotal, and 1 {on( for a shaoge. Moscow and Its Surroundings. 1 find Moscow oue of the most interesting cities 1 have ever visited. It s ouilt upon hill and hollow along the windiog Moscow river and it 18 almost circular in shane, It is twenty-five miles around it, and the shortest street car line from one part of it to the other takes you a distance of nine miles, In the very center of it Is the great foriress known s the Kremiin, which has a vast wall 60 foet bigh running around it and in which are the old palace of the czar, a halt dozen churches, the cathedral ana the tail tower built by Ivan the Terrible. This tower is five stories high and its golden dome rests in the air 0 feet above the eround 1 climbed to the top this morning and took a look over the city. A vast ocean of green trees aud green houses seemed to move up and down in billowy waves below me, and out of this sea rose the golden spires of hun- dreds of ohurches. There were thousands uvon thousands of trees and the roofs of all the houses were painted green, 1 could see the vast dome of the Charchof Our Savior near tho river, and the Moscow dragged its sluggish course like a black snuke in the form of the letter S through the city below Beyoud the city I could see the smoke- stacks of the factories in the suburbs and justunder me was the triangular wailed space known as the Kremlin, 'Lhi ntains about 200 acres. It 1s paved with cobble- stones, and its massive wall is entered by fivagates. Fach of these gates hasa his- tory, and oune is known as the gate of the Redeemer, or the sacred gate. It has a famous picture of the Savior above it, and ever one, from the czar to the peasant, takes off his hat before passing through it. Every inch of land about this tower is hisioric and sacred. In that church there all the czars of Russia tiave been crowned, and in the treasury to the loft are the thrones of all the emperors of the past and the historic jewels and the choicest plate now owned by tho Russian crown, There are $600,000,000 worth of gold and silver and precious stones in that treasury and there are basins of gold there which are as big asa baby’s bath tub, and two card tables of solid siiver which are worth n king's ransom. ‘[here are in this tower two belts of solid silver and the bells of this tower of Ivan the Gireat are among the most wonderful of the world. Some Big Bells Russia is the land of bells. Every vil- lage church has its sacred bell and thera are mors than 2,000 bells in the city of Mos- cow. The bigeest bell in the world lies at the foot of this tower, and, though it is arainst the laws, Itook a photograph of it tis morniug while the guards were not looking. 1 posed a young Russian upou it while | snapped my camera and I had another photograpn taken with mysell standing beside 1t "his bell was cast in the fourteenth cen- tury, but the tower in which it was hung was burned again and again, aud when it fell about two hundred years ago it was broken into pieces. It was castin alarger sizo and it is said that the ladies of Mos- cow @ frenzy of religious enthusiasm threw their jewels into the metal and this renderedit so imperfect that when it was rung a great piece broke out of 1ts side. Iufeil to the ground during a fire which occurred about a bundred aud fifty years ago, and 1t hus never been restored. 1t now stands on a granite pedostal aud it 1s as big as a good sized two-story house. It is fifty- five feot in circumference, is two feet thick and the piece which has been broken out of its side is taller than a man and you can walk into the holo where the piece was and vou find yourselt in a sort of a brouze tent. T'io piece lies on the ground besize the pe- destul and though the bellitsalf 1s of dark green, this piece bas been so polished by the people leaning against it that its edges are as bright asa brass breastpin. This vell weighs more thau 200 tons, and it would take 409 good horses to pull it if it could ve loaded on a'wagon, The biggest bell that strikes is in the tower of St. lvan. It1s only half aslarge in size as the bell at the foot of the tower, and it is, 1 judge, about twenty feet high and fifteen feet in diameter. You could hardly put it in the average cottage parlor, and it hasa tongue which weighs huandreds upon hun- dreds of pounds. It takes about six men to make this tongue strike the bell, and I tried to push 1t from ono side of the bell to the other, but I found that L was uot strone enough to move it. In the People’s Park. The city of Moscow has about 800,000 people. 1tis a growing city andit will be the biggest city in Russia in the future. St. Potersburg relies entirely upon its official classes to keep it alive, and if the capital should ever be changed it will go back to tbe marshy waste that it was before Peter ihe Great founded it. The Muscovites are among the most en- terprising people in Lussii many institutions here worth notlce, e have Suuday schools for the teaching of the working classes and there are night schools for the same purpose. The Mpscow uuiversitv is one of the largest in Russia, and it has from time to time beeu tho hotbed of nibilism. It was founded by Peter the Great, aud it has students, which is more, Ithink, than any college in the United States. Many of the merchants of Russia are very wealthy and some of them have very curious tastes,” One of the merchant princes hers has a palace which is painted dead black, aod itis the most funeral looking house I have ever seen. It lies within a stone’s throw of the Kremlio, inthe heart of the city. I went out one night to the Pecple’s park to soe how the Russians amused themselves in the evening. I fouud, perhaps, 10,000 people movitg _about under tne trees in couples or in groups, sad a quicter crowd I bave never seen. ‘Inere wers all sorts of amusements going on, from the “American Hill," as the roller coaster is called here, to the dance under the trees and the shooting gallery, but there was uo noise and no loud talking. ~Young girls, as well dressed as our girls of America, moved about without Lheir bats oo, in light summer costumes, chatiing togethier, and there were family parties and partics of frienas enjoylug the evening. There were thousands of children, anda carious feature of the lite was the tew parties which were given iu little bowers of green. These bowers were cut outof a bushy thicket and in eact bower there were a table and soats, Lluch parly paid a few coppers for the use of thi teapot and a samovar of hot water. Many families brought their tea with them and made it themselves, and, by buyiug u roll or & pisce of cake of the numer- ous venders of theso articloes about the grounds, they could have asupper in the open air for a very small price. Amuyements of the Moscovians. Leaving the People's park I drove to the Ermitage gardens. This 1s one of the in- stitutions which you find connected with every large eity of Russia. It 13 a sort of open air concert and garden combined. You pay & certain amount for the privileze of the garden and the concert is free. Thereis a restaurant connected with the garden and vilween the acts vou way get vour dinner, acup of tea or coffee or a bottle of wine, A curious thiug about the concert is itis a sort of a mixed vouug ladies who take ances are by no means of the highest churac- ter und thev are kunowu not to be so. Tney dress very modestly iu black, aud the nighv that I wus at the Ermitage gardens there were at least fifty of tuese girls rang ago from 16 10 25, aud of all the various shades of Russian boauty., Tney were all dressed alike and they saug from tume to time on this open uir stage o a crowd of about 500 men aud women. Between the acts they moved &boul among the peopie, talking to every one aud ready to take a glass of wineor a cnp of coffee from any comer without an iatroduction. There was nothing iwmodest about their actions, and they wery appareatly well treated by all classes. 1 found @ similar gardenat Nijni-Novgoroa and thoy exist everywhere in Russia. The Russians are foud of amusements and thoy Lave excellent tueaters. Oue of the largest theaters in the world is bhere at Mos- cow. It is beautifully noished and it will seat 7,000 people. 1ts six galleries arodrapea in scarlet velvet and its stage machinery 15 of the best, St. Petarsburg has a theater that will seat 3,000, and | heard Matornasiog at the Aquarium there to st least 4,000 peo- ple. Tuere are five regular theaters i St. Petersburg, and during the summer thero are a number of open air theaters and the parks ave filled witn people every night. Heie 10 Moscow I bave speut some very leasant days at the races, und the Russians run good horses and bet high. Pools arc sold JUSL a8 Lhey are atour races and both men und women bet treely, There seemed 12 ve uo restrictions @s to bettiog at the race course, and Liese people Lake very naturaily to gambliug. Every one plays cards, aud oven atthe family Rawes o one thinks of playing without stakes. Lolteries are pro- bibited by the government, and the ouly oues which have been permittod for years were those for Lthe benelit of the famine suf- ferers through which millions of dollars were ruised. Franu G, Canrexves. that varicty show, and the t “in the porform- ROYAL KEW AND ITS GARDENS What May Be Seen From ths Upper Deok of a London Omnibus, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WORLD'S GREATEST BOTANIC WORKSHOP Marvels of Royal Kew's Maseums—Ready Reference and Advisory Barean Ro tes for all the Nations—An Invaluable Selentific Ald. on Copyrighted 1802 Loxboy, Sept. 26,—|Correspondence of kS Ber.|--“Hus is downtrod, the Lord knows, but hus 'as our reg'lar houtin cheap cnough to get to, and wariouser than can be named in a ji X Thus spoke a hearty London stoker, who sat beside me on top of & fourpenny Ham- mersmith 'bus. Along with him were his buxom wife anda four red chesked children. It was early of & Saturday afternoon, and there was not a bappier family, “downtroa” or otherwise, in all London. "My missus 'ere,” proudly clapping his huge hand on his wife's abundant knees, “an’ Hian’ the yonng uns be goin' o'erto Kew.' Missus loikes w'ere she can plunk ‘erself flat v grass, tho' Hi allus savs, ‘Poll, grass an’ rheamatiz grows t'gether,’ an’ the young uns romps an’ gailops tike mad. Hi says, ‘Poll, them young uns’ll wasto thair- sel’s to bone from 'oppin’ an’ steamin’ round Kew. But Poll says back to me, ‘Scat, Han- drew, hit makes ‘em sleep like haldermen an’ heat like paupers,’ an’ so Kew hit is if it takes my last bob for hour houting. Been to Kew, siri” No, I had not, but I should be glaa to see the gardens, I told him. “W'y, Lord bless hus! come right 'long wi bus, Hiv'll do ye good, sir!" And so it did, for I keot in the delightful company of the ‘*downtrod” all the way out on the pleasant journey, returned to the city with them, and never lost sight of them until the blazing evoning lights of the winding Strand shone on the tired family safely en- sconsced on the deck of a Whitechapel *bus, which whirled them away to their lowly home in that world’s foulest slavepen—the east end of mizhty London. Enroute to Royal Kew. It1s an interesting little journay by under- ground railway, by river or by road to royal Kew. Iuteresting below ground for the glimpses of the folk who live down there in the bowels of the earth—station masters, porters, news clerks ana barmaids—out of whnose faces, Jike the Cornish miners, the light and color have gone, and who wove about in a desolate, discouraged way, &s though nopeless prisoners there. You read pathos and heart- ache all along these foul under- ground ways; breathe a prayer that our cities shall never know them; and wish vou could whisk all these white-faced toilers with “Handrew” and the ‘‘young uns" for a romp about the lovely gardens uf Kew. A thousand historic places and lordly structures are passed should you go by boat upon the Tnames, [t is not ouly these and the vast throng of craft you see from your steamer’s side, but you recall the royal pro- cessions of boat and barge of other days passing and repassing from London to won- drous Hampton Court, and these bear vou wraithful company. The whole stream is sounded with music, German banas, Italian bauds, Swiss bands, Hungarian bands aund Gypsy bands crowd these boats and give ood music, too. Swift are the steamers, and & mighty wash is teft behind them, while all the tiny boats atloat seem to dance and our- vet in your wake to the endless musio ot the Thames. Seen from a 'Bus Roof. From the roof ot a ’bus you see miles upon miles of the wealthiest part of West Londoon. Hero is Piccadilly, with its aristocratio club- lund on the right; Green Park and lordly Buckingham Palace are oa tho ‘corner, Knightsbridge, Albert Moemorial, Kensing- ton gardens, Kensington, Holland Park, Olympia and Hammersmith follow, and then you come to wnere the hedges, ayenues und villas hint of the restful rural scenes of Eng- land. Bright indeed is this road to Iew, through busy Hammersmith and drowsy Chiswick, with its nursery grounds and glass houses by the wayside and fine market gar- dens crowded close by new houses, and dreamful Gunnersbury, where the ancient forests show in dark masses against the horizon. There are lush orcbards, too, whers the rich fruit dapples the fading leaves, and meadows wavy and rich, where the late but- tercups aud duisies star the tender green. And then the mossy bridgos, with steop old fashioned pitch and broad, crumbling parapets, where rosy cheeked lasses still linger and marvel as your 'bus goes rum- bling by; gray turostiles leading to brown desp footpaths that wind tarougn gardens and fieids, where some oue, as in the ola days, always tarries and turns to zazo at passers, zazing in tueir turn, as though the two were the only ones seen in a whole day’s journey; the gay but stolid-looking barges lying here a-d there in the backwater against the shore, and finally, quaint old Kew Green, where the years bring no change ana where evervihing is so little, oad aund antiquated that you could feel no surprise if Farmer Georgo and Queeu Charlotte with lumbering caleche and six horses came dash- ing through the gates of royal Kew, O1d and Now Kew, About 200 years ago Lord Capel laid out tho garden whuich has since become not onl, one of iondon's mosi beautiful pleasu grounds, but a sclentific institution whose influence and benelits reach to all quarters of the globe. Ou the death of Lord Capel 1n 1606, the estate passed into the hands of his son in-law, wbo made the place stiil more fawous as the headquarters of Englisn astronomers. Under the advico of the earl of Bute the dowager Princess Augusta made it & scientitic establishment, and it was called the “Physio Garden.’ As early as 1768 Sir John “Hill published & catalogue of the plauts of Kew. Thers wero then fitty feras, 600 Lrees and shrubs ua_several thousand herbaceous plauts. ln 1750 the estate was bought by George 111, [ie devoled much money and attention 1o its improve- ment, “Iarmer George” he was called, in praise oy scientists and in derision by tax- payers, for bis pains, Fora long lme after this monurcu’s death the gardens sank into neglect. It was then proposed to disestab- lish and disendow them. A protest was raised und the whelo kingdom opposed, whereupou Lho gardens were surrendered by the crown and became a nationul estab- lishment in 1840, “Chen royal Kew inname became royal Kew n fact under the directorships of Sir W, J, Hooker, who remained in charge until his deatn in 1863, wua his son, Sir Joseph Hooker, the renowaed traveler and botanist, who succeedod him. The latter is knswn to every student of botany in the world from his “Flora Antarctica,” *Himalayan Jour- nals” und bis great work, “(ienera Plant arum,” and the tremendous imporiatce of IKew as an wternationsl scientific educator has been almost wholly due 1o his genius for compelling Its work L0 cover & vast and prac- tically limitless fisld, Sclentitic Kew, To faintly illustrate tuis extraordinary comprehensiveness it may be truly said that wherever in the worid oclassiticalion of new plants is required Kew stands ready to at- tend to the wmatter. Wherever new plants are wantod for cultivation these royal gurde will supply them, ard this readiness of supply is not at all limited o Brtish subjects or colonies, Where plant disease threaléns or pests approach, Kew will consult and advise, For- g0 institutions co-operate in ail these boue- Lists of new plants are con- stantly being published. Lists of seeds ma- tured bere are also printed, and the institu- tion wisely goes so far s L0 exchange these seeds with regulur correspondeuts all over the world, T'his magazine of seeds is nominally col- lected for the bonefit of similar ussoeiations which may sometime in part return like favors. But any one in auy part of the globe applying with a serious purpose for seeds or plauts is uot refused. Atthetimeof my visit apolications lay upon the curator's desk from Oregon, Texas und Biilish Columbia ia America; from English shires, from South Africa, Cevlon, luaia and Guatemala. Al were 10 be served with equal attestion. This SUNDAY,’(CTOBER 9, 1892-SIXTEEN PAG charsctoristic of Kew gi he whole world P ’ an {nterest in ita resourdes, proficlency and incronsed powers for integalivngo of botanic knowledge and atd | How the rapidiy incrMslng population of | the globe may be provia: with food and olothing is regarded ns_a problom faling | hin the province of Kew's authorities, The splendid sucoess of }w cinchona planta- What is € wanted of tions in India also illustrgtes the scape of the work at_the royal zardéns. Tho Peruvian supply was showing oxnaustion. Quinine | was becoming alarmi xpensive. Cin- | chona seeds and voung %:{\\'nm secured in | | Peru, brought here to nd nursed, and finaily given snccessful culture in Jamaica, Ceylon and Bengal, until the annual output p fap 3 $ fa {rom these sources amounts to neariy 100, '\()‘11) h” lh( \|\“‘ 15 ‘l) 000 ds. Th i fit to all me H . - h SR Ak ot b M wash it clean and not Botanic Workshop of the World, ! hurt it. Pure soap does It will thus be seen that royal Kew 1s not .~ . only a favorite resort for hohdav visitors, | that. This is why we Hut it is the greal ventral botanic workshop v of the world; not a flower show nora protty | want pure soap; and, park nerely, for serious and vast work is accomplished here eve r. And nothing when we sav pure, we is too trifling to roceivo Kew's candid atten- . ) \ tion. Itis a matter of record that “‘debate mean without alkali :ns |;ceu gravely held, opinions even have J oen formed and reported upon such matters - g o d asa South African eane, which somo gen Pears’ is purc; no al- tlemen in those , distant parts thought adapted to fishing rods: upon the values of West Africa palm kernels as material for coat buttons, and upon @ pithy stem which the government of & West Indies island be- lieved suitable for razor strops. Kow is now training young men to fill botanic situations in the colonics, In- struction is given in principles of scien- tific botany, and the general conditions Koverning ~ horticulture under differing conditions and circumstances, In the aud Kew is repald. Nearly all these men, becoming emigrants, remain enthusiastic correspondents witt and contributors to the stores of the royal gardens. Mr. Thiselton Dyer, who bscame director of Kew in 1886, 1s only tho Hfth in a period of 130 years, and is broadening ruther tnan restricting the field of scientific investiga- tion so nobly opened ana develoned by Sir Willlam Hooker and his son, Sir Joseph. Arhoral nnd Herbal Treasures, The gardens and grounds are extensive. Those portions known as the Botanic gar- dens comprise nearly thirty acros, and the pleasure grounds and arboretum havean area of 270 acres. Beyond, stretching to Rich- mond, is the old Deer park of about 400 acres, though only a small portion of the latter is accossible Lo the public. In front of the gar- dens stretches a broad smooth walk, and dot ted about the lawns aronoble specimens of Vil 2 Italian, Spanish and Corsican pines. At the ‘ 3 ond of these one sees the old red brick house 5 in whicn Queen Charlotte died. To the left q add is the prinocipal avenue, with flower parterves on either side. In the distance the wag- | | nificent palm house rises hike a fairy palace, N p 0 Ay Q aud beside it aro tiny lakes wiih flocks of b \ \ h aquatic birds U B ) The herbarium at Kew is undoubtedly the finest n existence. The number of speci The only uniformly successfu SPECIALISTS IN AMERICA IN THE TREATMENT AND CURE OF NERVOLS, CHRONIC mncluded. They fill a large structure in tho AND PRIVATE DISEASES great hall added in 1376, fitted with two SYPHILIS, GONOR- tiers of Light iron galleries. Begiuuiug with tho ranunculaccie on the ground floor they RHOEA, GLEET, SPER- MATORRHOEA, conclude with tho grasses up aloft. There SEMINAL WEAK- kali in it; no free alkali. There are a thousand virtues of soap; this one is cnough. You can trust a soap that has no biting alkali in it. All sorts of stores scll t, especially druggis 11 sorts of people use it is no red tape here to oppose the student A tablo stands in_each corner for bis con- venience. All specimens are arranged after the system of Sir Joseph Hooker's great work, the “Genera Plantarum,” so that the visitor only Lias to give the number attached toa particular gonus and the portfolio con- taining the corresponding specimen is befope him in an instant. Kew's luvaluable Museums. In the garden proper the smaller plants are found in almost endless variet, Alto- gether there are nearly 30,000 species. Small as is this proportion to the total sum of nature’s wealth, the kuowledee, patience and labor in forming sucn a vast collection are in themseives almost 1nconceivable. Think of 3,000 species trees and shrubs, 3,000 greenhouse plants, %500 “stove plants,” 1,200 ferns, 1,000 succulents and 1,500 orchids among this bewildering collection in one compact garden ! The Museum of Economic Botany was es- NES LOST tablished in 1847, Its influence upon trade MANHOOD, EF- has undoubtedly since beon incrensingly felt FECTS OF EAR- 1o the two hemisbberes. Every tred and LY VICE plant Known to serve a useful purpose is EXCE e represented here, ‘with - illustrations of the mauner of its employment and most valuable INDULGE use; while the Museum of Timver is a per- IN MATURER manent world's exposition of woods. The YEARS, FEMALE showing in this frow the two Americas and WEAKNESS, SEX- the West Iudies exceeds that of the rest of UAL DISORDERS, tho world in extent and variety; and every great American oity should duplicate this tini- ber exhivit. The economic suggestiveness and hints to woodsworkers, from the most ordinary necessities of building timvers to the highest possibilities in art woods and woodworking art, would prove invaluable, To the casual visitor the show places of royal Kew are the great palmhbouss and the structure housing the huge water maizo of Central America, named Victoria rezina_by its aiscoverers in compliment to Queen Vic- toria, IRICTURS HYDROCELE, VARICO- CELE, PILES, FISTULA, RECTAL ULCERS. Botanic Marvels. The palmhouse is & veritablo crystal pal- ace. It is 362 feet long and 100 feet wide. 1t stands gear the center of the gardens, with a broad terrace and the lakos with their aquatic flocks in front. Nearly 25,000 foot of bot water piping are required forits heating. Though sixty-six feet in height, its most gi- gantic habitar—the finest specimon 1n rope of the pandanacew—is coatinually being lopped ana praned to keep it within bounds. There are besides magnificent specimens of the betel, the wax palm, the vread tree, the orange, the coral plant, the coffee shrub, th ocoauut and the tamarind, A few yaras distant is the home of the tremendous water lily, tne Victoria regiva. Its gigantic leaves and flowers spread com- pletely over its allotted water space of 15,000 square feet in the summer months, while at this season of tho vear its wide oval leaves, vards 1a surface diameter, with beautifully ourled edges, suggest the fabled sbells in Commsultation free. Call upon or address with stamp. Drs, el & Dl | cor. (4th and Douglas. YOUREYES which Aphrodite is wafted upon obeaient ARE TROUBLING YOU' soas. : One never tires of these matchless royal iAo By auriontls gardens, 1 I should confess to my abiding, jprac, and, it ied misa overwnelming feeling while witnin them, it the best in R R would bo that they or their double wero | & et wo il oo 40 an add v vl ours. As the setting sun warned me with | LD s o all oihor visitors away, and “hearty Han- | EROM 8 L STERE, SEERACEES OF KVE drew, Poll and the young 'uns” joined we for the return journéy on the roof of ihe Hammersmith’bus, my stoker friend brougnt me to a clump of American oaks. “Them ere'll do your furrin heves good,” he remaried with a roar that had a gentle and kindly undertone rninging through it. How foolish for & wauderer here to em- brace these hard old trees like suddenly wet friends from home #cross the sea! But I did, And then we returned quite comforta- ble and cheery to the great city. Epcar L. Wakesy, e Too Much of a Kisk. It isnot unusual for colds contracted in the fall tobang on all winter. .In such casus catarrh or chronic broachitie are almost sure to result. A fifty-cent nottle of Champer- lain’s Cougu Rewedy will cure any cold. Can vou afford 1o risk so juuch for s0 small | an amount! This remed§ is intended es- pocially for bad colds sna croup and can lways be depended upon: For sale by drug BOYS aup GIRLS Dador 18 years of age BICYCLE FREE! Yow need Dot pay one centy Wo will send ft to you FREE. Every bicycle Wurrihted, and equal to | - 1l s0ld anywhere st a 1 Amlt:: prss FREDKRUG BREW- | OMAHA 1y boy or girl under ; 15 years of age, who iNa Co. wants 8 first-class whiite glasses, for protecting the eyes pair up. Max Meyer & Bro. Co., _ Jewelers and Opticians. Farnam and I5th Streets from e a AWNINGS. OMAHA TENT AND AWNING Co. Flags, hammocks, oiland bberclothing. Send for Ontalogue. 1111 Farnam BREWERS. BrEWING AS30CIATION Our bottled cablnet beer | Guarantesd 1o equ bicycle can get ono | delivered 1o mny pait | side brauds ¥ free. We will give | ofu { port Lottled any boy or kirl ez excle on very easy conditions. Wheels are 26 inches, with crescent steel rims and molded rubber tirea,und run oo har- doned steel cone Bearings, adjustable 0 wear; geared to 46 inches; detachable cranks; 4 (0 b luches throw; frame finely Ivorod b fa: |OMAHA BoxFac TORY, Nalled and dovetaliel enanieled, with nlok: boxes. Capaoity 5.0)) el trimmings. Each day. ¥ast Omais Tel machine 1s supplied 415, PO boxsdi withtool bag. wrench v and oiler. We bhave elther boys' o girls' style. 1f you want s iy vie Froo cut this OVERALLS. PRINTERS. mlv.mu.flmfl!u - —] - o Loy, Addre : | Rice - ¢ " A" | Kare-Nevins co. |BEED JOB PRiNy NG Co, e . MinneapolisMinn | 0 02-4 Douglas Street Bes Buildlay [ 3 > g £ e £ H H 14 Omaha | By Purchasing Goods Made at the Following Nebraska Factorias, cannot find what you want, communicate with the mainfacturacs as Against what others CLAIN may say that we are selling the Best and Handsomest Clothing and at lowest prices ever of Come in and see us tfered in this market. and we will demon- strate to you what we mean and that we are able to make our claim good. Our Garments arc the Tinest, the Best Made, The Most Popular in Styles to be found in the city. the Neatest Trimime 1 the Best Fitting, and We prefer that these goods speak for themselves AND CHILD'S SPECIAL SALE OF KNEE PANTS SUITS CAPE (OVERCOATS. We will offer for this week a limited quantity of Child's Suits, strong and durable, at 65c. Child’s Cape Overcoats from $1 up. 1317 and 1319 Douglas Omaha, Neb. 'INTERNATIONAL SANITARIUM 16th and Howard Streets, OMAHA, NEB, or the treatment of Chronic, Private % Nervous Diseases, MALE AND FEMALE. Piles, Fistula, Fissure and Strice ture of the Rectum permanents 1y cured without the use of Knife, Tigature or Caustic. Enclose 4c. in stamps and onr 107 puze BOOK on DISEASES und Question Blunks, will be MATLED | INTERNATIO ANITARIU, 16th and Howard Sts. W. C. MAXWELL, M. D, Pres, } bis paper. OFFICE SUPPLIES Cotton Mops, Linen Nops, Floor Brooms, . | Sponges, Chamois 8kins, i Etc., Etc, iJas. Morton % Son Co, 1811 Dcdge Street. HOME Be sure of the street and number INDUSTRIES &g J. BAMBERGER. Proprietor. Mail orders are solicited and will receive prompt attention. DR W. R BAILEY Teeth Filled With- t e Tatest” in entlon. D WITHOUT PAIN O R TH ON RUBBER FOR 00, L Teeth extracted fn s luserted in evening 8t., = : | TH E 'RACT] DAN A FULLSET OF - Perfect fit guarantes New or s of Removable Briaze. spocimens of Flexivle Elastle Plate work warranted us represented. Oftice, 4 hird Fioor, Paxton B hone 1085, 166} anl Farnam Sty or Stalrway from 16th Afine 14k gold p £0 ovory reader of thiapaper, Cut 1his out and send 16 16 us With your full namno and ad: Gress, and we will send you the i Cxpre <amination, L1y o think 1¢ 18 equal in appeatance toany 82500 gold watch, pay our e price, #08, wild €15 yours, We sent With tho wateh or guarantos B {hat yon can return 1€ at any S0 i within one year 1f ot satistactory, and Yt yon ell o 3011 Ouo P s we shia Tor wixty days onl NATIONAL "1'F'8 Artistic QHICAGD ENGRAVING at Low Prices, Stock and Design The Latest and Best, Sendus $1.20 aud we'll send you 100 engraved cards from a new copper plate. Send us 90 cts, and your present plate (to be held registered) and we'll send you 100 cae graved cards, We pay express charges. METCALF STATIONERY COMPANY, (Late Cobb's Library Co.) 136 Wabash Ave., Chicago. Risk If you to what dealers handle their goods. CIGARS. SMOKE BLUE SEAL Clagan. Omahs Merufreture JacobJaskalok. FURNITIU <E - DYE WORKS CHAS, SHIVERICK OMAIA STEAM DYE WoRKS, Cleaning and dyelag of every description. 1521 Howard Strest. s and 1205 Furnau. po ¥LOUR. S I GrLaaN, 1015-15-17 N. 1eh C. E. Black, Mausgsr, OMAHAMIL Offiee and will Lili North 16th Strast. e —— - = —— IRON WORKS, PaxroN & Vie LING IRON WORKS. Irox INDUSTRIAL Wonrks. Wronght wnd east fron | Mfg. aud repsiring: sil butlding work, ongines, dnds machiaey, Ti4 8. bLrass work, ¢ 1 Tash St ——— OMAHA SAFE AND IroN Works, Bates, vault Lron’ sbutk escapes. ( Aunderson, I4th and Jackson, MAT TRESSES. | wWHITE LEAD. THE OMATIA MAT- . . Carrer Wmre TRESS CO, | | LEAD C). Mattrosses, fostlor pil- | lows und ortors. | Corrode \d guttors. To trade only. Birict pure white load East (wnal 10346 Nicholus St - RUBBER GOODS. SADDLERY. OMAHA RUBBEKCO | MARKS Bros' SADDLERY CO. Stook saddles wnd lighy SFish Hraud” | harness s speclaity. F 16% Farnam 8t | Harney street. Manufacturing aud Job. Lers of all klods' of rubber goods, BYRUP. FArneLL & SOAP, Paae Soar Co., Manufacturers of Ualoa Houp. 115 Mickory atrest. elites, Preserves, Mines Meontana Apple Butter. | Eyrups Motases. 217 | Bouth Beventh St STOVE REPAIRS. TRUNKS. Allkiadsotatoverepairs | H, H. MARHOFF. aloves repatred wnd | MOstranks travellag stovos slored. Jumes Im‘u and sample cases H ughes 106 3. Lith 8 Ll Douglas