THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUNDAY , JULY 23 , 1SS9.-TWELVE PAGES.
THE ORIGINAL OF OUR BOB ,
An Egyptian Mummy the Coimtor-
part of the Qonlal Skeptic.
THE GREAT MUSEUM OF BOULAE.
Iollcftclo of Alitcdlluvlnn KploiircB
Th'o , Viititty 'oi' tlio hpliynx Tlio
Ainprlcnu ConfliiliUc Some
CurloslllcH ol'tlioJInrem.
Hob IIiTnrp tlio Plooil.
l ItWliv Frank ( I. Carytnltr.
, ' 'uly ' 1. [ Special Corro-
ptfoniTctlco to I'm : Ur.p..J I htwamaOo to-day
no of the ( jrcntost discoveries of modern
times. I Imvo uncnrtticd tlio gcnonla of
Kolicrt Q. InRcrfloll , mid I am able to provo
thnt In the veins of "Inltdcl Uob" flow * the
most nrlitocrutia blood on the American
continent. In the wonderful museum of
13oulac , at Cairo , I lltnl a stntuu of wood ,
which Is the perfect lutcncss of him , uml the
records show tout this stntuo Is at least 0,000
years'old. . HTs-of llfo nlzo and Its plump
proportions , its nmllln ? face and bright oyct
form n , phoioRraphlu rencmblnnco to the In-
i' ifcrsoll'Ot * to-day and thuro can bo no doubt
-thai In the transmigrations of souls the man
who to-dny lectures on the mistakes of
Moses , knows whcrcnf ho sjicalcs and that
Ills data were irathorud on the ground , for ho
was liero Iti.IScypt moro than two thousand
years before Mbsos xvns born. Ho knows all
nbout Abraham and Jacob , for tho.y came
down Into Efrypt nearly twenty conturius bo-
ioro ho watched thu building of the pyr.unuls.
Tills BOD IiiROrsbll of the past lived at the
t time that the greatest of pyramids was being
. .iiullt , nnd ho was such n prominent man nt
tlmt.tlmo that the artlits of the day consid
ered \vorth while to copy his form in wood.
They did It well , too , and the work will com
pare with that of our best sculptors. The
older Uob has n start In his hand nnd his
brlKnt ovcs of rook crystal have the same
honest lee I : of his irreat descendant , ( lo has
short hair and his fat , romui he.ul seems to
bOiVcrKliiK on baldness. His mouth Is as
pleasant as that which utters orations ugnlnst
the doctrine of brimstone damnation , nud his
attire is that of ills illustrious great prc.it
of his onu hundred and eightieth great urand
son , when having road a chapter in his
Shukosporiun Hiblo and SUIIR ono of burns'
poems for a hymn , ho disrobes his portly
1 form , and cl.id in his Innocansu and nl htio
"ho cet rendy for bed. The slutuo was found
in the tombs at SuknhiM or old Memphis
nc.ir Cairo , 'and it stands In company with
some odd hundreds of mummies in this
greatest musujnn of JSiyptlun aiitiqnitijs.
The museuuv.of Uouluc , has been jjreatly
increased in si/u within a few years , and
there is no place like it In which to study
the Egypt of thu pait. There is room after
room wullod with the eofllns of thusa man-
nrclis of thousands'of years ago , and in other
mummy cuskots thu bodies embalmed are
exposed to View , I looked a long time to-day
upon the face of King Hamases , who , it is
supposed ,
WEST TO SCHOOL , WITH MOSR8.
The face , though black , was wonderfully
llfo-UUc , and the teeth shone out as white
as when ho brushed them after his morning
tub , something like four four thousand years
ngo. I noted the silky , iua.y hair over his
black ears , and longed for a lock of it for my
collection Of relics. Tlio dead past became
* " wbiTilorfully jeal ; In looking nt another box
. In which n mummied princess of about
this time lay with the mummy of her
little baby , who was not many days old , in
t
the coflln beside her , and when I saw the jew-
" * dry of gold bracelets of the same pat
terns wblch our belles HOXV wear in Wash
ington and New York , and of the ear-rings
which are quite us beautiful as those uiado
l.y Tiffanv , the dry bones begun to inovo and
the pickled flesh resumed its tints and I
t tcould rfeo that human nature -was the same
. 7,000 yearn ago as it Is now and that these
" -peoplo of the past had the loves and hates ,
the troublesjind the vanities of the world to
day. The food shown in another case as
taken from tticso tombs brought their very
stoTnnchb back to lift ; and I wondered what
KamnKcs took for the colic and wht'.hcr
Queen Akhotupu , who lived bnforo ACes ,
uml who now lies here , haa the hysterics I
noted the flowers which were put In another
mummy case beside a king and I could not
reconcile the 'beautiful teuth and the line
intellectual face of King Sell , whoso daugh
ter is supposed to hnvu found Moses in the
bullrushcs with the fat , bloated lingers ,
which show that ho had thu gout.
Thoto was as good living in the days
of'tho Israelites In Egypt as there is to-day ,
but it was then as now , only the rich had the
. fanc.y coolts and the poor ate tlio scraps. In
tlio tomb of Ti. near Memphis I saw wall
after wall in chambers of granite away down
under the sands of the desert. These walls
. \vero'c'overou with painted pictures of the
J Ufa of the lima whan the tomb was made ,
thousands of yours before Christ , and
> .nmonptlicfio pictures I saw that puto uo fois
'urns was one of the dainties of that time.
Tlm'fcu'dlng of the geese by stufllng them
with food to enlarge tlio liver Is there faith
fully pictured , and the eggs , mummied
chickens nud other dear departed delicacies
which uro.tonncl in the pyramids and tombs
Bhow us that the people of the nast hare not
Buffered , and that they knew
now TO liNJor J.m :
qulte'as well-as wo do.
k < I havo'pahl my second visit to the pyra-
< mlds during tins past week and I flnd these
grunt piles of Mono unchanged. The same
Rang of Modulus surround them to-day as
urcyinl upon trio when I paid my llrst call on
the Sphyujc , oj'ght years ago , and the eternal
pry ot backsheoHh I backslicoshi backahccshl
till sounds out'upon the air of the desert In
which they are located. I climbed on the
topassisted , by three Arabs , and I penetrated
the gloomy recesses of the interior and at
tempted to take photographs of tlio king and
queen chambers by flash lights , The pyra
mid which 1 climbed covers thirteen acres of
ground , and it was at ono time higher than
'tho ' Washington monument , it has in the
n past been , ir quarry from which Cairo has
drawn the stones for much of its building
, nnd thqru is still enough left to make over
" olght'hundrcdVnshlngtonmonumonts. . The
' Sphytix is now well pulled out of the sand
and therO'nra iron carts at Its base ready to
* > bo used for fitvthor excavations. It has put
, < ) n unmv aspect within the lust few years
and It seems bigger , moru sombre
and in pro wonderful than over. Its
tu < fO . Is/ . , , that of a remarkably ecoil-
'looklng negro1 girl , nnd It is said that
Its complexion wus originally of u beautiful
pink. All of this pink has now been ground
uwuy by thu sands of the desert , which have
Jar more than six thousand years been show
ering their amorous kisses upon it , and nil
that is loft la it little red paint Just under the
lofLg.vo. Thu Bphynv Is tlio oldest woman in
the world , and it is painful to think that even
eho U
1 ) * AiimcTnn TO imuai : .
Elm Is certainly big enough to icnow bettor.
Her heail nlono U so big that If you would
build u vault the slzo of a parlor fourteen
foflVj OVr" .i"il ! run it "P to the height of n
thrtxyjlory. house It would bo lust largo
ouutifrii to'contiiln It , and if ovpn though you
tnftasurd six foot In your stockings and hud
arms as long as these of Abraham Lincoln ,
Blood on the tlu of this old lady's car , you
could hnrdly touch thu crown of her bond.
I rode on a camel u quarter of a mile ho-
Iwi-oir her and the pyramids , nnd thu
Uc'doilln who owned -the boast grow quito
conthlontlal in telling mo of hl property
and Ills family affair * . Ho said he lived
near the pyramids , and that ho had just
inarrlod n new wlfo who was us beautiful on
thu.sun and as graceful as u camel , lie In
vited mo to go und BOO him at hi * homo nc.vr
by und I saw u Hodiiln girl who may have
been , hln wife , aa I wont through th ( vlllago
on my way back to Cairo. She was a mug-
nillceiit loomiig maiden of perhaps twenty
year * of age , with a gorgeouii head drrss of
white nud gold and with four grout silver
rings , as bfc around a the bottom of u tin
cup , hanging to a ntrlng on eacli side of her
faco. Her ' compUixion was thit | of Kiliiojilau
blackrietg , but Irer noco was as fttiuight as
that v > f H .Orcek and Uor jyos largn , dark
and lustrous were frlngod with longoye
Iailio5. She had u beautiful mouth and her
picturesque head was well polsod on nhnpcly
Blionldcrs. Her gown , of dark blue , foil In
eraccful folds from shoulder to ankles nnd
her feet were bare. She was
A Noin.r. I.OOKINO
nnd the Hcduins are the noblest In appear
nnco of the people of Egypt. You BOO them
In the bazaars nnd on the deserts , nnd they
have n monopoly of the care of the pyramids.
They nro very proud nnd they are the do-
scomlcnts of the Arabs bf the Rands ,
The most of them are Mohammedans.
and they make the best of soldiers. It was
under their forefathers that the followers of
Malmmot , niado auch great conquests In
North Africa , and during the rebellion of
Arabl I'asha the bravest of the Egyptians
wcra these men.
I flnd our consul ronoral very popular In
Cairo , and that ho Is on the best of terms
with the khcdlvo and with the lending of
ficials of the Egytlan govcrnmnnt. Ills
majesty * poke very highly of him aunng
the audicnco I had with him n few days
ago , and during this conversation the con
trast was drawn between h.lin nnd several
of the "other consul generals who have rep
resented America hero in the past. One
consul general , who U dead now , nnd who
served during the reltni of Ismail , the
father of the present lulchlve , was n no
torious drunkard , and during his sprees ho
went nt time * to Khodtvo Ismail and
whined iibdnl the poor salary his govern
ment gave him.
"Tho United States , " said ho , "doPH not give
mo enough to support me , nnd I wish your
hlKhneis who ha siich n vast treasury could
add a trlllo to The amount as a present.
Khcdivo Ismail did this again nnd again , nnd
the American government never know how
It was being disgraced. Another consul
general of the United. States at Cairo was
mixed up in the rebellion of Arabl Pasha
and when I mentioned to the khcdlvo the re
port I hud heard hero to that uffect and said
that thu sutomcnt had been mndo that this
man. whn Is still living In America , had com
bined with Arnbl against the khedive , and
that the understandingTjotwcen Arab ! and
him was that in case of Arabian success , he ,
the American , might have a place iti his
cabinet , his highness nodded his head In the
nfllrmatlvc of its truth. , ,
Our consulate nt Cairo la now in the most
fashionable part of the .city. It is u large
two-story , flut-ropfod house , situated in a
beautiful garden In which the roses bloom
nnu the orange flowers grow. The front
gate bears a largo oval shield on which Is
painted the American eagle and over tlio
front door our great American bird looks
down on the visitors as ho.wavcs the flag in
his talons. Passing under this you enter a
wldu Hall atone und of which there is a pair
of porlicrs formed of American lings , nnd
nt the right in 'the ' recaption or waiting
room of the legation , Entering this you
are reminded of. our national capital. Pic
tures of the groat'buildings at Washington
hang upon the walls. There is the capitol ,
ono of the finest buildings in the world , the
state , war and navy buildings , which has not
its peer In sl/o amonp-tho granite buildings
on the face of the globe , and the pension
building , which is the bfegcst thing that
now exists in brick. There is the somber
treasury looking moro tomb-like than ever
nud wonderfully nt homo in this land of
s.irogphngi , ami there among them nil is the
stern face of old George Wasliington himself
with two little American lings peeping out
over it frame. The flag looks bettor hero
than it has over looked to. me boforo. There
is nothing like travel to developoao's patriot
ism and I think ono needs it to get away
from our petty political lights in order to ap
preciate our country in its national beauty
and greatness. The consul-general , ut tills
wilting , is n Texas editor ; his name is John
Card well nnd bo is an accomplished man of
about forty years of age. His wife and fam
ily are with him nnd his home , which is in
the building occupied by the legation , is
elegantly fitted up with rare Persian rugs.
with fine carvings and wit's many beautiful
Turkish imiuroiderlcs of satin and gold.
Among the paintings of the house are a num
ber in oils which show more than ordinary
skill. These are the work of Mr. Cnrdwoll's
daughter who is still in her teens , but who
promises to make nn artist. Her mother in
tends to take her to Italy upon her departure
from Egypt and she will there study under
the Italian musters of to-day.
Consul General CurdwjolMiassomo striking
ideas about the harem as it exists in Egypt
to-day. Hu pronounces the word as though
it were spelt hnreem und this is the pronun-
cia'ion everywhere , in the land of the Mo
hammedans. Colonel Card well says the
harem is not the vicious institution that It is
painted. "It means , " says he.simply the
woman's apartments of the household in
Egypt , nnd I believe it is a great eleemosy
nary institution. Its members are often
MKIil.Y ! : Till ! 8EHVAXTS
of the true wife of the husband. They nro
taken into it us children and raised there nnd
are bettor cared for than they could possibly
bo elsewhere. Tho.y nro not neces
sarily the mistress of the man
and the khodlvo , though his wife has n Inrco
harem , is true to her. The harem Is hero In
Egypt , managed by the women. The hus
band has very limilod rights within it , and
there was an instance hero in Cairo not long
ago of a princess who was displeased with
the actions of her husband who. by the way ,
was also of royal bloo'd ) ordering her ser
vants to
WHIP HIM IN Tllfc IIAIU'M.
They obeyed her , too , " nnd the man was
soundly flogged. Another case was that of
a lady of high rank , who not long ngo brought
n divorce suit against her husband and got a
divorce from him. This fact will be surpris
ing to the people of America , who largely believe -
liove thut the rights are hero altogether on
the husband's side. This woman when di
vorced took the liretuwth | ! ! her and she is
now living w ur'tlie 'rest of her establishment
"
ment hero In Cairo" . ' "Monogamy , " con
tinued Colonel ( Jfirdwoll , 'Us In fact growing
in favor in Cairo. , , ! ) ho jdicdivc has set the
example and the ujtipprt ndom shows a dis
position to follow it. One of the princesses
said the other day that a good moslem could ,
uccordinc to thu Koran , have but ono wife. "
"And how is thuli" she was asked. "Tho
korun states that he may Imvo four and Mo-
hammet himself said , tliero are two tilings
in this world which delieht mo , these are
women nnd perfumes. 3'heso two things re-
Jolco my uyes and rander me moro fervent in
devotion. The grout prophet had something
like a dozen wives , nnd ho especially gives
all devout men the right to four. "
"I assort , however , " said the princess.
"that the koran Intends thut man should
have only ono wife. And this is because ho
cannot bo good and havo'inoro. The koran
bays that you must not' love ono wifa moro
than another , and this is impossible if you
have more than ono. llonco you should take
only one.1
I drove out this afternoon past a royal
palace , which was for years occupied by ono
of tlio widows of Mohamet A' ' , who , it is
whispered here at Cairo , wus ono of tlio
worst women Egypt has over Known , Includ
ing in thu list the large number of bad , beau
tiful dunifs , extending oven back to Cleopa
tra horself. This woman hud a large in
come , nnd she kept up u grand establishment
hero in Cairo , with her eunuchs by the score
nnd her servants by thu dozens. Her palace
was on the banks of the Nile , and it has
many secret , chuuibcis. , from time to time ,
such men us this royal' lady fancied , wore in
vited by this lady's ' slaves to come Into the
harem , und it Is Mated hero that such as
wont in wore never seen to coiouout , Her
ladyship received their attentions until tdio
got tired of them , und then got rid of them
by
it.tvi.No THEM < JUIITIV STKAXGI.KD
and thrown into the Nile , There was a dark
passage leading down from the palace to tlio
river and the lover nwoko from ollsluin
dreams to fiiid a silicon cord around his
throat being twisted by two black-faced
eunuchs and u fon-o staudlnt : around largo
enough to uiaku him submit if ho struggled
unduly.
The father of the present khedive IB Ismail
1'anlia , who In now living In Constantinople
and who iiicoives n pension from Egypt of
f-iOO.OOO ayeur. He holds a different theory
from hl son 111 regard to monogamy and his
liarem U u largo one. Ho took it with him
when ho wont to Naples to live , but a young
Italian , if I remember correctly , ran away
With one of his prettiest wives and ho
moved hia establishment to ConstuntliMple ,
where his harnm , would bo more sacreinuid
and where ho cun , if ho choono.4 , drop a faith
less wlfo into the liosphorus without com-
niont or courts.
Mohamnt All had also a number of wives
and I wont out thl afternoon to Shoubra
pulacc , In which the old man spent some of
the last days of his life. Thu guides hero
showiou u beautiful garden and in a sum
mer palace a lake about four feet deep , with
a marble resting pUea In tbo center , It wus
upon thin seat thut tlio Napoleon of Egypt
usml to sit with his ladici ia boat * ou tbo
water nbout him. The boatmen wore posted
b.v him and at the crook of his finger they
would overturn the Circassians Into the pool
nnd Molmmot would laugh In his old crackrd
voice as ho watched their terrified struggles
in trying to got out.
Year by year , however , the keeping up of
a harem tn the Mohammedan countries be
comes moro expensive. The introduction of
the western civilization Is Inspiring now
wants In the minds of the hour , and the
iioblcst of them want French kid slippers
nnd their dresses from Worth. They want
diamonds and modern jewelry and if they
have children they must have French ana
Kngllsh governesses for them. The major
ity of the Mohammedans of Egypt nro too
poor to keep moro than ono wife under the
now customs and this number Is being re
duced by the increased cost of living. Even
the ordinary wealthy women of Carlo now
have some European dresses in their ward
robes nnd the veils which they wear when
out driving grow thinner nnd thinner each
year. The wlfo of the khcdlvo wcnrs a veil
of thin gauze through winch her features cnn
bo nlnlnly neon when she goes out driving ,
for the windows of her carriage are , open and
AH American tells rno ha could see the
sparkle of her magnificent dlnmonds through
this veil when he passed her a few dnys ngo.
FJIAMICG.
Uernnnor'B "Mn Vocation. "
J'uinic Fittd'n Trntistullou.
Misery Is my lot ,
Poverty nnd pain-
Ill was I begot ,
111 must I remain 1
Yet the wretched dnys
Ono sweet comfort bring
When God , whispering , saysi
"Sing , O singer , slngl"
Chariots ruinblo by.
Splashing mo with mud
Insolence see I
Fawn to royal blood ;
Solace have I then
From each gulling stlnp ,
In that volco again
"Sing , O singer , sing I"
Cownrdlynt heart ,
I am forced to play
A degraded part
For Its paltry pay ;
Freedom is a prlzo
For no starving thing-
Yet that small voice cries :
"Snip , O , singer , sing I"
I was young , but now ,
When I am old nnd gray ,
Love I know not how
Or whv hath sped away ;
Still , In winter days
AH in hours of spring
Still a whisper says :
"bing , O singer , sinijl"
Ah , too well I know
Song's my only friend-
Patiently I'll go
Singing to the end ,
Comrades , to your Winol
Let your glasses ring
Lo , that voice divine
Whispers * "Sing , oh , sine ! "
MUSICAh AND DKAS1A.TIO.
The theatrical season in London came to
an end earlier than usual this year.
Miss Iloso Coghlan will begin work again
on the 5th of August in San Francisco , with
"Jocclyn. "
The tour of the Daly comoany has been ex
traordinarily prosperous , according to all
current reports.
There is a published rumor that A. M.
Palmer will try "A Doll's House" ut the
Madison Square theater.
The London Gaily burlesque. "Faust Up
to Date , " will bo seen at the Broadway
theater , New York , next December.
A most elaborate revival of Molloro's
"Bourgeois GentilhOmmo" Is In course of
preparation ut the Theater Francais in Paris.
Mrs. E. S. Willard has written a oao-au
farce called "Tommy , " which will bo played
In this city by Victoria Vokes next season.
Ebon Plympton will support Julia Mar
lowe next season , nnd if that young woman
can divide the honors with him , she will do
well.
well.The
The Kendalls succeeded in getting a "fare
well" banquet in London after nil , although
cold water was thrown upon the scheme
when it was first projected.
"Ferneliff. " " "
a "comcdy-drama" by William
Hawortb , will bo played in the Union Square
theater in September , with E. H. Vundorfelt
in the principal character.
Hichard Mansfield has engaged Ada
Dyas. wlfi > has been absent too long from
the Now York stage , to play the part of
Queen Elizabeth in his revival of Hichard
ill. "
Kate Forsyth's experiment with "Tho Ti
gress" in London appears to have been alto
gether disastrous. The critics were so ex
asperated b.v the badness of the play that
they were unable to discern much merit in
the actress.
Stately Agnes Huntlngton nnd handsome
/Ceho do Lussnn nro both In London nnd both
successos.the lirst ns a dashing olllcer in the
opera of "Paul Jones , " and the latter as sen
timental Marguerite or wicked Carmen In
Colonel Mapleson's company.
The performance of Mrs. Frances Hodg
son Burnett's play , "Phyllis , " in London ,
was a failure. It tells the s'tory of a heart
less , scheming father , who uses his daughter
as bait to catch an heir. The young people
fall in love with each other and are mndo
linnpy after innumerable trials and misun
derstandings.
"Forgotten , " the play which F. F. Moore
has written for Genevieve Ward to take the
place of "Forget-Me-Not , " was played for
the Urst time in Islington , and attracted ,
therefore , little attention , although It has in
it the elements of an interesting , if highly
Improbable story.
The bill forbidding the employmentof child
ren under ton years of ago in English thea
ters passed Its second reading in the house
of commons by a largo majority , in spite of
clover speeches made against it by Mr. Jen
nings and Mr. Labouchcre , and tnoro seems
to bo no doubt that it will go into force.
In his customary speech on the last night
of the London lyceum season. Mr. Henry
Irving announced that the withdrawal pf
"Macbeth" was only temporary and that
the tragedy would bo revived , ho hoped , before
fore long. It was impossible , ho tsaid , fur
"Macbeth" to go on murdering people in cold
blood through July.
It Is announced that Mr. Edwin Varrey
will tuko the place of the late lamented Job u
Gilbert in the Jefferson-Florence combina
tion next season. This was almost a fore
gone conclusion , as there was practically no
ono clso to engage. This fact shows the
slondernens of the thread upon which the ex
istence of the older comedy , us a present
theatrical fact , depends.
Louis James is now rusticating with his
clnUlrcn at the summer villa of his friend ,
Stuart Uobson , at Cohasset , which in nearly
opposite the homo of Lawrence iiurrott.
Although "tney do not speak as they pass
by , " Louis always praises Lawrence's good
qualities , nnd their mutual friends are trying
to bring about a reconciliation ,
The Madison Square theater company will
bo composed of the fotlowme members next
season : Maurice Bnrrymore , J..H. Stod-
dard. Frederic Robinson , E. M. Holland ,
Waldeu Ramsey , Louis Masscn , Edward
Hell , Muudo Harrison , Marie Burroughs ,
Agnes liooth , Annie Russell und Katherlnu
Hodgers.
"Keen Bio Ole 3 to Tho. "
C'ltHilcelon A'cu' and Courier ,
"Keep close to mo , my God ,
Keep close to mo I
The storm is boating on me fierce and wild ,
Thy face is hidden from Thy weary child ,
On mo the billows heavily do roll ,
And threaten to Ingulf my fainting soul I
Oh , bo Thine arm my sure support and btay ,
Or clso the flood will sweep me far uwuy !
ICecp close to mo , my God ,
01 close to me I
"I hide me close to Thee , my God ,
Aye , close to Thee )
None else can know my bitterness of grief ,
Nor any heart save Thine can bring relief.
I fear my hands may slip from off their hold ,
The winds arn keen , the storm Is very cold.
Hut If Thou hold mo I can still endure
Tilt night is past and morning breakoth
sure
OI keep me close to Thee , my God I
Aye , close to Thee I"
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRESSES.
A 1'rnctlonl Statement hy a 1'rnotlenl
Man Httvlow ofOlilTlnio Mctli
otlHVnucs of Pressmen
Past nnd Present-
Do MnclilnfdHiirt n Trmle ?
Theodore L. Do Vinno : Thcro scorns
to bo nn uneasy fetfllnp among1 composi
tors nbout typoguttinginnciiincs. . It is
true thnt only three of the many recently -
contly Invented nro at practical work ,
hut all of thorn give promise of useful
ness , it not hi ull.nfelds , nt lonst In some
fields of composition. It is certain thut
the machines hivwcomo to stny. Com
positors four thtitittioy will reduce the
prlco of labor , nnd.iwtll Indirectly drive
them out of business.
Much of this disquietude is unneces
sary. That typc * ottinj { mnchlnos may
or will rodilco the coat of the work of
reprints and cheap books and papers
is probable. That it will over drive
any largo body of good workmen out of
business is absurd. The machines will
surely make work for workmen. So far
from decreasing the standard of work
manship , they will elevate it. This
conclusion is warranted by a review of
the changes in the trade made by in
ventions in another dcpariuont that of
prosswork.
Fifty years ago the advantages of ma
chinery in press work wore recognized
in this country , but they were not
"
fairly tried. Stereotype , ' "composition
rollers , cylinder presses , and Adams
presses had then been invented , but
were little used. The Now York Sun
and the Now York Herald were trying
lo print growing editions of their then
petty shoots on hand presses. Harper
Bros , and other boou printers in Now
York were doing their press work on
hand presses. Booka were cheap nnd
editions were small ; pressmen were
abundant and wages were low. Jour
neymen piece compositors were paid on
an average of t\vonjy-four cents per
thousand ems , nnd earned $7 a week
with dilllculty. Weekly wages for time
compositors were $9 , but this sum was
earned only by the more active and ex
pert. The averages wages of piece
compositors , and occasional time hands
was not over $7 a week. Hand press
men paid almost entirely by the piece ,
had to do an amount of hard labor to
earn $9 a week which tho-tnodern power
pressmen would regard as excessive and
unreasonable.
Although work was hard and wages
small , there was even then a dislike to
machinery a dislikes which seems to
have been imported from abroad. John-
hon , an eminent printer from London ,
had already denounced the printing
machine , then in Ube in London , us the
destroyer of the livinir of pressmen ,
and called upon parliament to impose a
tux on machine prcsswork , so that ma
chines could not work for a lower price
than hand presses. In 1840 , and oven
as late as 1848 , the journeymen printers
of Paris destroyed printing machines in
the royal printing ofllco of that city as
well as in other ofJlcea , because they
said that these machines w.ero taking
the brcad'Oiit oft.th.oir mouthsi Stereotyping -
t-yping ) invontodstby Godwin the last
century , had been delayed * more than
fifty years by the opposition of hand
pressmen , who -secretly battered plates
in the supposed interest of compositors.
Master printers wore afraid to use the
now process. Composition rollers were
opposed by pressmen , because they
enabled n boyito do the work of
the extra man , -swho wielded the
old-fashioned inking balls. The
first inking machine attachment was
found moro objectionable , because it
enabled the master printer to dispense
with this extra roller boy , or this extra
man , who had boon regarded as neces
sary to the workinp of the hand press.
Every invention ur process that in
creased production was regarded by
workingmcn as an evil agency.
In this country there has never boon
any active hostility to now macuinryo
in the printing business. There hav-
bcon no mobs or strikes against in von
tions , but workingmen look on all now
devices with suspicion and unfriendli
ness. They do not see that the inven
tion which temporarily throws ono man
out of work , ultimately , makes work for
two or more men.
What would have been the state of
the trade if wo bad no stereotype or
clectrotypo , no composition rollers , and
no printing machines'/ The daily news
paper , as wo now have it would be an
Impossibility. An edition of two thou
sand or twonty-llvo hundred copies of a
small sheet would , bo the highest per
formance of the hand-probs , and what
severe work this paltry performance
would impose on the wretched hand
pressman who had to print this edition
in a hurry I The illustrated magazine
of largo edition anil low price , filled
with line wood cuts , could not exist at
all in days of hand presses. One could
go on and show how hand presses
would curtail the production not only of
the popular but of the artistic forms of
typography.
Processes and machines that were once
dreaded uro now used by every printer ,
and they are welcomed as much by
journeymen us master. No ono will
pretend that they have reduced the
number of workmen. Whore there was
ono printer lifty years ago , there are at
least twenty printers now. Instead of
driving hand urcssmen out of the trade ,
the printing machines have really
brought moro pressmen in it , and have
enabled an employer to pay them bet
ter wages. The machines have not
oven driven good hand pressmen out.
In all our largo cities tlio export hand
pressman is inactive demand. Ho uoes
butone-half the labor of his predecessor ,
yet ho is paid twice as much and has
steadier work. For some forms of print
ing the hand proas is mure economical
than any machine , and if there were
moro men-who could use thomskillfully ,
they would bo moro generally omnloyed.
They are not used because it is dillicult
for an employer to got a boy to learn
this branch of nresswork. Ho objects
because the work is hard. Not oven
lor double or treble the old pay will a
pressman in Ib8 ! ) undertake to do on a
hand press the work done by all press
men in 1810.
The journeyman book compositor of
Now York , who works by the piecenow
curns an advance ot 7o per cent on the
rates of. lifty years ago. The time hand
gets twice as inuoh. Expert muchino
pressmen in the Inrgor Now Yoric book
olllccs are imldUiUO and $22 a week , an
advance of inoroithnn 100 per cent. If
they are specially-skilled or activethoy
nro cheerfully ip/Ud / a good deal moro.
They have sto. . tV > employment and com
paratively easjvwork , It should bo
noted that the hisfhost wages are always
paid in those olliecs thut hava the most
and beet machiuary. Low wages are
the rule nlmosUfWithoiit exception in
all olliccs that have little or no machin
ery. Instead of throwing men out. of
work , machinery has made a
for irioro work , IiiBlond of lowering
the price of lubortnuchlnory has ralsoi
1 v
vIt will bo noticed that the prices of
composition have not increased as much
as these of prosswork. The composi
tor's advance is 76 per cent or loss ; the
pressmen's is 100 per cent or moro. Tlio
reason is plain. Composition has not
as yet received any appreciable bonoll
from the typo-BoUlng mauhlnery.
Nearly all of our composition is done
by hand , 03 it was done llftv yours ago
but the piece compositor who works ii
an ofllco that has many printing ma
chines earns moro than ho does in nn
olllco that has few machines. Indirect
ly ho obtains advantages from mnchin
ory , which ho personally does no
manage ,
As a rule , the average piece composi
tor Is abettor educated man than the
average pressman. Under equal con-
diUons ho should nnd would earn highui
wages , hut his superior intelligence UIK
education do not increase his produc
tlon. This production Is limited by tlu
sloWncss of his hands , which is now as
it was lifty .years ago. If the composi
tor was employed on a typo-sotting ma
chine , ho would get some of the bonollts
of the increased production. With moro
machines there would necessarily bo
moro composition ; there would bo moro
compositors , and they would bo botlci
paid.
Ono reason why the modern proosmau
is better paid than the old pressman is
because ho is a hotter workman. The
machiiio is moro complex that the hand
pressand it comples the pressman to exercise
orciso moro forethought and intolli
orcnco. Ho has to keep it in order ant
to got a fixed quantity o
work from it within a limitci
timo. To accomplish this ho docs
not have the hard stretching of the
muscles that was culled for by the hunt
press , but ho does have to do twice as
much work with his brains. It is this
work with the brain moro than that of
the hands that earns him higher wages
but it is the machine thut spurs him U |
to this increased mental activity.
As a rtllo , the mechanics who most
bitterly decry machines nro these who
have boon found incompetentto handle
them. The men who refuse to learn the
theory or the practice of now processes
who are content to do work as it was
done when they were boys who "don't
want to bo bothered" by the study of
/low problems in handicraft who evade
or shrink responsibilities are the very
mon that employers do not want lo em
ploy upon their machines. That they
may and probably will suffer for their
persistent refusal to adapt themselves
to changed conditions is much to bo re
gretted ; but are they blameless ? Is it
the fault of the master , or the machine ,
or the workman himself't
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OMAHA
N. W. Cor. 13th and Dodge Sts. , Omaha , Neb.
THE LARGEST MEDICAL INSTITUTE IN THE WEST
FOH THR TUKATMKNT OP AI.I.
Chronic and Surgical Diseases and Diseases of ttia Eye and Oar ,
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PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO DEFORMITIES , DISEASES OF WOMEN , DISEASES
OF THE URINARY AND SEXUAL ORGANS , PRIVATE DISEASES , DISEASES
OF THE1 NERVOUS SYSTEM , LUNG AND THROAT DISEASES ,
SURGICAL OPERATIONS , EPILEPSY OR FITS ,
PILES , CANCERS , TUMORS , Etc.
J. W. HcMENAMY M. B. President
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And Continuing : 1'liysicinu nml Surgeon.
with * a'fiill staff of Skilled Physicians , Surgeons and Trained Nnrsc' ,
This establishment is si permanent medical institution , conducted by thoroughly
educated physicians and surgeons of acknowledged skill and experience. Tlio
Institute bindings , situated on the northwest corner of Thirteenth and Dodge
streets , is composed of two largo tlnce-stoiy brick biddings of over ninety rooms ,
contaiiiingour Medical , Surgical and Consultation Rooms , Drug Store , Laboratory ,
Offices , Manufactory of Surgical Appliances and graces , and the Boarding Depart
ment for Patients , in chaigo of competent poisons , constituting the laigest and
the most thdroughly equipped Medical and Surgical Establishment in the west , ono
of- the three largest in tlio United States , and second to none.
Wo have miperior advantages and facilities for treating diseases , performing
surgical operations , boaiding and musing patients , which , combined with our
acknowledged ability , experience , responsibility and reputation , should make the
Omaha Medical and Suigical Institute the llrst choice.
You can come direct to the Institute , day or night , as we have hotel accommo
dations as good and as cheap as any in the city.
Wo make this explanation lor the benefit of poisons who may feel inclined to
go fuither east for medical or surgical treatment and do not appreciate the fact
that Omaha possesses the laigcst and most complete Medical and Surgical Instl'
tute west of NewYoik , with a capital of over 8100,000.
DEFORMITIES OF THE HUMAN BODY.
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Best Facilities , Apparatus and llouicdioa lor Successful Treatment ol
evoryibrm of Disease requiring IUI3IHCAL , or SUUGICAL
TltUATMMNT.
rn ttiia department wo are especially BU < cessrui. our f minis or superiority over
all others are based upon the fact that this is the only mcdic.il establishment man
ufacturing surgical braces and appliances for each individual case. Wo have
three skilled instrument makers in our employ , with improved machinery , and
liavo all the latest inventions , asv \ \ as our own patents and improvements ,
the result of twenty years' experience.
The treatment of diseases by ulectiicity has undergone gicat changes within the
past few years , and Jlectiicity is now acknowledged by all schools Of medicine as the
great remedy in all chronic , special and nerve diseases , for nervous debility , par
alysis , rheumatism , diseases of women , etc. , and in many eye and ear diseases it
is the most/valuable of all remedies.
In eider to obtain its full viitues , itis absolutely necessary to have the proper
apparatus. Wo Have lately purchased three of the largest and most complete
batteries maimfactmed , so constructed as to give the most gentle as well as the
most powerful current , Persons treated at this Institute by electricity recognize
at once thu ciffrei } ) < ; p between our expensive * and complete electiical apparatus
and the common , cheap batteries , in use by many physicians. Over 81000 dollar *
invested in ulucU'imvl apparatus.
PRIVATE , SPECIAL , NERVOUS AND
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Wo claim to bo the only reliable , icsponsiblo establishment in the west making
a specialty of this class of diseases. Dr. McMeiiamy was ono if 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 Emopo and America ,
lie is the inventor of the Clamp Compress Suspensory , acknowledged the best in
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DISEASES OF THE EYE AND EAR.
Wo have had wonderful success in this department in the
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We have greatly impiovcd our facilities ami mclliodn of
_ treating cases by correspondence , and are having bettor
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We are fully up to the times in all the latest Inventions in medical arid surgical
operations , appliances and instruments. Our institution is open for investiga
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