Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 15, 1891, Page 12

THE OMAHA WHAT WOMEN HAVE DONE. Oomedy, Tragedy, Romance and Mishaps in Which They Have Acted Their Part, PAID A DIME FOR A PAIR OF DIMPLES. risco Girl Wanted to Sce Life and Became a Bootblack — 1 tune for a Types writer. “Can I get something to do here,” sald a youthful looking person lately to the pro- prictor of the Alcazar barbershop adjoining the San Francisco theater of the same name, says the Chronicle. *Yes,” responded the proprietor, “‘we will give you s trial. What is your name?" “ldward Wilson, sir,” said the yonth. So Edward cite and went, cleaned up th shop, brushed customers’ clothes and learned 0 “'shine” shoes in a way that would have dono honor to & professional, The cleanli- ness and adaptability of the new hand was much noticed, uot only in the matter of work, bt in dress. “What a handsome boy,” said many a cus- tomer, A vigitor would always take a sccond look at him, his appearance was so striking. About medium height and inclined to be plump, the bootblack had a round, open, Ppleasant face, two large black eyes,a medium- sized nose, a ve ty, expressive mouth, and the whol opped with a wealth of short, rich brown hair. Both feet and hands were small, and showed no signs of hard lavor. His age was not over twenty., One fact in particular was more than once re- marked—the bootblack's usually well- deyeloped hips. 3 Always pleasant spoken but. retiring, the young man made many friends. No work was neglected and Kdward was always punc- tual. Barber Enkle began to think he had found a tisasure in the line of trustworthy help. Ono dny toward tho end of lnst, weok a cus tomer came in. Ho looked startled as his eyo fell on the figure of the young bootblack, and acted nan uneasy mainer all the time he was being shaved.” As he was about to leave he called the boy to him and the two_con- versed in a low tone for a few minutes, Next morning the boy was on hand as usual. He gave notice, however, of leaving, and was paid off, During the moming the customer of the provious day stepped into the shop and in- quired for the boy. Upon being told he had gono, ho smiled and said: “That wasa young lady 1 disguise. Is it possible that none of you here discovered that fact?’ All his hearers looked astonished, and so they were. No further information would the caller furnish. 1t is believed that the vonng woman is well connected in this city, and being rather wild, curious and venturesome, has gone into the ways of men to see what she could find out. When last seen the pseudo boy was plainly but neatly dressed in a pair of dark-blue antaloons, brown shirt with a handkerchief uotted af the throav sailor fashion; dark cout and black derby hat. Tucky it Was a Girl, A young Brooklyn Benedict sauntered down Nassau street* soveral months ago in a reveric, says the New York Sun. Ho was thinking of his home across tho bridge. An anteresting event was soon to happen thero, and he was on his way to a fruit store to buy some dainties for his young wife. His face beamed with happy anticipation of tho thanks of thelittlo woman who awaited his return, Ho pushed throtgh the crowd of pedestrians without heeding anything or having the train of pleasant fancies diverted, until he passed a young Italian image peddlor. The Italian's stock of plaster work was displayed ina high doorway out of the way of the busy throng. The sunbeams lighted up the statuettes. The Benedict looked down at them, walked on a few steps, then turned back. Two tiny busts had attractod his attention. One rep- rosented @ boy crying, with his cap pulled away over his right eye. The other was a dimple-checked girl, laughing. They capti- vated the young benedict’s fancy. “How much are they{ he Italian, “Tena centa,” replied tho peddler, his faco lighting up gaily at the prospect of a pur- chase, “Allright. T'll tako’em,” the Brooklynite said, and when the peddler had wrapped them in an old newspaper he tucked them In Lis overcoat pocket and continued on his way to the fruit store. He hid the images when he got_home, and without his wife's knowledge placed them upon the mantel in the dining room, whero she would see them tho first thing in the morning. “It will bo a little sueprise,” ho thought. The plan worked to perfection, . The mistress of tho house- hold gave a little cry of delight as she caught sight of the garl’s hicad. What pretty dimples,” she said, whon the young Benedict came down to bréakfast, “¥os, rather pretty for the price. 1 thought you'd like 'emn,” tho husband re- plied. In two months time the happy ovent that the household had been looking forward to snxiously had happeaed. A good-natured girl baby had come to further distract th benedicts mind from the drv details of busi ness, He had weeks before forgotten the trifling purchase from the humble Nassau street art purveyor. A week later the healthy infant looked up at tho ceiling and smiled. . Her fat choeks creased into two unmistakable dimples. The Benedict laughed. He was immensely tickled. The dimples looked as pretty as could be, and ho was proud of the fact. ““But, ‘where on earth did the dimples come from!"'he said. There have'nt been any in our families.” “Ah ppy whim of nature, T suppose,” said the young mother, and she kissed each’ dim- ple sovoral times, Tho benedict went down to dinner alone half an hour later. His eye chanced to scan the mantel and rested on the five-cent bust of tue laughing girl, *‘By George!” he fairly shouted, ‘‘there are those dimples now—the very ones. Well, I call that about the best investment of & dime I ever mado,” 1t was another illustration of the whims of pature. The dimples had captivated the young wifo, She saw them duily. They had made u lasting and pleasing impression upon her miud, and, as often happens, what the mother wiost admired had been reproduced in her child. “IUs lucky it wasn't a boy,” said the bene- dict philosophically. Tt might have been a crier of the worst description.’ asked the Love Everywhere, R. H. Stoddard, Only love is everywhere— In the earth, the sea, \he air In our laughing and ur tears, In our confidenco and fears, Love—capricious love appears. Fleeting joys and fleeting woos— These the sum of love compose; Take away its bliss and pains— Nothivg elso in life remai On the Threshold. A lotter camo to the Fargo, 8. D., postof- Ace the other day addressed to “Mr. Paul ——, Merchant's “hotel.” On_the envelope was written this request: “Should ho not be there would the postmaster pleaso open and do tho best ho can in regard to this.” Paul was not there and the postmaster caused tho letter to be published in the hope that it may meet Pauls eyo and move bim to a ro- sponse. Here is the letter — — 'N. Y, Jan, MP, ——— Dear Sir: It becomes my painful duty to in- form you Sue is dying of hemorrhage of the lungs, The reason of my writing of this is, in going through her things to her friends, which she did a little time ago, sho said nothing in regard to the rings she wore until today. ~ She said: “If Paul ever comes, ivo him this ring and my bible, and tell him meet mo up there.”” " Inside of the bible we found a letter dated two years back, and for the first time wo found the reason she had never married. 1t looks as if she had carried & sad heart with a smiling face. Now 41 you are still free, do not lose one minute 1 writing her; say nothing of your receiving this; only tell ber you heard she was sick, Bhe'may live uutll'it reuches her; if s, 1 S will write you she re for her, also write you how I have been for weeks hor constant attendant, and it is a very sad pi ture before moe to paint you—athin, wan face and long brown hale rosting on the pil low, It seoms to mo the sweetest face 1 havo ever seen, Itis atleast the nearost hoaven wo will e here, and you can ouly im- agine tho prayers that ure going up for het scovery, but _she only says, *‘Pray that I may rest.” Sincercly yours, — aps Not. Phitadelphia Tines, Lift her up tenderly, Treat her with care; ‘I'lio banana-peel tripy And you ki Found Her Hattie Trip, a comely young lady of ighteen, of Springport, Mich., has found father after having considered him dead r since she was old enough to consider anything. This is the way of It: Hattio wiis born at Stanley, hor mother dying when sho was six months ‘old, Her relatives took hier up, and her father was lost track of, But Miss Trip, asshe grew older, ‘was told about it, and as soon as she 1 ned to write, sent letters all about the state and waited for answers thav never came. A short time ago sho heard that her father was in the soldiers’ home at Grand Rapids, & wrote a | there and found him. He ha lots of money and came on the first train, and two hearts are now happy. or. “Needies and Mrs. Valentine Adams in Harper's Young People, When Netta of Napoli came to this shore, She knew but two words—“needles, pins’'— and no more, Until a street Arab, uncultured and wight, Did something T cannot consider as right, Aud taught her to add to the “‘needles and pins,” ““When a man's married his trouble begins.” But Netta of Napoli noted erelong, . By looking at ladies who'd list to her song, That this Wi a sentence exceedingly wrong. Aud being a poetess after hor way, Bethought her of something more fitting to say: So that now her refrain is still “Needles and pins, When'a man's marrled, a_troasuro ho wins ! Which is why the good housewives, at least in our block, When Netta appears, all select from her stock. A Brave Woman, From an interesting accountof a recent visit made by Arthur McEwen to_the Stock- ton, Cal., insane asylum and puslished in the San Francisco Examiner, comes this remari- “1 am going to introduce you to a peculiar case,” said the doctor, and fie pro- sented me to a bright-faced young woman in hor early_twenties, becomingly dressed, and about whose rooms books and periodicals This young lady has yolun- mmured herself,” She is sane, butat .utervals illusions follow sleeplossness, and then she is dangerous, Tho daughter of a professional man, she is cducated, has had some success as a writer for newspapers and i foand hei L the asylum theater play playing well. Her mann is engagingly cheerful and unaffected. She is a strenuous of girl and has been ahardstudent. henever 1 meet with any success in my itings, or othorwiso,” she said, I becomo 80 exultant and hopeful that I can’t sleep for happiuess, thinking of the fture, and then T lose my htad. Most peoplo go down under adversity,” she added with a good-humored smile, “but it seoms I'm the other way and can’t stand prosperity.” When insane she does not lose her sense of identity, but her real surroundings disappear and are replaced by wholly imaginary ones. “The last tme,” she said, “I believed I was in France and taking part in a fight atthe barricades, I had been reading about tho French revolution, you sce, and I suppose, when L am not myself my mind is dominated by most recent stroug imvressions. If Ican £0 S1x months here without a return of my trouble I shall be very happy, and 1f a wholo year passes I shall feel that 1 am cured.” And she is going to stay until she is cured, howev ong it may tal She has strength of will, a stout heart, and keops her mind and hands employed Steadily. “For T must not think about myself, or permit the blues to gev hold of me. ~ Iam educating myself in patieace.” Her swilo was brave ud reso- lute. Lucky Type Writer. When George C. Randall, tho well-known San Francisco druggist, died a short time ago, fevz, if any, of his friends had the least idea that a romance was woven into the last few months of his life. Yet such was the fact, which unexpectedly, came to light through the filing of his will, That showed that while the testator was possessed of considerable property a very small fragment of it was left to his relatives, and after a few minor bequests the bulk of residue of his estate was left to his intended wife, Miss Bert Wallace. According to the Call » man who knew Randall intimately thus outlined the romance: “Randall, poor fel- low, was of a sentimental nature, though one not knowing the man syould hardly think so. He was thoroughly infatuated with Mi Wallace, the stenographer and type wr for an insurance company. esteeming him as a friend agement to his advances, her heart was clsew! e, and that, woman like, she practically threly away the prospect of wealth and station to love tho man of her choico. His rejection—if he was rejected, for T do not know that that unpleasant for: mality actually happened—hurt him badly. Yet, though he knew his love was not re- turned, he sat down and madean heiress of the woman who refused him. I believe that his heart was broken, and that his sudden death was due entirely to the disappoint- ment.” A reporter visited tho office where Miss Wallace is engaged. Tho young lady was busily employed getiing out the correspond- ence and promptly but very politely de- clined to say anything in connactionwith her legacy. F'rom her colaborers and officials of the oftice it was learned that sheis a ludy of r finement, educated and of a charming dispo- sition. They say that after the announce- ment of Mr. Randall's death she felt his sud- den ead so keenly and was in such evident distress that the company excused hor from her duties, Sho remained away from bus nessand has donned mourning attire, In othor respects she is unchanged in manner, the fact that she has been unexpectedly pro- sented with a considerable fortune maling no difference whatever in her strict attention to her office duties. She is a ve of Santa Cruz, where her mother resides, and whero her brother, who 15 alsoa beneficlary under the will, is éngaged in the drug business, A friend of the druggist said_ that the esti- mate placed on the estate in the petition for probate of the will was far below its actual value, “Why," sald he, “a week before he died e was hegotiating for a piece of real estate here and made a id of $:5,000 for it in cash. D'll stake my reputation that tho estato s worth close upon 00,000, and that if the will stands Miss Wallacé will come in for fully §250,000. “Lucky girll Well, Tshould say so er She, however, gaye no encour. In fact, I believe Dress Like savages. Just before Explorer Stanley left NewYork howas tendered a reception at which were displayed a moro thanunusually startling array of low-necked dresses, Obscrving the great traveler scrutinizing one particular specimen of ebb-tide corsage, & friend said: “Not been used to that sort' of costume of late, eh, Stanley " “Or the contrary, said the African author- 1ty, cheerfully, it 'makes mo feel quite at home. Buf you should see the Uynayembes, my dear boy—you should seo the Uynayem: bes ! ‘Worse Than Cloves, A Boston confectioner, talking about the use of brandy in making chocolates and other sweets, said: “I never knew of any one be- coming intoxicated by this means, but I know of a caso where a young lady was in- duced+ to drink some liquor, and kuowing that the fact would be detected when she got home, went into a confectioner’s and bought and ate some brandy chocolates, to which she laid the blame for bier very suspicious breath when sho returned to her parents, 1 haveno doubt there are mauny other cases of the kind, too." Unfinished, A Week's Spor Dashaway—Havo vou heard Robinson's new story! He started to tell it to me when we went down to the races togother theother day, but didu't bave time to finish it. Cleverton—Why! didu't you return with bimt Dasha He rode bacle (sadly)—No. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NASS. Manner and Meaning of This Most Ancient Forn of Worship. HISTORY OF THE EARLIER CELEBRATIONS. Pastors in the Drouth Districts in Dire Distress—~Work of Local Pastors and Their Peopie, The following articlo, the first of & sories upon “T'he Mass,” has peen prepared espe fully for Tue Bee by Rev. Patrick F. M arthy of the Philomena Catholic cathedral. The Catholio church is rich in historical interest. m it sprang all the Christian denominations and to it the world must turn whe facts concern- with idolatry. well ifformed upon et of early Christianity cannot afford very carcful study of the rites ¢ church and eautiful chus Writers do not agree, wri the rev- nd father, with regard to the rigin of the word “mass,” Some say it comes from the Hebrew word massah, a debt; others that it is the Greek myesis, ation; others that it comes from an old word common in northern Europe, mes or messe, a feast or banquet. From this word 1e the English words Christmas, Michi mas and many others, used to describe the old feasts of ‘the English church betore the reformation. Many good authoritics agree that the word mass comes from the custom that provailed in the church in the early cen- s of dismissing the catechumens, the , gentiles and ngers before the co tion. These were permitted to be pres- ent till the offertory when a deacon would ery out: “If a catechumen be present,lot him g0 _out.” The people were dismissed at tho end of tho service by the deacon sin al is at hand.” The word as “Missa,” and as in the early ages of the church’ the people kept ull their sorvice they used to “Is the Missa " that'is to siy: Have the peoplo been s et! In time they became accustomed to call the great the “‘Missa.” F'rom this expression came atin word “missa’ and the English “mas: ok fathers of the church called it differently; The Mystagogia, the Synoxis, the Anaphora, tne Eulogin, the argia, the Mysterion, the Deipuon, the jon, the Agathon, the Prosphora and the Litingra. In the Catholic church, Latin and Oriental, the mass is held and belleved to be the con- tinuation and application in a symbolical and mystic manner of the sacrifice on the er At the present day the mass i brated. in mine different languages, in Latin, Greek, Syriac, Chaldaic, Sclavon and Ethiop! dismissal in Wallachian, Armenian, Copti 3 Latin 1s the language of the mass in_the en- tive westand in a few placés fn tio Gast-aad las been so withont change from tho be- ginning of the western churc, Greek is the language used in the mass by the Uriator Melchite catholics of the east, These catholics are to be found fn Sy rusalem, Russia, in the Kingdom of G in Italy, and in several places of Europe, They eomprise the Mingrelians, Georgians, Bulgarians, Muscovites and others, Mass is said in Syriac by the Maromites of Mount Lebanon and the Syrian Melchites of the cast. Itis the liturgical langunge of ull the places where the liturgy of St, James is used as the norma. Chaldise 15 the language of the mass with the Babylonian Catholics, who are chiefly couverts from Nestoranism. These people inhabit principally Mesopotamia, Ar- menia and Kurdistan. Sclavonic is the mass language of, the lolics of Istria, Liburnia ana the codst of ient Datmatia, It is the lituigical lan- guage of all in union with Rome who belong to the Sclavonic nation. Wallachian has been in use 1n the mass by the Wallachians since the seventeenth century. Armenian is the liturgical language of all” whoave called by that name in the east today. They inbabit Armenin proper, or the modern Turkoman, whoare found also throughout Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Turkey, Georgia, Greece, , Italy and Russia, ' Coptic is the lan guage used atmass by the Christiuns along the Nile, Ethiopicis the liturgical language of the modern Abyssinians. Nono of these liturzical languages is the vernacular of the people wi 3 v caso the lan- guage is classic or dead, and unintelligible to thepeople, It was found necessary in the ¢ of the Coptic language used in the liturgy to print it in Arabic characters so t be pronounced by the clergy. interesting study is_that of” the robes or vestments worn by a priest when ho celebrates mass. They are almost all relics or reproductions of the apparel in common use when Christianity appeared in the Roman world. 1ich vestment_alsd conveys to the devout and nstructed Catholic a meaning and reference to some_doctrine or act in the lifoof the Savior. Besides the cassock, the priestin celebrating mass wears six vestwents, viz, the amice, the alb, the girile, the maniple, the stole and tho chiasu- o, ‘fhe amice, so-called from the Latin “amic- ire,’ to clothe or cover, is a rectangular p of linen about three fect long and two fect wide. It has a string at each of its two upoer corners, by which to fasten it on the shoulders of the wearer, In ecarly days the amice served as a covering for the head and neck, In the tenth Christian century it gave plice to the ecclesiastical cap, or beretta, The mystical meaning of the amico may be gathered from the prayer which the priest recites when putting it on. “Place upon my head, O Lord! the helmet of salva- tion for repelling the attacks of the lvie one.” The sccond vestmentis, the alb, so-called from its white color. It is atloosely-fitting garmentof pure linen, entirely cnveloping the body and fastened at theneck by means of astring. Priests ofthe Latm church put on the alb with the prayer, “Purify me, O Lord! and make clean my heart, that wasted in the plood of the Lamb, I may possess eter- naljoy.” Inthe Russian churchthe prayer is, "My soul doth maguify the Lord, Who clothed me in the garment of salvation, The cincture is the third vestment, ased. Tt is of as high antiquity as the alb, which it always accompanics, its chief, in fact,its only oftice, being to keep that garment in its pro- per place on the person of the wearer, The prayer used in putting it on is, “Gird ‘me, O Lord, with the cincture of purity, and extin- guish in my loins the heat of concupiscen co, that the virtue of continence and ~ chastity may abide in me, The maniple is the fourth article which the priest vests himself with, 1t is a small strip of precious cloth of the same material as the stole and chasuble, having the crosses embroidered upon it—one in the middle and one at each end of its extremities, Itis worn over the left wrist, to which it is fast- encd either by a pin or a string, Its whole length is generally about two feet and its breadth about four wches. When fastened on it nangs equally on both sides, Originall it was intended solely for wiping the pers ration from the face of the wearerand drying tho hand sacred vestments might not besoiled. In fact, it served in every way as a handkerchief, as we sco from what the ancients have wrtten about it. Thus Alcuin,in the ninth century speaxs of it as follows: “Thelittle handikerchief which is worn on the left hand, wherewith we wipe off the moisture of the eyes and nose, desig- nates the present life, in which wo suffer from superflous humors.” The maniple is put on with the following prayer, “May I deserve, O Lord! to bear the maniple of weeping and sorrow, in order that I may jov- fully reap the rewardof my labors. = The mystical meaning, then, of the maniple is that it reminds tho priest of the trials and troubles of this life, and the reward that awaits bim if he bears them in a Christian- like manner, Thestolo ranks fifth amongst tho vest- ments, It isa long band of cloth, of the same width as the maniple, but about three times its length. It is worn around the neck and crossed on the breast, in which position it is kept by the “cinctu s ersally ad- mitted that originally the stole was very similar o the aeb, and covered . tho entire person. The prayer used in vesting with the stole is as follows: **Restore to me, O Lora! tho stole of immortality which I 16st through the transgression of my first parents, and though Tapproach unworthily to celebrate Thy sacred ysian, may I merit nevertheless eternal oy, Many of the Anglo-Saxon stoles and mani ples had little bells of silverand gold attached tothem, which made a most agreeable, deli- eate sound whenevep the sacred minister changed position. The chasuble, so called from the Latin “easula,” a little house, is the last fn tho catalogie of sacred ¥Ostinents, Accord- ing to its anclent form it onveloped the entire person of the priest, leaving noth- {ng but the head visible, Heonce, the word “chasuble, a little houso. In its present dise position it'is open at both sides,and as itrests on tho priest it reaches down in'front to about the knees, and a fow inclies further behind, Its material must be of precions cloth, suech as brocade, sk or the like: and its color one of the five nfentioned in the rubrics, viz : Whito, red, violet, green or black, Thé prayer used 10 the vesting with the chasublo is as follows: "O Lord, who hast said My yokois sweet and My’ burden light, grant that I may so carryit asto merit Thy grace.” In its figurative signi n the chasuble is emblematic of charity on account of its cover- ing the entire -person, as charity ought to cover the soul, The mass, which is the most ancient form of Christfan worship and the form followed by tho vast majority of Christians, east and west, At the present day offers points of interest to the curious stu- It abounds in antique ceremonies and dramatic episodes, It is infactn dramatic representation of the death of the Savior on the cross, Pastors in Sore Distress. Many of the Chris ministers laboring in the drouth-distressed portions of the west aro just now undergoine the most sovere trial of their lives thus far, Some of tho churches in eastern Nebraska began some monihs since to provide the means of sup- port for those pastors whoso people are left destitute by reason of crop failure. So long as the contributions were sent to the drouth stricken regions by the churches and general donations, the pastors who were in need were free to receive a reasonable share of the pro- visions, but, since the support has begun to be mostly supplied by the state, the ministers do not feel like asking for a por- tion of the assistance thus furnished, and many of them are looking full in the face of actual want. Here seems to be an opportuni:v for some very practical home missionary work and church people in east- ern Nebraska and in other states where there is plenty are beginning to awaken to the gravity and importance of the situation, Many of these pastors could pick up and leave the country uutil the earth again re- sponds to the toil of the husbandman, but it would be a very great privation for the peo- ple who have beenleft destitute by the drouth to be depriyed of heaving the gospel during the long, gloomy mouths of waite ing for better times. The faithful, courageous minister of the gospel will not forsake his people 80 long as le can get & crust of bread and clothing enough toprotect him from the nipping frosts of winter. The Methodist church, which is always pushing out along tho fronticr of civilizatian, has many ministers in_western Nebraska just now in great necd of the most ordinary com- forts of life, and aspecial appeal will be made to many of the churches in eastern Nebraska for assistance which must be supplied very on or many of the pastors on the fronti ill be obliged to leave their fields of labor in order to provide for themselves and their families, Jtos. Tichigi—formerly n the Congr , began o serics Rev. C. W. Merrill of superintendent of missiou tionul churches of Nebras! al meetings in York to continue two will hold similar mectings at Ashland, Fremont and Kearney, staying two v ch plac churches of Omaha nnion service on Good Friday. This is the first meeting of the kind ever held by the Congregational churches of Omata. The Young Peoples' Mar avenue Congregational church hela two' special Ash Welnesday services last Thursday and Friday evenings and the meet- ings will probavly be continued this week, Mrs, E. B. Haynes has returned from Chi- cago where she spent last week inspecting the Methodist deaconess hospital with a view of getting approved ideas fora similar in- stitution to be establishea here next month, In Chicago the lady was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Staley of La Salle avenue, former residents of Omahae The entertainment at the First Methodist church last Tuesday night was a decided sue- cess. The address by Bishop Newman upon Japan was brief bat very interesting. Rev. Merrill also spoke earnestly and entertain- agly, Theexhivition illustrating the man- ners, customs and costumes of the Japancse Vi excellent, The programme of the ning was closed by the serving of refreshments. This part of the entertain- ment was especially pleasing by reason of the fact that the young ladies who™ served wore Japanese costume: It will be eight years tomorrow since Rev. Willard Scott began the work of the pastor- ate at the St. avenue Congrogational church began with nothing at the time Rev. Scott came, and 1tis now the largest Congregational churck in point of membership in the state. 1t has 366 membors, There are but two other pastors in Omaha who have been here as long as Rev. Scott. They aro Rev. W. Harsha and v. Williams, In the Congr gational church there are but two who have been in the workat one place longer than Rev. Willard tt. They aro Rev. Louis Gregory of Lincoln and Rev, M. P. Harrison of Seribner, The last monthly reportof General Secre- tary Hazelton of “the Omaha Young Men's Christian association contained some ver: couraging featu There has been a rapid inerease in the atténdance upon the Sunday afternoon meetings. The average for December — and January was 2 being double the number of ‘the correspond ing months of last y The month of Janu- ary alone showed an average of 256, which was the highest in the history of the associa- tion with the exception of one month when Evangelist Bitler was in Omaha. There were 115 additions o the association during the months of December and January. This speaks well for the work of Mr, Heisénbuttle, the membersnip secretary, The general secretarys’ conferenco at Ne- braska City last Friday was well attended. M Heisenbuttle, Brookner and Hazleton went from the Omaha association, John R. Hague of the international com- mittee will arrive in Omaha within a week or two for the purpose of assisting in raising the indebtedness on the Omaha Young Men's Christian association, There was a very enjoyable concert at the United Presbytei church in Kountze place last Friday night. The chorus class of the church, assisted by Miss Clarkson and Dr, and Mrs. Eddy, sang the well-known production, “Under the Palm,” in a very creditable manner. Rev, Charles G. Sterling, who hasy been doing missionary work at Pine Ridge agency, 8. D., has been called to the pastorate of the Lowe avenue Presbyterian church. Rev, Sterling is said to be a young man of excellent ability and of m spiritual zeal and en- ery Prof. A, C. Ong has been elected as chorister. The Woman's Board of Missions of the In- terior, an organization, connected with the Congregational church, is making a strong effort to induce the congress of the Upited States to take some actions toward prohibit- ing the exportation of intoxicating liquors to uncivilized foreign -countries, A committee has been sent to Washington to petition con- gress with regard to'the matter. * At a meet- ing of the board held at Kansas City a series of rosolutions were adopted reciting the de- plorable effects of liguor drinking n the half civilzed countries and islands of the sea and beseeching congress to consider ways and meaus by which \he United States might prevent the exportation of liguor to the half civilized countries beyond and the islands in the midst of the sea, The meeting to bohaldin the First Presby- terian church of this city next Tuesday by the leading ministers of Nebraska, lows, Kansas, Colorado anda Dakota will be of much importance, not only to the Presbyterian church but to Omaha. The object is to con- sider the advisability of planting a theo! logical seminary in Omaha, " The institution if establisl. .d here will be the leading school of the kind west of Chicago, The Presby- terian church has a school in Chicago, the MeCormick seminary, which has property worth £2,000,000, The school to be estab- lished here will be the only great seminar established by the Presbyterian churcl west of Chicago and will draw to its support from a very wide scope of territory, It is undersfood that valuable donations of lands have already been offered for the sito of the seminary, and a good deal of work has been done on the quiet which will be brought to the surfaco when the ministers meet next week, The college element is lacking in Omaha, and the establishment of a few good educational institutions here would be of in- calculablo benefit to every gradeof society, aud give the city 8 good standing abroad, g will hold a union com Social club of St. TRAVELS BY LAND AND SEA. 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Tae famous Mormon_city is fast becoming a Gentile city, and will in timelose much of iuterest. Now, this sum- mer would be a good timo to visit'the boon- ing city. Garfield Beach is of course - cluded in the trip, This summer resort on the lake is a delightful place to pass a fow of the hot su mmer days. Why not securo a number of subscribers for the WEEKLY or SuspAY Bee and take the trin? For tho seventh largest list of subscribers weoffera freet icket to Denver and Manitou and rewurn, - While a shorter trip than any of the others it combines many pleasant fea- tures. Denver—the queen city of the plains— is always worth sceing whilo the health and summer resorts of Manitou are delightful in- decd. Health-giving, inspiring, restful— amid sublime scenery’—what trip could be more rastful? All this pleasure for securing subscribers tothe SUNDAY or WEEKLY B Conditions. Now what are the conditions upon which these tickets are given away! The sccuring of the largest list of subscribers to Tuk WeEKLY or SUNDAY BEr. No newspaper in the west is so well und favorably known and solicitors have always found it an_easy mat- ter to secure subscribers. Tie BEE'S sub- cription hist always kept pace with its reputation aud it desires to add now names to its long list of friends, Being at all times a people’s paper it makes friends with ail classes. The subscription price of Tie Weexiy Ber is §1.00 per year postpaid to any place in this country or Cavada, or §.00 if sent toa foreign country. Tuk SuNpay¥ Beeis §2.00 per year, but Omaha subscribers for Tue SuNpAY BEe will not be counted in this competition, Get upa list. Have your friends subscribe for the paper. Sample copies forwarded freo on request, Persons desiring to compete for one of ub- York, general c An Am pleted his_ education these prizes will please say so whon sending in thei first orders, Remittance in full must accompuny every order. L'wo six months subscriptions or four threo months subscriptions will be counted As one order, [ — No griping, 1o nausea, no pain Witt's Little'Early Risers are taken, pill. Safo pill. Best pill, when Do Small RELIGIOUS. There are now 20,000 protestant Chiel in Mexico. The southern Presbyterian church now has three colored presbyter During 1800 the Baptists sont out the larg- est missionary force they ever put fnto the field in any one year, angelist Moody says that those who s they will forgive but can't forge an inju simply bury the hatchet while they leave the haudle out, ready for immediate use. Canon Scott Robertson has figured up the money gven and bequeathed to foreign mis- sions in the British islands during the year 1884, and finds the sum to be 86,50 The Protestant Episcopal clergy, 209 candidates for parishes and missions and 508, The mumber of bapti L5, of which nearly The contributions for the year wero 54,707, The Methodist Episcopal church, south, has adopted the Epworth ue as its de nominational young people's society. The young people ‘of the Methodist Ej chu oh of Canad opal church, south, are now enlisted under one denominational banner, Rov. Henry C. Swentzel, rectorof St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal ' church, Scran- tou, Pa;, has been named by the House of bislions of the churchas missionary bislh to Japan, If Mr. Swentzel accepts’ the cail will be required to e in Tokio, He is a oung man aud has been rector of St. Luke's for five years, The returns of the vote of the presbyteries in answer to the overture for the gencral as- sembly, establishing tho ofice of deaconcss in the churches, come in slowly, At present the majority of the presbyteries voting have declared in favor of the deaconess. But im- portant presbyteries have voted very de- cidedly in the negative, After hesitating more than a year the ves- try of Trinity Protestant Episcopal church of Pittsburg, Pa,, decided to accept the leg- acy of §1,000,000 bequeathed it by the lato John H. Schoenberger of New York, who aied leaving an estato worth several millions. He made the bequest conditional that Trin- ity's pews bo free and prayer service be held twice daily within hex walls, Bishop Ignacio Montes de Oca, the prob- ablo successor of Archbishop Lubastida of Mexico, just deceased, was another friend of the unfortunate Emperor Maximilian, who apponted him honorary chaplain in 1566, He ic a Mexican by birth, was educated in En- gland and Mexico, served in his priestly ca- pacity in an English parish for a short period and is widely known in Kurope for his scholarship, Heis about fifty years old, Ry SR California Excursions. Pullman tourist sleeping car e sions to California and points leave Chicago ever: Kan y ry Friday via the Fo rate from Ct from CRTCAR Kunsas City $3 | borth. thing furnished except meats, ~TTEES excursions are personally conducted by experienced exeursion managers who accompany parties to destination. For excursion folder containing full particu- lyrs and map folder and. time table. of Sunta Fo route and reserving of sloeping car berths, addross S. M. Osgood, gon: eral agent, E. L. Palmer, froight and assenger ngent, A.,T. & S, I, railroad, ILN. Y. Lifo Bldg,, Omaha, Nebraska, e brores Lawyer M. V. Gannon received by express from Mindon, Ia., on Tuesday last, n hand- some English mastiff in Ben Butler, A. K. C. register number 16,011, Sl o) Tho kennel club was wise in its selection of its presiding oMicer at their last meeting, inasmuch s he was a newspaper mane, and s mamo is Barney Gordou, ahas the Gen- eral. il A:\;V(T's-\l-}MIQN'[‘SA, i THE GRAND Svocial. SEACNY T0-NIGHT ONLY SEANPAY J. . STEWART'S Famous, Funny Comedy Concolt, THE TWO JOHNS With New Muslo, Now Songs, Novel Specials tiosand Unique Dances, Blggor, Netter and Brighter than ovor bee fore. 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Lamp Chimneys, Goblets, Plate Glass and Table Ware with ardent relish, A medical mystery, A human wonder, Return of the Omaha favorites, The talented RHINEHART FAMILY in their Musical Comedy “THE DOLL DANCE" introducing melodies, medleys, comic, pathetic and descriptive songs. A bright galaxy of song, wit and humor, DEAVE'S ROYAL MARION- ETTES. Mimic actors on & mimic stage. A pleasing illusive comic perform- ance. AUSTIN, the Musical King in his entertaining unique musical per- formance, g\ V2 SEVILLE, the noted Irish Comedian, in a sketch full of Irish pleasantries. THE CURIO HALL HAS A NUMBER OF NEW AND CURIOUS NOVELTIES. REMEMBER, that on Saturday the children are admitted to the best seats free and that on Also Remember that this is a refined Com Souvenirs, a‘s' idays the ladies receive y House playing at popular prices, ONEK DIME ADMITS TO ALL PARTS.