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OMAIIA ILLUSTRATE D BEE.
May 13, 1000.
Opportunity's
Timely Visit
A Welcome Guest Who
Never Calls a Sec
ond Time.
KNOCKS ONCE
AT MAN'S DOOR
What Dr. Seymour's Presence
in This City Means to
Those Afflicted With
Poor Sight.
UK. V I. SEYMOUR OF CIHCAOO.
Formerly of this city.
Will return to Omaha for a three days' visit and .ill
wishing to consult him with reference to their eyes or se
curing glares can meet him at the parlors of t lie Her Grand
Hotel, May 14th, 15th and 16th, from I) to 4 daily. Even-
i j j
ing nourri oy appoinimeni.
A SCHOOL GIRL NOW IN THIS CITV WHOSE) BYES WERE
STItAlOHTENED BY DR. SEYMOUR'S NEW METHOD DUR
INO HIS RESIDENCE HERB, f
It Is snld that opportunity knocks
onco at cvury man's iloor. Hut an in
Btant only does this winged messen
ger paust', and licet Indeed must bo
tho ono who would seize him. Ho
novur tarries, nnd seldom does ho call
a second time. If his knock Is un
heeded, ho hurries on, for ho has a 1
long calling list and cannot linger on !
tho way. If ho llnils you wnltlng for
him, lit- stretches out his hands and
leads you swiftly to tho path over
which you should travel to reach your
highest desires; then, hurrying on, lie
seeks another, perhaps to find 111 in too
sluggish to move, so ho whistles gaily
and, pl sting up a small sign, which
reads: "Opportunity was hero and
found you sleeping," leaves that man's
side, perhaps, forever.
And yot Opportunity seems to have
special favorites, for ho sometimes
calls twice, and oven thrice, on 111-'
same favored mortal, nud ha prods
him with his golden lunce and calls
loudly on him to waken, seeming loth
to deport him, nnd looking backward
as ho goes.
Those who have awakened only In
tlmo to catch tho sound of his retreat
ing footstops, or to catch tho relloctton
of bla golden wings, foul all tho sorrow
contained In tln llttlo words, "too
latol" They determine nevor to bo
caught napping again, aud await long
and anxiously for tho return of this
messenger of joy, but though he comes
near, aud thoy oven hmr him tapping
on their neighbors' doors, all In vain
do they stretch our tholr eager hands.
Ho seldom comes to them again.
A CORNER OF DR. SEYMOUR'S .PRIVATE OFFICE.
It Is not always in tho same gulso that Op
portunity presents himself, nnd so It Is often
difficult to distinguish htm. He Is a mis
chievous self, and ofttlmcs wears n long dark
cloak to conceal his beautiful wings; there
fore our eyes must bo strong and our vision
keen In order to penotrato his dls
gulse, or we may lot him pass by
unheeded, and thus miss our only chanco
of seeing him.
Tno presence of Dr. Seymour In this city
J may bo the golden opportunity that Is
knocking at your doar. Ho Is orfcilng jou
tho priceless gift of sight, and you hnve only
yourself to accuso if you fail to take advan
tage of his skill and knowledge.
Having made tho subject of eyes a study
for tho greater part of his life, Dr. Seymour
Is authority on their treatment with scien
tifically fitted glasses, and his unb unded
success in this city serves to substantiate
all claims made for him.
ONE OF DR. SEYMOUR'S. LATEST INVENTIONS.
Carpenter Writes of
Life in Sululand
(Copyright, 1900, by Frank a. Carpenter.) Mohammedan louo, and from it are con
balcony looking out over tho sea. In it you not permitted to drink and tho only Chrls
flnd tho colonel of the Thirty-first regiment tlans hero who havo money to spond are
aud his staff, who havo the management of tho soldiers. What you are asking Is that I
all things horo, both civil and military. The give you permission to sell bad whisky to
merchants, for instanco, are all Chinese, but my soldiers. Well, sir, you can't havo It!"
Colonel I'ettlt regulates their licenses and The Irishman went away sorrowful,
they havo to pay so much a month for uncle Siiih'n invest Knrin.
tho right to sell goods. He fixes the prices nn n, m. ..
KAMnrjANOA. March 28. (SDOclal Corre- trolled thn 200.000 or 300.000 Moras who now of things In tho market nnd tells Just how nninnni pttif hna u .n..
sponilenco of Tho Deo.) "So you aro going pay alloglanco to Undo Sam. There Is a many eggs shall bo sold for 10 cents. He t0 tho bgg0st farm wulch thQ UnUed stntoa
to niako Bomo explorations around Zambo- Moro vlllago which has nioro pooplo than makes liquor laws by a stroke the pen ana own8i u la gtuatC(J about flftecn mllea
angal Well, all I havo to eay Is that If you Zamboanga ltsolf on tho shoro Just abovo it, recently announced that no whisky should from horo nml ,3 so ,arge tl)at a f t aIker
want to bo Buro of your nena you naa wiior and Moi-ob by tno nunureua, urossoa in gay u u,u couiu noi goi around it in a day. It con
tlo It on with a string!"
TIiobo words were uttered by Colonel
Jamcu V, Pcttlt, tho military governor, tho
man who has chargo of our troops in Min
danao and In the Sulu inlands furthor oft to
tho south of ub. Ho hns moro than 1,000 sol
dloru scattered at different stations about
(ho southern and caotorn coast of this great
Island and other troope occupy tho leading loaves as you walk through the streets ana
portH of tho north. nil about it Is tho raot luxuriant ot tropical
Zamboanga has for sovernl hundred years vogetatlon. Thoro are miles and mllea of
been tho chlot gnrrlson town of this part of cocoanut groves above and below It and
tho world. Tho Spaniards mndo It tho head- when you ride out Into tho country toward
quarters of their army and nnvy of tho the mountains which hang over It you an
south nnd It occupies the same position to- Bhadod by cocoanut trees, eomo of which
day with tho American It is situated on nre 100 feet high . You see Ids of ba
the" extreme southwestern end of Mindanao, b m taw ; d he o d th th.
b.Ul i"P. "if In T?! ' The" townblTseK is a gem. It Is composed
clothes and wearing turbane, walk to and disgusting to a llttlo Irish ex-soldler, who tnn8 between 30,000 and 40,000 acres, and
fro through Its Btroota. wnntod to open n saloon to soil whisky. To notted the Spaniards, It Is said, about 75,000
Evory Burroundlng of the place, In fact, him tho colonel said: "You know there are n year. Within tho last few months ono ot
Is picturesque It looks moro like a botan- only two classes of people In this region, the Chlnrao capitalists here has ofTcred to
leal garden with tho nccompanlmeut of a They aro tho Moros and thn Christians, pay $20,000 a year rental for It if the gov-
mldwny plalsauco than an everyday Amerl- The Moros, nccordlng to their roliglon, aro ornment will hand It over to him on lease,
can garrison. Its houses aro shaded with
cocoanut trees. Tall bananas rustle tholr
which tho vessols movo going from Japan
to Australia. It has a fairly goDd harbor,
ot two stroets running parallel to the sea.
rot.- nnMna hn wofni la Inn mftln
but tho ehlps havo to anchor far out from gtrcet fldc8 nro ,ned wllh great tree9i
the snore, nnu passongon. unu brancheg ot whch amost meet over
brought to tho town In small boats. Ono of hcn(J( ftnd undop thenJi , the conter of tuo
tho transports was flftoon duys landing 700 8treeti flowB a cttnai whose waters aro as
tons of cargo. Tho mulo trannport upon clear RH cry8tal. Tho canal Is crossed hero
which I came had to send Ittf wagono ashoro and thero by PUBtlo bridges made of ma
in dugouts nnd tho mules wero mado to bogany, teak or other hard woods. It It
swim. Two Btcam boilers for nn Ice plant, fed by mtle rl?er at the lowor ent of the
huvlng boon hermetically scaled and pluggod town an(j there Is a bridge over this which
up well, flontod ashore nnd, altogethor, tlaya caat you Into the market and homes of the
woro takon In lnndinn stuff which should Moros.
l.nvo consumed houro. Upon the main Btroet are the ofncea ot the
Our .Mo1iniiiinlmi Cniiltnl. collector of the port, an Omaha man, Cap-
Zamboanga cannot bo callod a Mohamme- tain Swobe, nnd also the general head-
dan town, for it U occupied only by the quarters ot the Department of Mindanao.
trooDs tho Cbineso and some Filipino Chris- Tho headquarters building la a largo struc-
tlani' It U, howevr, tht capital of mu tum with oyster ahdl windows and a great
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COLONEL I'ETTIT AND BEE CORRESPONDENT IN FRONT OF MILITARY HEAD
QUARTERS, ZAMBOANGA.
but as yet his proposition has not been ac
cepted. Tho farm contains large hemp
plantations and it Is said that there are
$20,000 worth of hemp now stacked up on It
ready for shipment. It has tens ot thou
sands ot cocoanut trees and includes some
valuable timber. Thero is a sawmill upon
It, but the machinery of this is out ot order.
The farm was operated by the Spaniards as
it penal settlement and Inasmuch as it be
longed to tho government it naturally be
comes the property ot tho United States.
Tho Spaniards worked several hundred con
victs upon it and tho most ot the revenues
of it probably went Into the pockets of the
omclals.
Uncle Sam has two other farms Just out
side of Zamboanga, which came to him In
tho same way, They embrace some fine
rlco lands and a largo banana plantation.
They nro right on the edge of the town and
It was in company with tho presldente, or
mayor, and Quartermaster Sharpley that I
drove out to seo It.
There woro perhaps fifty men and women
at work In tho rlco fields harvesting the
crop nnd strange to say they were working
away under umbrellas. They hod put up
white cotton upon a rudo framework and
this was attached to a pole which was stuck
upright In the ground so that they could
work away under It and be in the shade.
They were cutting the rice stalk by stalk as
is tho custom here, leaving only about eight
Inches of straw on each stalk and tying the
stalks up Into sheaves from six to eight
Inches In diameter. .
Here and there over tho farm wero thresh
ing floors, each erected on a framework of
bamboo, so that It was almost as high up In
the air as an American windmill. The rice
Is drawn up from the ground to the floor
and trodden out by tho feet, the wind carry
ing away the chaff, while the grains of
paddy fall to the ground. In the banana
plantation I made a photograph to show the
height ot tho stalks, standing beBlde one ot
them as I did so. They are, I Judgo, at
least fifteen feet high.
Chance for Oar Scientists.
These farms otter splendid opportunity to
our Agricultural department to establish on